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Speaker 1: Ohio by Steve Tasper to touch Down, touch Down Bucks

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Speaker 1: Dost Buffalo Time. Hello there, Welcome Tuesday afternoon. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live presented by Kalina Health. Welcome to Archard Park,

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Speaker 1: New York. New air of field where the Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: play in the field is being installed. And I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of a nice day in Orchard Park. Happy to have

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Speaker 1: you with us, John Murphy and our One Buffalo Studio.

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker sitting right next door to me, and we

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Speaker 1: haven't been together since last Wednesday, six days. Man's time.

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Speaker 1: Time of year though, shutting down and we're getting our

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Speaker 1: free time. Then whatever we have left used up before

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Speaker 1: training camp starts, because then it's full go and you know, yep,

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Speaker 1: and I'm getting out of your Steve. If I'm worn,

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Speaker 1: I'm warning you you will like to hear this. I

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Speaker 1: think work tomorrow and then I'm gone for several weeks.

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Speaker 1: I'll be back mid July. I think, yeah, the show's

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Speaker 1: going off the July fourth week. We've been kind of

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Speaker 1: working kind of chrishind doing and that's we're gonna do.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, best of guest hosts and stuff. How

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Speaker 1: about Brownie coming in yesterday and doing the whole three hours.

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Speaker 1: I told him as hard labor. That's like swinging a

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Speaker 1: twenty pound sledge breaking rocks, not for him by himself.

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Speaker 1: Thank Chris Brown and yesterday show. Steve and I had

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Speaker 1: extended weekends for a couple of reasons. I had a

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Speaker 1: little charitable golf tournament. Steve had the big family wedding.

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Speaker 1: How did it go? You were tied up with it

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Speaker 1: since last Thursday? Yeah, it like six trips to the airport,

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Speaker 1: you know on Wednesday Thursday, M a couple of catered

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Speaker 1: meals at my house, plus the big event on Saturday night.

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Speaker 1: M seventy people at the house one night, forty the

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Speaker 1: other night, and then another thirty people on Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: And it's just one thing after another. And the weather

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Speaker 1: was horrible for the entire weekend. So that was that

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Speaker 1: kind of was an extra degree of difficulty, but it

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Speaker 1: was It turned out right. Plus I told you I

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Speaker 1: was telling right before we came on. It's kind of

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Speaker 1: feel pressure, you know, because you got the my my

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Speaker 1: so you want to have you know, like you'd like

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Speaker 1: Chamber of Commerce weather, right, and you have all this

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Speaker 1: stuff going on. And we did take him to the falls.

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Speaker 1: It was a beautiful day on Friday, all those a

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Speaker 1: We're on the American side of the falls. Spent the

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Speaker 1: whole day there. It was nice, really nice. That was

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Speaker 1: the highlight of the weather. But um, you know, we've

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Speaker 1: got you know, you always want to feel that pressure

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Speaker 1: of having to You want to entertain, you want to

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Speaker 1: be a good host. You wanted to have a good time.

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Speaker 1: But you also know too they were on I mean

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Speaker 1: they're coming from Europe and Africa, and so they their time,

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Speaker 1: their body clocks are all out of whack, so you

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Speaker 1: kind of want to be sensitive that give them enough

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Speaker 1: time to get some rests and stuff too, while not

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Speaker 1: leaving them hanging in a foreign countries with nothing to

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, just stashed away someplace. So

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Speaker 1: all kinds of that going on. But it seemed like

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Speaker 1: on the weekend pretty well, so it was it was fine,

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Speaker 1: and it's like a couple of weeks ago. I'm happy

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Speaker 1: The hectic nature of my schedule went him away. I

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Speaker 1: got a thing in the falls tomorrow night, and I'm

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Speaker 1: doing a thing with Thurman tomorrow night and at Niagara Falls.

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Speaker 1: Right at the falls, Niagara Falls, Ontario, at Hornblower. You

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Speaker 1: know what that is. It's the boats that chug chug

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Speaker 1: chug right up towards the fall. It's called Hornblower now

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Speaker 1: in Canada, made of the mist in the US. And

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Speaker 1: I'm doing a thing with Thurman tomorrow at Hornblower, like

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Speaker 1: I'm not seven or is it down in well we're

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Speaker 1: again going out. Yeah, I want to go out. What

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Speaker 1: you go to the falls yet? Kind of gotta go right?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I love those trips. You know, the slow

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Speaker 1: never done it. No, you've never done those boats? Are

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Speaker 1: you kidding me? Yeah? It's it's the greatest ride in

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Speaker 1: Thing we're doing tomorrow. It'll be on Facebook. Clay, you're

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Speaker 1: the first you know, eleven and a half years of

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Speaker 1: my life here in Western New York has a bill.

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Speaker 1: So the people nobody visits in the summer, they always

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Speaker 1: come up for football season, right because you know, they

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Speaker 1: come to the game and you know, do that. So

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Speaker 1: while they're here, they go to the falls and I'm working,

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Speaker 1: So my wife, as a result of that, has been

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Speaker 1: to the falls, like, you know, thirty seven hundred times.

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Speaker 1: I've been there like three. Well, you gotta get back

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Speaker 1: and I've never done this. Some of the stuff you

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Speaker 1: ever do that in the American side. It's great. I

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Speaker 1: had the cousins in from Ireland a couple of years

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Speaker 1: lit up like their little kids. They're like, whoa, Well

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Speaker 1: well there's nothing like that. They you know, asking questions

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Speaker 1: like is it always going like this? Right? Well, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna shot a town, right, Yeah, I'm looking forward to that. Toronto.

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Speaker 1: I was up in Niagara Falls area yesterday playing in

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Speaker 1: a charity golf tournament up at Naga Frontier country Club.

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Speaker 1: Great course. Um, you have you ever heard of it?

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Speaker 1: Even because it's kind of I had not when you

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Speaker 1: mentioned it. No, it's it's right on the Niagara Frontier

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Speaker 1: Country Club. It's I never heard a whole course. It's

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Speaker 1: been there forever. It's on the rude eighteen. It's almost

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Speaker 1: at Fort Niagara State Park. Um, great course and the

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Speaker 1: right people there. It's no, it's like across the road

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Speaker 1: from the league. Okay. Yeah, it's a great place. We

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Speaker 1: had nice weather, which is always a treat this time

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Speaker 1: of year we had the UH I want to say,

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Speaker 1: the twenty something annual UH Tournament named after my dad,

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Speaker 1: is the Cereble Policy Agency in Niagara County. Um, great time,

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Speaker 1: great time. All your brothers were there? Yep, how many brothers?

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Speaker 1: I have three brothers, and um, all three of them

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Speaker 1: rest of them. I played with two of them. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's great. It was a great day, beautiful weather, great course. Um,

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Speaker 1: it was nice. And the funny it wasn't funny. I'm

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Speaker 1: used to it by now. You are too. All people

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Speaker 1: want to talk about as the bills, and it's all

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Speaker 1: like a secretly what do you think? Yeah? Yeah, how many?

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Speaker 1: How many wins? And I would say, and I honestly

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Speaker 1: believe this, and I reserve the right to change my mind.

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Speaker 1: Before the season starts, I would say I think they

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Speaker 1: Oh that's all. Yeah, that's nine or ten. It's pretty

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Speaker 1: good for a team that won six last year. Oh

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Speaker 1: that's it. I never I never even think about giving

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Speaker 1: and people don't ask me how many gonna they just

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Speaker 1: how they're gonna do, how they're gonna do. And I

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Speaker 1: and I always tell them, I say, I raised my eyebrows, like,

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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be not just good. I think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be really really good. Whatever you think that, well,

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Speaker 1: before this you begin, you're gonna have to pick a

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Speaker 1: number here, right, Do I that my contract? Yes, I

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Speaker 1: just put it in you. I think they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: I that's where I'm my head's at and I and

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Speaker 1: I'm like you and I can't go anywhere without somebody

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Speaker 1: wanting a secret. Yeah, agree, that's where we're here. We're

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Speaker 1: giving up. What are you really thinking? You know? It

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Speaker 1: is what it is. I we don't take keep secrets.

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Speaker 1: The good thing is it's coming and you can feel

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Speaker 1: it now. I got some vacation time coming up, and

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Speaker 1: I'm always this time of year, people say you're getting

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Speaker 1: excited ready, and I'm thinking, yeah, I'm getting excited about

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Speaker 1: him a couple of weeks off. Yeah, and they're thinking

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Speaker 1: about the season. I need to get through this. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and it's the dead time of year right here, right one,

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Speaker 1: Bill's right, But I need to get through this so

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Speaker 1: I can really start to lock in on the on

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Speaker 1: the regular season, which is going to be here before

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Speaker 1: we know it. What did I read? I think Howard

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Speaker 1: Simon tweeted today training camp opens in thirty seven days,

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Speaker 1: so I have a little bit more than a month

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Speaker 1: to get rid of the day off season where it starts,

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Speaker 1: you know, for you tomorrow, right, Yeah, it starts Monday,

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Speaker 1: it really started. And have the OTA just but the

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Speaker 1: rookies are in here still, yeah they are. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: saw some receivers in here doing yeah here today. But

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Speaker 1: all the time. So yeah, it's I'm gonna start really

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Speaker 1: far away. It's not that far. Thirty seven days about

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Speaker 1: a little bit more than a month away. So here

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Speaker 1: and then I'm out of here, Steve. We'll be here

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Speaker 1: you here the rest of the week, now, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: the rest of the week, and in fact, the next

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Speaker 1: time i'm off, I think is the fourth of July week. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that the shows off. Yea. So we got a show

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Speaker 1: here and we're gonna talk about the Bills and talk

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Speaker 1: about the NFL. And I think it's good right now

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Speaker 1: with mini camp over last week to sort of take

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Speaker 1: stock of where the Bills are, what the off season

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Speaker 1: looked like, and the upcoming training camp might look like,

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Speaker 1: and get your sense of, you know, what it's going

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Speaker 1: to be. We got a pretty good show. Guest line at.

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Speaker 1: Breg Ganya from Bleacher Report's going to join us. He's

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Speaker 1: written a number of posts about the NFL and about

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Speaker 1: the Bills. He said, the Bills had a really good

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Speaker 1: off season. We'll talk about Bret Ganyon about that at

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Speaker 1: one o'clock, two o'clock. A buddy of yours, Oliver Luck,

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Speaker 1: who was the commissioner of the new xflx XFL two

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Speaker 1: point oh is it or XFL two starting up next spring,

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Speaker 1: and we talked to Oliver Luck at the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna revisit him he's got a luck going on,

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Speaker 1: including player tryouts. And you played with him in Houston, right,

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Speaker 1: he said, Oh yeah, we were teammates for a hot minute. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: using it because you need everybody on all hands on

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Speaker 1: deck all the time. That's why the story goes in

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Speaker 1: the NFL, find out what your guys do best. Put

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Speaker 1: an offense or defense, a scheme, a play, a concept

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Speaker 1: that lets them do what they do best. If Singletary

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Speaker 1: can catch, they're gonna do it. And they think he

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Speaker 1: can very well. So now he becomes a guy like

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Speaker 1: Leshawn McCoy, You don't have to have the other ten

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Speaker 1: guys doing something different because now Singletary is in there,

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Speaker 1: not Leshan. You know what I'm saying. Ye, that may

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Speaker 1: be the case. If Gore's in there, there's no way.

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Speaker 1: If Frank Gore runs routes as well as Leshan does,

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Speaker 1: Singletary might at least pretty much like that. So you

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Speaker 1: don't have to, you know, change your offensive philosophy when

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Speaker 1: you have Singletary in there. If McCoy's your number one,

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Speaker 1: that's that's the point I see. That's why Singletary may

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Speaker 1: get more opportunities than we anticipate he might. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying I would. I have a hard time

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Speaker 1: naming him as my surprise breakout player just based on

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Speaker 1: the uncertainty about who's going to even play at all. Well,

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Speaker 1: plus that position he's like third guy. Yeah, Zay Jones

445
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Speaker 1: isn't third guy. I mean he's up there with with

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Speaker 1: with John Brown, and yeah, he's got a spot kind

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Speaker 1: of solidified. But Singletary, you're right, will he make it

448
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Speaker 1: one offensive play a game? You know we'll see And finally,

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Speaker 1: on our list of surprise breakout candidates and their question

450
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Speaker 1: of the day. Who will be the surprise breakout player

451
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Speaker 1: for the Bills in twenty nineteen. The last man on

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Speaker 1: our list, and actually the vote I would cast is

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Speaker 1: for Trent Murphy, defensive end who struggled. He talked about

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Speaker 1: it a lot this past offseason, struggled with his surgically

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Speaker 1: repaired knee last year. Never felt right. Now he's a

456
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Speaker 1: year removed from that surgery, over a year removed, and

457
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Speaker 1: he seems good, getting ravery views from the coach and

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Speaker 1: staff about his approach. I think he's a guy who

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Speaker 1: knows how to play. Look, I'm not saying he's double

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Speaker 1: digit sacks or anything, but I think he's going to be.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be an important player on that side, both

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Speaker 1: in the run game and the pass game. They have

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Speaker 1: a heavy rotation on the defensive line. He'll be part

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Speaker 1: of that, you would think, as long as long as

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Speaker 1: he's healthy, and I think he will be an important

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Speaker 1: player and maybe even get better than he was for

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Speaker 1: Washington where he began his career. I think that's what

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Speaker 1: the Bills. I don't know if they're counting on it,

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Speaker 1: but they're hoping for it. You know, his developmental years

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Speaker 1: are behind him, his surgery and recovery from surgery is

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Speaker 1: behind him a year now, and that this is the

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Speaker 1: year Trent Murphy becomes the kind of player that he

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Speaker 1: could be in this league. I would I would put

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Speaker 1: my vote there. He would be a surprise breakout player

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Speaker 1: for the Bills. Yeah. I think if you put him

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Speaker 1: into context with the other two guys, Zay Jones and

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Speaker 1: Devin Singletary on this list, he's the one who, like

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Speaker 1: Zay Jones, you can make a kill. Wouldn't be a

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Speaker 1: breakout year. He led the team in receptions last year.

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Speaker 1: But you know, Trent Murphy be a breakout. He was

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Speaker 1: invisible too much last year. He didn't feel himself physically.

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Speaker 1: There's no question he's young enough to still have something

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Speaker 1: in the tank. He's got something I think to prove

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Speaker 1: to himself and to the club, and something he wants

485
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Speaker 1: people to see about him and around the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: I think he wants to be that guy, and I

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Speaker 1: think he's highly motivated. I think it's a great call,

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Speaker 1: you know, for him to be on this list, because

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Speaker 1: if he does do it, it will be a big

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Speaker 1: step forward from where he was a year ago, I

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Speaker 1: ended up with think like four sacks s Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta think he you know, his goal's

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Speaker 1: gotta be like ten. I like more than double that.

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Speaker 1: I just looked. His best year was the twenty sixteen

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Speaker 1: year with watching and he had nine sacks. He had

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Speaker 1: forty six tackles in sixteen games. Last year he only

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Speaker 1: played thirteen games and started ten. So if he plays

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Speaker 1: sixteen games and he had four sacks, he would think

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Speaker 1: he'd approach somewhere close to nine sacks. If even if

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Speaker 1: he's just where he was, I think he's going to

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Speaker 1: be better than he was, right. I think nine sacks

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Speaker 1: is is about what you might be looking forward from

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Speaker 1: Trent Murphy this year. Is he returns to where he

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Speaker 1: was three years ago. Yeah, I agree. I think that's

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Speaker 1: gonna be what his sites are gonna be said. I

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Speaker 1: can't speak for him, but if that's me, it's looking

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Speaker 1: from me outside in. And if he does feel physically better,

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Speaker 1: he's got to feel like he's going to get back

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Speaker 1: to at least his twenty sixteen numbers. And you know,

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Speaker 1: a guy like him, we've had him in here and

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Speaker 1: talk you know what, how intense he is yeah, and

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Speaker 1: how prepared he is, how hard he works in the

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Speaker 1: off season to get ready. You know, he's got lofty

514
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Speaker 1: expectations for himself. So I think double digits minimum is

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Speaker 1: his probably personal goal, and he's probably got a higher

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Speaker 1: number than that. So yeah, I think that's as he's

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Speaker 1: a great, strong candidate for one of those guys that

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Speaker 1: comes up and Bills fans said, Wow, I'm glad we

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Speaker 1: have him. Now. You know last year, this last year

520
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Speaker 1: he was invisible. He didn't get enough production. Thirteen started,

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Speaker 1: ten games played in thirteen. Yeah, I think he's a

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Speaker 1: great candidate and it would be considered a huge breakout

523
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Speaker 1: if he came back and got that kind of number.

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Speaker 1: He surgically repaired his knees been surgically repaired. Trent Murphy

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Speaker 1: is he's twenty seven now, That to me, that seems young, right,

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Speaker 1: He's going into his sixth year in the league. He's

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Speaker 1: twenty seven years old. He would be provided he's healthy,

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Speaker 1: which all reports are he is. He would be in

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Speaker 1: the prime of his career right now this year, age

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Speaker 1: twenty seven, he'll be twenty Is he twenty eight? No,

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Speaker 1: he's twenty seven years old. I had no, he's twenty

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Speaker 1: eight born December of nineteen ninety. What's that makeup? Twenty eight?

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Speaker 1: He'll be twenty nine in nine, still twenty seven in

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Speaker 1: December twenty eight, twenty eight thirty two, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: still in the prime of his career, going into a

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Speaker 1: sixth season, right healthy, Now, I would be I would

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Speaker 1: say I'd put my money on him being the breakout player,

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Speaker 1: surprise or not. I would say he would be the

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Speaker 1: breakoff player. But what do you think? Give us a call.

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Speaker 1: Let's discuss full nines open eight oh three oh five

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Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty. Send it a tweet. We'll read it on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. Let's start with a call, though, you

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Speaker 1: want to start with a Call's start with a call.

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Speaker 1: So let's start with Matt. Anna Land asked, Hello, Matt, welcome,

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Speaker 1: you're on the air with us. Go ahead, Hey, how

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Speaker 1: are you doing? Okay? Good? Good? I was thinking about

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Speaker 1: Taron Johnson being a surprise breakout player or wherever stops

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Speaker 1: up for a number two corner pack position. Right, Well,

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Speaker 1: Taron is more likely to be your slot corner right

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Speaker 1: where he was for much of last year. Um, right,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he'll be on the boundary corner.

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Speaker 1: That's the number two guy. I would think, you know,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Johnson is a candidate outside obviously, Levi Wallace returns there, um,

555
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Speaker 1: but I don't know. Look, well, go ahead, you can

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Speaker 1: vote for Taron if you want. I just don't. I

557
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Speaker 1: wouldn't look for him to be the outside corner, the

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Speaker 1: number two corner opposite to Davis. Okay, thanks, I think

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Speaker 1: I just shot him down. I didn't mean to. I

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Speaker 1: get it. Let's go to Joel in New Hampshire. Hello, Joel,

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Speaker 1: thanks for calling in. Hey guys, what's going on? Hey,

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Speaker 1: tell you the truth. Wall it's like hopeful, you know,

563
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Speaker 1: hopeful thinking is Duke Williams. Yeah, I'm telling you if

564
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Speaker 1: that guy pans out, man, he's Eric Moles type guy.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's what that receiving core needs, you

566
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. And I hear he's been taking

567
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Speaker 1: reps on special teams. Yeah, he's got to know that

568
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Speaker 1: they're like, dude, you know, and otherways we're gonna you know,

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Speaker 1: and otherways they're trying to work him into a roster spot. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It's a really good point, a really good selection Joel,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, I think the special team reps are significant.

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Speaker 1: We talked a lot about this at the end of

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Speaker 1: last week and Chris Brown was here. And it's mostly significant,

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Speaker 1: I believe, because it tells me they're looking at him like, Hey,

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Speaker 1: there's a roster spot, maybe just one open fifth or

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Speaker 1: six wide receiver on the roster. You want it, make

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Speaker 1: your name on special teams and we'll keep you around

578
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Speaker 1: and let you continue to develop. Don't you view it

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Speaker 1: like that sea. That's exactly what it is. And it's

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Speaker 1: and it's a It's a good point by Joel because

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Speaker 1: Duke Williams, if he comes in, what a find he

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Speaker 1: would be. And this is a guy who now he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a rookie in the NFL, but he's played

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Speaker 1: three years in the CFL. He's kind of paid his

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Speaker 1: dues and he has come to the point and if

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Speaker 1: you ask him, he's very open about he because I

587
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Speaker 1: had a lot of things to learn, and he knows

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Speaker 1: it's going to take sacrifice and hard work and he's

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Speaker 1: got to go the long way to do it, and

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Speaker 1: the long way is through covering kicks. He's got to

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Speaker 1: finally pick a roster spot, get a chance to hang

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Speaker 1: around for his season and prove himself as a guy

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Speaker 1: who can contribute at first, not as a wide receiver,

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Speaker 1: in other ways, and then as he develops and he

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Speaker 1: gets on the field, then he can let his raw

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Speaker 1: talent shine as well. So it's gonna be really interesting

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Speaker 1: and if he does pan out, I agree with you.

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Speaker 1: He is the type of guy now comparing him to

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Speaker 1: Eric Moulds is a little bit lofty right out of

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Speaker 1: the gate, but that's the kind of guy he is.

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Speaker 1: He's got a kind of a physical, nasty presence. Eric

602
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:47,919
Speaker 1: molds played with a with an edgy attitude and it

603
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,440
Speaker 1: served him extremely well. And Duke Williams is going to

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Speaker 1: be that could be that kind of guy. He's got

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Speaker 1: that physical build. So yeah, that's a great call on

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Speaker 1: Duke Williams being a surprise player this year is it'd

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Speaker 1: be a long shot, but be a great surprise, and

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Speaker 1: it would be it would be a great addition to

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Speaker 1: the roster, particularly not just he'd be a surprise just

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Speaker 1: to make it, like we said, but man to have

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Speaker 1: him come in and then contribute and get have a

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Speaker 1: package put in or get you know, fifteen percent of

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Speaker 1: the offensive plays would be unbelievable for him, and that's

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Speaker 1: that would be a surprise, that would be a great addition.

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Speaker 1: That's a good one, Joel, Thanks for calling. We'll take

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Speaker 1: your calls to asking the question who's going to be

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Speaker 1: the surprise breakout player for the Bills in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: player workout facility. Right, it's gonna look fan, if you

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Speaker 1: park in this area, you're gonna be like ooh, lay wow. Yeah,

637
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be different. Look, I don't know what that's

638
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Speaker 1: the third most popular question. What are they gonna do

639
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Speaker 1: about a new stadium? I don't know. I don't know,

640
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Speaker 1: but we got a pretty we got a pretty good

641
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Speaker 1: one here. Yeah, this one works. It works for everybody.

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Speaker 1: I think. I know. The team headquarters hadn't moving anytime soon.

643
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Speaker 1: I know that they'll be here for Why would you

644
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: leave HI with fourteen million dollars into that room? Fourteen?

645
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Speaker 1: How much was nineteen eighteen twenty. It's a lot of money.

646
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Speaker 1: They played almost as much for this weight room as

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Speaker 1: they did for the stadium in seventy two. That was

648
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Speaker 1: like twenty five. Yeah, it's unbelievable. Let's know what you

649
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Speaker 1: think about the surprise breakout player for the Bills in

650
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Speaker 1: tw nineteen. Let's go to the tweet sheet, Steve. The

651
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Speaker 1: tweet sheet brought you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official

652
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Speaker 1: movers of the Buffalo Bills. Why don't you get It

653
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Speaker 1: started on the tweet sheets, all right, from Max who

654
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Speaker 1: will be the surprise breakout player for the Bills in

655
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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. The perception around Singletary has slowly gone from

656
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Speaker 1: he'll rarely see the field this year too, he might

657
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Speaker 1: be a pleasant surprise by the time the year is over,

658
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Speaker 1: and I would pick him to be the breakout player.

659
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Speaker 1: He's going to shock some people with his elusiveness. Watch

660
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 1: and see that from Max, And you may be right

661
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Speaker 1: to talk about that for a second. Can we yeah,

662
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Speaker 1: how did that perception change? Because if it did, I

663
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Speaker 1: wasn't on top of that. Did the perception? And again,

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Speaker 1: there is only perception. The coaches don't announce a Singletary

665
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Speaker 1: will see the field a lot this year. They don't

666
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Speaker 1: say he'll maybe get a play or two. But how

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Speaker 1: did the perception change? And when nobody really has seen

668
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Speaker 1: the workouts? Right, the media is invited once a week

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Speaker 1: for like three or four weeks, and then the last

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Speaker 1: three sessions, I don't know how that perception change. It's

671
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Speaker 1: interesting you say that too. Do we talk ourselves into

672
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Speaker 1: changing the perception jas or that one? Fans do it

673
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: in general? Yes, I believe they do. See if you

674
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Speaker 1: start talking about it, and you think, well, you're kind

675
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 1: of talking about and you see you start envisioning scenarios

676
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Speaker 1: where a singletary will be a bigger part of it

677
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: by default, maybe with you know, Sean McCoy not being around,

678
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Speaker 1: or Frank Goren not being around, or him being the

679
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Speaker 1: last guys standing, whatever the case may be. And there

680
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Speaker 1: is a reason he was taken where he was. The

681
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: guy's really good with the ball in his hands, he's

682
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Speaker 1: tough to tackle, he is elusive. That was what his

683
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Speaker 1: strength was in college. But I think as far as

684
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Speaker 1: perception changing, I think you're right. I mean, we kind

685
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Speaker 1: of tuck ourselves into this now. The one part about

686
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Speaker 1: Max's tweet that they like is when he says he

687
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Speaker 1: might be a pleasant prize by the time the year

688
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Speaker 1: is over. That's important and we underestimate that, I'm guilty

689
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,959
Speaker 1: of it. To the season is long, and stuff happens

690
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: from September eighth to the end of December, and a

691
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Speaker 1: guy who maybe had no role or very little role

692
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Speaker 1: in September, by the time you get to the month

693
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Speaker 1: of December, all of a sudden could be a key

694
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: player that happens in the NFL that happens almost every

695
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 1: year to every team in the NFL at certain positions

696
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Speaker 1: that could happen with Devin Singletary. You could see that,

697
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Speaker 1: and you know how it happens as well. You know,

698
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 1: he turns out he's a third third running back. As

699
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Speaker 1: the season starts, and then this happens, if that happens

700
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Speaker 1: or whatever, and all of a sudden he ends up

701
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Speaker 1: out of the ten games through the second last two

702
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Speaker 1: thirds of the season or whatever, he ends up starting

703
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Speaker 1: three of them, you know, for some reason or other,

704
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Speaker 1: and get some bulk of the carriers in a handful

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Speaker 1: of games or less than a handful of games. You

706
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Speaker 1: do get a chance to see, Okay, at this level,

707
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Speaker 1: let's see what he can do when the chips are

708
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Speaker 1: down and he and he does surprise you and he

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Speaker 1: exceeds expectations. It's fun. From Tiffany from the tweet sheet,

710
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Speaker 1: Dawson Knox says the potential to win the number one

711
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Speaker 1: tight end job with Croft being out, he could emerge

712
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Speaker 1: as a go to target for Josh as he gets

713
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: comfortable in the offense. He has sides and speed in

714
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Speaker 1: a high football IQ. He was underutilized at all. Miss.

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Speaker 1: I think he'll have an impact on the offense. Tiffany,

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Speaker 1: I think is as usual right on. And Dawson Knox

717
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Speaker 1: is a guy who's perception, the perception of him changed

718
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Speaker 1: mostly because of the reps he got during the Mini

719
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Speaker 1: Campson Ota, you know, with the injury to Tyler Croft.

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Speaker 1: Tiffany is right, there were more reps for Dawson Knox

721
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Speaker 1: and some nice plays for Dawson Knox. Now, again it's perception,

722
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Speaker 1: but I think there's a little bit more production that

723
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Speaker 1: has been on display from Dawson Knox during this last

724
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks of Spring press. Right and with always

725
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 1: like this, these polls, there's always a little bit of

726
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: conjecture that goes into it, and part of the conjecture

727
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Speaker 1: here at Dawson knoxes he played with three guys at

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Speaker 1: Old Miss at wide receiver who are all in the

729
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Speaker 1: NFL right now. Now, granted not all of them may

730
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Speaker 1: stay there, but all three of those guys are NFL talent,

731
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Speaker 1: and at Old Miss he was underutilized this like like

732
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Speaker 1: she says, he was underutilized. He may be a guy

733
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Speaker 1: who blossoms at this level because all of a sudden

734
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Speaker 1: he does get a bigger opportunity and he's had some

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Speaker 1: for him. It was fortunate that Tyler Croft wasn't practicing

736
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Speaker 1: because he does get more ups and reps main a

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Speaker 1: lot to a young guy like that. So I that's

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Speaker 1: the logic makes perfect sense from Tiffany on this one

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Speaker 1: because he was underutilized. He was under the radar for

740
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Speaker 1: a lot of people, didn't have a hugely productive college career,

741
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Speaker 1: never caught a touchdown in college. And yet because of

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Speaker 1: the guys who were surrounding an old miss and now

743
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Speaker 1: because of the opportunity may get in Buffalo, you may

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Speaker 1: see the guy blossom. It's kind of funny. As we

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Speaker 1: watch on the MSG feed, watch some of the highlights

746
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Speaker 1: of the spring workouts, the mini camps, the Summer mini camp,

747
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 1: and the OTAs a year from now, we'll see some

748
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Speaker 1: of this video. And thing I didn't want the November video.

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Speaker 1: I wanted the summertime workouts, but that's what it looks like.

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Speaker 1: It looks like November because it's been such so cold. Right,

751
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: everybody's got like hoodie sweatshirts on and long sleeves and

752
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: the sky is gray. All the video we watch from

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Speaker 1: the spring workout, it looks like November. Hopefully training camp

754
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 1: will be sunny and the hot, smoking hot. Yeah, I

755
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,719
Speaker 1: want it hot, I want it. I don't like it,

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Speaker 1: deserve it. Carl Here from Carl and AMers on the

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Speaker 1: phone line. Hello, Carl, go ahead, you're on the with this.

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Speaker 1: Hey guys, day good listen. I uh, I think there

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Speaker 1: might not be a surprise player at all. Right. I

760
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 1: think I think the whole season, the whole seasons period

761
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Speaker 1: depends on the offensive life. And if they can't get

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Speaker 1: that offensive line together, I think they're done like a doughnut.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if if you look at their franchise players,

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Speaker 1: Mitch Morse, they got its center. All the guys that

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Speaker 1: they got in free agency are almost all secondary players.

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Speaker 1: They're almost all second string players. None of them are

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Speaker 1: what I would call is super high quality. Are are

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Speaker 1: really good, and we're very I think we're very weak

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Speaker 1: at at guard. And if you can't get this running

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Speaker 1: game going, I don't see any breakoff players, especially on

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Speaker 1: the offense. Okay, I mean I could, I could, thanks, Carl.

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Speaker 1: I'll bet I can get into a discussion about how

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Speaker 1: I think Spencer Long is a starter, no question about it.

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Speaker 1: You can make your case about you know, Quentin Spain yeah, ahead,

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00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 1: I believe Cody Ford is going to be a really

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Speaker 1: good offensive lineman. Cody Ford could slide down to guard

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Speaker 1: and you can get tie In Seki, who a lot

778
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Speaker 1: of people think is the best swing tackle on the market.

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00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: He could play right or left, and he put him

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Speaker 1: in there and slide Cody forward down inside. All of

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00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: a sudden, with him and Spencer Long, you got two

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Speaker 1: pretty good guards. One morning, Deane Dawkins comes back for

783
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Speaker 1: what looks like his third consecutive years the starting left tackle.

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Speaker 1: So so, anyway, question mark, if I was gonna say, well,

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Speaker 1: if I was gonna say, if they do get the

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Speaker 1: offensive line together, then who's it gonna be? I mean,

787
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Speaker 1: what's it gonna look like? That's the question here. And

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00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: I agree with Carl. If those guys up there stink,

789
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Speaker 1: you know, nothing's gonna look good. And that's he's right

790
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: about that. I've and I've said it a bunch of time,

791
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Speaker 1: multitude of times on the show. It's they got to

792
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: get that offensive line fixed. But listen, you and I

793
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: have seen it, and we've talked about it at length.

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Speaker 1: It looks to me like they've got enough talent up

795
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 1: there to be really, really good Carl, what do you

796
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: think you Hey, listen, I'm older than you. Two guys

797
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: probably put together. No, I'm just kids. But I think

798
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 1: I really think that the whole season depends on them.

799
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think you're going from six and ten

800
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Speaker 1: to ten and six depending upon what that offensive line does.

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Speaker 1: That well, what what's the what's the offense gonna look like? Carl?

802
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 1: If the offensive line is good, if it's above average,

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Speaker 1: even a really good offensive line, who's gonna be the

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00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,839
Speaker 1: guy that carries that offense? When who's got Josh gonna

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00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: throw it to? Who's he gonna hand it to? That's

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00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: gonna be a surprise, I would say, I would say, Singletary, Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: you carry and and I'll tell you something. I don't think.

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00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: I don't think we really need Tyler Croft to tell

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00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: you the guy's out of truth. I think we've got Groom,

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00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: and we've got and we got Knox, and I think, uh,

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Speaker 1: and keep the other kids, Sweeney Sweete and I mean, really,

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00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:03,240
Speaker 1: I I don't think that that's a huge, huge laws.

813
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 1: He was a second string player in Cincinnati. You know,

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Speaker 1: I hear you. Thanks girls, good point, Carl. But we'll see.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they he had some really good games in Cincinnati,

816
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: even as the second string guy, and we'll see if

817
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:21,719
Speaker 1: he can continue that here in Buffalo. It's good, good

818
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 1: point though, just a call from Bob and West Seneca. Bob,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air. Hey guys, how you doing.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, too, it ain't rain and eat it,

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Speaker 1: which is really good. Yeah, very nice. I know a

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Speaker 1: lot of people want this when I'm taking Josh Allen

823
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Speaker 1: and I'm not saying it on the big plays or

824
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: anything like that. I think this kid has learned a

825
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,399
Speaker 1: lot in his first two years. I believe you're gonna

826
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Speaker 1: you guys will pick up more because you know more

827
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Speaker 1: about the game than we do sitting up in the

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Speaker 1: stands or watching TV. He's going to know when it

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Speaker 1: called his audible. I think he's learning this. I believe

830
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: he's going to be able to know, hey, guys, you

831
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,879
Speaker 1: know what. He's going to think that the right side

832
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Speaker 1: of that lane is a little weak. I can change

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Speaker 1: this play. I can do this. I've learned. I've really

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Speaker 1: learned what's going on. And most importantly, I think he's

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00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,360
Speaker 1: gonna know. Like I hate to bring him up with

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00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, you know when they asked Tom Brady about

837
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: you know, would you rather throw the sixty I pass?

838
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: And he said, no, give me that first down ten

839
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Speaker 1: yards every time I marched down the field, eat up clock.

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00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: And more importantly, I think this kid has really learned

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00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: how valuable the two minutes before a half is and

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00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 1: the two minutes at the end of a game. Even

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00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: before to half, I think he's learned even if we're

844
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 1: up by two touchdown, seventeen points. You got the ball,

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Speaker 1: Let's go down and get some more points here. I

846
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: think this kid has really learned a lot, and that's

847
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:32,879
Speaker 1: what I'm looking for. And like I said, you guys

848
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,399
Speaker 1: will pick up more on this. Sitting in the press box,

849
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: Steve playing the game, you know, when this guy changes,

850
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 1: goes to an audible. That's what I believe. I really

851
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: think this kid's gotten a lot smarter, and I think

852
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: he's going to be a one heck of a leader

853
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: for this team coming up this year. All right, Bob,

854
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: that's a good point, and I agree with you. There's

855
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,359
Speaker 1: no question we saw him get better really quickly this

856
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:58,319
Speaker 1: last half of this last year, and he more so

857
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:02,320
Speaker 1: than any other guy's drafted with him. Baker Mayfield Josh Rosen,

858
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold has the stability of being in the same

859
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: offense with the same coaching staff and you know this,

860
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 1: and with Matt Barkley, the same guy in the room

861
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 1: with him, same offensive coordinator. It's it's really gonna help

862
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 1: him take a step forward where he left off last year.

863
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 1: And I've been harping on it a lot this offseason.

864
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 1: That last game he put together in Week seventeen against

865
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 1: the Dolphins was pretty impressive. If he can start from

866
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 1: there and go forward, You're right, he's gonna be not

867
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,720
Speaker 1: just a surprise player. He's gonna be an elite player

868
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: because that's the way he played in that Week seventeen.

869
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: The guy completed sixty five and a half percent of

870
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: his passes through for three touchdowns, ran for two other touchdowns,

871
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: and they lumped up the Dolphins. If he can play

872
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:47,479
Speaker 1: like he did in that game and complete his past

873
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:49,839
Speaker 1: as like he did there, yeah, they're gonna be tough

874
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: to beat, all right, that's the question of the day.

875
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: He was gonna be the surprise breakout player. We got

876
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: a good discussion going on this. We will keep it going.

877
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 1: We come back. John Murphy was Steve Tansker one goes

878
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 1: Life present by collat of Health from One Bill's Drive

879
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bill's Radio. You know me, bring us back.

880
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: So we had this conversation going on between between segments

881
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: and we can't share it with you, but why and

882
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: also involves what it was it cookies and green popcorn

883
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: Chris Brown brother in yesterday. Still good, Still good, Chris,

884
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: Thank you, Chris, Thank you for that, and thanks for

885
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 1: doing the show topic today. Who will be the surprise

886
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 1: breakout player for the Bills in twenty nineteen. We're getting

887
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: a lot of good a lot of good traction with

888
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 1: this one. As they say in the business deep ready

889
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:54,239
Speaker 1: for another call? Yeah, well, yeah, no, get into why

890
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: this is a good one later, but yeah, it's take

891
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 1: another call while he's Bob in the Southern Tier high Bob,

892
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. Thank you very much. When the

893
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: Bills drafted Singletary, I looked at filming at him right

894
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 1: away and he reminded me of Sermon Thomas. I think

895
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 1: he's going to be the breakout player. And don't be

896
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 1: surprised if they trade McCoy just before the start of

897
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: the season to say millions in Cap six point four,

898
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: get a good draft hip. You think you think Devin

899
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:24,439
Speaker 1: Singletary is gonna come in as a rookie third round

900
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: draft pick and make a guy who's making six million

901
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 1: bucks expendable. Now, six million bucks is not much in

902
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 1: the NFL, And you think a guy like Lashaw McCoy

903
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: becomes expendable because of Devin Singletary, that's a you're right, Bob.

904
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:45,359
Speaker 1: If that happens, that is the surprise of training him.

905
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: Now I know this too. There's an old adage in

906
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: the NFL around locker rooms, and it is when you

907
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 1: come down to training camp and you're getting that final roster,

908
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:58,319
Speaker 1: there are always surprises. I will go on on on

909
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: record right now saying that would surprise me greatly. Yeah,

910
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: if Leshaun McCoy is made replaceable by Devin Singletary, I'm

911
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 1: not saying I don't think Devin's gonna be a good player,

912
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: but I don't think you get rid of Leshaun McCoy

913
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 1: based on anything Devin Singletary could possibly do in the

914
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 1: preseason part of it and part of the discussion, and

915
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: again I go back to all the questions we get

916
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: about McCoy and what are you gonna do a running back?

917
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: A lot of It depends on your perception of what

918
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: went on with Shady last year. My perception, and I'm

919
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: not saying I'm right, but my perception is McCoy was

920
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 1: victimized by a really bad, struggling offense and an offensive

921
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 1: line that couldn't do much. He didn't have much to

922
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 1: do when he got the ball because the offensive line

923
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: was not opening holes for him. And I think with

924
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,400
Speaker 1: the better offensive line McCoy could he could be almost

925
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:45,759
Speaker 1: what he was, if not a little bit better from

926
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:47,799
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. Again, that's my perception. I

927
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:50,720
Speaker 1: might be wrong, but a lot of how you see

928
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 1: what Singletary's role is, what Gore's role might be, depends

929
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 1: on what you thought of what went wrong with McCoy

930
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, you and I disagree on a ton

931
00:43:58,239 --> 00:43:59,839
Speaker 1: of stuff, but this isn't one of the things we

932
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 1: disagree on. He was behind an offensive line that struggled

933
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: both in the run and the past, and he was

934
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:09,839
Speaker 1: playing with a rookie quarterback who could throw a deep

935
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 1: ball but not much underneath. I mean, they just he

936
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,399
Speaker 1: couldn't get it rolling. There was no room for him

937
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 1: to run. Teams were stacking the box against the running game.

938
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 1: Daring him to throw it, and they'd stacked the box

939
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 1: and the Bills would drop back and try and throw

940
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 1: it deep. It was not a recipe for success. Now,

941
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: it did highlight some of the things Josh Allen did well,

942
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 1: and they did have some moments inside there that were

943
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 1: really fun, no question about it. But Lashawn McCoy is

944
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:37,759
Speaker 1: a little bit of a victim of his surroundings last year.

945
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 1: In fact, I think he was almost a total victim

946
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: of his surroundings. He did not fall off a clift

947
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: ability wise last year. I think that offensive line they

948
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 1: weren't scaring anybody with their passing game, and they and

949
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: so these teams are not gonna listen. The only way

950
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:57,360
Speaker 1: to beat they got Lashawn McCoy back there. That's the

951
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: only thing that's really gonna beat us. He's the best

952
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 1: player on their offense. That's who we're taken away. And

953
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: they did, and it wasn't that difficult to do, given

954
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 1: the fact that they weren't really scared about having an

955
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:08,919
Speaker 1: offense where the quarterback's gonna dink it off and get

956
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 1: the first down and dink it off over here and

957
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,279
Speaker 1: get a second and short then dink it off over here.

958
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: And get repeat that first down. You just know that

959
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 1: offense wasn't doing that last year, and Lashawn McCoy's numbers

960
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 1: and the perception about him suffered because of it. Let's

961
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:23,919
Speaker 1: take one more call this hour on this topic. We'll

962
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 1: have time for more on this, but Chris is on

963
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:29,479
Speaker 1: the line from Buffalo. Hello Chris, go ahead, Hey John,

964
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 1: I love your point, and the Shady is actually my

965
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 1: candidates here for one of the reasons you mentioned. I mean,

966
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:38,359
Speaker 1: we had planned to cops starting at guard last year.

967
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:40,720
Speaker 1: I don't think that guy should be on an NFL roster.

968
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 1: And on top of having the worst offensive line in

969
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 1: the league, I think we had the worst wide receivers

970
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 1: in the league. So obviously, like Steve said, all you

971
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 1: have to do is q on. Yep. It's the running back,

972
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 1: especially when you have a rookie QB. I think it's

973
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: like how people say Levan Bell is such a patient runner,

974
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: and that's that's a COMPLIM meant to him, Well, how

975
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: patient is he when he doesn't have time to be?

976
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: And I think he's gonna see that with the justice year.

977
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 1: But Pittsburgh has a great offensive line, yep. Um, so

978
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: I think Shady's gonna gonna go for a thousand yards

979
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: this year and maybe pose Yep, that would be a surprise.

980
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:17,879
Speaker 1: The first good point though, and a really good point

981
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 1: about receivers, Steve one, you asked about playing golf with

982
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 1: my brothers yesterday. My brother Paul huge Bills fans, all

983
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:26,839
Speaker 1: my brothers are, but he asked a question that just

984
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: stopped conversation for about you know, you have you play golf.

985
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 1: You're talking right right, stop. Conversation were about a whole

986
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 1: one hole, he said. And my brothers typically won't quiz

987
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:39,800
Speaker 1: me about the Bills because everybody my brother Paul said, John,

988
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 1: challenge me, John if the Bills ever had a worse

989
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 1: wide receiving cord than what they had last year. I

990
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: didn't answer, but the conversation stopped because I didn't have

991
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 1: a good answer. I started thinking, let me think what

992
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 1: year was bad? But it's hard and and and the

993
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 1: caller just made that point too. You know, they really

994
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:59,320
Speaker 1: were not Look, they had Josh going deep was the threat.

995
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:01,760
Speaker 1: They had. They had Foster making some big plays downfield,

996
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 1: but that offense was bad. They were thirty first in

997
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 1: passing last year. And only to tell you that they

998
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 1: were bad last year, both on the ground and through

999
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:10,879
Speaker 1: the year, and maybe that was the worst receiving corps

1000
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: they've ever had the last year, right, You're you're thinking,

1001
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell. I'd had to go back and look

1002
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:18,879
Speaker 1: at stats to see, you know, when did they throw

1003
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:20,919
Speaker 1: the ball worse than they did last year? And that's

1004
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:24,320
Speaker 1: that goes back aways. Yeah, and it plays into McCoy

1005
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: struggles and it wasn't just and and let's face it too.

1006
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:28,959
Speaker 1: You gotta be honest. I don't want to throw every

1007
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:30,760
Speaker 1: guy who played on the offensive line for the Buffalo

1008
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:33,359
Speaker 1: Bills under the under the bus because you had four

1009
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: different starting quarterbacks last year as well. Um, you had

1010
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 1: a poor wide receiving group. Um, Calvin Benjamin disappeared, m

1011
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 1: Zay Jones was trying to find his way. He had

1012
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 1: Robert Foster who was in and out of the lineup,

1013
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 1: up and down, z Ray Ray McCleod trying to find

1014
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: his way. You just, yeah, there was nobody there. You'd

1015
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:04,799
Speaker 1: be hard pressed and I'd have to go back, and

1016
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 1: I don't have it in front of me, go back

1017
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 1: and look at years in which they threw the ball

1018
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 1: worse than they did last year. I don't know if

1019
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 1: there's that many it to choose from them, right, Yeah,

1020
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: it makes and you do have to give some of

1021
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: that to the off to the wide receivers as well,

1022
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 1: not just the offensive line, not just the quarterbacks. But

1023
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: there were four quarterbacks last year, and two of them started.

1024
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 1: We've moved beyond right, right, two of them started when

1025
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:32,399
Speaker 1: they were here for less than two weeks. I mean

1026
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:34,839
Speaker 1: that was they were in a bad spot last year.

1027
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 1: You forget how we remember during this you and I

1028
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:41,799
Speaker 1: were coming in here. Man, it was dark, it was

1029
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,320
Speaker 1: we were talking about, you know, these are dark days.

1030
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 1: It was I think it was after the Chicago game,

1031
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 1: was it. I came in here and said, this is

1032
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:51,840
Speaker 1: the low point. It's as bad as it gains. It is.

1033
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:53,879
Speaker 1: It's gonna get better. And it did too, and it did.

1034
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: And I think last year they kind of realized after

1035
00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:59,280
Speaker 1: the Chicago game and during that stress at while they're

1036
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:01,919
Speaker 1: just the offensive line's just not good enough. Yeah, there's

1037
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:05,240
Speaker 1: just no combination that's working. And that is the crux

1038
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 1: of the issues behind their offense and their defense wasn't

1039
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:10,600
Speaker 1: getting put pressure on them because these offenses and these

1040
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 1: other teams, they didn't feel like they had to Scoreny

1041
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:16,360
Speaker 1: points right, who's gonna be a surprise breakout player in

1042
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen as we kind of shift the focus to

1043
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:21,359
Speaker 1: forward looking. Also a pretty good guest coming up next,

1044
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about bred Gania, a bleacher report about

1045
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:26,759
Speaker 1: the Bills twenty nineteen, and maybe a little bit about

1046
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. Come on back for that. Just got one

1047
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:30,879
Speaker 1: hour of the Bucks two to go, one Bills Live

1048
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:33,360
Speaker 1: for Zentive Allada Health from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo

1049
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:48,280
Speaker 1: Bill's Radiofalo Bill's Radio Network. Stories date. Got the update

1050
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:50,720
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive today, But we're talking about hockey

1051
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 1: to start. The NHL Draft comes up this Friday night

1052
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 1: from Vancouver Savers Draft seventh overall. On Friday night, the

1053
00:49:57,040 --> 00:50:00,759
Speaker 1: Savers announced their preseason schedule today. They got six preseason

1054
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 1: games too at home at key Bank Center, among the

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Speaker 1: other games. The Sabers will play three road games and

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00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 1: a neutral site game at Penn State University at the

1057
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:12,360
Speaker 1: Bagoga Ice Arena at Penn State on Monday, September sixteenth

1058
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 1: against the Pittsburgh Penguin. Sabers preseason game available on their website.

1059
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 1: Preseason schedule in the NFL after seventeen seasons, a circuitous

1060
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:25,360
Speaker 1: career that began in Arizona. Quarterback Josh mccount is retiring

1061
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: from football. Meet the announcement late yesterday. He turns forty

1062
00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:30,279
Speaker 1: years old on the fourth of July. Spent the last

1063
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 1: two years were the Jets. Later yesterday, it was announce

1064
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:35,879
Speaker 1: some accounts joining ESPN as an NFL analyst and make

1065
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 1: his debut tomorrow on the NFL Live Around the League.

1066
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 1: The Rams have been downplaying Todd Gurley's knee situation, but

1067
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 1: his personal trainer confirmed yesterday that the running back has

1068
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:49,880
Speaker 1: arthritic issues stemming from an ACL Tarren College. He downplayed

1069
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:53,320
Speaker 1: the impact on Gurley's play. Part of managing Gurley's workload

1070
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:56,439
Speaker 1: is what he has to do this offseason, shedding weight

1071
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:59,480
Speaker 1: and keeping the grind down during the offseason. Backers claimed

1072
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 1: tightland my Roberts off waivers from Detroit late yesterday. Waved

1073
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: last week after a trade they would have sent him

1074
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:08,440
Speaker 1: to the New England Patriots. Trade recinded because conditions weren't

1075
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:11,440
Speaker 1: Mets met Roberts did not pass his physical with the Patriots.

1076
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: According to ESPN, The Denver Broncos are planning several ways

1077
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 1: to honor team owner Pat Bowland, who died last week

1078
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:20,759
Speaker 1: at age seventy five, as he gets ready to go

1079
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: into the Pro football to fame this summer. But renaming

1080
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:25,279
Speaker 1: their stadium is not one of the honors they have

1081
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:28,120
Speaker 1: in mind. Bisons opened up a homestand tonight home tonight

1082
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:30,359
Speaker 1: to start a six game homestand they got a three

1083
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 1: game series with Indianapolis. First pitch Tonight, seven o five

1084
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 1: at salin Field Downtown. The Bisons at Indie Sean Reid

1085
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 1: Foley on the mound for the Herd tonight in the

1086
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: opener of that homestand and that is the update from

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00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:45,640
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. John Murphy and Steve Tasker here until

1088
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 1: three this afternoon, taking a look at the Bills. We'll

1089
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:49,400
Speaker 1: get back to our topic of the day, who will

1090
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 1: be the surprise breakout player for the Bills this year?

1091
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 1: And taking a look at the NFL today with our

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00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 1: next guest Bleacher Report. National NFL writer contributed to the

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00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:59,840
Speaker 1: Comeback Pro Football Writers of America member hap a Ha

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00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 1: rat Ganiel on the line with us, Hello Brad, John Murphy,

1095
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 1: you seemed to ask your in Buffalo. Thanks for joining us, John, Steve.

1096
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:06,840
Speaker 1: That has to catch up with you, guys, you know

1097
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:08,959
Speaker 1: enough about the Bills, let me ask you this question.

1098
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 1: Let's start the question of our day here. Who might

1099
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:15,360
Speaker 1: be the surprise breakout player for the Bills in twenty nineteen.

1100
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:17,919
Speaker 1: Who's under the radar? Now that if you followed the Bills,

1101
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:19,399
Speaker 1: you think keep an eye in that guy, he might

1102
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 1: do something. Who'd you have in mind? Well, I guess

1103
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 1: in Buffalo you wouldn't consider Robert Foster to be a

1104
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 1: surprise at this point. I think nationally you still would.

1105
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:32,920
Speaker 1: I know, obviously John Brown and Cole Beasley joining that

1106
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 1: receiving corps, you know, you wonder how many opportunities he'll get.

1107
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 1: But you look at what he did late last season

1108
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 1: and down the stretch and the impact he can make

1109
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 1: with a guy like Josh Allen getting their under the ball,

1110
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,720
Speaker 1: you wonder if he might have a pretty big season

1111
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 1: lying ahead of him. And then you know again, same deal.

1112
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:53,920
Speaker 1: Tyler Croft is a free agent acquisition. No one should

1113
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:55,839
Speaker 1: overlook him. But considering the fact that he only has

1114
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:58,319
Speaker 1: the one big season in terms of touchdowns for the

1115
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:00,600
Speaker 1: Bengals a couple of years ago, and no one's really

1116
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 1: talking about nationally, especially considering all the other moves the

1117
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:05,960
Speaker 1: team made in the offseason. I'd look for those two

1118
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 1: pass catchers, especially if Kraft can get healthy and be productive,

1119
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:12,680
Speaker 1: to potentially make more of an impact or as much

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00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 1: of an impact as guys like day Jones, Brown and

1121
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 1: Beasley in twenty nineteen, therese are two guys that sort

1122
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:19,120
Speaker 1: of stick out to me. Well, if you do pick

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00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:23,320
Speaker 1: pass catchers to be the breakout players, wouldn't that preclude

1124
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 1: the pass thrower having kind of a little bit of

1125
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: a breakout year. What's that going to take for Josh

1126
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 1: Allen to make those guys noticeable on the national landscape

1127
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:35,280
Speaker 1: as receivers. Yeah, I think this is probably the most

1128
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 1: pivotal offseason. Poor Josh Allen. The idea that you know,

1129
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:42,840
Speaker 1: a guy came in raw. You know, originally it was

1130
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:44,840
Speaker 1: you know, are they going to red shirt him practically,

1131
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:46,799
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, as quickly as it

1132
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:50,800
Speaker 1: often happens nowadays with rookie quarterbacks out of the first round,

1133
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 1: you know he's the guy. And there were, at least

1134
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:58,520
Speaker 1: again outside of Buffalo, from my standpoint, there were low

1135
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: expectations for a guy who had you know, accuracy issues,

1136
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:04,520
Speaker 1: if you will, coming out of college, and it was

1137
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 1: of course quite raw, and I was pleasantly surprised. So

1138
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 1: now this offseason, the pressure will be on to first

1139
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:14,680
Speaker 1: of all, just take that next step and continue to

1140
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:20,640
Speaker 1: become more accurate and become a more bonafied, franchise caliber quarterback,

1141
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:25,200
Speaker 1: but also on the fly to adapt to an entirely

1142
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:28,200
Speaker 1: different supporting cast, whether it be the offensive line change

1143
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:32,839
Speaker 1: is essentially everything about left tackle is fresh, or whether

1144
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 1: it be as we just mentioned Brown and Beasley and

1145
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:40,399
Speaker 1: Tyler Croft and Dawson Knocks the third round pick if

1146
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 1: he can play a role at tight end. Um, so

1147
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:45,239
Speaker 1: there's just and Frank Gore and and Devin Singletary. I

1148
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 1: mean everything is different, and at least in terms of personnel,

1149
00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:51,680
Speaker 1: and so um yeah, I'm expecting him to take a

1150
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 1: big step forward, just because it's hard not to when

1151
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 1: you have that much talent and you entered the league

1152
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:58,359
Speaker 1: so raw, and now he does have a lot more

1153
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 1: weapons than he did, you know a year ago. Well

1154
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 1: on the line with Bret Genio, Bleacher Report, National NFL writer,

1155
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 1: you wrote an interesting piece that kind of deals with

1156
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:08,560
Speaker 1: all of these changes around the Bills recently. Brand you

1157
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:12,240
Speaker 1: asked the question that most Bills fans ask themselves a lot.

1158
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:15,280
Speaker 1: Are the Bills ready to compete in the AFC East?

1159
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:18,439
Speaker 1: What did you come up with when you ask that question, Well,

1160
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:22,040
Speaker 1: I mean I love what they've done this off season,

1161
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 1: as i've sort of no alluded to have tipped off already. Yes,

1162
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 1: I just think to build around your quarterback. Here. You know,

1163
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 1: they got the quarterback last year, and they invested heavily

1164
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:35,359
Speaker 1: in doing so. And now you're you know, he put

1165
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:38,120
Speaker 1: together a strong enough rookie season that there are indications

1166
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:40,760
Speaker 1: that they can potentially take off, and he can potentially

1167
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:42,440
Speaker 1: take off, and now you just got to build around him.

1168
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:44,399
Speaker 1: And so first of all, the safety balls, right, those

1169
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:46,600
Speaker 1: security blankets that are so important I think for a

1170
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks. I think that's something the Bills had to refine.

1171
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:51,799
Speaker 1: And to have a player like Cole Beasley, he's done

1172
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:53,719
Speaker 1: that in Dallas. Come in to have a guy like

1173
00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:55,799
Speaker 1: Tyler Croft, who again I feel as a really high

1174
00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: ceiling in spite of the fact he's been inconsistent Cincinnati

1175
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 1: and is coming off an injury. Both of those guys

1176
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 1: are guys who I think he can believe a lion

1177
00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:07,160
Speaker 1: down low. And and that's the first step. And then

1178
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:09,239
Speaker 1: the second step is to work out from there, and

1179
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:11,520
Speaker 1: you've got those field stretchers I allude to in the article.

1180
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:14,160
Speaker 1: Obviously there's John Brown, but there's also a foster potentially

1181
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:17,239
Speaker 1: playing a role in terms of doing that. And then

1182
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:19,840
Speaker 1: the past protectors, which is to bring in Cody Ford,

1183
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:21,799
Speaker 1: which I think was one of the best picks of

1184
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 1: the draft. Um, you know, to add Mitch Morris, who

1185
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:27,920
Speaker 1: obviously is now I believe, the highest paid center in football,

1186
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:30,879
Speaker 1: and so you know he was on the upswing. Um,

1187
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:33,680
Speaker 1: you know Spencer Long, Quentin's fan of me. They really

1188
00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 1: have just bolstered every single area around Josh Allen, which

1189
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:42,520
Speaker 1: is huge, and so they already had some playmakers on defense. Obviously,

1190
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: add you know, a potential game changer and Ed Oliver

1191
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:49,480
Speaker 1: to go with that. Um, if tradevious White can take

1192
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 1: a big step forward in his third season, you have

1193
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:54,239
Speaker 1: a good chance to have a solid secondary as well.

1194
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:56,040
Speaker 1: I mean it just it really is a team that's

1195
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:58,719
Speaker 1: flying under the radar, and a couple of years ago

1196
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:00,959
Speaker 1: they finally make the playoffs time in the twenty first

1197
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 1: century and it was exciting. I'm not far from Buffalo.

1198
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:07,160
Speaker 1: It was such a cool thing to see finally, but

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00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:10,440
Speaker 1: that team did feel like it had somewhat of it

1200
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:13,560
Speaker 1: was had limitation, and that might have been the quarterback position,

1201
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:15,560
Speaker 1: That might have been the fact the defense wasn't as

1202
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 1: far along, might have been the fact that supporting cast

1203
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 1: wasn't quite there. All of those things are now in place,

1204
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:25,600
Speaker 1: namely mainly Josh Allen, and so there's a feeling that

1205
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 1: even if they don't make it this year, which they could,

1206
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:30,000
Speaker 1: then you know, we're looking at the team that's going

1207
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:32,520
Speaker 1: to be right there in twenty twenty, twenty twenty one.

1208
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 1: I mean, gone of the days where the Bills are

1209
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:36,920
Speaker 1: hoping to get lucky to get to the playoffs. They

1210
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 1: have the talent to do it, they just need to deliver.

1211
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 1: Are there any veterans on this roster that you see

1212
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:44,600
Speaker 1: as being expendable or probably not going to be around

1213
00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 1: for this season? Are there any surprises coming in training

1214
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:50,080
Speaker 1: camp in that respect? I think the obvious one is

1215
00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:52,960
Speaker 1: in Sean McCoy. You know, he's the guy. I just

1216
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:55,400
Speaker 1: wrote a piece actually on trades that could still go

1217
00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 1: down between now and the start of next season, and

1218
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 1: he was the first name that came to mind. Promise.

1219
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 1: I don't know if to be a market for a

1220
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 1: player like la Shan McCoy, just because he is on

1221
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 1: the wrong side of thirty. He's got that nine million

1222
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:11,080
Speaker 1: dollar cap hit. You know, it's it's it would be

1223
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 1: about seven million dollars six and a half for the

1224
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 1: team that acquired him based on Buffalo's two and a

1225
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:19,800
Speaker 1: half million or so dead cap. It's just I don't

1226
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 1: know if there's a place to put him. And you know,

1227
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 1: he's alluded to the idea that there were trade offers made.

1228
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 1: Maybe they just weren't good enough for Buffalo. Maybe Buffalo

1229
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:31,000
Speaker 1: just does still believe in having him around. But you know,

1230
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 1: when you bring in Frank Gore and you got t J.

1231
00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 1: Yelden and you draft Devin Singletary on Day two of

1232
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:39,280
Speaker 1: the draft, you're probably indicating that you're ready to move

1233
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 1: in the next direction if indeed the right offer were

1234
00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 1: to be made and they just haven't pulled the trigger yet.

1235
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:47,360
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't be shocked at all if Shady wasn't

1236
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:49,919
Speaker 1: on the roster in week one. We're on the line

1237
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 1: with Bred Geniel from bleacher Report, NFL national NFL writer

1238
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:55,560
Speaker 1: on bleacher Report, why I ask you about the Buffalo

1239
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:58,360
Speaker 1: drafted in particular, the first round pick ed Oliver a

1240
00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:00,080
Speaker 1: pick that you like. I think you referred to with

1241
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 1: in I'm Bleacher Report as the smartest offseason moved the

1242
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 1: Bills made. Is that right? Brand? Yeah, I mean I

1243
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:09,000
Speaker 1: just love it and it was smart and that I think.

1244
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:10,680
Speaker 1: I don't have that article in front of me, but

1245
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:12,360
Speaker 1: I think I wrote something along the lines of it's

1246
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 1: smart and just that they didn't overthink it, right, Sometimes

1247
00:59:15,080 --> 00:59:17,919
Speaker 1: the smartest moves you make are just not making things

1248
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:20,760
Speaker 1: overly complicated and thinking, well, we have started Tulala on

1249
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:23,840
Speaker 1: the roster, so you know, maybe we shouldn't. I mean

1250
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 1: that you don't think that way when you have players

1251
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:29,680
Speaker 1: like at Oliver before you, right, and a chance to

1252
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 1: add them to the roster. And so yeah, they've already

1253
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 1: had invested essentially in the position that at Oliver plays,

1254
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 1: and and there were bigger needs on the Buffalo roster,

1255
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:43,040
Speaker 1: but they just looked at a player who you know,

1256
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:45,680
Speaker 1: I know, the Aaron Donald comparisons and all that, but

1257
00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:49,240
Speaker 1: he is he is fast, explosive, he is you know,

1258
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:52,080
Speaker 1: twenty one years old and looks as though he's ready

1259
00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:56,240
Speaker 1: to make an immediate impact coming out of that Huston program.

1260
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:58,520
Speaker 1: And so I just think he's the guy who can

1261
00:59:58,520 --> 01:00:00,920
Speaker 1: make it, make a difference right off the bat, but

1262
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:04,280
Speaker 1: can also grow into an absolute superstar the way he's

1263
01:00:04,400 --> 01:00:08,360
Speaker 1: perfectly He's Taylor made for what the NFL has become

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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, just as Aaron Donald is. And maybe

1265
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 1: he's not Donald, but anything even close to that. And

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01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:19,160
Speaker 1: you have yourself a potential franchise changing player. And so, yeah,

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01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:21,680
Speaker 1: thet the smart move there was to not think, you know,

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01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 1: technically this guy or that guy would fill a hole

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01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:26,360
Speaker 1: a little better, and just to go with the best

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Speaker 1: player available by a wide margin. Yeah, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of people who agree with you about Ed Oliver and

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01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 1: they think the Bills were lucky to have him fall

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01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:35,720
Speaker 1: into their laps. But you feel, and you said a

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01:00:35,720 --> 01:00:38,640
Speaker 1: few minutes ago that you thought Cody Ford was even

1275
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:41,080
Speaker 1: a smarter choice because there were so many other options

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01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 1: on the table at that point in the second round.

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Speaker 1: Why is Cody Forward such a great pickup? Well, there

1278
01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:49,360
Speaker 1: was talk of him being a top ten pick, and

1279
01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 1: he slid because offensive linemen are always tough to gauge

1280
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Speaker 1: at that point in time. But you know, you're just

1281
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:00,959
Speaker 1: talking about a big athletic versus a guy who comes

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01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:03,960
Speaker 1: out of a program that should have him prepared again

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01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:07,480
Speaker 1: to make that that that I word, that immediate upgrade

1284
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:10,640
Speaker 1: for the Bills. That other the guard obviously going to

1285
01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:13,480
Speaker 1: be the guard position right off the bat, and so um,

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01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:17,840
Speaker 1: you know, I just think that the request to build

1287
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:20,680
Speaker 1: your team should probably start with the quarterback, and that's

1288
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:23,200
Speaker 1: what happened last year with Josh Allen, and then it

1289
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 1: should probably be inside out and that's what a lot

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01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:28,200
Speaker 1: of us with the Indianapolis Colts have done with Quentin

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01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:31,720
Speaker 1: Nilson and then moving out from there. And that's what

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01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:34,240
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills essentially are doing when they're using a

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Speaker 1: second round pick on a player like Cody Ford. And

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Speaker 1: not to mention also an interior defender, a trench a

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Speaker 1: trench defender in what at Oliver is and so um,

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Speaker 1: you know, as much as the focus early in free

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Speaker 1: agency was on Brown and Beasley, um, I get the

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Speaker 1: feeling the draft plan was always to add a big,

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Speaker 1: haulking dude who can do a lot to protect and

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01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:56,640
Speaker 1: pave the way for Josh Allen. And that's exactly what

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Speaker 1: I see in Cody Ford. We talk a lot on

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01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:01,560
Speaker 1: our show here bred about the the AFC East and

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01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:04,640
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks in the AFC East now right with Rosen

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01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:07,640
Speaker 1: in Miami and Josh here and of course Sam Donald

1305
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:09,760
Speaker 1: on the Jets, and then of course Brady. But you've

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01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:13,280
Speaker 1: done a pretty interesting analysis of the supporting casts around

1307
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 1: some of these quarterbacks, and the AFC East doesn't really

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01:02:15,760 --> 01:02:19,160
Speaker 1: measure up for supporting casts around big name or big

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01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:22,400
Speaker 1: time quarterbacks, does it. Yeah, it's it's funny. Actually, that's

1310
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Speaker 1: one thing that's kind of when I was looking over

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Speaker 1: the list, when I completed it is I was kind

1312
01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:31,560
Speaker 1: of shocked and noticed that I not not deliberately, but

1313
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:34,439
Speaker 1: just how it shaped out is is Miami's thirty two

1314
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 1: suggets are thirty one for Donald, and the Bills and

1315
01:02:38,920 --> 01:02:42,080
Speaker 1: Patriots are also in the bottom ten. And again that

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01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 1: was with some reluctance. With Buffalo, that's like with almost

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01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:47,200
Speaker 1: an asterisk, and that I do believe they've improved greatly,

1318
01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:49,480
Speaker 1: But you know, we were looking at kind of what's

1319
01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:53,040
Speaker 1: what guys have done in the past, and the sampling

1320
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:56,680
Speaker 1: is still small for for really everybody except Cole Beasley

1321
01:02:56,720 --> 01:02:59,920
Speaker 1: in terms of top end production. I worry about Lashawn

1322
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:03,400
Speaker 1: McCoy's age and really anybody stepping forward. I don't know

1323
01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:05,840
Speaker 1: if Devin Singletary is quite ready to do it. T yelled,

1324
01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 1: and it's disappointed. Frank Gore is thirty six years old.

1325
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:10,880
Speaker 1: And so you look for. What I was looking for

1326
01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:13,240
Speaker 1: was kind of guys in their prime who are already

1327
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Speaker 1: making a major impact. And there's really nobody. But I

1328
01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:19,120
Speaker 1: do think the ceiling's high in spite of that. And

1329
01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:21,200
Speaker 1: so you know, we had them thirty first last year

1330
01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:23,720
Speaker 1: and moved them up to twenty fourth this year anyway,

1331
01:03:23,760 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 1: and and Brady's only one spot ahead with the Patriots.

1332
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:30,200
Speaker 1: Because when you look at losing Rob Gronkowski and having

1333
01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:32,760
Speaker 1: a lot of questions at the receiver position, and having

1334
01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:35,600
Speaker 1: a lot of questions at tight end, just having a

1335
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:37,800
Speaker 1: good group of stable of running backs isn't isn't a

1336
01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 1: lot to write home about in twenty nineteen. Those fans

1337
01:03:40,160 --> 01:03:42,160
Speaker 1: are going to be upset about this, though, brand I mean,

1338
01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:45,120
Speaker 1: you're moving the goalpost. For years, Bills, friger told you

1339
01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:46,720
Speaker 1: got to get the quarterback. Now they might have a

1340
01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:51,000
Speaker 1: quarterback and it's something else. Yeah, but again there's this.

1341
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:54,800
Speaker 1: There is a lot of room for the Bills to

1342
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:57,240
Speaker 1: keep building on this. I mean I wrote in that

1343
01:03:57,320 --> 01:03:59,680
Speaker 1: piece that this could be a top ten supporting cast

1344
01:04:00,160 --> 01:04:02,160
Speaker 1: by the end of the year, if a player like

1345
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:04,720
Speaker 1: single Parry steps up, like what should easily happen, right,

1346
01:04:04,760 --> 01:04:06,960
Speaker 1: we get this those day two running backs all the

1347
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:10,120
Speaker 1: time who suddenly become stars right off the bat, and

1348
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:12,760
Speaker 1: so that's that's within the wheelhouse. I'm a player like

1349
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:15,800
Speaker 1: Devin Singletarry, so maybe it's him, or maybe it's Croft

1350
01:04:15,880 --> 01:04:18,160
Speaker 1: who again could could could you know if he can

1351
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:20,160
Speaker 1: put together what he did two years ago in Cincinnati,

1352
01:04:20,560 --> 01:04:23,560
Speaker 1: or if if Josh Allen can find a way to

1353
01:04:23,720 --> 01:04:28,280
Speaker 1: just beat defensive backs with Brown and Foster all year long.

1354
01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:30,160
Speaker 1: I mean, this could be a lot of fun. There's

1355
01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:33,960
Speaker 1: a high steeling and the floor is no longer deeper.

1356
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:35,960
Speaker 1: I don't think the bottom ten and so it's just

1357
01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:37,920
Speaker 1: kind of how it shaped out. It's it's it's I

1358
01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:41,640
Speaker 1: don't think representative of the potential that there is in Buffalo. Yeah,

1359
01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:44,160
Speaker 1: And it's interesting when you talk about supporting cast. We've

1360
01:04:44,200 --> 01:04:47,600
Speaker 1: seen other teams around the particularly in the AFC East,

1361
01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:52,080
Speaker 1: with windows open and windows shut. The Steelers, Levion Bell,

1362
01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:55,840
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown, It would you get the perception from outside

1363
01:04:55,840 --> 01:04:58,520
Speaker 1: looking in their windows closing. The Jaguars had a wide

1364
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:01,480
Speaker 1: open window two years ago, and now they're trying to

1365
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:04,600
Speaker 1: keep it open by getting Nick Foles in. The Packers

1366
01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:07,200
Speaker 1: maybe bouncing back, but they've got a new head coach

1367
01:05:07,240 --> 01:05:08,760
Speaker 1: who knows how that's going to go. And of course

1368
01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:12,720
Speaker 1: the Saints who got really non called out of the

1369
01:05:12,720 --> 01:05:16,080
Speaker 1: Super Bowl last year. Who do you We'll talk about

1370
01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:19,120
Speaker 1: those teams, Steelers, Jaguars, Packers, maybe the Saints about their

1371
01:05:19,160 --> 01:05:23,320
Speaker 1: windows and where they stand. Well, I mean, I guess

1372
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Speaker 1: that key is is that if you're Green Bay and

1373
01:05:25,040 --> 01:05:28,160
Speaker 1: you're New Orleans, you've got you future Hall of Fame

1374
01:05:28,240 --> 01:05:30,520
Speaker 1: quarter I mean, Ben Roethlisberger is the same thing. But

1375
01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:33,680
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger I don't think is on the verge of

1376
01:05:33,720 --> 01:05:36,840
Speaker 1: like an MVP caliber season. You don't get that impression

1377
01:05:36,840 --> 01:05:40,040
Speaker 1: when you lose Antonio Brown and levey On Bell and

1378
01:05:40,120 --> 01:05:41,880
Speaker 1: so yeah, the Steelers feel like they are a team

1379
01:05:41,880 --> 01:05:44,000
Speaker 1: that's on the decline and Juju Smith Schuster has the

1380
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:46,840
Speaker 1: ability to completely change that outlook pretty quickly if he's

1381
01:05:46,880 --> 01:05:49,800
Speaker 1: dominant in his third season, which he has that ability.

1382
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:53,240
Speaker 1: But Aaron Rodgers is Aaron Rodgers, and you can never

1383
01:05:53,320 --> 01:05:55,280
Speaker 1: rule out Green Bay so long as that's the case.

1384
01:05:55,320 --> 01:05:57,680
Speaker 1: I think the problem there more so was obviously Mike

1385
01:05:57,760 --> 01:06:01,160
Speaker 1: McCarthy and what had become a staleoff defensive system. That

1386
01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:04,320
Speaker 1: obviously changes under Matt Lafleur. And so as much as

1387
01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:06,840
Speaker 1: there's still some depth questions at the receiver position there,

1388
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:09,640
Speaker 1: as long as Rogers is healthy and Lafleur is being

1389
01:06:09,680 --> 01:06:12,040
Speaker 1: a little bit more creative, you get the feeling the

1390
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:13,640
Speaker 1: Packers are still going to be a really good team

1391
01:06:13,640 --> 01:06:16,640
Speaker 1: this year. The Jaguars do scare me. I mean, they've

1392
01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:20,160
Speaker 1: got a lot of defensive talent, but Nick Foles comes in,

1393
01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:22,440
Speaker 1: He's never sustained it in his career. He's had a

1394
01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:24,200
Speaker 1: few big moments, but he had a heck of a

1395
01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:26,840
Speaker 1: lot more support in Philadelphia. The receiving corps is not

1396
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:30,240
Speaker 1: looking good. Leonard Fournette has not lived up to expectations,

1397
01:06:30,280 --> 01:06:33,360
Speaker 1: The offensive line is not particularly strong, and so I

1398
01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:35,479
Speaker 1: don't know if just having a great defense, a great

1399
01:06:35,520 --> 01:06:39,439
Speaker 1: but somewhat fading defense also is enough for this Jaguars team.

1400
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:42,400
Speaker 1: And that that more than any window there. There's right

1401
01:06:42,400 --> 01:06:44,640
Speaker 1: now projected to be thirty four million dollars over the

1402
01:06:44,680 --> 01:06:47,840
Speaker 1: salary cap entering the twenty twenty offseason. I mean that

1403
01:06:47,840 --> 01:06:49,800
Speaker 1: that window might only have a year or two left

1404
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:52,040
Speaker 1: before it's shut. Hey, you know what I want to

1405
01:06:52,040 --> 01:06:54,040
Speaker 1: ask you about a post that your hand. I'm Bleacher

1406
01:06:54,040 --> 01:07:00,160
Speaker 1: Report about the words, Oh, the players. I love this

1407
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:01,520
Speaker 1: kind of thing. The players who. You know, we're in

1408
01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:04,080
Speaker 1: the hype season now right, everybody's being hyped up and

1409
01:07:04,040 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 1: you've got a list of players who you project, you

1410
01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:09,280
Speaker 1: forecast will not live up to the hype. Can you

1411
01:07:09,280 --> 01:07:10,720
Speaker 1: talk about that and how you came up with that

1412
01:07:10,760 --> 01:07:13,840
Speaker 1: in those names? Yeah, I mean we were looking we're

1413
01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:17,520
Speaker 1: looking at to an extent. You know, I love Patrick Mahomes.

1414
01:07:17,520 --> 01:07:19,040
Speaker 1: He's the first guy on the list, but I love him.

1415
01:07:19,320 --> 01:07:22,080
Speaker 1: But you got to look at potential regression too. I mean,

1416
01:07:22,560 --> 01:07:25,200
Speaker 1: the numbers were off the charts. It was his first

1417
01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:27,680
Speaker 1: year as a starter. He snuck up on the league

1418
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:30,160
Speaker 1: a little bit. You know, he's still the odds on

1419
01:07:30,240 --> 01:07:34,040
Speaker 1: favorite to win the MVP again. But regression makes a

1420
01:07:34,040 --> 01:07:37,520
Speaker 1: lot of sense, especially when you consider the situation with

1421
01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:39,400
Speaker 1: you know, first of all, he doesn't have Cream Hunt,

1422
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:42,000
Speaker 1: who he started last season with. He obviously we don't

1423
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:44,560
Speaker 1: know what the deal is with Tyreek Hill, and so

1424
01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:47,600
Speaker 1: the support could could could also fall to a little bit.

1425
01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:49,880
Speaker 1: I think the hype is just through the roof for

1426
01:07:50,360 --> 01:07:52,640
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, a guy who started only one season in

1427
01:07:52,720 --> 01:07:55,520
Speaker 1: college who doesn't really have any elite receivers at least

1428
01:07:55,520 --> 01:07:58,360
Speaker 1: in their prime. Larry Fitzgerald's on one side, all the

1429
01:07:58,400 --> 01:08:01,240
Speaker 1: other guys are short around the other side, and another

1430
01:08:01,240 --> 01:08:03,080
Speaker 1: gay guys throughout there. You got to watch for guys

1431
01:08:03,080 --> 01:08:06,400
Speaker 1: like DFAs who really really excel in one season, especially

1432
01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:09,360
Speaker 1: at the running back position. Philip Lindsay was was it

1433
01:08:09,440 --> 01:08:11,440
Speaker 1: was a player here I was watching to possibly come

1434
01:08:11,480 --> 01:08:13,760
Speaker 1: back to Earth. They used an early draft pick on

1435
01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:16,120
Speaker 1: Royce Freeman last year. They're probably gonna want to mix

1436
01:08:16,160 --> 01:08:18,519
Speaker 1: it up piece coming off an injury. So all running

1437
01:08:18,560 --> 01:08:20,439
Speaker 1: backs always scare me. Maybe On Bell was on the

1438
01:08:20,479 --> 01:08:22,439
Speaker 1: list as well, because he took last year off and

1439
01:08:22,479 --> 01:08:24,120
Speaker 1: I don't know what the heck to expect from a

1440
01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:26,920
Speaker 1: running back who does that. And so you're looking for

1441
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:30,880
Speaker 1: guys who either the law of averages says they're likely

1442
01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:34,320
Speaker 1: to regress, or guys who just at their positions, especially

1443
01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:38,040
Speaker 1: running back, just might be running out of gas. Hey, Brad,

1444
01:08:38,040 --> 01:08:40,720
Speaker 1: before let you go, congratulations on the Raptors. I was

1445
01:08:40,760 --> 01:08:43,599
Speaker 1: told that you were actually at the victory celebration yesterday.

1446
01:08:43,640 --> 01:08:46,800
Speaker 1: In Toronto. Uh yeah, I braved it. It was it

1447
01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:49,200
Speaker 1: was aggressive, but it was a lot of fun. And hey,

1448
01:08:49,240 --> 01:08:51,240
Speaker 1: these things are as we know, but as Buffalo and

1449
01:08:51,280 --> 01:08:53,240
Speaker 1: Toronto people, we know these things are very rare, so

1450
01:08:53,280 --> 01:08:54,920
Speaker 1: you got to take advantage of them when they happened.

1451
01:08:55,360 --> 01:08:58,200
Speaker 1: How long you've been a Raptors fan since day one?

1452
01:08:58,320 --> 01:09:01,560
Speaker 1: I was? I was. I was grade school and I was.

1453
01:09:01,840 --> 01:09:03,720
Speaker 1: I went to games at the SkyDome back when they

1454
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:06,640
Speaker 1: were playing in a beastball stadium. So it's nice for me.

1455
01:09:06,680 --> 01:09:08,960
Speaker 1: It's first championship I've had for a team I've shared

1456
01:09:08,960 --> 01:09:11,280
Speaker 1: for since the Haves won the Stanley Cup in ninety three.

1457
01:09:11,400 --> 01:09:13,320
Speaker 1: So and I was again, I was in grade school.

1458
01:09:13,360 --> 01:09:15,080
Speaker 1: So I'm taking advantage of it because it might be

1459
01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:18,679
Speaker 1: another twenty six plus years and you never know. Congratulations Bred,

1460
01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:21,800
Speaker 1: thanks for being on with us today. We appreciate it. Thanks, guys, Hope,

1461
01:09:21,800 --> 01:09:25,599
Speaker 1: please talk so okay. Brad Daniel from Bleacher Report, national

1462
01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:29,000
Speaker 1: NFL writer contributes to the Comeback member the Pro Football

1463
01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:31,000
Speaker 1: Writers of America a lot of good stuff that he's written,

1464
01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:33,360
Speaker 1: including the players who won't live up to the hype.

1465
01:09:33,400 --> 01:09:36,400
Speaker 1: I love that topic. Had Odell Beckham on there and

1466
01:09:36,439 --> 01:09:41,240
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown, Yes, Levion Bell, and he had Mahomes, who

1467
01:09:41,320 --> 01:09:43,080
Speaker 1: I think we're all in agreement. We all we've talked

1468
01:09:43,080 --> 01:09:45,759
Speaker 1: about this on the show. Can he get fifty touchdown passes? Again?

1469
01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:49,360
Speaker 1: Probably not? Probably not Patrick Mahomes, But he's still gonna

1470
01:09:49,360 --> 01:09:50,479
Speaker 1: be good. He's still gonna be one of the best

1471
01:09:50,560 --> 01:09:52,639
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the game. Right Well you think about it too.

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Speaker 1: That's his options are still Travis Kelsey and then they've

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Speaker 1: still got Sammy Watkins on that squad as well. So

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Speaker 1: I got some guys with some ability and some and

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Speaker 1: some proven at least some proven production, certainly experience, but

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01:10:08,560 --> 01:10:10,679
Speaker 1: they don't have Tyreek Hill, they don't have Kareem Hunt,

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01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:14,679
Speaker 1: and those are the top two guys on their offense.

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01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:17,000
Speaker 1: So that's that's kind of hurt him. It'll be interesting

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Speaker 1: to see if they can, if they can keep it going.

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01:10:19,960 --> 01:10:22,760
Speaker 1: That's but no fifty touchdowns and what do you have,

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01:10:22,840 --> 01:10:26,160
Speaker 1: like ten interceptions? Not even I mean, it was unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: So he was unlike Brad Ganyo said, he was off

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01:10:31,280 --> 01:10:33,320
Speaker 1: the charts last year. So even if he comes back

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01:10:33,400 --> 01:10:35,880
Speaker 1: on the charts and just at the top of him,

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01:10:35,880 --> 01:10:38,080
Speaker 1: he's still going to be a really good, good player,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think he's gonna drop off a cliff

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01:10:40,040 --> 01:10:42,280
Speaker 1: by any strategy either. All Right, we'll talk more about

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Speaker 1: the Bills when we return on the topic we started

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Speaker 1: the day with. I think it still has some legs.

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Speaker 1: Who will be the surprise breakout player for the Bills

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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. Can we take a look at our

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01:10:50,920 --> 01:10:53,240
Speaker 1: Twitter poll? I think we should that might help. On Twitter,

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01:10:53,280 --> 01:10:55,759
Speaker 1: we asked this question, who will be the surprise breakout

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Speaker 1: player for the Bills this upcoming year? We got about

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Speaker 1: eight hundred and seventy votes in so far, and it's close.

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Speaker 1: Thirty three percent say the running back Devin Singletary, the rookie,

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01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:07,080
Speaker 1: thirty one percent say wide receiver is a Jones, twenty

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Speaker 1: percent say defensive end Trent Murphy, fifteen percent have somebody

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Speaker 1: else in mind. Let's hear what you have in mind.

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Speaker 1: Give us a call eight h three oh five fifty

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Speaker 1: and toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty when we return. More from the tweet sheet,

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01:11:20,320 --> 01:11:22,439
Speaker 1: maybe a couple of phone calls two of the surprise

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Speaker 1: breakout player for the Bills in twenty nineteen. When we

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Speaker 1: return One Bill's Live Presented by Kalida Help from One

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Speaker 1: Bills Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio one goes live

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. Hello there, John Murphy, Steve task

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01:11:44,160 --> 01:11:47,559
Speaker 1: here Halfway's home here on this Tuesday afternoon and happy

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Speaker 1: to heavy with us. Our thanks again to Brad Gania

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Speaker 1: for joining us talking about variety of NFL topics. Oliver

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01:11:52,720 --> 01:11:54,479
Speaker 1: Our Luck's going to be with us at two o'clock today,

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01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:57,519
Speaker 1: former NFL quarterback. Obviously his son is Andrew Luck, but

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01:11:57,560 --> 01:12:00,760
Speaker 1: we're talking mostly about the x FL. I want to

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01:12:00,760 --> 01:12:02,559
Speaker 1: ask him and we will ask him Zeeve, about what

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01:12:02,760 --> 01:12:06,800
Speaker 1: will make the XFL work where the Alliance did not? Yeah, right,

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01:12:06,840 --> 01:12:09,320
Speaker 1: the Alliance. You know what, I didn't even finish the season.

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01:12:09,320 --> 01:12:10,839
Speaker 1: I think it has something to do with the ownership.

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01:12:10,840 --> 01:12:13,599
Speaker 1: And I want to hear what, Olivers. Maybe I don't

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01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:15,840
Speaker 1: think that's what it has to do with. No, I

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01:12:15,920 --> 01:12:17,320
Speaker 1: don't you know what I think it has to do

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01:12:17,360 --> 01:12:19,599
Speaker 1: with you know, think about think about it. The NFL

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01:12:19,760 --> 01:12:24,120
Speaker 1: has shows like this one. It has a whole network

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01:12:24,720 --> 01:12:28,840
Speaker 1: like ESPN, who's got program after program dedicated to it.

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01:12:29,880 --> 01:12:34,120
Speaker 1: All three networks are clamoring for their product. You've got

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01:12:34,120 --> 01:12:38,200
Speaker 1: a website, you've got all thirty two teams. You've got,

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01:12:38,240 --> 01:12:41,240
Speaker 1: you know, everything everybody clamors for its attention. It's got

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01:12:41,240 --> 01:12:45,080
Speaker 1: the Draft, the Combine, the Senior Bowl, the all this

1528
01:12:45,280 --> 01:12:49,240
Speaker 1: offseason stuff that generates a mini camps, all this stuff.

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01:12:50,200 --> 01:12:55,799
Speaker 1: The NFL gets a ton of free promotion. I mean everyone,

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01:12:55,840 --> 01:12:58,120
Speaker 1: We're talking about it all all day, every and all

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01:12:58,160 --> 01:13:02,000
Speaker 1: the shows that aren't even about football are talking about

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01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:05,240
Speaker 1: it all the time during the football season. It's football football,

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01:13:05,240 --> 01:13:10,760
Speaker 1: It's all about it. The AAF you heard none of that.

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01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:14,559
Speaker 1: You didn't get one single ounce of free publicity. Didn't

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01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:17,679
Speaker 1: have anybody keeping the sport that game on your mind

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01:13:17,760 --> 01:13:20,360
Speaker 1: throughout the week so you're remembered to actually tune in

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01:13:20,400 --> 01:13:24,160
Speaker 1: and watch it. It didn't generate the interest to drive

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01:13:24,320 --> 01:13:28,559
Speaker 1: enough eyes toward the product to actually get enough, you know,

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01:13:28,680 --> 01:13:30,760
Speaker 1: to have the income like the NFL does. And maybe

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01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:33,000
Speaker 1: you're talking about a game that they're gonna have to

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01:13:33,080 --> 01:13:36,200
Speaker 1: drive their income from other sources, you know, like ticket sales.

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01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:38,439
Speaker 1: Back in the day, that's what did it for the NFL.

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01:13:38,479 --> 01:13:41,920
Speaker 1: They had to sell tickets. Now tickets are secondary to

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01:13:41,960 --> 01:13:44,519
Speaker 1: the TV market, and I think if you're gonna make it,

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01:13:44,880 --> 01:13:46,760
Speaker 1: that's kind of what you have to do right, you

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01:13:46,840 --> 01:13:49,920
Speaker 1: have to generate enough income, and the af couldn't do that.

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01:13:50,120 --> 01:13:53,200
Speaker 1: The interesting thing to me about the XFL, Oliver Luck,

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01:13:53,200 --> 01:13:54,600
Speaker 1: we'll talk about it a too, and we'll ask them

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01:13:54,600 --> 01:13:57,240
Speaker 1: about this is they are set up not to really

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01:13:57,240 --> 01:14:00,680
Speaker 1: get any television revenue, no rights to the XFL from

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01:14:00,760 --> 01:14:03,160
Speaker 1: networks for the first couple of years. They have the

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01:14:03,160 --> 01:14:05,719
Speaker 1: wrestling guy who was at Vince McMahon is the owner,

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01:14:06,320 --> 01:14:08,719
Speaker 1: and he's prepared to take his losses, take his lump

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01:14:08,720 --> 01:14:10,760
Speaker 1: for a couple of years, and then eventually kind of

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01:14:10,760 --> 01:14:13,320
Speaker 1: grow a television market for it. But Oliver Luck will

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01:14:13,360 --> 01:14:15,920
Speaker 1: have a sense of this. And I also I think

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01:14:15,960 --> 01:14:19,639
Speaker 1: the upheaval right the Alliance or American Football League found

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01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:22,559
Speaker 1: that the new owner buyer like two or three weeks

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01:14:22,560 --> 01:14:24,160
Speaker 1: into it, and then that guy pulled the rug. I

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01:14:24,200 --> 01:14:27,479
Speaker 1: just think the ownership, and it's funny because Luck hinted

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01:14:27,560 --> 01:14:29,240
Speaker 1: at it when we talked to him at the Super Bowl.

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01:14:29,600 --> 01:14:31,920
Speaker 1: The ownership under Vince McMahan is a lot more stable

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01:14:31,960 --> 01:14:34,800
Speaker 1: in the XFL than it was in the Alliance. I think, well,

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01:14:34,800 --> 01:14:36,320
Speaker 1: when he got one difference, when he got one guy

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01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:39,880
Speaker 1: who owns the entire league, that makes it pretty stable. Anyway,

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01:14:40,040 --> 01:14:42,040
Speaker 1: or as stable as that guy is is willing to be.

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01:14:42,200 --> 01:14:46,760
Speaker 1: And I listen, when you start chucking nine digits down

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01:14:46,800 --> 01:14:50,719
Speaker 1: the tubes, I don't think that becomes unstable pretty quick.

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01:14:50,800 --> 01:14:52,960
Speaker 1: I agree. Right, we'll talk to Oliver Luck about it.

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01:14:52,960 --> 01:14:55,040
Speaker 1: At two o'clock. He'll join us on the line talking

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01:14:55,080 --> 01:14:56,880
Speaker 1: about the Bills with you. We'd love to hear from

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01:14:56,880 --> 01:14:59,679
Speaker 1: your phone lines open eight oh three five fifty toll

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01:14:59,720 --> 01:15:03,800
Speaker 1: free eight eight five two fifty. Who will be the

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01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:06,680
Speaker 1: breakout player for the Bills the surprise breakout player for

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01:15:06,720 --> 01:15:09,320
Speaker 1: the Bills in twenty nineteen. A couple of choices up

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01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:13,400
Speaker 1: on our Twitter poll, including Za Jones, Trent Murphy, Devin Singletary.

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01:15:13,439 --> 01:15:15,360
Speaker 1: Maybe you got a better idea, give us a call

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01:15:15,640 --> 01:15:17,760
Speaker 1: sending a tweet on the phone lines. Let's go to

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01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:24,400
Speaker 1: Izzy in North Carolina. Hello Iszy, Welcome to the show. Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: say no, I think the Bills the running game. It's

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01:15:29,080 --> 01:15:34,559
Speaker 1: gonna be very, very strong, And I think Singletary's gonna

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01:15:34,600 --> 01:15:37,920
Speaker 1: benefit from that because I think the first half this

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01:15:38,080 --> 01:15:42,679
Speaker 1: season the Bills are gonna pound the line, pound the line,

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01:15:42,680 --> 01:15:49,400
Speaker 1: pound the line down. That's the worst we've ever done

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01:15:49,439 --> 01:15:54,720
Speaker 1: on third down in one. You know, if Katie got

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01:15:54,800 --> 01:15:59,880
Speaker 1: five hundred yards and twenty five first sounds, would get

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01:16:03,840 --> 01:16:07,240
Speaker 1: um Okay, I'm trying to think I would apply to

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01:16:07,479 --> 01:16:13,080
Speaker 1: Do you have a surprise breakout player? Is he or Singletary? Okay, yeah,

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01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:16,760
Speaker 1: he started with that, that's right. Yeah, yeah, because you

1590
01:16:16,800 --> 01:16:20,639
Speaker 1: know it's gonna be he. He could get that one

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01:16:20,760 --> 01:16:27,400
Speaker 1: yard that we need with McCoy either blocking or Frank

1592
01:16:27,479 --> 01:16:30,880
Speaker 1: Gored blocking. I mean, it's the whole thing is set

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01:16:30,960 --> 01:16:35,960
Speaker 1: up to be a tough team, you know, for the

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01:16:36,040 --> 01:16:38,680
Speaker 1: first part of the season. Okay, yeah, I'll tell you

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01:16:38,720 --> 01:16:41,479
Speaker 1: what is he Listen, Frank Gordon and Lashawn McCoy are

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01:16:41,520 --> 01:16:43,320
Speaker 1: not going to block in the run game, period, not

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01:16:43,400 --> 01:16:46,240
Speaker 1: and certainly not for Devin Singletary. And I don't know

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01:16:46,280 --> 01:16:49,760
Speaker 1: how you think Devin Singletary is this savior who's gonna

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01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:52,120
Speaker 1: get that extra yard. Seems how none of us have

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01:16:52,160 --> 01:16:54,400
Speaker 1: ever seen him play at this level. I get it.

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01:16:54,600 --> 01:16:57,719
Speaker 1: There's no question their running games should be vastly improved

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01:16:57,760 --> 01:17:01,320
Speaker 1: with a vastly improved offensive line, and we all anticipate

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01:17:01,400 --> 01:17:04,880
Speaker 1: that'll be the case, and perhaps it will. But I'll

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01:17:04,880 --> 01:17:07,559
Speaker 1: tell you this before it gets to Devin Singletary. Frank

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01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:10,719
Speaker 1: Gore and Lashan McCoury are going to have to prove

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01:17:10,760 --> 01:17:13,320
Speaker 1: that they cannot get it done, and then it'll fall

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01:17:13,360 --> 01:17:16,960
Speaker 1: to t J. Yeldon and Devin Singletary. If Devin Singletary

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Speaker 1: takes advantage of all that and he is the breakout here,

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01:17:19,439 --> 01:17:22,080
Speaker 1: I can see it happening. But there's a there's a

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01:17:22,120 --> 01:17:24,439
Speaker 1: long wait list to get in the Bill's backfield right now.

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01:17:25,439 --> 01:17:27,760
Speaker 1: Question who will be the surprise breakout player for the

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Speaker 1: Bills in twenty nineteen. Let's go to the tweet sheet

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01:17:29,760 --> 01:17:32,679
Speaker 1: brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official movers

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01:17:32,680 --> 01:17:35,280
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills from Bryan Bryan says, i'mn't saying

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01:17:35,320 --> 01:17:37,840
Speaker 1: it for months. A healthy Trent Murphy will provide a

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01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:40,880
Speaker 1: well needed and rush opposite Jerry Hughes. Now that Trent

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01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:43,240
Speaker 1: Murphy is finally one hundred percent, he can now make

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01:17:43,240 --> 01:17:46,679
Speaker 1: a big impact on the edge, rotating with Shack Lawson. Boom.

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01:17:46,760 --> 01:17:49,160
Speaker 1: That's my vote, Trent Murphy. It's a great vote. Under

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01:17:49,200 --> 01:17:52,200
Speaker 1: the healthy rotation on the defensive line. Yes, helping out

1621
01:17:52,800 --> 01:17:56,040
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes on the other side and rotating with Lawson.

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01:17:56,080 --> 01:17:57,400
Speaker 1: I think the two of them will get snaps and

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01:17:57,479 --> 01:17:59,760
Speaker 1: I see it too simplest better Murph, And we've got

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01:17:59,760 --> 01:18:02,320
Speaker 1: all the scenarios for how things are going to transpire

1625
01:18:02,360 --> 01:18:05,000
Speaker 1: for Devin Singletary to emerge out of this, you know

1626
01:18:05,040 --> 01:18:08,679
Speaker 1: this four backfield, four guys in the backfield, Trent Murphy.

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01:18:08,680 --> 01:18:11,400
Speaker 1: The scenario is very simple. He's one hundred percent now

1628
01:18:11,520 --> 01:18:14,640
Speaker 1: feels better and he's gonna play better. And there you go.

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01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:16,920
Speaker 1: That's as far as you need to go. That's the logic,

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01:18:16,960 --> 01:18:20,960
Speaker 1: and that tends to happen more often than everything else,

1631
01:18:20,960 --> 01:18:23,439
Speaker 1: all the wild scenarios that we can come up with,

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01:18:23,479 --> 01:18:26,680
Speaker 1: and all the injuries or lack of production from the

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01:18:26,680 --> 01:18:30,120
Speaker 1: other players, that just makes more sense to me that listen,

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01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:33,320
Speaker 1: Trent Murphy's just healthier man, he feels better and he's

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01:18:33,320 --> 01:18:35,320
Speaker 1: playing better because of it. They've got another one from

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01:18:35,400 --> 01:18:37,000
Speaker 1: Jack from the tweet sheet who will be a surprise

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01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:40,439
Speaker 1: breakout player for the Bills in twenty nineteen. From Jack,

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01:18:41,080 --> 01:18:43,479
Speaker 1: I don't think it's much of a surprise, but I

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01:18:43,520 --> 01:18:45,920
Speaker 1: picked Zay to have a big year. Many Bills receivers

1640
01:18:46,120 --> 01:18:51,840
Speaker 1: have broken out in year three, Molds, Price, Stevie, even Reid,

1641
01:18:51,920 --> 01:18:54,599
Speaker 1: Andre Reid took a little time Zay started to come

1642
01:18:54,600 --> 01:18:56,519
Speaker 1: on in the second half last year and showed nice

1643
01:18:56,560 --> 01:19:00,360
Speaker 1: chemistry with Josh. He had seven t ds and eighteen

1644
01:19:00,439 --> 01:19:02,640
Speaker 1: and he will build the pon that's from Jack and

1645
01:19:02,960 --> 01:19:05,160
Speaker 1: you can see that happening, and he's right. It does

1646
01:19:05,200 --> 01:19:08,160
Speaker 1: take some time for wide receivers to get ready to

1647
01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:12,519
Speaker 1: play and play well because it is a it's a

1648
01:19:12,560 --> 01:19:16,000
Speaker 1: position where you do need some physical abilities. So it's

1649
01:19:16,080 --> 01:19:17,920
Speaker 1: you know, if you can find those guys there, you

1650
01:19:17,960 --> 01:19:19,559
Speaker 1: have it. And then they also need a guy who

1651
01:19:19,600 --> 01:19:21,240
Speaker 1: can pull the trigger and get it to him on

1652
01:19:21,240 --> 01:19:24,120
Speaker 1: a consistent basis once they learn how to get open.

1653
01:19:24,680 --> 01:19:27,640
Speaker 1: So if all of those things come together, which sometimes

1654
01:19:27,640 --> 01:19:29,840
Speaker 1: takes two or three years, then you've got a guy

1655
01:19:29,840 --> 01:19:32,040
Speaker 1: that turns into a productive player. And this could be

1656
01:19:32,080 --> 01:19:35,280
Speaker 1: that year for Za Jones. Jack's tweet got me thinking

1657
01:19:35,320 --> 01:19:37,599
Speaker 1: about and he said, even Reid took a little time.

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01:19:37,840 --> 01:19:40,160
Speaker 1: So I didn't have these numbers in my fingertips. I

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01:19:40,200 --> 01:19:43,679
Speaker 1: looked it up. That's acceptable, right, I don't know, Yeah,

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01:19:43,680 --> 01:19:44,880
Speaker 1: he took a little time. I don't know if he

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01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:47,880
Speaker 1: exploded in year three. Read Andrea only played twelve games

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01:19:47,880 --> 01:19:50,200
Speaker 1: in his third year, but he caught forty eight passes

1663
01:19:50,240 --> 01:19:53,360
Speaker 1: first year fifty three fifty seven about four or five

1664
01:19:53,439 --> 01:19:56,080
Speaker 1: six seven touchdowns. And then in his fourth year, Andrea

1665
01:19:56,160 --> 01:19:59,080
Speaker 1: played fifteen games, caught seventy one. Then eighty eight. It

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01:19:59,200 --> 01:20:01,800
Speaker 1: was almost like eighty eight the year the Thurman happened

1667
01:20:01,800 --> 01:20:04,000
Speaker 1: to show up. Either way, when they had a running threat,

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01:20:04,240 --> 01:20:06,840
Speaker 1: things opened up for Andre. He really had like a

1669
01:20:06,920 --> 01:20:09,400
Speaker 1: so he never can jump from his first three years

1670
01:20:09,400 --> 01:20:13,920
Speaker 1: when he averaged about fifty fifty two fifty three catches

1671
01:20:13,960 --> 01:20:15,920
Speaker 1: a year to his fourth year when he had seventy one.

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01:20:16,720 --> 01:20:19,320
Speaker 1: And look, I've said this, they three catches was a

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01:20:19,360 --> 01:20:21,320
Speaker 1: lot in eighty five. You're right, you know you're right,

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01:20:21,400 --> 01:20:23,120
Speaker 1: seventy one as a whole lot, right, and then he

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01:20:23,160 --> 01:20:25,240
Speaker 1: won seventy one, eighty eight, seventy one anyway, and the

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01:20:25,240 --> 01:20:27,200
Speaker 1: whole team got better in eighty eight, right. They went

1677
01:20:27,240 --> 01:20:30,040
Speaker 1: from a from a five and eleven team or six

1678
01:20:30,120 --> 01:20:33,120
Speaker 1: and ten team to a twelve and four team over

1679
01:20:33,160 --> 01:20:36,280
Speaker 1: and over one off season. And that's that's a big change.

1680
01:20:36,320 --> 01:20:37,840
Speaker 1: I've said this on the show. I've said it to

1681
01:20:37,840 --> 01:20:39,519
Speaker 1: you a lot, and you were there, you witnessed it

1682
01:20:40,160 --> 01:20:42,720
Speaker 1: those years Andrea's first few years. Every year when they

1683
01:20:42,760 --> 01:20:45,479
Speaker 1: come when you'd come back to training camp. I would

1684
01:20:45,680 --> 01:20:48,080
Speaker 1: early preseason game, I'd say to my partner Van Miller,

1685
01:20:48,360 --> 01:20:50,160
Speaker 1: Andre reads better than he was a year ago. And

1686
01:20:50,200 --> 01:20:52,599
Speaker 1: it was like that for four straight years. Every year

1687
01:20:52,680 --> 01:20:55,280
Speaker 1: he got better, he got bigger, he got stronger, he

1688
01:20:55,360 --> 01:20:58,920
Speaker 1: just got better. And the guy on Twitter there is right,

1689
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:01,920
Speaker 1: Jack is right. It took him a little while. Every

1690
01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:04,240
Speaker 1: year he got better. Every year he got more productive.

1691
01:21:04,280 --> 01:21:06,880
Speaker 1: And that was it was really I mean, it sounds silly,

1692
01:21:06,880 --> 01:21:08,519
Speaker 1: but it was like a joy to see when you know,

1693
01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:10,720
Speaker 1: when you got a sense after a couple of years, while,

1694
01:21:10,800 --> 01:21:12,920
Speaker 1: can this guy make the jump in year three? Yes,

1695
01:21:13,000 --> 01:21:14,519
Speaker 1: he did. He did it again in year four. I

1696
01:21:14,560 --> 01:21:16,120
Speaker 1: mean I was campaigning for him to be a Pro

1697
01:21:16,160 --> 01:21:18,400
Speaker 1: Bowl player by his third and fourth year because you

1698
01:21:18,439 --> 01:21:21,439
Speaker 1: could see how where that was tracking. It'd be great

1699
01:21:21,479 --> 01:21:23,280
Speaker 1: to see, you know, Zay follow that kind of he

1700
01:21:23,320 --> 01:21:25,360
Speaker 1: always went into the offseason was something he was gonna

1701
01:21:25,400 --> 01:21:27,400
Speaker 1: work on. In year one, he says, I gotta run

1702
01:21:27,479 --> 01:21:29,439
Speaker 1: better routes. So he comes back and he's running much

1703
01:21:29,520 --> 01:21:31,760
Speaker 1: better routes. Year two, he gays, I got to catch

1704
01:21:31,800 --> 01:21:33,720
Speaker 1: more ball. I can't drop his mini ball. He come back,

1705
01:21:33,760 --> 01:21:36,320
Speaker 1: he worked on his hands, so he ran routes better,

1706
01:21:36,360 --> 01:21:38,800
Speaker 1: and he had good hands. In the third year, and

1707
01:21:38,800 --> 01:21:40,800
Speaker 1: he wanted to he wanted to work out. He want

1708
01:21:40,800 --> 01:21:42,639
Speaker 1: to work on his release. He had to release better.

1709
01:21:42,680 --> 01:21:44,559
Speaker 1: So he worked on his release and getting clear at

1710
01:21:44,560 --> 01:21:46,760
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. So by then he's got a

1711
01:21:46,760 --> 01:21:48,880
Speaker 1: great release on the line of scrimmage. He's catching everything

1712
01:21:48,880 --> 01:21:51,559
Speaker 1: that's thrown to him, and he's running great routes. Year four,

1713
01:21:51,840 --> 01:21:54,280
Speaker 1: it was yack. He wanted yards after catch. He wanted

1714
01:21:54,280 --> 01:21:55,840
Speaker 1: to catch the ball and get up the field and

1715
01:21:55,880 --> 01:21:58,519
Speaker 1: get away and get some separation. So all these things

1716
01:21:58,520 --> 01:22:01,080
Speaker 1: and every year he did that. And by the year four,

1717
01:22:01,479 --> 01:22:03,960
Speaker 1: year five, and he's still working on stuff. The guys,

1718
01:22:04,120 --> 01:22:05,960
Speaker 1: you know, you're having thing. Um, I want to tie

1719
01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:08,000
Speaker 1: my shoes better, and I'm just like you're running out

1720
01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:10,640
Speaker 1: of things to be great at um. He you know,

1721
01:22:10,640 --> 01:22:13,600
Speaker 1: he did get bigger and stronger. He was the prototypical

1722
01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:17,160
Speaker 1: slot receiver because he was above six feet wade two

1723
01:22:17,240 --> 01:22:19,760
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen pounds, was built like a running but

1724
01:22:19,840 --> 01:22:23,840
Speaker 1: he's a thick guy, and he was strong. Oh my god,

1725
01:22:23,880 --> 01:22:26,040
Speaker 1: he was strong with the ball in his hands. Guys

1726
01:22:26,080 --> 01:22:29,240
Speaker 1: weren't pulling him down one handed man. He was He

1727
01:22:29,320 --> 01:22:32,280
Speaker 1: was the guy and that, and it happened one step

1728
01:22:32,320 --> 01:22:34,040
Speaker 1: at a time, Like he said, you know, after three

1729
01:22:34,120 --> 01:22:37,280
Speaker 1: or four years, you know, he starts polishing rather than

1730
01:22:37,320 --> 01:22:39,720
Speaker 1: working on his game. And that was that was the

1731
01:22:39,800 --> 01:22:41,360
Speaker 1: year they went twelve and four and got to the

1732
01:22:41,439 --> 01:22:44,560
Speaker 1: championship game. You're around then playing then teammated his And

1733
01:22:44,720 --> 01:22:47,559
Speaker 1: I say this with utmost respect, I never got the

1734
01:22:47,560 --> 01:22:51,759
Speaker 1: sense that Andre like had a role model on the roster,

1735
01:22:51,800 --> 01:22:54,439
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Burkekett was drafted the same

1736
01:22:54,520 --> 01:22:58,360
Speaker 1: year and he quickly passed Burkett Um. James Lofton was

1737
01:22:58,400 --> 01:23:01,120
Speaker 1: here totally and mostly because the total different style of receiver.

1738
01:23:01,280 --> 01:23:03,280
Speaker 1: But it never got the sense that James Lofton like

1739
01:23:03,640 --> 01:23:06,600
Speaker 1: cultivated a relationship with Andrea or vice versa, or that

1740
01:23:06,680 --> 01:23:09,280
Speaker 1: they were Lofton said follow me, do this and you'll

1741
01:23:09,280 --> 01:23:11,120
Speaker 1: be overle No. But I'll tell you what, James, James

1742
01:23:11,160 --> 01:23:13,080
Speaker 1: was a real catalyst for that team. He did help

1743
01:23:13,120 --> 01:23:18,000
Speaker 1: Andrea a lot, mostly emotionally, how to handle ya I

1744
01:23:18,280 --> 01:23:20,320
Speaker 1: how to handle his stardom, how to handle a guy.

1745
01:23:20,360 --> 01:23:22,360
Speaker 1: And I remember standing on the sideline of James had

1746
01:23:22,360 --> 01:23:24,599
Speaker 1: just gotten there in the last part of nineteen eighty nine,

1747
01:23:25,520 --> 01:23:30,640
Speaker 1: and he had a great sense of humor, and he was, Yeah,

1748
01:23:30,280 --> 01:23:33,759
Speaker 1: he's really tremendous human being. He was a real great

1749
01:23:33,760 --> 01:23:36,759
Speaker 1: asset for us. And before he had gotten the offense

1750
01:23:36,800 --> 01:23:39,080
Speaker 1: under his belt, he was kind of watching and he

1751
01:23:39,120 --> 01:23:41,280
Speaker 1: was watching Andre catch the ball in the game and stuff,

1752
01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:42,600
Speaker 1: and he looked at and we were standing there, and

1753
01:23:42,600 --> 01:23:45,400
Speaker 1: he goes, man, he is so strong on the ball.

1754
01:23:45,439 --> 01:23:49,120
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable, you know, He's just so strong. And he

1755
01:23:49,240 --> 01:23:54,000
Speaker 1: knew how good Andrea was, and he helped Andre see

1756
01:23:54,120 --> 01:23:58,479
Speaker 1: like James, James worked hard and so did Andre. And

1757
01:23:58,520 --> 01:24:02,880
Speaker 1: I think James helped Andrea with his sense of self

1758
01:24:03,000 --> 01:24:05,200
Speaker 1: more so than anything anything with his game. He helped

1759
01:24:05,240 --> 01:24:07,000
Speaker 1: Andre handled the big moment. He saw a kind of

1760
01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:10,320
Speaker 1: guy James was, and he felt more secure himself in

1761
01:24:10,479 --> 01:24:12,640
Speaker 1: his ability to play and James was. Therefore, they were

1762
01:24:12,680 --> 01:24:15,720
Speaker 1: good friends and I think they still are. And it's uh.

1763
01:24:15,920 --> 01:24:18,760
Speaker 1: I think James was for us as in the receiver's room,

1764
01:24:18,840 --> 01:24:22,280
Speaker 1: James Lofton was a kind of a catalyst that was

1765
01:24:22,320 --> 01:24:25,280
Speaker 1: a final missing piece plus an emotional support for a

1766
01:24:25,280 --> 01:24:27,360
Speaker 1: guy who had a lot of credibility, had been around

1767
01:24:27,400 --> 01:24:30,080
Speaker 1: the league for a while, had put up great numbers

1768
01:24:30,479 --> 01:24:33,439
Speaker 1: already to come in and affirm what was going on

1769
01:24:33,479 --> 01:24:35,160
Speaker 1: in our room, and for Andrea to say, you know,

1770
01:24:35,240 --> 01:24:37,240
Speaker 1: you were, and you are great, let's go, you know,

1771
01:24:37,600 --> 01:24:40,400
Speaker 1: And it was yeah, he was. He was kind of

1772
01:24:40,439 --> 01:24:42,639
Speaker 1: a and I say catalyst, meaning he was that last

1773
01:24:42,640 --> 01:24:46,120
Speaker 1: little little bit of the recipe that changed everything. Remember

1774
01:24:46,160 --> 01:24:48,640
Speaker 1: having a conversation we're way off track here, but I

1775
01:24:48,680 --> 01:24:52,880
Speaker 1: don't care with James lofton about and he thought this

1776
01:24:52,960 --> 01:24:55,719
Speaker 1: is early in his tenure here. James thought he could

1777
01:24:55,760 --> 01:25:00,880
Speaker 1: help Andrea do a little bit more in avoid interceptions

1778
01:25:01,160 --> 01:25:03,599
Speaker 1: thrown his way. In other words, James, I remember having

1779
01:25:03,640 --> 01:25:06,720
Speaker 1: the conversation. James said, Andre's got to realize that sometimes

1780
01:25:07,080 --> 01:25:09,519
Speaker 1: you can't let a guy cover and you get the pick.

1781
01:25:09,840 --> 01:25:11,280
Speaker 1: You got to either make a play in the ball

1782
01:25:11,360 --> 01:25:15,080
Speaker 1: or shield the ball or something. And James essentially Andre's

1783
01:25:15,080 --> 01:25:17,240
Speaker 1: in his third or fourth year, but James essentially was

1784
01:25:17,240 --> 01:25:19,920
Speaker 1: telling me there's something Andrea doesn't know that I got

1785
01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:21,479
Speaker 1: to work with him on, right. Do you remember anything

1786
01:25:21,479 --> 01:25:26,000
Speaker 1: like yeah, not that specifically, no, no, but yeah, James

1787
01:25:26,040 --> 01:25:28,519
Speaker 1: is always And the thing about it was that he

1788
01:25:28,560 --> 01:25:30,879
Speaker 1: had such a level of credibility because of his experience

1789
01:25:30,920 --> 01:25:33,360
Speaker 1: and his length of time in the league. And even

1790
01:25:33,400 --> 01:25:37,040
Speaker 1: today that's still the trump card. Yeah, longevity in the

1791
01:25:37,080 --> 01:25:40,040
Speaker 1: National Football League gains you credibility when you speak, and

1792
01:25:40,120 --> 01:25:43,320
Speaker 1: guys like Lorenzo Alexander and Kyle Williams and all these

1793
01:25:43,360 --> 01:25:45,840
Speaker 1: guys that have been around for a long time that

1794
01:25:45,960 --> 01:25:48,400
Speaker 1: when they speak, guys are like they lean in, they

1795
01:25:48,479 --> 01:25:50,760
Speaker 1: like what exactly what you mean? And that's the way

1796
01:25:50,840 --> 01:25:53,880
Speaker 1: James was. So when he told Honor, he's listened. You know,

1797
01:25:53,920 --> 01:25:55,800
Speaker 1: you can't let that guy catch that you got you

1798
01:25:55,800 --> 01:25:57,840
Speaker 1: gotta just pull him to the ground. You can tackle him,

1799
01:25:58,160 --> 01:26:00,240
Speaker 1: you will take the penalty. Just don't give him the ball.

1800
01:26:00,360 --> 01:26:03,479
Speaker 1: We can still punt it away. So things like that,

1801
01:26:03,880 --> 01:26:05,840
Speaker 1: and to give Andre to say that, hey, that's cool,

1802
01:26:05,960 --> 01:26:08,559
Speaker 1: do that take the penalty, do that not, you know,

1803
01:26:08,640 --> 01:26:11,000
Speaker 1: get an offensive pass interference, Just don't let him catch

1804
01:26:11,040 --> 01:26:15,000
Speaker 1: the ball. To have a player saying I've done it.

1805
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:19,519
Speaker 1: It works. You don't get you don't get our yelled

1806
01:26:19,520 --> 01:26:21,320
Speaker 1: at for it, you get patted on the back for it.

1807
01:26:21,400 --> 01:26:24,479
Speaker 1: Things small things like that. You're right, James a brilliant

1808
01:26:24,479 --> 01:26:26,400
Speaker 1: that way, and he was a tremendous asset to that

1809
01:26:26,439 --> 01:26:30,320
Speaker 1: team that came at just the right moment. Yeah, James

1810
01:26:30,320 --> 01:26:33,000
Speaker 1: one of the people that I know, and they're you know,

1811
01:26:33,520 --> 01:26:35,920
Speaker 1: maybe a dozen or more who every time I see him,

1812
01:26:35,920 --> 01:26:38,559
Speaker 1: I'm happy. He makes me happy, you know what I mean. Yeah,

1813
01:26:38,720 --> 01:26:42,960
Speaker 1: he's always upbeat, he's funny. He remembers everything like it

1814
01:26:43,040 --> 01:26:45,559
Speaker 1: just happened, right, I mean, he's alert and alive. He's

1815
01:26:45,600 --> 01:26:48,519
Speaker 1: one of my favorites. One of the when when the

1816
01:26:48,520 --> 01:26:51,200
Speaker 1: guys at CBS found out that some of them, my

1817
01:26:51,200 --> 01:26:53,120
Speaker 1: guys had worked with, found out that I wasn't coming back.

1818
01:26:53,320 --> 01:26:55,240
Speaker 1: He's one of the guys that called me. Yeah. Yeah,

1819
01:26:55,280 --> 01:26:57,439
Speaker 1: he's good. Yeah, it's great. All right, a little off

1820
01:26:57,439 --> 01:26:59,599
Speaker 1: topic there, but that's okay. Who's gonna be the surprise

1821
01:26:59,680 --> 01:27:02,759
Speaker 1: break out player for the Bills in twenty nineteen? Plus

1822
01:27:02,760 --> 01:27:04,799
Speaker 1: there's a list of the one of the best players

1823
01:27:04,800 --> 01:27:07,519
Speaker 1: in the NFL out today and it does not include

1824
01:27:07,520 --> 01:27:09,760
Speaker 1: any Buffalo Bills. We'll talk more about that when we

1825
01:27:09,880 --> 01:27:12,519
Speaker 1: come back. One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health from

1826
01:27:12,520 --> 01:27:25,040
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive and Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back One

1827
01:27:25,040 --> 01:27:27,640
Speaker 1: BILS Live. It's John Murphy Steve Tasker in our One

1828
01:27:27,680 --> 01:27:30,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo studio. It is beautiful outside here in Oach Bark.

1829
01:27:30,240 --> 01:27:32,720
Speaker 1: Hope you're enjoying the day. A couple of calls, I

1830
01:27:32,760 --> 01:27:34,439
Speaker 1: think in response to our question who will be the

1831
01:27:34,520 --> 01:27:38,000
Speaker 1: surprise breakout player for the Bills this season? Dave on

1832
01:27:38,040 --> 01:27:41,240
Speaker 1: the line in Florida. Hello, Dave, welcome to the show. Hey, Hey,

1833
01:27:41,400 --> 01:27:44,679
Speaker 1: why Mark, Steve Hollow fust of all you have? Chris Brown?

1834
01:27:44,760 --> 01:27:48,519
Speaker 1: Kudos for doing a solo yesterday. Yeah, the worst of time, man,

1835
01:27:48,920 --> 01:27:52,639
Speaker 1: I know, good for him. Thanks appreciated, Dave. All right, listen,

1836
01:27:52,680 --> 01:27:54,479
Speaker 1: I got I got two guys are on to talk

1837
01:27:54,560 --> 01:27:57,320
Speaker 1: by and Declasse. It's going to be Milano. Okay, it's

1838
01:27:57,439 --> 01:28:01,559
Speaker 1: he's going to break out, he stays healthy. Okay, your offense.

1839
01:28:01,720 --> 01:28:04,320
Speaker 1: The guy that's underestimated I think that no one wants

1840
01:28:04,320 --> 01:28:08,799
Speaker 1: to talk about is my guy Gore. I think Gore's

1841
01:28:08,840 --> 01:28:12,040
Speaker 1: gonna make a big difference in that offense only because

1842
01:28:12,680 --> 01:28:14,680
Speaker 1: he's still got good legs. I think he wants to

1843
01:28:14,680 --> 01:28:17,800
Speaker 1: go out a high note, and I think he's going

1844
01:28:17,880 --> 01:28:20,639
Speaker 1: to surprise a whole lot of people. Dave, September eight,

1845
01:28:20,680 --> 01:28:24,280
Speaker 1: Bills at Jet season opener. What role does Frank Gore play?

1846
01:28:24,280 --> 01:28:26,320
Speaker 1: How many touches does he get? How many carries does

1847
01:28:26,320 --> 01:28:32,040
Speaker 1: he gets? How many first downs? Wedeed nine ten touches

1848
01:28:32,120 --> 01:28:35,400
Speaker 1: up the middle, up the middle, all right, you can catch.

1849
01:28:35,479 --> 01:28:37,759
Speaker 1: He can catch from out on the backfield too very well.

1850
01:28:37,840 --> 01:28:39,800
Speaker 1: I just don't. I don't. I don't have a good

1851
01:28:39,960 --> 01:28:42,040
Speaker 1: handle on what his role will be. I gotta say it.

1852
01:28:42,200 --> 01:28:43,840
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of question marks about how

1853
01:28:43,840 --> 01:28:45,960
Speaker 1: it's gonna shake out with LEAs Shan McCoy and Frank Gore.

1854
01:28:46,040 --> 01:28:48,080
Speaker 1: They're not gonna I mean, think about this, how many

1855
01:28:48,120 --> 01:28:50,639
Speaker 1: carries you expect those guys to get in the preseason games,

1856
01:28:51,240 --> 01:28:56,960
Speaker 1: like none too each, you know, really seriously, I mean

1857
01:28:56,960 --> 01:28:59,120
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to I mean, Leashan McCoy may get

1858
01:28:59,160 --> 01:29:03,800
Speaker 1: to a game if he plays right, Yeah, maybe maybe

1859
01:29:03,840 --> 01:29:05,960
Speaker 1: play two or three games, maybe one in some of

1860
01:29:05,960 --> 01:29:08,040
Speaker 1: these games, right, and then he'll play that first half

1861
01:29:08,080 --> 01:29:10,840
Speaker 1: against whatever third team that has Detroit I guess it is.

1862
01:29:11,160 --> 01:29:13,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play a first half there. He may get

1863
01:29:13,439 --> 01:29:18,000
Speaker 1: what six carries, and Gore will get what four or

1864
01:29:18,000 --> 01:29:20,360
Speaker 1: five six carries? Maybe get eight. Maybe that's a big

1865
01:29:20,400 --> 01:29:22,439
Speaker 1: game for him. He gets less than say, I mean,

1866
01:29:22,479 --> 01:29:25,320
Speaker 1: you're not gonna see these guys, right, I mean, but

1867
01:29:25,400 --> 01:29:27,479
Speaker 1: you know who they are, and I think by watching

1868
01:29:27,520 --> 01:29:29,840
Speaker 1: them and the coaching staff. Obviously, he's gonna be standing

1869
01:29:29,920 --> 01:29:32,919
Speaker 1: right next to him every day at training camp, every practice.

1870
01:29:33,160 --> 01:29:35,920
Speaker 1: They're gonna be watching them and they'll make it, make

1871
01:29:35,960 --> 01:29:38,120
Speaker 1: a call does he have it or does he not?

1872
01:29:38,720 --> 01:29:40,600
Speaker 1: And the medical staff will tell you too that the

1873
01:29:40,600 --> 01:29:42,960
Speaker 1: guy has never heard, he's never nicked up, never needs ice,

1874
01:29:43,080 --> 01:29:45,280
Speaker 1: never needs a massage. He's you know, if it's one

1875
01:29:45,280 --> 01:29:47,479
Speaker 1: of those things they you know that can win your

1876
01:29:47,520 --> 01:29:50,240
Speaker 1: confidence and say, Okay, Frank Gore, we're gonna give you

1877
01:29:50,320 --> 01:29:53,960
Speaker 1: fifteen touches, you know, an opening day. But man, I

1878
01:29:54,040 --> 01:29:56,559
Speaker 1: mean there's a lot of question marks they gotta be answered.

1879
01:29:56,600 --> 01:29:57,600
Speaker 1: I don't know how to answer, and I don't know

1880
01:29:57,640 --> 01:29:59,479
Speaker 1: how they're gonna get the information to answer him, because

1881
01:29:59,479 --> 01:30:01,479
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna put a thirty six year old

1882
01:30:01,520 --> 01:30:04,960
Speaker 1: running back in the preseason. No reason too right, One

1883
01:30:04,960 --> 01:30:07,240
Speaker 1: more call Randy and Buffalo on the line. Hello, Randy,

1884
01:30:07,280 --> 01:30:10,240
Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air. Hey, I don't think

1885
01:30:10,240 --> 01:30:12,000
Speaker 1: it's gonna be one player. I think it would be

1886
01:30:12,000 --> 01:30:15,400
Speaker 1: the offensive line. Let me know what you guys think. Well,

1887
01:30:15,400 --> 01:30:17,720
Speaker 1: you certainly hope that's the case. I mean, they and

1888
01:30:17,760 --> 01:30:24,080
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, we've you get casual with it,

1889
01:30:24,160 --> 01:30:26,960
Speaker 1: and you start talking about how you know, I don't

1890
01:30:26,960 --> 01:30:29,000
Speaker 1: want to throw all those guys under the bus. Last year,

1891
01:30:29,040 --> 01:30:31,160
Speaker 1: they were trying their best. It was a bad combination.

1892
01:30:31,200 --> 01:30:33,559
Speaker 1: It was a poor year for their offensive line. But

1893
01:30:33,680 --> 01:30:35,840
Speaker 1: you've got to think with the moves that they've made

1894
01:30:36,160 --> 01:30:38,519
Speaker 1: with Bobby Johnson, come in a new head, a new

1895
01:30:38,600 --> 01:30:44,439
Speaker 1: offensive line coach, four new starters and a theory and

1896
01:30:44,880 --> 01:30:48,599
Speaker 1: a top draft pick in that mix, and the top

1897
01:30:48,640 --> 01:30:51,200
Speaker 1: paid player at his position in that mix, and a

1898
01:30:51,240 --> 01:30:53,679
Speaker 1: player who started for a division rival for a number

1899
01:30:53,720 --> 01:30:56,439
Speaker 1: of games last year and play who played well. You

1900
01:30:56,479 --> 01:31:00,240
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be upgraded across the board. So you

1901
01:31:00,280 --> 01:31:03,200
Speaker 1: gotta think that I'm gonna say that without even throwing

1902
01:31:03,280 --> 01:31:05,880
Speaker 1: last year's group under the bus, this group is gonna

1903
01:31:05,880 --> 01:31:12,040
Speaker 1: be much better. How that is gonna look, Hopefully you

1904
01:31:12,040 --> 01:31:16,000
Speaker 1: don't notice him. Hopefully Lashawn McCoy goes out and runs

1905
01:31:16,080 --> 01:31:18,960
Speaker 1: and gets averages four point five to carry on it off,

1906
01:31:19,040 --> 01:31:21,360
Speaker 1: and you know in a day catches five passes, Josh

1907
01:31:21,360 --> 01:31:25,439
Speaker 1: Allen doesn't get sacked, and you know he completes sixty

1908
01:31:25,479 --> 01:31:28,280
Speaker 1: five plus percent of his passes, and hopefully you don't

1909
01:31:28,280 --> 01:31:32,120
Speaker 1: notice these guys, right, If that's the case. Hey, we

1910
01:31:32,240 --> 01:31:34,400
Speaker 1: teased one hundred players in the league, not a list

1911
01:31:34,439 --> 01:31:36,400
Speaker 1: that does not include the Bills from Pete Prisco. We

1912
01:31:36,439 --> 01:31:38,040
Speaker 1: don't have time to talk about it a year, but

1913
01:31:38,080 --> 01:31:40,160
Speaker 1: we'll get to it as the afternoon moves along. We

1914
01:31:40,240 --> 01:31:42,720
Speaker 1: got a break when we come back. Oliver luck it's

1915
01:31:42,720 --> 01:31:45,479
Speaker 1: going to join us, the commissioner of the new x

1916
01:31:45,560 --> 01:31:48,160
Speaker 1: FL two. That's coming up when we return. One Bill's

1917
01:31:48,200 --> 01:31:51,160
Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

1918
01:32:00,880 --> 01:32:05,840
Speaker 1: Hello Bills Radio Network. Sports update from One Bills Drive.

1919
01:32:05,960 --> 01:32:08,720
Speaker 1: Hockey News. The NHL Draft is just days away now.

1920
01:32:08,840 --> 01:32:11,920
Speaker 1: Round one begins Friday night in Vancouver. The Sabers, with

1921
01:32:12,000 --> 01:32:14,719
Speaker 1: the seventh overall selection in the first round. Savers today

1922
01:32:14,760 --> 01:32:18,920
Speaker 1: announced there twenty nineteen preseason schedule six games, two home

1923
01:32:18,960 --> 01:32:21,519
Speaker 1: games at Key Bank Center among the other five games.

1924
01:32:21,560 --> 01:32:25,000
Speaker 1: Sabers played three road games and a neutral site game

1925
01:32:25,080 --> 01:32:28,719
Speaker 1: at the Bagoula Ice Arena at Penn State University. That day, Monday,

1926
01:32:28,720 --> 01:32:32,200
Speaker 1: September sixteenth, they played the Pittsburgh Penguins at Penn State.

1927
01:32:32,280 --> 01:32:37,280
Speaker 1: Savers preseason schedule, NFL News seventeen year career Josh McCown

1928
01:32:37,320 --> 01:32:41,000
Speaker 1: retiring from football. The quarterback began his career in Arizona.

1929
01:32:41,040 --> 01:32:43,000
Speaker 1: He turns forty years old on the fourth of July.

1930
01:32:43,439 --> 01:32:45,759
Speaker 1: Spent the last two seasons with the New York Jets.

1931
01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:48,559
Speaker 1: Made his announcement yesterday, and then McCown announced that he's

1932
01:32:48,600 --> 01:32:52,000
Speaker 1: joining ESPN as an NFL analyst. Will make his debut

1933
01:32:52,040 --> 01:32:56,439
Speaker 1: tomorrow on NFL Live. Josh McCown played for eighteens in

1934
01:32:56,520 --> 01:32:59,080
Speaker 1: his seventeen years in the league, beginning with the Cardinals

1935
01:32:59,120 --> 01:33:02,719
Speaker 1: in O two. Todd Gurley with the injury the knee

1936
01:33:02,760 --> 01:33:05,360
Speaker 1: situation last year. We're getting to know more about it now.

1937
01:33:05,439 --> 01:33:08,839
Speaker 1: His personal trainer confirms that the running back has arthritic

1938
01:33:08,880 --> 01:33:13,000
Speaker 1: issues stemming from an ACL tear in college that kept

1939
01:33:13,080 --> 01:33:15,120
Speaker 1: him back at the end of last season. They plan

1940
01:33:15,240 --> 01:33:17,760
Speaker 1: on managing his workload in the weeks and months ahead

1941
01:33:17,800 --> 01:33:21,200
Speaker 1: and having Gurley shed some weight. Green Bay Packers claimed

1942
01:33:21,200 --> 01:33:24,439
Speaker 1: tightand Michael Roberts off waivers from Detroit late yesterday. Waived

1943
01:33:24,560 --> 01:33:26,720
Speaker 1: last week after a trade that would have sent him

1944
01:33:26,720 --> 01:33:29,839
Speaker 1: to the New England Patriots was rescinded because the conditions

1945
01:33:29,840 --> 01:33:32,400
Speaker 1: were not met. Barbarts did not pass his physical with

1946
01:33:32,439 --> 01:33:35,519
Speaker 1: the Patriots, according to ESPN. The Denver Broncos say they

1947
01:33:35,600 --> 01:33:38,439
Speaker 1: planned several ways to honor team owner Pat Boland, who

1948
01:33:38,479 --> 01:33:40,439
Speaker 1: died last week at the age of seventy five after

1949
01:33:40,479 --> 01:33:43,479
Speaker 1: a long battle with Alzheimer's. He dies too much shy

1950
01:33:43,560 --> 01:33:46,200
Speaker 1: of his in Dutch enshrinement into the Pro Football of Fame.

1951
01:33:46,400 --> 01:33:49,439
Speaker 1: But the Broncos say renaming their stadium in honor of

1952
01:33:49,520 --> 01:33:52,000
Speaker 1: Pat Boland is not something that they have in mind.

1953
01:33:52,200 --> 01:33:55,040
Speaker 1: And the Buffalo sabers homestand starts tonight a six game

1954
01:33:55,120 --> 01:33:58,360
Speaker 1: homestand starting with the three game series against Indianapolis Tonight

1955
01:33:58,400 --> 01:34:01,200
Speaker 1: seven o five at Sailing Field. It is Sean Reid

1956
01:34:01,240 --> 01:34:03,920
Speaker 1: fully on the mound for the Herd. And that's the

1957
01:34:04,000 --> 01:34:06,280
Speaker 1: update from One Bill Drive, John Murphy and Steve Tasker

1958
01:34:06,320 --> 01:34:09,000
Speaker 1: in our One Buffalo studio. Um did we talk at all?

1959
01:34:09,080 --> 01:34:11,519
Speaker 1: We didn't see because we were both Pat Bowland. Any

1960
01:34:11,560 --> 01:34:14,120
Speaker 1: thoughts on him, Broncos owner? Did you ever have any?

1961
01:34:14,360 --> 01:34:16,760
Speaker 1: David Cross had one quick interview with him after this

1962
01:34:17,000 --> 01:34:19,519
Speaker 1: after the Broncos beat the Green Bay Packers in the

1963
01:34:19,560 --> 01:34:24,320
Speaker 1: Super Bowl and John Elway had decided I think it

1964
01:34:24,360 --> 01:34:26,360
Speaker 1: was the Packers, or maybe it was the second Super

1965
01:34:26,400 --> 01:34:28,120
Speaker 1: Bowl they won. They won those two in a row

1966
01:34:28,160 --> 01:34:31,120
Speaker 1: there with John Elway and I and they were thinking

1967
01:34:31,200 --> 01:34:33,479
Speaker 1: maybe John Ell was gonna Elway was gonna retire, and

1968
01:34:33,479 --> 01:34:36,120
Speaker 1: I asked him. He goes, now we want we want

1969
01:34:36,200 --> 01:34:38,400
Speaker 1: John back, And I said, are you gonna have to

1970
01:34:38,400 --> 01:34:40,719
Speaker 1: pay him more money to get him to come back?

1971
01:34:41,080 --> 01:34:44,160
Speaker 1: And didn't really like the question very much, but he

1972
01:34:44,280 --> 01:34:49,080
Speaker 1: answered it. And I could tell too by the atmosphere

1973
01:34:49,120 --> 01:34:50,960
Speaker 1: around that that was a winning locker room in a

1974
01:34:50,960 --> 01:34:56,200
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, So it was pretty cool. But the level

1975
01:34:56,280 --> 01:35:00,080
Speaker 1: of respect and not only respect, but affection, you know

1976
01:35:00,080 --> 01:35:02,200
Speaker 1: what I'm saying about the people that had around him

1977
01:35:02,680 --> 01:35:04,200
Speaker 1: by that time, he had been the owner of the

1978
01:35:04,200 --> 01:35:08,320
Speaker 1: team for quite some time, and it was just one

1979
01:35:08,360 --> 01:35:10,760
Speaker 1: of those guys that when he walked into the room,

1980
01:35:10,800 --> 01:35:12,840
Speaker 1: there was a level not just of you know this like,

1981
01:35:12,840 --> 01:35:15,000
Speaker 1: oh guys, you gotta watch what It wasn't like you know,

1982
01:35:15,040 --> 01:35:17,200
Speaker 1: your dad walked in the bill. It was like somebody

1983
01:35:18,040 --> 01:35:20,160
Speaker 1: like a role model walked into the room. That kind

1984
01:35:20,160 --> 01:35:22,000
Speaker 1: of thing was a different kind of field when Pat

1985
01:35:22,040 --> 01:35:23,800
Speaker 1: Bowland walked in and that kind of that kind of

1986
01:35:23,840 --> 01:35:27,840
Speaker 1: struck struck me as a guy who was um that,

1987
01:35:28,200 --> 01:35:30,599
Speaker 1: you know, that important to that organization. Stuff that had

1988
01:35:30,640 --> 01:35:32,880
Speaker 1: that era about him, not just of being a guy

1989
01:35:32,920 --> 01:35:36,240
Speaker 1: that well, wow, you know, you know, kind of a

1990
01:35:36,320 --> 01:35:37,840
Speaker 1: kind of oh God, should be on your you know,

1991
01:35:37,920 --> 01:35:40,000
Speaker 1: kind of a snap two attention kind of thing. It

1992
01:35:40,040 --> 01:35:42,240
Speaker 1: was more of a oh wow, okay, cool, you know

1993
01:35:42,320 --> 01:35:43,760
Speaker 1: kind of thing. And he was in there, it was

1994
01:35:44,000 --> 01:35:46,160
Speaker 1: and it was it was neat to see the difference

1995
01:35:46,200 --> 01:35:48,519
Speaker 1: in his persona and some of the other guys that

1996
01:35:48,560 --> 01:35:51,160
Speaker 1: you've run across over the weekend when he passed away.

1997
01:35:51,200 --> 01:35:54,680
Speaker 1: What last week over the weekend, listening to something on

1998
01:35:54,680 --> 01:35:57,200
Speaker 1: the radio, somebody referred to Pat Bowland as one of

1999
01:35:57,200 --> 01:35:59,640
Speaker 1: the greatest owners in NFL history. And as soon as

2000
01:35:59,640 --> 01:36:02,160
Speaker 1: I heard it, I thought, a come on. Then I

2001
01:36:02,160 --> 01:36:03,640
Speaker 1: thought about a little more, and I said, you know,

2002
01:36:04,920 --> 01:36:06,759
Speaker 1: he might be one of the greatest in the last

2003
01:36:07,360 --> 01:36:10,559
Speaker 1: thirty forty years. Really with you know, that franchise out

2004
01:36:10,560 --> 01:36:13,880
Speaker 1: there in Denver, with you know, they build a new stadium. Um,

2005
01:36:13,920 --> 01:36:17,160
Speaker 1: the franchise has always had strong, strong support out there,

2006
01:36:17,160 --> 01:36:21,759
Speaker 1: and it's a regional franchise too. Um identifying and naming

2007
01:36:21,760 --> 01:36:27,639
Speaker 1: the icon John Elway as the football figure in the organization. UM. Yeah,

2008
01:36:27,800 --> 01:36:30,160
Speaker 1: I could see. I could see, you know, and they won.

2009
01:36:30,439 --> 01:36:33,720
Speaker 1: And they didn't win right away. In fact, they were

2010
01:36:33,840 --> 01:36:36,280
Speaker 1: very disappointed. Remember when they had you know, the drive

2011
01:36:36,400 --> 01:36:39,000
Speaker 1: and in Cleveland, and they had a couple of years

2012
01:36:39,040 --> 01:36:41,120
Speaker 1: in a row late eighties. This is when they failed

2013
01:36:41,560 --> 01:36:43,160
Speaker 1: and to try to get to the Super Bowl. They

2014
01:36:43,160 --> 01:36:45,679
Speaker 1: eventually did and failed some more in the Super Bowl

2015
01:36:45,680 --> 01:36:47,519
Speaker 1: and then eventually won. As you said, right, we beat

2016
01:36:47,600 --> 01:36:51,160
Speaker 1: him in a championship game here in Orchard Park, un

2017
01:36:53,320 --> 01:36:56,040
Speaker 1: was a ten seven game. They were a fource. And

2018
01:36:56,040 --> 01:36:59,840
Speaker 1: of course John Elway was a tremendous quarterback, maybe one

2019
01:36:59,880 --> 01:37:01,960
Speaker 1: of the great old time quarterbacks ever. And you know,

2020
01:37:02,000 --> 01:37:03,840
Speaker 1: you talk about a guy who had everything. He had

2021
01:37:03,880 --> 01:37:07,280
Speaker 1: an arm like nobody's ever seen before, and he could run.

2022
01:37:07,320 --> 01:37:10,000
Speaker 1: He was an athlete. And then as he played, he

2023
01:37:10,000 --> 01:37:12,519
Speaker 1: played seventeen years. In the last five years of that career,

2024
01:37:12,520 --> 01:37:14,679
Speaker 1: he was like a grizzled veteran, you know, and still

2025
01:37:14,720 --> 01:37:18,000
Speaker 1: could run. And he finally after three losses in the

2026
01:37:18,040 --> 01:37:21,960
Speaker 1: Super Bowl one two in a row. It was a

2027
01:37:22,000 --> 01:37:25,800
Speaker 1: great culmination, and Pat Boland was credited. And I think

2028
01:37:25,840 --> 01:37:29,559
Speaker 1: the thing that gets me about it was that other owners,

2029
01:37:29,640 --> 01:37:31,679
Speaker 1: and I know they all do that to a certain extent,

2030
01:37:31,960 --> 01:37:34,799
Speaker 1: but there's a great level of respect for Pat Boland

2031
01:37:35,960 --> 01:37:38,960
Speaker 1: at the very top of the National Football League throughout

2032
01:37:39,000 --> 01:37:41,240
Speaker 1: all his years affiliated with it, and I think that

2033
01:37:41,680 --> 01:37:43,800
Speaker 1: is as much as telling as anything about us. You

2034
01:37:43,800 --> 01:37:45,800
Speaker 1: know what, I was troubled to hear this over the

2035
01:37:45,840 --> 01:37:49,280
Speaker 1: weekend too, and talking listening to people talk about Pat Boland.

2036
01:37:49,320 --> 01:37:51,439
Speaker 1: Did you know that the ownership of the franchise is

2037
01:37:51,479 --> 01:37:54,080
Speaker 1: kind of in doubt now that he set up a

2038
01:37:54,120 --> 01:37:57,240
Speaker 1: trust more than ten years ago and the plan many

2039
01:37:57,280 --> 01:37:59,760
Speaker 1: thought was for his daughter Brittany Bowling to take over,

2040
01:37:59,800 --> 01:38:04,080
Speaker 1: but the oversight of the Bowling estate has been challenged

2041
01:38:04,080 --> 01:38:06,599
Speaker 1: in a court in Colorado in the past year by

2042
01:38:06,640 --> 01:38:08,600
Speaker 1: some other members of his family. I hate to hear that.

2043
01:38:08,960 --> 01:38:12,760
Speaker 1: I consider the Broncos one of like the flagship foundational

2044
01:38:12,800 --> 01:38:14,920
Speaker 1: franchises of the league. I hate to hear that it's

2045
01:38:14,960 --> 01:38:18,000
Speaker 1: going to hear the court fight go among family members. Yeah,

2046
01:38:18,080 --> 01:38:23,599
Speaker 1: go from the ultimate model of stability to a cat fight,

2047
01:38:24,160 --> 01:38:27,760
Speaker 1: you know, a fight between brothers and sisters. I mean,

2048
01:38:27,760 --> 01:38:29,960
Speaker 1: it's just, yeah, that's bad, that's a that's not a

2049
01:38:29,960 --> 01:38:32,000
Speaker 1: good look, and it's sad to think about. Hey, I'm

2050
01:38:32,040 --> 01:38:33,320
Speaker 1: a line with us right now. We got a guy

2051
01:38:33,320 --> 01:38:35,840
Speaker 1: who spent his time in the NFL five seasons in

2052
01:38:35,880 --> 01:38:38,479
Speaker 1: the league, former quarterback for the Houston Oilers. He's now

2053
01:38:38,520 --> 01:38:42,800
Speaker 1: commissioner and CEO of the XFL XFL two. Happy to

2054
01:38:42,840 --> 01:38:44,759
Speaker 1: have Oliver Luck on the line with us. Hello Oliver,

2055
01:38:44,840 --> 01:38:46,920
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve task Rupper in Buffalo, thank you for

2056
01:38:47,040 --> 01:38:50,840
Speaker 1: joining us. Hello John Vole, teammate. Are you going. I'm

2057
01:38:50,880 --> 01:38:53,720
Speaker 1: doing great. It's good to hear from you. Ali. Congratulations

2058
01:38:53,720 --> 01:38:55,800
Speaker 1: on the cusp of We talked to you at the

2059
01:38:55,840 --> 01:38:58,639
Speaker 1: super Bowl. Now you're that much closer to actually kicking

2060
01:38:58,640 --> 01:39:02,360
Speaker 1: it off. How how you know what's left to be done?

2061
01:39:02,360 --> 01:39:04,160
Speaker 1: I mean, what are the big obstacles facing you at

2062
01:39:04,200 --> 01:39:06,960
Speaker 1: this late date. Well, we've got, you know, we've got

2063
01:39:06,960 --> 01:39:10,000
Speaker 1: another you know, five six months to go as as

2064
01:39:10,000 --> 01:39:13,080
Speaker 1: we launch. But we've got all of our head coaches hired,

2065
01:39:13,160 --> 01:39:15,880
Speaker 1: they in turn had hired all their assistant coaches or

2066
01:39:15,920 --> 01:39:19,160
Speaker 1: our coaching staffs are are fleshed out. All of our

2067
01:39:19,160 --> 01:39:23,040
Speaker 1: football ops staff staffs are fleshed out. We're now turning

2068
01:39:23,040 --> 01:39:26,559
Speaker 1: our attention to players. We've been doing a series of

2069
01:39:26,840 --> 01:39:30,960
Speaker 1: showcases think combine in each of our markets. Were halfway

2070
01:39:31,000 --> 01:39:32,760
Speaker 1: through that. So we'll take a look at about eight

2071
01:39:32,880 --> 01:39:36,360
Speaker 1: hundred players and we'll sign a bunch of guys from

2072
01:39:36,400 --> 01:39:39,160
Speaker 1: that group and put them into our draft pool. Our

2073
01:39:39,240 --> 01:39:42,679
Speaker 1: big moment, I think in terms of player acquisition, will

2074
01:39:42,720 --> 01:39:46,479
Speaker 1: be no surprise right after the NFL cuts. You know,

2075
01:39:46,520 --> 01:39:49,000
Speaker 1: it's fascinating when you think about it, you know, Stephen,

2076
01:39:49,080 --> 01:39:51,200
Speaker 1: when you and I played, you know, guys would get

2077
01:39:51,240 --> 01:39:54,080
Speaker 1: cut every four or five days, you know, as teams

2078
01:39:54,120 --> 01:39:57,080
Speaker 1: went down to the regular season roster. Now it happens

2079
01:39:57,120 --> 01:40:00,679
Speaker 1: in one fell swoop beginning of septem member when teams

2080
01:40:00,720 --> 01:40:03,280
Speaker 1: go from the ninety man you know that they've brought

2081
01:40:03,320 --> 01:40:05,800
Speaker 1: to camp down to the fifty three man roster. So

2082
01:40:06,120 --> 01:40:08,680
Speaker 1: that's a lot of players when you consider, you know,

2083
01:40:08,720 --> 01:40:11,519
Speaker 1: you got thirty five or so guys, maybe you know

2084
01:40:11,560 --> 01:40:13,960
Speaker 1: even more who are cut, you know, by each of

2085
01:40:13,960 --> 01:40:17,320
Speaker 1: the thirty two NFL clubs. So that's when we'll sign

2086
01:40:17,520 --> 01:40:19,719
Speaker 1: a bunch of our players, put him in the draft pool.

2087
01:40:20,360 --> 01:40:23,720
Speaker 1: We're planning to have our draft in sort of mid October,

2088
01:40:24,360 --> 01:40:26,960
Speaker 1: and we think we can, you know, get a real

2089
01:40:27,040 --> 01:40:31,200
Speaker 1: good competitive equity amongst our teams. I'm a believer that

2090
01:40:31,360 --> 01:40:35,000
Speaker 1: the quality of the player pool is so much deeper

2091
01:40:35,000 --> 01:40:38,840
Speaker 1: and richer and better today than it was fifteen years ago.

2092
01:40:38,880 --> 01:40:41,120
Speaker 1: Wit alone, Steve, when you and I played thirty five

2093
01:40:41,280 --> 01:40:44,080
Speaker 1: years ago. You know, there's so many, so many good

2094
01:40:44,080 --> 01:40:46,960
Speaker 1: young players coming out that just aren't quite good enough

2095
01:40:47,000 --> 01:40:49,360
Speaker 1: to make the NFL. They might come from a smaller school,

2096
01:40:49,360 --> 01:40:51,559
Speaker 1: they might be you know, just in the wrong spot

2097
01:40:51,560 --> 01:40:54,680
Speaker 1: on a roster, can't make the fifty three man. And

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01:40:54,760 --> 01:40:56,360
Speaker 1: we think we can sign a bunch of those guys,

2099
01:40:56,360 --> 01:40:58,280
Speaker 1: and we think they can play pretty good football. Given that,

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01:40:58,640 --> 01:41:00,920
Speaker 1: I think we've got some pretty good head coaches, guys

2101
01:41:00,960 --> 01:41:04,240
Speaker 1: like Bob Stoops, June Jones and others that I think

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01:41:04,280 --> 01:41:06,360
Speaker 1: we'll give us a good, you know a good chance

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01:41:06,360 --> 01:41:08,799
Speaker 1: of making this league work. Yeah. Why will this league

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01:41:08,800 --> 01:41:12,280
Speaker 1: work when so many others have failed? Good question? I

2105
01:41:12,280 --> 01:41:17,240
Speaker 1: think really two things. One is the time that we've

2106
01:41:17,240 --> 01:41:20,280
Speaker 1: had to plan this league. You know, Vince McMahon, the

2107
01:41:20,400 --> 01:41:25,920
Speaker 1: WWE chairman, CEO, founder, you know, is supporting this league financially,

2108
01:41:26,080 --> 01:41:29,320
Speaker 1: and he's given us the time to plan. Right. So,

2109
01:41:29,360 --> 01:41:31,960
Speaker 1: I've been on board now for about a year. Our

2110
01:41:31,960 --> 01:41:34,000
Speaker 1: head coaches have been on board back you know, since

2111
01:41:34,040 --> 01:41:37,559
Speaker 1: February March of this year, hiring staff, etc. There's no

2112
01:41:37,680 --> 01:41:40,679
Speaker 1: substitute for time to put a roster together, to get

2113
01:41:40,720 --> 01:41:43,479
Speaker 1: TV deals lined up, which we have with the Fox

2114
01:41:43,520 --> 01:41:47,439
Speaker 1: and the ABC, ESPN, the Disney Network, so to speak.

2115
01:41:48,479 --> 01:41:51,160
Speaker 1: So it's really time and it's and it's quite honestly,

2116
01:41:51,160 --> 01:41:53,679
Speaker 1: the resources that Vince has to put behind this league.

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01:41:53,800 --> 01:41:56,640
Speaker 1: You know, money matters in startups. Doesn't matter if it's

2118
01:41:56,640 --> 01:42:00,479
Speaker 1: a tech or healthcare or a sporting startup. Money doesn't matter.

2119
01:42:00,920 --> 01:42:04,400
Speaker 1: And Vince has committed to making this this league work

2120
01:42:04,439 --> 01:42:06,920
Speaker 1: in terms of the financial resources you can put behind it.

2121
01:42:07,000 --> 01:42:08,519
Speaker 1: So I guess at the end of the day, I'd

2122
01:42:08,520 --> 01:42:10,960
Speaker 1: say two things. You know, it's time and resources that

2123
01:42:11,200 --> 01:42:13,479
Speaker 1: will make us give us a much better chance. We'll

2124
01:42:13,479 --> 01:42:15,920
Speaker 1: guarantees in life, as we know, but it gives us

2125
01:42:15,920 --> 01:42:18,479
Speaker 1: a much better chance to make this league work. Olive

2126
01:42:18,479 --> 01:42:20,479
Speaker 1: Receive and I were talking earlier on our show today

2127
01:42:20,520 --> 01:42:23,519
Speaker 1: about what went wrong with the Alliance of American Football

2128
01:42:23,560 --> 01:42:26,000
Speaker 1: and what could go right for the XFL, and I

2129
01:42:26,120 --> 01:42:28,599
Speaker 1: maintained that it's what you just mentioned. It's ownership, right,

2130
01:42:28,680 --> 01:42:32,559
Speaker 1: stable ownership that the Alliance sort of like crumble even

2131
01:42:32,600 --> 01:42:35,559
Speaker 1: as their first season started a couple of weeks into it. Well,

2132
01:42:35,600 --> 01:42:39,439
Speaker 1: you know, it's almost I guess irresponsible, you know, to

2133
01:42:39,560 --> 01:42:42,400
Speaker 1: go into a season knowing that you can't make payroll

2134
01:42:42,479 --> 01:42:46,240
Speaker 1: by week two. You know, I mean, you just shouldn't

2135
01:42:46,280 --> 01:42:49,479
Speaker 1: start right if you know that it's that precarious. And

2136
01:42:50,000 --> 01:42:52,680
Speaker 1: you know, I hate to criticize the other league is

2137
01:42:52,680 --> 01:42:55,360
Speaker 1: I don't know all the details, but I do think

2138
01:42:55,360 --> 01:42:59,000
Speaker 1: we've got the time, you know, and we have the resources. Man. Clearly,

2139
01:42:59,120 --> 01:43:02,200
Speaker 1: the Alliance tried to get ahead of the XFL for

2140
01:43:02,280 --> 01:43:04,920
Speaker 1: whatever reason, they tried to create you know, the old

2141
01:43:05,320 --> 01:43:08,559
Speaker 1: first mover advantage. But if you're not prepared and aren't

2142
01:43:08,560 --> 01:43:11,959
Speaker 1: properly financed, you know, there is no first mover advantage.

2143
01:43:11,960 --> 01:43:14,479
Speaker 1: It's a first mover disadvantage. And I think that's what

2144
01:43:14,520 --> 01:43:17,600
Speaker 1: they kind of stumbled into. You know, football is a

2145
01:43:17,760 --> 01:43:20,559
Speaker 1: very important game to a lot of people, and you know,

2146
01:43:20,600 --> 01:43:22,680
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that we can you know,

2147
01:43:22,760 --> 01:43:25,559
Speaker 1: be very sort of serious with with our players and

2148
01:43:25,640 --> 01:43:28,720
Speaker 1: coaches and you know, give them real opportunities not just

2149
01:43:28,800 --> 01:43:31,240
Speaker 1: to you know, play football, but to make a living

2150
01:43:31,360 --> 01:43:33,120
Speaker 1: right to put you know, put food on the table

2151
01:43:33,160 --> 01:43:35,600
Speaker 1: for their families. You know, they have the opportunity to

2152
01:43:35,680 --> 01:43:37,920
Speaker 1: play well and get another shot from any of these

2153
01:43:37,960 --> 01:43:40,760
Speaker 1: guys with the National Football League. Those are all you know,

2154
01:43:40,880 --> 01:43:42,920
Speaker 1: very serious career things that we want to make sure

2155
01:43:42,960 --> 01:43:45,920
Speaker 1: we're able to do so. You know, I certainly wouldn't

2156
01:43:45,920 --> 01:43:48,280
Speaker 1: have been involved with our league, you know, had I

2157
01:43:48,360 --> 01:43:50,600
Speaker 1: not had a sense that Vince was very committed, you know,

2158
01:43:50,640 --> 01:43:52,639
Speaker 1: financially to this. And I don't think guys like Bob

2159
01:43:52,680 --> 01:43:57,800
Speaker 1: Stoops or uh, you know, Mark Trustman or Jim Zorn,

2160
01:43:58,000 --> 01:44:00,200
Speaker 1: these are respected figures in the football world. I think

2161
01:44:00,200 --> 01:44:02,920
Speaker 1: they would have signed up either, June Jones, you know,

2162
01:44:03,040 --> 01:44:05,240
Speaker 1: if they didn't think that this was a real, viable

2163
01:44:05,320 --> 01:44:07,559
Speaker 1: league and there was real money behind it. You mentioned

2164
01:44:07,560 --> 01:44:10,760
Speaker 1: the television and the deals with Fox and ESPN. My

2165
01:44:10,840 --> 01:44:12,719
Speaker 1: understanding is that there's not a whole lot of rights

2166
01:44:12,720 --> 01:44:15,479
Speaker 1: feeding money coming to your league. That Vincewickman is prepared

2167
01:44:15,520 --> 01:44:17,400
Speaker 1: to keep it going basically on his own for a

2168
01:44:17,400 --> 01:44:20,160
Speaker 1: while until the TV sort of builds itself up. Is

2169
01:44:20,160 --> 01:44:23,679
Speaker 1: that the way it looks. Well. I won't reveal any

2170
01:44:23,720 --> 01:44:27,040
Speaker 1: details about our TV deals. I think they accomplished though,

2171
01:44:27,040 --> 01:44:30,680
Speaker 1: what we really wanted to accomplish, which was visibility, right Uh,

2172
01:44:30,800 --> 01:44:32,839
Speaker 1: you know, people know where to get football on Fox

2173
01:44:32,960 --> 01:44:35,599
Speaker 1: or on ABC or on you know, ESPN FS one.

2174
01:44:35,640 --> 01:44:37,400
Speaker 1: There'll be a Game of the week on each of

2175
01:44:37,400 --> 01:44:41,040
Speaker 1: those four you know carriers, So obviously there's there's you know,

2176
01:44:41,160 --> 01:44:44,320
Speaker 1: revenue that we need to generate from ticket sales, from sponsorship,

2177
01:44:44,439 --> 01:44:48,040
Speaker 1: from merchandise, you know, all the usual sources, concession concessions.

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01:44:48,680 --> 01:44:51,000
Speaker 1: But you know, Vince, I think understands as a very

2179
01:44:51,000 --> 01:44:54,679
Speaker 1: successful businessman built WWE and you know into a public

2180
01:44:54,800 --> 01:44:58,000
Speaker 1: publicly traded powerhouse company a billion dollars a year in revenue.

2181
01:44:58,000 --> 01:45:00,800
Speaker 1: But this understands that, you know, it takes time to

2182
01:45:00,840 --> 01:45:03,639
Speaker 1: build you know, a league like this, but he also

2183
01:45:03,680 --> 01:45:06,280
Speaker 1: expects there to be you know, revenue coming in day one.

2184
01:45:06,400 --> 01:45:09,280
Speaker 1: And so we've got you know, beyond just the football side.

2185
01:45:09,520 --> 01:45:11,120
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of work to do on the

2186
01:45:11,160 --> 01:45:13,800
Speaker 1: business side. But we've got people that we've brought on

2187
01:45:13,840 --> 01:45:18,519
Speaker 1: board x NFL executives. Jeffrey Pollock worked for many years

2188
01:45:18,600 --> 01:45:21,880
Speaker 1: for the Chargers. He's our president CEO, doing a great job.

2189
01:45:22,280 --> 01:45:24,120
Speaker 1: And as we gear up on the business side, so

2190
01:45:24,160 --> 01:45:26,280
Speaker 1: we think we're pretty well equipped to you know, to

2191
01:45:26,320 --> 01:45:28,800
Speaker 1: give it the old college try and again, I think

2192
01:45:28,840 --> 01:45:31,360
Speaker 1: we've got as good of a shot as anybody has

2193
01:45:31,400 --> 01:45:34,479
Speaker 1: had to have a spring league and get it established

2194
01:45:34,560 --> 01:45:37,200
Speaker 1: right and get it you know, sustainable to a point

2195
01:45:37,240 --> 01:45:40,160
Speaker 1: where where you know, where Vince is willing to continue

2196
01:45:40,160 --> 01:45:43,200
Speaker 1: to support it, and and the target day for start

2197
01:45:43,280 --> 01:45:45,640
Speaker 1: is and I'm it's probably set in stone now for

2198
01:45:45,680 --> 01:45:48,640
Speaker 1: you guys, February eighth, Saturday, February eighth, that's correct, So

2199
01:45:48,720 --> 01:45:51,280
Speaker 1: that's the weekend after the Super Bowl. You know, we're

2200
01:45:51,360 --> 01:45:53,160
Speaker 1: banking in the fact and this has been backed up

2201
01:45:53,160 --> 01:45:55,360
Speaker 1: by a lot of our research that you know, there's

2202
01:45:55,400 --> 01:45:58,400
Speaker 1: a there's a void in the lives of a lot

2203
01:45:58,479 --> 01:46:00,640
Speaker 1: of people. Probably the three of us being in this

2204
01:46:00,760 --> 01:46:03,400
Speaker 1: group is avoiding the lives of folks right after the

2205
01:46:03,439 --> 01:46:06,640
Speaker 1: Super Bowl because football, you know, really disappears from you

2206
01:46:06,840 --> 01:46:10,040
Speaker 1: from the screen. So we think we can take advantage

2207
01:46:10,040 --> 01:46:12,280
Speaker 1: of that interest. Come out of the shoot play good

2208
01:46:12,360 --> 01:46:16,000
Speaker 1: quality football and what I would call crisp football, and

2209
01:46:16,080 --> 01:46:18,599
Speaker 1: I think that we'll give us a chance to build

2210
01:46:18,960 --> 01:46:21,160
Speaker 1: a TV audience as well. Well. On the line with Oti,

2211
01:46:21,200 --> 01:46:24,240
Speaker 1: our lucky is the commissioners CEO of XFL, the league

2212
01:46:24,240 --> 01:46:27,599
Speaker 1: coming up next spring. Somebody ask me this question over

2213
01:46:27,640 --> 01:46:30,519
Speaker 1: the weekend about the saturation level. Tell me what your

2214
01:46:30,560 --> 01:46:34,920
Speaker 1: research has shown about the desire the interest in spring

2215
01:46:35,040 --> 01:46:38,240
Speaker 1: football right after the NFL schedule ins with the Super Bowl. Yeah,

2216
01:46:38,280 --> 01:46:41,040
Speaker 1: So if I had to do the proverbial elevator speech.

2217
01:46:41,080 --> 01:46:43,320
Speaker 1: I would basically just say this. You know, they're about

2218
01:46:43,400 --> 01:46:46,559
Speaker 1: eighty five million football fans in this country. About half

2219
01:46:46,560 --> 01:46:50,880
Speaker 1: of those fans, about forty million, classify themselves as die

2220
01:46:50,920 --> 01:46:54,599
Speaker 1: hard passionate fans. Right again, like the three of us,

2221
01:46:55,080 --> 01:46:57,920
Speaker 1: our league is designed to really appeal to those forty

2222
01:46:57,920 --> 01:47:01,160
Speaker 1: million die hard passionate fans. They will tell us we'll

2223
01:47:01,200 --> 01:47:03,600
Speaker 1: watch more football. It's got to be good football, right what.

2224
01:47:03,800 --> 01:47:06,000
Speaker 1: It can't be sloppy, you know, it's got to be

2225
01:47:06,000 --> 01:47:08,760
Speaker 1: good football. But they'll watch more football. And that's a

2226
01:47:08,760 --> 01:47:11,800
Speaker 1: pretty significant chunk of you know, the American population. Those

2227
01:47:11,800 --> 01:47:14,920
Speaker 1: are fans that don't sort of automatically switch over to

2228
01:47:14,960 --> 01:47:18,479
Speaker 1: the NBA, you know, or college basketball or baseball in

2229
01:47:18,520 --> 01:47:21,560
Speaker 1: the spring. They're football fans. They want to watch more football.

2230
01:47:22,080 --> 01:47:25,040
Speaker 1: And while the NFL is interesting in the off season

2231
01:47:25,120 --> 01:47:29,160
Speaker 1: with you know, the combine the draft, free agency, all

2232
01:47:29,240 --> 01:47:32,320
Speaker 1: the sort of outs off the field of activities, I

2233
01:47:32,360 --> 01:47:35,000
Speaker 1: still think it's more fun to watch, you know, real games,

2234
01:47:35,439 --> 01:47:38,200
Speaker 1: you know, and we're planning on an uptemple, fast paced,

2235
01:47:38,200 --> 01:47:41,880
Speaker 1: you know, offensive oriented game. So I think our league

2236
01:47:41,920 --> 01:47:44,200
Speaker 1: really is designed to attract those forty million people that's

2237
01:47:44,240 --> 01:47:47,240
Speaker 1: based on all the marketing research that we've done. How

2238
01:47:47,320 --> 01:47:50,160
Speaker 1: much of this And we are talking earlier in our

2239
01:47:50,200 --> 01:47:53,000
Speaker 1: show when we were talking about having you on, and

2240
01:47:53,040 --> 01:47:54,960
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, you think about the NFL and

2241
01:47:55,000 --> 01:47:58,200
Speaker 1: how much free promotion they get. They've got, you know,

2242
01:47:58,280 --> 01:48:01,880
Speaker 1: three networks and a whole network at ESPN who do

2243
01:48:02,000 --> 01:48:03,760
Speaker 1: nothing but talk about them all the time. They've got

2244
01:48:03,760 --> 01:48:06,080
Speaker 1: their own network who talks about them twenty four to seven.

2245
01:48:06,320 --> 01:48:10,559
Speaker 1: They get a lot of free promotion even when they're

2246
01:48:10,600 --> 01:48:12,880
Speaker 1: in the off season. And how do you and how

2247
01:48:12,920 --> 01:48:15,479
Speaker 1: does a team, a league like the XFL come in

2248
01:48:15,520 --> 01:48:18,679
Speaker 1: and like establish a foothold with And I know you've

2249
01:48:18,680 --> 01:48:20,679
Speaker 1: got deals and we're not going to discuss the details

2250
01:48:20,680 --> 01:48:23,120
Speaker 1: of them, but you know how much of that benefits

2251
01:48:23,160 --> 01:48:26,320
Speaker 1: the NFL stuff they don't even pay for, in just

2252
01:48:26,360 --> 01:48:29,040
Speaker 1: the attention and kind of the momentum of that league.

2253
01:48:29,040 --> 01:48:31,599
Speaker 1: How do you gain that as the XFL? Well, yeah,

2254
01:48:31,600 --> 01:48:34,160
Speaker 1: and I don't think anybody competes with the NFL. I think,

2255
01:48:34,200 --> 01:48:36,320
Speaker 1: you know, it's a Druggernaut's a great league. I love

2256
01:48:36,360 --> 01:48:38,000
Speaker 1: it and I was proud to have played in the league.

2257
01:48:38,000 --> 01:48:40,160
Speaker 1: I'm proud my kid can play in the league. Say,

2258
01:48:40,320 --> 01:48:43,280
Speaker 1: you know, we view ourselves as a compliment. So you know,

2259
01:48:43,680 --> 01:48:45,600
Speaker 1: I think though we're in a little bit of a

2260
01:48:45,640 --> 01:48:48,360
Speaker 1: different era with social media, you know, where content is

2261
01:48:48,400 --> 01:48:52,240
Speaker 1: really king and you can do different platforms with social

2262
01:48:52,280 --> 01:48:54,080
Speaker 1: media to get the word out. So I think we're

2263
01:48:54,120 --> 01:48:58,840
Speaker 1: in a position to do that. You know, we take ironically,

2264
01:48:59,200 --> 01:49:02,519
Speaker 1: even though the Aligns failed, right because of their financial

2265
01:49:02,600 --> 01:49:06,640
Speaker 1: financial situation, we take some you know, confidence in the

2266
01:49:06,680 --> 01:49:10,559
Speaker 1: fact that in their one game they had on broadcast television, right,

2267
01:49:10,600 --> 01:49:13,320
Speaker 1: just one game, which was their opener on on CBS,

2268
01:49:13,479 --> 01:49:17,360
Speaker 1: on the broadcast network, not CBS Sports but CBS, they

2269
01:49:17,720 --> 01:49:20,240
Speaker 1: drew a very good crowd. And that was the weekend

2270
01:49:20,320 --> 01:49:22,960
Speaker 1: right after the Super Bowl. So you know, we think

2271
01:49:22,960 --> 01:49:26,400
Speaker 1: with multium over twenty games on Fox and on ABC

2272
01:49:26,560 --> 01:49:29,280
Speaker 1: and the two broadcast networks, that we can really do

2273
01:49:29,280 --> 01:49:31,639
Speaker 1: a pretty good job of building up a TV audience.

2274
01:49:31,960 --> 01:49:34,320
Speaker 1: So we've got, you know, the market promote to be

2275
01:49:34,720 --> 01:49:36,559
Speaker 1: smart about how we do it, but we really need

2276
01:49:36,600 --> 01:49:40,439
Speaker 1: to rely in large part on social media. But you're right, Steve,

2277
01:49:40,720 --> 01:49:44,599
Speaker 1: I'm amazed, you know at the constant chatter on all

2278
01:49:44,680 --> 01:49:48,160
Speaker 1: the ESPN stations and then you know the Fox Sports

2279
01:49:48,160 --> 01:49:50,960
Speaker 1: stations as well, you know just about the NFL. It's

2280
01:49:51,200 --> 01:49:55,200
Speaker 1: it's incredible, right, how much attention they get just because

2281
01:49:55,240 --> 01:49:57,760
Speaker 1: it is something that you know, Americans love. But I

2282
01:49:57,760 --> 01:49:59,640
Speaker 1: think we can we can peel off a little bit

2283
01:49:59,680 --> 01:50:01,360
Speaker 1: of a piece so that we don't need much, right,

2284
01:50:01,600 --> 01:50:03,400
Speaker 1: we peel off a piece of you know, one layer

2285
01:50:03,439 --> 01:50:06,439
Speaker 1: of that onion, I think we can have some success, Alibert,

2286
01:50:06,439 --> 01:50:09,400
Speaker 1: I've heard and read about some interesting rules changes, some

2287
01:50:09,680 --> 01:50:13,120
Speaker 1: pretty fundamental rules changes that the XFL will employ. Can

2288
01:50:13,120 --> 01:50:16,000
Speaker 1: you talk about those what we'll look different for football fans? Sure,

2289
01:50:16,080 --> 01:50:19,080
Speaker 1: We've got about a dozen things that we're looking at

2290
01:50:19,120 --> 01:50:21,559
Speaker 1: doing that are a little bit different than what the

2291
01:50:21,680 --> 01:50:23,720
Speaker 1: NFL does. I think ninety five percent of what the

2292
01:50:23,800 --> 01:50:26,280
Speaker 1: NFL does is great and that's going to be our default.

2293
01:50:26,280 --> 01:50:29,040
Speaker 1: But there's a few things we're looking at. One is

2294
01:50:29,040 --> 01:50:31,160
Speaker 1: a twenty five second clock, right just to speed up

2295
01:50:31,160 --> 01:50:33,600
Speaker 1: the game. I don't think people like watching players in

2296
01:50:33,640 --> 01:50:36,240
Speaker 1: a huddle. I'd rather see them playing an up temple,

2297
01:50:36,320 --> 01:50:39,160
Speaker 1: fast paced game. We've got a different kickoff that we're

2298
01:50:39,200 --> 01:50:41,639
Speaker 1: looking at. One of the things you'd like, Steve, We've

2299
01:50:41,680 --> 01:50:46,600
Speaker 1: got the redefinition of a forward pass, so you know,

2300
01:50:46,720 --> 01:50:49,960
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are in the shotgun so often now that they

2301
01:50:50,000 --> 01:50:53,120
Speaker 1: can't really throw a lateral pass to a wideout who

2302
01:50:53,280 --> 01:50:56,960
Speaker 1: you know, takes the second pass down field right, you know,

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01:50:57,000 --> 01:50:59,519
Speaker 1: the old trick play that you see every now and then,

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01:51:00,240 --> 01:51:02,479
Speaker 1: and you can't do that because the quarterbacks in the shotgun.

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01:51:02,560 --> 01:51:04,400
Speaker 1: For him to throw a lateral means of the receiver,

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01:51:04,439 --> 01:51:06,720
Speaker 1: it might be eight yards off the line of scrimmage.

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01:51:07,120 --> 01:51:11,160
Speaker 1: So we are looking at redefining what a forward pass is.

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01:51:11,200 --> 01:51:14,760
Speaker 1: As long as the ball doesn't cross the line of scrimmage,

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01:51:14,880 --> 01:51:18,120
Speaker 1: a quarterback could throw, you know, throw it sideways right

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01:51:18,280 --> 01:51:20,200
Speaker 1: to the wide receiver who could take a step back

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01:51:20,200 --> 01:51:22,599
Speaker 1: and then you know, launch a ball down field. So

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01:51:22,640 --> 01:51:24,880
Speaker 1: it's little things like that that we think are kind

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01:51:24,880 --> 01:51:28,080
Speaker 1: of fun. They're exciting plays. We may see one or

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01:51:28,120 --> 01:51:29,760
Speaker 1: two a game, but you know, one or two a

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01:51:29,760 --> 01:51:32,400
Speaker 1: game is is sort of cool because those are often

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01:51:32,439 --> 01:51:34,240
Speaker 1: big plays and we want to we want to make

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01:51:34,280 --> 01:51:36,320
Speaker 1: sure we have a you know, an uptemple, fast paced

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01:51:36,320 --> 01:51:39,719
Speaker 1: and a very offensive oriented game. So we've got about

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01:51:39,720 --> 01:51:43,040
Speaker 1: a dozen innovations that we think makes some sense. We

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01:51:43,040 --> 01:51:47,040
Speaker 1: were very selective and looking at these innovations. We spend

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01:51:47,120 --> 01:51:50,040
Speaker 1: a lot of time with former coaches guys like John

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01:51:50,120 --> 01:51:54,360
Speaker 1: Fox and Jim Caldwell, former you know player, great great

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01:51:54,400 --> 01:51:57,000
Speaker 1: former players like Doug Flutie. I wanted somebody that had

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01:51:57,040 --> 01:51:59,920
Speaker 1: played up in the CFL, you know, because we wanted

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01:51:59,920 --> 01:52:01,360
Speaker 1: to kind of take a look at some of the

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01:52:01,360 --> 01:52:04,120
Speaker 1: things that people up in the CFL. You guys are

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01:52:04,120 --> 01:52:06,960
Speaker 1: close in Buffalo to Toronto and you probably watch a

2328
01:52:06,960 --> 01:52:09,200
Speaker 1: little bit more CFL. There's a lot of cool things

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01:52:09,240 --> 01:52:12,040
Speaker 1: that they do in the CFL. In fact, we've adopted

2330
01:52:12,040 --> 01:52:15,200
Speaker 1: their punt, you know, which is the Halo rule, right,

2331
01:52:15,400 --> 01:52:17,920
Speaker 1: no fair catch, Halo rule, because we think that makes

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01:52:18,000 --> 01:52:20,559
Speaker 1: more sense, particularly in today's day and age, where you know,

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01:52:20,960 --> 01:52:23,960
Speaker 1: health and safety on special teams is more of a

2334
01:52:23,960 --> 01:52:26,360
Speaker 1: factor than it was, you know, even even a dozen

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01:52:26,439 --> 01:52:28,479
Speaker 1: years ago or so. So we've got a handful of

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01:52:28,479 --> 01:52:30,280
Speaker 1: things that we think people will like. But at the

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01:52:30,400 --> 01:52:33,200
Speaker 1: end of the day, we believe that our game will

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01:52:33,200 --> 01:52:37,040
Speaker 1: be eleven on eleven, same size fields, four downs, right,

2339
01:52:37,160 --> 01:52:40,320
Speaker 1: the same sort of game that everybody recognizes. I think

2340
01:52:40,320 --> 01:52:42,719
Speaker 1: people will turn on TV and say, oh, that's football.

2341
01:52:42,720 --> 01:52:46,040
Speaker 1: It's not quite you know, as different as like like

2342
01:52:46,160 --> 01:52:48,120
Speaker 1: the CFL is when you turn it on and see

2343
01:52:48,120 --> 01:52:50,959
Speaker 1: twelve people A guy running towards the line of scrimmage

2344
01:52:50,960 --> 01:52:54,080
Speaker 1: and motion in a much wider, you know, deeper field, right,

2345
01:52:54,120 --> 01:52:56,800
Speaker 1: so it's much more like the American game. One more

2346
01:52:56,840 --> 01:52:59,000
Speaker 1: question for Alibert Stephen I were talking earlier on our

2347
01:52:59,040 --> 01:53:01,720
Speaker 1: show here today about the XFL and uh, well, two

2348
01:53:01,760 --> 01:53:04,680
Speaker 1: part question about the players and salaries. What's like an

2349
01:53:04,680 --> 01:53:08,000
Speaker 1: average salary going to be And these guys that are

2350
01:53:08,000 --> 01:53:10,479
Speaker 1: you're going to be signed as you mentioned September first

2351
01:53:10,520 --> 01:53:13,320
Speaker 1: this year, are they then precluded from returning to the

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01:53:13,439 --> 01:53:14,920
Speaker 1: NFL or how do you how do you handle that?

2353
01:53:14,920 --> 01:53:17,600
Speaker 1: If a guy gets a call, as frequently happens, you know,

2354
01:53:17,640 --> 01:53:19,519
Speaker 1: after his release, Hey come on back, we cut you,

2355
01:53:19,640 --> 01:53:22,120
Speaker 1: We need you, now, what do you do about those? Well? Uh,

2356
01:53:22,840 --> 01:53:25,240
Speaker 1: once we have our draft, which means that a player

2357
01:53:25,320 --> 01:53:28,320
Speaker 1: is assigned to a team, you know, we uh we

2358
01:53:28,320 --> 01:53:30,880
Speaker 1: we will make that players stay with us, right because

2359
01:53:30,920 --> 01:53:33,280
Speaker 1: we're building franchise. We can have guys you know, just

2360
01:53:33,320 --> 01:53:36,280
Speaker 1: walk away at any at any one point, but certainly

2361
01:53:36,320 --> 01:53:38,840
Speaker 1: before that, um, you know, if a player is able

2362
01:53:38,920 --> 01:53:41,280
Speaker 1: before the draft takes players, if a player has an

2363
01:53:41,360 --> 01:53:44,120
Speaker 1: NFL opportunity, we would, you know, we would encourage him

2364
01:53:44,120 --> 01:53:46,280
Speaker 1: to take advantage of it. After our season is over.

2365
01:53:46,439 --> 01:53:48,240
Speaker 1: These are all going to be one year deals. After

2366
01:53:48,280 --> 01:53:51,760
Speaker 1: our season is over. We expect a lot of our

2367
01:53:51,800 --> 01:53:53,960
Speaker 1: guys to sign an NFL contracts and get back into

2368
01:53:54,000 --> 01:53:56,120
Speaker 1: training camp, and that's fine. You know, we're not trying

2369
01:53:56,160 --> 01:53:58,479
Speaker 1: to build a developmental league for the NFL. But we

2370
01:53:58,520 --> 01:54:02,400
Speaker 1: also realize the FELL determines the ecosystem, if you will,

2371
01:54:02,800 --> 01:54:04,960
Speaker 1: of football, and we're going to be better off with

2372
01:54:05,040 --> 01:54:06,800
Speaker 1: players who want to try to get back to the

2373
01:54:06,880 --> 01:54:10,840
Speaker 1: NFL who use you know, the xfls that opportunity. So

2374
01:54:11,200 --> 01:54:13,880
Speaker 1: we're going to have different salary levels. You know, our

2375
01:54:14,000 --> 01:54:17,599
Speaker 1: core player will be making anywhere between fifty five sixty

2376
01:54:17,600 --> 01:54:20,439
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year, but we'll have a handful of guys,

2377
01:54:20,439 --> 01:54:24,719
Speaker 1: including you know, the star quarterbacks, right premier quarterbacks who've

2378
01:54:24,720 --> 01:54:27,800
Speaker 1: all had NFL experience, they'll be able to earn you know,

2379
01:54:28,120 --> 01:54:30,800
Speaker 1: well into the six figures. So we're not doing what

2380
01:54:30,880 --> 01:54:33,520
Speaker 1: the Alliance did, which was pay everybody the same right,

2381
01:54:33,640 --> 01:54:36,320
Speaker 1: one size fits all. We've got you know, sort of

2382
01:54:36,400 --> 01:54:39,560
Speaker 1: three levels of salary that we'll be providing our players.

2383
01:54:39,800 --> 01:54:41,640
Speaker 1: Know what they like about this oliber it sounds very

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01:54:41,680 --> 01:54:45,080
Speaker 1: well thought out at this early stage, well I appreciate it.

2385
01:54:45,120 --> 01:54:47,000
Speaker 1: You know. Again, part of that was, you know, Vince

2386
01:54:47,040 --> 01:54:49,920
Speaker 1: giving us the opportunity to really sit and plan for

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01:54:50,000 --> 01:54:53,520
Speaker 1: a year, you know, and identify coaches and get input

2388
01:54:53,560 --> 01:54:56,360
Speaker 1: from coaches. You know. As you guys know, football is

2389
01:54:56,400 --> 01:54:59,400
Speaker 1: a it's not a complicated game, but it's a complex

2390
01:54:59,440 --> 01:55:01,880
Speaker 1: game but a lot some moving parts. So we wanted

2391
01:55:01,880 --> 01:55:04,400
Speaker 1: to make sure that we could, you know, shift through

2392
01:55:04,520 --> 01:55:06,560
Speaker 1: all these issues and really come up with a good,

2393
01:55:06,560 --> 01:55:09,680
Speaker 1: solid plan for the game, but also a good solid

2394
01:55:09,720 --> 01:55:12,000
Speaker 1: business plan. I think, you know, we're getting close to

2395
01:55:12,000 --> 01:55:14,680
Speaker 1: that point. But thanks for the opportunity to share this

2396
01:55:14,720 --> 01:55:17,320
Speaker 1: information with y'all. We appreciate it. You're right, you're there

2397
01:55:17,400 --> 01:55:19,160
Speaker 1: is there does seem to be a niche out there,

2398
01:55:19,200 --> 01:55:20,720
Speaker 1: and we wish you all the best at filling it

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01:55:20,720 --> 01:55:23,160
Speaker 1: in the spring time with your football league. Well, thank

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01:55:23,200 --> 01:55:25,440
Speaker 1: you very much, John Steve was a pleasure to talk

2401
01:55:25,480 --> 01:55:30,640
Speaker 1: with him. THANKSFL Commissioners. CEO played quarterback in the NFL

2402
01:55:30,920 --> 01:55:33,280
Speaker 1: for five seasons, most of that time with the Houston Earliers,

2403
01:55:33,320 --> 01:55:36,320
Speaker 1: former Houston teammate of Steve Tasker. Right, it sounds like

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01:55:37,120 --> 01:55:39,760
Speaker 1: they've thought it through right in terms of salaries, in

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01:55:39,880 --> 01:55:43,320
Speaker 1: terms of television I mean, who knows they'll work right

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01:55:43,440 --> 01:55:47,160
Speaker 1: and he still endscape is littered with failed spring football leagues,

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01:55:47,200 --> 01:55:49,960
Speaker 1: but this one seems like they've got a plan and

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01:55:50,000 --> 01:55:52,120
Speaker 1: they've got a group of people who've given it a shot,

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01:55:52,120 --> 01:55:55,480
Speaker 1: once learned some lessons fix that, watched other leagues and

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01:55:55,520 --> 01:55:58,120
Speaker 1: then most recently the AF This one year before they

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01:55:58,240 --> 01:56:01,840
Speaker 1: give it a shot, watch them watch the numbers and

2412
01:56:01,920 --> 01:56:05,760
Speaker 1: the and the geometry of where the interest was, why

2413
01:56:05,840 --> 01:56:07,760
Speaker 1: it failed. Some of the things that they did very

2414
01:56:07,800 --> 01:56:09,720
Speaker 1: well that you can incorporate some of the things they

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01:56:09,720 --> 01:56:11,320
Speaker 1: didn't do well. I think the fact that they're going

2416
01:56:11,400 --> 01:56:13,640
Speaker 1: to have their players under contract and they can't leave

2417
01:56:14,160 --> 01:56:16,680
Speaker 1: is a plus for their league. While it is, it's

2418
01:56:16,720 --> 01:56:18,760
Speaker 1: going to be a bigger decision for the players as

2419
01:56:18,760 --> 01:56:20,720
Speaker 1: to where they want to shut the door for six

2420
01:56:20,800 --> 01:56:23,720
Speaker 1: months on the NFL and play in the spring league.

2421
01:56:23,760 --> 01:56:26,520
Speaker 1: That like that, So it'll be interesting to see. We

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01:56:26,560 --> 01:56:29,800
Speaker 1: didn't ask and it was on my list, but we

2423
01:56:29,840 --> 01:56:33,080
Speaker 1: didn't ask about Johnny Manzel. But Oliver Luck was quoted

2424
01:56:33,120 --> 01:56:36,680
Speaker 1: just yesterday saying we don't know if Manzel will get

2425
01:56:36,720 --> 01:56:39,480
Speaker 1: an opportunity to play in the XFL. That remains to

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01:56:39,520 --> 01:56:41,080
Speaker 1: be seen. Why not, Why wouldn't he right, if he

2427
01:56:41,080 --> 01:56:43,000
Speaker 1: can play, he can help somebody. Why wouldn't he play

2428
01:56:43,240 --> 01:56:48,760
Speaker 1: Johnny Manziel, same reason he hasn't played yet. Probably, Yeah,

2429
01:56:48,920 --> 01:56:50,880
Speaker 1: he was talking about the coaches. Do you remember Kevin

2430
01:56:50,920 --> 01:56:53,200
Speaker 1: gilbrid who was offensive coordinator here. Yes, he's got the

2431
01:56:53,280 --> 01:56:54,760
Speaker 1: New York team. He's the head coach of the New

2432
01:56:54,800 --> 01:56:57,240
Speaker 1: York team. Kevin Gilbride was a good man. Did you

2433
01:56:57,240 --> 01:56:59,760
Speaker 1: ever deal with him much? I know, only only in

2434
01:56:59,800 --> 01:57:03,920
Speaker 1: a a couple of UHU production meetings when he was

2435
01:57:03,960 --> 01:57:06,520
Speaker 1: head coach of the Chargers A minute, Yeah, yeah, you

2436
01:57:06,560 --> 01:57:08,800
Speaker 1: know who else? At June Jones, who was coached my

2437
01:57:08,800 --> 01:57:10,920
Speaker 1: son last year in the Hamilton Tiger Cats. He's now

2438
01:57:11,360 --> 01:57:14,640
Speaker 1: in the XFL as well. Where we were with the Alliance.

2439
01:57:14,640 --> 01:57:17,320
Speaker 1: Remember we're rettling off the names of the guys involved,

2440
01:57:17,360 --> 01:57:19,360
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, that's that's that's a real guy,

2441
01:57:19,360 --> 01:57:21,360
Speaker 1: and that's an impressive guy. The XFL is lining those

2442
01:57:21,360 --> 01:57:24,200
Speaker 1: guys up. They do have some football people involved, no

2443
01:57:24,320 --> 01:57:26,800
Speaker 1: question about it. And and I think the football end

2444
01:57:26,840 --> 01:57:29,440
Speaker 1: of it, it's gonna be what it is. They're gonna

2445
01:57:29,480 --> 01:57:33,600
Speaker 1: be playing this game with some bells and whistles that

2446
01:57:33,680 --> 01:57:36,360
Speaker 1: make it a little bit unique, but not crazy. I

2447
01:57:36,360 --> 01:57:40,120
Speaker 1: remember XFL one point zero was a little bit crazy. Yeah. Uh,

2448
01:57:40,400 --> 01:57:44,040
Speaker 1: this league is gonna be a little bit more down

2449
01:57:44,040 --> 01:57:46,520
Speaker 1: to earth with some with some bells and whistles that

2450
01:57:46,560 --> 01:57:48,520
Speaker 1: make it more attractive and more fun to watch, more

2451
01:57:48,560 --> 01:57:52,160
Speaker 1: interesting to watch, but still at its core be good football. Um,

2452
01:57:52,160 --> 01:57:54,720
Speaker 1: it's gonna be as always going to be interesting to

2453
01:57:54,760 --> 01:57:56,880
Speaker 1: see him take the field and get a feel for

2454
01:57:56,920 --> 01:58:00,120
Speaker 1: what that league is really going to be. Likel went

2455
01:58:00,200 --> 01:58:02,920
Speaker 1: up in the spring February eighth, right after weekend after

2456
01:58:03,080 --> 01:58:06,440
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Are you one of them? I confess

2457
01:58:06,480 --> 01:58:08,040
Speaker 1: I'm one of those people who don't mind a week

2458
01:58:08,120 --> 01:58:10,280
Speaker 1: or two off football in this That's what i'man to me.

2459
01:58:10,440 --> 01:58:13,080
Speaker 1: Last year, the Alliance started up right after I watched

2460
01:58:13,080 --> 01:58:14,760
Speaker 1: that first game. Oh you did, I didn't. I was like,

2461
01:58:14,920 --> 01:58:17,280
Speaker 1: I need a break, any little break. And you know,

2462
01:58:17,760 --> 01:58:20,320
Speaker 1: I never saw it again. You couldn't find it, you

2463
01:58:20,320 --> 01:58:21,880
Speaker 1: know what I mean? It was hard were gone and

2464
01:58:21,880 --> 01:58:24,360
Speaker 1: then they were gone. Yeah. Hey, when we return, we

2465
01:58:24,440 --> 01:58:26,680
Speaker 1: got a couple of things going on. NFL Tour or

2466
01:58:26,720 --> 01:58:28,640
Speaker 1: false it is coming up. Also, we'll get back to

2467
01:58:28,680 --> 01:58:31,040
Speaker 1: our discussion of the day. Who would be the surprise

2468
01:58:31,600 --> 01:58:34,080
Speaker 1: breakout player? For the Bills in twenty nineteen. We will

2469
01:58:34,160 --> 01:58:36,680
Speaker 1: revisit the Twitter poll, read from the tweet sheet and

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01:58:36,680 --> 01:58:38,640
Speaker 1: take your phone calls at eight oh three oh five

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01:58:38,720 --> 01:58:41,880
Speaker 1: fifty and toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty. Steve Tasker, John Murphy coming back. One

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01:58:45,720 --> 01:58:48,760
Speaker 1: Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Ready.

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01:59:00,840 --> 01:59:03,240
Speaker 1: Welcome back One Bills Live from One Bills Drive, John

2475
01:59:03,320 --> 01:59:05,600
Speaker 1: Murphy and Steve Tasker coming to you from our One

2476
01:59:05,640 --> 01:59:08,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo studio. We've got the NFL Tour Falls coming up.

2477
01:59:09,240 --> 01:59:11,600
Speaker 1: We also have a Twitter poll which has got a

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01:59:11,640 --> 01:59:13,160
Speaker 1: lot of response and we have time for a few

2479
01:59:13,200 --> 01:59:15,760
Speaker 1: more responses if you're interested. I don't know from you

2480
01:59:16,520 --> 01:59:19,400
Speaker 1: who will be the surprise breakout player for the Buffalo

2481
01:59:19,440 --> 01:59:22,720
Speaker 1: Bills this season. Twitter poll We've got more than eleven

2482
01:59:22,840 --> 01:59:25,120
Speaker 1: hundred votes in so far, which is a good number,

2483
01:59:25,320 --> 01:59:28,120
Speaker 1: and it's very very close. Usually when there's this many votes,

2484
01:59:28,120 --> 01:59:30,600
Speaker 1: it doesn't stay this close. Who would be the surprise

2485
01:59:30,720 --> 01:59:33,720
Speaker 1: breakout player for the Bills in twenty nineteen? On Twitter?

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01:59:34,320 --> 01:59:37,000
Speaker 1: Thirty two percent of you say Zay Jones and thirty

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01:59:37,000 --> 01:59:40,640
Speaker 1: two percent say Devin Singletary. Motor right isn't it his

2488
01:59:40,720 --> 01:59:43,880
Speaker 1: nickname motor yep? Twenty percent say Trent Murphy, fifteen percent

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01:59:43,920 --> 01:59:46,760
Speaker 1: have somebody else in mind? Wow, that's really good. Eight

2490
01:59:46,800 --> 01:59:48,560
Speaker 1: oh three h five fifty The number to call if

2491
01:59:48,560 --> 01:59:50,960
Speaker 1: you have a thought on that toll free from outside

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01:59:50,960 --> 01:59:54,320
Speaker 1: Buffalo one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty,

2493
01:59:54,440 --> 01:59:56,560
Speaker 1: or you can send it a tweet two one, Bill Slive.

2494
01:59:56,600 --> 01:59:58,360
Speaker 1: We've got the tweet sheet, brought to you by Corrigan

2495
01:59:58,480 --> 02:00:01,320
Speaker 1: Moving Systems. The official movers are the Buffalo Bills. David

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02:00:01,440 --> 02:00:04,720
Speaker 1: is an interesting tweet. He says, Gosh, you could have

2497
02:00:04,760 --> 02:00:07,640
Speaker 1: had at least ten listed here as possibilities of Twitter allowed.

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02:00:07,880 --> 02:00:09,760
Speaker 1: Assuming he makes the team, and I'm thinking he will,

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02:00:09,800 --> 02:00:12,640
Speaker 1: I'll take a wild guest at wide receiver, Duke Williams.

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02:00:12,680 --> 02:00:15,000
Speaker 1: Someone will break out at wide receiver big time. Wow,

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02:00:15,040 --> 02:00:17,720
Speaker 1: that's a really David, that's a really good tweet. And

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02:00:17,760 --> 02:00:20,280
Speaker 1: it's a guest, as you said, and you're right, it's

2503
02:00:20,080 --> 02:00:22,280
Speaker 1: it was hard to pin down just three guys as

2504
02:00:22,320 --> 02:00:25,040
Speaker 1: potential breakout candidates. Yeah, we went round and around thinking

2505
02:00:25,040 --> 02:00:27,160
Speaker 1: we've be leave it as an open question instead of

2506
02:00:27,200 --> 02:00:32,240
Speaker 1: giving you the choices. But that's yeah, And Duke Williams

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02:00:32,280 --> 02:00:35,440
Speaker 1: has gotten a lot of play today because he does

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02:00:35,520 --> 02:00:39,000
Speaker 1: have that different look about him at the wide receiver

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02:00:39,120 --> 02:00:40,840
Speaker 1: position than the other guys. They've got a lot of

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02:00:40,840 --> 02:00:43,040
Speaker 1: speed guys out there, a lot of smaller guys. There's

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Speaker 1: more play for Duke Williams. I believe Tony and Niagara Falls. Hello,

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02:00:46,000 --> 02:00:47,360
Speaker 1: Tony are on the air? You want to talk about

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02:00:47,400 --> 02:00:49,160
Speaker 1: Duke Williams? Is that right? Hey? Guys? How are you

2514
02:00:49,160 --> 02:00:52,400
Speaker 1: doing today? Good? Great? How you miss a tasker? How

2515
02:00:52,440 --> 02:00:56,840
Speaker 1: are you good? Great? Excellent? I think it's Duke Williams

2516
02:00:57,800 --> 02:00:59,720
Speaker 1: reason I say Duke Williams. I watched him in in

2517
02:01:00,120 --> 02:01:05,520
Speaker 1: the CFL for two straight years and he reminds me

2518
02:01:05,600 --> 02:01:10,680
Speaker 1: of John Stalworth and Eric Moles. Wow, that's uh as

2519
02:01:11,120 --> 02:01:14,760
Speaker 1: John Stalwarth from the old Pittsburgh Steelers. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

2520
02:01:14,800 --> 02:01:16,720
Speaker 1: we know who he is. Yeah yeah, I know. You

2521
02:01:16,720 --> 02:01:20,960
Speaker 1: guys know. And Eric Moules. Yeah, and that's somebody else

2522
02:01:21,000 --> 02:01:25,160
Speaker 1: brought up the the uh similarities to Eric Mole's game

2523
02:01:25,160 --> 02:01:28,120
Speaker 1: as well. He's got that nasty kind of attitude, chippy

2524
02:01:28,120 --> 02:01:30,880
Speaker 1: attitude playing wide receiver that you don't see very often.

2525
02:01:31,360 --> 02:01:33,840
Speaker 1: And uh, he's got a He's a big body guy,

2526
02:01:33,920 --> 02:01:35,880
Speaker 1: bigger than most of the guys they've got on the roster.

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02:01:36,000 --> 02:01:38,600
Speaker 1: So that's uh, that's good. And why do you think

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02:01:38,720 --> 02:01:43,280
Speaker 1: his skill set will transfer down to the NFL, Because, um,

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Speaker 1: like he said, I'm not. I listened to an interview

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02:01:45,160 --> 02:01:46,640
Speaker 1: about it. He said, he grew up, he had to

2531
02:01:46,680 --> 02:01:49,480
Speaker 1: grow up and and and and be a grown man,

2532
02:01:50,080 --> 02:01:52,760
Speaker 1: you know, and washed him in the CFL, and he

2533
02:01:52,840 --> 02:01:57,640
Speaker 1: was a beast everything you could want. In a while,

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be our number one. That's what

2535
02:02:01,080 --> 02:02:03,800
Speaker 1: I heard about him from the CFL was that he

2536
02:02:03,840 --> 02:02:06,280
Speaker 1: was a fifty fifty ball winner. I mean the balls

2537
02:02:06,320 --> 02:02:10,360
Speaker 1: turned into sixty five thirty five balls instead of fifty fifty.

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02:02:10,440 --> 02:02:13,360
Speaker 1: So he's got that kind of physical ability. He's got

2539
02:02:13,360 --> 02:02:15,160
Speaker 1: the size and strength to go with it. We'll see

2540
02:02:15,160 --> 02:02:17,680
Speaker 1: if he can keep it between the lines and play

2541
02:02:17,840 --> 02:02:21,440
Speaker 1: in one of the player Shade McCoy shady is a

2542
02:02:21,440 --> 02:02:23,480
Speaker 1: breakout player. Where do you come up with that? Well,

2543
02:02:23,560 --> 02:02:26,320
Speaker 1: the reason being because, like a lot of people said,

2544
02:02:26,360 --> 02:02:29,040
Speaker 1: he didn't have an offensive line and a lot of

2545
02:02:29,040 --> 02:02:31,640
Speaker 1: things were going bad for the Bills last year. Even

2546
02:02:31,640 --> 02:02:34,680
Speaker 1: though you know and and you know rookie quarterback and

2547
02:02:34,800 --> 02:02:38,720
Speaker 1: offensive line, plus I'm rooting for him because I'm an

2548
02:02:38,760 --> 02:02:42,640
Speaker 1: original member of the midget football league he played in

2549
02:02:42,640 --> 02:02:46,520
Speaker 1: in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Night It started in the seventy one

2550
02:02:46,520 --> 02:02:48,720
Speaker 1: and I'm an original member of that and he played

2551
02:02:48,760 --> 02:02:51,440
Speaker 1: in the same league. So he's come some great stock.

2552
02:02:52,400 --> 02:02:56,120
Speaker 1: And he broke all your records, Tony, Right, right, Tony, Yeah,

2553
02:02:56,200 --> 02:02:59,880
Speaker 1: he broke all my records once he got off the bench. Perfect.

2554
02:03:00,120 --> 02:03:04,120
Speaker 1: That's great, Tony, great call, Thanks for calling. It's interesting

2555
02:03:04,160 --> 02:03:09,080
Speaker 1: that a player like Lashawn McCoy would be thought of

2556
02:03:09,120 --> 02:03:12,800
Speaker 1: as having a bake breakout season this year, after all

2557
02:03:12,840 --> 02:03:14,840
Speaker 1: he's done in the National Football League, and I get

2558
02:03:14,880 --> 02:03:17,000
Speaker 1: it would be a bounce back year, no question about it,

2559
02:03:17,040 --> 02:03:19,880
Speaker 1: because he did struggle the the whole offense struggle last year.

2560
02:03:19,880 --> 02:03:22,760
Speaker 1: But to use him as a breakout player might be

2561
02:03:22,800 --> 02:03:25,240
Speaker 1: a little bit of a stretch. From the tweet sheet

2562
02:03:25,280 --> 02:03:28,360
Speaker 1: from Richard response to the question who'll be the surprise

2563
02:03:28,880 --> 02:03:31,320
Speaker 1: breakout player for the Bills this year, Richard says Trent

2564
02:03:31,800 --> 02:03:34,800
Speaker 1: Trent Murphy. He thrives on working hard, and because of injury,

2565
02:03:35,080 --> 02:03:36,680
Speaker 1: he has not been able to do it in Buffalo

2566
02:03:36,760 --> 02:03:40,720
Speaker 1: until this year. Oliver and Hughes require extra attention. He'll

2567
02:03:40,840 --> 02:03:43,440
Speaker 1: be He'll win the one on one battles, more front

2568
02:03:43,480 --> 02:03:46,640
Speaker 1: four pressure this year, and higher sack count and significantly

2569
02:03:46,720 --> 02:03:50,160
Speaker 1: more interceptions. Go Bill, It's interesting, Trent Murphy, he says,

2570
02:03:50,280 --> 02:03:55,000
Speaker 1: Goode's yeah, and you've for right for good reasons too,

2571
02:03:55,000 --> 02:03:57,040
Speaker 1: because it last year four sacks. I'm sure that was

2572
02:03:57,080 --> 02:04:00,200
Speaker 1: below his expectations. And there's no question. We had him

2573
02:04:00,200 --> 02:04:02,360
Speaker 1: in here and he said he feels one hundred percent

2574
02:04:02,400 --> 02:04:05,680
Speaker 1: better than he did a year ago. More confident, he's stronger,

2575
02:04:05,720 --> 02:04:08,360
Speaker 1: and he just feels closer to being normal, which you

2576
02:04:08,360 --> 02:04:10,320
Speaker 1: would think lee would lead to better play. We've also

2577
02:04:10,400 --> 02:04:12,080
Speaker 1: got one more from the tweet sheet. Who will be

2578
02:04:12,120 --> 02:04:16,360
Speaker 1: the surprise breakout year for twenty nineteen Buffalo Bills from

2579
02:04:16,400 --> 02:04:21,040
Speaker 1: Andrews says, also, I'm going with McCoy. He didn't have

2580
02:04:21,040 --> 02:04:23,280
Speaker 1: the best results last year and that falls a lot

2581
02:04:23,360 --> 02:04:25,280
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. So hopefully the new line will

2582
02:04:25,280 --> 02:04:27,160
Speaker 1: open up holes, his numbers start to stack up again.

2583
02:04:27,200 --> 02:04:30,080
Speaker 1: A lot of success this season will fall upon the

2584
02:04:30,120 --> 02:04:32,000
Speaker 1: old line improvement. We had a caller earlier in this

2585
02:04:32,040 --> 02:04:34,240
Speaker 1: show that said that same thing. It all comes down

2586
02:04:34,240 --> 02:04:37,560
Speaker 1: to the offensive line, and if they don't fix that,

2587
02:04:38,280 --> 02:04:40,480
Speaker 1: nobody is going to play well on the offense. And

2588
02:04:40,520 --> 02:04:45,480
Speaker 1: I think that's true. But here's the thing, and I

2589
02:04:45,520 --> 02:04:47,360
Speaker 1: said it when we had Bobby Johnson on here. The

2590
02:04:47,360 --> 02:04:50,800
Speaker 1: old line is always considered one one player, but it's

2591
02:04:50,840 --> 02:04:53,400
Speaker 1: five guys, and if you're gonna try and individualize it,

2592
02:04:53,920 --> 02:04:55,680
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get very far. When you talk about

2593
02:04:55,720 --> 02:04:57,800
Speaker 1: skill positions, guys are gonna break out years. You need

2594
02:04:57,840 --> 02:05:00,440
Speaker 1: to have something you can quantify, and the offense of line,

2595
02:05:00,800 --> 02:05:02,520
Speaker 1: if you got to talk about all five of them,

2596
02:05:02,600 --> 02:05:05,120
Speaker 1: certainly you can quantify the running game and pass protection,

2597
02:05:05,120 --> 02:05:07,280
Speaker 1: the amount of Sashi give up, but you can't put

2598
02:05:07,280 --> 02:05:09,680
Speaker 1: it in just one guy, right, And when you have

2599
02:05:09,880 --> 02:05:12,960
Speaker 1: almost five of the eleven guys on the field fall

2600
02:05:13,040 --> 02:05:16,080
Speaker 1: inside the offensive line, if they're not playing, five of

2601
02:05:16,120 --> 02:05:19,120
Speaker 1: your eleven guys are worthless out there. So yeah, it's

2602
02:05:19,120 --> 02:05:21,000
Speaker 1: gonna look pretty bad if they're not playing. Well. We

2603
02:05:21,040 --> 02:05:23,920
Speaker 1: all found that out in the hard way last year. Hey,

2604
02:05:23,960 --> 02:05:25,680
Speaker 1: let's switch gears a little bit to a little True

2605
02:05:25,680 --> 02:05:27,760
Speaker 1: and false NFL True or False brought to you by

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02:05:28,040 --> 02:05:30,640
Speaker 1: Yancy's Fancy New York's artists in chiefs. A couple of

2607
02:05:30,640 --> 02:05:33,240
Speaker 1: good ones here today. True or false. This comes from

2608
02:05:33,360 --> 02:05:36,960
Speaker 1: USA today. The Chargers are the most primed team to

2609
02:05:37,080 --> 02:05:42,040
Speaker 1: win their first ever Super Bowl. The USA Today article

2610
02:05:42,080 --> 02:05:44,800
Speaker 1: says that with the possible exception of a credible home

2611
02:05:44,840 --> 02:05:47,520
Speaker 1: field advantage, they don't seem to be lacking for much.

2612
02:05:48,280 --> 02:05:51,280
Speaker 1: Twelve and four AFC's top record last year, and that

2613
02:05:51,400 --> 02:05:53,839
Speaker 1: was without Joey Bosa and a couple of others, including

2614
02:05:53,880 --> 02:05:57,640
Speaker 1: tight end Hunter Henry Look. I picked the Chargers as

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02:05:57,680 --> 02:06:00,360
Speaker 1: my AFC Super Bowl representative in each of the last

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02:06:00,360 --> 02:06:02,640
Speaker 1: two years. I might. I'm not doing it today, Steve,

2617
02:06:02,640 --> 02:06:05,080
Speaker 1: but I might. They've got talent all across the board.

2618
02:06:05,120 --> 02:06:07,640
Speaker 1: They've got a good coaching staff. I say true to this,

2619
02:06:07,760 --> 02:06:11,240
Speaker 1: the Chargers are primed to win their first ever Super Bowl.

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02:06:11,240 --> 02:06:13,920
Speaker 1: I think the Chargers are really set up well. No

2621
02:06:14,040 --> 02:06:17,320
Speaker 1: question there in a window of opportunity here. Philip Rivers

2622
02:06:17,360 --> 02:06:20,360
Speaker 1: is still throwing the football at a high rate. I

2623
02:06:20,600 --> 02:06:23,640
Speaker 1: still really the only thing that counted against you can

2624
02:06:23,680 --> 02:06:26,440
Speaker 1: count against the La Chargers is their venue, their home game.

2625
02:06:26,520 --> 02:06:29,160
Speaker 1: Their home games aren't home games. It didn't stop them

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02:06:29,240 --> 02:06:31,280
Speaker 1: last year from playing extremely well and winning a lot

2627
02:06:31,320 --> 02:06:34,280
Speaker 1: of games. But I think you know, sooner or later

2628
02:06:34,360 --> 02:06:36,840
Speaker 1: that's going to come back to get them. There's a

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02:06:36,880 --> 02:06:41,960
Speaker 1: reason why they've never won a Super Bowl, and I

2630
02:06:42,000 --> 02:06:44,000
Speaker 1: just think they've never been able to put it together.

2631
02:06:44,520 --> 02:06:47,000
Speaker 1: And one of the reasons is their home venue has

2632
02:06:47,120 --> 02:06:50,000
Speaker 1: never been a quality venue. Even when they were at

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02:06:50,040 --> 02:06:54,240
Speaker 1: Jack Murphy Stadium, it was a it's a dump and

2634
02:06:54,480 --> 02:07:00,240
Speaker 1: stub Hub Field. While it's very nice, is the eyes

2635
02:07:00,320 --> 02:07:05,560
Speaker 1: of you know, I mean there's like there's like, yeah,

2636
02:07:05,560 --> 02:07:09,400
Speaker 1: there's like two hundred colleges that have a bigger stadium.

2637
02:07:09,920 --> 02:07:12,280
Speaker 1: So I don't know if there's one thing you count

2638
02:07:12,280 --> 02:07:14,000
Speaker 1: against them. It has nothing to do with their roster,

2639
02:07:14,080 --> 02:07:15,440
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with their players, has nothing to

2640
02:07:15,480 --> 02:07:17,880
Speaker 1: do with their coaches. It's their home venue. So other

2641
02:07:17,920 --> 02:07:20,240
Speaker 1: than that, yeah, and there's no you don't have to

2642
02:07:20,280 --> 02:07:22,520
Speaker 1: really look very far to see how good the Chargers

2643
02:07:22,520 --> 02:07:25,360
Speaker 1: could be. So yeah, I'll say true to that, they

2644
02:07:25,360 --> 02:07:27,320
Speaker 1: are stacked for it, except for one thing in the

2645
02:07:27,360 --> 02:07:30,760
Speaker 1: place they play in. Speaking of venues, NFL True or

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02:07:30,800 --> 02:07:34,600
Speaker 1: false Number two of our two selections, lambeau Field is

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02:07:34,640 --> 02:07:36,880
Speaker 1: the best venue in the NFL. This comes from New

2648
02:07:36,960 --> 02:07:40,640
Speaker 1: York Jets dot Com, the home of the Packers. They

2649
02:07:40,680 --> 02:07:43,640
Speaker 1: had an article about NFL stadium rankings, Which team has

2650
02:07:43,680 --> 02:07:45,960
Speaker 1: the best venue, which team has the worst? Where does

2651
02:07:46,000 --> 02:07:49,600
Speaker 1: MetLife Stadium rank. They ranked MetLife Stadium number twenty six,

2652
02:07:49,720 --> 02:07:52,040
Speaker 1: the home of the Giants and the Jets. They ranked

2653
02:07:52,080 --> 02:07:54,560
Speaker 1: New air of Field number twenty five. Let me just

2654
02:07:54,600 --> 02:07:57,040
Speaker 1: read that. Yes, we're putting the former rich Stadium ahead

2655
02:07:57,040 --> 02:07:59,960
Speaker 1: of the expensive building in East Rutherford. Yes, the build

2656
02:08:00,120 --> 02:08:02,280
Speaker 1: need a new stadium. But for all of this place's flaws,

2657
02:08:02,960 --> 02:08:05,160
Speaker 1: at least it is character and atmosphere and pretty good

2658
02:08:05,200 --> 02:08:08,600
Speaker 1: viewing angles. Duh, of course it does. But they got

2659
02:08:08,680 --> 02:08:11,120
Speaker 1: Lamba ranked there's the best venue in the NFL. True false?

2660
02:08:11,400 --> 02:08:15,600
Speaker 1: I say false. Lambo's fine, but and there's tons of

2661
02:08:15,680 --> 02:08:18,480
Speaker 1: history if you're into that thing, which many people are,

2662
02:08:18,480 --> 02:08:21,520
Speaker 1: And I get that, But there are better viewing places

2663
02:08:21,560 --> 02:08:24,600
Speaker 1: for a venue to watch NFL football than Lambeau Field.

2664
02:08:24,640 --> 02:08:28,200
Speaker 1: It's pretty basic inside. There's nothing special about the site lines,

2665
02:08:28,360 --> 02:08:30,760
Speaker 1: unlike the place right next door here, where I think

2666
02:08:30,800 --> 02:08:33,240
Speaker 1: the site lines are fantastic. I happen to think this

2667
02:08:33,320 --> 02:08:35,240
Speaker 1: is one of the best places to watch an NFL

2668
02:08:35,280 --> 02:08:37,440
Speaker 1: game in the league right now. And if you don't

2669
02:08:37,480 --> 02:08:43,280
Speaker 1: care about you know, crazy, you know, expensive, huge scoreboards

2670
02:08:43,280 --> 02:08:45,720
Speaker 1: that straddle the field, and if you don't care about

2671
02:08:45,760 --> 02:08:50,080
Speaker 1: all kinds of weird suites and expensive seats. This might

2672
02:08:50,120 --> 02:08:51,920
Speaker 1: be the best place right here. What sound like a

2673
02:08:51,960 --> 02:08:53,720
Speaker 1: homer Okay, I think this is the best place to

2674
02:08:53,720 --> 02:08:56,240
Speaker 1: watch an NFL game. Right what's another stadium you like

2675
02:08:57,080 --> 02:08:59,320
Speaker 1: to get outside of Buffalo? Okay, outside of Buffalo. I

2676
02:08:59,320 --> 02:09:02,440
Speaker 1: really like Gillette. Yeah. I think it's a good place

2677
02:09:02,480 --> 02:09:04,600
Speaker 1: for to watch a game, a good site. Lines like

2678
02:09:05,120 --> 02:09:06,840
Speaker 1: Orchard Park. Has been a lot of time there, Yep,

2679
02:09:06,880 --> 02:09:08,440
Speaker 1: I've been there a lot. I think that's a really

2680
02:09:08,440 --> 02:09:11,520
Speaker 1: good place. And I like, um Baltimore. It's a great stadium.

2681
02:09:11,560 --> 02:09:14,520
Speaker 1: I think Baltimore's an intimate stadium. Yes, it's very intimate.

2682
02:09:14,560 --> 02:09:16,720
Speaker 1: Good And I like this too because we don't talk

2683
02:09:16,760 --> 02:09:19,680
Speaker 1: about this very much anymore. They're football only stadiums. Yeah,

2684
02:09:19,720 --> 02:09:22,360
Speaker 1: like Miami Dolphins. That's a soccer stadium and it's used

2685
02:09:22,400 --> 02:09:25,720
Speaker 1: to be a baseball stadium as well. And the sideline

2686
02:09:26,280 --> 02:09:29,760
Speaker 1: stands are very far from the field. Um yeah. I

2687
02:09:30,720 --> 02:09:34,600
Speaker 1: And and Lambo's a very nice venue. Although it's I

2688
02:09:34,600 --> 02:09:37,880
Speaker 1: don't know mystique in the history. I mean, and it

2689
02:09:37,920 --> 02:09:39,920
Speaker 1: does and it doesn't when you're standing on the sidelines.

2690
02:09:40,000 --> 02:09:42,000
Speaker 1: I did a game there this year. I love you.

2691
02:09:42,160 --> 02:09:45,280
Speaker 1: They've added lots of seats onto that stadium up high,

2692
02:09:45,360 --> 02:09:47,440
Speaker 1: and they're very in and it makes it even more intimate.

2693
02:09:47,480 --> 02:09:50,879
Speaker 1: So yeah, there are, Yeah, there are some nice stadiums,

2694
02:09:50,920 --> 02:09:53,360
Speaker 1: and and it comes down to personal preference. I don't

2695
02:09:53,400 --> 02:09:55,240
Speaker 1: you know, you can't quantify any of this, and I

2696
02:09:55,240 --> 02:09:57,600
Speaker 1: don't know why they even try, because there are certain

2697
02:09:57,600 --> 02:10:00,480
Speaker 1: things about this stadium and an Orchard Park that are

2698
02:10:00,560 --> 02:10:05,840
Speaker 1: far outstrip other stadiums, even the new ones. But I'm

2699
02:10:05,840 --> 02:10:07,760
Speaker 1: with h. Murph, there's nothing wrong with this stadium we've

2700
02:10:07,760 --> 02:10:10,200
Speaker 1: got here. It's got great sight lines, great venues. I think,

2701
02:10:10,440 --> 02:10:12,840
Speaker 1: like you look at Seattle. I've always said that stadium

2702
02:10:13,000 --> 02:10:15,400
Speaker 1: is a work of art. But you know what, there

2703
02:10:15,400 --> 02:10:17,520
Speaker 1: are a lot of seats in that stadium that are

2704
02:10:17,560 --> 02:10:20,240
Speaker 1: really high and far away from the action, very far.

2705
02:10:20,360 --> 02:10:22,480
Speaker 1: We're trying to get around and see it. Yeah, it's hard,

2706
02:10:22,520 --> 02:10:25,480
Speaker 1: hard to maneuver that. It's hard. It's hard. That's big

2707
02:10:25,560 --> 02:10:27,760
Speaker 1: for me at the ease of what you get around.

2708
02:10:27,760 --> 02:10:30,600
Speaker 1: But I think it's interesting. And yeah, you'd be a

2709
02:10:30,640 --> 02:10:32,640
Speaker 1: lot of people for a stadium that is as old

2710
02:10:32,640 --> 02:10:35,840
Speaker 1: as ours is. How well it stacks up? Does? I

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02:10:35,880 --> 02:10:38,160
Speaker 1: think it really does? All Right, a break, we got

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Speaker 1: he preferred Alarm at home Theater provider of the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: Bred gen Yon joining us from Bleacher Report earlier on

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Speaker 1: on the show, we talk to him about our Twitter

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Speaker 1: topic of the day, who has the best chance to

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Speaker 1: be a breakout a surprise breakout player for the Bills

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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. Here's what Bred said in Buffalo. You

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Speaker 1: wouldn't consider Robert Foster to be a surprise at this point.

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Speaker 1: I think nationally you still would. I know, obviously John

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Speaker 1: Brown and Cole Beasley joining that receiving corps, you know,

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Speaker 1: you wonder how many opportunities he'll get. But when you

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Speaker 1: look at what he did late last season and down

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Speaker 1: the stretch and the impact he can make with a

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Speaker 1: guy like Josh Allen getting their under the ball, you

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Speaker 1: wonder if he might have a pretty big season lying

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Speaker 1: ahead of him. And then you know again, same deal.

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Speaker 1: Tyler Croft is a free agent acquisition. No one should

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Speaker 1: overlook him. But considering the fact that he only has

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Speaker 1: the one big season in terms of touchdowns for the

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Speaker 1: Bengals a couple of years ago, someone no one's really

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Speaker 1: talking about nationally, especially considering all the other moves the

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Speaker 1: team made. Any season, I'd look for those two pass catchers,

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Speaker 1: especially if Kraft can get healthy and be productive. Right,

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Speaker 1: Pretty good, pretty good reasoning by Breg Genya. We had

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Speaker 1: Oliver Luck on the show earlier this hour, the new

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Speaker 1: CEO and commissioner of XFL two. We asked him what

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Speaker 1: will make this XFL work in spring football when other

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Speaker 1: leagues have failed. Here's what he said. You know, Vince McMahon,

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Speaker 1: the WWE chairman, CEO, founder, you know, is supporting this

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Speaker 1: league financially, and he's given us the time to plan. Right. So,

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Speaker 1: I've been on board now for about a year. Our

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Speaker 1: head coaches have been on board back you know, some

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Speaker 1: February March of this year, hiring staff, etc. There's no

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Speaker 1: substitute for time to put a roster together, to get

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Speaker 1: TV deals lined up, which we have with the Fox

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Speaker 1: and the ABC ESPNU. So it's really time and it's

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Speaker 1: and it's quite honestly the resources that Vins has to

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Speaker 1: put behind this league. You know, money matters in startups.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't matter if it's a tech or healthcare or a

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Speaker 1: supporting restart of money matter, and Vince has committed to

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Speaker 1: making this this league work in terms of the financial resources.

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Speaker 1: So I guess at the end of the day, I'd

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Speaker 1: say two things, you know, time and resources. They got

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Speaker 1: them both. We'll see if it works. Hey, we had

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Speaker 1: a really good, really close Twitter poll today, maybe as

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Speaker 1: close as etze for men who will be the surprise

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Speaker 1: breakout player for the Bills in twenty nineteen, and with

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Speaker 1: more than twelve hundred votes in right, twelve twelve hundred

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Speaker 1: votes in thirty three percent said j Z Jones, thirty

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Speaker 1: two percent say Devin Singletary, twenty percent say Trent Murphy,

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Speaker 1: fifteen percent say somebody else. Surprised by the tightness of

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Speaker 1: that race, but I get it's Steve. Yeah, it's it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be fun to watch training camp. We're kind of

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Speaker 1: getting geared up for US thirty eight thirty seven days,

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Speaker 1: I think away and the league's had a dark so

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be having generalized Twitter topics. I think for

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Speaker 1: a few weeks might need some help to decipher. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna meditate on that time, think about production assistance from

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Speaker 1: George Blast, Jeff Colton and Thomas Holder, Kelly Rude, j J. Gurito,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Carges, James Roebel, our producer Jay Harris. We are

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