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Speaker 1: This One Bills Live presented by Calida Health.

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Speaker 2: Happy Monday People, Chris Brown, Steve tasking with you. One

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Speaker 2: Bill's Live is the show to which you are listening.

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Speaker 2: Glad to have you with us here until three pm.

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Speaker 2: And plenty of stuff going on over this weekend, not

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Speaker 2: only with the team with rookie Mini Caamp, but also

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Speaker 2: locally with the remembrance day, knowing it was the one

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Speaker 2: year anniversary of the tragic racially motivated shooting here in

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Speaker 2: our city where we lost ten people of our community

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Speaker 2: and important to remember them over the course.

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Speaker 3: Of the weekend. The Bill is obviously a big part

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Speaker 3: of that.

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Speaker 2: Steve a part of that as well, in concert with

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Speaker 2: Bruce Smith, who was kind of spearheading the Aaron Salter

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Speaker 2: memorial event.

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Speaker 3: So you were over there, right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was good. It was Delaware Park five k

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Speaker 4: half marathon. People started running the half marathon at like

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Speaker 4: seven am as a beautiful day. Bruce was there. Bruce

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Speaker 4: said a few things that were really really appropriate, really

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Speaker 4: really good, and it was nice. A lot of people

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Speaker 4: showed up and a really good turnout, and I was

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Speaker 4: proud of the city once again. Was good, really good.

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Speaker 4: I was happy to be a part of it and

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Speaker 4: honored to be there.

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Speaker 2: I unfortunately was unable to attend. I was out of

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Speaker 2: town moving my daughter out of her.

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Speaker 3: Dorm room and into an apartment in Manhattan in a

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Speaker 3: walk up with furniture and those.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that that's a hard city to move at first.

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Speaker 3: It's not easy.

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Speaker 4: It's not easy to get around because a.

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Speaker 2: Lot of times you can't find a parking spot and

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Speaker 2: you want to be as close to the front door

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Speaker 2: as you possibly can if you're moving furniture. So we're

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Speaker 2: double parked. Somebody's got to stay with the truck. We

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Speaker 2: got to go upstairs and move the stuff this then

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Speaker 2: and the other. We've got to look out for the

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Speaker 2: meter maids because they are on it down there. Man,

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Speaker 2: they are ticking and things left and right. We ended

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Speaker 2: up getting one ticket. But but we did the math

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Speaker 2: and we figured with all the free parking we did

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Speaker 2: of our own volition, we probably made out.

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Speaker 3: In the end.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, problem it is.

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Speaker 2: And it was eighty five in the city over the

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Speaker 2: weekend we were we did not smell good at the

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Speaker 2: end of either Friday or Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Gorgea when all our work was done.

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Speaker 4: Gorgeous weekend here in Buffalo as well. Lots going on.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think more in Buffalo we do this

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Speaker 4: probably more so than the other resert Like some of

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Speaker 4: the northern regions. Do you spend so much time inside

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Speaker 4: during the winter. Oh, it's like hibernation and you come

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Speaker 4: out and you've got all the stuff you want to

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Speaker 4: You're scheduling, you know, at this time of year from

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Speaker 4: here on the way through September, every single weekend has

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Speaker 4: like five things on it. Oh yeah, five not two. Five,

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Speaker 4: and you got to like pick and choose because you

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Speaker 4: want to go do all of them because you know,

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Speaker 4: and I think more so than any other region this,

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Speaker 4: we here in Buffalo appreciate what advantage. Right. We're like,

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Speaker 4: are always our favorite season is the next one, right,

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Speaker 4: We're always looking forward to, you know, the good stuff

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Speaker 4: the fall brings, the fun stuff we do in the

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Speaker 4: winter time and all that stuff, and certainly the summer

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Speaker 4: is no exception. I mean, you got your plan stuff,

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Speaker 4: you know, not forget weddings and all of that stuff.

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Speaker 4: It's all the festivals and concerts and you know, carnivals

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Speaker 4: amazing stuff, and so this was starting. This was the

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Speaker 4: very tip Mother's Day. This weekend right was you know,

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Speaker 4: the cherry on top of everything. But once again we

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Speaker 4: had like five things we had to do, you know,

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Speaker 2: It's like, ah, hope all the mothers did have a

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Speaker 2: nice Mother's Day yesterday, got family around you and enjoyed it.

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Speaker 2: So hopefully all the Mother's Day brunch is like the

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Speaker 2: big thing, at least for my wife's family. And I

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Speaker 2: know you have a big family, so you're kind of

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Speaker 2: And I mean it's it's a it's a lift, man,

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Speaker 3: I'd like to make a reservation.

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Speaker 2: For twenty come again, right, Like I mean there, don't

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Speaker 2: get me wrong, most of these places are happy to

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Speaker 4: Sure, but you gotta get in early though. You gotta know,

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Speaker 3: Of kind yeah, my father in law made that reservation

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Speaker 4: We did the same thing, add twenty of our family

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Speaker 4: into the place. And I told you this, I pulled

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Speaker 4: the ultimate grandpa move. So we got the seven grandkids.

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Speaker 4: I'm sitting at the table with my two sons and

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Speaker 4: their wives and my wife, and then the seven grandkids

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Speaker 4: years old, right, so I got a I mean, it's Munchkinville, right,

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Speaker 4: but I pulled the power move. So I go off.

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Speaker 4: I go to the fat for you know, but.

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Speaker 3: Wait a second. So the kids are set up, they

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Speaker 3: got their eggs and base.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so I go before they anybody even budgets where.

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Speaker 4: It was time to eat. So I Grandpa takes off,

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Speaker 4: get god, gets a plate of food, prime rib, pork loin,

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Speaker 4: the whole thing. I mean, I did it. Come back

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Speaker 4: and you know you've seen me eat, right, I'm done.

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Speaker 4: Yeah that's fine. So then I sit there and while

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Speaker 4: I'm eating, they're getting the kids wrangled, right, They're throwing

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Speaker 4: Then I'm done. So Grandpa goes back to the dessert thing.

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Speaker 4: And Grandpa comes back and sits down with two like

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Speaker 4: big huge slice of lemon cake and chalking like the

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Speaker 4: layered cake. I got two of them. I got to

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Speaker 4: sit down right in the middle of the grandkids.

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Speaker 3: With cake all they're eating eggs and bacon.

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Speaker 4: It's such a power move. I loved it.

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Speaker 3: I could picture that. I could picture the looks on

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Speaker 2: They kind of turned their heads my words Grandpa and

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Speaker 4: So you can you can imagine the look I got from.

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Speaker 4: I don't want various individuals.

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Speaker 3: No bacon for me, I want cake.

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Speaker 4: That was a power move.

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Speaker 3: That's pretty good. That's pretty good.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you're you're at this time in your life

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Speaker 4: That was. But I'll say this too, there's something to

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Speaker 4: be said for a three hour brunch. That's what it

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Speaker 3: Arts typically don't go that long. It's usually about two.

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Speaker 4: It was three hours. That's a lengthy one three hour

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Speaker 4: but it was up and we were up walking around

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Speaker 4: outside a little bit too. After we finuciating, we kind

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, the weather cooperated so that was good. So hope

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Speaker 2: all the moms had a good Mother's Day yesterday. As

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Speaker 2: we mentioned, the Bills had rookie mini camp over the weekend,

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Speaker 2: so Buffalo's draft choices, they're undrafted, free agent signings, and

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Speaker 2: Most noteworthy among them was defensive and Shane Ray, who

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Speaker 2: has four years of NFL experience. He's a former first

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Speaker 2: twenty nineteen. Best season was his rookie year when he

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Speaker 2: had eight sacks. So the Bills take a flyer on

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Speaker 2: a guy who will no doubt be motivated to revive

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Speaker 2: his pro career. So you know, showed he still had

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Speaker 2: little bit longer now through OTAs.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it'll be interesting to see. Obviously, you know

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Speaker 4: It's I've always said this too, when you get drafted,

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Speaker 4: particularly the first rounder, it's it's harder to get into

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Speaker 4: how it goes for him. Yeah, because you're right, I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of times it's injuries.

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Speaker 4: And opportunity well, right everything.

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Speaker 2: Two other players that got signed to contracts coming off

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Speaker 2: the tryout weekend linebacker Travan Howard, former seventh round pick

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Speaker 2: of the LA Rams in twenty eighteen. Here's an example

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Speaker 2: of that, Steve, He's been largely injured each of the

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Speaker 2: last three seasons. But he does have playing experience an

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Speaker 2: outside linebacker by trade, and some might remember Travan Howard

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Speaker 2: probably the biggest play of his pro career was the

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Speaker 2: I int ad in the NFC title Game to send

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Speaker 2: he's going to get an extended look. And I would

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Speaker 2: tend to think Steve that if Dorian Williams becomes a

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Speaker 2: firm competitor in the middle linebacker competition, that leaves another

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Speaker 2: of the opportunity he's getting. Now very interesting to see it.

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Speaker 4: We continue to be confronted by changes because the absence

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Speaker 4: of Leslie Frasier and the presidence of Sean McDermott's defensive

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Speaker 4: both things. I don't know that it's going to be

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Speaker 4: going to be different, particularly when you don't have a

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Speaker 4: that he was going to be on the field, right,

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Speaker 4: That changes things for the club. And until they find

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Speaker 4: stuff that happens around that we're kind of guessing at, right. So,

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Speaker 4: I think it's gonna look different.

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Speaker 2: It will begin at home August twelfth, one pm kickoff

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Speaker 2: But that's August twelfth, one pm kick, than August nineteen

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Speaker 4: And the Bills have done it a bunch of times.

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Speaker 4: The Bills like to get guys, big guys higher in

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Speaker 4: I'm still a big fan of mixing in draft picks.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I get it. And the Dolphins have no reason

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Speaker 2: the last three seasons in which he has been healthy

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Speaker 2: ten sacks last season for Minnesota. The Browns have made

438
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Speaker 2: it their mission to make their defensive front better because

439
00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,880
Speaker 2: they just got flat run over last year and they

440
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Speaker 2: have been investing on the defensive interior. Jadevian Clowney not

441
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,520
Speaker 2: brought back, so they needed a pass rusher on the

442
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Speaker 2: other side to bookend with Miles Garrett. Zadarius Smith is

443
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Speaker 2: a hell of a player to bookend with Miles Garrett.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he is, and he's gonna help. I mean, it'll

445
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Speaker 4: be interesting to see how the Because they're in a

446
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Speaker 4: division now, Lamar's back in, He's got some weapons. They're

447
00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:01,000
Speaker 4: the flavor of the month. The Steelers. You, I mean,

448
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 4: the bottom could fall out of the Steelers. They still

449
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Speaker 4: go nine to eight, you know, they just do.

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Speaker 3: And you got Joe Burrow and you better have a

451
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Speaker 3: pass rush.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they got to get better. And think about this,

453
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Speaker 4: they could they could get better and still finish fourth.

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Speaker 3: In that division.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's coming unless Deshaun Watson has a complete

456
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Speaker 2: one eighty from what he looked like last year.

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Speaker 4: That that to me is a huge enigma. And maybe

458
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Speaker 4: they know something. Maybe he's gonna get better and Zadarius

459
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Speaker 4: Smith's an answer to them for them. But their problems,

460
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Speaker 4: to me are on the other side of the ball.

461
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Speaker 4: I know they their defense struggle, but I'm yeah, they

462
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Speaker 4: got I don't know, the.

463
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Speaker 3: Almost like a bad karma.

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Speaker 4: I know, I'm starting to think they're they are cursed,

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Speaker 4: you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, when you give up the farm to

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Speaker 2: acquire a guy like Deshaun Watson, with the allegations against

468
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Speaker 2: him that he's still facing in civil courts, it came

469
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Speaker 2: off as unseemly and yet a lot of people pulling

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Speaker 2: against him. Yeah, and now you're dealing with You're still

471
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Speaker 2: dealing with some of the after effects of that, I think,

472
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Speaker 2: And yeah, I just don't like the karma there at all.

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Speaker 3: It's ugly.

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Speaker 2: Other AFC East news Steve, the Jets and Quinn Williams

475
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Speaker 2: are reported to be working on a long term contract

476
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Speaker 2: extension in the wake of seeing long term deals for

477
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Speaker 2: players like Deron Payne with Washington, most recently Dexter Lawrence

478
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 2: across the street with the Giants, both guys that play

479
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Speaker 2: the same position as Quinn Williams getting monster extensions. You know,

480
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Speaker 2: four years, ninety million dollars. Williams is apparently getting a

481
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Speaker 2: bit impatience. Steve, his bio on his Instagram page now

482
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Speaker 2: reads defensive tackle for dot dot dotah, with his last

483
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Speaker 2: tweet being a retweet of the contract Giants Dexter Lawrence signed.

484
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Speaker 2: Williams apparently sending a message to the Jets. So we'll

485
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Speaker 2: have to see how that plays out. You know, if

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Speaker 2: you're Quinn Williams or his agent, I would like to

487
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:07,640
Speaker 2: think that you are at least aware enough to know

488
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Speaker 2: that the Jets are still reworking Aaron Rodgers contract that

489
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Speaker 2: has to get squared away because they can't have him

490
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Speaker 2: on the hook for twenty twenty four for one hundred

491
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Speaker 2: and seven million dollars, which is what Rogers contract currently

492
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Speaker 2: looks like after reworking it with the.

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Speaker 3: Packers before the trade. So they got to get that

494
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Speaker 3: squared away, know where the.

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Speaker 2: Money's gonna be allocated based on twenty twenty three, twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four, maybe even twenty twenty five for Rogers, and

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Speaker 2: then I would think they would be able to say,

498
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Speaker 2: all right, Quinn, we squared away Aaron, now we can

499
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Speaker 2: take care of you.

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Speaker 3: But and it's a big butt. Here is the thing.

501
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Speaker 2: This is where the Jets get themselves in trouble all

502
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Speaker 2: the time, and it's why we are constantly seeing rebuilds

503
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Speaker 2: every three or four years. In the few instances where

504
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:02,919
Speaker 2: they actually draft did correctly or acquired top flight talent

505
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 2: by hooker by crook, and it comes to deciding who

506
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 2: to keep and who to let go, more often than not,

507
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 2: they don't make the right decision, and then before you

508
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Speaker 2: know what, they're rebuilding their roster again and starting all over.

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Speaker 4: They're gonna if they do, say, for instance, and there's

510
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Speaker 4: no stopping them now. I mean, they got to find

511
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Speaker 4: a way to get Rogers contract under control and get

512
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Speaker 4: it in the in the fold financially. But think about

513
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Speaker 4: it if they if they lose a guy like Quinn

514
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Speaker 4: Williams because of the Rogers contract, in two years, they're

515
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Speaker 4: both gone. This year Quinn Williams could be gone or

516
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Speaker 4: after this year, and then Rogers is gonna be gone.

517
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Speaker 4: And what two years three tops you got? You lose

518
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Speaker 4: both those guys and then you're back drafting a top

519
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Speaker 4: five again. I mean, you can't let yourself. You gotta

520
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Speaker 4: it was have some foresight.

521
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Speaker 2: Yet it was easy two years ago when the Jets

522
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Speaker 2: had one hundred and ten million dollars in cap space

523
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Speaker 2: to spend money on free agents and make their roster better.

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Speaker 3: That's the easy part.

525
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,120
Speaker 2: What can they do now when cap space is tight

526
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Speaker 2: and you got superstars with their hands.

527
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Speaker 4: Out, it's looking for the time comes down to decisions.

528
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Speaker 4: You go back five years and the Jets and the

529
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 4: Bills were in virtually the identical spot going into the draft,

530
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Speaker 4: and the Jets were picking ahead of the Bills. They

531
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Speaker 4: were like, what third and the Bills were at twelve

532
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Speaker 4: and they moved up to seven. Right, they take Sam

533
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 4: Darnold mistake, Bills take Josh not a mistake, and both

534
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 4: franchises from that point on. They were on two different

535
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 4: they had cap space, and they had draft picks both

536
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 4: of them. One of them made the right picks and

537
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 4: the other one did not. And now they're they were

538
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,360
Speaker 4: headed into office directs. Now they're trying to get back

539
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 4: on there, trying to shortcut it with Aaron Rodgers. And

540
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 4: once again they have some crucial decisions to make that

541
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Speaker 4: have nothing to do with Aaron Rodgers. They have to

542
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 4: do with Quinn Williams, the guy they drafted, and Breese

543
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Speaker 4: Hall and all those guys.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

545
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:02,880
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, another Jets, a Jets free agent, former Pro Bowl linebacker,

546
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 2: Kuan Alexander, still unsigned, and after the Jets re signed

547
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 2: Quincy Williams, Quinn Williams brother, to a long term extension,

548
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 2: it's unlikely that they're going to pay Quant Alexander any

549
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,879
Speaker 2: respectable money. He is now visiting the Steelers, according to

550
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,160
Speaker 2: ESPN's Adam Schefter, So it looks like Kuant Alexander will

551
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,120
Speaker 2: not be a part of that Jets defense again, unless

552
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 2: he decides to take chump change to go play for

553
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,439
Speaker 2: the Jets again, because I'm sure the Jets made him

554
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:36,160
Speaker 2: a modest offer, but he's probably looking to do better.

555
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Speaker 2: So that's around the NFL presented by Kalida Health. Wanted

556
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Speaker 2: to get to you and let you know what our

557
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 2: topic of the day is. The roster, at least of

558
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 2: the offseason variety. We know it's going to see some

559
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 2: morphs and changes here and there based on needs and

560
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 2: maybe there's a couple of injuries.

561
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 3: They got to shuffle the deck a little bit.

562
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Speaker 2: But we are asking you based on, you know, some

563
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 2: of the up and coming players, maybe some of the

564
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Speaker 2: new additions.

565
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 3: Maybe a player who had.

566
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Speaker 2: A down season last year and is ready to kind

567
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 2: of revitalize his career. Which Bill's player will arrive.

568
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Speaker 3: In twenty twenty three.

569
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Speaker 2: Maybe it's an under the radar guy that really didn't

570
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 2: get as much as many opportunities on the field as

571
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Speaker 2: maybe some thought he should. Maybe it's somebody, as I said,

572
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 2: you had a down year last year, but has all

573
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 2: the potential in the world. Give us a Bills player

574
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 2: that you think will arrive in terms of production and

575
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Speaker 2: performance in twenty twenty three. Eighth three five fifty is

576
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Speaker 2: the local number to get on board outside the immediate

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Speaker 2: calling area. One eight eight eight five point fifty two

578
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 2: five point fifty, we've got nothing but open lines for

579
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Speaker 2: you and time to talk.

580
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 3: If you can't talk on the phone, you can always

581
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Speaker 3: hit us up on the tweets sheet at one Bill's Live.

582
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 3: Find your player, let us know who it is. Which

583
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 3: Bills player.

584
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Speaker 2: Will arrive in twenty twenty three Break time for us,

585
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 2: But Steve and I back in a second. Here on

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Speaker 2: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

587
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Speaker 3: So One of Bill's Live. Are you okay?

588
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 4: No, I'm not all right? What's what's wrong with those

589
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 4: who watch the show. No, it's a quintessential Monday.

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Speaker 3: You know.

591
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Speaker 4: I go in and I'm a I'm a diet doctor guy, right,

592
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 4: and we got a little fridge out there, and they

593
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 4: keep it stocked for us, you know, so we have

594
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Speaker 4: stuff to drink here on the well. The pull tab

595
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 4: on the can of soda snapped off in my hand, right,

596
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Speaker 4: but then it also got a pinhole. To make a

597
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Speaker 4: long story short, I trying and trying to save the

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Speaker 4: last diet cola that I had out there, the diet

599
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Speaker 4: Doctor pepper that I always drink. The last one was

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Speaker 4: cold in the fridge. I was trying to salvage it

601
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Speaker 4: because it got broken.

602
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Speaker 3: So you're trying to find a way to open it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well yeah, I'm wearing it now.

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00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 2: So what what was your could not what was your

605
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Speaker 2: second tool of choice to try to pry the can open?

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Speaker 4: Well, it was a it's a ballpoint pen trying, you know,

607
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Speaker 4: trying to break that risk.

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Speaker 3: That is risky.

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Speaker 4: I'm yeah. So the control room had to laugh at

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Speaker 4: my expense.

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00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 2: So it is you know, what is not around much anymore,

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Speaker 2: like just in the office or things like that. A

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Speaker 2: can opener people, you know, sometimes people that have can

614
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 2: openers and stuff, you know, the kind that you just

615
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Speaker 2: clicked the edge of a can to put the airhole in.

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Speaker 3: That would have helped you. That would have helped you.

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Speaker 2: But no, but no, not nearly as popular as it

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Speaker 2: used to be in the past.

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Speaker 4: It was yeah, I'm sorry, some everyone's while everyone's amound.

620
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Speaker 4: My doddering oldness bubbles to the surface and I look

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Speaker 4: like it.

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Speaker 2: No pun intended as effervescent as your soda beverage apparently was. Uh.

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Speaker 3: We do want to get to the phones though.

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Speaker 2: At eight oh three oh five point fifty open line

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Speaker 2: for you there one eight eight eight five fifty two

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Speaker 2: five fifty. As we are asking you which Bills player

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00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 2: will arrive in twenty twenty three, someone who's performance and

628
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Speaker 2: production you believe will take off this coming fall.

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Speaker 3: Leading us off today is Jeff in Buffalo. What do

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Speaker 3: you got for his? Jeff here on One Bill's Life.

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Speaker 6: Hi guys, how you guys doing too well? All right?

632
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Speaker 6: My guy is Baile Inspector, and I don't understand why

633
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Speaker 6: he didn't get on the field more last year after

634
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Speaker 6: having a great as far as I was concerned, a

635
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Speaker 6: great preseason. You didn't see much of him. And you know,

636
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Speaker 6: I equated to baseball when a guy is going three

637
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Speaker 6: for four and all of a sudden you put in

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Speaker 6: a pinch hitter for him in the in the ninth inning.

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Speaker 6: So that's my guy is Baile Inspector. So you know,

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Speaker 6: go ahead and discuss.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we had him. He surfaced for us when you

642
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 4: went back and looked at his athletic stuff from last

643
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 4: year's combines. Really athletic guy, I mean, he tested out

644
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 4: really well, was an active roster member, played special teams

645
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 4: last year. Was not the first guy to get on

646
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Speaker 4: the field when Tremaine Edmonds came off for any reason

647
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 4: or even in blowout losses where they tried in the

648
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 4: early in the year where they started getting guys sprinkled in.

649
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Speaker 4: Spector wasn't a guy that they got in real quick.

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Speaker 4: He got on a couple of times with some injuries

651
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Speaker 4: and like I said, late in games. But his athleticism

652
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Speaker 4: speaks volumes. I mean the guys they drafted him for

653
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Speaker 4: a reason and he played special teams and was on

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Speaker 4: the NFL level athletically because he showed that. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: we have talked about off the air, Brownie and I

656
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Speaker 4: have talked about Spector is a guy who has sneaky athleticism.

657
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Speaker 4: We'll see if he makes the most of these reps

658
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Speaker 4: that he's going to get in this preseason, because I

659
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 4: would imagine we don't know yet because we haven't seen.

660
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Speaker 4: I would imagine they're going to rotate these guys through

661
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 4: and find a guy. The draft picks Spector, Dodson, AJ Klein,

662
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 4: all of them, they're all going to get work through there.

663
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Speaker 4: Bernard yeaheah, So yeah, I mean Specter.

664
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Speaker 2: I do believe he's first of all, he's got a

665
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Speaker 2: little bit more body thickness to him than maybe Terrell Bernard.

666
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 2: He's kind of more in the Tyrrell Dotson body type,

667
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 2: a little taller and a little thicker, and he was productive.

668
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Speaker 2: I mean, he was productive in college. His tackle count

669
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Speaker 2: went up every single year as a starter. You know,

670
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 2: seventy two tackles, ten and a half for loss, four

671
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 2: and a half sacks, two forced fumbles in his junior

672
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 2: year at Clemson was honorable mention. All Acc led the

673
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,879
Speaker 2: team in tackles and sacks. Then in twenty twenty one,

674
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Speaker 2: eighty five tackles, four and a half tackles for loss,

675
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Speaker 2: two and a half sacks, another forest fumble, couple pass

676
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 2: breakups in a pick, honorable mention all Acc and that

677
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 2: was with missing two games due to injury. So he

678
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,240
Speaker 2: had the body of work coming out of school. Seventh

679
00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 2: round pick here a year ago. And he was playing

680
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 2: on special teams most weeks. I think there were a

681
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 2: couple of weeks where he was inactive. You know, he

682
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 2: was a he was a fringe weekly active guy, and

683
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 2: he played on special teams. Didn't get a lot of

684
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 2: looks on the defensive side of the ball during the

685
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 2: regular season. But yeah, there's no reason to not put

686
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 2: him firmly in the mix.

687
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 3: It's for the starting middle linebacker job. We just have

688
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 3: to see how it shakes out.

689
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 4: It's really hard to get a handle on what they

690
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 4: think about these guys like Dodson, aj Klein, blen Specter,

691
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Speaker 4: even Bernard, because they so rarely changed out personnel on

692
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 4: the defense, same eleven guys they changed. Now they we

693
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 4: all know they rotated the defensive line out, but once

694
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Speaker 4: you get in the secondary, unless there was an injury

695
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 4: like there was to Micah Hyde or to Poyer or whoever,

696
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 4: and Tredavious White coming in and out of the lineup

697
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 4: at Thanksgiving, there was never any change. Once they started

698
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 4: a game, that's who's that's who's gonna play, rotating the

699
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,720
Speaker 4: D line and the line and DB's they were gonna

700
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 4: stay on the field. So it was really hard to

701
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 4: get a handle on who they liked, who they didn't like,

702
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 4: Why they liked this guy better than that guy. We

703
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 4: never saw him take any reps. So yeah, I'm that's

704
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 4: a it's a good answer to say, Baile inspector, but

705
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 4: we don't know.

706
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Speaker 2: Well, no, but I like the fact that you know,

707
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 2: you got Bill's fans thinking beyond the obvious, and I

708
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,839
Speaker 2: think Bayle inspector in some ways this is no knock

709
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 2: on him, But I just think because fans haven't seen

710
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 2: him on the field on defense, he's kind of an

711
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 2: under the radar guy for most fans the same thing

712
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 2: because they haven't seen him outside of preseason last year.

713
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think that's an interesting choice, and I

714
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 2: don't think it's an outlandish one by any means, because

715
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 2: that middle linebacker competition's open.

716
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:55,799
Speaker 3: It is open season for.

717
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Speaker 2: The middle linebacker spot, and we know the history of

718
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:02,879
Speaker 2: this coaching staff. As much as possible, they give every

719
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 2: last person that they believe is worthy a fair shot

720
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 2: to prove themselves. Inspector falls into that category. So we

721
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 2: shall see. Let's go to Brian and Alabama. X. What

722
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 2: do you got for us? Brian, you're on One Bill's Live.

723
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Speaker 7: Hey, good afternoon, fellows. How you guys going.

724
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Speaker 3: We're doing well.

725
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Speaker 7: So my choice, I think it would kind of be

726
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 7: easy to say, say James Cook, But I'm gonna go

727
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:28,240
Speaker 7: with Trent Shairfield just because I'm just kind of looking

728
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 7: at his tapes in the past. He seems to have

729
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 7: better separation than a little bit more speed than gave Davis,

730
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,920
Speaker 7: and I feel like his impact can be similar to

731
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Speaker 7: what John Brown had for us a few years ago,

732
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 7: not saying that they're the exact same player, but just

733
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:47,760
Speaker 7: that impact that he could possibly have because you wouldn't

734
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 7: be able to target on him as much as they

735
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 7: did John Brown when he first came to Buffalo because

736
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,399
Speaker 7: of all the other weapons that that the Bills have now,

737
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 7: So Trent Shairfield would be my pig.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I like the reasoning behind that, Brian, thanks for

739
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 2: the call. I mean you can say this, Steve, he

740
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 2: got probably the most snaps that he's ever had on

741
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 2: the offensive side of the ball in his career with

742
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 2: Miami last season on a roster, by the way, where

743
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 2: the only two receivers that saw saw more time on

744
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,479
Speaker 2: the field than him were Jaylen Waannell and Tyreek Hill.

745
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 2: So he was essentially their third guy in the pecking order.

746
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 2: And you know, he comes up with thirty receptions and

747
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 2: a couple of touchdowns I think four hundred and seventeen

748
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 2: or so yards you know, receiving. He produced based on

749
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Speaker 2: the role he was afforded because he only had fifty

750
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 2: one targets, you know, the whole season, and he only

751
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:48,879
Speaker 2: made four starts. So made some plays for them, and

752
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 2: it was clear that the coaching staff felt comfortable putting

753
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 2: him in there, you know, working in the slots, some

754
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 2: working outside some. But you talk to anybody down in Miami,

755
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,399
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that coach McDaniel liked what he got

756
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 2: out of Srfield.

757
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Speaker 3: Who you know, even.

758
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Speaker 2: Though he's only like, what is he six ' to one?

759
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 2: I think yeah, six' one two nineteen. I think he

760
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 2: plays a little bit bigger than that, particularly in contested situations.

761
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 2: And I think he plays faster than any times too,

762
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Speaker 2: So I think there's something there.

763
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Speaker 4: The presence he forged for himself in that roster last

764
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 4: year is pretty impressive, and you know, kind that's kind

765
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Speaker 4: of the role you would envision for him here in

766
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Speaker 4: Buffalo if he was gonna go in there and compete

767
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Speaker 4: with Gabe Davis. That's one thing, but also you know,

768
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Speaker 4: finding a slot, either a spot either in the slot

769
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Speaker 4: or as a fourth wide or whoever that's on the field.

770
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Speaker 4: If he's not on the in the first three. It's

771
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Speaker 4: really intriguing to see that he's already done that. And

772
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Speaker 4: he with the limited number of targets he got last year,

773
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Speaker 4: with the fifty four targets he got, the guy was

774
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Speaker 4: a high percentage, high efficiency target for an offense that

775
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Speaker 4: you're only going to get so many opportunities. I think

776
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Speaker 4: he's really intriguing for that, I really do, and I'm

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Speaker 4: I'm kind of with you, Brian, I'm kind of excited

778
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Speaker 4: to see what he can do. You kind of forget

779
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 4: he's in the fold. Him and Deontay Hardy with all

780
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:21,399
Speaker 4: the stuff that's feeling. They feel like forgotten guys because

781
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,799
Speaker 4: they signed him early in free agency. But those guys

782
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:28,760
Speaker 4: are weapons, and their weapons who looked in their last

783
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Speaker 4: stop Hardy in New Orleans and Sherfield in Miami. They

784
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 4: look like guys on the cusp of exploding, just like

785
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:37,879
Speaker 4: we're asking today, who's going to arrive? One of these

786
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 4: guys is a really good candidate, particularly in an offense

787
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Speaker 4: that's looking for more outlets.

788
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Speaker 2: Let's go back to the phones and we go to

789
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Speaker 2: Ron in Dunkirk next.

790
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Speaker 3: What do you got for us?

791
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 2: Ron?

792
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Speaker 3: You're all one? Bill's live?

793
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Speaker 8: Oh thanks for having me on sure?

794
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 9: And I think that.

795
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Speaker 8: It's going to be Gave Davis that arrives this year.

796
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:03,919
Speaker 8: Between his injuries last year slowed him down a ton.

797
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 8: It's a contract year, I believe for him. So I

798
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 8: think I think he's gonna step up this year.

799
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,840
Speaker 2: Okay, and so last year, as we know Ron just

800
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 2: quick before you go, we know that he his catch

801
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 2: eight was down, it was fifty two. Do you have

802
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,799
Speaker 2: any lingering concerns about that or you just think he

803
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:28,760
Speaker 2: bounces back and he's back back to what we're maybe

804
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 2: more used to seeing a more sure handed player.

805
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:34,800
Speaker 8: I think he comes back. I think the injuries played

806
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 8: a major role in it. He thought through him and

807
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 8: like I said, I believe this is his contract year

808
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 8: which is going to get more all right, And to

809
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 8: see buddies like Isaiah McKenzie mackenzie leave the team, you know,

810
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 8: I mean he knows he's got to produce or else.

811
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's a good point. Motivation is always enormous

812
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 4: with pro as athletes. Highly motivated guys seem to be

813
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 4: more successful. It's all there is to it. And it's

814
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:11,720
Speaker 4: not rocket science. And millions of dollars on the line

815
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 4: is usually a pretty pretty high degree of motivation for

816
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 4: a lot of people. Well, and these guys are no different.

817
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's a good observation. Plus feeling better, being healthy, man,

818
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 4: it always gives you a nice you know, just a

819
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 4: refreshed approach to the game. He's probably right, Yeah, And.

820
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 2: I think there are a lot of people in you know,

821
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 2: among the Bills fan base that are really pulling for

822
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 2: Gabe Davis. I think are they disappointed, you know, with

823
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 2: the season he had last year at times? Sure, I

824
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 2: think everybody would like to see Gabe be a more

825
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:46,919
Speaker 2: consistent playmaker rather than in every other week or maybe

826
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,879
Speaker 2: every three week playmaker. And I'm sure he would say

827
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 2: the same thing. He wants to deliver just as much

828
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 2: as anybody else would like to see him deliver. So

829
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of people pulling for him

830
00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 2: to have a.

831
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Speaker 3: Big year this season as well. We have to take

832
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 3: a break.

833
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 2: When we come back, more of your phone calls, John

834
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 2: and Snyder, Joe and Cheek Diwagga. You'll lead us off

835
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 2: when we return here on one Bill's Live. Stay tuned, hey, everybody,

836
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844
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 2: where we are asking you who is the Bills player

845
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 2: that you believe will arrive in twenty twenty three in

846
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 2: terms of production and performance. Back to the phones, we

847
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 2: go into John in Senyder, What do you got for us?

848
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:04,719
Speaker 3: John?

849
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 10: Oh ya, I's gonna afternoon. This is slightly off topic,

850
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 10: but when it comes time to make the final cuts,

851
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 10: did the coaches ask the players what they think? Would

852
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:17,439
Speaker 10: they ask Diggs who's the toughest guy they he has

853
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 10: to play against? Would they ask von Miller who's the

854
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 10: hardest offensive lineman that he competes against? I mean, you

855
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 10: can only watch take so long? Do they get input

856
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 10: from the players?

857
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, they wouldn't go to him specifically, John, They would.

858
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:34,359
Speaker 4: It would come up in films, the position coach would talk.

859
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:37,439
Speaker 4: Would they would have conversations every day about the guys

860
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:39,319
Speaker 4: that are going against, why they're doing well, why they're

861
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 4: not doing well?

862
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 3: Uh?

863
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,800
Speaker 4: And it would go back. They start by talking against

864
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 4: about themselves. You're doing this, you're doing that, we're doing this,

865
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:49,839
Speaker 4: we're doing that. Then they'll as you go in one

866
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 4: on ones against these guys. That comes up through the

867
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:55,839
Speaker 4: conversation as you watch films, because you watch you watch

868
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 4: each other practice all day every day, and then you

869
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 4: go you practice against him, then you can to watch it.

870
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 4: Then you come out the next day and practice again.

871
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 4: Then you watch that too, and it goes day after

872
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 4: day after day, so that the opinions of the players

873
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 4: are known intrinsically. It's not like a specific conversation, although

874
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 4: that would happen most notably Josh Allen this, Hey, Josh,

875
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 4: you like Sherfield or Hardy better? And you'll say, well,

876
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 4: I like Hurt sure feel better for this and this

877
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 4: and this, Or he'd say I like Hardy better because

878
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,399
Speaker 4: of this, this and this. He would have a say yea,

879
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 4: and who he's throwing the football to not so much.

880
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 2: You have better on field chemistry with It wouldn't really

881
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:33,800
Speaker 2: only have room on the roster.

882
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 3: To keep one of these guys.

883
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 4: It wouldn't be so much about the DB's he's facing.

884
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 4: It would be more about the guys he's throwing to

885
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 4: in that case. But you're right in offensive versus defensive

886
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 4: line and and DB's versus wide receivers. That would come up,

887
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 4: and the and the position coaches would know the guy's

888
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 4: opinions because of the film conversations to.

889
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 3: Joe in cheek to Augan, next, what do you have, Joe?

890
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 9: Okay, I'm know I'm going to ruffle some feathers here

891
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 9: big time. I know it. But I think the biggest

892
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:09,839
Speaker 9: person on the hot seat is McDermott. I mean, our

893
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 9: window was closing fast. We've had an elite team for

894
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:18,919
Speaker 9: the last three years. He hires these coaches, he picks

895
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 9: the players. He reminds me of Chuck Knox. A great organizer,

896
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 9: brings in quality people that cannot win the big one.

897
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 9: And I know I respect him as a person as

898
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 9: a man, But what does he want with all this talent?

899
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 4: As he wanted to show Joe, why do you think

900
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 4: the windows closing?

901
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 9: Everybody's catching up to our offense? Our defense can't stop anybody.

902
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 9: Come on now, Okay, wait a minute, Joe.

903
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 4: You know we were number two in the league in

904
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 4: scoring last year with a brand new offensive coordinator and

905
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 4: points against.

906
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 9: And what did he get us? What did it get

907
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:59,959
Speaker 9: us when it counted? What did we get? Nothing? Well, yeah,

908
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 9: because they'll show up in the champion in the playoffs.

909
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:06,400
Speaker 2: Well, I'll maintain that there were extenuating circumstances affecting their

910
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 2: playoff field.

911
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:11,720
Speaker 9: I understand that. I understand that, But what has okay,

912
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 9: Leslie Fraser? When Josh was it a second year in

913
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 9: the league, when he was in a playoff game? Was

914
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 9: it Houston or yeah? Yeah, we were winning at halftime

915
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 9: by thirteen points. If I'm not mistaken, sixteen how could

916
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 9: we lose that game?

917
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:29,800
Speaker 4: Well, that's good, Yeah, I get it.

918
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:33,839
Speaker 9: Go to Kansas City. Leslie Fraser never would have made

919
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:37,320
Speaker 9: the plane ride home if I was If I was

920
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 9: running it, he never would have made the plane ride home.

921
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:43,880
Speaker 2: Look, come on, yeah, Joe, I understand Joe. I understand

922
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,440
Speaker 2: where you're coming from. And the playoff failures are frustrating.

923
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 2: I don't think there's any question about it. I don't

924
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:52,439
Speaker 2: think it means that your head coach is unqualified. I mean,

925
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 2: there was another guy about twenty years ago that they

926
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:57,359
Speaker 2: said couldn't win the big One either.

927
00:47:57,400 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 4: You know.

928
00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:02,240
Speaker 2: His name is Andy Reid. Went to the NFC title

929
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 2: game four times, couldn't get to the Super Bowl. Yeah, Well,

930
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 2: and then he finally did, and he didn't win the

931
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:11,720
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. They lost to New England in two thousand

932
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 2: and five. But that was another guy they said couldn't

933
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 2: win the big one. So yeah, and he ultimately did

934
00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 2: lose his job in Philadelphia because he couldn't get over

935
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 2: the hump. So look, I understand where you're coming from,

936
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 2: but that doesn't mean Andy Reid isn't a good coach,

937
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,400
Speaker 2: and doesn't mean Sean McDermott isn't a good coach either.

938
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 4: I've said, and you're right. I'll agree with you in

939
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 4: this point, Joe. They do have an elite team. They've

940
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 4: had it, and I said it, they've had it for

941
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,720
Speaker 4: three years. And it's not that. And I don't believe,

942
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:43,720
Speaker 4: like a lot of people do, that there's some sort

943
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 4: of thing that has to happen to get you over

944
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:50,280
Speaker 4: the hump. I do not believe that there's no magic

945
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 4: elixir that that's going to waive a magic one and

946
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:54,440
Speaker 4: all of a sudden this team's good at where they

947
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:58,520
Speaker 4: weren't good enough today, but tomorrow they will be. Even

948
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 4: when they signed von Miller and if he you know,

949
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 4: if he stayed healthy and all that, there's no in

950
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 4: these draft picks that they pick, there's nothing happens that

951
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 4: is the magic elixir that says, oh yeah, now, this

952
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:14,839
Speaker 4: team's good enough. All it happens is when you get

953
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 4: to a place when you're in the division round of

954
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 4: the playoffs, or the AFC Championship, or the wild card

955
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,880
Speaker 4: round of the playoffs. On that day when that game happens,

956
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 4: you got to play well. It's no more complicated than that.

957
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 4: You've got enough talent to play well. You got enough

958
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:34,399
Speaker 4: stars to play well. You're prepared enough to play well.

959
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:37,759
Speaker 4: You just got to play well on that day. And

960
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:41,359
Speaker 4: some teams meet a team that's really playing well. They're

961
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 4: all talented, and you got to play well against a

962
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 4: really good team, and some teams don't play well in

963
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 4: that situation. Whatever I'm telling you right now, there is

964
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:53,439
Speaker 4: no magic elixir. There is no hump to get over.

965
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 4: The Bills has been over that hump for three years.

966
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 4: What you got to do is just play well on

967
00:49:57,719 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 4: the day that the season is on the line, in

968
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 4: the wild card, in the division round, in the AFC Championship,

969
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 4: and in the Super Bowl. You gotta play well on

970
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 4: those days. That's it. It's no more complicated than that.

971
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 4: They've been good enough for three years, they're gonna be

972
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:13,719
Speaker 4: that good this year, they're gonna be in the conversation

973
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 4: again this year. You gotta play well on the day

974
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 4: when your season is on the line. That's it. It's

975
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 4: no more complicated than that. And I don't think there's

976
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 4: any some philosophical shortcoming that Sean McDermott has that when

977
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:30,399
Speaker 4: it gets to be a game of certain nature, all

978
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 4: of a sudden, he's just not good enough. Yeah, no,

979
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:36,319
Speaker 4: come on, No, it's a hard league to win in.

980
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:38,919
Speaker 4: They're already good enough and they're not the only team.

981
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 4: There's a bunch of there's a handful, more than a

982
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 4: handful of teams that are good enough to go to

983
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:44,840
Speaker 4: and win it. But when it comes down to playing

984
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:46,839
Speaker 4: good on that day, you got to be the team

985
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:47,520
Speaker 4: that plays better.

986
00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:47,879
Speaker 3: Yep.

987
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 4: It's that simple.

988
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 2: And on that day last year or last January, Cincinnati

989
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:57,319
Speaker 2: played better they did. We have to take a break here,

990
00:50:57,360 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 2: but when we come back, we're gonna kick off our

991
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 2: number two with cb NFL sports writer and co host

992
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 2: of the Pick six podcast, John Breech Canna join us

993
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 2: as we talk with him about everything leading up to

994
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:11,320
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty three campaign.

995
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 3: Next Here on one Bill's Live, presented by Colida.

996
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:48,919
Speaker 1: Help this one Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health.

997
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:52,439
Speaker 2: Our number two Here on a Monday, Chris Brown, Steve

998
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 2: Tasker with you and happy to be joined now by

999
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 2: NFL writer for CBS Sports, also co host of the

1000
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 2: Pick six podcast. It is one John joining us on

1001
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:03,479
Speaker 2: the line. John, thanks for giving us some time. First

1002
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:08,640
Speaker 2: of all, Second, the schedules come out and you and

1003
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 2: your colleague Will Brinton are off and running on final

1004
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:18,359
Speaker 2: regular season record predictions. And I want to go right

1005
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 2: to the AFC East, John, because the biggest iepopper was

1006
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 2: seeing the Dolphins sitting in the AFC East basement. What

1007
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 2: can you tell us about that pick by Will?

1008
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:33,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, the one thing I'll say about the Dolphins

1009
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 5: is that, obviously everyone is assuming. It feels like, you know,

1010
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:39,799
Speaker 5: two was gonna be able to make it through an

1011
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:42,640
Speaker 5: entire season healthy, but we don't know that that's gonna happen.

1012
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:46,160
Speaker 5: He hasn't been able to do that yet, So obviously,

1013
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:48,480
Speaker 5: I think you can say the quarterback situation is actually

1014
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 5: a little bit of a question mark. And then the

1015
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,880
Speaker 5: other part of that is it feels like the Bills

1016
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:56,719
Speaker 5: are still the head of the class in the AFC East. Obviously,

1017
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 5: the New York Jets have gotten so much better when

1018
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:02,759
Speaker 5: you're talking about Aaron Rodgers at quarterback, and so it

1019
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 5: feels like they're gonna take a giant step forward in

1020
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,400
Speaker 5: twenty twenty three. And then it really comes down to

1021
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:11,239
Speaker 5: how you feel about the New England Patriots. Do you

1022
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:15,800
Speaker 5: think that Bill Belichick is going to let that team

1023
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 5: lose eleven twelve games and finish in the basement of

1024
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 5: the division or do you think he's gonna finally figure

1025
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:24,320
Speaker 5: things out and get this team back to the playoffs

1026
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:27,759
Speaker 5: after missing it last season. So I don't think this

1027
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 5: is a completely Brinson has made some crazy picks, but

1028
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 5: I will say he picked the Eagles to go to

1029
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:35,719
Speaker 5: the Super Bowl last year, and so not all some

1030
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:37,719
Speaker 5: of his crazy picks pan out, So I don't think

1031
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:38,840
Speaker 5: this one is that crazy.

1032
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:41,800
Speaker 4: And also with the Jets getting better with Aaron Rodgers,

1033
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,360
Speaker 4: no question about it. But then you look back and

1034
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:49,560
Speaker 4: I didn't realize this. They've lost fourteen straight to the

1035
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:52,360
Speaker 4: New England Patriots. Does Aaron Rodgers change that?

1036
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 11: I would hope.

1037
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:57,919
Speaker 5: So, I mean Aaron Rodgers can really exercise a few

1038
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 5: demons for the Jets. They've never been in the Eagles,

1039
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 5: they row in twelve all time in franchise history. They

1040
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 5: play the Eagles this season, like you just said, fourteen

1041
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:08,720
Speaker 5: straight against the Patriots, and I really think Aaron Rodgers

1042
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:11,319
Speaker 5: is going to relish the competition, relish the thought of

1043
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:13,799
Speaker 5: going up against the Bill Belichick deepense, something he really

1044
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 5: hasn't gotten to do very many times in his career,

1045
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:18,759
Speaker 5: and he's got a pretty stacked ross around him. So

1046
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 5: I would think the Jets can steal at least one

1047
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:23,399
Speaker 5: of these two games from New England this year.

1048
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 2: A lot of people do expect the division to be

1049
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:30,359
Speaker 2: more tightly packed, and I think the record predictions that

1050
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 2: you guys have listed there kind of reflect that Bill's

1051
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 2: twelve and five, Jets ten and seven, Patriots nine and eight,

1052
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:39,239
Speaker 2: Dolphins eight and nine. The other thing to remember here,

1053
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:42,839
Speaker 2: too is not only will these teams be beating up

1054
00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:46,439
Speaker 2: on each other, you know, with improved rosters, I think

1055
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:49,719
Speaker 2: from top to bottom most people would agree, but the

1056
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:53,400
Speaker 2: AFC East also whether you look at last year's opponents

1057
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:57,400
Speaker 2: winning percentage or even some of the advanced analytic models

1058
00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:01,359
Speaker 2: that spin it forward and predict strength of schedule based

1059
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:04,760
Speaker 2: on how their opponents will look, it's like the Bills

1060
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 2: and the Dolphins and the Jets have three of the

1061
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:11,359
Speaker 2: top I think seven toughest schedules in football this year.

1062
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:13,600
Speaker 3: It's gonna be hard to wrap up wins.

1063
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1064
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:15,719
Speaker 11: Absolutely.

1065
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 5: I think one of those issues is that you look

1066
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:21,120
Speaker 5: at the divisions they match up against. I mean, every

1067
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 5: team in the AFC East has to play the NFC East,

1068
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:26,279
Speaker 5: and the NFC East feels pretty stacked right now. When

1069
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 5: you have the Eagles, the Cowboys, the Giants. None of

1070
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 5: those games are going to be easy. And if we

1071
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 5: were to see the Bills or the Jets or even

1072
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:36,719
Speaker 5: the Dolphins go two and two or one and three

1073
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:40,440
Speaker 5: against the NFC East, at least feels possible. And then

1074
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:41,400
Speaker 5: you look at.

1075
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:42,440
Speaker 11: The rest of their schedule.

1076
00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:45,239
Speaker 5: These teams, like you just said, are gonna beat up

1077
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 5: on each other, so it doesn't feel like there's going

1078
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:51,040
Speaker 5: We saw Buffalo obviously go thirteen and three last season.

1079
00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:54,200
Speaker 5: I would be shocked if we see an AFC East

1080
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:57,840
Speaker 5: team get to the teams in the victory column in

1081
00:55:57,880 --> 00:55:59,759
Speaker 5: the season, just because of how tough each of their

1082
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:00,600
Speaker 5: skins sedules are.

1083
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:04,320
Speaker 4: Who has the most to beef about of the thirty

1084
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:06,840
Speaker 4: two teams, who's got the most to beef about about

1085
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 4: the schedule coming out.

1086
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 11: I would say, if.

1087
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 5: I'm the forty nine Ers, I'm pretty disappointed right now.

1088
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,120
Speaker 5: They are one of just two teams this year that

1089
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 5: has to play four teams that will be coming off

1090
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:21,120
Speaker 5: of by So that is four games where that team

1091
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:23,319
Speaker 5: is going to have an extra week of rest, an

1092
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 5: extra week to prepare for you and the Rams of

1093
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:27,719
Speaker 5: the other team that will have to deal with that.

1094
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 5: So you're talking about the forty nine Ers. They were

1095
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:32,320
Speaker 5: in the NFC title game last season, and the NFL

1096
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 5: schedule maker did them zero favors and kind of put

1097
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:36,320
Speaker 5: that in perspective.

1098
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:37,360
Speaker 11: There are twelve.

1099
00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 5: Teams that are playing zero teams that come off of

1100
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:41,920
Speaker 5: by and in the forty nine Ers almost a quarter

1101
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 5: of your schedule. So if I'm San Francisco, I am

1102
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:47,239
Speaker 5: definitely upset about that one. So I would say that

1103
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 5: would probably be the biggest beef that any team should have.

1104
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:53,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, Rams being the other team that are playing four

1105
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 2: teams coming off of byes on their schedule this year,

1106
00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 2: and I think any head coach in the league would

1107
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:03,319
Speaker 2: tell you that is a distinct advantage. Air Miles, I

1108
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:05,520
Speaker 2: think the Bills are fifteenth in the league in total

1109
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 2: air miles, So even with their London trip, they're still

1110
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 2: middle of the pack and they're playing the AFC West,

1111
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:13,320
Speaker 2: so pretty fortunate and no doubt playing the NFC East

1112
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:15,759
Speaker 2: helps in that regard. But you got, I mean, there's

1113
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:19,400
Speaker 2: some teams that are logging some major miles this year

1114
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:23,840
Speaker 2: like Ravens, Panthers, Broncos, Giants, Titans. Do you know, like

1115
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:28,720
Speaker 2: off hand, John, like what long? How long air miles

1116
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 2: teams typically fair or is it often not a factor

1117
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 2: in the end results when we get to final records.

1118
00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 5: Usually it's something that impacts the teams at the very

1119
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 5: top in the very bottom. I've been kind of tracking

1120
00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:44,480
Speaker 5: air miles for about the past ten years, and we've

1121
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 5: had the team that has flown the fewest miles, which

1122
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 5: is the Bengals this year, has averaged nine point six

1123
00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 5: wins per year over the past ten years.

1124
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 11: And the team that has flown the most miles.

1125
00:57:57,360 --> 00:57:59,919
Speaker 5: Which was the Buccaneers last year and the Seahawks this year,

1126
00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 5: has averaged under seven wins. I think it's like six

1127
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 5: point four, So you're talking about a three win difference

1128
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 5: when you look at the number one team and the

1129
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:11,640
Speaker 5: thirty second team. But when you get more in the middle,

1130
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:15,280
Speaker 5: there's not a huge difference just because such small discrepancies.

1131
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:18,120
Speaker 5: Teams are flying three or four hundred miles further than

1132
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 5: another one. But when it's number one versus number two,

1133
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:23,240
Speaker 5: you're talking about a team that's flying twenty two thousand,

1134
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:27,560
Speaker 5: twenty three thousand miles more, So it gets kind of ridiculous. So, yeah,

1135
00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:29,600
Speaker 5: at the top of the bottom, there does tend to

1136
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:31,720
Speaker 5: be definitely a difference.

1137
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 3: That's a big swink.

1138
00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:34,440
Speaker 4: Yeah. And as you get as you get into this,

1139
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 4: the more and more we look at this schedule, the

1140
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 4: more the more we see, and maybe since twenty twenty

1141
00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:42,360
Speaker 4: when they were forced to have games on different days,

1142
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:47,280
Speaker 4: we are seeing the league really spread its tentacles over

1143
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 4: the weekend to try and get a hold of more

1144
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 4: and more days to put games on a triple header

1145
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:57,080
Speaker 4: on a Monday, Christmas, a Black Friday game, a triple

1146
00:58:57,120 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 4: header on Thanksgiving, more different Saturday weekends. This year are

1147
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:04,320
Speaker 4: gonna have games the first time in forty years where

1148
00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 4: they've had four weekends where they're gonna have Saturday games

1149
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 4: at least one Saturday game. You know, what, what do

1150
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:14,240
Speaker 4: you think? You know? Where they go from here, and

1151
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:16,800
Speaker 4: how prevalent do you think the league will continue to

1152
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:20,960
Speaker 4: be of just kind of claiming all these holidays and

1153
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 4: weekends for their for their games.

1154
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 11: Well, it does seem like they keep dipping their toe

1155
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:26,240
Speaker 11: in the water.

1156
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 5: With Christmas, it was let's have one game, and then

1157
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:31,560
Speaker 5: it became a doubleheader. Then last year it became a

1158
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:34,680
Speaker 5: triple header, and now it's a Monday triple header. And

1159
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 5: so it does seem like they're gonna see how far

1160
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:38,840
Speaker 5: they can go. And even with the days of the

1161
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:42,040
Speaker 5: week where all right, Amazon wants a Black Friday game, Well,

1162
00:59:42,120 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 5: we've never really done anything on Friday. We're already taking

1163
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:47,720
Speaker 5: over every other holiday. Why not Black Friday? And I

1164
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:50,800
Speaker 5: think the big test will come next year when we

1165
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:54,920
Speaker 5: see Christmas on a Wednesday. I know the NFL scheduling

1166
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:57,600
Speaker 5: duru Mike North said that right now the NFL would

1167
00:59:57,640 --> 01:00:01,720
Speaker 5: probably lean against putting games on Christmas if it's on

1168
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:02,400
Speaker 5: a Wednesday.

1169
01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:05,040
Speaker 11: But look, if we go out.

1170
01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:07,840
Speaker 5: This year and that triple header is drawing thirty million

1171
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:10,200
Speaker 5: viewers per game, I think money signs are going to

1172
01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:12,439
Speaker 5: wide up in the NFL's eyes. So they're gonna think, hey,

1173
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 5: how can we make a Wednesday triple header work because

1174
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:16,800
Speaker 5: we don't want to just throw this away if we

1175
01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:19,760
Speaker 5: don't have to. So I do think if we see

1176
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:21,960
Speaker 5: a triple header on Christmas next year. But the NFL

1177
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 5: will just do anything and try to take over any

1178
01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 5: day of the week they can.

1179
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 2: Talking with John Breech, NFL writer for cbssports dot Com,

1180
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 2: and you know, I try to after I take a

1181
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:33,840
Speaker 2: long look at the bill schedule, I try to really

1182
01:00:35,080 --> 01:00:37,360
Speaker 2: go through with a fine tooth comb, you know, the

1183
01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:41,360
Speaker 2: rest of the division teams in the AFC East, And

1184
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 2: I do find it interesting, John, that you've got a

1185
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:48,040
Speaker 2: Dolphins team who's got to start with their first two

1186
01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:50,760
Speaker 2: on the road, and they're no cupcakes. I mean they're

1187
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:53,640
Speaker 2: at the Chargers, so cross country flight to start the season,

1188
01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:55,280
Speaker 2: then they're at the Patriots.

1189
01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:59,240
Speaker 4: Their first four road games are at Chargers.

1190
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:03,200
Speaker 2: At Patriots, Bills at Eagles. I'm kind of warming up

1191
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:08,120
Speaker 2: to the eight and nine record prediction that it, Yeah, it.

1192
01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:10,360
Speaker 5: Doesn't seem so crazy because look, if they get off

1193
01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:12,160
Speaker 5: to a rough start, we don't know how they're going

1194
01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:14,280
Speaker 5: to react. And that you just read out the schedule,

1195
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:16,720
Speaker 5: I mean that could be one in three zero and four.

1196
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:20,240
Speaker 5: I don't think either of those would be very surprising.

1197
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:23,000
Speaker 5: And on the flip side, when you look at Buffalo's schedule,

1198
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:26,040
Speaker 5: kind of just to start the season off, if I'm

1199
01:01:26,080 --> 01:01:29,000
Speaker 5: getting Aaron Rodgers and the Jets in week one, I'm

1200
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:30,240
Speaker 5: absolutely thrilled.

1201
01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:31,200
Speaker 4: I mean, we don't know what.

1202
01:01:31,160 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 5: Kind of chemistry Aaron Rodgers is gonna have with his receivers,

1203
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:35,919
Speaker 5: yet we don't know how comfortable he's going to look

1204
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:38,120
Speaker 5: running that offense in New York. I know it's Nathaniel

1205
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:40,880
Speaker 5: Hackett's offense, but you're running it with different guys with

1206
01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:43,720
Speaker 5: an offensive line you might not necessarily trust. And then

1207
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:46,520
Speaker 5: you look at the Bills in week two, you get

1208
01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:49,520
Speaker 5: a Raiders team that has to fly across the country

1209
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:52,880
Speaker 5: in a ten am Pacific time slot where the Raiders

1210
01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:54,840
Speaker 5: traditionally aren't good, and that's a team that went too

1211
01:01:54,880 --> 01:01:57,520
Speaker 5: and seven on the road last year. And then obviously

1212
01:01:57,560 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 5: the Commanders feels like a winnable game. So you look

1213
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 5: at the first three games and it really feels like

1214
01:02:03,240 --> 01:02:05,160
Speaker 5: the Bills could start off three to zero. And then

1215
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:07,200
Speaker 5: when you look at the other teams in the division

1216
01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:09,560
Speaker 5: and their first few games, I think that's where Buffalo

1217
01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:12,640
Speaker 5: can really separate themselves considering, you know, this division could

1218
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:13,840
Speaker 5: be tightly raced this year.

1219
01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 2: And the other part about that the Jets, they're one

1220
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:20,600
Speaker 2: of the teams that finished this season with two road games.

1221
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:24,440
Speaker 4: I know that they've got two roadies.

1222
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:26,280
Speaker 2: You know, the Steelers, the Falcons, and the Rams are

1223
01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 2: the only other teams to finish on the road the

1224
01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 2: final two weeks. If the Jets are trying to keep

1225
01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:35,320
Speaker 2: pace with Buffalo, they're gonna have to finish on the road,

1226
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:38,080
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Like I'm just picturing maybe

1227
01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:39,960
Speaker 2: if they're in the hunt and maybe they're only a

1228
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 2: game and a half back at Buffalo at the end

1229
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:44,640
Speaker 2: of the season. Now you're gonna play two road games

1230
01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:47,840
Speaker 2: at the end. That doesn't help your case necessarily.

1231
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:49,600
Speaker 11: Yeah, not at all.

1232
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:51,520
Speaker 5: I mean, when you're staring at the schedule going in

1233
01:02:51,520 --> 01:02:54,040
Speaker 5: a week seventeen, week eighteen, and maybe you're tied for

1234
01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:56,560
Speaker 5: first place or a game out of first place, and

1235
01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:58,160
Speaker 5: you know you have to go on the road in

1236
01:02:58,160 --> 01:03:01,920
Speaker 5: those final two games. When Buffet, New England, and Miami

1237
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:04,479
Speaker 5: all have at least one game at home during that span,

1238
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:07,720
Speaker 5: you're definitely a little worried and you have to go

1239
01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:10,480
Speaker 5: on the road to Cleveland, which I've heard the weather's

1240
01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:13,120
Speaker 5: not too nice there in early January, and you have

1241
01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:16,240
Speaker 5: to go to Foxborough, which same thing. So you're probably

1242
01:03:16,240 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 5: gonna get two bad weather games in those last two

1243
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:22,400
Speaker 5: weeks on the road. And so yeah, that's definitely some

1244
01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:24,200
Speaker 5: rough sledding for the Jets to end the season.

1245
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:26,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, and because we got this, there's so much we

1246
01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:27,840
Speaker 4: don't know, but there is something we do know. The

1247
01:03:27,920 --> 01:03:30,280
Speaker 4: draft just happened. We kind of get a handle on

1248
01:03:30,320 --> 01:03:32,360
Speaker 4: where these really good college players are going to go,

1249
01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:34,080
Speaker 4: where they're going to settle into. You made a nice

1250
01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:37,480
Speaker 4: bold prediction on your Rookie of the Year. Tell us

1251
01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:38,800
Speaker 4: about Anthony Richardson.

1252
01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:41,720
Speaker 11: Yeah, Look, Anthony Richardson.

1253
01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:43,800
Speaker 5: I think the one thing you want if you're looking

1254
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 5: at Rookie of the Year as far as the quarterback goes,

1255
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:49,120
Speaker 5: is you need someone who's going to play right away,

1256
01:03:49,160 --> 01:03:52,360
Speaker 5: who is going to be out there for all seventeen games.

1257
01:03:52,360 --> 01:03:54,320
Speaker 5: And I think the Colts have made it pretty clear

1258
01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:57,480
Speaker 5: that Anthony Richardson is going to be out there. We

1259
01:03:57,640 --> 01:04:00,440
Speaker 5: saw him at the Combine. He's an athletic freak. And

1260
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:02,920
Speaker 5: the other part is that he plays in the division

1261
01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:06,400
Speaker 5: that doesn't have, you know, this great team, where the

1262
01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:08,600
Speaker 5: Bills are a great team in the AFC East, the

1263
01:04:08,680 --> 01:04:11,400
Speaker 5: Chiefs are a great team in the AFC West, the

1264
01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:13,760
Speaker 5: Bengals are a great team in AFC North, and yeah,

1265
01:04:13,800 --> 01:04:14,440
Speaker 5: Jacksonville is.

1266
01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:15,000
Speaker 11: A good team.

1267
01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:17,720
Speaker 5: But look, you get six games against those teams in

1268
01:04:17,760 --> 01:04:20,440
Speaker 5: your division and they all feel somewhat winnable. So I

1269
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:23,480
Speaker 5: think if Anthony Richardson could just lead the Colts to

1270
01:04:23,920 --> 01:04:26,000
Speaker 5: six or seven wins, I mean, he doesn't even have

1271
01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:27,400
Speaker 5: to get them to the playoffs.

1272
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:29,600
Speaker 11: I think he can absolutely win Rookie of the Year.

1273
01:04:29,640 --> 01:04:31,640
Speaker 5: And it does seem like this team has enough talent

1274
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:34,200
Speaker 5: to get to six and eleven or seven and ten,

1275
01:04:34,240 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 5: which would be an improven over last year. You're a

1276
01:04:36,360 --> 01:04:39,880
Speaker 5: rookie quarterback, you start all seventeen games, and I feel

1277
01:04:39,920 --> 01:04:42,400
Speaker 5: like he can put up some pretty good numbers.

1278
01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:46,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then despite all of that, you know, while

1279
01:04:46,120 --> 01:04:50,000
Speaker 2: maybe individually his performance is good, I know that the

1280
01:04:50,080 --> 01:04:53,120
Speaker 2: hope for the Colts, even in an AFC South that

1281
01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:57,240
Speaker 2: isn't exactly a battle of the Titans snow pun intended.

1282
01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:01,800
Speaker 2: You guys got the Jaguars kind of handling that division

1283
01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:06,520
Speaker 2: without much resistance because every other team in the AFC South,

1284
01:05:06,560 --> 01:05:09,479
Speaker 2: at least according to your colleague Will Brinson, he sees

1285
01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:11,680
Speaker 2: him all finishing under five hundred. I don't think that's

1286
01:05:11,680 --> 01:05:14,200
Speaker 2: a big deal for the Texans or a Titans team

1287
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:16,880
Speaker 2: that's expected to be down this year. I think a

1288
01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:18,720
Speaker 2: lot of people thought the Colts might be able to

1289
01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:21,280
Speaker 2: get more than four wins, but I don't know, maybe not.

1290
01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:25,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, if you're a Jacksonville fan, you have

1291
01:05:25,480 --> 01:05:27,840
Speaker 5: to be thrilled looking at this, and Brinton has Jacksonville

1292
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:30,040
Speaker 5: going eleven and six, and by the way, he predicted

1293
01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:32,360
Speaker 5: them to win the division last year, so again one

1294
01:05:32,400 --> 01:05:35,280
Speaker 5: of those crazy Brinson predictions paying off. But you do

1295
01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:37,000
Speaker 5: look at the rest of that division. You're talking about

1296
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:38,600
Speaker 5: a Colts team that's going to likely be starting a

1297
01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:41,360
Speaker 5: rookie quarterback with Anthony Richardson, a Texans team that's likely

1298
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:43,720
Speaker 5: going to be starting a rookie quarterback with CJ. Stroud,

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Speaker 5: and the Titans team, who we don't even know who

1300
01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:49,240
Speaker 5: they like at quarterback, probably Ryan Tannehill starting most of

1301
01:05:49,240 --> 01:05:51,560
Speaker 5: the season, but if they struggle, maybe they throw Will

1302
01:05:51,640 --> 01:05:54,760
Speaker 5: Levis in there. So the Titans seem kind of like

1303
01:05:54,800 --> 01:05:57,200
Speaker 5: they're having an identity crisis right now. So it does

1304
01:05:57,240 --> 01:06:00,760
Speaker 5: feel like Jacksonville is far and away the best team

1305
01:06:01,080 --> 01:06:03,680
Speaker 5: in the division, but it's not a strong division, so

1306
01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:06,240
Speaker 5: that still makes them maybe the fifth or sixth best

1307
01:06:06,280 --> 01:06:07,760
Speaker 5: team in the AFC.

1308
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:10,080
Speaker 4: When you look at these divisions, like like in the AFC,

1309
01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:14,080
Speaker 4: you've seen you know, the the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Buffalo Bills,

1310
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:17,360
Speaker 4: the Kansas City Chiefs, And you go in, which of

1311
01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:20,520
Speaker 4: the divisions around the league, either AFC or NFC, which

1312
01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:23,320
Speaker 4: do you think is most up for grabs this year?

1313
01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:28,560
Speaker 5: Who I would probably have to go to the NFC.

1314
01:06:28,640 --> 01:06:32,160
Speaker 5: I think that the NFC South might be the most

1315
01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:35,520
Speaker 5: intriguing division because you look at Tampa Bay. They won

1316
01:06:35,560 --> 01:06:38,120
Speaker 5: that division with a losing record last year eight to nine.

1317
01:06:38,400 --> 01:06:40,760
Speaker 5: Tom Brady's gone, so now who's going to steal the

1318
01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:43,120
Speaker 5: mantles and Derek Carr in the Saints, it feels like

1319
01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:46,480
Speaker 5: they probably are the best bet.

1320
01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:46,840
Speaker 11: At this point.

1321
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Speaker 5: But I mean, the Falcons got seven wins last season.

1322
01:06:49,360 --> 01:06:51,880
Speaker 5: People are expecting them to win two games. Arthur Smith

1323
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:54,200
Speaker 5: decides he's going to turn the clock back and just

1324
01:06:54,400 --> 01:06:56,560
Speaker 5: run the ball like it's nineteen sixty four, and that

1325
01:06:56,680 --> 01:06:59,480
Speaker 5: panned out and that offense actually looked pretty smooth for

1326
01:06:59,560 --> 01:07:00,440
Speaker 5: most of this season.

1327
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Speaker 11: And then obviously the Carolina.

1328
01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:04,560
Speaker 5: Panthers are in there, who they feel like they have

1329
01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:06,600
Speaker 5: a very talented roster and if they can get their

1330
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:09,919
Speaker 5: quarterback situation figured out, you know, Bryce Young pans out,

1331
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:11,960
Speaker 5: that team could be really good. So I feel like

1332
01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:14,960
Speaker 5: the NFC South is probably the most up for grabs.

1333
01:07:15,600 --> 01:07:18,760
Speaker 2: And look, I know this offseason the Detroit Lions have

1334
01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:21,400
Speaker 2: been kind of a sexy pick, and apparently they were

1335
01:07:21,400 --> 01:07:23,720
Speaker 2: a sexy pick as far as the NFL schedule makers

1336
01:07:23,720 --> 01:07:26,439
Speaker 2: were concerned as well, because they got him playing Week

1337
01:07:26,480 --> 01:07:30,040
Speaker 2: one in the kickoff game against the defending Super Bowl champs.

1338
01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:34,480
Speaker 2: How much were your eyebrows raised by Detroit being the

1339
01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:37,000
Speaker 2: pick for that spot on that stage?

1340
01:07:38,320 --> 01:07:40,760
Speaker 11: Yeah, I was totally shocked there. I mean, this is

1341
01:07:40,760 --> 01:07:42,000
Speaker 11: one of those you spit out.

1342
01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:44,240
Speaker 5: Your coffee and I wasn't even drinking coffee, that's how

1343
01:07:44,240 --> 01:07:46,600
Speaker 5: crazy this one was. This is you're talking about a

1344
01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:49,960
Speaker 5: Lions team that I mean, you look at last year's game.

1345
01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:52,240
Speaker 5: You know, we've seen the Buccaneers and the Cowboys in

1346
01:07:52,280 --> 01:07:55,640
Speaker 5: this game recently, so it's usually two headline teams that

1347
01:07:55,680 --> 01:07:57,760
Speaker 5: the NFL puts there, but it feels like they kind

1348
01:07:57,760 --> 01:08:00,360
Speaker 5: of changed their philosophy this year and they said, you

1349
01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:02,360
Speaker 5: know what, that Week one game is gonna get huge

1350
01:08:02,440 --> 01:08:04,440
Speaker 5: ratings no matter who we put there. So let's not

1351
01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:07,880
Speaker 5: do Chiefs Eagles, Let's not do Chiefs spangles, let's not

1352
01:08:07,920 --> 01:08:08,680
Speaker 5: do Chiefs bills.

1353
01:08:08,680 --> 01:08:10,800
Speaker 11: We'll save those for later the season, and we'll just

1354
01:08:10,840 --> 01:08:13,000
Speaker 11: throw the Lions in there. People kind of like them,

1355
01:08:13,040 --> 01:08:13,760
Speaker 11: They're plucky.

1356
01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:16,479
Speaker 5: No one has negative or positive feelings about the lines

1357
01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:18,840
Speaker 5: are just in different and hopefully this will turn into

1358
01:08:18,920 --> 01:08:21,439
Speaker 5: the Patrick Mahomes Jared Goff battle we saw a few

1359
01:08:21,520 --> 01:08:24,000
Speaker 5: years ago when the fifty four to fifty one game.

1360
01:08:24,640 --> 01:08:27,320
Speaker 5: So yeah, I was absolutely shocked, but I don't hate

1361
01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:28,800
Speaker 5: the pick. I think the Lions could be fun to

1362
01:08:28,840 --> 01:08:30,920
Speaker 5: watch the season, and why not watch them in Week

1363
01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:32,720
Speaker 5: one because I feel like that might be the only

1364
01:08:32,760 --> 01:08:35,720
Speaker 5: week where most of America watches an entire Lions game.

1365
01:08:35,800 --> 01:08:37,439
Speaker 4: Good stuff, John, thanks so much.

1366
01:08:38,520 --> 01:08:39,599
Speaker 11: Yup, thanks for having me. Guys.

1367
01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:43,760
Speaker 2: All right, that's John Breech, sport NFL writer for cbosports

1368
01:08:43,800 --> 01:08:46,640
Speaker 2: dot com. And we got a lot of stuff up

1369
01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:50,240
Speaker 2: there about the schedule around the league, not just one team,

1370
01:08:50,280 --> 01:08:52,839
Speaker 2: but they kind of assessed some of the scheduling quirks

1371
01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:55,360
Speaker 2: that are out there, Like the Lions, for example, are

1372
01:08:55,400 --> 01:08:56,960
Speaker 2: playing on three Thursdays.

1373
01:08:57,000 --> 01:08:58,280
Speaker 3: It's not just the kickoff game.

1374
01:08:58,320 --> 01:09:00,880
Speaker 2: They obviously have the Thanksgiving game every and then they

1375
01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:03,519
Speaker 2: have another Thursday game. All in the first twelve weeks

1376
01:09:03,520 --> 01:09:05,559
Speaker 2: of the season they got three Thursday games, so little

1377
01:09:05,560 --> 01:09:08,599
Speaker 2: scheduling quirks like that. John and some of the other

1378
01:09:08,600 --> 01:09:10,800
Speaker 2: writers at CBS sports dot com kind of dice it

1379
01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:13,360
Speaker 2: up and just present it to you. But I always

1380
01:09:13,360 --> 01:09:17,719
Speaker 2: find the schedule that's tough at the start of the season.

1381
01:09:17,760 --> 01:09:19,200
Speaker 3: How do teams respond to that?

1382
01:09:19,880 --> 01:09:21,760
Speaker 2: And Steve, I'm just telling you remember a few years

1383
01:09:21,800 --> 01:09:23,360
Speaker 2: ago when I told you that the Dolphins had a

1384
01:09:23,400 --> 01:09:26,040
Speaker 2: tough start to the schedule in terms of their opponents

1385
01:09:26,080 --> 01:09:28,479
Speaker 2: and they did not qualify for the playoffs. Brian Flores

1386
01:09:28,479 --> 01:09:31,160
Speaker 2: gets fired, even though they finished strong, and maybe there

1387
01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:33,360
Speaker 2: were some other circumstances behind that, as we would find

1388
01:09:33,400 --> 01:09:35,920
Speaker 2: out later. But this year it reads kind of the

1389
01:09:35,960 --> 01:09:37,240
Speaker 2: same for the Dolphins.

1390
01:09:37,320 --> 01:09:41,280
Speaker 3: The start of their schedule is tough. Three of their

1391
01:09:41,320 --> 01:09:45,519
Speaker 3: first four on the road and it's Chargers, Patriots, and Bills,

1392
01:09:45,880 --> 01:09:48,519
Speaker 3: and then their fourth road game is against the Eagles

1393
01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:49,639
Speaker 3: two weeks later.

1394
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think, yeah, this is a kind of

1395
01:09:53,760 --> 01:09:56,320
Speaker 4: season the ways you know, kind of lays out for

1396
01:09:56,360 --> 01:10:00,680
Speaker 4: the Dolphins. There could be some enormous pressure in that

1397
01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:03,639
Speaker 4: building in the first six weeks of that season.

1398
01:10:03,960 --> 01:10:07,200
Speaker 3: I mean, even that Giants home game is not a Gimmey, Well.

1399
01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:09,439
Speaker 4: What happens if you know, the Panthers come in and

1400
01:10:09,520 --> 01:10:11,320
Speaker 4: just play well, you know, I mean if they have

1401
01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:15,479
Speaker 4: you know, certainly the Patriots are no gimme. The Chargers

1402
01:10:15,520 --> 01:10:17,560
Speaker 4: are fully are really talented. They're gonna get him on

1403
01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:21,800
Speaker 4: Week one when they're really healthy. The Broncos, okay, no

1404
01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:25,200
Speaker 4: question the Miami will think be the favorite in that game.

1405
01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:31,080
Speaker 4: Bills and Giants and Panthers. Giants and Panthers I still

1406
01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:34,680
Speaker 4: think are still a question mark. But yeah, if the

1407
01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:38,320
Speaker 4: Dolphins go too deep into that schedule and don't have

1408
01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:41,640
Speaker 4: a five hundred or better record, they're in trouble. I

1409
01:10:41,640 --> 01:10:44,720
Speaker 4: don't know if they're in trouble, but the pressure's gonna mount.

1410
01:10:45,160 --> 01:10:47,200
Speaker 4: And you just don't get the feeling that there's not

1411
01:10:47,360 --> 01:10:50,800
Speaker 4: much patience for Mike McDaniel, who you know, is kind

1412
01:10:50,800 --> 01:10:53,240
Speaker 4: of that he's not the dynamic leader's got the kind

1413
01:10:53,240 --> 01:10:55,400
Speaker 4: of guy the fans rally around, the players seem to

1414
01:10:55,439 --> 01:10:57,200
Speaker 4: like him a lot. They played very well for him

1415
01:10:57,240 --> 01:11:02,160
Speaker 4: last year, got him to the postseason. Yeah, I really

1416
01:11:02,200 --> 01:11:04,880
Speaker 4: felt like there was no time last year where the

1417
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:07,800
Speaker 4: pressure was really pounding on those guys. And if they

1418
01:11:07,800 --> 01:11:09,800
Speaker 4: get to a point where they're get deep, too deep

1419
01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:12,439
Speaker 4: into the season, where they're not above five hundred, I

1420
01:11:12,439 --> 01:11:13,960
Speaker 4: think that changes fast.

1421
01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:16,080
Speaker 2: And the reason why you just say, Okay, they got

1422
01:11:16,080 --> 01:11:18,000
Speaker 2: all these road games at the beginning of the year

1423
01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:20,080
Speaker 2: and four of their.

1424
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:22,120
Speaker 4: Last five are at home, might be too late.

1425
01:11:22,720 --> 01:11:25,639
Speaker 2: Well, right, and even if it isn't, look who they

1426
01:11:25,680 --> 01:11:27,040
Speaker 2: have at the end of the season.

1427
01:11:27,880 --> 01:11:29,320
Speaker 3: They've get the Jets at home.

1428
01:11:29,400 --> 01:11:33,600
Speaker 2: That's not easy, Cowboys at home at the Ravens, and

1429
01:11:33,640 --> 01:11:36,280
Speaker 2: then the Bills to finish. Like, if you're two or

1430
01:11:36,280 --> 01:11:40,439
Speaker 2: three games under five hundred and you get to week fifteen.

1431
01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:45,400
Speaker 4: Just call it some of the oh hey, dead on arrival. Yeah,

1432
01:11:45,439 --> 01:11:47,200
Speaker 4: some of that's gonna be on how good the Jets

1433
01:11:47,200 --> 01:11:49,280
Speaker 4: are playing, how the Cowboys are doing. You gotta think

1434
01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:51,599
Speaker 4: the Cowboys are gonna be at least in the hunt.

1435
01:11:51,960 --> 01:11:53,920
Speaker 4: The Ravens have every reason to believe they're gonna be

1436
01:11:54,040 --> 01:11:57,000
Speaker 4: like at the top of that division, and of course

1437
01:11:57,000 --> 01:12:00,320
Speaker 4: the Bills. The Bills are gonna be thinking, you'd be

1438
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:03,000
Speaker 4: It's not out of the realm of possibility. The Bills

1439
01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:05,360
Speaker 4: are thinking a number one seed, right, so.

1440
01:12:05,479 --> 01:12:07,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, they might need that game. It's right, you're saying, yeah.

1441
01:12:07,680 --> 01:12:12,200
Speaker 4: So those are four games in the season. If they

1442
01:12:12,280 --> 01:12:13,800
Speaker 4: need those, if they need to go three and one

1443
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:18,360
Speaker 4: to get in, that's a tall order. That's a tall order.

1444
01:12:19,479 --> 01:12:22,280
Speaker 3: I mean, those are all like quality teams.

1445
01:12:22,280 --> 01:12:25,200
Speaker 2: The Ravens did not make the playoffs last year, but

1446
01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:28,000
Speaker 2: I think if Lamar is healthy throughout the season, most

1447
01:12:28,040 --> 01:12:29,719
Speaker 2: people would pick the Ravens to make the player.

1448
01:12:29,800 --> 01:12:31,519
Speaker 4: There's a chance, you know, Lamar may not be on

1449
01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:32,479
Speaker 4: the field at that de two.

1450
01:12:32,520 --> 01:12:33,040
Speaker 3: It might not be.

1451
01:12:34,160 --> 01:12:34,920
Speaker 4: If two is not on.

1452
01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:38,240
Speaker 3: The field, forget it, Mike White, let's go.

1453
01:12:39,479 --> 01:12:41,960
Speaker 4: He's their backup. Yeah, Mike what?

1454
01:12:43,200 --> 01:12:43,519
Speaker 3: Oh?

1455
01:12:43,560 --> 01:12:44,840
Speaker 4: Man? Uh yeah.

1456
01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:46,200
Speaker 3: I That's the thing I do.

1457
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:49,240
Speaker 2: After I kind of digest the Bills schedule, I go

1458
01:12:49,280 --> 01:12:50,960
Speaker 2: to the rest of the teams in the division just

1459
01:12:51,040 --> 01:12:52,640
Speaker 2: kind of dissect things. And I was looking at the

1460
01:12:52,680 --> 01:12:55,200
Speaker 2: Miami schedule over the weekend, going man alive.

1461
01:12:55,520 --> 01:12:56,320
Speaker 4: That is a bear.

1462
01:12:57,000 --> 01:12:58,559
Speaker 3: It is a bear of a schedule.

1463
01:12:58,800 --> 01:13:01,400
Speaker 2: Like there is no I mean, there might be a

1464
01:13:01,439 --> 01:13:03,719
Speaker 2: couple of game where you're like, all right, Dolphins should

1465
01:13:03,720 --> 01:13:04,080
Speaker 2: have that one.

1466
01:13:04,160 --> 01:13:05,439
Speaker 3: Uh, Dolphins should have that one.

1467
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:10,960
Speaker 2: But then it's like at Eagles at Chiefs, it's like

1468
01:13:10,200 --> 01:13:11,120
Speaker 2: whoa Like.

1469
01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:14,000
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, they got the Titans and stuff in

1470
01:13:14,040 --> 01:13:15,000
Speaker 4: there mixed in there.

1471
01:13:15,439 --> 01:13:19,639
Speaker 3: But yeah, there's some toughies in there for them for sure.

1472
01:13:19,680 --> 01:13:21,840
Speaker 4: If here's the thing, if they get to that point

1473
01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:24,840
Speaker 4: of the season, and it could happen, if they if

1474
01:13:24,840 --> 01:13:26,840
Speaker 4: they get out to a lightning start and come down

1475
01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:29,280
Speaker 4: the stretch and they got those four games left, it

1476
01:13:29,360 --> 01:13:33,280
Speaker 4: may be just whether they're gonna be you know, the three, four, five, six,

1477
01:13:33,360 --> 01:13:36,080
Speaker 4: or seven seed. You know, if they lose those games.

1478
01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:38,680
Speaker 4: But if they come in there at five hundred with

1479
01:13:38,720 --> 01:13:42,920
Speaker 4: those you know, if they come in there at six

1480
01:13:42,960 --> 01:13:46,360
Speaker 4: and six with those four games left, I guess six

1481
01:13:46,400 --> 01:13:48,760
Speaker 4: and seven for seven and six, it canna be a lot.

1482
01:13:48,880 --> 01:13:51,280
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a lot. It's gonna be a lot. Yeah,

1483
01:13:51,320 --> 01:13:53,200
Speaker 4: if they got to get to ten wins with those

1484
01:13:53,240 --> 01:13:56,240
Speaker 4: four games left and they're only sitting at seven and.

1485
01:13:56,200 --> 01:13:58,160
Speaker 2: The Jets don't exactly have an easy start to the

1486
01:13:58,160 --> 01:14:02,120
Speaker 2: schedule either, Steve, it's Bills at home at Cowboys, home

1487
01:14:02,120 --> 01:14:04,240
Speaker 2: against New England, home against the Chiefs.

1488
01:14:05,040 --> 01:14:09,040
Speaker 3: That's their first four weeks. Man, that's just.

1489
01:14:09,840 --> 01:14:13,840
Speaker 2: Whoa better for the Bills. So it's gonna be really

1490
01:14:13,880 --> 01:14:16,200
Speaker 2: important for the Bills to take advantage of their schedule

1491
01:14:16,479 --> 01:14:18,600
Speaker 2: in the first month of the season where three of

1492
01:14:18,640 --> 01:14:22,000
Speaker 2: their first four games are at home and they're not

1493
01:14:22,120 --> 01:14:25,160
Speaker 2: exactly against total juggernauts. You got the Commanders and the

1494
01:14:25,240 --> 01:14:29,439
Speaker 2: Raiders in that first month stretch. Put some distance between

1495
01:14:29,439 --> 01:14:31,680
Speaker 2: you and the rest of the division early and then

1496
01:14:31,760 --> 01:14:32,800
Speaker 2: hope you can sustain it.

1497
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:34,520
Speaker 3: Then the schedule gets tougher.

1498
01:14:34,280 --> 01:14:37,519
Speaker 4: For whatever reason. There always seems to be those games, well,

1499
01:14:37,600 --> 01:14:39,880
Speaker 4: like the two of those three losses they held had

1500
01:14:39,960 --> 01:14:43,799
Speaker 4: last year, the Dolphins game and the Minnesota game, where

1501
01:14:44,280 --> 01:14:47,439
Speaker 4: it's like the game's over and you're like, how did

1502
01:14:47,479 --> 01:14:50,320
Speaker 4: they lose that game? You know, so you got to

1503
01:14:50,640 --> 01:14:53,880
Speaker 4: have those you gotta factor that in, right, And that's

1504
01:14:53,880 --> 01:14:55,840
Speaker 4: the way it always with a team like the Bills have.

1505
01:14:56,400 --> 01:14:59,639
Speaker 4: That's always the way these losses look. It's like, how

1506
01:14:59,640 --> 01:15:01,480
Speaker 4: do they how do they lose that?

1507
01:15:01,040 --> 01:15:02,599
Speaker 3: How did that happen?

1508
01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:04,360
Speaker 4: And you know, you got to get around and get

1509
01:15:04,360 --> 01:15:07,840
Speaker 4: your mind around that because it's you know, they don't

1510
01:15:07,840 --> 01:15:10,040
Speaker 4: lose very many, and even the ones that they do

1511
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:13,559
Speaker 4: lose look like flukes, which is why a lot of

1512
01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:17,040
Speaker 4: people like like you know, Joe who called in said,

1513
01:15:17,080 --> 01:15:18,519
Speaker 4: you know, they don't have what it takes. You there

1514
01:15:18,520 --> 01:15:21,000
Speaker 4: ain't no hump, They just got to play. Well. It's

1515
01:15:21,040 --> 01:15:23,559
Speaker 4: it's what gives those people ammunition to say they don't

1516
01:15:23,560 --> 01:15:25,000
Speaker 4: have what it takes, or they're not gonna win the

1517
01:15:25,000 --> 01:15:26,600
Speaker 4: big win, or they can't get over the hump or

1518
01:15:26,680 --> 01:15:29,080
Speaker 4: whatever it says, because they lose. The games they lose

1519
01:15:29,120 --> 01:15:31,920
Speaker 4: look like the Dolphins game in ninety degree heat, the

1520
01:15:31,920 --> 01:15:33,680
Speaker 4: Minnesota game where they going to the fourth quarter of

1521
01:15:33,720 --> 01:15:36,360
Speaker 4: the seventeen point lead and have two game stopping plays

1522
01:15:36,400 --> 01:15:40,760
Speaker 4: go catastrophically wrong to lose that game. I mean, it's

1523
01:15:40,760 --> 01:15:43,559
Speaker 4: like one in overtime in overtime. And so it's so

1524
01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:46,120
Speaker 4: those kinds of things happen, and so people think there's

1525
01:15:46,120 --> 01:15:49,920
Speaker 4: some sort of mystical event or thing that has to

1526
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:52,479
Speaker 4: take place before they'll ever get be able to win

1527
01:15:52,520 --> 01:15:55,880
Speaker 4: the championship. It's not the case, although, you know, but

1528
01:15:55,920 --> 01:16:00,799
Speaker 4: stuff like this gives those people that idea because games

1529
01:16:00,840 --> 01:16:04,439
Speaker 4: like that pop up on the Bill's schedule. Bills aren't

1530
01:16:04,479 --> 01:16:07,720
Speaker 4: gonna go seventeen to oh, but they're gonna be tough

1531
01:16:07,760 --> 01:16:10,680
Speaker 4: out just like they always are. And these schedules he

1532
01:16:10,760 --> 01:16:11,800
Speaker 4: come out and you look at the rest of the

1533
01:16:11,840 --> 01:16:15,080
Speaker 4: rest of the division. It's not just the Bills that

1534
01:16:15,120 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 4: have a tough, tough schedule, it's the rest of them too.

1535
01:16:17,880 --> 01:16:19,680
Speaker 2: We have to step aside here, but we're back to

1536
01:16:19,720 --> 01:16:21,920
Speaker 2: your phone calls. When we return, Mark and West Seneca

1537
01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:23,840
Speaker 2: is gonna lead us off as we are asking you

1538
01:16:24,920 --> 01:16:28,719
Speaker 2: who is the Bill's player that you believe will arrive

1539
01:16:29,120 --> 01:16:32,280
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three in terms of performance and production?

1540
01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:34,840
Speaker 2: Your pick's next at eight O three oh five fifty

1541
01:16:34,880 --> 01:16:36,439
Speaker 2: when we return here on One Bill's Live.

1542
01:16:38,880 --> 01:16:40,360
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back to One Bill's five.

1543
01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:42,040
Speaker 2: Chris Brown, see you task you with you here on

1544
01:16:42,080 --> 01:16:44,360
Speaker 2: a Monday time to go back to the phones where

1545
01:16:44,400 --> 01:16:49,200
Speaker 2: we are asking you today which Bill's player will arrive

1546
01:16:49,439 --> 01:16:53,960
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three in terms of production and performance.

1547
01:16:54,439 --> 01:16:56,080
Speaker 2: And we go to the phones and lead off with

1548
01:16:56,160 --> 01:16:57,840
Speaker 2: Mark in West Seneca for this segment.

1549
01:16:57,880 --> 01:16:58,519
Speaker 3: What do you got Mark?

1550
01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:03,120
Speaker 12: Hey, Steve, Chris, how you doing today? That's good? Hey,

1551
01:17:03,280 --> 01:17:05,439
Speaker 12: Just so you guys know, when neither one of you

1552
01:17:05,479 --> 01:17:09,200
Speaker 12: goes on vacation, it just ruins my day. So I'm

1553
01:17:09,200 --> 01:17:12,280
Speaker 12: proposing of the random vote that you guys don't give vacation.

1554
01:17:13,600 --> 01:17:19,200
Speaker 12: Both mafia can vote on it. What do you think ye? Anyway,

1555
01:17:20,360 --> 01:17:25,880
Speaker 12: my my breakout guy is is Russol. I think it's

1556
01:17:25,920 --> 01:17:29,280
Speaker 12: going to be a long overdue change in the philosophy

1557
01:17:29,320 --> 01:17:33,880
Speaker 12: of the defense having Sean there. Leslie did a great job,

1558
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:38,200
Speaker 12: but the history of of what he did here shows

1559
01:17:38,320 --> 01:17:42,200
Speaker 12: great great coordinator during the regular season, huge drop off

1560
01:17:42,240 --> 01:17:45,599
Speaker 12: in the playoffs when when the competition got got really tough.

1561
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:47,680
Speaker 12: Give him a little bit of a pass last year

1562
01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:51,320
Speaker 12: with all the injury injuries, but still not not really

1563
01:17:51,360 --> 01:17:55,759
Speaker 12: good in the in the postseason. So I'm looking for Russo.

1564
01:17:55,840 --> 01:17:59,080
Speaker 12: I think there's going to be a a lot of

1565
01:17:59,080 --> 01:18:02,840
Speaker 12: different packages. I think there's gonna be different Bulitz packages

1566
01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:06,679
Speaker 12: from Sean from different areas, freeing guys up, not only Greg.

1567
01:18:07,880 --> 01:18:10,240
Speaker 12: So we'll see what happens. I really couldn't pick anybody

1568
01:18:10,240 --> 01:18:13,200
Speaker 12: on the offensive side of the ball. And again, first

1569
01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:21,120
Speaker 12: your coordinator, Dorsey, his record shows great. At the beginning

1570
01:18:21,200 --> 01:18:24,519
Speaker 12: of the year, the offense looked like it was evolving downward.

1571
01:18:24,600 --> 01:18:27,599
Speaker 12: By the end of the season, and if you look

1572
01:18:27,600 --> 01:18:31,000
Speaker 12: at the games, we scored second amount of points in

1573
01:18:31,000 --> 01:18:34,400
Speaker 12: the league, But half of those games, I would say,

1574
01:18:34,600 --> 01:18:37,759
Speaker 12: were when Josh had to put on the Superman code

1575
01:18:37,880 --> 01:18:39,680
Speaker 12: and go win the game and put points on the

1576
01:18:39,680 --> 01:18:43,880
Speaker 12: board and do everything. Hence, that's why we needed another weapon.

1577
01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:48,479
Speaker 12: Everybody says, but in my estimation, Brandon Bean has put

1578
01:18:49,040 --> 01:18:52,720
Speaker 12: a roster together now for three seasons, fully talented that

1579
01:18:52,760 --> 01:18:57,080
Speaker 12: can win the Super Bowl. So and I've been beating

1580
01:18:57,120 --> 01:18:59,439
Speaker 12: this drum for quite a while now, and I know

1581
01:18:59,520 --> 01:19:02,400
Speaker 12: I've mentioned it with you guys. For me, this whole

1582
01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:05,840
Speaker 12: season falls on the shoulders of both of our coordinators.

1583
01:19:06,080 --> 01:19:08,720
Speaker 12: The players are there we have, if you want to

1584
01:19:08,760 --> 01:19:10,639
Speaker 12: call it the hole, I'm not even sure it's a hole.

1585
01:19:10,960 --> 01:19:15,000
Speaker 12: The only suspect spot right now is middle linebacker, and

1586
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:17,760
Speaker 12: that's only because we don't know who's going to be

1587
01:19:17,760 --> 01:19:20,920
Speaker 12: playing there. And to be honest, I wouldn't be upset

1588
01:19:20,960 --> 01:19:24,040
Speaker 12: if aj Klein, the veteran guy who showed last year

1589
01:19:24,080 --> 01:19:26,400
Speaker 12: he still had something left in the tank, ends up

1590
01:19:26,439 --> 01:19:30,280
Speaker 12: taking that job. So I think Sean's going to be

1591
01:19:30,360 --> 01:19:32,600
Speaker 12: a broughth of fresh air on the defensive size of

1592
01:19:32,600 --> 01:19:35,639
Speaker 12: the ball and let's hope and pray Dorsey can really

1593
01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:38,880
Speaker 12: utilize all the tools that he has at his disposal,

1594
01:19:39,080 --> 01:19:41,960
Speaker 12: because I'm not I don't believe the tools are maybe

1595
01:19:41,960 --> 01:19:44,080
Speaker 12: a little bit better this year, but he had a

1596
01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:46,439
Speaker 12: lot of tools last year too, and there were guys

1597
01:19:46,479 --> 01:19:48,880
Speaker 12: that did not get used properly in my estimation. So

1598
01:19:49,360 --> 01:19:52,719
Speaker 12: that's my opinion. Guys, I appreciate it, and sorry about

1599
01:19:52,720 --> 01:19:55,800
Speaker 12: the vacation thing, but yeah, you ruin my day when

1600
01:19:55,800 --> 01:19:56,320
Speaker 12: you're not there.

1601
01:19:56,560 --> 01:19:59,759
Speaker 4: Not going to worry, Sorry, no problem, Thanks for listening anyway,

1602
01:20:00,120 --> 01:20:03,479
Speaker 4: regular listener. The yeah, yeah, Greg Russo is a great

1603
01:20:03,720 --> 01:20:08,519
Speaker 4: is a great point. It could really help him the

1604
01:20:08,680 --> 01:20:12,840
Speaker 4: change of coordinators, having von Miller's presence and a year

1605
01:20:12,920 --> 01:20:15,639
Speaker 4: under his belt. With that, yeah, you'd love to see

1606
01:20:15,720 --> 01:20:18,599
Speaker 4: him have a breakout season and get a double digit sacks.

1607
01:20:19,520 --> 01:20:21,920
Speaker 4: The coordinator thing we've talked about at length. We don't

1608
01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:24,120
Speaker 4: know what that's gonna look like with Sean McDermott. If

1609
01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:26,960
Speaker 4: you spin it in a positive way, Sean mcdermot's a

1610
01:20:26,960 --> 01:20:30,400
Speaker 4: head coach because he was a great defensive coordinator. We'll

1611
01:20:30,400 --> 01:20:33,479
Speaker 4: see if that translates backwards where he takes goes from

1612
01:20:33,520 --> 01:20:35,639
Speaker 4: head coach and now takes it over as well as

1613
01:20:36,080 --> 01:20:38,920
Speaker 4: a coordinator, because he wasn't a head coach slash coordinator

1614
01:20:38,960 --> 01:20:41,800
Speaker 4: in Carolina. He was a He was just a coordinator.

1615
01:20:42,479 --> 01:20:45,440
Speaker 4: So we'll see if being the head coach slash coordinator

1616
01:20:47,439 --> 01:20:51,920
Speaker 4: can be can eve if he can do it, yeah,

1617
01:20:51,960 --> 01:20:54,800
Speaker 4: and the rest of the thing, Yeah, I'm it always

1618
01:20:54,840 --> 01:20:57,000
Speaker 4: comes down to the coordinators. Those guys are crucial in

1619
01:20:57,040 --> 01:21:00,120
Speaker 4: every team. I'm not really willing to sit here and

1620
01:21:00,160 --> 01:21:02,639
Speaker 4: poke holes in what Leslie Fraser did or in what

1621
01:21:04,520 --> 01:21:07,000
Speaker 4: Ken Dorsey did as well last year. I'm not gonna

1622
01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:09,280
Speaker 4: poke holes in either one of those guys they had

1623
01:21:09,880 --> 01:21:11,400
Speaker 4: because you look back and you look at the numbers,

1624
01:21:11,520 --> 01:21:13,639
Speaker 4: it's hard to poke holes in what the Bills did

1625
01:21:13,720 --> 01:21:16,120
Speaker 4: on either side of the ball last year. You can

1626
01:21:16,320 --> 01:21:21,880
Speaker 4: certainly bemoan how the season ended, no question, But as

1627
01:21:21,920 --> 01:21:26,679
Speaker 4: far as putting together a team that was a wrecking crew,

1628
01:21:27,600 --> 01:21:29,640
Speaker 4: the Bills did it, and their coordinators had a lot

1629
01:21:29,680 --> 01:21:32,840
Speaker 4: to do with it last year. So you can cry

1630
01:21:32,880 --> 01:21:35,240
Speaker 4: about how the season ended and we all were disappointed

1631
01:21:35,240 --> 01:21:38,920
Speaker 4: in it, It's hard to poke holes in what they

1632
01:21:38,960 --> 01:21:43,040
Speaker 4: did offensively or defensively, at least statistically. With your naked eye,

1633
01:21:43,080 --> 01:21:44,640
Speaker 4: you might say something and I don't know who you

1634
01:21:44,720 --> 01:21:49,280
Speaker 4: mean was being used wrong last year. I mean you

1635
01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:51,120
Speaker 4: had a lot of guys had a lot of opportunity

1636
01:21:51,200 --> 01:21:53,400
Speaker 4: that didn't do too well with it, a lot of

1637
01:21:53,479 --> 01:22:00,160
Speaker 4: drops offensively, a lot of fumbles and turnovers offensively. I

1638
01:22:00,160 --> 01:22:02,880
Speaker 4: mean you can you can't point that at the coordinators

1639
01:22:02,880 --> 01:22:07,120
Speaker 4: too much, in my opinion. So yeah, this team has

1640
01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:08,920
Speaker 4: every reason to believe in fans have every reason to

1641
01:22:08,920 --> 01:22:11,320
Speaker 4: believe they're going to be tough out again this year.

1642
01:22:11,400 --> 01:22:12,040
Speaker 4: And we'll see.

1643
01:22:12,160 --> 01:22:14,639
Speaker 3: The Russo pick is good for a couple of reasons.

1644
01:22:14,760 --> 01:22:16,840
Speaker 2: Number one, if you look at his season last year,

1645
01:22:16,880 --> 01:22:19,320
Speaker 2: the guy has four sacks in his first four games,

1646
01:22:19,600 --> 01:22:22,120
Speaker 2: then gets the high ankle spring and he was never

1647
01:22:22,200 --> 01:22:24,439
Speaker 2: right after that. He has four sacks the rest of

1648
01:22:24,479 --> 01:22:28,599
Speaker 2: the season. Now, von Miller's absence from the lineup down

1649
01:22:28,600 --> 01:22:31,400
Speaker 2: the stretch certainly didn't help his cause either. By the

1650
01:22:31,400 --> 01:22:34,680
Speaker 2: beginning of the year, the guy was productive, he was

1651
01:22:34,720 --> 01:22:36,800
Speaker 2: turning in plays, and then he has the high ankle

1652
01:22:36,840 --> 01:22:38,880
Speaker 2: sprain and he wasn't right for about six eight weeks

1653
01:22:40,040 --> 01:22:43,040
Speaker 2: and just kind of misses some time and then guts

1654
01:22:43,080 --> 01:22:47,519
Speaker 2: it out. But uh, I think he's an example or

1655
01:22:47,600 --> 01:22:50,320
Speaker 2: could be an example of year three breakout guys that

1656
01:22:50,360 --> 01:22:53,599
Speaker 2: we've seen under the McDermott regime. Whether it's Matt Mlano

1657
01:22:53,680 --> 01:22:56,519
Speaker 2: in year three, Tremaine Edmonds in year three, Josh Allen

1658
01:22:56,600 --> 01:22:59,960
Speaker 2: in year three, Tarren Johnson in year three, Dawson Knox

1659
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:02,920
Speaker 2: in year three, there's a long list of guys who

1660
01:23:02,960 --> 01:23:07,800
Speaker 2: have had breakout performance type seasons in year three. Well,

1661
01:23:07,840 --> 01:23:09,840
Speaker 2: this is year three for Greg Russeau. I know people

1662
01:23:09,880 --> 01:23:12,200
Speaker 2: are hoping for big things from him. It's also year

1663
01:23:12,200 --> 01:23:14,719
Speaker 2: three for Spencer Brown, and I think people are hoping

1664
01:23:14,720 --> 01:23:15,760
Speaker 2: for big things from him.

1665
01:23:16,280 --> 01:23:18,960
Speaker 3: So yeah, I think it's.

1666
01:23:18,800 --> 01:23:22,559
Speaker 2: A good pick to have in terms of a guy

1667
01:23:22,600 --> 01:23:25,920
Speaker 2: who will quote unquote arrive in twenty twenty three. I

1668
01:23:25,960 --> 01:23:28,720
Speaker 2: think people are certainly hoping for that, and some of

1669
01:23:28,760 --> 01:23:31,599
Speaker 2: how McDermott maybe morphs and changes the look of this

1670
01:23:31,680 --> 01:23:35,280
Speaker 2: defense will impact how well he can perform. I think

1671
01:23:35,320 --> 01:23:38,240
Speaker 2: a lot of us were of the opinion or anticipating

1672
01:23:38,280 --> 01:23:41,960
Speaker 2: anyway that we would see Rousseau kick down inside more

1673
01:23:42,000 --> 01:23:44,560
Speaker 2: in obvious passing situations and put another end on the

1674
01:23:44,600 --> 01:23:47,439
Speaker 2: field on the edge, because in his one year as

1675
01:23:47,439 --> 01:23:50,680
Speaker 2: a start at Miami, he had enormous success rushing from

1676
01:23:50,720 --> 01:23:53,800
Speaker 2: the interior in obvious passing situations. I don't think we

1677
01:23:53,840 --> 01:23:56,559
Speaker 2: saw that as much as we anticipated last year. Maybe

1678
01:23:56,640 --> 01:24:00,200
Speaker 2: McDermott utilizes him more in that on that you know,

1679
01:24:00,240 --> 01:24:03,320
Speaker 2: in that position in those situations, you know, and he

1680
01:24:03,400 --> 01:24:04,760
Speaker 2: eats a little bit more this year.

1681
01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:09,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm it's really an intriguing year for the Bills

1682
01:24:09,840 --> 01:24:12,880
Speaker 4: because of Sean mcdermot's role as defensive coordinator and play caller,

1683
01:24:13,680 --> 01:24:16,040
Speaker 4: because of their draft picks, because of what they did

1684
01:24:16,080 --> 01:24:23,080
Speaker 4: in free agency offensively, and where they're coming from. It's

1685
01:24:24,080 --> 01:24:26,439
Speaker 4: you know, I you know, it's hard not to have

1686
01:24:26,439 --> 01:24:28,280
Speaker 4: a good feeling about where they are and I and

1687
01:24:28,320 --> 01:24:30,320
Speaker 4: these people, and we've had a caller today said that,

1688
01:24:30,360 --> 01:24:33,080
Speaker 4: you know, the windows closing down. I don't see it.

1689
01:24:34,160 --> 01:24:36,680
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't see it. I'm sorry. They're going

1690
01:24:36,760 --> 01:24:39,160
Speaker 4: to be better than they were last year. They're going

1691
01:24:39,240 --> 01:24:41,280
Speaker 4: to be better this year than they were last year. Now,

1692
01:24:41,320 --> 01:24:42,840
Speaker 4: so are some other teams, and it's going to be

1693
01:24:42,840 --> 01:24:47,720
Speaker 4: a mix up. But I'm telling you, the health, their

1694
01:24:47,720 --> 01:24:53,360
Speaker 4: health is a team, notwithstanding they're on everybody's schedule and

1695
01:24:53,479 --> 01:24:56,720
Speaker 4: nobody is looking past this club. This this is a game.

1696
01:24:56,760 --> 01:24:58,760
Speaker 4: When you play the Buffalo Bills, most of these teams

1697
01:24:58,800 --> 01:25:01,960
Speaker 4: are going to circle it. That's a big one and

1698
01:25:02,040 --> 01:25:07,200
Speaker 4: there's good reason for it. Last year was an unbelievable

1699
01:25:07,240 --> 01:25:10,280
Speaker 4: regular season until, like we say, you know, it got

1700
01:25:10,320 --> 01:25:13,760
Speaker 4: sidetracked on the Monday night game in Cincinnati. But I'm

1701
01:25:13,760 --> 01:25:18,439
Speaker 4: telling you what that it's they are gonna be an

1702
01:25:18,520 --> 01:25:23,040
Speaker 4: absolute problem a handful for all these teams here or

1703
01:25:23,080 --> 01:25:26,000
Speaker 4: wherever they play and whoever they play. So it's it's

1704
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:28,519
Speaker 4: gonna be a fun year. And like I said, there's

1705
01:25:28,560 --> 01:25:30,360
Speaker 4: a lot of things that are really intriguing about this

1706
01:25:30,479 --> 01:25:33,320
Speaker 4: year that are different, most notably Sean mcdermot's role.

1707
01:25:33,560 --> 01:25:36,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, be interesting to see. I think all of us

1708
01:25:36,760 --> 01:25:37,479
Speaker 3: are curious.

1709
01:25:37,560 --> 01:25:39,679
Speaker 2: I mean, we were all curious about the offense last

1710
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:43,479
Speaker 2: year under Dorsey and how that might look. And you know,

1711
01:25:43,520 --> 01:25:47,240
Speaker 2: the results in terms of statistics was pretty pretty convincing,

1712
01:25:47,360 --> 01:25:50,920
Speaker 2: although I will agree with Mark that the offense did

1713
01:25:50,960 --> 01:25:53,760
Speaker 2: look like a heavier lift come the second half of

1714
01:25:53,760 --> 01:25:59,200
Speaker 2: the season for various reasons, injuries being among them. How

1715
01:25:59,240 --> 01:26:02,760
Speaker 2: does the defense look this year with McDermott call in

1716
01:26:02,800 --> 01:26:05,000
Speaker 2: the places, It's going to be just as intriguing and

1717
01:26:05,080 --> 01:26:08,720
Speaker 2: interesting as the offense was last year under Dorsey, and

1718
01:26:08,760 --> 01:26:11,960
Speaker 2: the anticipation of what that would look like. We take

1719
01:26:11,960 --> 01:26:13,720
Speaker 2: a break here, Steve and I close it out with

1720
01:26:13,720 --> 01:26:15,960
Speaker 2: one more segment. We'll crack open some final thoughts on

1721
01:26:15,960 --> 01:26:18,360
Speaker 2: the tweets sheet next you know, One Bill's Live presented

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Speaker 2: by Colida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back to One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 2: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and wanted to take

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Speaker 2: a couple of tweets sheet responses to pass along which

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Speaker 2: Bill's player will arrive in twenty twenty three in terms

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Speaker 2: of production and performance, Bill's Chad Podcast says kiyr Elam,

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Speaker 2: why second year in the system showed very high level

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Speaker 2: of ball skills and limited reps last year. Entire secondary

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Speaker 2: will benefit from Hide and Ployer being healthy and Trey

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Speaker 2: White returning to form. You gotta think about that, Steve,

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Speaker 2: Like the secondary last year was a mess in terms

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Speaker 2: of player availability.

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Speaker 4: Right, micha Ah Hyde out for the season in Week two,

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Speaker 4: trade doesn't show Thanksgiving, doesn't show up till Thanksgiving the

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Speaker 4: same game that Vaughan goes down. He's gone for the year.

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Speaker 4: So you get Trey White, but you lose Von Millers.

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Speaker 4: Poyer missed five games plus when he was playing in

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Speaker 4: the last half of the year. He was dragging around

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Speaker 4: all kinds of injines holding everything together right, So yes,

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Speaker 4: you're right, kyer Elim's a great guess. It'll be interesting

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Speaker 4: to see how Christian Benford comes back and and acclimates

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Speaker 4: back in. He was injured most of last season as well,

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Speaker 4: had a busted hand, and I guess something he had

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Speaker 4: two different injuries, so all of that stuff combined. If

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Speaker 4: kyer Elam gets on the field, stays on the field,

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Speaker 4: is consistent, you gotta think he's his level is going

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Speaker 4: to ascend because that's kind of guy. He is finished

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Speaker 4: strong too, and he finished really strong. It's a good call. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: you'd love to see it if it happens.

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Speaker 2: Dominic on the tweets, she said Greg Russeau was already

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Speaker 2: a very solid player years one and who this year

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Speaker 2: he breaks into top ten territory. So he agrees with

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Speaker 2: our last caller Mark about Rousseau, and I think that's

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Speaker 2: a good pick as well. Eric says despite tight end

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Speaker 2: traditionally taking a few years to develop, Dalton king Kai

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Speaker 2: gets my vote. He's not a hand in the dird

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Speaker 2: three point stance tight end and is practically a wide

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Speaker 2: receiver with a tight end position listed on paper. More

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Speaker 2: than seventy percent of his snaps at Utah last season

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Speaker 2: he ran pass routes and not blocking. You think king

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Speaker 2: kid can get on the field and make that much

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Speaker 2: of a difference that fast. It's a big ask, even

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Speaker 2: for a first round pick, especially here. Rookies don't get

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Speaker 2: on the field fast.

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Speaker 4: It would be a change, well not a change, but

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Speaker 4: it would be against what we have seen other rookies

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Speaker 4: offensively do. The only guy, the last guy we saw

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Speaker 4: do that was Gabe Davis back when his rookie season

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Speaker 4: he got on the field almost immediately. Was for some

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Speaker 4: regular reps. Anybody else from Kyir to not Khalil Shakir

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Speaker 4: to James Cook struggle to get on the field. So

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Speaker 4: it'll be interesting to see if they can.

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Speaker 2: And speaking of James Cook, that's who Scott picked. He said,

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Speaker 2: James Cook heading into year two. He's ready to silence

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Speaker 2: the haters, big time relief for Josh Allen. That was

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Speaker 2: gonna be my pick. So I'll make that now. James Cook.

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Speaker 2: There you go.

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Speaker 3: Do you have anybody?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's one of the new guys. Sherfield

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Speaker 4: or Hardy Okay, those two guys.

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Speaker 2: That's it for us on a Monday. We'll see you tomorrow, Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: one pm.

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Speaker 3: Be there at B Square