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Speaker 1: as you used to pre pandemic. Other news, and this

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Speaker 1: is according to NFL Networks Judy Bautista. Doctor Alan Sills,

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Speaker 1: the chief medical officer for the NFL, says eighty percent

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Speaker 1: of all NFL players have begun the vaccination process. Only

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Speaker 1: five teams have less than seventy percent of their players vaccinated.

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Speaker 1: So again it appears that the league as a whole

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Speaker 1: is on the right track to have more of the

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Speaker 1: teams reach the vaccination threshold necessary to carry on daily

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Speaker 1: operations as they did pre pandemic, provided they get to

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Speaker 1: the eighty five percent figures. So we'll have to see

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Speaker 1: where it goes from here, but it certainly sounds like

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Speaker 1: teams are moving in the right direction. Daniel Kaplan was

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Speaker 1: tweeting over eighty percent of NFL players have had at

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Speaker 1: least one COVID vaccine shot, so that probably one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent of that eighty percent needs a second one. Because

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Speaker 1: Fiser and Madurna seemed to be more popular than the

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Speaker 1: Johnson and Johnson one shot, they got to wait three

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Speaker 1: weeks then get the second shot. So there's a there's

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Speaker 1: a lapse of time here that's keeping more of these

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Speaker 1: teams from reaching the threshold, and some probably won't reach

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Speaker 1: it by the opening of training camp next week. That's

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Speaker 1: just what I was thinking. I imagine there's probably gonna

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Speaker 1: be there was probably a mad rush at the point

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Speaker 1: where if you don't do it now, you're gonna miss

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Speaker 1: some training camp or not be vaccinated at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of training camp. So I think there'll be a large

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Speaker 1: boost in the numbers of guys getting the second shot

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Speaker 1: right at the wire before training camp, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. So like yesterday they were fourteen, today there's sixteen,

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Speaker 1: tomorrow there might be twenty. You know, they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: guys getting the second shot in droves, or at least

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Speaker 1: reaching the fourteen day window after they've been inoculated twice,

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Speaker 1: that kind of thing. So I think that number will

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Speaker 1: grow with a big rush right at the end where

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Speaker 1: guys will get that you know, shot in that window

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Speaker 1: before training can we'll know more about where the Bills

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Speaker 1: stand on that when you know, they report on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: and you know, coach McDermott meets the media, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: he's going to be asked about where the team stands

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Speaker 1: in terms of their percentages of vaccinated players, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we'll just have to take it from there. The facts

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Speaker 1: will be the facts, the numbers will be the numbers,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully, sooner rather than later, the team will be

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Speaker 1: at a point where they can carry on business as

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Speaker 1: usual because we've heard players around the league say, if

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Speaker 1: we can operate on a daily basis like we did

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Speaker 1: pre pandemic, and there are teams out there that cannot

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Speaker 1: because they don't have enough players vaccinated, it is a

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Speaker 1: competitive advantage. It is unquestionably a competitive advantage that has

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Speaker 1: been stated by dozens of players and coaches across the league.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see if that's enough motivation for all the

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Speaker 1: teams to get fully vaccinated. In addition to the memo

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Speaker 1: that was sent yesterday. Case you're just joining us, it

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Speaker 1: is an obl fan Friday mail bag. As always, we

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Speaker 1: will also have taskers teammate coming up at our next segment.

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Speaker 1: But the obl fan Friday mail Bag means you have

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Speaker 1: a question about the Bills, the league, football in general,

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00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: fire it off at Steve and I on Twitter at

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live, and we'll do our best to get

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Speaker 1: to each and every one of them. If you want

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Speaker 1: to call, you're welcome to do that as well. Eight

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Speaker 1: oh three oh five fifty one eight eight eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty And we should also mention, in

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Speaker 1: addition to Tasker's teammate coming up in about five minutes,

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Speaker 1: we will also have Tyler Dunn, the founder and editor

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Speaker 1: of Golong t d am I right help me out,

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Speaker 1: Jay golong td dot com. He's got a nice story

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Speaker 1: coming up on Dion Dawkins and we wanted to talk

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Speaker 1: to him about that. And then in the third hour

497
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Speaker 1: the show, we will have Matt Miller joining us. As

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Speaker 1: he's pretty bullish on some of what he leaves the

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00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 1: Bills will be capable of with some of his rankings reports,

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Speaker 1: so we'll check in with Matt at that time Steve

501
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 1: and I will step aside now, but when we come back,

502
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: it is the latest installment, the return of Tasker's Teammate

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Speaker 1: that's coming your way next Here on One Bills Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Colada Help. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you,

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00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 1: and it is that time and the show, the triumphant Return.

507
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 1: It was briefly on hiatus, but it is back. It

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00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: is Tasker's Teammates. Oh and as you know, it's brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Wegman's Meals to Go Delicious Meals Delivered

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Speaker 1: download the Wegman's app. Today, Steve, we got a good

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Speaker 1: one for you. And for those of you that are

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Speaker 1: not familiar with Tasker's Teammate, I give Steve a series

513
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: of clues describing a former teammate of his from his

514
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: thirteen year NFL career with you, and chiefly with the Bills,

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Speaker 1: No No Oilers Teammates on here and we'll see how

516
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 1: long it takes Steve to guests. Sometimes we have the

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00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: teammate on the line. That is not the case today. Unfortunately,

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00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 1: we did our best, but we're unsuccessful in getting a

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00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: hold of this teammate. But we begin with clue number one.

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Speaker 1: Born in Cleveland, Ohio in nineteen sixty eight. I moved

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Speaker 1: around a lot growing up. I lived in Cleveland, Minneapolis,

522
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: Saint Louis, Chicago, La. San Francisco, and back to Cleveland

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Speaker 1: before I went to college. Remember any teammate that moved

524
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: around a lot gotta be an army brand. I don't believe. So. See,

525
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: I know Darryl Tallely, it is not Darrel. He is

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Speaker 1: from Cleveland. You are right about that, But it is

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Speaker 1: not Darryl tap don't go alright, corn clue his dad.

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Speaker 1: I remember this now because I saw it on the bio.

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00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: His dad worked for Sherwin Williams and promotions and stuff.

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00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 1: He's moving around all the time. That was the reason why.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, wait a minute, that kind of does bring

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00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: about it rings a bell. Who is dad worked for? Wow,

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Speaker 1: I'd be impressed if you can already had Henry Jones

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Speaker 1: on right? We did, okay. Clue number two. With the

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00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: exposure to the West Coast growing up, my high school

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00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: football career provided me with an opportunity to play my

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00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: college ball in the then Pac ten. It was there

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Speaker 1: where I earned the nickname the Undertaker for playing an

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00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: entire game with a broken jaw. Gabe Northern, It is

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Speaker 1: not Gabe Northern. I don't think so. Gabe Norther went

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Speaker 1: to LSU right Undertaker, Oh, wait, Undertaker. Oh, I gotta

542
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 1: know that. Sam Rogers, it is not Sam Rodgers the Undertaker.

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00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 1: I gotta be careful. When I didn't know a place

544
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Speaker 1: like this, I started swearing. Alright, go clue number three.

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00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: Just like Steve. I was a ninth round draft choice,

546
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Speaker 1: but I was picked by the Bills with the two

547
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty first pick, about twenty five picks later

548
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 1: than Steve was in his draft class sixty eight, So

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Speaker 1: he's probably drafted ninety Nah, sixty ain't ny six years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah one, the Undertaker, Ruben It is not Ruben Brown.

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00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: He played it, pitt. I can't keep track of everybody

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00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 1: I know. Um the Undertaker that is. That's got me, man,

553
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: I know you're just hanging on that pac ten Cleveland

554
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 1: moved everywhere. The doll over the place, the Undertaker, broken jaw,

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00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: tough guy. All right, I don't know, keep going clue

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00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: number four. After a couple of years on the Bill's roster,

557
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 1: I moved on to play for an NFC team where

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Speaker 1: I was fortunate enough to play for the same head

559
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Speaker 1: coach I had in college for eight of the last

560
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Speaker 1: nine years of my career. Put together a nice career.

561
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Speaker 1: So now you have to thank Steve of a Pac

562
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Speaker 1: ten college that went on to coach in the NFL.

563
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Speaker 1: That might help you. Howard Ballard, it is not or

564
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Speaker 1: not that Pete would be care what's in a college

565
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: coach way back in the day that came out and

566
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 1: didn't have him? Oh, John Perella, it is not John Parrella.

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00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: He was a Nebraska kid. I will go to the

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00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 1: next clue for you, all right, Okay. On that NFC team,

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Speaker 1: I had a special team's role similar to Steve, as

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Speaker 1: it was hard for me to get on the field

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Speaker 1: at my given position due to the talent we had

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Speaker 1: on our roster. I did set a team record. Chris Walsh,

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Speaker 1: it is Chris Chris Walsh. Steve, you are one hundred

574
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Speaker 1: percent correct. He set a team record with thirty special

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Speaker 1: teams tackles in a season and also served as his

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Speaker 1: team's special teams captain. And Chris Walsh, you want to

577
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:52,760
Speaker 1: you want to know how to get to the NFL.

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00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: You gotta have two attributes, and that's it. You gotta

579
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: be smart and tough. That's what Chris Walsh was. The

580
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 1: undertaker that threw you, didn't that because you're not thinking

581
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: of a wide receiver when you hear undertaker, undertaker's funny.

582
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: What a Yeah? That guy tough and smart, tough and smart,

583
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:19,240
Speaker 1: and it's so funny how his career in many ways

584
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:21,800
Speaker 1: parallel yours. Steve because he was a very good special

585
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 1: same position, late round draft choice, had to carve out

586
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 1: a role for himself because playing on offense at wide

587
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,800
Speaker 1: receiver was not gonna happen for you here in Buffalo

588
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: because of the guys you had on your roster. Dennis

589
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 1: Kue Hall of Famers. He played for Dennis Green. Yes,

590
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 1: that was my college coach, Dennis Green at Stanford. Oh see.

591
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: I played for Denny at Northwestern. Yeah, and then played

592
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 1: for him again in Minnesota. And you play, so you

593
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,919
Speaker 1: had the same college coach too. Yeah. And then let's

594
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 1: take it a step further. He couldn't get on the

595
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: field at receiver for his team because the room had

596
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: Randy Moss, Chris Carter, Jake Reid, Um, I mean my guy,

597
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 1: and you had the same problem here with a couple

598
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: of Hall of famers, James Lofton, Andre Reid, Beabs and

599
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: you know the crew right here. Let me here's a

600
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: story about. So we're playing. It's his I think it's

601
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 1: his rookie year, and he comes out of Standford. He's

602
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: a tough kid. Like I said, he didn't wear he did.

603
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,399
Speaker 1: He was one of those guys didn't wear gloves, right,

604
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: he was a bare handed guy receiver and all that.

605
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 1: So we're playing somebody and I think it's like Minneapolis.

606
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: We're playing maybe the Vikings, maybe in a preseason game.

607
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:29,440
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it was a preseason game. Um, they

608
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: had the old kind of turf. And so he goes

609
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: out and he's covering a kick and I'm wanting it.

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00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:37,319
Speaker 1: He comes off and he goes, he goes now. I know,

611
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: he goes, Now, I get why you wear gloves? I go,

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00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 1: what do you mean? He holds his hand up and

613
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: shows me, and I am not exaggerated, a perfect square

614
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: going across the end on his palm, across the knuckles

615
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 1: like that, and it just rolled like six layers of skin,

616
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,439
Speaker 1: just like a windows, like a like a rolled up

617
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 1: like yeah, all the way under the underside where it

618
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: rolled off was like, you know, completely red, like different

619
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: kind just rolled it yeah, both hands. Oh how did

620
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: what did he hit it on? He just he landed

621
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: on the turf like this, going forward like that and

622
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,799
Speaker 1: it just rolled the skin right up like a sardine can,

623
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: like two sardine cans on his hands. Try catching a

624
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: like a spinning that what they have to do? Could

625
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: they sew that up or no? And it wasn't like that.

626
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 1: It just you know, it was just a burn. Yeah,

627
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 1: you just roll it back out and cover it until

628
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 1: until that skin underneath gets toughened up and then you can,

629
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Speaker 1: you know, be yourself again. I was like, you know,

630
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 1: it's one of those who you know, every once in

631
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,240
Speaker 1: a while you get kind of the ebgb's about an injury.

632
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: That was the one that got me so and he

633
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: did he not when he finished playing. He coached for

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00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 1: one season with Danny Green in Arizona with the Cardinals

635
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: and then it wasn't for him. He got out of

636
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: that and he lives in San Diego last I checked,

637
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 1: and basically it's just loving life out there. He's just

638
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 1: hanging out, does some deep sea fishing and stuff. When

639
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: recently asked about what he thinks of the game today,

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Speaker 1: he expressed disappointment because on special teams, he said, you

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Speaker 1: can't hit anybody anymore. Yeah, it's a different game, no peelbacks,

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Speaker 1: it's a different no wedge, and it's and I get

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Speaker 1: it's it's players safety, and players can have longer and

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Speaker 1: more productive careers, will deeper into their career because they're not,

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Speaker 1: you know, getting lit up like they did when we played.

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Speaker 1: I'm the regret I have about the direction the game

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Speaker 1: has taken is that special teams it is really difficult

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Speaker 1: to make an impact like we could back in the

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Speaker 1: days and when I played. It's more difficult to make

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Speaker 1: an impact on special teams. And that's kind of sad

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Speaker 1: for me. Yeah, there is is. Before we go to break,

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Speaker 1: there is another update on the vaccination rates in the league.

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Speaker 1: NFL networks Judy Battista with this. She said nine teams

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Speaker 1: are at ninety percent or more of players vaccinated already, which,

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Speaker 1: as she notes, given the context of the rest of

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Speaker 1: the country, it's a pretty impressive figure. It is it

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Speaker 1: unquestionably is so be interesting to see when all these

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Speaker 1: teams report to camp next week. I think we'll have

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Speaker 1: a much firmer grasp as to how close to the

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Speaker 1: finish line a lot of these teams are to reach

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Speaker 1: the required eighty five percent threshold. Two things, right before

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Speaker 1: we go to break, after we've talked about this, you

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Speaker 1: know thing the in the Cleveland Indians changing their name

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Speaker 1: that not exactly thrilled with that one. I saw all

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Speaker 1: the reasoning and the meaning behind it. That's fine. But

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Speaker 1: also it happened on one day after the city of

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Speaker 1: Cleveland celebrated is two hundred and twenty fifth birthday. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know you wanted to. So they were birthday, Happy

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Speaker 1: Birthday to Cleveland yesterday. You got a new baseball team today,

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Speaker 1: so congratulations, happy birthday. One other thing a comment from

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Speaker 1: NFL Chief Medical Officer Alan Sills. He says, quote to me,

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Speaker 1: being vaccinated is not about politics or one's world view.

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Speaker 1: It's about being as safe as we possibly can end quote.

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Speaker 1: So we'll take a break on that note when we

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Speaker 1: come back. An Olympic note that we need to bring

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Speaker 1: to your attention because something went horribly wrong at the

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Speaker 1: opening ceremonies regarding one country's particular uniform choice. We will

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Speaker 1: get to that when we return here on One Bills

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: We're welcome back to One Bill's Live here on a Friday.

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Speaker 1: here as we get into the second hour of the program.

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Speaker 1: But Steve and I wanted to bring this to your

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Speaker 1: attention concerning the Olympics. Obviously, there is a different vibe

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Speaker 1: to the Olympics altogether, with no fans in the stands,

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Speaker 1: athletes being quarantined or soft quarantined depending on their situation

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Speaker 1: and status. Some athletes aren't even staying in the Olympic village,

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Speaker 1: so there's a whole different look to the Olympics as

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Speaker 1: the pandemic is still a major issue in Japan. But

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Speaker 1: they had opening ceremonies last night, which was being aired

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Speaker 1: very early this morning on NBC which has the broadcast rights.

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Speaker 1: So I'm getting ready for work, Steve, and the countries

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Speaker 1: are coming through. You know, they got their flag bearers

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Speaker 1: and everything, and you know, the Bermuda team comes out

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Speaker 1: and the guy's got his Bermuda shorts on as you expect,

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Speaker 1: and you know, everybody's got the guy from Tonga didn't

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Speaker 1: even have a shirt on, and he's like, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was great. But uh, Italy comes out. Wait a minute.

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Speaker 1: First of all, Italy, you think, I say high fashion fashion,

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Speaker 1: slake question, tapered pants, I mean shoes, the style you right, Milan,

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Speaker 1: outside of maybe Paris and New York is in the

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Speaker 1: top five of fashion cities the world. Sunglasses, shades, very

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Speaker 1: very tight, looks very you know, I'm talking dressed up club.

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Speaker 1: So r R MSG viewers are going to get a

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Speaker 1: look at this. But the track suits, what do you get,

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Speaker 1: which were designed by Georgio Armani of all people, essentially

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Speaker 1: as a white track suit with a round circle that

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Speaker 1: looks like a vertical pac Man. It's with the Italian

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Speaker 1: flag colors on it. I mean this looks like a

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Speaker 1: six year old in pajamas. Yeah, it's pajamas. What it

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Speaker 1: resembles to me, Steve, do you remember those that's horrible.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember those cow outfits that people would wear

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Speaker 1: at Halloween with the utter on the stomach. That's what

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Speaker 1: this reminds me of. It's pac Man. It's horrible. These

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Speaker 1: poor I don't know if you could make a more

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Speaker 1: athletic bunch look like a group of couch potatoes with

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Speaker 1: any other outfit than this is Georgiomano. Is he high?

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Speaker 1: I think he just this is called Georgio armand mailing

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Speaker 1: it in. He's he's gotta be like ninety. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I'll look it up. It's got to be because this

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Speaker 1: is that is a late night I gotta get some

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Speaker 1: sleep outfit right there. This is I gave this assignment

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Speaker 1: to the intern. Um he's eighty seven. Who yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: uh no pun intended here, it's time to hang it up.

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Speaker 1: What other options did they have? I mean, did be

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Speaker 1: like I like you like this one better than the

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Speaker 1: other one? Like that like the intern, like guys come

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Speaker 1: up with a couple of ideas for the for the

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Speaker 1: Italy Olympic teams, for the openings, for the opening ceremonies,

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Speaker 1: like the world world is watching and we're gonna give

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Speaker 1: them an outfit to wear. Give me some ideas, Wow me,

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Speaker 1: let's go now. They do claim that, yeah, now, they

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Speaker 1: do claim because questions were asked after people saw this,

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Speaker 1: they claim that Armani stated that the reason the green,

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Speaker 1: white and red uh circular thing smack dab in the

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Speaker 1: middle of every athlete's gut on the front of their

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Speaker 1: just like not even on the full over sweatshirt, mock turtleneck.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what the hell to call this thing. Um.

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Speaker 1: They say that design is in the spirit of the

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Speaker 1: host country, which is Japan and their flag which has

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Speaker 1: the rising sun. Uh, that's why they chose to configure

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Speaker 1: the Italian flag colors in that fashion. That, Um, it

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Speaker 1: still looks like pac Man going up on the board

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Speaker 1: to that is a stretch a madic, right, that's a

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Speaker 1: stretch of the homage to the Japanese flag with the

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Speaker 1: Italian flag colors. No, yeah, that sounds like a big

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Speaker 1: fat excuse to me. That's fine. I get that. That's

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Speaker 1: very nice. They don't. It's a great story and it's

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Speaker 1: a great symbolism. It looks like cocky duty. It's it's horrible.

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Speaker 1: It's really bad. It's pajamas. But here's the thing, because designers,

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Speaker 1: designers from their respective countries are often hired by their

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Speaker 1: nation's Olympic group to design like Tommy hillfigure would be

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Speaker 1: Tommy hillfigure has done it for the US national team

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Speaker 1: for a long time. Um, you're working with some of

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Speaker 1: the fittest people in the world. Why didn't you try

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Speaker 1: to accentuate their physical fitness? Man, Like these guys are

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Speaker 1: wearing p Let me just say this. If you're Georgi Romani,

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Speaker 1: this is the Italian and you're you're sticking up for

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Speaker 1: the Italian fashion industry, come on, man, and let me

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Speaker 1: just say this. You would have been better off with sweats.

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Speaker 1: It's not like you're gonna be like like there's a budget. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like you you're gonna go and you're gonna say, listen,

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Speaker 1: we need we need some Italian we need some Italian leather.

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Speaker 1: We need uh, we need some shoes with you know,

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Speaker 1: we need some slick pants. I forget the out of

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Speaker 1: the sweat outfits. I want those guys in blazers looking sleek,

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Speaker 1: and I want everybody have a Sarah sunglasses on. I

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Speaker 1: want you know what I mean, you gotta look sleek

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Speaker 1: like an Italian Italian suits the stuff like they're sleek

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Speaker 1: guys in some sharp suits right and every it literally

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Speaker 1: looks like for women too, they're horrible. Then the shoes

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Speaker 1: are the shoes match odd colored shoes. The colors of

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Speaker 1: the shoes are like ice cream exactly except the green

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00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 1: should be chocolate. It's no, that would have made it

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Speaker 1: better or worse. But I looked at that. My eyes

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Speaker 1: fell out of my head. It's there. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: half Italian, so you know, they say Italy, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: pay attention. I want to look. Hey, what do they

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Speaker 1: look like? You know this? And I'm like, oh, good lord, man,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's bad. Everybody back in the home country

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Speaker 1: was going, MoMA, Georgio, what are you doing? You know

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Speaker 1: they're looking at that. They didn't say anything. They looked

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Speaker 1: at each other like who. I don't know what happened there,

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Speaker 1: Georgio OLMANI he's got he needs a new staff because

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Speaker 1: I know this. Hey, that that couldn't have been him. No,

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Speaker 1: even at eighty seven. Okay, that he delegated that whoever

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Speaker 1: he did today allgates so he could spend a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks in Lake Como. I don't know. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, okay, I get you. But man, oh man,

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Speaker 1: that's I do not That was that was tough to see.

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Speaker 1: That's you know, it's a disappointment. Yeah, well it is

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Speaker 1: because well, the expectations, as we mentioned, for the Italian

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Speaker 1: national team, for how they look walking in and opening

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Speaker 1: ceremonies should be very high. You know, France, same thing,

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Speaker 1: because that's the one thing that pulls in if if

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Speaker 1: anybody's gonna watch the Olympics, they want to see that,

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Speaker 1: because they do want to see the the athlete, the

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Speaker 1: grandeur of it. You know, everybody's got their favorite sports Okay,

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Speaker 1: but everybody's going to show up in that that and

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Speaker 1: not not only that people want to buy that outfit,

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Speaker 1: No they don't, not that one. That is one of

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Speaker 1: a kind that will never go outside that stadium. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but even the athletes will never wear that again, I

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Speaker 1: don't think they will. Boy, that that's tough. I was.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've seen some bad ones at the Olympics before.

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Speaker 1: They have been bad ones, but not from not from

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Speaker 1: a country that's considered to be cutting edge in the

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Speaker 1: fashion industry. It was. That was tough to take. That

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Speaker 1: was rough. That's too bad. There you go, Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: much for the Olympics there it is. Hopefully that's the

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Speaker 1: worst thing that happens to the Italian national team at

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Speaker 1: the Olympics. How they have to dress every day to

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Speaker 1: go to their events. All right, we have to take

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Speaker 1: a break. But when we come back. The founder and

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Speaker 1: number two of a Friday edition of One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and join now by

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Speaker 1: how you doing, man? You enjoying the last bit of

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Speaker 1: I want to go beyond the zoom press conferences, the

849
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 1: just kind of the centralized messaging. I mean, let's just

850
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 1: go off for pizza, really get to know you and

851
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: find out what makes somebody tick. And and Dion Dawkins

852
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:39,240
Speaker 1: in his case, as fans know, he's kind of become

853
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: the soul of this team, right like the dancing the

854
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: you already know his stuff, and like Genkaid, Meta and

855
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:51,880
Speaker 1: other know him said at first, like, what's still with

856
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:54,360
Speaker 1: this guy? Right? Like, is is he kind of a clown?

857
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:56,320
Speaker 1: Is he kind of just made up as it scripted?

858
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: It's not at all. This is genuinely who he is.

859
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 1: Sort of it down with dion Um for what, I

860
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:04,560
Speaker 1: don't know whatever, It was a couple hours and dig

861
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: into his past. It was fascinating to kind of see

862
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 1: from from being a kid, you know, shoveling people out

863
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 1: in the morning, kind of building a business while also

864
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 1: kind of getting into trouble stealing stuff. And that's that's

865
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 1: why he's relatable. Right, he could have gone one way

866
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 1: or the other. He went the right way, and here

867
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 1: he is the leader of a Super Bowl contender. So

868
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 1: what maybe did you pull out of him with respect

869
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:30,880
Speaker 1: to his upbringing in Rahway, New Jersey. That was maybe

870
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: the most eye opening for you that you felt, you know,

871
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 1: this has got to be a part of this piece

872
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:41,120
Speaker 1: because people need to know about this regarding him. I

873
00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 1: think it's that he really could have gone one way

874
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 1: or the other. You know, he wasn't this this terrible

875
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: kid doing really really terrible and any means. But I think,

876
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 1: like a lot of thirteen fourteen year olds, he got

877
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 1: into some stuff he should now he was really upfront

878
00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:59,920
Speaker 1: with it all too, you know, maybe stealing an iPod here,

879
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:02,719
Speaker 1: bicycle there, just dumb stuff that he didn't really have

880
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:05,399
Speaker 1: to do. But what's so fascinated about Dion is at

881
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:09,480
Speaker 1: the same time, what six am, seven am every morning

882
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 1: after a snowstorm, He's going around the neighborhood. He's starting

883
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:15,799
Speaker 1: people's cars up, he's shoveling them out, He's shoveling the

884
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: whole driveway, not just to walk away. There was so

885
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:22,319
Speaker 1: much good in him too, so I think for him

886
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 1: to come kind of have that moment as junior in

887
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 1: high school where he admitted he goes hey, he stole

888
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 1: a teacher who he hated, a teacher who had a

889
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:33,560
Speaker 1: purse right in front of the door. He took her

890
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:36,520
Speaker 1: wallet and then he felt really really bad about it,

891
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 1: returned it, hugged her, apologized, she cried, he was emotional,

892
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 1: And that point forward, he really was on the fast

893
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 1: track to just being who you see today, and that's

894
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 1: somebody who's making such a difference in every community's And

895
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 1: from right way to the food drive there to Philliot

896
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 1: before he went to college to Bufffalow with one sixth day,

897
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:02,839
Speaker 1: you know, helping locals out any chance can to how

898
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,800
Speaker 1: he's gonna do. I mean when we were getting lunch there, guys,

899
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:08,719
Speaker 1: I mean there was probably six or seven people who

900
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 1: came up to him in a ten minute span just

901
00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:13,320
Speaker 1: to introduce himselves, to hug him, to take a picture,

902
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:16,399
Speaker 1: and every single time he dropped everything made small talk,

903
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:18,759
Speaker 1: got to know him. I think that doing that kind

904
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:20,760
Speaker 1: of away from the cameras says a lot about somebody.

905
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: What does Dion? What did you glean from Dion in

906
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:26,640
Speaker 1: this interview and talking with him on the football side

907
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:29,360
Speaker 1: of it about the expectations this year, how they're different,

908
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 1: how the team feels about itself. I think that he's

909
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 1: all in for whatever it takes, really right. I think

910
00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:41,480
Speaker 1: it's an offensive lineman, maybe you kind of want to

911
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 1: move forward instead of backwards, right, run the ball a

912
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: little bit more. We talked about that AFC Championship game

913
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:49,480
Speaker 1: when maybe it would have helped to just hand the

914
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:51,880
Speaker 1: ball off a little just kind of slow down that

915
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:54,560
Speaker 1: pass rush Keith Patrick mahomes off the field. But he

916
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 1: really says, like, whatever it takes away, we've gotta throw

917
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 1: the ball fifty times. I've got to run a fifty times.

918
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:01,319
Speaker 1: He's confident now with the person now they have and

919
00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: as much as they've grown as a team, that they

920
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:06,719
Speaker 1: can win in any type of way. It's crazy, isn't it, guys.

921
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 1: I mean, for the expectation to be what it is

922
00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:12,200
Speaker 1: for the Bills this year when Dion came in as

923
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 1: a rookie, like I mean, this roster was just torn

924
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:19,200
Speaker 1: apart and changed completely. They tore it down. He's been

925
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:21,759
Speaker 1: here to start to finish, to really appreciate what the

926
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 1: expectations mean to this team. So, you know, we look

927
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:28,759
Speaker 1: at Dion's evolution as a player here in Buffalo. I mean,

928
00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 1: he got the benefit of having an all pro, you know,

929
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:36,279
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl level guard next to him and Ritchie as

930
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:40,080
Speaker 1: he already mentioned, and then year two he would self admit,

931
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:43,480
Speaker 1: you know, I took a step back. Richie wasn't here anymore,

932
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 1: Eric Wood was gone, and he thought he had it

933
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 1: all figured out, and he admits, you know, my play

934
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: took a step back. But he's since rebounded from it.

935
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:55,479
Speaker 1: Obviously he's on the best side of it now after

936
00:55:55,520 --> 00:56:00,040
Speaker 1: the long term contract extension. Do you think that he

937
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:02,800
Speaker 1: has truly kind of found his place in the League.

938
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,040
Speaker 1: I mean, he's obviously committed to this team. He said

939
00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:07,680
Speaker 1: as much time and time and time again, Tyler. But

940
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 1: in the time you sat with him, do you think

941
00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:11,759
Speaker 1: he's kind of at peace with what he is in

942
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: the NFL? I think so. I think he's at peace

943
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:19,399
Speaker 1: because a lot of people look up to him. Now.

944
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 1: You know, this is his fifth year starting, and when

945
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:25,560
Speaker 1: he came in as a rookie, I mean the snowman

946
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:28,920
Speaker 1: who's dancing and loud and outrageous in so many ways,

947
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 1: you know, are a good two three four months, he

948
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:32,880
Speaker 1: was quiet. He felt like he really kind of had

949
00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 1: to prove himself on the field to Richie, to Eric Wood.

950
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:38,880
Speaker 1: Once he did that, right, and then they leave and

951
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:40,960
Speaker 1: he becomes the older guy. I think he's kind of

952
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:42,879
Speaker 1: been through this evolution where now everybody's kind of looking

953
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:45,280
Speaker 1: up to him. Everybody's kind of feeding up his energy.

954
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 1: And that's what you even see beyond the field. I

955
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:49,640
Speaker 1: mean the stuff on the field, he's one of the

956
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:51,840
Speaker 1: best tackles in football, you know, Pro Bowl or not

957
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:54,719
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. You know, that's another conversation. But I mean,

958
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:56,800
Speaker 1: you look at the numbers, you look at the production.

959
00:56:57,320 --> 00:56:59,319
Speaker 1: Richie and Cainito says he loves watching film of him

960
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 1: just because he's a wall of a tackle just dominates.

961
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:04,200
Speaker 1: But I think it's all that other stuff that matters

962
00:57:04,239 --> 00:57:08,400
Speaker 1: the you know, stealing the Steelers mojo. When Renegades playing

963
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, those teams passed are aren't doing that

964
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:14,839
Speaker 1: kind of thing to dance in the MC hammer before

965
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 1: the first home playoff game in twenty five years. It's

966
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:21,080
Speaker 1: a very loose team. It's a very fun team, and

967
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 1: quite frankly, guys, I'm surprised we're here at this culture

968
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:28,720
Speaker 1: is as such because a lot of guys on their

969
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:31,440
Speaker 1: way out the door when McDermott and Bean came in,

970
00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:34,000
Speaker 1: they didn't have the nicest things to say about the

971
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:36,480
Speaker 1: culture and where things were going. I think the guys

972
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 1: genuinely can be themselves now at one Deals Live, and

973
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:43,840
Speaker 1: that that means a lot. I think you have to

974
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:46,600
Speaker 1: treat adults as adults and let them be themselves. You

975
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 1: can't turn people in the robot spots. I mean every

976
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 1: coach is Bi Belichick. Wherever they go, they try to

977
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 1: do the same. They think they'll be cogs in a machine.

978
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 1: It doesn't work that way. Guys get guys get ticked off,

979
00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:00,959
Speaker 1: and they're not themselves. So I think that's a big

980
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 1: reason the bills. We're thirteen and three and I'm knocking

981
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:05,720
Speaker 1: at the door for a Super Bowl. How much credit

982
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 1: does Sean McDermott deserve for not only just changing the

983
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 1: culture into what you say, but also maintaining it and actually,

984
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:16,160
Speaker 1: you know, getting it to a point where the guys

985
00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:19,240
Speaker 1: who do leave the building have nice things to say,

986
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:22,040
Speaker 1: you know, about it, like Jordan Phillips, guys like that,

987
00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:24,640
Speaker 1: Shack Loss and guys like that. Certainly, the guys that

988
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:27,640
Speaker 1: were here before, you know, who didn't fit the culture,

989
00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 1: you know, had every right to if they didn't fit,

990
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:31,400
Speaker 1: they didn't fit and they didn't like it, and they

991
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 1: told you so. But most of the guys, the ones

992
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:36,920
Speaker 1: who do leave, have great things to say about it.

993
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 1: Plus the guys who a lot of guys sign here

994
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 1: without ever going to free agency because they want to

995
00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:44,680
Speaker 1: be a part of it. So much how much credit

996
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 1: do you give Sean McDermott for creating an atmosphere in

997
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:52,000
Speaker 1: a city like Buffalo, in a market the size of Buffalo,

998
00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:55,600
Speaker 1: in a place like Buffalo that that doesn't it isn't

999
00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:58,480
Speaker 1: Miami Beach that isn't New Orleans, it's not La it's

1000
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:02,200
Speaker 1: not Seattle, it's not Chica, and yet it has become

1001
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 1: one of the most desirable places to play around the

1002
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:08,360
Speaker 1: league by word of mouth. You just nailed it, Steve.

1003
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 1: I mean, this is what people don't talk about it enough.

1004
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:15,160
Speaker 1: I feel like behind the scenes is when Freez he

1005
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 1: hits and guys have that freedom to go to other teams,

1006
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:20,400
Speaker 1: play for other coaches, other gms too. I think Brandon

1007
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:22,640
Speaker 1: Bean deserves a lot of credit here as well. You know,

1008
00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:25,880
Speaker 1: they talk and your reputation kind of precedes you, and

1009
00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 1: it's it's a tricky balance because I think guys did

1010
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:32,640
Speaker 1: love playing for Rex Ryan because he was so lax.

1011
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:35,160
Speaker 1: I mean, he took this treating people as adults thing

1012
00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:37,840
Speaker 1: to the extreme. It's kind of a country club atmosphere

1013
00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:40,800
Speaker 1: out there at training camp sometimes. And Rex probably enjoyed

1014
00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 1: himself a little too much going down to a World

1015
00:59:42,640 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 1: Series game during a game week with all the coaches

1016
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:48,200
Speaker 1: on a party bus. But I think that somewhere in

1017
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:50,480
Speaker 1: the middle is where you want to be. And I

1018
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:52,920
Speaker 1: think the Bills have kind of found that sweet spot

1019
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:55,800
Speaker 1: that they've maybe have loosened up a little bit over time.

1020
00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:58,800
Speaker 1: They're letting guys be themselves, but they have a culture

1021
00:59:58,800 --> 01:00:01,600
Speaker 1: and if you don't fit into it, then you're gone.

1022
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:05,480
Speaker 1: And it's so many teams try to find that balanced

1023
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 1: and they can't do it. And as you said, Steve,

1024
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 1: you're talking about Buffalo, New York. I mean we all

1025
01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:13,959
Speaker 1: live love living here, right, I mean it's underrated. People

1026
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:15,840
Speaker 1: don't really understand how great it is to live in

1027
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:18,400
Speaker 1: western New York unless you're here. But you have that

1028
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:20,560
Speaker 1: perception that you got to fight against that when you

1029
01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:22,520
Speaker 1: come here, it's gonna be snow and every day you're

1030
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:25,800
Speaker 1: gonna be miserable. It's it's not the case, but that's

1031
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 1: something you have to deal with as well. And i'd

1032
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:31,720
Speaker 1: get really well and keeping their own that goes a

1033
01:00:31,760 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 1: long ways. You see Green Bay too, I mean they've

1034
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:36,720
Speaker 1: made the playoffs more than any team in the NFL

1035
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:39,360
Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety two. You know, convince it people to

1036
01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:42,120
Speaker 1: live in Northeast Wisconsin isn't easy. You've got to build

1037
01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:45,840
Speaker 1: something from the ground up that keeps people on your

1038
01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:49,080
Speaker 1: team once they get to that second contract. As we know,

1039
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:53,600
Speaker 1: training camp opens next week, Tyler, and I know there's

1040
01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:56,640
Speaker 1: a lot of under the radar players, because there are

1041
01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 1: a lot of big name players that are gonna draw

1042
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:01,360
Speaker 1: the eyeballs of fans and read the reports and watch

1043
01:01:01,360 --> 01:01:03,880
Speaker 1: what's going on with this team. One of the guys

1044
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 1: is somebody that you did a piece on earlier this

1045
01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 1: month in Damar Hamlin, the sixth round draft choice, had

1046
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:12,480
Speaker 1: a pit um. He's got some stiff competition, but with

1047
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:15,880
Speaker 1: some other guys that are largely unproven as well, you know,

1048
01:01:15,960 --> 01:01:20,240
Speaker 1: like Josh Thomas or Jaquan Johnson who has been here

1049
01:01:20,240 --> 01:01:22,280
Speaker 1: a couple of years but hasn't really played a whole lot.

1050
01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 1: So maybe share some of what you uncovered in your

1051
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:30,600
Speaker 1: in your time with Damar that makes him an interesting

1052
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:35,560
Speaker 1: candidate for this Bill's roster this year, no doubt, Chris.

1053
01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:37,800
Speaker 1: I think on the field, this is the kind of

1054
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:40,800
Speaker 1: player that you're gonna need to draft in the sixth

1055
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:43,040
Speaker 1: round where they took him, and he needs to be

1056
01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:45,960
Speaker 1: a starter eventually once you do pay Josh Allen. I

1057
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:49,200
Speaker 1: mean you see this around the NL. The Seattle Hawks

1058
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:52,919
Speaker 1: just changed completely paid Russell Wilson. They couldn't keep those

1059
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Speaker 1: wave of rooking step up form and drafts. It's debate

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Speaker 1: on some of these guys, but it's been kind of

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Speaker 1: hit or miss, you could say, so, I think starting out,

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Speaker 1: and you got to expect that deal to get done

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Speaker 1: relatively with Josh Allen. You're gonna need the DeMar Hamlins

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Speaker 1: of the world to become starters eventually. I mean, Jordan

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Speaker 1: Poyer Micah Hye, they're not gonna play forever. What's most

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Speaker 1: interesting about DeMar Hamlin. I mean where he grew up.

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Speaker 1: I had no idea. You know, McKees rocks right in

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Speaker 1: inter city Pittsburgh area was what it was. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he saw some things that he probably wishes he didn't see.

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Speaker 1: He estimated that more than half of his friends that

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Speaker 1: he grew up with are dead and you're taught maybe

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Speaker 1: he had his much did even in the music industry,

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Speaker 1: in sports. For him to get out, for him to

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Speaker 1: find a way to create a career for himself out

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Speaker 1: of that environment, it says a lot about him. He

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Speaker 1: really got into the nitty gritty detail of life and

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Speaker 1: mcif if folks want to check it out, just unbelievably

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Speaker 1: fascinating guy too, with a bright future. Yeah, for those

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Speaker 1: that are going to go to go along TD dot com.

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Speaker 1: The story you want to look at is why Demarrow

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Speaker 1: Hamlin is exactly what the Buffalo Bills need. Tyler wrote

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Speaker 1: that just over a week or so ago. Tyler, Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: we're having a little bit of a connection issue where

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Speaker 1: you're breaking up on us, So we're gonna cut this

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Speaker 1: a little short. But be sure to keep your eyes

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Speaker 1: focused on golong TV dot com because I'm sure you've

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Speaker 1: got a bunch of stuff coming up down the pike here, Tyler, Right,

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Speaker 1: you got it. Yeah, we'll have some some some previetories

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Speaker 1: coming up soon, more bills stories, definitely. Well, we'll have

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Speaker 1: a presence system New York. So really appreciate everybody out

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Speaker 1: there for subscribe and checking us out golong TD dot

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Speaker 1: com and hey, introduce yourself and hopefully we'll see at

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Speaker 1: Hamburg Brewing for one of these live events. Thanks Tyler,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the time. We appreciate it. Sorry for the

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Speaker 1: connection issues there. Uh yeah, we had to let Tyler

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Speaker 1: go unfortunately because we were skipping around a little bit

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Speaker 1: with some of his answers and it was getting tough

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Speaker 1: to hear what he wanted to say. Good good interview

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Speaker 1: with him, though he's got some good stuff, and like

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Speaker 1: I said, they're in depth interviews. He does the deep,

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Speaker 1: does a deep dive with these guys. It's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: While we were on with Tyler Dunn, Mark Maski is

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Speaker 1: Washington Post. The Washington Post said this that the NFL

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01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:16,040
Speaker 1: is now going to consider any player who's had COVID

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Speaker 1: been infected with COVID is going to be considered fully vaccinated.

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Speaker 1: And also the league. This uh reported by multiple places,

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Speaker 1: but the one all, the one I saw it with

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Speaker 1: was Judy Batista. The league said last year's expanded roster

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Speaker 1: flexibility and rules, the bigger rosters, the bigger practice squad,

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Speaker 1: protecting four guys, easier return off I are all that's

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Speaker 1: going to be extended into twenty twenty one. So the

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Speaker 1: flexibility they had with their rosters last year due to

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Speaker 1: COVID is being extended. So they're going to have a

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Speaker 1: lot more guys in the pool to choose from, which

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Speaker 1: means it's even less likely that any of this stuff

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Speaker 1: about forfeiting a game is going to happen, But it

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Speaker 1: does mean too more guys in the build means you're

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Speaker 1: to get to the eighty five percent vaccination rate you

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Speaker 1: got you gotta have more guys vaccinated, so we'll see. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So just so people know, the practice squad will remain

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Speaker 1: at sixteen players, which is what the total was last year,

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Speaker 1: up from twelve, and under the CBA it was supposed

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Speaker 1: to go up to fourteen this year or next year.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember, but I think once the seventeenth

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Speaker 1: game was instituted they were going to bump it up

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Speaker 1: to fourteen both. So really it's only two more players

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Speaker 1: than they probably would have had anyway. But you know

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Speaker 1: why the NFLPA is agreeing to that. It means more

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Speaker 1: jobs for more of their rank and file lists. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: With the expanded practice squads, EASi returned from my R

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Speaker 1: both sides means the NFL and the teams were in

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Speaker 1: favor of keeping them. So the league said, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's just keep it in and with an extra game,

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Speaker 1: you can argue that there will be more injuries, injuries

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Speaker 1: will be out, you might need to draw on more

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Speaker 1: players from your practice squad. So yeah, it makes decision

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Speaker 1: making a whole lot easier in terms of who's up,

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Speaker 1: who's down, who do we have available, And the reason

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Speaker 1: that the teams like it, particularly the coaches is because

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Speaker 1: you don't have to pull somebody off the street, cram

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01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:16,680
Speaker 1: feed them the scheme and put them on the field

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01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:19,080
Speaker 1: and have to trust them. You can have guys in

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Speaker 1: the pipeline on the practice squads for weeks on end.

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01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:24,720
Speaker 1: It keeps them out of positional emergencies where you know,

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01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:26,800
Speaker 1: you get three offensive line hurt. Well, you know what,

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Speaker 1: we got three guys that have been practicing with at

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Speaker 1: least they know the words, you know, at least when

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Speaker 1: they tell them to do something, they'll do it. Whether

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Speaker 1: they can do it or not remains to be seen,

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Speaker 1: but at least they'll know what they're supposed to be doing.

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Speaker 1: And that's a start. So and that's even better too

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Speaker 1: because they're good enough to actually be in the building,

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Speaker 1: whether than getting a guy off the street who nobody

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Speaker 1: wanted up until about twelve hours ago. So it just

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01:06:47,720 --> 01:06:50,920
Speaker 1: the product on the field will be better. There'll be

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Speaker 1: fewer mistakes, and fewer mistakes means less guys injured, not

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Speaker 1: more guys injured. Even if with more games you have

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Speaker 1: better preparation, better players on the field, more prepared players

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Speaker 1: on the field, it's it's a safer game because of that,

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Speaker 1: and it keeps you your team from being in dire

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01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:13,680
Speaker 1: straits at least one more layer of safety before getting

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Speaker 1: a place where you have no chance of winning the game. Right,

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Speaker 1: and just so it's clear, the relaxed IR rules that

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Speaker 1: Steve mentioned previously, you would only have the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: take three IRD players and designate them as return eligible

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Speaker 1: players after missing eight weeks. Now, under the same rules

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Speaker 1: that were in play last year, you have an unlimited

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Speaker 1: amount of players you can put on IR and then

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Speaker 1: return to play in as little as three weeks. And

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Speaker 1: we saw that happen with the Bills last year. We

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Speaker 1: saw Josh Norman go on IR come back after three

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Speaker 1: or four weeks. We had Levi Wallace go on IR

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Speaker 1: with the ankle injury. He came back in and think

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Speaker 1: about four weeks. So you can IR players so they

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Speaker 1: don't take up a roster spot, but they can still

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Speaker 1: come back in three weeks time, you put him back

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Speaker 1: on your roster and they're they're back there and available

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Speaker 1: for you. So you get some of those injuries like

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Speaker 1: a high ankle sprain that is usually if it's severe enough,

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Speaker 1: it's usually a four to six week injury. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: IR that guy without even blinking. Now, as opposed to

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Speaker 1: the previous rules where it's an eight week injury, I'm like, ah, well,

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Speaker 1: we think we could get them back in a month.

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01:08:22,360 --> 01:08:24,720
Speaker 1: I'd hate to have ir him for eight weeks, right,

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Speaker 1: you know. So this allows far more roster flexibility for

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Speaker 1: players that are injured with not a season ending injury,

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Speaker 1: but one that's gonna probably take You know, you have

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Speaker 1: a bad hamstring injury that's probably three or four weeks.

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Speaker 1: Now you can ir the guy and he's not gobbling

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Speaker 1: up a roster spot for a month. Right, you can

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Speaker 1: replace these guys and get a body back on the

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Speaker 1: field without Yeah, it's just makes it better and it

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Speaker 1: doesn't cost you a player that may help you later on.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's a better place to be. It

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Speaker 1: makes it eases the tension and the urgency of having

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Speaker 1: guys on a short list where all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: you call the guy you need him and he's there overnight,

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Speaker 1: he's started teaching him the offense and he's playing for

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Speaker 1: you three days later, two days later, one day later. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that stuff can happen, and it doesn't happen happen under

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Speaker 1: these circumstances as we mentioned it is the OBL Friday

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Speaker 1: fan mail bag here on the show today. So we

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Speaker 1: are taking your questions at one Bills Live. You are

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Speaker 1: welcome to call us if you want to as well.

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Speaker 1: And we lead off with Rusty, who asks how many

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Speaker 1: players do the Bills keep in the secondary nine ten eleven.

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01:09:45,120 --> 01:09:49,600
Speaker 1: We know White, Johnson, Hyde and Player are set, but

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01:09:49,680 --> 01:09:52,280
Speaker 1: they have a lot of guys back there. CB two

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01:09:52,360 --> 01:09:55,559
Speaker 1: is open for competition, siran Neil really is in a

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01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:58,680
Speaker 1: true corner of safety. They pick two dbs in the

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Speaker 1: draft and have carryo vers at both safety and corner

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01:10:01,800 --> 01:10:05,240
Speaker 1: who played well in the past. It is a deep group.

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01:10:06,320 --> 01:10:09,120
Speaker 1: I believe there are a fifteen total on the roster,

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01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:15,599
Speaker 1: nine corners, six safeties and yeah, the thing that makes

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Speaker 1: the competition so interesting to me, Steve at defensive back

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01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:24,160
Speaker 1: is outside of tarn Johnson, Tradevious White, Levi Wallace, Jordan

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Speaker 1: Poyer and Micah Hyde is it's largely a group of

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01:10:27,640 --> 01:10:30,680
Speaker 1: unproven players who have not been on the field all

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Speaker 1: that much on the defensive side of the ball. So

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01:10:33,439 --> 01:10:36,840
Speaker 1: I think that affords new rookies in the door an

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01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:39,960
Speaker 1: enormous opportunity here, because if you can outshine one of

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Speaker 1: those other unproven players, they don't have any benefit of

1227
01:10:43,760 --> 01:10:48,320
Speaker 1: the doubt over you. That is, well, let's face it,

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01:10:48,400 --> 01:10:52,280
Speaker 1: that's the spot on the Bill's roster right now that stands.

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Speaker 1: That is the shallowest I guess I should say in

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Speaker 1: terms of proven players. In terms of proven players, that's

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01:11:00,280 --> 01:11:02,240
Speaker 1: that is the spot where a young player that we

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Speaker 1: didn't know six months ago could be on this team

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01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:08,040
Speaker 1: starting on day one. Every other spot, it's kind of

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01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:10,800
Speaker 1: hard for somebody to break into the running back room.

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Speaker 1: You know, Matt Breed is a veteran. Yeah, you can

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01:11:13,600 --> 01:11:16,040
Speaker 1: see that. But you got Mosson Singletary returning. He got

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01:11:16,080 --> 01:11:19,400
Speaker 1: two guys returning for one spot. The safety's hiding poor year.

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01:11:19,439 --> 01:11:21,120
Speaker 1: I mean, who you know, they're not coming off the field.

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01:11:21,120 --> 01:11:23,479
Speaker 1: You're not gonna break into that second signed extensions they

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01:11:23,560 --> 01:11:25,840
Speaker 1: sign last maybe a backup. You got a chance at

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01:11:25,880 --> 01:11:28,120
Speaker 1: that because they lost one. But even that's going to

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01:11:28,160 --> 01:11:33,879
Speaker 1: be hotly contested because you're talking about Jaquan Johnson, who

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01:11:33,920 --> 01:11:36,280
Speaker 1: I know the coaching staff thinks a lot of You

1244
01:11:36,320 --> 01:11:38,160
Speaker 1: have Josh Thomas, who was here last year on the

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Speaker 1: practice squad, the undrafted rookie had app State. And then

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01:11:41,400 --> 01:11:44,400
Speaker 1: you have Trek Thompson, the San Diego State kid whose

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01:11:44,439 --> 01:11:47,320
Speaker 1: production numbers in terms of plays on the ball is enormous.

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01:11:47,600 --> 01:11:49,640
Speaker 1: I think he's got thirty five total takeaways in his

1249
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Speaker 1: college career. I mean, that's that's a giant number, no

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Speaker 1: matter what level of college football you're playing. Sir rand Neil,

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Speaker 1: Josh Thomas now Sir Rand Neils. Sir Rand Neil interestingly

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Speaker 1: is list it as a corner. But the one thing

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01:12:03,560 --> 01:12:06,760
Speaker 1: that siran Neal has over every other guy in the

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01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:11,439
Speaker 1: defensive back room is he is a first team gunner, right.

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01:12:12,040 --> 01:12:14,400
Speaker 1: I mean he lines up opposite Taiwan Jones and off

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Speaker 1: they go. So I mean he's got that feather in

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01:12:17,640 --> 01:12:20,360
Speaker 1: his cap that's helping his cause he's also got he

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01:12:20,439 --> 01:12:23,040
Speaker 1: also got a guy like who you know, Mike Bell.

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01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:26,559
Speaker 1: He's six three two ten, big dude. He's in here

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01:12:26,600 --> 01:12:30,160
Speaker 1: trying to trying to get a spot. So there's there's

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Speaker 1: guys back there, but you know you're looking at for

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01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:35,040
Speaker 1: a spot where they've got to fill. It's a backup

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01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:38,320
Speaker 1: safety spot where they lost one of their guys to

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Speaker 1: free agency, did to Detroit Um. Then you can also

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Speaker 1: look at if there was another spot I was looking

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Speaker 1: at Brownie, it would be what tight end returning starter

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Speaker 1: in Dawson Knox, j Jacob Hollister, Tommy Sweeney who missed

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Speaker 1: the whole year, and Gilliam who is a first journey

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Speaker 1: of Quentin Morris, the undertaff the quick Morse. So I

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Speaker 1: mean that's a spot where like a guy like Quentin

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Speaker 1: Morris could come in and say, you know what, that

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Speaker 1: guy's in the rotation all of a sudden right behind

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Speaker 1: you know, it would not even turn your head to say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's right behind Dawson Knox now and getting reps. That's

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Speaker 1: a group that is unproven. Tommy Sweeney, Gillian played a

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Speaker 1: role last year, no question, but it was limited. So

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Speaker 1: there's only a couple of spots on this roster where

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Speaker 1: you're thinking where there's any any idea where you can say, Wow,

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Speaker 1: who's gonna who's it gonna be? And it's CB two

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Speaker 1: and probably tight end. Yeah, So how many do they keep? Nine,

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Speaker 1: ten or eleven? Typically they keep usually ten. This is

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Speaker 1: a team under coach McDermott that's kept a small amount

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Speaker 1: of corners. I'm always of I would prefer to keep

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Speaker 1: more corners personally, because you have an injury or two

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Speaker 1: and you get shorthanded at that position. With the way

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Speaker 1: people are throwing the football around these days, man, you

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Speaker 1: can find yourself shorthanded really fast. Now. I know with

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Speaker 1: these expanded to squads again with sixteen players, you can

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Speaker 1: probably stash some there, especially some of these younger guys

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Speaker 1: as we mentioned. But still in all, you've got a

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Speaker 1: draft pick in Wild Goose that is at the corner position,

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Speaker 1: So Johnson White, I would say, Dane Jackson and Levi

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01:14:20,640 --> 01:14:25,320
Speaker 1: Wallace are probably locks. Then it comes down to Wild Goose.

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Speaker 1: Serrand Neil is probably on this roster because of his

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Speaker 1: special team's ability, is a gunner. So now you're up

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Speaker 1: to five already, So now it's down to basically Wild

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Speaker 1: Goose Elijah Griffin, Nick McLeod and Cam Lewis for what

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Speaker 1: might be only one more spot, and that's to carry

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Speaker 1: six corners, which I don't think they did at the

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Speaker 1: start of last season. So I don't think they carry

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Speaker 1: six corners. No, I don't care. I think four with

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Speaker 1: sirrand Neil as a fifth, like a de facto fifth

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Speaker 1: with a swing guy's safety corner, you know what I mean.

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01:14:58,680 --> 01:15:01,000
Speaker 1: But they make care, they make care five if one

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Speaker 1: of them is a is a special teams guy, dedicated

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01:15:04,960 --> 01:15:09,160
Speaker 1: slot corner to back up of Aran Johnson, right, which

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01:15:09,200 --> 01:15:13,920
Speaker 1: is what cam Lewis has been right there you go, So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna go anymore than five corners. I don't

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Speaker 1: think what do you do at safety five or four? Four?

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Speaker 1: You go? Four? Okay, because you know the yeah, if

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Speaker 1: you go and then if somebody gets injured, then you've

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Speaker 1: got somebody on the practice squad. We've got a lot

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Speaker 1: of rookies who can roll up and start learning it

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Speaker 1: and start getting ready to come on in case the

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Speaker 1: other one gets hurt so or there's a second injury

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Speaker 1: to the same position. So yeah, I four safeties, five corners.

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Speaker 1: That's it, and roll roll, keep keep who you need

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Speaker 1: to keep the best prospects on the practice squad, one

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Speaker 1: of each. All right, maybe two break time for us,

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Speaker 1: but when we come back. More of your questions from

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Speaker 1: the OBL Friday fan mail bag, Steve and I'll do

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Speaker 1: our best to answer those when we return here on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Collid to Health, It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown,

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01:16:19,120 --> 01:16:24,880
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you as the OBL Friday fan mail

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01:16:24,920 --> 01:16:28,240
Speaker 1: bag is open and we're going to dive into some

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Speaker 1: more of your questions. See if Steve and I can

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01:16:30,160 --> 01:16:33,200
Speaker 1: answer the best of our ability. Nick asks, isn't the

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01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:37,719
Speaker 1: new forfeiting rule unfair? I'm fine with the COVID team

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01:16:37,720 --> 01:16:40,000
Speaker 1: being forced to lose, but the other team is basically

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01:16:40,080 --> 01:16:42,760
Speaker 1: given a free victory just because they happen to be

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Speaker 1: scheduled against a team who got COVID. I'd hate to

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Speaker 1: miss the playoffs by one game to a team who

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Speaker 1: was gifted a free w It's not it's to me,

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Speaker 1: it's not unfair. If everybody knows the rules going in, Yep,

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Speaker 1: you got fair warning that that might happen. And let's

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Speaker 1: and it could have to anybody. And if it's that,

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Speaker 1: if it's that arbitrary, then nobody's got an advantage of it,

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01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:08,960
Speaker 1: like being likelier to happen for them or anybody else. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I would remind everybody what the NFL said last

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Speaker 1: year going into their first season in a pandemic, it's

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Speaker 1: not going to be fair for everybody because of what

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Speaker 1: the COVID virus has the potential to do, which is

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Speaker 1: ravage a team's roster, make a number of players unavailable,

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Speaker 1: force a rescheduling, a possible cancelation. Now none of a

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Speaker 1: cancelation of a game did not happen. Rescheduling did, and

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Speaker 1: the biggest outbreak happened with the Tennessee Titans. But now

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Speaker 1: going in there are ways to prevent such outbreaks of

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Speaker 1: from ravaging rosters and you know, putting dozens of people

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Speaker 1: in ten day quarantines. But yeah, it still applies. It's

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Speaker 1: it's probably not going to be completely fair either, but

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Speaker 1: you know what the rules are, get your team to

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01:17:56,760 --> 01:17:59,599
Speaker 1: do your best to protect yourself to avoid those pitfalls.

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Speaker 1: The reason it's hard for it to be unfair, it

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Speaker 1: would be they make these rules and then all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, arbitrarily, it does become unfair in this respect.

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Speaker 1: Think about this, say Team A, and through nobody's planning

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01:18:13,960 --> 01:18:16,719
Speaker 1: or whatever, it just happens this way that one team

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Speaker 1: has got There's say there's five teams in the league

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Speaker 1: who are not reaching the threshold of being vaxed, and

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Speaker 1: they all have to jump through those hoops of being

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Speaker 1: less prepared or less efficiently prepared to play than other

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Speaker 1: teams in the league. And they all five of those

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Speaker 1: are all seven of those teams come on one team's schedule.

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Speaker 1: That to me would be a competitive advantage vastly so

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Speaker 1: for one team or the other. So if you're to

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Speaker 1: make it simpler, so if the Bills have seven teams

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Speaker 1: on their schedule, you pick the seven. All of those

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Speaker 1: teams are that below the vaccination threshold, and they all

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Speaker 1: have to jump through these hoops. They're socially distanced where masks,

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Speaker 1: they can only come together to practice the same protocols

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Speaker 1: they were in last year. And there's seven of those

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Speaker 1: teams on your schedule and you don't have to do

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Speaker 1: any of that. That's an advantage. League doesn't care. They

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Speaker 1: want the game on Sunday, They want you to show

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01:19:17,200 --> 01:19:20,760
Speaker 1: up and be on time, and they could not possibly

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01:19:20,840 --> 01:19:24,200
Speaker 1: care less about your problems as an individual team. They're

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01:19:24,200 --> 01:19:26,040
Speaker 1: trying to get two hundred and fifty six games in

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Speaker 1: and get to the playoffs. And you know, as far

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Speaker 1: as they're concerned that, you know, the individual choice can

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Speaker 1: be made. You don't have to. You don't have to

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Speaker 1: get facts at all. But because of the the protocols

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Speaker 1: surrounding the pandemic and the rules that have been agreed to,

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01:19:43,520 --> 01:19:46,719
Speaker 1: it's going to put your team at a disadvantage. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Jeremy asks, with the addition of this year's draft picks,

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Speaker 1: mainly the D line and O line, do you think

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Speaker 1: the defensive line or the offensive line will come out

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Speaker 1: on top as far as overall talent and success on

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Speaker 1: the field in search of the Vince Lombardi Trophy this

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01:20:00,680 --> 01:20:06,200
Speaker 1: year will come out on top as far as overall

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Speaker 1: talent and success on the field. I'm guessing he's asking

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Speaker 1: will they be vastly superior to their opponents? Is that

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Speaker 1: what he's getting at. I'm not sure what the question

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01:20:14,400 --> 01:20:17,520
Speaker 1: is here. I don't know. Do you think the defensive

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Speaker 1: line or offensive line will come out on top as

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Speaker 1: far as overall talent and success on the field. I'm

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Speaker 1: assuming he's meaning in comparison to their opponents or yeah,

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Speaker 1: or do you think which one will be a bigger contributor?

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Speaker 1: That's a good question. I think both teams. I think

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Speaker 1: both squads, even even if the Bills throw out the

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01:20:38,960 --> 01:20:43,200
Speaker 1: five guys that everybody projects like Dean Dawkins, Cody Ford,

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Speaker 1: Mitch Morris, John Feliciano, and Darryl Williams. And those are

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Speaker 1: the five starters who finally get a play together more

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01:20:48,479 --> 01:20:50,479
Speaker 1: than three snaps. I think they're still going to be

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01:20:50,479 --> 01:20:54,720
Speaker 1: better than they were a year ago because those are

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Speaker 1: the five guys they wanted on the field never got.

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Speaker 1: Defensive line, they're also going to be improved because the

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Speaker 1: return of Star Lotulele, the draft picks that they got

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Speaker 1: another year with a Japanezza and at Alli were going

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Speaker 1: into his third year. Those three or four reasons, plus

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Speaker 1: the five guys I mentioned those are gonna make the

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Speaker 1: defensive line better. You won't have a guy that's soaking

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Speaker 1: up salary cap and taking a lesser role like Trent

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01:21:20,880 --> 01:21:23,719
Speaker 1: Murphy did at the end of last year. So because

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Speaker 1: of all of that, I think both those units are

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Speaker 1: going to be better. And which one outshines or makes

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Speaker 1: a bigger contribution or more consistently outperforms their opponents. Wow,

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Speaker 1: you know that? Yeah? How do you know how good

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Speaker 1: anybody else is going to be? Right? And how And

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Speaker 1: as you've mentioned time and time again, it's not only

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Speaker 1: about the talent. That you're putting out on the field.

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Speaker 1: It's how you play and execute that day. Yeah, you

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01:21:47,840 --> 01:21:50,799
Speaker 1: gotta play good that day. So that's a good question.

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Speaker 1: But I do think both sides of the of the

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Speaker 1: ball right on, you know, very competitive. They're gonna be

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Speaker 1: very competitive no matter who they're playing against. Mark asks

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Speaker 1: his special team's ability a tiebreaker for making the roster.

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Speaker 1: Or are the specialists like Siran Neil and Tyler Madekevic

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01:22:07,600 --> 01:22:11,519
Speaker 1: automatically making the roster. I don't think they're automatics, but

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Speaker 1: it unquestionably helps their chances because I'm gonna tell you

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Speaker 1: right now, and I'm not telling see if anything he

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Speaker 1: doesn't know. But when they get in those meetings to

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Speaker 1: decide the fifty three guys that are making up the roster,

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Speaker 1: special teams coordinator Heath Farwell will be asked specifically, give

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Speaker 1: me your four must have guys, like, who are your

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01:22:32,760 --> 01:22:35,920
Speaker 1: core guys that you absolutely need to be successful on

1437
01:22:35,960 --> 01:22:38,639
Speaker 1: the field this season outside of your kicker, your punter,

1438
01:22:38,680 --> 01:22:41,679
Speaker 1: and your long snapper. If if he says sarand Neil,

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01:22:41,920 --> 01:22:44,639
Speaker 1: he's gonna be on the team, right if you're if

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01:22:44,640 --> 01:22:49,679
Speaker 1: there's two guys who are if this is what he's asking.

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01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:52,720
Speaker 1: If there are two guys tied for being if being

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01:22:52,760 --> 01:22:57,640
Speaker 1: a backup, and one of them plays special teams and

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01:22:57,680 --> 01:23:01,559
Speaker 1: one of them doesn't, that's not a tie. That's a

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01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:04,960
Speaker 1: loss by the guy who doesn't play special teams. That's

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01:23:05,000 --> 01:23:09,519
Speaker 1: just the way it is. There's no way, and you've

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01:23:09,560 --> 01:23:11,679
Speaker 1: got it, and believe me this too. When he gets

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01:23:11,680 --> 01:23:14,200
Speaker 1: an opening day you don't care about week six. On

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01:23:14,280 --> 01:23:17,280
Speaker 1: opening day, if this guy might be better than him

1449
01:23:17,320 --> 01:23:20,200
Speaker 1: on weeks in week six, he's got to go do

1450
01:23:20,320 --> 01:23:22,519
Speaker 1: something else for six weeks, maybe on the practice squad

1451
01:23:22,560 --> 01:23:24,519
Speaker 1: or someplace else. But the guy that gives you a

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01:23:24,600 --> 01:23:26,599
Speaker 1: chance to win on opening day gets on the field

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01:23:26,600 --> 01:23:30,320
Speaker 1: on opening day. If a guy's gonna develop, maybe in

1454
01:23:30,640 --> 01:23:32,920
Speaker 1: week ten or maybe down the line, he's not gonna

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01:23:32,920 --> 01:23:34,880
Speaker 1: be on the roster an opening day. The guy who

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01:23:34,880 --> 01:23:36,439
Speaker 1: gives you the chance to win on opening day is

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01:23:36,439 --> 01:23:40,240
Speaker 1: gonna be there. You gotta win that game. That's how

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01:23:40,240 --> 01:23:44,280
Speaker 1: that works, You don't you know, there's no ties. You

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01:23:44,360 --> 01:23:46,240
Speaker 1: might like both guys, but one of them gives you

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Speaker 1: a chance to win tomorrow and the other guy doesn't

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01:23:48,880 --> 01:23:51,880
Speaker 1: or gives you a lesser chance. The guy that gives

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Speaker 1: you the better chance is on the field, period, end

1463
01:23:54,080 --> 01:23:56,240
Speaker 1: of story. That's why this coaching staff gets the most

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01:23:56,240 --> 01:23:59,080
Speaker 1: out of their roster because the players know it, and

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01:23:59,120 --> 01:24:03,000
Speaker 1: they're all all sixty five guys, the fifty three on

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01:24:03,040 --> 01:24:06,479
Speaker 1: the roster and the sixty nine guys and the fourteen

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01:24:06,560 --> 01:24:10,800
Speaker 1: on the practice squad. They're all racking their brain trying

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01:24:10,800 --> 01:24:12,320
Speaker 1: to find a way to contribute so they can get

1469
01:24:12,320 --> 01:24:17,639
Speaker 1: on the field. That's why this culture works. Tiffany asks,

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Speaker 1: watching Brady receive his seventh Super Bowl ring, how much

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Speaker 1: pressure do you think is on the Patriots organization to

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01:24:22,760 --> 01:24:25,559
Speaker 1: not only get the quarterback position back on track, but

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Speaker 1: the entire franchise back to the standard they held for

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Speaker 1: close to two decades. Well, I can say this. I

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Speaker 1: think last year they got a pass because of the pandemic,

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01:24:36,040 --> 01:24:40,000
Speaker 1: the opt outs, and the first year without Brady, people

1477
01:24:40,040 --> 01:24:42,000
Speaker 1: were still like, oh, you know, it was a great run.

1478
01:24:42,040 --> 01:24:45,559
Speaker 1: We understand you don't have Brady anymore. They come out

1479
01:24:45,600 --> 01:24:49,840
Speaker 1: and they're still an also ran. This year, people are

1480
01:24:49,840 --> 01:24:51,880
Speaker 1: not going to be showing up at the stadium. There's

1481
01:24:52,160 --> 01:24:56,439
Speaker 1: one theory I'm sure people have, you know, lobbed out

1482
01:24:56,439 --> 01:24:59,280
Speaker 1: there about the Patriots for twenty years. They had Tom

1483
01:24:59,320 --> 01:25:05,559
Speaker 1: Brady who was playing with good players on offense. Certainly

1484
01:25:05,600 --> 01:25:08,240
Speaker 1: Gronkowski is a Hall of Fame type guy, and there's

1485
01:25:08,280 --> 01:25:10,120
Speaker 1: been some other like Randy Moss. In those years when

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01:25:10,120 --> 01:25:12,600
Speaker 1: they had some weapons on offense, they were crushing it.

1487
01:25:13,439 --> 01:25:15,519
Speaker 1: But for so many years, the last handful of years,

1488
01:25:15,520 --> 01:25:16,960
Speaker 1: even when they were going to the Super Bowl a

1489
01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:19,559
Speaker 1: couple of times and winning it, they were playing with

1490
01:25:19,680 --> 01:25:22,800
Speaker 1: just you know, Julian Edelman was a nice player, but

1491
01:25:22,840 --> 01:25:25,360
Speaker 1: they are much better slot receivers around the league, much

1492
01:25:25,400 --> 01:25:29,320
Speaker 1: more athletic, much more gifted, and the Patriots just didn't

1493
01:25:29,320 --> 01:25:32,120
Speaker 1: have them. What they did have was they continued to

1494
01:25:32,160 --> 01:25:35,719
Speaker 1: put really good defensive units out there, and Tom Brady

1495
01:25:36,800 --> 01:25:41,720
Speaker 1: made chicken salad out of chicken pooh. I mean, he

1496
01:25:42,240 --> 01:25:45,639
Speaker 1: got them through. He covered up a lot of warts.

1497
01:25:46,640 --> 01:25:50,320
Speaker 1: Now I think that they do not have that guy

1498
01:25:50,360 --> 01:25:52,240
Speaker 1: that can do that, and that didn't so they get

1499
01:25:52,280 --> 01:25:54,200
Speaker 1: it all right? Well, gosh, I guess we better. All right,

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01:25:54,240 --> 01:25:56,320
Speaker 1: so we got these opt outs coming back defensively, Let's

1501
01:25:56,320 --> 01:25:58,160
Speaker 1: go out and get a couple of tight ends and

1502
01:25:58,280 --> 01:26:00,120
Speaker 1: get a couple of wide outs to pay big money

1503
01:26:00,160 --> 01:26:01,800
Speaker 1: for him, get the guys we want bring him in.

1504
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:03,920
Speaker 1: See if we can get some weapons on offense, see

1505
01:26:03,920 --> 01:26:06,280
Speaker 1: if we can give ourselves some chance to score some points.

1506
01:26:06,320 --> 01:26:08,360
Speaker 1: And they don't have a quarterback that can maximize the

1507
01:26:08,400 --> 01:26:11,080
Speaker 1: ability of those players like they did with Brady. So

1508
01:26:11,120 --> 01:26:12,960
Speaker 1: I don't know how it computes. Yeah, I don't know.

1509
01:26:13,240 --> 01:26:16,000
Speaker 1: They must be thinking something Cam Newton is better than

1510
01:26:16,080 --> 01:26:18,320
Speaker 1: he was a year ago, or the mac Jones. Who's

1511
01:26:18,360 --> 01:26:21,400
Speaker 1: gonna be the guy? Because that's the thing. I mean,

1512
01:26:22,800 --> 01:26:27,160
Speaker 1: Tom Brady was a this just in that guy was

1513
01:26:27,320 --> 01:26:31,880
Speaker 1: really good for a long time and he's still really good.

1514
01:26:32,960 --> 01:26:36,320
Speaker 1: And they took him off of their team and they

1515
01:26:36,320 --> 01:26:38,559
Speaker 1: had been they I think it just came to light

1516
01:26:38,680 --> 01:26:42,120
Speaker 1: how much they leaned on him for a long long time.

1517
01:26:42,560 --> 01:26:44,280
Speaker 1: And I didn't I'll tell you this, I'm one of them.

1518
01:26:44,280 --> 01:26:46,640
Speaker 1: I didn't give him much credit. I didn't give him

1519
01:26:46,720 --> 01:26:49,880
Speaker 1: enough credit. I thought, well, Belichick does a lot for

1520
01:26:49,920 --> 01:26:51,920
Speaker 1: that team. You know, he got the guys and the

1521
01:26:51,960 --> 01:26:54,080
Speaker 1: culture and everything. I think Tom Brady was as big

1522
01:26:54,080 --> 01:26:56,320
Speaker 1: a part of the culture building as Bill Belichick was.

1523
01:26:57,160 --> 01:26:59,640
Speaker 1: Did you gotta the goat quarterback in there? Being a

1524
01:26:59,640 --> 01:27:02,200
Speaker 1: whip boy for a head coach? On films and it's

1525
01:27:02,280 --> 01:27:06,720
Speaker 1: notorious he would start every film session, crushing the quarterback

1526
01:27:08,200 --> 01:27:10,479
Speaker 1: over even when they won, about you got to make

1527
01:27:10,479 --> 01:27:12,160
Speaker 1: a better throw than this. This is a bad play here,

1528
01:27:12,160 --> 01:27:14,720
Speaker 1: This is a bad play there. So everybody else in

1529
01:27:14,720 --> 01:27:16,800
Speaker 1: the room said, well, if he's crushing the goat, I

1530
01:27:16,880 --> 01:27:19,400
Speaker 1: got no business not getting crushed, I better pick it

1531
01:27:19,479 --> 01:27:22,040
Speaker 1: up at all. And Brady would sit there, and Brady

1532
01:27:22,080 --> 01:27:25,200
Speaker 1: would sit there and be quiet and take it right.

1533
01:27:26,960 --> 01:27:33,000
Speaker 1: So now it's different, Yeah, and they're adjusting. It's a

1534
01:27:33,040 --> 01:27:36,120
Speaker 1: different world in New England and they're just trying to

1535
01:27:36,320 --> 01:27:38,719
Speaker 1: find their way through it. And that's all just nothing

1536
01:27:38,840 --> 01:27:41,679
Speaker 1: is more enjoyable. That's just that's just one more old

1537
01:27:41,720 --> 01:27:43,960
Speaker 1: me that's pointing at myself. That's just one more old

1538
01:27:44,000 --> 01:27:47,040
Speaker 1: guy's opinion about what happened in New England. I'm sure

1539
01:27:47,040 --> 01:27:50,400
Speaker 1: it has like ten thousand layers between the truth and

1540
01:27:50,439 --> 01:27:52,920
Speaker 1: what I sounds pretty accurate, but it looks it kind

1541
01:27:52,920 --> 01:27:55,479
Speaker 1: of looks that way to me from from a thousand

1542
01:27:55,479 --> 01:27:58,280
Speaker 1: miles away. We have to step aside here, take a break,

1543
01:27:58,280 --> 01:28:00,040
Speaker 1: but when we come back. More of your questions on

1544
01:28:00,120 --> 01:28:03,760
Speaker 1: the obil Fan Friday mail bag. And we also want

1545
01:28:03,800 --> 01:28:06,280
Speaker 1: to remind you that coming up in the third hour

1546
01:28:06,320 --> 01:28:08,880
Speaker 1: of our show, Founder and lead writer at the Draft Scout,

1547
01:28:08,880 --> 01:28:11,040
Speaker 1: Matt Miller will be joining us. He's also an ESPN

1548
01:28:11,160 --> 01:28:14,200
Speaker 1: NFL Draft analyst, so we'll be talking with him as

1549
01:28:14,240 --> 01:28:16,320
Speaker 1: he is bullish on the Bills in a number of

1550
01:28:16,400 --> 01:28:19,040
Speaker 1: different areas. He's coming up in the third hour of

1551
01:28:19,080 --> 01:28:21,120
Speaker 1: our show. Stay tuned here to One Bills Live presented

1552
01:28:21,120 --> 01:28:35,880
Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back

1553
01:28:35,880 --> 01:28:38,240
Speaker 1: to one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you.

1554
01:28:38,520 --> 01:28:44,160
Speaker 1: We openly wondered, you know, with the COVID vaccination incentives

1555
01:28:44,200 --> 01:28:48,400
Speaker 1: imposed by the league and the detrimental effects of not

1556
01:28:48,479 --> 01:28:52,120
Speaker 1: getting vaccinated four players and door coaches in terms of

1557
01:28:52,120 --> 01:28:54,080
Speaker 1: tramp being able to travel on the team playing what

1558
01:28:54,160 --> 01:28:56,439
Speaker 1: to do in the road hotels where you basically confined

1559
01:28:56,479 --> 01:28:59,240
Speaker 1: to your room. You can't go out anywhere if you're

1560
01:28:59,280 --> 01:29:03,760
Speaker 1: an unvaccinated member of the travel party. This just in

1561
01:29:04,400 --> 01:29:08,559
Speaker 1: courtesy of a Vikings by reporter Courtney Cronin, who says

1562
01:29:08,880 --> 01:29:12,559
Speaker 1: Rick Dennison is out as Vikings offensive line coach and

1563
01:29:12,720 --> 01:29:18,000
Speaker 1: run game coordinator after refusing the COVID nineteen vaccine. Minnesota

1564
01:29:18,080 --> 01:29:21,559
Speaker 1: is promoting assistant offensive line coach Phil Rauscher to replace Dennison,

1565
01:29:21,920 --> 01:29:25,559
Speaker 1: and they've hired Auburn special teams analyst Ben Steele as

1566
01:29:25,600 --> 01:29:28,800
Speaker 1: an assistant. Rick Dennison, for those that don't remember, was

1567
01:29:28,840 --> 01:29:32,360
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator here in year one under Sean McDermott

1568
01:29:32,360 --> 01:29:36,840
Speaker 1: and then was subsequently replaced by Brian Dable. Refused the vaccine,

1569
01:29:37,479 --> 01:29:44,320
Speaker 1: lost his job. Is that now? Is that legal? I

1570
01:29:44,320 --> 01:29:48,160
Speaker 1: don't know. That sounds to me. It is being reported

1571
01:29:48,200 --> 01:29:50,519
Speaker 1: that that is the reason he was fired. Yeah, that

1572
01:29:50,640 --> 01:29:54,280
Speaker 1: seems to me not right. Well, that's coaches, not players.

1573
01:29:54,320 --> 01:29:58,640
Speaker 1: Well I get that, but that's like, yeah, see that

1574
01:29:58,720 --> 01:30:01,840
Speaker 1: to me, there there isn't Is there a coach's union

1575
01:30:01,960 --> 01:30:04,479
Speaker 1: I'm trying. Yeah, I don't know that that strikes me

1576
01:30:04,520 --> 01:30:08,479
Speaker 1: as illegal, whether I'm you're, whether you're an anti vaxer

1577
01:30:08,560 --> 01:30:12,280
Speaker 1: or not. I mean, because just to say you're if

1578
01:30:12,280 --> 01:30:15,559
Speaker 1: you're not gonna make this medical decision on your and

1579
01:30:15,560 --> 01:30:18,040
Speaker 1: we all know it's your own personal decision, whether you

1580
01:30:18,040 --> 01:30:21,000
Speaker 1: think it's right or wrong or not to be to

1581
01:30:21,120 --> 01:30:22,519
Speaker 1: force a guy to do it to keep his job

1582
01:30:22,560 --> 01:30:27,240
Speaker 1: doesn't seem right to me. Yeah, it's um, it's gonna

1583
01:30:27,240 --> 01:30:30,160
Speaker 1: get interesting. That's that seems illegal to me, no matter

1584
01:30:30,160 --> 01:30:34,280
Speaker 1: where you stand on the issue whether you think it's

1585
01:30:34,360 --> 01:30:40,680
Speaker 1: right or wrong to get the vaccination. Okay, well there

1586
01:30:40,720 --> 01:30:48,880
Speaker 1: you go. Yeah, Um, everybody's got. Everybody's got Like everybody says, wow,

1587
01:30:49,800 --> 01:30:53,280
Speaker 1: mar you know everybody like the first time they that

1588
01:30:53,439 --> 01:30:58,800
Speaker 1: they're not even refuting it. No, it's like they said,

1589
01:30:58,840 --> 01:31:01,519
Speaker 1: he didn't get the VACT so he's he's released. Wow,

1590
01:31:01,560 --> 01:31:07,960
Speaker 1: that's okay. I mean, I am not I am not

1591
01:31:08,040 --> 01:31:12,080
Speaker 1: going to pretend here to be a labor and employment expert.

1592
01:31:12,280 --> 01:31:14,320
Speaker 1: I think we know that with the players there's a

1593
01:31:14,400 --> 01:31:19,599
Speaker 1: union involved, and so there are different means by which

1594
01:31:19,600 --> 01:31:23,519
Speaker 1: you have to travel down a road like that. When

1595
01:31:23,560 --> 01:31:28,720
Speaker 1: it comes to coaches, though, I imagine it's different because

1596
01:31:29,640 --> 01:31:34,360
Speaker 1: you have to believe that the Vikings legal department research

1597
01:31:34,439 --> 01:31:38,560
Speaker 1: that thoroughly before making such a decision, right, you know

1598
01:31:38,600 --> 01:31:42,320
Speaker 1: what I mean, They didn't just haphazardly do this. Yeah,

1599
01:31:42,320 --> 01:31:45,280
Speaker 1: our friend Andrew Brett as in his words, there will

1600
01:31:45,320 --> 01:31:52,400
Speaker 1: be lawyers. So it's uh, it could be just the

1601
01:31:52,400 --> 01:31:55,160
Speaker 1: first example of the price some people are going to

1602
01:31:55,200 --> 01:31:59,400
Speaker 1: play pay for making the decisions that they make with

1603
01:31:59,439 --> 01:32:02,240
Speaker 1: regard to the personal health or so. I gotta say

1604
01:32:02,280 --> 01:32:04,640
Speaker 1: this just to bust away for a minute here, Um,

1605
01:32:05,640 --> 01:32:08,679
Speaker 1: you know, the the Instigators are on right before us. Yeah,

1606
01:32:09,840 --> 01:32:13,519
Speaker 1: and you know we never talk about hockey very much,

1607
01:32:13,600 --> 01:32:16,559
Speaker 1: right so, but right now Rasmus is being reported by

1608
01:32:16,680 --> 01:32:19,720
Speaker 1: w GR the Rasmus Risto line and appears to have

1609
01:32:19,760 --> 01:32:24,600
Speaker 1: been traded to the Flyers for defenseman Robert hag and

1610
01:32:24,760 --> 01:32:27,600
Speaker 1: possible traffics has not yet been announced, but that's the

1611
01:32:27,640 --> 01:32:34,360
Speaker 1: report that's out there. So Risto is histo. Looking what

1612
01:32:34,400 --> 01:32:39,160
Speaker 1: Steve just did there, Risto is history, so we'll see. Yeah,

1613
01:32:39,240 --> 01:32:43,000
Speaker 1: there you go. There's also this from the Arizona Cardinals.

1614
01:32:43,439 --> 01:32:47,160
Speaker 1: They have just put cornerback Lorenzo Burns on their reserve

1615
01:32:47,640 --> 01:32:50,920
Speaker 1: COVID list. So we saw a lot of that last year.

1616
01:32:53,120 --> 01:32:57,040
Speaker 1: Rookies are in for the Cardinals, the Bills, a handful

1617
01:32:57,080 --> 01:32:59,880
Speaker 1: of other teams, and one of their rookies has already

1618
01:32:59,880 --> 01:33:02,640
Speaker 1: been put on the reserve COVID nineteen list, and that

1619
01:33:02,800 --> 01:33:06,200
Speaker 1: is Lorenzo Burns, a cornerback. So that being reported by

1620
01:33:06,280 --> 01:33:08,519
Speaker 1: Darren urban I just said too, when being a writer

1621
01:33:08,600 --> 01:33:10,919
Speaker 1: for the team, if you get if you test positive

1622
01:33:10,920 --> 01:33:14,600
Speaker 1: for COVID and you've you're considered to have been infected,

1623
01:33:15,560 --> 01:33:18,840
Speaker 1: you are also considered to be fully vaccinated. We just

1624
01:33:18,920 --> 01:33:21,600
Speaker 1: read that ten minutes ago. So all the guys that

1625
01:33:21,680 --> 01:33:24,400
Speaker 1: go on the COVID list, if they can, if they can,

1626
01:33:24,760 --> 01:33:29,320
Speaker 1: if they come out of it symptomatic or asymptomatic or whatever,

1627
01:33:29,680 --> 01:33:31,920
Speaker 1: they're going to be considered fully vaccinated, whether they got

1628
01:33:31,920 --> 01:33:39,120
Speaker 1: the vaccine or not. Right, I'm gonna have to double

1629
01:33:39,200 --> 01:33:44,320
Speaker 1: check that. I'm not one hundred percent sure. Yeah, yeah,

1630
01:33:44,360 --> 01:33:47,240
Speaker 1: we'll tell yeah, well yeah, better, let's do something that

1631
01:33:47,360 --> 01:33:51,160
Speaker 1: not everybody does. Let's fact check that. We'll find that out.

1632
01:33:51,200 --> 01:33:54,680
Speaker 1: I'm not one hundred percent sure that's correct. So I'm

1633
01:33:54,720 --> 01:33:57,280
Speaker 1: gonna because I read that a little earlier from somebody

1634
01:33:57,520 --> 01:34:03,320
Speaker 1: that from the NFL announced that if you have in okay,

1635
01:34:03,360 --> 01:34:06,040
Speaker 1: all right, here we go. Yeah you you you look

1636
01:34:06,040 --> 01:34:08,519
Speaker 1: into that. We will take a break, and when we

1637
01:34:08,600 --> 01:34:10,760
Speaker 1: come back for the third hour of the show, we

1638
01:34:10,800 --> 01:34:15,040
Speaker 1: will have one Matt Miller joining us. He is from

1639
01:34:15,200 --> 01:34:19,200
Speaker 1: the Draft Scout and an ESPN analyst as well. He's

1640
01:34:19,240 --> 01:34:22,040
Speaker 1: pretty interested in some Bills players having a breakout season

1641
01:34:22,080 --> 01:34:26,679
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. He also believes Tremaine Edmonds canna

1642
01:34:26,720 --> 01:34:28,720
Speaker 1: have a pretty big season this year. We'll talk to

1643
01:34:28,800 --> 01:34:31,000
Speaker 1: him next here on One Bill's Live, presented by Collid

1644
01:34:31,040 --> 01:34:49,320
Speaker 1: of health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker

1645
01:34:49,320 --> 01:34:52,000
Speaker 1: who has been all over the fields. Kind of unique.

1646
01:34:52,000 --> 01:34:54,240
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role players for Steve,

1647
01:34:55,600 --> 01:35:00,120
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the stre at

1648
01:35:00,240 --> 01:35:05,920
Speaker 1: a fear of normalcy. Here. Welcome to our number three

1649
01:35:05,920 --> 01:35:08,080
Speaker 1: of one Bills Live Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you

1650
01:35:08,160 --> 01:35:11,880
Speaker 1: here on a Friday, and pleased to be joined now

1651
01:35:12,000 --> 01:35:14,120
Speaker 1: by the founder and lead writer at the Draft Scout,

1652
01:35:14,200 --> 01:35:18,000
Speaker 1: also an ESPN NFL Draft analyst. It is one Matt

1653
01:35:18,040 --> 01:35:22,000
Speaker 1: Miller joining us on the line. And let's just say

1654
01:35:22,040 --> 01:35:25,320
Speaker 1: Matt is very bullish on the bills for twenty twenty one.

1655
01:35:25,439 --> 01:35:29,120
Speaker 1: He's not certainly not alone in this universe. But you know,

1656
01:35:29,160 --> 01:35:31,880
Speaker 1: it's nice to see some of the national guys get

1657
01:35:31,920 --> 01:35:35,200
Speaker 1: on board here. And I'll say first, welcome aboard, Matt.

1658
01:35:35,200 --> 01:35:39,320
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. Yeah, thank you, guys. It was

1659
01:35:39,360 --> 01:35:40,840
Speaker 1: good and mixing it up with you a little before

1660
01:35:40,880 --> 01:35:42,840
Speaker 1: the show. And as you said, I'm bullish on the

1661
01:35:42,880 --> 01:35:45,680
Speaker 1: bills this year. And you know, I've been blessed to

1662
01:35:45,960 --> 01:35:47,960
Speaker 1: sit down with you guys for several years now. Usually

1663
01:35:47,960 --> 01:35:49,680
Speaker 1: we're at the super Bowl of the combine. We do this,

1664
01:35:49,800 --> 01:35:53,519
Speaker 1: but I'm excited for this season to see where Josh

1665
01:35:53,520 --> 01:35:55,200
Speaker 1: Allen and the rest of this team are able to

1666
01:35:55,240 --> 01:35:57,720
Speaker 1: get to. And how far away do you think they are,

1667
01:35:57,720 --> 01:35:59,439
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of people out there thinking they're

1668
01:35:59,479 --> 01:36:02,000
Speaker 1: never gonna be Kansas City because they the game went

1669
01:36:02,080 --> 01:36:04,599
Speaker 1: how it did in the AFC Championship Game. I've told

1670
01:36:04,720 --> 01:36:06,559
Speaker 1: a lot of people everybody would listen on this, Joe,

1671
01:36:07,200 --> 01:36:09,280
Speaker 1: He's got to play better on that day. The Bills

1672
01:36:09,280 --> 01:36:11,760
Speaker 1: have got the horses to beat anybody. But I'll tell

1673
01:36:11,760 --> 01:36:14,639
Speaker 1: you this, in my opinion, the Chiefs played the best

1674
01:36:14,720 --> 01:36:18,360
Speaker 1: game of their entire season in the AFC Championship Game,

1675
01:36:18,520 --> 01:36:21,360
Speaker 1: bar none. And the Bills were there too, you know,

1676
01:36:21,439 --> 01:36:22,840
Speaker 1: kind of take the brunt of it, and the Bills

1677
01:36:22,880 --> 01:36:24,519
Speaker 1: did not play their best, And certainly you can give

1678
01:36:24,560 --> 01:36:26,920
Speaker 1: the Chiefs credit for that and blame the Bills for

1679
01:36:26,960 --> 01:36:29,280
Speaker 1: whatever you want, But I don't see it as an

1680
01:36:29,360 --> 01:36:34,040
Speaker 1: insurmountable obstacle beating the Kansas City Chiefs. Yeah. I'm probably

1681
01:36:34,080 --> 01:36:35,960
Speaker 1: gonna get my house eggs for saying this because I

1682
01:36:36,000 --> 01:36:37,960
Speaker 1: live very close to Kansas City, as you guys know.

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01:36:38,040 --> 01:36:40,040
Speaker 1: But I look at it this way. The Kansas City

1684
01:36:40,120 --> 01:36:42,240
Speaker 1: Chiefs are the best team in the AFC. The difference

1685
01:36:42,360 --> 01:36:45,400
Speaker 1: is they are a team made up of largely veteran players.

1686
01:36:45,400 --> 01:36:47,479
Speaker 1: I mean, Patrick Mahomes is, in my opinion, the greatest

1687
01:36:47,520 --> 01:36:50,080
Speaker 1: player in the NFL. Can he get that much better?

1688
01:36:50,439 --> 01:36:53,800
Speaker 1: When you look at Frank Clark, Chris Jones, Tyree Kill,

1689
01:36:53,960 --> 01:36:56,360
Speaker 1: Tyrann Matthew, these are better in players. They're no longer

1690
01:36:56,400 --> 01:36:59,080
Speaker 1: ascending players now they are great. They're great players, which

1691
01:36:59,120 --> 01:37:00,920
Speaker 1: is why we know their name so well. But I

1692
01:37:00,920 --> 01:37:03,679
Speaker 1: look at the Buffalo Bills as an ascending team. Josh

1693
01:37:03,680 --> 01:37:06,680
Speaker 1: Allen is still improving, He's still in his prime. We

1694
01:37:06,800 --> 01:37:08,799
Speaker 1: still look at, you know, the way that this defense

1695
01:37:08,800 --> 01:37:11,160
Speaker 1: has been built. We're still expecting, you know, Trey White

1696
01:37:11,200 --> 01:37:13,800
Speaker 1: can get better, Tremaine Edmonds can certainly get better. Ed

1697
01:37:13,880 --> 01:37:15,800
Speaker 1: Oliver is only getting better. So while the Bills do

1698
01:37:15,880 --> 01:37:18,599
Speaker 1: have that nice veteran makeup, this is still also a

1699
01:37:18,600 --> 01:37:21,240
Speaker 1: young team that I do think is an ascending team.

1700
01:37:21,280 --> 01:37:23,080
Speaker 1: So I think if if you're a Bills fanning you

1701
01:37:23,120 --> 01:37:25,120
Speaker 1: look at, gosh, how do we catch Kansas City after

1702
01:37:25,160 --> 01:37:27,200
Speaker 1: twenty years of wondering how you're going to catch New England,

1703
01:37:27,400 --> 01:37:29,880
Speaker 1: I think that is probably what you have a little

1704
01:37:30,000 --> 01:37:31,920
Speaker 1: confidence in it is that, Okay, this is a young

1705
01:37:32,000 --> 01:37:34,880
Speaker 1: roster that is still getting better. Now. Having said that,

1706
01:37:34,960 --> 01:37:37,240
Speaker 1: someone will send this to Patrick Mahomes and he'll be like, oh,

1707
01:37:37,360 --> 01:37:40,120
Speaker 1: just watch, I can still get better and I'll have

1708
01:37:40,160 --> 01:37:42,679
Speaker 1: to eat these words. But it does seem like Kansas

1709
01:37:42,720 --> 01:37:45,040
Speaker 1: City is a team that has maybe plateaued, but they're

1710
01:37:45,080 --> 01:37:47,400
Speaker 1: still at a very very high level. So you know,

1711
01:37:47,560 --> 01:37:50,719
Speaker 1: going off of that premise, Matt, that the Bills aren't

1712
01:37:50,720 --> 01:37:55,000
Speaker 1: ascending team, I know you recently put together some write

1713
01:37:55,080 --> 01:37:58,600
Speaker 1: ups on players ready for breakout seasons. Who do you

1714
01:37:58,640 --> 01:38:02,439
Speaker 1: believe is primed for that on this Bill's roster for

1715
01:38:02,560 --> 01:38:06,120
Speaker 1: this year? Let's just say, yeah, you know, for this year,

1716
01:38:06,160 --> 01:38:08,839
Speaker 1: I definitely think it's Tremaine Edmonds. I was a super

1717
01:38:09,000 --> 01:38:11,479
Speaker 1: super big fan of his coming out of Virginia Tech.

1718
01:38:11,560 --> 01:38:13,240
Speaker 1: I mean, that is the type of athlete that you

1719
01:38:13,280 --> 01:38:15,719
Speaker 1: want at the linebacker position. And we have to remember

1720
01:38:15,760 --> 01:38:17,840
Speaker 1: he was nineteen years old when he was drafted, so

1721
01:38:17,840 --> 01:38:20,360
Speaker 1: an incredibly young player who when you look at where

1722
01:38:20,360 --> 01:38:23,160
Speaker 1: the league is going, you need that off ball linebacker

1723
01:38:23,200 --> 01:38:25,920
Speaker 1: who has range coverage ability but can also pull the

1724
01:38:25,960 --> 01:38:28,280
Speaker 1: trigger and come down and take away the run game,

1725
01:38:28,400 --> 01:38:30,600
Speaker 1: can take away these running quarterbacks that we're seeing in

1726
01:38:30,600 --> 01:38:33,320
Speaker 1: the NFL. So I think last year showed that Edmonds

1727
01:38:33,400 --> 01:38:35,760
Speaker 1: is starting to figure it out. I'm excited to see

1728
01:38:35,760 --> 01:38:37,640
Speaker 1: what he can do with the full off season, with

1729
01:38:37,800 --> 01:38:40,200
Speaker 1: a full preseason to where last year so many of

1730
01:38:40,240 --> 01:38:42,559
Speaker 1: these guys were just thrown in due to the COVID

1731
01:38:42,600 --> 01:38:45,759
Speaker 1: nineteen pandemic. So now having that full ramp up period,

1732
01:38:45,800 --> 01:38:48,400
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna been if Edmonds in a big,

1733
01:38:48,439 --> 01:38:51,719
Speaker 1: big way. Yeah, we've seen this roster take shape, Edmonds

1734
01:38:51,720 --> 01:38:54,240
Speaker 1: and Josh Allen coming into their prime in this last year,

1735
01:38:54,320 --> 01:38:56,759
Speaker 1: Edmonds with two Pro Bowls under his belt. This roster

1736
01:38:56,840 --> 01:39:01,639
Speaker 1: has come together under the guidance of Brandon being. You've

1737
01:39:01,640 --> 01:39:05,559
Speaker 1: got Brandon being high in your GM power rankings, and

1738
01:39:05,760 --> 01:39:07,360
Speaker 1: give it first of all, tell us what you think

1739
01:39:07,360 --> 01:39:11,080
Speaker 1: of Brandon being, and then tell us what's should be

1740
01:39:11,200 --> 01:39:16,280
Speaker 1: next on his to do list. Yeah. I'm a big

1741
01:39:16,280 --> 01:39:18,000
Speaker 1: fan of what Brandon has done. And obviously, you know,

1742
01:39:18,040 --> 01:39:20,559
Speaker 1: he and Sean McDermott work exceptionally well together, which is

1743
01:39:20,800 --> 01:39:23,160
Speaker 1: what you want, you know, that coalition between your head

1744
01:39:25,040 --> 01:39:35,200
Speaker 1: and all Right, so that tremendous job you know going on. Diggs,

1745
01:39:35,200 --> 01:39:38,479
Speaker 1: who at the time hold on a second, Matt, we

1746
01:39:38,640 --> 01:39:42,519
Speaker 1: were getting some Internet We're getting some interset internet problems.

1747
01:39:42,560 --> 01:39:44,960
Speaker 1: We're gonna call you back and try and reconnect with

1748
01:39:45,000 --> 01:39:48,760
Speaker 1: you once again. I appreciate it. Matt Miller, who is

1749
01:39:49,000 --> 01:39:51,200
Speaker 1: you know, prime to who thinks the Bills are primed

1750
01:39:51,240 --> 01:39:54,360
Speaker 1: to take another step also is predicting Tremaine Edmonds taking

1751
01:39:54,360 --> 01:39:56,559
Speaker 1: an enormous step forward this year. And he's very high

1752
01:39:56,560 --> 01:39:58,720
Speaker 1: on Brandon being his course, like like all Bills fans are.

1753
01:39:58,760 --> 01:40:01,240
Speaker 1: It's it's kind of the Vlad days for the whole franchise,

1754
01:40:01,280 --> 01:40:03,120
Speaker 1: because any guests we have on kind of is in

1755
01:40:03,200 --> 01:40:06,439
Speaker 1: this wheelhouse here, right. And he had Brandon being ranked

1756
01:40:06,479 --> 01:40:09,800
Speaker 1: third on his GM Power rankings recently. The only guys

1757
01:40:09,800 --> 01:40:12,080
Speaker 1: he had ahead of him were Kevin Colbert of the

1758
01:40:12,120 --> 01:40:14,680
Speaker 1: Steelers and Chris Ballard of the Colts. I like a

1759
01:40:14,760 --> 01:40:17,400
Speaker 1: lot of what Ballard's done in building the Colt's roster up.

1760
01:40:17,400 --> 01:40:19,800
Speaker 1: He's done a heck of a job there, and he

1761
01:40:19,920 --> 01:40:23,080
Speaker 1: and Frank Reicher in lockstep, much like McDermott and Bean are.

1762
01:40:23,479 --> 01:40:26,559
Speaker 1: Like Kevin Colbert, pick is an interesting one. I wasn't

1763
01:40:26,600 --> 01:40:28,400
Speaker 1: too happy with what he did in the draft this year.

1764
01:40:28,400 --> 01:40:31,080
Speaker 1: I thought, for sure they were gonna take offensive lineman

1765
01:40:31,080 --> 01:40:33,360
Speaker 1: early and often because that's what they needed up front,

1766
01:40:33,920 --> 01:40:37,320
Speaker 1: and they go running back in round one and then

1767
01:40:37,400 --> 01:40:40,800
Speaker 1: go tight end in round two. Now, don't get me wrong,

1768
01:40:40,920 --> 01:40:43,799
Speaker 1: Kevin Colbert has a long history of successful team building.

1769
01:40:44,280 --> 01:40:46,200
Speaker 1: But man, I was scratching my head on that one,

1770
01:40:46,680 --> 01:40:48,320
Speaker 1: and I was just going to ask Matt that question.

1771
01:40:48,320 --> 01:40:49,720
Speaker 1: But we're gonna try to connect with him on the

1772
01:40:49,760 --> 01:40:54,479
Speaker 1: phone line since right now doing it online is breaking

1773
01:40:54,560 --> 01:40:56,200
Speaker 1: up on us, and you know, we want to hear

1774
01:40:56,200 --> 01:40:58,200
Speaker 1: everything that Matt has to say, so hopefully we'll get

1775
01:40:58,280 --> 01:41:01,719
Speaker 1: him back here in short or The other cool thing

1776
01:41:02,240 --> 01:41:05,599
Speaker 1: that Matt is doing through their fantasy leagues at NFL

1777
01:41:05,680 --> 01:41:10,080
Speaker 1: Draft Scout is they are raising money for school supplies

1778
01:41:10,880 --> 01:41:16,880
Speaker 1: for students, and that is going on right now. So

1779
01:41:17,160 --> 01:41:20,599
Speaker 1: basically what he has going on, I'm trying to pull

1780
01:41:20,600 --> 01:41:22,760
Speaker 1: it up on my email here as I'm floundering right

1781
01:41:22,800 --> 01:41:25,200
Speaker 1: now because I'm trying to find out where that is

1782
01:41:25,240 --> 01:41:29,479
Speaker 1: going on here. So Matt, first, let's get to this.

1783
01:41:29,640 --> 01:41:31,960
Speaker 1: Let's finish your thoughts on Brandon. Being glad we have

1784
01:41:32,000 --> 01:41:34,640
Speaker 1: you back with us on the phone line now for

1785
01:41:34,680 --> 01:41:39,320
Speaker 1: a little bit better connection. Being third, you had Ballard second,

1786
01:41:39,560 --> 01:41:43,120
Speaker 1: and Kevin Colbert number one. Why did Colbert get your

1787
01:41:43,240 --> 01:41:45,320
Speaker 1: number one spot? I know he's got a long history

1788
01:41:45,320 --> 01:41:48,840
Speaker 1: of successful team building, But the Rubbers meet in the

1789
01:41:48,920 --> 01:41:52,280
Speaker 1: road here now with cap implications. I know they got

1790
01:41:52,280 --> 01:41:56,160
Speaker 1: Ben to come back on a salary cut deal, but

1791
01:41:56,320 --> 01:41:58,960
Speaker 1: their problems aren't over as far as trying to fill

1792
01:41:59,000 --> 01:42:02,280
Speaker 1: out that roster. Yeah, no, that's absolutely right. I think

1793
01:42:02,320 --> 01:42:04,679
Speaker 1: the one designation I would make with this is it's

1794
01:42:04,720 --> 01:42:07,000
Speaker 1: based on what they have done, not so much like

1795
01:42:07,040 --> 01:42:09,160
Speaker 1: what we think they'll do. You're right, Kevin is coming

1796
01:42:09,240 --> 01:42:12,600
Speaker 1: up against it where they manage the storm with Antonio

1797
01:42:12,720 --> 01:42:15,680
Speaker 1: Brown Levion Bell, and he kind of picked this guy

1798
01:42:15,720 --> 01:42:18,360
Speaker 1: to roll with, and I think it has worked out.

1799
01:42:18,400 --> 01:42:20,600
Speaker 1: You know, they've been one of the NFL's best for

1800
01:42:20,680 --> 01:42:22,720
Speaker 1: quite some time. They have a great coach there and

1801
01:42:23,000 --> 01:42:25,200
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlins, who I think, you know, four years ago

1802
01:42:25,240 --> 01:42:26,479
Speaker 1: a lot of people were ready to give up on

1803
01:42:26,520 --> 01:42:29,000
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlins. So the fact that that worked out so

1804
01:42:29,120 --> 01:42:31,800
Speaker 1: well for them gives me some compidence in Kevin. But

1805
01:42:31,840 --> 01:42:34,160
Speaker 1: then also, you know, getting Minka Fitzpatrick in that trade.

1806
01:42:34,200 --> 01:42:36,439
Speaker 1: You know, Minka looks like an all pro type player

1807
01:42:36,479 --> 01:42:39,000
Speaker 1: at this point, So what they gave up for him

1808
01:42:39,080 --> 01:42:41,680
Speaker 1: looks very, very smart. And then I think, you know,

1809
01:42:41,720 --> 01:42:44,479
Speaker 1: the only other person ahead is Chris Ballard. And again

1810
01:42:44,680 --> 01:42:46,599
Speaker 1: he made a move to where you have to look

1811
01:42:46,640 --> 01:42:49,200
Speaker 1: at the Carson Palmer or excuse me, Carson Wentz trade

1812
01:42:49,200 --> 01:42:51,920
Speaker 1: and say, oh yeah, that doesn't work out. This opinion

1813
01:42:51,920 --> 01:42:53,800
Speaker 1: to him is gonna change pretty quickly. And I'm a

1814
01:42:53,880 --> 01:42:56,439
Speaker 1: huge Chris Ballard fan. I mean the team that he

1815
01:42:56,479 --> 01:42:59,280
Speaker 1: has built there and the turnover that they've had has

1816
01:42:59,280 --> 01:43:02,160
Speaker 1: been tremendous, and what he's his vision and the culture

1817
01:43:02,200 --> 01:43:04,760
Speaker 1: he wants to build. But he has put his reputation

1818
01:43:04,760 --> 01:43:07,639
Speaker 1: on the line when it comes to this quarterback pick.

1819
01:43:07,680 --> 01:43:10,080
Speaker 1: So I think that is the big one where obviously

1820
01:43:10,120 --> 01:43:12,839
Speaker 1: Brandon and Sean made the right move on their quarterback.

1821
01:43:13,000 --> 01:43:15,720
Speaker 1: They made the right move getting Trey White. They've made

1822
01:43:15,720 --> 01:43:18,880
Speaker 1: the right move getting you know, Tremaine Edmonds. Now it's about,

1823
01:43:18,920 --> 01:43:21,200
Speaker 1: as you know, to your original question, what's next, I

1824
01:43:21,240 --> 01:43:23,280
Speaker 1: think you have to look at, you know, rounding out

1825
01:43:23,320 --> 01:43:26,760
Speaker 1: this wide receiver corps. They made a fantastic trade to

1826
01:43:26,800 --> 01:43:29,400
Speaker 1: get Stefon Diggs. You know, now it's about finding that

1827
01:43:29,479 --> 01:43:31,800
Speaker 1: running mate next to him. Maybe it is you know,

1828
01:43:31,960 --> 01:43:34,840
Speaker 1: maybe it is Gabriel Davis, maybe it is Isaiah Hodgens

1829
01:43:34,880 --> 01:43:37,040
Speaker 1: who they picked in the twenty twenty draft, But I

1830
01:43:37,080 --> 01:43:39,599
Speaker 1: do think finding that that running mate and even looking

1831
01:43:39,600 --> 01:43:41,519
Speaker 1: at the tight end position. You know, I think Dawson

1832
01:43:41,560 --> 01:43:44,760
Speaker 1: Knox is a solid player, but could you could you

1833
01:43:44,800 --> 01:43:47,160
Speaker 1: add to that group and get you know, maybe more

1834
01:43:47,160 --> 01:43:49,639
Speaker 1: of a dynamic playmaker. Probably so. So I think those

1835
01:43:49,680 --> 01:43:51,800
Speaker 1: are areas where you know, you have to look at

1836
01:43:51,800 --> 01:43:55,400
Speaker 1: this what's next for Buffalo. It's after so much time

1837
01:43:55,439 --> 01:43:58,400
Speaker 1: has been spent investing on the you know, almost drafting

1838
01:43:58,400 --> 01:44:00,120
Speaker 1: and building this offensive line, and then you do the

1839
01:44:00,120 --> 01:44:01,680
Speaker 1: same thing on deep end. I think now you have

1840
01:44:01,720 --> 01:44:03,639
Speaker 1: to look at it and say, okay, let's let's focus

1841
01:44:03,720 --> 01:44:07,360
Speaker 1: on these skill players on offense a little bit. Let's uh,

1842
01:44:07,880 --> 01:44:10,000
Speaker 1: you know, knowing the amount of tape that you watch, Matt.

1843
01:44:10,120 --> 01:44:13,320
Speaker 1: Let's discuss the top two draft choices here in Buffalo,

1844
01:44:13,400 --> 01:44:17,200
Speaker 1: Rousseau and Basham. Obviously, one has a much larger college

1845
01:44:17,200 --> 01:44:20,160
Speaker 1: body of work than the other. Heck, as a matter

1846
01:44:20,160 --> 01:44:22,880
Speaker 1: of fact, Bookie Basham is still older than Tremaine Edmonds.

1847
01:44:22,880 --> 01:44:26,400
Speaker 1: Think about that for a second, but but what do

1848
01:44:26,479 --> 01:44:34,360
Speaker 1: you think is the realistic production from them in twenty

1849
01:44:34,439 --> 01:44:38,160
Speaker 1: twenty one, knowing you have two solid veterans in Addison

1850
01:44:38,200 --> 01:44:40,200
Speaker 1: and Jerry Hughes and oh, by the way, you also

1851
01:44:40,240 --> 01:44:43,160
Speaker 1: have a j Epinessa entering his second year. So what

1852
01:44:43,240 --> 01:44:45,439
Speaker 1: do you think is realistic for those two in terms

1853
01:44:45,439 --> 01:44:48,680
Speaker 1: of on the field production in twenty twenty one. I

1854
01:44:48,720 --> 01:44:50,799
Speaker 1: don't think we're going to see a ton of production.

1855
01:44:50,840 --> 01:44:53,280
Speaker 1: I mean, if we get you know, five or six

1856
01:44:53,320 --> 01:44:55,320
Speaker 1: sacks out of both guys, I think you gotta feel

1857
01:44:55,320 --> 01:44:58,920
Speaker 1: pretty good about that. And especially like you said, they're

1858
01:44:58,960 --> 01:45:02,280
Speaker 1: not At least my read on this roster is that

1859
01:45:02,640 --> 01:45:04,879
Speaker 1: they're not the types of players where you're like, Okay,

1860
01:45:05,160 --> 01:45:07,439
Speaker 1: they're gonna step in and push Jerry Hughes out. If

1861
01:45:07,439 --> 01:45:10,240
Speaker 1: they're gonna push Mario Addison and AJF and s out,

1862
01:45:10,360 --> 01:45:13,439
Speaker 1: they're more complimentary players for right now who you're looking

1863
01:45:13,439 --> 01:45:16,479
Speaker 1: at twenty twenty two and saying, Okay, that's when we're

1864
01:45:16,479 --> 01:45:18,240
Speaker 1: gonna need you to step up. And as you mentioned,

1865
01:45:18,240 --> 01:45:21,439
Speaker 1: two very different guys. You know, Russo one year wonder

1866
01:45:21,479 --> 01:45:24,160
Speaker 1: at Miami. That one year was amazing. He slipped a

1867
01:45:24,160 --> 01:45:25,880
Speaker 1: little bit in the draft I think because of that,

1868
01:45:26,640 --> 01:45:28,840
Speaker 1: but has all the physical skills you would want you know,

1869
01:45:28,880 --> 01:45:31,640
Speaker 1: almost six foot seven, two to sixty five pounds with

1870
01:45:31,720 --> 01:45:34,439
Speaker 1: a wingie span that is like eighty three inches, which

1871
01:45:34,520 --> 01:45:38,720
Speaker 1: is just absolutely crazy. So his ceiling is incredibly high.

1872
01:45:38,800 --> 01:45:41,320
Speaker 1: He needs more tools to his toolbox right now, which

1873
01:45:41,400 --> 01:45:43,160
Speaker 1: is why I think we'll see him being more of

1874
01:45:43,160 --> 01:45:45,040
Speaker 1: a rotational role this year. But then you have Basham,

1875
01:45:45,040 --> 01:45:47,479
Speaker 1: who you know is a little bit shorter six foot three,

1876
01:45:47,600 --> 01:45:49,680
Speaker 1: a little bit bigger two seventy five. I wouldn't be

1877
01:45:49,720 --> 01:45:52,360
Speaker 1: surprised if he plays up more maybe two eighty and

1878
01:45:52,520 --> 01:45:55,559
Speaker 1: can play all over this defensive line. So you're getting,

1879
01:45:55,800 --> 01:45:58,559
Speaker 1: I think, with Basham because of the experience level, you're

1880
01:45:58,600 --> 01:46:01,240
Speaker 1: definitely getting someone who's more n so ready. But what

1881
01:46:01,360 --> 01:46:03,000
Speaker 1: I would be curious to see as we get through

1882
01:46:03,040 --> 01:46:05,479
Speaker 1: camp in the preseason is does Basham play a little

1883
01:46:05,520 --> 01:46:08,400
Speaker 1: bit more inside? Does he play some three technique and

1884
01:46:08,560 --> 01:46:10,560
Speaker 1: really starts to round his game out. My comparison for

1885
01:46:10,640 --> 01:46:12,960
Speaker 1: him coming out with Michael Bennett, who you guys know,

1886
01:46:13,080 --> 01:46:14,479
Speaker 1: I mean he made a lot of a lot of

1887
01:46:14,479 --> 01:46:16,840
Speaker 1: players in the NFL kicked inside to where he could

1888
01:46:16,880 --> 01:46:19,120
Speaker 1: get those matchups in the gap, So I wouldn't be

1889
01:46:19,160 --> 01:46:21,400
Speaker 1: surprised if we see something similar from Basham and on

1890
01:46:21,439 --> 01:46:26,479
Speaker 1: the offensive line front, Spencer Brown and Tommy Doyle, both

1891
01:46:26,520 --> 01:46:30,559
Speaker 1: those guys taken all these guys seem to have some trades.

1892
01:46:30,640 --> 01:46:35,840
Speaker 1: They're all well with Rousseau, Doyle and Brown, those guys

1893
01:46:35,840 --> 01:46:39,880
Speaker 1: are have some traits. Mostly they're really tall, big. Do

1894
01:46:39,960 --> 01:46:41,880
Speaker 1: you see any one of the offensive line, those two

1895
01:46:41,880 --> 01:46:44,760
Speaker 1: offensive linemen being able maybe to be good enough to

1896
01:46:44,760 --> 01:46:48,120
Speaker 1: step into an NFL type situation even if it was

1897
01:46:48,160 --> 01:46:50,479
Speaker 1: Buffalo or any place else, or how good can these

1898
01:46:50,520 --> 01:46:53,240
Speaker 1: guys be? I think Spencer Brown could be very good.

1899
01:46:53,240 --> 01:46:55,280
Speaker 1: I know Jim Nagie, who's the executive director to the

1900
01:46:55,320 --> 01:46:57,000
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl and a good friend of mine, he has

1901
01:46:57,040 --> 01:46:59,479
Speaker 1: raved about Spencer Brown even before he got to the

1902
01:46:59,520 --> 01:47:01,040
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl. He was like, hey, I know this is

1903
01:47:01,080 --> 01:47:03,360
Speaker 1: Northern Iowa, not a big program, but you got you

1904
01:47:03,400 --> 01:47:05,160
Speaker 1: gotta take a look at this guy. And I think

1905
01:47:05,160 --> 01:47:07,679
Speaker 1: with Brown, you know, this is a converted skill player,

1906
01:47:07,720 --> 01:47:10,639
Speaker 1: you know, who grew into being an offensive lineman at college.

1907
01:47:10,800 --> 01:47:13,080
Speaker 1: So there's still room to grow. And so I do

1908
01:47:13,160 --> 01:47:15,120
Speaker 1: think you look at him and say, no, you're probably

1909
01:47:15,160 --> 01:47:17,719
Speaker 1: not pushing Dion Dawkins out of a role. He's pretty good.

1910
01:47:17,760 --> 01:47:19,880
Speaker 1: But you know, with Darryl Williams on the right side too.

1911
01:47:19,960 --> 01:47:21,760
Speaker 1: There be a competition there. I think there could be,

1912
01:47:22,240 --> 01:47:24,599
Speaker 1: and I would be excited because Brown is so much

1913
01:47:24,640 --> 01:47:27,799
Speaker 1: more fluid now due to his height, there's some natural

1914
01:47:27,880 --> 01:47:29,680
Speaker 1: leverage concerns they're going to come there. I think we

1915
01:47:29,720 --> 01:47:32,400
Speaker 1: saw him in college trust his link a little too

1916
01:47:32,439 --> 01:47:35,839
Speaker 1: much at times, but man, it's just a natural movement ability,

1917
01:47:35,920 --> 01:47:37,880
Speaker 1: especially if you want to get this run game going

1918
01:47:37,920 --> 01:47:40,080
Speaker 1: a little bit better. I think that's what you're looking for.

1919
01:47:40,320 --> 01:47:42,800
Speaker 1: So that's where Spencer Brown would be intriguing to me.

1920
01:47:43,000 --> 01:47:44,720
Speaker 1: I thought Tommy Doyle was someone who's more of a

1921
01:47:44,760 --> 01:47:47,280
Speaker 1: developmental type player who you know you mentioned he is

1922
01:47:47,320 --> 01:47:50,160
Speaker 1: a big boy at six eight three eighteen and that

1923
01:47:50,280 --> 01:47:52,000
Speaker 1: shows in his game. You know he's not going to

1924
01:47:52,040 --> 01:47:53,519
Speaker 1: be the most fleet of foot, but I think the

1925
01:47:53,520 --> 01:47:55,920
Speaker 1: power that he has in his game it would make

1926
01:47:56,000 --> 01:47:58,280
Speaker 1: him a player that could you see him maybe playing

1927
01:47:58,320 --> 01:48:01,400
Speaker 1: guard down the road. I do think that's a possibility.

1928
01:48:02,439 --> 01:48:05,000
Speaker 1: One last guy I wanted to run past you was

1929
01:48:05,120 --> 01:48:09,679
Speaker 1: Marquez Stevenson, the receiver. Obviously, he's in a very crowded

1930
01:48:09,760 --> 01:48:12,960
Speaker 1: receiver room. It's going to be really hard for him

1931
01:48:12,960 --> 01:48:14,759
Speaker 1: to get on the field, let alone make the roster

1932
01:48:15,520 --> 01:48:18,920
Speaker 1: at that position. But he does offer return ability. I'm

1933
01:48:18,960 --> 01:48:22,320
Speaker 1: just curious what his college tape said to you about

1934
01:48:22,400 --> 01:48:26,160
Speaker 1: him as a return man and then him as a receiver. Yeah.

1935
01:48:26,160 --> 01:48:27,680
Speaker 1: I think as a returnment he was one of the

1936
01:48:27,680 --> 01:48:30,840
Speaker 1: better returners in the draft class last year. And so

1937
01:48:31,000 --> 01:48:33,720
Speaker 1: you're getting that immediacy, you know, that ability for him

1938
01:48:33,760 --> 01:48:37,360
Speaker 1: to impact the kick game as a returner for kickham punt,

1939
01:48:37,360 --> 01:48:40,040
Speaker 1: excuse me. But then also just the athleticism, and I

1940
01:48:40,040 --> 01:48:43,160
Speaker 1: think he was even more athletic than he tested. He's

1941
01:48:43,160 --> 01:48:46,040
Speaker 1: just one of those players that needs to like. His

1942
01:48:46,160 --> 01:48:48,800
Speaker 1: track speed was amazing, his play speed was a little

1943
01:48:48,840 --> 01:48:52,920
Speaker 1: timid at times, but his ability to just open the

1944
01:48:52,920 --> 01:48:55,640
Speaker 1: throttle up and make big plays as phenomenal. Now. The

1945
01:48:55,640 --> 01:48:57,360
Speaker 1: biggest question I would have, and I think the reason

1946
01:48:57,400 --> 01:48:59,439
Speaker 1: he fell on the draft was the history of injury

1947
01:48:59,439 --> 01:49:02,160
Speaker 1: in college is remarkable. And when you see you know,

1948
01:49:02,280 --> 01:49:05,720
Speaker 1: missed time in three years, I want to say for

1949
01:49:05,760 --> 01:49:08,040
Speaker 1: a smaller player, that gives you some pause, That gives

1950
01:49:08,040 --> 01:49:10,479
Speaker 1: you some concerns. But if you're getting him down there

1951
01:49:10,600 --> 01:49:13,000
Speaker 1: as a you know, a deep threat and as a

1952
01:49:13,000 --> 01:49:15,280
Speaker 1: return man right out of the gate, that's where I

1953
01:49:15,360 --> 01:49:17,320
Speaker 1: think you can find value. But also you know those

1954
01:49:17,320 --> 01:49:19,800
Speaker 1: pop passes with all these rpo looks, if you can

1955
01:49:19,840 --> 01:49:23,479
Speaker 1: get safety stepping up and worried about Josh as a

1956
01:49:23,560 --> 01:49:26,280
Speaker 1: runner and worried about you know what you guys have

1957
01:49:26,400 --> 01:49:30,000
Speaker 1: with that loaded backfield. Now, someone likes Stevenson's ability to

1958
01:49:30,080 --> 01:49:32,680
Speaker 1: just outrun defenders. I think, you know, it's it's like

1959
01:49:32,760 --> 01:49:35,320
Speaker 1: high school football, like, let's just get the ball out

1960
01:49:35,360 --> 01:49:37,679
Speaker 1: in space to our athletes. Let them go make plays.

1961
01:49:38,000 --> 01:49:40,479
Speaker 1: Even as you mentioned it's a loaded room. You guys

1962
01:49:40,479 --> 01:49:43,880
Speaker 1: are so deep at wide receiver. But Stevenson's speed really

1963
01:49:43,880 --> 01:49:46,840
Speaker 1: separates him from the rest of this group of the

1964
01:49:46,960 --> 01:49:49,240
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that were drafted high or maybe in the first

1965
01:49:49,320 --> 01:49:51,840
Speaker 1: round of this NFL draft this year, which one do

1966
01:49:51,840 --> 01:49:54,240
Speaker 1: you think is set up for the most success, you know,

1967
01:49:54,280 --> 01:49:57,680
Speaker 1: with Trevor Lawrence, with Zach Wilson and the rest of them. Well,

1968
01:49:57,760 --> 01:49:59,599
Speaker 1: what are you looking for from this class of rookie

1969
01:49:59,640 --> 01:50:02,160
Speaker 1: quarterback action in the NFL this season? You know the

1970
01:50:02,200 --> 01:50:03,759
Speaker 1: thing is, I think we'll see a lot of them play,

1971
01:50:03,880 --> 01:50:05,880
Speaker 1: and so that's what's gonna be exciting. You know, there's

1972
01:50:05,920 --> 01:50:07,719
Speaker 1: probably not a whole lot of draft and dash guys.

1973
01:50:07,760 --> 01:50:10,160
Speaker 1: I think the early success set up. You have to

1974
01:50:10,160 --> 01:50:12,120
Speaker 1: look at Trey Lance in San Francisco, and he might

1975
01:50:12,160 --> 01:50:13,680
Speaker 1: be the one guy who doesn't have to play a

1976
01:50:13,680 --> 01:50:16,640
Speaker 1: lot right because of Jimmy Garoppolo. But when you have

1977
01:50:16,720 --> 01:50:19,639
Speaker 1: Trent Williams at left tackle, Mike mcglinjay at right tackle,

1978
01:50:19,720 --> 01:50:22,479
Speaker 1: George Kittle at tight end, Deebo Samuel and Brandon and

1979
01:50:22,479 --> 01:50:25,639
Speaker 1: I at wide receiver, and Cal Shanahan scheming up your plays,

1980
01:50:25,880 --> 01:50:27,800
Speaker 1: you gotta feel pretty good like you're not putting a

1981
01:50:27,840 --> 01:50:29,680
Speaker 1: whole lot on the rookie quarterback when he has that

1982
01:50:29,720 --> 01:50:31,479
Speaker 1: supporting cast. So I think if we were looking at

1983
01:50:31,479 --> 01:50:33,599
Speaker 1: one guy, it's like who could come in and you

1984
01:50:33,600 --> 01:50:36,519
Speaker 1: know have that you know, you'd like Deshaun Watson had,

1985
01:50:36,640 --> 01:50:38,960
Speaker 1: or you're like Justin Herbert had where you could just really,

1986
01:50:39,439 --> 01:50:42,120
Speaker 1: you know, see right away how impressive they are and

1987
01:50:42,120 --> 01:50:43,840
Speaker 1: that they can be a good leader for a team.

1988
01:50:44,120 --> 01:50:45,920
Speaker 1: I think Trey Lance is in the best spot. Now.

1989
01:50:46,120 --> 01:50:47,800
Speaker 1: We'll see a lot of Trevor Lawrence, will see a

1990
01:50:47,840 --> 01:50:50,360
Speaker 1: lot of Zach Wilson. I don't know how much Justin

1991
01:50:50,400 --> 01:50:52,639
Speaker 1: Bields or Mac Jones will see just yet, but I

1992
01:50:52,840 --> 01:50:54,640
Speaker 1: you know, I think those first three picks of the

1993
01:50:54,720 --> 01:50:56,720
Speaker 1: draft are all. You know, all players, we're going to

1994
01:50:56,760 --> 01:50:59,439
Speaker 1: see a lot of this year. Jove tailing off of that, Matt,

1995
01:50:59,479 --> 01:51:00,760
Speaker 1: you know, Mac Jones is going to be in a

1996
01:51:00,800 --> 01:51:03,720
Speaker 1: competition with Cam Newton. I know you watch a lot

1997
01:51:03,760 --> 01:51:06,680
Speaker 1: more tape than we do, but Cam Newton to me

1998
01:51:06,800 --> 01:51:09,559
Speaker 1: looked dead in the water last year. I mean bounce

1999
01:51:09,600 --> 01:51:13,519
Speaker 1: pass in twelve yard outs, airmail and stuff over the middle.

2000
01:51:14,640 --> 01:51:17,120
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know, the history of injuries,

2001
01:51:17,280 --> 01:51:20,439
Speaker 1: including the shoulder stuff they required surgery, has rendered him

2002
01:51:20,439 --> 01:51:23,400
Speaker 1: an ineffective quarterback going forward for the remainder of his career.

2003
01:51:24,000 --> 01:51:26,519
Speaker 1: I don't know if the Patriots believing they see something

2004
01:51:26,560 --> 01:51:29,280
Speaker 1: else in him that maybe my untrained eye does not.

2005
01:51:30,080 --> 01:51:33,200
Speaker 1: But what do you think is the likelihood of Mac Jones,

2006
01:51:33,240 --> 01:51:36,759
Speaker 1: who is a complete polar opposite to what Cam Newton

2007
01:51:36,840 --> 01:51:40,320
Speaker 1: is as a quarterback, has of maybe unseating him right

2008
01:51:40,360 --> 01:51:42,080
Speaker 1: from the beginning of the season. Do you think there's

2009
01:51:42,080 --> 01:51:44,200
Speaker 1: any chance of that? Where would you put the percentages?

2010
01:51:44,960 --> 01:51:47,880
Speaker 1: I think there's a I would What's interesting to me

2011
01:51:48,000 --> 01:51:49,960
Speaker 1: is what do we hear all the time of teams

2012
01:51:50,040 --> 01:51:52,400
Speaker 1: want a starter, but didn't they want to back up

2013
01:51:52,439 --> 01:51:54,559
Speaker 1: where they can run the same system When I look

2014
01:51:54,600 --> 01:51:56,320
Speaker 1: at Cam Newton and Mac Jones. I don't know that

2015
01:51:56,360 --> 01:51:58,400
Speaker 1: there are two quarterbacks in the NFL where are more

2016
01:51:58,400 --> 01:52:01,280
Speaker 1: different on the same team. It's just it's not you

2017
01:52:01,320 --> 01:52:03,160
Speaker 1: can't run the same offense with those two guys. So

2018
01:52:03,200 --> 01:52:04,600
Speaker 1: I do think that they will have to make a

2019
01:52:04,600 --> 01:52:08,679
Speaker 1: decision at some point. Is mac Jones ready? And everything

2020
01:52:08,720 --> 01:52:10,880
Speaker 1: we heard in the pre draft process about mac Jones

2021
01:52:11,000 --> 01:52:13,040
Speaker 1: was there's one of the smartest quarterback prospects though a

2022
01:52:13,080 --> 01:52:14,760
Speaker 1: lot of teams felt like they had seen in a

2023
01:52:14,760 --> 01:52:17,640
Speaker 1: long time in terms of the ability to retain information,

2024
01:52:17,760 --> 01:52:20,320
Speaker 1: to take that and then you put it out on

2025
01:52:20,360 --> 01:52:23,200
Speaker 1: the field. You know, he's not just whiteboard smart. He's

2026
01:52:23,280 --> 01:52:26,400
Speaker 1: field smart. If he's that smart, if he's as accurate

2027
01:52:26,400 --> 01:52:28,479
Speaker 1: as we saw at Alabama, he's as tough as we

2028
01:52:28,520 --> 01:52:30,360
Speaker 1: saw at Alabama. I don't know how you keep him

2029
01:52:30,360 --> 01:52:33,160
Speaker 1: off the field when as you mentioned, and I'm I

2030
01:52:33,200 --> 01:52:34,679
Speaker 1: don't have a dog in the fight when it comes

2031
01:52:34,680 --> 01:52:36,840
Speaker 1: to Cam Newton, but he looked broke last year. You

2032
01:52:36,880 --> 01:52:39,960
Speaker 1: know it just the arm looked shot and you can say,

2033
01:52:40,120 --> 01:52:42,360
Speaker 1: you know, hey was coming off the surgery he got COVID.

2034
01:52:42,600 --> 01:52:45,640
Speaker 1: Those are rough situations to deal with, right but I

2035
01:52:45,680 --> 01:52:48,040
Speaker 1: think the Patriots has to look at this and say,

2036
01:52:48,320 --> 01:52:51,439
Speaker 1: all right, let's get through OTAs, let's get into training camp,

2037
01:52:51,439 --> 01:52:54,720
Speaker 1: and maybe you know, early in the preseason, but I

2038
01:52:54,760 --> 01:52:57,519
Speaker 1: do feel like they have to, you know, give mac

2039
01:52:57,600 --> 01:53:00,160
Speaker 1: Jones every opportunity to win this job, because you for

2040
01:53:00,240 --> 01:53:02,639
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick to draft a quarterback in the first round,

2041
01:53:02,880 --> 01:53:04,840
Speaker 1: you got to feel pretty good about that quarterback, right

2042
01:53:04,840 --> 01:53:06,200
Speaker 1: and you got to feel like, Okay, at some point

2043
01:53:06,240 --> 01:53:09,280
Speaker 1: he's going to be the guy. And it might. I

2044
01:53:09,680 --> 01:53:11,800
Speaker 1: with quarterbacks, I always feel like it's better to get

2045
01:53:11,880 --> 01:53:13,519
Speaker 1: him out there and see what you have, you know,

2046
01:53:13,600 --> 01:53:16,000
Speaker 1: because what if you have Josh Rosen where you're like, hey,

2047
01:53:16,000 --> 01:53:18,120
Speaker 1: this isn't it. You know, this isn't the guy. We

2048
01:53:18,120 --> 01:53:20,280
Speaker 1: got to move on. You have to know. And so

2049
01:53:20,400 --> 01:53:22,439
Speaker 1: you know, even though the Patriots haven't had that pressure

2050
01:53:22,479 --> 01:53:25,760
Speaker 1: in the last you know, twenty years, that it's on

2051
01:53:25,920 --> 01:53:27,600
Speaker 1: him now. And so I think with mac Jones they

2052
01:53:27,680 --> 01:53:29,599
Speaker 1: got to find out sooner rather than later if he's

2053
01:53:29,600 --> 01:53:33,200
Speaker 1: the guy. Man. Last question for me, You spent a

2054
01:53:33,240 --> 01:53:35,639
Speaker 1: lot of time looking at college the college game, looking

2055
01:53:35,680 --> 01:53:38,599
Speaker 1: at college players in particular, and the NIL rules have

2056
01:53:38,600 --> 01:53:41,400
Speaker 1: come out where name, image and likeness, where college players

2057
01:53:41,439 --> 01:53:45,680
Speaker 1: are now already signing deals that are pretty lucrative for

2058
01:53:45,760 --> 01:53:47,720
Speaker 1: a twenty twenty two year old or an eighteen year

2059
01:53:47,720 --> 01:53:51,599
Speaker 1: old kid coming into college. One thing that I just

2060
01:53:51,600 --> 01:53:54,920
Speaker 1: just occurred to me that that may change things in

2061
01:53:55,040 --> 01:53:59,599
Speaker 1: college game. Some players who you who in years past

2062
01:54:00,080 --> 01:54:04,679
Speaker 1: would come out early from college, may decide to stay

2063
01:54:05,240 --> 01:54:07,479
Speaker 1: for another year, knowing that they're making good enough money

2064
01:54:07,479 --> 01:54:10,440
Speaker 1: in college that maybe they'll make more money in college

2065
01:54:10,520 --> 01:54:12,599
Speaker 1: if they're playing in a big program, then they would

2066
01:54:12,680 --> 01:54:14,719
Speaker 1: as a fifth round or sixth round or eighth round

2067
01:54:14,720 --> 01:54:17,160
Speaker 1: pick in the National Football League. Will there be more

2068
01:54:17,240 --> 01:54:20,479
Speaker 1: guys seeing their senior year of college than we've seen

2069
01:54:20,520 --> 01:54:23,519
Speaker 1: in the past. I do think so. I think that's

2070
01:54:23,560 --> 01:54:25,839
Speaker 1: one of the and I see that as a positive

2071
01:54:25,920 --> 01:54:27,679
Speaker 1: because you know, we have one hundred and twenty guys

2072
01:54:27,680 --> 01:54:29,439
Speaker 1: in or the draft every year. There's only two D

2073
01:54:29,520 --> 01:54:31,680
Speaker 1: and fifty six picks. There's not enough picks for all

2074
01:54:31,720 --> 01:54:33,560
Speaker 1: the players that come out. And so now if you're

2075
01:54:33,600 --> 01:54:36,560
Speaker 1: a player who you know, and unfortunately there are situations

2076
01:54:36,560 --> 01:54:38,560
Speaker 1: where a guy feels like he has to declare for

2077
01:54:38,600 --> 01:54:40,360
Speaker 1: the draft to help his family, you know you need

2078
01:54:40,400 --> 01:54:43,600
Speaker 1: that money right away. Well, hopefully because of this, we

2079
01:54:43,640 --> 01:54:46,320
Speaker 1: won't see those situations as often anymore. So I think

2080
01:54:46,360 --> 01:54:48,320
Speaker 1: that is a positive where, you know, we hear about

2081
01:54:48,320 --> 01:54:51,240
Speaker 1: Bryce Young in Alabama who's never started a game. To them,

2082
01:54:51,440 --> 01:54:53,400
Speaker 1: he's making a million dollars a year on n IL.

2083
01:54:53,560 --> 01:54:56,560
Speaker 1: So you can live pretty damn coomfortably in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

2084
01:54:56,560 --> 01:54:58,600
Speaker 1: on a million dollars a year. So there won't be

2085
01:54:58,640 --> 01:55:01,200
Speaker 1: that pressure for a lot of these guys to declare early.

2086
01:55:01,200 --> 01:55:03,560
Speaker 1: And I think that's a wonderful thing where you can

2087
01:55:03,680 --> 01:55:06,520
Speaker 1: enjoy that college experience, you can grow as a player

2088
01:55:06,600 --> 01:55:09,800
Speaker 1: as a person, and fully be ready for the NFL

2089
01:55:09,840 --> 01:55:12,320
Speaker 1: when that time comes. So my hope, and I've had

2090
01:55:12,360 --> 01:55:14,680
Speaker 1: this conversation with a lot of people in the NFL,

2091
01:55:15,160 --> 01:55:18,120
Speaker 1: is that we won't see one hundred and forty juniors

2092
01:55:18,120 --> 01:55:20,440
Speaker 1: next year or one hundred twenty juniors next year. Does

2093
01:55:20,480 --> 01:55:23,160
Speaker 1: that number starts to get lower because players don't have

2094
01:55:23,240 --> 01:55:26,600
Speaker 1: that financial pressure. Matt, Before we let you go, why

2095
01:55:26,600 --> 01:55:28,879
Speaker 1: don't you just share with the listening and viewing audience

2096
01:55:29,280 --> 01:55:31,920
Speaker 1: what you're doing to help buy school supplies for teachers

2097
01:55:31,920 --> 01:55:35,080
Speaker 1: through your fantasy leagues. Yeah, so we set up these

2098
01:55:35,080 --> 01:55:38,200
Speaker 1: fantasy leagues every summer. Now it's fifty dollars to join

2099
01:55:38,280 --> 01:55:40,360
Speaker 1: or one hundred dollars. They're two different leagues. You can

2100
01:55:40,360 --> 01:55:43,080
Speaker 1: win some cool prizes if you sign up, giving away

2101
01:55:43,120 --> 01:55:46,760
Speaker 1: things like copies of Madden Lifetime, subscriptions to my website,

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Speaker 1: the draftscot dot com, and other opportunities as well. But

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Speaker 1: all that money goes to helping teachers buy school supplies.

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Speaker 1: It's insane, guys. How many teachers just don't have the

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Speaker 1: funding to get everything that they need. As we're sitting

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Speaker 1: here right now, we've had over three hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: teachers have emailed in asking for help getting supplies, you know,

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Speaker 1: things like little things. You know, hey we need whiteboard

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Speaker 1: markers and eracers, we need pencils and paper. It's the

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Speaker 1: smallest things to the biggest thing. So we're trying to

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Speaker 1: help out as much as we can. Yeah, that's great. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, my sister is a special ed teacher and

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Speaker 1: she lives at firsthand every day, and my wife's whole

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Speaker 1: families in education, so appreciate what you're doing there. To

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Speaker 1: sign up, you can go to PayPal right, it's info

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Speaker 1: at four one seven foundation dot com. Is that right?

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Speaker 1: That is correct? And it's all over my Twitter, also

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Speaker 1: on the website the draft dot dot com. So people

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Speaker 1: want to get signed up, there's there's plenty of room.

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Speaker 1: We'll take as many people as we can get. So

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Speaker 1: if you want to see how bad I am at

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Speaker 1: fantasy football, you want the bragging rights of beating me,

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Speaker 1: you get that, but you'll also get to help out teachers,

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Speaker 1: which is the most important part. All right, Matt, thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for the time. We'll catch up with

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Speaker 1: you down the line. Good luck with that fundraising effort.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, guys, have a great day, all right, take care.

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Speaker 1: That's Matt Miller. You can go to his Twitter handle

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Speaker 1: at NFL draft Scout to get more information on the

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Speaker 1: four one seven Foundation fantasy football leagues that are trying

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Speaker 1: to raise money to help teachers buy school supplies for

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Speaker 1: their classrooms. Kind of a nice cause here as we're

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Speaker 1: closing in on the next school year and a lot

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Speaker 1: of schools are strapped financially after weathering a pandemic year.

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Speaker 1: Whether they're providing school meals to kids that don't get

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Speaker 1: meals at home, they were still doing that all year

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Speaker 1: last year, meal pickups, drive throughs, that all costs money,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of these school districts are strapped now

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Speaker 1: where they can't even provide their teachers with the basics

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Speaker 1: to run their classrooms. So it's a nice effort by

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Speaker 1: Matt Miller, so we wanted to shed some light on that.

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Speaker 1: So you can go to his Twitter handle at NFL

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Speaker 1: Draft Scout. There's plenty of information there where you can

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Speaker 1: get on board joint of Fantasy Football League and help

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Speaker 1: school teachers around the country in the process. Steve and

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Speaker 1: I are going to take a break here, but very

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Speaker 1: quickly before we do. It looks like the trade of

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Speaker 1: Rasmus Ritzelnen is happening, and it will he'll be traded

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Speaker 1: to the Philadelphia Flyers. Still hasn't been made official yet,

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Speaker 1: but he's gonna get traded to the Philadelphia Flyers. Reports

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Speaker 1: are indicating the Sabers are going to get not only

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Speaker 1: defenseman Robert hag in the deal, but the fourteenth overall

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Speaker 1: pick tonight in the draft. In addition to their pick

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Speaker 1: at number one overall, they will also get a second

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Speaker 1: round pick in the twenty twenty three NFL or NFL

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Speaker 1: NHL Draft. So a nice haul there by Kevin Adams

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Speaker 1: with what I believe this is his first trade, right

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Speaker 1: as general manager. Is that right? But if it is,

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Speaker 1: that's a heck of it his best one. I'm applauding

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Speaker 1: right now for that one. He got a lot more

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Speaker 1: than I thought he would for Rasmus Ritz aligning, but

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Speaker 1: there you go. Not deal with the Philadelphia Flyers. That's

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Speaker 1: not even what the Rangers thought Chael's worth. So so

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Speaker 1: good on Kevin Adams. He's out of the gate and

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Speaker 1: he is off and running, and he's got two picks

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Speaker 1: in the first round tonight. So uh, we're gonna applaud

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Speaker 1: our people across the street here for a nice haul

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Speaker 1: there for Rasmus, So good job on them, and we'll

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Speaker 1: see what else comes afoot. We'll try to keep you

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Speaker 1: apprized of the deals coming down the pike here for

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Sabers as the trade moratorium is lifted and

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Speaker 1: the draft will be taking place to night break time

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Speaker 1: for Steve and I here, but more of your questions

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Speaker 1: from the OBIL Friday fan mail bag. Next here on

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Wellcome back to One Bills Live, final half

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Speaker 1: hour the show for this week, the last week before

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Speaker 1: the players are back on the field a veterans report Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: First practice set for Wednesday of training camp here at

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive, and we'll be covering it for you

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01:59:44,080 --> 01:59:47,040
Speaker 1: wall to wall here on One Bills Live all throughout

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Speaker 1: next week. The Risto trade was not Kevin adams first trade.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it was, but it was not

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Speaker 1: his first one. So well, I like this one the

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Speaker 1: best traded a bunch of the trade deadline. This one

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Speaker 1: is official, though I wasn't sure because I hadn't seen

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Speaker 1: whether it had been confirmed. We were doing the interview

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Speaker 1: with Man Miller. But it is confirmed by the Buffalo Sabers.

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Speaker 1: So it is a done deal, Lou Seals. So the

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Speaker 1: Bills will or the Bills. The Sabers will pick first

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Speaker 1: and fourteenth tonight, and then they have an extra pick

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three in the second round. I read

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Speaker 1: this also, it's not the fourteenth pick. It's actually going

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Speaker 1: to turn into the thirteenth pick. Oh, because one of

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Speaker 1: the teams ahead of them, the Arizona Coyotes, have forfeited

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Speaker 1: their pick for some reason. They were penalized it for something. Oh,

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Speaker 1: so the pick now the sab Well, would you look

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Speaker 1: at that that's been reported. I don't know how close

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Speaker 1: that is being true, but sounds good. Yeah, it's good

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Speaker 1: on Kevin Adams out of the gate and swinging. I

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Speaker 1: like it. Hopefully there's more of those deals of that

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Speaker 1: variety to come because I think he you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to pretend to know everything about Robert Hag

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Speaker 1: but I like the draft pick compensation coming back, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's a good that's a that's good value

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Speaker 1: for Ristos. So good job on Kevin Adams. Hopefully there's

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Speaker 1: more deals for him and his crew to pull off

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Speaker 1: on the horizon here, and we'll keep our ear to

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Speaker 1: the ground on that. But we are conducting the early

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Speaker 1: OBL Friday fan mail bag. Actually it's pretty late in

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Speaker 1: the show, quite frankly, So we move along and we

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Speaker 1: are up to Nate, who says, to get the Bills

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Speaker 1: Mafia pump for this upcoming season. I believe hearing Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker and Chris Brown and singing the shout song or

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02:01:25,160 --> 02:01:27,600
Speaker 1: chanting Let's go Buffalo for twenty seconds would be just

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Speaker 1: the ticket to lift our spirits. Do you agree? First

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Speaker 1: thing I'm going to say is this, if you need

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Speaker 1: me me to get you pumped, for a Bills game

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Speaker 1: with the team that they're going to be putting on

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Speaker 1: the field this season, after being away for an entire

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Speaker 1: year and not being in the stadium to get all

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Speaker 1: fired up and pumped up to see this team in person.

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Speaker 1: I've got to check your pulse, right Yeah, And plus

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Speaker 1: I don't want you don't need me to fire up.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'll do it if you really need it.

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing it now, but maybe close to the season.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that. I'm gonna I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: beat me. I look bad in the Loop. You look

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Speaker 1: bad on Loop. I love it. Yeah, So yeah, but hey,

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Speaker 1: it it is. It's gonna be a fantastic season. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a fantastic day on opening Day. I think

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Speaker 1: all the all the turmoil that Bills fans are going

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02:02:20,360 --> 02:02:22,640
Speaker 1: through right now, ringing their hands with this vaccine debate

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Speaker 1: and all that stuff, in a month or two it

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Speaker 1: may look and hopefully we'll look very very different. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know. And I advise everybody just, yeah, put the

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Speaker 1: timeline away for a while and just move on because

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Speaker 1: we're moving towards the season. It's gonna be really special.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna love the guys on the field and the

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Speaker 1: guys on the field are gonna be fine, and they'll

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Speaker 1: be fine with each other as well. Uh yeah, So

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Speaker 1: we had this discussion yesterday about the conversations that will

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Speaker 1: happen in the locker room. Yeah. And the reason that

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Speaker 1: they're different in the locker room than they are on Twitter,

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02:02:54,640 --> 02:02:56,760
Speaker 1: even between the guys you're you know that to do

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02:02:56,800 --> 02:02:59,320
Speaker 1: it back and forth, are that at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day they still love and respect each other and

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02:03:01,440 --> 02:03:05,040
Speaker 1: they will. I have full confidence that that's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: This locker room is unique and special, and so's the culture,

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Speaker 1: and so's the leadership. So something like what Twitter's going

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Speaker 1: through with this vax stuff and the league and the

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Speaker 1: rules and the forfeiting of games and all the things

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Speaker 1: that are going on around it is going to subside

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Speaker 1: and football will get be center stage. And I think

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Speaker 1: when that happens, Bills fans are going to be really

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Speaker 1: happy where they land. There's also something that's making me

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Speaker 1: wonder if Dan has an ulterior motive, and that is

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02:03:30,360 --> 02:03:32,760
Speaker 1: to capture you and me. It's exactly to turn into

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02:03:32,760 --> 02:03:34,720
Speaker 1: a gift for all. That's exactly right. We're going to

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Speaker 1: be a meme or a gift, you and me doing that,

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Speaker 1: and yeah we're on Tie and Nate. Yeah on Nate,

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Speaker 1: I get it, but yeah, I'm not there. Next from

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Speaker 1: the mail bag, r J asks two questions. How good

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Speaker 1: do you think this New Pat's defense is going to be?

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Speaker 1: What players do you think are on the bubble of

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Speaker 1: being released if they don't have a good training camp

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Speaker 1: that we're on the fifty three man roster in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming that question is bills related, not pants related.

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Speaker 1: I will say this about the New England defense, I

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Speaker 1: think it's going to be pretty good. I think it

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Speaker 1: will be better than their defense last year. Is it

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Speaker 1: going to be number one in the league like it

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Speaker 1: was in twenty nineteen? Not as convinced. I think Matthew

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Speaker 1: Judon is going to be used as a very effective

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Speaker 1: pass rushing weapon for them, similar to the way they

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Speaker 1: use Chandler Jones before they traded him to Arizona when

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Speaker 1: they decided they weren't going to pay him. So I'm

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Speaker 1: I believe he is going to be a good weapon

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Speaker 1: for them. I think they'll be able to again maximize

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Speaker 1: the talents of Kyle van Noy, who had some of

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Speaker 1: his best years in this league. In the new England

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Speaker 1: defensive scheme, high Tower is back. I think he's still

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Speaker 1: a good player, even though I think he's on the

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Speaker 1: wrong side of thirty now. And you know, they still

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Speaker 1: have other strong role players. I think they were very

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Speaker 1: happy with the acquisition of Adrian Phillips and the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: The safety played a very good season for them last year.

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Speaker 1: Now he's got more talent around him. As of right now,

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Speaker 1: you still have Stefan Gilmour, j C. Jackson's a really

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Speaker 1: good CB two. Lawrence guy is still a good five

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Speaker 1: technique player that can hold the edge in that three

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Speaker 1: four front, and then it's just role players after that,

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02:05:24,840 --> 02:05:29,520
Speaker 1: but good role players. And Belichick knows defense probably better

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Speaker 1: than anybody in terms of scheming it right, knowing how

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Speaker 1: to utilize talent. That's his wheelhouse. So I think they

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Speaker 1: could and as we all know, Steve, no matter how

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Speaker 1: many talented players they have or not, for some reason, somehow,

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Speaker 1: some way, they're always effective as a red zone defense.

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Speaker 1: They're always top ten red zone defense almost every single year.

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Speaker 1: It's uncanny no matter who they have. So I think

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Speaker 1: they'll be a very good defense. I don't think they'll

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Speaker 1: be the number one defense like they were two years ago,

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Speaker 1: but I think they'll be a very formidable side. I agree.

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Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's you can safe to

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Speaker 1: say they're going to be much much better defensively than

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Speaker 1: they were a year ago. That's and that's how that looks.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but yes, the answers, yes, they will

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Speaker 1: be better, much better. What do you think about the

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Speaker 1: second part of RJ's question, which asks about players on

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty roster who could be victimized this year

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Speaker 1: by some up and comers pushing them off the roster

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Speaker 1: entirely for the bills um. I think that's for the

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Speaker 1: most part unlikely. They'll be a couple of surprises. Probably,

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Speaker 1: there may be a couple of surprises that make it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that anybody's going to get pushed off

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Speaker 1: the roster that of that nature. I think the rosters

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Speaker 1: has been too good in the last couple of years

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Speaker 1: to keep I think that to keep that from happening,

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Speaker 1: I think it's too tough a roster to make. The

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Speaker 1: towel is too deep for somebody to come in and

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Speaker 1: explode onto the scene like that, and that could happen.

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Speaker 1: But I and I said this earlier in the week

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Speaker 1: and earlier in the month leading up to this, that

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Speaker 1: there's there used to be that there's always like a

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Speaker 1: surprise guy that got cut um. But having said that,

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Speaker 1: that's one guy, And I don't think that one guy

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Speaker 1: getting is going to be because of a young guy

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Speaker 1: at the bottom. I think it'll be because of a

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Speaker 1: guy that's already here I developing and finally stepping into

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Speaker 1: the starting role. Yeah, more more so than a guy

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Speaker 1: skipping the line. The guys that I am really going

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Speaker 1: to be interested to see this coming week, their status

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Speaker 1: I think is going to be more due to their

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Speaker 1: own health than anything else. Cody Ford, Zach Moss. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Zach Moss is coming off an ankle surgery. That's a

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Speaker 1: major deal for a player that's got to run and

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Speaker 1: cut off that ankle on every single play. Right, how

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Speaker 1: much does he look like Zach Moss last year? Is

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Speaker 1: he the same guy or is he not ready yet?

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Speaker 1: Same thing for Cody Ford, I mean major knee surgery

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Speaker 1: and now you've got three hundred pound men leaning on

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Speaker 1: you on every single play? How do you look? Do

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02:07:56,040 --> 02:07:58,480
Speaker 1: you look the same? Has all of the strength been

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02:07:58,480 --> 02:08:02,600
Speaker 1: built back into that leg because there's a lot going.

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Speaker 1: I don't have to tell you this, but once you

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Speaker 1: get to training camp, your team is like one hundred

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Speaker 1: mile per hour freight train. It's going. You either got

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02:08:10,520 --> 02:08:13,200
Speaker 1: to hop on or you're gonna get left behind. It

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02:08:13,280 --> 02:08:16,400
Speaker 1: really not your fault. It's exaggerated because in training camp

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02:08:16,400 --> 02:08:19,320
Speaker 1: when they're trapped, practice sometimes twice a day, and you're

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02:08:19,360 --> 02:08:21,880
Speaker 1: not practicing for three days and you miss you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe five practices, two on one day, one on another,

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Speaker 1: and two on the next day something like that. You're

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Speaker 1: sitting there thinking, it's like I don't even exist. Yeah,

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02:08:33,520 --> 02:08:35,520
Speaker 1: and it's really hard to feel like you feel like

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Speaker 1: light years behind. Now it's not true, but it feels

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02:08:40,440 --> 02:08:43,760
Speaker 1: that way. But by the same token as well, even

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Speaker 1: if you're trying to go every practice and you're not

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent, that grinds on you as well. You

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02:08:49,200 --> 02:08:51,400
Speaker 1: never feel like you're playing your best. And when you

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Speaker 1: feel like you're not playing your best, you probably aren't

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Speaker 1: and it looks like it. And those practices are part

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Speaker 1: of the evaluation. And when they get into staff meeting

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Speaker 1: at night, the coaches are going, he's not playing well,

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Speaker 1: it's playing and simple yea, and somebody else probably is

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Speaker 1: and that you know that's a bad conversation to be

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Speaker 1: on the wrong end of. Yeah, for sure. We've got

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Speaker 1: one more here before we go to break, and that

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Speaker 1: one is from JT. Tasker and Browning. How many tight

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Speaker 1: ends do you think we keep on the roster? Do

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02:09:24,160 --> 02:09:26,360
Speaker 1: we convert one of the tight ends to fullback position

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Speaker 1: like Gilliam did last season? And who do you think

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02:09:28,800 --> 02:09:31,040
Speaker 1: we send to the practice squad? And do you guys

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Speaker 1: think we're going to make a move for Earth Still?

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Speaker 1: I think we are set at tight end. That's about

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Speaker 1: seven questions in one question. First thing, how many tight

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Speaker 1: ends on the roster? I think this is going to

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Speaker 1: be predicated on how many receivers they carry, And because

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Speaker 1: of the offense I'm anticipating, Steve, I think this team

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Speaker 1: might carry seven receivers on the active roster. Definitely six, yeah,

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Speaker 1: maybe seven. I think zach Ertz is off the table

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02:09:56,320 --> 02:09:58,000
Speaker 1: because he's not taking a pay cut. And if you're

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Speaker 1: gonna trade form your pain, m eight and a half

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Speaker 1: million dollar and I think I can think of one

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Speaker 1: guy who we would rather see have that eight a

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Speaker 1: half million dollars than a tight end on another team

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Speaker 1: and it's they got taken snaps corflow. I think I

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02:10:09,960 --> 02:10:12,280
Speaker 1: think that money's used up. I eight and a half

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02:10:12,280 --> 02:10:15,160
Speaker 1: million dollars for Zach Ert. He's a nice player, but

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Speaker 1: he's not an eight and a half million dollars player

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02:10:17,080 --> 02:10:20,160
Speaker 1: right now, and he wouldn't be for this team coming

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02:10:20,280 --> 02:10:26,320
Speaker 1: right in off off off season. I hate to say

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Speaker 1: this because it's it sounds arrogant and they don't need him. Okay,

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02:10:33,440 --> 02:10:37,520
Speaker 1: they just don't need him, that's my opinion. You don't.

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Speaker 1: A lot of Bills fans wouldn't agree with that. They

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02:10:39,560 --> 02:10:41,200
Speaker 1: think they need You gotta have a you gotta have

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02:10:41,360 --> 02:10:43,520
Speaker 1: Travis kel So, you gotta have George Kittle. You gotta

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Speaker 1: have somebody like that. You gotta have a Gronkowski. You've

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Speaker 1: got to You're you know you have no chance to win, IM.

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Speaker 1: I just do not agree with that. I think the

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02:10:50,800 --> 02:10:54,080
Speaker 1: Bills have got enough talent everywhere. Um that all told,

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02:10:54,120 --> 02:10:57,320
Speaker 1: they got enough to win. So I don't think eight

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Speaker 1: and a half I don't think that's an eight and

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Speaker 1: a half million dollar move. Just tell me quickly, three

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Speaker 1: or four tight ends on the roster. Three Yeah, with

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Speaker 1: the practice squad, I think it's three also because of

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02:11:09,520 --> 02:11:12,839
Speaker 1: what you're gonna probably carry receiver and if your thing happens,

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02:11:13,280 --> 02:11:15,640
Speaker 1: because you've got Zach Moss map prie to Taiwan, Jones,

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Speaker 1: Devin Singletary and Antonio Williams on the roster, do you

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Speaker 1: or no? No? You think Antonio Williams might make it

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02:11:20,560 --> 02:11:22,880
Speaker 1: and somebody might not. Right if Zach Moss comes back

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Speaker 1: and isn't good or isn't healthful, maybe he's on pup

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02:11:25,800 --> 02:11:28,720
Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, I think I think Antonio Williams is

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Speaker 1: standing right there. I think it's gonna be four running

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Speaker 1: backs with towning Taiwanju with Taiwan as a part of

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Speaker 1: that gotcha break time for us, Steven, I'd to wrap

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Speaker 1: come as far as sorry, it's for us to have it.

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Speaker 1: Flip the switch. Sabers get defenseman Robert Hagan return along

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Speaker 1: with the Flyers first round pick in tonight's draft, which

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Speaker 1: is at fourteen, but we'll move up to thirteen because

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Speaker 1: of Arizona's forfeiture of their thirteenth overall selection in the draft,

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Speaker 1: and they also get a second round pick in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three. So good on them for getting out of

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Speaker 1: the gate. They're hot out of the gate, man, let's

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Speaker 1: go then, good early start for them. There is good

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Speaker 1: news on the NFL front with respect to team vaccination rates.

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Speaker 1: We'll obviously get further updates on that early next week,

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Speaker 1: and obviously when the team reports on Tuesday, we'll have

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Speaker 1: full coverage of that here on One Bills Live all

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Speaker 1: afternoon as Steve and I will be able to take

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Speaker 1: in practices in the morning and let you know who's

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Speaker 1: looking good. He's performinge. Yeah, it's gonna be great, um

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Speaker 1: and hopefully you know we'll get an update and good

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Speaker 1: news on the Bill's team vaccination rate when coach McDermott

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Speaker 1: addresses the media, presumably Tuday, Probably not. I think the

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Speaker 1: media is going to ask him about it. I don't know. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I am pretty confident that that will. In fact, I

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to next week training camp starts up and

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Speaker 1: a new days dawning. Yes, real football for a much

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Speaker 1: anticipated twenty twenty one season for Steve Tasker. I'm Chris Brown.

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