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Speaker 1: This this One Bill's Live, presented by Calida Health.

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Speaker 2: How the heck are you on a Thursday? People? It's

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Speaker 2: One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and

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Speaker 2: glad to have you with us, as we will be

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Speaker 2: with you until free this afternoon. And Steve, the first

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Speaker 2: thing we must do is send out birthday wishes. Birthday

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Speaker 2: wishes for the one and only Sean McDermott, head coach

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Speaker 2: Sean mcg birthday today. Happy birthday day to him. Hopefully

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Speaker 2: he is enjoying it and maybe he's spending it watching

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Speaker 2: some march madness, kicking back and relaxing. We all really though,

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Speaker 2: something would tell me he's at work today.

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Speaker 1: He's in the building, no question.

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Speaker 2: Just a hunch. A Happy birthday to coach who is Uh,

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Speaker 2: it's fifty years old today, Steve the big five OHO

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Speaker 2: for coach McDermott. It's a big one.

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Speaker 1: I think I remember when I was fifty, Sure you do,

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Speaker 1: I can't. We did something I can't remember.

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Speaker 2: Way to nail it down, we did something, narrowed down,

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Speaker 2: we did something. I think there was a cake in vall.

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Speaker 1: What it was?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So, uh, birthday wishes out to coach. There was

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Speaker 2: some more transactional news after we went off the air yesterday,

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Speaker 2: Bills have added a free agent safety. We kind of

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Speaker 2: speculated that this is something that could be in the works.

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Speaker 2: We knew there were some free agent visits from the

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Speaker 2: likes of Indianapolis free agent Julian Blackman and Kansas City

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Speaker 2: free agent Mike Edwards. And Mike Edwards signed on the

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Speaker 2: dotted line yesterday one year deal. And Steve, you want

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Speaker 2: to talk about a guy taking advantage of an opportunity

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Speaker 2: to start and parlaying that into a new free agent contract,

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Speaker 2: Mike Edwards is a good example. Brian Cook, the starting

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Speaker 2: free safety for the Chiefs, goes out with an injury.

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Speaker 2: I think he fractured his leg or something. Edwards has

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Speaker 2: to start the last five games of the regular season

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Speaker 2: and the playoffs and rise that opportunity all the way

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Speaker 2: to a Super Bowl with his Chiefs teammates. But he

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Speaker 2: knows Brian Cook is coming back next year and he's

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Speaker 2: gonna start at free safety. But what he did was

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Speaker 2: I think he proved he could be starting caliber in

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Speaker 2: the NFL with the opportunity that got last year in

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Speaker 2: chance to start at free safety for the Bills this season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a nice job by him. Think about it.

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Speaker 1: The guy won a world championship in Tampa Bay, won

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Speaker 1: a world championship in Kansas City, and now he's coming

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Speaker 1: to Buffalo. Got two of those under his belt. And

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Speaker 1: he's won a world championship for every team he's played

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Speaker 1: on in the NFL after a five year career, three

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Speaker 2: I like that joke.

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Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah, I do too, Juju for this thing.

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Speaker 1: That is nice. So he's and obviously you're right. We

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Speaker 1: hear it all the time and it's really true. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's it's luck or anything of the

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Speaker 1: of the kind. I'm saying this, when you get a

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Speaker 1: chance to play in the NFL, the next opportunity depends

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Speaker 1: on how you handled that first opportunity. Him going in

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Speaker 1: playing for a guy got hurt and making the most

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Speaker 1: of it and the team having the success they did.

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Speaker 1: Him playing the way he did. Man, you gotta it

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Speaker 1: says a lot about the guys smarts, about his opportunity,

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Speaker 1: you know, his his playmaking ability just were his head's at. Uh,

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Speaker 1: making the most of his shot. And certainly, certainly, and.

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Speaker 2: It not only gets not only gets you on the

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Speaker 2: at the end of the year, but I think it

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Speaker 2: also garners you some respect around the league. Like the

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Speaker 2: guy earned it. Yeah, he didn't just get it handed

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Speaker 2: to it. Think about it too, It's not for nothing.

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Speaker 1: The teams he's on are good and whether he picks

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Speaker 1: his spots, fine, you can say that, but hey, you know,

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Speaker 1: every other guy could have done the same thing and

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Speaker 1: fun to get to know him. Certainly, he feels a

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Speaker 2: In an effort to help you get to know Mike

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Speaker 2: up with him for an impromptu interview after he signed

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Speaker 2: on the dotted line yesterday for Buffalo Bills dot com.

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Speaker 2: But here is Maddie with Mike yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Mike, Welcome to Buffalo. You're coming to us from Kansas City,

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Speaker 3: where you just won a Super Bowl. The Bills are

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Speaker 3: trying to do that. Why did you believe you're a

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Speaker 1: Oh man?

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Speaker 4: Just the whole culture around the building, the coaches, the team.

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Speaker 4: I've been following the Buffalo for longest and I have

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Speaker 4: seen a culture in the winning program that they have.

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Speaker 4: I mean, like I said, coaching staff, a safety friendly,

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Speaker 1: So it was no brainer.

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Speaker 3: You've been following Buffalo for a while.

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Speaker 1: When did this begin?

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Speaker 3: Why has this been a team that you've been following

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Speaker 3: for the past several seasons.

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Speaker 4: I had a lot of friends and family that was

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Speaker 4: been following up for a while and I know there's

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Speaker 4: happy to be part of this organization for sure.

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Speaker 3: We're happy that you're part of this organization. Now to

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Speaker 3: bringing two Super Bowls to Buffalo, not just one. Hopefully

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Speaker 3: the Bills can get one of those soon enough. But

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Speaker 3: you have eight interceptions over the last four seasons. What

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Speaker 3: are the Buffalo Bills getting in a safety like you,

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Speaker 4: Hard worker, you know, grind and grit, you know, like

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Speaker 4: you said, eight interceptions. I always try to harp on,

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Speaker 4: you know, getting turnovers, getting the ball back to offense,

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Speaker 4: But yeah, definitely harp on and getting the ball back

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Speaker 1: And uh, just making plays. The name of the game

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Speaker 1: is just making plays.

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Speaker 4: So trying to makes many play as I can when

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Speaker 4: I'm out here, and that's what we would do.

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Speaker 3: You don't just make plays, you score touchdowns as well.

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Speaker 3: You have four defensive touchdowns over the last three seasons

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Speaker 3: that ties for second in the NFL over that span.

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Speaker 3: How many touchdowns are you gonna have with the Bills?

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Speaker 1: H multiple?

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Speaker 4: For sure, that's definitely on my radar is definitely multiple.

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Speaker 4: So like you said, I had you said four, I

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Speaker 3: I love it. That's what we want to see. This

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Speaker 3: is your introduction to Bill's Mafia. It's a crazy fan base.

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Speaker 3: What do you want Bill's Mafia to know about Mike Edwards.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm coming to work and I definitely be having

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Speaker 4: a show for him, and definitely, you know, just come

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Speaker 4: I'll be out there, you know, ecstatic excitement and he's

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Speaker 4: Bill's Mafia showed me love and you know, be ready

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Speaker 4: to take on any things to come away.

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Speaker 3: Mike, congratulations on the one year deal. We are so

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Speaker 3: excited to see you in blue and red this year.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I can't wait.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate everything, all right.

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Speaker 2: So that is Mike Edwards, Buffalo's newest safety. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: put some touchdowns up on the board. He had the

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Speaker 2: Brian Cook that went for another touchdown last year, so

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Speaker 2: he was involved in a pair of defensive touchdowns for

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs last season. The other free agent news to

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Speaker 2: this yesterday. There were reports yesterday that Chargers defensive tackle

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Speaker 2: Austin Johnson was making a free agent visit with the Bills.

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Speaker 2: It was originally reported that that visit was taking place

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Speaker 2: on Wednesday. It's actually taking place today, so we'll see

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Speaker 2: if anything comes of it. But the defensive tackle for

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Speaker 2: Dai Kwon Jones. They played together in ten and I'm

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Speaker 2: so forgive me for pausing momentarily, but I think they

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Speaker 2: that would be kind of a cool reunion on the

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Speaker 2: defensive interior. If Austin Johnson decides Buffalo is a good

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Speaker 2: spot for him to land as a free agent this offseason,

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Speaker 2: so we'll keep our ear to the ground on that,

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Speaker 2: let you know if anything develops. Because safety, we've seen

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Speaker 2: the team essentially sign Taylor Rapp, cam Lewis, Mike Edwards,

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Speaker 1: The head in dayquon and that's it. Yeah, they've still

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Speaker 1: got some work to do, and we're getting closer to

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Speaker 1: I think it's two days ago, Monday or Tuesday that

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Speaker 1: we had this question. Have they done enough to get

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Speaker 1: they can just take the best player, whether he plays guard,

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Speaker 1: offensive guard, or cornerback, which and everybody in between. They're

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Speaker 1: getting closer. Edwards is a huge step towards that. I

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Speaker 1: think that's a great signing. I really you gotta love that,

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Speaker 1: and uh there's Mike Edwards on board with two Hill

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Speaker 1: And I don't think there's the desperation for the you know,

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Speaker 1: with the holes in the roster that there was, you know,

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Speaker 1: before free agency began. So it's we're getting there. And

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you, you know, I guess we all. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you do this or not, Brownie, I

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Speaker 1: do it all the time. I always spend these guys

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Speaker 1: this Pott dake. One's gonna have a career year, Mike

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Speaker 1: Edward's gonna have a career year.

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Speaker 2: Hey, we we thought Mater brown was gonna have a.

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Speaker 1: Good mc coll mac Holland's gonna have a career year.

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Speaker 1: All these guys, you know, you know Curtis Samuels, we've

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Speaker 1: already said he's gonna have He's playing with the best

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Speaker 5: That guy has produced. So we are sam Howell, we

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Speaker 5: are a wagon. Baby, let's go. You know, I don't know,

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Speaker 5: we'll see. I mean, we're gonna be good. But I

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Speaker 5: always spin it.

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Speaker 1: Forward like all right, here we go and Tommy two Hill,

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Speaker 1: casey two casey Right, that's right, that's how wrong.

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Speaker 2: I although Tommy sounds better.

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Speaker 1: That's how we're gonna change CAZy to uh. All these

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Speaker 2: That's and that was a much different groundhog Day.

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Speaker 1: Know there's bills. Most Bills fans are exactly like me.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we got Hope Springs Eternal.

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Speaker 1: I'm feeling much better about him. Mike Edwards is huge.

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Speaker 1: think that's a huge signing. Getting day kwon back and

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be a plus something that you know, nobody's

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Speaker 1: At least you and I are sitting here, we've been

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Speaker 1: Every day we talk about it, we talk, we chew

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Speaker 1: Right, you get to the feeling okay, you go, it's like, oh, man,

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Speaker 1: I don't if they lined up today, we don't even

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Speaker 1: a big step. Certainly, they're going to need some guys

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean to your point, what are we up

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Speaker 1: And listen, these are fifty nine. These are guys that

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Speaker 2: Think about that, like.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean, think about this too.

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Speaker 2: I would tend to agree. I would think it's you

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you think think about it. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: He won't start here because you got to rel Bernard

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Speaker 1: And try and get on the field. Specter's still going

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Speaker 1: there with a crowbar, right. I mean, think about how solidly.

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Speaker 1: He's he took every single snap last year. Spencer Brown.

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Speaker 1: Same thing. I think the thing that might get Spencer

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Speaker 1: Brown is, you know, his health.

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Speaker 2: He's he got through last year, all right, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: He also you know, I think Dion said Spencer had

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Speaker 1: a little surgery done this offseason, and that's not the

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Speaker 1: only you know, he's he's done that before. It's and

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Speaker 1: that's not uncommon either. I mean, guys, you get clean

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Speaker 1: ups and stuff. But still these guys that group on

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Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball, starting with Josh and

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Speaker 1: all through those offensive linemen and digs. Now you got Khalil, Shakir,

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Speaker 1: Knox and Kinkaid, all those guys with the exception maybe

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Speaker 1: Knocks all those guys kind and Shakir, I mean, good grief,

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Speaker 1: those guys are just getting started, just getting started. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Shakiir is going to be into getting into his third year,

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Speaker 1: which as we've heard, as we've seen, that's a big

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Speaker 1: year for some of these guys. What happens if Shakir

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Speaker 1: comes out in blossoms and has the kind of career

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Speaker 1: year that he had in the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: Of the demonstrating side to that last year.

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Speaker 1: It's it's fun to think about. But on the on

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Speaker 1: that this roster now and it's amazing, like Mike Edwards

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Speaker 1: put us over the top, like like, dude, we're going right.

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Speaker 2: Steve has turned into captain optimism. Let's go with the capitol.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. I yeah.

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Speaker 2: Do you feel free agency has taken care of the

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Speaker 2: bills starting positions? I think we all agree there's more

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Speaker 2: work to do to kind of to refine the roster.

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Speaker 2: But let us know what you feel free agency has

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Speaker 2: done with respect to the starting positions. Has it made you?

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Speaker 2: Has it put you in a comfort zone? Much like

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Speaker 2: Steve over here, who's ready to roll and put the

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Speaker 2: ball on the tee already not apologize. Eight O three

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Speaker 2: zero five fifty the number to get on board one

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Speaker 2: eight eight five fifty two five fifty as we have

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Speaker 2: open lines for you to chime in or you can

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Speaker 2: hit us up on the tweet sheet at One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 2: We didn't really give a whole lot of time to

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Speaker 2: the two Hill and Johnson's signings yesterday. Johnson becoming official.

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Speaker 2: We had mentioned that last week, but he finally signed

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Speaker 2: the contract yesterday. You know, I think we believe Johnson

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Speaker 2: is the odds on favorite barring a dramatic acquisition to

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Speaker 2: be the number two back behind James Cook, And I'm

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Speaker 2: good with that. And then Steve touched on it briefly earlier.

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Speaker 2: But two Hill, I think, as an underrated player and

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Speaker 2: at age twenty seven, is going to be able to

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Speaker 2: get his fair share of snaps in this rotational system,

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Speaker 2: not only on rundowns, but I think on pass downs

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Speaker 2: as well. So I'm kind of encouraged. I love these

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Speaker 2: under the radar signings, you know, Casey two Hill signs,

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Speaker 2: and people are like, huh, And I was like, Eh,

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Speaker 2: don't don't judge a book by its cover just because

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Speaker 2: he's not a household name. The Bills know what they're

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Speaker 2: looking at. Their personnel department scours this league. They find

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Speaker 2: players like this, and I think people are going to

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Speaker 2: be pleasantly surprised with what this guy can bring to

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Speaker 2: the defensive front. So I'm encouraged.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I am as well. And it's it's you know,

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Speaker 1: once again, this team is gonna They say it every year,

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Speaker 1: And of course they did have to jump through some

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Speaker 1: draft or some some financial hoops to get under the cap.

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Speaker 1: As this season rolled to the end, but man oh

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Speaker 1: Man Brandon Bean, he said, when they came in, they said, listen,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna build a sustainably success, sustainable success here, and

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Speaker 1: uh I and I think they have. They have. They

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Speaker 1: are in the conversation and on the verge of going

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Speaker 1: to the whole winning the whole thing. Uh, every one

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Speaker 1: of the last four years. And they're going to be

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Speaker 1: right back I think they're going to be right back

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Speaker 1: in that conversation again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's get to the phones though. At Ato three

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Speaker 2: oh five fifty one eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 2: Leading us off today is Pete and Amherst. What you

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Speaker 2: got for his.

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Speaker 8: Pete A, Hi, guys, Hey, I'd a couple of quick

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Speaker 8: questions for you. First, Steve, I was a season ticket

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Speaker 8: holder back in the Glory days, and I used to

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Speaker 8: always tell the people I went to the game with

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Speaker 8: if they'd put Tasker in the slot, he'd catch for

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Speaker 8: one hundred or more balls in his career. But that

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Speaker 8: led me to thinking, who is the slot receiver? That

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Speaker 8: was it? Bb A Reid?

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Speaker 1: It was Andre, Okay, it was Andre. Andre was the

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Speaker 1: was the you know, one of the key guys for

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Speaker 1: the no huddle K gun offense.

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Speaker 8: Okay, thank you, And then my two quick questions. One

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Speaker 8: was with regards to your question, I think the Bills

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Speaker 8: still need an X receiver, so I was wondering how

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Speaker 8: you guys feel about that, whether it's Thomas or Mitchell

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Speaker 8: or one of the other guys. And I had a

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Speaker 8: quick question about Diggs gets a lot of flak from

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Speaker 8: the national media every time he sends out a tweet.

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Speaker 8: But just within the last month, Tyreek Hill roughed up

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Speaker 8: some model and broke her leg. That's his fourth off

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Speaker 8: the field incident, violent incident, and I'm curious how come

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Speaker 8: the national media gets doesn't get on him and why

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Speaker 8: is he even getting no punishment from the NFL. So

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Speaker 8: I'll hang up and listen. Thanks like that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly there are more egregious things happening around the

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Speaker 1: National Football League than Steph Diggs tweeting out I'm ready

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Speaker 1: for whatever. And I can't speak for the national media

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Speaker 1: or why these you know, the major sports news networks

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Speaker 1: don't cover this kind of thing a lot, probably because

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Speaker 1: some of it is probably the team stonewalling them, not

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Speaker 1: wanting them to do that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it doesn't preclude a national talk show from deciding, hey,

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Speaker 2: let's make this a topic of discussion today, right, And

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Speaker 2: I mean with as sensationalized as a lot of those

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Speaker 2: shows have become, you would think that what Pete mentioned

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Speaker 2: concerning Tyreek Hill would be perfect fodder for a show

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Speaker 2: like that, and yet it doesn't show up. Instead, more

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Speaker 2: coverage is given to somebody like.

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Speaker 1: Digs with the dig stuff is a little bit more innocuous,

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Speaker 1: no question, And I think when you get to the

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Speaker 1: national I'm the most a political guy there is. I

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Speaker 1: don't even I never talk politics with anybody. But the

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Speaker 1: atmosphere outside of football, in the political arena in this

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Speaker 1: country right now is more insational then Tyreek Hill doing

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Speaker 1: what he did allegedly all that stuff. There's enough on

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Speaker 1: the other side outside of sports that something like that, Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, Garners more attention from the national media if

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Speaker 1: they're going to talk sports. It's fun and games. Dig

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Speaker 1: stuff in his tweet and social media is the fun

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Speaker 1: and games part of it. Bill's fans take it seriously,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not belittling it, but you're right, there is

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Speaker 1: a Yeah, there is a disproportionate amount of attention given

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Speaker 1: to what Steph Diggs does and what he tweets, and

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Speaker 1: it seems like it's every off season, no question about.

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Speaker 1: It's like clockwork, and there are other things that get

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Speaker 1: no attention. You know, t Higgins asked for a trade.

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Speaker 1: He's unhappy.

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Speaker 2: We've got attention for a day and a half.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, now they're not even talking about it. And he's

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Speaker 1: got to go back and play for them now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if a trade doesn't happen, If a trade doesn't happen,

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Speaker 1: there's all kinds of more dramatic and more sensationalized stories

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Speaker 1: going on out there. But you know, you're right. Steph

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Speaker 1: Diggs always like, oh, I don't know, Steph Digg's gonna

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Speaker 1: cause some problem. And I think one of the things

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Speaker 1: is is because this is a really, really good football team,

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Speaker 1: and people love to throw darts at really good football

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Speaker 1: teams and maybe see if they can see a crack

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Speaker 1: in the armor of these good teams. Cincinnati was last

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Speaker 1: place team in their division last year. Maybe nobody cares.

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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be really good this year, and

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Speaker 1: they may go from last to first with Joe Burrow

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Speaker 1: back in, but nobody cares because they stunk last year.

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Speaker 1: When you're a really good football team, you get more attention,

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Speaker 1: and littler things get more attention than big things on

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Speaker 1: bad teams. Maybe that explains it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have to take a break here, but more

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Speaker 2: of your phone calls when we come back. So if

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Speaker 2: you're holding an eight O threeh five to fifty, we'll

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Speaker 2: get to you in the next segment. We'll get off

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Speaker 2: with Carrie and Lancaster and others holding an ATO three

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Speaker 2: oh five fifty? Do you feel free? Agency has taken

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Speaker 2: care of the bills starting position? Let us know on

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Speaker 2: the phones next here on One Bill's Live, presented by

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Speaker 2: to a Lot of Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 2: back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with

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Speaker 2: you and got to get to the phone, got some

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Speaker 2: people waiting there as we are asking you, do you

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Speaker 2: feel free? Agency has taken care of the bill's starting positions?

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Speaker 1: Yay or nay?

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Speaker 2: Let us know and why? And we lead off as

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Speaker 2: promised with Gary and Lancaster. What's up, Gary?

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Speaker 9: How you doing? Is taking care of it? Well, it's

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Speaker 9: it's in the direction. If you ask being he he

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Speaker 9: would say never, but yeah, at the process. Yeah, they

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Speaker 9: have to work on it. It's a process. Yeah, And

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Speaker 9: who's available, and and and every every guy looks on

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Speaker 9: a wire and see what happens and we come back

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Speaker 9: and come on, okay, who was picked up last night?

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Speaker 9: And and I would love to be in a war

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Speaker 9: room to understand what they're doing and their bored because

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Speaker 9: I'm doing it. I'm just a fan. I would be

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Speaker 9: excited to watch that. That would be cool. Who's here, right,

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Speaker 9: and then who's up? And what we do. There's a

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Speaker 9: lot of options, and they're working that way that their

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Speaker 9: goal is that goal, right, you want to you want

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Speaker 9: to go, I will go in the draft any position great.

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Speaker 9: And also your goal is to show your team up

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Speaker 9: with starters, which is the other thing. So I think

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Speaker 9: they've had Steve said before the sustainable success, and then

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Speaker 9: we saw it. I've been Nickola since eighty five. I've

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Speaker 9: seen up and down, and this is the most consistent

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Speaker 9: approach I've seen in my whole time the last five, six,

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Speaker 9: seven years. Do you see where they are going? It's

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Speaker 9: a it's a direction, it's consistent, and that's that's what

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Speaker 9: impresses me. You want to be in the conversation and

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Speaker 9: every year we're in there. So now the draft, who

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Speaker 9: do you want to draft. What do you want to

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Speaker 9: wide receiver? You want this, you want that? Our choices

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Speaker 9: are fine tuned, and what as on that board of

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Speaker 9: Brandon Beans is going to be very interesting to see

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Speaker 9: who he thinks is the best. Do we take eleven

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Speaker 9: picks and make them five great ones or do we

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Speaker 9: just go off the board. So I'm just excited. I

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Speaker 9: think it's I think they're doing a great job once again.

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Speaker 9: And I'll hang up with Atak, thank.

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Speaker 1: You, thank you. Yeah, there's a couple of things in there. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The thing that we don't know is how the Bills

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Speaker 1: feel about the guys they've already got, you know where,

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Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying. Certainly they need more

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Speaker 1: bodies up front, on the interior, the defensive line. They

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Speaker 1: like to have more depth and this get a bunch

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Speaker 1: of more really good players. But we don't know how

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Speaker 1: good they feel about guys like Tyrrell Shavers and Justin Shorter,

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Speaker 1: even mac Hollins. What are their expectations for him, Curtis

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Speaker 1: Samuel and you know Diggs. What do they really feel

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Speaker 1: about the season Diggs had last year? Shaquille Shakiir uh

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Speaker 1: Khalil Shakir, Dalton kincaid knocks. How do they feel about

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Speaker 1: the guys they've already got under contract, which will tell

647
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: you where their eyes are going to fill voids and

648
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: who they think is going to really work out for them,

649
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: who they have high hopes for, who they're going to

650
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 1: give every opportunity to, and who do they not trust yet.

651
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 1: You know, that's what we don't know. That's why it

652
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,439
Speaker 1: really is interesting to see, You're right, the war room

653
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 1: and the boredom what their train of thought is, because

654
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: we don't know their true beliefs long term about even

655
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:29,280
Speaker 1: the guys they got in the building.

656
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think we also And look, the Bills

657
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 2: have always been budgetary spenders in free agency. In the

658
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 2: Bean McDermott era, they've very rarely swung big.

659
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: Von Miller is probably the lone exception.

660
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, and maybe Mitch Morrison Starletoulala. Those were forty four

661
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:51,399
Speaker 2: and fifty million dollar contracts early in the Bean McDermott era,

662
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,399
Speaker 2: and then Von Miller recently a couple off seasons ago.

663
00:35:54,560 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 2: So besides that, they've been largely budgetary ads in free

664
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:05,240
Speaker 2: agency and they've relied on hitting it in the draft,

665
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 2: and for the most part they have You know, maybe

666
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 2: not all starting caliber players, but players good enough to

667
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 2: make a fifty three man roster and help your club.

668
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 2: The question now becomes, as they are more cap strained

669
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 2: and have had to become even more budgetary in the

670
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:28,399
Speaker 2: free agent market to fill out their roster, how much

671
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 2: more pressure does that put on them to hit in

672
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 2: the draft, And secondarily, do they feel they need to

673
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 2: take more swings in the draft because of it. If

674
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 2: that's the case, there may not be a whole lot

675
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:46,879
Speaker 2: of movement when it comes time to pick and they're

676
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 2: on the clock because they're looking at their roster saying, look, guys,

677
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:54,919
Speaker 2: I really love that kid up there, but look, we've

678
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 2: got five players we like in this area where we're

679
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,919
Speaker 2: gonna pick, And as much as we like that guy

680
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 2: at the top of this group of five, I can't

681
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 2: give up those two picks in round four because we

682
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,879
Speaker 2: only got sixty five guys on the roster. We need

683
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 2: to keep at least ten of our eleven picks so

684
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,320
Speaker 2: we can fill this roster out with cheap labor and

685
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 2: also players that have a future.

686
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 1: Right. I'll say this too. And something else that Gary

687
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 1: from Lancaster mentioned is that you know they they're consistent

688
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,919
Speaker 1: in their approach. How many times during you were talking

689
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: about the drought, how many times they like Mario Williams man,

690
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 1: they spending one hundred million dollars on that guy and

691
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:31,919
Speaker 1: he was great now he played well, but they would

692
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 1: brothers go off the rails and say, listen, we got

693
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 1: you know this guy, we gotta get.

694
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 2: That fifty five million for Derek Dockery a guard.

695
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:43,359
Speaker 1: Right. So you've so many times they would get distracted

696
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,879
Speaker 1: with the shiny thing on the shelf in the supermarket

697
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: and forget that they were there just to buy you

698
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:53,320
Speaker 1: know flower, right, so may.

699
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 2: Have those oreos look good?

700
00:37:54,680 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 1: I know, right. So the consistency and their discipline in

701
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: their philosophy has been impressive to me. And it's one

702
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: of the things that just did never seemed to work

703
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 1: out during the drought because they were always chasing it,

704
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 1: you know.

705
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 2: And uh and when you don't have continuity year over year,

706
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 2: whether it's right front office or on the sidelines with

707
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 2: his coaching staff, it becomes.

708
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: Even more I think you're right. I think in the

709
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: big pictures you step back and look over these last

710
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 1: five six, seven years, the consistency of the plan and

711
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 1: the implementation of it and the rare and they just

712
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: never really deviated from it. And uh, I think that's

713
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: as you know, that helps them in the long run

714
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: as much as anything, you know, as any of the

715
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 1: players they pick, is there in their ability to check

716
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: themselves and say, nah, no, we're not going to trade up.

717
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 1: We're not gonna give next year's one up for this guy.

718
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: You know, it's just been impressive.

719
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 2: Back to the phones and to Dan and Hamburg, what

720
00:38:58,200 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 2: do you got Dan.

721
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 10: Hey, guys, thanks for taking my call. My concern is

722
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 10: center McGovern hasn't played center since college, and we're just

723
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 10: sliding him over there. I don't know if we should.

724
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 11: Get a qualified backup or to address that in the draft.

725
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 11: I mean, I know there's time yet, but that to

726
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 11: me is a key piece of the offensive line I

727
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 11: would assume, you know. And so I was just wondering

728
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 11: what your guys thought was about moving him there. I

729
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 11: just have concerns on it, that's no.

730
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get the concern I do, Dan. And look,

731
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 2: I think here's the thing you have to remember. From

732
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 2: the outside, where we sit and where you sit, it

733
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 2: looks like a willy nilly decision, like they subtracted one guy.

734
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 2: They're just going to slide this guy over what he

735
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:56,880
Speaker 2: hadn't played there. Trust me when I tell you Aaron Kromer,

736
00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 2: the offensive line coach, and Oh Brady the offensive coordinator,

737
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 2: have intimate knowledge of what all of their players are

738
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 2: capable of on that side of the ball. They didn't

739
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:14,359
Speaker 2: make this this anticipated position change on a whim. They

740
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 2: did it with a body of knowledge on the player

741
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 2: that Connor McGovern is. They also cross train a lot

742
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 2: of their players. You and I don't see that in

743
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 2: a game setting, obviously, And we didn't see anybody change

744
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 2: spots at all last season because everybody stayed healthy for

745
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:36,240
Speaker 2: seventeen games on that offensive line, almost miraculously. But trust

746
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 2: me when I tell you number one, the decision was

747
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 2: not made without careful consideration and methodically deciding what would

748
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 2: be best for the offensive front. And number two, to

749
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 2: your point, I would not rule out some veteran free

750
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:54,359
Speaker 2: agent addition being brought in as a contingency.

751
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,319
Speaker 1: Player a draft pick to draft. I'll say this to

752
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 1: don't think they made this and then went to and

753
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 1: then went to Eric Kromer or then went to Connor

754
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 1: McGovern and said, hey, you saw the move we made

755
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: here's what it means for you, We're gonna move you

756
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 1: down to that. I think those conversations will be had

757
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: pre move and probably had it in when he was

758
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: even a free agent signing last year about the possibility

759
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 1: that he had some some flexibility to move to center.

760
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: That's that's not a subject that came out of the

761
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 1: blue for Connor McGovern or Mitch Morris or any of

762
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: these guys. I think the thing that's that you're right

763
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,319
Speaker 1: about is I think there is a little bit of

764
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 1: a void there because Bates was traded before they released

765
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 1: Mitch Mitch, So to me, that's the two best guys

766
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 1: on the roster there. Maybe maybe they think Connor McGovern

767
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:53,280
Speaker 1: would better than Bates. I think it's probably pretty obvious

768
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: they do. But that to me now is like we're

769
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 1: missing a guy. Now, you know, we we were perfect

770
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 1: and then they traded one and released another, and now

771
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem that way. But I do believe McGovern

772
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 1: will be able to make that transition.

773
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 2: Break time for us here. But if you're holding at

774
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 2: eight oh three oh five fifty, it's more of your

775
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:17,760
Speaker 2: phone calls when we come back. Dennis in Ontario, Jennifer

776
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 2: in Western New York and Colin down in South Carolina.

777
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 2: Hang tight, we'll get to you when we return here

778
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 2: on One Bill's Live. Stay tuned all right back here

779
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 2: on One Bill's Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you

780
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 2: as we are closing out our number one. We'll have

781
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,359
Speaker 2: our colleague Matty glab in for our number two as

782
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 2: we have the latest installment of mock draft Wise's five

783
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:51,360
Speaker 2: point Oh and I'm just gonna let you know the

784
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:56,319
Speaker 2: numbers have shifted. It was almost unanimous wide receiver the

785
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 2: last time we met with Maddie. That is not the

786
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 2: case anymore. It has gotten we Curtis. Yeah, yeah, Curtis

787
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 2: shifted the balance. Yeah, we're talking to you about whether

788
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 2: or not you feel free agency is taking care of

789
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:13,799
Speaker 2: the bills starting positions. Obviously the roster isn't fully filled out.

790
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 2: There's a long way to go. But do you feel

791
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 2: better about the starting positions after what's been accomplished in

792
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 2: free agency? You can let us know. At eight oh

793
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:22,840
Speaker 2: three oh five fifty to Dennis in Ontario, we go,

794
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 2: what's up, Dennis?

795
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 6: Hey, how you doing? Guys?

796
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:25,839
Speaker 1: Good good?

797
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 6: I'm I love what they're doing and I like that

798
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 6: we have time to fill whatever holes before training camp starts.

799
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 6: So as a potains to the draft, I have a

800
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 6: particular question for you. There's a kid up here from

801
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 6: the Toronto Raugernauts named Quantes Stiggers. He was the CFO

802
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,479
Speaker 6: Rookie of the Year. He has uh, he's been creating

803
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:45,359
Speaker 6: a little bit of buzz. He did West, did well

804
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,319
Speaker 6: in the East West Shrine Bowl Game. He didn't get

805
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 6: an NFL Combine invite, but his pro day apparently went

806
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 6: very well in Atlanta. Have you guys, you guys familiar

807
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 6: with him, and do you think he's anywhere on the

808
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 6: Bill's radar. He's a cornerback. So I love to hear

809
00:43:57,560 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 6: what you have to say. And if you haven't, you're

810
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 6: not familiar with his story, he should read up on.

811
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 6: It's incredible what this kid could potentially do. Have a

812
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 6: good one.

813
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, I did see his pro day results. I

814
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 2: know he clocked like a four four five and he

815
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 2: had like a ten foot eight broad jump and thirty

816
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 2: six and a half inch vertical. So the athleticism is there.

817
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 2: There's no mistaking that he's got the athleticism, the pure

818
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,320
Speaker 2: athleticism to play in the league. And he's a thickly

819
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 2: built corner because he's I think they measured him five

820
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 2: to eleven two o four And yes, he had a

821
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 2: fantastic season up in the CFL, whereas Steve knows, you've

822
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 2: got to cover a ton more ground out there than

823
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 2: you do in this league. He'll feel like he's playing

824
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 2: in a phone booth if he gets picked up by

825
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:44,479
Speaker 2: a team here. Yeah, I mean just about every team

826
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 2: could use another corner, So I don't think it's going

827
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 2: to be a problem in terms of having a demand

828
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 2: for him. How high he goes, I think is the

829
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 2: question here. So it's interesting to see.

830
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's already playing in the CFLs playing in the CFL,

831
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 1: he's under contract there. If he doesn't have if his

832
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: contract's not up in the CFL, he's not coming to

833
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 1: the NFL, that's for sure, because that contract will hold up,

834
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: and those two leagues have an understanding. If he's a

835
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 1: free agent, he'll get looked at by the NFL.

836
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 2: No, because he didn't play in college. He has no

837
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 2: college experience, which makes him somewhat of a rarity.

838
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 1: I don't know.

839
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 2: I'm very curious how NFL personnel departments would view him,

840
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 2: knowing there is no body of work in college, so

841
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 2: how has he developed? Obviously, a CFL tape is a

842
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 2: huge importance.

843
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And I'll say this too. When my son was

844
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: playing in Canada for all those years, I used to

845
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 1: watch and I thought that it would be for the

846
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 1: NFL guys wanting to get into the NFL if there

847
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:54,359
Speaker 1: were those in the CFL, or if their NFL guys

848
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 1: scouting the CFL. The one place I would look for

849
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,799
Speaker 1: guys in the CFL would be on the defensive side

850
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 1: of the field. Like you said, they've got to be

851
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 1: they got to have they got to be loose and

852
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: be able to play in space, which is really important.

853
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 1: It's hard to find guys like that in the NFL.

854
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: You got to be able to play in space and

855
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 1: tackle in space, and you know, you got to have

856
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 1: some wheels and some ball skills because the ball's thrown

857
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,760
Speaker 1: all the time in the CFL and it's a huge field,

858
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 1: like you said, so they got to have some They

859
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,319
Speaker 1: got to have those kind of things that translate really well.

860
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:28,400
Speaker 1: And I thought, as far as the Canadian League transferring

861
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:30,320
Speaker 1: over to the NFL, I thought the defensive side of

862
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 1: the ball is where I would look first if I

863
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:35,360
Speaker 1: was NFL people, So having a guy at a corner like this,

864
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 1: it kind of falls into to ligne with with my

865
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:38,760
Speaker 1: own beliefs.

866
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 2: Twenty nine NFL teams were represented at his pro day.

867
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 2: He is on their radar, and I think he's got

868
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 2: ten pre draft visits lined up with respective clubs. He's

869
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 2: going to get drafted. Now, is he in the draft?

870
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 2: In the draft pool? How does that work with I'm

871
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,360
Speaker 2: not one hundred percent sure. He just completed his rookie

872
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:00,280
Speaker 2: season in the CFL, but because he had no college play,

873
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 2: I think for some reason he qualifies to be in

874
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 2: the draft. I'm not going to pretend to know all

875
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:07,319
Speaker 2: the ins and outs of that, but I do know

876
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:08,280
Speaker 2: he's in the draft pool.

877
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 1: Yes, say that drafting a pro player is a rarity.

878
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:15,919
Speaker 2: I think it would be only the fourth player ever

879
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:20,440
Speaker 2: with no collegiate experience to be drafted in the NFL,

880
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 2: and it's going to happen. Let's go to Jennifer out

881
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 2: there in Western New York. What do you got for

882
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 2: his Jennifer?

883
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 12: Oh, guys, I'm just calm because I see that feels

884
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:32,839
Speaker 12: we're asking a question about if we feel that free

885
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 12: agency is taking care of the bill's starting positions, and

886
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 12: I have to personally say no, I'm not happy. I'm

887
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 12: a Mafia member and I'm not okay with some players leaving.

888
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 12: And to start with joyd Employer, Oh my god, that

889
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 12: guy is awesome. If you're taking a look at some

890
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 12: footage of his last place, I'm not saying that that's

891
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:58,279
Speaker 12: what the question is, just that this guy here. I

892
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 12: think we're making a big, big mistake with this one here,

893
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 12: and I need it's been talked about.

894
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: I don't know.

895
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 12: I haven't really been paying attention to that type of thing,

896
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 12: but I just think that we need to take some

897
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 12: things to consider here and get pyres ass back here.

898
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: Well.

899
00:48:12,239 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, unfortunately it's too late for that, because I hate

900
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 2: to tell you this. Jennifer, he signed with Miami. He

901
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:21,279
Speaker 2: is now a Miami Dolphin, so I don't know if

902
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 2: you're aware of that, but he's not coming back here

903
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 2: unless he doesn't make their fifty three man roster. He

904
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 2: was a cap casualty. You know, he had an eight

905
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:35,239
Speaker 2: million dollar cap figure. The Bills needed cap relief. I'm

906
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 2: sure they didn't want to cut Mitch Morse, but he

907
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 2: was eight and a half million dollars in cap savings,

908
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 2: and you have to do what's best for the team

909
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 2: in terms of their business model and their process of

910
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:51,319
Speaker 2: building this roster, and they were too hamstrong against the

911
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 2: cap where releasing players like that had to happen.

912
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:58,879
Speaker 1: We've been talking about the drought a little bit off

913
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:01,920
Speaker 1: and on lately today in the show. As you know

914
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:04,359
Speaker 1: how different things are and being sustainable success and how

915
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 1: things are different than they were. It's hard. When you

916
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 1: get good, you you grow attached to a lot of players.

917
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: You you got to love and respect a lot of

918
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 1: guys Micah and Jordan or two of those guys. Mitch

919
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 1: Morse is one of those guys. Trudavious White's one of

920
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:20,840
Speaker 1: those guys. You get a lot of affection for those guys.

921
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 1: It's hard to say goodbye to them. Sooner or later.

922
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: They say goodbye to everybody, but uh, and you know,

923
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:32,480
Speaker 1: for these guys, it's you know, it came all too soon,

924
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 1: particularly for a guy like Tredavious White and the way

925
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 1: it happened with him and his injuries. It's it's hard

926
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:40,799
Speaker 1: to say that. You kind of got to get your

927
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 1: mind around. It doesn't mean you have to like it,

928
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:45,840
Speaker 1: but on at least on an intellectual level, you have

929
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:50,919
Speaker 1: to say, I understand it. Certainly they're not gonna It's

930
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 1: hard to replace everything that Jordan Poyer brings to the table,

931
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 1: or Micah Hyde brings to the table, or Mitch Morse

932
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:59,399
Speaker 1: brings to the table, or Trudevious White. But you've got

933
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 1: to find a good player. And I would encourage all

934
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:05,319
Speaker 1: Bills Mafia, if you're discouraged about you know, the fact

935
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 1: that you let a lot of really you know, lovable

936
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 1: guys go and who great players. You got to get

937
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:13,960
Speaker 1: your mind around the fact this is going to be

938
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 1: a new team this year. It's just like it is

939
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:18,160
Speaker 1: every year, and this one's may seem a little bit

940
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:23,320
Speaker 1: even more different than usual. So allright, listen, Jennifer, I

941
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: appreciate you. I know exactly where you're coming from. I

942
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:28,880
Speaker 1: live through it as a player when I saw a

943
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 1: lot of close friends leave. Man, the train keeps rolling though,

944
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 1: and those players know it as well as anybody.

945
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 2: And unfortunately, as a personnel executive in this league, even

946
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 2: though you probably have a lot of love and respect

947
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 2: for everything Jordan Poyer did for this organization, you can't

948
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 2: attach a motion to the business decisions that have to

949
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 2: be made here for the long run to keep your

950
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:54,800
Speaker 2: team on a path of sustainable success, as we discussed

951
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,879
Speaker 2: in the first hour of the show, and sometimes that

952
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 2: requires making hard and publicly unpopular decisions. But you have

953
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 2: to have the courage of your convictions to make those decisions,

954
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:09,799
Speaker 2: knowing the long range future success of this team is

955
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:12,279
Speaker 2: often at stake. Gotta take a break here, but when

956
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 2: we come back, it's Mock Draft Watch five point zero.

957
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 2: Our colleague Matty Lab joins us with the results and

958
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:21,920
Speaker 2: the tabulations when we return here on One Bill's Live

959
00:51:21,960 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 2: presented by Colida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

960
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:09,719
Speaker 1: This the One Bill's Live presented by Calida Health.

961
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:13,560
Speaker 2: All right, here we are our number two on a Thursday,

962
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 2: and it is that time in the show for the

963
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:21,360
Speaker 2: latest installment of Bill's Mock Draft Watch up to five

964
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:25,279
Speaker 2: point oh, which is presented by Ticket.

965
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 1: On Sean mcdermot's five oh birthday. That's right, fifty mock

966
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 1: Draft to that symmetry.

967
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:37,400
Speaker 2: There, joining us as always to handle the tabulations of

968
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:41,840
Speaker 2: Mock Draft Watch is our own colleague, Matty Lab. And

969
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 2: we've seen a shift, Maddie, there has been a shift.

970
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:49,319
Speaker 2: Finally we have moved off of the unanimous wide receiver train.

971
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 3: Tell me alarm, it has happened. Let me tell you

972
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 3: wide receiver is still the favorite everybody. So mock Draft

973
00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 3: watch five point oh. It's coming out tomorrow morning on

974
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 3: Buffalo Bills dot com. But we're giving you a little

975
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 3: taste of what you can see, a little sneak peek.

976
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 3: So of the last nineteen mock drafts we have tracked,

977
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:11,920
Speaker 3: ten have been wide receivers heading to the Bills at

978
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 3: number twenty eight. Four have been defensive linemen, three safeties.

979
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:21,919
Speaker 3: We've seen a cornerback and an offensive tackle. We haven't

980
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:24,800
Speaker 3: seen too many offensive linemen get mocked to the Bills

981
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:27,279
Speaker 3: at number twenty eight, but we did see one come

982
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:30,760
Speaker 3: off the board in the latest round of mock drafts

983
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:34,799
Speaker 3: that we have tracked. Of the favorites wide receiver at Night,

984
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:38,320
Speaker 3: Mitchell got mocked to the Bills five times in the

985
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:41,839
Speaker 3: last nineteen ones we have tracked, and the number two

986
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 3: is Brian Thomas Junior being mocked to the Bills three times,

987
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:50,839
Speaker 3: So those two remain the favorites in totality. We have

988
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:55,880
Speaker 3: tracked seventy three mock drafts since the Bills season has ended.

989
00:53:56,640 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 3: Wide receiver has been by far the favorite, being mocked

990
00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 3: to the Bills fifty four times out of the seventy

991
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 3: three mock drafts that we have tracked. That's way over

992
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 3: fifty percent. Eight defensive linemen and eight defensive backs. I

993
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:18,840
Speaker 3: put safeties and cornerbacks together, so that has been the

994
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 3: second favorite position defensive line and safety heading to the

995
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:25,879
Speaker 3: Bills at number twenty eight. Wide receiver is by far

996
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:28,800
Speaker 3: the favorite of the seventy three mock drafts that we've tracked.

997
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:32,399
Speaker 3: Since Buffalo season has ended, the favorite names have been

998
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:35,000
Speaker 3: Brian Thomas Junior being mocked to the Bills twenty one

999
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:39,320
Speaker 3: times at number twenty eight, then ad Ni Mitchell twelve times,

1000
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 3: and Kean Coleman eleven times. So that is where we

1001
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:45,200
Speaker 3: sit on March twenty first.

1002
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:48,560
Speaker 2: So first question for you, because I'm curious if this

1003
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:52,239
Speaker 2: has been somewhat of a pattern that you've witnessed through

1004
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 2: the course of this free agent period. Curtis Samuel gets

1005
00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 2: signed by the Bills last week and then suddenly we

1006
00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:02,840
Speaker 2: see you drop off in receiver selections for the Bills

1007
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:05,320
Speaker 2: at twenty eight. Do you think it's safe to assume

1008
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:08,240
Speaker 2: with the Mike Edwards signing, we might see a similar

1009
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:11,440
Speaker 2: drop off, albeit not too many picks went safety, but

1010
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 2: there were a few that's probably going to drop off

1011
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:17,719
Speaker 2: the shelf too. I would think at picked twenty eight going.

1012
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 3: I agree. We've seen Tyler Newban be mocked to the

1013
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 3: Bills on the fourteenth of March, and then yesterday two

1014
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:28,320
Speaker 3: days ago TJ Tampa was mocked to the Bills and

1015
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:32,239
Speaker 3: mel kiper Junior's mock draft, and then Joel Klatt of

1016
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 3: Fox Sports mocked Cooper Dejene to the Bills two days

1017
00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:39,120
Speaker 3: ago as well. So it'll be interesting to see how

1018
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 3: these mock drafts change and shift with Buffalo's new edition.

1019
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:47,040
Speaker 3: At safety, Mike Edwards, I think we'll definitely see a

1020
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 3: shift and we could see wide receivers and defensive linemen

1021
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 3: from here on out right.

1022
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:56,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, at least sprinkled in. Although Brownie and I haven't

1023
00:55:56,440 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 1: talked about it too much today, We've been taking calls

1024
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 1: and talking, but I'm not off the wide receiver train. Yea.

1025
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:06,480
Speaker 1: I still think they need that guy, particularly if one

1026
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:09,040
Speaker 1: of those dudes is there. If if Brian Thomas Junior

1027
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:13,879
Speaker 1: is there, you got to take him. The only doubt

1028
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 1: for me would be is if they trade up a

1029
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:21,800
Speaker 1: couple of snots to get him, you know, yeah, a

1030
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 1: guy like that may have to Harrison neighbors of dude's.

1031
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:29,280
Speaker 1: They're going to be off the board. Brian Thomas Junior

1032
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:34,719
Speaker 1: may may not be there either. A d Mitchell I

1033
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 1: think probably will, and everybody from there on down. Lad

1034
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:38,799
Speaker 1: McConkie's going to be there.

1035
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:42,080
Speaker 2: I forget leget Xavier Leget's got.

1036
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 1: A chance to make it to the Bills. That I'd

1037
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:48,720
Speaker 1: be happy. I'd be okay with that. I'd be okay

1038
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:50,839
Speaker 1: with that. If Xavier Leget, I mean.

1039
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 2: One of those three, I'm pretty dang happy. Yeah, Thomas,

1040
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 2: Mitchell or Legett.

1041
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:56,480
Speaker 1: I'm good.

1042
00:56:56,520 --> 00:56:58,960
Speaker 3: I'm good. Yeah, I agree. And one thing that I've

1043
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:01,799
Speaker 3: also seen with some of the latest mock drafts is

1044
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:04,319
Speaker 3: Brian Thomas Junior is going off the board in the

1045
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:06,760
Speaker 3: teens now, like I've seen him as high as twelve

1046
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:08,640
Speaker 3: or thirteen in some of these mock drafts.

1047
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:11,840
Speaker 1: WOWWELVEI so man, listen.

1048
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:14,480
Speaker 3: It'll depend, it'll depend on what teams are feeling. The

1049
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:18,800
Speaker 3: quarterbacks will really dictate what happens. If we see quarterback

1050
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:22,520
Speaker 3: go one, two, three, four or within you know, four

1051
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:25,440
Speaker 3: guys go within the top eight to ten that could

1052
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:27,000
Speaker 3: affect Buffalo in a good way.

1053
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing when you think about the receivers who

1054
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 1: have come out of LSU in the last what six

1055
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 1: eight years? Yea, it is a list of lists. There

1056
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 1: has been some fantastic players. So they're the pedigree of

1057
00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 1: that school. It's a little bit like back in the set.

1058
00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 2: It used to be yeah, right, a wide receiver, you.

1059
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 1: Right, but it also it was like a linebacker you

1060
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 1: at Penn State. All these linebackers came out of Penn State,

1061
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 1: and now it LSU is a wide receiver Mecca. They

1062
00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:59,960
Speaker 1: are churning them out with regularity, and they're not just bodies.

1063
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 1: These guys are players, and so you know, I think

1064
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 1: that is a little bit of a boost for Brian

1065
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 1: Thomas Junior. But also you know, Malik Neighbors is right

1066
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 1: there as well. They got some dudes, and they've had

1067
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:14,080
Speaker 1: some guys Odell Beckham junior and his running mate that

1068
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 1: came out of there too. Names escaping me. LSU has

1069
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 1: churned guys out and it's get one, get one, get one.

1070
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 3: The Bills aren't in line to hopefully get one if

1071
00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:30,040
Speaker 3: that's what they choose to do. So in the first

1072
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 3: round of the draft, we've talked at length about all

1073
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 3: these wide receivers. So since a couple different names and

1074
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:39,080
Speaker 3: different position groups have been mocked to the Bills in

1075
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Speaker 3: the latest round of mock drafts that we've tracked over

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Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks, I thought we could talk

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Speaker 3: about a few different names and go three different position groups,

1078
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 3: because why the heck not. Tyler Nubin is one of

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00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 3: those names that I brought up. He's a safety out

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00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:55,919
Speaker 3: of Minnesota. So let's dive into his tape and who

1081
00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:59,320
Speaker 3: he is as a player. He's six ' one a

1082
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 3: senior out of Minnesota. He was All Big Ten First

1083
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:05,960
Speaker 3: team and Sporting News first team All American in twenty

1084
00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:10,800
Speaker 3: twenty three. Last season, he had five interceptions, nine passes defense,

1085
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:14,040
Speaker 3: fifty three total tackles, and if you look at his career,

1086
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:17,000
Speaker 3: he's played in fifty five games, two hundred and seven

1087
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 3: total tackles is what he's accrued. Has thirteen interceptions, that's

1088
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 3: a nice number there, twenty four passes defense, three forced fumbles,

1089
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:28,480
Speaker 3: a fumble recovery, two sacks, and when you turn on

1090
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 3: the tape on this guy. He's really good at reading

1091
00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:35,040
Speaker 3: and reacting. He can anticipate what a quarterback is going

1092
00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:38,200
Speaker 3: to do. He's athletic with the size and the length

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00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 3: that he has to his body. While he's not the

1094
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:43,959
Speaker 3: quickest out there, I believe he takes good angles most

1095
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 3: of the time to get to get to the football

1096
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:49,600
Speaker 3: in pass coverage. He has good instincts and a feel

1097
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:51,800
Speaker 3: for the game. He seems to be in the right

1098
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:56,120
Speaker 3: place at the right time to get interceptions, to get takeaways,

1099
00:59:56,360 --> 00:59:58,560
Speaker 3: and that has to do with film study. You don't

1100
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 3: just happen upon being in the right place at the

1101
01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 3: right time. You have to put the work in, and

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Speaker 3: it seems like he does that. He will put his

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01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:08,640
Speaker 3: body on the line for the ball. It's fun watching

1104
01:00:08,720 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 3: him on tape with the way that he can jump

1105
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Speaker 3: routes and anticipate things like that. He can play either

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01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:16,480
Speaker 3: safety position, but I think he's better as a hunter.

1107
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Speaker 3: What do you guys think.

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Speaker 2: About Tyler Robe.

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Speaker 1: He's a physical guy who likes to get down. He

1110
01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:22,960
Speaker 1: can get down in the box and make tackles. He's

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Speaker 1: athletic enough too. He could probably go one on one

1112
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:28,800
Speaker 1: with a tight end and take him out and win

1113
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:32,840
Speaker 1: that matchup he is. I think you're right. He's an

1114
01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:34,920
Speaker 1: in the box safety, a tackler safety, a little bit

1115
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:38,120
Speaker 1: more like Jordan Poyer was for the Bills. He's gonna

1116
01:00:38,120 --> 01:00:41,280
Speaker 1: make a ton of tackles. And his development, if you

1117
01:00:41,360 --> 01:00:45,240
Speaker 1: watch it go through his the timeline of his snaps

1118
01:00:45,240 --> 01:00:48,880
Speaker 1: at Minnesota escalated every year until finally he was on

1119
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 1: the field all the time. He had like five or

1120
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Speaker 1: six interceptions this last year. He was a ballhawk. So

1121
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:58,320
Speaker 1: his trajectory puts him right on pace to be getting better.

1122
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,680
Speaker 1: And also what he does really well would fit right

1123
01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:04,480
Speaker 1: in with the Bills putting him at Poor Yer's old

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01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:06,960
Speaker 1: spot and letting him letting him make some tackle.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I personally think he's an interchangeable safety. I think

1126
01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:12,120
Speaker 2: he can played both spots. I think he's that good

1127
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:14,920
Speaker 2: and I think it's why he's considered the best safety

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01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:18,440
Speaker 2: in the class. He broke all of Antoine Winfield Junior's

1129
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:21,960
Speaker 2: records at Minnesota. Thirteen interceptions is a school record for

1130
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:26,960
Speaker 2: the Golden Gophers. It's an impressive number. He's a team captain.

1131
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 2: The thing about his interceptions is he will bait quarterbacks, yes,

1132
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:38,240
Speaker 2: all the time. He will leave a route open or

1133
01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:41,520
Speaker 2: at least give the illusion that it's open and bait

1134
01:01:41,640 --> 01:01:44,720
Speaker 2: quarterbacks into throwing balls where they shouldn't be and then

1135
01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:49,919
Speaker 2: he victimizes them with interceptions. But I mean, he has

1136
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:53,240
Speaker 2: covered tight ends. I think he's a really good blitzer,

1137
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:54,919
Speaker 2: not just when they put him up on the line

1138
01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:57,480
Speaker 2: of scrimmage, but they have those delayed blitzes from like

1139
01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 2: the second level, and he triggers for the second level

1140
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:04,880
Speaker 2: and he gets there. Yeah, So he's a multifaceted blitzer,

1141
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:05,640
Speaker 2: which is intriguing.

1142
01:02:05,680 --> 01:02:08,800
Speaker 1: He's got a pro body. One of the attributes is

1143
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:12,400
Speaker 1: his body six six two two ten. He's got a

1144
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 1: nice arm length, he's got wingspan that's good. So he's

1145
01:02:16,640 --> 01:02:21,880
Speaker 1: he's got some physical attributes. So yeah, I think that's

1146
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 1: a guy that he'll he'll be there at twenty eight.

1147
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:27,640
Speaker 1: I don't know that the Bills are going to be

1148
01:02:27,680 --> 01:02:27,960
Speaker 1: looking for.

1149
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:30,160
Speaker 3: Bill feel like they're in a good spot now with

1150
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:32,800
Speaker 3: Taylor Rappin and Mikewards on the roster.

1151
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:33,160
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1152
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:35,280
Speaker 2: I just don't. I don't see them taking a safety early.

1153
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:36,680
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, I don't know if anybody

1154
01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 2: takes a safety in round one. But I think he's

1155
01:02:40,120 --> 01:02:41,800
Speaker 2: he's going in the top fifty picks.

1156
01:02:41,960 --> 01:02:42,680
Speaker 1: He's that good.

1157
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:46,600
Speaker 2: He's I mean, the production is too you can't ignore it.

1158
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:49,720
Speaker 2: It's just it's too compelling. And we know how turnovers

1159
01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:52,160
Speaker 2: changed games in the NFL, which what do we got?

1160
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:54,120
Speaker 2: Three quarters of the games are decided by one score

1161
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:55,600
Speaker 2: or less. If you have a guy that can change

1162
01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:59,040
Speaker 2: the game with a turnover, he's attractive. He'll go in

1163
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:00,760
Speaker 2: the top fifty pickswhere for sure?

1164
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:03,520
Speaker 3: All right, let's move to defensive line and talk about

1165
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:07,040
Speaker 3: a player named Chris Jenkins out of Michigan. No, he's

1166
01:03:07,080 --> 01:03:09,400
Speaker 3: not the senior director of content here. That's a different

1167
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:13,160
Speaker 3: Chris Jenkins. We are talking about the football player Chris Jenkins.

1168
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:16,080
Speaker 3: He's six three, two hundred ninety nine pounds. A junior

1169
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Speaker 3: coming out of Michigan. He was voted as a team

1170
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Speaker 3: captain by his teammates this past season, All American Second

1171
01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:26,440
Speaker 3: Team nominee. Forty four games, played, thirty two starts. He

1172
01:03:26,560 --> 01:03:29,680
Speaker 3: ran a four to nine to one forty at the combine.

1173
01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:32,840
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty three, he had two sacks, four TFLs,

1174
01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:35,760
Speaker 3: an interception of fumble recovery at thirty six total tackles.

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01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:38,080
Speaker 3: If you look at his career, that number goes up

1176
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:41,200
Speaker 3: a bit. Four sacks, eight TFLs, one hundred and twelve

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Speaker 3: total tackles. He played against some good competition, obviously winning

1178
01:03:45,080 --> 01:03:49,040
Speaker 3: the National championship, and had solid games against good teams.

1179
01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:52,520
Speaker 3: His father was a four time Pro Bowl defensive tackle.

1180
01:03:52,640 --> 01:03:57,280
Speaker 3: Brandon Bean was with the Panthers when they drafted his dad,

1181
01:03:57,440 --> 01:04:00,440
Speaker 3: Chris Jenkins in two thousand and one, so there's a

1182
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:03,120
Speaker 3: little bit of history there. And when you turn on

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01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:07,040
Speaker 3: the film on Chris Jenkins, he pursues the football until

1184
01:04:07,080 --> 01:04:09,480
Speaker 3: the play is over. I like his motor. He has

1185
01:04:09,520 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 3: good strength to him and can win in the one

1186
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:15,480
Speaker 3: on one situations. He can shed blocks and seems to

1187
01:04:15,520 --> 01:04:18,240
Speaker 3: be the one in charge when he's in one on

1188
01:04:18,240 --> 01:04:21,680
Speaker 3: one scenarios. When he takes on double teams, he's not

1189
01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:24,920
Speaker 3: always winning those. He has a nice spin move to him.

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01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:28,600
Speaker 3: He can add more to that. He's more talented than

1191
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:32,240
Speaker 3: his sack numbers show. I believe it's like Ed Oliver

1192
01:04:32,480 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty two when he only had two and

1193
01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:36,840
Speaker 3: a half sacks. You thought that number was going to

1194
01:04:36,880 --> 01:04:39,320
Speaker 3: be bigger. It was only two and a half. That's

1195
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:43,920
Speaker 3: how I believe Chris Jenkins looks on tape. Some questions

1196
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:47,360
Speaker 3: about him as a defensive lineman are his size and

1197
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:49,520
Speaker 3: things that he can work on. If you look up,

1198
01:04:49,560 --> 01:04:53,000
Speaker 3: what analysts are saying is double teams and not being

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01:04:53,120 --> 01:04:55,600
Speaker 3: enough of an anchor on the inside. What do you

1200
01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:56,920
Speaker 3: think of Chris Jenkins?

1201
01:04:57,040 --> 01:05:00,680
Speaker 1: Yep, He's really good in the run game and can

1202
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:03,520
Speaker 1: hold his own and hold his place. Plus he can

1203
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:05,600
Speaker 1: he makes tackles with guys blocking him, you know what

1204
01:05:05,640 --> 01:05:09,400
Speaker 1: I mean. He he doesn't get caught up trying trying

1205
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:13,840
Speaker 1: to disengage or whatever. He moves off offensive lineman and

1206
01:05:13,880 --> 01:05:16,520
Speaker 1: still gets a hand on, makes tackles in a while,

1207
01:05:16,520 --> 01:05:19,920
Speaker 1: He's still in contact. Really good mucky player down inside

1208
01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:22,640
Speaker 1: in the run game. If there's if he has a weakness,

1209
01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:26,640
Speaker 1: I'm not so. I'm not so. I don't know that

1210
01:05:26,680 --> 01:05:29,680
Speaker 1: his size is a detriment for him. I think one

1211
01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:31,120
Speaker 1: of the things he needs to work on is his

1212
01:05:31,200 --> 01:05:34,320
Speaker 1: pass rush. And he's a defensive tackle, so you're not

1213
01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:37,520
Speaker 1: gonna expect him to have twenty sacks, but he needs

1214
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:41,760
Speaker 1: to have more in his pass rush repertoire than he does,

1215
01:05:41,880 --> 01:05:46,080
Speaker 1: and that's one thing that is lacking in his stats.

1216
01:05:46,720 --> 01:05:49,680
Speaker 1: And maybe he doesn't have a big enough repertoire pass

1217
01:05:49,760 --> 01:05:53,320
Speaker 1: rush moves. But as a defensive tackle, this is a

1218
01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:55,520
Speaker 1: guy that is gonna play a lot of snaps for

1219
01:05:55,520 --> 01:06:00,880
Speaker 1: whoever drafts him, particularly on first down, because of his

1220
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:02,919
Speaker 1: ability to stop the run and how good he isn't

1221
01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:03,760
Speaker 1: down inside.

1222
01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:06,960
Speaker 2: To me, he's one of the most athletic defensive tackles

1223
01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:09,280
Speaker 2: in the class, and I think it's for two reasons.

1224
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:14,520
Speaker 2: Number one, I think his frame allows him to add

1225
01:06:14,560 --> 01:06:17,040
Speaker 2: more weight if a team wants him to. He is

1226
01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:21,040
Speaker 2: a very lean defensive tackle at six three three h five.

1227
01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:24,280
Speaker 2: He could easily put on fifteen more pounds and I

1228
01:06:24,280 --> 01:06:27,160
Speaker 2: don't think his play would suffer. But you watch enough

1229
01:06:27,200 --> 01:06:30,480
Speaker 2: games of this guy, you don't see defensive tackles stringing

1230
01:06:30,560 --> 01:06:32,720
Speaker 2: run plays all the way out to the sideline. He

1231
01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:35,240
Speaker 2: has the athleticism to do that, which is why they

1232
01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:37,520
Speaker 2: used him all up and down the line. He didn't

1233
01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:39,680
Speaker 2: just play defensive tackle for Michigan. He to be out

1234
01:06:39,680 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 2: there at end, especially on first and ten second and short.

1235
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:45,439
Speaker 2: Those kinds of plays They put him out there kind

1236
01:06:45,440 --> 01:06:48,120
Speaker 2: of help set the edge for them. The one thing

1237
01:06:48,160 --> 01:06:51,080
Speaker 2: I will say is for a man that size who

1238
01:06:51,160 --> 01:06:53,960
Speaker 2: can play with that kind of speed. He's not a

1239
01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:57,200
Speaker 2: violent tackler. He's more of a drag down guy than

1240
01:06:57,240 --> 01:07:00,480
Speaker 2: somebody's just gonna drop somebody in the hole. He's grab

1241
01:07:00,520 --> 01:07:04,440
Speaker 2: and hang on and drag down type tackler. Maybe teams

1242
01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:06,080
Speaker 2: don't care about that as long as the guy gets

1243
01:07:06,120 --> 01:07:08,960
Speaker 2: him on the ground, Who the heck cares. But he's

1244
01:07:09,000 --> 01:07:13,440
Speaker 2: not somebody that's gonna stone somebody in the hole. And

1245
01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:18,320
Speaker 2: I think there are times where he doesn't finish the play.

1246
01:07:18,400 --> 01:07:20,880
Speaker 2: In my estimation, this is a guy that hasn't put

1247
01:07:20,880 --> 01:07:23,840
Speaker 2: it all together yet. Yes, I don't. I don't think

1248
01:07:24,480 --> 01:07:28,000
Speaker 2: his full potential has been reached. There were some that

1249
01:07:28,040 --> 01:07:30,160
Speaker 2: could argue, hey, maybe another year of college might have

1250
01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:32,880
Speaker 2: been good for him, But I think the athletic potential

1251
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:35,600
Speaker 2: is so great that he's still going to go somewhere

1252
01:07:35,640 --> 01:07:39,480
Speaker 2: on day two. I just don't think he's I think

1253
01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:41,680
Speaker 2: he's gonna be a late bloomer. I think he's gonna

1254
01:07:41,680 --> 01:07:44,240
Speaker 2: make a roster obviously this year. I think he's going

1255
01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:46,560
Speaker 2: to kind of learn on the job. But I see

1256
01:07:46,560 --> 01:07:49,280
Speaker 2: this guy kind of crescendoing in year two or three

1257
01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:51,360
Speaker 2: of his career. You know, by the time he gets

1258
01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:55,520
Speaker 2: to his second contract, he'll be a bonafide playmaking interior player.

1259
01:07:55,840 --> 01:07:57,959
Speaker 2: I think it's going to take him a little time, though.

1260
01:07:58,120 --> 01:08:00,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I was thinking. To go to the

1261
01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:02,320
Speaker 3: right team with the right coaching staff, and you can

1262
01:08:02,400 --> 01:08:06,040
Speaker 3: get a lot more out of this player. Some of

1263
01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:08,680
Speaker 3: the parts are already there. It's fine tuning that and

1264
01:08:08,720 --> 01:08:10,800
Speaker 3: getting the most out of a player like him. All right,

1265
01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:13,560
Speaker 3: let's go offensive line, because why the heck not. This

1266
01:08:13,600 --> 01:08:16,479
Speaker 3: is a really good offensive line draft class, and maybe

1267
01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:19,160
Speaker 3: there's somebody there for the Bills at twenty eight that

1268
01:08:19,200 --> 01:08:22,200
Speaker 3: could be a little bit enticing. One of those guys

1269
01:08:22,280 --> 01:08:26,120
Speaker 3: mocked to the Bills offensive line wise most recently was

1270
01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:29,679
Speaker 3: an offensive tackle, Graham Barton out of Duke. He's six five,

1271
01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:33,080
Speaker 3: three hundred and thirteen pounds and as a senior started

1272
01:08:33,120 --> 01:08:37,640
Speaker 3: in thirty games, played in thirty one, logged two thousand,

1273
01:08:37,800 --> 01:08:40,519
Speaker 3: one hundred and sixty total snaps. He played at left

1274
01:08:40,520 --> 01:08:43,880
Speaker 3: tackle his final two seasons. He does have experience at

1275
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:47,400
Speaker 3: center as well. Some people think center is where he

1276
01:08:47,479 --> 01:08:50,360
Speaker 3: is going to live in his NFL career. In twenty

1277
01:08:50,439 --> 01:08:55,479
Speaker 3: twenty two, Dukes offense registered thirty one rushing touchdowns, which

1278
01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:58,840
Speaker 3: set a single season program record, and they averaged around

1279
01:08:58,880 --> 01:09:01,559
Speaker 3: one hundred and sixty seven been rushing yards per game.

1280
01:09:02,120 --> 01:09:05,760
Speaker 3: When you look at the tape, he is strong. That's

1281
01:09:05,800 --> 01:09:09,280
Speaker 3: what pops out first in my opinion. He has strong

1282
01:09:09,360 --> 01:09:12,040
Speaker 3: hands to engage in blocks, and he keeps guys where

1283
01:09:12,160 --> 01:09:15,160
Speaker 3: he wants them. He throws players to the ground. He

1284
01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:17,680
Speaker 3: can stay in his blox and drive as well. I

1285
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Speaker 3: was really impressed by his leg strength to drive guys

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Speaker 3: down the field. Several pancakes show up on tape. He

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Speaker 3: looks like an athletic and mobile offensive lineman in run

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01:09:27,400 --> 01:09:31,040
Speaker 3: blocking settings. One of the downfalls of this guy is

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Speaker 3: his arm length not as long as other offensive linemen

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Speaker 3: in this draft class. So do you decide to swing

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Speaker 3: on a player like this in the first round where

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Speaker 3: maybe the arm length isn't exactly there, Steve, what do

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Speaker 3: you use?

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Speaker 1: I think the one thing about him is he played

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Speaker 1: left tackle for three years, and when he was at

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Speaker 1: left tackle, he's a really good athlete. He can slide

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Speaker 1: side to side, he can move, he picks guys up,

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Speaker 1: and he's strong. Like you said, in the NFL, it's

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Speaker 1: not gonna be an enough because he's his arms aren't

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01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:05,360
Speaker 1: long enough and it sounds like a crazy thing to

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Speaker 1: say when when you're talking something other than NFL lineman,

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01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:11,200
Speaker 1: he doesn't have the link. So most teams or most

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Speaker 1: scouts are saying, listen, he's going to slide inside. He's

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Speaker 1: going to be a guard, or he's going to be

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Speaker 1: a center. He's a smart dude, He's got all that

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Speaker 1: going for him. So yeah, I would think he would

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Speaker 1: be probably a better prospect as a center than anything else.

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01:10:26,360 --> 01:10:28,040
Speaker 1: So if those people are worried about like that, we've

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01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:31,320
Speaker 1: had callers today about talking about Mitch Morris and they

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Speaker 1: don't know that Connor McGovern s would be able to slide,

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Speaker 1: decide this is a guy that could do that. He's big,

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Speaker 1: and he's six ' five three bills plus and I

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01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:44,400
Speaker 1: just think that's where he belongs more so than out

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Speaker 1: on the edge. He played left tackle, and if you

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Speaker 1: watch the game tape, you know left tackles are out

1316
01:10:49,720 --> 01:10:51,440
Speaker 1: there for a reason. They got to be an athlete,

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Speaker 1: and he is.

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Speaker 2: I I just think you look at his body type though,

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01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:57,880
Speaker 2: and he looks like a guard. He looks like a

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Speaker 2: guard or a center. He doesn't look like a tackle me.

1321
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Speaker 2: And then you put the arm length out there and

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Speaker 2: you understand why NFL personnel people are projecting him inside,

1323
01:11:08,360 --> 01:11:11,840
Speaker 2: which is not a terrible thing at all. And to

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01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:14,519
Speaker 2: you know, as Maddie mentioned, he played his whole freshman

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01:11:14,600 --> 01:11:18,479
Speaker 2: season at center. Freshman year, they put a freshman at

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01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:21,320
Speaker 2: center to run the offense and call the line calls.

1327
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Speaker 2: That's that's saying something about the trust that a coaching

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01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:25,599
Speaker 2: staff hasn't.

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Speaker 1: The other thing they say about him too, is he's

1330
01:11:29,040 --> 01:11:33,080
Speaker 1: he's a little bit of they call it finger quotes, tenacious. Uh,

1331
01:11:33,120 --> 01:11:36,120
Speaker 1: he likes to finish plays. Yeah, he's got he's gotten

1332
01:11:36,160 --> 01:11:41,040
Speaker 1: nasty in him. Offensive lineman love. You know, you need

1333
01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:45,200
Speaker 1: guys like that that he So I think he is

1334
01:11:45,240 --> 01:11:48,960
Speaker 1: a quintessential guy that comes into the league and at

1335
01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:51,639
Speaker 1: the higher level of athleticism that they're that they play at.

1336
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Speaker 1: He moves down into center and uses his savvy and

1337
01:11:54,960 --> 01:11:55,800
Speaker 1: his tenacity in his.

1338
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Speaker 2: And I would say what makes him attractive to the

1339
01:11:58,120 --> 01:12:02,280
Speaker 2: Bills is something they want in all of their offensive linemen,

1340
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Speaker 2: and that's position flex. He comes in the door with

1341
01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:08,880
Speaker 2: position flex. You don't have to cross train him. He's

1342
01:12:08,920 --> 01:12:13,320
Speaker 2: done that already. If he can play tackle in college,

1343
01:12:13,560 --> 01:12:16,160
Speaker 2: left tackle, he can play guard in the NFL. So

1344
01:12:16,240 --> 01:12:20,320
Speaker 2: now you have a guard center position, flex prospect. That's

1345
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Speaker 2: why he would be attractive to Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Yeah, he's he's an intriguing prospect. Buffalo is seems,

1347
01:12:28,439 --> 01:12:31,559
Speaker 1: you know, even with what's happened with Mitch Morrison Ryan Bates,

1348
01:12:31,720 --> 01:12:35,240
Speaker 1: the Buffalo is he's got more, way more glaring needs

1349
01:12:35,280 --> 01:12:37,439
Speaker 1: than they do at the offensive line. But if they

1350
01:12:37,439 --> 01:12:41,000
Speaker 1: were going to take a guy, he's the exact type

1351
01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:41,240
Speaker 1: of guy.

1352
01:12:41,320 --> 01:12:44,120
Speaker 2: I think he's a Day two guy. Jackson Bowers. Johnson,

1353
01:12:44,160 --> 01:12:46,880
Speaker 2: the Oregon center is widely considered to be the best center,

1354
01:12:46,920 --> 01:12:48,679
Speaker 2: and they think he's the guy that's got the best

1355
01:12:48,760 --> 01:12:51,400
Speaker 2: chance to go a round one more often than not.

1356
01:12:51,840 --> 01:12:54,599
Speaker 2: But this guy's probably the second center off the board.

1357
01:12:54,720 --> 01:12:58,360
Speaker 1: He may be a guy that I mean, he'll probably

1358
01:12:58,360 --> 01:13:01,040
Speaker 1: be there at sixty for the Bills. Could be that.

1359
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Speaker 2: I don't think that's a lock.

1360
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Speaker 1: That's where you're thinking, if you're the Bill, you're gonna

1361
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Speaker 1: take it. That's where you're gonna you're gonna get him.

1362
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Speaker 1: You're not taking him at twenty eight, but you may

1363
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Speaker 1: get him at sixty. And if you're gonna trade up

1364
01:13:11,640 --> 01:13:13,559
Speaker 1: to get somebody, you may go from sixty to like

1365
01:13:13,880 --> 01:13:17,880
Speaker 1: fifty three. To get him. You know what I'm saying. So, uh, yep,

1366
01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:20,760
Speaker 1: that's kind of what I'm thinking about him. But I

1367
01:13:20,880 --> 01:13:22,560
Speaker 1: like him. Of the three guys we've spoken about, I

1368
01:13:22,600 --> 01:13:24,280
Speaker 1: think I like this guy the best, even though the

1369
01:13:24,280 --> 01:13:26,080
Speaker 1: Bills really don't have a glaring need for.

1370
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:29,799
Speaker 2: Interesting Graham Barton train over here.

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Speaker 3: All right, well too tuned offensive line in the first round,

1372
01:13:33,760 --> 01:13:36,080
Speaker 3: says task her.

1373
01:13:36,360 --> 01:13:38,400
Speaker 1: Watch that train go by, because I think it's cool

1374
01:13:38,400 --> 01:13:41,200
Speaker 1: and it's interesting. I'm not buying a ticket. Yeah, I'm

1375
01:13:41,200 --> 01:13:43,200
Speaker 1: not riding it. He'll take a peek.

1376
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there will be. I think the Bills

1377
01:13:45,960 --> 01:13:50,040
Speaker 2: will draft an offensive lineman somewhere, uh in the draft,

1378
01:13:50,160 --> 01:13:55,720
Speaker 2: probably day three, you know, where eight or nine of

1379
01:13:55,760 --> 01:13:58,920
Speaker 2: their eleven picks are. So the odds are it's gonna

1380
01:13:58,920 --> 01:14:01,120
Speaker 2: happen there anyway. And I think, you know, to what

1381
01:14:01,160 --> 01:14:04,200
Speaker 2: we've discussed, there are other more pressing positional needs right now,

1382
01:14:04,240 --> 01:14:06,960
Speaker 2: like defensive line. And I still think they got to

1383
01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:09,679
Speaker 2: get one of these receivers in a Battley hooed class.

1384
01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:12,760
Speaker 2: So I think there will be an offensive lineman taken.

1385
01:14:12,800 --> 01:14:14,960
Speaker 2: They need some depth, They need some depth. You know,

1386
01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:19,559
Speaker 2: Bates got traded. Mor Morse was a cap casualty. They

1387
01:14:19,560 --> 01:14:24,200
Speaker 2: got Edwards back, but outside of Vandermark and Alec Anderson.

1388
01:14:23,920 --> 01:14:26,000
Speaker 3: Where's Tommy Doyle at what's.

1389
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:28,160
Speaker 2: Tommy Doyle situation? Right? So you might need it in

1390
01:14:28,240 --> 01:14:28,719
Speaker 2: this herrier.

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01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:31,840
Speaker 1: This guy, Graham Barton is listed as the best as

1392
01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:33,840
Speaker 1: the seventh on the one of the websites I'm looking

1393
01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:37,200
Speaker 1: at is the seventh best offensive tackle off the board.

1394
01:14:37,760 --> 01:14:41,519
Speaker 1: And one of the reasons for that is he's most

1395
01:14:41,560 --> 01:14:45,720
Speaker 1: people aren't projecting him as a tackle, right, you know,

1396
01:14:45,760 --> 01:14:47,680
Speaker 1: because all the other guys on this way, they're all

1397
01:14:47,880 --> 01:14:49,240
Speaker 1: all the tackles on this are.

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Speaker 2: Six eight and six of them might go in round one.

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01:14:51,920 --> 01:14:53,960
Speaker 1: Right, and they have arms that you know, they can

1400
01:14:53,960 --> 01:14:57,000
Speaker 1: scratch the bottoms of their feet without bending over. So

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01:14:58,439 --> 01:15:00,920
Speaker 1: you know, he just he doesn't fit that that category.

1402
01:15:00,960 --> 01:15:03,720
Speaker 1: But he is up there as a tackle in the

1403
01:15:03,720 --> 01:15:08,640
Speaker 1: top ten of this draft at that position in a

1404
01:15:08,680 --> 01:15:10,519
Speaker 1: spot that you don't think he's going to actually go

1405
01:15:10,600 --> 01:15:11,360
Speaker 1: to play that spot.

1406
01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:14,479
Speaker 2: Maddie, thanks for bringing us up to speed. We look

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01:15:14,560 --> 01:15:18,240
Speaker 2: forward to Mock Draft Watch six point zero next week

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01:15:18,400 --> 01:15:21,080
Speaker 2: in the near future. Oh yeah, as soon as next week.

1409
01:15:21,120 --> 01:15:23,160
Speaker 2: So thanks for the sneak peak today. You can find

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01:15:23,720 --> 01:15:27,400
Speaker 2: all the numbers and the names at Buffalo bills dot com,

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01:15:27,400 --> 01:15:31,080
Speaker 2: where Mockdraftwatch appears each and every week leading up to

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Speaker 2: draft weekend. We have to take a break here, but

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Speaker 2: we'll get back to the phones when we return here

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Speaker 2: on One Bill's Live, presented by co Lot of Health,

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01:15:38,080 --> 01:15:52,960
Speaker 2: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 2: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. Final half hour of

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01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:57,400
Speaker 2: the program. Got to get back to the phones where

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01:15:57,439 --> 01:16:01,280
Speaker 2: some people have been waiting patiently, including Colin in South Carolina.

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01:16:01,280 --> 01:16:05,559
Speaker 2: What's up callin, hey, fellows, how's it going good?

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Speaker 1: Good?

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01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:09,920
Speaker 13: I'm a pretty biased Bills fan. I love big baller being.

1422
01:16:09,960 --> 01:16:12,840
Speaker 13: I trust him big time. I love our weapons. Can

1423
01:16:12,840 --> 01:16:15,920
Speaker 13: you tell me, like realistically, where our offense ranks compared

1424
01:16:15,960 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 13: to the NFL, Like what tier we're in.

1425
01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:20,719
Speaker 1: We're in the top tier whatever however you want to slice.

1426
01:16:20,720 --> 01:16:22,759
Speaker 2: They're usually top five points scored.

1427
01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:24,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, top.

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01:16:24,080 --> 01:16:27,760
Speaker 13: Five I'm saying as in compared to the Jets specifically,

1429
01:16:27,760 --> 01:16:30,360
Speaker 13: I know they just got Mike Williams, Aaron Rodgers coming back,

1430
01:16:30,400 --> 01:16:32,479
Speaker 13: everything like that. Where do you think we shape up

1431
01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:33,040
Speaker 13: compared to.

1432
01:16:33,360 --> 01:16:36,160
Speaker 1: FD East, AFC East. I think we are you know

1433
01:16:36,280 --> 01:16:39,960
Speaker 1: when Miami's clicking with Tua and Tyreek and all those jokes,

1434
01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:44,960
Speaker 1: and yeah, they're they're good. Miami's got an offense that

1435
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:50,280
Speaker 1: that really goes as a team. Their offense against our defense,

1436
01:16:50,320 --> 01:16:52,559
Speaker 1: Miami is pretty good. Our team seems to give them

1437
01:16:52,600 --> 01:16:53,320
Speaker 1: some problems.

1438
01:16:54,560 --> 01:16:58,120
Speaker 2: They held the they held the Dolphins to twenty points

1439
01:16:58,560 --> 01:17:01,080
Speaker 2: and what was the final and then we game they

1440
01:17:01,120 --> 01:17:02,640
Speaker 2: only held them to fourteen.

1441
01:17:02,920 --> 01:17:05,240
Speaker 1: Something like that. Oh, I can tell you two seconds here.

1442
01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:11,200
Speaker 2: They hold that Miami defense, Miami offense and check yeah,

1443
01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:14,920
Speaker 2: in a big way because they played far below their

1444
01:17:14,920 --> 01:17:17,880
Speaker 2: scoring average against the Bills defense. And sometimes that's what

1445
01:17:17,960 --> 01:17:19,519
Speaker 2: you have. You just have a team in your division

1446
01:17:19,520 --> 01:17:23,320
Speaker 2: that has your number. The Bills seemed to have Miami's number.

1447
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:25,920
Speaker 1: Yeah it was. The game was twenty one fourteen.

1448
01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:28,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they held them to twenty points and fourteen

1449
01:17:28,280 --> 01:17:29,320
Speaker 2: so even.

1450
01:17:30,360 --> 01:17:34,599
Speaker 1: Yeah. So the Bill's offense I think is the best

1451
01:17:34,680 --> 01:17:37,439
Speaker 1: in the AFC East. Now there's because and I say

1452
01:17:37,479 --> 01:17:39,839
Speaker 1: that because I don't know how good the Jets offense

1453
01:17:39,920 --> 01:17:42,200
Speaker 1: is gonna be, even with Aaron Rodgers back and healthy.

1454
01:17:43,240 --> 01:17:46,320
Speaker 1: Certainly they have the weapons. Their offensive line was an

1455
01:17:46,320 --> 01:17:48,519
Speaker 1: atrocity last year, don't know, if they've got that fix,

1456
01:17:48,560 --> 01:17:49,240
Speaker 1: although they've.

1457
01:17:49,040 --> 01:17:52,320
Speaker 2: Worked hard on it, Moses Tyron Smith.

1458
01:17:52,360 --> 01:17:55,040
Speaker 1: They got some dudes, so we'll see, but they needed to.

1459
01:17:55,720 --> 01:18:01,519
Speaker 1: So on paper, the Jets look good. The Bills are

1460
01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:04,200
Speaker 1: returning a ton of people, and they got Curtis Samuel

1461
01:18:04,240 --> 01:18:07,960
Speaker 1: and they switched Curtis Samuel for Gabe Davis. You can

1462
01:18:07,960 --> 01:18:09,720
Speaker 1: say what you want about the offensive line. It was

1463
01:18:10,400 --> 01:18:14,120
Speaker 1: good last year, so you know, yeah, I would say

1464
01:18:14,120 --> 01:18:16,439
Speaker 1: the Bills have fewer question marks than most of the

1465
01:18:16,479 --> 01:18:20,160
Speaker 1: other teams, although Andy, they've won all their head to

1466
01:18:20,200 --> 01:18:22,320
Speaker 1: heads with the Dolphins. I mean, Josh beats those guys

1467
01:18:22,360 --> 01:18:25,400
Speaker 1: up every time they play, even if he doesn't win

1468
01:18:25,439 --> 01:18:29,320
Speaker 1: the game. So yeah, I would say the Bills at

1469
01:18:29,320 --> 01:18:32,160
Speaker 1: the are the top of the division right now. Yeah,

1470
01:18:32,240 --> 01:18:33,719
Speaker 1: just because the lack of question marks.

1471
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Speaker 2: I mean, you can get excited as you want as

1472
01:18:36,160 --> 01:18:38,840
Speaker 2: a Jets fan about Mike Williams and about Aaron Rodgers,

1473
01:18:38,880 --> 01:18:41,640
Speaker 2: but Aaron Rodgers is coming off of torn achilles and

1474
01:18:41,680 --> 01:18:44,120
Speaker 2: Mike Williams is coming off an ACL injury that he

1475
01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:45,879
Speaker 2: suffered in November last year.

1476
01:18:45,720 --> 01:18:48,400
Speaker 1: And so I mean Aaron's gonna be forty.

1477
01:18:48,560 --> 01:18:51,360
Speaker 2: We've seen how players look their first year coming back

1478
01:18:51,360 --> 01:18:55,120
Speaker 2: from an acl and a receiver. That's not an easy position.

1479
01:18:54,800 --> 01:18:59,120
Speaker 1: To do it. We have seen other quarterbacks bounce back

1480
01:18:59,120 --> 01:19:03,200
Speaker 1: from achilles injury. Marino did it and came back and

1481
01:19:03,240 --> 01:19:07,439
Speaker 1: played well. So and but Dan was never, you know,

1482
01:19:09,120 --> 01:19:12,840
Speaker 1: a run around guy. He was absolute, quintessential from the

1483
01:19:12,880 --> 01:19:16,920
Speaker 1: pocket passer. He was not moving anywhere. Aaron Rodgers may

1484
01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:19,080
Speaker 1: have to adjust his game a little bit to be

1485
01:19:19,200 --> 01:19:21,600
Speaker 1: that kind of guy, because as much as he's a

1486
01:19:21,600 --> 01:19:23,800
Speaker 1: pure thrower, he does have the ability to run around.

1487
01:19:23,800 --> 01:19:27,800
Speaker 1: He did have the ability to evade really well. It's

1488
01:19:27,840 --> 01:19:33,360
Speaker 1: got a pocket presence like nobody's business. It'll be interesting

1489
01:19:33,400 --> 01:19:36,720
Speaker 1: to see how Aaron adjusts to his new leg and

1490
01:19:37,360 --> 01:19:40,320
Speaker 1: to this new team and has more than four snaps.

1491
01:19:40,320 --> 01:19:44,639
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. So I think because of the fact

1492
01:19:44,680 --> 01:19:48,320
Speaker 1: of all the question marks surrounding the Jets and the

1493
01:19:48,360 --> 01:19:50,519
Speaker 1: fact that the Bills time and time again have proven

1494
01:19:50,560 --> 01:19:53,439
Speaker 1: with Josh at quarterback, the Bills are better than the

1495
01:19:53,520 --> 01:19:58,640
Speaker 1: Dolphins with two at quarterback. So yeah, and the Patriots

1496
01:19:58,640 --> 01:20:01,160
Speaker 1: are hot man right now, got a lot of work,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, you have to put Buffalo at the top

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01:20:04,200 --> 01:20:06,599
Speaker 1: of They're a four time defending champ.

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Speaker 2: Right, Let's get back to the phones and to William

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Speaker 2: down in the Elmwood village. What do you got for us?

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Speaker 7: William Hey, good afternoon, fellows. I was answering your question. Sure,

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01:20:21,360 --> 01:20:26,320
Speaker 7: Mika Hyde enjoyed Employer, the replacements that they've brought in

1503
01:20:27,160 --> 01:20:33,080
Speaker 7: that are going to supposedly be our new defensive backfield.

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01:20:34,120 --> 01:20:37,559
Speaker 7: What do you think? Are we at par with what

1505
01:20:37,600 --> 01:20:41,200
Speaker 7: we have before? Are we are we better than we

1506
01:20:41,200 --> 01:20:47,400
Speaker 7: were before? As this is a step forward, This is my

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01:20:47,560 --> 01:20:48,640
Speaker 7: question you would have.

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01:20:48,720 --> 01:20:51,280
Speaker 1: You'd be hard pressed to say anybody the Bills could

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01:20:51,360 --> 01:20:54,080
Speaker 1: possibly sign in free agency this year are going to

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01:20:54,080 --> 01:20:57,080
Speaker 1: be better than hide Employer in their prime. You'd be

1511
01:20:57,120 --> 01:20:59,880
Speaker 1: hard pressed to say that. Now both those guys are

1512
01:21:00,280 --> 01:21:02,960
Speaker 1: a little bit on the backside, and Mike is still

1513
01:21:03,040 --> 01:21:04,320
Speaker 1: contemplating retirement.

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01:21:04,920 --> 01:21:05,040
Speaker 2: Uh.

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01:21:05,280 --> 01:21:08,960
Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer athletically is a little down from where he

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01:21:09,040 --> 01:21:11,960
Speaker 1: was at one point, but still very savvy and very

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01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:15,960
Speaker 1: smart player. He did not command an enormous price tag

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01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:18,720
Speaker 1: on the open market, so that kind of tells you

1519
01:21:18,760 --> 01:21:22,280
Speaker 1: what other teams see in him as well. The Bills,

1520
01:21:22,320 --> 01:21:24,439
Speaker 1: he was a cap casually at eight million per year,

1521
01:21:24,960 --> 01:21:27,720
Speaker 1: and they decided to take the eight million in seat

1522
01:21:27,760 --> 01:21:31,720
Speaker 1: of Jordan Poyer so Poyer and Hyde, as good as

1523
01:21:31,760 --> 01:21:36,519
Speaker 1: they have been for the Bills, the Bills themselves and

1524
01:21:36,560 --> 01:21:39,519
Speaker 1: other teams are are not surprised that you know that

1525
01:21:39,560 --> 01:21:44,680
Speaker 1: they're moving on from those guys. The guys they brought in,

1526
01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:48,120
Speaker 1: Mike Edwards and Taylor Rap. Taylor Rap and Edwards will

1527
01:21:48,160 --> 01:21:54,280
Speaker 1: probably be, without questionable be more athletically gifted at this

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01:21:54,400 --> 01:21:56,760
Speaker 1: point of their careers than Poyer and Hyde were last

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01:21:56,840 --> 01:21:58,599
Speaker 1: year at the end of their careers here in Buffalo.

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01:21:59,320 --> 01:22:02,439
Speaker 1: But in the savvy and the way they played together. Now,

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01:22:02,479 --> 01:22:07,240
Speaker 1: maybe they'll surprise us. But Poyer and Hide seemed quintessentially

1532
01:22:08,479 --> 01:22:12,200
Speaker 1: mind melded so that they could do things together without

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01:22:12,280 --> 01:22:16,439
Speaker 1: talking too much in concert with each other. That would

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01:22:16,479 --> 01:22:18,599
Speaker 1: fool a quarterback into thinking they were going to give

1535
01:22:18,640 --> 01:22:21,200
Speaker 1: him a coverage when it was actually not that coverage.

1536
01:22:21,280 --> 01:22:26,120
Speaker 1: They fooled the quarterback with their alignment a lot. They

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01:22:26,120 --> 01:22:29,479
Speaker 1: were very good at it, very adept at it. I

1538
01:22:29,520 --> 01:22:33,160
Speaker 1: don't know that Mike Edwards and Taylor Rapp are going

1539
01:22:33,240 --> 01:22:36,120
Speaker 1: to be able to do that well. So there's your answer.

1540
01:22:36,280 --> 01:22:39,240
Speaker 1: We don't know yet, but you'd be hard pressed to

1541
01:22:39,280 --> 01:22:42,920
Speaker 1: think anybody is going to come in and play better

1542
01:22:42,960 --> 01:22:45,639
Speaker 1: than Poyer and Hyde in at the height of their careers.

1543
01:22:46,439 --> 01:22:48,719
Speaker 2: Poyer and Hide are the best safety tannem in team history.

1544
01:22:49,280 --> 01:22:51,920
Speaker 2: Starts and ends with them, and nobody else is even

1545
01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:55,879
Speaker 2: close as a tandem. Henry Jones was a great safety

1546
01:22:55,920 --> 01:22:58,360
Speaker 2: on this team, George SAMs was a great safety on

1547
01:22:58,400 --> 01:23:01,160
Speaker 2: this team back in the sixties in the Afays. But

1548
01:23:02,680 --> 01:23:06,040
Speaker 2: as a tandem, it's Poyer and Hide and nobody's even

1549
01:23:06,080 --> 01:23:09,840
Speaker 2: close now as far as the guy's coming on board now,

1550
01:23:10,080 --> 01:23:11,760
Speaker 2: there's no way to know if they're going to be

1551
01:23:11,840 --> 01:23:14,160
Speaker 2: up to par or even close to those two guys,

1552
01:23:14,160 --> 01:23:15,840
Speaker 2: because you have to see it on the field first.

1553
01:23:16,160 --> 01:23:18,600
Speaker 2: How does Mike Edwards play off of Taylor rap? Do

1554
01:23:18,680 --> 01:23:21,960
Speaker 2: they have on field chemistry? These are things that we

1555
01:23:22,040 --> 01:23:26,200
Speaker 2: have to wait, watch, see, evaluate, and then take it

1556
01:23:26,200 --> 01:23:30,719
Speaker 2: from there. I think there's potential there, and the reason

1557
01:23:30,760 --> 01:23:34,280
Speaker 2: why is these two guys are younger than a thirty

1558
01:23:34,280 --> 01:23:36,040
Speaker 2: three year old Micah Hyde and a thirty two year

1559
01:23:36,080 --> 01:23:39,760
Speaker 2: old Jordan Poyer were last year. So from an athletic standpoint,

1560
01:23:40,320 --> 01:23:42,880
Speaker 2: I think you have a chance to upgrade the two

1561
01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:46,479
Speaker 2: positions from what you saw last year. Again, as Steve said,

1562
01:23:46,960 --> 01:23:51,400
Speaker 2: wasn't Poyer Hide in their prime, it was good enough

1563
01:23:51,479 --> 01:23:53,840
Speaker 2: to play solid defense, but you might get a little

1564
01:23:53,840 --> 01:23:56,599
Speaker 2: more athleticism out of those two positions with those two

1565
01:23:56,680 --> 01:24:00,000
Speaker 2: younger players at twenty six and twenty seven years old, respectively.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting too, because there's a lot in the comparison

1567
01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:07,040
Speaker 1: between two guys that are really smart and beyond their

1568
01:24:07,080 --> 01:24:11,639
Speaker 1: prime and the athleticism and two guys that are writing

1569
01:24:11,680 --> 01:24:16,240
Speaker 1: their prime athletically and gifted athletically, but not quite as

1570
01:24:16,280 --> 01:24:19,479
Speaker 1: good at working together as they were. You'll see because

1571
01:24:19,479 --> 01:24:22,080
Speaker 1: it manifests itself so many different ways when you're talking

1572
01:24:22,120 --> 01:24:24,799
Speaker 1: about NFL and how they play defenses and what offenses

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01:24:24,840 --> 01:24:27,679
Speaker 1: do against him. For instance, Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer

1574
01:24:27,720 --> 01:24:32,720
Speaker 1: would force a quarterback to hold the football because they

1575
01:24:33,520 --> 01:24:35,240
Speaker 1: gave him something that he thought he was going to

1576
01:24:35,280 --> 01:24:36,280
Speaker 1: be able to throw it here, and he says, oh,

1577
01:24:36,280 --> 01:24:39,360
Speaker 1: wait a minute, that's not the coverage they were gonna play.

1578
01:24:39,760 --> 01:24:41,720
Speaker 1: Now what do I got? Now he's got to take

1579
01:24:41,720 --> 01:24:43,840
Speaker 1: a moment to think about where he is going to

1580
01:24:43,880 --> 01:24:46,879
Speaker 1: throw it and where his route answer is for the

1581
01:24:46,920 --> 01:24:49,240
Speaker 1: coverage that they're actually playing, and they've got to be

1582
01:24:49,280 --> 01:24:51,360
Speaker 1: able to do that in a tenth of the time.

1583
01:24:51,400 --> 01:24:55,320
Speaker 1: It took me to explain that in five seconds now

1584
01:24:55,360 --> 01:24:58,200
Speaker 1: with Rap and Mike Edwards. Ostensibly we're just using them

1585
01:24:58,400 --> 01:24:59,920
Speaker 1: because I don't know if they'll be the guys or not.

1586
01:25:01,320 --> 01:25:03,639
Speaker 1: The quarterback may drop back and he may know exactly

1587
01:25:03,720 --> 01:25:07,479
Speaker 1: what coverage they're playing. But athletically it's a tighter throw

1588
01:25:07,560 --> 01:25:10,000
Speaker 1: for him because he's got guys that close those windows

1589
01:25:10,280 --> 01:25:13,680
Speaker 1: because they're better athletes. That's so it's going to be

1590
01:25:13,720 --> 01:25:18,880
Speaker 1: hard to discern for us the difference that may be

1591
01:25:19,200 --> 01:25:22,639
Speaker 1: of you know, may be evident, you know, in how

1592
01:25:22,680 --> 01:25:23,680
Speaker 1: different the defense is.

1593
01:25:24,240 --> 01:25:26,280
Speaker 2: Get back to the phones into Ryan in Toronto.

1594
01:25:26,320 --> 01:25:26,960
Speaker 1: What's up? Ryan?

1595
01:25:28,360 --> 01:25:29,160
Speaker 7: Takers wife?

1596
01:25:29,240 --> 01:25:29,840
Speaker 2: Bow good?

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01:25:31,720 --> 01:25:35,040
Speaker 14: Good? So I'm calling about how madd he had this

1598
01:25:36,439 --> 01:25:41,439
Speaker 14: mind craft monk craft and generally monk draft all playing

1599
01:25:41,479 --> 01:25:44,479
Speaker 14: towards life as he is in the flust round. Mike

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01:25:44,560 --> 01:25:48,920
Speaker 14: question has been Bean has not drafted a white receiver

1601
01:25:49,040 --> 01:25:50,080
Speaker 14: in the plus to their own head?

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01:25:50,800 --> 01:25:50,920
Speaker 6: Right?

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01:25:51,040 --> 01:25:54,200
Speaker 14: And then now we just good as Samuel h signing,

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01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:58,400
Speaker 14: what are they also him actually is drafting a white

1605
01:25:58,439 --> 01:26:03,760
Speaker 14: aslo I knows on a big fan of getting away

1606
01:26:03,800 --> 01:26:07,320
Speaker 14: a heel, but I just don't think to happen. It's happening.

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01:26:07,600 --> 01:26:09,240
Speaker 14: I don't want you to site.

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01:26:09,320 --> 01:26:13,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's largely predicated on It's largely predicated

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01:26:13,840 --> 01:26:16,760
Speaker 2: ryan on what's on the board. When the Bills are

1610
01:26:16,800 --> 01:26:18,880
Speaker 2: on the clock at twenty eight, if there's a run

1611
01:26:18,920 --> 01:26:22,360
Speaker 2: on receiver and the value doesn't match up on Buffalo's

1612
01:26:22,400 --> 01:26:25,400
Speaker 2: board with what's available, they're not taking a wide receiver.

1613
01:26:26,280 --> 01:26:28,880
Speaker 2: They're going to take the player with the best value

1614
01:26:28,880 --> 01:26:32,719
Speaker 2: on their board at the time, regardless of position. That's

1615
01:26:32,760 --> 01:26:35,880
Speaker 2: just kind of the way it goes. We can all

1616
01:26:35,920 --> 01:26:38,439
Speaker 2: say what we'd like to see happen. And the reason

1617
01:26:38,520 --> 01:26:41,040
Speaker 2: I would prefer it, even with the addition of Curtis

1618
01:26:41,080 --> 01:26:46,799
Speaker 2: Samuel is I think the Bills need a big outside receiver,

1619
01:26:47,400 --> 01:26:50,800
Speaker 2: an X receiver that can play that position, and not

1620
01:26:50,840 --> 01:26:54,200
Speaker 2: only that, take over the number one receiving role a

1621
01:26:54,320 --> 01:26:58,559
Speaker 2: year from now, if not sooner from Stefan Diggs, because

1622
01:26:58,600 --> 01:27:02,640
Speaker 2: I think he's at his peak and I don't know

1623
01:27:02,680 --> 01:27:07,000
Speaker 2: how long he's going to stay there. And I'm of

1624
01:27:07,040 --> 01:27:13,360
Speaker 2: the opinion that you take proactive steps before those issues

1625
01:27:13,400 --> 01:27:16,840
Speaker 2: cut crop up, not after you witness them, because then

1626
01:27:16,880 --> 01:27:19,920
Speaker 2: it's too late. And so that's why I still am

1627
01:27:19,960 --> 01:27:23,439
Speaker 2: a proponent of drafting a receiver in a draft where

1628
01:27:23,439 --> 01:27:29,400
Speaker 2: there are arguably seven to eight elite level wide receivers

1629
01:27:29,439 --> 01:27:31,880
Speaker 2: in this class. You have a great class to choose from.

1630
01:27:31,920 --> 01:27:33,840
Speaker 2: You have a chance to answer a position for the

1631
01:27:33,880 --> 01:27:37,160
Speaker 2: next eight years. Number one receiver, which we would all

1632
01:27:37,200 --> 01:27:40,080
Speaker 2: agree is an important position, and a year from now.

1633
01:27:40,160 --> 01:27:42,519
Speaker 2: I don't want to be lamenting the fact that we

1634
01:27:42,680 --> 01:27:45,160
Speaker 2: passed on one when there were plenty to be had

1635
01:27:45,160 --> 01:27:47,000
Speaker 2: in the draft. Now, that's if the board falls the

1636
01:27:47,080 --> 01:27:47,360
Speaker 2: right way.

1637
01:27:47,560 --> 01:27:49,200
Speaker 1: But think about this too. In the last three or

1638
01:27:49,200 --> 01:27:52,240
Speaker 1: four years, we've had Steph Diggs on the squad and

1639
01:27:52,280 --> 01:27:54,560
Speaker 1: he's been the aid number one half a dog, and

1640
01:27:54,680 --> 01:27:57,400
Speaker 1: they and then they drafted gave draft one. In twenty twenty,

1641
01:27:57,439 --> 01:28:00,360
Speaker 1: they drafted Gabe Davis and he's been there ever since.

1642
01:28:00,840 --> 01:28:03,679
Speaker 1: So it's not wasn't a glaring need at any point.

1643
01:28:03,680 --> 01:28:06,080
Speaker 1: And in these drafts now he has drafted a ton

1644
01:28:06,120 --> 01:28:11,160
Speaker 1: of wide receivers, justin Shorter, Khalil Shakir, he drafted, remember

1645
01:28:11,439 --> 01:28:18,400
Speaker 1: Marquez Stevenson, he drafted, Gabe Davis, Isaiah Hodgens, Austin prol

1646
01:28:19,080 --> 01:28:21,320
Speaker 1: So there's been a number of guys he's drafted, but

1647
01:28:21,360 --> 01:28:23,840
Speaker 1: they've never had that glaring guy at number two. You know,

1648
01:28:23,920 --> 01:28:26,840
Speaker 1: this void that they have it seemingly have this year.

1649
01:28:27,240 --> 01:28:29,640
Speaker 2: Gotta take a break here, some final thoughts maybe on

1650
01:28:29,640 --> 01:28:31,599
Speaker 2: the tweet sheet here. When we return on one Bill's Live,

1651
01:28:48,280 --> 01:28:50,400
Speaker 2: do you feel free agency is taking care of the

1652
01:28:50,400 --> 01:28:52,719
Speaker 2: Bills starting positions? We go to the tweet sheet presented

1653
01:28:52,760 --> 01:28:55,240
Speaker 2: by Corgan Moving Systems, official equipment moving company in the

1654
01:28:55,280 --> 01:28:57,400
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills, and Mike says, I don't see a rookie

1655
01:28:57,400 --> 01:29:00,880
Speaker 2: wide receiver being a week one starter, but it's they

1656
01:29:00,880 --> 01:29:03,720
Speaker 2: need to add a guy. Ed says, nah, I think

1657
01:29:03,720 --> 01:29:06,559
Speaker 2: they can add a starting defensive lineman and safety with

1658
01:29:06,720 --> 01:29:10,080
Speaker 2: draft choices. Jeffrey says starters are all currently on the

1659
01:29:10,120 --> 01:29:12,719
Speaker 2: team now. The rest is for depth. The only spot

1660
01:29:12,720 --> 01:29:16,519
Speaker 2: that could improve is wrap. Still good starting safeties out there.

1661
01:29:16,920 --> 01:29:19,040
Speaker 2: So kind of a mixed bag of responses today.

1662
01:29:19,120 --> 01:29:22,120
Speaker 1: That's interesting. I think most people don't believe it's quite done,

1663
01:29:22,120 --> 01:29:25,000
Speaker 1: although they like the ad the advancements they've made.

1664
01:29:25,040 --> 01:29:28,559
Speaker 2: So yeah, we are done for today, but tune in

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01:29:28,600 --> 01:29:31,599
Speaker 2: tomorrow when we have our good friend Greg co Sell

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01:29:31,800 --> 01:29:33,679
Speaker 2: joining us for Friday show. We'll see it once