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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Prep Academy graduation. The Bills and the Sabers

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Speaker 1: there for his teammates, etc. Etc. And his quality of

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Speaker 1: play suffered because he was injured, and he probably hurt

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Speaker 1: his value as a result. And so there's a small

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Speaker 1: part of me that hopes he does get a legitimate

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Speaker 1: second chance to start kind of you know, jump start

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Speaker 1: his career again and see what really he can do.

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Speaker 1: Will he ever be great? I don't know. Um, I

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Speaker 1: think he could be a capable player in this league.

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Speaker 1: The question is is he going to get that chance?

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Speaker 1: And right now there's only one musical chair still empty,

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Speaker 1: and I would say it's probably Seattle. Um. Could you

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Speaker 1: argue Carolina? Yeah, but I don't know they who they got.

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Speaker 1: They got Um Collar, right, the old miss quarterback they

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Speaker 1: draft him? So probably not Um or Matt Correll Coller.

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Speaker 1: What am I saying? Collar? Matt correll Um, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't it's Seattle or Bust really for a chance

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Speaker 1: to legitimately start I think next year for him. So

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Speaker 1: we'll just have to wait for that other shoe to drop.

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Speaker 1: Interesting list Maddie On NFL dot Com, Nick Shook put

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Speaker 1: together top ten games of the twenty twenty two NFL season.

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Speaker 1: As we all know, the NFL schedule comes out next

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Speaker 1: week on Thursday, and we already know who everyone is playing,

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Speaker 1: we just don't know when. So NFL dot Com decided

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Speaker 1: to look at the what they felt were the ten

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Speaker 1: best regular season matchups in twenty twenty two this fall.

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Speaker 1: We don't know when, but we know who. And the

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Speaker 1: Bills were on the list twice. Maddie, So, Number ten

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville at the Jets. Not sure why that one's I

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Speaker 1: guess it's the Trevor Lawrence Zach Wilson thing, the top

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Speaker 1: two picks from the draft and hoping that all the

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Speaker 1: additions both of those teams. Is it gonna work? Yet?

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Speaker 1: See how much better they are in this, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Jags have a whole new coaching staff.

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Speaker 1: Number nine was the Browns at the Texans. This is

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Speaker 1: like the Deshaun Watson Bowl. Yes, based on the trade

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Speaker 1: that happened this offseason, provided is even playing because for

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Speaker 1: all we know, there could be a suspension and acted

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Speaker 1: by the time we get to the regular season. We

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Speaker 1: just don't know. Number eight Miami at the Niners. This

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Speaker 1: is the Mike mcd annual Bowl, you know, going against

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Speaker 1: his mentor, Kyle Shanahan and that whole Paul of Wax.

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Speaker 1: Number seven Baltimore at Cincinnati. Okay, so you know division rivalry, Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: the new kid on the block that was the champ

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Speaker 1: of the division. Baltimore trying to come back from a

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Speaker 1: ridiculous season of injuries that included Lamar Jackson. All Right,

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Speaker 1: I'll buy that for a dollar. Number six Rams at Bucks,

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Speaker 1: two most recent Super Bowl champs. There, I get sure, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I get it. It'll be competitive, hopefully. Chargers at the Raiders,

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Speaker 1: too much improved teams in the AFC West. Okay, division battle,

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Speaker 1: get it. Number four Packers at Bills. So you know,

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Speaker 1: old guard quarterback Aaron Rodgers comes to play new guard

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Speaker 1: quarterback Josh Allen. Okay, sign me up. I'm interested in

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Speaker 1: that one. You know. It's funny because the last time

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Speaker 1: the Bills played the Packers in Green Bay. Josh was

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Speaker 1: a rookie, started the game. They got shut out. Bills

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Speaker 1: did not score a point in that game. They got

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Speaker 1: shut out. Kansas City at Tampa is the number three

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Speaker 1: game title rematch from the Super Bowl two years ago.

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Speaker 1: Totally get it. Number two Denver at Seattle the Russell

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Speaker 1: Wilson Bowl. So Nick Shook really took a defined track here.

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Speaker 1: He's looking at all of these like quote unquote revenge

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Speaker 1: reunion games and just took it to the bank. Number one,

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Speaker 1: speaking of revenge reunion games, Buffalo at Kansas City, and

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Speaker 1: I think we know the reason for that one. Number

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Speaker 1: one on the list. Oh, these two teams have matched

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Speaker 1: up against each other so much in the last couple

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Speaker 1: of seasons. It'll be a great game. Whenever it is

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Speaker 1: slated on the schedule. I would imagine that has to

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Speaker 1: be one of the night games, whether it's Thursday or

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Speaker 1: Sunday or Monday, wherever that's a primetime or that's yeah,

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Speaker 1: locket is, that's a primetime game. I will say this, Mattie,

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Speaker 1: because I know you talked to a lot of people

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Speaker 1: in the league. Two just in everybody that I've come

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Speaker 1: in contact with either on the phone or in person,

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Speaker 1: like when we were out at the Combine in February.

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Speaker 1: To a person, they have all said that might have

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Speaker 1: been the best playoff game they have ever witnessed in

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Speaker 1: their life. And I'm talking people that are from like

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Speaker 1: age thirty all the way up to age sixty five,

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Speaker 1: best playoff game they have ever seen. And Nick Shook

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Speaker 1: in the first sentence in describing Bills at Chiefs, which

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Speaker 1: is number one on his list, said we should take

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Speaker 1: a moment to thank the scheduling gods. We're delivering a

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Speaker 1: rematch in the best game of the twenty twenty one season.

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Speaker 1: And perhaps Yeah, ever, it's amazing how many people so

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Speaker 1: quickly have rocketed this game to the top of their

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Speaker 1: list for entertainment value. And I understand why, but we're

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Speaker 1: talking like a hundred years of NFL, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. It's just like it's not even a debate.

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Speaker 1: People are just putting it up there, and I realize

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Speaker 1: we're in a what have you done for me lately? World?

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Speaker 1: Maybe now more than ever. Yeah, I mean, don't get

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Speaker 1: me wrong, it was a hell of a game. I'm

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Speaker 1: just surprised that so many people so quickly just be

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Speaker 1: like best game ever, best best playoff game I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: Nothing is going to top it. So many people at

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Speaker 1: the combine, I'm sure it was the same for you,

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Speaker 1: came up to me and they were like, that game,

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, like that was wild. It was so entertaining.

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Speaker 1: And my first reaction is do you know what that

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Speaker 1: game did to me? Though, like, yeah, it was. It

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Speaker 1: was entertaining, But the smile that you have, I am

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Speaker 1: not sharing that smile with you about the game, right

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Speaker 1: So hopefully the outcome is better for the Bills this

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Speaker 1: time around. Although the Bills did beat the Chiefs in

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Speaker 1: the regular season last year, things just didn't go right

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Speaker 1: at the end in the playoffs. So those are the

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Speaker 1: top ten ranked games for the twenty twenty two regular season.

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Speaker 1: I just thought it was at list worth going down

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Speaker 1: and it was nice to see the Bills appeared on

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Speaker 1: it twice, so that was kind of cool. The O

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Speaker 1: take a break here, but when we come back there

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Speaker 1: might be a little bit of time for some what's

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Speaker 1: for lunch. We may get to the menu next here

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, so we'll open the menu

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Speaker 1: for what's for lunch in just a little bit. First

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Speaker 1: we are going to go to our mock draft recap.

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Speaker 1: Maddie had the good idea to say, Hey, we track

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Speaker 1: all these mocks for months, why don't we actually go

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Speaker 1: back and see who the heck was right? Because I

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Speaker 1: will tell you more often than not, the draft knicks

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Speaker 1: missed the mark and it is very much like throwing darts. Yes, so,

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Speaker 1: because I mean, what do we have nine trades in

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Speaker 1: the first round? I don't think anybody had that? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Who predicted that? Including two player trades? Yeah? Out of

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Speaker 1: the So we tracked when it was all said and done,

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Speaker 1: I tracked one hundred and fifty mock drafts starting January

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Speaker 1: twenty fifth and ending the day of the NFL Draft

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Speaker 1: on Thursday. So out of those one hundred and fifty,

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Speaker 1: I'll have you guess first, how many do you think

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Speaker 1: got it right in the first round. Pick. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: say out of one hundred and fifty, i'm gonna say

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say fourteen got it right. Okay, that's a

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Speaker 1: that's a good guess. Ten people got it right. And actually,

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Speaker 1: when you looked at the most mocked players, so high

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Speaker 1: and away above everybody was Trent McDuffie, which is interesting

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Speaker 1: to see he went right before the Buffalo Bills drafted.

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Speaker 1: And then next were a group of a couple players

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Speaker 1: who were mocked to the Buffalo Bills ten times, and

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Speaker 1: Kayer was right there with ten, so he was mocked

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Speaker 1: to the Bills ten times. So was Bruce Hall, and

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Speaker 1: so was Kyler Gordon out of Washington. So ten people

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Speaker 1: got it right. And the first person who got it

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Speaker 1: right was on January twenty first, Wow, Sam Monson's from

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Speaker 1: from PFF. Sam Monson, he got it right, So he

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Speaker 1: was the first one to get it right. And then

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Speaker 1: as I go down my list, here Luke Easterling from

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Speaker 1: Draftwire also got it right in January. And then we

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Speaker 1: move into February, Arry Um John Ledyard from the Pewter

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Speaker 1: Report got it right. And there there were a couple

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Speaker 1: big names who got it right. Another writer for the

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Speaker 1: Pewter Report J. C. Allen, Um, another person from PF

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Speaker 1: in April. And then you started to see it pop

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Speaker 1: up in April quite a bit there. Um. Seth Galina

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Speaker 1: from PF got it right. Um, let's see, a couple

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Speaker 1: people from NFL network got it right. Lance um Zeerline

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Speaker 1: got it right. And then a couple people from the

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Speaker 1: Draft network Kyle Crabs um, who else got it right? Uh,

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Speaker 1: Danny Kelly from The Ringer got it right. This was

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Speaker 1: April twenty seventh, so right before the draft. And then

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Speaker 1: on draft day. The last person who got it right

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Speaker 1: was Dane Brugler from The Athletic A right, Dane, we

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Speaker 1: got to see I want to see the time stamp

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Speaker 1: on that mock draft. Right. Are we sure he got

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Speaker 1: it in before the draft started? Um? And I get

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing there's no way to track this as to

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Speaker 1: how many people predicted any kind of trades for the Bills.

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Speaker 1: Probably not many. I don't think it all the way

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Speaker 1: down there at twenty five. I'm guessing no, there were

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Speaker 1: a couple of people mocks with trades. Some people don't.

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Speaker 1: If I scrolled through my document here, there were I

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Speaker 1: think four four or three people, three or four people

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Speaker 1: that predicted that we would trade. But as I'm looking,

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Speaker 1: most of these trades were to trade out of the

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Speaker 1: first round, not trade up. I don't think too many

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Speaker 1: people had the bills going up, and they only went

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Speaker 1: up a couple of spots. But still, yeah, well good,

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Speaker 1: I mean for the people had pegged it in January,

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Speaker 1: good on you man, I mean three months out and

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Speaker 1: hitting it. Yeah. Sam Onster from PFF, no wonder he

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Speaker 1: liked the Bills draft so much, right, that's kind of cool.

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Speaker 1: Not too many people got James Cook though, I think

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Speaker 1: only one mock draft that I saw head James Cook. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: once it gets to round two, it's kind of it's

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Speaker 1: really hard to figure out what people because you don't

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Speaker 1: because you're trying to do a two round. Like, think

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Speaker 1: about it. If GMS had to make picks in the

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Speaker 1: second round without knowing what the first round picks were, ye,

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Speaker 1: what do Yeah, that's kind of what you're doing a

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Speaker 1: little bit too hard but supremely difficult. But they make

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Speaker 1: they make people do seven round box, which to me

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Speaker 1: is insane. Just the fact of having to think about

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Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty two picks and what makes sense

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Speaker 1: for team. Oh my gosh, my eyes would fall out

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Speaker 1: of my head and my brain would be front. I

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Speaker 1: don't I don't know how people do in terms of

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Speaker 1: just making all the picks. My goodness, Well, that's cool.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you followed up on that, because you always wonder.

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Speaker 1: I remember I did look back one time, I can't

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Speaker 1: remember what year it was to see how some of

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Speaker 1: the bigger name guys did. And I think Daniel Jeremiah

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Speaker 1: got six rite in a draft and it was like

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Speaker 1: it was a decent quarterback draft, but it wasn't like

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Speaker 1: a big name quarterback draft where you can easily like.

646
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: It wasn't like Andrew Luck's going first wasn't one of

647
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Speaker 1: those and he got six right, and mel Kiper only

648
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Speaker 1: got one in the entire first round. And I think

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Speaker 1: people are somewhat amazed by that. But that's how hard

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Speaker 1: it is, because you don't know what's going to happen

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Speaker 1: in the draft. Yeah, this first round of this year's

652
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Speaker 1: NFL draft, with the quarterbacks trying to figure out where

653
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Speaker 1: they would go who was going to be the first

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Speaker 1: quarterback off the board? It was wild to predict something

655
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Speaker 1: like that. And if you have a draft where quarterbacks

656
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Speaker 1: aren't going to go off the board is high, then

657
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Speaker 1: it's really tough to predict what's going to happen after

658
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Speaker 1: pick number three, pick number ten, pick number fifteen, what

659
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:42,919
Speaker 1: are these teams going to do? And then you saw

660
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Speaker 1: all these trades happen in the first round and continue

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00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,879
Speaker 1: on throughout the NFL Draft. It was It was an

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Speaker 1: interesting draft. And I feel like from a working standpoint

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Speaker 1: of working the NFL Draft, usually by Saturday, you come

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Speaker 1: into the office and you're running off like no leap,

665
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Speaker 1: like a couple hours asleep each night, and you're like,

666
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: I am, this day is gonna go by so slow.

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00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 1: We've got rounds four through seven, Like, not excited for it.

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Speaker 1: This year's NFL draft, at least for me, it went

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Speaker 1: by so quickly. It was fast. And think about this though.

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Speaker 1: So we had Eric Allen from New York Jets dot

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Speaker 1: Com on the other day on the show, and I

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Speaker 1: was messing with him because after all the trades they made,

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Speaker 1: including the one to get back up into the bottom

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Speaker 1: of the first round to take Jermaine Johnson. Their last

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Speaker 1: pick was halfway through round four. Yeah, and then they

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Speaker 1: were done. I said, Eric, I'm supremely jealous. I said,

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Speaker 1: were you home watching round six and seven? He goes,

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Speaker 1: I did get home before round six was over. Can

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Speaker 1: you imagine I had dinner at home on Saturday of

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Speaker 1: the draft. That's unheard of. So I mean, not only

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Speaker 1: did the Jets front office make all their fans happy,

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Speaker 1: they probably made all the media in New York happy

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Speaker 1: for giving him an early day on Saturday. I was

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Speaker 1: just done by the fourth round. Once you get to

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Speaker 1: the seventh round, if you have picks at the bottom

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Speaker 1: of the seventh round, you're like, come on, trade the pick,

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Speaker 1: Come on, trade the pick. Why are why are we

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Speaker 1: sitting around here till the end of the seventh round.

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Speaker 1: Let's just get the soil with because those guys aren't

690
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Speaker 1: done after the drafts over anyway, they're trying to sign

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Speaker 1: all those undrafted rookies that are still out there and available.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, well good info there. So ten

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Speaker 1: you said ten people decided that higher Elam was heading

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Speaker 1: a buffalo with that, but they guessed number twenty five.

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Speaker 1: They didn't get the number right, but they guessed were

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Speaker 1: good rafts hire Elam yep, no, not even less than that.

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Speaker 1: Seven out of one hundred and fifty mock drafts that

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Speaker 1: we tracked, so ten people got it right. He was

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Speaker 1: the second most favorited player to be mocked by the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills or mocked to the Buffalo Bills. I should say, Um,

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Speaker 1: so good on you guys. I think it was higher

702
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Speaker 1: than Greg Russo. And I'll have to Yeah, I'll have

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Speaker 1: to check that in the break because I do have

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Speaker 1: that spreadsheet with me, so I'll set that right. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: let's go to the phone because the obl fan Friday

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Speaker 1: mail bag is open and leading us off today is

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Speaker 1: Joe on a sale? What do you have for us? Joe,

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Speaker 1: you're on one Bill's Live. Hi. Um, I know you guys.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about compensation earlier. Yeah, could you walk me

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Speaker 1: through the free agent compensation? More specifically? Do they get

711
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 1: signing bonuses? Do they have to negotiate it, what happens

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Speaker 1: when they come into the rookie camp, what happens you know,

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Speaker 1: during summer camp? And then if they should make the team.

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Speaker 1: I presume they get the league minimum or if they

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Speaker 1: make or if they put on the squad, then they

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Speaker 1: make whatever they make. But I'm kind of curious about

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Speaker 1: the compensation piece to the best to understand it. Yeah, listen, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no problem, Joe. Um, it's not it's not mandatory that

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Speaker 1: rookies be under contract to participate in rookie Minicamp, So

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Speaker 1: they can come in without a contract and participate in

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Speaker 1: that it's training camp. That's when they have to be

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Speaker 1: signed by in order to participate. Otherwise they put themselves

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Speaker 1: at risk, you know, financially and you know, because of

724
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:20,359
Speaker 1: their physical health is pretty much tied to what they're

725
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Speaker 1: going to get paid in a contract. So that's why

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00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,359
Speaker 1: they'll hold out and not take the field if they're

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Speaker 1: not signed. But that kind of all went away with

728
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Speaker 1: the new CBA and the rookie wage scale. So yes,

729
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Speaker 1: there are signing bonuses. In many cases rookie first round picks,

730
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Speaker 1: their entire salary is guaranteed, so whether it's in bonus form,

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Speaker 1: and there are different kinds of bonuses too. There are

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Speaker 1: roster bonuses that kick in at different times of the year.

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Speaker 1: There are incentives that kick in based on certain production

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Speaker 1: levels that they might reach, playing time levels that what

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Speaker 1: team had the offensive lineman where it was incentive based

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Speaker 1: with how much you weigh oh to control the weight. Yeah, yeah,

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00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: that does happen too. So if there's a players, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if there's a player that they believe has a weight

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00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 1: maintenance issue, they will either in a positive way put

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Speaker 1: bonuses in if they stay under a certain weight and

741
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 1: they'll weigh him in every week, or they will penalize

742
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:21,800
Speaker 1: him and find him if he doesn't make certain weight

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00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,799
Speaker 1: demands that the team can put on him. You don't

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00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 1: always see that in contracts, but it does exist. And

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Speaker 1: then I think the other part of Joe's question was

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Speaker 1: how do they get paid. Those salaries do not kick

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Speaker 1: in until they reach the regular season, where their salary

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Speaker 1: is divided over the eighteen weeks of the season. Pay

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Speaker 1: day is usually Monday. During the course of the off season,

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Speaker 1: especially training camp, they will get a stipend that is

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00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 1: not part of their salary, but for coming out to

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Speaker 1: camp and participating there. So they'll get a stipend to

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Speaker 1: kind of carry them through, you know, being on campus.

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Speaker 1: I guess it's the equivalent of sending your kid to

755
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 1: college with spending money. It's kind of how that works.

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Speaker 1: But hopefully that's enough detail on that, Bob and Rochester.

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Speaker 1: Hang tight. We will get to you, but we have

758
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Speaker 1: to take a break here. Maddie and I answering more

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Speaker 1: of your questions from the OBIL Friday fan mailbag. Next

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Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live. Stay tuned. All right, welcome

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Speaker 1: back to One Bill's Live. I want to jump right

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Speaker 1: back to the phones here as the obi L Fan

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Speaker 1: Friday mailbag is open, and as promised, we go to

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Speaker 1: Bob in Rochester. Next, what do you have for us? Bob?

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Speaker 1: You're on One Bill's Live. Can you hear m Chris?

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Speaker 1: I can, Bob? What do you have for us? Thought

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00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 1: you might be interested. I got in front of me

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Speaker 1: a copy of the Lendy's Draft Guide Okay, that I

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Speaker 1: bought and it's probably a couple of months old, is

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Speaker 1: I thought you might find a couple of things interested.

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Speaker 1: All right, what do you have? Fire it off? And

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Speaker 1: huh to fire away? Okay. In this book they got

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Speaker 1: the top one hundred players listed and mister Elam is

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Speaker 1: eight out of a hundred. Okay, in the top one

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Speaker 1: hundred listing. They also list him as the number two

776
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: safety and in the book, out of all the safeties

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Speaker 1: safety this this got at least thirty. But the thing

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Speaker 1: I think you might find most interesting is they picked

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Speaker 1: him to go to the Buffalo Bills, but at the

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Speaker 1: twenty fifth pick. Okay, keeping their original pick. I got it, Bob,

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Speaker 1: we are up against the break. Thank you for the call.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Um. Yeah, there was some talk, like early

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Speaker 1: in the pre draft run up, Maddie about kayr Elam

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Speaker 1: as a potential safety option, which I don't know. I

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00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: found that peculiar only because it's harder to find corners

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Speaker 1: than it is to find safety. So if the guy's

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Speaker 1: good enough to play corner, why would you move him?

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Speaker 1: But I think a lot of people just looked at

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Speaker 1: his height and his length and said, oh, put him

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Speaker 1: at safety, he'd be great there. And I'm just like,

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Speaker 1: why are you gonna do that? Guy plays a he

792
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:38,760
Speaker 1: plays press man corner, Like, leave him. The safeties don't

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Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, well most of them don't, as we know.

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Speaker 1: You know, Micah Hyde and Jordan Poiter both came from

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Speaker 1: a cornerback background before they moved to safety full time,

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Speaker 1: you know, as they spend more time in the league.

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Speaker 1: But kayre Elam man leave him at corner. My god,

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Speaker 1: I was surprised when I heard that in more than

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Speaker 1: one place, just in people talking about the draft as

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Speaker 1: a whole, and I was like, really, you want to

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Speaker 1: do that with an athlete that's that good and you

802
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: can put out on an island and you know, say, hey,

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Speaker 1: go follow this guy around the whole game. I don't

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00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:15,799
Speaker 1: know why you would do that. Granted, if you put

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Speaker 1: him at safety, he would be an ultraversal safety because

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Speaker 1: he could come down and cover people. But I just

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Speaker 1: let him do what he does best the whole game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: leave him at cornerback. Also, I mean, I know these

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Speaker 1: people are probably staying, like, you know, he can move

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Speaker 1: to safety. Not sure what team he was going to

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Speaker 1: go to, but the Buffalo Bills have safety locked up,

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00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 1: so we're all good there. We need a cornerback so

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00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 1: that I think that's where Kayer fits most. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: hopefully Kaier's playing his entire career here with the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills because we like him so much and he produces

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00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 1: at a really high level. But you wonder if he

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00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:53,760
Speaker 1: ever goes anywhere else, if teams look at him differently

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Speaker 1: in that way. Yeah, no question about it. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to the obl Friday Mail bag online at Twitter at

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Speaker 1: one Bill's Live and Bill's Fan twelve to eighty three

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Speaker 1: asks what kind of role do you think Zach Moss

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Speaker 1: will play for the team this year. I'm not expecting much,

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Speaker 1: but I have completely haven't completely written him off either.

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Speaker 1: I'm hopeful injuries accounted for his struggles and he can

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00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:22,479
Speaker 1: get it turned back around. Go Bills. I mean, for me,

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Speaker 1: I think there is going to be strong competition at

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Speaker 1: the position. I think the only guys you can definitively

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Speaker 1: count on being on the roster in the fall are

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Speaker 1: probably Singletary and Cook, and then it comes down to

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Speaker 1: Moss and Duke Johnson, and they do two very different things.

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Speaker 1: Johnson does a lot of the pass catching stuff, while

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Speaker 1: Moss is kind of the battering ram in between the

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Speaker 1: tackles guy. And so while I think some people look

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Speaker 1: at it and say, oh, it's going to be a

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Speaker 1: competition between Cook and Duke Johnson because they do the

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Speaker 1: same thing, I would respectfully disagree because I think Cook's

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Speaker 1: on the roster no matter what. And so with that

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Speaker 1: in mind, it becomes a competition of who is excelling

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Speaker 1: in their role better, Zack Moss or Duke Johnson. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And also what flavor do you want there? Right? You

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Speaker 1: have Devin Singletary, you know his skill set. You have

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Speaker 1: James Cook, you know his skill set that he's the

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Speaker 1: guy who can run the ball and catch the ball.

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Speaker 1: Do you want another player similar to that in Duke

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Speaker 1: Johnson compared to James Cook? And where does Zack Moss

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Speaker 1: fit into the fold? So would you rather have another

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Speaker 1: person that is kind of like James Cook or kind

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Speaker 1: of like Duke Johnson and that it's a pass catching

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Speaker 1: running back? So would you rather have two of those guys?

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Speaker 1: Or would you rather have somebody like Zack Moss, like

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Speaker 1: you said, who could go in between the tackles, could

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Speaker 1: kind of be that that running back that you're going

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Speaker 1: to need on a shorter yardage situation. Right, And so

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Speaker 1: you say, well, if coach McDermott decides he doesn't want

855
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:00,920
Speaker 1: Josh Allen to be there short dage person all the

856
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: time and take unnecessary hits, do you want do you

857
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 1: feel comfortable turning to Zach Moss Because he's killing it

858
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: in short yardage situations in the preseason. Maybe he's doing

859
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:12,359
Speaker 1: like five third and ones and he gets them all

860
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, maybe we could use him in

861
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 1: that role and take hits off Josh Allen. Maybe he

862
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 1: proves he deserves a role in the offense. So hypothetically,

863
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:24,439
Speaker 1: let's just say he makes the team. What's his role

864
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:26,720
Speaker 1: for the team this year? I think it's between the tackles,

865
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 1: running short yardage running. I'm not saying he can't catch

866
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 1: the football, but when you have people that are vastly

867
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 1: superior as a matchup problem, like a James Cook or

868
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 1: a Duke Johnson, He's probably not going to be doing

869
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:40,799
Speaker 1: much of that. So that would be the role I

870
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 1: would see for him, if in fact he makes the roster.

871
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 1: But I think he and Duke Johnson are not necessarily

872
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 1: locks as it stands. Right now, we have to take

873
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: a break here because when we come back, we're going

874
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 1: to be joined by somebody who kind of put together

875
00:48:56,040 --> 00:49:00,320
Speaker 1: a quintessential history of Brandon Bean's time as general manager

876
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 1: of the Bills. It's Mike Silver from Bally Sports. He's

877
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 1: an NFL columnist for them, and he just recently wrote

878
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 1: a piece on Brandon Bean and his formula on building

879
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:12,759
Speaker 1: a champion here in Buffalo. We'll talk to Mike next

880
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 1: here on one Bills Live. Presented by Kalida Health. It's

881
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:36,879
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio at a Steve Tasker who has been

882
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 1: all the fields. Kind of unique. He was kind of

883
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:44,880
Speaker 1: a dual role player for you, Stave, Steve a blimp.

884
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 1: We're not even in the stratosphere of normalcy, alright. Our

885
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 1: number two here on a Friday, Chris Brown, Mandy Glad

886
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:57,319
Speaker 1: with you. One Bills Live is the show and please

887
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: to be joined now by the founder of That State

888
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:05,280
Speaker 1: Media and NFL calumnists for Valley's Sports. It's Mike Silver

889
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 1: joining us, who just put together a piece on Brandon

890
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:13,359
Speaker 1: Bean's lasting formula to build a champion in Buffalo. Mike,

891
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:17,200
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. Hey, Chrissy Maddie, I hope you

892
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 1: guys are doing well. Yeah, we're doing all right. And

893
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:23,359
Speaker 1: you know, I wanted to start here because I know

894
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:27,400
Speaker 1: you've met and talked to Brandon before, you know, but

895
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:31,880
Speaker 1: now he's in year five of this thing. And I

896
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 1: know that you got that quote early in your story

897
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 1: from Joe Shane's who you know. I think we all

898
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: know Brandon socially is a very friendly person and then

899
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 1: Joe rips off he's a killer. Is there anything? Is

900
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 1: there anything about Brandon. Now that just in your interactions

901
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:51,240
Speaker 1: with him in the time you were here in Buffalo

902
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:54,799
Speaker 1: last week, that maybe struck you as different from what

903
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:58,920
Speaker 1: you maybe had previously thought of him as he changed

904
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:04,279
Speaker 1: it all. I guess not really. I think that you know,

905
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:09,720
Speaker 1: all talent evaluators say, I'm not gonna reach, I'm gonna

906
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:14,359
Speaker 1: stick to my board. I'm not gonna, you know, make

907
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 1: crazy moves that jeopardize the future of the franchise. I'm

908
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 1: not gonna draft for need, and they're all kind of lying, right,

909
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:26,000
Speaker 1: I mean, everyone kind of drafts for need. And you know,

910
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 1: gms don't get that long necessarily on the job, and

911
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:34,799
Speaker 1: you can't just passively let things come to you unless

912
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 1: you have consecutive first ballot Hall of Fame quarterbacks for

913
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 1: more than three decades, like one franchise over in Wisconsin.

914
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 1: And I would even quarrel with that approach, and so

915
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:50,440
Speaker 1: would one of those franchise quarterbacks, by the way. But

916
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 1: you know what I like about Brandon is that he

917
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 1: does have an element of I'm not gonna overreach, I'm

918
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 1: not gonna go all in for one season. I'm gonna

919
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:04,319
Speaker 1: be methodical about it, and I'm gonna let the you know,

920
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:07,399
Speaker 1: the integrity of the board be honored. But when he

921
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 1: really wants something, he goes and gets it unequivocally, aggressively

922
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 1: and in a very targeted and smart manner. And we've

923
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 1: seen that from the outset and in the story I wrote,

924
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 1: I know, you guys know all this, but I detailed

925
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 1: all the moves that kind of led up to the

926
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:33,839
Speaker 1: Josh Allen on the Clock acquisition, you know, starting with

927
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:37,279
Speaker 1: getting rid of Sammy Watkins and Ronald Darby and you

928
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 1: know the Corty Glenn trade, and you know, it was

929
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 1: a it was kind of a long, well thought out plan.

930
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:48,120
Speaker 1: You know, he's done it in numerous other occasions, most

931
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 1: famously with Stefon Diggs, which turned out to be a

932
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 1: transformative trade. And even after you know, doing his best

933
00:52:56,719 --> 00:53:02,040
Speaker 1: to convince me on Wednesday that he probably wasn't trading

934
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 1: up this year, he did identify, indeed and trade up

935
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:10,799
Speaker 1: two spots to go get a quarterback that he thinks

936
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 1: to make a difference. And so I like that a lot.

937
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: And it's not like he just goes nuts and it's

938
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 1: totally reckless. But when he wants something, he goes and

939
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 1: gets it. It's funny because now that they're sitting around

940
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 1: waiting on Night one instead of drafting early on in

941
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft. You'll hear him say leading up to

942
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft, you know, I need to be patient.

943
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: I need to be a patient person. This is why

944
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:37,839
Speaker 1: I have a lot of people in the room with me,

945
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 1: so I don't make any moves that I'm going to

946
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 1: regret later on. But just the weekend overall, what did

947
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: you take away from that weekend? I mean, we get

948
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:48,520
Speaker 1: to cover the team every day, but is there anything

949
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:51,800
Speaker 1: that didn't make the story that you know you'll remember

950
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 1: from that weekend or that's worth noting about the organization

951
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:58,879
Speaker 1: or the people that you got to interact with from

952
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:03,640
Speaker 1: the first round on until the second and third round. Well,

953
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:05,800
Speaker 1: it's just really cool to see where the franchise is.

954
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 1: And you know, I've you know, I got to know

955
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:11,440
Speaker 1: Kim Pagola very early on in her tenure and then

956
00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 1: got to know Terry really well. And you know, I

957
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:19,319
Speaker 1: went out there for NFL Network to do a big

958
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 1: feature on Kim that ran on game day morning and

959
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:25,480
Speaker 1: kind of did it all access weekend, following her around

960
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 1: with cameras always a joy for the subject. I know,

961
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 1: although Kim handled it amazingly, and I remember at the

962
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 1: time just kind of being struck by the fact that

963
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:39,839
Speaker 1: locally there was some skepticism about them, which I thought

964
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 1: was interesting because as an outsider, I was like, well,

965
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:46,319
Speaker 1: they saved the team. You know, it didn't move, they

966
00:54:46,640 --> 00:54:51,359
Speaker 1: developed downtown. There's a lot of things that you could

967
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 1: be excited about as a resident about them, and yet

968
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 1: you know, I know that there was skepticism. I think

969
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:03,560
Speaker 1: now people I would imagine, are feeling very very positive,

970
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 1: and you know, the stadium deal looks like it's going

971
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:08,320
Speaker 1: to get done, and so the team really is saved

972
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:14,280
Speaker 1: for the region. And I obviously they've you know, they've

973
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 1: they've cycled through some people and made some decisions and

974
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 1: changed some things up. But um, you know, I think

975
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:25,280
Speaker 1: the franchise is just in such a healthy place. It's

976
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:29,400
Speaker 1: you know, it's going to stay in Western New York.

977
00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:35,320
Speaker 1: It's got a quarterback who may be, by all indications,

978
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:40,040
Speaker 1: someone who keeps the team as a legit contender for

979
00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 1: a decade plus. And they've done a really good job

980
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:49,120
Speaker 1: of building around him and making moves that kind of,

981
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:54,160
Speaker 1: you know, give promise to that belief. So, uh, you know,

982
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 1: will there be a parade or parades, will confetti fall?

983
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:00,279
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's you know, the AA see

984
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 1: as a beast and there are a lot of good teams,

985
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 1: but you know, you're going to get a lot of

986
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 1: predictions that the Bills will win in twenty twenty two

987
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 1: or in the twenty twenty two season, and we'll see

988
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:15,879
Speaker 1: what happened. I know, Mike that Brandon is not new

989
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:17,800
Speaker 1: to the league. I mean, he's been, you know, paying

990
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 1: his dues for twenty years, and he's got a lot

991
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:23,319
Speaker 1: of strong relationships around the league. But knowing that, we

992
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 1: kind of deal with Bills myopia here, I'm curious to

993
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:31,240
Speaker 1: ask you do you think Brandon's tenure here as GM

994
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 1: of the Bills has widespread respect in terms of what

995
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:39,319
Speaker 1: he's built. I'm just curious how the rest of the

996
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:41,680
Speaker 1: league used the Bills. Is it more than just hey,

997
00:56:41,719 --> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 1: they finally got a quarterback. It's more than that as

998
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:47,840
Speaker 1: far as Brandon's concerned around league, isn't it? Yeah? I

999
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:49,880
Speaker 1: hope I think it is, and I hope it is

1000
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:52,520
Speaker 1: because you know, he's earned it. He you know, he's

1001
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:56,480
Speaker 1: made moves that are not amazing like every GM, but

1002
00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 1: you know, hasn't you know, lived in them to the

1003
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:02,879
Speaker 1: point where he's trying to justify him. You know, he's

1004
00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 1: been able to cut his losses at times, and he's

1005
00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:10,719
Speaker 1: obviously made some very very good moves. And when you

1006
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:13,760
Speaker 1: do hit on the quarterback, obviously, you know, the world

1007
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 1: opens up and the angels sing and the sky is

1008
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:18,960
Speaker 1: always blue and it's it's awesome. And when you don't,

1009
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:22,600
Speaker 1: it's the worst and you probably won't stay in your

1010
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:26,400
Speaker 1: job that long. So I don't want to understate the

1011
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 1: importance of getting the quarterback right. You know, one thing

1012
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 1: they did when they looked at quarterbacks was they did

1013
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 1: a really nice job of not just saying who's the

1014
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:39,000
Speaker 1: best guy or who do we love? It's who's the

1015
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:42,640
Speaker 1: best guy for here now? And that was everything from

1016
00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:46,920
Speaker 1: balls that can zip through the wind because they're thrown

1017
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:52,360
Speaker 1: so hard to you know, more of a blue collar

1018
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 1: mentality and someone who would embrace kind of the you know,

1019
00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:01,920
Speaker 1: a storied franchise that was down on its uh, you know,

1020
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 1: down on its luck, uh, you know, from the Music

1021
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:09,520
Speaker 1: City Miracle on uh. And and so they got the

1022
00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:12,920
Speaker 1: quarterback right in a lot of ways. Um, you know,

1023
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 1: they they had a plan and they went and got it.

1024
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 1: And the other thing I would say is that, um,

1025
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:25,240
Speaker 1: you know, the best coach GM tandems by far are

1026
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 1: the ones where there is alignment and where you don't, oh,

1027
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:30,800
Speaker 1: you know, you don't often hear about who made what

1028
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:34,080
Speaker 1: pick or who's doing what. You know, Pete Carroll and

1029
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 1: John Schneider in Seattle for all these years would be,

1030
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:42,440
Speaker 1: you know, an example where you're not really focused on

1031
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: who has the power or who's making a call. It's

1032
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 1: just two people tethered together aligned. Obviously there's a push

1033
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 1: and pull in there's some disagreements, but um, you know,

1034
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 1: Brandon by knows what Sean McDermott wants and what his

1035
00:58:58,120 --> 00:59:01,280
Speaker 1: staff wants, and Sean mcder his staff through a great

1036
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 1: job of coaching up and developing the players that Brandon

1037
00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:08,720
Speaker 1: Bean and his personnel people get them. So it really

1038
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 1: is a good coach GM merit and that's really important. Well,

1039
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:17,400
Speaker 1: the Bills have their first round pick in kyer Elam.

1040
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:21,320
Speaker 1: They've got Josh Allen. They swung on von Miller and

1041
00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 1: got him during free agency. Stefon Diggs is secured for

1042
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:27,520
Speaker 1: a while, so they filled a lot of holes this

1043
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:30,760
Speaker 1: offseason and then into this NFL draft. So what do

1044
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:33,200
Speaker 1: you think about the Bills draft class and kind of

1045
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:36,720
Speaker 1: where they bolstered up areas that were positions of need

1046
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:38,480
Speaker 1: for them. You know, you look at a team like

1047
00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:41,240
Speaker 1: the Bills, it's kind of like you're not drafting because

1048
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 1: you need all these guys to have a role immediately.

1049
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:46,200
Speaker 1: It's kind of like, where can we fill in some

1050
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:48,600
Speaker 1: depth pieces here? Who do we see that could be

1051
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 1: a viable option maybe in a couple of seasons. So overall,

1052
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:54,480
Speaker 1: what did you think of the players that were added

1053
00:59:54,760 --> 01:00:00,160
Speaker 1: onto the squad through the NFL Draft. Unlike some of

1054
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 1: my peers, I do not pretend to be a talent evaluator.

1055
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:06,360
Speaker 1: When I do watch college football, I watch my alma

1056
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:08,720
Speaker 1: moderate Cal. You see the helmet in the background once

1057
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:12,080
Speaker 1: belong to Jared Goff, And a lot of times when

1058
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:16,560
Speaker 1: you're watching Cal, you're not necessarily watching high level football.

1059
01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:18,960
Speaker 1: Let's just say that, no Rose Bowl in my lifetime,

1060
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:21,760
Speaker 1: although I do have much love so you know, I

1061
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 1: don't sit there and break down film, but I do

1062
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:29,040
Speaker 1: evaluate process, and I would say this. You know, first

1063
01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:32,200
Speaker 1: of all, he aggressively went out and got a guy

1064
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:36,440
Speaker 1: at a position that was important with lee By Walls

1065
01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 1: gone with Trey White recovering from the ACL and you

1066
01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:43,240
Speaker 1: can never have enough corners. And you know, people might say, well,

1067
01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 1: and this is not specific to any one corner, but

1068
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 1: Brandon and I talked about this. People kind of nitpick

1069
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 1: when the great corners. Sometimes it said, well, he's really

1070
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:55,720
Speaker 1: a second round talent, and Brandon told me you better

1071
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:58,240
Speaker 1: be careful when you do that because it's such a

1072
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 1: premium position that those guys that you have said, oh,

1073
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:04,800
Speaker 1: you know, maybe he's down here, they'll be gone. And so,

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01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:08,480
Speaker 1: you know, I think he had four people that he

1075
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:12,720
Speaker 1: was much higher on and two went in the first four,

1076
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:15,800
Speaker 1: and then Trent McDuffie went at twenty one, and he

1077
01:01:15,920 --> 01:01:18,000
Speaker 1: was like, I think I might want to get moving,

1078
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:20,240
Speaker 1: and when it ultimately cost him was a fourth round pick.

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Speaker 1: So I like that. I like that they, you know,

1080
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:27,280
Speaker 1: were able to execute some trade doowns, and you know,

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01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:30,080
Speaker 1: I believe that he still would have taken James Cook

1082
01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 1: had he not done the two trade doowns. And that

1083
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:36,360
Speaker 1: was a process he likened to playing the four corners offense,

1084
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:39,880
Speaker 1: which Maddie, I know you have no idea what that is.

1085
01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:43,400
Speaker 1: But before there was a shot clock. In college basketball,

1086
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:47,480
Speaker 1: you could just stall when he had a lead, and famously,

1087
01:01:47,560 --> 01:01:50,680
Speaker 1: Dean Smith's teams at North Carolina would get a really

1088
01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:53,640
Speaker 1: good point guard and put the other people in the

1089
01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 1: four corners of the front court and just have him

1090
01:01:56,400 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 1: dribble around or throw it to one of the corners.

1091
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:02,400
Speaker 1: It was really ann and maddening, but effective. So he

1092
01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 1: was stalling to see if he could get an even

1093
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:07,960
Speaker 1: better trade down that would net him back that last

1094
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:10,880
Speaker 1: fourth round pick. I like the fact that he traded

1095
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:14,800
Speaker 1: up again in the fifth round to get a receiver,

1096
01:02:16,080 --> 01:02:21,080
Speaker 1: you know, that he believed was not going to be there,

1097
01:02:21,160 --> 01:02:23,080
Speaker 1: and someone that he would have taken in the fourth

1098
01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:26,000
Speaker 1: round had they been on the clock. I have a

1099
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:29,040
Speaker 1: couple of little nitpicky things. Again, I'm not a talent evaluator.

1100
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:33,320
Speaker 1: Number One, I talked to some people on the outside

1101
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:38,560
Speaker 1: who told me things about Greece Hall and Kenneth Walker.

1102
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:41,160
Speaker 1: The third that the top two running backs on most

1103
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:44,600
Speaker 1: people's boards. That made me go, WHOA, Like they're really

1104
01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:46,360
Speaker 1: that good? And I don't know if they are or not,

1105
01:02:46,520 --> 01:02:50,760
Speaker 1: but if they're as good as some people depicted to me,

1106
01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:56,440
Speaker 1: I would have loved to see the bills do something

1107
01:02:56,480 --> 01:02:58,640
Speaker 1: to get one of them, whether it was a dramatic

1108
01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:01,400
Speaker 1: trade up to get higher in the second round or

1109
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:05,440
Speaker 1: even taking one with that twenty fifth overall pick, because

1110
01:03:05,440 --> 01:03:07,880
Speaker 1: I just think it could be such a difference maker.

1111
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:10,360
Speaker 1: And Brandon says, and I put this in the story,

1112
01:03:10,440 --> 01:03:13,480
Speaker 1: he believes that Zach Boss wasn't really right last year,

1113
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:17,640
Speaker 1: you know, couldn't cut you know, to his left the

1114
01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:19,960
Speaker 1: way he had because he was still recovering from the

1115
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:23,000
Speaker 1: injury from the twenty twenty playoffs. And so he believes

1116
01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:25,720
Speaker 1: he's gonna be much better that he and Devin Singletary

1117
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:29,360
Speaker 1: and now James took will will be you know, a

1118
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:34,680
Speaker 1: good combination. I'm not disputing that. I'm just thinking, man,

1119
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:37,240
Speaker 1: if either one of those running backs turns out to

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Speaker 1: be as good as some people I trust believe they will,

1121
01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:43,160
Speaker 1: then man, I would have loved to see that. And

1122
01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:47,360
Speaker 1: then my second qual And then Brandon knows all about

1123
01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:51,000
Speaker 1: this because we talked about it before he made this

1124
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:55,600
Speaker 1: pick and after, and that is he took a punter. Now, listen,

1125
01:03:57,040 --> 01:03:59,840
Speaker 1: punters are football players. I don't want to say that

1126
01:03:59,880 --> 01:04:03,560
Speaker 1: I don't respect punters. I do. I just don't respect

1127
01:04:03,560 --> 01:04:06,840
Speaker 1: them as much as I respect the other fifty two

1128
01:04:07,240 --> 01:04:11,560
Speaker 1: and we're talking about a team that literally just played

1129
01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:15,000
Speaker 1: a playoff game where they did not need the punter

1130
01:04:15,240 --> 01:04:20,480
Speaker 1: because they destroyed the New England Patriots so resoundingly that

1131
01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:24,120
Speaker 1: the punter never got to do his thing. Wait, you

1132
01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:25,760
Speaker 1: know what, we're on a Bill show. Let me say

1133
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:29,000
Speaker 1: that again. There was a playoff game where the Buffalo

1134
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:33,560
Speaker 1: Bills destroyed the New England Patriots so resoundingly that they

1135
01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:36,640
Speaker 1: never needed to punt. That's got to just feel good

1136
01:04:36,680 --> 01:04:39,960
Speaker 1: to hear over and over and over, because my least

1137
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:43,200
Speaker 1: favorite game of the year was the Bill's Patriots regular

1138
01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:47,680
Speaker 1: season game where the Patriots through what three times and

1139
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:51,920
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick's genius was celebrated, and it was like, oh man,

1140
01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:55,280
Speaker 1: enough of this. I like, I'm more comfortable with the

1141
01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:58,400
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick throwing the phone at the end of the

1142
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:03,240
Speaker 1: twenty twenty regulars see Sason against the Bills or not

1143
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:05,640
Speaker 1: being able to stop them ever from getting in the

1144
01:05:05,720 --> 01:05:11,200
Speaker 1: end zone. But I digress. Anyway, I listen. I went

1145
01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:13,520
Speaker 1: to cal I mentioned they had a putter named Brian

1146
01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:16,240
Speaker 1: Anger who's still in the league, who's a very very

1147
01:05:16,280 --> 01:05:19,200
Speaker 1: good college punter, and we punted plenty, so I got

1148
01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:23,200
Speaker 1: to see him. He was selected in the third round

1149
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:27,320
Speaker 1: of the twenty twelve draft by the Jacksonville Jaguars. Russell

1150
01:05:27,320 --> 01:05:29,240
Speaker 1: Wilson was on the board at the time, by the way,

1151
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:32,720
Speaker 1: but be that is a bay was I had been

1152
01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:36,120
Speaker 1: in the Jaguars. I've been in the Jaguars war room before,

1153
01:05:36,160 --> 01:05:37,480
Speaker 1: but that year I was not. I think I was

1154
01:05:37,480 --> 01:05:40,000
Speaker 1: in the Rams war room. But when I saw that pick,

1155
01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:44,240
Speaker 1: I said to somebody, if Brian Anger has a special

1156
01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:48,520
Speaker 1: power suddenly that ensures, based on the spin of his

1157
01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:53,880
Speaker 1: punts that every single punt will be fumbled or muffed

1158
01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:56,640
Speaker 1: by the return man, I still wouldn't take him in

1159
01:05:56,680 --> 01:05:59,480
Speaker 1: the third, you know, maybe the fifth. I just think

1160
01:05:59,760 --> 01:06:03,520
Speaker 1: it's crazy. So I was joking with Brandon on Friday

1161
01:06:03,600 --> 01:06:05,840
Speaker 1: night about are you actually going to take a punter,

1162
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:08,520
Speaker 1: and you know, he was just kind of laughing. And

1163
01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:11,720
Speaker 1: so sure enough, right there, the first pick of the

1164
01:06:11,720 --> 01:06:16,640
Speaker 1: sixth round, the punt god from San Diego State comes

1165
01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 1: off the board, and you know, of course I texted him,

1166
01:06:19,440 --> 01:06:21,600
Speaker 1: and I got back a text that was for you.

1167
01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:26,320
Speaker 1: So if this guy becomes Ray Guy and you know,

1168
01:06:26,560 --> 01:06:31,200
Speaker 1: does incredible things, then once again I will stand corrected.

1169
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:35,840
Speaker 1: But I'm just not a huge fan of punters being drafted.

1170
01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:38,400
Speaker 1: And by the way, I don't really play fantasy much,

1171
01:06:38,440 --> 01:06:41,560
Speaker 1: but when I helped people with their fantasy drafts or

1172
01:06:41,600 --> 01:06:44,960
Speaker 1: my kids or whatever, I don't like kickers or defenses

1173
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:48,240
Speaker 1: being drafted anywhere but the final two picks. So I

1174
01:06:48,280 --> 01:06:52,080
Speaker 1: am consistent. Did that regard fair enough? Listen, Mike, thanks

1175
01:06:52,080 --> 01:06:54,040
Speaker 1: for the time. We appreciate you jumping on with us

1176
01:06:54,040 --> 01:06:56,440
Speaker 1: and kind of spelling out some of the details from

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01:06:56,440 --> 01:06:59,000
Speaker 1: your story Brandon Bean's Lasting formula to build a champion

1178
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:02,080
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. It's on BAI sports dot com. Thanks again, Mike,

1179
01:07:02,120 --> 01:07:05,800
Speaker 1: appreciate the time. You're welcome. How's that for a filibuster

1180
01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:08,920
Speaker 1: To end things? You can just keep saying the Bills

1181
01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:11,240
Speaker 1: blank the Patriots and they didn't have to punt. I

1182
01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:14,120
Speaker 1: mean you could say that on your time. They were

1183
01:07:14,200 --> 01:07:17,640
Speaker 1: really overmatched in that game. One franchise just looked so

1184
01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:24,040
Speaker 1: healthy and robust and the other just looked feudal and overmatched.

1185
01:07:24,120 --> 01:07:27,080
Speaker 1: Really yeah, thanks, Mike, appreciate it. We'll catch up with

1186
01:07:27,120 --> 01:07:30,000
Speaker 1: you down the line. Thank you. All right, that's Mike

1187
01:07:30,040 --> 01:07:34,000
Speaker 1: Silver joining us here from Bally Sports writer and contributor.

1188
01:07:34,040 --> 01:07:35,800
Speaker 1: There you can check out that story. I think the

1189
01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:39,200
Speaker 1: most interesting part of the story, we were a little

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01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:41,120
Speaker 1: short on time. I was gonna ask him, didn't get

1191
01:07:41,120 --> 01:07:43,640
Speaker 1: a chance to because I think the biggest thing that

1192
01:07:43,640 --> 01:07:47,280
Speaker 1: he unearthed in the whole write up was that Brandon

1193
01:07:47,640 --> 01:07:52,400
Speaker 1: remains committed to being to creating a team that is

1194
01:07:52,400 --> 01:07:56,200
Speaker 1: a perennial contender. Even as close as people perceive the

1195
01:07:56,240 --> 01:07:59,800
Speaker 1: Bills to be this year to winning the whole kitten kimboodle,

1196
01:08:01,240 --> 01:08:07,000
Speaker 1: He's still not compromising, remaining competitive in the future to

1197
01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:10,560
Speaker 1: go all in this year. And I can understand why

1198
01:08:10,600 --> 01:08:13,080
Speaker 1: it would be very tempting to do that because the

1199
01:08:13,200 --> 01:08:16,320
Speaker 1: Rams made it work last year by going all in

1200
01:08:16,360 --> 01:08:20,000
Speaker 1: on it. They're signing, you know, trading for von Miller,

1201
01:08:20,120 --> 01:08:22,479
Speaker 1: They're signing Odell Beckham junior late in the year. They're

1202
01:08:22,520 --> 01:08:26,160
Speaker 1: adding all these extra pieces. You know, they have the

1203
01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:29,960
Speaker 1: famous mantra for draft picks as we know, which can't

1204
01:08:29,960 --> 01:08:33,479
Speaker 1: be said on the air. So it would be very

1205
01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:35,760
Speaker 1: tempting to go that route, knowing how much of a

1206
01:08:35,800 --> 01:08:38,760
Speaker 1: copycat league it is. But he's staying true to his

1207
01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:43,200
Speaker 1: core philosophy, which is to stay perennially competitive, and while

1208
01:08:43,400 --> 01:08:45,640
Speaker 1: you do everything you can to make your roster as

1209
01:08:45,640 --> 01:08:47,160
Speaker 1: strong as it can be for the year in which

1210
01:08:47,160 --> 01:08:49,640
Speaker 1: you're set to play. You don't do it at the

1211
01:08:49,680 --> 01:08:52,920
Speaker 1: expense of the next year or even the year after that. Yeah,

1212
01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:55,679
Speaker 1: and Brandon has been asked that question so many times

1213
01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:58,720
Speaker 1: throughout the off season. You know, does the RAMS formula work?

1214
01:08:58,760 --> 01:09:00,720
Speaker 1: Would you ever want to do something like that? And

1215
01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:03,200
Speaker 1: you know, He's like, yeah, it could work for a team,

1216
01:09:03,240 --> 01:09:05,120
Speaker 1: but we're not going to do that here because we

1217
01:09:05,160 --> 01:09:07,519
Speaker 1: want to be good for multiple seasons. We don't want

1218
01:09:07,520 --> 01:09:10,639
Speaker 1: to be a one and done NFL team in Buffalo.

1219
01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:12,879
Speaker 1: We want to be a team that's good for seasons

1220
01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:15,519
Speaker 1: to come. I also loved the part of the story

1221
01:09:16,040 --> 01:09:19,680
Speaker 1: where Mike just spells out what went down leading up

1222
01:09:19,720 --> 01:09:22,759
Speaker 1: to the Bills drafting Josh Allen. There's some really funny

1223
01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:25,040
Speaker 1: parts in that story. I know most of us know

1224
01:09:25,120 --> 01:09:27,880
Speaker 1: the story, but it's always fun to relive. So he

1225
01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:31,519
Speaker 1: spells it out in a perfect and hilarious way. So

1226
01:09:31,760 --> 01:09:33,519
Speaker 1: if you haven't read it yet, make sure you go

1227
01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:37,120
Speaker 1: check it out on Ballet Sports. Yeah, Joe is a

1228
01:09:37,120 --> 01:09:39,240
Speaker 1: good rite up there. I think the funniest part was

1229
01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:43,439
Speaker 1: how it was revealed that Joe Shane pretty much sweat

1230
01:09:43,479 --> 01:09:46,960
Speaker 1: through his suit during the moves they made to get

1231
01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:49,800
Speaker 1: up to pick Josh Allen at seventh overall in the

1232
01:09:49,840 --> 01:09:52,759
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen draft. So definitely a good read at ballet

1233
01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:56,680
Speaker 1: Sports dot Com, Maddie, I was going to get to

1234
01:09:56,720 --> 01:10:00,839
Speaker 1: this later, but I'll get to it now. The travel

1235
01:10:02,040 --> 01:10:06,439
Speaker 1: the total air miles set to be covered by each

1236
01:10:06,479 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 1: of the thirty two NFL teams for this coming season.

1237
01:10:08,920 --> 01:10:12,920
Speaker 1: While we do not know again when everybody is playing whomever,

1238
01:10:13,120 --> 01:10:17,000
Speaker 1: and we know where, we just don't know when. So

1239
01:10:17,080 --> 01:10:20,640
Speaker 1: with that in mind, somebody put together the thirty two

1240
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:23,920
Speaker 1: NFL team travel totals for the upcoming season. And the

1241
01:10:23,960 --> 01:10:26,719
Speaker 1: team that will travel the most and they're usually close

1242
01:10:26,800 --> 01:10:29,160
Speaker 1: to the top of the board every time, are the

1243
01:10:29,200 --> 01:10:32,120
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks. Now they have an international game, as we know,

1244
01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:35,160
Speaker 1: they're playing in Germany against the Bucks. I want to say,

1245
01:10:35,160 --> 01:10:37,839
Speaker 1: if I remember right, so they're gonna be playing in Germany.

1246
01:10:37,880 --> 01:10:41,160
Speaker 1: So that go from Seattle to Germany. Hello, it's got

1247
01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:43,480
Speaker 1: I wonder if it's shorter to go across the Pacific

1248
01:10:43,840 --> 01:10:46,920
Speaker 1: go that way to Germany. Pacific ocean's a lot bigger

1249
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:49,640
Speaker 1: than the Atlantic, so I don't know it might be

1250
01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:51,840
Speaker 1: might still be better to come east and keep on

1251
01:10:51,840 --> 01:10:55,800
Speaker 1: trucking across the Atlantic. Either way, they're traveling more air

1252
01:10:55,800 --> 01:10:59,320
Speaker 1: miles anybody else in the league this year twenty nine thousand,

1253
01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:03,839
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty six miles the total time zone tally.

1254
01:11:04,320 --> 01:11:05,880
Speaker 1: By the end of the year, they're going to cross

1255
01:11:05,920 --> 01:11:09,240
Speaker 1: thirty four time zones. Holy cow, it's gonna be a

1256
01:11:09,240 --> 01:11:13,559
Speaker 1: team well traveled. Up on that list. Not too many

1257
01:11:13,600 --> 01:11:18,280
Speaker 1: teams are over twenty five thousand miles traveled. The Dolphins

1258
01:11:18,320 --> 01:11:21,120
Speaker 1: are though, from the Bills four teams. Yeah, Dolphins are

1259
01:11:21,120 --> 01:11:25,479
Speaker 1: over twenty five thousand miles. They'll cross fourteen times zones. Really,

1260
01:11:25,479 --> 01:11:27,920
Speaker 1: it's the Seahawks and the Broncos, yeah, that are doing

1261
01:11:27,960 --> 01:11:32,040
Speaker 1: the most travels. Sorry, guys. And it's harder because a

1262
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:34,160
Speaker 1: lot of those West Coast teams usually do a lot

1263
01:11:34,200 --> 01:11:37,000
Speaker 1: of travel miles because there are you know, just based

1264
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:39,040
Speaker 1: on the history of the league, it kind of swept

1265
01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:42,240
Speaker 1: east to west there, and so a lot of teams

1266
01:11:42,280 --> 01:11:46,599
Speaker 1: are on this side of the Mississippi River, let alone

1267
01:11:46,640 --> 01:11:49,960
Speaker 1: the Rockies, So it's gonna be tough. The Bills, in

1268
01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:53,439
Speaker 1: case you're wondering, are twenty third on this list. They

1269
01:11:53,439 --> 01:11:56,439
Speaker 1: only have to travel a little under fourteen thousand miles

1270
01:11:56,439 --> 01:11:59,880
Speaker 1: this year, which is great. Their longest trip obviously is

1271
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:02,800
Speaker 1: going to be their road game at the Rams in LA,

1272
01:12:02,920 --> 01:12:04,840
Speaker 1: but that is their only trip to the West Coast.

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Speaker 1: Their next furthest trip west is Kansas City, and their

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Speaker 1: furthest trip south obviously is Miami. Those are probably their

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01:12:11,160 --> 01:12:16,800
Speaker 1: three longest trips the whole season, so all things considered there,

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01:12:16,880 --> 01:12:20,479
Speaker 1: I mean, otherwise, you're looking at basically the Great Lakes area,

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01:12:21,360 --> 01:12:23,360
Speaker 1: you know, with the NFC North because they got to

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01:12:23,400 --> 01:12:27,000
Speaker 1: go to Chicago and Detroit, and then it's AFC North

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01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:31,639
Speaker 1: teams Baltimore, Cincinnati, and then it's their division after that. Yeah,

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01:12:31,720 --> 01:12:34,000
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be bad at all ten time zones

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01:12:34,080 --> 01:12:37,040
Speaker 1: for the Bills that they'll play in. The teams that

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01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:42,000
Speaker 1: travels the least maddy the Pittsburgh Steelers are only going

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01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:47,400
Speaker 1: to have sixty four hundred air miles and they don't

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01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:53,080
Speaker 1: leave their time zone the entire season. Oh my gosh,

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01:12:53,120 --> 01:12:55,880
Speaker 1: in that nuts? How'd they get away with that? The

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01:12:55,960 --> 01:12:59,719
Speaker 1: AFC North gets away with it because three of actually

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01:12:59,840 --> 01:13:03,840
Speaker 1: all for AFC North teams. They're in the bottom six,

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01:13:04,720 --> 01:13:08,479
Speaker 1: all four of them. So they must be playing Let's

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01:13:08,560 --> 01:13:11,360
Speaker 1: let's try to figure this out. They must be playing

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01:13:12,040 --> 01:13:18,120
Speaker 1: the AFC South, right, So although Tennessee and Houston play

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01:13:18,160 --> 01:13:20,640
Speaker 1: in the Central time zone, so they can't be the

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01:13:20,680 --> 01:13:24,120
Speaker 1: AFC South. I wonder who they're playing. Oh, they're playing

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01:13:24,160 --> 01:13:29,160
Speaker 1: the AFC East. Duh um. They're playing the AFC East,

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01:13:29,160 --> 01:13:33,160
Speaker 1: So that keeps him the Eastern time zone obviously, So

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01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:36,960
Speaker 1: the longest trip there is to Miami. And then do

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01:13:37,040 --> 01:13:38,920
Speaker 1: they play the NFC East. They must be if they're

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01:13:38,920 --> 01:13:40,479
Speaker 1: not leaving the time zone. They have to be playing

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01:13:40,520 --> 01:13:45,439
Speaker 1: the NFC East. They're playing the NFC. I'm on their

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01:13:45,439 --> 01:13:50,639
Speaker 1: schedule right now. They're playing in the NFC North. Oh,

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01:13:50,680 --> 01:13:53,439
Speaker 1: they have the North like we knew. They're playing the

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01:13:53,479 --> 01:14:00,680
Speaker 1: Bears and the Lions. Wait, nope, how can that be.

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01:14:00,760 --> 01:14:05,200
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, looking at one guy, I would

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01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:08,280
Speaker 1: bet there AFC East, NFC East, And that's how they're

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01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:12,439
Speaker 1: staying in the time zone. And they must be playing

1305
01:14:12,520 --> 01:14:14,840
Speaker 1: Dallas at home so they don't have to go down

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01:14:14,880 --> 01:14:17,000
Speaker 1: to Dallas and play in the central time zone. So

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01:14:17,040 --> 01:14:19,040
Speaker 1: that's how they're pulling that off. But that's not even

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01:14:19,160 --> 01:14:22,080
Speaker 1: enough to get Frequent flyer miles sixty four hundred miles

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01:14:22,120 --> 01:14:25,160
Speaker 1: the whole season, and the AFC has more road games

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01:14:25,160 --> 01:14:28,639
Speaker 1: this year. They have nine road games. So NFC South

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01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:31,040
Speaker 1: is who they're playing. Yep, I see the Panthers and

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01:14:31,080 --> 01:14:33,160
Speaker 1: the Falcons on their schedule now that I'm on the

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01:14:33,280 --> 01:14:37,479
Speaker 1: right page and on last year's schedule. Okay, who that's

1314
01:14:37,720 --> 01:14:40,640
Speaker 1: I've never seen that where you don't leave your time zone. Now,

1315
01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:42,800
Speaker 1: I've haven't paid close enough attention to say that has

1316
01:14:42,840 --> 01:14:45,519
Speaker 1: never happened before. I'm sure it has, but man, that's

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01:14:45,520 --> 01:14:49,240
Speaker 1: got to be pretty rare. And the rest of the teams,

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01:14:49,479 --> 01:14:52,040
Speaker 1: Cleveland and Baltimore they only changed the time zone twice.

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01:14:52,400 --> 01:14:57,360
Speaker 1: Cincinnati changes time zones four times. That is that is

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01:14:57,400 --> 01:15:01,080
Speaker 1: a cupcake air travel schedule for sure. Steelers, Let's see

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01:15:01,080 --> 01:15:04,000
Speaker 1: what you can do this year. Then you're not traveling

1322
01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:06,559
Speaker 1: your time zone? What's gonna happen? Tell anybody got jet

1323
01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:09,000
Speaker 1: lagged this year? For sure? All Right, we have to

1324
01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:12,200
Speaker 1: take a break here, but when we come back, Maddie

1325
01:15:12,320 --> 01:15:16,560
Speaker 1: sat down with Bill's third round draft choice to Terrell Bernard,

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Speaker 1: and we will bring that to you when we return here.

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Speaker 1: On one Bills Live presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo

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01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:38,320
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. All right, welcome back to One Bills Live.

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01:15:38,400 --> 01:15:40,840
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Maddie clab with you. Time now though for

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01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:43,200
Speaker 1: us to turn to a one on one sit down

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01:15:43,640 --> 01:15:46,599
Speaker 1: that Maddie was fortunate enough to have with Bill's third

1332
01:15:46,680 --> 01:15:49,479
Speaker 1: round draft choice to Terrell Bernard, who was in town

1333
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:52,320
Speaker 1: a day after he was selected by the Bills with

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01:15:52,360 --> 01:15:55,719
Speaker 1: the eighty ninth overall pick. What's up Bill's Mafia? Maddie

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01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:58,479
Speaker 1: glab here with Terrell Bernard, one of the newest players

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01:15:58,600 --> 01:16:01,040
Speaker 1: on the Buffalo Bills. We don't know you that well,

1337
01:16:01,080 --> 01:16:03,320
Speaker 1: so we're going to hit you with some fun questions.

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01:16:03,840 --> 01:16:07,240
Speaker 1: Number One, for you, what has it been like the

1339
01:16:07,360 --> 01:16:10,240
Speaker 1: last twenty four hours for you getting drafted by the

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01:16:10,280 --> 01:16:17,520
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Three words to describe those twenty four hours fun, long,

1341
01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:20,720
Speaker 1: and exciting. How do you think you're going to fit

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01:16:20,760 --> 01:16:23,080
Speaker 1: in with this team? Yeah? I feel like I'll fit

1343
01:16:23,120 --> 01:16:26,679
Speaker 1: in really well. You know the culture that's established here already,

1344
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:29,360
Speaker 1: and you know the things that coach McDermot was building.

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01:16:29,680 --> 01:16:32,680
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, I'm pretty similar to the

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01:16:32,720 --> 01:16:34,559
Speaker 1: guys that he's looking for and the guys that he

1347
01:16:34,560 --> 01:16:36,040
Speaker 1: already has on the team. So I feel like I'll

1348
01:16:36,080 --> 01:16:38,960
Speaker 1: fit pretty well. We've got a bunch of goofballs on

1349
01:16:38,960 --> 01:16:42,240
Speaker 1: this team. So how does your personality fit in? I know, rookies,

1350
01:16:42,240 --> 01:16:44,680
Speaker 1: you know you're trying to find your way, But what

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01:16:44,760 --> 01:16:47,479
Speaker 1: are you like when it comes to your personality? Yeah?

1352
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:50,519
Speaker 1: So at first I feel like I'm real laid back,

1353
01:16:51,120 --> 01:16:53,639
Speaker 1: kind of calm, not very talkative. But you know, once

1354
01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:55,120
Speaker 1: I get to know you, then I open up a

1355
01:16:55,120 --> 01:16:57,519
Speaker 1: little bit and you know, I can be goofye sometimes.

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01:16:57,840 --> 01:17:00,400
Speaker 1: Who are you most excited to meet on this roster?

1357
01:17:00,760 --> 01:17:03,599
Speaker 1: Probably matt Um. You know, he's somebody that I studied

1358
01:17:03,640 --> 01:17:05,760
Speaker 1: a lot and you know, try to model my game after.

1359
01:17:05,840 --> 01:17:07,960
Speaker 1: So it's kind of kind of weird to, you know,

1360
01:17:08,439 --> 01:17:10,720
Speaker 1: be sharing a meeting room, a locker room, all that

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01:17:10,760 --> 01:17:12,439
Speaker 1: type of stuff with him. So it'd be it'd be

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01:17:12,439 --> 01:17:14,719
Speaker 1: cool to see. Yeah, that's wild. After you watch tape

1363
01:17:14,720 --> 01:17:17,360
Speaker 1: on somebody, now he becomes your teammate for sure, It's

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01:17:17,400 --> 01:17:20,559
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Do you have any hidden talents? Yeah, I

1365
01:17:20,600 --> 01:17:22,559
Speaker 1: think I got a couple. I can juggle, I'm pretty

1366
01:17:22,560 --> 01:17:25,439
Speaker 1: good at ping pong um, and I like to play chess.

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01:17:26,320 --> 01:17:28,759
Speaker 1: What are you best at out of those three? Probably

1368
01:17:28,800 --> 01:17:34,040
Speaker 1: ping pong? Honestly, the players like to play, So get ready.

1369
01:17:34,320 --> 01:17:37,200
Speaker 1: What's your favorite late night snack? You're going to the fridge,

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01:17:37,280 --> 01:17:41,439
Speaker 1: it's like midnight. What are you grabbing? Yeah? Yeah, so

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01:17:41,479 --> 01:17:46,519
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna grab some honey roasted peanuts and some milk.

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01:17:46,800 --> 01:17:49,639
Speaker 1: I think that's like my roasted peanuts and milk. Definitely

1373
01:17:49,840 --> 01:17:53,599
Speaker 1: that like checks the box on the craving there. Okay. Nice.

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01:17:53,880 --> 01:17:59,920
Speaker 1: If you had a superpower, what would it be? Probably invisibility,

1375
01:18:00,080 --> 01:18:02,960
Speaker 1: so I could move around without anybody knowing where I'm at. Okay,

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01:18:03,120 --> 01:18:07,160
Speaker 1: A couple quick questions here? Summer or winter? Summer? All right, Well,

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01:18:07,160 --> 01:18:10,280
Speaker 1: you're playing a whole place, Terrell, I was that was

1378
01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:14,639
Speaker 1: a trick question. It's okay, but the summers here are

1379
01:18:14,680 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 1: absolutely elite. You will enjoy them. Cats or dog dogs, Okay,

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01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:23,160
Speaker 1: I love it. Sweet or salty? Probably salty. I'm not

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01:18:23,160 --> 01:18:25,599
Speaker 1: a big sweet person. You got the fire roasted peanuts

1382
01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:28,639
Speaker 1: in the milk, I mean salty. What do you want

1383
01:18:28,680 --> 01:18:31,960
Speaker 1: Bill's Mafia to know about you? Yeah? I want them

1384
01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:34,840
Speaker 1: to know that I'm tough, hard working and competitive and

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01:18:35,080 --> 01:18:37,000
Speaker 1: U you know, I'm I'm gonna come to work every

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01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:39,840
Speaker 1: day and try to help make this team better. I

1387
01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:42,439
Speaker 1: think that's what Bill's Mafia wants to hear. So Terrell,

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01:18:42,600 --> 01:18:46,479
Speaker 1: nice to meet you and enjoy the next couple days here.

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01:18:46,840 --> 01:18:53,040
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, all right, Jarell Bernard, who forever

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01:18:53,160 --> 01:18:57,320
Speaker 1: we'll be linked to Kyle Brandt, Yeah, who announced at

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01:18:57,360 --> 01:19:00,000
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two NFL draft waving around a chicken

1392
01:19:00,120 --> 01:19:04,960
Speaker 1: wing where in zoobaz pants and um a cool jacket.

1393
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:06,640
Speaker 1: I did like his jacket. I will say that it

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01:19:06,720 --> 01:19:09,240
Speaker 1: had a bunch of Buffalo oriented things on the back

1395
01:19:09,880 --> 01:19:12,720
Speaker 1: and it had like Western New York mapped out. It

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01:19:12,840 --> 01:19:15,519
Speaker 1: had a Buffalo Braves logo back there. I think Benny

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01:19:15,560 --> 01:19:17,439
Speaker 1: the Butcher. There was a patch of Benny the Butcher

1398
01:19:17,479 --> 01:19:21,240
Speaker 1: on the back. It was pretty cool Bills Mafia jacket.

1399
01:19:21,280 --> 01:19:23,639
Speaker 1: I think that was part of the latest Bills Mafia

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01:19:23,800 --> 01:19:29,160
Speaker 1: collection that came out. So he will forever have the

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01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:35,400
Speaker 1: honor of saying Kyle Brandt introduced me, Yeah, and drafted

1402
01:19:35,479 --> 01:19:38,400
Speaker 1: day memories for the rest of your life. But he

1403
01:19:38,439 --> 01:19:40,200
Speaker 1: was a cool guy. It was nice to meet Terrell.

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01:19:40,320 --> 01:19:43,400
Speaker 1: I mean we got to meet James Cook and Kayer

1405
01:19:43,560 --> 01:19:46,840
Speaker 1: Elam as well, so they seem like a great couple

1406
01:19:46,840 --> 01:19:49,720
Speaker 1: of dudes. Excited for them to join the team and

1407
01:19:49,800 --> 01:19:52,519
Speaker 1: see what they can do on this roster. I think

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01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:54,800
Speaker 1: it was really cool when when Terrell was asked about,

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01:19:54,840 --> 01:19:59,080
Speaker 1: you know, what player do you watch? Who do you

1410
01:19:59,240 --> 01:20:02,400
Speaker 1: who do you body your work after, and he naturally

1411
01:20:02,439 --> 01:20:05,200
Speaker 1: said Matt Milano. So I think that'll be a really

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01:20:05,240 --> 01:20:07,880
Speaker 1: cool experience for him to be in a room with

1413
01:20:07,960 --> 01:20:10,400
Speaker 1: Mountain Mulano get to learn from him. I'm sure he

1414
01:20:10,439 --> 01:20:12,840
Speaker 1: feels like he shares some of Matt Milano's skill sets

1415
01:20:12,880 --> 01:20:15,760
Speaker 1: and wants to be able to learn even more from him.

1416
01:20:15,840 --> 01:20:20,040
Speaker 1: So I'm interested to see where Terrell fits within the

1417
01:20:20,880 --> 01:20:24,280
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's defense, within special teams. We talked about it

1418
01:20:24,360 --> 01:20:27,880
Speaker 1: after the show or when we were doing the show

1419
01:20:28,040 --> 01:20:30,960
Speaker 1: after we drafted Terrell, and we were all talking about,

1420
01:20:30,960 --> 01:20:34,280
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, probably a special teams guy in his

1421
01:20:34,760 --> 01:20:37,880
Speaker 1: first couple of seasons here, but hey, if he's a

1422
01:20:37,960 --> 01:20:40,880
Speaker 1: run stopper, there's a place for you on the roster

1423
01:20:41,680 --> 01:20:44,880
Speaker 1: on defense for sure. The thing that was interesting to

1424
01:20:45,040 --> 01:20:50,360
Speaker 1: me was so the Bills take linebacker in the third round,

1425
01:20:50,479 --> 01:20:52,640
Speaker 1: and then with their last pick and round seven, they

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01:20:52,680 --> 01:20:55,439
Speaker 1: take another one in Bale inspector, and if you look

1427
01:20:55,439 --> 01:20:59,559
Speaker 1: at the body types of both Terrell Bernard and Bale inspector,

1428
01:20:59,560 --> 01:21:04,679
Speaker 1: they're similar, and I believe if I remember right, both

1429
01:21:04,720 --> 01:21:07,880
Speaker 1: of them were former safeties another guy who was a

1430
01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:11,959
Speaker 1: former safety as Matt Milan. So there's a It seems

1431
01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:15,280
Speaker 1: as though there is a body type and an athletic

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01:21:15,400 --> 01:21:20,840
Speaker 1: skill set that the Bills look for specifically in their

1433
01:21:20,920 --> 01:21:24,519
Speaker 1: linebacker talent. Now, on occasion, when you have a chance

1434
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:27,200
Speaker 1: to add a freakazoid, you do it. And they did

1435
01:21:27,240 --> 01:21:29,120
Speaker 1: that with Tremaine Edmonds trading up to get him in

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01:21:29,120 --> 01:21:32,640
Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen draft. Who I mean, he looks like

1437
01:21:32,680 --> 01:21:37,479
Speaker 1: a pterodactylie, you know, he's so big and long. But

1438
01:21:37,680 --> 01:21:43,560
Speaker 1: otherwise you're looking for an athletic skill set similar to Milano,

1439
01:21:43,640 --> 01:21:45,800
Speaker 1: and they did that, I think, at least in terms

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01:21:45,800 --> 01:21:49,280
Speaker 1: of body type in Bernard and Specter. We're never going

1441
01:21:49,320 --> 01:21:51,080
Speaker 1: to know until we see these guys on the field.

1442
01:21:51,120 --> 01:21:53,120
Speaker 1: Do they have the same instincts as Matt Milano? Do

1443
01:21:53,200 --> 01:21:55,160
Speaker 1: they run as fast as Matt Milano's? Can they sniff

1444
01:21:55,160 --> 01:21:58,080
Speaker 1: out a screenplay as fast as Matt Milano? I think

1445
01:21:58,120 --> 01:22:00,559
Speaker 1: some of their college tape is encouraging in that regard.

1446
01:22:00,600 --> 01:22:03,160
Speaker 1: Both of them were extraordinarily productive. Bernard had two one

1447
01:22:03,200 --> 01:22:07,599
Speaker 1: hundred tackle seasons. I believe Spector had one but highly

1448
01:22:07,600 --> 01:22:10,519
Speaker 1: decorated college guys, and I think they're going to be

1449
01:22:10,560 --> 01:22:14,560
Speaker 1: intriguing to watch as they kind of learn this defensive

1450
01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:17,160
Speaker 1: system in terms of how they're utilized. And they're both

1451
01:22:17,160 --> 01:22:20,519
Speaker 1: flexible because they can play both of those linebacker spots.

1452
01:22:20,560 --> 01:22:24,080
Speaker 1: So I found it interesting that they went double linebacker,

1453
01:22:24,439 --> 01:22:28,599
Speaker 1: which they hadn't done since the twenty seventeen draft. So

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01:22:28,640 --> 01:22:31,120
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see how just as I am all

1455
01:22:31,160 --> 01:22:32,439
Speaker 1: the guys on there, like how are they going to

1456
01:22:32,520 --> 01:22:34,120
Speaker 1: use them? Like where are they gonna line them up? Yea,

1457
01:22:34,200 --> 01:22:36,479
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I can't wait to see those guys

1458
01:22:36,479 --> 01:22:38,479
Speaker 1: out on the field here in the next few weeks. Yeah,

1459
01:22:38,560 --> 01:22:40,559
Speaker 1: especially with where the roster is at right now. You

1460
01:22:40,600 --> 01:22:43,000
Speaker 1: know you're you're you're already playing their numbers game. As

1461
01:22:43,040 --> 01:22:47,800
Speaker 1: we are May sixth, here approaching rookie minting camp. OTA's

1462
01:22:47,920 --> 01:22:50,120
Speaker 1: then training camp. You're trying to figure out, you know,

1463
01:22:50,360 --> 01:22:53,360
Speaker 1: be the mathematician, how is this person going to fit here,

1464
01:22:53,439 --> 01:22:56,439
Speaker 1: this person going to fit here? Final numbers? What is

1465
01:22:56,479 --> 01:22:58,799
Speaker 1: it going to look like? We have no idea because

1466
01:22:58,960 --> 01:23:01,679
Speaker 1: we are still a ways away from training camp, and

1467
01:23:01,760 --> 01:23:05,479
Speaker 1: we know some players always emerge from training camp, or

1468
01:23:05,560 --> 01:23:09,920
Speaker 1: some favorites that you you wouldn't have labeled as a

1469
01:23:10,000 --> 01:23:12,240
Speaker 1: come up, or or somebody who really made a name

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01:23:12,280 --> 01:23:15,599
Speaker 1: for themselves in those couple of weeks. There. Let's get

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01:23:15,640 --> 01:23:18,400
Speaker 1: back to the OBL Friday fan mail bag to answer

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01:23:18,439 --> 01:23:20,599
Speaker 1: a few more questions before we run out of time. Today,

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01:23:21,240 --> 01:23:24,880
Speaker 1: James asks Opening Night against the LA Rams, question mark

1474
01:23:25,360 --> 01:23:29,120
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving against Case thoughts go Bills. Yeah, everybody's excited because

1475
01:23:29,160 --> 01:23:33,479
Speaker 1: the schedules coming out next week, and I think the

1476
01:23:33,520 --> 01:23:37,519
Speaker 1: Bills have a very good chance to be, you know,

1477
01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:41,920
Speaker 1: kickoff game the Thursday prior to the first Sunday of

1478
01:23:41,960 --> 01:23:46,360
Speaker 1: the regular season. For two reasons. One, they're considered a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl contender. Two, they play the defending Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: champions on their regular season schedule, and Von Miller left

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Speaker 1: LA to go play for Buffalo. There are too many storylines.

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Speaker 1: I think they are one of the favorites to be

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Speaker 1: the kickoff game Thanksgiving against KC. Maddie, though, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I want that much stress on a holiday.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know what I mean, Like Thanksgiving, I

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Speaker 1: want to enjoy it a little bit, you know, just

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Speaker 1: think more about food than oh my god, they gotta

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Speaker 1: play the Jeames again on the road, and they do

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Speaker 1: play the Lions, could they draw the lines? Well, that's right.

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Speaker 1: That is another option. Because we know the Lions will

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Speaker 1: be playing on Thanksgiving. The question is whether or not

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Speaker 1: the Bills will be the opponent of choice on that date.

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Speaker 1: M Yeah, we'll have to wait and see. It is

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Speaker 1: a triple header now on Thanksgiving, so they could be

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Speaker 1: part of some other matchup and then the other games

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Speaker 1: will involve the Cowboys and the Lions as we know,

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Speaker 1: so we'll have to just wait and see. Allen says

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Speaker 1: over under three and a half primetime games for the

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Speaker 1: Bills this season, question mark, I think it's a good

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Speaker 1: over under, but I'm going with the over. I think

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Speaker 1: they'll get four over. Yeah, four. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: they'll get five. I think they'll get four. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: have five prime time games. We should five primetime games, Like,

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Speaker 1: come on, man, I'm trying to think of the teams

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Speaker 1: that are sexy enough on the schedule the Bills to

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Speaker 1: justify primetime. I would say green Bay, Okay, on the

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Speaker 1: Bill schedule, green Bay, the Rams, the Chiefs, and then

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Speaker 1: the Bengals. Yes, because you know, defending AFC Champs, and

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Speaker 1: then it's maybe the Ravens or Pittsburgh. I think Titans,

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Speaker 1: but I think you're pushing it a little bit Dolphins

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Speaker 1: because Pittsburgh could really struggle with a tenuous quarterback situation.

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Speaker 1: So I think if they go five prime times, it's

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Speaker 1: probably Baltimore, that would be my guess. But I think

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Speaker 1: four is a pretty good bet. So I would take

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Speaker 1: the over if you can get an over under on

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Speaker 1: primetime games for the Bills at three and a half,

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Speaker 1: three and a half, definitely over. Who knows if they'll

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Speaker 1: have some of those flex games. They probably will worked

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Speaker 1: into their schedule there with where you know, this could

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Speaker 1: be a Saturday or Sunday four o'clock or you know,

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Speaker 1: we'll see when the time comes they try and put

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Speaker 1: some of those games there in the later part of

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Speaker 1: this season when it comes to playoff time or determining

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Speaker 1: who is going to be in the playoffs. I think

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Speaker 1: the one thing right before we go to break here

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Speaker 1: that I'm interested to see with Deshaun Watson now in Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: The last season he played, he led the league in

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Speaker 1: passing yards. Does the league feel as happy about Deshaun

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Speaker 1: Watson going to the Browns, as the front office of

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Speaker 1: the Browns does, and I think the schedule will bear

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Speaker 1: that out for us, whether they are or they are not,

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Speaker 1: because he is a talented player. But there's an awful

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Speaker 1: lot hanging over that, yeah guy with his pending litigation

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Speaker 1: in civil courts. And I wonder if the if the

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Speaker 1: NFL steps back from that, you know, yeah, but because hey,

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Speaker 1: for all we know, there could be a suspension. Now

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Speaker 1: you put the Browns in primetime and there's no Deshaun

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Speaker 1: Watson who's in prime time? Very true, very true. We

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Speaker 1: will take a break here, We'll try to squeeze in

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Speaker 1: a couple of more mail bad questions when we come

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Speaker 1: back here on one Bill's Live, presented by Collott of Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio, all right. So Scott in the

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Speaker 1: mail bag asks, with the addition of OJ Howard, do

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Speaker 1: you see the Bills running more twelve personnel this year? Also?

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Speaker 1: Could you see the Bills running twenty or twenty one personnel?

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Speaker 1: Is singletary and Cook. I think there is a chance

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Speaker 1: they run more two tight end sets. But I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's going to be like this sharp spike of

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Speaker 1: an increase. I think it'll be marginal. We're talking like

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Speaker 1: because the Bills had one of the lowest rates of

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Speaker 1: twelve personnel usage last year. Now you do have a

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Speaker 1: new coordinator and you have a much more talented guy

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Speaker 1: in Oj Howard, so that might preclude you to add

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Speaker 1: it a little bit more to the mix. But I

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Speaker 1: don't think it's going to get to the point where

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Speaker 1: it's like one of their top two personnel groupings and

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Speaker 1: in this fence with twelve personnel. Yes, you may use

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Speaker 1: that a couple times to put Dawson and Oj on

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Speaker 1: the field because they're both pass catching tight ends. Maybe yeah,

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Speaker 1: but it's not like you're adding a tight end and

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Speaker 1: Lee Smith, who is your blocking tight end when he's

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Speaker 1: on the field, So it would make sense to run

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Speaker 1: more twelve. So yeah, I see them adding it a

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Speaker 1: little bit more. But yeah, it's not going to shoot

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Speaker 1: through the roof or anything. I mean, I suppose if

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Speaker 1: those two guys are killing it, then yeah, you'll line

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Speaker 1: up in twelve. But it's not a traditional twelve. It's

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Speaker 1: kind of like a spread amount twelve. Yeah, twenty or

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Speaker 1: twenty one personnel. Absolutely, you put Singletary and Cook on

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Speaker 1: the field, your options are limitless. Last one real quick.

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Speaker 1: David should Mayfield when he's released, follow the Trubisky model,

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Speaker 1: take a one year low wage deal and back up

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Speaker 1: Josh step In gets hurt. If not, you know, improve

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Speaker 1: your game, get a fresh start. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: he wants to go on hiatus. Yeah, I think the

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Speaker 1: fire in his belly has got to be burning like

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Speaker 1: a like an inferno. He wants to get on the field.

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Speaker 1: Improve people wrong, no one, the kind of person is.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't fit Baker's personality at all, So I would

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Speaker 1: be very surprised if that happens. I gotta believe he's

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Speaker 1: hoping he gets released and he'll sign with Seattle for peanuts,

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Speaker 1: just so we can get back on the field. Maddie,

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Speaker 1: thanks for helping us out today. We will see you

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Speaker 1: folks next Monday. We'll catch up with you at one.

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