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Speaker 1: Bill's Lives presented by Kalida Health. It is a it's

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Speaker 1: a it's an amazing day here. We're what you say,

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Speaker 1: a Kansas State Iowa State game last year at the

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Speaker 1: end of the season, and there were guys that were

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Speaker 1: not on the initial media guide that we're gonna be

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Speaker 1: playing in that game. We had we had to ask

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Speaker 1: their sid you know, give us something on this kid

431
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Speaker 1: because he's gonna play tonight and if he gets an interception,

432
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Speaker 1: we need something. And uh, but it was fun and

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Speaker 1: I'm excited about it. Over the past year, one of

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Speaker 1: the things I was missing was challenging work, you know,

435
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Speaker 1: trying to get better at something and just challenging myself daily.

436
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Speaker 1: And this this year, we'll do it and we'll see.

437
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Speaker 1: But but I'm looking forward to the challenge of it

438
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Speaker 1: and preparing week in week out. Eric Wood getting ready

439
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Speaker 1: to join our Buffalo Bills media content team. He's going

440
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Speaker 1: to be part of our radio broadcast on Sundays. I'll

441
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Speaker 1: be working with Eric in the Bills Radio broadcast booth.

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Speaker 1: You're also going to be on our show, I guess

443
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Speaker 1: on a regular basis right now. One Bill's live alt

444
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Speaker 1: on Mondays? Is that part of the deal Mondays after

445
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Speaker 1: home games, I'll stick around and do do media work

446
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Speaker 1: around here. So if we can have that day off,

447
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Speaker 1: then yeah, right right, why not? You know, I don't

448
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Speaker 1: want to crowd you guys, right, but that'll be good.

449
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Speaker 1: That'll be fun and especially and you could appreciate this

450
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Speaker 1: being around here a Monday after a Bills game, and

451
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Speaker 1: they're different wins and losses, but a Monday after the

452
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Speaker 1: Bills game, that's all anybody in Buffalo we'll talk about

453
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Speaker 1: and we benefit from that on this show. Right. I've

454
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Speaker 1: done some local radio gal down in the summer Monday

455
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Speaker 1: and here as well, but I've co hosted shows over

456
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Speaker 1: the summer when those guys are looking to take some vacation.

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Speaker 1: I'm just looking for reps. Yeah. Man, it's hard to

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Speaker 1: fill three hours sometimes on Mondays during the NFL season,

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Speaker 1: especially after those home games. It will not be hard

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Speaker 1: for us to fill airtime. You know, We'll have plenty

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Speaker 1: of callers and all that. I don't think it'll be

462
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Speaker 1: too tough of work. And what's good with that is one,

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Speaker 1: that's more reps for me, you know, more on air time.

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Speaker 1: And then two, any any work like that is prep

465
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Speaker 1: time for the following weekend. It's more familiarity with the roster.

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Speaker 1: So um, I saw that as an opportunity to just

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Speaker 1: kind of further get experienced through this fall. All right,

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Speaker 1: speaking of getting reps, um, here's let's do this. So

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Speaker 1: let's pick it. I'm gonna get a grab a play

470
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Speaker 1: from last season. Murph will call the play, and this

471
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Speaker 1: will be the first time you guys work together in

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Speaker 1: the booth. Right, Okay, it's a standard play. We got

473
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Speaker 1: one from the Tennessee Bills game. Right. It's a perfect play.

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Speaker 1: It's just a regular run of the mill play. It's nothing,

475
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Speaker 1: nothing screwby or anything. Um, just a special teams play

476
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Speaker 1: because that's my thing. So I'll say I'm super familiar with.

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Speaker 1: Right here we go. So here comes to play, Murphy,

478
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Speaker 1: you go ahead, this is uh, well you people hear it.

479
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:46,200
Speaker 1: It's Bills and Tennessee and the Bills with a nine

480
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Speaker 1: play drive and they line up for a field goal drive. Here,

481
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Speaker 1: second quarter of the snap for Herks stands up and runs.

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Speaker 1: What's he doing? Tries to throw a pass almost intercepted.

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Speaker 1: What is Corey Buthrke is doing? Taking away? Eric? This

484
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Speaker 1: is the impact that you get when you when you

485
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Speaker 1: run through punters through the season. You know, he the

486
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Speaker 1: misommunication that comes from lack of experienced Colton Schmidt. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that he makes that play there. He picked

488
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Speaker 1: deliberately the craziest play, maybe the biggest Spots play of

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Speaker 1: last year. And it turned out the Bills won the games,

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Speaker 1: so we can laugh about it. But man, stuff like

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Speaker 1: that happens. I always tell people Eric, And when you're

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Speaker 1: doing those broadcasts, it's, you know, you study all week,

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Speaker 1: you'll watch video, We all watch video, you study the opponents,

494
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Speaker 1: you know what the Bills are up to, and then

495
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Speaker 1: the game starts and it's like a three hour test

496
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Speaker 1: and no matter how hard you study, something's gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: It's like, what like that? And that's a that's a

498
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Speaker 1: panic play by that by a young kid who's inexperienced.

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Speaker 1: Steven's approaching to kick the ball. They obviously had. You know,

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Speaker 1: as Steve knows, there's always some type of signal coming

501
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Speaker 1: in from the sideline to see if the fake was there.

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Speaker 1: That's a that's a young kid. It's interesting too. And

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Speaker 1: I was laughing because you think that never happens. It does.

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Speaker 1: It happens every so often. I was reminded Murph that

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Speaker 1: a great punter he played with Brian Mormon. Ye. I

506
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Speaker 1: don't know if you remember this. His first play as

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Speaker 1: a Bill, when he came out to punt, the opponent

508
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Speaker 1: baited him into thinking there was somebody uncovered outside he

509
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Speaker 1: tried to throw a pass on his first punt as

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Speaker 1: an NFL player and it and he botched it first

511
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Speaker 1: play ever. Now he turns out to be this all

512
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Speaker 1: time great punt to the team, but he had things

513
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Speaker 1: like that start out. When I started playing. My first

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Speaker 1: special teams play ever was a blocked extra point right

515
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Speaker 1: back in my face as the holder for Tony Tony Zendejas. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I mean stuff like that happens constantly, right, you got

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Speaker 1: to be ready for it. And we did that on

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Speaker 1: purpose to set for success. Right. Yeah, it could never

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Speaker 1: couldn't have been an inside zone. And I'm talking And

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Speaker 1: that leads to this question. As you prepare for the games,

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Speaker 1: do you think you will focus and as you do

522
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Speaker 1: the game, focus on line play, offensive line play mostly,

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Speaker 1: you know, expand your vision a little bit. Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: talking with producers for games I did last year and

525
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Speaker 1: even prepping for this year, they want me to do

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Speaker 1: what I'm good at and they understand that I see

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Speaker 1: the field from the inside out. Being a center. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say I'm a quarterback expert, but I

529
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Speaker 1: was in a great relationship with our quarterbacks at all times,

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Speaker 1: so so I can speak on some type of quarterback play.

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Speaker 1: But for me, it's all inside out. And they're like,

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Speaker 1: that's fine. You don't necessarily, we don't expect you to

533
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Speaker 1: be watching the receivers on every single play. That's fine.

534
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Speaker 1: Use your perspective and use your um your knowledge. You know,

535
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Speaker 1: I have a PhD in football, but it's it's not

536
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Speaker 1: necessarily a receiver play. Now. I'll gain experience and that

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Speaker 1: stuff I'll have to study, but but I'm not going

538
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Speaker 1: to start there. It is like a PhD. And you

539
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Speaker 1: you're like, you're an internal medicine guy and this guy's

540
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Speaker 1: worthopedic surgeon exactly. This is a different field. Also, I

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Speaker 1: gotta ask you, now, where are you going to get

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Speaker 1: your film to watch? How do you know? What? Do

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Speaker 1: you have? Websites? So you got to hoops one? What

544
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Speaker 1: do you use? Let me know? Okay, no, no, I

545
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Speaker 1: mean for college last year, UM Fox had pushed out

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Speaker 1: some stuff to me. You know, here's their last two

547
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Speaker 1: opponents and um all that, you know. For the college game.

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Speaker 1: I reached out to Chris spiel And, who was a

549
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Speaker 1: Bills guy and he does some NFL and college and

550
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Speaker 1: he was and I was asking him, you know, you

551
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Speaker 1: got two unfamiliar teams, which this won't happen in the

552
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Speaker 1: NFL for most teams. I know they're coordinators and you know,

553
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 1: players and whatnot, but I had no idea about either team.

554
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Speaker 1: He said, go back and watch TV copies so you

555
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: hear the names over and over. And he said, when

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Speaker 1: you're driving in the car, flipping on your phone, just

557
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Speaker 1: so you keep hearing the names, and you just hear

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Speaker 1: them talk about it, and then you might catch a

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Speaker 1: storyline and then hey, and let me look up an

560
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Speaker 1: article on that. And that's how I did it last year.

561
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Speaker 1: For this year, I'm not exactly sure. I'm open to suggestions. Yeah,

562
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Speaker 1: NFL dot com has the service, and we'll get you.

563
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Speaker 1: Make sure you get that. But and Spillman's right, because

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Speaker 1: I watched coaches video to see who's lining up where.

565
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Speaker 1: And also they have the what do they call it,

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Speaker 1: the shortened version, the condense version. You can watch a

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Speaker 1: game with the names and with the announcers and the storyline.

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Speaker 1: I wat real quick. I watched a bunch of those

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Speaker 1: last year prepping for my athletic columns, because you know,

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Speaker 1: on Sunday i'd be watching the Bills game at home,

571
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Speaker 1: but we'd have people over and I'm grilling wings or something,

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Speaker 1: and then I'd go to write a column the next

573
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Speaker 1: day and I'm like, well, I better, I better go

574
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Speaker 1: watch every single snap again just so I don't miss something.

575
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Speaker 1: Or so we're gonna be busy. You're gonna be doing

576
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Speaker 1: the ACC You're gonna on TV, you're gonna do the

577
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 1: bills and NFL on radio every weekend. And you're also

578
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Speaker 1: gonna be writing for the Athletic as well. Right that

579
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 1: deal is not setting stone yet stone, yes, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: So we'll see if they if they make it worth

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Speaker 1: my time, I will because I did enjoy that, and

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Speaker 1: um the feedback I got from that was incredible. I

583
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 1: end up getting a lot of um great media opportunities

584
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Speaker 1: through the week. And I'm not saying it was a

585
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Speaker 1: correlation of this, but I did a lot of work.

586
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Speaker 1: Glass Fall just kind of patchworked a little bit of

587
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Speaker 1: a resume together to try and get some opportunities. We

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00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 1: believe me, if you're doing all that stuff, your time

589
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 1: is going to be worth more than it when they

590
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Speaker 1: think it is right for sure, because it's gonna be

591
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Speaker 1: very scarce right now. I am Actually I've some experience

592
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Speaker 1: in that his time is very very it is. Hey,

593
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Speaker 1: can you stick for another segment? We want to talk

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Speaker 1: a little bit of OTAs and we want to get

595
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Speaker 1: your sense on what this Bills team is all about

596
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Speaker 1: this year. We'll come back with Eric Would and with

597
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Speaker 1: the announcement moments ago, he's going to be the new

598
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Speaker 1: color analyst on the Bills Radio Network, originating here in

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Speaker 1: Buffalo on w g R Sports Radio five fifty and

600
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Speaker 1: throughout the twenty station Buffalo Bills Radio Network. More on

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Speaker 1: Eric Would. More with Eric Would. When we return, It's

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive and this is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live. John Murphy,

604
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Speaker 1: steep Tasker. We had a good show, a lot to

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Speaker 1: get covered today. Steve's worried that we won't get it

606
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Speaker 1: all in, but we will. I told him we will

607
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Speaker 1: get it in what we can get in. Robert May's

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Speaker 1: going to join us from the ringer at one uh

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Speaker 1: we're gonna hear from the players, Josh Allen and maybe others.

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Speaker 1: At one thirty. Chris Burman joins us. Two o'clock. This

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Speaker 1: is a big time show here. Eric, You're gonna be

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Speaker 1: part of it. I wish I would have been around

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Speaker 1: for Burman. He's coming on in, tu come on back, Eric,

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Speaker 1: What is with us? Just announced by us that Eric

615
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Speaker 1: is gonna be the color analyst on the Bills Radio Network,

616
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Speaker 1: joining the Bills media content team. He'll have a work

617
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Speaker 1: to do here. He'll be on the show with us

618
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: many Mondays during the regular season. You had a chance

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Speaker 1: to watch a few minutes of like the stretch portion

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Speaker 1: of OTA. But you follow this team and one of

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Speaker 1: the big questions on this roster right now is offensive

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Speaker 1: line and who's lining up? Where can you illuminate us

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Speaker 1: and what you think should happen maybe upfront there? Oh man,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to say at this point. You know, I

625
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Speaker 1: love how many experienced bodies they brought in. Nowadays in

626
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Speaker 1: the NFL, it's hard to find quality lineman. The rookies

627
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Speaker 1: coming in, they're not playing NFL type football. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's rare that you get a Dion Dawkins type player

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Speaker 1: that can come in and play immediately and he's tough

630
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Speaker 1: and he played with his hand in the dirt at Temple.

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Speaker 1: There's not a ton of those guys anymore. So getting

632
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Speaker 1: guys with experience, you know, the best offensive lines in

633
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Speaker 1: the NFL to me, are never the star studded. You know,

634
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Speaker 1: first rounder after first rounder, and those those workout at times.

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Speaker 1: You know, you's all one with the Cowboys a few

636
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: years ago and there just that absolutely dominant line. But

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Speaker 1: for the most part, the solid lines in the NFL

638
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 1: are guys with a lot of experience. They're smart, they

639
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: do their job playing and play out and it seems

640
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: like that's what they're trying to build here. I love

641
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 1: that they went after a high paid, really high quality center.

642
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 1: You have Josh Allen on his rookie deal. Yeah, I

643
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: love high paid centers. It's perfect, but exactly, but when

644
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: you have a quarterback on his rookie deal, One, you

645
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: can pay some more guys on the team like that. Two,

646
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 1: you want a guy in front of him that can

647
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: speak some wisdom into him, a guy that's played a

648
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: bunch of ball, and you don't want a guy that's

649
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: in his face. You know, Mitch Morris is a big,

650
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: strong center. He's played a lot of ball and I've

651
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 1: been impressed with him, So I love that edition and

652
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: then build around him. I think one of their biggest

653
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 1: issues last year, and this is even from talking to

654
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: guys and the team is when you're rotating the center position,

655
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: there's no leader in the room, that's the voice of

656
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: your room. Well, then nobody's got a voice. Ryan Groy

657
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: doesn't have a voice, Russell Bodin doesn't have a voice.

658
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 1: Me and Richie you're gone, Cord he's gone. Well then

659
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 1: there's no leadership. And to me, that was an issue.

660
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: And I get why they did it. They wanted to

661
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 1: put the best guy in the field, but it makes

662
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: it really tough on an old line room. Everybody's talking

663
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 1: about it because we all talk about it. I was

664
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: I just certainly have never played offensive line and nobody has.

665
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: But we always talk about this chemistry thing. This offensive

666
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: line's gotta gel. Okay, how long is that gonna take?

667
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: Let's see how smart these guys are, right, you know, honestly,

668
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: you know you got a new old line coach of

669
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: Bobby Johnson. They gotta learn some new techniques, so that

670
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: that's part of it. But it's year two with year

671
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: two with day ball, but a lot of new bodies,

672
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: so you gotta learn these techniques. You gotta learn the offense.

673
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: You get a smart group up front, it could take

674
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 1: not that long at all you gotta get up the

675
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: line line of scrimmage, communicate. Now you got some guys.

676
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 1: If you have some guys that struggle mentally, that chemistry

677
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: portion of it, it comes a lot slower. They don't

678
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 1: know a lot about these guys though, they're all, like

679
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: you say, they're all new, and so you've got a

680
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 1: lot of moving parts. You've got new guys, new offense,

681
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: new terminology, and you got to figure out in some

682
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: cases where they're gonna play I mean, right guard, left guard,

683
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,959
Speaker 1: right tackle, right, you know, right, Um, that's a lot

684
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 1: of experimentation. And when you say it might not take

685
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 1: that long, what's like not that long and what's and

686
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: we all know entirely too long. It's never getting it

687
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: right right. I would say ideally by the end of

688
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: OTAs they have a pretty good idea where all five

689
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: starters are gonna be where they can hit the ground

690
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 1: running in training camp. And luckily we know who the

691
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: center is going to be. You know, and you work hurt.

692
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: You He is hurt right now, you know, and that

693
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: stinks because you know, you really like for him and

694
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: Josh to be getting some chemistry right now. There's the

695
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: chemistry word. Every rip hurts ever helps and hurts absolutely.

696
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 1: And I mean I always hated missing any repp of practice.

697
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 1: Drove me nuts just because that was wasted time. You know. Um,

698
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 1: But you know, Mitch has played enough ball in this league.

699
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: And I think a big part about it is a

700
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: lot of these guys have played in the league, so

701
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: it's not their first snap. It's not gonna be a

702
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 1: deer in the headlights. Look when when we go to

703
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 1: New York in the opening game. But in the same sense,

704
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: the more reps they can get as a starting five

705
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: through training camp and in the preseason games, the better

706
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 1: they'll be as a group. Eric, you had Bobby Johnson

707
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: here in his first goal round with the Bills a

708
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. What can you tell us about

709
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: him and what should we look for from his group?

710
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 1: You know, Bobby number one is a great communicator, which

711
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:30,960
Speaker 1: you need from a coach and a no line coach.

712
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: He impressed me from day one how he could communicate

713
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 1: what he wanted from the guys. Crystal clear. I always

714
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 1: hated playing for coaches where you know, it was never

715
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 1: black and white. You know that was okay, No, Bobby's

716
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: gonna shoot you straight. And he demands excellence on every play.

717
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: So great communicator, He instills toughness in the guys. You know,

718
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: he works out, he brings the intensity each day and

719
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: then he's smart. You know, he's been in different offenses. Um,

720
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: you know he's getting the chance to be the head

721
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: O line coach. Now. He was with a great group

722
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: in India last year and he's picked up some some

723
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: nuances from different guys. Now it's tied to put it

724
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: all together, and I'm excited about his opportunity here. Well,

725
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 1: the lynchpin right from the get go free agency when

726
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 1: they signed Mitch Moore's I mean, you're gonna they're gonna

727
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 1: plug him in. And obviously he's smart, articulate, and he's

728
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: one of those guys that that is a quality center.

729
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 1: How long would it take him if he steps in

730
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: and he is that lead dog kind of voice in

731
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 1: the room for these other guys to shuffle out? I

732
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 1: mean obviously if particularly since he's not in there and

733
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: he's not going to practice in these OTAs, I mean,

734
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: how you know what I mean? How far back does

735
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 1: that set them in their development? Have one guy out

736
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:50,479
Speaker 1: of that guy? Hopefully not a lot because hopefully us

737
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: he's garnishing enough respect in the room just being you

738
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: know the type. Yeah, the fact of the matter is

739
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 1: he's played at extremely high level. He's regarded as maybe

740
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: the top center the game. Right now, he is the

741
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,800
Speaker 1: top paid in his position in the NFL. You know

742
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,919
Speaker 1: that guy is going to get respect in the room.

743
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: And just because you miss the OTA practices in shorts,

744
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,359
Speaker 1: especially the no lineman, isn't the end of the world. Yes,

745
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: you want every rep and you want to be out there.

746
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: It's not the end of the world. But get right

747
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 1: for training camp because now it's you know, at that

748
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,399
Speaker 1: point when the pads come on, you start playing real

749
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 1: ball upfront. Man, you got to jell as a group.

750
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: Eric offensive question in general, what are the realistic expectations

751
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 1: for Josh Allen this season? Second season? You know, I

752
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 1: see a lot of these polls on Twitter, how many

753
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: yards and whatnot. Man, I'd like to see him win

754
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: ten games, you know, I think, you know, that's why

755
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 1: I'm worried about wins and losses. You know, I have

756
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 1: high expectations for Josh because I thought when he came

757
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 1: back from the injury last year, even though the passing yards,

758
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 1: even though they weren't three hundred yard games. Some of

759
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: the throws he would make on third down, you know,

760
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 1: just just a nice whole shot to a in a

761
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 1: zone for a first down, you know, stand in the

762
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: pocket a little bit longer. Going through his progressions, I

763
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,320
Speaker 1: just saw little things that if he can just you know,

764
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 1: he's got all the arm town in the world. He's fast,

765
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,719
Speaker 1: he's he's way more athletic than anyone ever thought. He

766
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: was doing the things with his legs on the field.

767
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 1: But man, if he can just continue to develop, I

768
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: think he could have a really strong year. But if

769
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: but if they're all and guys up front. They got

770
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,439
Speaker 1: Frank Gore and they got Shady. It's more about wins

771
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: and losses in this league. And we've talked about this

772
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:26,400
Speaker 1: a lot. Murph and I sit here every day and

773
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: hash this and chew this up. And so we've brought

774
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: this up at a zillion times. Listeners are gonna have

775
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 1: to bear with us. I wandn't get your take on it.

776
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,479
Speaker 1: Last year. I don't know how much of the Bills

777
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 1: you saw, whether you saw every game or just some

778
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:39,280
Speaker 1: of them. In this when he came back after the injuries,

779
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 1: you said there was tangible things you saw a week

780
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:45,439
Speaker 1: after week that were different. Better, he threw the ball away,

781
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: he slid, he ran out of bounds. And then even

782
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: in week seventeen he completed sixty five percent of his

783
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: passes and took the easy completions. There were tangible steps.

784
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: It seemed like from a cat, even the casual observer,

785
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: that he got better. Did you see that? And can

786
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: that continue? Yeah? Yeah, I believe so. And it continues

787
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 1: to get better when you add offensive line pieces up front.

788
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 1: So you got to assume the offensive line play would

789
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: better upfront. It's your two on an offense for everybody,

790
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 1: so everybody's going to be more come from this offense.

791
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: And you had some weapons outside. You had Croft that

792
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: tight end, and now let's really see what he can

793
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: do when he's got Cole Beasley, you know, one of

794
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,919
Speaker 1: the premier slot receivers in the game, especially for third

795
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:34,879
Speaker 1: down conversions. Second year with Robert Foster, Zay Jones, John

796
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: Brown stretching the field. When you add all these pieces,

797
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 1: you know, I know, personally, I'm looking for there to

798
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 1: be a jump. Now. I don't want to predict a

799
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 1: stat total for him because for me, especially in Western

800
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 1: New York. That's all relative. You know, sixty five percent

801
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: of passes in week seventeen, you know in Miami is

802
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 1: different than Buffalo, New York. Sure, right, well, Eric, you

803
00:37:58,560 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 1: and I got a lot of work to do between

804
00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: now and the season kickoff. We got some more We'll

805
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: do some practice games. We're gonna get you down on

806
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: that porcas play because we're gonna get you read a

807
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 1: little bit better on the perfect But it's really great.

808
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 1: I look forward to working with it. It's gonna be

809
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a nice fun time. Basically, he's saying

810
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 1: he's giving an excuse to have a few pops with Murph. Yeah. Yeah,

811
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: he can talk a big game about preparation and stuff,

812
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 1: but we have work to do. This is not CBS. Yeah,

813
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 1: and this is this is this is off campus prep.

814
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 1: This is uh, this is like work at backer. Emilio

815
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 1: to Apollos is like, honey, we're working. I'm working hard here. Seriously,

816
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: I'm really excited. Congratulations and look forward to spending a

817
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: lot of time with you next everal months. Likewise, man,

818
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 1: you always were incredible to me throughout my career, and

819
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to my next career. Yeah, you know,

820
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,320
Speaker 1: working in step with you. Eric Wood coming on with

821
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:49,319
Speaker 1: the Bills media content team. He's gonna be the color

822
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 1: analyst on the radio side when we do Bills play

823
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 1: by play on Sundays on INTERCIM Radio on w GR Radio.

824
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 1: We'll coming back with more, Stephen, I got a lot

825
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 1: to do today, Steve feels like we're overbooked. We'll find out.

826
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio.

827
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: Right now, One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive. John

828
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 1: Murphy with Steve Tasker. Thanks again to Eric Wood. Really

829
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:26,399
Speaker 1: excited about having him as part of the broadcast. That's

830
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,439
Speaker 1: gotta and I get Kelso is a good friend of ours,

831
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 1: has been and and just like me, I mean both

832
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 1: of them. I mean, I'm moving on in my broadcast

833
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:35,359
Speaker 1: career and some of like and some of the things

834
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,919
Speaker 1: that I was doing. And Kelso is too, he's busy

835
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 1: with his NASCAR stuff. Um, but it's a big change

836
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,240
Speaker 1: for you, right, You got a different guy, different chemistry,

837
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 1: different feel in the booth. Different because I've been with

838
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 1: different play by play guys as well over the course

839
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: of my career. And uh, it's different in your prep,

840
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: it's different in your you're the way you feel about

841
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: setting the guy up and the way the conversations you're you.

842
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: You know I was teasing you, but you really do

843
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: have a lot of work to do. You gotta start

844
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 1: having a few pops getting casual here you guys. I

845
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 1: don't think you guys are close enough fringe. Yet here's

846
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 1: the thing. And by the way, there were not a

847
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:14,919
Speaker 1: lot of pops with Mark Kelso, as you can imagine. Yeah,

848
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:20,399
Speaker 1: here's with whether it's Kelso or van peld or Eric. Now,

849
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 1: you want to play to their strengths, right, you know this.

850
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 1: You want to find out what he's comfortable with. I mean,

851
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: we have a sense now what he's comfortable with. We've

852
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:29,279
Speaker 1: known him for I've known him since he showed up

853
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 1: here as a as a draft pick right in two

854
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 1: thousand and nine, so I've known him for ten years.

855
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,319
Speaker 1: But you gotta you gotta play to their strengths, find

856
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 1: out what he's comfortable talking. And I agree with you

857
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: completely and it's best. And I don't I don't know

858
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: if people think about this or not. I know I

859
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: used to never think about it, but now I do.

860
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: It plays But like you and I have this show,

861
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: we go three hours a day, and I've actually had

862
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:48,399
Speaker 1: people going to how does Stephen Murph really get along?

863
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 1: I've had people. Yeah, we're good. We've been friends for

864
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: thirty years. I mean I and see, here's the thing.

865
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: We can argue and whatever and disagree, but we're you know,

866
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: we're still buddies. I mean still were still going out

867
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: for pop after work on Friday's right, I mean, so

868
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:08,439
Speaker 1: a couple of pops. Um. But that it works best

869
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 1: when you really are good friends with it. We're not

870
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: just guy co works where you show up on a

871
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,839
Speaker 1: weekend and you you land in the booth and it's

872
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:16,879
Speaker 1: the first time you see each other for seven days

873
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: or whatever. You really do got to spend some time

874
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,279
Speaker 1: together and become friends, because then you feel you can

875
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 1: share in the booth, you can share airtime, you can

876
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 1: share ideas, and you can you can lay out and

877
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 1: know that the guy's going to give it back to you. Right, Yep,

878
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 1: you're great. Yeah, you got you gotta get there with him.

879
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 1: I will never He'll never be me pal. Just remember

880
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 1: that I never replaced. But there is a generational difference

881
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 1: obviously in you and Eric. Yeah, I will be well

882
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:43,839
Speaker 1: aware of We got a busy show today. So Chris

883
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 1: Brown joined this early right from the OTA. They're on

884
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 1: the field now, Eric would We got Robert Mays coming up.

885
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 1: He canceled on us yesterday and we'll see how his

886
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,319
Speaker 1: voice is. Apparently and went to a concert. I can

887
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 1: ask him Sunday. Yeah, who do you see? Yeah? Why?

888
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 1: How did you lose your voice? Question number one? Were

889
00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 1: you singing along? Robert Mays writes for The Ringer, He's

890
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 1: got some really interesting stuff. Hope to hear from Josh

891
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:05,240
Speaker 1: Allen coming off the field at one thirty. Chris Berman,

892
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: perhaps you've heard of him, going to join this at two,

893
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 1: and Jerry Hughes on the news that apparently he's reached

894
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 1: a contract extension with the Buffalo Bills. We expect to

895
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,239
Speaker 1: pick up some of his news conference coming up as well.

896
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 1: The Bills still on the field for the OTA day

897
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 1: two of the OTAs with a number of injuries. Sean

898
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 1: McDermott at an eleven thirty am news conference today kind

899
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,359
Speaker 1: of outline what the Bills are looking at as far

900
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: as Injuri's going into day two of the OTAs. Here

901
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 1: he is, that's the that's a challenge. And then when

902
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 1: you talk about Um, you know availability. Now, when we're

903
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: not available, it's not ideal. Is it going to stop us? No,

904
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 1: We're going to continue to work. And that's where um,

905
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 1: the trust that I have Brandon and myself and our

906
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 1: medical staff, um, that's what they're here for as well. Value.

907
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:52,800
Speaker 1: I mean, what you would do on the field in

908
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 1: terms of wanting to get through healthy left, maybe scale

909
00:42:56,480 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 1: back or I mean you all, we always evaluate and

910
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:03,760
Speaker 1: you hate to see guys get hurt. In some cases

911
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 1: of these guys haven't been on the field. And so

912
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 1: and that's where free agency is free agency, as they say,

913
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: and so M we've just got to continue to work

914
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 1: and build a mentally and physically tough football team. And

915
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 1: sometimes you're gonna get some things. Um, don't get me wrong.

916
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: That's a that's a part of it as well. So

917
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:25,439
Speaker 1: I'd rather, I'd much rather develop a physically and metally

918
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: tough football team than you know, Hey, we go play

919
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 1: golf every day and where everyone's healthy. I mean, there's

920
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 1: a there's a delicate balance there. Here you go, uh,

921
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 1: Sean mcderver. So here's the injury list and it is extensive,

922
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: and yes it's only OTAs the most serious one the

923
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 1: one that I guess caught me by surprise. I had

924
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: heard about some of the others. But Tyler Croft broke

925
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: his foot in practice yesterday the first OTAs during the

926
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 1: opening to botas Um. Sean McDermot made the announcement today

927
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,759
Speaker 1: saying there's no time table for a cross returned their

928
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 1: speculation that it could be a couple of months. We'll

929
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: wait and see. Tyler Croft happened yesterday. Broken Cole Beasley,

930
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 1: Mitch Moore's core muscle injuries with grinds not participating today,

931
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: maybe a while before they get ready to go. Frank

932
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,799
Speaker 1: Gore foot and ankle injury suffered last season, keeping him

933
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 1: on the sidelines. Rookie wide receiver David Sales with a

934
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: hamstring suffered in rookie camp. He's sidelined today. Jeff Bodine

935
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:20,359
Speaker 1: offensive lineman still with his shoulder, Terren Johnson, Raphael Bush

936
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: coming off injuries from last year. Taron Johnson and the

937
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: Nicol corner. They have no contact Jersey's on. They take

938
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 1: part in some of them in some of the workouts,

939
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: but no contact Jersey. I'm not suicidal about it, see,

940
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 1: but yeah, I wish look, I want to see the

941
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: new guys. I want to see the new guys practice

942
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 1: this week in OTAs. We don't get a chance to

943
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 1: see him. Now, Yeah, he's right, it does. But listen,

944
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 1: if you're gonna have injuries, now's the time, ye, right,

945
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:48,359
Speaker 1: So most of these guys are probably going to hit

946
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 1: the ground running, maybe before even the end of OTAs,

947
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:53,320
Speaker 1: and certainly by the beginning of training camp. They'll be

948
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: back in the saddle and it'll be you know, they'll

949
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 1: have you know, it'll be nothing but a bump. Like

950
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 1: I said, I'm bumping a rose. So but it does

951
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 1: kind of um slow down the development of the lineups

952
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 1: and where they're gonna line up, who's gonna line up,

953
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: And like we talked to Eric Wood just a minute ago,

954
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:13,279
Speaker 1: they you know, a couple of guys, I mean, like

955
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 1: you know, like Dion Dawkins and Mitch Morse are probably

956
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:19,439
Speaker 1: plugged in at their respective positions left tackle and center.

957
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 1: After that, I really think all those names are really

958
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 1: in a hat, don't you murf? Offensive line? Yeah? Yeah,

959
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:29,439
Speaker 1: I was wanting to get some sort of indication which

960
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 1: way it was going, and I thought it was significant

961
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 1: what Eric said. Eric Wood said, you would think by

962
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 1: the end of Mini camp, which is not that far away,

963
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 1: a month away. Yeah, I thought that was really fair.

964
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 1: The end of mini camp, you would think they have

965
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 1: guys plugged into where they're gonna be. I hope he's right.

966
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 1: I need I need to get an idea that I do.

967
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 1: Need it to do it for my sat Yeah, do

968
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:48,839
Speaker 1: it for my seat. Um so yeah, Hey, we got

969
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 1: a Twitter pull today. No voting on it, but we

970
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:52,719
Speaker 1: want to hear from me and we will have time

971
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: as the show moves along, even though we are a

972
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 1: bit overbooked. We want to know from you which Bill's

973
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 1: player will lead the team in receptions this year and why.

974
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: You've got some people to choose from here. My choice

975
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 1: would be Cole Beasley, and I assume he's going to

976
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,879
Speaker 1: be healthy sooner or later. But there are other people

977
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 1: to choose from, right, I mean, there's a lot of

978
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: guys you can choose from John Brown, Zay Jones, who

979
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 1: led the team last year, and receive me. You know,

980
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 1: Lashawan McCoy maybe one of the tight ends. That's our

981
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 1: Twitter pole question, who will lead the team in receptions

982
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 1: this year? And why so listen? I don't know who

983
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 1: listens to the show. We have a lot of people.

984
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:30,319
Speaker 1: We go out places and but for pops right right,

985
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 1: and for breakfast, And I left this the one Bill's

986
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 1: live Twitter thing for like twenty minute. We got like

987
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:40,320
Speaker 1: two hundred and something note of everybody chiming in on this.

988
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: I mean, you leave this thing for a minute. I

989
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: don't know how many gazillion people listen to this show,

990
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: but it seems like a lot when they when they

991
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: start getting feedback from all these people, everybody has an

992
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 1: idea about how this team is going to be. And

993
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 1: I think it's because of the optimism expressed not only

994
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 1: by us, but by guys like Eric Wood and and

995
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:01,280
Speaker 1: every other end Now of late and even the national

996
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:03,319
Speaker 1: media people are starting to going on and as they

997
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 1: start to get ready for the season, they're starting to

998
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 1: dive a little deeper into Buffalo than they have in

999
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:10,239
Speaker 1: this offseason, and they're starting to say, ohoh wow, I

1000
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:12,440
Speaker 1: didn't realize this and this and this and this it happened.

1001
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 1: So people are chiming down on our Twitter poll in

1002
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:19,240
Speaker 1: a big, big way. Now they think, you know, Melon

1003
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: Halls thinks Zay Jones should be the most motivated receiver

1004
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 1: on the team. Brown and Beasley threatening his paying time.

1005
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:27,359
Speaker 1: He'll be looking to improve statistically again this year as

1006
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 1: he nears his second contract. He's shown he can stay

1007
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 1: alive and find space when Alan's running around. There's a

1008
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 1: lot to be said for that, and he always talk

1009
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:38,800
Speaker 1: about we had Eric Wood just now said, it's the

1010
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 1: old lines. It's that chemistry thing and the communication. It

1011
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: is exactly the exact same thing when you're talking about

1012
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 1: a quarterback and his receivers. The receivers it's their job

1013
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:55,839
Speaker 1: to think like their quarterback thinks, to do what their

1014
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 1: quarterback wants them to do without ever having a conversation

1015
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 1: about what he's thinking. You got to anticipate what he's thinking.

1016
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 1: One of the things that happened to me in my

1017
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:06,799
Speaker 1: career is late in my career there was a train

1018
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:08,880
Speaker 1: wreck and like sixteen guys got hurt and I got

1019
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 1: plugged in at wide receiver and I played for a

1020
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 1: couple of games and Jim liked throwing me the football,

1021
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 1: And I don't know how to explain it. It was

1022
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 1: because I knew what he was thinking. I'd been watching

1023
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 1: him for so long throw to really good players that

1024
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 1: when I got in there, I did what I knew

1025
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 1: he wanted. His players to do. So I acted like

1026
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 1: that and he threw me the ball all the time

1027
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: because when he thought something, I had already thought of

1028
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 1: it and was there. So that kind of chemistry is

1029
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: exactly what Josh Allen has to get with these other guys,

1030
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 1: and they're brand new. How long that takes, I don't know,

1031
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 1: but all of these guys have way more ability than

1032
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,759
Speaker 1: I did, so hopefully it'll go fast. They're working on

1033
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 1: it now. OTA's day two. Hey, we got a lot

1034
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:52,960
Speaker 1: more to talk about us as show moves along. Chris

1035
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 1: Berman joins us at too. We'll talk with Robert Mays

1036
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 1: of The Ringer about a variety of pro football topics.

1037
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 1: He's a deep thinker and he's given some thought that

1038
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 1: things like the role of defensive ends in the future

1039
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 1: and other stuff. It's pretty good. We'll talk with Robert Mats.

1040
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:07,879
Speaker 1: Come on back. One goes live from One Bills Drive.

1041
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:22,319
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio, Bills Radio Network Stories. Dage

1042
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:25,239
Speaker 1: update comes from One Bill's Drive. Today a busy day here,

1043
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: day two of organized team activity. Bills announced that tight

1044
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: end Tyler Croft just signed as an unrestricted free agent.

1045
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: A couple of months ago, broke his foot yesterday in

1046
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 1: the opening to the team's Organized team Activity. One report,

1047
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:38,840
Speaker 1: according to Ian Rappaport, says the time frame for recovery

1048
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:41,280
Speaker 1: is three to four months. The Bills made no announcement

1049
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: on what the timetable is for his recovery. It's the

1050
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:46,320
Speaker 1: same foot that Croft broke last season when he was

1051
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 1: with the Cincinnati Bengals and kept him out for eleven games.

1052
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 1: More injuries for the Bills. Cole Beasley and center Mitch

1053
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 1: Morris also are not participating in OTAs. They underwent core

1054
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:57,400
Speaker 1: muscle surgeries a few weeks ago and are not cleared

1055
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: to participate. Bills on the field right now for day

1056
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 1: two of the OTAs. Bill's no confirmation yet, but they're

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Speaker 1: expected to announce later this afternoon. The defensive end Jerry

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Speaker 1: Hughes is signing a two year extension worth up to

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Speaker 1: twenty three million dollars nineteen and a half guaranteed. Used

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00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:15,320
Speaker 1: turns thirty one years old in August. He's been the

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00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 1: bills most productive and reliable pass rusher over the last

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Speaker 1: six seasons that he's been here in Buffalo. We made

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00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:24,359
Speaker 1: the announcement last hour. Eric Wood, longtime Bill center, nine

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Speaker 1: year veteran former Bill's first round draft pick is going

1065
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 1: to serve as the radio color commentator on the Bills

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Speaker 1: Radio Network this season as part of the Bills media

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Speaker 1: content team, Eric Wood. It's going to broadcast Bill's football

1068
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Speaker 1: with US Tampa Bay Buccaneers, moving on from Gerald McCoy.

1069
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:40,719
Speaker 1: They released him yesterday after nine seasons with the club.

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Speaker 1: Julian Edelman finalizing a contract extension with the New England

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Speaker 1: Patriots is He was set to enter the final year

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Speaker 1: of his deal that paid him a base salary of

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00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 1: two million dollars. Ruben Foster of the Redskins suffered a

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00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:55,719
Speaker 1: tour and left ACL and he had additional damage. The

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00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 1: injury considered major and significant. He will see specialists to

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Speaker 1: determine the full extent of the injury. Stanley Cup Playoffs Tonight,

1077
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,279
Speaker 1: the Saint Louis Blues up three games to two over

1078
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:08,239
Speaker 1: San Jose in the Western Conference Finals. They get a

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Speaker 1: chance to finish it off at home Tonight. It is

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00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 1: Game six of the Western Conference Finals, eight o'clock faceoff

1081
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 1: in Saint Louis. The winner gets the Bruins. NBA Playoffs.

1082
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,760
Speaker 1: Milwaukee and Toronto Tonight play Game four of the Eastern

1083
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 1: Conference NBA series. That's the update. I don't even have

1084
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 1: enough time to get through all of this stuff. See

1085
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 1: if there's so much going on here, there is a

1086
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 1: busy day. There's your tweet sheet that will never read.

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Speaker 1: We have a special guest on the line with us

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Speaker 1: right now. He is a close observer of the NFL.

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00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:36,920
Speaker 1: Let's I said A deep thinker. Staff writer for The

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00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 1: Ringer contributed to The Ringer NFL Show podcast. Former Grantland

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00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:43,359
Speaker 1: writer happy to have Robert Mays on the line with us. Hi, Robert,

1092
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker in Buffalo, thank you for

1093
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:47,880
Speaker 1: joining us. Good to be back, guys, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Number one question of the day a how is your

1095
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:53,799
Speaker 1: voice today? And be what concert were you at where

1096
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:55,359
Speaker 1: you lost your voice? You couldn't come on the show.

1097
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 1: Yesterday I was seeing a band called Spanish Love Songs

1098
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 1: like just USA punk band from California, but of God's

1099
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 1: really enjoy and it was bad yesterday. Well you're singing

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00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 1: along or yelling or yeah, well you're singing along? Ye

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00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 1: what you're doing? Oh? Yeah, absolutely, yes, that was the problem.

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Speaker 1: You say they're a punk band, yes, hmm. Interesting, I

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00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: don't know. Steve approves right, No, thank you for joining us.

1104
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 1: We're just teasing you. I'm glad you you've pulled the plug,

1105
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:23,360
Speaker 1: and I'm glad you're able to come back with us

1106
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:25,319
Speaker 1: here today. There's a lot going on here in one

1107
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 1: Bill's drive. But as I said, you have taken an

1108
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:30,360
Speaker 1: interesting approach to a lot of different NFL issues, and

1109
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:32,840
Speaker 1: one that kind of resonates here in Buffalo today. With

1110
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: a bill signing Jerry Hughes to a contract extension. You

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00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 1: have basically put forth a theory that edge rushers in

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00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:42,320
Speaker 1: the NFL defensive ends for the most part, maybe some linebackers.

1113
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:45,720
Speaker 1: Edge rushers have become what of less value to teams,

1114
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 1: and the contracts are starting to show that. Is that right?

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00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 1: Not necessarily, I don't think that. I think you're seeing

1116
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:55,240
Speaker 1: you're still seeing teams hand out big contracts to those guys,

1117
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:59,400
Speaker 1: because I don't think the decision making has necessarily kind

1118
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 1: of kept with what might be real about that position,

1119
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 1: how it's being valued. And I think that for the

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Speaker 1: most part, there are still guys that can dominate the

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00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 1: games from those spots, mean Khalil Mack, guys of that nature.

1122
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:13,800
Speaker 1: But I think that when you're seeing teams like the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: who obviously I mean the Monica success for a long

1124
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 1: time in the NFL not pay those guys. They believe

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Speaker 1: in their ability to have interchangeable rushers, to create it

1126
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 1: with stunts, with different games, things like that. I just

1127
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:30,880
Speaker 1: think that I wouldn't be surprised to see more teams

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Speaker 1: go that route. And we're also seeing really smart at

1129
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:36,960
Speaker 1: people when it comes to the analytics and the stats

1130
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 1: involved kind of come up with the idea and the

1131
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:42,360
Speaker 1: notion that the guys in the back end of the defense,

1132
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:46,319
Speaker 1: your secondary guys, your cover guys, are more impactful than

1133
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:49,879
Speaker 1: any defensive front player you can have. And I think

1134
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 1: that makes sense because you look at a guy like

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00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 1: Byron Jones or guy like Stefan Gilmour last year. I mean,

1136
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,840
Speaker 1: these guys are playing almost eleven hundred snaps. They're on

1137
00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:00,759
Speaker 1: the field every single play for the most part. With

1138
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,000
Speaker 1: your edge guys and just your front flour in general,

1139
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 1: those guys are rotating out. You don't want those guys

1140
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: to play more than probably sixty five percent of the

1141
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 1: snaps total. I think that's a number of that really

1142
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:12,360
Speaker 1: smart teams shoot for so may if you look at

1143
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:15,240
Speaker 1: a lot of different reasons. People will may be smarter

1144
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:17,480
Speaker 1: to value the back end than the front four, but

1145
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 1: you still need to pass rashes. It depends on how

1146
00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:21,400
Speaker 1: you're going to get it. Well. Yeah, it's interesting too

1147
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 1: because you think about the last two World Championships that

1148
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots won. Now they were in the

1149
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:28,920
Speaker 1: game a couple of times as well, didn't win it,

1150
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:32,360
Speaker 1: but they had Durrell Reeves when they won a championship,

1151
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 1: and then they had Steph Gilmore this last year when

1152
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:38,600
Speaker 1: they won the championship. Both those guys really as highly

1153
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:41,680
Speaker 1: rated at cornerback as you can get, and it's interesting

1154
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:46,399
Speaker 1: that their World championships kind of mirror that. Yep, sorry

1155
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 1: I watched you for a second, but yeah, that's and

1156
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:50,319
Speaker 1: I think that that's exactly right because if you look

1157
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:52,759
Speaker 1: at what the Patriots do, the only money they've ever

1158
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 1: really handed out big money in free agency is the cornerbacks.

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00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:59,879
Speaker 1: It's the only position they've gone outside of their bill

1160
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:03,680
Speaker 1: thing to hand huge contracts because they think that those

1161
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:06,640
Speaker 1: positions matter more and it's hard to find a great

1162
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 1: guy at that position and development. So again, I think

1163
00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 1: that it's not the worst idea in the world or

1164
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:14,360
Speaker 1: the worst plan in the world to look at the

1165
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:16,240
Speaker 1: team that has the most success and trying to emulate

1166
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Speaker 1: what they're doing. That being said, you look at a

1167
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:21,400
Speaker 1: team like Philadelphia a couple of years ago. They had

1168
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:24,280
Speaker 1: the second highest percentage of cap spending on their defensive

1169
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:26,160
Speaker 1: line of any team in the league that year, and

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Speaker 1: they won the Super Bowl in large part because of it.

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Speaker 1: So I think there are different ways to do this.

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00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:32,719
Speaker 1: I just think that teams should start being a little

1173
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:34,759
Speaker 1: bit more critical and they're thinking about how to do

1174
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:37,359
Speaker 1: it well. One of the things that teams really want

1175
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:39,360
Speaker 1: to do is they want to find a quarterback and

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00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:41,640
Speaker 1: then build around him. And you have an interesting article

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Speaker 1: about you know, these quarterbacks. The numbers is getting up

1178
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 1: to about thirty million bucks a year, right, How are

1179
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:48,440
Speaker 1: these teams going to build a roster? You say they are,

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00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:50,000
Speaker 1: they're going to play a quarterback, They're gonna pay a

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00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:52,279
Speaker 1: quarterback on the other side of the field. How do

1182
00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 1: they build a roster around a thirty million dollar quarterback.

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Speaker 1: I think it's difficult. I think there's a couple different

1184
00:55:57,719 --> 00:55:59,439
Speaker 1: ways to do it. You know, you have a team

1185
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 1: like Dallas who's really trying to do this on the

1186
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:04,880
Speaker 1: fly and they're trying to say, we have all this

1187
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 1: young talent, we have all these players we like that

1188
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:09,919
Speaker 1: are homegrown guys. Can we try to resign a bunch

1189
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 1: of them and maintain the integrity of our roster? And

1190
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:14,800
Speaker 1: after we paid Dak Prescott, and then you have a

1191
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:18,719
Speaker 1: team like Seattle who essentially said, you know what, we're

1192
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 1: not going to worry about it. Well, we're going to say,

1193
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 1: now that we're paying Russell Wilson, we're paying him, let's

1194
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:26,359
Speaker 1: try to find as many cheaper, low cost assets as

1195
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:29,520
Speaker 1: we can. And they came into draft with less picks

1196
00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:31,399
Speaker 1: than any other team in the league, and they made

1197
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:34,840
Speaker 1: so many trades down they added what amount to a

1198
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:37,879
Speaker 1: top ten pick in trade value. And that's what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: They're saying, what's still this team with young, cheap rookies

1200
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:43,239
Speaker 1: and try to build from there. And I think that

1201
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:46,680
Speaker 1: both ways make sense. But I think that it depends

1202
00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:49,319
Speaker 1: on your quarterback as well. And with Russell Wilson, he's

1203
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:51,360
Speaker 1: the type of guy that he can be the centerpiece

1204
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:53,240
Speaker 1: of who you are as a team and as a franchise.

1205
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:55,800
Speaker 1: With Dak Prescott, I don't think we've necessarily seen that

1206
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 1: so far. So you have to do everything you can

1207
00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:01,240
Speaker 1: to maintain an infrastructure or around him and a supporting

1208
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 1: cast around him that allows you to succeed. So I

1209
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:05,160
Speaker 1: think there are a lot of different factors that take

1210
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 1: into account, but I'm really interested in seeing how it's

1211
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 1: going to all kind of shake out here in the

1212
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:10,440
Speaker 1: next couple of years. Is more and more of these

1213
00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 1: quarterbacks get these deals, Yeah, Ryan, we're interested in the

1214
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 1: kind of long range chancer because of Josh Allen here

1215
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:19,320
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Which way the Bills should do it? I

1216
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 1: guess I read your post about, you know, the thirty

1217
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 1: million out a quarterback contract and how you build around

1218
00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:26,160
Speaker 1: that on the rest of your roster, and it sounds

1219
00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:28,200
Speaker 1: like that what the Cowboys are hedging their bets, and

1220
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 1: the and the Seahawks are all in then and Russell Wilson, right,

1221
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:33,160
Speaker 1: they think he is their guy and they're gonna accommodate

1222
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:35,440
Speaker 1: him for their roster and go cheat the rest of

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00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:38,440
Speaker 1: the way. I think that that's yeah, that's about right.

1224
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 1: And you know, it helps when you're at a certain

1225
00:57:41,040 --> 00:57:43,880
Speaker 1: point under your franchise trajectory, right, the players that were

1226
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 1: on your team, you know, Earl Thomas is on the

1227
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:48,440
Speaker 1: wrong side of thirty Dunkball when just retired Camp Chancer

1228
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 1: just retired Frank Clarkers were the only move that Seahawks

1229
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:54,480
Speaker 1: made was surprising or it's like, oh man, this is

1230
00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:56,520
Speaker 1: a young guy about to hit free agency and you're

1231
00:57:56,520 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 1: going to just trade him. So I think that that's

1232
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 1: the one where you really gained some insight into their

1233
00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:03,760
Speaker 1: sinking the Cowboys. I don't think they're gonna let as

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00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 1: many of these guys go, even if you know it

1235
00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 1: seems like it's gonna be tough to sign them all.

1236
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 1: I think they're going to sign as many as they can.

1237
00:58:09,680 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 1: It's not one of those things where you're thinking we

1238
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:14,520
Speaker 1: won't overpay, well, we'll pay what we need to maintain

1239
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:17,520
Speaker 1: our roster. The way to currently exist and probably for

1240
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:19,760
Speaker 1: the Bills with Alan going into a second year too

1241
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:21,800
Speaker 1: soon for them to make up their mind on this topic.

1242
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 1: Is that what your read is you think? I think so.

1243
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:25,840
Speaker 1: But I think that what the Bills have done is

1244
00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:29,520
Speaker 1: something really smart. You know, teams that have a cheap quarterback,

1245
00:58:30,080 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 1: the things that you should do is build around that

1246
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 1: guy and spend the money while you have it. And

1247
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:36,760
Speaker 1: you know, I've told you guys, when free agency was happening.

1248
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:38,920
Speaker 1: I thought the Bills that are really good jobs. I mean,

1249
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 1: it's it's really difficult to be active in free agency

1250
00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:45,280
Speaker 1: but not be reckless in free agency. And that's what

1251
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:47,720
Speaker 1: the Bills did. And most of these teams that are

1252
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 1: handing out several contracts and several pretty sizeable contracts are

1253
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:57,080
Speaker 1: doing so at the expense of pregnancy and safety. I mean,

1254
00:58:57,120 --> 00:58:59,400
Speaker 1: they're handing out these deals that could be problematic later

1255
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 1: on and didn't hand out any of those. I mean,

1256
00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 1: the contracts they handed out all leaves them in a

1257
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 1: pretty good spot. So I think they're really spliting the

1258
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 1: difference in doing what you should do when your quarterback

1259
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 1: is making single digit millions and given her and one more.

1260
00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:15,800
Speaker 1: And I have to credit you as I read this

1261
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:17,720
Speaker 1: post that you put up on the ring are about

1262
00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:20,800
Speaker 1: the thirty million out of quarterback, it kind of reinformed

1263
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 1: me that the best general managers are thinking. It's like chess,

1264
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 1: thinking several moves ahead, several years ahead. You can't just

1265
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:29,920
Speaker 1: do it, you know, in March, getting ready for free agency, right,

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Speaker 1: you have to think, what are we going to do

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Speaker 1: next year, maybe the year after that, maybe even three

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Speaker 1: years down the road. I think that's what a lot

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00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:37,960
Speaker 1: of most of the smartest teams in the NFL. When

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00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:39,280
Speaker 1: a lot of teams in the nfls do it, they'll

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00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 1: have a three year kind of salary spreadsheet. However you

1272
00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:44,920
Speaker 1: want to do it, it's a plan. I mean, I'm

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00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 1: sure they exists on a piece of paper somewhere. You're

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Speaker 1: talking to the Vikings, I remember they were discussing the

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00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:52,400
Speaker 1: quarterback that they gave to Kirk Cousins, and you know,

1276
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 1: it's a pretty sizable contract, but they had that money

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00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:57,960
Speaker 1: year marked three years earlier when they thought they were

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00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:00,560
Speaker 1: going to have to pay Teddy Bridgewater, So they knew

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Speaker 1: going into that offseason they were going to have to

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01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:04,880
Speaker 1: hand that amount of money to a quarterback. So it

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01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:07,920
Speaker 1: wasn't necessarily shocking that they were able to fit her

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Speaker 1: Cousins into their plan while still paying so many guys.

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01:00:11,600 --> 01:00:13,840
Speaker 1: It's difficult, but when you have a team that really

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01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 1: understands how the cap works, which the teams like the Eagles,

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01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:20,560
Speaker 1: it seems like the Vikings they really do that. This

1286
01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:22,960
Speaker 1: stuff is possible. It's just a little bit more difficult.

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Speaker 1: One of the things the Bills did was go out

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01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:26,760
Speaker 1: and sign a couple of really good free agents in

1289
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Speaker 1: John Brown and Cole Beasley, and Bills fans and other

1290
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:31,840
Speaker 1: teams have seen, well they don't have that number one

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01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:34,560
Speaker 1: alpha wide receiver, and then people are saying, well, maybe

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01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:37,760
Speaker 1: they can trade for a number one wide receiver. Are

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01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:40,640
Speaker 1: their names out there that they are in a contract

1294
01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:43,360
Speaker 1: situation or a spot in their career where a team

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01:00:43,560 --> 01:00:46,200
Speaker 1: may be amenable to getting rid of a top flight

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Speaker 1: like Cincinnati Bengals and AJ Green. That's somebody who kind

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01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:51,440
Speaker 1: of flutters to the top of the pile once in

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01:00:51,480 --> 01:00:53,400
Speaker 1: a while for Bills fans, what are those odds on that.

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Speaker 1: I think the odds are low. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: especially with AJ Green, even though I think the way

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Speaker 1: I've has done this, when it comes to who can

1302
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:04,920
Speaker 1: get traded, it's who's nearing the end of their contract

1303
01:01:05,080 --> 01:01:08,400
Speaker 1: and who is somebody that a different front office bet on.

1304
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:10,440
Speaker 1: You know, a guy that was drafted by a different

1305
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:13,000
Speaker 1: regime and then they maybe have a change. Those guys

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01:01:13,120 --> 01:01:15,480
Speaker 1: have been more available in the past than people who

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01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:18,200
Speaker 1: have front office really feels tied to with AJ Green,

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01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:21,560
Speaker 1: those factors are there. You have the front office is

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01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:23,040
Speaker 1: the same, but I mean, you have a guy in

1310
01:01:23,120 --> 01:01:26,240
Speaker 1: the final year of his contract. It's a new coaching staff,

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01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:29,080
Speaker 1: and in my opinion, I wouldn't be surprised to see

1312
01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:31,520
Speaker 1: that move on from any adults next season. I mean,

1313
01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:34,320
Speaker 1: he's a perfectly fine quarterback. But I think the teams

1314
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:36,280
Speaker 1: are realizing that if you're going to have somebody to

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01:01:36,520 --> 01:01:40,160
Speaker 1: not the truly elite, maybe go cheaper. So with all

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01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:42,520
Speaker 1: those things in mind, you think, yeah, maybe that they

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01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 1: trade aj Green for a one and a three, you know,

1318
01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:49,479
Speaker 1: something in that range, something in Odell Beckham price tag.

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01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:52,320
Speaker 1: But it seems like from everything I've heard of people there,

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01:01:52,640 --> 01:01:54,600
Speaker 1: they would be surprised if he were traded. They just

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01:01:54,640 --> 01:01:56,760
Speaker 1: think that he's kind of a lifer there. It's franchise

1322
01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:59,919
Speaker 1: loves him, the organization does the ownership, so that would

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01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:02,640
Speaker 1: surprise me. But again, that's the type of guy I think.

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01:02:02,680 --> 01:02:05,120
Speaker 1: You try to look for people that are nearing the

1325
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 1: end of a contract that are thirty years older, So

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Speaker 1: those are the guys that are sometimes available on the line.

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Speaker 1: With Robert Mays, he is a staff writer for The

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Speaker 1: Ringer Writes about the NFL, contributor to The Ringer NFL

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Speaker 1: Show podcast. Hey Robert, it is My impression is that

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01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:23,440
Speaker 1: there are more big name street free agents out there

1331
01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:25,720
Speaker 1: now than maybe there have been in several years. I

1332
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:29,000
Speaker 1: know we're approaching June here, and I'm thinking of guys

1333
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:31,360
Speaker 1: like in Dominican Sue right still without a team. What

1334
01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:33,560
Speaker 1: happens to these guys? Do they have to take cut

1335
01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:37,040
Speaker 1: rate deals now to find an NFL job? Okay, I'll

1336
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:38,560
Speaker 1: be curious to see what happens. And I think that

1337
01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:40,520
Speaker 1: now with Joel McCoy being in that pool as well,

1338
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:43,200
Speaker 1: there returns on to those guys and what they make

1339
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:46,360
Speaker 1: I think will be something worth looking at. But it

1340
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:48,640
Speaker 1: really just a matter of what they want, probably right.

1341
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:51,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure Dominican Sue has been getting called

1342
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Speaker 1: since March. It's a matter of what he's after. I mean,

1343
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:55,440
Speaker 1: last year, I think he was a one year, fourteen

1344
01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:57,600
Speaker 1: million dollars deal with the Rams. I don't think he'll

1345
01:02:57,640 --> 01:03:00,760
Speaker 1: get fourteen million dollars again. He was perfectly find the playoffs.

1346
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 1: Think that get a really a couple great moments late

1347
01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:05,080
Speaker 1: in the season, But I mean, he wasn't a fourteen

1348
01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:08,040
Speaker 1: million dollar player for a sixteen game season. So I'll

1349
01:03:08,040 --> 01:03:10,440
Speaker 1: be curious to see what happens. And when you think

1350
01:03:10,440 --> 01:03:12,720
Speaker 1: about landing spots for these guys. I think that's the

1351
01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:15,000
Speaker 1: most interesting part when you think about how much the

1352
01:03:15,080 --> 01:03:17,960
Speaker 1: cap has exploded, the financial flexibility that a lot of

1353
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:20,600
Speaker 1: these teams have. It's harder to find a list of

1354
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:23,920
Speaker 1: teams that wouldn't be necessarily in an Adminican sue at

1355
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:25,920
Speaker 1: the right place, and it would be to find the

1356
01:03:26,080 --> 01:03:28,320
Speaker 1: list of teams it would, you know, I mean pretty

1357
01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:31,439
Speaker 1: much everyone has at least ten million dollars in cap space.

1358
01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:33,720
Speaker 1: And if a Dominican who's going to make eight million

1359
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:36,120
Speaker 1: dollars for one season, I mean, you could really sit

1360
01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:38,080
Speaker 1: him in anywhere. And I think that's the biggest thing

1361
01:03:38,160 --> 01:03:40,760
Speaker 1: with free agency now is that these guys can land

1362
01:03:40,800 --> 01:03:42,880
Speaker 1: in any spot. It's no matter who's willing to go

1363
01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:44,800
Speaker 1: out and make it happen. One of the few things

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Speaker 1: that happened after the draft in these first few weeks

1365
01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:49,880
Speaker 1: is and it's hard to get a real handle on it,

1366
01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:52,320
Speaker 1: but what do you think that sometimes you get an

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01:03:52,360 --> 01:03:54,160
Speaker 1: idea of what a team is thinking and what their

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01:03:54,240 --> 01:03:58,600
Speaker 1: overall plan is, and something revealed about what their architects

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01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:01,080
Speaker 1: think about how they're building their team. It happens because

1370
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Speaker 1: the draft reveals it, is there any revelations around the

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01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:07,680
Speaker 1: National Football League that happened during this draft that made

1372
01:04:07,680 --> 01:04:09,400
Speaker 1: you go, oh, I see what this team is doing

1373
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:14,160
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Not necessarily things that were surprising.

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01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:17,040
Speaker 1: I just think that there were moves that were interesting.

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Speaker 1: You know. I think that what the Ravens did with

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01:04:20,280 --> 01:04:23,720
Speaker 1: their skill position players and just how much speed they

1377
01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:26,439
Speaker 1: wanted to add and how much It seems like they're

1378
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:28,880
Speaker 1: gonna try to do a lot of different stuff outside

1379
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:30,919
Speaker 1: of the middle of the field, where last year felt

1380
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Speaker 1: like the draft in these tight ends. Mark Andrews was

1381
01:04:33,680 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 1: a huge part of what they did. Hate hursleynac next year,

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01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:38,200
Speaker 1: that's what they want to do. It's gonna be play

1383
01:04:38,240 --> 01:04:40,920
Speaker 1: action the middle of the field, seem throws. But now

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01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:43,200
Speaker 1: that you bring in Mark's Brown, I mean, they got

1385
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:45,360
Speaker 1: so much speed, and I think they just really want

1386
01:04:45,400 --> 01:04:47,760
Speaker 1: to try to add with a vertical aspect of their

1387
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:50,160
Speaker 1: game and also use him on screens and things like that.

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01:04:50,680 --> 01:04:54,320
Speaker 1: San Francisco is similar. You know. Obviously they go out

1389
01:04:54,320 --> 01:04:56,560
Speaker 1: and got people say anyone that wasn't surprising at that

1390
01:04:56,600 --> 01:04:58,720
Speaker 1: point in the draft, but to get jail and heard

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01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:00,520
Speaker 1: where they did, I mean, it just it feels like

1392
01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:02,920
Speaker 1: they're trying to just add as many different sorts of

1393
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:06,200
Speaker 1: weapons as they can. So that's what's interesting to me.

1394
01:05:06,280 --> 01:05:08,440
Speaker 1: And you'd look at teams like San Francisco and you think,

1395
01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:11,480
Speaker 1: why wouldn't they really try to build up their secondary

1396
01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:14,480
Speaker 1: This seems so strange. But some teams just have a plan.

1397
01:05:14,560 --> 01:05:16,560
Speaker 1: They said, this is what we want to be and

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01:05:16,640 --> 01:05:18,400
Speaker 1: we'll figure the rest out later. And I think that

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01:05:18,600 --> 01:05:20,880
Speaker 1: that was revealed with a couple of different days. And Robert,

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Speaker 1: thanks for your time today. As I said earlier, I

1401
01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:25,640
Speaker 1: appreciate kind of your deep dive into some of these

1402
01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:28,320
Speaker 1: NFL issues. I consider you one of the NFL's best

1403
01:05:28,680 --> 01:05:31,040
Speaker 1: deep thinkers and thanks for letting us tap into some

1404
01:05:31,120 --> 01:05:33,320
Speaker 1: of that today. We appreciate it. I really appreciate that.

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01:05:33,480 --> 01:05:35,520
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Sure. Robert May, staff writer for

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01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:38,720
Speaker 1: The Ringer, contributed to The Ringer NFL Show podcast. Former

1407
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Speaker 1: Grantland writer joining us on the line. Interesting things to say,

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01:05:41,800 --> 01:05:45,880
Speaker 1: especially the defensive end thing, and especially you know, maybe

1409
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:49,280
Speaker 1: the devaluation of pass rush edge rush guys, and I

1410
01:05:49,360 --> 01:05:51,320
Speaker 1: think the bills are right. I've mentioned this a couple times.

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01:05:51,320 --> 01:05:53,360
Speaker 1: I won't mention it anymore after today. I think they're

1412
01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:55,479
Speaker 1: on the cusp of that, Steve maybe on the leading

1413
01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:57,880
Speaker 1: edge of that, especially with the addition of an Oliver

1414
01:05:58,040 --> 01:06:01,280
Speaker 1: rushing from the inside. They certainly seem to be riding

1415
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:03,240
Speaker 1: the right wave, you know what I'm saying. I mean,

1416
01:06:03,280 --> 01:06:04,960
Speaker 1: they don't seem to be like, now we're gonna go

1417
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:08,000
Speaker 1: out and we're gonna get you know whatever. It seems

1418
01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:11,360
Speaker 1: like they're They got a great crop of cornerbacks. They

1419
01:06:11,400 --> 01:06:13,320
Speaker 1: got Trey White, and they got a bunch of guys

1420
01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:15,560
Speaker 1: on the other side, a couple of really quality guys

1421
01:06:15,560 --> 01:06:18,720
Speaker 1: plus some nickel guys, and then they draft an interior

1422
01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:22,160
Speaker 1: defensive lineman that is perfect for the defense that they're running.

1423
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Speaker 1: They do seem to be forward thinking, and you're right

1424
01:06:25,240 --> 01:06:28,080
Speaker 1: you mentioned a chess matchup, trying to think a couple

1425
01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:30,680
Speaker 1: of moves ahead, a year ahead of, you know, having

1426
01:06:30,720 --> 01:06:33,600
Speaker 1: a plan down the road, and what the same thing

1427
01:06:33,720 --> 01:06:38,680
Speaker 1: Robert May said. They were really disciplined in free agency

1428
01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:41,960
Speaker 1: and in the draft. They stayed on their plan. They

1429
01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:45,440
Speaker 1: didn't say, you know that that one player out there,

1430
01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:48,200
Speaker 1: that Levion Bell or whoever else you want to be,

1431
01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:50,560
Speaker 1: you know that that player that Antonio Brown, although they

1432
01:06:50,560 --> 01:06:52,600
Speaker 1: didn't check it out. You know, the price was too

1433
01:06:52,680 --> 01:06:54,040
Speaker 1: high and maybe he didn't want to come here. All

1434
01:06:54,120 --> 01:06:55,960
Speaker 1: that stuff. They check all this stuff, but they stay

1435
01:06:56,600 --> 01:06:58,560
Speaker 1: in their lane. You know, they got a plan. They're

1436
01:06:58,560 --> 01:07:01,000
Speaker 1: sticking with it and it works, or at least it

1437
01:07:01,200 --> 01:07:04,520
Speaker 1: should work. And I think that's the one thing that

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01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:06,720
Speaker 1: I have. I see other teams and other teams and

1439
01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:10,200
Speaker 1: other cities have a hard time doing when something comes up.

1440
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 1: They just get too tempted to go ahead and spend

1441
01:07:12,840 --> 01:07:16,280
Speaker 1: the extra ten million bucks, right, and it never seems

1442
01:07:16,280 --> 01:07:19,080
Speaker 1: to work out for him. Hey, practice should be ending,

1443
01:07:19,200 --> 01:07:21,800
Speaker 1: Day two of the organized team activities should be ending,

1444
01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:24,240
Speaker 1: and after when it does end, we expect that we'll

1445
01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:26,880
Speaker 1: hear live from Bill's quarterback Josh Allen, maybe in the

1446
01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:28,560
Speaker 1: next couple of minutes or so, so come on back

1447
01:07:28,600 --> 01:07:30,440
Speaker 1: for that. We got Chris Burmer coming up at two

1448
01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:33,000
Speaker 1: as well. One Bill's Live presented by Kalata Health from

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01:07:33,040 --> 01:07:48,920
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. It's a

1450
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:51,120
Speaker 1: Tuesday edition of One Bill's Live. It's a busy day.

1451
01:07:51,120 --> 01:07:53,040
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from players coming off the field in

1452
01:07:53,120 --> 01:07:56,560
Speaker 1: a moment or two, including we believe Josh Allen, who

1453
01:07:56,600 --> 01:07:59,160
Speaker 1: will meet the media. Media's here today Ota is open

1454
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:03,160
Speaker 1: to the medium. Two o'clock. Our boy, Chris Burman, Our man,

1455
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:06,000
Speaker 1: Chris Burman. He's not a boy. Chris Burman, longtime ESPN

1456
01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:07,800
Speaker 1: guy who's coming to town in a couple of weeks

1457
01:08:08,120 --> 01:08:10,800
Speaker 1: for a special Chris Burman and the Twang Gang show

1458
01:08:11,160 --> 01:08:14,720
Speaker 1: at the Town Ballroom in downtown Buffalo. Chris, we'll talk

1459
01:08:14,720 --> 01:08:16,880
Speaker 1: about that. It's Monday, June third. It is the day

1460
01:08:16,920 --> 01:08:19,920
Speaker 1: of the Jim Kelly Golf Tournament. There's a lot going

1461
01:08:19,960 --> 01:08:22,040
Speaker 1: on in that event. You'll be at that event, right

1462
01:08:22,200 --> 01:08:24,920
Speaker 1: if we're Kelly Golf Tournament. Yeah, we're gonna do I'm

1463
01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:27,519
Speaker 1: gonna do some interviews over there for the show Kelly

1464
01:08:27,600 --> 01:08:29,400
Speaker 1: Golf Tournament. Yeah, yeah, you'll be here, I think with

1465
01:08:29,520 --> 01:08:31,240
Speaker 1: Brownie and I'm gonna be over there. I'll send you

1466
01:08:31,280 --> 01:08:34,080
Speaker 1: a couple of segments. Call it a day, and yeah,

1467
01:08:34,200 --> 01:08:36,639
Speaker 1: call it and go play golf. You know, I'll take

1468
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:39,559
Speaker 1: time out of my busy schedule. Chris Burman is going

1469
01:08:39,600 --> 01:08:41,000
Speaker 1: to join us in a minute or two. Bill still

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Speaker 1: on the field, a couple of practice periods remaining. How

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Speaker 1: do we know that? We saw DJ Milcoup provides a

1472
01:08:47,080 --> 01:08:50,280
Speaker 1: music for practice out in the hallway and he told us, Wow,

1473
01:08:50,400 --> 01:08:53,599
Speaker 1: you talked about how things have changed? Yeah? Right, would

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01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:55,639
Speaker 1: you have been distracted? I was thinking about the city.

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Speaker 1: We're out there watching the early part of the OTA,

1476
01:08:57,840 --> 01:09:01,840
Speaker 1: and the music was probably loud. It was pumping, and

1477
01:09:01,880 --> 01:09:03,519
Speaker 1: now they were trying to move to get away from it,

1478
01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:05,840
Speaker 1: because they sent him over to turn it down too,

1479
01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:07,640
Speaker 1: because when I came out, he was jogging over. He

1480
01:09:07,720 --> 01:09:09,200
Speaker 1: went right past me and he went over there and

1481
01:09:09,240 --> 01:09:11,600
Speaker 1: he turned it right down. It was pumping. Would you

1482
01:09:11,760 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 1: have enjoyed that? In practice? Music like that depends on

1483
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:18,920
Speaker 1: the soundtrack really. Oh yeah? And what would Marv have

1484
01:09:19,160 --> 01:09:21,720
Speaker 1: done with that? Do you think turned his hearing aid down?

1485
01:09:22,840 --> 01:09:28,080
Speaker 1: Probably right? Totly? Cow Sorry, Mark the record show, Well

1486
01:09:28,080 --> 01:09:30,360
Speaker 1: he's talking about I love Mark, he's my guy. But

1487
01:09:31,200 --> 01:09:35,160
Speaker 1: he it would have had if it if it would

1488
01:09:35,160 --> 01:09:36,639
Speaker 1: have helped us, or if it would have served a purpose,

1489
01:09:36,680 --> 01:09:37,960
Speaker 1: he would have been all about it. He wouldn't have

1490
01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:39,240
Speaker 1: cared and he would have done it. I mean, we

1491
01:09:39,360 --> 01:09:41,519
Speaker 1: had it was just the opposite for us. He has

1492
01:09:41,840 --> 01:09:44,880
Speaker 1: their research back then in the day, was that a

1493
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:47,599
Speaker 1: loud noise working and stuff and in a loud noise

1494
01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:51,000
Speaker 1: exhausting And he always wanted us to be fresh, so

1495
01:09:51,479 --> 01:09:53,600
Speaker 1: we would do just the opposite. Nobody was allowed to

1496
01:09:53,680 --> 01:09:56,439
Speaker 1: speak because if you got into a loud stadium, you

1497
01:09:56,439 --> 01:09:58,200
Speaker 1: couldn't hear each other anyway. Right, if we're gonna on

1498
01:09:58,320 --> 01:10:00,320
Speaker 1: the road, it was just the opposite. We go out

1499
01:10:00,360 --> 01:10:03,799
Speaker 1: to a completely and go silent for the entire practice,

1500
01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:08,599
Speaker 1: so you'd have to, you know, do hand signals instead

1501
01:10:08,640 --> 01:10:12,760
Speaker 1: of speak. Yeah, and uh, that's how we did it,

1502
01:10:13,200 --> 01:10:16,560
Speaker 1: and it was much We felt fresh. I guess theoretically

1503
01:10:17,080 --> 01:10:19,080
Speaker 1: you felt fresher coming off the field because you weren't

1504
01:10:19,080 --> 01:10:21,200
Speaker 1: having it. You know, you weren't going through these mental

1505
01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:23,880
Speaker 1: hoops of right, trying to try to trying to hear

1506
01:10:23,960 --> 01:10:27,040
Speaker 1: and you know, fight it. Um. It was just a

1507
01:10:27,080 --> 01:10:30,040
Speaker 1: different approach. Hey, the Bills are in OTA's expected to

1508
01:10:30,160 --> 01:10:32,360
Speaker 1: end soon. We want we got a well, we got

1509
01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:34,280
Speaker 1: a lot going on here. We got a Twitter poll up,

1510
01:10:34,320 --> 01:10:36,599
Speaker 1: and we have a time right now before the OTA

1511
01:10:36,720 --> 01:10:38,240
Speaker 1: ends to hear from you. If you have a thought

1512
01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:41,519
Speaker 1: eight three fifty toll free one eight eight eight five

1513
01:10:41,680 --> 01:10:44,680
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty, which player this year will lead

1514
01:10:44,720 --> 01:10:47,840
Speaker 1: the Bills in receptions? That's our Twitter poll. No names

1515
01:10:47,920 --> 01:10:49,519
Speaker 1: up there, nothing to vote on, but let us know

1516
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:51,800
Speaker 1: who will lead the player the Bills and receptions and

1517
01:10:51,920 --> 01:10:55,080
Speaker 1: why this year eight three five fifty toll free one

1518
01:10:55,240 --> 01:10:57,960
Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Back to

1519
01:10:58,080 --> 01:10:59,920
Speaker 1: that in a moment. As far as news, we've got

1520
01:11:00,200 --> 01:11:03,000
Speaker 1: that Bills with a long injury list doesn't amount too

1521
01:11:03,040 --> 01:11:05,880
Speaker 1: much really when you're talking about OTAs. But Tyler Croft

1522
01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:08,439
Speaker 1: is the biggest name on this injury list. The Bill's

1523
01:11:08,880 --> 01:11:12,080
Speaker 1: unrestricted free agent tight end Signy from Cincinnati has a

1524
01:11:12,160 --> 01:11:16,040
Speaker 1: broken foot that happened yesterday in practice. Ian Rappaport rap

1525
01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:18,960
Speaker 1: Sheet nfl dot com says the timetable for recovery is

1526
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:22,680
Speaker 1: three to four months. The Bill's Sean McDermot says there

1527
01:11:22,720 --> 01:11:25,960
Speaker 1: is no timetable. So there's that Cole Beasley wide receiver

1528
01:11:26,080 --> 01:11:29,720
Speaker 1: with a core muscle injury, Mitch Morse center, unrestricted free

1529
01:11:29,720 --> 01:11:32,440
Speaker 1: agent with the core muscle injury. Neither of them participating

1530
01:11:32,479 --> 01:11:35,400
Speaker 1: in OTA's not sure if they'll get a chance too

1531
01:11:35,439 --> 01:11:38,880
Speaker 1: over the next eight remaining OTA sessions. Running Back Frank

1532
01:11:38,960 --> 01:11:42,720
Speaker 1: Gore another unrestricted free agent not participating with foot and

1533
01:11:42,800 --> 01:11:46,759
Speaker 1: ankle injuries from last year. David Sills, wide receiver suffered

1534
01:11:46,760 --> 01:11:49,320
Speaker 1: a hamstring injury in the rookie minicamp and he is

1535
01:11:49,360 --> 01:11:52,640
Speaker 1: not available today. Russell bodine Bill said, did I call

1536
01:11:52,720 --> 01:11:57,160
Speaker 1: him jeff Elian? Russell bodine Bill center not participating because

1537
01:11:57,200 --> 01:12:00,720
Speaker 1: of a lingering shoulder injury. So long jury list. We

1538
01:12:00,800 --> 01:12:03,200
Speaker 1: can debate if you want, how significant it is at

1539
01:12:03,240 --> 01:12:05,360
Speaker 1: this point in the season. You would think that all

1540
01:12:05,400 --> 01:12:07,240
Speaker 1: of them have a chance to be ready when things

1541
01:12:07,320 --> 01:12:12,760
Speaker 1: get serious. This is serious. Jerry Hughes reportedly ready to

1542
01:12:12,840 --> 01:12:16,760
Speaker 1: sign a contract extension said to be worth two said

1543
01:12:16,760 --> 01:12:18,639
Speaker 1: it'd be two years, worth up to twenty three million,

1544
01:12:19,040 --> 01:12:21,760
Speaker 1: nineteen and a half guaranteed. Jerry Hughes will be thirty

1545
01:12:21,800 --> 01:12:24,120
Speaker 1: one years old and August. He's been the Bill's best

1546
01:12:24,200 --> 01:12:26,920
Speaker 1: pass rusher over the last six years since he's been here.

1547
01:12:27,439 --> 01:12:30,760
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus greated him as the seventh best edge

1548
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:33,960
Speaker 1: rush defender last season and the best player on Buffalo's roster.

1549
01:12:34,120 --> 01:12:36,960
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott, meeting with the media about two hours ago,

1550
01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:41,840
Speaker 1: had some thoughts on Jerry hughes reported contract extension. Right.

1551
01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:44,559
Speaker 1: You know, I knew Jerry just on film coming out

1552
01:12:44,600 --> 01:12:47,400
Speaker 1: of college at TCU. Watched him as in his skill

1553
01:12:47,479 --> 01:12:51,320
Speaker 1: set as a pass rusher, and then when he transitioned

1554
01:12:51,360 --> 01:12:53,800
Speaker 1: from the Colts to here, and then getting to know

1555
01:12:54,040 --> 01:12:57,640
Speaker 1: him as a as a young man and watching him

1556
01:12:57,680 --> 01:13:01,479
Speaker 1: develop off the field, and then watch him trying to

1557
01:13:01,640 --> 01:13:04,200
Speaker 1: take his game to another level. I've enjoyed that. I've

1558
01:13:04,280 --> 01:13:07,960
Speaker 1: enjoyed being around Jerry's family and UM, and so we're

1559
01:13:07,960 --> 01:13:11,599
Speaker 1: excited about that. Obviously it's not signed and done yet,

1560
01:13:11,840 --> 01:13:15,840
Speaker 1: but we are excited about it. If you could perspective

1561
01:13:15,920 --> 01:13:21,200
Speaker 1: when Jerry just leads to this seven six last season

1562
01:13:21,240 --> 01:13:24,800
Speaker 1: wasn't an overwhelming I'm reading the teacher looked at him.

1563
01:13:24,880 --> 01:13:30,040
Speaker 1: He was consistently getting pressure. Where where his game is

1564
01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:33,760
Speaker 1: entering your attaches from your perspective, Yeah, that's a fair question.

1565
01:13:33,880 --> 01:13:37,120
Speaker 1: You know when you just look at the stats and

1566
01:13:37,160 --> 01:13:39,519
Speaker 1: you mentioned the number seven. If you pull up the tape,

1567
01:13:39,520 --> 01:13:42,760
Speaker 1: you watch the tape, and you know that we talk

1568
01:13:42,800 --> 01:13:47,519
Speaker 1: about it sacks versus affecting the quarterback. Everyone wants the

1569
01:13:47,600 --> 01:13:51,160
Speaker 1: sack numbers. Just as important at times is how many

1570
01:13:51,240 --> 01:13:54,519
Speaker 1: times you affect the quarterback, whether it's getting him off

1571
01:13:54,560 --> 01:13:57,320
Speaker 1: his spot, his vision, his arm, and the way the

1572
01:13:57,439 --> 01:14:00,400
Speaker 1: ball comes out. UM. There were a number of over

1573
01:14:00,400 --> 01:14:03,120
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, since since I've been around

1574
01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:06,840
Speaker 1: Jerry and and you know, we value pass rushers so

1575
01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:09,599
Speaker 1: in the ability to affect the quarterback with the front four.

1576
01:14:10,439 --> 01:14:13,200
Speaker 1: He was a big piece of that last year. And

1577
01:14:13,400 --> 01:14:15,519
Speaker 1: we in our goal and Jerry's goal as well as

1578
01:14:15,560 --> 01:14:20,040
Speaker 1: that he'll continue to grow, improve and evolve. And I mean,

1579
01:14:20,080 --> 01:14:21,439
Speaker 1: you've got to be able to get there with your

1580
01:14:21,479 --> 01:14:26,040
Speaker 1: front four. Sean McDermot talking about Jerry Hughes seven sacks

1581
01:14:26,120 --> 01:14:28,439
Speaker 1: last year, He's averaged about five sacks per year over

1582
01:14:28,479 --> 01:14:31,160
Speaker 1: the last four he had back to back ten sacks seasons.

1583
01:14:31,600 --> 01:14:34,280
Speaker 1: Really one of the great trades in recent Bill's history

1584
01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:36,600
Speaker 1: to get Jerry Hughes to come to the Bills for

1585
01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:40,120
Speaker 1: a linebacker. Kelvin Shephard And yeah, he's productive and it's

1586
01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:42,800
Speaker 1: noticed by the analytics guys, noticed my fans who watched

1587
01:14:42,840 --> 01:14:45,599
Speaker 1: the game. Even if the sacks don't amount to double digits,

1588
01:14:45,680 --> 01:14:48,920
Speaker 1: last year, he was by far their best pass rusher. Yeah,

1589
01:14:48,920 --> 01:14:52,240
Speaker 1: and you go to the you know, the analytics pages,

1590
01:14:52,280 --> 01:14:54,400
Speaker 1: the Pro Football Focus guys that he was a really

1591
01:14:54,439 --> 01:14:56,680
Speaker 1: good pass rusher last year. And it was interesting too

1592
01:14:56,800 --> 01:15:00,599
Speaker 1: that even if he doesn't get there, it the pass

1593
01:15:00,680 --> 01:15:03,400
Speaker 1: rush forces the ball to come out so that the

1594
01:15:03,640 --> 01:15:05,719
Speaker 1: you know, the guys in the back end aren't running

1595
01:15:05,720 --> 01:15:08,479
Speaker 1: around for fifteen seconds trying to cover these these guys up.

1596
01:15:08,560 --> 01:15:11,360
Speaker 1: So at least if your pass rush doesn't get there,

1597
01:15:12,439 --> 01:15:15,439
Speaker 1: it does make sure that the ball is out on

1598
01:15:15,640 --> 01:15:17,960
Speaker 1: time and that you know they're not going off the

1599
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:21,360
Speaker 1: page offensively and getting a big play out of it. So, uh, yeah,

1600
01:15:21,439 --> 01:15:23,800
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes has You're right that trade it was for

1601
01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:27,800
Speaker 1: Kelvin Shephard. If you remember, who is an unrestricted free

1602
01:15:27,840 --> 01:15:30,599
Speaker 1: agent right now, he's on the street. But and Jerry Hughes,

1603
01:15:30,600 --> 01:15:33,400
Speaker 1: I believe has almost fifty sacks since that trade for

1604
01:15:33,439 --> 01:15:35,960
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Ain't like forty seven maybe or something

1605
01:15:36,040 --> 01:15:39,280
Speaker 1: like that. He is. He has been an incredibly productive

1606
01:15:39,320 --> 01:15:43,040
Speaker 1: player for the Bills. He said eight sacks, No, I

1607
01:15:43,120 --> 01:15:45,040
Speaker 1: got that wrong. He had five sacks in his first

1608
01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:48,280
Speaker 1: three years with the Indianapolis Colts, a former first round

1609
01:15:48,320 --> 01:15:51,439
Speaker 1: pick out of TCU, and in six years with the Bills,

1610
01:15:51,960 --> 01:15:54,920
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes has had forty one sacks. So eighty year

1611
01:15:55,280 --> 01:15:57,760
Speaker 1: good player. Yeah, he's been really good player. Thirty one

1612
01:15:57,880 --> 01:15:59,639
Speaker 1: years old. You would think he's still got some life

1613
01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:01,920
Speaker 1: left him. And you know he was scheduled to hit

1614
01:16:02,000 --> 01:16:04,880
Speaker 1: free agency after this year. So yeah, I think it's

1615
01:16:04,960 --> 01:16:06,800
Speaker 1: it's a smart it's I think an example of the

1616
01:16:06,880 --> 01:16:09,679
Speaker 1: kind of smart signing, the smart cap management that Robert

1617
01:16:09,720 --> 01:16:12,439
Speaker 1: Mays was talking about last segment. Segment right, keep him

1618
01:16:12,439 --> 01:16:14,799
Speaker 1: off the market, keep him in. It not a ridiculous

1619
01:16:14,800 --> 01:16:16,519
Speaker 1: amount of money either. Can I say that it's gonna

1620
01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:18,360
Speaker 1: amount to about ten million a year for two years?

1621
01:16:18,600 --> 01:16:21,840
Speaker 1: That's not ridicus ridiculous for you and me? Yeah? I

1622
01:16:21,920 --> 01:16:23,560
Speaker 1: think so. And I mentioned this last time. Do you

1623
01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:25,680
Speaker 1: think and see what I want? I'm interested in your

1624
01:16:25,720 --> 01:16:28,679
Speaker 1: opinion about this, Murph. You think that it's an example

1625
01:16:28,760 --> 01:16:32,000
Speaker 1: of listen for this team and the organization to say

1626
01:16:32,040 --> 01:16:33,679
Speaker 1: to the young guys coming up, Listen, if you're gonna

1627
01:16:33,680 --> 01:16:35,640
Speaker 1: be our kind of guy, if you're gonna be our

1628
01:16:35,680 --> 01:16:38,599
Speaker 1: guy on and off the field, this will take care

1629
01:16:38,600 --> 01:16:41,519
Speaker 1: of you. Yeah. I agree. I don't know that that's

1630
01:16:41,520 --> 01:16:44,400
Speaker 1: a little bit overstated. But the more you see it

1631
01:16:44,439 --> 01:16:45,599
Speaker 1: and the more you hear it, you know what, when

1632
01:16:45,640 --> 01:16:49,160
Speaker 1: your contract is up or coming up and they start

1633
01:16:49,240 --> 01:16:51,840
Speaker 1: talking to you, you know that in the back of

1634
01:16:51,880 --> 01:16:53,479
Speaker 1: your mind it does say something to you. I think

1635
01:16:53,520 --> 01:16:55,760
Speaker 1: it does have some value for the organization. Chris Brown

1636
01:16:55,800 --> 01:16:57,320
Speaker 1: made a really good point when we talked with him

1637
01:16:57,360 --> 01:17:00,680
Speaker 1: early in the show about Hughes and his maturation process. Right,

1638
01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:02,519
Speaker 1: six years going into a seventh year now with the

1639
01:17:02,600 --> 01:17:05,360
Speaker 1: Bills after three years with Indie, former first round pick

1640
01:17:05,479 --> 01:17:07,680
Speaker 1: labeled to bust when the Bills acquired him in the

1641
01:17:07,720 --> 01:17:10,960
Speaker 1: trade six seven years ago. Not at all that, and

1642
01:17:11,560 --> 01:17:14,080
Speaker 1: the Bills have watched them grow and develop. As Chris said,

1643
01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:17,479
Speaker 1: he's trying to manage his volatile temper. What's his alter ego,

1644
01:17:17,600 --> 01:17:20,080
Speaker 1: Gary or something that, right, Yeah, I think that's what

1645
01:17:20,160 --> 01:17:22,400
Speaker 1: he calls himself, trying to manage the violatile temper that

1646
01:17:22,760 --> 01:17:25,240
Speaker 1: resulted in some bad penalties over the last few years.

1647
01:17:25,280 --> 01:17:27,840
Speaker 1: And I think you're right, see becoming more of a leader,

1648
01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:29,720
Speaker 1: a guy that the others in the locker room can

1649
01:17:29,760 --> 01:17:32,000
Speaker 1: point to and say, that's how they want us to be.

1650
01:17:32,200 --> 01:17:34,400
Speaker 1: That's what they're looking for, that kind of production, that

1651
01:17:34,560 --> 01:17:36,680
Speaker 1: kind of work ethic, and that kind of leadership. So

1652
01:17:36,840 --> 01:17:44,200
Speaker 1: good signing. Yeah. Coaching staffs are always looking for dependability, yeah, availability,

1653
01:17:44,600 --> 01:17:47,679
Speaker 1: you know, not volatility. You know, they're looking for guys

1654
01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:51,960
Speaker 1: who are productive, available, the right kind of guy, guys

1655
01:17:52,040 --> 01:17:54,639
Speaker 1: who other guys can rally to, but also a guy

1656
01:17:54,760 --> 01:17:56,360
Speaker 1: that they can depend on a guy that they know

1657
01:17:56,520 --> 01:17:57,880
Speaker 1: is going to line up and do the right thing,

1658
01:17:57,960 --> 01:18:00,439
Speaker 1: the right way and the right and help they around

1659
01:18:00,520 --> 01:18:03,360
Speaker 1: him in the right way. And certainly Jerry's evolved into that.

1660
01:18:03,400 --> 01:18:05,160
Speaker 1: He wasn't always that way, and plus it was a

1661
01:18:05,200 --> 01:18:08,920
Speaker 1: different coaching staff, different era and all that, no question,

1662
01:18:09,360 --> 01:18:11,360
Speaker 1: and he started to thrive. Really I think in the

1663
01:18:11,439 --> 01:18:14,479
Speaker 1: first year of Rex Ryan's tenure here, right, I mean,

1664
01:18:14,520 --> 01:18:17,280
Speaker 1: I think it was that was really when he started

1665
01:18:17,320 --> 01:18:22,320
Speaker 1: to jump forward. Maybe a little before that, but yeah,

1666
01:18:22,439 --> 01:18:25,280
Speaker 1: he has I think it does say something about the organization.

1667
01:18:25,320 --> 01:18:27,000
Speaker 1: They wanted to get him signed and extended a guy

1668
01:18:27,120 --> 01:18:30,320
Speaker 1: thirty one years old. It's signing, you know, money with

1669
01:18:30,400 --> 01:18:32,439
Speaker 1: guaranteed money down the road. I think that says something

1670
01:18:32,479 --> 01:18:34,280
Speaker 1: about what they expect from him. There's this from the

1671
01:18:34,320 --> 01:18:36,880
Speaker 1: Bills today and McDermott talked about a little bit. The

1672
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:39,640
Speaker 1: number thirty two is back in circulation now for the

1673
01:18:39,680 --> 01:18:43,519
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Unrestricted free agent running back Sonaris Perry is

1674
01:18:43,560 --> 01:18:45,720
Speaker 1: wearing number thirty two, the first time the Bills have

1675
01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:48,920
Speaker 1: issued that number since nineteen seventy seven, the last season

1676
01:18:48,960 --> 01:18:51,839
Speaker 1: that O. J. Simpson wore number thirty two. Never retired,

1677
01:18:51,960 --> 01:18:53,760
Speaker 1: right the bills. I believe only have what the three

1678
01:18:53,840 --> 01:18:56,640
Speaker 1: numbers retired, right, Thurman's thirty four, Bruce Smith seventy eight,

1679
01:18:56,680 --> 01:18:59,280
Speaker 1: and Jim Kelly's number twelve never retired, sort of just

1680
01:18:59,360 --> 01:19:02,160
Speaker 1: set aside after OJ left here in seventy seven, and

1681
01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:04,519
Speaker 1: Sonris Perry he was gonna go some special teams and

1682
01:19:04,640 --> 01:19:06,960
Speaker 1: maybe be a backup running back has thirty two. It

1683
01:19:07,080 --> 01:19:10,240
Speaker 1: was an important number to him because of his background. Perry, right, Yeah,

1684
01:19:10,280 --> 01:19:12,439
Speaker 1: he asked for it. It was his college number and

1685
01:19:12,680 --> 01:19:15,719
Speaker 1: that's where it came from. And you know, the requested

1686
01:19:15,800 --> 01:19:17,559
Speaker 1: or the bills are like kind of shrugged their shoulders,

1687
01:19:17,560 --> 01:19:20,439
Speaker 1: said at forty years, okay, why not? Yeah? And then

1688
01:19:20,520 --> 01:19:24,280
Speaker 1: there you have it, and you know, I get it.

1689
01:19:24,560 --> 01:19:26,200
Speaker 1: But it's not a bump on my radar. You know,

1690
01:19:26,280 --> 01:19:28,080
Speaker 1: it's not even a blit. But good for him, and

1691
01:19:28,360 --> 01:19:30,280
Speaker 1: I hope it. Man, Let's let's face it, I hope

1692
01:19:30,280 --> 01:19:34,000
Speaker 1: he knocks it out of the park in that Jersey. Yeah, right, absolutely,

1693
01:19:34,120 --> 01:19:35,959
Speaker 1: all right, who's going to lead the bills and receptions?

1694
01:19:36,040 --> 01:19:38,519
Speaker 1: That's the Twitter poll today. Give us a call. We'll

1695
01:19:38,560 --> 01:19:42,040
Speaker 1: discuss eight three fifty toll free one eight eight eight

1696
01:19:42,160 --> 01:19:44,920
Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty or you can read your tweets.

1697
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:47,360
Speaker 1: Let's read some tweets, Steve, who will lead the bills

1698
01:19:47,400 --> 01:19:49,880
Speaker 1: and receptions? Who do you think? I think it's Cole Beasley.

1699
01:19:50,200 --> 01:19:52,719
Speaker 1: Ryan on the tweet sheet, he thinks it's Cole Beasley,

1700
01:19:52,920 --> 01:19:55,559
Speaker 1: says Cole Beasley will because he'll be the wide receiver

1701
01:19:55,640 --> 01:19:59,000
Speaker 1: target of the most if Allan continues to progress as

1702
01:19:59,040 --> 01:20:01,200
Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback. That's kind of the way I see it.

1703
01:20:01,439 --> 01:20:03,479
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley will be open over the middle. He's been

1704
01:20:03,520 --> 01:20:05,880
Speaker 1: doing that in his entire career. He'll be a nice

1705
01:20:06,040 --> 01:20:09,439
Speaker 1: underneath target so that Josh Ellen doesn't try to force

1706
01:20:09,479 --> 01:20:12,280
Speaker 1: it downfield all the time. He was pretty successful doing

1707
01:20:12,360 --> 01:20:14,120
Speaker 1: that last year. But Yeah, I think Beasley is the

1708
01:20:14,200 --> 01:20:17,240
Speaker 1: right answer here, Steve. Yeah. And it's it's echoed by

1709
01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:19,599
Speaker 1: the next one on the tweet sheets, Colby's. I see

1710
01:20:19,640 --> 01:20:21,920
Speaker 1: him being used a lot on intermediate throws to keep

1711
01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:24,840
Speaker 1: the drive going. They'll say that Foster will lead the

1712
01:20:24,840 --> 01:20:29,160
Speaker 1: team in receiving yards the ground and short completion game

1713
01:20:29,320 --> 01:20:31,479
Speaker 1: will bring the safeties up and allow Foster to break

1714
01:20:31,560 --> 01:20:33,599
Speaker 1: loose on the two or three deep balls per game.

1715
01:20:33,640 --> 01:20:35,960
Speaker 1: And you know we're starting to talk people start to

1716
01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:38,880
Speaker 1: anticipate how this is all going to work. But one

1717
01:20:38,920 --> 01:20:41,599
Speaker 1: of the things that Josh Allen needed to do better

1718
01:20:41,720 --> 01:20:43,280
Speaker 1: last year, and you can say what you want about,

1719
01:20:43,360 --> 01:20:45,479
Speaker 1: you know, the lack of offensive line help and lack

1720
01:20:45,520 --> 01:20:48,479
Speaker 1: of weapons on the outside, was to learn to look

1721
01:20:48,840 --> 01:20:51,880
Speaker 1: for the shorter and easier completion. Not only it might

1722
01:20:51,960 --> 01:20:54,240
Speaker 1: not have been there all the time, but certainly in

1723
01:20:54,320 --> 01:20:59,720
Speaker 1: that last game game seventeen Week seventeen, however, Josh said

1724
01:20:59,800 --> 01:21:01,160
Speaker 1: that that was kind of what I was trying to do,

1725
01:21:01,400 --> 01:21:05,360
Speaker 1: get that easy completion. We'll see if that happens. If

1726
01:21:05,400 --> 01:21:08,240
Speaker 1: he does start to make easier throws and get proficient

1727
01:21:08,280 --> 01:21:12,000
Speaker 1: at that, I think that's an exponential jump for everybody

1728
01:21:12,080 --> 01:21:14,479
Speaker 1: on the offense. I think it's on the scoreboard, on

1729
01:21:14,600 --> 01:21:17,519
Speaker 1: the stat sheet, on production. I think it's going to

1730
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:19,360
Speaker 1: help the defense. They're going to stay on the field

1731
01:21:19,439 --> 01:21:22,000
Speaker 1: more if he can do that. I think that's an

1732
01:21:22,080 --> 01:21:24,720
Speaker 1: exponential jump in the productivity of this offense, and we'll

1733
01:21:24,760 --> 01:21:26,320
Speaker 1: see if it happened. There's a different take on the

1734
01:21:26,360 --> 01:21:28,640
Speaker 1: tweet sheet to the question the player who will lead

1735
01:21:28,680 --> 01:21:32,479
Speaker 1: the Bills in receptions this year? Ryan tweets in Zay

1736
01:21:32,640 --> 01:21:35,879
Speaker 1: Jones he has improved over the last season and possesses

1737
01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:38,080
Speaker 1: the skill set to have him on the field in

1738
01:21:38,160 --> 01:21:40,920
Speaker 1: most plays. The defense having to account for wide receivers

1739
01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:43,759
Speaker 1: like Beasley and Brown or even tight end should benefit

1740
01:21:43,880 --> 01:21:47,200
Speaker 1: him considerably. Quarterbacks stability should help also. I think that's

1741
01:21:47,240 --> 01:21:49,120
Speaker 1: a good choice. Z Jones led the team last year

1742
01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:51,519
Speaker 1: with fifty six. It'd be great to see him bump

1743
01:21:51,600 --> 01:21:54,840
Speaker 1: that number up twenty twenty five more catches. Where did

1744
01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:56,759
Speaker 1: I read it? Was it Buffalo News? Was it somewhere?

1745
01:21:56,880 --> 01:21:59,400
Speaker 1: Really was a Buffalo Bills dot Com? Really good story

1746
01:21:59,400 --> 01:22:02,760
Speaker 1: about owns physical development. How how thicker he is this year.

1747
01:22:02,800 --> 01:22:04,120
Speaker 1: We talked about it a couple of weeks ago on

1748
01:22:04,160 --> 01:22:07,400
Speaker 1: the show. How stronger he looks on the field in

1749
01:22:07,439 --> 01:22:09,560
Speaker 1: these practices. That will play into it as well, I

1750
01:22:09,640 --> 01:22:12,600
Speaker 1: believe yeah. And having played that position old be it

1751
01:22:12,840 --> 01:22:16,960
Speaker 1: a long time ago. When your body changes, and through

1752
01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:20,080
Speaker 1: training camp and through the OTAs you get used to

1753
01:22:20,160 --> 01:22:23,799
Speaker 1: playing with with a new ability, you know you're stronger.

1754
01:22:23,880 --> 01:22:26,480
Speaker 1: You can shrug guys off easier, You can use techniques

1755
01:22:27,240 --> 01:22:29,400
Speaker 1: as a wide receiver at the line of scrimmage to

1756
01:22:29,479 --> 01:22:32,880
Speaker 1: release differently because you are stronger, because you are more

1757
01:22:32,920 --> 01:22:35,439
Speaker 1: physical and a little bit. Because you weigh more, you

1758
01:22:35,520 --> 01:22:38,479
Speaker 1: can lean on guys and get more effect from the

1759
01:22:38,560 --> 01:22:41,880
Speaker 1: things that you do to them. When you swipe their

1760
01:22:41,920 --> 01:22:44,479
Speaker 1: hands off of you. When you're stronger with your upper body,

1761
01:22:44,760 --> 01:22:48,160
Speaker 1: that swipe gives you more separation. It hurts the defensive

1762
01:22:48,200 --> 01:22:50,960
Speaker 1: back Moore it. It causes a bigger shock to them

1763
01:22:51,560 --> 01:22:54,400
Speaker 1: when you're bigger and stronger. And Zay Jones, over the

1764
01:22:54,479 --> 01:22:56,000
Speaker 1: course this off season, is going to get used to

1765
01:22:56,080 --> 01:22:58,679
Speaker 1: being that new guy. And it'll be interesting to see

1766
01:22:59,080 --> 01:23:00,720
Speaker 1: because I know this too. When you do get a

1767
01:23:00,800 --> 01:23:05,040
Speaker 1: new thing like that in your game, you're you're a

1768
01:23:05,120 --> 01:23:08,240
Speaker 1: new man, right. Uh. It's really fun to go out

1769
01:23:08,240 --> 01:23:12,040
Speaker 1: and exploit it. And when you start doing that, confidence

1770
01:23:12,160 --> 01:23:16,600
Speaker 1: is automatically elevated and and other people start to be

1771
01:23:16,640 --> 01:23:19,000
Speaker 1: able to see it, not just you feeling it inside yourself.

1772
01:23:19,160 --> 01:23:20,960
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. It's a good story. On Buffalo bills

1773
01:23:20,960 --> 01:23:23,599
Speaker 1: dot Com, Chris Brown wrote it about Zay jones increased

1774
01:23:23,640 --> 01:23:26,800
Speaker 1: physical stature. I recommended highly. All right, we're gonna hear

1775
01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:30,000
Speaker 1: from Josh Allen at the podium right after this ota today.

1776
01:23:30,160 --> 01:23:32,160
Speaker 1: We'll take a break, come back and hear what the

1777
01:23:32,280 --> 01:23:35,240
Speaker 1: Bills quarterback has to say. After two days of OTAs,

1778
01:23:35,280 --> 01:23:37,439
Speaker 1: that's coming up One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive.

1779
01:23:37,720 --> 01:23:52,720
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back One Bills Live

1780
01:23:52,800 --> 01:23:55,559
Speaker 1: from One Bills Drive. The Bills have completed today's day

1781
01:23:55,600 --> 01:23:58,600
Speaker 1: two of organized team activity and on his birthday, his

1782
01:23:58,680 --> 01:24:02,120
Speaker 1: twenty third birthday, last year's first round draft pick, quarterback

1783
01:24:02,240 --> 01:24:04,840
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is meeting with the media talking to him

1784
01:24:04,920 --> 01:24:06,640
Speaker 1: right now, and the first question he was asked was,

1785
01:24:06,720 --> 01:24:08,000
Speaker 1: how is it. How's the deal to be out there

1786
01:24:08,080 --> 01:24:11,519
Speaker 1: during OTAs. It's kind of the first time we've been

1787
01:24:11,560 --> 01:24:14,120
Speaker 1: out there, Um, trying to be no huddle, trying to

1788
01:24:14,200 --> 01:24:16,799
Speaker 1: go quickly. You know, it's kind of a situation whereas

1789
01:24:16,800 --> 01:24:18,920
Speaker 1: before the half and just trying to play out you know,

1790
01:24:19,080 --> 01:24:21,479
Speaker 1: what types of players we want to run, Um, what

1791
01:24:21,600 --> 01:24:23,839
Speaker 1: type of throws we can and can't make in those situations.

1792
01:24:23,880 --> 01:24:26,240
Speaker 1: Obviously want to get out of bounds, you know. Um

1793
01:24:26,640 --> 01:24:28,479
Speaker 1: the end of half, you want to make sure that

1794
01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:30,280
Speaker 1: you kind of have the ball last and use as

1795
01:24:30,360 --> 01:24:31,760
Speaker 1: much time as possible. At the same time, you want

1796
01:24:31,760 --> 01:24:33,240
Speaker 1: to be aggressive and try to score, you know. So

1797
01:24:33,760 --> 01:24:35,960
Speaker 1: we went down there, um, you know, just kind of

1798
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:37,639
Speaker 1: taking what the defense was given us and they admit

1799
01:24:37,720 --> 01:24:39,559
Speaker 1: a playing the back of the end zone and UM,

1800
01:24:39,800 --> 01:24:42,640
Speaker 1: that's kind of how that one went into. What is

1801
01:24:42,640 --> 01:24:44,680
Speaker 1: your mindset going into this round, because you know it

1802
01:24:44,840 --> 01:24:49,960
Speaker 1: is a lot differ last year when you were the guy. Yeah,

1803
01:24:51,400 --> 01:24:53,680
Speaker 1: I mean so being in the year or being in

1804
01:24:53,720 --> 01:24:55,639
Speaker 1: the same system for a year, having the verbiage down,

1805
01:24:55,720 --> 01:24:58,120
Speaker 1: having the same terminology, you know, having the rapport that

1806
01:24:58,200 --> 01:24:59,680
Speaker 1: I do with coach Dabele. You know, I think it's

1807
01:24:59,720 --> 01:25:02,040
Speaker 1: been it's been a huge help, um, just going in

1808
01:25:02,280 --> 01:25:04,280
Speaker 1: knowing what types of plays and concepts that I like,

1809
01:25:04,920 --> 01:25:07,640
Speaker 1: Daves knows those, um, and then we kind of have

1810
01:25:07,760 --> 01:25:10,200
Speaker 1: a feel of what our receivers can and can't run. Um.

1811
01:25:10,280 --> 01:25:12,120
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they can't run any routes, but what

1812
01:25:12,439 --> 01:25:14,360
Speaker 1: they're really good at. So going out there and then

1813
01:25:14,479 --> 01:25:16,559
Speaker 1: finding out what the new guys can do and um

1814
01:25:16,800 --> 01:25:19,320
Speaker 1: see some of the younger tight ends can do. UM.

1815
01:25:19,800 --> 01:25:22,720
Speaker 1: But it's complete one eighty feeling from last year to

1816
01:25:22,800 --> 01:25:26,360
Speaker 1: this year. Obviously, UM, having that year of experiencing on

1817
01:25:26,520 --> 01:25:29,120
Speaker 1: my belt now and um, being around the guys in

1818
01:25:29,120 --> 01:25:31,640
Speaker 1: the locker room and having such good relationships in here

1819
01:25:31,680 --> 01:25:33,560
Speaker 1: and then going out in the practice field and you know,

1820
01:25:33,760 --> 01:25:35,519
Speaker 1: being able to talk a little bit to the defense

1821
01:25:35,560 --> 01:25:37,040
Speaker 1: and then talk to us back. But you know at

1822
01:25:37,080 --> 01:25:38,320
Speaker 1: the same time that we're just trying to make each

1823
01:25:38,320 --> 01:25:39,920
Speaker 1: other better, trying to win football games for the Bills

1824
01:25:41,640 --> 01:25:46,360
Speaker 1: to off season priority people problem working out whatever that was.

1825
01:25:47,120 --> 01:25:50,200
Speaker 1: I mean, consistently delivering the ball where it needs to be.

1826
01:25:50,400 --> 01:25:52,840
Speaker 1: You know, ball placement is huge, especially in this league,

1827
01:25:52,920 --> 01:25:56,160
Speaker 1: the type of concepts that we have, Um, you know,

1828
01:25:56,320 --> 01:25:58,040
Speaker 1: trying to get the ball to our playmakers where they

1829
01:25:58,080 --> 01:26:00,280
Speaker 1: can make some plays. You know, so that that was

1830
01:26:00,280 --> 01:26:02,000
Speaker 1: a huge emphasis. You know, we're still working on it,

1831
01:26:02,120 --> 01:26:04,280
Speaker 1: and you know that's something that will never change. You

1832
01:26:04,280 --> 01:26:06,000
Speaker 1: always want to try to work on ball placement. And

1833
01:26:06,400 --> 01:26:07,880
Speaker 1: every day you come out it's kind of a new

1834
01:26:07,960 --> 01:26:09,800
Speaker 1: thing and sometimes the ball is just coming off your

1835
01:26:09,800 --> 01:26:12,160
Speaker 1: hand a little differently and you got to make adjustments

1836
01:26:12,160 --> 01:26:15,280
Speaker 1: and understand, um, what's your body's trying to tell you,

1837
01:26:15,320 --> 01:26:17,240
Speaker 1: and trying to go with it. And like I said,

1838
01:26:17,640 --> 01:26:19,519
Speaker 1: just trying to get the bottle to playmakers because you know,

1839
01:26:19,560 --> 01:26:21,000
Speaker 1: we can't do anything if they don't have the bone

1840
01:26:21,040 --> 01:26:27,400
Speaker 1: their hands. I mean, just as far as knowing the playbook,

1841
01:26:27,640 --> 01:26:30,600
Speaker 1: I say, leaps and bounds ahead. Um, just happen. Like

1842
01:26:30,680 --> 01:26:32,160
Speaker 1: I said that the year under my belt of the

1843
01:26:32,200 --> 01:26:35,200
Speaker 1: same system. That's huge for you know, a young quarterback especially,

1844
01:26:35,280 --> 01:26:37,160
Speaker 1: but um, you know, you look at some of the

1845
01:26:37,400 --> 01:26:39,839
Speaker 1: better quarterbacks in the league, they've been under their offensive

1846
01:26:39,880 --> 01:26:43,559
Speaker 1: coordinator for um a few years, um, and that helps

1847
01:26:44,120 --> 01:26:45,920
Speaker 1: just knowing what's going on, you don't really have to

1848
01:26:45,960 --> 01:26:47,799
Speaker 1: think about it. You out there and you can play football.

1849
01:26:52,520 --> 01:26:55,160
Speaker 1: It's awesome. I mean, Franks an all time pro you know,

1850
01:26:55,479 --> 01:26:58,160
Speaker 1: he's a future Hall of Fame running back. Just to

1851
01:26:58,240 --> 01:26:59,920
Speaker 1: have his presence in the locker room, you know how

1852
01:27:00,160 --> 01:27:02,600
Speaker 1: he speaks, you know what he plays for, kind of

1853
01:27:02,640 --> 01:27:05,759
Speaker 1: what he stands for, you know. Um, I'm super proud

1854
01:27:05,840 --> 01:27:08,920
Speaker 1: and happy the Buffalo Bills went out and got him because, UM,

1855
01:27:09,360 --> 01:27:12,160
Speaker 1: to have somebody who's work ethic and his story is

1856
01:27:12,200 --> 01:27:14,560
Speaker 1: so great like that, it's it's just unreal, you know.

1857
01:27:14,600 --> 01:27:16,360
Speaker 1: And he got the opportunity to talk in front of

1858
01:27:16,360 --> 01:27:19,120
Speaker 1: the team, and I think if you didn't kind of

1859
01:27:19,240 --> 01:27:20,760
Speaker 1: know who he was and what type of person he

1860
01:27:20,920 --> 01:27:23,120
Speaker 1: was before, then you knew as soon as he started

1861
01:27:23,160 --> 01:27:25,400
Speaker 1: talking what type of person he was. And you know, um,

1862
01:27:25,720 --> 01:27:27,120
Speaker 1: that's why he's been in the league so long. It's

1863
01:27:27,160 --> 01:27:29,240
Speaker 1: why he's been so great for so many years. You know,

1864
01:27:29,360 --> 01:27:32,720
Speaker 1: he's got that that attitude and that right mentality, um

1865
01:27:32,840 --> 01:27:34,760
Speaker 1: for the NFL, and it's rubbing off on players and

1866
01:27:35,160 --> 01:27:41,200
Speaker 1: I know we all love having him in the locker room. Um.

1867
01:27:41,280 --> 01:27:43,960
Speaker 1: I mean just the resiliency that he that he's had

1868
01:27:44,080 --> 01:27:46,920
Speaker 1: in his lifetime. You know, how the way he grew up,

1869
01:27:47,280 --> 01:27:49,840
Speaker 1: battling through injuries obviously going to the going to the

1870
01:27:49,920 --> 01:27:51,720
Speaker 1: U and having to you know, for a fight for

1871
01:27:51,800 --> 01:27:54,640
Speaker 1: a spot there, and and just how he's done it

1872
01:27:54,720 --> 01:27:57,760
Speaker 1: in the league for so long. It's just unreal. And um,

1873
01:27:58,560 --> 01:28:03,040
Speaker 1: he's just an all time pro. Isres something new at

1874
01:28:03,040 --> 01:28:05,080
Speaker 1: the center, probably not the compute to expect him, He's

1875
01:28:05,080 --> 01:28:08,040
Speaker 1: expecting the working he's on the shelf for now. Just

1876
01:28:08,360 --> 01:28:10,640
Speaker 1: how are things going here with job there? You know,

1877
01:28:10,880 --> 01:28:13,760
Speaker 1: just the U in the chemistry that you guys have, dang,

1878
01:28:13,800 --> 01:28:16,400
Speaker 1: are going really well. You know, whether it's John or Spencer, Um,

1879
01:28:17,320 --> 01:28:18,920
Speaker 1: you know, getting snaps from those guys, you know, it

1880
01:28:19,320 --> 01:28:21,600
Speaker 1: doesn't really take long to get a good field for

1881
01:28:21,680 --> 01:28:24,559
Speaker 1: being under the center. Um, but I mean they both

1882
01:28:24,680 --> 01:28:27,080
Speaker 1: know their stuff, you know, really well, it's it's fun

1883
01:28:27,120 --> 01:28:29,400
Speaker 1: to go out there and um, you know, obviously them

1884
01:28:29,479 --> 01:28:31,680
Speaker 1: being new and kind of finding out what types of

1885
01:28:31,720 --> 01:28:33,560
Speaker 1: players they are, what types of attitudes that they have,

1886
01:28:33,720 --> 01:28:35,840
Speaker 1: and talking with them in the locker room and off

1887
01:28:35,880 --> 01:28:37,800
Speaker 1: the field and outside of the facilities and stuff like that,

1888
01:28:37,960 --> 01:28:40,400
Speaker 1: and getting to know him. Um. You know, obviously two

1889
01:28:40,479 --> 01:28:43,479
Speaker 1: really great guys. And obviously Mitch is when he comes back,

1890
01:28:43,600 --> 01:28:44,960
Speaker 1: you know, he'll be throwing in that mix too. So

1891
01:28:45,120 --> 01:28:47,880
Speaker 1: I'm super excited for that. And Mitch isn't really going

1892
01:28:47,920 --> 01:28:49,639
Speaker 1: out or he's been out there and I've been able

1893
01:28:49,680 --> 01:28:51,519
Speaker 1: to get some snaps from him, but it hasn't been

1894
01:28:51,600 --> 01:28:55,160
Speaker 1: those uh live reps if you will, um. But you know,

1895
01:28:55,240 --> 01:28:57,680
Speaker 1: we can still develop that relationship in that camaraderie off

1896
01:28:57,720 --> 01:28:59,640
Speaker 1: the field because he's playing you know, he's played in

1897
01:28:59,680 --> 01:29:02,439
Speaker 1: the league for you know, multiple years now, and you

1898
01:29:02,479 --> 01:29:06,240
Speaker 1: know this isn't anything new to him. Um, So you know,

1899
01:29:06,320 --> 01:29:08,839
Speaker 1: we're just happy to have him to develop that relationship

1900
01:29:08,880 --> 01:29:12,280
Speaker 1: off the field, that level of relationship. It's very clear

1901
01:29:12,360 --> 01:29:16,559
Speaker 1: and evident on the field that Robert, how much does

1902
01:29:16,640 --> 01:29:20,200
Speaker 1: that you lift your struggle and being aggressive as you

1903
01:29:20,320 --> 01:29:23,040
Speaker 1: were saying back, you're starting back to the minute when

1904
01:29:23,080 --> 01:29:27,720
Speaker 1: you have those guys familiarity that you have from the time. Yeah,

1905
01:29:27,760 --> 01:29:29,920
Speaker 1: I mean it means a lot. Um just knowing their

1906
01:29:30,000 --> 01:29:32,240
Speaker 1: body types, you know, how they get in and get

1907
01:29:32,280 --> 01:29:35,280
Speaker 1: out of cuts. Um. But I mean having Robert and

1908
01:29:35,400 --> 01:29:37,439
Speaker 1: an Isaiah and Ray Ray and some of the guys

1909
01:29:37,439 --> 01:29:41,120
Speaker 1: that we had last year. UM, you know, those relationships,

1910
01:29:41,160 --> 01:29:44,360
Speaker 1: they're just evolving even more so and UM just kind

1911
01:29:44,400 --> 01:29:46,960
Speaker 1: of developing more trust and obviously Cole's not out there

1912
01:29:47,000 --> 01:29:50,360
Speaker 1: with us right now, but um, still developing that relationship

1913
01:29:50,400 --> 01:29:51,800
Speaker 1: off the field, so when he gets on the field,

1914
01:29:52,000 --> 01:29:54,479
Speaker 1: the communication line is still open. And having John out

1915
01:29:54,520 --> 01:29:57,200
Speaker 1: here and being able to talk with him because you know,

1916
01:29:57,240 --> 01:29:58,760
Speaker 1: Colin John are two guys that have been the league

1917
01:29:58,760 --> 01:30:01,200
Speaker 1: for a while now and they know how to play football. Um,

1918
01:30:01,240 --> 01:30:03,800
Speaker 1: there's no rush to get him on the field right now. UM.

1919
01:30:04,160 --> 01:30:05,880
Speaker 1: You know it is OTAs and obviously want to work

1920
01:30:05,920 --> 01:30:08,560
Speaker 1: on that, but developing that relationship in that chemistry is

1921
01:30:08,560 --> 01:30:10,839
Speaker 1: I could think kind of what's most important than OTAs

1922
01:30:11,640 --> 01:30:14,840
Speaker 1: looking forward to catching you know, getting building with a

1923
01:30:14,960 --> 01:30:18,400
Speaker 1: port with poll and Rocked and to not have them

1924
01:30:18,560 --> 01:30:21,760
Speaker 1: on the field. I mean, like I said, this is

1925
01:30:21,800 --> 01:30:25,080
Speaker 1: a time where I think relationships are being made. UM.

1926
01:30:25,520 --> 01:30:27,920
Speaker 1: And going back to the point, you know, they've played

1927
01:30:27,960 --> 01:30:30,720
Speaker 1: football before. I've seen plenty of tape on them. Um,

1928
01:30:30,840 --> 01:30:32,479
Speaker 1: you know, it's different than in game reps or in

1929
01:30:32,600 --> 01:30:36,880
Speaker 1: practice reps, but just kind of talking with them, understanding

1930
01:30:36,960 --> 01:30:39,160
Speaker 1: what they you know, are thinking. And you know, Call

1931
01:30:39,280 --> 01:30:41,360
Speaker 1: is very, very communicative with him. That's kind of the

1932
01:30:41,400 --> 01:30:43,160
Speaker 1: first thing you said to me when we first talk

1933
01:30:43,240 --> 01:30:45,080
Speaker 1: to each Other's like, I'm gonna let you know what

1934
01:30:45,240 --> 01:30:46,880
Speaker 1: I see and I expect you to do the same.

1935
01:30:46,920 --> 01:30:49,639
Speaker 1: And um, that's kind of where the relationship, what type

1936
01:30:49,640 --> 01:30:51,360
Speaker 1: of level it needs to be on. So I think

1937
01:30:51,400 --> 01:30:53,000
Speaker 1: we've got a really good start, even though he's not

1938
01:30:53,400 --> 01:30:55,200
Speaker 1: on the field. I know he wishes he was, and

1939
01:30:55,280 --> 01:30:57,559
Speaker 1: I know that you know, Tyler was you know, had

1940
01:30:57,560 --> 01:31:01,080
Speaker 1: a little injury yesterday and praying for speedy recovery for him. Um,

1941
01:31:01,240 --> 01:31:04,120
Speaker 1: you know, but like I said, we've got these relationships

1942
01:31:04,160 --> 01:31:06,880
Speaker 1: off the field that are bonding already, and you know,

1943
01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:08,400
Speaker 1: obviously as much as we'd like to have him on

1944
01:31:08,439 --> 01:31:10,680
Speaker 1: the field, it's just not gonna happen. So probably training camp.

1945
01:31:11,280 --> 01:31:13,240
Speaker 1: There you go, Josh Allen talking about the injury to

1946
01:31:13,320 --> 01:31:17,439
Speaker 1: tight end Tyler Croft. He says training camp. Ian Rappaport says,

1947
01:31:17,760 --> 01:31:20,400
Speaker 1: three or four months, they'll figure it out. Um. Yeah,

1948
01:31:20,479 --> 01:31:23,400
Speaker 1: here's the you misstated it earlier when we were talking

1949
01:31:23,439 --> 01:31:25,720
Speaker 1: about me and I said I was, I was very

1950
01:31:25,720 --> 01:31:28,280
Speaker 1: clemped about the end. Here's what It's the same footy

1951
01:31:28,640 --> 01:31:31,080
Speaker 1: injured last year, which troubles me. You know what I mean? Yeah,

1952
01:31:31,160 --> 01:31:34,360
Speaker 1: come on, you got It's not It's not promising, that's

1953
01:31:34,400 --> 01:31:36,680
Speaker 1: for sure. But four months puts him an opening day

1954
01:31:36,760 --> 01:31:39,519
Speaker 1: just about. Yeah, Now that's not true. That puts him

1955
01:31:39,560 --> 01:31:42,120
Speaker 1: at the end of the first month of the season.

1956
01:31:42,160 --> 01:31:45,360
Speaker 1: It's September mid set, three to four months. If it's

1957
01:31:45,400 --> 01:31:48,080
Speaker 1: three months, he makes opening day. If it's four he's

1958
01:31:48,240 --> 01:31:53,240
Speaker 1: three weeks in. So um, yeah, it's not good. Uh.

1959
01:31:53,400 --> 01:31:57,639
Speaker 1: And I think though, let's face it, they knew about

1960
01:31:57,680 --> 01:32:00,880
Speaker 1: this foot before they signed him, so they were pretty

1961
01:32:00,920 --> 01:32:05,040
Speaker 1: okay with it. And I don't through yesterday, we don't

1962
01:32:05,040 --> 01:32:07,080
Speaker 1: know if it's the same foot, it's the same or

1963
01:32:07,120 --> 01:32:10,040
Speaker 1: the different is it he reinjured the exact same break. Yeah,

1964
01:32:10,080 --> 01:32:14,360
Speaker 1: See that stinks. Um. We had we had also Sammy Watkins,

1965
01:32:14,439 --> 01:32:16,800
Speaker 1: same thing. He had his foot fixed. They put a

1966
01:32:16,840 --> 01:32:19,760
Speaker 1: screw in it, and the medical team at that time said,

1967
01:32:21,000 --> 01:32:23,240
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, they have no idea. Once in a while,

1968
01:32:23,320 --> 01:32:25,519
Speaker 1: the screw gets losing. That's what happened. Sammy Watkins had

1969
01:32:25,520 --> 01:32:28,400
Speaker 1: to go in and get the thing put back in. Um.

1970
01:32:28,560 --> 01:32:31,559
Speaker 1: If they put a screw in it, that seems to help, uh,

1971
01:32:31,840 --> 01:32:33,720
Speaker 1: but it's not a guarantee. And I don't even know

1972
01:32:33,760 --> 01:32:36,160
Speaker 1: if I'm talking about the right incorrect injury, but that

1973
01:32:36,320 --> 01:32:38,800
Speaker 1: you know, they're starting to get And as Brownie said

1974
01:32:38,840 --> 01:32:40,880
Speaker 1: at the top of the show, it used to be

1975
01:32:40,960 --> 01:32:43,880
Speaker 1: a knee injury was catastrophic right back and way back

1976
01:32:43,920 --> 01:32:46,600
Speaker 1: in the day. Now those things are like it's like

1977
01:32:46,720 --> 01:32:49,960
Speaker 1: changing attire for these guys. They the medical field has,

1978
01:32:50,120 --> 01:32:52,200
Speaker 1: you know, and and there's so much money on the

1979
01:32:52,280 --> 01:32:56,360
Speaker 1: line and so much notoriety for fixing a pro athlete

1980
01:32:56,360 --> 01:32:57,960
Speaker 1: and having him come out and go all pro that

1981
01:32:58,280 --> 01:32:59,680
Speaker 1: you know, there's money in it. Now they you know,

1982
01:32:59,680 --> 01:33:02,040
Speaker 1: they got the knee injury fixed. You know they can

1983
01:33:02,200 --> 01:33:04,200
Speaker 1: you know, even an ACL these days. I mean, Frank

1984
01:33:04,280 --> 01:33:05,800
Speaker 1: Gore had two of them in college. Now he's a

1985
01:33:05,880 --> 01:33:10,160
Speaker 1: whole Hall of Famer. They're not so. And now then

1986
01:33:10,200 --> 01:33:12,400
Speaker 1: it was shoulders, and they fixed shoulders pretty good too.

1987
01:33:12,479 --> 01:33:15,639
Speaker 1: Now feet are new. You know, they haven't gotten down

1988
01:33:15,680 --> 01:33:19,120
Speaker 1: there yet. They're gonna start to probably address that with

1989
01:33:19,240 --> 01:33:21,439
Speaker 1: the same kind of wherewithal they did the knee injuries,

1990
01:33:21,479 --> 01:33:23,400
Speaker 1: and probably start being able to fix those feet and

1991
01:33:23,400 --> 01:33:26,439
Speaker 1: they won't be as won't be as catastrophic an injuries

1992
01:33:26,439 --> 01:33:28,360
Speaker 1: as it seems to be now, and won't get reinjured

1993
01:33:28,400 --> 01:33:30,519
Speaker 1: as often as they seem to now. All right, Hey,

1994
01:33:30,600 --> 01:33:34,160
Speaker 1: we got more on the Bill's injury list for OTA today,

1995
01:33:34,200 --> 01:33:35,680
Speaker 1: coming up on our update in a minute. And then

1996
01:33:35,760 --> 01:33:39,280
Speaker 1: Chris Burman's gonna join us, Buffalo's favorite Chris Burman coming

1997
01:33:39,280 --> 01:33:40,760
Speaker 1: to town in a couple of weeks. We'll talk with

1998
01:33:40,880 --> 01:33:43,160
Speaker 1: him about that when we come back. It's One Bill's

1999
01:33:43,200 --> 01:33:46,040
Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's radial.

2000
01:33:55,920 --> 01:34:00,360
Speaker 1: Hello Bill's Radio Network story soup dates. They come from

2001
01:34:00,400 --> 01:34:02,840
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. The Bills second day of organized team

2002
01:34:02,920 --> 01:34:05,439
Speaker 1: activity complete and a long injury list going into this

2003
01:34:05,520 --> 01:34:09,679
Speaker 1: one announced by head coach Sean McDermott before the practice today.

2004
01:34:09,760 --> 01:34:12,720
Speaker 1: Bill's tightening. Tyler Croft, the undrestricted free agent, broke his

2005
01:34:12,840 --> 01:34:16,240
Speaker 1: foot yesterday during the opening session of OTA's It's the

2006
01:34:16,320 --> 01:34:18,200
Speaker 1: same footy broke last season with the Bengals and that

2007
01:34:18,320 --> 01:34:21,519
Speaker 1: kept now for eleven games last year. Tyler Croft his

2008
01:34:21,920 --> 01:34:25,200
Speaker 1: timetable to return well. Ian Rappaport says the timeframe for

2009
01:34:25,280 --> 01:34:27,800
Speaker 1: recovery is three to four months. That is unofficial, but

2010
01:34:27,960 --> 01:34:29,840
Speaker 1: Tyler Croft has a broken foot and is going to

2011
01:34:29,880 --> 01:34:32,439
Speaker 1: be out for a while. He does need surgery. The

2012
01:34:32,560 --> 01:34:36,599
Speaker 1: other injuries announced today by Sean McDermott unrestricted free agent

2013
01:34:37,080 --> 01:34:40,320
Speaker 1: signees Called Beasley and Mitch Morse, both out with core

2014
01:34:40,439 --> 01:34:45,920
Speaker 1: muscle injury suffered, growing injuries essentially. Frank Gore, veteran running back,

2015
01:34:45,960 --> 01:34:48,519
Speaker 1: has a foot and ankle injury suffered last season, keeping

2016
01:34:48,640 --> 01:34:51,280
Speaker 1: him on the sidelines. Rookie Whine out, David Sills with

2017
01:34:51,400 --> 01:34:54,200
Speaker 1: a hamstring suffered and rookie Camp He's on the sidelines

2018
01:34:54,200 --> 01:34:57,439
Speaker 1: as well, and Boda and Russell Bodain is out still

2019
01:34:57,479 --> 01:34:59,960
Speaker 1: with the shoulder suffered last year. So a long injury

2020
01:35:00,040 --> 01:35:02,679
Speaker 1: list for the Bills on day two of OTAs. Jerry

2021
01:35:02,760 --> 01:35:05,800
Speaker 1: Hughes expected to sign a two year contract extension later

2022
01:35:05,920 --> 01:35:08,160
Speaker 1: this afternoon, said to be worth up to twenty three

2023
01:35:08,200 --> 01:35:11,759
Speaker 1: million dollars, including nineteen and a half guaranteed. Hugh said

2024
01:35:12,120 --> 01:35:14,599
Speaker 1: seven sacks last year, leading the team, but his production

2025
01:35:14,680 --> 01:35:17,240
Speaker 1: and sacks has tapered off since he had at least

2026
01:35:17,320 --> 01:35:19,200
Speaker 1: nine and a half sacks and back to back seasons

2027
01:35:19,240 --> 01:35:23,960
Speaker 1: two thirteen and two fourteen. Bills Media News. Former offensive

2028
01:35:24,000 --> 01:35:27,040
Speaker 1: lineman Eric Wood has joined the Buffalo Bills media content team.

2029
01:35:27,080 --> 01:35:29,600
Speaker 1: He will be the color commentator along with me on

2030
01:35:29,680 --> 01:35:32,599
Speaker 1: the Bills radio game broadcast on w g R Sports

2031
01:35:32,720 --> 01:35:35,120
Speaker 1: Radio five fifty and the Bills Radio Network. He will

2032
01:35:35,160 --> 01:35:38,720
Speaker 1: also regularly contribute to this show. Eric Wood becomes part

2033
01:35:38,760 --> 01:35:41,720
Speaker 1: of the Bills media content team. Tampa Bay Buccaneers moving

2034
01:35:41,760 --> 01:35:45,080
Speaker 1: on from defensive tackle Gerald McCoy. They released him yesterday.

2035
01:35:45,280 --> 01:35:47,880
Speaker 1: The Patriots have signed Julian Edelman to a two year

2036
01:35:47,960 --> 01:35:52,120
Speaker 1: contract extension, and Ruben Foster, Washington Redskins linebacker believed to

2037
01:35:52,160 --> 01:35:55,000
Speaker 1: have suffered a twin acl in his knee. Stanley Cup

2038
01:35:55,040 --> 01:35:57,680
Speaker 1: Playoffs tonight, it is game six, Saint Louis has a

2039
01:35:57,760 --> 01:36:00,760
Speaker 1: chance to finish up San Jose. First face off tonight,

2040
01:36:00,960 --> 01:36:04,200
Speaker 1: eight o'clock in Saint Louis. And that's the update from

2041
01:36:04,240 --> 01:36:07,200
Speaker 1: One Bills Drive, John Murphy and Steve Tasker in our

2042
01:36:07,200 --> 01:36:10,240
Speaker 1: one Buffalo Studio. Going to hear from Chris Berman momentarily.

2043
01:36:10,280 --> 01:36:12,080
Speaker 1: He's coming to Buffalo in a little bit less than

2044
01:36:12,120 --> 01:36:14,800
Speaker 1: two weeks away. We'll talk with Chris about that, Steve,

2045
01:36:14,880 --> 01:36:17,639
Speaker 1: and I'm talking a lot about the well, about the injuries,

2046
01:36:18,000 --> 01:36:21,280
Speaker 1: We're talking a lot about the Jerry Hughes signing on

2047
01:36:21,439 --> 01:36:25,000
Speaker 1: the show. And our Twitter poll deals with the Bills offense.

2048
01:36:25,040 --> 01:36:27,680
Speaker 1: Who will lead the Bills in receptions this year? Who

2049
01:36:27,720 --> 01:36:29,559
Speaker 1: do you think? Give us a call? Eight oh three

2050
01:36:29,640 --> 01:36:32,360
Speaker 1: oh five fifty and toll free one eight eight eight

2051
01:36:32,479 --> 01:36:35,000
Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. Let's take a call, Steve.

2052
01:36:35,080 --> 01:36:37,719
Speaker 1: We haven't taken a call yet from the audience. Okay,

2053
01:36:38,080 --> 01:36:39,600
Speaker 1: Mark and Amherst go ahead and Mark, you're on the

2054
01:36:39,640 --> 01:36:43,320
Speaker 1: air with us. Yes, how you doing to guys? Great? Good? Yeah,

2055
01:36:43,600 --> 01:36:46,800
Speaker 1: I just wanted to ask you a couple a couple

2056
01:36:46,840 --> 01:36:54,839
Speaker 1: of days ago. You were talking about the New England Patriots,

2057
01:36:54,920 --> 01:36:59,280
Speaker 1: about Brady and Belichick. Who who was the most influential

2058
01:37:00,080 --> 01:37:05,200
Speaker 1: person to guide them to their to their success? What

2059
01:37:05,280 --> 01:37:09,479
Speaker 1: do you think? And I, well, I don't know. I

2060
01:37:09,640 --> 01:37:14,920
Speaker 1: really I think it was a combination. But to me,

2061
01:37:15,760 --> 01:37:20,120
Speaker 1: my question is when the Bills had a run. I've

2062
01:37:20,160 --> 01:37:23,599
Speaker 1: had eighteen series in your tickets for the Bills before

2063
01:37:23,720 --> 01:37:27,519
Speaker 1: Kelly signed on, and I watched every Bill a game.

2064
01:37:27,760 --> 01:37:30,760
Speaker 1: I never missed a game, and I was curious as

2065
01:37:30,800 --> 01:37:37,479
Speaker 1: to what you think about who was influential Leavy or

2066
01:37:37,720 --> 01:37:42,160
Speaker 1: when when Kelly started calling his own plays. Yeah, what

2067
01:37:42,280 --> 01:37:45,960
Speaker 1: I see was there one figure who was pre predominant

2068
01:37:46,000 --> 01:37:49,000
Speaker 1: in your Super Bowl era? Think? No, No, there was

2069
01:37:49,000 --> 01:37:50,360
Speaker 1: a ton of guys and we had to cast a

2070
01:37:50,439 --> 01:37:53,880
Speaker 1: crew that was pretty set back then. It's a much

2071
01:37:53,920 --> 01:37:57,200
Speaker 1: different time in the league. Uh, And it was a

2072
01:37:57,320 --> 01:37:59,800
Speaker 1: different way to do things of doing business back then.

2073
01:37:59,840 --> 01:38:01,840
Speaker 1: You like the Patriots. You got to tip your hat.

2074
01:38:01,840 --> 01:38:02,920
Speaker 1: One of the reasons you tip your hat to the

2075
01:38:02,960 --> 01:38:05,040
Speaker 1: Patriots because they've done it with a ton of different

2076
01:38:05,080 --> 01:38:10,000
Speaker 1: people around those two guys Belichick and Brady, Danny Woodhead,

2077
01:38:10,479 --> 01:38:13,760
Speaker 1: Wes Welker and Julian Edelman. All three of those guys

2078
01:38:13,800 --> 01:38:17,240
Speaker 1: played that slot receiver and did different things for the club.

2079
01:38:18,479 --> 01:38:21,000
Speaker 1: Gronkowski has been there for the last you know, half

2080
01:38:21,120 --> 01:38:22,960
Speaker 1: or a little less than half of this run that

2081
01:38:23,000 --> 01:38:29,320
Speaker 1: they've had. You've got other players defensively, Teddy Bruski, guys

2082
01:38:29,400 --> 01:38:32,040
Speaker 1: like that, who have Ninkovich who has been there for

2083
01:38:32,120 --> 01:38:36,080
Speaker 1: a while, and Steph Gilmour, Terrell, I mean, Durell Reeves.

2084
01:38:36,120 --> 01:38:41,080
Speaker 1: They've had different names. Rodney Harrison who's been who is

2085
01:38:41,160 --> 01:38:43,240
Speaker 1: there for a good stretch of time, so you've had

2086
01:38:43,320 --> 01:38:46,880
Speaker 1: different players in and out of that lineup contribute in

2087
01:38:47,120 --> 01:38:49,920
Speaker 1: big ways, but not stay there for the entire run.

2088
01:38:50,240 --> 01:38:53,200
Speaker 1: In the Buffalo case, they had such a good run

2089
01:38:53,280 --> 01:38:55,479
Speaker 1: for such a short It was a shorter period of time,

2090
01:38:56,560 --> 01:38:59,519
Speaker 1: but they got contributions from significant players. They had five

2091
01:38:59,600 --> 01:39:03,719
Speaker 1: Hall of namers on that team with Jim Kelly, Andre

2092
01:39:03,840 --> 01:39:08,639
Speaker 1: Reid Thurman, Thomas Bruce Smith of course, and James Lofton

2093
01:39:09,479 --> 01:39:11,760
Speaker 1: contributed in a big way to that, as well as

2094
01:39:11,880 --> 01:39:14,479
Speaker 1: Marv Levy and a Hall of Fame general manager and

2095
01:39:14,520 --> 01:39:18,639
Speaker 1: Bill Polian, a Hall of Fame owner in Ralph Wilson. Yeah,

2096
01:39:18,680 --> 01:39:20,960
Speaker 1: they got trunk contributions from a lot of different places.

2097
01:39:21,000 --> 01:39:23,560
Speaker 1: So it's really and it was a different league, so

2098
01:39:23,720 --> 01:39:26,920
Speaker 1: it's hard to compare that run, even though it was

2099
01:39:27,040 --> 01:39:31,479
Speaker 1: much shorter but still significant. It's hard to compare that

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Speaker 1: to the run that the Patriots have been on because

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Speaker 1: they've done it in so many in such different ways.

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Speaker 1: A guy who's familiar with that run, that Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: run joins us now on the show. A familiar name

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01:39:40,840 --> 01:39:44,160
Speaker 1: to Buffalo Bills fan, six time National Sportscaster of the

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01:39:44,240 --> 01:39:47,880
Speaker 1: Year ESPN personality contributed to Sports Center and Monday Night

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01:39:47,920 --> 01:39:50,320
Speaker 1: Countdown and coming to Buffalo in less than two weeks.

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Speaker 1: We're happy to have on the line with us slave

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Speaker 1: right now, Chris Burman, Hello, Boomer, John Murphy and Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker up here in Buffalo. How are you hi, fellows,

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01:39:57,240 --> 01:39:59,639
Speaker 1: Spurt will be here any minute now, right, Yeah, we've

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01:39:59,640 --> 01:40:02,160
Speaker 1: a way. We'll see We'll tell you when it gets here.

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Speaker 1: Are you in Hawaii? No, no, no, no, no no no,

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Speaker 1: I'm in Connecticut. I know, I know what we have.

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01:40:08,160 --> 01:40:11,920
Speaker 1: We uh, you know, it's nice when the sun comes out.

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01:40:12,160 --> 01:40:14,240
Speaker 1: We could want to sneak into the low seventies. That

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01:40:14,320 --> 01:40:17,719
Speaker 1: would be good. I'm right, we're right in your wheelhouse exactly.

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01:40:18,640 --> 01:40:20,080
Speaker 1: Are you looking forward to your trip here in a

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01:40:20,120 --> 01:40:21,760
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. You're gonna do a little bit of

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01:40:21,800 --> 01:40:25,080
Speaker 1: a different event for us. Well, well, first we come

2120
01:40:25,160 --> 01:40:27,200
Speaker 1: up for Jim's golf tournament, where I'll see all you

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01:40:27,320 --> 01:40:30,040
Speaker 1: guys there and so many people that you're in year out,

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01:40:30,120 --> 01:40:32,439
Speaker 1: not only on those teams. You were such a big

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01:40:32,520 --> 01:40:34,880
Speaker 1: part of Steve and Murphy. I mean you lived it.

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01:40:35,240 --> 01:40:37,760
Speaker 1: Um we all lived it, and we're fortunate to have

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01:40:37,920 --> 01:40:42,120
Speaker 1: done so. Um uh. And but just the folks that

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01:40:42,200 --> 01:40:46,760
Speaker 1: show up to support Jim and and Hunter's hope and

2127
01:40:47,360 --> 01:40:50,040
Speaker 1: Kelly for k all the stuff and then in the evening.

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01:40:50,920 --> 01:40:53,800
Speaker 1: You know, I give credit to the organizers Therese Fort

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01:40:53,880 --> 01:40:57,280
Speaker 1: and many others that there's a wonderful idea that I

2130
01:40:57,479 --> 01:40:59,880
Speaker 1: was involved with the kind of a kickoff thing last year,

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01:41:00,000 --> 01:41:02,720
Speaker 1: and I'm sure we did the show at the time. Um,

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01:41:03,520 --> 01:41:05,720
Speaker 1: you know the museum, if you will, the Buffalo Hall

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01:41:05,760 --> 01:41:09,640
Speaker 1: of Fame experience, which combines uh if if if it

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01:41:09,720 --> 01:41:13,120
Speaker 1: gets it's getting going, if it comes to fruition the

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01:41:13,160 --> 01:41:17,000
Speaker 1: way everyone seeing it. Um, you know, we got sports,

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01:41:17,080 --> 01:41:19,800
Speaker 1: we get media, and we get music. Now, I mean

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01:41:19,840 --> 01:41:25,080
Speaker 1: other than eating food. UM, I don't know what's more interesting, right,

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01:41:25,280 --> 01:41:31,280
Speaker 1: So listen to me. Yeah, So look, it's not so

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01:41:31,439 --> 01:41:33,200
Speaker 1: much all I'm gonna get up and say a lot

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01:41:33,240 --> 01:41:34,800
Speaker 1: of people are going to get up and sing. I mean,

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01:41:35,000 --> 01:41:38,560
Speaker 1: it's um and it's a Monday evening and it's just

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01:41:38,720 --> 01:41:42,520
Speaker 1: kind of another awareness for I think, a wonderful concept

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01:41:43,120 --> 01:41:45,680
Speaker 1: and unique as far as I'm concerned, I don't know

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01:41:45,800 --> 01:41:49,639
Speaker 1: of one that puts that will put all those sort

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01:41:49,680 --> 01:41:52,720
Speaker 1: of things under one roof, you know. Um, I mean

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01:41:52,800 --> 01:41:56,360
Speaker 1: it's it's it's in it. You can be in your sixties,

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01:41:56,439 --> 01:42:01,160
Speaker 1: you can be in young and and those three subjects,

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01:42:01,720 --> 01:42:04,400
Speaker 1: or in everyone's wheelhouse. So yeah, so this is kind

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01:42:04,400 --> 01:42:06,639
Speaker 1: of an interesting idea. Look, the only thing I'll say,

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01:42:07,040 --> 01:42:09,120
Speaker 1: and I'm not the golfer that Sevy is, you know,

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01:42:09,200 --> 01:42:13,160
Speaker 1: but Huey Lewis, my friend said, you know, Boomer, as

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01:42:13,160 --> 01:42:15,920
Speaker 1: an amateur golfer, you're kind of a you know, you're

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01:42:16,000 --> 01:42:19,120
Speaker 1: fourteen or fifteen or your handicap. But an amateur singer,

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01:42:19,240 --> 01:42:23,280
Speaker 1: you're six good. So I take that as a compliment

2155
01:42:23,360 --> 01:42:25,600
Speaker 1: and we'll see if he's right. Chris is coming up.

2156
01:42:25,640 --> 01:42:27,639
Speaker 1: We'll give you the details here a couple of weeks away.

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01:42:27,680 --> 01:42:30,519
Speaker 1: On Monday, June third, at the Town Ballroom on Main

2158
01:42:30,560 --> 01:42:33,000
Speaker 1: Street in Buffalo, it is he's going to join some

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Speaker 1: of those Hall of Fame members for the night to

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01:42:35,479 --> 01:42:39,639
Speaker 1: benefit the Buffalo Hall of Fame experience. As Chris said,

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01:42:39,640 --> 01:42:41,880
Speaker 1: they're going to put the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame,

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01:42:41,880 --> 01:42:45,120
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Broadcast Hall of Fame, and the Buffalo Sports

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01:42:45,200 --> 01:42:47,040
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, You're great, Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame

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01:42:47,280 --> 01:42:49,600
Speaker 1: altogether in one place. They're raising money to do that,

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Speaker 1: and you can help by attending six pm Monday, June third,

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Speaker 1: at the Town Ballroom in downtown Buffalo. Tickets thirty dollars

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01:42:55,800 --> 01:42:59,439
Speaker 1: and you can get tickets online at ticketfly dot com.

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01:42:59,560 --> 01:43:01,600
Speaker 1: Chris is enough for that. And you're gonna sing with

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01:43:01,720 --> 01:43:03,920
Speaker 1: some Hall of famers. I know you're kind of downplaying that, Chris,

2170
01:43:03,960 --> 01:43:06,320
Speaker 1: I understand it. But they've got a group called Twang

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01:43:06,880 --> 01:43:09,040
Speaker 1: made up of music hall of famers that you're gonna

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01:43:09,080 --> 01:43:10,960
Speaker 1: jump in and sing a little bit with. Huh, Well,

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01:43:10,960 --> 01:43:13,400
Speaker 1: I heard Sevy. Have you you sung with him? Is

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01:43:13,439 --> 01:43:16,800
Speaker 1: that true? Yeah? I did one. I was at I

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01:43:16,840 --> 01:43:19,639
Speaker 1: went to Sportsman. They play every Tuesday at the Sportsman,

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01:43:19,720 --> 01:43:22,200
Speaker 1: So I jumped in once with them. Yeah. Well, I

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01:43:22,280 --> 01:43:25,120
Speaker 1: mean they look, have you got a good band behind you?

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01:43:26,160 --> 01:43:30,200
Speaker 1: We can sound good? Right? Well? We meaning you? Yeah? Well,

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01:43:30,240 --> 01:43:33,120
Speaker 1: I don't know, but but they look they play music.

2180
01:43:33,240 --> 01:43:37,880
Speaker 1: Everybody likes everybody. The folks in town know all these

2181
01:43:37,960 --> 01:43:42,080
Speaker 1: fellas that are gonna have or the Yelvis guy, it's

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01:43:42,120 --> 01:43:44,000
Speaker 1: gonna it's it's gonna be a musical night and a

2183
01:43:44,080 --> 01:43:46,360
Speaker 1: lot of fun and and and just kind of hanging

2184
01:43:46,400 --> 01:43:49,840
Speaker 1: out some Monday nights. I mean, it's, uh, it's low key,

2185
01:43:49,920 --> 01:43:53,120
Speaker 1: but we're gonna we're gonna start. Look, the Monday before

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01:43:53,320 --> 01:43:55,400
Speaker 1: was a holiday, no reason, this can't be a holiday

2187
01:43:55,439 --> 01:43:58,519
Speaker 1: from now right right right? And Chris, how many years

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01:43:58,680 --> 01:44:00,439
Speaker 1: just if you want to even guess how many years

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01:44:00,479 --> 01:44:03,000
Speaker 1: for you? And Jim Kelly's a charity golf tournament, I

2190
01:44:03,080 --> 01:44:05,519
Speaker 1: know you're way past double digits. And then oh yeah,

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01:44:06,400 --> 01:44:09,639
Speaker 1: well I don't know how many years has he had

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01:44:09,680 --> 01:44:15,200
Speaker 1: it now? Two? Yeah? Okay? So um I want to

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Speaker 1: say twenty yeah, yeah, I mean I don't. I'll bet

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01:44:21,360 --> 01:44:23,479
Speaker 1: is more than that. I think you start coming in

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01:44:23,560 --> 01:44:28,719
Speaker 1: the earth maybe somewhere around uh, somewhere around the comeback

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01:44:28,800 --> 01:44:32,479
Speaker 1: game when we started with the circling the wagons, probably

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01:44:32,520 --> 01:44:35,559
Speaker 1: around then. So that would put it, Yeah, that would

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01:44:35,560 --> 01:44:39,120
Speaker 1: put it out there. Yeah, and you know what it is,

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Speaker 1: and you're a huge part of it. After Hunter passed,

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01:44:43,880 --> 01:44:47,200
Speaker 1: all the guys made you know, everybody would try to come,

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Speaker 1: but it was a much more concerted effort every year

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01:44:52,960 --> 01:44:55,519
Speaker 1: for a long time after that. You know what we're all.

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01:44:55,920 --> 01:44:58,439
Speaker 1: I hate to say it's circling the wagons to your point,

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01:44:58,560 --> 01:45:03,200
Speaker 1: but I felt that everyone was coming for a long

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01:45:03,320 --> 01:45:06,960
Speaker 1: time after a Hunter passed away, and and that spirit

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01:45:07,000 --> 01:45:09,720
Speaker 1: has remained. Well, you guys had something specialized. I was

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01:45:09,800 --> 01:45:12,080
Speaker 1: only on the outs well I don't want to say outskirts,

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01:45:12,120 --> 01:45:14,240
Speaker 1: but I wasn't on the team. But I mean, the

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Speaker 1: city knows what you that that that'll ever happen again.

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01:45:18,000 --> 01:45:20,599
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the friendships wet alone the accomplishment, right.

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01:45:20,640 --> 01:45:23,040
Speaker 1: I think one of the interesting things, Chris, that guys

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01:45:23,320 --> 01:45:25,439
Speaker 1: like outside, the guys that didn't put on the uniformer

2213
01:45:25,520 --> 01:45:27,640
Speaker 1: as much a part of that big family as the

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01:45:27,720 --> 01:45:30,200
Speaker 1: guys who wore helmets. I mean guys like Murph and you,

2215
01:45:30,479 --> 01:45:33,439
Speaker 1: and even guys like Dan Marino. Now, after all so

2216
01:45:33,520 --> 01:45:35,519
Speaker 1: many years when he was the nemesis of the team,

2217
01:45:35,600 --> 01:45:37,680
Speaker 1: he's kind of one of the guys as well. Um,

2218
01:45:37,800 --> 01:45:40,320
Speaker 1: so it it has there's no doubt that it's a

2219
01:45:40,439 --> 01:45:43,559
Speaker 1: family that has grown. Bill Polian comes back, he shows up,

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01:45:43,680 --> 01:45:46,240
Speaker 1: Marv comes back at least, and in fact, it was

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01:45:46,479 --> 01:45:49,280
Speaker 1: funny and you can laugh at this. Marv Levy came

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01:45:49,360 --> 01:45:52,639
Speaker 1: back just for the party the night before the pairings party,

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01:45:52,880 --> 01:45:55,679
Speaker 1: and then he leaves and goes home during the golf.

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01:45:56,200 --> 01:45:58,400
Speaker 1: So it's a it's an event like none other. You're right,

2225
01:45:59,040 --> 01:46:02,240
Speaker 1: And and the folks come out and and my goodness,

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01:46:02,280 --> 01:46:04,479
Speaker 1: there's fun on every whole. I don't know that we're

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01:46:05,240 --> 01:46:08,240
Speaker 1: I don't know that that that we're threatening Brooks Kept

2228
01:46:08,360 --> 01:46:14,680
Speaker 1: anytime soon, but uh maybe more like, uh, well we

2229
01:46:14,760 --> 01:46:17,479
Speaker 1: could now I had a funny line there and I

2230
01:46:17,640 --> 01:46:22,320
Speaker 1: forgot it, but it was even clean. But just what hey,

2231
01:46:22,520 --> 01:46:24,280
Speaker 1: you know I covered a lot of kicks, Chevy. You

2232
01:46:24,320 --> 01:46:26,400
Speaker 1: know what, I'm starting to save, save the good ones,

2233
01:46:26,479 --> 01:46:31,320
Speaker 1: Save the good ones for Monday Night. Uh, you know

2234
01:46:31,439 --> 01:46:34,599
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's just fun to be up with everybody.

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01:46:34,680 --> 01:46:37,560
Speaker 1: Everyone's so appreciative in the whole area. And we have

2236
01:46:37,640 --> 01:46:39,280
Speaker 1: it at Terry Hills and then the Monday Night have

2237
01:46:39,320 --> 01:46:42,519
Speaker 1: been will be fun. And you know it involved the

2238
01:46:42,560 --> 01:46:45,000
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. You're Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame up

2239
01:46:45,040 --> 01:46:48,120
Speaker 1: there too, and you guys excited about what the bills up.

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Speaker 1: I'll ask you. I mean, I can give my opinion,

2241
01:46:50,600 --> 01:46:55,160
Speaker 1: but I'm not as dialed in. Uh where they went draftwise,

2242
01:46:55,200 --> 01:46:57,000
Speaker 1: of course, we never know. I mean to make sense

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01:46:57,040 --> 01:46:59,240
Speaker 1: that the one the first player they got, I mean

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01:46:59,320 --> 01:47:02,040
Speaker 1: there was a they weren't expecting to even be able

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01:47:02,080 --> 01:47:04,880
Speaker 1: to do that at nine, right, and so in their

2246
01:47:04,920 --> 01:47:08,760
Speaker 1: off season moves that you think they're doing the right things. Well,

2247
01:47:09,600 --> 01:47:12,400
Speaker 1: we've got the line between me and Murphy is you

2248
01:47:12,479 --> 01:47:16,080
Speaker 1: would be hard pressed and maybe now in the history

2249
01:47:16,080 --> 01:47:18,120
Speaker 1: of the NFL to find a more optimistic team that

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Speaker 1: finished six and ten the year before. So they're they're

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01:47:21,400 --> 01:47:25,000
Speaker 1: very optimistic here that it's hard to it's hard to

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01:47:25,240 --> 01:47:30,320
Speaker 1: debate any move they made the entire offseason. They've they've

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01:47:30,400 --> 01:47:35,360
Speaker 1: stayed disciplined, they spent their money wisely apparently, and they

2254
01:47:35,439 --> 01:47:37,800
Speaker 1: seem to have all their ducks in a row kind

2255
01:47:37,840 --> 01:47:39,920
Speaker 1: of waiting And for all of us, we're just marking

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01:47:40,000 --> 01:47:42,240
Speaker 1: time until they kick it off because we can't wait

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01:47:42,280 --> 01:47:45,680
Speaker 1: to watch this team play. So, yeah, you're right, we're optimistic.

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01:47:45,840 --> 01:47:48,559
Speaker 1: Is putting it mildly? Well, it's good to hear. I mean,

2259
01:47:48,640 --> 01:47:52,080
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see what the quarterback becomes. Certainly the

2260
01:47:52,160 --> 01:47:55,560
Speaker 1: Bills have certainly given him some help. Um. You know,

2261
01:47:55,640 --> 01:47:58,640
Speaker 1: there is no better Frank Gore. I mean, now he

2262
01:47:58,760 --> 01:48:00,760
Speaker 1: may not be what he was, you know, but I

2263
01:48:00,800 --> 01:48:04,920
Speaker 1: mean he's you talk about a professional. Um. And I

2264
01:48:05,000 --> 01:48:07,639
Speaker 1: know Mitch Morse, you know that the center center came

2265
01:48:07,680 --> 01:48:10,639
Speaker 1: over from the Chiefs, and and and a slot receiver

2266
01:48:10,840 --> 01:48:13,920
Speaker 1: and Beasley that the problem is you guys, as I

2267
01:48:14,120 --> 01:48:16,320
Speaker 1: was waiting to come on, I mean, you guys hit it.

2268
01:48:16,400 --> 01:48:19,679
Speaker 1: I mean, I think New England is still in the division,

2269
01:48:19,800 --> 01:48:22,960
Speaker 1: right unless I missed something. I mean, you know, I

2270
01:48:23,040 --> 01:48:26,760
Speaker 1: do go to wire in there, but I think the

2271
01:48:26,880 --> 01:48:28,960
Speaker 1: Jets are on the way up and Miami's on the

2272
01:48:29,000 --> 01:48:31,040
Speaker 1: way back. I mean, but this is May, right, I

2273
01:48:31,120 --> 01:48:35,040
Speaker 1: mean a lot of things can happen um in that time.

2274
01:48:35,240 --> 01:48:40,360
Speaker 1: So look the Bills, I just think if they if

2275
01:48:40,439 --> 01:48:43,479
Speaker 1: they the defense was pretty good last year. I mean,

2276
01:48:43,560 --> 01:48:45,439
Speaker 1: I think of those two New England games which I

2277
01:48:45,560 --> 01:48:48,759
Speaker 1: watched when I was at and one, and they played

2278
01:48:49,040 --> 01:48:51,880
Speaker 1: really well. And that's the head coach Sean McDermott's calling,

2279
01:48:52,000 --> 01:48:58,040
Speaker 1: cart right, So I played pretty good defense and hope

2280
01:48:58,080 --> 01:49:01,720
Speaker 1: to score. They're not going to be either Rams or

2281
01:49:01,760 --> 01:49:04,280
Speaker 1: the Saints or the Chiefs that we get it or

2282
01:49:04,360 --> 01:49:08,200
Speaker 1: the Patriots in scoring. But you know, get into the

2283
01:49:08,280 --> 01:49:10,879
Speaker 1: low twenties and win games. I'm not talking about seventeen

2284
01:49:11,040 --> 01:49:14,639
Speaker 1: fourteen in the day, twenty three twenty that would kind

2285
01:49:14,680 --> 01:49:17,240
Speaker 1: of be where they're headed. Or unless you unless I've

2286
01:49:17,240 --> 01:49:19,200
Speaker 1: missed something, that's it's my read on it. What do

2287
01:49:19,280 --> 01:49:21,759
Speaker 1: you think? Chris? Let me ask you this I get worried.

2288
01:49:21,880 --> 01:49:26,080
Speaker 1: Steve knows that there's so much positive national media attention

2289
01:49:26,200 --> 01:49:29,439
Speaker 1: being focused on the Buffalo Bills. Now I get worried

2290
01:49:29,479 --> 01:49:32,439
Speaker 1: that we're being set up for a letdown. Should I

2291
01:49:32,479 --> 01:49:34,680
Speaker 1: worry about that? Have you've seen that? Right? People love

2292
01:49:34,720 --> 01:49:37,639
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills right now. Well, but they're not alone.

2293
01:49:37,680 --> 01:49:41,200
Speaker 1: I mean that people are on a few teams. So look,

2294
01:49:42,439 --> 01:49:45,320
Speaker 1: you get it's nice to sneak up on people, and

2295
01:49:45,439 --> 01:49:49,400
Speaker 1: so in retrospect, maybe no one will talk about us,

2296
01:49:49,439 --> 01:49:52,599
Speaker 1: and then we're, you know, five and two before anyone

2297
01:49:52,680 --> 01:49:56,920
Speaker 1: knows what's going on in this day and age. Usually

2298
01:49:57,960 --> 01:50:02,400
Speaker 1: the cause for optimism, not all those teams, you know,

2299
01:50:02,520 --> 01:50:05,320
Speaker 1: not all the March free agent and the Bills weren't

2300
01:50:05,400 --> 01:50:08,800
Speaker 1: that that's signing like any dream team, you know, at

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01:50:08,840 --> 01:50:11,360
Speaker 1: their prime. We've seen a lot of those teams, the

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01:50:11,479 --> 01:50:14,559
Speaker 1: March winners fall in their face. Right. But but if

2303
01:50:14,640 --> 01:50:19,479
Speaker 1: you're not being talked about a little bit at this time,

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01:50:19,720 --> 01:50:25,200
Speaker 1: it means they're relying on unbelievable things to happen in chemistry.

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01:50:25,280 --> 01:50:27,960
Speaker 1: And I think all you can do is improve your

2306
01:50:28,000 --> 01:50:31,120
Speaker 1: odds right in life and in football, and I think

2307
01:50:31,160 --> 01:50:34,559
Speaker 1: the Bills have done that and let's give the young

2308
01:50:34,680 --> 01:50:38,439
Speaker 1: quarterback and see you see, with a little more in

2309
01:50:38,760 --> 01:50:43,240
Speaker 1: the team's holster, what he can do. I mean, let's

2310
01:50:43,320 --> 01:50:47,200
Speaker 1: see if okay, if accuracy compared to the best quarterbacks

2311
01:50:47,240 --> 01:50:50,240
Speaker 1: as a problem at the moment. By the way, Jared

2312
01:50:50,320 --> 01:50:53,400
Speaker 1: Goff was horrible his first year, right, and so hello,

2313
01:50:55,439 --> 01:50:57,799
Speaker 1: so how do you help him? Well, here's a slot receiver,

2314
01:50:57,960 --> 01:51:00,840
Speaker 1: maybe the tight end they drafted develop ups into, somebody

2315
01:51:00,880 --> 01:51:04,479
Speaker 1: who's just a real, really good target, the chain moving target,

2316
01:51:04,600 --> 01:51:09,000
Speaker 1: not necessarily you know, someone like Andre Reader, James Lofton.

2317
01:51:09,040 --> 01:51:12,280
Speaker 1: I mean what you know that just give him tools

2318
01:51:12,400 --> 01:51:15,479
Speaker 1: to to get in a fall. I mean, I know

2319
01:51:15,600 --> 01:51:19,240
Speaker 1: that's I'm being vague, and it is may. So why

2320
01:51:19,320 --> 01:51:23,400
Speaker 1: get too analytical now? Right? So, um, I just I

2321
01:51:23,560 --> 01:51:25,800
Speaker 1: just like the way they played defense last year or

2322
01:51:25,800 --> 01:51:30,360
Speaker 1: so if the other side comes, why not? What what

2323
01:51:30,520 --> 01:51:32,880
Speaker 1: do they say? Why not us? Right? Yeah, exactly, Well

2324
01:51:32,880 --> 01:51:35,320
Speaker 1: you do mention that it is may. And while you've

2325
01:51:35,760 --> 01:51:37,760
Speaker 1: you you know, you've kind of stepped away from your

2326
01:51:37,840 --> 01:51:40,640
Speaker 1: big the way you carried ESPN on your back for

2327
01:51:40,720 --> 01:51:43,600
Speaker 1: like twenty five years. But now you're you're doing a

2328
01:51:43,640 --> 01:51:46,240
Speaker 1: little less, but you are doing a little something. You're

2329
01:51:46,280 --> 01:51:49,840
Speaker 1: gonna do a Red Sox game coming up. Well to

2330
01:51:50,040 --> 01:51:52,400
Speaker 1: back that I don't know that I carried ESPN on

2331
01:51:52,680 --> 01:51:55,080
Speaker 1: on on my back. I don't, but thank you. I mean,

2332
01:51:55,160 --> 01:52:00,080
Speaker 1: I'm We started um a September of seventy nine, so

2333
01:52:00,200 --> 01:52:04,080
Speaker 1: that's forty years this fall. I started October one. That

2334
01:52:04,240 --> 01:52:08,160
Speaker 1: was twenty one, twenty four long hair, which I wish

2335
01:52:08,200 --> 01:52:10,240
Speaker 1: I saved, and a mustache, which is a good look.

2336
01:52:10,280 --> 01:52:12,360
Speaker 1: In the late seventies, let's not knocked out. You were

2337
01:52:12,479 --> 01:52:15,320
Speaker 1: rocking it. Yeah, I remember, listen, I was watching. I remember,

2338
01:52:15,680 --> 01:52:17,200
Speaker 1: I mean I was okay. I mean, I had to

2339
01:52:17,280 --> 01:52:19,880
Speaker 1: convince my kids just look at pictures of late seventies,

2340
01:52:20,240 --> 01:52:21,719
Speaker 1: Oh you're right there. There are a lot of guys

2341
01:52:21,760 --> 01:52:23,760
Speaker 1: that look like you. Yeah right. I wasn't the freak

2342
01:52:23,840 --> 01:52:26,280
Speaker 1: you think I am. So but that's your kids, right

2343
01:52:26,280 --> 01:52:28,439
Speaker 1: any rate that. Thank you for that compliment. But I

2344
01:52:29,200 --> 01:52:32,000
Speaker 1: did more football stuff last year, more of a historical

2345
01:52:32,120 --> 01:52:37,320
Speaker 1: variety every week, and we're still working on. This is

2346
01:52:37,360 --> 01:52:40,760
Speaker 1: a hundredth season of the NFL, as you all know

2347
01:52:41,000 --> 01:52:45,120
Speaker 1: and not they started nineteen twenty, so one hundredth anniversaries

2348
01:52:45,120 --> 01:52:47,120
Speaker 1: another year. But this is one hundredth season. The league

2349
01:52:47,240 --> 01:52:49,080
Speaker 1: is going to be doing quite a bit with it

2350
01:52:49,200 --> 01:52:52,479
Speaker 1: with teams and all time coaches and stuff like that,

2351
01:52:52,680 --> 01:52:56,599
Speaker 1: and we'll identify something that I'll have on a weekly basis.

2352
01:52:56,640 --> 01:53:00,240
Speaker 1: I'm not dancing around it. We haven't totally It's still May, right,

2353
01:53:00,320 --> 01:53:02,519
Speaker 1: so we haven't totally figured out what can we do

2354
01:53:03,080 --> 01:53:05,479
Speaker 1: that differentiates from wille what the league is doing that

2355
01:53:05,560 --> 01:53:09,719
Speaker 1: maybe it's my signature or something. So there'll be more

2356
01:53:09,920 --> 01:53:14,240
Speaker 1: of that, whether people want it or not. And the

2357
01:53:14,320 --> 01:53:16,519
Speaker 1: other stuff is now I'm just doing. But yes, I'm

2358
01:53:16,560 --> 01:53:19,080
Speaker 1: doing five Red Sox games on the radio. They call

2359
01:53:19,200 --> 01:53:22,120
Speaker 1: at Christmas time, and three of them are coming up

2360
01:53:22,240 --> 01:53:24,360
Speaker 1: a Memorial Day in the next two days. They're playing

2361
01:53:24,439 --> 01:53:28,320
Speaker 1: Cleveland and then a couple in August, they're playing the Phillies.

2362
01:53:28,920 --> 01:53:31,360
Speaker 1: You know, I grew up in New England or the

2363
01:53:31,520 --> 01:53:36,519
Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants or my team above all, but Boston

2364
01:53:36,640 --> 01:53:38,600
Speaker 1: was a team I could drive to see. You know.

2365
01:53:38,640 --> 01:53:41,040
Speaker 1: I went to college in Rhode Island and that Brown

2366
01:53:41,160 --> 01:53:44,320
Speaker 1: and so I have so many memories at Fenway Park

2367
01:53:44,400 --> 01:53:46,280
Speaker 1: from the seventies on. I mean, and there's plenty of

2368
01:53:46,320 --> 01:53:49,040
Speaker 1: people in your area that make the trip there, whether

2369
01:53:49,080 --> 01:53:52,320
Speaker 1: they're like the Red Sox Yankee or whatever. It's iconic.

2370
01:53:52,479 --> 01:53:54,960
Speaker 1: So say, okay, I'm going to do a handful of games.

2371
01:53:55,080 --> 01:53:59,160
Speaker 1: Sitting in Fenway Park, it's hard not to feel like baseball.

2372
01:54:00,000 --> 01:54:03,080
Speaker 1: It's hard not to feel that that would be a

2373
01:54:03,200 --> 01:54:05,320
Speaker 1: good evening, right, I mean, any of us would kind

2374
01:54:05,360 --> 01:54:08,000
Speaker 1: of jump at that, correct, So so I did. I mean,

2375
01:54:08,080 --> 01:54:10,599
Speaker 1: it's it just kind of came out of left field.

2376
01:54:10,640 --> 01:54:13,960
Speaker 1: And they don't have a set second announcer along with

2377
01:54:14,120 --> 01:54:17,040
Speaker 1: jocastig Leone has been there forever and a wonderful gentleman,

2378
01:54:18,640 --> 01:54:21,920
Speaker 1: and they were hoping I do a bunch more sevy,

2379
01:54:21,960 --> 01:54:23,599
Speaker 1: but I would, you know, I'm busier than you're thinking.

2380
01:54:23,840 --> 01:54:26,519
Speaker 1: The worst thing is when people think you're retired or something.

2381
01:54:26,560 --> 01:54:29,080
Speaker 1: I retired, you have nothing to do, right, Yeah, so

2382
01:54:29,160 --> 01:54:31,160
Speaker 1: they don't hesitate to ask you to do things, right,

2383
01:54:32,200 --> 01:54:34,440
Speaker 1: I mean, when they stop, that's the problem. Right. But

2384
01:54:34,760 --> 01:54:38,120
Speaker 1: but it's not like at any rate, I was honored

2385
01:54:38,160 --> 01:54:40,520
Speaker 1: to be asked. I said, how about the series in

2386
01:54:40,600 --> 01:54:43,560
Speaker 1: the spring in a series in the summer, and they

2387
01:54:43,600 --> 01:54:48,040
Speaker 1: went great? So that's coming up next week. I'll I'll

2388
01:54:48,080 --> 01:54:50,400
Speaker 1: have to bring up a couple of lobster rolls on

2389
01:54:50,440 --> 01:54:54,560
Speaker 1: the way to Jim Scalpturn on the third. Yeah, you're

2390
01:54:54,600 --> 01:54:56,720
Speaker 1: gonna be busy, Chris. Thanks for spending time with us today.

2391
01:54:56,760 --> 01:54:58,480
Speaker 1: We look forward to seeing you in a couple of

2392
01:54:58,520 --> 01:55:00,919
Speaker 1: weeks here for Jim's tournament and Hall of Fame experience.

2393
01:55:01,080 --> 01:55:03,120
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. We appreciate a good job. Until

2394
01:55:03,160 --> 01:55:05,680
Speaker 1: I coming home with the show, the Happy Spring to

2395
01:55:05,720 --> 01:55:08,400
Speaker 1: you guys, and we'll see it in a couple of weeks.

2396
01:55:08,440 --> 01:55:11,960
Speaker 1: All right, travel travel safe boom. Hello. Yeah, Chris Burman,

2397
01:55:12,200 --> 01:55:16,320
Speaker 1: ESPN personality, six time National Sportscaster of the Year. He'll

2398
01:55:16,360 --> 01:55:18,720
Speaker 1: be here for Jim Kelly's tournament a couple of weekends away,

2399
01:55:18,920 --> 01:55:21,200
Speaker 1: and it also will be here in two weeks on Monday,

2400
01:55:21,320 --> 01:55:24,600
Speaker 1: June third, six pm, Town Ballroom six eighty one Main

2401
01:55:24,720 --> 01:55:27,760
Speaker 1: Street in Buffalo for a part of the event to

2402
01:55:27,880 --> 01:55:30,560
Speaker 1: raise awareness and money for the Buffalo Hall of Fame.

2403
01:55:30,680 --> 01:55:33,360
Speaker 1: Experienced tickets thirty dollars. You can go online and get

2404
01:55:33,440 --> 01:55:36,320
Speaker 1: him at ticketfly dot com. Chris will be there singing

2405
01:55:36,720 --> 01:55:39,880
Speaker 1: with Twang, a group of Buffalo music Wang gamers, Yeah,

2406
01:55:39,960 --> 01:55:43,200
Speaker 1: the Twin Game, a group of Buffalo Music Hall of Famers,

2407
01:55:43,600 --> 01:55:45,840
Speaker 1: and trying to are his money to put together the

2408
01:55:45,880 --> 01:55:48,600
Speaker 1: Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame, the Buffalo Music Hall

2409
01:55:48,640 --> 01:55:52,840
Speaker 1: of Fame, and the Buffalo Broadcasters Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame.

2410
01:55:53,000 --> 01:55:56,760
Speaker 1: And that's coming up on Monday, June third. That'll be

2411
01:55:56,840 --> 01:55:58,600
Speaker 1: kind of a neat event. It was last year he

2412
01:55:58,640 --> 01:56:00,600
Speaker 1: did it is it's a nice event. The Twin Gang

2413
01:56:00,680 --> 01:56:05,080
Speaker 1: are a great bunch of guys, and yeah, they is.

2414
01:56:05,480 --> 01:56:09,040
Speaker 1: They play at the Sportsman's Bar, ye every Tuesday, their

2415
01:56:09,200 --> 01:56:12,320
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame Musicians and they have this thing where

2416
01:56:12,360 --> 01:56:17,080
Speaker 1: they just listen. I'm not public speaking aside like I

2417
01:56:17,160 --> 01:56:19,040
Speaker 1: do every day. When you do every day in the radio.

2418
01:56:19,120 --> 01:56:20,600
Speaker 1: It's not like I get up and sing in front

2419
01:56:20,640 --> 01:56:25,240
Speaker 1: of people at all ever. But you always singing. No,

2420
01:56:25,320 --> 01:56:27,000
Speaker 1: but you always singing the car, right, So they and

2421
01:56:27,080 --> 01:56:28,720
Speaker 1: they get it. Yet they push you up there because

2422
01:56:28,760 --> 01:56:30,640
Speaker 1: it was a fundraiser. You do sing. It's like, okay,

2423
01:56:30,800 --> 01:56:33,320
Speaker 1: sing a song. I'm like what song? What? Who? And

2424
01:56:33,400 --> 01:56:35,440
Speaker 1: they know you know the words of some song. I'm like, no,

2425
01:56:36,080 --> 01:56:37,680
Speaker 1: you sang all the way to the combine when we

2426
01:56:37,720 --> 01:56:40,720
Speaker 1: were in the car this year. That's true. Yeah, it

2427
01:56:40,880 --> 01:56:43,760
Speaker 1: was annoying right there you go, and it was that

2428
01:56:43,920 --> 01:56:47,200
Speaker 1: night too, right, so so I don't you know, all right,

2429
01:56:47,640 --> 01:56:50,600
Speaker 1: closure there is video of that that Steve has prohibited

2430
01:56:50,680 --> 01:56:52,840
Speaker 1: us from airing on. That's exactly right. If if you

2431
01:56:52,960 --> 01:56:57,600
Speaker 1: air it, I will I will snap Jay Harris's kneecaps.

2432
01:56:58,760 --> 01:57:00,520
Speaker 1: Now that just makes me want to see that video.

2433
01:57:00,600 --> 01:57:04,840
Speaker 1: Warn you never see it privately. What happened? Did you

2434
01:57:04,920 --> 01:57:07,200
Speaker 1: miss a note or something? Oh yeah, notes and words,

2435
01:57:07,240 --> 01:57:10,120
Speaker 1: all of it. I was horrific. I was horrific. I

2436
01:57:10,120 --> 01:57:12,040
Speaker 1: gotta see this. It was awful. You don't want it?

2437
01:57:12,080 --> 01:57:14,320
Speaker 1: I mean it would listen, our ratings go right down

2438
01:57:14,320 --> 01:57:15,720
Speaker 1: the tubes if you put that on. You know, people

2439
01:57:15,800 --> 01:57:17,800
Speaker 1: used to call up awful. People used to call up

2440
01:57:17,840 --> 01:57:19,520
Speaker 1: a show and say, Steve belongs in the Hall of Fame.

2441
01:57:19,560 --> 01:57:20,920
Speaker 1: Now people to call up and say, I want to

2442
01:57:20,920 --> 01:57:24,320
Speaker 1: see that music. Man, it ain't happening. Yeah, that'll be

2443
01:57:24,400 --> 01:57:26,960
Speaker 1: a that's a challenge. You've you've thrown down the gauntlet

2444
01:57:27,000 --> 01:57:29,520
Speaker 1: to us. Now anyway, Chris Burman will sing with the

2445
01:57:29,600 --> 01:57:32,680
Speaker 1: Twin Gang just a couple of weeks away, Monday, June third.

2446
01:57:33,160 --> 01:57:35,520
Speaker 1: It's the benefit for the Buffalo Hall of Fame experience.

2447
01:57:36,080 --> 01:57:39,400
Speaker 1: It's not happening. We'll take a break, we'll come back

2448
01:57:39,600 --> 01:57:42,200
Speaker 1: and talk, We'll go karaoke sometime and then we'll you know,

2449
01:57:42,240 --> 01:57:43,880
Speaker 1: we'll do it privately. But the problem is some of

2450
01:57:43,880 --> 01:57:45,880
Speaker 1: the guys pull out their phones. Yeah that's what happened

2451
01:57:45,920 --> 01:57:48,520
Speaker 1: that night. Yeah, I gotta see this some of you know,

2452
01:57:48,800 --> 01:57:51,160
Speaker 1: one goes live from one Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bill's

2453
01:57:51,240 --> 01:58:08,040
Speaker 1: Radio and the whole stretch live down that stretch they come.

2454
01:58:08,680 --> 01:58:11,560
Speaker 1: You know, among the many good things about having Eric

2455
01:58:11,640 --> 01:58:14,080
Speaker 1: would part of our broadcasting, Oh, I know where this

2456
01:58:14,160 --> 01:58:17,040
Speaker 1: is horse racing. The guy he's talking about Derby. He's

2457
01:58:17,040 --> 01:58:19,160
Speaker 1: a Louisville guy goes to the Derby every year. We

2458
01:58:19,240 --> 01:58:21,480
Speaker 1: had a great conversation. He was there a couple of

2459
01:58:21,560 --> 01:58:25,040
Speaker 1: saturdays ago and that debacle. Right when you're a horse guy, right,

2460
01:58:25,280 --> 01:58:27,440
Speaker 1: I'd try to be kind of pushed me away. But

2461
01:58:27,760 --> 01:58:29,800
Speaker 1: here's what it's like for when you and Eric would

2462
01:58:29,800 --> 01:58:31,440
Speaker 1: get together. They started in on that. It's like one

2463
01:58:31,440 --> 01:58:36,240
Speaker 1: of those conversations where it's my mom and my mom

2464
01:58:36,360 --> 01:58:39,400
Speaker 1: is standing around and listening to me and you talk

2465
01:58:39,440 --> 01:58:42,320
Speaker 1: about football. She's like, what is that word? I don't

2466
01:58:42,360 --> 01:58:44,720
Speaker 1: even know what Most of the words you're talking about,

2467
01:58:44,760 --> 01:58:46,680
Speaker 1: I don't even know what they mean. It's just a

2468
01:58:46,720 --> 01:58:49,920
Speaker 1: whole different vocabulary. Derby He's like, yeah, you know, and

2469
01:58:50,000 --> 01:58:52,880
Speaker 1: it's like whatever, you're talking about this stuff and you're

2470
01:58:53,200 --> 01:58:56,400
Speaker 1: saying things about places and people I have no idea about. Well,

2471
01:58:56,440 --> 01:58:58,880
Speaker 1: he knows much more than I do, and I think

2472
01:58:58,920 --> 01:59:03,680
Speaker 1: this might be my ticket to the Derby right basically, Oh,

2473
01:59:03,720 --> 01:59:05,920
Speaker 1: it's got to be right. I mean, you got a

2474
01:59:05,960 --> 01:59:08,600
Speaker 1: sweet listen, got Churchill down Derby Day, got to win

2475
01:59:08,680 --> 01:59:10,520
Speaker 1: him over and because but I told you it's important

2476
01:59:10,520 --> 01:59:12,640
Speaker 1: in the broadcast. You have chemistry. You gotta win him over,

2477
01:59:12,680 --> 01:59:15,320
Speaker 1: be his best buddy. Then you can't help but invite you.

2478
01:59:15,440 --> 01:59:18,280
Speaker 1: You know, the kid's weddings, you know, and the and

2479
01:59:18,440 --> 01:59:21,680
Speaker 1: the Derby suite. He's in a sweet two murf because

2480
01:59:21,680 --> 01:59:24,840
Speaker 1: it got a dirt pouring rain every Derby I've ever seen. Yeah,

2481
01:59:25,000 --> 01:59:27,040
Speaker 1: so you gotta get inside. Hey. Yeah, the Bills had

2482
01:59:27,080 --> 01:59:30,000
Speaker 1: their ota today. They had injury news. We can talk

2483
01:59:30,040 --> 01:59:31,880
Speaker 1: about that if you'd like. Phone lines open eight o

2484
01:59:32,000 --> 01:59:34,680
Speaker 1: three oh five fifty and toll free one eight eight

2485
01:59:34,800 --> 01:59:37,640
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty. They are expected to

2486
01:59:37,680 --> 01:59:40,800
Speaker 1: announce that they've signed a contract extension with defensive end

2487
01:59:40,880 --> 01:59:43,880
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes this afternoon. That's should be coming out, we

2488
01:59:44,000 --> 01:59:46,280
Speaker 1: hope if a Jerry who steps to the podium over

2489
01:59:46,360 --> 01:59:48,200
Speaker 1: in the media center across the way that we can

2490
01:59:48,240 --> 01:59:50,400
Speaker 1: carry that live. If it's after three pm, we will

2491
01:59:50,480 --> 01:59:53,000
Speaker 1: not um what else is going on here. Eric Would

2492
01:59:53,200 --> 01:59:55,200
Speaker 1: announced today as a new member of the Bills media

2493
01:59:55,280 --> 01:59:57,480
Speaker 1: content team, will be the color man on the Bills

2494
01:59:57,880 --> 02:00:00,480
Speaker 1: Sunday radio broadcast along with me. He'll be on this

2495
02:00:00,560 --> 02:00:03,480
Speaker 1: show a lot of Monday's most home game Mondays. Any

2496
02:00:03,520 --> 02:00:05,640
Speaker 1: of that is on the table for discussion. Eight O

2497
02:00:05,760 --> 02:00:08,680
Speaker 1: three five fifty told free one eight eight eight five

2498
02:00:08,840 --> 02:00:12,440
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. Sean McDermott was available for discussion

2499
02:00:12,520 --> 02:00:15,600
Speaker 1: at eleven thirty this morning before the OTA session today,

2500
02:00:15,640 --> 02:00:17,840
Speaker 1: answering a number of questions going through the injury list.

2501
02:00:17,880 --> 02:00:19,720
Speaker 1: Will go through that with you in a second. But

2502
02:00:19,800 --> 02:00:24,320
Speaker 1: Sean was also asked for his first impressions of quarterback

2503
02:00:24,440 --> 02:00:27,040
Speaker 1: Josh Allen going into his second year. Here's what John

2504
02:00:27,120 --> 02:00:30,920
Speaker 1: McDermott says about second year quarterback Josh Allen. You know,

2505
02:00:31,000 --> 02:00:35,640
Speaker 1: I've I've been impressed with his methodical work, ethic and approach.

2506
02:00:37,640 --> 02:00:40,480
Speaker 1: Seems like he understands the work that he has to

2507
02:00:40,720 --> 02:00:42,600
Speaker 1: and we have to do this offseason to get us

2508
02:00:42,600 --> 02:00:44,600
Speaker 1: to where we're trying to get to as a football team,

2509
02:00:44,880 --> 02:00:47,840
Speaker 1: and then offensively as well. He's done a great job,

2510
02:00:47,920 --> 02:00:49,880
Speaker 1: as you guys know, it's been well documented putting his

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Speaker 1: arms around some of the players that we did sign

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Speaker 1: through free agencies, some of our draft picks. And I

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02:00:56,400 --> 02:00:58,920
Speaker 1: think that's that's a great quality to have in terms

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Speaker 1: of the humility that that Josh possesses in his DNA

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02:01:02,320 --> 02:01:05,360
Speaker 1: and again the way he was raised and so, um

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02:01:05,520 --> 02:01:08,400
Speaker 1: that's the first step in leadership. A lot of times, um, so,

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02:01:08,520 --> 02:01:10,680
Speaker 1: I thought he had a good day yesterday and certainly

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02:01:10,760 --> 02:01:14,440
Speaker 1: more work to do the rest of the week. Sean,

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Speaker 1: what's the objective for Josh during this processes knocked off

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02:01:19,360 --> 02:01:26,120
Speaker 1: grosses it specific things? What is his objective? Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's the overall it's the overall football player, and that

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02:01:29,640 --> 02:01:33,200
Speaker 1: includes the off the field person too. And we're talking

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Speaker 1: about a young man who's one year out of college,

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Speaker 1: and it's going to continue to experience life and grow

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02:01:38,360 --> 02:01:41,400
Speaker 1: and mature off the field, and and then his leadership

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02:01:41,480 --> 02:01:45,080
Speaker 1: will continue to develop in the locker room for us.

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02:01:45,120 --> 02:01:48,240
Speaker 1: And then and then as the skills and the techniques

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Speaker 1: develop and he puts in the required time to do

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Speaker 1: that um which he has um. He will continue to

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Speaker 1: grow on the field just to get you know, just

2531
02:01:57,120 --> 02:01:59,120
Speaker 1: like any young player, you want the game to be

2532
02:01:59,160 --> 02:02:03,240
Speaker 1: able to slow down, so that what seemed fast last year,

2533
02:02:03,360 --> 02:02:07,480
Speaker 1: maybe six eight months ago, will this year just slow

2534
02:02:07,600 --> 02:02:11,280
Speaker 1: down exponentially, and as he continues to grow and get

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02:02:11,360 --> 02:02:14,160
Speaker 1: more reps, it'll continue to slow down for him. Sean

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02:02:14,280 --> 02:02:17,080
Speaker 1: McDermott on his quarterback Josh Allen made it through day

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02:02:17,120 --> 02:02:22,160
Speaker 1: two of the OTAs today and Sean's expectation question there

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02:02:22,320 --> 02:02:25,200
Speaker 1: is answer. Rather, let takes me back, Steve to what

2539
02:02:25,240 --> 02:02:27,160
Speaker 1: I heard Brandon Bean saying. I mentioned this on the

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Speaker 1: show a week or so ago about Josh Allen and

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02:02:30,720 --> 02:02:33,000
Speaker 1: where he needs to improve and the Bills don't talk well,

2542
02:02:33,040 --> 02:02:36,200
Speaker 1: he needs higher you know, the knee jerk reaction to

2543
02:02:36,240 --> 02:02:38,640
Speaker 1: Sean is all. He needs to be more accurate and

2544
02:02:38,640 --> 02:02:42,840
Speaker 1: needs to a higher completion percentage. No Bean said he

2545
02:02:43,400 --> 02:02:46,480
Speaker 1: Josh Allen needs to be a better decision maker, which

2546
02:02:46,520 --> 02:02:49,240
Speaker 1: takes me right to what mcdermots just said about the

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02:02:49,280 --> 02:02:50,800
Speaker 1: game will slow down for him, and I think what

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Speaker 1: he has in mind is the game slows down and

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02:02:53,000 --> 02:02:55,600
Speaker 1: Josh Allen makes better decisions. Right, Pretty simple yeah, and

2550
02:02:55,640 --> 02:02:57,440
Speaker 1: I think some of the what he needs to do

2551
02:02:58,000 --> 02:03:02,160
Speaker 1: is pre snap. You know, it's it's outside the realm

2552
02:03:02,200 --> 02:03:04,400
Speaker 1: of the play before he gets to get to recognize

2553
02:03:04,440 --> 02:03:06,280
Speaker 1: a few more comfortable not only with the guys on

2554
02:03:06,400 --> 02:03:09,040
Speaker 1: his side of the ball, but more familiar with what

2555
02:03:09,280 --> 02:03:11,280
Speaker 1: the other teams are going to try and do against him,

2556
02:03:11,440 --> 02:03:13,280
Speaker 1: so that he has a plan before the snaps, we

2557
02:03:13,320 --> 02:03:15,320
Speaker 1: can see where his problems are going to be and

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02:03:15,720 --> 02:03:18,720
Speaker 1: what to look for specifically, and so that he can

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02:03:18,800 --> 02:03:22,000
Speaker 1: make better decisions. Certainly, he took some strides toward that

2560
02:03:22,080 --> 02:03:24,760
Speaker 1: this last year, and I'm forever pointing out the Week

2561
02:03:24,840 --> 02:03:28,480
Speaker 1: seventeen game where that was the point of emphasis for

2562
02:03:28,680 --> 02:03:31,080
Speaker 1: his progress. You know, at the early stages of his

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02:03:31,120 --> 02:03:32,640
Speaker 1: career last year, at the end of his first year,

2564
02:03:33,400 --> 02:03:37,360
Speaker 1: where day Ball said, you know, just take that easy completion,

2565
02:03:37,480 --> 02:03:39,560
Speaker 1: don't just sit there and wait and wait and wait.

2566
02:03:39,640 --> 02:03:42,240
Speaker 1: Just take that guy that's there. And he ended up

2567
02:03:42,280 --> 02:03:45,080
Speaker 1: throwing for three touchdowns and running for two touchdowns and

2568
02:03:45,200 --> 02:03:49,160
Speaker 1: scoring forty two points on the Miami Dolphins. And he

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02:03:49,240 --> 02:03:52,640
Speaker 1: looked like a different quarterback that week. That's kind that

2570
02:03:52,720 --> 02:03:54,520
Speaker 1: kind of stuff's gotta continue. He's got to get back

2571
02:03:54,560 --> 02:03:56,280
Speaker 1: to that and then build on it. We'll see, yeah,

2572
02:03:56,400 --> 02:03:58,120
Speaker 1: and there's time to do it this spring too. As

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02:03:58,120 --> 02:03:59,800
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, for Josh Handen, we'll keep an

2574
02:03:59,840 --> 02:04:03,080
Speaker 1: eye and that during our exposure to the ots this spring. Hey,

2575
02:04:03,080 --> 02:04:06,680
Speaker 1: it's time now for the ever popular NFL True and False,

2576
02:04:07,160 --> 02:04:09,640
Speaker 1: brought to you by Yancey's Fancy New York's artist in

2577
02:04:09,760 --> 02:04:12,520
Speaker 1: chiefs tru or False. A couple of comments about the

2578
02:04:12,680 --> 02:04:15,200
Speaker 1: NFL that have been made have been written, and Steve

2579
02:04:15,240 --> 02:04:17,840
Speaker 1: and I offer our opinions on them after much thought.

2580
02:04:18,400 --> 02:04:21,280
Speaker 1: Tur or false. This came about Adam Schein. You know him,

2581
02:04:21,280 --> 02:04:22,760
Speaker 1: We've had him on the show. Seems like a big

2582
02:04:22,800 --> 02:04:26,360
Speaker 1: Bills fan. But regardless of that, Adam Schein wrote a

2583
02:04:26,400 --> 02:04:29,320
Speaker 1: post about the most complete teams in the NFL. He's

2584
02:04:29,360 --> 02:04:33,080
Speaker 1: got the Los Angeles Chargers as the most complete team

2585
02:04:33,560 --> 02:04:36,480
Speaker 1: in the NFL. The Los Angeles Chargers, who are you know,

2586
02:04:36,600 --> 02:04:39,360
Speaker 1: playoff contenders who had a good year last year? Adam

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02:04:39,400 --> 02:04:41,640
Speaker 1: Schein wrote, So, I believe the Chargers are the most talented,

2588
02:04:42,080 --> 02:04:44,640
Speaker 1: balanced and complete team in the NFL. Toim t LESCo

2589
02:04:44,680 --> 02:04:48,520
Speaker 1: has put together a deep and loaded roster. True or false,

2590
02:04:48,920 --> 02:04:53,320
Speaker 1: Steve Chargers the most I'm sorry the most complete team

2591
02:04:53,320 --> 02:04:56,120
Speaker 1: and that they can certainly be in that conversation, Philip rivers.

2592
02:04:56,160 --> 02:04:58,440
Speaker 1: It starts out, it starts and ends with him. He's

2593
02:04:58,640 --> 02:05:04,840
Speaker 1: a cut above most quarterbacks mentally, still slings it extremely well. Yeah,

2594
02:05:04,920 --> 02:05:07,320
Speaker 1: you know what they It's interesting because they are They

2595
02:05:07,400 --> 02:05:09,360
Speaker 1: got a really good football team from top to bottom.

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02:05:09,400 --> 02:05:12,440
Speaker 1: The roster's thick deep. It seems to be experienced and

2597
02:05:12,600 --> 02:05:14,520
Speaker 1: you know, like proven. I mean, certainly there are other

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02:05:14,600 --> 02:05:17,560
Speaker 1: teams maybe with better position groups. We don't know about

2599
02:05:17,600 --> 02:05:19,560
Speaker 1: them yet. They got they come together, gonna show us

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02:05:19,800 --> 02:05:22,760
Speaker 1: how good they are later the charges are pretty much

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02:05:22,800 --> 02:05:25,320
Speaker 1: kind of proven it. But it's still that team that

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02:05:25,480 --> 02:05:27,880
Speaker 1: doesn't have a home field. They play in the stub

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02:05:27,960 --> 02:05:31,160
Speaker 1: Hub Center of twenty five thousand seat stadium. It's you know,

2604
02:05:31,320 --> 02:05:34,880
Speaker 1: and they play most of their games really on the road.

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02:05:35,400 --> 02:05:37,280
Speaker 1: So if you want to talk about the roster, yeah,

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02:05:37,320 --> 02:05:39,800
Speaker 1: they may be in that conversation. But as for their

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02:05:39,880 --> 02:05:42,960
Speaker 1: chances to run that gauntlet again this season and get

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02:05:43,040 --> 02:05:45,280
Speaker 1: deeper than they have in the past, I don't see

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02:05:45,320 --> 02:05:47,880
Speaker 1: that happening. So you got a false I think it's false.

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02:05:47,920 --> 02:05:49,800
Speaker 1: I have a false too. I got the Rams as

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02:05:49,840 --> 02:05:53,040
Speaker 1: the most complete team. You don't know. You still don't

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02:05:53,040 --> 02:05:54,720
Speaker 1: know what happened last year with Todd Gurley at the

2613
02:05:54,800 --> 02:05:56,800
Speaker 1: end of the year, right, But if he's healthy, they

2614
02:05:56,920 --> 02:05:59,720
Speaker 1: got it all right, great defense with outstanding performer, is

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02:05:59,720 --> 02:06:04,200
Speaker 1: a good solid quarterback, really good strong wide receivers. I

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02:06:04,280 --> 02:06:06,600
Speaker 1: think the Rams are the most complete team, not the Chargers.

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02:06:06,680 --> 02:06:08,240
Speaker 1: You know what's false? Yeah. One of the thing about

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02:06:08,240 --> 02:06:10,840
Speaker 1: the Chargers or the Rams as opposed to the Chargers,

2619
02:06:12,360 --> 02:06:14,800
Speaker 1: Anthony Lynn, I like a lot the San Diego Chargers

2620
02:06:14,880 --> 02:06:18,400
Speaker 1: head coach. I think the Rams are better coordinated, both

2621
02:06:18,440 --> 02:06:20,760
Speaker 1: with Sean McVay and Wade Phillips. I mean you got

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02:06:20,840 --> 02:06:23,400
Speaker 1: to go there too. And I'm not so sure that

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02:06:23,480 --> 02:06:26,040
Speaker 1: I'm as sold on the Chargers and their coaching staff

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02:06:26,040 --> 02:06:28,040
Speaker 1: as I am on the Rams. See yeah. And and

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02:06:28,400 --> 02:06:30,120
Speaker 1: not to take anything away from the Chargers, because I

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02:06:30,200 --> 02:06:32,600
Speaker 1: am a Tim t LESCo fan, Chester, New York native.

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02:06:32,680 --> 02:06:35,440
Speaker 1: Does a great job, but I think the Rams might

2628
02:06:35,480 --> 02:06:37,840
Speaker 1: have him beat. NFL two or False Part two. We

2629
02:06:37,960 --> 02:06:41,200
Speaker 1: talked about this yesterday. Pete Carroll talked about this. The

2630
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Speaker 1: NFL should decrease the use of instant replay that is

2631
02:06:45,280 --> 02:06:48,800
Speaker 1: true or false. Pete Carroll and a story about written

2632
02:06:48,800 --> 02:06:51,080
Speaker 1: by Peter King said. I get all the reasons why

2633
02:06:51,160 --> 02:06:53,800
Speaker 1: we have instant replay, and technology has opened up a

2634
02:06:53,840 --> 02:06:55,320
Speaker 1: new world for us to get to this point. But

2635
02:06:55,720 --> 02:06:58,200
Speaker 1: I miss, as Pete Carroll talking, I missed the human

2636
02:06:58,280 --> 02:07:00,760
Speaker 1: element of trusting officials to make the calls in the moment,

2637
02:07:01,120 --> 02:07:02,440
Speaker 1: and then the rest of us having to live with

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02:07:02,560 --> 02:07:05,040
Speaker 1: what they called. It was both fun and frustrating. I

2639
02:07:05,200 --> 02:07:07,280
Speaker 1: really liked the game better when the officials were just

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02:07:07,360 --> 02:07:08,840
Speaker 1: as much a part of the game as the players.

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02:07:09,160 --> 02:07:12,800
Speaker 1: I could not agree more. There's never been a true

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02:07:12,840 --> 02:07:15,520
Speaker 1: or false that I have said more true true I

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02:07:15,640 --> 02:07:17,920
Speaker 1: was getting true? Is that people talking? Or is that

2644
02:07:18,000 --> 02:07:22,200
Speaker 1: John Murphy exactly he was quoting? I wrote it for him.

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02:07:22,240 --> 02:07:24,480
Speaker 1: I believe all that, and I'll say this now. I'm

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02:07:24,520 --> 02:07:26,400
Speaker 1: not saying that I'm going to say we should do

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02:07:26,480 --> 02:07:29,560
Speaker 1: exactly what he said, but I would be I would

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02:07:29,600 --> 02:07:32,400
Speaker 1: say true as well. I think less is more. I

2649
02:07:32,480 --> 02:07:34,600
Speaker 1: think they need to pick their spots better than they

2650
02:07:34,640 --> 02:07:36,600
Speaker 1: have been able to pick them in the past. I

2651
02:07:36,720 --> 02:07:38,760
Speaker 1: think they need to do things better than they've been

2652
02:07:38,760 --> 02:07:40,120
Speaker 1: able to do it in the past. That doesn't mean

2653
02:07:40,240 --> 02:07:43,879
Speaker 1: doing it more, getting more things under their umbrella of replay,

2654
02:07:44,240 --> 02:07:47,600
Speaker 1: but I do think they should get it right faster,

2655
02:07:47,840 --> 02:07:50,560
Speaker 1: and maybe on more or on less occasions, just on

2656
02:07:50,640 --> 02:07:53,240
Speaker 1: the ones that make a difference, a competitive difference, a

2657
02:07:53,360 --> 02:07:54,840
Speaker 1: difference in the end of the game. I don't care

2658
02:07:55,280 --> 02:07:57,480
Speaker 1: if they got a first down in the first quarter

2659
02:07:57,520 --> 02:07:59,640
Speaker 1: of the game. Maybe they should just say, you know what,

2660
02:07:59,720 --> 02:08:01,560
Speaker 1: We're to do this in the second half. You can

2661
02:08:02,360 --> 02:08:04,280
Speaker 1: replace stuff in the first half year. It's up to

2662
02:08:04,320 --> 02:08:07,280
Speaker 1: you to overcome it, you know, one way or the other.

2663
02:08:07,360 --> 02:08:10,280
Speaker 1: I think they need to reduce it or significantly change

2664
02:08:10,320 --> 02:08:15,600
Speaker 1: the underlying philosophy behind it. Either make it more encompassing

2665
02:08:16,360 --> 02:08:18,760
Speaker 1: or limit it more. But in some way, shape or form,

2666
02:08:18,800 --> 02:08:22,480
Speaker 1: they need to change it fundamentally. Certainly we can. We

2667
02:08:22,560 --> 02:08:26,040
Speaker 1: can replay everything, no question about it. But you need

2668
02:08:26,080 --> 02:08:29,880
Speaker 1: to come up with a philosophy that makes it available

2669
02:08:29,960 --> 02:08:32,720
Speaker 1: on the critical moments and takes it out of the game.

2670
02:08:32,760 --> 02:08:35,560
Speaker 1: When you don't, it's when it's inconsequential. And I don't

2671
02:08:35,600 --> 02:08:37,200
Speaker 1: know how you do that. I don't have a theory,

2672
02:08:37,240 --> 02:08:39,440
Speaker 1: but that's mine. But i'd say true as well. Shue

2673
02:08:39,680 --> 02:08:42,000
Speaker 1: took you a while to get the true because I

2674
02:08:42,000 --> 02:08:44,680
Speaker 1: didn't want to give it up. Finally, NFL true or

2675
02:08:44,680 --> 02:08:48,560
Speaker 1: false Part three. Jamis Winston bucks quarterback under the most

2676
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Speaker 1: pressure in twenty nineteen. This comes from a post on

2677
02:08:51,200 --> 02:08:53,920
Speaker 1: clutch points dot Com. No Idea who they are. They

2678
02:08:54,000 --> 02:08:56,000
Speaker 1: point out that he's got a new head coach, Bruce Arians,

2679
02:08:56,040 --> 02:08:59,680
Speaker 1: a quarterback guy, and they say that in addition, Winston

2680
02:08:59,800 --> 02:09:01,960
Speaker 1: is into Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, O j Howard, and

2681
02:09:02,040 --> 02:09:05,760
Speaker 1: Cameron brad so that leaves him with no excuses to struggle. Really,

2682
02:09:06,320 --> 02:09:08,680
Speaker 1: Winston heading into a contract year. They picked up the

2683
02:09:08,720 --> 02:09:11,520
Speaker 1: fifty year option. Here's the quote. If Winston fails to

2684
02:09:11,560 --> 02:09:13,640
Speaker 1: showcase why he was the first pick of the twenty

2685
02:09:13,720 --> 02:09:16,520
Speaker 1: fifteen draft, he'll be looking for a new team in

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02:09:16,640 --> 02:09:18,960
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. The fifth year quarterback could earn himself a

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02:09:18,960 --> 02:09:22,640
Speaker 1: new contract. Though, if he impresses Arians in company, well, yeah,

2688
02:09:22,720 --> 02:09:25,040
Speaker 1: he's okay. He's under the most pressure. He's under pressure,

2689
02:09:25,200 --> 02:09:27,760
Speaker 1: and it's time for Jameis Winston to deliver. I'm going

2690
02:09:27,800 --> 02:09:32,920
Speaker 1: true on this one. I think it's almost obvious. I

2691
02:09:32,960 --> 02:09:35,480
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe there's a couple of guys that would

2692
02:09:35,520 --> 02:09:38,600
Speaker 1: get into the conversation, guys like Eli Eli Manning. Even

2693
02:09:38,720 --> 02:09:40,960
Speaker 1: in New York. I thought of him. He's under a

2694
02:09:40,960 --> 02:09:44,560
Speaker 1: little bit of pressure. Maybe a guy like Dak Prescott,

2695
02:09:44,600 --> 02:09:46,640
Speaker 1: who they're trying to figure out a way to pay him.

2696
02:09:46,720 --> 02:09:48,840
Speaker 1: You know, he's got to continue to play extremely well.

2697
02:09:50,080 --> 02:09:53,640
Speaker 1: But yeah, certainly Jamis Winston's in that conversation because he's

2698
02:09:54,240 --> 02:09:57,120
Speaker 1: at the end of his rookie deal. He's got to

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02:09:57,240 --> 02:09:58,720
Speaker 1: put up or shut up at one of the most

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02:09:58,880 --> 02:10:01,800
Speaker 1: important positions. So you're putting the amount of pressure on

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Speaker 1: an amount of dollars at stake. Yeah, Jameis Winston might

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02:10:04,640 --> 02:10:05,960
Speaker 1: be at the top of that list, so I can

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02:10:06,000 --> 02:10:08,280
Speaker 1: say true to that true, We will say true. There

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02:10:08,320 --> 02:10:10,440
Speaker 1: you go, NFL true and fault, you missed two and false.

2705
02:10:10,480 --> 02:10:12,879
Speaker 1: When we don't do it, I do I feel deprived,

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Speaker 1: cheese deprived, cheese deficient, that's right, artist and cheese, artistan cheese,

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Speaker 1: that's right. Yancy's fancy, Y's fancy New York's artist and cheese.

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02:10:21,320 --> 02:10:23,480
Speaker 1: When you're out of that seat, that's the hardest read

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Speaker 1: I do all way. I don't know. I've heard. I've

2710
02:10:26,600 --> 02:10:30,160
Speaker 1: struggled with getting Yancy's fancy New York's artist and cheese out.

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Speaker 1: You'll have all most of June to practice. NFL true

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Speaker 1: and False brought to you by Yancy's Fancy Steve, and

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Speaker 1: I'm back with more One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: the preferred alarment home theater provider of the Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: Man Eric Wood on the show, Eric Wood is going

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Speaker 1: to join the Bills media content team. He's going to

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Speaker 1: be the color analyst on the Bills Radio network and

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Speaker 1: on our flagship here in Buffalo, w g R Sports

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Speaker 1: Radio five fifty. Eric Wood with a big, big career

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Speaker 1: move today and he talked about why he's looking forward

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Speaker 1: to being the new color analyst on the radio network. So.

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Speaker 1: I did a game for Fox last year. I did

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Speaker 1: a couple of pregame shows. Knew this fall. I wanted

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Speaker 1: to give it, give it a full shot. I wanted

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Speaker 1: to go both FETA in so I signed a deal

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Speaker 1: with ACC Network and then this Bills deal came along

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Speaker 1: with Kelso want to focus on some other stuff and

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Speaker 1: this was too good to pass up. It's funny, I

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Speaker 1: heard it all throughout my playing career that whenever you're done,

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Speaker 1: you're going to miss this place. And that is true,

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Speaker 1: and I did miss Western New York. He's coming back.

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Speaker 1: He's here today, and you're gonna be here a lot

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Speaker 1: doing the color on the Bills Radio broadcast. Really looking

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Speaker 1: forward to working with Eric what we had Robert Mays

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Speaker 1: on the Showy is the pro football writer for The

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Speaker 1: Ringer dot com and he wrote an interesting post about

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Speaker 1: a week ago about how the value of edge rush

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Speaker 1: specialists on defense is kind of going down in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Here's what he said about it. And I think that

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Speaker 1: for the most part, there are still guys that can

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Speaker 1: dominate the games from those spots, mean Khalil Mack, guys

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Speaker 1: of that nature. But I think that when you're seeing

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Speaker 1: teams like the Patriots, who obviously the Monica success for

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Speaker 1: a long time in the NFL, not pay those guys.

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Speaker 1: They believe in their ability to have interchangeable rushers, to

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Speaker 1: create it with stunts, with different games things like that.

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Speaker 1: I just feel it. I wouldn't be surprised to see

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Speaker 1: more teams go that route. And we're also seeing really

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Speaker 1: more at people when it comes to the analytics and

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Speaker 1: the stats involved kind of come up with the idea

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Speaker 1: and the notion that the guys in the back end

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Speaker 1: of the defense, your secondary guys, your cover guys, are

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Speaker 1: more impactful than any defensive front player you can have.

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Speaker 1: There we go, Robert Mays. Um a couple of notes

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Speaker 1: here that we got a ton of bills news here today.

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Speaker 1: We did not get a chance to hear from Jerry Hughes.

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Speaker 1: Expected to sign his contract this afternoon and he will

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Speaker 1: meet with the media. We'll have some of that on

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Speaker 1: our show tomorrow. What else long injury list, Nothing to

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Speaker 1: worry about, Yeah, no, no need to panic, Steve says.

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Speaker 1: Tyler Croft is out with a broken foot. Happened yesterday

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Speaker 1: in the first day of OTAs. Ian Rappaport says recovery

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Speaker 1: could be three to four months. Others out of OTAs today,

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Speaker 1: Cole Beasley and Mitch Morris with the court muscle injuries, Um,

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Speaker 1: Frank Gordon, David Sills, Russell bonin with a shoulder. No,

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Speaker 1: no need to worry, um. And this is news too.

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Speaker 1: This came out just minutes ago from Adam Schefter and

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Speaker 1: we were talking about him with Mays and Domi consueing

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Speaker 1: the Tampa bay Bucks finalized it a one year deal.

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Speaker 1: He now expected to be a Buck. Interesting. Steve called

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Speaker 1: you called it earlier. I asked the question, good show today,

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Speaker 1: golly move fast, Yeah, kept us going. Yeah, lots lots

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Speaker 1: going on. We'll see tomorrow too. It's gonna be fun.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to our production assistants George Blast, Jef Colton, Like,

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Speaker 1: Thomas Homider, Kelly Rude, JJ Tourto, Kevin Cartis, James Robo,

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Speaker 1: producer Jay Harris, see tomorrow at noon. One Bills Live

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive