1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: Oh a good time home watch Steve Claspers time to time, 2 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 1: Baso time. Welcome to another edition of One Bill's Lodge. 3 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 1: Steve Tasker at home once again, as we have been 4 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: for the last three and a half months. Special treat 5 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: for me today in that my son Luke is gonna 6 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: be co hosting Matty Glad who was gonna set to 7 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 1: host the whole weeks. She's working on a special project 8 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills and Slash Buffalo Sabers. That got 9 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 1: a cool thing they're doing. They're putting together and she, 10 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: because of scheduling um took the day off and so 11 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: as a result, Luke parachutees in from this rope. How's 12 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: it going good? It's gonna be awesome, Dad. We're sitting 13 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: here in uh, in your office just like I'm doing 14 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 1: a high school paper or something like that while you're uh, 15 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: while you're working. It's good. By the way, how are 16 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:08,319 Speaker 1: my grandkids doing good? I uh, I walked in today 17 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: with with spit up on my shirt from my infant, 18 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,759 Speaker 1: one of my infant one of my two infant sons. 19 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 1: So and of course, um not. It's not just that 20 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:20,960 Speaker 1: my kids also our erstwhile producer Jay Harris is on 21 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 1: pins and needles. Is today might be the day that 22 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 1: the next little parish shows up? Jason not. We're also 23 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,680 Speaker 1: getting some help from JJ Tarito, who's actually the nuts 24 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: and bolts producer of today. But Jay, it's uh standing 25 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: by to help out as well, even though imminent family 26 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,559 Speaker 1: stuffs might happen. In congratulations, Jay, I, we all hope 27 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 1: and pray everything goes well today. Be great? Uh Luke 28 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: you coming in we got now you're are you what 29 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: are you going to retire from the CFO? Are you 30 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 1: the papers you gotta do? Or you just kind of 31 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: well as of right now, the every everyone's retiring from 32 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: the CFL. Now, there's no there's no schedule set, there's 33 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: no games on the calendar, there's no training camp on 34 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: the calendar. So that's hard to say for the time being. 35 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: I'm I'm a realtor full time, so that the uh. 36 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: I'm enjoying our our extended offseason here, but I have 37 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: no idea what the football future holds for me now. 38 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 1: Maybe just I got a double check right here off there, 39 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: Jay Bird, kim me a thumbs up. This sounds good. 40 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 1: The two of us in the same room. Okay, good. 41 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: I'm glad because it sounds a little funky for us 42 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 1: being here because there's a little bit of a delay 43 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 1: and there's maybe a little echoe for those of you 44 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: stick with us. Today's We're gonna do it. We also 45 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: have as Luke is with me as co host for 46 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:41,359 Speaker 1: the entire show. At one o'clock, we're gonna have Thad 47 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: Brown from Rochester Television coming on. He's the sideline reporter 48 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 1: for our television broadcasts in the preseason. We'll get his 49 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 1: take on the Buffalo Bills, their offseason and coming up, 50 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: and also the fact that now training camp is not 51 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: going to be held in his hometown of Rochester. We'll 52 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 1: get his thoughts on that. We also have Buffalo native 53 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 1: CFL veteran NFL veteran naming Roosevelt on Saint Joe's grad. 54 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: He also a UB grad, played for the Buffalos at 55 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: UB and now is in CFL. He just signed with 56 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 1: the Montreal Alouettes. Now you and Nayman trained together. Pretty good, 57 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: buddies will be happy to have and how he's doing. Yeah, 58 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: that'll be great name. And he's just signed with the 59 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 1: Montreal Alouettes and uh, but like I said, nothing scheduled 60 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:25,679 Speaker 1: for the CFL. But he is. He's still playing and 61 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:27,799 Speaker 1: doing great, so we'll be excited to talk to him. Yeah, 62 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: it would be good. And he was with his Skatchewan 63 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:31,519 Speaker 1: rough Riders for a lot of us. He went a 64 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: Great Cup with them. Oh no, he did not. He 65 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: is he like Uh, like myself have have come up 66 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: short in the Gray Cup. Uh, you were there at 67 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: three times? Right, three times in your career at the CFL. 68 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: And then Naymans has he been there? How many times 69 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: he been? I don't. I don't think Nayman has played 70 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: in the Great Cup yet, although I might be mistaken 71 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: about that. He he had a big bass was in 72 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: the Gray Cup of Bunch. I played against them in 73 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: the Great Cup my first year. That was prior to 74 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 1: his time in the CFL. But he but I remember 75 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 1: specifically watching him him on a year we were out 76 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 1: of the playoffs earlier, watching him have a fantastic game 77 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: in the playoffs in Toronto and the snow one year. 78 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: So we'll get a whole whole store on his career 79 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 1: for Buffalo. So we've got that going on. Plus we've 80 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 1: we decided to put out a Twitter poll and it's 81 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: not a Twitter poll that you're gonna have actual question 82 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: or choices too, not an ABCD. You've actually got like 83 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 1: about twelve or thirteen choices. It's which the most intriguing 84 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:26,679 Speaker 1: opponent for the Buffalo Bills on their schedule in twenty twenty. 85 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 1: Who's going to be the team that you want to see? 86 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: That's the question today. What game are you looking forward to? 87 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: What game? What opponent's most intriguing? Who do you want 88 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 1: to see? What are your thoughts about the game on 89 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: the schedule, certainly the primetime games or our games that 90 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: everybody looks and points to. I want to know about 91 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 1: the opponent. Which opponent aren't you really curious about? And 92 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 1: that's what we want to talk to you about. You 93 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: can tweet at us at at one Bills Live or 94 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: you can call us the show at eight o three 95 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 1: five fifty or one eight eight eight five fifty two 96 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 1: five fifty Stephen Luke on today till three o'clock. Lots 97 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 1: going on around the leag UH. Steph Giggs, the newest 98 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill of wide receiver agent from Minnesota, expressed a 99 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: concern some concerns overnight about starting up playing. UH. There 100 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 1: are a lot of questions and the players are in 101 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: the dark about it because I don't think this be 102 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 1: made effect that they can even make decisions about they 103 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: like dal they haven't heard. I don't think they got 104 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: enough information on what's going to happen this season. Uh 105 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:34,159 Speaker 1: and yeah, there's just so much unknown ahead of ahead 106 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:38,239 Speaker 1: of all the players. And every year playing playing professional football, 107 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: everybody's worried about their health all the time. It's always 108 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: it's always a topic of of intrigue and interest, especially 109 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 1: the veteran players, about the health during training camp. And 110 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: now there's an entire third party of of injury and 111 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: personal health to worry about. So it's really a really 112 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: a well founded, you know concern. You know that I 113 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: assure a lot of veterans um share. And this is 114 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 1: me just me talking because I you know, I'm kind 115 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 1: of think about the stuff. You talk about it from 116 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 1: the league standpoint and from the player's standpoint. And the 117 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 1: thing that that's the extra wildcard in this is now 118 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: the players families are at risk. You know, it's not 119 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:16,839 Speaker 1: just the player and the players, I mean they're they're 120 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 1: going to jump into a tree grinder for their team. 121 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 1: I mean during a game day, right, You're gonna do 122 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:22,599 Speaker 1: do whatever it takes to get out there. You're playing injured, 123 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:26,160 Speaker 1: you're playing hurt, you're playing uncomfortable, you're playing with risk whatever. 124 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,039 Speaker 1: You do that all the time, but that never affects 125 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: your wife and kids. Now you're going in and you've 126 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 1: got a chance to take this thing home if you 127 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: do get exposed by somebody who's been irresponsible or or 128 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 1: had a bad break and get exposed to it. But 129 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 1: now your families are at risk. And that's I think 130 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: troubling to a lot of guys. Absolutely the worry for 131 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:50,599 Speaker 1: for throughout the history of football for a player injury, 132 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 1: it's it's it's changing now because a hamstring tear is 133 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: not contagious to your teammates, you know, as all those 134 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 1: jokes about that, but they're not, of course, And now 135 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: you've got this this nationwide you know, pandemic that could 136 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 1: be exacerbated by just getting together to meet for team 137 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: meetings and playing and then all of a sudden we 138 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: have then, all of a sudden, you're facing something that 139 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 1: can take a player off the field, but is also 140 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 1: could be could be caught by his teammates and like 141 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 1: you said, his family. So it's an entirely new way 142 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 1: of thinking. M about player's safety. Yeah, your roomy. Uh. 143 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: JC Treder, who both of us know personally, he's a 144 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 1: great kid. He's playing for the Cleveland Browns. But now 145 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: as the NFLPA president, he put out a letter yesterday. 146 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: It was said, listen, he's that's the concern. It's the 147 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: player's safety thing, and the poleas got to take it 148 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 1: into consideration. And also about the preseason, what's going to 149 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 1: look like Almost the times the players are like, okay, 150 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 1: seasons four games, a couple of weeks training of it, 151 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: and then you start the game. But he made mention 152 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 1: as well, Uh, they did their due diligence. I'll quote 153 00:07:55,200 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 1: his letter uh here JC Treder, President NFLP says, we 154 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: did our due diligence and review the impact of returning 155 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 1: to play football after an unusually long term period away. 156 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: For example, followed following the extended break after the two 157 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: thousand and eleven flock out, injuries increased by twenty five percent, 158 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 1: Achilles injuries more than doubled, and hamstrings went up forty 159 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: four percent. So there's that in the mix as well 160 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: when they actually hit the field. Uh, But there is 161 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: seems to be a difference of opinion as to how 162 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. Players don't want any season games. Let's 163 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:38,079 Speaker 1: just start playing and have games count. Um so, and 164 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: for me that leaves a question that you know, how 165 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: to gas league playing in the games doesn't make them 166 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 1: as ready as practicing and just sit and puts them 167 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: at more risk not being able to play into the 168 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: count than just going out of practicing through the camp 169 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 1: two days or whatever and then all of a sudden 170 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 1: teen it up for real. Yeah, it's a really interesting. Uh, 171 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 1: they're interesting findings that the PA that there they claim 172 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:09,079 Speaker 1: to have done the research in these stats, and that 173 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 1: is that it's not just the pandemic's presence right now 174 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: that can add to the to the to the to 175 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:17,559 Speaker 1: safety issues of meeting together in large groups, but it's 176 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: actually you know, the the social distancing and shut down 177 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: in the in the off seat. The limited off season 178 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,439 Speaker 1: activity actually on its own, apart from the pandemic, has 179 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: also shown to add injuries, uh you know, once once 180 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 1: activity has started again. They referenced the high hamstring and 181 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: achilles injuries after coming back from the lockout, which is 182 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 1: very interesting. So now you've got again it's just pilot. 183 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 1: It seems to be piling up against against you know, 184 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 1: professional sports meeting and meeting uh, meeting for for regularity 185 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:50,439 Speaker 1: at least, and that is not only the pandemic, but 186 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: increased other injuries. Um. And it seems to me like 187 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 1: if you're going to not play the preseason games, that's 188 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: really not It doesn't have to you with the pandemic, 189 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,560 Speaker 1: it's really dealing with you're really making that that based 190 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:08,319 Speaker 1: off the statistics from these other historical times in the 191 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 1: NFL's recent years, like the lockouts increase injuries. So you know, 192 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 1: I also am not consul get spiking injuries with an 193 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: abbreviated training camp getting right into real games. Right, that's hard, 194 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:26,839 Speaker 1: would you? I was so surprised the first time you 195 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: get together in training camp and now usually you're not 196 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: going to tackle the training game, right, that first preseason game. 197 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: I don't care what that first tackle looks like. It hurts. 198 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: You have to learn how to get tackled again, right, 199 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: you know, you have to learn how to catch in 200 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:41,679 Speaker 1: traffic and protect yourself and it's not easy so to 201 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: do that in live action. Yeah, you know, it doesn't 202 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:46,199 Speaker 1: seem to me to be a total fix for the 203 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: for the increase in injuries. But then again, there is 204 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: no total fix. We play football, you know, I've I 205 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:54,960 Speaker 1: can remember that as well. You get into a game, 206 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: you go through training camp and you do some good things. 207 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:00,040 Speaker 1: You're making the team, you're playing well, practicing well. I 208 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 1: think it's going well. You get in the first preseason 209 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 1: game and you get knocked on your back, you know, 210 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 1: you get knocked off your feet for the first time. 211 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 1: It's like, oh my gosh, you know, you kind of remember. 212 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 1: It's like, oh yeah, now you know, here we go. 213 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: It's like, oh, you know, and then you get up 214 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: and you learn again how to take stock at what 215 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: you feel like right mber the first time you put 216 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 1: your face mask into a block everything, it hurts all 217 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: the way down to your legs. That takes a few 218 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:29,719 Speaker 1: weeks and you start learning it again. Offensive lineman get 219 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: that because they, you know, they block all that even 220 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: in training camp. They're blocking pretty hard, you know and stuff. 221 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 1: But for for skill players, and I remember Marcus Allen 222 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 1: said this, he goes, that could play running back for 223 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 1: twenty years if I never had the pass block, you know, 224 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: if you ever had to step up and take a 225 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 1: guy on right, because when you're a running back or 226 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 1: wide receiver, you spend your life avoiding it. You're slipping it, 227 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 1: you're you're ducking your shoulder, you're you're rolling out, you're 228 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 1: walking out of bounds, whatever. But you can't sidestep a 229 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 1: linebacker when you got to block it, right. So that's 230 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:00,959 Speaker 1: the thing to get skill players for me as a 231 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: wide receiver and for other guys and you know, running 232 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:06,199 Speaker 1: backs and all that. That's the thing that wears on you. 233 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 1: And that's the thing that's most startling when you come 234 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: back from a from an offseason. You're right, and so 235 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 1: now you don't get a time to ease into it 236 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:14,640 Speaker 1: with just one quarter in the first preseason game, maybe 237 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 1: play a half of the second. You know, you got 238 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 1: to get in and start winning games right off the 239 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: bat and and and putting your body on the line. 240 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 1: So it's gonna that's gonna take its toll on an 241 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 1: injury count as well. But it's funny because all the 242 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:30,440 Speaker 1: CFL particularly is run by by Canadian offensive linemen. Well, 243 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 1: my point is that you know the every every CBA 244 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:37,560 Speaker 1: let there's less and less contact because if those when 245 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:39,320 Speaker 1: those linemen aren't they don't want to put their face 246 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 1: in there in practice. They don't want to have to 247 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 1: do it in training camp either. And you know, and 248 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 1: if that's the if they can say as those are 249 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 1: the guys who have to value to those are the 250 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 1: valuable guys because you have ratios, and if you can 251 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 1: get you get for instance, and this is the way 252 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 1: I understand it. You can correct me if I'm wrong, 253 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: but I've heard We've talked about it before. The reason 254 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: the CFL is run by Canadian offensive lineman is because 255 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: those are most valuable players. They quarterback and then it's 256 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: a Canadian offensive lineman because the ratios are such that 257 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:07,079 Speaker 1: you have to have so many Canadians on your team. Well, 258 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 1: of course, you know, if you can bring um, you know, 259 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 1: international players, that means guys from the United States up 260 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 1: to play. You can get skillful guys from the SEC 261 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 1: and the Pac ten, Big ten, you know, Pac twelve, 262 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 1: you know, all these conferences have all these skill players 263 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 1: that come up and play in the CFL. So you 264 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 1: can get all these really good skill players the States. 265 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 1: What you really want is big time, big heavy offensive 266 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:37,719 Speaker 1: lineman who are Canadians who can step into play so 267 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:40,839 Speaker 1: you can fill out your ratios with guys who who 268 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 1: can play at a high level and as a national player. 269 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:47,560 Speaker 1: Exactly there, I mean, there's an enormous pool of guys 270 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 1: who are who made NFL rosters and are and are 271 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: just you know, they can't they can't find another spots, 272 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 1: so they go up the great athletes to me, you know, 273 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: Division one, like you said, sec all that there's there's 274 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:58,719 Speaker 1: a lot, there's a lot of American football players. The 275 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:01,960 Speaker 1: thing is, the the value is when they can find, 276 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:05,079 Speaker 1: you know, a truly talented Canadian who we call a 277 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 1: ratio breaker. But a recipe for a greake up team 278 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 1: is when you have five truly big, tough, outstanding Canadian 279 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:15,679 Speaker 1: offensive linemen, right, you know, and and certainly a lot 280 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 1: of teams will make get an American left tackle. But 281 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 1: but those teams, those teams that can really that can 282 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: really find those guys are that's a great, great up recipe. 283 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 1: But that lends usself to them the PA, like I said, 284 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 1: you know that then big run by offensive lineman and 285 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: the contact slowly disappears from practices and training camp. But 286 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: really that's the sort of every player's liking, we know 287 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 1: when it comes down to it. So there's that going 288 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 1: on did. The NFLPA is just kind of putting up 289 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: a fight as to what this preseason is going to 290 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 1: look like. So now the owners also have put out 291 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 1: something that will help ease their pain. And it's to 292 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: me like when you have two of things that are 293 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 1: going like, if one side gives that and the other 294 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 1: side gives what they're talking about, you can make a compromise. 295 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 1: But it's too completely diametrically opposed thing. So the NFL, 296 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 1: as you might imagine, is talking finances. They're talking thirty 297 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 1: They want to escrow thirty five percent of the players salaries, 298 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 1: escrow and pay it down the road and then you 299 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: know they didn't have everything as it is, and so 300 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 1: that eases their financial pain for this season. And the 301 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: players are saying obviously saying, yeah, no you're not. You're 302 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: not taking thirty five percent of my pay. Um it 303 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 1: makes and the players situation is like listen, why don't 304 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:34,120 Speaker 1: you and I I've got a couple of thoughts on 305 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 1: what the players position could be, should be, would be, 306 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 1: might be. Certainly they don't want to give up thirty 307 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 1: five percent of their pay for how an indefinite period, 308 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 1: So the league can you know, uh, make ends seat 309 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 1: at the end of the at the end of the season. Um. 310 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 1: But here's here's my point. If the salary cap goes down, 311 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 1: let me just say this, it might not be a 312 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: bad thing for the players. Um. Here's why. If teams 313 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 1: really see the cape, there's less need to go around. 314 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 1: But I'll tell you this, players who will be relieved. 315 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 1: There will be a lot of players who will become 316 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 1: free agents. And the way to make it a great 317 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 1: buck in the NFL is to be a free agent. Um. 318 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 1: So you're gonna have a lot of guys who will 319 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: be able to switch teams. And we saw it with 320 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: the contract. We talked all day yesterday about the Patrick 321 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 1: Mahone contract. I signed a ten deal, but that is 322 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 1: team friendly. So if you can get teams to get 323 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 1: on board with that and say, listen, I'm gonna be 324 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: a come of free agent. When the salary cap dips 325 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: by twenty millions next year, fifty million next whatever it is, 326 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 1: and this team has to release me, I'll sign a 327 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: better deal that his team friendly next year. And i 328 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: won't get my money for a couple three or four years, 329 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 1: but I'll get more money. Then I'm gonna get down. Certainly, 330 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: I won't get it for a while, but I'll get it. 331 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 1: So the players who come free ages because their contracts 332 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:04,520 Speaker 1: or because of their cap hit they could hit. They 333 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 1: could hit them jackpot again. In my opinion, even though 334 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:10,400 Speaker 1: the sound cap is takes a dip next year, they'll 335 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 1: just defer the money get on the road to the team. Yeah. 336 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 1: I guess when the cap comes back up, they get 337 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 1: back in the saddle and they hit another home run. Yep, 338 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:22,720 Speaker 1: and you get And if the more contracts you're signing, 339 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:24,880 Speaker 1: the more signing bonuses you're getting, right, it's like get 340 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 1: your money, you're getting money. Create. I don't think the 341 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 1: players should be free ad I don't think the players 342 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 1: expect well the good ones, established ones, the ones who 343 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 1: have their head a career ahead of them. I don't 344 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 1: think they should be afraid of the cap going down 345 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 1: because they're gonna be in demand. And if they are 346 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 1: forced to be released by the club they're on. It 347 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:41,919 Speaker 1: just means they get another chance to hit a home 348 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 1: run and get a hit, a contract, get a signing bonus, 349 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 1: a long term deal, a higher percentage of guaranteed money, 350 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:52,360 Speaker 1: whatever you want. If it's a club friendly deal, that's 351 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:54,359 Speaker 1: fine as long as you get your your chunk of 352 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,160 Speaker 1: the pie in future years when when the cap does rebound, 353 00:17:57,600 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: I hear you too. But if you're gonna shrink, if 354 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:02,399 Speaker 1: you're in a shrink, shrink the pie. The players aren't 355 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 1: aren't going to be aren't gonna be happy upfront. And yes, 356 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:06,640 Speaker 1: maybe maybe players will have the foresight to see maybe 357 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 1: I get a chance to hit free agency again. But 358 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 1: that but the football years are you know, there's nothing 359 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: guaranteed in here. So if you want to say, yeah, 360 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 1: I'll make my make my money in three years from now, well, 361 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 1: I mean that's a lot of tackles and a lot 362 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 1: of training and a lot of everything that they're gonna 363 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,040 Speaker 1: have to do to get that money. Yeah, I see that. 364 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 1: But here's the thing. I mean, I gotta take, for instance, 365 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:28,879 Speaker 1: you got a guy like or like Josh Nor the 366 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 1: guy the Bills just signed, the free agent cornerback. So 367 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 1: he comes to Buffalo, has a one year proved deal. Um, 368 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 1: he'd love to be a free agent after this year. 369 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:39,879 Speaker 1: Particularly if he has a really nice year, he can 370 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,400 Speaker 1: sign a deal. Somebody else wants him, and they think 371 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 1: he's only got about two years left in him, so 372 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 1: they sign him to a thing. They sign him to 373 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 1: a five year deal with a huge amount of signing 374 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:55,840 Speaker 1: bonus and no money the rest of the contract. Get 375 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,640 Speaker 1: him for two years and then pro rate and then 376 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,680 Speaker 1: you know, eat that money when the cap bounces back. Yeah, 377 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 1: so they get two years out of the guy. He 378 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:05,880 Speaker 1: gets his money up front. They signed to five years deal, 379 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 1: so the first two years of that contract is cheap 380 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:11,679 Speaker 1: relatively speak. They get him for two years, they can 381 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: pay it off down the line. Certainly, that's you know 382 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 1: it you line up money. You know, you can't get 383 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:21,480 Speaker 1: yourself doing that too. That's the kind of scenario the 384 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 1: players thinking, Yeah, the teams could get bit by that too. 385 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 1: But then also, um, well it's still it's still a 386 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 1: lot of of foresight and it's certainly not going to 387 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:35,439 Speaker 1: benefit every player in that and that that's true. If 388 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: somebody's gonna have to take a hit, right if they 389 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 1: met less than salary cap, there are gonna be a 390 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 1: number of players who have to take the hit. Now 391 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 1: if the salary cap is gonna get lessened like that, 392 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:44,119 Speaker 1: So it's gonna be it's gonna have. It's it's gonna have, 393 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 1: it's it's not gonna go over You're never gonna have 394 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 1: it go over smoothly in a negotiation when you're taking 395 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: money away from one side. What I what I want 396 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 1: to know about this thirty five percent escrow? I mean, 397 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 1: it's it's smartly worded that it's they're not saying we're 398 00:19:57,080 --> 00:19:59,480 Speaker 1: not gonna we're thirty five percent decrease in salary. They 399 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 1: called it f So it's sitting in an escrow account somewhere. Well, 400 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 1: what's what has to happen for the money to leave 401 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 1: escrow in either direction? What? What's what? What criteria have 402 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 1: to be met for the league to keep that to 403 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 1: go towards the expenses and cost of game day preparation 404 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:16,119 Speaker 1: all that, and then what's criteria will be hit for 405 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:19,120 Speaker 1: the players to actually make their money back? Right? It's 406 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:23,359 Speaker 1: a it's a it's a real real gray language by 407 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:25,880 Speaker 1: the league there that that that sort of scares me away. 408 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: I mean, what I mean, are you just going to 409 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:31,159 Speaker 1: take their thirty five percent when? When? When when the 410 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: stadiums can't be filled a capata to full capacity or 411 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: what's the what's the criteria? And so? Uh, you know, 412 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, of course the PA has 413 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 1: to take their stance and no, I mean when it's 414 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,200 Speaker 1: not we're not We're not going to take in front 415 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,120 Speaker 1: of this thing. Yeah, the player's side believes the league 416 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 1: has no legal position to hold this year's money in escrow. 417 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:50,440 Speaker 1: The the PA is adamant about borrowing for future years 418 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:54,080 Speaker 1: to offset potential salary cap drops. So they say, you know, 419 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 1: there's ways that the league can jump through some hoops 420 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,359 Speaker 1: to keep all this off. There off the player, the 421 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:05,440 Speaker 1: onus of the players, and certainly we all understand the 422 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:10,120 Speaker 1: economics that if if this salary cap goes way down, 423 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 1: great players are be affected. And I mean you're great players, 424 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 1: but the players on your team are gonna be effected. 425 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: That every team will be affected by it. There's gonna 426 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 1: be contracts that have to get blown up. We structured massive. 427 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 1: I don't know that that's a bad thing for the players, 428 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 1: but maybe for some. But yeah, all right, Steve Tasker 429 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:34,119 Speaker 1: and Luke Tasker, we're here till three o'clock one Bills Live. 430 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 1: What's the most intriguing opponent on the Bills schedule? What 431 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,399 Speaker 1: game are you looking forward to? And why you can 432 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:39,959 Speaker 1: tweet at us or call us at eight o three 433 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 1: oh five fifty. We're here till three o'clock, naming Roosevelt 434 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 1: and of course Thad Brown coming up at one o'clock. 435 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:48,440 Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive One Bills Live presented by Kalidah Health 436 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 1: and Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bills Live. 437 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 1: Steve Tasker Long with Luke Tasker In today for Mattie 438 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:05,920 Speaker 1: Glab we're talking about the NFLPA, the NFL and their 439 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 1: their ongoing conversation about what the start of the NFL 440 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:10,959 Speaker 1: season is going to look like. It looks as though 441 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 1: the season will probably happen, but this preseason is the 442 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 1: one thing that nobody can get a handle on what 443 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: it's going to look like. And of course money's always 444 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 1: involved with what they're doing. Great article Luke came out 445 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: overnight by on NFL dot Com and a lot of 446 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,200 Speaker 1: NFL dot com analysts. You guys who used to play. 447 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: They talked about their biggest career regrets and some of 448 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 1: the things that they were kind of happy about. It 449 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 1: was pretty telling about something and it kind of gives 450 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 1: you insight as to what makes the makes players tick. Right. Yeah, 451 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 1: I thought it was some good answers too, and I 452 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 1: Danley and thou Thomlinson. It's so it's hard to it's 453 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:50,439 Speaker 1: hard to say just winning or not winning as your 454 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:52,959 Speaker 1: regret because it's such a you know, it's a multifaceted 455 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 1: thing to win a football game. But and it's not 456 00:22:55,720 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: a decision or a mistake. But man, I when I'm 457 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 1: just all I can think about my own career is 458 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: just not winning a great Cup anyway. Nothing else even 459 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 1: matters that I did or didn't do. But you know, 460 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: I hear that, But there's some funnier ones in there too. 461 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 1: I think, yeah, right, that's yeah, you're right. And Ladanian 462 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:14,879 Speaker 1: Thomason right off the top, I mean, the guys in 463 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,359 Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame played for the Chargers obviously, and 464 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: was maybe the best running back in the game for 465 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 1: a long time. He was in the postseason five times, 466 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 1: never got to a Super Bowl, and he really regrets that, 467 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:29,639 Speaker 1: and I can see it, and I know, but there 468 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 1: are a lot of guys who never played in the 469 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:33,399 Speaker 1: Super Bowl. In fact, one of the other guys on 470 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:40,200 Speaker 1: the list, Joe Joe Thomas, the offensive tackle from Cleveland, 471 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,840 Speaker 1: you know, had a Hall of Fame career himself. He 472 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 1: never played in a playoff game, right, and he couldn't 473 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 1: His regret wasn't that he didn't leave and go play 474 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 1: on a playoff team. His regret was at the Browns. 475 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 1: He wanted to be there when the Browns got back, right, 476 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 1: And you gotta respect that for him. You know, he 477 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 1: wanted to be there when they only turned it around, 478 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 1: and I you know, I can respect that some guy. 479 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 1: How about if one guy wants just wants to play 480 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 1: in a super Bowl or being a super Bowl. Everybody 481 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 1: wants to win one, right, and he kind of regret 482 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 1: not doing that if you've never had a chance to 483 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,680 Speaker 1: do it, But he just wanted to play in a 484 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,920 Speaker 1: playoff game. Yeah, James Jones said, he just regrets his 485 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 1: one drop in the Super Bowl. But you know they 486 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 1: won that super Bowl, right, So I mean that's good 487 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 1: for him that his regret came in a winning super Bowl, 488 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:26,239 Speaker 1: because man, there's a lot of guys who are who 489 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 1: are not who could say say the flip side of 490 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 1: that story. And you know, Jane and guys have different 491 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 1: views about it too. James Jones himself said, he goes 492 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,359 Speaker 1: he feels like if he'd have caught that ball, it 493 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 1: would have been a seventy five yard touchdown. Yeah, and 494 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 1: he believes he'd still be playing it. I wonder how 495 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:43,119 Speaker 1: he draws the lines there. I mean, I guess he 496 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 1: just would have propelled his career, you know, I suppose 497 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: he would have whatever. I don't know, I mean in 498 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 1: my mind, you know, he maybe it would have propelled 499 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,440 Speaker 1: his next contract. You know, a guy who catches a 500 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,200 Speaker 1: touchdown like that in a Super Bowl is gonna be 501 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 1: you know, that's that's that does really well for himself 502 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,399 Speaker 1: the following year. But you know, I don't know, I 503 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,200 Speaker 1: don't know who knows who Who's to say what would 504 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 1: have happened? Uh? And it's interesting, it's interesting to D'Angelo 505 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: hall Is at cornerback. He was with the Falcons from 506 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 1: OH four through OH seven, he's with the Raiders in 507 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 1: O eight, and he's with the Redskins from O eight 508 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,440 Speaker 1: through twenty seventeen. So we played the longest with Redskins. 509 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:14,800 Speaker 1: That's where he hit the home run, and he played, 510 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,440 Speaker 1: you know, half a season with them in OH eight. 511 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,880 Speaker 1: He came from the Raiders and finished up the season 512 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 1: with the Redskins. Right, so his contracts up and he 513 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,359 Speaker 1: had a no franchise deal, so he was going to 514 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 1: be a free agent. Right So the New England Patriots 515 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:31,640 Speaker 1: were talking to him, and back then, guys didn't take 516 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 1: short term deals and stuff. And here's a guy he signed. 517 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,360 Speaker 1: He stayed in Washington for a six year, fifty four 518 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 1: million dollars deal. And this is when guys, we're all this. 519 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 1: You haven't done this because you're you're not even thirty, 520 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 1: so you know, let me just tell you this as 521 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 1: an old guy. Okay, I'll listen. Ultimately, you look back 522 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: on your life and you think, at the time, it 523 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 1: seemed like a good decision. How could it not be 524 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 1: taking six year, fifty four million dollars deal. But he 525 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,399 Speaker 1: regrets it because he went to Washington, which was a 526 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 1: dysfunctional franchise. They never won anything, didn't do anything, made 527 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:08,640 Speaker 1: a ton of money. But he says, over a few 528 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 1: million bucks, I could have changed my legacy and been 529 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,399 Speaker 1: part of that dynasty in New England that was on 530 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 1: the table for him, and he wishes now that he 531 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 1: would have made the decision to take less money and 532 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,640 Speaker 1: play for Bill Belichick and gone to the Super Bowl 533 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: a couple of times. That's a guy who made fifty 534 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 1: four million dollars over the course of that contract. That's 535 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:27,960 Speaker 1: what guys look back on and they regret, and for 536 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 1: some guys that's on the field, guys like Ladanian, Tomlinson, 537 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 1: Joe Thomas, James Jones. But D'Angelo Hall knows, you know 538 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,159 Speaker 1: what I should I should have gone and played with 539 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 1: a winner. Yeah, I mean, isn't that that? To me 540 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,160 Speaker 1: is the best answer to the true answer to the question. 541 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 1: Really really Yeah, your career decision making, you know, because 542 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 1: he just you can't run out the hypothetically hypothetical scenarios perfect, 543 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 1: you know every time. Dad, Honestly, I wonder what what 544 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 1: do you think of your own career? I mean, what 545 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 1: do you ever regret not having given free agency a harder, 546 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,600 Speaker 1: harder chance, or not giving it a more serious look 547 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: to move around? No, no, I don't because no it 548 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,440 Speaker 1: doesn't you know. Yeah, I landed in a rose garden. 549 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 1: I mean I fell into the best possible scenario. I 550 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 1: had a Hall of fame head coach who I was 551 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 1: one of his guy. I was the first guy he 552 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 1: brought in, so I was his guy. He taught me 553 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 1: how to block a punt. He had he had some 554 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 1: personal investment in me, so I was. I kind of 555 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,800 Speaker 1: had that as a security thing. Plus I was with 556 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,680 Speaker 1: a great team who was winning a lot of games. 557 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,720 Speaker 1: I had a chance in the early nineties to go 558 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 1: Plan B to Kansas City, and even though all of 559 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 1: that happened, the most that the other another team. When 560 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 1: I was I was just a guy, special teams guy. 561 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 1: So I wasn't you know, hit, I was kind of 562 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 1: wasn't gonna hit a home run even in free agency, 563 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,639 Speaker 1: and it ultimately came about that I made. It was 564 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 1: a difference between like one point seven one point eight 565 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 1: and two point two million dollars, so it's like six 566 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 1: or grand over the course of three years of that 567 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,639 Speaker 1: contract that I made. That was more by staying, So 568 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,159 Speaker 1: there was no I wasn't a guy like most of 569 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 1: these free agents where there's like six teams clamoring from 570 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: my services and ready to pay whatever it was. It 571 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:15,920 Speaker 1: wasn't the case for me. In fact, I remember telling 572 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:20,399 Speaker 1: people in the media for me being a free agent 573 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:24,439 Speaker 1: means I'm out of work. That that was my take, right, 574 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,119 Speaker 1: because I was just a guy. So that was so 575 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,879 Speaker 1: I had no regrets about staying in Buffalo because I 576 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 1: loved it here. I loved the town. You know, all 577 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 1: you guys and all five of you were born here 578 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 1: and we're still here. So isn't that that was not? 579 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 1: I mean, most most people are are balancing uprooting their 580 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 1: lives and be trying to be a part of a 581 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 1: new culture, you know, with the balancing that against well 582 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,160 Speaker 1: the obviously making more money. You really had, you really 583 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 1: were in the you were already on the team that 584 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 1: wanted to do more than any other team, right, And 585 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,760 Speaker 1: they and they proved it to me, you know, they exactly, Yeah, yeah, 586 00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,240 Speaker 1: they gave me every opportunity and I and it's money 587 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 1: too for me, and I don't know, you tell me 588 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 1: you were a young athlete in the CFL. For me, 589 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 1: if there was a big difference in money, my wife 590 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 1: and it was like, listen, we're going. We gotta go. 591 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 1: It's for our future, it's for the good of our family, 592 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 1: it's for setting us up better after we're finished playing. 593 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 1: We don't know how long I'm gonna play. All of that. 594 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 1: I mean, for a lot of guys a lot of 595 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 1: money and buy a lot of money. I'm meaning at 596 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 1: least six figures difference, and sometimes maybe in seven you're 597 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,440 Speaker 1: gonna take the money and go. You got to You're 598 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 1: not gonna play for very long. And if you love 599 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:36,800 Speaker 1: the town that much, come back and live there in 600 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 1: the off season or when you're finished playing, you know, 601 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 1: So I m for me, there's really no no decision 602 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 1: to be made for most of these guys. And they 603 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,520 Speaker 1: say being in a hometown discount that kind of thing. Well, 604 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 1: that's and for some guys that's a real thing, And 605 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:52,720 Speaker 1: for me it would have been a real thing too. 606 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 1: Never came to that for us, but it would have 607 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 1: been difficult to say good, say no to maybe a 608 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 1: half a million dollars difference in salary for for me 609 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,320 Speaker 1: and my career at that time. Yeah, I hear you. 610 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 1: I think back to what about you and the kids, 611 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,880 Speaker 1: and and and Jenna. I mean you guys would have 612 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 1: would you how much? I mean you're talking It would 613 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,320 Speaker 1: have been it's a different, different world up there. Yeah, 614 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 1: it's it is different, and it's a working man's league, right. 615 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 1: So you're making good money, but it's not life changing 616 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:23,800 Speaker 1: money that you have that you're not turning. You're not 617 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:27,680 Speaker 1: turning down life changing money by staying home, but it 618 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 1: is not the flip side of this of this article 619 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 1: that came out was their biggest regrets and also their 620 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,880 Speaker 1: you know, their best decisions of their career. But for 621 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 1: me to stay in Hamilton the years I did, I 622 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,080 Speaker 1: was I just never regretted that. I never regretted not 623 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:46,760 Speaker 1: hitting CFL free agency. It's even in a even in 624 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,400 Speaker 1: the best case scenario and free agency, it wouldn't have been, 625 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,800 Speaker 1: like I said, life changing money. And so to move 626 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:55,120 Speaker 1: my family out to Vancouver, that sounds that sounds you know, 627 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 1: almost not exotic as a strange word to words to 628 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 1: talk about Canada, but it sounds it is almost, you know, 629 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 1: like an adventure, like like, yeah, go to Montreal where 630 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 1: they speak French. Exactly, it's that and that's called cover 631 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 1: on the West Coast, Yeah, exactly. I think it would 632 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: have I think I actually would have risked the career 633 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,640 Speaker 1: that I have had in the CFL by by by. 634 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,240 Speaker 1: I just had such great routes and I was such 635 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 1: an I felt to be an important part of the 636 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,440 Speaker 1: team in Hamilton. That it was about the difference in 637 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,600 Speaker 1: money that we might be talking about that didn't make 638 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,760 Speaker 1: any sense to me to go when I when I 639 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 1: think about your career, to me, it's Marv Levy, Bill 640 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,880 Speaker 1: Polian and Jim Kelly. Those three guys were Steve Tasker fans, 641 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:36,880 Speaker 1: you know, I mean that and that and let that be. 642 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 1: Let that be a lesson to those out there working. 643 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 1: If you get the three biggest names in your organization 644 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 1: to be a fan of you, your life will turn 645 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,680 Speaker 1: out better. That's right there. There you go. That's what 646 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 1: that's that's in my from my perception of it, and 647 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,400 Speaker 1: I wasn't even born at this time. From my perception 648 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:56,120 Speaker 1: of it. That's that's what no one else, that's why 649 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 1: no other team, that's what you were already on the 650 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:00,960 Speaker 1: team that wanted you most, because those guys saw the 651 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,560 Speaker 1: saw the value of it. So for you're that that 652 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 1: your career decision making process. Really it was pretty easy 653 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 1: compared to a lot of players, you know, maybe for 654 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,360 Speaker 1: lack of options with another team, but also because here 655 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 1: here's a here's a Steve taskersm for for one Bills 656 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,360 Speaker 1: Live radio listeners is you never have to apologize for 657 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,360 Speaker 1: being happy. So if you if you're, if you're already there, 658 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,120 Speaker 1: what do you you know that ye were and we 659 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 1: were we've been happy here buff We came here and 660 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,239 Speaker 1: you know, I've told the story of a zillion time. 661 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,160 Speaker 1: We came here as newlyweds and you know, we had 662 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,640 Speaker 1: five kids, and we thought we'd be here for four months, 663 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:36,360 Speaker 1: and now we're working on like thirty three, thirty four 664 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:40,440 Speaker 1: years and we've never left. And yeah, we could have 665 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 1: moved south. We could have even after I finished playing, 666 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,160 Speaker 1: I was working for CBS, and we could have relocated. 667 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 1: We're getting where lived anywhere in the States, and we 668 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,080 Speaker 1: decided we didn't want to do that because you know 669 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,600 Speaker 1: of of what we've got going here and and so 670 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,720 Speaker 1: and I've and I see other guys making the same 671 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,560 Speaker 1: same decisions around the league. We this this article that 672 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 1: that Luke Tasker and I are talking Steve Tashier with 673 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,360 Speaker 1: One Bills Live. We're here till three o'clock, naming Roosevelt 674 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 1: and Thad Brown coming up in the program later as 675 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 1: an article on NFL dot com. We're talking about about 676 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,680 Speaker 1: guys biggest regrets. And it's hilarious too, a little of 677 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,440 Speaker 1: it and hilarious because you know Nate Burlison, which a 678 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,000 Speaker 1: lot of football fans know, he's on Good Morning Foot 679 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:22,240 Speaker 1: Good Morning Football, Yeah, and for the NFL network, and 680 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,000 Speaker 1: he was a wide receiver for the Lions. He's good player, really, 681 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:30,080 Speaker 1: and he's His biggest regret was in a twenty thirteen. 682 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 1: He was in a car accident and he was trying 683 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,520 Speaker 1: to save a pizza on the seat next to him, right, 684 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,960 Speaker 1: how many of us have done that, spilled your fast 685 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,800 Speaker 1: food whatever and you and he had a bad accident 686 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 1: and he got up. Me think, man, I hope my 687 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:44,480 Speaker 1: legs are all He got out and he checked his 688 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,120 Speaker 1: legs and you know, he didn't want to break his legs. 689 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,160 Speaker 1: He had to run stuff. His legs are fine, and 690 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:53,520 Speaker 1: finally looks around and his arms busted. Yeah, he had 691 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:57,239 Speaker 1: to have surgery. He messed up his whole season. They 692 00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,600 Speaker 1: were two and one at that time, headed that they 693 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 1: were just you know, he had a good received one 694 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,800 Speaker 1: hundred yard receiving game. They were trending in the right direction. 695 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,640 Speaker 1: Then he misses seven games. They finished seven and nine, 696 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,160 Speaker 1: and they went one and five down the stretch. After 697 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,600 Speaker 1: he came back, they missed the playoffs and that was 698 00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,439 Speaker 1: his last season. And he's like saying, he said, taking 699 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,759 Speaker 1: a pizza, that's right, and he said, I messed up 700 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:21,960 Speaker 1: our season. You can I get that weight that he 701 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,400 Speaker 1: felt in that moment. And you could also think, I 702 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:25,799 Speaker 1: mean a lot of things can happen in a car 703 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:27,640 Speaker 1: wrext so he can also think of this as a blessing, 704 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,880 Speaker 1: a blessing for him. But it's but in the in 705 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:31,919 Speaker 1: the season as it's you know, you have that season 706 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,279 Speaker 1: where he started off and and you know, especially in 707 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,320 Speaker 1: Detroit too, you know, and they're thinking, man, this is 708 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,080 Speaker 1: the year. And I've been on struggling teams too, when 709 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:41,520 Speaker 1: we're thinking you start, you have that you win that 710 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,160 Speaker 1: first game, and it's like we're gonna turn something around, 711 00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,879 Speaker 1: and so that the weight the weight of a kind 712 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,160 Speaker 1: of a safe feel responsible, you feel responsible for the 713 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,560 Speaker 1: whole shooting match, you know, And that's at stinks. I know, 714 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,440 Speaker 1: it's it's uh, there are other things too, and that 715 00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,840 Speaker 1: for Nate Birdless, and there's something actually happened that he 716 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:02,120 Speaker 1: could change look at and say, wow, that that stinks, 717 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,000 Speaker 1: that that happened. Now there's other guys on this list, 718 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,439 Speaker 1: like David Carr. Remember David Carr. He was the first 719 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:09,600 Speaker 1: draft pick of the Houston Texans. He was a young 720 00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,000 Speaker 1: hotshot coming out of college. He was he was actually 721 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:16,040 Speaker 1: a gifted guy, had a live arm, good athlete, he 722 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,440 Speaker 1: had seemingly everything. And then he goes to the Houston 723 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,279 Speaker 1: Texans and they had no offensive line to help him. 724 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,239 Speaker 1: And he got sacked six thousand times in the first 725 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:26,399 Speaker 1: two or three seasons of his career. I mean the guy, yeah, 726 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,759 Speaker 1: I mean he got, he got the he got they 727 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,279 Speaker 1: ever living, everything knocked out of him, right. So then 728 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,319 Speaker 1: he goes from the Texans to the Panthers for a year, 729 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,000 Speaker 1: then to the Giants for a couple of years, and 730 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:39,759 Speaker 1: came back and he was with the Niners as well, 731 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:43,680 Speaker 1: and he thought he had a chance in his career 732 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,000 Speaker 1: in two and ten of going to the forty nine 733 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,480 Speaker 1: Ers or the Arizona Cardinals, and the Cardinals wanted him 734 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,560 Speaker 1: to go, and Kurt Warner had just retired. That was 735 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,280 Speaker 1: a team that went to the Super Bowl with Kurt Warner, 736 00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,640 Speaker 1: And so they're asking David car to come in and 737 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:00,800 Speaker 1: really come in and try and start, and Ken wizzen 738 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,040 Speaker 1: Hunt was there. Ken wissen Hunt is a really good 739 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:07,080 Speaker 1: football coach. Um, do you know you know Ken right? 740 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,720 Speaker 1: You know wiz right because he was the Chargers offensive 741 00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:11,759 Speaker 1: coordinator when you were in camp with him, he was 742 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:13,920 Speaker 1: and I was young, and I was I was twenty 743 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,800 Speaker 1: two years old. But he really encouraged me in my 744 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:20,160 Speaker 1: career and I never got a chance to to play 745 00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,120 Speaker 1: in the NFL like that again. But his he he 746 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,200 Speaker 1: encouraged me to keep on playing and I didn't. And 747 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,480 Speaker 1: after seven years in the CFL and making a living 748 00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,040 Speaker 1: playing football, I do think back to my conversation with him. 749 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,319 Speaker 1: He was and he was. He was as sharp as 750 00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:34,160 Speaker 1: he was, as sharp as it gets. And I think 751 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,560 Speaker 1: that actually it's this story is so surprising because for him, 752 00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,000 Speaker 1: David Carr, to give up an opportunity, I know you 753 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,040 Speaker 1: haven't hit the punchline of his regret here yet, but 754 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,000 Speaker 1: but for him to give up that opportunity, But that's 755 00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,279 Speaker 1: the guy that really made this story hit home to me, 756 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:48,759 Speaker 1: is that he gave up an opportunity to be with 757 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:52,920 Speaker 1: Ken wizzen Hunt, right and I think, I think the 758 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,480 Speaker 1: world of Ken wizzen Hunt. And so Carr decides he's 759 00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:58,759 Speaker 1: not going to do it. He goes to San Francisco 760 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:03,120 Speaker 1: at that later that offseason and he and rightfully so, 761 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,440 Speaker 1: wizzen Hunt still gives him trouble about not signing with 762 00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,440 Speaker 1: Arizona when he had the chance, because he was they 763 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,480 Speaker 1: wanted him to start, and that to me is very 764 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,719 Speaker 1: a guy going in with a chance to start. Um, 765 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,279 Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know why guys do that. 766 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,399 Speaker 1: And I'll tell you another thing. It happened this year 767 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:24,240 Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota signed with the Raiders to be a backup. 768 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,759 Speaker 1: He signed to be a backup as a guy who 769 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:31,080 Speaker 1: is a number maybe number one overall pick as after 770 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,879 Speaker 1: a Heisman Trophy winner. I don't know how a guy, 771 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,160 Speaker 1: you know, maybe that's that's where he thinks his level is. 772 00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:39,600 Speaker 1: I don't know, but man, oh man, I would be. 773 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:41,560 Speaker 1: I would be looking for a place where I'm going 774 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:43,400 Speaker 1: to go in and compete to start, and he's just 775 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,200 Speaker 1: not going to do it there. And that's that's amazing 776 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,320 Speaker 1: to me. But guys do it. But David, his regret 777 00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,040 Speaker 1: was not just turning down the contract. All he had 778 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:52,880 Speaker 1: to do was his go to the workout. So his 779 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:54,839 Speaker 1: he was on vacation with his wife and he turned 780 00:37:54,840 --> 00:38:00,320 Speaker 1: down the workout, right, He's thinking, look, yeah, exactly that 781 00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,200 Speaker 1: is that is I like the candid responses to this article. 782 00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:05,719 Speaker 1: I think I think this is very telling of guys. 783 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:10,319 Speaker 1: The other half of this, though, well, the other half 784 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,000 Speaker 1: of this is there is the best decisions that people 785 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,239 Speaker 1: have made in their career. And I wonder for you, Dad, 786 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:18,000 Speaker 1: what was your best kind of kind of take aside 787 00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:19,839 Speaker 1: free agency and contracts and all that was your best 788 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:23,160 Speaker 1: career with as your time with the Bills. Maybe that 789 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,600 Speaker 1: just increases. I hadn't really thought about it up until 790 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:28,920 Speaker 1: you know, we started talking about this, and and I 791 00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,520 Speaker 1: think we already discussed it. I think it was staying 792 00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,480 Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Now we grew up, you know, all our 793 00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:37,399 Speaker 1: whole your your mom's family, my family are all back 794 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,160 Speaker 1: in Kansas and I grew up a big Chiefs fan. 795 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:46,720 Speaker 1: And Marty Schottenheimer was the head coach there, Kurt Schottenheimer 796 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:50,839 Speaker 1: was the special team's coach there, and they I knew them. 797 00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:52,920 Speaker 1: I played with them and around them in the Pro 798 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:54,759 Speaker 1: Bowl a couple of times. They wanted me to come 799 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,840 Speaker 1: to Kansas City. Now, certainly the number wasn't there, but 800 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,799 Speaker 1: we could have rationalized it even to the Bills and say, listen, 801 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,239 Speaker 1: I want to go home and play, you know, with 802 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,680 Speaker 1: in front of my family, right um. I think the 803 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,839 Speaker 1: decision not to do that turned out to be a really, 804 00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:15,880 Speaker 1: really good one. Not getting antsy to you know, explore 805 00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:20,240 Speaker 1: free agency or you know, you know, any of that stuff. 806 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,520 Speaker 1: Being being smart enough to be happy here in Buffalo 807 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:25,640 Speaker 1: was probably as good as decisions as we ever made, 808 00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:28,279 Speaker 1: And that was really the ultimate decision where we made 809 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,880 Speaker 1: where we had a chance to leave and then didn't 810 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:34,080 Speaker 1: um And you know what, you know what that's like 811 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,320 Speaker 1: when we go back to the state of Kansas. You know, 812 00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:38,560 Speaker 1: I've got We've got a huge family back there, and 813 00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:40,560 Speaker 1: it would have been a lot of fun in that regard. 814 00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:42,880 Speaker 1: But I think that's the best decision of micro the 815 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,279 Speaker 1: one that I'm kind of glad I made, you know, 816 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:49,760 Speaker 1: I think of a more more practical regret of my career. 817 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,719 Speaker 1: One of the hardest things I find is that you 818 00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,120 Speaker 1: trained so hard in the offseason, you're in such great shape, 819 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,080 Speaker 1: but we played eighteen games up there, and it's like 820 00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,920 Speaker 1: half the year you plan. I I've always done such 821 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,240 Speaker 1: a bad job of keeping my strength and my actual 822 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,319 Speaker 1: weight room training up during the season, because for six months, 823 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:07,919 Speaker 1: if you're not lifting right for six months, it doesn't 824 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:11,240 Speaker 1: matter how hard you're running, playing scoring touchdowns, it doesn't. 825 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,880 Speaker 1: Your strength in other ways decreases, and I think it 826 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,000 Speaker 1: led to some some injuries that really had an effect 827 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:19,040 Speaker 1: on my career. But you get you're hurting so badly 828 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,800 Speaker 1: late in the season that it's really, really takes. It 829 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,560 Speaker 1: takes a special discipline to tell yourself that no it 830 00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:26,600 Speaker 1: I know it doesn't feel good, but it's it is 831 00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,920 Speaker 1: better if you go, you go lift, even after you 832 00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:33,680 Speaker 1: practiced hard in the week sixteen, I struggled keeping that 833 00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:36,200 Speaker 1: up and I regret that that part of my own, 834 00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:38,879 Speaker 1: my own, I can see it. It's and it is hard. 835 00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,160 Speaker 1: It's hard to keep up with its steep Tasker Lift Tasker. 836 00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:44,719 Speaker 1: Here till three o'clock, One Bills Live. We've got bad 837 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:46,680 Speaker 1: Brown coming up at the top of the hour, also 838 00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:49,359 Speaker 1: naming Roosevelt coming on later on in the program, One 839 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,120 Speaker 1: Bill's Life, presented by Kalida Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio. 840 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:05,359 Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Steve Tasker and Luke 841 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,520 Speaker 1: Tasker here with you till three o'clock. Coming up at 842 00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,200 Speaker 1: the top of the hour, Thad Brown, sports director at 843 00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:14,120 Speaker 1: w r OCTV in Rochester. We'll talk to him about 844 00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:15,560 Speaker 1: the fact that the Bills are not going to have 845 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:19,799 Speaker 1: training camp in Rochester and he will be on the sidelines. 846 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,480 Speaker 1: I think for the television broadcast of the preseason games, 847 00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:25,080 Speaker 1: and I think I'm gonna be in the booth with 848 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:29,680 Speaker 1: Andrew Catalan. I think if any of that stuff does 849 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:33,000 Speaker 1: indeed happen. And we ask you our listeners today, what 850 00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:37,040 Speaker 1: is the most intriguing opponent on the Buffalo Bills twenty 851 00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:40,160 Speaker 1: twenty schedule. We've got some answers on the tweet sheet, Luke, 852 00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:42,160 Speaker 1: if you got the tweet sheet in front of you, 853 00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,839 Speaker 1: let's go most intriguing opponent go ahead, Yeah, Bill says, 854 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:49,399 Speaker 1: Kansas City. But also the Pats with Cam Now, yeah, 855 00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:53,440 Speaker 1: I had I got asked about Cam Newton when that happened. 856 00:41:54,680 --> 00:42:01,160 Speaker 1: Bills fans were just shaking their heads right with the 857 00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:04,800 Speaker 1: Pats for for my answer to the to the to 858 00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:06,800 Speaker 1: our tweet is the Pats as well. I mean, I 859 00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,560 Speaker 1: I'm excited to see him different different Patriots as all 860 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,799 Speaker 1: I get too. I mean that's that's yeah, everybody wants 861 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,840 Speaker 1: to see homes play, particular now that he's signed a 862 00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:19,360 Speaker 1: nine gazillion dollar contract. But is there a more? Is 863 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,040 Speaker 1: there a more? Is there a quarterback who is more 864 00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:27,680 Speaker 1: the antithesis of Bill Belichick than Cam Newton? How interesting 865 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:31,319 Speaker 1: is that he is the absolute opposite of the kind 866 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,800 Speaker 1: of quarterback you would think Bill Belichick would ever be 867 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,960 Speaker 1: interested in his personality, the way he carries himself his 868 00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:43,160 Speaker 1: impro improvisation, um everything and you know, the the the 869 00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:47,000 Speaker 1: gear that he wears in the postgame interview, everything from 870 00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,080 Speaker 1: top to bottom. I can't think of a guy who 871 00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:52,920 Speaker 1: is more the opposite of what you would want. You 872 00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,640 Speaker 1: would think Bill Belichick wanted in a quarterback. It does, 873 00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:58,040 Speaker 1: it seems that way, But don't I have I have 874 00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:01,719 Speaker 1: this fear inside that there's just I just I have 875 00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:03,759 Speaker 1: this sense that Bill Bills just know something that I 876 00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,359 Speaker 1: don't know, like something for some reason, for some reason, 877 00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:07,680 Speaker 1: it does make a lot of sense, and I just 878 00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:09,719 Speaker 1: we just can't see it the way that he does. 879 00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:12,879 Speaker 1: And it's and and well, it's still it's still gonna 880 00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,400 Speaker 1: be an exciting and exciting thing to see just a 881 00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:18,520 Speaker 1: new a new brand of Patriots and see what happens. Yeah, 882 00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:20,200 Speaker 1: it'll be nice to see the Bills stack up agains 883 00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:22,480 Speaker 1: because this bill no matter And I said this yesterday 884 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:24,840 Speaker 1: with Maddie and I said, it doesn't matter who plays 885 00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,719 Speaker 1: quarterback for the Patriots. The Bills are still going to 886 00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:30,200 Speaker 1: be a really good football team. They got a great roster, 887 00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,480 Speaker 1: they're deep, Josh is gonna take a step forward. They've 888 00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:34,600 Speaker 1: got more help around him on offense. They've got more 889 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:38,000 Speaker 1: stability and continuity than most other teams in the National 890 00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,799 Speaker 1: Football League. So the Bills are gonna be a lot 891 00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:42,959 Speaker 1: of fun and they're gonna be a barrel of laughs 892 00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:44,920 Speaker 1: to watch this season for Bills fans. I think that 893 00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:48,160 Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun. It's gonna We'll get into Josh 894 00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,600 Speaker 1: Owen a little later too, but let's if he if 895 00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:52,800 Speaker 1: he increases the way that we all want and expect 896 00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:54,600 Speaker 1: him to do that, then it's gonna be an interesting 897 00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:59,160 Speaker 1: storyline to see this young, young, you know, high level 898 00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:01,120 Speaker 1: quarterback with with some of these other guys that we're 899 00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:02,880 Speaker 1: talking about here, and some of the answers to this 900 00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:05,480 Speaker 1: h to these to the to our tweet of the day, 901 00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,560 Speaker 1: it'll make a great a great you send a headline 902 00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:11,440 Speaker 1: to see these quarterbacks go off against each other. This 903 00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:13,719 Speaker 1: one's from Jack here, easy to say Kansas City. The 904 00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,960 Speaker 1: champs and the division teams are always a curiosity since 905 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,680 Speaker 1: we get him twice. But I'm most intrigued by the Titans. 906 00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:21,279 Speaker 1: We beat him last year and they got hot and 907 00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,040 Speaker 1: went to the championship game and are very similar to 908 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:26,520 Speaker 1: the Bills with good d and improving offense. I'm kind 909 00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:28,759 Speaker 1: of intrigued by the Titans as well for a lot 910 00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:30,560 Speaker 1: of reasons. One, I don't know that and I say 911 00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:32,879 Speaker 1: this all the time. Their season, to me last year 912 00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:36,760 Speaker 1: is the quintessential example of a team that catches lightning 913 00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:40,040 Speaker 1: in a bottle. They found Derrek Henry Be that been 914 00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,520 Speaker 1: on that team for three or four years, and finally 915 00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:46,200 Speaker 1: last year they strapped, They strapped their saddle on him, 916 00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:48,880 Speaker 1: handed him the ball and started riding him to this playoffs. 917 00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:54,160 Speaker 1: And then they got hass. They got phenomenal play from 918 00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,920 Speaker 1: a quarterback that Bills fans have seen all too much. 919 00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:01,520 Speaker 1: And Ryan Tannehill, who was just okay in Miami. He 920 00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:07,839 Speaker 1: goes to Tennessee and he's completing seventy percent, seventy point 921 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:12,920 Speaker 1: three percent of his passes are getting completed. And it's 922 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,759 Speaker 1: unbelievable the run they went on last year. And I 923 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:17,839 Speaker 1: don't know if they can redo I don't know if 924 00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:21,600 Speaker 1: they can duplicate it. Yeah, certainly not for sixteen. I mean, 925 00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,080 Speaker 1: they were, they were on fire as soon as they 926 00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:26,480 Speaker 1: made the switch from Tannehill. And you know, Tannehill's got 927 00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:28,520 Speaker 1: some experience and he knew what was he was looking at, 928 00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:31,840 Speaker 1: no question, But man, oh Man handed to Derrick Henry 929 00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:35,080 Speaker 1: and then let Ryan Tannehill take the easy completions, and 930 00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:36,640 Speaker 1: there they were tough to beat. They had a really 931 00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:41,000 Speaker 1: good defense, their offensive line was good, better than good, 932 00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,520 Speaker 1: and Derrick Henry reaped the benefits of it. Man, I 933 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:47,880 Speaker 1: think they're really intriguing this year. I don't know that 934 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:52,480 Speaker 1: Mike Frabel can get that roster to duplicate what it 935 00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:54,839 Speaker 1: was like at the end of last season. But man, 936 00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:57,399 Speaker 1: oh man, you talk about a transformation and a team 937 00:45:57,440 --> 00:45:59,279 Speaker 1: that was different in Week sixteen than it was in 938 00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:01,640 Speaker 1: Week three or four and five. It was the Tennessee 939 00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:05,920 Speaker 1: Titans last year. You're an interesting team. But in regards 940 00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:09,560 Speaker 1: to the Bills, I like the ar Kansas City and 941 00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:11,600 Speaker 1: Pat's answer so far. I like this one too, though. 942 00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:14,040 Speaker 1: Monday Night Football game Verse forty nine ers. That'll be 943 00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:16,200 Speaker 1: a huge test against the reigning NFC champs. This is 944 00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:18,640 Speaker 1: from seth after a grueling stretch and just before the 945 00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,160 Speaker 1: final four games of the season, that's our San Francisco game. 946 00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:23,759 Speaker 1: San Francisco hasn't played a defense like ours, a lot 947 00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:25,640 Speaker 1: of lots of field goals and Josh Allen will prove 948 00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:29,440 Speaker 1: to be the better quarterback that night. Close, close win 949 00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:31,200 Speaker 1: on the Road twenty four twenty. I like that a 950 00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:33,760 Speaker 1: lot of peoples. Yeah, if the Bill's going to San Francisco, 951 00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:38,719 Speaker 1: if everything looks and they beat that team, no matter 952 00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,080 Speaker 1: what's happened until that point, we'll see they people are 953 00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:42,880 Speaker 1: gonna sit up and say wow, this is Yeah. The 954 00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:44,719 Speaker 1: Bills are going to be on the map for sure 955 00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:47,919 Speaker 1: in that one. Yeah, it's cool. So Steve Tasker, Luke Tasker, 956 00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:49,520 Speaker 1: We're here till three o'clock. You can get in on 957 00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:51,680 Speaker 1: this conversation at eight to three oh five fifty. What's 958 00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:54,480 Speaker 1: the most intriguing opponent on the Bills twenty twenty schedule 959 00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:59,000 Speaker 1: and why Fat Brown from w r OCTV. Coming up next, 960 00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:02,120 Speaker 1: Sports Director Rochester will get his thoughts on the lack 961 00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:04,880 Speaker 1: of training camp where the thought of training camp as 962 00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:06,920 Speaker 1: it comes One Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health 963 00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:15,080 Speaker 1: and Buffalo Bills Radio. Oh A Great Time, Oh by 964 00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:34,720 Speaker 1: Steve Taskers, Do Do do tasto at all time? Welcome 965 00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:37,120 Speaker 1: back to One Bill's Live. Steve Tasker along with Luke Tasker, 966 00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:39,920 Speaker 1: who's co hosting today in place of Maddie Glab We 967 00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,040 Speaker 1: are pleased to be joined on the line now by 968 00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:46,400 Speaker 1: the sports director of w r OCTV in Rochester, Thad Brown. 969 00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:49,280 Speaker 1: Thad is also the sideline reporter for the television broadcast 970 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:52,279 Speaker 1: of the Bills preseason games, which I'm the analyst for Dad. 971 00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:54,960 Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on with a Steve and Luke Tasker. 972 00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:57,960 Speaker 1: How's it going as are you staying safe and well 973 00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:03,520 Speaker 1: during the pandemic? Hey? Doing pretty good? Guys? How are 974 00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:07,000 Speaker 1: you doing doing good? Thanks for coming on with us. Hey, Sad, 975 00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:10,279 Speaker 1: I gotta ask you first. The protocols are coming out 976 00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:12,600 Speaker 1: for what the season might look like and how easy 977 00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:14,680 Speaker 1: or not easy it's going to be for guys like 978 00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:17,960 Speaker 1: you to cover your local NFL team. Have you got 979 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,160 Speaker 1: your mind around how difficult it's going to be to 980 00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:22,840 Speaker 1: talk about a team that you can't watch practice or 981 00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:26,560 Speaker 1: maybe even play. Yeah. Yeah, they've been thinking about pretty 982 00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,000 Speaker 1: much nothing. But since I don't know mid May, you know, 983 00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:30,440 Speaker 1: but what it's gonna look like for us this year, 984 00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:32,200 Speaker 1: how we're going to do our job? And you know, 985 00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:34,080 Speaker 1: the first thing is, I don't know how much practice 986 00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:35,440 Speaker 1: there is even going to be to see. I mean, 987 00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:37,520 Speaker 1: it sounds like the players want to make the first 988 00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,440 Speaker 1: few weeks of you know, fingercoach training camp into you know, 989 00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:43,480 Speaker 1: extended offseason conditioning. So you know, there's a lot of 990 00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:45,319 Speaker 1: things that we won't be able to do this year, 991 00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:48,080 Speaker 1: or that everybody won't be able to do. I think 992 00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:50,759 Speaker 1: there's going to be a pool of reporters, perhaps a 993 00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:53,799 Speaker 1: rotating pool of reporters, so there will be some people there, 994 00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,200 Speaker 1: but you know, and I think that there will be 995 00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:59,560 Speaker 1: bottom line for the fan, there's gonna be less this 996 00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:03,920 Speaker 1: year of everything, less stories, less observations, less insight, less reports, 997 00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:06,800 Speaker 1: less of everything. And you know, some of it, you know, 998 00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:09,160 Speaker 1: if you want to get reporters together and you know, 999 00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:11,239 Speaker 1: open up the cynical side, you wonder how much of 1000 00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:14,400 Speaker 1: this is the league or teams, you know, using the 1001 00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:16,960 Speaker 1: pandemic as a way to kind of put the clamps 1002 00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,120 Speaker 1: on what gets out of their building. But I think 1003 00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:21,080 Speaker 1: for the most part this is this is just smart 1004 00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,080 Speaker 1: safety precaution type stuff. Limit the amount of people there, 1005 00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:25,640 Speaker 1: you know, limit the amount of people that are in 1006 00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:29,040 Speaker 1: contact with the players and coaches. And you know, us reporters, 1007 00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:31,400 Speaker 1: as much as we want to be there telling stories 1008 00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:33,680 Speaker 1: and talking to guys, we want to see football teams 1009 00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:36,600 Speaker 1: everybody else, So we understand, either precautions are gonna happen, 1010 00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:38,759 Speaker 1: but it's gonna be harder. You know, everything's gonna be 1011 00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,640 Speaker 1: zoomed this year, at least to start, So it's gonna 1012 00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:43,759 Speaker 1: be less of you know, guys hanging out in the 1013 00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:46,720 Speaker 1: locker room, you know, getting to know players, kind of talking, 1014 00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:49,000 Speaker 1: you build up, you know, a relationship with a guy 1015 00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,160 Speaker 1: that might develop into a story later on or you know, 1016 00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:54,400 Speaker 1: a good interview later on. Everything now is going to 1017 00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:57,719 Speaker 1: be a little more you know, sterile. It's gonna be 1018 00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:00,840 Speaker 1: you know, over computer, it's gonna be fire. Arrange is 1019 00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:02,799 Speaker 1: not going to be loose, so, you know, and end 1020 00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:05,040 Speaker 1: the result is going to be less stuff for everybody. 1021 00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,560 Speaker 1: But you know, again, you know, we understand what the 1022 00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:12,319 Speaker 1: reason for it is. All the Buffalo fans are feeling 1023 00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:15,120 Speaker 1: the weight, like every NFL city is of just so 1024 00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:17,480 Speaker 1: much unknown with training camp and with the season. But 1025 00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:19,759 Speaker 1: what about Rochester? What about the fans there, and and 1026 00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,879 Speaker 1: the and the first at least what's surely at least 1027 00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:24,560 Speaker 1: a lack of training camp in their own city. What's 1028 00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:27,680 Speaker 1: the feeling like round there. Yeah, there's a little bit 1029 00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:30,320 Speaker 1: of frustration, but again, you know, everybody understands what's going on, 1030 00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:32,759 Speaker 1: you know, and It wasn't like the Bills made this call, 1031 00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:36,080 Speaker 1: um that this was a league wide thing. So I 1032 00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:39,280 Speaker 1: don't think people in a Rochester are really overly upset 1033 00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:42,439 Speaker 1: about training camp this year. They understand the situation. You know, again, 1034 00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:45,080 Speaker 1: everybody wants to see football, whatever shape, you know, whatever 1035 00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:47,040 Speaker 1: way you have to do or whatever things you have 1036 00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:49,759 Speaker 1: to do to get there, We're all on board with it. 1037 00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:51,879 Speaker 1: The concern in Rochester when it comes to training camp 1038 00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:54,320 Speaker 1: is the long term outlook and the fact that you know, 1039 00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:57,400 Speaker 1: most teams have gone away from the going away to 1040 00:50:57,719 --> 00:51:02,080 Speaker 1: a college to do training camp norm and and you know, 1041 00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:04,160 Speaker 1: whether or not camp comes back after this year is 1042 00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,480 Speaker 1: the concern. And you know, while that is something that's 1043 00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:08,239 Speaker 1: in the back of everybody's mind here in Rodster, all 1044 00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:10,560 Speaker 1: the Bills fans here, you know, for this year it's 1045 00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:13,200 Speaker 1: all about will be a season and you know, training 1046 00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:15,320 Speaker 1: camp twenty twenty one couldn't be spoother this from body's 1047 00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:18,680 Speaker 1: thoughts right down. We're on the line with w r 1048 00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:22,520 Speaker 1: OCTV Rochester sports director Thad Brown on one Bills Live 1049 00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:27,400 Speaker 1: that the return to play h we're gonna we thought, 1050 00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:30,600 Speaker 1: and and it's rightfully so that the NFL got a 1051 00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:34,200 Speaker 1: huge break with the schedule, well, the scheduling finger quotes 1052 00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:38,279 Speaker 1: as you say, of this pandemic. It was the last 1053 00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:40,840 Speaker 1: league that was going to be affected by the regular season, 1054 00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,680 Speaker 1: and the NBA had to stop. Major League Baseball never 1055 00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:46,200 Speaker 1: got started, the NHL had to pause and has not 1056 00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,000 Speaker 1: gotten started yet. Again, what do you think the return 1057 00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:53,480 Speaker 1: to play is gonna look like? Uh? Probably not fans. 1058 00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:58,000 Speaker 1: But also, forget about the regular season games. Do you 1059 00:51:58,080 --> 00:51:59,799 Speaker 1: have a handful of players of the Bills that are 1060 00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:01,839 Speaker 1: going to be really affected by this. I mean there's 1061 00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:03,759 Speaker 1: the ripple effects of that go on and on and on. 1062 00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:07,600 Speaker 1: But and he show Stefane Diggs tweeting about it last night, 1063 00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:09,520 Speaker 1: you know where he said, Look, I love football, I'm 1064 00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:11,440 Speaker 1: training my butt off to get ready. But I'd be 1065 00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:12,920 Speaker 1: lying to you if I said I wasn't. You know, 1066 00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:14,319 Speaker 1: I was a little bit. I wasn't a little bit 1067 00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:17,000 Speaker 1: uncomfortable about it. To me. The thing, the number one 1068 00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:19,879 Speaker 1: thing that would cause a real problem return to play 1069 00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:22,480 Speaker 1: is if you get a significant amount of players or 1070 00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:25,480 Speaker 1: a significant group of players who just don't want to play. 1071 00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:27,919 Speaker 1: I mean, if we get to the season and Pat 1072 00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:30,239 Speaker 1: Mahomes and Lamar Jackson and Drew Brees all say, you 1073 00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:31,880 Speaker 1: know what, we don't want to play, then what are 1074 00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:33,640 Speaker 1: we bothering for? You know, like, what what's the point 1075 00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:35,799 Speaker 1: of even of even having a season if you get 1076 00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:37,560 Speaker 1: you know, guys of that elk or a lot of 1077 00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:39,880 Speaker 1: guys who don't want to play. I think the league, 1078 00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,000 Speaker 1: and I think all the leagues really at this point, 1079 00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:46,360 Speaker 1: want to make every effort to push through a season. 1080 00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:49,400 Speaker 1: And I underline push because there will be you know, 1081 00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:52,800 Speaker 1: more infections, there will be issues. But I think the 1082 00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:55,200 Speaker 1: the idea of and now we're gon get into little 1083 00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:57,400 Speaker 1: political conversation with this, but I think the idea of 1084 00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:00,080 Speaker 1: not having anything being normal for a long time, the 1085 00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:02,120 Speaker 1: amount of money at stake with all these leagues, specially 1086 00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:05,760 Speaker 1: the NFL, I think every single effort, even maybe pushing 1087 00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:07,759 Speaker 1: and crossing the line a little bit, is going to 1088 00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:09,840 Speaker 1: be made by executives in leagues to get this to happen. 1089 00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:11,920 Speaker 1: And if the players aren't on board, and you can, 1090 00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:13,960 Speaker 1: I shouldn't understand why that, to me would be the 1091 00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:16,480 Speaker 1: number one problem. I don't see a single fan in 1092 00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:18,759 Speaker 1: the NFL stadium maybe all years, certainly not for the 1093 00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:22,239 Speaker 1: first few weeks. I've been saying since April that while 1094 00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:24,439 Speaker 1: I think there will be a football season, I don't 1095 00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:27,160 Speaker 1: think we play sixteen weeks as schedule. I think the 1096 00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:30,520 Speaker 1: least some delay, some sort of interruption. But I think 1097 00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:33,480 Speaker 1: there will be some sort of football season as long 1098 00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:35,520 Speaker 1: as you know the players at least nine nine percent 1099 00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:39,960 Speaker 1: of them are on board. What about no fans in 1100 00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:47,040 Speaker 1: the stands. I think it's hard to you know, I 1101 00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:48,960 Speaker 1: know again we're gonna go back to the money discussion. 1102 00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:51,759 Speaker 1: But from a medical point of view, I think put 1103 00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,400 Speaker 1: in twenty thousand people in a stadium is a big, 1104 00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:56,600 Speaker 1: big risk. And even then, you know, we're talking about 1105 00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:59,600 Speaker 1: twenty five percent passity. Because if you could just helicopter 1106 00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:02,319 Speaker 1: everybody and drop into their seats and they sit there 1107 00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:04,839 Speaker 1: for three hours and then helicopter them out, then it's fine. 1108 00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:06,839 Speaker 1: But the twenty thousand people still have to all come 1109 00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:09,000 Speaker 1: through five entrances, they all have to use the same 1110 00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:11,640 Speaker 1: ten bathrooms, if they're all you would think going to 1111 00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:14,440 Speaker 1: use the same five or ten concession stands. And you 1112 00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:17,759 Speaker 1: know the way this virus is being transmitted around the country. Now, 1113 00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:19,360 Speaker 1: some places it might be better than others. You know, 1114 00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:21,040 Speaker 1: you might be able to get away with it. In Buffalo, 1115 00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,360 Speaker 1: where you can't get away with it in Miami or Houston. 1116 00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:26,440 Speaker 1: But at this point, you know, and where we are 1117 00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:28,759 Speaker 1: right now with this virus, I I just can't see 1118 00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:31,960 Speaker 1: that being a responsible thing to do, to put thousands 1119 00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:33,719 Speaker 1: of people in a stadium to watch a game. The 1120 00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:36,000 Speaker 1: league has already said, you know, we're gonna tarp off 1121 00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:38,040 Speaker 1: the first six D eight rows, so you're already knocking 1122 00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:40,759 Speaker 1: out with five six percent of capacity right off the bat. 1123 00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:43,759 Speaker 1: I just don't see it happening for the subo future. Now, 1124 00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:45,920 Speaker 1: another thing I've been saying about this virus in April, 1125 00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:48,160 Speaker 1: you know, don't make any conclusions off the last two 1126 00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:51,280 Speaker 1: weeks because it changes that fast. You know, if virus 1127 00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:54,479 Speaker 1: positives go down, you know, in the next three weeks 1128 00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:57,359 Speaker 1: or before the end of August, then you know, maybe 1129 00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:01,400 Speaker 1: we've got half capacity or quarter capacity sometime in early October. 1130 00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:03,200 Speaker 1: You know, it's not out of the realm. But right 1131 00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:04,759 Speaker 1: this second, you want to ask me, I don't think 1132 00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:10,480 Speaker 1: there's a single fan in the NFL stadium all season long. Yeah, 1133 00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:13,000 Speaker 1: I get you, and I kind of agree with that. 1134 00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:15,560 Speaker 1: What I think about this though, and a lot of 1135 00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:19,480 Speaker 1: it has been said, Hey, home field advantage, road advantage, 1136 00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:21,560 Speaker 1: all that. But when you go on the road not 1137 00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:25,160 Speaker 1: to have that disadvantage, do you think that changes the 1138 00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,120 Speaker 1: dynamic at all? I mean, you know, home fieldvantage disappearing 1139 00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:30,200 Speaker 1: and everything being at what would appear to be a 1140 00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:32,279 Speaker 1: neutral site except for the fact that you get to 1141 00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:35,800 Speaker 1: sleep in your own bed, you know, theoretically for these games. 1142 00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:39,800 Speaker 1: What kind of impact do you think that'll have the 1143 00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:41,800 Speaker 1: fact that every game is gonna look the same and 1144 00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:44,879 Speaker 1: be the same, and no nobody's gonna have crowd noise 1145 00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:48,360 Speaker 1: or silent counts to deal with, what kind of effect 1146 00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:50,200 Speaker 1: do you think that'll have on the dynamics of a game. 1147 00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:53,279 Speaker 1: I think it depends on the building, you know. I mean, 1148 00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:55,880 Speaker 1: going to hard Rock in Miami is gonna be different 1149 00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:57,400 Speaker 1: than going to New Ara Field, you know. I mean 1150 00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:01,120 Speaker 1: there's not the same you know, difficulty for a road team. 1151 00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:02,760 Speaker 1: I mean, can you imagine the team's going to Seattle 1152 00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:04,600 Speaker 1: this year. It's gonna feel like a vacation, you know, 1153 00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:06,759 Speaker 1: this season if there's no fans in the stands, So 1154 00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:10,520 Speaker 1: there will be a difference, you know. And look, people 1155 00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:12,480 Speaker 1: talk to me about this and said, oh, it's not fair, 1156 00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:14,520 Speaker 1: you know, because there's some talking, and I think this 1157 00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:17,440 Speaker 1: would be okay. You know, if you have a situation 1158 00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:19,520 Speaker 1: where it's good in Buffalo but not in Kansas City. 1159 00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:21,800 Speaker 1: You know, does Buffalo have an advantage because they have 1160 00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:24,000 Speaker 1: home fans? Well, of course they do, But who cares. 1161 00:56:24,239 --> 00:56:26,560 Speaker 1: We're in a pandemic. This is how things go. You know, 1162 00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:29,200 Speaker 1: breaks go one way for one team and another way 1163 00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:31,840 Speaker 1: for another team every single year. You know, if the 1164 00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:34,040 Speaker 1: NFL is an opportunity to get fans in the stands, 1165 00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:36,480 Speaker 1: get people to enjoy games, get people to get back 1166 00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:38,399 Speaker 1: to some sort of normal seam, and I'm sure most 1167 00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:40,399 Speaker 1: important to them, make a little bit a bit of money. 1168 00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:43,000 Speaker 1: I don't really care what the advantage is. But you know, 1169 00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:45,040 Speaker 1: will there be a change this year? Absolutely there will be, 1170 00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:47,680 Speaker 1: you know, and you know, and again at Buffalo, I 1171 00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:50,399 Speaker 1: think in terms of the home field advantage, probuably will 1172 00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:53,280 Speaker 1: be one of the more teams that lose the most 1173 00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:55,480 Speaker 1: because they have a pretty good home field advantage in 1174 00:56:55,520 --> 00:57:00,640 Speaker 1: order point for coronavirus. Aside for a second, to get 1175 00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:02,400 Speaker 1: right back right down to football, what about can you 1176 00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:04,880 Speaker 1: talk a little bit your opinions on the biggest editions 1177 00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:09,560 Speaker 1: for the made this offseason by the Bills gotta be 1178 00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:11,520 Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs, you know, I mean that that was the 1179 00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:13,840 Speaker 1: gaping hole going into the offseason. How we're gonna be 1180 00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:17,240 Speaker 1: able to find that legit number one receiver. We're gonna 1181 00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:20,120 Speaker 1: hope that John Brown could continue to develop, maybe you know, 1182 00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:23,000 Speaker 1: work his way into that guy. We're gonna find him, 1183 00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:25,040 Speaker 1: you know, pick twenty two in the draft or wherever 1184 00:57:25,080 --> 00:57:28,440 Speaker 1: he ended up. And for Brandon being to locate not 1185 00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:30,680 Speaker 1: only a guy who you know fits the Bill but 1186 00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:33,400 Speaker 1: really one of the best in the league was easily 1187 00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:35,480 Speaker 1: the biggest game changer on this team. I mean, you 1188 00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:38,160 Speaker 1: think about the different moves the Bills made otherwise. Yeah, 1189 00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:39,920 Speaker 1: they added a bunch of defensive lineman, but we know 1190 00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,680 Speaker 1: in Sean McDermott system, those guys aren't gonna play forty 1191 00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:46,040 Speaker 1: fifty sixty percent of the snaps. They possibly found a 1192 00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:48,760 Speaker 1: second corner in Josh Norman, but you know how much 1193 00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:50,320 Speaker 1: does he have at this point in his career, And 1194 00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:52,400 Speaker 1: you know how much of an impact is your number 1195 00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:54,880 Speaker 1: two corner gonna make? So yeah, I don't think there's 1196 00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:57,360 Speaker 1: any doubt in my mind that Stefan Diggs is the 1197 00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:02,320 Speaker 1: impact offseason. And you know, perhaps you know, not just 1198 00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:05,280 Speaker 1: gauging him against other offseason guys. He might be one 1199 00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:07,320 Speaker 1: of the three or four most important players in the 1200 00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:10,520 Speaker 1: team at this point. We're talking with that Brown of 1201 00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:16,720 Speaker 1: w ROCTV in Rochester that we've had conversations on the 1202 00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:20,160 Speaker 1: show a lot of this offseason about how big an 1203 00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:23,080 Speaker 1: advantage it might be for the Buffalo Bills that they 1204 00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:26,880 Speaker 1: have so much stability in the building, I mean continuity. 1205 00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:28,720 Speaker 1: They've got a bunch of guys and all their key 1206 00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:31,440 Speaker 1: guys have except for Steph Diggs, have been in this 1207 00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:36,120 Speaker 1: system for at least a year, maybe two, maybe three. Defense, 1208 00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:38,240 Speaker 1: You've got a lot of returning starters, a lot of 1209 00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:40,120 Speaker 1: guys that have been in the system. You've got all 1210 00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:42,840 Speaker 1: your key people who have been here and in the system, 1211 00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:45,880 Speaker 1: and now you've seemed like you've got some depth all 1212 00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:48,400 Speaker 1: over the roster as well. You've got guys behind guys 1213 00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:50,880 Speaker 1: that you really want to see play. How big an 1214 00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:54,439 Speaker 1: advantage could that depth be, particularly in a season where 1215 00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:57,360 Speaker 1: some teams may lose five guys over a weekend because 1216 00:58:57,400 --> 00:59:00,200 Speaker 1: of a virus, and the Bills themselves might be one 1217 00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:03,120 Speaker 1: of those teams. It seems like that this year might 1218 00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:06,440 Speaker 1: have an exponential benefit for those teams who have that 1219 00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:11,200 Speaker 1: capability or that that characteristic. I think there's no doubt 1220 00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:14,040 Speaker 1: about it, you know. I think familiarity with a system 1221 00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:16,720 Speaker 1: will make a big difference. And you think about again, 1222 00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:18,520 Speaker 1: some of the guys the Bills brought in. You know, 1223 00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:20,520 Speaker 1: there are players that were like Josh Norman who are 1224 00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:23,320 Speaker 1: already familiar with what Sean McDermott likes to do, you know, 1225 00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:26,040 Speaker 1: on this team. So it's going to be a big difference. 1226 00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:27,720 Speaker 1: And I think the other part about this season, and 1227 00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:30,400 Speaker 1: I just you know, heard this from Kevin Clark talking. 1228 00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:31,760 Speaker 1: He's a guy who works for the Ringer does a 1229 00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:33,520 Speaker 1: lot of great work with the NFL. One of the 1230 00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:35,960 Speaker 1: points he made about this season is that if you 1231 00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:39,240 Speaker 1: have something you do well or did well last year, 1232 00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:41,680 Speaker 1: there's not going to be the same ability of a 1233 00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:45,080 Speaker 1: coordinator or a coaching staff to look at it or 1234 00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:47,160 Speaker 1: work on, you know, defending it in the offseason. He 1235 00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:49,840 Speaker 1: was talking about Lamar Jackson and the way the Ravens 1236 00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:52,800 Speaker 1: run that offense that you know that what they did 1237 00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:54,760 Speaker 1: last year, teams are going to be able to prepare 1238 00:59:54,760 --> 00:59:56,200 Speaker 1: for it as much as they would in a normal 1239 00:59:56,240 --> 00:59:59,240 Speaker 1: season and adjust for it, you know, from January to September. 1240 00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:01,440 Speaker 1: So those things you're going to be able to continue 1241 01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:03,840 Speaker 1: to do and just over and over and over again. 1242 01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:05,960 Speaker 1: And I think the Bills, you know, have a similar deal, 1243 01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:09,120 Speaker 1: not to the same success, but the way Josh Allen 1244 01:00:09,160 --> 01:00:11,120 Speaker 1: can run the ball and the way you know, Brian 1245 01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:13,400 Speaker 1: Dable mixes up the offense passing wise, I think those 1246 01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:15,960 Speaker 1: are things the Bills can execute over and over and 1247 01:00:16,040 --> 01:00:18,640 Speaker 1: over again, because you know, anything that worked last year 1248 01:00:18,760 --> 01:00:20,880 Speaker 1: is probably gonna work again this year because teams did 1249 01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:22,840 Speaker 1: not have the same amount of time to prepare for it. So, 1250 01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:25,520 Speaker 1: you know, the more players you have in your system 1251 01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:27,840 Speaker 1: familiar with what you do well, the better off you're 1252 01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:32,439 Speaker 1: probably gonna be. That as we start prepping for whatever 1253 01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:34,600 Speaker 1: this season's going to look like. And we take a 1254 01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:37,120 Speaker 1: skin across the AFC East and the Patriots signed Cam 1255 01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:39,800 Speaker 1: Newton and that was a big surprise to a lot 1256 01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:42,600 Speaker 1: of people, I think, including including myself and my dad. 1257 01:00:42,680 --> 01:00:44,960 Speaker 1: Here do you put them at the top of the 1258 01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:49,240 Speaker 1: FC East right now? Are they gonna be favorites? Well, 1259 01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:51,480 Speaker 1: I think Tudor answers to that question. I think I 1260 01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:54,120 Speaker 1: do not. M I still think the bild are slightly better. 1261 01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:56,160 Speaker 1: Are they going to be favorites? They might be. You know, 1262 01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:59,080 Speaker 1: if you talk about a national perspective, I think if 1263 01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:01,680 Speaker 1: if you could guarantee to me that Cam Newton was 1264 01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:03,760 Speaker 1: going to be healthy for sixteen games, I think I 1265 01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:05,840 Speaker 1: might pick the Patriots to just edge out the Bills. 1266 01:01:05,920 --> 01:01:08,920 Speaker 1: But when you're a quarterback who runs, who's a you know, 1267 01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:11,680 Speaker 1: a multidimensional quarterback like Cam, and you're coming off a 1268 01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:14,480 Speaker 1: Liz Frank injury or broken foot, and then the year 1269 01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:16,680 Speaker 1: before you had shoulder surgery, I mean, those are pretty 1270 01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:19,200 Speaker 1: much the two most important parts of your body when 1271 01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:22,600 Speaker 1: you're that guy. So expecting those two things to function, 1272 01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:24,760 Speaker 1: you know, close to one hundred percent or at one 1273 01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:27,200 Speaker 1: hundred percent or for sixteen games, to me is a 1274 01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:30,080 Speaker 1: tough tough ask. Let alone the fact that Cam Newton 1275 01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:32,880 Speaker 1: is just parachuting into the Patriots system. Now you're not 1276 01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:35,120 Speaker 1: that he's missed a whole lot with nobody doing any OTAs, 1277 01:01:35,200 --> 01:01:37,680 Speaker 1: but still, you know, he's got just the training camp 1278 01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:40,400 Speaker 1: basically to get up to speed. It's hard to imagine 1279 01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:42,800 Speaker 1: Cam Newton being you know, any semblance to Cam Newton 1280 01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:44,680 Speaker 1: for all sixteen games this year. So based on that, 1281 01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:46,480 Speaker 1: you know, get give me the Bills in front of 1282 01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:48,200 Speaker 1: the Patriots, but it's gonna be a good battle, and 1283 01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:50,000 Speaker 1: I think the whole division is pretty good. It wouldn't 1284 01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:52,240 Speaker 1: surprise me this year if the AFC East had the 1285 01:01:52,720 --> 01:01:55,760 Speaker 1: best last place team for what it's worth, and you know, 1286 01:01:55,840 --> 01:01:58,440 Speaker 1: you might get the first place team not being more 1287 01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:00,520 Speaker 1: than three games that had anybody else in the This year, 1288 01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:02,520 Speaker 1: I think it'll be, you know, fairly close. And I 1289 01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:06,320 Speaker 1: don't think there's a terrible team. Yeah, I kind of 1290 01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:08,560 Speaker 1: agree with that. The Jets, they've been quiet all offseason. 1291 01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:10,919 Speaker 1: They had a second year head coach now coming into 1292 01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:14,640 Speaker 1: this season with Adam Gase. He's he was hired to 1293 01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:17,000 Speaker 1: elevate Sam Darnold. But I don't know what the Jets 1294 01:02:17,080 --> 01:02:21,400 Speaker 1: have done a lot of helping Darneld with their roster. C. J. 1295 01:02:21,600 --> 01:02:26,000 Speaker 1: Mosley is certainly a huge, huge get for them. Give 1296 01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:27,960 Speaker 1: us your opinion about the Jets, what they're doing and 1297 01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:31,360 Speaker 1: what they look like coming into this season. Yeah. A 1298 01:02:31,360 --> 01:02:33,080 Speaker 1: couple things that keep in mind about the Jets is that, 1299 01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:35,320 Speaker 1: you know, according to a couple of different metrics, they 1300 01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:38,280 Speaker 1: were historically one of the worst injured teams last year, 1301 01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:40,640 Speaker 1: not just last year, like ever. They had the most 1302 01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:43,600 Speaker 1: games lost injury ever, so they're gonna benefit a little 1303 01:02:43,600 --> 01:02:47,080 Speaker 1: bit there. And you know, defensively, I think Greg Williams, 1304 01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:48,920 Speaker 1: as much as he's kind of maybe a little bit 1305 01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:51,400 Speaker 1: looney m he does do a good job coaching at defense. 1306 01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:53,560 Speaker 1: And they've got some good players, you know, depending even 1307 01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:55,520 Speaker 1: if Jamal Adams is not a part of it. C J. 1308 01:02:55,680 --> 01:02:57,960 Speaker 1: Mosley is that and they've got enough pieces to be 1309 01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:00,880 Speaker 1: you know, certainly above average on defense. But I think 1310 01:03:01,200 --> 01:03:02,800 Speaker 1: what you look at the Jets and when you compare 1311 01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:05,000 Speaker 1: it to the Bills. He remember two years ago, these 1312 01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:07,120 Speaker 1: were both teams, you know, four picks apart from the 1313 01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:10,160 Speaker 1: draft that found their franchise quarterback. And you look what 1314 01:03:10,200 --> 01:03:12,800 Speaker 1: the Bills did with Josh Allen. They built around him, 1315 01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:15,080 Speaker 1: They gave him a really good defense, they'd given him, 1316 01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:17,520 Speaker 1: you know, they'd gradually built up the pieces around him 1317 01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:19,920 Speaker 1: on offense, and now you know he's in charge of 1318 01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:22,360 Speaker 1: one of, you know, arguably maybe the best roster in 1319 01:03:22,360 --> 01:03:24,640 Speaker 1: the NFL. Whereas what the Jets I think thought they 1320 01:03:24,680 --> 01:03:27,080 Speaker 1: were going to do is bringing an offensive mastermind, a 1321 01:03:27,160 --> 01:03:29,960 Speaker 1: quarterback guru, and just make a quarterback good. Let the 1322 01:03:30,040 --> 01:03:32,400 Speaker 1: quarterback lift everything else up, and it's so far, you know, 1323 01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:35,320 Speaker 1: fallen flat. It is exploded in their face. Now. I 1324 01:03:35,480 --> 01:03:37,640 Speaker 1: like Joe Douglas, the new GM. I think he did 1325 01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:40,160 Speaker 1: a pretty good job in the draft. He's finally starting 1326 01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:43,160 Speaker 1: to you know, did a huge makeover in the offensive line. 1327 01:03:43,240 --> 01:03:45,080 Speaker 1: I don't know how good all those pieces are, but 1328 01:03:45,480 --> 01:03:47,600 Speaker 1: you know, all different is exactly what the Jets had 1329 01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:49,400 Speaker 1: to do. They added a couple of you know, a 1330 01:03:49,480 --> 01:03:52,000 Speaker 1: couple receivers who could you know, maybe break out. But 1331 01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:54,120 Speaker 1: I think the GM has them headed in the right direction, 1332 01:03:54,320 --> 01:03:56,240 Speaker 1: and they're starting to understand that you can't just have 1333 01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:58,960 Speaker 1: a quarterback and lift everything else up unless you get 1334 01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:01,120 Speaker 1: that one that Patrick the homes of the Aaron Rodgers. 1335 01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:03,320 Speaker 1: But they're still, you know, a year, year and a 1336 01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:06,280 Speaker 1: half maybe two behind where the Bills are. And I 1337 01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:09,000 Speaker 1: have my significant doubts about whether the Jets will ever 1338 01:04:09,120 --> 01:04:12,360 Speaker 1: be anything with Adam Gayson or head coach. We're talking 1339 01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:15,480 Speaker 1: with that Brown w ro OC Rochester TV sports director. 1340 01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:17,760 Speaker 1: What about the Dolphins? Now, they were a clear cut 1341 01:04:18,840 --> 01:04:22,000 Speaker 1: much better this offseason than they were a year ago. 1342 01:04:22,160 --> 01:04:24,240 Speaker 1: They have they have acquired a lot of draft picks. 1343 01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:26,400 Speaker 1: They've got some guys on their roster that seemed like 1344 01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:29,960 Speaker 1: they can really compete. They drafted toa he'll be able 1345 01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:31,919 Speaker 1: to watch and learn from one of the all time 1346 01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:35,000 Speaker 1: great quarterback guys to be in the locker room, and 1347 01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:38,120 Speaker 1: that's Ryan Fitzpatrick. We all know him. And also they've 1348 01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:40,520 Speaker 1: got a new offensive coordinator, Chan Gailey, who was the 1349 01:04:40,600 --> 01:04:43,680 Speaker 1: head coach of the Bills in the not too distant past. 1350 01:04:43,800 --> 01:04:46,080 Speaker 1: So they've got a lot of new parts and a 1351 01:04:46,120 --> 01:04:49,000 Speaker 1: lot of moving parts. But the Dolphins are clearly better 1352 01:04:49,080 --> 01:04:53,120 Speaker 1: than they were a month a year ago. Well, you 1353 01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:54,840 Speaker 1: know what, they're better than they were a year ago. 1354 01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:57,160 Speaker 1: If you're talking about twelve months, you know, then they 1355 01:04:57,200 --> 01:05:00,200 Speaker 1: were in September, by November December last year. You know, 1356 01:05:00,400 --> 01:05:02,640 Speaker 1: they won't like what five of the last ten eleven games, 1357 01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:04,440 Speaker 1: and they weren't. They weren't terrible about the end of 1358 01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:06,760 Speaker 1: the year. And to me, that's the credit to Brian Flores. 1359 01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:09,280 Speaker 1: You know who is I mean, he's the third best 1360 01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:11,360 Speaker 1: coach in this division only because it's with Sean McDermot 1361 01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:13,080 Speaker 1: and Bill Belichick. I think he's got a pretty good 1362 01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:16,120 Speaker 1: future as a head coach. That team is I think 1363 01:05:16,600 --> 01:05:18,680 Speaker 1: good defensively, not great. I don't see a lot of 1364 01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:21,560 Speaker 1: standout players, but I think they're you know, pretty competent 1365 01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:24,200 Speaker 1: across the board when it comes to defense. And the 1366 01:05:24,320 --> 01:05:26,320 Speaker 1: thing with Miami is, you know, like I said before, 1367 01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:29,440 Speaker 1: with the Jets attitude and the Bill's attitude when it 1368 01:05:29,480 --> 01:05:32,720 Speaker 1: comes to quarterback, if Tua happens to be one of 1369 01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:36,120 Speaker 1: those generational those Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers type guys, or maybe 1370 01:05:36,160 --> 01:05:39,080 Speaker 1: even ninety percent of it, they could be really dangerous 1371 01:05:39,120 --> 01:05:42,040 Speaker 1: because a super quarterback in that defense, you know, might 1372 01:05:42,160 --> 01:05:45,120 Speaker 1: be enough, especially in a league now where seven teams 1373 01:05:45,160 --> 01:05:47,440 Speaker 1: make the playoffs in each conference for them to be, 1374 01:05:47,680 --> 01:05:50,160 Speaker 1: you know, a playoff contending team. I still think they're 1375 01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:52,560 Speaker 1: probably the fourth best team in this division. You know, 1376 01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:54,680 Speaker 1: maybe the Jets are. You can argue both ways, but 1377 01:05:55,080 --> 01:05:57,480 Speaker 1: there's no doubt the Dolphins have made you know, good 1378 01:05:57,520 --> 01:05:59,440 Speaker 1: strides and and you know, when you think about the 1379 01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:03,000 Speaker 1: Bills longer term future, this year, for sure, it's still 1380 01:06:03,080 --> 01:06:05,280 Speaker 1: New England as the team to beat, but we might 1381 01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:08,040 Speaker 1: not be that far away from a long term rivalry 1382 01:06:08,080 --> 01:06:10,680 Speaker 1: with Miami. Maybe, you know, he talked seasons twenty one, 1383 01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:13,760 Speaker 1: twenty two, and twenty twenty three where the Dolphins are 1384 01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:16,959 Speaker 1: the chief problem for the Buffalo in this division. Last 1385 01:06:17,040 --> 01:06:21,160 Speaker 1: question for me, Thad, Patrick Mahomes signed a record breaking deal, 1386 01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:23,560 Speaker 1: a ten year deal. It kicks in in two years 1387 01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:27,360 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, twenty two. I guess, what are 1388 01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:31,360 Speaker 1: your thoughts about what the Mahomes deal means. A lot 1389 01:06:31,400 --> 01:06:34,200 Speaker 1: of people have given it kudos for being team friendly. 1390 01:06:34,920 --> 01:06:36,960 Speaker 1: Hard to say that when the guy's gonna make you know, 1391 01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:39,480 Speaker 1: four hundred and maybe five hundred million bucks out of 1392 01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:42,080 Speaker 1: the deal. But nevertheless, Patrick Mahomes signs the deal, it's 1393 01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:44,200 Speaker 1: hard to believe there's a guy out there who deserved 1394 01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:47,560 Speaker 1: it more than he did. MVP of the League, Super Bowl, 1395 01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:50,200 Speaker 1: MVP in two consecutive years. What do you think about 1396 01:06:50,240 --> 01:06:53,400 Speaker 1: the Mahomes deal? What's it mean for teams around the 1397 01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:57,320 Speaker 1: league and for the Chiefs? But first I thought it 1398 01:06:57,480 --> 01:06:59,800 Speaker 1: was a good deal both ways. You know, Mahomes got 1399 01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:02,080 Speaker 1: you know a lot of money. Even I went through 1400 01:07:02,120 --> 01:07:04,280 Speaker 1: and did some math trying to you know, project, Okay, 1401 01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:06,400 Speaker 1: what will the salary cap be in like twenty twenty five, 1402 01:07:06,520 --> 01:07:09,680 Speaker 1: and what will his salary be percentage wise? Blah blah blah, 1403 01:07:09,880 --> 01:07:12,760 Speaker 1: And he's still gonna be probably top three, top four, 1404 01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:16,240 Speaker 1: top five in the league salary wise, no matter what 1405 01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:18,480 Speaker 1: the cap, you know, even when the cap goes up 1406 01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:21,000 Speaker 1: in the future, you know, five, six, seven, eight years 1407 01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:23,400 Speaker 1: down the road. So you know, he didn't take a 1408 01:07:23,520 --> 01:07:26,000 Speaker 1: sweetheart deal. He didn't take a hometown discount of that stuff. 1409 01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:27,680 Speaker 1: You know, the team is still gonna be paying him, 1410 01:07:27,920 --> 01:07:29,480 Speaker 1: you know, like he's one of the best quarterbacks in 1411 01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:31,320 Speaker 1: the league. But I don't think they're gonna be overpaying 1412 01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:33,080 Speaker 1: them either. I don't think it's gonna be the kind 1413 01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:36,880 Speaker 1: of thing that just destroys what they do outside of 1414 01:07:37,040 --> 01:07:39,680 Speaker 1: a quarterback on their roster. It'll be hamstrun for sure, 1415 01:07:40,080 --> 01:07:42,640 Speaker 1: but it's I think it's a pretty fair deal both ways. 1416 01:07:43,200 --> 01:07:44,440 Speaker 1: But what it means the rest of the league, I 1417 01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:46,439 Speaker 1: don't know if it means anything. I just can't see 1418 01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:51,040 Speaker 1: this situation being you know, used as a barometer or 1419 01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:53,920 Speaker 1: something to negotiate off of, because you know, you've got 1420 01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:56,600 Speaker 1: a quarterback that, first of all, in his first full 1421 01:07:56,680 --> 01:07:59,800 Speaker 1: year as a starter, he won the MVP and came 1422 01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:02,520 Speaker 1: arguably a coin foot away from winning a Super Bowl. 1423 01:08:02,640 --> 01:08:04,080 Speaker 1: And then the next year, who won a Super Bowl? 1424 01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:08,080 Speaker 1: So how many quarterbacks repeat that kind of production? In addition, 1425 01:08:08,280 --> 01:08:10,400 Speaker 1: how many quarterbacks get dropped into the kind of situation 1426 01:08:10,520 --> 01:08:14,760 Speaker 1: he's in. Good GM, great offensive head coach, super talent 1427 01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:17,320 Speaker 1: around him, with the receivers and you know, tight ends especially. 1428 01:08:17,600 --> 01:08:20,240 Speaker 1: I mean, this is not a situation that comes along 1429 01:08:20,360 --> 01:08:22,840 Speaker 1: maybe ever and maybe ever will come come along again. 1430 01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:25,920 Speaker 1: So I don't think that you're going to see a 1431 01:08:26,160 --> 01:08:28,639 Speaker 1: player who wants to commit that long. Like the argument 1432 01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:30,479 Speaker 1: has been made, well, maybe you could sign Russell Wilson 1433 01:08:30,600 --> 01:08:33,280 Speaker 1: that contract. If you're Russell Wilson getting your head bashed 1434 01:08:33,360 --> 01:08:35,240 Speaker 1: in behind one of the worst offensive lines in the 1435 01:08:35,360 --> 01:08:37,639 Speaker 1: league for the last ten years, why on God's greener 1436 01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:39,880 Speaker 1: are you signing for ten more years of that? You know, 1437 01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:41,599 Speaker 1: So it's got to be able to go both ways 1438 01:08:41,920 --> 01:08:44,200 Speaker 1: to lock up a guy for ten years. And I 1439 01:08:44,320 --> 01:08:46,559 Speaker 1: just don't see where that situation comes up. I mean, 1440 01:08:47,160 --> 01:08:50,960 Speaker 1: this is the perfect storm of a quarterback, you know, 1441 01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:55,280 Speaker 1: in terms of youth, situation, success, talent around him, and 1442 01:08:55,400 --> 01:08:57,479 Speaker 1: I mean everything has worked out perfect for this and 1443 01:08:57,640 --> 01:09:00,600 Speaker 1: it's not going to happen again. Thanks for this, we 1444 01:09:00,640 --> 01:09:04,759 Speaker 1: appreciate it. Good luck enduring the rest of the pandemic. 1445 01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:08,000 Speaker 1: We'll look forward to seeing you in the fall. Hey, 1446 01:09:08,080 --> 01:09:09,599 Speaker 1: sounds good. Guys. I hope I do get to see 1447 01:09:09,640 --> 01:09:12,360 Speaker 1: you guys doing the flue all right. Thad Brown w 1448 01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:15,559 Speaker 1: ROC sports director in Rochester and his thoughts on what's 1449 01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:17,360 Speaker 1: going on with the training camp and his thoughts about 1450 01:09:17,360 --> 01:09:19,400 Speaker 1: the Bills and the AFC East. We've got more Steve 1451 01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:21,960 Speaker 1: Tasker Luke Tasker here till three o'clock one Bills Live 1452 01:09:22,040 --> 01:09:30,120 Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health on Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back 1453 01:09:30,160 --> 01:09:32,240 Speaker 1: to one of Bill's Live. Steve Tasker and Luke Tasker 1454 01:09:32,360 --> 01:09:35,799 Speaker 1: here today until three o'clock. Luke filling in for Mattie Glavis. 1455 01:09:35,880 --> 01:09:38,479 Speaker 1: She's on a project for the Buffalo Bills, Buffalo savers. 1456 01:09:38,520 --> 01:09:40,519 Speaker 1: A lot going on. We just had Thad Brown of 1457 01:09:40,680 --> 01:09:44,479 Speaker 1: w R OCTVS of Rochester sports director. They're talking about 1458 01:09:44,640 --> 01:09:47,080 Speaker 1: the AFC East and some of the stories going around 1459 01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:50,200 Speaker 1: the preseason. What's going to be like for everybody taking 1460 01:09:50,240 --> 01:09:53,360 Speaker 1: in football this year? And we also have this question 1461 01:09:53,479 --> 01:09:56,280 Speaker 1: put to you, the most intriguing opponent on the Bills 1462 01:09:57,479 --> 01:10:01,680 Speaker 1: schedule twenty twenty schedule and why? And we've got a 1463 01:10:01,840 --> 01:10:05,720 Speaker 1: tweet coming in from I believe Tiffany on the tweet sheet. 1464 01:10:05,800 --> 01:10:08,920 Speaker 1: Luke's Tiffany, how about the Cardinals with a young, mobile, 1465 01:10:09,280 --> 01:10:13,120 Speaker 1: exciting quarterback Tyler Murray. They add a stud in DeAndre Hopkins. 1466 01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:15,200 Speaker 1: The playoff match up between him and Trey was dynamic. 1467 01:10:15,360 --> 01:10:18,240 Speaker 1: My favorite, Jordan Phillips joined the Cards defense. I have 1468 01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:20,599 Speaker 1: a feeling he'll be fired up for this game. Could 1469 01:10:20,600 --> 01:10:23,880 Speaker 1: be a shootout. Yeah, I don't know if anybody's going 1470 01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:25,760 Speaker 1: to get into shootout with the Bills, though, I mean, 1471 01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:27,720 Speaker 1: I understand what she says. I think it's gonna be 1472 01:10:27,760 --> 01:10:29,839 Speaker 1: a good game, and I think I do like the Cardinals. 1473 01:10:29,880 --> 01:10:31,479 Speaker 1: I like the way they've improved. I like I think, 1474 01:10:31,520 --> 01:10:33,960 Speaker 1: and I think they're gonna be much improved in their 1475 01:10:34,040 --> 01:10:37,519 Speaker 1: second year under their new head coach. But you're not 1476 01:10:37,760 --> 01:10:40,719 Speaker 1: gonna get into a shootout with the Buffalo Bills because 1477 01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:43,000 Speaker 1: the Bills will take away your bullets. Their defense is 1478 01:10:43,040 --> 01:10:45,160 Speaker 1: just too good, you know. I just don't think it's 1479 01:10:45,160 --> 01:10:46,720 Speaker 1: gonna be I don't think anybody's gonna be able to 1480 01:10:46,760 --> 01:10:49,960 Speaker 1: score add will on this defense. So well, we'll see 1481 01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:52,760 Speaker 1: good answer the Cards will be. That'll be exciting. The 1482 01:10:53,720 --> 01:10:56,360 Speaker 1: good variety of answers to our Twitter question. Yeah, we've 1483 01:10:56,400 --> 01:10:58,519 Speaker 1: got this from NATO. Also from the tweet sheet. The 1484 01:10:58,560 --> 01:11:02,960 Speaker 1: most intriguing opponent's Nate is kind of straddling the fence 1485 01:11:03,040 --> 01:11:06,040 Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers, Patriots, Jets, Chiefs, Miami and the Rams. 1486 01:11:07,360 --> 01:11:09,479 Speaker 1: It's a tough schedule and you can't count in any 1487 01:11:09,520 --> 01:11:11,599 Speaker 1: of you can't out count out any of these teams. 1488 01:11:11,680 --> 01:11:14,200 Speaker 1: That's one of the things about football. I know you 1489 01:11:14,720 --> 01:11:16,920 Speaker 1: probably saw this in your career in CFL. I know 1490 01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:19,639 Speaker 1: I've experienced it as a broadcaster and also as a player. 1491 01:11:20,720 --> 01:11:22,840 Speaker 1: From one year to the next year, team could be better, 1492 01:11:22,960 --> 01:11:25,240 Speaker 1: you could have better players, you could execute better, you 1493 01:11:25,320 --> 01:11:28,360 Speaker 1: could have a better chemistry, the locker room could be tighter, 1494 01:11:29,479 --> 01:11:33,400 Speaker 1: even have better coaches, whatever, whatever. But if your schedule 1495 01:11:33,520 --> 01:11:36,160 Speaker 1: is more difficult, you end up winning just as many 1496 01:11:36,240 --> 01:11:39,000 Speaker 1: games you did when you were worse, or even fewer 1497 01:11:39,080 --> 01:11:41,000 Speaker 1: games than you did when you were worse, because of 1498 01:11:41,040 --> 01:11:44,000 Speaker 1: the quality of the opponents you're facing. That happens to 1499 01:11:44,080 --> 01:11:45,479 Speaker 1: a lot of teams I think that are on the 1500 01:11:45,600 --> 01:11:48,120 Speaker 1: rise or about to be on the rise, or maybe 1501 01:11:48,240 --> 01:11:50,720 Speaker 1: trying to rebuild it. They can get better in a 1502 01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:53,360 Speaker 1: year or lose more games because they're just playing a 1503 01:11:53,400 --> 01:11:58,639 Speaker 1: different division out of conference, and yah, yeah, the CFL 1504 01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:01,600 Speaker 1: is actually is just totally different because we play the 1505 01:12:01,640 --> 01:12:04,000 Speaker 1: same He's played the same eight opponents twice or three 1506 01:12:04,040 --> 01:12:06,000 Speaker 1: times every season. But what I will say is that 1507 01:12:07,320 --> 01:12:10,240 Speaker 1: we found that one year contracts got got added in, 1508 01:12:10,400 --> 01:12:12,600 Speaker 1: got added in as an option for free agents in 1509 01:12:12,640 --> 01:12:15,000 Speaker 1: the middle of my career in the CFL, and and 1510 01:12:15,320 --> 01:12:17,920 Speaker 1: that changed everything. You couldn't count on a team looking 1511 01:12:18,040 --> 01:12:20,880 Speaker 1: like they did the previous season, either whether whether they 1512 01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:23,760 Speaker 1: struggled or whether they were good, because there's just such 1513 01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:28,080 Speaker 1: a high turnover every year in free agency and and 1514 01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:31,960 Speaker 1: things just shift each time. It's it's a unique difference there. 1515 01:12:32,280 --> 01:12:34,760 Speaker 1: And I think most of the intriguing matchups too, for me, 1516 01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:37,920 Speaker 1: are always going to be on the road. Um, you know, 1517 01:12:38,600 --> 01:12:41,120 Speaker 1: obviously you go to Miami all the time. But Vegas 1518 01:12:41,240 --> 01:12:44,880 Speaker 1: this year, Tennessee this year, Arizona this year, San Francisco 1519 01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:49,200 Speaker 1: this year, and Denver this year along with the along 1520 01:12:49,280 --> 01:12:55,000 Speaker 1: with the division opponents, but in Denver, in Arizona, in Vegas, 1521 01:12:55,200 --> 01:12:58,000 Speaker 1: three West Coast teams were Western teams that you're going 1522 01:12:58,040 --> 01:13:00,599 Speaker 1: to head out too. And then of course Tennessee UH 1523 01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:05,040 Speaker 1: and UH uh the other and New England and Denver 1524 01:13:05,160 --> 01:13:09,080 Speaker 1: as well, all these West teams. It's it's hard, it's 1525 01:13:09,120 --> 01:13:11,200 Speaker 1: easier for a team for like Buffalo to go west 1526 01:13:11,560 --> 01:13:14,280 Speaker 1: because of the time change is beneficial to them, not 1527 01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:17,479 Speaker 1: not detrimental. And it's harder for teams to come east. 1528 01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:22,000 Speaker 1: So you know, the Rams and Seattle may struggle uh 1529 01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:24,960 Speaker 1: as well as h as the Chargers may struggle to 1530 01:13:25,040 --> 01:13:28,280 Speaker 1: come east, particularly for a one o'clock game in the afternoon, uh, 1531 01:13:28,640 --> 01:13:31,080 Speaker 1: in a in a city like Buffalo. So I um, 1532 01:13:31,280 --> 01:13:33,720 Speaker 1: I think the road games really hold more intrigue for 1533 01:13:33,840 --> 01:13:38,599 Speaker 1: me than than than the the home games. You're right, 1534 01:13:38,680 --> 01:13:40,439 Speaker 1: the U. I kind of keep going back to what 1535 01:13:40,520 --> 01:13:44,080 Speaker 1: Seth tweeted earlier because I think that away San Francisco 1536 01:13:44,160 --> 01:13:47,439 Speaker 1: Monday night game at a real pivotal point in the season, 1537 01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:50,680 Speaker 1: usually when we're when things are still being figured out. 1538 01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:53,040 Speaker 1: It's a fourth Pola, it's a twelfth game. Yeah, to 1539 01:13:53,080 --> 01:13:54,360 Speaker 1: go all the way out there, and if we were 1540 01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:57,360 Speaker 1: to win that Monday night game, uh way out west. 1541 01:13:57,640 --> 01:13:59,960 Speaker 1: I mean that, especially at that time of the season, 1542 01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:02,280 Speaker 1: that that could turn out huge. Yeah, you've got two 1543 01:14:02,680 --> 01:14:04,760 Speaker 1: two you got two Monday night games in a month 1544 01:14:04,840 --> 01:14:07,560 Speaker 1: and a Sunday night game in the same month with 1545 01:14:07,800 --> 01:14:11,240 Speaker 1: the with the Denver game probably gonna be moved to 1546 01:14:11,479 --> 01:14:15,519 Speaker 1: a Saturday four fifteen game. That kind of thing. So 1547 01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:19,679 Speaker 1: the Bills could be on primetime television four straight weeks. 1548 01:14:19,840 --> 01:14:22,920 Speaker 1: What if you say Saturday at four as a primetime game. 1549 01:14:23,520 --> 01:14:26,160 Speaker 1: It's that's a big stretch. And if you start out 1550 01:14:26,240 --> 01:14:28,720 Speaker 1: at San Francisco and win that Monday night game, man 1551 01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:31,000 Speaker 1: oh man, I think I think that changes everything. And 1552 01:14:31,160 --> 01:14:33,840 Speaker 1: obviously you got to do your do the part in 1553 01:14:33,960 --> 01:14:36,360 Speaker 1: the eleven weeks before that as well. You can't show 1554 01:14:36,439 --> 01:14:39,160 Speaker 1: up there one and ten and expect anybody to care. 1555 01:14:39,520 --> 01:14:44,519 Speaker 1: But I agree that that the that stretch at San 1556 01:14:44,600 --> 01:14:47,280 Speaker 1: Francisco home against Pittsburgh, then you go to Denver and 1557 01:14:47,320 --> 01:14:50,760 Speaker 1: then you go to New England. Um, yeah, that's that's 1558 01:14:50,800 --> 01:14:53,080 Speaker 1: the make or break stretch right there, because you're gonna 1559 01:14:53,120 --> 01:14:55,639 Speaker 1: know who you are and you're gonna have those three 1560 01:14:55,760 --> 01:14:58,080 Speaker 1: or four team four teams that you're gonna have to 1561 01:14:58,160 --> 01:15:01,240 Speaker 1: plow through to get to the playoffs. And that's the 1562 01:15:01,320 --> 01:15:03,640 Speaker 1: beginning of that stretch. So I kind of agree with 1563 01:15:03,760 --> 01:15:07,360 Speaker 1: that as well. That's right, you're ready. This is something 1564 01:15:07,439 --> 01:15:08,800 Speaker 1: I don't know if we've done this with you on 1565 01:15:08,880 --> 01:15:11,080 Speaker 1: the show yet or not. We call it What's for Lunch. 1566 01:15:11,160 --> 01:15:13,880 Speaker 1: It's where we give you a couple of choices, and 1567 01:15:14,240 --> 01:15:16,280 Speaker 1: it's not like a true false or anything like that. 1568 01:15:16,360 --> 01:15:18,320 Speaker 1: It's like if if it was a menu for lunch, 1569 01:15:18,360 --> 01:15:21,200 Speaker 1: you're gonna grab that and have that for lunch and 1570 01:15:21,320 --> 01:15:22,920 Speaker 1: leave the other one on the menu. So you swenty 1571 01:15:23,080 --> 01:15:24,519 Speaker 1: you might like both of them, but you can only 1572 01:15:24,560 --> 01:15:27,320 Speaker 1: pick one. Right, You're ready for that? Yeah, let's go, 1573 01:15:27,720 --> 01:15:30,000 Speaker 1: all right, what's for lunch? Here we go, Here we go. 1574 01:15:30,240 --> 01:15:33,160 Speaker 1: This is a good one. Dak Prescott or Patrick Mahomes 1575 01:15:33,200 --> 01:15:35,320 Speaker 1: are going to lead the NFL in passing yards in 1576 01:15:35,400 --> 01:15:39,320 Speaker 1: twenty twenty. So Dak Prescott I think is that it's 1577 01:15:39,360 --> 01:15:42,680 Speaker 1: coming down to crunch time to get a contract figured out, right, right, 1578 01:15:42,760 --> 01:15:44,519 Speaker 1: He's got like a week to get that done in 1579 01:15:44,760 --> 01:15:48,080 Speaker 1: and he's got to sign. He signed, he signed his tender. 1580 01:15:48,560 --> 01:15:50,720 Speaker 1: They don't have a deadline, but if they're gonna do it, 1581 01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:52,280 Speaker 1: they gotta do it by this week. Do you think 1582 01:15:52,280 --> 01:15:54,000 Speaker 1: they'll get it done now the Mahomes has signed that 1583 01:15:54,120 --> 01:15:57,000 Speaker 1: mega deal. I kind of think so. But but for this, 1584 01:15:57,200 --> 01:15:59,439 Speaker 1: but for our question here, I do think Patrick Mahomes 1585 01:16:00,120 --> 01:16:04,519 Speaker 1: is gonna he's gonna have another another outstanding year. Yeah, 1586 01:16:04,680 --> 01:16:07,040 Speaker 1: I kind of think so too. What about Dak Dak 1587 01:16:07,520 --> 01:16:09,360 Speaker 1: in the midst of a rough season last year. He 1588 01:16:09,479 --> 01:16:12,479 Speaker 1: had his best statistical year as a quarterback last year. Yeah, 1589 01:16:12,520 --> 01:16:15,599 Speaker 1: that's interesting. But here's the thing that both those clubs, 1590 01:16:15,960 --> 01:16:18,599 Speaker 1: not both those clubs. Dak Prescott's got a new head coach, right, 1591 01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:25,479 Speaker 1: So because you know, um so the cow in this 1592 01:16:25,600 --> 01:16:27,720 Speaker 1: soft season, I don't know how he's gonna how he's 1593 01:16:27,720 --> 01:16:32,559 Speaker 1: gonna fair with a new head coach, new offense, everything 1594 01:16:32,960 --> 01:16:35,240 Speaker 1: you know, being brand spanking new for Dak Prescott. I 1595 01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:37,320 Speaker 1: think you got a better chance with Patrick Mahomes. And 1596 01:16:37,360 --> 01:16:39,240 Speaker 1: it's easy to say that he was the Super Bowl 1597 01:16:39,360 --> 01:16:41,680 Speaker 1: MVP in two years ago. He's the MVP. But Dak 1598 01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:43,880 Speaker 1: Prescott's coming off his best year ever as a thrower, 1599 01:16:43,960 --> 01:16:46,240 Speaker 1: So there is that. I'm gonna take Patrick Mahomes too, 1600 01:16:46,880 --> 01:16:50,160 Speaker 1: just because it's more dependable. It's like going to a 1601 01:16:50,240 --> 01:16:51,800 Speaker 1: fast food store. Do you go to the one that 1602 01:16:51,880 --> 01:16:53,400 Speaker 1: you know what you're gonna get, or you go to 1603 01:16:53,479 --> 01:16:55,560 Speaker 1: the local place that you don't know anything about. The 1604 01:16:55,640 --> 01:16:58,920 Speaker 1: local place probably has better food, but the fast food place, 1605 01:16:58,960 --> 01:17:01,360 Speaker 1: you're not taking a risk. You know exactly what you're getting, right. 1606 01:17:01,680 --> 01:17:04,160 Speaker 1: I think that's what Mahomes is, right, Yeah, there's more 1607 01:17:04,240 --> 01:17:07,320 Speaker 1: unknowns in Dallas right now, I think than than what 1608 01:17:08,240 --> 01:17:10,840 Speaker 1: Mahomes has to deal with in Kansas City. All right, Second, 1609 01:17:10,920 --> 01:17:13,000 Speaker 1: all right, Second thing on the menu. Sa Quon Barkley 1610 01:17:13,080 --> 01:17:15,120 Speaker 1: for the Giants or Christian McCaffrey, who just signed a 1611 01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:17,920 Speaker 1: mega deal for Carolina Panthers. One of those two is 1612 01:17:17,960 --> 01:17:19,960 Speaker 1: going to lead the league in rushing in twenty twenty 1613 01:17:20,080 --> 01:17:22,680 Speaker 1: or which one will lead the league in rushing? M 1614 01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:27,720 Speaker 1: what's your I think? I think Christian McCaffrey is the 1615 01:17:27,800 --> 01:17:30,680 Speaker 1: guy that is. I think they lean on him and 1616 01:17:30,920 --> 01:17:35,000 Speaker 1: more in Carolina, particularly now with without Cam Newton there 1617 01:17:35,640 --> 01:17:38,080 Speaker 1: um and with a younger quarterback. I think they're gonna 1618 01:17:38,160 --> 01:17:40,640 Speaker 1: lean on McCaffrey more than the Giants are gonna lean 1619 01:17:40,760 --> 01:17:43,360 Speaker 1: on uh, say Quan. That doesn't mean sa Quan isn't 1620 01:17:43,400 --> 01:17:45,400 Speaker 1: the engine that makes the Giants go. He is. Both 1621 01:17:45,479 --> 01:17:47,360 Speaker 1: these guys are crucial parts of it. But I don't 1622 01:17:47,400 --> 01:17:53,360 Speaker 1: think the Giants um use say Quon in so many 1623 01:17:53,400 --> 01:17:57,120 Speaker 1: different ways like the Carolina Panthers use Christian mccafy. McCaffrey 1624 01:17:57,200 --> 01:17:59,920 Speaker 1: could be their leading receiver and their leading rusher. I'm 1625 01:18:00,120 --> 01:18:02,760 Speaker 1: that guy's gonna get thirty touches a game, and say 1626 01:18:02,880 --> 01:18:05,120 Speaker 1: Quan is probably going to be used more traditionally, So 1627 01:18:05,200 --> 01:18:07,400 Speaker 1: I would say, even though that means sa Quon may 1628 01:18:07,439 --> 01:18:10,320 Speaker 1: get more carries, I think McCaffrey is probably going to 1629 01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:12,960 Speaker 1: be a bigger factor for the offense. But says, I 1630 01:18:13,040 --> 01:18:15,720 Speaker 1: just put it that way, right, And in terms of 1631 01:18:16,200 --> 01:18:18,400 Speaker 1: you know, rushing yards are all purpose, you know, yeah, 1632 01:18:18,520 --> 01:18:20,800 Speaker 1: all purposes, Christian mc I think rushing. If you're just 1633 01:18:20,840 --> 01:18:23,439 Speaker 1: gonna say rushing, I think you gotta be Quan. He 1634 01:18:23,560 --> 01:18:26,760 Speaker 1: might be right, maybe you are. They'll throw him the ball, 1635 01:18:26,880 --> 01:18:29,519 Speaker 1: but they're gonna hand it to him a ton. Yeah. 1636 01:18:29,800 --> 01:18:31,800 Speaker 1: So if one of those two guys gonna lead in rushing, 1637 01:18:31,840 --> 01:18:34,080 Speaker 1: I think it might be sa Quan. But Christian mccaffreel 1638 01:18:34,120 --> 01:18:36,599 Speaker 1: have way more yards from scrimmage than than say Quan 1639 01:18:36,680 --> 01:18:38,439 Speaker 1: will because of his ability to catch it and run 1640 01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:40,439 Speaker 1: with it after the catch. So that's why I'm saying, 1641 01:18:40,439 --> 01:18:43,160 Speaker 1: say Kuan will lead the league in rushing, although McCaffrey 1642 01:18:43,240 --> 01:18:45,880 Speaker 1: is going to have maybe a better year overall. That's 1643 01:18:45,960 --> 01:18:49,200 Speaker 1: my take this this this next one's interesting. Here is 1644 01:18:49,200 --> 01:18:51,280 Speaker 1: the player the player to come off injury to have 1645 01:18:51,360 --> 01:18:54,679 Speaker 1: a better twenty twenty season. Ben Roethlisberger or Cam Newton. 1646 01:18:55,080 --> 01:18:57,680 Speaker 1: That's a great question. It is. I just still have 1647 01:18:57,760 --> 01:19:00,360 Speaker 1: a big question mark with with Cam Newton. And we 1648 01:19:00,439 --> 01:19:04,400 Speaker 1: discussed this earlier, but it just seems like such a 1649 01:19:04,560 --> 01:19:08,120 Speaker 1: such an interesting or such a non traditional fit with 1650 01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:11,200 Speaker 1: a quarterback like that, right New England. So I I 1651 01:19:12,200 --> 01:19:14,920 Speaker 1: to me, it's a it is intriguing, it is. Oh, 1652 01:19:14,960 --> 01:19:17,479 Speaker 1: it's a it's a great question. You'd think Bill Belichick 1653 01:19:17,520 --> 01:19:19,280 Speaker 1: can get the best out of him, right, He's gonna 1654 01:19:19,280 --> 01:19:22,280 Speaker 1: give him stuff he can do really well. Yeah, But 1655 01:19:22,439 --> 01:19:25,599 Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger through two years ago through fifty almost fifty 1656 01:19:25,640 --> 01:19:28,880 Speaker 1: two yards, I mean he's you know, I mean Ben can, 1657 01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:32,120 Speaker 1: Ben can sling it like nobody else. But Cam Newton 1658 01:19:32,240 --> 01:19:34,759 Speaker 1: is like this atomic bomb. He's like the ultimate weapon. 1659 01:19:35,840 --> 01:19:38,880 Speaker 1: And Bill Belichick will probably have new and innovative ways 1660 01:19:38,920 --> 01:19:40,920 Speaker 1: to use him. So if you want to, if you 1661 01:19:40,960 --> 01:19:43,519 Speaker 1: want to take delve deeper into this, what what's a bet? 1662 01:19:43,640 --> 01:19:45,000 Speaker 1: What is a better season? Now? I mean if you 1663 01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:47,200 Speaker 1: want to talk about the Steelers to the to the 1664 01:19:47,280 --> 01:19:50,680 Speaker 1: Patriots or just their passing yards or quarterback rating. But 1665 01:19:50,760 --> 01:19:54,000 Speaker 1: if but as far as record goes, I almost am 1666 01:19:54,040 --> 01:19:56,800 Speaker 1: still tempted to say the Steelers here and Ben Roethlisberger. 1667 01:19:56,920 --> 01:20:00,600 Speaker 1: I just just sense maybe maybe a little bit of 1668 01:20:00,720 --> 01:20:03,439 Speaker 1: a of a of a year of rebirth for the 1669 01:20:03,520 --> 01:20:06,479 Speaker 1: Patriots trying to figure out they're new You know, you 1670 01:20:06,600 --> 01:20:11,040 Speaker 1: may be right. I'm I listen. I've always been a 1671 01:20:11,160 --> 01:20:14,120 Speaker 1: big fan of Ben's because of his ability. He's just 1672 01:20:14,840 --> 01:20:18,200 Speaker 1: such a different kind of guy. But Cam Newton, M 1673 01:20:18,400 --> 01:20:21,760 Speaker 1: I kind of agree with you on this. Cam Newton's 1674 01:20:22,320 --> 01:20:24,880 Speaker 1: doesn't have as good a roster around him, as as 1675 01:20:24,960 --> 01:20:28,280 Speaker 1: much continuity around him as Ben Roethlisberger. Now, certainly Bill 1676 01:20:28,320 --> 01:20:33,720 Speaker 1: Belichick and the New England roster is notorious for being maximized. 1677 01:20:34,760 --> 01:20:37,880 Speaker 1: And you know, I hate to sit here and say 1678 01:20:37,920 --> 01:20:40,200 Speaker 1: this as a you know, as a Bill's guy, to 1679 01:20:40,320 --> 01:20:42,840 Speaker 1: say that Cam Newton and Belichick's make for maybe a 1680 01:20:42,920 --> 01:20:46,639 Speaker 1: lethal combination, because I've said it. Cam Newton two years ago, 1681 01:20:46,800 --> 01:20:49,880 Speaker 1: three years ago was the atomic bomb. I mean, you 1682 01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:54,599 Speaker 1: couldn't there wasn't a bigger weapon offensive anywhere in the league. 1683 01:20:54,840 --> 01:20:57,840 Speaker 1: And if if Bill Belichick can tap into just any 1684 01:20:57,920 --> 01:21:02,240 Speaker 1: of that, they're gonna be tough to beat. So I 1685 01:21:02,400 --> 01:21:04,600 Speaker 1: think if you're gonna, if you're gonna, you made the 1686 01:21:04,720 --> 01:21:06,439 Speaker 1: right The crux of The question is who's gonna have 1687 01:21:06,520 --> 01:21:09,640 Speaker 1: a better, better player coming off injury to have a 1688 01:21:09,680 --> 01:21:11,960 Speaker 1: better twenty twenty season? Is a Ben or Cam? How 1689 01:21:11,960 --> 01:21:14,040 Speaker 1: are you gonna measure it by quarterback stats or by 1690 01:21:14,080 --> 01:21:18,840 Speaker 1: wins losses, or by biggest impact positive impact for their team? 1691 01:21:19,960 --> 01:21:22,880 Speaker 1: You know, and I there's a lot of different ways. 1692 01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:28,920 Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger. Yeah, I'm I'm gonna say, yeah, you know what, 1693 01:21:29,000 --> 01:21:31,560 Speaker 1: I'm gonna probably take Ben too, because they were This 1694 01:21:31,680 --> 01:21:34,000 Speaker 1: is a team that won twelve games last year with 1695 01:21:34,320 --> 01:21:37,160 Speaker 1: nobody playing around Tom Brady. So I'm gonna say Ben 1696 01:21:37,320 --> 01:21:41,640 Speaker 1: Roethlisberger as well. Um, because none of not too much 1697 01:21:41,680 --> 01:21:43,639 Speaker 1: of that has changed around Camp Newton. So I'm gonna 1698 01:21:43,640 --> 01:21:46,040 Speaker 1: say Ben Roethlisberger as well, because I think he's gonna 1699 01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:50,920 Speaker 1: make a big difference. Um, I'm gonna say better defensive coach. 1700 01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:54,400 Speaker 1: Here's the next item on the menu. One one more 1701 01:21:54,479 --> 01:21:56,880 Speaker 1: before we take a quick break. Who's a better defensive coach? 1702 01:21:56,960 --> 01:22:01,240 Speaker 1: Bill Belichick or Dick le Beau And remind, let me 1703 01:22:01,280 --> 01:22:03,000 Speaker 1: remind you only one of those guys in the Hall 1704 01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:07,360 Speaker 1: of Fame. It is tough. It is tough to grow 1705 01:22:07,439 --> 01:22:09,120 Speaker 1: up in the years of football that I grew up 1706 01:22:09,160 --> 01:22:11,240 Speaker 1: in and not say and not say Bill Belichick. But 1707 01:22:12,400 --> 01:22:15,519 Speaker 1: but it's interesting. It's interesting the last question that we 1708 01:22:15,600 --> 01:22:17,639 Speaker 1: had because it's gonna be I mean, we're talking about 1709 01:22:17,680 --> 01:22:20,240 Speaker 1: Bill Belichick and how he's gonna use Cam Newton. I mean, 1710 01:22:20,320 --> 01:22:25,720 Speaker 1: and he's a defensive minded coach the franchise and I 1711 01:22:25,800 --> 01:22:28,280 Speaker 1: know and so leaves. It's such so hard to talk 1712 01:22:28,320 --> 01:22:30,960 Speaker 1: about in Buffalo. But but I don't, I can't, I 1713 01:22:31,000 --> 01:22:34,559 Speaker 1: don't to me, to me, he is the top. Yeah, 1714 01:22:34,680 --> 01:22:37,559 Speaker 1: I would have to agree with that as well. Um. Uh, 1715 01:22:38,280 --> 01:22:42,599 Speaker 1: Bill Belichick may be the greatest head, greatest football coach ever. Um. Certainly, 1716 01:22:42,680 --> 01:22:46,679 Speaker 1: he's got the Super Bowl appearances and Super Bowl victories 1717 01:22:46,720 --> 01:22:48,680 Speaker 1: to prove it, plus not only as a head coach, 1718 01:22:48,720 --> 01:22:51,000 Speaker 1: but as an assistant coach and as a defensive coordinator 1719 01:22:51,040 --> 01:22:52,760 Speaker 1: all the way through his career. Now, Dick lebou was 1720 01:22:52,800 --> 01:22:56,000 Speaker 1: innovative and changed really the course of defenses in the 1721 01:22:56,080 --> 01:23:00,439 Speaker 1: National Football League. He was Um, he was ahead of 1722 01:23:00,520 --> 01:23:03,160 Speaker 1: the curve for many, many years and coached almost until 1723 01:23:03,200 --> 01:23:04,840 Speaker 1: he was eighty and is now in the Hall of 1724 01:23:04,880 --> 01:23:06,559 Speaker 1: Fame as an assistant coach. He is the only guy 1725 01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:08,800 Speaker 1: to be there for that reason. So he certainly got 1726 01:23:08,880 --> 01:23:10,800 Speaker 1: to tip your hat to him. And this is a 1727 01:23:10,880 --> 01:23:13,280 Speaker 1: matter of taste. It's like it really is like lunch. 1728 01:23:13,360 --> 01:23:15,280 Speaker 1: You might they might be great, but you might like 1729 01:23:15,439 --> 01:23:17,040 Speaker 1: one a little bit better than the other. But I 1730 01:23:17,080 --> 01:23:19,000 Speaker 1: got nothing but love and respect for Dick Lebo too. 1731 01:23:19,280 --> 01:23:21,360 Speaker 1: All right, Steve Tasker, Luke Tasker, we're back here. That 1732 01:23:21,439 --> 01:23:23,960 Speaker 1: was watching for lunch. We got naming Roosevelt if a 1733 01:23:24,040 --> 01:23:26,280 Speaker 1: former Saint Joe Grad you b grad coming up. We 1734 01:23:26,320 --> 01:23:28,600 Speaker 1: also have Drake on line one. We may get to 1735 01:23:28,760 --> 01:23:30,840 Speaker 1: Drake's phone call right after this break if he can 1736 01:23:30,880 --> 01:23:33,000 Speaker 1: stay on the line. Thanks Drake for calling. We'll be back. 1737 01:23:33,080 --> 01:23:35,080 Speaker 1: This is One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health on 1738 01:23:35,120 --> 01:23:46,679 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Steve Tasker, 1739 01:23:46,760 --> 01:23:50,479 Speaker 1: Luke Tasker, Luken for Maddie Glab who's on assignment with 1740 01:23:50,560 --> 01:23:53,559 Speaker 1: the Bills and the Sabers. We are asking the question 1741 01:23:54,000 --> 01:23:57,160 Speaker 1: what are the most intriguing opponent for the Buffalo Bills 1742 01:23:57,200 --> 01:23:59,559 Speaker 1: on their twenty twenty schedule. And we've got a caller 1743 01:23:59,600 --> 01:24:01,800 Speaker 1: on the line and Drake online one. Go ahead, Drake 1744 01:24:01,840 --> 01:24:03,479 Speaker 1: here on with Steve and Luke. What's on your mind? 1745 01:24:04,240 --> 01:24:07,080 Speaker 1: How you doing guys, thanks for having me on, Thanks 1746 01:24:07,120 --> 01:24:10,320 Speaker 1: for holding I appreciate it. Go ahead, no problem. So 1747 01:24:11,640 --> 01:24:15,599 Speaker 1: the previous analyst that was on, did uh actually speak up? 1748 01:24:15,640 --> 01:24:17,759 Speaker 1: A stretch of four games I thought would be very interesting. 1749 01:24:17,800 --> 01:24:19,920 Speaker 1: But the one that's that I think talks to me 1750 01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:22,880 Speaker 1: the most is, you know, probably can to tity for 1751 01:24:22,960 --> 01:24:25,599 Speaker 1: a few reasons. One, I feel like Kansas City at 1752 01:24:25,680 --> 01:24:27,479 Speaker 1: that time will probably have, you know, the top three 1753 01:24:27,560 --> 01:24:30,080 Speaker 1: offense in the league, and Buffalo probably have a top 1754 01:24:30,200 --> 01:24:32,360 Speaker 1: three defensive league. So you're getting to see one of 1755 01:24:32,439 --> 01:24:35,519 Speaker 1: the best defenses against one of the best offenses. That's 1756 01:24:35,600 --> 01:24:37,840 Speaker 1: one aspect of the I find interesting. The other is 1757 01:24:37,920 --> 01:24:42,840 Speaker 1: you have the protege McDermot, you know, versus you know, 1758 01:24:43,320 --> 01:24:46,200 Speaker 1: the person who's mentored him obviously in Red. So I 1759 01:24:46,240 --> 01:24:48,080 Speaker 1: think that also is in one's an offensive mine and 1760 01:24:48,120 --> 01:24:50,240 Speaker 1: one's a defensive line. So that's also an interesting thing. 1761 01:24:50,720 --> 01:24:53,880 Speaker 1: And then the other part I thought that's also interesting 1762 01:24:54,080 --> 01:24:56,400 Speaker 1: is you both have on the other side of the 1763 01:24:56,479 --> 01:25:00,120 Speaker 1: ball a defense that's been improving in Kansas City an 1764 01:25:00,200 --> 01:25:02,920 Speaker 1: offense that's been improving in Buffalo. So it's I think 1765 01:25:02,960 --> 01:25:05,760 Speaker 1: it comes down to, you know, turnover battle. Who makes 1766 01:25:05,800 --> 01:25:08,120 Speaker 1: the fewest mistakes in the game, and it's really an 1767 01:25:08,160 --> 01:25:11,439 Speaker 1: opportunity to see if we really step up to the 1768 01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:14,280 Speaker 1: caliber that we're projected to be at this season. So 1769 01:25:14,400 --> 01:25:17,519 Speaker 1: that's why I find that came to be the most interesting. Yeah, Drake, 1770 01:25:17,600 --> 01:25:19,439 Speaker 1: thanks for the call. That's that's a really good take, 1771 01:25:19,479 --> 01:25:22,280 Speaker 1: because there's so many things about that Kansas City Buffalo 1772 01:25:22,439 --> 01:25:25,280 Speaker 1: game that are intriguing. It's going to be a Thursday 1773 01:25:25,360 --> 01:25:27,160 Speaker 1: night game, it's going to be a standalone everybody in 1774 01:25:27,200 --> 01:25:28,920 Speaker 1: the country is going to be watching it. And you're right, 1775 01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:32,240 Speaker 1: there's a lot of opposites there. One, you've got an 1776 01:25:32,320 --> 01:25:35,000 Speaker 1: offensive a team like the Kansas City Chiefs with so 1777 01:25:35,160 --> 01:25:38,120 Speaker 1: much speed that are so dynamic. They've got the former 1778 01:25:38,280 --> 01:25:41,840 Speaker 1: MVP and this current Super Bowl MVP at quarterback, the 1779 01:25:42,000 --> 01:25:44,280 Speaker 1: highest paid guy in the league who just signed this 1780 01:25:44,400 --> 01:25:48,040 Speaker 1: huge deal, playing against a team in Buffalo that's just 1781 01:25:48,120 --> 01:25:50,879 Speaker 1: the opposite. They've got this huge, this really strong defense, 1782 01:25:51,680 --> 01:25:53,880 Speaker 1: and they've got an offense that that kind of tries 1783 01:25:53,920 --> 01:25:55,920 Speaker 1: to do enough. They've got a quarterback that's young and 1784 01:25:56,040 --> 01:25:59,120 Speaker 1: developing that a lot of people have huge doubts about. 1785 01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:01,840 Speaker 1: So you've got one guy who's the MVP and a 1786 01:26:01,920 --> 01:26:04,599 Speaker 1: lot and a quarterback who's really still trying to convince people. 1787 01:26:04,840 --> 01:26:07,320 Speaker 1: You've got a head coach in Buffalo that is a 1788 01:26:07,439 --> 01:26:11,080 Speaker 1: defensive guy and who was mentored by the offensive guy 1789 01:26:11,200 --> 01:26:13,160 Speaker 1: that is the Kansas City head coach. There's a lot 1790 01:26:13,200 --> 01:26:15,919 Speaker 1: of opposites there that are gonna that are gonna conflict 1791 01:26:16,520 --> 01:26:18,519 Speaker 1: on that Thursday night game against Kansas City. And I 1792 01:26:18,600 --> 01:26:21,080 Speaker 1: think that is I mean, I don't know what you think, Luke, 1793 01:26:21,160 --> 01:26:24,280 Speaker 1: but I think that that's a really good um analysis 1794 01:26:24,400 --> 01:26:26,800 Speaker 1: by Drake because there's you know, yeah, of course, and 1795 01:26:26,920 --> 01:26:29,240 Speaker 1: Kansas City is the team that it's just so happens, 1796 01:26:29,320 --> 01:26:31,080 Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl this last year as well, So 1797 01:26:31,160 --> 01:26:34,479 Speaker 1: it's a yardstick no matter how you slice it. Yeah, Drake, 1798 01:26:34,520 --> 01:26:35,920 Speaker 1: I like what you said about the flip side of 1799 01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:38,400 Speaker 1: the ball too, as because it comes at a point 1800 01:26:38,439 --> 01:26:40,280 Speaker 1: in the season. This is the sixth game of the 1801 01:26:40,360 --> 01:26:42,840 Speaker 1: season here, So if if you're correct, and if the 1802 01:26:42,880 --> 01:26:44,920 Speaker 1: Bill's offense is starting to look better and better, and 1803 01:26:44,960 --> 01:26:47,639 Speaker 1: the same can be said for the for Kansas City's defense, 1804 01:26:48,080 --> 01:26:50,280 Speaker 1: you know, then then you know, the treads will have 1805 01:26:50,520 --> 01:26:52,719 Speaker 1: just been starting to stick as the season starts, rolling 1806 01:26:52,760 --> 01:26:55,320 Speaker 1: into uh, you know, into the mid midsection there and 1807 01:26:55,360 --> 01:26:58,200 Speaker 1: this could be a really interesting Thursday night game. You're right, yeah, 1808 01:26:58,240 --> 01:27:01,599 Speaker 1: And I think you're right. Both those teams have high 1809 01:27:01,640 --> 01:27:03,439 Speaker 1: hopes for the other side of the ball getting a 1810 01:27:03,479 --> 01:27:05,719 Speaker 1: little ground, gaining a little ground and you know, starting 1811 01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:07,760 Speaker 1: to carry their way a little more. And certainly in 1812 01:27:07,920 --> 01:27:12,160 Speaker 1: Buffalo it starts, you know, with you know, Josh Allen 1813 01:27:12,320 --> 01:27:15,280 Speaker 1: and the offense scoring more points, trying to hang in 1814 01:27:15,360 --> 01:27:17,920 Speaker 1: there with teams who who can get a touchdown at 1815 01:27:17,960 --> 01:27:20,439 Speaker 1: any given moment. The Bills always seemed to struggle with 1816 01:27:20,479 --> 01:27:22,760 Speaker 1: scoring points. They move the football pretty well at times, 1817 01:27:22,840 --> 01:27:25,360 Speaker 1: but they know the red zone has really been their buggaboo, 1818 01:27:25,400 --> 01:27:28,320 Speaker 1: both offensively and defensively. But I think that's a really 1819 01:27:28,360 --> 01:27:33,360 Speaker 1: good take. And when you're talking about intriguing opponents, you know, 1820 01:27:33,400 --> 01:27:35,720 Speaker 1: the defending world champions, you can always, I guess, kind 1821 01:27:35,760 --> 01:27:37,559 Speaker 1: of start there. But this has a lot of underlying 1822 01:27:37,640 --> 01:27:40,320 Speaker 1: stories that the Drake mentions it was that was that 1823 01:27:40,400 --> 01:27:43,280 Speaker 1: were good as well. Coming up at the bottom at 1824 01:27:43,280 --> 01:27:44,720 Speaker 1: the top of the hour at two o'clock, we're going 1825 01:27:44,760 --> 01:27:47,120 Speaker 1: to be joined by Nayman Roosevelt. He's coming up right 1826 01:27:47,160 --> 01:27:50,080 Speaker 1: after the break. He's a Saint Joe's Academy local guy 1827 01:27:50,280 --> 01:27:52,920 Speaker 1: here in Buffalo, went to ub after that. He's a 1828 01:27:53,000 --> 01:27:55,519 Speaker 1: former Buffalo Bills wide receiver from twenty and ten through 1829 01:27:55,560 --> 01:27:58,120 Speaker 1: twenty twelve. He's been spent the last six seasons in 1830 01:27:58,160 --> 01:28:00,920 Speaker 1: the CFL with a Saskatchewan rough Riders and just signed 1831 01:28:00,920 --> 01:28:03,800 Speaker 1: with the Montreal Alouettes. One more sports league. We can 1832 01:28:03,880 --> 01:28:07,720 Speaker 1: ask a naming Roosevelt Roosevelt about what's gonna happen with 1833 01:28:07,760 --> 01:28:09,720 Speaker 1: the CFL. What are they gonna do? It's one more 1834 01:28:09,840 --> 01:28:11,960 Speaker 1: league that the National Football League can look at and 1835 01:28:12,000 --> 01:28:15,000 Speaker 1: see how they're handling at. Steve Tasker, Luke Tasker here 1836 01:28:15,120 --> 01:28:17,200 Speaker 1: till three o'clock. This is One Bill's Live presented by 1837 01:28:17,280 --> 01:28:24,679 Speaker 1: Kalida Health on Buffalo Bills Radio. Oh a great takle 1838 01:28:24,760 --> 01:28:44,960 Speaker 1: by Steve Taskers, Doss were time. Welcome back to our 1839 01:28:45,080 --> 01:28:47,519 Speaker 1: number three of the One Bills Live. Steve Tasker, Luke 1840 01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:50,880 Speaker 1: Tasker here with you, Luke sitting in for Maddie Glab today. 1841 01:28:50,920 --> 01:28:53,519 Speaker 1: We're pleased to be joined now by Western New York native, 1842 01:28:53,560 --> 01:28:56,439 Speaker 1: a former Buffalo Bills wide receiver from two thousand and 1843 01:28:56,439 --> 01:28:58,200 Speaker 1: ten to two thousand and twelve. He was a Saint 1844 01:28:58,280 --> 01:29:02,040 Speaker 1: Joe's Academy graduate. Spent the last six years in the CFL, 1845 01:29:02,160 --> 01:29:05,120 Speaker 1: playing for Saskatchewan rough Riders, and recently signed a new 1846 01:29:05,200 --> 01:29:09,240 Speaker 1: contract with the Montreal Alouettes, naming Roosevelt, naming Stephen Luke. 1847 01:29:09,280 --> 01:29:11,080 Speaker 1: How are you doing, man? Are you doing okay during 1848 01:29:11,080 --> 01:29:14,200 Speaker 1: the pandemic? Yeah, I'm staying safe. Guys. How you're doing, 1849 01:29:15,200 --> 01:29:17,960 Speaker 1: We're doing. We're doing probably better than we deserve, truth 1850 01:29:18,040 --> 01:29:20,120 Speaker 1: be known. But what have you been I know that 1851 01:29:20,240 --> 01:29:22,479 Speaker 1: this you guys have you got to stay ready. You 1852 01:29:22,479 --> 01:29:24,519 Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen with the CFL. What's 1853 01:29:24,520 --> 01:29:26,559 Speaker 1: been What have you been doing this offseason? Who you've 1854 01:29:26,560 --> 01:29:28,920 Speaker 1: been working out with, where you've been doing it. What's 1855 01:29:28,960 --> 01:29:32,080 Speaker 1: going on with you in your football career right now? Yeah? So, 1856 01:29:32,240 --> 01:29:34,599 Speaker 1: I mean I've been staying in shape. I've been training, Uh, 1857 01:29:35,080 --> 01:29:37,120 Speaker 1: I mean everywhere anywhere I can get us filled. And 1858 01:29:37,600 --> 01:29:40,200 Speaker 1: you know, U Chad Kelly has been around. So I've 1859 01:29:40,240 --> 01:29:42,800 Speaker 1: been training with Chad Kelly. We've been getting after it. 1860 01:29:42,960 --> 01:29:44,880 Speaker 1: So there's been get some good work. And also been 1861 01:29:44,920 --> 01:29:47,080 Speaker 1: training a couple of kids. Uh. You know, I started 1862 01:29:47,120 --> 01:29:49,120 Speaker 1: a training program so I get like two or two 1863 01:29:49,200 --> 01:29:52,120 Speaker 1: or three kids and you know, every couple of days, 1864 01:29:52,160 --> 01:29:54,840 Speaker 1: and you know, we continue to do social distancing. But 1865 01:29:55,000 --> 01:29:57,040 Speaker 1: you know this this training and you know, always staying 1866 01:29:57,040 --> 01:30:00,680 Speaker 1: in football shape. David Man, it is good good to 1867 01:30:00,880 --> 01:30:03,080 Speaker 1: talk to you again. We've uh name and I have 1868 01:30:03,160 --> 01:30:05,960 Speaker 1: trained together for the last five off seasons and and uh, 1869 01:30:06,040 --> 01:30:09,280 Speaker 1: I'm missing you this year. Man. We everything everything's different 1870 01:30:09,320 --> 01:30:12,599 Speaker 1: were there's no more gym's open, there's no more anything. 1871 01:30:12,680 --> 01:30:14,760 Speaker 1: And uh, it's good to hear that you're that you're 1872 01:30:14,800 --> 01:30:17,840 Speaker 1: training and getting ready. How philus in a little bit 1873 01:30:17,920 --> 01:30:20,479 Speaker 1: on your new contract in Montreal and and uh, and 1874 01:30:20,720 --> 01:30:22,840 Speaker 1: what you're thinking about a little change in your next 1875 01:30:22,880 --> 01:30:26,200 Speaker 1: step in your career. Yeah, well I was definitely excited, 1876 01:30:26,280 --> 01:30:28,599 Speaker 1: you know that. You know, Montreal gave me an opportunity 1877 01:30:28,600 --> 01:30:31,160 Speaker 1: to keep playing. And uh, you know, I've been having 1878 01:30:31,240 --> 01:30:32,880 Speaker 1: a you know, a great career. And see if I've 1879 01:30:32,880 --> 01:30:34,360 Speaker 1: been loving and know ever since I got up there, 1880 01:30:34,360 --> 01:30:36,200 Speaker 1: and uh, you know and trying to do what you've 1881 01:30:36,200 --> 01:30:37,840 Speaker 1: been doing for the past, you know, a couple of years. 1882 01:30:37,880 --> 01:30:39,479 Speaker 1: You've been balling up. You know, I just want to 1883 01:30:39,520 --> 01:30:41,679 Speaker 1: continue to keep balling. And you know I've been excited, 1884 01:30:41,720 --> 01:30:43,560 Speaker 1: you know, I mean, Montreal gave me an opportunity to 1885 01:30:43,920 --> 01:30:45,760 Speaker 1: to you know, go out there and play and uh, 1886 01:30:45,920 --> 01:30:47,840 Speaker 1: you know, too bad a season to start yet, you know, 1887 01:30:47,840 --> 01:30:49,120 Speaker 1: I thought it would be a good year. We had 1888 01:30:49,240 --> 01:30:50,920 Speaker 1: you know, a good team you know up there, So 1889 01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:52,600 Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. I know they've been you know, 1890 01:30:52,760 --> 01:30:54,479 Speaker 1: I haven't. We haven't been hearing anything. We've just been 1891 01:30:54,520 --> 01:30:56,559 Speaker 1: I've just been reading what have been you know, talking 1892 01:30:56,600 --> 01:30:59,040 Speaker 1: about So you know, I've been hearing eight games to 1893 01:30:59,160 --> 01:31:01,439 Speaker 1: six games you know who knows. So I'm just waiting 1894 01:31:01,520 --> 01:31:05,680 Speaker 1: on their car. Yeah, go ahead, Yeah, we're gonna we're 1895 01:31:05,680 --> 01:31:08,360 Speaker 1: talking to name In Roosevelt, a former Buffalo Bills wide receiver, 1896 01:31:08,479 --> 01:31:12,160 Speaker 1: about the CFL now naming every you know, the NFL's 1897 01:31:12,200 --> 01:31:14,439 Speaker 1: watching every other sports league's and it's got to be 1898 01:31:14,560 --> 01:31:17,880 Speaker 1: watching the CFL with and how they're handling. And the 1899 01:31:18,000 --> 01:31:20,400 Speaker 1: CFL has really just kind of turned the lights out 1900 01:31:20,439 --> 01:31:22,160 Speaker 1: for a minute, right, I mean you're you say, you're 1901 01:31:22,200 --> 01:31:24,760 Speaker 1: not getting many much information at all, and there's all 1902 01:31:24,800 --> 01:31:28,360 Speaker 1: sorts of rumors flying around. Um, you know, what do 1903 01:31:28,439 --> 01:31:30,960 Speaker 1: you think the next step is for the CFL and 1904 01:31:31,240 --> 01:31:34,479 Speaker 1: their return to play, if at all this year? Well, 1905 01:31:34,520 --> 01:31:36,280 Speaker 1: I mean it's gonna be pretty hard. I'm you know, 1906 01:31:36,479 --> 01:31:38,519 Speaker 1: I'm I'm looking at it as it's it's probably not 1907 01:31:38,600 --> 01:31:40,160 Speaker 1: gonna be a season. I said, I'm looking at it 1908 01:31:40,200 --> 01:31:42,760 Speaker 1: as I mean, it's just too many, too many, you know, 1909 01:31:42,840 --> 01:31:45,599 Speaker 1: too many obstacles, too many things going on. I know, uh, 1910 01:31:46,120 --> 01:31:48,360 Speaker 1: you know, I know, Canada's pretty scared about getting all 1911 01:31:48,360 --> 01:31:50,680 Speaker 1: the American you know, player especially you know, you got 1912 01:31:50,720 --> 01:31:52,679 Speaker 1: a lot of bunch of players from Florida and Texas 1913 01:31:52,760 --> 01:31:55,400 Speaker 1: and another southern states. So I mean, I don't know 1914 01:31:55,479 --> 01:31:58,439 Speaker 1: how you know how you know, that's a tough h 1915 01:31:58,600 --> 01:32:00,800 Speaker 1: that's a tough aspect of the CFL is that there's 1916 01:32:00,920 --> 01:32:04,479 Speaker 1: there's a border, you know, an entire border close between 1917 01:32:04,520 --> 01:32:07,000 Speaker 1: half of the half of the working force of the CFL. 1918 01:32:07,080 --> 01:32:09,040 Speaker 1: So it's a it's a it's a it's another very 1919 01:32:09,120 --> 01:32:12,080 Speaker 1: large obstacle that they're the CFLs dealing with. That isn't 1920 01:32:12,160 --> 01:32:15,640 Speaker 1: as a particular of interest for the NFL. Um. I 1921 01:32:15,760 --> 01:32:19,240 Speaker 1: know that early on in the in the pandemic situation, 1922 01:32:19,800 --> 01:32:23,000 Speaker 1: I think it was Calgary made the statement that they 1923 01:32:23,080 --> 01:32:25,000 Speaker 1: that there was going to be no public gatherings of 1924 01:32:25,120 --> 01:32:29,760 Speaker 1: any kind, uh, you know, especially including a stadium full 1925 01:32:29,800 --> 01:32:31,400 Speaker 1: of people, you know. I think I think it was 1926 01:32:31,439 --> 01:32:35,280 Speaker 1: into September. So there's a lot of a lot of facets. 1927 01:32:35,320 --> 01:32:37,200 Speaker 1: I think what I think name It seems to me 1928 01:32:37,360 --> 01:32:39,679 Speaker 1: that that's led to the radio silence. I think there's 1929 01:32:39,680 --> 01:32:43,559 Speaker 1: just so much unknown across across both countries that really 1930 01:32:43,600 --> 01:32:45,760 Speaker 1: there's just no decisions to be made. And just like 1931 01:32:45,840 --> 01:32:48,120 Speaker 1: the NFL, the CFL and the and the and the 1932 01:32:48,439 --> 01:32:51,519 Speaker 1: CFL PA, are you know, trying to decide what that 1933 01:32:51,640 --> 01:32:56,000 Speaker 1: means for player compensation and player safety? Uh, honestly, name 1934 01:32:56,040 --> 01:32:57,320 Speaker 1: it if if I if I, if I had to 1935 01:32:57,720 --> 01:32:59,600 Speaker 1: guess too, it seems like you agree with me that 1936 01:32:59,680 --> 01:33:02,160 Speaker 1: it seems like there's a pretty decent chance that that 1937 01:33:02,240 --> 01:33:05,080 Speaker 1: a season might not happen in Canada this year. Yeah. 1938 01:33:05,240 --> 01:33:07,040 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just too many obstacles. This is gonna 1939 01:33:07,040 --> 01:33:09,160 Speaker 1: be too hard. And you know, I heard, I know, 1940 01:33:09,240 --> 01:33:10,880 Speaker 1: I heard a couple of weeks ago about have it 1941 01:33:10,960 --> 01:33:12,519 Speaker 1: trying to have it in Winnipeg and trying to have 1942 01:33:12,680 --> 01:33:14,840 Speaker 1: every team in Winnipeg, and you know, trying to do 1943 01:33:14,920 --> 01:33:17,160 Speaker 1: what the NBA's going with just like a hub city. 1944 01:33:17,240 --> 01:33:19,360 Speaker 1: But you know that's too many players, too many teams. 1945 01:33:19,520 --> 01:33:22,320 Speaker 1: It's just yeah, it's just too much. It is, and 1946 01:33:22,400 --> 01:33:25,160 Speaker 1: I we and the NFL was Dad, you mentioned this 1947 01:33:25,240 --> 01:33:28,439 Speaker 1: before they were the really the sports league that was 1948 01:33:29,800 --> 01:33:32,840 Speaker 1: maybe you could already least affected by the virus because 1949 01:33:32,880 --> 01:33:35,080 Speaker 1: of the season of play, and the CFL was a 1950 01:33:35,160 --> 01:33:37,479 Speaker 1: little bit, uh, a little bit harder hit by that. 1951 01:33:37,520 --> 01:33:40,960 Speaker 1: And this this should be week week five. I think 1952 01:33:41,000 --> 01:33:43,400 Speaker 1: of the CFL season right now week four or week five, 1953 01:33:43,520 --> 01:33:45,800 Speaker 1: So it's it's already eating into what should have been 1954 01:33:45,840 --> 01:33:50,320 Speaker 1: regular season games. Yeah. Crazy, We're talking to Naman Roosevelt, 1955 01:33:50,360 --> 01:33:53,479 Speaker 1: former Buffalo Bill's wide receiver in the CFL. Now name it. 1956 01:33:53,520 --> 01:33:56,080 Speaker 1: We had this conversational and talking about you just signed 1957 01:33:56,120 --> 01:33:58,920 Speaker 1: a new contract with a new team in Montreal. You've 1958 01:33:58,960 --> 01:34:01,439 Speaker 1: played in the CFL for six years. You were in 1959 01:34:01,479 --> 01:34:04,559 Speaker 1: the NFL for a couple of years. This article came 1960 01:34:04,600 --> 01:34:09,280 Speaker 1: out on on NFL dot com about players remembering the 1961 01:34:09,400 --> 01:34:11,920 Speaker 1: best decision they ever made in their football career and 1962 01:34:12,040 --> 01:34:16,120 Speaker 1: also guys who remember their biggest regret about their football career. 1963 01:34:16,280 --> 01:34:17,840 Speaker 1: Can you give us? First of all, let's give us 1964 01:34:17,840 --> 01:34:20,040 Speaker 1: your biggest regret. Is there a big regret you have 1965 01:34:20,240 --> 01:34:23,439 Speaker 1: about football and your career and the way it went? Um, 1966 01:34:24,600 --> 01:34:29,280 Speaker 1: I would say probably probably my senior year. So I 1967 01:34:29,360 --> 01:34:31,920 Speaker 1: get hurt, at ub, I get hurt my senior year. Uh, 1968 01:34:32,360 --> 01:34:35,479 Speaker 1: you know Tim Meniscus, and I feel like I rushed 1969 01:34:35,520 --> 01:34:37,439 Speaker 1: to I feel like that was one mistake I probably 1970 01:34:37,520 --> 01:34:39,880 Speaker 1: should have you know, should have waited. I rushed back 1971 01:34:39,960 --> 01:34:42,600 Speaker 1: too fast. It was I got I got surgery like 1972 01:34:42,720 --> 01:34:46,280 Speaker 1: probably four weeks before the East West Shrine Game, and 1973 01:34:46,560 --> 01:34:48,200 Speaker 1: you know, I was just my agent like, yeah, you can, 1974 01:34:48,280 --> 01:34:49,920 Speaker 1: you know, go playing. They go do this, go do it. 1975 01:34:49,960 --> 01:34:51,519 Speaker 1: And I was just so determined to go play, and 1976 01:34:51,560 --> 01:34:53,960 Speaker 1: I was just you know, not healthy. So I just 1977 01:34:54,000 --> 01:34:55,400 Speaker 1: feel like that was one of the things where it 1978 01:34:55,479 --> 01:34:57,479 Speaker 1: just kind of slowed me down, slowed the process. Now 1979 01:34:57,520 --> 01:34:59,160 Speaker 1: where if I would have just you know took it, 1980 01:34:59,640 --> 01:35:01,400 Speaker 1: you know, ticket one day at a time, ticket weeks 1981 01:35:01,400 --> 01:35:03,880 Speaker 1: at a time, just relaxed and really you know, focused 1982 01:35:03,920 --> 01:35:06,040 Speaker 1: on getting back healthy instead of rushing back in the field. 1983 01:35:06,080 --> 01:35:07,760 Speaker 1: I think that's one of the biggest requests I could have, 1984 01:35:08,000 --> 01:35:09,760 Speaker 1: you know, I made in my football career. It was 1985 01:35:09,880 --> 01:35:12,760 Speaker 1: just not so rushing back to fast. What was that 1986 01:35:12,840 --> 01:35:14,960 Speaker 1: experience in the East West Shrine game, and it's obviously 1987 01:35:15,040 --> 01:35:17,400 Speaker 1: it eventually led to you uh, you know, being on 1988 01:35:17,439 --> 01:35:20,000 Speaker 1: the Bill's roster for for the time after that. What 1989 01:35:20,160 --> 01:35:25,080 Speaker 1: was that experience in that process going into the NFL Um, well, 1990 01:35:25,120 --> 01:35:26,920 Speaker 1: with the Shrine Game moves, I mean it was crazy. 1991 01:35:26,960 --> 01:35:30,200 Speaker 1: You never you know, uh from you know, yeah, you 1992 01:35:30,320 --> 01:35:33,000 Speaker 1: be practices having maybe you know, two to three scouts there, 1993 01:35:33,040 --> 01:35:36,559 Speaker 1: and now every practice at the Shrine Game you got 1994 01:35:36,720 --> 01:35:39,160 Speaker 1: you know, forty fifty and the self scouts watching every 1995 01:35:39,240 --> 01:35:41,519 Speaker 1: move you're making everything you do. So I think that 1996 01:35:41,640 --> 01:35:43,559 Speaker 1: was the biggest thing. And you know, having a bunch 1997 01:35:43,600 --> 01:35:46,200 Speaker 1: of meetings, you know, scouts ask you every type of question, 1998 01:35:46,360 --> 01:35:49,120 Speaker 1: you know, want to know everything about shoot and just 1999 01:35:49,280 --> 01:35:51,080 Speaker 1: the process of that was just, you know, something that 2000 01:35:51,200 --> 01:35:55,600 Speaker 1: was just crazy and definitely experienced. Yeah, and as you 2001 01:35:55,720 --> 01:35:58,360 Speaker 1: think back on it now and it's it's hard to 2002 01:35:58,400 --> 01:36:01,720 Speaker 1: go into the hypotheticals. Uh do you think that could 2003 01:36:01,760 --> 01:36:03,760 Speaker 1: if you were healthy at the Shrine Game or if 2004 01:36:03,760 --> 01:36:06,080 Speaker 1: you didn't play in the Shrine Game? Do you think 2005 01:36:06,120 --> 01:36:08,120 Speaker 1: it hurt you that they saw you and knew that 2006 01:36:08,200 --> 01:36:11,120 Speaker 1: you were you know, had just had surgery. H Do 2007 01:36:11,200 --> 01:36:12,800 Speaker 1: you think that hurt you or do you think it 2008 01:36:13,520 --> 01:36:15,360 Speaker 1: u it helped you in a way that at least 2009 01:36:15,360 --> 01:36:17,439 Speaker 1: they got to know who it kind of guy you were. 2010 01:36:17,920 --> 01:36:20,200 Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of a double edged swords. You know, 2011 01:36:20,320 --> 01:36:22,320 Speaker 1: you don't want to not go to the Shrine game. 2012 01:36:22,360 --> 01:36:23,920 Speaker 1: But then again, you don't want to show up and 2013 01:36:24,040 --> 01:36:25,920 Speaker 1: not play your best either, and that's kind of the 2014 01:36:26,439 --> 01:36:29,120 Speaker 1: conundrum that you're in as a young player, right. Yeah, 2015 01:36:29,200 --> 01:36:31,680 Speaker 1: for sure, it's definitely it's a hard decision because I mean, 2016 01:36:32,080 --> 01:36:34,080 Speaker 1: you know, I feel like I went there and showed 2017 01:36:34,120 --> 01:36:36,160 Speaker 1: them everything I could do, but I still got there. 2018 01:36:36,200 --> 01:36:37,800 Speaker 1: And I feel like, you know, I wasn't all the 2019 01:36:37,840 --> 01:36:40,320 Speaker 1: way healthy. I you know, uh, you know, my knee 2020 01:36:40,439 --> 01:36:43,479 Speaker 1: wasn't the same yet, and and I couldn't. I feel 2021 01:36:43,479 --> 01:36:45,080 Speaker 1: like I could have you know, went to the game 2022 01:36:45,120 --> 01:36:47,160 Speaker 1: but not played in the game when I did practices 2023 01:36:47,200 --> 01:36:49,040 Speaker 1: maybe just did you know, did the meet and talk 2024 01:36:49,120 --> 01:36:51,040 Speaker 1: to the NFL teams and just showed them that I 2025 01:36:51,080 --> 01:36:52,800 Speaker 1: really wanted to be there. And I you know, really, 2026 01:36:52,920 --> 01:36:54,320 Speaker 1: you know, I really cared about this game, and it 2027 01:36:54,479 --> 01:36:56,760 Speaker 1: really took my time to get back healthy, you know, 2028 01:36:56,880 --> 01:36:58,960 Speaker 1: working all my forty working all my time. So I 2029 01:36:59,000 --> 01:37:00,640 Speaker 1: feel like you're hurting me in that aspect of just 2030 01:37:01,000 --> 01:37:03,400 Speaker 1: you know, getting my getting my you know, my best 2031 01:37:03,439 --> 01:37:05,800 Speaker 1: foot four, which is being healthy, you know, just getting 2032 01:37:05,840 --> 01:37:08,240 Speaker 1: ready for the pro date, like you know, uh, once 2033 01:37:08,280 --> 01:37:10,320 Speaker 1: this pro date come on, be aricle say healthy I'm 2034 01:37:10,320 --> 01:37:12,680 Speaker 1: be ready to go now. I ask you, I got 2035 01:37:12,760 --> 01:37:15,760 Speaker 1: a question for both of you, um and you can 2036 01:37:15,960 --> 01:37:18,040 Speaker 1: tell me give it. And this is for young players 2037 01:37:18,080 --> 01:37:21,200 Speaker 1: who out there listening, or their parents or whatever. Luke, 2038 01:37:21,400 --> 01:37:23,400 Speaker 1: I saw you grow up. I watched your career name, 2039 01:37:23,439 --> 01:37:25,320 Speaker 1: and I caught onto you about when you were at 2040 01:37:25,360 --> 01:37:28,040 Speaker 1: Saint Joe's and kept track of you after that. When 2041 01:37:28,080 --> 01:37:31,360 Speaker 1: did it hit either one of you guys that the 2042 01:37:31,520 --> 01:37:35,680 Speaker 1: next level after college might be a possibility that you 2043 01:37:35,800 --> 01:37:38,240 Speaker 1: might get a chance to play professional football? And when 2044 01:37:38,720 --> 01:37:40,640 Speaker 1: did it really dawn on you that you had a 2045 01:37:40,720 --> 01:37:43,479 Speaker 1: chance to do that? You go, You go first, Luke, 2046 01:37:43,520 --> 01:37:45,760 Speaker 1: and then let name and go. So there was a 2047 01:37:45,840 --> 01:37:48,360 Speaker 1: distinct moment at my freshman year at Saint Francis and 2048 01:37:48,439 --> 01:37:50,760 Speaker 1: I was and I kind of always I went to 2049 01:37:50,800 --> 01:37:54,400 Speaker 1: Saint Francis hoping to play college football after after graduating. 2050 01:37:54,439 --> 01:37:57,360 Speaker 1: But my first game as a freshman and I had 2051 01:37:57,439 --> 01:37:59,760 Speaker 1: four interceptions and threw a touchdown pass, and I thought 2052 01:37:59,760 --> 01:38:01,400 Speaker 1: to my stuff, man, like this, first of all, I 2053 01:38:01,680 --> 01:38:03,519 Speaker 1: really do love this, And second of all, maybe I 2054 01:38:03,720 --> 01:38:05,840 Speaker 1: you know, I was I probably weighed one hundred and 2055 01:38:05,920 --> 01:38:08,360 Speaker 1: fifteen pounds at that time, but I said maybe I 2056 01:38:09,040 --> 01:38:10,680 Speaker 1: maybe I could have a chance if I keep on 2057 01:38:10,800 --> 01:38:12,120 Speaker 1: doing this, I will say it at the end of 2058 01:38:12,200 --> 01:38:14,320 Speaker 1: that So that was I was a freshman playing on 2059 01:38:14,360 --> 01:38:16,000 Speaker 1: the JV team, and at the end of that season 2060 01:38:16,040 --> 01:38:18,920 Speaker 1: I got moved up to varsity for the and I 2061 01:38:19,040 --> 01:38:21,519 Speaker 1: was playing free safety in the championship game. And naman 2062 01:38:21,600 --> 01:38:23,360 Speaker 1: knows what I'm gonna say, because we've talked about this 2063 01:38:23,400 --> 01:38:25,439 Speaker 1: so many times. I was thinking about this too. Go ahead, Yeah, 2064 01:38:25,479 --> 01:38:29,639 Speaker 1: I know exactly what you say. That season ended with me, well, 2065 01:38:29,840 --> 01:38:32,080 Speaker 1: with us getting beat by Saint Joe's led by the 2066 01:38:32,160 --> 01:38:35,679 Speaker 1: naming Roosevelt the wester New York All Star. But also 2067 01:38:36,200 --> 01:38:39,960 Speaker 1: I was six inches from intercepting naming Roosevelt as a 2068 01:38:40,040 --> 01:38:42,760 Speaker 1: freshman and uh, instead it was a forty yard game 2069 01:38:42,840 --> 01:38:46,640 Speaker 1: down the middle to uh, who is your receiver? Name? 2070 01:38:47,120 --> 01:38:53,519 Speaker 1: His name? Yeah, Dominic Dominic Cook of course. Yeah. So 2071 01:38:54,040 --> 01:38:56,000 Speaker 1: that's how my freshman year ended. But it started with 2072 01:38:56,120 --> 01:38:58,000 Speaker 1: a with a bright note of maybe hoping I could 2073 01:38:58,040 --> 01:39:00,760 Speaker 1: play after a high school name. And what about you? 2074 01:39:00,840 --> 01:39:02,200 Speaker 1: When did it dawn on you? Is you're gonna go 2075 01:39:02,240 --> 01:39:06,120 Speaker 1: to the next level and maybe beyond um well to 2076 01:39:06,240 --> 01:39:09,080 Speaker 1: play the n the field. It's probably probably going into 2077 01:39:09,320 --> 01:39:11,519 Speaker 1: probably my GIA year when I had a really a 2078 01:39:11,600 --> 01:39:14,120 Speaker 1: real breakout season, you know, playing receiver. Like so I 2079 01:39:14,160 --> 01:39:16,479 Speaker 1: went to you B to play quarterback, so it took 2080 01:39:16,520 --> 01:39:18,800 Speaker 1: me about two years to really learn how to play receiver. 2081 01:39:18,920 --> 01:39:20,840 Speaker 1: You know, how to line the right, how to how 2082 01:39:20,920 --> 01:39:22,400 Speaker 1: to you know, be where I'm supposed to be on 2083 01:39:22,439 --> 01:39:24,760 Speaker 1: the field, and understanding you know, coverages and where I'm 2084 01:39:24,760 --> 01:39:26,920 Speaker 1: supposed to be in And I think my junior year 2085 01:39:27,120 --> 01:39:29,640 Speaker 1: was when I really had a breakout year. And and 2086 01:39:30,000 --> 01:39:33,120 Speaker 1: uh when when scout start hitting me up on Facebook? 2087 01:39:33,160 --> 01:39:36,439 Speaker 1: I think Facebook was one thing where it's, uh, we're 2088 01:39:36,560 --> 01:39:39,000 Speaker 1: agents and you know, and and a bunch of agents 2089 01:39:39,080 --> 01:39:40,800 Speaker 1: hit you up and you know the end your DM. 2090 01:39:40,920 --> 01:39:42,840 Speaker 1: So I think that was like, okay, like wow, this 2091 01:39:43,040 --> 01:39:44,960 Speaker 1: might really be happening. I can make it to the 2092 01:39:45,040 --> 01:39:46,479 Speaker 1: next level. So I think that was one of the 2093 01:39:46,880 --> 01:39:49,400 Speaker 1: you know, the moments where you know, when agents start 2094 01:39:49,479 --> 01:39:51,599 Speaker 1: hiting me up. I started feeling confidence in myself at 2095 01:39:51,640 --> 01:39:54,519 Speaker 1: playing receiver and started understanding the game. It was like, wow, 2096 01:39:54,600 --> 01:39:56,560 Speaker 1: this might really happen. So I think that was the 2097 01:39:56,640 --> 01:39:59,560 Speaker 1: time my g my junior year, you yeah for me, 2098 01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:02,599 Speaker 1: I'd say it was about like naming for me when 2099 01:40:02,760 --> 01:40:05,560 Speaker 1: back in the early eighties mid eighties when I was 2100 01:40:05,600 --> 01:40:08,080 Speaker 1: coming out of college, they used to do it where 2101 01:40:08,280 --> 01:40:10,360 Speaker 1: they didn't have pro days back then. But what would 2102 01:40:10,439 --> 01:40:13,160 Speaker 1: happen is the scouts, like they always do, they travel everywhere. 2103 01:40:13,240 --> 01:40:15,639 Speaker 1: So every so often a scout would come through Evans. 2104 01:40:15,680 --> 01:40:17,560 Speaker 1: I was going to Northwestern University. We're playing in the 2105 01:40:17,640 --> 01:40:19,840 Speaker 1: Big Ten, and a scout would kind of drop by 2106 01:40:19,920 --> 01:40:22,600 Speaker 1: the school and I'd get like twenty four hours or 2107 01:40:22,640 --> 01:40:26,040 Speaker 1: forty eight hours notice, say hey, listen, on Tuesday, the 2108 01:40:26,160 --> 01:40:28,519 Speaker 1: scout from the Bengals is going to drop by, wants 2109 01:40:28,560 --> 01:40:30,679 Speaker 1: to look at you. Can you be available? And I said, yeah, 2110 01:40:30,680 --> 01:40:33,160 Speaker 1: you know, of course you say yes, So I'd go 2111 01:40:33,280 --> 01:40:36,040 Speaker 1: do that. And when I thought when I started running 2112 01:40:36,120 --> 01:40:37,519 Speaker 1: for these guys, they were you know, it was just 2113 01:40:37,640 --> 01:40:39,720 Speaker 1: doing a little what you guys know what it's like. 2114 01:40:39,840 --> 01:40:43,160 Speaker 1: I mean, you're jumping, they're measuring you, the height, your weight, 2115 01:40:43,240 --> 01:40:45,120 Speaker 1: They have you a bench, have you run a forty, 2116 01:40:45,200 --> 01:40:47,400 Speaker 1: they have you do a cone drill and all that stuff. 2117 01:40:48,200 --> 01:40:50,720 Speaker 1: And I got the feeling from the reaction of the 2118 01:40:50,760 --> 01:40:55,439 Speaker 1: scouts that my testing, the physical testing they were given me, 2119 01:40:55,560 --> 01:40:58,280 Speaker 1: I was testing pretty well, which kind of stuck with 2120 01:40:58,400 --> 01:41:00,840 Speaker 1: me throughout my career. I always, you know, tested really well, 2121 01:41:01,000 --> 01:41:03,400 Speaker 1: like my strength was good, my vertical was good, my 2122 01:41:03,520 --> 01:41:06,280 Speaker 1: forty was good, that kind of stuff. So that's when 2123 01:41:06,320 --> 01:41:09,559 Speaker 1: it kind of dawned on me that I might get 2124 01:41:09,600 --> 01:41:11,720 Speaker 1: an opportunity at the next level. It was like my 2125 01:41:11,840 --> 01:41:15,760 Speaker 1: junior year, senior year of a Northwestern where scouts, like 2126 01:41:15,920 --> 01:41:18,800 Speaker 1: you said, naming scouts and agents start to hit you 2127 01:41:18,920 --> 01:41:20,880 Speaker 1: up and you start to get some attention from people 2128 01:41:20,960 --> 01:41:24,120 Speaker 1: outside the team that you're actually playing on, and that's 2129 01:41:24,439 --> 01:41:27,040 Speaker 1: I'll never forget it. That and you guys too, I 2130 01:41:27,120 --> 01:41:29,559 Speaker 1: mean naming for you, didn't didn't it kind of give 2131 01:41:29,600 --> 01:41:33,240 Speaker 1: you a little flutter inside when guys started, you know, 2132 01:41:33,360 --> 01:41:35,599 Speaker 1: paying attention to you, like saying, hey, son, I think 2133 01:41:35,640 --> 01:41:38,360 Speaker 1: you've got a future. What To me, it was a 2134 01:41:38,560 --> 01:41:41,080 Speaker 1: huge compliment. It gave it gave me a big thrill 2135 01:41:41,200 --> 01:41:43,680 Speaker 1: that somebody out there thought I might be able to 2136 01:41:43,720 --> 01:41:47,080 Speaker 1: play at the next the next level. Definitely, no doubt. Yeah, 2137 01:41:47,200 --> 01:41:49,680 Speaker 1: I'm gay. I'm getting uh, you know, messages in my 2138 01:41:49,760 --> 01:41:52,000 Speaker 1: Facebook in box. I'm like, wow, this is really yeah, 2139 01:41:52,040 --> 01:41:58,920 Speaker 1: this is definitely yeah. Right. So naming the flip side 2140 01:41:58,960 --> 01:42:00,920 Speaker 1: of the earlier question of the regret in your career 2141 01:42:01,000 --> 01:42:02,760 Speaker 1: and you said, you said, maybe you came back too 2142 01:42:02,800 --> 01:42:05,720 Speaker 1: early from from an injured d And the other side 2143 01:42:05,720 --> 01:42:07,639 Speaker 1: of that question is what's what was the best decision 2144 01:42:07,720 --> 01:42:10,400 Speaker 1: that you made that's allowed you to now keep playing football. 2145 01:42:10,439 --> 01:42:13,960 Speaker 1: And it could be a you know, a career decision 2146 01:42:14,040 --> 01:42:16,280 Speaker 1: as to as to where you went or and why 2147 01:42:16,479 --> 01:42:20,599 Speaker 1: or or or something something more unique or personal. Well, 2148 01:42:20,680 --> 01:42:23,439 Speaker 1: I say, oh, like I said so so, coming out 2149 01:42:23,479 --> 01:42:25,400 Speaker 1: of Saint Joe's, I was playing quarterback, and you know, 2150 01:42:25,520 --> 01:42:28,200 Speaker 1: every other school that you know was recruiting me was like, 2151 01:42:28,680 --> 01:42:31,160 Speaker 1: you know, maybe we can put him at corner, you know, 2152 01:42:31,280 --> 01:42:33,640 Speaker 1: maybe somewhere on safety, on defense. And I'm like no, 2153 01:42:33,840 --> 01:42:35,519 Speaker 1: but you know, you b came to me and they 2154 01:42:35,560 --> 01:42:37,719 Speaker 1: told me, hey, you're gonna come here. You're gonna play quarterback. 2155 01:42:37,800 --> 01:42:39,320 Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna get your number seven and we're 2156 01:42:39,360 --> 01:42:41,599 Speaker 1: gonna give you all that. It was like as soon 2157 01:42:41,600 --> 01:42:43,720 Speaker 1: as I get the ub, you know, me and me 2158 01:42:43,800 --> 01:42:45,560 Speaker 1: in a turn of give coaching. You know that the 2159 01:42:45,600 --> 01:42:47,200 Speaker 1: coach when he first got there, he was like, uh, 2160 01:42:47,400 --> 01:42:49,200 Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna move you the receiver. And that 2161 01:42:49,320 --> 01:42:51,360 Speaker 1: just broke my heart. Like I was like, oh no, 2162 01:42:52,000 --> 01:42:54,000 Speaker 1: you know, I never you know, I never played receiver before, 2163 01:42:54,160 --> 01:42:56,479 Speaker 1: so I think making I think you know, we talked 2164 01:42:56,479 --> 01:42:58,320 Speaker 1: about it and I was like, Okay, I'm gonna you know, 2165 01:42:58,360 --> 01:42:59,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna just gonna give him my all. I'm gonna 2166 01:42:59,840 --> 01:43:01,200 Speaker 1: go out there and I'm gonna work and I'm gonna 2167 01:43:01,200 --> 01:43:03,080 Speaker 1: get better at it, and you know, just keep working 2168 01:43:03,160 --> 01:43:04,599 Speaker 1: at a receiver. We had a you know, a great 2169 01:43:04,680 --> 01:43:06,600 Speaker 1: quarterback and Drew Willie at the time too, so that 2170 01:43:06,920 --> 01:43:08,400 Speaker 1: that also made a little bit better that I know 2171 01:43:08,479 --> 01:43:10,560 Speaker 1: Drew Willie was gonna get the ball around. So I 2172 01:43:10,680 --> 01:43:13,360 Speaker 1: think that decision of you know, continue to just you know, 2173 01:43:13,560 --> 01:43:16,000 Speaker 1: keep fighting and keep working hard and and and just 2174 01:43:16,120 --> 01:43:18,280 Speaker 1: see how receiver went. And I mean it helped out 2175 01:43:18,360 --> 01:43:20,960 Speaker 1: a lot, you know, continue to play receiver, you know. Uh, 2176 01:43:21,160 --> 01:43:23,720 Speaker 1: and it was something special, I think. So making that 2177 01:43:23,800 --> 01:43:25,960 Speaker 1: decision of you know, just you know, I feel like 2178 01:43:26,000 --> 01:43:27,519 Speaker 1: he believed in me, He felt I can do it, 2179 01:43:27,600 --> 01:43:30,160 Speaker 1: and you know, just you know, believing in that decision 2180 01:43:30,200 --> 01:43:32,160 Speaker 1: and working hard at it and just you know, uh, 2181 01:43:32,400 --> 01:43:35,680 Speaker 1: I feel like it paid off. That was what was 2182 01:43:35,720 --> 01:43:38,519 Speaker 1: your better Willie being there. Sorry that Drew Willie in 2183 01:43:38,640 --> 01:43:41,160 Speaker 1: there is uh, it makes it makes it makes that 2184 01:43:41,280 --> 01:43:43,120 Speaker 1: decision easier when you've got a guy like that, and 2185 01:43:43,200 --> 01:43:45,479 Speaker 1: those that's the years that I was being recruited by you, 2186 01:43:45,600 --> 01:43:47,840 Speaker 1: being was watching you and Drew Willie and the offense 2187 01:43:47,880 --> 01:43:50,120 Speaker 1: you guys had. And I remember being at you be 2188 01:43:50,840 --> 01:43:54,080 Speaker 1: with your coaching staff for recruiting, watching the game recruiting 2189 01:43:54,080 --> 01:43:55,679 Speaker 1: trip and I and you and you, and I remember 2190 01:43:55,800 --> 01:43:58,599 Speaker 1: watching you right down the run run like a cover 2191 01:43:58,720 --> 01:44:01,000 Speaker 1: three scene down the hash and a game winning touchdown 2192 01:44:01,120 --> 01:44:04,960 Speaker 1: from from Drews you know. Makes it's incredible how how 2193 01:44:05,040 --> 01:44:08,720 Speaker 1: that worked out. And then not even even to make 2194 01:44:08,760 --> 01:44:10,400 Speaker 1: the story more interesting, Drew really went on to have 2195 01:44:10,479 --> 01:44:13,120 Speaker 1: a career in the CFLUH and it was followed by 2196 01:44:13,360 --> 01:44:15,920 Speaker 1: by myself and you to go up to the CFL. 2197 01:44:16,000 --> 01:44:19,479 Speaker 1: It's a funny how it all all click together. It's crazy, 2198 01:44:19,600 --> 01:44:22,120 Speaker 1: I know, we said when we talk about I mean, 2199 01:44:22,160 --> 01:44:24,519 Speaker 1: the football football world is just so small, you know. 2200 01:44:24,600 --> 01:44:27,720 Speaker 1: It's just like we always meet up, even even with uh, 2201 01:44:28,439 --> 01:44:30,240 Speaker 1: you know Zach Calearros mean, we used to play each 2202 01:44:30,280 --> 01:44:32,599 Speaker 1: other every year in high school, like he went to Steopleville, Ohio. 2203 01:44:32,840 --> 01:44:34,760 Speaker 1: We played now you know he was my quarterback a 2204 01:44:34,760 --> 01:44:36,400 Speaker 1: couple of years ago. So it's just crazy how to 2205 01:44:36,720 --> 01:44:39,559 Speaker 1: know how the world work. It's funny even think back 2206 01:44:39,600 --> 01:44:41,599 Speaker 1: on it. You've been in the pros now for half 2207 01:44:41,600 --> 01:44:43,320 Speaker 1: a dozen years. You had a couple of years as 2208 01:44:43,360 --> 01:44:45,680 Speaker 1: well within the CFL half dozen years, a couple of 2209 01:44:45,760 --> 01:44:47,720 Speaker 1: years in the in the NFL. Can you think back 2210 01:44:47,760 --> 01:44:49,880 Speaker 1: across your career and I know it's not over yet, 2211 01:44:50,000 --> 01:44:52,120 Speaker 1: but what were some of the moments that you're always 2212 01:44:52,160 --> 01:44:54,439 Speaker 1: going to remember when you're even as old as I 2213 01:44:54,560 --> 01:44:57,200 Speaker 1: am now you think back, what are the highlights maybe 2214 01:44:57,240 --> 01:44:58,960 Speaker 1: some of the great moments you've had in your career 2215 01:44:59,080 --> 01:45:02,280 Speaker 1: so far. Um, you know, the first I say, the 2216 01:45:02,320 --> 01:45:05,240 Speaker 1: first one was, you know, running out of Rock Wildson Stadium. 2217 01:45:05,360 --> 01:45:07,639 Speaker 1: You know, my first time with the Bills and running 2218 01:45:07,640 --> 01:45:09,760 Speaker 1: out of you know, Rock Wilson Stadium, and you know, 2219 01:45:09,920 --> 01:45:11,640 Speaker 1: just being a kid going to the games when I 2220 01:45:11,760 --> 01:45:13,559 Speaker 1: was younger, and you know, just to have that feeling 2221 01:45:13,600 --> 01:45:16,479 Speaker 1: of now like wow, like I want to feel running 2222 01:45:16,560 --> 01:45:18,640 Speaker 1: through the tunnel and like man, that just you know, 2223 01:45:18,680 --> 01:45:20,320 Speaker 1: it brought tears to my eyes the first time I 2224 01:45:20,400 --> 01:45:23,200 Speaker 1: did that. It was just something special. And also I 2225 01:45:23,280 --> 01:45:25,519 Speaker 1: feel like the touchdown I had against the Giants, I 2226 01:45:25,560 --> 01:45:27,120 Speaker 1: feel like I was just you know what I mean, 2227 01:45:27,200 --> 01:45:28,880 Speaker 1: it was just something where it was like, man, just run, 2228 01:45:29,040 --> 01:45:31,280 Speaker 1: just run a catchaball, just running like, don't get caught 2229 01:45:31,320 --> 01:45:33,200 Speaker 1: from behind. So I think that was just something also, 2230 01:45:33,280 --> 01:45:35,240 Speaker 1: that was just you know, a special moment you know 2231 01:45:35,320 --> 01:45:38,920 Speaker 1: where I always remember, Yeah, I remember that touchdown as well. 2232 01:45:38,960 --> 01:45:40,720 Speaker 1: I was I know, I came up off the couch 2233 01:45:40,800 --> 01:45:42,200 Speaker 1: when I saw it as well. It was it was 2234 01:45:42,240 --> 01:45:43,640 Speaker 1: good to see and I thought you might say that, 2235 01:45:43,720 --> 01:45:45,160 Speaker 1: But I know that you had a lot of great 2236 01:45:45,240 --> 01:45:48,000 Speaker 1: moments in the CFL as well, and we're looking forward 2237 01:45:48,000 --> 01:45:50,280 Speaker 1: to seeing seeing more of those two. I don't know, 2238 01:45:51,080 --> 01:45:53,680 Speaker 1: have they given you any information at the CFL as 2239 01:45:53,720 --> 01:45:55,840 Speaker 1: to what will happen to your contract for this year 2240 01:45:55,920 --> 01:45:57,840 Speaker 1: if there isn't let's just say there's not going to 2241 01:45:57,920 --> 01:46:01,120 Speaker 1: be a season. They just not at the contracts one 2242 01:46:01,240 --> 01:46:04,720 Speaker 1: year or do the contracts go go void if this 2243 01:46:04,880 --> 01:46:06,920 Speaker 1: was the last year their contracts. Have you gotten any 2244 01:46:07,000 --> 01:46:12,120 Speaker 1: indication at all about the legalities going forward in the CFL, Well, 2245 01:46:12,160 --> 01:46:14,040 Speaker 1: we haven't. We haven't heard this thing, like I just 2246 01:46:14,120 --> 01:46:16,880 Speaker 1: been hearing from you know, a couple of h CFLPA 2247 01:46:17,040 --> 01:46:19,759 Speaker 1: members about just you know, maybe we'll be free agents 2248 01:46:19,840 --> 01:46:21,519 Speaker 1: next year. If you know, if you had a one 2249 01:46:21,600 --> 01:46:24,720 Speaker 1: year time track or or uh, you know, maybe you know, 2250 01:46:24,880 --> 01:46:27,160 Speaker 1: if it continued till next year. But we just haven't 2251 01:46:27,200 --> 01:46:31,439 Speaker 1: heard anything like. It hasn't been no no emails sent out, 2252 01:46:31,720 --> 01:46:34,519 Speaker 1: no you know, no conference card or got of thing. 2253 01:46:34,640 --> 01:46:37,080 Speaker 1: So we've just been following Twitter and then following a 2254 01:46:37,120 --> 01:46:39,360 Speaker 1: couple of reporters that you know here here stuff, so 2255 01:46:40,000 --> 01:46:41,960 Speaker 1: you know, we all we all Fortunately we don't have 2256 01:46:42,080 --> 01:46:46,639 Speaker 1: no idea. Yeah, Unfortunately, the news that we are getting 2257 01:46:46,720 --> 01:46:51,639 Speaker 1: from the CFL and the CFLPA is effectively just sort 2258 01:46:51,680 --> 01:46:54,360 Speaker 1: of rehashing the fact that it's really not the nego 2259 01:46:54,479 --> 01:46:58,680 Speaker 1: there's not really a very uh. The negotiations between the 2260 01:46:58,760 --> 01:47:00,720 Speaker 1: league and the CFL are not the PA, I should say, 2261 01:47:00,760 --> 01:47:03,000 Speaker 1: are not going very well. I think I think they're 2262 01:47:03,000 --> 01:47:06,280 Speaker 1: finding it very very hard to come to terms as 2263 01:47:06,320 --> 01:47:08,760 Speaker 1: to what to do with league and with h with 2264 01:47:09,080 --> 01:47:14,519 Speaker 1: the games that should be played, with with compensation. So unfortunately, 2265 01:47:14,560 --> 01:47:17,519 Speaker 1: that's the most news is that it's it's really hard 2266 01:47:17,560 --> 01:47:19,240 Speaker 1: to make a decision about any of this stuff. So 2267 01:47:19,400 --> 01:47:21,559 Speaker 1: it's it's all to be it's all to be seen, uh, 2268 01:47:21,640 --> 01:47:23,240 Speaker 1: and we'll be determined in the next few weeks and 2269 01:47:23,320 --> 01:47:27,360 Speaker 1: months with the CFL. Yeah, naming, thanks so much for 2270 01:47:27,439 --> 01:47:29,240 Speaker 1: taking some time. I appreciate you coming on. I know 2271 01:47:29,360 --> 01:47:30,960 Speaker 1: Luke was looking forward to talking with you, and so 2272 01:47:31,240 --> 01:47:32,880 Speaker 1: was I. I'm glad you hear you're doing well. I 2273 01:47:32,960 --> 01:47:34,800 Speaker 1: wish you the best luck in the rest of your 2274 01:47:34,920 --> 01:47:37,519 Speaker 1: CFL career and I hope it lasts another decade. My friend, 2275 01:47:37,600 --> 01:47:44,400 Speaker 1: be good, Steve, Steve, thanks good talking to former Buffalo 2276 01:47:44,600 --> 01:47:47,840 Speaker 1: former Buffalo Bills wide receiver Naming Roosevelt twenty and ten 2277 01:47:47,880 --> 01:47:50,000 Speaker 1: through two thousand and twelve years with the Bills. From 2278 01:47:50,080 --> 01:47:52,960 Speaker 1: twelve through this last year he was with the CFL 2279 01:47:53,320 --> 01:47:55,960 Speaker 1: Saskatchewan rough Riders. He's a Saint Joe's grad and he 2280 01:47:56,080 --> 01:47:58,880 Speaker 1: was joined us here today on One Bill's Live. Steve Tasker, 2281 01:47:58,960 --> 01:48:02,320 Speaker 1: Luke Tasker here till One Bill's Live presented by Kalida 2282 01:48:02,360 --> 01:48:11,759 Speaker 1: Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio as Steve Tasker, Luke Tasker, 2283 01:48:11,840 --> 01:48:15,360 Speaker 1: Luke in for Mattie Glab today. She will be back tomorrow. 2284 01:48:15,479 --> 01:48:18,200 Speaker 1: We had Naming Roosevelt on the program. Also Thad Brown 2285 01:48:18,240 --> 01:48:20,960 Speaker 1: of w r OCTV and Rochester. Both of those guys 2286 01:48:21,040 --> 01:48:22,599 Speaker 1: had a lot of things to share, name it about 2287 01:48:22,680 --> 01:48:25,439 Speaker 1: his career in the NFL and in the CFL and 2288 01:48:25,560 --> 01:48:28,320 Speaker 1: what's going on with that league, and as the NFL 2289 01:48:28,439 --> 01:48:31,320 Speaker 1: continues to watch all the pro sports leagues around the 2290 01:48:32,160 --> 01:48:34,160 Speaker 1: around the world looking to see how they can help 2291 01:48:34,200 --> 01:48:39,280 Speaker 1: themselves get better. We also had asked our listeners about 2292 01:48:39,560 --> 01:48:42,200 Speaker 1: their most intriguing they think who they think the most 2293 01:48:42,240 --> 01:48:46,080 Speaker 1: intriguing opponent is on the Bills twenty twenty schedule, and 2294 01:48:46,160 --> 01:48:50,200 Speaker 1: we have this from Bill's Life or seven one six. 2295 01:48:50,240 --> 01:48:52,599 Speaker 1: It has to be the Chiefs. They stole mahomes from 2296 01:48:52,680 --> 01:48:55,160 Speaker 1: us referring to the Draft Day trade and have a 2297 01:48:55,200 --> 01:48:57,880 Speaker 1: Super Bowl ring. Now we need to be real beat 2298 01:48:57,960 --> 01:49:01,400 Speaker 1: real contenders this year. That's about I think the second 2299 01:49:01,479 --> 01:49:03,240 Speaker 1: or third person we've had on the Chiefs. We also 2300 01:49:03,240 --> 01:49:05,160 Speaker 1: had a call that said the Chiefs as well, and 2301 01:49:05,280 --> 01:49:08,240 Speaker 1: also Luke, why don't you read the tweet from Mike? Yeah, 2302 01:49:08,320 --> 01:49:10,800 Speaker 1: Mike said to me, it's the Las Vegas Raiders. The 2303 01:49:10,880 --> 01:49:12,719 Speaker 1: reason why is the NFL now has a new stadium 2304 01:49:12,720 --> 01:49:14,080 Speaker 1: and a new city in the league, and it would 2305 01:49:14,080 --> 01:49:16,280 Speaker 1: be awesome to win that game there against Gruden and 2306 01:49:16,360 --> 01:49:19,080 Speaker 1: their fans. Me and my wife will be there if 2307 01:49:19,120 --> 01:49:21,920 Speaker 1: we're allowed. Go Bills. That's the problem. I think that 2308 01:49:22,000 --> 01:49:24,880 Speaker 1: the Las Vegas, uh, you know, game day experience would 2309 01:49:24,880 --> 01:49:27,400 Speaker 1: probably they would probably do something pretty pretty cool. It 2310 01:49:27,400 --> 01:49:30,200 Speaker 1: would probably be a great, a great NFL venue. The 2311 01:49:30,400 --> 01:49:32,679 Speaker 1: issue is going to be the pandemic and the effect 2312 01:49:32,720 --> 01:49:35,000 Speaker 1: that that housed on the game day experience. Yeah, and 2313 01:49:35,120 --> 01:49:38,040 Speaker 1: you think too, these new stadiums. They were going at 2314 01:49:38,120 --> 01:49:42,000 Speaker 1: breakneck speed to finish so Fi Stadium for the Rams Chargers, 2315 01:49:42,160 --> 01:49:44,200 Speaker 1: trying to get the Vegas stadium up and run him 2316 01:49:44,200 --> 01:49:47,040 Speaker 1: before the season, and now they could have done it 2317 01:49:47,120 --> 01:49:49,920 Speaker 1: on a practice field. You know, there's nobody going to 2318 01:49:50,000 --> 01:49:53,280 Speaker 1: be anybody there. They just I think they just said 2319 01:49:53,320 --> 01:49:57,360 Speaker 1: the Ravens, I think, and I don't know what legislation 2320 01:49:57,520 --> 01:49:59,439 Speaker 1: or statistics they're going off, but I guess they'd say 2321 01:49:59,479 --> 01:50:02,000 Speaker 1: that if that, if things continue as it is, they'll 2322 01:50:02,040 --> 01:50:06,639 Speaker 1: be fourteen thousand potential fans in the stadium on game day. Yeah, 2323 01:50:06,760 --> 01:50:09,120 Speaker 1: Baltimore will allow fourteen thousand people. I don't know what 2324 01:50:09,240 --> 01:50:11,840 Speaker 1: the percentage of the total is that, but that would 2325 01:50:12,080 --> 01:50:16,240 Speaker 1: believe me that place would be look vacant. Yeah, how 2326 01:50:16,280 --> 01:50:19,760 Speaker 1: we talked about it. It's interesting too because you know 2327 01:50:19,840 --> 01:50:22,519 Speaker 1: how the secondary market is for tickets. And I made 2328 01:50:22,560 --> 01:50:24,400 Speaker 1: this point last night when we were round the table 2329 01:50:24,479 --> 01:50:27,559 Speaker 1: with some guys talking think about this and I've said 2330 01:50:27,600 --> 01:50:31,360 Speaker 1: this too, and I say it jokingly, but as a scenario, 2331 01:50:31,920 --> 01:50:34,479 Speaker 1: no fans in the stands for entire sixteen game scheduled, 2332 01:50:34,520 --> 01:50:37,040 Speaker 1: then the playoffs hit and the first and it's they 2333 01:50:37,120 --> 01:50:39,040 Speaker 1: get in a vaccine together, they get a cure or 2334 01:50:39,120 --> 01:50:43,920 Speaker 1: treatments protocols. And it's in early early January or mid January, 2335 01:50:44,000 --> 01:50:47,320 Speaker 1: and the Bills have the first home playoff game since 2336 01:50:47,479 --> 01:50:50,479 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five, and they allow the full stadium, right 2337 01:50:50,640 --> 01:50:53,200 Speaker 1: because right, And I'll bring tears to your eyes to 2338 01:50:53,320 --> 01:50:56,479 Speaker 1: think about it, right to that, what will tickets for 2339 01:50:56,640 --> 01:51:01,080 Speaker 1: that game be going for on the secondary market? Right 2340 01:51:01,520 --> 01:51:04,040 Speaker 1: to be the first playoff game in that long and 2341 01:51:04,640 --> 01:51:07,240 Speaker 1: the first game that actually had fans there for the 2342 01:51:07,439 --> 01:51:10,360 Speaker 1: entire season, it'd be a playoff game to boot. The 2343 01:51:10,479 --> 01:51:14,679 Speaker 1: secondary market for that ticket would be off the charts, 2344 01:51:14,720 --> 01:51:17,200 Speaker 1: Am I right? That would be a legendary NFL game. 2345 01:51:17,200 --> 01:51:19,040 Speaker 1: I mean, that's there's a chance that doesn't you know, 2346 01:51:19,120 --> 01:51:21,200 Speaker 1: if it's not if it's not Buffo, there's a chance 2347 01:51:21,240 --> 01:51:25,880 Speaker 1: it will happen somewhere this year. I it's just going 2348 01:51:25,920 --> 01:51:28,479 Speaker 1: to be such a battle and like like this tweet 2349 01:51:28,520 --> 01:51:30,960 Speaker 1: from Mike at these games that that would probably have 2350 01:51:31,040 --> 01:51:33,760 Speaker 1: been a great destination for for Bills fans too, and 2351 01:51:33,840 --> 01:51:36,040 Speaker 1: they got a bunch of them this year. How great 2352 01:51:36,280 --> 01:51:41,160 Speaker 1: is Vegas, Denver, La or Sam I'm sorry not La 2353 01:51:41,200 --> 01:51:44,360 Speaker 1: San Francisco? You know that the Monday night game in 2354 01:51:44,360 --> 01:51:48,439 Speaker 1: San Francisco. Yeah, it's we hope hopefully something some of 2355 01:51:48,520 --> 01:51:50,559 Speaker 1: those might be might be doable, but for the time being, 2356 01:51:50,640 --> 01:51:53,240 Speaker 1: it seems like a really really far way off and 2357 01:51:53,320 --> 01:51:55,760 Speaker 1: a long shot. Yeah, and as well as Nashville and 2358 01:51:55,840 --> 01:51:58,360 Speaker 1: of course Miami. Um, there's there's a it's a great 2359 01:51:58,439 --> 01:52:00,800 Speaker 1: road schedule for the Bills this year, and you know, 2360 01:52:01,000 --> 01:52:04,960 Speaker 1: unfortunately those destinations may go unvisited by Bills fans. But 2361 01:52:05,080 --> 01:52:07,960 Speaker 1: I do know this the first time that this the 2362 01:52:08,160 --> 01:52:14,840 Speaker 1: league feels back to normal, I mean Bills fans. You know, 2363 01:52:14,960 --> 01:52:17,000 Speaker 1: the first game in new air of field that's allowed 2364 01:52:17,000 --> 01:52:20,200 Speaker 1: to have real fans, like a real game day atmosphere. People, 2365 01:52:20,240 --> 01:52:22,120 Speaker 1: you know, Bills fans will be selling their offspring to 2366 01:52:22,160 --> 01:52:25,960 Speaker 1: get in that game. I mean you, I mean, because 2367 01:52:26,040 --> 01:52:27,439 Speaker 1: you know Bills fans, they kind of wear it as 2368 01:52:27,479 --> 01:52:29,240 Speaker 1: a badge of honor, right. I mean I've I've met 2369 01:52:29,320 --> 01:52:32,040 Speaker 1: like one point five million people who claim to have 2370 01:52:32,120 --> 01:52:34,800 Speaker 1: been at the great comeback game, right every you got 2371 01:52:34,920 --> 01:52:36,840 Speaker 1: to say yeah you got and never left. They were 2372 01:52:36,880 --> 01:52:39,760 Speaker 1: the guy that never you know, told nobody you know 2373 01:52:39,840 --> 01:52:43,280 Speaker 1: that story. So uh. I just think it's gonna be 2374 01:52:43,479 --> 01:52:48,240 Speaker 1: such a huge embrace and a and a and an 2375 01:52:48,320 --> 01:52:53,040 Speaker 1: incredible celebration, particularly for teams like Buffalo, where this team 2376 01:52:53,560 --> 01:52:56,200 Speaker 1: in this town is a big deal, a bigger deal 2377 01:52:56,280 --> 01:52:59,759 Speaker 1: than most things. It's part of the fabric of the community. 2378 01:53:00,160 --> 01:53:03,439 Speaker 1: It's part of the continuity that people feel towards this 2379 01:53:03,840 --> 01:53:07,799 Speaker 1: city and this region. And to be able to embrace 2380 01:53:07,920 --> 01:53:10,439 Speaker 1: it as a group all at once again after a 2381 01:53:10,520 --> 01:53:12,840 Speaker 1: long after a forced hiatus, I think it's going to 2382 01:53:12,880 --> 01:53:14,560 Speaker 1: be a great celebration. I can't wait to be a 2383 01:53:14,640 --> 01:53:16,240 Speaker 1: part of it. I don't know when it's going to happen, though. 2384 01:53:16,560 --> 01:53:18,439 Speaker 1: I think the hard thing is you mentioned you mentioned 2385 01:53:18,479 --> 01:53:21,040 Speaker 1: the idea of a vaccine. Well, and then once that happens, 2386 01:53:21,080 --> 01:53:23,840 Speaker 1: and you know, assuming that it's accessible and that they're 2387 01:53:23,920 --> 01:53:25,840 Speaker 1: in that it's and then you know, it sort of 2388 01:53:25,960 --> 01:53:27,840 Speaker 1: gives us, gives the whole country and the whole world 2389 01:53:27,960 --> 01:53:30,600 Speaker 1: sort of unease. You know. That's one thing. But the 2390 01:53:30,960 --> 01:53:33,880 Speaker 1: tougher question is going to be if the restrictions start 2391 01:53:34,000 --> 01:53:37,440 Speaker 1: letting up prior to prior to that fix of a vaccine. 2392 01:53:37,479 --> 01:53:39,920 Speaker 1: So then then fans are going to have to wait 2393 01:53:40,040 --> 01:53:42,240 Speaker 1: weigh the risks themselves. And it's what's going on right 2394 01:53:42,280 --> 01:53:44,320 Speaker 1: now across the country is we can open up only 2395 01:53:44,360 --> 01:53:46,559 Speaker 1: to the extent that there's no kickbacks. And we've seen 2396 01:53:46,880 --> 01:53:49,880 Speaker 1: seen these places around the country have a really hard uh, 2397 01:53:50,320 --> 01:53:53,280 Speaker 1: you know, sort of dip back into dangerous territory with 2398 01:53:53,360 --> 01:53:55,880 Speaker 1: the coronavirus. Is reopening starts. So you know, if they 2399 01:53:55,920 --> 01:53:58,240 Speaker 1: start letting fans in, you know, if there's fourteen thousand 2400 01:53:58,280 --> 01:54:02,200 Speaker 1: fans in Baltimore Stadium, what's the truth behind how much 2401 01:54:02,280 --> 01:54:05,280 Speaker 1: that's actually going to help prevent those fourteen thousand people 2402 01:54:05,320 --> 01:54:07,759 Speaker 1: from transmitting its Yeah, and you still got the debate 2403 01:54:07,840 --> 01:54:10,280 Speaker 1: going on too. But you know, some people just don't 2404 01:54:10,400 --> 01:54:14,880 Speaker 1: will not ever relinquish the fact that it's crazy to 2405 01:54:14,920 --> 01:54:17,320 Speaker 1: stop try and stop this thing. We should. This is herd, 2406 01:54:17,880 --> 01:54:20,160 Speaker 1: you know, herd immunity. Let's you know, I don't know 2407 01:54:20,240 --> 01:54:21,720 Speaker 1: why you're making us. You know, I don't want to 2408 01:54:21,760 --> 01:54:23,400 Speaker 1: wear a mask. I don't want I don't you know, 2409 01:54:23,560 --> 01:54:25,519 Speaker 1: I'm it's not going to get me or whatever. It's 2410 01:54:25,560 --> 01:54:28,160 Speaker 1: a you know, we're not. You're tinkering with something that 2411 01:54:28,360 --> 01:54:30,599 Speaker 1: you don't have any business tinkering with, both his sickness 2412 01:54:30,680 --> 01:54:32,520 Speaker 1: and in the rights of people to do what they 2413 01:54:32,560 --> 01:54:35,320 Speaker 1: want to do. There's that debate. Plus there's debate of 2414 01:54:35,480 --> 01:54:37,440 Speaker 1: how easy we can take and how far we can 2415 01:54:37,520 --> 01:54:40,320 Speaker 1: shut down and before we've let up, it's there is 2416 01:54:40,400 --> 01:54:43,680 Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff going on, and the only way 2417 01:54:43,720 --> 01:54:45,520 Speaker 1: to you know, to escape it is to you know, 2418 01:54:45,640 --> 01:54:47,280 Speaker 1: not turn on your phone and not look at Twitter 2419 01:54:47,400 --> 01:54:50,440 Speaker 1: or social media or watch the news a TV at all. Um, 2420 01:54:50,880 --> 01:54:56,360 Speaker 1: there's us in our show either, if right, right, So 2421 01:54:56,640 --> 01:54:58,960 Speaker 1: you know the only way to do it is to 2422 01:54:59,200 --> 01:55:01,120 Speaker 1: just to be a reckle leus and just decide you're 2423 01:55:01,160 --> 01:55:02,960 Speaker 1: not going to partake it to debate and that's and 2424 01:55:03,080 --> 01:55:05,240 Speaker 1: that's you know, and I don't, And then you still 2425 01:55:05,240 --> 01:55:06,640 Speaker 1: got to live your life in the midst of all 2426 01:55:06,640 --> 01:55:09,840 Speaker 1: of it. Oh well, Steve Tasker, Luke Tasker, here untill 2427 01:55:09,840 --> 01:55:13,440 Speaker 1: three o'clock. We're gonna you're ready for NFL true false? Right, 2428 01:55:13,440 --> 01:55:15,440 Speaker 1: all right, We're gonna give this a try. NFL True 2429 01:55:15,440 --> 01:55:18,440 Speaker 1: false brought to you by Yancey's Fantasy. Yancey's Fancy New 2430 01:55:18,520 --> 01:55:21,280 Speaker 1: York's Artistan Cheese NFL true false number one, and this 2431 01:55:21,400 --> 01:55:23,440 Speaker 1: is the one for Bill's fans. Josh Allen is an 2432 01:55:23,440 --> 01:55:28,360 Speaker 1: approve it year in twenty twenty. I'll tell you this. 2433 01:55:28,480 --> 01:55:30,920 Speaker 1: Here's the thing. It's gonna be a long time before 2434 01:55:31,040 --> 01:55:33,480 Speaker 1: Josh Allen is not an approve it year. He's got 2435 01:55:33,600 --> 01:55:37,360 Speaker 1: so many critics on both critics and supporters in both 2436 01:55:37,440 --> 01:55:39,920 Speaker 1: of his you know, he's almost like Tim Tebow used 2437 01:55:39,960 --> 01:55:42,520 Speaker 1: to be either love this guy or you hate him. 2438 01:55:42,560 --> 01:55:45,400 Speaker 1: And every week he gives his supporters a chance to 2439 01:55:45,520 --> 01:55:47,920 Speaker 1: love him to death and his critics a chance to 2440 01:55:47,960 --> 01:55:51,440 Speaker 1: tear him to pieces. Uh. It's just an ongoing thing 2441 01:55:51,520 --> 01:55:53,440 Speaker 1: with Josh. But I think he's going to be an 2442 01:55:53,480 --> 01:55:56,280 Speaker 1: approve it year, year after year until this team is 2443 01:55:56,320 --> 01:55:59,680 Speaker 1: consistently a contender with him a quarterback. I think the 2444 01:56:00,120 --> 01:56:02,320 Speaker 1: answer the question is true, he isn't a prove it year. 2445 01:56:02,400 --> 01:56:05,920 Speaker 1: But but you know, I think there's a there's a 2446 01:56:06,000 --> 01:56:07,520 Speaker 1: way out of that for him. I think I don't 2447 01:56:07,560 --> 01:56:09,880 Speaker 1: think he's I don't think he's forever gonna be gonna 2448 01:56:09,920 --> 01:56:12,280 Speaker 1: be you know, sort of in question. I mean, if 2449 01:56:12,280 --> 01:56:15,040 Speaker 1: he if he, if he you know, limit limits his 2450 01:56:15,120 --> 01:56:17,960 Speaker 1: mistakes and in his downfield, you know, error type throws. 2451 01:56:18,000 --> 01:56:19,760 Speaker 1: I mean, he I think he could be a really 2452 01:56:19,840 --> 01:56:23,200 Speaker 1: high end quarterback in this league. You know. And and man, 2453 01:56:25,240 --> 01:56:27,000 Speaker 1: the team will follow, you know, don't you think? I 2454 01:56:27,040 --> 01:56:31,680 Speaker 1: mean the team absolutely if he's capitalize on this opportunity. 2455 01:56:31,680 --> 01:56:33,680 Speaker 1: I mean, it's gonna be a huge for the team. 2456 01:56:34,120 --> 01:56:36,200 Speaker 1: And no question about it. I Mean he's had his 2457 01:56:36,440 --> 01:56:38,680 Speaker 1: he's had his detractors, he's had his problems going forward, 2458 01:56:38,720 --> 01:56:40,720 Speaker 1: but every you know, this is a guy that has 2459 01:56:40,760 --> 01:56:42,920 Speaker 1: gotten better and better at early in his career. And 2460 01:56:42,960 --> 01:56:45,080 Speaker 1: I'll go back to this when when Murph's on the 2461 01:56:45,160 --> 01:56:46,960 Speaker 1: show with me and even through this past season and 2462 01:56:47,040 --> 01:56:50,440 Speaker 1: even now you have these conversations about Josh Allen always 2463 01:56:50,440 --> 01:56:54,600 Speaker 1: starts and ends with his improvement. Um, the guy had 2464 01:56:54,640 --> 01:56:56,240 Speaker 1: a long way to go when they drafted him. He 2465 01:56:56,320 --> 01:56:58,840 Speaker 1: was raw. The Bills had a plan of what they 2466 01:56:58,880 --> 01:57:00,360 Speaker 1: were going to do and how they were gonna build 2467 01:57:00,400 --> 01:57:02,960 Speaker 1: this team around him when they drafted him, and I 2468 01:57:03,080 --> 01:57:05,240 Speaker 1: think it was a different plan than the plan they 2469 01:57:05,280 --> 01:57:07,720 Speaker 1: would have had had they gotten Baker Mayfield or Sam 2470 01:57:07,880 --> 01:57:10,680 Speaker 1: Darnold or Josh Rosen or Lamar Jackson. I think that 2471 01:57:10,800 --> 01:57:14,120 Speaker 1: Josh Allen plan was unique, as would have been those 2472 01:57:14,160 --> 01:57:18,440 Speaker 1: other quarterbacks. Planned they wanted to build a team around him, 2473 01:57:18,560 --> 01:57:21,160 Speaker 1: build their defense, give him a chance to learn, to 2474 01:57:21,320 --> 01:57:23,680 Speaker 1: learn how to score points, to learn how to play quarterback, 2475 01:57:24,120 --> 01:57:27,920 Speaker 1: and particularly early in his career, in his rookie season, 2476 01:57:28,040 --> 01:57:32,400 Speaker 1: week by week by week, you saw tangible plays where 2477 01:57:32,440 --> 01:57:34,960 Speaker 1: you could point to and say, last week, he didn't 2478 01:57:35,040 --> 01:57:37,320 Speaker 1: make that play, or he made the wrong play, even 2479 01:57:37,360 --> 01:57:40,000 Speaker 1: if it wasn't a completed pass, if it was a throwaway, 2480 01:57:40,640 --> 01:57:42,960 Speaker 1: and the week before he threw it to the other team. 2481 01:57:43,880 --> 01:57:46,440 Speaker 1: There were instances, tangible instances where you could point out 2482 01:57:46,480 --> 01:57:48,200 Speaker 1: and say, wow, he's better this week than he was 2483 01:57:48,320 --> 01:57:50,320 Speaker 1: last week. He didn't do this this week, and he 2484 01:57:50,400 --> 01:57:52,440 Speaker 1: did it all the time last week, And then the 2485 01:57:52,520 --> 01:57:54,440 Speaker 1: next week it was a different kind of play that 2486 01:57:54,520 --> 01:57:56,640 Speaker 1: he made that he didn't make the week before, and 2487 01:57:56,720 --> 01:57:58,560 Speaker 1: the next week it was another play that you saw 2488 01:57:58,680 --> 01:58:00,800 Speaker 1: that he didn't make, an then it was there to 2489 01:58:00,880 --> 01:58:02,840 Speaker 1: make and he did make it the next week. You 2490 01:58:02,960 --> 01:58:06,360 Speaker 1: saw those tangible things just to casual fans could see it. 2491 01:58:06,640 --> 01:58:08,560 Speaker 1: And then of course this last year's second year in 2492 01:58:08,560 --> 01:58:11,520 Speaker 1: the league, he bumped his completion percentage up by six 2493 01:58:11,600 --> 01:58:14,080 Speaker 1: and a half or seven points, got up to sixty 2494 01:58:14,120 --> 01:58:19,720 Speaker 1: eight point nine percent completion rates and made huge strides. 2495 01:58:19,800 --> 01:58:22,280 Speaker 1: Had a stretch where early in the season where he 2496 01:58:22,360 --> 01:58:26,040 Speaker 1: was throwing it almost as many interceptions as he was touchdowns, 2497 01:58:26,360 --> 01:58:30,520 Speaker 1: and then he goes and makes a switch, goes off 2498 01:58:30,560 --> 01:58:33,720 Speaker 1: in his head and he throws for like twelve touchdowns 2499 01:58:33,760 --> 01:58:37,160 Speaker 1: and two interceptions. So you can see the development. So 2500 01:58:37,280 --> 01:58:41,440 Speaker 1: that's so until that becomes consistent, until he becomes a 2501 01:58:41,520 --> 01:58:44,760 Speaker 1: quarterback where you can kind of take sixty five percent 2502 01:58:44,880 --> 01:58:48,800 Speaker 1: completion percentage for granted, where you'd see him standing in 2503 01:58:48,800 --> 01:58:51,320 Speaker 1: the court and looking like other quarterbacks do. He's always 2504 01:58:51,360 --> 01:58:53,440 Speaker 1: going to be an approve it year because there are 2505 01:58:53,520 --> 01:58:57,720 Speaker 1: people who hate this guy. There are animals who hated 2506 01:58:57,880 --> 01:59:00,960 Speaker 1: They cannot afford to have Josh Allen be a good 2507 01:59:01,080 --> 01:59:04,680 Speaker 1: NFL quarterback because if he does, they look like a 2508 01:59:04,800 --> 01:59:07,520 Speaker 1: guy he doesn't know what they're talking about, right, and 2509 01:59:07,640 --> 01:59:10,000 Speaker 1: analyst can't do that. So that's so I'm saying, yeah, 2510 01:59:10,040 --> 01:59:12,000 Speaker 1: that's true too. He isn't a prove it year all right. 2511 01:59:12,160 --> 01:59:17,640 Speaker 1: NFL true false Number two The Cowboys Dallas Cowboys, Dak Prescott. 2512 01:59:17,880 --> 01:59:20,400 Speaker 1: He is going to get a long term deal before 2513 01:59:20,640 --> 01:59:23,120 Speaker 1: next week's deadline. He's already signed his tender, so he's 2514 01:59:23,160 --> 01:59:27,680 Speaker 1: gonna get thirty plus million dollars. But since Mahomes has 2515 01:59:27,720 --> 01:59:30,440 Speaker 1: signed his deal, now the Cowboys have a template and 2516 01:59:30,560 --> 01:59:33,440 Speaker 1: Jerry Jones will be commensurate and give Dak Prescott a 2517 01:59:33,520 --> 01:59:37,120 Speaker 1: deal that's that falls in line with it, either bigger 2518 01:59:37,280 --> 01:59:39,880 Speaker 1: or smaller or whatever. But they think Dak Prescott's finally 2519 01:59:39,920 --> 01:59:41,800 Speaker 1: gonna get signed. Do you think that's true or false? 2520 01:59:42,120 --> 01:59:44,440 Speaker 1: Do you think it matters about Mahones deal being signed? 2521 01:59:44,480 --> 01:59:45,760 Speaker 1: I mean, do you do you think there is a 2522 01:59:46,480 --> 01:59:48,560 Speaker 1: you think that will lead to the decision getting done 2523 01:59:48,640 --> 01:59:50,480 Speaker 1: more likely? Just because I think it. I think it 2524 01:59:50,640 --> 01:59:53,760 Speaker 1: puts the onus back onto I don't think Jerry has 2525 01:59:53,800 --> 01:59:56,800 Speaker 1: any problem dipping into his pockets. He'll always overpay if 2526 01:59:56,840 --> 01:59:58,920 Speaker 1: he thinks it's worth it. He's proven it time and 2527 01:59:58,960 --> 02:00:00,960 Speaker 1: time again, and he said it out right. He's always 2528 02:00:01,400 --> 02:00:04,720 Speaker 1: he's always overpaid for stuff that was worth it. So 2529 02:00:04,880 --> 02:00:07,560 Speaker 1: I think this puts the ball back in Dak Prescott's 2530 02:00:08,640 --> 02:00:14,400 Speaker 1: in his court because now since Mahomes got signed this 2531 02:00:14,520 --> 02:00:16,720 Speaker 1: deal and it's pretty club friendly for the first three 2532 02:00:16,840 --> 02:00:20,560 Speaker 1: or four years, first three years, I think now Dak 2533 02:00:20,560 --> 02:00:22,520 Speaker 1: will say, listen, I'll give you that break, I'll you know, 2534 02:00:22,600 --> 02:00:24,600 Speaker 1: the salary caps in limbo a little bit here with 2535 02:00:24,680 --> 02:00:26,680 Speaker 1: the pandemic, we don't know if the CAP's gonna go 2536 02:00:26,760 --> 02:00:29,080 Speaker 1: down or state he'd stagnant, or how whether it's going 2537 02:00:29,120 --> 02:00:30,920 Speaker 1: to be a few years before it goes up. All 2538 02:00:30,960 --> 02:00:33,560 Speaker 1: of this stuff. I'll give you, you know, I'll give 2539 02:00:33,600 --> 02:00:36,160 Speaker 1: you a club friendly deal for the first three years 2540 02:00:36,280 --> 02:00:38,240 Speaker 1: or two years or whatever if if I get certain 2541 02:00:38,600 --> 02:00:41,720 Speaker 1: concessions on the back end. So I think that's out there, 2542 02:00:41,800 --> 02:00:44,040 Speaker 1: and I think then for them with Jerry Jones will 2543 02:00:44,040 --> 02:00:45,920 Speaker 1: say yeah, I'll take that deal, and they'll make it. 2544 02:00:46,960 --> 02:00:48,560 Speaker 1: I could see it happening like this though. I could 2545 02:00:48,600 --> 02:00:51,160 Speaker 1: see that the club is saying, you know, look at 2546 02:00:51,200 --> 02:00:54,760 Speaker 1: this trend that that Mahomes is starting, you know and there, 2547 02:00:54,800 --> 02:00:56,320 Speaker 1: and they might be willing to do that. But with 2548 02:00:56,600 --> 02:01:00,600 Speaker 1: I think the unrest in terms of obviously the pandemic 2549 02:01:00,680 --> 02:01:03,000 Speaker 1: and in the you know, the format of the season, 2550 02:01:03,160 --> 02:01:05,320 Speaker 1: I don't I think that morsel lends itself to a 2551 02:01:05,400 --> 02:01:08,520 Speaker 1: player wanting to get paid now, want wanting to get 2552 02:01:08,560 --> 02:01:10,800 Speaker 1: paid early on. And I don't know, there's you know, 2553 02:01:11,040 --> 02:01:13,360 Speaker 1: these guys can afford some some foresight in their career. 2554 02:01:13,440 --> 02:01:15,600 Speaker 1: They're not going to disappear in the next season or two, 2555 02:01:15,720 --> 02:01:18,960 Speaker 1: so you know, maybe maybe he's willing to to, you know, 2556 02:01:19,080 --> 02:01:22,800 Speaker 1: see beyond the twenty twenty whatever, however the season will be, 2557 02:01:22,880 --> 02:01:25,480 Speaker 1: it'll be a little different. But the unrest to me 2558 02:01:25,600 --> 02:01:30,520 Speaker 1: lends itself to shorter contract. But but I mean ten 2559 02:01:30,640 --> 02:01:32,480 Speaker 1: years would surprise me too. If there's two quarterbacks on 2560 02:01:32,560 --> 02:01:34,160 Speaker 1: a ten year contract in the same year, that'd be 2561 02:01:34,200 --> 02:01:36,040 Speaker 1: a little that'd be pretty would be something. Yeah, And 2562 02:01:36,120 --> 02:01:37,840 Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be a ten year deal. Perhaps 2563 02:01:37,880 --> 02:01:40,360 Speaker 1: it could be a six or seven year deal, but 2564 02:01:40,440 --> 02:01:44,560 Speaker 1: with the same sort of layout as Mahomes deal, where 2565 02:01:44,640 --> 02:01:46,480 Speaker 1: you're gonna you know, you're gonna get most of that 2566 02:01:46,640 --> 02:01:48,640 Speaker 1: money no matter what. And it's like, maybe what a 2567 02:01:48,760 --> 02:01:51,160 Speaker 1: three year deal, a three hundred million dollars deal instead 2568 02:01:51,160 --> 02:01:53,680 Speaker 1: of a five hundred million dollars deal, right, So I 2569 02:01:53,760 --> 02:01:56,440 Speaker 1: could see that happening. But and I think I think 2570 02:01:56,480 --> 02:01:58,480 Speaker 1: the Cowboys make the big push and try and get 2571 02:01:58,520 --> 02:02:01,120 Speaker 1: it done so that they have some certainty going forward. 2572 02:02:01,160 --> 02:02:03,560 Speaker 1: I think it makes some sense for them given the 2573 02:02:03,640 --> 02:02:05,440 Speaker 1: uncertainty of the cap. At least you have some of 2574 02:02:05,520 --> 02:02:08,880 Speaker 1: your assets tied up long term under a deal where 2575 02:02:09,200 --> 02:02:11,160 Speaker 1: you know exactly what you can expect them to make. 2576 02:02:11,240 --> 02:02:14,080 Speaker 1: So I'm saying I'm saying it. I'm saying it might 2577 02:02:14,160 --> 02:02:16,400 Speaker 1: be true. I think Dak might do this. I think 2578 02:02:16,400 --> 02:02:18,520 Speaker 1: it might start a rash of contracts for these guys 2579 02:02:18,600 --> 02:02:21,000 Speaker 1: to get done. And I think Cowboys. I think Jerry 2580 02:02:21,040 --> 02:02:22,880 Speaker 1: wants to get that done. I think so does Dak. 2581 02:02:22,960 --> 02:02:25,840 Speaker 1: So I think that'll get done, all right? True false 2582 02:02:26,160 --> 02:02:29,440 Speaker 1: NFL true false. Number three, this will be the last 2583 02:02:29,480 --> 02:02:33,840 Speaker 1: one we do. Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson is the top 2584 02:02:34,000 --> 02:02:38,320 Speaker 1: quarterback in the National Football League, right behind Patrick Mahomes. 2585 02:02:38,600 --> 02:02:41,200 Speaker 1: You think Patrick Ever, everybody says, okay, Patrick Mahomes was 2586 02:02:41,240 --> 02:02:43,760 Speaker 1: the MVP, and then he was a Super Bowl MVP 2587 02:02:43,920 --> 02:02:46,960 Speaker 1: the next year and the champion. So he's number one, 2588 02:02:47,160 --> 02:02:49,440 Speaker 1: and but Russell Wilson is right behind us. So that 2589 02:02:49,520 --> 02:02:57,960 Speaker 1: takes guys like Aaron Rodgers, Roethlisberger, everybody off the table, right, 2590 02:02:59,560 --> 02:03:04,840 Speaker 1: Braid Breeze, all of those guys take a backseat to 2591 02:03:04,920 --> 02:03:08,120 Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. What do you think I could see it? 2592 02:03:08,200 --> 02:03:10,360 Speaker 1: I can, I can. I can see the argument for it. 2593 02:03:10,440 --> 02:03:14,760 Speaker 1: I don't think uh, based off based off last season 2594 02:03:14,800 --> 02:03:16,480 Speaker 1: and a new franchise. I don't think he really need 2595 02:03:16,560 --> 02:03:19,320 Speaker 1: to include Brady and this in such a specific category. 2596 02:03:19,360 --> 02:03:21,840 Speaker 1: You know, we're not talking about winners or winning or career. 2597 02:03:21,920 --> 02:03:24,240 Speaker 1: We're just talking about right now best war. Now I 2598 02:03:24,280 --> 02:03:27,840 Speaker 1: could see the argument, Yeah, I'd say, I'd have to say, yeah. 2599 02:03:27,920 --> 02:03:30,280 Speaker 1: I mean there's some guys I like Deshaun Watson and Houston. 2600 02:03:30,360 --> 02:03:32,680 Speaker 1: I like him a lot. Uh, there's other guys that 2601 02:03:32,760 --> 02:03:34,680 Speaker 1: we you know, that we that we don't know about yet. 2602 02:03:34,720 --> 02:03:36,360 Speaker 1: I mean, you can say what you want about two 2603 02:03:36,360 --> 02:03:39,520 Speaker 1: a Tackle Viloa and Joe Herbert and these guys that 2604 02:03:39,560 --> 02:03:41,520 Speaker 1: were just drafted we don't know about. And the guys 2605 02:03:41,560 --> 02:03:43,520 Speaker 1: that were just drafted you know last year we don't 2606 02:03:43,560 --> 02:03:46,560 Speaker 1: know about, or is too early to tell or listen. 2607 02:03:46,680 --> 02:03:54,200 Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, he's winning in Seattle and he doesn't and 2608 02:03:54,360 --> 02:03:57,080 Speaker 1: he's he's yeah, and he's done it for a while. 2609 02:03:57,200 --> 02:03:59,120 Speaker 1: He went to the super Bowl, won a super Bowl 2610 02:03:59,200 --> 02:04:01,040 Speaker 1: and went to the next and just lost it. He 2611 02:04:01,120 --> 02:04:05,360 Speaker 1: threw a bad interception at the end. But this is 2612 02:04:05,360 --> 02:04:07,760 Speaker 1: a guy who's done it now and continues to win 2613 02:04:07,840 --> 02:04:10,440 Speaker 1: and be a continued and continues to be relevant and 2614 02:04:10,520 --> 02:04:13,879 Speaker 1: keep his team relevant after going from being a defense 2615 02:04:14,000 --> 02:04:16,320 Speaker 1: first team who won the Super Bowl and went back 2616 02:04:16,360 --> 02:04:19,280 Speaker 1: to a Super Bowl to a team now that's still relevant, 2617 02:04:19,360 --> 02:04:24,760 Speaker 1: still competitive with him as the centerpiece. Yeah, and the 2618 02:04:24,880 --> 02:04:28,040 Speaker 1: offense is the centerpiece. And so I'm a I guess 2619 02:04:28,080 --> 02:04:30,240 Speaker 1: I gotta say it. I'm a Russell Wilson fan. I 2620 02:04:30,280 --> 02:04:32,720 Speaker 1: think he's a really good quarterback, throws the ball really well, 2621 02:04:32,760 --> 02:04:34,760 Speaker 1: and he leads that team and they rally around him. 2622 02:04:34,800 --> 02:04:36,920 Speaker 1: So I would say, yeah, you got to put him 2623 02:04:36,920 --> 02:04:39,240 Speaker 1: in the conversation. Certainly, you can put Mahomes at the top, 2624 02:04:39,520 --> 02:04:41,440 Speaker 1: but Russell Wilson's got to be in there because right 2625 02:04:41,480 --> 02:04:43,560 Speaker 1: now too, he's also right in the prime of it. 2626 02:04:44,120 --> 02:04:46,040 Speaker 1: This guy's still playing at a high level and he's 2627 02:04:46,080 --> 02:04:49,960 Speaker 1: still a great player. So I'm saying probably true. All right, 2628 02:04:50,000 --> 02:04:52,360 Speaker 1: that's NFL true false. Brought to you by Yancey's Fancy 2629 02:04:52,400 --> 02:04:54,920 Speaker 1: New York's artist and Cheese. We're coming back right after 2630 02:04:55,000 --> 02:04:57,000 Speaker 1: this break with what do We Learned? One Bills Live 2631 02:04:57,080 --> 02:05:10,480 Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health. I'm Buffalo Bill's Radio. What Have 2632 02:05:10,560 --> 02:05:13,040 Speaker 1: We Learned? Brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction 2633 02:05:13,080 --> 02:05:16,280 Speaker 1: equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. We had sports 2634 02:05:16,360 --> 02:05:19,320 Speaker 1: director from w RO OCTV. Thad Brown on today, We 2635 02:05:19,360 --> 02:05:21,400 Speaker 1: asked him what if the Patriots would edge out the 2636 02:05:21,440 --> 02:05:24,560 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills for the best in the AFC East because 2637 02:05:24,600 --> 02:05:27,160 Speaker 1: of the Cam Newton signing. Here's what he said. When 2638 02:05:27,200 --> 02:05:30,960 Speaker 1: you're a quarterback who runs, who's a multidimensional quarterback like Cam, 2639 02:05:31,360 --> 02:05:33,640 Speaker 1: and you're coming off a Liz Frank injury or broken 2640 02:05:33,720 --> 02:05:36,200 Speaker 1: foot and then the year before you had shoulder surgery, 2641 02:05:36,360 --> 02:05:38,560 Speaker 1: I mean those are pretty much the two most important 2642 02:05:38,560 --> 02:05:41,720 Speaker 1: parts of your body when you're that guy. So expecting 2643 02:05:41,800 --> 02:05:44,360 Speaker 1: those two things to function, you know, clost to one 2644 02:05:44,440 --> 02:05:46,840 Speaker 1: hundred percent or at one hundred percent or for sixteen games, 2645 02:05:47,200 --> 02:05:49,240 Speaker 1: to me is a tough tough ask. Let alone the 2646 02:05:49,320 --> 02:05:52,480 Speaker 1: fact that Cam Newton is just parachuting into the Patriots system. 2647 02:05:52,560 --> 02:05:54,320 Speaker 1: Now you're not that he's missed a whole lot with 2648 02:05:54,440 --> 02:05:57,040 Speaker 1: nobody doing any OTAs, but still, you know, he's got 2649 02:05:57,160 --> 02:05:59,720 Speaker 1: just the training camp basically to get up to speed. 2650 02:06:00,040 --> 02:06:02,400 Speaker 1: It's hard to imagine Cam Newton being, you know, any 2651 02:06:02,440 --> 02:06:04,440 Speaker 1: simone to Cam Newton for all sixteen games this year. 2652 02:06:04,520 --> 02:06:06,320 Speaker 1: So based on that, you know, get give me the 2653 02:06:06,360 --> 02:06:10,320 Speaker 1: bills in front of the Patriots. That was that Brown 2654 02:06:10,400 --> 02:06:13,520 Speaker 1: from w R OCTV. We also had naming Roosevelt, former 2655 02:06:13,960 --> 02:06:15,800 Speaker 1: Bill's wide receiver from two thousand and two to two 2656 02:06:16,120 --> 02:06:17,800 Speaker 1: two thousand and ten to two thousand and twelve, also 2657 02:06:17,840 --> 02:06:19,960 Speaker 1: a Saint Joe's Academy grad and you B grad. We 2658 02:06:20,040 --> 02:06:22,760 Speaker 1: asked him when it dawned on him that the NFL 2659 02:06:22,880 --> 02:06:25,040 Speaker 1: was a real possibility for him. Here's what he said, 2660 02:06:25,560 --> 02:06:27,720 Speaker 1: Probably my GA year when I had a really a 2661 02:06:27,800 --> 02:06:30,320 Speaker 1: real breakout season, you know, playing receiver. Like so I 2662 02:06:30,400 --> 02:06:32,800 Speaker 1: went to ub to play quarterback, so it took me 2663 02:06:32,840 --> 02:06:35,000 Speaker 1: about two years to really learn how to play receiver, 2664 02:06:35,120 --> 02:06:37,080 Speaker 1: you know, how to line the right, how to how 2665 02:06:37,120 --> 02:06:38,640 Speaker 1: to you know, be where I'm supposed to be on 2666 02:06:38,680 --> 02:06:41,280 Speaker 1: the field and understanding you know, coverages and where i'mupposed 2667 02:06:41,320 --> 02:06:43,400 Speaker 1: to be here. And I think my junior year was 2668 02:06:44,040 --> 02:06:46,400 Speaker 1: when I really had a breakout year. And and uh 2669 02:06:47,040 --> 02:06:49,360 Speaker 1: when when the scout start hit me up on Facebook. 2670 02:06:49,400 --> 02:06:52,680 Speaker 1: I think Facebook wasn't one thing where it's uh, we're 2671 02:06:52,800 --> 02:06:55,240 Speaker 1: agents and you know, and and a bunch of agents 2672 02:06:55,320 --> 02:06:57,040 Speaker 1: hit you up and you know, the nyr D M 2673 02:06:57,120 --> 02:06:59,200 Speaker 1: So I think that was like, okay, like wow, it's 2674 02:06:59,280 --> 02:07:01,160 Speaker 1: might really be happening. I can make it to the 2675 02:07:01,240 --> 02:07:02,680 Speaker 1: next level. So I think that was one of the 2676 02:07:03,080 --> 02:07:05,440 Speaker 1: you know, the moments where you know, when Andrew agents 2677 02:07:05,440 --> 02:07:07,640 Speaker 1: started hiting me up, I started feeling confidence in myself 2678 02:07:07,680 --> 02:07:10,320 Speaker 1: at planning receiver and it started understanding the game. It 2679 02:07:10,400 --> 02:07:12,440 Speaker 1: was like, wow, this might really happen. So I think 2680 02:07:12,520 --> 02:07:14,160 Speaker 1: that was the time on Gene My Junior. Yeah, you 2681 02:07:14,280 --> 02:07:18,640 Speaker 1: bet that was thanks to Skyworks, the Officials, Construction Equipment 2682 02:07:18,720 --> 02:07:21,080 Speaker 1: Rental Company, the Buffalo Bills. Luke, thanks for coming on. 2683 02:07:21,400 --> 02:07:24,120 Speaker 1: I appreciate you filling in for Maddie. She'll be back tomorrow. 2684 02:07:24,840 --> 02:07:26,680 Speaker 1: You can get back into the real estate game then 2685 02:07:26,760 --> 02:07:30,400 Speaker 1: and uh have your maybe your afternoons back to yourself. No, 2686 02:07:30,560 --> 02:07:32,880 Speaker 1: that was great. How's a fun fun stuff. It's gonna 2687 02:07:32,880 --> 02:07:34,360 Speaker 1: be exciting to see what happens this year with the 2688 02:07:34,480 --> 02:07:37,280 Speaker 1: NFL and with the Bills especially now. I appreciate it. 2689 02:07:37,400 --> 02:07:40,360 Speaker 1: Jay Harris, thank you, JJ Trito, thank you, Joe D. Bias, 2690 02:07:40,440 --> 02:07:42,240 Speaker 1: thank you. At One of Bills Live. We'll be back 2691 02:07:42,240 --> 02:07:44,920 Speaker 1: at noon tomorrow. This has been Buffalo Bill's radio, and 2692 02:07:45,040 --> 02:07:46,360 Speaker 1: this has been One Bills Live.