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Speaker 1: Now this week now as it pertains, the draft, the draft,

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Speaker 1: So Cincinnati could be in a really good spot to

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Speaker 1: slide back and still get an offensive tackle or maybe

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Speaker 1: one of the top wideouts. So now the question becomes

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Speaker 1: how many people are, how many teams are in play?

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Speaker 1: Should Atlanta pass on the fourth quarterback, and you can

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Speaker 1: argue that Denver may get nervous and say, we've got

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Speaker 1: to get up higher than nine if we want to

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Speaker 1: get this fourth guy, So they may move up from

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Speaker 1: nine to five. You know, if Atlanta stays on the

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Speaker 1: clock and picks a non QB, maybe they jump up

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Speaker 1: and they're in the arguably the best position in need

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Speaker 1: of a quarterback. Right. So then other teams are thinking, well,

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Speaker 1: we gotta get higher than Denver. So maybe we gotta

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Speaker 1: call Caroline get up to eight, and you know New

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Speaker 1: England's probably trying to say, well, how high do we

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Speaker 1: have to go to get the guy? I gotta tell

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Speaker 1: you this, um, how do you feel? How do you

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Speaker 1: feel Friday morning, Steve? If New England's able to get

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Speaker 1: up there and get the fourth quarterback, whether it's Fields Lance,

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming it's gonna be Fields or Lance is the

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Speaker 1: fourth guy, Yeah, that's you gotta, Well, you gotta because

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Speaker 1: if mac Jones, you gotta get yourself three. Now there's

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Speaker 1: two guys that I could see teams being interested in

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Speaker 1: taking in the top ten, both Fields and Lands. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's set off a cavalcade of offer, you're right, you're right,

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Speaker 1: and in New England will be in the conversation. There's

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Speaker 1: no question they're gonna they're gonna try and get on

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Speaker 1: the phone and make that happen. I would think more importantly, though,

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Speaker 1: what happens if mac Jones isn't the guy for the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers? How far? How far does he slide?

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Speaker 1: Because all of a sudden, you've got this guy who's

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Speaker 1: physically he's a level below Fields and Lance the other

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Speaker 1: two quarterbacks. But mentally he's a guy to come in

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Speaker 1: and run your offense right away virtually. But he's you know,

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Speaker 1: his ceilings not as high, but he's gonna be pretty

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Speaker 1: good to start. He's gonna be maybe the best. He

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Speaker 1: may have the best year of any of these guys

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Speaker 1: in his first year good. You know what I'm saying

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Speaker 1: statistically because he's because he's gonna know it mentally. Then

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Speaker 1: the intriguing part to me is if mac Jones does

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Speaker 1: not come off the board, does New England say he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be at us at fifteen? I don't know If

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Speaker 1: he gets there, I don't either, but he has been

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Speaker 1: said to be a second rounder. That is a tough way.

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Speaker 1: That is a long wait because you're watching okay, So

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Speaker 1: Niners at three, surprise people. They take Lance. Now Jones

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Speaker 1: and Fields are on the board. People are gonna be

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Speaker 1: going gaga over Fields. So does Atlanta take Fields at four?

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Speaker 1: Do they Hagan nine quarterback? Or do they move out?

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Speaker 1: I think they probably take best non QB. If they don't,

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Speaker 1: I don't think they move I think they're there and

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Speaker 1: there's some subliminal, subliminal, some underneath under the radar factors.

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Speaker 1: With Atlanta, they're in cap jail. They've got to move

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Speaker 1: some guys around. And it's been thrown out there by

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Speaker 1: another Peter King reference. It could happen Julio Jones, who's

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Speaker 1: thirty two, but he's an icon of the franchise. But

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Speaker 1: he's thirty two, and if they trade him after June second,

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Speaker 1: then they save fifteen million dollars on the cap so

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Speaker 1: and split the cap hit in half between this year

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Speaker 1: and next year. So if you draft a kid like

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Speaker 1: Jamar Chase, who you get on a rookie deal, and

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Speaker 1: trade Julio Jones, you get fifteen half fifteen and a half.

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Speaker 1: You could say, all right, Jamar Chase at this point

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Speaker 1: is gonna be maybe as good as you know, young

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Speaker 1: Julio Jones, he's pretty damn and we save and we right,

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Speaker 1: and we save fifteen million dollars on the care fourteen

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Speaker 1: point five whatever minus whatever Chase gets as a rookie.

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Speaker 1: So do they take a guy to replace Julio Jones,

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Speaker 1: save the cap money and get rid of Julio after that.

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Speaker 1: That's so there are forces working on these franchises that

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Speaker 1: don't have everything to do with what's going on today

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Speaker 1: or Thursday. In this case, It's gonna be interesting to

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Speaker 1: see what happens there. But yeah, four is the real

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Speaker 1: pivot point. Niners shocks and people and not take mac Jones,

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Speaker 1: which people believe they will at this point in time,

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Speaker 1: and then the Falcons could really turn the draft on

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Speaker 1: its head at four based on what they do. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot still going on with the forty nine ers.

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Speaker 1: But I've heard this thing too. Everybody's you start talking

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Speaker 1: yourself in circus about what the Niners a thing because

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Speaker 1: you always think there's misinformation. They're trying to they're taking posturing.

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Speaker 1: Do you they're saying it's down. We've heard now today

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Speaker 1: it's coming out that they're down to trade Land and

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Speaker 1: mac Jones and they they're on both ends of the spectrum.

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Speaker 1: Mac Jones win right now, low ceiling, high floor, high floor,

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Speaker 1: very steady, can win with you can win with him now,

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Speaker 1: You can win with him now. But you're gonna get

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Speaker 1: basically what you got Trey Lance is the Josh Allen guy.

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Speaker 1: He comes in. You got a guy that can throw

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Speaker 1: it out of the stadium. You can outrun three quarters

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Speaker 1: of your defensive defensive personnel. Great athlete, but he may

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Speaker 1: it may be twenty twenty four before he's really good. No,

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Speaker 1: twenty three, probably twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, so

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be twenty twenty three before he's really good. Now,

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Speaker 1: now the conjecture is this, Okay, you got mac Jones.

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Speaker 1: And they're saying this, they're leaking this out because neither

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Speaker 1: one of them is the guy they're gonna take Justin

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Speaker 1: Fields because he's the athlete he's got he ran a

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Speaker 1: big time in Yeah, it's totally they're totally throwing. They're saying,

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Speaker 1: these are the two guys, and they're gonna go boom,

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Speaker 1: there's our guy because they don't want anybody making trades,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Yeah, of course the Jets

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Speaker 1: could screw that all up and take fields. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: this is why the draft is. Yeah, such, it is

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Speaker 1: the best football, It is the best theater and all

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Speaker 1: that for the Niners. And why would the Niners do

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Speaker 1: that because they don't know that the Jets are gonna

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Speaker 1: not do something. Jets they could and take and they're

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Speaker 1: gonna got The Jets are gonna take Pinney sewell you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, who knows could happen. They could take offensive

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Speaker 1: lineman or better yet, a fullback, Roger Vick, Kyle Brady,

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Speaker 1: Jeff Lockerman. I remember, I remember they got absolutely roasted

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Speaker 1: for the Loghman pick. Oh my gosh. They people were

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Speaker 1: lighting things. There is nothing better in the draft than

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Speaker 1: when the draft was in New York and the Jets

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Speaker 1: fans and the Giants fans were up in the upper

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Speaker 1: level watching this all unfold. So it was made for television.

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Speaker 1: They were really because the producers could go podium, Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Roger Goodell or Paul tag Taboo or even before him,

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Speaker 1: Pete Roselle. They announced the pick, cut to the Jets

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Speaker 1: fan and there's some Giants fan pointing at him and

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Speaker 1: laughing like and team doesn't know anything, and vice versus

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Speaker 1: you vote for a budget. Jets fans got there. He's

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Speaker 1: got both hands on hands over his head, going, na,

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Speaker 1: what are you doing? Oh my gosh, it's priceless, so

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Speaker 1: terrible that they moved the draft around because you don't

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Speaker 1: get that enjoyment anymore. Um, although it'll be hard for

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Speaker 1: the Jets to mess up this draft. But the reason

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Speaker 1: this kind of prompted our Twitter poll for today, all

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Speaker 1: this talk about these quarterbacks offensive players in the top

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Speaker 1: ten and give credit where it's due. NFL Networks Andrew

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Speaker 1: Ciliano tweeted out late last week that there is a

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Speaker 1: chance that this year's draft could could have no defensive

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Speaker 1: players taken in the top ten on Thursday night, and

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Speaker 1: he did the research. He said it would be a first.

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Speaker 1: There has never been an NFL draft in the common

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Speaker 1: era since nineteen sixty seven without a defensive player taken

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Speaker 1: in the top ten. So the question we pose to

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Speaker 1: you on the Twitter poll today is this, if there

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Speaker 1: are no defensive players taken in the top ten of

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Speaker 1: this year's draft, how does that change your thoughts on

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Speaker 1: what the bill should do at pick thirty. Because we

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Speaker 1: knew the quarterbacks, we're going to push a lot of

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Speaker 1: the defensive talent down the draft board. But that's what

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Speaker 1: five guys at most, the whole top ten is offense

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Speaker 1: of players that could dramatically change the conversation as to

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Speaker 1: what the Bills could be looking at when they're on

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Speaker 1: the clock at three. For me, I think that begs

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Speaker 1: begs you as a front office to sit, just to

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Speaker 1: hold your water, just to sit tight, because if you

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Speaker 1: need a defensive player, which we've argued right corner corner rush, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you could be getting a top twenty defensive player at

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Speaker 1: pick thirty because the first ten picks were offensive players

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Speaker 1: right now. Certainly you know in the next twenty picks

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a bunch of defenders taken because they'll

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Speaker 1: be a run on them or whatever. But I think

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Speaker 1: it just you know, you gotta and plus two. It's

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Speaker 1: not over. After those first ten picks. You still got

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Speaker 1: every defensive player in this draft still on the board.

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Speaker 1: You got to watch the rest how the rest of

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Speaker 1: it falls, because you know, it doesn't mean automatically you're

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Speaker 1: gonna get a good player, because if it could be

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Speaker 1: fourteen to the next fifteen our defensive defensive players, right,

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Speaker 1: So I'm it does make you sit up and go okay,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, wait wait mean and you go back

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Speaker 1: to your scenarios of your pre draft and your mock

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Speaker 1: draft that you run in your office up to that point,

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Speaker 1: say okay, okay, now who do we call? Who's gonna

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Speaker 1: who we're gonna call first, you know, and get up there?

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Speaker 1: And how we know it's gonna cost us this to

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Speaker 1: get up there. It's gonna cost us that to get

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Speaker 1: up there. But they said, if this guy's available, the

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Speaker 1: deal's off. If that guy's available, the deals off. So

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Speaker 1: you go, okay, all these guys said, have an offensive

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Speaker 1: if this offensive guys available, if that offensive guy's available.

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Speaker 1: Of that offensive guys are available, those three teams are

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Speaker 1: still in the money because they're guys are off the board. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because of the top ten picks. So now we got

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Speaker 1: a chance to call them. Um, they're not looking for

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Speaker 1: a defender. So all of a sudden, opportunities pop up

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Speaker 1: and opportunities are taken away from other teams. You go

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Speaker 1: down your menu and say, okay, mock draft for a

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Speaker 1: let's go. Yeah, and they and they're off and running.

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Speaker 1: Break time for us. When we come back, we want

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Speaker 1: to discuss this with you. If the top ten picks

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Speaker 1: in this year's draft are all offensive players. Does that

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Speaker 1: change your thoughts on what the Bills should do at thirty?

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Speaker 1: You can let us know at eighth three, five fifty one,

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Speaker 1: eighty eight, five fifty two, five fifty or on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet at one Bills Live. We're back in a minute.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Caster

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Speaker 1: with you here on a Monday before the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one NFL Draft, and some more NFL news and notes.

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Speaker 1: Trickling in first from Monday Morning Quarterbacks Albert Brier in

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Speaker 1: his column, he broke down the bills potential thinking ahead

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Speaker 1: of their selection at thirty and it basically said he

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Speaker 1: said this, a second tier corner probably would make the

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Speaker 1: most sense. But Clemson's Travis et N was a name

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Speaker 1: raised to me for buff Hello and the comp I've

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Speaker 1: gotten most for him is Alvin Kamara, a player you

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Speaker 1: have to have a plan for, but one who can

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Speaker 1: be incredibly difficult for defenses to handle. Adding Etn to

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Speaker 1: that skilled group as an underneath weapon with the Bill's

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Speaker 1: ability to go downfield would be pretty tantalizing. That again

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Speaker 1: from Monday Morning Quarterbacks Albert Breer, who is saying there

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Speaker 1: is a lot of consideration being given to Travis etn

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Speaker 1: and he's been linked heavily to the Bills. Now again

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Speaker 1: we remind you this is the lying season. So is

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Speaker 1: this a smokescreen or is this every bit legitimate as

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Speaker 1: to what the Bills would be strongly considering at thirty

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Speaker 1: We'll find out in three days time. There is also

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Speaker 1: this from the NFL. ESPN's Adam Schefter and NFL Networks

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Speaker 1: Peter Schrager have addressed the missing medical information on certain

638
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Speaker 1: prospects in this draft. No combine, so no major medical

639
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 1: clearing house for the thirty two NFL clubs to draw

640
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: on as invaluable information, and you'll hear any GM in

641
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,800
Speaker 1: the NFL say the most important part of the NFL

642
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:15,800
Speaker 1: combine is the medical so Adam Schefter tweets this, teams

643
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: struggling to get accurate medical information on prospects due to

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00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 1: the absence of this year's combine, even though there were

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00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: medical exams in Indie this month in April given to

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00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty players. Teams are not pleased there

647
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 1: will be last minute decisions in the draft based off

648
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 1: medical info. Still trickling in. Peter Schrager retweeted Schefter's tweet

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Speaker 1: and added the following, can't stress this enough. The fact

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00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 1: that some medical info is unknown four days from the

651
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: draft is major and one reason why some teams may

652
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 1: be more willing to trade back and punt on this

653
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:59,760
Speaker 1: year's first and second round in favor of next year's

654
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: with a full year of scouting and a proper combine

655
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: a couple of things on the first On the one

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00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:11,839
Speaker 1: about uh the Travis Aten and the Alvin Kamara comparison,

657
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:18,840
Speaker 1: and that that to me is absolutely positively smoke. Here's

658
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: why Travis atn couldn't catch. Couldn't catch his own head

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00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 1: with both hands two years ago. I mean, you're and

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00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: you know he worked on it, no question, he's been

661
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 1: reported him, but he he could not catch two years ago,

662
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:37,280
Speaker 1: so you know, and yeah he has had some receptions,

663
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: no question about it. But he is not Alvin Kamara.

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00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: He is not in the conversation with the best pass

665
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 1: catching running back in the league or one of if

666
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 1: him and uh CMC maybe down in Carolina, you know

667
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:54,320
Speaker 1: he's Kamara is one of the top receiving threats in

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00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 1: the in the league. At running back. Travis ATN is

669
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: not in that in that league, So to me, that's

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00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 1: all smo. Okay, this thing about the medicals, teams punting, punting,

671
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 1: and trading back. I think there's a lot of teams

672
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,360
Speaker 1: that want to trade back this year, but only because

673
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 1: the first round talent doesn't go as deep, particularly on

674
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: the defensive line, defensive tackle especially. I think there's a

675
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:29,359
Speaker 1: there's been a growing body of analytics reports that say

676
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: that the best place to draft these guys is in

677
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 1: the second, third, and fourth rounds because when you get

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Speaker 1: a guy in the first round, it changes things for

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00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: the team and it changes things for the player. The

680
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: pressure is more for the team to get him in there,

681
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: get something out of him, don't make him be if

682
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: he doesn't play his first year, he's a bust. And

683
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: for the player there's a little bit of a combination

684
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: of things entitlement, expectations, and the same pressure is applied

685
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: to him. So it's almost a self defeating thing to

686
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:03,400
Speaker 1: get a guy in the first round if he's not

687
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: quite ready for it maturity wise, uh, skill set wise,

688
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: size wise, if he's got some over things to overcome.

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00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 1: So all of that stuff about, you know, teams trading out.

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00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 1: I think that's true every year. I think this year

691
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: it may be a little more. But I don't think

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00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 1: you can't blank at everything and say teams are gonna

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00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 1: punt on the entire first and second round because of medicals.

694
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: Seems like a bit of hyperbole. We're talking about a

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00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: dozen guys, maybe at the top of it, or not

696
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,879
Speaker 1: even so. Most of these guys, they know as much

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00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:33,320
Speaker 1: as they need to know about these guys, And not

698
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,320
Speaker 1: all these guys are coming in with injury baggage, like

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00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,879
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips. You know, not everybody's coming from that place.

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00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: You know, certainly the cornerback, the cornerback with a back injury,

701
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: Caleb Farley. Okay, there's another one. There's two, and they're

702
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: pretty they're pretty special players, special elite athletes. But that's

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00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: two out of two hundred and fifty six they're gonna

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00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,240
Speaker 1: be drafted. So this thing like, oh, the whole league's

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00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:00,720
Speaker 1: gonna punt on that, I don't think. I that seems

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00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 1: like a bit of an over I think that's an overstretch.

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00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 1: There may be one or two, but hunt on a

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00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: certain pick. But the medical, the missing medical information is

709
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 1: a very very real thing, and it's going to impact

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Speaker 1: the risk that general managements across the league are willing

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00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:21,240
Speaker 1: to take. Every general manager is different. Some aren't afraid

712
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: to swing for the fences and take a big risk.

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00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 1: Others are going to be more conservative because of the

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Speaker 1: missing medical information. And we heard GM Brandon Bean say

715
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:35,360
Speaker 1: these very words last week about the medical He said, quote,

716
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 1: the medical is nowhere near where it usually is. That

717
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:42,839
Speaker 1: is a direct quote from him. So that's a guy

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00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 1: that is embedded in this process and run in the

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00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 1: show for one of the thirty two NFL clubs, and

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00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 1: he said nowhere near where it usually is. So you

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00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 1: better believe there is a lot of legwork still going

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00:40:56,120 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 1: on even this week for pro and college personnel departments.

723
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:04,399
Speaker 1: They are beating the bushes, they are calling. They got

724
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 1: doctors across the country on speed dial hoping to get

725
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 1: a last shred of necessary information to cross the t's

726
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 1: and dot the eyes on certain players in this draft

727
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: pool that they're interested in but may not be if

728
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,280
Speaker 1: they can't get all of the medicals in on those players,

729
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 1: or if there are players with medical question marks with

730
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: no answers right, they're gonna be forced to take those

731
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 1: players off the board or move them way down the

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00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 1: board as a result, right, And they will do that.

733
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 1: They'll do that. The question is what it comes down

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Speaker 1: to is this, do you look at the guy's history

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00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,320
Speaker 1: he's got he had this injury or that injury, or

736
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 1: maybe a couple of minor injuries, that kind of thing,

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00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 1: and if you know about him, you move them down

738
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: come in certain thing. If you don't know about him,

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00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 1: the question is how far do you move them down

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00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: for something you don't know about. Yeah, and that's or

741
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: maybe it's just a risk not worth taking, in which

742
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 1: case he's right off the he's off the board, yeah,

743
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:05,879
Speaker 1: or he's off your board completely. But you're not gonna

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00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 1: do that for a guy who, for instance, bounce back

745
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: and played a full season. You'll do that for guys

746
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 1: who didn't finish the season this last season or two

747
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 1: seasons ago or opted out. That's an issue. And I

748
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 1: think that's that's and that's where he's saying, well, every

749
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: guy's different. So making a blanket statement, yeah, everything's not

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00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: right exactly where it has been in the past. I

751
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:32,400
Speaker 1: get it, But every all of these guys have a

752
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 1: different case. And you say, well, this guy's stuff suffered

753
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:37,319
Speaker 1: from Hammy's hamstring injuries his whole career or whatever. He's

754
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:39,320
Speaker 1: had a couple three of those. What's the deal you have?

755
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 1: You'll have exercise science people say we can fix that.

756
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 1: He's you know, you're gonna get him a chiropractor, get

757
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: him some stretch. You gotta make sure his legs are

758
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 1: stretched evenly. That can not all the stuff they do.

759
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 1: And we can fix that. We can rebuild it like

760
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: the six million dollar man, remember that exactly. We can

761
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 1: rebuild it will make him better than he was. We're

762
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: dating ourselves better, faster. A great show. All right, We

763
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 1: have to take a break, but when we come back,

764
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,839
Speaker 1: we'll get your comments on the tweet sheet. And don't

765
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: forget we haven't mentioned this yet, but coming up in

766
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Speaker 1: the second hour of our program from the athletic Bruce

767
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 1: Feldman with some interesting pre draft content that we want

768
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 1: to share with you. We'll get with him in the

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00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 1: second hour of the show. Bruce Feldman coming up in

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Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes time. Here on One Bill's Line, presented

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00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back

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00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:41,280
Speaker 1: One Bills Live. Is the show. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

773
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:45,240
Speaker 1: are shepherding you through it. And we are three days

774
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: from the NFL Draft, and the rumors are swirling. It

775
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 1: is kind of stopped. Now they're just gonna come one

776
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: after another. It is fun, though, I mean, it's such

777
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, it wasn't like this. No,

778
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:05,279
Speaker 1: it has become such a thing for this It's a

779
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:08,399
Speaker 1: huge event on the NFL calendar. It always has been,

780
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:10,719
Speaker 1: but it's been off the public radar for so long,

781
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: and now that the league has grown and grown and grown,

782
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: it's it's like it's an entity unto itself. Now. You

783
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 1: know why. It's because you know, free agency starts. There's

784
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:24,719
Speaker 1: really no event when free agency starts, right, So it

785
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,840
Speaker 1: is the super Bowl of the off season, and it

786
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 1: is it's like a playoff game for everybody. They're saying

787
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 1: they're expecting fifty five thousand fans strewn about in the

788
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,800
Speaker 1: streets of Cleveland watching this thing. I'm telling I agree.

789
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 1: I think they probably will be probably more than that.

790
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: People are ready to get out well that too, right,

791
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:49,279
Speaker 1: That's it's it really is. It's like a playoff game

792
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 1: for every single team in the league. I mean, I'm

793
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: like I told you, I'm I'm having a thing at

794
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 1: the house. I got some buddies coming over. Everybody. It

795
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:00,080
Speaker 1: used to be and we used to have I have

796
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 1: a huge events here. Yeah, roll the TV out onto

797
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: the back patio. Maybe it's gonna be great. Get up,

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00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 1: Except it starts at eight o'clock at night. It's like

799
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: thirty minutes before thy minutes before my bedtime here. No,

800
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 1: but I just you said it. The rumors are swirling.

801
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 1: You're trying to get inside these guy's minds. And it's

802
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 1: fun too, because this kind of thing like forgot, Like

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00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 1: Shanahan out in San Francisco, we were talking about they

804
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: traded three number ones to get up nine spots in

805
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 1: the first round. You got Miami trading back to twelve,

806
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 1: back into number six. You got the New England Patriots,

807
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:37,840
Speaker 1: who are, in my opinion, are desperately in need of

808
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,920
Speaker 1: a fresh face at quarterback. You think they're gonna make

809
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 1: a bold move somehow, some way to get up in

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00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 1: the top, you know. And you realize when you start

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00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 1: talking about it like this, we don't know anything about

812
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 1: these guys and what they think we can try. Yeah,

813
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 1: And that's the fun part. That's the thing. If I

814
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,840
Speaker 1: were him, if I were him, here's what here's what

815
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 1: they should because you know, I've been watching these guys

816
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:06,880
Speaker 1: for the last three years too. I've seen fifty of

817
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: their games and that kind of thing. I've seen him

818
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 1: on the sidelines. I'm better. I know what he's thinking.

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00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:12,839
Speaker 1: I know what I think, and I think I think

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00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 1: I know what he's seeing to do. That's exactly that's

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00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:18,959
Speaker 1: the game you get into there. I mean, there's there's

822
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: so many and you know you got when you have

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00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: thirty two NFL teams, you have storylines galore, like Las

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00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 1: Vegas at seventeen. They're at They're a team that loves

825
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: superior athletes. Are they going to be tempted to take

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00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 1: Caleb Farley despite the back surgery at seventeen? Are they

827
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: gonna swing on a guy who's GPS tractor tracker clocked

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00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: him at twenty four miles per hour on an interception return.

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Speaker 1: That's moving Steve's twenty four miles per hour. The Raiders

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00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 1: are fascinating because they still have that a little bit

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Speaker 1: of Al Davis in him. There their owner Mark Davis,

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00:46:55,520 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: Al's son Maverick. They back in the day Al Davis's

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00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: philosophy was this this the most important position on your

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00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 1: team was corner. And he got along with John Madden

835
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 1: because John Madden thought corners were the second most important

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00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 1: team and he thought the most important group was the

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Speaker 1: offensive line, and al Davis thought the offensive line was

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00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 1: the second most of them. So they got along. They

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00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 1: kind of saw things the same way. But we all

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00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 1: know this. Al Davis was all about athletics, athletes and speed,

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00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 1: and I think that's why Gruden falls into that. He

842
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 1: and that's what got in his way in Tampa. He

843
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:34,280
Speaker 1: wanted a world championship, and then all of a sudden,

844
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:36,239
Speaker 1: he starts switching guys in and out, in and out.

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00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 1: He there's always a shiny new toy on the shelf

846
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: he wants to buy. There's always a better athlete, bigger,

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00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 1: a stronger athlete. That's his thing. And he doesn't care

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00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:50,879
Speaker 1: if you live next door to him, like Derek Carr does.

849
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:55,279
Speaker 1: He's getting somebody that's better than you. He's always looking

850
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: for a quarterback. He's always that they're tight end waller.

851
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: Everybody's like, he's okay, guy, he's not. Really. He's the biggest,

852
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:06,439
Speaker 1: fastest guy. He's going to John Gruden and he's sitting

853
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 1: there at what seventeen. Can't you see them taking cable? Absolutely,

854
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:18,839
Speaker 1: that is an absolutely, that is absolute no brainer. They

855
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 1: don't care about his back injury, two back surgeries and acl.

856
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 1: Let me just be I'll just be a little bit

857
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 1: old school. Just throw a couple of extra pills on

858
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 1: his stool before the before the game. He'll be fine.

859
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: He'll he'll play through the pain. Give him the needle,

860
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 1: He'll play through the pain. Okay. I mean that's like

861
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 1: the old days, right, And these guys are interchangeable for

862
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,839
Speaker 1: these for that mentality, who damn things they don't even love,

863
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:48,399
Speaker 1: they don't even like, they don't even they're not even

864
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:50,800
Speaker 1: loyal to the guys they love. The quarterbacks in this

865
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:54,239
Speaker 1: draft class alone would have been able to sell this

866
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 1: thing easily. There is so much other stuff between pandemic restrictions,

867
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:06,320
Speaker 1: missing medical, no combine out zoom interviews, no thirty visits

868
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:12,359
Speaker 1: like opt outs. He's gonna be bananas bananas. See, that's

869
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:15,319
Speaker 1: what we thought too early. There's gonna be a wide

870
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: discrepancy and what teams have on their board and what

871
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:19,239
Speaker 1: they don't know, and what they think of what they

872
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:21,279
Speaker 1: do have, even the things they all have on their

873
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 1: board they're gonna be wide discrepancies and how they see

874
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:27,320
Speaker 1: them break time for us. When we come back, we

875
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:33,879
Speaker 1: get on the horn with one mister Bruce Feldman. He's

876
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 1: gonna be joining us from the Athletic has some interesting

877
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 1: content on some pre draft news as well as some

878
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:47,439
Speaker 1: of the biggest athletic freaks in this draft class. Even

879
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:50,239
Speaker 1: some of these numbers you won't believe. We'll cover some

880
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 1: of those with Bruce when we return here on one

881
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 1: Bill's Line presented by a lot of health. It's Buffalo

882
00:49:54,600 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker who has been all

883
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:15,320
Speaker 1: over the field. Kind of unique. He was kind of

884
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:20,920
Speaker 1: a dual role player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp.

885
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:27,359
Speaker 1: We're not even in the straged fear of normalcy. Ah,

886
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 1: we're number two of one Bills live, three days away

887
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: from the NFL Draft and here to help us sift

888
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:39,320
Speaker 1: through some of the discussion on the quarterbacks in this class,

889
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 1: as well as maybe some sleepers and Mac Jones rise

890
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:47,800
Speaker 1: up the board is Fox Sports college football analyst and

891
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 1: writer for The Athletic, Bruce Feldman joining us. Also the

892
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:56,360
Speaker 1: author of the QB The Making of Modern Quarterbacks. Bruce,

893
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:58,880
Speaker 1: thanks for taking some time here. We appreciate it. We

894
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 1: gotta imagine you're busy here in the run up to

895
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 1: the draft, so thanks for giving us a few minutes

896
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:05,919
Speaker 1: it to be on with you guys. Thanks for having me. Yeah,

897
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:10,399
Speaker 1: so let's start here, because just a few days ago

898
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:14,400
Speaker 1: you put up NFL Draft Confidential. People say he's not athletic,

899
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: Coaches discuss Mac Jones, rise, justin Field, Shade, sleepers galore. Basically,

900
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:23,720
Speaker 1: you worked the phones and hit up coaches across the league,

901
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:28,880
Speaker 1: maybe some personnel people as well, to get their anonymous

902
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 1: albeit comments on these players, to kind of get a

903
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 1: real inside feel. What do you think was your biggest

904
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:37,600
Speaker 1: takeaway from the whole thing? What was the most startling

905
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:40,880
Speaker 1: comment that maybe you recall from putting that piece together.

906
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 1: There's a few things that really jumped out. I mean,

907
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 1: people are going to want to talk the most about

908
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks, you know, because there's five of them, and

909
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:50,680
Speaker 1: a bunch of them are going to go high in

910
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:52,920
Speaker 1: the draft. So I thought there was some really interesting

911
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: things inside. I heard about, especially Zach Wilson, who is

912
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:00,160
Speaker 1: likely to be the number two pick at that with

913
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 1: the Jets, and how that fit is, how his style

914
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:06,719
Speaker 1: is when I started working on this, I don't know

915
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 1: that there was a lot of There was some buzz

916
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 1: about mac Jones possibly being the third pick of the

917
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 1: draft to the forty nine ers. That was interesting to

918
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 1: me from this standpoint of even the quarterback coaches I

919
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:23,439
Speaker 1: talked to from the NFL who like him, and look,

920
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:24,840
Speaker 1: he was a guy who I think there were some

921
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 1: really quarterbacks who usually do well in interviews, he did

922
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 1: exceedingly well. People like his accuracy and they feel like

923
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:37,040
Speaker 1: he's basically a very very high floor guy. And I

924
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 1: think when you take a quarterback in the first round,

925
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:44,680
Speaker 1: odds are fifty percent there's probably one of these guys

926
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 1: is going to be a big bust. And that's the concern.

927
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 1: Now people look at and go, does he have the

928
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: physical tools of a top five, top ten pick, And

929
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 1: there is some hesitance there, but in terms of his accuracy,

930
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 1: in terms of how there wouldn't be as much of

931
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 1: a transition because of the system he ran under Steve

932
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:10,360
Speaker 1: Sarkisian at Alabama. There's a lot. There's a lot to

933
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:12,920
Speaker 1: like there. It's just the question is he does not

934
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 1: have anywhere close to elite arm talent or elite athleticism

935
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 1: and what I thought was interesting point somebody made, and

936
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:23,720
Speaker 1: having done a Bills game for Fox in Josh Allen's

937
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:27,399
Speaker 1: rookie year, this one coach said, Look, if the team

938
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:31,800
Speaker 1: is bleeping the bed, at least some of these guys,

939
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:35,880
Speaker 1: including Trey Lance and Justin Field a little like like

940
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:38,960
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. They're big enough, and they're athletic enough where

941
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 1: they can move the chains at times and lean a

942
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:44,560
Speaker 1: little bit on their mobility and their running ability. That

943
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:47,800
Speaker 1: is not something you're gonna have with Mac Jones. And

944
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 1: that is a concern. That's also not something you know,

945
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:53,759
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson's a good athlete. Zach Wilson's not, you know,

946
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 1: a big, big guy. You worry about how durable he's

947
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:58,440
Speaker 1: going to be if he plays that way. Yeah, And

948
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 1: as these quarterbacks, it boils down to it, and you've

949
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:04,320
Speaker 1: talked to all these coaches about it. How likely is

950
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:06,080
Speaker 1: it that all five of these guys go in the

951
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:09,759
Speaker 1: first round. Oh, I think it's very likely that they will.

952
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:13,240
Speaker 1: The question is going to be will there be somebody

953
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 1: who lingers pass maybe seven or eight if that happens.

954
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: You know, Trey Lance is interesting. He had one great

955
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:25,440
Speaker 1: year at North Dakota State. People love his football intelligence,

956
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:28,040
Speaker 1: they love his character. They think he has as strong

957
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:30,759
Speaker 1: as arm as anybody in this draft. But he hasn't

958
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:33,800
Speaker 1: played that much football. And also it wasn't like he

959
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:36,879
Speaker 1: played in the SEC. He played in the FCS. I'll

960
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:39,239
Speaker 1: be at a powerhouse program, and there is some a

961
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 1: little bit of concern about he has some inconsistent mechanics

962
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:45,160
Speaker 1: and that showed up in the one game he did

963
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 1: play this year against Central Arkansas, he completed about fifty

964
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:50,400
Speaker 1: percent of his pass as there were some throws that

965
00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:53,240
Speaker 1: the coaches I talked to said, you know, NFL quarterbacks

966
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 1: should not be missing those throws. If he has to

967
00:54:55,520 --> 00:55:00,040
Speaker 1: play right away, you worry about how much he's in

968
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:04,280
Speaker 1: a struggle. But everybody loves his his intangibles, his work ethic,

969
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:07,960
Speaker 1: all those things, and you know, you figure with his

970
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:11,279
Speaker 1: physical tools, with his mental makeup, that gives them a

971
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 1: good chance. But again, it's kind of you could see

972
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:17,320
Speaker 1: some guys once they get you know, do the Niners

973
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:19,080
Speaker 1: take them. If not, then all of a sudden, you know,

974
00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 1: who really needs a quarterback desperately? Because the vibe I've

975
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:26,919
Speaker 1: gotten is there's a lot of concern that next year's

976
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 1: quarterback class is not expected to be anywhere near as good.

977
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 1: We've got this thing. We're kind of obviously Buffalo Bill's

978
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:37,720
Speaker 1: centric here and we've lived through the Josh Allen saga

979
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 1: over the last three years till he was, you know,

980
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 1: runner up in the MVP voting this year when he

981
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 1: came out and nobody knews it accurate? Is there a

982
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:47,759
Speaker 1: little bit of the Josh Allen act effect when people

983
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 1: look at Trey Lance there is He's the one comparison

984
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:54,279
Speaker 1: he's got a he's a tremendous arm. I mean, is

985
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 1: it quite as as freakish as Josh Allen? Probably not

986
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:01,800
Speaker 1: quite to that degree. He's not quite as big, and

987
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 1: neither guy played high level competition. Like Look, one of

988
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 1: the concerns and why a lot of Josh Allen has

989
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 1: proven a lot of people wrong, especially on the college

990
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 1: football side, is because when he played against the good

991
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:15,960
Speaker 1: teams he did play against, it wasn't like he put

992
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 1: up very good numbers. And so, you know, credit to

993
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:24,000
Speaker 1: the NFL personnel people for seeing through some stuff that

994
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:28,520
Speaker 1: maybe other people will get lost in in that. But again,

995
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 1: this is a guy that you know, people who have

996
00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:35,399
Speaker 1: been around him and met with him, really like him,

997
00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:37,759
Speaker 1: and I have a story coming out later this week

998
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,960
Speaker 1: on on Lance for The Athletic about talking to the

999
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator at North Dakota State and as good as

1000
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:47,040
Speaker 1: physical tools he had. And this is also, by the way,

1001
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:49,239
Speaker 1: a guy who ran for eleven hundred yards in the

1002
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:52,320
Speaker 1: one season he played, so he can run and throw.

1003
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:56,600
Speaker 1: But it's another thing about just the work ethic, the

1004
00:56:56,760 --> 00:57:00,279
Speaker 1: presence he has, the poise he has. Those those are

1005
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:03,320
Speaker 1: the things that those guys talk about the most, and

1006
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 1: so that I think bows pretty well for him. Talking

1007
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 1: with Fox Sports college football analyst Bruce Feldman also does

1008
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:13,520
Speaker 1: written pieces for The Athletic, and you asked one of

1009
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 1: these very questions that Steve and I have been debating

1010
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 1: here on the show with respect to Devanta Smith. You know,

1011
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 1: he's a hundred and seventy pounds, soaking wet, he looks

1012
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 1: rail thin, he's narrow framed, and as successful as he's

1013
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 1: been at the college level, good enough to win you know,

1014
00:57:32,040 --> 00:57:36,480
Speaker 1: college football's most coveted prize, the Heisman. There are legitimate

1015
00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 1: concerns that this guy is going to get broken in

1016
00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:41,920
Speaker 1: half by the more physical cornerbacks of the NFL and

1017
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:44,800
Speaker 1: get knocked straight out of bounds anytime the guy leaves

1018
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: his feet or tries to juke somebody out. What did

1019
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:50,600
Speaker 1: you find from wide receiver coaches that you pulled on

1020
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:54,440
Speaker 1: that they really like his toughness and they think he

1021
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 1: was a guy who will bite your face off and

1022
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:58,760
Speaker 1: stick his nose in there. The Alabama coaches and everybody

1023
00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:02,760
Speaker 1: around that program is about his football intelligence, is toughness,

1024
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 1: all those things. Having said that, one of the NFL

1025
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:10,160
Speaker 1: receiver coaches said, look, in our league, these monsters hit

1026
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:13,240
Speaker 1: you from the side, and that's when you get ac issues,

1027
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:16,480
Speaker 1: That's when you get collar bone issues. Look, Steve is

1028
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:19,120
Speaker 1: better served to talk about that world because he lived

1029
00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:23,680
Speaker 1: in it, you know, certainly more than us. But I

1030
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 1: think that is an issue where it's not the people

1031
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:31,000
Speaker 1: questioning his toughness. I think it's more questioning his durability

1032
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 1: and whether a guy like that will hold up. I mean,

1033
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 1: I heard the line I heard was, Hey, in the NFL,

1034
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:38,760
Speaker 1: it is really big guys beat up little guys. And

1035
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 1: is this a guy who is going to end up

1036
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:46,560
Speaker 1: being able to go for a full season and he

1037
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:48,920
Speaker 1: or is he just going to get so banged up

1038
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 1: because it's just different. Yeah, the SEC's the big boy League,

1039
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 1: it's the big this and now he's going into the

1040
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 1: big Man League, so very different. Yeah, and I and

1041
00:58:56,920 --> 00:59:01,640
Speaker 1: they always and certainly he shows a lot of positive traits. Um,

1042
00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:05,000
Speaker 1: you know, he is tough, he is, he isn't He's

1043
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:09,160
Speaker 1: got a great attitude, but so does everybody else. I mean,

1044
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:12,000
Speaker 1: you know, I mean that does not set you apart

1045
00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 1: at that level. So I'm I'm interested to see what

1046
00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 1: other things he brings to the table that you can't

1047
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 1: see now. And I think that's a big question with him.

1048
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:27,200
Speaker 1: Go ahead. Yeah. One thing that that I've heard a

1049
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:31,600
Speaker 1: lot is he has elite hand eye coordination and ball skills. Um.

1050
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 1: I was around Jamar Chase a lot when I worked

1051
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:38,120
Speaker 1: on this LSU book two years ago and saw him

1052
00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 1: every day in practice, and there's a wow factor of him.

1053
00:59:40,840 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 1: And Jamar Chase looks like a running back. His lower

1054
00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 1: body is thick, he is over his you know, two

1055
00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 1: hundred two pounds or whatever. He's thirty five pounds bigger

1056
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:53,320
Speaker 1: than Davante Smith. And he's also younger too, so you think,

1057
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:55,640
Speaker 1: you know, there's still probably room for him to grow

1058
00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:58,880
Speaker 1: and fill out. And I saw I saw Jamar Chase

1059
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:02,080
Speaker 1: make so many competitive catches, and he was going up

1060
01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:07,120
Speaker 1: against every day in practice, Derek Stingley Junior, who people

1061
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:10,400
Speaker 1: NFL people remember him, Darryl Stingley. This is his grandson.

1062
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:12,840
Speaker 1: Who he would be. He would be the most talented

1063
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:16,520
Speaker 1: quarterback cornerback in this draft if he could come out.

1064
01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:20,600
Speaker 1: And so I saw those Stingy Stingley Chase battles, and

1065
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 1: I saw him make all these competitive catches, and the

1066
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:26,760
Speaker 1: coaches I talked to said, you know, he's got really

1067
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:30,520
Speaker 1: good ball skills. They thought in terms of as a

1068
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:33,480
Speaker 1: just catching the ball that DeVante Smith was on a

1069
01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:35,840
Speaker 1: different level than even that. And I was like, wow,

1070
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 1: that's saying something now Again, one guy is thirty thirty

1071
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:43,960
Speaker 1: five pounds bigger. I mean, you can do a lot

1072
01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:48,360
Speaker 1: more with Jamar Chase. I think he from everything I've

1073
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:50,600
Speaker 1: seen and heard, I think he is he is a

1074
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:54,760
Speaker 1: much safer pick because of his physicality and his strength.

1075
01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:59,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you hear about DeVante's toughness and his willingness

1076
01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 1: and his football small You hear all those things about Chase,

1077
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:07,280
Speaker 1: but you hear about his physicality, which is different. I mean,

1078
01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:10,320
Speaker 1: when people say he's a much faster an Kuon Bolden.

1079
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:13,760
Speaker 1: I think that's a pretty good starting point. And again

1080
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:17,680
Speaker 1: I would use this being around that LSU team. Justin

1081
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:21,480
Speaker 1: Jefferson had a phenomenal rookie year last year for the Vikings.

1082
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 1: This guy is a much better receiver and a much

1083
01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 1: he's more physical, and he's just a better receiver than

1084
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:31,880
Speaker 1: the guy who just lit up the NFL as a rookie.

1085
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:34,120
Speaker 1: So wherever he goes, I think he's going to do

1086
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:36,880
Speaker 1: really well. There are a lot of Bills fans, Bruce,

1087
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 1: that are hoping that some of the top end edge

1088
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 1: rush talent trickles down as far as pick thirty, and

1089
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:45,720
Speaker 1: with all the offensive players going in the top ten,

1090
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:48,920
Speaker 1: I suppose there's a possibility that could happen. There's other

1091
01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:51,680
Speaker 1: reasons that could happen too. Jalen Phillips, you know, has

1092
01:01:51,720 --> 01:01:54,120
Speaker 1: some medical concerns with the concussion history. As you know,

1093
01:01:54,880 --> 01:01:58,880
Speaker 1: Jason Oway is a guy that has ridiculous measurables but

1094
01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:03,240
Speaker 1: no production. Is there a way based on the conversations

1095
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:06,240
Speaker 1: that you've had with some of these defensive coaches that

1096
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:11,160
Speaker 1: you've you know, queried that you know, maybe some of

1097
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:15,440
Speaker 1: that defensive talent, especially at the edge maybe trickles down

1098
01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:18,280
Speaker 1: all the way to thirty. I would be stunned if

1099
01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:22,920
Speaker 1: Jayleen Phillips. Jayleen Phllips definitely has some some character caution issues.

1100
01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:28,000
Speaker 1: You'd mentioned the concussion issues. I mean, there was definitely

1101
01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:30,800
Speaker 1: a time when football he would he had openly talked

1102
01:02:30,800 --> 01:02:33,680
Speaker 1: about music was much He's you know, had produced some music.

1103
01:02:33,760 --> 01:02:36,800
Speaker 1: He was openly talking, you know, before he got to

1104
01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:39,760
Speaker 1: play at Miami that that was his thing more than football.

1105
01:02:40,160 --> 01:02:43,680
Speaker 1: He is a phenomenal athlete. And you know, I did

1106
01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:45,400
Speaker 1: a story for The Athletic not that long ago where

1107
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:48,320
Speaker 1: I talked to a bunch of guys in the Miami

1108
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:52,040
Speaker 1: program and they all could not stop raving about Jayleen Phillips,

1109
01:02:52,120 --> 01:02:56,640
Speaker 1: how hard he played last year. He to me he

1110
01:02:56,880 --> 01:03:00,760
Speaker 1: is the most talented edge rusher in this draft, hands down.

1111
01:03:01,720 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 1: He's a wow athlete. He could probably get up to

1112
01:03:04,320 --> 01:03:08,080
Speaker 1: two hundred eighty pounds and still, I mean, the question

1113
01:03:08,160 --> 01:03:12,040
Speaker 1: with him, I think is is are you gonna get

1114
01:03:12,040 --> 01:03:14,080
Speaker 1: the jail and Phillips Miami got last year. If you do,

1115
01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:17,080
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna get a guy who is going

1116
01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:20,400
Speaker 1: to be a fifteen sack guy and make a lot

1117
01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:24,160
Speaker 1: of plays. Though on the other side of it, Jason

1118
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:29,960
Speaker 1: Oway no sacks last year, ridiculous speed, still developing. I

1119
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 1: talked to an NFL defensive line coach who I know

1120
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 1: pretty well, and he said, you know, when you watch

1121
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:37,600
Speaker 1: his film, go watch the Indiana game. He said, he

1122
01:03:37,640 --> 01:03:40,240
Speaker 1: had no sacks, but he hit the quarterback like ten times.

1123
01:03:40,720 --> 01:03:44,440
Speaker 1: He's very disruptive. He had he did have a bunch

1124
01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:47,440
Speaker 1: of sacks the year before. He is one of these

1125
01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:50,919
Speaker 1: guys though that you know, you could see him being

1126
01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:54,880
Speaker 1: a guy who has a dozen sacks as a rookie

1127
01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:57,360
Speaker 1: and as a specialty guy, or you could see him

1128
01:03:57,480 --> 01:04:00,959
Speaker 1: disappearing in three years. I mean, it's just you don't

1129
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:03,800
Speaker 1: hear anything bad about Oway's character. He's just pretty raw.

1130
01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:06,880
Speaker 1: But how many guys in the NFL do you know

1131
01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:10,080
Speaker 1: who are in the front seven who run four three five,

1132
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:13,280
Speaker 1: And he legitimately runs that fast and he's got length.

1133
01:04:13,360 --> 01:04:17,600
Speaker 1: He's six five, So really interesting player. I mean, you know,

1134
01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:20,080
Speaker 1: you're looking at the video of him, I mean, he

1135
01:04:20,280 --> 01:04:23,439
Speaker 1: looks like a huge receiver, but he is physical. He's

1136
01:04:23,480 --> 01:04:27,520
Speaker 1: not soft. It's just, you know, it was a weird,

1137
01:04:28,080 --> 01:04:31,040
Speaker 1: weird year last year all around college football with COVID

1138
01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:34,240
Speaker 1: and at Penn State, they did not have Michael Parsons,

1139
01:04:34,280 --> 01:04:36,760
Speaker 1: who is their best player in the middle of the defense.

1140
01:04:36,840 --> 01:04:39,360
Speaker 1: And I think they were kind of spinning their wheels

1141
01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:43,760
Speaker 1: at times. But he is a he is a remarkable athlete,

1142
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:46,960
Speaker 1: and I could see somebody going, we cannot pass up

1143
01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:50,000
Speaker 1: on this guy. I mean, gross Matos, who I think

1144
01:04:50,040 --> 01:04:52,320
Speaker 1: the Panthers took in the you know, thirty seventh or

1145
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:54,120
Speaker 1: thirty eighth last year. The guys I talked to you

1146
01:04:54,200 --> 01:04:56,520
Speaker 1: said this kid has a way higher ceiling than him,

1147
01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:58,680
Speaker 1: and they think he's a much better player one of

1148
01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:00,760
Speaker 1: the other guys to come and out of this draft.

1149
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:03,040
Speaker 1: It seems like, and when put in finger quotes, kind

1150
01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:04,920
Speaker 1: of a unicorn. I've been going back and forth with

1151
01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:08,360
Speaker 1: my partner here, Chris Brown, a lot about Kyle Pitts.

1152
01:05:09,160 --> 01:05:12,880
Speaker 1: To me, I've seen got I mean, I know, he's

1153
01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:14,960
Speaker 1: big as long, he's got speed, he's got all this stuff.

1154
01:05:15,200 --> 01:05:17,640
Speaker 1: I mean, a couple of years ago O. J. Howard

1155
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:19,200
Speaker 1: came out, they said they were kind of saying the

1156
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:21,840
Speaker 1: same thing about him. And now three years into his career,

1157
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:25,000
Speaker 1: he can't get on the field for Tampa. What makes

1158
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:28,960
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts different than other tight end prospects we've seen.

1159
01:05:30,200 --> 01:05:32,560
Speaker 1: I think you're talking about a guy who's six six,

1160
01:05:33,440 --> 01:05:37,280
Speaker 1: who was running four or four eights. He didn't drop

1161
01:05:37,320 --> 01:05:40,240
Speaker 1: a ball this year. So he's got really really good

1162
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:44,320
Speaker 1: hand eye coordination. He's really really competitive. One of the

1163
01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:47,720
Speaker 1: coaches I talked to said, Listen, he could have shut

1164
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:50,280
Speaker 1: it down and still been a top ten pick last year.

1165
01:05:50,640 --> 01:05:52,960
Speaker 1: He didn't. And also it was like when they were

1166
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:55,760
Speaker 1: down by twenty against Alabama, he didn't go on the tank.

1167
01:05:55,880 --> 01:05:59,680
Speaker 1: He battled to get that back in the game. Nobody

1168
01:05:59,680 --> 01:06:01,720
Speaker 1: could stop him. Last year, they knew where the ball

1169
01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:05,120
Speaker 1: was going. I think he's different. Like O. J. Howard

1170
01:06:05,200 --> 01:06:07,400
Speaker 1: had moments where he was the guy at Alabama. This

1171
01:06:07,520 --> 01:06:11,800
Speaker 1: guy always was the guy at Florida, and just you

1172
01:06:11,920 --> 01:06:16,400
Speaker 1: don't see guys like this very often in college football

1173
01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:18,840
Speaker 1: who played tight end. You see him. They become guys

1174
01:06:18,880 --> 01:06:21,800
Speaker 1: with this kind of length and this kind of athleticism

1175
01:06:22,120 --> 01:06:25,800
Speaker 1: end up usually as edge rushers. This guy's hands, though,

1176
01:06:25,840 --> 01:06:29,560
Speaker 1: are so much better than that that. Um. You know,

1177
01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:31,120
Speaker 1: I don't know some of the guys I've talked to.

1178
01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:33,240
Speaker 1: You think this guy if you had to say, will

1179
01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:35,520
Speaker 1: there be a Hall of Famer in this draft class,

1180
01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:37,800
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts is the first name that comes out of

1181
01:06:37,840 --> 01:06:41,400
Speaker 1: people's minds. And while a linebacker may not necessarily be,

1182
01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:44,520
Speaker 1: you know, near the top of the list for the Bills.

1183
01:06:45,640 --> 01:06:47,800
Speaker 1: There were some interesting comments on some of the more

1184
01:06:48,440 --> 01:06:51,200
Speaker 1: notable ones you know you in your piece on the Athletic,

1185
01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:57,000
Speaker 1: like Nick Bolton from Missoo. Just the fact that people

1186
01:06:57,160 --> 01:07:00,920
Speaker 1: love this kid like personality wise, he sounds like a

1187
01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:03,520
Speaker 1: juice player, you know, a guy that can get other

1188
01:07:03,640 --> 01:07:07,280
Speaker 1: people amped up, maybe even as a rookie. Um, And

1189
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:12,240
Speaker 1: it seemed like there was a pretty strong consensus on that, right. Yeah.

1190
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:16,440
Speaker 1: The people love his intangibles, love how how this guy's

1191
01:07:16,440 --> 01:07:18,160
Speaker 1: an alpha. He gets in the room, he will get

1192
01:07:18,240 --> 01:07:20,280
Speaker 1: people lined up. He's a good athlete. Now he may

1193
01:07:20,320 --> 01:07:24,640
Speaker 1: only play one position at linebacker. Um, I don't you know,

1194
01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:26,560
Speaker 1: it's interesting because I you know, I know where the

1195
01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:29,480
Speaker 1: Bills pick. My guess is he's a late late first

1196
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:31,960
Speaker 1: you know, early second round, depending on what kind of

1197
01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:35,520
Speaker 1: defense you run and what the need is there. People

1198
01:07:35,600 --> 01:07:38,480
Speaker 1: really like him. I mean, once you start getting Michael

1199
01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:40,200
Speaker 1: Parsons in it to me as there's his own case.

1200
01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:42,680
Speaker 1: Because he's such a unique athlete at two hundred and

1201
01:07:42,680 --> 01:07:45,880
Speaker 1: forty five pounds the Penn State linebacker. After that, then

1202
01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:51,280
Speaker 1: you have a space player and Ausa Caramoa from Notre

1203
01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:54,479
Speaker 1: Dame who's an elite cover guy who's about two hundred

1204
01:07:54,520 --> 01:07:58,080
Speaker 1: and eighteen pounds. You get Nick Bolton, who's very different player.

1205
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:02,640
Speaker 1: You get Jamon David who's long had a remarkable one

1206
01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:05,960
Speaker 1: season at Kentucky six four two thirty five runs four

1207
01:08:06,080 --> 01:08:10,200
Speaker 1: four flat. Different player than Nick Bolton. They're all very different.

1208
01:08:11,600 --> 01:08:13,600
Speaker 1: It's just I guess it's just what you need, what

1209
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:16,280
Speaker 1: position you want in your defense. And then you have

1210
01:08:16,320 --> 01:08:19,360
Speaker 1: a guy like Zavin Collins who's even more different. He's

1211
01:08:19,479 --> 01:08:23,640
Speaker 1: six five to sixty from Tulsa, didn't play at the

1212
01:08:23,720 --> 01:08:28,360
Speaker 1: highest level, but at that size is really really good

1213
01:08:28,400 --> 01:08:31,400
Speaker 1: in coverage, and you're just like, Okay, is he the

1214
01:08:31,479 --> 01:08:34,040
Speaker 1: guy who, like the Vikings see as another Anthony bar

1215
01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:36,599
Speaker 1: or something like that. You know, I've had people think

1216
01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:38,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's as good as that, But

1217
01:08:39,080 --> 01:08:42,040
Speaker 1: there's just really once you get into the linebacker group

1218
01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:44,320
Speaker 1: after Parsons, I feel like you get like four or

1219
01:08:44,360 --> 01:08:47,360
Speaker 1: five guys who are very unique and very different from

1220
01:08:47,400 --> 01:08:50,080
Speaker 1: each other. In your mock draft, you had the Bills

1221
01:08:50,479 --> 01:08:55,960
Speaker 1: selecting the Clemson running back Travis Etn. We've been going

1222
01:08:56,040 --> 01:08:58,800
Speaker 1: back and forth, around and around with what you can

1223
01:08:58,880 --> 01:09:00,600
Speaker 1: get in the type of player and what kind of

1224
01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:03,799
Speaker 1: contribution you can get from a player at the thirtieth

1225
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:06,040
Speaker 1: pick of the draft. The Bills have a very fully

1226
01:09:06,080 --> 01:09:09,880
Speaker 1: formed roster. You can make an argument that it would

1227
01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:11,920
Speaker 1: be a luxury to take a running back that in

1228
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:14,240
Speaker 1: the first round of the draft, but you can also

1229
01:09:14,439 --> 01:09:16,360
Speaker 1: make the point that the Bills have that luxury to

1230
01:09:16,439 --> 01:09:18,320
Speaker 1: give with the roster the way it is. What's your

1231
01:09:18,360 --> 01:09:21,599
Speaker 1: thought on your reasoning behind taking a running back at thirty,

1232
01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:25,360
Speaker 1: Like you said, there's only certain spots, and I don't

1233
01:09:25,360 --> 01:09:27,040
Speaker 1: know if you're gonna want to pull the trigger on

1234
01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:30,160
Speaker 1: you know, running backs are not what they were ten

1235
01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:32,720
Speaker 1: years ago in terms of the draft value. But this

1236
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:35,599
Speaker 1: is such an explosive player. And also he is good

1237
01:09:35,680 --> 01:09:38,519
Speaker 1: as a receiver, and I think that would give Josh

1238
01:09:38,600 --> 01:09:41,840
Speaker 1: Allen just another weapon. And he is a home run hitter,

1239
01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:43,800
Speaker 1: and I think if you are so focused in the

1240
01:09:43,880 --> 01:09:46,560
Speaker 1: past game or so focused in on that, and this

1241
01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:50,080
Speaker 1: guy is kind of a change of pace weapon. He's physical.

1242
01:09:50,360 --> 01:09:52,599
Speaker 1: I mean, he runs through guys, he runs harder than

1243
01:09:53,040 --> 01:09:56,719
Speaker 1: you know he's two fifteen. Sometimes people say he's really

1244
01:09:56,920 --> 01:10:00,719
Speaker 1: really gets downhill and we'll get one. Well in a hurry.

1245
01:10:02,120 --> 01:10:04,479
Speaker 1: I just think he's a really interesting player for them

1246
01:10:05,040 --> 01:10:07,599
Speaker 1: if you go in that direction, because I don't think

1247
01:10:09,280 --> 01:10:12,360
Speaker 1: I don't think that, like the edge guys were talking about,

1248
01:10:13,080 --> 01:10:14,840
Speaker 1: Jail and Phillips to me, will not be there. And

1249
01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:19,080
Speaker 1: then I'm I'm skeptical that there's somebody there that matches

1250
01:10:19,160 --> 01:10:21,080
Speaker 1: up with what they think should be a first round player.

1251
01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:24,280
Speaker 1: Bruce last one for me. And I'm sure you've already

1252
01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:26,559
Speaker 1: heard this based on the people in the circles you're

1253
01:10:26,600 --> 01:10:29,200
Speaker 1: traveling with, who you talk to. But with the draft

1254
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:34,000
Speaker 1: pool being noticeably smaller this year from a pure size perspective,

1255
01:10:34,560 --> 01:10:38,479
Speaker 1: there's already this theory out there that a lot of

1256
01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:42,479
Speaker 1: gms are going to be parting with picks and asking

1257
01:10:42,560 --> 01:10:45,240
Speaker 1: for future draft capital in twenty twenty two when the

1258
01:10:45,280 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 1: class is much larger because of all the kids that

1259
01:10:47,760 --> 01:10:50,120
Speaker 1: chose to go back to school, the NCAA giving a

1260
01:10:50,200 --> 01:10:53,560
Speaker 1: lot of players the extra year of eligibility, etc. To

1261
01:10:53,760 --> 01:10:57,120
Speaker 1: what level do you think that reaches in this year's draft,

1262
01:10:57,240 --> 01:10:59,840
Speaker 1: with NFL gms maybe saying you know what, you can

1263
01:11:00,080 --> 01:11:02,120
Speaker 1: have my fifth and six rounders. Give me, you know,

1264
01:11:02,200 --> 01:11:05,639
Speaker 1: give me a six next year, and I'm happy with that. Yeah,

1265
01:11:05,640 --> 01:11:08,240
Speaker 1: I could see that happening because because just in the numbers,

1266
01:11:08,320 --> 01:11:11,760
Speaker 1: I think the risk you run with that is there

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Speaker 1: are like if Jamar Chase was in the draft last year,

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Speaker 1: he'd have been the first receiver taken. You have a

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Speaker 1: bunch of quarterbacks, Like there will not be a Trevor

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Speaker 1: Lawrence in this draft. Next year, there may be a

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Speaker 1: Sam Howell who's a good player, but he's not you know,

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Speaker 1: he may be a better version of Baker Mayfield. Maybe

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01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:31,280
Speaker 1: I know Baker was the first pick in the draft too,

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01:11:31,360 --> 01:11:34,280
Speaker 1: But I think there are the top ten. To me,

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Speaker 1: there are some guys who have special talents. There will

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Speaker 1: I don't think there'll be a Kyle Pitts in the draft.

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Speaker 1: But once you start getting into the depth of it, um,

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01:11:43,560 --> 01:11:45,719
Speaker 1: there's this is not a good draft for the d line.

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Speaker 1: It's not there's there's really no defensive tackles. Christian Barmore's

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01:11:50,160 --> 01:11:52,720
Speaker 1: is a solid player, but I think that's where you

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01:11:52,800 --> 01:11:55,840
Speaker 1: get in the risk. You know, it's the defensive side

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Speaker 1: of the ball. There's some good corners. I think there'll

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01:11:57,800 --> 01:12:01,799
Speaker 1: be a better one next year. The safeties aren't okay

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01:12:02,600 --> 01:12:04,960
Speaker 1: to me. It's like the defensive side of the ball

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01:12:05,080 --> 01:12:07,720
Speaker 1: is where I think it's different next year, and that's

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01:12:07,800 --> 01:12:12,960
Speaker 1: what you wonder about. But you know, I also think

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01:12:13,080 --> 01:12:15,559
Speaker 1: there's probably something to Hey, we will have a better

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01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:19,280
Speaker 1: read on the personnel next year because scouting, hopefully, like

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Speaker 1: everything else, will hopefully be back to some version of normal.

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Speaker 1: If if the Bills decide to go on the defensive

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Speaker 1: side of the ball with their thirtieth pick instead of

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Speaker 1: taking an offensive player, and they go, say, cornerback, We've

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Speaker 1: got a list of like ten corners that we've you know,

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Speaker 1: particularly the top five. Would one of those top five guys,

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Speaker 1: particularly a guy like Farley who's had the back surgery

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Speaker 1: kind of thing. How far can you see realistically maybe

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Speaker 1: one of those top five guys like Asante, Samuel or

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Speaker 1: somebody fall into the number thirty. Is that a possibility?

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Speaker 1: And if not, what kind of corner could they get something?

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Speaker 1: All falling there? I think that's right in the kind

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Speaker 1: of line. Kelvin Joseph has some character issues from his

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01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:04,200
Speaker 1: time at LSU, some off field stuff. He's really talented

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01:13:04,320 --> 01:13:06,920
Speaker 1: I don't see somebody jumping up rolling the dice on

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01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:10,000
Speaker 1: him as a first round even late Elijah Molden. You

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01:13:10,040 --> 01:13:12,280
Speaker 1: know everybody likes him, I don't know if everybody like

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01:13:13,120 --> 01:13:16,639
Speaker 1: like him characterized playmaker, like he checks a lot of boxes.

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01:13:16,640 --> 01:13:18,160
Speaker 1: I just don't know if people look at him as

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01:13:18,200 --> 01:13:23,360
Speaker 1: a late first rounder. Um, you know, a Sante Samuel, Yes, Newsom.

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01:13:23,680 --> 01:13:26,360
Speaker 1: I don't think Newsom will still be there. He's a

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Speaker 1: really good corner who had a really good pro day,

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01:13:29,360 --> 01:13:33,479
Speaker 1: and he's very smart player. Um, you know, I'd be

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Speaker 1: surprised if he lasted. That'd be a heck of a

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01:13:35,120 --> 01:13:37,720
Speaker 1: value if he did. There's no way j If jac

1314
01:13:37,840 --> 01:13:42,360
Speaker 1: Horne lasted to the fifteenth pick, something something weird happened

1315
01:13:42,600 --> 01:13:45,040
Speaker 1: to me. He's probably the best corner of this group.

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Speaker 1: I don't see him getting anywhere near that. So Caleb

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Speaker 1: Farley to go that that far down, I don't, you know.

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Speaker 1: I know there's medical concern. I know people don't love that.

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01:13:55,560 --> 01:13:58,120
Speaker 1: You know, he doesn't have great film in terms of

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01:13:58,200 --> 01:14:01,679
Speaker 1: tackling and physicality, but he's free, Kishley fast, and he's long.

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Speaker 1: You know, I could see wherever Caleb Farley gets drafted,

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't shock me if like you're watching some playoff

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01:14:07,560 --> 01:14:09,719
Speaker 1: game two years from now and a really good receiver

1324
01:14:09,800 --> 01:14:11,840
Speaker 1: gets shut down and everybody's talking about where did this

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01:14:11,920 --> 01:14:14,360
Speaker 1: Caleb Farley come from? You know, he has that kind

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01:14:14,400 --> 01:14:18,400
Speaker 1: of coverage skills and closing speed. But you know, when

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01:14:18,439 --> 01:14:22,320
Speaker 1: you start getting into the medical history or medical concerns,

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01:14:22,439 --> 01:14:25,360
Speaker 1: that's when guys do start to kind of topple a

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01:14:25,439 --> 01:14:28,360
Speaker 1: little bit. If I had to guess, I would say

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01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:31,120
Speaker 1: Asante Samuel is probably the most likely to be there

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01:14:31,200 --> 01:14:34,200
Speaker 1: for them. I just don't think Farley falls that far

1332
01:14:34,320 --> 01:14:37,479
Speaker 1: given his physical skill set of a length and speed.

1333
01:14:37,640 --> 01:14:40,120
Speaker 1: But you know, you never know. We see some weird

1334
01:14:40,160 --> 01:14:42,599
Speaker 1: stuff happen in the draft from year to year. Check

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Speaker 1: it out on the athletic dot Com NFL Draft Confidential.

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Speaker 1: People say he's not athletic, coaches discuss Mac Jones, rise,

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01:14:48,160 --> 01:14:51,320
Speaker 1: justin Field, shade, sleepers galore. It's Bruce Feldman's and you'll

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01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:54,000
Speaker 1: want to check it out. It's Bruce Fellman from Fox Sports.

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Speaker 1: Thanks very much for giving us some time, Bruce, enjoy

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01:14:56,200 --> 01:14:58,519
Speaker 1: the draft. Thanks Bruce, what's a pleasure. Guys, Thanks for

1341
01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:01,080
Speaker 1: having me all right, Bruce Feldman College Football analyst for

1342
01:15:01,280 --> 01:15:04,880
Speaker 1: Fox Sports also does some writing for The Athletic. Really

1343
01:15:04,960 --> 01:15:10,040
Speaker 1: interesting piece because he called basically every contact he had

1344
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:13,120
Speaker 1: in the NFL on coaching staffs around the league and

1345
01:15:13,280 --> 01:15:17,920
Speaker 1: ask them anonymously to give them their thoughts, you know,

1346
01:15:18,080 --> 01:15:20,560
Speaker 1: on some of these prospects in the draft, and some

1347
01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:23,519
Speaker 1: of the comments are pretty eye opening, right this one

1348
01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:29,200
Speaker 1: offensive line coach that really liked offensive tackle. I bleeping

1349
01:15:29,320 --> 01:15:33,640
Speaker 1: love this guy, Like, Yeah, it's pretty funny how revealing

1350
01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:35,840
Speaker 1: they are when they know they're not being quoted by name.

1351
01:15:35,920 --> 01:15:37,320
Speaker 1: The fun part for me is what some of the

1352
01:15:37,400 --> 01:15:39,560
Speaker 1: guys see and some of the nuances they look for

1353
01:15:39,680 --> 01:15:42,800
Speaker 1: when they're evaluating players. Fans don't ever look at they

1354
01:15:42,880 --> 01:15:44,679
Speaker 1: look at numbers, they look at they watch a highlight

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01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:46,560
Speaker 1: or two. And that said, this guy watches how the

1356
01:15:46,600 --> 01:15:48,800
Speaker 1: guy acts away from the ball. They watch how he

1357
01:15:50,280 --> 01:15:51,880
Speaker 1: For instance, you see you go down and you can

1358
01:15:51,960 --> 01:15:53,599
Speaker 1: on YouTube. You can go down any of these names

1359
01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:55,479
Speaker 1: we talk about in this draft, you can go down

1360
01:15:55,760 --> 01:16:00,120
Speaker 1: on YouTube and get their highlights. And for me, one

1361
01:16:00,120 --> 01:16:01,799
Speaker 1: of the things I do you look at the highlights

1362
01:16:01,840 --> 01:16:03,479
Speaker 1: and is that highlight for him or is it for

1363
01:16:03,520 --> 01:16:05,120
Speaker 1: the other guys? So, for instance, you got him. Hey,

1364
01:16:05,160 --> 01:16:07,400
Speaker 1: he's a fumble recovery. He got it. Well, some other

1365
01:16:07,479 --> 01:16:09,320
Speaker 1: guy made this phenomenal play kick the ball out and

1366
01:16:09,360 --> 01:16:10,880
Speaker 1: he happened to be standing there and fell on it,

1367
01:16:11,160 --> 01:16:15,800
Speaker 1: and it's on his highlight reel. So tell if that's

1368
01:16:15,840 --> 01:16:19,000
Speaker 1: your highlight, I'm drafting the guy that forced the fumble, right.

1369
01:16:19,080 --> 01:16:22,000
Speaker 1: So some of that goes on as well, But it's

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01:16:22,040 --> 01:16:25,400
Speaker 1: really insightful to see how the NFL evaluators what they

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Speaker 1: see and what they look for, and the stuff they

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01:16:27,760 --> 01:16:33,080
Speaker 1: say about mac Jones. It's all positive until they get

1373
01:16:33,160 --> 01:16:37,720
Speaker 1: to his physical traits. That kind of stuff goes on,

1374
01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:39,519
Speaker 1: and then they got other guys on the other end

1375
01:16:39,560 --> 01:16:42,160
Speaker 1: of it, like Jason Oway. It's all about his physical

1376
01:16:42,240 --> 01:16:46,880
Speaker 1: traits and nothing else. So you got somewhere in the

1377
01:16:46,960 --> 01:16:49,559
Speaker 1: middle there's a really good football player, and you got

1378
01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:51,320
Speaker 1: to find the ones that that fit your team and

1379
01:16:51,400 --> 01:16:55,160
Speaker 1: your scheme and your needs and your and your philosophy.

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Speaker 1: That's it's great. It's it's a lot of fun and

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01:16:57,560 --> 01:17:00,680
Speaker 1: Feldman goes deep into his stuff. We have to take

1382
01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:02,840
Speaker 1: a break here, but our thanks to Bruce Felman on that.

1383
01:17:03,360 --> 01:17:06,679
Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll let you know which team

1384
01:17:07,280 --> 01:17:11,639
Speaker 1: with two first round picks is definitely targeting a receiver,

1385
01:17:12,120 --> 01:17:14,559
Speaker 1: and it's not the Dolphins that we're talking about. We'll

1386
01:17:14,560 --> 01:17:16,639
Speaker 1: tell you which team that is when we return here

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Welcome back. Second half of the show underway

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01:17:32,240 --> 01:17:34,200
Speaker 1: here on a Monday. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you

1390
01:17:34,320 --> 01:17:38,080
Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, and we're talking about the possibility

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Speaker 1: of no defensive players being taken in the top ten

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01:17:43,840 --> 01:17:46,800
Speaker 1: of this year's draft. I personally, I think Dallas is

1393
01:17:46,840 --> 01:17:49,000
Speaker 1: going to wreck the party and probably take a corner

1394
01:17:49,080 --> 01:17:50,920
Speaker 1: there at ten, especially if the first one on the

1395
01:17:50,960 --> 01:17:53,240
Speaker 1: board still left, they'll take. There is a chance that

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01:17:53,880 --> 01:17:55,600
Speaker 1: nine out of the first ten players are on the

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Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball. We're just going to push

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01:17:57,400 --> 01:18:00,800
Speaker 1: a lot of defensive talent down the board. So we're

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Speaker 1: asking you on the tweet sheet today, if all ten

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Speaker 1: of the first picks in round one, all ten picks

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01:18:09,760 --> 01:18:12,920
Speaker 1: at the top of the round go offense. Does that

1402
01:18:13,120 --> 01:18:15,599
Speaker 1: change your thoughts on what the Bill should do at

1403
01:18:15,680 --> 01:18:17,960
Speaker 1: pick thirty. We'll get to the tweet sheet in a second,

1404
01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:21,599
Speaker 1: but there is this news. ESPN's Todd McShay is reporting

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01:18:22,520 --> 01:18:26,880
Speaker 1: that a team with two first round picks is definitely

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01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:30,240
Speaker 1: going to be targeting a receiver with one of those

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01:18:30,280 --> 01:18:34,080
Speaker 1: two selections. It is not Miami, who is widely considered

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01:18:34,400 --> 01:18:36,439
Speaker 1: to be a prime candidate to take the top receiver

1409
01:18:36,560 --> 01:18:38,960
Speaker 1: in the class at pick number six. They're talking. He's

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01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:41,400
Speaker 1: talking about a different team. It's the team that just

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Speaker 1: acquired a second first round pick right before the weekend

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01:18:45,840 --> 01:18:49,880
Speaker 1: last week. The Baltimore Ravens, who traded offensive tackle Orlando

1413
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Speaker 1: Brown to Kansas City, now own the twenty seventh and

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Speaker 1: thirty first overall selections, and ESPN's Todd McShay is reporting

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01:19:00,439 --> 01:19:05,560
Speaker 1: that wide receiver will likely be one of those two selections.

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01:19:05,880 --> 01:19:09,479
Speaker 1: The other is expected to address edge rusher offensive tackle.

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01:19:10,080 --> 01:19:13,320
Speaker 1: So you know, you're probably looking at at least one

1418
01:19:13,360 --> 01:19:16,519
Speaker 1: of their two selections going receiver there, which which makes sense.

1419
01:19:16,560 --> 01:19:19,559
Speaker 1: I mean, Lamar Jackson needs some more reliable targets. They

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01:19:19,600 --> 01:19:22,360
Speaker 1: went Hollywood Brown a couple of years ago, and going

1421
01:19:22,439 --> 01:19:26,439
Speaker 1: back to your point about diminutive receivers, he has not

1422
01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:30,599
Speaker 1: made well. John Brown and Hollywood Brown and that guy's

1423
01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:33,120
Speaker 1: getting out of there. And they really struggled to sign

1424
01:19:33,280 --> 01:19:36,240
Speaker 1: free agent receivers because nobody wants to go and block

1425
01:19:36,320 --> 01:19:38,880
Speaker 1: down field all day for the run game. They want God,

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01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:40,599
Speaker 1: they want to go to a team that they want

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01:19:40,600 --> 01:19:42,599
Speaker 1: to come to. A team like Buffalo throws at sixty

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01:19:42,600 --> 01:19:44,200
Speaker 1: percent of the time and got a quarterback with a

1429
01:19:44,280 --> 01:19:46,120
Speaker 1: big arm and goes deep and they're they're throwing on

1430
01:19:46,240 --> 01:19:48,200
Speaker 1: first down more than you know that kind of offense.

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01:19:48,320 --> 01:19:49,920
Speaker 1: So they got a draft one to get one. They

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Speaker 1: got a draft one to get one, a good one,

1433
01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:55,120
Speaker 1: because no free agent wide out is even thinking about

1434
01:19:55,160 --> 01:19:58,080
Speaker 1: going to Baltimore and getting chewed up by a run game.

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01:19:58,800 --> 01:20:02,320
Speaker 1: So they'll just they trade it up. They traded Orlando Brown,

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01:20:02,400 --> 01:20:05,560
Speaker 1: traded in and they'll draft one. So let's get to

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet, which is brought to you by Corrigan

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Speaker 1: Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills and leading us off today. If the top ten

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01:20:17,400 --> 01:20:19,560
Speaker 1: is all offensive players, is that change your thoughts on

1441
01:20:19,640 --> 01:20:22,360
Speaker 1: what the Bill should do with thirty? Rusty says, take

1442
01:20:22,520 --> 01:20:26,400
Speaker 1: the best player available. An offensive top heavy round one

1443
01:20:26,439 --> 01:20:29,800
Speaker 1: should push an excellent corner or defensive end down the

1444
01:20:29,840 --> 01:20:32,400
Speaker 1: board to hopefully thirty. That bodes well for the Bills.

1445
01:20:32,400 --> 01:20:35,559
Speaker 1: Addressing some perceived needs on defense. But should best player

1446
01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:38,200
Speaker 1: available still be a wide receiver or an offensive lineman,

1447
01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:40,960
Speaker 1: So be it have the guts to stand at thirty

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01:20:41,320 --> 01:20:44,439
Speaker 1: and pick them. That's the interesting part of this whole

1449
01:20:44,520 --> 01:20:47,680
Speaker 1: scenario for me. Right now, do they stand right at

1450
01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:51,040
Speaker 1: thirty and get the guy and who's gonna be there?

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01:20:52,120 --> 01:20:54,439
Speaker 1: It's because you're gonna get to like pick twenty five,

1452
01:20:55,960 --> 01:21:00,360
Speaker 1: and they'll be three guys there and then one gone

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01:21:00,560 --> 01:21:04,080
Speaker 1: at twenty six, twenty seven. Okay, we still got to

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01:21:04,320 --> 01:21:07,679
Speaker 1: twenty eight. Another one's gone, So now you got twenty

1455
01:21:07,800 --> 01:21:10,559
Speaker 1: nine to wait. You know what I'm saying. Oh yeah,

1456
01:21:10,720 --> 01:21:14,600
Speaker 1: and it'll be painful, right, you gotta be ready to

1457
01:21:14,720 --> 01:21:17,960
Speaker 1: hold your water and do it. And plus I have

1458
01:21:18,120 --> 01:21:20,400
Speaker 1: no idea, we have no idea as to whether okay,

1459
01:21:20,439 --> 01:21:23,560
Speaker 1: if this is happening above them, they've had conversations with

1460
01:21:23,680 --> 01:21:25,880
Speaker 1: the people at thirty three, thirty four at the top

1461
01:21:25,960 --> 01:21:28,280
Speaker 1: of the second round saying, hey, if if A B

1462
01:21:28,520 --> 01:21:32,160
Speaker 1: or C happens, we're interested in the thirty pick. And

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Speaker 1: I'll say it again, we're all watching this. We're gonna

1464
01:21:35,200 --> 01:21:37,400
Speaker 1: be watching this thing on TV, and you're gonna be

1465
01:21:37,439 --> 01:21:40,120
Speaker 1: streaming live. We're all gonna be doing this and you're

1466
01:21:40,120 --> 01:21:42,320
Speaker 1: gonna say, okay, if they're gonna pick the guy, why'd

1467
01:21:42,360 --> 01:21:43,760
Speaker 1: you wait? Why you wait till the end of the

1468
01:21:43,880 --> 01:21:45,599
Speaker 1: clock and we got fifteen minutes. I want to see

1469
01:21:45,600 --> 01:21:47,000
Speaker 1: what the bills are picking. And when I'm sitting here

1470
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:49,080
Speaker 1: at twenty eight waiting for you fifteen minutes, do you

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01:21:49,080 --> 01:21:52,920
Speaker 1: see can pick your guy? Well, the reason is those

1472
01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:56,200
Speaker 1: teams are sitting tight waiting for the phone to ring

1473
01:21:56,479 --> 01:21:58,360
Speaker 1: or making phone calls to see if they can trade

1474
01:21:58,400 --> 01:22:01,040
Speaker 1: the pick if they really want to. They use all

1475
01:22:01,160 --> 01:22:05,160
Speaker 1: fifteen to their minutes in the first round making sure

1476
01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:07,160
Speaker 1: they get the most value for that pick, if it's

1477
01:22:07,200 --> 01:22:10,680
Speaker 1: trading down, finding out who's going to give them the

1478
01:22:10,760 --> 01:22:13,240
Speaker 1: best price and how far down it is, and if

1479
01:22:13,280 --> 01:22:15,840
Speaker 1: it's not, they got a call with kid himselves that

1480
01:22:15,880 --> 01:22:18,000
Speaker 1: you didn't fall off a truck today, did you? You're right?

1481
01:22:18,040 --> 01:22:19,880
Speaker 1: I mean you're still got all your limp, your fingers

1482
01:22:19,920 --> 01:22:24,280
Speaker 1: and toes, right, that kind of conversation. So they'll use

1483
01:22:24,479 --> 01:22:27,120
Speaker 1: all of their fifteen minutes all through the first round

1484
01:22:27,600 --> 01:22:29,479
Speaker 1: just in case when you get to thirty, like where

1485
01:22:29,479 --> 01:22:32,600
Speaker 1: the bills are at, there might be three teams that

1486
01:22:32,720 --> 01:22:34,960
Speaker 1: are on the horn wanting to trade into that pick

1487
01:22:35,080 --> 01:22:36,600
Speaker 1: to get out of the second round get into the

1488
01:22:36,640 --> 01:22:38,880
Speaker 1: first round because the guy they want they want a

1489
01:22:38,960 --> 01:22:41,000
Speaker 1: five year deal four instead of a four year deal,

1490
01:22:41,200 --> 01:22:44,160
Speaker 1: which is what happens for a first rounder. Yeah, and

1491
01:22:44,280 --> 01:22:47,760
Speaker 1: if you look at the top ten, you can very

1492
01:22:47,840 --> 01:22:50,559
Speaker 1: easily get to ten offensive players. I think the one place,

1493
01:22:50,760 --> 01:22:54,320
Speaker 1: as we said, where it's probably gonna go defense is Dallas.

1494
01:22:54,360 --> 01:22:56,560
Speaker 1: They need a ton of help on that side of

1495
01:22:56,600 --> 01:22:59,560
Speaker 1: the ball. And if the top corner is still on

1496
01:22:59,600 --> 01:23:02,840
Speaker 1: the board, he's gone Detroit. I suppose could take another

1497
01:23:02,880 --> 01:23:05,560
Speaker 1: corner as well after drafting Jeff o'kouda last year, but

1498
01:23:06,240 --> 01:23:09,280
Speaker 1: they could very easily go offensive line as well. So

1499
01:23:09,960 --> 01:23:13,320
Speaker 1: let's just hypothetically say nine out of the first ten

1500
01:23:13,400 --> 01:23:16,640
Speaker 1: picks go offense and Dallas starts defense. Then you have

1501
01:23:16,760 --> 01:23:23,439
Speaker 1: the Giants at eleven. Okay, they need defensive help, so

1502
01:23:23,560 --> 01:23:27,439
Speaker 1: they're probably going defense, whether it's at linebacker or in

1503
01:23:27,520 --> 01:23:33,040
Speaker 1: the secondary. Philadelphia needs all kinds of defensive help. Chargers.

1504
01:23:33,240 --> 01:23:35,200
Speaker 1: You can make a case for offensive tackle, but you

1505
01:23:35,240 --> 01:23:40,200
Speaker 1: could also make a case for corner. Right fourteen is Minnesota.

1506
01:23:41,120 --> 01:23:43,800
Speaker 1: They need defensive help. Now they need some old line

1507
01:23:43,840 --> 01:23:47,240
Speaker 1: help too, So which way does that go? New England.

1508
01:23:47,720 --> 01:23:49,920
Speaker 1: Are they staying at fifteen? Are they moving up? Did

1509
01:23:49,960 --> 01:23:52,120
Speaker 1: they get the quarterback? If not, what are they getting?

1510
01:23:52,400 --> 01:23:54,400
Speaker 1: Are they looking for a receiver? Do they want a

1511
01:23:54,479 --> 01:23:57,479
Speaker 1: corner knowing Stefan Gilmour and J. C. Jackson are both

1512
01:23:57,520 --> 01:23:59,519
Speaker 1: in the last year or their contracts, or do they

1513
01:23:59,560 --> 01:24:02,040
Speaker 1: go tack because each of their starting tackles are in

1514
01:24:02,040 --> 01:24:04,160
Speaker 1: the last year of their contracts. That could go either

1515
01:24:04,200 --> 01:24:08,160
Speaker 1: way Arizona Los Patrick Peterson. They need a corner if

1516
01:24:08,240 --> 01:24:11,160
Speaker 1: you're if you're Buffalo, you're hoping five quarterbacks go in

1517
01:24:11,240 --> 01:24:15,840
Speaker 1: the top ten because that and hopefully New England can't

1518
01:24:15,880 --> 01:24:18,679
Speaker 1: get into the top ten to get one of them. Yeah,

1519
01:24:19,080 --> 01:24:23,400
Speaker 1: but my point is, even if you have nine offensive

1520
01:24:23,439 --> 01:24:25,639
Speaker 1: players go off the board with the first nine picks,

1521
01:24:26,520 --> 01:24:30,880
Speaker 1: you're still waiting so damn long to get down to thirty.

1522
01:24:31,000 --> 01:24:34,120
Speaker 1: This is gonna be You got an exercise in patience.

1523
01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:37,280
Speaker 1: The likes that we haven't seen you gotta get through

1524
01:24:37,560 --> 01:24:39,800
Speaker 1: lost you were playing right. So you get to New

1525
01:24:39,840 --> 01:24:42,200
Speaker 1: England at fifteen, and we've talked about them at length.

1526
01:24:42,240 --> 01:24:44,160
Speaker 1: They may they want a quarterback, but are they They're

1527
01:24:44,160 --> 01:24:45,880
Speaker 1: gonna have to trade up to get one. If if

1528
01:24:45,920 --> 01:24:48,439
Speaker 1: all this stuff can Arizona. They're not taking a quarterback,

1529
01:24:48,479 --> 01:24:51,680
Speaker 1: but they could take a defender, no question about it.

1530
01:24:51,760 --> 01:24:54,360
Speaker 1: Or they may take somebody to replace Larry Fitzgerald if

1531
01:24:54,400 --> 01:24:58,679
Speaker 1: he's going to retire. Vegas is taking an offensive athlete

1532
01:24:59,600 --> 01:25:04,519
Speaker 1: in my opinion, offensive athlete, yes, an offensive athlete, Miami

1533
01:25:07,560 --> 01:25:10,760
Speaker 1: playmaker right, Well, if they don't get the playmaker up

1534
01:25:10,800 --> 01:25:13,439
Speaker 1: at six, they'll look for one at eighteen. Either do

1535
01:25:13,640 --> 01:25:16,479
Speaker 1: get the playmaker at six, they're probably going tackle down there. Right,

1536
01:25:16,520 --> 01:25:19,360
Speaker 1: it's going to be an offensive player, either a playmaker,

1537
01:25:19,439 --> 01:25:22,639
Speaker 1: a wide receiver or there. Or if like Pitts falls

1538
01:25:22,680 --> 01:25:25,720
Speaker 1: to six, which he ain't going to, they'll take an

1539
01:25:25,720 --> 01:25:28,640
Speaker 1: offensive tackle there. So it's one of the two. Washington

1540
01:25:29,880 --> 01:25:32,040
Speaker 1: lots of help there, so you need an offensive line help,

1541
01:25:32,080 --> 01:25:34,519
Speaker 1: but they also need linebacker, corner and safety help. So

1542
01:25:34,640 --> 01:25:39,479
Speaker 1: they could go defense, right Washington, Chicago, Indianapolis could go corner.

1543
01:25:39,880 --> 01:25:44,040
Speaker 1: Tennessee could go corner. You know you're you're going you know,

1544
01:25:44,439 --> 01:25:46,240
Speaker 1: now you're into the low twenties and you know you're

1545
01:25:46,240 --> 01:25:52,320
Speaker 1: getting into the stuff where starting to get Gray's available.

1546
01:25:52,400 --> 01:25:55,240
Speaker 1: And I think what I was trying to indicate here

1547
01:25:55,400 --> 01:25:57,479
Speaker 1: is just as quickly as you could see nine of

1548
01:25:57,520 --> 01:26:03,040
Speaker 1: the first ten go offense. The whole thing could lip defense,

1549
01:26:03,479 --> 01:26:05,280
Speaker 1: and then you're right back where you're started, and you're like,

1550
01:26:05,439 --> 01:26:08,640
Speaker 1: son of a pop, what's gonna go out? Particularly with

1551
01:26:08,720 --> 01:26:13,439
Speaker 1: the corners available and the edge rushers. Um the thing

1552
01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:16,439
Speaker 1: that saves it though. There's the five, there's the five

1553
01:26:16,560 --> 01:26:21,360
Speaker 1: quarterbacks at the top, and then there's a there's some

1554
01:26:21,439 --> 01:26:24,720
Speaker 1: wide receivers that are up there a couple, but see

1555
01:26:24,880 --> 01:26:28,439
Speaker 1: it's quarterbacks. They're taking a chunk out of the top ten.

1556
01:26:28,760 --> 01:26:33,120
Speaker 1: Then it's wide receivers, and it's some offensive linemen, and

1557
01:26:33,240 --> 01:26:36,160
Speaker 1: it's the offensive lineman wide receivers that kind of populate

1558
01:26:36,280 --> 01:26:39,000
Speaker 1: this draft all the way throughout that are gonna string

1559
01:26:39,080 --> 01:26:41,880
Speaker 1: it out. Defensively, I think the problem is there's no

1560
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:44,200
Speaker 1: defensive tackles that are out there that are worth taken.

1561
01:26:44,520 --> 01:26:47,960
Speaker 1: There's one first rounder maybe and he's late first rounder.

1562
01:26:48,000 --> 01:26:51,840
Speaker 1: That's the kid from Alabama, Barmore. So there's While there's

1563
01:26:51,840 --> 01:26:54,439
Speaker 1: a ton of offensive players that are available and big

1564
01:26:54,520 --> 01:26:56,360
Speaker 1: number of guys who could go in the top half

1565
01:26:56,360 --> 01:26:58,160
Speaker 1: of the first or the top two thirds of the first,

1566
01:26:58,800 --> 01:27:01,360
Speaker 1: there's nothing to offset it. Yeah, you can't just like

1567
01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:03,320
Speaker 1: wait for an edge rusher to get down there because

1568
01:27:03,320 --> 01:27:05,160
Speaker 1: at thirty, I mean they take three of them. Now

1569
01:27:05,240 --> 01:27:08,840
Speaker 1: you're what are you gonna get? Yeah, you're the fourth one. Well,

1570
01:27:08,920 --> 01:27:10,840
Speaker 1: they're thinking that as many as five could go in

1571
01:27:10,960 --> 01:27:16,240
Speaker 1: round one, So rat five what edge edge? Right? Five

1572
01:27:16,360 --> 01:27:20,920
Speaker 1: edge guys, maybe six, depending how desperates and people get

1573
01:27:21,000 --> 01:27:23,760
Speaker 1: and depending on what they put the value at with

1574
01:27:23,920 --> 01:27:27,840
Speaker 1: all of those players, there's five corners, yeah, at four,

1575
01:27:27,880 --> 01:27:31,360
Speaker 1: at least maybe six. If you know, somebody likes somebody

1576
01:27:32,000 --> 01:27:36,320
Speaker 1: that maybe nobody else does. You know, it's it's crazy

1577
01:27:36,360 --> 01:27:39,519
Speaker 1: though there's a couple in the offensive line. It's deep, right,

1578
01:27:39,600 --> 01:27:41,760
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some guys strung out across the first

1579
01:27:41,800 --> 01:27:44,800
Speaker 1: and second. It's deep throughout the draft, right, it's not

1580
01:27:45,080 --> 01:27:49,920
Speaker 1: necessarily deep in round one. And that's the rub here

1581
01:27:50,040 --> 01:27:52,920
Speaker 1: because the Bills are picking at the bottom of round

1582
01:27:53,000 --> 01:27:56,680
Speaker 1: one and that's sixty one. They draft right sixty one

1583
01:27:56,720 --> 01:27:59,160
Speaker 1: and round two. Yeah, and thirty in round one. So

1584
01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:01,680
Speaker 1: it's the price of doing business when you make it

1585
01:28:01,720 --> 01:28:05,400
Speaker 1: to the AFC title game. So sitting and waiting and

1586
01:28:05,479 --> 01:28:07,599
Speaker 1: holding your water is going to be harder than ever

1587
01:28:08,000 --> 01:28:10,000
Speaker 1: for Brandon Bean and company because this is the longest

1588
01:28:10,040 --> 01:28:12,599
Speaker 1: way that they have ever had outside of last year

1589
01:28:12,640 --> 01:28:15,679
Speaker 1: when they didn't have a first round pick. So yeah,

1590
01:28:16,600 --> 01:28:19,200
Speaker 1: they won't be kicking back and relaxing on Night one.

1591
01:28:19,240 --> 01:28:22,200
Speaker 1: They'll just be wringing their hands over who's going to

1592
01:28:22,240 --> 01:28:25,439
Speaker 1: be left on the board, and that'll be probably the

1593
01:28:25,479 --> 01:28:28,760
Speaker 1: hardest thing for them. Who's left. We have to take

1594
01:28:28,800 --> 01:28:30,599
Speaker 1: a break when we come back, more of your comments

1595
01:28:30,600 --> 01:28:34,080
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet, and we also have coming up

1596
01:28:34,160 --> 01:28:39,720
Speaker 1: at two o'clock former Buffalo Bills defensive tackle Kyle Williams,

1597
01:28:40,640 --> 01:28:42,439
Speaker 1: who will be the first to tell you he was

1598
01:28:42,520 --> 01:28:46,519
Speaker 1: the first pick in the draft on Day three, first

1599
01:28:46,600 --> 01:28:49,320
Speaker 1: pick in round five back in two thousand and five.

1600
01:28:49,400 --> 01:28:51,600
Speaker 1: I think it was. So we'll take a break, but

1601
01:28:51,800 --> 01:28:54,360
Speaker 1: Kyle Williams about fifteen minutes away. More of your comments

1602
01:28:54,400 --> 01:28:56,320
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet. Next here on one Bills Live.

1603
01:29:08,680 --> 01:29:13,240
Speaker 1: If the top ten is all offensive players and Thursday's drafts,

1604
01:29:13,280 --> 01:29:15,280
Speaker 1: that change your thoughts on what the Bill should do.

1605
01:29:15,560 --> 01:29:18,200
Speaker 1: At thirty back to the tweet sheet we go where

1606
01:29:18,320 --> 01:29:21,280
Speaker 1: Nick says, if only offensive players go on the top ten,

1607
01:29:21,360 --> 01:29:24,080
Speaker 1: then some of the elite cornerback talent might come within range.

1608
01:29:24,439 --> 01:29:26,720
Speaker 1: If JC Horn or Patrick Sutan are still there in

1609
01:29:26,760 --> 01:29:29,160
Speaker 1: the middle of the first we should make serious inquiries

1610
01:29:29,160 --> 01:29:31,479
Speaker 1: about trading up to grab one of them. That's a

1611
01:29:31,560 --> 01:29:36,479
Speaker 1: big jump. You can get into the mid twenties, not

1612
01:29:36,720 --> 01:29:39,320
Speaker 1: twenty five. You can't get to sixteen. You can't get

1613
01:29:39,360 --> 01:29:42,240
Speaker 1: to thirteen. Between thirteen and eighteen, you can't get there.

1614
01:29:42,240 --> 01:29:46,400
Speaker 1: It's too expensive. And as we said, the one thing

1615
01:29:46,439 --> 01:29:48,720
Speaker 1: you do not want to part with right now is

1616
01:29:48,760 --> 01:29:52,439
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two draft capital because it is going to

1617
01:29:52,560 --> 01:29:56,559
Speaker 1: be very valuable this time next year, because the draft

1618
01:29:56,600 --> 01:30:00,200
Speaker 1: pool is going to be significantly larger do to the

1619
01:30:00,280 --> 01:30:03,240
Speaker 1: fact that so many players which were granted an extra

1620
01:30:03,320 --> 01:30:05,919
Speaker 1: year of eligibility by the NCAA due to the pandemic

1621
01:30:06,520 --> 01:30:09,559
Speaker 1: and wanting to get a good year of college tape

1622
01:30:09,800 --> 01:30:13,519
Speaker 1: on film. After either opting out or not being allowed

1623
01:30:13,600 --> 01:30:16,120
Speaker 1: to play, a lot of kids went back to school.

1624
01:30:16,520 --> 01:30:18,920
Speaker 1: The draft pool this year is only a little over

1625
01:30:19,000 --> 01:30:22,719
Speaker 1: six hundred and fifty players. It's typically somewhere between eighteen

1626
01:30:22,760 --> 01:30:28,080
Speaker 1: and nineteen hundred players. So the pool is vastly, vastly different,

1627
01:30:28,320 --> 01:30:31,160
Speaker 1: much smaller than it typically is, and it's more mysterious.

1628
01:30:31,920 --> 01:30:35,320
Speaker 1: And that too with missing medical opt out players who

1629
01:30:35,400 --> 01:30:37,960
Speaker 1: haven't been on a field in eighteen months. You don't

1630
01:30:38,000 --> 01:30:41,599
Speaker 1: know what you're getting. And so the general feeling from

1631
01:30:41,800 --> 01:30:44,800
Speaker 1: a lot of people in the know about personnel departments

1632
01:30:44,840 --> 01:30:48,599
Speaker 1: and NFL clubs is that some of these teams, come

1633
01:30:48,720 --> 01:30:50,519
Speaker 1: Day three, they're gonna look at the board and be like,

1634
01:30:50,920 --> 01:30:53,720
Speaker 1: I don't even know half these guys and what they

1635
01:30:53,800 --> 01:30:56,920
Speaker 1: could be for us. They're gonna pull the rip chord

1636
01:30:57,840 --> 01:31:01,240
Speaker 1: and jettison maybe a fifth and a sixth for a

1637
01:31:01,360 --> 01:31:03,840
Speaker 1: fifth and a sixth next year, or maybe even a

1638
01:31:03,960 --> 01:31:06,400
Speaker 1: sixth and a seventh next year, which may prove to

1639
01:31:06,479 --> 01:31:08,720
Speaker 1: be more valuable than a five and a six this year. Right,

1640
01:31:08,760 --> 01:31:10,960
Speaker 1: there's a lot going into this, and I think that,

1641
01:31:12,280 --> 01:31:14,360
Speaker 1: But to say this like Nick did that you're gonna

1642
01:31:14,400 --> 01:31:15,880
Speaker 1: jump up into the middle of the first You're just

1643
01:31:16,000 --> 01:31:18,400
Speaker 1: not gonna do it. Yeah, it's too much gonna it's

1644
01:31:18,439 --> 01:31:20,880
Speaker 1: too big a jump. It's too big a jump, it's

1645
01:31:20,880 --> 01:31:23,639
Speaker 1: too expensive. It would cost you more than the rest

1646
01:31:23,720 --> 01:31:25,400
Speaker 1: of your entire draft. And you'd have to give up

1647
01:31:25,400 --> 01:31:28,519
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two picks to make a hit all of these,

1648
01:31:28,720 --> 01:31:30,320
Speaker 1: and all of your picks this year, you know, all

1649
01:31:30,360 --> 01:31:32,360
Speaker 1: your picks. This should be like Mike get Ditko, you'd

1650
01:31:32,400 --> 01:31:34,559
Speaker 1: be lightening up a cigar. After you pick the first

1651
01:31:34,640 --> 01:31:36,160
Speaker 1: round guy and you're hitting the golf course for the

1652
01:31:36,200 --> 01:31:38,280
Speaker 1: rest of the weekend. You get one. You get one

1653
01:31:38,400 --> 01:31:41,599
Speaker 1: guy in the entire draft, just about. You might get

1654
01:31:41,640 --> 01:31:44,360
Speaker 1: a second in this draft, but not a second round.

1655
01:31:45,200 --> 01:31:48,720
Speaker 1: The Rebel Gentleman tweets as much as I'd like the

1656
01:31:48,800 --> 01:31:50,840
Speaker 1: Bills to pick an edge rusher, if they pick a

1657
01:31:50,920 --> 01:31:53,960
Speaker 1: running back, that'll make my day. Maybe they'll trade up

1658
01:31:54,080 --> 01:31:59,720
Speaker 1: or down. Who knows? Suspense? Suspense? Yeah, they still love

1659
01:31:59,760 --> 01:32:04,000
Speaker 1: the running back, Steve, they love it. I'm sure we

1660
01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:06,240
Speaker 1: re rack the warre and Sharp interview from last week.

1661
01:32:06,600 --> 01:32:09,519
Speaker 1: Remember his comments on the running back right, I would

1662
01:32:09,600 --> 01:32:11,479
Speaker 1: your running game will improve more if you take a

1663
01:32:11,560 --> 01:32:16,519
Speaker 1: big offensive lineman. That's that's all there is to it.

1664
01:32:16,760 --> 01:32:20,400
Speaker 1: You running backs need space to run, and until you

1665
01:32:20,640 --> 01:32:22,840
Speaker 1: get dominant up front, you're not gonna run the ball. Well,

1666
01:32:22,880 --> 01:32:24,719
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't care if you have Elmer Fudd

1667
01:32:25,560 --> 01:32:28,519
Speaker 1: at running back, Elmer Fudd, how about that one? Wow.

1668
01:32:29,560 --> 01:32:32,439
Speaker 1: You you can't run the ball without a great offensive

1669
01:32:32,479 --> 01:32:36,519
Speaker 1: line or a great run blocking offensive line, Jesus can't.

1670
01:32:36,560 --> 01:32:38,200
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't care if you got Jim Brown

1671
01:32:38,479 --> 01:32:42,360
Speaker 1: or Barry Sanders or anybody else. You can't run the

1672
01:32:42,400 --> 01:32:45,439
Speaker 1: ball without a great offensive line. So if you want

1673
01:32:45,479 --> 01:32:48,040
Speaker 1: that to improve, like the Bills have done, you sign

1674
01:32:48,120 --> 01:32:50,439
Speaker 1: more guys of the offensive line. You resign guys you

1675
01:32:50,520 --> 01:32:57,240
Speaker 1: know that can play. And having said that, I don't

1676
01:32:57,280 --> 01:32:59,080
Speaker 1: want them to run the ball more. You can run

1677
01:32:59,120 --> 01:33:01,439
Speaker 1: a better fine, but they I don't want them to

1678
01:33:01,520 --> 01:33:02,960
Speaker 1: run the ball more. I want them to throw the

1679
01:33:03,040 --> 01:33:05,960
Speaker 1: ball because that's what they're really good at already. That's

1680
01:33:06,000 --> 01:33:08,240
Speaker 1: what teams are struggling to catch up. You think Miami

1681
01:33:08,320 --> 01:33:11,679
Speaker 1: Dolphins are down there thinking, wow, we gotta answer because

1682
01:33:11,680 --> 01:33:14,559
Speaker 1: the Bills are gonna get better and they're running. They're

1683
01:33:14,600 --> 01:33:16,320
Speaker 1: trying to catch up with the They can't catch up

1684
01:33:16,360 --> 01:33:20,880
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen. Yeah, John, the Miami Dolphin fans are

1685
01:33:21,040 --> 01:33:24,080
Speaker 1: laying awake at night, going, we have no shot against

1686
01:33:24,160 --> 01:33:26,280
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. The number one running back in Buffalo they're

1687
01:33:26,280 --> 01:33:31,519
Speaker 1: worried about is Josh Allen. It's true. So I get it,

1688
01:33:31,600 --> 01:33:35,320
Speaker 1: asked running backs running that ain't gonna solve your running

1689
01:33:35,360 --> 01:33:38,519
Speaker 1: game isn't gonna solve anything for this team in my opinion,

1690
01:33:38,600 --> 01:33:41,880
Speaker 1: And think about this, the Steelers have been mocked a

1691
01:33:42,000 --> 01:33:44,760
Speaker 1: running back an awful lot in this year's draft two,

1692
01:33:44,800 --> 01:33:46,800
Speaker 1: I picked twenty four. How much you want to bet

1693
01:33:46,840 --> 01:33:49,720
Speaker 1: they take an offensive lineman at twenty four. Yeah, they

1694
01:33:50,120 --> 01:33:52,120
Speaker 1: really need to take an offensive line. They will. They

1695
01:33:52,200 --> 01:33:56,000
Speaker 1: got decimate. There's no way to take gone Pounce. He's

1696
01:33:56,000 --> 01:33:59,200
Speaker 1: gone to Castro gone and Villaneuvea is gone that now.

1697
01:33:59,320 --> 01:34:02,920
Speaker 1: They struggled last year and that's why they're gone. They

1698
01:34:02,960 --> 01:34:05,519
Speaker 1: were the most dominant offensive line in the league with

1699
01:34:05,680 --> 01:34:09,120
Speaker 1: Leveon Bell West. When Leveon Bell made his money to

1700
01:34:09,200 --> 01:34:12,080
Speaker 1: those guys up front, and that was proven when he

1701
01:34:12,120 --> 01:34:14,360
Speaker 1: went to a place that's that didn't have an offensive

1702
01:34:14,520 --> 01:34:16,720
Speaker 1: that's proof of it was a case in point. That's

1703
01:34:16,760 --> 01:34:20,800
Speaker 1: the proof that I'm talking about Leveon Bell. Yeah, he

1704
01:34:21,280 --> 01:34:26,759
Speaker 1: can't now if at n or Naji Harris or anybody

1705
01:34:26,800 --> 01:34:30,800
Speaker 1: else is the best player on your board. Okay, cat good, fine, fine,

1706
01:34:30,960 --> 01:34:37,960
Speaker 1: I get it. But if he's not, Yeah, break time

1707
01:34:38,000 --> 01:34:41,360
Speaker 1: for us when we return it is the number one

1708
01:34:41,479 --> 01:34:44,679
Speaker 1: pick in the two thousand and six draft. On day three,

1709
01:34:45,439 --> 01:34:49,200
Speaker 1: Kyle Williams joins us when we return here on one

1710
01:34:49,280 --> 01:34:51,360
Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by a Collid to Health. This is

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01:34:51,400 --> 01:35:10,800
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. At a Steve Tester who has been

1712
01:35:10,880 --> 01:35:13,120
Speaker 1: all over the fields. Kind of unique. He was kind

1713
01:35:13,120 --> 01:35:16,160
Speaker 1: of a dual role player for you. Stave of a lily,

1714
01:35:16,400 --> 01:35:22,440
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the stratedere of normalcy.

1715
01:35:25,240 --> 01:35:27,640
Speaker 1: Welcome to our number three of a Monday edition of

1716
01:35:27,680 --> 01:35:30,920
Speaker 1: One Bills Live, where we are pleased to be joined

1717
01:35:31,000 --> 01:35:34,200
Speaker 1: now by the number one pick in the two thousand

1718
01:35:34,200 --> 01:35:38,080
Speaker 1: and six NFL Draft on Day three. It is a

1719
01:35:38,760 --> 01:35:43,320
Speaker 1: former fifth round selection of the Buffalo Bills, Kyle Williams,

1720
01:35:43,360 --> 01:35:46,920
Speaker 1: who was named recently by The Ringer to be among

1721
01:35:47,000 --> 01:35:51,280
Speaker 1: the most valuable draft picks of the century. So before

1722
01:35:51,320 --> 01:35:53,880
Speaker 1: your head gets too big, Kyle, we do want to

1723
01:35:53,920 --> 01:35:56,920
Speaker 1: remind you the century is only twenty plus years old

1724
01:35:56,960 --> 01:36:00,120
Speaker 1: at this point in time, but still in all a

1725
01:36:00,240 --> 01:36:04,040
Speaker 1: worthwhile mentioned there. You will not be happy, though, however,

1726
01:36:04,160 --> 01:36:08,240
Speaker 1: to know that ranked right ahead of you is your

1727
01:36:08,280 --> 01:36:11,680
Speaker 1: good friend Andrew Whitworth, one spot ahead of you. You

1728
01:36:11,760 --> 01:36:15,599
Speaker 1: were twenty third, he was twenty second. I think that's fair.

1729
01:36:15,720 --> 01:36:17,800
Speaker 1: I mean, he's one hundred years old and he's still playing.

1730
01:36:17,880 --> 01:36:21,280
Speaker 1: He's wife up to them. You are right about that. Now.

1731
01:36:21,800 --> 01:36:24,000
Speaker 1: This draft, it rolls around every year and every you know,

1732
01:36:24,080 --> 01:36:26,519
Speaker 1: when you're playing it's a whole different kind of at animal.

1733
01:36:26,640 --> 01:36:28,840
Speaker 1: Now that you're out of it, what if you could

1734
01:36:29,240 --> 01:36:31,559
Speaker 1: talk to some of these guys that are coming out.

1735
01:36:31,680 --> 01:36:34,760
Speaker 1: You've been through it, you watched class after class come

1736
01:36:34,800 --> 01:36:39,080
Speaker 1: out with you and after you. What's your advice to

1737
01:36:39,200 --> 01:36:42,000
Speaker 1: young players getting ready for this and how they handle

1738
01:36:42,080 --> 01:36:46,800
Speaker 1: this whole scenario and what it means going forward for him? Really,

1739
01:36:47,280 --> 01:36:51,559
Speaker 1: just about your draft status is only where you begin

1740
01:36:51,880 --> 01:36:55,400
Speaker 1: in this league. It's it's not the end all be all.

1741
01:36:55,640 --> 01:36:58,240
Speaker 1: Your story is not told the night that your name

1742
01:36:58,320 --> 01:37:02,040
Speaker 1: gets called or doesn't get called. You know, as Chris

1743
01:37:02,160 --> 01:37:06,080
Speaker 1: so eloquently put, you know, the third day, you know,

1744
01:37:06,120 --> 01:37:07,760
Speaker 1: I can't. I think I kind of prefer the fifth

1745
01:37:07,880 --> 01:37:10,720
Speaker 1: round talk you other than the third day. But you know,

1746
01:37:10,880 --> 01:37:13,800
Speaker 1: just letting those guys know that, like your only expectations

1747
01:37:13,840 --> 01:37:17,640
Speaker 1: should be to compete. You have first round guys that

1748
01:37:17,720 --> 01:37:19,400
Speaker 1: are in and out of the league fast. You have

1749
01:37:20,120 --> 01:37:23,240
Speaker 1: guys that are drafted late and play forever. So it's

1750
01:37:23,280 --> 01:37:26,639
Speaker 1: just a beginning. It's just a jumping off point. So Kyle,

1751
01:37:26,720 --> 01:37:29,439
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're you're still kind of keeping your ear

1752
01:37:29,520 --> 01:37:31,240
Speaker 1: to the ground and your eyes on the film. With

1753
01:37:31,680 --> 01:37:34,200
Speaker 1: respect to the Bills, especially on the defensive side of

1754
01:37:34,240 --> 01:37:37,120
Speaker 1: the ball. They were without Star last year. As you know,

1755
01:37:37,320 --> 01:37:39,120
Speaker 1: he chose to opt out in what was a very

1756
01:37:39,200 --> 01:37:43,080
Speaker 1: strange NFL season, even though they got it all in

1757
01:37:43,360 --> 01:37:46,200
Speaker 1: from start to finish with a couple of hiccups along

1758
01:37:46,280 --> 01:37:51,760
Speaker 1: the way. With Star coming back, how much of a

1759
01:37:51,920 --> 01:37:55,680
Speaker 1: difference do you think that makes for this team, particularly

1760
01:37:55,760 --> 01:38:00,080
Speaker 1: on the interior. It makes a huge difference for what

1761
01:38:00,200 --> 01:38:02,599
Speaker 1: he can do on the field wise in the middle

1762
01:38:02,600 --> 01:38:07,080
Speaker 1: of that defense, what he can occupy the lands that

1763
01:38:07,200 --> 01:38:10,720
Speaker 1: he can shut off, either by you know, squeezing the

1764
01:38:10,760 --> 01:38:12,439
Speaker 1: gap on a one on one block or taking on

1765
01:38:12,560 --> 01:38:16,040
Speaker 1: double teams and allowing guys to move around freely. But

1766
01:38:16,240 --> 01:38:17,880
Speaker 1: one of the things is is the kind of guy

1767
01:38:17,920 --> 01:38:20,479
Speaker 1: that he is in like a meeting room, in the

1768
01:38:20,560 --> 01:38:24,280
Speaker 1: defensive room, as far as a leader and really in

1769
01:38:24,280 --> 01:38:26,720
Speaker 1: an example, I mean, Star goes and gets after it

1770
01:38:26,760 --> 01:38:29,920
Speaker 1: every day at practice, moves around, great guy to be around,

1771
01:38:29,960 --> 01:38:32,800
Speaker 1: and really good at holding guy's accountable. So that's really

1772
01:38:32,880 --> 01:38:35,000
Speaker 1: a kind of a two headed coin with him. He

1773
01:38:35,080 --> 01:38:37,439
Speaker 1: does a lot for that football team that may or

1774
01:38:37,520 --> 01:38:40,920
Speaker 1: may not show up like in the stat sheet. One

1775
01:38:40,960 --> 01:38:43,040
Speaker 1: of the things that happened this offseason and It seems

1776
01:38:43,080 --> 01:38:44,960
Speaker 1: a long time ago for us. We talk about these

1777
01:38:45,040 --> 01:38:48,400
Speaker 1: guys every day. But Brandon Bean managed to resign Matt Milano,

1778
01:38:48,520 --> 01:38:51,160
Speaker 1: we didn't think that would be possible. He resigned Matt

1779
01:38:51,439 --> 01:38:54,719
Speaker 1: John Feliciano, we didn't think that would happen. And Darryl Williams,

1780
01:38:54,720 --> 01:38:56,880
Speaker 1: who had put together a one year deal last year

1781
01:38:56,880 --> 01:38:59,960
Speaker 1: and really played extremely well at right tackle, they resigned him.

1782
01:39:00,080 --> 01:39:03,960
Speaker 1: All these unexpected guys coming back to Buffalo, and all

1783
01:39:04,080 --> 01:39:07,800
Speaker 1: of them referred to the culture that has that made them,

1784
01:39:08,120 --> 01:39:12,160
Speaker 1: you know, thrive in in this environment. They all alluded

1785
01:39:12,160 --> 01:39:14,639
Speaker 1: to that culture as being a reason why they did resign.

1786
01:39:14,800 --> 01:39:18,400
Speaker 1: But having those guys back on the team, what does

1787
01:39:18,400 --> 01:39:21,160
Speaker 1: it mean to the overall group when guys come back

1788
01:39:21,200 --> 01:39:23,160
Speaker 1: into the room and they said, man, they I thought

1789
01:39:23,479 --> 01:39:25,599
Speaker 1: I'd said goodbye to Matt Malana for the last time.

1790
01:39:25,640 --> 01:39:27,760
Speaker 1: I thought I was never gonna see Feliciano again, and

1791
01:39:27,920 --> 01:39:29,720
Speaker 1: here they are showing up. What's that due to the

1792
01:39:29,800 --> 01:39:33,920
Speaker 1: room when training camp kicks off. I think it lets

1793
01:39:33,960 --> 01:39:37,719
Speaker 1: the entire football team know that their own a singular

1794
01:39:37,800 --> 01:39:39,880
Speaker 1: mission as far as what they're trying to do. Like

1795
01:39:40,120 --> 01:39:42,760
Speaker 1: we feel like these guys are are cogs in the

1796
01:39:42,760 --> 01:39:45,479
Speaker 1: wheel of our football team. Big parts of it obviously

1797
01:39:45,680 --> 01:39:49,599
Speaker 1: from the way they played, the opportunity to be around

1798
01:39:49,680 --> 01:39:53,000
Speaker 1: a couple of those guys for a short time who

1799
01:39:53,080 --> 01:39:55,439
Speaker 1: they are to the team, and really it just sends

1800
01:39:55,439 --> 01:39:58,200
Speaker 1: a message to what the expectations are and as far

1801
01:39:58,240 --> 01:40:03,200
Speaker 1: as the culture goes, really what Sean and Brandon and

1802
01:40:03,320 --> 01:40:06,240
Speaker 1: everyone had pitched him to establish there. If you're a

1803
01:40:06,400 --> 01:40:11,160
Speaker 1: highly competitive, team oriented guy, you're gonna thrive in that situation.

1804
01:40:12,040 --> 01:40:14,320
Speaker 1: If you're not, you're gonna try to figure a way

1805
01:40:14,320 --> 01:40:16,559
Speaker 1: to get out of there. So I think that's why

1806
01:40:16,680 --> 01:40:19,240
Speaker 1: you see so many guys that love it there who

1807
01:40:19,360 --> 01:40:22,040
Speaker 1: want to stay. They're the kind of guys you want

1808
01:40:22,080 --> 01:40:23,320
Speaker 1: to root for and the kind of guys you want

1809
01:40:23,360 --> 01:40:27,400
Speaker 1: on your football team. Kyle, what do you remember about

1810
01:40:27,840 --> 01:40:31,000
Speaker 1: draft weekend when you were waiting to hear your name called?

1811
01:40:31,040 --> 01:40:32,840
Speaker 1: Do you remember, like where you were, who you're with

1812
01:40:33,080 --> 01:40:37,320
Speaker 1: all of that? Jazz. I was at home with my

1813
01:40:37,479 --> 01:40:40,960
Speaker 1: parents and a couple of friends and my wife, just

1814
01:40:41,160 --> 01:40:45,200
Speaker 1: kind of riding it out, just seeing where how the

1815
01:40:45,240 --> 01:40:48,960
Speaker 1: chips were gonna fall, where I was gonna land. I

1816
01:40:49,000 --> 01:40:52,439
Speaker 1: actually spoke with a radio show here in my neck

1817
01:40:52,479 --> 01:40:54,759
Speaker 1: of the woods last week and going through the process.

1818
01:40:54,840 --> 01:40:56,799
Speaker 1: I don't think I ever spoke to anyone from Buffalo.

1819
01:40:58,400 --> 01:41:01,880
Speaker 1: You know, if I had had a a proverbial gun

1820
01:41:01,960 --> 01:41:03,479
Speaker 1: to my head and had to make a decision, I

1821
01:41:03,520 --> 01:41:07,360
Speaker 1: would have said that maybe that three or the three

1822
01:41:07,439 --> 01:41:09,320
Speaker 1: or four other teams I thought would have been on

1823
01:41:09,439 --> 01:41:11,080
Speaker 1: the radar or draft me. I don't feel like I

1824
01:41:11,120 --> 01:41:13,240
Speaker 1: ever spoke to anybody in Buffalo. So you just never

1825
01:41:13,360 --> 01:41:16,559
Speaker 1: know what that day holds as far as who's gonna

1826
01:41:16,600 --> 01:41:19,599
Speaker 1: call your name, what position you're gonna get called, Especially

1827
01:41:21,160 --> 01:41:23,160
Speaker 1: when you get down in that portion of the draft,

1828
01:41:23,760 --> 01:41:27,720
Speaker 1: you're just you're not really sure what's going on. And

1829
01:41:27,840 --> 01:41:30,400
Speaker 1: when you look back on those days, how long did

1830
01:41:30,439 --> 01:41:31,920
Speaker 1: it take you when you got on the field. And

1831
01:41:31,960 --> 01:41:34,439
Speaker 1: I know there's little apprehension it was for me as

1832
01:41:34,479 --> 01:41:37,040
Speaker 1: a young player and probably a little bit different for you.

1833
01:41:37,240 --> 01:41:39,320
Speaker 1: But when you walk on the field, you walk in

1834
01:41:39,400 --> 01:41:41,639
Speaker 1: the room, you get on the field for the first practice,

1835
01:41:42,040 --> 01:41:46,400
Speaker 1: how long did it take before you knew you were

1836
01:41:46,439 --> 01:41:48,240
Speaker 1: gonna have you were gonna be able to play at

1837
01:41:48,320 --> 01:41:50,160
Speaker 1: that level it was gonna go well for you? You know,

1838
01:41:50,200 --> 01:41:52,479
Speaker 1: when did you get some confidence about your career going

1839
01:41:52,520 --> 01:41:56,120
Speaker 1: forward as a pro after you got drafted. Well, you know,

1840
01:41:56,160 --> 01:41:59,000
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you as I'm going through the

1841
01:41:59,080 --> 01:42:03,200
Speaker 1: draft process and I'm seeing where these guys are rated

1842
01:42:03,400 --> 01:42:06,000
Speaker 1: or maybe where they're getting drafted. You know a lot

1843
01:42:06,040 --> 01:42:08,960
Speaker 1: of those guys I played against in college that went

1844
01:42:09,000 --> 01:42:12,000
Speaker 1: to SEC schools or did this, And I said, well,

1845
01:42:12,280 --> 01:42:16,120
Speaker 1: I mean I played against this guy. You know, I

1846
01:42:16,600 --> 01:42:19,040
Speaker 1: had some accolades coming out of college, all conference, all

1847
01:42:19,040 --> 01:42:22,439
Speaker 1: American things. I'm like, I don't understand, like all of

1848
01:42:22,439 --> 01:42:24,679
Speaker 1: a sudden, they're gonna give him a different colored helmet

1849
01:42:25,080 --> 01:42:27,080
Speaker 1: and move him to a different town and I can't

1850
01:42:27,120 --> 01:42:31,880
Speaker 1: be successful. I don't know if that was arrogance, being naive,

1851
01:42:32,680 --> 01:42:34,720
Speaker 1: or really not not going what was going, But it

1852
01:42:34,800 --> 01:42:37,120
Speaker 1: never really entered my mind that I wasn't going to

1853
01:42:37,200 --> 01:42:41,200
Speaker 1: be able to be successful about it. But I always

1854
01:42:41,280 --> 01:42:43,519
Speaker 1: knew that I was going to fall back on. I

1855
01:42:43,640 --> 01:42:46,800
Speaker 1: just want a opportunity to compete, and if all things

1856
01:42:46,840 --> 01:42:49,600
Speaker 1: are equal, when we roll the helmet out there and

1857
01:42:49,680 --> 01:42:51,400
Speaker 1: you put your cleats on, you go get after it.

1858
01:42:51,520 --> 01:42:54,120
Speaker 1: I always was very confident in what I could do

1859
01:42:54,400 --> 01:42:56,400
Speaker 1: or what I could become, or however you want to

1860
01:42:56,439 --> 01:43:00,400
Speaker 1: look at that, Kyle, I'm curious for your take on this. Obviously,

1861
01:43:00,520 --> 01:43:05,519
Speaker 1: with the expansion in mobile quarterbacks even more than when

1862
01:43:05,560 --> 01:43:08,920
Speaker 1: you were, you know, playing, I mean, they're dominating the

1863
01:43:09,040 --> 01:43:11,280
Speaker 1: league right now, guys that can make plays off script,

1864
01:43:11,320 --> 01:43:15,639
Speaker 1: extend plays, etc. There's this common or a theory that's

1865
01:43:15,680 --> 01:43:19,080
Speaker 1: growing in popularity that as far as edge rushers go,

1866
01:43:19,840 --> 01:43:23,080
Speaker 1: you want guys with good change of direction skills who,

1867
01:43:23,360 --> 01:43:26,720
Speaker 1: if the quarterback does escape, can change direction and go

1868
01:43:26,920 --> 01:43:29,479
Speaker 1: pursue instead of just climbing the pocket or you know,

1869
01:43:29,600 --> 01:43:31,639
Speaker 1: looping back down to make a play in the pocket.

1870
01:43:31,840 --> 01:43:33,519
Speaker 1: They want a guy that can get out and chase.

1871
01:43:34,720 --> 01:43:37,720
Speaker 1: Do you believe, based on all these mobile quarterbacks that

1872
01:43:37,880 --> 01:43:40,439
Speaker 1: theory has some merit that you might be better off

1873
01:43:40,560 --> 01:43:43,760
Speaker 1: putting a premium on a defensive end. That's a quote

1874
01:43:43,840 --> 01:43:50,560
Speaker 1: unquote long chase player. I think it's maybe not necessarily

1875
01:43:50,760 --> 01:43:53,840
Speaker 1: just the quarterback position, but I think it's the nature

1876
01:43:53,880 --> 01:43:58,080
Speaker 1: of offenses in general at this point, playing in so

1877
01:43:58,240 --> 01:44:01,720
Speaker 1: much open space and trying to get matched up one

1878
01:44:01,800 --> 01:44:04,240
Speaker 1: on ones, spreading the football out. You know, when I

1879
01:44:04,320 --> 01:44:07,360
Speaker 1: first came into the league, it was still very much

1880
01:44:07,360 --> 01:44:09,640
Speaker 1: a gap scheme oriented league, and what I mean by

1881
01:44:09,720 --> 01:44:13,960
Speaker 1: that it was power counter iso play actions. The three

1882
01:44:14,080 --> 01:44:17,479
Speaker 1: four defense was in vogue. Then you know, the big

1883
01:44:17,960 --> 01:44:21,879
Speaker 1: hawking nose guard, the four techniques, we're gonna pound the football,

1884
01:44:21,960 --> 01:44:25,839
Speaker 1: we're gonna play action off of it. And even towards

1885
01:44:25,880 --> 01:44:28,360
Speaker 1: the end of my career you saw this shift in.

1886
01:44:29,520 --> 01:44:32,919
Speaker 1: Obviously you're talking about mobile quarterbacks, but the way offensive

1887
01:44:32,960 --> 01:44:37,120
Speaker 1: linemen look, the lean, sleeker, able to move in space,

1888
01:44:37,560 --> 01:44:40,719
Speaker 1: and I think that's developed into what you see on defense.

1889
01:44:41,280 --> 01:44:44,280
Speaker 1: Guys that moved the guy that's sitting in there clogging

1890
01:44:44,360 --> 01:44:46,639
Speaker 1: up the middle, so to speak. For thirty forty times,

1891
01:44:46,680 --> 01:44:51,920
Speaker 1: a game is really a personnel situation at this point,

1892
01:44:51,960 --> 01:44:56,439
Speaker 1: whether it's short yardage or first down, regular personnel. They're

1893
01:44:56,520 --> 01:44:59,479
Speaker 1: evaluating people on being able to defend the whole field,

1894
01:44:59,520 --> 01:45:01,360
Speaker 1: to be able to rush the passer, to be able

1895
01:45:01,400 --> 01:45:04,400
Speaker 1: to play in space. So I think you've seen not

1896
01:45:04,600 --> 01:45:07,759
Speaker 1: just from the quarterback position, but a lot of overall

1897
01:45:07,840 --> 01:45:11,080
Speaker 1: philosophy and how guys are trying to defend it, and

1898
01:45:11,720 --> 01:45:14,000
Speaker 1: you know that's poured over into how they evaluate guys

1899
01:45:14,040 --> 01:45:16,400
Speaker 1: and what they're looking for. As a guy who defended

1900
01:45:16,439 --> 01:45:18,880
Speaker 1: the run for over a decade in the NFL, we've

1901
01:45:18,920 --> 01:45:21,200
Speaker 1: had this conversation going on the Bills coming up a

1902
01:45:21,280 --> 01:45:23,800
Speaker 1: drafting number thirty, people think they want to run the

1903
01:45:23,840 --> 01:45:26,920
Speaker 1: ball better. So some fans believe that's gotta mean they

1904
01:45:26,960 --> 01:45:29,519
Speaker 1: got to take a running back in this draft at

1905
01:45:29,520 --> 01:45:32,200
Speaker 1: the number thirtieth overall pick. And I've been telling Brennie,

1906
01:45:32,200 --> 01:45:34,160
Speaker 1: it's my philosophy is that if you want your running

1907
01:45:34,200 --> 01:45:37,360
Speaker 1: game to get better, get get more offensive lineman, get

1908
01:45:37,400 --> 01:45:41,280
Speaker 1: better offensive lineman. Night you defended the run for a

1909
01:45:41,320 --> 01:45:43,479
Speaker 1: long time in the NFL. What's your philosophy on what

1910
01:45:43,720 --> 01:45:47,000
Speaker 1: makes an offense have a good running games as opposed

1911
01:45:47,000 --> 01:45:49,400
Speaker 1: to somebody who doesn't run the ball. So well, what's

1912
01:45:49,439 --> 01:45:53,120
Speaker 1: the difference. Well, I believe that the game starts up front.

1913
01:45:53,280 --> 01:45:56,000
Speaker 1: Obviously I could be biased on that dependent like where

1914
01:45:56,000 --> 01:45:59,120
Speaker 1: I played, But I know, even like as a young

1915
01:45:59,200 --> 01:46:02,759
Speaker 1: age in football, you can win football games with maybe

1916
01:46:03,800 --> 01:46:07,640
Speaker 1: not as talented skill players, but are really explosive our

1917
01:46:07,720 --> 01:46:10,720
Speaker 1: talented offensive line group or defensive line group. You can

1918
01:46:10,800 --> 01:46:14,519
Speaker 1: do things there. So it could go either way. I

1919
01:46:14,640 --> 01:46:17,040
Speaker 1: think if you're happy with your personnel in one area

1920
01:46:17,120 --> 01:46:19,320
Speaker 1: or another, there's probably a sliding scale of where you

1921
01:46:19,360 --> 01:46:22,080
Speaker 1: would go with that pick or who you wanted to get.

1922
01:46:22,200 --> 01:46:26,360
Speaker 1: But like I've talked about earlier, the way offenses have

1923
01:46:26,560 --> 01:46:30,280
Speaker 1: changed to more of this spread them out defense, defend

1924
01:46:30,320 --> 01:46:34,120
Speaker 1: the grass type of philosophies. If you look late in

1925
01:46:34,160 --> 01:46:36,920
Speaker 1: the year, the football teams that win football games are

1926
01:46:36,960 --> 01:46:39,720
Speaker 1: still it's still the same old, tried and true. Hey,

1927
01:46:39,840 --> 01:46:43,320
Speaker 1: run the football, stop the run, control the clock, do

1928
01:46:43,439 --> 01:46:45,599
Speaker 1: those types of things. Those are still the football teams

1929
01:46:45,600 --> 01:46:49,280
Speaker 1: you see playing late in the year in the NFL. Still.

1930
01:46:49,640 --> 01:46:53,280
Speaker 1: We're talking with former Bills defensive tackle Kyle William sixth

1931
01:46:53,280 --> 01:46:56,519
Speaker 1: time Pro Bowler, and Kyle, I'm curious for your thoughts

1932
01:46:56,720 --> 01:47:00,880
Speaker 1: on how you thought the season unfold last year in

1933
01:47:01,120 --> 01:47:06,439
Speaker 1: terms of all the success that the offense had scoring points. Now,

1934
01:47:06,479 --> 01:47:08,600
Speaker 1: we talked to a couple of your former teammates on

1935
01:47:08,680 --> 01:47:11,800
Speaker 1: this roster on the defensive side of the ball, and

1936
01:47:12,360 --> 01:47:14,920
Speaker 1: while they weren't one to make excuses, they did say,

1937
01:47:15,680 --> 01:47:20,200
Speaker 1: you know, no pads in training camp, no preseason, and

1938
01:47:20,360 --> 01:47:23,160
Speaker 1: then go to Week one and go tackle guys at

1939
01:47:23,200 --> 01:47:27,400
Speaker 1: full NFL speed. They believe that that played a factor

1940
01:47:28,080 --> 01:47:31,280
Speaker 1: in the widespread success across the league. With scoring being

1941
01:47:31,400 --> 01:47:33,160
Speaker 1: up as much as it was now, it did kind

1942
01:47:33,160 --> 01:47:36,320
Speaker 1: of travel back and get cut into a little bit

1943
01:47:36,360 --> 01:47:38,360
Speaker 1: in terms of the points per game averages the season

1944
01:47:38,439 --> 01:47:42,120
Speaker 1: wore on. But would you say that's a valid reason

1945
01:47:42,240 --> 01:47:44,679
Speaker 1: for some of the proliferation and scoring that we saw

1946
01:47:44,800 --> 01:47:46,439
Speaker 1: this past year. Do you think there were some other

1947
01:47:47,600 --> 01:47:51,639
Speaker 1: things at work there? I think without a doubt that's

1948
01:47:52,280 --> 01:47:55,160
Speaker 1: something that you can certainly point to, especially early, maybe

1949
01:47:55,200 --> 01:47:58,120
Speaker 1: the front half of the season, because it really doesn't

1950
01:47:58,200 --> 01:48:00,479
Speaker 1: matter what you do, there is enough you can do

1951
01:48:00,600 --> 01:48:04,920
Speaker 1: to simulate game speed, game reps. You know, even when

1952
01:48:05,400 --> 01:48:07,640
Speaker 1: we were having full training camps, you know, when we

1953
01:48:07,720 --> 01:48:12,040
Speaker 1: were having still five six week training camps, four preseason games.

1954
01:48:12,439 --> 01:48:15,320
Speaker 1: There's notches and levels that the speed of the game,

1955
01:48:15,400 --> 01:48:18,639
Speaker 1: the intensity that the game goes up. You're talking about

1956
01:48:18,800 --> 01:48:22,000
Speaker 1: maybe some guys playing the preseason, some don't. Well, a

1957
01:48:22,120 --> 01:48:23,680
Speaker 1: lot of times some of those guys aren't playing at

1958
01:48:23,720 --> 01:48:25,920
Speaker 1: the preseason because like they can hit another gear that

1959
01:48:26,040 --> 01:48:29,719
Speaker 1: some guys can, So you're talking about having to adapt

1960
01:48:29,800 --> 01:48:32,200
Speaker 1: to that. The speed of the game, the physicality of

1961
01:48:32,280 --> 01:48:37,360
Speaker 1: the game almost fly, makes it much tougher on a defense.

1962
01:48:37,439 --> 01:48:40,360
Speaker 1: And then you know, to compound that, you have teams

1963
01:48:40,400 --> 01:48:42,479
Speaker 1: that are scoring at a high rate, so that means

1964
01:48:42,560 --> 01:48:45,320
Speaker 1: that they're running more plays, which in turn means you're

1965
01:48:45,360 --> 01:48:48,479
Speaker 1: having to defend way more plays. So not only are

1966
01:48:48,520 --> 01:48:51,040
Speaker 1: you trying to catch up to the speed of the

1967
01:48:51,120 --> 01:48:55,400
Speaker 1: game how things are happening. Well, then you're defending seventy

1968
01:48:55,439 --> 01:48:58,920
Speaker 1: five eighty plays a game versus maybe sixty, and that

1969
01:48:59,040 --> 01:49:02,080
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like a lot, um, but go play twenty

1970
01:49:02,160 --> 01:49:04,920
Speaker 1: five plays in an NFL football game and a lot

1971
01:49:04,960 --> 01:49:07,240
Speaker 1: of guys that's that's all that they'll end up getting

1972
01:49:07,240 --> 01:49:09,920
Speaker 1: in a game. I mean, that's almost that's a big

1973
01:49:10,280 --> 01:49:13,280
Speaker 1: percentage chunk of the game that you gain in plays.

1974
01:49:13,560 --> 01:49:17,160
Speaker 1: So I definitely think there's that's a good, good point

1975
01:49:17,200 --> 01:49:20,240
Speaker 1: of reason for without having that time to prepare. So

1976
01:49:20,400 --> 01:49:23,320
Speaker 1: you've you've you've enjoyed your retirement thus far. He haven't

1977
01:49:23,360 --> 01:49:26,160
Speaker 1: been gone all that long. And you've now taken another

1978
01:49:26,200 --> 01:49:29,000
Speaker 1: step in your retirement. You've taken on the defensive coordinator's

1979
01:49:29,040 --> 01:49:31,880
Speaker 1: job at Rustin High School in Louisiana. How's the Rustin

1980
01:49:31,960 --> 01:49:34,240
Speaker 1: defense going to be this year? And what's your by

1981
01:49:34,280 --> 01:49:36,479
Speaker 1: the way, what's your season gonna look like? With the

1982
01:49:36,600 --> 01:49:41,000
Speaker 1: remnants of the pandemic hanging around? UM we ended up

1983
01:49:41,040 --> 01:49:44,800
Speaker 1: getting maybe three quarters of a regular season in last

1984
01:49:44,880 --> 01:49:48,920
Speaker 1: year and the playoffs, um we were delayed. UM I

1985
01:49:49,040 --> 01:49:51,960
Speaker 1: think maybe five or six weeks, so the we didn't

1986
01:49:51,960 --> 01:49:55,439
Speaker 1: get started until later. Um. You know, there's protocols and

1987
01:49:55,600 --> 01:49:58,120
Speaker 1: things that we have to go through. UM, but really

1988
01:49:58,160 --> 01:50:00,560
Speaker 1: all we're trying to ensure that these kids have a

1989
01:50:01,360 --> 01:50:05,640
Speaker 1: as normal to close high school experience, I guess as

1990
01:50:05,720 --> 01:50:08,680
Speaker 1: can be expected at this point. So we just we

1991
01:50:08,800 --> 01:50:11,000
Speaker 1: try to work on that every day, all the while

1992
01:50:11,240 --> 01:50:13,759
Speaker 1: trying to teach them how to play the game of football,

1993
01:50:14,000 --> 01:50:17,160
Speaker 1: and as far as our defense goes, we're gonna hopefully

1994
01:50:17,240 --> 01:50:19,599
Speaker 1: get better and better. We've got we've got a pretty

1995
01:50:19,600 --> 01:50:23,120
Speaker 1: good group of kids. They work hard, they're coach bull

1996
01:50:23,200 --> 01:50:26,160
Speaker 1: and it's fun to show up every day and you know,

1997
01:50:26,280 --> 01:50:28,880
Speaker 1: really teach guys new things that they'd either never heard

1998
01:50:28,920 --> 01:50:31,600
Speaker 1: before and never seen before and you know, hopefully have

1999
01:50:31,640 --> 01:50:34,840
Speaker 1: an impact on their young lives that you know, from

2000
01:50:35,080 --> 01:50:39,720
Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen to nineteen years old. How how did you

2001
01:50:39,880 --> 01:50:42,960
Speaker 1: handle that transition, Kyle? I know your coach is here

2002
01:50:43,240 --> 01:50:45,960
Speaker 1: very often would lean on you to kind of help

2003
01:50:46,040 --> 01:50:48,200
Speaker 1: pass along some wisdom at times to some of your

2004
01:50:48,200 --> 01:50:51,759
Speaker 1: fellow teammates here, especially in the latter half of your career.

2005
01:50:51,960 --> 01:50:56,519
Speaker 1: So was the transition relatively easy? Being on the other

2006
01:50:56,600 --> 01:51:00,280
Speaker 1: side of it, wearing a coach, and coaches had well,

2007
01:51:00,320 --> 01:51:03,960
Speaker 1: I really kind of got eased into it, I want

2008
01:51:03,960 --> 01:51:06,280
Speaker 1: to say eased into it because I had some different

2009
01:51:06,400 --> 01:51:09,080
Speaker 1: roles within the team while I was playing, but my

2010
01:51:09,200 --> 01:51:11,679
Speaker 1: first year out, you know, doing some work with the team,

2011
01:51:12,040 --> 01:51:16,880
Speaker 1: being around through training camp and during preparation weeks, so

2012
01:51:16,960 --> 01:51:20,599
Speaker 1: it really had an opportunity to get into it then

2013
01:51:20,680 --> 01:51:23,479
Speaker 1: and maybe get my feet wet. And and here it's different.

2014
01:51:23,600 --> 01:51:28,519
Speaker 1: You know, you're dealing with teenage kids that sometimes they're

2015
01:51:28,560 --> 01:51:30,600
Speaker 1: just having a bad day and they can't tell you

2016
01:51:30,680 --> 01:51:34,240
Speaker 1: why they're just having a bad day. Where you know

2017
01:51:34,439 --> 01:51:36,320
Speaker 1: up there, it's you better be at your best every

2018
01:51:36,360 --> 01:51:38,679
Speaker 1: single day, or we'll just send you on to the house,

2019
01:51:38,800 --> 01:51:40,600
Speaker 1: like we'll get somebody else to come do it. So

2020
01:51:41,280 --> 01:51:45,200
Speaker 1: and it's really that it's not that like that here obviously,

2021
01:51:45,720 --> 01:51:50,519
Speaker 1: but you know, it's it's been easy because I think

2022
01:51:50,600 --> 01:51:54,679
Speaker 1: the kids attack every day, they're having fun and really,

2023
01:51:54,880 --> 01:51:57,240
Speaker 1: in my opinion, like being on a team. There's nothing

2024
01:51:57,320 --> 01:52:00,240
Speaker 1: like being on a team, being involved with the same

2025
01:52:00,320 --> 01:52:03,639
Speaker 1: whether it's with these high school kids NFL guys, there's

2026
01:52:03,680 --> 01:52:07,080
Speaker 1: just there's always something special about a team and working

2027
01:52:07,120 --> 01:52:11,760
Speaker 1: together and trying that achieve a goal. As a team. Well, Kyle, listen,

2028
01:52:12,080 --> 01:52:13,960
Speaker 1: thanks very much for the time. Good luck to the

2029
01:52:14,040 --> 01:52:17,519
Speaker 1: Bearcats when the season starts up again for next year,

2030
01:52:17,920 --> 01:52:19,800
Speaker 1: and be sure to say hi to the family for us.

2031
01:52:20,680 --> 01:52:22,559
Speaker 1: All right, guys, we'll do good to see you. Thanks,

2032
01:52:22,600 --> 01:52:25,559
Speaker 1: take care, Kyle. That's Kyle Williams, former Bill's defensive tackle.

2033
01:52:25,920 --> 01:52:29,080
Speaker 1: Six time Pro bowler, was the first pick in round

2034
01:52:29,160 --> 01:52:31,320
Speaker 1: five of the two thousand and six draft, and The

2035
01:52:31,520 --> 01:52:36,439
Speaker 1: Ring The Ringer recently ranked him the twenty third best

2036
01:52:36,760 --> 01:52:41,800
Speaker 1: valuable pick of the twenty first century. Here's what they

2037
01:52:41,840 --> 01:52:44,040
Speaker 1: said about him. Kyle Williams is one of those guys

2038
01:52:44,120 --> 01:52:46,880
Speaker 1: we feel obligated to mention whenever possible, just to make

2039
01:52:46,920 --> 01:52:49,800
Speaker 1: sure his career doesn't get lost to history. Williams fell

2040
01:52:49,840 --> 01:52:52,320
Speaker 1: through the cracks in the draft for the same reason

2041
01:52:52,439 --> 01:52:56,040
Speaker 1: most defensive tackles do. At six two ninety eight pounds,

2042
01:52:56,080 --> 01:52:59,519
Speaker 1: he was undersized for a traditional three technique, but his

2043
01:52:59,600 --> 01:53:02,400
Speaker 1: college numbers showed he had plenty of upside as a

2044
01:53:02,439 --> 01:53:05,000
Speaker 1: one gap tackle. He played thirteen seasons for the Bills,

2045
01:53:05,040 --> 01:53:07,760
Speaker 1: tallied at least five sacks, and six of them Tremendous

2046
01:53:07,800 --> 01:53:11,200
Speaker 1: production and staying power for a guy Buffalo drafted sixteen

2047
01:53:11,400 --> 01:53:17,120
Speaker 1: spots after the Patriots took Stephen Gaskowski one thirty fourth

2048
01:53:17,360 --> 01:53:20,320
Speaker 1: overall Kyle Williams and ranked right ahead of him is

2049
01:53:20,320 --> 01:53:23,920
Speaker 1: his good friend and former college roommate Andrew Whitworth, who

2050
01:53:24,040 --> 01:53:26,680
Speaker 1: is still playing for the LA Rams. He was a

2051
01:53:26,760 --> 01:53:30,040
Speaker 1: second round pick fifty five overall, and he did get

2052
01:53:30,160 --> 01:53:33,639
Speaker 1: three All Pro selections. Kyle got one. Six Pro Bowls.

2053
01:53:33,680 --> 01:53:35,880
Speaker 1: For Kyle though in his Bill's career, and I think

2054
01:53:35,920 --> 01:53:38,080
Speaker 1: a candidate for the Wall of Fame, And I think, yes,

2055
01:53:38,160 --> 01:53:45,200
Speaker 1: I agree. I think Kyle is the quintessential, you know,

2056
01:53:45,640 --> 01:53:47,599
Speaker 1: guy who landed in the right spot at the right

2057
01:53:47,680 --> 01:53:49,840
Speaker 1: time and was the right type of guy. I think

2058
01:53:49,960 --> 01:53:52,840
Speaker 1: his career I think was one of those that, yeah,

2059
01:53:52,880 --> 01:53:55,040
Speaker 1: while he was on the field really good, his presence

2060
01:53:55,080 --> 01:53:58,680
Speaker 1: in the organization was even bigger as his career went

2061
01:53:58,800 --> 01:54:01,519
Speaker 1: on more more. He became one of those guys that

2062
01:54:02,240 --> 01:54:06,160
Speaker 1: whatever coach happened to be leaned on him, oh my gosh,

2063
01:54:06,400 --> 01:54:10,680
Speaker 1: and particularly even Sean McDermott, who realized it quickly and

2064
01:54:10,720 --> 01:54:13,120
Speaker 1: I think probably maximized it more so than the other

2065
01:54:13,200 --> 01:54:17,000
Speaker 1: coach when he was building the culture here. I think,

2066
01:54:17,400 --> 01:54:20,040
Speaker 1: you know, Kyle proved his worth as a as a

2067
01:54:20,720 --> 01:54:24,360
Speaker 1: resource and a sounding board and an inspirational point on

2068
01:54:24,479 --> 01:54:33,200
Speaker 1: the roster for the entire squad. Kyle is probably I

2069
01:54:33,520 --> 01:54:36,840
Speaker 1: don't I wouldn't want to say he's unmatched, because Ray

2070
01:54:36,960 --> 01:54:40,240
Speaker 1: Lewis was really good at pregame speeches with his teammates, right,

2071
01:54:40,560 --> 01:54:43,200
Speaker 1: But Kyle Williams is right up there, man. And this

2072
01:54:43,400 --> 01:54:46,520
Speaker 1: guy was given pregame speeches for the better part at

2073
01:54:46,560 --> 01:54:49,880
Speaker 1: ten of his thirteen NFL seasons. So think about that

2074
01:54:50,080 --> 01:54:54,760
Speaker 1: every week, trying to summon up some motivational words that

2075
01:54:54,880 --> 01:54:59,640
Speaker 1: aren't redundant from the week before to get your guys

2076
01:54:59,680 --> 01:55:01,480
Speaker 1: amp up. And I did a story on that on

2077
01:55:01,560 --> 01:55:05,040
Speaker 1: Buffalo bills dot com and just talking to his teammates,

2078
01:55:05,800 --> 01:55:10,520
Speaker 1: I was getting goosebumps just transcribing the interviews. He's yeah,

2079
01:55:10,640 --> 01:55:14,920
Speaker 1: he's yes, you can tell he's he's a really competitive guy.

2080
01:55:15,160 --> 01:55:18,680
Speaker 1: And he's also really really smart. And that's where those

2081
01:55:18,760 --> 01:55:20,600
Speaker 1: you know, his pregame speeches come from. He has a

2082
01:55:20,640 --> 01:55:23,960
Speaker 1: way to he understands where all these guys are because

2083
01:55:24,000 --> 01:55:25,760
Speaker 1: you're in a huddle with eleven guys in the NFL,

2084
01:55:26,480 --> 01:55:29,200
Speaker 1: they're from everywhere. And to be able to bring him

2085
01:55:29,240 --> 01:55:31,480
Speaker 1: in and to and to give him one thing that

2086
01:55:31,560 --> 01:55:34,560
Speaker 1: they all grab hold of is really special trait. He

2087
01:55:36,120 --> 01:55:42,120
Speaker 1: had a way of getting guys so jacked up for games,

2088
01:55:42,440 --> 01:55:44,400
Speaker 1: Like I still remember talking Mike Hide about he goes

2089
01:55:44,880 --> 01:55:48,480
Speaker 1: my first game here, Kyle brings everybody up before the game.

2090
01:55:48,640 --> 01:55:50,920
Speaker 1: He goes, and I'm listening to him and I'm like,

2091
01:55:51,480 --> 01:55:54,160
Speaker 1: oh man, this is good. And then he's like, oh wow,

2092
01:55:54,640 --> 01:55:55,960
Speaker 1: oh my god, I want to run through a wall

2093
01:55:56,040 --> 01:55:58,560
Speaker 1: right now, Like he couldn't believe it. He goes, and

2094
01:55:58,640 --> 01:56:01,800
Speaker 1: then he did it again and again and again. That's

2095
01:56:01,840 --> 01:56:04,640
Speaker 1: my motivation, he said, And my motivation level because of Kyle,

2096
01:56:05,520 --> 01:56:08,160
Speaker 1: it never wavered from one week to the next, because

2097
01:56:08,600 --> 01:56:10,720
Speaker 1: every time he spoke it got better and better and better.

2098
01:56:10,800 --> 01:56:14,440
Speaker 1: That's and the trick of it it not the trick

2099
01:56:14,480 --> 01:56:17,920
Speaker 1: of it, but that the underlying common denominators this Kyle

2100
01:56:18,000 --> 01:56:20,520
Speaker 1: had a way of speaking to guys that made them

2101
01:56:21,840 --> 01:56:25,560
Speaker 1: get motivated from inside themselves. They they grabbed on what

2102
01:56:25,680 --> 01:56:31,400
Speaker 1: he said and it came up. And that's It's every

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Speaker 1: talent evaluator or anybody who's over who's seen guys who

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01:56:35,160 --> 01:56:38,040
Speaker 1: have like come from nowhere to achieve like Kyle did.

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Speaker 1: In one thirty fourth overall all of a sudden, he's

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01:56:40,120 --> 01:56:43,560
Speaker 1: a pro bowl or and and all pro guys like that.

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01:56:44,040 --> 01:56:47,240
Speaker 1: The motivation, it's not like from a pregame speech where

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01:56:47,280 --> 01:56:51,480
Speaker 1: it comes from inside. It's something like Tom Brady is

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01:56:51,520 --> 01:56:53,880
Speaker 1: a different guy inside his ear, in between his ears,

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01:56:54,200 --> 01:56:56,280
Speaker 1: like all these guys are. Kyle had a way of

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01:56:56,440 --> 01:56:59,400
Speaker 1: being a guy away from you who could reach inside

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01:56:59,480 --> 01:57:03,160
Speaker 1: you and you to do it to yourself. You can

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01:57:03,360 --> 01:57:08,200
Speaker 1: motivate yourself. That's that is rare. It's really rare. Ray

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01:57:08,280 --> 01:57:10,200
Speaker 1: Lewis was the same way. Ray Lewis could do that.

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01:57:10,360 --> 01:57:12,160
Speaker 1: It's a guy that can speak to you and get

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01:57:12,240 --> 01:57:14,600
Speaker 1: you to find it inside yourself. But there's so much

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01:57:14,640 --> 01:57:17,880
Speaker 1: passion coming out of him. Yes, about the competition that's

2118
01:57:17,920 --> 01:57:21,320
Speaker 1: about to ensue that you're like you want to either

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01:57:22,440 --> 01:57:26,600
Speaker 1: meet his level because he's your teammate and he's telling

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01:57:26,640 --> 01:57:29,000
Speaker 1: you he loves you, or he's gonna lay it out

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01:57:29,040 --> 01:57:31,840
Speaker 1: there for you. So now it's just like, oh damn,

2122
01:57:32,120 --> 01:57:33,720
Speaker 1: I'm ready to lay it out there for him now.

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01:57:34,280 --> 01:57:37,160
Speaker 1: And that's why that's why just about every coach that

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01:57:37,400 --> 01:57:40,760
Speaker 1: he was under, uh, you know, right before the coach

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01:57:40,880 --> 01:57:42,480
Speaker 1: left the locker room. All right, Kyle, you got him

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01:57:42,480 --> 01:57:45,880
Speaker 1: circling him up right, I'm good, take it away. You

2127
01:57:45,960 --> 01:57:47,720
Speaker 1: really want you want to want to bottle up those

2128
01:57:47,760 --> 01:57:50,240
Speaker 1: speeches and play him at the right time. One about

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01:57:50,680 --> 01:57:53,080
Speaker 1: that one about going out in the deep water is

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01:57:53,560 --> 01:57:56,960
Speaker 1: one of his best. He's talking about you know, some

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01:57:57,200 --> 01:58:00,440
Speaker 1: teams won't lay it all out there every week. They're

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01:58:00,440 --> 01:58:02,480
Speaker 1: afraid to go out in the deep water where you

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01:58:02,520 --> 01:58:05,560
Speaker 1: can't reach the bottom. And he's like his analogies and

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01:58:05,720 --> 01:58:07,920
Speaker 1: his symbol, I mean, he was real. I mean, I

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01:58:08,040 --> 01:58:10,000
Speaker 1: remember that the one. Everybody in the locker room can

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01:58:10,040 --> 01:58:12,440
Speaker 1: relate to. That one. I remember two one another verbreak

2137
01:58:12,480 --> 01:58:13,880
Speaker 1: can relate to is like, guys, I want you to

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01:58:13,920 --> 01:58:16,080
Speaker 1: give the effort you promised yourself you'd give when you

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01:58:16,160 --> 01:58:18,440
Speaker 1: were a kid. Yeah, if you ever got the chance

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01:58:18,480 --> 01:58:21,280
Speaker 1: to play in the NFL, what kind of effort that's like?

2141
01:58:21,640 --> 01:58:25,600
Speaker 1: And now you're here, make it happen. It's it's pretty cool.

2142
01:58:25,680 --> 01:58:29,080
Speaker 1: Spine tingle. Oh my god, spine tingling. All right, we

2143
01:58:29,160 --> 01:58:31,080
Speaker 1: gotta take a break when we come back. Some more

2144
01:58:31,080 --> 01:58:33,520
Speaker 1: of your thoughts on the tweet sheet. If in fact

2145
01:58:34,120 --> 01:58:37,440
Speaker 1: the first ten picks in this draft go all offense,

2146
01:58:37,880 --> 01:58:39,800
Speaker 1: there's a change your thoughts about what the Bills should

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01:58:39,800 --> 01:58:42,880
Speaker 1: do at pick thirty know when they could possibly get

2148
01:58:43,960 --> 01:58:47,640
Speaker 1: a top twenty defensive player. Something to think about. We

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Speaker 1: want your thoughts next here on One Bill's Live present

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Speaker 1: about Collid to help. It's Buffalo Bills Radio, final half

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01:59:05,080 --> 01:59:07,520
Speaker 1: hour of a Monday edition and One Bills Live. Chris Brown,

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01:59:07,600 --> 01:59:13,000
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you and we are plowing through your

2153
01:59:13,040 --> 01:59:16,080
Speaker 1: answers on the tweet sheet as we were asking if

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01:59:16,080 --> 01:59:18,720
Speaker 1: the top ten is all offensive players, does that change

2155
01:59:18,720 --> 01:59:21,160
Speaker 1: your thoughts on what the Bill should do? Add thirty

2156
01:59:21,840 --> 01:59:25,160
Speaker 1: and Tiffany says, you stick to your draft board and

2157
01:59:25,240 --> 01:59:27,880
Speaker 1: add a player that can compete for playing time. These

2158
01:59:27,920 --> 01:59:29,520
Speaker 1: guys are really good at what they do. I have

2159
01:59:29,720 --> 01:59:33,400
Speaker 1: no doubt whoever they draft, he'll check all the boxes.

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01:59:34,160 --> 01:59:37,480
Speaker 1: They cove it. I'm wondering if if they stay there

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01:59:39,400 --> 01:59:41,960
Speaker 1: at thirty, if the top ten is almost all offense,

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01:59:42,040 --> 01:59:45,480
Speaker 1: I think it enhances the chances of them staying at thirty.

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01:59:48,360 --> 01:59:50,480
Speaker 1: Of course, there could always be a cornerback run or

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01:59:50,560 --> 01:59:52,520
Speaker 1: an edge rusher run, and then you're left out in

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01:59:52,520 --> 01:59:54,360
Speaker 1: the cold. Anyway, I'll say you guys said it earlier

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01:59:54,400 --> 01:59:59,000
Speaker 1: in the show. I think there's no doubt when when

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01:59:59,040 --> 02:00:00,720
Speaker 1: it comes to the Bills pick, it's going to take

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Speaker 1: them every moment of the fifteen minutes they've got on

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02:00:04,240 --> 02:00:06,960
Speaker 1: the first round, because I think they'll wait for their

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02:00:07,440 --> 02:00:09,240
Speaker 1: there's a chance they'll wait for their phone to ring

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02:00:09,360 --> 02:00:12,200
Speaker 1: from teams at in the top of the second round. Yeah,

2172
02:00:13,280 --> 02:00:15,440
Speaker 1: and if you're not aware of it, if you're drafting

2173
02:00:15,480 --> 02:00:17,000
Speaker 1: the first round of the NFL, it's a kind of

2174
02:00:17,000 --> 02:00:22,760
Speaker 1: a rubber stamped concrete contract for first rounders. It's five

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02:00:22,880 --> 02:00:25,040
Speaker 1: year contract and you have the option year stuff, just

2176
02:00:25,040 --> 02:00:27,200
Speaker 1: like we've been talking about Josh All and Tremaine Edmonds.

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Speaker 1: That's the contract. You get the five year length and

2178
02:00:30,280 --> 02:00:32,560
Speaker 1: you get an option year after the third year for

2179
02:00:32,680 --> 02:00:36,280
Speaker 1: that fifth year that becomes guaranteed. That's a big deal

2180
02:00:36,360 --> 02:00:38,560
Speaker 1: to some teams when they're talking about certain players that

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02:00:38,600 --> 02:00:40,840
Speaker 1: they want to have their hooks in for a five

2182
02:00:40,960 --> 02:00:46,840
Speaker 1: years instead of four. So the Bills at thirty, you know,

2183
02:00:46,920 --> 02:00:49,560
Speaker 1: you just two picks away from there. Basically at the

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02:00:49,600 --> 02:00:52,560
Speaker 1: top of the second round, teams will jump up and

2185
02:00:52,840 --> 02:00:55,200
Speaker 1: offer you a little bit more draft capital to get

2186
02:00:55,240 --> 02:00:56,920
Speaker 1: into the first round to get that extra year on

2187
02:00:57,000 --> 02:00:58,640
Speaker 1: the guy they want to sign and the guy they

2188
02:00:58,680 --> 02:01:00,160
Speaker 1: want to pick. So the Bills are gonna wait eight

2189
02:01:00,960 --> 02:01:05,040
Speaker 1: at thirty if indeed it does get to them, because

2190
02:01:05,120 --> 02:01:07,560
Speaker 1: they're not, you know, unless there's a guy they really

2191
02:01:07,680 --> 02:01:11,080
Speaker 1: want that may not be there, and they want him

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02:01:11,080 --> 02:01:13,000
Speaker 1: more so than the fact that there's nobody else they

2193
02:01:13,040 --> 02:01:16,120
Speaker 1: want as a first round talent. There's if they don't

2194
02:01:16,160 --> 02:01:18,920
Speaker 1: trade up a couple of spots, and believe me, four

2195
02:01:19,040 --> 02:01:21,000
Speaker 1: or five spots is as far as they're gonna go

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02:01:21,600 --> 02:01:25,160
Speaker 1: to trade up. I would think unless you start getting

2197
02:01:25,200 --> 02:01:28,720
Speaker 1: players involved, you know they're gonna trade up three or

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02:01:28,760 --> 02:01:30,320
Speaker 1: four spots to get a guy they really liked because

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Speaker 1: he's the last first round or they see I would

2200
02:01:33,040 --> 02:01:35,200
Speaker 1: say they're gonna There's every chance that they may sit

2201
02:01:35,240 --> 02:01:36,840
Speaker 1: there and say, you know, we're gonna we're gonna take

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Speaker 1: the thirty seventh, thirty ninth, thirty eighth pick, thirty sixth pick,

2203
02:01:40,600 --> 02:01:42,480
Speaker 1: whatever pick you want to pick in the top of

2204
02:01:42,560 --> 02:01:44,720
Speaker 1: the second round, and we're gonna move back. There's a

2205
02:01:44,840 --> 02:01:47,640
Speaker 1: big chance of that you get an extra three or

2206
02:01:47,680 --> 02:01:52,680
Speaker 1: a four, depending on how far back you're moving, and

2207
02:01:52,800 --> 02:01:54,960
Speaker 1: an extra three or an extra four is valuable in

2208
02:01:55,040 --> 02:01:59,120
Speaker 1: this year's draft. So if there's a run on corners,

2209
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Speaker 1: if there's a run on edge rushers. There's a really

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Speaker 1: good chance to builds trade back, Yeah, because because if

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02:02:07,240 --> 02:02:09,480
Speaker 1: on their board the cupboard's bear, there's no point in

2212
02:02:09,560 --> 02:02:12,440
Speaker 1: staying there because now you're picking somebody that doesn't fit

2213
02:02:12,480 --> 02:02:15,240
Speaker 1: the value of the thirtieth overall selection on your board.

2214
02:02:15,280 --> 02:02:18,720
Speaker 1: The question is what is who's your what's your partner

2215
02:02:18,800 --> 02:02:22,320
Speaker 1: going to give up in that trade? Well, hopefully there's

2216
02:02:22,360 --> 02:02:24,480
Speaker 1: somebody they cove it that is up there. Yeah, it

2217
02:02:24,520 --> 02:02:26,920
Speaker 1: fits their scheme better than yours. Yeah, you hope there's

2218
02:02:26,920 --> 02:02:29,080
Speaker 1: somebody really cove it. They give you a you know,

2219
02:02:29,120 --> 02:02:31,400
Speaker 1: a second and a third or or even a third

2220
02:02:31,440 --> 02:02:33,960
Speaker 1: and a fourth or something even better. Who knows. Yeah,

2221
02:02:34,360 --> 02:02:42,880
Speaker 1: in this draft. So yeah, man, I didn't know it

2222
02:02:42,960 --> 02:02:46,440
Speaker 1: was going to be this complicated. Picking at thirty it's

2223
02:02:46,440 --> 02:02:49,960
Speaker 1: a lot. It's an exercise in patience number one. It's

2224
02:02:50,000 --> 02:02:53,360
Speaker 1: an exercise in flying blind number two. There's so much

2225
02:02:53,440 --> 02:02:55,360
Speaker 1: we don't know about. That's what I mean. The rest

2226
02:02:55,400 --> 02:02:57,280
Speaker 1: of the draft, you are flying blind. You don't know

2227
02:02:57,320 --> 02:02:58,840
Speaker 1: about what the other teams are gonna do and what's

2228
02:02:58,840 --> 02:03:00,680
Speaker 1: gonna happen above you, And you don't know a lot

2229
02:03:00,760 --> 02:03:03,680
Speaker 1: about a lot of players in the draft, about their

2230
02:03:03,760 --> 02:03:05,680
Speaker 1: medical that kind of thing. You haven't seen him play

2231
02:03:05,680 --> 02:03:09,040
Speaker 1: in a while. There's not that many guys in this pool,

2232
02:03:11,400 --> 02:03:15,680
Speaker 1: and quite frankly, you're not in dire need anywhere on

2233
02:03:15,760 --> 02:03:21,920
Speaker 1: your roster. And the other thing too, And because I

2234
02:03:21,960 --> 02:03:25,120
Speaker 1: remember Brandon addressing this back in twenty eighteen when he

2235
02:03:25,160 --> 02:03:27,600
Speaker 1: was getting set for his first draft, when he was

2236
02:03:27,680 --> 02:03:30,480
Speaker 1: in possession of the twenty second pick in round one,

2237
02:03:31,240 --> 02:03:33,840
Speaker 1: I remember he was asked a question about, you know,

2238
02:03:34,000 --> 02:03:36,920
Speaker 1: how are you going to kind of prepare for the

2239
02:03:37,000 --> 02:03:39,680
Speaker 1: twenty second pick. You know, there was all the speculation

2240
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Speaker 1: about them trying to move up, but at the combine,

2241
02:03:42,280 --> 02:03:43,880
Speaker 1: I think at that time, they still had just the

2242
02:03:43,960 --> 02:03:47,000
Speaker 1: twenty second pick, and he was saying, well, you know,

2243
02:03:47,080 --> 02:03:49,640
Speaker 1: will mock it and you know, run through it several times,

2244
02:03:49,720 --> 02:03:52,320
Speaker 1: will assign you know, some guys in the college scouting

2245
02:03:52,360 --> 02:03:55,680
Speaker 1: department all right, you're the Rams and you're the Buccaneers,

2246
02:03:55,720 --> 02:03:58,800
Speaker 1: And they would do a mock draft as an exercise

2247
02:03:59,240 --> 02:04:02,120
Speaker 1: just to see how how things would unfold or could

2248
02:04:02,160 --> 02:04:07,920
Speaker 1: potentially unfold. And it serves Brandon well as the final

2249
02:04:08,000 --> 02:04:11,080
Speaker 1: decision maker because now there are these different scenarios that

2250
02:04:11,160 --> 02:04:12,920
Speaker 1: have come to pass that he can kind of file

2251
02:04:12,960 --> 02:04:15,640
Speaker 1: away and say okay, And they're doing it based on

2252
02:04:15,800 --> 02:04:19,520
Speaker 1: what their pro personnel department intel tells them the RAMS

2253
02:04:19,640 --> 02:04:21,760
Speaker 1: might be in the market for, and like they've got

2254
02:04:21,840 --> 02:04:24,760
Speaker 1: all that, and so they run as close to a

2255
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Speaker 1: real mock draft as they can. But he did say

2256
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Speaker 1: I do remember him saying this, it's a lot harder

2257
02:04:30,040 --> 02:04:32,800
Speaker 1: to do that with a measure of accuracy at twenty

2258
02:04:32,840 --> 02:04:34,800
Speaker 1: two than when you're in the top half of the draft.

2259
02:04:34,880 --> 02:04:37,320
Speaker 1: So the follow up question to that was, well, what

2260
02:04:37,560 --> 02:04:40,000
Speaker 1: is a safe area where you guys feel pretty good

2261
02:04:40,040 --> 02:04:45,120
Speaker 1: about knowing how to accurately mock the first umpteen number

2262
02:04:45,160 --> 02:04:48,040
Speaker 1: of choices? And he said, usually you can do pretty

2263
02:04:48,040 --> 02:04:52,400
Speaker 1: well with the first dozen, maybe fifteen, he goes, after that,

2264
02:04:52,760 --> 02:04:55,600
Speaker 1: it starts getting a little squirrelly, right, And so to

2265
02:04:55,760 --> 02:04:59,400
Speaker 1: know you're sitting at thirty, you know, you think, all right,

2266
02:04:59,440 --> 02:05:01,360
Speaker 1: we can mock the for his ten to twelve pretty good.

2267
02:05:02,320 --> 02:05:04,840
Speaker 1: You got another seventeen eighteen picks to go, and you

2268
02:05:04,920 --> 02:05:07,120
Speaker 1: spend a ton of time. He's on the phone a lot,

2269
02:05:07,320 --> 02:05:11,160
Speaker 1: I would assume, and with with other gms throughout this process,

2270
02:05:11,240 --> 02:05:13,240
Speaker 1: off and on throughout the Wii every day. You know,

2271
02:05:13,600 --> 02:05:16,240
Speaker 1: as the as the day's roll past, he's touching base

2272
02:05:16,320 --> 02:05:18,080
Speaker 1: with a lot of gms that are above him and

2273
02:05:18,160 --> 02:05:20,920
Speaker 1: behind him. About okay, if we're thinking about you know,

2274
02:05:21,040 --> 02:05:25,600
Speaker 1: maybe if we're at thirty, how much do you how

2275
02:05:25,680 --> 02:05:27,720
Speaker 1: much do you want this pick? Because if this happens,

2276
02:05:27,760 --> 02:05:30,160
Speaker 1: we're interested in getting out of it. If this happens,

2277
02:05:30,200 --> 02:05:33,320
Speaker 1: we're interested in getting up higher. Having conversations with a

2278
02:05:33,400 --> 02:05:35,960
Speaker 1: lot of other gms, and with the information you get

2279
02:05:36,040 --> 02:05:38,640
Speaker 1: back from them, you kind of extrapolate that in your

2280
02:05:38,680 --> 02:05:41,720
Speaker 1: mind so that when things do fall ahead of you,

2281
02:05:41,960 --> 02:05:43,960
Speaker 1: you've already had the conversation, so you kind of get

2282
02:05:43,960 --> 02:05:46,800
Speaker 1: an idea of what these other teams are thinking and

2283
02:05:46,920 --> 02:05:49,680
Speaker 1: you might be able to anticipate a move or at

2284
02:05:49,760 --> 02:05:52,120
Speaker 1: least look for it or know that it's been talked about.

2285
02:05:52,160 --> 02:05:54,920
Speaker 1: And if it doesn't happen, what happened and what it

2286
02:05:55,040 --> 02:05:59,320
Speaker 1: means that it's you know, it's a game of thrones

2287
02:05:59,560 --> 02:06:03,480
Speaker 1: to the man, I mean it really is. I mean,

2288
02:06:03,600 --> 02:06:05,800
Speaker 1: dog eat Dog. You don't want to be wearing milk

2289
02:06:05,840 --> 02:06:08,480
Speaker 1: Bone's dog eat dog And you're lying your way through

2290
02:06:08,560 --> 02:06:12,640
Speaker 1: the whole thing, right, Tim on the tweet sheet says,

2291
02:06:12,680 --> 02:06:14,960
Speaker 1: doesn't change a thing for me. It should mean that

2292
02:06:15,040 --> 02:06:17,440
Speaker 1: a defensive end or corner will fall in their laps.

2293
02:06:18,160 --> 02:06:20,879
Speaker 1: And while I think it enhances the chances of that happening,

2294
02:06:21,600 --> 02:06:24,640
Speaker 1: it's not a lock because even after you get to ten,

2295
02:06:24,720 --> 02:06:27,360
Speaker 1: there's still nineteen picks in front of you, and all

2296
02:06:27,400 --> 02:06:29,000
Speaker 1: you need is a run on corners, and all of

2297
02:06:29,040 --> 02:06:31,520
Speaker 1: a sudden, the well is the pool is dried up

2298
02:06:31,560 --> 02:06:34,320
Speaker 1: and corners and edge rushers, yeah, you know, And then

2299
02:06:34,520 --> 02:06:37,400
Speaker 1: and then you start thinking about, okay, well, if that happens,

2300
02:06:37,440 --> 02:06:39,280
Speaker 1: then the bill's got a chance at an offensive tackle

2301
02:06:39,360 --> 02:06:42,800
Speaker 1: or offensive guard into your offensive lineman, which is still

2302
02:06:42,840 --> 02:06:48,040
Speaker 1: a plus, a huge plus. Thirty guy, I mean twenty nine,

2303
02:06:48,080 --> 02:06:50,680
Speaker 1: I guess twenty nine guys. You can take twenty nine

2304
02:06:50,720 --> 02:06:52,640
Speaker 1: guys off the top of this draft class. You're still

2305
02:06:52,640 --> 02:06:55,240
Speaker 1: going to get a really good player, really good player,

2306
02:06:58,000 --> 02:07:00,320
Speaker 1: but he's he's going to be joining a real good

2307
02:07:00,360 --> 02:07:03,080
Speaker 1: football team, and if he's not played in the right position,

2308
02:07:03,920 --> 02:07:07,000
Speaker 1: he'll have a hard time getting any playing time. Here

2309
02:07:07,000 --> 02:07:10,520
Speaker 1: are some different thoughts. Amy says, stay at thirty, don't

2310
02:07:10,560 --> 02:07:12,800
Speaker 1: sacrifice the rest of your draft to trade up. Stay

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Speaker 1: where you are, or trade down if possible, depending on

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Speaker 1: who is there. Hoping for a corner or an edge

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Speaker 1: unless oh, Jeremiah Usukamoa or Barmore are there, which jok

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Speaker 1: won't be there, Barmore might be there. And then Nick

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02:07:29,720 --> 02:07:32,520
Speaker 1: says we should trade our pick for a tight end

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02:07:32,560 --> 02:07:34,760
Speaker 1: that can make a difference on this team this year.

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Speaker 1: What are the chances of any players drafted this year

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Speaker 1: that can make this team? This team is stout from

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02:07:40,680 --> 02:07:43,960
Speaker 1: top to bottom. We've had these conversations too off and on.

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Speaker 1: You get we have two fifths and a sixth, no

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Speaker 1: seventh rounder, no fourth rounders. Now I think they have

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02:07:50,160 --> 02:07:53,120
Speaker 1: they have a seven, right, they have? They have one, two, three,

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Speaker 1: They have seven total picks one two, three, two fives

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Speaker 1: or six and a seven. Yeah, okay, the fives, six

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Speaker 1: in the seven at in my mind, the most those

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Speaker 1: guys can hope for is a practice squad spot. This

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Speaker 1: team is too deep and too talented unless you get

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Speaker 1: a fifth round or or anyone in fifth, sixth round,

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Speaker 1: unless you can get one of those guys that automatic

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Speaker 1: is a special teams stud or a Gabriel Davis or

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02:08:22,840 --> 02:08:26,680
Speaker 1: yeah type. Yeah, not necessarily at that position, but you

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Well, who's that gonna be? What

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02:08:28,320 --> 02:08:30,400
Speaker 1: position is that gonna be Yeah, it's a good question,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean, so unless you get this guy

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Speaker 1: who can play special teams and can just a returner something,

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Speaker 1: those guys you're not They're not going to see the

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02:08:40,520 --> 02:08:43,320
Speaker 1: light of day on game day. So what do you

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02:08:43,400 --> 02:08:45,440
Speaker 1: do with those? Then you're gonna swap those out for

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02:08:45,520 --> 02:08:48,280
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two picks, what are you gonna get? A

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02:08:48,360 --> 02:08:50,360
Speaker 1: fifth round or a fourth round might get the same thing.

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02:08:50,440 --> 02:08:53,360
Speaker 1: But think about this, with a draft pool that's probably

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02:08:53,440 --> 02:08:56,840
Speaker 1: gonna number two thousand players next year as opposed to

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02:08:56,880 --> 02:08:59,400
Speaker 1: a draft pool that's six hundred and fifty seven this year.

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02:09:01,560 --> 02:09:03,320
Speaker 1: If you can swap out a five for a five

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02:09:03,440 --> 02:09:06,040
Speaker 1: next year, it might be deemed as a more valuable pick,

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02:09:06,840 --> 02:09:08,560
Speaker 1: especially if you're one of the teams that's going to

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02:09:08,640 --> 02:09:12,240
Speaker 1: be in the top four again and the team you're

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02:09:12,280 --> 02:09:14,120
Speaker 1: swapping with might be middle of the pack. Get a

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02:09:14,160 --> 02:09:17,880
Speaker 1: mid fifth, Yeah, it could be more valuable than a fifties.

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Speaker 1: You get somebody to take that deal. I'm all about it.

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02:09:22,000 --> 02:09:25,160
Speaker 1: I'm all about it. Up. George is going to raise

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02:09:25,280 --> 02:09:28,640
Speaker 1: the ire of Steve Tasker because he says a running

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02:09:28,680 --> 02:09:32,400
Speaker 1: back isn't just about running the ball. If a team

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02:09:32,520 --> 02:09:34,720
Speaker 1: has to account for him and bring a safety up.

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02:09:35,000 --> 02:09:38,080
Speaker 1: It'll open things up more for Josh. If Etn is

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02:09:38,080 --> 02:09:41,600
Speaker 1: the best player on the board, take him all caps.

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02:09:41,960 --> 02:09:45,680
Speaker 1: I'm with him. If the board I said it, You

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02:09:45,760 --> 02:09:49,000
Speaker 1: did you say that? If I said it within this hour. Man,

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02:09:49,360 --> 02:09:51,960
Speaker 1: If there's nothing else there, there's nothing. If there's nothing

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02:09:52,000 --> 02:09:53,840
Speaker 1: else else, If that guy's the best gown on your board,

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02:09:53,920 --> 02:09:55,680
Speaker 1: take him. I don't care. If he's what he plays

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02:09:55,800 --> 02:09:58,200
Speaker 1: and running back that falls into that category as well.

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02:09:58,280 --> 02:10:02,440
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm with you, um, but I'm like with

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02:10:02,800 --> 02:10:05,320
Speaker 1: Kyle Williams said it all your running game starts up front,

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02:10:05,760 --> 02:10:09,800
Speaker 1: not with the guy you're handing the ball too. I'm

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02:10:09,840 --> 02:10:15,400
Speaker 1: with everything better if he's But I'm I'm struggling. We've

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Speaker 1: heard it a couple of times from a couple of

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02:10:16,840 --> 02:10:20,200
Speaker 1: in fact, our our guests today, Bruce Feldman said, you

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02:10:20,240 --> 02:10:22,440
Speaker 1: know this at N guy can catch the ball well,

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Speaker 1: and he that's that's lately he's been able to catch

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02:10:27,120 --> 02:10:28,880
Speaker 1: the ball well. He had to work really hard on

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02:10:29,040 --> 02:10:31,680
Speaker 1: doing it to get better at it. And we had

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Speaker 1: somebody saying comparing him to uh An Alvin Kamara, Man,

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Speaker 1: I don't know about that. That's a stretch to me,

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02:10:40,880 --> 02:10:43,720
Speaker 1: at N really struggled to catch the ball up until

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Speaker 1: this year when the word hasn't he put some work

2377
02:10:46,800 --> 02:10:48,640
Speaker 1: in on it. Now may great if he's willing to

2378
02:10:48,680 --> 02:10:51,000
Speaker 1: work like that, and maybe you know it will show

2379
02:10:51,080 --> 02:10:52,960
Speaker 1: dividends because you got to work hard to stay in

2380
02:10:52,960 --> 02:10:56,320
Speaker 1: the league. So maybe that's true. But it's not a

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02:10:56,440 --> 02:10:59,120
Speaker 1: natural thing for him. And comparing him to Alvin Kamara,

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02:10:59,160 --> 02:11:02,080
Speaker 1: I think is a straight but some guys, but it's

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02:11:02,160 --> 02:11:05,520
Speaker 1: been done so they God give them as much credibility

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Speaker 1: as I give myself, that's for sure. I mean right,

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02:11:08,520 --> 02:11:11,920
Speaker 1: So at N is a talent, no question about it.

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02:11:12,040 --> 02:11:14,920
Speaker 1: He's a really good player. If he's the best player

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Speaker 1: on the Bill's draft board when at the time, at

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Speaker 1: any point when they pick you can say that now

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02:11:18,960 --> 02:11:20,920
Speaker 1: at any point when they pick him, that's fine, fine

2390
02:11:21,000 --> 02:11:23,080
Speaker 1: with it. There's a guy. Would you rather have him

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Speaker 1: or Nagi Harris? A lot of most people have Naggi

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02:11:27,040 --> 02:11:30,800
Speaker 1: Harris ahead of him. What if Harris falls to that?

2393
02:11:32,160 --> 02:11:35,560
Speaker 1: Harris is too much like Moss and Singletary in my estimation,

2394
02:11:35,640 --> 02:11:39,360
Speaker 1: he's bigger and stronger. Is he faster? Not any faster?

2395
02:11:39,600 --> 02:11:43,240
Speaker 1: Not any faster. I mean he's not a home run guy,

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Speaker 1: you know, which is what everybody's obsessed with. So there

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Speaker 1: it is okay, break time for us. Steve and I

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Speaker 1: close up a Monday edition as we move ever closer

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Speaker 1: to the twenty twenty one NFL Draft. Back in the moment.

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Speaker 1: Here on one, Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio time for what have we learned?

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Speaker 1: Brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental

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Speaker 1: company at the Buffalo Bills. Well, we've learned a lot,

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Speaker 1: at least around the league today, Steve. You know this

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02:12:23,160 --> 02:12:25,440
Speaker 1: whole dance with the forty nine ers at three being

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02:12:25,520 --> 02:12:28,840
Speaker 1: down to two guys, the Patriots trying to get up

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02:12:28,840 --> 02:12:32,200
Speaker 1: into the top ten. It's Carolina going to move out

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02:12:32,240 --> 02:12:34,840
Speaker 1: at eight. It is the top ten going to be

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02:12:34,920 --> 02:12:42,720
Speaker 1: all offensive players, Julio Jones trade Falcons at four. Quarterback

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02:12:42,840 --> 02:12:47,040
Speaker 1: yea or nay. It's also delicious our five quarterbacks going

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Speaker 1: in the top ten, which would be the first time

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02:12:49,400 --> 02:12:54,560
Speaker 1: that has ever happened, which means that you know, they're

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02:12:54,560 --> 02:12:57,600
Speaker 1: all different, but generally speaking, it's a coin flip and

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02:12:57,680 --> 02:13:01,600
Speaker 1: you'll have one total bust, one that is an absolute

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02:13:01,800 --> 02:13:06,880
Speaker 1: can't meet, you know, one home run, one that's bad,

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Speaker 1: one that's just okay, and you'll have one that's me.

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Speaker 1: You know, you'll get the grades from the best to

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Speaker 1: the worst, and everybody else is gonna be in there

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Speaker 1: somewhere inside there. A final comment on the tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: from Bernie. Trade down from thirty and get another third

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Speaker 1: round pick. Then pick whoever's best fit on your board,

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Speaker 1: then trade away both fives to get a pick in

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Speaker 1: the fourth. Now they have five picks in the top

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, and that's where all the talent is.

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Speaker 1: If you can find it's a lot of doing, Bernie.

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Speaker 1: If you can find takers on that deal, I'm one

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Speaker 1: of them, I'll do it. But I want to be

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Speaker 1: the bills on the bills end of it. I think

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Speaker 1: I think you're asking a lot. But they may do it.

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Speaker 1: They might, if it depends on how badly somebody wants

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Speaker 1: into the first Speaking of doing it, that'll do it

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Speaker 1: for us. Today, as we sit three days, five hours,

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Speaker 1: four minutes, and twenty seconds away from the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one NFL Draft, Steve and I will see tomorrow