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Speaker 1: of the twenty second one that's going to be settled.

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Speaker 1: Can hold him at you know, at ransom for as

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Speaker 1: long as that person wants to. They can say I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to settle until you're or you know, just

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Speaker 1: extort the rest of the extension. So they it needs

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Speaker 1: to be. It'll probably be a set length of time,

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Speaker 1: but who knows what it's going to be. And I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I couldn't tell you what the CBA says,

435
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Speaker 1: but I've heard is it going to be at least

436
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Speaker 1: six games? Well? In twenty twenty, the league updated the

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Speaker 1: process for imposing discipline under the Personal Conduct Policy, so

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Speaker 1: they agreed to make changes in the disciplinary in the

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Speaker 1: handing down of discipline, so they finalized it in March

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty. It involves a disciplinary officer who makes

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Speaker 1: a threshold decision as to whether a player will be

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Speaker 1: suspended and for how long he's jointly hired by the

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Speaker 1: league and the players Association. So the process starts. The

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Speaker 1: league notifies the player, we've got a potential violation. You

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Speaker 1: may face discipline, and then they recommend or request a

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Speaker 1: specific length of time for a suspension that's presumably based

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Speaker 1: on the interviews they're conducting now with Watson. But the

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Speaker 1: most important thing is it is not required to finish

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Speaker 1: with a full blown evidentiary hearing. So it's almost as

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Speaker 1: if they don't need to let it play out in

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Speaker 1: the courts if they decide they don't want to. No,

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Speaker 1: they don't have They can't do anything. The league, the

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Speaker 1: NFL can do whatever he wants whenever it wants in

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Speaker 1: this regard because of the conduct policy, and if the

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Speaker 1: commissioner says, listen, we're gonna get you. They could have

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Speaker 1: done it last year. They could have suspended him for

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Speaker 1: the last six games last year. Well, right, So this

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Speaker 1: is how So this is how it lays out. Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm not putting a timetable on this, but these are

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Speaker 1: the steps that have to be accomplished if in fact

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Speaker 1: they want to suspend him this season. Step one, you

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Speaker 1: have the reported meeting with the player that's happening now

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Speaker 1: Step two is the NFL proposes punishment if any Step

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Speaker 1: three that that disciplinary officer investigates, prosecutes, conducts the hearing,

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Speaker 1: issues a decision. Step four the commissioner handles the appeal,

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Speaker 1: and then the decision ultimately becomes final and it gets

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Speaker 1: locked in and imposed. That's going to take a little

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Speaker 1: bit of time, all those steps. But seeing it already,

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Speaker 1: seeing the wheels already moving right now, what are we

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Speaker 1: in mid May, June, July. I mean, I'll bet they

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Speaker 1: have an answer on this before training camp opens. Those

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Speaker 1: with the position, with the punishment being by the league

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Speaker 1: are already written. All I gotta do is put the

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Speaker 1: dates on them. You know, yeah that the meetings they're

475
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Speaker 1: having today are are absolutely uh you know, trying to

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Speaker 1: get the specifics from Deshaun Watson's camp and then making

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Speaker 1: their own judgment call about when when this is all

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Speaker 1: going to be behind him personally and professionally. The punishment.

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Speaker 1: The league doesn't, they don't care. Nobody cares. Nobody cares

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Speaker 1: except for what it looks like. Um. They want they

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Speaker 1: want the suspension long enough to satisfy even the critics

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Speaker 1: of the league, But they certainly don't And you know,

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Speaker 1: and short enough so it's not to ruin a guy's

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Speaker 1: career and the rest of his and you know, and

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Speaker 1: a whole franchise's financial security in future going forward because

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Speaker 1: of the hugeness of this contract they gave him, although

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Speaker 1: the base salary, and yeah, but who cares. What if

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Speaker 1: they don't suspend him until next year, then it is expensive? Right,

489
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Speaker 1: But why did they do that? What did they know

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Speaker 1: and when did they know it? You know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: I get it, I get all that they took it.

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Speaker 1: Either they took a chance and said, listen, if they

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Speaker 1: suspend you this year, that's fine. It's only gonna be

494
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Speaker 1: cost you a couple hundred grand the league, and the

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Speaker 1: league can say, well, we're not gonna do anything until

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Speaker 1: you settle all these or if they're all until they're

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Speaker 1: all done in civil suits. And then he has to

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Speaker 1: sit there and wait, Um, it's different that it's here's

499
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Speaker 1: the and here's another problem. He's not suspended. Now, he

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Speaker 1: can play for the he can play for the Cleveland

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Speaker 1: Browns opening day this year coming Rainey camp go to

502
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Speaker 1: OTA's like nothing's going on. Then as soon as all

503
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Speaker 1: this comes out, it's like that's it. Boom, so you

504
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Speaker 1: could be in the middle of a first month of

505
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Speaker 1: the season where you're four and oh headed, You're going, whoa,

506
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Speaker 1: this is great, boom. Your quarterback is now on the bench,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back Baker Mayfield. Oh my god. Right, So you

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Speaker 1: know the Browns or the Browns are said there going okay,

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Speaker 1: what what what? What? What we're gonna you know, the

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Speaker 1: Browns is in there. What are we gonna do? What

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Speaker 1: are we gonna do? What's gonna happen here? Give us

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Speaker 1: an idea of what we can expect, and the commissioner

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Speaker 1: can go just hold on a second. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: they don't they don't know. You took the risk exactly.

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Speaker 1: You gave him two hundred and third whatever thirty million

516
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Speaker 1: guaranteed you goofs. So you know that, to me is

517
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: the biggest boondoggle by any player at any point in

518
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Speaker 1: NFL history. That guy getting that cash from that well,

519
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Speaker 1: that team. But what are they doing and now they're

520
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Speaker 1: having meetings like this, the NFL meeting with Deshaun Watson today,

521
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Speaker 1: over all of this has happened, that he's done all

522
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Speaker 1: finger quotes allegedly what a mess. They deserve what they get,

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Speaker 1: And I and and I hope it ain't good, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean good grief. I mean not just because it's

525
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 1: not the Bills, but good grief. He signed up for it,

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Speaker 1: I really did. Just every time you talk about it

527
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: or think, you just feel like you need hand sanitizer.

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Speaker 1: You know, they made a deal with the devil. Quite

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Speaker 1: they certainly, it's it seems like that. Yeah, it's just

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Speaker 1: the whole thing. It feels gross. Yeah, it feels dirty.

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Speaker 1: On a much lighter note, our Twitter poll today, Steve

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Speaker 1: deals with the Bill's schedule as we begin to dissect it.

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Speaker 1: What is your number one road trip on the Bills

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Speaker 1: schedule this season? We know a lot of you Bills

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Speaker 1: fans circle one or two big road dates that you

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Speaker 1: will embark and get out to a visiting stadium with

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Speaker 1: your fellow road trip people that will be wearing the red,

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Speaker 1: white and blue. So let us know what is your

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Speaker 1: number one road trip on the Bill schedule this season?

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Speaker 1: Fifty one eight five, fifty two, five fifty the number

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Speaker 1: to get on board. Open line for you there, or

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Speaker 1: you can hit us up on the tweet sheet at

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live. Steve and I step aside here but

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Speaker 1: back with your phone calls and your tweets. Next here

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, presented by KLATA Health, It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. All right, welcome back One Bills Live. Chris

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Speaker 1: Brown Steve tasked with you here on a Tuesday, and well,

548
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 1: it's a it's an NFL schedule that's got its share

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Speaker 1: of juicy matchups and a lot of the most difficult

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00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: games are on the road for the Bills this year.

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00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: You could make the argument, including the season kickoff game

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Speaker 1: against the Rams. Um So we're asking you today at eight,

553
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Speaker 1: what is your number one road trip on the Bill

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Speaker 1: schedule this year? What's the one you're making plans for

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Speaker 1: because it is the best of the bunch in your opinion.

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Speaker 1: You look at the games they've got on there, and

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Speaker 1: there's some there's some tough ones. There's some tough games

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00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 1: on the schedule, no question about it. But to me,

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Speaker 1: the ones that jump out, particularly of the road games.

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Speaker 1: There's nine road games, the Rams of course, Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: of course, and Cincinnati. Those are the ones that stand out.

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Speaker 1: You know, two Super Bowl teams and of course the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: who have put the Bills out of the playoffs in

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Speaker 1: the last two years. Then of course Baltimore is also

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Speaker 1: on that list with Lamar Jackson. Those teams are you know,

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Speaker 1: those are playoff caliber teams at the home teams at

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Speaker 1: the home game. There's only there's well there's two, Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: and green Bay of the home crowd of the home games.

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Speaker 1: Those are the two that stand out to me. The

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers, who are always a tough out. It'll be

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Speaker 1: interesting to see Mitch Rubisky's taking snaps for them, and

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Speaker 1: of course Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay on Sunday Night Football. That, um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's good. It's a really good schedule. And like we've

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Speaker 1: we've been talking about a ton a lot of prime

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Speaker 1: time stuff, a lot of standalone games for the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: People want to see Josh and the and these guys play,

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Speaker 1: Steph Diggs and all these guys. They want to see

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Speaker 1: him play. And it's it's gonna be a long, long year.

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Speaker 1: But man, oh man, the expectations and I'll say this season,

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Speaker 1: as a guy who played in those early ninety teams

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Speaker 1: that went to the Super Bowl, it has never been

582
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Speaker 1: expectations like this. You don't think so no oh, all right, no,

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Speaker 1: not even ninety one. They were high and people had

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Speaker 1: a lot of you know, they liked our team and

585
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Speaker 1: all that, but that that that after we'd been to

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. After we've

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Speaker 1: been to the super Bowl lost by a kick um,

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Speaker 1: that would be the only time in in team history

589
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Speaker 1: where was equal to this this year and this this

590
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Speaker 1: team has not even been there because that would have

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Speaker 1: been my guests, that is not This team hasn't even

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Speaker 1: been there yet. I know that, And I think the

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Speaker 1: expectations are identical to that year, in my opinion, and

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Speaker 1: I think they're I think we're much more aware of

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Speaker 1: it too, because of the age in which we live

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Speaker 1: in the communications and the and the outlets and the

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00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: media and the social media and the you know, the

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00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:27,839
Speaker 1: constant flow of news from the league that happens now

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Speaker 1: as opposed to what it was then, I think it's

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Speaker 1: almost identical. Let's check out the tweet sheet to see

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Speaker 1: what's on your mind. What's your number one road trip

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Speaker 1: on the Bill schedule this season? Tweet sheet is always

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems. The officials tw've

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Speaker 1: been moving company in the Buffalo Bills, and Bob says,

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Speaker 1: my number one road trip would be on Sunday, September

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Speaker 1: twenty fifth, down in Miami against the Dolphins, because they

607
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Speaker 1: have not been to Miami and it would be awesome

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Speaker 1: to go. So instead, I'm going to the Bengals game

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Speaker 1: and since any second twenty three because it's in within

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Speaker 1: driving distance of Saint Louis. Um so, Bob going with

611
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 1: convenience there in terms of where he can get with

612
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Speaker 1: his car well, and if he really wants to go close,

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Speaker 1: go to Kansas City. And here's the thing too, what's

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00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: he doing right? Uh? One problem is this in Kansas

615
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 1: City's probably been to Kansas City a bunch. Yeah, but

616
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Speaker 1: you get this, you get late in the season. And

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Speaker 1: even for this since I don't think Cincinnati's gonna get

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Speaker 1: flexed out. I don't think they're gonna lay that big

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Speaker 1: an egg this year, although I've told you a hundred

620
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Speaker 1: times Cincinnati's not going back. Did we put that on

621
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: the whiteboard? I think we should. We can't. Um. I

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00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 1: just think there's a lot of people for going on

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Speaker 1: road trips. I mean, I don't, Well, it's Miami's you know,

624
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Speaker 1: early in the season, but you go to the like

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Speaker 1: if we're going to Miami late in the season, or

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Speaker 1: even if there was a night game in Vegas late

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Speaker 1: in the season or whatever. You run the risk that

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Speaker 1: that is gonna get flexed. What are you gonna do

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Speaker 1: if that at one o'clock game in Vegas on Sunday

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00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: and say it's like January second, This is I'm hypotheticalizing this.

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00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: If that's a word January second. Instead of playing in Cincinnati,

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00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 1: we're playing in Vegas on Sunday night or Monday night football. Right,

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00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: what happens if that gets flexed? You know, you've paid

634
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 1: the you got the tickets, you got the air fare,

635
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,800
Speaker 1: you got the hotel room, and then all of a sudden,

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00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 1: it's not happen. The game's not happening. You can't like

637
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: that money on fire. That is a real danger. Now. Yeah,

638
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: its popular as the bills are. That's right. You get

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00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: flex from a one o'clock on Sunday. All of a sudden,

640
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: this one o'clock game on on Chicago Christmas Eve. What

641
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: happens if that gets flexed to that Monday night game.

642
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:48,240
Speaker 1: I don't know that Christmas week weekend games get flexed.

643
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 1: That might be the only but you get but I

644
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: know what you're saying, get The point is and the

645
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:54,800
Speaker 1: Miami game. You're gonna go to the Miami game on

646
00:37:55,800 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: December seventeenth, slash eighteenth. What happens if it's slash nineteenth,

647
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Goes to Monday night. Well,

648
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:07,280
Speaker 1: and that's the thing. Start next year, the NFL schedule

649
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:09,400
Speaker 1: is going to allow Monday night games to be flex

650
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: a total of I think four of Right. The point

651
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: is what happens if it gets flex and you're stuck

652
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: with that trip and that money just goes up in flames.

653
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 1: People can't do that. I couldn't know, right, So most

654
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: people don't have right. So that's it's a risk when

655
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: you get into that half of the season where your

656
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 1: game is there and then all of a sudden, they

657
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 1: you know, they bait and switch you. You know, the

658
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: game's not there, not that, not at the appointed time

659
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 1: of the schedule. So yeah, it's an issue. Phil on

660
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet says, since I don't live in Buffalo anymore,

661
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: the best road trip by far is Orchard Park for

662
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 1: the home openers. Says, you know, Phil's getting crafty with

663
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: us here. I like where your head's at. Phil, You're right,

664
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:55,799
Speaker 1: Monday night, Monday Night. I don't know where I'm gonna be.

665
00:38:55,960 --> 00:39:02,359
Speaker 1: Place will be electric boom diggity. I think about it,

666
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: and for instance, think about it two ways. I get it.

667
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: It's gonna no matter what, it's gonna be awesome. What

668
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: happens if you come out and the Bills win in

669
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: Los Angeles like forty two to ten, and they're coming

670
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 1: home for their home opener on a year like with

671
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: the expectations are like this. You you can't. You won't

672
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: be able to sit down. Yeah, for a week, you'll

673
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 1: be People will be walking around their houses pacing, waiting

674
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 1: for that game. Right, Oh my goodness, what a what

675
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: a Yeah? So yeah, I'm with you. Good one, Phil.

676
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,440
Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones at eight oh three oh

677
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: five fifty one five fifty two five fifty Benny in La.

678
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 1: I have an idea of what game he's picking. What

679
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 1: do you got first, Benny? Good afternoon journalman, afternoon homing

680
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: game with the Bills in the ram. Okay, I'm guessing

681
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 1: you're going to that one. Huh. Yes, waiting a long

682
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,760
Speaker 1: time for my Bills to come to La. Ye, wist control.

683
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 1: This is a year, Yes it is. Did you hey,

684
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 1: did you catch the Bills when they were out there

685
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 1: against the uh LA Chargers when they're in the soccer

686
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: unif in the soccer stadium. You know what. I was

687
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: actually gonna go to that game, but my wife tells

688
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 1: me that we had on that actual day. Why why

689
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:27,759
Speaker 1: couldn't we make it? Well, all right, tough choice, but

690
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 1: I understand. Yeah, that's cool, Benny, that's awesome. Hey, Benny,

691
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 1: have say hello to the Bills mafia. When you get

692
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 1: out there and have fun, that's awesome. He love you guys.

693
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:41,480
Speaker 1: Here's you guys every single day. All right, any thanks

694
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 1: for calling. That's awesome. I'm surprised it took that long

695
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:48,319
Speaker 1: to get to the kickoff game. I mean I thought

696
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,720
Speaker 1: that would be uber popular right out of the shoot.

697
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: Are everybody wanting to go to everybody? Yeah, because everybody's now.

698
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: Everybody's here in Western year. Everybody goes to Miami once

699
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 1: or twice, you know, d right, everybody makes that trip

700
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 1: down Miami and then whatever that you know, the NFC

701
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: North is like, who wants to go to you know,

702
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 1: no Detroit, Chicago, Minnesota? No thanks. This is why I

703
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: thought even for people on the East Coast that are

704
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,399
Speaker 1: Bills fans would be all over the Rams game, right

705
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 1: because you work Monday Tuesday Wednesday, you take off Thursday Friday,

706
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 1: fly out Wednesday night. Yeah, and you've got a I mean,

707
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:32,839
Speaker 1: even if and you have time to get back and

708
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 1: readjust before work on Monday because the game's Thursday night,

709
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:38,879
Speaker 1: you hang out Friday if you want, you can fly

710
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 1: back Saturday or get readjusted back on East Coast time Sunday.

711
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: And then, I mean it is easy peasy, yea. Even

712
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 1: from a logistics perspective, you can make an early flight

713
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: on Sunday or even a red eye on Saturday night.

714
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 1: You spend the whole day there on Saturday and then

715
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 1: catch a late flight on Saturday. You got all day

716
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 1: Sunday to kind of act. May get off your feet

717
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 1: and get some sleep and show up on the right

718
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 1: out and bushy tail on Monday. Yeah, I'm with you.

719
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:08,879
Speaker 1: It makes a lot of sense to me. It does.

720
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,399
Speaker 1: We'll see who gets on the train for that one,

721
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:15,399
Speaker 1: as Benny was the first as the conductor. We take

722
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:18,359
Speaker 1: a break here, but we'll be back with more, including

723
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: something we already know about the Bills twenty twenty three

724
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: schedule that you may have forgotten about. We'll tell you

725
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: what that is next here on One Bill's Live, presented

726
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:44,959
Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, So

727
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: we said before the break, there is an element of

728
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three schedule for the Bills that we

729
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:54,879
Speaker 1: already know. Obviously, most of the opponents are already known

730
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: due to the league's rotational schedule. But what we may

731
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: have forgotten about, Steve is next year. What have I

732
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: forgotten about? Next year will mark eight years since the

733
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:17,840
Speaker 1: Bills last had an international game, and the league prerequisite

734
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: is every NFL team must play in an international game

735
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 1: at least once every eight years. Next year the Bills

736
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 1: are playing internationally somewhere. Based on that rule, where would

737
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 1: it be? Germany? Well, that's my next question for you.

738
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 1: I wonder if I think it's it's got to be

739
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 1: the UK or Germany, don't you There is a pretty

740
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: good Bills fan contingent in the UK, as I understand it. Yeah, sure,

741
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 1: we've had, We've had top guys on there's a contingent.

742
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,319
Speaker 1: There's I was just in Italy and the ship. Well, right,

743
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 1: they're not staging games as of yet, right, Um, there's

744
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,839
Speaker 1: still it's only a matter of time before they start

745
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:08,840
Speaker 1: playing exhibition games everywhere, right, I don't think Mexico City

746
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 1: makes sense for Buffalo either. I think it's a UK game.

747
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: I think it's UK, or it's Germany. It's one or

748
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 1: the other. And they got like five games over there,

749
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 1: and there's one in Germany, four in UK or vice versa.

750
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:24,319
Speaker 1: I believe it's two. Think it's three and two, yeah,

751
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 1: three and two. Yeah, yeah, next year it's going to happen.

752
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: Where do you want to play? I'm about pick either one.

753
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 1: Either one's good with me, like London, or like Berlin

754
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 1: or Munich or I wouldn't mind. I wouldn't mind seeing Germany.

755
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 1: I've never been there. You know, I've been there. You

756
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 1: know I went to the last Bills game against the

757
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:47,800
Speaker 1: Jaguars at Wembley. We played in Olympic Stadium in Berlin.

758
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: You guys played a bunch of international games. Who played

759
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,880
Speaker 1: an Olympic stadium in Berlin? And outside of that is yeah,

760
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 1: the Mayfield right next to the stadium, that's where we practiced.

761
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 1: I'm not kid yet, that's crazy. There's a lot of

762
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 1: really poignant moments, yeah, in those times over there and

763
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: then London, so it was Olympics believable. Huh Olympic Stadium

764
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:16,839
Speaker 1: in Berlin. Yeah, nineteen thirty six. Yeah, just how much

765
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 1: had it been updated at all? It wasn't bad. Well,

766
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 1: you know, this was a nineteen nineties so that's what

767
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:24,759
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It was just a little older at that

768
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 1: time than high Mark is from when the time it

769
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: was built, and nuts playing a game, it's like another

770
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: just hand years and one, you know, freaking four gold medals,

771
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 1: maybe ten years older than than high Mark is at

772
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 1: this point. Yeah, so um, yeah, it had been updated

773
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 1: and it wasn't It wasn't like you know, stadiums then

774
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: aren't like stadiums now anyway, either. So this is thirty

775
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:49,879
Speaker 1: years ago too, So I just thought it was worth

776
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 1: bringing up. I mean, we're talking about the number one

777
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: road on the bill schedule this year, knowing full well

778
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three they have to travel internationally. The

779
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: eight years have passed. I mean next year will be

780
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 1: year eight. Since the south of France or someplace, you know,

781
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: Steve wants to hang out on the river area in

782
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 1: his speed up about the Amalfi Coast. I mean, I

783
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:12,040
Speaker 1: don't come on something. I don't know if there's room

784
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 1: on the Amalfi coast for a stadium. It's pretty tight

785
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: over there. Yeah, a lot of cliffs, a lot of

786
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:21,240
Speaker 1: houses built right on the cliffs there. Yeah. But Germany

787
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 1: would be cool, you know, it would be really cool, Steve. Now,

788
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:27,400
Speaker 1: if we're gonna get this particular, just do a Bill's

789
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 1: International game week seven, because you know when that is

790
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:39,320
Speaker 1: in Germany in October. I'm all about now we're talking

791
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 1: or look good at a pair of later hosting Steve,

792
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 1: you bet your bippie. I'll tell you this too. Another

793
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 1: place where Ireland. I've taken a trip to Ireland. Yeah,

794
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:53,839
Speaker 1: one of my absolute old time favorites. I would love

795
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: to do that up there. Ireland was and they got

796
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,400
Speaker 1: soccer stadiums up there that could easily be trent you know,

797
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:05,400
Speaker 1: riped you know. Um. Yeah. We were in Ireland for

798
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 1: eight days and that we've visited twenty two different pubs,

799
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 1: oh all, twenty two of them were my favorite. That

800
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 1: sounds like a challenge. It was unbelievable that the whole

801
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 1: country was just fantastically friendly. Might be a very special

802
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 1: over under great Man. Ireland was absolutely phenomenal. Loved it

803
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: and just in Italy too. I've been Italy twice. It

804
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 1: was fantastic. I'm all about the international games now, particularly

805
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:31,319
Speaker 1: since I don't have to get my head caved in

806
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:36,359
Speaker 1: on game day. You know. Okay, I'm all about it

807
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 1: because that Yeah, because listen, if I can sit, you know,

808
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:40,800
Speaker 1: if I can kick back and enjoy the game and

809
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 1: let other guys do the work, I'm you can have

810
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 1: any in country you want. Yeah, that's awesome. So that's

811
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:48,480
Speaker 1: a cool thing to look forward to. Back. We got

812
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 1: to remember that, because that's that's completely off my radar.

813
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: I always thought it was a happenstance. No, well, I

814
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:59,320
Speaker 1: think there is some measure of randomness or arbitrary nature

815
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 1: to the selects. Some teams requested Jaguars, for example. But

816
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: once every eight years we'll think about you have to

817
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 1: travel internationally. Next year is year eight for the bill like,

818
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 1: for instance, as in Hard Knocks, HBO is hard Knocks,

819
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 1: where a team can say no, if you if you're

820
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:17,839
Speaker 1: in your if you're in the playoffs, you don't have

821
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:19,799
Speaker 1: to be on Hard Knocks that kind of thing. Is

822
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 1: there a way that if you're if you win the

823
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 1: Lombardi Trophy, do you get to say listen, I don't

824
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: want to international games. I don't know that you can. Yeah,

825
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:30,319
Speaker 1: it's once, because that would be they that's not a

826
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 1: big ask once every eight years. No, no, no, it's

827
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: it's a it's an easy ask, um, particularly after you

828
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl's like, yeah, okay, we'll do whatever

829
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: you want. Lets see what this trophy. Um. But I

830
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: know this not it's not like they do it anyway.

831
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 1: But the tickets will go through the roof because for

832
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: the world champion team to come in, to come strolling

833
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 1: in there, yeah, that'd be a huge It would be

834
00:48:56,719 --> 00:49:00,399
Speaker 1: a great draw for the game to have the best

835
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: team on the planet that year, defending champion champions. The

836
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 1: Rams are playing the Bucks over there, aren't they in Germany?

837
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 1: They're playing in Munich. I want to say, remember I

838
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:11,799
Speaker 1: think they are, so they'll be over there. Yeah, So

839
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 1: that is just a cool thing to look forward to

840
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 1: next year. So not to jump too far ahead, but

841
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,319
Speaker 1: I thought it was worth mentioning. Since we're talking about

842
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:22,839
Speaker 1: road trips here, there'll be a lengthy one next year

843
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 1: in the schedule. For sure. We have to take a

844
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: break here, but when we come back. NFL writer for

845
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 1: The Ringer, Danny Heifetz joins us, as he had an

846
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:39,240
Speaker 1: interesting way of looking at the NFL club quarterback relationships

847
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:43,239
Speaker 1: across the league. Good for a few chuckles, but there's

848
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 1: some serious insight there as well. We'll talk to Danny

849
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: next here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health.

850
00:49:47,920 --> 00:50:07,919
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. At a Steve Tasker who has

851
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:10,279
Speaker 1: been all over the field. Kind of unique. He was

852
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 1: kind of a dual role. Pleasure for you, Stave, Steve

853
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: a blimp. We're not even in the strated here of normalcy,

854
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 1: all right, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you for our

855
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 1: number two here on a Tuesday, and pleased to be

856
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: joined now by NFL writer from The Ringer, Danny Hifitz,

857
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 1: who crafted a recent write up on the Ringer dot

858
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 1: com that I think can well, there are probably better descriptions,

859
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 1: but I would say he's he's crafted an NFL related

860
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:51,720
Speaker 1: quarterback piece that reads a little bit like entertainment tonight

861
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 1: if there's a way to do that. So good on you, Danny.

862
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. Glad to have you with us,

863
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 1: and I want to start here. Can you just lay

864
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:06,439
Speaker 1: out the genesis of the idea of writing it this way?

865
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 1: Because I gotta say it's pretty clever. I think. The genesis,

866
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: so for those who don't know, it's the Quarterback Commitment

867
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 1: Index at the Raier dot com. And the genesis for

868
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 1: it was talking to my editor about all these teams

869
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:22,879
Speaker 1: trying to find quarterbacks, and you talk about them enough

870
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 1: and you're like, wow, this sounds a lot like my

871
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:26,960
Speaker 1: friends who are trying to find a partner. Like it

872
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 1: just sounds like people going on dates and not working.

873
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 1: And I'm like, wow, I have a couple of friends,

874
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 1: you know, they go on like thirty forty first dates.

875
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,839
Speaker 1: I'm like, this just sounds like the Cleveland Browns trying

876
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:37,799
Speaker 1: to like go through twenty nine quarterbacks to really get

877
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:39,920
Speaker 1: the Baker at number thirty. It just sounds, you know

878
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 1: what I mean, like all these teams trying to find love.

879
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:45,760
Speaker 1: And I really do think that you can just look

880
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:49,799
Speaker 1: at every team in their quarterback as a relationship. You

881
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:53,920
Speaker 1: have teams like Buffalo who have found their man, deeply

882
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 1: in love, deeply invested, and are happy to spend the

883
00:51:57,320 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 1: foreseeable future together. And then you have a lot of

884
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:01,879
Speaker 1: teams who just desperately want that. So that was really

885
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:04,839
Speaker 1: the genesis. It's just kind of like, you know, these

886
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 1: are billion dollar companies. You know, it's like very highly paid.

887
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:09,760
Speaker 1: But in reality, everyone no one wants to be alone.

888
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 1: People just want to find their partner the right And

889
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:15,400
Speaker 1: then and so you've got you've got Pat Mahomes and

890
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and josh Aden and the Bills at the

891
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 1: top of these their long lasting affairs. It looks like,

892
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 1: you know, it's fairy tale, right, I mean, you know,

893
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 1: josh comes in and your friends are telling you that

894
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 1: you don't want that guy, he's no good for you,

895
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:30,400
Speaker 1: and he turns out to be this, you know, this

896
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 1: tremendous catch, right. And then at the other end of

897
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: the spectrum, and I don't want to compare and contrast.

898
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 1: You got the Carolina Panthers with John with Sam Darnold

899
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 1: and Matt Correll and on the other end of the

900
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 1: spectrum and kind of equite that kind of relationship, how

901
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 1: toxic it could be. Yeah, I think the one I

902
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 1: gave for the Panthers was they're so desperate. I think

903
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 1: they're sending you up texts at like two in the afternoon,

904
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:57,600
Speaker 1: you know what they mean it, But that really is

905
00:52:57,600 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 1: what it's like, right, I Mean, you have those teams

906
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 1: have been looking forever and even though they stayed their goal,

907
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:04,920
Speaker 1: they're like, we're going to get a quarterback and they can't.

908
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 1: But I think it's worthwhile to compare them to a

909
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:10,000
Speaker 1: team like the Bills, where the reality is. I mean,

910
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 1: you guys know, people like to make fun of the Bills,

911
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:14,320
Speaker 1: and people like to make fun of Josh Allen, And

912
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 1: when Josh Allen went to the Bills, everyone loved to

913
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:18,319
Speaker 1: make fun of them together. And then a few years

914
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 1: later they're the toast of the town. They're the bell

915
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 1: of the ball, and everyone likes to pretend like, oh yeah,

916
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:26,120
Speaker 1: we love them the whole time. So happy for them.

917
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 1: You know, we were all gossiping about them behind their backs,

918
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 1: we were making fun of them. No one thought it

919
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 1: was gonna work, And now everyone's like fake happy for them.

920
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:36,799
Speaker 1: I know. I think that's very much kind of like

921
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:40,240
Speaker 1: some people I know. So I'm very happy for Buffalo.

922
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:44,279
Speaker 1: One of my favorites was I can change him the

923
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 1: Seahawks and Drew Locke. I think this is foolhardy, to

924
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 1: say the least, because I don't know if you're changing

925
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 1: jew Drew Locke from being the turnover machine that he's

926
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:59,359
Speaker 1: been in his early years in the league. You know, look,

927
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:01,879
Speaker 1: we all know a couple. You know, Look, it's too bad.

928
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:04,400
Speaker 1: The Seahawks and Russell Wilson were a beautiful couple for

929
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:06,760
Speaker 1: a long time. They had they had great heights together,

930
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 1: and I think it's really tough to get out of

931
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 1: a relationship like that for a long time. But we

932
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:12,480
Speaker 1: all know someone who maybe ends up with someone and

933
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 1: they're gonna, you know, they're trying to rebound. They get

934
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,400
Speaker 1: into Drew Lock and they convince themselves like, well, this

935
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 1: is the guy. You know, it's like the opposite of

936
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 1: the old guy, Russ Wilson five to eleven, Drew Lock

937
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:24,800
Speaker 1: six five, huge arm, you know, and they're convincing themselves

938
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:26,640
Speaker 1: you know, well he hasn't worked over there, but we

939
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 1: can fix them. And it's like, wow, I don't know,

940
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:32,359
Speaker 1: I've seen Drew Lock play. I don't know if that's

941
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 1: gonna work for you, Seattle. But I think that, honestly,

942
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:37,439
Speaker 1: this one does happen a lot. I think that it's

943
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 1: part of being a coach, and having a good coaching

944
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:42,200
Speaker 1: staff means you believe, like, you know, we talked so

945
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:45,360
Speaker 1: much about the draft cycle, the draft, the player comes

946
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:48,439
Speaker 1: in as like a ball of clay and it's caught

947
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:50,399
Speaker 1: up to the coaching staff to develop. You know, Josh

948
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:52,880
Speaker 1: Allen wasn't just Josh Allen. He had to get to Buffalo.

949
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 1: Brian Dabele had to like help and like the Bills

950
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:59,880
Speaker 1: molded Josh Allen into the quarterback ys today along with

951
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 1: the in eight trades he had. I think sometimes though

952
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:04,400
Speaker 1: the flip side, his teams look at a quarterback and

953
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:06,400
Speaker 1: they're like, well, Drew Locke is all the traits, we

954
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:09,360
Speaker 1: can turn him into something else. Well, sometimes someone is

955
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:10,799
Speaker 1: what they are, And I think that that's kind of

956
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 1: the trick of it, right, is you know, how much

957
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:14,960
Speaker 1: to keep us someone and how much do you want

958
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 1: to you know, really invest the right. One of the

959
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 1: other relationships that I was intrigued bars I didn't know

960
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 1: I have any experience with this is called the Philadelphia

961
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:27,279
Speaker 1: Eagles and Jalen Herds. The Hot Girls Summer. What does

962
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 1: that mean? Well, it's a great question. So what Hot

963
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:34,040
Speaker 1: Girls Summer means is you know, we're in an empowerment

964
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 1: era for women. I think that a lot of times,

965
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:38,359
Speaker 1: you know, the summer was like, you know, beach bod

966
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:40,320
Speaker 1: season for guys, and you know what, women can go

967
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:42,239
Speaker 1: out there and have a hot girl summer. I don't

968
00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 1: know if you guys are on Instagram, but it's a

969
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:45,920
Speaker 1: you can post some nice picks at the beach, you know,

970
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 1: some bikini shots and it's like, hey, I'm out here,

971
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 1: I'm single, I'm ready to mangle. You want to slide

972
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:52,319
Speaker 1: in the dms, like, you know, maybe like we can

973
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:53,960
Speaker 1: go on a date or something. I think that's where

974
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 1: the Eagles are at. They're like, hey, Philly's a hot

975
00:55:56,719 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 1: destination for quarterbacks. You got all these veteran quarterbacks or

976
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 1: go out and find teams. Tom Brady hits free agency,

977
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 1: goes to Tampa because Tampa had a great roster. The

978
00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:07,560
Speaker 1: Chargers were trying to get involved for Tom Brady. Two.

979
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:09,560
Speaker 1: Now you got you know, Russell Wilson's going out to

980
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 1: the Broncos. You got veteran quarterbacks going out, and the

981
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:14,600
Speaker 1: Eagles are sitting there like, hey, we got first round picks.

982
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:17,839
Speaker 1: We got a j Brown, we got Jordan Davis, and

983
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:20,480
Speaker 1: Davante Smith won the Heisman two years ago. We got him.

984
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 1: The Eagles are like out there and like they're with

985
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:25,759
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts. But everyone knows they're not exclusive, right, they're

986
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 1: not locked down. So I think they're you know, Eagles

987
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:30,239
Speaker 1: are like, you know, they're open for business. Right. The

988
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 1: description of the Colts and Matt Ryan, you know, everyone's

989
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 1: happy for them. There's a part of me that they

990
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:42,600
Speaker 1: wanted to give them a different title, it seems like.

991
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:45,759
Speaker 1: And it's not the Colts necessarily that's to blame here,

992
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 1: but there's an afraid of commitment issue here with the

993
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:54,400
Speaker 1: with the Rolodecks or quarterbacks they've gone through. Luck chooses

994
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:57,920
Speaker 1: retirement over continuing his career. We all know that. But then,

995
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,160
Speaker 1: I mean, we're going on our fifth quarterback in five

996
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:05,520
Speaker 1: years for the Colts. Yeah, I mean I understand Matt

997
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:07,399
Speaker 1: Ryan might be one of the best fits they've had

998
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:10,000
Speaker 1: of the five of the last four anyway, although Rivers

999
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 1: played pretty well for them. Is this just they fortunately

1000
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 1: landed on a veteran they know they can rely upon.

1001
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:20,439
Speaker 1: This is the guy that you know is at least

1002
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 1: going to take out the trash when you ask him exactly.

1003
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 1: The Colts. Look, let's be honest here, the Colts had

1004
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:28,720
Speaker 1: their dream guy. They the Colts were the dream couple

1005
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 1: of Andrew Luck and you know, that that dream guy

1006
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:33,960
Speaker 1: kind of walks out on someone and they have just

1007
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 1: been adrift with all the wrong guys ever since. And

1008
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 1: I think we all just want them to be with

1009
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:40,680
Speaker 1: that right person we thought Philip Rivers could be, but

1010
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: I think there was too much of an age gap

1011
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:44,480
Speaker 1: there for them. And then you know, they trudge to

1012
00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:47,439
Speaker 1: Kobe Brossett. He's a nice guy, but I think he's

1013
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:49,439
Speaker 1: just a nice guy, but he's not right for them.

1014
00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 1: And then they get Carson Wentz. And let's be real,

1015
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:53,760
Speaker 1: when they dip into the Carson wentzpool, I think we

1016
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:55,880
Speaker 1: were all a little worried. I think it went exactly

1017
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 1: as poorly as everyone had kind of thought. And I

1018
00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:00,760
Speaker 1: think at this point they just need to get is

1019
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:04,480
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, you know, a really sexy kind of quarterback.

1020
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 1: Is Matt Ryan gonna get everyone's blood pumping? I'm not sure.

1021
00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 1: But Matt Ryan is stable exactly as you said. Matt

1022
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:12,520
Speaker 1: Ryan will take out the trash, He's gonna do the dishes.

1023
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:14,920
Speaker 1: There's not the volatility of Carson Wentz. I think that's

1024
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 1: what the Colts need, is that stability. Yeah, And then

1025
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:19,280
Speaker 1: then you're right, there was a couple of teams that

1026
00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 1: kind of fell under the same umbrella the Tennessee Titans

1027
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 1: and the Atlanta Falcons. The Titans with Ryan Tannehill, drafted

1028
00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:29,160
Speaker 1: Malik Willis. The Falcons they had Marcus Mariota and then

1029
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:32,040
Speaker 1: they draft Desmond ridd Or. These two teams, you know,

1030
00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:33,680
Speaker 1: they say, Okay, we're gonna bring you in. And they

1031
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:35,760
Speaker 1: got this guy, Ryan Tannehill, who's played well for them.

1032
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 1: They were the one seed in the playoffs last year.

1033
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 1: But man, oh man, that's a team in Tennessee that

1034
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:46,120
Speaker 1: you want to talk about sabotaging their own good fortune.

1035
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:49,560
Speaker 1: Aj Brown out the door and now they don't. Now

1036
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:52,080
Speaker 1: they draft a guy for Ryan Tannehill to look over

1037
00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:54,560
Speaker 1: his shoulder at and Ryana Tannehill got the message. He's listen,

1038
00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:57,480
Speaker 1: I'm not mentoring that guy to replace me. There's a

1039
00:58:57,520 --> 00:59:00,960
Speaker 1: lot going on in Tennessee and the Falcons same thing.

1040
00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:05,200
Speaker 1: There's a lot going on there. Yeah. I think with Tennessee,

1041
00:59:05,240 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 1: the reality is they made a decision right, which is

1042
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:10,320
Speaker 1: that Ryan Tannehill is going to have the highest cappit

1043
00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:13,080
Speaker 1: of any active player in the NFL this season, thirty

1044
00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 1: eight million dollars, and if the Titans wanted to keep

1045
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:18,240
Speaker 1: him around. For sure, they could have lowered that number

1046
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:20,400
Speaker 1: and been more competitive. Realities, they didn't because they're not

1047
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:22,720
Speaker 1: that committed to him. So you combine that with them

1048
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 1: drafting the leak Willis and it's like, yeah, you know,

1049
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, like, oh, we're just talking to the lak.

1050
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 1: You know, we're not don't worry about him. It's like, well,

1051
00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:33,120
Speaker 1: you read the tea leaves. Obviously there's not They're leaving

1052
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 1: their options open for the future. And if we're being

1053
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:38,840
Speaker 1: honest the way that you know Ryan Tannehill played in

1054
00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:41,680
Speaker 1: the playoff game or the Titans lost to the Bills

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Speaker 1: as sorry the Bengals, I think it's up. You know,

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00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:45,200
Speaker 1: I think I threw a pick on his first and

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00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:46,920
Speaker 1: last throw the game. I know that Tannell said he

1058
00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:48,800
Speaker 1: was in a dark place after that. But the reality

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00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:51,880
Speaker 1: is the Titans leaving their doors open. It's pretty transparent.

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Speaker 1: And in Atlanta, the Falcons had to take a forty

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00:59:55,240 --> 00:59:57,960
Speaker 1: million dollar dead capit just so Matt Ryan could play

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Speaker 1: for the Colts. That's actually the real largest cap at

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Speaker 1: any team's taken. So the Falcons, you know, they say

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Speaker 1: they're committed to Mario or they say they're committed Desmond

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01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:08,960
Speaker 1: Rider of the realities the Falcons. I think they're playing.

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Speaker 1: They got two guys, they're maybe dating around a little bit,

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Speaker 1: and you know they're gonna just kind of keep their

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Speaker 1: options open. Talk with Danny Hype, a's NFL writer for

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01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:20,880
Speaker 1: The Ringer, and I'm surprised Steve didn't bring this one

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Speaker 1: up because he is not above hurling slings and arrows

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01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:31,200
Speaker 1: at the Chicago Bears organization time and again. And we

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Speaker 1: were actually talking about this yesterday, so I'd be curious

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01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:35,520
Speaker 1: to get your thought on it, as you know, and

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01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 1: pointed out, and you're right up on the Ringer that

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Speaker 1: the Bears have never developed a quarterback, and Jim McMahon

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01:00:42,480 --> 01:00:46,920
Speaker 1: famously said, Chicago is where quarterbacks go to die. How

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01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:50,280
Speaker 1: outlandish do you think it would be for Justin Fields

1078
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 1: to ask for a trade? Because we were arguing here,

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01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:55,520
Speaker 1: and granted we were doing it a little tongue in cheek.

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01:00:55,560 --> 01:00:57,040
Speaker 1: He's not going to ask for a trade this year,

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01:00:57,400 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 1: but could he do much work then Chicago? If he

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01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 1: has to get traded, there aren't too many landing spots

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01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:08,520
Speaker 1: for a quarterback that would be terrible or worse than

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Speaker 1: what he's got to deal with. I mean, Alan Robinson

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01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:14,400
Speaker 1: out the door, you know, best pass rush, You're on

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01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 1: the team gone. I don't know. I just to me,

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01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:21,920
Speaker 1: it seems like Fields is going to be holding and

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01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:24,800
Speaker 1: juggling a lot of balls to make this thing work

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Speaker 1: in Chicago this year especially. So I to tell you

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Speaker 1: the truth, I've been completely and utterly radicalized in the

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Speaker 1: last two years about quarterback and quarterback success because we

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01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:37,960
Speaker 1: have this idea of quarterbacks. They come into the league,

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01:01:38,080 --> 01:01:40,440
Speaker 1: they're good or they're not, and then we label them

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01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 1: as great picks or busts. And I think the reality

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01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:43,720
Speaker 1: is we have half of we have most of this

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01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:47,080
Speaker 1: backwards half and maybe just half is about how good

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01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:49,000
Speaker 1: the quarterback is, and the other half is what's the

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01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:52,280
Speaker 1: team they're walking into. The reality is all the quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: were good picks, and I mean all of them since

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01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:58,160
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck. Every single one is succeeded went to a

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01:01:58,200 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 1: team that was already good or had something some kind

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Speaker 1: of success brewing, including Josh Allen. People like to make

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01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:05,720
Speaker 1: fun of what the Bills are doing. Last, the realities

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01:02:05,760 --> 01:02:08,960
Speaker 1: that Sean McDermott and Tyron Taylor got to the playoffs

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01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:11,880
Speaker 1: before Josh Allen showed up. Russell Wilson is a gem

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01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:13,080
Speaker 1: in the late round, but he went to one of

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Speaker 1: the best defenses in recent NFL history. Dak Prescott took

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01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:18,000
Speaker 1: over a Dallas team that had the best roster in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. The Chiefs are twelve and four with Alex

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01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:23,440
Speaker 1: Smith before they even drafted Patrick Mahomes. You know, you

1111
01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 1: just literally go down the line at every single good

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01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:28,600
Speaker 1: quarterback pick in the last decade. All those teams either

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Speaker 1: had a winning record over the two previous seasons combined,

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01:02:31,360 --> 01:02:35,600
Speaker 1: were made the playoffs multiple times basically, and then the

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Speaker 1: quarterback was good there. It's like if you send it's

1116
01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:41,160
Speaker 1: like the NFL drafts like a wood chipper. The bad

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01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:43,280
Speaker 1: teams get the best quarterbacks. And I look at the

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Speaker 1: team like the Bears. Who I mean, I called them

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Speaker 1: the eighty year Old Virgin Obviously it's a play on

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Speaker 1: the forty year Old Vigion movie, but it's also because

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01:02:49,720 --> 01:02:52,800
Speaker 1: the quarterback position is eighty years old and the Bears

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01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:54,920
Speaker 1: kind of had the first one and haven't really had

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Speaker 1: one since. And I think that there's some organizations just

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01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:01,520
Speaker 1: aren't good at this, and when you don't have the

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Speaker 1: right brain trust involves looking at the you know, the Bears,

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Speaker 1: the Jets, the Jaguars. I think that it's immensely difficult

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Speaker 1: for quarterback to season. The Bears have not really done

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Speaker 1: anything to help Justin Field succeed. Yeah, and I don't

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna stop now. This is a

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Speaker 1: team that when you feel like you've got a guy

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01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:22,360
Speaker 1: that can takes now even if you're not sure if

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01:03:22,360 --> 01:03:25,680
Speaker 1: he's the right guy, and you're gonna try and make

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Speaker 1: it successful around him. The Bears have gone backwards with

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01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:31,000
Speaker 1: this quarter Now. They got a quarterback they don't have.

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01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:35,000
Speaker 1: They didn't feel like replacing their quarterback this offseason, but

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01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:37,840
Speaker 1: they got worse around a young quarterback. I mean, it's

1137
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:43,840
Speaker 1: totally it's a totally backwards I think that's an excellent

1138
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:45,640
Speaker 1: point that the Bears got worse. I think that part

1139
01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:47,680
Speaker 1: of the problem is that I think the strangest part

1140
01:03:47,720 --> 01:03:51,760
Speaker 1: of the Justin Fields thing is that they kept Ryan Pace,

1141
01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:54,200
Speaker 1: their general manager of Matt Nagge, the head coach around,

1142
01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:56,760
Speaker 1: let Ryan Pace trade up for fields and then fire

1143
01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:59,320
Speaker 1: them after a season. And it's like it's kind of

1144
01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:02,440
Speaker 1: like if you don't trust him to stay, Like if

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01:04:02,440 --> 01:04:04,080
Speaker 1: you don't, you're not going to buy in with Ryan

1146
01:04:04,120 --> 01:04:06,360
Speaker 1: Pace and Naggie to develop, and why are you letting

1147
01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:08,000
Speaker 1: them make the decision in the first place. It's kind

1148
01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:09,760
Speaker 1: of weird. I think that you see that a lot.

1149
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:13,520
Speaker 1: It's really strange to me. But overall, the reality is

1150
01:04:13,560 --> 01:04:15,400
Speaker 1: that the Bears is one of the worst offensive lines

1151
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:17,080
Speaker 1: in the league. They're one of the worst receiving courts

1152
01:04:17,120 --> 01:04:18,880
Speaker 1: in the league. And I understand that. You know, the

1153
01:04:18,920 --> 01:04:21,360
Speaker 1: new general manager, Ryan Poles, comes intoout a first round pick,

1154
01:04:21,360 --> 01:04:23,200
Speaker 1: but the first two picks are on defensive backs. I

1155
01:04:23,240 --> 01:04:25,960
Speaker 1: get that. There's a lot of you know, a lot

1156
01:04:25,960 --> 01:04:27,800
Speaker 1: of people you gotta make happy when you get that job.

1157
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:29,800
Speaker 1: Matt Eberflus is their head coach. If he wants the

1158
01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:31,760
Speaker 1: defensive backs, you gotta do that. Gotta follow your board,

1159
01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:35,000
Speaker 1: best player available, et cetera, et cetera. However, it's hard

1160
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Speaker 1: not to look at the Jets, who, for better and worse,

1161
01:04:38,080 --> 01:04:41,200
Speaker 1: are surrounding their quarterback Zach Wilson with players and if

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01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:43,080
Speaker 1: it doesn't work all right, at least we know it.

1163
01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:46,880
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson. Dolphins aren't going above and beyond to just

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01:04:46,920 --> 01:04:49,240
Speaker 1: surround two A because at the very least they want

1165
01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:51,920
Speaker 1: to know if he's good, and so they're five picks

1166
01:04:51,920 --> 01:04:55,160
Speaker 1: for Tyreet Kill, a bajillion dollars for toront Armstead to

1167
01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:57,240
Speaker 1: play left tackle in Miami. They're gonna know if two

1168
01:04:57,280 --> 01:05:00,120
Speaker 1: is good or not, because now there's no excuse justin Fields.

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01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:03,000
Speaker 1: I don't know, is he one of the does he

1170
01:05:03,040 --> 01:05:05,200
Speaker 1: still have the potential to be an above average quarterback?

1171
01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:07,480
Speaker 1: Is he literally the worst quarterback in the NFL? I

1172
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:11,280
Speaker 1: don't know, because it's impossible to evaluate him. And I

1173
01:05:11,320 --> 01:05:13,200
Speaker 1: think that's actually where the Giants were with Daniel Jones

1174
01:05:13,200 --> 01:05:14,840
Speaker 1: the last couple of years as well, with him in

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01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:18,080
Speaker 1: a Jason Garrett offense and just everyone around him hurt

1176
01:05:18,080 --> 01:05:20,840
Speaker 1: for two years. But Fields was way more upset than Jones.

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01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:27,040
Speaker 1: So it's he feels like like a lost cause he

1178
01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:29,520
Speaker 1: like he's sailed into the Bermuda Triangle, but it's the

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Speaker 1: Windy City. Yeah. Yeah, the last one I've got for you, Danny,

1180
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:35,000
Speaker 1: because you already touched on the Dolphins and the Jets

1181
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:38,680
Speaker 1: in the Bill's division obviously, the Patriots and Mac Jones.

1182
01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:42,120
Speaker 1: I mean, you called him conservative parents. I would almost

1183
01:05:42,200 --> 01:05:44,680
Speaker 1: venture to call him apps in tea parents, because nobody

1184
01:05:44,720 --> 01:05:46,800
Speaker 1: knows who the hell's calling the plays on offense in

1185
01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:49,360
Speaker 1: New England right now. Joe Judge is supposed to be

1186
01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:52,200
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks coach. I mean, his resume the last two

1187
01:05:52,240 --> 01:05:54,800
Speaker 1: years with Daniel Jones isn't anything to write home about.

1188
01:05:56,560 --> 01:05:58,600
Speaker 1: I know, I know you labeled it what you did,

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01:05:58,640 --> 01:06:00,560
Speaker 1: but how do you see it playing out out with

1190
01:06:01,160 --> 01:06:03,240
Speaker 1: the unknown factor of who the heck is the OC?

1191
01:06:06,080 --> 01:06:08,600
Speaker 1: I think that there's two levels to this, right or

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01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:11,720
Speaker 1: I guess you could say three, but once about mac Jones,

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01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:14,120
Speaker 1: once about the coordinators, and once about the coach. The

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01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:18,760
Speaker 1: obvious surface level thing is I mean, this is just comedy,

1195
01:06:18,880 --> 01:06:21,440
Speaker 1: right Like, this is the first time that the Patriots

1196
01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:22,840
Speaker 1: are kind of going to be a punch line for

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01:06:22,960 --> 01:06:25,840
Speaker 1: something other than not having wide receivers. I mean, Joe

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01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:29,960
Speaker 1: Judge and Matt Patricia, I think that we're such I

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01:06:29,960 --> 01:06:34,080
Speaker 1: don't want to be rude, but kind of spectacular burnout

1200
01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:37,040
Speaker 1: failures in their coaching jobs. Whether that's fair or not,

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01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:38,720
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I think that they were both

1202
01:06:38,840 --> 01:06:42,280
Speaker 1: national punch lines, and I think some of that was unfair.

1203
01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:46,120
Speaker 1: But the fact that they're co offensive, coordinating, and neither

1204
01:06:46,160 --> 01:06:48,960
Speaker 1: of us are really done this. It's gonna just be

1205
01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:52,439
Speaker 1: funny if it doesn't work. The actual analysis I would

1206
01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:54,840
Speaker 1: give you is that, whether fair or not, this will

1207
01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:58,960
Speaker 1: become a referendum on Bill Belichick's decision making. The reality

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01:06:59,040 --> 01:07:02,000
Speaker 1: is that Bill Belichick and that Patriot's dynasty lasted for

1209
01:07:02,040 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 1: about twenty years. All the other good ones were ten,

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01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 1: and he's been playing with house money ever since, I

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01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:08,480
Speaker 1: mean Lombardi, since the Party was a coach for nine years,

1212
01:07:08,480 --> 01:07:11,120
Speaker 1: Bill Walsh coach for like eleven. Bill Belichick's been to

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01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:13,840
Speaker 1: thirteen eightcy championships, like he's been to more Super Bowls

1214
01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:16,400
Speaker 1: than Vince the Party coach seasons in the NFL. So

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01:07:16,440 --> 01:07:19,720
Speaker 1: I think that it is no longer like unfair to say, well,

1216
01:07:19,720 --> 01:07:22,240
Speaker 1: maybe in year twenty three or twenty two, whatever it

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01:07:22,280 --> 01:07:25,320
Speaker 1: is Patriots coach, is he losing his grasp if this

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01:07:25,400 --> 01:07:28,480
Speaker 1: doesn't work. I think it's going to be in bounds

1219
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:33,640
Speaker 1: to ask about the question rather about Belichick's decision making,

1220
01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:35,720
Speaker 1: and is he in a position to be trying to

1221
01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:38,280
Speaker 1: maximize the Patriot's future like they did for twenty years,

1222
01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:39,880
Speaker 1: or at this point is he kind of sticking around

1223
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:43,000
Speaker 1: to secure his you know, honestly, his son's legacies and

1224
01:07:43,040 --> 01:07:44,600
Speaker 1: coaching and be able to give them a leg up

1225
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:47,440
Speaker 1: because it's it's I think it's very strange. It's a

1226
01:07:47,520 --> 01:07:50,320
Speaker 1: huge risk. But again, if it works, I think credit

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Speaker 1: to him. Right. How do you think that? Because in

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01:07:53,080 --> 01:07:55,800
Speaker 1: this last say, four or five, six, maybe ten years,

1229
01:07:55,800 --> 01:07:57,840
Speaker 1: I don't even not even in the last four or

1230
01:07:57,840 --> 01:08:04,600
Speaker 1: five years, we've seen more notable quarterbacks changed teams than

1231
01:08:04,640 --> 01:08:06,960
Speaker 1: we've ever seen in the decades preceding. I mean it

1232
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:09,520
Speaker 1: was it was if you had anybody that had a

1233
01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:12,960
Speaker 1: pulse at playing quarterback, they were never going anywhere then

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01:08:13,040 --> 01:08:14,880
Speaker 1: other than staying on your team. And then in this

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01:08:15,040 --> 01:08:17,479
Speaker 1: past and on decade or so, I don't know how

1236
01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:20,680
Speaker 1: long you can take your pick, there have been quarterbacks

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01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:25,320
Speaker 1: that have moved around and have changed teams. Do you

1238
01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:28,680
Speaker 1: obviously it's probably going to continue because it seems to

1239
01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:30,799
Speaker 1: be a trend in now quarterbacks and because the salary

1240
01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:34,360
Speaker 1: cap measures and that quarterbacks are moving around. What do

1241
01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:36,720
Speaker 1: you think it's gonna do to the league and these

1242
01:08:36,760 --> 01:08:39,760
Speaker 1: relationships and how teams are going to change their outlook

1243
01:08:40,240 --> 01:08:42,840
Speaker 1: about the guy that's actually taken snaps for them. How

1244
01:08:43,240 --> 01:08:46,000
Speaker 1: committed will they be? Even a team like Kansas City,

1245
01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:48,639
Speaker 1: a team like Buffalo, a team like Green Bay. Who've

1246
01:08:48,680 --> 01:08:52,400
Speaker 1: got these guys? Does it say anything about the future

1247
01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:54,920
Speaker 1: those relationships when they signed these huge deals, will they

1248
01:08:55,280 --> 01:08:58,240
Speaker 1: for sure see the end of them or is it

1249
01:08:58,360 --> 01:09:01,160
Speaker 1: less tenuous because it's so easy to move these guys.

1250
01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:04,600
Speaker 1: He's an excellent question. I think that the reality is

1251
01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:06,679
Speaker 1: that this is one of those NFL questions. Look around

1252
01:09:06,720 --> 01:09:09,120
Speaker 1: the rest of the country, right I mean, a lot

1253
01:09:09,160 --> 01:09:11,519
Speaker 1: of people in their twenties and thirties are leaving their jobs,

1254
01:09:11,560 --> 01:09:13,960
Speaker 1: and a lot of like like, the NFL is not

1255
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:16,760
Speaker 1: the only business that has a huge hiring problem right now.

1256
01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:19,320
Speaker 1: The reality is a lot of people have key roles

1257
01:09:19,360 --> 01:09:21,720
Speaker 1: in their companies that are very difficult and they have

1258
01:09:21,760 --> 01:09:24,320
Speaker 1: to bend over backward to just keep employees happy. Like

1259
01:09:24,479 --> 01:09:26,160
Speaker 1: I mean, if you even just look at you know,

1260
01:09:26,160 --> 01:09:28,559
Speaker 1: another one I would sell, like Silicon Valley Software Development.

1261
01:09:28,640 --> 01:09:29,960
Speaker 1: You have a lot of them who had to just

1262
01:09:30,640 --> 01:09:33,680
Speaker 1: will do remote work forever simply because well, we'll have

1263
01:09:33,720 --> 01:09:35,760
Speaker 1: to compete with each other for talent and it comes

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Speaker 1: an arm race very quickly. The short answers I think

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01:09:37,800 --> 01:09:40,479
Speaker 1: they have teams have to care what quarterbacks think and feel. Now,

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01:09:40,720 --> 01:09:43,120
Speaker 1: like a lot of employers have to care what employees

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01:09:43,160 --> 01:09:46,160
Speaker 1: think and feel, and so when like Aaron Rodgers is like,

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01:09:46,200 --> 01:09:48,800
Speaker 1: why are you trading? You know, why'd you cut Jake

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01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:51,600
Speaker 1: Kumero my fourth receiver? I liked him. I think in

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01:09:51,640 --> 01:09:54,720
Speaker 1: the past, really the most of football history like who cares? What?

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01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:57,000
Speaker 1: The quarterback fix is really the way that a lot

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01:09:57,040 --> 01:09:59,240
Speaker 1: of front office might summarize their feelings if you gave

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01:09:59,280 --> 01:10:01,400
Speaker 1: them truth serum. The reality is they have to care

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01:10:01,479 --> 01:10:04,040
Speaker 1: now because Tom Brady can just leave. Aaron Rodgers can

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01:10:04,040 --> 01:10:06,320
Speaker 1: just leave, you know what I mean? And I think

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01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:09,120
Speaker 1: that that's number one. There's this teconic thing happening in

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01:10:09,120 --> 01:10:12,840
Speaker 1: America too, is all these guys see what the basketball

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01:10:12,840 --> 01:10:17,200
Speaker 1: players do on Instagram and it's Quarterbacks have always we

1279
01:10:17,240 --> 01:10:20,439
Speaker 1: always call them the most powerful position in sports, quarterbacks

1280
01:10:20,439 --> 01:10:23,639
Speaker 1: the most important position in sports. Well now they're acting

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01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 1: like it, right. It's like it was just this, I think,

1282
01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:28,479
Speaker 1: this cultural thing around football where there's so much culture

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01:10:28,479 --> 01:10:31,400
Speaker 1: of self sacrifice and quarterbacks have to set the standard

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01:10:31,400 --> 01:10:34,599
Speaker 1: for that. But once the floodgate breaks and Tom Brady

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01:10:34,640 --> 01:10:37,320
Speaker 1: does it, I think I guarantee you it's not an

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01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:41,600
Speaker 1: accident that Tom Brady left the Patriots and then immediately

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01:10:41,680 --> 01:10:44,559
Speaker 1: was vindicated by winning a Super Bowl when he got

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01:10:44,560 --> 01:10:47,519
Speaker 1: to do things his way and the Buccaneers allowed him input,

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01:10:47,560 --> 01:10:50,559
Speaker 1: allowed him to text Leonard Fournette and you know bring

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01:10:50,560 --> 01:10:53,519
Speaker 1: you know, recruit people. It's not a coincidence that immediately

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01:10:53,520 --> 01:10:55,720
Speaker 1: after Brady want with the Bucks, Aaron Rodgers wanted to

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01:10:55,760 --> 01:10:58,120
Speaker 1: trade to Shan Wantson wanted to trade, and then Russell

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01:10:58,160 --> 01:11:01,320
Speaker 1: Wilson wanted to trade. Russell Wilson was at the Tampa

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01:11:01,320 --> 01:11:03,840
Speaker 1: Bay Stadium watching Brady went in his home stadium and

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01:11:04,120 --> 01:11:07,280
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson goes on I think Dan Patrick for Radio

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01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:09,160
Speaker 1: like two days later, and it's like, we need a

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01:11:09,200 --> 01:11:12,720
Speaker 1: better offensive line. Once you see Tom Brady, you know,

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01:11:12,800 --> 01:11:15,679
Speaker 1: be the first to cross the line. Now everybody wants

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01:11:15,720 --> 01:11:19,439
Speaker 1: to get theirs. And I think that the NBA culture

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01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:22,240
Speaker 1: of people asking has now reached the quarterbacks. Yeah, and

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01:11:22,320 --> 01:11:25,080
Speaker 1: Stafford probably only reinforced that with how things went for

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01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:28,360
Speaker 1: him last year. Yeah, another perfect example. Yeah, Danny, thanks

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01:11:28,360 --> 01:11:30,360
Speaker 1: for the time. We appreciate it. Your article was fun

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01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:32,160
Speaker 1: to read as well. We'll be keeping an eye out

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01:11:32,200 --> 01:11:33,800
Speaker 1: for more of your stuff at the Ringer dot com.

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01:11:33,800 --> 01:11:36,160
Speaker 1: Thanks very much, Thanks Danny, Thank you so much for

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01:11:36,200 --> 01:11:38,639
Speaker 1: having me. All right. That's NFL writer Danny hi Fitz

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01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:41,320
Speaker 1: from The Ringer, And if you haven't had a chance

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01:11:41,360 --> 01:11:43,280
Speaker 1: to read it, it's just it's just a fun read.

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01:11:43,960 --> 01:11:46,160
Speaker 1: It is. It's a great office kind of thing. Yeah,

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01:11:46,160 --> 01:11:48,160
Speaker 1: it gives you a great thumbnail on where these other

1312
01:11:48,200 --> 01:11:51,760
Speaker 1: teams are. As we hear in Buffalo sit kind of

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01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:54,400
Speaker 1: fattened happy with Josh. Allen's our quarterback radio to kind

1314
01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:58,439
Speaker 1: of roll into the season. Most of us can remember

1315
01:11:58,439 --> 01:12:00,840
Speaker 1: not that long ago when we were struggling to find

1316
01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:03,080
Speaker 1: that relationship and it just wasn't out there. And it's

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01:12:03,120 --> 01:12:04,840
Speaker 1: also interesting too that right at the end of that

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01:12:04,880 --> 01:12:09,880
Speaker 1: conversation we started talking about kind of this NBA mentality

1319
01:12:09,880 --> 01:12:12,880
Speaker 1: where the great players call more of the shots, and

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01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:15,680
Speaker 1: I think more and more teams and like Buffalo and

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01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:19,840
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott, Brandon being they give Josh a voice in

1322
01:12:19,880 --> 01:12:24,120
Speaker 1: that decision making because it's not just to make Josh happy.

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01:12:24,120 --> 01:12:26,719
Speaker 1: It's not just the fact that you know, Aaron Rodgers

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01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:29,479
Speaker 1: is an important part of the team. Is because those

1325
01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:32,559
Speaker 1: guys lights are on, they know what they're looking at.

1326
01:12:32,760 --> 01:12:35,720
Speaker 1: They've played enough football to say, listen. One of the

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01:12:35,720 --> 01:12:37,680
Speaker 1: problems we've got is this, this, and this, we need

1328
01:12:37,720 --> 01:12:41,280
Speaker 1: to start thinking about it. And coaches and general managers

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01:12:41,320 --> 01:12:43,000
Speaker 1: smart enough to listen to the guy who's actually on

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01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:48,639
Speaker 1: the field because they see the same thing and it's important.

1331
01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:51,120
Speaker 1: But that's the dynamic that I think has changed most

1332
01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:56,320
Speaker 1: for front office people. General managers in this league suddenly realize,

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01:12:56,560 --> 01:13:02,000
Speaker 1: if they haven't already, that they have to nurture the

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01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:04,759
Speaker 1: relationship they have with the quarterback on the football team.

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01:13:04,880 --> 01:13:07,680
Speaker 1: Not just have a relationship. It has to be monitored,

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01:13:07,720 --> 01:13:10,040
Speaker 1: It has to be nurtured, and it has to be

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01:13:10,120 --> 01:13:13,720
Speaker 1: grown and developed with each passing year. There may be

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01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:17,160
Speaker 1: a level of trust between the GM and the quarterback

1339
01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:19,840
Speaker 1: on the team, but there has to be an inherent

1340
01:13:21,320 --> 01:13:24,280
Speaker 1: maintenance of that relationship at all times. Otherwise it could

1341
01:13:24,280 --> 01:13:26,800
Speaker 1: take a left turn to Albuquerque and you can't bring

1342
01:13:26,840 --> 01:13:29,840
Speaker 1: it back right. The problem is and it's and then

1343
01:13:29,880 --> 01:13:32,519
Speaker 1: the guy's done right. Back in the old days, mean

1344
01:13:32,640 --> 01:13:36,440
Speaker 1: like Moon I when I played, a relationship was a relationship?

1345
01:13:36,520 --> 01:13:39,280
Speaker 1: Was this the coach of the GM, the head coach

1346
01:13:39,320 --> 01:13:41,240
Speaker 1: of the gym would pick up the phone, call the

1347
01:13:41,240 --> 01:13:43,559
Speaker 1: phone and call the quarterback and say this is what

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01:13:43,600 --> 01:13:48,400
Speaker 1: we're doing. Well, it's not a relationship. No relationship says hey,

1349
01:13:48,400 --> 01:13:51,000
Speaker 1: we're thinking about this, what do you think And the

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01:13:51,080 --> 01:13:53,320
Speaker 1: quarterback will tell them and they say, okay, I get it.

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01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:55,880
Speaker 1: Let's think about this. How about this? And the quarterback is, yeah,

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01:13:55,920 --> 01:13:57,560
Speaker 1: I like that. Let's try that and do that, you know.

1353
01:13:57,600 --> 01:14:01,800
Speaker 1: So it's a relationship, not just a conversation where all

1354
01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:04,640
Speaker 1: the other guy does his listen. So you give the

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01:14:04,680 --> 01:14:06,759
Speaker 1: guy a voice and you give him some saying what happens.

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01:14:06,760 --> 01:14:11,160
Speaker 1: And for the most part, it's a smart way to

1357
01:14:11,200 --> 01:14:14,479
Speaker 1: go because they do have insights. These guys can help.

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01:14:14,960 --> 01:14:20,080
Speaker 1: Their insight is beneficial. It's not just doing him the

1359
01:14:20,080 --> 01:14:21,599
Speaker 1: lip service. Okay, I'll listen to him. But the guy

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01:14:21,640 --> 01:14:23,040
Speaker 1: they really didn't know what he's talking about, you know,

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01:14:23,080 --> 01:14:27,480
Speaker 1: they really do. They really do. So they're an asset.

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01:14:27,479 --> 01:14:30,040
Speaker 1: The club's smart to use them as such. And that's

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01:14:30,200 --> 01:14:34,240
Speaker 1: part of what has evolved in these quarterbacks moving around

1364
01:14:34,320 --> 01:14:36,439
Speaker 1: because the quarterbacks a guy like Russell Wilson got like

1365
01:14:36,479 --> 01:14:41,160
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, Josh Allen, you know, mahomes Brady, you're down

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01:14:41,200 --> 01:14:45,120
Speaker 1: the list. They're sitting there going they know what they're

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01:14:45,120 --> 01:14:48,120
Speaker 1: looking at. They're sitting there watching film, they're putting the

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01:14:48,120 --> 01:14:50,960
Speaker 1: offense in they're going to guys, we got no answer

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01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:53,960
Speaker 1: for this. What are we gonna do? We We're gonna

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01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:58,080
Speaker 1: continue to work around this issue in our offense week

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01:14:58,120 --> 01:15:00,880
Speaker 1: after week after week, and I'm I'm busting a gut,

1372
01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:03,240
Speaker 1: My receivers are busting a gut, and we're coming up

1373
01:15:03,280 --> 01:15:06,400
Speaker 1: short because this issue keeps popping up? What are we

1374
01:15:06,439 --> 01:15:11,680
Speaker 1: gonna do? That kind of knowledge is hard to get

1375
01:15:11,720 --> 01:15:13,720
Speaker 1: around if you're not even gonna let the guy address it.

1376
01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:17,840
Speaker 1: So it's a it's a it's something new that has

1377
01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:21,040
Speaker 1: come into the NFL where these clubs are now realizing

1378
01:15:21,080 --> 01:15:23,479
Speaker 1: these guys they got an issue, and they're smart to

1379
01:15:23,520 --> 01:15:29,720
Speaker 1: listen to them because the frustrating now with the CBA

1380
01:15:29,760 --> 01:15:32,200
Speaker 1: is where it is, and these quarterbacks can say listen.

1381
01:15:32,320 --> 01:15:35,720
Speaker 1: If you're not gonna listen to me, I'm gonna flex. Right.

1382
01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:39,600
Speaker 1: The previous time where quarterbacks could only flex was it

1383
01:15:39,720 --> 01:15:42,439
Speaker 1: draft time. That's right. John Elways said, I'm not playing

1384
01:15:42,479 --> 01:15:44,920
Speaker 1: for the Colts. Eli Manning said I'm not playing for

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01:15:44,960 --> 01:15:48,679
Speaker 1: the Giants. Even Biscuit Cornelia's Bennett said, I'm not playing

1386
01:15:48,680 --> 01:15:50,800
Speaker 1: for the Colts. But the only time they had that

1387
01:15:50,920 --> 01:15:55,120
Speaker 1: leverage was right before they got drafted, right, nobody even

1388
01:15:55,200 --> 01:15:58,519
Speaker 1: thought to flex after they were with an organization already, Right,

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01:15:58,600 --> 01:16:01,080
Speaker 1: and now you got these guys. Ifew Stafford stayed in

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01:16:01,120 --> 01:16:04,599
Speaker 1: Detroit for twelve years, right, and then and he watched

1391
01:16:04,600 --> 01:16:08,679
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and Megatron just said, I'm out, Barry Sad,

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01:16:09,040 --> 01:16:11,960
Speaker 1: I'm out. They're just like I'm done. I can't do it.

1393
01:16:12,320 --> 01:16:16,200
Speaker 1: But then Boomer and Carson, Carson Palmer and Cincinnati's like,

1394
01:16:16,240 --> 01:16:19,320
Speaker 1: I am not playing another down for you. I am

1395
01:16:19,439 --> 01:16:22,120
Speaker 1: done listening to this and going through this. And they

1396
01:16:22,160 --> 01:16:27,360
Speaker 1: finally traded him, so they started to flex, and the

1397
01:16:27,400 --> 01:16:29,920
Speaker 1: teams decided, well, maybe we should listen to the guy,

1398
01:16:29,960 --> 01:16:33,160
Speaker 1: and they're better for it. But you know, it's well,

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01:16:33,360 --> 01:16:37,080
Speaker 1: apparently the Bengals learned from the Carson Palmer situation because

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01:16:37,479 --> 01:16:40,280
Speaker 1: they built around Borrow after they drafted him. Now, I'm

1401
01:16:40,320 --> 01:16:43,519
Speaker 1: not saying they're completely reformed, but they've taken steps that

1402
01:16:43,560 --> 01:16:47,240
Speaker 1: have been outside the way they usually operate out there. Right,

1403
01:16:47,280 --> 01:16:50,280
Speaker 1: you know, the Bengals have always been a decade and

1404
01:16:50,320 --> 01:16:55,679
Speaker 1: a half behind the teams were on the cutting edge

1405
01:16:55,680 --> 01:16:59,120
Speaker 1: out in front like sports science and certainly facilities. They're

1406
01:16:59,120 --> 01:17:02,200
Speaker 1: still behind in facilities and all that kind of stuff.

1407
01:17:02,200 --> 01:17:05,000
Speaker 1: And you can bet you know behind the scenes their nutritions,

1408
01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:07,880
Speaker 1: there's you know, their therapy says, give it end reinvestment

1409
01:17:07,880 --> 01:17:11,960
Speaker 1: if you wish exactly. Um, all of that's lagging sorely behind.

1410
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:17,240
Speaker 1: Now certainly they're picking it up. But you know when

1411
01:17:17,240 --> 01:17:19,519
Speaker 1: the guys you know, go around the league and they

1412
01:17:19,560 --> 01:17:21,479
Speaker 1: go back and they go to Cincinnati, they go someplace

1413
01:17:21,479 --> 01:17:25,160
Speaker 1: else and they compare notes, it's it's it's hard. It's

1414
01:17:25,160 --> 01:17:26,600
Speaker 1: a hard sell to get a guy to go in

1415
01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:29,280
Speaker 1: there and do that. Um, go to a team that

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01:17:29,560 --> 01:17:33,000
Speaker 1: does not invest in infrastructure, in the in the players

1417
01:17:33,040 --> 01:17:35,320
Speaker 1: protocols and the players health and safety and the players

1418
01:17:35,360 --> 01:17:40,920
Speaker 1: recoveries all of that stuff. So yeah, there's a disparity

1419
01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:43,280
Speaker 1: there for some teams, and it shows through in their

1420
01:17:43,280 --> 01:17:46,800
Speaker 1: relationship with their players. We have to take a break

1421
01:17:46,840 --> 01:17:48,479
Speaker 1: here when we come back. More are your thoughts on

1422
01:17:48,479 --> 01:17:51,519
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet? What is your number one road trip

1423
01:17:51,960 --> 01:17:53,920
Speaker 1: on the bill schedule this season? You can give us

1424
01:17:53,960 --> 01:17:55,840
Speaker 1: qual at eight O three oh five fifty open lines

1425
01:17:55,880 --> 01:17:57,960
Speaker 1: for you there, or you can hit us up on

1426
01:17:58,160 --> 01:18:00,599
Speaker 1: the Aforemenngined tweet sheet at one bill Live. We'll get

1427
01:18:00,600 --> 01:18:02,840
Speaker 1: to some of those thoughts next we'll see in a second.

1428
01:18:14,200 --> 01:18:16,680
Speaker 1: Back to the tweet sheet, we go to find out

1429
01:18:16,720 --> 01:18:19,559
Speaker 1: what's your number one road trip on the bill schedule

1430
01:18:20,200 --> 01:18:25,519
Speaker 1: this season? Seth says, I'm going to La Rams and

1431
01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:30,439
Speaker 1: probably Detroit for Thanksgiving. I was going to go to Cincinnati, Chicago,

1432
01:18:30,479 --> 01:18:32,880
Speaker 1: and maybe Casey, but those games all didn't work with

1433
01:18:32,920 --> 01:18:36,439
Speaker 1: my schedule. Rams is the clear winner though major city.

1434
01:18:36,479 --> 01:18:40,160
Speaker 1: I've never been to new stadium. Top two teams in

1435
01:18:40,160 --> 01:18:42,720
Speaker 1: the league squaring off for the season opener, Yeah, I

1436
01:18:43,160 --> 01:18:44,960
Speaker 1: really thought it was going to be a landslide today.

1437
01:18:45,520 --> 01:18:49,040
Speaker 1: That's only the second person that said the Rams. Yeah,

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01:18:49,080 --> 01:18:50,760
Speaker 1: that's well, you get it. We're getting a lot of

1439
01:18:51,479 --> 01:18:53,160
Speaker 1: here's the thing, a lot of people listen to the

1440
01:18:53,160 --> 01:18:56,360
Speaker 1: show from outside the area. Yeah, Like we've got one

1441
01:18:56,439 --> 01:19:01,120
Speaker 1: that's headed from Saint Louis over to he's going to

1442
01:19:01,200 --> 01:19:04,800
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Cincinnati game. We got one here, the next

1443
01:19:04,840 --> 01:19:07,719
Speaker 1: one who is going to drive the only an outside

1444
01:19:07,760 --> 01:19:10,559
Speaker 1: our outside of Baltimore the Baltimore game. All all the

1445
01:19:10,600 --> 01:19:13,160
Speaker 1: Florida fans of Buffalo, they're headed over to Miami game.

1446
01:19:13,520 --> 01:19:19,240
Speaker 1: So it's we get so many listeners from everywhere that

1447
01:19:19,360 --> 01:19:21,679
Speaker 1: it's not they don't always the travel is always different

1448
01:19:21,680 --> 01:19:27,600
Speaker 1: for each of them. It's interesting that Seth chose the

1449
01:19:27,760 --> 01:19:33,320
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving game. Brenda says Detroit. I've never been and it's Thanksgiving.

1450
01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:36,120
Speaker 1: I would tend to think people would shy away from

1451
01:19:36,120 --> 01:19:39,280
Speaker 1: those road games, you know, because you're with family. I mean,

1452
01:19:39,360 --> 01:19:42,200
Speaker 1: I suppose you could drag the whole family with you

1453
01:19:42,920 --> 01:19:45,880
Speaker 1: and then I don't know, what do you have in Thanksgiving?

1454
01:19:45,880 --> 01:19:51,800
Speaker 1: It your local you know, convenience, fast food eaters open

1455
01:19:51,840 --> 01:19:56,760
Speaker 1: oneotype the Chinese food Chinese. Well that's on Christmas. It's Christmas. Okay,

1456
01:19:56,800 --> 01:19:58,760
Speaker 1: it's the same thing on Thanksgiving. I guess not. I

1457
01:19:58,800 --> 01:20:02,000
Speaker 1: don't know. I yes, there are some places that are

1458
01:20:02,040 --> 01:20:05,799
Speaker 1: open on Thanksgiving, but no nothing. That's that's a heavy

1459
01:20:05,840 --> 01:20:08,439
Speaker 1: lift to me, you know what I mean. It's one thing.

1460
01:20:08,720 --> 01:20:12,080
Speaker 1: Here's what you have, extended family in a road city

1461
01:20:12,320 --> 01:20:14,719
Speaker 1: where the bills are playing thanks like you got family

1462
01:20:14,760 --> 01:20:19,920
Speaker 1: in Detroit. Go absolutely thirty. Damn your whole You're at

1463
01:20:19,920 --> 01:20:24,000
Speaker 1: your relative's house by four thirty. Right, here's ready to roll. Yeah,

1464
01:20:24,080 --> 01:20:27,360
Speaker 1: here's the thing. You what you do is you handle

1465
01:20:27,400 --> 01:20:29,400
Speaker 1: it just like NFL teams used to do. There was

1466
01:20:29,400 --> 01:20:31,479
Speaker 1: only two teams that played on Thanksgiving. It was Detroit

1467
01:20:31,479 --> 01:20:33,960
Speaker 1: and Dallas. Nobody else played and there's them every year,

1468
01:20:34,160 --> 01:20:35,960
Speaker 1: and these teams that would go in like once every

1469
01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:39,200
Speaker 1: fifteen years and get a shot at Detroit on the right,

1470
01:20:39,280 --> 01:20:43,560
Speaker 1: here's what happens. What you do is if you're a

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Speaker 1: visiting team going into Detroit, you called the team that

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Speaker 1: played there last year, you had a relationship with their

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Speaker 1: coaching step say, hey, how do you guys handle Thursday game? Well,

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Speaker 1: here's what we did. We did the schedule was like this,

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01:20:55,200 --> 01:20:57,280
Speaker 1: and then you did like this, and so fans got

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Speaker 1: to do the same thing. Call a friend in Detroit, say,

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Speaker 1: how do you do the Thanksgiving thing on a twelve

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Speaker 1: thirty on Thanksgiving? Every year? Because they do it every year? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: gotta call for some advice. She say, Hey, bro, how

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Speaker 1: do I do it? What's the story? How do you

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Speaker 1: do it? And you know you got to do it

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Speaker 1: plus for like a family like ours, got you guts it.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I know it's May, but in November,

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Speaker 1: here's what's gonna happen on Thanksgiving. You gotta do ABC

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Speaker 1: and D. So let's start planning for that now because

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Speaker 1: when it happens, I don't want, you know, I don't

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Speaker 1: want to get two weeks out and have you say, wow,

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Speaker 1: you know we weren't really planning on any No, you

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01:21:33,760 --> 01:21:36,679
Speaker 1: gotta have it on. Get your hammer and chisel out

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Speaker 1: and this and the granite block and start chiseling the schedule,

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Speaker 1: inisical list. It's huge, not only because of all of

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Speaker 1: the reasons we've just mentioned, but because guess what about

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Speaker 1: three quarters of the country is also traveling to be

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Speaker 1: with family, have to necessarily go to football games, but

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Speaker 1: to travel. Oh yeah, you're not doing this alone. And

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Speaker 1: airline fares are hiked because they know people have to travel.

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Speaker 1: They gouge. But that's why you gotta do it now.

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Speaker 1: You make these You gotta make all these plans now.

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Speaker 1: That which is which is why we're doing a public

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Speaker 1: service and having you think about this. We're here for today,

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Speaker 1: but that's the way it is. You got to you

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01:22:15,640 --> 01:22:17,599
Speaker 1: gotta get so far out in front of it, particularly

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01:22:17,640 --> 01:22:20,280
Speaker 1: for the for this Thanksgiving game, and particularly for the

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01:22:20,360 --> 01:22:23,439
Speaker 1: Christmas game. Whatever you're thinking about doing. Then Jack on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet says, we'd love to go to Chicago

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Speaker 1: on Christmas Eve. Would be fun to be there for

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01:22:27,479 --> 01:22:29,720
Speaker 1: the holiday. The Bears will be bad, so we'll see

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01:22:29,720 --> 01:22:31,840
Speaker 1: a big w and because the Bears aren't going to

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01:22:31,880 --> 01:22:33,800
Speaker 1: be very good, tickets should be available. But it would

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01:22:33,840 --> 01:22:36,880
Speaker 1: be tricky convincing the Misses to give up Christmas Eve

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Speaker 1: with the family. Shucks, shucks. It sounds like he's not

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Speaker 1: all that sounds like Jack's not all that upset about

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Speaker 1: giving up Christmas Eve with the family. You would be

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Speaker 1: in a hotel for Christmas Eve, right, And I mean

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Speaker 1: you here's the one plus of bills at Chicago on

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Speaker 1: Christmas Eve. It's you know, a one o'clock game, right,

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01:23:03,280 --> 01:23:06,880
Speaker 1: you can get home. You can get home in time

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Speaker 1: before Christmas morning, right, because you duck out of there,

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01:23:11,280 --> 01:23:13,400
Speaker 1: you go straight to the airport. You got two airports

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Speaker 1: to work with, O'Hara and Midway, And it is a

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Speaker 1: direct flight to Buffalo. So that is that's huge. You

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Speaker 1: do it early, that's huge. That to me would be

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Speaker 1: the game. It's very close. It's like it's like what

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Speaker 1: an hour flight? Yeah, right, If you get on that

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Speaker 1: flight and make that work, that's a that's like a

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Speaker 1: day trip. You could fool You could leave from Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: You can get to Chicago at like eight or nine

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Speaker 1: in the morning, go in, watch the game, fly home.

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01:23:46,439 --> 01:23:50,719
Speaker 1: It's a day trip theoretically. Now, I'm not saying that's

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Speaker 1: the only way to do it, but man, oh man,

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Speaker 1: it's a possible possibility if you get out in front

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Speaker 1: of it. Yeah. But yeah, the airlines around that time

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Speaker 1: of year, you cannot trust them because there they have

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Speaker 1: their own problems to deal with. Not to mention, by

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Speaker 1: that time of the year, weather becomes a factor as well.

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Speaker 1: Between Chicago and Buffalo. Yeah, Adam on the tweet sheet

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01:24:15,479 --> 01:24:18,960
Speaker 1: says Casey or Miami would have been nice to have

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Speaker 1: a warm weather destination in December or January though, which

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Speaker 1: the schedule does not offer this year because the Dolphins

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Speaker 1: are up here in December, and then it's to Chicago,

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Speaker 1: to Cincinnati and then home against New England. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: you got New Year, the Jets in Buffalo, Miami and Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: then to Chicago, to Cincinnati, then to New England, which

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Speaker 1: is there's no warm weather restpan on the back end schedule.

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Speaker 1: And before that it's New England and Detroit too and Cleveland.

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01:24:48,880 --> 01:24:55,920
Speaker 1: I mean that's it Minnesota. Yeah, so you're staying north

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01:24:55,920 --> 01:24:59,000
Speaker 1: of the Mason Dixon line basically what you've mentioned after

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Speaker 1: the mission earlier. Kansas City and Miami are the furthest

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Speaker 1: besides the opening game longest trips, the two longest trips

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Speaker 1: that those are nothing. Yeah, I think the Bills rank

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01:25:07,600 --> 01:25:11,760
Speaker 1: twenty third in total air miles. So that's pretty good, right,

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Speaker 1: that's a low figure, and it's obviously because of AFC

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01:25:16,160 --> 01:25:19,519
Speaker 1: North NFC North being the divisions that the Bills are playing.

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Speaker 1: But that's good, Lola says on the tweet sheet, already

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Speaker 1: got tickets for La. See all in section two ten.

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Speaker 1: There you go, and as Steve just said, a lot

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01:25:32,880 --> 01:25:34,559
Speaker 1: of these games, you gotta get out in front of it.

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Speaker 1: Lola apparently has generally have her airline tickets. She's got

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Speaker 1: her seats. Oh yes. So that is a sampling of

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on the tweet sheet today. In terms of

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Speaker 1: your favorite road trip, I would say LA is probably

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Speaker 1: a narrow winner here. Miami has been mentioned a few times,

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01:25:54,400 --> 01:25:57,720
Speaker 1: as has Kansas City, and then Chicago and Detroit for

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Speaker 1: the holiday wraparounds, where surprised me a little bit, I

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Speaker 1: will say, but people are gonna make it work. Credit

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Speaker 1: to you for making it work. We have to take

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Speaker 1: a break here, Steve and I will be back to

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Speaker 1: close things out on a Tuesday next here on one

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio,

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Speaker 1: all right. So before we went to break, we did

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01:26:30,120 --> 01:26:35,519
Speaker 1: mention Steve that you know, putting your team, your home team,

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Speaker 1: basically your family on the road for a holiday game

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01:26:39,760 --> 01:26:43,760
Speaker 1: is a heavy logistical lift. Nicole and her family have

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Speaker 1: apparently thrown caution to the wind. She tweeted in one

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Speaker 1: last entry here on the tweet sheet, we actually are

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Speaker 1: taking the whole family to the Detroit game. We bought

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Speaker 1: ten tickets and booked five hotel rooms. Nicole and family

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Speaker 1: in tow will be at the Bills at Detroit game

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Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving Day. Some of the other maybe this is

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Speaker 1: one of them. Some of the other feedbacks was kind

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Speaker 1: of cool. It depends you take these road trips. And

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Speaker 1: it's different if it's your ferson, but if you've had

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Speaker 1: them before, how those road trips went play a large

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Speaker 1: part in what happens again, whether you do it again.

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Speaker 1: I know somebody said on here that they had a

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Speaker 1: trip to New Orleans last year for thanksgim They said

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01:27:26,439 --> 01:27:29,800
Speaker 1: it was fantastic. Now they've gotta do it again this year.

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01:27:29,840 --> 01:27:32,559
Speaker 1: So that kind of goes into we've all done it

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01:27:32,960 --> 01:27:35,240
Speaker 1: before you, right, so where you take our trip and

1590
01:27:35,240 --> 01:27:36,600
Speaker 1: it goes so well, it's like, wow, we got to

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01:27:36,600 --> 01:27:37,880
Speaker 1: do it again, and then you know, it kind of

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01:27:37,880 --> 01:27:41,880
Speaker 1: perpetuates itself. Veto, who is a transplant living in Philly,

1593
01:27:41,960 --> 01:27:45,599
Speaker 1: said they get Baltimore and Jets games within two hours

1594
01:27:45,640 --> 01:27:49,760
Speaker 1: of where they live, so they usually hit those. But

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01:27:49,840 --> 01:27:51,920
Speaker 1: he said nothing beats it when the AFC's plays the

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01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:55,439
Speaker 1: NFC East, which will happen next year, and that way

1597
01:27:55,479 --> 01:27:59,599
Speaker 1: he gets Philly, Washington Giants and the Jets game all

1598
01:27:59,640 --> 01:28:01,960
Speaker 1: in striking distance. You just hop in the car, or

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01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:03,920
Speaker 1: you could take a train. Right, you can hop on

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Speaker 1: the train and do it, he said, see it the

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01:28:06,240 --> 01:28:09,120
Speaker 1: home opener. So he'll be up here for the Monday nighter.

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01:28:09,680 --> 01:28:11,519
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are gonna a lot

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01:28:11,520 --> 01:28:14,439
Speaker 1: of transplants are making the drive up for that one. Yeah,

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01:28:14,439 --> 01:28:17,240
Speaker 1: that's a good one. On a season like this, come out. Well,

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01:28:17,320 --> 01:28:19,840
Speaker 1: everything's still up in the air. Oh, let's go. Place

1606
01:28:19,880 --> 01:28:24,280
Speaker 1: will be sizzling. It will be our friend, Adam. Shine

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01:28:24,280 --> 01:28:26,519
Speaker 1: will be a lot of sizzle and pop. Yeah, lightning

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01:28:26,520 --> 01:28:29,320
Speaker 1: will be crackling through. Yeah, it'll be great. Stam, You're

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01:28:29,360 --> 01:28:31,720
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to top that out to get there, though,

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01:28:31,880 --> 01:28:34,360
Speaker 1: yes we do hot days of summer, which I have

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01:28:34,479 --> 01:28:39,559
Speaker 1: no problem enjoying. We are about done here, but we've

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01:28:39,600 --> 01:28:43,280
Speaker 1: got more cooked up for you tomorrow, and we'll bring

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01:28:43,320 --> 01:28:47,000
Speaker 1: you the details probably tomorrow because they're still in the

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01:28:47,040 --> 01:28:49,880
Speaker 1: process of being formulated, but there will be good stuff

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01:28:49,880 --> 01:28:51,439
Speaker 1: to offer you tomorrow, So be sure to come back

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01:28:51,439 --> 01:28:53,920
Speaker 1: and join us tomorrow at one pm. Steve and I

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01:28:53,960 --> 01:28:56,880
Speaker 1: will be with you at that time. And uh, Steve,

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01:28:56,920 --> 01:28:58,679
Speaker 1: I didn't even ask you. Do you have a favorite

1619
01:28:58,720 --> 01:29:03,000
Speaker 1: Roady No. I used to be like the Kansas City

1620
01:29:03,040 --> 01:29:05,080
Speaker 1: game or whatever, but I think probably the Miami game

1621
01:29:05,120 --> 01:29:06,840
Speaker 1: is always That's the old ride. For me. It's the

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01:29:06,960 --> 01:29:08,960
Speaker 1: Rams one. I don't even think it's closed this year,

1623
01:29:09,520 --> 01:29:13,160
Speaker 1: that Rams one kicking off the whole thing. All eyes

1624
01:29:13,240 --> 01:29:16,200
Speaker 1: on Bills and Rams they haven't got passionate enough fan

1625
01:29:16,240 --> 01:29:19,040
Speaker 1: base to make it worth it. Yeah, it's the matchup

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01:29:19,080 --> 01:29:20,920
Speaker 1: that makes it for me. We'll see you tomorrow and

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Speaker 1: one