1 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:10,560 Speaker 1: At a Steve tester who has been all over the fields. 2 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual roll 3 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 1: player for you. Steve, a little Steve a blimp. We're 4 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: not even in the straded beer of normalcy. Welcome into 5 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: One Bills Live. It is Thursday and March eleventh. Thank you, Steve. 6 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:40,880 Speaker 1: That's why we have you here. We are counting down 7 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: the days to free agent friends. Oh my gosh, it's 8 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 1: like a glacier these days. You go through the season 9 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 1: is like rolling down hill with no brakes. You get 10 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 1: to the offseason trying to get the free agency the 11 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 1: next Oh my gosh, hit the gas. Are you gonna be? Okay, 12 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: you're gonna make it, though, you'll be You'll probably make it, 13 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 1: but I'll lead you will. You've had some unseasonably warm 14 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:06,040 Speaker 1: temperatures here in the western New York area the last 15 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: couple of days. It's been a welcome respite from true winter. Um, 16 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 1: this is you and I both donned short sleeves on 17 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 1: the way in here, and then you've raised went with 18 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: the quarter zip pull over. I went to the instigator 19 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,399 Speaker 1: locker and got that's right, an instigator quarter zip. I 20 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: was freezing in here. Yeah, well, yeah, it'll happen. The 21 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 1: temperature is very variable in here because they try to 22 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: make it cooler to accommodate for the lighting in here. 23 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: And oh you did, oh yeah, oh you have you 24 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: have the power to do that. Yeah, you know I 25 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: didn't tell anybody. Let me ask you, I can. I 26 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 1: always ask forgiveness. You don't have to ask for right 27 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: when you were a kid, did your dad rule the thermostat? Yeah, 28 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: isn't that day. I won't touch the thermostat in my 29 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: own house. I'll touch the thermostat in the studio. I 30 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 1: won't touch the thermostat in my house. That's all my wife. 31 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: She always come in. I'm like, honey, yeah, well we've 32 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: lived in the house seventeen years. How many times you 33 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:08,080 Speaker 1: think I've touched that thermostat. Every time I've touched the thermostat, 34 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: you've been looking over my shoulder telling me what to do. 35 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:14,920 Speaker 1: See now, I programmed the thermostat in my house. And 36 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:16,799 Speaker 1: then no, no, it's just you know the panel, you 37 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: just digital and you just kind of set the times. 38 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 1: You know, when you know people are not going to 39 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 1: be in the house, you drop the temperature a couple 40 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: of degrees because you know, who are you eating? Apt 41 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: your dog? Who's got a fur coat? Um? Except now 42 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 1: during the pandemic for the last year, my whole family's home. 43 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: Everybody's tinkering with So once you got to about November December, 44 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: I've got family members going, hey, this house is freezing 45 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: during the day. What is going on? And I usually 46 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: drop it, so I knew what I programmed it because 47 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:52,639 Speaker 1: everybody's out of the house. Well, school usually right, yeah, 48 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:56,079 Speaker 1: and you didn't think about well, I usually have the programs. 49 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:58,839 Speaker 1: It's like sixty six during the day when nobody's home. 50 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:02,519 Speaker 1: You know, what are you doing? Why not you're playing percentage? 51 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: Why am I? Why am I spending money for heat? 52 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: Here's nobody's using or enjoying. I got I've got it. 53 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 1: So now people are in my house, you know, running 54 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:11,639 Speaker 1: up to the thing. I got a right, you know, 55 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 1: they're jacking it up two and three degrees. Probably we've 56 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,639 Speaker 1: been like seventy we don't date seventy people put an 57 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 1: extra shirt on and I'm like a sweater and then 58 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I've I've turned into my dad. Yeah, 59 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: we had we we got this house and it's got 60 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: this stuff called radiant heat. Oh yeah, I am where 61 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:32,359 Speaker 1: you heat the floor? Yes, I have that in my bathroom, right, awesome, Right, 62 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: it is outstanding. Right. It's also expensive. Well, it's expensive 63 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: to install, yes, but if you live in your house. 64 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: I think they said if you live in the house 65 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: like a decade, you start getting it back, right. So, 66 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: and we've been in there longer than that. But it's 67 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: costs a lot to install it, but once it's in there, 68 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: it costs me less to heat. You know, we're still 69 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: in the big house with the five kids we were raising, right, So, 70 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:02,119 Speaker 1: and so you can't tinker with the temperature. Oh you can't, 71 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 1: because I can with mine. You can turn only have 72 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: it for one room, though, you can turn it up 73 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: and down. But it takes forever to get that thing 74 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: ramped up. It's not like you're flipping on and all 75 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 1: of a sudden. Oh yeah, you know. It takes a 76 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: long time. Of that floor the heat up and in 77 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: the floor, the heat rises off the floor and heats 78 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: the whole house. Right, the whole house is basically an oven, right, Okay, 79 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:25,559 Speaker 1: then heat it's heat with hot water in the floor. 80 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:31,599 Speaker 1: So power kicked off for about six hours the other day. 81 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 1: Oh baby, better get the slippers. I don't know if 82 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:38,799 Speaker 1: I have the same radiant heat that you do, because 83 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,600 Speaker 1: mine does not operate with water behind his minus coils. 84 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the same thing, but right, but that's pure 85 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:49,599 Speaker 1: electric electric. Yeah. See ours is Ours is a fostat, 86 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: specifically for the flour. Ours is a water thing. It 87 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: it goes through the well. The house is it's huge. 88 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:57,480 Speaker 1: It's not just one room, so it's huge. Yeah, that's 89 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,359 Speaker 1: a lot of and we've got zones you know, and 90 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,279 Speaker 1: all that. But I'll tell you what. You're right. You 91 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: walk through that room and that floor is toasty warm. 92 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 1: You get up in the morning and we'll go on 93 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: the bathroom. It's like that's living right there, but glorious. 94 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: The power kicks out and it's like, yeah, it takes 95 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 1: some doing to get it back where you wanted. But 96 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: all that that's why I'm we're in the instigator quarters up. Yeah, 97 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: sounds freezing. We've been giving the daily news and notes 98 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:27,840 Speaker 1: from the NFL, and they continue the added bonus though 99 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: that will be going on in earnest for probably the 100 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: better part of the next well at least for the 101 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 1: rest of March and probably the first week in April. 102 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:39,480 Speaker 1: Are the pro days, and today there is a big one, 103 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: the Clemson Pro Day taking place today. Heck it, it 104 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: might already be done. Oh no, it's probably still going. 105 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: There's a contingent of bills people down there, a lot 106 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 1: of bills people down there, as you would expect with 107 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: all the talent that Dabo Sweeney usually pushes out into 108 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: the NFL. And we saw some tweets about Travis etn 109 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: the running down there ran a four to four and 110 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:05,039 Speaker 1: a four to four five depending on whose hand watch 111 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:10,279 Speaker 1: stopwatch speed you're going by. Also weighed in at two fifteen. 112 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: There were some people that were concerned that he might 113 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,720 Speaker 1: not even top two hundred. You know, people get their 114 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: listed weights, but their actual weight is what the scouts need. 115 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:23,599 Speaker 1: And he weighed in at two fifteen today. So running 116 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: a four four two fifteen, I think we'll work for 117 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 1: a lot of teams. I think that'll work that fat. 118 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 1: That's big and fat, that's moving, that's big and fast, 119 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: and yeah, go ahead. So that's good. Obviously there's more 120 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: than just Travis Etn there at Clemson, and we'll see 121 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 1: if some of the other workout numbers slowly trickle out 122 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,280 Speaker 1: and we'll try to pass those along to you as 123 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 1: we get those more cuts as expected around the NFL. 124 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 1: We saw the Giants cut starting guard Kevin Zeitler, good player. 125 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:58,479 Speaker 1: We saw the New Orleans Saints are going to be 126 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: cutting Generas Jenkins, the veteran cornerback. I saw that cut Steve, 127 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: and I said to myself, well, that's the kind of 128 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 1: guy the Bills signed to a one year deal. Usually 129 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 1: us started thirteen games last year for Saints are not 130 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: done yet either, like Nick Easton gone, Jared Cook gone, 131 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: Josh Hill gone, Thomas Morestead gone, Kwan Alexander gone, Emmanuel 132 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: Sanders gone, g Norris Jenkins gone, and they've restructured about 133 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 1: four guys too, and they are way over the cat 134 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 1: still working. I'm telling you, it would have been a 135 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 1: fascinating thirty for thirty. They should have sent some down 136 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: set a camera crew down there, just follow Mickey Loomis 137 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: for the next ten days. Guy's probably losing whatever Harry's 138 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 1: got left my sweating it out down there. They're in 139 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: deep there. But Genoras Jenkins strikes me as the kind 140 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: of corner that the Bills are usually in the market for. 141 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 1: They usually signed a veteran corner of some kind. And 142 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: this guy started thirteen games last year. He's better than 143 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: what the bill, Well, yes, but he's also thirty two, right, 144 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: so he's not going to command the price tag that 145 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 1: I think he has in recent years. Maybe this should 146 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: have been our our Twitter poll for the day. Do 147 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: you Norris Jenkins, who's now I'm blanking on his name 148 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 1: that corner from from Seattle now San Francisco. M Richard Sherman, Okay, 149 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 1: George Jenkins, pretty James Sherman. Or let's find another one, 150 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: Patrick Peters, Patrick Peterson, and then Levi Wallace and Levi 151 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: Wallace well on, forget money money name on name recognition alone, 152 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:42,959 Speaker 1: they're going to pick some of those other guys. They 153 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: are they just are. But I just saw that and 154 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 1: I said, okay, age thirty two started thirteen games last year, 155 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: And let's not forget this. This guy's playing opposite Marshawn Lattimore, right, Okay, 156 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:58,440 Speaker 1: how many passes is Marshawn Lattimore seeing in the same 157 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: thing as Levi Wallace was teen pass breakups, he had 158 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:05,679 Speaker 1: three interceptions. I think he took one back for a touchdown. Um, 159 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: guy can still play. I wonder what his price tag 160 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 1: would be? Maybe it's not the typical contract. I mean, 161 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: the Bill signed Josh Norman coming off a down year 162 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: for one year and six million dollars. What is the 163 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 1: price tag for Genera's Chase starting corner though? A six 164 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:25,439 Speaker 1: million bucks? No, it sounds crazy to say, but that's nothing. 165 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: Five million, I know, that's that's like a that's one 166 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:30,959 Speaker 1: percent of your something tells me he would still command 167 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 1: a larger salary than that. But do you break your 168 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 1: do you break your code and sign him to a 169 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 1: two year deal to land him and then draft one groom, 170 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:46,320 Speaker 1: one whatever, given the base, given the base minimum salary, 171 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: sign him to a signing bonus spread over the two years. 172 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 1: He was saying, help yourself, like putting an extra year 173 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 1: on the thing, right, I don't know I could be 174 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 1: talked into that. Yeah, I mean, but that's what I'm at, 175 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 1: You know, is it? You know, you go out and 176 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 1: find one of those guys, and who's it gonna be? 177 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: You know who's it gonna be. We saw the Chiefs 178 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 1: release both of their starting offensive tackles, and while that 179 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 1: kind of sent shockwaves through the league, the reality of 180 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:16,559 Speaker 1: this is these are two players coming off major injuries 181 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 1: situations we saw Eric Fisher go down with the torn 182 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 1: achilles against the Bills in the AFC title game. And 183 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 1: Mitchell Schwartz has had back problems for years and underwent 184 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 1: back surgery and it's a question as to whether or 185 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: not he will even continue his career. And Eric Fisher, 186 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 1: who tore his achilles in January, unlikely to be ready 187 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 1: for the start of the twenty twenty one season. So 188 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 1: as far as the Chiefs are concerned, those were relatively 189 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 1: easy answers. Yeah for them, as I look at it, 190 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:51,679 Speaker 1: drew a lot of attention because when those guys came 191 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 1: out of the lineup after they played the Bills. Yeah, 192 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:57,560 Speaker 1: the Chiefs were shadow or the Bills would have beaten 193 00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:59,959 Speaker 1: them if those guys would have been out of that game. Yeah. Now, Fischer, 194 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: the Bucks pass rush, you know, right, they handed the 195 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: Chief's offensive line their lunch on the edge game. You know, 196 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:10,200 Speaker 1: he tours achilles in the Bills game, which is which 197 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: is a crusher for a player because then you know 198 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: there is a question is whether he'll be back and 199 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: be able to even play or walk around by the 200 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: time training camp starts. So it's that's usually a one 201 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 1: year injury. Yeah, And Achilles or especially for aligneman who's 202 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:27,880 Speaker 1: got to go in reverse and plant that heel in 203 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:30,719 Speaker 1: the ground, do you know what I mean from that? 204 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: Or to drive block off of it. How much torque 205 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: you're putting on that achilles I'm asking to take. He's 206 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:39,719 Speaker 1: at LAE. He might miss the whole season. He may 207 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 1: not play in twenty twenty one. Right, that's a that's 208 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:46,559 Speaker 1: a big ask for a man that size on a 209 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:50,440 Speaker 1: repaired achilles to be ready in nine ten eleven. I 210 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 1: just don't see it happening. Um. I mean, I'll give 211 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 1: all the credit in the world to the miracles of 212 00:11:55,240 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 1: modern medicine, but I don't see him playing. So to me, 213 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:04,440 Speaker 1: it was a relatively easy decision for the Chiefs. These 214 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 1: two guys are probably not going to be healthy to 215 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: really pull it together and be the kind of players 216 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 1: they were for all those years for the Chiefs, So 217 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 1: they got to start over. And when two guys like 218 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,559 Speaker 1: that are no longer part of the equation for a 219 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:22,560 Speaker 1: Chiefs team, the demand goes up for people like Daryl Williams. 220 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 1: Kansas City still you know, four million over the cap 221 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, they've got some work to do as well, 222 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 1: we know that. But yeah, you've got six days, six 223 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,199 Speaker 1: days to make the other difficult decisions that you need to. 224 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 1: We saw Bill's free agent wide receiver Isaiah McKenzie on 225 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: Good Morning Football on NFL Network yesterday, and I tweeted 226 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: this out yesterday, but he was asked specifically if he 227 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 1: would like to come back and resign with the Bills, 228 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 1: and his answer was, and this is a direct quote, 229 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,040 Speaker 1: if I get the chance to go back to Buffalo, 230 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 1: I would love to because the fan base is amazing, 231 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 1: the coaches in the organization is awesome, my teammates are amazing. 232 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 1: At this point, it's up to my agent, and whatever 233 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:10,960 Speaker 1: decision he makes, I've got to leave to him. I 234 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:15,080 Speaker 1: can't say too much about it. My inkling on that 235 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:17,319 Speaker 1: because I know some fans of his were like, why 236 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 1: are letting the agent make the decision. It's your decision, 237 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 1: he works for you, And that's all true, But I 238 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 1: think you have to remember the kind of player that 239 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie is in this league. He is not a 240 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: guy that is going to be fielding offers for upwards 241 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 1: of eight to ten teams. Might be a handful of 242 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 1: teams based on the season that he put together, which 243 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 1: was a nice season for the Bills, five touchdowns, including 244 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 1: the only return touchdown on the season for the Bills 245 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:48,560 Speaker 1: special teams unit. And this is a guy that has 246 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 1: not made giant money to this point in his career. 247 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 1: I would say his value on the free agent market 248 00:13:57,200 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 1: is the highest it may ever be for him in 249 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,839 Speaker 1: his career right now. Right So what is his agent 250 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 1: telling him, We gotta get you all the money we 251 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 1: can get you. Now, that's when he says, it's up 252 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 1: to my agent. He means, it's up to the deal 253 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 1: that my agent can bring back to me exactly if 254 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:14,840 Speaker 1: it's yeah, and it's for a guy like Isaiah McKenzie 255 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 1: more so than any other player type that you can 256 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 1: think of, it is about the money because this is 257 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 1: his chance, this is this chance to change his life 258 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 1: for the rest of his life. And nobody money. Yeah, 259 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: nobody's gonna nobody's gonna hold it against Isaiah McKenzie for 260 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: getting all the cash he can. And it's a guy 261 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 1: that has been in and out of the Bills offense 262 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 1: all his total of four years. If he's been that, 263 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 1: he's been here, he's had moments, he's he's always been 264 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: a guy that the Bills have used offensively in spots, 265 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 1: and then you get to a game like Week seventeen, 266 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: where the guy hangs three touchdowns in the first half 267 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 1: on the Miami Dolphins, number one scoring defense in the league. 268 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:57,480 Speaker 1: Teams are going you know, yeah that, let's just see 269 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:00,120 Speaker 1: what he can do. He is definitely a player that 270 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 1: can stretch a defense horizontally. You know. Is he an 271 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 1: outside receiver? No? Could he play the slot, Yeah, he 272 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: could probably play in there a little bit. I think 273 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: the place you have to be careful with him is 274 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 1: giving him too big a role. And the reason I 275 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 1: say that is if you give him a giant role 276 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 1: similar let's just say similar to the role that Cole 277 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 1: Beasley has, I don't know if he holds up. I 278 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:30,520 Speaker 1: mean he's even smaller than Beasley. I don't know that 279 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: he gets through a sixteen game season with a larger 280 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 1: role and get a little nicked up, miss a few 281 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 1: weeks here and miss a few weeks there, and then 282 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 1: you're not getting the return on your investment. So I 283 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 1: think it's a very narrow market for him. But this 284 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: is the most marketable he will be thus far in 285 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 1: his career. So his agent, understandably so is looking to 286 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 1: Land the biggest deal he can's. It's rough though, because 287 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: I'm looking around thinking, Okay, what kind of teams would 288 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 1: be interested in a guy like Isaiah McKinsey. Pick a 289 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 1: pick and I'll give you something. A team like the 290 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks could use a guy like him to mix 291 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: in with you know, Russ Wilson. Give him one more 292 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: little tool in his toolbox. A speed guy. They've got, 293 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: you know, DK Metcalf, and they've got some guys that 294 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: can go and go big, but they need a guy 295 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 1: down inside, down underneath where mackenzie could probably help them, 296 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: you know, a guy that's more multifaceted than those other guys. 297 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:28,160 Speaker 1: A team like well, like the Kansas City Chiefs. This 298 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 1: is the perfect kind of guy that would compliment that 299 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 1: offense without Sammy Watkins in it, right, but they're cap strapped. 300 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:38,920 Speaker 1: Same thing with New Orleans. I could see him going 301 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 1: into New Orleans and but they're cap strapped, you know 302 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So some of the teams that he 303 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 1: might go to and make fit in. You know, another 304 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:50,600 Speaker 1: team that may work for him is Arizona. The Cardinals. 305 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald probably is not gonna come back they've got, 306 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 1: they've got DeAndre Hopkins. They could use a guy with 307 00:16:58,080 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: some speed to take the lid off a little bit, 308 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: maybe do some other things. You can see that. So 309 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 1: there's but that's what you're looking at. You're thinking, Okay, well, 310 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: what's the value? Yeah, like what value? I think he's 311 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 1: a tough guy to put a hard and fast value on, 312 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:18,919 Speaker 1: because I think his value is different even for some 313 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:20,879 Speaker 1: of those teams that you mentioned, going from one to 314 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 1: the next to the next. Some might value him as 315 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 1: a four million dollars a year player. Some may value 316 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:29,480 Speaker 1: him even more than that because they want to make 317 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 1: him their primary return man, right. You know, So I 318 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:38,119 Speaker 1: think the value could vary greatly. But all mackenzie needs 319 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:40,199 Speaker 1: is one team to be very high on him and 320 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:43,160 Speaker 1: he could get, you know, one of the most lucrative 321 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:45,440 Speaker 1: contracts he might ever see. You're talking about it. He 322 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: make five million bucks this year, and that he still 323 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 1: wouldn't be would be barely a blip on most teams radar. 324 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 1: But if he performs in that role that they want 325 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:57,680 Speaker 1: him to and can play in all sixteen games, that 326 00:17:57,760 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 1: kind of thing, it's like, wow, that's yeah, do that again. 327 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:05,440 Speaker 1: They'll take that deal. Right, So you know for Isaiah McKenzie, 328 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 1: who's coming off a year in which, um, you know 329 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,719 Speaker 1: what did he make? Not even two million bucks? Right? 330 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 1: I mean it was he was a restricted free agent 331 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:21,880 Speaker 1: m last year and signed a one year deal, So yeah, 332 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:28,120 Speaker 1: he didn't make giant money. So yeah, I can look 333 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 1: it up. But I'm yeah, I'm getting it right now. 334 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: Sorry about that. That's okay. But he is, he's he's 335 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:35,399 Speaker 1: this is gonna be a big deal for him, this contract. 336 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 1: So he that's why he says, and we got under 337 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 1: this because yeah, that's why he's letting his agent just 338 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: go out and beat the bushes. What what decision are 339 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 1: we gonna make? He is, well, here's a deal, and 340 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: here's a deal, or maybe you'll say this is the 341 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 1: better deal by far financially, and that's it. Let's go. 342 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:51,240 Speaker 1: You know, that's the decision that he's making when he 343 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,440 Speaker 1: says he's gonna make let his agent make the deal. 344 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 1: That's what that means is we gotta find the best deal. Yeah. 345 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:03,119 Speaker 1: So there's there's that sitting on the table, and you know, 346 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 1: we know that the questions have been raised after yesterday's cuts, 347 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:13,359 Speaker 1: could there be more for the bills, like, are they done? 348 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,280 Speaker 1: Is John Brown and Quentin Jefferson the end of it? 349 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 1: Or could there be more they cleared? You know, we're 350 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: estimating here, but somewhere around eighteen million dollars if you 351 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:28,879 Speaker 1: count the restructures by Morrise and Butler along with the 352 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 1: releases of Brown and Jefferson. Do they need to do 353 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: more now? As Steve and I have mentioned on this show, 354 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 1: they do have the option years on the extensions for 355 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:45,639 Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins and Tradevious White that would automatically trigger the 356 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 1: final years of their deals and convert some of their 357 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: base salary this year into option bonus which can be amortized. 358 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 1: And as Joel Corey from CBS Sports told us former 359 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:01,880 Speaker 1: NFL agent when we had him on the show, he said, 360 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,639 Speaker 1: that basically reduces their cap numbers for this year because 361 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:08,439 Speaker 1: you cut the base salary in half for both and 362 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 1: you could save close to fifteen million dollars on those 363 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:15,199 Speaker 1: two players without subtracting anyone from your roster. That seems 364 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 1: like a no brainer and a foregone conclusion. They can't 365 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:20,879 Speaker 1: do that until the first day of the new league 366 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:22,880 Speaker 1: here at the earliest, and they have a five day 367 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 1: window in which to do that, But I think we 368 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:27,400 Speaker 1: would all anticipate they would do that if they feel 369 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 1: they need that extra cap space and with all the 370 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:31,919 Speaker 1: holes they got to fill on their roster, would I 371 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 1: would think it would behoove them to do that. Yeah, 372 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 1: just to go back and tie to that up. Isaah 373 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 1: McKinsey made nine hundred and sixty grand last year, which 374 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 1: is great money for all of us. But he could 375 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 1: get five times that in this free market. Could he could? 376 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 1: And That's what I'm thinking, And he could get it. 377 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 1: Think about it. He could get a three year deal 378 00:20:55,880 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 1: with a big bonus right up front and presto chango. 379 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: That changes his life. Yeah, And I would imagine that 380 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 1: the Bills have an interest in bringing him back into 381 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:08,399 Speaker 1: the fold because he served a role here. I mean, 382 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:12,119 Speaker 1: I don't think there's any question about that. And you know, 383 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: if the offense is going to continue on its current trajectory, 384 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: I would think that that role would continue for Isaiah McKenzie. 385 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:22,080 Speaker 1: And they've probably already put a value on it, and 386 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:26,159 Speaker 1: they've probably already told mackenzie's camp what that value is. 387 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 1: Here's what we're willing to offer. We'd love to have 388 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:31,879 Speaker 1: you back if you want to go out in the 389 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 1: market and test your value. That's fine. Before you sign anything, 390 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:38,359 Speaker 1: give us a call and we'll see if you know 391 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,160 Speaker 1: what you're being offered is something that we can live with. 392 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:44,200 Speaker 1: It might not be, because this is kind of where 393 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: we see your value with our roster, and that's you 394 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: just got to be upfront about it. That's what these 395 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:51,480 Speaker 1: front offices have to do, like, here's the value we 396 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:54,680 Speaker 1: think is appropriate for you on our roster as a 397 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 1: fit on our team, and if you can do better 398 00:21:57,680 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: than that on the free agent market, well then you know, 399 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:03,919 Speaker 1: good on you. And you know, Mackenzie's probably gonna take 400 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 1: it if he can get a better offer, and we 401 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,959 Speaker 1: all understand why. And he's not alone. There's other players 402 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 1: on this roster who are gonna be going through the 403 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 1: same thing with fourteen unrestricted free agents. John Brown, after 404 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,879 Speaker 1: being released by the Bills yesterday, went on Sirius x 405 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 1: MNFL radio and when he was asked what teams he 406 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 1: could see himself fitting in, he mentioned the Steelers and 407 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,359 Speaker 1: the Colts. And it was interesting Steve because he said, 408 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,960 Speaker 1: you know, after playing against the Colts in the playoffs, 409 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,200 Speaker 1: he said, I was looking at that team saying, oh, 410 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,160 Speaker 1: that team could be a problem the next few years, 411 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 1: and he said, I could see myself on that team 412 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: and fitting in just fine. I think he'd be a 413 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 1: welcome veteran presence. I think he'd be a better guy 414 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,840 Speaker 1: on that team than t Y Hilton is right now. Well, yeah, 415 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 1: and I think he knows that t Y Hilton is 416 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 1: a free agent. John Brown probably knows he doesn't come 417 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 1: at the same price tag as t Y Hilton, although 418 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:01,439 Speaker 1: they're both well John Brown's thirty one, t Y Hilton's thirty, 419 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 1: so maybe it is comparable. I don't know, but yeah, 420 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: so I could see him on that team. That's a 421 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 1: team with a lot of money to spend. The Steelers, however, 422 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:11,120 Speaker 1: a team with not a lot of money to spence. 423 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 1: And that those two guys think about it. T Y Hilton, 424 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 1: John Brown, those are two guys that are the quintessential 425 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 1: issue with this offseason and free agency. It's there's two 426 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 1: guys that are like, really good players out there, but 427 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:30,400 Speaker 1: they're two guys in a pool of twenty where they're 428 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 1: at the bottom of that Yeah, you know what I mean. 429 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:39,360 Speaker 1: Certainly are the classic middle of the market thirty receiver 430 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 1: that in most years would have no problem finding work. 431 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 1: But in this year with a restrictive cap, you're gonna 432 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:52,160 Speaker 1: have the big name players sign early for a lot 433 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 1: of money. That's gonna dry up a lot of the 434 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 1: cap space for even the teams that have cap room, 435 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:00,400 Speaker 1: and then the rest of free agency could very well 436 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: be signing a lot of guys to one year deals 437 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 1: for below market value at the bottom of the free 438 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,959 Speaker 1: agent market, and that middle market gets squeezed out and 439 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 1: they are gonna be guys I don't know. I don't 440 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 1: think it'll be John Brown or t Y Hilton, but 441 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,399 Speaker 1: they'll be guys maybe slightly below them in terms of 442 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: ability and what they have to offer, who may have 443 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 1: to take below market value just to have a job. 444 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 1: This year, that's going to happen to some players at 445 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 1: certain positions, especially ones as deep as receiver in the 446 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,560 Speaker 1: free agent market. So it's it's the middle market in 447 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 1: free agency is gonna get squeezed and we'll be talking 448 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,399 Speaker 1: about free agent fits in the second hour of our 449 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,159 Speaker 1: show when we have ESPN's Matt Bowen on with us 450 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 1: NFL analyst and co host with Greg Kosell on the 451 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 1: NFL Matchup show on ESPN during the season but he's 452 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:56,880 Speaker 1: crunching tape and watching film of college prospects, pro pro 453 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:00,240 Speaker 1: free agents, and he recently put together a piece on 454 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,480 Speaker 1: the best free agent fits for all thirty two NFL teams. 455 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 1: So we'll be going over that with Matt in the 456 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 1: second hour of our program about forty minutes from now, 457 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 1: so stay tuned for that. We also want to let 458 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: you know that the Buffalo Bills are releasing a documentary 459 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 1: premiering tonight on the Bills YouTube channel seven pm. It 460 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 1: will also air this coming Saturday on WIVB TV channel 461 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 1: four in Buffalo, our television partner here in Buffalo. It 462 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:43,119 Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Growth Mindset Documentary and it premieres tonight 463 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 1: at seven on the Bills YouTube channel, so be sure 464 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,600 Speaker 1: to check that out. As we all know, that's a 465 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: common phrase used by head coach Sean McDermott. He always 466 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 1: talks about making players the best version of themselves here 467 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 1: in Buffalo, and we've seen that to a great degree 468 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 1: with a countless number of years in the four years 469 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,920 Speaker 1: that coach has been the head coach here, and so 470 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 1: we look forward to that. We haven't seen it ourselves, 471 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 1: but we heard it's very well done. I saw the brill. 472 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 1: Girardi zem Walt was the executive producer on the project 473 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,919 Speaker 1: with a lot of her Pagoula Sports and Entertainment cohorts, 474 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 1: along with some of the members of our video team 475 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 1: from Buffalo Bills dot com. So yeah, I look forward 476 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 1: to it. I want to see, uh, how it turned out, 477 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 1: because I know some of the guys and women in 478 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 1: the video room were excited about the project. So we 479 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: look forward to seeing that. Yeah, Michelle's great that it 480 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 1: comes out. It comes out tonight on the YouTube channel 481 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:40,639 Speaker 1: on March eleventh. Um, I'm sorry, on the thirteenth, thirteenth, 482 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,400 Speaker 1: it's gonna be on Channel four Saturday at six thirty pm. 483 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 1: And it's uh. I saw that there was a preview 484 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 1: that I got a chance to look at it, and 485 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 1: it's it's great. Michelle is the Michelle's the producer who 486 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 1: did the cigar video. That's right, hype video that I 487 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 1: was might be chili, There might be chili video. She 488 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,240 Speaker 1: came over to she came back to bu She's Buffalo Girl. 489 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,919 Speaker 1: Went with NFL Films for a long time. Did you 490 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:05,959 Speaker 1: know all the stuff they do in NFL films is awesome? 491 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 1: And she came home to work here with the Buffalo 492 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 1: Bills and PSC and all that. She's great. It's I 493 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:12,919 Speaker 1: can't wait to see it. I'm I'm gonna make sure 494 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 1: I make time for that. Yeah, So be sure to 495 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,440 Speaker 1: check that out if you get the opportunity. And I'm 496 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:20,520 Speaker 1: looking to watch it start to finish. I'm eager to 497 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 1: see it because i haven't seen a second of that, 498 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 1: so I'm really interested to see what it turns out 499 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,440 Speaker 1: to look like from start to finish. We also want 500 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:35,119 Speaker 1: to discuss with you today the free agent moves that 501 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,160 Speaker 1: the Bills will be undertaking as soon as next week, 502 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:44,120 Speaker 1: because after making some cuts, including John Brown, and knowing 503 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 1: the free agents that are currently coming off of this 504 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:51,560 Speaker 1: Bill's roster, what is the most important free agent move 505 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 1: for the Bills on the offensive side of the ball. 506 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,200 Speaker 1: We left some choices there for you, but you can 507 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 1: come in with any positional need that you feel is 508 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 1: the most pressing wide receiver, tight end, or offensive line. 509 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:09,360 Speaker 1: We know that Brandon Bean himself has said that they 510 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,720 Speaker 1: want to take a look at tight end after what 511 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 1: he termed an up and down year at the position, 512 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,880 Speaker 1: so that lends credence to the thought that they may 513 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,880 Speaker 1: be looking to add there. We know the situation at 514 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,400 Speaker 1: offensive line with five of their nine players that were 515 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:26,160 Speaker 1: on the roster last year with expiring contracts, one restricted 516 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,640 Speaker 1: free agent Ike Butcker and four unrestricted free agents, and 517 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 1: then now at wide receivers, suddenly the six wide receivers 518 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,359 Speaker 1: Steve that the Bills went into every game day with 519 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: last season, half of them are not part of this 520 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:47,320 Speaker 1: roster right now. John Brown released Andre Roberts set to 521 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 1: become a free agent, and the aforementioned Isaiah McKenzie set 522 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 1: to become a free agent. Now you do have other 523 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 1: players that you signed on reserve future contracts, those being 524 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:01,479 Speaker 1: Duke Williams and Jake Kumereau to go with Gabriel Davis, 525 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 1: the draft pick that basically took a redshirt year Isaiah Hodgins, 526 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 1: and then Cole Beasley and Stefan Diggs. But the depth 527 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 1: of that receiving corps has been chipped away at and 528 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,560 Speaker 1: veterans have come off of that group. You have largely younger, 529 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 1: less proven players in terms of the numbers you have 530 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,200 Speaker 1: there at that position. So it's an interesting choice today. 531 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 1: And I think we had the voting results of the 532 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,640 Speaker 1: Twitter poll. Earl Yeah, there it is. Thanks guys, so 533 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: more than half of you saying offensive line, which is 534 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 1: kind of a nodush situation. But it looks like nobody's 535 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 1: really worried about wide receiver, which interests me, Steve, because 536 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 1: I'm not so sure. I'm not convinced that the group 537 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 1: they have at that position now is the group we're 538 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 1: going to see them going into training camp with come 539 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 1: the summertime. It's not the only bit of the group 540 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: that I mean, that group's not complete. Usually go to 541 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 1: training camp with like twelve wide house eleven or twelve, 542 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 1: and back in the day, you'd go with thirteen or so, 543 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 1: and so, um, you know the limited number of guys 544 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:09,600 Speaker 1: they've got under contract, Yeah, they're gonna They're gonna sign 545 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 1: some more guys. They may even draft one um later 546 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:18,080 Speaker 1: on in the draft. But um, yeah, I'm I'm totally 547 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 1: with and I think most of the people who are 548 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 1: answering our Twitter poll have been listening to you and 549 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 1: me for the last week and a half. It's the 550 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,880 Speaker 1: offensive line that is the most pressing to me, because 551 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 1: you got three returning pure number standpoint, pure number standpoint, 552 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: and we're still we're still headed downhill here in the 553 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 1: off season before we start to climb the mountain for 554 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:38,719 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Again, we don't know where this is 555 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:42,400 Speaker 1: gonna be, um, and this is uh on. The offensive 556 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 1: line to me is first and foremost, and I like 557 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,000 Speaker 1: the way the Bills, the way it's setting up. Certainly 558 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,040 Speaker 1: there are enough guys out there for the Bills to 559 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 1: find three or four quality starting offensive linemen to go 560 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:57,800 Speaker 1: into the to the new season. I think you got 561 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 1: to have at least three to go in and I'm 562 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 1: hopefully four, So you could have one guy as a 563 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,480 Speaker 1: swing guy. I mean, you've got Dion Dawkins and Mitch Morrison. 564 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 1: Certainly you believe Cody Ford will come back and be 565 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:16,280 Speaker 1: a strong candidate and be a starter. Buttker, You've who's 566 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:20,200 Speaker 1: a free agent, Feliciano free agent, Darryl Williams a free agent. 567 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,560 Speaker 1: You got to have those three replacements at at hopefully 568 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:27,160 Speaker 1: a higher level than they were, and an extra guy 569 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,000 Speaker 1: so that if somebody goes down, you can plug somebody in. 570 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 1: That all remains to be seen what do they do that, 571 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,040 Speaker 1: But that's that's what you're looking at. You you're down 572 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,360 Speaker 1: a number of guys at that spot, and I think 573 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 1: people are who've been listening to us for the and me, 574 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:43,960 Speaker 1: I've been pounding this drunk. I feel like I'm a 575 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,800 Speaker 1: dog with a bone here and I'm chewing it up 576 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:50,960 Speaker 1: because I'm totally totally obsessed with the offensive line roster 577 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 1: or I think what makes tight end and receiver compelling 578 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:58,000 Speaker 1: parts of this argument. Though even though from a numbers standpoint, 579 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 1: you can easily argue offensive line, the compelling part about 580 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 1: tight end and wide receiver is there's a very good 581 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 1: chance the complexion of the tight end position will change 582 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 1: in terms of player makeup. And I think the identity 583 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:18,000 Speaker 1: of the wide receiving corps could very easily change from 584 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:21,280 Speaker 1: last year to this year based on the players they 585 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,680 Speaker 1: decide to add. We will get into that when we return. 586 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 1: Your phone calls are welcome. Eight O three oh five 587 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 1: fifty open line for you. There one eight eight five 588 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,520 Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. What's the most important free agent 589 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:37,720 Speaker 1: move for the Bills on offense? In your estimation, it's 590 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,000 Speaker 1: a wide receiver now with the cuts that were made 591 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,480 Speaker 1: there is it tight end or is it the O line? 592 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,600 Speaker 1: Let us know at eight O three five fifty. Steph 593 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 1: and I back in a flash year on what Bills Live, 594 00:32:47,640 --> 00:33:01,840 Speaker 1: presented by Collat of Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome 595 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,280 Speaker 1: back to one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with 596 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,440 Speaker 1: you talking about free agent moves for the Bills on 597 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:11,120 Speaker 1: offense and where the most important positions we want you 598 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,560 Speaker 1: to rank them. Basically, give us your one, two, and three. 599 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:18,320 Speaker 1: We have choices there for the most important, so feel 600 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:21,280 Speaker 1: free to chime in at eight oh three, five fifty one, 601 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,840 Speaker 1: eight five fifty two, five fifty we do go to 602 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,640 Speaker 1: the tweet sheet now and it's brought to you by 603 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,880 Speaker 1: Corrigan Moving Systems, as always the official equipment moving company 604 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:35,640 Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Bran and Tiffany says, you have to 605 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 1: protect your top asset with quality offensive linement. As teams 606 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,400 Speaker 1: are creating salary camp space, top tier tackles are hitting 607 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,320 Speaker 1: the open market. It may drive down the price on 608 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,840 Speaker 1: Darryl Williams and make them more affordable heading into free agency. 609 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,000 Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, Steve, tell me where you 610 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:54,719 Speaker 1: come down on this one. Because typically, and we know 611 00:33:54,880 --> 00:34:02,000 Speaker 1: this is Brandon Bean's philosophy, draft well Vella players resign 612 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:06,600 Speaker 1: your own, which is not an uncommon approach in the league. 613 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:10,319 Speaker 1: It's kind of how you maintain your team as cap 614 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:14,399 Speaker 1: strong and whatnot. Obviously, they are extenuating circumstances this year, 615 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:19,040 Speaker 1: But with all of the talent we're anticipating getting thrust 616 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:23,520 Speaker 1: into the market this year, are you better off waiting 617 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:29,000 Speaker 1: to see where the market goes before trying to resign 618 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:33,400 Speaker 1: a guy like Daryl Williams in the hopes that maybe 619 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,640 Speaker 1: he's not part of that first wave. And then the 620 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:42,040 Speaker 1: market drops out and it becomes soft, and now you 621 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,840 Speaker 1: can go back to Daryl Williams and say, hey, we 622 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,640 Speaker 1: told you we wanted you back. We're still in that boat. 623 00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,640 Speaker 1: Here's what we'd like to pay you. What do you think? 624 00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:54,560 Speaker 1: And then they have less leverage because now, right now, 625 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:56,640 Speaker 1: the player has all the leverage because it's like, well, 626 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:58,399 Speaker 1: do you want to sign me? Now? You gotta pay 627 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,279 Speaker 1: me this because I'm foregoing the opportunity to have thirty 628 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,719 Speaker 1: one other teams bid on my services, right you got 629 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,400 Speaker 1: to You gotta at least pay me what we're anticipating 630 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,520 Speaker 1: the market to be. And it's a guess, and it's 631 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,960 Speaker 1: a it's an inexact guest this year maybe more than 632 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,319 Speaker 1: any other year. Yeah, because you don't know how many 633 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,440 Speaker 1: real players there are going to be in the market 634 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,680 Speaker 1: because of the teams that are tight against the cap. 635 00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:25,000 Speaker 1: There's probably you could argue there's fewer, there will be fewer. 636 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:30,040 Speaker 1: I think that's a safe assumption to make. As we know, 637 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 1: it only takes one team to overpay and then you're 638 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:37,080 Speaker 1: you're out of luck and you've lost the guy. It's 639 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:40,040 Speaker 1: an interesting game right to play here, I think, and 640 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,000 Speaker 1: I don't want to turn into an English teacher. But 641 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,759 Speaker 1: you don't want to go into free agency or the 642 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,480 Speaker 1: draft with a plan. You want to go in with 643 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,320 Speaker 1: a philosophy because you can't tell what's going to happen, 644 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:55,040 Speaker 1: so you're more than any other. The philosophy, in my opinion, 645 00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,240 Speaker 1: should be this. Listen, you're gonna set values on guys 646 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,840 Speaker 1: where you would will be willing to pay, and know 647 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,839 Speaker 1: that there might be some hoops you have to jump 648 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,120 Speaker 1: through to get a guy. But if it's like you know, 649 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,560 Speaker 1: if you've got your your site set on a number 650 00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:09,839 Speaker 1: of guys at this position, a couple of guys at 651 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:12,759 Speaker 1: that position, or you want to fill in, you've got 652 00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,399 Speaker 1: numbers that you want to fill. You want to get 653 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:19,120 Speaker 1: at least say, for instance, three offensive linemen or four 654 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,680 Speaker 1: offensive line or maybe six offensive linemen. You want to 655 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:25,239 Speaker 1: get at least four wide receivers. You've got values on 656 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,000 Speaker 1: those positions, and you go in saying, listen, when no 657 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,080 Speaker 1: matter what happens, we've got values on these spots. Can 658 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:32,920 Speaker 1: we think this guy, this guy, this guy, and this 659 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,000 Speaker 1: guy are going to be worth somewhere in our in 660 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,719 Speaker 1: our spot. Now you talk to almost all of them, 661 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:42,680 Speaker 1: but you got to find out what they value because 662 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 1: what they value themselves at is going to be probably 663 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,960 Speaker 1: different than what you value yourself at. Maybe maybe not, 664 00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:51,560 Speaker 1: but you cannot deviate from the value you set on 665 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,600 Speaker 1: a guy's ability to perform, because the moment you start 666 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:58,520 Speaker 1: going outside those lines on the wrong side of obviously, 667 00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:00,800 Speaker 1: the moment you go outside those lines, you're starting to 668 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,000 Speaker 1: get into trouble. Well, you set the values that you 669 00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,680 Speaker 1: have and you stick with them. And if the deal 670 00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:09,239 Speaker 1: comes at midnight on the fifteenth or the seventeenth, the 671 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,400 Speaker 1: moment free agency comes and that deals that take it. 672 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:13,919 Speaker 1: But if you have to wait three weeks, you never 673 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:15,600 Speaker 1: think it's gonna happen, and then all of a sudden 674 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,960 Speaker 1: it might. You gotta stick with that, and you gotta 675 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,600 Speaker 1: be disciplined for two reasons. Number one, you don't want 676 00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:24,120 Speaker 1: to overpay, because now that's getting the value that you 677 00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:26,520 Speaker 1: thought you were on the player. And then number two, 678 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,120 Speaker 1: if you overpay, now you've compromised the value that you 679 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,440 Speaker 1: set on other players at other positions that you want 680 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:36,560 Speaker 1: to acquire, and there's less money to give. And it's bad, 681 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,800 Speaker 1: it's bad. You get yourself in a hole real quick. 682 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:45,640 Speaker 1: You've got to stay within the lines financially at every 683 00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:49,359 Speaker 1: position group and if you because if you start going 684 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,600 Speaker 1: out those lines, now another position group is going to 685 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:55,880 Speaker 1: suffer for it. And you know you're that's just the 686 00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:59,399 Speaker 1: way it's gonna be. And you cannot. You never get 687 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:04,200 Speaker 1: into a war with another team because it's irrelevant what 688 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,400 Speaker 1: other What that other team values this guy out is 689 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,920 Speaker 1: irrelevant to you. You've got a value at him of him, Yeah, 690 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:11,839 Speaker 1: you it's for your team. No, you don't care what 691 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:16,160 Speaker 1: they think of him? Well, no, because it's it's about 692 00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,400 Speaker 1: the fit that you believe he is for the Bills. 693 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,680 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just like the draft. We see all 694 00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:23,640 Speaker 1: these varying draft grades and it's like, oh, this team 695 00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:25,160 Speaker 1: had him in the third round, Why did this Why 696 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:26,520 Speaker 1: did this team take him in the bottom of the 697 00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:30,359 Speaker 1: first Well, he was an ideal fit for that team, right, 698 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,760 Speaker 1: so the value the draft grade on him was higher 699 00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:36,200 Speaker 1: for that team. Doesn't mean they were wrong. Obviously the 700 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,640 Speaker 1: guy's a bust. Okay, they were wrong, But that's why 701 00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:45,160 Speaker 1: draft grades differ between clubs, and value on free agents 702 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:50,600 Speaker 1: will differ, and it's on the player's agent to find 703 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:54,279 Speaker 1: the team that considers him the most valuable. You can't, 704 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,520 Speaker 1: and that's why everybody likes to go to a live auction. 705 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:02,759 Speaker 1: And that's what free agency is, live auction. And you 706 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,120 Speaker 1: get it, and you get into this match with somebody 707 00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,440 Speaker 1: else who's bidden across the room, and you gotta have it. 708 00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:09,839 Speaker 1: And you you like the way you look in that 709 00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:15,279 Speaker 1: moment by by outbidding the guy. Yeah, like you got 710 00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:18,480 Speaker 1: deep pockets. Sooner or later that that guy goes you 711 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:22,120 Speaker 1: can take it. Now you gotta pay up, yea. And 712 00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:29,239 Speaker 1: that moment is now you look like an idiot. No, 713 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,440 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, that's what these guys do. So you 714 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:35,480 Speaker 1: cannot ever get into that spot. What do you think 715 00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,200 Speaker 1: the guy's worth? And if you you gotta get that's 716 00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,440 Speaker 1: as as far as you go. And hopefully you get 717 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,839 Speaker 1: him for less than that. Yeah, and that's the idea too, 718 00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:44,920 Speaker 1: because you're not don't pay him all that if you 719 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,160 Speaker 1: don't have to, don't put your best off around on 720 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,120 Speaker 1: the table first. That's it. You gotta stay inside that. 721 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,800 Speaker 1: So you go in And that's that's my quote of 722 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,680 Speaker 1: the day. You don't go into the draft or free 723 00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,680 Speaker 1: agency with a plan. You go in with a philosophy. 724 00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:01,600 Speaker 1: Stick with it. Seth on the tweet sheets says, definitely 725 00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,080 Speaker 1: old line, got a sure things up in front of 726 00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:08,000 Speaker 1: seventeen and hopefully create more success in the run game. However, 727 00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:12,840 Speaker 1: I'd also say that resigning Mackenzie should be a priority 728 00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,480 Speaker 1: on offense. Dude is a proven playmaker for us that 729 00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:19,239 Speaker 1: will be needed without smoke this year. I think the 730 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:26,000 Speaker 1: absence of John Brown creates a veteran presence kind of void, 731 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:30,920 Speaker 1: if you will, now Beasley's inexperienced player. Diggs is obviously 732 00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:33,560 Speaker 1: your number one and a leader and a veteran presence 733 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,919 Speaker 1: as well. Take Gabriel Davis is mature beyond his years 734 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,319 Speaker 1: as well. He is, That's why he got on the 735 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:42,200 Speaker 1: field so quickly last year, no question. So I don't 736 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:46,160 Speaker 1: know that that void is as prevalent as we might 737 00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:51,400 Speaker 1: think it is. May not be, I think you. And 738 00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:54,080 Speaker 1: there's a conversation to be had here, which we will 739 00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,399 Speaker 1: get into in due course. We got plenty of time 740 00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:59,120 Speaker 1: to do that here on the show today, even though 741 00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:00,640 Speaker 1: we are going to be talking of Matt Bowen in 742 00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:08,040 Speaker 1: about twenty minutes from ESPN. But I think that Gabriel Davis, 743 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,280 Speaker 1: as bad as it sounds to say, made John Brown 744 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,160 Speaker 1: a cut that the Bills could live with, right. I mean, 745 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:21,359 Speaker 1: when you think about it, if Gabriel Davis doesn't come 746 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:24,879 Speaker 1: in here and do what he does, I think they're 747 00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:26,759 Speaker 1: trying to find a way to keep John Brown for 748 00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:30,080 Speaker 1: at least one more year. And the fact that their 749 00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:34,160 Speaker 1: offense didn't significantly change with John Brown out of the lineup, 750 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:37,720 Speaker 1: that's right, and that was a I think that's huge 751 00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,120 Speaker 1: and I think what ultimately sold the Bills that this 752 00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,600 Speaker 1: was a movie that could live with. If you go 753 00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,000 Speaker 1: back and look in the second half of the season 754 00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,160 Speaker 1: with John Brown out of the lineup, there was a 755 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,640 Speaker 1: three game stretch where Gabriel Davis had a touchdown at 756 00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:55,400 Speaker 1: three straight games, and if you look at his receiving average, 757 00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:57,399 Speaker 1: you know, people are like, oh, well, John browns though 758 00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,000 Speaker 1: the guy that stretches the defense. Well, yes, that is true. 759 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,040 Speaker 1: John Brown in two seasons average fourteen and a half 760 00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:07,000 Speaker 1: yards per catch. Gabriel Davis last season almost eighteen yards 761 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,400 Speaker 1: a reception. That guy got behind defenses, even though he 762 00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:13,200 Speaker 1: doesn't have the same blazing speed that John Brown does. 763 00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:18,319 Speaker 1: It's a sneaky route runner gets behind people. He's gonna 764 00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:21,279 Speaker 1: be just fine in that role going forward. But I 765 00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:26,480 Speaker 1: think the depth of this receiving corps within it, you 766 00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:30,360 Speaker 1: may want to have some kind of veteran presence, which 767 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,600 Speaker 1: I don't know that you're going to have if Andre 768 00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,400 Speaker 1: Roberts doesn't come back and he barely played on offense anyway. 769 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:38,319 Speaker 1: But I wonder if there's an offensive player out there 770 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:41,560 Speaker 1: in free agency that you could get at an affordable price, 771 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:45,120 Speaker 1: for a reduced cost, that can at least just give 772 00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,160 Speaker 1: you some kind of insurance. I'm looking for insurance here, 773 00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:52,799 Speaker 1: something that can be offered, and we'll get into that. 774 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:54,399 Speaker 1: We gotta take a break now, but we'll get into 775 00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,360 Speaker 1: that when we return. Because our next tweet sheet commenter 776 00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:00,840 Speaker 1: goes away from the offensive line and leaves there's another 777 00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:04,400 Speaker 1: position that outranks it. We'll get into that when we 778 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,960 Speaker 1: return here On one Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health. 779 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:22,279 Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to one Bills Live. Chris, 780 00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:23,880 Speaker 1: perhaps Steve to ask you with you, We're gonna be 781 00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:27,320 Speaker 1: talking with ESPN's Matt Bowen from the NFL Matchup Show 782 00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:31,760 Speaker 1: and probably in about ten fifteen minutes, so stay tuned 783 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,440 Speaker 1: for that. It's got some interesting posts up on espn 784 00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:38,480 Speaker 1: dot com on the NFL page that we're gonna be 785 00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,840 Speaker 1: going over with him when he joins us in the 786 00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,759 Speaker 1: second hour of the show. But in the meantime on 787 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:47,160 Speaker 1: the tweet sheet where we're asking you on the poll today, 788 00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,080 Speaker 1: what's the most important free agent move for the Bills 789 00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:53,279 Speaker 1: on offense? Jack says Bean said in his year end 790 00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:56,160 Speaker 1: pressor they need more out of the tight end position. 791 00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:59,279 Speaker 1: I expect them to go after tight end and unrestricted 792 00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:03,200 Speaker 1: free agency to compliment and improve what they have. I 793 00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,319 Speaker 1: know we need old line, but I still think they 794 00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,560 Speaker 1: will get at least two of their three free agents 795 00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:11,480 Speaker 1: plus Cody Ford back on the team for twenty one. 796 00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:17,359 Speaker 1: And don't forget Bates and bargain free agents. What do 797 00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:22,400 Speaker 1: we think about that? I thought that Brandon Bean's comments 798 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,120 Speaker 1: in his season ending press conference gave indication that they're 799 00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:27,040 Speaker 1: going to take a hard look at the tight end position. 800 00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:31,520 Speaker 1: How much they do remains to be seen. We know 801 00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:34,440 Speaker 1: Lee Smith is contemplating retirement, has a year left on 802 00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:37,120 Speaker 1: his contract. We don't know where that sits, but presumably 803 00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:39,480 Speaker 1: you would think that the Bills would like a decision 804 00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,319 Speaker 1: from him before the league year opens, And maybe they 805 00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:44,480 Speaker 1: have it already and they just have an announced who knows, 806 00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:47,799 Speaker 1: or maybe he decided he is going to come back 807 00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:50,080 Speaker 1: for one more year and take another kick at it. 808 00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:55,080 Speaker 1: But Tyler Croft is not coming back. I think that's 809 00:44:55,120 --> 00:45:01,319 Speaker 1: safe to say. So you have Reggie Gilliam. You have 810 00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:06,959 Speaker 1: Tommy Sweetey, whose health situation is at least unclear right now, 811 00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:12,040 Speaker 1: as he was suffering from myocarditis, which is a side 812 00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:16,200 Speaker 1: effect or a resulting effect of having COVID, which he did, 813 00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:20,360 Speaker 1: so we'll have to see where that goes. Hopefully for 814 00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:22,480 Speaker 1: his sake it can be the condition can be controlled 815 00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:26,080 Speaker 1: by medication, but undertaking a professional football career as an 816 00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:30,600 Speaker 1: entirely different situation. So you know, when you have Nate Becker, 817 00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,520 Speaker 1: who you're signed to reserve future contract. He's been kind 818 00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:35,399 Speaker 1: of on the team's practice squad, each of the last 819 00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:41,239 Speaker 1: two years. So yeah, there's a there's a sense that 820 00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,440 Speaker 1: they want somebody that can do just about everything at 821 00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,520 Speaker 1: the tight end position, especially if you don't have Lee 822 00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:50,240 Speaker 1: Smith anymore. Who's your primary blocker at the tight end position. 823 00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:54,120 Speaker 1: The name zach Ertz has been brought up because we 824 00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:57,480 Speaker 1: know that the Eagles are trying to trade him and 825 00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:00,719 Speaker 1: they may ultimately just outright release him if they can't 826 00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:04,600 Speaker 1: find a trade partner willing to offer anything, and he's 827 00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,080 Speaker 1: got a year left on his current contract at eight 828 00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:10,839 Speaker 1: and a quarter million dollars. There are other options out 829 00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:13,000 Speaker 1: there as well. I know a lot of people talk 830 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:16,000 Speaker 1: about john Us Smith, including our next guest Matt Bowen, 831 00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:19,400 Speaker 1: who sees him as a fit for what the Bills 832 00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:22,400 Speaker 1: do on offense. So we'll get Matt's thoughts on that, 833 00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:25,680 Speaker 1: But there are options out there. How much you're willing 834 00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,919 Speaker 1: to invest in terms of dollars and cents, I think 835 00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:33,560 Speaker 1: is the big question there. Knowing your cap situation, what 836 00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:36,440 Speaker 1: you have to add to the offensive line where you're 837 00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:39,640 Speaker 1: short at other positions, especially if you lose somebody like 838 00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:43,080 Speaker 1: Matt Milano. So there's a lot there that you have 839 00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,200 Speaker 1: to sift through before you determine how much money you're 840 00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:47,799 Speaker 1: going to spend on the free agent market at the 841 00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:53,000 Speaker 1: tight end position. Yeah, there's gonna be plenty of bodies 842 00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,960 Speaker 1: out there, and I've told you too, I think, no 843 00:46:56,040 --> 00:47:00,640 Speaker 1: question they've got to sign some guys. Lee Smith. I'd 844 00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:03,960 Speaker 1: be interested to see how serious he is about retirement 845 00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:05,520 Speaker 1: because if he wants to play, I think the Bills 846 00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:10,000 Speaker 1: won him back, right, strong leader in that room, and 847 00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:13,840 Speaker 1: his two basually is a sixth offensive lineman. Right. And also, 848 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:15,719 Speaker 1: and I don't if you remember this, when they use 849 00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:19,200 Speaker 1: he caught a couple of touchdowns and he has that 850 00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:21,800 Speaker 1: about him where he'll pounded away in the round. And 851 00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:24,680 Speaker 1: this is a team that didn't run the ball that much, right, 852 00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:26,880 Speaker 1: I mean they hardly ever ran it, and they'd use 853 00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:28,800 Speaker 1: him for pass pro stuff and he'd sneak out. He 854 00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:32,600 Speaker 1: caught a couple of big passes last year because it's 855 00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:36,920 Speaker 1: so unexpected when it happens, and you know, Josh finds 856 00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:41,480 Speaker 1: him red zone out in the field as well. Made 857 00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,040 Speaker 1: a catch against the Rams early in the going and 858 00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:47,480 Speaker 1: the early going for the touchdown. But there's no question 859 00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,760 Speaker 1: they like what he brings leadership wise, and his blocking 860 00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:54,040 Speaker 1: is second to none. So if he wants to play, 861 00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:56,320 Speaker 1: I think they'd love to have him back. But they 862 00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,160 Speaker 1: this is a little bit like the offensive line. I'll 863 00:47:58,160 --> 00:47:59,400 Speaker 1: get you. I'll give you that. They got to have 864 00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:03,240 Speaker 1: some guys if they can't count on Tommy Sweeney being better. 865 00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:05,359 Speaker 1: And I don't know that. Right now, you're looking at 866 00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:07,520 Speaker 1: Dawson Knox as the guy you want to be, the 867 00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:10,759 Speaker 1: veteran in the room. You know how I feel about him. 868 00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,640 Speaker 1: I think this is the year that Dawson Knox may 869 00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:17,959 Speaker 1: turn the corner. Last year little injured COVID and he's 870 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:21,239 Speaker 1: still kind of working into being a pro. And he's 871 00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:24,839 Speaker 1: also relatively up through this last year was relatively new 872 00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:29,120 Speaker 1: to the position. Yeah, so this year, I think his 873 00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:31,520 Speaker 1: third year may be a jump like we saw Josh 874 00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,000 Speaker 1: making his third year. If it doesn't happen, then I'm 875 00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:35,960 Speaker 1: all in on, you know, finding a guy or whatever. 876 00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:39,880 Speaker 1: But now, having said all of that, in this market 877 00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:41,760 Speaker 1: where we're sitting and you get one of those guys 878 00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:43,480 Speaker 1: on that tight end list that we just looked at 879 00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:47,640 Speaker 1: who's still sitting out there after two weeks, get him, absolutely, 880 00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:51,560 Speaker 1: get him. John U Smith, zach Ertz. John Smith isn't 881 00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:55,359 Speaker 1: gonna be there into he won't, you know, Gerald, Everett Hunter, 882 00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:57,560 Speaker 1: Henry's going to be the first guy off the board probably, 883 00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:01,799 Speaker 1: you know. I don't get Runkowski too. Get get him. 884 00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:03,200 Speaker 1: If he wants to have a year at home here 885 00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:06,400 Speaker 1: in Buffalo, bring the guy in. But he's not going to. 886 00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:10,359 Speaker 1: He's not going to. But whatever, any of these, any 887 00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:13,919 Speaker 1: of these guys, um not any of them. Jeff Cook 888 00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:16,160 Speaker 1: is entering his age thirty four season, would be a 889 00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:20,400 Speaker 1: little reluctant there. Anthony Foster is an athletic tight end. 890 00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,160 Speaker 1: He almost looks like a big wide receiver. That guy's 891 00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:25,520 Speaker 1: not gonna help you in the blocking game at all. Sorry. 892 00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:28,279 Speaker 1: Burton an undersized guy, but runs. You know, he's a 893 00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:32,520 Speaker 1: pass catcher. So I'm I'm I'm neither here nor there. 894 00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:36,040 Speaker 1: I want to know. I want to see what Dawson 895 00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:39,439 Speaker 1: Knox brings to the table this year, But my expectations 896 00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:44,680 Speaker 1: are much much elevated this year for Dawson Knox. Nice personally, 897 00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:46,680 Speaker 1: be nice if he could put a third year together 898 00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:49,280 Speaker 1: kind of like Josh did have like a breakout type season, 899 00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:51,719 Speaker 1: that would be a welcome sight. He's gonna need to 900 00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:54,000 Speaker 1: stay healthy, He's gonna need to do all the offseason activities. 901 00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:57,040 Speaker 1: Is he's and he's gonna have to come back better 902 00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:00,480 Speaker 1: as a route runner and as a catcher break for us. 903 00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:03,960 Speaker 1: But when we return ESPN, NFL analyst Matt Bowen, co 904 00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:06,799 Speaker 1: host of the NFL Matchup Show with Greg ko Sell, 905 00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:10,360 Speaker 1: will be joining us. He's got the best free agent 906 00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:12,520 Speaker 1: fits for the Bills and the thirty one other teams 907 00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:14,880 Speaker 1: in the league based on who's expected to get to 908 00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:17,960 Speaker 1: the free agent market. Who did he pick for Buffalo. 909 00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:20,320 Speaker 1: We'll talk to him about that next when we return. 910 00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:22,759 Speaker 1: Here on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health, 911 00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:36,600 Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio, Bufalo Bills Radio Network Sports, your 912 00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:39,280 Speaker 1: sports update from One Bill's Drive. The Bills are premiering 913 00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:42,440 Speaker 1: a new digital documentary called Growth Mindset that chronicles the 914 00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:46,000 Speaker 1: team's success from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty, showcasing how 915 00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:47,640 Speaker 1: the team was built leading up to a trip to 916 00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:50,480 Speaker 1: the AFC Title Game this past season, and now they're 917 00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:53,719 Speaker 1: prepared to grow in twenty twenty one and beyond. Airs 918 00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:56,520 Speaker 1: tonight at seven on The Bills YouTube channel and Saturday 919 00:50:56,640 --> 00:51:00,160 Speaker 1: night at six thirty on WIVB TV Channel four. War 920 00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:03,360 Speaker 1: Here in Buffalo, Clemson holding it's Pro day today. It 921 00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:06,959 Speaker 1: will not include quarterback Trevor Lawrence, but is featuring seven 922 00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,400 Speaker 1: other players, including running back Travis etn With plenty of 923 00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:14,920 Speaker 1: NFL scouts watching, including GM Brandon Bean, who is in attendance. 924 00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:18,160 Speaker 1: Chiefs are cleaning house on their offensive line. Kansas City 925 00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:21,839 Speaker 1: releasing starting offensive tackles Eric Fisher and Mitchell Schwartz, both 926 00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:24,520 Speaker 1: players unavailable in this year's Super Bowl because of injuries 927 00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:27,879 Speaker 1: and are working their way back to full health. They'll 928 00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:32,680 Speaker 1: now officially become free agents. More offensive line casualties. The 929 00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:36,200 Speaker 1: Vikings have released offensive tackle Riley Reef. Move saves the 930 00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:39,239 Speaker 1: Vikings over eleven million dollars in cap space. He was 931 00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:42,200 Speaker 1: the twenty third overall pick in the twenty twelve draft. 932 00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:46,000 Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints purge continues as the club works to 933 00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:49,920 Speaker 1: get under the cap. The Saints informed veteran corner Genoras 934 00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:53,160 Speaker 1: Jenkins they're releasing him after joining the Saints in twenty 935 00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:56,279 Speaker 1: nineteen following fallout in New York. Jenkins started thirteen games 936 00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:58,520 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty and was a key member of their 937 00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:02,560 Speaker 1: shutdown secondary. Texans if restructured the contract of wide receiver 938 00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:05,840 Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks. He had a twelve million dollars base salary 939 00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:08,440 Speaker 1: and a twelve million dollars cap hit. The move will 940 00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:11,399 Speaker 1: cut that number in half, giving the Texans some much 941 00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:14,360 Speaker 1: needed cap space. And on the ice, the Sabers return 942 00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:17,360 Speaker 1: home following a five game road trip, hosting the Penguins 943 00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:19,399 Speaker 1: at the Key Bank Center. It's the first meeting between 944 00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:23,520 Speaker 1: the two teams this season. Face offset four seven pm. 945 00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:26,600 Speaker 1: That is your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown. 946 00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:30,640 Speaker 1: Steve Tasker here for our number two of a Thursday 947 00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:35,080 Speaker 1: edition of One Bills Live and joining us now on 948 00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:38,920 Speaker 1: the line ESPN NFL analyst. He's the co host of 949 00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:42,959 Speaker 1: the ESPN's NFL Matchup show with Greg Cosell. Obviously played 950 00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:45,840 Speaker 1: seven seasons in the NFL as well, including two thousand 951 00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:48,800 Speaker 1: and six with the Bills. It is one Matt Bowen 952 00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:51,239 Speaker 1: joining us. Matt, how you doing, man? We are in 953 00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:56,480 Speaker 1: full free agency pre draft mode. Are the juices flowing 954 00:52:56,600 --> 00:53:00,279 Speaker 1: for this man? I think they already look at a 955 00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:02,000 Speaker 1: team like the Buffalo Bills, who has a couple of 956 00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:04,520 Speaker 1: spots they can fill. When I wrote a piece for 957 00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:07,120 Speaker 1: ESPN this week, I do it every year, and this 958 00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:09,000 Speaker 1: year I went a little deeper. I did forty players 959 00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:10,880 Speaker 1: and I try to find ideal landing spots. So we 960 00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:14,719 Speaker 1: all understand about free agency. Very tough to predict, right, 961 00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:16,360 Speaker 1: I went through it as a player. A lot of 962 00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:19,560 Speaker 1: guys have to look for the best opportunity and ultimately, 963 00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:22,279 Speaker 1: for a lot of times, the contract means everything, right, 964 00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:25,160 Speaker 1: So it's tough to predict. But what I did. They said, Okay, 965 00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,920 Speaker 1: let's look at scheme. Let's look at need and guys 966 00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:31,319 Speaker 1: that fit either a certain offensive or defensive identity. And 967 00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:34,439 Speaker 1: I started with Buffalo on the offensive side of the ball, 968 00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:36,439 Speaker 1: looking at the tight end position. The reason I say 969 00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:39,879 Speaker 1: that I love the Bills offense last year. I love 970 00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:42,560 Speaker 1: what Brian Dable does as an offensive coordinat We all 971 00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:45,840 Speaker 1: know about the development Josh Helen showed at the quarterback position. 972 00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:49,200 Speaker 1: But there's one thing that you can add to that offense. 973 00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:51,240 Speaker 1: It's a dynamic threat in the middle of the field. 974 00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:54,080 Speaker 1: So I looked at John new Smith, former Tennessee Titan, 975 00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:57,520 Speaker 1: who's now a free agent. High level traits, dynamic playmaking 976 00:53:57,520 --> 00:54:00,440 Speaker 1: ability after the catch. I think it gets stressed seams. 977 00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:03,439 Speaker 1: Would he fit in Buffalo? I think he would. There's 978 00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:05,799 Speaker 1: a couple of things there when you're talking about what 979 00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:09,279 Speaker 1: johnas Smith can bring to this offense, won the seams, 980 00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:11,319 Speaker 1: stretching and Billy middle of the field target for Josh 981 00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:13,200 Speaker 1: Jon somebody can get the ball to in third and 982 00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:16,480 Speaker 1: two to six situations. Also inside the low red zone. 983 00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:18,120 Speaker 1: When I see the low red zone, guys, I meet 984 00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:20,759 Speaker 1: inside the plus ten yard line. And right now, there's 985 00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,960 Speaker 1: no one better in the National Football League at scheming 986 00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:27,000 Speaker 1: offense inside the red zone than Brian day Balls. We've 987 00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:29,880 Speaker 1: seen it countless times last year with tight end crossers, 988 00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:33,680 Speaker 1: play action movement. You add another player like johnas Smith 989 00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:35,880 Speaker 1: who's got those high level traits, he can be a 990 00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:39,400 Speaker 1: scoring upside option for you inside the plus ten yard line. 991 00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:42,239 Speaker 1: And probably the last thing I'll say them guys, look, 992 00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:44,879 Speaker 1: we do this every week on the Matchup show Greg 993 00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:47,919 Speaker 1: co Sell in South Bell and I we talk about 994 00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:52,080 Speaker 1: how you occupy defendants. Well, from the Buffalo Bills perspective, 995 00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:54,120 Speaker 1: you have a tight end, you can occupy safeties in 996 00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:55,960 Speaker 1: the middle of the field. What does that create That 997 00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:59,520 Speaker 1: creates more one on one opportunities for Stefan Diggs outside 998 00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:02,560 Speaker 1: the numbers. Yeah, and it's it's really difficult at this point, 999 00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:05,200 Speaker 1: and this may be as difficult as it's been ever 1000 00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:08,200 Speaker 1: in the NFL, with the shrunken salary cap and the 1001 00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:11,080 Speaker 1: flood of free agents going onto the market. How do 1002 00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:13,160 Speaker 1: you keep track? Because we're sitting here talking every day. 1003 00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:16,160 Speaker 1: The Bills have got like two offensive linemen that they 1004 00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:18,799 Speaker 1: can count on for this coming season that played last year. 1005 00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:22,160 Speaker 1: Five free agents, and plus Cody Ford who was out 1006 00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:24,400 Speaker 1: with a significant injury. They got two guys on the 1007 00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:27,760 Speaker 1: roster that lined up for him at the under questions 1008 00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:30,600 Speaker 1: that are under contract. How do you balance you know, 1009 00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:33,759 Speaker 1: the obvious departures with free agency for these teams, and 1010 00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:36,960 Speaker 1: you know, and I keep telling him, it's like this 1011 00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:40,240 Speaker 1: guy on Star Trek, Scottie. He says, it's like trying 1012 00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:42,640 Speaker 1: to hit a bullet with a smaller bullet while riding 1013 00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:47,440 Speaker 1: on a horse wearing a blindfold. There's so much we 1014 00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:49,960 Speaker 1: don't know about what's going to happen in free agency 1015 00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:51,520 Speaker 1: and where these teams are going to sign guys to 1016 00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:54,280 Speaker 1: fill their roster before the draft. Man, we are running 1017 00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:57,360 Speaker 1: blind out here with this free agent market being flooded 1018 00:55:57,360 --> 00:56:01,520 Speaker 1: with all these great players. Yeah, I agree, this is 1019 00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:03,359 Speaker 1: an off season. Why I think it's really gonna test 1020 00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:06,520 Speaker 1: and going to show the results which the NFL teams 1021 00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:09,480 Speaker 1: have the strongest pro personnel departments. I really believe that 1022 00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:11,320 Speaker 1: we talked about every year in the college scouting department. 1023 00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:14,560 Speaker 1: That's obviously we're gonna talk about that a lot coming 1024 00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:17,120 Speaker 1: up towards the NFL Draft. Really right now, going into 1025 00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:18,759 Speaker 1: free agency, like you said, there's gonna be a lot 1026 00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:21,080 Speaker 1: of good football players looking for work. There is is 1027 00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:24,160 Speaker 1: a lot of good football players. It's about the offensive 1028 00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:26,040 Speaker 1: liness and be a lot of guys in the secondary too, 1029 00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:28,000 Speaker 1: you know that. So there's would be opportunities for your 1030 00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:31,480 Speaker 1: pro personnel department based on their grades and how they 1031 00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:34,560 Speaker 1: see player fit with in scheme in terms of defense 1032 00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:37,480 Speaker 1: and offensive identity, where they can fit in your football team. 1033 00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:38,919 Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be a lot of one year 1034 00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:42,479 Speaker 1: deal for fetching players. You're gonna have an opportunity, whether 1035 00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:45,320 Speaker 1: you're the Buffalo Bills, Patriots, Chicago Barriers, we can go 1036 00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,880 Speaker 1: down the line to find key players that fill in 1037 00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:50,879 Speaker 1: your roster this offseason. It's be fun to watch. Yeah. 1038 00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:53,160 Speaker 1: And speaking of one year deals here, Matt, you know 1039 00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:56,080 Speaker 1: you see John Brown get released here yesterday, and while 1040 00:56:56,520 --> 00:56:58,280 Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are of the opinion 1041 00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:00,840 Speaker 1: that Gabriel Davis should very cable we step into that 1042 00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:04,200 Speaker 1: number three receiver role behind Diggs and Beasley in terms 1043 00:57:04,239 --> 00:57:06,600 Speaker 1: of that pecking order at the wide receiver position here, 1044 00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:10,040 Speaker 1: the four spot is kind of up in the air, 1045 00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:12,680 Speaker 1: and they have candidates on the roster. You know, they 1046 00:57:12,719 --> 00:57:16,680 Speaker 1: signed Jake Kumero as a reserve future free agent, and 1047 00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:20,640 Speaker 1: they've got Isaiah Hodgens, their six round draft choice from 1048 00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:22,600 Speaker 1: last year, who didn't even get on the field last year, 1049 00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:26,960 Speaker 1: essentially red shirted. But I'm wondering if they need to 1050 00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:29,919 Speaker 1: just get some kind of veteran insurance type player there 1051 00:57:30,360 --> 00:57:32,600 Speaker 1: on a one year deal, almost as like a bridge 1052 00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:35,440 Speaker 1: player until you know what you have, and maybe Hodgens 1053 00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:38,840 Speaker 1: or Kumero who haven't had a ton of time on 1054 00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:41,920 Speaker 1: an NFL regular season game field, and I'm looking at 1055 00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:45,160 Speaker 1: a guy like that you can get at an affordable price, 1056 00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:48,360 Speaker 1: and someone like John Ross comes to mind. Yes, injuries 1057 00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:51,440 Speaker 1: have been an issue for him, but I think that 1058 00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:54,920 Speaker 1: kind of helps you convince him, Hey, sign a one 1059 00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:58,080 Speaker 1: year deal here, prove yourself and go back into the 1060 00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:00,840 Speaker 1: market next year and get bigger money if you pan 1061 00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:03,160 Speaker 1: out here. Where we throw the ball all over the 1062 00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:05,400 Speaker 1: yard and run four wide almost more than any other 1063 00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:08,600 Speaker 1: team in football. What do you think of that? Well, 1064 00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:10,280 Speaker 1: I agree with you, and you bring up a good point, 1065 00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:12,240 Speaker 1: and you know four yd ten person. I always saw 1066 00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:14,360 Speaker 1: a bunch from Brian Dabo last year. John Ross is 1067 00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:16,880 Speaker 1: someone who has similar traits to John Brown. What you're 1068 00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:19,760 Speaker 1: looking at there, someone who stress the field vertically. Someone 1069 00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:21,960 Speaker 1: would take the top off the secondary. Somebody can scheme 1070 00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:24,720 Speaker 1: up on vertical throws, whether they're true verticals down the 1071 00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:26,600 Speaker 1: field are deep overs off the play action which you 1072 00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:29,720 Speaker 1: see from Brian dave Bow's offense to give Josh Allen 1073 00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:31,440 Speaker 1: a clean to find window down the field. Let me 1074 00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:35,520 Speaker 1: throw another name mention. Calif Raymond played for the Tennessee Titans. 1075 00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:38,160 Speaker 1: Now he wasn't a high vuying target of Tennessee, but 1076 00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:40,320 Speaker 1: we understand that offensive structure in Tennessee. It was a 1077 00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:43,240 Speaker 1: run heavy, play action offense. But Calif Raymond, you talk 1078 00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:46,040 Speaker 1: about big plays down the field and scheme vertical throws. 1079 00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:48,840 Speaker 1: That's all over is taking Tennessee. You saw him the 1080 00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:51,200 Speaker 1: playoffs two years ago against the Baltimore Ravens, which was 1081 00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:53,280 Speaker 1: a key play in that football game. The Tennessee win. 1082 00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:55,560 Speaker 1: So what you're looking at there if you are trying 1083 00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:58,320 Speaker 1: to find someone on one year deal who has similar 1084 00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:01,400 Speaker 1: traits and similar play stout of John Brown that can 1085 00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:04,040 Speaker 1: stretch the field. You also, you told us about the 1086 00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:06,560 Speaker 1: scheme fit you thought that John tight end Johnny Smith 1087 00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:08,200 Speaker 1: would have for the Bills. If you know there's a 1088 00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:10,280 Speaker 1: tight end spot coming in and doing some things. What 1089 00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:14,040 Speaker 1: about Trey Hendrickson, the defensive edge rusher from the Saints. 1090 00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:17,440 Speaker 1: He's been I've heard a lot of people throw his 1091 00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:19,960 Speaker 1: name out as a guy that would, you know, kind 1092 00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:22,720 Speaker 1: of fit what the Bills like to do. Why would 1093 00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:27,520 Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson be one of those guys? Well? I put 1094 00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:29,480 Speaker 1: Trey Henderson to the Bills for a couple of reasons. 1095 00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:32,240 Speaker 1: One obviously had a high level production last year, and 1096 00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:34,200 Speaker 1: we always say that when you have high level production, 1097 00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:37,840 Speaker 1: can they do it again at a different location. Well, 1098 00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:39,920 Speaker 1: you have to look at the defensive identity in Buffalo, 1099 00:59:40,080 --> 00:59:42,440 Speaker 1: how they how they scheme their passors. We know what 1100 00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:45,800 Speaker 1: Buffalo will do. They'll walk up those linebackers double a gap. 1101 00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:47,960 Speaker 1: Looking the reason they do that, guys, so they're trying 1102 00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:50,080 Speaker 1: to get one on one pass rush opportunity for their 1103 00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:53,880 Speaker 1: defensive tackles of their defensive ends. With Trey Henderson, a 1104 00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:55,520 Speaker 1: lot of things you see on the film. He can 1105 00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:58,360 Speaker 1: win with speed to power, He's got active hands, he's 1106 00:59:58,360 --> 01:00:00,520 Speaker 1: got good counters. Now, I don't think he's a scheme 1107 01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:03,160 Speaker 1: transcendent pass rush. What I mean by that is he 1108 01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:06,200 Speaker 1: doesn't have elite band like a Miles Garrett off the edge. 1109 01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:08,520 Speaker 1: But he's a high effort player. You see a lot 1110 01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:10,600 Speaker 1: of times he gets sacked laying it down because he 1111 01:00:10,640 --> 01:00:13,400 Speaker 1: never stops playing. And when I watched the Buffalo Bills 1112 01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:16,360 Speaker 1: play defense, it's a high energy defense's run to the football. 1113 01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:18,800 Speaker 1: It's guys that tackle in the second and third level 1114 01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:21,200 Speaker 1: and a defensive front that can get after the quarterback. 1115 01:00:21,240 --> 01:00:23,800 Speaker 1: And one thing I will say here, if I'm the 1116 01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:27,200 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills right now, every move I'm making the offseason, 1117 01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:29,920 Speaker 1: especially in the defensive side of the ball, I'm making 1118 01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:32,440 Speaker 1: that move with a focus on beating Patrick Mahomes in 1119 01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:34,720 Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. And how do you beat Patrick 1120 01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:36,479 Speaker 1: Mahomes in the Kansas City Chiefs. You have to slow 1121 01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:38,760 Speaker 1: down that passing offense, and the ways you do that 1122 01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:41,240 Speaker 1: are to push the pocket. So I'll throw another name match. 1123 01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:43,640 Speaker 1: If you're looking for a defensive tackle, what about the 1124 01:00:43,720 --> 01:00:46,720 Speaker 1: Kawana's short who's going to be a free asient defensive tacker, 1125 01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:49,280 Speaker 1: who's got a relationship with coachman Germott from his time 1126 01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:51,600 Speaker 1: down in Carolina. Can you find someone else that can 1127 01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:54,920 Speaker 1: push the pocket interior wise to help your defensive ents? 1128 01:00:55,560 --> 01:00:58,480 Speaker 1: Because Patrick Mahomes in Kansas City, that's a very good 1129 01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:00,720 Speaker 1: football team, as we know, that's the team you have 1130 01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:02,680 Speaker 1: to beat get to the Super Bowls. Every move I 1131 01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:06,560 Speaker 1: make offensively and especially defensively, I would design it with 1132 01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:09,200 Speaker 1: the focus on what can we do, what can we 1133 01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:12,520 Speaker 1: add to beat the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes. Now elsewhere 1134 01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:15,000 Speaker 1: in this write up that you had, you know, thirty 1135 01:01:15,040 --> 01:01:19,200 Speaker 1: two free agent fits for thirty two NFL teams on 1136 01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:23,400 Speaker 1: ESPN dot com, I saw I kind of laughed when 1137 01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:26,480 Speaker 1: you when you had this guy go into the Patriots 1138 01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:30,600 Speaker 1: because this would complete the division sweep for Ryan Fitzpatrick. 1139 01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:33,120 Speaker 1: He will have played for all four teams if he 1140 01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:35,760 Speaker 1: in fact goes to New England. But there is a 1141 01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:39,520 Speaker 1: lot that makes sense there in terms of the match 1142 01:01:39,560 --> 01:01:42,840 Speaker 1: because this is a guy that isn't afraid to pull 1143 01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:44,800 Speaker 1: the trigger as we have all seen over the years, 1144 01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:49,120 Speaker 1: and in that scheme, it seems like the answers are 1145 01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:52,880 Speaker 1: provided pretty pretty openly to the quarterback based on the 1146 01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:55,240 Speaker 1: way McDaniels draws it up. So that would seem to 1147 01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:57,240 Speaker 1: make sense. And I know that some of what you 1148 01:01:57,240 --> 01:01:59,000 Speaker 1: wrote about, but why don't you expand on that, Matt 1149 01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:03,120 Speaker 1: if you could. Well, we look into England right now, 1150 01:02:03,240 --> 01:02:05,680 Speaker 1: and obviously there's there's a major need at the quarterback position. 1151 01:02:05,680 --> 01:02:07,520 Speaker 1: And I mentioned a couple other names in there, names 1152 01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:10,080 Speaker 1: to wash In terms of cups, we could see you 1153 01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:13,280 Speaker 1: don't know Marcus Mariota. Jeremy Garoppolo obviously would be a 1154 01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:15,360 Speaker 1: fit there because they'd absolutely know his trace. You know 1155 01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:17,840 Speaker 1: how he fits in the office. But in terms of 1156 01:02:17,840 --> 01:02:20,000 Speaker 1: the veteran free agent market as it sits right now, 1157 01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:22,520 Speaker 1: I look at Ryan Fitzpatrick. He is aggressive, he is 1158 01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:24,840 Speaker 1: a veteran thrower, and what you're looking at there is 1159 01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:27,240 Speaker 1: how he fits in Josh er Daniel schemes. Very defined 1160 01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:31,160 Speaker 1: throws twenty one twelve personnel play actually target the middle 1161 01:02:31,160 --> 01:02:34,160 Speaker 1: of the field. And one thing that Fitzpatrick gives you 1162 01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:36,520 Speaker 1: is he's got the movement traces to get outside of 1163 01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:39,160 Speaker 1: the pocket, he can pick up the sticks and the 1164 01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:41,080 Speaker 1: third downs, we know what he'll do in the red zone. 1165 01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:43,200 Speaker 1: He will sacrifice his body near the goal line. Was 1166 01:02:43,200 --> 01:02:45,960 Speaker 1: seeing the time and time again with Ryan Fitzpatrick and 1167 01:02:46,040 --> 01:02:48,040 Speaker 1: also the Armtel When you do want to scheme your 1168 01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:51,080 Speaker 1: vertical throws down the field, Fitzpatrick can take shots over 1169 01:02:51,120 --> 01:02:53,160 Speaker 1: the top of the secondary. I think his tape was 1170 01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:55,560 Speaker 1: pretty good last year, maam. And you look at the 1171 01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:58,600 Speaker 1: tape last year, look at the numbers. They were much 1172 01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:01,160 Speaker 1: more aggressive with Fitzpatrick in the game compared to Win 1173 01:03:01,200 --> 01:03:04,400 Speaker 1: two is in the game much more vertical base throwing offense. 1174 01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:06,560 Speaker 1: And we know what Fitzpatrick. He can see it, he 1175 01:03:06,560 --> 01:03:08,600 Speaker 1: can get it out quick, and he's not afraid to 1176 01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:11,080 Speaker 1: challenge tight windows. But especially in New Whitland and a 1177 01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:14,320 Speaker 1: heavily defined pass game, you give them a veteran quarterback 1178 01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:16,920 Speaker 1: that allows him to compete at a higher level. And 1179 01:03:17,080 --> 01:03:19,959 Speaker 1: what about the other AFC East team and the Jets, 1180 01:03:19,960 --> 01:03:21,400 Speaker 1: And there's so much of what the Jets are going 1181 01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:22,920 Speaker 1: to go through has to do with the number two 1182 01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:25,040 Speaker 1: picking the overall in the draft. What they're gonna do 1183 01:03:25,040 --> 01:03:28,040 Speaker 1: with Sam Darnold, What are what is a spot where 1184 01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:33,680 Speaker 1: the Jets you think would help their roster as is well, 1185 01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:35,400 Speaker 1: I think you said it right there. You know it 1186 01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:37,000 Speaker 1: starts with Sam Darnold. What I would do in New 1187 01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:38,880 Speaker 1: York because I put Sam Darnald on the draft board, 1188 01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:40,920 Speaker 1: I put him up there and grade him against the 1189 01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,160 Speaker 1: rookie quarterbacks. That's the first thing I would do in 1190 01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:44,640 Speaker 1: the off season and say, do we have a higher 1191 01:03:44,640 --> 01:03:47,840 Speaker 1: grade in Sam Darnald from our pro personnel department than 1192 01:03:48,080 --> 01:03:51,040 Speaker 1: on Zach Wilson or on Justin Fields? Because I think 1193 01:03:51,040 --> 01:03:53,480 Speaker 1: if you do, then that gives you options. If Sam 1194 01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:55,520 Speaker 1: Darnald's going to be your quarterback and you strongly believe 1195 01:03:55,560 --> 01:03:58,400 Speaker 1: that he has a higher grade than the draft prospects 1196 01:03:58,480 --> 01:04:00,560 Speaker 1: coming out this year in the NFL Draft, and that 1197 01:04:00,600 --> 01:04:02,480 Speaker 1: gives you offers at number two. You can take an 1198 01:04:02,520 --> 01:04:04,600 Speaker 1: offensive tackle, you can trade back for someone who wants 1199 01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:07,040 Speaker 1: to move up for Zach Wilson or Justin Fields. If 1200 01:04:07,040 --> 01:04:09,240 Speaker 1: you don't have that high grade on Sam Darnald, if 1201 01:04:09,240 --> 01:04:11,360 Speaker 1: the grades pretty even and you want to go with 1202 01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:13,680 Speaker 1: a young kid, then you have to make the decision. 1203 01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:17,240 Speaker 1: Especially with Michael Floor and that new offense coming from 1204 01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:19,000 Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan, we know what that is a lot of 1205 01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:21,480 Speaker 1: play asks, a lot of misdirection, a lot of define throws, 1206 01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:23,960 Speaker 1: urpos in the middle of the field. Is that a 1207 01:04:23,960 --> 01:04:25,840 Speaker 1: better fit for Zach Wilson? Is that a better fit 1208 01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:28,200 Speaker 1: for Justin Fields? I studied both of my wrote reports 1209 01:04:28,200 --> 01:04:31,400 Speaker 1: on both of their different players. They are different players. 1210 01:04:31,600 --> 01:04:34,280 Speaker 1: You know. Zach Wilson can make throws from multiple platforms. 1211 01:04:34,520 --> 01:04:36,919 Speaker 1: He can't escape and extend. He's got high level movement, 1212 01:04:36,920 --> 01:04:38,880 Speaker 1: a build, He's got armtel to attack all levels of 1213 01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:41,560 Speaker 1: the field, say with Justin Fields. Justin Fields, a very 1214 01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:44,320 Speaker 1: aggressive decide to throw can push the ball down the field, 1215 01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:47,560 Speaker 1: has size in the pocketheads, movement, rakes. You can design 1216 01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:50,400 Speaker 1: a quarterback run game around Justin Fields as well. So 1217 01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:53,360 Speaker 1: who fits best at that number two spot? And I'm 1218 01:04:53,440 --> 01:04:55,600 Speaker 1: very interested to see what they do. Start with Sam Darnald. 1219 01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:57,720 Speaker 1: If they do move Sam Darnald, where does he go? 1220 01:04:57,840 --> 01:05:00,440 Speaker 1: What would you offer from Sam Darnald? If I'm a 1221 01:05:00,440 --> 01:05:03,360 Speaker 1: team like Chicago Bears, who needs a quarterback? Does Matteggie 1222 01:05:03,480 --> 01:05:05,280 Speaker 1: Ryan pace? If they go to the Jets and say, hey, 1223 01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:07,320 Speaker 1: we'll give you two this year and a five next year, 1224 01:05:07,360 --> 01:05:09,320 Speaker 1: I don't know what the value is yet, but I'm 1225 01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:11,920 Speaker 1: very interested to see because right now we all are 1226 01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:14,280 Speaker 1: on the belief that Trevor Lawrence is number one, Dick 1227 01:05:14,560 --> 01:05:17,560 Speaker 1: goes to the Jacksonville Jaguars. But what happens at number two? 1228 01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:20,960 Speaker 1: I think that's fascinating. I know we're talking to Matt Bowen, 1229 01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:24,400 Speaker 1: ESPN NFL analyst, also a co host of the NFL 1230 01:05:24,480 --> 01:05:28,520 Speaker 1: Matchup show during the football season, and I know that 1231 01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:31,760 Speaker 1: Matt Milano. Matt is a guy that I think a 1232 01:05:31,760 --> 01:05:34,400 Speaker 1: lot of Bills fans are coming to the realization is 1233 01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:37,880 Speaker 1: unlikely to be here next season just because of the 1234 01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:40,520 Speaker 1: price tag he's going to command on the open market. 1235 01:05:40,560 --> 01:05:42,320 Speaker 1: I mean, Steve and I have talked about this. We 1236 01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:46,160 Speaker 1: fully expect him to be, you know, a Wave one 1237 01:05:46,200 --> 01:05:50,120 Speaker 1: signing in free agency. You thought he would be a 1238 01:05:50,160 --> 01:05:52,640 Speaker 1: good fit for the Eagles, which I think would make 1239 01:05:52,720 --> 01:05:55,440 Speaker 1: Bills fans happy because he'd be in the other conference. 1240 01:05:56,440 --> 01:06:00,600 Speaker 1: Why did you like him there? I'll think you start 1241 01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:02,040 Speaker 1: with the traits in Matt Malone. He's a really good 1242 01:06:02,040 --> 01:06:04,720 Speaker 1: football player. I see a three downtown that's we're looking 1243 01:06:04,720 --> 01:06:07,120 Speaker 1: for in today's NFL. You want some play that running 1244 01:06:07,120 --> 01:06:10,200 Speaker 1: your base packages. More importantly, your sub packages could stayed 1245 01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:12,840 Speaker 1: on the field. You can scheme up as a pass rusher. 1246 01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:15,280 Speaker 1: You know, he had sack production in Buffalo, especially in 1247 01:06:15,280 --> 01:06:18,080 Speaker 1: those a gap blitzers. He can drop in coverage, he 1248 01:06:18,120 --> 01:06:20,920 Speaker 1: can master the tight ends on seams and corners and crosses, 1249 01:06:21,160 --> 01:06:23,720 Speaker 1: and then what you have as a zone defender underneath 1250 01:06:24,440 --> 01:06:26,960 Speaker 1: as a curl or a hook defender, and also the sideline, 1251 01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:29,200 Speaker 1: the sideline pursuit speed. He can get to the football. 1252 01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:32,480 Speaker 1: And I look at a team like Philadelphia new coaching staff, 1253 01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:35,520 Speaker 1: they have to get better at the linebacker position. Simply put, 1254 01:06:35,600 --> 01:06:37,360 Speaker 1: that's what I see on film right now. I have 1255 01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:40,240 Speaker 1: to upgrade that position. So I'm looking for a veteran 1256 01:06:40,240 --> 01:06:43,240 Speaker 1: player who's had previous NFL production that I believe they 1257 01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:45,760 Speaker 1: could fit My scheme. Probably gonna be more quarters made 1258 01:06:45,880 --> 01:06:49,760 Speaker 1: zone coverage. That's a good fit for Matt Malone. One 1259 01:06:49,760 --> 01:06:53,200 Speaker 1: of the things that other aspects of the Bills defense 1260 01:06:53,280 --> 01:06:55,400 Speaker 1: that the Bills fans are looking at and the Bills 1261 01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:57,800 Speaker 1: have been trying to get done for the last handful 1262 01:06:57,840 --> 01:07:01,600 Speaker 1: of years is a cornerback opposite Tradevia's White. They tried 1263 01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:04,439 Speaker 1: to bring in Josh Norman, didn't work out. They brought 1264 01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:07,080 Speaker 1: in Kevin Johnson, a year ago, former first round draft pick, 1265 01:07:07,760 --> 01:07:11,280 Speaker 1: and they could not unseat Levi Wallace. If Levi Wallace 1266 01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:13,200 Speaker 1: does leave, and say the Bills want to go into 1267 01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:15,160 Speaker 1: this draft and grab a corner and they fill all 1268 01:07:15,160 --> 01:07:19,800 Speaker 1: their other holes. How many cornerback prospects in this draft 1269 01:07:19,920 --> 01:07:22,280 Speaker 1: could you say are going to be able to come 1270 01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:26,920 Speaker 1: in compete for a starting job right away. I think 1271 01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:29,439 Speaker 1: you look at tiers right now, and the top tier 1272 01:07:29,480 --> 01:07:32,120 Speaker 1: is Patrick certain and fairly out of Virginia Tech. That's 1273 01:07:32,120 --> 01:07:34,520 Speaker 1: your top tier. I think the second tier, by himself 1274 01:07:35,120 --> 01:07:38,600 Speaker 1: is JC Horn out of South Carolina. After that, I 1275 01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:40,560 Speaker 1: mean there's a lot of guys that can fit in Buffalo. 1276 01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:42,560 Speaker 1: You know what Buffalo is gonna be. They're gonna be corners, 1277 01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:45,200 Speaker 1: split safety based team. They'll play the cover three. They 1278 01:07:45,280 --> 01:07:47,919 Speaker 1: both bring some man and man pressure. Now, one dame 1279 01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:49,280 Speaker 1: I'm going to throw out there, and that's not in 1280 01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:51,040 Speaker 1: the list I'm looking at right here, and these are 1281 01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:53,240 Speaker 1: all good football players right here, Guys. One name I'm 1282 01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:56,360 Speaker 1: gonna throw out as Greg Newson's the Northwest. And if 1283 01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:59,120 Speaker 1: you watch the tape on Greg Newson, he's a technician. 1284 01:07:59,360 --> 01:08:01,600 Speaker 1: I think that he's a guy who can pedal keep 1285 01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:04,040 Speaker 1: your shoulder square, breaking the football, and holos how to 1286 01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:06,560 Speaker 1: flip his hips and turn down the field. That's someone 1287 01:08:06,680 --> 01:08:09,080 Speaker 1: I like. I liked his jo. Now he had a 1288 01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:11,520 Speaker 1: really good pro day the other day, and we understand 1289 01:08:11,520 --> 01:08:13,640 Speaker 1: what the pro days now, the numbers are gonna be faster. 1290 01:08:13,680 --> 01:08:16,040 Speaker 1: I can tell you from my own experience, it's tough 1291 01:08:16,080 --> 01:08:19,320 Speaker 1: to run in Indianapolis, guys. That's why your fourth fifth 1292 01:08:19,360 --> 01:08:21,880 Speaker 1: day in town, you're tired, you're stressed out. You've had 1293 01:08:21,920 --> 01:08:24,120 Speaker 1: testing all week and try to put your best time 1294 01:08:24,120 --> 01:08:26,640 Speaker 1: out to But when you're back on campus, warming up 1295 01:08:26,680 --> 01:08:29,360 Speaker 1: with your own strength coach, working out with your college teammates, 1296 01:08:29,360 --> 01:08:31,920 Speaker 1: you're gonna run faster times. So we're gonna see faster 1297 01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:35,040 Speaker 1: times and newsome. You know, based on reports this week 1298 01:08:35,240 --> 01:08:37,320 Speaker 1: here in Chicago at the Northwestern Pro Day, ran a 1299 01:08:37,320 --> 01:08:39,320 Speaker 1: four three eight. Now, I don't think he plays at 1300 01:08:39,320 --> 01:08:42,120 Speaker 1: a four three eight clip. That's a really impressive number. 1301 01:08:42,880 --> 01:08:44,920 Speaker 1: And he's got size, he's got length to the point 1302 01:08:44,920 --> 01:08:47,080 Speaker 1: of attack, a lot of on the ball production, very 1303 01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:50,400 Speaker 1: well coached under pet fitz Joe at Northwestern. That's a 1304 01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:52,559 Speaker 1: guy I can see the late half of the first round. 1305 01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:54,599 Speaker 1: It might be an option for the Bills. Yeah, there 1306 01:08:54,680 --> 01:08:57,360 Speaker 1: was talk man at the end of the season that 1307 01:08:57,760 --> 01:09:02,479 Speaker 1: this defensive coaching staff we were trying to read between 1308 01:09:02,479 --> 01:09:04,960 Speaker 1: the lines to a certain degree based on, you know, 1309 01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:08,320 Speaker 1: the information they're willing to divulge. But it almost sounded 1310 01:09:08,360 --> 01:09:13,360 Speaker 1: like Leslie Frazier wanted at least the option to turn 1311 01:09:13,439 --> 01:09:17,439 Speaker 1: to more man coverage calls when he needed to, and 1312 01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:20,759 Speaker 1: I think he felt a little handicapped in that area 1313 01:09:20,800 --> 01:09:25,160 Speaker 1: with his current group. A guy like Newsom would seem 1314 01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:29,240 Speaker 1: to provide more options in terms of what you can call, 1315 01:09:29,360 --> 01:09:31,400 Speaker 1: whether it's just his side of the field or the 1316 01:09:31,560 --> 01:09:37,000 Speaker 1: entire defensive call. Maybe just explain for our listeners why 1317 01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:40,280 Speaker 1: that can potentially make you a better defense, even a 1318 01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:45,040 Speaker 1: more more unpredictable defense. Right Look, everyone wants to play 1319 01:09:45,120 --> 01:09:47,080 Speaker 1: man coverage, even at the high school level. Ride coach, 1320 01:09:47,240 --> 01:09:49,000 Speaker 1: everyone wants to play man you gotta have the players 1321 01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:51,519 Speaker 1: to do it right because right now, let's look it 1322 01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:53,800 Speaker 1: up from an offensive perspective. Go back earlier in the season, 1323 01:09:54,040 --> 01:09:57,439 Speaker 1: Miami played man coverage, high level, you know, high percentage 1324 01:09:57,479 --> 01:10:00,400 Speaker 1: of man coverage against Brian Dampole's office. What happened? They 1325 01:10:00,400 --> 01:10:02,320 Speaker 1: schemed them up right towards you. I don't need to 1326 01:10:02,320 --> 01:10:04,560 Speaker 1: pick her out to you guys running open on crossers. 1327 01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:07,040 Speaker 1: You were working in the middle of field. Josh had 1328 01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:09,000 Speaker 1: a huge day. Stefan Diggs had a huge day. So 1329 01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:10,280 Speaker 1: it's one thing to say we're gonna play a lot 1330 01:10:10,320 --> 01:10:12,559 Speaker 1: of man coverage and drawing the chalkboard. It sounds great. 1331 01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:14,240 Speaker 1: You gotta have the guys to do it. But when 1332 01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:16,040 Speaker 1: you do have the players to do it and you 1333 01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:18,919 Speaker 1: are playing zon you have pre snapped communication and postnat 1334 01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:22,240 Speaker 1: communication in the secondary, you're all on the same level. Guys. 1335 01:10:22,280 --> 01:10:25,000 Speaker 1: There's nothing better. There is nothing better to be able 1336 01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:27,000 Speaker 1: to challenge wide receivers at the line of scriptage. So 1337 01:10:27,080 --> 01:10:28,880 Speaker 1: I'm gonna win this rep. You're not gonna win. I'm 1338 01:10:28,880 --> 01:10:31,160 Speaker 1: not gonna let you off the ball. I'm gonna be physical, 1339 01:10:31,160 --> 01:10:33,479 Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep my shoulder square, I'm gonna use my hands. 1340 01:10:33,640 --> 01:10:36,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna mirror match off the line of scriptage. Where 1341 01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:38,800 Speaker 1: does that give you opportunities? I think right now where 1342 01:10:38,800 --> 01:10:41,080 Speaker 1: you want to play man coverage inside the low red zone, 1343 01:10:41,080 --> 01:10:42,479 Speaker 1: which is in ten yard line and the end. I 1344 01:10:42,520 --> 01:10:44,519 Speaker 1: love man coverage there, and also in third and two 1345 01:10:44,520 --> 01:10:47,320 Speaker 1: to six situations. You look at man coverage if you're 1346 01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:50,120 Speaker 1: even a zone based team like Buffalo is, and they're 1347 01:10:50,120 --> 01:10:53,880 Speaker 1: a very good zone coverage team, third and two to six, 1348 01:10:54,640 --> 01:10:56,479 Speaker 1: that's when you want to walk up and challenge guys. 1349 01:10:56,479 --> 01:10:58,320 Speaker 1: That's want to do who you want to disrupt the release, 1350 01:10:58,560 --> 01:11:00,960 Speaker 1: that's want you want to take away those shallot crossers 1351 01:11:00,960 --> 01:11:02,960 Speaker 1: that everyone in the league wants to run. If you 1352 01:11:03,040 --> 01:11:06,719 Speaker 1: have guys with man coverage straights, high level man coverage straights, 1353 01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:09,240 Speaker 1: you can do that and that. And the only reason 1354 01:11:09,320 --> 01:11:11,120 Speaker 1: I was thinking of that is because I'm going right 1355 01:11:11,160 --> 01:11:14,040 Speaker 1: back to Kansas City again, and you got to get 1356 01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:16,760 Speaker 1: past that team. You gotta have guys that can man 1357 01:11:16,840 --> 01:11:19,840 Speaker 1: them up in those third and short to medium situations 1358 01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:22,320 Speaker 1: that you're talking about, and I just think too often 1359 01:11:23,280 --> 01:11:27,760 Speaker 1: coach Fraser didn't have the confidence to call that, not 1360 01:11:27,800 --> 01:11:29,600 Speaker 1: only because of who he had in the secondary, but 1361 01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:32,839 Speaker 1: because his pass rush wasn't getting home enough either, because 1362 01:11:33,040 --> 01:11:36,479 Speaker 1: they philosophically rely on getting home with their front four 1363 01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:38,920 Speaker 1: and they couldn't do that this year either. They had 1364 01:11:38,960 --> 01:11:41,160 Speaker 1: to call I mean, you watch the film. I know 1365 01:11:41,200 --> 01:11:43,040 Speaker 1: I'm not telling you anything. You don't know. They had 1366 01:11:43,080 --> 01:11:45,840 Speaker 1: to use corners and dbs a lot to generate the 1367 01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:48,720 Speaker 1: pressure they needed to try to help so bad enough. 1368 01:11:48,800 --> 01:11:51,120 Speaker 1: They didn't feel they had enough guys to play man 1369 01:11:51,120 --> 01:11:54,120 Speaker 1: coverage more often in those situations, but they had to 1370 01:11:54,200 --> 01:11:56,519 Speaker 1: use those guys as pass rushers to get home on 1371 01:11:56,560 --> 01:12:00,640 Speaker 1: the quarterback. Right. No, I agree and did see that. 1372 01:12:02,040 --> 01:12:04,640 Speaker 1: But I've always said this. You know, Russian coverage is 1373 01:12:04,640 --> 01:12:06,880 Speaker 1: a two way street. It's always going to be that. Yeah. 1374 01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:08,439 Speaker 1: I mean, if you have a good pass rush, you're 1375 01:12:08,439 --> 01:12:10,320 Speaker 1: gonna cover more in the secondary. If you've got great 1376 01:12:10,320 --> 01:12:12,720 Speaker 1: coverage guys in the secondary allows your pass for us 1377 01:12:12,720 --> 01:12:15,320 Speaker 1: to get home. What you want is both, right, you 1378 01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:16,920 Speaker 1: want both to be able to play coverage and be 1379 01:12:16,920 --> 01:12:18,640 Speaker 1: able to dial up heat when you want to be 1380 01:12:18,680 --> 01:12:20,839 Speaker 1: able to dial up heat and go after the quarterback 1381 01:12:20,880 --> 01:12:22,960 Speaker 1: and he get the pocket. So it's gonna be interesting 1382 01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:25,400 Speaker 1: to see what the Bills do at that cornerback position 1383 01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:28,559 Speaker 1: and on the defensive front. And that's why I said, 1384 01:12:28,600 --> 01:12:30,280 Speaker 1: we look at the draft right now, guys, and it 1385 01:12:30,280 --> 01:12:32,400 Speaker 1: seems like it's close, it's really far away. Because we 1386 01:12:32,439 --> 01:12:34,400 Speaker 1: want to see what Speach and every team does right 1387 01:12:34,400 --> 01:12:36,320 Speaker 1: now in free agency, right, because that's going to give 1388 01:12:36,360 --> 01:12:38,880 Speaker 1: us a roadmap of what they're thinking towards the draft, 1389 01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:41,439 Speaker 1: or what doors are opening now and looking at certain 1390 01:12:41,479 --> 01:12:43,760 Speaker 1: positions in the draft. The last one for me, Matt, 1391 01:12:43,920 --> 01:12:46,360 Speaker 1: I gotta ask you this this offseason and this the 1392 01:12:46,760 --> 01:12:50,360 Speaker 1: no combine pro days, everybody's gonna have to use pro days. 1393 01:12:50,400 --> 01:12:53,479 Speaker 1: That kind of think, how varied do you believe or 1394 01:12:53,520 --> 01:12:58,480 Speaker 1: will be more or out of sorts the very evaluations 1395 01:12:58,560 --> 01:13:01,439 Speaker 1: that this team has rather than that team, say the 1396 01:13:01,479 --> 01:13:05,040 Speaker 1: Bills and the Patriots have completely different evaluations about the 1397 01:13:05,080 --> 01:13:08,799 Speaker 1: same player. It's always a little different and teams value 1398 01:13:08,840 --> 01:13:11,559 Speaker 1: different things in their prospects. But do you think that'll 1399 01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:14,080 Speaker 1: be really accentuated this year and we might see a 1400 01:13:14,120 --> 01:13:17,960 Speaker 1: ton of really surprise picks in this draft because of 1401 01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:22,960 Speaker 1: the lack of uniformity in the evaluation process. I think 1402 01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:25,280 Speaker 1: that could happen, And ultimately, I think it's going to 1403 01:13:25,360 --> 01:13:27,479 Speaker 1: come down to teach you tape this year. It really is. 1404 01:13:27,520 --> 01:13:29,360 Speaker 1: Now you're like you said, you're gonna have the pro 1405 01:13:29,479 --> 01:13:31,560 Speaker 1: day times and that's great, but you're not going to 1406 01:13:31,640 --> 01:13:34,160 Speaker 1: have the same amount of evaluation as it did during 1407 01:13:34,160 --> 01:13:36,400 Speaker 1: the NFL COMBA. When we get to talk to players more, 1408 01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:38,479 Speaker 1: you get to see them interact more, you get to 1409 01:13:38,479 --> 01:13:39,880 Speaker 1: work with them more. In the field, a lot of 1410 01:13:39,880 --> 01:13:42,240 Speaker 1: different things coming to play. That's why there is value. 1411 01:13:42,280 --> 01:13:45,040 Speaker 1: There will always be valuable for pro teams in terms 1412 01:13:45,080 --> 01:13:47,360 Speaker 1: of going to Annapolis and working with the players throughout 1413 01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:49,360 Speaker 1: that we get the NFL combat. So now what I 1414 01:13:49,400 --> 01:13:51,320 Speaker 1: think it is, you really have to trust your scouts. 1415 01:13:51,680 --> 01:13:54,240 Speaker 1: You have to trust your college scouting department in terms 1416 01:13:54,240 --> 01:13:57,240 Speaker 1: of be unable to evaluate and great tape and understanding 1417 01:13:57,280 --> 01:13:59,880 Speaker 1: where your fits are, where your needs are, and all 1418 01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:02,760 Speaker 1: so understanding your coaching staff. If you're gonna draft a 1419 01:14:02,800 --> 01:14:06,320 Speaker 1: player it's got high trads, maybe a lower floor. Do 1420 01:14:06,400 --> 01:14:08,640 Speaker 1: your trust your coaching staff. They can develop them, get 1421 01:14:08,720 --> 01:14:10,679 Speaker 1: him on the right tracks. We can be a productive 1422 01:14:10,720 --> 01:14:14,080 Speaker 1: pro football player. Man. As always, thanks for the time. Guy. 1423 01:14:14,240 --> 01:14:15,880 Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll try to catch up with you again 1424 01:14:15,960 --> 01:14:18,960 Speaker 1: before the draft, but we appreciate the time today. Thanks much, Matt. 1425 01:14:19,880 --> 01:14:21,720 Speaker 1: All right, thank you guys. All Right. Matt bow and 1426 01:14:21,920 --> 01:14:26,720 Speaker 1: ESPN NFL analyst, also a co host of NFL's Matchup Show. Um. 1427 01:14:28,000 --> 01:14:30,439 Speaker 1: He does his homework just like Greg does, and that's 1428 01:14:30,439 --> 01:14:33,640 Speaker 1: why I always like tapping into his expertise and you 1429 01:14:33,720 --> 01:14:35,880 Speaker 1: really kind of dialing up the x's and os for us. 1430 01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:38,080 Speaker 1: It's hard because he starts throwing out these names from 1431 01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:40,720 Speaker 1: guys from colleges, and I'm like, well, you know, you 1432 01:14:40,800 --> 01:14:43,479 Speaker 1: gotta know your Northwestern guys. Steve come on, that did 1433 01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:46,479 Speaker 1: not that? Shawn Slater the offensive tackle and Newsom the 1434 01:14:46,479 --> 01:14:48,599 Speaker 1: corner are two guys. You gotta know. There are two 1435 01:14:48,640 --> 01:14:52,240 Speaker 1: guys from Northwestern. They've got a chance. Question you gotta know. Um, 1436 01:14:52,360 --> 01:14:55,320 Speaker 1: and I did know them, but but you know what 1437 01:14:55,360 --> 01:14:57,840 Speaker 1: I mean, there's just there's there's gonna be two hundred 1438 01:14:57,880 --> 01:15:00,960 Speaker 1: and fifty some odd guys taken in the draft this year, 1439 01:15:01,160 --> 01:15:03,559 Speaker 1: like there is every year, and they're gonna be from 1440 01:15:03,560 --> 01:15:06,400 Speaker 1: a hundred different schools if if fewer than that. But 1441 01:15:07,280 --> 01:15:10,800 Speaker 1: it's to keep track of all of it. And he's right, 1442 01:15:12,320 --> 01:15:15,360 Speaker 1: just like I said, we have no It's like being 1443 01:15:15,439 --> 01:15:19,280 Speaker 1: blindfolded in a dark room trying to hit a dartboard 1444 01:15:20,160 --> 01:15:22,800 Speaker 1: that you don't even know where it is, right, And 1445 01:15:22,840 --> 01:15:26,120 Speaker 1: that's we have no idea where these team needs are 1446 01:15:26,120 --> 01:15:28,080 Speaker 1: going to be. Certainly we can see him now, but 1447 01:15:28,120 --> 01:15:30,879 Speaker 1: they're gonna be different now and more accentuated or completely 1448 01:15:30,920 --> 01:15:32,600 Speaker 1: reversed than what they were at the end of the 1449 01:15:32,600 --> 01:15:37,840 Speaker 1: regular season, like the Bills. So I mean, we I 1450 01:15:37,920 --> 01:15:39,880 Speaker 1: love talking about it. I mean, we do it every day, 1451 01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:43,719 Speaker 1: but man, oh man, the deeper in the weeds we get, 1452 01:15:44,080 --> 01:15:46,240 Speaker 1: the more we realize we don't what we don't know 1453 01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:50,920 Speaker 1: and what the philosophy isn't it that's getting inside these 1454 01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:54,760 Speaker 1: draft rooms. It just would be so fund be so 1455 01:15:54,840 --> 01:15:56,760 Speaker 1: fun to hear what they really think about their their 1456 01:15:56,800 --> 01:16:00,240 Speaker 1: own players, and let alone the players that are they're drafting. Yeah, 1457 01:16:01,320 --> 01:16:03,840 Speaker 1: there's there's gonna be a lot of uncertainty and how 1458 01:16:03,920 --> 01:16:06,280 Speaker 1: free agency is gonna go. There's gonna be a lot 1459 01:16:06,280 --> 01:16:09,000 Speaker 1: of uncertainty and how this draft is gonna go. Because 1460 01:16:09,040 --> 01:16:11,320 Speaker 1: the grades are gonna be all over the map, maybe 1461 01:16:11,360 --> 01:16:14,320 Speaker 1: even to a greater degree than they've ever been before, 1462 01:16:14,680 --> 01:16:17,040 Speaker 1: because you have players that haven't been on a field 1463 01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:21,400 Speaker 1: competitively in eighteen months. Yeah, you know, the opt outs, 1464 01:16:21,720 --> 01:16:24,439 Speaker 1: you've had, Guys that started their season had to stop 1465 01:16:24,640 --> 01:16:28,240 Speaker 1: started again, And how do you evaluate that and how 1466 01:16:28,320 --> 01:16:30,920 Speaker 1: much do you take into account their time off and 1467 01:16:30,960 --> 01:16:33,080 Speaker 1: how their season was interrupted in terms of what you 1468 01:16:33,120 --> 01:16:35,760 Speaker 1: think they can be. They're gonna be grades all over 1469 01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:38,800 Speaker 1: the place this year among those thirty two teams. It's 1470 01:16:38,800 --> 01:16:44,320 Speaker 1: gonna make the draft fascinating. I'll say this, I Brandon being. 1471 01:16:44,400 --> 01:16:45,800 Speaker 1: We've talked about it a ton. He says, we're not 1472 01:16:45,800 --> 01:16:48,040 Speaker 1: gonna make a big splash in free agency, like you know, 1473 01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:50,240 Speaker 1: with Steph Diggs trade or anything like that. But I'll 1474 01:16:50,240 --> 01:16:53,280 Speaker 1: tell you this, the Bills are gonna be players. They're 1475 01:16:53,280 --> 01:16:55,840 Speaker 1: gonna make some signings in free agency, but they have to. 1476 01:16:56,160 --> 01:16:59,679 Speaker 1: They're gonna they're gonna be active, and it's gonna be 1477 01:17:00,280 --> 01:17:02,479 Speaker 1: a little bit like you know, it's gonna be the 1478 01:17:02,520 --> 01:17:04,599 Speaker 1: field we got last year when they signed Mario Addison, 1479 01:17:04,680 --> 01:17:08,559 Speaker 1: Vernon Butler, Quentin Jefferson, those kind of guys AJ Klein, 1480 01:17:08,680 --> 01:17:12,200 Speaker 1: Meta Kevich last year. All these different players they brought in, 1481 01:17:12,920 --> 01:17:15,040 Speaker 1: probably not to the extent that we were last year, 1482 01:17:15,040 --> 01:17:17,519 Speaker 1: but there's gonna be some guys that you're you know, 1483 01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:19,760 Speaker 1: when you do a deep dive on we're gonna get 1484 01:17:19,760 --> 01:17:21,519 Speaker 1: a chance to see what the Bills saw in them 1485 01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:25,000 Speaker 1: and that's gonna be pretty exciting. But a big splash 1486 01:17:25,080 --> 01:17:28,680 Speaker 1: and maybe not, but for us here, every guy they 1487 01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:34,519 Speaker 1: signed now is it's really interesting, really interesting break time 1488 01:17:34,600 --> 01:17:37,080 Speaker 1: for us. But when we return more of your comments 1489 01:17:37,120 --> 01:17:39,519 Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet and Steve and I will kind 1490 01:17:39,560 --> 01:17:43,400 Speaker 1: of dive into these different position groups, especially wide receiver 1491 01:17:43,400 --> 01:17:46,160 Speaker 1: because the dynamics there are very interesting. We touched on 1492 01:17:46,200 --> 01:17:48,120 Speaker 1: it with Matt Bowen, will expand on it when we 1493 01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:50,880 Speaker 1: return here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health, 1494 01:17:50,880 --> 01:18:03,519 Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. We welcome back to One Bill's Live. 1495 01:18:03,600 --> 01:18:05,840 Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. Second half of the 1496 01:18:05,840 --> 01:18:09,639 Speaker 1: show under way as we are discussing the most important 1497 01:18:09,640 --> 01:18:11,960 Speaker 1: free agent move for the Bills on offense. You know, 1498 01:18:12,000 --> 01:18:14,760 Speaker 1: we've had some comments here Steve that you know, have 1499 01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:17,880 Speaker 1: drifted mainly toward the offensive line. There have been some 1500 01:18:18,520 --> 01:18:21,960 Speaker 1: that have looked at other positions like tight end on 1501 01:18:22,000 --> 01:18:27,120 Speaker 1: the tweet from Jack and so I understand how the 1502 01:18:27,200 --> 01:18:30,559 Speaker 1: dynamics may change there. I'm very interested to see how 1503 01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:34,000 Speaker 1: the identity of the receiving core now changes without John 1504 01:18:34,040 --> 01:18:36,519 Speaker 1: Brown on hand, and then if there's no Andre Roberts 1505 01:18:36,520 --> 01:18:39,920 Speaker 1: and no Isaiah McKenzie either, there really is an opportunity 1506 01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:44,639 Speaker 1: there for the perceived strength of the unit to change. 1507 01:18:46,040 --> 01:18:54,200 Speaker 1: I think to a great degree. Separation, speed were the 1508 01:18:54,320 --> 01:18:58,360 Speaker 1: identifiers of the receiving core this past season. You don't 1509 01:18:58,360 --> 01:19:03,400 Speaker 1: have Isaiah McKenzie, you don't have Brown, and larger roles 1510 01:19:03,439 --> 01:19:08,880 Speaker 1: are assumed by people like Isaiah Hodgins and Jake Kumerou 1511 01:19:09,479 --> 01:19:14,599 Speaker 1: and you know whoever else insert name here right, Duke Williams, whoever? 1512 01:19:14,760 --> 01:19:20,439 Speaker 1: Yea Very quickly, the identifying characteristic of that receiving corps 1513 01:19:20,439 --> 01:19:24,559 Speaker 1: could be size, with Isaiah Hodgins at sixty three, Jake 1514 01:19:24,640 --> 01:19:28,599 Speaker 1: Kumero at six six, and Gabriel Davis at six two. 1515 01:19:28,640 --> 01:19:31,760 Speaker 1: Obviously Beasley and Diggs wouldn't be part of that. It's 1516 01:19:31,760 --> 01:19:34,760 Speaker 1: an equation. It's an interesting dynamic because we talked about 1517 01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:36,880 Speaker 1: it earlier in the show. It's about the matchups. We 1518 01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:39,760 Speaker 1: heard it all last preseason, Brian Dabele trying to get 1519 01:19:39,760 --> 01:19:42,400 Speaker 1: the matchups he wanted. When Gabe Davis came in and 1520 01:19:42,400 --> 01:19:45,000 Speaker 1: shined in training camp, it gave them the opportunity to 1521 01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:48,800 Speaker 1: force a defense to go four deep in their cornerback 1522 01:19:48,880 --> 01:19:51,960 Speaker 1: room if they wanted to play man coverage at all. 1523 01:19:52,240 --> 01:19:54,639 Speaker 1: So you go four wide and they're gonna play man 1524 01:19:54,680 --> 01:19:58,080 Speaker 1: against it. There, your somebody's going to be a mismatch. 1525 01:19:58,400 --> 01:20:01,519 Speaker 1: Plus when you go four wide and then start you 1526 01:20:01,520 --> 01:20:04,599 Speaker 1: move Gabe Davis around, or put Isam whoever the fourth 1527 01:20:04,640 --> 01:20:06,720 Speaker 1: receiver is, or the third or slot receiver is, and 1528 01:20:06,720 --> 01:20:10,000 Speaker 1: you start moving guys around you can dictate who's gonna 1529 01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:12,479 Speaker 1: be matched up on Steph Diggs. You can dictate who's 1530 01:20:12,520 --> 01:20:15,160 Speaker 1: gonna get Cole Beasley in one on one and John 1531 01:20:15,200 --> 01:20:18,559 Speaker 1: Brown and Gabe Davis, and you can move it around 1532 01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:21,760 Speaker 1: and force that defense into some mental gymnastics before the snap. 1533 01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:25,200 Speaker 1: You get the matchup you want, maybe one against Zerope coverage, 1534 01:20:25,240 --> 01:20:28,679 Speaker 1: I mean, like nobody air. So it brings up some problem. 1535 01:20:28,760 --> 01:20:30,759 Speaker 1: That's what we heard all last year about Brian Dable. 1536 01:20:32,080 --> 01:20:35,840 Speaker 1: That completely changes. It doesn't change the philosophy the same, 1537 01:20:36,320 --> 01:20:38,080 Speaker 1: but the matchups for the defense and the way the 1538 01:20:38,120 --> 01:20:41,400 Speaker 1: defense looks at it. It goes from speed being a 1539 01:20:41,439 --> 01:20:45,479 Speaker 1: problem to size being a problem. Yeah, so the defense 1540 01:20:45,520 --> 01:20:48,040 Speaker 1: has to jump through mental hoops in preparation, saying, listen, 1541 01:20:48,040 --> 01:20:51,240 Speaker 1: we don't want we don't want our five eight corner 1542 01:20:51,640 --> 01:20:54,439 Speaker 1: on Kumero. Yeah, we don't want our five eight corner 1543 01:20:54,479 --> 01:20:57,200 Speaker 1: on Hodgens. We gotta put this guy or this guy 1544 01:20:57,320 --> 01:21:01,880 Speaker 1: match these two guys gotta match up on Hodgens and Davis, 1545 01:21:02,760 --> 01:21:05,639 Speaker 1: and we got to put everybody else over on Beasley 1546 01:21:05,760 --> 01:21:08,720 Speaker 1: and Digs and we gotta I gotta live with it. 1547 01:21:09,160 --> 01:21:12,559 Speaker 1: So you forced those mental matchups, and for what speed 1548 01:21:12,760 --> 01:21:16,960 Speaker 1: was in twenty twenty. Size could be in twenty twenty one, 1549 01:21:17,800 --> 01:21:20,799 Speaker 1: especially if they add another tight end in free agency, 1550 01:21:20,800 --> 01:21:25,040 Speaker 1: because you already have sixty five plus and you know 1551 01:21:25,120 --> 01:21:29,439 Speaker 1: guys like, yeah, well he's like six five six six 1552 01:21:29,479 --> 01:21:32,400 Speaker 1: two Yeah, I mean, so you got an issue. Um, 1553 01:21:32,479 --> 01:21:36,320 Speaker 1: it's it's maybe the identifying characteristic of the receiving core 1554 01:21:36,400 --> 01:21:38,800 Speaker 1: in twenty you could see that. And that's if they 1555 01:21:38,960 --> 01:21:40,599 Speaker 1: you know, and that's if they don't draft a kid 1556 01:21:40,640 --> 01:21:42,760 Speaker 1: or what you know, whoever and whoever comes out of 1557 01:21:42,760 --> 01:21:44,280 Speaker 1: the woodwork and said, wow, look at this guy and 1558 01:21:44,320 --> 01:21:47,960 Speaker 1: here he is. Um. And that's of course if it's 1559 01:21:48,120 --> 01:21:51,519 Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie is audios and they don't sign a deal 1560 01:21:51,560 --> 01:21:57,240 Speaker 1: with him. Um. Interesting. But I think it's telling that 1561 01:21:58,960 --> 01:22:01,400 Speaker 1: I don't know, we don't know. But I don't think 1562 01:22:01,400 --> 01:22:05,080 Speaker 1: the Bills would be afraid to do that, not not 1563 01:22:05,120 --> 01:22:07,120 Speaker 1: with Josh, No, I don't. I don't think they would. 1564 01:22:07,200 --> 01:22:12,840 Speaker 1: And I think Josh proved, with his demonstrably improved accuracy 1565 01:22:12,960 --> 01:22:16,240 Speaker 1: that he could put the ball in tight spots very 1566 01:22:16,240 --> 01:22:18,640 Speaker 1: often where only his guy has a chance at it. 1567 01:22:19,080 --> 01:22:21,559 Speaker 1: And if you have six six guys running down the field, 1568 01:22:22,080 --> 01:22:24,679 Speaker 1: here's the thing. Jump ball situations I like the Bills 1569 01:22:24,760 --> 01:22:27,080 Speaker 1: chances in the field, that's true. But I'll tell you this, 1570 01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:30,360 Speaker 1: and I said it a bunch last year during the broadcaster, 1571 01:22:30,439 --> 01:22:33,320 Speaker 1: it felt like I did. I thought Brian Daboles red 1572 01:22:33,400 --> 01:22:36,320 Speaker 1: zone offense, and Matt Boone alluded to it as well. 1573 01:22:38,080 --> 01:22:40,400 Speaker 1: Brian daybles in a class by himself. Last year as 1574 01:22:40,400 --> 01:22:44,479 Speaker 1: an offensive coordinator. The Bills red zone offense was really 1575 01:22:44,560 --> 01:22:48,639 Speaker 1: creative and really tough to defend. You remember those games 1576 01:22:48,640 --> 01:22:54,360 Speaker 1: in against Seattle, against the Rams, against Denver. They got 1577 01:22:54,400 --> 01:22:56,240 Speaker 1: down there and they were you know, they kept getting 1578 01:22:56,280 --> 01:22:59,439 Speaker 1: penalties all the time, getting They'd score like three times 1579 01:22:59,439 --> 01:23:02,240 Speaker 1: to get credit for one. It was like a weekend 1580 01:23:02,240 --> 01:23:04,800 Speaker 1: week out thing where they were really they were just 1581 01:23:04,960 --> 01:23:07,559 Speaker 1: crushing people in the red zone. Their red zone offense 1582 01:23:08,160 --> 01:23:12,200 Speaker 1: was murderous. And because they had so many weapons well 1583 01:23:12,280 --> 01:23:14,760 Speaker 1: and then and they were so creative and Josh and 1584 01:23:14,880 --> 01:23:16,800 Speaker 1: the ability just tucked the ball under his arm and 1585 01:23:17,320 --> 01:23:20,880 Speaker 1: tryn have to account for that so automatically defense and 1586 01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:23,559 Speaker 1: crushing defense is in the low red zone, inside the 1587 01:23:23,600 --> 01:23:26,760 Speaker 1: ten and definitely inside the five. Right they have to 1588 01:23:26,800 --> 01:23:29,200 Speaker 1: worry about Josh just saying, well, screw it, nobody's open. 1589 01:23:29,240 --> 01:23:30,760 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna run in and try to tackle me. 1590 01:23:30,760 --> 01:23:34,040 Speaker 1: I'm two hundred head of steam. It paid off in 1591 01:23:34,120 --> 01:23:37,240 Speaker 1: the game against the Colts when Josh faked the run 1592 01:23:38,400 --> 01:23:41,200 Speaker 1: and threw the ball to Dawson Knox for the touchdown. 1593 01:23:41,800 --> 01:23:45,439 Speaker 1: Down in the red zone, he ran, Josh ran for 1594 01:23:45,479 --> 01:23:48,840 Speaker 1: a touchdowns were as MSG viewers are watching, so that 1595 01:23:49,160 --> 01:23:52,560 Speaker 1: running ability in the red zone led to two Buffalo's 1596 01:23:52,600 --> 01:23:57,920 Speaker 1: touchdowns in the playoff game against the Indianapolis Colts. The 1597 01:23:57,960 --> 01:24:01,320 Speaker 1: red zone offense of the Bills was fantastic last year 1598 01:24:01,640 --> 01:24:07,599 Speaker 1: and day Ball was really really creative down there, and 1599 01:24:07,680 --> 01:24:10,960 Speaker 1: so I think that's a It's a huge plus. And 1600 01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:12,960 Speaker 1: you're right, the catalyst for all of it is Josh's 1601 01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:16,120 Speaker 1: ability to run, but it's also having targets they can 1602 01:24:16,120 --> 01:24:18,559 Speaker 1: get some separation down there. Yeah, that's why I was 1603 01:24:18,600 --> 01:24:22,240 Speaker 1: interested when when Matt Bowen brought up Calif Raymond, he 1604 01:24:22,360 --> 01:24:26,120 Speaker 1: thought he saw him as a fit and Calif Raymond 1605 01:24:26,240 --> 01:24:31,080 Speaker 1: is kind of like Isaiah McKenzie. Diminutive stature, five eight, 1606 01:24:31,120 --> 01:24:35,240 Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty two pounds did mostly return work 1607 01:24:35,960 --> 01:24:39,320 Speaker 1: for the Titans, which could be a need for the 1608 01:24:39,360 --> 01:24:42,559 Speaker 1: Bills if they can't bring Andre Roberts back. Into the fold. 1609 01:24:42,920 --> 01:24:46,040 Speaker 1: So you may need a returner, whether you find one 1610 01:24:46,040 --> 01:24:48,840 Speaker 1: in free agency or the draft. So yeah, I mean, 1611 01:24:49,240 --> 01:24:51,040 Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm as high on Raymond as 1612 01:24:51,080 --> 01:24:53,519 Speaker 1: I would be on someone like John Ross, but I 1613 01:24:53,560 --> 01:24:56,880 Speaker 1: guess we'll We'll have to see where it goes. Adam 1614 01:24:56,960 --> 01:24:59,599 Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet says, the need for tight end 1615 01:24:59,640 --> 01:25:02,320 Speaker 1: seems over hyped to me. People forget, we still have 1616 01:25:02,360 --> 01:25:05,080 Speaker 1: Tommy Sweeney, who I think is better than many fans remember. 1617 01:25:05,439 --> 01:25:07,200 Speaker 1: But again we have the health condition. We don't know 1618 01:25:07,240 --> 01:25:09,240 Speaker 1: what's going to come to that. He may be fine 1619 01:25:09,360 --> 01:25:13,880 Speaker 1: and great. Also, this Bill's offense doesn't use pass catching 1620 01:25:13,920 --> 01:25:16,519 Speaker 1: tight ends enough to justify an upgrade, so I say 1621 01:25:16,520 --> 01:25:19,160 Speaker 1: they need to figure out there starting a line first. Well, 1622 01:25:19,200 --> 01:25:23,479 Speaker 1: the reason they don't use pass catching tight ends enough 1623 01:25:23,560 --> 01:25:26,840 Speaker 1: is because they have one in Dawson Knox, who's still 1624 01:25:26,920 --> 01:25:30,120 Speaker 1: kind of coming into his own. You get a proven 1625 01:25:30,200 --> 01:25:32,920 Speaker 1: veteran on this roster, like a zach Ertz or even 1626 01:25:32,920 --> 01:25:36,800 Speaker 1: a John who Smith. As Matt Bowen alluded to, I 1627 01:25:36,880 --> 01:25:41,519 Speaker 1: think the dynamics of your target percentages change dramatically. And 1628 01:25:42,320 --> 01:25:46,920 Speaker 1: you know, if you go eleven personnel instead of ten 1629 01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:51,800 Speaker 1: personnel and eleven still was their most popular formation. Yeah, 1630 01:25:51,800 --> 01:25:53,600 Speaker 1: and I think what I think that happened though, I 1631 01:25:53,600 --> 01:25:59,960 Speaker 1: think eleven came back because John Brown's injuries. Well true, 1632 01:26:00,120 --> 01:26:05,080 Speaker 1: but even when he was healthy, they were running ten 1633 01:26:05,160 --> 01:26:07,960 Speaker 1: personnel more than any That means zero tight ends and 1634 01:26:08,080 --> 01:26:11,880 Speaker 1: four wideouts. They were running that more way more than 1635 01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:14,799 Speaker 1: any team in the league, well except for Arizona. Arizona 1636 01:26:14,840 --> 01:26:16,240 Speaker 1: is the only team that ran it more than that 1637 01:26:16,320 --> 01:26:20,200 Speaker 1: before John before John Brown got hurt. Yeah, and then 1638 01:26:20,280 --> 01:26:22,240 Speaker 1: you know that, but even then it was only about 1639 01:26:22,280 --> 01:26:25,919 Speaker 1: fifteen to sixteen percent of their snaps. It was largely 1640 01:26:26,160 --> 01:26:31,160 Speaker 1: seventy two seventy three percent eleven personnel, then fifteen percent 1641 01:26:32,640 --> 01:26:35,360 Speaker 1: ten personnel, and then it was everything else after that. 1642 01:26:35,439 --> 01:26:38,639 Speaker 1: It was eleven and ten all day long. Ye all, 1643 01:26:38,760 --> 01:26:41,599 Speaker 1: it was day long. They were a load for defenses 1644 01:26:41,640 --> 01:26:45,040 Speaker 1: to come after. Man, they were an absolute load in 1645 01:26:45,120 --> 01:26:47,960 Speaker 1: that they were a handful speed, They had route runners. 1646 01:26:48,000 --> 01:26:50,599 Speaker 1: Steph Diggs was going to get his share of targets, 1647 01:26:50,640 --> 01:26:54,120 Speaker 1: and he and day Ball moved him everywhere and you 1648 01:26:54,120 --> 01:26:59,040 Speaker 1: couldn't find him. And you know, unfortunately Josh knew exactly 1649 01:26:59,040 --> 01:27:01,559 Speaker 1: where he was was throwing him at least six times 1650 01:27:01,560 --> 01:27:04,679 Speaker 1: a game. Break time here for us. But when we return, 1651 01:27:05,280 --> 01:27:08,160 Speaker 1: when you were a kid after going to watch a 1652 01:27:08,240 --> 01:27:11,439 Speaker 1: game at a stadium, was there a party that always wished, Hey, 1653 01:27:11,439 --> 01:27:13,479 Speaker 1: man'd be cool if I could just live here in 1654 01:27:13,520 --> 01:27:16,040 Speaker 1: the stadium and just walk out to any game I wanted. 1655 01:27:16,439 --> 01:27:19,240 Speaker 1: We'll talk to you about somebody that actually pulled that 1656 01:27:19,360 --> 01:27:22,639 Speaker 1: off when we come back. You're not gonna believe this one, Steve, 1657 01:27:22,680 --> 01:27:24,200 Speaker 1: when I tell it to you. We're back in a 1658 01:27:24,240 --> 01:27:26,479 Speaker 1: moment with that. Here on One Bills Live, presented by 1659 01:27:26,520 --> 01:27:40,200 Speaker 1: Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radium. Welcome back 1660 01:27:40,240 --> 01:27:42,599 Speaker 1: to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you 1661 01:27:42,960 --> 01:27:45,080 Speaker 1: when we went to break I told you, hey, when 1662 01:27:45,080 --> 01:27:47,840 Speaker 1: you were a kid and you go to games, did 1663 01:27:47,840 --> 01:27:50,000 Speaker 1: you ever wish like you could hide out in the 1664 01:27:50,040 --> 01:27:53,599 Speaker 1: stadium and live there? Well, a guy did it at 1665 01:27:53,680 --> 01:27:59,880 Speaker 1: Veteran Stadium for three years. A Vietnam veteran says he 1666 01:28:00,120 --> 01:28:04,120 Speaker 1: lived inside Philadelphia's old Veteran Stadium for three years while 1667 01:28:04,120 --> 01:28:07,760 Speaker 1: the Eagles and Phillies played there. Now, this guy's name 1668 01:28:07,840 --> 01:28:10,000 Speaker 1: is Tom Garvey, and the only reason he was found 1669 01:28:10,040 --> 01:28:12,639 Speaker 1: out with this was because he wrote a book called 1670 01:28:12,680 --> 01:28:16,680 Speaker 1: The Secret Apartment. Veteran stadium a surreal memoir which was 1671 01:28:16,720 --> 01:28:19,680 Speaker 1: just published in December. This guy is now seventy eight 1672 01:28:19,760 --> 01:28:23,240 Speaker 1: years old, and he basically said when he returned from 1673 01:28:23,240 --> 01:28:25,720 Speaker 1: the Vietnam War in nineteen sixty nine, he worked a 1674 01:28:25,800 --> 01:28:29,719 Speaker 1: number of odd jobs. Eventually he was given an office 1675 01:28:30,720 --> 01:28:34,360 Speaker 1: and keys to a veteran stadium entests while running parking 1676 01:28:34,400 --> 01:28:38,080 Speaker 1: lots outside the sports complex through a company that was 1677 01:28:38,080 --> 01:28:40,200 Speaker 1: owned by his uncles. You know, they were outsourced as 1678 01:28:40,240 --> 01:28:43,439 Speaker 1: the parking lot company. And he's working for his uncles 1679 01:28:43,800 --> 01:28:46,120 Speaker 1: and they're like, oh, yeah, you know, Tom will be 1680 01:28:46,280 --> 01:28:49,280 Speaker 1: handling the overnight shift whatever whatever, you know, give him 1681 01:28:49,280 --> 01:28:51,280 Speaker 1: an office so he can kind of you run the 1682 01:28:51,360 --> 01:28:53,400 Speaker 1: day to day out there. Yea, So they give him 1683 01:28:53,400 --> 01:28:55,840 Speaker 1: an office at the stadium. He's got keys to the entrance. 1684 01:28:56,400 --> 01:29:01,080 Speaker 1: So across from his office was an empty sixty by 1685 01:29:01,160 --> 01:29:05,120 Speaker 1: thirty foot concession stand that was no longer in use 1686 01:29:05,720 --> 01:29:08,920 Speaker 1: in Veteran stadium for any of the games baseball or football. 1687 01:29:09,080 --> 01:29:14,320 Speaker 1: Sixty by thirty yes big. He secretly refurbished it into 1688 01:29:14,400 --> 01:29:20,160 Speaker 1: an apartment. He used old AstroTurf for carpet. He had 1689 01:29:20,160 --> 01:29:23,040 Speaker 1: a makeshift kitchen made out of a sink and a 1690 01:29:23,040 --> 01:29:26,200 Speaker 1: hot plate. And presumably he would go down to the 1691 01:29:26,240 --> 01:29:31,240 Speaker 1: locker rooms and shower in off hours, you know. And 1692 01:29:31,320 --> 01:29:36,960 Speaker 1: so he lived there between nineteen seventy nine and nineteen 1693 01:29:37,120 --> 01:29:41,160 Speaker 1: eighty one. So he did an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, 1694 01:29:41,520 --> 01:29:45,960 Speaker 1: which corroborated his story with multiple people. So this isn't 1695 01:29:46,080 --> 01:29:49,080 Speaker 1: pie in the sky stuff, because apparently so he had 1696 01:29:49,120 --> 01:29:52,160 Speaker 1: some buddies who knew this guy held secret parties with 1697 01:29:52,280 --> 01:29:56,679 Speaker 1: Eagles players and their wives and once watched a Phillies 1698 01:29:56,760 --> 01:30:00,000 Speaker 1: double header. Are you ready for this? In a bathrobe 1699 01:30:00,040 --> 01:30:04,639 Speaker 1: and flip flops in the stadium, in the stadium. Let's 1700 01:30:04,680 --> 01:30:08,439 Speaker 1: just out. So here's his quote. I was like a 1701 01:30:08,560 --> 01:30:12,320 Speaker 1: kid with a Willy Wonka golden ticket. Let me just 1702 01:30:12,360 --> 01:30:16,120 Speaker 1: say it. People are awesome. Is that? That is fantastic? 1703 01:30:16,280 --> 01:30:20,280 Speaker 1: Is fantastic? That is absolutely fantastic. Now, that is like 1704 01:30:20,960 --> 01:30:25,400 Speaker 1: every young boy's sports fan dream. You know, you're living 1705 01:30:25,400 --> 01:30:27,640 Speaker 1: at the stadium where your favorite team plays at. You 1706 01:30:27,760 --> 01:30:29,640 Speaker 1: couldn't beat that. And I would like to, you know, 1707 01:30:29,680 --> 01:30:31,519 Speaker 1: the perfect He'd like to think, Well, the guy could 1708 01:30:31,560 --> 01:30:33,040 Speaker 1: you know, he could have done whatever he wanted, but 1709 01:30:33,080 --> 01:30:34,760 Speaker 1: he decided to do this, you know, And I don't 1710 01:30:34,760 --> 01:30:37,880 Speaker 1: know what you know, I don't want to impinge any 1711 01:30:38,320 --> 01:30:42,960 Speaker 1: any you know, rough times on him, but save the money, 1712 01:30:43,200 --> 01:30:45,720 Speaker 1: get you well. And sometimes it's tough, you know though, 1713 01:30:45,880 --> 01:30:50,160 Speaker 1: especially those Vets that came home for they were treated 1714 01:30:50,880 --> 01:30:53,160 Speaker 1: horribly when they came back to a large degree. I mean, 1715 01:30:53,160 --> 01:30:55,360 Speaker 1: my dad got drafted for Vietnam. Unfortunately he didn't have 1716 01:30:55,400 --> 01:30:57,439 Speaker 1: to serve over there. He got stationed in Alaska because 1717 01:30:57,439 --> 01:30:59,559 Speaker 1: they were worried about the Russians coming over, so he 1718 01:30:59,640 --> 01:31:04,000 Speaker 1: kind of didn't. He wasn't doing jungle warfare stuff in Vietnam. 1719 01:31:04,040 --> 01:31:06,679 Speaker 1: He lucked out. Otherwise, who knows, I might not even 1720 01:31:06,680 --> 01:31:10,280 Speaker 1: be sitting here, but um, so yeah, I mean he's 1721 01:31:10,320 --> 01:31:12,360 Speaker 1: doing a bunch of odd jobs. He's working for his 1722 01:31:12,479 --> 01:31:15,080 Speaker 1: uncles as a parking lot attendant. I mean, he can't 1723 01:31:15,120 --> 01:31:17,520 Speaker 1: be making a ton of money. You know, in Philadelphia, 1724 01:31:17,680 --> 01:31:19,639 Speaker 1: you know, it costs a lot of money to get by. 1725 01:31:19,840 --> 01:31:23,960 Speaker 1: So um. He apparently left the parking lot job and 1726 01:31:24,240 --> 01:31:27,639 Speaker 1: his secret apartment in nineteen eighty one when his uncle's 1727 01:31:28,360 --> 01:31:32,800 Speaker 1: parking contract with the stadium ended. And there's obviously no 1728 01:31:32,880 --> 01:31:36,679 Speaker 1: way to find evidence of this apartment because they knocked 1729 01:31:36,720 --> 01:31:38,800 Speaker 1: veteran stadium down I think in two thousand and three 1730 01:31:38,880 --> 01:31:41,559 Speaker 1: or two thousand and four. But can you imagine, man, 1731 01:31:41,760 --> 01:31:45,880 Speaker 1: you're going to every single games? Man? That would I mean, 1732 01:31:45,880 --> 01:31:52,360 Speaker 1: you're working parking, So okay, I I got saved season tickets, right, 1733 01:31:52,600 --> 01:31:56,799 Speaker 1: and we go. But depending on how your tickets fall, 1734 01:31:57,560 --> 01:32:00,000 Speaker 1: you may be going down there to all three games 1735 01:32:00,080 --> 01:32:02,120 Speaker 1: or you know, a bunch of as a homestand right 1736 01:32:02,200 --> 01:32:04,840 Speaker 1: you may have like five games in a fourteen game 1737 01:32:04,960 --> 01:32:08,040 Speaker 1: and a fourteen day schedule kind of thing. And you 1738 01:32:08,240 --> 01:32:10,400 Speaker 1: and I have said it out loud to my my 1739 01:32:10,479 --> 01:32:11,880 Speaker 1: son whoever I'm going to the game with. You know, 1740 01:32:11,920 --> 01:32:13,439 Speaker 1: you feel like you come down here to all these games. 1741 01:32:13,479 --> 01:32:15,160 Speaker 1: If you have to go to every game, you feel 1742 01:32:15,160 --> 01:32:18,439 Speaker 1: like you have an apartment down here. Yeah, it's true. 1743 01:32:19,320 --> 01:32:25,160 Speaker 1: That guy, this guy more than anybody. You How unbelievable 1744 01:32:25,479 --> 01:32:28,120 Speaker 1: is that? Because I'm I love the AstroTurf as the 1745 01:32:28,120 --> 01:32:33,280 Speaker 1: carpet though. That's that's fantastic cold. You can you imagine 1746 01:32:33,840 --> 01:32:37,400 Speaker 1: off hours and getting a big roll of it. But 1747 01:32:37,439 --> 01:32:39,200 Speaker 1: I got to it into the pushing it, into the 1748 01:32:40,120 --> 01:32:43,080 Speaker 1: unrolling it and shaking it out. But I mean he 1749 01:32:43,280 --> 01:32:46,840 Speaker 1: was kind of dealing with some meager accommodations in some 1750 01:32:46,880 --> 01:32:50,640 Speaker 1: ways because he turned, he turned to sink into like 1751 01:32:50,680 --> 01:32:52,559 Speaker 1: a kitchen, and he had a hot play. I mean, 1752 01:32:52,560 --> 01:32:56,720 Speaker 1: this is pre microwave days seventy nine to eighty one. 1753 01:32:57,200 --> 01:32:58,960 Speaker 1: I wouldn't have one in my house, but right, yeah 1754 01:32:58,960 --> 01:33:00,759 Speaker 1: they were, but you get one. But yeah, he probably 1755 01:33:00,760 --> 01:33:04,120 Speaker 1: didn't have one. Yeah, So I mean I'm just, I mean, 1756 01:33:04,640 --> 01:33:08,439 Speaker 1: meager circumstances. But man, there are some perks there too, right, 1757 01:33:08,840 --> 01:33:11,800 Speaker 1: I mean, holy cow, I want to like just to 1758 01:33:11,840 --> 01:33:13,360 Speaker 1: be a fly on the wall and just kind of 1759 01:33:13,400 --> 01:33:15,360 Speaker 1: witness some of that stuff. It's like, oh, what do 1760 01:33:15,439 --> 01:33:17,760 Speaker 1: the Phillies have today? Oh, we got a one o'clock game? 1761 01:33:17,800 --> 01:33:19,800 Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'll roll out of bed. You know, 1762 01:33:20,360 --> 01:33:23,080 Speaker 1: it's kind of the upper deck. Nobody will bother me 1763 01:33:23,520 --> 01:33:25,719 Speaker 1: if he didn't have to work the parking thing. Yeah, 1764 01:33:25,760 --> 01:33:27,840 Speaker 1: it sounds like he had to work the Eagles games 1765 01:33:27,880 --> 01:33:30,479 Speaker 1: for parking, But it sounds like for a lot of 1766 01:33:30,479 --> 01:33:34,360 Speaker 1: these Phillies games he didn't. Just sitting up there in 1767 01:33:34,439 --> 01:33:41,479 Speaker 1: bathrobe and flip flops watching a doubleheader that seriously, and 1768 01:33:41,560 --> 01:33:44,080 Speaker 1: no commute. You don't have to worry about traffic after 1769 01:33:44,120 --> 01:33:47,240 Speaker 1: the game. You just walk across the hallway and you're back. Wow. 1770 01:33:47,720 --> 01:33:50,880 Speaker 1: Watching the post game under television. Wow, Tom, you're in 1771 01:33:50,920 --> 01:33:56,080 Speaker 1: early traffic. Wasn't bothering me? Today? Is awesome? And you 1772 01:33:56,080 --> 01:33:57,519 Speaker 1: know that, you know how to there had to be 1773 01:33:57,560 --> 01:33:59,760 Speaker 1: a ton of not a ton, but there had to 1774 01:33:59,800 --> 01:34:02,400 Speaker 1: be some people who absolutely knew what that was going on, right, 1775 01:34:02,439 --> 01:34:05,080 Speaker 1: I mean that the Eagles players that kind of thing, 1776 01:34:05,160 --> 01:34:09,439 Speaker 1: they had to know. And that's pretty amazing. And then 1777 01:34:09,439 --> 01:34:14,639 Speaker 1: he made a book out of it. Uh, that's fantastic. Picture. 1778 01:34:14,680 --> 01:34:18,920 Speaker 1: I want pictures, right, Yeah, this is this is way 1779 01:34:18,960 --> 01:34:22,919 Speaker 1: before everybody had a camera with him at all times. Yeah. 1780 01:34:22,960 --> 01:34:28,360 Speaker 1: So oh, I mean that's Tom Garvey. Truth is always truth, 1781 01:34:28,439 --> 01:34:32,479 Speaker 1: always strange is stranger than fiction? Wow, that is true. Yeah, 1782 01:34:32,479 --> 01:34:35,160 Speaker 1: it's called the book is called The Secret Apartment, That 1783 01:34:35,439 --> 01:34:39,400 Speaker 1: Stadium a surreal memoir. Yeah. I read that this morning. 1784 01:34:39,400 --> 01:34:40,840 Speaker 1: I was like, I gotta get this on the show. 1785 01:34:40,880 --> 01:34:43,960 Speaker 1: This is fantastic. Yeah, that's good stuff. That's good stuff. 1786 01:34:43,960 --> 01:34:46,559 Speaker 1: Good for him man, three years? Yeah, that is rent 1787 01:34:46,640 --> 01:34:53,400 Speaker 1: free living. That is an absolute master stroke. Like, think 1788 01:34:53,439 --> 01:34:55,559 Speaker 1: about that guy's life. I mean, he's probably had a 1789 01:34:55,560 --> 01:34:57,479 Speaker 1: pretty full life. Served in Vietnam. I mean he's seen 1790 01:34:57,560 --> 01:35:01,320 Speaker 1: war yep, and then you know he's seventy eight. I 1791 01:35:01,320 --> 01:35:04,400 Speaker 1: mean the guys had a full life. That still might 1792 01:35:04,439 --> 01:35:06,960 Speaker 1: be his number one accomplished. That is a master stroke. 1793 01:35:07,040 --> 01:35:11,040 Speaker 1: I lived rent free inside Veterans Stadium for three years 1794 01:35:11,920 --> 01:35:18,200 Speaker 1: and saw probably upwards of one hundred Philly games for free. 1795 01:35:19,200 --> 01:35:22,759 Speaker 1: Come on, man, you can't that is that? That's awesome? 1796 01:35:22,800 --> 01:35:27,320 Speaker 1: That is like that's yeah. You know what, Yeah, we 1797 01:35:27,400 --> 01:35:30,960 Speaker 1: buy the drink. You know, you gott best story wins 1798 01:35:30,960 --> 01:35:37,280 Speaker 1: a drink that drink in Philly. And let me tell 1799 01:35:37,280 --> 01:35:41,800 Speaker 1: you something. Veteran Stadium was a pit. Yeah. It was 1800 01:35:41,800 --> 01:35:44,880 Speaker 1: like old is where Wendell Clark in his room. Probably 1801 01:35:44,880 --> 01:35:46,680 Speaker 1: wasn't much better than the turf you ran on out 1802 01:35:46,720 --> 01:35:49,400 Speaker 1: on the field. Yeah. It was like a hardwood floor. 1803 01:35:50,439 --> 01:35:52,439 Speaker 1: That was Yeah, that was that place was all. It 1804 01:35:52,479 --> 01:35:56,360 Speaker 1: was like the old three Rivers YEA in Pittsburgh, Riverfront 1805 01:35:56,400 --> 01:35:59,240 Speaker 1: in Cincinnati and Vet Stadium. I think they were all 1806 01:35:59,240 --> 01:36:02,360 Speaker 1: the same act, same architect the circle thing right there. 1807 01:36:02,400 --> 01:36:05,679 Speaker 1: And you know, oh my gosh, that is isn't it great? 1808 01:36:05,760 --> 01:36:07,400 Speaker 1: That is great? All right, we gotta take a break, 1809 01:36:07,479 --> 01:36:09,920 Speaker 1: but our number three coming your way, open phone lines 1810 01:36:09,960 --> 01:36:12,360 Speaker 1: for you. At eight oh three o five fifty, talking 1811 01:36:12,360 --> 01:36:14,960 Speaker 1: about free agency for the Bills on the offensive side 1812 01:36:14,960 --> 01:36:18,080 Speaker 1: of the ball. Where did the priorities lie in your estimation? 1813 01:36:18,120 --> 01:36:20,400 Speaker 1: Taking your comments on the tweet sheet, but give us 1814 01:36:20,400 --> 01:36:22,000 Speaker 1: a call if you want to chime in a three 1815 01:36:22,040 --> 01:36:24,519 Speaker 1: oh five fifty back in a flash. Here on one 1816 01:36:24,520 --> 01:36:36,920 Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Hello, 1817 01:36:37,040 --> 01:36:41,519 Speaker 1: Bills Radio Network Sports Date. You're a sports update from 1818 01:36:41,520 --> 01:36:44,600 Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. The Bills premiering a new digital documentary 1819 01:36:44,600 --> 01:36:47,639 Speaker 1: called Growth Mindset that chronicles the team's success from twenty 1820 01:36:47,680 --> 01:36:50,719 Speaker 1: seventeen to twenty twenty. Showcases how the team was built 1821 01:36:50,760 --> 01:36:52,639 Speaker 1: leading up to a trip to the AFC Title Game 1822 01:36:52,720 --> 01:36:55,240 Speaker 1: this past season, and how they're prepared to continue to 1823 01:36:55,240 --> 01:36:57,320 Speaker 1: grow in twenty twenty one and beyond. It airs tonight 1824 01:36:57,360 --> 01:37:00,599 Speaker 1: at seven pm on The Bills YouTube channel on Saturday 1825 01:37:00,680 --> 01:37:05,639 Speaker 1: night six thirty on wi VBTV channel four. Clemson holding 1826 01:37:05,640 --> 01:37:08,920 Speaker 1: its pro day today will not include QB Trevor Lawrence, 1827 01:37:08,920 --> 01:37:12,320 Speaker 1: but is featuring seven other players, including running back Travis 1828 01:37:12,360 --> 01:37:15,320 Speaker 1: Etn who was clocked at a four four forty and 1829 01:37:15,320 --> 01:37:18,799 Speaker 1: a four four five forty based on Who's stop watching, 1830 01:37:19,400 --> 01:37:23,080 Speaker 1: We're going by plenty of scouts watching, as well as 1831 01:37:23,120 --> 01:37:27,519 Speaker 1: Bill's GM Brandon Bean, who was in attendance. Chiefs cleaning 1832 01:37:27,560 --> 01:37:30,400 Speaker 1: house on their offensive line Kansas City releasing both of 1833 01:37:30,439 --> 01:37:34,479 Speaker 1: their starting offensive tackles Eric Fisher and Mitchell Schwartz. Both 1834 01:37:34,479 --> 01:37:36,760 Speaker 1: players were unavailable and this year's Super Bowl because of 1835 01:37:36,800 --> 01:37:39,200 Speaker 1: injuries and are working their way back to health. Eric 1836 01:37:39,240 --> 01:37:42,679 Speaker 1: Fisher tours Achilles in the AFC title game against the Bills. 1837 01:37:42,720 --> 01:37:46,639 Speaker 1: Mitchell Schwartz underwent back surgery before the season was over. 1838 01:37:47,240 --> 01:37:49,599 Speaker 1: Left to see if they're even healthy for the twenty 1839 01:37:49,640 --> 01:37:55,320 Speaker 1: twenty one season. Other offensive line casualties included Minnesota Vikings 1840 01:37:55,360 --> 01:37:59,000 Speaker 1: offensive tackle Riley Reef. The move by the Viking saves 1841 01:37:59,040 --> 01:38:02,400 Speaker 1: them almost twelve million dollars in cap space. Reef was 1842 01:38:02,400 --> 01:38:05,599 Speaker 1: the twenty third overall pick in the twenty twelve draft. 1843 01:38:05,960 --> 01:38:09,240 Speaker 1: The New Orleans Saints purge continues as they scramble to 1844 01:38:09,240 --> 01:38:13,120 Speaker 1: get under the salary cap. They informed veteran cornerback Genora's 1845 01:38:13,200 --> 01:38:16,120 Speaker 1: Jenkins he will be released after joining the Saints in 1846 01:38:16,160 --> 01:38:19,880 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Jenkins started thirteen games in twenty twenty and 1847 01:38:19,920 --> 01:38:23,880 Speaker 1: was a key member of the saints shutdown secondary last season. 1848 01:38:24,240 --> 01:38:27,679 Speaker 1: Texans have restructured the contract of wide receiver Brandon Cooks. 1849 01:38:27,680 --> 01:38:30,719 Speaker 1: He had a twelve million dollar cap figure. The move 1850 01:38:31,000 --> 01:38:33,439 Speaker 1: will free up more than six million dollars in cap 1851 01:38:33,479 --> 01:38:36,280 Speaker 1: space for the coming season, and the Sabers home tonight 1852 01:38:36,320 --> 01:38:38,479 Speaker 1: against the Penguins to face them for the first time 1853 01:38:38,520 --> 01:38:41,880 Speaker 1: this season. Face offset four seven pm at the Key 1854 01:38:41,880 --> 01:38:44,800 Speaker 1: Bank Center. That is your sports update from One Bill's Drive. 1855 01:38:44,880 --> 01:38:47,760 Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker here with you as we are 1856 01:38:47,760 --> 01:38:51,920 Speaker 1: discussing the free agent importance in terms of position for 1857 01:38:51,960 --> 01:38:55,559 Speaker 1: the Bills on offense and the voting on the Twitter 1858 01:38:55,600 --> 01:38:59,080 Speaker 1: poll has the offensive line out in front as expected, 1859 01:38:59,120 --> 01:39:03,560 Speaker 1: but there have been some discerning opinions on the tweet sheet. JW. 1860 01:39:03,760 --> 01:39:06,760 Speaker 1: Socks on the tweet sheet says, I liked Steve's analogy 1861 01:39:06,800 --> 01:39:09,920 Speaker 1: on the show yesterday that we're on the mountain coming 1862 01:39:09,960 --> 01:39:11,880 Speaker 1: down to the valley to get to the top of 1863 01:39:11,920 --> 01:39:14,920 Speaker 1: the next mountain. With that in mind, build back the 1864 01:39:15,000 --> 01:39:18,120 Speaker 1: offensive line first. So he is in the majority, is 1865 01:39:18,160 --> 01:39:21,240 Speaker 1: fifty nine percent have said it is offensive line. But 1866 01:39:21,280 --> 01:39:23,880 Speaker 1: look at this support for tight end Steve. It was 1867 01:39:23,920 --> 01:39:27,439 Speaker 1: at about twenty four percent when the voting began. Now 1868 01:39:27,439 --> 01:39:30,160 Speaker 1: it's up over thirty what is it, thirty sent almost 1869 01:39:30,240 --> 01:39:35,200 Speaker 1: thirty seven percent. Yeah, you got this guy that has 1870 01:39:35,280 --> 01:39:39,120 Speaker 1: developed into the guy in the entire National Football League 1871 01:39:39,120 --> 01:39:44,000 Speaker 1: who got second in the MVP voting, And if it 1872 01:39:44,000 --> 01:39:46,559 Speaker 1: would have been his second year, playing the way he 1873 01:39:46,640 --> 01:39:49,720 Speaker 1: played last year, he would have won it. I think 1874 01:39:49,800 --> 01:39:52,800 Speaker 1: just don't think people were convinced yet that Josh was 1875 01:39:52,840 --> 01:39:59,519 Speaker 1: for real and he's given that and how hard guys 1876 01:39:59,560 --> 01:40:03,320 Speaker 1: like jo Shore to find. You got to support him. 1877 01:40:03,960 --> 01:40:06,840 Speaker 1: We saw what it was like in twenty eighteen when 1878 01:40:06,880 --> 01:40:09,520 Speaker 1: the offensive line was a mess. We lost Richie Incognito 1879 01:40:09,560 --> 01:40:12,479 Speaker 1: and Eric would both unexpectedly, and they had no extra 1880 01:40:12,560 --> 01:40:15,400 Speaker 1: picks or money to replace those guys, and they had 1881 01:40:15,400 --> 01:40:18,880 Speaker 1: to roll into the season with substandard offensive line play 1882 01:40:19,280 --> 01:40:21,200 Speaker 1: and the team was six and ten. It's the only 1883 01:40:21,560 --> 01:40:24,519 Speaker 1: and that couldn't win the line. And that was the 1884 01:40:24,560 --> 01:40:27,160 Speaker 1: only year in the Sean McDermott tenure that they were 1885 01:40:27,160 --> 01:40:30,200 Speaker 1: not in the playoffs and had a losing record. So 1886 01:40:31,880 --> 01:40:35,840 Speaker 1: don't go back there. Spend all your asset, the all 1887 01:40:35,840 --> 01:40:38,120 Speaker 1: the assets you need to to get your offensive line 1888 01:40:38,160 --> 01:40:40,600 Speaker 1: back up to not just a competitive level, but a 1889 01:40:41,040 --> 01:40:43,639 Speaker 1: more than competitive level. They're going to be a handful 1890 01:40:43,640 --> 01:40:45,880 Speaker 1: of games or more, or if all of them that 1891 01:40:46,000 --> 01:40:48,640 Speaker 1: they're the offensive line is dominant. If you get to 1892 01:40:49,120 --> 01:40:54,040 Speaker 1: that spot, you got a chance to beat any team 1893 01:40:54,040 --> 01:40:59,360 Speaker 1: you play in, Kansas City included. So that's job one 1894 01:40:59,439 --> 01:41:02,000 Speaker 1: for me at where it starts and ends, and when 1895 01:41:02,000 --> 01:41:04,120 Speaker 1: they finish, When they get that done, then they can 1896 01:41:04,160 --> 01:41:06,479 Speaker 1: go off and do whatever else they want with the 1897 01:41:06,479 --> 01:41:07,880 Speaker 1: rest of the roster. We're given what they have to 1898 01:41:07,920 --> 01:41:10,120 Speaker 1: work with. It's like the saying goes, those who don't 1899 01:41:10,160 --> 01:41:15,680 Speaker 1: remember the past are doomed to repeat it. Remember twenty nineteen, remember, 1900 01:41:15,920 --> 01:41:22,559 Speaker 1: and I'm sure the front does twenty eighteen eighteen. Ye sorry, 1901 01:41:23,680 --> 01:41:27,000 Speaker 1: but yeah, that line was just not up to snuff 1902 01:41:27,240 --> 01:41:29,600 Speaker 1: in winning battles at the line of scrimmage on a 1903 01:41:29,600 --> 01:41:32,799 Speaker 1: weekly basis, and the team suffered because of it. James 1904 01:41:32,800 --> 01:41:37,200 Speaker 1: on the tweet sheets says yes on resigning McKenzie. If 1905 01:41:37,240 --> 01:41:40,519 Speaker 1: you sign him, you can let Roberts go, who only 1906 01:41:40,560 --> 01:41:43,840 Speaker 1: really returned kicks. Mackenzie could still have his important role 1907 01:41:43,840 --> 01:41:46,960 Speaker 1: in the offense and also act as your return man. 1908 01:41:47,040 --> 01:41:50,080 Speaker 1: Two spots on the field with only one player taking 1909 01:41:50,160 --> 01:41:55,360 Speaker 1: cap space. Again, though we talked about this, he's a 1910 01:41:55,400 --> 01:41:58,720 Speaker 1: guy of diminutive stature. You give him too big a role, 1911 01:41:59,520 --> 01:42:01,680 Speaker 1: I think you're run the risk of losing him. For 1912 01:42:01,720 --> 01:42:04,840 Speaker 1: some time. Yeah, dude to injury, and it's hard to 1913 01:42:04,920 --> 01:42:07,960 Speaker 1: be the full times it looks easier, it's not to 1914 01:42:08,080 --> 01:42:11,080 Speaker 1: be the full time return guy. And then to also 1915 01:42:11,240 --> 01:42:14,200 Speaker 1: have any significant role on offense, you have to have 1916 01:42:14,280 --> 01:42:19,760 Speaker 1: limited snaps, very limited snaps. M It's just the way 1917 01:42:19,760 --> 01:42:22,599 Speaker 1: it works because the guy gets spread too thin. It's 1918 01:42:22,800 --> 01:42:25,200 Speaker 1: it's one of those positions where you never you never 1919 01:42:25,280 --> 01:42:28,360 Speaker 1: get a real break. You're either they either need you 1920 01:42:28,400 --> 01:42:31,160 Speaker 1: on third down or whatever. You're in there for a series, 1921 01:42:31,200 --> 01:42:32,560 Speaker 1: you're going then you got to come out then you 1922 01:42:32,760 --> 01:42:36,639 Speaker 1: know you and then you got to go into return kicks. 1923 01:42:36,640 --> 01:42:39,000 Speaker 1: Why Andrey Roberts didn't play more wide receiver? They did? 1924 01:42:39,000 --> 01:42:41,280 Speaker 1: He did it like for a handful of snaps. It's 1925 01:42:41,439 --> 01:42:46,680 Speaker 1: it's it's more about the mental acuity. No, it's as 1926 01:42:46,840 --> 01:42:50,200 Speaker 1: much about the mental acuity and decision making to be 1927 01:42:50,240 --> 01:42:54,640 Speaker 1: a good returner as it is the physical abilities. And 1928 01:42:54,720 --> 01:42:58,200 Speaker 1: you gotta be on it mentally. You can't be distracted 1929 01:42:58,200 --> 01:43:00,360 Speaker 1: when you go out there to return kicks. And and 1930 01:43:00,479 --> 01:43:02,920 Speaker 1: I think he run a risk of losing Asa McKenzie's 1931 01:43:02,920 --> 01:43:05,679 Speaker 1: contributions offensively if you put him out there to return 1932 01:43:05,800 --> 01:43:08,400 Speaker 1: kicks as a full time guy. Paul on the tweet 1933 01:43:08,439 --> 01:43:11,400 Speaker 1: sheets asks would the Bills be able to resign John 1934 01:43:11,439 --> 01:43:14,479 Speaker 1: Brown at a lower cost per year. Well, I'm sure 1935 01:43:14,520 --> 01:43:19,599 Speaker 1: they could if John Brown was interested, but I think 1936 01:43:19,600 --> 01:43:23,679 Speaker 1: he's looking to find opportunities elsewhere at this point in time. 1937 01:43:24,120 --> 01:43:29,000 Speaker 1: And quite frankly, I think the Bills I think they 1938 01:43:29,120 --> 01:43:33,120 Speaker 1: learned based on how things unfolded last year, that they 1939 01:43:33,120 --> 01:43:37,000 Speaker 1: would be more It would be wiser to kind of 1940 01:43:37,400 --> 01:43:41,639 Speaker 1: push the development of Gabriel Davis forward by putting him 1941 01:43:41,640 --> 01:43:47,920 Speaker 1: in that role now. And I think in a normal 1942 01:43:47,960 --> 01:43:50,519 Speaker 1: offseason with the cap where it was supposed to be, 1943 01:43:51,080 --> 01:43:54,479 Speaker 1: I think John Brown finishes his three year contract with 1944 01:43:54,520 --> 01:43:56,960 Speaker 1: the Bills. I think he sees the end of the contract. 1945 01:43:56,960 --> 01:43:59,120 Speaker 1: This was the last year of his deal, and I 1946 01:43:59,160 --> 01:44:02,160 Speaker 1: think he's on the and he plays next year. But 1947 01:44:02,680 --> 01:44:05,000 Speaker 1: we didn't have a normal offseason. We had a pandemic 1948 01:44:05,560 --> 01:44:09,640 Speaker 1: impacted off season, and the financials got all out of 1949 01:44:09,640 --> 01:44:11,559 Speaker 1: whack for every team in the league because of it. 1950 01:44:12,120 --> 01:44:14,840 Speaker 1: They might, yeah, and here we are, Yeah, they might have. 1951 01:44:14,960 --> 01:44:17,640 Speaker 1: Even for John Brown and the way he played in 1952 01:44:18,000 --> 01:44:20,840 Speaker 1: a normal ross in a normal cap year, they might 1953 01:44:20,880 --> 01:44:23,280 Speaker 1: have just restructured him and added another year on so 1954 01:44:23,320 --> 01:44:25,360 Speaker 1: that he didn't leave at the Saint he was still here. 1955 01:44:25,400 --> 01:44:27,439 Speaker 1: If Cole Beasley runs out of his deal, you know, 1956 01:44:27,800 --> 01:44:29,280 Speaker 1: or you know that kind of thing, give him both 1957 01:44:29,800 --> 01:44:33,720 Speaker 1: another year to think about it. Yeah, I agree with you. 1958 01:44:33,800 --> 01:44:37,760 Speaker 1: In a normal year, maybe John Brown is an easy 1959 01:44:37,800 --> 01:44:39,920 Speaker 1: say no, leave him where he is. But I think 1960 01:44:40,840 --> 01:44:43,519 Speaker 1: the way Gabriel Davis performed when John Brown was out 1961 01:44:43,560 --> 01:44:46,599 Speaker 1: of the lineup number one and then number two. Seeing 1962 01:44:46,680 --> 01:44:49,920 Speaker 1: John Brown suffer one injury and then another, that kind 1963 01:44:49,920 --> 01:44:52,800 Speaker 1: of creeps into the mind of general managers because they're 1964 01:44:52,800 --> 01:44:55,599 Speaker 1: always looking ahead, you know, they always have to plan ahead, 1965 01:44:56,200 --> 01:44:59,040 Speaker 1: and they start to see these injuries creep up on 1966 01:44:59,120 --> 01:45:01,280 Speaker 1: him and it's like, oh, he's over thirty. Is he 1967 01:45:01,360 --> 01:45:03,479 Speaker 1: getting to that point where maybe his body's starting to 1968 01:45:03,520 --> 01:45:07,000 Speaker 1: break down a little bit, can't handle the rigors, you know, 1969 01:45:07,040 --> 01:45:10,320 Speaker 1: of the weekly grind. Any like those questions pop into 1970 01:45:10,400 --> 01:45:13,000 Speaker 1: the mind of front office executives. They wouldn't be doing 1971 01:45:13,000 --> 01:45:16,639 Speaker 1: their job if they didn't think of those things. So 1972 01:45:17,760 --> 01:45:21,160 Speaker 1: I think what could have been at work there was, well, 1973 01:45:22,000 --> 01:45:23,840 Speaker 1: are we going to get sixteen games out of him? 1974 01:45:23,840 --> 01:45:25,719 Speaker 1: We didn't get it this year. He's a year older, 1975 01:45:26,720 --> 01:45:30,960 Speaker 1: and you know, fair or not. Those are the thoughts 1976 01:45:31,000 --> 01:45:34,200 Speaker 1: that creep into the heads of personnel men because they 1977 01:45:34,240 --> 01:45:37,360 Speaker 1: have to protect the organization against those things. As we 1978 01:45:37,439 --> 01:45:40,400 Speaker 1: say all the time, the number one ability in the 1979 01:45:40,520 --> 01:45:45,320 Speaker 1: NFL is availability, and you know, with the money you're paying, 1980 01:45:46,400 --> 01:45:48,360 Speaker 1: you want to get the return on investment by that 1981 01:45:48,400 --> 01:45:50,559 Speaker 1: guy being on the field. And I think some of 1982 01:45:50,560 --> 01:45:52,760 Speaker 1: those thoughts may have crept in. And then you have 1983 01:45:52,800 --> 01:45:56,160 Speaker 1: this restrictive cap situation. You have a young rookie performing 1984 01:45:56,400 --> 01:46:00,080 Speaker 1: really well that could probably fill the role just as capable, 1985 01:46:00,640 --> 01:46:03,760 Speaker 1: and you see the decision that came down yesterday, and 1986 01:46:03,800 --> 01:46:05,880 Speaker 1: that's kind of where there is. And there is a 1987 01:46:05,920 --> 01:46:08,120 Speaker 1: different skill set Gabe Davis brings to the table than 1988 01:46:08,240 --> 01:46:10,920 Speaker 1: John Brown. But it's a skill set you can win with. 1989 01:46:13,439 --> 01:46:17,200 Speaker 1: So that's yeah, it may look different. I've I've been 1990 01:46:17,200 --> 01:46:20,439 Speaker 1: saying it and I'm gonna continue to say it. This 1991 01:46:20,640 --> 01:46:23,880 Speaker 1: offense coming into this next year is gonna take the 1992 01:46:23,960 --> 01:46:26,040 Speaker 1: identity of the players who are actually playing on it 1993 01:46:26,080 --> 01:46:30,000 Speaker 1: this year, not last year. And they, you know, Sean McDermott, 1994 01:46:30,000 --> 01:46:33,479 Speaker 1: Brian Davis, I don't care about you know, they just 1995 01:46:33,520 --> 01:46:36,599 Speaker 1: want the best players they can get out there. Certainly 1996 01:46:36,600 --> 01:46:38,439 Speaker 1: they know about some guys and they're sad to see 1997 01:46:38,479 --> 01:46:40,320 Speaker 1: some really good guys go, but they're gonna go out 1998 01:46:40,320 --> 01:46:43,120 Speaker 1: and find guys to bring in. And when those guys 1999 01:46:43,160 --> 01:46:45,000 Speaker 1: get in the building and you start practicing with him, 2000 01:46:45,040 --> 01:46:47,120 Speaker 1: it's like, hey, hey, wow, look at that guy. We 2001 01:46:47,160 --> 01:46:49,280 Speaker 1: haven't been able to do that before. Let's do that, 2002 01:46:49,640 --> 01:46:51,880 Speaker 1: and your offense takes on a new identity when you 2003 01:46:51,920 --> 01:46:53,439 Speaker 1: got two or three or four of those guys with 2004 01:46:53,520 --> 01:46:56,200 Speaker 1: different skill sets who are just as productive but look 2005 01:46:56,240 --> 01:46:58,920 Speaker 1: completely different. That's what the offense is going to change 2006 01:46:59,160 --> 01:47:01,439 Speaker 1: next year. As fun as it was this year, it's 2007 01:47:01,479 --> 01:47:03,960 Speaker 1: going to be different next year, and you gotta get 2008 01:47:03,960 --> 01:47:06,400 Speaker 1: your mind around that as an organization to say we're 2009 01:47:06,439 --> 01:47:10,040 Speaker 1: okay with that because we can still win and be 2010 01:47:10,200 --> 01:47:12,439 Speaker 1: just as good a football team, even though we'll look 2011 01:47:12,439 --> 01:47:15,559 Speaker 1: different in our identity will be different from Jeremy on 2012 01:47:15,560 --> 01:47:19,360 Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. Offensive line this past year showed what 2013 01:47:19,520 --> 01:47:22,880 Speaker 1: miracles Josh could perform when given the time. Second would 2014 01:47:22,880 --> 01:47:26,120 Speaker 1: be defensive line. I'm all I'm with Steve all In 2015 01:47:26,240 --> 01:47:29,320 Speaker 1: when it comes to having Sherman tanks protecting Josh and 2016 01:47:29,520 --> 01:47:33,960 Speaker 1: battle ramming opposing teams defensive lines lines Well, I think 2017 01:47:33,960 --> 01:47:36,880 Speaker 1: he means yeah, I think he does too. But Yeah, 2018 01:47:36,920 --> 01:47:40,320 Speaker 1: I think on both side. He wants tone. Yeah, he 2019 01:47:40,360 --> 01:47:42,960 Speaker 1: wants both lines. I'm he's for the trenches and I'm 2020 01:47:43,320 --> 01:47:45,320 Speaker 1: with him. Yeah, I'm in that boat too for the 2021 01:47:45,320 --> 01:47:48,599 Speaker 1: most part. Yeah, the NFL is evolving into a throwing 2022 01:47:48,640 --> 01:47:50,760 Speaker 1: all the time league, like the Bills were a big 2023 01:47:50,800 --> 01:47:54,519 Speaker 1: time this year. But you still got to line up 2024 01:47:54,520 --> 01:47:57,840 Speaker 1: and push people around a lot, and to be able 2025 01:47:57,840 --> 01:48:01,280 Speaker 1: to do that, that's a big precursor to win a 2026 01:48:01,360 --> 01:48:04,400 Speaker 1: lot of games. John on the tweet sheet says to me, 2027 01:48:04,520 --> 01:48:07,920 Speaker 1: Hunter Henry would be a huge ad, especially since it 2028 01:48:07,960 --> 01:48:10,439 Speaker 1: seems as though Dawson Knox has already hit his ceiling, right, 2029 01:48:10,439 --> 01:48:13,439 Speaker 1: I wouldn't agree with that. I would add older veteran 2030 01:48:13,479 --> 01:48:15,960 Speaker 1: offensive lineman that would be solid as starters and not 2031 01:48:16,080 --> 01:48:19,040 Speaker 1: paid too much as a backup Steve. We planted the 2032 01:48:19,080 --> 01:48:21,760 Speaker 1: scene the other day when we had Chris Long on 2033 01:48:21,760 --> 01:48:25,160 Speaker 1: the show because his brother at annalynced he was coming 2034 01:48:25,160 --> 01:48:28,400 Speaker 1: out of retirement thirty two year old Kyle Long, a 2035 01:48:28,520 --> 01:48:31,320 Speaker 1: three time Pro Bowl guard in this league with Chicago. 2036 01:48:32,600 --> 01:48:35,280 Speaker 1: I'd sign up for that guy, especially on a one 2037 01:48:35,360 --> 01:48:38,720 Speaker 1: year deal. Yeah him, come in compete, see what you 2038 01:48:38,760 --> 01:48:40,840 Speaker 1: got and hey, if you have a banner season with us, 2039 01:48:41,160 --> 01:48:44,120 Speaker 1: You're gonna be high profile, You're gonna be on national television, 2040 01:48:44,280 --> 01:48:47,080 Speaker 1: you're gonna be in primetime games. You have a good season, 2041 01:48:47,640 --> 01:48:50,280 Speaker 1: you're gonna maximize your value when you're back in the 2042 01:48:50,320 --> 01:48:52,599 Speaker 1: market next year at age thirty three. Yeah, with an 2043 01:48:52,640 --> 01:48:55,599 Speaker 1: expanded ross, with an expanded cap number as well. Yeah, 2044 01:48:55,360 --> 01:48:58,680 Speaker 1: I'm totally with you. He played, he was He's a 2045 01:48:58,680 --> 01:49:01,920 Speaker 1: really good player and like I told you, I may 2046 01:49:01,920 --> 01:49:05,360 Speaker 1: have said it on the show, he brings grit. And 2047 01:49:05,479 --> 01:49:08,559 Speaker 1: we talked about John Feliciano and the toughness that he 2048 01:49:08,640 --> 01:49:12,480 Speaker 1: brings and that you know, if there's a scuffle, Feliciano 2049 01:49:12,640 --> 01:49:14,599 Speaker 1: is in the middle of it or he's headed there. 2050 01:49:15,360 --> 01:49:17,920 Speaker 1: Same thing with Kyle Long. He's that kind of guy. 2051 01:49:18,040 --> 01:49:20,920 Speaker 1: He's got some grit and he's a battler. He's a 2052 01:49:21,040 --> 01:49:23,519 Speaker 1: you know, he's a he's a street fighter man. And 2053 01:49:23,600 --> 01:49:25,519 Speaker 1: so he's you want guys like that in front of 2054 01:49:25,520 --> 01:49:28,560 Speaker 1: your quarterback. When a guy takes him down in a 2055 01:49:28,640 --> 01:49:32,280 Speaker 1: championship game three seconds after the whistle blows. You got 2056 01:49:32,320 --> 01:49:34,280 Speaker 1: guys that are willing to pay a fifty thousand dollars 2057 01:49:34,320 --> 01:49:37,439 Speaker 1: fine to make a point about their quarterback. So and 2058 01:49:37,520 --> 01:49:40,439 Speaker 1: that's what Feliciano and those guys were willing to do. 2059 01:49:41,040 --> 01:49:46,240 Speaker 1: So we'll see, we'll see. I'm we'll throw it out there, 2060 01:49:47,160 --> 01:49:51,080 Speaker 1: We'll see. I'm all about Kyle Long coming in for that. Yeah, 2061 01:49:51,160 --> 01:49:54,200 Speaker 1: I'd sign up for it. In a second. Patrick says 2062 01:49:54,720 --> 01:49:57,960 Speaker 1: offensive lineman should be the first on the radar. I 2063 01:49:58,080 --> 01:50:01,120 Speaker 1: deeply believe we don't need any other offensive weapons. We 2064 01:50:01,200 --> 01:50:04,080 Speaker 1: have a second string running back and wide receiver that 2065 01:50:04,120 --> 01:50:07,080 Speaker 1: are ready to step up this season. It starts up front. 2066 01:50:07,120 --> 01:50:09,719 Speaker 1: Sure would be nice to see a running game again, 2067 01:50:10,479 --> 01:50:12,840 Speaker 1: and we know that they want to run it better 2068 01:50:13,800 --> 01:50:18,439 Speaker 1: than they did last season, not necessarily more often. When 2069 01:50:18,439 --> 01:50:21,160 Speaker 1: you have a guy pulling the trigger like Josh, there's 2070 01:50:21,160 --> 01:50:23,759 Speaker 1: no reason to become a fifty fifty pass run team. 2071 01:50:24,120 --> 01:50:27,479 Speaker 1: The Bills were about sixty one thirty nine passed to 2072 01:50:27,600 --> 01:50:31,920 Speaker 1: run right around sixty forty, which is kind of how 2073 01:50:32,000 --> 01:50:34,519 Speaker 1: some of the predominant throwing teams are in this league 2074 01:50:34,560 --> 01:50:38,600 Speaker 1: for the most part. So the percentages are right, But 2075 01:50:38,800 --> 01:50:41,160 Speaker 1: when you do run the ball, run it better because 2076 01:50:41,160 --> 01:50:43,800 Speaker 1: it is forty percent of your offensive play. And I 2077 01:50:43,880 --> 01:50:45,720 Speaker 1: know the media was all over when Brandon Bean said 2078 01:50:45,720 --> 01:50:48,160 Speaker 1: we got to run the ball better. All the media said, oh, 2079 01:50:48,200 --> 01:50:51,519 Speaker 1: he said better but not more, And that's true. It's 2080 01:50:51,560 --> 01:50:54,679 Speaker 1: really true. You got to be more effective and everything else. 2081 01:50:55,720 --> 01:50:59,120 Speaker 1: Everything has an action and reaction. When you run the 2082 01:50:59,120 --> 01:51:01,960 Speaker 1: ball better, you can throw the ball more effectively, and therefore, 2083 01:51:02,080 --> 01:51:04,880 Speaker 1: you know you can snap off bigger, chunky yardage more 2084 01:51:04,960 --> 01:51:10,639 Speaker 1: often and your passing game becomes better. So yeah, I 2085 01:51:10,720 --> 01:51:12,680 Speaker 1: it starts up front. That's all there is to it. 2086 01:51:12,800 --> 01:51:16,200 Speaker 1: On both sides. Eddie says, a fast receiver to take 2087 01:51:16,240 --> 01:51:20,120 Speaker 1: the top off the defense would be great, sure would 2088 01:51:20,240 --> 01:51:22,880 Speaker 1: on any team. I did find it interesting, though, Steve, 2089 01:51:22,920 --> 01:51:26,960 Speaker 1: that Matt Bowen mentioned how John hu Smith can kind 2090 01:51:26,960 --> 01:51:29,680 Speaker 1: of help create space on the field for people like 2091 01:51:29,760 --> 01:51:34,000 Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs. You know, everybody's familiar with the concept of, oh, 2092 01:51:34,040 --> 01:51:36,040 Speaker 1: you got a guy that takes the top off the defense. 2093 01:51:36,040 --> 01:51:38,200 Speaker 1: He forces the safeties to come deep, and then guys 2094 01:51:38,240 --> 01:51:41,120 Speaker 1: like Stefen Diggs and Cole Beasley can work underneath that 2095 01:51:41,240 --> 01:51:44,599 Speaker 1: coverage and make plays there because they're all worried about 2096 01:51:44,640 --> 01:51:47,280 Speaker 1: this guy getting behind him for a sixty yard touchdown pass. 2097 01:51:49,080 --> 01:51:51,080 Speaker 1: But you know, a tight end like John hu Smith 2098 01:51:51,120 --> 01:51:53,639 Speaker 1: can do the same thing in a different way by 2099 01:51:53,680 --> 01:51:55,960 Speaker 1: stretching the team down the middle of the field. You 2100 01:51:56,040 --> 01:51:58,439 Speaker 1: pull the safety to the middle and now you're outside. 2101 01:51:58,439 --> 01:52:00,759 Speaker 1: Guy's got a one, a true one on one matchup 2102 01:52:00,800 --> 01:52:03,320 Speaker 1: with no safety help. And that's where Diggs can wind 2103 01:52:03,360 --> 01:52:05,439 Speaker 1: some space across the ball. So there's different ways to 2104 01:52:05,439 --> 01:52:11,840 Speaker 1: skin that cat. Yeah. Yeah, it's hard to find fast 2105 01:52:11,920 --> 01:52:15,679 Speaker 1: guys in a fast league. Everybody's fast, Yeah, and there 2106 01:52:15,920 --> 01:52:18,960 Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill is a little bit of a unicorn. That 2107 01:52:18,960 --> 01:52:23,960 Speaker 1: guy can out run even fast guys, but he's limited 2108 01:52:23,960 --> 01:52:25,680 Speaker 1: in what he brings to the table as well a 2109 01:52:25,720 --> 01:52:28,400 Speaker 1: little bit. So um, I don't like the way he 2110 01:52:28,479 --> 01:52:32,080 Speaker 1: runs routes. He's a little limited on the route tree 2111 01:52:32,160 --> 01:52:35,000 Speaker 1: that he's able to run. He can streak through a defense, 2112 01:52:35,080 --> 01:52:37,320 Speaker 1: no question, but he has a hard time being nifty 2113 01:52:37,320 --> 01:52:40,000 Speaker 1: and running in and out of breaks and routes. He's 2114 01:52:40,040 --> 01:52:42,280 Speaker 1: not a route runner. He's a speed guy. And if 2115 01:52:42,439 --> 01:52:45,479 Speaker 1: if you keep the lid on him like the Bucks did, 2116 01:52:46,800 --> 01:52:51,160 Speaker 1: he's pretty much taken off the table, you know. But 2117 01:52:51,280 --> 01:52:53,960 Speaker 1: the Chiefs know that. That's why they've got Travis Kelsey 2118 01:52:54,439 --> 01:52:58,120 Speaker 1: and Sammy Watkins and Clyde Edwards Hilaire and and they've 2119 01:52:58,120 --> 01:53:01,639 Speaker 1: got a lot of weapons to compliment him. Interesting news 2120 01:53:01,640 --> 01:53:04,880 Speaker 1: coming down from sports business journal Steve They took a 2121 01:53:04,960 --> 01:53:08,960 Speaker 1: full inventory of the impact of the pandemic on NFL 2122 01:53:09,040 --> 01:53:13,679 Speaker 1: revenue in twenty twenty. This is Ben Fisher reporting NFL 2123 01:53:13,800 --> 01:53:18,639 Speaker 1: revenue dropped by four billion dollars in the pandemic year. 2124 01:53:19,600 --> 01:53:23,479 Speaker 1: Revenues declined nearly four billion in twenty twenty, or about 2125 01:53:23,520 --> 01:53:28,200 Speaker 1: twenty five percent year over year from twenty nineteen's top 2126 01:53:28,240 --> 01:53:32,800 Speaker 1: line of sixteen billion. According to sources familiar with the finances, 2127 01:53:33,080 --> 01:53:36,320 Speaker 1: twenty twenty had been projected to be a sixteen point 2128 01:53:36,400 --> 01:53:40,080 Speaker 1: five billion dollars season, but came in and around twelve billion, 2129 01:53:40,400 --> 01:53:43,200 Speaker 1: the source confirmed. Now all of these numbers are subject 2130 01:53:43,240 --> 01:53:46,679 Speaker 1: to a union audit, obviously, but earlier this week, after 2131 01:53:46,720 --> 01:53:52,600 Speaker 1: the cap was set, they said without the negotiated artificial 2132 01:53:52,680 --> 01:53:55,479 Speaker 1: floor of one hundred and eighty million the agreement with 2133 01:53:55,520 --> 01:53:59,640 Speaker 1: the players union, the cap under straight numbers would have 2134 01:53:59,680 --> 01:54:05,519 Speaker 1: been a one hundred and fifty five million. Holy cow, 2135 01:54:06,560 --> 01:54:08,080 Speaker 1: I mean, what are you doing. You're going back to 2136 01:54:08,120 --> 01:54:12,280 Speaker 1: like twenty ten with that number. That's not a lot 2137 01:54:12,320 --> 01:54:14,360 Speaker 1: of them. That's that's not a lot. Could you imagine 2138 01:54:14,360 --> 01:54:17,559 Speaker 1: if they did that? I mean, we thought one eighty 2139 01:54:17,600 --> 01:54:19,720 Speaker 1: was scorched earth we think what we're looking at now 2140 01:54:19,800 --> 01:54:24,080 Speaker 1: is scorched earth. One fifty five, it would have been 2141 01:54:24,080 --> 01:54:28,840 Speaker 1: a blood letting. Yeah, but that's hey. If if that's 2142 01:54:28,880 --> 01:54:31,360 Speaker 1: what a salary CAP's all about, and I'm interested to 2143 01:54:31,400 --> 01:54:36,080 Speaker 1: see why, I'm curious. Why would the owners like say, no, 2144 01:54:36,240 --> 01:54:38,560 Speaker 1: we'll just take it down. Why would they do that? Well, 2145 01:54:38,600 --> 01:54:41,960 Speaker 1: I think because they knew it. One fifty five, Every 2146 01:54:42,040 --> 01:54:44,000 Speaker 1: roster in the league wouldn't have been sustainable. You would 2147 01:54:44,040 --> 01:54:47,280 Speaker 1: have had twenty guys on your roster. So so, I mean, 2148 01:54:47,720 --> 01:54:50,520 Speaker 1: playing football, I get it. All the same guys are 2149 01:54:50,560 --> 01:54:52,120 Speaker 1: gonna be back in the league. It just shuffled the 2150 01:54:52,160 --> 01:54:54,520 Speaker 1: whole deck, that's all. Yeah, and they're playing for one 2151 01:54:54,560 --> 01:54:56,880 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars a year. You probably wouldn't be Yeah, 2152 01:54:56,920 --> 01:54:59,800 Speaker 1: you probably wouldn't have been able to even meet the 2153 01:55:00,120 --> 01:55:04,839 Speaker 1: league minimums for veteran players as negotiated in the CBA. 2154 01:55:05,000 --> 01:55:08,040 Speaker 1: Like you can't pay an eight year veteran one point 2155 01:55:08,080 --> 01:55:10,400 Speaker 1: one million dollars because you only have one hundred and 2156 01:55:10,440 --> 01:55:15,360 Speaker 1: fifty five you know what I mean, Like you couldn't. Yeah, 2157 01:55:15,400 --> 01:55:18,400 Speaker 1: you'd have to pay ten. Yeah, there's no way the 2158 01:55:18,480 --> 01:55:22,840 Speaker 1: union would have signed up for that. It was already done. No, no, 2159 01:55:22,880 --> 01:55:24,840 Speaker 1: for one fifty five I'm talking about. Well, yeah, but 2160 01:55:24,840 --> 01:55:27,440 Speaker 1: if they gone straight numbers the league, the league didn't 2161 01:55:27,480 --> 01:55:29,560 Speaker 1: have to go even go to the table. Well, and 2162 01:55:29,680 --> 01:55:32,960 Speaker 1: this is what you know. People are like, well, why 2163 01:55:32,960 --> 01:55:35,360 Speaker 1: didn't with all the revenue that they have, you know, 2164 01:55:35,400 --> 01:55:38,200 Speaker 1: the NFL is rich, why don't they just go with 2165 01:55:38,240 --> 01:55:42,440 Speaker 1: the regular cap as originally planned. Well the reason why 2166 01:55:42,800 --> 01:55:45,200 Speaker 1: was because they would have had to borrow money to 2167 01:55:45,200 --> 01:55:47,760 Speaker 1: do that. Well, yes, number that number one, but number two, 2168 01:55:49,520 --> 01:55:55,560 Speaker 1: let's not forget this. The league, the owners agreed to 2169 01:55:55,760 --> 01:56:02,120 Speaker 1: pay one hundred percent of every player salary in twenty twenty, 2170 01:56:03,280 --> 01:56:08,080 Speaker 1: despite the pandemic and the losses incurred. So now it's 2171 01:56:08,080 --> 01:56:10,640 Speaker 1: time to pay that back. That's why the cap is 2172 01:56:10,680 --> 01:56:14,320 Speaker 1: where it is. They're the only professional league that did 2173 01:56:14,360 --> 01:56:19,040 Speaker 1: not cut their players salaries. They paid them one hundred percent. Yeah, 2174 01:56:19,680 --> 01:56:23,880 Speaker 1: so that's the difference. And now this is the giveback. 2175 01:56:24,600 --> 01:56:27,160 Speaker 1: You guys are gonna play play for a little bit 2176 01:56:27,240 --> 01:56:32,080 Speaker 1: less money this year. They say it doesn't quite match 2177 01:56:32,080 --> 01:56:36,680 Speaker 1: the twenty five percent league decline because almost all the 2178 01:56:36,760 --> 01:56:40,920 Speaker 1: losses were incurred at the team level, tickets, parking, concessions, 2179 01:56:41,360 --> 01:56:45,480 Speaker 1: local sponsors. That's all split up differently, right, So the 2180 01:56:45,560 --> 01:56:51,040 Speaker 1: twenty twenty national revenue was mostly unscathed for the league 2181 01:56:51,520 --> 01:56:54,840 Speaker 1: nine and a half billion in twenty nineteen because the 2182 01:56:54,920 --> 01:56:57,600 Speaker 1: league managed to play every game more or less on 2183 01:56:57,640 --> 01:57:01,920 Speaker 1: the schedule, securing their full media payments. However, the loss 2184 01:57:02,040 --> 01:57:06,120 Speaker 1: of league run events, international games in London and Mexico, 2185 01:57:06,560 --> 01:57:09,720 Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl, and limited attendants at the Super Bowl 2186 01:57:10,440 --> 01:57:15,360 Speaker 1: registered and oh yeah, you know represented, and oh my gosh, 2187 01:57:15,400 --> 01:57:18,680 Speaker 1: the super Bowl alone. You've got ten events super Bowl 2188 01:57:18,680 --> 01:57:20,760 Speaker 1: week that are worth the trip to the super Bowl 2189 01:57:20,800 --> 01:57:24,720 Speaker 1: city by themselves, forget the game. But that's and those 2190 01:57:24,760 --> 01:57:26,480 Speaker 1: are all off the tape. But here's the thing. So 2191 01:57:26,560 --> 01:57:28,960 Speaker 1: everybody expects the revenue to bounce back in a big 2192 01:57:29,000 --> 01:57:33,120 Speaker 1: way this coming year, obviously, but players still must absorb 2193 01:57:33,680 --> 01:57:36,720 Speaker 1: about twenty seven and a half million per team, yeah, 2194 01:57:37,000 --> 01:57:41,120 Speaker 1: in losses at some point in the coming few years, 2195 01:57:41,840 --> 01:57:45,840 Speaker 1: which is the gap between the true cap, which under 2196 01:57:45,880 --> 01:57:48,240 Speaker 1: strict math would have been one hundred and fifty five million, 2197 01:57:48,880 --> 01:57:50,960 Speaker 1: and the artificial one of one hundred and eighty two 2198 01:57:51,000 --> 01:57:53,200 Speaker 1: and a half. That's the money that's got to be 2199 01:57:53,240 --> 01:57:56,080 Speaker 1: made up here somewhere in the next few years. So 2200 01:57:56,280 --> 01:57:59,720 Speaker 1: player salary growth is going to be impacted by that. 2201 01:58:00,120 --> 01:58:03,000 Speaker 1: There's no there's no way around it, right because the 2202 01:58:03,080 --> 01:58:07,000 Speaker 1: owners took the hit during the season by paying players 2203 01:58:07,000 --> 01:58:10,240 Speaker 1: their full salaries. It's gonna get turned around now over 2204 01:58:10,280 --> 01:58:12,640 Speaker 1: the next couple of years, which is interesting. But just 2205 01:58:12,680 --> 01:58:15,879 Speaker 1: seeing those numbers, it brings it all home. Though they're partners. 2206 01:58:15,880 --> 01:58:18,080 Speaker 1: I mean, they got to do it. I mean, that's 2207 01:58:18,200 --> 01:58:20,520 Speaker 1: if you're gonna if you want to be considered a partner, 2208 01:58:20,560 --> 01:58:23,280 Speaker 1: you got to take the ups and downs. Um, that's 2209 01:58:23,280 --> 01:58:27,160 Speaker 1: why they go to the negotiating table and um yeah, 2210 01:58:27,200 --> 01:58:33,000 Speaker 1: I'm okay. It's just I mean it's literally the cost 2211 01:58:33,040 --> 01:58:36,320 Speaker 1: of doing business in a pandemic literally literally yeah, literally, 2212 01:58:36,360 --> 01:58:43,320 Speaker 1: And that's players players got off easy. Yeah, they'll feel 2213 01:58:43,320 --> 01:58:45,839 Speaker 1: it in the coming years a little bit, not terribly. 2214 01:58:45,920 --> 01:58:48,200 Speaker 1: But if they're in the league, spread it out. Yeah, 2215 01:58:48,200 --> 01:58:49,520 Speaker 1: here's the if they're in the league, I mean there's 2216 01:58:49,680 --> 01:58:51,360 Speaker 1: well and that's the thing too, Like you got a 2217 01:58:51,360 --> 01:58:53,720 Speaker 1: bunch of players, like think about you were just telling 2218 01:58:53,720 --> 01:58:56,320 Speaker 1: giving me the list, the list of cornerbacks that are 2219 01:58:56,360 --> 01:59:00,280 Speaker 1: thirty years and older. Cornerbacks that corner corner corner, what 2220 01:59:00,360 --> 01:59:02,520 Speaker 1: have they got one or two more years left in 2221 01:59:02,560 --> 01:59:05,720 Speaker 1: the league? By the time this league bounces back completely, 2222 01:59:05,960 --> 01:59:08,839 Speaker 1: they might be out of the league. The top eleven corner, 2223 01:59:10,080 --> 01:59:13,000 Speaker 1: the top eleven guys at corner that are on the 2224 01:59:13,040 --> 01:59:15,960 Speaker 1: list brand new you know that are available. They're all 2225 01:59:16,000 --> 01:59:18,720 Speaker 1: thirty plus years of old, thirty plus years of age. 2226 01:59:18,800 --> 01:59:23,360 Speaker 1: Jason mccorty, thirty four, Buster Screen, Josh Norman, DJ Hayden, 2227 01:59:24,040 --> 01:59:29,240 Speaker 1: Robert Alford, Generas Jenkins who was just added today, Richard Sherman, 2228 01:59:29,520 --> 01:59:34,840 Speaker 1: Desmond Truffant, Malcolm Butler, A. J. Bouyer and Patrick Peterson. 2229 01:59:35,200 --> 01:59:37,440 Speaker 1: All of them are thirty plus years of old years old. 2230 01:59:37,520 --> 01:59:43,760 Speaker 1: Jason mccorty's thirty four, Josh Norman's thirty four. So that's 2231 01:59:44,160 --> 01:59:47,560 Speaker 1: what it is. The old guys are getting squeezed because 2232 01:59:47,560 --> 01:59:49,120 Speaker 1: they've gotten to the point where they're making a good 2233 01:59:49,160 --> 01:59:51,640 Speaker 1: buck and it's hard for them to live up to 2234 01:59:51,680 --> 01:59:56,840 Speaker 1: that contract. Yeah, particularly if they're not staying healthy. It's 2235 01:59:56,840 --> 02:00:00,240 Speaker 1: just that's the atmosphere. That's what we're doing, which what's 2236 02:00:00,240 --> 02:00:02,800 Speaker 1: gonna make free agencies So dang interesting. When we get 2237 02:00:02,800 --> 02:00:05,760 Speaker 1: there next Thursday, we have to or next Wednesday we 2238 02:00:05,840 --> 02:00:07,760 Speaker 1: have to take a break. But when we come back, 2239 02:00:08,080 --> 02:00:10,800 Speaker 1: we're gonna talk a little bit more about that CXL 2240 02:00:11,000 --> 02:00:17,600 Speaker 1: CFL XFL exploratory discussions. There isn't any necessary movement on 2241 02:00:17,600 --> 02:00:19,840 Speaker 1: that front, but some details are trickling out about some 2242 02:00:19,880 --> 02:00:23,240 Speaker 1: of the exploratory discussions. And Steve and I'll hit a 2243 02:00:23,280 --> 02:00:26,320 Speaker 1: little bit of NFL true false when we return here 2244 02:00:26,440 --> 02:00:29,200 Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo 2245 02:00:29,200 --> 02:00:41,960 Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. We'llcome back to One Bill's Live. Couple more 2246 02:00:42,040 --> 02:00:45,800 Speaker 1: news and notes from around the NFL. According to NFL Networks, 2247 02:00:45,840 --> 02:00:49,000 Speaker 1: Tom Pella Sero Lyon's plan to release cornerback Justin Coleman. 2248 02:00:49,080 --> 02:00:52,160 Speaker 1: He was their slot corner his past year, so he 2249 02:00:52,240 --> 02:00:57,080 Speaker 1: will be thrust out into the market. Apparently. Texans head 2250 02:00:57,080 --> 02:01:00,560 Speaker 1: coach David Culley is being made available to the media 2251 02:01:00,640 --> 02:01:05,080 Speaker 1: today and some of the Texans reporters down there are 2252 02:01:05,080 --> 02:01:09,080 Speaker 1: tweeting about David Culley. When asked about a contingency plan 2253 02:01:09,160 --> 02:01:13,520 Speaker 1: if Deshaun Watson doesn't report to the team, his response was, quote, 2254 02:01:13,600 --> 02:01:16,520 Speaker 1: right now, there is no contingency plan. He is a 2255 02:01:16,600 --> 02:01:20,600 Speaker 1: Houston Texan. We're committed to him, as I said before, 2256 02:01:22,280 --> 02:01:25,560 Speaker 1: So there's that that seems like a one way relationship 2257 02:01:25,640 --> 02:01:27,960 Speaker 1: right about now. They've got their heels, dug in firmly. 2258 02:01:28,280 --> 02:01:32,200 Speaker 1: I think that is clear. I'm pretty sure so does DeShawn. Yes, 2259 02:01:32,880 --> 02:01:37,520 Speaker 1: sounds like DeShawn met with David Culley either vote virtually 2260 02:01:37,560 --> 02:01:40,160 Speaker 1: the phone or yeah, and he said, I ain't playing 2261 02:01:40,160 --> 02:01:43,640 Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, how about them apples, I'm not playing 2262 02:01:43,680 --> 02:01:49,560 Speaker 1: for you. It's a staring contest officially, who's gonna blink? 2263 02:01:50,200 --> 02:01:52,760 Speaker 1: That is the question if we get past the draft. 2264 02:01:52,840 --> 02:01:59,560 Speaker 1: Steve and he has not moved draft weekend strap in man, 2265 02:01:59,600 --> 02:02:02,000 Speaker 1: because it's gonna take a while. I'm totally with it's 2266 02:02:02,000 --> 02:02:05,520 Speaker 1: gonna take a while if I'm him, and then you know, 2267 02:02:05,640 --> 02:02:08,480 Speaker 1: June second is the next day, because then whatever his 2268 02:02:08,600 --> 02:02:10,880 Speaker 1: cap hit is gets pushed into twenty Bills. Fans know 2269 02:02:11,000 --> 02:02:13,560 Speaker 1: that guy can go, man, he can play. He can 2270 02:02:13,600 --> 02:02:19,520 Speaker 1: really play, and I Texans know it too. He pulled 2271 02:02:19,560 --> 02:02:23,120 Speaker 1: wins out of his rear end for the Texans twice 2272 02:02:23,160 --> 02:02:26,240 Speaker 1: against the Bills, once in the regular season in twenty 2273 02:02:26,240 --> 02:02:29,200 Speaker 1: eighteen in Week five, and then in the wild card 2274 02:02:29,200 --> 02:02:32,000 Speaker 1: playoff game in twenty nineteen. He's one of those guys 2275 02:02:32,000 --> 02:02:34,600 Speaker 1: that I was talking about those four levels of quarterback. 2276 02:02:34,720 --> 02:02:38,120 Speaker 1: He's one you win because he's your quarterback. The second 2277 02:02:38,120 --> 02:02:43,240 Speaker 1: one is you win with him as your quarterback too. 2278 02:02:43,280 --> 02:02:45,000 Speaker 1: You win in spite of him as your three as 2279 02:02:45,040 --> 02:02:46,480 Speaker 1: you win in spite of him as your quarterback. In 2280 02:02:46,520 --> 02:02:48,920 Speaker 1: the fourth he can't win with a guy that guy's 2281 02:02:49,000 --> 02:02:51,840 Speaker 1: number one. You win because he's your quarterback. They won 2282 02:02:51,880 --> 02:02:55,120 Speaker 1: four games last year because he was their quarterback. Yeah. Period. 2283 02:02:56,400 --> 02:02:59,360 Speaker 1: Then we talked about this yesterday for a little bit 2284 02:02:59,400 --> 02:03:02,520 Speaker 1: at the top of the show, how the XFL and 2285 02:03:02,600 --> 02:03:07,600 Speaker 1: the CFL are in strategic talks about a possible partnership, 2286 02:03:08,400 --> 02:03:13,000 Speaker 1: and the Sports Business Journal got a hold of former 2287 02:03:13,120 --> 02:03:18,000 Speaker 1: CFL commissioner Jeff Orridge and interviewed him for his thoughts 2288 02:03:18,080 --> 02:03:24,120 Speaker 1: on this possible partnership, and he said, among the concerns 2289 02:03:24,160 --> 02:03:29,240 Speaker 1: that he has is the rules format. Should the two leagues, 2290 02:03:29,600 --> 02:03:32,720 Speaker 1: you know, merge together, because obviously the XFL plays a 2291 02:03:32,720 --> 02:03:36,880 Speaker 1: brand of American football and CFLs the CFL, And he 2292 02:03:36,960 --> 02:03:42,240 Speaker 1: said that there could be a significant dilemma because three 2293 02:03:42,280 --> 02:03:48,160 Speaker 1: down football is considered sacred to many many Canadians and 2294 02:03:48,320 --> 02:03:53,760 Speaker 1: Canadian football fans. He said that is quintessentially and uniquely Canadian, 2295 02:03:53,840 --> 02:03:57,960 Speaker 1: and there is a cultural identity that many Canadians associate 2296 02:03:58,360 --> 02:04:07,400 Speaker 1: with their unique game it's interesting, true, I get it. Yeah, Um, 2297 02:04:07,440 --> 02:04:09,520 Speaker 1: there's a lot that has to I told you yesterday 2298 02:04:09,560 --> 02:04:12,200 Speaker 1: I went down a list of the shortlist of subtle 2299 02:04:12,200 --> 02:04:15,240 Speaker 1: differences in the game. But that's the first one. Three 2300 02:04:15,280 --> 02:04:19,360 Speaker 1: down football, first down, second down, punt. Twenty yard end 2301 02:04:19,440 --> 02:04:21,640 Speaker 1: zones too, by the way, let's not forget that. Yeah. 2302 02:04:21,640 --> 02:04:23,960 Speaker 1: And it's like the field instead of fifty three and 2303 02:04:23,960 --> 02:04:26,360 Speaker 1: a thirty zones, Yeah, instead of fifty three and a 2304 02:04:26,400 --> 02:04:29,400 Speaker 1: third yards. I think their field is like sixty five 2305 02:04:29,560 --> 02:04:33,560 Speaker 1: or something. It's it's incredibly wide, and it's one hundred 2306 02:04:33,560 --> 02:04:35,840 Speaker 1: and ten yard playing field with twenty yard end zones. 2307 02:04:35,960 --> 02:04:41,080 Speaker 1: One hundred and fifty yard field. To me, it just 2308 02:04:41,120 --> 02:04:44,360 Speaker 1: sounds ridiculous. You've seen it up close, so with your 2309 02:04:44,360 --> 02:04:49,120 Speaker 1: son playing up, it's enormous. And there's no get set 2310 02:04:49,120 --> 02:04:52,720 Speaker 1: before the Yeah, you can all five wide receive, all 2311 02:04:52,760 --> 02:04:55,440 Speaker 1: five eligible receivers can be in motion before the ball, 2312 02:04:55,480 --> 02:04:57,280 Speaker 1: and so they get a running start and they hit. 2313 02:04:57,760 --> 02:04:59,560 Speaker 1: They time it up and I don't know how they 2314 02:04:59,600 --> 02:05:02,800 Speaker 1: do it. They snapped the ball the split second that 2315 02:05:02,840 --> 02:05:04,920 Speaker 1: the receivers are all hitting the line of scrimmage at 2316 02:05:04,920 --> 02:05:09,720 Speaker 1: a full run. So the deep defensive the defenders are all, 2317 02:05:09,920 --> 02:05:13,000 Speaker 1: there's no press, there's no press cuver. There is no 2318 02:05:13,040 --> 02:05:14,600 Speaker 1: press cuver because if you stand there and try and 2319 02:05:14,680 --> 02:05:18,400 Speaker 1: chuck the guy, he'll just run around you. It's unbelievable 2320 02:05:18,840 --> 02:05:21,920 Speaker 1: and it's I don't know what they're gonna do. I 2321 02:05:21,920 --> 02:05:25,880 Speaker 1: don't know how they'll compromise those The former CFL commissioner 2322 02:05:25,960 --> 02:05:29,520 Speaker 1: Jeff Orge did raise the idea that there could be 2323 02:05:29,640 --> 02:05:33,240 Speaker 1: value in maintaining a relationship between the two leagues, even 2324 02:05:33,280 --> 02:05:36,120 Speaker 1: if they operate in their own separate way. You know, 2325 02:05:36,840 --> 02:05:39,520 Speaker 1: we play our American football, you play or Canadian football. 2326 02:05:40,080 --> 02:05:44,600 Speaker 1: He thinks unifying the leagues as a single entity for 2327 02:05:44,720 --> 02:05:48,920 Speaker 1: player recruitment and development could work. He thinks it would 2328 02:05:48,960 --> 02:05:51,680 Speaker 1: allow for a smoother transfer, like if you can organize 2329 02:05:51,720 --> 02:05:53,800 Speaker 1: some kind of smooth transfer of players from one to 2330 02:05:53,840 --> 02:05:57,320 Speaker 1: the other while going to the NFL, you know, and 2331 02:05:57,400 --> 02:06:01,280 Speaker 1: serving as a true developmental league to get there. You know, 2332 02:06:01,360 --> 02:06:04,800 Speaker 1: he sees some benefits there. I said this when when 2333 02:06:05,400 --> 02:06:08,000 Speaker 1: you know my son was playing in in Canada, you 2334 02:06:08,080 --> 02:06:11,840 Speaker 1: watch I'd watch those games intently obviously, and I thought, 2335 02:06:11,880 --> 02:06:14,520 Speaker 1: you know the thing that I saw mostly but particularly 2336 02:06:14,560 --> 02:06:16,920 Speaker 1: play in defense in Canada. You got to be able 2337 02:06:16,920 --> 02:06:18,360 Speaker 1: to play in space, and you got to be able 2338 02:06:18,400 --> 02:06:22,720 Speaker 1: to tackle in the open field because there's so much 2339 02:06:23,200 --> 02:06:25,960 Speaker 1: is so big. You've got to be able to wrap 2340 02:06:26,160 --> 02:06:30,120 Speaker 1: play with eleven, right, they play with twelve and they've 2341 02:06:30,120 --> 02:06:31,880 Speaker 1: got to You got to wrap up, and you've got 2342 02:06:31,880 --> 02:06:33,600 Speaker 1: to get there and play in space and get the 2343 02:06:33,600 --> 02:06:36,880 Speaker 1: guy on the ground. It's the defenders up there really 2344 02:06:36,960 --> 02:06:38,640 Speaker 1: learn how to. I mean, you've got to be able 2345 02:06:38,640 --> 02:06:42,000 Speaker 1: to tackle in space. And you know so I you know, 2346 02:06:42,000 --> 02:06:43,720 Speaker 1: when people are asking me about I said, yeah, you 2347 02:06:43,760 --> 02:06:46,120 Speaker 1: can find NFL defenders up there because they can they 2348 02:06:46,240 --> 02:06:49,600 Speaker 1: play in space. Yeah, you know you have to. Yeah, 2349 02:06:49,680 --> 02:06:52,040 Speaker 1: all right, tis Steve the time for a little NFL 2350 02:06:52,240 --> 02:06:56,280 Speaker 1: true false. Let's roll it out here, right Number one 2351 02:06:56,520 --> 02:06:59,880 Speaker 1: on NFL true falls Steve, after not landing jj Wa, 2352 02:07:00,160 --> 02:07:04,440 Speaker 1: Yannick and Goackway, would be the ideal free agent pass 2353 02:07:04,520 --> 02:07:13,040 Speaker 1: rusher target for the Bills. True or false. Well, he's 2354 02:07:13,080 --> 02:07:19,920 Speaker 1: certainly on the list. I don't cost a pretty penny though, Yeah, 2355 02:07:20,080 --> 02:07:23,080 Speaker 1: but now does this do these true falses always come 2356 02:07:23,120 --> 02:07:26,680 Speaker 1: with the caveat of for the right price. I didn't 2357 02:07:26,720 --> 02:07:30,680 Speaker 1: see the caveat listed there. Um I'm looking, but if 2358 02:07:30,680 --> 02:07:35,320 Speaker 1: you wish to apply it, feel free for the right price. Yeah, absolutely, 2359 02:07:36,280 --> 02:07:40,040 Speaker 1: I'm you like him as the best option. I don't know. 2360 02:07:40,320 --> 02:07:43,160 Speaker 1: I thought you like Carl Lawson. I like Carl Lawson 2361 02:07:43,240 --> 02:07:45,680 Speaker 1: a lot. I like car I like Carlos Dunlap a 2362 02:07:45,720 --> 02:07:50,280 Speaker 1: lot um, mostly because I like the way they play 2363 02:07:50,440 --> 02:07:55,440 Speaker 1: and that they would be cheaper than in Gackway. Yeah, 2364 02:07:55,480 --> 02:07:57,360 Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna say false because I 2365 02:07:57,360 --> 02:08:00,120 Speaker 1: think he's gonna cost too much money. Yeah, but let 2366 02:08:00,120 --> 02:08:02,440 Speaker 1: me give you some guys that I like so much, 2367 02:08:02,480 --> 02:08:05,160 Speaker 1: like Matt Bowen. I am intrigued by Trey Hendrickson from 2368 02:08:05,160 --> 02:08:08,760 Speaker 1: New Orleans. And another guy that's kind of under the 2369 02:08:08,880 --> 02:08:13,320 Speaker 1: radar is the ten sac guy from Detroit, Romeo Aquara. 2370 02:08:13,480 --> 02:08:18,440 Speaker 1: He interests me. I don't know what the price tag 2371 02:08:18,440 --> 02:08:21,720 Speaker 1: would be, but he's kind of that's kind of the 2372 02:08:21,720 --> 02:08:24,800 Speaker 1: middle tier of the group that I'm looking at. Romeo 2373 02:08:24,880 --> 02:08:27,480 Speaker 1: Aquara is in that middle tier where maybe he's a 2374 02:08:27,520 --> 02:08:30,080 Speaker 1: little bit more affordable and based on what they do 2375 02:08:30,120 --> 02:08:32,720 Speaker 1: to clear some cap space, maybe it works. In Gokway 2376 02:08:33,280 --> 02:08:35,280 Speaker 1: is one of those guys. He's great. You want him 2377 02:08:35,320 --> 02:08:39,560 Speaker 1: because he's twenty six. Yeah, I think Aquara is twenty six. Also, 2378 02:08:41,480 --> 02:08:43,760 Speaker 1: you signed him for the right contract. Maybe you can 2379 02:08:43,800 --> 02:08:47,760 Speaker 1: spread out the money effectively. That could work. I'm gonna 2380 02:08:47,760 --> 02:08:49,480 Speaker 1: go and see if I can find some clips of 2381 02:08:49,520 --> 02:08:53,000 Speaker 1: this guy, Stephen Weatherly. Although people will roll their eyes 2382 02:08:53,040 --> 02:08:55,560 Speaker 1: because he's from Carolina, he played for Carol Well just 2383 02:08:55,680 --> 02:08:58,720 Speaker 1: this past year. He had previously been in Minnesota for 2384 02:08:58,840 --> 02:09:01,000 Speaker 1: the majority of his career, actually a former team. And 2385 02:09:01,080 --> 02:09:05,120 Speaker 1: is Stefan Dick. So right, okay, there's so what's your 2386 02:09:05,120 --> 02:09:07,840 Speaker 1: answer here? You said yes, right? True? Nah, I'm saying 2387 02:09:08,000 --> 02:09:10,160 Speaker 1: you're going false. Okay, I think he's two pricey. Yeah, 2388 02:09:10,200 --> 02:09:12,839 Speaker 1: I'm far other guys. You'll get a better value with, Okay, 2389 02:09:14,120 --> 02:09:17,080 Speaker 1: NFL true false. Number two Steve, the Bills should ignore 2390 02:09:17,120 --> 02:09:20,800 Speaker 1: the running back position early in the twenty twenty one draft. True. 2391 02:09:21,760 --> 02:09:24,480 Speaker 1: You know how I feel about that? Well, I do. Um. 2392 02:09:25,200 --> 02:09:28,320 Speaker 1: Do you look at running back at all and then 2393 02:09:28,320 --> 02:09:32,800 Speaker 1: the draft anywhere you always do? Yes, I would say yes, 2394 02:09:33,120 --> 02:09:35,800 Speaker 1: but it's you know this, they are bargain hunting and 2395 02:09:36,960 --> 02:09:39,280 Speaker 1: those guys you can really do that if you get 2396 02:09:39,320 --> 02:09:42,440 Speaker 1: the right guy. I like Antonio Williams, Yeah, I like 2397 02:09:42,640 --> 02:09:45,240 Speaker 1: you know. I like to see Christian Wade once like 2398 02:09:45,240 --> 02:09:48,680 Speaker 1: we saw him two preseasons ago, and we haven't seen 2399 02:09:48,760 --> 02:09:52,520 Speaker 1: him since. Um, I'm with you, I say true. Yeah, 2400 02:09:52,240 --> 02:09:55,800 Speaker 1: I just think those guys are easier to find and 2401 02:09:55,920 --> 02:09:58,200 Speaker 1: they're much more productive when you get a good offensive 2402 02:09:58,240 --> 02:10:02,160 Speaker 1: line in front of them. Okay, I'm gonna squeeze this 2403 02:10:02,160 --> 02:10:04,880 Speaker 1: one in. Jacoby Brisset's the most underrated veteran to hit 2404 02:10:04,920 --> 02:10:09,000 Speaker 1: the open market. No, I'm saying I think he's I 2405 02:10:09,040 --> 02:10:15,120 Speaker 1: think he's accurately rated. Wow. I love the guy. He's 2406 02:10:15,120 --> 02:10:17,360 Speaker 1: a great dude, but he is right where he needs 2407 02:10:17,400 --> 02:10:19,800 Speaker 1: to be. I would agree with that. Okay, that is 2408 02:10:19,960 --> 02:10:23,680 Speaker 1: NFL true false. We will take a break, but Steve 2409 02:10:23,760 --> 02:10:25,960 Speaker 1: and I here will close it up when we return 2410 02:10:26,040 --> 02:10:28,160 Speaker 1: with what have we Learned? I'm One Bill's Live, presented 2411 02:10:28,160 --> 02:10:44,280 Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio time 2412 02:10:44,400 --> 02:10:47,760 Speaker 1: for what have we learned from today's show? Brought to 2413 02:10:47,800 --> 02:10:51,960 Speaker 1: you by a Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company 2414 02:10:51,960 --> 02:10:56,440 Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. Had ESPN NFL analyst Matt Bowen 2415 02:10:56,560 --> 02:11:00,400 Speaker 1: on the show today, also the co host of Hen's 2416 02:11:00,440 --> 02:11:03,640 Speaker 1: NFL Matchup show with Greg co Sell. We were talking 2417 02:11:03,680 --> 02:11:06,480 Speaker 1: with him about what he felt were some of the 2418 02:11:06,520 --> 02:11:09,840 Speaker 1: best free agent fits for the Bills on offense and defense, 2419 02:11:10,400 --> 02:11:14,120 Speaker 1: and he chose New Orleans Saints pass rusher Trey Hendrickson 2420 02:11:14,240 --> 02:11:17,040 Speaker 1: for the Bills on the defensive side of the ball. 2421 02:11:17,400 --> 02:11:21,640 Speaker 1: Here's why one obviously had a high level production last year. 2422 02:11:22,120 --> 02:11:24,160 Speaker 1: And we always say that when you have high level production, 2423 02:11:24,240 --> 02:11:27,760 Speaker 1: can they do it again in a different location. Well, 2424 02:11:27,800 --> 02:11:29,800 Speaker 1: you have to look at the defensive identity in Buffalo, 2425 02:11:30,040 --> 02:11:32,280 Speaker 1: how they how they scheme their pass rush. We know 2426 02:11:32,320 --> 02:11:35,280 Speaker 1: what Buffalo will do. They'll walk up those linebackers double 2427 02:11:35,320 --> 02:11:37,720 Speaker 1: a gap. Looking the reason they do that, guys, they're 2428 02:11:37,720 --> 02:11:39,800 Speaker 1: trying to get one on one pass rush opportunity either 2429 02:11:39,800 --> 02:11:43,160 Speaker 1: for the defensive tackles of their defensive ends. With Trey Henderson, 2430 02:11:43,720 --> 02:11:45,280 Speaker 1: a lot of things you see on the film. He 2431 02:11:45,320 --> 02:11:47,760 Speaker 1: can win with speed to power. He's got active hands, 2432 02:11:48,080 --> 02:11:50,160 Speaker 1: he's got good counters. Now, I don't think he's a 2433 02:11:50,160 --> 02:11:52,960 Speaker 1: scheme transcendent pass rush. What I mean by that is 2434 02:11:53,000 --> 02:11:55,680 Speaker 1: he doesn't have elite bend like a Miles Garrett off 2435 02:11:55,720 --> 02:11:58,280 Speaker 1: the edge. He's a high effort player. You see a 2436 02:11:58,280 --> 02:12:00,480 Speaker 1: lot of times he gets sacked late in at because 2437 02:12:00,480 --> 02:12:05,080 Speaker 1: he never stops playing. It'd be a pretty good guy 2438 02:12:05,080 --> 02:12:08,160 Speaker 1: to get Yeah, he would, And that's that plays really 2439 02:12:08,160 --> 02:12:09,960 Speaker 1: well here in Buffalo. People like to see guys with 2440 02:12:10,080 --> 02:12:13,800 Speaker 1: a high effort, ask Kyle Williams, and that's you know, 2441 02:12:13,800 --> 02:12:18,680 Speaker 1: I just yeah, we'll see there's we're still just getting 2442 02:12:18,760 --> 02:12:22,640 Speaker 1: starting bailing this out. I mean, because we're the ship's 2443 02:12:22,640 --> 02:12:26,240 Speaker 1: starting to get full of water. Yeah, right, it'll start 2444 02:12:26,240 --> 02:12:28,400 Speaker 1: going the other way, right, Yeah, I think so. I 2445 02:12:28,400 --> 02:12:31,040 Speaker 1: think so it's gonna be fun when when free agency hits, 2446 02:12:31,040 --> 02:12:34,400 Speaker 1: and the and the and the uh tampering period as well, 2447 02:12:34,560 --> 02:12:36,880 Speaker 1: we'll start getting inkling about what's gonna happen and who's 2448 02:12:36,880 --> 02:12:39,200 Speaker 1: gonna move first, and then that'll start the domino's falling. 2449 02:12:40,480 --> 02:12:42,680 Speaker 1: But you're not who was it on Twitter that was 2450 02:12:42,720 --> 02:12:45,440 Speaker 1: saying it might be more like a sparklers and snakes 2451 02:12:45,480 --> 02:12:48,920 Speaker 1: than fiers. Yeah, sparklers instead of the big fire where 2452 02:12:49,040 --> 02:12:50,520 Speaker 1: like this, the ones you sit in a lawn chair 2453 02:12:50,560 --> 02:12:52,680 Speaker 1: and look over the tops of houses and see this 2454 02:12:52,760 --> 02:12:55,080 Speaker 1: might be the kids with sparklers in the in the 2455 02:12:55,120 --> 02:12:59,040 Speaker 1: front yard. This respectfully, I still think there's gonna be 2456 02:12:59,040 --> 02:13:03,000 Speaker 1: a big first way. I think big money signing to it. 2457 02:13:03,160 --> 02:13:04,840 Speaker 1: I think the quality of players that are gonna be 2458 02:13:04,920 --> 02:13:07,800 Speaker 1: moving around the league just because they're out there is 2459 02:13:07,840 --> 02:13:10,960 Speaker 1: gonna be startling, But I think we might be. It 2460 02:13:11,000 --> 02:13:12,840 Speaker 1: might just happen so much we become numb to it, 2461 02:13:13,120 --> 02:13:14,920 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Well, I think there's gonna 2462 02:13:14,920 --> 02:13:16,640 Speaker 1: be a first wave. I just don't think there's gonna 2463 02:13:16,640 --> 02:13:20,240 Speaker 1: be as many in the first wave because the money 2464 02:13:20,960 --> 02:13:23,360 Speaker 1: is not going to be as plentiful. Yeah, but yeah, 2465 02:13:23,400 --> 02:13:25,160 Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be instead of instead of having 2466 02:13:25,160 --> 02:13:27,760 Speaker 1: like twenty five guys in the first wave, there might 2467 02:13:27,800 --> 02:13:30,360 Speaker 1: be eighteen. Well, I think I think there's gonna be 2468 02:13:30,360 --> 02:13:31,880 Speaker 1: a lot of this. Well, we can have this guy 2469 02:13:31,920 --> 02:13:34,080 Speaker 1: for twenty million dollars, but you know what, this guy's 2470 02:13:34,080 --> 02:13:36,680 Speaker 1: almost as good. We get him for twelve Let's let's 2471 02:13:36,720 --> 02:13:40,760 Speaker 1: do this guy, right. I think there's a lot gonna 2472 02:13:40,800 --> 02:13:43,640 Speaker 1: be some of that as well. All Right, we've got 2473 02:13:43,960 --> 02:13:46,400 Speaker 1: a jam packed show for you. Tomorrow. We'll have the 2474 02:13:46,560 --> 02:13:50,320 Speaker 1: latest installment of Tasker's Teammate, as we do every Friday, 2475 02:13:50,640 --> 02:13:54,160 Speaker 1: ESPN Seth Walder to crunch some analytics and numbers for 2476 02:13:54,320 --> 02:13:58,760 Speaker 1: us and Mark Schofield from USA today join us tomorrow. 2477 02:13:58,760 --> 02:14:01,120 Speaker 1: We'll see it noon here on one Bills Live. Take care, 2478 02:14:08,560 --> 02:14:08,920 Speaker 1: m HM