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Speaker 1: Oh, a good time of my Steve Tasper tous Dome

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Speaker 1: Touch do time. Hello there, Welcome to the show, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to Draft week, Welcome to One Bill's Drive. Hello everybody,

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Speaker 1: It's One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive. I'm John

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Speaker 1: Murphy sitting next to my buddy seem Tasker. Ready to go.

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Speaker 1: This week gonna be a long week, gonna be a

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Speaker 1: fun week, gonna be a notable week. We are three

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Speaker 1: days away from around one of the NFL Draft Thursday,

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Speaker 1: eight pm. Friday seven pm Saturday, starts sometime in the morning,

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Speaker 1: probably eleven am. I haven't even looked that up, but

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Speaker 1: we're here to talk about it. Get you ready for

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Speaker 1: the draft coming up in just three days. Good afternoon, Steve.

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Speaker 1: Did you have a good easter, my man? I did, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: me too. What did you do? Real quick trip out

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Speaker 1: the other excellent. So yeah, good times back. Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: weather wasn't great here. We had a dozen or more

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Speaker 1: was not good. It was cold. It was cold enough

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Speaker 1: Oh really Yeah. In fact, I dumped some extra ice

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Speaker 1: for myself. Cleaned out the ice thing, dumped it outside

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Speaker 1: long that's going to be there. Well, as of nine

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Speaker 1: Why would it melt. It was thirty five forty degrees

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Speaker 1: here yesterday. Yeah, at any rate, we're not complaining about weather.

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Speaker 1: But it was a good way. It felt like Easter

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Speaker 1: yesterday even without good weather, didn't it For some reason.

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Speaker 1: We had a lot of family, We had a lot

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Speaker 1: of friends. We drove down at White Planes. We drove

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Speaker 1: Friday night and it was a it was a downpour

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Speaker 1: It was cloudy and chili. But yeah, we were you know,

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Speaker 1: so I was in a sport coat yesterday. I didn't

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Speaker 1: It was nice weather on the way back, Yeah, much better.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, it was a good weekend though, nice and RESTful.

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Speaker 1: It was nice to get away for a minute. I agree,

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Speaker 1: And of course I was off Friday. You were here

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Speaker 1: Friday with your son Luke co hosting getting Rave reviews big,

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Speaker 1: big marks for Luke's performance. It was fun, Yeah, I had.

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Speaker 1: We had some fun. We had. We did a little

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Speaker 1: He knew more about mine than I knew about his,

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Speaker 1: which was just kind of disconcerting for a for a

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Speaker 1: some stuff happened. I don't know. Stuff happened. We talked

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Speaker 1: had a couple of draft experts on. I was shocked.

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Speaker 1: I talked about it for like an hour on Friday

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Speaker 1: about mel Kiper Junior just rushed over Josh Allen. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: You know, you guys, you guys are stuck with him

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Speaker 1: They I've got sources, YadA YadA, m Pete Prisco, Well,

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Speaker 1: let's not get carried away. Well, no, we'll get carried away.

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Speaker 1: We'll go there. We'll definitely go there. On the show today,

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Speaker 1: He is one of their analysts, one of their analytic guys,

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Speaker 1: does an extensive study the draft. He's got a lot

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Speaker 1: Twenty three years ago yesterday, Eric Moles was drafted number

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Speaker 1: Bills offseason conditioning program voluntary. Looked like another strong lineup.

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Speaker 1: It does look like strong attendance right the Bean and

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Speaker 1: McDermott said it last week. Lorenzo Alexander said it last

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Speaker 1: The veterans are really I think the barometer. The young

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Speaker 1: you're a young kid. Veterans, not so much. They've you know,

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Speaker 1: so as to keep their keep their intentions a secret.

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Speaker 1: I think there's no secret to the fact that they

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Speaker 1: tried to trade Josh Rosen. We have not seen that yet.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any question that they put a

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Speaker 1: lot of effort into getting Josh Rosen on their team

427
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Speaker 1: last year. I don't think they know what Josh Rosen

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Speaker 1: is yet. Maybe they think they do. They certainly didn't

429
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Speaker 1: have a good team around him. I know a lot

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Speaker 1: of people around the country still don't know about Josh Rosen.

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Speaker 1: They still think he's a top prospect for a lot

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Speaker 1: of reasons. And I think for that reason, mate, there

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Speaker 1: is some there's always been some credibility to the fact

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Speaker 1: that if the Arizona Cardinals don't trade Josh Rosen, what

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Speaker 1: do they do with him? Do they kick all the

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Speaker 1: draft capital and all the value that Josh Rosen is

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Speaker 1: and it has invested in him by the team. Do

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Speaker 1: they kick all that to the curb? Do they set

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Speaker 1: it down and put Kyler Murray in the game into

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Speaker 1: this system that certainly isn't what Josh Rosen is used

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Speaker 1: to running. Do they do all of that or do

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Speaker 1: they say, you know what, We've got some things invested

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Speaker 1: in Josh Rosen. He's still a very good prospect. He's

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Speaker 1: an NFL prototype. He was in fact last year he

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Speaker 1: was the one who had them ran the most pro

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Speaker 1: style offense and ran it the best of any of

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Speaker 1: these quarterbacks. And I certainly he had his limitations, and

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Speaker 1: know these other guys had some stuff about them everybody

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Speaker 1: liked obviously, But let's find out about Josh Rosen and

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Speaker 1: let's put some a team around him where he doesn't

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Speaker 1: run for his life or he can have some success,

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Speaker 1: and let's get some talent on the roster with him

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Speaker 1: so we can evaluate him and then we'll see because

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Speaker 1: if we stink again, there's still another quarterback class coming

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Speaker 1: out next year that's maybe even better than this one.

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of that in there in this

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray Yes or no first pick of the draft

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Speaker 1: for the Arizona Cardinals. I think the fact that Josh

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Speaker 1: Rosen has not moved is telling, but I don't know

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Speaker 1: what it tells us this is all that, this is

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Speaker 1: the time and the only reason I say that, Murph,

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Speaker 1: everybody's lying at this time. Yes, everybody's lying, Yes except

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Speaker 1: you and me. Well, we don't know anything. I'm not.

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Speaker 1: You might be. I'm not. I'm not lying because we

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Speaker 1: don't know enough. But I do believe. I have some beliefs.

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Speaker 1: One belief is the reason why Josh Rosen is still

467
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Speaker 1: with the Cardinals is that they haven't gotten the offer

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Speaker 1: they want from him, right They want at least a second,

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Speaker 1: and teams are kind of probably looking at him. We'll

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Speaker 1: give you a third for that guy. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: kind of like a depreciation value on a new car

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Speaker 1: that you buy. You know, you put a few miles

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Speaker 1: on him last year and not a whole lot, but

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Speaker 1: now he's only worth a third. A guy who would

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Speaker 1: probably be among the top quarterback shows in this year.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about that. Number two. I believe that

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray is still gonna go number one overall. I

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Speaker 1: think that was the plan for Arizona to hire Cliff

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Speaker 1: Kingsbury and to get that thing going. And it came

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Speaker 1: out kind of splashed out there at the combine and

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Speaker 1: looked as they approached the draft three days away that

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals are probably thinking, Hey, we need a better offer.

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Speaker 1: We need a better offer for Josh Rosen, and we

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Speaker 1: need to get somebody interested in making a deal with

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Speaker 1: us so that we can we can get Kyler Murray

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Speaker 1: and maybe get some extra draft picks here. So if

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Speaker 1: somebody wants a Bosa, then make us an offer and

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Speaker 1: we'll trade the number one away. Maybe if you're you know,

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Speaker 1: San Francisco or somebody up top of the first round,

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Speaker 1: they're they're they're fishing and line. I think there's disinformation

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Speaker 1: out there, but it turns everything around a little bit.

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Speaker 1: If Kyler Murray doesn't go number one overall, then what

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Speaker 1: Prisco hasn't going fourth overall? He says, I have the

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Speaker 1: Raiders taking Murray in the fourth spot and see still

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Speaker 1: the number one quarterback chosen if he doesn't go number one.

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Speaker 1: To me, that's crazy talk. What is Oakland Raiders wasting

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Speaker 1: a number four overall pick on Kyler Murray? They've got

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Speaker 1: they've got Derek Carr. Yeah, he's a good quart, a

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Speaker 1: good quin. He was twelve and four in the National

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Speaker 1: Football League with a pretty good roster around him, and

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Speaker 1: now that the rosters deteriorated. Now all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, that's then they trade, they trade Cooper, they

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Speaker 1: trade Mac. That to me is that's crazy talking. There's

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Speaker 1: no way the Raiders use that pick to get a

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Speaker 1: quarterback in this draft. When they when they stunk so

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Speaker 1: bad a year ago, they got three number one picks,

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Speaker 1: three first round picks. Um, they don't need a quarterback,

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Speaker 1: they need other good players and the and here's what

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Speaker 1: the real story about this is. You keep hearing there's

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Speaker 1: like four or five really elite players in this in

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Speaker 1: this draft. There's like Bosa, and if you put Kyler

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Speaker 1: Murray in there, there's quinnin Williams. There's the pass rusher,

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Speaker 1: edge rusher, Josh Allen. And then maybe you can you

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Speaker 1: can mix one of Jonah Williams or or h Ed

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Speaker 1: Oliver maybe into that group. But there's and that that's

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Speaker 1: the the elite group at the top. Everybody else flip

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Speaker 1: a coin all the way through the second and third round.

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Speaker 1: This draft is very thick in the second and third rounds.

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Speaker 1: That's why you're hearing all this scuttlebut about teams. We'll

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Speaker 1: trade down. We think it might be a pretty good idea.

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Speaker 1: They're all posturing like to prepare everybody that you know,

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Speaker 1: we may not pick at number six, number seven, number

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Speaker 1: and the Bills at number nine. They'll be very open

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Speaker 1: to trading down this draft. You're gonna get the same player,

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Speaker 1: it seems in the first as you are early in

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Speaker 1: the third. There's a bunch of guys that are quality players,

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Speaker 1: are gonna put together a good pro career. Certainly you

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Speaker 1: get that one who's an outlier who turns into a

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Speaker 1: fifth round Kyle Williams, you know that kind of guy.

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Speaker 1: They may be in there, but you can get them

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Speaker 1: in the second third, you know, the late first, second,

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Speaker 1: and early first half of the third. This is going

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Speaker 1: to be one of those drafts. So it takes us

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Speaker 1: to the Bills and what their draft plans might be.

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Speaker 1: And on our Twitter poll today, we are looking for

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Speaker 1: a prediction from you, the listener, the Bills fan, as

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Speaker 1: to what the Bills might want to do this week.

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Speaker 1: The question is essentially this, is there one player that

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Speaker 1: the Bills are locked on as they approach this draft

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Speaker 1: in three days, one player in the first round you

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Speaker 1: think they absolutely want to have. Now who you want?

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Speaker 1: I'll due respect, but who the Bills want. And that's

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Speaker 1: our Twitter poll. We're now just three days away from

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Speaker 1: Round one of the NFL Draft. We want you to

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Speaker 1: predict the one player the Bills field they must have

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Speaker 1: in the first round on Thursday. And why we got

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Speaker 1: a couple of names for you up on the Twitter

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Speaker 1: poll at Oliver right now. Thirty six percent of you

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Speaker 1: say he's the guy the Bills field they must have

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Speaker 1: in the first round. T J. Hopkinson, the Iowa tight end.

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Speaker 1: Thirty one percent of you say he's the one the

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Speaker 1: Bills go into this draft thinking they have to have

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Speaker 1: a quarter of you, twenty five percent say no, they're

554
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Speaker 1: not locked into one player, and eight percent, only eight

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Speaker 1: percent say wide receiver DK Metcalf is the one guy

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Speaker 1: the Bills feel they must have. What do you think?

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Speaker 1: It's amazing because the thing about month ago when we

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Speaker 1: were at the combine, DK Metcalf would have run away

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Speaker 1: with this, would have absolutely run away with this. And

560
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Speaker 1: now everybody's kind of let it digest for a minute.

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Speaker 1: They understand that and they hear that LK DK was

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Speaker 1: all that. But yeah, we'll just pump the brakes on

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Speaker 1: him for just a minute. He's a very young player,

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Speaker 1: and people aren't as sold on him as they were

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Speaker 1: just six weeks ago when we were sitting here. I

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Speaker 1: don't know when it was, maybe not six weeks but

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Speaker 1: the draft, the combine, yeah, almost two. Oh, he blew it.

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Speaker 1: He took the lid off the joint. And now he's

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Speaker 1: getting eight percent on our guy that the Bills have

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Speaker 1: to have. What do you think? Who do the Bills

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Speaker 1: field they have to have? And look, and I would

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Speaker 1: vote for none of the above or what was the

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Speaker 1: last line there? I would vote for there's not just

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Speaker 1: one player. I kind of believe that where they're at

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Speaker 1: at number nine, I think the Bills they sure there's

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Speaker 1: players they like like a lot, but I don't think

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Speaker 1: they're locked into one. That would be my point. I

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Speaker 1: think they are available to draft a couple and identifying

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Speaker 1: those two or three at number nine. If you can

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Speaker 1: do that, let us know. We'll take those names from you.

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Speaker 1: But I do believe my vote in this poll would

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Speaker 1: be there's not one player that they're locked into. I

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Speaker 1: think there's more than a couple that they're probably very

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Speaker 1: interested in and very ready to take at number nine overall.

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Speaker 1: But that's my viewpoint. What do you think give us

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Speaker 1: a call eight oh three h five fifty toll free

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Speaker 1: from outside Buffalo one eight eight eight five fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty. Sending a tweet, voting the Twitter poll. Sending

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Speaker 1: a tweet, we might read it on the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: Predict the one player if there is one that the

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Speaker 1: Bills need to come away that you think the Bills

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Speaker 1: want to come away with, not need, but the one

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Speaker 1: player the Bills want to come away with on Thursday night,

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Speaker 1: around one of the draft. The one player? Are they

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Speaker 1: locked in to one? We want to know what do

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Speaker 1: you think the Bills slots are on that? So we'll

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Speaker 1: take a break. Can we do that? Come back, We'll

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Speaker 1: read some of the tweets, take some of the calls.

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Speaker 1: Predict the one player the Bills feel the Bills feel,

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Speaker 1: not you, but the one player the Bills feel they

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Speaker 1: must have in the first round Thursday night. We'll be

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Speaker 1: back and do that when we return. One Bill's Live

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Speaker 1: presented by Klatta Health from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Yes We're back. One goes Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalaida Health from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker, got a busy week here because

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Speaker 1: of the draft. We've got a Thursday, We've got a

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Speaker 1: long show, well noon to three, and then we'll be

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Speaker 1: back eight pm on Thursday on the radio only. Did

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Speaker 1: you know that you can wear jeans and stuff Thursday

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Speaker 1: night Draft? Yeah, apm as we cover the Bills first

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Speaker 1: round on our flagsip here in Buffalo wg OUR Sports

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Speaker 1: Radio fifty and then Friday five hours show. The Instigators

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Speaker 1: get the day off. Friday, We're on the air at

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Speaker 1: ten am until three pm. Gonna have a lot of

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Speaker 1: reaction to that first round pick and set up for

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Speaker 1: the second round. That night's a second and third round.

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Speaker 1: Here's all right, here's perfect scenario, Murph. So the Bills

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Speaker 1: stay at nine, pick somebody like whatever, Nick Bosa, Quinnin Williams,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, one of those elite guys. Something quirky happens

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Speaker 1: when you get one of those guys and he's on

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Speaker 1: the show on Friday. Yeah, yeah, best case scenario. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: we yeah, yeah, like yeah, you think that's a given.

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Speaker 1: We've done that the last couple of years. They fly

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Speaker 1: the guy am we am on the show and I

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Speaker 1: already fly him in. Well, sometimes they can't get him

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Speaker 1: in because he's, you know, flying from Nashville. They have

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Speaker 1: the private job. I know that, but you know how

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Speaker 1: it is. They got they gotta meet the press, they

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Speaker 1: gotta meet the fans. They got events they gotta go to.

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Speaker 1: They gotta kiss babies. One of the events has been

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Speaker 1: one of the events. Yeah, we'll see. Had become a bet.

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Speaker 1: I do not want to bet. I bet we have

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Speaker 1: the first round pick on the show Friday. You think,

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Speaker 1: what if we get it last year? Right? What if

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Speaker 1: they trade out at number nine? What if they trade out? Actually,

637
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Speaker 1: Josh got in late last year, didn't he I can't remember. Oh,

638
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: now you're back pedaling. I think he was on the show.

639
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 1: We had him on. I think I think we got

640
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Speaker 1: him on the phone. I don't think he was on

641
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Speaker 1: the show like this, And I think and I think

642
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Speaker 1: we did have him on like a weekly. You weren't

643
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Speaker 1: even here last Friday last year, on Friday after the draft,

644
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Speaker 1: that that day after the draft. You're right, I wasn't. Yeah,

645
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Speaker 1: I was there on Draft Day, but I wasn't there

646
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Speaker 1: the day after this. We're talking. I had a thing.

647
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Speaker 1: You had a thing. Um, So I don't know why

648
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 1: I'm I can't remember what the thing was. Family must

649
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: have been critically important. Yeah, we gotta, we got a thing.

650
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Speaker 1: We gotta Twitter poll and I think it's a pretty

651
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: good one because it's pretty close normally the tasker theory

652
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Speaker 1: for analyzing Twitter polls. How close is the voting? Today's poll,

653
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: round one of the draft three days away, asking you

654
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 1: to predict the one player of the Bills field they

655
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Speaker 1: must have in the first round on Thursday and why

656
00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: right now? On the Twitter poll, thirty five percent of

657
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: you say it's the Houston defensive tackle At Oliver, thirty

658
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: two percent of you say it's the Iowa tight end

659
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 1: t J. Hockinson, twenty five percent of you say the

660
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: Bills are not locked into any one player that's where

661
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Speaker 1: I would be, and eight percent say it's wide receiver

662
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf. What do you think predict the one player

663
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Speaker 1: the Bills field they must have in the first round?

664
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Speaker 1: Tell us why? Give us a call? Eight h three

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Speaker 1: h five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five

666
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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty prediction not your hope, but prediction

667
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Speaker 1: for the one player the Bills field they must have.

668
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: On the tweet sheet, Bill cart tweets this and At

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Speaker 1: Oliver the Bills need a three technique tackle they replace

670
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 1: Kyle Williams. Pretty basic and a lot of logic there.

671
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:37,959
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying there, Bill Carr. I think

672
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: you're onto something. Yeah, But I don't know if if

673
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: he's the one for the Bills. Yeah, I don't know either.

674
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's worth staying at number nine

675
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: to get or if they're if they feel that highly

676
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: about him, or if he's just the one they're willing

677
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: to settle for at number nine. If Bosa, if Josh Allen,

678
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: if Quinnon, Williams are all gone off the board, is

679
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: at Oliver the next guy in line? There may be

680
00:31:58,480 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 1: a guy we don't even know about our having her

681
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: about that the Bills really like? I saw ESPN? No,

682
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: what were you watching ESPN? Yeah, Todd mcshaye mock draft

683
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: today on ESPN he had to ed Oliver going ahead

684
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Speaker 1: of Quinn and Williams the Alabama defensive tackle by one

685
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: players and it was up in three and four. But

686
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: is at Oliver really then highly regarded that he's going

687
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: to be the third or fourth player chosen. I don't

688
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 1: know that. I don't think so. And if I have

689
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Speaker 1: a choice between Ed Oliver and Quinn and Williams. I'm

690
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Speaker 1: choosing Quinn and Williams. Like all day long, I am too,

691
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: But again Todd McShay had it the other way around.

692
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Speaker 1: Interesting today I got my intention. Here's another from the

693
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Speaker 1: tweet sheet from Marty Rogers. I feel their best decision

694
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Speaker 1: is to stay flexible, take the best player or trade

695
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: if it makes sense. Pass Rusher or o l would

696
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 1: be my pick, but impact players may be gone at

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Speaker 1: number nine depending on how things unfold. And there is

698
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Speaker 1: a lot done. I mean, you think you're in the

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Speaker 1: top ten, but there's still a lot of particularly in

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Speaker 1: this draft, where you've got something you know, where there's

701
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: not these like last year where there's four quarterbacks headed

702
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 1: for the first five quarterbacks headed for the first round,

703
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: and you just don't know what's going to happen ahead

704
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Speaker 1: of you, and you gotta trade up, and you got

705
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: teams moving all over the joint. This is a year.

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Speaker 1: Last year was a year where you can see teams

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Speaker 1: trading up to get the quarterback they needed. There's a

708
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Speaker 1: lot of people in that market. This year, all the

709
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Speaker 1: talk is about guys doing just the opposite, trading out

710
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Speaker 1: because they're gonna get really good value from the middle

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Speaker 1: of the first to the middle of the third guys

712
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: who are really going to be good pros, and not

713
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: much difference between the good guys and the you know,

714
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 1: there's just not much range there. You're gonna get a

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Speaker 1: quality player and you're not gonna be able to break

716
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Speaker 1: the bank either way. So you're gonna, you know, whether

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00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 1: you get to get a late first two seconds and

718
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: a third is no different than getting three seconds and

719
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 1: a third, that kind of thing. So you're gonna be

720
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Speaker 1: able to get a good player at all of those spots,

721
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Speaker 1: at a number of different positions. So there's the big

722
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Speaker 1: feel is everybody's gonna move down and stockpile more picks.

723
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: But they also agree that there's like four or five

724
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Speaker 1: guys at the top of this draft that are worth

725
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 1: it jumping up. Now that's the thing. I no, no,

726
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: there's here's the contradicted Most of the draft is the

727
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Speaker 1: meat of this draft is between the late first and

728
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: mid third. But there are less than a handful or

729
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 1: less than a handful of guys that one through five

730
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Speaker 1: of this draft to top. That's the only scenario I

731
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 1: can see where somebody may trade up to get one

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00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 1: of those guys. That's the only way if you get

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Speaker 1: through number five of this draft. And I don't think

734
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Speaker 1: anybody's trading up for anybody, you know what I'm saying,

735
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Speaker 1: So I don't know. I think the only thing that

736
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 1: would excite me about this will really catch me off guard,

737
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 1: that I'd be really really excited about is if the

738
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Speaker 1: Bills traded up into the top five from number nine, somehow,

739
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,879
Speaker 1: some way, for some reason, they did that to get

740
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Speaker 1: one of those difference maker guys Josh Allen, uh, Nick Bosa, Quinnon, Williams,

741
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 1: Um maybe an maybe offensive tackle like Jonah Williams or

742
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 1: one of those guys I don't even know who the other.

743
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 1: And they don't need Kyler Murray. So um, if they

744
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 1: did that, that'ud be the only thing that would really

745
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 1: get me excited about it. Other than that the draft

746
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 1: I kind of am because I think any I can

747
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: see him taking Ed Oliver at number nine, t J.

748
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: Hockinson at number five, Uh, the tackle from Washington. Uh there,

749
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: I can see him taken uh the corner from Notre Dame. There.

750
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 1: I mean, all these guys I don't get and if

751
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,439
Speaker 1: they take any of those guys. I'm okay with it. Yeah,

752
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: I'm okay with it. No, I'm not. I don't have

753
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 1: one of those guys after those top three or four

754
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: guys that I'm like, wow, gee, I hope they take

755
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:33,280
Speaker 1: this guy because they're all the same level of ability.

756
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,279
Speaker 1: That just depends on what position they play is the

757
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: only difference in None of that, None of that really

758
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 1: gets me going. You know what I mean, I know

759
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: what you mean. I just I don't feel that way,

760
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 1: but I understand what you're all right, So what, well,

761
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,320
Speaker 1: how do you feel then about numbers of Well, I

762
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 1: trust they will get a good player. I know they will.

763
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: I know they will. And as I said in answer

764
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 1: to the poll, I don't think they're locked into one guy.

765
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 1: I think they are ready, and we'll be ready on

766
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: Thursday night at eight pm or whenever their selection is,

767
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:58,760
Speaker 1: they will be ready to get one of their guys.

768
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 1: Um And I I don't think they are desperately in

769
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 1: need of or really in want of one guy. Nobody

770
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: really in this draft. But that's what we're asking you

771
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: to predict that. And we'll take your calls on this issue.

772
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: We will take your tweets on this issue. What do

773
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: you think predict the one player of the Bills field

774
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,359
Speaker 1: they must have in the first round. Maybe you don't

775
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: think there is one. We'll take that as a response

776
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 1: as well. On the tweet sheet from Nick says can't

777
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: be locked in. If this draft is as deep as

778
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: they say in defensive lineman, then the Bills can draft.

779
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 1: They can grab a BP a best player available wide receiver,

780
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: tight end or defensive end, defensive tackle, and maybe an

781
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: offensive lineman. But an immediate impact player is a must.

782
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: That's an interesting thought there, Nick. I would think they

783
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 1: probably and maybe this goes to my answer, not lock

784
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: They probably have a group of players they feel can

785
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: make immediate impacts at tight end, at wide receiver, on

786
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 1: the defensive line, at offensive tackle. Maybe there's four. Maybe

787
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: there's four guys that they think this guy can play

788
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: this year and deep into the future as well. I'm

789
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: saying this maybe, but I don't think they're locked into one.

790
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: I'm thinking they're probably locked into four or five at

791
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,399
Speaker 1: a couple of positions where they need a little help

792
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,800
Speaker 1: and feel like that person can't contribute right away. That

793
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:14,320
Speaker 1: to me, would be the smart way to do it,

794
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 1: not to get locked in. To say we desperately need TJ. Hockinson,

795
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: we desperately need Ed Oliver. I don't think there is

796
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: that guy for them, but I could be wrong. I

797
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: totally agree. I think once you get out get to

798
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 1: number nine in this draft, and I just said, you know,

799
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 1: I've been saying it, and I hope I can make

800
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: it clear, and I hope everybody gets what I'm saying.

801
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: I just don't think there's a guy that jumps ahead

802
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 1: of all these other guys. Now, certainly, if one of

803
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,359
Speaker 1: those top three or four that we know about falls down,

804
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:40,839
Speaker 1: of course, but I don't think those got the rest

805
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 1: of them. Whether it's Andre Dillard the offensive tackle from Washington,

806
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 1: or t J. Hawkinson the tight end, or Ed Oliver

807
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: one of these other guys, or Montez Sweat one of

808
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:55,439
Speaker 1: those guys. All of those guys are you know, they're

809
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: the same quality of player. Certainly, the Bills have a

810
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: need at different positions, but they haven't needed d tackle,

811
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 1: defensive end, offensive line, tight end. They got to need

812
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 1: it all those places. They could plug that guy in

813
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 1: right away and he could contribute. So whichever guy they pick,

814
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know that the guy they pick

815
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 1: at number nine is going to be any better than

816
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 1: what some other team picks at number twenty seven. You

817
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: know the Raiders have twenty four and twenty seven. You

818
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: know whatever they did. You know what I'm saying. I

819
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: just don't think being in the top ten of this

820
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 1: draft is worth it. Once you get past the top

821
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,399
Speaker 1: three or four, I think if you could have, I'd

822
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 1: rather have more second and third round picks than I

823
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: would that top ten pick. That's the way this draft

824
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 1: is being characterized by a lot of people around the NFL. Scouts, gems,

825
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,359
Speaker 1: all that stuff. And I don't know what our guys

826
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 1: think about it. You know what Brandon being Sean McDermott think.

827
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: But I do know the atmosphere around the league is, hey, man,

828
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,719
Speaker 1: everybody's ready to trade down if you want not. Too

829
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: many people are into trading up. I want you to

830
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:03,800
Speaker 1: predict the one player the Bills field they must have

831
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: in the first round. On Thursday ninety A couple of

832
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 1: phone calls here, I've been in Buffalo. Go ahead, I've

833
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: been welcome. You're on the air with this. Hey guys,

834
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Speaker 1: how are you doing it? Okay? Good, We're doing well. Great. Steve.

835
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 1: About three weeks ago, you have mentioned that the Bill

836
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 1: should take a player that you know that will be

837
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,240
Speaker 1: an impact player. And if they and if the Bills

838
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: saw that guy, that they should take him at number nine.

839
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: And I think that the Bills should draft DK Metcalf.

840
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 1: And here's why. Okay, So he's a big guy, almost

841
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: six four six three in the quarter, he runs a

842
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,440
Speaker 1: fourth four three three and forty. He's a very powerful

843
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 1: and physical receiver. The Bills haven't had that that that

844
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: type of receiver on our team probably since maybe Sammy Watkins,

845
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 1: although he stayed injured. But here's a guy that stays

846
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: in shape. And one of the things that the learner

847
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: the all season is that Brandon Bean had stated that

848
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: the Bills didn't need a true number one but yet

849
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:02,800
Speaker 1: and still he went out and try to get that

850
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 1: number one guy through Sum through Um, the guy from

851
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 1: Pittsburg Brown, Tonio Brown, Yeah, Brown, Yes, and so um.

852
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:14,839
Speaker 1: And so to me, I think if there's, if there's

853
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 1: still a glaring hole on the Bills um offense, I

854
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 1: think that it would be um at at at at

855
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: that number one vide receiver position. Now, many of the

856
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: scouts say last year that Josh Ellen, you know what

857
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: I'm saying will be a project. And you know something

858
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 1: even had him falling out the first round to the

859
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:34,400
Speaker 1: second round, and a lot of them said that, you know,

860
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna take him a long time to to be

861
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:39,280
Speaker 1: able to you know, to acclimate himself to the NFL.

862
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: And here now you're starting to hear similar things about

863
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 1: you know, about about DK Metcalf. You know, they say, oh, well,

864
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: you know, he can't run arounts, he can't do this,

865
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:49,399
Speaker 1: he can't do that. He's too really probably too big

866
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: for his position to play and get off the line

867
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: of big explosive. Well, he sort of reminds me of

868
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: David Boston. If you guys remember him back in the days.

869
00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: He was a big receiver that could run a route

870
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 1: and it was a whole lot of stuff said about him.

871
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: I think that the bills um is going to drop

872
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,839
Speaker 1: Dk Metcalf. I don't think that they're listening to all

873
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: of all the other stuff that's being said all brown

874
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 1: about him. I mean, when you got a guy that's

875
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: his size and explosive, he can make a difference. He

876
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: can make it. Yeah. I mean, I hear what you're saying,

877
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: and it sounds you are advocating dk Metcalf and that's fine.

878
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,320
Speaker 1: Our question was who the Bills field they must have?

879
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 1: And just to kind of summarize, are you indicating do

880
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 1: you believe that the pursuit of Antonio Brown leads you

881
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 1: to believe that maybe DK Metcalf is their choice because

882
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,439
Speaker 1: because of what they were looking at with Antonio Brown,

883
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: and that's what the player they need they feel they

884
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 1: need to get on Thursday night exactly because they still

885
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 1: don't have that novel one guy. Yeah, that's a good

886
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: it's a good interesting point. It's a line at it's

887
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: a good line of logic. Guy, And I know what

888
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:47,359
Speaker 1: you're saying, and it makes a lot of sense because

889
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 1: if they if they were going to get a guy

890
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 1: like that, it points the fact that they still think

891
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: they need a guy like that. Yeah, even with John

892
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 1: Brown and Cole Beasley in the fold Um, Okay, you

893
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 1: know and see it, and it's it does point to that.

894
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I don't know either.

895
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 1: That's a really good it's a good line of reasoning,

896
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: and it does. There are some things that point to that,

897
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,360
Speaker 1: and it's easy to see that line of thought continuing

898
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,800
Speaker 1: through the organization. They still Josh Allen is still the

899
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 1: focal point of everything that happens in this building, right.

900
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: I mean I could say too that when they get

901
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 1: all the offensive lineman in for this next week or

902
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 1: so and this before the draft, they'll get a look

903
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,320
Speaker 1: at all those guys, maybe that'll change their mind about

904
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: who it is. Maybe they still think offensive line is

905
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:35,360
Speaker 1: not quite good enough for Josh Allen to be successful.

906
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: Maybe that changes things, and they've take an offensive tackle

907
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 1: makes a really good point. Yet, when we were putting

908
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 1: together and discussing and thinking about today's Twitter poll, I

909
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,800
Speaker 1: didn't think should I put Metcalf? Should we put in

910
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:49,879
Speaker 1: Metcalf is one of the choices, and we eventually did,

911
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 1: mainly because of some of the reasons that i'ven't just mentioned.

912
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:55,839
Speaker 1: You know, they they've they've addressed receiver, but maybe don't

913
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,319
Speaker 1: have the answer, the number one answer at receiver. Yet

914
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 1: he points to the Antonio pursuit back in what was

915
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 1: that March early March. Maybe that's maybe he's right, you know,

916
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:06,399
Speaker 1: maybe he's right. I don't have that answer, But that's

917
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 1: why I'm glad we have Metting among our choices. Yeah,

918
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 1: it's interesting, Well, break here, we're coming back with more

919
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: predict the one player the Bills want to come away

920
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: with Thursday night, Not who you hope they do, but

921
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 1: who do you think they are interested in most one player?

922
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: If there is one they want to come away with

923
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 1: in the first round, give us a call. Eight three

924
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two

925
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:28,359
Speaker 1: five fifty one Bills Live presented by Kalida Health from

926
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Yes, welcome back,

927
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: One Bills Live from One Bill Drive, John Murphy with

928
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker coming up at one o'clock. Some more draft

929
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 1: talk with Sam Monson from Pro Football Focus coming up

930
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 1: at one thirty. Levi Wallace not drafted last year. We'll

931
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 1: talk with him about that experienced Bill's corner coming up

932
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: with two. Eric Molds drafted back in what nineteen ninety six,

933
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 1: ninety six, ninety six mine, Yeah, we're gonna talk to

934
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:13,319
Speaker 1: him about that experience from twenty thirty, No, twenty something

935
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,720
Speaker 1: years ago. Eric Mold is going to join us today

936
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 1: at two o'clock. In the meantime, what do you think

937
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: is there one player do the Bills need to come

938
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 1: away Thursday night? Do they want to come away not

939
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: what they need. Your prediction? Do they want to come

940
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: away with one player? Do they are they hot on

941
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: one guy? Let us know what you think. Eight h

942
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 1: three l five fifty twenty three one eight eight eight

943
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:34,760
Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty Go to Richard and Rochester. Hello, Richard,

944
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. I'm good, I'm all real good.

945
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:43,840
Speaker 1: Thank you. I think they go go after Ed Oliver

946
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 1: and that t J. Hoakson a good thing. Yeah you

947
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:50,759
Speaker 1: think do you think they should or do you think

948
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:53,799
Speaker 1: they will? No? I think they will go after both

949
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 1: of them because they need alp They need a lot

950
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,759
Speaker 1: of help. They need two d I think they need

951
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 1: two defensive lineman, two defense, you know, linebackers and offense.

952
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:11,879
Speaker 1: They need an offense. They need two wide receivers more

953
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:17,399
Speaker 1: and two. All right, thanks to you and your partners. Yeah, Richard,

954
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,399
Speaker 1: you need to turn your radio down next time. But yeah,

955
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,399
Speaker 1: I get it that you think they've need all kinds

956
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 1: of guys and they're gonna take those guys at nine

957
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 1: and you don't think they can trade down and get

958
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:29,799
Speaker 1: enough guys to help him out. I get it. So, yeah,

959
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: maybe he's got his eyes set on Ed Oliver and t. J. Hawkinson.

960
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:36,839
Speaker 1: He thinks the Bills are gonna stand pat and take

961
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 1: one of the two. I was going to ask him

962
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 1: which one do they take first? If they're both there.

963
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: Here's a tweet from Bill's fan twelve to eighty three

964
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,760
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet. When the we asked question predict

965
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 1: the one player the Bills want to come away with

966
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: Thursday night, Bill's fan twelve to eighty three responds, I

967
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 1: don't think they're locked into one player because there are

968
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: too many variables. You got to move up to get one.

969
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 1: If you're locked into one player, I can only move

970
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 1: up for and Williams. If you don't do that, I

971
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:06,399
Speaker 1: say stay put and get either Hawk or Oliver. If

972
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,359
Speaker 1: one falls, as always go Bill. Who's Hawk? I don't

973
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:12,839
Speaker 1: even know that guy. Maybe that's Hockinson. Yeah that's Oh

974
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 1: that's I'm being told that's his nickname. I guess Hawk.

975
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: I haven't heard that. Yeah, okay, I can't say this.

976
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 1: Um last when do we have CoA sell? On last Thursday?

977
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 1: His effusive praise if T. J. Hockinson got my attention, Stephen,

978
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 1: Actually you're gonna think I'm a loser. I spent a

979
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 1: little bit of time over the weekend, going back and

980
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: looking at more video of Hockinson. I see what he sees.

981
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: I see what people see about Hackinson. I still don't know.

982
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 1: Is he a difference maker? I don't know. I don't know.

983
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 1: I think he's a good, very very capable, uh multi talented, blocking,

984
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 1: receiving tight end. Is he a difference maker? I don't

985
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 1: see that, but I can see how people might project

986
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 1: that for him. What do you think? Well, the thing

987
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:56,239
Speaker 1: about him is he's complete. He run, He blocks very

988
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: well in the run game. He's a big body two

989
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:01,320
Speaker 1: is all a six five and built for it, so

990
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:05,400
Speaker 1: he's got an NFL body for a tight end. He

991
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 1: played a lot and he caught some balls. He's and

992
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 1: he's That's the thing that guys really like about him

993
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 1: is the fact that he is good in the running game,

994
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 1: contract the ball really well in the passing game, runs

995
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 1: pretty good routes, and has some pretty good speed. The

996
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 1: big body thing turns a lot of people on. He's

997
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,760
Speaker 1: a tough matchup and he moves well, and he's really athletic,

998
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: so he runs through his rise. He's kind of an

999
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 1: When he gets the ball in his hand, it turns

1000
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 1: up field. He's not stiff doesn't know what to do.

1001
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: He knows what to do with it. So he's he's hit.

1002
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: He checks a lot of boxes for a tight end

1003
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 1: that could be very very good. And yeah, he's he

1004
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:48,480
Speaker 1: could be very well, a quality top ten pick in

1005
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:50,800
Speaker 1: the NFL draft. I don't know if he's who the

1006
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: Bills are looking at as the guy it you can

1007
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 1: see certainly the Bills are in a position now you

1008
00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 1: and I know if they take Hawkinson, it's a safe pick.

1009
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 1: They're not gonna have to justify it very much. People

1010
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:05,319
Speaker 1: are gonna say, Okay, I get it. You're gonna get

1011
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: that tight end. He's a difference maker. You lost Charles Clay,

1012
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 1: he's not here anymore. You got the guy to plug

1013
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 1: in and he can go. If they take c or

1014
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:17,319
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf, you think, okay, now you got your receiver.

1015
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 1: Now you got the big number one guy. You're gonna go.

1016
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of guys then a lot of

1017
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 1: places they can go because of their activity in the

1018
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 1: free agent market where they can you can really make

1019
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:27,440
Speaker 1: a good case for any of these guys. And this

1020
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 1: is exactly where the Bills want to be. The question is,

1021
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:31,360
Speaker 1: and you and I don't have the answer, and it

1022
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 1: is there a guy that outshines everybody else if if

1023
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:38,799
Speaker 1: he drops or or if all those guys and all

1024
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: these mock drafts are right, and Ed Oliver's on the board,

1025
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:45,240
Speaker 1: Montes sweats on the board, t J. Hawkinson's on the board.

1026
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf's on the board. All these guys are on

1027
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: the board. Which one of them do the Bills like best?

1028
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 1: That's the big sixty four dollar question, that's the question.

1029
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: How much they like him? Yeah? Is there one guy?

1030
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: Predict the one guy the Bills feel like they absolutely

1031
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 1: have to get. On Thursday night, we'll talk more about this.

1032
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:04,760
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk with Sam Monson from Pro Football Focus

1033
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:06,879
Speaker 1: when we return for our number two come on back

1034
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health from One Bill's Drive.

1035
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio, Balo Hills Radio Network. Stories

1036
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 1: update update from One Bills Drive to Bills signed running

1037
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 1: back TJ. Yelden today a free agent, reportedly signing him

1038
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:34,279
Speaker 1: to a two year contract. Yeldon spent his first four

1039
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: seasons in the league with the Jacksonville Jaguars. They made

1040
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:40,000
Speaker 1: him a second round pick in twenty fifteen. Yeldon is

1041
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 1: twenty five years old. The starter is a rookie then

1042
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 1: lost his job the last couple of years backing up

1043
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette is a threat out of the backfield too,

1044
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: a couple of fifty catch seasons over the last three years,

1045
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 1: including fifty five catches last year. T J Yelden, running

1046
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:57,840
Speaker 1: back signs with the Buffalo Bills today Well. The Arizona

1047
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:01,239
Speaker 1: Cartinal say their top decision makers will meet early this

1048
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 1: week to set their plans. They have the number one

1049
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 1: pick in Thursday's NFL draft, Arizona goes number one. Cardinals

1050
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 1: brass GM Steve Time, coach Cliff Kingsbury, and owner Michael Bidwell.

1051
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:13,960
Speaker 1: We'll have a final meeting over the next few days

1052
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: to discuss their options at number one. Report says that

1053
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: Cardinals have received feeler calls from teams inquiring about trading

1054
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 1: for them for the number one pick. Seattle Seahawks still

1055
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:28,840
Speaker 1: considering trading defensive end Frank Clark in return. The Seahawks

1056
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 1: would want any package to include at least a first

1057
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:35,239
Speaker 1: round draft pick next Thursday's NFL Draft. Clark has yet

1058
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:37,840
Speaker 1: to sign as franchise tag. He has been the subject

1059
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 1: of trade rumors and the Seahawks are interested if they

1060
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 1: can get a first rounder in exchange. Standy Cup playoffs.

1061
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:46,319
Speaker 1: Couple of games Tonight and the East, it is game

1062
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 1: six of the Eastern Conference series between Washington and Carolina.

1063
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 1: Washington leads that series three games to two. They'll face

1064
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:56,360
Speaker 1: off seven o'clock tonight in Carolina. Out West, it is

1065
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 1: game six of the series between Nashville and Dallas. They'll

1066
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:02,800
Speaker 1: play to eight thirty in Dallas. Dallas leads that series

1067
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:05,279
Speaker 1: three games to two, and after being rained out over

1068
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:07,719
Speaker 1: the weekend in Buffalo, the Bisons opened up a road

1069
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:11,359
Speaker 1: trip in Syracuse against the Mets. Tonight. Right hander Jordan

1070
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 1: Romano tip makes his third start of the season for

1071
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:15,759
Speaker 1: the Herd. He has won one and lost one of

1072
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:18,880
Speaker 1: his first two starts. First pitch, six thirty five tonight

1073
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 1: in Syracuse. The Bisons and the Syracuse Mets. I know

1074
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 1: you don't care about baseball, but can I just say

1075
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 1: what a travesty it is, Steve Tasker that they are

1076
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,960
Speaker 1: the Syracuse Mets. They were the Syracuse Chiefs for decades,

1077
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 1: even the Sky Chiefs is okay, and they just changed

1078
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: to the Mets this year. Come on, man, that's a legendary.

1079
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:39,400
Speaker 1: If the Bison's ever changed their nickname, they wouldn't. They

1080
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:40,840
Speaker 1: would never do it. They would never do it. I

1081
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: can't believe they did it in Syracuse. Syracuse Chiefs rolls

1082
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 1: off the tongue. Well, there you go. What do you mean?

1083
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: There you go? Like when you say there you go,

1084
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: what you're really saying is I couldn't care the less

1085
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:56,279
Speaker 1: I'm saying. There you go. You know they're out. It's

1086
00:51:56,360 --> 00:52:01,480
Speaker 1: outrage at its best. Stupid thing League Baseball team changes

1087
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,279
Speaker 1: its name. Yeah, especially in one that means as much

1088
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:06,759
Speaker 1: as that one series, Chiefs. Let's get back to the draft.

1089
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:08,839
Speaker 1: We've got one of the foremost experts on the draft

1090
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: and on the NFL, really on the line with us.

1091
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 1: He is Pro Football Focus lead NFL analysts. He's been

1092
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:16,399
Speaker 1: with them since two thousand and eight, contributed to ESPN

1093
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:18,880
Speaker 1: and the ESPAN Radio. Really glad to have Sam Monson

1094
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: on the line with us. Sam is John murphy AND's

1095
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:22,439
Speaker 1: team tasker up here in Buffalo. Thank you for joining

1096
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:25,879
Speaker 1: us today anytime. Thanks for having Me've been a long time. Yeah,

1097
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:27,680
Speaker 1: it's been a while you since then. It made the

1098
00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 1: move right from Ireland, your homeland, to the United States.

1099
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:33,920
Speaker 1: Where do you live right now, Sam, Yeah, I'm now

1100
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 1: by twenty minutes out side of Cincinnati, where PF HQ

1101
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 1: is based. So yeah, summer twenty seventeen, I moved over.

1102
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 1: Very nice. We first got with you on this show

1103
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:48,799
Speaker 1: years ago when PF had a bunch of people from

1104
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 1: the UK, including Ireland, doing the analysis. And now PF

1105
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,400
Speaker 1: it's really blossom over the last few years, hasn't it

1106
00:52:56,600 --> 00:53:00,120
Speaker 1: with video feeds and the involvement of Chris Collinsworth than

1107
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:01,840
Speaker 1: some of the others. And well, when you go to

1108
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 1: the Combine and one of those major events, you're overwhelmed

1109
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 1: with numbers from the PF group where it's pretty impressive. Yeah.

1110
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:10,160
Speaker 1: And you know, way back in the day, we had

1111
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:12,879
Speaker 1: just a few NFL team clients. Now all thirty two

1112
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:16,359
Speaker 1: NFL teams are PFF customers. Were up to I think

1113
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 1: fifty five college teams, a couple of PFL teams. We're

1114
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 1: pretty much all over the place now. Before we get

1115
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 1: to the draft, get I'm not going to ask you

1116
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:25,360
Speaker 1: what you do for the bills, but what do you

1117
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:27,720
Speaker 1: do for the what kind of services do you provide

1118
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: the bills and other NFL teams? Yeah, I mean, everybody

1119
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:34,840
Speaker 1: is a pretty much subscribed to the same kind of

1120
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:39,279
Speaker 1: team consumer package. There's a little bit of difference here

1121
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:41,279
Speaker 1: and there in terms of what exactly they're paying for,

1122
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 1: and then there's a real difference I think in each

1123
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:48,319
Speaker 1: NFL franchise kind of how ingrained PFF is in their

1124
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:51,319
Speaker 1: day to day lives and there how much how much

1125
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:54,080
Speaker 1: they use the system, and how much they get use

1126
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 1: of it. And that's the real thing we find when

1127
00:53:56,480 --> 00:53:58,640
Speaker 1: we go to the events like the Combine and we

1128
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 1: meet with all these teams that just a variety of

1129
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 1: how certain teams use it. Some teams just take the

1130
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:08,360
Speaker 1: day they use it as a part of their checking process,

1131
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:11,320
Speaker 1: and other teams it's fully ingrained in what they do.

1132
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:14,279
Speaker 1: It's all part of their video system. It's a big

1133
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: part of their checks and balances. It saves their QC

1134
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 1: coaches a ton of time. You know, you think way

1135
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:21,839
Speaker 1: back in the day, these guys you start to come

1136
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:25,200
Speaker 1: in on a Monday morning and start manually making cut

1137
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:27,800
Speaker 1: ups of all the things to help with the week's

1138
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:31,320
Speaker 1: preparation and game planning. Now it's all done at the

1139
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:33,680
Speaker 1: touch of a button. They just go in, they access

1140
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 1: PFF data and that's able to create a custom cut up,

1141
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 1: you know, more or less instantaneously. Those guys don't have

1142
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:42,719
Speaker 1: to spend their entire Monday creating this. They can save

1143
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:45,400
Speaker 1: all that time. Well, Sam, we're in the part of

1144
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:48,719
Speaker 1: the season where you know, cutups are cutups, and free

1145
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 1: agency has come and is still in the process. The

1146
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 1: Bills signed a running back t J. Yelden just yesterday.

1147
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:58,840
Speaker 1: What can you tell us about him? And certainly he

1148
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 1: played a role for Jacksonville. They signed him today actually,

1149
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:05,320
Speaker 1: and to a two year deal. Give us the lowdown

1150
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:07,360
Speaker 1: on a guy like t J Yelden. What does he

1151
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:09,279
Speaker 1: bring to the to the Buffalo Bills, to a group

1152
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:13,799
Speaker 1: that already has Lashawn McCoy and Frank Gore. Yeah, he's

1153
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:17,240
Speaker 1: an interesting player because he started off with a pretty

1154
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:19,800
Speaker 1: solid TFF Gray, and he was a guy that we liked.

1155
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:23,160
Speaker 1: He's capable as a receiver, He's capable carrying the ball

1156
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:25,880
Speaker 1: on the ground. He's a pretty well rounded back that

1157
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: can kind of do it all. But the longer he's

1158
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:31,440
Speaker 1: gone on in the league, that Gray it has just

1159
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 1: gone steadily worse. It's it's actually declined every single season

1160
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 1: of his career. And part of that is because you know,

1161
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 1: the opportunities didn't didn't manifest themselves the way they might

1162
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:47,840
Speaker 1: given his early start, and also that Jacksonville offense generally

1163
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 1: was headed in the wrong direction. Obviously, Blake Bortles, a quarterback,

1164
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:55,160
Speaker 1: took steps in the wrong direction, the offensive line got

1165
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:57,760
Speaker 1: beat up, and a huge part of running back success

1166
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,640
Speaker 1: is how good the blocking is in front of them.

1167
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:04,239
Speaker 1: But I think Yelden, you know, does represent a good

1168
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:07,799
Speaker 1: backup option for a team because he can do it all.

1169
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 1: He doesn't have to tip your hand in terms of

1170
00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:13,080
Speaker 1: being a third down back or a guy who's only

1171
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:17,440
Speaker 1: in there obvious passing plays, obviously obvious running plays. He's

1172
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:20,320
Speaker 1: a guy that can be a legitimate every down backup

1173
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 1: to somebody, and I think be a valuable contributor if

1174
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:28,759
Speaker 1: the situation is right. His past reception totals are impressive, though,

1175
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:31,480
Speaker 1: Sam with what fifty five catches last year, more than

1176
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 1: fifty a couple of years ago, which makes me wonder

1177
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 1: if the Bills view him as a potential third down

1178
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:39,399
Speaker 1: running back who they can get involved in the passing game.

1179
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 1: What do you think, how would you use them? Yeah,

1180
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:43,799
Speaker 1: I think there's a good chance they do. I think

1181
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:47,520
Speaker 1: He's definitely he's good at that. He's a solid receiving

1182
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:51,160
Speaker 1: option among running backs. I think that's a decent spot

1183
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:54,080
Speaker 1: four teams and any any team that's bringing in a

1184
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:58,400
Speaker 1: back like that is typically looking to use, you know,

1185
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:00,840
Speaker 1: a third down back. That's when they get their primary

1186
00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 1: belcow some rest. That's when they get that guy on

1187
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 1: the sideline and you know, rejuvenated for the next series

1188
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 1: or the next drive. I think Yeldon would be a

1189
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 1: good third down option. He's capable as a receiver, He's

1190
00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:14,880
Speaker 1: got some wiggle after the catch, and he's also not

1191
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 1: a bad pass blocker, which is usually the kind of

1192
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 1: critical factor with determining which backs are going to be

1193
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 1: on the field and third down well, the Bills spent

1194
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 1: a lot of time and a lot of money on

1195
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:25,680
Speaker 1: free agent. In the free agent markers, they had a

1196
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 1: lot of money to spend, and they addressed a lot

1197
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:32,040
Speaker 1: of needs on offense, particularly. They brought in a bunch

1198
00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 1: of offensive linemen and two really pretty good named wide

1199
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 1: receivers in Cole Beasley and John Brown. What do you

1200
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: make about the changes and the bollstring that the Bills

1201
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 1: have done on their offensive side of the ball Around

1202
00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. I think they've made a lot of smart moves.

1203
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:51,520
Speaker 1: You know, Josh Allen is an interesting quarterback because I

1204
00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:53,600
Speaker 1: think he was a little bit more successful as a

1205
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 1: rookie than we thought he might be given the kind

1206
00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:59,280
Speaker 1: of quality of player he was coming out of college

1207
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:01,840
Speaker 1: and the holes in his game coming out of college.

1208
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:05,920
Speaker 1: But I think we saw that he will remain a

1209
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 1: relatively inaccurate quarterback. He's never going to look like Joe

1210
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:12,520
Speaker 1: Montana as they're completing sixty five percent of his passes

1211
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 1: and putting the ball exactly where it should be every

1212
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 1: single time. But he makes up for that by being

1213
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:20,800
Speaker 1: this dynamic threat with his legs and by having this

1214
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 1: incredible arm to go deep pretty much anytime he wants.

1215
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 1: And I think what they've done is they've given him

1216
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:30,920
Speaker 1: receiver and John Brown, who is an excellent deep target.

1217
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:36,120
Speaker 1: We saw last year before the quarterback switch with him

1218
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 1: that he was still a very viable deep threat. And

1219
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 1: Josh Allen went deep last season more than any other

1220
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 1: quarterback in terms of, you know, frequency percent of his

1221
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:47,080
Speaker 1: dropbacks that were a deep target. And then the other

1222
00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:50,040
Speaker 1: side of things, you've got Cole Beasley, who you know,

1223
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:52,160
Speaker 1: you don't think of him as a great match for

1224
00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:55,439
Speaker 1: a quarterback who's got a big arm wants to go deep,

1225
00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:58,880
Speaker 1: but Cole Beasley will get open underneath. And there's a

1226
00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:04,480
Speaker 1: huge overlooked thing I think for people when they think

1227
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 1: about matching up with these quarterbacks that aren't necessarily the

1228
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 1: most consistent or the most accurate, is you know, you

1229
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:12,280
Speaker 1: want to get him these deep threats, and you want

1230
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 1: to maximize the yards per play. But if you get

1231
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 1: a guy who's going to get wide open on those

1232
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:22,920
Speaker 1: five yard you know, pivot plays, even if even if

1233
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 1: it's not going to be a high percentage play, you're

1234
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:28,720
Speaker 1: maximizing the margin for error on the past. So I

1235
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 1: think Beasley actually is a good fit for Josh Allen

1236
00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 1: because of that, and those two guys together I think

1237
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 1: represent a big upgrade for that receiving corps. And then

1238
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:39,040
Speaker 1: I like what they did on the offensive line as well.

1239
00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:42,840
Speaker 1: Tayan Secki was a guy who's played extremely well a

1240
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 1: tackle and limited opportunities starting for the Redskins over the

1241
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 1: past couple of years, and absolute worst case scenario, he

1242
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:53,520
Speaker 1: should represent, you know, really the best swing tackle, the

1243
00:59:53,560 --> 00:59:55,640
Speaker 1: best backup option in the league. But I think he's

1244
00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 1: got a good shot to start and be a quality

1245
00:59:57,360 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 1: player as well well with the Sam Monsoni's Football Focus

1246
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:04,000
Speaker 1: lead NFL analysts. Let's get to the draft, and I

1247
01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:07,560
Speaker 1: want to talk about a player that your colleague there,

1248
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:10,400
Speaker 1: Steve Palazzolo mentioned Steve and I a couple of weeks ago,

1249
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: the cornerback from Washington Murphy, Byron Murphy. You kind of

1250
01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:15,919
Speaker 1: like him too, is a fit for the Bills, isn't

1251
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:19,560
Speaker 1: that right, Sam? Yeah? I think so. I think the

1252
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 1: Bills potentially still have a need a cornerback. I think

1253
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 1: we don't quite know what Levi Wallace is going to

1254
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:29,240
Speaker 1: be going forward. He had a really impressive rookie season,

1255
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 1: but didn't play you know, only played essentially four hundred

1256
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 1: out snaps, not enough I think to sell you on

1257
01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:39,640
Speaker 1: the idea of him being your quality lockdown cornerback opposite

1258
01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 1: Tradavious White going forward. And even if he is, this

1259
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:45,880
Speaker 1: is a league that requires three corners these days. You

1260
01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:49,160
Speaker 1: need a third guy that can play six seven hundred snaffs.

1261
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:50,720
Speaker 1: So I think it wouldn't be a bad move to

1262
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 1: get a third guy anyway. And yeah, Byron Murphy in

1263
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:57,480
Speaker 1: a zone scheme in particular, is devastating he's got the

1264
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Speaker 1: quickness coming out of breaks that he can really maximize that.

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Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter that he doesn't run, you know,

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Speaker 1: a four three flat, because you just don't need him

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Speaker 1: to the way he can read the play react to

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Speaker 1: what's happening in front of him, and I think in

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Speaker 1: that scheme, it would be a beautiful fit. Yeah, talk

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Speaker 1: a little bit about the scheme fit and why it's

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Speaker 1: so important. Yeah, I mean the corner in particular. I

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Speaker 1: think a huge amount of whether these guys succeed or

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Speaker 1: fail at the NFL level is what system they end

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Speaker 1: up in. And you know, particularly long term, whether those

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Speaker 1: systems change and you see them suddenly find themselves in

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Speaker 1: a situation that they're not great at. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's a lot of the reason why you see cornerback

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Speaker 1: boards look completely different, because depending on the scheme you run,

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Speaker 1: you're going to have guys in a completely different order.

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Speaker 1: Whoever is a great fit for you know, a press

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Speaker 1: man scheme that runs man coverage almost all the time,

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Speaker 1: it's not the same skill set that you're looking for

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Speaker 1: compared to the team that runs a lot of zone coverage.

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Speaker 1: And I think the Bills run a ton of that

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Speaker 1: zone coverage. We saw Davious White was a perfect fit

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Speaker 1: for that kind of system. I think that's what Byron

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Speaker 1: Murphy would be as well. These zone players they don't

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Speaker 1: necessarily have to run a four three flat because they've

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Speaker 1: got their eyes in the quarterback and they're reading the

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Speaker 1: play in front of them. They're not necessarily having to

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Speaker 1: rely on their athleticism, their quickness to match receivers and

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Speaker 1: to run with those guys. They can rely a little

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Speaker 1: bit more on, you know, the square foot of real

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Speaker 1: estate in above their above their shoulders, and that's where

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Speaker 1: they get their first yard to speed from. So I

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Speaker 1: think Byron Murphy would be a great fit for that team.

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Speaker 1: Hey yeah, Sam, Steve and I talked a lot in

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Speaker 1: the first hour of our show about this week as

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Speaker 1: we approached the draft three days away from round one.

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Speaker 1: What do you make of the reports about Arizona maybe

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01:02:46,520 --> 01:02:49,080
Speaker 1: backing off Kyler Murray maybe getting ready to take somebody

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Speaker 1: else at number one. Is this typical draft week lying

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01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:55,800
Speaker 1: season stuff or is that for real? And is Kyler

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01:02:55,920 --> 01:02:59,280
Speaker 1: Murray a legitimate first overall prospect for the Arizona Cardinals.

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01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:02,400
Speaker 1: What do you think I think he absolutely should be,

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01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:05,160
Speaker 1: Whether he is or not. I think it's still up

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01:03:05,200 --> 01:03:08,240
Speaker 1: in the air. But you know, we've been working really

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01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:12,160
Speaker 1: hard at THEFF to quantify this transition between the college

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01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:15,640
Speaker 1: level and the NFL level, particularly when it comes to quarterbacks,

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01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:18,520
Speaker 1: because this is a passing league. You know, the quarterback

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01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:20,800
Speaker 1: has never been more important. It is the thing that

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Speaker 1: determines whether you're going to succeed or fail as a

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Speaker 1: franchise going forward. So you need to get it right.

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Speaker 1: And all of the data we had last year pointed

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Speaker 1: to the fact that Baker Mayfield was head and shoulders

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Speaker 1: the best quarterback in last year's draft, and Kyler Murray

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Speaker 1: isn't quite Baker Mayfield according to these numbers, but he's

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Speaker 1: closer to Baker than any other quarterback over the last

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Speaker 1: two years was. And when you look at accuracy, when

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Speaker 1: you look at play from a clean pocket, which is

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Speaker 1: the most stable number, it's the most translatable thing. When

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Speaker 1: you look at the frequency of mistakes, bad plays, he's

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Speaker 1: right up there as well. Plus he has that X

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Speaker 1: factor of that edible athleticism that Baker Mayfield didn't have.

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Speaker 1: So I think Murray is a huge upgrade over Josh Rosen,

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Speaker 1: even if they were in the same draft class. I

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Speaker 1: think you would take Kyler Murray significantly ahead of where

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Speaker 1: you would take Rosen, which means essentially the Cardinals have

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Speaker 1: a shot to upgrade at the position. They have a

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Speaker 1: chance to flip their quarterback decision for the guy they

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01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:25,720
Speaker 1: want to be leading them forward, and then deal with

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Speaker 1: Rosen later. You know, whether it's trade him, whether it's

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Speaker 1: hang on to him until a quarterback needy team comes calling.

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01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:35,080
Speaker 1: But I think they have to take the opportunity afforded

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01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:37,960
Speaker 1: to them of making that upgrade at the most important position.

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Speaker 1: Some of the things we've spoken to, the experts we've

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Speaker 1: spoken to have said Kyler Murray's a little bit. They

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Speaker 1: think he may be a system quarterback. The OU system,

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01:04:46,520 --> 01:04:50,560
Speaker 1: the conference they play in, has helped Kyler Murray to

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01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:53,480
Speaker 1: shine in a way in the college level that it

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01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:56,080
Speaker 1: may be more difficult for him to do in the

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01:04:56,240 --> 01:04:58,880
Speaker 1: NFL level. Certainly won the Heisman Trophy, But what is

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Speaker 1: it What about that criticism that Tyler Murray's kind of

1344
01:05:02,080 --> 01:05:04,160
Speaker 1: a product of the OU system and the conference with

1345
01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:07,920
Speaker 1: that didn't play really good defense against him. Yeah, I mean,

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01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:10,280
Speaker 1: the thing is, that's exactly the same thing that was

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01:05:10,320 --> 01:05:13,320
Speaker 1: being said about Baker Mayfield, and it's true to an extent.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's no denying the fact that that offense

1349
01:05:15,720 --> 01:05:18,920
Speaker 1: does make life easier for quarterback. And you know there

1350
01:05:18,960 --> 01:05:21,720
Speaker 1: are a huge amount of easy throws in that offense,

1351
01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:26,480
Speaker 1: twenty percent ish of his targets or screens. Big twelve

1352
01:05:26,960 --> 01:05:29,640
Speaker 1: is very much a conference where defense is optional. There's

1353
01:05:29,640 --> 01:05:32,880
Speaker 1: a lot of poor coverage, there's a lot of bad play.

1354
01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:36,360
Speaker 1: But the key is to try and answer how important

1355
01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:38,440
Speaker 1: is it or how big a mitigating factor is it.

1356
01:05:38,600 --> 01:05:41,200
Speaker 1: And if you strip out all that stuff, you take

1357
01:05:41,240 --> 01:05:43,880
Speaker 1: away the screens, if you take away the easy throws,

1358
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:47,240
Speaker 1: and you just look at the NFL caliber throws again,

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01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:50,360
Speaker 1: that's where Baker Mayfield was so far in front of

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01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:53,160
Speaker 1: everybody else. So it was okay, even if life is

1361
01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:55,520
Speaker 1: harder at the next level, if he doesn't have these screens,

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01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:58,320
Speaker 1: if he doesn't have the bad defense, if he's throwing

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01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:01,360
Speaker 1: into tight coverage all the time, he's still the best

1364
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:04,560
Speaker 1: quarterback in this class of doing just that. And I

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01:06:04,640 --> 01:06:06,520
Speaker 1: think the same thing is true with Kyler Murray. If

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01:06:06,520 --> 01:06:09,200
Speaker 1: you take out the easy stuff, if you remove the

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01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:12,760
Speaker 1: benefits of playing in that system, he's still good at

1368
01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:14,240
Speaker 1: the things you're going to want him to do at

1369
01:06:14,240 --> 01:06:16,600
Speaker 1: the next level and better than anybody else in this

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01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:20,320
Speaker 1: class as that. So yeah, I think it's a valid criticism,

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01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:23,440
Speaker 1: but you shouldn't be using it as a reason that

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Speaker 1: he won't succeed. You should just be saying, Okay, we

1373
01:06:26,600 --> 01:06:29,720
Speaker 1: need to figure out how much this impact is overall

1374
01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:33,560
Speaker 1: evaluation and how much it should be pulling him back

1375
01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:36,080
Speaker 1: towards the rest of the pack. He's him. But we've

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01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:40,600
Speaker 1: been asking their listeners Bills fans today about if there's

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01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:43,720
Speaker 1: one player the Bills are interested in more than anybody

1378
01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:46,160
Speaker 1: else in this draft, if there's one player that the

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01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:49,320
Speaker 1: Bill should be will be happy to get in Thursday's

1380
01:06:49,320 --> 01:06:51,120
Speaker 1: first round. Do you have any thoughts on that? I mean,

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Speaker 1: who do you think the Bills should be interested if

1382
01:06:53,280 --> 01:06:55,680
Speaker 1: they can, if they had the lock on one player,

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01:06:55,680 --> 01:06:57,360
Speaker 1: who would it be? Do you think to help this

1384
01:06:57,480 --> 01:07:00,600
Speaker 1: Bills team get better? I think the Bills are in

1385
01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:03,200
Speaker 1: a really good spot in terms of you know, free

1386
01:07:03,240 --> 01:07:07,680
Speaker 1: agency to me should be where you attack real needs

1387
01:07:07,720 --> 01:07:10,439
Speaker 1: so that you don't run into the draft desperately needing

1388
01:07:10,480 --> 01:07:12,680
Speaker 1: to fill a starting spot. I think if you're if

1389
01:07:12,680 --> 01:07:15,960
Speaker 1: you put yourself in that position, you're already behind the

1390
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:18,560
Speaker 1: a ball because now you're not necessarily taking the best

1391
01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:20,880
Speaker 1: player available, You're trying to fit a need, and that

1392
01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:24,600
Speaker 1: guy's probably not going to play lights out from year one.

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01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:26,880
Speaker 1: So I think the Bills are in a pretty good

1394
01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:29,840
Speaker 1: spot because they address their most glaring needs that they

1395
01:07:29,880 --> 01:07:33,360
Speaker 1: can really go best player available and you know, attack

1396
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:36,920
Speaker 1: a guy that's going to make the biggest impact. I

1397
01:07:37,040 --> 01:07:40,720
Speaker 1: think receiver number one receiver is still an option, still

1398
01:07:40,760 --> 01:07:43,560
Speaker 1: a need for them, But I don't know that there's

1399
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Speaker 1: one guy there that screams that they need to take him.

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01:07:46,840 --> 01:07:50,880
Speaker 1: I would love to see Buffalo grab Jonah Williams, the

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01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:53,919
Speaker 1: left tackle from Alabama. I think he has a chance

1402
01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:56,280
Speaker 1: to be a really special left tackle at the next level,

1403
01:07:56,640 --> 01:07:59,040
Speaker 1: And even though it's not a glaring need for Buffalo,

1404
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:03,360
Speaker 1: for them to install him and see him as a

1405
01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:06,240
Speaker 1: ten year starter, to absolutely nail down that position, I

1406
01:08:06,280 --> 01:08:08,840
Speaker 1: think would be a huge boost of this team. Where

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01:08:08,840 --> 01:08:11,200
Speaker 1: do you see Howkinson? I know in the most recent

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01:08:11,320 --> 01:08:14,320
Speaker 1: PF mock draft, I saw that he was listed his

1409
01:08:14,480 --> 01:08:17,439
Speaker 1: nineteen overall to the Tennessee Titans. Is that about the

1410
01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:19,679
Speaker 1: right range for him or would a top ten pick

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01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:24,000
Speaker 1: for TJ Hockinson be a value pick. I think a

1412
01:08:24,120 --> 01:08:26,200
Speaker 1: top ten pick might be a little bit rich for him.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a really good player. He's you know,

1414
01:08:29,600 --> 01:08:31,760
Speaker 1: he's what you want in a modern day tight end

1415
01:08:31,800 --> 01:08:34,880
Speaker 1: and that he can still block. And these days, being

1416
01:08:34,920 --> 01:08:38,000
Speaker 1: able to block is what makes you that duel threat

1417
01:08:38,040 --> 01:08:39,920
Speaker 1: player is a tight end because most of these guys

1418
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:42,800
Speaker 1: can you know, even the best college blocking tight ends

1419
01:08:43,120 --> 01:08:45,760
Speaker 1: are typically not good at it at the next level,

1420
01:08:45,840 --> 01:08:47,280
Speaker 1: or even if they are, it takes them a while

1421
01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:49,799
Speaker 1: to adjust. So if you get a guy like Hockinson

1422
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:52,879
Speaker 1: who can be a really good receiving threat, a dynamic

1423
01:08:53,439 --> 01:08:56,680
Speaker 1: matchup problem for defenses, and provide you value in the

1424
01:08:56,760 --> 01:08:59,479
Speaker 1: run game because he can still block, I think that

1425
01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:03,160
Speaker 1: is really valuable. But I don't know that he's quite

1426
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Speaker 1: good enough to be taken in that top ten area. Interesting.

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Speaker 1: We can't wait for the draft. Sam, thank you for

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Speaker 1: joining us today to talk about it with us. We

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Speaker 1: appreciate it absolutely any time. Guys. Thank Sam Monson, his

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01:09:14,600 --> 01:09:17,000
Speaker 1: lead analysts for Pro Football Focus, been with them since

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01:09:17,040 --> 01:09:19,960
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, eleven years contributed to ESPN and

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01:09:20,200 --> 01:09:23,439
Speaker 1: ESPN Radio. We thank him for joining us. Pro Football

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Speaker 1: Focus has a lot to say about our next guests

1434
01:09:25,680 --> 01:09:29,439
Speaker 1: based on his rookie campaign, Bills cornerback Levi Wallace with

1435
01:09:29,600 --> 01:09:33,200
Speaker 1: some amazing metrics coming from Pro Football Focus from his

1436
01:09:33,560 --> 01:09:36,439
Speaker 1: rookie campaign. Really the last what six seven or eight

1437
01:09:36,479 --> 01:09:38,960
Speaker 1: games of his rookie year. We'll talk about that. Levi

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Speaker 1: Wallace going to join us in studio when we return.

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Speaker 1: Come on back. It's One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive.

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01:09:44,200 --> 01:10:00,880
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Come Back one goes live

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01:10:00,960 --> 01:10:02,840
Speaker 1: from One Wheels Drive. We are three days away from

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01:10:02,840 --> 01:10:05,519
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft, John Murphy, Steve Tasker. We got more

1443
01:10:05,600 --> 01:10:07,640
Speaker 1: draft talk coming up, but before that, we want to

1444
01:10:07,680 --> 01:10:09,479
Speaker 1: get through a guy who's already on the Buffalo roster

1445
01:10:09,560 --> 01:10:12,000
Speaker 1: getting set for his second season with the Buffalo Bills.

1446
01:10:12,040 --> 01:10:14,120
Speaker 1: We're happy to have cornerback Levi by Wallace and Trudi

1447
01:10:14,160 --> 01:10:15,640
Speaker 1: with us. I leave by the thak you coming by man.

1448
01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:17,839
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for having me that you kind of splash.

1449
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:19,439
Speaker 1: You came in the second half of the season last

1450
01:10:19,520 --> 01:10:22,639
Speaker 1: year and started was seven games, the last seven games

1451
01:10:22,680 --> 01:10:26,280
Speaker 1: of the season, and how did it feel for you, know,

1452
01:10:26,360 --> 01:10:28,160
Speaker 1: what do you expect and then how to go for

1453
01:10:28,240 --> 01:10:29,880
Speaker 1: you in those last the last half of the season.

1454
01:10:30,800 --> 01:10:32,360
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't as good as it could be.

1455
01:10:32,479 --> 01:10:35,080
Speaker 1: You know, the first couple of games, you getting your

1456
01:10:35,080 --> 01:10:37,400
Speaker 1: feed in the water, and it's a little different, Um,

1457
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:40,080
Speaker 1: just going against you know, in preseason you're going against

1458
01:10:40,160 --> 01:10:42,439
Speaker 1: like twos and three teas and then you get thrown

1459
01:10:42,439 --> 01:10:45,519
Speaker 1: out there and you're going against like the other team's one. Yeah,

1460
01:10:46,080 --> 01:10:48,800
Speaker 1: video games and uh, this is a lot faster. But

1461
01:10:48,880 --> 01:10:50,280
Speaker 1: you I mean you pick it up and you know,

1462
01:10:50,360 --> 01:10:52,720
Speaker 1: with the help of the safeties and the defensive guys

1463
01:10:52,760 --> 01:10:55,360
Speaker 1: believing in me. Um, you know, it was a good season.

1464
01:10:55,560 --> 01:10:57,200
Speaker 1: So Mark Murphy and I've been talking. We've got this

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01:10:57,360 --> 01:11:00,559
Speaker 1: this graphic and Pro Football Focus is got you great

1466
01:11:00,560 --> 01:11:02,720
Speaker 1: as the fourth and the games that you played for

1467
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:06,080
Speaker 1: half of the season, you were the fourth overall cornerback

1468
01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:08,720
Speaker 1: performance wise in the entire league. And you were an

1469
01:11:08,800 --> 01:11:11,760
Speaker 1: undrafted rookie free agent. And it turns out you were

1470
01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:16,000
Speaker 1: up there with guys like Steph Gilmore, you know, Desmond King, Um,

1471
01:11:16,320 --> 01:11:18,760
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson. I mean, you were with some guys that

1472
01:11:18,880 --> 01:11:22,559
Speaker 1: people know, and you with your play, really elevated yourself.

1473
01:11:22,560 --> 01:11:25,479
Speaker 1: In fact, they had a mock draft right redrafted you'd

1474
01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:27,120
Speaker 1: go instead of being an undraft, you go on the

1475
01:11:27,160 --> 01:11:29,880
Speaker 1: first round with your performance, that's what's that feel like?

1476
01:11:29,880 --> 01:11:31,600
Speaker 1: Because you got to know how well it went for

1477
01:11:31,680 --> 01:11:33,160
Speaker 1: you in the last half of the season. What's it

1478
01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:36,360
Speaker 1: feel like though, to have somebody say, somebody else notice.

1479
01:11:37,080 --> 01:11:39,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's always good to get that,

1480
01:11:39,520 --> 01:11:43,439
Speaker 1: you know, recognition. But I mean I think I played

1481
01:11:43,479 --> 01:11:45,640
Speaker 1: that good because of that chip on my shoulder. Um,

1482
01:11:45,680 --> 01:11:49,280
Speaker 1: with going undrafted, so, um, maybe I wouldn't have the

1483
01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:52,439
Speaker 1: same season, or maybe I would, you know, but I

1484
01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:54,120
Speaker 1: mean I played to the best of my buddy and

1485
01:11:54,439 --> 01:11:56,120
Speaker 1: you know, and it just wasn't me as the d

1486
01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:58,120
Speaker 1: line and you know, my teammates as well, believeing in me.

1487
01:11:58,240 --> 01:12:01,760
Speaker 1: So it was. So it was three days away from

1488
01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:04,679
Speaker 1: around one of this year's draft. So last year draft weekend,

1489
01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:06,640
Speaker 1: where were you? Where did you watch the draft and

1490
01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:09,880
Speaker 1: how did you spend it? I was in Tuscaloosa, UM,

1491
01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:12,840
Speaker 1: just with some family. I mean first day I was.

1492
01:12:12,960 --> 01:12:14,800
Speaker 1: I didn't really I don't think I watched it at

1493
01:12:14,800 --> 01:12:16,960
Speaker 1: the complex, maybe knowing that I wasn't going first round.

1494
01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:20,360
Speaker 1: I just wanted to see the guys team. Yeah, yeah,

1495
01:12:20,400 --> 01:12:22,679
Speaker 1: for sure, you know, happy for them, But I started

1496
01:12:22,720 --> 01:12:24,639
Speaker 1: going to it. You know, I was sticking around with family.

1497
01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:28,840
Speaker 1: A lot of anxiety you know, built up. Um, you

1498
01:12:28,920 --> 01:12:33,200
Speaker 1: know I didn't get the call obviously, Um, but then after,

1499
01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:35,160
Speaker 1: right after, a couple of teams call me. I think

1500
01:12:35,200 --> 01:12:37,760
Speaker 1: the bills were like the second call. Um, you know,

1501
01:12:37,800 --> 01:12:39,439
Speaker 1: it just made sense to come out here. So was

1502
01:12:39,479 --> 01:12:43,479
Speaker 1: it really crushing difficult? You know, late Saturday afternoon, five o'clock,

1503
01:12:43,560 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 1: no call. You see, you're probably not gonna get selected.

1504
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:48,000
Speaker 1: I mean, you had to be down. But then those

1505
01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:50,040
Speaker 1: calls start coming in right away, right yeah, I mean,

1506
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:52,439
Speaker 1: of course. I mean you dream, you work, you work

1507
01:12:52,520 --> 01:12:54,920
Speaker 1: for you know, to get that phone call, you know,

1508
01:12:55,040 --> 01:12:58,080
Speaker 1: your whole life until it doesn't happen. You know, the

1509
01:12:58,200 --> 01:13:00,439
Speaker 1: draft's over, and then you get phone calls after it

1510
01:13:00,520 --> 01:13:04,320
Speaker 1: say you know no one. You know. It's kind of weird. Um,

1511
01:13:04,520 --> 01:13:06,880
Speaker 1: kind of think about it. But um, you know, I'm

1512
01:13:06,920 --> 01:13:09,800
Speaker 1: just happy that that. You know, I'm favored with guy

1513
01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:11,719
Speaker 1: and you know he sent me. I hate being Buffalo,

1514
01:13:11,880 --> 01:13:15,120
Speaker 1: you know, rated you get to choose. I'm like seventh rounders,

1515
01:13:15,160 --> 01:13:18,360
Speaker 1: sixth rounders, So why why did you choose Buffalo back then? Uh,

1516
01:13:18,840 --> 01:13:21,040
Speaker 1: you know, just talking to the coaches coach of staff. Um,

1517
01:13:21,439 --> 01:13:23,479
Speaker 1: I know, there's gonna be some familiar faces on offense

1518
01:13:23,520 --> 01:13:26,200
Speaker 1: with with dabl Um and some of the guys he

1519
01:13:26,280 --> 01:13:28,479
Speaker 1: brought up with him. UM. And then I found out

1520
01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:31,200
Speaker 1: Rob signed up here as well, you know, UM, and

1521
01:13:31,320 --> 01:13:33,120
Speaker 1: I just thought, you know, I could bring good competition

1522
01:13:33,160 --> 01:13:35,160
Speaker 1: to the team. UM, and just played to the best

1523
01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:37,680
Speaker 1: of my ability. What's the biggest difference now you're back here. Now,

1524
01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:41,000
Speaker 1: you've you've seen a lap, right, you've been a whole year.

1525
01:13:41,120 --> 01:13:43,639
Speaker 1: This is a draft coming up, and you're gonna you've

1526
01:13:43,680 --> 01:13:45,800
Speaker 1: been your twelve months. You've seen all that the league

1527
01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:48,439
Speaker 1: has to offer with schedule and games and preseason and

1528
01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:51,920
Speaker 1: training camp. Bye, we we've seen all that. What's the

1529
01:13:51,960 --> 01:13:56,040
Speaker 1: biggest change now? Uh, just mastering my position, you know,

1530
01:13:56,320 --> 01:13:59,200
Speaker 1: mastering you know it's good to get introducing and getting

1531
01:13:59,200 --> 01:14:01,000
Speaker 1: the flow of things. But now it's like, all right,

1532
01:14:01,080 --> 01:14:03,080
Speaker 1: let's get settled in. Let's let's focus on what needs

1533
01:14:03,120 --> 01:14:05,560
Speaker 1: to focus so we can you know, take that that

1534
01:14:05,720 --> 01:14:09,200
Speaker 1: next step. You know, hopefully not be the fourth highest,

1535
01:14:09,240 --> 01:14:11,000
Speaker 1: but you know, try to be like the top, you know,

1536
01:14:11,439 --> 01:14:14,600
Speaker 1: the top top. UM. Just studying tape more. UM, just

1537
01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:17,320
Speaker 1: getting around guys like Michael and Jordan Um to Davis,

1538
01:14:17,360 --> 01:14:19,639
Speaker 1: just trying to get their habits and trying to develop

1539
01:14:19,720 --> 01:14:21,479
Speaker 1: as a player. First half of the season you were

1540
01:14:21,520 --> 01:14:23,960
Speaker 1: practice squad. What how did that benefit you? How did

1541
01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:25,720
Speaker 1: that get you ready to play in the second half

1542
01:14:25,760 --> 01:14:28,880
Speaker 1: of the year. Um, it felt like like college, you

1543
01:14:28,920 --> 01:14:30,880
Speaker 1: know what I mean with with me walking on you know,

1544
01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:34,680
Speaker 1: just trusting the process, you know, just getting my shoes wet,

1545
01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:36,920
Speaker 1: you know, seeing how the league works out, um, and

1546
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:39,680
Speaker 1: then just understanding what it takes play at the next level. UM.

1547
01:14:39,840 --> 01:14:41,839
Speaker 1: Seeing guys in front of me and how they prepare

1548
01:14:41,880 --> 01:14:44,479
Speaker 1: and practice. UM. I think it definitely affected my second

1549
01:14:44,479 --> 01:14:47,479
Speaker 1: half of the season. What does the new facility mean?

1550
01:14:47,680 --> 01:14:50,040
Speaker 1: What is it? How has that change the vibe around

1551
01:14:50,080 --> 01:14:52,519
Speaker 1: the players? Now they're back, you're for these volunteers. How

1552
01:14:52,560 --> 01:14:54,160
Speaker 1: does that change the vibe in the building? This new

1553
01:14:54,280 --> 01:14:57,920
Speaker 1: facility they've got, that's all of that changing. It's definitely

1554
01:14:57,920 --> 01:15:00,040
Speaker 1: a lot more energy in the building. You know a

1555
01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:02,200
Speaker 1: lot of more people are excited, Um, just to have

1556
01:15:02,240 --> 01:15:04,960
Speaker 1: a beautiful place like that that they just built. Um,

1557
01:15:05,400 --> 01:15:07,280
Speaker 1: exciting to go in there and get good working. You know,

1558
01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:10,720
Speaker 1: everyone's pushing each other, everyone's working hard, everyone's setting new

1559
01:15:10,760 --> 01:15:13,120
Speaker 1: records for themselfs Um, it's good. You can see the

1560
01:15:13,200 --> 01:15:15,960
Speaker 1: chemistry being built, and I'm excited for this year for sure.

1561
01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:17,519
Speaker 1: When you came out of here, we were talking out

1562
01:15:17,560 --> 01:15:20,200
Speaker 1: are you compared it a little bit to Alabama's weight

1563
01:15:20,280 --> 01:15:23,160
Speaker 1: room set up with about what half as many participants? Right?

1564
01:15:23,200 --> 01:15:25,280
Speaker 1: They have to ated many players on a rock for sure,

1565
01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:27,640
Speaker 1: for sure, and it's just as nice, you know, like

1566
01:15:27,720 --> 01:15:31,080
Speaker 1: I said, it's a beautiful environment here. Um, Like I said,

1567
01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:34,160
Speaker 1: just less players here, you know, like what fifty sixty

1568
01:15:34,560 --> 01:15:37,720
Speaker 1: seventy and Alabam was like one thirty or something like that. Um,

1569
01:15:37,880 --> 01:15:41,080
Speaker 1: so not as much chaos in the in the atmosphere,

1570
01:15:41,160 --> 01:15:43,840
Speaker 1: but still good work if you use the nap pod

1571
01:15:43,960 --> 01:15:46,200
Speaker 1: yet because Steve and I want to get get in there. No,

1572
01:15:48,760 --> 01:15:51,599
Speaker 1: I haven't used a nap foight yet. But I mean

1573
01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:54,040
Speaker 1: they have other many other things, you know, all kinds

1574
01:15:54,040 --> 01:15:57,360
Speaker 1: of recovery. Yeah, for sure. They have these massage shares

1575
01:15:57,400 --> 01:16:00,120
Speaker 1: that are just unbelievable. Um, and I'm actually going as

1576
01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:02,200
Speaker 1: soon as we get off this shelf. So I'm excited

1577
01:16:02,280 --> 01:16:04,720
Speaker 1: for that. So we laugh about it and say, you know,

1578
01:16:04,800 --> 01:16:07,120
Speaker 1: Alabama has this nice story because they gotta recruit, you know,

1579
01:16:07,120 --> 01:16:09,479
Speaker 1: they gotta recruit us. Well, now the Bills are recruiting.

1580
01:16:09,520 --> 01:16:11,680
Speaker 1: They had a big free agent year, you know that

1581
01:16:11,760 --> 01:16:14,960
Speaker 1: they're it's you have to kind of keep up and

1582
01:16:15,560 --> 01:16:18,320
Speaker 1: make your program like the build for these free agents

1583
01:16:18,360 --> 01:16:20,280
Speaker 1: to come in. What's you know, how do you think

1584
01:16:21,120 --> 01:16:24,000
Speaker 1: this place sells with other Like you know, you've been

1585
01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:26,200
Speaker 1: around the block once, you're a veteran. Now, how do

1586
01:16:26,280 --> 01:16:29,120
Speaker 1: you think this vibe and this culture and this building

1587
01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:31,160
Speaker 1: and this city, this team, how do you think that

1588
01:16:31,320 --> 01:16:33,240
Speaker 1: plays around the NFL? What do you think other guys

1589
01:16:33,360 --> 01:16:36,720
Speaker 1: think of of Buffalo and their program they're running. Um,

1590
01:16:37,320 --> 01:16:38,960
Speaker 1: I mean I can't speak on other guys. I've only

1591
01:16:39,040 --> 01:16:41,599
Speaker 1: been here. UM, I know what the guys here thinking

1592
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:43,760
Speaker 1: of it. You know, it means a lot to the city. UM.

1593
01:16:44,160 --> 01:16:46,360
Speaker 1: You know the team does you know? Uh, you just

1594
01:16:46,479 --> 01:16:48,200
Speaker 1: hear stories about how it was here when we went

1595
01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:51,479
Speaker 1: to the playoffs two years ago. And it's just I

1596
01:16:51,520 --> 01:16:54,920
Speaker 1: mean you can feel the different energy here and comparing

1597
01:16:54,960 --> 01:16:57,600
Speaker 1: it back to Alabama. You know, they love Alabama just

1598
01:16:57,760 --> 01:17:01,320
Speaker 1: like up here they love Buffalo, if not even more. Um.

1599
01:17:01,560 --> 01:17:03,639
Speaker 1: And it just means so much of the city. Um,

1600
01:17:04,240 --> 01:17:07,599
Speaker 1: it's just great people, great people around the organization. UM.

1601
01:17:07,680 --> 01:17:09,080
Speaker 1: So it's just a blessing to be up here and

1602
01:17:09,120 --> 01:17:11,280
Speaker 1: playing for the Buffalo Bills for sure. Any what was

1603
01:17:11,320 --> 01:17:13,479
Speaker 1: your off season like in terms of did you travel

1604
01:17:13,640 --> 01:17:16,559
Speaker 1: much or did you hang anywhere in particular or at

1605
01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:18,880
Speaker 1: the beginning, I traveled a little bit. Um. I was

1606
01:17:18,960 --> 01:17:21,439
Speaker 1: down in Miami for for most of the time, training

1607
01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:24,439
Speaker 1: down there and uh, just hanging out with my girlfriend. Um.

1608
01:17:24,600 --> 01:17:27,880
Speaker 1: But back and forth through here Buffalo. When it got

1609
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:29,479
Speaker 1: too cold up here, you know, I had to leave,

1610
01:17:29,680 --> 01:17:32,960
Speaker 1: you know, the blizzards and stuff. So but it was good,

1611
01:17:33,040 --> 01:17:34,639
Speaker 1: good work down there being in the heat. But I'm

1612
01:17:34,640 --> 01:17:36,720
Speaker 1: glad to be back for sure. What are your expectations

1613
01:17:36,760 --> 01:17:39,479
Speaker 1: for this season for you personally? Like I said, just

1614
01:17:39,840 --> 01:17:42,439
Speaker 1: keep mastering my position, you know, growing you know, we

1615
01:17:42,560 --> 01:17:46,080
Speaker 1: have more competition here um and you know, no telling

1616
01:17:46,120 --> 01:17:49,320
Speaker 1: who would draft, so UM. Definitely just trying to be

1617
01:17:49,400 --> 01:17:52,599
Speaker 1: a leader, um in my room now, um for whoever

1618
01:17:52,680 --> 01:17:55,479
Speaker 1: comes in or the side of the ball, you know defense. Um,

1619
01:17:55,560 --> 01:17:57,640
Speaker 1: just trying to be able to help those guys and

1620
01:17:58,080 --> 01:18:00,519
Speaker 1: elevate everyone, you know, not just myself. It's such a

1621
01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:02,919
Speaker 1: different set of a year ago. You came in probably

1622
01:18:03,840 --> 01:18:06,200
Speaker 1: your underraft. You're just scrambling to make the roster. Now

1623
01:18:06,240 --> 01:18:08,320
Speaker 1: you come in with seven starts under your belt and

1624
01:18:08,439 --> 01:18:11,040
Speaker 1: all these good grades from Pro Football Focus and now

1625
01:18:11,120 --> 01:18:12,800
Speaker 1: that you can rest on that. But you must feel

1626
01:18:12,800 --> 01:18:15,080
Speaker 1: like this you've established who you are, what you might

1627
01:18:15,160 --> 01:18:17,920
Speaker 1: be right in this league. Uh A little bit, man,

1628
01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:20,760
Speaker 1: A little bit, you know. Uh. I mean I look

1629
01:18:20,800 --> 01:18:22,599
Speaker 1: at the grades and you know, I feel I still

1630
01:18:22,640 --> 01:18:25,680
Speaker 1: haven't proven anything. You know, I still has their interceptions,

1631
01:18:25,720 --> 01:18:28,720
Speaker 1: you know, got to change that number. Um. But like

1632
01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:30,479
Speaker 1: I said, just trying to work hard, you know, just

1633
01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:33,040
Speaker 1: focus on the little things this year, you know, focusing

1634
01:18:33,040 --> 01:18:35,559
Speaker 1: on my craft in my details. You mentioned is how

1635
01:18:35,920 --> 01:18:39,200
Speaker 1: your position coach John Butler has been a big factor

1636
01:18:39,240 --> 01:18:41,719
Speaker 1: in your development over you know, a year and almost

1637
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:43,840
Speaker 1: into your second year. Now what do you get from him?

1638
01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:46,320
Speaker 1: What do you like about working with him? Uh? He's

1639
01:18:46,360 --> 01:18:49,519
Speaker 1: like me, you know. He he recognizes the players that

1640
01:18:49,560 --> 01:18:51,880
Speaker 1: he has, you know, and the strengths and tries to

1641
01:18:51,960 --> 01:18:55,680
Speaker 1: build their weaknesses as well. So with me personally, you know,

1642
01:18:55,760 --> 01:18:59,040
Speaker 1: he recognizes I'm a smart player, M. And so we

1643
01:18:59,160 --> 01:19:01,840
Speaker 1: have you know, those deep football talks you know, and

1644
01:19:01,920 --> 01:19:04,439
Speaker 1: he develops me, you know, by myself one on one

1645
01:19:04,479 --> 01:19:07,320
Speaker 1: if I ask some questions. M. Really good he knows

1646
01:19:07,360 --> 01:19:09,400
Speaker 1: football on and off the field. You know, we have

1647
01:19:09,600 --> 01:19:12,120
Speaker 1: just a really good relationship. Um, just a really good

1648
01:19:12,200 --> 01:19:16,040
Speaker 1: overall person for real. How one week into the offseason

1649
01:19:16,120 --> 01:19:19,120
Speaker 1: program here, uh, this is week two started today. How's

1650
01:19:19,160 --> 01:19:21,240
Speaker 1: that gone? And particular how's it gone? Kind of getting

1651
01:19:21,240 --> 01:19:23,439
Speaker 1: together with the guys you played with last year? Getting

1652
01:19:23,479 --> 01:19:24,920
Speaker 1: back with those kids, It must be a pretty good

1653
01:19:25,200 --> 01:19:26,760
Speaker 1: We picked up like we never left off. You know,

1654
01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:29,680
Speaker 1: so many jokes and m some many laughs. I mean,

1655
01:19:29,880 --> 01:19:32,760
Speaker 1: like I said, it's just one week. Um, it's a

1656
01:19:32,800 --> 01:19:34,320
Speaker 1: lot of hard work. But we all know we're here

1657
01:19:34,360 --> 01:19:37,439
Speaker 1: for a purpose and you know we're trying to build

1658
01:19:37,439 --> 01:19:41,960
Speaker 1: a team, definitely trying to build the defense. How when

1659
01:19:42,040 --> 01:19:45,519
Speaker 1: I want to ask you, is how much of a

1660
01:19:45,640 --> 01:19:47,519
Speaker 1: difference is it going to make for you being in

1661
01:19:47,600 --> 01:19:49,360
Speaker 1: the same system in the second year you say you

1662
01:19:49,400 --> 01:19:52,519
Speaker 1: want to master your craft, and you know a lot

1663
01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:54,639
Speaker 1: of teams, like even two teams in the AFC East,

1664
01:19:54,680 --> 01:19:56,479
Speaker 1: the Dolphins and it just both had brand new head

1665
01:19:56,520 --> 01:19:59,400
Speaker 1: coaches and brand new coaching staffs. How much of a

1666
01:19:59,479 --> 01:20:00,880
Speaker 1: factor and how much about help is it going to

1667
01:20:00,920 --> 01:20:04,200
Speaker 1: be coming back and just reiterate what you did throughout

1668
01:20:04,200 --> 01:20:07,040
Speaker 1: all last season with the same terminology, same scheme, all

1669
01:20:07,120 --> 01:20:10,280
Speaker 1: that you're definitely a lot more comfortable, for sure, um

1670
01:20:10,439 --> 01:20:12,759
Speaker 1: in the system. And you know, now you can focus

1671
01:20:12,880 --> 01:20:14,880
Speaker 1: on like I said, like not just looking at me,

1672
01:20:15,040 --> 01:20:17,559
Speaker 1: but all right, what is what is Trey White doing

1673
01:20:17,600 --> 01:20:20,240
Speaker 1: on the other side and who he's going against? You

1674
01:20:20,280 --> 01:20:22,559
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Looking looking at small things, um,

1675
01:20:22,680 --> 01:20:25,200
Speaker 1: as far as that you know, his coverage, not just

1676
01:20:25,400 --> 01:20:28,280
Speaker 1: mind my own, um, you know, seeing the big picture now,

1677
01:20:28,560 --> 01:20:31,000
Speaker 1: not just focusing on one little aspect of the game,

1678
01:20:31,120 --> 01:20:33,160
Speaker 1: you know, trying to see it all come together. See

1679
01:20:33,200 --> 01:20:35,559
Speaker 1: why we're rushing this way while people are dropping back,

1680
01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:37,920
Speaker 1: you know, understanding the game a little bit more than

1681
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Speaker 1: we're seeing you again now, thank you guys for having

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01:20:40,680 --> 01:20:43,120
Speaker 1: me for sure. By Wiles Bill's Corner getting set for

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01:20:43,120 --> 01:20:45,200
Speaker 1: a second season with the Bills. Steve and I coming

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01:20:45,240 --> 01:20:47,320
Speaker 1: back One Goal's Life from One Bill's Drive. This is

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01:20:47,400 --> 01:21:06,080
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back One Bill's Live from One

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01:21:06,160 --> 01:21:08,320
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. John Murphy AND's Teve Tasker in our One

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01:21:08,360 --> 01:21:12,920
Speaker 1: Buffalo Studio. I don't think I'm locked down over here, Steve, Yeah,

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01:21:12,920 --> 01:21:17,080
Speaker 1: it is moving, okay, be careful, everybody. Levi Wallace good guy, great,

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01:21:17,560 --> 01:21:20,840
Speaker 1: great attitude. I love the fact that Levi Wallace was

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01:21:20,880 --> 01:21:24,040
Speaker 1: he aware of all the great grades from Pro Football Focus. Yes,

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01:21:24,479 --> 01:21:27,599
Speaker 1: did he seem to care. No, I let it off

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01:21:27,600 --> 01:21:32,120
Speaker 1: as Twitter lead time. But it's amazing how much love

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01:21:32,200 --> 01:21:34,680
Speaker 1: he offseason love he got from Pro Football Focus and

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01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:37,400
Speaker 1: several analytics sites, including I don't know who did the

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01:21:37,439 --> 01:21:40,320
Speaker 1: redraft was at CBS sports dot com. I believe it was. Yeah,

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01:21:40,400 --> 01:21:43,880
Speaker 1: CBS sports dot Com redrafted last year's twenty eighteen draft.

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01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:46,680
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace goes from an undrafted rookie free agent from

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01:21:46,720 --> 01:21:50,639
Speaker 1: Alabama to a first round pick. That's crazy, but that's

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01:21:50,880 --> 01:21:54,360
Speaker 1: that's the impact he made in seven starts and his

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01:21:54,439 --> 01:21:56,040
Speaker 1: first start we didn't get a chance talk about it

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01:21:56,200 --> 01:21:58,439
Speaker 1: was the amazing game, that sort of I mean, the

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01:21:58,640 --> 01:22:00,840
Speaker 1: turn of season around was six. I don't know, but

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01:22:01,000 --> 01:22:04,000
Speaker 1: certainly things changed in the visit to the Jets in

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01:22:04,120 --> 01:22:06,400
Speaker 1: November and he got the start there, as did Matt

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01:22:06,439 --> 01:22:10,400
Speaker 1: Barkley and several others. Yeah, I to have him come in,

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01:22:10,479 --> 01:22:12,200
Speaker 1: and let's face it, he came in the second half

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01:22:12,200 --> 01:22:14,360
Speaker 1: of a season on a defense that was top five

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01:22:14,400 --> 01:22:18,479
Speaker 1: in the league and they didn't have any drop off, right, Yeah,

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01:22:18,640 --> 01:22:20,880
Speaker 1: that's tough. To do at that spot. You and you

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01:22:21,000 --> 01:22:23,400
Speaker 1: know that he was going to get some opportunities to

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01:22:23,479 --> 01:22:26,120
Speaker 1: get picked on with Tredavious White on the other side,

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01:22:27,040 --> 01:22:29,679
Speaker 1: with the two safeties in the game, Jordan Poor, Micah Hyde,

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01:22:29,680 --> 01:22:32,880
Speaker 1: who are established Pro Bowl kind of caliber, all Pro

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01:22:33,120 --> 01:22:37,240
Speaker 1: caliber guys. Who are you gonna go at? Levi Wallace

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01:22:37,520 --> 01:22:40,080
Speaker 1: is your next suspect, right, He's going to be the

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01:22:40,120 --> 01:22:41,519
Speaker 1: guy that you're going to try and get a match

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01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:44,680
Speaker 1: up with and throw at. And he held up and

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01:22:44,760 --> 01:22:48,000
Speaker 1: good for him that he's one of the top handful

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01:22:48,080 --> 01:22:50,640
Speaker 1: of cornerbacks overall in the league last year and his

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01:22:50,720 --> 01:22:53,120
Speaker 1: total grade and it was and that's that's guy's looking

1721
01:22:53,160 --> 01:22:55,080
Speaker 1: at film breaking down the nuts and bolts of a

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01:22:55,160 --> 01:22:58,680
Speaker 1: defense and seeing the guy performed, well, good for him.

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01:22:58,800 --> 01:23:00,960
Speaker 1: Thanks thanks to him too for I'm in our Twitter

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01:23:01,040 --> 01:23:03,880
Speaker 1: poll today, just three days away from Round one of

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Speaker 1: the Draft. We're asking you to predict here, not who

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01:23:06,240 --> 01:23:08,639
Speaker 1: you want, but who do you predict the Bills field

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01:23:08,680 --> 01:23:10,720
Speaker 1: they must have in the first round on Thursday night?

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01:23:10,920 --> 01:23:13,720
Speaker 1: Who do you think the Bills just love that they're thinking, man,

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01:23:13,800 --> 01:23:15,760
Speaker 1: we got to get this guy Thursday night. Who is it?

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01:23:15,840 --> 01:23:19,160
Speaker 1: We offer you a couple of choices on Twitter, who

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01:23:19,280 --> 01:23:20,800
Speaker 1: is the one player of the Bills field they must

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01:23:20,800 --> 01:23:22,920
Speaker 1: have in the first round. Thirty three percent of you

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01:23:23,000 --> 01:23:26,400
Speaker 1: say the defensive tackle At Oliver, thirty one percent of

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01:23:26,439 --> 01:23:29,120
Speaker 1: you say the tight end t J. Hawkinson, Twenty eight

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01:23:29,160 --> 01:23:31,200
Speaker 1: percent say that you don't think that they are locked

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Speaker 1: into one player. Eight percent say wide receiver DK Metcalf.

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Speaker 1: More than fifteen hundred votes in Steve, come on, that's

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01:23:37,960 --> 01:23:42,320
Speaker 1: pretty close. You're you're you're the arbiter of excellent excellent

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01:23:42,360 --> 01:23:44,479
Speaker 1: Twitter poll. I will take credit for this, and I look,

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01:23:44,479 --> 01:23:47,200
Speaker 1: how close is very good? Close it is. Yeah, they're

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01:23:47,240 --> 01:23:49,519
Speaker 1: looking for something other than DK Metcalf. I guess too.

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01:23:49,600 --> 01:23:51,920
Speaker 1: But I like the fact too that not locked into

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01:23:51,960 --> 01:23:55,040
Speaker 1: one player, that is a strong strategy. That's not quite

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01:23:55,080 --> 01:23:57,519
Speaker 1: up there with that Oliver and TJ Hockinson. Hockinson is

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01:23:57,560 --> 01:24:02,599
Speaker 1: a is an intriguing prospect. But here's the problem. Neither

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01:24:02,840 --> 01:24:08,800
Speaker 1: Ed Oliver nor TJ. Hockinson may deserve a top ten

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01:24:08,960 --> 01:24:11,320
Speaker 1: overall pick in this draft. You may be getting a

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01:24:11,360 --> 01:24:13,040
Speaker 1: guy who's going to be a good player, but not

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01:24:13,160 --> 01:24:16,599
Speaker 1: a top ten overall player. And I may be splitting hairs.

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01:24:16,640 --> 01:24:20,040
Speaker 1: Maybe Hockinson is a top twenty player a top thirty

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01:24:20,120 --> 01:24:23,120
Speaker 1: player in the NFL drafting. Same thing with Ed Oliver,

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01:24:23,439 --> 01:24:26,280
Speaker 1: but they're not a top ten player. That's why everybody

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01:24:26,320 --> 01:24:27,760
Speaker 1: thinks that. You know, a lot of teams up in

1754
01:24:27,800 --> 01:24:29,439
Speaker 1: the top of the draft and want to trade down.

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01:24:30,120 --> 01:24:33,120
Speaker 1: But if you're going to get a guy, I think

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01:24:33,200 --> 01:24:36,160
Speaker 1: either one of those guys, Ed Oliver or TJ. Hockinson

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01:24:36,479 --> 01:24:38,280
Speaker 1: is going to be a contributor. I don't know if

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01:24:38,280 --> 01:24:40,720
Speaker 1: they're gonna be All Pro in their first or second year,

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01:24:40,760 --> 01:24:43,040
Speaker 1: a third year, but I do know that they'll contribute

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01:24:43,040 --> 01:24:45,599
Speaker 1: to this team. If that's what you're looking for from

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Speaker 1: the number nine, I think you'll get it. I see.

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01:24:49,320 --> 01:24:51,479
Speaker 1: I think the same thing about DK Metcalf. They'll give

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01:24:51,560 --> 01:24:53,280
Speaker 1: him some things he can do well. He'll be able

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01:24:53,320 --> 01:24:55,120
Speaker 1: to get out there and get his feet wet. I

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01:24:55,120 --> 01:24:56,880
Speaker 1: don't know that he'll be as good as Hackinson or

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01:24:56,880 --> 01:24:59,639
Speaker 1: as good as Ed Oliver at their positions, but certainly

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01:24:59,720 --> 01:25:04,000
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be a guy that's an embarrassment, is

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01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:05,360
Speaker 1: a draw. I don't think he'll be a bust, you

1769
01:25:05,439 --> 01:25:09,400
Speaker 1: know what I mean? I think, but the trick for

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01:25:09,479 --> 01:25:12,280
Speaker 1: the draft is to get a guy at a pick

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01:25:13,439 --> 01:25:16,720
Speaker 1: that is lower than what he's actually worth. Right, that's

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01:25:16,760 --> 01:25:19,080
Speaker 1: the thing. And I think that number nine. I don't

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01:25:19,120 --> 01:25:21,760
Speaker 1: know that there's guys out there given after the top

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01:25:21,840 --> 01:25:23,840
Speaker 1: handful of guys that are gonna be worth the number

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Speaker 1: nine overall pick. Take a call here Drew in Columbus, Ohio. Hello, Drew,

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01:25:28,040 --> 01:25:32,040
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Hey, John Steve. Great talking to y'all.

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Speaker 1: Game than you go ahead? Um. At first, I was

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01:25:36,560 --> 01:25:40,840
Speaker 1: thinking maybe Noah five, because I was just thinking, you know,

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01:25:40,960 --> 01:25:44,560
Speaker 1: we pretty much have b guys. We just got that

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01:25:44,720 --> 01:25:47,920
Speaker 1: guy William so he's pretty but a big guy. I

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01:25:48,040 --> 01:25:50,360
Speaker 1: was thinking, maybe we get somebody big in the middle,

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01:25:50,760 --> 01:25:52,720
Speaker 1: you know, that could separate, you know, and then we

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01:25:52,800 --> 01:25:57,920
Speaker 1: got Beasley and Mackenzie and uh and yeah, what's his name?

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01:25:58,280 --> 01:26:02,080
Speaker 1: John Brown? Yeah, don't don't because I was thinking, you

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01:26:02,160 --> 01:26:05,160
Speaker 1: put if you put John Brown and Foster Voth on outside,

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01:26:05,200 --> 01:26:07,320
Speaker 1: we don't need no Number one. Just work fur committee

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01:26:08,680 --> 01:26:11,640
Speaker 1: draft players. We just get somebody that can just we

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01:26:11,760 --> 01:26:14,360
Speaker 1: get players that could just get open. Then I feel

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01:26:14,479 --> 01:26:16,600
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, could you know, get him the ball we

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01:26:16,760 --> 01:26:21,080
Speaker 1: just spread around and he can his uh completion percentage

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01:26:21,120 --> 01:26:23,120
Speaker 1: would go up as that you know, like that is

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Speaker 1: with but I feel it for the most part, we

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01:26:25,240 --> 01:26:28,280
Speaker 1: have to if it's there, we have to get somebody defensive,

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01:26:28,640 --> 01:26:32,200
Speaker 1: a defensive tack or something, because at least three or

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01:26:32,320 --> 01:26:34,360
Speaker 1: four games that we lost we would have won if

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01:26:34,400 --> 01:26:36,479
Speaker 1: we would have stopped the run. I feel we need

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Speaker 1: that draft. All right, Thanks Drewe thanks answer. We're looking

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Speaker 1: for answers to our Twitter poll. We want you to

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Speaker 1: predict the one player the Bills want to come away

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Speaker 1: with Thursday night on the tweet sheet Arn Bills fan

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01:26:47,920 --> 01:26:52,080
Speaker 1: tweets and other Byron Murphy, cornerback Washington the opposite of Trey.

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01:26:52,479 --> 01:26:54,840
Speaker 1: We need lockdown corners that will allow the pass USh

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01:26:54,880 --> 01:26:57,040
Speaker 1: to get to the quarterback. Thinking if a quarterback we

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01:26:57,160 --> 01:26:58,760
Speaker 1: faced twice a year who gets rid of the ball

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01:26:58,800 --> 01:27:01,400
Speaker 1: faster than anyone else, shut down where he can go

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01:27:01,479 --> 01:27:03,240
Speaker 1: with the ball and let Jerry Hughes take him down.

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01:27:03,960 --> 01:27:07,559
Speaker 1: Byron Murphy, he says, highly regarded. I think a lot

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01:27:07,640 --> 01:27:10,800
Speaker 1: of good things from our guest a minute ago too,

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01:27:11,120 --> 01:27:14,479
Speaker 1: right from Sam Monson about Byron Murphy. Right, I don't

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01:27:14,560 --> 01:27:17,760
Speaker 1: here's the thing, and again we're I'm getting kind of

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01:27:17,800 --> 01:27:19,760
Speaker 1: caught up in what you read, what you see. I

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01:27:19,840 --> 01:27:22,240
Speaker 1: have not seen Byron Murphy mentioned as a top ten

1813
01:27:22,360 --> 01:27:25,160
Speaker 1: pick very often in this draft run up, Steve, you

1814
01:27:25,200 --> 01:27:26,479
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Might be able to get him

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01:27:27,439 --> 01:27:30,720
Speaker 1: forty yeah, well twenty five thirty yeah, I have not

1816
01:27:30,800 --> 01:27:33,360
Speaker 1: seen him mentioned anywhere. Really is a top ten pick.

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01:27:33,720 --> 01:27:36,080
Speaker 1: It looks like a good fit for the Buffalo defense,

1818
01:27:36,160 --> 01:27:39,080
Speaker 1: looks like a really good solid player. But you want him,

1819
01:27:39,080 --> 01:27:40,880
Speaker 1: you want to use a nine on him? Maybe not?

1820
01:27:41,400 --> 01:27:44,600
Speaker 1: Maybe not? See the Bills have a first round or

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01:27:44,640 --> 01:27:46,800
Speaker 1: a second round or a third rounder, then two fours,

1822
01:27:46,840 --> 01:27:50,200
Speaker 1: two fifths, and that's where the bulk of their draft is.

1823
01:27:50,800 --> 01:27:56,519
Speaker 1: And who is going to be available is the critical question,

1824
01:27:56,840 --> 01:27:59,479
Speaker 1: and how far these guys dropping some of these names here,

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01:27:59,560 --> 01:28:02,320
Speaker 1: You see that the rankings of the top cornerback prospects,

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01:28:02,560 --> 01:28:05,519
Speaker 1: they go from Greedy Williams, who's ranked twenty fifth overall

1827
01:28:05,520 --> 01:28:08,960
Speaker 1: all the way down to Joe Want Joe, Juan Joe

1828
01:28:09,040 --> 01:28:12,800
Speaker 1: one Williams from Vanderbilt at seventy four. So you're gonna

1829
01:28:12,840 --> 01:28:16,200
Speaker 1: have ten guys there between the twenty fifth ranked player

1830
01:28:16,360 --> 01:28:20,120
Speaker 1: and the seventy fourth ranked player that are cornerback prospects

1831
01:28:20,200 --> 01:28:24,759
Speaker 1: that you can pick some of those guys who maybe

1832
01:28:24,880 --> 01:28:27,760
Speaker 1: lower down that from sixty three on down may be

1833
01:28:27,880 --> 01:28:29,760
Speaker 1: a better fit for the scheme than the guys at

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01:28:29,760 --> 01:28:32,400
Speaker 1: twenty five, twenty six, and thirty all of those guys,

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01:28:32,439 --> 01:28:34,960
Speaker 1: So that's up to the coaches to decide and the

1836
01:28:35,439 --> 01:28:37,960
Speaker 1: scouts to decide. But don't think that they don't believe

1837
01:28:38,000 --> 01:28:40,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna get one of those guys with one of

1838
01:28:40,160 --> 01:28:42,800
Speaker 1: their fourth rounders or fifth round picks, because there are

1839
01:28:42,800 --> 01:28:46,000
Speaker 1: a bunch of them and scheme is really important, and

1840
01:28:46,040 --> 01:28:49,040
Speaker 1: I agree with Sam Munson from Pro Football Focused, scheme

1841
01:28:49,160 --> 01:28:52,240
Speaker 1: is really key for these dbs and where they fit

1842
01:28:52,920 --> 01:28:55,519
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet from Ronnie and when we ask

1843
01:28:55,560 --> 01:28:57,679
Speaker 1: a question, we want you to predict the one player

1844
01:28:57,720 --> 01:28:59,560
Speaker 1: the Bills need the Bills want to come away with

1845
01:28:59,640 --> 01:29:02,680
Speaker 1: Thursday night, Ronnie answers. From all I've read heard and

1846
01:29:02,840 --> 01:29:06,440
Speaker 1: the comparisons to Witton and Gronk, I'm sold that Howkinson

1847
01:29:06,600 --> 01:29:08,759
Speaker 1: is the safest pick and can I have the greatest

1848
01:29:08,800 --> 01:29:11,439
Speaker 1: impact on the team right now? Yep, Okay, well that's

1849
01:29:11,479 --> 01:29:12,760
Speaker 1: probably put him on there. I know a lot of

1850
01:29:12,800 --> 01:29:15,599
Speaker 1: Bills fans we've heard from believe I don't know about safest,

1851
01:29:15,640 --> 01:29:19,200
Speaker 1: but believe he is maybe a greatness in him. Hockinson

1852
01:29:19,280 --> 01:29:24,000
Speaker 1: I mean basically that was the take from Great Cosal

1853
01:29:24,120 --> 01:29:27,400
Speaker 1: on Friday, right, right, he compared him to Grock. Yeah,

1854
01:29:27,439 --> 01:29:30,160
Speaker 1: and I think well he did. He was hesitant to

1855
01:29:30,200 --> 01:29:31,760
Speaker 1: do it. He said, that's the type of guy he is.

1856
01:29:31,800 --> 01:29:33,439
Speaker 1: He's gonna be on the field all the time, is

1857
01:29:33,479 --> 01:29:35,639
Speaker 1: what he meant by that. He can play first, second,

1858
01:29:35,680 --> 01:29:38,680
Speaker 1: and third down and play extremely well. And I think

1859
01:29:39,280 --> 01:29:41,920
Speaker 1: I mentioned this as well. There's about three or four

1860
01:29:42,000 --> 01:29:43,800
Speaker 1: guys in this draft that we've talked about in the

1861
01:29:43,920 --> 01:29:45,880
Speaker 1: last few weeks Murph that the Bills are gonna have

1862
01:29:46,640 --> 01:29:49,280
Speaker 1: very little explaining to do when they pick you know,

1863
01:29:49,520 --> 01:29:51,519
Speaker 1: Ed Oliver, Okay, hey, that's the guy. I get it.

1864
01:29:52,520 --> 01:29:56,200
Speaker 1: T J. Hawkinson, Yeah, okay, he's the guy. Or DK Metcalf, Okay,

1865
01:29:56,280 --> 01:29:58,360
Speaker 1: I see it. All of these guys and anybody the

1866
01:29:58,680 --> 01:30:02,559
Speaker 1: ones up above, Mont has Sweat, Quinnon Williams, Nick Bosa,

1867
01:30:02,840 --> 01:30:05,800
Speaker 1: all of these guys, Josh Allen, the edge rusher, all

1868
01:30:05,840 --> 01:30:08,960
Speaker 1: of these guys are very easy picks to rationalize for

1869
01:30:09,479 --> 01:30:12,960
Speaker 1: the Bills organization and the fans. And I think the

1870
01:30:13,200 --> 01:30:15,280
Speaker 1: biggest surprise is gonna be which one of those guys

1871
01:30:15,320 --> 01:30:18,080
Speaker 1: they get. Yeah, because there's gonna be a good player there. Yeah,

1872
01:30:18,680 --> 01:30:21,000
Speaker 1: can't wait Thursday night. We'll be here on the radio

1873
01:30:21,320 --> 01:30:23,439
Speaker 1: Thursday at eight with draft coverage coming back one more

1874
01:30:23,479 --> 01:30:25,920
Speaker 1: hour and Eric Moulds first round pick of the Bills

1875
01:30:26,000 --> 01:30:30,080
Speaker 1: back in nineteen. Eric mold is going to be live

1876
01:30:30,160 --> 01:30:31,800
Speaker 1: on the line with us when we return. Come on

1877
01:30:31,880 --> 01:30:34,320
Speaker 1: back One Bill's Live. John Murphy was steam tasker from

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01:30:34,360 --> 01:30:50,160
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radiofalo Bills Radio Network.

1879
01:30:50,680 --> 01:30:53,760
Speaker 1: Story Day comes from One Bills Drive. There's a new

1880
01:30:53,800 --> 01:30:56,519
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill on the roster. Running Back t J. Yeldon

1881
01:30:56,600 --> 01:30:59,519
Speaker 1: agreed to term today. Spent first four seasons of his

1882
01:30:59,680 --> 01:31:02,519
Speaker 1: NFL career with the Jacksonville Jaguars. He was the jack

1883
01:31:02,600 --> 01:31:05,439
Speaker 1: second round pick in twenty fifteen, starter as a rookie,

1884
01:31:05,680 --> 01:31:08,000
Speaker 1: then mostly a backup the last few years, lost the

1885
01:31:08,040 --> 01:31:11,479
Speaker 1: playing time once the Jaguars signed Leonard Fournette. He is

1886
01:31:11,479 --> 01:31:14,040
Speaker 1: a product of the University of Alabama. T J. Yelden

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01:31:14,320 --> 01:31:16,519
Speaker 1: a threat as a receiver coming out of the backfield.

1888
01:31:16,560 --> 01:31:19,920
Speaker 1: He's had two fifty catch seasons in the last three years.

1889
01:31:20,320 --> 01:31:22,760
Speaker 1: Yeldon gives the Bills now six running backs on the roster,

1890
01:31:22,880 --> 01:31:27,040
Speaker 1: including Frank Gore and Shady McCoy. He also visited with

1891
01:31:27,120 --> 01:31:30,960
Speaker 1: the Patriots, but signed today with the Buffalo Bills. T J.

1892
01:31:31,120 --> 01:31:33,160
Speaker 1: Yelden were scheduled to have him on the show in

1893
01:31:33,240 --> 01:31:35,559
Speaker 1: a couple of days here this week. The draft three

1894
01:31:35,640 --> 01:31:38,559
Speaker 1: days away. The Arizona Cardinal scheduled to have their top

1895
01:31:38,640 --> 01:31:40,599
Speaker 1: brass meet this week to come up with their plan

1896
01:31:40,760 --> 01:31:44,000
Speaker 1: with the number one overall pick. Ian Rappaport of NFL

1897
01:31:44,080 --> 01:31:47,759
Speaker 1: Network says the Cardinals GM Steve Kine, coach Cliff Kingsbury,

1898
01:31:47,800 --> 01:31:50,240
Speaker 1: and owner Michael Bidwell. We'll have a final meeting over

1899
01:31:50,280 --> 01:31:52,760
Speaker 1: the next couple of days to discuss their options at

1900
01:31:52,880 --> 01:31:56,839
Speaker 1: number one, which include the quarterback Kyler Murray. Widely assumed

1901
01:31:56,880 --> 01:31:58,720
Speaker 1: for the last few months that Murray would go number

1902
01:31:58,760 --> 01:32:01,880
Speaker 1: one overall, but they're also reports out today from several

1903
01:32:02,840 --> 01:32:05,519
Speaker 1: interested observers who say that's not the case. They might

1904
01:32:05,560 --> 01:32:07,640
Speaker 1: go to a defender Arizona with a number one pick.

1905
01:32:07,680 --> 01:32:10,080
Speaker 1: We'll find out what they're gonna do officially on Thursday

1906
01:32:10,120 --> 01:32:13,759
Speaker 1: night at eight o'clock. Seattle Seahawks still considering trading defensiman

1907
01:32:13,840 --> 01:32:17,439
Speaker 1: Frank Clark. According to ESPN, In return, the Seahawks would

1908
01:32:17,479 --> 01:32:19,400
Speaker 1: want a package to include at least a first round

1909
01:32:19,520 --> 01:32:22,479
Speaker 1: draft pick, Stanley Cup playoffs tonight. A couple of matchups,

1910
01:32:22,520 --> 01:32:24,960
Speaker 1: a couple of games sixes, including in the East where

1911
01:32:25,000 --> 01:32:27,920
Speaker 1: it's Washington and Carolina. The Caps lead that series three

1912
01:32:27,960 --> 01:32:30,240
Speaker 1: games to two. They will face off at seven o'clock

1913
01:32:30,240 --> 01:32:33,720
Speaker 1: tonight in Carolina in the Western Conference game six of

1914
01:32:33,800 --> 01:32:37,200
Speaker 1: the Nashville Dallas series. Dallas leads a series three games

1915
01:32:37,240 --> 01:32:39,920
Speaker 1: to two. They'll face off at eight thirty tonight in Dallas.

1916
01:32:40,200 --> 01:32:42,400
Speaker 1: The Bison's rained out over the weekend here at home.

1917
01:32:42,600 --> 01:32:45,759
Speaker 1: They opened a road trip in Syracuse against the Mets tonight.

1918
01:32:46,120 --> 01:32:49,160
Speaker 1: Righthander Jordan Romano makes his third start, first pitch, six

1919
01:32:49,320 --> 01:32:51,840
Speaker 1: thirty five. And that's the update from One Bill's Drive,

1920
01:32:51,920 --> 01:32:55,240
Speaker 1: John Murphy's Steve Tasker in our one Buffalo Studio. It

1921
01:32:55,479 --> 01:32:59,639
Speaker 1: was twenty three years ago yesterday when our next guest

1922
01:32:59,720 --> 01:33:02,479
Speaker 1: was officially selected in the first round by the Buffalo

1923
01:33:02,520 --> 01:33:04,400
Speaker 1: Bills in the NFL Draft. We're happy to have him

1924
01:33:04,439 --> 01:33:06,800
Speaker 1: with us right now. Three time Pro bowler for the

1925
01:33:06,840 --> 01:33:10,160
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, first round draft pick in ninety nineteen ninety six,

1926
01:33:10,200 --> 01:33:13,519
Speaker 1: played twelve seasons in the NFL. Well, former wide receiver

1927
01:33:13,680 --> 01:33:15,400
Speaker 1: Eric Moulds on the line with us. Hello, Eric, John

1928
01:33:15,439 --> 01:33:17,120
Speaker 1: Murphy and Steve Tasker are up here in Buffalo. How

1929
01:33:17,120 --> 01:33:19,439
Speaker 1: are you doing today? Good? How are you guys doing?

1930
01:33:19,880 --> 01:33:22,960
Speaker 1: Doing great? Do you mark that milestone draft Day? Did

1931
01:33:23,000 --> 01:33:27,040
Speaker 1: you know that yesterday was the anniversary of that? Actually

1932
01:33:27,040 --> 01:33:29,360
Speaker 1: I didn't, I didn't. I didn't know to h I

1933
01:33:29,520 --> 01:33:32,360
Speaker 1: looked on the social media and a couple of fans

1934
01:33:32,439 --> 01:33:35,320
Speaker 1: tagments in the post. Gotcha. What do you remember about

1935
01:33:35,320 --> 01:33:39,400
Speaker 1: your expectations, Eric, about where you were, where you thought

1936
01:33:39,439 --> 01:33:41,639
Speaker 1: you might get drafted. I knew you're you're a really

1937
01:33:41,720 --> 01:33:43,920
Speaker 1: talented player, your first round draft pick, and you kind

1938
01:33:43,920 --> 01:33:46,080
Speaker 1: of know that when you're that good. What were your

1939
01:33:46,120 --> 01:33:49,760
Speaker 1: expectations on draft day so long ago? Well, you know,

1940
01:33:50,160 --> 01:33:51,800
Speaker 1: you know, Steve, you know when you get drafted. Here

1941
01:33:51,840 --> 01:33:53,840
Speaker 1: a number of things. And I kept hearing out, will

1942
01:33:53,880 --> 01:33:57,000
Speaker 1: be in the top team. I kept hearing Jacksonville, I

1943
01:33:57,200 --> 01:34:01,000
Speaker 1: kept hearing the Innannapolis Coast. I kept hearing maybe Carolina Panthers.

1944
01:34:01,680 --> 01:34:03,960
Speaker 1: And you know they always say the team that you

1945
01:34:04,479 --> 01:34:06,639
Speaker 1: never expect to suspect the draft you or you don't

1946
01:34:06,680 --> 01:34:08,479
Speaker 1: talk to is a team that usually drafts you. And

1947
01:34:08,479 --> 01:34:10,320
Speaker 1: I didn't get a chance to talk to Buffalo when

1948
01:34:10,320 --> 01:34:12,400
Speaker 1: I was at the combine and that was a team

1949
01:34:12,439 --> 01:34:15,080
Speaker 1: to wind up drafting me. You know, Um, I've heard

1950
01:34:15,120 --> 01:34:17,559
Speaker 1: you interviewed about this, Eric. You came to a Buffalo

1951
01:34:17,640 --> 01:34:19,960
Speaker 1: team that first of all, Jim Kelly was the quarterback

1952
01:34:20,040 --> 01:34:22,519
Speaker 1: that had the bold pretty well for you, and you

1953
01:34:22,640 --> 01:34:25,719
Speaker 1: had a team full of superstars really that you joined

1954
01:34:26,040 --> 01:34:28,680
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety six. Were you intimidated at all when

1955
01:34:28,680 --> 01:34:31,880
Speaker 1: you got to the Buffalo Bills in nineteen ninety six, No,

1956
01:34:31,960 --> 01:34:33,640
Speaker 1: I don't think I was intimidator. I think I was

1957
01:34:33,720 --> 01:34:36,240
Speaker 1: just a little anxious to get there. And because you

1958
01:34:36,360 --> 01:34:38,879
Speaker 1: watched all these guys on TV. You watched Steve Tasker,

1959
01:34:38,920 --> 01:34:42,800
Speaker 1: you watched Bruce Smith, Thurman Thomas, and because Jim Kelly

1960
01:34:42,840 --> 01:34:45,000
Speaker 1: and those guys, But to get a chance to be

1961
01:34:45,080 --> 01:34:47,160
Speaker 1: in the locker room with him, in meeting rooms with

1962
01:34:47,280 --> 01:34:49,920
Speaker 1: him and see that personalities and see how they work,

1963
01:34:50,800 --> 01:34:52,920
Speaker 1: they actually made it a lot easier for me. I

1964
01:34:53,040 --> 01:34:54,600
Speaker 1: talked to a lot of draft picks that went the

1965
01:34:54,640 --> 01:34:57,400
Speaker 1: other teams. It was a lot more difficult for them

1966
01:34:57,520 --> 01:35:00,960
Speaker 1: because they didn't have that type of a number of

1967
01:35:01,040 --> 01:35:02,840
Speaker 1: guys that went to Super Bowls that played for a

1968
01:35:02,920 --> 01:35:05,120
Speaker 1: long time together. Yeah, you came in and you had

1969
01:35:05,240 --> 01:35:07,680
Speaker 1: Marv Levy was the head coach then, and he had

1970
01:35:07,720 --> 01:35:10,080
Speaker 1: a penchion for not playing wide receivers. What do you

1971
01:35:10,120 --> 01:35:13,840
Speaker 1: remember about You're struggling to get on the field for

1972
01:35:13,920 --> 01:35:18,000
Speaker 1: a coach who you know wasn't really that fond of

1973
01:35:18,080 --> 01:35:21,320
Speaker 1: playing young guys at your position. Yeah, it was tough.

1974
01:35:21,400 --> 01:35:23,599
Speaker 1: I mean I heard that before I even got drafted

1975
01:35:23,640 --> 01:35:27,040
Speaker 1: to Buffalo. On the day I got drafted, I talked

1976
01:35:27,040 --> 01:35:28,880
Speaker 1: to a guy that was from Buffalo that lived in

1977
01:35:28,920 --> 01:35:31,400
Speaker 1: Mississippi while I was from and he told me, you know,

1978
01:35:31,479 --> 01:35:33,880
Speaker 1: traditionally Marv doesn't play young guys, so you may have

1979
01:35:33,960 --> 01:35:36,640
Speaker 1: to sit and watch a little bit. But when he

1980
01:35:36,680 --> 01:35:37,960
Speaker 1: told me that, I kind of looked at him. And

1981
01:35:38,000 --> 01:35:39,759
Speaker 1: then when I got to Buffalo, I heard that again

1982
01:35:40,000 --> 01:35:41,559
Speaker 1: from some of the players, and so it was one

1983
01:35:41,560 --> 01:35:43,200
Speaker 1: of those things that you know, I wanted to try

1984
01:35:43,240 --> 01:35:45,080
Speaker 1: to just work my way into the lineup and get

1985
01:35:45,120 --> 01:35:46,760
Speaker 1: a chance to play. And I got to play a

1986
01:35:46,840 --> 01:35:48,439
Speaker 1: little bit, and you know, I got to Obviously I

1987
01:35:48,520 --> 01:35:50,599
Speaker 1: got to catch two or three touchdowns from Jim Kelly,

1988
01:35:50,680 --> 01:35:52,519
Speaker 1: so that made it a lot better. But as a

1989
01:35:52,600 --> 01:35:54,519
Speaker 1: young player, you always want to play. But I think

1990
01:35:54,560 --> 01:35:58,040
Speaker 1: it helped me learn learned the position a lot better

1991
01:35:58,080 --> 01:36:00,920
Speaker 1: because I had Andre, I had Quinn early, and obviously

1992
01:36:00,920 --> 01:36:03,040
Speaker 1: I had step tasking those guys so I could learn

1993
01:36:03,520 --> 01:36:06,760
Speaker 1: as much as possible and then it helped me further

1994
01:36:06,840 --> 01:36:09,760
Speaker 1: in my career. And then Eric Wade Phillips takes over

1995
01:36:09,840 --> 01:36:13,160
Speaker 1: in your third season nineteen ninety eight, and I recall

1996
01:36:13,240 --> 01:36:16,799
Speaker 1: the preseason game when you started and played, and afterwards

1997
01:36:16,840 --> 01:36:19,360
Speaker 1: Wade said, yeah, Eric's oar starter. Now, what what was

1998
01:36:19,439 --> 01:36:21,360
Speaker 1: that like for you? When did Wade let you know

1999
01:36:21,479 --> 01:36:22,840
Speaker 1: that you were his guy? You were going to be

2000
01:36:22,880 --> 01:36:26,080
Speaker 1: a starter at wide receiver. Well, honestly, you guys knew

2001
01:36:26,120 --> 01:36:29,080
Speaker 1: before I did. I didn't know. I just, you know,

2002
01:36:29,120 --> 01:36:31,639
Speaker 1: I just wanted to come in and just keep working hard.

2003
01:36:31,720 --> 01:36:33,719
Speaker 1: And you know, he would come to me at practice

2004
01:36:33,720 --> 01:36:35,920
Speaker 1: and just he would just tell me, just keep doing

2005
01:36:35,920 --> 01:36:38,000
Speaker 1: the things that you're doing. You're turning a lot of heads.

2006
01:36:38,040 --> 01:36:40,400
Speaker 1: And you know, I felt in my first two years

2007
01:36:40,439 --> 01:36:42,679
Speaker 1: I didn't perform like I wanted to. So I wanted

2008
01:36:42,680 --> 01:36:44,920
Speaker 1: to come back my third year and say, you know what,

2009
01:36:45,320 --> 01:36:47,880
Speaker 1: I'm worthy of being a first round first round draft picking.

2010
01:36:47,920 --> 01:36:49,639
Speaker 1: So I just worked my butt off in the all season.

2011
01:36:49,720 --> 01:36:51,880
Speaker 1: I came back and and I just said some goals.

2012
01:36:51,920 --> 01:36:53,240
Speaker 1: I said, you know, I want to start, I want

2013
01:36:53,240 --> 01:36:55,080
Speaker 1: to play. I want to have this team turn the

2014
01:36:55,160 --> 01:36:58,760
Speaker 1: corner and make the playoffs. And so things wind up

2015
01:36:58,800 --> 01:37:01,320
Speaker 1: happening in that way. And you know, as the season

2016
01:37:01,439 --> 01:37:04,000
Speaker 1: got went along, I got better. You've had the chance

2017
01:37:04,040 --> 01:37:05,800
Speaker 1: to come in. You played ninety six, but then as

2018
01:37:05,840 --> 01:37:07,719
Speaker 1: soon as you got here ninety six to ninety seven,

2019
01:37:07,880 --> 01:37:10,599
Speaker 1: you've changed quarterbacks for the first time, and it ended

2020
01:37:10,640 --> 01:37:13,680
Speaker 1: up you changed quarterbacks a lot during your career. How

2021
01:37:13,800 --> 01:37:15,720
Speaker 1: much of a struggle was that for you? I mean

2022
01:37:15,760 --> 01:37:18,679
Speaker 1: you played with eight different quarterbacks in your time with Buffalo.

2023
01:37:19,360 --> 01:37:22,760
Speaker 1: Tell people how how hard that is as a receiver. Well,

2024
01:37:22,800 --> 01:37:24,560
Speaker 1: you know, Steve, you know obviously you know more. This

2025
01:37:24,720 --> 01:37:27,920
Speaker 1: is more than anybody. It's very tough. You know. Jim

2026
01:37:28,240 --> 01:37:31,040
Speaker 1: retires my rookie year and I'm hoping he comes back,

2027
01:37:31,080 --> 01:37:33,920
Speaker 1: but he retires, and then Todd Collins becomes a quarterback,

2028
01:37:33,960 --> 01:37:36,640
Speaker 1: so he's really basically learning just like I am as

2029
01:37:36,680 --> 01:37:39,400
Speaker 1: a starter, and so that made a lot difficult to

2030
01:37:39,479 --> 01:37:41,720
Speaker 1: get on the same page with him. And then we

2031
01:37:41,880 --> 01:37:44,519
Speaker 1: had the next year my theory come in. We had

2032
01:37:44,760 --> 01:37:46,680
Speaker 1: Rob Johnson and Doug flud It. So they went back

2033
01:37:46,680 --> 01:37:48,400
Speaker 1: and forth. So you know, I got to spend a

2034
01:37:48,439 --> 01:37:51,240
Speaker 1: little time with both guys the first three those last

2035
01:37:51,280 --> 01:37:54,040
Speaker 1: three years before food and left and had some success.

2036
01:37:54,680 --> 01:37:56,839
Speaker 1: And then you know, we made a few more switches

2037
01:37:56,840 --> 01:38:00,360
Speaker 1: at quarterback, and it's very difficult to get the timing

2038
01:38:00,439 --> 01:38:02,800
Speaker 1: down with the quarterback. It's it's it's hard when you

2039
01:38:02,920 --> 01:38:05,080
Speaker 1: when you're betteran you get the time in with the quarterback.

2040
01:38:05,160 --> 01:38:07,640
Speaker 1: But to have so many different guys that throw the

2041
01:38:07,680 --> 01:38:10,360
Speaker 1: ball different, their time and is different. Some have long,

2042
01:38:10,840 --> 01:38:13,519
Speaker 1: long throwles and some have quicker, quicker releases, so you

2043
01:38:13,600 --> 01:38:16,040
Speaker 1: gotta get used to that. But it's tough. But you know,

2044
01:38:16,120 --> 01:38:17,560
Speaker 1: as a receiver, I just kept you know, I was

2045
01:38:17,640 --> 01:38:20,639
Speaker 1: lucky to have a coach like Charlie Jonna and Frey Ravesins,

2046
01:38:20,680 --> 01:38:23,880
Speaker 1: some really good receiver coaches that you know, just kept

2047
01:38:23,920 --> 01:38:25,560
Speaker 1: me focused and just say run your route and just

2048
01:38:25,640 --> 01:38:27,519
Speaker 1: do what you're supposed to do and the rest of

2049
01:38:27,680 --> 01:38:30,400
Speaker 1: the rest of the handled. How much does every receiver,

2050
01:38:30,760 --> 01:38:33,160
Speaker 1: even you know, the truly great ones too, how much

2051
01:38:33,920 --> 01:38:36,599
Speaker 1: of their success depends on the guy throwing the football.

2052
01:38:36,640 --> 01:38:38,760
Speaker 1: In my mind, it's it's all about the guy throwing

2053
01:38:38,800 --> 01:38:42,120
Speaker 1: the football giving you opportunities. How much of that do

2054
01:38:42,200 --> 01:38:44,880
Speaker 1: you think, um, how much do you attribute to that

2055
01:38:45,320 --> 01:38:48,680
Speaker 1: to your success or or or lack of opportunities? How

2056
01:38:48,760 --> 01:38:50,360
Speaker 1: much do you put on the quarterback? Even when you

2057
01:38:50,400 --> 01:38:53,519
Speaker 1: watch the guys in the modern day play like Antonio Browns,

2058
01:38:53,520 --> 01:38:57,080
Speaker 1: the Julio Jones and and AJ Greens, those guys, how

2059
01:38:57,200 --> 01:39:00,760
Speaker 1: much effect does the quarterback about them? To me, it's

2060
01:39:00,800 --> 01:39:04,280
Speaker 1: almost all of it is dependent on the guy throwing

2061
01:39:04,280 --> 01:39:07,240
Speaker 1: the ball. So it is I mean, if you really

2062
01:39:07,439 --> 01:39:08,960
Speaker 1: you know the old cliches, you're going to take a

2063
01:39:09,040 --> 01:39:11,360
Speaker 1: receiver at the game, you don't take that receiver. You

2064
01:39:11,360 --> 01:39:13,160
Speaker 1: don't double team or tripper team. You just get to

2065
01:39:13,240 --> 01:39:16,120
Speaker 1: that quarterback and shack him and make him erratic, and

2066
01:39:16,200 --> 01:39:18,160
Speaker 1: you can take any receiver at the game. I think

2067
01:39:18,280 --> 01:39:20,680
Speaker 1: you know. For me, I was always really close with

2068
01:39:20,840 --> 01:39:23,080
Speaker 1: the guys drafted in my class, from Marvin Harrison and

2069
01:39:23,120 --> 01:39:26,000
Speaker 1: those guys and Marvel. Marvin would always kid me that

2070
01:39:26,120 --> 01:39:27,439
Speaker 1: he was I would him a Peyton man in my

2071
01:39:27,479 --> 01:39:29,240
Speaker 1: whole career, and I was like, well, this is probably

2072
01:39:29,320 --> 01:39:32,360
Speaker 1: my seven eight quarterback. So it makes it a lot

2073
01:39:32,400 --> 01:39:35,080
Speaker 1: easier when you got the same guy for your career,

2074
01:39:35,600 --> 01:39:37,519
Speaker 1: and you can you can pretty much know what he's thinking,

2075
01:39:37,600 --> 01:39:40,120
Speaker 1: he knows what kind of rouster as a receiver, what

2076
01:39:40,200 --> 01:39:42,960
Speaker 1: you run. So it made Marvin's career a lot, a

2077
01:39:43,040 --> 01:39:45,439
Speaker 1: lot easier. You know, not to say that Marvin wasn't talented,

2078
01:39:45,520 --> 01:39:47,360
Speaker 1: but when you have a guy like Peyton Manning throwing

2079
01:39:47,360 --> 01:39:50,000
Speaker 1: your ball see of the majority of the career, is

2080
01:39:50,000 --> 01:39:52,040
Speaker 1: gonna make it a lot easier. Yeah, I feel we're

2081
01:39:52,120 --> 01:39:53,960
Speaker 1: laughing about it now twenty years later. It wasn't all

2082
01:39:54,000 --> 01:39:57,280
Speaker 1: that funny back then when you had to switch. Tell

2083
01:39:57,320 --> 01:39:59,679
Speaker 1: me about it. You did develop chemistry, and it started

2084
01:39:59,680 --> 01:40:02,760
Speaker 1: to eight with Doug Flutie, and I remember you and

2085
01:40:02,920 --> 01:40:05,599
Speaker 1: he used to talk about playing basketball together a lot

2086
01:40:05,720 --> 01:40:08,160
Speaker 1: right offseason at Buffalo Atlantic Club. But how did how

2087
01:40:08,200 --> 01:40:10,760
Speaker 1: did that come about? What did that do for you? Well,

2088
01:40:10,840 --> 01:40:13,160
Speaker 1: you know what, I was always a big basketball guy,

2089
01:40:13,400 --> 01:40:14,960
Speaker 1: you know, I grew up playing basketball and I was

2090
01:40:15,000 --> 01:40:17,519
Speaker 1: at McDonald's American, so it was another way for me

2091
01:40:17,560 --> 01:40:19,240
Speaker 1: to get my conditioning. And then we were in the

2092
01:40:19,320 --> 01:40:21,519
Speaker 1: locker room talking about going to play, and a lot

2093
01:40:21,560 --> 01:40:23,680
Speaker 1: of guys, uh, we're gonna play. We're gonna play at

2094
01:40:23,680 --> 01:40:26,720
Speaker 1: Genesis College, and we're gonna play at different places. I

2095
01:40:26,800 --> 01:40:28,479
Speaker 1: think Doug overheard us and he said, hey, you guys

2096
01:40:28,560 --> 01:40:31,559
Speaker 1: going to hoop I want I want in, And then

2097
01:40:31,920 --> 01:40:35,120
Speaker 1: um Rob Johnson joined in and then Alex dam Pelso

2098
01:40:35,160 --> 01:40:37,960
Speaker 1: we had maybe about twenty guys would go play basketball

2099
01:40:39,840 --> 01:40:42,040
Speaker 1: in the off season, so it made it fun. And

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Speaker 1: then that's how we developed that chemiship. Flute would always

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01:40:44,720 --> 01:40:46,240
Speaker 1: get on my team. He would just throw laws to

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Speaker 1: be in and he would he would always say, boy,

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Speaker 1: that would be some good chemiship. We can just do

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01:40:50,479 --> 01:40:53,439
Speaker 1: this on Sundays. And that's just the way it developed. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: one of the high points of your career was the

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight season where he had thirteen hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty eight yards um. He set the single season team

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Speaker 1: record at that point. And and to me, and I

2109
01:41:03,600 --> 01:41:05,960
Speaker 1: want you to think back, if you can you go down.

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01:41:06,080 --> 01:41:10,040
Speaker 1: You lose to the Miracles, the Music City Miracle. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I thought a week before that game, I was in

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Speaker 1: the booth for CBS at another game and they had

2113
01:41:14,360 --> 01:41:17,240
Speaker 1: the matchups coming into the playoffs, and I circled that

2114
01:41:17,360 --> 01:41:20,000
Speaker 1: game between Buffalo and Tennessee and thought, the winner of

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01:41:20,080 --> 01:41:21,920
Speaker 1: this game. I said it on the air, the winner

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01:41:21,960 --> 01:41:23,560
Speaker 1: of this game is going to the super Bowl. In

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01:41:23,600 --> 01:41:29,400
Speaker 1: the AFC. Did you feel that team was that good? Yeah?

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01:41:29,400 --> 01:41:31,160
Speaker 1: I did. I did, you know, as funny as you

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01:41:31,200 --> 01:41:32,920
Speaker 1: said that team, because you know, I was. I'm really

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Speaker 1: good friends with Van Curson. He would call me during

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01:41:35,439 --> 01:41:37,280
Speaker 1: the weekend. He even said that He's like, man, I

2122
01:41:37,439 --> 01:41:40,200
Speaker 1: really truly believe whoever wins this game is gonna be

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01:41:40,320 --> 01:41:43,160
Speaker 1: the team that represents the AFC and the Super Bowl.

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01:41:43,600 --> 01:41:46,040
Speaker 1: You know, I wasn't. I wasn't that ship, but I

2125
01:41:46,160 --> 01:41:48,760
Speaker 1: kind of knew that. You know, we had the football team,

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01:41:48,840 --> 01:41:51,600
Speaker 1: the offense, We had the defense to carry us if

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01:41:51,640 --> 01:41:53,960
Speaker 1: we needed to off the offense or the defense wasn't

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01:41:54,000 --> 01:41:56,360
Speaker 1: playing good, the offense to carry him. So we had

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01:41:56,400 --> 01:41:58,559
Speaker 1: a really good special teams and guys were playing well,

2130
01:41:58,680 --> 01:42:01,320
Speaker 1: and I just felt that, what if we can just

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01:42:01,400 --> 01:42:03,559
Speaker 1: get past this first game against the Titans, we had

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01:42:03,600 --> 01:42:05,640
Speaker 1: a really good chance to u to go to the

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01:42:05,680 --> 01:42:08,200
Speaker 1: Super Bowl because we had played the Coast the week before,

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01:42:08,720 --> 01:42:10,320
Speaker 1: and we kind of knew those guys in and out,

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01:42:10,320 --> 01:42:11,720
Speaker 1: and I think I think we beat on like thirty

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01:42:11,760 --> 01:42:14,280
Speaker 1: to six the last game of the season, and we

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01:42:14,400 --> 01:42:16,080
Speaker 1: knew that we can beat those guys if we just

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01:42:16,280 --> 01:42:18,439
Speaker 1: didn't turn the football over. So we just knew if

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01:42:18,439 --> 01:42:20,479
Speaker 1: we could go in and beat the Tennessee Titans, we

2140
01:42:20,560 --> 01:42:22,479
Speaker 1: had a chance to make some noise and get to

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01:42:22,479 --> 01:42:24,920
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Eric. One of your notable games was

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01:42:25,000 --> 01:42:27,960
Speaker 1: the playoff game against Miami, I think the year before that,

2143
01:42:28,040 --> 01:42:30,519
Speaker 1: when you had two hundred and forty yards receiving in

2144
01:42:30,640 --> 01:42:34,280
Speaker 1: that one game. Bill's lost to the Dolphins. But that

2145
01:42:34,439 --> 01:42:36,639
Speaker 1: game started out fast for you too, didn't it against

2146
01:42:36,680 --> 01:42:39,280
Speaker 1: Miami that day? Yeah? It did. I mean it was

2147
01:42:39,320 --> 01:42:40,640
Speaker 1: a fun game to play in. You know, it was

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01:42:40,800 --> 01:42:43,519
Speaker 1: you know, uh, Johnny was a thing with Doug Food

2149
01:42:43,600 --> 01:42:46,639
Speaker 1: in their secondary saying they were plus food and slakes

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01:42:46,640 --> 01:42:48,840
Speaker 1: down the store, so we kind of it got me.

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01:42:48,920 --> 01:42:50,479
Speaker 1: It got me ticked off because you know, you always

2152
01:42:50,560 --> 01:42:52,240
Speaker 1: want to stand it before your teammates, and they were

2153
01:42:52,320 --> 01:42:54,080
Speaker 1: talking about what they're gonna do with Doug Food, and

2154
01:42:54,479 --> 01:42:56,760
Speaker 1: it ticking me off that, hey, you guys got to

2155
01:42:56,760 --> 01:42:58,559
Speaker 1: worry about covering me. You don't have to worry about

2156
01:42:59,479 --> 01:43:01,720
Speaker 1: the flue running around doing a lot of different things.

2157
01:43:01,760 --> 01:43:03,200
Speaker 1: So ticking me off. And I want to go down

2158
01:43:03,240 --> 01:43:05,720
Speaker 1: and show them that, you know, obviously I made the

2159
01:43:05,760 --> 01:43:07,160
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl that year, and I want to show them

2160
01:43:07,240 --> 01:43:09,200
Speaker 1: why I made the Pro Bowl. And had a great game.

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01:43:09,800 --> 01:43:11,920
Speaker 1: Talk a little bit. I want to ask you about

2162
01:43:12,200 --> 01:43:14,400
Speaker 1: your last couple of years. You went to Houston and

2163
01:43:14,520 --> 01:43:17,320
Speaker 1: then you also went to Tennessee. Tell us about your

2164
01:43:17,320 --> 01:43:21,719
Speaker 1: experience with those teams. Houston. Houston was a great, great place.

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, you know, they had the new facilities,

2166
01:43:24,720 --> 01:43:28,280
Speaker 1: and my experiences with Andre Johnson were great. You know,

2167
01:43:29,680 --> 01:43:32,120
Speaker 1: he would people would always say he follows me, he

2168
01:43:32,160 --> 01:43:34,080
Speaker 1: follows you around like a puppy. But it was one

2169
01:43:34,080 --> 01:43:37,120
Speaker 1: of those things that we clicked together and he wanted

2170
01:43:37,160 --> 01:43:39,320
Speaker 1: to learn as much as possible as the receiver's position,

2171
01:43:39,360 --> 01:43:42,000
Speaker 1: and that's why he became a great receiver. And it

2172
01:43:42,120 --> 01:43:44,120
Speaker 1: was great. But you know, it's always different when you

2173
01:43:44,200 --> 01:43:47,720
Speaker 1: go from an organization that you've been with for for

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01:43:47,840 --> 01:43:50,439
Speaker 1: a decade and you go to a new organization, because

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01:43:50,439 --> 01:43:52,600
Speaker 1: you gotta learn new players, You got to learn what

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01:43:52,760 --> 01:43:55,600
Speaker 1: makes guys chick. You gotta get a coronado with that

2177
01:43:55,680 --> 01:43:57,519
Speaker 1: team and see if you can fit in with that team.

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01:43:57,560 --> 01:44:00,240
Speaker 1: And so it was difficult from that standpoint. And I

2179
01:44:00,280 --> 01:44:02,080
Speaker 1: would always tell guys, if you have a chance to

2180
01:44:02,120 --> 01:44:04,280
Speaker 1: stay with one team, try to. But at the end

2181
01:44:04,280 --> 01:44:06,320
Speaker 1: of the day, you know you have to do what

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01:44:06,400 --> 01:44:09,080
Speaker 1: you have to do. But when you when you've been

2183
01:44:09,120 --> 01:44:11,280
Speaker 1: with a team for a decade, it takes a lot

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01:44:11,360 --> 01:44:14,680
Speaker 1: of growing and getting to know new teammates and that's very,

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01:44:14,760 --> 01:44:17,320
Speaker 1: very difficult to do. Eric, what do you keep yourself

2186
01:44:17,400 --> 01:44:19,479
Speaker 1: busy with these days? That where where you were working

2187
01:44:19,560 --> 01:44:24,920
Speaker 1: on conditioning and training young wide receivers were in Carolina somewhere? Yeah,

2188
01:44:25,000 --> 01:44:26,640
Speaker 1: down here in Charlotte, And you know, I get a

2189
01:44:26,720 --> 01:44:29,479
Speaker 1: chance to work with a lot of guys, sometimes myself

2190
01:44:29,520 --> 01:44:32,200
Speaker 1: and random mass they have some stuff together. But I've

2191
01:44:32,200 --> 01:44:34,959
Speaker 1: been doing it and it's been it's been really successful.

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01:44:35,000 --> 01:44:38,320
Speaker 1: I've had over maybe about fifty to sixty guys get

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01:44:38,360 --> 01:44:41,640
Speaker 1: the Vision one scholarships, and so I'm excited about it.

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01:44:41,720 --> 01:44:44,679
Speaker 1: And it's it's growing every day. I mean, I try

2195
01:44:44,720 --> 01:44:47,040
Speaker 1: to slow down at one point, but at the same time,

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01:44:47,560 --> 01:44:49,800
Speaker 1: exepe of young men become a develop and become better

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01:44:49,880 --> 01:44:53,960
Speaker 1: players is a passion of mine. So I'm gonna continue

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01:44:53,960 --> 01:44:56,200
Speaker 1: to do it and hopefully, uh, you know, you'll see

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Speaker 1: a lot of the guys that I trained on Sundays.

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01:44:58,760 --> 01:45:01,920
Speaker 1: Does it scratch competitive itch or does it make you

2201
01:45:02,080 --> 01:45:04,880
Speaker 1: want to be more deeply involved in the game still?

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01:45:04,920 --> 01:45:06,360
Speaker 1: Do you want to get into coaching or do you

2203
01:45:06,439 --> 01:45:08,680
Speaker 1: like this and this this is kind of your your

2204
01:45:08,800 --> 01:45:11,680
Speaker 1: niche where you're at right now for not like this,

2205
01:45:12,320 --> 01:45:15,000
Speaker 1: but you know, in the future it's possible that I

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01:45:15,040 --> 01:45:16,720
Speaker 1: would I would love to get into coach and at

2207
01:45:16,800 --> 01:45:19,519
Speaker 1: some point in maybe coach receivers are just you get

2208
01:45:19,560 --> 01:45:22,280
Speaker 1: an opportunity to coach some position at the next level

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01:45:22,280 --> 01:45:25,000
Speaker 1: of whether it's college or is it IMP's pro But

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01:45:25,120 --> 01:45:27,000
Speaker 1: it's one of those things that that I have a

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01:45:27,080 --> 01:45:29,439
Speaker 1: passion for and like it's and it's helping young me

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01:45:29,479 --> 01:45:31,880
Speaker 1: and grow. So I'm really into it right now. Eric,

2213
01:45:31,920 --> 01:45:34,040
Speaker 1: you I follow the draft much. We're three days away

2214
01:45:34,200 --> 01:45:36,679
Speaker 1: from round one and there are a couple of old

2215
01:45:36,760 --> 01:45:39,639
Speaker 1: mis receivers anyway who are highly regarded. Do you keep

2216
01:45:39,960 --> 01:45:44,000
Speaker 1: track on that and keep much track of that? I do?

2217
01:45:44,200 --> 01:45:46,240
Speaker 1: I do? You know, I actually do know a J.

2218
01:45:46,400 --> 01:45:49,799
Speaker 1: Brown because he's from Starkville, where Mission State is located,

2219
01:45:49,840 --> 01:45:52,519
Speaker 1: and I've kept up with his career for a long

2220
01:45:52,560 --> 01:45:54,920
Speaker 1: period of time and I got a chance to meet

2221
01:45:55,040 --> 01:45:58,599
Speaker 1: DK big guy that can flat out run. He's really raw,

2222
01:45:59,120 --> 01:46:01,760
Speaker 1: but at the same time he's intriguing because you know,

2223
01:46:01,800 --> 01:46:04,120
Speaker 1: you got a guy six four, two hundred and forty

2224
01:46:04,160 --> 01:46:07,080
Speaker 1: pounds that can run a four three three. So those

2225
01:46:07,120 --> 01:46:10,479
Speaker 1: type of things intrigue a lot of teams. But at

2226
01:46:10,520 --> 01:46:12,240
Speaker 1: the same time, you know, it could be any receiver.

2227
01:46:12,400 --> 01:46:14,120
Speaker 1: You know, I really like the kid from He's not

2228
01:46:14,280 --> 01:46:18,559
Speaker 1: very big, he's the Oklahoma receiver. He's very, very talented.

2229
01:46:18,600 --> 01:46:20,640
Speaker 1: He reminds me a lot of his quickness, remind me

2230
01:46:20,680 --> 01:46:22,960
Speaker 1: of Steve Tasker when he when he played special teams

2231
01:46:23,479 --> 01:46:26,479
Speaker 1: and uh, his his releases are crazy. But you know

2232
01:46:26,560 --> 01:46:28,320
Speaker 1: he got hurt that he couldn't play in the Bowl game.

2233
01:46:28,400 --> 01:46:31,360
Speaker 1: But he's an exciting player too. What do you look

2234
01:46:31,400 --> 01:46:33,360
Speaker 1: for in the receiver when you evaluating him as an

2235
01:46:33,439 --> 01:46:35,680
Speaker 1: NFL prospect? What's the I mean, we can all look

2236
01:46:35,680 --> 01:46:37,280
Speaker 1: at the forty times over, but what's one of the

2237
01:46:37,360 --> 01:46:40,320
Speaker 1: first things you look for here? Well, you gotta have instincts.

2238
01:46:40,360 --> 01:46:43,280
Speaker 1: You've got to have really good smarts, because if you're

2239
01:46:43,280 --> 01:46:44,960
Speaker 1: not a smart player, you're not gonna be able to

2240
01:46:45,360 --> 01:46:47,920
Speaker 1: grasp the NFL playbooks. But I look at that, but

2241
01:46:48,040 --> 01:46:50,479
Speaker 1: I also look at how he releases off the line.

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01:46:50,479 --> 01:46:51,640
Speaker 1: You know, I always say this, and I don't know

2243
01:46:51,680 --> 01:46:54,080
Speaker 1: Steve say I always try to steal and mimic Steve

2244
01:46:54,200 --> 01:46:56,880
Speaker 1: tasker's release, you know, he would they would put two

2245
01:46:56,880 --> 01:46:58,840
Speaker 1: guys in front of him, and I've seen a couple

2246
01:46:58,880 --> 01:47:00,760
Speaker 1: of times where he released on special teams and the

2247
01:47:00,800 --> 01:47:03,040
Speaker 1: guy never touched him. So I would always mimic that,

2248
01:47:03,520 --> 01:47:05,360
Speaker 1: and I kind of look for that for my receivers

2249
01:47:05,439 --> 01:47:07,439
Speaker 1: and receivers at the national football legue. If he can

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01:47:07,479 --> 01:47:09,880
Speaker 1: get off the bump and run, he can be successful

2251
01:47:09,920 --> 01:47:11,519
Speaker 1: because you can teach him how to run route. But

2252
01:47:11,920 --> 01:47:14,080
Speaker 1: it's very, very difficult to teach receivers how to get

2253
01:47:14,120 --> 01:47:15,960
Speaker 1: off the bump and run. What do you think is

2254
01:47:15,960 --> 01:47:19,559
Speaker 1: the most important aspect? You know what, what's the one

2255
01:47:19,640 --> 01:47:21,920
Speaker 1: thing that these guys need to learn when they come out.

2256
01:47:21,960 --> 01:47:23,720
Speaker 1: I know you need they need to the man the

2257
01:47:23,800 --> 01:47:26,639
Speaker 1: man thing, but what about what about personally? You say,

2258
01:47:26,640 --> 01:47:28,840
Speaker 1: you're you're molding these young guys, and you're teaching them

2259
01:47:29,160 --> 01:47:31,000
Speaker 1: some things, you're trying to instill some things. What's the

2260
01:47:31,120 --> 01:47:34,280
Speaker 1: one thing that most of these young players don't understand

2261
01:47:34,360 --> 01:47:37,759
Speaker 1: about moving on with their career? Well, you know what, obviously,

2262
01:47:38,000 --> 01:47:40,360
Speaker 1: and they know about working out because they have so

2263
01:47:40,840 --> 01:47:43,080
Speaker 1: many advanced things now they help them to get to

2264
01:47:43,120 --> 01:47:45,240
Speaker 1: the point where they want to go. But my biggest

2265
01:47:45,280 --> 01:47:47,120
Speaker 1: thing with young players. I try to teach him how

2266
01:47:47,160 --> 01:47:49,160
Speaker 1: to watch film because they have no clue. You know,

2267
01:47:49,280 --> 01:47:50,200
Speaker 1: I have a lot of you have a lot of

2268
01:47:50,280 --> 01:47:52,200
Speaker 1: players that watch them with the eyes and not there.

2269
01:47:52,320 --> 01:47:54,080
Speaker 1: You know, you watch film with your eyes and not

2270
01:47:54,200 --> 01:47:55,960
Speaker 1: your heart. A lot of guys want to see themselves

2271
01:47:56,000 --> 01:47:57,400
Speaker 1: on FIM. Did you see that cats? As you see

2272
01:47:57,479 --> 01:47:59,240
Speaker 1: me run after the cats? Did you see that? But

2273
01:47:59,400 --> 01:48:01,639
Speaker 1: I try to teach them to look at the things

2274
01:48:01,720 --> 01:48:04,040
Speaker 1: that you don't do well and try to build on

2275
01:48:04,120 --> 01:48:06,439
Speaker 1: those things. And that's that's the most difficult thing I

2276
01:48:06,600 --> 01:48:08,719
Speaker 1: run into because you look at you in the area

2277
01:48:08,760 --> 01:48:10,720
Speaker 1: with the social media, and guys want to post what

2278
01:48:10,840 --> 01:48:12,800
Speaker 1: they did and the cats that they made, but they

2279
01:48:12,840 --> 01:48:14,680
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about the six drops of the head.

2280
01:48:15,400 --> 01:48:18,240
Speaker 1: So it's very difficult to teach them how to watch film.

2281
01:48:18,720 --> 01:48:20,320
Speaker 1: And I try to watch get him to watch it

2282
01:48:20,400 --> 01:48:22,200
Speaker 1: with the eyes and not that hard. So that's that's

2283
01:48:22,240 --> 01:48:24,360
Speaker 1: the biggest thing I'm trying to teach you out to do. Eric,

2284
01:48:24,400 --> 01:48:25,880
Speaker 1: it's good or your voice if you want right now,

2285
01:48:26,000 --> 01:48:28,679
Speaker 1: you have Steve Tasker's autograph if you want it. Sounds

2286
01:48:28,680 --> 01:48:33,360
Speaker 1: like you're kind of an oh yeah, John, we have

2287
01:48:33,439 --> 01:48:35,920
Speaker 1: to do something man, because this is ridiculous. This guy's

2288
01:48:35,920 --> 01:48:39,120
Speaker 1: actually the greatest special teams player they ever played the game.

2289
01:48:39,160 --> 01:48:41,479
Speaker 1: And you know, I understand Slater in New England. Those

2290
01:48:41,520 --> 01:48:44,240
Speaker 1: guys are doing great and you can see him every week.

2291
01:48:44,280 --> 01:48:47,400
Speaker 1: But if people saw Steve Clay back in the day,

2292
01:48:47,960 --> 01:48:49,519
Speaker 1: the guy should be in the Hall of Famous. No,

2293
01:48:49,640 --> 01:48:52,519
Speaker 1: he's not even the question about it. Yeah, well, after

2294
01:48:52,600 --> 01:48:54,040
Speaker 1: we hang up with you, we'll have a good laugh

2295
01:48:54,120 --> 01:48:58,639
Speaker 1: over that, but I laugh. Eric, Thanks man, it's great

2296
01:48:58,680 --> 01:49:00,920
Speaker 1: talk to him. Glad things are going well and we'll

2297
01:49:00,960 --> 01:49:03,280
Speaker 1: have you back on the show again. And congratulations on

2298
01:49:03,320 --> 01:49:05,400
Speaker 1: the anniversary of being a number one draft pick by

2299
01:49:05,400 --> 01:49:07,720
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. You had a phenomenal career. You're great

2300
01:49:07,720 --> 01:49:10,800
Speaker 1: teammate and it's really fun to touch base with you. Thanks.

2301
01:49:12,360 --> 01:49:15,679
Speaker 1: Thanks Eric. Eric molds Bill's first round pick in nineteen

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01:49:15,800 --> 01:49:18,320
Speaker 1: ninety six, twenty three years ago. I went to three

2303
01:49:18,400 --> 01:49:21,000
Speaker 1: Pro Bowls, twelve seasons in the NFL, joining us on

2304
01:49:21,080 --> 01:49:23,559
Speaker 1: the line. Always good to hear his voice. Yeah, great guy,

2305
01:49:23,680 --> 01:49:25,519
Speaker 1: and you talked about him as a teammate. We were

2306
01:49:25,520 --> 01:49:27,439
Speaker 1: talking a lot off the air today about what a

2307
01:49:27,479 --> 01:49:30,000
Speaker 1: good team and he wasn't and and what a how

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Speaker 1: he played with an edge, right. He brought an edge

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01:49:31,880 --> 01:49:35,120
Speaker 1: to the d as a very young player. He played

2310
01:49:35,240 --> 01:49:37,760
Speaker 1: with a with a He had a mean streak as

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01:49:37,760 --> 01:49:40,439
Speaker 1: a wide receiver, something a lot of guys struggle with,

2312
01:49:40,560 --> 01:49:43,120
Speaker 1: you know, they don't you know, they kind of come

2313
01:49:43,200 --> 01:49:45,120
Speaker 1: in timid a little bit to the NFL. He was

2314
01:49:45,240 --> 01:49:48,120
Speaker 1: never I never saw him be timid once on the

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01:49:48,160 --> 01:49:51,519
Speaker 1: football field, not even as a day one rookie, not

2316
01:49:51,720 --> 01:49:55,880
Speaker 1: knowing anybody on the team. He played with a confident

2317
01:49:56,040 --> 01:49:59,080
Speaker 1: attitude and uh, you know, I'll hit you in the

2318
01:49:59,160 --> 01:50:01,599
Speaker 1: mouth attitude. He was a He was a truly great

2319
01:50:01,680 --> 01:50:04,400
Speaker 1: player who played at a time like we spoke about

2320
01:50:04,400 --> 01:50:07,080
Speaker 1: in the interview, where you know, he washed through eight

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01:50:07,200 --> 01:50:10,200
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in his career with Buffalo, and it's hard to

2322
01:50:10,240 --> 01:50:13,080
Speaker 1: be successful when you come out of your route and

2323
01:50:13,120 --> 01:50:15,439
Speaker 1: there's a different guy throwing you the football every week.

2324
01:50:15,479 --> 01:50:18,080
Speaker 1: So to hint, for him to have almost ten thousand

2325
01:50:18,160 --> 01:50:21,519
Speaker 1: yards receiving over seven hundred and fifty receptions the NFL

2326
01:50:21,680 --> 01:50:23,599
Speaker 1: is a testament to how good he was. He said

2327
01:50:23,640 --> 01:50:27,320
Speaker 1: something about, and you're right, eight quarterbacks ridiculous. Marvin Harrison

2328
01:50:27,439 --> 01:50:30,600
Speaker 1: comes into the league and has one essentially right, But

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01:50:31,720 --> 01:50:33,720
Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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01:50:34,280 --> 01:50:36,439
Speaker 1: Molds never gets mentioned for the Pro Football of Fame.

2331
01:50:36,520 --> 01:50:38,920
Speaker 1: And you know, quite frankly didn't end the production. But

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01:50:39,280 --> 01:50:43,559
Speaker 1: side by side, receiver versus receivers, skill set versus skill set,

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01:50:43,960 --> 01:50:48,360
Speaker 1: athlete versus athlete. I'm sorry, see Eric Moulds I'd put

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01:50:48,360 --> 01:50:50,720
Speaker 1: ahead of Marvin Harrison. I really would. And look, I'm

2335
01:50:50,760 --> 01:50:53,160
Speaker 1: not disputing Harrison's place in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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01:50:53,439 --> 01:50:56,160
Speaker 1: Tremendous production. But if you asked me, if you're gonna

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01:50:56,600 --> 01:50:57,960
Speaker 1: if I had to draft one of those two, I

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01:50:58,000 --> 01:51:00,200
Speaker 1: would draft Eric Moulds and Marvin Harris. Yeah, thats why

2339
01:51:00,200 --> 01:51:02,280
Speaker 1: a guy like went on a day like we're gonna

2340
01:51:02,360 --> 01:51:05,600
Speaker 1: see on Thursday. When you see guys get drafted by organizations,

2341
01:51:05,680 --> 01:51:09,720
Speaker 1: know this, you switch those two guys around. And in

2342
01:51:09,840 --> 01:51:12,320
Speaker 1: my opinion, I've told you this, Eric's the one that

2343
01:51:12,360 --> 01:51:14,160
Speaker 1: goes to the Hall of Fame because he's got one

2344
01:51:14,200 --> 01:51:17,000
Speaker 1: guy thrown to him who's one of the all time

2345
01:51:17,040 --> 01:51:19,720
Speaker 1: great quarterbacks. And Eric is with an organization who never

2346
01:51:19,800 --> 01:51:23,519
Speaker 1: seems to have that's that stability at that position, who

2347
01:51:23,920 --> 01:51:26,040
Speaker 1: you know you're so dependent on as a wide receiver.

2348
01:51:26,600 --> 01:51:29,799
Speaker 1: M there's no question. Eric Molds was a phenomenal athlete

2349
01:51:29,920 --> 01:51:31,840
Speaker 1: when very gifted and you could tell from the interview

2350
01:51:31,880 --> 01:51:34,439
Speaker 1: how sharp he was, and you know the fact that

2351
01:51:34,520 --> 01:51:36,360
Speaker 1: he had, you know, that pro attitude and he was

2352
01:51:37,080 --> 01:51:40,120
Speaker 1: good from the very beginning. Um, and that's you know,

2353
01:51:40,240 --> 01:51:43,440
Speaker 1: that's it's the life. It's kind of like the Godfather,

2354
01:51:43,640 --> 01:51:46,280
Speaker 1: you know, where the guys as Michael, it's the life

2355
01:51:46,280 --> 01:51:48,080
Speaker 1: we've chosen. You know, when you choose a football and

2356
01:51:48,160 --> 01:51:50,679
Speaker 1: a team. Yeah, when you when you see a team

2357
01:51:50,800 --> 01:51:53,240
Speaker 1: sport like football is a lot of your success does

2358
01:51:53,479 --> 01:51:55,960
Speaker 1: depend on where you get drafted, the guys you play with,

2359
01:51:56,120 --> 01:51:59,519
Speaker 1: the atmosphere, um, and the systems that you're exposed to,

2360
01:51:59,680 --> 01:52:02,920
Speaker 1: and opportunities you're given. Eric made the most of everything

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01:52:02,960 --> 01:52:06,200
Speaker 1: that he was ever given here in Buffalo, and the

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01:52:06,320 --> 01:52:08,040
Speaker 1: franchise was better for having him a part of it.

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01:52:08,160 --> 01:52:09,600
Speaker 1: Good to talk with him. Hey, we're talking about the

2364
01:52:09,720 --> 01:52:11,040
Speaker 1: draft a lot. We're going to take a break here

2365
01:52:11,080 --> 01:52:12,519
Speaker 1: in a minute and then get back to your phone

2366
01:52:12,520 --> 01:52:15,240
Speaker 1: calls and your tweets. Simple question. I think it's simple.

2367
01:52:15,280 --> 01:52:17,439
Speaker 1: Three days away from the draft, we want you to

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01:52:17,520 --> 01:52:19,880
Speaker 1: predict the one player the Buffalo Bills have to have

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01:52:20,439 --> 01:52:22,680
Speaker 1: on Thursday, night Round one, the one they think they

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01:52:22,800 --> 01:52:24,840
Speaker 1: have to have. Who would it be? Predict the one

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01:52:24,880 --> 01:52:26,840
Speaker 1: player of the Bills field they must have in the

2372
01:52:26,920 --> 01:52:29,360
Speaker 1: first round? Not your thought, but the Bills thought. On

2373
01:52:29,479 --> 01:52:32,000
Speaker 1: the Twitter poll so far with more than seventeen hundred

2374
01:52:32,120 --> 01:52:34,479
Speaker 1: votes in via Twitter, thirty four percent of you say

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01:52:34,560 --> 01:52:36,719
Speaker 1: the Bills feel like they have to get Ed Oliver

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01:52:36,920 --> 01:52:40,120
Speaker 1: defensive lineman from Houston. Thirty one percent say the tight

2377
01:52:40,240 --> 01:52:43,880
Speaker 1: end from Iowa TJ. Hockinson. Twenty seven percent say they're

2378
01:52:43,880 --> 01:52:46,040
Speaker 1: not locked into one player they can take a bunch

2379
01:52:46,080 --> 01:52:48,960
Speaker 1: of guys. Nine percent say the Wante receiver DK Metcalf.

2380
01:52:49,160 --> 01:52:50,920
Speaker 1: Who do you think who's the one player the Bills

2381
01:52:51,000 --> 01:52:52,720
Speaker 1: feel they must have in the first round and why?

2382
01:52:53,000 --> 01:52:55,240
Speaker 1: Give us a call to discuss eight oh three h

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01:52:55,320 --> 01:52:57,960
Speaker 1: five fifty and toll free one eight eight eight five

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01:52:58,120 --> 01:53:00,640
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty Send it a tweet. We might

2385
01:53:00,720 --> 01:53:03,000
Speaker 1: read it on the tweet sheet. It's One Bill's Live

2386
01:53:03,080 --> 01:53:05,600
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health from One Bill's Drive and this

2387
01:53:05,800 --> 01:53:20,840
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to the show. It

2388
01:53:20,960 --> 01:53:23,360
Speaker 1: is Monday, we are three days away from the NFL Draft.

2389
01:53:23,439 --> 01:53:25,960
Speaker 1: Out of Draft talk today, more coming up tomorrow more

2390
01:53:26,000 --> 01:53:28,040
Speaker 1: coming up today. We got thirty minutes left, thirty two

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01:53:28,040 --> 01:53:30,200
Speaker 1: minutes left. We're talking about there at Gieva. I just

2392
01:53:30,280 --> 01:53:32,320
Speaker 1: took a look outside during the break. I know it's

2393
01:53:32,360 --> 01:53:35,840
Speaker 1: fifty eight degrees, Sonny. It is spectacular all of a sudden,

2394
01:53:35,840 --> 01:53:38,720
Speaker 1: I didn't see that coming. Forecast didn't really indicate this

2395
01:53:38,880 --> 01:53:41,200
Speaker 1: it would be this nice. It's really nice, beautiful, It

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01:53:41,320 --> 01:53:45,680
Speaker 1: really is really nice. Hey. Our Twitter discussion today, our

2397
01:53:45,680 --> 01:53:48,479
Speaker 1: Twitter poll three days away from the NFL Draft, we

2398
01:53:48,600 --> 01:53:50,600
Speaker 1: want you to predict what the Bills are thinking. Is

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01:53:50,640 --> 01:53:53,320
Speaker 1: there one player they absolutely feel like they must have.

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01:53:54,120 --> 01:53:56,160
Speaker 1: I don't think there is, but there might be. If

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01:53:56,240 --> 01:53:57,880
Speaker 1: you had to predict who would be the one player

2402
01:53:57,920 --> 01:53:59,360
Speaker 1: of the Bills field they must have in the first

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01:53:59,439 --> 01:54:02,160
Speaker 1: round on third day on the Paul, thirty four percent

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01:54:02,320 --> 01:54:06,480
Speaker 1: of our seventeen hundred voters say Ed Oliver, the defensive

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01:54:06,520 --> 01:54:09,480
Speaker 1: tackle from Houston. Thirty one percent say t J. Hockinson,

2406
01:54:09,800 --> 01:54:12,920
Speaker 1: the tight end from Iowa. Twenty six percent say they're

2407
01:54:12,960 --> 01:54:15,840
Speaker 1: not locked into one player, nine percent say wide receiver

2408
01:54:16,000 --> 01:54:18,320
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf. Love to talk with you about it. Tell

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01:54:18,360 --> 01:54:20,599
Speaker 1: us if you think there's a player the Bills field

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01:54:20,600 --> 01:54:22,800
Speaker 1: they must add, and if so, why give us a

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01:54:22,840 --> 01:54:25,960
Speaker 1: call eighth three five fifty toll free one eight eight

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01:54:26,120 --> 01:54:29,000
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty and some responses on

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01:54:29,120 --> 01:54:31,640
Speaker 1: the tweet sheets. Yeah, Nick, says ed Oliver, because he

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01:54:31,680 --> 01:54:33,600
Speaker 1: can help get pressure up the middle. This will help

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01:54:33,640 --> 01:54:36,480
Speaker 1: the defensive ends sack numbers because qbs have to leave

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01:54:36,600 --> 01:54:40,400
Speaker 1: the pocket. And that's from Nick. Also from Sean Hockinson

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01:54:40,560 --> 01:54:43,000
Speaker 1: is the pick all day long. His versatility is a

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01:54:43,040 --> 01:54:46,160
Speaker 1: major plus. From McDermott, he mentions versatility is a lot.

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01:54:46,680 --> 01:54:50,120
Speaker 1: He could be gronk like on the field all three downs,

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01:54:50,240 --> 01:54:53,920
Speaker 1: safety blanket for the kid. Gotta love it. Also from Chris,

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01:54:54,200 --> 01:54:56,400
Speaker 1: I believe the Bills are not dialed in on one

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01:54:56,440 --> 01:54:58,480
Speaker 1: player based on what Brandon Bean has preached in his

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01:54:58,600 --> 01:55:02,320
Speaker 1: tenure draft better available and not for needs. So there's

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01:55:02,320 --> 01:55:03,920
Speaker 1: a lot. You know, we're a little all over the board.

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01:55:03,960 --> 01:55:06,280
Speaker 1: And let's face it, none of us, you and me

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01:55:06,440 --> 01:55:08,760
Speaker 1: included in this group know exactly what the Bills are

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01:55:08,800 --> 01:55:10,400
Speaker 1: gonna do or even who they're what they're thinking, or

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01:55:10,400 --> 01:55:13,120
Speaker 1: who they're liking out given the history of the league. Murph,

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01:55:14,560 --> 01:55:17,280
Speaker 1: Here's this may be a Twitter Twitter poll for later.

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01:55:17,720 --> 01:55:20,000
Speaker 1: Do you think that the Bills are going to draft

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01:55:20,040 --> 01:55:21,760
Speaker 1: somebody at nine that we haven't even heard that they're

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01:55:21,800 --> 01:55:27,720
Speaker 1: even interested in. HM. No, In fact, i'd see what

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01:55:27,760 --> 01:55:31,480
Speaker 1: you're going with a Twitter pole. Maybe tomorrow in the

2434
01:55:31,560 --> 01:55:33,840
Speaker 1: morning before the show, we should sit down and you

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01:55:33,920 --> 01:55:36,360
Speaker 1: and I should each make a list of four players

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01:55:36,840 --> 01:55:38,920
Speaker 1: that we think they're gonna get first round on Thursday,

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01:55:39,360 --> 01:55:41,960
Speaker 1: and we'll see, first of all, if we agree. Secondly,

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01:55:42,120 --> 01:55:44,680
Speaker 1: we'll see Maybe it's not a Twitter poll idea, but

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01:55:44,800 --> 01:55:46,800
Speaker 1: it might be a good segment for them all. You

2440
01:55:46,880 --> 01:55:49,200
Speaker 1: and I make four or five players right, first round

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01:55:49,240 --> 01:55:50,560
Speaker 1: picks is going to come out of this. We'll see

2442
01:55:50,600 --> 01:55:52,880
Speaker 1: if how much we agree number one, number two, we'll

2443
01:55:52,920 --> 01:55:54,880
Speaker 1: see Thursday night. Who's right? I think you and I

2444
01:55:55,440 --> 01:55:57,520
Speaker 1: if we gave it a little thought, not now, because

2445
01:55:57,560 --> 01:55:59,520
Speaker 1: we're in the middle of the show, we could probably

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01:56:00,200 --> 01:56:02,840
Speaker 1: pick four or five names and have their first round

2447
01:56:02,880 --> 01:56:05,160
Speaker 1: pick in there. Don't you think so? I think so.

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01:56:05,760 --> 01:56:08,760
Speaker 1: I mean they're nine. I think we're gonna hear if

2449
01:56:08,840 --> 01:56:11,520
Speaker 1: they don't drift we've ever heard of, um, I don't

2450
01:56:11,800 --> 01:56:13,600
Speaker 1: we've got a problem or they've got a problem. Yeah.

2451
01:56:13,600 --> 01:56:15,520
Speaker 1: I don't want to make it easy on them, but

2452
01:56:15,680 --> 01:56:17,320
Speaker 1: on us. I mean, I don't want to take it

2453
01:56:17,400 --> 01:56:18,800
Speaker 1: easy on us and take the easy way out. But

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01:56:18,840 --> 01:56:21,760
Speaker 1: I think if you could go, like, you know, at

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01:56:21,800 --> 01:56:24,000
Speaker 1: all of her t J. Hockinson or one of those guys.

2456
01:56:24,800 --> 01:56:28,440
Speaker 1: But also it could be one of like three offensive

2457
01:56:28,480 --> 01:56:30,720
Speaker 1: tackles that are available at that spot, whichever one they

2458
01:56:30,800 --> 01:56:33,480
Speaker 1: like best, you know what I'm saying. So it could

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01:56:34,160 --> 01:56:35,920
Speaker 1: so I don't know whether to say, yeah, these this

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01:56:36,040 --> 01:56:37,920
Speaker 1: is the specific name because I'm when you get to ot,

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01:56:38,320 --> 01:56:40,120
Speaker 1: I don't know which guy they like best, and it

2462
01:56:40,200 --> 01:56:42,400
Speaker 1: could be the spot that they take him. You know,

2463
01:56:43,000 --> 01:56:45,200
Speaker 1: it could be a guy well, and I don't know.

2464
01:56:45,280 --> 01:56:48,680
Speaker 1: If I don't know, we might have to think about

2465
01:56:48,720 --> 01:56:50,000
Speaker 1: this because I have to think about as I think

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01:56:50,000 --> 01:56:51,920
Speaker 1: there are names out there that the Bills are gonna

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01:56:51,960 --> 01:56:54,600
Speaker 1: if that if this guy's if one of these six

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01:56:54,720 --> 01:56:57,240
Speaker 1: guys falls to nine, we're getting them and the six

2469
01:56:57,320 --> 01:57:00,840
Speaker 1: guys a lot. They're one of those guys made fall through,

2470
01:57:00,920 --> 01:57:03,880
Speaker 1: like Jonah Williams may be available at nine for the Bills.

2471
01:57:04,120 --> 01:57:07,600
Speaker 1: The great offensive tackle from Alabama. You know that guy

2472
01:57:07,960 --> 01:57:11,440
Speaker 1: has a self scout with a spreadsheet about his own play,

2473
01:57:12,640 --> 01:57:15,640
Speaker 1: his own weaknesses. It's amazing. Yeah, some of these guys

2474
01:57:15,680 --> 01:57:20,200
Speaker 1: are you know, really are intriguing as pro prospects. So yeah,

2475
01:57:20,240 --> 01:57:22,000
Speaker 1: I don't know, we might that might be a Twitter

2476
01:57:22,200 --> 01:57:24,520
Speaker 1: idea for tomorrow. Yeah, we'll talk about and And what

2477
01:57:24,680 --> 01:57:27,640
Speaker 1: you just described is exactly the way I answered today's

2478
01:57:27,680 --> 01:57:29,960
Speaker 1: Twitter poll. Like, No, I don't think they're locked into one.

2479
01:57:30,560 --> 01:57:33,440
Speaker 1: I think they know pretty much who they might see

2480
01:57:33,480 --> 01:57:35,720
Speaker 1: there at number nine if they stay at number nine,

2481
01:57:35,840 --> 01:57:37,800
Speaker 1: And here they are, and they're probably gonna be good

2482
01:57:37,840 --> 01:57:39,480
Speaker 1: with either one of them. You said this a couple

2483
01:57:39,520 --> 01:57:41,440
Speaker 1: of times early on in today's show. You know, there's

2484
01:57:41,640 --> 01:57:43,720
Speaker 1: there's some good talent there and they're gonna get a

2485
01:57:43,760 --> 01:57:46,600
Speaker 1: guy that they like. But what do you I mean, Yeah,

2486
01:57:46,760 --> 01:57:48,880
Speaker 1: I think that would be a good question. Um, I

2487
01:57:49,000 --> 01:57:51,520
Speaker 1: think we will know that name for sure. I really do. Well,

2488
01:57:51,560 --> 01:57:53,880
Speaker 1: We've I've talked a little bit in circles today around this,

2489
01:57:54,200 --> 01:57:57,480
Speaker 1: and because not only are there certain names that we

2490
01:57:57,600 --> 01:57:59,640
Speaker 1: all that you know, you and I and we've been

2491
01:57:59,680 --> 01:58:06,480
Speaker 1: talking about for weeks, like Hawkinson, like Quinnon, Williams, Josh Allen, Montes, Sweats, DK, Metcalf,

2492
01:58:06,560 --> 01:58:08,680
Speaker 1: you can go down the list of these guys. But

2493
01:58:08,800 --> 01:58:12,480
Speaker 1: I also think that there's a chance, and we've talked

2494
01:58:12,520 --> 01:58:15,040
Speaker 1: about this at length, that the Bills may be working

2495
01:58:15,200 --> 01:58:17,480
Speaker 1: really hard to get out of the nine spot and

2496
01:58:17,640 --> 01:58:21,400
Speaker 1: drop down to whatever whatever they have to out down

2497
01:58:21,520 --> 01:58:23,560
Speaker 1: deeper into the first round and pick up a couple

2498
01:58:23,640 --> 01:58:26,600
Speaker 1: of second round picks for that, or a second round

2499
01:58:26,640 --> 01:58:29,920
Speaker 1: pick four that, and still get one of those four

2500
01:58:30,120 --> 01:58:32,840
Speaker 1: or five names that I just mentioned, depending on how

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01:58:32,920 --> 01:58:35,280
Speaker 1: far back they go. If they get from ten to

2502
01:58:35,440 --> 01:58:38,160
Speaker 1: twenty instead of number nine, if they get from twelve

2503
01:58:38,520 --> 01:58:41,880
Speaker 1: to seventeen or fifteen to twenty, they could still get

2504
01:58:42,040 --> 01:58:45,000
Speaker 1: one of those names I just mentioned. And the more

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01:58:45,040 --> 01:58:47,560
Speaker 1: we get into this more it could be DK Metcalf

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01:58:48,040 --> 01:58:50,040
Speaker 1: or even Hawkinson or one of those guys that are

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01:58:50,400 --> 01:58:52,600
Speaker 1: sort of like those guys Noah Fan, the other tight

2508
01:58:52,680 --> 01:58:55,760
Speaker 1: end from Iowa. So there's all these names. Because they're

2509
01:58:55,800 --> 01:58:58,360
Speaker 1: so high in the top ten of the draft, there's

2510
01:58:58,400 --> 01:59:00,480
Speaker 1: a chance that they could drop down and still get

2511
01:59:00,600 --> 01:59:03,400
Speaker 1: one of those players. But that's a that's a rule

2512
01:59:03,400 --> 01:59:05,600
Speaker 1: of the dice. Yeah, you know, you might lose out

2513
01:59:05,600 --> 01:59:08,200
Speaker 1: and you get some guy. Now we're getting this guy

2514
01:59:08,240 --> 01:59:10,080
Speaker 1: who we don't have, you know, the name we don't

2515
01:59:10,120 --> 01:59:13,200
Speaker 1: have on our on our little short list. It was

2516
01:59:13,240 --> 01:59:15,160
Speaker 1: a great it was it Mike Lombardi who did they

2517
01:59:15,200 --> 01:59:18,480
Speaker 1: read somebody last week describing this. It wasn't Mike Lombardi,

2518
01:59:18,560 --> 01:59:22,560
Speaker 1: somebody describing a situation in a team's front office. I

2519
01:59:22,640 --> 01:59:24,800
Speaker 1: want to say it was Great Gabriel, Buffalo native who

2520
01:59:25,160 --> 01:59:27,360
Speaker 1: worked with the New York Giants. He described a situation

2521
01:59:27,440 --> 01:59:30,120
Speaker 1: maybe fifteen twenty years ago where the Giants just got

2522
01:59:30,440 --> 01:59:33,400
Speaker 1: They just totally botched the first round and had to

2523
01:59:33,520 --> 01:59:35,320
Speaker 1: draft a guy that they didn't know a whole lot about.

2524
01:59:35,360 --> 01:59:37,120
Speaker 1: They weren't prepared to do it. I don't think that

2525
01:59:37,240 --> 01:59:40,600
Speaker 1: happens really anywhere in the NFL anymore, but I certainly

2526
01:59:40,640 --> 01:59:42,520
Speaker 1: don't think it would happen here. I don't think you know,

2527
01:59:42,600 --> 01:59:44,920
Speaker 1: they're ready, and Bean has talked about it. I mean,

2528
01:59:45,200 --> 01:59:47,720
Speaker 1: if you believe Brandon Bean, which I do, they're doing

2529
01:59:47,760 --> 01:59:49,840
Speaker 1: a mock draft today and maybe a couple today and

2530
01:59:49,880 --> 01:59:53,240
Speaker 1: a couple tomorrow to get ready for this and the exercises.

2531
01:59:53,720 --> 01:59:55,800
Speaker 1: This happens, we do this, this happens, we do this.

2532
01:59:55,960 --> 01:59:58,160
Speaker 1: That's what they're preparing for. And make no mistake, there

2533
01:59:58,200 --> 02:00:01,040
Speaker 1: are a ton of guys, not only Brandon Beans of

2534
02:00:01,080 --> 02:00:04,320
Speaker 1: the world and the you know, the all the other

2535
02:00:04,520 --> 02:00:06,960
Speaker 1: general managers that are there of the world. The assistant

2536
02:00:07,000 --> 02:00:09,640
Speaker 1: gems of the world. This is where the assistant gems,

2537
02:00:09,920 --> 02:00:14,600
Speaker 1: the scouts, the talent evaluators at every NFL team, the

2538
02:00:14,720 --> 02:00:18,920
Speaker 1: assistant coaches, the head coaches, all of these people in

2539
02:00:19,000 --> 02:00:25,400
Speaker 1: the NFL. This week, they are doing their best to

2540
02:00:25,640 --> 02:00:28,000
Speaker 1: anticipate and get it right and be ready for every

2541
02:00:28,040 --> 02:00:30,600
Speaker 1: scenario because this is a time when you can shine

2542
02:00:30,720 --> 02:00:33,360
Speaker 1: as a subordinate in the NFL. You know what I'm saying.

2543
02:00:33,640 --> 02:00:34,920
Speaker 1: You can say, this is what I think is going

2544
02:00:35,000 --> 02:00:37,440
Speaker 1: to happen. Here are three scenarios. Look at here's hard

2545
02:00:37,520 --> 02:00:39,800
Speaker 1: copies of all of this. Here's what I got lined out.

2546
02:00:39,800 --> 02:00:41,600
Speaker 1: If this happens, I think A B and C and

2547
02:00:41,760 --> 02:00:45,800
Speaker 1: you get one of those right, you become valuable. Your

2548
02:00:45,880 --> 02:00:49,200
Speaker 1: star rises because you anticipated what would happen if A,

2549
02:00:49,360 --> 02:00:51,640
Speaker 1: B and C happen. There's so many variables. This is

2550
02:00:51,680 --> 02:00:53,120
Speaker 1: what I think is going to happen based on AB

2551
02:00:53,240 --> 02:00:56,200
Speaker 1: and C. This is a ten plus when you miss it.

2552
02:00:56,640 --> 02:00:58,480
Speaker 1: Here's why I missed it, and here's what I'm missing.

2553
02:00:58,480 --> 02:01:00,520
Speaker 1: Here's what I'm going to get right next time. It's

2554
02:01:00,560 --> 02:01:04,400
Speaker 1: an incredible opportunity to improve not only your lot in

2555
02:01:04,520 --> 02:01:09,600
Speaker 1: life as a subordinated in the NFL, administration, you know levels,

2556
02:01:10,200 --> 02:01:12,520
Speaker 1: but it's also something to learn about and make yourself

2557
02:01:12,600 --> 02:01:15,040
Speaker 1: better for future future years. You go back and you

2558
02:01:15,800 --> 02:01:18,000
Speaker 1: self scout and you try and get it right. And

2559
02:01:18,080 --> 02:01:19,960
Speaker 1: this is when you can bend the ear the you know,

2560
02:01:20,040 --> 02:01:22,080
Speaker 1: when you stand on you pick your spot where this

2561
02:01:22,240 --> 02:01:24,280
Speaker 1: is you know some young guy you've just heard it,

2562
02:01:24,640 --> 02:01:29,200
Speaker 1: murph guy that the analogy is somebody jumps up on

2563
02:01:29,280 --> 02:01:33,040
Speaker 1: the draft room table and stomps his feet, says, no, no, no,

2564
02:01:33,680 --> 02:01:36,240
Speaker 1: this is the guy. This is the guy that's going

2565
02:01:36,320 --> 02:01:38,280
Speaker 1: to change. This is the guy we want. This is

2566
02:01:38,320 --> 02:01:40,960
Speaker 1: the guy who nobody knows about that I did the

2567
02:01:41,040 --> 02:01:43,360
Speaker 1: research on, that I know is going to be an

2568
02:01:43,400 --> 02:01:45,600
Speaker 1: all pro player. You know that this is these are

2569
02:01:45,640 --> 02:01:50,360
Speaker 1: those moments, right, So all of these guys are ready

2570
02:01:51,440 --> 02:01:56,360
Speaker 1: in case that happens with a guy, right. Yeah, So

2571
02:01:56,680 --> 02:02:01,840
Speaker 1: it's it is an enormously important forget these players. It's

2572
02:02:01,960 --> 02:02:05,600
Speaker 1: enormously important for these guys in these rooms to get

2573
02:02:05,680 --> 02:02:08,920
Speaker 1: their star rising, to prove that they've got a seat

2574
02:02:08,960 --> 02:02:11,640
Speaker 1: at the table, to prove they've got a voice that's

2575
02:02:11,640 --> 02:02:14,640
Speaker 1: worth listening to. That the other guy, when this guy

2576
02:02:14,760 --> 02:02:17,600
Speaker 1: gets his job, he's going to remember, you know what

2577
02:02:17,720 --> 02:02:20,160
Speaker 1: I knew. I want him to come with me. This

2578
02:02:20,360 --> 02:02:22,320
Speaker 1: is the guy, this is the Brandon Bean that when

2579
02:02:22,360 --> 02:02:26,080
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott gets the head coaching job in Buffalo, Brandon

2580
02:02:26,120 --> 02:02:28,840
Speaker 1: Bean he wants him to be his general manager and

2581
02:02:29,000 --> 02:02:31,720
Speaker 1: pull down the five year, five million dollars a year

2582
02:02:31,800 --> 02:02:34,960
Speaker 1: contract to be the guy who picks those guys. These

2583
02:02:35,000 --> 02:02:38,400
Speaker 1: are those moments. And now you talk about stress level, Murph,

2584
02:02:39,840 --> 02:02:44,360
Speaker 1: oh many awesome speaking of scouts essentially making their mark,

2585
02:02:44,960 --> 02:02:47,440
Speaker 1: having their voices listen to you, you got you mentioned

2586
02:02:47,480 --> 02:02:49,520
Speaker 1: this y earlier and we were deep into the show now,

2587
02:02:49,600 --> 02:02:54,040
Speaker 1: but haven't talked to him much. The Raiders. Varying reports here,

2588
02:02:54,040 --> 02:02:57,040
Speaker 1: but the Raiders apparently have shut off their draft room.

2589
02:02:57,120 --> 02:03:00,879
Speaker 1: Their their draft room with the draft board. Two scouts

2590
02:03:01,360 --> 02:03:04,120
Speaker 1: told them to go home. We'll take it from here.

2591
02:03:04,480 --> 02:03:08,440
Speaker 1: John Gruden and what's his name, Mike Mayock and the

2592
02:03:08,480 --> 02:03:10,640
Speaker 1: group there, you know, said hey, we got it from here. Now.

2593
02:03:10,680 --> 02:03:12,960
Speaker 1: They'll probably have those scouts come back right before the

2594
02:03:13,080 --> 02:03:15,880
Speaker 1: draft in case they need last minute information. But it

2595
02:03:16,280 --> 02:03:19,520
Speaker 1: was reported around the league that the Raiders banned their

2596
02:03:19,600 --> 02:03:21,920
Speaker 1: scouts from the draft room. I'm not quite sure that's

2597
02:03:21,960 --> 02:03:25,480
Speaker 1: what happened. I don't really have a big problem with it, Steve. Look,

2598
02:03:25,520 --> 02:03:28,120
Speaker 1: they've got all their reports, they've had their meetings, and

2599
02:03:28,600 --> 02:03:30,919
Speaker 1: you want to have you know, they've got some premium

2600
02:03:30,960 --> 02:03:33,000
Speaker 1: picks to you want to have a security there. You

2601
02:03:33,080 --> 02:03:35,760
Speaker 1: don't want people out there with knowledge of what your

2602
02:03:35,840 --> 02:03:38,440
Speaker 1: draft board looks like. Look, I don't know what the

2603
02:03:38,520 --> 02:03:40,360
Speaker 1: Bills draft board. Not only do I not know what

2604
02:03:40,440 --> 02:03:42,520
Speaker 1: it looks like, I don't know what access is. As

2605
02:03:42,560 --> 02:03:44,280
Speaker 1: far as I know. Maybe the Bills don't let their

2606
02:03:44,320 --> 02:03:47,160
Speaker 1: scouts in there right now to see the actual look.

2607
02:03:47,480 --> 02:03:49,880
Speaker 1: They can hide it and it's electronic, I believe, but

2608
02:03:50,160 --> 02:03:53,280
Speaker 1: to see the actual listing of prospects, the actual draft board,

2609
02:03:53,520 --> 02:03:55,680
Speaker 1: the order of the draft, the way the teams, I

2610
02:03:55,680 --> 02:03:57,440
Speaker 1: don't know if they want every scout in the building,

2611
02:03:57,480 --> 02:04:00,640
Speaker 1: your assistant scouts or scouting assistants with access to that

2612
02:04:00,800 --> 02:04:02,920
Speaker 1: room here or anywhere in the NFL. I think this

2613
02:04:03,080 --> 02:04:05,200
Speaker 1: was kind of exaggerated over the weekend. I think it

2614
02:04:05,240 --> 02:04:08,040
Speaker 1: was a Friday afternoon report that the Raiders had banned

2615
02:04:08,160 --> 02:04:10,760
Speaker 1: their scouts from the draft room. I'm not quite sure

2616
02:04:10,800 --> 02:04:12,120
Speaker 1: that's what's going on, and I don't think it's that

2617
02:04:12,200 --> 02:04:14,160
Speaker 1: big a deal. Yeah, and after this though, I'll tell you.

2618
02:04:14,280 --> 02:04:16,400
Speaker 1: There's stories have come out. Gil Brandt, the Hall of

2619
02:04:16,480 --> 02:04:20,200
Speaker 1: Fame contributor who's in at the getting inducted into the

2620
02:04:20,200 --> 02:04:22,880
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, he said, back in the day, because

2621
02:04:22,920 --> 02:04:25,120
Speaker 1: we set guys up and trapped them, we tried to

2622
02:04:25,160 --> 02:04:26,800
Speaker 1: find out. We'd bring a guy in shore them our

2623
02:04:26,880 --> 02:04:29,600
Speaker 1: draft board, tell them, and we would have it sabotage

2624
02:04:29,720 --> 02:04:31,680
Speaker 1: so that this guy that we were not interested in

2625
02:04:32,160 --> 02:04:35,040
Speaker 1: was up there, and then they would sit back and

2626
02:04:35,160 --> 02:04:37,840
Speaker 1: then they would you know, two days later a writer

2627
02:04:37,920 --> 02:04:40,920
Speaker 1: on the West Coast writes an article about how they're

2628
02:04:41,000 --> 02:04:44,520
Speaker 1: taking this guy and they know who's the league. They

2629
02:04:44,600 --> 02:04:46,120
Speaker 1: know who did it. They know who the league was,

2630
02:04:46,200 --> 02:04:48,080
Speaker 1: and that's how they find these things out. They just

2631
02:04:48,280 --> 02:04:51,120
Speaker 1: and they don't want anybody to know anything. They don't

2632
02:04:51,120 --> 02:04:52,680
Speaker 1: want to know. They don't want them to know. And

2633
02:04:52,800 --> 02:04:55,840
Speaker 1: that's and they take great strides and great pains to

2634
02:04:55,920 --> 02:04:58,360
Speaker 1: make it happen. So it's a serious business, no question

2635
02:04:58,400 --> 02:05:01,200
Speaker 1: about it. If you see the draft board, you are

2636
02:05:01,320 --> 02:05:03,720
Speaker 1: sworn to secrecy. And if you're not, if you if

2637
02:05:03,800 --> 02:05:07,320
Speaker 1: it leaks out, it can cost you. Plus. In the

2638
02:05:07,440 --> 02:05:11,240
Speaker 1: Raiders situation, brand New GM who inherits most of his

2639
02:05:11,520 --> 02:05:14,400
Speaker 1: scouting staff I'm sure he likes these guys, works with him,

2640
02:05:14,440 --> 02:05:16,000
Speaker 1: but he didn't know who these guys are. That's right,

2641
02:05:16,000 --> 02:05:18,600
Speaker 1: he didn't hire him. They might, they might, they might

2642
02:05:18,720 --> 02:05:20,960
Speaker 1: have some be beholding to some other team they're going

2643
02:05:21,000 --> 02:05:23,400
Speaker 1: to as soon as this draft is over. Hey, by

2644
02:05:23,440 --> 02:05:25,520
Speaker 1: the way, here's what Oakland's draft board looks like. I

2645
02:05:25,560 --> 02:05:27,280
Speaker 1: don't have a problem with that at all. Yeah, it's

2646
02:05:27,320 --> 02:05:31,800
Speaker 1: a smart It's not a bad move because Gruden and

2647
02:05:32,000 --> 02:05:35,040
Speaker 1: Mayock are kind of they they have to trust each

2648
02:05:35,040 --> 02:05:37,640
Speaker 1: other and even if they there's no reason for them

2649
02:05:37,680 --> 02:05:40,320
Speaker 1: not to. They're in it together there, and so they're

2650
02:05:40,320 --> 02:05:41,720
Speaker 1: gonna try and get it right. And the two of

2651
02:05:41,800 --> 02:05:43,680
Speaker 1: them are gonna go in there and then and it's

2652
02:05:43,720 --> 02:05:46,240
Speaker 1: not unheard of two people in the room, you know,

2653
02:05:46,440 --> 02:05:48,640
Speaker 1: or you know or less you know, somebody to pick

2654
02:05:48,720 --> 02:05:50,280
Speaker 1: up the phone and one guy to make the decision.

2655
02:05:50,600 --> 02:05:53,520
Speaker 1: And that's it. And that's that's what the Raiders are

2656
02:05:53,520 --> 02:05:55,280
Speaker 1: gonna look like. It's gonna be a very sparse draft

2657
02:05:55,360 --> 02:05:57,680
Speaker 1: room for Oakland. NFL True or False is brought to

2658
02:05:57,680 --> 02:06:00,120
Speaker 1: you by Yancey's, Fancy New York's artists and Cheese. Are

2659
02:06:00,160 --> 02:06:03,040
Speaker 1: you ready ready? Here we go? Number one proposition the

2660
02:06:03,120 --> 02:06:05,840
Speaker 1: Bills by signing T J. Yeldon, that means they will

2661
02:06:05,960 --> 02:06:11,320
Speaker 1: not select and running back in this year's draft. True false, false,

2662
02:06:11,880 --> 02:06:14,040
Speaker 1: Go ahead, it's false. I mean they can pick a draft.

2663
02:06:14,080 --> 02:06:15,400
Speaker 1: They can pick one they got, They got a lot

2664
02:06:15,400 --> 02:06:18,160
Speaker 1: of draft picks. They got ten picks. The tenth one

2665
02:06:18,240 --> 02:06:20,120
Speaker 1: maybe may well be a running back. I don't think

2666
02:06:20,120 --> 02:06:22,240
Speaker 1: they're gonna take a running back at number nine, but

2667
02:06:22,360 --> 02:06:25,640
Speaker 1: they got two fourths and two fifths and this is

2668
02:06:25,640 --> 02:06:29,760
Speaker 1: a very deep draft and absolutely no question they could

2669
02:06:29,760 --> 02:06:31,440
Speaker 1: still take a running back. So I say false. I'd

2670
02:06:31,440 --> 02:06:34,600
Speaker 1: say false two. For everything you said they may or

2671
02:06:34,640 --> 02:06:36,520
Speaker 1: they may not. I mean they don't look And it

2672
02:06:36,600 --> 02:06:38,600
Speaker 1: goes back to Brandon mean, Siria of let's not go

2673
02:06:38,680 --> 02:06:41,560
Speaker 1: into the draft with any desperate needs. They have no

2674
02:06:41,800 --> 02:06:43,960
Speaker 1: desperate needs. They could get out of this draft without

2675
02:06:43,960 --> 02:06:46,320
Speaker 1: a running back, sign a free agent running back if

2676
02:06:46,360 --> 02:06:48,520
Speaker 1: they want to, of rookie free agent running back and

2677
02:06:48,680 --> 02:06:51,360
Speaker 1: be fine. So I agree that's false. Ye all right?

2678
02:06:51,440 --> 02:06:54,600
Speaker 1: Part two and this came from USA Today. They did

2679
02:06:54,680 --> 02:06:59,720
Speaker 1: a report on the greatest Draft steal for every NFL team.

2680
02:07:00,040 --> 02:07:03,520
Speaker 1: The Greatest Draft Steal USA Today says the Bill's greatest

2681
02:07:03,600 --> 02:07:06,640
Speaker 1: draft steal fourth round nineteen eighty five of a Kutztown

2682
02:07:06,760 --> 02:07:10,600
Speaker 1: University in Pennsylvania. Andre Reid is the greatest Bill's draft

2683
02:07:10,680 --> 02:07:14,360
Speaker 1: steal true or falls. I might have to stay true.

2684
02:07:15,120 --> 02:07:16,960
Speaker 1: I have to stay true. Fourth rounder go to the

2685
02:07:17,040 --> 02:07:21,080
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, absolutely, I think, and yeah, he's truly

2686
02:07:21,120 --> 02:07:27,040
Speaker 1: great players, incredibly productive and set the standard for a

2687
02:07:27,080 --> 02:07:29,720
Speaker 1: position that up until that time was kind of a

2688
02:07:29,840 --> 02:07:32,080
Speaker 1: role player, and turned it into a Hall of Fame,

2689
02:07:32,160 --> 02:07:34,720
Speaker 1: a vehicle for his induction into Hall of Fame. So

2690
02:07:34,800 --> 02:07:37,480
Speaker 1: I say true. I'll say true as well. But there

2691
02:07:37,520 --> 02:07:40,320
Speaker 1: are other candidates. You know, Andre's in the Hall of Fame,

2692
02:07:40,360 --> 02:07:42,360
Speaker 1: which I think puts him over the top. Kyle Williams,

2693
02:07:42,440 --> 02:07:46,320
Speaker 1: fifth round pick, several Pro Bowls in his resume. I

2694
02:07:46,440 --> 02:07:50,920
Speaker 1: think he would have to get some consideration here. You

2695
02:07:51,000 --> 02:07:52,360
Speaker 1: know what going? Do you want to go way back?

2696
02:07:52,480 --> 02:07:56,480
Speaker 1: Tom Sestak was a seventeenth round pick in nineteen sixty two,

2697
02:07:57,040 --> 02:08:00,840
Speaker 1: four time AFL All Star, All Time FL Team. He's

2698
02:08:00,880 --> 02:08:03,440
Speaker 1: on the Bill's Wall of Fame fiftieth Anniversary team. Tom

2699
02:08:03,560 --> 02:08:06,640
Speaker 1: Sestek would merit some consideration, yes he will, But andres

2700
02:08:06,680 --> 02:08:08,640
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame, which makes a difference. I

2701
02:08:08,720 --> 02:08:11,560
Speaker 1: think so I'll say true for this as well. Part

2702
02:08:11,640 --> 02:08:14,080
Speaker 1: three NFL True or false Jared Goff will not get

2703
02:08:14,120 --> 02:08:17,520
Speaker 1: an extension with the Rams after his rookie deal expires.

2704
02:08:17,600 --> 02:08:21,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go false on this. Really, Rams, I mean,

2705
02:08:21,120 --> 02:08:23,120
Speaker 1: you think you'll get a better one. I'm not saying

2706
02:08:23,160 --> 02:08:25,320
Speaker 1: he's the greatest. He's got holes in his game. He's

2707
02:08:25,320 --> 02:08:28,040
Speaker 1: got development to come, right, golf going into his one, two, three?

2708
02:08:28,240 --> 02:08:30,760
Speaker 1: Is he going into his fourth year already? Third or fourth?

2709
02:08:31,040 --> 02:08:33,240
Speaker 1: Is he might go into his fourth? Right? Yeah? The one. No,

2710
02:08:33,320 --> 02:08:35,120
Speaker 1: I think he's going into this at any rate. He's

2711
02:08:35,160 --> 02:08:37,600
Speaker 1: got development to come, no question about that. But he

2712
02:08:37,680 --> 02:08:39,680
Speaker 1: will not get an extension. As if the Rams will

2713
02:08:39,720 --> 02:08:41,920
Speaker 1: find somebody better, I don't think so. I'm going false

2714
02:08:42,000 --> 02:08:44,840
Speaker 1: on this. I'm gonna say false as well. He's he's

2715
02:08:44,880 --> 02:08:47,160
Speaker 1: going to get an extension. There's no question he's going

2716
02:08:47,240 --> 02:08:49,160
Speaker 1: into his fourth year. You're right. He had the first

2717
02:08:49,240 --> 02:08:51,440
Speaker 1: year where he was a bust, second year where he emerged,

2718
02:08:51,440 --> 02:08:52,760
Speaker 1: in the last year where they almost got to the

2719
02:08:52,800 --> 02:08:56,480
Speaker 1: super Bowl. He's not going anywhere, So that's that's false.

2720
02:08:57,000 --> 02:09:00,800
Speaker 1: Jared Goff's going to be a Ram for another another contract.

2721
02:09:00,920 --> 02:09:03,160
Speaker 1: By the way, he was asked about a contract extension,

2722
02:09:03,240 --> 02:09:05,880
Speaker 1: he says, it's not on my mind at all. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's good. That's the way it should be. And finally,

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Speaker 1: NFL true or false, the Raiders schedule is not fair.

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Speaker 1: This got by me last Thursday. The schedule came out

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Speaker 1: Wednesday night. We talked to our guests. The NFL's vice

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Speaker 1: president is scheduling, Michael North. On Thursday, he mentioned that,

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Speaker 1: you know, they hear from teams about complaints, but the

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Speaker 1: Raiders with a stretch of what almost seven weeks without

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Speaker 1: a home game, that's not fair. Now, there's reasons for it,

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Speaker 1: and I was reading about it today. Peter King wrote

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Speaker 1: about it today. Some of it is because of their

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Speaker 1: stadium and the fact that they share the stadium with

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Speaker 1: the Oakland A's and the Raiders are reluctant to play

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Speaker 1: on that field when it's still torn up, or the

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Speaker 1: baseball infield, so that there to blame partially for this

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Speaker 1: as well. Some of it. You know, they got a

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Speaker 1: game in London and a bye week after the game

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Speaker 1: in London, which teams typically do. But it's not fair.

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Speaker 1: They're away from home too long for sure. And I say,

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Speaker 1: true the Raider schedule is not fair. Even Michael North

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Speaker 1: had I could have done a better job. I'd like

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Speaker 1: I wish you had another take on this. He said it,

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Speaker 1: and I think he sees now that it didn't work out.

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Speaker 1: You can't be away from home that long. It might

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02:10:10,320 --> 02:10:12,480
Speaker 1: not be fair, but it's their own fault. They didn't

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Speaker 1: even know they were going to play in that stadium

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02:10:14,120 --> 02:10:18,440
Speaker 1: until too late in the game. Their current situation for

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02:10:18,520 --> 02:10:20,680
Speaker 1: their home venue is a wreck. It's a train wreck.

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Speaker 1: It's been a train wreck for three or four years.

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Speaker 1: And yes, their schedule is really unfair. It's it's skewed

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Speaker 1: in the negative, no question about it, but it's their

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02:10:29,440 --> 02:10:32,080
Speaker 1: own fault. I got no sympathy for a team that

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Speaker 1: can't get their home venue scheduled until that late in

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Speaker 1: the game. So the NFL was up against it. They

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02:10:38,440 --> 02:10:42,360
Speaker 1: did their best. Their schedule is terrible, but it's their

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Speaker 1: own fault, and I got no sympathy for them and

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Speaker 1: this in this case, now there's no question. It's hard.

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Speaker 1: I get it, but you can only do what you

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02:10:49,160 --> 02:10:52,240
Speaker 1: can do. So it took them too long to decide

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Speaker 1: where they were going to play their home games. Then

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Speaker 1: they had blackouts and the baseball thing and the London games. Hey,

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Speaker 1: it's tough, but it's their own fault. Six plus weeks

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Speaker 1: without a home game. That's way too long. Not fair,

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Speaker 1: but I agree their own fault. All Right, a break here,

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Speaker 1: we're coming back with more One Bill's Live from One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. So what have

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Speaker 1: theater provider of the Buffalo Bills. We had Sam Monson

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Speaker 1: on from Pro Football Focus. He is their senior draft analysts.

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Speaker 1: Sam Monson, we asked him about the corner that PFF

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Speaker 1: continues to link to the Buffalo Bills, Byron Murphy from Washington.

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Speaker 1: Here's what Sam Monson said about him. This is a

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Speaker 1: league that requires three corners these days, you need a

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Speaker 1: third guy that can play six seven snaffs. So I

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Speaker 1: think it wouldn't be a bad move to get a

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Speaker 1: third guy anyway. And yeah, Byron Murphy in a zone

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Speaker 1: scheme in particular, is devastating. He's got the quickness coming

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Speaker 1: out of out of breaks that he can really maximize that,

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Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter that he doesn't run, you know,

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Speaker 1: a four three flat, because you just don't need him

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02:12:16,640 --> 02:12:19,360
Speaker 1: to the way you can read the play, react to

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Speaker 1: what's happening in front of him, and I think in

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Speaker 1: Matt scheme, it would be a beautiful fit. Beautiful fit,

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Speaker 1: that's what they say about Byron Murphy. We had Levi

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Speaker 1: Wallace on a corner already on the Buffalo Bill's roster.

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Speaker 1: He was on the show with us earlier today after

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Speaker 1: a session with the offseason conditioning program. A lot of

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Speaker 1: that time spent in the brand new Player Performance Center,

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02:12:37,360 --> 02:12:39,840
Speaker 1: and Levi Wallace talk to us about the Bill's new

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Speaker 1: training center. It's definitely a lot more energy in the building.

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Speaker 1: You know, a lot more people are excited just to

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Speaker 1: have a beautiful place like that they just built. Exciting

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Speaker 1: to go in there and get good working. You know,

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Speaker 1: everyone's pushing each other, everyone's working hard. Everyone setting new

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Speaker 1: records for himself is good. You can see the chemistry

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Speaker 1: being built. You know, I'm excited for the sire for sure.

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Speaker 1: That's what they're building. Hey, we had a pretty good

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll today as we run up to the draft

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Speaker 1: here three days away, We wanted you to predict the

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Speaker 1: one player that the Bills cannot live without in their mind.

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Speaker 1: Who's the one player the Bills need to come away

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Speaker 1: with Thursday night pretty even ballanting and the Twitter poll

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Speaker 1: and we talk about it a lot on the telephone.

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Speaker 1: Nine predict the one player of the Bills field they

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Speaker 1: must have in the first round and why. Thirty three

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Speaker 1: percent of you say the defensive tackle at Oliver, thirty

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Speaker 1: one percent say the tight end T J. Hawkinson, twenty

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Speaker 1: seven percent say you don't believe they're lucking any one player,

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Speaker 1: nine percent a DK Metcalf, the wide receiver. I find

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Speaker 1: it interesting. Hawkinson is interesting to me, Steve. I think

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Speaker 1: he's a really good player. I've always I'm not always.

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Speaker 1: I often feel like you don't need a draft a

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Speaker 1: tight end in the top ten, but I still feel

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Speaker 1: that way. I don't know Hawkinson merits there. I think

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Speaker 1: he's a really good player and clearly the best tight

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Speaker 1: end in this year's draft. Yeah, we'll see. Time will tell,

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Speaker 1: but he's one of those guys that if the Bills

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Speaker 1: pick him, it's like, Hey, I'm with that they picked

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Speaker 1: that Oliver. I'm good with that. Montes Sweat I'm good

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Speaker 1: with that. You know, all of these year, there's a

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Speaker 1: bunch of guys and I just can't see which I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to see which one is Ashley gonna bait

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Speaker 1: because it will be somebody we know about. I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: we're talking more about the draft tomorrow. Thanks for our

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Speaker 1: production crew, George blast Yef, Colteneck, Thomas Honander, Kelly Rude,

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Speaker 1: j j Teredo, Kevin Kargis, James robol Our, producer Jay Harris.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you tomorrow at twelve noon. Come on and

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Speaker 1: join us tomorrow. It is One Bill's Live, presented by

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