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Speaker 1: thing I want to do is listen to him, now,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I've had it. I've had

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Speaker 1: enough agony watching him. I don't need to listen to

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Speaker 1: him too. The last couple of years, I have not

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Speaker 1: been able to watch the Buccaneers games unless we were

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Speaker 1: playing them, and even then it was like tough, you know.

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Speaker 1: But I'm glad he's on Fox like you you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: and thanks for taking my call. Tomorrow night's gonna be

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Speaker 1: or no way, Thursday night. Waitn't know what is today? Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: Tuesday night. I can't wait to see the schedule. It's

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Speaker 1: going to be great. Already planning on the Titans game.

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Speaker 1: I love it when the schedule comes out. It's like

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Speaker 1: a pre excitement, like, oh my gosh, yeah, but it's

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Speaker 1: going to be exciting. A great year. Thank you guys.

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Speaker 1: You're a lot of people. Yeah. Yeah, you couldn't remember

439
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Speaker 1: what day it was. I can. I can relate. Um yeah,

440
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Speaker 1: and I and I'll say this, um once again, I

441
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Speaker 1: told you so. You said five primetime games at seven.

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Speaker 1: Teams can have up to five primetime game scheduled. They're

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Speaker 1: allowed six in total if in a season if they

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Speaker 1: are flexed, and they can have seven if they are

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Speaker 1: also flexed into a season finale primetime game. So there's

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Speaker 1: seven possible, but they don't They won't know you get

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Speaker 1: seven until when they put the initials seventeen, when you're

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Speaker 1: going into week eighteen and they put the initial schedule

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Speaker 1: together five and then so we were both right, Um,

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Speaker 1: Bradberry question, Steve. We talked about this on the show yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Would would he be a player that the Bills would

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Speaker 1: be interested in? I would say yes, but they're kaponomics

453
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Speaker 1: right now, may not make it realistic, especially especially if

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Speaker 1: Bradberry is seeking the best money deal, if he's seeking

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Speaker 1: the best opportunity to get on the field. I think

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Speaker 1: doing that here became a little bit harder too. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, with the drafting of Elam it will come

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Speaker 1: up to yeah, there was I had heard too that

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Speaker 1: there were you know, Kansas City was trying to trade

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Speaker 1: for him. Other people were trying to trade for him,

461
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Speaker 1: and they couldn't get a contract done. So Bradbury's obviously

462
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Speaker 1: not saying, hey, I'll play for the veteran minimum. So

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Speaker 1: he's and why should he was paying the reason the

464
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Speaker 1: Giants are cutting him because he's, you know, making a

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Speaker 1: ton of money twenty million dollars hit on their cap

466
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Speaker 1: at least, so he's not gonna play for nothing. Why

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Speaker 1: should he take a discounted rate when he's you know,

468
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Speaker 1: a top flight corner. There's that. So all of those

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Speaker 1: things together, including the fact that we talked about yesterday,

470
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Speaker 1: the bit you would hear about the Bills redoing guys

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Speaker 1: contracts to clear up cap space before they would have

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Speaker 1: the freedom to sign a guy like that. Yeah, so,

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Speaker 1: and we haven't heard anything like that. Now. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: say we couldn't, but we would do that. We would

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Speaker 1: hear that before the Ray Bradbury signing. So the fact

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Speaker 1: that he's not signing on the cheap because they couldn't

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Speaker 1: get a deal done with him in the trade. Two

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Speaker 1: bills don't have the cap space. Otherwise we'd hear about

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Speaker 1: clearing cap space in order to sign a guy like that.

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Speaker 1: And three bills don't need it. Their need is not

481
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Speaker 1: as dire as it was a week and a half ago. Right,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, let's not forget the bill's drafted two coins, right,

483
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Speaker 1: not one. They got guys, and they've got some guys

484
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Speaker 1: coming up through the pipeline that Dane Jackson is no slouch.

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Speaker 1: They liked him and they still do and they like

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Speaker 1: other guys they've got as well. These two guys they

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Speaker 1: drafted this year, certainly Kayer Elam, they love him. And

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Speaker 1: if you watch and it's coming out Wednesday night embedded,

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Speaker 1: we'll give you walk you through the whole war room

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Speaker 1: and the conversations that led up to the exact moment

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Speaker 1: when they drafted him, as well as his interviews pre draft.

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Speaker 1: So if you want to see him, uh embedded on

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Speaker 1: the Bill's website's gonna come on and you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: able to watch that Wednesday night. They love Kayer Elam,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure they have as much affection for the

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Speaker 1: for the sixth round guys that they drafted as Christian Penford,

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Speaker 1: who's a nice sized player. I mean he sixt one.

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Speaker 1: He's a long dude too, he runs a four five,

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Speaker 1: but productive, productive player. I mean yeah, I think he

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Speaker 1: had over like forty pass breakups. He's passed in his

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Speaker 1: college career, so there's a lot in that. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: the James Bradberry, he might be a luxury at this point.

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Speaker 1: He would be a month ago. Yeah, now I'm not

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Speaker 1: I'm not so. I like our guys now, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: like our guys. I like Kayer Em a lot. Penford.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about Benford. I don't know about but

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Speaker 1: I trust I trust Big Bowler Bean. Yeah, you know,

508
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Speaker 1: I watched some of his tape. He's he's a good player.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's got even though he played

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Speaker 1: at FCS level. All right, let me ask you this.

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Speaker 1: I think he has the athletic traits to at least

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Speaker 1: have a shot. Since you watched him, why is he

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Speaker 1: getting thrown at so much? Well, I just think I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know who's the guy on the

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Speaker 1: other side of him, right, Well, you know what I mean. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's my That's what I don't know about him.

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Speaker 1: I think because he's always on the number one guy, right,

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Speaker 1: that may be. I think that's one. If you're FCS

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Speaker 1: and you got one of those guys, everybody's gonna throw

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Speaker 1: to him. But I'll tell you what, forty pass breakups.

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Speaker 1: That that's a fat number. I don't care if you're

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Speaker 1: playing one, I don't care if you're playing middle school football.

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Speaker 1: I don't remember how, but he had a handful of

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Speaker 1: picks too. That's a fat number he's and he's a

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Speaker 1: long you know they love long coin. Yeah, so he'll

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Speaker 1: have a shot. We have to take a break here,

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00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: but Ron and Pa, Craig and Rochester, Randy and Denver.

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Speaker 1: Hang tight. We'll get to you in the next segment

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Speaker 1: as we take your phone calls. How many primetime games

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Speaker 1: you think the Bills are getting when the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two schedule gets released Thursday night. We already know they

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Speaker 1: got one. How many they gonna have total? You let

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Speaker 1: us know eight, three, five fifty. Back in a second

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Speaker 1: here on one, Bills Live presented back a Lot of health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back one to

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Speaker 1: Bill Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. How many

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Speaker 1: prime time games do you expect Bills to get in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two? Have you? Have you answered it yet?

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00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 1: We have given our thoughts. You said five. I think

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get five plus probably a flex you'll find out.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: think we're gonna get I think we're gonna have five,

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Speaker 1: maybe till we get four scheduled and then have one

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Speaker 1: flexed in were I think in my own mind at

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Speaker 1: the end of the season, we're not gonna get flexed

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Speaker 1: because we're gonna be coasting. I don't think our division mission.

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Speaker 1: I don't think the division is good enough to put

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Speaker 1: it in doubt in week eighteen. So I think another

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00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 1: game will get flexed and we won't, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. That's that's how positive I am. I think

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Speaker 1: we'll get they end up with four, maybe get one

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Speaker 1: other flexed or like in the week fifteen something like that.

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Speaker 1: We'll see. Okay, you know, let's go to the phones

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Speaker 1: and find out. We go to Ron in Pennsylvania. First, Ron,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: Chris Steve, how are you doing? Finally got through It

557
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Speaker 1: took me about two years there. Yeah, glad you did

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Speaker 1: it well. Five games and then I think we'll get

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Speaker 1: flexed one. Okay, So you're saying five plus one, all right?

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Speaker 1: I think I think the playoff game with Kansas City

561
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Speaker 1: showed everybody in the in the country what a great

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Speaker 1: team we have then, and they're gonna want to show

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Speaker 1: showcase that. Yeah. I would tend to agree with that. Um,

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Speaker 1: they are entertaining and you know, just say, one of

565
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Speaker 1: the three best quarterbacks in football. The TV people, I

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Speaker 1: don't know how much the TV has to say about it.

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Speaker 1: They have some, I guess, but they do try to

568
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Speaker 1: give the people what they want, and sometimes they simplify

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Speaker 1: it and just say, hey, this team is really good.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna put him in there. And then you know,

571
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Speaker 1: like you know how it goes. New York, m Dallas, Philly, Washington,

572
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Speaker 1: those teams with the big markets are all gonna be

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Speaker 1: you know, get their share even if they stink, which

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Speaker 1: we've seen in the last two or three years. But

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Speaker 1: other teams that people really want to see, like the

576
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Speaker 1: Kansas Cities of the world, like the Buffaloes of the world,

577
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Speaker 1: like the Green Bays of the world with these guys

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Speaker 1: and the Tampa Bays, yeah, they're gonna they're gonna get

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Speaker 1: their share. That's where the rest of these games go.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see how it goes. You can you can

581
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Speaker 1: just count that every NFC team, every NFC East team,

582
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Speaker 1: will get at least one or two, even even the

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Speaker 1: Washington Commanders. So you know, let's go to Craig and

584
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Speaker 1: Rochester next. Wait, yea Forrest Craig, you're on One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: Hey guys, I just want to comment on Primetime and

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Speaker 1: Jerry User prime Time. I think they I think they

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Speaker 1: have five games Titans at home, Pack at home, and

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Speaker 1: then I think we're at case, Um, we're at uh,

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Speaker 1: who's at Los Angeles? I think we host doing more

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Speaker 1: than guy and plus the Flocks against Miami maybe late

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Speaker 1: in the season that um, so I think that. I

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Speaker 1: think though at five with the flocks of Miami late. Um.

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Speaker 1: But Jerry Hughes, you know, I always kind of look

594
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Speaker 1: at two thousand and thirteen kind of was like the

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Speaker 1: slow turning point of Doormat to start becoming something. And

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Speaker 1: he came in that time and he was just a

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Speaker 1: concert professional and early on he was you know, he

598
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Speaker 1: always told that line at the kid learned, you know,

599
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: the difference of intensity and taking bad ten of leads.

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Speaker 1: And you saw once McDermott came in, he became one

601
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Speaker 1: of the real leaders early on. That really helped to

602
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Speaker 1: write the ship. And I'm grateful. I wish you would

603
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Speaker 1: have won a Super Bowl here because he was just

604
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Speaker 1: a great player for the team for so long. But

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Speaker 1: I mcaffy at least, you know, he was here for

606
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Speaker 1: some really good years of Josh and you know, the

607
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: division and making some runs. Um. You know, I'm grateful

608
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Speaker 1: we got to see some really good years with him

609
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Speaker 1: because he certainly earned it for all the support work

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Speaker 1: he put in with the team. Yeah, no question about it.

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Speaker 1: Good call, Craig, thanks for making it um. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: think I think the reason Jerry was so appreciated was

613
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Speaker 1: because you never wondered what you were going to get

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Speaker 1: from Jerry Hughes on a game day Sunday. The guy

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Speaker 1: burned with white hot intensity he stepped on the field. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I mean even his teammates would joke. I think Preston

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00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: Brown was the guy that invented the term because sometimes

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00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:11,280
Speaker 1: Jerry would turn into Gary and fly off the handle

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Speaker 1: and get a personal foul penalty because his motor was

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Speaker 1: running too hot. And Preston coined the term, Well, that's

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Speaker 1: when Jerry turns into Gary Hughes, right, And I said, well,

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Speaker 1: what's who's Gary Hughes? He said, that's the guy that's

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Speaker 1: out of control and doesn't even know what he's saying. Yeah,

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00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,399
Speaker 1: stuff comes flying out of his mouth or a little

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Speaker 1: extra times. Yeah, when when Jerry would get the odd

626
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Speaker 1: unsportsmanlike you know, um, because he was one of those guys.

627
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Speaker 1: But he was a workaholic, and I think maybe more

628
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Speaker 1: than anything, the Bill's fan base, they can relate to

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Speaker 1: hard work, and so when they see it exemplified in

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Speaker 1: the player, the respect meter on that player goes way up.

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Speaker 1: And I think that was the case with Jerry Hughes.

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Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones and we go to

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Speaker 1: Randy in Denver. Next. What you got, Randy, Hey, guys

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Speaker 1: are good good. Yeah, he's had a touch on Jerry Hughes.

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Speaker 1: I'm sad that he's gone. I really would hate for

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00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 1: the Bills to win the Super Bowl and him not

637
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 1: be there. I think he wanted to be there. I

638
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 1: I thought maybe I thought maybe they had a deal

639
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: in place, like hey, we'll come after the June and uh,

640
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 1: we'll fitch you in somehow later after we signed the

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00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: rookies and us kind of weird he stood out there

642
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 1: that long. So that's disappointing. But oh and my point

643
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 1: two is we lost three defensive ends. We signed Miller

644
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: and lost in and we lost Addison, Hughes and Obada.

645
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 1: We're down one in numbers from last year. I mean,

646
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: does this make a mean Mike Love or or Brian

647
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: Cox Junior is gonna make the team now, well, I

648
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 1: mean Mike Love. I think is has been a player

649
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: in the pipeline for a while here, and I actually

650
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 1: like his skill set. Um, he's a Ben the Edge

651
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,879
Speaker 1: kind of guy. He just hasn't had an opportunity. They've

652
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 1: got you got you got the young guys. You Gotsham

653
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 1: Boogie Basham aj Epinessa Shack Lawson, Brian Mike Love, Greg Rousseau,

654
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 1: and then the tackles. You've got Elionku, Brandon Bryant, You've

655
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:26,760
Speaker 1: got Daquan Jones, At Oliver of course, Georgie Phillips, Tim Settle.

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00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 1: So they've got Yeah, you're down and end. Uh. You

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00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: know you want to argue that that's fine. Um, you'll

658
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 1: have you'll presumably have maybe one come in as an

659
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 1: undrafted so you'll have that, and you will have Mike Love,

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00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,319
Speaker 1: as you mentioned. So yeah, we'll have to see maybe

661
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 1: it's an opportunity for him. Um, I think they felt.

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00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 1: I'm not. I don't want to put words in the

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00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 1: mouth of the front office, but I think all you

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Speaker 1: have to do is just look at the age. I

665
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 1: think Mario Addison turns thirty five before the calendar years out.

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00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes turns thirty four in August, and I think

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00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 1: they felt it was time for a youth movement. And

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00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,919
Speaker 1: von Miller is the representative of the veteran presence here,

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00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 1: so that's probably why they went the way they did there.

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Speaker 1: If he was still sitting out there in June and

671
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: was going to play for the veteran minimum, maybe it

672
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 1: would have been a different conversation. But you know, Houston

673
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: probably came to him with a respectable deal. WE don't

674
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,280
Speaker 1: know what TERMI are knowing what we know about the bills.

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00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 1: They probably did tell Jerry said, Jerry, this is the

676
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: number we're thinking for you, whatever you're thinking, and it's

677
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 1: gonna be there. If we get to June one, or

678
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 1: if we get to anywhere and you're still out there

679
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: and haven't gotten a deal that you like better, we'll

680
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 1: take you back for this number. That kind of conversation

681
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: probably happened, and Jerry was smart enough probably to just

682
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 1: sit and wait and go with the Houston Texans and

683
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: they I don't know what the terms of that deal are.

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00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:51,399
Speaker 1: We haven't been made aware of that yet, but there

685
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,839
Speaker 1: you haven't. Even if it's for the veteran minimum. He

686
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: may have some personal reasons why he wants to go

687
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: back home, so from Houston. Yeah, and he's a TCU graduate.

688
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 1: So there you go back to the phones into patt

689
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 1: and Niagara Falls. Wait, you got first, pat Hey, gentlemen,

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00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,879
Speaker 1: good afternoon. I'd like to say that the Bills are

691
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:14,359
Speaker 1: going to get three in a flex. The reason being is, yeah,

692
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Speaker 1: I know they put on one heck of a display

693
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: against Kansas City, but we still got to get over

694
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 1: that hump and actually get to the super Bowl to

695
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:23,240
Speaker 1: be on that level where the Patriots were and Tampa

696
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: got lucky the one year, and the Rams are gonna

697
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: have quite a bit. I think you have to win

698
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: the two big games, the FC Championship Game and the

699
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,399
Speaker 1: super Bowl in order to get those five and six

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00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: games at the prime time level. And Steve you know

701
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: better than anybody else when it's nightlights in primetime, those

702
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 1: teams get you get amped up for it, and I

703
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: think the Bills are well prepared for that. I have

704
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,879
Speaker 1: said from the beginning, even when it was you'd get

705
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 1: the sugar high josh once in a while where the

706
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 1: guy go off off the rails. Josh showed up in

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00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,479
Speaker 1: big moments. Think about the Dallas His coming out party

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00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: was the Dallas Thanksgiving game. To me, that was the

709
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 1: game where people right, Yeah, that was when the country

710
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 1: saw it. I saw it in his first game and

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00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,800
Speaker 1: loss to the Miami Dolphins with the drop past to

712
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 1: Charles Clay in the end zone. He absolutely carried the

713
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 1: entire team on his back the whole game gave him

714
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: a chance to win. Um, that's when I think Brownie Knights.

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00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: That was Week seventeen. The Bills have their quarterbacks. I said,

716
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: did you see Yeah, that was the guy. Um so,

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00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 1: but yeah, I have always said Josh shows up in

718
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 1: moments like that, in games like that. I think Diggs

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00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 1: does the same thing. Think about the Monday night game

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Speaker 1: in New England when he had three touchdowns. Um, they're

721
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: you know, the playoff game last year. These they've got

722
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 1: some guys on their roster the love the lights and

723
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 1: they're nothing wrong with that. So I'm I'm kind of

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00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: with you on that. I think that those night games.

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00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: There's no question I played in a bunch of Monday

726
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,879
Speaker 1: night games because we were that team for a while. Yeah,

727
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 1: you love it because there's something, there's some juice to

728
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 1: that game that you really love as a player. Break

729
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: time here, but when we come back, a little bit

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Speaker 1: of the primetime history of the Bills in primetime games

731
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 1: during the McDermott era, and some league history in terms

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Speaker 1: of how many teams get five time five primetime games

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Speaker 1: on the same schedule year. We'll reveal that next here

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Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live, presented by Collat of Health, It's

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00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Wegman's and Bill's head coach On McDermott

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Speaker 1: are helping Western New York families with food allergies and

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00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 1: special diet needs. They're asking for your help two from

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Speaker 1: May ninth, that was yesterday to May twenty. First, Wegmans

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Speaker 1: is hosting a food drive that will encourage shoppers in

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00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: local Buffalo and Rochester's stores to purchase specially selected items

741
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: that are either free from the top eight allergens or

742
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Speaker 1: gluten free, and then, once purchased, customers can place those

743
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Speaker 1: specially selected items into bins located in the front of

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Speaker 1: the stores. All items collected will benefit feed more of

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00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: Western New York. Here in Buffalo and food Link in Rochester.

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00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 1: Coach mcdermot's family is affected by some food allergies. One

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00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: of his kids has a tree nut nut allergy and

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Speaker 1: his other kid has a sesame allergy. My daughter has

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Speaker 1: a sesame allergy as well. Coach and I have it's

750
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 1: talked about that a little bit. You know, you need

751
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 1: the EpiPens hard to deal with that. Yeah, it's good

752
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: and congratulating and thanks to Sean McDermot for being involved

753
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:45,320
Speaker 1: like that, for helping people get what they need to eat. Well. Yeah,

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00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: so I'm sure Wegman's will help you out if you

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00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 1: have you want to help, but you don't, maybe you're

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00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent sure, like what specially marked item

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00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 1: I should get? What does it have to be free

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00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 1: of allergen? Wise? You know, if you're a family that

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00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: doesn't have to deal with that, you know you might

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00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 1: not be in tune. But I'm sure anybody in a

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00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 1: Wegman's store will help you out and find you the

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00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,880
Speaker 1: products you may want to purchase to support the cause.

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Speaker 1: So May nine through the twenty first at the Wegman's

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00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:15,760
Speaker 1: locations in Buffalo and Rochester, wanted to share a little

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00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 1: bit of primetime game history. Just last year alone, Steve,

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00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: if you had to guess how many teams got five

767
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: primetime games when the initial twenty twenty one schedule was

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00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 1: released Last year, two ten, really ten teams had five

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00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: primetime games on the initial k twenty one schedule. Those

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00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: teams were Baltimore, Dallas, Green Bay, Kansas City, the Rams,

771
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,880
Speaker 1: the Saints, the Steelers, the Niners, the Seahawks, and the Bucks.

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00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 1: The Cowboys and the Chiefs wound up playing in six

773
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:59,320
Speaker 1: primetime games. They both had games flexed late in the season.

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00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,799
Speaker 1: Dallas won five and one in prime time last year.

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00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have guessed that wouldn't either. Kansas City went

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00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 1: four and two. Six teams had five primetime games, tied

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00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 1: for the most. Um ten teams had five time primetime

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00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:19,800
Speaker 1: games on the initial twenty twenty one schedule. That's amazing.

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00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: That would the lot. I obviously wouldn't have guess out

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00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 1: I was just a couple. I would say the chances

781
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: are pretty good. The Bills get five. Yeah, there's do

782
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 1: they put I guess they do some. But do they

783
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: put like the same teams? I think they probably With

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00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 1: the three I'm talking about Christmas and Thanksgiving, I've been

785
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: doing it for two days. There's six games on those

786
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:47,240
Speaker 1: two days they're holidays. Do you put twelve completely different

787
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:52,439
Speaker 1: teams in those games? Or do like the Cowboys play

788
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 1: Cowboys are gonna play on Thanksgiving, Detroit's gonna play on

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00:45:56,000 --> 00:46:00,280
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and four other teams in that game in that slot?

790
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: Now on Christmas, is it gonna be those two teams

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00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 1: or you know some of the other six teams? You know,

792
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:08,879
Speaker 1: it's like, are the Bills gonna get Thanksgiving Christmas Broncos? Right?

793
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 1: So the Rams and Broncos gonna get two holiday games?

794
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:15,399
Speaker 1: Or I'm kind of thinking they trow right, Yeah, see

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00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 1: those teams? Might I mean the Bills played in prime

796
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 1: time and then played on Thanksgiving night? Yeah? Um, I

797
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: think the networks are gonna have a lot to say.

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00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 1: They're the ones paying billions of dollars. Well they want

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00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 1: when when the networks are involved, it's about it's about

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00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: protecting market market size. That's why the NFC's teams are

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00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 1: always plugged in. So you can bet that the NFC's

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00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:43,359
Speaker 1: teams are gonna be in those in those games. You know,

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00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 1: they're gonna be some like Washington Commander games on Thanksgiving

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00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,720
Speaker 1: or Christmas. Same thing with the Giants, Billy and the

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00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 1: Cowboys and the you know yeah, so yeah that they

806
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: want to make sure those games are really high rated.

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00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: They want everybody watching those games. So they want hot teams,

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00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 1: star driven. It's a star driven industry, right right, But

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00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 1: they also want they also want teams with notoriously big

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00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 1: fan base like Pittsburgh's, Dallas's, New York's. I mean, they

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Speaker 1: flexed some teams out of some primetime games late in

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00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 1: the year, like Baltimore got flexed out once got hurt. Yeah,

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00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 1: you know, um, and you can bet that's what would

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00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:26,759
Speaker 1: happen to Buffalo if New Orleans got flexed out of

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00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 1: a couple of games, um, after they kind of went

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00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: south with some injuries and stuff. So just because he

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00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 1: had tenant to start didn't mean you right in LA,

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00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 1: probably LA probably got flexed in a little bit, so

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00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 1: did uh. And and important games also get flexed. So

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00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 1: if they have two of the three criteria big market,

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00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 1: big fan base, a hot team with a star that

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Speaker 1: you really want to see, or it's a heated race

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00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:02,759
Speaker 1: an important game, right, if you can tick off one

824
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 1: or at least two, or maybe even three of those boxes,

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00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna get one of those games flexed. So in

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Speaker 1: the McDermott era. The Bills got a primetime game in

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. They won seventeen to ten. That was the

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00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Renegade game. Ye three and twenty twenty they won

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Speaker 1: all three of those. They beat the Steelers on Sunday Night.

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00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: They throttled the Patriots in Week sixteen. What was the

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00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 1: other one they won thirty four, twenty four. Who the

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00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: heck did they play in that first primetime game? I'm

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00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 1: not gonna remember. And then they played in four last

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Speaker 1: year and went two and two, beat the Chiefs, lost

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Speaker 1: to the Titans, beat the Saints, and then lost to

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Speaker 1: the Patriots in the windswept game here fourteen to ten.

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Speaker 1: So they went two and two last year, but in

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00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:56,879
Speaker 1: their last eight primetime games they've gone six and two.

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Speaker 1: There was a Tennessee Titans loss in twenty twenty. Is

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00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:02,919
Speaker 1: that what you're talking about? Are you talking about last year?

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00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 1: Just the primetime game last year? Right? Well, last year

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00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:09,240
Speaker 1: they lost to Tennessee. They also did it in twenty

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00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:13,840
Speaker 1: twenty in primetime. Yeah. Yeah, So they had four primetime

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Speaker 1: games in twenty twenty. No, that wasn't primetime, that was

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Speaker 1: a rescheduled game. It doesn't count. It was October. It

846
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 1: was a Tuesday game. I don't count that. That's right,

847
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:23,800
Speaker 1: October the third that was the Yes, you're right, I

848
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:28,279
Speaker 1: don't really count that one game the Chiefs. Yeah, I didn't.

849
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: I didn't count those they had two December seventh, December thirteenth,

850
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: the Niners is who they built, beat thirty in Arizona. Right, yeah, right, right, right, okay,

851
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:40,319
Speaker 1: thank you, Yeah, all that. Yeah, forget that game. We're

852
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:45,840
Speaker 1: gonna forget about how whacked that season was. It was

853
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:48,879
Speaker 1: so whacked out. Yeah, it was so crazy. Glad it's

854
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: in the rearview mirror. We have to take a break here.

855
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 1: But when we come back, a guy that believes right

856
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: now the Bills are the best team in the entire

857
00:49:57,719 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: National Football League, we'll be joining us. It's ESPN NFL

858
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 1: analyst Dan Orlovsky next here on one Bills Live, presented

859
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. At a

860
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker who has been all all over our fields.

861
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

862
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 1: players for you, Stave, Steve a blimp. We're not even

863
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 1: in the stratosphere of normalcy. All right, Welcome back to

864
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 1: one Bills Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with You Well.

865
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:52,239
Speaker 1: On ESPN's Get Up on Monday, NFL analyst Dan Orlovsky

866
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: had this to say about who he felt was the

867
00:50:56,120 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 1: best team in the NFL. Are the Bills actually the

868
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:02,840
Speaker 1: best team in the AFC, maybe even in the whole NFL.

869
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 1: The Bills are the best team in the NFL. This

870
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: is a football team that as offensively as explosive as

871
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,920
Speaker 1: anybody in the league, and defensively had the best defense

872
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:16,760
Speaker 1: in football. I want to make sure and remind everybody

873
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 1: that again, this was the best team in football last year,

874
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:23,360
Speaker 1: and this is what they've added this year. They've added

875
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:27,120
Speaker 1: Von Miller. They drafted Kayer Elam from Florida in the

876
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 1: first round of cornerback that's gonna be a phenomenal NFL pro.

877
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 1: They drafted James Cook, a tailback that's going to be

878
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:36,280
Speaker 1: a dual threat Alvin Kamara type of player. They've added

879
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 1: Roger Saffeld on the offensive line that's going to be

880
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 1: a dominant player for their offensive line, and a sneaky

881
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:45,359
Speaker 1: good signing in Jamison crowd Or as slot receiver. We're

882
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:49,400
Speaker 1: talking about a football team that has This is an argument,

883
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 1: best quarterback in football, whether you want it to be

884
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:55,720
Speaker 1: Patrick or Josh or Aaron Rodgers, best quarterback in football.

885
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:58,920
Speaker 1: And they've got a roster that is one through fifty

886
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:02,839
Speaker 1: three better than any buddy, and now they've reloaded with

887
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:07,359
Speaker 1: superstar talent. This is the best team in football, all right.

888
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 1: And without further ado, here is the man that just

889
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 1: made that statement a day or two ago. It's Dan

890
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:16,040
Speaker 1: or Lawski. Dan, thanks for joining us. And you know,

891
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 1: as much as you accurately portrayed what the Bills have

892
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 1: done this offseason, you know what I still don't think

893
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,799
Speaker 1: people talk enough about is they've not only have they

894
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 1: added von Miller, but they added von Miller to a

895
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 1: Bill's defense that was number one in the league overall,

896
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 1: number one against the past, and number one on third

897
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 1: down and in points allowed. Yeah, it's a good unit,

898
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah. I'll even taking a step further. When

899
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:49,799
Speaker 1: Vaughan went from Denver to the Rams last year, we

900
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:53,479
Speaker 1: were actually live on NFL Live when that trade went down,

901
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 1: and I remember Marcus Spears saying they got him in

902
00:52:57,760 --> 00:52:59,920
Speaker 1: just to be a closer and kind of put it

903
00:52:59,920 --> 00:53:03,319
Speaker 1: in baseball terms of they're not asking Vaughan to be

904
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 1: Vaughan from five years ago on an every down basis.

905
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: And that's the same thing that the Bills are not

906
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 1: going to ask him to do because it's not a

907
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:13,160
Speaker 1: needed thing. They don't need Vaughan to come in and

908
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:16,440
Speaker 1: be the most dominant defensive end in football. They need

909
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 1: him to be a closer. And this is where team

910
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 1: building and roster building and kind of how everything is

911
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:24,279
Speaker 1: connected comes into plays. This offense should be very good,

912
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 1: and it should score a ton of points. And when

913
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 1: you do that, your defense gets to play a little

914
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 1: bit one sided. Teams got to throw the ball a

915
00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 1: little bit more because they're gonna be down. And that's

916
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:35,239
Speaker 1: when I think Vaughan's gonna have an impact. They're also

917
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:39,359
Speaker 1: gonna get Tredevious back healthy and hopefully coming off visit

918
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:42,760
Speaker 1: thee injury. And I called college football games for ESPN,

919
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 1: and I've called probably four or five Florida games, and

920
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:50,880
Speaker 1: I've sat with Todd Grant on the defensive coordinated Florida

921
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:54,280
Speaker 1: and asked him about a player like Kayer Elam. And

922
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:57,319
Speaker 1: when you can call SEC games and watch and play

923
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:00,719
Speaker 1: against SEC receivers and ask coaches about it, you get

924
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:02,920
Speaker 1: an idea. You know kind of how good of a

925
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:05,880
Speaker 1: player he is, indifferent of what the team's success is.

926
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:08,920
Speaker 1: And the Bill seemed to be building this roster with

927
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 1: these guys that you've mentioned. One thing I've noticed over

928
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,080
Speaker 1: the course of Sean mcdermot's tenure here in Buffalo, they

929
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:17,560
Speaker 1: seem to be up on the trend of where the

930
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:20,759
Speaker 1: league is headed. They were they were doing eleven personnel

931
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:23,840
Speaker 1: way a bunch way before a lot of other teams

932
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:28,799
Speaker 1: were doing eleven personnel Offensively, they they stacked up with

933
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 1: a slot receiver in Cole Beasley is a dedicated slot receiver.

934
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,880
Speaker 1: They added some speed with Isaia McKenzie. They have always

935
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 1: seemed to be one of those teams that kind of

936
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 1: is out in front of personnel usage and how they

937
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:43,839
Speaker 1: do things. And this offense here with Buffalo, where they

938
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 1: get a guy like James Cook from Georgia, a guy

939
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 1: who is a little Alvin Kamara ish in his skill set,

940
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 1: and the way that their defense has been deployed. Certainly

941
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 1: not a spectacular defense, but like you said, statistically really tough.

942
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:00,759
Speaker 1: They seem to be on the on the cutting edge.

943
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: Where do you see the next step in the evolution

944
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 1: of these roster builds going too. I mean, we know

945
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 1: eleven personnel is the predominant personnel offensively. What are defenses

946
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: doing in response to that? Yeah, I think you're obviously

947
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 1: seeing defenses put more secondary players on the field, you know,

948
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:20,719
Speaker 1: when it's kind of in I guess three different ways

949
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:24,080
Speaker 1: they play with you know, big three big safeties, you know,

950
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:27,880
Speaker 1: so they'll have a safety playing down in a nickel

951
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:30,640
Speaker 1: position type of place, They'll have some safeties playing down

952
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:34,400
Speaker 1: at linebacker spots. You'll see them putting four cover corners

953
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:36,719
Speaker 1: on the field on early downs, you know. I think

954
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 1: one of the things that happened over the past couple

955
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 1: of years in the NFL offensively was a lot of

956
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 1: coaches took their third down offense and started to call

957
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:46,600
Speaker 1: it on first and second down. And I think you're

958
00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:49,759
Speaker 1: seeing defenses do that now, get their third down defenses

959
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 1: on the field and call third down defenses to match

960
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:56,239
Speaker 1: those first down on first and second downs defensively. I

961
00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 1: think one of the interesting things, even more so steep

962
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 1: with the Bills is now Ken Dorsey's their play caller.

963
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:06,120
Speaker 1: I could even see them diversifying their personnel usage even more.

964
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:11,840
Speaker 1: I think because of the addition of Cook and Oj Howard.

965
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:15,479
Speaker 1: You know, you feel good about getting into some two

966
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 1: tight end personnel packages. Sometimes those could be two tight end,

967
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:24,920
Speaker 1: three receivers. I could see Oj Howard, Dawson Knox, Gabe

968
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:28,400
Speaker 1: Davis obviously Digs and Crowder on the field at the

969
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:30,080
Speaker 1: same time and living in a little bit of an

970
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:32,840
Speaker 1: empty world with Josh. I could see them put in

971
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:36,400
Speaker 1: two backs on the field and three receivers and living

972
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:39,480
Speaker 1: in that James Cooke Singletary three receiver world or two

973
00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 1: backs hand a Dawson Knox and two receiver world. And

974
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:46,400
Speaker 1: I think you could see a little bit more personnel

975
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 1: grouping diversification, and that's challenging for defenses if you don't

976
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:53,760
Speaker 1: have and I think it's all going to be dependent

977
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:57,160
Speaker 1: on who you're playing defensively. This team's really strong in

978
00:56:57,200 --> 00:56:59,719
Speaker 1: their front, well let's spread them out. This team's really

979
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,239
Speaker 1: wrong in their linebacker unit. Well maybe we want to

980
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 1: force those cats to cover. This team's really strong in

981
00:57:05,239 --> 00:57:07,439
Speaker 1: their coverage unit. Well maybe we'll put our two tight

982
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:09,439
Speaker 1: ends on the field then, or runder a little bit more.

983
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 1: And so I think that will see a little bit

984
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:14,920
Speaker 1: different I guess personality out of their offense knowing how

985
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:17,320
Speaker 1: much you know you like to chew on scheme. Dan,

986
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:20,320
Speaker 1: Let's take that a step further because you mentioned the

987
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:24,600
Speaker 1: two back thing, and I think that's a very viable possibility.

988
00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 1: Are the Bills in a position with the personnel that

989
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 1: they have on their roster where twenty two personnel isn't

990
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:37,160
Speaker 1: necessarily a power formation with the talent they have on

991
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:42,280
Speaker 1: this roster because I'm thinking Cook Singletary knocks Howard like,

992
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:48,480
Speaker 1: that's not your mom and dad's twenty two personnel. Yeah. Absolutely,

993
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:50,960
Speaker 1: And it's the ability to do whatever you want out

994
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:53,920
Speaker 1: of it. And it's really important for people to understand

995
00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 1: how kind of that stuff happens, you know, and Steve,

996
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:00,959
Speaker 1: you guys know this is you know, is the ball

997
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:03,880
Speaker 1: gets snapped and the play gets run, the player goes down. Okay,

998
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 1: forty second clock comes, and now the coach is sitting

999
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:10,360
Speaker 1: there right face cover because everyone whatever, and they're calling

1000
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:13,200
Speaker 1: out their personnel grouping, and that's when the personnels are

1001
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:19,520
Speaker 1: exchanging and defenses matched their call people wise to the

1002
00:58:19,640 --> 00:58:22,880
Speaker 1: personnel and the situation. So you get to a second

1003
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 1: and six and there comes to Buffalo Bills running on

1004
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:28,640
Speaker 1: their twenty two personnel with those four players in a

1005
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 1: digs at wide receiver and the defense has got a

1006
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:35,439
Speaker 1: call what they believe is the most likely situation play

1007
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: call wise to match. Well, what happens if I get

1008
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:40,440
Speaker 1: the twenty two personnel and all of a sudden we

1009
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:44,480
Speaker 1: come out and empty. But you've matched with linebackers, you've

1010
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 1: matched bigs. You're dead. You're dead. And now what you

1011
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:52,320
Speaker 1: could see Ken Dorsey doing is is not only do

1012
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 1: you get into that on second down, but then you

1013
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:57,360
Speaker 1: play no huddle football in that too. Like if you

1014
00:58:57,400 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 1: get them stuck in that deeper defensive person you get

1015
00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:03,360
Speaker 1: him and you could play spread out ball. You could

1016
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:05,920
Speaker 1: get into an eleven personnel formation where one of those

1017
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 1: tight ends could be solo backside, you can get to

1018
00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:10,880
Speaker 1: receive one of those tailbacks into a slot. I mean,

1019
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:13,800
Speaker 1: there's just so much and it's it's, to be honest

1020
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:17,520
Speaker 1: with dude, it's very NBA. It's it's very New England

1021
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:20,760
Speaker 1: patriot ish where and I know that's you know, you

1022
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:23,680
Speaker 1: get shot or punched in the face for saying that

1023
00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:26,840
Speaker 1: those three words in Buffalo, buto, um, you know, it's

1024
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 1: it's that positionless football, so to speak. You played quarterback

1025
00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 1: in the NFL for a while and a long time,

1026
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:39,440
Speaker 1: and you've seen the effects of an offensive coordinator change

1027
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:41,160
Speaker 1: like the one in Buffalo where you get a new

1028
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:44,200
Speaker 1: guy coming in. Now, they they have advanced Ken Dorsey

1029
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:46,040
Speaker 1: from within, so he's been in the room for a

1030
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 1: couple of years with Josh. Give us kind of relate

1031
00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 1: to us from a quarterbacks perspective, how that can affect

1032
00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:56,080
Speaker 1: and change or how could it or will it affect

1033
00:59:56,320 --> 01:00:00,400
Speaker 1: a quarterback like Josh Allen in this office? What will

1034
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:02,440
Speaker 1: it look like? And you know the good and the

1035
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:05,280
Speaker 1: bad or the plus or the minus of it. Well,

1036
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 1: I think we've kind of hit on a little bit

1037
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:09,560
Speaker 1: of like the potential personnel changes. I don't think it's

1038
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:14,320
Speaker 1: really changed as much as it promotes continued development. You know,

1039
01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:16,680
Speaker 1: Ken doesn't have to figure out how does this guy think,

1040
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:19,880
Speaker 1: how does this guy understand? How does he study? What's

1041
01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:24,080
Speaker 1: he like? How does he like to watch tape Thursday

1042
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:26,320
Speaker 1: game week? How does he like his schedule to be,

1043
01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:29,360
Speaker 1: and what allows him to be at his absolute best

1044
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:32,920
Speaker 1: or most ready, So that you don't have to spend

1045
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:36,200
Speaker 1: time understanding that they've he's been in his ear before.

1046
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:38,640
Speaker 1: You know, Josh has hurt his voice in game, and

1047
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 1: so I don't think that there's much of a change.

1048
01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:44,360
Speaker 1: You know, you don't have to take two steps forward

1049
01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 1: to take or two steps backward to take one step forward.

1050
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:50,400
Speaker 1: And so I think that you're just gonna see Josh

1051
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:55,040
Speaker 1: continue to take a like a not only development growth,

1052
01:00:55,560 --> 01:00:58,800
Speaker 1: but also play at that high level on a consistent

1053
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:02,240
Speaker 1: basis where whether it's a week, two week, ten weeks sixteen,

1054
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:04,080
Speaker 1: you have a pretty good feel of how he's going

1055
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:06,680
Speaker 1: to continue to play. And I don't have to tell

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Speaker 1: you this, Dan, but every year he's put something on

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Speaker 1: his to do list to get better at, and we've

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Speaker 1: seen him be appreciably better in whatever area it was.

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Speaker 1: And this passed offseason, he said one area where he

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01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:23,919
Speaker 1: wanted to get better was to set his targets up

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Speaker 1: to get more yards after the catch. Steve has often

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Speaker 1: commented that Josh is more of a put it on

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01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 1: the receiver type thrower rather than a thrower player open

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Speaker 1: type thrower, and he is determined to get better in

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Speaker 1: that area. Now with Crowder, who I would argue is

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Speaker 1: a better run after catch player than Beasley, and with

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Speaker 1: Cook and with the kid Khalil Shakir now on the roster,

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01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:54,360
Speaker 1: and him trying to get better in that area. For

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Speaker 1: a team that finished twentieth in total yards after the

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Speaker 1: catch in the league last year, how much of a

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Speaker 1: jump do you think is realistic in that particular category

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Speaker 1: for this offense, It's realistic if Jamison gets the same

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Speaker 1: field that co Beasley had. I mean, for everything that

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Speaker 1: Cole Cole had phenomenal field and he really saw the

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Speaker 1: field the same way as Josh. There's sometimes you know,

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01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:23,520
Speaker 1: Cole runs his route and it's not even a route,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's just literally just running to green grass

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01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:28,840
Speaker 1: or space or whatnot, and Josh saw it the same way.

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Speaker 1: So as how quickly James Jamison kind of gets that

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Speaker 1: to that same level of understanding and seeing it the

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Speaker 1: same way with Josh is paramount because that's what's going

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Speaker 1: to promote getting him the ball with the least amount

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Speaker 1: of people near him. You know, I don't think that

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01:02:46,040 --> 01:02:48,520
Speaker 1: Josh has had a James Cook. I think single Parry

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01:02:48,640 --> 01:02:51,240
Speaker 1: is a solid pass catcher, but I don't think he's

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01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:53,720
Speaker 1: had that guy out of the back field that you

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01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:56,400
Speaker 1: can really say, hey man, we are just gonna get

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Speaker 1: into a three by one formation. We're gonna let this

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01:02:59,120 --> 01:03:02,120
Speaker 1: kid work back on that linebacker and you read him

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01:03:02,600 --> 01:03:07,040
Speaker 1: and I think that um the biggest challenge that a

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Speaker 1: talented And I saw this with Matthew Stafford a little

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Speaker 1: bit when we had a player like we had this

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01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:17,560
Speaker 1: really good pass catching tailback um um at a Notre Dame.

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01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:21,200
Speaker 1: Theo Riddick was his name, and it really took Matthew

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01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:25,400
Speaker 1: legit a me into the middle of the season to

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Speaker 1: get a feel for how he was such a good

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Speaker 1: route runner. He wouldn't make Matthew confused about what he

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01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:35,360
Speaker 1: was doing, you know, until so that'll be a big

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Speaker 1: thing for Josh is not only because that's where ball

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Speaker 1: policeman becomes paramount, you know. And if I think you're

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Speaker 1: breaking in and you're just setting the guy up to

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Speaker 1: break out, well we're all we're not seeing it the

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01:03:46,400 --> 01:03:48,720
Speaker 1: same way. So I think those are the two big

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Speaker 1: things for those two players with Josh to really promote

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01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:57,720
Speaker 1: the amount of yards after catch, that kind of you're referencing.

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Speaker 1: And the Bills, and we talked a lot about offense

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01:04:00,680 --> 01:04:03,439
Speaker 1: and defensively. One of the shocking things that took place

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01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:05,840
Speaker 1: this offseason was for Buffalo with a Von Miller signing.

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01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:09,600
Speaker 1: Nobody saw that coming even we here got our ear

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01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:11,920
Speaker 1: to the ground saw that as a bolt out of

1111
01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:15,480
Speaker 1: the blue a little bit. The contract, everything, even his

1112
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Speaker 1: decision to even accept the deal was a little bit

1113
01:04:17,840 --> 01:04:19,960
Speaker 1: of a surprise. How big a difference even at this

1114
01:04:20,040 --> 01:04:24,280
Speaker 1: point of his career. You said, he's a closer coming

1115
01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:26,200
Speaker 1: to a number one defense where he doesn't have to

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01:04:26,200 --> 01:04:28,720
Speaker 1: really carry a load and they rotate their players through

1117
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:32,240
Speaker 1: no question about it. If the Bills get a guy

1118
01:04:32,280 --> 01:04:36,760
Speaker 1: like von Miller to close out games, to do that

1119
01:04:36,840 --> 01:04:41,240
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. What's the best way to attack a

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Speaker 1: defense with the way the Buffalo Bills deploy it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you got this guy in the edge, you got a

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Speaker 1: couple of good corners. I mean, where's the league headed

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Speaker 1: offensively in attacking a defense like the Bills? Yeah? I

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01:04:54,840 --> 01:04:57,400
Speaker 1: think the only the team that's best shuited to do

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Speaker 1: it is the team that did it last year in

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Speaker 1: the regular season, which was New England is really trying

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01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:05,200
Speaker 1: to slow it down, huddle, minimize possessions, and play as

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Speaker 1: physical as you can and hopefully that the speed in

1129
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:14,160
Speaker 1: the athleticism is somewhat minimized, that you're not giving them

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Speaker 1: multiple pass rush opportunities. It is the Tennessee Titans, It

1131
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:22,520
Speaker 1: is the Indianapolis Colts, and it is the New England Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Those are the three teams in that conference. Maybe Denver

1133
01:05:25,960 --> 01:05:28,480
Speaker 1: as well, because now Nathaniel Hack it brings over that

1134
01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:32,960
Speaker 1: Mike Shannean stretch. You know, offensive system. You know the

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01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:35,000
Speaker 1: way that the game is set up right now, with

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01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:37,160
Speaker 1: how quickly the ball kit it can get out, how

1137
01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:40,120
Speaker 1: athletic the quarterbacks are, the minimization of rules where I

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01:05:40,120 --> 01:05:42,560
Speaker 1: can't put hands on you a ton as a receiver,

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01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:44,400
Speaker 1: and I can't really hit you across the line of

1140
01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:47,120
Speaker 1: sphere or across the middle of the field. You know,

1141
01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:49,600
Speaker 1: you're you're really looking for guys that can get to

1142
01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:53,600
Speaker 1: the quarterback as quickly as possible to make them feel uncomfortable.

1143
01:05:53,840 --> 01:05:56,520
Speaker 1: And then you have to have multiple cover guys and

1144
01:05:56,600 --> 01:05:59,440
Speaker 1: at all at both levels, both linebacker in secondary. That's

1145
01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:03,320
Speaker 1: what Buffalo as. So if they can match that physicality

1146
01:06:03,360 --> 01:06:05,640
Speaker 1: a little bit like obviously they did in the playoffs,

1147
01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:08,400
Speaker 1: that defense is still going to be at worst the

1148
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:11,600
Speaker 1: top three unit. Last one I've got for you, Dan

1149
01:06:11,880 --> 01:06:16,320
Speaker 1: concerns the announcement on Monday that the Bills will be

1150
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Speaker 1: playing Week two on Your Guys Network Monday night football

1151
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:23,040
Speaker 1: against the Titans here at him Mark Stadium in Buffalo.

1152
01:06:24,800 --> 01:06:28,480
Speaker 1: Are you still trying to put your finger on what

1153
01:06:28,520 --> 01:06:31,000
Speaker 1: the Titans are going to be? I mean, obviously it's

1154
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Speaker 1: still Derek Henry, but they've got a number one wide

1155
01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:36,480
Speaker 1: out void to fill. I know they have Robert Woods,

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01:06:36,480 --> 01:06:39,320
Speaker 1: who's as good at number two as you'll find. But

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01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:41,640
Speaker 1: there's there's some up in the air stuff with the

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01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:43,520
Speaker 1: Titans that kind of leaves them a bit of a

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Speaker 1: question mark. Even as late as Week two, they could

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Speaker 1: still be that question mark. Yeah. The really interesting thing

1161
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Speaker 1: for me with Tennessee is so one of the reasons

1162
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Speaker 1: why their offense was so fun last year when they

1163
01:06:55,800 --> 01:06:59,040
Speaker 1: were healthy was because of those three mon stars I

1164
01:06:59,120 --> 01:07:01,520
Speaker 1: called them Derek Ken, Julio Jones and A. J. Brown.

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01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:04,760
Speaker 1: And the reality was you got so many one on

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01:07:04,760 --> 01:07:09,120
Speaker 1: ones for those receivers Julio and AJ Brown the perimeter.

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Speaker 1: It was simplified. You know, hey, we're gonna run the

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Speaker 1: football at Derek and we're gonna get those one on

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01:07:16,440 --> 01:07:19,680
Speaker 1: one matchups and static formations and we're just gonna throw

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01:07:20,240 --> 01:07:23,560
Speaker 1: go routes and comebacks and outs and slants, And it

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01:07:23,600 --> 01:07:26,640
Speaker 1: was a little bit simplified because of that, because those

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Speaker 1: two receivers were so big that they could do that.

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Speaker 1: The interesting thing is that I believe is still their

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01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:38,040
Speaker 1: identity or what their preferred identity is. But Robert and

1175
01:07:38,200 --> 01:07:41,720
Speaker 1: Treylan are not line them up outside one on one guys.

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01:07:42,080 --> 01:07:46,520
Speaker 1: They're more get creative with them. They're more usage guys.

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01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:48,680
Speaker 1: They're more how many different ways can we get you

1178
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:51,640
Speaker 1: touches guys, rather than Hey, I'm gonna put you out

1179
01:07:51,640 --> 01:07:53,520
Speaker 1: at wide receiver at number one. You're gonna get one

1180
01:07:53,520 --> 01:07:55,880
Speaker 1: on one coverage, fifteen snaps this game. I need you

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01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:58,400
Speaker 1: to win twelve, you know, And that'll be the really

1182
01:07:58,880 --> 01:08:01,000
Speaker 1: kind of fascinating thing for me to pay attention to

1183
01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 1: Tennessee's offenses. How do they take advantage of those one

1184
01:08:05,360 --> 01:08:07,880
Speaker 1: on ones when they don't really have guys that are

1185
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:12,600
Speaker 1: one on one killers. Last one for me, Dan, the

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Speaker 1: schedules coming out this week, what do you think there's

1187
01:08:16,080 --> 01:08:18,360
Speaker 1: gonna be any surprises? What do you think what are

1188
01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:20,559
Speaker 1: you gonna look for first when the schedule comes out.

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Speaker 1: Obviously it has to do with your schedule. What any

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Speaker 1: games you're gonna work and what are the marquee game

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01:08:25,960 --> 01:08:27,800
Speaker 1: matchups that you're looking for. I mean, we here in

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01:08:27,800 --> 01:08:30,479
Speaker 1: Buffalo talk about the Bills Chiefs game, the replay the

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01:08:30,520 --> 01:08:33,400
Speaker 1: thirteen seconds were playing green Bay, right, Yeah, the Bills

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01:08:33,439 --> 01:08:35,439
Speaker 1: are playing green Bay and I believe the Green Bay

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Speaker 1: Packers are here. Uh yes, So that's that's gonna be

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Speaker 1: one as well. Bills Bills, Rams. We've got we've got

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Speaker 1: three Thanksgiving games, we got three games on Christmas Day.

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Speaker 1: What are you gonna look at first? And the schedule pops? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think in relation to Buffalo, i'd say, what's early

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01:08:54,240 --> 01:08:56,920
Speaker 1: and what's late look like? You know, because that's when

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01:08:57,720 --> 01:08:59,559
Speaker 1: you might not be as good as you are early

1202
01:08:59,600 --> 01:09:02,320
Speaker 1: on because whatever young players are coming along. And then

1203
01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:04,519
Speaker 1: what's it looked like late? Because that's when you want

1204
01:09:04,560 --> 01:09:07,320
Speaker 1: to be playing your best. I think the Green Bay

1205
01:09:07,320 --> 01:09:09,880
Speaker 1: game is fascinating, but more of a Green Bay perspective,

1206
01:09:10,360 --> 01:09:13,200
Speaker 1: you know. I think Buffalo obviously is the best team

1207
01:09:13,200 --> 01:09:15,479
Speaker 1: in football, and if Green Bay thinks that they have

1208
01:09:15,520 --> 01:09:18,160
Speaker 1: any shot of a Super Bowl, they I want to

1209
01:09:18,160 --> 01:09:19,960
Speaker 1: see how they match up against the team because they're

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01:09:20,000 --> 01:09:22,000
Speaker 1: not gonna have a ton of challenge so to speak,

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01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:28,880
Speaker 1: in the NFC. You know, I think that what in

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01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:32,200
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay New Orleans. I want to see just

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01:09:32,240 --> 01:09:35,080
Speaker 1: because Tampa Bay's lost four straight to them in the

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Speaker 1: regular season. I think Tampa Bay's worse than they were

1215
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Speaker 1: last year. I think New Orleans is better the AFC,

1216
01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:43,320
Speaker 1: and you guys know, I think there's eight teams in

1217
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:47,160
Speaker 1: the AFC that are bona fide Super Bowl contenders, and

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Speaker 1: I think it would be really interesting to see. Does

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01:09:49,560 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 1: anyone have a little bit of a softer December because

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Speaker 1: it might be needed to make a final run. Dan,

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01:09:56,520 --> 01:09:58,880
Speaker 1: enjoy chopping it up with you really enjoy your work

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01:09:58,880 --> 01:10:01,720
Speaker 1: on ESPN. Will keep watching. Thanks for the time. We

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thanks Bellas. All right, that's ESPN's NFL analyst

1224
01:10:06,720 --> 01:10:09,880
Speaker 1: Dan Orlovsky. We will take a break here, Steve and

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01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:12,080
Speaker 1: I back with more. Here on one Bills Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Bread. How many

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Speaker 1: prime time games do you expect the Bills to get

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01:10:31,280 --> 01:10:34,519
Speaker 1: when the twenty twenty two schedule is released on Thursday night?

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Speaker 1: We know they already have one. They had four last

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01:10:37,439 --> 01:10:41,840
Speaker 1: year three the year before that. Ten teams had five

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01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:45,080
Speaker 1: primetime games when the first schedule was released last week

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, or what last year, and do

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Speaker 1: you think what do you think four scheduled, one flexed, three,

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01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:53,840
Speaker 1: four is a safe bet? I think four's is safe bet.

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Speaker 1: I think three at least scheduled, and then they'll probably

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01:10:58,360 --> 01:11:03,719
Speaker 1: get a fourth or fifth. Think the only way it's

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01:11:03,800 --> 01:11:08,479
Speaker 1: less than four is if they're playing the Lions at

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Speaker 1: twelve thirty on Thanksgiving. You know what I mean. So

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01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:15,400
Speaker 1: that's not a primetime Gamelan game though. Now, yeah, yeah,

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01:11:15,439 --> 01:11:18,120
Speaker 1: I guess so. Standalone games are different than primetime, but

1241
01:11:18,120 --> 01:11:20,640
Speaker 1: they're all kind they're kind of the same. Yeah, a

1242
01:11:20,680 --> 01:11:24,400
Speaker 1: little bit different bucket, but yes, especially the Thanksgiving the

1243
01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:27,240
Speaker 1: Christmas games this year. Let's go to the tweet sheet

1244
01:11:27,439 --> 01:11:30,080
Speaker 1: to see what you think, which is brought to you,

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Speaker 1: as always by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving

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01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:36,519
Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills, and Jimmy says, every Bills

1247
01:11:36,520 --> 01:11:38,439
Speaker 1: game is a primetime game. If you ask me so,

1248
01:11:38,479 --> 01:11:45,360
Speaker 1: my answer is just that seventeen okay, Jimmy, okay. Butch says,

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01:11:45,479 --> 01:11:49,519
Speaker 1: I believe we get all six games. I want my

1250
01:11:49,560 --> 01:11:52,840
Speaker 1: team to play on Thanksgiving. We are the new Thanksgiving

1251
01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:57,200
Speaker 1: team every Thanksgiving from now on. I don't mind. The

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01:11:57,320 --> 01:12:00,320
Speaker 1: last two have been pretty delicious. Yeah, I don't that.

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01:12:00,400 --> 01:12:03,160
Speaker 1: I kind of like it too. It adds something to

1254
01:12:03,200 --> 01:12:08,240
Speaker 1: the day for sure, particularly since the team plays really

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01:12:08,240 --> 01:12:11,679
Speaker 1: well on those games. So yeah, that's that's helped from

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Fan ninety two. I'm going five Rams on Opening Night, Bengals,

1257
01:12:20,200 --> 01:12:27,519
Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football, Dolphins, Thursday Night Football, Packers, Sunday Night Titans,

1258
01:12:27,560 --> 01:12:30,760
Speaker 1: as we know, Monday Night. He spelled it all out there,

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01:12:30,960 --> 01:12:34,920
Speaker 1: buff Fan ninety two did. Yeah, how good do you

1260
01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:39,200
Speaker 1: feel about the Bills being the kickoff game against the Rams?

1261
01:12:39,320 --> 01:12:41,519
Speaker 1: Are you encouraged because a lot of people after they

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01:12:41,520 --> 01:12:44,439
Speaker 1: saw the Rams stuck on Christmas with the Broncos, there

1263
01:12:44,439 --> 01:12:45,920
Speaker 1: are a lot of people that thought that had a

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01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:48,760
Speaker 1: chance to be a kickoff game for them because of

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, and you know, he's playing a team that

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01:12:51,760 --> 01:12:54,000
Speaker 1: he's familiar with from being in the NFC West and

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01:12:54,080 --> 01:12:56,920
Speaker 1: now it's his first debut with the Broncos team. I

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01:12:56,960 --> 01:12:59,720
Speaker 1: didn't think that was a candidates Vonts von Miller all

1269
01:12:59,760 --> 01:13:02,200
Speaker 1: the way. Well, I'm not saying it was a better

1270
01:13:02,280 --> 01:13:04,800
Speaker 1: matchup for the kickoff game than the Bills. I'm saying

1271
01:13:05,040 --> 01:13:07,960
Speaker 1: once they saw Rams Broncos on Christmas they said, oh,

1272
01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:11,400
Speaker 1: that takes another one out of the equation, the kickoff game, right,

1273
01:13:12,040 --> 01:13:15,760
Speaker 1: yes it does. Um, I still like the Bills in

1274
01:13:15,760 --> 01:13:18,920
Speaker 1: that spot. But they got the Raiders. The Rams have

1275
01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:22,639
Speaker 1: the Raiders. That's a good man, that's a possibility. Um.

1276
01:13:22,720 --> 01:13:26,639
Speaker 1: The Niners, you know, division rival, they've kind of battled

1277
01:13:26,680 --> 01:13:30,040
Speaker 1: each other. They're same conference, same division, And we said,

1278
01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:33,080
Speaker 1: that's a pretty good one because of the league's penchant

1279
01:13:33,160 --> 01:13:42,519
Speaker 1: for putting division games early and late. Um. And then Dolphins.

1280
01:13:43,040 --> 01:13:46,439
Speaker 1: Oh uh, Dallas, and we know how they like to

1281
01:13:46,479 --> 01:13:48,760
Speaker 1: stick Dallas in one of those windows. Has been that

1282
01:13:48,800 --> 01:13:52,479
Speaker 1: game for the last game. We're against the Bucks game

1283
01:13:52,640 --> 01:13:54,360
Speaker 1: for the last couple of years. So well, So basically

1284
01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:58,080
Speaker 1: it's down to Las Vegas, San fran Dallas and Buffalo.

1285
01:13:58,120 --> 01:14:01,759
Speaker 1: I would think for the Rams kickoff game Week one,

1286
01:14:01,920 --> 01:14:07,280
Speaker 1: Sofi Stadium, those are the foremost viable candidates remaining on

1287
01:14:07,320 --> 01:14:10,680
Speaker 1: the Rams list of opponents for the kickoff game. I

1288
01:14:10,720 --> 01:14:16,240
Speaker 1: would think, well, so in twenty five percent chance at worst.

1289
01:14:17,560 --> 01:14:20,880
Speaker 1: And what are they they're the kickoffs, it's Vegas, sanz

1290
01:14:23,920 --> 01:14:28,519
Speaker 1: Those are probably the strongest candidates on the RAMS home schedule.

1291
01:14:28,560 --> 01:14:32,040
Speaker 1: I think we think we see everything through, you know,

1292
01:14:32,080 --> 01:14:35,720
Speaker 1: the charging Buffalo lens. So there's no question for us,

1293
01:14:36,040 --> 01:14:39,519
Speaker 1: the best matchup is Buffalo. They're the team that a

1294
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:43,080
Speaker 1: lot of people thought had a chance to get there. Um.

1295
01:14:43,120 --> 01:14:45,400
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're thinking of shiny new toys for

1296
01:14:45,439 --> 01:14:51,080
Speaker 1: the league to exploit. Does DeVante Adams trump von Miller

1297
01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:53,679
Speaker 1: going back to play the Rams after his offseason decision.

1298
01:14:53,760 --> 01:14:58,479
Speaker 1: I don't know that it does. Player he's really important.

1299
01:14:58,520 --> 01:15:01,000
Speaker 1: He's not a quarterback, and he's not in Bay to

1300
01:15:01,320 --> 01:15:03,599
Speaker 1: San frans out of the equation because of their muddled

1301
01:15:03,680 --> 01:15:07,360
Speaker 1: quarterback situation, the garoppolo thing hasn't resolved itself, and who

1302
01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:09,360
Speaker 1: the hell is Trey Lance right now? Right that'd be

1303
01:15:09,400 --> 01:15:12,080
Speaker 1: like putting Josh Allen on the kickoff game in twenty eighteen.

1304
01:15:12,120 --> 01:15:14,040
Speaker 1: They weren't a playoff team last year, and the and

1305
01:15:14,080 --> 01:15:17,120
Speaker 1: the expectations this year are a little bit much the same.

1306
01:15:17,160 --> 01:15:22,080
Speaker 1: They might be a wild card Dallas. Dallas is always

1307
01:15:22,120 --> 01:15:24,920
Speaker 1: the trump card for the network. They're always a huge draw.

1308
01:15:24,960 --> 01:15:26,240
Speaker 1: And I get it, you know, you just want to

1309
01:15:26,280 --> 01:15:28,559
Speaker 1: start up, but you also want to groan. And I

1310
01:15:28,600 --> 01:15:31,320
Speaker 1: heard this and the guys on the afternoons said this

1311
01:15:31,360 --> 01:15:33,320
Speaker 1: year actually makes a lot of sense. Dallas you always

1312
01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:35,720
Speaker 1: you don't want to put the best game ever that

1313
01:15:35,720 --> 01:15:39,000
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna watch anyway, the best matchup. They may save

1314
01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:44,599
Speaker 1: the La Rams hosting the Buffalo Bills for November for

1315
01:15:44,720 --> 01:15:47,960
Speaker 1: ratings month, you know, no, put it on Monday night.

1316
01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:51,840
Speaker 1: Football could do a Thursday night, you know, so that

1317
01:15:51,880 --> 01:15:54,400
Speaker 1: makes some sense. They're also September sweeps though, aren't there?

1318
01:15:54,680 --> 01:15:58,599
Speaker 1: They're up September sweeps. I can't been out a TV

1319
01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:04,840
Speaker 1: too long. Sum Yeah, I think it's at worst at

1320
01:16:04,880 --> 01:16:09,080
Speaker 1: twenty five percent chance that Buffalo has a kickoff game. Yeah,

1321
01:16:09,280 --> 01:16:12,000
Speaker 1: I would agree with that. You've got they've got to

1322
01:16:12,080 --> 01:16:18,479
Speaker 1: be in the in the conversation anyway. So yeah, mister

1323
01:16:18,600 --> 01:16:22,120
Speaker 1: october Fest on the tweet sheet says maybe five to

1324
01:16:22,280 --> 01:16:27,200
Speaker 1: six Titans, Rams, Chiefs, Packers, Bengals, and maybe Miami or

1325
01:16:27,280 --> 01:16:30,240
Speaker 1: New England. I think Miami's got a better shot than

1326
01:16:30,280 --> 01:16:32,400
Speaker 1: New England to be on a primetime game with the Bills,

1327
01:16:32,479 --> 01:16:36,160
Speaker 1: unless with the Tyreek Hill thing, unless it's early, but Miami, yes,

1328
01:16:39,320 --> 01:16:42,160
Speaker 1: than the Pots right right now they are. Tyreek does

1329
01:16:42,200 --> 01:16:47,320
Speaker 1: that for them. The Patriots have like zero stars on

1330
01:16:47,360 --> 01:16:50,400
Speaker 1: the field. Yeah, there's no zero. There's no star power there.

1331
01:16:50,760 --> 01:16:54,120
Speaker 1: Mac Jones is not a star. Bill Belichick is the

1332
01:16:54,160 --> 01:16:58,200
Speaker 1: star up there. That's a draw, hides nobody, there's no

1333
01:16:58,320 --> 01:17:01,200
Speaker 1: I have a hard time I'm naming any players on

1334
01:17:01,240 --> 01:17:07,920
Speaker 1: their team outside well, Matt Slater, you know, Mac Jones,

1335
01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:12,840
Speaker 1: Matt Slater, and that is it for me. Yeah. J C.

1336
01:17:13,040 --> 01:17:16,880
Speaker 1: Jackson's not there anymore. Steph Gilmour's not there anymore. No,

1337
01:17:17,479 --> 01:17:22,400
Speaker 1: Van Noy's not there anymore. Nope, what are you looking?

1338
01:17:22,479 --> 01:17:26,200
Speaker 1: I mean, what are they doing? Yeah, they got Judon Judon.

1339
01:17:27,600 --> 01:17:31,919
Speaker 1: I mean, who are we talking about, like Damian Williams,

1340
01:17:32,320 --> 01:17:37,080
Speaker 1: Ramandre Stevenson. All strange, you know. I mean, I don't

1341
01:17:37,120 --> 01:17:40,800
Speaker 1: think you're right. I think sex year right now as

1342
01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:44,759
Speaker 1: a television draw, then then the Patriots are New England

1343
01:17:45,040 --> 01:17:47,400
Speaker 1: unless one time you could get a lot of this

1344
01:17:47,439 --> 01:17:49,479
Speaker 1: out of there too, Brownie. There might be a lot

1345
01:17:49,520 --> 01:17:53,160
Speaker 1: of people around the National Football League just would love

1346
01:17:53,280 --> 01:17:56,880
Speaker 1: watching the Patriots burn to the ground on National TV.

1347
01:17:58,439 --> 01:18:00,280
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a ratings ground, right, I

1348
01:18:00,360 --> 01:18:03,320
Speaker 1: don't see. As the game goes south the channels, the

1349
01:18:03,360 --> 01:18:05,920
Speaker 1: people are channel surfing, they say this show me, Bill

1350
01:18:05,960 --> 01:18:09,840
Speaker 1: Belichick crash and burn. Well, we enjoyed watching, right, That's

1351
01:18:09,960 --> 01:18:12,160
Speaker 1: you know, people love doing it. I can watch that

1352
01:18:12,240 --> 01:18:15,280
Speaker 1: over a nine um. I think New England gets one

1353
01:18:15,320 --> 01:18:20,120
Speaker 1: primetime game. I think they get one. And I think

1354
01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:22,799
Speaker 1: if the Bills have a primetime game with a division opponent,

1355
01:18:23,080 --> 01:18:26,600
Speaker 1: the league is gonna pick Miami because they got some

1356
01:18:26,680 --> 01:18:29,920
Speaker 1: sex appeal to them now with Tyreek and Jalen Waddle,

1357
01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:35,559
Speaker 1: and you know they they have some attractive star power there.

1358
01:18:36,120 --> 01:18:39,080
Speaker 1: So yeah, I would I would lean Miami over New

1359
01:18:39,080 --> 01:18:42,840
Speaker 1: England for a division primetime matchup with the Bills. That's

1360
01:18:42,880 --> 01:18:44,720
Speaker 1: that would be might to be, and it might be.

1361
01:18:44,960 --> 01:18:48,440
Speaker 1: And I think too that that you try and anticipate

1362
01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:52,120
Speaker 1: with a little bit of hedging in case it goes

1363
01:18:52,160 --> 01:18:57,640
Speaker 1: south for either team, you know, so you put it early. Yeah,

1364
01:18:57,760 --> 01:18:59,760
Speaker 1: you know, I mean the Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Bills. You

1365
01:18:59,800 --> 01:19:02,719
Speaker 1: could you could conceivably schedule it from Monday Night Football

1366
01:19:02,760 --> 01:19:09,040
Speaker 1: in December in Miami, hoping that the Dolphins can hang

1367
01:19:09,040 --> 01:19:11,160
Speaker 1: in there, you know what I mean, or with the

1368
01:19:11,200 --> 01:19:14,639
Speaker 1: ability to flex him out of that or the Bills

1369
01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:17,080
Speaker 1: out of it. Kevin on the tweet sheet says, my

1370
01:19:17,160 --> 01:19:22,160
Speaker 1: initial thought was five Rams, Baltimore, k C, New England,

1371
01:19:22,200 --> 01:19:25,280
Speaker 1: and Green Bay. But now that they announced the Tennessee

1372
01:19:25,320 --> 01:19:27,719
Speaker 1: Monday night game. I think I will stick with five

1373
01:19:28,160 --> 01:19:30,559
Speaker 1: and I change the Ravens game to a four PM

1374
01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:33,720
Speaker 1: CBS game. But I wouldn't be shocked if Buffalo ended

1375
01:19:33,800 --> 01:19:36,599
Speaker 1: up with six primetime games. That's the thing, Steve, I think.

1376
01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:40,000
Speaker 1: I think we're looking at probably four primetime games and

1377
01:19:40,120 --> 01:19:45,880
Speaker 1: probably two four o'clock window games. You know, like if

1378
01:19:46,880 --> 01:19:50,599
Speaker 1: the league could shock us, maybe they stick Bills rams

1379
01:19:50,640 --> 01:19:54,160
Speaker 1: in that big four o'clock window. Yeah, you know, going

1380
01:19:54,240 --> 01:19:57,040
Speaker 1: to more than seventy five percent of the country, They

1381
01:19:57,080 --> 01:19:59,280
Speaker 1: could do that. I mean, that Ravens game could be

1382
01:19:59,320 --> 01:20:03,040
Speaker 1: a four PM game, you know, with two of the

1383
01:20:03,080 --> 01:20:06,479
Speaker 1: only quarterbacks left from the draft class worth their salt

1384
01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:11,599
Speaker 1: Um Jackson against where they try and anticipate. This just

1385
01:20:11,640 --> 01:20:14,400
Speaker 1: came across the timeline that this is released out by

1386
01:20:14,479 --> 01:20:16,960
Speaker 1: a Caesar's Sports book at the two hundred and six

1387
01:20:17,040 --> 01:20:22,320
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, fifty seven futures bets at caesar Sports Book

1388
01:20:22,720 --> 01:20:24,639
Speaker 1: that were at least a thousand dollars or more. There's

1389
01:20:24,640 --> 01:20:26,160
Speaker 1: two hundred and six of them that were made that

1390
01:20:26,200 --> 01:20:29,439
Speaker 1: were at least a thousand dollars. The Bills have got

1391
01:20:29,840 --> 01:20:34,080
Speaker 1: forty one of those two hundred and six so it's

1392
01:20:34,120 --> 01:20:37,920
Speaker 1: like twenty percent of the bets at that there betting

1393
01:20:37,960 --> 01:20:40,559
Speaker 1: at the Bills go to the Super Bowl this year.

1394
01:20:41,640 --> 01:20:44,240
Speaker 1: So that and and this is before the schedule comes

1395
01:20:44,280 --> 01:20:49,040
Speaker 1: out at some point, do I do I have a

1396
01:20:49,080 --> 01:20:51,040
Speaker 1: problem that I have? Do you I have a gambling

1397
01:20:51,040 --> 01:20:56,000
Speaker 1: problem in that I have no desire to bet? Would

1398
01:20:56,000 --> 01:21:00,880
Speaker 1: that be considered a gambling problem? Right? I don't know you.

1399
01:21:01,880 --> 01:21:04,880
Speaker 1: I played in games where I thought I was on

1400
01:21:04,920 --> 01:21:07,240
Speaker 1: the team and thought I knew what was going to

1401
01:21:07,320 --> 01:21:15,360
Speaker 1: happen in the game and had no clue. Hey, you

1402
01:21:15,400 --> 01:21:18,200
Speaker 1: don't have that option anyway. I know it's a good

1403
01:21:18,200 --> 01:21:20,920
Speaker 1: thing as an NFL employee, I have no desire to

1404
01:21:20,960 --> 01:21:25,280
Speaker 1: get into that realm Oh my goodness. Elsewhere on the

1405
01:21:25,320 --> 01:21:30,080
Speaker 1: tweet sheet, Jack says the Bills will get five prime

1406
01:21:30,120 --> 01:21:33,240
Speaker 1: time games too Monday night to Sunday night and a

1407
01:21:33,280 --> 01:21:35,880
Speaker 1: Thursday night game, but they will get the early game

1408
01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:39,439
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving at Detroit and a four pm National Window

1409
01:21:39,479 --> 01:21:42,880
Speaker 1: game against Green Bay at home. Well, Jack knows what's

1410
01:21:42,920 --> 01:21:46,519
Speaker 1: going on. That's a pretty good plan. I like that plan.

1411
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:51,120
Speaker 1: Four Oh okay, so they think, and then if thanks

1412
01:21:51,160 --> 01:21:54,759
Speaker 1: getting this, that's six Well yeah, but you're those aren't

1413
01:21:54,800 --> 01:21:58,360
Speaker 1: prime time. Right, he's calling six games. He's calling two

1414
01:21:58,439 --> 01:22:00,840
Speaker 1: Monday night footballs and two Soday night foot and a

1415
01:22:00,920 --> 01:22:05,040
Speaker 1: Thursday and a Thursday with two other four pm games

1416
01:22:05,200 --> 01:22:07,479
Speaker 1: and a and at one o'clock Thanksgiving. Oh my gosh,

1417
01:22:07,520 --> 01:22:09,520
Speaker 1: that's a lot of that's a lot of national exposure.

1418
01:22:10,080 --> 01:22:13,240
Speaker 1: And that's a little dreamy. But yeah, it is a

1419
01:22:13,240 --> 01:22:20,320
Speaker 1: little dreamy, little dreamy. But yeah, that's fortunately it's not

1420
01:22:20,360 --> 01:22:23,720
Speaker 1: a big air miles year for the Bills. Yeah, they

1421
01:22:23,720 --> 01:22:28,040
Speaker 1: have the seventh fewest they have to travel. Yeah, so

1422
01:22:28,040 --> 01:22:30,439
Speaker 1: so that's a good bottom third of the league. Bottom third. Yeah,

1423
01:22:30,439 --> 01:22:32,680
Speaker 1: I think they were tied for like twenty second or

1424
01:22:32,720 --> 01:22:38,519
Speaker 1: whatever strength of schedule. I believe they are tied for twelfth.

1425
01:22:39,880 --> 01:22:43,360
Speaker 1: So you know the thing that some people may not

1426
01:22:43,400 --> 01:22:47,040
Speaker 1: have heard yet, the Rams have the strongest strength of

1427
01:22:47,080 --> 01:22:51,880
Speaker 1: schedule in the league this year against their opponents. Wow. Wow,

1428
01:22:52,120 --> 01:22:54,519
Speaker 1: defending Super Bowl champs and you get handed the toughest

1429
01:22:54,560 --> 01:22:56,599
Speaker 1: schedule in the league. So why it should be? Yeah,

1430
01:22:56,680 --> 01:23:00,240
Speaker 1: that's the way it works. Doesn't always shouldn't be because

1431
01:23:00,280 --> 01:23:03,120
Speaker 1: the schedule makers are they can give you the well,

1432
01:23:03,160 --> 01:23:07,880
Speaker 1: I think the sixteen years out right. Yeah, So that's

1433
01:23:07,880 --> 01:23:10,320
Speaker 1: why down to I think they get like, what would

1434
01:23:10,360 --> 01:23:12,599
Speaker 1: there be four teams now that you don't know who

1435
01:23:12,600 --> 01:23:15,639
Speaker 1: it's going to be because of the the out out,

1436
01:23:16,120 --> 01:23:19,200
Speaker 1: because of the it's how you finish in your division. Yeah,

1437
01:23:19,240 --> 01:23:21,599
Speaker 1: but they know the divisions and who's probably gonna be

1438
01:23:23,280 --> 01:23:25,879
Speaker 1: years in advance, you know, ahead of years in advance.

1439
01:23:26,479 --> 01:23:29,719
Speaker 1: Meg on the tweet sheet says, I'm hoping a lot more.

1440
01:23:30,320 --> 01:23:34,599
Speaker 1: I'm a lifelong Bills fan transplanted Syracusan Is that how

1441
01:23:34,600 --> 01:23:40,800
Speaker 1: you say that? Syracusan? Syracusan to Staten Island, NYC? And

1442
01:23:40,880 --> 01:23:43,639
Speaker 1: I'm forced to watch Jets Giants unless the Bills are

1443
01:23:43,680 --> 01:23:46,559
Speaker 1: playing them. My husband is a die hard Jets fan,

1444
01:23:46,960 --> 01:23:49,800
Speaker 1: so since they've been horrible, we watch Red Zone so

1445
01:23:49,840 --> 01:23:53,840
Speaker 1: I can see my Bills score. So hoping for a

1446
01:23:53,840 --> 01:23:56,080
Speaker 1: lot more prime time because then Meg doesn't have to

1447
01:23:56,120 --> 01:23:59,080
Speaker 1: suffer through Jets and Giants, which it has been dreadful

1448
01:23:59,120 --> 01:24:02,680
Speaker 1: the last three or four years. So speaking of the

1449
01:24:02,760 --> 01:24:07,680
Speaker 1: Jets and Giants, among the prime time stats over the

1450
01:24:07,760 --> 01:24:11,680
Speaker 1: last two years twenty twenty and twenty twenty one, the

1451
01:24:11,840 --> 01:24:16,320
Speaker 1: Giants and the Jets are the only teams winless in

1452
01:24:16,360 --> 01:24:20,960
Speaker 1: primetime games over the last two seasons. Combined the Jets

1453
01:24:21,479 --> 01:24:23,840
Speaker 1: the last two years in prime time oh in three,

1454
01:24:25,880 --> 01:24:32,760
Speaker 1: the Giants oh in seven. Yeah, remember when we used

1455
01:24:32,760 --> 01:24:35,479
Speaker 1: to have a terrible record in primetime. It was awful

1456
01:24:35,840 --> 01:24:39,040
Speaker 1: from like two thousand and two to two thousand and eight.

1457
01:24:39,640 --> 01:24:42,519
Speaker 1: I think they were like two and tanners. It was terrible.

1458
01:24:42,560 --> 01:24:45,160
Speaker 1: It was horrible. The Bills are playing a lot in

1459
01:24:45,200 --> 01:24:46,800
Speaker 1: prime time, and they play good. Like we said, we

1460
01:24:46,800 --> 01:24:48,679
Speaker 1: said at earlier in the show, there's reason to believe

1461
01:24:48,720 --> 01:24:51,120
Speaker 1: the Bills six and two in their last eight prime

1462
01:24:51,160 --> 01:24:53,760
Speaker 1: time they show up big in those games. Yeah, And

1463
01:24:54,040 --> 01:24:56,400
Speaker 1: if you think about it, they're a slip at the

1464
01:24:56,439 --> 01:25:00,719
Speaker 1: goal line potentially away from you could argue at least

1465
01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:03,040
Speaker 1: being seven and one and a coin and a coin

1466
01:25:03,080 --> 01:25:06,559
Speaker 1: flip and overtime at Tampa Bay. That was a four

1467
01:25:06,560 --> 01:25:09,960
Speaker 1: o'clock Oh wasn't a four o'clock? No, and an eighty

1468
01:25:09,960 --> 01:25:12,960
Speaker 1: mile per hour wins over here that was the other one, right,

1469
01:25:13,120 --> 01:25:17,439
Speaker 1: that's right, that they lost by four, lost one by

1470
01:25:17,479 --> 01:25:21,160
Speaker 1: three and the other by four. And in what you

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Speaker 1: could argue, we're extenuating circumstance games. Yeah, Yes, the Jets

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Speaker 1: and Giants oh in ten in prime time combined over

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Speaker 1: the last two seasons. I don't know if they're going

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Speaker 1: to be ready to stick him in primetime again this year.

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Speaker 1: We'll see. Maybe they will, right well, maybe they will.

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Speaker 1: Yeah they will. I mean they will because there's you

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Speaker 1: were like you were saying, the NFC it's a guaranteed market. Um,

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Speaker 1: New York is a guaranteed viewers. It bumps ratings and yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's so that you can guarantee it. The NFC East

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01:25:49,920 --> 01:25:54,720
Speaker 1: is built like that. So, m all right, what do

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Speaker 1: we have? It's official. Mario Addison also going going to

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans as well, on a two year contract,

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Speaker 1: according to Aaron Wilson, who is a Beat reporter covers

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Speaker 1: the Texans. So there are reports out there that Jerry

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Speaker 1: Hughes is going to sign with the Texans, and it

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01:26:14,360 --> 01:26:17,280
Speaker 1: looks like Mario Addison might be following them. Those two

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Speaker 1: guys have been buds for a long time. They're probably

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Speaker 1: just saying, hey, let's get the band back together, one

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Speaker 1: last swing at it down there in Houston. Would love

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Speaker 1: you Smith, Good for them? Yeah, break time for us here,

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Speaker 1: Steve and I will wrap it up next on One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Stay tuned. So Steve, we already mentioned the

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Speaker 1: futility of the Giants and Jets in prime time the

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Speaker 1: last two years, you know. So you know the Giants

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01:26:53,600 --> 01:26:56,000
Speaker 1: were owing three last year in primetime. You know they

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Speaker 1: were windless. They weren't alone. There were a total of

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Speaker 1: six winless teams in prime time that had at least

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Speaker 1: two prime time games. Six. You can ask me to

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Speaker 1: name them, see, I want to. I'm curious if you

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Speaker 1: can name any of them besides the Giants. Other teams

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Speaker 1: New England, Nope, not New England because they beat the

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Speaker 1: Bills here last year. What am I doing Tennessee? Who? No,

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01:27:27,360 --> 01:27:29,479
Speaker 1: they got they beat the Bills, all Sills as well?

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Speaker 1: What am I doing thinking about those guys? One of

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01:27:32,840 --> 01:27:40,759
Speaker 1: your favorite all time franchises Los Angeles Chargers, No, Cincinnai Bengals.

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Speaker 1: I was being sarcastic. I said, one of your favorite

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Speaker 1: all time I know, that's what I was saying. I

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Speaker 1: went not to beals hate not the Chargers, not the Bengals.

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Speaker 1: Where you got the Cowboys? No, not the Cowboys. I

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Speaker 1: don't know who is it? The Bears went owen four

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Speaker 1: and four in prime time last year, So too did

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks oh and four in prime time last year.

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Speaker 1: Cardinals in three Giants as we mentioned, oh in three Eagles,

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Speaker 1: oh and three Broncos, oh and two. Wow, all winless

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Speaker 1: last year in prime time. That stinks for them. And

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Speaker 1: you always, I mean, you were just talking about it.

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Speaker 1: The NFC East keeps getting primetime games television markets. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna get Chicago two. Yeah. And Chicago is like

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Speaker 1: the number two market in the country, yeah, or number

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Speaker 1: three behind New York in LA. So that'll continue. Oh yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: sign me up for that. Maybe the Bills get a

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Speaker 1: primetime game against the Bears. Please, let's get what are

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Speaker 1: we doing tomorrow? Oh, we got some more stuff, plenty

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Speaker 1: of schedule related news for you. We'll see it in

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Speaker 1: one