1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: Oh what time Steve Claspers done done dot time? Oh 2 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 1: hello there, welcome in this Thursday. It is February twentieth. 3 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 1: It is one Meal's Live for a Center, Bike, a 4 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:25,600 Speaker 1: Lot of Health. John Murphy, Steve Tasker Comedy Alive from 5 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: Orchard Park, New York. From the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park, 6 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 1: right in front of the ad Pro Sports Training Center. 7 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,159 Speaker 1: Why are you looking at me like that? You got 8 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: something to say? Go ahead? No, just thinking? You know, 9 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: our jobs are gonna get a little bit easier these days. 10 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: Why's that? Well, you know how these days in February 11 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: or you know, there's not much going on. We're kind 12 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: of waiting. We're gonna leave for the for the combine 13 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: next week, and then we got to wait for the 14 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 1: draft and free agencies. So we got to tick off 15 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: all these little calendar marks. But the season's gonna be 16 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: a little longer from now, we think. Right. The new 17 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: CBA is on the table now, and I mean literally 18 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 1: on the table. That's where we're to discuss today. Let's 19 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 1: tell you what happened, what we learned overnight. NFL owners 20 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: are meaning in New York City today to discuss the 21 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: new CBA, the progress in their labor negotiations Players Association. 22 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 1: It's expected to meet tomorrow at least by phone with 23 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: the top reps of the Players Association. If they get 24 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,959 Speaker 1: an approval of the of the CBA that's on the table, 25 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 1: it'll go to the owner, to the rank and file 26 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: members of the Players Association. There's a lot in it. 27 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: It's a seventeen game schedule, that's expanded playoffs, it's an 28 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: increase in revenue. But here's the important thing, Stephen, we'll 29 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 1: talk about this. We're going to talk about one aspect 30 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: of this in general today. Here's the one thing I 31 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,680 Speaker 1: want folks to remember what we're looking what we're talking about. 32 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 1: We're talking about a brand new and maybe it's just 33 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 1: me being an older guy, it's a brand new collective 34 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: bargaining agreement a full year before the old one expires. 35 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: There was a time, and it's within my lifetime, which 36 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: is considerably long. In yours as well, which is a 37 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: little bit shorter, there was a time when there was 38 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: no way they would agree to a new contract, a 39 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: new CBA collective bargaining agreement before the old one expired. 40 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 1: They would always have a stare down, even when it 41 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: was the golden days of Gene Up John Paul Tagliaboo. 42 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: They didn't always have a stare doown, but many times 43 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: these two sides that wait until the bitter end to 44 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 1: get something settled, and it appears that's not going to 45 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: happen this year. That's a very good development. And that's 46 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 1: what happens when there's so much money at stake, right, 47 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: I think that is what happens. I was part of 48 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: the last player strike, yeah, back in eighty seven, and 49 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: there was one five years before then, in eighty two 50 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: eighty two, and it was it was bad. This is 51 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 1: the time when they had the scab games, you know, 52 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: back in eighty seven, and then the league and then 53 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: the players Union decertified, and then everybody became free, and 54 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: then they didn't have a CBA and players could do 55 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: what they wanted, and they didn't want any part of that. 56 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: So it took them like four or five years to 57 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: get all that stuff straightened out before the union recertified 58 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: and started collectively bargaining again. So that that was the 59 00:02:55,880 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: big push. And now really the only thing the players 60 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: really have to talk about before work stoppage is the 61 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 1: seventeenth game. They're talking about whatever they can get out 62 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: of the seventeenth game that the owners want, and however 63 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 1: bad the owners want it is what's driving this entire scenario. Well, 64 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's fair to say it's the 65 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:21,079 Speaker 1: only thing. It's the biggest thing. I guess there are 66 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: other issues. There's expanded playoffs, right, and look, the seventeen games. 67 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,519 Speaker 1: Even if it's approved, the seventeen games will not take 68 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: place this year, might even not take place next year 69 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: to go in twenty twenty two. But it might take 70 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 1: place next year, but it wouldn't be this year. The 71 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: revenue split is big, right. The players get to forty 72 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: eight percent each year if they say at sixteens games, 73 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 1: and forty eight and a half percent if there's a 74 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: seventeen game schedule. Over the ten years, it's about a 75 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: two and a half or three billion dollars shift. There 76 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 1: are lesson penalties for drug abuse, including marijuana, which is 77 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: something that was important to the players. There's going to 78 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 1: be a lot less hitting going on in m in preseason. 79 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: I'm sorry making me laugh. The marijuana thing seems particularly 80 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: poignant this morning. Yea, with what let's go on? I 81 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 1: don't want to start on that, Okay, Gregory robertson thing. Yeah, 82 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,479 Speaker 1: there's an acclamation period of five days no hitting and 83 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 1: limits on consecutive days at hitting and training camp. These 84 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 1: are all kind of add ons. But what's important is 85 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 1: I think the seventeen game schedule, which is something the 86 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 1: owners are really interested in and they're willing to give 87 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 1: up more money and increase the cap that goes to 88 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: the players, the size of the cap that goes to 89 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: the players, and an increased postseason to make it a 90 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: seventeen per conference postseason, seven teams per conference. One team 91 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 1: gets to buy two through seven plays in the wildcard round, 92 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: three games each conference, and they move on from there. 93 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: I think those are significant and those are the things 94 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: that Yes, the seventeen game schedule is the number one 95 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 1: thing that they're talking about, but the post season, the 96 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,920 Speaker 1: convansionin two I think, oh yeah, I think so too, 97 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 1: And I think it makes a lot of sense when 98 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 1: you're talking about you know what I wish they would 99 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 1: do if they're gonna I would rather instead of going seven. 100 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 1: If you're gonna make choices, I would rather have them 101 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:20,920 Speaker 1: recede the six playoff teams once they get in instead 102 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: of having this, you know, the end like this last year, 103 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: the NFC East winner, who was what eight and eight 104 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: versus nine and seven? They get seated above a team 105 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 1: like whoever, Who's who's eleven and five this last season? Uh, 106 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: and they they get a home game. I think that's 107 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,719 Speaker 1: that shouldn't be the case. I think the best teams 108 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: should get the home The top three teams or the 109 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:47,840 Speaker 1: top yeah, the top teams in the in the league 110 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 1: by record in the regular season should get those home games, 111 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: whether they're a division winner or not. I think that's 112 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 1: more fair. And to just to recede and give the 113 00:05:57,600 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: home field advantage to the team that had the better record, 114 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: I guess yeah, I could see that. Here's the thing 115 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,720 Speaker 1: to keep in mind in this CBA, they're not looking 116 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:08,239 Speaker 1: to make it more fair. They're that's not a priority. 117 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,840 Speaker 1: It's not a priority to make it a better thing 118 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: for fans. What they're looking to do is maximize revenue. 119 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 1: They want to fourteen games in the playoffs, so they 120 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:19,160 Speaker 1: get one more wildcard in each conference, so they get 121 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 1: another weekend of TV. They're going to seventeen games, which 122 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 1: will expand the NFL's television profile. As I've read today, 123 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 1: probably until you know this past weekend until President's Day. 124 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: They want to have the super Bowl the Sunday before 125 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:35,479 Speaker 1: President's Day. You know, all people say they should play 126 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 1: super Bowl on Saturday because everybody is Sunday off. They 127 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 1: do that. If they play the super Bowl on the 128 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: Sunday before President's Day, everybody is Monday off. And by 129 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 1: the way, February is a huge television ratings month. So 130 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,799 Speaker 1: that's why they want to expand themselves into February. Everything 131 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: about this CBA, and I'm not finding fault, this is 132 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 1: the way it always is. But everything about it is 133 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 1: designed to maximize revenue. How much how much money can 134 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:58,040 Speaker 1: we squeeze out of this? How much money can we 135 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 1: squeeze out of that? And that's both sides to players 136 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 1: and owners. They're both they both have that in mind. 137 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 1: I think that's right. And you go back to and 138 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: I'm there's still specifics to be worked out, But you 139 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: said that they're getting an extra percentage for the sixteen 140 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 1: games and then for the seventeenth game. Now is what 141 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: I don't understand is do they get forty eight percent 142 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: if they go seventeen games, they're gonna get forty eight 143 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: and a half percent of the revenue. Split for all 144 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 1: the games, right, not just for the seventeenth game that 145 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: they're adding on. Correct. Okay, So what that increase is, 146 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: it's a percentage and a half from where they're at now. 147 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 1: It's from forty seven to forty eight and a half percent. 148 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: It's am I right, Yeah, it's five billion dollars to 149 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 1: the players that percentage and a half over the life 150 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 1: of the contract, over the life of the CBA. Correct. 151 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: So if it's a ten year deal, that percentage of 152 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: the half works out to five hundred million dollars a year. 153 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 1: That goes into the players pockets or funding their programs 154 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 1: or whatever whatever they do. One and a half percent 155 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: of the NFL of the NFL over ten years is 156 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: five billion bucks. It's a lot of money. It's monopoly money. Yeah, 157 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 1: it's monopoly money. There's only been like twenty twenty there's 158 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 1: looking less than twenty five thousand players in the history 159 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: the game. In one hundred year history the game, there's 160 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: only been twenty five thousand players who've ever played you 161 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: know what I mean, There isn't that many that's been 162 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 1: that many people that have even played it. And think 163 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,840 Speaker 1: of the revenue they're generating and they're trying. They're gonna 164 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 1: trying to slice it up. You know, I'm sitting here 165 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 1: as an old guy looking for a knee replacement, right 166 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:44,320 Speaker 1: and in all these other guys, and you're thinking, Wow, 167 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 1: what how different is it these days? It's differently, you know. 168 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: And and I'll tell you what they're close to agreeing, 169 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 1: because like I told you just before we came on 170 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:58,079 Speaker 1: the air, the owners don't get together for nothing, right, 171 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,839 Speaker 1: Those billionaires, those got they're busy, and they got more 172 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 1: things to think. As as big as it is, they 173 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 1: got more things to think about their NFL franchise. And 174 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 1: yet they're all getting together to talk this thing over. 175 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: It's pretty big. So what's going on today? All thirty 176 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 1: two owners are scheduled to meet today in New York 177 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,719 Speaker 1: City for an update on the current talks. Sources say 178 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 1: they could vote on whether they move ahead with it. 179 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:21,560 Speaker 1: Three quarters of the owners have to approve a CBA 180 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 1: in order to be ratified. They scheduled the meeting yesterday, 181 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 1: so it's not going to call it an emergency meeting. 182 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: But basically they got on the phone yesterday and said, hey, 183 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 1: come here tomorrow. We're talking about the CBA. The players 184 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: get a vote too, and it's unclear whether they'll do 185 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:40,080 Speaker 1: that this week. The Players Association Team reps and Executive 186 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 1: Council Council was planning a Friday meeting in Washington. Instead, 187 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: they're gonna hold a conference call Friday instead of face 188 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,199 Speaker 1: to face. If two thirds of the NFL player reps 189 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 1: approve the deal, it goes to the next stage, in 190 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:55,839 Speaker 1: which all NFL players vote and a simple majority would 191 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 1: be required to approve. If there aren't enough votes to 192 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: approve the deal Friday, source to say, there's a chance 193 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 1: the current proposal will stall and negotiations might not pick up. 194 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:06,839 Speaker 1: So here's the deal, here's what's driving it. From the 195 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: owner's side, they want to get this deal done now. 196 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 1: They want to have this deal in place by mid March, 197 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 1: March eighteenth, the start of the new league year. It 198 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: looks like the owners are moving ahead and doing that today. 199 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 1: We'll see if we get word on that today, if 200 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: they approve it today. But what does the union do? 201 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: What does the Players Association do? First, the Executive Committee 202 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: needs a two third vote, and then all the players 203 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,439 Speaker 1: have to vote. If they don't do it, there's a 204 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:33,319 Speaker 1: chance it waits until next offseason, because March eighteenth started 205 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:35,199 Speaker 1: the new league year, is an important day. They want 206 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:37,959 Speaker 1: to get this done so they can begin teaving negotiations. 207 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: Under the new contract. They could expand their postseason next 208 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: year that quickly if they get it done by March eighteenth. 209 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 1: If they don't, it waits a year. That's the driving 210 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,440 Speaker 1: force for the owners. Do the players share that sense 211 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:53,680 Speaker 1: of urgency. I don't know. I go back to the 212 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 1: discussion I had. We had Lorenzo Alexander walks in here 213 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: last fall and he isn't member the executive Executive Committee, 214 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 1: and I said, hey, Lorenzo, looks like a CBA's coming 215 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: along hunt and he said, well, the right people are 216 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: telling you that's the case, but I don't know if 217 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 1: that's what we feel. In other words, there's a difference 218 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,840 Speaker 1: between what the league is pushing, what the owners are pushing, 219 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 1: and what they're putting out to the media, and what 220 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 1: players think. And I consider Lorenzo a pretty good source 221 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 1: on the way players think. And his indication was that's 222 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 1: what they want you to believe, that they're this close. 223 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 1: I don't know that we're that close. Now. I'm not 224 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 1: saying it won't happen but I think it's important to 225 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: note that they have to have a two thirds vote 226 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 1: of players by March eighteenth, and then well, actually they 227 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:34,319 Speaker 1: have to have two thirds vote to get it to 228 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 1: the entire player membership, and they've got to vote to approve, 229 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: and they may not. You know, I think we're a 230 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: little I think this is a little bit ahead of 231 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:44,839 Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, thirty two player reps, you got to 232 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,199 Speaker 1: get two thirds of the vote to say, okay, we're 233 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 1: going to take it to the rank and file the 234 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 1: other seventeen hundred guys. And those seventeen hundred guys, all 235 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:57,079 Speaker 1: you need is, you know, eight hundred and fifty one 236 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 1: Yeah votes, just the majority, simple majority, and and it 237 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:04,839 Speaker 1: will fly through. So but I think usually, and I 238 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: don't know, I haven't it's been a while since we've 239 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 1: gone through one of these things. When they executive council 240 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:12,840 Speaker 1: of the players associations as guys, this is a good deal, 241 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: they all say, okay, we'll take it, and they leave 242 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 1: the business end of it to their executive council. So yeah, 243 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: we'll have to wait and see. But it is interesting 244 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 1: to think about for US fans and for you and me. 245 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: Seventeen game schedule. You're gonna have nine home, eight away, 246 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 1: or eight or eight away in nine home, or maybe 247 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 1: there's a neutral so maybe there's a neutral side game. 248 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 1: Maybe they're gonna go that route. Who knows. And again, 249 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 1: they have a year or two. Even if they approve 250 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 1: this now in the next three or four weeks, they 251 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:43,079 Speaker 1: have at least a year to figure it out that 252 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 1: this will not be for the twenty twenty season. Yeah, 253 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 1: it's not gonna be for this year. Although the playoff 254 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 1: expansion would be right And if you're if you're wondering 255 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:55,559 Speaker 1: how that affects me, there's some guys who have come out, 256 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: come out and said, listen, here's what would have happened 257 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 1: the last ten years or whatever. In the last ten years. 258 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,079 Speaker 1: If they would have had this expanded playoff thing, seven 259 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 1: instead of seven teams instead of six teams per conference, 260 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 1: there would have been five teams who had ten wins 261 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 1: who did not make the playoffs who would have made 262 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 1: the playoffs. There would have been nine teams who won 263 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 1: nine games who did not make the playoffs would have 264 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 1: made the playoffs. And unfortunately, and here's where this thing 265 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:27,559 Speaker 1: starts to fall off, the ledge six teams who only 266 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 1: won eight games would have been in the playoffs, where 267 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: otherwise it would have been out. Now, otherwise speaking, there's 268 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: been some bad teams in the playoffs. We've seen that 269 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 1: as well. We saw this last year when the struggles 270 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: of the NFC East were so widely followed. But it happens. 271 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 1: And that's why my take is to change the playoffs. 272 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 1: Don't put more teams in received them once they get in, 273 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:53,320 Speaker 1: but you wouldn't have an extra game. No, they're trying 274 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 1: to get it to a wild card weekend. They have 275 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: three games on Saturday, three games on Sunday, more viewers, 276 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 1: more money. Oh yeah, so reseating doesn't Maybe it's more fair. 277 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 1: As I said a couple of minutes ago, they're not 278 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 1: looking to make this more fair. They're looking to maximize revenue, 279 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: right they want. And let's face it, two at the 280 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 1: end of the season, when this when the when the 281 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:15,199 Speaker 1: league crescendos into the playoffs, that's when the biggest appetite 282 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 1: for these teams is and people and right now people 283 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 1: are going, ah, you know, you got the XFL. We're 284 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 1: kind of here and you're watching that and we just 285 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: finished with the super Bowl and we're not I don't 286 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 1: know if I'm ready for you know what I mean, 287 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'll tell you what when all 288 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 1: the yeah, the social media people are all the of 289 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 1: course the positive ones stay quiet, but you know they've 290 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: been getting crushed on social media about I don't know 291 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: if I want to watch nine hours at that time 292 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 1: of year. Everybody does. Everybody's got everybody's got a huge 293 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 1: appetite for these playoff games because you've been working towards 294 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 1: it for so long. Everybody's gonna be watching it that 295 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: that time of year. We can't get enough of it. 296 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: So I think it's gonna play pretty well. When they 297 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: put three playoff games on Saturday and three playoff games 298 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: on Sunday, it'll play. It's gonna be fine. So for 299 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 1: whatever negatives, it sounds like now, when your team actually 300 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 1: squeaks in there's a seventh spot, you're gonna be pretty 301 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 1: happy about it. I think. So that's our Twitter poll. 302 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 1: Takes us right to our Twitter poll today. It's part 303 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: of the new CBA proposal. Yes, the seventeen game regular 304 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: season schedule. We don't know how that's going to play 305 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 1: out yet. It won't be next season, but as early 306 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 1: as next season. If this CBA is approved in the 307 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:25,640 Speaker 1: next three weeks or so, and it may come sooner 308 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 1: than that, we could have a fourteen team playoff format 309 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 1: in the NFL seven in each conference. Our question, what's 310 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 1: your biggest takeaway from the fourteen team playoff format? What 311 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 1: do you think the upshot will be? We got a 312 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 1: Twitter pole. We got four hundred thirty votes in so far, 313 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 1: and here's how you're voting. So far. Fifty two percent 314 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 1: say love it more. Playoff football is fun to watch. 315 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: People could have are answer right there, Steve, twenty nine 316 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 1: percent say why change the current format is just fine, 317 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: sixteen percent say the bars too low, more average teams 318 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 1: will make the playoffs, and three percent of something else. 319 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 1: In my what's your takeaway from a fourteen team playoff format? 320 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 1: More than half of you say more playoff football is 321 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:09,520 Speaker 1: more fun to watch? And if we add parts one 322 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 1: and two together, what's at thirty forty five? Forty six 323 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: percent of you pretty close say why change the current 324 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 1: playoff format is fine? And say bar's too low. If 325 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 1: you put an extra team in there, you're gonna have, 326 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: as Steve said, eight and eight teams making the postseason. 327 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 1: The biggest criticism has also been that there's only gonna 328 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: be one team in each conference. The number one seed 329 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 1: in each conference is gonna get a buy, nobody else will, 330 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 1: and teams with a buy do better in the playoffs. 331 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 1: So you're almost greasing the skids for one team over 332 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: everybody else. Hey, yeah, I agree. If you had eight 333 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 1: teams in, then everybody has to play and there's nobody advantage. 334 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 1: You gotta win your games, you get home field and 335 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 1: all of that. But yet then you get half the 336 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 1: league is in the playoffs, and then it becomes, yeah, 337 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 1: I think the bar's too low to get in. Then 338 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 1: if you got every team, every half the team and 339 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 1: the conference are in. Two teams from every division, So 340 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:06,440 Speaker 1: to speak out, I've always thought the NHL was too easy. 341 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,359 Speaker 1: When you get sixteen of thirty two teams or thirty 342 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,919 Speaker 1: thirty teams in the NHL, more than half of them 343 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 1: make the playoffs. I always thought that was too easy. 344 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: You gotta be better than half the other teams to 345 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: make the playoffs, right yea? You also, you know, you 346 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 1: almost in that sport, you almost play your safe. You 347 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 1: play your way out of the playoffs, not into them, 348 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 1: you know, I mean you have to you have to, Yeah, 349 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 1: you have you have to stink, right, I mean, And 350 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:35,359 Speaker 1: so that's the worst part about it, because if you 351 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 1: get at in the football, in the football end of it, 352 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,720 Speaker 1: then you're gonna nothing change. The regular season becomes meaningless, 353 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:43,959 Speaker 1: and these guys don't want to play meaningless games. How 354 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 1: about the number one seed that you mentioned though, that's 355 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:47,960 Speaker 1: that's a pretty good prize to be the one team 356 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:50,440 Speaker 1: that only plays two games to get to the super 357 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: Bowl instead of three. That's a that's a big reward 358 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 1: to be the number one seed. It's huge. But is 359 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 1: it Is it too big a reward? Now? I don't know. 360 00:17:58,000 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: You don't have anybody else that's going to be there 361 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 1: to chow as you like to this year with the 362 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 1: Jets or with the with the Patriots and the Chiefs 363 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:06,320 Speaker 1: and not the Patriots, who got who got the buy 364 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens and the Chiefs. You know, the Ravens 365 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 1: go out in the first round or in the divisional 366 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:17,440 Speaker 1: round the first game they played, and you know they 367 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:20,720 Speaker 1: got the you know, that wasn't a big enough advantage 368 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 1: for them, but that you know, so I don't know, 369 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: I don't know. It's hard to say. But man, that 370 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: bye week for just one team seems overly rewarding for 371 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: the number one seed. To me, I have a problem. 372 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:35,960 Speaker 1: That's my only problem with the whole scenario. You got 373 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:38,360 Speaker 1: one team in each conference that gets an advantage over 374 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 1: every other team in the playoffs. Yeah, well they're moving 375 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 1: that way. Fourteen team playoff format. We want to hear 376 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: from you. What is your take on the fourteen team 377 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 1: playoff format? Give us a call. Pall nines open eight 378 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 1: o three five fifty toll free one eight eight eight 379 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:54,479 Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. Sending a tweet, we can 380 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:57,360 Speaker 1: read him on the tweet sheet or voting our Twitter poll. 381 00:18:57,440 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: Go to one Bill's Live to do all that. We're 382 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 1: here untill three. Got a couple of good guests coming 383 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:04,159 Speaker 1: up today. We got a guest at twelve thirty bottom 384 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: of this hour, Tony Pauline, who's written extensively about the 385 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:09,720 Speaker 1: CBA also as a draft analysts. We're going to the 386 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 1: combine next week. Tony will have a few prospects to 387 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:15,239 Speaker 1: watch at the combine. At one o'clock. Charlie Yuke, who 388 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,399 Speaker 1: as a producer for NFL Network. He's in charge of 389 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: producing next week's coverage of the Combine brand new format 390 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 1: this week of the next week at the Combine nighttime workouts. 391 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 1: What does that mean for NFL network. We'll talk with 392 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 1: Charlie Yuk about that coming up at two one o'clock today. 393 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 1: So I got a busy day today her on the 394 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:34,199 Speaker 1: show eight three five fifty toll free one eight eight 395 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:37,879 Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty owners meeting today talking 396 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:40,399 Speaker 1: about the new CBA players will get together on the 397 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 1: phone anyway tomorrow to talk about it. Give us your thoughts. 398 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: Let's take a call here from Taylor in Kitchener, Ontario. 399 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 1: Hello Taylor, welcome here on the air with let's go ahead. 400 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 1: Hi Taylor, Hey, So I had a quick question about 401 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 1: the increase for the increasing money of the forty eight 402 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:03,360 Speaker 1: forty eight a half percent. Does that extra dollars? Does 403 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: that raise the league minimum for players or does that 404 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 1: get the cap? Not automatically, it doesn't raise the minimum. 405 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 1: They've got to negotiate that in and for everybody who's 406 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 1: asking what a minimum is. The teams have a salary cap. 407 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 1: You can't spend more than this much every year, and 408 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:20,200 Speaker 1: with given the parameters that they put on it, there 409 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 1: is also a salary floor, they have to expend at 410 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: least a certain percentage of their cap in order to 411 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 1: be compliant. And that and the players now are are 412 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:36,640 Speaker 1: fighting to raise that floor as well. So teams can't tank, right. 413 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 1: It makes it more difficult to tank. They're easy gonna 414 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:40,880 Speaker 1: they have to blow a lot of money to do it. 415 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 1: Um so the players. It keeps a team from taking 416 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 1: a year off financially. In the new CBA, which is 417 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 1: on the table now, NFL minimum salaries would rise by 418 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 1: about twenty five percent. Minimum salary for rookies next year 419 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:01,399 Speaker 1: twenty twenty under the old CBA was scheduled to be 420 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 1: five hundred and ten thousand dollars. Under the new CBA, 421 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:06,879 Speaker 1: the figure would rise to six hundred forty thousand. For 422 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 1: players with one year experience, it would rise from five 423 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five thousand dollars a year to about 424 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 1: seven hundred thirty and of course it graduates every year. 425 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 1: So there are provisions in the new CBA to raise 426 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 1: a minimum salary to make sure that that forty eight 427 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 1: forty eight and a half percent wherever they wind up 428 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 1: with of the revenue gets to the players. That's why 429 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 1: they would raise the or why they would raise the 430 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:29,879 Speaker 1: salary cap number, right, and it also goes the minimum 431 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 1: salary to players, and it's also a minimum spin to 432 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 1: the owners. That those are separate issues aside from the 433 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:40,640 Speaker 1: percentage split. So everything's on the table and it's all separate, 434 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 1: and they've probably they've hashed through this over the last 435 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:49,120 Speaker 1: you know, seven months or whenever they started speaking. Interesting, okay, 436 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,399 Speaker 1: with the seventeen games, with that at an ox for 437 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:58,959 Speaker 1: wildcard spot done and if so, I think that divisional games, 438 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:00,679 Speaker 1: they might need to tone down on the importance of 439 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 1: divisional games or how many of you play because you 440 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,360 Speaker 1: have a weak division or a strong division. It's really 441 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,520 Speaker 1: going to impact the seating. Yeah, it does. I mean, 442 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,160 Speaker 1: that's what we're talking about the expansion of the playoff 443 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: format from six teams for a conference to seventeams for 444 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,959 Speaker 1: a conference, and that that could happen as soon as 445 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 1: next year. But they can do that for a year 446 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:22,640 Speaker 1: or two, have a seventeen seven team team, seven teams 447 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: in the postseason in the AFC next year, and then 448 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 1: wait another year or two to get seventeen regular season games. Yeah, 449 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,199 Speaker 1: that that could happen next year. Yeah, I don't know. 450 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:35,719 Speaker 1: What how would that weaken the division races? Don't I'm 451 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,359 Speaker 1: not quite sure I understand that. What are you saying, Well, 452 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:43,879 Speaker 1: let's say the old AFC East where the Jets, the Dolphins, 453 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 1: and the Bills were not very competitive, and let's say 454 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:49,439 Speaker 1: you have one of those teams that makes nine and seven. 455 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 1: I'm just wondering how that works because you have to 456 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 1: play each other twice, and if you're in a weak division, 457 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,440 Speaker 1: you're much more likely to get that extra wildcard game. 458 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,720 Speaker 1: And you know you play a stronger division, just a 459 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,040 Speaker 1: level of competition would be a little bit different, right, 460 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: And yeah, in a down year, for instance, the NFC 461 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,280 Speaker 1: this year, the NFC East this year was a down division. 462 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 1: They had those teams struggled to win games outside of 463 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 1: their division. And you're gonna have a division like that. 464 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 1: And that's one of the things I was just talking 465 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,880 Speaker 1: about a moment ago. I wish that once you get 466 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: into the play, if you're a division winner and it's 467 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:23,440 Speaker 1: a weak division, you get in with an eight and 468 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 1: eight record, Now, then you should recede the structure of 469 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: that tournament. Those same seven teams get in, or same 470 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:36,879 Speaker 1: six teams would get in, but given their regular season record, 471 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: they would go from one to six all over again. 472 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:40,720 Speaker 1: So the number one seed would probably stay the same, 473 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: but the three, four or the four, five, and six 474 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:47,359 Speaker 1: seeds probably would shuffle around a little bit, particularly in 475 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,440 Speaker 1: the year like we had this last year. The Bills 476 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,879 Speaker 1: were a ten and six team, and they went and 477 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 1: there was you know, and and there was division winners 478 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 1: that were nine and seven. So the division winner would 479 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:01,359 Speaker 1: host a better a team with a better regular season record, 480 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:05,199 Speaker 1: and I think that should go away. I agree with that. Yeah, 481 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 1: whendn't that Bay mean again, what are you saying a 482 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 1: division winner was nine and seven hosting a team that's 483 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:12,159 Speaker 1: ten and six is wrong? I think the ten and 484 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 1: six teams should have the home game. I don't know. 485 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 1: Doesn't it indicate your division was tougher to win even 486 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: with nine wins? So what if you coast through a 487 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 1: bad division and get ten or eleven wins and somebody 488 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 1: else has to go to war with the teams in 489 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,400 Speaker 1: their division winds up with nine wins. I don't mind 490 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 1: putting I don't mind putting that into into the mix. 491 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 1: You can strength the schedule or what have you, but 492 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: certainly you got to go with it would be the 493 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,439 Speaker 1: overall strength of your schedule. So if you're like you 494 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:39,720 Speaker 1: can say the NFC East this year was a tough 495 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:41,879 Speaker 1: division to win. Well, they did it at nine and 496 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: seven and none of the other teams were better than 497 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:48,120 Speaker 1: nine and seven. Yeah, that to me, that didn't fly. 498 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 1: I don't know. We can talk about that. We're ta 499 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 1: take it. Yeah, you can take anything you want into consideration, 500 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,919 Speaker 1: but I think they should be reseated. And maybe you 501 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 1: can take strength of schedule. That would divisional strength of schedule, 502 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 1: but that would re if you received that really makes 503 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 1: divisions obsolete. They Yeah, you know, if you want, maybe 504 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 1: they should maybe they should be. Well, I don't know, 505 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:14,400 Speaker 1: why would you play somebody twice if it doesn't matter twice? Right, 506 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:16,159 Speaker 1: So who are gonna play? How are you gonna you 507 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 1: can set up a schedule at two teams? I mean, 508 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 1: I know, I don't think you want a thirty or 509 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,160 Speaker 1: a sixteen team conference going head to head. I think 510 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 1: the division format is fine. Yeah, I go you hope man? Yeah? 511 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,880 Speaker 1: What a round robin? Wow? I don't know about that 512 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,359 Speaker 1: all right. When we come back, Tony Pauline will talk 513 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:34,400 Speaker 1: with us his view of the CBA and about next 514 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,399 Speaker 1: week's combine. Tony Pauline's gonna join us. He is a 515 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,920 Speaker 1: long time NFL observer, joining us UH to talk about 516 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:44,359 Speaker 1: the draft next and next week's combine, and about the 517 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 1: CBA update. Tony Pauline Pro Football Networks NFL Draft analysts 518 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 1: when we return One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health 519 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 1: from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. This is Buffalo 520 00:25:54,320 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Good afternoon. Welcome, It's One Bill's Live. John 521 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,159 Speaker 1: Murphy's team tasker here until three today, talking about a 522 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,880 Speaker 1: lot of NFL news today and the biggest news deals 523 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 1: with owners meeting in New York City today on a 524 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:22,439 Speaker 1: new collective bargaining agreement. Owners may vote today to approve 525 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: a new CBA players. They'll have to look at it. 526 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 1: The player reps will vote. They need two thirds to 527 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,200 Speaker 1: pass it on to the regular rank and file membership. 528 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:31,719 Speaker 1: Joining us on the line right now, a guy who 529 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,159 Speaker 1: covers us pretty extensively. He's also a big guy in 530 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,240 Speaker 1: the draft. We'll talk with both issues with him. He 531 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 1: is the host of a draft analyst podcast, pro Flipall 532 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,959 Speaker 1: Networks NFL draft analyst Tony Pauline on the line with us. 533 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,400 Speaker 1: Tony John Murphy's team tasker up here in Buffalo. Thanks 534 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 1: coming on, Thanks for having me again. Hey, CBA, let's 535 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:51,840 Speaker 1: talk about that first. Owners are meeting today, players will 536 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 1: talk on the phone tomorrow and maybe send it to 537 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 1: the rank and file. Why do I get the feeling 538 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 1: that the players might not be ready to be rushed 539 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 1: into this area like this? What do you think? I 540 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 1: think you're right, but I think the NFLPA is pushing 541 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 1: for the In fact, I was told just that the 542 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:11,120 Speaker 1: NFLPA has sent out memorandum to their membership basically at 543 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,719 Speaker 1: this point in time, exhorting them to, uh, you know, 544 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: once the NFLPA agrees and says it's it's a green 545 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,360 Speaker 1: light to go ahead with the deal that the owners proposed. 546 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:23,200 Speaker 1: So there is a lot of trepidation on the side 547 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,760 Speaker 1: of the players, but on the side of the representatives, 548 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 1: the heads of the NFLPA. You know, as someone told 549 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,439 Speaker 1: me and I reported my podcast, the owners are going 550 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: to get what the owners want, and there's I think 551 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 1: there's a fear that if they say no, the next 552 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,640 Speaker 1: there won't be any concession from the owners on any 553 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 1: major concessions, and the next proposal could actually have less 554 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 1: for the players, So I would agree with you, especially 555 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: with the seventeen game season and talking with people, a 556 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,679 Speaker 1: lot of them are you know, either they're kind of lukewarm, 557 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,680 Speaker 1: if not against the seventeenth regular season game because of 558 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 1: the toad's going to take on them, you know, the 559 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 1: fear of injuries and things like that, or they don't 560 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:05,240 Speaker 1: want to get injured. But I'm told that the NFLPA 561 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:09,679 Speaker 1: is really pushing to get the membership to agree to 562 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,280 Speaker 1: a deal, you know, once they give the green light. 563 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 1: I'll tell you why I have that feeling. One of 564 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,640 Speaker 1: the reasons why, anyway, Tony is Lorenzo Alexander just retired 565 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,680 Speaker 1: linebacker here. He was on our show a month and 566 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 1: a half ago. He's on the executive committee of the NFLPA, 567 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: And when I happen to mention to him one day, like, hey, 568 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,119 Speaker 1: it looks like we're getting a new CBA this offseason, 569 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,399 Speaker 1: he basically told me not so fast. There are some 570 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 1: issues here. I just got the sense that there's a 571 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:34,919 Speaker 1: I know why. I get why the owners are in 572 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 1: a hurry to make this deal and get it done 573 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 1: by Marching teenth. I don't know if there's the same 574 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 1: urgency on the side of the players, even the members 575 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 1: of the Executive Committee for that matter. What I was 576 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: told was that one point of urgency, believe it or not, 577 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 1: is Eric Winston, who is one of the player representatives. 578 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 1: His term is done at the beginning of the league year. 579 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 1: And someone told me that they want to get a 580 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:58,680 Speaker 1: deal done because once Eric Winston's term is done, the 581 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 1: new guy who replaces Eric Winston may not want the 582 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 1: same thing. So there is believe it or not, And 583 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: this was confirmed by several people I spoke with, because 584 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 1: I didn't believe it when I first heard it. But 585 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 1: the person who replaces Eric Winston, they may have to 586 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 1: start from scratch, right as far as negotiations are concern 587 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 1: So they want to get they want to get something 588 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,560 Speaker 1: done before Winston's term is complete. It was very difficult 589 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 1: to digest that, but it was told to me by 590 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 1: multiple people. Yeah, and it makes good sense because it's 591 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 1: right that the negotiations would have to go back to 592 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 1: square one. Not onely would it have to go back 593 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 1: to square one. They would have to elect somebody new 594 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 1: and go through the entire process of doing that before 595 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 1: they could even start up again. So yeah, I think 596 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 1: the clock is ticking on that. What is the significance, Paul, 597 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 1: I mean Tony about the owner's meeting in New York. 598 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,080 Speaker 1: That seems to me a little bit significant on their part. 599 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:55,600 Speaker 1: Absolutely it. Listen, someone told me last night. I reported 600 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 1: all along, the hopes was to get a deal done 601 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 1: by the time the combine is over. Someone told me 602 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 1: that they feel the owners are going to meet, it'll 603 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:06,040 Speaker 1: be passed down to the players. Someone said, don't be 604 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:10,280 Speaker 1: surprised if they come to an agreement by Monday. And again, 605 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,959 Speaker 1: not only because the owners are meeting and the players 606 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 1: will talk about it, but what I said previously, the 607 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 1: NFLPA is already, from what I'm told, has sent out 608 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 1: a memorandum exhorting the players that if we accept the deal, 609 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,719 Speaker 1: go ahead with it, just agree with it. What is 610 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 1: the motivation for the players? Well, I think I know 611 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 1: the answer is obviously money. There's going to be more 612 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 1: money under the salary cap and an increase in the 613 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 1: percentage of the salary cap. But is that a big 614 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,440 Speaker 1: enough increase to play seventeen games and take all the 615 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,080 Speaker 1: other things in the new CBA. I think if you 616 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,720 Speaker 1: talk to most players they would probably say no. I mean, 617 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:45,640 Speaker 1: because that seventeenth game is going to be such wear 618 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,720 Speaker 1: and tear on their bodies and the risk of additional injury. 619 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: You know, most of them are gonna we'll tell you no. 620 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 1: But again, as I reported, you know in my podcast 621 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 1: earliest week, the belief is the owners are going to 622 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 1: get what they want. And you know, if the players 623 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,360 Speaker 1: say no, or they don't get the guarantees that I'm 624 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,960 Speaker 1: told they're looking for in the contract, you know, there's 625 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 1: the possibility, as I said, the owners will just keep 626 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 1: more seventh round picks and undraft the free agents on 627 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,880 Speaker 1: the roster. Or is there any what a kind of 628 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,400 Speaker 1: the concessions that are off the radar for most people. 629 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 1: I mean we're talking, we've we've talked about going from 630 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 1: forty seven to forty eight and a half percent of 631 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 1: the gross revenues. What are some other issues that are 632 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 1: under the radar for most fans. What I was told 633 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 1: the initial proposal or what the players wanted, was they 634 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:36,560 Speaker 1: wanted more guarantees for the veteran players. You know, as 635 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 1: we saw with the hard seller cap, they want more 636 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 1: money geared towards the guys who are going to be 637 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,840 Speaker 1: in the league. That I was told did not come 638 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,760 Speaker 1: to fruition, and there were some people who, like I said, 639 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:51,600 Speaker 1: say they may be kneecapping themselves, the veterans, because the 640 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 1: owners will look at those good look at those guarantees 641 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 1: and say, why would I want to pay a second 642 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 1: or a third tier veteran three or four million dollars 643 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 1: a year when I can keep the seventh rounds raft 644 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:06,240 Speaker 1: pick at a tenth of that cost. Right with Tony Pauline, 645 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,720 Speaker 1: he is Pro Football Networks Draft Dannels is talking about 646 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 1: the new CBA. Tony, the main feature, the notable part, 647 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,720 Speaker 1: among others, is a seventeen game regular season schedule. It's 648 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 1: important to note that would not take place in twenty twenty, 649 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 1: and you write and talk about on your podcast, maybe 650 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,400 Speaker 1: not even in twenty twenty one. Huh yeah, they may 651 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 1: push it. It's not in stone yet that if they 652 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,360 Speaker 1: agree it's gonna be twenty twenty, it's gonna will start 653 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,600 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. There are some linguistics that got 654 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 1: to be figured out. And you know, again you're talking 655 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,520 Speaker 1: about a seventeen game schedule. You know it's a whole 656 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 1: new log orithm with the setting up the schedule, because 657 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 1: some teams are gonna have eight home games. Other teams 658 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,720 Speaker 1: are gonna have nine home games. How many neutral site 659 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,080 Speaker 1: games you're gonna have, how many more overseas games you're 660 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:51,800 Speaker 1: gonna have. Listen, as I said months ago, the owners 661 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:56,080 Speaker 1: want the seventeen games schedule not only because they want 662 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,680 Speaker 1: that extra regular season game, but they want a reason 663 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,000 Speaker 1: to push the super Bowl to President's Day weekend. Because 664 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,320 Speaker 1: when you push that the super Bowl back to President's 665 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,920 Speaker 1: Day weekend, guess what everybody had or most people have 666 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:11,400 Speaker 1: the Monday after the super Bowl off. And that's what 667 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,680 Speaker 1: their their goals. It's not just to have that extra 668 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 1: game in the regular season, but it gives them a 669 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,920 Speaker 1: reason to push the super Bowl back another week and 670 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 1: then it's smack dab in the middle of a three 671 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,560 Speaker 1: day weekend. And they're driven by by TV right by 672 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:27,320 Speaker 1: ratings in February, those are that's a big rating month, right. Well, 673 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,520 Speaker 1: it's kind of it's kind of it kind of extends it. Yeah, 674 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:34,239 Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's basically after the super Bowl. I mean, 675 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 1: the sports Seaton is dead. You got the regular season hockey, 676 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:40,400 Speaker 1: regular season basketball. But you know, basically it just keeps 677 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:45,000 Speaker 1: it going. It's just it keeps the league in the 678 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 1: forefront for a longer period of time. How long will 679 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:49,880 Speaker 1: this CBA? How long is it going to be on 680 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:51,640 Speaker 1: the table? I mean, how are they looking for a 681 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,520 Speaker 1: ten year extension? Five year extension? How long is this 682 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,040 Speaker 1: CBA gonna last? Because some of the revenues that they're 683 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,080 Speaker 1: sighting would be spread over the life of the deal. 684 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:05,160 Speaker 1: How long is the deal? Yeah? I was told anywhere 685 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,480 Speaker 1: from five to eight years. That's not being confirmed yet, 686 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:11,319 Speaker 1: but that's what people have told me. Hey, Tony, what 687 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:15,440 Speaker 1: about the postseason plans? And it sounds like they can 688 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,200 Speaker 1: do that whether or not they have a seventeen game 689 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:20,720 Speaker 1: regular season schedule, right, they can expand postseason to include 690 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:24,360 Speaker 1: seven teams per per conference, right, deven teams per conference 691 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,400 Speaker 1: and only one team is going to get a buy 692 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,799 Speaker 1: And what will happen is that first weekend of the 693 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,959 Speaker 1: playoff games, you're gonna have three games on Saturday, three 694 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,279 Speaker 1: games on Sunday. Again, more TV revenue because you're going 695 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,319 Speaker 1: to have that extra game. You're gonna get an extra 696 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:41,560 Speaker 1: network involved, and it just means more television revue for 697 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,160 Speaker 1: the owners. What's going to happen if if the owners 698 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,120 Speaker 1: come out of their meeting today and say that's it, 699 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:48,040 Speaker 1: We'll take the deal that's on the table. If they'll 700 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:52,040 Speaker 1: agree to it, then how fast will it moves? As 701 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,640 Speaker 1: I was told, the players who are gonna do players 702 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:56,800 Speaker 1: or the NFLPA is going to meet about it this weekend. 703 00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,839 Speaker 1: They're going to talk to the players. I mean, from 704 00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:02,759 Speaker 1: an optimistic point of view. As someone told me last night, 705 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:06,759 Speaker 1: don't be surprised if you hear Monday that there's some 706 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,200 Speaker 1: sort of agreement or they've come to some sort of 707 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:13,520 Speaker 1: you know, it looks like things are going to will 708 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,560 Speaker 1: be agreed upon, and there's a possibility that the agreement 709 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,720 Speaker 1: could actually come to fruition before the combine even starts, 710 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,320 Speaker 1: where two weeks ago the hopes were, the nervous hopes 711 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,640 Speaker 1: were there's got to be agreement dumb by the time 712 00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,400 Speaker 1: the combine's over. And Tony, can you kind of summarize 713 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:32,920 Speaker 1: the other I guess minor issues, you know, player practice 714 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:38,440 Speaker 1: issues in contact and training camp and even marijuana punishment 715 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,400 Speaker 1: that are also part of the new CBA that apparently 716 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,440 Speaker 1: are somewhat important to the players, right Yeah, I mean, 717 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,120 Speaker 1: the only thing that I've really heard because again, you know, 718 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:49,840 Speaker 1: it's slowly leaking out and No, there was no transparency 719 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,000 Speaker 1: as far as what the entire proposal said. The only 720 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,160 Speaker 1: real thing that I heard is a cut back on 721 00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:58,360 Speaker 1: the preseason games, whether they cut back to three preseason 722 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,279 Speaker 1: games and ultimately two preseason games. But you're gonna have 723 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,560 Speaker 1: a lot less preseason games. Well, you're gonna have less 724 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,080 Speaker 1: preseason games. I know about a lot less. Yeah, I'm 725 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,319 Speaker 1: on board with that. Tony Pauline, our guessie is Pro 726 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,439 Speaker 1: Football Network's NFL draft analysts. Let me switch gears, Tony. 727 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,120 Speaker 1: We're gonna be at the combine next week. You'll be 728 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:17,080 Speaker 1: there at twenty two. First round, the Buffalo Bills edge 729 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:20,160 Speaker 1: rusher or a wide receiver? What would you suggest and 730 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:21,880 Speaker 1: who are some of the names we should consider for 731 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:23,839 Speaker 1: the Bills down there, you know, in the bottom third 732 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:25,680 Speaker 1: of the first round. Yeah, I think they're in a 733 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,719 Speaker 1: good position. I think they're in a better position for 734 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,960 Speaker 1: a wide receiver than they are for an edge rusher. 735 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,879 Speaker 1: I mean, if you're looking for you a true four 736 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:37,879 Speaker 1: three defensive end. If he's still there, aj Epinessa has 737 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,920 Speaker 1: got to be in the conversation. The junior from Iowa, 738 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:42,600 Speaker 1: who I think would be a terrific fit for them, 739 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,240 Speaker 1: not a pure edge rusher, but a real three down 740 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,520 Speaker 1: defensive end who can rush the pass or stop the run. 741 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,279 Speaker 1: But I think they're gonna get They're gonna get lucky 742 00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,839 Speaker 1: with the receiver. A general manager told me the other 743 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,640 Speaker 1: day he expects six receivers to go on round one, 744 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,319 Speaker 1: So when the Bills are drafting, they could be looking 745 00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,000 Speaker 1: at a la Viscus Chenault junior from Colorado who is 746 00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:04,360 Speaker 1: a great past catching prospect, but a struggle with injuries 747 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,520 Speaker 1: the past year and a half. Henry Ruggs the third 748 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,399 Speaker 1: from Alabama, who I think needs work on his game 749 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,120 Speaker 1: as at receiver, but he is a home run threat 750 00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,920 Speaker 1: not only catching the ball but as a return specialist 751 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,839 Speaker 1: and maybe Joe Burrow's favorite target justin Jefferson. So I 752 00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:22,640 Speaker 1: think the Bills are really in a good spot with 753 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,680 Speaker 1: that twenty second pick, whether it's receiver, whether it's a 754 00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:28,760 Speaker 1: defensive end or either even an offensive lineman. How set 755 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:30,840 Speaker 1: in Stone do you think the top five picks of 756 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,239 Speaker 1: the draft are we figure if Joe Burrow goes to 757 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:37,840 Speaker 1: Cincinnati and then Chase Young goes to Washington. If you 758 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,160 Speaker 1: do and do you believe that, how dicey does it 759 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:44,160 Speaker 1: get after that a significant because Detroit really holds the 760 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,400 Speaker 1: cards there. What is Detroit gonna do? Are they going 761 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:48,040 Speaker 1: to try and trade out? Are they going to take 762 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:49,840 Speaker 1: a quarterback? I don't think they're gonna do that, but 763 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,719 Speaker 1: that still has to you know, be played out. And 764 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,240 Speaker 1: if they hold that pick, you know, are they looking 765 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,840 Speaker 1: defensive linemen? Are they looking to guy like Derek Brown? 766 00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:01,040 Speaker 1: Would they take an Accuta the corner back from Ohio State? 767 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,520 Speaker 1: So I really think it's easier said, the first two 768 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,400 Speaker 1: picks look pretty set at this point, and you can 769 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,840 Speaker 1: never really save their set before the combine because the 770 00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,319 Speaker 1: combine you have got the interviews, You've got the medicals 771 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,400 Speaker 1: and everything else that goes. And I think, really a 772 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:19,280 Speaker 1: right now where we're talking today, after the first two picks, 773 00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,160 Speaker 1: it's anybody's guests, Tony, what's the chance that all of 774 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,600 Speaker 1: next week's conversation at the combine is more about the 775 00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,239 Speaker 1: CBA than the draft prospects? That could happen next week, 776 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:30,600 Speaker 1: couldn't it. Unless we get some early announcement on Monday 777 00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,400 Speaker 1: or Tuesdays, a lot it's going to be about the 778 00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:35,960 Speaker 1: CBA and the veterans, and really, you know, that's part 779 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,319 Speaker 1: of the transformation of the Combine because I know, John, 780 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:39,960 Speaker 1: you've been in the Combine for a while. I've been 781 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,880 Speaker 1: going since two thousand and one, and it's really turned 782 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,799 Speaker 1: from a scouting event into a media event, almost an 783 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:49,080 Speaker 1: idio spectacle. So you know, rather than talking about the 784 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,600 Speaker 1: players on the field of prospects there, you know you're 785 00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:56,640 Speaker 1: gonna get these outside conversations about the CBA. That's because 786 00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:00,000 Speaker 1: of the evolution of the Combine, which the league wanted. Yeah, 787 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,080 Speaker 1: it's funny you mentioned. And one more thing about the 788 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,239 Speaker 1: turned into a media event. I wondered if they had 789 00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:06,239 Speaker 1: something to do with the decision by the Broncos and 790 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,520 Speaker 1: the Rams to kind of pull back a little bit, 791 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,160 Speaker 1: like why do we need to send our guys just 792 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,400 Speaker 1: to service the media here to India every year? You 793 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,280 Speaker 1: know what I mean? That is absolutely true, a thousand 794 00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:18,400 Speaker 1: percentual because what happens is, you know a lot of 795 00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:20,239 Speaker 1: these people, a lot of the media types go to 796 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,359 Speaker 1: the Combine. They don't care about the draft, they don't 797 00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,319 Speaker 1: know about the players in the draft, but what they 798 00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:26,719 Speaker 1: want is the access to the coaches. They want to 799 00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:28,800 Speaker 1: be able to see the coaches hanging out in the hotel, 800 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:31,719 Speaker 1: hanging out in the restaurant at night, walking down the 801 00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:35,120 Speaker 1: street and in the middle of Indianapolis, you know, to 802 00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:38,120 Speaker 1: get a few words. And of course, I mean it's 803 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,400 Speaker 1: all the access to the coaches. We're seeing the Senior 804 00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,759 Speaker 1: Bowl basically turn into that more and more like a 805 00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:47,759 Speaker 1: media event. So absolutely, because what happens is somebody's out 806 00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:49,960 Speaker 1: at night, they're hanging around, they say something and then 807 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,160 Speaker 1: they realize, maybe I shouldn't have said that. So there's 808 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,719 Speaker 1: absolutely no doubt in my mind that that was the 809 00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,400 Speaker 1: reason why the Broncos and the Rams decide to keep 810 00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,239 Speaker 1: a lot of their coaches home. Their coaches can watch 811 00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,960 Speaker 1: the practice film if they want right whatever they want to. 812 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,640 Speaker 1: They can get the times on the Master report. If 813 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:08,239 Speaker 1: they really want to interview these players, they'll go out 814 00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:10,040 Speaker 1: to the school if the interview the player, or have 815 00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,360 Speaker 1: the couple player coming out an official visit, so it 816 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:14,960 Speaker 1: can all be done in house or basically, you know, 817 00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,600 Speaker 1: on the lamb if you will. Now I'm starting to 818 00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:21,360 Speaker 1: feel guilty about going out to dinner next week in Indye. Tony, 819 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:25,160 Speaker 1: thanks for joining us, Tony, thanks for having appreciate it. 820 00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:28,000 Speaker 1: Tony Pauline. He is draft analysts for a Pro Football Network. 821 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,160 Speaker 1: He's got a couple of good posts up there about 822 00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:32,680 Speaker 1: the new CBA and about some of the prospects and 823 00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:34,600 Speaker 1: at next week's combat. Here's the way it is at 824 00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,360 Speaker 1: this point in history the NFL. Anytime there's an event 825 00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:42,120 Speaker 1: that gets general managers or head coaches together, it becomes 826 00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,560 Speaker 1: a media event. Yeah, because those guys are so highly 827 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:48,520 Speaker 1: sought after. An access is only granted in certain situations 828 00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:50,719 Speaker 1: if you can catch those guys coming or going. And 829 00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:52,440 Speaker 1: also it's the same thing in New York. I'll bet 830 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:56,560 Speaker 1: you there's paparazzi like atmosphere at the owners meetings too, 831 00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:00,400 Speaker 1: where they've got you know, security's probably there. You know, 832 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,480 Speaker 1: anytime there's a congregation of people at that level in 833 00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:07,960 Speaker 1: the NFL, it becomes eventually a media focal point. Anytime 834 00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:12,120 Speaker 1: Jerry Jones leaves the house, it becomes a media bit exactly. 835 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,399 Speaker 1: All right, a breakcare, We're coming back. It's One Bill's Live, 836 00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,080 Speaker 1: presented by kellat of Health from the Seneca Studio in 837 00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:39,920 Speaker 1: Orchard Park. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Yeah, we're back. 838 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,520 Speaker 1: It's one five time Verfee Steve Tasker get a lot 839 00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:44,719 Speaker 1: of compliments about the show. Lake the Steven I'll be 840 00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:46,640 Speaker 1: honest with you, I haven't loved our show in the 841 00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,880 Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. How do you do it a 842 00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,360 Speaker 1: boring time? You know, it's just like, come on, something happening, 843 00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:54,480 Speaker 1: looking forward to next week, going to Indy for something 844 00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,880 Speaker 1: to happen. But man, more and more people tell me 845 00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:58,440 Speaker 1: I watch your show every day or I listen to show. 846 00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:02,359 Speaker 1: Every lot of people do thanks for doing. We just 847 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,040 Speaker 1: had Tony Pauline and he's talking about the CBA and 848 00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,440 Speaker 1: stuff and the Combine. He's a big draft guy, and 849 00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,600 Speaker 1: we were talking about the combine and how it's changed, 850 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:11,280 Speaker 1: and he said at the end of of our segment 851 00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:15,120 Speaker 1: that you know, it's become a media event. Anytime teams 852 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:18,520 Speaker 1: get together, executives together, it becomes a media event. People 853 00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,680 Speaker 1: want to know what's going on. And it started out 854 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,279 Speaker 1: and when I came out in nineteen eighty five, came 855 00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:27,160 Speaker 1: out of college, it was like the second or third 856 00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,080 Speaker 1: year of the combine. The reason they had because this 857 00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:31,360 Speaker 1: is the way it is in the NFL, and this 858 00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,600 Speaker 1: you can just shake your head. It was a money saver. 859 00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,319 Speaker 1: They sent everybody to one bit, one place. They brought 860 00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:40,799 Speaker 1: all these the league brought all these kids in, these 861 00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,359 Speaker 1: college kids in, they get their medicals and they'd run 862 00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:44,840 Speaker 1: them through some stuff to do some It was to 863 00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:48,800 Speaker 1: save money. The league did it to save money. They 864 00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:52,919 Speaker 1: they didn't want to send twelve scouts to thirty five 865 00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:57,160 Speaker 1: schools to see one hundred and fifty kids that they 866 00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:00,400 Speaker 1: may or may not draft, and they had everybody had 867 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:01,640 Speaker 1: to do that. So they said, well, wait a minute, 868 00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:03,480 Speaker 1: we're all looking at the same guys. Why don't we 869 00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,919 Speaker 1: bring them in. We travel to one place, work them out, 870 00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:10,680 Speaker 1: get a medical and done. So they did. They did 871 00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:14,120 Speaker 1: it to save the league consultant. They did to save money. Now, 872 00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:18,879 Speaker 1: just like everything else, it's a cash cow. Yeah, it's 873 00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:23,440 Speaker 1: as sets up the draft. That's what four or five 874 00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:27,440 Speaker 1: weeks later, it's it's an offseason convention for the NFL 875 00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,319 Speaker 1: and for media people. And yeah, and it turned out 876 00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:33,279 Speaker 1: it used to be quiet. You go down there, you 877 00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,200 Speaker 1: see all you say, hey, how's it going in You 878 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:37,520 Speaker 1: could you know, sidle up to these coaches and stuff, 879 00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:39,080 Speaker 1: and they'd be you know, the guard is down, they're 880 00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:41,000 Speaker 1: not on camera, they're not doing they get a lot 881 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,480 Speaker 1: of print. Interviews were done then just you know, over dinner, 882 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,120 Speaker 1: you know, at Elmo's right, Saint Almos. You go in 883 00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:47,839 Speaker 1: there to have a steak and talk to the coach 884 00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:50,920 Speaker 1: and they have a glass of wine or whatever. Now 885 00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,840 Speaker 1: the guards back up, right, Yes, yeah, they got the 886 00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:57,279 Speaker 1: You got teams like you know what, you guys just 887 00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,400 Speaker 1: stay home. This is just a circus. The Rams and 888 00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:03,680 Speaker 1: Broncos didn't even taking their assistant coaches. It's about and 889 00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:08,440 Speaker 1: it's right, it's about one thing important. The medicals. They're medical. 890 00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,239 Speaker 1: Each team's doctors get their hands on the guys they 891 00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:15,560 Speaker 1: want to examine. They do X rays, ct you know, scans, 892 00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:18,359 Speaker 1: blood work and whatever they want to do. They look 893 00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,799 Speaker 1: at them and they go over with a fine tooth 894 00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:22,920 Speaker 1: comb to see, all right, how are those injuries we 895 00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:24,480 Speaker 1: heard about? And you can take two. A tag of 896 00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:28,400 Speaker 1: a law is gonna get worked over by a bunch 897 00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:31,480 Speaker 1: of doctors. That's what it's about. And it's not as 898 00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:33,160 Speaker 1: if and we're almost out of time here, but it's 899 00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:37,960 Speaker 1: not like the combine and the increasing attention on the combine, 900 00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,759 Speaker 1: it hasn't meant that teams are drafting that much better 901 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:42,800 Speaker 1: than they did thirty or forty years ago. It really hasn't. 902 00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,839 Speaker 1: The draft is still throwing darts, right, we think this 903 00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:47,359 Speaker 1: guy is gonna be good. We don't know. We think 904 00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:49,400 Speaker 1: that's gonna be good. And that's why they started interviewing 905 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:52,200 Speaker 1: the guys. They started to find out, what, how did 906 00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,440 Speaker 1: you not know this guy was like that? How did 907 00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:55,880 Speaker 1: you not know this guy was going to be a 908 00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,200 Speaker 1: train wreck? You know, how did you not know? All? 909 00:44:58,239 --> 00:44:59,760 Speaker 1: They go, how are you gonna know? Well, they started 910 00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,480 Speaker 1: inter you and him, doing pre draft interviews. They used 911 00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:04,920 Speaker 1: to never do that. It was like, he's a good kid, 912 00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,440 Speaker 1: come on, you know that kind of thing. Yeah, and 913 00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:11,719 Speaker 1: then they started interviewing them, and slowly but surely those 914 00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:14,040 Speaker 1: became more and more prominent, and they started to get 915 00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,280 Speaker 1: more and more sophisticated, so much so that agents started 916 00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:19,040 Speaker 1: preparing their kids. And now we're at the point now 917 00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:22,440 Speaker 1: where it's you know, kid walks into an interview and 918 00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,080 Speaker 1: virtually like a suit and tie with a briefcase. I mean, 919 00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:29,480 Speaker 1: what are you doing? Man? So it's everything's changing, it 920 00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:31,360 Speaker 1: keeps evolving. It's going to be interesting to see what 921 00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,960 Speaker 1: the NFL does to get back to just a basic 922 00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,200 Speaker 1: football operation again. You know, when how do you get 923 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,160 Speaker 1: down to the nuts and bolts of what the guys 924 00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,960 Speaker 1: really like, Hey, we're gonna talk speaking in the Combine. 925 00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:43,640 Speaker 1: It's a big TV event. It's the biggest TV event 926 00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:46,760 Speaker 1: in the month of February, I believe late February. Anyway, 927 00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:48,320 Speaker 1: we're going to talk to a guy who will produce 928 00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,120 Speaker 1: that TV event for the NFL network. Charlie yuk is 929 00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:53,680 Speaker 1: the NFL Networks Vice President of Production. You're going to 930 00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:55,960 Speaker 1: talk to us about the Combine when we return. One 931 00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:59,960 Speaker 1: Goes Live presented by kalidah Hell from the Senecas Studio 932 00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:13,920 Speaker 1: in Archer Park. This is Buffalo Bills Radio Hills Radio 933 00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:19,680 Speaker 1: Network Sports Update from One Bill's Live. NFL owners meeting 934 00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:23,640 Speaker 1: today to discuss their negotiations over a new collective bargaining agreement. 935 00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,520 Speaker 1: According to reports, a new CBA between the league and 936 00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:28,480 Speaker 1: the players could be ratified before the start of the 937 00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:32,160 Speaker 1: new year in mid March. Aside from a seventeen game schedule, 938 00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:37,040 Speaker 1: the proposal also calls for expanded postseason and an increase 939 00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:40,320 Speaker 1: in the split of revenues between the owners and players. 940 00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:42,960 Speaker 1: So the owners meet today, they could vote today. The 941 00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:46,920 Speaker 1: Players Association Executive Committee will meet by a telephone tomorrow 942 00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:48,960 Speaker 1: and they may send it to the and if they 943 00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:51,279 Speaker 1: approve it by a two thirds margin they could send 944 00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,560 Speaker 1: to the general membership of the players. Over the weekend, 945 00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:57,400 Speaker 1: we'll see. Everson Griffin is out of his contract with 946 00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,040 Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings. He has been given the freedom to 947 00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,239 Speaker 1: decide what happens this year. The four time Pro Bowl 948 00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:04,640 Speaker 1: pass rusher got a clause in his contract with the 949 00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,799 Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings that allowed for the voiding the final three 950 00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:13,680 Speaker 1: years of his deal if two criteria were met. Cleveland 951 00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:16,839 Speaker 1: Brown's wide receiver Jarvis Landry underwent surgery early this month 952 00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,240 Speaker 1: to repair a nagging hip injury that hampered him throughout 953 00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:22,439 Speaker 1: last season. Had the surgery February fourth. The team source 954 00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:24,839 Speaker 1: says Landry is expected to return at some point during 955 00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:28,360 Speaker 1: training camp and hockey. The Buffalo Sabers will return to 956 00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:31,640 Speaker 1: practice today. The Savers are often until Saturday afternoon when 957 00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:33,960 Speaker 1: they travel to Pittsburgh to play the Penguins. That's a 958 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,560 Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon game face off at one. Sabers then hosts 959 00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:40,799 Speaker 1: Winnipeg at three o'clock Sunday afternoon at key Bank Center. 960 00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:43,439 Speaker 1: And there you go. That's the update from One Mills Drive. 961 00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,360 Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker in our one Buffalo studio. 962 00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:48,640 Speaker 1: We're going to the combine next Monday. Joining us on 963 00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:51,320 Speaker 1: the line is the NFL Network vice president of Production. 964 00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:54,520 Speaker 1: He oversees the combine in NFL Draft coverage. Happy to 965 00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:56,440 Speaker 1: have Charlie Yuk on the line with us. Hello Charlie, 966 00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:58,800 Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker Upper in Buffalo. Thanks, coming on, 967 00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:01,080 Speaker 1: little problem guy. How are we doing. We're doing well. 968 00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:04,000 Speaker 1: You're getting ready for prime time combine. It's going to 969 00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:07,160 Speaker 1: be different, right, absolutely. I think we've angered a lot 970 00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:09,520 Speaker 1: of you know, club personnel and everyone else who wanted 971 00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:11,720 Speaker 1: to go out for dinner and stuff. But we're excited 972 00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:15,000 Speaker 1: about the opportunity to showcase what the players can do 973 00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:17,360 Speaker 1: and what we can do from four to eleven pm 974 00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:20,640 Speaker 1: Eastern on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and two to seven 975 00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:23,799 Speaker 1: pm Eastern on Sunday. It really is about the attention, right, 976 00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:26,600 Speaker 1: I mean about getting more people who can watch this 977 00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:30,319 Speaker 1: and get their eyeballs on these young players. Correct, Steve, Yeah, 978 00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,239 Speaker 1: I think that's a fair point. I think, you know, 979 00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,040 Speaker 1: with the switch to prime time, there's a bigger audience 980 00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:38,800 Speaker 1: naturally that watch television and primetime and consume our product, 981 00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:41,040 Speaker 1: you know, the product of the National Football League and football, 982 00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,440 Speaker 1: so it is basically the larger viewership. But as you 983 00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:46,880 Speaker 1: guys know as well, Thursday night is becoming a priority 984 00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:50,480 Speaker 1: across for the league, whether it's Thursday Night Football, whether 985 00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:52,520 Speaker 1: it's when we made the move to prime time for 986 00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:55,200 Speaker 1: the draft on Thursday night, and now the combine follows suits. 987 00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:58,880 Speaker 1: So we're hoping for good things this Thursday. We come 988 00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:01,359 Speaker 1: out of the gate too with backs, whiteouts and tight ends, 989 00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:04,799 Speaker 1: so you know, this is a great group, a great prospect. 990 00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:07,480 Speaker 1: Uh you know, deep pool of wide receivers which I 991 00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:10,719 Speaker 1: know would would probably entert Bills fans. So we're hoping 992 00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:12,680 Speaker 1: for big things and to watch these guys shine on 993 00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:15,799 Speaker 1: Thursday night. Charlie, you started four pm, and Thursday and 994 00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:20,040 Speaker 1: Friday any and Saturday that it goes to eleven o'clock 995 00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:22,040 Speaker 1: each of those three days, right, Sundays a little shorter 996 00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:25,279 Speaker 1: days that, right, correct, So it's you know, we don't 997 00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:27,600 Speaker 1: expect everyone. I mean, you guys might not in the 998 00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,839 Speaker 1: hardcore viewers might it's seven hours, but you know we're 999 00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:33,960 Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna start promoting our coverage more specifically and 1000 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,759 Speaker 1: for the people listening right now. The tight ends will 1001 00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,640 Speaker 1: start on Thursday and they'll go from about four to six, 1002 00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:42,439 Speaker 1: and then the first group of quarterbacks and white outs 1003 00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:45,399 Speaker 1: will start running their forties around six o'clock, and then 1004 00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,960 Speaker 1: the second group of quarterbacks and white outsill run their 1005 00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:51,000 Speaker 1: forties around eight o'clock, and the workouts are settled in between. 1006 00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:53,280 Speaker 1: Then it goes, you know, the offensive line and running 1007 00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:55,160 Speaker 1: backs on Friday. They won't be a test on this guy, 1008 00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:57,839 Speaker 1: so I won't you won't. Eed, Why did you move 1009 00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:01,200 Speaker 1: quarterbacks and receivers anti the ends to Thursday? They were 1010 00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:03,959 Speaker 1: Saturdays for many years, white Thursdays for that. Yeah, again 1011 00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:06,600 Speaker 1: with the shift the prime time and being able to 1012 00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:08,799 Speaker 1: so in that primetime window from seven to eleven, you're 1013 00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:10,319 Speaker 1: going to see the back end of the forties and 1014 00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:12,960 Speaker 1: these quarterbacks and white House workout and those being the 1015 00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,359 Speaker 1: skill positions, and did you guys know a quarterback being 1016 00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:18,880 Speaker 1: the mark keeper position in the league? Showcase them that 1017 00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,320 Speaker 1: first night right out of the gate at seven eastern 1018 00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:23,319 Speaker 1: on Thursday. Charlie, how are you going to keep that? 1019 00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:26,719 Speaker 1: Because I know I've seen some coverage, but obviously we've 1020 00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,319 Speaker 1: seen some coverage when it wasn't in primetime. Are you 1021 00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:33,200 Speaker 1: gonna do anything more too? I don't know. I say, 1022 00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:35,840 Speaker 1: spice it up, but keep it moving, because sometimes the 1023 00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,360 Speaker 1: forties kind of drag on. Its one every five minutes 1024 00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:40,600 Speaker 1: or something, and sometimes this stuff kind of drags on. 1025 00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:43,480 Speaker 1: How much talent on air, talent are you gonna use, 1026 00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:45,160 Speaker 1: are you gonna have guys on the field, are you 1027 00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:48,480 Speaker 1: going to do things differently because this is a prime 1028 00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:52,080 Speaker 1: time broadcast And how much pushed back did you get 1029 00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:55,520 Speaker 1: to make those changes? Well, the good thing is that 1030 00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:58,200 Speaker 1: the you know, the folks that the league head quarters, 1031 00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:00,600 Speaker 1: the people who run the scott In combine the two clubs, 1032 00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:02,520 Speaker 1: they were all in on this. Otherwise the move wouldn't 1033 00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:05,600 Speaker 1: have happened. I think they understand we have that opportunity 1034 00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:08,319 Speaker 1: to showcase what we have. And as far as your 1035 00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,120 Speaker 1: first point, Steve, like, the biggest things we're gonna do 1036 00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:13,160 Speaker 1: differently is we're gonna make sure we know our hardcore 1037 00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:15,959 Speaker 1: core audience knows football, but we're gonna try to teach 1038 00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:18,839 Speaker 1: more than than we have before, showing him what this 1039 00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:21,680 Speaker 1: drill is, what it means, what it looks like when 1040 00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:23,840 Speaker 1: a player does it, and how it translates to the 1041 00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:26,760 Speaker 1: actual game. So what we have these things called golf 1042 00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:30,000 Speaker 1: course flyovers where it's it's a graphically enhanced view of 1043 00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,400 Speaker 1: what the drill is, and then we'll show a player 1044 00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:34,879 Speaker 1: doing a drill, whether it's you know, Josh Allen throwing 1045 00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:36,960 Speaker 1: a quick out at the combine and then him doing 1046 00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,920 Speaker 1: it in the game. So it's an opportunity for us 1047 00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:42,200 Speaker 1: to teach what these things mean on the field and 1048 00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:44,840 Speaker 1: how it translates on the field on Sundays, Thursdays and 1049 00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:46,799 Speaker 1: Monday nights during the season. On the line was one 1050 00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:48,920 Speaker 1: of our biggest changes. We're on the line with Charlie Uk, 1051 00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:52,160 Speaker 1: NFL Network Vice President of Production, and to that point, Charlie, 1052 00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:54,160 Speaker 1: I want to tell you, it seems to me that 1053 00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:57,080 Speaker 1: the combined presentation has really come a long way. And 1054 00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:01,600 Speaker 1: incorporating current and you know, recently retired players into explaining 1055 00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:04,080 Speaker 1: and working through some of these drills really brings a 1056 00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:05,719 Speaker 1: lot to it. I think when you can hear, you know, 1057 00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:07,760 Speaker 1: what Kyle Williams says to the some of the defensive 1058 00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:11,360 Speaker 1: line prospects, or what Stephen Smith says to some of 1059 00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:13,719 Speaker 1: the some of the wide receivers from time to time, 1060 00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:15,920 Speaker 1: or quarterbacks for that matter, it brings a lot, I 1061 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,960 Speaker 1: think to the presentation don't you agree. I agree, and 1062 00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:21,080 Speaker 1: that's why we made a deeper dive to As you said, 1063 00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:23,640 Speaker 1: Kyle did a great job last year. This year, we've 1064 00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:28,480 Speaker 1: got four guys confirmed that still play. So I'll go 1065 00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:31,400 Speaker 1: through the actual list of analysts that may interest everybody. 1066 00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:36,280 Speaker 1: So Thursday night, we've got Kurt Warner, Steve Smith Senior 1067 00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:38,520 Speaker 1: as you mentioned, and Michael Irvin talking through the quarterbacks 1068 00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:42,080 Speaker 1: and whiteouts. On Friday, we've got Joe Thomas and Sean 1069 00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:45,840 Speaker 1: O'Hara talking through the offensive lineman and then the running 1070 00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:48,479 Speaker 1: backs will be our Maurice Jones Drew, but we also 1071 00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:50,839 Speaker 1: confirmed mark Ingram from the Ravens to help us through 1072 00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:53,480 Speaker 1: on the field. Saturday, it's our William mc ginnis talking 1073 00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:55,560 Speaker 1: through with defensive linemen and linebackers. But we also got 1074 00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:58,520 Speaker 1: confirmed Cam Jordan defensive end from the Saints, and Darius 1075 00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:01,800 Speaker 1: Leonard linebacker or the Colts. And then Sunday, we're actually 1076 00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:04,040 Speaker 1: pleased to announce that Jamal Adams from the Jets will 1077 00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:06,000 Speaker 1: join our Hall of Famer Dion Sanders on the field 1078 00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:09,760 Speaker 1: to talk about defensive back. So very lucky and fortunate 1079 00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:12,440 Speaker 1: and to have those current players join us in Indianapolis 1080 00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:14,440 Speaker 1: and hope again, like you said, offers perspective to the 1081 00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:17,880 Speaker 1: fans of what current players see with the drills on 1082 00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:20,520 Speaker 1: the field. One of the things I was asking, because 1083 00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:24,319 Speaker 1: we hear so much about, you know, the history of 1084 00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:25,920 Speaker 1: the combine and how long is this going on? It's 1085 00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:29,960 Speaker 1: been going on for quite some time. How much of 1086 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,080 Speaker 1: the path are you gonna go back and pull out 1087 00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:34,719 Speaker 1: any like I want to see Deon Sanders forty time. 1088 00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:36,920 Speaker 1: I want to see, you know, Jerry Rice, I want 1089 00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:38,400 Speaker 1: to see something. Are you gonna be able to go 1090 00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:40,759 Speaker 1: back into history and maybe bring back some highlights some 1091 00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:42,879 Speaker 1: other guys that have done it and players that are 1092 00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:44,680 Speaker 1: now maybe in the Hall of Fame and what they 1093 00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:47,919 Speaker 1: looked like back at their combine. So, Steve, we will. 1094 00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:51,200 Speaker 1: Although Deon forty is one of those things in lore 1095 00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,080 Speaker 1: no one's ever really seen it, but he'll tell you 1096 00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:54,879 Speaker 1: he ran a four one, which I think we could 1097 00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,040 Speaker 1: believe him back then. But we're going to do our 1098 00:53:57,080 --> 00:54:00,080 Speaker 1: best job to show not only the historical stuff but 1099 00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,080 Speaker 1: also the current stuff and obviously all the current players 1100 00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:04,280 Speaker 1: that went through the combine as well their their combine skills. 1101 00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:06,120 Speaker 1: One of the guys that we always show and you guys. 1102 00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:08,480 Speaker 1: You guys know this. When Josh Allen was at the combine, 1103 00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:11,200 Speaker 1: he absolutely the ooze and odds when he was throwing 1104 00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:13,600 Speaker 1: the ball was you know, something that we always try 1105 00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:17,399 Speaker 1: to go back to his twenty eighteen years. So we're 1106 00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:19,560 Speaker 1: going to make sure that we show not only the 1107 00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:21,399 Speaker 1: current stuff of the past stup as well as that said, 1108 00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:24,040 Speaker 1: lets people know, hey, why this is important, why it's 1109 00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:26,239 Speaker 1: important to follow this as you follow them along the 1110 00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:27,799 Speaker 1: path to the draft. You know, I was I was 1111 00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:30,799 Speaker 1: just thinking about and I mentioned Steve Smith. His interaction 1112 00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:34,560 Speaker 1: with another former Bills quarterback now Tyree Jackson last year 1113 00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:36,920 Speaker 1: during the workouts was was priceless. You know that the 1114 00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,440 Speaker 1: dialogue they had and opened mics. I mean, it was 1115 00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:41,480 Speaker 1: all access here and everything that he was saying to him, 1116 00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:43,480 Speaker 1: and it was it was kind of cool. Yeah, that's 1117 00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:46,200 Speaker 1: Steve just being Steve too, you know, because he was 1118 00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:48,680 Speaker 1: saying during that gauntlet drole, what you're referring to is 1119 00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:51,040 Speaker 1: where receiver runs down the line and catches seven balls 1120 00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:53,839 Speaker 1: from different people throwing and he just thought that he 1121 00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:56,200 Speaker 1: was just throwing it too fast as opposed to just 1122 00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:57,680 Speaker 1: trying to get in there. So we just let him know, like, 1123 00:54:57,680 --> 00:54:59,879 Speaker 1: hey man, you're you're costing people some money here. Yeah, 1124 00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:03,160 Speaker 1: kind of a funny moment. Yet, what are some of 1125 00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:04,879 Speaker 1: the things we can look forward to about? You said 1126 00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:07,760 Speaker 1: something about the camera. How many cameras? I'm like, compared 1127 00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:10,919 Speaker 1: to an NFL game, how many cameras are you gonna 1128 00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,560 Speaker 1: have at the combine? And I don't know if it'll 1129 00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:15,239 Speaker 1: be that many cameras, But you know, what are we 1130 00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:17,520 Speaker 1: talking about? Production? Value wise? And how many guys you 1131 00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:19,719 Speaker 1: got working on it? No? I mean this is Steve, 1132 00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:21,719 Speaker 1: I know you you know as a veteran doing games, 1133 00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:23,960 Speaker 1: We've we've got upwards a thirty camera So this is 1134 00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:25,600 Speaker 1: more than just a game. This is like an enhanced 1135 00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:27,800 Speaker 1: playoff game or even close to almost super Bowl levels. 1136 00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:31,000 Speaker 1: But you know we're gonna make sure, literally and figured it. 1137 00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:33,759 Speaker 1: We've got every angle covered with with this going to primetime. 1138 00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:35,760 Speaker 1: Like I said, we want to be able to explain 1139 00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:39,840 Speaker 1: what everything means to a new audience. And quite frankly, 1140 00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:42,840 Speaker 1: any draft is you guys know, we can do whatever 1141 00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:44,600 Speaker 1: we want, but the draft is going to be dictated 1142 00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:46,560 Speaker 1: by who the prospects are and who the stars are. 1143 00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:48,799 Speaker 1: So one of our bigger jobs too, is to just 1144 00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:51,799 Speaker 1: tell everybody, here's Joe Burrow as a player and as 1145 00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:54,160 Speaker 1: a person. Here's to a ton of viola as a 1146 00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:57,160 Speaker 1: player and a person. Here is Ceedee Lamb, you know 1147 00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:58,880 Speaker 1: who the wide receipt from Oklaoma as a player and 1148 00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:00,440 Speaker 1: a person. So we're gonna try to do better job 1149 00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:03,279 Speaker 1: of storytelling when we have those opportunities. How much have 1150 00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:06,560 Speaker 1: you how much behind the scenes interviews and like we 1151 00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:08,920 Speaker 1: call it b roll, but how much film have you 1152 00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:10,919 Speaker 1: got of these guys before they get to the draft? 1153 00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:13,880 Speaker 1: Have you gone out and got Joe Burrow at LSU 1154 00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:15,719 Speaker 1: before he shows up? Have you got two a tag 1155 00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:17,680 Speaker 1: of Iloa you know, you know what I mean? Some 1156 00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:20,200 Speaker 1: feature stories and stuff on these guys. Yeah, So we 1157 00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:22,279 Speaker 1: have as far as bureau clips, we've probably got over 1158 00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:24,960 Speaker 1: five hundred clips of all of the kids that will 1159 00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,440 Speaker 1: be there, and then we shoot stuff on site when 1160 00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:30,240 Speaker 1: we're in Indianapolis to turn around these little peature vignettes 1161 00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:32,480 Speaker 1: that really get to know we call them first drafts 1162 00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:34,040 Speaker 1: where we get to know the player more as a 1163 00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:35,920 Speaker 1: person than what they do on the field, So, you know, 1164 00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:38,520 Speaker 1: with their helmets off, talking about their stories that they 1165 00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:41,080 Speaker 1: want to talk about. So it sounds like a lot, 1166 00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:42,680 Speaker 1: but when we get the draft, we're well over two 1167 00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:45,440 Speaker 1: thousand pieces of b roll. So we build our way 1168 00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:47,320 Speaker 1: up as we get closer to April twenty third in 1169 00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:50,080 Speaker 1: Las Vegas. So this is the first tent pole step 1170 00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:52,680 Speaker 1: we have getting to there. So we've got a lot 1171 00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:54,480 Speaker 1: of clips ready. As you know, not all of them 1172 00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:56,359 Speaker 1: will err, but we're going to do what we can 1173 00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:58,600 Speaker 1: to make sure that the important ones do. Charlie Yuk 1174 00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:01,319 Speaker 1: our guest, NFL Network vice president of Production. You also 1175 00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:04,960 Speaker 1: oversee production of the the draft coverage on NFL Network. Charlie, 1176 00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:08,520 Speaker 1: and I wonder, I don't need hard numbers, but what's 1177 00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:11,960 Speaker 1: the difference in audience ratings between the Draft, which I 1178 00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:15,120 Speaker 1: believe still is the number one offseason presentation by the 1179 00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:17,720 Speaker 1: NFL and the Combine, which comes what five weeks before 1180 00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:22,760 Speaker 1: the draft? Yeah, you know, I think the Draft clearly 1181 00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:25,120 Speaker 1: is a little bit more popular than the combine, and 1182 00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:29,640 Speaker 1: it's it's it's the vigor of the fans because by 1183 00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:32,000 Speaker 1: then you know who you kind of want to pick, sure, 1184 00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:34,200 Speaker 1: so the anticipation is a little higher. I can't give 1185 00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:36,200 Speaker 1: you full numbers, but you know, obviously there's a higher, 1186 00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:38,840 Speaker 1: higher amount of consumption for the draft. But you know 1187 00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:41,000 Speaker 1: all this, like as you guys are saying this is 1188 00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:43,480 Speaker 1: this is just an end and a beginning journey for 1189 00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:45,600 Speaker 1: these kids and then you know it ends their journey 1190 00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:47,240 Speaker 1: in college and it begins their journey in the NFL. 1191 00:57:47,560 --> 00:57:50,080 Speaker 1: So it's like it's football three sixty five is at 1192 00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:51,560 Speaker 1: this point, you know, we all love it, we all 1193 00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:53,000 Speaker 1: consume it. That's why we do it, that's why we 1194 00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:55,880 Speaker 1: talk about it. Um So whether you're picking first like 1195 00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:58,000 Speaker 1: the Bengals or twenty second like the Bills, you're invested 1196 00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:00,360 Speaker 1: in almost every pick in the first round because you're 1197 00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:02,400 Speaker 1: familiar with these guys at this point. You want to 1198 00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:04,480 Speaker 1: know where they're going to be, whether you're playing against them, 1199 00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:06,880 Speaker 1: whether you're rooting for them or rooting against them. So 1200 00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:09,560 Speaker 1: we you know, the draft in itself is a culmination, 1201 00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:12,040 Speaker 1: but it's also a star which which is always very exciting. 1202 00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:17,000 Speaker 1: Who's going to m see the coverage for the combine? Yes, 1203 00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:19,720 Speaker 1: So Rich Eisen and Daniel Jeremiah will be our main 1204 00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:22,640 Speaker 1: announcers in the booth. I kind of ripped through the 1205 00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:26,080 Speaker 1: field analysts for you. Kimberly Jones or excellent sideline reporter 1206 00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:28,880 Speaker 1: will be there. Ian Raveitport or Insider will be there. 1207 00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:33,040 Speaker 1: We'll have a second concourse set with a desk set 1208 00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:36,280 Speaker 1: up with Chris Rose as our host, the Great Charles 1209 00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:39,120 Speaker 1: Davis and Peter Schrager of Good Morning Football fame. Those 1210 00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:41,760 Speaker 1: are our main analysts for the event that we hope 1211 00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:45,560 Speaker 1: can bring all the insight, analysis and information during that 1212 00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:48,400 Speaker 1: seven hours of coverage. Hey, as you look ahead to 1213 00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:50,360 Speaker 1: the end of April and the Draft and you're also 1214 00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:53,200 Speaker 1: involved in planning for that coverage, Charlie, it's going to 1215 00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:55,280 Speaker 1: be different too, right in the Las Vegas setting with 1216 00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:58,760 Speaker 1: some of the spectacular nature of just being Las Vegas. 1217 00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:00,360 Speaker 1: You're going to incorporate that a little bit it right, 1218 00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:02,720 Speaker 1: absolutely so. I think one of the things we try 1219 00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:05,560 Speaker 1: to do an NFL network is make the city a 1220 00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:08,560 Speaker 1: showcase character of the Draft like we did in Nashville, 1221 00:59:08,600 --> 00:59:11,919 Speaker 1: like we've done in Dallas or Philadelphia or Chicago. Since 1222 00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:14,480 Speaker 1: it's moved from New York, Las Vegas will be no different. 1223 00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:16,680 Speaker 1: I'm not sure if many people have been to Las Vegas. 1224 00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:19,880 Speaker 1: That's sarcasm, but we're going to We're going to try 1225 00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:22,240 Speaker 1: to showcase what we can and obviously there's there's a 1226 00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:25,120 Speaker 1: franchise that's opening up their stadium there that will will 1227 00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:27,400 Speaker 1: want to make sure that the Raiders that stadium. I 1228 00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:29,400 Speaker 1: don't know if people have seen it, but it looks pretty. 1229 00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:33,520 Speaker 1: It's very Raiders, let's just say that. But yeah, we 1230 00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:36,520 Speaker 1: expect the turnout to be great and we're gonna showcase 1231 00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:40,480 Speaker 1: Vegas for what it's become, which is a destination spot 1232 00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:42,920 Speaker 1: for not just football fans, but for everyone alike. Is 1233 00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:45,160 Speaker 1: it safe to assume the Draft is probably is not 1234 00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:47,160 Speaker 1: going to be in the stadium, it won't be quite 1235 00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:50,280 Speaker 1: be ready for that, or and will be outdoors in 1236 00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:53,280 Speaker 1: in some sort of common area there in Vegas. Where's 1237 00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:56,080 Speaker 1: the draft going to actually be and how close to 1238 00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:58,880 Speaker 1: being done will the stadium be in April twenty three. 1239 00:59:59,080 --> 01:00:01,560 Speaker 1: I'm not sure if the be fully complete complete, It 1240 01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:03,120 Speaker 1: may just be a hard at area. But the two 1241 01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:06,600 Speaker 1: main stages for the draft. The main set will be 1242 01:00:06,680 --> 01:00:11,160 Speaker 1: right behind that big Ferris wheel behind the Link Hotel, 1243 01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:12,800 Speaker 1: I believe. I don't know the exact name of the 1244 01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:15,240 Speaker 1: Ferris will, but it's behind there. And then the initial stuff, 1245 01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:17,000 Speaker 1: the red carpet, the arrivals and everything else will be 1246 01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:19,520 Speaker 1: in front of the fountains. At the Bellagio. So those 1247 01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:21,960 Speaker 1: are the two main areas. NFL Network will have a 1248 01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:24,520 Speaker 1: couple of other areas where we're going to have presence, 1249 01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:27,560 Speaker 1: but those are the two main featured areas for the 1250 01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:29,880 Speaker 1: league and for everyone else at another combine question for 1251 01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:31,800 Speaker 1: you is we sort of wrap things up here, Charlie, 1252 01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:34,160 Speaker 1: Of all the combined drills, is there one that's really 1253 01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:37,919 Speaker 1: difficult to capture for a television audience three cone drill 1254 01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:40,640 Speaker 1: or shuttle run? Or is it? Is it all pretty? 1255 01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:42,120 Speaker 1: You know, it's all in the same spot. Is it 1256 01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:45,200 Speaker 1: easy to shoot and capture on video? Yeah? I think 1257 01:00:45,240 --> 01:00:47,800 Speaker 1: the toughest part that our job, like I said, and 1258 01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:49,720 Speaker 1: I've said it over and over, is trying to explain 1259 01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:52,200 Speaker 1: why this drill is important. So you may just see 1260 01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:55,280 Speaker 1: like an offensive lineman perform the rabbit mirror drill right 1261 01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:57,880 Speaker 1: where they're just going side to side, but you understand 1262 01:00:57,920 --> 01:00:59,880 Speaker 1: why that's important for you know, like are they quick 1263 01:00:59,880 --> 01:01:02,439 Speaker 1: on their feet? Are they are they slow their hips 1264 01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:04,000 Speaker 1: and all that other stuff. And Steve, you can speak 1265 01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:06,400 Speaker 1: to this better than I can. But all the nuances 1266 01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:09,320 Speaker 1: that everyone's looking for, we got to translate that because 1267 01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:12,000 Speaker 1: to the layman, they're just seeing just guys run around 1268 01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:15,200 Speaker 1: an empty stadium. So that's our job. Whether it's a 1269 01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:18,440 Speaker 1: drill that seems simple, but it's not like a quarterback 1270 01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:21,080 Speaker 1: throwing the deep the deep route that nine round or 1271 01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:24,040 Speaker 1: something more intricate like the three cone drill. Our job 1272 01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:26,080 Speaker 1: and if we did, our job is we're explaining what 1273 01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:27,960 Speaker 1: everything means and how it's why it's important for you 1274 01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:29,880 Speaker 1: to pay attention. What's the next step? I mean, you've 1275 01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:31,600 Speaker 1: got this on primetime now, it's going to be a 1276 01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:36,360 Speaker 1: Thursday Friday event during the week. What would be the 1277 01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:40,120 Speaker 1: next evolution? We've been talking about how the combine has 1278 01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:43,840 Speaker 1: evolved over the last well twenty thirty years. What's the 1279 01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:46,520 Speaker 1: next step? Do you see Charlie about you know where 1280 01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:49,880 Speaker 1: this thing might go? I think I think the safest 1281 01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:52,320 Speaker 1: thing to say would be, at some point you want 1282 01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:54,920 Speaker 1: to see these guys are all competitors, and you probably 1283 01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:57,120 Speaker 1: want to see them competing in against each other, not 1284 01:01:57,200 --> 01:02:01,200 Speaker 1: just against themselves. So in some aspect um, you know, 1285 01:02:01,320 --> 01:02:03,919 Speaker 1: we'll probably start figuring out how can we make this 1286 01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:09,400 Speaker 1: more competitive? H And you know I'm not being vague 1287 01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:11,800 Speaker 1: on purpose, but as you as you guys know the 1288 01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:15,120 Speaker 1: guys who play this game of football. They're ultra competitive 1289 01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:17,200 Speaker 1: and the ones that win are the are the most competitive. 1290 01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:19,400 Speaker 1: So when you get to all these alphas in a room, 1291 01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:21,520 Speaker 1: you know, how can we make them compete against you 1292 01:02:21,600 --> 01:02:23,880 Speaker 1: other truly show who is the best, especially when you 1293 01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:26,400 Speaker 1: start a combine. So that's probably the next step. Lots 1294 01:02:26,440 --> 01:02:28,280 Speaker 1: of things to figure out on that level, you know, 1295 01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:30,760 Speaker 1: little other little things too, like let's can we try 1296 01:02:30,760 --> 01:02:34,040 Speaker 1: to fill the stadium to watch this stuff? Um, you know, 1297 01:02:34,440 --> 01:02:37,320 Speaker 1: is their interests there? So I think that's next step, Steve. 1298 01:02:37,960 --> 01:02:41,280 Speaker 1: But we were you know, we we haven't really dived 1299 01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:43,200 Speaker 1: in deep yet. But these are the next things we 1300 01:02:43,280 --> 01:02:45,040 Speaker 1: got to talk about. And the next thing I tell 1301 01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:48,320 Speaker 1: you it's it's compelling TV because it's you know, it's 1302 01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:51,360 Speaker 1: reality TV and you've got young men who are trying 1303 01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:53,840 Speaker 1: to fulfill their dreams and they're kind of on stage 1304 01:02:54,120 --> 01:02:57,360 Speaker 1: in a job interview in a physical way. How close 1305 01:02:57,440 --> 01:03:00,280 Speaker 1: are you and did you raise the question of can 1306 01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:02,520 Speaker 1: you get into the interview rooms? I mean one of 1307 01:03:02,520 --> 01:03:06,120 Speaker 1: the big time things about these this combine is the 1308 01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:08,200 Speaker 1: fact that you can actually these teams sit down with 1309 01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:10,280 Speaker 1: these guys and for the first time in some cases 1310 01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:12,360 Speaker 1: look them in the eye and ask them some pretty 1311 01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:15,600 Speaker 1: serious life questions. And that's just telling about whether they're 1312 01:03:15,600 --> 01:03:18,120 Speaker 1: ready to play in the NFL as anything. How close 1313 01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:21,840 Speaker 1: are you to taking the lid off that can of worms. Well, 1314 01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:23,840 Speaker 1: the good part there is, you know, with our partnership 1315 01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:26,240 Speaker 1: with the thirty two clubs, you know, they typically do 1316 01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:28,760 Speaker 1: stuff that they share content with So we're not going 1317 01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:30,520 Speaker 1: to be able to get in their live anytime soon, 1318 01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:32,560 Speaker 1: but the clubs always are willing to share what they can, 1319 01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:35,120 Speaker 1: if they can, when they can, to show us that 1320 01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:38,160 Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Uh, you know, the inside inside the 1321 01:03:38,160 --> 01:03:41,360 Speaker 1: interview room. Those those are the deep pressing questions. But 1322 01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:43,280 Speaker 1: we're not at a point where we're going to be 1323 01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:44,960 Speaker 1: able to get in there. But again, with our partnership 1324 01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:47,040 Speaker 1: with all thirty two teams, we have the ability to 1325 01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:49,760 Speaker 1: get the content that they're shooting from inside their rooms. Charlie, 1326 01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:52,720 Speaker 1: good luck next week. You should be fun right. Yeah, 1327 01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:54,920 Speaker 1: I can't wait. I can't wait to get down there 1328 01:03:54,960 --> 01:03:58,120 Speaker 1: and again hopefully for not just for for Bill's fans, 1329 01:03:58,480 --> 01:04:00,320 Speaker 1: but for all fans. We can we can paint a 1330 01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:02,720 Speaker 1: pictures as we lead up Table twenty thirty. Thanks for 1331 01:04:02,720 --> 01:04:05,200 Speaker 1: spending some time with us, Charlie. Thanks Allas, talk to 1332 01:04:05,240 --> 01:04:08,160 Speaker 1: you soon. Thanks Charlie. You NFL Network vice president of 1333 01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:11,960 Speaker 1: Production Overseas. The networks combine and NFL coverage they start 1334 01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:14,760 Speaker 1: next week. We'll be there next Tuesday through Friday from 1335 01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:17,560 Speaker 1: noon to three our regular time, but starting Thursday night 1336 01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:20,760 Speaker 1: and then Thursday, Friday Saturday of next week, NFL Network 1337 01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:23,920 Speaker 1: goes live four pm to eleven pm, seven hours those 1338 01:04:23,960 --> 01:04:29,240 Speaker 1: three nights, five hours on Saturday or five hours on Sunday, 1339 01:04:29,280 --> 01:04:32,080 Speaker 1: March first, starting at two pm. NFL Network coverage of 1340 01:04:32,080 --> 01:04:37,120 Speaker 1: the NFL Scouting Combine coming log from Indianapolis Primetime starting 1341 01:04:37,160 --> 01:04:40,160 Speaker 1: next week Thursday, Friday, Saturday nights and then Sunday two 1342 01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:44,360 Speaker 1: pm to seven pm. It's different. I don't see a 1343 01:04:44,360 --> 01:04:47,400 Speaker 1: problem with this, right, I asked the requestion about when 1344 01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:52,120 Speaker 1: they do it? Yeah, who cares, right, it's primetime TV. Listen. No, 1345 01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:54,520 Speaker 1: it's as good as most things that around primetime TV. 1346 01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:57,360 Speaker 1: And you know, I don't. I have no impact at 1347 01:04:57,400 --> 01:05:00,280 Speaker 1: all on our players perform It will have an fact 1348 01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:03,680 Speaker 1: on the social atmosphere in indian to combine and that's fine. 1349 01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:06,880 Speaker 1: That's a little overrated as well. Um, Yeah, I don't 1350 01:05:06,920 --> 01:05:08,720 Speaker 1: mind it at all. I think it's good. And I'm 1351 01:05:08,720 --> 01:05:11,440 Speaker 1: telling you you can make plans for what you want 1352 01:05:11,440 --> 01:05:13,120 Speaker 1: to do. But Thursday night, you do want to be 1353 01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:17,320 Speaker 1: around the inside the quarterbacks, quarterbacks, tight ends, receivers. You 1354 01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:19,800 Speaker 1: want to see those guys receivers, in particular for Bills fans. 1355 01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:22,160 Speaker 1: We've made plans to be sitting there right. I mean, yes, 1356 01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:25,760 Speaker 1: you've commandeered my social evenings. I've took one night out 1357 01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:28,919 Speaker 1: of the four nights. Five nights you'll spend it believably inconvenience. 1358 01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:31,440 Speaker 1: Four nights you'll spend an Indian when we've gone on 1359 01:05:31,440 --> 01:05:34,600 Speaker 1: a business tree. You're asking me to work. Wait a minute, 1360 01:05:35,520 --> 01:05:38,000 Speaker 1: it'll be good. We're there next to Monday. Monday, we 1361 01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:40,840 Speaker 1: make the trip Tuesday through Friday. We're live noon to 1362 01:05:40,920 --> 01:05:44,000 Speaker 1: three pm. One of the things that still exists at 1363 01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:47,360 Speaker 1: the Combine, and it's not completely gone yet, is that 1364 01:05:47,400 --> 01:05:50,520 Speaker 1: there is an aspect of this and when you're walking 1365 01:05:50,560 --> 01:05:53,400 Speaker 1: around and the days are kind of drag on and stuff, 1366 01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:56,360 Speaker 1: you get a chance to see and say hello to 1367 01:05:56,520 --> 01:05:59,000 Speaker 1: a lot of people in the NFL that either you've 1368 01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:02,720 Speaker 1: lost touch with or had an acquaintance with for a 1369 01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:06,240 Speaker 1: lot of years, or you know, wanted to meet and 1370 01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:08,640 Speaker 1: like I said, before the guard is down, you know 1371 01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:11,240 Speaker 1: they're they're just kind of casually standing around. And I've 1372 01:06:11,640 --> 01:06:13,959 Speaker 1: sat in with and spoken to most of the guys 1373 01:06:13,960 --> 01:06:16,240 Speaker 1: in the NFL as head coaches and have gotten to 1374 01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:18,360 Speaker 1: say at least hello and have a conversation with most 1375 01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:20,320 Speaker 1: of the gms who at least have been there for 1376 01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:23,080 Speaker 1: the last couple of three years. That number's shrinking, by 1377 01:06:23,120 --> 01:06:25,720 Speaker 1: the way. But I know a lot, you know, and 1378 01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:28,160 Speaker 1: you do too. You know a ton of people, and 1379 01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:31,200 Speaker 1: it's nice to go in and be able to take 1380 01:06:31,240 --> 01:06:33,120 Speaker 1: a nice deep because you're not don't have a game 1381 01:06:33,120 --> 01:06:35,280 Speaker 1: to worry about, right, we're always broadcasting game. You got 1382 01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:37,200 Speaker 1: things you got to do and get that. It's much 1383 01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:40,880 Speaker 1: different atmosphere when nobody has a scoreboard other than the 1384 01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:43,680 Speaker 1: players that are involved, you know, and everybody's just got 1385 01:06:43,720 --> 01:06:46,360 Speaker 1: that level of stress just peeled away, and it's it's 1386 01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:48,480 Speaker 1: fun to be around that atmosphere. I was thinking about 1387 01:06:48,480 --> 01:06:50,160 Speaker 1: this the other day when an't we talking about Kevin 1388 01:06:50,200 --> 01:06:53,400 Speaker 1: Gilbride yesterday the day before he's coaching in the XFL. Yeah, 1389 01:06:53,440 --> 01:06:55,400 Speaker 1: And the last time I saw Kevin Gilbride and he 1390 01:06:55,440 --> 01:06:57,080 Speaker 1: spent a couple of years here in Buffalo, and I 1391 01:06:57,120 --> 01:06:59,479 Speaker 1: got to be somewhat close with him, liked him a lot. 1392 01:06:59,600 --> 01:07:01,520 Speaker 1: I think ry highly when as a coach. But it 1393 01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:03,840 Speaker 1: was at the Combine after he left Buffalo went to 1394 01:07:03,880 --> 01:07:06,360 Speaker 1: the Giants won a Super Bowl, and I bumped at 1395 01:07:06,520 --> 01:07:08,240 Speaker 1: him on the street in Indie one night at the 1396 01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:10,560 Speaker 1: Combine and talked to him for twenty five minutes, and 1397 01:07:10,640 --> 01:07:12,360 Speaker 1: it was delightful. And that kind of thing that happens 1398 01:07:12,360 --> 01:07:14,439 Speaker 1: at the Combine. You see people you haven't seen, maybe 1399 01:07:14,440 --> 01:07:16,480 Speaker 1: guys who have accomplished something, or guys who have moved 1400 01:07:16,520 --> 01:07:18,439 Speaker 1: a little bit, and you're gonna chance to say, Hey, 1401 01:07:18,800 --> 01:07:20,840 Speaker 1: I enjoyed knowing you in Buffalo, and I'm really happy 1402 01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:23,800 Speaker 1: for what you'd like. For instance, there's probably a chance 1403 01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:27,120 Speaker 1: we're gonna cross pass with Frank Reich, Tom Talsco, the 1404 01:07:27,160 --> 01:07:29,000 Speaker 1: both of the Indianapolis coach. They're gonna be on the show. 1405 01:07:29,040 --> 01:07:30,439 Speaker 1: We're gonna try and get those guys on the show. 1406 01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:33,640 Speaker 1: Alex Van Pelt is a new offensive coordinator, and this 1407 01:07:33,920 --> 01:07:37,680 Speaker 1: may be his first shot at actually being hired as 1408 01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:40,280 Speaker 1: an offensive coordinator, not being elevated into the spot for 1409 01:07:40,320 --> 01:07:43,640 Speaker 1: a minute, an interim basis or whatever. Alex Van Pelt, 1410 01:07:43,680 --> 01:07:46,440 Speaker 1: his new Cleveland Brown's offensive coordinator. I loved it. I 1411 01:07:46,480 --> 01:07:48,360 Speaker 1: can't wait to touch base with him and say hello, 1412 01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:50,840 Speaker 1: other guys like that around the league who I played 1413 01:07:50,880 --> 01:07:54,640 Speaker 1: with or against, And it's just gonna be a fun time. 1414 01:07:54,680 --> 01:07:56,280 Speaker 1: I'm glad we actually got a chance because it looked 1415 01:07:56,320 --> 01:07:57,600 Speaker 1: like for a while we weren't gonna make the trip 1416 01:07:57,760 --> 01:07:59,560 Speaker 1: as a you know, as a schedule and why, you know, 1417 01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:01,920 Speaker 1: why go down there. But it is going to be 1418 01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:05,160 Speaker 1: a scene. It's a convention. It is NFL offseason. We 1419 01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:07,520 Speaker 1: belong that longer. People want to see us, by the 1420 01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:09,680 Speaker 1: way you want to see him. People want to see 1421 01:08:09,720 --> 01:08:13,240 Speaker 1: us combine. People like us. I can't tell you, honestly, 1422 01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:16,280 Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks conversations with people that work 1423 01:08:16,280 --> 01:08:18,719 Speaker 1: in the league, the one question, Hey, you're going to combine. 1424 01:08:18,720 --> 01:08:20,599 Speaker 1: You're going to that, right, Yeah, it's just like going 1425 01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:22,400 Speaker 1: to the super Bowl. You're going to combine, You're going 1426 01:08:22,400 --> 01:08:24,559 Speaker 1: to the Draft, You're going you know everything? Yeah, yeah, 1427 01:08:24,640 --> 01:08:26,320 Speaker 1: going to train or we're gonna be at training camp. Yeah, 1428 01:08:26,320 --> 01:08:28,360 Speaker 1: you know when you're coming into training camp. Well, everybody, 1429 01:08:28,400 --> 01:08:30,880 Speaker 1: it's just the way it is. Hey, our Twitter poll today, 1430 01:08:31,240 --> 01:08:34,080 Speaker 1: there's a CBA on the table, owners apparently voting on 1431 01:08:34,200 --> 01:08:36,439 Speaker 1: it today in New York City. Players may get to 1432 01:08:36,479 --> 01:08:39,400 Speaker 1: it tomorrow or over the weekend. Among things involved in 1433 01:08:39,439 --> 01:08:43,519 Speaker 1: this new CBA is a fourteen team NFL postseason, seven 1434 01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:46,879 Speaker 1: teams in each conference, not six. What's your biggest takeaway 1435 01:08:46,880 --> 01:08:50,280 Speaker 1: from the proposed fourteen team playoff format and why? That's 1436 01:08:50,280 --> 01:08:52,360 Speaker 1: our Twitter poll. It's up on Twitter right now. We'd 1437 01:08:52,360 --> 01:08:54,200 Speaker 1: love to hear from you about it. Eight oh three 1438 01:08:54,200 --> 01:08:56,840 Speaker 1: oh five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five 1439 01:08:56,920 --> 01:08:59,640 Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. About a thousand votes in so 1440 01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:02,120 Speaker 1: far fifty on the Twitter poll, fifty two percent of 1441 01:09:02,200 --> 01:09:05,600 Speaker 1: you say you love it. Seventeens per conference. Love it 1442 01:09:05,640 --> 01:09:08,320 Speaker 1: more playoff football to watch. Thirty percent of you say 1443 01:09:08,360 --> 01:09:11,360 Speaker 1: why change the current format is fine? Fifteen percent of 1444 01:09:11,360 --> 01:09:12,920 Speaker 1: you say you know you set the bar too low. 1445 01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:15,080 Speaker 1: You're getting the eight and eight teams maybe even worse 1446 01:09:15,360 --> 01:09:18,360 Speaker 1: in the postseason. Then three point four percent say it's 1447 01:09:18,360 --> 01:09:20,400 Speaker 1: something else. Let's hear from you. The phone nines are open, 1448 01:09:20,640 --> 01:09:23,760 Speaker 1: and they're wide open. Eight three fifty toll free one 1449 01:09:23,920 --> 01:09:27,080 Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Let be 1450 01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:33,040 Speaker 1: the all two early captain obvious. This is on the 1451 01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:36,519 Speaker 1: way to an eighteen game schedule. Yeah right, yeah, I 1452 01:09:36,560 --> 01:09:39,360 Speaker 1: mean that's that's on the horizon, and the owners will 1453 01:09:39,400 --> 01:09:42,040 Speaker 1: give whatever another percentage and a half, which is may 1454 01:09:42,520 --> 01:09:44,800 Speaker 1: they only want a five year deal. Yeah, ten years. 1455 01:09:44,880 --> 01:09:47,040 Speaker 1: See if they can get another another game into it, 1456 01:09:47,200 --> 01:09:49,679 Speaker 1: and then they'll and they'll move that. They'll take another 1457 01:09:49,720 --> 01:09:53,479 Speaker 1: preseason game off the schedule, and right they're going. It's 1458 01:09:53,520 --> 01:09:56,960 Speaker 1: evolving into the Steve task or plan. Murph. No, no, no, no, 1459 01:09:56,960 --> 01:10:01,080 Speaker 1: I admit it. No you without having guys for two games? Right. 1460 01:10:01,560 --> 01:10:03,040 Speaker 1: I'll tell you one thing that occurred to me when 1461 01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:05,000 Speaker 1: Charlie Yuk was on us a minute ago. I didn't 1462 01:10:05,040 --> 01:10:06,719 Speaker 1: want to say it because I thought it was rude, 1463 01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:10,960 Speaker 1: but we have to be reaching the saturation point right 1464 01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:14,920 Speaker 1: for for NFL football on TV. No, we're not there yet. 1465 01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:17,160 Speaker 1: Is there enough football? Is there? What's too much? I 1466 01:10:17,160 --> 01:10:18,920 Speaker 1: mean he's talking and I get it, and I get it. 1467 01:10:18,960 --> 01:10:20,760 Speaker 1: I have no problem with the Combine moving to Knights 1468 01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:22,120 Speaker 1: and people want to see it and they'll watch it. 1469 01:10:22,160 --> 01:10:24,240 Speaker 1: The ratings will be good. I didn't want to ask 1470 01:10:24,280 --> 01:10:28,240 Speaker 1: Charlie this, but at what point does somebody say back off, 1471 01:10:28,240 --> 01:10:30,240 Speaker 1: we got enough football? Maybe if we ever get there, 1472 01:10:30,280 --> 01:10:32,760 Speaker 1: and you know, maybe maybe that's why they didn't go 1473 01:10:33,200 --> 01:10:36,479 Speaker 1: seventeen or eight or eighteen games right away, because they thought, well, listen, wait, 1474 01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:39,040 Speaker 1: you know what, let's ease into this, because if we 1475 01:10:39,080 --> 01:10:42,120 Speaker 1: start to get some pushback with the numbers and particularly 1476 01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:44,519 Speaker 1: on our bottom line, we may want to Well, I 1477 01:10:44,520 --> 01:10:47,120 Speaker 1: think the pushback would be from players who would they 1478 01:10:47,200 --> 01:10:49,160 Speaker 1: might vote for seventeen, but eighteen to be a big 1479 01:10:49,160 --> 01:10:52,320 Speaker 1: problem right away. Yeah, and they'll get to eighteen. I 1480 01:10:52,360 --> 01:10:55,040 Speaker 1: think you're right, but they may see the financial benefit 1481 01:10:55,080 --> 01:10:57,080 Speaker 1: and they let this thing out on and then then yeah, 1482 01:10:57,200 --> 01:10:59,560 Speaker 1: they'll they'll be a sore spot in the CBA, and 1483 01:10:59,600 --> 01:11:02,160 Speaker 1: the unials say we'll make that go away if you 1484 01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:04,439 Speaker 1: give us one more game. Man. Yeah, you know that's 1485 01:11:04,479 --> 01:11:07,360 Speaker 1: what it is. I know where it ends. This game is. 1486 01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:09,880 Speaker 1: It's a hundred years old. Now it's a generational thing. 1487 01:11:09,880 --> 01:11:12,240 Speaker 1: Now they're gonna they're thinking about the next twenty five years, 1488 01:11:12,240 --> 01:11:14,280 Speaker 1: not this the next twenty five months. Yep, you know. 1489 01:11:14,479 --> 01:11:19,559 Speaker 1: So you can bet it's gonna happen, right. It's I 1490 01:11:19,680 --> 01:11:21,439 Speaker 1: was way ahead of my time with my plan, That's 1491 01:11:21,439 --> 01:11:23,800 Speaker 1: all I can say. Now, your plan was flawed because 1492 01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:29,800 Speaker 1: you had players opting to play just sixteen games. It's 1493 01:11:29,840 --> 01:11:34,160 Speaker 1: no surprise that my plan was flawed, because I inherently flawed. 1494 01:11:34,439 --> 01:11:36,120 Speaker 1: We're taking a break and we're coming back, and we'd 1495 01:11:36,120 --> 01:11:38,160 Speaker 1: love to get your phone calls on the area. Your response. 1496 01:11:38,280 --> 01:11:40,400 Speaker 1: We'll read some of the tweets to your biggest takeaway 1497 01:11:40,560 --> 01:11:43,600 Speaker 1: from from the proposal to have fourteen teams in the 1498 01:11:43,600 --> 01:11:46,519 Speaker 1: playoffs rather than twelve. It's one bills. I'd presented by 1499 01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:50,200 Speaker 1: a lot of health from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park, 1500 01:11:50,280 --> 01:12:05,560 Speaker 1: Seneca Resorts and Casino. Nothing comes close. You got a 1501 01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:07,160 Speaker 1: whole half of the show to go here, Steve, you 1502 01:12:07,240 --> 01:12:11,400 Speaker 1: got enough material, You're good, Yeah, Okay, take it. Yeah. 1503 01:12:12,439 --> 01:12:15,360 Speaker 1: I really think it's fascinating to look at the history 1504 01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:17,639 Speaker 1: of the combine and how far it's coming, because it's 1505 01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:22,880 Speaker 1: become this juggernaut, so to speak, of television viewing. I mean, 1506 01:12:22,920 --> 01:12:25,080 Speaker 1: all football fans are gonna be glued to it. You 1507 01:12:25,120 --> 01:12:27,280 Speaker 1: can't take your eyes off of it, particularly the ones 1508 01:12:27,320 --> 01:12:30,720 Speaker 1: who I don't know, God, this rating show, this thing 1509 01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:32,439 Speaker 1: about this draft, well, I don't know. I'll bet you 1510 01:12:32,479 --> 01:12:34,320 Speaker 1: the rate. I'll bet it pulls a pretty strong number. 1511 01:12:34,840 --> 01:12:36,719 Speaker 1: I'll be eager to see that I will be too 1512 01:12:37,200 --> 01:12:40,000 Speaker 1: moving it to primetime. They must think something's up. You know, 1513 01:12:41,080 --> 01:12:43,360 Speaker 1: it will be higher ratings than they are during the 1514 01:12:43,439 --> 01:12:47,400 Speaker 1: daytime for combined workouts. I still can't figure out. Um. 1515 01:12:47,439 --> 01:12:48,920 Speaker 1: And here's the other thing I didn't want to ask 1516 01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:52,120 Speaker 1: Charlie Yuke. What's ESPN gonna do. ESPN used to carry 1517 01:12:52,120 --> 01:12:55,120 Speaker 1: those workouts too, Now are they gonna do that at night? 1518 01:12:55,439 --> 01:12:58,160 Speaker 1: I got a college a healthy college basketball schedule. I 1519 01:12:58,160 --> 01:13:00,920 Speaker 1: don't know that they got a college basketball They gonna 1520 01:13:01,080 --> 01:13:03,280 Speaker 1: pay for the rights, I don't know. Are they out? 1521 01:13:03,640 --> 01:13:06,920 Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll have some combine coverage and some presence there, don't. 1522 01:13:06,920 --> 01:13:09,839 Speaker 1: They kind of have to. That's because what's a crowded field? 1523 01:13:10,200 --> 01:13:11,840 Speaker 1: But what do they do with the working out cast 1524 01:13:11,880 --> 01:13:14,519 Speaker 1: side of As we were talking about it, everybody and 1525 01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:17,760 Speaker 1: their uncle uses the NFL for content. Yes, I mean 1526 01:13:17,760 --> 01:13:20,439 Speaker 1: this show's built around it. Yes, right, Yes, I mean 1527 01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:25,760 Speaker 1: teams generated and so there's gonna be people standing in 1528 01:13:25,880 --> 01:13:28,559 Speaker 1: line to you know, get credential. That's saying they wouldn't 1529 01:13:28,560 --> 01:13:31,280 Speaker 1: be interested. But if the gain if the combined workouts 1530 01:13:31,320 --> 01:13:34,600 Speaker 1: are at night, which they are four PM, in conflict 1531 01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:38,400 Speaker 1: with college basketball and every almost virtually every one of 1532 01:13:38,439 --> 01:13:41,680 Speaker 1: the ESPN platforms is filled with college hoops. Maybe they 1533 01:13:41,680 --> 01:13:43,680 Speaker 1: don't want to care. Maybe that's what. Maybe maybe that's 1534 01:13:43,720 --> 01:13:46,720 Speaker 1: a secret that the NFL network reason they put it 1535 01:13:46,760 --> 01:13:49,599 Speaker 1: there so they could have it exclusively bump their numbers. 1536 01:13:50,120 --> 01:13:52,439 Speaker 1: They haven't heard or read anything about that, but I 1537 01:13:52,439 --> 01:13:54,599 Speaker 1: think that has something. Yeah, maybe I don't know. Maybe 1538 01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:58,240 Speaker 1: it's maybe it's just an inciliary benefit to the network. 1539 01:13:58,280 --> 01:14:01,960 Speaker 1: Our Twitter poll today. The owners are meeting as we 1540 01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:04,719 Speaker 1: speak in New York City voting on the new CBA. 1541 01:14:04,760 --> 01:14:07,400 Speaker 1: Well talking about the new CBA. They may vote and 1542 01:14:07,439 --> 01:14:09,479 Speaker 1: if they approve it. If the owners approve it, it 1543 01:14:09,479 --> 01:14:12,719 Speaker 1: would go to the Players Association. If the Executive Committee 1544 01:14:12,720 --> 01:14:16,120 Speaker 1: of the Players Association approves it by the two thirds 1545 01:14:16,200 --> 01:14:18,519 Speaker 1: or three quarters two thirds, right, they approve it by 1546 01:14:18,600 --> 01:14:21,880 Speaker 1: two thirds margin, it goes to the entire Players Association 1547 01:14:21,960 --> 01:14:24,439 Speaker 1: for their approval. We could have a new CBA in 1548 01:14:24,479 --> 01:14:26,439 Speaker 1: the next week or so, maybe even shorter than that. 1549 01:14:26,520 --> 01:14:29,000 Speaker 1: We're going to find out. There's always that specter because 1550 01:14:29,000 --> 01:14:32,920 Speaker 1: we don't know what the executive Council the NFLPA really thinks. 1551 01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:36,040 Speaker 1: We know what the negotiators think and what the what 1552 01:14:36,160 --> 01:14:39,080 Speaker 1: the executive committee. They'll bring it to the to the 1553 01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:42,280 Speaker 1: players reps. But if they can't sell the player reps 1554 01:14:42,320 --> 01:14:44,839 Speaker 1: on it and the player reps have some serious questions, 1555 01:14:46,080 --> 01:14:49,040 Speaker 1: the executive committee has to really sit down and hear it. 1556 01:14:49,080 --> 01:14:51,040 Speaker 1: I mean, that's the way it works. They can try 1557 01:14:51,080 --> 01:14:56,360 Speaker 1: and make the case for doing it, but yeah, it's 1558 01:14:56,800 --> 01:14:59,000 Speaker 1: the nooks and crannies of this deal are always what 1559 01:14:59,080 --> 01:15:01,920 Speaker 1: gets them, and what's what gets it. It's the language 1560 01:15:01,960 --> 01:15:03,880 Speaker 1: and the contract and everything and everything. We had one 1561 01:15:03,880 --> 01:15:05,439 Speaker 1: of the callers call them and say what it does 1562 01:15:05,920 --> 01:15:08,320 Speaker 1: because they agree to this, does this means something over here? 1563 01:15:08,320 --> 01:15:11,439 Speaker 1: And the answer is no. Everything is a separate issue. 1564 01:15:12,120 --> 01:15:15,280 Speaker 1: And it's a full scale, top to bottom revamping of 1565 01:15:15,320 --> 01:15:18,280 Speaker 1: a really really complex labor agreement. It goes on and 1566 01:15:18,360 --> 01:15:21,720 Speaker 1: on this stuff, so a ton of stuff on the 1567 01:15:21,760 --> 01:15:25,840 Speaker 1: table and it's really complicated. And if it gets done 1568 01:15:25,880 --> 01:15:30,519 Speaker 1: this quick, that'll tell you how much financial motivation there was. 1569 01:15:31,080 --> 01:15:34,320 Speaker 1: Right there's a ton of it, and they're talking about 1570 01:15:34,680 --> 01:15:39,680 Speaker 1: five billion dollars for one and a half percent of 1571 01:15:39,680 --> 01:15:44,920 Speaker 1: what they're talking about gold the things that would impact. 1572 01:15:44,960 --> 01:15:49,000 Speaker 1: We think seventeen game regular season schedule could be coming 1573 01:15:49,080 --> 01:15:51,000 Speaker 1: if this new CBA has approven that it won't be 1574 01:15:51,040 --> 01:15:53,679 Speaker 1: happening in this coming year. Twenty twenty, could be twenty 1575 01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:56,960 Speaker 1: twenty one, maybe twenty twenty two. But the playoff expansion 1576 01:15:57,080 --> 01:16:00,479 Speaker 1: from six teams per conference to seventeens per for that, 1577 01:16:00,800 --> 01:16:03,400 Speaker 1: if it's approved, that is like that it happened next season. 1578 01:16:03,439 --> 01:16:06,040 Speaker 1: And that's that's where our Twitter poll comes in. What 1579 01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:07,880 Speaker 1: do you think of that? If they expand the playoffs 1580 01:16:08,040 --> 01:16:10,760 Speaker 1: to include two more teams, what does that do for you? 1581 01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:12,760 Speaker 1: Is it good? Is it bad? What do you think? 1582 01:16:12,760 --> 01:16:15,240 Speaker 1: Give us a call eight h three fifty and toll 1583 01:16:15,320 --> 01:16:18,040 Speaker 1: free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. 1584 01:16:18,200 --> 01:16:19,759 Speaker 1: Let's look at some of the tweets on the tweet 1585 01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:22,799 Speaker 1: sheet brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official 1586 01:16:22,840 --> 01:16:25,960 Speaker 1: movers of the Buffalo Bills from Go Billers. I don't 1587 01:16:25,960 --> 01:16:28,640 Speaker 1: think an extra playoff game with a playoff game with 1588 01:16:28,640 --> 01:16:30,200 Speaker 1: a seven or nine or an eight and eight team 1589 01:16:30,439 --> 01:16:33,320 Speaker 1: would be compelling at all. However, if it was an 1590 01:16:33,320 --> 01:16:36,120 Speaker 1: extra week of playoffs or an extra week of regular season, 1591 01:16:36,600 --> 01:16:39,720 Speaker 1: I'd choose playoffs. I think what he's saying is, if 1592 01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:42,320 Speaker 1: if his choice is you want an extra week of 1593 01:16:42,320 --> 01:16:44,240 Speaker 1: the playoffs or an extra week of regular season. I'd 1594 01:16:44,240 --> 01:16:46,479 Speaker 1: take an extra week of the playoffs. I don't think 1595 01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:48,439 Speaker 1: that's going to be your choice, and the one will 1596 01:16:48,439 --> 01:16:50,920 Speaker 1: happen first. The playoffs will probably happen first, but eventually 1597 01:16:50,960 --> 01:16:53,080 Speaker 1: you'll get to a seventeen week regular seat. You're getting 1598 01:16:53,240 --> 01:16:55,439 Speaker 1: You're getting eight and eight teams in the playoffs, now, 1599 01:16:56,600 --> 01:17:00,000 Speaker 1: I mean that's you know, that's a foregone conclusion. Sometimes 1600 01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:03,200 Speaker 1: the divisions spit out a winner that's not up to snuff, 1601 01:17:03,720 --> 01:17:06,479 Speaker 1: and I you know, we can go back and think 1602 01:17:06,479 --> 01:17:10,439 Speaker 1: of times when bad teams got in, But I still 1603 01:17:10,479 --> 01:17:13,760 Speaker 1: think it would be better if you're gonna have divisions 1604 01:17:13,800 --> 01:17:16,880 Speaker 1: in football. Okay, but if you get did away with 1605 01:17:16,960 --> 01:17:19,880 Speaker 1: divisions and just said, hey, top teams make it, and you, 1606 01:17:20,800 --> 01:17:23,559 Speaker 1: from year to year go rank the teams from one 1607 01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:29,719 Speaker 1: through sixteen in each conference, and then you say you 1608 01:17:29,720 --> 01:17:33,639 Speaker 1: you lay out their schedules accordingly, strictly by ranking, and 1609 01:17:35,040 --> 01:17:37,920 Speaker 1: go that way and do away with it, do away 1610 01:17:37,960 --> 01:17:40,320 Speaker 1: with the divisions. You don't need that, you don't need 1611 01:17:40,320 --> 01:17:44,519 Speaker 1: to play a team twice. So I don't know, I 1612 01:17:44,840 --> 01:17:49,360 Speaker 1: just uh, seeding the playoff teams to me, makes a 1613 01:17:49,360 --> 01:17:51,960 Speaker 1: lot more sense than having an eight and eight team 1614 01:17:52,000 --> 01:17:55,280 Speaker 1: who wanted bad division hosting a ten and six or 1615 01:17:55,320 --> 01:17:57,519 Speaker 1: eleven and five team who got beat by the number 1616 01:17:57,520 --> 01:17:59,680 Speaker 1: one seed in their own division. How about an eight 1617 01:17:59,680 --> 01:18:05,320 Speaker 1: and eight team that battled to win a division and 1618 01:18:05,439 --> 01:18:07,679 Speaker 1: the other teams in the division are six and nine 1619 01:18:07,720 --> 01:18:10,240 Speaker 1: and seven and nine, seven to nine. Yes, I mean, 1620 01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:12,280 Speaker 1: if they're the winners the championship, doesn't sound like a 1621 01:18:12,280 --> 01:18:15,080 Speaker 1: really good division to me. Well, maybe they are. I mean, 1622 01:18:15,240 --> 01:18:17,160 Speaker 1: what if they beat each other up, That's all I'm saying. 1623 01:18:17,160 --> 01:18:20,240 Speaker 1: If they the NFC West was the best division in football, 1624 01:18:20,280 --> 01:18:24,599 Speaker 1: they got two teams in the division in and one 1625 01:18:24,640 --> 01:18:28,040 Speaker 1: of their teams got shut out. The Rams would have 1626 01:18:28,120 --> 01:18:31,080 Speaker 1: been the next team in under this playoff, under this 1627 01:18:31,120 --> 01:18:35,880 Speaker 1: new playoff system, and they were both in. So I yeah, 1628 01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:37,840 Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't buy that. I don't buy 1629 01:18:37,840 --> 01:18:40,679 Speaker 1: that if if win your games, I mean, if you're 1630 01:18:40,680 --> 01:18:42,760 Speaker 1: that good a division, you would beat everybody outside of 1631 01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:45,840 Speaker 1: your division. And those teams that are eight and eight 1632 01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:48,799 Speaker 1: didn't do that. Back to the tweet sheet from Fisher, 1633 01:18:49,600 --> 01:18:51,280 Speaker 1: and I think this is the way many people feel. 1634 01:18:51,320 --> 01:18:54,120 Speaker 1: I'm torn on this question. Fisher says, all those years 1635 01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:55,880 Speaker 1: are the Bills not making the playoffs and now when 1636 01:18:55,880 --> 01:18:58,000 Speaker 1: we're back in the playoffs two or to three years 1637 01:18:58,000 --> 01:19:00,439 Speaker 1: and they make it easier for the other teams. Hopefully 1638 01:19:00,439 --> 01:19:02,759 Speaker 1: we can get the first round by at least go bills. 1639 01:19:03,040 --> 01:19:04,719 Speaker 1: You get a first round buy in this new system, 1640 01:19:04,720 --> 01:19:06,519 Speaker 1: you need to be the number one team in the conference. 1641 01:19:06,520 --> 01:19:09,400 Speaker 1: So's and that's an interesting concept. To be the number 1642 01:19:09,400 --> 01:19:11,479 Speaker 1: one team in the conference now the only team that 1643 01:19:11,560 --> 01:19:14,920 Speaker 1: gets a buy That would I think have an ancillary 1644 01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:18,240 Speaker 1: effect of creating really good competition to be the number 1645 01:19:18,280 --> 01:19:20,439 Speaker 1: one team in the conference right right down to the 1646 01:19:20,560 --> 01:19:22,639 Speaker 1: end of the regular season. Whenever that is. Don't get 1647 01:19:22,640 --> 01:19:24,800 Speaker 1: caught up in what it would have meant, could have meant, 1648 01:19:24,840 --> 01:19:26,960 Speaker 1: should have meant way back in the day. The league never, 1649 01:19:27,040 --> 01:19:29,160 Speaker 1: the NFL never gets caught up in history. They don't 1650 01:19:29,160 --> 01:19:31,719 Speaker 1: really care about what the record holders were in nineteen 1651 01:19:32,120 --> 01:19:34,720 Speaker 1: seventy five or nineteen eighty five. They want to know 1652 01:19:34,760 --> 01:19:36,599 Speaker 1: what's going to happen to the how the game's gonna 1653 01:19:36,640 --> 01:19:39,599 Speaker 1: look going forward. And I think going forward, think about 1654 01:19:39,600 --> 01:19:43,519 Speaker 1: wild card weekend, the playoffs finally hit. You've been waiting 1655 01:19:43,520 --> 01:19:47,320 Speaker 1: on them forever. Try and think back of how excited 1656 01:19:47,400 --> 01:19:50,800 Speaker 1: you were for that playoff weekend when the bills are in, 1657 01:19:51,040 --> 01:19:53,040 Speaker 1: they're going to Houston, and all that stuff's going on, 1658 01:19:53,760 --> 01:19:57,320 Speaker 1: and how rapid the appetite is from everybody about the 1659 01:19:57,360 --> 01:20:01,800 Speaker 1: playoffs beginning. And that's the weekend. You at six games, 1660 01:20:01,840 --> 01:20:06,920 Speaker 1: all standalone games at noon or one o'clock Eastern, at 1661 01:20:06,960 --> 01:20:10,240 Speaker 1: four thirty Eastern and at eight You're gonna be watching 1662 01:20:10,280 --> 01:20:13,200 Speaker 1: games all day, all afternoon on a weekend when it's 1663 01:20:13,240 --> 01:20:15,559 Speaker 1: the most exciting and the and the most fun to 1664 01:20:15,560 --> 01:20:17,840 Speaker 1: do it on both days Saturday and Sunday. Then the 1665 01:20:17,880 --> 01:20:21,880 Speaker 1: next week it'll be might be the same way. Right, 1666 01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:25,240 Speaker 1: three games, it'll be no. Next week you'll be two 1667 01:20:25,240 --> 01:20:29,120 Speaker 1: and two, two and two there, yes, right, two and two. Yeah, 1668 01:20:29,160 --> 01:20:32,400 Speaker 1: and it'll go backwards, so you'll get less less games. 1669 01:20:32,560 --> 01:20:37,720 Speaker 1: And I we've heard the little pushback say, I don't 1670 01:20:37,720 --> 01:20:39,400 Speaker 1: know if I can have a day where I got 1671 01:20:39,400 --> 01:20:41,519 Speaker 1: twelve hours to spend watching food and I get it 1672 01:20:41,720 --> 01:20:44,360 Speaker 1: about two days, but it's yeah, two days at twelve hours. 1673 01:20:44,439 --> 01:20:46,320 Speaker 1: I get that, But think of that, that's the week 1674 01:20:46,400 --> 01:20:49,479 Speaker 1: end of the year when you're gonna be ravenous for 1675 01:20:49,520 --> 01:20:51,760 Speaker 1: those playoff games. I think I think it's it makes 1676 01:20:51,800 --> 01:20:55,160 Speaker 1: it fits pretty well. I don't know. I don't know 1677 01:20:55,200 --> 01:20:57,720 Speaker 1: if they're close to killing the Golden Goose with all 1678 01:20:57,760 --> 01:21:00,720 Speaker 1: this expansion of postseason. But I think they're walking up 1679 01:21:01,120 --> 01:21:03,240 Speaker 1: right next to the line, I think, and I think 1680 01:21:03,240 --> 01:21:05,120 Speaker 1: that's why they didn't go eighteen games right away. I 1681 01:21:05,120 --> 01:21:07,160 Speaker 1: think they're trying to they're edging into it, or maybe 1682 01:21:07,160 --> 01:21:09,479 Speaker 1: it would they felt like it wouldn't have never, wouldn't 1683 01:21:09,520 --> 01:21:12,720 Speaker 1: have flown. They made a risk to work stoppage if 1684 01:21:12,760 --> 01:21:15,280 Speaker 1: they'd tried to go eighteen games right away. But I 1685 01:21:15,320 --> 01:21:17,559 Speaker 1: think now if they do this and do it, say 1686 01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:20,240 Speaker 1: say this agreement, this CBA is gonna last five years, 1687 01:21:20,280 --> 01:21:22,559 Speaker 1: they'll have five years of data and they'll be able 1688 01:21:22,600 --> 01:21:24,599 Speaker 1: to look at it and say, okay, if we do 1689 01:21:24,640 --> 01:21:26,800 Speaker 1: this and this or since we've done this, we have 1690 01:21:26,920 --> 01:21:30,639 Speaker 1: had no significant increase in injuries or the injuries increase. 1691 01:21:30,720 --> 01:21:32,800 Speaker 1: But because of this or whatever, they'll be able to 1692 01:21:32,840 --> 01:21:35,479 Speaker 1: cut the data down and say, here's what we're looking at, 1693 01:21:36,200 --> 01:21:38,000 Speaker 1: here's what it's going to be if we raise it 1694 01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:42,160 Speaker 1: to eighteen games. Because I think that's you know, it's 1695 01:21:43,479 --> 01:21:46,760 Speaker 1: it's obviously where they're headed. They didn't seventeen games get you. 1696 01:21:46,800 --> 01:21:50,320 Speaker 1: Nobody wants eight home games and nine away games or vice. Versa. 1697 01:21:50,439 --> 01:21:52,880 Speaker 1: I mean nine home games, okay, great, eight way games okay, 1698 01:21:52,920 --> 01:21:55,160 Speaker 1: but you got to rotate it everywhere. How they're gonna 1699 01:21:55,160 --> 01:21:58,400 Speaker 1: work at neutral site games, it becomes cumbersome and so 1700 01:21:58,479 --> 01:22:04,080 Speaker 1: much more mathematically satisfying. I guess when you have eighteen 1701 01:22:04,160 --> 01:22:11,479 Speaker 1: games with thirty two league right the neutral site games. 1702 01:22:11,840 --> 01:22:13,880 Speaker 1: We talked about this at length what two weeks ago, 1703 01:22:13,920 --> 01:22:16,040 Speaker 1: and I think that that holds the key to a 1704 01:22:16,120 --> 01:22:18,519 Speaker 1: seventeen game schedule, which may be one of the reasons 1705 01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:20,719 Speaker 1: why they would not put it in place for twenty 1706 01:22:20,800 --> 01:22:23,559 Speaker 1: twenty or maybe not even twenty twenty one. I mean, 1707 01:22:23,560 --> 01:22:26,360 Speaker 1: there's an international component that could be where that neutral 1708 01:22:26,439 --> 01:22:30,519 Speaker 1: site game is. There are neutral site proposals, at least 1709 01:22:30,520 --> 01:22:33,880 Speaker 1: here in the United States. I do think that's I 1710 01:22:33,960 --> 01:22:35,400 Speaker 1: think it might be one of those things that the 1711 01:22:35,479 --> 01:22:38,280 Speaker 1: league is in their back pocket thinking we'll work on 1712 01:22:38,360 --> 01:22:40,879 Speaker 1: neutral sites, but let's get this approved first to seventeen 1713 01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:43,080 Speaker 1: game schedule. That may be the thing that holds them 1714 01:22:43,120 --> 01:22:45,920 Speaker 1: up from putting it in place in twenty twenty one 1715 01:22:46,720 --> 01:22:49,880 Speaker 1: is the neutral site games and how they're going to 1716 01:22:49,960 --> 01:22:55,080 Speaker 1: handle it. It's it's because it's not just you know, 1717 01:22:55,080 --> 01:22:58,960 Speaker 1: it's a lot of games, so they got a fine 1718 01:22:59,000 --> 01:23:00,559 Speaker 1: places to play them. If they're all gonna be at 1719 01:23:00,600 --> 01:23:02,639 Speaker 1: home games or whatever, okay, that's fine. But if they're 1720 01:23:02,640 --> 01:23:07,200 Speaker 1: gonna be at neutral site games, how many and who? 1721 01:23:07,320 --> 01:23:09,920 Speaker 1: And if your if your division has it a neutral 1722 01:23:09,920 --> 01:23:12,880 Speaker 1: site game, why doesn't my division? Why does my division 1723 01:23:12,960 --> 01:23:16,320 Speaker 1: get home games? You know? So it's got to be 1724 01:23:16,360 --> 01:23:19,439 Speaker 1: equal that way as well. The odd number really throws 1725 01:23:19,439 --> 01:23:22,360 Speaker 1: a wrench into the ability to make it fair, just 1726 01:23:22,560 --> 01:23:25,920 Speaker 1: easier to make it fair. This neutral site thing is 1727 01:23:26,600 --> 01:23:30,719 Speaker 1: interesting and fun to think about, but it's also really 1728 01:23:30,720 --> 01:23:33,320 Speaker 1: problematic for the schedule makers. They'll figure it out. I 1729 01:23:33,360 --> 01:23:35,200 Speaker 1: don't think it's a bigger problem. Well, they'll figure it out, 1730 01:23:35,280 --> 01:23:37,639 Speaker 1: or they'll just mess it up and won't care. They'll 1731 01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:40,479 Speaker 1: just play them anyway. Right, it's so unfair it'll to somebody. 1732 01:23:40,479 --> 01:23:43,080 Speaker 1: Will It'll be unfair to somebody. So I'm taking a break. 1733 01:23:43,120 --> 01:23:44,599 Speaker 1: We're coming back. You can give us a call on 1734 01:23:44,640 --> 01:23:48,400 Speaker 1: this issue. A postseason, if it expands from two to 1735 01:23:48,479 --> 01:23:51,400 Speaker 1: fourteen teams from twelve teams, what are the practical effects 1736 01:23:51,439 --> 01:23:54,120 Speaker 1: of that? Give us a call eight fifty toll free 1737 01:23:54,200 --> 01:23:57,439 Speaker 1: one eight eight five fifty two five fifty. It's one 1738 01:23:57,479 --> 01:23:59,320 Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Come Out of Health from the 1739 01:23:59,360 --> 01:24:14,519 Speaker 1: Seneca Student. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back. One 1740 01:24:14,560 --> 01:24:17,120 Speaker 1: Bill's live genre. If you see Tansker, no news from 1741 01:24:17,160 --> 01:24:19,759 Speaker 1: New York where owners or meetings. We did see video 1742 01:24:19,920 --> 01:24:22,720 Speaker 1: on NFL network of owners arriving at meetings, so we 1743 01:24:22,840 --> 01:24:25,599 Speaker 1: got that going for us. They're congregating, yep, they're getting together. 1744 01:24:25,600 --> 01:24:28,640 Speaker 1: They're gonna they may vote on a new collective bargaining agreement. Hey, 1745 01:24:28,720 --> 01:24:30,680 Speaker 1: let's play What's for lunch? You're ready for that? What 1746 01:24:30,840 --> 01:24:33,880 Speaker 1: is for lunch? It's a that's a regular feature we do. 1747 01:24:33,960 --> 01:24:37,080 Speaker 1: We kind of discuss what we prefer. We get a 1748 01:24:37,160 --> 01:24:43,080 Speaker 1: choice of a beautiful, wonderful, well grilled chicken wing or 1749 01:24:43,120 --> 01:24:46,479 Speaker 1: a piece of fish between two slices of wonder or 1750 01:24:46,560 --> 01:24:49,240 Speaker 1: radio listeners aren't watching that, Not even a piece of fish, 1751 01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:52,720 Speaker 1: just a fish, just a flop and it's flopping fish too. 1752 01:24:53,400 --> 01:24:55,280 Speaker 1: What's for lunch? All right? Here we go. The Bills 1753 01:24:55,280 --> 01:24:58,960 Speaker 1: should or should not consider a trade for Darius Slay 1754 01:24:59,000 --> 01:25:02,040 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say shouldn't. Can they use a corner in 1755 01:25:02,080 --> 01:25:05,160 Speaker 1: the draft? Yeah? Maybe, but they're not in the market 1756 01:25:05,200 --> 01:25:07,360 Speaker 1: for an expensive cornerback. They have a guy that got 1757 01:25:07,360 --> 01:25:10,000 Speaker 1: to take care of whom they drafted Davis White. He 1758 01:25:10,160 --> 01:25:13,200 Speaker 1: is priority one. No, should not consider a trade for him. 1759 01:25:13,360 --> 01:25:16,639 Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna play words Smith right here say 1760 01:25:16,800 --> 01:25:20,400 Speaker 1: consider it. Sure, but do it absolutely, no, for sure, No, 1761 01:25:20,520 --> 01:25:22,760 Speaker 1: you gotta if it's the right price. Yeah, the guy 1762 01:25:22,800 --> 01:25:25,679 Speaker 1: can play, There's no question about. He's a good player, 1763 01:25:26,560 --> 01:25:29,599 Speaker 1: a very good player. And the Bills will check into 1764 01:25:29,640 --> 01:25:31,400 Speaker 1: what it's going to cost to get him out of Detroit, 1765 01:25:33,439 --> 01:25:36,360 Speaker 1: but don't do it at all costs. There's some guys available, 1766 01:25:36,520 --> 01:25:39,320 Speaker 1: and this is a time of year two where there's 1767 01:25:39,360 --> 01:25:41,240 Speaker 1: a handful of teams. Just like there's a handful of 1768 01:25:41,240 --> 01:25:43,080 Speaker 1: teams like the Bills, with a bunch of cap space 1769 01:25:43,160 --> 01:25:45,760 Speaker 1: to spend, there's also a bunch of teams that are 1770 01:25:46,400 --> 01:25:49,599 Speaker 1: choking on their cap and they're gonna cut some really 1771 01:25:49,640 --> 01:25:54,040 Speaker 1: good players. Just hand tough, find out who becomes available, 1772 01:25:54,240 --> 01:25:56,160 Speaker 1: get him for the right price. And I think that's 1773 01:25:56,200 --> 01:25:57,920 Speaker 1: what the Bill should do. And if Slay falls into that, 1774 01:25:58,040 --> 01:26:01,160 Speaker 1: If Darius Slay falls into that, sure, then consider it. 1775 01:26:01,400 --> 01:26:03,799 Speaker 1: Here's one who would you rather sign as a wide receiver, 1776 01:26:03,840 --> 01:26:11,479 Speaker 1: Amari Cooper or a J Green? First, I'm gonna say 1777 01:26:12,280 --> 01:26:16,320 Speaker 1: AJ Green? Why I've seen when I've had some experience 1778 01:26:16,360 --> 01:26:18,679 Speaker 1: watching him on the sideline when he played. I watched 1779 01:26:18,720 --> 01:26:21,120 Speaker 1: them the Cincinnati Bengals play. Just this. I'll just give 1780 01:26:21,160 --> 01:26:23,639 Speaker 1: you this one example. I saw the Cincinnati Bengals play 1781 01:26:23,680 --> 01:26:28,000 Speaker 1: a game against the Carolina Panthers two years ago. Three 1782 01:26:28,080 --> 01:26:30,599 Speaker 1: years ago. AJ Green was on the field. He pulled 1783 01:26:30,600 --> 01:26:32,599 Speaker 1: his hammy in the game. It was down in Charlotte, 1784 01:26:33,720 --> 01:26:38,920 Speaker 1: and the entire game changed when when AJ Green couldn't 1785 01:26:38,920 --> 01:26:41,320 Speaker 1: get back into the game, the entire defense for the 1786 01:26:41,360 --> 01:26:45,280 Speaker 1: Panthers changed, the offense for the Bengals changed. That guy 1787 01:26:46,960 --> 01:26:49,960 Speaker 1: changed the game with merely his presence on the field. 1788 01:26:50,080 --> 01:26:52,840 Speaker 1: And because of that, I would say he's better than 1789 01:26:52,880 --> 01:26:55,320 Speaker 1: Amari Cooper. I wouldn't dispute that the Bill said a 1790 01:26:55,360 --> 01:26:58,559 Speaker 1: game like that against cincinnanywhere where AJ Green got hurt, 1791 01:26:58,600 --> 01:27:00,519 Speaker 1: like on the second play from scramm is right along 1792 01:27:00,560 --> 01:27:02,760 Speaker 1: the sidelines and didn't come back, Bills won that game. 1793 01:27:03,040 --> 01:27:05,479 Speaker 1: And yet he's six or I think almost seven years 1794 01:27:05,520 --> 01:27:09,120 Speaker 1: older than Amari Cooper. And for that reason alone, I 1795 01:27:09,160 --> 01:27:11,120 Speaker 1: would take Amari Cooper if I had to take. If 1796 01:27:11,160 --> 01:27:12,519 Speaker 1: I was going to take one of the other and 1797 01:27:12,720 --> 01:27:15,719 Speaker 1: aj has been injured, I mean, you know he's been injured, 1798 01:27:15,720 --> 01:27:19,639 Speaker 1: Amark Cooper has been available, which is the best ability 1799 01:27:19,640 --> 01:27:22,840 Speaker 1: of all. Maybe yep, all right, what's for lunch? Who 1800 01:27:22,840 --> 01:27:25,960 Speaker 1: would you rather have wide receiver Odell Beckham and Landry 1801 01:27:26,160 --> 01:27:29,080 Speaker 1: as the Browns do, or Feeling and Diggs as the 1802 01:27:29,360 --> 01:27:33,000 Speaker 1: Vikings do? Right now? Wow, I'd know they have Feeling 1803 01:27:33,040 --> 01:27:36,040 Speaker 1: and Diggs. Why because of Feeling? Because I don't think 1804 01:27:36,080 --> 01:27:39,320 Speaker 1: I would rely on Beckham or Landry long term. I 1805 01:27:39,320 --> 01:27:41,519 Speaker 1: don't think either one of them are reliable that the 1806 01:27:41,560 --> 01:27:44,840 Speaker 1: spectacular form based flame out. Right. Yes, I think Feeling 1807 01:27:44,960 --> 01:27:47,479 Speaker 1: is a good solid player, and Diggs if you could 1808 01:27:47,479 --> 01:27:50,120 Speaker 1: probably keep happy, I know there's we talked yesterday about 1809 01:27:50,120 --> 01:27:52,320 Speaker 1: trading him. I think you could probably keep him happy. 1810 01:27:52,320 --> 01:27:54,839 Speaker 1: I'd rather go Feeling and Dick. I think culturally, speaking 1811 01:27:55,360 --> 01:27:59,519 Speaker 1: from one Bill's drive, it's the Minnesota guys for sure, 1812 01:27:59,640 --> 01:28:02,639 Speaker 1: Feeling and Diggs, but Beckham and Landry. To get those 1813 01:28:02,640 --> 01:28:08,200 Speaker 1: guys in a package, you'd have offensive coordinators falling over themselves. 1814 01:28:08,880 --> 01:28:11,760 Speaker 1: They'd be slicing their tires trying to keep those guys 1815 01:28:11,760 --> 01:28:15,240 Speaker 1: in town. Yeah, but theland and Diggs, I think you 1816 01:28:15,320 --> 01:28:17,439 Speaker 1: get a couple of guys and Digs for the for 1817 01:28:17,439 --> 01:28:19,439 Speaker 1: the little hiccup he had earlier in the season. Last year, 1818 01:28:19,439 --> 01:28:21,320 Speaker 1: he was productive and he played hard for a team 1819 01:28:21,640 --> 01:28:23,680 Speaker 1: that to a lot of people, for a lot of 1820 01:28:23,720 --> 01:28:28,080 Speaker 1: people underperformed. But yeah, so I'd say Theeland and Diggs 1821 01:28:29,240 --> 01:28:33,479 Speaker 1: for the cultural thing and for the fact that just 1822 01:28:33,640 --> 01:28:36,759 Speaker 1: for the cultural thing, you know, yep, what's for lunch? 1823 01:28:37,240 --> 01:28:40,880 Speaker 1: Twenty twenty MVP favorite before well before the season begins. 1824 01:28:41,200 --> 01:28:47,519 Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes or Lamar Jackson. Mahomes, I'm wondering. I'm Lamar 1825 01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:50,479 Speaker 1: Jackson had a great year. Ravens were really good, tough 1826 01:28:50,520 --> 01:28:52,640 Speaker 1: to beat team this year. I wonder if that was 1827 01:28:52,680 --> 01:28:54,720 Speaker 1: a one year phenomenon, a flash in the pan. I 1828 01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:56,800 Speaker 1: don't know if they can follow that up again. For 1829 01:28:56,840 --> 01:28:59,200 Speaker 1: that reason, I think I would pick Mahomes in this 1830 01:28:59,240 --> 01:29:02,559 Speaker 1: particular question. Mahomes would be the MVP favorite. Everything he's been, 1831 01:29:03,960 --> 01:29:05,720 Speaker 1: he's been in the running. Now this last year he 1832 01:29:05,720 --> 01:29:08,320 Speaker 1: got hurt, remember, and he got his knee whacked and 1833 01:29:08,320 --> 01:29:12,880 Speaker 1: he was out for a couple of games, And yeah, 1834 01:29:12,920 --> 01:29:16,080 Speaker 1: I'd say Mahomes just because he is a lot of 1835 01:29:16,080 --> 01:29:20,640 Speaker 1: things that Lamar Jackson is. He's I think he's a 1836 01:29:20,680 --> 01:29:26,519 Speaker 1: better thrower's and you're right, there is some uncertainty about 1837 01:29:26,520 --> 01:29:30,559 Speaker 1: how sustainable the Baltimore model is. Not that it wasn't great, 1838 01:29:30,560 --> 01:29:32,400 Speaker 1: because it was, And not that Lamar Jackson is not 1839 01:29:32,439 --> 01:29:35,040 Speaker 1: a great player. He is and he deserved the MVP 1840 01:29:35,200 --> 01:29:38,479 Speaker 1: this year, no question about it. But I'm I guess 1841 01:29:38,520 --> 01:29:40,960 Speaker 1: I'm tool. I won't see it again. You know, they 1842 01:29:41,000 --> 01:29:44,040 Speaker 1: were out of the playoffs quick. Mahomes has not been 1843 01:29:44,080 --> 01:29:46,040 Speaker 1: out of the playoffs quick since he became a starter 1844 01:29:47,360 --> 01:29:50,160 Speaker 1: last one. On What's for Lunch, Drew Brees Taysom Hill 1845 01:29:50,840 --> 01:29:53,960 Speaker 1: Hill has to be resigned, and Drew Brees said he's 1846 01:29:53,960 --> 01:29:56,880 Speaker 1: coming back to New Orleans. Sharing snaps this coming year 1847 01:29:56,920 --> 01:29:58,960 Speaker 1: will or will not work. I think it will as 1848 01:29:59,000 --> 01:30:01,800 Speaker 1: long as it's about the same formula they had last year, 1849 01:30:01,880 --> 01:30:04,360 Speaker 1: the same prescription for sharing snaps. Yeah, I think that 1850 01:30:04,720 --> 01:30:06,680 Speaker 1: could work, just as it did this year for them. Sure, 1851 01:30:06,800 --> 01:30:10,559 Speaker 1: I think it'll work because of Sean Payton. He'll make 1852 01:30:10,600 --> 01:30:13,559 Speaker 1: it work. Now. Those guys being happy and staying happy. 1853 01:30:14,240 --> 01:30:16,599 Speaker 1: I think they that Drew Brees came back and as 1854 01:30:16,600 --> 01:30:18,400 Speaker 1: he said, I think he was being self having a 1855 01:30:18,439 --> 01:30:21,800 Speaker 1: lot of times, guys, you know, use hyperbole. When they 1856 01:30:21,840 --> 01:30:24,000 Speaker 1: announced they're coming back to the team, in all alley. 1857 01:30:24,320 --> 01:30:25,960 Speaker 1: I think he is coming back for one last shot 1858 01:30:25,960 --> 01:30:27,519 Speaker 1: and he thinks they got a chance at it. I 1859 01:30:27,520 --> 01:30:29,240 Speaker 1: think he thinks they got a chance at the trophy 1860 01:30:29,439 --> 01:30:30,720 Speaker 1: and he wants to come back and do it. And 1861 01:30:30,760 --> 01:30:34,000 Speaker 1: if that means letting Taysom Hill have a package in 1862 01:30:34,080 --> 01:30:35,920 Speaker 1: every game, taking some snaps in every game to give 1863 01:30:35,960 --> 01:30:38,000 Speaker 1: them the chance to win, making it tough on a defense, 1864 01:30:38,320 --> 01:30:40,479 Speaker 1: making their offense more difficult to prepare for, I think 1865 01:30:40,520 --> 01:30:42,760 Speaker 1: Drew Brees would be all in on that, particularly at 1866 01:30:42,800 --> 01:30:45,320 Speaker 1: his age. So I think it will work because Drew 1867 01:30:45,360 --> 01:30:48,320 Speaker 1: Brees is kind of an unselfish superstar, if you will, 1868 01:30:49,000 --> 01:30:51,639 Speaker 1: and Taysom Hill does bring something to the table. He's 1869 01:30:51,720 --> 01:30:53,840 Speaker 1: never gonna be a to me, he's never gonna be 1870 01:30:53,880 --> 01:30:56,760 Speaker 1: a starter in the NFL, but he does bring something, 1871 01:30:56,800 --> 01:30:58,160 Speaker 1: as you can see here as some of the highlights 1872 01:30:58,160 --> 01:31:01,160 Speaker 1: we're looking at. The guy can throw it some and 1873 01:31:01,240 --> 01:31:05,280 Speaker 1: he's got kind of this new modern football athleticism about him. 1874 01:31:05,320 --> 01:31:08,840 Speaker 1: But Drew Brees is a Hall of Famer, Yeah, and 1875 01:31:08,920 --> 01:31:11,720 Speaker 1: it's him that makes the thing go. So I think 1876 01:31:11,760 --> 01:31:14,120 Speaker 1: if Drew Brees says it's okay, I think it will work. 1877 01:31:14,680 --> 01:31:16,360 Speaker 1: There you go, what's for lunch, We're coming back with 1878 01:31:16,439 --> 01:31:19,000 Speaker 1: one more hour, One Bills Live presented by Klata Health 1879 01:31:19,000 --> 01:31:32,719 Speaker 1: from the Seneca Studio. This is Buffalo Bills Radiofalo Bills 1880 01:31:32,880 --> 01:31:37,920 Speaker 1: Radio Network Stories update from One Bill's Live. NFL Owners 1881 01:31:37,960 --> 01:31:40,920 Speaker 1: meaning today in New York City, they're discussing the status 1882 01:31:40,960 --> 01:31:44,439 Speaker 1: of labor negotiations with the Players Association the players. We'll 1883 01:31:44,439 --> 01:31:47,120 Speaker 1: talk about the owner's proposal by a conference called tomorrow. 1884 01:31:47,160 --> 01:31:50,160 Speaker 1: According to the NFL Network, if it all goes well 1885 01:31:50,200 --> 01:31:52,400 Speaker 1: in the next couple of days, a new collective bargaining 1886 01:31:52,400 --> 01:31:55,799 Speaker 1: agreement between the league and the association could be ratified 1887 01:31:56,080 --> 01:31:58,599 Speaker 1: before the start of the new league year on March eighteenth. 1888 01:31:58,640 --> 01:32:01,439 Speaker 1: The new proposal gives the league the option to expand 1889 01:32:01,439 --> 01:32:05,719 Speaker 1: the regular season from sixteen games to seventeen games. Also 1890 01:32:05,840 --> 01:32:08,760 Speaker 1: calls for an expansion of the postseason to seven teams 1891 01:32:08,760 --> 01:32:11,759 Speaker 1: per conference. It also includes an uptick from the forty 1892 01:32:11,800 --> 01:32:14,720 Speaker 1: seven percent of total revenue players get to just over 1893 01:32:14,800 --> 01:32:17,000 Speaker 1: twenty eight and a half percent if they go for 1894 01:32:17,120 --> 01:32:20,559 Speaker 1: the seventeen game regular season. The owners voting are the 1895 01:32:20,560 --> 01:32:22,920 Speaker 1: owners meeting now. If they vote, they need a three 1896 01:32:23,040 --> 01:32:25,640 Speaker 1: quarter approval to send it back to the players. The 1897 01:32:25,680 --> 01:32:30,240 Speaker 1: players Association Executive Committee needs a two thirds approval and 1898 01:32:30,280 --> 01:32:33,000 Speaker 1: then the entire membership of the Players Association would vote 1899 01:32:33,000 --> 01:32:35,080 Speaker 1: after that. So still a few steps to be made, 1900 01:32:35,080 --> 01:32:38,400 Speaker 1: but it looks like they're moving closer to a new 1901 01:32:38,479 --> 01:32:41,240 Speaker 1: CBA for the league, and again it does include an 1902 01:32:41,240 --> 01:32:44,639 Speaker 1: extra playoff game. Talking about that today in our Twitter poll. 1903 01:32:44,680 --> 01:32:47,439 Speaker 1: It includes an expansion of the playoff field from seven 1904 01:32:47,520 --> 01:32:51,880 Speaker 1: teams per conference or from sixteen for conference to eight 1905 01:32:51,880 --> 01:32:54,479 Speaker 1: teams per conference. We'll talk more about that in the 1906 01:32:54,520 --> 01:32:57,719 Speaker 1: next hour or so. Free agency news from the NFL. 1907 01:32:57,800 --> 01:33:00,960 Speaker 1: Everson Griffin is now a free man. The four time 1908 01:33:01,000 --> 01:33:03,240 Speaker 1: Pro Bowl pass rusher got a clause in his contract 1909 01:33:03,400 --> 01:33:05,640 Speaker 1: with the Minnesota Vikings that allowed for the voiding of 1910 01:33:05,680 --> 01:33:08,520 Speaker 1: the final three years of his deal if two criteria 1911 01:33:08,560 --> 01:33:11,160 Speaker 1: were met. They were met, and now Everson Griffin looks 1912 01:33:11,160 --> 01:33:13,719 Speaker 1: like he will be a free agent. Browns receiver Jarvis 1913 01:33:13,840 --> 01:33:16,719 Speaker 1: Landry underwent surgery earlier this month. He says he should 1914 01:33:16,760 --> 01:33:19,320 Speaker 1: be ready for the start of training campbell Andry selected 1915 01:33:19,360 --> 01:33:22,599 Speaker 1: to his fifth Pro Bowl this past year. NFL offensive 1916 01:33:22,640 --> 01:33:24,920 Speaker 1: tackle Greg Robinson of the Browns being held in a 1917 01:33:25,000 --> 01:33:29,280 Speaker 1: Texas jail pending a drug distribution charge. Former Auburn standout, 1918 01:33:29,520 --> 01:33:32,080 Speaker 1: was booked by the DA after federal agents say they 1919 01:33:32,120 --> 01:33:35,360 Speaker 1: found one hundred fifty seven pounds of marijuana in a 1920 01:33:35,439 --> 01:33:37,920 Speaker 1: rented vehicle in which he and two other people were riding. 1921 01:33:38,360 --> 01:33:40,360 Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show those of you were wondering. 1922 01:33:40,400 --> 01:33:44,280 Speaker 1: He made eight million dollars last year playing playing offensive 1923 01:33:44,320 --> 01:33:47,639 Speaker 1: line for the Cleveland Browns. One hundred and fifty seven pounds. 1924 01:33:48,880 --> 01:33:52,600 Speaker 1: Say what you want about marijuana and the gality of marijuana. 1925 01:33:52,840 --> 01:33:55,000 Speaker 1: You've got one hundred fifty seven pounds. You got plans 1926 01:33:55,040 --> 01:33:58,120 Speaker 1: for that to distribute that, and that should be a crime, right, 1927 01:33:58,600 --> 01:34:01,360 Speaker 1: I think distributing one hundred fift seven pounds it's illegal. 1928 01:34:01,840 --> 01:34:04,519 Speaker 1: I mean that there's some places, Yeah, in Texas it is. 1929 01:34:06,520 --> 01:34:10,680 Speaker 1: What's he thinking? What are you doing? I mean I 1930 01:34:11,680 --> 01:34:13,800 Speaker 1: And this wasn't And it was reported that it was 1931 01:34:14,360 --> 01:34:16,479 Speaker 1: the border. It was it was thought that he was 1932 01:34:16,520 --> 01:34:18,720 Speaker 1: crossing the border from Mexico into the United States or 1933 01:34:18,800 --> 01:34:20,920 Speaker 1: vice versa, but it's not the case. There was a 1934 01:34:21,439 --> 01:34:24,760 Speaker 1: checkpoint and they were down at the southern border near 1935 01:34:24,800 --> 01:34:27,040 Speaker 1: the southern border of the United States in Mexico across 1936 01:34:27,120 --> 01:34:31,200 Speaker 1: that and there's a checkpoint there where the and the 1937 01:34:31,240 --> 01:34:35,320 Speaker 1: way I understand it. The Border patrol stops vehicles for 1938 01:34:35,400 --> 01:34:38,720 Speaker 1: as a checkpoint to make sure that nobody had no 1939 01:34:38,880 --> 01:34:43,360 Speaker 1: illegal immigrants have hopped on board or getting gotten rides, 1940 01:34:43,479 --> 01:34:46,160 Speaker 1: or that they're not smugg human trafficking in vehicles. And 1941 01:34:46,960 --> 01:34:49,840 Speaker 1: so this big suv pulls up, they stop and check it. 1942 01:34:50,160 --> 01:34:53,280 Speaker 1: In the secondary check there's duffle bags in the back 1943 01:34:53,320 --> 01:34:55,479 Speaker 1: that are full of one hundred and fifty pounds of marijuana. 1944 01:34:55,560 --> 01:34:57,160 Speaker 1: This was all in the United States, none of it 1945 01:34:57,200 --> 01:34:59,519 Speaker 1: was in Mexico. And then of course when they find that, 1946 01:34:59,560 --> 01:35:01,920 Speaker 1: then the d EA has called and then you know, 1947 01:35:02,000 --> 01:35:05,960 Speaker 1: the lid comes off of it and wow, crazy one 1948 01:35:06,040 --> 01:35:08,639 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty seven pounds. Hey, this is new too, 1949 01:35:08,720 --> 01:35:13,760 Speaker 1: I believe. So. I remember the famous Cody Ford blindside block. 1950 01:35:13,800 --> 01:35:16,200 Speaker 1: He got penalizing, got fined for it. Later the NFL 1951 01:35:16,280 --> 01:35:18,960 Speaker 1: doubled down out it from the playoff game A twenty 1952 01:35:18,960 --> 01:35:22,120 Speaker 1: eight thousand dollars originally the fine. Well, now it turns 1953 01:35:22,160 --> 01:35:25,439 Speaker 1: out that the fine was reduced to four thousand dollars. 1954 01:35:25,680 --> 01:35:29,280 Speaker 1: Cody Ford tweeted this out today, thanking Bills fans. He says, 1955 01:35:29,320 --> 01:35:31,280 Speaker 1: thank you Bills fans, the money you guys raised through 1956 01:35:31,320 --> 01:35:34,400 Speaker 1: the go fund me for my fine was donated to charity. 1957 01:35:34,720 --> 01:35:37,840 Speaker 1: My fine was reduced to just over four thousand. Don't 1958 01:35:37,840 --> 01:35:39,800 Speaker 1: know where on how much was raised through go fund me, 1959 01:35:39,880 --> 01:35:42,320 Speaker 1: but that money's going to charity. It sounds like Cody 1960 01:35:42,360 --> 01:35:45,160 Speaker 1: Ford will pay his fine to four thousand dollars, and 1961 01:35:45,240 --> 01:35:48,559 Speaker 1: he has a perfect PostScript in his tweet. I still 1962 01:35:48,600 --> 01:35:52,000 Speaker 1: believe I did nothing wrong on that play. You're right, 1963 01:35:52,240 --> 01:35:56,320 Speaker 1: you didn't, you didn't. And how many times during the games, 1964 01:35:56,360 --> 01:35:58,320 Speaker 1: the playoff games that followed, so all the guys did 1965 01:35:58,360 --> 01:36:01,120 Speaker 1: the exact same day. And I remember thinking in the 1966 01:36:01,120 --> 01:36:03,920 Speaker 1: Super Bowl thinking there's a blindside block based on what 1967 01:36:03,960 --> 01:36:09,120 Speaker 1: they called Cody Forward for not called crazy. Hey, our 1968 01:36:09,160 --> 01:36:11,479 Speaker 1: Twitter poll today, our topic of the day. We're talking 1969 01:36:11,520 --> 01:36:14,639 Speaker 1: about the CBA and it's just in its initial stages 1970 01:36:14,640 --> 01:36:17,800 Speaker 1: of approval. Owners meeting in New York today anticipated that 1971 01:36:17,840 --> 01:36:20,200 Speaker 1: we'll be announced at some point today that owners are 1972 01:36:20,200 --> 01:36:22,040 Speaker 1: approving it. Then the players get a crack at it. 1973 01:36:22,320 --> 01:36:25,120 Speaker 1: Among the many things in the new CBA and expansion 1974 01:36:25,160 --> 01:36:28,720 Speaker 1: of postseason, right now, six teams per conference in the postseason, 1975 01:36:28,960 --> 01:36:31,920 Speaker 1: the new CBA would make seven teams per conference. What 1976 01:36:31,960 --> 01:36:33,640 Speaker 1: are you think of that? What's your biggest takeaway the 1977 01:36:33,720 --> 01:36:37,200 Speaker 1: proposed fourteen team playoff format. Give us a call eight 1978 01:36:37,200 --> 01:36:40,160 Speaker 1: oh three five fifty toll free one eight eight eight 1979 01:36:40,240 --> 01:36:43,040 Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty sending a tweet, we can 1980 01:36:43,040 --> 01:36:44,760 Speaker 1: read it on the tweet sheet. And here we go. 1981 01:36:44,840 --> 01:36:46,400 Speaker 1: Some of the tweets on the tweet sheet, brought to 1982 01:36:46,400 --> 01:36:49,040 Speaker 1: you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official movers of the 1983 01:36:49,040 --> 01:36:50,760 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. You ready to go? You want to read 1984 01:36:50,800 --> 01:36:52,080 Speaker 1: some of these teams? Go ahead? All right, I'll go 1985 01:36:52,120 --> 01:36:55,280 Speaker 1: ahead from Michael, He says, would this possibly force the 1986 01:36:55,360 --> 01:36:57,479 Speaker 1: NFL to look more into expanding from thirty two to 1987 01:36:57,560 --> 01:37:00,400 Speaker 1: thirty four teams? If eighteen games is the way they're 1988 01:37:00,400 --> 01:37:06,360 Speaker 1: headed expansion, I don't know it. Listen. It would be 1989 01:37:06,439 --> 01:37:11,560 Speaker 1: an enormously expensive club to buy into. An enormously expensive 1990 01:37:11,600 --> 01:37:14,960 Speaker 1: club to buy into. I'm talking about being in the 1991 01:37:14,960 --> 01:37:19,920 Speaker 1: club of owners. They usually when a team relocates, they 1992 01:37:20,000 --> 01:37:24,120 Speaker 1: usually charge them like six hundred million dollars relocation fee 1993 01:37:24,160 --> 01:37:27,559 Speaker 1: just to the other owners, just for the right to 1994 01:37:27,640 --> 01:37:31,480 Speaker 1: do it. And that's just to relocate for a new franchise. 1995 01:37:34,479 --> 01:37:36,840 Speaker 1: The problem with a new franchise, it splits up the pie. 1996 01:37:36,920 --> 01:37:39,240 Speaker 1: Another piece cut into the pie. Which they're not of 1997 01:37:39,240 --> 01:37:41,200 Speaker 1: a mind to do, and there's no discussion about this. 1998 01:37:41,680 --> 01:37:45,280 Speaker 1: I think relocation is something that maybe on the table, 1999 01:37:45,400 --> 01:37:47,160 Speaker 1: if not this year, at some point in the future. 2000 01:37:47,200 --> 01:37:49,200 Speaker 1: And in particular, there are a couple of well there's 2001 01:37:49,240 --> 01:37:52,120 Speaker 1: at least one problematical franchise, and believe it or not, 2002 01:37:52,479 --> 01:37:55,080 Speaker 1: it's in the second largest, if not the largest market 2003 01:37:55,120 --> 01:37:57,560 Speaker 1: in the United States. The Los Angeles Chargers right a 2004 01:37:57,640 --> 01:38:00,160 Speaker 1: thing the other day that the Chargers may have to 2005 01:38:00,200 --> 01:38:02,559 Speaker 1: think about being the London team, like moving the whole 2006 01:38:02,560 --> 01:38:06,200 Speaker 1: operation to London because their form they're set up at 2007 01:38:06,200 --> 01:38:08,479 Speaker 1: the new stadium what's it called, the Sofi Stadium in 2008 01:38:08,479 --> 01:38:10,960 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. It's not right. It doesn't benefit then they 2009 01:38:10,960 --> 01:38:13,320 Speaker 1: are tenants of the stadium, which will be owned and 2010 01:38:13,360 --> 01:38:15,160 Speaker 1: operated by the Rams, and they're not going to make 2011 01:38:15,240 --> 01:38:19,320 Speaker 1: enough money there. Um, they have problems selling tickets. There's 2012 01:38:19,360 --> 01:38:21,519 Speaker 1: talk about what they may need Tom Brady to get 2013 01:38:21,520 --> 01:38:23,280 Speaker 1: things kicked off on the right foot when they moved 2014 01:38:23,280 --> 01:38:26,839 Speaker 1: to LA this year. Played in a miniature soccer stadium 2015 01:38:26,880 --> 01:38:29,200 Speaker 1: this year, which I like, but that's that's not going 2016 01:38:29,280 --> 01:38:32,120 Speaker 1: to feed the captain's bulldog, obviously, but the Chargers are 2017 01:38:32,120 --> 01:38:34,160 Speaker 1: an interesting team. To follow the next couple of years. 2018 01:38:34,400 --> 01:38:38,160 Speaker 1: And I know there's emphasis on Jacksonville being the London team, 2019 01:38:38,160 --> 01:38:41,200 Speaker 1: but the Los Angeles Chargers may wind up moving somewhere, 2020 01:38:41,200 --> 01:38:43,519 Speaker 1: and maybe that place is London. You know, three to 2021 01:38:43,600 --> 01:38:46,679 Speaker 1: five years old that maybe the Chargers move the other direction, 2022 01:38:47,560 --> 01:38:53,640 Speaker 1: China where Tokyo maybe No. I mean, that's if they 2023 01:38:53,680 --> 01:38:56,200 Speaker 1: want to expand. It's more about relocation than more teams. 2024 01:38:56,439 --> 01:38:58,719 Speaker 1: Right now, you agree with you that, I don't. Nobody 2025 01:38:58,720 --> 01:39:01,080 Speaker 1: next talks about the team we've talked about. You know, 2026 01:39:01,120 --> 01:39:03,320 Speaker 1: they've everybody been throwing darts up in western New York 2027 01:39:03,360 --> 01:39:05,759 Speaker 1: saying they should go into southern Ontario and go to Toronto. 2028 01:39:06,720 --> 01:39:10,040 Speaker 1: You've got Vancouver sitting up there, Mexico cities. I said, 2029 01:39:10,640 --> 01:39:17,360 Speaker 1: you've got London and you name it. Berlin Olympic Stadium 2030 01:39:17,400 --> 01:39:19,400 Speaker 1: still standing over there. So you know, there's a lot 2031 01:39:19,439 --> 01:39:22,320 Speaker 1: of options around the world. Whether it would work feasibly 2032 01:39:22,400 --> 01:39:26,040 Speaker 1: or not is it remains to be seen. But I 2033 01:39:26,080 --> 01:39:28,839 Speaker 1: think those options that I just mentioned, all of them, 2034 01:39:28,920 --> 01:39:33,880 Speaker 1: are more likely than having the league invite two more 2035 01:39:33,920 --> 01:39:37,040 Speaker 1: franchises new members. Yeah, you know, and just one thing 2036 01:39:37,080 --> 01:39:39,839 Speaker 1: you mentioned Toronto, And of course the bills are finished 2037 01:39:39,840 --> 01:39:43,800 Speaker 1: with their Toronto experiment generally regarded as not extremely successful. 2038 01:39:43,840 --> 01:39:47,320 Speaker 1: But Toronto's not getting smaller, it's getting bigger, and it 2039 01:39:47,439 --> 01:39:49,040 Speaker 1: is bigger now than it was when the Bills were 2040 01:39:49,040 --> 01:39:51,799 Speaker 1: playing a game or two up there a year in Toronto. 2041 01:39:51,920 --> 01:39:56,160 Speaker 1: Might have a voice in future NFL relocation plans Toronto, 2042 01:39:56,280 --> 01:39:58,679 Speaker 1: And yes, it impacts the Bills, Yes it does, it does. 2043 01:39:59,200 --> 01:40:03,200 Speaker 1: I think it's interest interesting too that when when before 2044 01:40:03,320 --> 01:40:05,680 Speaker 1: the ownership change over five years ago, there was a 2045 01:40:06,000 --> 01:40:08,320 Speaker 1: work that and we're still talking about the new stadium 2046 01:40:08,320 --> 01:40:10,280 Speaker 1: and all that and what it means, and there was 2047 01:40:10,320 --> 01:40:12,599 Speaker 1: a there was talk that how much of a difference 2048 01:40:12,600 --> 01:40:14,839 Speaker 1: it would make for people coming down from southern Ontario 2049 01:40:14,920 --> 01:40:17,599 Speaker 1: if the stadium was north of Buffalo and to the south, 2050 01:40:18,520 --> 01:40:21,519 Speaker 1: and how you know, taking a half hour off of 2051 01:40:21,560 --> 01:40:23,320 Speaker 1: that trip would how much it would mean to the 2052 01:40:23,360 --> 01:40:26,800 Speaker 1: people in southern Ontario. And so there was speculation about, 2053 01:40:27,000 --> 01:40:29,000 Speaker 1: you know, a little bit smaller stadium, like a sixty 2054 01:40:29,040 --> 01:40:33,439 Speaker 1: five thousand seat stadium north of the city would make 2055 01:40:33,479 --> 01:40:35,559 Speaker 1: it much more enticing. It would kind of be like 2056 01:40:35,680 --> 01:40:39,320 Speaker 1: a Toronto team based in the States, so you'd have 2057 01:40:40,280 --> 01:40:42,439 Speaker 1: all of that. And you know that all of that 2058 01:40:42,520 --> 01:40:45,840 Speaker 1: has been studied and talked about at nauseum to the 2059 01:40:47,000 --> 01:40:50,400 Speaker 1: to everybody. But you know, bills are staying We know this, 2060 01:40:50,439 --> 01:40:54,679 Speaker 1: The bills are staying put. And I think all those 2061 01:40:54,680 --> 01:40:58,400 Speaker 1: other cities are much more likely to get a franchise 2062 01:40:58,479 --> 01:41:03,439 Speaker 1: than than Toronto. Okay, all of them really Like, yeah, Mexico, 2063 01:41:04,400 --> 01:41:07,840 Speaker 1: Toronto's getting Mexico might be a stretch, but I'll bet 2064 01:41:07,880 --> 01:41:14,080 Speaker 1: you London it's probably for sure. Berlin. London has logistical 2065 01:41:14,120 --> 01:41:19,240 Speaker 1: problems obviously, the time difference, the distance, But I would 2066 01:41:19,360 --> 01:41:22,080 Speaker 1: not discount Toronto was a future NFL city. And I'm 2067 01:41:22,120 --> 01:41:24,559 Speaker 1: talking about five ten years out. Yeah it's yeah, it's 2068 01:41:24,560 --> 01:41:26,519 Speaker 1: not on that. But I'm thinking all those things are 2069 01:41:26,520 --> 01:41:29,439 Speaker 1: more likely than two more teams. Yes, there's no way 2070 01:41:29,439 --> 01:41:35,040 Speaker 1: they're gonna go thirty four teams up the two teams 2071 01:41:35,400 --> 01:41:39,400 Speaker 1: you know is good, they got it. Yeah, that's plenty. 2072 01:41:39,560 --> 01:41:43,160 Speaker 1: Here's a tweet from Steve. I think the NFL should 2073 01:41:43,160 --> 01:41:48,799 Speaker 1: go to two eight team divisions with two division winners 2074 01:41:49,920 --> 01:41:59,680 Speaker 1: and five wildcard teams. What do you think? What what 2075 01:41:59,720 --> 01:42:01,680 Speaker 1: are we doing here? What does that that would give 2076 01:42:01,680 --> 01:42:07,080 Speaker 1: you the ability to seed the teams? Yeah? Right, I 2077 01:42:07,080 --> 01:42:08,920 Speaker 1: mean that's what That's what I'm thinking, it gives you 2078 01:42:08,920 --> 01:42:11,240 Speaker 1: ability to make sure that this make sure that the 2079 01:42:11,320 --> 01:42:14,400 Speaker 1: best six or seven teams in each conference get in, 2080 01:42:14,720 --> 01:42:17,599 Speaker 1: no matter you know, if their records warn't it. Isn't 2081 01:42:17,640 --> 01:42:19,960 Speaker 1: there a benefit of bad division winners? Isn't there a 2082 01:42:20,000 --> 01:42:23,599 Speaker 1: benefit they have in as many competitive division races, even 2083 01:42:23,640 --> 01:42:27,960 Speaker 1: if they're competing for eight or nine wins, that's still competitive, right, 2084 01:42:28,320 --> 01:42:30,679 Speaker 1: I mean, as bad as you keep saying the NFC 2085 01:42:30,760 --> 01:42:33,679 Speaker 1: East was it mattered who the Cowboys and the Eagles 2086 01:42:33,720 --> 01:42:36,799 Speaker 1: were beating down the stretch there. It mattered only because 2087 01:42:36,840 --> 01:42:38,720 Speaker 1: one of them had to get in. Yeah, if they 2088 01:42:38,720 --> 01:42:41,519 Speaker 1: didn't have to get in, nobody would have cared. But 2089 01:42:41,640 --> 01:42:44,120 Speaker 1: you want people to care. You want people to buy tickets, 2090 01:42:44,160 --> 01:42:47,599 Speaker 1: watch games. You want people to care. Right, they do. 2091 01:42:47,760 --> 01:42:49,799 Speaker 1: I mean that's why they're going, but not a fifteen games. 2092 01:42:50,479 --> 01:42:52,479 Speaker 1: But they would care less if there there's only two 2093 01:42:52,600 --> 01:42:56,720 Speaker 1: eighteen divisions, two division winners? Just did everybody cares? Well, 2094 01:42:56,760 --> 01:42:58,160 Speaker 1: you wouldn't care if you didn't have a chance to 2095 01:42:58,200 --> 01:43:00,360 Speaker 1: win a division. Well, you wouldn't have a chance to 2096 01:43:00,360 --> 01:43:02,559 Speaker 1: make the point. The people in the people in Washington, Doddleson, 2097 01:43:02,800 --> 01:43:07,200 Speaker 1: you know, and Philly cared. Yeah, sure, but I hadn't. 2098 01:43:09,120 --> 01:43:12,360 Speaker 1: But overall, you want as many people to care about 2099 01:43:12,400 --> 01:43:15,200 Speaker 1: possibly winning the division as you can to keep ratings up, 2100 01:43:15,240 --> 01:43:17,920 Speaker 1: to keep interest high. In other words, even though the 2101 01:43:17,920 --> 01:43:21,280 Speaker 1: Eagles and Cowboys weren't great teams down the stretch, it 2102 01:43:21,439 --> 01:43:23,599 Speaker 1: mattered whether they were winning and losing down the stretch. 2103 01:43:23,640 --> 01:43:25,920 Speaker 1: If they were all in the second division of an 2104 01:43:25,920 --> 01:43:28,639 Speaker 1: eight team division, if they were all you know, the six, seventh, 2105 01:43:28,640 --> 01:43:31,200 Speaker 1: eighth teams, nobody would care. Nobody would watch in those cities. 2106 01:43:31,280 --> 01:43:34,160 Speaker 1: Well what about then? Why were you against? I think 2107 01:43:34,439 --> 01:43:36,400 Speaker 1: a few months ago I said, why don't you have 2108 01:43:36,760 --> 01:43:40,320 Speaker 1: the divisions split by market size? Then you'd have the 2109 01:43:40,320 --> 01:43:44,000 Speaker 1: big cities in the in the race and they'd all care, no, 2110 01:43:44,320 --> 01:43:48,360 Speaker 1: like they do the NFC East. What NFC East is 2111 01:43:48,360 --> 01:43:50,360 Speaker 1: the biggest four biggest markets, three of the fourth and 2112 01:43:50,640 --> 01:43:52,920 Speaker 1: why it's set up like that though? Oh yeah, that's 2113 01:43:52,960 --> 01:43:55,360 Speaker 1: exactly why it's said, that's why, That's exactly why it's sell. 2114 01:43:55,560 --> 01:43:58,240 Speaker 1: Isn't they got the four largest markets in the country 2115 01:43:58,280 --> 01:44:02,880 Speaker 1: in the same division. No they're not. Yeah they are. No. 2116 01:44:03,040 --> 01:44:04,679 Speaker 1: New York the Alpha is not one of the largest 2117 01:44:04,720 --> 01:44:09,040 Speaker 1: Marger than that, Washington is not one of the largest 2118 01:44:09,240 --> 01:44:12,240 Speaker 1: markets in the country. Dallas is probably twenty fifth largest 2119 01:44:12,240 --> 01:44:14,000 Speaker 1: market in the country. What are you talking about? No, 2120 01:44:14,560 --> 01:44:17,200 Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm sorry, they're they're Here's the thing. The 2121 01:44:17,240 --> 01:44:19,280 Speaker 1: two largest markets are LA in New York. So you 2122 01:44:19,400 --> 01:44:23,800 Speaker 1: got four teams there, but it's New York. It would 2123 01:44:23,840 --> 01:44:26,360 Speaker 1: be the top markets would be New York LA with 2124 01:44:26,400 --> 01:44:32,880 Speaker 1: two teams in New York, and then it would be Chicago, Philly, Washington, 2125 01:44:33,000 --> 01:44:35,920 Speaker 1: something like that. Philly's not up there. Really, I'm gonna learn. 2126 01:44:36,080 --> 01:44:39,559 Speaker 1: Maybe it's Dallas. I camera Dallas. Houston's much bigger than Dallas. 2127 01:44:40,200 --> 01:44:42,760 Speaker 1: But that's a but that. We had this conversation when 2128 01:44:42,760 --> 01:44:44,840 Speaker 1: we had that kid on who wrote that article, and 2129 01:44:44,880 --> 01:44:47,639 Speaker 1: we got down about I had the list of the markets, 2130 01:44:47,960 --> 01:44:50,040 Speaker 1: and I thought, well, if you're gonna keep people interested, 2131 01:44:50,240 --> 01:44:54,360 Speaker 1: put the biggest markets together, so the winner that division goes. 2132 01:44:54,840 --> 01:44:58,000 Speaker 1: The problem is the division would be the LA Chargers, 2133 01:44:58,000 --> 01:44:59,800 Speaker 1: the LA Rams, the New York Giants, and the New 2134 01:44:59,880 --> 01:45:02,960 Speaker 1: Yor Jets, who would all be in one division. That's 2135 01:45:03,000 --> 01:45:05,920 Speaker 1: the problem. You don't want that. Yeah, you can't have that, though, 2136 01:45:06,800 --> 01:45:10,360 Speaker 1: although you could. I'd interest to see what happens. Talk 2137 01:45:10,400 --> 01:45:13,640 Speaker 1: about interest. You have a home and home in the 2138 01:45:13,680 --> 01:45:18,200 Speaker 1: biggest markets four times a year. It's pretty good. No, 2139 01:45:18,479 --> 01:45:22,719 Speaker 1: a pretty good ideas pretty interesting. Let's get to state 2140 01:45:22,720 --> 01:45:25,680 Speaker 1: of the Bills. We do this as we lead up 2141 01:45:25,680 --> 01:45:27,880 Speaker 1: to the combine, the state of the Buffalo Bills, and 2142 01:45:28,000 --> 01:45:29,920 Speaker 1: we looked at various positions. Now we're going to take 2143 01:45:29,920 --> 01:45:32,600 Speaker 1: a look at the linebacker spot. The Bills lose the 2144 01:45:32,640 --> 01:45:36,439 Speaker 1: starting linebacker Lorenzo Alexander announced his retirement. He has done 2145 01:45:36,439 --> 01:45:38,920 Speaker 1: as of the playoff game against Houston. So what's left 2146 01:45:38,920 --> 01:45:41,840 Speaker 1: who's under contract? State of the Bills. What do they have? Well, 2147 01:45:41,920 --> 01:45:44,439 Speaker 1: they have Termaine Edmonds going into his third season, got 2148 01:45:44,439 --> 01:45:47,519 Speaker 1: a rookie deal and he's still playing on his rookie deal. 2149 01:45:47,760 --> 01:45:50,280 Speaker 1: Great year last year, one hundred fifteen tackles, ten of 2150 01:45:50,280 --> 01:45:53,120 Speaker 1: them for losses, one and a half sacks, four quarterback hits, 2151 01:45:53,200 --> 01:45:56,600 Speaker 1: nine pass breakups, one interception, one safety. Tremaine Edmonds is 2152 01:45:56,640 --> 01:46:00,200 Speaker 1: a building block for the Buffalo linebackers for may be 2153 01:46:00,240 --> 01:46:03,679 Speaker 1: a decade or longer. They have Mett Milano going into 2154 01:46:03,720 --> 01:46:06,200 Speaker 1: the final year of his rookie contract, fifth round pick 2155 01:46:06,560 --> 01:46:09,799 Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen. One hundred tackles last year, seven for losses, 2156 01:46:10,240 --> 01:46:12,839 Speaker 1: one and a half sack, seven quarterback hits. Matt Milano, 2157 01:46:12,880 --> 01:46:15,519 Speaker 1: I think is a mainstay on the linebacking court for 2158 01:46:15,560 --> 01:46:18,639 Speaker 1: the Bills. And then after that, what do you got 2159 01:46:18,680 --> 01:46:21,720 Speaker 1: you got under contract? You have Corey Thompson going into 2160 01:46:21,760 --> 01:46:23,560 Speaker 1: the final year of a three year deal, mostly a 2161 01:46:23,640 --> 01:46:26,960 Speaker 1: special teamer, played twelve games last season, played some defense. 2162 01:46:27,280 --> 01:46:29,800 Speaker 1: You have Vashon Joseph going into the second year of 2163 01:46:29,800 --> 01:46:32,559 Speaker 1: his rookie contract, a fifth round pick a year ago 2164 01:46:32,680 --> 01:46:36,000 Speaker 1: from Florida. Spent last season on IR with a shoulder injury, 2165 01:46:36,280 --> 01:46:37,880 Speaker 1: so he didn't get any playing time at all. You 2166 01:46:37,880 --> 01:46:41,280 Speaker 1: don't know what you have there. Tyrold Dodson Returns signed 2167 01:46:41,280 --> 01:46:44,400 Speaker 1: a reserve futures contract in January. Had a six game 2168 01:46:44,479 --> 01:46:47,080 Speaker 1: suspension for domestic violence at the start of last season, 2169 01:46:47,320 --> 01:46:49,240 Speaker 1: and spent most of the last during the practice squad. 2170 01:46:49,400 --> 01:46:52,600 Speaker 1: You have Delshan Phillips signed a reserve futures contract a 2171 01:46:52,680 --> 01:46:55,000 Speaker 1: month or so ago, spent his rookie season on the 2172 01:46:55,000 --> 01:46:58,559 Speaker 1: practice squad. You could say that after Edmonds and Milano, 2173 01:46:58,600 --> 01:47:04,479 Speaker 1: the Bills have much There's questions, huge question marks, and 2174 01:47:04,520 --> 01:47:06,599 Speaker 1: then of course pending free agents they're gonna lose. They 2175 01:47:06,600 --> 01:47:09,679 Speaker 1: may lose Maurice Alexander and Julian Stanford, who two guys 2176 01:47:09,680 --> 01:47:14,040 Speaker 1: who Julian Stanford, who was a special team's, you know, 2177 01:47:14,120 --> 01:47:16,960 Speaker 1: workhorse for the club. But they're penning. He's a pending 2178 01:47:16,960 --> 01:47:19,800 Speaker 1: free agent, so yeah, Tremaine Edmonds and Matt Milano and 2179 01:47:19,800 --> 01:47:21,719 Speaker 1: Matt Malana going into the last year of his deal. 2180 01:47:23,760 --> 01:47:25,439 Speaker 1: You can bet there's a lot of people kind of 2181 01:47:25,439 --> 01:47:27,200 Speaker 1: think sitting up up right now, going, oh my gosh, 2182 01:47:27,240 --> 01:47:28,640 Speaker 1: she's in the last year of his rookie deal. We 2183 01:47:29,000 --> 01:47:32,519 Speaker 1: gotta make sure that guy doesn't get doesn't leave. I 2184 01:47:32,560 --> 01:47:35,799 Speaker 1: think he gotta. Yeah, I think he gotta signed Matt Milano. 2185 01:47:36,400 --> 01:47:39,439 Speaker 1: So yeah, And look, how can we don't talk about 2186 01:47:39,479 --> 01:47:42,120 Speaker 1: linebackers as a first or second round pick for the 2187 01:47:42,160 --> 01:47:45,680 Speaker 1: Bills in April? We never really get to that. We 2188 01:47:45,720 --> 01:47:48,599 Speaker 1: talk about pass rusher, we talk about wide receiver. Maybe 2189 01:47:48,600 --> 01:47:51,080 Speaker 1: we should take a longer look and stronger look at 2190 01:47:51,280 --> 01:47:53,559 Speaker 1: talk about us, not the personnel department, because I'm sure 2191 01:47:53,560 --> 01:47:56,200 Speaker 1: they have Maybe we'll take a longer look at linebackers. 2192 01:47:56,280 --> 01:47:58,200 Speaker 1: I think it looks like a position of need for 2193 01:47:58,240 --> 01:48:00,840 Speaker 1: the Bills. Yes, with Lorenzo gone, with Tremaine and Matt 2194 01:48:00,880 --> 01:48:04,760 Speaker 1: Milano coming back, and with essentially after that some prospects, 2195 01:48:04,800 --> 01:48:08,559 Speaker 1: some strong special teamers Maurice Alexander, Julian Stanford, Corey Thompson. 2196 01:48:08,640 --> 01:48:10,880 Speaker 1: But they need a player, right They need at least 2197 01:48:10,920 --> 01:48:14,000 Speaker 1: a guy who's gonna play fifty percent of the snaps. 2198 01:48:14,000 --> 01:48:16,879 Speaker 1: I'm gonna look and see how many m Sean Joseph 2199 01:48:16,960 --> 01:48:18,720 Speaker 1: was on IR last year. Was the fifth round pick. 2200 01:48:18,760 --> 01:48:20,639 Speaker 1: He's just like Matt Milano. He was a fifth round 2201 01:48:20,680 --> 01:48:22,559 Speaker 1: pick and his rookie year, but he went on IR 2202 01:48:23,640 --> 01:48:25,320 Speaker 1: and did We didn't get a chance to see him, 2203 01:48:25,320 --> 01:48:26,760 Speaker 1: So I don't know what kind of player he is. 2204 01:48:26,800 --> 01:48:28,320 Speaker 1: I'm sure the Bills have a handle on it. He's 2205 01:48:28,320 --> 01:48:32,320 Speaker 1: probably practicing by the end of the season. But that's 2206 01:48:32,320 --> 01:48:36,920 Speaker 1: a huge gap. Gender in on forty eight percent of 2207 01:48:36,960 --> 01:48:40,679 Speaker 1: the defensive snaps last year, Edmonds had ninety five percent. 2208 01:48:40,960 --> 01:48:43,600 Speaker 1: Milano had eighty six percent. So you're looking for a 2209 01:48:43,600 --> 01:48:46,680 Speaker 1: guy to play almost half of the defensive snaps, and 2210 01:48:46,720 --> 01:48:48,639 Speaker 1: I think you need better than what they have coming 2211 01:48:48,680 --> 01:48:51,639 Speaker 1: back or pending free agents. Yeah, I think this may 2212 01:48:51,680 --> 01:48:53,599 Speaker 1: be a spot where they go out in free agency 2213 01:48:53,600 --> 01:48:58,400 Speaker 1: and find some guys. Yeah, I'd love to see Kyle 2214 01:48:58,479 --> 01:49:00,920 Speaker 1: van Noy as a Buffalo Bill. The guy from the 2215 01:49:00,960 --> 01:49:03,000 Speaker 1: Patriots had such a good year, he's going to be 2216 01:49:03,000 --> 01:49:05,519 Speaker 1: a free agent for them. The Patriots aren't sitting all 2217 01:49:05,560 --> 01:49:09,280 Speaker 1: that pretty with with salary cap. They don't have that 2218 01:49:09,360 --> 01:49:12,439 Speaker 1: much money to offer Tom Brady, let alone hitting a 2219 01:49:12,520 --> 01:49:17,519 Speaker 1: home run with him contract contractually, there's and there's gonna 2220 01:49:17,520 --> 01:49:19,000 Speaker 1: be some other guys out there that are gonna come 2221 01:49:19,040 --> 01:49:21,120 Speaker 1: available as well. This is this is really going to be. 2222 01:49:21,240 --> 01:49:23,400 Speaker 1: This is a crucial element to the Bill's defense, a 2223 01:49:23,439 --> 01:49:26,439 Speaker 1: defense that was so good last year, so difficult to 2224 01:49:26,479 --> 01:49:31,160 Speaker 1: move the ball on through the air. Man, oh Man, 2225 01:49:32,000 --> 01:49:35,679 Speaker 1: when you look at this this roster, six guys under 2226 01:49:35,720 --> 01:49:40,799 Speaker 1: contract for three spots, del Sean Phillips and Tyrell Dodson, 2227 01:49:41,360 --> 01:49:45,800 Speaker 1: who you know, they just they signed just the last 2228 01:49:45,800 --> 01:49:52,200 Speaker 1: couple of months as fresh off the street. You're thin 2229 01:49:52,920 --> 01:49:56,120 Speaker 1: a linebacker going into training camp. I certainly you got 2230 01:49:56,120 --> 01:49:58,000 Speaker 1: a lot of time to fix it and free agencies 2231 01:49:58,040 --> 01:49:59,800 Speaker 1: coming up. It's gonna be interesting to see who they 2232 01:49:59,800 --> 01:50:06,160 Speaker 1: can grab and if how high on their positional emergency chart. 2233 01:50:06,240 --> 01:50:09,360 Speaker 1: This goes because to me, there's not enough there for 2234 01:50:09,400 --> 01:50:11,880 Speaker 1: them to just certainly not to start a season. There's 2235 01:50:11,880 --> 01:50:15,479 Speaker 1: so many question marks there as to who could even 2236 01:50:15,520 --> 01:50:18,479 Speaker 1: play an entire season at linebacker behind Tremaine Edmonds and 2237 01:50:18,479 --> 01:50:24,120 Speaker 1: Matt Milano. You got no sure things on that roster. 2238 01:50:25,000 --> 01:50:27,360 Speaker 1: M Kyle van Noise just coming off a two year 2239 01:50:27,400 --> 01:50:32,160 Speaker 1: contract with New England. He averages about four million a year. 2240 01:50:32,840 --> 01:50:35,240 Speaker 1: I'm trying to think they don't have a usually spot track. 2241 01:50:35,280 --> 01:50:37,720 Speaker 1: I'll have like a you know, market value. They don't 2242 01:50:37,760 --> 01:50:39,719 Speaker 1: have that for him. Yeah, he's gonna be a free agent. 2243 01:50:41,040 --> 01:50:42,559 Speaker 1: I don't know. You're gonna have to pay him some money. 2244 01:50:42,560 --> 01:50:45,360 Speaker 1: How much you want to get involved in a player 2245 01:50:45,400 --> 01:50:48,639 Speaker 1: who you need for every other down forty seven forty 2246 01:50:48,640 --> 01:50:51,360 Speaker 1: eight percent of the defensive snaps. It's a good question. 2247 01:50:51,520 --> 01:50:55,000 Speaker 1: But I don't think the group of Corey Thompson, Bosh. 2248 01:50:55,280 --> 01:50:57,880 Speaker 1: I don't know about both, Shan Joseph. He's always seem 2249 01:50:57,920 --> 01:51:01,719 Speaker 1: to me you'd be a little bit uh small, Tyler Dotson, 2250 01:51:01,800 --> 01:51:04,160 Speaker 1: Dale Shell, Sean Phillips more. I don't know if there's 2251 01:51:04,160 --> 01:51:07,759 Speaker 1: an answer there to play that every other snamp defensively 2252 01:51:07,800 --> 01:51:10,080 Speaker 1: for the Bills what they have, They're gonna need a linebacker. 2253 01:51:10,120 --> 01:51:12,920 Speaker 1: I think, yeah, yeah, they are. It's okay to say that, right, Yeah, 2254 01:51:12,960 --> 01:51:14,800 Speaker 1: I think they're gonna need a linebacker somewhere in there. 2255 01:51:14,880 --> 01:51:18,160 Speaker 1: No question about it. And um, you know, Jamie Collins 2256 01:51:18,280 --> 01:51:20,840 Speaker 1: might be an understricted free agent as well. He's he's 2257 01:51:20,880 --> 01:51:23,800 Speaker 1: an inside linebacker on a four or fourty three linebacker. 2258 01:51:25,760 --> 01:51:28,320 Speaker 1: Jamie Collins is going to be available from the Patriots. 2259 01:51:28,560 --> 01:51:33,200 Speaker 1: Uh Shalik Calhoun was a guy on their team, So 2260 01:51:33,400 --> 01:51:35,280 Speaker 1: you know, I'm talking about Patriots guys who are gonna 2261 01:51:35,280 --> 01:51:39,840 Speaker 1: come available. There's guys like Joe Thomas from the Cowboys, 2262 01:51:40,640 --> 01:51:44,639 Speaker 1: Darius Taylor from the Browns, Deron Lee from the Chiefs, 2263 01:51:45,439 --> 01:51:49,800 Speaker 1: um Laurenti McCray from the Jaguars, and of course Sean 2264 01:51:49,920 --> 01:51:53,120 Speaker 1: Lee Vic Beasley from the Falcons, Sean Lee from the Cowboys, 2265 01:51:53,160 --> 01:51:56,160 Speaker 1: of course, Michael Hendricks Kendricks, I'm sorry, Michael Kendricks from 2266 01:51:56,200 --> 01:52:01,120 Speaker 1: the Seahawks. So there's some guys out there. We'll see 2267 01:52:01,160 --> 01:52:03,320 Speaker 1: the You know, the Bill's staff will probably do a 2268 01:52:03,320 --> 01:52:06,000 Speaker 1: good job of targeting one guy they think fits perfectly 2269 01:52:06,160 --> 01:52:08,240 Speaker 1: and going after him. Let's take a phone call on this, 2270 01:52:08,360 --> 01:52:11,240 Speaker 1: Nick and Alden. Hello, Nick, you're on the air. So 2271 01:52:11,280 --> 01:52:13,840 Speaker 1: I was thinking what you guys saying, we need to 2272 01:52:13,880 --> 01:52:17,160 Speaker 1: replace Lorenzo. I think the key here for us to 2273 01:52:17,200 --> 01:52:20,920 Speaker 1: do in the draft is to get that Bond from 2274 01:52:21,120 --> 01:52:24,760 Speaker 1: Westbridge or from Wisconsin. I think we get sneak him 2275 01:52:24,800 --> 01:52:28,880 Speaker 1: either late saccup or late first with our picker. We 2276 01:52:28,880 --> 01:52:31,160 Speaker 1: could move back in the first and go to the 2277 01:52:31,200 --> 01:52:34,720 Speaker 1: second round perhaps mature picks sure of that, and then 2278 01:52:34,760 --> 01:52:39,040 Speaker 1: get her receiver too in the second. What's her name again? Uh? 2279 01:52:39,479 --> 01:52:43,920 Speaker 1: Bon b a un from Wisconsin. He's an edge rusher 2280 01:52:44,000 --> 01:52:47,599 Speaker 1: listed a daft Bond. Okay, I don't know anything about him, 2281 01:52:47,600 --> 01:52:50,040 Speaker 1: but I will look into that. I don't see him 2282 01:52:50,040 --> 01:52:53,000 Speaker 1: in Wisconsin. Okay, there is Zach Bond. He is the 2283 01:52:53,200 --> 01:52:57,280 Speaker 1: sixteenth best bawn. Yeah, he's the sixteenth best best outside 2284 01:52:57,280 --> 01:53:00,840 Speaker 1: linebacker according to our light scouting services that don't have 2285 01:53:00,880 --> 01:53:04,120 Speaker 1: every answer. Six two, two hundred and twenty seven pounds 2286 01:53:04,120 --> 01:53:08,639 Speaker 1: outside linebackers. Zach Bond. Huh, he's rated as they're seeing 2287 01:53:08,680 --> 01:53:12,679 Speaker 1: on the screen there, he's rated on twenty second behind 2288 01:53:12,840 --> 01:53:17,080 Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons on the guy on the prospects. This is uh. 2289 01:53:17,120 --> 01:53:21,240 Speaker 1: I guess NFL draft research about how he's twenty second overall. 2290 01:53:21,280 --> 01:53:26,200 Speaker 1: I guess that's what they're saying. Is that what that infers? There? Uh? Interesting? 2291 01:53:26,320 --> 01:53:29,200 Speaker 1: I haven't seen the guy, you know. I don't spend 2292 01:53:29,200 --> 01:53:31,599 Speaker 1: time watching college football. I go by what I hear 2293 01:53:31,600 --> 01:53:33,599 Speaker 1: on the draft, and then I start reading what guys say, 2294 01:53:33,640 --> 01:53:37,320 Speaker 1: who are draft nicks, you know, and well, I'm gonna 2295 01:53:37,360 --> 01:53:39,400 Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting to see. But this linebacker. Then 2296 01:53:39,400 --> 01:53:41,400 Speaker 1: when we started looking at we've looked at edge rushers 2297 01:53:41,400 --> 01:53:45,160 Speaker 1: and offensive line. We're trying to but we forget that 2298 01:53:45,240 --> 01:53:48,840 Speaker 1: we're you know, you leak oil in the offseason. You know, 2299 01:53:48,880 --> 01:53:52,080 Speaker 1: these guys go away, Lorenzo retires and you guys, you know, 2300 01:53:52,920 --> 01:53:55,960 Speaker 1: special teams linebackers, you know, become free agents, and all 2301 01:53:55,960 --> 01:53:57,360 Speaker 1: of a sudden, you look up. You got like four 2302 01:53:57,400 --> 01:54:01,680 Speaker 1: linebackers on your entire roster, you know, have anybody you know, 2303 01:54:03,600 --> 01:54:06,080 Speaker 1: and now you play with two fifty percent of the time, 2304 01:54:06,479 --> 01:54:09,599 Speaker 1: just two. So you need a guy to pull the packages. Yes, 2305 01:54:10,479 --> 01:54:12,400 Speaker 1: so you need a guy who's gonna play fifty percent 2306 01:54:12,479 --> 01:54:14,559 Speaker 1: of the snaps, or you need a guy you need 2307 01:54:14,720 --> 01:54:16,760 Speaker 1: or your or like you said, you're gonna have two 2308 01:54:16,760 --> 01:54:18,880 Speaker 1: guys who add up to fifty percent of the snaps 2309 01:54:18,920 --> 01:54:21,360 Speaker 1: and then split special teams reps or one you know, 2310 01:54:21,439 --> 01:54:23,680 Speaker 1: or have different skill sets that compliment each other, or 2311 01:54:23,720 --> 01:54:26,040 Speaker 1: they're the same guy and they you just want to 2312 01:54:26,120 --> 01:54:29,280 Speaker 1: rotate them through. But for that, yeah, you got somebody's 2313 01:54:29,280 --> 01:54:32,440 Speaker 1: got to line up for all of Lorinzo Alexander's snaps 2314 01:54:32,480 --> 01:54:36,120 Speaker 1: next year. Now, whether it's one guy or a combination thereof, 2315 01:54:36,720 --> 01:54:39,480 Speaker 1: you still gotta do it, and you gotta and you 2316 01:54:39,560 --> 01:54:42,520 Speaker 1: gotta make it, and hopefully in such a way that 2317 01:54:42,560 --> 01:54:44,920 Speaker 1: it doesn't drop your number one or two defense down 2318 01:54:44,960 --> 01:54:47,200 Speaker 1: to number six or seven or number twenty six or 2319 01:54:47,280 --> 01:54:50,360 Speaker 1: number twenty seven. Ye take a call here from John 2320 01:54:50,400 --> 01:54:53,880 Speaker 1: and go on to Hello John, you're on the air. Hey, 2321 01:54:53,920 --> 01:54:57,480 Speaker 1: I'd love to see them go to seven teams in 2322 01:54:57,520 --> 01:55:02,320 Speaker 1: the playoffs, and you could keep the divisional format, and 2323 01:55:02,440 --> 01:55:05,960 Speaker 1: what would happen is you only have one team that 2324 01:55:06,160 --> 01:55:10,600 Speaker 1: gets the first round by well, that's six teams. You 2325 01:55:10,600 --> 01:55:15,000 Speaker 1: could win the division, but it wouldn't necessarily guarantee a 2326 01:55:15,160 --> 01:55:18,640 Speaker 1: home game. The better record would get it. So your team, 2327 01:55:18,840 --> 01:55:23,160 Speaker 1: say you had a situation where one team goes fourteen 2328 01:55:23,240 --> 01:55:25,760 Speaker 1: and two and the second team in that division goes 2329 01:55:26,160 --> 01:55:29,400 Speaker 1: thirteen and three, they could host the game in the 2330 01:55:29,440 --> 01:55:32,600 Speaker 1: divisional round, where the other way they'd never get a 2331 01:55:32,600 --> 01:55:36,240 Speaker 1: shot at hosting that game in the divisional round. They're 2332 01:55:36,280 --> 01:55:39,000 Speaker 1: talking about going to seven teams per conference. Is that 2333 01:55:39,040 --> 01:55:41,360 Speaker 1: what you mean seven teams per conference in the playoffs? 2334 01:55:41,720 --> 01:55:47,120 Speaker 1: Is it seven or is it eight? They're going with seven? Seven? Yeah, 2335 01:55:47,360 --> 01:55:49,400 Speaker 1: I think that would be totally the way to do it, 2336 01:55:49,440 --> 01:55:52,840 Speaker 1: and just one by right, right exactly. That's that's the 2337 01:55:53,120 --> 01:55:57,320 Speaker 1: as we understand that, that's the proposal on the table. Oh, 2338 01:55:57,360 --> 01:55:59,640 Speaker 1: I think that'd be great. Looks like you're gonna get 2339 01:55:59,640 --> 01:56:02,000 Speaker 1: your with like you're gonna get it. And I agree 2340 01:56:02,000 --> 01:56:03,720 Speaker 1: with you too. I think they should reach after the 2341 01:56:03,760 --> 01:56:06,240 Speaker 1: number one seed or whatever whoever gets to buy. After that, 2342 01:56:06,520 --> 01:56:09,120 Speaker 1: they should recede and give the best teams the home 2343 01:56:09,160 --> 01:56:14,720 Speaker 1: home game, not necessarily the division winners. When should you 2344 01:56:14,720 --> 01:56:18,520 Speaker 1: do that after the wildcard round? Even no, no, right 2345 01:56:18,880 --> 01:56:20,880 Speaker 1: at the beginning of the playoffs. Why not recede every 2346 01:56:20,960 --> 01:56:25,320 Speaker 1: round then? Okay, okay, okay, I don't I don't know. 2347 01:56:25,320 --> 01:56:26,840 Speaker 1: I gotta think about that one. I like, I think 2348 01:56:26,880 --> 01:56:29,440 Speaker 1: the current system with six teams works well. I think 2349 01:56:30,000 --> 01:56:32,760 Speaker 1: seven teams it'll work well. And I do think there's 2350 01:56:32,760 --> 01:56:35,960 Speaker 1: a benefit they having division and division winners and having 2351 01:56:36,040 --> 01:56:39,640 Speaker 1: the four division winners each conference. I think there's there's 2352 01:56:39,640 --> 01:56:42,840 Speaker 1: a benefit to that in terms of races all over 2353 01:56:42,920 --> 01:56:47,440 Speaker 1: the country that people are interested in Yes, go ahead, John, Well, 2354 01:56:47,480 --> 01:56:50,120 Speaker 1: you would still have the division winners with the with 2355 01:56:50,240 --> 01:56:54,520 Speaker 1: the way I'm suggesting. Yeah, they're not talking about doing 2356 01:56:54,520 --> 01:56:57,640 Speaker 1: anything with the divisions, and that's because yeah, and that's 2357 01:56:57,680 --> 01:57:00,040 Speaker 1: exactly what Murph said. The division winners still get it 2358 01:57:00,160 --> 01:57:03,360 Speaker 1: in no matter what their record is. But I'm like you, 2359 01:57:03,600 --> 01:57:07,040 Speaker 1: I think they should recede because you get certain divisions 2360 01:57:07,080 --> 01:57:09,320 Speaker 1: that were they're down one year and they and they 2361 01:57:09,360 --> 01:57:13,280 Speaker 1: don't have a quality um. They don't have a quality winner. 2362 01:57:13,280 --> 01:57:17,360 Speaker 1: They got a guy a survivor mostly and that team, 2363 01:57:17,400 --> 01:57:20,920 Speaker 1: because of their record, in my opinion, shouldn't should not 2364 01:57:21,160 --> 01:57:23,720 Speaker 1: host a home game. The team that won eleven games 2365 01:57:23,800 --> 01:57:26,080 Speaker 1: or twelve games, who didn't win their division deserves the 2366 01:57:26,120 --> 01:57:28,920 Speaker 1: home game to me, So I'm kind of with you, 2367 01:57:29,040 --> 01:57:31,360 Speaker 1: John NICs for Calum. We're gonna come back with more 2368 01:57:31,400 --> 01:57:33,520 Speaker 1: in a moment. One Bills Live for Zenta Bike Alatta 2369 01:57:33,600 --> 01:57:36,280 Speaker 1: Health from the Seneca Studio. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. 2370 01:57:47,960 --> 01:57:51,000 Speaker 1: Welcome back. One Bills Live. Got about thirty twenty six 2371 01:57:51,600 --> 01:57:54,080 Speaker 1: minutes and twenty seconds to go in the show. Our 2372 01:57:54,120 --> 01:57:57,320 Speaker 1: biggest takeaway from a proposed fourteen team playoff. The reason 2373 01:57:57,400 --> 01:57:59,040 Speaker 1: we bring it up, they're talking about it in New 2374 01:57:59,120 --> 01:58:01,000 Speaker 1: York today. The owners were talking about it. It It may 2375 01:58:01,040 --> 01:58:04,520 Speaker 1: go to the players soon, Players Association Executive Committee if 2376 01:58:05,120 --> 01:58:07,360 Speaker 1: they vote yes. They sent it to the players. Look, 2377 01:58:07,360 --> 01:58:09,720 Speaker 1: we could have a new CBA by Monday, That's what 2378 01:58:09,760 --> 01:58:12,200 Speaker 1: Tony Pauline said, right Monday. We could have a new CBA. 2379 01:58:12,240 --> 01:58:16,600 Speaker 1: It's amazing a year before it expires. It was thinking 2380 01:58:16,640 --> 01:58:19,200 Speaker 1: back to the eighty seven players strike, how stressful it 2381 01:58:19,360 --> 01:58:24,480 Speaker 1: was and how how hostile it was between the players 2382 01:58:24,520 --> 01:58:28,480 Speaker 1: and owners, and the owners were set on breaking the union, 2383 01:58:28,800 --> 01:58:31,160 Speaker 1: and they actually, you know they did. I mean, they 2384 01:58:31,200 --> 01:58:34,320 Speaker 1: brought different players in, started playing games and we're going 2385 01:58:34,400 --> 01:58:40,920 Speaker 1: to move on, right And then the players Union decertified 2386 01:58:41,280 --> 01:58:44,720 Speaker 1: and stopped being the collective bargaining agent for the players. 2387 01:58:44,920 --> 01:58:47,680 Speaker 1: And that meant, of course, if the league didn't do 2388 01:58:47,720 --> 01:58:50,320 Speaker 1: something right away, that every player was going to be 2389 01:58:50,480 --> 01:58:55,640 Speaker 1: an independent contract with no CBA, and that the league 2390 01:58:55,640 --> 01:58:58,120 Speaker 1: couldn't stand for that. They had to had to do something. Then. 2391 01:58:59,080 --> 01:59:02,600 Speaker 1: The reason why I'm thinking, and I'm writing history as 2392 01:59:02,600 --> 01:59:05,160 Speaker 1: we go along here, uh, the reason why we are 2393 01:59:05,160 --> 01:59:06,760 Speaker 1: on the verge of a new CBA, which would be 2394 01:59:06,800 --> 01:59:11,280 Speaker 1: the second consecutive CBA without a major disruption in work, 2395 01:59:11,480 --> 01:59:14,000 Speaker 1: I would think, well, actually it'll be the first. There 2396 01:59:14,080 --> 01:59:16,360 Speaker 1: was a disruption in twenty eleven. But the reason is 2397 01:59:16,400 --> 01:59:18,880 Speaker 1: the money, right, there's so much more money now. You 2398 01:59:19,440 --> 01:59:22,320 Speaker 1: have to be foolish as a player to say Nope, 2399 01:59:22,360 --> 01:59:24,080 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go on strike or I'm gonna walk out, 2400 01:59:24,160 --> 01:59:26,720 Speaker 1: or I'm gonna they're gonna lock us out because there's 2401 01:59:26,720 --> 01:59:28,400 Speaker 1: so much money to be made now, right, I mean, 2402 01:59:28,400 --> 01:59:31,280 Speaker 1: it's pretty simple. And here's the thing too, there's there's 2403 01:59:31,320 --> 01:59:35,960 Speaker 1: something other than labor piece that the owners want. They 2404 01:59:35,960 --> 01:59:38,400 Speaker 1: want another game schedule then, and ultimately the probably want 2405 01:59:38,440 --> 01:59:40,520 Speaker 1: another one on top of this one, but they want 2406 01:59:41,160 --> 01:59:44,880 Speaker 1: a seventeen game schedule. Back before this, all they wanted 2407 01:59:45,000 --> 01:59:49,000 Speaker 1: was saying to keep to keep more for themselves and 2408 01:59:49,120 --> 01:59:50,640 Speaker 1: less for the players. I mean, that's what it was 2409 01:59:50,640 --> 01:59:54,000 Speaker 1: all about. And the players had no leverage, and that 2410 01:59:54,080 --> 01:59:57,560 Speaker 1: was it. Now that there's something that the owners really want, 2411 01:59:58,720 --> 02:00:01,840 Speaker 1: the players have just much leverage, and it's this single 2412 02:00:01,880 --> 02:00:05,520 Speaker 1: game expansion to the playoffs, and that you know, you 2413 02:00:05,560 --> 02:00:09,720 Speaker 1: can say that he can say that the players have 2414 02:00:09,760 --> 02:00:12,000 Speaker 1: a bargaining ship in the expanded playoffs, but the players 2415 02:00:12,040 --> 02:00:13,360 Speaker 1: have no say in that. The league can do that 2416 02:00:13,400 --> 02:00:17,080 Speaker 1: whenever they want expand the playoffs. And that's what really 2417 02:00:17,080 --> 02:00:19,400 Speaker 1: we're talking about on the telephone lines and on the 2418 02:00:19,440 --> 02:00:23,360 Speaker 1: Twitter poll today. The biggest takeaway from expansion to the playoffs. 2419 02:00:23,640 --> 02:00:26,280 Speaker 1: The new playoff field under the new CBA, if approved, 2420 02:00:26,680 --> 02:00:29,720 Speaker 1: would include six wild card weekend games. They have four now, right, 2421 02:00:29,760 --> 02:00:32,839 Speaker 1: two in each conference before division round games. Two conference 2422 02:00:32,880 --> 02:00:36,040 Speaker 1: champions won Super Bowl. And as you look at it 2423 02:00:36,080 --> 02:00:38,760 Speaker 1: and you brought it up, you found it the last 2424 02:00:38,800 --> 02:00:41,320 Speaker 1: ten years that teams that missed the postseason as the 2425 02:00:41,400 --> 02:00:43,960 Speaker 1: number seven seed that would have made it this year, 2426 02:00:44,280 --> 02:00:46,600 Speaker 1: nobody worse than an eight and eight record, which is 2427 02:00:46,640 --> 02:00:49,280 Speaker 1: not abominable. See, it's not like teams with five wins 2428 02:00:49,320 --> 02:00:51,280 Speaker 1: are gonna squeeze in. Right. The Steelers would have made 2429 02:00:51,560 --> 02:00:53,960 Speaker 1: four additional playoff trips in the last ten years they 2430 02:00:54,000 --> 02:00:56,440 Speaker 1: went eight and eight, and three of those seasons, six 2431 02:00:56,480 --> 02:00:58,400 Speaker 1: of the twenty teams would have made the playoffs with 2432 02:00:58,560 --> 02:01:01,400 Speaker 1: just eight wins. Eight wins is not a great year, 2433 02:01:01,520 --> 02:01:04,880 Speaker 1: but it's not abominable. It's not we can't stand by it, right, 2434 02:01:05,080 --> 02:01:07,640 Speaker 1: It's it's palatable to think in eight and eighteam gets 2435 02:01:07,680 --> 02:01:09,960 Speaker 1: in the postseason, right, and there's no seven and nine 2436 02:01:09,960 --> 02:01:12,920 Speaker 1: teams getting in unless there's an unless there's a team 2437 02:01:12,920 --> 02:01:14,920 Speaker 1: better than some of these that won a division that 2438 02:01:15,040 --> 02:01:20,360 Speaker 1: was worse than those teams are. These would be the 2439 02:01:20,400 --> 02:01:24,120 Speaker 1: seventh seed teams in either conference that one extra team, 2440 02:01:24,160 --> 02:01:27,160 Speaker 1: so there's one in each one. But the Bills made 2441 02:01:27,160 --> 02:01:29,240 Speaker 1: the playoffs in two of those years that you're seeing 2442 02:01:29,240 --> 02:01:32,840 Speaker 1: on the screen, and in seventeen and nineteen. Pittsburgh would 2443 02:01:32,840 --> 02:01:35,400 Speaker 1: have made it in eighteen and nineteen, and then you 2444 02:01:35,440 --> 02:01:37,160 Speaker 1: have to go all the way back to twelve and 2445 02:01:37,200 --> 02:01:38,840 Speaker 1: thirteen that they would have gotten in in the other 2446 02:01:38,840 --> 02:01:41,160 Speaker 1: two years, and then you know, Tennessee would have gotten 2447 02:01:41,160 --> 02:01:44,960 Speaker 1: in twice, Baltimore would have gotten in once, the Jets 2448 02:01:44,960 --> 02:01:47,800 Speaker 1: would have gotten in once. San Diego would have gotten 2449 02:01:47,800 --> 02:01:49,920 Speaker 1: in once, and then in the other and the other 2450 02:01:50,360 --> 02:01:53,880 Speaker 1: U Conference, Chicago would have gotten in twice. The Giants 2451 02:01:53,880 --> 02:01:58,240 Speaker 1: would have gotten in once more, Minnesota once, Atlanta once, 2452 02:01:58,280 --> 02:02:01,240 Speaker 1: Tampa Bay once, Detroit would have gotten in the playoffs once. 2453 02:02:01,280 --> 02:02:05,840 Speaker 1: So there's a little it's it just opens the door 2454 02:02:05,880 --> 02:02:07,720 Speaker 1: for so many more teams to have a chance to 2455 02:02:07,760 --> 02:02:10,880 Speaker 1: get into the postseason and do something. I don't have 2456 02:02:10,920 --> 02:02:14,280 Speaker 1: a problem with this expanding the playoffs. If you're gonna 2457 02:02:14,320 --> 02:02:16,320 Speaker 1: go in if you're gonna take it one step further 2458 02:02:16,400 --> 02:02:18,919 Speaker 1: and make it an even schedule and an even tournament 2459 02:02:18,960 --> 02:02:25,000 Speaker 1: and get eight teams in. Wow, that's you know, half 2460 02:02:25,000 --> 02:02:28,280 Speaker 1: the clubs in the in the in the league get in. 2461 02:02:29,280 --> 02:02:32,560 Speaker 1: Then you know, then maybe you do expand get thirty 2462 02:02:32,560 --> 02:02:36,360 Speaker 1: four teams in. It's been nineteen ninety was the first year, 2463 02:02:36,400 --> 02:02:38,880 Speaker 1: it's been thirty years that the NFL has had twelve 2464 02:02:38,920 --> 02:02:43,640 Speaker 1: playoff teams. Before that, it was eight teams, believe it 2465 02:02:43,720 --> 02:02:45,720 Speaker 1: or not, right, is that right? Eight or ten? So 2466 02:02:45,840 --> 02:02:48,080 Speaker 1: for thirty years though they've had a twelve team playoffs 2467 02:02:48,080 --> 02:02:50,080 Speaker 1: set up. Now they want to go to fourteen teams. 2468 02:02:50,720 --> 02:02:53,120 Speaker 1: It still means less than half of NFL teams would 2469 02:02:53,160 --> 02:02:57,839 Speaker 1: make the postseason. NBA, NHL or half or more sixteen 2470 02:02:57,880 --> 02:03:01,480 Speaker 1: teams qualified for the postseason in those leagues. Yeah, it's 2471 02:03:01,680 --> 02:03:04,760 Speaker 1: it's different, but things change in the league, and normally 2472 02:03:04,920 --> 02:03:08,120 Speaker 1: in this case, you talking about more playoff teams, more 2473 02:03:08,160 --> 02:03:12,000 Speaker 1: playoff games. People adapt and they embrace it. Right, Yeah, 2474 02:03:12,000 --> 02:03:15,240 Speaker 1: it becomes normal. Yeah, becomes normal pretty quickly. And the 2475 02:03:15,240 --> 02:03:17,960 Speaker 1: thing is that the reason I think both those clubs 2476 02:03:18,000 --> 02:03:21,800 Speaker 1: are you know, at sixteen teams, eight and each is 2477 02:03:21,840 --> 02:03:24,040 Speaker 1: because it makes so much sense for a tournament at 2478 02:03:24,040 --> 02:03:25,360 Speaker 1: the end of the season to get in as an 2479 02:03:25,360 --> 02:03:30,800 Speaker 1: eight team and go forward. It just makes that much sense. Mathematically, 2480 02:03:33,400 --> 02:03:37,240 Speaker 1: four is not enough. Six doesn't make any sense because 2481 02:03:37,280 --> 02:03:38,720 Speaker 1: once you have that for you know what I mean, 2482 02:03:38,920 --> 02:03:42,080 Speaker 1: you just can't do it. So somebody needs a bye week. 2483 02:03:42,880 --> 02:03:44,680 Speaker 1: And when you start talking about bye weeks, then you 2484 02:03:44,720 --> 02:03:47,000 Speaker 1: start talking about advantages and stuff like that. So eight 2485 02:03:47,040 --> 02:03:49,200 Speaker 1: teams is really the magic number. But at thirty two 2486 02:03:49,240 --> 02:03:52,280 Speaker 1: teams and eighteen and sixteen teams a conference, half the 2487 02:03:52,320 --> 02:03:55,520 Speaker 1: teams would make the playoffs, and that stinks to me. 2488 02:03:55,880 --> 02:03:59,720 Speaker 1: The proposal for a fourteen team playoff format would mean 2489 02:03:59,760 --> 02:04:02,440 Speaker 1: that the last two Super Bowl champions would have had 2490 02:04:02,480 --> 02:04:06,480 Speaker 1: to play um on the wildcard round, right, Neither the 2491 02:04:06,560 --> 02:04:11,240 Speaker 1: Chiefs nor who won the Patriots would have had a 2492 02:04:11,280 --> 02:04:13,560 Speaker 1: buy because they didn't finish number one seed. And this 2493 02:04:13,640 --> 02:04:16,440 Speaker 1: plan only one team in each conference gets a buy 2494 02:04:16,480 --> 02:04:19,520 Speaker 1: And that makes it by really valuable, really valuable, that 2495 02:04:19,600 --> 02:04:22,080 Speaker 1: only you have to play to play one fewer playoff 2496 02:04:22,120 --> 02:04:25,240 Speaker 1: game than your playoff opponents. That's you. That's the criticism too, 2497 02:04:25,360 --> 02:04:31,240 Speaker 1: Is it become two two? Critical? Is that does that 2498 02:04:31,280 --> 02:04:33,360 Speaker 1: become the reason that if you're the number one seed, 2499 02:04:33,360 --> 02:04:35,560 Speaker 1: you gotta you get it, you're gonna go to the 2500 02:04:35,560 --> 02:04:38,280 Speaker 1: Super Bowl? Does that raise your chance? It certainly should it. 2501 02:04:38,280 --> 02:04:40,520 Speaker 1: Would you just give you a reward, no question. Yeah, 2502 02:04:40,480 --> 02:04:42,560 Speaker 1: it'd be, And you'd play hard down the stretch in 2503 02:04:42,600 --> 02:04:45,160 Speaker 1: the regular season, if it's seventeen or sixteen games, you'd 2504 02:04:45,160 --> 02:04:48,760 Speaker 1: play hard down to seed. Yeah, that's true, And you 2505 02:04:49,000 --> 02:04:52,480 Speaker 1: still have teams playing hard to get there. But then 2506 02:04:52,880 --> 02:04:55,480 Speaker 1: you have would and it's hard to it's hard to 2507 02:04:55,480 --> 02:04:58,880 Speaker 1: get out and think your way through this hYP hypothetically 2508 02:04:58,880 --> 02:05:01,760 Speaker 1: act like we do. But are you gonna have more 2509 02:05:01,800 --> 02:05:04,560 Speaker 1: games like the Bills did in Week seventeen this year 2510 02:05:05,040 --> 02:05:06,800 Speaker 1: where they're not going to get the number one seed 2511 02:05:06,880 --> 02:05:09,360 Speaker 1: they've already got you know, they've already got a playoff 2512 02:05:09,440 --> 02:05:13,000 Speaker 1: berth wrapped up. Nobody's gonna catch them, or the seven 2513 02:05:13,040 --> 02:05:16,560 Speaker 1: seeds not gonna get there. Are they gonna have one 2514 02:05:16,880 --> 02:05:18,600 Speaker 1: meaningless game at the end of the year. Are they 2515 02:05:18,640 --> 02:05:20,960 Speaker 1: gonna have two meaningless games at the end of the year. 2516 02:05:21,040 --> 02:05:22,720 Speaker 1: You don't. You don't want to go that way either, 2517 02:05:23,240 --> 02:05:24,880 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Because there's some of these 2518 02:05:26,360 --> 02:05:28,720 Speaker 1: seasons and none of these teams. Well, you know, we're 2519 02:05:28,760 --> 02:05:30,720 Speaker 1: getting this number one seed or the number two seed 2520 02:05:30,800 --> 02:05:33,240 Speaker 1: or the number two seed in the conference. Can't catch 2521 02:05:33,280 --> 02:05:36,400 Speaker 1: the number one seed for two weeks. So they got 2522 02:05:36,440 --> 02:05:39,080 Speaker 1: two miningless games. Nobody's gonna catch them. Even if they 2523 02:05:39,200 --> 02:05:42,480 Speaker 1: dropped two games, they're still the five seed. Whatever. So 2524 02:05:43,240 --> 02:05:45,000 Speaker 1: you know, a home game maybe have something to do 2525 02:05:45,040 --> 02:05:46,120 Speaker 1: with it. But I don't want to get to a 2526 02:05:46,120 --> 02:05:47,720 Speaker 1: point where these playoffs all of a sudden, you got 2527 02:05:47,760 --> 02:05:51,720 Speaker 1: three teams that don't have that can't improve or or 2528 02:05:52,720 --> 02:05:57,560 Speaker 1: worse than their playoffs standards. That stinks. Let's take a 2529 02:05:57,560 --> 02:06:01,320 Speaker 1: phone call. We'll talk about that. Eighty three one eight 2530 02:06:01,400 --> 02:06:04,080 Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty, We'll talk about whatever's 2531 02:06:04,080 --> 02:06:06,840 Speaker 1: on your mind. Let's go to Rick in Rochester. Hello, Rick, 2532 02:06:06,840 --> 02:06:11,240 Speaker 1: you're on the air. Hey guys, how you doing, large viewer? Uh, 2533 02:06:11,760 --> 02:06:15,160 Speaker 1: you know, I got a great lower route draft pick 2534 02:06:15,240 --> 02:06:17,160 Speaker 1: for us. I know I'm sort of going off the 2535 02:06:17,160 --> 02:06:22,800 Speaker 1: beating path, but ironically I introduced this player as parents 2536 02:06:23,560 --> 02:06:27,120 Speaker 1: together twenty five years ago. Okay, now, is there some 2537 02:06:27,200 --> 02:06:29,120 Speaker 1: sort of kickback for you if this guy gets drafted, 2538 02:06:29,920 --> 02:06:34,040 Speaker 1: maybe for maybe for bills, tickets, if they do the work, 2539 02:06:34,400 --> 02:06:36,600 Speaker 1: if the bills are the right thing you can get 2540 02:06:36,640 --> 02:06:39,800 Speaker 1: this guy probably with six round is. But he's a 2541 02:06:39,840 --> 02:06:44,240 Speaker 1: starter for Clemson two years. His name is Gage Survenka. 2542 02:06:44,320 --> 02:06:47,600 Speaker 1: I don't know if that rings about Servenka Gage first name. 2543 02:06:47,960 --> 02:06:50,800 Speaker 1: He was one hundred and ninety nine and one in 2544 02:06:51,360 --> 02:06:55,400 Speaker 1: four times state champ in wrestling. Wow. Two years, two 2545 02:06:55,480 --> 02:06:58,520 Speaker 1: years starter for Clemson, did not give up a sack 2546 02:06:58,720 --> 02:07:02,200 Speaker 1: for the two years. He's about six three three in 2547 02:07:02,280 --> 02:07:05,840 Speaker 1: a quarter. The guy would pull out perfectly with more 2548 02:07:06,360 --> 02:07:11,240 Speaker 1: and Feliciano, not Survenka. You got Dawkins and you got forty. 2549 02:07:11,600 --> 02:07:13,480 Speaker 1: That is a tough five. Let me tell you something, 2550 02:07:13,800 --> 02:07:18,800 Speaker 1: this guy, Servenka is much more athletic than span. He's 2551 02:07:19,160 --> 02:07:23,160 Speaker 1: get out for singletary and blow away these outside linebackers 2552 02:07:23,160 --> 02:07:28,760 Speaker 1: and you're in your cornerbacks and the highest I see 2553 02:07:28,840 --> 02:07:32,200 Speaker 1: the guy Minnesota is looking at him like maybe in 2554 02:07:32,280 --> 02:07:36,280 Speaker 1: the sixth round he did forty five reps at two 2555 02:07:36,360 --> 02:07:40,240 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five pounds bench press and that's the 2556 02:07:40,320 --> 02:07:44,360 Speaker 1: Clemson record. He's got that Clemson mentality too, of being 2557 02:07:44,360 --> 02:07:47,480 Speaker 1: a winner. Let's shack Lawson. I'm telling it. If you 2558 02:07:47,600 --> 02:07:51,080 Speaker 1: want a real player, lower round that I think is 2559 02:07:51,160 --> 02:07:55,680 Speaker 1: better than you're starting offensive right now. Look at this guy, 2560 02:07:55,800 --> 02:08:01,200 Speaker 1: Gage Survenka. Where is he from the Clemson Clemson and 2561 02:08:01,200 --> 02:08:05,360 Speaker 1: and he plays offensive guard or center? Correct? Correct? Go? 2562 02:08:05,480 --> 02:08:08,160 Speaker 1: Where's he from? Where do you grow up? I mean 2563 02:08:08,200 --> 02:08:11,600 Speaker 1: I introduce his parents together here in Rochester. They then 2564 02:08:11,720 --> 02:08:15,280 Speaker 1: moved down south and I got rid of the wedding, 2565 02:08:15,480 --> 02:08:17,920 Speaker 1: didn't go. But if he's an about player, I want 2566 02:08:18,000 --> 02:08:22,000 Speaker 1: tickets because he got around. If I don't introduce his parents, 2567 02:08:22,200 --> 02:08:24,440 Speaker 1: I'm looking at a profile of him sixty three three, 2568 02:08:24,560 --> 02:08:30,080 Speaker 1: twenty five. I'm trying to think projected round. There's no 2569 02:08:30,080 --> 02:08:32,360 Speaker 1: projected round on him. You think he'd be six seventh 2570 02:08:32,520 --> 02:08:35,240 Speaker 1: maybe a free agent signing. Is that right? Well, Minnesota 2571 02:08:35,400 --> 02:08:38,040 Speaker 1: got him like Minnesota sans we like him, you know, 2572 02:08:38,120 --> 02:08:40,440 Speaker 1: and then they picked him at like number two twenty 2573 02:08:40,640 --> 02:08:44,120 Speaker 1: the sixth or seventh round, but did not give up 2574 02:08:44,120 --> 02:08:46,240 Speaker 1: a sack to that guy Lawrence and two years of 2575 02:08:46,360 --> 02:08:51,160 Speaker 1: starting again strong as an ox can pull is the 2576 02:08:51,200 --> 02:08:54,400 Speaker 1: athletic Look at the wrestling one hundred and ninety nine 2577 02:08:54,400 --> 02:08:57,560 Speaker 1: and one in high school. I'll give you a quick 2578 02:08:57,560 --> 02:09:00,280 Speaker 1: I'll give you a quick analyst report on this guy. 2579 02:09:00,520 --> 02:09:02,760 Speaker 1: He's extremely powerful, much like others who have played the 2580 02:09:02,840 --> 02:09:05,640 Speaker 1: right guard spot for Dabos. Sweeney at Clemson set a 2581 02:09:05,680 --> 02:09:08,280 Speaker 1: new Clemson record with forty four bench press reps two 2582 02:09:08,360 --> 02:09:12,200 Speaker 1: hundred twenty five pounds. He's a converted defensive tackle and 2583 02:09:12,320 --> 02:09:16,000 Speaker 1: is still new to playing offensive line as of twenty sixteen. 2584 02:09:16,960 --> 02:09:22,800 Speaker 1: This is from Prospect Rankings. I'm not sure exactly what 2585 02:09:23,160 --> 02:09:26,800 Speaker 1: website I'm on the draft network. I guess his place 2586 02:09:26,840 --> 02:09:29,480 Speaker 1: strength often shows up on the field with impressive moments. 2587 02:09:29,720 --> 02:09:32,680 Speaker 1: He anchors well, moves bodies, and hits devastating blocks on 2588 02:09:32,680 --> 02:09:35,120 Speaker 1: the move. He's extremely raw because of his newness to 2589 02:09:35,120 --> 02:09:38,760 Speaker 1: the position. He has issues staying square and sustaining blocks. 2590 02:09:39,560 --> 02:09:42,600 Speaker 1: He's got to develop better. Posture has been in balance, 2591 02:09:42,680 --> 02:09:45,520 Speaker 1: major development needed in terms of footwork, hand use. Six time. 2592 02:09:45,600 --> 02:09:48,480 Speaker 1: He seems like a project. You're right, obviously, two and 2593 02:09:48,800 --> 02:09:51,560 Speaker 1: I'll give you a thing about just what I know 2594 02:09:51,600 --> 02:09:56,000 Speaker 1: about the NFL. This kid, Gauge Cervenka, seems like a project, 2595 02:09:56,000 --> 02:09:58,000 Speaker 1: and you're right. A late round draft pick for sure, 2596 02:09:58,120 --> 02:10:01,760 Speaker 1: maybe a practice squad guy. And from the looks of it, 2597 02:10:01,800 --> 02:10:03,920 Speaker 1: if the Bills were looking for a guy down on 2598 02:10:03,960 --> 02:10:05,960 Speaker 1: the interior who they wanted as a project to bring 2599 02:10:06,000 --> 02:10:09,400 Speaker 1: on as a practice squad guy to get better. This 2600 02:10:09,440 --> 02:10:11,960 Speaker 1: may be the best place. I think this place is 2601 02:10:11,960 --> 02:10:15,120 Speaker 1: the best place for a guy like this who wants 2602 02:10:15,120 --> 02:10:17,920 Speaker 1: to has to develop, because this place, in this building 2603 02:10:17,960 --> 02:10:22,080 Speaker 1: one Bill's drive. They develop young players. So if they're 2604 02:10:22,080 --> 02:10:24,480 Speaker 1: looking for an inside guy who wants to develop and 2605 02:10:24,520 --> 02:10:26,400 Speaker 1: maybe turn into a pretty good starter in the league, 2606 02:10:26,400 --> 02:10:29,840 Speaker 1: who's got some physical abilities, you're right. Gage Cervenka could 2607 02:10:29,880 --> 02:10:31,839 Speaker 1: be a guy the Bills sign either to a rookie, 2608 02:10:32,040 --> 02:10:34,920 Speaker 1: undrafted free agent contract or a late round that got 2609 02:10:35,720 --> 02:10:39,360 Speaker 1: five picks after the fifth round. So maybe he does 2610 02:10:39,400 --> 02:10:41,960 Speaker 1: get picked up by him. So Rick, thanks, that's all. 2611 02:10:42,480 --> 02:10:46,040 Speaker 1: We've got him on my radar. Thanks. Officially, he's officially 2612 02:10:46,080 --> 02:10:47,880 Speaker 1: on the radar. Now I'm gonna take a break here 2613 02:10:47,880 --> 02:10:50,280 Speaker 1: we're coming back. One Bill Slide presented by Kalada Health 2614 02:10:50,480 --> 02:10:53,000 Speaker 1: from the Seneca Studio on Archard Park. This is Buffalo 2615 02:10:53,040 --> 02:11:10,920 Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Okay, what do we learned from today's show? 2616 02:11:10,960 --> 02:11:13,280 Speaker 1: What have we learned? It's a good question. We've learned 2617 02:11:13,320 --> 02:11:15,920 Speaker 1: a lot about the future in the NFL, at least 2618 02:11:15,960 --> 02:11:18,440 Speaker 1: where it might be headed. And that's where we tried 2619 02:11:18,440 --> 02:11:22,560 Speaker 1: to engage with our listeners in today. I've lost the Rundown, 2620 02:11:22,560 --> 02:11:27,240 Speaker 1: though I don't know what we've learned Tony Pauline. We had, yeah, 2621 02:11:27,280 --> 02:11:31,840 Speaker 1: Tony Pauline, the NFL Pro Football Network's NFL Draft analysts. 2622 02:11:31,960 --> 02:11:35,200 Speaker 1: We talked with Tony Pauline about the future, about the 2623 02:11:35,240 --> 02:11:40,800 Speaker 1: expanded postseason and the possibility of a new CBA. What 2624 02:11:40,960 --> 02:11:44,080 Speaker 1: I was told was that one point of urgency, believe 2625 02:11:44,080 --> 02:11:46,000 Speaker 1: it or not, is Eric Winston, who was one of 2626 02:11:46,000 --> 02:11:49,400 Speaker 1: the player representatives. His term is done at the beginning 2627 02:11:49,440 --> 02:11:51,920 Speaker 1: of the league year. And someone told me that they 2628 02:11:51,920 --> 02:11:54,880 Speaker 1: want to get a deal done because once Eric Winston's 2629 02:11:55,000 --> 02:11:58,080 Speaker 1: term has done, the new guy who replaces Eric Winston 2630 02:11:58,560 --> 02:12:01,440 Speaker 1: may not want the same thing. So there is believe 2631 02:12:01,480 --> 02:12:04,800 Speaker 1: it or not, And this was confirmed by several people 2632 02:12:04,840 --> 02:12:07,200 Speaker 1: I spoke with, because I didn't believe it when I 2633 02:12:07,240 --> 02:12:10,200 Speaker 1: first heard it. But the person who replaces Eric Winston, 2634 02:12:10,600 --> 02:12:12,800 Speaker 1: they may have to start from scratch, right, That's how 2635 02:12:12,840 --> 02:12:16,160 Speaker 1: its negotiations to concern. So they want to get they 2636 02:12:16,200 --> 02:12:19,400 Speaker 1: want to get something done before Winston's term is complete. 2637 02:12:19,680 --> 02:12:23,120 Speaker 1: It was very difficult to digest that, but it was 2638 02:12:23,200 --> 02:12:26,680 Speaker 1: talled to me by multiple people. That's hard to imagine, right, 2639 02:12:26,720 --> 02:12:29,200 Speaker 1: but man, that's why they're in a herd to get 2640 02:12:29,200 --> 02:12:31,760 Speaker 1: this done. Also, what have we learned, Charlie, You've joined 2641 02:12:31,760 --> 02:12:35,040 Speaker 1: this NFL Network producer will handle the producing job for 2642 02:12:35,120 --> 02:12:38,640 Speaker 1: next week's NFL Scouting Combine, which moves to primetime Thursday 2643 02:12:38,720 --> 02:12:41,480 Speaker 1: night at starts seven hours of primetime coverage of the 2644 02:12:41,600 --> 02:12:45,840 Speaker 1: NFL Scouting Combine four pm to eleven pm Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 2645 02:12:46,080 --> 02:12:49,240 Speaker 1: and then two pm to seven pm on Sunday. Charlie, 2646 02:12:49,240 --> 02:12:51,800 Speaker 1: you've talked about what primetime coverage of the Combine will 2647 02:12:51,840 --> 02:12:55,840 Speaker 1: look like. The biggest things we're gonna do differently is 2648 02:12:55,840 --> 02:12:58,200 Speaker 1: we're gonna make sure we know are our core audience 2649 02:12:58,240 --> 02:13:00,560 Speaker 1: knows football, but we're gonna try to teach more than 2650 02:13:00,600 --> 02:13:03,760 Speaker 1: we then we had before, showing him what this drill is, 2651 02:13:03,880 --> 02:13:06,360 Speaker 1: what it means, what it looks like when a player 2652 02:13:06,400 --> 02:13:08,880 Speaker 1: does it, and how it translates to the actual game. 2653 02:13:09,280 --> 02:13:12,080 Speaker 1: So we have these things called golf course flyovers where 2654 02:13:12,080 --> 02:13:15,040 Speaker 1: it's it's a graphically enhanced view of what the drill is, 2655 02:13:15,400 --> 02:13:17,960 Speaker 1: and then we'll show a player doing a drill, whether 2656 02:13:17,960 --> 02:13:20,040 Speaker 1: it's you know, Josh Allen throwing a quick out at 2657 02:13:20,040 --> 02:13:21,840 Speaker 1: the combine and then him doing it in the game. 2658 02:13:22,280 --> 02:13:25,400 Speaker 1: So it's an opportunity for us to teach what these 2659 02:13:25,400 --> 02:13:27,480 Speaker 1: things mean on the field and how it translates on 2660 02:13:27,520 --> 02:13:30,200 Speaker 1: the field on Sundays, Thursdays and Monday nights during the season. 2661 02:13:30,440 --> 02:13:32,640 Speaker 1: Good more in the Combine coming on tomorrow, Jeff Foster 2662 02:13:32,720 --> 02:13:35,240 Speaker 1: from National Scouting will talk to us about the Combine. 2663 02:13:35,280 --> 02:13:37,840 Speaker 1: Heeds the man who runs it. Also tomorrow, I'm gonna 2664 02:13:37,840 --> 02:13:39,320 Speaker 1: talk to a guy not going to the Combine, but 2665 02:13:39,400 --> 02:13:43,080 Speaker 1: a draft prospect from Rochester. Ernest Edwards wide receiver Black 2666 02:13:43,120 --> 02:13:45,200 Speaker 1: Bear from Maine will join us on tomorrow show as well. 2667 02:13:45,320 --> 02:13:48,120 Speaker 1: You're good. See yeah, I'm good. Can't wait for tomorrow. 2668 02:13:48,120 --> 02:13:51,400 Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun. Kick off to the weekend. Production 2669 02:13:51,400 --> 02:13:54,800 Speaker 1: assistance George Blasteff, Colt, Nick Thomas, Homander, Kelly Rude, j 2670 02:13:55,000 --> 02:13:57,920 Speaker 1: j Oredo, Kevin Carter's team's robot producer Jay Harrisy tomorrow 2671 02:13:57,920 --> 02:14:01,120 Speaker 1: with Noon one Bills Live on Buffalo Bills. Read the 2672 02:14:02,120 --> 02:14:03,480 Speaker 1: an any More