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Speaker 1: A Wednesday edition of One Bills Live. It is pouring

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Speaker 1: But of course, Steve, there is something else that is

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Speaker 1: percentage goes down, but you still are not supposed to be. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's no guarantee upsetting. And if for some reason now

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Speaker 1: the Titans, I don't know the I haven't heard anything

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Speaker 1: that these guys caught you know, caught the virus or positive. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let me jump in there real quick, Jenny, because Mike Rabel,

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Speaker 1: the head coach of the Titans, did say in his

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Speaker 1: press conference today that they have no reason to believe

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Speaker 1: that any of their players went a foul of the

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Speaker 1: COVID protocols. It is their understanding based on everyone they've

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Speaker 1: spoken to, that their people in their organization have followed

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Speaker 1: the protocols to the letter. That's the head coach talking.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how he goes about verifying that, but

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Speaker 1: that's what was said by the Titans today. But go ahead,

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Speaker 1: well and and and given that, I mean then I

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Speaker 1: understand that you try to push the game or whatever

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Speaker 1: to protect everybody. But when when there's a blatant and

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry Gruden and the and the Raiders, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: can thumb their nose at everything. I think that if

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Speaker 1: if they decide, if the league decides that something needs

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Speaker 1: to be done and the game needs to be posted

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Speaker 1: or whatever. I think that they ought to force. It's

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Speaker 1: a game. Um. I hear where you're saying, Jenny, And

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Speaker 1: here's my take on. I don't know that it's fair

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Speaker 1: to the other, say fifty guys on the roster, or

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Speaker 1: for the Raiders to give them, to take away their

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Speaker 1: opportunity to play in this game. Because of the six

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Speaker 1: or seven guys or whoever man it was they win

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Speaker 1: to this event, you got to You've got to give

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Speaker 1: them a chance to play the game. You shouldn't. They

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Speaker 1: shouldn't have to pay for those guys' mistake, is what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, even though they're on the same team and

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Speaker 1: it isn't one organization. You got these guys doing this.

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Speaker 1: Give the Raiders a chance to compete. Um. I don't

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Speaker 1: think the whole organization needs to get thrown out, but

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Speaker 1: those guys who were there need to be quarantined. They

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Speaker 1: need to be They need to be tested and quarantined

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Speaker 1: until everybody's positive that they didn't get exposed. Go ahead, Jenny, Well, no,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I I see what you're saying, except it's

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Speaker 1: it's an organizational thing. And if they can't control if

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Speaker 1: the organization cannot control their players, or their locker room

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Speaker 1: or their coach wearing a mask, um, then then the

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Speaker 1: team should be punished. And I feel bad for those

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Speaker 1: other fifty people, but they could potentially you said, they

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Speaker 1: might be practicing today with those guys, right, so they

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Speaker 1: might be exposed as well. Yeah, you're right with our

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Speaker 1: guys in jeopardy. Yeah, I see, you're right. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: the capiat right, it is. It's a good point, because

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Speaker 1: they do they should have separated those or they maybe

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Speaker 1: they will. We haven't heard, but they they found out

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Speaker 1: about a Tuesday. The owner, Mark Davis, was quoted on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: and I'll read you his direct quote when he when

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Speaker 1: he learned of this situation. UM, he said, we obviously

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Speaker 1: take responsibility for this. You don't like seeing this. I

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00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 1: don't know that it's actually been built into our memories

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Speaker 1: that you have to wear a mask. Scar organization takes

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Speaker 1: it very seriously. The third part of that quote troubles me.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if how is it not drummed into your

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Speaker 1: memory that you should wear a mask? Are you kidding?

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Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? I mean living under a rock? Right?

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Speaker 1: Come on with that? It hasn't been drummed into our memories.

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Speaker 1: Your team just got fined for not wearing a mask properly.

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Speaker 1: If it are you serious? If it hasn't been drummed

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Speaker 1: into our memories, you haven't been taken it seriously. And

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Speaker 1: the rest of your protocs exactly. I think, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a symptom of a lax attitude toward

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Speaker 1: the protocols that have been negotiated and and everybody else

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Speaker 1: in the league is articulous taking very serious. Um yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be. It's gonna be really interesting to see

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Speaker 1: how the league handles this and really interesting and just

497
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Speaker 1: for any rescheduling things that you might be rolling through

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Speaker 1: your head in the event that you know, let's just

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Speaker 1: say there's upwards a twenty play that we're at this

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Speaker 1: gala and the Raiders just flat out don't have enough

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Speaker 1: people to play a game, and this game has to

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Speaker 1: get moved. We know the Bills bye week is week eleven,

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Speaker 1: for the Raiders it's week seven, so that doesn't work.

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Speaker 1: They don't have the same bye week, so that's an

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Speaker 1: easy fix that's out the window. Like, we're really gonna

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Speaker 1: have to see where this goes with the testing over

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Speaker 1: the next couple of days, we're hearing also that the

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Speaker 1: Titans game has been moved till Monday or Tuesday, probably

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Speaker 1: maybe Tuesday, because that moves it outside the eight day

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Speaker 1: window for incubation, for incubation of the of the virus.

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Speaker 1: That may be a possibility for the Bills Raiders. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Raiders, Yeah, they really stepped in stuff here. They

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Speaker 1: stepped in a couple of times, and a couple of

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Speaker 1: times you say, Okay, I get it, because there were

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Speaker 1: other coaches who didn't have mass on a work right,

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Speaker 1: and you know you're getting used to it. But then

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Speaker 1: the league came out and find them six figures and

518
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Speaker 1: the clubs two and a half times more than that,

519
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Speaker 1: to a tune of one point seven million across the league.

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Speaker 1: That where guys were fine for not wearing their masks

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Speaker 1: on game day. I don't really buy the fact that

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Speaker 1: you go to an event and not feel like you

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Speaker 1: should have one on. I think the league needs to

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Speaker 1: send a strong and I know this too. Let's face it,

525
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 1: it's self serving for Brownie and I to sit here

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00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,120
Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live knowing we got the Raiders this week.

527
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:24,360
Speaker 1: Tell them they should forfeit the game. But right's look,

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Speaker 1: it's but I'm telling you, I know none of us

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Speaker 1: are perfect, Steve, and even despite our best efforts, I mean,

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Speaker 1: as soon as we're as soon as we go to

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Speaker 1: break these things get slapped on again, so we can

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Speaker 1: go and move around the control room. So we're protecting

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Speaker 1: ourselves and our coworkers. I mean, we're all trying to

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Speaker 1: do the right thing here, and even that's not a guarantee.

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Speaker 1: I totally get that. But when you blatantly don't even

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Speaker 1: make the effort to use those measures that have been

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Speaker 1: proven to reduce the risk of contracting the virus, you're

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00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,959
Speaker 1: just an idiot. It's as simple as that. You're just

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Speaker 1: an idiot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's either you're an

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00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: idiot or where you're just you're absolutely you know you

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Speaker 1: don't care about the road. So feel free to weigh

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Speaker 1: in on this if you want. At eight oh three

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

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Speaker 1: five fifty the Bills game on Sunday against the Raiders,

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00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: it could be compromised. Let's be honest, we have to

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Speaker 1: see where this goes. Maybe, by some miracle stroke, none

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00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 1: of these Raiders test positive or they get successfully quarantined

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Speaker 1: and don't practice today. It's gonna certainly bear some watching

549
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 1: because it indirectly impacts the Bills and what could happen

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Speaker 1: out in Las Vegas come Sunday. And we already know

551
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: the Titan Steelers game has been postponed to Monday or Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: We have to take a break, but we're back with

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Speaker 1: your phone calls and with some sound from coach McDermott

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00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 1: and coach Frasier about the team, about the defense and

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00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 1: where things are going here on the offensive side of

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Speaker 1: the ball at this point, which is very encouraging. There

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Speaker 1: are some other things on the to do list for

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Speaker 1: coach Frasier in the defense. We'll get to all of

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Speaker 1: that when we return here on One Bills Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio, Chris Brown,

561
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you One Bills Live. As we moved

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Speaker 1: through the first hour of the program, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we got a little heated there, and I understand why

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Speaker 1: it sinks, man, frustrating you know were I guess we're

565
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Speaker 1: a little bit guilty of exactly what the Raiders did,

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Speaker 1: getting a little complacent because the first couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: went so smoothly with the virus and stuff. Now all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, we got this going on, and we're

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Speaker 1: starting to I don't want to. I don't want to.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be a knee jerk guy you

571
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Speaker 1: know where it's like, I know, but but that's what

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00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: makes it so frustrating is what the Raiders did was

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00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 1: completely avoidable, completely avoidable just by just by slapping this

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Speaker 1: on your face and wearing it. I mean, completely avoidable.

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Speaker 1: That's what's so infuriating, you know. I mean, let's not

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Speaker 1: asking people to move mountains here so people can watch

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Speaker 1: ball in the season can go on as best as possible.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there are going to be issues through the

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Speaker 1: course of the year, especially when we get to these

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Speaker 1: bye weeks. I know, the bye weeks are a big

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Speaker 1: concerning yours, Steve. You know, when when teams get the

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Speaker 1: week off and players get three or four days off

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Speaker 1: at the end of the week, you're crossing your fingers

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Speaker 1: and toes that they all do the right thing. Yeah,

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00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: and that's a concern. We haven't gotten there yet. Yeah,

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00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: we haven't gotten to that point yet. And we've got

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Speaker 1: the Titans issue, and you know, now we got this

588
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: thing with the Raiders Titans issues into another one. You

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00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: think about it, and all these things are their own entities.

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Speaker 1: The Titans issue is almost more troubling than the Raiders issue,

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Speaker 1: because the Raiders your hammerhead if you wanted to just

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Speaker 1: suspend those guys for two weeks. But the Titans issue,

593
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: there was a leak in the bubble, right, there was

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Speaker 1: a leak in the protocols. Somehow, some way, without even

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Speaker 1: realizing it, somebody got exposed the virus and eight people

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Speaker 1: went down because of it. Rabel said today, this isn't

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Speaker 1: these aren't false positives, because a number of the guys

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Speaker 1: who have tested positive with the Titans are showing symptoms.

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Speaker 1: So it's the real thing that, to me, and if

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Speaker 1: you take it in that context, is a little more

601
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Speaker 1: troubling than the than the Raiders being hammerheads and going

602
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Speaker 1: to big crowded events without masks. So because of that,

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Speaker 1: I'm almost tempted to, you know, just let the league

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Speaker 1: take care of the Raiders thin because there's nothing we

605
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:37,479
Speaker 1: can do about guys being idiots. But the Titans thing

606
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: is a little more concerning to me. And I don't

607
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: know how you feel about it, but you think about it.

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Speaker 1: They have these protocols in place, and somehow, some way

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Speaker 1: they didn't work. Well. Yeah, as we understand it. According

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Speaker 1: to head coach Mike Vrabel, the Titans players and staff

611
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: have been abiding by the letter of the law with

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Speaker 1: all of the league's pro calls that are in place

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Speaker 1: in terms of how you conduct yourself, mask wearing, handwashing,

614
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Speaker 1: sanitizing restricted areas of the facility for the team, etc, etc. Etc.

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Speaker 1: And they still fell victim to a COVID outbreak. Like

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Speaker 1: we said, despite your best efforts and whatever measures you're

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Speaker 1: taking is there's no guarantee. So despite the Titans best efforts,

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Speaker 1: they fell victim to it. To see a team like

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Speaker 1: the Raiders just go off half cocked and do something

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Speaker 1: this irresponsible, I mean, I gotta believe that the league

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Speaker 1: is going to deal with this swiftly and firmly, because

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Speaker 1: you're jeopardizing most important, You're jeopardizing games, you're jeopardizing your

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Speaker 1: team season, and there could be ripple effects across the

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Speaker 1: league because of it, and you're you're compromising the revenue

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Speaker 1: generation that this league puts out. I mean, this is

626
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Speaker 1: a fourteen billion dollar a year business and they just

627
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: threw a fly in the ointment here, the proportions of

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Speaker 1: which we don't even know yet, right, plus the human

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Speaker 1: aspect of it. You got guys more importantly, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you got young families, and you got coaches who are old.

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Speaker 1: You got coaches who are susceptive. In the high risk group,

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Speaker 1: you got vulnerable parties that are rubbing up against these

633
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Speaker 1: guys figuratively and literally physically. So it's it's a line

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Speaker 1: that needs to be firmly, firmly drawn and you need

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Speaker 1: to stay on your side of the line. Period. And

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00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:45,359
Speaker 1: to this point it had been working. And now guys

637
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Speaker 1: are starting to get I think complacent. And they got

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Speaker 1: slapped for it, or at least the league did, and

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Speaker 1: I will see how if the league slaps back. They

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Speaker 1: wanted to get to some comments from head coach Sean

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Speaker 1: McDermott and defensive coordinator Leslie Frasier. Coach McDermott was asked

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Speaker 1: just this past hour how he is handling what has

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Speaker 1: happened with the Raiders and keeping his team aware of

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Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen risks. I think awareness is the big

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Speaker 1: is the big key there with um, you know, staying discipline,

646
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Speaker 1: staying staying diligent, and what we're doing, our habits that

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Speaker 1: we that we undertake inside the building and outside of

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Speaker 1: the building, and and so you know, it's uh we

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Speaker 1: try and focus on the opponent this week, which is

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Speaker 1: which is the Raiders obviously, but also being aware of

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Speaker 1: what's going on around us in our world, not just

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Speaker 1: the NFL, but in our world, and there's there's things

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Speaker 1: like this popping up all over the place, and so um,

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Speaker 1: you know, we just gotta we have to be um aware.

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Speaker 1: I think again it is the biggest thing. Um. Sometimes

656
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: we get insulated in this NFL piece and we lose

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00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: sight of what's going on around us, and and uh

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Speaker 1: so look, we're just we're gonna do the best we can,

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Speaker 1: as I've said from the start, and trying to remain

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Speaker 1: disciplined through the season here. And he's one hundred percent right.

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Speaker 1: You look down in New York City, they went from

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Speaker 1: one percent infection rate to three percent in a day.

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Speaker 1: They tripled the rate of infection in a day. And

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Speaker 1: what are we four days into fall? I mean a

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Speaker 1: week into fall. You know, when they've they've talked at

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Speaker 1: nauseum about the second wave and when the weather gets colder,

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Speaker 1: the virus has a greater chance of spreading. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's it's troubling, you know, and that's why the Raiders

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Speaker 1: players actions are so unconscionable. It really is troubling. Here.

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Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones and we're going to

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Speaker 1: begin with Keith in Trumansburg, who does want to comment

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Speaker 1: on this Raiders situation. Keith, thanks for joining us. What

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Speaker 1: do you have? Hey? Guys? First of all, this is

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Speaker 1: not the Raider's first offense, so right, they have somebody

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Speaker 1: in the locker room brooding got fined. The NFL has

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Speaker 1: to make an example out of this team, as the

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Speaker 1: integrity the whole season relies upon that. If other teams

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Speaker 1: rosters think they'll they'll just get a do over if

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Speaker 1: they get this out of line, that's a real problem,

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Speaker 1: and I think the league should say to the Bills,

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Speaker 1: it's it's your decision whether you want to play this

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Speaker 1: team this week or not. Now. I imagine the Bills

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Speaker 1: would say yes because they're competitors and they don't want

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Speaker 1: to win a game that way. But it's three strikes

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Speaker 1: when you're out for the Raiders here, not to mention,

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Speaker 1: I mean, how stupid are they to put two? There

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00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: are two quarterbacks were at this event. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: during COVID, I would look at quarterbacks as president vice president.

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Speaker 1: They should never be at the same event at the

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Speaker 1: same time. Yeah, it's just it's unconscionable to me that,

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Speaker 1: you know, the league. Let's be honest, the NFL does

692
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: not have the best history of getting out in front

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Speaker 1: and addressing things the way they need to be addressed.

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Speaker 1: And if they want the season to continue like we

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Speaker 1: all do. Look, we got a three and o team

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Speaker 1: here where it and you know they're not gonna They're

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00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: not gonna meet the incubation period. If they play on someone,

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Speaker 1: they could test negative all week and they could still

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Speaker 1: be carrying the virus, which because then I mean, what

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Speaker 1: if they passed it to Josh Allen, What if they

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00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: pass it to our defensive players? You know, it could

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Speaker 1: hurt the bill season. I mean, I just don't think

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Speaker 1: it's fair to allow the Raiders to just go forward

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Speaker 1: even if they get negative tests all week. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: don't disagree with the Keith. Thanks to the phone call,

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Speaker 1: there's no question that's on the table. They're gonna they'll

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Speaker 1: talk about everything. They've already got this fire, this little

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Speaker 1: brush fire in Tennessee they're trying to deal with with

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Speaker 1: a team that has followed all the protocols. How much

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Speaker 1: worse is it when you got a team that and

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Speaker 1: this is the thing, and at this point there's no

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Speaker 1: positive tests, there's to this point, it looks as though, hey,

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Speaker 1: it was just an aberate. They should have done something

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Speaker 1: they didn't, but they got away with. I mean, at

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Speaker 1: this point it looks like that. So how but how

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Speaker 1: badly does the league want to send a message to

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Speaker 1: teams who did follow the protocols and still got and

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Speaker 1: and then showed how important it was to follow them

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00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 1: and even then it didn't work to a team that has,

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Speaker 1: as you said, a handful of times blown off the

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Speaker 1: regulation and they have gotten luck hammer so lucky. And

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Speaker 1: as I said it earlier, luck is not a plan.

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Speaker 1: And I don't care if the raiders go out and

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Speaker 1: you know, go without mask to a COVID facility and

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00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: don't get it. You still can't do that because you

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Speaker 1: got other people that are involved. If just because you

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00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: get lucky doesn't mean you didn't do something wrong. Um,

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Speaker 1: so the consequences should be should be there. There should

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Speaker 1: be some consequences for this. And I don't know what

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be. That's I don't even know what that

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Speaker 1: is going to be on the table for this. You know,

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Speaker 1: find these guys. That's a joke that doesn't seem logically appropriate.

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Speaker 1: Miss some game checks. That'll that'll talk. Yeah, mister James,

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Speaker 1: do you bench them? You take them out of team,

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Speaker 1: You take them out of the facility until their quarantine

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Speaker 1: is up the eight day incubation period and still getting

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Speaker 1: tested throughout. Maybe that makes a little more sense. You

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Speaker 1: got to remove them from that which they risked. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'd be disappointed if it was a fine.

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Speaker 1: I don't care about the amount of the fine. Who cares.

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Speaker 1: But the simple fact of the matter is everybody else

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Speaker 1: now who is involved with the Raiders organization has been

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Speaker 1: exposed to their mistake, and so are their opponents this week,

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Speaker 1: which in this case is the Buffalo Bills. Let's go

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Speaker 1: back to the phone. It's real quick, Jeff and Buffalo

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Speaker 1: who joins us? Now? Jeff, what do you have for us?

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Speaker 1: It was just good morning, by the ways, good more,

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Speaker 1: good afternoon. I was just listening to a call your

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Speaker 1: head what two three calls ago? A female? Who's you

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Speaker 1: know talked about benching, and you've been talking about benching

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Speaker 1: versus finding. Having played at a high level, having coached,

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Speaker 1: I had to bench players, and I know these are

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Speaker 1: professional players making a lot of money. But this is

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00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 1: an organization that's again gone through it. Gruden's already gone

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Speaker 1: through his situation with being seen on the sidelines without mask.

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Speaker 1: This is something that's where the organization needs to know something.

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00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 1: So if you have to bench them, take to pay away.

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00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: If it leaves them shorthand as they have to call

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00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: up practice squad guys, that's what they get. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: be it. I think it has to be that strong

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00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 1: because they've already flirted with it. Well, don't get you

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00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 1: need to do take strong measures. Yeah, no question, Jeff,

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Speaker 1: And thank you for the call. We are up against

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Speaker 1: the break. I will say this, you take them off

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Speaker 1: the field, not so much to punish them, but to

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Speaker 1: preserve the safety of the guys they're going against that

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00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 1: are suiting up for Buffalo. I mean, because you let

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Speaker 1: Derek Carr play, Jerry Hughes sacks him on a play,

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Speaker 1: I mean your nose to nose there, and what happens

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Speaker 1: if Derek Carr tests positive the next he Where does

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Speaker 1: that leave Jerry Hughes and all his teammates? I mean,

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00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 1: come on, they don't play. What happens when what happens

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Speaker 1: when this virus spreads throughout the Raiders organization and they

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00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 1: can't feel a team they're done? Then what are you

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00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 1: gonna do? You know, that's what you're risking as well,

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00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 1: the Raiders becoming this team that for another three weeks

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Speaker 1: until they're all quarantine and everybody tests positive for long

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Speaker 1: as then they missed two full games because they had

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Speaker 1: this outbreak because of guys like this. Sorry, bro, you're

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Speaker 1: two and two and three now? Or would or do

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00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 1: you just suspend the guys that you know have been

782
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Speaker 1: exposed or believe that have the possibility of being exposed

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Speaker 1: and keep take them out of it and let the

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Speaker 1: Raiders keep playing knowing that they're probably gonna go oh

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00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 1: and two during that stretch. That's a tough call, but

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Speaker 1: that's what you're looking at. Those are the kind of

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Speaker 1: choices you get the league has to make. Certainly, the

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Speaker 1: players who weren't at those at this charity event don't

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Speaker 1: deserve to be punched by missing games, but they are

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00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:05,319
Speaker 1: going to miss games without what their starting quarterback, their

791
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:10,479
Speaker 1: backup quarterback. They're countless number of giant into the league,

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00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:12,800
Speaker 1: zay jone their ride re seating. I mean they get gutted,

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00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:17,239
Speaker 1: so that that takes a toll on the guys that

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Speaker 1: had nothing to do with this in this in the organization.

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Speaker 1: So um, yeah, it's it's it's a rough and it's

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00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: there's a lot of layers to this, and I would

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00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: be surprised and disappointed if there wasn't something pretty substantial

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00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:36,879
Speaker 1: done either and I get it monetarily or with quarantine,

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00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: game benching, quarantine, excluding taking guys out of the locker roommate,

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Speaker 1: they got to leave the facility. All that. There's a

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00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: lot on the table there. Yeah, we'll get to all

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Speaker 1: of that and to Mike and Buffalo and others holding

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Speaker 1: an eighty three five fifty in the next segment here

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Speaker 1: we do have to take a break, but when we

805
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Speaker 1: come back, more of your phone calls on this Raiders situation.

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Speaker 1: As we continue here on One Bill's Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalida Health, This is Buffalo Bill's Radio Seve Tasker with

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Speaker 1: you our number one of one Bills Live here on

809
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: a Wednesday, team practicing inside. So we will not get

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00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 1: a live look at practice due to the COVID restrictions

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Speaker 1: when practices move indoors, but we do know John Brown

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00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 1: is not practicing, Josh Norman is still on injured reserve,

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Speaker 1: and Tremaine Edmonds and Matt Milano are participating in today's practice.

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Speaker 1: Will wait until the injury report comes out later this

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Speaker 1: afternoon for a full listing of the non participants, the

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Speaker 1: limited participants, and people back from injury. Because we still

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Speaker 1: don't know where Dawson Knock sits with respect to the

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00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:54,759
Speaker 1: concussion protocol, he missed last week's game. So at eight

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Speaker 1: oh three, five fifty, we are taking your phone calls

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00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: about this running a foul of COVID protocols by the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: A group of their players attended a Monday night charity

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Speaker 1: gala with over one hundred people indoors and many of

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Speaker 1: them not wearing masks for the duration of the event,

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Speaker 1: and this obviously calls into question where the game could

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Speaker 1: potentially stand between the Raiders and the Bills this weekend

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Speaker 1: if some of these players turn up positive. So back

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Speaker 1: to the phones in too, Andy in Orchard Park, Andy,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Thanks for joining us? Hey,

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Speaker 1: how you guys doing today. I was going to call

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Speaker 1: in to talk about the Bills defense for a quick second,

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Speaker 1: but I just got very fired up here about the

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Speaker 1: Raiders thing. I just want to say one little thing.

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Speaker 1: I know you guys spoke about maybe them possibly forfeiting

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Speaker 1: the game. He said, you don't want to seem like

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Speaker 1: the Bills fan. Listen. I think we're going to beat

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Speaker 1: the brakes off of them. I'm not saying that they

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Speaker 1: should forfeit, but when we talk about the ripples and

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Speaker 1: repercussions that their actions could have on the integrity of

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Speaker 1: the league, the integrity of our season and their season.

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Speaker 1: Mind you, we have the Titans right after them, which

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00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:00,440
Speaker 1: we know what's going on with them too. Yeah, I

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00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:03,320
Speaker 1: think it's ridiculous if they don't forfeit the game, just

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00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:07,240
Speaker 1: because this could literally jeopardize the entire season for both teams.

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Speaker 1: So I don't see it as this extreme thing for

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Speaker 1: them to forfeit that game. Yeah, it's a valid it's

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00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 1: a valid opinion, and we thank you for it. Andy.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think the endgame here for the league

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Speaker 1: is to play as many games as possible because it's

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Speaker 1: the primary driving source of the league's revenue stream. Let's

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Speaker 1: not kid ourselves about that. So I think where they

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Speaker 1: go with this is they try to find the best

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00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:39,799
Speaker 1: means by which they can enact proper discipline and still

853
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 1: get the game to go off, you know, as best

854
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:45,320
Speaker 1: as possible, whether it's a reduced roster for the Raiders,

855
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:47,760
Speaker 1: whether the game has moved to a different date, whatever

856
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 1: the case might be. You know, the league ideally would

857
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:54,439
Speaker 1: still want this game to go off in some way,

858
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 1: shape or form, even if it's watered down with thirty

859
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 1: five practice squad players that the Raiders have to scrape

860
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:03,360
Speaker 1: together to get enough people out on the field. I

861
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:06,400
Speaker 1: could see them doing that before they forced the Raiders

862
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:09,479
Speaker 1: to forfeit. Where do you sit on that? Yeah, there's

863
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: a lot of things, a lot of places they'll go

864
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 1: before you want to see that happen. But here's the thing. Then,

865
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:18,400
Speaker 1: this is from an ap store that was written today,

866
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: and Andy listen to this. So rules from the NFL

867
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:24,720
Speaker 1: and NFLPA limit what players are allowed to do away

868
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,479
Speaker 1: from team facilities this season to try and help prevent

869
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 1: the spread of coronavirus. Players are banned from attending any

870
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:38,279
Speaker 1: event that violates local and state restrictions. The venue has

871
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:41,319
Speaker 1: already been fined because exactly that's exactly what it did.

872
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 1: They were a team two thousand dollars. The team can

873
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 1: be fined for that as well. Now, since they are

874
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 1: banned from doing exactly what they did, what are the punishments?

875
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 1: What happens now? It's you can't deny it. Time to

876
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 1: dig in like what happens now? If finding them doesn't

877
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 1: help the guys that they're going to expose because of

878
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 1: their mistake, I mean, that doesn't follow. Removing them from

879
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: the facility would be a great idea, but we haven't

880
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 1: heard that that's been done. And now if it's not done,

881
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:22,479
Speaker 1: it's too late. That's the exact thing, because if we don't,

882
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 1: if they the league doesn't act. Now this is a

883
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:26,800
Speaker 1: message for the entirety of the league. If the Raiders

884
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 1: are forced to forfeit the game, which I don't think

885
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: they will, I don't think the league will make them

886
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 1: do it, but the idea of it, we'll see more

887
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 1: progress in these next couple of weeks. Just based off

888
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: that on all teams, then we would the rest of

889
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 1: the season. I just think the risk is way higher

890
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 1: than the ard. Okay, they play us on Sunday. God forbid,

891
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:47,360
Speaker 1: God forbid Trey White, Josh Allen, who's MVP front runner

892
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 1: in my opinion, gets covid or tests positive. It looks

893
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 1: terrible on the league, terrible on the Raiders, and it's

894
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 1: gonna be the biggest regret that they've made. I don't

895
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: think they're gonna do it, but I just thought maybe

896
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be so extreme for it to be up possibility,

897
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 1: except considering that it's not like this hasn't happened before,

898
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:06,239
Speaker 1: and it's not like they're they're a repeat offender. It

899
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,919
Speaker 1: is literally banned. The venue you set has been fine.

900
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 1: I mean, what else you got we gotta do here? Guy? Yeah,

901
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: there's a there's a string of evidence, and thank you

902
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:15,359
Speaker 1: for the call, Andy, we appreciate it. There's a string

903
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 1: of evidence, a string of evidence for the league to

904
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:23,360
Speaker 1: prey upon and to evaluate and to come to a

905
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:25,959
Speaker 1: resolution on the best course of action here. As I said,

906
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: I still think playing the game is ultimately what they'd

907
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:30,799
Speaker 1: like to do, no matter how it looks. They want

908
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:32,520
Speaker 1: the game to go off. Well here's the thing too,

909
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 1: And for those of you who listen to the show, faithfully,

910
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 1: good for you, because today We've got Lincoln Kennedy coming

911
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 1: on this show. He's the report the analyst for the

912
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 1: Raiders broadcast network on the radio. He's so he does

913
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,560
Speaker 1: the job I'm filling in for Eric Wood doing this

914
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 1: season for the Bills. So we're gonna ask him what

915
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 1: he's heard at two o'clock. At two o'clock, what I

916
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 1: want to see? What are the Raiders fans think about this?

917
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:56,319
Speaker 1: And I'm sure they're spending it as positively as they can't, saying, hey,

918
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 1: it should be a slap on there. Let's just find

919
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 1: these guys a little money and let's move on. I'd

920
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: be willing to ask. I want to ask Lincoln what

921
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 1: as a teammate, what he would think of those guys

922
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 1: doing that and coming back in the locker room being

923
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:10,880
Speaker 1: exposed to it. So Link and Kennedy, the Raiders color

924
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: analyst for the radio broadcast, is gonna come on with

925
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 1: us today at two o'clock. So stay tuned for that.

926
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 1: And that's a good get by Jay. I'm glad that's

927
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 1: that's happening. We need to talk to somebody with the Raiders,

928
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:21,680
Speaker 1: all right, we need to take a break, but when

929
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: we return, more of your phone calls at eight O

930
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:27,880
Speaker 1: three oh five fifty. So Greg and Almond and James

931
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:30,280
Speaker 1: and Akron hang tight. We'll get to you when we return.

932
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: Here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kali to Health,

933
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Hello, Bills Radio Network. Sports

934
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: date Here a sports update from One Bill's Drive. The

935
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: Bills back on the practice field here Wednesday, indoors due

936
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 1: to the rainy weather here in Orchard Park. John Brown

937
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:58,920
Speaker 1: not practicing today after leaving last week's game with a

938
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:02,840
Speaker 1: calf injury. Tremaine Edmonds and Matt Malano both practicing today.

939
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 1: Josh Norman still on injured reserve and not practicing. Buffalo's

940
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 1: opponent this week, the Las Vegas Raiders could be in

941
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 1: hot water with the league after several of their players,

942
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 1: including quarterback Derek Carr, attended teammate Darren Waller's charity event

943
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:20,399
Speaker 1: for his foundation on Monday night with upwards of one

944
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 1: hundred attendees indoors in Henderson, Nevada. Several of the players,

945
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 1: according to eyewitnesses, were engaging with attendees and not wearing masks.

946
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 1: The gathering violated the state's COVID protocols, which caps indoor

947
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: gatherings at fifty people. Raiders owner Mark Davis said quote,

948
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:41,360
Speaker 1: we obviously take responsibility for this. You don't like seeing this.

949
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:43,839
Speaker 1: I don't know that it's actually been built into our

950
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:46,759
Speaker 1: memories that you have to wear a mask. Our organization

951
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:50,320
Speaker 1: takes it very seriously. End quote. The Raiders have already

952
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:52,440
Speaker 1: been fined by the league for improper mask wearing on

953
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 1: their sideline during their Monday night game against the Saints

954
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:58,280
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. They're also under investigation for improper access

955
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 1: to their locker room by team personnel that are not

956
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 1: on the proper tier level. Bills head coach Sean McDermott,

957
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 1: when asked about the raiders reported transgressions and violation of

958
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 1: COVID protocols, said quote that news was unfortunate. What we

959
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: try to do is control what we can control on

960
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:16,800
Speaker 1: our end. We have respect for John Gruden and the Raiders,

961
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 1: and I'm sure they're on top of it. End quote.

962
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:23,200
Speaker 1: More league or team discipline could be in store on

963
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:25,799
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas roster. The Bills will undebtedly be keeping

964
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 1: a watchful eye on the Raiders player testing the rest

965
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: of the week. In related Raiders news, head coach John

966
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: Gruden has already declared rookie wide receiver Brian Edwards out

967
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:37,839
Speaker 1: for Sunday's game, and reports indicate that fellow rookie wide

968
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 1: receiver Henry Ruggs is a long shot to play on

969
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:44,880
Speaker 1: Sunday due to a hamstring injury. Finally, a fourth Tennessee

970
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:48,280
Speaker 1: Titans player tested positive for COVID, bringing the team total

971
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 1: to nine after testing on Tuesday turned up eight positives

972
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:54,439
Speaker 1: and prompted the league to shut down the Titans team

973
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 1: facility as well as that of the Vikings for the week.

974
00:52:57,680 --> 00:53:00,160
Speaker 1: Now today it has been announced that the Titans game

975
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 1: against the Steelers Sunday will now be played on Monday

976
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 1: or Tuesday. The league is evaluating the situation and we'll

977
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:10,239
Speaker 1: adjust if needed as more information is gathered. That is

978
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 1: your sports update, which was pretty much COVID related from

979
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 1: start to finish. Steve Tasker Chris Brown with you, and

980
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:19,359
Speaker 1: we are talking about the reported Raiders transgressions and taking

981
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 1: your phone calls at eight oh three fifty about this

982
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 1: and how it could impact the bills going forward heading

983
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:27,800
Speaker 1: into the weekend. So back to the phones we go

984
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 1: and we go to Greg in Almond. Greg, you're on

985
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:33,800
Speaker 1: one Bills Live thanks for joining us. What do you have?

986
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:38,239
Speaker 1: Thank you man? Well, first of all, Chris, you kind

987
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 1: out of control yelling at us early in the broadcast

988
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 1: here here really worked up to yesterday and today. You

989
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 1: guys are talking out of both sides of your mouth.

990
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:54,279
Speaker 1: You start off with deep narrowted down by Titans infection

991
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 1: post game. They don't know if it's in the tube

992
00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:00,040
Speaker 1: of the plane, but it's somehow after the game, on

993
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:03,919
Speaker 1: the way home. They test them on Monday, right, that's

994
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:07,240
Speaker 1: less than one day, and you got all these positive tests.

995
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:10,399
Speaker 1: So once with the two to eight day incubation things,

996
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:14,560
Speaker 1: it didn't take them days apparently. What about the guy

997
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:17,920
Speaker 1: that got tested yesterday and he was positive, He was

998
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 1: negative on Monday, and he's positive on Tuesday. What happens

999
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:23,839
Speaker 1: if a guy test positive tomorrow? There was a fourth

1000
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 1: player that tested positive today, Greig, my boy? Is is

1001
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:33,399
Speaker 1: that we're all regurgitating info that we learn It really

1002
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,720
Speaker 1: isn't actual. We think the bottom line is this spose

1003
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:42,399
Speaker 1: he doesn't know what's one. The story gets changed every day,

1004
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:45,960
Speaker 1: obviously doesn't Well, I don't know what part of our

1005
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: story hasn't changed. The facts are these? You have four positive,

1006
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:53,800
Speaker 1: four players testing positive for the Titans five team personnel members,

1007
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 1: and they've checked with the Vikings. Nobody's positive yet and

1008
00:54:57,320 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 1: that's great, but the incubation periods two to eight days.

1009
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 1: They will continue testing daily. And we've got the Raiders

1010
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:07,240
Speaker 1: that ran a foul of the COVID protocols. The country

1011
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:09,399
Speaker 1: club where the venue was hosted has already been fined

1012
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:11,840
Speaker 1: by the state two thousand dollars. So I don't know

1013
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:13,680
Speaker 1: how we're talking out of both sides of our mouth

1014
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:15,719
Speaker 1: when all we're doing is giving you facts, Greg, So

1015
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:19,240
Speaker 1: give me a break. You're not giving those dis bags.

1016
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 1: You just set it again. They got infected on the

1017
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:26,280
Speaker 1: way home, and eight of them showed up positive Monday.

1018
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 1: I'm not saying nobody else is going to become positive,

1019
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 1: but obviously eight of them became positive in less than

1020
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 1: twenty four hours. And as far as the Raiders go,

1021
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:40,200
Speaker 1: they went to a charitable event, which we just founder.

1022
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:42,879
Speaker 1: I heard for the first time from you guys within

1023
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 1: the last half hour. They went to a charitable event.

1024
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 1: You want them to vote to forfeit a game because

1025
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 1: they went to a charitable event. Yeah, because they didn't

1026
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:55,120
Speaker 1: wear masks. It violates indoors with over a hundred people

1027
00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 1: that they don't even know. Watch the video. If you're

1028
00:55:56,960 --> 00:55:59,359
Speaker 1: watching on MSG, we got it for you. We got

1029
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:02,359
Speaker 1: some people wearing masks. Darren Waller, who was the host

1030
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:04,440
Speaker 1: of the event, is the only player that wore a

1031
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:07,239
Speaker 1: mask pretty much from start to finish, aside from making

1032
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 1: a few remarks when he pulled his mask down and

1033
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:11,840
Speaker 1: then he put his mask right back on. That's the

1034
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 1: only Raiders player documented according to eyewitnesses. There's Hunter renfro

1035
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:19,279
Speaker 1: Come on in, Hunter, no mask needed. Oh here's another player,

1036
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 1: Derek Carr. Welcome, no mask needed. I mean, come on, Greg,

1037
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:25,400
Speaker 1: give me a break. Get him off. I'm tired of that.

1038
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:28,400
Speaker 1: Give me a break. Greg talking out of both sides

1039
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 1: of my mouth. You're out of your mind. You're out

1040
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:33,400
Speaker 1: of your mind. I'm hot, talk Steve. I need a

1041
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:36,879
Speaker 1: break here. Well whatever, I don't know what point Greg

1042
00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 1: was trying to make that had any sense to it.

1043
00:56:41,719 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 1: These guys broke the protocols and they're walking in one

1044
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:48,040
Speaker 1: by one. When guy's fist bumping somebody, I mean, come in.

1045
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:51,160
Speaker 1: They all signed off on all the protocols that they

1046
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 1: were expected to and this is illegally in the lives

1047
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: of the Players Association as well as the NFL. They're

1048
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:03,920
Speaker 1: not supposed to do stuff like this. The state manned,

1049
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 1: the state restrictions, the county restrictions, the town restrictions were

1050
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:10,120
Speaker 1: all broken by this event that had more than fifty

1051
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: people at it. Nobody in there's a guy walking around

1052
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:17,280
Speaker 1: with a camera that's got a mask. Everybody else is maskless. Um,

1053
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 1: I don't know what shaking hands. I don't know. Seriously,

1054
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:24,440
Speaker 1: I don't know what Greg shaking hands is with us.

1055
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 1: Turn on MSG Greg and here's the thing if and

1056
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:30,120
Speaker 1: he says, we don't know whether you know. So these

1057
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 1: guys got tested positive coming home. The Titans players got

1058
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:35,680
Speaker 1: tested positive after twenty four hours and it broke out

1059
00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:37,480
Speaker 1: and all that. I don't know what he's his issue

1060
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:43,480
Speaker 1: is with all of a sudden being being that just

1061
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:46,920
Speaker 1: accentuates the fact you gotta be more careful, not less careful.

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00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 1: They don't know where they got the Titans players don't

1063
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 1: know where they got this, and who knows whether they

1064
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:55,480
Speaker 1: got it. Who knows whether they got it in Minnesota

1065
00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 1: or in Tennessee. Then went to Minnesota and came back

1066
00:57:57,880 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 1: and the protocols didn't They didn't get exposed to anybody

1067
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 1: else on Minnesota just by the luck of the draw.

1068
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:05,200
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't know who these players are, maybe

1069
00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 1: as a player whoever actually got on the field. All

1070
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:12,400
Speaker 1: we know is there's a hole in the protocols that

1071
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 1: in Tennessee vikings that caused all these guys to get

1072
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:21,080
Speaker 1: possibly tested the Raiders. I mean, these guys all just

1073
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 1: went off reservation. I mean they're just they're just off

1074
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:28,560
Speaker 1: doing their thing, completely off the rails. And that's exactly

1075
00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:31,040
Speaker 1: what the league and the only trying to get people

1076
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 1: not to do. And now you've got guys who may

1077
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:35,720
Speaker 1: or may not have young family or people who are

1078
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:39,280
Speaker 1: susceptible to the virus who through through no faults of

1079
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 1: their own and no desire of their own or now

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00:58:41,640 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: have to be exposed to those guys because they work

1081
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 1: next to them. Yeah, and you're talking about, well, you're

1082
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:49,400
Speaker 1: going to punish him for attending a charitable event. Hey,

1083
00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:52,040
Speaker 1: it's admirable you're attending a charitable event. If it means

1084
00:58:52,120 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 1: that much to you to go there during during an

1085
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 1: era in which we have a pandemic, then wear a

1086
00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:02,680
Speaker 1: mask and it's end the event. It's that simple. It's

1087
00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:04,800
Speaker 1: like Herman Edwards. You played to win the game. You

1088
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:07,640
Speaker 1: wear a mask to prevent the spread of COVID series.

1089
00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:09,400
Speaker 1: Matter if it's a charitable event or if they went

1090
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 1: to a strip club, is irrelevant. The fact that there's

1091
00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 1: fifty people in the room, that nobody was wearing masks,

1092
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:18,120
Speaker 1: it's not it's not that it's of course, it's a

1093
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:20,360
Speaker 1: great idea, it's a great fund. The front Raiser is

1094
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:23,320
Speaker 1: a nice event. You don't you can't do that. You

1095
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:25,680
Speaker 1: can't do it the way they did it. You can't

1096
00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:27,720
Speaker 1: have that many people in the building. You can't have

1097
00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:30,480
Speaker 1: it nobody wearing masks, and you can't have all those

1098
00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:37,280
Speaker 1: players not wearing masks that what are they doing? I

1099
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:39,920
Speaker 1: don't know and I don't know what. Sorry, I was

1100
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:42,040
Speaker 1: just getting annoyed because we were great gun and I

1101
00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 1: would have liked to have kept talking to him is

1102
00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:46,720
Speaker 1: I don't know what his point was. I don't know

1103
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:48,600
Speaker 1: how he's saying. We're talking out of both sides of

1104
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:51,520
Speaker 1: our mouth. We're simply telling you what the Raiders have done.

1105
00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:55,160
Speaker 1: There is video evidence of what they have done. The

1106
00:59:55,560 --> 00:59:59,040
Speaker 1: whole event was shot on video, and the Las Vegas

1107
00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:02,560
Speaker 1: Review Journal, the new paper out there had video footage

1108
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 1: of what happened, and you can watch the players one

1109
01:00:06,440 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 1: by one walking in without masks. And here's Derek Carr

1110
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:13,520
Speaker 1: and Darren Waller is the tight end on the video

1111
01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:16,680
Speaker 1: right now. For MSG viewers that are watching this, that's

1112
01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:18,800
Speaker 1: the only man with a mask on. He's the host

1113
01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:21,120
Speaker 1: of the event. That's the only guy that acted responsibly.

1114
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:23,440
Speaker 1: The waiters have got masks on, the waitresses and the

1115
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:26,080
Speaker 1: photographers have got masks on. Everybody's working for the for

1116
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:31,840
Speaker 1: the venue has masks. Nobody else does. And here's the

1117
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:34,960
Speaker 1: thing that's alarming to me. They're auctioning off items. Okay,

1118
01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:38,360
Speaker 1: autographed footballs all right now. Who knows how many people

1119
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:41,080
Speaker 1: through the course of the evening. Somebody who delivered the

1120
01:00:41,120 --> 01:00:43,960
Speaker 1: footballs to the venue, someone who signed the football, the

1121
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:47,600
Speaker 1: player actually handled it, and then it's brought up on

1122
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:50,400
Speaker 1: stage for the auctioneer to hold, and then he hands

1123
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:52,360
Speaker 1: it to Derek Carr to throw into the audience to

1124
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:54,600
Speaker 1: the winning bidder. That's five people that have handled the

1125
01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:58,280
Speaker 1: football that's been auctioned off. I mean, that's a problem.

1126
01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 1: We hear all this stuff about touch points and hand

1127
01:01:01,200 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 1: sanitizer and all of this. They got a football that's

1128
01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:06,680
Speaker 1: touched five different people and they're chucking it into the crowd. Yeah,

1129
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:09,800
Speaker 1: and then you got people shaking hands. The last time

1130
01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:13,440
Speaker 1: you shook somebody's hands, Steve March, Yeah, exactly. It's and

1131
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:15,280
Speaker 1: now greg Our last caller called in it. He was

1132
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 1: talking about the Titans. They tested positive less than two

1133
01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 1: days after the game. Actually it's like twenty four hours

1134
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:23,320
Speaker 1: maybe thirty six hours after the game. Um no, it's

1135
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 1: probably they got tested probably twenty four hours after the

1136
01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:29,760
Speaker 1: game the next morning and they they tested positive. So

1137
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:33,479
Speaker 1: his question was, why do we have to wait eight days?

1138
01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:36,960
Speaker 1: Why can't we just, you know, after they test positive

1139
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:39,680
Speaker 1: or test negative a couple of times, just let him play.

1140
01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 1: And that's the protocols and what they say. The problem

1141
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:46,600
Speaker 1: is there, see, there still seems to be a belief

1142
01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:49,680
Speaker 1: in the medical community that you can still have the

1143
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:53,520
Speaker 1: virus for up to eight days without any any symptoms

1144
01:01:54,920 --> 01:02:00,560
Speaker 1: and right so included including being asymptomatic. Right now, his

1145
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:05,160
Speaker 1: point is, I think Gregg's point is that you may

1146
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:11,720
Speaker 1: be asymptomatic, but you'll test positive and if and if

1147
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:16,760
Speaker 1: that's the case, awesome, It still doesn't mean that those

1148
01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:20,120
Speaker 1: guys that went to that event, didn't go to practice

1149
01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:23,320
Speaker 1: yesterday or go to the facility yesterday, and everybody they've

1150
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:27,479
Speaker 1: come in contact with infected. Start the eight day clock

1151
01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:29,200
Speaker 1: on them. Now, you start the clock on it. And

1152
01:02:29,240 --> 01:02:31,360
Speaker 1: now what are you gonna do now with that's the case?

1153
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:36,400
Speaker 1: And everybody who tests today or yesterday, who came in

1154
01:02:36,520 --> 01:02:40,720
Speaker 1: contact with them, now they got infected after twenty four hours.

1155
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 1: The point is, moot, you gotta here's the thing. You

1156
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:49,520
Speaker 1: can't It's a it's a chance that's not worth taking. Yeah,

1157
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:51,880
Speaker 1: it's not a chance because if it if it's if

1158
01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:54,680
Speaker 1: you're wrong, or if somebody sneaks through, it gets through

1159
01:02:54,840 --> 01:02:58,480
Speaker 1: with a false positive or or false negative or anything

1160
01:02:58,560 --> 01:03:02,360
Speaker 1: like that, everybody gets infected. The spread rate, at least

1161
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:04,880
Speaker 1: from what I remember reading back in April, was one

1162
01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:08,120
Speaker 1: to two point two, So one person on average was

1163
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:10,840
Speaker 1: infecting two point two people. That's double. I mean, you

1164
01:03:10,880 --> 01:03:15,040
Speaker 1: want to talk about wildfire, that's what it is. So

1165
01:03:15,520 --> 01:03:18,840
Speaker 1: I mean, look, the protocols are there for a reason,

1166
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:22,000
Speaker 1: because the medical community has done the research. If you

1167
01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:24,680
Speaker 1: don't want to respect it, that's your prerogative. But that's

1168
01:03:24,720 --> 01:03:27,560
Speaker 1: not the way the NFL's operating. So this is what's

1169
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:29,600
Speaker 1: going to happen. The incubation period is supposed to be

1170
01:03:29,600 --> 01:03:32,120
Speaker 1: two to eight days, but it was already proven probably

1171
01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:35,240
Speaker 1: hopefully to be less than two days by the guys

1172
01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:38,800
Speaker 1: if they if they contracted it, and the possibility would

1173
01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:42,040
Speaker 1: be this brownie. If it is a two day incubation

1174
01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:44,760
Speaker 1: period before you can test positive, that means they caught

1175
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:47,400
Speaker 1: it in the hotel when they got to minister Saturday

1176
01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:52,640
Speaker 1: on Saturday, Yeah, which means also that and it's that

1177
01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:54,680
Speaker 1: it would have been an incubation period that where they

1178
01:03:54,760 --> 01:04:00,720
Speaker 1: weren't symptomatic and weren't didn't test positive because they got

1179
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:04,920
Speaker 1: tested Saturday morning, right, and Sunday morning and they get

1180
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:06,960
Speaker 1: they don't get tested on Sunday. No, they don't get

1181
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:09,520
Speaker 1: tested Sunday. You're right, So they got but they do

1182
01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:12,600
Speaker 1: get results back on Sunday morning, which were negative. So

1183
01:04:12,840 --> 01:04:16,040
Speaker 1: sometime between the test on Saturday morning and the test

1184
01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:19,800
Speaker 1: on Monday morning, they got it. Now, none of the

1185
01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:25,360
Speaker 1: Vikings have tested positive, and that's great, but man, but

1186
01:04:25,520 --> 01:04:27,920
Speaker 1: there's an issue there. Yeah, and you just had another

1187
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,600
Speaker 1: positive test from a player today in Tennessee. So now

1188
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:33,720
Speaker 1: that's up to four players, five staff and we'll have

1189
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:37,760
Speaker 1: to see what the coming day's brain. But it's the

1190
01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:40,880
Speaker 1: protocols are there for a reason, the research has been done.

1191
01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:44,240
Speaker 1: They have a Chief Medical Officer whose only job is

1192
01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:47,840
Speaker 1: to enact the protocols for the NFL. He's not doing

1193
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:50,200
Speaker 1: anything else but keeping his ear to ear to the

1194
01:04:50,240 --> 01:04:53,439
Speaker 1: ground with the CDC and the World Health Organization. Let's

1195
01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:54,800
Speaker 1: get back to the phones to get more of your

1196
01:04:54,800 --> 01:04:57,880
Speaker 1: comments on this, James, and Akron has been waiting patiently. James,

1197
01:04:57,920 --> 01:04:59,600
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's life.

1198
01:05:01,080 --> 01:05:03,400
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, fellows. Thank you for the reporting you do

1199
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:06,160
Speaker 1: for us, and it's been a pleasure to watch you

1200
01:05:06,280 --> 01:05:08,840
Speaker 1: play back in the past. I will say that, Um,

1201
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:11,760
Speaker 1: as far as the situation that you have in hand there,

1202
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:14,720
Speaker 1: I think that the players, based on the MU that

1203
01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:18,800
Speaker 1: was signed with the NFLPA and the league, that they

1204
01:05:18,840 --> 01:05:20,760
Speaker 1: should be fined and I believe it was a game

1205
01:05:20,880 --> 01:05:24,800
Speaker 1: check for attending this thing that was outside the guidelines. Also,

1206
01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:28,600
Speaker 1: if they faith a ten to fourteen day quarantine, you

1207
01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:30,800
Speaker 1: don't have to suspend them because they would be out

1208
01:05:30,840 --> 01:05:32,880
Speaker 1: of the next two games. That's that's how I look

1209
01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:34,840
Speaker 1: at it. Yeah, and that's and that's not a bad

1210
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:37,040
Speaker 1: way to look at it, James and I and we

1211
01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:39,040
Speaker 1: thank you for the call um. You know, it's a

1212
01:05:39,120 --> 01:05:43,960
Speaker 1: situation that, yeah, I mean all these players signed up

1213
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:46,880
Speaker 1: for this, right, I mean they knew what they were

1214
01:05:46,920 --> 01:05:49,400
Speaker 1: signing up for. Maybe they didn't read the fine print,

1215
01:05:49,920 --> 01:05:53,280
Speaker 1: or maybe they forgot. As far as the Raiders players go,

1216
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:57,440
Speaker 1: because I mean, this runs so far a foul of

1217
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:00,320
Speaker 1: what they're supposed to be doing. First of all, you're

1218
01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:03,800
Speaker 1: supposed to limit your exposure out in public, period. And

1219
01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:07,000
Speaker 1: so look, I understand you want to support your teammate.

1220
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:09,000
Speaker 1: You want to raise money for a good cause. I

1221
01:06:09,120 --> 01:06:14,280
Speaker 1: mean Darren Waller's foundation. They raise money to help young

1222
01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 1: adults beat addiction to alcohol and drugs. It's a very

1223
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:22,000
Speaker 1: noble cause. I would understand why you want to support it,

1224
01:06:22,240 --> 01:06:25,680
Speaker 1: of course, But you can support it and still adhere

1225
01:06:25,720 --> 01:06:29,520
Speaker 1: to the protocols by wearing a mask. Now here's the problem.

1226
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:33,160
Speaker 1: As soon as you see that this event has over

1227
01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:36,800
Speaker 1: fifty people indoors, I mean, here's the other thing, Steve.

1228
01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:38,440
Speaker 1: I'm not going to pretend to know the weather all

1229
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:40,640
Speaker 1: that well out in Henderson, Nevada. I know it gets

1230
01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:44,040
Speaker 1: cold there at night, but where in what late September

1231
01:06:44,640 --> 01:06:46,640
Speaker 1: I have to imagine it's still pretty warm out there.

1232
01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:49,640
Speaker 1: They couldn't conduct this at an outdoor venue and eliminate

1233
01:06:49,720 --> 01:06:54,680
Speaker 1: the problem completely. Yeah, it's yeah, it's how seriously are

1234
01:06:54,720 --> 01:07:01,000
Speaker 1: they going to take this? You know, this of the rules,

1235
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:03,560
Speaker 1: and this is something that the union, the union can't

1236
01:07:03,560 --> 01:07:06,360
Speaker 1: help them on either. I mean the union can't come

1237
01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:09,520
Speaker 1: because the union they as the videos right there for everybody,

1238
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:13,840
Speaker 1: James said. As James said the caller, Um, you don't

1239
01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:17,720
Speaker 1: get what's right or wrong, or what's just or in

1240
01:07:17,840 --> 01:07:21,400
Speaker 1: just you get what you negotiate. So whatever's negotiated into this,

1241
01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:24,440
Speaker 1: this agreement and going forward with these protocols is what

1242
01:07:24,560 --> 01:07:27,640
Speaker 1: it is. Um. I'll be anxious to see what the league,

1243
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:31,000
Speaker 1: how the league sees this and what you know, what

1244
01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:33,880
Speaker 1: kind of will there is at the highest levels of

1245
01:07:33,920 --> 01:07:38,160
Speaker 1: the league to take it seriously. Yeah, this is and

1246
01:07:38,280 --> 01:07:39,760
Speaker 1: I get it to And we had this caller, Greg

1247
01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:42,360
Speaker 1: who's I don't know whether he's he didn't seem to

1248
01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:45,920
Speaker 1: think it was that big a deal and just you know,

1249
01:07:46,080 --> 01:07:48,360
Speaker 1: let him slide. And if they don't test pot negget,

1250
01:07:48,440 --> 01:07:51,320
Speaker 1: if they don't test positive, then who cares? Right? Uh,

1251
01:07:51,600 --> 01:07:55,160
Speaker 1: forget about asymptomatic and all of that stuff or whatever whatever,

1252
01:07:55,840 --> 01:07:59,560
Speaker 1: Just let it slide. Yeah, maybe that'll happen, but it

1253
01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:03,200
Speaker 1: will be you know, you'll get some people getting you'll

1254
01:08:03,200 --> 01:08:05,160
Speaker 1: have some other owners giving you some pushback over that

1255
01:08:05,720 --> 01:08:08,160
Speaker 1: because the other teams, like particularly the Bills in this case,

1256
01:08:08,960 --> 01:08:13,080
Speaker 1: saying what are you doing? You know, our guys are

1257
01:08:13,080 --> 01:08:16,120
Speaker 1: gonna come in there and you're taking You're not. How

1258
01:08:16,120 --> 01:08:19,320
Speaker 1: about the stadium? If the if, and that's another point

1259
01:08:19,360 --> 01:08:22,519
Speaker 1: to this. If the Raiders organization is as cavalier as

1260
01:08:22,600 --> 01:08:25,080
Speaker 1: they appear to be on the surface about these protocols

1261
01:08:25,120 --> 01:08:29,000
Speaker 1: and what's going on, what about the protocols in the

1262
01:08:29,080 --> 01:08:31,280
Speaker 1: stadium that is run by that organization, do you think

1263
01:08:31,360 --> 01:08:35,920
Speaker 1: those are airtight? Well, they're already under investigation for improper

1264
01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:39,080
Speaker 1: locker room access, So that's at the facility. So there

1265
01:08:39,120 --> 01:08:41,160
Speaker 1: you go. They have a practice facility that's separate from

1266
01:08:41,160 --> 01:08:43,280
Speaker 1: the stadium, but still in all just as you're talking

1267
01:08:43,320 --> 01:08:49,360
Speaker 1: about the postgame locker room. Yeah, so I don't know it. Yeah,

1268
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:53,000
Speaker 1: it's it's a mess. It's troubling. Back to the phones

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Speaker 1: at eight three five fifty to Jay and Rochester, who

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Speaker 1: has an interesting take on this whole situation with the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, Jay, you're on one Bill's Live. Yeah, Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call in my personal opinion, man,

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01:09:04,880 --> 01:09:07,800
Speaker 1: because I think you guys, diploma's way out of proportion here.

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Speaker 1: I understand the situation. People testing positive, that's the absolute

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01:09:12,360 --> 01:09:15,000
Speaker 1: wrong metric that we're going by. Positive testing me nothing.

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01:09:15,400 --> 01:09:19,840
Speaker 1: We're talking about hospitalizations, people getting six deaths. Those are

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Speaker 1: the key metrics here. Somebody test positive, that doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: the thing. We know for a fact that these test

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Speaker 1: kits aren't even accurate. We're getting people that are testing

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Speaker 1: positive that don't have it. We get people that test

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Speaker 1: negative that actually do have it. But Jordan, the people

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Speaker 1: that test positive are asymptomatic. I mean so, Jay, Jay,

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Speaker 1: Well here's why, Because Mike Vrabel got on the phone

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Speaker 1: today and said, the guys that have tested positive at

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Speaker 1: Tennessee are showing symptoms. They're they've got flu like symptoms.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't mean they're going to be on a ventilate

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Speaker 1: or anything like that, but it does mean that anybody

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01:09:52,280 --> 01:09:55,240
Speaker 1: who comes in contact with them might And not to

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Speaker 1: mention the fact, Jay, that the original testing that was

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Speaker 1: done was followed up with what's called the point of

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Speaker 1: care testing, which the league has put in place to

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Speaker 1: rule out the false positives. They had the false positive

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Speaker 1: issue back at the beginning of the season, if you remember,

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Speaker 1: and they corrected that the Bills were one of the

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Speaker 1: teams impacted by it. They corrected that by having a

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Speaker 1: point of care test. The point of care test comes

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Speaker 1: back in fifteen minutes and either corroborates the initial positive

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Speaker 1: test or refutes it. They took point of care tests

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Speaker 1: down in Tennessee. All eight positives were correct, all eight

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01:10:30,800 --> 01:10:34,720
Speaker 1: er positive, all eider experiencing flu like symptoms. So that's

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Speaker 1: where we are. So you can refute the medic possessing

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01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:39,599
Speaker 1: as much as you want, but the league has put

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01:10:39,680 --> 01:10:43,240
Speaker 1: into place and into practice more than enough measures to

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Speaker 1: ensure that the testing is accurate. Because football, by its

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01:10:47,439 --> 01:10:51,360
Speaker 1: very nature is the opposite of social distancing. You can't

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Speaker 1: socially distance and play football, so if you have positive cases,

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Speaker 1: they can't be on the field. So Jay, so does

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Speaker 1: the fact that So if so, Jay, does that change

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Speaker 1: your I mean, well, how does that affect you? The

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Speaker 1: fact that if they're testing positive and they got positive tests,

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01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:08,519
Speaker 1: they are actually positive tests, How does that change things

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Speaker 1: for you? All? Right? What I'm saying is if they

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Speaker 1: tast positive, don't let them sit out for seven eight

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Speaker 1: days whatever the quarantine is. I mean, don't forfeit the game.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the most absolutely ridiculous thing out there.

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01:11:20,640 --> 01:11:23,400
Speaker 1: All right, how do you how do you how do

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01:11:23,479 --> 01:11:26,000
Speaker 1: you think they should handle guys who don't care about

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01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:27,760
Speaker 1: the protocols and go out and go without a mask

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01:11:27,800 --> 01:11:30,320
Speaker 1: and expose themselves and other teammates to a possibility of

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Speaker 1: getting it even if they don't. But if they you know,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, right, if they can put

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01:11:36,520 --> 01:11:39,320
Speaker 1: me quarantine because they violated the rule, then they don't

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01:11:39,360 --> 01:11:42,240
Speaker 1: get paid. It's that simple. So what I'm asking you this.

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Speaker 1: You got you got ten Raiders that were on stage

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Speaker 1: of this charity event on video no mask, and there

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01:11:48,800 --> 01:11:51,679
Speaker 1: was and the venues gotten fined for doing it wrong.

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Speaker 1: There's too many people there. It was an indoor facility. Everybody.

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01:11:55,360 --> 01:11:57,880
Speaker 1: It's against the regulations, against the law. What will you

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Speaker 1: say it that way? It's against the law and the

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Speaker 1: rules of the NFL. What happens to those ten Raider players.

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Speaker 1: They have to set out for the whatever the quarantine

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01:12:06,600 --> 01:12:09,120
Speaker 1: period is, and if they miss a game, they don't

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Speaker 1: get paid a game, Jackie. All right, okay, I'm fine

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Speaker 1: with that. I'm fine with that. I think that sounds fair. Jay,

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. Do you think that'll happen? I

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01:12:19,280 --> 01:12:21,960
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, that's that's the question, because then

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Speaker 1: you know, for example, you're short term players, you just

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Speaker 1: pick up ten players off the street. I mean, you

1339
01:12:28,040 --> 01:12:30,360
Speaker 1: know you got guys in your squad. It's gonna hurt

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01:12:30,439 --> 01:12:33,960
Speaker 1: the team. I've hurt the organization and then have to

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01:12:34,080 --> 01:12:38,120
Speaker 1: enforce that themselves. Yeah, I mean, I appreciate the call, Jay, Jay,

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01:12:38,920 --> 01:12:41,200
Speaker 1: We're not as far apart on this as we sounded

1343
01:12:41,240 --> 01:12:43,400
Speaker 1: like when you first showed up. But I agree with you.

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01:12:43,479 --> 01:12:47,840
Speaker 1: I let them face the logical consequences of what has

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01:12:47,880 --> 01:12:50,400
Speaker 1: been agreed to before this, and I hope the league

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01:12:50,439 --> 01:12:54,559
Speaker 1: has the wherewithal to make it stick. Yeah. I think

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Speaker 1: I don't care what it is if they find them, Okay,

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Speaker 1: do it, But they gotta fine with quarantine. Whatever they're saying,

1349
01:12:58,920 --> 01:13:00,760
Speaker 1: you're at, you're at a command, whatever it is that

1350
01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:02,479
Speaker 1: they've agreed to, that's what's going to happen. And I

1351
01:13:02,520 --> 01:13:06,280
Speaker 1: think it should happen, and we should already know about it. Yeah.

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01:13:06,320 --> 01:13:09,040
Speaker 1: I mean you could, you could arguably do well. They're

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01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:11,880
Speaker 1: getting tested every day anyway. The players are getting tested

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01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:16,960
Speaker 1: every day, so we'll probably know soon by that metric

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Speaker 1: that we're talking about those tests are irrelevant. That just

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01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:21,840
Speaker 1: makes it when the quarantine's up, they can still come

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01:13:21,880 --> 01:13:25,559
Speaker 1: back if they've agreed to tend or fourteen day quarantine

1358
01:13:25,800 --> 01:13:30,400
Speaker 1: after blowing the protocols willfully. It doesn't matter if they're

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01:13:30,439 --> 01:13:33,120
Speaker 1: tested negative, They've they've broken the rules and that's the penalty.

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01:13:33,160 --> 01:13:36,200
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, you see what the order of what

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Speaker 1: the order of those are? All right, we got a break. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we do have to take a break. But when we

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Speaker 1: come back, we'll have one Brian billikon from NFL Network

1364
01:13:43,880 --> 01:13:46,120
Speaker 1: who will no doubt have an opinion on this. And

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Speaker 1: he's also got a book coming out on the twenty

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Speaker 1: eighteen quarterback Class, which as we all know, includes one

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen. We'll talk to him about all of that

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Speaker 1: when we return here on One Bill's Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio back on

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01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:12,960
Speaker 1: One of Builds Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker motoring through

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Speaker 1: the second half of the program, and I think what

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Speaker 1: Greg who called us in the last segments. Issue was

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Speaker 1: he felt we were talking out of both sides of

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Speaker 1: our mouth because of the incubation period, which is at

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Speaker 1: which is up for debate. We were saying two to

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Speaker 1: eight day incubation period, and obviously the player from the

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Speaker 1: Titans who tested or the staff member who tested positive

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Speaker 1: from the Titans coming out of Sunday's game and the

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01:14:36,560 --> 01:14:40,639
Speaker 1: ride home, the optics of that makes it looks look

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01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:43,000
Speaker 1: as though it was less than two days. But we

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Speaker 1: don't know that. We don't know that, nobody knows that,

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01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:48,880
Speaker 1: and the science says it's usually two to eight days. So,

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01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:51,360
Speaker 1: as Steve pointed out later in the segment, it is

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Speaker 1: very likely that that person contracted it somewhere in the

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Speaker 1: hotel on Saturday, did not get tested Sunday, because I

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01:14:57,880 --> 01:15:00,920
Speaker 1: don't believe they test game day gay and then test

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Speaker 1: it on Monday and bang, he's positive. So that's where

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01:15:05,280 --> 01:15:08,480
Speaker 1: the disconnect is. So I'm sorry Greg if you misunderstood

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01:15:08,560 --> 01:15:10,400
Speaker 1: us and thought we were talking out of both sides

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Speaker 1: of our mouth, but that's where it's at. And look,

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Speaker 1: we're not here to spin anything. We're just trying to

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01:15:15,800 --> 01:15:17,720
Speaker 1: lay it out for you as best we can as

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01:15:17,800 --> 01:15:21,120
Speaker 1: we're getting the information here, so hopefully that puts that

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Speaker 1: to bed. Joining us on the line right now former

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Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl winning coach Brian Billick, who has

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Speaker 1: also co authored a book on quarterbacks with Jim Dale

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Speaker 1: called The Q Factor, which comes out next week. Book

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01:15:34,720 --> 01:15:37,679
Speaker 1: is centered on the five quarterbacks taken in the first

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Speaker 1: round of the twenty eighteen draft, which, as we all know,

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Speaker 1: includes one Josh Allen coach, how you doing, thanks for

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01:15:43,600 --> 01:15:48,680
Speaker 1: joining us, Thank you for having me so as you

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01:15:48,840 --> 01:15:50,880
Speaker 1: may be able to imagine. With the bill slated to

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01:15:50,960 --> 01:15:54,479
Speaker 1: play the Raiders this week, the topic that has taken

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01:15:54,520 --> 01:15:57,679
Speaker 1: over the show today is how these Raiders players should

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01:15:57,680 --> 01:16:00,400
Speaker 1: be disciplined based on some of their off the field behavior,

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01:16:00,439 --> 01:16:04,760
Speaker 1: which is clearly violated COVID protocols. Let me let me

1407
01:16:04,800 --> 01:16:06,880
Speaker 1: have you put your coaching had on for a second.

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01:16:07,760 --> 01:16:12,439
Speaker 1: How might you handle this one? If you're John Gruden? Well,

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01:16:12,880 --> 01:16:14,600
Speaker 1: who to thunk it that the Raiders would be the

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Speaker 1: team that has this going on? What are the odds

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01:16:17,360 --> 01:16:20,280
Speaker 1: of that happen in Vegas? No doubt? Yeah, it's and

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01:16:20,320 --> 01:16:22,560
Speaker 1: it's the challenge for the coaches, and it's something the

1413
01:16:22,680 --> 01:16:26,040
Speaker 1: league has tried to address in other different ways, but

1414
01:16:26,400 --> 01:16:30,479
Speaker 1: these are unique times and somehow you have to get

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01:16:30,479 --> 01:16:34,600
Speaker 1: the players to understand just how unique they are and

1416
01:16:34,760 --> 01:16:38,240
Speaker 1: how vulnerable we all are, not just from from a

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01:16:38,320 --> 01:16:41,720
Speaker 1: health standpoint, but from a business standpoint, and how you're

1418
01:16:41,760 --> 01:16:44,600
Speaker 1: going to affect the entire league and what goes on

1419
01:16:44,920 --> 01:16:49,040
Speaker 1: if you don't stay socially responsible for what you need

1420
01:16:49,120 --> 01:16:51,760
Speaker 1: to do. Now, young people, I always say young and

1421
01:16:51,840 --> 01:16:54,800
Speaker 1: stupid's one word. It's I mean, we were all young

1422
01:16:54,880 --> 01:16:59,280
Speaker 1: and stupid, right and use bad judgment at times. But

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Speaker 1: you've got to you've got to drawn your veterans, and

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01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:04,719
Speaker 1: you've got to try to almost on a daily basis,

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01:17:05,320 --> 01:17:08,840
Speaker 1: try to get the players to understand what's to stake here.

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Speaker 1: And it's tough. It's tough duty to you know, inhibit

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Speaker 1: your personal life the way that we're asking for them

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01:17:15,120 --> 01:17:17,599
Speaker 1: to do that. But but if we're going to pull

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Speaker 1: this off, if we're going to get through this season,

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Speaker 1: and which is so important not only for the league

1431
01:17:23,760 --> 01:17:25,680
Speaker 1: but for the country too, to show that yeah, we

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01:17:25,760 --> 01:17:28,960
Speaker 1: can do this, but you've got to be responsible. Um,

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Speaker 1: you just got to keep harping on it like your kids.

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Speaker 1: You know, at some point it sinks in. Now, now

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Speaker 1: I put your hat on that you wear at the

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Speaker 1: league office. I know this has all been this has

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Speaker 1: all been negotiated. They didn't. This didn't come out of

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Speaker 1: left field, and they can't. They're ready for this. And um,

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01:17:45,120 --> 01:17:47,679
Speaker 1: the players Union said to listen if they do something

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01:17:47,760 --> 01:17:51,200
Speaker 1: that is against the uh the restrictions of the state

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Speaker 1: or the county. And of course it's already been said

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Speaker 1: that the venue has been fined by the state. They

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01:17:56,080 --> 01:17:58,760
Speaker 1: certainly were out of line with everything that you know,

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01:17:59,040 --> 01:18:01,400
Speaker 1: legally and outside to football that they were supposed to do.

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01:18:01,960 --> 01:18:03,920
Speaker 1: Now you're at the league office and this comes over

1446
01:18:04,040 --> 01:18:09,120
Speaker 1: your desk, what happens next, well, and that's that's the

1447
01:18:09,200 --> 01:18:11,439
Speaker 1: important thing because and it does have to be in

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Speaker 1: conjunction with the union. We can't let this turn into

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01:18:15,640 --> 01:18:18,880
Speaker 1: as so often happens, the league versus the union. And

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01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:21,680
Speaker 1: know you're abusing the players and this is too restrictive.

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01:18:22,160 --> 01:18:24,640
Speaker 1: This has to be in unison, and this was negotiated,

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01:18:24,840 --> 01:18:28,320
Speaker 1: This was talked through. So now you got to take

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01:18:28,360 --> 01:18:31,320
Speaker 1: the car keys away, you know, and we've all parents

1454
01:18:31,360 --> 01:18:33,160
Speaker 1: and know how that works in terms that there has

1455
01:18:33,240 --> 01:18:36,600
Speaker 1: to be a price. You have to understand both financially,

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Speaker 1: which is really the only way you're going to get

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01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:41,840
Speaker 1: at the players nowadays to get them to understand and listen.

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Speaker 1: And then secondly, you know, I don't want to call

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01:18:44,800 --> 01:18:47,720
Speaker 1: it a public shaming, but yeah, you got to point

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Speaker 1: it out and make sure that, Okay, if you're going

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Speaker 1: to act this way, if you're going to be irresponsible,

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Speaker 1: we're going to make sure everybody knows not the leaf is,

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01:18:56,200 --> 01:18:59,719
Speaker 1: which is the other players that who you're putting at risk,

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Speaker 1: and add that peer pressure to these guys to where

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Speaker 1: that can factor in, and they've got the buddies and

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01:19:07,360 --> 01:19:11,679
Speaker 1: friends and people throughout the league reaching out to them, going, hey, dude,

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Speaker 1: you can't be doing this right, yeah, costing people game

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Speaker 1: checks arguably on their own roster potentially. All Right, we

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Speaker 1: appreciate you weighing in on that, Brian LL. Let's talk

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Speaker 1: to you about what we initially got you on here for,

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Speaker 1: and that's to talk a little bit of Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: and about your book of course. So I guess, first

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Speaker 1: and foremost, what was the impetus behind doing this? Was

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Speaker 1: this a quarterback class that just grabbed you, you know,

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Speaker 1: by the ears, and you said, I got to write

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Speaker 1: something about this group, well, the process itself, and that's

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01:19:37,960 --> 01:19:40,040
Speaker 1: really what the book is about. We certainly used the

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01:19:40,120 --> 01:19:43,479
Speaker 1: two eighteen draft and the players involved, one of the

1479
01:19:43,560 --> 01:19:46,280
Speaker 1: best quarterback drafts supposedly in years you go back to

1480
01:19:46,360 --> 01:19:49,240
Speaker 1: two thousand and four, nineteen eighty three, you know, with

1481
01:19:49,720 --> 01:19:55,240
Speaker 1: Elway and Marino and Kelly and the like, and that

1482
01:19:55,439 --> 01:19:57,200
Speaker 1: was what it was looked at going in. And keep

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01:19:57,240 --> 01:19:59,560
Speaker 1: in mind the book was written in real time. So

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01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:03,000
Speaker 1: we decided to do by way of looking at the process,

1485
01:20:03,040 --> 01:20:05,280
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, it is still

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01:20:05,400 --> 01:20:08,680
Speaker 1: with all the analytics and all the resources thrown into it,

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01:20:08,960 --> 01:20:11,040
Speaker 1: taking a quarterback in the first round is still a

1488
01:20:11,080 --> 01:20:14,720
Speaker 1: fifty fifth crapshoot, and you would think that it ought

1489
01:20:14,760 --> 01:20:16,640
Speaker 1: to be more than just a coin flip as to

1490
01:20:16,760 --> 01:20:19,320
Speaker 1: whether you're doing the right thing or not. So we

1491
01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:21,120
Speaker 1: wanted to look at the process. So we took the

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01:20:21,160 --> 01:20:25,639
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen draft. We took the five players. The write

1493
01:20:25,680 --> 01:20:28,280
Speaker 1: ups on them in the book were from prior to

1494
01:20:28,400 --> 01:20:30,600
Speaker 1: the draft. This wasn't me now turning around and writing it.

1495
01:20:30,920 --> 01:20:33,840
Speaker 1: Three years removed, two years removed. Those were the riots

1496
01:20:33,880 --> 01:20:36,040
Speaker 1: and the evaluations that we had going into the draft.

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01:20:36,080 --> 01:20:39,080
Speaker 1: We looked at the draft process itself, then followed them

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01:20:39,120 --> 01:20:41,000
Speaker 1: for two years because it does take to use two

1499
01:20:41,120 --> 01:20:43,559
Speaker 1: years to really find out if a player is going

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01:20:43,600 --> 01:20:46,680
Speaker 1: to be that kind of franchise player or not. And

1501
01:20:46,800 --> 01:20:49,320
Speaker 1: then started to draw our conclusions and talk to a

1502
01:20:49,400 --> 01:20:53,000
Speaker 1: number of professionals about what is flawed about the process,

1503
01:20:53,080 --> 01:20:57,559
Speaker 1: what should we be looking for, you know, creating. I'm

1504
01:20:57,560 --> 01:20:59,679
Speaker 1: going to use the terms because this applies to business

1505
01:20:59,680 --> 01:21:05,040
Speaker 1: as well. I had the primary talent coordinator for a

1506
01:21:05,160 --> 01:21:10,960
Speaker 1: multi billion dollar multinational retailer talk about their talent procurement,

1507
01:21:11,439 --> 01:21:15,280
Speaker 1: and she was brilliant and saying, look, you've got to

1508
01:21:15,360 --> 01:21:19,120
Speaker 1: use your your your algorithms, and your experiences to build

1509
01:21:19,200 --> 01:21:23,200
Speaker 1: these filters and create non negotiables. For her terms that

1510
01:21:23,400 --> 01:21:26,560
Speaker 1: you set those nonnotiable and you stick with those. And

1511
01:21:26,720 --> 01:21:29,240
Speaker 1: that's where you see teams making the mistake in the

1512
01:21:29,320 --> 01:21:32,599
Speaker 1: first round taking quarterbacks where they come away they've they've

1513
01:21:32,920 --> 01:21:37,200
Speaker 1: abrogated those non negotiables. In terms of Josh Allen, the

1514
01:21:38,080 --> 01:21:41,599
Speaker 1: big question, and all these players each had a nick

1515
01:21:41,680 --> 01:21:44,280
Speaker 1: on them. Yeah they could be great, but there's always

1516
01:21:44,280 --> 01:21:48,240
Speaker 1: a butt Baker Mayfield, Well, what about emotional and intellectual

1517
01:21:48,280 --> 01:21:53,200
Speaker 1: you know, intellectual stability, Sam Darnold. Yeah, he's a great player,

1518
01:21:53,200 --> 01:21:55,280
Speaker 1: he comes from a great school, but he doesn't seem

1519
01:21:55,320 --> 01:21:58,200
Speaker 1: to step up in the big moment moments. Gosh, Allen is,

1520
01:21:58,240 --> 01:22:02,240
Speaker 1: what about the completion percentage? And typically you don't get better.

1521
01:22:02,520 --> 01:22:05,000
Speaker 1: So that took a releap of faith by the Buffalo

1522
01:22:05,120 --> 01:22:08,840
Speaker 1: Bills who looked at their filters, their negotiables and had

1523
01:22:08,880 --> 01:22:11,800
Speaker 1: to say, look, we think he'd get better. And that's

1524
01:22:11,800 --> 01:22:14,720
Speaker 1: a real stretch because you know I did that with

1525
01:22:14,840 --> 01:22:17,880
Speaker 1: my first round pick, Kyle Boar, and that's why I'm

1526
01:22:18,040 --> 01:22:20,080
Speaker 1: doing an interview with you guys instead of coaching a

1527
01:22:20,080 --> 01:22:22,559
Speaker 1: football team. Because you're passed on a first round draft choice,

1528
01:22:23,160 --> 01:22:25,479
Speaker 1: you're going to be out of a job. So it

1529
01:22:25,720 --> 01:22:30,880
Speaker 1: was a real leap for Sean McDermott and the personnel

1530
01:22:30,960 --> 01:22:34,599
Speaker 1: there in Buffalo to look past that what was clearly

1531
01:22:35,240 --> 01:22:37,920
Speaker 1: an issue with Josh Allen to believe that, yes, he'll

1532
01:22:37,960 --> 01:22:41,040
Speaker 1: get better. And obviously they're on the plus side of

1533
01:22:41,040 --> 01:22:43,160
Speaker 1: the fifty fifty because he's lightening it up right now.

1534
01:22:43,360 --> 01:22:45,439
Speaker 1: And you say that it's a it's a fifty fifty,

1535
01:22:45,479 --> 01:22:48,120
Speaker 1: it's a it's a coin flip for a first round quarterback,

1536
01:22:48,200 --> 01:22:50,040
Speaker 1: and it looks like it's gonna hold true with this

1537
01:22:50,360 --> 01:22:54,560
Speaker 1: class of twenty eighteen. If you say Josh Allen and

1538
01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:59,240
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson came up, heads, Sam Darnold, Baker Mayfield are

1539
01:22:59,439 --> 01:23:02,040
Speaker 1: still in the year, right, Josh Rosen wouldn't have to

1540
01:23:02,120 --> 01:23:05,280
Speaker 1: be a tales, right, that kind of thing correct, right,

1541
01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:07,240
Speaker 1: And obviously that we're going to split the numbers a

1542
01:23:07,320 --> 01:23:09,720
Speaker 1: little bit because there's five of them. But yes, I

1543
01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:13,240
Speaker 1: think the question is still very much out on Sam

1544
01:23:13,360 --> 01:23:16,600
Speaker 1: Darnold and Baker Mayfield. We know Josh Rosen. Now that

1545
01:23:16,720 --> 01:23:18,760
Speaker 1: doesn't mean Josh Rosen can't come back around and do

1546
01:23:18,840 --> 01:23:22,360
Speaker 1: it Ryan Tannehill and find some other place. Maybe that happens,

1547
01:23:22,800 --> 01:23:26,200
Speaker 1: Maybe that's an outlier. Certainly, right now, it looks like

1548
01:23:26,360 --> 01:23:29,639
Speaker 1: those numbers hold out. And like Bill Pollian, I'm doing

1549
01:23:29,680 --> 01:23:32,040
Speaker 1: the podcast around Q Factor. I had a great visit

1550
01:23:32,120 --> 01:23:35,120
Speaker 1: with Bill Pollian, and Bill said, and Bill has been

1551
01:23:35,160 --> 01:23:38,120
Speaker 1: pretty good at this. He said, five hundred, You know,

1552
01:23:38,240 --> 01:23:41,080
Speaker 1: fifty fifty. If you bat five hundred and NFL, you're

1553
01:23:41,080 --> 01:23:44,160
Speaker 1: gonna lose. He said, Just let me bat five twenty five.

1554
01:23:44,760 --> 01:23:47,000
Speaker 1: Just let me develop a process where I'm just a

1555
01:23:47,120 --> 01:23:50,680
Speaker 1: little bit better, incrementally better. And now I'll have a

1556
01:23:50,920 --> 01:23:54,360
Speaker 1: perennial playoff team and a championship team. I just need

1557
01:23:54,400 --> 01:23:56,479
Speaker 1: to be a little better than that than that fifty

1558
01:23:56,560 --> 01:24:00,280
Speaker 1: fifty proposition. We're talking to Brian Billick, former Super Bowl

1559
01:24:00,320 --> 01:24:03,160
Speaker 1: coach of the Baltimore Ravens, and you know, Coach, I

1560
01:24:03,240 --> 01:24:05,679
Speaker 1: look at it this way too, though. There's a part

1561
01:24:05,760 --> 01:24:08,600
Speaker 1: of me that wants to look at Josh Rosen and

1562
01:24:08,760 --> 01:24:12,160
Speaker 1: look at Sam Darnold and maybe even to a lesser extent,

1563
01:24:12,280 --> 01:24:15,839
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, and it's hard not to feel there's somewhat

1564
01:24:15,880 --> 01:24:19,040
Speaker 1: the victim of circumstance as well. Certainly Rosen with what

1565
01:24:19,160 --> 01:24:21,400
Speaker 1: I mean, what has he got his third team and

1566
01:24:21,880 --> 01:24:24,760
Speaker 1: he hasn't found footing anywhere in the league since he

1567
01:24:24,880 --> 01:24:28,679
Speaker 1: was drafted. Sam Darnold is with an organization that, let's

1568
01:24:28,720 --> 01:24:31,920
Speaker 1: be honest, has not been very good at player development

1569
01:24:32,479 --> 01:24:35,320
Speaker 1: or roster construction for the better part of forty years.

1570
01:24:36,240 --> 01:24:39,559
Speaker 1: And the Browns, we know how they've floundered and cycled

1571
01:24:39,600 --> 01:24:43,599
Speaker 1: through head coaches. So how much of that gets factored

1572
01:24:43,680 --> 01:24:49,000
Speaker 1: into what these guys ultimately become. That's very much a factor.

1573
01:24:49,040 --> 01:24:52,120
Speaker 1: And three factors when you boil it down is obviously

1574
01:24:52,200 --> 01:24:55,479
Speaker 1: the physical abilities, then the mental and emotional stability to

1575
01:24:55,560 --> 01:24:59,439
Speaker 1: play the position what I call an athletic arrogance, meaning

1576
01:25:00,120 --> 01:25:02,160
Speaker 1: you have a stability, yet you have that drive and

1577
01:25:02,240 --> 01:25:04,960
Speaker 1: that belief in yourself. And then it comes down to

1578
01:25:05,160 --> 01:25:08,880
Speaker 1: the marriage between the player and the system. From a

1579
01:25:09,000 --> 01:25:12,240
Speaker 1: physical standpoint, you can take any first round bust you want,

1580
01:25:13,080 --> 01:25:17,519
Speaker 1: Achille Smith or Marcus Russell, Vince Young, ten Couch, Ryan Lee,

1581
01:25:18,400 --> 01:25:20,680
Speaker 1: the list goes on and on. They all had the

1582
01:25:20,760 --> 01:25:24,400
Speaker 1: physical skills to play. That was not the issue most

1583
01:25:24,479 --> 01:25:26,920
Speaker 1: of them. They came and was the mental and emotional

1584
01:25:27,240 --> 01:25:32,400
Speaker 1: ability to process and evolve into a legitimate NFL player.

1585
01:25:33,520 --> 01:25:36,800
Speaker 1: The third factor is the key, because you really don't know,

1586
01:25:37,120 --> 01:25:39,320
Speaker 1: and there's any number of cases you can make. Again,

1587
01:25:39,479 --> 01:25:43,360
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill the perfect example. Ryan Tannehill by all counts,

1588
01:25:43,360 --> 01:25:45,519
Speaker 1: should not have been a top ten pick. He should

1589
01:25:45,520 --> 01:25:47,560
Speaker 1: have been an early second round pick. He had the

1590
01:25:47,680 --> 01:25:50,240
Speaker 1: one year in Texas, A and m that's fraught with

1591
01:25:50,600 --> 01:25:53,479
Speaker 1: danger terms of guys not hiding it. He goes to Miami,

1592
01:25:54,120 --> 01:25:58,360
Speaker 1: wrong place, wrong time, isn't surrounded good players, the coaching

1593
01:25:58,560 --> 01:26:01,160
Speaker 1: is working, so he's a US right, but then you

1594
01:26:01,240 --> 01:26:04,439
Speaker 1: go someplace house and now he's in Tennessee, the right people,

1595
01:26:04,479 --> 01:26:06,400
Speaker 1: the right system, and now he's had, you know, an

1596
01:26:06,439 --> 01:26:09,680
Speaker 1: incredible year year and a half. So yes, that's very real.

1597
01:26:09,920 --> 01:26:13,560
Speaker 1: The question is, is indeed that could Ryan Leaf have

1598
01:26:13,680 --> 01:26:18,320
Speaker 1: gone anywhere and been successful? You know, you always say, okay,

1599
01:26:18,560 --> 01:26:23,120
Speaker 1: let's put Ryan Leaf in in Indianapolis and Manning in

1600
01:26:23,560 --> 01:26:27,280
Speaker 1: San Diego would have been a different story. Probably not

1601
01:26:27,720 --> 01:26:32,640
Speaker 1: Ryan Leaf, some dear, you know, definite mental and emotional

1602
01:26:32,920 --> 01:26:35,759
Speaker 1: issues in terms of dealing with evolving to a quarterback.

1603
01:26:36,720 --> 01:26:39,360
Speaker 1: Take a more positive take the Eli Manning and Philip

1604
01:26:39,479 --> 01:26:41,519
Speaker 1: Rivers and the way they swapped. Let's say they hadn't

1605
01:26:41,520 --> 01:26:44,479
Speaker 1: swapped in the pics. Let's say Eli, who is a

1606
01:26:44,640 --> 01:26:47,880
Speaker 1: potent Hall of famer as is Philip Rivers. But Eli

1607
01:26:48,000 --> 01:26:50,479
Speaker 1: had gone to San Diego and stayed there, and Philip

1608
01:26:50,600 --> 01:26:53,679
Speaker 1: Rivers had gone to New York stayed with Tom Coughlin

1609
01:26:53,720 --> 01:26:56,439
Speaker 1: for eleven years and and and likely been a two

1610
01:26:56,520 --> 01:27:00,240
Speaker 1: time MVP. And what would have Eli's career maybe very good,

1611
01:27:00,280 --> 01:27:02,519
Speaker 1: But again with it, so you don't know, that's a

1612
01:27:02,640 --> 01:27:05,439
Speaker 1: positive example of, yes, the system and what's going on

1613
01:27:05,600 --> 01:27:07,800
Speaker 1: around them. The problem is you can only do that

1614
01:27:07,920 --> 01:27:10,360
Speaker 1: in post mortal right, and this book that you've written

1615
01:27:10,400 --> 01:27:13,080
Speaker 1: the Q Factor. One of the five quarterbacks, the last

1616
01:27:13,120 --> 01:27:15,560
Speaker 1: one taken was Lamar Jackson, and he talked about the

1617
01:27:15,720 --> 01:27:19,400
Speaker 1: marriage between a club and a guy. Is there has

1618
01:27:19,439 --> 01:27:22,000
Speaker 1: there ever been a better marriage than Lamar Jackson and

1619
01:27:22,120 --> 01:27:24,800
Speaker 1: the support that John Harbaugh and the Ravens have given

1620
01:27:24,920 --> 01:27:29,160
Speaker 1: him totally totally selling out for his skill set a

1621
01:27:29,280 --> 01:27:33,400
Speaker 1: year ago and making him the MVP. And that's addressed

1622
01:27:33,439 --> 01:27:35,800
Speaker 1: by what we just talked about. Had the physical skill,

1623
01:27:36,080 --> 01:27:39,240
Speaker 1: has the mental and emotional ability that swagger to be good.

1624
01:27:39,640 --> 01:27:41,519
Speaker 1: His players love him. But if he had gone to

1625
01:27:41,600 --> 01:27:43,160
Speaker 1: a team, and that's the credit you have to give

1626
01:27:43,200 --> 01:27:46,120
Speaker 1: to John Harbaugh and the Baltimore Ravens. They bought in

1627
01:27:46,320 --> 01:27:49,639
Speaker 1: hook line and sinker. I asked John last year when

1628
01:27:49,680 --> 01:27:51,599
Speaker 1: I did their training camp, one of their training camp

1629
01:27:51,680 --> 01:27:55,280
Speaker 1: days for the network, and I used Cam Newton's twenty

1630
01:27:55,600 --> 01:27:58,519
Speaker 1: seventeen one hundred and thirty nine trees on the year

1631
01:27:59,200 --> 01:28:02,040
Speaker 1: and said this was last year. Now, I said, is

1632
01:28:02,120 --> 01:28:04,360
Speaker 1: Lamar going to be above orlow that one thirty nine?

1633
01:28:04,400 --> 01:28:07,639
Speaker 1: And John didn't blink. He said, oh, over by a lot. Now,

1634
01:28:07,800 --> 01:28:11,280
Speaker 1: that's a strong that's a strong commitment knowing that, because

1635
01:28:11,360 --> 01:28:13,599
Speaker 1: what's the criticism gonna come. Well, if he gets hurt,

1636
01:28:14,840 --> 01:28:16,960
Speaker 1: how could you do that? How could you put him

1637
01:28:16,960 --> 01:28:19,439
Speaker 1: in that situation? Can you play quarterback in the NFL?

1638
01:28:19,680 --> 01:28:22,679
Speaker 1: Running the ball one hundred and eighty times? They bought

1639
01:28:22,800 --> 01:28:26,320
Speaker 1: in hooklan and sinker and performed brilliantly. Now it's not

1640
01:28:26,400 --> 01:28:28,439
Speaker 1: a problem until it's a problem until he gets that

1641
01:28:28,600 --> 01:28:31,800
Speaker 1: hit and he does have the RG three injury and now, okay,

1642
01:28:31,840 --> 01:28:35,080
Speaker 1: so but they're all in, and so that's that's plays

1643
01:28:35,160 --> 01:28:38,160
Speaker 1: to my point exactly if you have the first two,

1644
01:28:38,720 --> 01:28:42,360
Speaker 1: had he gone any nerve ever places, they very likely

1645
01:28:42,479 --> 01:28:44,920
Speaker 1: might not have bought all in and would be sitting

1646
01:28:44,960 --> 01:28:47,920
Speaker 1: here going well, Lamar Jackson really pan out because he

1647
01:28:48,120 --> 01:28:51,120
Speaker 1: wasn't someplace that bought in totally to his abilities and

1648
01:28:51,280 --> 01:28:53,719
Speaker 1: tried to shove that square peg into a round hole,

1649
01:28:54,240 --> 01:28:56,760
Speaker 1: and he ends up not being as good coach. We

1650
01:28:56,800 --> 01:28:58,760
Speaker 1: got about thirty seconds, but I wanted to squeeze this

1651
01:28:58,880 --> 01:29:01,559
Speaker 1: in and we thank you for the time. But Josh Allen,

1652
01:29:01,600 --> 01:29:04,559
Speaker 1: you already mentioned the completion percentage increase is a rarity.

1653
01:29:05,120 --> 01:29:07,320
Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking not about a three or four

1654
01:29:07,400 --> 01:29:10,200
Speaker 1: percent increase, We're talking about a twelve percent increase. And

1655
01:29:10,240 --> 01:29:12,639
Speaker 1: I realize it's only over a three game sample size

1656
01:29:12,680 --> 01:29:16,560
Speaker 1: here for this season. But this is rare air to

1657
01:29:16,760 --> 01:29:21,400
Speaker 1: make improvements to this degree, is it not? Now? It

1658
01:29:21,520 --> 01:29:24,439
Speaker 1: has never happened. I've been in this game, man and

1659
01:29:24,520 --> 01:29:28,200
Speaker 1: boy for forty years. I've never seen that kind of

1660
01:29:28,280 --> 01:29:31,240
Speaker 1: improvement with that kind of track record where clearly there

1661
01:29:31,280 --> 01:29:35,160
Speaker 1: were issues with the complete percentage it was undeniable. But

1662
01:29:35,320 --> 01:29:39,240
Speaker 1: for him to refine his game, improve his deep ball,

1663
01:29:40,200 --> 01:29:43,240
Speaker 1: to find the and knowledge it helps as well. He's

1664
01:29:43,280 --> 01:29:46,400
Speaker 1: more comfortable with what's going on around. Obviously a tremendous talent.

1665
01:29:46,720 --> 01:29:49,800
Speaker 1: But yes, this is I will say never had We've

1666
01:29:49,880 --> 01:29:52,559
Speaker 1: never seen this before, and that's got to be exciting

1667
01:29:52,600 --> 01:29:55,160
Speaker 1: for Bills fans. This young man boy, he's going to

1668
01:29:55,240 --> 01:29:57,960
Speaker 1: be the whole package. There's no reason to think Amy

1669
01:29:58,120 --> 01:30:00,800
Speaker 1: sustained it at seventy percent for the entire but he

1670
01:30:00,920 --> 01:30:04,720
Speaker 1: has shown he can be. He's gotten over that inefficiency

1671
01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:07,920
Speaker 1: at the completion percentage. It's fun to watch. It's a

1672
01:30:08,000 --> 01:30:10,320
Speaker 1: book called The Q Fact. They're coming out next week,

1673
01:30:10,400 --> 01:30:13,000
Speaker 1: co authored by one Brian Billick. Coach. We thank you

1674
01:30:13,400 --> 01:30:15,800
Speaker 1: for the time and your insight. We appreciate you giving

1675
01:30:15,880 --> 01:30:18,960
Speaker 1: us some time today. Thanks for being with us. All right,

1676
01:30:19,000 --> 01:30:21,519
Speaker 1: that's Brian Billick and that book comes out next week.

1677
01:30:21,600 --> 01:30:25,960
Speaker 1: As we're showing the cover to folks on MSG. It

1678
01:30:26,160 --> 01:30:29,360
Speaker 1: just basically focuses on the twenty eighteen Quarterback Class, which

1679
01:30:29,360 --> 01:30:32,160
Speaker 1: as we know includes Josh Allen. Should be a good read.

1680
01:30:32,240 --> 01:30:35,200
Speaker 1: It's going out on bookshelves next week, so be sure

1681
01:30:35,240 --> 01:30:37,280
Speaker 1: to pick up a copy if it sounds interesting to you.

1682
01:30:37,479 --> 01:30:38,880
Speaker 1: We have to take a break, but when Steve and

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Speaker 1: I come back, more of your phone calls as we

1684
01:30:41,200 --> 01:30:45,280
Speaker 1: discuss this Raiders debacle out in Henderson, Nevada, where a

1685
01:30:45,360 --> 01:30:48,720
Speaker 1: host of their players attended a charity event indoors with

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01:30:48,840 --> 01:30:52,519
Speaker 1: over one hundred people and without masks. More coming your way. Next,

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01:30:52,720 --> 01:30:54,840
Speaker 1: One One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. This is

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01:30:54,880 --> 01:31:08,599
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio Chris Brown Skive task. You're One Bills

1689
01:31:08,640 --> 01:31:13,760
Speaker 1: Live talking the Raiders transgressions amid the COVID nineteen protocols.

1690
01:31:14,360 --> 01:31:16,120
Speaker 1: And we got to go back to the phones as

1691
01:31:16,160 --> 01:31:18,360
Speaker 1: we've got people eager to weigh in on this and

1692
01:31:18,680 --> 01:31:22,080
Speaker 1: waiting patiently. Has been Brian in Fredonia. Brian, thanks for

1693
01:31:22,200 --> 01:31:25,040
Speaker 1: joining us. What do you have? Thanks guys for having

1694
01:31:25,080 --> 01:31:27,479
Speaker 1: me on. I just want to make a simple statement

1695
01:31:27,520 --> 01:31:30,559
Speaker 1: about wearing the masks. I don't think you can beat

1696
01:31:30,640 --> 01:31:33,400
Speaker 1: that drum enough. You know, people need to follow this

1697
01:31:33,800 --> 01:31:37,200
Speaker 1: directive and it benefits them their families and a show's

1698
01:31:37,280 --> 01:31:41,320
Speaker 1: respect for the people around them. Yeah I have Okay, Yeah,

1699
01:31:41,400 --> 01:31:46,640
Speaker 1: fair enough we'll take and not gonna get any disagreement

1700
01:31:46,680 --> 01:31:52,160
Speaker 1: from us. You know, you gotta do it, and especially

1701
01:31:52,240 --> 01:31:54,840
Speaker 1: if you're indoors with that many people. I mean, you

1702
01:31:54,880 --> 01:31:57,080
Speaker 1: shouldn't even be indoors with more than fifty people. So

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01:31:57,120 --> 01:31:59,880
Speaker 1: as soon as you see more than that, and I still,

1704
01:32:00,000 --> 01:32:02,000
Speaker 1: I know I didn't move that thing outside. I really don't.

1705
01:32:02,040 --> 01:32:04,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you're out in Nevada. It's I mean, I

1706
01:32:04,400 --> 01:32:07,040
Speaker 1: know it gets cold there at night, but man, there's

1707
01:32:07,080 --> 01:32:09,599
Speaker 1: got to be a better way there. Really does. Back

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01:32:09,640 --> 01:32:11,960
Speaker 1: to the phone, eight three five fifty to Chris in

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01:32:12,120 --> 01:32:14,120
Speaker 1: Niagara Falls, Chris, what do you have for us? Thanks

1710
01:32:14,160 --> 01:32:16,559
Speaker 1: for joining us? It's Curtis. How you doing, Curtis? How

1711
01:32:17,280 --> 01:32:19,960
Speaker 1: go ahead? Not bad? Not bad? Um. I was listening

1712
01:32:19,960 --> 01:32:22,479
Speaker 1: to you guys thinking I'm like, that's like, that's freaking terrible.

1713
01:32:22,560 --> 01:32:24,960
Speaker 1: Like my grandmother used to tell me sometimes that's why

1714
01:32:25,080 --> 01:32:28,519
Speaker 1: we can't have nice things with that being said, do

1715
01:32:28,640 --> 01:32:30,479
Speaker 1: you think the Pagoulas are on the phone with whereas

1716
01:32:30,479 --> 01:32:34,280
Speaker 1: you could tell right now because well, well believe me,

1717
01:32:34,360 --> 01:32:36,760
Speaker 1: I made the league is more than aware of this.

1718
01:32:37,479 --> 01:32:40,400
Speaker 1: More maybe the Pagoulas are, but I would say probably

1719
01:32:40,479 --> 01:32:45,639
Speaker 1: more more more likely it would be Brandon Bean um correct.

1720
01:32:46,400 --> 01:32:49,160
Speaker 1: And like one of the other cause was saying, if

1721
01:32:49,240 --> 01:32:52,080
Speaker 1: they have to miss the game without pay or whatever,

1722
01:32:52,240 --> 01:32:54,760
Speaker 1: so be it. They get what they get. I gotta

1723
01:32:54,800 --> 01:32:57,640
Speaker 1: get a copy of that agreement between the club and

1724
01:32:57,920 --> 01:32:59,880
Speaker 1: U and the union, and if you if you go

1725
01:33:00,080 --> 01:33:03,400
Speaker 1: down through the fine print, that it's if it was

1726
01:33:03,439 --> 01:33:06,280
Speaker 1: negotiated in that it's fourteen day quarantine, ten to fourteen

1727
01:33:06,360 --> 01:33:12,040
Speaker 1: day quarantine. Unless that thing's been amended, that that's it. Um.

1728
01:33:12,720 --> 01:33:15,240
Speaker 1: I would I would be shocked if the Bills and

1729
01:33:15,680 --> 01:33:20,240
Speaker 1: other owners as well, most notably the Pittsburgh Steelers owners, um,

1730
01:33:20,720 --> 01:33:23,080
Speaker 1: who are going to play the Titans on Tuesday, Monday

1731
01:33:23,160 --> 01:33:25,840
Speaker 1: or Tuesday, the Minnesota owners you know whatever you want

1732
01:33:25,840 --> 01:33:29,720
Speaker 1: to call um. And not just the you know, the

1733
01:33:30,040 --> 01:33:33,960
Speaker 1: the Raiders, but the Raiders next opponent. So all those

1734
01:33:34,000 --> 01:33:35,840
Speaker 1: people be on the phone saying, hey, what about it?

1735
01:33:36,360 --> 01:33:38,760
Speaker 1: This is what the thing says, and uh, and I

1736
01:33:38,800 --> 01:33:41,040
Speaker 1: would I would be so I would say they're probably

1737
01:33:41,080 --> 01:33:43,519
Speaker 1: gonna follow the letter of the law. Yeah, what it

1738
01:33:43,600 --> 01:33:48,160
Speaker 1: was negotiated. Did somebody come up positive with the vikings? No, nobody,

1739
01:33:48,360 --> 01:33:51,160
Speaker 1: not a single person to this point. No, So that's

1740
01:33:51,200 --> 01:33:53,560
Speaker 1: good news. But yeah, we'll have to see where it

1741
01:33:53,600 --> 01:33:55,400
Speaker 1: goes because we've talked about it the two to eight

1742
01:33:55,520 --> 01:33:58,080
Speaker 1: day incubation period, So we'll have to see where it

1743
01:33:58,160 --> 01:34:00,879
Speaker 1: goes and what happens. But thank you for the call, Curtis,

1744
01:34:01,280 --> 01:34:03,600
Speaker 1: And we do have to take a break here, but

1745
01:34:03,760 --> 01:34:06,439
Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll get the Raiders perspective on

1746
01:34:06,560 --> 01:34:11,240
Speaker 1: this as we talk with Raiders radio color analyst and

1747
01:34:11,479 --> 01:34:16,000
Speaker 1: former offensive tackle, three time Pro Bowler Lincoln Kennedy. When

1748
01:34:16,080 --> 01:34:19,799
Speaker 1: we return, we'll get his take on the Raiders running

1749
01:34:19,840 --> 01:34:23,280
Speaker 1: a foul of the COVID nineteen protocols. Here next on

1750
01:34:23,400 --> 01:34:26,439
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health, this is Buffalo

1751
01:34:26,520 --> 01:34:41,840
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Hello, Bills Radio Network. Sports update Here a

1752
01:34:41,920 --> 01:34:44,840
Speaker 1: sports update from One Bills Drive Buffalo back on the

1753
01:34:44,920 --> 01:34:48,360
Speaker 1: practice field today, But John Brown not a participant at

1754
01:34:48,400 --> 01:34:51,080
Speaker 1: practice here on Wednesday after leaving last week's game with

1755
01:34:51,160 --> 01:34:55,120
Speaker 1: a calf injury. Linebackers Tremaine Edmonds and Matt Melano did

1756
01:34:55,200 --> 01:34:59,840
Speaker 1: both practice today. The official injury report comes out later

1757
01:35:00,040 --> 01:35:03,599
Speaker 1: this afternoon, which will list everybody's participation level in total.

1758
01:35:04,120 --> 01:35:07,920
Speaker 1: Knowing there are other players who are coming off of injury,

1759
01:35:08,000 --> 01:35:11,120
Speaker 1: including Dawson Knox, who was in concussion protocol last week

1760
01:35:11,200 --> 01:35:13,680
Speaker 1: and missed the game, as well as Dion Dawkins, who

1761
01:35:13,760 --> 01:35:17,120
Speaker 1: left Layton last week's game for the shoulder injury. Buffalo's

1762
01:35:17,120 --> 01:35:19,960
Speaker 1: opponent this week, the Las Vegas Raiders, could be in

1763
01:35:20,160 --> 01:35:22,559
Speaker 1: hot water with the league after several of their players,

1764
01:35:22,600 --> 01:35:26,320
Speaker 1: including quarterback Derek Carr, attended teammate Darren Waller's charity event

1765
01:35:26,400 --> 01:35:30,200
Speaker 1: for his foundation with upwards of one hundred attends indoors

1766
01:35:30,560 --> 01:35:33,479
Speaker 1: in Henderson, Nevada on Monday night. Several of the players,

1767
01:35:33,520 --> 01:35:36,679
Speaker 1: according to eyewitnesses, were engaging with attends and not wearing

1768
01:35:36,800 --> 01:35:40,960
Speaker 1: masks and gathering violated the state's COVID protocols, which caps

1769
01:35:41,000 --> 01:35:45,120
Speaker 1: indoor gatherings at fifty people. Raiders owner Mark Davis said quote,

1770
01:35:45,360 --> 01:35:48,680
Speaker 1: we obviously take responsibility for this. You don't like seeing this.

1771
01:35:48,960 --> 01:35:51,400
Speaker 1: I don't know that it's actually been built into our

1772
01:35:51,479 --> 01:35:54,160
Speaker 1: memories that you have to wear a mask. Our organization

1773
01:35:54,720 --> 01:35:58,439
Speaker 1: takes it very seriously. Bill's head coach Sean McDermott, when

1774
01:35:58,439 --> 01:36:02,120
Speaker 1: asked about the Raiders reported transgressions and violation of COVID protocols,

1775
01:36:02,520 --> 01:36:05,439
Speaker 1: said quote that news was unfortunate. What we try to

1776
01:36:05,520 --> 01:36:08,080
Speaker 1: do is control what we can control on our end.

1777
01:36:08,400 --> 01:36:10,360
Speaker 1: We have respect for John Gruden and the Raiders, and

1778
01:36:10,439 --> 01:36:14,400
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're on top of it. In related Raiders news,

1779
01:36:14,479 --> 01:36:17,840
Speaker 1: head coach John Gruden has already declared rookie wide receiver

1780
01:36:17,960 --> 01:36:21,320
Speaker 1: Brian Edwards out for Sunday's game, and reports indicate that

1781
01:36:21,400 --> 01:36:24,920
Speaker 1: fellow rookie wide receiver Henry Ruggs is a long shot

1782
01:36:25,200 --> 01:36:28,000
Speaker 1: to play on Sunday due to a hamstring injury. A

1783
01:36:28,120 --> 01:36:31,439
Speaker 1: fourth Tennessee Titans player tested positive for COVID, bringing that

1784
01:36:31,560 --> 01:36:34,920
Speaker 1: team total to nine after testing on Tuesday turned up

1785
01:36:34,960 --> 01:36:37,680
Speaker 1: eight positives and prompted the league to shut down the

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01:36:37,760 --> 01:36:41,240
Speaker 1: Titans team facility. The league has also moved the Titans

1787
01:36:41,320 --> 01:36:44,920
Speaker 1: game with the Pittsburgh Steelers from Sunday to either Monday

1788
01:36:45,040 --> 01:36:47,639
Speaker 1: or Tuesday. That is yet to be finalized. The league

1789
01:36:47,680 --> 01:36:50,479
Speaker 1: is evaluating the situation and will adjust if needed as

1790
01:36:50,600 --> 01:36:54,200
Speaker 1: more information is gathered. And that is your Sports Update

1791
01:36:54,520 --> 01:36:56,920
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown Steve Tasker with you

1792
01:36:57,400 --> 01:37:00,479
Speaker 1: our number three of the program, as we are discussing

1793
01:37:01,040 --> 01:37:05,519
Speaker 1: the Raiders players who are now being investigated by the

1794
01:37:05,600 --> 01:37:10,120
Speaker 1: team and presumably by the league for their attendance at

1795
01:37:10,200 --> 01:37:13,800
Speaker 1: an indoor gala. It's a charity event, but it was

1796
01:37:13,840 --> 01:37:17,799
Speaker 1: attended by over one hundred people indoors, which violates Nevada's

1797
01:37:17,840 --> 01:37:21,519
Speaker 1: state protocols regarding COVID, which limits it to fifty people,

1798
01:37:22,320 --> 01:37:26,920
Speaker 1: and many of those Raiders players not wearing masks. The

1799
01:37:27,000 --> 01:37:29,479
Speaker 1: only one that we witnessed that was based on the

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01:37:29,600 --> 01:37:32,479
Speaker 1: video footage that our MSG viewers are watching now was

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01:37:32,600 --> 01:37:35,000
Speaker 1: Darren Waller, the host of the event, who only took

1802
01:37:35,040 --> 01:37:37,720
Speaker 1: his mask off briefly to address the crowd into the

1803
01:37:37,800 --> 01:37:40,000
Speaker 1: microphone as they're seeing right now. But all of the

1804
01:37:40,080 --> 01:37:44,880
Speaker 1: other players filed in not wearing a mask, in very

1805
01:37:44,960 --> 01:37:49,799
Speaker 1: close proximity to other people, no social distancing, shaking hands

1806
01:37:50,160 --> 01:37:54,000
Speaker 1: among other things. Just not a good look at all,

1807
01:37:54,560 --> 01:37:58,479
Speaker 1: and this of course raises questions about where things go

1808
01:37:58,800 --> 01:38:01,120
Speaker 1: with respect to the Raiders testing over the next couple

1809
01:38:01,160 --> 01:38:04,000
Speaker 1: of days, knowing the incubation periods two to eight days,

1810
01:38:04,520 --> 01:38:08,559
Speaker 1: and more importantly, Buffalo's game with the Raiders on Sunday.

1811
01:38:09,479 --> 01:38:11,479
Speaker 1: That is where we stand. We are going to go

1812
01:38:11,560 --> 01:38:14,160
Speaker 1: to the phones at eight o three five fifty will

1813
01:38:14,160 --> 01:38:16,559
Speaker 1: be joined by Lincoln Kennedy shortly, but in the meantime

1814
01:38:16,920 --> 01:38:20,320
Speaker 1: we go to Jeff in Rochester. Jeff, thanks for joining us.

1815
01:38:20,360 --> 01:38:24,360
Speaker 1: What do you have? Well? I hope that no one's

1816
01:38:24,360 --> 01:38:27,120
Speaker 1: missing the point that so many of the Bills players

1817
01:38:27,800 --> 01:38:31,680
Speaker 1: we're already concerned. I would really like to see it

1818
01:38:31,840 --> 01:38:34,080
Speaker 1: if all of the Bills players would stand up for

1819
01:38:34,600 --> 01:38:37,840
Speaker 1: those people with family and young ones and old ones

1820
01:38:37,920 --> 01:38:42,160
Speaker 1: that need protecting and refuse to go to Las Vegas,

1821
01:38:42,320 --> 01:38:46,200
Speaker 1: because I think the players associations should stand behind them,

1822
01:38:46,360 --> 01:38:49,840
Speaker 1: that they've done what they can do and Las Vegas hasn't,

1823
01:38:49,920 --> 01:38:52,400
Speaker 1: and I think it's ridiculous they have to risk their

1824
01:38:52,439 --> 01:38:55,479
Speaker 1: safety and their family's safety well as they can't manage

1825
01:38:55,560 --> 01:38:57,600
Speaker 1: to follow the rules. Well, Jeff, I agree with you,

1826
01:38:57,760 --> 01:39:00,880
Speaker 1: and I think yeah, before it get to that point,

1827
01:39:00,920 --> 01:39:03,639
Speaker 1: I think the Buffalo Bills organization would put tremendous pressure

1828
01:39:03,800 --> 01:39:06,680
Speaker 1: on the league to force the Raiders to do that.

1829
01:39:07,400 --> 01:39:09,600
Speaker 1: More than the Bills, the Raiders are the ones that

1830
01:39:09,680 --> 01:39:11,479
Speaker 1: we're in the wrong. The Raiders are the ones that

1831
01:39:11,560 --> 01:39:14,720
Speaker 1: have on two or three and now thirty different occasions,

1832
01:39:15,160 --> 01:39:19,040
Speaker 1: have gone against the protocols of game day and the

1833
01:39:19,120 --> 01:39:22,120
Speaker 1: protocols of what happens away from the facility. So it's

1834
01:39:22,160 --> 01:39:24,320
Speaker 1: been the Raiders at every turn that have done this

1835
01:39:24,439 --> 01:39:27,960
Speaker 1: have been gotten fined at one point three hundred and

1836
01:39:27,960 --> 01:39:31,360
Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars between John Gruden and the Raiders organization.

1837
01:39:32,040 --> 01:39:40,320
Speaker 1: They had qualified or untiered personnel, unallowed personnel into their

1838
01:39:40,400 --> 01:39:43,000
Speaker 1: locker room post game, which is a no no. And

1839
01:39:43,160 --> 01:39:45,880
Speaker 1: now you've got this, you know, got eight or ten

1840
01:39:46,000 --> 01:39:48,800
Speaker 1: players shown up at a charity event indoors with a

1841
01:39:48,960 --> 01:39:52,639
Speaker 1: hundred people in the room with no masks. So yeah,

1842
01:39:52,720 --> 01:39:55,120
Speaker 1: I get what you're saying about the Bills making a statement,

1843
01:39:55,200 --> 01:39:57,800
Speaker 1: and there's every possibility like that that could happen. But

1844
01:39:57,960 --> 01:40:03,200
Speaker 1: to me, that would be four seeing. That would be

1845
01:40:03,320 --> 01:40:07,400
Speaker 1: forcing the righteous to pay the consequences for the unrighteous.

1846
01:40:07,920 --> 01:40:12,040
Speaker 1: So that's the wrong way to have this play out.

1847
01:40:12,120 --> 01:40:15,479
Speaker 1: Although I see your point, it's not the Bills who

1848
01:40:15,479 --> 01:40:21,240
Speaker 1: should have to make any sort of effort to retaliate

1849
01:40:21,439 --> 01:40:24,680
Speaker 1: or to answer the irresponsibility of the guys on the

1850
01:40:24,760 --> 01:40:27,800
Speaker 1: Raiders showed. So I think I have to lead this

1851
01:40:27,920 --> 01:40:30,000
Speaker 1: up to the to the league, and I'm sure that

1852
01:40:30,120 --> 01:40:32,639
Speaker 1: they will. And this was not the way we intended

1853
01:40:32,680 --> 01:40:35,559
Speaker 1: to bring our next guest onto the show. We had

1854
01:40:35,640 --> 01:40:40,799
Speaker 1: booked h Raiders color analyst for the Raiders Radio network,

1855
01:40:40,880 --> 01:40:42,800
Speaker 1: Lincoln Kennedy, to be on the show to talk Raiders

1856
01:40:42,880 --> 01:40:45,840
Speaker 1: football and kind of queue up this game this Sunday

1857
01:40:45,920 --> 01:40:48,519
Speaker 1: between the Raiders and the Bills. But we welcome Lincoln

1858
01:40:48,600 --> 01:40:51,519
Speaker 1: on now, and Lincoln, it's a it's a tough go here, man.

1859
01:40:52,520 --> 01:40:54,479
Speaker 1: You know, all this stuff breaking out west there with

1860
01:40:54,840 --> 01:40:57,120
Speaker 1: what the Raiders players did on Monday night at Darren

1861
01:40:57,160 --> 01:40:59,800
Speaker 1: Waller's event, and there's video evidence out there, and I

1862
01:40:59,920 --> 01:41:02,760
Speaker 1: know the optics aren't good. How does it grab you

1863
01:41:03,000 --> 01:41:06,960
Speaker 1: from your perspective? Well, you know, first of all, pleasure

1864
01:41:07,000 --> 01:41:09,040
Speaker 1: being with you guys, Thank you for having thanks. I

1865
01:41:09,200 --> 01:41:11,960
Speaker 1: think when it comes down to it, the NFL has

1866
01:41:12,000 --> 01:41:15,200
Speaker 1: got to come hard down on this instance to make

1867
01:41:15,200 --> 01:41:17,320
Speaker 1: an example, and unfortunately it's going to be on the

1868
01:41:17,400 --> 01:41:20,320
Speaker 1: Raiders or so, whether it's penalties of finds or some sort,

1869
01:41:20,400 --> 01:41:22,800
Speaker 1: that's to be expected. But as you're right, it's not

1870
01:41:22,920 --> 01:41:25,599
Speaker 1: good for optics because we should be talking about football

1871
01:41:25,640 --> 01:41:28,080
Speaker 1: instead we're talking about guys at a charity event now

1872
01:41:28,120 --> 01:41:30,559
Speaker 1: wearing a mask, right, And how would you know part

1873
01:41:30,600 --> 01:41:32,519
Speaker 1: of the sorry, Steve, I know part of the group

1874
01:41:32,560 --> 01:41:36,080
Speaker 1: included both quarterbacks. We saw Nathan Peterman there, We saw

1875
01:41:36,520 --> 01:41:39,519
Speaker 1: you know, Derek Carr there. I know they have Marcus Mariota,

1876
01:41:39,560 --> 01:41:43,160
Speaker 1: but he's on IR right now. So I mean, two

1877
01:41:43,280 --> 01:41:46,960
Speaker 1: quarterbacks test positive. Even if there are no repercussions on

1878
01:41:47,040 --> 01:41:49,400
Speaker 1: behalf of the league, the Raiders could really be up

1879
01:41:49,439 --> 01:41:52,680
Speaker 1: a creek come Sunday. Yeah, you're absolutely right. I mean,

1880
01:41:52,800 --> 01:41:54,840
Speaker 1: not only do you have a very talented Buffalo bill

1881
01:41:54,880 --> 01:41:56,880
Speaker 1: team that you guys are talking about coming into town,

1882
01:41:57,200 --> 01:41:59,680
Speaker 1: but more importantly, they might be they're already short a

1883
01:41:59,760 --> 01:42:02,000
Speaker 1: few players due to injury. This could be you know,

1884
01:42:02,120 --> 01:42:04,479
Speaker 1: an add on it if it comes down the wrong way.

1885
01:42:04,560 --> 01:42:06,880
Speaker 1: But you know what it's it's one of these things

1886
01:42:06,920 --> 01:42:10,360
Speaker 1: because we're in an unprecedented time that everyone's eager to

1887
01:42:10,439 --> 01:42:12,360
Speaker 1: see how it's going to play out. You know what

1888
01:42:12,520 --> 01:42:14,720
Speaker 1: happens when one We've already seen what's going on with

1889
01:42:14,840 --> 01:42:17,920
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans and the Vikings, But what happens when

1890
01:42:18,000 --> 01:42:21,040
Speaker 1: one player tests positive? What does that do for everyone

1891
01:42:21,120 --> 01:42:23,519
Speaker 1: in the position? Not alone, let alone that you know,

1892
01:42:23,600 --> 01:42:26,200
Speaker 1: the offense or the defense or the group group that

1893
01:42:26,240 --> 01:42:28,720
Speaker 1: they're with. But more importantly for the team and the

1894
01:42:28,880 --> 01:42:31,280
Speaker 1: NFL has to be aware of that. I mean, they

1895
01:42:31,400 --> 01:42:34,680
Speaker 1: have in their their plans do this COVID thing, to

1896
01:42:35,200 --> 01:42:37,240
Speaker 1: talk about it, to think about it, and to act

1897
01:42:37,360 --> 01:42:40,639
Speaker 1: upon it. But every team is in its own isolated bubble,

1898
01:42:40,680 --> 01:42:42,760
Speaker 1: if you will. I don't know how that works up

1899
01:42:42,960 --> 01:42:45,280
Speaker 1: when these guys go home to their families and everything else,

1900
01:42:45,360 --> 01:42:47,400
Speaker 1: but they're they're trying to do their best to prevent

1901
01:42:47,479 --> 01:42:50,720
Speaker 1: a widespread outbreak. We've you know, obviously our attention has

1902
01:42:50,760 --> 01:42:52,479
Speaker 1: been focused on the Bills and how they're going to

1903
01:42:52,520 --> 01:42:54,759
Speaker 1: handle being is there the next team on the schedule

1904
01:42:54,840 --> 01:42:57,160
Speaker 1: for the Raiders. But if you're a Raider, Lincoln, as

1905
01:42:57,160 --> 01:42:59,439
Speaker 1: you were at one point, how do you think these

1906
01:42:59,479 --> 01:43:02,400
Speaker 1: guys are buy in the locker room? I mean, what's there?

1907
01:43:02,520 --> 01:43:04,400
Speaker 1: What kind of reception are they getting? Is there any

1908
01:43:04,439 --> 01:43:07,160
Speaker 1: pushback from their peers about guys, what are you doing

1909
01:43:07,360 --> 01:43:11,360
Speaker 1: that kind of thing? Well, there's no negative pushback just yet.

1910
01:43:11,560 --> 01:43:13,960
Speaker 1: And the reason why is because they get tested. I

1911
01:43:14,040 --> 01:43:16,960
Speaker 1: think every day at the facility, they've got these tracers

1912
01:43:17,080 --> 01:43:19,320
Speaker 1: on their on their risks to let them know where

1913
01:43:19,320 --> 01:43:21,240
Speaker 1: they've been and who they've been in communication with or

1914
01:43:21,439 --> 01:43:25,120
Speaker 1: where they've been around. So the NFL science and technology

1915
01:43:25,280 --> 01:43:28,120
Speaker 1: is doing everything it can to prevent a widespread outbreak.

1916
01:43:28,360 --> 01:43:30,960
Speaker 1: So there's no pushback from the players. Just yet, this

1917
01:43:31,080 --> 01:43:33,000
Speaker 1: will come up. A pushback would come up and say

1918
01:43:33,120 --> 01:43:36,320
Speaker 1: if Derek Carr was ruled ineligible due to COVID, you

1919
01:43:36,360 --> 01:43:37,920
Speaker 1: know what I mean, And now all of a sudden,

1920
01:43:37,960 --> 01:43:41,280
Speaker 1: you you have to wherever you're going on a quarterback

1921
01:43:41,320 --> 01:43:43,280
Speaker 1: scale because you know you're down, you're looking for a

1922
01:43:43,360 --> 01:43:46,080
Speaker 1: quarterback to play a game. That's when a pushback comes.

1923
01:43:46,160 --> 01:43:48,840
Speaker 1: But still no harm, no foul. It's just as you

1924
01:43:48,920 --> 01:43:53,240
Speaker 1: guys mentioned bad optics. Talking to Lincoln Kennedy, Raiders radio

1925
01:43:53,320 --> 01:43:56,439
Speaker 1: color analyst, also a former three time Pro Bowl offensive tackle,

1926
01:43:56,920 --> 01:43:59,439
Speaker 1: and you know, you look at this matchup and it

1927
01:43:59,560 --> 01:44:02,720
Speaker 1: looked like it was. I mean, we're anticipating, provided it

1928
01:44:02,800 --> 01:44:05,559
Speaker 1: goes off without a hitch, to be a relatively high

1929
01:44:05,640 --> 01:44:07,960
Speaker 1: scoring affair. And neither of these teams have had problems

1930
01:44:08,040 --> 01:44:10,639
Speaker 1: putting up points. But each of these teams has had

1931
01:44:10,720 --> 01:44:13,880
Speaker 1: problems at least of late and slowing the opponents down.

1932
01:44:14,080 --> 01:44:16,360
Speaker 1: So we saw last week, the Bills were in a

1933
01:44:16,400 --> 01:44:18,360
Speaker 1: situation where a game came down to who had the

1934
01:44:18,400 --> 01:44:20,599
Speaker 1: ball last. I know the Raiders have had a couple

1935
01:44:20,640 --> 01:44:23,679
Speaker 1: of high scoring affairs. Do you see this game playing

1936
01:44:23,760 --> 01:44:28,280
Speaker 1: out in similar fashion? Absolutely. I've been on a note

1937
01:44:28,320 --> 01:44:30,160
Speaker 1: to say the Raiders need to score in every game

1938
01:44:30,160 --> 01:44:31,920
Speaker 1: at least thirty points or more in order to win.

1939
01:44:32,880 --> 01:44:35,599
Speaker 1: The offense is at strength, and when you look around

1940
01:44:35,680 --> 01:44:38,400
Speaker 1: the league at some of the high potency offenses that

1941
01:44:38,520 --> 01:44:40,920
Speaker 1: are there, especially in AFC, you've got to be able

1942
01:44:40,920 --> 01:44:43,080
Speaker 1: to put up points I think long gone or the

1943
01:44:43,200 --> 01:44:45,840
Speaker 1: days of the ten seven ball games, if you will,

1944
01:44:46,720 --> 01:44:49,960
Speaker 1: And if these teams had any aspirations of making it

1945
01:44:50,040 --> 01:44:52,400
Speaker 1: to the playoffs and making a championship run, you've got

1946
01:44:52,520 --> 01:44:54,280
Speaker 1: to score a lot of points. And it's almost become

1947
01:44:54,479 --> 01:44:56,840
Speaker 1: almost like like arena style football. Guys with a guy

1948
01:44:56,840 --> 01:44:58,360
Speaker 1: who has a ball last is the one who was

1949
01:44:58,360 --> 01:45:01,400
Speaker 1: going to win if they can score. So I definitely

1950
01:45:01,439 --> 01:45:03,000
Speaker 1: think they need to score a lot of points. Yeah,

1951
01:45:03,040 --> 01:45:05,639
Speaker 1: And they ran into what the Bills had been running

1952
01:45:05,640 --> 01:45:07,200
Speaker 1: into twice a year for a long time, the New

1953
01:45:07,240 --> 01:45:10,320
Speaker 1: England Patriots this last week. And it was funny because

1954
01:45:11,000 --> 01:45:12,880
Speaker 1: we've seen it on a number of occasiones where you

1955
01:45:12,920 --> 01:45:14,960
Speaker 1: look at what the Patriots do defensively and he's kind

1956
01:45:14,960 --> 01:45:17,519
Speaker 1: of like, are you kidding me? They doubled team the

1957
01:45:17,680 --> 01:45:20,639
Speaker 1: check downs for Derek Carr last week and took away

1958
01:45:20,880 --> 01:45:26,439
Speaker 1: and whatever whatever Billichick does. I mean, it's crazy. Nothing

1959
01:45:26,600 --> 01:45:28,320
Speaker 1: is off the table, it seems for them. Talk a

1960
01:45:28,360 --> 01:45:31,080
Speaker 1: little bit about what the Raiders ran into up in Foxborough.

1961
01:45:32,280 --> 01:45:34,800
Speaker 1: A lot of disguises. I mean, we're approaching Halloween and

1962
01:45:34,880 --> 01:45:36,400
Speaker 1: there was a lot of disguises out there on the

1963
01:45:36,439 --> 01:45:38,600
Speaker 1: football field. For very Car. There were a lot of

1964
01:45:38,680 --> 01:45:41,040
Speaker 1: pre snap reeds where he thought he had man and

1965
01:45:41,120 --> 01:45:44,040
Speaker 1: it was actually zone vice versa. He thought he had zone,

1966
01:45:44,040 --> 01:45:46,200
Speaker 1: he actually had man. And then on top of that,

1967
01:45:46,640 --> 01:45:49,360
Speaker 1: because the Raiders are having such issues with their offensive line,

1968
01:45:49,640 --> 01:45:51,200
Speaker 1: there was a couple of times where a three man

1969
01:45:51,360 --> 01:45:53,599
Speaker 1: rush or four man rush scot fresh on the quarterback,

1970
01:45:53,840 --> 01:45:56,320
Speaker 1: so he was under drest. So the fact is that

1971
01:45:56,640 --> 01:45:59,439
Speaker 1: the as we already know with Belichick and his game plan,

1972
01:46:00,640 --> 01:46:03,040
Speaker 1: you know, he always takes away the strength of the

1973
01:46:03,080 --> 01:46:06,240
Speaker 1: opposing team, and that, as you mentioned, was the checkdown routes,

1974
01:46:06,280 --> 01:46:08,880
Speaker 1: and of course Derek Carr's ability to survey down the

1975
01:46:09,000 --> 01:46:11,880
Speaker 1: field and more importantly for the Raiders, it came down

1976
01:46:11,920 --> 01:46:15,040
Speaker 1: to a number of miscues. It also turnover battle. They

1977
01:46:15,080 --> 01:46:17,200
Speaker 1: had more penalties than they did in the first two

1978
01:46:17,560 --> 01:46:19,760
Speaker 1: games combined. So there were a lot of things that

1979
01:46:19,840 --> 01:46:22,519
Speaker 1: went wrong for the Raiders that day and on Sunday

1980
01:46:22,800 --> 01:46:25,479
Speaker 1: against the Patriots. And more importantly, like we talked about

1981
01:46:25,479 --> 01:46:29,000
Speaker 1: it on my various formats and mediums, we talked about

1982
01:46:29,040 --> 01:46:31,120
Speaker 1: the fact that the Raiders did have an opportunity if

1983
01:46:31,160 --> 01:46:33,679
Speaker 1: they were up you know, ten nothing, fourteen to nothing,

1984
01:46:33,920 --> 01:46:36,679
Speaker 1: to really adjust that game, because then the Patriots wouldn't

1985
01:46:36,680 --> 01:46:38,880
Speaker 1: have been wouldn't be able to run as much as

1986
01:46:38,920 --> 01:46:41,280
Speaker 1: they did, and they ran all over the Raiders. Talking

1987
01:46:41,320 --> 01:46:45,439
Speaker 1: to Lincoln Kennedy, Raiders radio color analysts, also former offensive

1988
01:46:45,479 --> 01:46:48,040
Speaker 1: tackle for that club and a three time Pro bowler,

1989
01:46:48,200 --> 01:46:50,679
Speaker 1: you know, Lincoln, we already have heard that Brian Edwards

1990
01:46:50,720 --> 01:46:53,880
Speaker 1: has been ruled out for Sunday's game. It looks like

1991
01:46:54,040 --> 01:46:56,839
Speaker 1: Henry Ruggs is a long shot with the hamstring injury.

1992
01:46:57,240 --> 01:47:00,160
Speaker 1: How much is that going to allow the Bills to

1993
01:47:00,360 --> 01:47:02,200
Speaker 1: key on the guy that caught ninety balls for this

1994
01:47:02,280 --> 01:47:05,800
Speaker 1: passing offense last year and Darren Waller, Well, the reason

1995
01:47:05,840 --> 01:47:08,120
Speaker 1: why they went out and got Edwards and Rugs in

1996
01:47:08,160 --> 01:47:10,040
Speaker 1: the first place was to help take the top off

1997
01:47:10,040 --> 01:47:13,759
Speaker 1: the defenses and help stretch them. And without that, there's

1998
01:47:13,760 --> 01:47:16,040
Speaker 1: a lot of them. He saw last week, New England

1999
01:47:16,320 --> 01:47:18,680
Speaker 1: was able to key in on some of the other

2000
01:47:18,800 --> 01:47:21,600
Speaker 1: receivers like Waller as well as Hunter renfro and the

2001
01:47:21,720 --> 01:47:25,120
Speaker 1: checkdown route. So it's big advantage for the Bills defense.

2002
01:47:25,439 --> 01:47:28,080
Speaker 1: I know the Bills defense has struggled statistically on paper,

2003
01:47:28,200 --> 01:47:29,880
Speaker 1: but you know, the Raiders have got to find a

2004
01:47:29,920 --> 01:47:32,439
Speaker 1: way to write the ship and do something different. It's

2005
01:47:32,520 --> 01:47:35,040
Speaker 1: unfortunate that we're so early in the season and we've

2006
01:47:35,040 --> 01:47:37,640
Speaker 1: seen so many damaging injuries, but it's just the way

2007
01:47:37,680 --> 01:47:41,120
Speaker 1: the NFL is these days that most coaches, most teams

2008
01:47:41,200 --> 01:47:44,320
Speaker 1: do to the NFL contracts and scheduling things. I have

2009
01:47:44,479 --> 01:47:47,280
Speaker 1: to use the first month to get their guys into

2010
01:47:47,320 --> 01:47:50,120
Speaker 1: football shape because they don't play preseason and there was

2011
01:47:50,160 --> 01:47:53,599
Speaker 1: no preseason limited offseason. So these guys are getting football ready,

2012
01:47:53,640 --> 01:47:55,360
Speaker 1: but they've got some injuries they need to deal with.

2013
01:47:56,000 --> 01:47:58,200
Speaker 1: Also the Raiders. The one thing the Raiders do a

2014
01:47:58,280 --> 01:47:59,720
Speaker 1: little bit better than the Bills have been able to

2015
01:47:59,720 --> 01:48:02,439
Speaker 1: stop their run game. Jacobs has been a real force.

2016
01:48:02,520 --> 01:48:04,960
Speaker 1: He continues to be. The Bills struggled a little bit

2017
01:48:05,080 --> 01:48:08,360
Speaker 1: and have struggled historically ender Sean McDermott. They kind of like,

2018
01:48:08,520 --> 01:48:10,599
Speaker 1: if you want to run the ball, that's fine. At

2019
01:48:10,680 --> 01:48:12,040
Speaker 1: least you're not going to run us up on the

2020
01:48:12,120 --> 01:48:14,400
Speaker 1: scoreboard doing that. Is there a chance that the Raiders

2021
01:48:14,479 --> 01:48:17,960
Speaker 1: maybe go run heavy, even heavier than they have coming

2022
01:48:18,000 --> 01:48:21,200
Speaker 1: into this game. Well that's a little risky too, because

2023
01:48:21,280 --> 01:48:24,040
Speaker 1: Jacobs has been banged up himself, so he's been nursing

2024
01:48:24,320 --> 01:48:26,360
Speaker 1: some mild injuries. And the great thing the thing that

2025
01:48:26,439 --> 01:48:28,800
Speaker 1: the Raiders have to learn how to do, especially with him.

2026
01:48:28,920 --> 01:48:30,880
Speaker 1: He's a young man who loves to run and he

2027
01:48:30,920 --> 01:48:32,479
Speaker 1: wants to be out there on football field. But they've

2028
01:48:32,479 --> 01:48:34,519
Speaker 1: got to do a better job at managing him because

2029
01:48:34,560 --> 01:48:37,840
Speaker 1: he's had a great workload for the first three games.

2030
01:48:38,400 --> 01:48:40,840
Speaker 1: And again with the offensive line issues, it's not that

2031
01:48:41,000 --> 01:48:44,959
Speaker 1: simple because you know, with playing with the two backups,

2032
01:48:45,280 --> 01:48:47,680
Speaker 1: you've had to find a way to adjust and to

2033
01:48:47,800 --> 01:48:50,400
Speaker 1: make do with what you can run. Wise, it hasn't

2034
01:48:50,400 --> 01:48:52,519
Speaker 1: been as easy as people thought it would be. You know,

2035
01:48:52,600 --> 01:48:55,600
Speaker 1: a lot has been made of Josh Allen's ball security.

2036
01:48:56,160 --> 01:48:58,439
Speaker 1: Two fumbles in the first game against the Jets. You know,

2037
01:48:58,520 --> 01:49:01,040
Speaker 1: the Bills still win that game. I know Derek Carr

2038
01:49:01,160 --> 01:49:03,200
Speaker 1: had trouble holding on to it last week. I believe

2039
01:49:03,280 --> 01:49:05,519
Speaker 1: one ended up being a touchdown in the end zone

2040
01:49:05,560 --> 01:49:08,639
Speaker 1: for the Patriots. What's been the talk this week about

2041
01:49:08,680 --> 01:49:12,040
Speaker 1: ball security for him out there, Well, it's been a

2042
01:49:12,080 --> 01:49:13,960
Speaker 1: big deal. I mean it's something that the Raiders played

2043
01:49:14,000 --> 01:49:17,360
Speaker 1: particularly close attention to in the off season and wanted

2044
01:49:17,360 --> 01:49:19,320
Speaker 1: to make, you know, take care of this year. And

2045
01:49:19,439 --> 01:49:22,160
Speaker 1: the thing is is that traditionally, you know, Josh Jacobs

2046
01:49:22,200 --> 01:49:24,000
Speaker 1: had one fumble last year, all of last year in

2047
01:49:24,080 --> 01:49:26,679
Speaker 1: his games, loving games played, so he's not one who's

2048
01:49:26,680 --> 01:49:28,479
Speaker 1: puts the ball on the ground. The same thing to

2049
01:49:28,560 --> 01:49:30,400
Speaker 1: be said about Derek Carr. The one, you know, the

2050
01:49:30,439 --> 01:49:33,000
Speaker 1: two turnovers that he had. One was knocked out of

2051
01:49:33,040 --> 01:49:35,000
Speaker 1: his hand by winni bitch where the offensive tackle got

2052
01:49:35,000 --> 01:49:38,479
Speaker 1: beat around the horn and then the defensive end came

2053
01:49:38,520 --> 01:49:41,360
Speaker 1: across Derek's throwing arm knocked the ball out. That was

2054
01:49:41,400 --> 01:49:43,640
Speaker 1: one turnover. The second one when he was back in

2055
01:49:43,720 --> 01:49:45,400
Speaker 1: the end zone, he knew it was going to get sacked.

2056
01:49:45,640 --> 01:49:47,400
Speaker 1: He was actually just trying to push the ball out

2057
01:49:47,920 --> 01:49:49,640
Speaker 1: to the out of the end zone to not get

2058
01:49:49,680 --> 01:49:51,800
Speaker 1: to take a stafety and not give the ball up,

2059
01:49:51,840 --> 01:49:54,879
Speaker 1: but it eventually fell down. So these types of turnovers

2060
01:49:54,960 --> 01:49:57,519
Speaker 1: not typical of what the Raiders are used to. More importantly,

2061
01:49:57,800 --> 01:49:59,320
Speaker 1: the thing is that when you're playing a good team

2062
01:49:59,360 --> 01:50:01,719
Speaker 1: such as the build you have to limit the amount

2063
01:50:01,720 --> 01:50:04,280
Speaker 1: of mistakes. And everyone knows that. And you talk about

2064
01:50:04,320 --> 01:50:07,479
Speaker 1: this murderous row a schedule that they have in the

2065
01:50:07,560 --> 01:50:09,680
Speaker 1: first month after the Builds, they have to take on

2066
01:50:09,800 --> 01:50:11,760
Speaker 1: Kansas City. It's not going to get easier, so they

2067
01:50:11,800 --> 01:50:13,840
Speaker 1: don't have to find a way to play better football. Now,

2068
01:50:14,720 --> 01:50:16,760
Speaker 1: what had surprised you about this Raiders team in the

2069
01:50:16,800 --> 01:50:21,479
Speaker 1: twenty twenty season. Number of injuries, number of injuries in

2070
01:50:21,520 --> 01:50:24,680
Speaker 1: the miscuse. I think the biggest one that surprises me

2071
01:50:24,840 --> 01:50:26,960
Speaker 1: is Trent Brown, because I really don't know the world

2072
01:50:27,000 --> 01:50:29,320
Speaker 1: starting right tackle. I really don't know the extent of

2073
01:50:29,360 --> 01:50:32,040
Speaker 1: his injury. Now, his MRI turned out negative, so it

2074
01:50:32,080 --> 01:50:34,760
Speaker 1: doesn't mean shows any tears. But yet he's only played

2075
01:50:34,800 --> 01:50:38,360
Speaker 1: three plays, and from what I gathered, the Raiders did

2076
01:50:38,439 --> 01:50:42,120
Speaker 1: really sort of coddle him during the training camp. I

2077
01:50:42,240 --> 01:50:43,880
Speaker 1: didn't make him practice a lot, and he's still not

2078
01:50:44,040 --> 01:50:46,519
Speaker 1: in so I don't know to where he is mentally

2079
01:50:46,560 --> 01:50:49,280
Speaker 1: and physically. But I do know this that when he's

2080
01:50:49,280 --> 01:50:50,960
Speaker 1: in the game, the Raiders are a better team. And

2081
01:50:51,000 --> 01:50:53,479
Speaker 1: if the Raiders have aspirations that wanted to the playoffs

2082
01:50:53,800 --> 01:50:55,880
Speaker 1: and maybe doing something in the playoffs, they need to

2083
01:50:55,960 --> 01:50:58,560
Speaker 1: have him on the football field. They'll get Richie incognito

2084
01:50:58,960 --> 01:51:00,960
Speaker 1: after a couple of weeks. The three week I are

2085
01:51:01,880 --> 01:51:03,840
Speaker 1: but you know, they they've got to get him back

2086
01:51:03,880 --> 01:51:06,640
Speaker 1: as soon as possible. Trader Brown's not on IR as

2087
01:51:06,680 --> 01:51:10,639
Speaker 1: of right now, and they're playing with two backups, and yeah,

2088
01:51:10,800 --> 01:51:13,720
Speaker 1: last week, the backups got exposed. The longer this goes on,

2089
01:51:14,120 --> 01:51:16,919
Speaker 1: the backups will be exposed more. That's why they're backups.

2090
01:51:17,200 --> 01:51:19,080
Speaker 1: They're not supposed to be out there starting the time.

2091
01:51:19,160 --> 01:51:22,000
Speaker 1: So as far as what surprised me this season is

2092
01:51:22,040 --> 01:51:23,519
Speaker 1: it's got to be the length and the extent of

2093
01:51:23,600 --> 01:51:26,720
Speaker 1: the injuries. And then just with respect to the old

2094
01:51:26,760 --> 01:51:29,160
Speaker 1: line and its size, I mean, that's kind of what

2095
01:51:29,320 --> 01:51:31,360
Speaker 1: grabs you when you look across that front. I mean,

2096
01:51:31,920 --> 01:51:33,599
Speaker 1: with the starters in there, it's one of the biggest

2097
01:51:33,640 --> 01:51:37,519
Speaker 1: offensive lines in football, and seeing the way the Rams

2098
01:51:37,680 --> 01:51:39,960
Speaker 1: ran on the Bills last week, I know it's a

2099
01:51:40,040 --> 01:51:42,840
Speaker 1: concern on the parts of Bills fans that knowing how

2100
01:51:42,920 --> 01:51:45,080
Speaker 1: often they turned to Josh Jacobs. I know you mentioned

2101
01:51:45,120 --> 01:51:47,680
Speaker 1: he's a little dinged, but they're they're worried that that

2102
01:51:47,840 --> 01:51:49,160
Speaker 1: line is going to be able to win at the

2103
01:51:49,200 --> 01:51:52,400
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage just by virtue of their size. How

2104
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Speaker 1: much have they maybe last week, not notwithstanding how much

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Speaker 1: has that line been able to really move people off

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Speaker 1: the line on a consistent basis. Well, the first two games,

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Speaker 1: the Raiders controlled the time of possession as well as

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Speaker 1: they were run dominant, and they're able to win the

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Speaker 1: games and win both games. So that's sort of an

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Speaker 1: insight into the formula which they took John Gridden and

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Speaker 1: played for him. Loved to run the ball in a

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Speaker 1: running game as a quarterback's best friends, so they wanted

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Speaker 1: to try to make it as easy as Derek Carr

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Speaker 1: as possible. The run is going to eventually set up

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Speaker 1: the pass. I saw them do some decent things in

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Speaker 1: New England, but when the score got indicative that you

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Speaker 1: have to pass more and became felt more in's in

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Speaker 1: New England's hands, and that's what they struggled with. What

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Speaker 1: do you think going forward with the injuries, if they

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Speaker 1: can get guys back, if if Richie Incognito comes back,

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01:52:39,920 --> 01:52:42,400
Speaker 1: if Trent Brown comes back on the field, can this

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Speaker 1: offensive line become more of what they thought it was

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Speaker 1: going to be? Absolutely? Absolutely, I think so. Because the

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Speaker 1: thing is is that Derek last week started looking down

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01:52:51,760 --> 01:52:55,800
Speaker 1: into protection, he started noticing people coming available, and they

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01:52:55,960 --> 01:52:57,880
Speaker 1: harassed him and put them under a little bit to rest.

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Speaker 1: So the offensive line didn't play over all then play

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Speaker 1: that well, there are instances that after this sort of

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01:53:03,600 --> 01:53:06,160
Speaker 1: murderous role first five weeks, that they get to the buy.

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Speaker 1: I believe there are wins for the Raiders on the

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01:53:09,800 --> 01:53:12,599
Speaker 1: back end of the schedule, So anything is possible going

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Speaker 1: forward about their possible playoff aspirations. But right now, the

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Speaker 1: sense of urgency has got to be there because you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of people expected them to

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Speaker 1: beat the Saints. They're now two and one. It's not

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01:53:25,080 --> 01:53:29,000
Speaker 1: a dire situation. But if you drop one to the

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Speaker 1: Bills and you drop one to the Chiefs, you're two

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Speaker 1: and three and week five that's your bye week. Now

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01:53:34,000 --> 01:53:35,720
Speaker 1: there's got to be a sense of urgency because you

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01:53:35,760 --> 01:53:38,360
Speaker 1: can't afford to fall that much farther behind the NFC.

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Speaker 1: Lincoln Kennedy, we thank you for your time and your insights. Sarah,

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Speaker 1: thanks for getting us ready for this one. Hopefully there

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Speaker 1: are no hiccups here with that Raiders roster and COVID

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Speaker 1: testing and we can get to this game on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Stay safe, big man. I agree. Thanks, guys, appreciate the time.

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Speaker 1: It's Lincoln Kennedy, former three time Pro Bowl offensive tackle

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01:53:55,640 --> 01:53:58,280
Speaker 1: for the Raiders and the Falcons, joining us here as

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Speaker 1: he is the Raiders radio color analyst, and it's interesting

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Speaker 1: what he talks about with respect to that offensive line.

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01:54:05,479 --> 01:54:07,880
Speaker 1: They have been nicked up. It's compromised their effectiveness on

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01:54:07,920 --> 01:54:10,400
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball, and they are experiencing

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01:54:10,400 --> 01:54:13,200
Speaker 1: a lot of early season injuries at some key skill positions.

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Speaker 1: I mean you say, oh yeah, well, it's two rookie

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Speaker 1: wide receivers, Rugs and Edwards are starting. I mean, those

2155
01:54:19,040 --> 01:54:21,880
Speaker 1: are your two starting wide receivers and then renfrozeer slot guy,

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01:54:22,640 --> 01:54:25,240
Speaker 1: and they're probably both going to be out of the

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01:54:25,320 --> 01:54:27,679
Speaker 1: lineup this week. So who does that put on the field?

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Speaker 1: Former Bills wide receivers A Jones, And it looks like

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Speaker 1: it'll either be a combination of Nelson Agilore, and Rico Gafford.

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Speaker 1: So we'll have to see how it all plays out.

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Speaker 1: But it does not look like the twoe rookie wide

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Speaker 1: receivers that were taken in the first and fourth rounds

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Speaker 1: are going to be available for the Raiders this week.

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Speaker 1: Richie Incognito is a hard maybe to come back into

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Speaker 1: the lineup, which would be a help for them on

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Speaker 1: the offensive line certainly, But Trent Brown is a complete

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01:54:52,480 --> 01:54:55,560
Speaker 1: enigma as to when he's coming back, if he's going

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Speaker 1: to be available. So we'll have to keep our eye

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Speaker 1: on the Raiders injury report through the course of the week. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and this offensive line is physically speaking, one of the

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Speaker 1: bigger offensive line, if not the biggest offensive line the

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Speaker 1: nf I think weightwise, it's the biggest. They're heavy. But

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Speaker 1: as Lincolnkennedy said, they've got some issues up front. You

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Speaker 1: can bet that the Bills are well aware of those

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01:55:15,560 --> 01:55:17,240
Speaker 1: and they're gonna maximize what they got to do. But

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Speaker 1: let's face it, the Bills along with you, except for

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Speaker 1: perhaps h Harrison, Harrison Phillips, maybe Vernon Butler and Quinton

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Speaker 1: jeff Quinton Jefferson. You know, other than that, there's a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of beef, a whole lot, not a whole

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Speaker 1: lot of size upfront. H They're this team's built to

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Speaker 1: pursue and get penetration up the field. So I think

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Speaker 1: Harrison Phillips, Vernon Butler, and Quentin Jefferson are gonna have

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Speaker 1: their work cut out for him this week. Eight oh

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Speaker 1: three five fifty one eight eight eight five fifty two,

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Speaker 1: five fifty. To get on board with us, you can

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Speaker 1: talk Bills Raiders. You can talk about the Raiders being

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01:55:50,440 --> 01:55:53,840
Speaker 1: under investigation for some of their players running a foul

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01:55:53,840 --> 01:55:57,240
Speaker 1: of the COVID nineteen protocols, and what the NFL may

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01:55:57,560 --> 01:56:00,600
Speaker 1: or may not do leading up to Sunday's game. We're

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01:56:00,680 --> 01:56:03,720
Speaker 1: testing may or may not go with respect to that

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01:56:04,280 --> 01:56:09,080
Speaker 1: Las Vegas roster. And we're also talking about what would

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Speaker 1: on the Twitter poll, that is, in terms of what

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Speaker 1: would ease your mind the most about the Bills going forward,

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Speaker 1: So you can weigh in on that. At One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take a call here before we get to break,

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Speaker 1: and we'll go to Charlie in Buffalo. Charlie, thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining us. What do you have for us? Hey? How

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Speaker 1: are you doing today? Guys? Good listen to you. I

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Speaker 1: want to. I have a question about the horse collar.

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Speaker 1: When I looked it up on the internet, the only

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Speaker 1: thing I saw was that it was outlawed in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and three, or excuse me, two thousand and four

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Speaker 1: and two thousand and five. I never saw anything about

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Speaker 1: it being outlawed behind the line of scrimmage. What's the

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Speaker 1: call on that? Yeah, the guy, the one that I

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Speaker 1: was having a fit over on Sunday was the Aaron

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Speaker 1: Donald one. And here's the thing. If the quarterback is

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Speaker 1: in the pocket, and he is the quarterback and he's

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Speaker 1: in the pocket, that's an okay play to make. Now,

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Speaker 1: there's also still pictures that Aaron Donald when he reached

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Speaker 1: out to grab him, he grabbed it the horse collar,

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Speaker 1: and he had his face mask pin to the ground

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Speaker 1: as well. That would be illegal. But the horse collar

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Speaker 1: in and of itself was not illegal because it was

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Speaker 1: in the pocket and it was the quarterback, which seems

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Speaker 1: it seems inconsistent to me. I mean, they're claiming that

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Speaker 1: the horse collar tackle is a dangerous tackle that can

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Speaker 1: lead to injury. Why that rule doesn't apply just because

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Speaker 1: a quarterbacks in the pocket is beyond me. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a line they choose to draw because

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Speaker 1: usually when you do it out in the field, what

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Speaker 1: happens is the guy caught sticks his hand and grabs

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Speaker 1: the coll behind and then leaves his feet and swings

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Speaker 1: his body into the guy's lower into the guy being

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Speaker 1: tackled swings into his lower body, and it becomes a

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Speaker 1: knee injury or an achilles injury or an ankle injury

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Speaker 1: or something because you swing into the guy's body by

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Speaker 1: holding onto his collar. I just find that's danger. I

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Speaker 1: just find it interesting that you can't hit the quarterback

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Speaker 1: below the knees, you can't hit his head, and all

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Speaker 1: of that stuff. Horse collar is illegal everywhere else on

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Speaker 1: the field, but the quarterback can get horse collared in

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Speaker 1: the pocket. That makes zero sense to me. I get you,

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Speaker 1: and I agree with you on that. It makes zero

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01:58:16,000 --> 01:58:18,400
Speaker 1: sense to me too. But I thought he was running

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Speaker 1: when he got horse collared. Yeah, I did too, But

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Speaker 1: he wasn't. He was He was just outside shuffling. He

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Speaker 1: was outside the left hash. But he was pretty much

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Speaker 1: actually he was right about where he dropped back that

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Speaker 1: the ball was on the left hash, and he was

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Speaker 1: right almost on the left hash when Donald got him.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't find anything in on that rule it said

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Speaker 1: it was illegal. Where did the show up there was illegal? Somebody?

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you this, somebody texted me or tweeted

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Speaker 1: me the link, and I don't have it on me,

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01:58:46,760 --> 01:58:48,520
Speaker 1: but it was in the rules and it says, you know,

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Speaker 1: and it did say that exact thing unless it's the

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Speaker 1: quarterback and he's in the pocket, so they feel like

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01:58:54,440 --> 01:58:57,880
Speaker 1: the danger of the horse collar when the guy's in

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Speaker 1: the pocket, it's not. It's a lot different than it

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Speaker 1: is when they're running down the field. And because he

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01:59:03,280 --> 01:59:06,840
Speaker 1: got offensive linemen and all that stuff, so it that

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01:59:07,080 --> 01:59:09,080
Speaker 1: was a legal play except for the fact that he

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Speaker 1: got the face mask as well. Yeah, and Josh, you

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Speaker 1: a complained about that and a referee wouldn't want to

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Speaker 1: hear it. Yeah, that's because Josh. Josh thought it was

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Speaker 1: illegal too. Yeah, he thought it was a horse caller

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01:59:19,320 --> 01:59:21,800
Speaker 1: immediately motioned at his parents. He sent me by the

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Speaker 1: horse call ba blah blah blah. I'm sure he's probably,

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Speaker 1: you know, gotten informed, just like I did. I thought

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Speaker 1: it was illegal. I didn't realize that you could do

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Speaker 1: it inside the pocket. I'd never heard that, just like you, Charlie,

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Speaker 1: so so hopefully we peas in a pot at that.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully we cleared that up for you. Not that anybody

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01:59:35,800 --> 01:59:37,960
Speaker 1: feels any better about it, but thanks for the call, Charlie.

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Speaker 1: We are on the break, so we will do that

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Speaker 1: now and step aside. But when we return, we'll take

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Speaker 1: a look at the tweet sheet to see what you

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Speaker 1: think would ease your mind the most about the Bills

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01:59:48,480 --> 01:59:51,200
Speaker 1: going forward. Is it a breakout performance in the run game,

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Speaker 1: defensive dominance or offensive production to start the second half,

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01:59:55,200 --> 01:59:56,800
Speaker 1: or maybe it's something else. Let us know what one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live as we hit the tweet sheet next here

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Speaker 1: on Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health, this is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. It's that time in the show where

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Speaker 1: we go to the tweet sheet to see what would

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Speaker 1: easier mind the most about the Bills going forward. Is

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Speaker 1: it a breakout performance by the run game, some defensive dominance.

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02:00:26,240 --> 02:00:28,920
Speaker 1: Maybe it's coming out in the second half and lighting

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02:00:29,000 --> 02:00:31,680
Speaker 1: it up in the third quarter, something that's been a

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Speaker 1: little troublesome for the Bills, even for that offense that

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02:00:34,200 --> 02:00:36,360
Speaker 1: has been so high flying here in the early stages

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Speaker 1: of the season. So we go to the tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment

2285
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Speaker 1: moving company of the Buffalo Bills, and from Rick, he says,

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Speaker 1: I think the defense and running games will come around.

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02:00:48,000 --> 02:00:50,920
Speaker 1: In my opinion, the team needs to stay healthy. Yes,

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02:00:51,200 --> 02:00:53,720
Speaker 1: they've had some injured players, but so far they've avoided

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Speaker 1: the all time dreaded out for the season type injury.

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Speaker 1: So he's going other, yeah, so and I get that too,

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02:01:01,680 --> 02:01:04,120
Speaker 1: and he's yeah, there's just we can have a lot

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Speaker 1: of faith in this defense. They've been pretty they haven't

2293
02:01:07,520 --> 02:01:09,880
Speaker 1: gone completely away. And I and I think, as we've

2294
02:01:09,960 --> 02:01:11,720
Speaker 1: talked about yesterday and the day before, I think this

2295
02:01:11,960 --> 02:01:13,520
Speaker 1: defense is a little bit of a work in progress.

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Speaker 1: They've got a lot of new faces, a lot of

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Speaker 1: new changes going on up up front. And they faced

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Speaker 1: a Ram's offense this last week that wass as good

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Speaker 1: as Anny, so you would expect them to uh to

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Speaker 1: do that, And they shut them out in the first

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Speaker 1: two and a half quarters, so, or almost shut them out.

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Speaker 1: So they're not you know, they're not off the map

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Speaker 1: as far as the defense goes one way or the other.

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Speaker 1: But you know, you'd like to see him be more

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Speaker 1: consistent probably and I think that I think it's a

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Speaker 1: it's an okay, take ye, but uh and the run game. Listen,

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Speaker 1: they're hanging thirty points up. They're they're running. I saw

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Speaker 1: statistic today and it was that the Buffalo Bills have

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Speaker 1: done ten personal, which has gone one running back and

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Speaker 1: four wide receiver. They've done it fifty times this season

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Speaker 1: in three games. The entire rest of the National Football

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Speaker 1: League has done at ninety two times. So the Bills

2313
02:02:05,360 --> 02:02:08,240
Speaker 1: are way out in front running four wide receivers. And

2314
02:02:08,320 --> 02:02:10,640
Speaker 1: it goes a little deeper than that, Steve, because I

2315
02:02:10,800 --> 02:02:13,800
Speaker 1: do chart the plays and I get the percentages. Eleven

2316
02:02:14,160 --> 02:02:17,240
Speaker 1: personnel is still their most popular formation, as it was

2317
02:02:17,360 --> 02:02:19,400
Speaker 1: last year. Last year they ran at seventy percent of

2318
02:02:19,400 --> 02:02:21,840
Speaker 1: their offensive plays. This year, it's right around that number.

2319
02:02:21,880 --> 02:02:24,880
Speaker 1: It's sixty eight point two percent of their plays through

2320
02:02:24,920 --> 02:02:29,000
Speaker 1: the first three games run in eleven personnel, twenty four

2321
02:02:29,120 --> 02:02:34,560
Speaker 1: percent running ten personnel. So combined, over ninety two percent

2322
02:02:34,720 --> 02:02:38,520
Speaker 1: of their plays have been running either eleven or ten personnel.

2323
02:02:39,360 --> 02:02:42,680
Speaker 1: That's why all six receivers are up on every single

2324
02:02:42,760 --> 02:02:44,680
Speaker 1: game day thus far, and that's why I think their

2325
02:02:44,760 --> 02:02:46,520
Speaker 1: running game has not been what you'd think it would

2326
02:02:46,520 --> 02:02:48,760
Speaker 1: be it's hard to run out of that. Yeah, they

2327
02:02:48,840 --> 02:02:50,760
Speaker 1: are trying to block down field. I have seen some

2328
02:02:50,880 --> 02:02:53,800
Speaker 1: screens where I see receivers work in a block better downfield.

2329
02:02:54,000 --> 02:02:56,320
Speaker 1: When Andre Roberts comes on the field, he might be

2330
02:02:56,400 --> 02:02:58,880
Speaker 1: their best blocking wide receiver and that might be why

2331
02:02:58,960 --> 02:03:02,480
Speaker 1: he's getting some playing time out there. But yeah, it's

2332
02:03:03,480 --> 02:03:05,240
Speaker 1: it's going to be interesting to see where it goes

2333
02:03:05,320 --> 02:03:07,680
Speaker 1: going forward. But I don't think we have any reason

2334
02:03:07,760 --> 02:03:09,680
Speaker 1: to believe that this is not going to be a

2335
02:03:09,760 --> 02:03:12,680
Speaker 1: team that curtails what they've been doing. I think they're

2336
02:03:12,680 --> 02:03:15,320
Speaker 1: gonna have six receivers up every single week, and I

2337
02:03:15,400 --> 02:03:17,240
Speaker 1: think it's going to be eleven and ten Perconnel, and

2338
02:03:17,360 --> 02:03:18,960
Speaker 1: let's go get them and chuck the ball all over

2339
02:03:19,040 --> 02:03:21,960
Speaker 1: the yard, which is certainly entertaining football for Bills fans

2340
02:03:21,960 --> 02:03:24,360
Speaker 1: at the very least from Kevin on the tweet sheet.

2341
02:03:24,760 --> 02:03:27,680
Speaker 1: Defense needs to come back. It's a lot easier on

2342
02:03:27,760 --> 02:03:30,160
Speaker 1: the offense when they don't have to chase the score,

2343
02:03:30,680 --> 02:03:32,200
Speaker 1: and they had to chase the score in the fourth

2344
02:03:32,280 --> 02:03:35,040
Speaker 1: quarter each of the last two weeks. And Steve, I

2345
02:03:35,120 --> 02:03:36,840
Speaker 1: know you and I have had this discussion off air

2346
02:03:37,560 --> 02:03:41,960
Speaker 1: as exciting and prolific as this offense has been you're

2347
02:03:42,000 --> 02:03:45,280
Speaker 1: playing with fire there because you can't expect to come

2348
02:03:45,360 --> 02:03:47,320
Speaker 1: back and win every single week. The league's too good

2349
02:03:47,360 --> 02:03:50,320
Speaker 1: for that. And I'm surprised too. Not surprised, I say,

2350
02:03:50,400 --> 02:03:52,320
Speaker 1: but listen, they did it against the Dolphins, they did

2351
02:03:52,320 --> 02:03:58,640
Speaker 1: it against the Rams. Yeah, that's all great, and the

2352
02:03:58,960 --> 02:04:00,840
Speaker 1: best part about it. You don't want them to get

2353
02:04:00,880 --> 02:04:02,960
Speaker 1: in that position, no question about it. The Bills defense

2354
02:04:03,200 --> 02:04:05,240
Speaker 1: a couple more stops, and of course the Bills didn't

2355
02:04:05,280 --> 02:04:09,040
Speaker 1: help themselves either offensively. They turned it over twice, so

2356
02:04:09,720 --> 02:04:14,680
Speaker 1: you know, that's their own fault. So whether it was

2357
02:04:14,680 --> 02:04:17,280
Speaker 1: an interception or not, the fumble was real, uh and

2358
02:04:17,560 --> 02:04:21,040
Speaker 1: the interception counted. So both those turnovers didn't do anything

2359
02:04:21,080 --> 02:04:22,640
Speaker 1: to help the defense, and you can't. You're not going

2360
02:04:22,680 --> 02:04:24,480
Speaker 1: to blame the defense so much for the field position

2361
02:04:24,560 --> 02:04:28,320
Speaker 1: anyway that they gave up in those in those situations.

2362
02:04:28,840 --> 02:04:31,040
Speaker 1: But the simple fact the matter is this, the Bills

2363
02:04:31,080 --> 02:04:34,040
Speaker 1: haven't played their best offense yet. In my opinion, they

2364
02:04:34,120 --> 02:04:36,280
Speaker 1: still have left points on the board and all of

2365
02:04:36,320 --> 02:04:39,000
Speaker 1: these games, so I still think there's no question. I

2366
02:04:39,120 --> 02:04:41,280
Speaker 1: think they still got gas in the tank and they

2367
02:04:41,360 --> 02:04:45,360
Speaker 1: still got another gear they can go to but let's

2368
02:04:45,360 --> 02:04:48,960
Speaker 1: play a little complimentary football. You know that's always talk about,

2369
02:04:49,040 --> 02:04:51,520
Speaker 1: and I think that's I think the defense expects that

2370
02:04:51,640 --> 02:04:54,680
Speaker 1: of themselves. The offense. They'll play whatever game you want

2371
02:04:54,720 --> 02:04:56,440
Speaker 1: them to play. They're not going to complain or anything.

2372
02:04:56,480 --> 02:04:58,040
Speaker 1: They'd love being on the field and they love making

2373
02:04:58,120 --> 02:05:01,040
Speaker 1: hay and scorn points. If you want to look like

2374
02:05:01,120 --> 02:05:04,280
Speaker 1: a solid, complete football team, yeah you want to. You

2375
02:05:04,360 --> 02:05:06,520
Speaker 1: want to your defense to do his job and hold

2376
02:05:06,560 --> 02:05:09,520
Speaker 1: teams under their season average points allowed. From Daniel on

2377
02:05:09,600 --> 02:05:12,640
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet, I chose other. With a breakout in

2378
02:05:12,680 --> 02:05:14,960
Speaker 1: the Titans camp and the news of the Raiders players

2379
02:05:14,960 --> 02:05:18,040
Speaker 1: attending an indoor galla without masks, what would put my

2380
02:05:18,160 --> 02:05:21,440
Speaker 1: mind at ease is zero positive tests all through next week.

2381
02:05:22,320 --> 02:05:26,240
Speaker 1: It's a silbering tweet there. But he's Daniel is dead

2382
02:05:26,280 --> 02:05:28,840
Speaker 1: on the money, Daniel, How dare you set our priorities

2383
02:05:28,880 --> 02:05:31,280
Speaker 1: like that with good reasons? I have no problem with

2384
02:05:31,400 --> 02:05:35,000
Speaker 1: a good reason mine of thinking he's bang on as

2385
02:05:35,360 --> 02:05:37,600
Speaker 1: I'm concerned that today that's that fits right in with

2386
02:05:37,680 --> 02:05:39,480
Speaker 1: today's show as well. You're right, I mean, we just

2387
02:05:39,680 --> 02:05:41,160
Speaker 1: just get them on the field. Just get this team

2388
02:05:41,200 --> 02:05:43,400
Speaker 1: on the field. For me, just get these guys on

2389
02:05:43,480 --> 02:05:45,240
Speaker 1: the field. I want our team to play and I'll

2390
02:05:45,280 --> 02:05:48,600
Speaker 1: take quarantine fourteen or fifteen of their guys. I'll take

2391
02:05:48,640 --> 02:05:51,720
Speaker 1: my chances against whatever team's on the schedule, whether they're

2392
02:05:51,760 --> 02:05:56,160
Speaker 1: healthy or hurt or whatever, because I like the Raiders

2393
02:05:56,240 --> 02:05:57,920
Speaker 1: have made their bed force him to lie in it

2394
02:05:58,800 --> 02:06:02,800
Speaker 1: from and who are you on the tweet sheet? That's

2395
02:06:02,840 --> 02:06:05,640
Speaker 1: an interesting title. If the defense had played to the

2396
02:06:05,760 --> 02:06:08,760
Speaker 1: level of play they maintain last year, our games would

2397
02:06:08,760 --> 02:06:11,320
Speaker 1: have likely been blowouts. So I'd like to see four

2398
02:06:11,400 --> 02:06:14,720
Speaker 1: quarters of solid defense. It should be noted defensive struggles

2399
02:06:14,760 --> 02:06:17,560
Speaker 1: have been league wide this year. When diagnosing the issues

2400
02:06:17,560 --> 02:06:20,800
Speaker 1: they're facing. It brings up a good point because right now,

2401
02:06:22,360 --> 02:06:26,200
Speaker 1: through three weeks, the league has scored more offensive touchdowns

2402
02:06:26,320 --> 02:06:28,720
Speaker 1: than ever before through the first three weeks of a season.

2403
02:06:29,600 --> 02:06:33,320
Speaker 1: And I believe points are at an all time high

2404
02:06:33,320 --> 02:06:35,880
Speaker 1: as well, which would make one sense. It's fifty one

2405
02:06:37,120 --> 02:06:39,680
Speaker 1: points a game fifty one points something points a game

2406
02:06:39,760 --> 02:06:43,560
Speaker 1: by both teams combined, so it's the highest total points

2407
02:06:44,280 --> 02:06:48,680
Speaker 1: per game through three weeks ever. And I have you

2408
02:06:48,880 --> 02:06:50,480
Speaker 1: can you put your finger on what you think it is.

2409
02:06:50,560 --> 02:06:53,600
Speaker 1: I just think the level of quarter I put my

2410
02:06:53,680 --> 02:06:56,280
Speaker 1: tinfoil hat On for well, I think the level of

2411
02:06:56,360 --> 02:07:00,360
Speaker 1: quarterback play is at an all time high. Peter in

2412
02:07:00,560 --> 02:07:05,400
Speaker 1: his Football Morning in America column cited this on Monday. Like,

2413
02:07:05,720 --> 02:07:08,800
Speaker 1: I think it was eight years ago there were three

2414
02:07:08,880 --> 02:07:12,160
Speaker 1: quarterbacks or four quarterbacks with a passer rating over one hundred.

2415
02:07:13,160 --> 02:07:17,000
Speaker 1: Now there's like fifteen, you know, like half the league's

2416
02:07:17,080 --> 02:07:20,520
Speaker 1: quarterbacks have a passer rating over one hundred. I think

2417
02:07:21,320 --> 02:07:26,280
Speaker 1: if you look around, you'll see I think they're not

2418
02:07:26,440 --> 02:07:30,720
Speaker 1: calling holding penalties on offensive linemen. The officiating is different, definitely,

2419
02:07:30,920 --> 02:07:35,680
Speaker 1: And yeah, but I think it's whatever you call it.

2420
02:07:36,880 --> 02:07:39,760
Speaker 1: I think it's been consistent all over the league. Well,

2421
02:07:39,800 --> 02:07:42,000
Speaker 1: what you're saying with the lack of holding penalties, that

2422
02:07:42,160 --> 02:07:44,800
Speaker 1: would stand to reason or be a reason as to

2423
02:07:44,880 --> 02:07:47,000
Speaker 1: why the quarterback play is better. The more time to

2424
02:07:47,120 --> 02:07:51,160
Speaker 1: throw clean pockets, they can be more efficient. And we've

2425
02:07:51,240 --> 02:07:55,840
Speaker 1: seen that. Josh Allen one of the bigger beneficiaries. I mean,

2426
02:07:55,880 --> 02:07:58,840
Speaker 1: his completion percentage is up twelve percent from where it

2427
02:07:58,920 --> 02:08:01,080
Speaker 1: was last year. And we just talked Brian Billick last hour.

2428
02:08:01,200 --> 02:08:05,320
Speaker 1: He said that is completely unprecedented, has never happened in

2429
02:08:05,400 --> 02:08:07,680
Speaker 1: the league. Capital to see a jump like that ever,

2430
02:08:08,240 --> 02:08:12,480
Speaker 1: unprecedented and Believe me, all of us here in Western

2431
02:08:12,520 --> 02:08:15,840
Speaker 1: New York are over the moon that it's happening, but unprecedented.

2432
02:08:15,880 --> 02:08:20,640
Speaker 1: It is rare, unprecedented, but not unexpected that he made

2433
02:08:20,720 --> 02:08:22,920
Speaker 1: some improvement. I think we thought he'd be better. Did

2434
02:08:22,960 --> 02:08:25,240
Speaker 1: you expect him to be this much better? I don't,

2435
02:08:25,640 --> 02:08:27,840
Speaker 1: but I'm not and I'm willing to say, yeah, it's

2436
02:08:27,920 --> 02:08:35,440
Speaker 1: it's league wide, but Josh is not just hanging in

2437
02:08:35,520 --> 02:08:37,200
Speaker 1: there with the rest of the quarterbacks in the league.

2438
02:08:37,360 --> 02:08:40,040
Speaker 1: He's at the top. He's at the top. He's leading

2439
02:08:40,080 --> 02:08:42,240
Speaker 1: the AFC and passes. It's not like they just made

2440
02:08:42,320 --> 02:08:44,440
Speaker 1: him move up from the bottom into the middle of

2441
02:08:44,480 --> 02:08:46,640
Speaker 1: the path. And I don't want to dismiss the hard

2442
02:08:46,680 --> 02:08:48,640
Speaker 1: work that he's put in either. I mean, this is

2443
02:08:48,680 --> 02:08:51,760
Speaker 1: a self motivating he's better. He's dedicated to his craft

2444
02:08:51,880 --> 02:08:55,400
Speaker 1: and wants to be great, and so he gets some

2445
02:08:55,520 --> 02:08:58,480
Speaker 1: of the credit too, along with Brian Dabele, who has

2446
02:08:58,560 --> 02:09:01,080
Speaker 1: crafted this scheme around him his skills and what he

2447
02:09:01,240 --> 02:09:04,280
Speaker 1: does best, and to Brandon Bean who has put an

2448
02:09:04,400 --> 02:09:07,240
Speaker 1: enormous amount of talent around him in two short off seasons,

2449
02:09:07,760 --> 02:09:10,520
Speaker 1: and they're playing well. There's no two ways about it.

2450
02:09:10,600 --> 02:09:13,760
Speaker 1: The offensive line has come together. They've shuffled them around

2451
02:09:16,000 --> 02:09:19,200
Speaker 1: well every game. They're still trying to find their the

2452
02:09:19,320 --> 02:09:22,760
Speaker 1: right They're still experimenting. This team isn't who it's going

2453
02:09:22,800 --> 02:09:24,800
Speaker 1: to be in a month, let alone who it was

2454
02:09:25,520 --> 02:09:27,160
Speaker 1: what it's going to be maybe in two weeks, so

2455
02:09:27,400 --> 02:09:29,320
Speaker 1: a line might be different this week. That's right. So

2456
02:09:29,880 --> 02:09:33,880
Speaker 1: it's they're doing a fantastic I can't tell you how

2457
02:09:34,240 --> 02:09:37,640
Speaker 1: what I think how good a job Sean McDermot and

2458
02:09:37,680 --> 02:09:40,840
Speaker 1: this coaching staff are doing finding out who they are

2459
02:09:40,920 --> 02:09:44,200
Speaker 1: and what they've got while they're winning games. That's really

2460
02:09:44,680 --> 02:09:47,240
Speaker 1: difficult to do, and I think they're doing a great

2461
02:09:47,320 --> 02:09:49,320
Speaker 1: job of it. I don't think they're finished by any

2462
02:09:49,360 --> 02:09:52,320
Speaker 1: stretch of the imagination. This is a team that's talented enough,

2463
02:09:52,360 --> 02:09:54,520
Speaker 1: thanks to Brandon Bean in the in the personnel department,

2464
02:09:54,680 --> 02:09:57,960
Speaker 1: to win when they're not playing their best. So they're

2465
02:09:58,040 --> 02:09:59,880
Speaker 1: they're all clicking and they're all moving down this track

2466
02:10:00,160 --> 02:10:02,480
Speaker 1: really well right now. And you know, the thing that

2467
02:10:02,520 --> 02:10:05,240
Speaker 1: we've been talking about today is that something that's completely

2468
02:10:05,280 --> 02:10:08,480
Speaker 1: out of the control their control may derail their season

2469
02:10:08,600 --> 02:10:13,480
Speaker 1: because of covid um. Their next opponent is out, you know,

2470
02:10:13,680 --> 02:10:18,960
Speaker 1: rolling in the mud basically, and then coming, you know,

2471
02:10:19,080 --> 02:10:22,240
Speaker 1: coming in and expecting nobody else to get dirty when

2472
02:10:22,240 --> 02:10:25,160
Speaker 1: they line up. So we'll see. That's That's the one

2473
02:10:25,200 --> 02:10:27,880
Speaker 1: thing that that kind of stuck with our show today, Brownie,

2474
02:10:27,960 --> 02:10:30,360
Speaker 1: is that you do all this, you get this team

2475
02:10:30,440 --> 02:10:35,960
Speaker 1: together this season, somebody else is gonna screw it. Bill's

2476
02:10:36,000 --> 02:10:38,120
Speaker 1: Mafia can't even be in the stadium to watch it. Yeah,

2477
02:10:38,120 --> 02:10:42,880
Speaker 1: that's bad, Number one. B. Now, we got a little

2478
02:10:42,920 --> 02:10:46,720
Speaker 1: depend on the Raiders. Yeah, and the and the Titans

2479
02:10:46,800 --> 02:10:49,320
Speaker 1: and that and all these other teams to like not

2480
02:10:49,520 --> 02:10:52,240
Speaker 1: get us sick. And favorite part of the show today,

2481
02:10:53,680 --> 02:10:57,640
Speaker 1: are we surprised? It's the Raiders. It was awesome. That's awesome.

2482
02:10:57,680 --> 02:10:59,520
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, all right, we gotta take a break, but

2483
02:10:59,560 --> 02:11:02,080
Speaker 1: when we come back, it'll be time for what have

2484
02:11:02,200 --> 02:11:04,960
Speaker 1: we learned? On today's program, And believe me, there's been

2485
02:11:04,960 --> 02:11:07,000
Speaker 1: a lot of lessons in light of what the Raiders

2486
02:11:07,080 --> 02:11:10,280
Speaker 1: did off the field on Monday Night. That's coming up

2487
02:11:10,320 --> 02:11:12,640
Speaker 1: next here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health,

2488
02:11:12,720 --> 02:11:29,520
Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bills Radio time for what have we Learned?

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02:11:29,600 --> 02:11:32,480
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2490
02:11:32,560 --> 02:11:35,880
Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills and I guess the biggest

2491
02:11:35,920 --> 02:11:38,800
Speaker 1: thing we learned today, Steve is the league is going

2492
02:11:38,880 --> 02:11:41,640
Speaker 1: to have to take some kind of action. The amazing

2493
02:11:41,800 --> 02:11:46,120
Speaker 1: thing is the national reporters are glued to the Titan

2494
02:11:46,200 --> 02:11:51,200
Speaker 1: Steelers situation. All it's gonna take is one positive test

2495
02:11:51,680 --> 02:11:54,400
Speaker 1: with the Las Vegas Raiders and this thing's gonna go

2496
02:11:54,920 --> 02:11:56,880
Speaker 1: zoop right over to the other side of the country,

2497
02:11:57,240 --> 02:12:01,200
Speaker 1: and that is going to grip the national reports for

2498
02:12:01,280 --> 02:12:03,880
Speaker 1: the next couple of days. I hope they dodge a

2499
02:12:03,960 --> 02:12:08,280
Speaker 1: bullet and they just went on dumb luck. Yeah, but

2500
02:12:08,680 --> 02:12:10,760
Speaker 1: I don't this is I don't know if the odds

2501
02:12:10,800 --> 02:12:13,400
Speaker 1: are in their favor with that one. This incident that

2502
02:12:13,480 --> 02:12:18,680
Speaker 1: happened in Vegas will probably balloon in importance and attention

2503
02:12:19,160 --> 02:12:21,720
Speaker 1: if they do start to get positive tests, because it's

2504
02:12:21,800 --> 02:12:27,640
Speaker 1: absolutely why the protocols are in place. They flagrantly violated it,

2505
02:12:28,200 --> 02:12:30,760
Speaker 1: and if it comes back to buy them the way

2506
02:12:30,800 --> 02:12:32,960
Speaker 1: we've seen it do. Like you said, the basketball the

2507
02:12:33,000 --> 02:12:36,520
Speaker 1: first NBA player that got it was like like pooh

2508
02:12:36,520 --> 02:12:38,800
Speaker 1: pooh and the whole thing and he gets it. So

2509
02:12:38,960 --> 02:12:42,320
Speaker 1: if that kind of thing happens to these guys in Vegas,

2510
02:12:42,360 --> 02:12:45,520
Speaker 1: which gosh, you know, I I hope it doesn't. This thing,

2511
02:12:45,720 --> 02:12:50,480
Speaker 1: this incident here will balloon into something way bigger than

2512
02:12:50,560 --> 02:12:56,320
Speaker 1: the Titans Vikings thing. Yes, because it will transcend foot

2513
02:12:56,440 --> 02:12:58,800
Speaker 1: Some of the video that our MSG viewers are watching

2514
02:12:59,160 --> 02:13:03,520
Speaker 1: is troubling. I mean, it's not just guys not wearing masks.

2515
02:13:03,600 --> 02:13:07,320
Speaker 1: It's gathering all together on stage with people that are

2516
02:13:07,360 --> 02:13:10,720
Speaker 1: playing music and am seeing the event. And then later

2517
02:13:11,000 --> 02:13:15,800
Speaker 1: they're handshaking, doing handshakes with people. Handshake Steve, Like, I

2518
02:13:15,920 --> 02:13:20,960
Speaker 1: haven't shaken anyone's hand. I can't remember the last time

2519
02:13:21,000 --> 02:13:24,480
Speaker 1: I shook somebody's hand. Just haven't done it. Elbow bumping,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not even fist bumping people. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: it's stunning to me. Stunning. Yeah. And this is a

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Speaker 1: thing too. If if there are no ramifications of this,

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Speaker 1: if nobody tests positive, if nobody gets punished for then

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Speaker 1: you can't be running around you you know, it fuels

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Speaker 1: the you know, the other side of this, that where

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Speaker 1: you know people you know, open things up, let's do it.

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Speaker 1: It's like this, it's gonna expand way outside of football.

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Speaker 1: I think it has the potential to do that. I

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Speaker 1: just want to know how it's gonna affect this Sunday's game.

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Speaker 1: We'll see how there are developments on this tomorrow. Join

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Speaker 1: us then at noon on one Bill's Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio m