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Speaker 1: Oh a great time by Steve Flaspers, Time Banks, Time

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Speaker 1: Bastia at All Time. Welcome to another week of One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live Steve Task along with Chris Brown. This week,

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Speaker 1: we are still broadcasting from our homes, like many of you,

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Speaker 1: were working from home and have been for months, and

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Speaker 1: we are just talking about it behind but before we

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Speaker 1: future looks like. Not much different than the present that

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Speaker 1: we live in, although there's always that hope on the

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Speaker 1: horizon that something will happen that will cause us to

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Speaker 1: be able to get away from this virus and we

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Speaker 1: can you know, do our own thing from day to day,

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Speaker 1: like a vaccine or whatever. So it's gonna be interesting

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Speaker 1: to see Brownie. How was your weekend? Good to have

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Speaker 1: you back, but oh yeah, thanks. Uh no, we're just

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Speaker 1: hanging out around the house getting the yard work done.

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Speaker 1: And you know, yesterday was a pool day, so it's

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Speaker 1: kind of what you're doing now nowadays. Really. Yeah, my

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Speaker 1: yard looks like a million bucks, does it? Yeah? What

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Speaker 1: else are you attending to it all the time? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I'm looking at it. I look at it

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Speaker 1: have two green thumbs now, not just one. That's right.

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Speaker 1: That's right. My uh my lawn is reaping the benefits

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Speaker 1: of mine, you know, incarceration as it was. I love

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Speaker 1: how you refer to it as jail. We did have

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Speaker 1: We did have a good weekend though. We had the

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Speaker 1: all of that was going on. I got out and

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Speaker 1: just the normal stuff to get out and just get away.

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Speaker 1: I have gone on hiatus for a minute now. I

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Speaker 1: haven't had a cigar and must it almost I don't

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Speaker 1: want to say a week, I'll say five days. It's been.

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Speaker 1: That's good for you the way, even puffing late. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna have one of the next day or two though.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Lots going on in the NFL there they

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Speaker 1: signed the deal the NFL and the league or full

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Speaker 1: steam ahead. Training camps are opening. Guys are reporting. I know.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of people who have Twitter and

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Speaker 1: videos of the guys getting into the building. Um, I

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Speaker 1: know the quarterbacks are back in town. I was told

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Speaker 1: they were out. They were out the other day playing

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Speaker 1: golf socially distanced golf. The other day. All the quarterback guys, Webb, Josh, Allen, Barkley,

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Speaker 1: they were all out there hanging out. So from was

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Speaker 1: and then of course, you know, we're keeping an eye

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Speaker 1: on everything else. The Major League Baseball the who was it,

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Speaker 1: the Phillies. Yeah, now they got Marlins, and the Marlins

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Speaker 1: have got like thirteen guys that are sequestered now and

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Speaker 1: tight as they are, right well, yeah, And so last

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Speaker 1: So that all the mom the guys last night, right,

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Speaker 1: So don't make it worse by exposing the Yankees to

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Speaker 1: you know, this begs the question why the why major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball didn't take a bubble scenario. More seriously, there

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Speaker 1: was a lot of talk about Major League Baseball going

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Speaker 1: to read about the ends and outs of what we

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Speaker 1: look back on it and right, yeah, Steve, you're you're

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Speaker 1: lost year. Yeah, I mean for me, Steve. You know,

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Speaker 1: have to worry about. Yeah, you are now you're skipping

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Speaker 1: And that brings us to the question the Twitter pool today,

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Speaker 1: it as it's gonna bother me? Because particularly if my

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Speaker 1: don't really care. Just I'd rather have unbalanced football than

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Speaker 1: one bills live. All of this is on the table, Brownie,

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Speaker 1: I'll ask you, what do you think about this? You

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Speaker 1: try to help teams complete a sixteen game schedule or Steve.

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Speaker 1: Because of what they're likely to run into in this

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Speaker 1: most unusual of seasons. It's not unusual and it's not unprecedented, Brownie,

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Speaker 1: in there. We're I'm not these guys are gonna we

431
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Speaker 1: get cut these guys in the first week anyway, Why

432
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Speaker 1: am I coach spending time coaching them? The simple fact

433
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 1: of the matter is, dudes, you may be using those

434
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Speaker 1: guys to start a game. You're gonna need more, all

435
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Speaker 1: the warm bodies you can get, I think, and I

436
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,680
Speaker 1: think they need to have these guys hanging around at least,

437
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Speaker 1: even if they're not in the building, not practicing, they

438
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Speaker 1: need to have a warm body to put into uniform,

439
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Speaker 1: at least to cover punts. Yeah, it's gonna be. It's

440
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:28,000
Speaker 1: a crapshoot, man. You may need those guys, you may not.

441
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Speaker 1: Who knows if you don't. Okay, but still, you know

442
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 1: you've we've saw we just saw. You know, they come

443
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,200
Speaker 1: through the door. Six guys already around the league. And

444
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 1: if if those guys had been in the building milling

445
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: around the locker room, milling around the meeting rooms and

446
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 1: not keeping socially distanced. You got to go back and

447
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Speaker 1: trace those guys, And now thirteen other guys have been exposed.

448
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 1: And perhaps the most interesting thing that I got out

449
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 1: of Peter King's Monday morning column that he does every

450
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 1: week for Football Morning in America were the quotes that

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Speaker 1: he got from some veteran players like Jamie Collins, the

452
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Speaker 1: linebacker in Detroit, and a couple other veterans across the league.

453
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Speaker 1: They said, yeah, when we're all in camp, the older

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Speaker 1: players are gonna have to school up the younger players

455
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Speaker 1: on doing right by the team, not being selfish, not

456
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Speaker 1: going out to some restaurants somewhere, even if you're eating

457
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Speaker 1: on the patio and risk exposing yourself, because what you're

458
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Speaker 1: gonna be doing is you're gonna be costing the veterans

459
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Speaker 1: in that locker room money and they're not gonna be

460
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Speaker 1: happy with you if you do that. So he said, basically,

461
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Speaker 1: all the veterans across the league, you're gonna have to

462
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Speaker 1: really school up these young guys who have money and

463
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Speaker 1: freedom and waiting for the chance for their whole you know,

464
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Speaker 1: since they were a teenager, since they was on the

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Speaker 1: horizon they wanted to. They want to be rich and famous.

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Speaker 1: Now they are and they can't take advantage of it.

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Speaker 1: That's a hard thing for a young kid to do, right,

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Speaker 1: So I really I hadn't given that much thought. But yeah,

469
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Speaker 1: I mean, the vets on these rosters are gonna have

470
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Speaker 1: to really police the young players and say, don't you

471
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Speaker 1: screw me out of my paychecks by doing something stupid

472
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:09,120
Speaker 1: and infecting this whole team. Right, And it's it's these

473
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,199
Speaker 1: young guys coming out of college. They wake up one

474
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Speaker 1: morning and all of a sudden they're a rock star,

475
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Speaker 1: except you know they're on a desert island now, and

476
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 1: that you know that stinks. They want to get off. Hey,

477
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 1: but when you think about it in the grand scheme

478
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,639
Speaker 1: of things, that's a small sacrifice. If you're still in

479
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 1: the funds, play football and get your checks every Monday.

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Speaker 1: You're talking about a five month or six month window

481
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Speaker 1: of their life to just kind of hang in there

482
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Speaker 1: and get through this and and learn how to be

483
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Speaker 1: a pro and just don't do anything else. And then

484
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Speaker 1: next offseason you can take a couple of months and

485
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Speaker 1: you know, go jump naked in the pool or whatever

486
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Speaker 1: it is you want to do. When you're when you're

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Speaker 1: rock stars do I don't know? Right, that was the

488
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Speaker 1: first thing that came to mind, Steve, Right, what do

489
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Speaker 1: we not know about you? In your backyard pond? Right?

490
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Speaker 1: Jump naked in the pool. That's what rock stars do? Okay,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Chris Brown. We're here till three o'clock. We've

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Speaker 1: got aaron shots of football outsiders coming on the program

493
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Speaker 1: at one, and we've got a question for you as

494
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Speaker 1: as an NFL fan, as a Bills fan, knowing the

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00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 1: competitive balance is going to be compromised, how would you

496
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 1: feel about a tilted playing field? He would it bother

497
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: you if your team got cut short or got short

498
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 1: cut short change because of the COVID virus? Would it

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00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 1: bother you or b Hey, the teams that can steer

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Speaker 1: clear the virus deserve to have an advantage or see,

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Speaker 1: I don't care. I just want to watch football or

502
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: something else. Give us a call at eight oh three

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Speaker 1: oh five fifty or tweet at us at at one.

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Speaker 1: Bills Lives Team Tasker Chris Brown on one Bills Live

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bills radioacaster Chris Brown.

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00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 1: If you miss any part of the show you can stream.

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00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,399
Speaker 1: You can get it on Buffalo bills dot com. You

508
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:52,160
Speaker 1: can stream it live on the Bills app as well.

509
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 1: If you're out of radio range, you can get it

510
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 1: on Spotify, Google Play and all the Apple podcasts things

511
00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 1: as well, so you can go back and listen to

512
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: portions of the show if you miss that. Also, if

513
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 1: we ever do video again, you can get that stuff

514
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: on the Bills YouTube stuff that's not there. So we

515
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Speaker 1: had the question I gave it to you just before

516
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Speaker 1: we went to the break. If if the competitive balance

517
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Speaker 1: in the NFL is tilted badly because of the COVID nineteen,

518
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 1: how's that gonna sit with you as a Bills fan?

519
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 1: A Is it gonna bother you if your team gets

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00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: cut short because of the of the Twitter scare? And

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00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 1: forty five percent forty four percent of you say, yeah,

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00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: that's gonna bother me. If if I don't, if it's

523
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: tilted away from me, thirty five percent say the other thing,

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Speaker 1: which now, if the teams can't if the team's twenty

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Speaker 1: percent say, if the teams can steer clear the COVID,

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Speaker 1: they deserve to have an edge. And then thirty five

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Speaker 1: percent say I don't care. I just rather have unbalanced

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Speaker 1: football or unfair football than no football at all. Give

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Speaker 1: us a call if you want to. At eight h

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Speaker 1: three oh five fifty. This just came out too over

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Speaker 1: the weekend. Brownie, big boost for Josh Allen. He makes

532
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Speaker 1: the top one hundred players in the National Football League

533
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Speaker 1: at what eighty seven? He comes in at nice time.

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Speaker 1: He's on the list, So it's good. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think he earned a decent measure of respect across

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Speaker 1: the league last year, maybe highlighted by you know, the

537
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Speaker 1: National League televised game on Thanksgiving when there are a

538
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Speaker 1: lot more eyeballs on him, and you know, he made

539
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: some plays in that game, showed his competitive fire. You

540
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: know that fourth down box snap thing that he turned

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Speaker 1: into a first down and going ballistic after he got

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Speaker 1: it on a second effort, and you know, just execution

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00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: on offense. Now, I know, the second half of his

544
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 1: season was clearly better than the first half, so that

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Speaker 1: probably helped him also earned some more consideration for this list.

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Speaker 1: And I think the one thing we can say unquestionably

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Speaker 1: is he's one of the most physically gifted athletes in

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Speaker 1: the league, So that alone sometimes can get you on

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Speaker 1: this list. Yeah, and and good for him. We were

550
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 1: talking just during the break. In the last eight games

551
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Speaker 1: last year, he was almost identical to Aaron Rodgers in numbers.

552
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Speaker 1: He had more throwing touch He was eleven touchdowns two interceptions.

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00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 1: Rodgers had ten to two. His passing yards were about

554
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: less than a hundred yards different than Aaron Rodgers just behind.

555
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Speaker 1: He had fifteen ninety one. Aaron Rodgers had sixteen seventy eight.

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Speaker 1: He had six rushing touchdowns. Aaron Rodgers had zero. He

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00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 1: had fifty seven and a half percent completion percentage. Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers had fifty eight seven. So he's a percentage point

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00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 1: behind Aaron Rodgers. And that his passer rating was ninety

560
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Speaker 1: point six was Josh Allens Aaron Rodgers was eighty four

561
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Speaker 1: point two. And that was in the last eight full

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Speaker 1: games played in twenty nineteen. We saw it happen. I

563
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: think that forget about you know where he could be.

564
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Speaker 1: I think that's who who our guy is. I think

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Speaker 1: that's who Josh Allen is gonna be for the remainder

566
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Speaker 1: of his career. He doesn't really take a huge step

567
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Speaker 1: forward to any other place except TD to touchdown, TD

568
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 1: to interception, ratio that was huge last year. That made

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Speaker 1: it difference in the last half. Yeah, I mean, as

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Speaker 1: completion percentage went up six and a half percent, I

571
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Speaker 1: think they're hoping that even if it jumps by half

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Speaker 1: of that right this year, you know, if it goes

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Speaker 1: up three and a half percent, you know, or three percent,

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Speaker 1: now you're over sixty, says Josh. Yeah, as Josh himself

575
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Speaker 1: mentioned on one of our Zoom calls during the off season, here,

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Speaker 1: when he completes more than sixty percent of his passes,

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Speaker 1: I think the Bills are something like nine and one

578
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: or ten and oh, I can't remember, but they're almost unbeaten. Now.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of other variables that go into

580
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 1: play with that, but I think that's that's worth mentioning.

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Speaker 1: It is a factor. And so if he can raise

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Speaker 1: that completion percentage just three percent over the course of

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season, Bills are gonna be pretty dang

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Speaker 1: tough to beat. So well, they're still gonna be tough

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Speaker 1: to beat. Even if he's the same guy as he

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Speaker 1: was last year. They're still gonna be tough up to beat.

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00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: Their rosters too deep And I heard this stat and

588
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: I can't remember who it was he had Between Dawson

589
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: Knox and and uh Devin Singletary, they dropped almost ten

590
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Speaker 1: percent of the passes he threw to them that were catching. Yeah,

591
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 1: and he was among the league leaders in quarterbacks as

592
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: victims of drop past percentage he was up, it was

593
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 1: up near ten percent. As a team it was like

594
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: nine point something percent. It's another reason why if you

595
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 1: can get back down right, if he can get down

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00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: that down to you know, five percent or three percent,

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00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: it's huge. That's a huge boost as well. Nobody's gonna

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Speaker 1: catch every pass thrown to you. But when you look

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Speaker 1: at that, he took a hit for that statistic as well. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be interesting to see what this offense

601
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Speaker 1: looks like in his third year with better weapons, more

602
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: continuity and this wonky off season that has happened. But

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Speaker 1: I think we're going to see more of what we

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Speaker 1: saw in the second half of last year where he

605
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: did throw up pretty efficiently. Certainly the deep ball was

606
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 1: not there, and you'd like to see that happen and

607
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: get there. But yeah, he's got a lot to work on,

608
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 1: no question, But I think that this who he was

609
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Speaker 1: in the second half of last year is about who

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Speaker 1: the guy you're gonna gonna live with. Yeah, but you

611
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Speaker 1: know what everybody forgets from last year where Josh really

612
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 1: improved his game, and that was in the short to

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Speaker 1: intermediate area of the passing game. He made a huge

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Speaker 1: step in improving that area of his game and it's

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Speaker 1: one of the reasons why, you know, the Bills were

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Speaker 1: better at staying on the field and finishing scoring drives. Now,

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00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 1: their touchdown percentage once they reached the red zone still

618
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 1: isn't where they wanted to be. I think it was

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Speaker 1: around fifty seven percent. They wanted higher, But he really

620
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: made some strides in that area. Obviously that was held

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Speaker 1: by Cole Beasley, you know, working out of the slot

622
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: with you know, more of those types of throws. But still,

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Speaker 1: in all I think that's an area of his game

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Speaker 1: that went largely unnoticed is making noticeable improvement. Well. One

625
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: of the guy we're having Aaron shots on at one PM.

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Speaker 1: He's the founder and editor in chief of Football Outsiders.

627
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: He said this in the alman Act that he puts

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Speaker 1: together about every NFL team. He said, Josh Allen threw

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Speaker 1: in the short middle of the field much more often

630
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Speaker 1: than in his rookie year, he went from thirteen percent

631
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Speaker 1: of those throws to twenty one percent of his passes

632
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:26,839
Speaker 1: and which was much more successful. He went from dead

633
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: last in eighteen DVA to tenth in DVA. So he

634
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: leap frogged a bunch of guys in his efficiency in

635
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: the middle of the field last year and for the

636
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 1: so and one of the things that he's got to

637
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 1: get better at is also mentioned in this was he

638
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,240
Speaker 1: was close to the top of the league in frequency

639
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: when he dropped back to the pass opposing defenses blitzed

640
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 1: him with defensive backs. He faced them even more in

641
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Speaker 1: his second season. Last You're sixteen percent of his passes

642
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: he had a defensive back rushing him, and he struggled

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00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 1: on those plays. And I think there's a reason for that, Steve.

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Speaker 1: I think it's because they know that Josh can usually

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Speaker 1: outrun a defensive lineman or a linebacker. So if you

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Speaker 1: want to have anybody have a chance to at least

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Speaker 1: wrap him up and maybe hold on until help arrives,

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Speaker 1: it's probably a dB, right, And that's some speed and

649
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Speaker 1: closing perspective now and then he also says the Bills

650
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Speaker 1: ranked second in the league with seven point one percent

651
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Speaker 1: of his passes dropped by receivers. They were number two.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't ten percent. It was well, I think if

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Speaker 1: you had a tight end said it in there, it

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Speaker 1: was ten percent. But yes, just receivers, it was seven percent, right,

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Speaker 1: and I think it was. I think it was ten percent.

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Speaker 1: Of those two rookie receivers, Devin Singletary and Dawson Knox,

657
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Speaker 1: dropped a ton of balls. But you know they were

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Speaker 1: second in the league overall, so he had to. And

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Speaker 1: you can say, and his detractors say, yeah, it's because

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Speaker 1: he threw it bad. But they don't count every throw

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Speaker 1: to receiver that wasn't caught as a drop by the receiver.

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Speaker 1: If it was a bad throw, that doesn't count as

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Speaker 1: a drop. I don't think. Maybe it doesn't. Maybe it doesn't.

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Speaker 1: Football outsiders, right, it doesn't, so they determine them as

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Speaker 1: catchab passes and then if they don't catch it, it's

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Speaker 1: called a drop. Yeah. So I think that the statistical

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Speaker 1: year he had last year was probably, you know, if

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Speaker 1: you boil it down to him developing after his rookie

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Speaker 1: year and getting used to a new offensive line and

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Speaker 1: taking another step in the offense and using the continuity

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Speaker 1: of what year one to year two to try and

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00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 1: get better. You get halfway through the season, all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, the lights go off go on for him,

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Speaker 1: and he goes eleven to eleven to two touchdown to

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Speaker 1: interception ratio, and the team really plays a lot better.

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Speaker 1: They go into Thanksgiving and he makes some throws. They

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Speaker 1: go into the Pittsburgh on the road, and then he

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Speaker 1: makes some throws and clutch moments. He's just a better

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Speaker 1: player in the second half of last season. I think

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Speaker 1: that is the step we were all looking for him

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Speaker 1: to take. And if that continues to be the case,

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be. And like I said before, and

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Speaker 1: I get people all the time asking me Brown when

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Speaker 1: I'm out and about when I'm on the golf course,

685
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Speaker 1: all these you know, all the old guys that I

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Speaker 1: play with and around, They're asking me, you know, quote unquote,

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Speaker 1: off the record, how they gonna be. What do you think?

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you the Bills are gonna be a really

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Speaker 1: good football team this year. I have no idea how

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Speaker 1: many games they're gonna win. And I you know, I

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Speaker 1: reserve judgment. I'm predicting that until later in the offseason.

692
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Speaker 1: But they're gonna be a good football team. By any

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Speaker 1: stretch of the imagination and by any stretch of the numbers,

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Speaker 1: whatever you call it, they're gonna be tough to beat.

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00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: Their defense is too good, and they've got too good

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Speaker 1: of players on offense not to be really good. And

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Speaker 1: I'll reference Josh's own words again here, going back to

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Speaker 1: one of his zoom calls from back in June, he

699
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Speaker 1: was asked to kind of reflect on, you know, the

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Speaker 1: two days of South Florida workouts with all of the

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Speaker 1: offensive skill position players that he and the other quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: organized for the Bills down there, and he said, without hesitation,

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00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: it's the best I've ever thrown. He talked about working

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Speaker 1: with Jordan Palmer at you know, the QB summit that

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Speaker 1: Palmer runs as a business, and he said, I just

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00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 1: tightened things up, you know. Not He's trying to work

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Speaker 1: on an even plane with his upper body, keeping his

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Speaker 1: hips on a certain axis, you know, and pulling those

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Speaker 1: through on certain throws, and he feels like he's tightened

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Speaker 1: things up. This wasn't an exercise in revamping his throwing motion.

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Speaker 1: It was just a matter of tightening some of the

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Speaker 1: throws up in the way that he comes through his

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Speaker 1: release point and the throws are tighter in terms of delivery,

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Speaker 1: and he feels that it's led to more consistency in

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Speaker 1: his throwing motion, which logic would say should help him

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Speaker 1: increase his completion percentage. So if that's the case, I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm even more encouraged. Right coming up at the top

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Speaker 1: of the hour, we've got Aaron Shots from Football Outsiders come.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to him about the Jamal Adams trade,

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Speaker 1: the New York Jets trading way. They're really he's a

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Speaker 1: young player, but he's a superstar safety in the National

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Speaker 1: Football League. He got traded at the Seattle Seahawks over

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Speaker 1: the weekend. Also, I'd like to remind everybody too. Coming

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Speaker 1: up in August Second Sunday, August second, Captain Circle presented

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Speaker 1: by Blue Light is going to return for the anticipated series,

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Speaker 1: the last installment of that airing seven pm on The

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Speaker 1: Bill's YouTube channel Facebook page, as well as the Sabers

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Speaker 1: YouTube Bill Legends, Bill's Legends Lorenzo Alexander, Daryl Talley, along

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Speaker 1: with Sabers Legends Stu Barnes and Danny garretre gonna be

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Speaker 1: on that on that program this and coming Sunday. This

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Speaker 1: last one with Jim Kelly and Kyle Williams, Mike Fellino

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Speaker 1: and Michael Peca were on really interesting stuff happening there.

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Speaker 1: It's a really nice project. It's coming up this cool

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Speaker 1: series day August second. It's been a nice series. This

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Speaker 1: will be the third and final installment of Captain Circle.

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Speaker 1: Steve task Chris Brown coming up after the break Aaron

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Speaker 1: Shots at the top of the hour. We're talking about

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Speaker 1: what you think this unfair season of COVID nineteen may

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Speaker 1: look like in the NFL. How do you how do

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Speaker 1: you get your mind around it? What does it mean

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Speaker 1: to you? Stick with us? On One Bills Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Clyde to Health on Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: in one of those Lives. Keep tasker Chris Brown as

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Speaker 1: an NFL fan, knowing the competitive balance will be impossible

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Speaker 1: this season in the National Football League, how would have

746
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Speaker 1: tilted playing field? Sit with you? We asked you our

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Speaker 1: listeners to chime in on that. Forty four almost forty

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Speaker 1: five percent of you say, yeah, bother me if my

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Speaker 1: team got short changed because of COVID. Thirty six percent

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Speaker 1: of you said, now, I don't care, just give me football.

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Speaker 1: I just want to see it. And twenty percent of

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Speaker 1: you said the teams without a COVID should have an

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Speaker 1: It should have an edge. It should be there to

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Speaker 1: their advantage. If they can get their team navigated through

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Speaker 1: this COVID and pandemic without getting the virus, they should

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Speaker 1: have an edge because of that. You can give us

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Speaker 1: a call at eight with three five fifty or tweet

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Speaker 1: at us at one Bills Live, Brownie, You've got some

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Speaker 1: stuff on the tweet sheet you want to share with us,

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Speaker 1: here is from our good friend Tiffany, who says, in

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Speaker 1: my opinion, you have to have a deep, flexible roster

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Speaker 1: and that falls on the people running the team. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: all teams this season are going to be hit by

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Speaker 1: this virus. The Bills have built a roster that I

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Speaker 1: feel can put a solid competitive team on the field

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Speaker 1: week to week right, and you haven't expanded practice squad,

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Speaker 1: which is now at sixteen. It seems as though there

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Speaker 1: is going to be a lot more flexibility moving those

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Speaker 1: players up and down because from what I understand, Steve,

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Speaker 1: After calling a player up, you don't have to put

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Speaker 1: them through the waiver process when you send them back down,

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Speaker 1: when you get players back. So I think they're trying

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Speaker 1: to make this as fluid as possible, to keep rosters

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Speaker 1: as flexible as possible, to ensure that teams have the

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Speaker 1: right number of people to utilize on a given game day,

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Speaker 1: knowing the unpredictable nature of you know, COVID raising its

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Speaker 1: ugly head and saying, yeah, yeah, you don't have five

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Speaker 1: players tomorrow. Good luck, right right, because it could happen,

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna happen, I think, and I think we

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Speaker 1: all we kind of suspect it right after what's happened

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Speaker 1: with baseball the Phillies, right exactly how are they going

784
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Speaker 1: to handle it? And I was, you know, only half kiddingly,

785
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Speaker 1: because you know, I'm I don't have any skin in

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00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: that game, don't you think Secretly some of these guys

787
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 1: are thinking, may I hope I get it early so

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Speaker 1: I can jump back into it before the regular season

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Speaker 1: actually starts, so that I can you know, have the

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Speaker 1: antibodies or whatever that I'm not going to get it

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Speaker 1: again and I can just go full steam during the

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Speaker 1: regular season. Yeah, I'm not so sure that they can't

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Speaker 1: get it again, because we've heard stories of people that

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Speaker 1: have gotten it twice. I've heard, I've heard of it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: how often it happens. Yeah, I've got one of those

796
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Speaker 1: friend of a friend type deals. And the guy's had

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Speaker 1: it twice already. Fortunately he recovered both times without a

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Speaker 1: lot of serious complications. But he's had it twice in

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Speaker 1: five months. And I was it diagnosed, tested and everything. Yes,

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Speaker 1: And his line of work kind of puts him at

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Speaker 1: risk to a certain extent. He's not a medical person,

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Speaker 1: but he's he runs the risk of exposure, even though

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Speaker 1: he's as careful as possible. But twice, So yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: it's not just one and done, apparently. I'm sure there

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Speaker 1: are some people that may have antibodies, and if you're

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Speaker 1: exposed to it again in a short period of time,

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Speaker 1: you're good. But I've also read in certain places and

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Speaker 1: again the validity is to be questioned, but that the

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Speaker 1: antibodies don't stay in your system necessarily permanently for all time.

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Speaker 1: I guess, and I've I've also well, we've all heard

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Speaker 1: out landish things. I've also heard that your blood type

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Speaker 1: has it has some sort of say and how how severe.

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Speaker 1: We're not say. Yeah, so, but I don't know we're

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Speaker 1: the winners in that one. I'm not even gonna take

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Speaker 1: a shot at it. But I've heard that that's a

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Speaker 1: that's a factor in the severity of the symptoms, or

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Speaker 1: whether you asymptomatic and have it or it puts you

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Speaker 1: on a ventilator. Uh. I don't know so, but I've

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Speaker 1: heard that's a factor in how severe it is, or

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Speaker 1: whether you get it or not, or all that you

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Speaker 1: could react. So all of this stuff we don't know.

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Speaker 1: And that's why it's said earlier in the show. I'm

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Speaker 1: interested in the studies that are going to be done

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Speaker 1: in this and the subsequent years coming through about what

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Speaker 1: we didn't know and what we were afraid of that

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Speaker 1: we didn't need to be and what we need to

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Speaker 1: be afraid of and don't even know about. From the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet as well, Dinah says, we've got a hard

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Speaker 1: enough schedule this season. We don't need COVID making things worse.

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Speaker 1: We don't need it, but we got it. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: hate to tell you, but it's it's coming, and it's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. It's just really all we're all we're wondering about,

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Speaker 1: Steve is the degree to which it impacts every team, Right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think we we all have a relative

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Speaker 1: assumption here that something's going to happen to each of

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Speaker 1: the thirty two teams at some point in time between

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Speaker 1: September and early January. The only, the only question is

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Speaker 1: to what degree are these teams gonna suffer the consequences

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Speaker 1: of a COVID exposure? Right? That's what it really boils

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Speaker 1: down to, is some team, you think about it, one

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Speaker 1: team escapes it for sixteen weeks, Oh my god, it

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Speaker 1: be a miracle. And then yeah, and then and then

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Speaker 1: when they need it, like in the playoffs or something,

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Speaker 1: they right, I mean that's a pressure, right, I mean

845
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Speaker 1: the timing, the timing is never perfect, but you can

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Speaker 1: certainly find it, find a way to get there and say, wow,

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Speaker 1: it couldn't have happened at the worst possible time. And

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Speaker 1: there'll be teams that that will be There'll be the

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Speaker 1: one team that is the sad sack of the NFL

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Speaker 1: that's going to get hit with the COVID like four times,

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Speaker 1: have four waves, and they're all gonna be crucial games

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Speaker 1: and all that yikety act, and then there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: some who get hit like in early in the season,

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Speaker 1: then don't have it again for the rest of the duration.

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Speaker 1: You know, yeah, you know that's going to happen. Oh yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 1: Here's here's an interesting perspective from Darryl. He says, I answered,

857
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: be all things are not equal in the NFL anyway.

858
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 1: Just think about how an outside force like weather has

859
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 1: affected teams differently since the beginning of football. And you know,

860
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: I hadn't really thought of it that way, but that's

861
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,760
Speaker 1: kind of an interesting look at it. So he's saying,

862
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: you know, his answer obviously on the Twitter poll is

863
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Speaker 1: be if a team is smart enough to you know,

864
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: elude the negative impact of COVID, well, then more power

865
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:45,240
Speaker 1: to you. Right yeah. That It comes down to decision

866
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Speaker 1: making anyway, even in a regular year, whether you know,

867
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Speaker 1: you pick the right draft picks, you use them the

868
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 1: right way, you implement your offense the right way, You

869
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: get to take the wind in the first half instead

870
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: a second, right you. Yeah, yeah, I mean you develop

871
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 1: your young players where you stay the course in YadA YadA,

872
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,400
Speaker 1: and COVID is just thrown into that variable mix. And

873
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 1: I get it, and and there's there's plenty of there

874
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 1: plenty of reason to say that's right. You know that,

875
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: no question, it's just one more degree of difficulty for

876
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Speaker 1: these NFL teams to overcome. Let's see you do it,

877
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 1: and let's put that on the table too, as part

878
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:23,319
Speaker 1: of what you've got to overcome this season in order

879
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:26,239
Speaker 1: to get the Lombardi Trophy. Man, does that seem like

880
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 1: a million miles away the Lombardi Trophy? Some team hosting

881
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: that up with a mask on? My gosh, they should

882
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:35,360
Speaker 1: put a mask on the ticket about the trophy celebration.

883
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:38,439
Speaker 1: You get everybody with masks on, E'd be crazy right

884
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 1: right now. Gary Thompkins also chimes in on the tweet

885
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 1: sheet with that, with what has now happened with baseball,

886
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:47,320
Speaker 1: I don't see how there can even be an NFL season.

887
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 1: You may not see it, but it's coming down the

888
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 1: tracks and they're they're gonna keep it going. And our

889
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 1: producer J. J. Currito pointed at something out in our

890
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:01,400
Speaker 1: preproduction meeting where he said, hey, let's not forget you know,

891
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:03,919
Speaker 1: football is only once a week. You know, these Major

892
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 1: League baseball teams got to play five six days a

893
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:09,400
Speaker 1: week and traveling all over God's Green Earth. It's a

894
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: different animal, and it is I agree, I think it

895
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:15,920
Speaker 1: is a different animal. But yeah, you have a player

896
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:19,359
Speaker 1: test positive during the regular season, there's a good chance

897
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: they're probably missing two games, right, right, it has to

898
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 1: be two games at least ten to fourteen. They can't

899
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Speaker 1: even get in the build testative twice, right, They can't

900
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:36,759
Speaker 1: even get in the building again for two weeks, right,

901
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 1: So that's you know, they're not gonna be able to

902
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Speaker 1: practice and get ready. So lots going on, all right, Steve,

903
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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Chris Brown coming up right after the top

904
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Speaker 1: of the hour. We've got founder and editor in chief

905
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Speaker 1: of Football Outsiders. They put out an almanac every season.

906
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: The portions of these proceeds from this almanac this year

907
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 1: we'll go to benefit the United Way Worldwide COVID nineteen

908
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:01,880
Speaker 1: Community Response and Recovery Fund that's coming out of Football Outsiders.

909
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:04,840
Speaker 1: We'll have the founder and editor in chief, Aaron shots

910
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: on right after the break, Steve Tasker Chris Brown on

911
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio presented by Kalida Health. And this is

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00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:20,280
Speaker 1: One Bills Live, Oh Brent Tackle by Steve Tasker sets

913
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Speaker 1: down time. Welcome back to One Bills Live Steve Tasker

914
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:39,879
Speaker 1: along with Chris Brown. We are waiting just a moment

915
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Speaker 1: for a technical glitch on Skype as Aaron Shots is

916
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 1: going to join us, the editor in chief of Football

917
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:51,439
Speaker 1: Outside Pro Football Outsiders. UM happy to have him coming

918
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:54,600
Speaker 1: on with us. He's a founder and editor in chief. Uh.

919
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:58,359
Speaker 1: And they every year, the twenty twenty Football Outsiders, Uh,

920
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 1: they put on an almanac and they raise funds for

921
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 1: charity works with this almanac and is a pretty comprehensive

922
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:10,279
Speaker 1: go down a rundown of every NFL team. Brownief you

923
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:13,239
Speaker 1: had a chance to peruse the almanac. Yet, all I'm

924
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Speaker 1: gonna say is this is comprehensive with a capital C. Right.

925
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Speaker 1: I mean, I know Aaron's got a team of writers

926
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Speaker 1: that put this together, but this is painstaking, yeah, to

927
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Speaker 1: say the least, but comprehensive, super informative. And if you

928
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Speaker 1: are a person that likes to get deep in the

929
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Speaker 1: weeds and crunch the numbers, yeah, you gotta get it simply. Yeah.

930
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:42,720
Speaker 1: And a portion of the proceeds from this year's almanac

931
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Speaker 1: are going to benefit the United Way Worldwide COVID nineteen

932
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Speaker 1: Community Response and recovery fund. Aaron Schatz joins us on Skype.

933
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Speaker 1: Now he's he can see us, and we can see him,

934
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Speaker 1: but we can't hear him yet, So we're kind of

935
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Speaker 1: waiting for that glitch to be ironed out as he's

936
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Speaker 1: sitting there watching us talk of mine. But a lot

937
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Speaker 1: of stuff going on today, and we're asking you, our listeners,

938
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Speaker 1: to the ultimate question because we know, we all know

939
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:14,880
Speaker 1: that the COVID nineteen has put a real wrench in

940
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,879
Speaker 1: the works of this NFL season. Knowing as an NFL fan,

941
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 1: the competitive balance is probably going to be impossible to maintain.

942
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 1: How would have tilted playing field in the National Football League?

943
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 1: Sit with you a would it be? Would it bother you?

944
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:32,720
Speaker 1: Because your team could be put at a disadvantage? Forty

945
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 1: five percent of you say that's it. I don't want

946
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:36,759
Speaker 1: my team to be put in a disadvantage. Thirty seven

947
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 1: percent of you say, I don't care, just give me football,

948
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 1: and twenty percent or a seventeen percent of you think, hey,

949
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 1: if the team can go without contracting COVID, they should

950
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 1: have an edge. I get it, just added to the

951
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 1: level of competition, and that's where there we stand. But

952
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: most people say, yeah, it's gonna make me mad, particularly

953
00:51:55,719 --> 00:51:58,359
Speaker 1: when my team's affected, and I get it. Yeah, well

954
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 1: that's yeah. As soon as I mean, as soon as

955
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Speaker 1: somebody's getting sure changed in a given week, it's going

956
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 1: to be an issue for those fans. All right. Now,

957
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:09,280
Speaker 1: we have Aaron's Shots on the line with a founder

958
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:11,840
Speaker 1: and editor in chief of Football Outsiders, Aaron, Thanks for

959
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:14,319
Speaker 1: joining us, Chris Brown's deep tasker here in Buffalo. How

960
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:17,279
Speaker 1: are you doing today? Time doing well today? How are

961
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 1: you guys doing good? How's your family? Are you holding

962
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:23,799
Speaker 1: up during the pandemic? Are you safe and well? Yeah,

963
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:26,080
Speaker 1: it's sort of an advantage of living in the Northeast.

964
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Speaker 1: I think we have this controlled a little bit better

965
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Speaker 1: than most of the country does, so we're doing okay.

966
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Speaker 1: First of all, I got to ask you about what

967
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 1: happened over the weekend. That every so often a superstar

968
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 1: gets traded. It happens sometimes in other sports. It doesn't

969
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:46,279
Speaker 1: really happen very often in the National Football League. But

970
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:49,440
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams, I think is a true superstar at his

971
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:51,520
Speaker 1: position to the National Football League. He's been the league

972
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: three years, two Pro Bowls and All Pro. What do

973
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:58,399
Speaker 1: you make of him? Leaving the Jets. Well, I think

974
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 1: they didn't have a choice given the way that he

975
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 1: was talking about the front office and talking about the coach,

976
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 1: and they got about as much as you could possibly

977
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 1: imagine for him. The package that the Jets got from

978
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:13,160
Speaker 1: Seattle was larger than the package at Chicago got a

979
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:17,279
Speaker 1: couple of years ago for Khalil Mack. So you know,

980
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 1: I mean, they did well for themselves. It's just these

981
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:22,760
Speaker 1: picks are not going to develop. By the time these develop,

982
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 1: Sam Targo will be off his rookie contract and they

983
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 1: may be onto their next rookie quarterback at that point.

984
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 1: So it's seems like the Jets are in this never

985
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:36,040
Speaker 1: ending rebuilding phase as far as Seattle goes. The problem

986
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: is trading. The amount of draft capital that they traded

987
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:43,880
Speaker 1: for a player of Adam's stature may sense if you

988
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 1: can get Adam at his rookie contract, but if you

989
00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:49,320
Speaker 1: have to sign him to an extension that is above

990
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 1: market rate, which is what it sounds like they're going

991
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:55,239
Speaker 1: to have to do, then you're really paying a lot

992
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 1: because you're not just paying the draft capital, you're also

993
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:00,840
Speaker 1: paying a lot of money on the salary camp. I

994
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,799
Speaker 1: guess They've gotten him to agree to play this year

995
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 1: under his old salaries, so they're in a really good

996
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: shape for twenty twenty. But after that, I mean, his

997
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:12,959
Speaker 1: salaries going. He wants fifteen million or more, he wants

998
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:18,400
Speaker 1: twenty million, but he's never that's not happened. Yeah, and

999
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:22,839
Speaker 1: then you know, to spend it beyond that, You think

1000
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:25,759
Speaker 1: about what some teams have done over the years with

1001
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 1: big time safeties. They have chosen not to pay him

1002
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Speaker 1: the giant money. I mean, we can go all the

1003
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:34,600
Speaker 1: way back to when Jared's Bird, who had a great

1004
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 1: few years here in Buffalo, the Bills made the decision

1005
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Speaker 1: that we don't invest gigantic money in the safety position,

1006
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 1: and of course the Saints signed him to a fifty

1007
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 1: six million dollars deal, and obviously injuries kind of corrupted

1008
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 1: the effectiveness of that for both Bird and the Saints

1009
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 1: quite frankly. But there have been other teams that have

1010
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:57,439
Speaker 1: done that too, that have not paid the safety big money.

1011
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 1: You know, we saw Turan Matthugo a couple of different teams,

1012
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I guess Seattle looks at it

1013
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:08,360
Speaker 1: differently because you're not giving up that kind of trade

1014
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 1: capital unless you're intending to invest in him long term. No,

1015
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:16,319
Speaker 1: you don't. And this is the third time we've had

1016
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:19,920
Speaker 1: one of the trades where a team traded for a

1017
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 1: disgruntled veteran and didn't sign him to the extension. I

1018
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 1: didn't agree to the extension before the trade, And you're

1019
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:28,759
Speaker 1: sort of on the hook at that point because you

1020
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:31,719
Speaker 1: don't want to have traded all the draft capital the

1021
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Speaker 1: way that the Rams did for Jalen Ramsey, the way

1022
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 1: that the Texans did for Laramie Tunsil and now the

1023
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:40,800
Speaker 1: Seahawks for Jamal Adams. You don't want to have traded

1024
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 1: all of this draft capital and not sign the guide

1025
00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 1: to the long term deal. But what he wants us

1026
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:48,520
Speaker 1: to break the market for safety and yeah, he's really good,

1027
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:51,480
Speaker 1: but you know, are you getting enough value for the

1028
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:54,560
Speaker 1: dollar at that point? We're talking with Aaron Schat's co

1029
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:56,840
Speaker 1: founder and editor in chief of Football Outsiders. They just

1030
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Speaker 1: put out their twenty twenty Football Outsiders Almanac. It's available

1031
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Speaker 1: now at Football outsiders dot com slash store. Aaron in

1032
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Speaker 1: this year, when you're trading for first round draft picks

1033
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Speaker 1: in this upcoming draft, in the twenty twenty one draft,

1034
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:15,320
Speaker 1: which seems like a light years away. Nevertheless, is it

1035
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 1: a good idea to trade for these first round draft

1036
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:20,800
Speaker 1: picks when you may not have a college football season

1037
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:23,080
Speaker 1: to evaluate these guys? I mean it sounds good on paper,

1038
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 1: but all of a sudden, it's like, who are you

1039
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:27,320
Speaker 1: picking and how are you going to evaluate them on

1040
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 1: film that's been subsequently going to be two years old

1041
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 1: and of a kind of a different player probably then

1042
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Speaker 1: you're going to draft on draft Day. I mean, these

1043
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:37,400
Speaker 1: number one draft picks in twenty twenty one may be

1044
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:41,839
Speaker 1: a different cat than in years past. I think that's

1045
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:45,120
Speaker 1: a legitimate argument. I think it's legitimate to say that

1046
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:48,799
Speaker 1: lower round picks and lower picks in the first round

1047
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:51,959
Speaker 1: might be worth more in twenty twenty one because there's

1048
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 1: going to be more randomness in what comes out of

1049
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Speaker 1: the draft than what we're used to because of the

1050
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 1: unlikelihood that we're going to have a full twenty twenty season.

1051
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:03,520
Speaker 1: And then just to spin it over to the Bills now, Aaron,

1052
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: because I think we've talked enough about the Jets here

1053
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:08,320
Speaker 1: and our listeners are probably like, hey, let's talk Buffalo.

1054
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 1: So let's do that here now we you know, Steve

1055
00:57:11,239 --> 00:57:13,920
Speaker 1: and I kind of comb through the bills right up

1056
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,960
Speaker 1: in your almanac, and a ton of great stuff in

1057
00:57:17,040 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 1: there to pull out of it. And where you, guys

1058
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Speaker 1: reach your conclusion is where a lot of people have

1059
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Speaker 1: concerning the bill's fortunes in twenty twenty. A lot of

1060
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 1: it is going to hinge on the next step that

1061
00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:32,480
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is capable of taking. But as far as

1062
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Speaker 1: what your numbers tell you, Aaron, what is realistic in

1063
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Speaker 1: terms of Josh increasing his efficiency of play in twenty twenty, Well,

1064
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Speaker 1: here's the struggle, and that is that, for the most part,

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Speaker 1: large increases in a player's efficiency on a regular basis

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Speaker 1: are most likely to happen between the first and second years.

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Speaker 1: And that already happened, right, did dramatically did increase his

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00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:06,120
Speaker 1: efficiency between year one and year two. After that, there's

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00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 1: a lot more randomness, and you know who gets better

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Speaker 1: and who gets worse. I mean sometimes, look, guys do

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Speaker 1: take big step forwards later in their careers. Look at

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Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill last year. On the other hand, guys will

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00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:20,520
Speaker 1: play worse, you know, all of a sudden. You know,

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00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 1: there's a lot of random variation in NFL play, But

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Speaker 1: the expectation The average expectation for what we should expect

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Speaker 1: from Josh Allen is that what he was by year

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Speaker 1: two is probably what he's going to be for the

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Speaker 1: rest of his career. It is possible that he gets better, Certainly,

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Speaker 1: it's also possible that he gets worse. Yeah, the question

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Speaker 1: I would have is what if Josh Allen turns out

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Speaker 1: for the remainder of his career to be the same

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Speaker 1: quarterback he was in the second half of year two,

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Speaker 1: where it looked as though he finally did start to

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00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 1: become a guy you could depend on to a certain extent.

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Speaker 1: He's completing all, you know, sixty percent of his passes,

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00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:03,600
Speaker 1: he's got a eleven to two touchdown interception ratio. Certainly,

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00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 1: he's going to have better weapons this year. But if

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00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:08,560
Speaker 1: he's that guy statistically and he's throwing for just around

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00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 1: a little bit above three thousand yards if you pro

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00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:14,200
Speaker 1: rate it three thousand yards per season, if you prate

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Speaker 1: as yardage on the second half of the last season,

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Speaker 1: what if he's that guy, how good can the Bills be?

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00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:23,439
Speaker 1: Could they win a championship with that guy that we've

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00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:26,600
Speaker 1: seen him be for the second half of a year. Well,

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Speaker 1: the first thing I would say is that you learn

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00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:31,240
Speaker 1: more from full years than you do from half years.

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00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:33,439
Speaker 1: We've done a lot of research on this, and even

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00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:38,200
Speaker 1: with young quarterbacks like Allen, the full year performance tells

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00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:40,800
Speaker 1: you more about what to expect the following season than

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Speaker 1: the half year performance. So I would look more at

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Speaker 1: what he did over the full season and not what

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Speaker 1: he did just in the second half of the season.

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Speaker 1: But if Allan is the quarterback that he was last year,

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Speaker 1: which is a bit below average but a little bit

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Speaker 1: above replacement level, if the Bill's defense is as good

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Speaker 1: as we think that it is, then they are certainly

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Speaker 1: playoff contenders, but they're not really Super Bowl contenders. And

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Speaker 1: then Aaron, I'm sure with all the stats that you

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Speaker 1: guys crunch and research that you're probably somewhat familiar with

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Speaker 1: this one. But Josh even referenced it himself when we

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01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:19,360
Speaker 1: had him on a zoom call back in June with

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Speaker 1: the Western New York Media, and he said, I've got

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Speaker 1: personal goals set out for myself, and I keep seeing

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Speaker 1: a statistic when I complete over sixty percent of my passes,

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Speaker 1: we haven't lost. He's talking about single games, So he said,

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Speaker 1: that's the goal every game to have at least sixty

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Speaker 1: percent completion percentage. Now, I think we all know he

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Speaker 1: finished the season at fifty eight point eight. But I'm

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Speaker 1: looking at that and saying to myself, if he can

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Speaker 1: raise his completion percentage just by half the amount that

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Speaker 1: he did from year one to year two, he's up

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Speaker 1: over sixty percent every single week. Is that enough to

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Speaker 1: raise the collective bar of the team? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: How does that grab you? Just hearing that? I mean,

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Speaker 1: every little bit helps. Again, I wouldn't expect it, but

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Speaker 1: it's certainly possible. There's a range of possibilities, and that's

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Speaker 1: part of the rage. If the defense is as good

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Speaker 1: as we think it is, then absolutely that is a

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Speaker 1: winning team. But if they want a quarterback who can

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Speaker 1: carry their team, even if the defense is not one

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Speaker 1: of the top two or three in the league, he's

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Speaker 1: got to be a lot better than he's been so far. Right,

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Speaker 1: One of the things I was thinking too was if

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Speaker 1: you've got a young quarterback, and is there a precedent

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Speaker 1: for a young quarterback when he does make these incremental improvements,

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01:01:42,960 --> 01:01:46,680
Speaker 1: doesn't it or does it or does it not exponentially

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01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:48,960
Speaker 1: raise the level of the team around him? Does the

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Speaker 1: defense get that much better, does the passing game and

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01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:53,480
Speaker 1: the running game get that much better. We've always heard

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Speaker 1: that a you know, a great running game helps a

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01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 1: young quarterback, and a great offensive line helps a young quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and it helps the running game and helps the defense

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01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:03,680
Speaker 1: and all that. What kind of ripple effects could Josh

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01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:06,080
Speaker 1: Allen's improvement have to other parts of the team in

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01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:09,960
Speaker 1: the roster. I mean, I don't think Allen's improvement has

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01:02:10,120 --> 01:02:12,840
Speaker 1: much of an impact on the defense. Things might look

1147
01:02:12,960 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 1: better because they're starting with better average field position if

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01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:19,600
Speaker 1: he's better, but if you drill down to efficiency, staff

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01:02:19,640 --> 01:02:22,280
Speaker 1: and more advanced that, I don't think that the performance

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01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:25,400
Speaker 1: of the defense is connected to Allen's performance. But there

1151
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:29,960
Speaker 1: is something to the idea that improved quarterback play opens

1152
01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:32,640
Speaker 1: things up for the running game. There's also something to

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01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:36,000
Speaker 1: the idea that a running quarterback opens things up for

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01:02:36,040 --> 01:02:38,320
Speaker 1: the running game because you always have to be afraid

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01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:40,240
Speaker 1: of him, you know, coming out the other side on

1156
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:43,040
Speaker 1: a bootleg play action or something. And I mean, we've

1157
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 1: done research showing that mobile quarterbacks like Allen improved the

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01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:49,280
Speaker 1: performance of their running backs on average. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: when you talk about Allen's abilities you cannot overlook his

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01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:57,120
Speaker 1: running ability, right, because I think he was up around

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01:02:57,160 --> 01:02:58,760
Speaker 1: the top of the top five in the league in

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Speaker 1: total touchdowns produced this past season. Aaron, and looking at

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01:03:04,960 --> 01:03:07,480
Speaker 1: the write up in your almanac, and I think Derek

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01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:10,000
Speaker 1: Klassen did a good bit of the writing there for

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01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:13,400
Speaker 1: the Bills write up. He wrote that the Bills go

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Speaker 1: into the season with the best mean defensive projection. Can

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Speaker 1: you just explain that to our listening audience and the

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01:03:21,160 --> 01:03:26,160
Speaker 1: layman who may not be completely familiar with advanced statistics. Sure,

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01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:29,120
Speaker 1: what we do is use our projection system, but we

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01:03:29,240 --> 01:03:32,280
Speaker 1: don't project just one how good a team is going

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Speaker 1: to be. We project a range of possibilities for how

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Speaker 1: good a team is going to be based on a

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01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:40,840
Speaker 1: number of different variable But the average of all those

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Speaker 1: possibilities for Buffalo is the best in the league. For defense.

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Speaker 1: Now here's the problem. The problem is defensive performance varies

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01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:56,520
Speaker 1: a lot more than offensive performance, which means having the

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Speaker 1: best projected offense in the league, which is Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: is going to be much stronger than the best projected

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01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:06,520
Speaker 1: defense in the league, which is Buffalo, because the range

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01:04:06,560 --> 01:04:10,520
Speaker 1: of possibilities that that represents is a lot larger, but

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Speaker 1: it is the best projected defense in the league. I mean,

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01:04:13,800 --> 01:04:16,600
Speaker 1: their defense is very strong. Their front office has put

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Speaker 1: together a really good team around Allen. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's really hard to fault in for decisions that

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Speaker 1: they've made around Allen. Yeah, and you talk about what's

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Speaker 1: around Josh Allen. Certainly, they've done a lot over the

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Speaker 1: last two years. They brought in John Brown, they brought

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Speaker 1: in Colebazi, They revamped and brought in four brand new

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Speaker 1: starters from twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen, and they return

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Speaker 1: all of those guys plus some depth in twenty twenty.

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01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:43,880
Speaker 1: And now they've brought in Stefan Diggs. What can he

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Speaker 1: mean to the whole statistical wash that's the Buffalo Bill's offense. Well,

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Speaker 1: he's I mean, he's a fantastic receiver and he's been

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Speaker 1: He's been in the top ten in our dya R

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Speaker 1: statistics twice out of the last three seasons. The interesting

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01:05:02,120 --> 01:05:05,920
Speaker 1: thing is his average depth of target has changed dramatically

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01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:07,919
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years, Like it was really

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Speaker 1: low in twenty eighteen and really high in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: But you want him to be running deep routes. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Brown obviously is more of a field stretcher, but you

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01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:20,560
Speaker 1: want thigs running deep routes, and Alan's numbers on deep

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Speaker 1: routes are just not good. That's where the accuracy is

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01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:27,080
Speaker 1: really a problem. In your right up again that I'm

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01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:31,520
Speaker 1: going to reference on the Bills, you guys astutely pointed

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Speaker 1: out how the absence of Lorenzo Alexander and his multifaceted

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Speaker 1: role in the Bills defense kind of removes some unpredictability

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Speaker 1: from their scheme. Do you believe that the unpredictability for

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Speaker 1: Buffalo's defense might lie inversatile players like Quentin Jefferson who

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01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:58,080
Speaker 1: can play end and also played defensive tackle, and even

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Speaker 1: their draft pick Ajvanessa, who can reduce down and play

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Speaker 1: an interior role on passing downs. Might that be where

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Speaker 1: the unpredictability lies this year in the form of players.

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Speaker 1: I guess yeah, it's going to be a different It's

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Speaker 1: going to be a different kind of unpredictability. Instead of

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Speaker 1: Alexander going back and forth between off ball linebacker and

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Speaker 1: edge rusher, it'll be guys going back and forth between

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Speaker 1: edge and tackle, and they can load up the defensive

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Speaker 1: line with some serious pass rushing power if they want

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Speaker 1: to move Jefferson and Epanessa or both of them into

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Speaker 1: the interior. The other thing that's interesting about the Bell's defenses,

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Speaker 1: certain parts of it are absolutely not flexible. McDermott plays

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01:06:36,720 --> 01:06:41,000
Speaker 1: Nickel constantly and never plays Dine like never, it's five

1223
01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:48,360
Speaker 1: defensive facts occasionally for usually five, never six. What strategic

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Speaker 1: tendencies others other than maybe the defensive backs all nickel

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Speaker 1: and no dime. What strategic tendencies also stood out from

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills last season? They were team that most

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01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:05,000
Speaker 1: frequently ran in short yardage situations, which I think is

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Speaker 1: a good thing. I think analytics shows that that's one

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Speaker 1: of the places where running actually is tends to be

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Speaker 1: more successful than passing. They're blitzed at about an average rate,

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Speaker 1: but they rushed only three at the lowest rate in

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Speaker 1: the league, which is sort of interesting. They don't use

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Speaker 1: a lot of offensive motion, which goes against what's sort

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Speaker 1: of working for a lot of the most successful offenses

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Speaker 1: in the league. I would love to see them using

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Speaker 1: more play actions, but especially more offensive motion before the snap.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Shots, founder and editor in chief of Football Outsiders.

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Speaker 1: He's also an ESPN NFL analyst. This year's edition of

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty Football Outsiders Almanac is now available at

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Speaker 1: Football Outsiders dot com. Also, a portion of the proceeds

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Speaker 1: are going to go to the United Way Worldwide COVID

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Speaker 1: Nineteens Community Response and Recovery Fund. Aaron, thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for joining us today. We appreciate your time. Have a

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Speaker 1: good rest of the day. Hey, thank you so much,

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Speaker 1: and I hope your listeners enjoyed Dominac. Thanks Aaron. Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker Chris Brown. Gonna be back right after the break.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk a little bit more about the Jamal

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Speaker 1: Adams trading, a lot of other stuff that's going on

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Speaker 1: back to one of Bill's Live. Keeve Tasker Chris Brown.

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Speaker 1: As we went to break, and just during the interview

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Speaker 1: we had with founder and editor in chief of Football Outsiders,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Schottz, this broke over social media. The infectious disease

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Speaker 1: expert or Yeah, infectious infection control officer Eric Sugarman, along

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Speaker 1: with members of his family of the Minnesota Vikings. I've

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Speaker 1: tested positive for COVID nineteen. So the guy who is

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Speaker 1: in charge of the infectious disease portion of the protocols

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Speaker 1: with for the Minnesota Vikings is now at home quarantine

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Speaker 1: this family, all of whom are only experiencing minor, minor

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Speaker 1: whatever symptoms. His family, he says, and this is a

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Speaker 1: quote from Eric Sugarman. This weekend, my family and I

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Speaker 1: tested positive for COVID nineteen. We immediately quarantine and began

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Speaker 1: to follow the established protocols. At this time, we are

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Speaker 1: all doing fine and experiencing only mild symptoms. I have

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Speaker 1: an immense amount of pride and effort in the effort

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Speaker 1: I should personally put forth to protect the NFL family,

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings organization, and our community with thoughtfulness and

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Speaker 1: decision making based on the current science. Over these last

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Speaker 1: four months. I'm humbled to be serving in that capacity,

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Speaker 1: as it has been some of the most rewarding work

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Speaker 1: of my career. But as I sit here in quarantine,

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Speaker 1: it is clear that this virus does not discriminate. It

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Speaker 1: should be it should continue to be taken seriously, and

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Speaker 1: I encourage people to take the necessary precautions and follow

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Speaker 1: guidelines that have been established nationally and locally. At this time,

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01:09:58,120 --> 01:10:00,320
Speaker 1: I am taking care of myself and my fami and

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01:10:00,439 --> 01:10:02,880
Speaker 1: then focused on their health and recovery. I will return

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Speaker 1: to the Vikings and my role after following the proper protocols.

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01:10:07,840 --> 01:10:11,880
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough. I

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01:10:11,960 --> 01:10:18,720
Speaker 1: mean the guys whom I mean, if anybody deviates from

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Speaker 1: what they're supposed to be doing during this pandemic, they're

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Speaker 1: getting it. Steve. You got some people that aren't even deviating,

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01:10:28,120 --> 01:10:31,360
Speaker 1: I mean that are getting it right. I mean, it

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01:10:31,600 --> 01:10:35,200
Speaker 1: is and that's and that's the real issue with this

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01:10:35,320 --> 01:10:39,680
Speaker 1: whole pandemic. I mean, this thing spreads like wildfire, it

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01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:44,120
Speaker 1: really does, and even when people are I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: the infection control officer for the Minnesota Vikings. I mean

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01:10:47,600 --> 01:10:51,720
Speaker 1: each team has been assigned or each team had to

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01:10:51,840 --> 01:10:56,280
Speaker 1: assign someone in their building as the point person to

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01:10:57,400 --> 01:11:01,439
Speaker 1: you know, address COVID make sure that all protocols and

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01:11:01,640 --> 01:11:05,200
Speaker 1: policies are being adhered to by every single person that

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Speaker 1: walks into that building. And that's the guy that contracted it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, if that doesn't speak to the level at

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Speaker 1: which this thing can travel and the rapid rate at

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Speaker 1: which it can infect multiple people at the drop of

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Speaker 1: a hat. I don't know what else does. And this

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01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:28,519
Speaker 1: the guy. It's a sobering reminder. This is the guy

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01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:30,960
Speaker 1: that gave Peter King his tour last week. Peter King

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01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:33,200
Speaker 1: had said written about the protocols and he had never

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01:11:33,320 --> 01:11:35,479
Speaker 1: been to the Minnesota facility and it's brand new and

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01:11:35,560 --> 01:11:38,760
Speaker 1: it's spectacular, and he made the comment we talked to

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01:11:38,880 --> 01:11:40,760
Speaker 1: him last last week and he said, you could eat

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01:11:40,760 --> 01:11:43,640
Speaker 1: off the floor this place. Well, that's the guy. In

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01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:47,640
Speaker 1: that clean, brand new, sparkly environment, that's where they caught it.

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01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:52,160
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. So I think that's why I think again

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01:11:53,439 --> 01:11:57,240
Speaker 1: in the future something that we this guy is probably

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01:11:57,320 --> 01:12:01,519
Speaker 1: washing his hands every five seconds and he got it

1309
01:12:01,600 --> 01:12:04,080
Speaker 1: so how and he may not And we don't know

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01:12:04,160 --> 01:12:06,160
Speaker 1: if he got it at that facility. Maybe it was

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01:12:06,280 --> 01:12:08,519
Speaker 1: out and about in his daily public like goes to

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01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:11,080
Speaker 1: pump gas the gas station, right, I mean, it could

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01:12:11,120 --> 01:12:14,479
Speaker 1: be anywhere, right, I mean, that's what I've got. I'm

1314
01:12:14,640 --> 01:12:16,680
Speaker 1: just so curious what is going on with is he

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01:12:16,760 --> 01:12:18,680
Speaker 1: How are we going to find out the way it's

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01:12:18,760 --> 01:12:21,679
Speaker 1: really transmitted and how it's transmitted. I mean, the masks

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01:12:22,120 --> 01:12:24,599
Speaker 1: seem to help, right, I mean, because we got people

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01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:27,160
Speaker 1: put here in Western New York and and it's it's

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01:12:27,200 --> 01:12:31,320
Speaker 1: still not whatever. We have a less than one percent

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Speaker 1: infection rate right now, right and that's because everybody wears masks. Yep,

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01:12:35,760 --> 01:12:38,920
Speaker 1: So I guess it's because everybody wears masks. I'm guessing.

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01:12:39,160 --> 01:12:44,080
Speaker 1: What do I doubtedly think? Like? Right, I want to

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01:12:44,160 --> 01:12:46,000
Speaker 1: know what's what the real story is? How does this

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01:12:46,120 --> 01:12:48,320
Speaker 1: guy get it? Or did he touch a gas pump,

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01:12:48,439 --> 01:12:51,280
Speaker 1: did he sneeze through a mask, or did somebody else

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01:12:51,320 --> 01:12:53,160
Speaker 1: sneeze through a mask and then he walked through the

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01:12:53,240 --> 01:12:56,720
Speaker 1: vapor or somehow some way? What what's going on? You

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01:12:56,800 --> 01:13:00,599
Speaker 1: know what? What contact tracing all of that stuff? I mean,

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01:13:01,040 --> 01:13:03,479
Speaker 1: this is a guy that is I mean, think about it, Brownie.

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Speaker 1: How motivated was this guy not to get it? Yeah?

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01:13:08,320 --> 01:13:15,320
Speaker 1: Through the roof right now? He's the infectious disease officer.

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Speaker 1: But that's the thing. I mean, he's being vigilant, not

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01:13:19,560 --> 01:13:23,840
Speaker 1: only because he's an NFL employee. And if anybody that

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01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:26,840
Speaker 1: works for an NFL team or the league wants to

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01:13:26,920 --> 01:13:29,600
Speaker 1: have a season, you gotta be vigilant and do the

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01:13:29,760 --> 01:13:32,400
Speaker 1: right thing just for the benefit of all parties involved,

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01:13:32,640 --> 01:13:35,519
Speaker 1: and even as a good citizen, you should be vigilant

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01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:38,519
Speaker 1: to benefit the whole community and not just you know,

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01:13:38,680 --> 01:13:43,080
Speaker 1: be selfish about the whole thing, about about everybody else. Right,

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01:13:43,200 --> 01:13:46,519
Speaker 1: as you said, Steve. On top of that, he's the

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01:13:46,720 --> 01:13:51,400
Speaker 1: example by which everybody has to be operating. And and

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01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:54,639
Speaker 1: he still contracted the virus despite his best efforts, which

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01:13:54,720 --> 01:13:57,760
Speaker 1: probably goes sun up to sundown every single day for

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01:13:57,800 --> 01:14:01,040
Speaker 1: the last four months, which you mentioned. He's got to

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01:14:01,120 --> 01:14:03,439
Speaker 1: cut And I bet this guy knows what he's doing too.

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01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:08,040
Speaker 1: He probably went back and just meticulously went through his

1347
01:14:08,240 --> 01:14:10,519
Speaker 1: day about where he was, what he or last whatever

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01:14:10,640 --> 01:14:13,720
Speaker 1: forty eight hours, what he's done, where he's gone. Now,

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01:14:13,800 --> 01:14:15,680
Speaker 1: certainly his family got it too, so it could have

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01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:19,000
Speaker 1: been one of them. Right, but now think about this,

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01:14:19,320 --> 01:14:22,400
Speaker 1: I mean, and who knows what when the incubation period started,

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01:14:22,439 --> 01:14:26,479
Speaker 1: so there's no way to definitively know. But if now

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01:14:26,560 --> 01:14:29,320
Speaker 1: Peter King wrote in his Football Morning in America column

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01:14:29,360 --> 01:14:33,120
Speaker 1: today that he's on day ten of his quarantine, his

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01:14:33,240 --> 01:14:37,360
Speaker 1: self imposed quarantine upon returning from Minnesota, which was a

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01:14:37,439 --> 01:14:40,439
Speaker 1: state on New York State's list that if you return

1357
01:14:40,520 --> 01:14:43,760
Speaker 1: from that state, you need to self quarantine for fourteen days.

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01:14:43,880 --> 01:14:46,280
Speaker 1: He's on day ten right now. Well, it's a darn

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01:14:46,360 --> 01:14:49,519
Speaker 1: good thing he did that because he could very well

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01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:52,120
Speaker 1: test positive because we don't know when the incubation period

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01:14:52,200 --> 01:14:56,240
Speaker 1: started for Eric Sugarman in Minnesota, so he may have

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01:14:56,320 --> 01:15:01,240
Speaker 1: infected Peter, who knows, who knows. It's it's an assorted

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01:15:01,400 --> 01:15:04,240
Speaker 1: web that we're only going to figure out in the

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01:15:04,400 --> 01:15:08,920
Speaker 1: months to follow and theoretically. And it's been interesting too.

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01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:10,560
Speaker 1: You know, we always talk about the you know, that

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01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:12,679
Speaker 1: magic postion most you know, a lot of people don't

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01:15:12,720 --> 01:15:15,720
Speaker 1: believe in them, but that the vaccine. Right, So you

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01:15:15,800 --> 01:15:18,400
Speaker 1: got vaccines coming and you're reading the stuff about how

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01:15:18,439 --> 01:15:21,320
Speaker 1: fast they're gonna get this COVID nineteen vaccine into place.

1370
01:15:21,560 --> 01:15:23,920
Speaker 1: It took them like forty seven years to get a

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01:15:23,960 --> 01:15:27,639
Speaker 1: polio vaccine, forty two years to get a smallpox vaccine,

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01:15:28,080 --> 01:15:30,439
Speaker 1: and now we're gonna get a COVID vaccine in like

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01:15:30,560 --> 01:15:36,120
Speaker 1: eighteen months, sixteen months, twelve to fourteen months. Yes, I

1374
01:15:36,200 --> 01:15:40,280
Speaker 1: don't know, man, But Steve, here's the thing that's that's

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01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:44,599
Speaker 1: really kind of gripping me. Today we're three or four

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01:15:44,720 --> 01:15:49,280
Speaker 1: games into the Major League baseball season. Okay, we're only

1377
01:15:49,479 --> 01:15:53,679
Speaker 1: now having players report to camp, and in the last

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01:15:54,040 --> 01:16:00,360
Speaker 1: five hours we've had two baseball games postponed. We've got

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01:16:00,520 --> 01:16:05,400
Speaker 1: fourteen players on the Marlins team, players and coaches infected,

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01:16:06,960 --> 01:16:11,960
Speaker 1: and now we've got an infection control officer in Minnesota

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01:16:12,720 --> 01:16:18,800
Speaker 1: contracting the virus. So, I mean, the NFL I hasn't

1382
01:16:18,800 --> 01:16:21,800
Speaker 1: even gotten started yet, you know what I mean, Right,

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01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:25,360
Speaker 1: It's just it's it's very sobering, it really is. Yeah,

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01:16:25,439 --> 01:16:27,280
Speaker 1: it is, and it's gonna and it's it's gonna be

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01:16:27,360 --> 01:16:30,200
Speaker 1: a roller coaster ride throughout the National Football League season,

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01:16:30,280 --> 01:16:32,200
Speaker 1: no question about it. And it's gonna be interesting and

1387
01:16:32,560 --> 01:16:35,919
Speaker 1: all all we can really do. And we've got despite

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01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:38,920
Speaker 1: you know, our Twitter poll about you know, the bill

1389
01:16:39,040 --> 01:16:41,719
Speaker 1: season and about the NFL season. As an NFL fan,

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01:16:41,920 --> 01:16:44,639
Speaker 1: knowing the competitive balance is going to be impossible, how

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01:16:44,720 --> 01:16:48,000
Speaker 1: do you feel how would a tilted field in the

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01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:51,600
Speaker 1: NFL set with you tilted, of course, by way of

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01:16:51,680 --> 01:16:55,240
Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen virus, would it be a it bother

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01:16:55,400 --> 01:17:00,519
Speaker 1: me if my team got shortened, short changed because the virus.

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01:17:00,680 --> 01:17:04,080
Speaker 1: Forty five percent of us feel like that. Thirty eight

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01:17:04,200 --> 01:17:08,080
Speaker 1: percent of people are a huge percentage brownie. They don't care.

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01:17:08,240 --> 01:17:11,040
Speaker 1: They just want football, yea. And of course then sixteen

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01:17:11,160 --> 01:17:13,840
Speaker 1: seventeen percent of people say, you know, if teams can

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01:17:13,880 --> 01:17:16,439
Speaker 1: get around the COVID virus, they deserve an edge. And

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01:17:16,560 --> 01:17:18,880
Speaker 1: you know who else you can put into that see

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01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:23,880
Speaker 1: choice and every owner in the NFL, because they would

1402
01:17:23,960 --> 01:17:27,800
Speaker 1: rather have football than no football at all, even if

1403
01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:30,680
Speaker 1: the playing field is uneven, and there's no way to

1404
01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:33,360
Speaker 1: keep it even this year because no one has control

1405
01:17:33,439 --> 01:17:36,680
Speaker 1: of the virus. You don't have control of its infection rate,

1406
01:17:37,880 --> 01:17:40,040
Speaker 1: you don't have control in the way that it's spread.

1407
01:17:40,760 --> 01:17:43,120
Speaker 1: I mean, you could make your best efforts and reduce

1408
01:17:43,200 --> 01:17:46,160
Speaker 1: the risk, but you're never reducing the risk to zero.

1409
01:17:46,680 --> 01:17:49,680
Speaker 1: And because of that, I think the NFL owners have

1410
01:17:49,760 --> 01:17:52,360
Speaker 1: come to grips with the fact that we're gonna be

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01:17:52,400 --> 01:17:55,120
Speaker 1: able to have a season, but it's not gonna look

1412
01:17:55,160 --> 01:17:57,960
Speaker 1: like any other season we've ever seen before, and we're

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01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:02,560
Speaker 1: gonna have to accept the inequities they're in, right, And

1414
01:18:03,520 --> 01:18:07,479
Speaker 1: the key thing is Brownie, somehow, some way, by hook

1415
01:18:07,560 --> 01:18:09,920
Speaker 1: or crook, every NFL team has got to be able

1416
01:18:09,920 --> 01:18:13,120
Speaker 1: to feel an NFL team every week for sixteen weeks,

1417
01:18:13,439 --> 01:18:17,160
Speaker 1: seventeen weeks by hook or by crook, They got to

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01:18:17,200 --> 01:18:19,519
Speaker 1: find a way to get these teams to the game

1419
01:18:19,680 --> 01:18:23,120
Speaker 1: with enough bodies to play. And that's that's the real

1420
01:18:23,240 --> 01:18:25,519
Speaker 1: holy grail for this season in the national football tea.

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01:18:25,600 --> 01:18:27,760
Speaker 1: Forget about the Lombardi Trophy and the playoffs and the

1422
01:18:27,880 --> 01:18:30,040
Speaker 1: new the new team that's gonna make the playoff. They

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01:18:30,120 --> 01:18:33,439
Speaker 1: just want to get the games in. They'll just just somehow,

1424
01:18:33,560 --> 01:18:36,559
Speaker 1: some way get through this that'll get them enough financial

1425
01:18:36,640 --> 01:18:39,120
Speaker 1: wherewithal to get to the next season. Start from scratch,

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01:18:39,800 --> 01:18:42,240
Speaker 1: work the work through the finances the way they have

1427
01:18:42,920 --> 01:18:44,640
Speaker 1: so far, knowing that their game is going to do

1428
01:18:44,720 --> 01:18:48,240
Speaker 1: nothing but grow in a normal year and get these

1429
01:18:48,360 --> 01:18:50,760
Speaker 1: games in by hook or crook. And I think that's

1430
01:18:50,760 --> 01:18:52,400
Speaker 1: what we're gonna I think that's gonna be the real

1431
01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:56,000
Speaker 1: controversy is those guys pushing through to get these games

1432
01:18:56,040 --> 01:18:58,320
Speaker 1: on and it's not going to be pretty. Yeah. And

1433
01:18:58,479 --> 01:19:01,760
Speaker 1: proof of that came in the from John Mara, you know,

1434
01:19:01,800 --> 01:19:06,320
Speaker 1: one of the Giants owners who's on the league's management council,

1435
01:19:07,080 --> 01:19:09,880
Speaker 1: and his quote in Peter King's right up this week

1436
01:19:10,040 --> 01:19:14,680
Speaker 1: essentially said we need to be prepared to accept that

1437
01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:20,439
Speaker 1: this is going to be a season where unfairness will

1438
01:19:20,560 --> 01:19:25,639
Speaker 1: be present. So he's basically preparing any of the owners

1439
01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:28,680
Speaker 1: who may think otherwise that there are going to be

1440
01:19:29,080 --> 01:19:35,559
Speaker 1: plenty of instances where competitive balance is simply not going

1441
01:19:35,680 --> 01:19:38,920
Speaker 1: to exist by virtue of what COVID is going to do.

1442
01:19:39,640 --> 01:19:44,040
Speaker 1: Two rosters, right, And that's that's why we came up

1443
01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:47,759
Speaker 1: with this question. It's pretty it's pretty obvious the NFL.

1444
01:19:49,120 --> 01:19:52,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can articulate how ugly it's

1445
01:19:52,840 --> 01:19:55,320
Speaker 1: gonna look by putting guys out there, you're gonna have

1446
01:19:56,200 --> 01:19:59,400
Speaker 1: it's gonna get rag tag at times. I would think, Well,

1447
01:19:59,439 --> 01:20:02,760
Speaker 1: Steve talked about it, and we've had guests say it too.

1448
01:20:03,640 --> 01:20:08,559
Speaker 1: The NFL Pro football football in general is the opposite

1449
01:20:08,600 --> 01:20:12,519
Speaker 1: of social distancing. Yes, it's the complete opposite. It's not

1450
01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:14,839
Speaker 1: like baseball, where you're standing in right field by yourself.

1451
01:20:15,600 --> 01:20:20,080
Speaker 1: I mean, outside of tagging someone with your glove. You

1452
01:20:20,160 --> 01:20:22,920
Speaker 1: don't have to touch anybody on a baseball field. You

1453
01:20:23,000 --> 01:20:25,439
Speaker 1: throw the ball back and forth. I get it. Um,

1454
01:20:27,280 --> 01:20:30,439
Speaker 1: what else is standing the umpire in the catcher? Okay, yeah,

1455
01:20:30,479 --> 01:20:33,360
Speaker 1: they're in close proximity to one another. That's it. The

1456
01:20:33,520 --> 01:20:37,360
Speaker 1: batter standing there for a minute, yeah, and then maybe

1457
01:20:37,360 --> 01:20:40,000
Speaker 1: a guy standing on first base right, He'll he'll take

1458
01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:42,360
Speaker 1: an extra step off of third first base to lead

1459
01:20:42,560 --> 01:20:45,680
Speaker 1: on his lead off so he can socially distance. Right,

1460
01:20:46,000 --> 01:20:48,360
Speaker 1: I'll have a little circle around first base where the

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01:20:48,400 --> 01:20:51,719
Speaker 1: six foot circle is. The guys got radius, even even

1462
01:20:51,760 --> 01:20:55,920
Speaker 1: the guys who don't who don't run happy, right. I

1463
01:20:56,000 --> 01:20:59,439
Speaker 1: mean that was all that stuff. Yeah, I gotta say

1464
01:20:59,439 --> 01:21:01,880
Speaker 1: I was rise because I was watching a couple of

1465
01:21:01,920 --> 01:21:05,560
Speaker 1: the baseball games over the weekend, and you know, I

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01:21:05,680 --> 01:21:08,360
Speaker 1: get it's hot and all of that, but I did

1467
01:21:08,439 --> 01:21:11,040
Speaker 1: not see a single home plate umpire with a mask on.

1468
01:21:11,240 --> 01:21:13,599
Speaker 1: Like they had their protective mask on so they don't

1469
01:21:13,600 --> 01:21:15,760
Speaker 1: get hit in the face with a baseball, but they

1470
01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:19,000
Speaker 1: did not have a mask covering their nose or face. Right,

1471
01:21:19,400 --> 01:21:23,760
Speaker 1: And and they're the one shouting out strike ball, safe out,

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01:21:23,960 --> 01:21:27,640
Speaker 1: and you know when you shout more gets expelled. I

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01:21:27,840 --> 01:21:33,559
Speaker 1: was I was surprised by that. Yeah, I am too, obviously.

1474
01:21:33,760 --> 01:21:37,160
Speaker 1: Then a NBA seems to be percolating along pretty easily.

1475
01:21:37,240 --> 01:21:40,000
Speaker 1: They've got this bubble. But like we've said, like we've said,

1476
01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:43,720
Speaker 1: the entire in NBA is the size of about three

1477
01:21:43,840 --> 01:21:51,040
Speaker 1: or four NFL teams, um maybe five. The NHL is

1478
01:21:51,080 --> 01:21:52,639
Speaker 1: going to operate in a bubble, they'll be a little

1479
01:21:52,680 --> 01:21:55,000
Speaker 1: bit larger and there'll be a couple of bubbles. Their

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01:21:55,080 --> 01:21:58,240
Speaker 1: chat Yes, that's right. Edmonton and Toronto and their bubble

1481
01:21:58,640 --> 01:22:01,240
Speaker 1: approaches is doing well so far. What was it? What

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Speaker 1: are we hearing the update? There is zero positive tests again, right,

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01:22:04,040 --> 01:22:07,519
Speaker 1: eight hundred tests, zero positives and they're still they're still

1484
01:22:07,640 --> 01:22:10,000
Speaker 1: ramping up. And I get it. That's good for them.

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01:22:10,080 --> 01:22:15,680
Speaker 1: I hope, we hope it works, you know. Um, but man,

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01:22:15,760 --> 01:22:19,640
Speaker 1: oh man, have you caught any of the NBA action? No,

1487
01:22:19,840 --> 01:22:22,040
Speaker 1: I haven't. I haven't really tuned in all that much.

1488
01:22:22,160 --> 01:22:23,840
Speaker 1: I haven't either. I don't know why I'm missing that,

1489
01:22:23,920 --> 01:22:26,400
Speaker 1: I would think, but I told you this. You know,

1490
01:22:26,479 --> 01:22:29,960
Speaker 1: we took off the July fourth week. I've I'm a brownie.

1491
01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:32,960
Speaker 1: I'm a changed man. During our week off during the

1492
01:22:33,040 --> 01:22:36,200
Speaker 1: July fourth holiday week, we didn't do the show. I

1493
01:22:36,280 --> 01:22:41,000
Speaker 1: didn't turn the TV on once. Wow, not once for

1494
01:22:41,120 --> 01:22:44,720
Speaker 1: you man, I'm changed. I'm a different guy. I have.

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01:22:44,920 --> 01:22:48,360
Speaker 1: I've not missed it. I should, Um, I should throw

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01:22:48,439 --> 01:22:50,880
Speaker 1: one more sport into this. You know. The European soccer

1497
01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:53,679
Speaker 1: leagues they're doing were some of the first to start

1498
01:22:53,760 --> 01:23:00,200
Speaker 1: up after the initial lockdowns. They just wrapped up their

1499
01:23:00,200 --> 01:23:03,400
Speaker 1: seasons this past weekend to finish, you know, the season

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01:23:03,479 --> 01:23:06,559
Speaker 1: that was right, and they'll start right back up again

1501
01:23:06,560 --> 01:23:09,360
Speaker 1: in three more weeks with the new season. No fans,

1502
01:23:10,240 --> 01:23:15,080
Speaker 1: but to my knowledge, they were not operating in bubbles

1503
01:23:16,080 --> 01:23:19,640
Speaker 1: and they made it work. I mean, I'm sure they

1504
01:23:19,720 --> 01:23:22,080
Speaker 1: had some positive tests here and there, but by no

1505
01:23:22,240 --> 01:23:26,160
Speaker 1: means was it crippling in nature. So Europe isn't a

1506
01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:28,439
Speaker 1: lot better spot than a lot of states in this country.

1507
01:23:28,520 --> 01:23:31,160
Speaker 1: So right, all right, we'll be back after the break.

1508
01:23:31,200 --> 01:23:33,800
Speaker 1: One Bills Live on Buffalo Bill's Radio and presented by

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01:23:33,840 --> 01:23:44,680
Speaker 1: kalidah Hell. Stay with us more to come. Welcome back

1510
01:23:44,680 --> 01:23:47,400
Speaker 1: to One Bill's Lives. Teat tasker Chris Brown. Here till three.

1511
01:23:47,680 --> 01:23:51,400
Speaker 1: It's time for lunch, Brownie, for those people who take

1512
01:23:51,439 --> 01:23:54,240
Speaker 1: a late lunch, almost two o'clock here, are you ready

1513
01:23:54,280 --> 01:23:56,519
Speaker 1: for that? I am ready? All right? What from this

1514
01:23:56,680 --> 01:23:58,920
Speaker 1: is a column A column B. Pick something on the menu.

1515
01:23:58,960 --> 01:24:00,360
Speaker 1: You don't have to like any of it, but you

1516
01:24:00,400 --> 01:24:02,120
Speaker 1: got to pick something to eat for lunch. And here

1517
01:24:02,160 --> 01:24:05,120
Speaker 1: it is question number one on what's for lunch? On

1518
01:24:05,160 --> 01:24:07,080
Speaker 1: the menu? Item number one. Who would you rather have?

1519
01:24:07,360 --> 01:24:10,400
Speaker 1: The Bills? Secondary or the Seahawks secondary now with newly

1520
01:24:10,439 --> 01:24:14,919
Speaker 1: acquired Jamal Adams in Seattle. Of course, Seattle also Shaquille

1521
01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:19,479
Speaker 1: Griffin and uh Quandra Diggs as well as Jamal. Um,

1522
01:24:19,880 --> 01:24:23,080
Speaker 1: I'm still taking the bills, Um. They've been a top

1523
01:24:23,200 --> 01:24:26,439
Speaker 1: three pass defense the last two years, and stopping the

1524
01:24:26,479 --> 01:24:29,920
Speaker 1: past is what it's all about. I still think they're

1525
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:35,080
Speaker 1: trying to rebuild that group because you know, you've got

1526
01:24:35,760 --> 01:24:38,640
Speaker 1: Griffin at one corner, you got Trey Flowers at the

1527
01:24:38,720 --> 01:24:43,280
Speaker 1: other corner. Um. Diggs is like a hybrid. He plays safety,

1528
01:24:43,320 --> 01:24:47,320
Speaker 1: but he's there, Nickel, and Adams is clearly the lynchpin

1529
01:24:47,439 --> 01:24:52,599
Speaker 1: now on which that secondary now rests. Um. But I mean,

1530
01:24:52,720 --> 01:24:55,120
Speaker 1: it looks like their second round, looks like their second

1531
01:24:55,160 --> 01:24:57,200
Speaker 1: round pick, Marquis Blair is going to start at free

1532
01:24:57,240 --> 01:24:59,880
Speaker 1: safety for them this year. Are they like trying to

1533
01:25:00,040 --> 01:25:04,439
Speaker 1: rebuild the legion of Doom? No? Sorry, I don't think so,

1534
01:25:05,200 --> 01:25:08,880
Speaker 1: because even though Adams is a physical box type safety,

1535
01:25:09,280 --> 01:25:12,599
Speaker 1: he's still not Cam Chancellor as I see it. Why

1536
01:25:12,640 --> 01:25:14,639
Speaker 1: didn't they just if Yeah, but Cam Chancellor, they didn't

1537
01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:16,120
Speaker 1: pay him when they got there. Now they're on the

1538
01:25:16,160 --> 01:25:20,200
Speaker 1: hook to pay Jamal Adams, right because he's younger at

1539
01:25:20,200 --> 01:25:23,320
Speaker 1: the time when his contracts up. Maybe it's because he's younger.

1540
01:25:24,120 --> 01:25:28,280
Speaker 1: And as we talked about with Aaron Shots earlier this hour,

1541
01:25:29,040 --> 01:25:31,519
Speaker 1: you're not giving up two first rounders unless you intend

1542
01:25:31,560 --> 01:25:34,479
Speaker 1: to keep Jamal Adams long term. Can you imagine the

1543
01:25:34,680 --> 01:25:39,800
Speaker 1: leverage he's gonna have. Yeah, especially after agreeing to play

1544
01:25:39,840 --> 01:25:41,760
Speaker 1: this year on his rookie contract. He wanted a new

1545
01:25:41,840 --> 01:25:44,400
Speaker 1: deal this year. It's gonna be like Laramie Tunsel's leverage

1546
01:25:45,680 --> 01:25:49,439
Speaker 1: with Bill O'Brien. They gave up so much to get

1547
01:25:49,520 --> 01:25:51,640
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams. They've got to have him for more than

1548
01:25:51,720 --> 01:25:54,120
Speaker 1: one year. Yeah, gotta have him for more than one.

1549
01:25:54,320 --> 01:25:57,120
Speaker 1: The Bills see him November eighth, because the Bills do

1550
01:25:57,240 --> 01:25:59,880
Speaker 1: play Seattams, right, That's right, all right? I think I

1551
01:26:00,080 --> 01:26:02,360
Speaker 1: agree with y'all. Take the Bills secondary, particularly since they

1552
01:26:02,439 --> 01:26:05,960
Speaker 1: brought back E. J. Gaines. They brought back Josh Josh Norman.

1553
01:26:06,600 --> 01:26:10,599
Speaker 1: They've got Levi Wallace on the other side of Tredavious White.

1554
01:26:10,640 --> 01:26:12,400
Speaker 1: Of course that you say everything else has said. They've

1555
01:26:12,439 --> 01:26:16,599
Speaker 1: got a ton of options at the other secondary, at

1556
01:26:16,640 --> 01:26:20,160
Speaker 1: the other corner opposite Trey White. There's slots good. I mean, yeah,

1557
01:26:20,240 --> 01:26:22,200
Speaker 1: I like the Bill secondary and they've proven it over

1558
01:26:22,240 --> 01:26:23,960
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, and they're gonna be as

1559
01:26:24,120 --> 01:26:27,160
Speaker 1: maybe even better this year. Okay, that was menu item

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01:26:27,280 --> 01:26:29,040
Speaker 1: number one. We both have the Bills secondary over the

1561
01:26:29,080 --> 01:26:31,920
Speaker 1: Seahawks secondary Item number two on the menu. Who's a

1562
01:26:31,960 --> 01:26:36,920
Speaker 1: better receiver? Keenan Allen or Chris Godwin both very good receivers.

1563
01:26:37,040 --> 01:26:41,840
Speaker 1: I kind of prefer Allen. He's Keenan Allen is what

1564
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:45,840
Speaker 1: you call a route separator. That's why. That's how he

1565
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:49,080
Speaker 1: makes his money by getting separation due to his precise

1566
01:26:49,240 --> 01:26:53,479
Speaker 1: route running. He is not a straight line speed guy

1567
01:26:53,560 --> 01:26:57,800
Speaker 1: at all, which Godwin is certainly more of, you know

1568
01:26:57,880 --> 01:27:01,120
Speaker 1: in a receiver description. So I just like the way

1569
01:27:01,360 --> 01:27:06,439
Speaker 1: Allan works and how he makes plays. It's not on

1570
01:27:07,000 --> 01:27:12,760
Speaker 1: pure athleticism, it's on craft precision, and that's how he

1571
01:27:12,880 --> 01:27:15,280
Speaker 1: makes plays. So for guys that are not blessed with

1572
01:27:15,360 --> 01:27:17,479
Speaker 1: the athlite athleticism and can still get it done in

1573
01:27:17,560 --> 01:27:19,439
Speaker 1: this league, I tend to have more respect for them.

1574
01:27:20,680 --> 01:27:24,960
Speaker 1: I get it. I'll tell you this, Keenan Allen is

1575
01:27:24,960 --> 01:27:29,639
Speaker 1: gonna be playing with Tyrod Taylor next year. Well, yeah, Herbert,

1576
01:27:29,760 --> 01:27:32,679
Speaker 1: and he's not gonna He's not gonna make the top

1577
01:27:32,760 --> 01:27:36,040
Speaker 1: one hundred in twenty twenty one. He won't even be

1578
01:27:36,080 --> 01:27:39,600
Speaker 1: on the list with that crew. I'm long year for

1579
01:27:39,720 --> 01:27:42,599
Speaker 1: him it could be. And uh yeah, Chris Godwin's very

1580
01:27:42,640 --> 01:27:44,559
Speaker 1: good too. But I like Keenan Allen, don't get me wrong.

1581
01:27:44,640 --> 01:27:45,960
Speaker 1: He can get it, he can get it done. And

1582
01:27:46,000 --> 01:27:48,040
Speaker 1: I'm I'm like you too. He's a guy who has

1583
01:27:48,439 --> 01:27:51,680
Speaker 1: done it with hard work and craft and guile, and

1584
01:27:51,920 --> 01:27:55,240
Speaker 1: he's a good receiver. And here's the thing for me, Brownie,

1585
01:27:55,680 --> 01:27:59,320
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen would be a good receiver on any team, right.

1586
01:27:59,800 --> 01:28:02,000
Speaker 1: I don't know that you can say that about every

1587
01:28:02,120 --> 01:28:05,120
Speaker 1: receiver on the list, but Keenan Allen would be good

1588
01:28:05,160 --> 01:28:07,479
Speaker 1: on just about any team. And he may be good

1589
01:28:07,880 --> 01:28:09,479
Speaker 1: on the Chargers, but he's not going to be as

1590
01:28:09,520 --> 01:28:11,160
Speaker 1: good as he was with a Hall of Famer throwing

1591
01:28:11,200 --> 01:28:14,760
Speaker 1: it to him in Philip Rivers. So I think I

1592
01:28:14,840 --> 01:28:19,080
Speaker 1: will take Keenan Allen in this in this scenario. But man,

1593
01:28:19,280 --> 01:28:21,200
Speaker 1: that's just for this year. I want a chance to

1594
01:28:21,320 --> 01:28:23,960
Speaker 1: change that next year. All right, next first, next item

1595
01:28:24,000 --> 01:28:25,880
Speaker 1: on the menu. Here we go one or two more

1596
01:28:26,240 --> 01:28:28,640
Speaker 1: who will have a better second year? DK Metcalf or

1597
01:28:28,680 --> 01:28:33,240
Speaker 1: aj Brown Okay, so this is kind of a hedging

1598
01:28:33,360 --> 01:28:36,800
Speaker 1: type answer, Steve, but we're going strictly on who's going

1599
01:28:36,840 --> 01:28:39,240
Speaker 1: to have a better second year. I think DK Metcalf

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01:28:39,280 --> 01:28:44,479
Speaker 1: will be more productive than AJ Brown this year. I

1601
01:28:44,640 --> 01:28:48,360
Speaker 1: think a J. Brown is the better all around receiver

1602
01:28:48,640 --> 01:28:52,439
Speaker 1: as a talent than DK Metcalf. But Metcalf's got the

1603
01:28:52,520 --> 01:28:57,200
Speaker 1: better quarterback. Who's thrown to a J. Brown, Ryan Tanail.

1604
01:28:59,160 --> 01:29:04,000
Speaker 1: I'll take Dk that Calf. If there is one thing

1605
01:29:04,680 --> 01:29:08,240
Speaker 1: that Steve Tasker and Chris Brown universally agree on, it's

1606
01:29:08,280 --> 01:29:12,040
Speaker 1: that Ryan Tannehill is horribly average where we feel like

1607
01:29:12,400 --> 01:29:15,200
Speaker 1: a bottle last year. Let me just tell you, Steve,

1608
01:29:15,360 --> 01:29:17,160
Speaker 1: if he has a monster year this year, we're gonna

1609
01:29:17,160 --> 01:29:20,280
Speaker 1: be eating. Let me just tell you something, and we might. That's,

1610
01:29:20,520 --> 01:29:22,240
Speaker 1: you know, that's way we're in this business, and we

1611
01:29:22,320 --> 01:29:24,040
Speaker 1: might do. Let me tell you this, Brownie, you and

1612
01:29:24,160 --> 01:29:26,880
Speaker 1: I feel about Ryan Tannehill the way everybody outside of

1613
01:29:26,920 --> 01:29:32,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo feels about Josh Allen Am I right, yeah, I

1614
01:29:33,000 --> 01:29:36,120
Speaker 1: think that's they're definitely on parallel path. I'm telling you

1615
01:29:36,800 --> 01:29:40,800
Speaker 1: because with with less reason, you know, I feel about

1616
01:29:40,880 --> 01:29:43,840
Speaker 1: Ryan tanne with more reason to know why than most

1617
01:29:43,880 --> 01:29:46,280
Speaker 1: people have about Josh Allen without seeing as much. Why

1618
01:29:46,439 --> 01:29:49,719
Speaker 1: is because we saw a mediocre to poor Bill's teams

1619
01:29:49,880 --> 01:29:54,920
Speaker 1: beat the tar out of him. That's why you're preaching

1620
01:29:54,960 --> 01:29:57,040
Speaker 1: to the choir. Bro I'm with you. I'm with you.

1621
01:29:57,640 --> 01:30:00,760
Speaker 1: One last last one, last one, last one. What's the

1622
01:30:00,840 --> 01:30:03,600
Speaker 1: better indicator of how good a player is? Is it

1623
01:30:03,760 --> 01:30:06,320
Speaker 1: making this top one hundred list or making a Pro Bowl?

1624
01:30:07,760 --> 01:30:10,960
Speaker 1: That's not even close for me, it's probably Pro Bowl

1625
01:30:11,040 --> 01:30:13,240
Speaker 1: because coaches get to vote on that one. I think

1626
01:30:14,040 --> 01:30:17,320
Speaker 1: hundred is just players, right. The top one hundred I

1627
01:30:17,400 --> 01:30:21,080
Speaker 1: think is just players. Pro Bowl has coaching input, which

1628
01:30:21,800 --> 01:30:24,479
Speaker 1: I would think would give an honest assessment of the

1629
01:30:24,560 --> 01:30:28,000
Speaker 1: player's abilities, even more so than fellow players who might

1630
01:30:28,160 --> 01:30:31,040
Speaker 1: be in cahoots with one another. I mean Jaslet and

1631
01:30:31,080 --> 01:30:33,960
Speaker 1: fred Smerlas used to run campaigns in the Bills locker

1632
01:30:34,040 --> 01:30:36,080
Speaker 1: room to get certain people to vote for certain people

1633
01:30:36,120 --> 01:30:38,400
Speaker 1: in exchange for votes the other way. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

1634
01:30:38,800 --> 01:30:41,320
Speaker 1: it's it's all about the coaches vote for me the

1635
01:30:41,439 --> 01:30:43,160
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, and they all pro It should be more

1636
01:30:43,200 --> 01:30:46,280
Speaker 1: about the coaches vote. The Pro Bowl is a better

1637
01:30:46,680 --> 01:30:48,720
Speaker 1: example because you get guys from around the league, and

1638
01:30:48,760 --> 01:30:52,840
Speaker 1: you get coaching staffs involved as well, and not for nothing.

1639
01:30:52,920 --> 01:30:56,559
Speaker 1: But the fan vote is strictly due to market size,

1640
01:30:56,880 --> 01:30:58,280
Speaker 1: so you can kind of throw that out from me,

1641
01:30:58,760 --> 01:31:01,280
Speaker 1: and the top one hundred is the same thing. You

1642
01:31:01,360 --> 01:31:03,439
Speaker 1: just get one entity if you if you're gonna go

1643
01:31:03,720 --> 01:31:09,479
Speaker 1: around and poll coaches, that is the best thermometer. Guys

1644
01:31:09,520 --> 01:31:11,400
Speaker 1: who had to play against these guys and put their

1645
01:31:11,479 --> 01:31:14,160
Speaker 1: jobs on the line, their cunning and their coaching profession

1646
01:31:14,280 --> 01:31:17,799
Speaker 1: and their their skills and their preparation and go against

1647
01:31:17,840 --> 01:31:20,000
Speaker 1: a guy to try and beat him. Those are the

1648
01:31:20,040 --> 01:31:23,040
Speaker 1: guys who really cut the guy up and know what

1649
01:31:23,120 --> 01:31:25,240
Speaker 1: he's about, whether he's great, whether he's bad, what he's

1650
01:31:25,280 --> 01:31:27,320
Speaker 1: good at, what he's not good at, and compare him

1651
01:31:27,840 --> 01:31:30,599
Speaker 1: cross cross referencing with each other. Coaches are the only

1652
01:31:30,680 --> 01:31:32,320
Speaker 1: way to go. So I think the Pro Bowl with

1653
01:31:32,439 --> 01:31:33,960
Speaker 1: the coaches vote in there is the way to go.

1654
01:31:34,479 --> 01:31:38,080
Speaker 1: That's what I think. That's what's for lunch. Steve Tasker

1655
01:31:38,160 --> 01:31:42,599
Speaker 1: Chris Brown coming up at two o'clock as an NFL fan,

1656
01:31:42,800 --> 01:31:45,720
Speaker 1: knowing the competitive balance is going to be impossible this year,

1657
01:31:45,880 --> 01:31:48,880
Speaker 1: how would a tilted field in the NFL sit with you?

1658
01:31:49,040 --> 01:31:52,840
Speaker 1: Tilted by COVID nineteen call us or tweet at US

1659
01:31:52,920 --> 01:31:55,559
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. Continuing after the break. This is Buffalo

1660
01:31:55,640 --> 01:31:58,439
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio presented by Kalida Health, and this is One

1661
01:31:58,520 --> 01:32:07,000
Speaker 1: Bills Live. Welcome back to one of those lives. Steep

1662
01:32:07,040 --> 01:32:10,360
Speaker 1: Tasker Chris Brown here with you until three o'clock. We've

1663
01:32:10,360 --> 01:32:13,400
Speaker 1: been asking the question, knowing a competitive competitive balance will

1664
01:32:13,439 --> 01:32:16,320
Speaker 1: be impossible in the National Football League, how would have

1665
01:32:16,360 --> 01:32:19,799
Speaker 1: tilted playing field in the NFL? Sit with you. Forty

1666
01:32:19,840 --> 01:32:21,960
Speaker 1: four percent of you said, Hey, it's gonna bother me

1667
01:32:22,000 --> 01:32:24,759
Speaker 1: if my team gets short changed because of the COVID virus.

1668
01:32:25,439 --> 01:32:28,320
Speaker 1: Forty percent of you say, hey, I don't care, just

1669
01:32:28,439 --> 01:32:30,040
Speaker 1: give me football. I don't care what it looks like.

1670
01:32:30,280 --> 01:32:33,759
Speaker 1: And sixteen percent of you say the teams without COVID

1671
01:32:33,880 --> 01:32:36,320
Speaker 1: should get an advantage because they're dodging it and doing

1672
01:32:36,400 --> 01:32:39,000
Speaker 1: better with the protocols. What's your take. We've got a

1673
01:32:39,080 --> 01:32:41,680
Speaker 1: ton of things on the tweet sheet, a lot of responses.

1674
01:32:41,720 --> 01:32:44,799
Speaker 1: It's brought to you by Corrigan Moving System, the official

1675
01:32:44,880 --> 01:32:47,240
Speaker 1: equipment movers of the Buffalo Bills, and the tweet sheet

1676
01:32:47,280 --> 01:32:52,439
Speaker 1: Brownie is full. I believe it. It's the topic that

1677
01:32:52,560 --> 01:32:56,120
Speaker 1: I think is going to impact fans viewing. I mean

1678
01:32:56,200 --> 01:32:59,120
Speaker 1: because it's not going to be what they usually expect.

1679
01:32:59,600 --> 01:33:03,200
Speaker 1: I think everybody knows that, But it's it's to what

1680
01:33:03,400 --> 01:33:07,320
Speaker 1: degree is it going to be different that everybody's wondering about.

1681
01:33:08,160 --> 01:33:10,720
Speaker 1: And I think in some of these responses that we

1682
01:33:10,840 --> 01:33:13,760
Speaker 1: have on the most recent tweet sheet our indication of that.

1683
01:33:15,080 --> 01:33:16,720
Speaker 1: Right now, I think it's going to be interesting. I

1684
01:33:16,760 --> 01:33:19,160
Speaker 1: think most people are thinking, Okay, all right, so if

1685
01:33:19,200 --> 01:33:22,240
Speaker 1: it's unfair for us one week, it better be unfair

1686
01:33:22,280 --> 01:33:24,800
Speaker 1: for our opponent in some other week. Right. Yeah, But

1687
01:33:24,880 --> 01:33:27,400
Speaker 1: there's no guarantee. There's no guarantees about any of that.

1688
01:33:27,920 --> 01:33:30,439
Speaker 1: We might the Bills could play sixteen opponents who are

1689
01:33:30,479 --> 01:33:32,720
Speaker 1: all at full strength by the time they play them.

1690
01:33:32,760 --> 01:33:34,560
Speaker 1: They could go through the you know, a month of

1691
01:33:34,680 --> 01:33:37,519
Speaker 1: bad stuff where they've got you know, half their teams out,

1692
01:33:37,600 --> 01:33:39,600
Speaker 1: they're struggling to field players, and then they start to

1693
01:33:39,680 --> 01:33:41,640
Speaker 1: get those guys back. They all come back and now

1694
01:33:41,680 --> 01:33:43,519
Speaker 1: they're full go from when they play the Buffalo Bills

1695
01:33:43,600 --> 01:33:46,320
Speaker 1: or vice versa. They play the Buffalo Bills, and then

1696
01:33:46,320 --> 01:33:47,960
Speaker 1: after they play the Buffalo Bills a week or two,

1697
01:33:47,960 --> 01:33:50,040
Speaker 1: then they go into the tank. All of that stuff

1698
01:33:50,120 --> 01:33:53,400
Speaker 1: is possible, and we can conjure up the most unfair

1699
01:33:53,600 --> 01:33:59,400
Speaker 1: season of all time, and you know, and attribute it

1700
01:33:59,600 --> 01:34:03,479
Speaker 1: to go against our team. What would it be like

1701
01:34:03,720 --> 01:34:05,720
Speaker 1: we got the benefit of it though, for a change, right,

1702
01:34:05,800 --> 01:34:08,000
Speaker 1: that would be kind of a nice, welcome change for

1703
01:34:09,080 --> 01:34:11,639
Speaker 1: all the things that sports has dealt us. I don't

1704
01:34:11,680 --> 01:34:14,759
Speaker 1: think anybody would blink and take it in a second,

1705
01:34:15,439 --> 01:34:19,040
Speaker 1: kidding me. The beer will taste just as good, yeah,

1706
01:34:19,320 --> 01:34:21,840
Speaker 1: and they'll you know, and then people come out of

1707
01:34:21,840 --> 01:34:24,960
Speaker 1: the woodwork on social media, Oh, you know, your playoff

1708
01:34:25,040 --> 01:34:28,920
Speaker 1: berth is tainted or your division title is tainted, and

1709
01:34:29,080 --> 01:34:33,840
Speaker 1: every Bills fan will be like, don't care. Yeah, didn't

1710
01:34:34,080 --> 01:34:38,960
Speaker 1: ask scoreboard, you know, right, I don't care. Yeah, No,

1711
01:34:39,120 --> 01:34:41,640
Speaker 1: the way that would oh that is just not gonna fly.

1712
01:34:41,840 --> 01:34:43,840
Speaker 1: I'm wondering. Jack on the tweets, she says, I'd be

1713
01:34:43,880 --> 01:34:47,639
Speaker 1: annoyed if the Bills set, say, played Miami plus, came

1714
01:34:47,680 --> 01:34:50,639
Speaker 1: back with COVID outbreak and had to forefoot a few games,

1715
01:34:50,760 --> 01:34:53,480
Speaker 1: or lost many key guys for stretch and couldn't be competitive.

1716
01:34:53,720 --> 01:34:55,759
Speaker 1: That said, I still want football. I think the NFL

1717
01:34:55,960 --> 01:34:57,800
Speaker 1: should delay the start a few weeks and go into

1718
01:34:57,840 --> 01:35:01,200
Speaker 1: a fourteen into a fourteen game schedule and do it

1719
01:35:01,280 --> 01:35:05,120
Speaker 1: in bubbles. Yeah, I don't know for bubbles. It's too

1720
01:35:05,240 --> 01:35:07,240
Speaker 1: late for bubbles. They ain't gonna work. The bubbles aren't

1721
01:35:07,240 --> 01:35:10,920
Speaker 1: gonna work, and they're not gonna happen because they can't.

1722
01:35:11,479 --> 01:35:14,519
Speaker 1: The players don't want to go into the bubbles and

1723
01:35:14,760 --> 01:35:20,280
Speaker 1: leave their families for four months without seeing them. Plus,

1724
01:35:20,400 --> 01:35:25,880
Speaker 1: think about this, Brownie's a little During the NFL season,

1725
01:35:27,479 --> 01:35:31,599
Speaker 1: there's only sixteen game that's sixteen days out of four months,

1726
01:35:32,120 --> 01:35:35,200
Speaker 1: So you're talking about, you know, two weeks out of

1727
01:35:35,240 --> 01:35:38,519
Speaker 1: a four month period. The rest of it, you're just

1728
01:35:38,680 --> 01:35:40,600
Speaker 1: kind of hanging around with in your off time, not

1729
01:35:40,840 --> 01:35:43,320
Speaker 1: seeing your family. That's a that's a lot of time

1730
01:35:43,360 --> 01:35:45,639
Speaker 1: to kill. And then in the NBA they're playing every

1731
01:35:45,680 --> 01:35:48,479
Speaker 1: other day. Yeah, And the sacrifice that the players do

1732
01:35:48,680 --> 01:35:50,960
Speaker 1: have to make for the good of their own team

1733
01:35:51,600 --> 01:35:55,000
Speaker 1: and the health and availability of their own team, right

1734
01:35:55,560 --> 01:35:59,519
Speaker 1: is to maybe not tear it up on Monday night

1735
01:35:59,640 --> 01:36:04,120
Speaker 1: before your off day and go out and expose yourself

1736
01:36:04,240 --> 01:36:08,560
Speaker 1: to larger swaths of the population. You gotta kind of

1737
01:36:08,640 --> 01:36:13,240
Speaker 1: self police and basically go to and from the stadium

1738
01:36:13,320 --> 01:36:20,040
Speaker 1: to do your job and then order order in right

1739
01:36:20,200 --> 01:36:25,720
Speaker 1: and update your on you know, your streaming service. Subscriptions

1740
01:36:26,439 --> 01:36:29,880
Speaker 1: and binge watch yeah, and basically what you're doing right.

1741
01:36:29,920 --> 01:36:31,639
Speaker 1: And a lot of people in this Twitter poll are thinking,

1742
01:36:31,720 --> 01:36:34,080
Speaker 1: you know what, it's just one more level of competition.

1743
01:36:34,160 --> 01:36:36,400
Speaker 1: You got to get through this uh COVID thing like

1744
01:36:36,520 --> 01:36:40,080
Speaker 1: everybody else that option B on our poll. If you

1745
01:36:40,120 --> 01:36:43,080
Speaker 1: can get through and navigate the COVID protocols, you deserve

1746
01:36:43,160 --> 01:36:45,880
Speaker 1: and edge. Daryl Hereard says this, all things are not

1747
01:36:46,040 --> 01:36:48,840
Speaker 1: equal in the NFL anyway. Just think about how many

1748
01:36:48,880 --> 01:36:52,360
Speaker 1: outside forces like the weather have affected teams differently since

1749
01:36:52,400 --> 01:36:55,360
Speaker 1: the beginning of football to win late games in Buffal,

1750
01:36:55,479 --> 01:36:59,200
Speaker 1: late games in the season in Buffalo, the bad weather,

1751
01:37:00,560 --> 01:37:03,920
Speaker 1: the condition, the weather conditions, all of that stuff has

1752
01:37:03,960 --> 01:37:07,120
Speaker 1: played a big part in the outcome of games since

1753
01:37:07,160 --> 01:37:09,599
Speaker 1: the beginning of time. Why should the COVID be any different?

1754
01:37:10,000 --> 01:37:11,719
Speaker 1: And there's something to be said for that. It seems

1755
01:37:11,760 --> 01:37:14,240
Speaker 1: fair and when you put it in those contexts. I

1756
01:37:14,360 --> 01:37:17,439
Speaker 1: actually like the perspective of Kate on the tweet sheet

1757
01:37:17,439 --> 01:37:21,320
Speaker 1: because she said I answered see, which was basically, I

1758
01:37:21,400 --> 01:37:25,360
Speaker 1: don't care. I just want football in any form, she said.

1759
01:37:25,400 --> 01:37:30,080
Speaker 1: But I've always been disappointed when a great game wasn't

1760
01:37:30,120 --> 01:37:32,759
Speaker 1: as great due to an injury. With COVID, it likely

1761
01:37:32,960 --> 01:37:36,840
Speaker 1: increases the chance that potentially great games are not as

1762
01:37:36,920 --> 01:37:39,679
Speaker 1: great as they could be. If stars are out, that's

1763
01:37:39,680 --> 01:37:43,280
Speaker 1: going to happen. Yeah, and if the star players that

1764
01:37:43,400 --> 01:37:47,320
Speaker 1: are not available because of COVID, yeah, it's gonna be interesting.

1765
01:37:47,560 --> 01:37:49,880
Speaker 1: I do know this too, though. They're gonna be guys

1766
01:37:49,960 --> 01:37:53,800
Speaker 1: who go through. And here's the problem. The problem is

1767
01:37:53,840 --> 01:37:56,760
Speaker 1: you're dealing with guys who are the consummate professionals on

1768
01:37:56,920 --> 01:37:58,960
Speaker 1: one hand, and your guy dealing with guys who are

1769
01:37:59,000 --> 01:38:02,200
Speaker 1: complete novices at being a professional on the other. Hits. Yeah,

1770
01:38:02,280 --> 01:38:04,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna meet heads and they're just not gonna get

1771
01:38:04,920 --> 01:38:06,599
Speaker 1: it and they're not gonna understand it. And I think

1772
01:38:06,760 --> 01:38:09,800
Speaker 1: the fact that the league could come down and it's

1773
01:38:09,840 --> 01:38:11,920
Speaker 1: coming down now that uh and you heard it in

1774
01:38:11,920 --> 01:38:15,160
Speaker 1: the update a moment ago. There's gonna be some places where,

1775
01:38:15,280 --> 01:38:17,519
Speaker 1: you know what, the league can and teams in the

1776
01:38:17,600 --> 01:38:23,160
Speaker 1: league can can discipline players for contracting the virus in

1777
01:38:23,320 --> 01:38:27,200
Speaker 1: us doing stupid stuff by going to events or things

1778
01:38:27,280 --> 01:38:32,639
Speaker 1: outside the you know, normal realm of being locked down,

1779
01:38:33,000 --> 01:38:35,479
Speaker 1: right because they they don't have the freedom to do it. Yeah,

1780
01:38:35,520 --> 01:38:38,520
Speaker 1: and if the league can prove that they were irresponsible

1781
01:38:39,400 --> 01:38:43,720
Speaker 1: with their behavior and contracted COVID because of it, they

1782
01:38:43,800 --> 01:38:48,000
Speaker 1: can withhold their pay. Think about this because it's particularly

1783
01:38:48,000 --> 01:38:50,720
Speaker 1: in the market like Buffalo, where you know, most of

1784
01:38:50,760 --> 01:38:53,680
Speaker 1: the players are like members of the family anyway, right,

1785
01:38:53,760 --> 01:38:55,439
Speaker 1: I mean, we all call them by their first names,

1786
01:38:55,479 --> 01:38:57,040
Speaker 1: and we have you know, we got their jerseys and

1787
01:38:57,080 --> 01:38:58,840
Speaker 1: we you know, you see them at the seven to

1788
01:38:58,880 --> 01:39:02,040
Speaker 1: eleven and at the restaurants around town on a regular basis,

1789
01:39:02,120 --> 01:39:05,160
Speaker 1: not so much this year, probably, But if you see,

1790
01:39:05,320 --> 01:39:09,759
Speaker 1: if if people see whatever player out at rock concert

1791
01:39:09,840 --> 01:39:14,040
Speaker 1: a or restaurant B or a lot of cell phones

1792
01:39:14,080 --> 01:39:16,040
Speaker 1: with cameras, a lot of cell phones with cameras, you

1793
01:39:16,080 --> 01:39:18,519
Speaker 1: guys ain't gonna get away with it in Buffalo, you

1794
01:39:18,600 --> 01:39:21,000
Speaker 1: know what I mean. They're just they are just another

1795
01:39:21,080 --> 01:39:24,240
Speaker 1: guy in Buffalo. People know who they are. They'll they'll

1796
01:39:24,280 --> 01:39:28,479
Speaker 1: get busted or at least outed if they try to say, no,

1797
01:39:28,600 --> 01:39:30,360
Speaker 1: I wasn't you know I was inside the other night?

1798
01:39:30,439 --> 01:39:33,240
Speaker 1: Well what's about? What about this picture on Twitter of

1799
01:39:33,400 --> 01:39:36,840
Speaker 1: you standing on the bar with a time stamp? Right,

1800
01:39:37,840 --> 01:39:39,680
Speaker 1: They can't get away with it. I mean, this is

1801
01:39:39,920 --> 01:39:46,280
Speaker 1: it's not the world and it's not the nineteen nineties, right,

1802
01:39:47,280 --> 01:39:49,839
Speaker 1: so they're a whole lot more in the police blodder

1803
01:39:49,920 --> 01:39:52,160
Speaker 1: back then if there were camera phones. Yeah, So the

1804
01:39:52,160 --> 01:39:54,320
Speaker 1: tweet sheet Tim donald and also chimes in it's up

1805
01:39:54,360 --> 01:39:56,400
Speaker 1: to the team to protect it's players and make sure

1806
01:39:56,479 --> 01:39:58,599
Speaker 1: they're going to do the right things away from the facility.

1807
01:39:58,760 --> 01:40:01,799
Speaker 1: I can't see or McDermott any of these guys risking

1808
01:40:02,400 --> 01:40:06,120
Speaker 1: ruining the season by doing something selfish. So in that

1809
01:40:06,240 --> 01:40:09,120
Speaker 1: case I voted b if other teams don't do that.

1810
01:40:09,880 --> 01:40:13,240
Speaker 1: Tough luck. Now I get it, and that's you gotta

1811
01:40:13,280 --> 01:40:14,840
Speaker 1: have a I think as a head coach, and you

1812
01:40:14,880 --> 01:40:17,640
Speaker 1: know McDermot will have this speech and some of the

1813
01:40:17,760 --> 01:40:19,720
Speaker 1: veterans will echo it in there in the way they

1814
01:40:19,840 --> 01:40:23,519
Speaker 1: handle it. Say, listen, bro, you can't go out. You

1815
01:40:23,640 --> 01:40:25,599
Speaker 1: have that stuff delivered to your house, and you tell

1816
01:40:25,680 --> 01:40:28,040
Speaker 1: that delivery guy to get lost before you even come

1817
01:40:28,080 --> 01:40:30,360
Speaker 1: to the door. Leave it on the leave it on

1818
01:40:30,439 --> 01:40:32,680
Speaker 1: the front stand at and then hit it with a

1819
01:40:33,160 --> 01:40:35,559
Speaker 1: hit it with a disinfectant spray before you pick it up.

1820
01:40:36,240 --> 01:40:39,680
Speaker 1: You know that package everything, so you can't do it.

1821
01:40:39,760 --> 01:40:42,479
Speaker 1: And that will be a message that is echoed in.

1822
01:40:42,920 --> 01:40:44,880
Speaker 1: It won't be just the Bills, There'll be other teams too,

1823
01:40:45,040 --> 01:40:48,439
Speaker 1: The league's full of smart people, both players and coaches,

1824
01:40:48,439 --> 01:40:51,240
Speaker 1: and they're gonna You're gonna have guys who are gonna

1825
01:40:51,280 --> 01:40:54,840
Speaker 1: do it all right, And the question is, are those

1826
01:40:54,920 --> 01:40:59,880
Speaker 1: guys gonna get contaminated by some guy who can't go

1827
01:41:00,120 --> 01:41:03,800
Speaker 1: without something, some social thing that he's got to do,

1828
01:41:04,080 --> 01:41:05,479
Speaker 1: you know, gotta go to a bar, gotta go and

1829
01:41:05,520 --> 01:41:07,680
Speaker 1: gotta go visit his gotta go visit his girlfriend in

1830
01:41:07,800 --> 01:41:10,040
Speaker 1: college for a weekend. If they get a bye weekend,

1831
01:41:10,400 --> 01:41:13,600
Speaker 1: is some idiot thing like that, you know, you'll get it.

1832
01:41:14,120 --> 01:41:15,639
Speaker 1: You'll get it if if it's not for the Bills,

1833
01:41:15,680 --> 01:41:17,200
Speaker 1: it'll be for one of those other teams, you know,

1834
01:41:18,280 --> 01:41:21,280
Speaker 1: but that's gonna be. I think job one is to

1835
01:41:21,520 --> 01:41:25,920
Speaker 1: impress upon the young players, and not just the young players,

1836
01:41:26,040 --> 01:41:29,280
Speaker 1: but even the veteran players Browning and their support staffs,

1837
01:41:29,400 --> 01:41:31,880
Speaker 1: their support groups. You know, everybody's got to you know,

1838
01:41:32,000 --> 01:41:34,360
Speaker 1: every player, particularly like me, I had my wife and

1839
01:41:34,520 --> 01:41:37,479
Speaker 1: all the kids. You come home, those that's your support crew,

1840
01:41:37,680 --> 01:41:41,360
Speaker 1: right and if we needed something like if we needed childcare, something,

1841
01:41:41,400 --> 01:41:43,639
Speaker 1: we had people we could rely on to help us out.

1842
01:41:43,720 --> 01:41:47,000
Speaker 1: All these players are the exact same way, because they

1843
01:41:47,280 --> 01:41:51,000
Speaker 1: you know, the players gotta get ready, and the wife

1844
01:41:51,120 --> 01:41:53,400
Speaker 1: does everything she can, and the kids and the family

1845
01:41:53,439 --> 01:41:55,559
Speaker 1: and they do everythingy can to make sure he need

1846
01:41:55,680 --> 01:41:58,240
Speaker 1: gets what he needs. Well, if it comes down to this,

1847
01:41:58,960 --> 01:42:00,799
Speaker 1: you know, the kids and the wife will get shipped

1848
01:42:00,840 --> 01:42:03,519
Speaker 1: off to mom's house for a week or two while

1849
01:42:03,560 --> 01:42:06,880
Speaker 1: we finish up this season kind of thing. Or they'll

1850
01:42:06,920 --> 01:42:09,040
Speaker 1: be saying, listen, Hun, the kids can't leave the house.

1851
01:42:09,640 --> 01:42:12,200
Speaker 1: You got to keep them inside or in the yard

1852
01:42:12,400 --> 01:42:14,040
Speaker 1: or in the fence, or you know, they can't have

1853
01:42:14,120 --> 01:42:17,680
Speaker 1: a play date anymore, not until after the first of

1854
01:42:17,720 --> 01:42:20,320
Speaker 1: the year. That kind of stuff. You'll have players will

1855
01:42:20,439 --> 01:42:23,600
Speaker 1: do that to get the season, and they'll make those sacrifices,

1856
01:42:23,840 --> 01:42:25,439
Speaker 1: and it's going to come down to the families of

1857
01:42:25,640 --> 01:42:28,400
Speaker 1: the players who aren't so familiar with that routine to

1858
01:42:28,479 --> 01:42:31,800
Speaker 1: get it done as well. Yeah, there might be better

1859
01:42:31,920 --> 01:42:41,200
Speaker 1: in players when they report later this week. That's say, Hun,

1860
01:42:41,320 --> 01:42:46,280
Speaker 1: you and the kids stay here, yeah in state whatever, right,

1861
01:42:46,920 --> 01:42:49,800
Speaker 1: I'll go play football for four months and I'll see

1862
01:42:49,880 --> 01:42:52,400
Speaker 1: around Christmas or maybe later. You could. Yeah, if you

1863
01:42:52,479 --> 01:42:55,280
Speaker 1: can do it that, smart ones will do that. It's

1864
01:42:55,320 --> 01:42:57,600
Speaker 1: the kids that kill you. The wives could do it.

1865
01:42:57,680 --> 01:42:59,560
Speaker 1: They could come up, they could live in the you know,

1866
01:42:59,640 --> 01:43:01,680
Speaker 1: they could have everything delivered and they could, you know,

1867
01:43:02,320 --> 01:43:06,120
Speaker 1: have quiet dinners together. But if you got kids, you know,

1868
01:43:06,560 --> 01:43:08,040
Speaker 1: what are you gonna You know, the kids need to

1869
01:43:08,040 --> 01:43:09,559
Speaker 1: be as normal as they can. You know, their lives

1870
01:43:09,600 --> 01:43:11,439
Speaker 1: need to be as normal as they can. Now with

1871
01:43:11,600 --> 01:43:13,760
Speaker 1: technology and FaceTime and all that, you're just not like

1872
01:43:13,840 --> 01:43:16,720
Speaker 1: you're gonna disappear. Here's the other thing. I'm thinking of

1873
01:43:17,320 --> 01:43:19,920
Speaker 1: a veteran player like Jerry Hughes. He's got two young

1874
01:43:20,040 --> 01:43:23,320
Speaker 1: kids who I do not believe our school age, right,

1875
01:43:23,520 --> 01:43:26,600
Speaker 1: and he's in a hotbed state of Texas where that

1876
01:43:26,680 --> 01:43:30,120
Speaker 1: thing is spiking all over the map. Right, he might

1877
01:43:30,240 --> 01:43:32,080
Speaker 1: want his family in New York State. With the way

1878
01:43:32,160 --> 01:43:37,280
Speaker 1: Texas is going. Yeah, yeah, you might want to say, yep,

1879
01:43:37,560 --> 01:43:40,639
Speaker 1: let's we're all going and let's quarantine for two weeks

1880
01:43:41,240 --> 01:43:44,320
Speaker 1: coming from Texas and hope for the best. It's all

1881
01:43:44,439 --> 01:43:46,360
Speaker 1: it's all individual too. Brand I think about this. If

1882
01:43:46,400 --> 01:43:48,719
Speaker 1: you're coming up here and you're you're your wife and family,

1883
01:43:48,800 --> 01:43:52,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna live in an apartment or a condo or

1884
01:43:52,240 --> 01:43:54,400
Speaker 1: in a building with like fifty other families that you

1885
01:43:54,439 --> 01:43:56,960
Speaker 1: know what I mean with a multiple family structure where

1886
01:43:57,040 --> 01:43:59,320
Speaker 1: you're just renting it for the season. You don't want

1887
01:43:59,320 --> 01:44:00,880
Speaker 1: your wife and kids in that. If you've got a

1888
01:44:00,960 --> 01:44:03,920
Speaker 1: nice house like Lorenzo, like in Arizona, even if it's

1889
01:44:03,920 --> 01:44:06,360
Speaker 1: a hot state, it's got a huge yard. You know,

1890
01:44:06,520 --> 01:44:09,599
Speaker 1: you've got a place it's got more space, that's got

1891
01:44:09,720 --> 01:44:13,439
Speaker 1: more private and quarantinable area that you can put your family.

1892
01:44:13,520 --> 01:44:15,320
Speaker 1: You may say, listen, it doesn't honey, We're not gonna

1893
01:44:15,320 --> 01:44:18,439
Speaker 1: go up and rent a three bedroom apartment and have

1894
01:44:18,640 --> 01:44:21,720
Speaker 1: the season that you just stay here. Well, yeah, if

1895
01:44:21,720 --> 01:44:23,519
Speaker 1: you're in a southern state, you can keep your kids

1896
01:44:23,600 --> 01:44:26,719
Speaker 1: outside longer, right to the end of the year because

1897
01:44:26,760 --> 01:44:29,280
Speaker 1: the weather better. We'll just keep you know, the name,

1898
01:44:29,320 --> 01:44:32,160
Speaker 1: We'll get a name, we'll hire help helping hand, will

1899
01:44:32,240 --> 01:44:35,200
Speaker 1: hire an o pair or a nanny, or have your

1900
01:44:35,240 --> 01:44:39,080
Speaker 1: mom come live with you. Whatever, that's okay too. That

1901
01:44:39,200 --> 01:44:40,400
Speaker 1: we'll just do it that way. And I think a

1902
01:44:40,439 --> 01:44:42,040
Speaker 1: lot of players will do that. But I think the

1903
01:44:42,160 --> 01:44:44,880
Speaker 1: situation that they're gonna find themselves in Buffalo will dictate,

1904
01:44:46,080 --> 01:44:47,960
Speaker 1: you know, how much of their family are gonna come

1905
01:44:48,000 --> 01:44:49,560
Speaker 1: here and spend it with them as well. All that

1906
01:44:49,600 --> 01:44:52,240
Speaker 1: stuff's on the table, and every guy's different, and that's

1907
01:44:52,280 --> 01:44:57,680
Speaker 1: why somebody's gonna slip through the cracks, Brownie, somebody's that's

1908
01:44:57,720 --> 01:45:01,000
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna mess it up. That's inevitable. Man, there's too

1909
01:45:01,040 --> 01:45:05,000
Speaker 1: many people involved. Yeah, yeah, there is. It's there's just

1910
01:45:05,160 --> 01:45:07,400
Speaker 1: too many people in too many variables. One last one

1911
01:45:07,479 --> 01:45:09,120
Speaker 1: from the from the tweet shield. Oh man, we got

1912
01:45:09,160 --> 01:45:12,000
Speaker 1: a couple more Bill's Fan twelve to eighty three. Of

1913
01:45:12,080 --> 01:45:14,200
Speaker 1: course it would bother me if my team got short changed.

1914
01:45:14,360 --> 01:45:16,960
Speaker 1: Bothered me when we played five and seventeens a year off,

1915
01:45:17,000 --> 01:45:21,240
Speaker 1: coming up, a year off, coming off a bye, or

1916
01:45:21,840 --> 01:45:24,960
Speaker 1: a long week that at Chris Brown so wonderfully brought

1917
01:45:24,960 --> 01:45:27,680
Speaker 1: to our attention years ago. I think this team has

1918
01:45:27,720 --> 01:45:31,160
Speaker 1: the talent and camaraderie to overcome it this year. And

1919
01:45:31,240 --> 01:45:33,040
Speaker 1: you're right. I mean it's just like come it's it's

1920
01:45:33,120 --> 01:45:36,680
Speaker 1: like playing a bunch of you know teams. Yeah, you

1921
01:45:37,280 --> 01:45:39,800
Speaker 1: play teams like play six teams that are coming off

1922
01:45:39,880 --> 01:45:42,559
Speaker 1: an off week when they're all fresh and I've had

1923
01:45:42,560 --> 01:45:45,040
Speaker 1: two weeks to game plan, or you're coming off short

1924
01:45:45,240 --> 01:45:48,639
Speaker 1: and you're coming off a short week. So that happens

1925
01:45:48,680 --> 01:45:50,720
Speaker 1: a lot in the NFL too. You you chronicled in

1926
01:45:50,840 --> 01:45:52,960
Speaker 1: that article a couple of years ago when we got

1927
01:45:53,200 --> 01:45:56,639
Speaker 1: We got totally stabbed in the back by the schedule makers. Yeah,

1928
01:45:56,920 --> 01:45:59,040
Speaker 1: and it's good this year, by the way, in case

1929
01:45:59,479 --> 01:46:01,280
Speaker 1: it was wondering, I think we only have one. I

1930
01:46:01,320 --> 01:46:04,000
Speaker 1: think the Bills only have one or two games off

1931
01:46:04,080 --> 01:46:06,600
Speaker 1: either a short rest and it's only the difference of

1932
01:46:06,680 --> 01:46:10,840
Speaker 1: seven six to seven days or be getting a team

1933
01:46:10,880 --> 01:46:12,680
Speaker 1: off of their bye week. I think there's only two

1934
01:46:12,760 --> 01:46:16,680
Speaker 1: such games. Yeah, which is good. Yeah, it's good if

1935
01:46:16,720 --> 01:46:20,120
Speaker 1: those games actually in fact happen. Well. Yeah, and if

1936
01:46:20,160 --> 01:46:21,880
Speaker 1: we actually have all our players that we can play,

1937
01:46:22,120 --> 01:46:24,360
Speaker 1: which is why it's interesting that built Fan twelve to

1938
01:46:24,439 --> 01:46:27,200
Speaker 1: eighty three brings this up, because there could very well

1939
01:46:27,280 --> 01:46:31,479
Speaker 1: be instances based on rescheduling that the league may need

1940
01:46:31,520 --> 01:46:34,160
Speaker 1: to do because of COVID, where some team may be

1941
01:46:34,280 --> 01:46:37,200
Speaker 1: coming off of short rest. Maybe that week where they

1942
01:46:37,280 --> 01:46:40,840
Speaker 1: had to buy is replaced by a game. Now, that's right,

1943
01:46:40,920 --> 01:46:42,080
Speaker 1: they were you know what I mean, And they were

1944
01:46:42,120 --> 01:46:44,800
Speaker 1: playing the previous Monday night on the road coming back

1945
01:46:44,880 --> 01:46:46,599
Speaker 1: the West Coast, and now you really only have five

1946
01:46:46,680 --> 01:46:48,320
Speaker 1: days to get ready for a game. We weren't expecting

1947
01:46:48,360 --> 01:46:50,200
Speaker 1: to play in the first place that week, right, But

1948
01:46:50,240 --> 01:46:52,479
Speaker 1: if it's possible, Yeah, And that's that's a crush or two.

1949
01:46:52,600 --> 01:46:55,080
Speaker 1: Think about this, These teams start winding up for these

1950
01:46:55,160 --> 01:46:58,639
Speaker 1: games three or four weeks in advance. They start preparing

1951
01:46:58,760 --> 01:47:01,320
Speaker 1: for for instance, week six, all the way back in

1952
01:47:01,360 --> 01:47:04,479
Speaker 1: week two or three. They start, they start advancing them,

1953
01:47:04,520 --> 01:47:06,559
Speaker 1: they start watching their film, they start breaking them down

1954
01:47:06,600 --> 01:47:08,240
Speaker 1: so when they get there they can they've got this

1955
01:47:08,280 --> 01:47:10,479
Speaker 1: stuff at their fingertips. They can say, okay, now this

1956
01:47:10,680 --> 01:47:12,479
Speaker 1: week for us, this would be the best way to

1957
01:47:12,560 --> 01:47:15,000
Speaker 1: attack this team, whereas three weeks ago would have been different.

1958
01:47:15,240 --> 01:47:18,519
Speaker 1: So they start ramping up. So you get a game

1959
01:47:18,680 --> 01:47:23,240
Speaker 1: dropped in on you unexpectedly. Oh my gosh, you're right.

1960
01:47:23,400 --> 01:47:27,200
Speaker 1: That would change the the whole run up and the process.

1961
01:47:27,439 --> 01:47:30,479
Speaker 1: That would change the process of getting ready for that game.

1962
01:47:30,840 --> 01:47:34,439
Speaker 1: That's an issue of adjustments. Oh yeah, and they'll do

1963
01:47:34,520 --> 01:47:37,240
Speaker 1: it though, I mean, it won't have a choice. The

1964
01:47:37,800 --> 01:47:40,320
Speaker 1: choice not impossible, and the other team's gonna be the

1965
01:47:40,360 --> 01:47:42,559
Speaker 1: same way. So it's gonna be in that regard. It's

1966
01:47:42,560 --> 01:47:44,519
Speaker 1: probably gonna be a level playing field in that one

1967
01:47:44,680 --> 01:47:46,920
Speaker 1: aspect of it. Both teams are gonna be short changed.

1968
01:47:46,920 --> 01:47:49,400
Speaker 1: And now I would imagine as well, Brownie, that they'll

1969
01:47:49,439 --> 01:47:53,439
Speaker 1: probably have at least more than you know, twenty four hours.

1970
01:47:54,040 --> 01:47:55,760
Speaker 1: I mean, they'll probably find out about it in what

1971
01:47:56,200 --> 01:47:58,760
Speaker 1: ten days ahead of advance. They'd have to give them

1972
01:47:58,840 --> 01:48:01,880
Speaker 1: some Well I'm going to decide that on Wednesday before

1973
01:48:01,880 --> 01:48:05,160
Speaker 1: a Sunday game, right, But it could be a moving

1974
01:48:05,240 --> 01:48:07,800
Speaker 1: target because if you have another like let's say you

1975
01:48:07,920 --> 01:48:10,799
Speaker 1: reschedule that game because the team had an outbreak, couldn't

1976
01:48:10,840 --> 01:48:14,120
Speaker 1: field forty seven players, they can't play that week? All right,

1977
01:48:14,120 --> 01:48:19,000
Speaker 1: Well we're rescheduling that for your bye weekend, week seven. Okay,

1978
01:48:20,080 --> 01:48:22,559
Speaker 1: you get to week six and maybe that team has

1979
01:48:22,560 --> 01:48:26,240
Speaker 1: another issue. Yeah, we gotta put pause on that one again. Right,

1980
01:48:26,280 --> 01:48:29,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna play them in week eighteen? Now what like

1981
01:48:30,040 --> 01:48:34,240
Speaker 1: that could happen? Oh? Absolutely absolutely, it's and it's there's

1982
01:48:34,240 --> 01:48:37,639
Speaker 1: a ton of permutations to this thing. And I think

1983
01:48:37,720 --> 01:48:43,560
Speaker 1: we are gonna see just how nimble or cumbersome the

1984
01:48:43,800 --> 01:48:46,200
Speaker 1: NFL really is when it comes to scheduling and moving

1985
01:48:46,240 --> 01:48:48,439
Speaker 1: games around. We've seen them be nimble at other times.

1986
01:48:48,479 --> 01:48:50,320
Speaker 1: I remember, way back in the day, remember when the

1987
01:48:50,400 --> 01:48:53,360
Speaker 1: hurricane or when the wildfires hit San Diego and they

1988
01:48:53,479 --> 01:48:56,160
Speaker 1: moved to San Diego Chargers Miami game to baton rouge

1989
01:48:56,800 --> 01:48:59,120
Speaker 1: the hurricane games where They've moved games out of Miami,

1990
01:48:59,160 --> 01:49:01,920
Speaker 1: out of South Florida into other venues, so they can

1991
01:49:02,040 --> 01:49:04,720
Speaker 1: do it. It'll be interesting to see how nimble they

1992
01:49:04,760 --> 01:49:06,640
Speaker 1: can be on a wide scale, if indeed they need

1993
01:49:06,720 --> 01:49:09,519
Speaker 1: to be. All right, Steve Tasker, Chris Brown, We're gonna

1994
01:49:09,520 --> 01:49:10,880
Speaker 1: come back after the bottom of the hour. We have

1995
01:49:11,000 --> 01:49:13,720
Speaker 1: NFL true false. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio presented by

1996
01:49:13,760 --> 01:49:20,760
Speaker 1: Kalida Health. This is One Bills Live. Welcome back to

1997
01:49:20,840 --> 01:49:23,880
Speaker 1: one of Bill's lifetime Now First Tasker and Chris Brown

1998
01:49:23,960 --> 01:49:27,080
Speaker 1: to take on NFL. True false. Brought to you by

1999
01:49:27,240 --> 01:49:30,799
Speaker 1: Yancey's Fancy Yancey's Fancy New York's Artists and Cheez Brownie.

2000
01:49:30,840 --> 01:49:34,120
Speaker 1: Are you ready? I Am ready to go? Man Let's

2001
01:49:34,240 --> 01:49:36,680
Speaker 1: style up. The Seahawks have been in a lot of

2002
01:49:36,720 --> 01:49:39,960
Speaker 1: our conversations today because they traded for Jamal Adams. So

2003
01:49:40,120 --> 01:49:44,120
Speaker 1: the first and apropos the first NFL true false is

2004
01:49:44,160 --> 01:49:47,000
Speaker 1: about the Seahawks. The Seahawks should not have given up

2005
01:49:47,080 --> 01:49:50,080
Speaker 1: two first round picks for Jamal Adams. They give up

2006
01:49:50,160 --> 01:49:52,680
Speaker 1: two first rounders and some more stuff as well, a

2007
01:49:52,760 --> 01:49:55,760
Speaker 1: player and a third rounder, but they should not have

2008
01:49:55,800 --> 01:49:57,920
Speaker 1: given up two first round picks for Jamal Adams true

2009
01:49:57,960 --> 01:50:01,400
Speaker 1: or false? Brownie True, They should not have given up

2010
01:50:01,439 --> 01:50:03,640
Speaker 1: two first rounds for Jamal Adams. Well, I think he

2011
01:50:03,840 --> 01:50:09,479
Speaker 1: is a generational talent at the position. I just if

2012
01:50:09,560 --> 01:50:12,040
Speaker 1: I was building a team, I would not build it

2013
01:50:12,120 --> 01:50:14,840
Speaker 1: around a safety, and that's essentially what they've committed to,

2014
01:50:15,520 --> 01:50:19,680
Speaker 1: at least in terms of their back seven. And I

2015
01:50:19,800 --> 01:50:24,840
Speaker 1: still believe on defense you get cornerstone players at cornerback

2016
01:50:24,960 --> 01:50:30,200
Speaker 1: and defensive end and take it from there. So for me,

2017
01:50:30,520 --> 01:50:33,160
Speaker 1: I don't want to pay a safety eighteen million dollars

2018
01:50:33,200 --> 01:50:35,920
Speaker 1: a year. I'd rather pay a top flight corner eighteen

2019
01:50:36,000 --> 01:50:38,719
Speaker 1: million dollars a year and a top flight pass rusher

2020
01:50:39,920 --> 01:50:42,240
Speaker 1: than a safety. So no, I would not give up

2021
01:50:42,280 --> 01:50:45,040
Speaker 1: two ones for that guy. Well, Seattle gave up two

2022
01:50:45,080 --> 01:50:49,520
Speaker 1: first round picks, a third round pick, and safety Bradley McDougall,

2023
01:50:50,120 --> 01:50:52,519
Speaker 1: and they got Adams and a fourth round pick in

2024
01:50:52,760 --> 01:50:57,439
Speaker 1: three years who comes round in two more drafts. So

2025
01:50:57,600 --> 01:50:59,640
Speaker 1: they gave up a ton to get him. And the

2026
01:50:59,720 --> 01:51:02,120
Speaker 1: situation is this, They've already said that he's gonna play

2027
01:51:02,160 --> 01:51:05,120
Speaker 1: under his current contract for this season. I mean, when

2028
01:51:05,160 --> 01:51:08,280
Speaker 1: this season's over, they're gonna have to pay him and

2029
01:51:08,280 --> 01:51:10,800
Speaker 1: They're gonna to pay him whatever he wants, because if

2030
01:51:10,840 --> 01:51:15,960
Speaker 1: they don't, they're out two ones, a player and a

2031
01:51:16,080 --> 01:51:20,080
Speaker 1: third round pick, and that's it. They don't get any

2032
01:51:20,120 --> 01:51:23,160
Speaker 1: of it back if they don't pay him. So he's

2033
01:51:23,160 --> 01:51:25,679
Speaker 1: gonna have a ton of leverage when this thing actually

2034
01:51:25,760 --> 01:51:29,040
Speaker 1: comes about. Yeah, and not only that, the one thing

2035
01:51:29,160 --> 01:51:33,840
Speaker 1: we haven't discussed is what this means for the Jets, Steve,

2036
01:51:35,439 --> 01:51:42,680
Speaker 1: They're gonna be well, they have nothing in their secondary nothing, Well,

2037
01:51:42,720 --> 01:51:44,320
Speaker 1: they got a bunch of draft picks they can look

2038
01:51:44,320 --> 01:51:47,240
Speaker 1: forward to. They are the Jets are right back where

2039
01:51:47,280 --> 01:51:50,599
Speaker 1: they were two years ago, three years ago, right before

2040
01:51:50,640 --> 01:51:55,400
Speaker 1: they picked Jamal Adams. Uh yeah. And I saw a

2041
01:51:55,560 --> 01:52:01,200
Speaker 1: fantastic statistic the other day. The Jets since twenty fourteen

2042
01:52:01,960 --> 01:52:05,439
Speaker 1: have traded away their first round pick in five of

2043
01:52:05,560 --> 01:52:09,080
Speaker 1: the last six years. And they did, and they traded

2044
01:52:09,160 --> 01:52:11,960
Speaker 1: every last one of them while they were still on

2045
01:52:12,120 --> 01:52:17,920
Speaker 1: their rookie contract. Darren Lee, Leonard Williams, you can run

2046
01:52:18,000 --> 01:52:23,080
Speaker 1: down the list. Oh my goodness. Yeah, it's it's astonishing.

2047
01:52:23,479 --> 01:52:29,400
Speaker 1: That's that's bad football, man, that is bad football. Oh

2048
01:52:29,640 --> 01:52:32,360
Speaker 1: oh well, I'm agreeing with you. The Seahawks should not

2049
01:52:32,439 --> 01:52:34,040
Speaker 1: have done it. I think the Jets made out like

2050
01:52:34,080 --> 01:52:37,080
Speaker 1: a bandit. Certainly. I liked Jamal Adams a lot, and

2051
01:52:37,240 --> 01:52:39,680
Speaker 1: they call him the President for good reason. He's presidential.

2052
01:52:39,960 --> 01:52:42,920
Speaker 1: The guy's a leader, he's a hard worker, he's professional.

2053
01:52:43,080 --> 01:52:46,040
Speaker 1: He's all Pro. He's Pro Bowl and he's done it all.

2054
01:52:46,400 --> 01:52:48,760
Speaker 1: He's Pro Bowl twice and his first three years in

2055
01:52:48,760 --> 01:52:50,760
Speaker 1: the National Football League. The guy has got it all.

2056
01:52:50,880 --> 01:52:56,120
Speaker 1: He's a superstar safety, very good player, and you know

2057
01:52:56,240 --> 01:52:58,680
Speaker 1: he's all of that. But he does play safety. He's

2058
01:52:58,680 --> 01:53:03,840
Speaker 1: not playing quarterback. He's playing safety. And I don't know

2059
01:53:04,080 --> 01:53:06,400
Speaker 1: that I give up two ones for a guy play

2060
01:53:06,439 --> 01:53:10,640
Speaker 1: in that position. So there you go. I agree, and

2061
01:53:10,680 --> 01:53:12,680
Speaker 1: there's no way the Seahawks should have given up all that.

2062
01:53:12,880 --> 01:53:14,719
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what the Seahawks think about.

2063
01:53:14,760 --> 01:53:16,560
Speaker 1: I know they feel like they've got a window that

2064
01:53:16,600 --> 01:53:18,559
Speaker 1: they want to keep open and they need some help

2065
01:53:18,640 --> 01:53:21,479
Speaker 1: on that side of the ball. But two ones just

2066
01:53:21,680 --> 01:53:23,920
Speaker 1: means the window is gonna slam shut all that much

2067
01:53:24,000 --> 01:53:27,439
Speaker 1: faster to me, all right, that's NFL true false number one.

2068
01:53:27,520 --> 01:53:29,320
Speaker 1: We both think that Seahawks should not have given up

2069
01:53:29,320 --> 01:53:33,040
Speaker 1: two number ones for Jamal Adams. NFL true false number two.

2070
01:53:33,120 --> 01:53:37,840
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty NFL season rests on the commitment to a

2071
01:53:38,400 --> 01:53:46,160
Speaker 1: for the players to commit to a less less lavish lifestyle. Wow,

2072
01:53:46,439 --> 01:53:50,840
Speaker 1: the NFL season this year rests on the players living

2073
01:53:51,000 --> 01:53:56,320
Speaker 1: less of a lavish lifestyle. True or false? That is

2074
01:53:56,520 --> 01:54:02,240
Speaker 1: one true. Um, it's not completely dependent on it, but

2075
01:54:02,640 --> 01:54:08,160
Speaker 1: it's dependent enough because nothing is absolute with this COVID,

2076
01:54:08,200 --> 01:54:11,080
Speaker 1: as we've found out. But at least by living a

2077
01:54:11,320 --> 01:54:16,080
Speaker 1: less lavish lifestyle, you reduce the risk. Well, here's the

2078
01:54:16,160 --> 01:54:19,599
Speaker 1: thing that's part of the reason why the agreement between

2079
01:54:19,640 --> 01:54:23,599
Speaker 1: the players Association and the league included. You know all

2080
01:54:23,640 --> 01:54:27,000
Speaker 1: those prohibitions, you know, nightclubs, bars, concerts, you know, anything

2081
01:54:27,040 --> 01:54:29,240
Speaker 1: with twenty five or more people is to forget it.

2082
01:54:29,400 --> 01:54:31,160
Speaker 1: You don't do it, and if you do do it,

2083
01:54:31,200 --> 01:54:35,800
Speaker 1: we're gonna bust you. They agreed to it. It includes nightclubs, bars, concerts,

2084
01:54:35,880 --> 01:54:41,800
Speaker 1: pro sports events, churches, any service, anything that has people

2085
01:54:41,880 --> 01:54:45,440
Speaker 1: there where it's above twenty five percent capacity is off limits.

2086
01:54:46,240 --> 01:54:48,360
Speaker 1: Players can walk into a bar or restaurant to pick

2087
01:54:48,400 --> 01:54:53,000
Speaker 1: up takeout, but that's it. They also cannot attend or

2088
01:54:53,160 --> 01:54:57,800
Speaker 1: host a house party with more than fifteen people. Results

2089
01:54:57,880 --> 01:55:01,880
Speaker 1: of violations can result in fines and also if a

2090
01:55:02,000 --> 01:55:05,520
Speaker 1: player tests positive for the virus after any of these violations,

2091
01:55:05,600 --> 01:55:08,160
Speaker 1: they will not be paid for any missed games and

2092
01:55:08,280 --> 01:55:14,440
Speaker 1: their contracts would lose future guarantees. In other words, they

2093
01:55:14,560 --> 01:55:17,880
Speaker 1: need them to be to games, practices and training and

2094
01:55:18,000 --> 01:55:20,840
Speaker 1: medical all that stuff. They need to become to the games.

2095
01:55:20,880 --> 01:55:23,480
Speaker 1: They even become to practices, they'd be in to be trained.

2096
01:55:23,560 --> 01:55:25,640
Speaker 1: They need to be medical advised. They need all that stuff,

2097
01:55:25,640 --> 01:55:28,440
Speaker 1: and then they need to go home and chill. They

2098
01:55:28,520 --> 01:55:30,240
Speaker 1: need to go home and just sit still in a

2099
01:55:30,360 --> 01:55:33,680
Speaker 1: dark room and don't go out. So if they can

2100
01:55:33,800 --> 01:55:37,360
Speaker 1: do that, I think it's true. Well here's the thing.

2101
01:55:37,520 --> 01:55:41,880
Speaker 1: You can say all that, brownie, but that's got to

2102
01:55:41,920 --> 01:55:44,880
Speaker 1: go for the medical people and the coaches and the

2103
01:55:44,960 --> 01:55:48,720
Speaker 1: training staff and the equipment guys too. Yeah, they can't

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01:55:48,760 --> 01:55:52,680
Speaker 1: do it either. So yeah it does. It does rest

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01:55:52,760 --> 01:55:54,800
Speaker 1: on the players, no question, But it rests just as

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01:55:54,920 --> 01:55:58,040
Speaker 1: much on the equipment guys, the medical staff, the coaching staff,

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01:55:58,280 --> 01:56:01,560
Speaker 1: and all of their families and friends as well. True,

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01:56:02,440 --> 01:56:06,040
Speaker 1: but it chiefly relies on the players to be vigilant

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01:56:06,120 --> 01:56:08,920
Speaker 1: because they're the ones that are smacking into each other

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01:56:09,040 --> 01:56:12,560
Speaker 1: on the field in the closest proximity. Yeah, I agree. Yeah,

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01:56:12,760 --> 01:56:14,880
Speaker 1: I think that's I think it's true. The players have

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01:56:14,960 --> 01:56:16,520
Speaker 1: got to jump on board with this or it's not

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01:56:16,600 --> 01:56:22,040
Speaker 1: going to happen NFL true false. Number three, college football

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01:56:22,600 --> 01:56:25,840
Speaker 1: should adopt a running clock after first downs to speed

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01:56:25,920 --> 01:56:29,600
Speaker 1: up the game during pandemic. During the pandemic. This is

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01:56:29,680 --> 01:56:34,400
Speaker 1: just a you know, a one time way, right, and

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01:56:34,560 --> 01:56:37,680
Speaker 1: the effort here is to reduce the total number of

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01:56:37,800 --> 01:56:40,440
Speaker 1: plays in a game. As we all know, the clock

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01:56:40,560 --> 01:56:42,920
Speaker 1: stops every time there's a first down where the ball

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01:56:42,960 --> 01:56:44,640
Speaker 1: goes out of bounds, no matter how much time is

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01:56:44,680 --> 01:56:46,440
Speaker 1: on a clock in a college football game. So what

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01:56:46,520 --> 01:56:50,680
Speaker 1: you inevitably have are some games where offenses are running

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01:56:50,720 --> 01:56:53,760
Speaker 1: eighty six to one hundred plays a game. We're in

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01:56:53,760 --> 01:56:56,720
Speaker 1: an NFL game, it's usually sixty five to seventy somewhere

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01:56:56,760 --> 01:57:00,640
Speaker 1: in there. So yeah, I would, I would after running

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01:57:00,680 --> 01:57:04,360
Speaker 1: clock shorten the game, reduced the exposure, reduce the number

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01:57:04,400 --> 01:57:08,600
Speaker 1: of plays, reduce the amount of contact. And I think

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01:57:08,680 --> 01:57:11,160
Speaker 1: you can at least make the argument that maybe you

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01:57:11,280 --> 01:57:15,920
Speaker 1: reduce the level of exposure. I mean, you could probably

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01:57:16,000 --> 01:57:22,080
Speaker 1: percentage figure it. Maybe that's putting perfume on a pig.

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01:57:23,800 --> 01:57:26,760
Speaker 1: You got guys sweating on each other you got, they're

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01:57:26,840 --> 01:57:29,240
Speaker 1: leaning on each other for the end. And college games

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01:57:29,400 --> 01:57:31,680
Speaker 1: last for four and a half hours anyway, because the

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01:57:31,800 --> 01:57:34,200
Speaker 1: clock stops so they can get all the commercials in.

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01:57:34,840 --> 01:57:38,760
Speaker 1: I mean, that's it's all about money. Putting a running

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01:57:38,800 --> 01:57:40,480
Speaker 1: clock after first time, Why don't you just take the

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01:57:40,560 --> 01:57:43,280
Speaker 1: commercial breaks out. Let's do that. Yeah, that's not going

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01:57:43,320 --> 01:57:45,720
Speaker 1: to happen, because that's that gets into their into their

2139
01:57:45,760 --> 01:57:50,400
Speaker 1: revenues they ain't interested in. Come on, that's crazy talk

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01:57:51,040 --> 01:57:54,560
Speaker 1: running down. That's it's not I mean, the amount in

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01:57:54,640 --> 01:57:58,840
Speaker 1: which it might help is infinitest. College football is not

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01:57:58,920 --> 01:58:01,720
Speaker 1: going to happen this year, and my opinion, the NFL

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01:58:01,760 --> 01:58:04,720
Speaker 1: has got a chance. I'm sure you're saw over the

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01:58:04,800 --> 01:58:08,440
Speaker 1: weekend the whole Michigan State team got quarantined, right, did

2145
01:58:08,480 --> 01:58:14,080
Speaker 1: you see that? The entire roster. You're all in quarantine.

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01:58:14,720 --> 01:58:17,760
Speaker 1: Don they're gonna Yeah, but here's the thing, brownie. They

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01:58:17,760 --> 01:58:20,040
Speaker 1: can quarantine those guys all for two weeks and probably

2148
01:58:20,400 --> 01:58:23,000
Speaker 1: six of them get sick with it, the rest of

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01:58:23,080 --> 01:58:24,760
Speaker 1: them get it out of their system. They come back

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01:58:25,600 --> 01:58:29,640
Speaker 1: a week later, they could all be quarantined again. Yeah,

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01:58:30,720 --> 01:58:32,920
Speaker 1: and you're dealing and you want to talk about the

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01:58:32,960 --> 01:58:35,080
Speaker 1: meat head level. It's a whole lot higher in college

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01:58:35,120 --> 01:58:37,600
Speaker 1: with nineteen twenty and twenty one year olds. Oh gosh,

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01:58:37,680 --> 01:58:39,400
Speaker 1: those guys. Do you remember how dumb you were when

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01:58:39,440 --> 01:58:41,960
Speaker 1: you were nineteen? Oh my gosh, I still I am

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01:58:42,000 --> 01:58:46,240
Speaker 1: still the same way. The question is, but listen, the

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01:58:46,640 --> 01:58:49,000
Speaker 1: question is my life has changed, Thank goodness. But here's

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01:58:49,040 --> 01:58:54,000
Speaker 1: the here's the thing, Brownie, when when I was nineteen twenty,

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01:58:54,160 --> 01:58:55,960
Speaker 1: the thing that I'm just different about me. When I

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01:58:56,040 --> 01:59:00,560
Speaker 1: was eighteen rather than fifty eight, forty years ago, I

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01:59:00,800 --> 01:59:03,800
Speaker 1: was bulletproof and you couldn't tell me otherwise. You you

2162
01:59:03,840 --> 01:59:04,800
Speaker 1: know what I mean. You get said, give me this,

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01:59:05,000 --> 01:59:07,720
Speaker 1: give me the virus. I don't care. I'm not I'm

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01:59:07,760 --> 01:59:09,520
Speaker 1: not to alter in my life. So I got a

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Speaker 1: party to go to Friday night. Yeah, and I ain't

2166
01:59:12,480 --> 01:59:17,200
Speaker 1: not going under any circumstances. I mean, you'd go. Come on, Brownie,

2167
01:59:17,360 --> 01:59:20,280
Speaker 1: when you were in college, you could have a fever

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01:59:20,520 --> 01:59:23,480
Speaker 1: and the flu and it wouldn't even That's not even

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01:59:23,520 --> 01:59:25,280
Speaker 1: a bumper that you're going to I might even go

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Speaker 1: to class with that. Yeah. I believe the phrase was

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01:59:27,840 --> 01:59:32,240
Speaker 1: got a rally, Yeah, come on, baby, bounce back, got

2172
01:59:32,280 --> 01:59:37,680
Speaker 1: a rally? Deep, dig deep, you know, let's go, man,

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01:59:37,880 --> 01:59:40,840
Speaker 1: come on, that is not the way to do this, though,

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01:59:41,120 --> 01:59:43,480
Speaker 1: one hundred and two. Come on, man, bounce back, let's go.

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Speaker 1: That's what you did in college, right, That's what That's

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01:59:46,520 --> 01:59:49,320
Speaker 1: what college football is up against right now. And that,

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01:59:50,280 --> 01:59:54,480
Speaker 1: my friend, is a losing battle. Yes, it is. Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, are you kidding me? The on a college

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Speaker 1: campus to get those guys to stay in door after

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02:00:01,400 --> 02:00:04,800
Speaker 1: they win a game, I forget. Yeah, if you happen

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02:00:04,880 --> 02:00:07,800
Speaker 1: to get to a season, oh my gosh, you don't

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02:00:07,960 --> 02:00:10,600
Speaker 1: standard shot and happen Clemson goes You know what's gonna

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02:00:10,600 --> 02:00:14,000
Speaker 1: happen if one of these like like like say Vanderbilt,

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02:00:14,200 --> 02:00:17,440
Speaker 1: who's you know, always been in the in the SEC

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02:00:18,320 --> 02:00:21,600
Speaker 1: or is it the SEC? Yeah, they're in the SEC, right, Andrewbill? Yeah,

2186
02:00:22,040 --> 02:00:24,280
Speaker 1: so all of a sudden they stay take off and

2187
02:00:24,280 --> 02:00:26,200
Speaker 1: they go five and zero on the season. Yeah, those

2188
02:00:26,200 --> 02:00:28,880
Speaker 1: guys are gonna say Stacy questered after getting off for

2189
02:00:28,880 --> 02:00:32,000
Speaker 1: the best starting school history. Well, it is a it

2190
02:00:32,160 --> 02:00:34,200
Speaker 1: is a smart school with a lot of engineering students.

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02:00:34,280 --> 02:00:36,360
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe you get a few more of those players

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02:00:36,400 --> 02:00:38,120
Speaker 1: staying in I don't know. Yeah, And it's and it's

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Speaker 1: a mile from downtown Nashville. College football has no shot. Yeah,

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02:00:46,960 --> 02:00:51,040
Speaker 1: they have no shot because college, they have no shot.

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02:00:51,080 --> 02:00:54,640
Speaker 1: College students in general, or my guys, it's that's the

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02:00:54,840 --> 02:00:58,320
Speaker 1: worst breeding ground for undiscipplined. I think about your freshman

2197
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Speaker 1: year of college. Think about your the quintessential freshman year

2198
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Speaker 1: of college. You're a dodo. Oh they have no shot

2199
02:01:07,880 --> 02:01:12,400
Speaker 1: at this and they're thinking about what. Here's we'll fix it.

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Speaker 1: We'll stop the clock. We'll have a running clock after

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Speaker 1: first down. Yeah, yeah, that is I'll go false there

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Speaker 1: after this spirited discussion on this time, all right with this,

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Speaker 1: we'll come back. We'll come back with what have we learned?

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Speaker 1: Right after the break Steve Tasker Chris Brown One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Kali to help on Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: in the program, we had the editor in chief of

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Speaker 1: Football Outsiders, Aaron Shots and he is He projected that

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Speaker 1: the Bills defense might be the best in the National

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Speaker 1: Football League this season. Here's what he said. We project

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Speaker 1: a range of possibility for how good a team is

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Speaker 1: going to be. Based on a number of different variables,

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Speaker 1: but the average of all those possibilities for Buffalo is

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Speaker 1: the best in the league for defense. Now here's the problem.

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Speaker 1: The problem is defensive performance varies a lot more than

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02:02:17,320 --> 02:02:21,600
Speaker 1: offensive performance, which means having the best projected offense in

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Speaker 1: the league, which is Kansas City, is going to be

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02:02:24,280 --> 02:02:28,200
Speaker 1: much stronger than the best projected defense in the league,

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Speaker 1: which is Buffalo, because the range of possibilities that that represents,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot larger, but it is the best projected

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Speaker 1: defense in the league. I mean, their defense is very strong.

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Speaker 1: Their front office has put together a really good team

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Speaker 1: around Allan. I mean, you know, it's really hard to

2225
02:02:45,160 --> 02:02:49,040
Speaker 1: fault them for decisions that they've made around Allan. That

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02:02:49,280 --> 02:02:52,360
Speaker 1: was Aaron Shots on the Buffalo Bills defense and the

2227
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Speaker 1: projections for what the team might do this season. He's

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Speaker 1: pretty high on the Bills, and like everybody, he knows

2229
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Speaker 1: he's going to come down to how number seventeen plays.

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02:02:59,440 --> 02:03:03,400
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be interesting to see how many games

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02:03:03,480 --> 02:03:05,680
Speaker 1: take place, how the team's gonna play. We've got a

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02:03:05,760 --> 02:03:08,240
Speaker 1: really good roster, Brownie, and I think Josh Allen's going

2233
02:03:08,280 --> 02:03:10,040
Speaker 1: to take another step forward and be the guy he

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Speaker 1: was in the second half of last year at least. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just I found that the advanced analytics and what

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02:03:19,160 --> 02:03:23,320
Speaker 1: shots his research history tells him is that the degree

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02:03:23,440 --> 02:03:27,600
Speaker 1: to which Allen improves is going to be more incremental

2238
02:03:28,360 --> 02:03:32,400
Speaker 1: than significant as far as what his numbers tell him.

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02:03:32,880 --> 02:03:36,680
Speaker 1: I hope to hell he's wrong, but but I think

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Speaker 1: even an incremental improvement for Josh in the area of

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Speaker 1: completion percentage will help lift the fortunes of this team.

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02:03:44,920 --> 02:03:48,960
Speaker 1: I've said all along, he's never gonna be a sixty

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Speaker 1: six to seventy completion percentage guy. Ever, that's not who

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02:03:53,720 --> 02:03:56,360
Speaker 1: he is. Do it in a game or something. But

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Speaker 1: you're right, that's not going to be. If he forget

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02:03:58,560 --> 02:04:02,760
Speaker 1: to sixty two sixty three percent completion percentage somewhere in there,

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02:04:04,520 --> 02:04:06,800
Speaker 1: Bills will be well on their win because now he's

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02:04:06,880 --> 02:04:10,080
Speaker 1: raised his efficiency level to a point where hopefully he

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Speaker 1: can win some games for them, put the team on

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Speaker 1: his back and win a game or two, which inevitably

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02:04:15,640 --> 02:04:18,200
Speaker 1: will happen, especially with the strength of schedule they're facing

2252
02:04:18,240 --> 02:04:20,720
Speaker 1: this year, right, and you never know what's going to

2253
02:04:20,840 --> 02:04:22,480
Speaker 1: look like. But if he was the same guy he

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02:04:22,600 --> 02:04:24,440
Speaker 1: was in the last half of last year or whatever,

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Speaker 1: and it's hard to do that. You're really he and

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Speaker 1: Aaron Shot said it, and he's probably right. You take

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Speaker 1: the total year of what he was, but Josh Allen

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02:04:32,480 --> 02:04:34,720
Speaker 1: was a different quarterback in the second half of last year.

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Speaker 1: For whatever. If that's the guy you get, you're gonna

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02:04:38,640 --> 02:04:40,960
Speaker 1: be pretty happy with him. And if you quantify that

2261
02:04:41,120 --> 02:04:44,360
Speaker 1: over that second half of last year over the second

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02:04:44,400 --> 02:04:47,360
Speaker 1: half of the whole season this year, the guy's got

2263
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Speaker 1: twenty two touchdowns and four interceptions, plus twelve running touchdowns.

2264
02:04:51,920 --> 02:04:55,040
Speaker 1: He's completing fifty eight or fifty nine percent of his passes.

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02:04:55,160 --> 02:04:57,200
Speaker 1: He throws for over three thousand yards. That's a that's

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02:04:57,240 --> 02:05:00,480
Speaker 1: a different guy than we've seen over the two full

2267
02:05:00,520 --> 02:05:03,400
Speaker 1: seasons he's played. The only thing I openly wonder is

2268
02:05:03,920 --> 02:05:07,720
Speaker 1: he going to be asked to run as much? Are

2269
02:05:07,800 --> 02:05:10,280
Speaker 1: there going to be as many designed runs for him?

2270
02:05:10,440 --> 02:05:13,800
Speaker 1: Because there's a part of me that believes that part

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02:05:13,840 --> 02:05:17,160
Speaker 1: of the reason Zach Moss was drafted was to try

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02:05:17,320 --> 02:05:22,160
Speaker 1: to reduce the number of you know, running, reduce the

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02:05:22,200 --> 02:05:24,080
Speaker 1: amount of running that he has to do. I think

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02:05:24,120 --> 02:05:28,920
Speaker 1: the combination of Moss and Singletary in part is there

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02:05:29,040 --> 02:05:32,600
Speaker 1: to reduce the rushing load on Alan, right, And I

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02:05:32,720 --> 02:05:35,720
Speaker 1: think so too. And it's a different way. The league's

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02:05:35,720 --> 02:05:37,320
Speaker 1: different than it used to be. Your quarter If you

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02:05:37,400 --> 02:05:39,320
Speaker 1: got a quarterback can run, teams are gonna let him

2279
02:05:39,360 --> 02:05:42,040
Speaker 1: run because they teach them how to protect themselves. They

2280
02:05:42,040 --> 02:05:44,400
Speaker 1: don't take extra shots. They don't have to take those

2281
02:05:44,480 --> 02:05:48,200
Speaker 1: extra shots. They can be protected. They can live a longer,

2282
02:05:48,440 --> 02:05:52,000
Speaker 1: more prosperous life running with the football, not like back

2283
02:05:52,040 --> 02:05:54,160
Speaker 1: in the eighties, nineties, and certainly not back in the

2284
02:05:54,280 --> 02:05:56,680
Speaker 1: seventies where a quarterback stepped out of the pocket, rolls,

2285
02:05:57,160 --> 02:06:00,560
Speaker 1: he throws it and then gets lifted and pushed out

2286
02:06:00,560 --> 02:06:02,920
Speaker 1: of bounds and landed on by sixteen guys. Right, I

2287
02:06:02,960 --> 02:06:07,040
Speaker 1: mean so right, So that doesn't happen anymore. So certainly

2288
02:06:07,120 --> 02:06:09,440
Speaker 1: you can get away with having a quarterback that's more athletic.

2289
02:06:09,520 --> 02:06:12,200
Speaker 1: And Dave Ball has used him that way. You remember

2290
02:06:12,240 --> 02:06:15,240
Speaker 1: the first couple of weeks last year, in that Giant

2291
02:06:15,320 --> 02:06:17,080
Speaker 1: game and in the Jet game weeks one and two,

2292
02:06:18,240 --> 02:06:21,040
Speaker 1: he'd snapped to Alan the shotgun and everybody pulls out,

2293
02:06:21,160 --> 02:06:23,440
Speaker 1: heads out around the right end and they're in. You know,

2294
02:06:23,560 --> 02:06:25,280
Speaker 1: they go into the end zone in power sweep with

2295
02:06:25,320 --> 02:06:28,040
Speaker 1: their quarterback with the ball tucked under his arm. They'll

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02:06:28,080 --> 02:06:33,280
Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, they will do it. I just and

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Speaker 1: the other thing too. Steve is and we've heard Josh

2298
02:06:35,720 --> 02:06:37,520
Speaker 1: talk about this, like the beginning of the game. He's

2299
02:06:37,520 --> 02:06:40,880
Speaker 1: so juiced up. There's times where he's told Dabele, give

2300
02:06:40,920 --> 02:06:42,360
Speaker 1: me a run, let me just get a hit on me.

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Speaker 1: So I can kind of feel like I'm into the

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Speaker 1: game because he knows he's so jacked up, he's gonna

2303
02:06:47,600 --> 02:06:50,760
Speaker 1: be airmail and passes if table calls three straight passes,

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Speaker 1: all right, Tomorrow, Ross Tucker is gonna come on with us.

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker Chris Brown are gonna be coming back at you.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be here at noon to three. Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown on One Bills Lie, presented by Khalida Hell.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, everybody. We'll be back tomorrow on

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio