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Speaker 1: Welcome to One Bills, like the miniature version of our

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Speaker 1: daily show One Bills Live, where we cram all you

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Speaker 1: need to know about the Bills and about forty minutes today,

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Speaker 1: Steve will be challenged on the exploits of Emmanuel Sanders

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Speaker 1: in the numbers game. Greg co Sell from NFL Films

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Speaker 1: will break down free agency winners, and our one burning

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Speaker 1: question will ask as any AFC East team closed the

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Speaker 1: gap on the Bills. Let's go at a Steve Taster

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Speaker 1: who has been all over the fields. Kind of unique.

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Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role player for you. Steve,

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Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the stratosphere of normalcy.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us here on one Bills. Like Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve gafter with you, and free agency is officially underway.

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Speaker 1: In the first wave of free agency, Steve, what surprised

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Speaker 1: you the most? I think the number of how fast

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Speaker 1: players out there on the free agent market perceived that

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Speaker 1: the market was going to dry up when they started

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Speaker 1: taking one year deals, and I think that was the

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Speaker 1: major strategy for this season. Players wanted to have a

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Speaker 1: place to play, They didn't mind betting on themselves for

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Speaker 1: the next season, and a lot of players did it.

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Speaker 1: Levi Wallace perfect example, Emmanuel Sanders, perfect example. Tons of

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Speaker 1: guys out there who are pretty good players and who,

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Speaker 1: under normal circumstances probably could have gotten a three year

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Speaker 1: not the first few days. That's right, and yeah, I

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Speaker 1: reasons for that. We've actually covered that ground on One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live, our Daily show, and I think they are

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Speaker 1: astute points. That you made number one good receiver classes

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Speaker 1: This year is another good year at the receiver position.

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Speaker 1: And then I was surprised to hear that even teams

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Speaker 1: Kenny Galladay, Juju Smith, Schuster, these guys didn't even get

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Speaker 1: prices are coming down with each passing day on those guys.

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Speaker 1: I was just surprised into the market at the receiver

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Speaker 1: merit to the point that this you got this number

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Speaker 1: But I think teams also feel if they've got the

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Speaker 1: The ball's gonna get spread around more in today's NFL.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any question. More and more teams

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Speaker 1: And as successful as the Stefan Diggs move was for Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: what's catchable is obviously subjective, But I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: So listen to this. That kind of tickles me. I

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Speaker 1: I was a good math student, but I'm not doing

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Speaker 1: So last season, Emmanuel Sanders number one, one ten point nine.

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Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs was twenty fifth. Usually the high volume target

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Speaker 1: market has been here in the first wave of free agency.

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Speaker 1: Some suspect that it's because there's this flood of good

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Speaker 1: wide receiver draft classes coming in seemingly almost every year now.

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Speaker 1: Others believe it's due strictly to the restrictive cap. Where

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Speaker 1: do you come down on why the top of the

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Speaker 1: market has been so soft and you see guys like

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Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster taking a one year deal for eight

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Speaker 1: million dollars. Yeah, it's obviously a combination of both things

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Speaker 1: that you just said, Chris, But you're right about the

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Speaker 1: draft class. You know, college football has basically become with

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Speaker 1: very very few exceptions holdovers, so to speak, from the

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Speaker 1: old school way of playing with college football is spread.

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Speaker 1: So you get a ton of receivers who come into

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Now that can that kind of fit the

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Speaker 1: way a lot of people play in the league. Look

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Speaker 1: how many times the sharter do we talk about the

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Speaker 1: Bills and their use of four wide receivers? Yeah, how

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Speaker 1: many teams now use receivers like a tiree kill where

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Speaker 1: they move him around so much motion, lining up in

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Speaker 1: all different places in the ormation. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: those receivers in this kind of draft, and the league is,

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Speaker 1: i think somewhat moving in that direction because it makes

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Speaker 1: it harder for the defense to defend. So you're right,

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Speaker 1: there's an abundance of receivers. This is the kind of draft,

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Speaker 1: and I've probably looked at thirty five receivers if not more,

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Speaker 1: on tape already from this college draft. And there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of quality wideouts who are going to contribute in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. So let me take that a step further, Greg,

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Speaker 1: do you think we could get to a point in

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Speaker 1: the very near future where the wide receiver position goes

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Speaker 1: the way that the running back position has in this league,

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Speaker 1: where there are so many that it gets devalued because

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Speaker 1: there's always more supply coming right behind the guys coming

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Speaker 1: into the league. It's an interesting question. I think you

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Speaker 1: always would want to have somewhere along the line a

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Speaker 1: wide receiver who you can line up at the boundary

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Speaker 1: X position, the single receiver to the short side of

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Speaker 1: the field and can win one on one because the

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Speaker 1: boundary X receiver gets the one on once. Those are

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Speaker 1: individual routes. He's not running routes in conjunction with any

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Speaker 1: other receiver for the most part, because he's the single receiver.

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Speaker 1: So you would always love to have that guy. The

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Speaker 1: question is how many of those guys are going to

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Speaker 1: be there. There may not be a lot of those guys. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think when you look at to look

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Speaker 1: at someone like Michael Thomas with the Saints, he was

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Speaker 1: a second round pick, good prospect. No one thought he

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Speaker 1: was a special prospect coming out of Ohio State, and

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Speaker 1: because of Sean Payton's scheme and of course the great quarterback.

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Speaker 1: This is a guy who's put up ridiculous numbers. Taking

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Speaker 1: nothing away from Michael Thomas, but you wonder if there'll

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Speaker 1: be other receivers who we don't necessarily look at and say, wow,

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Speaker 1: there are special talents who are going to put up,

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Speaker 1: you know, one hundred and fifteen catches. And when you

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Speaker 1: look at these guys running routes and there's so many

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Speaker 1: receivers out there, you always have to have somebody to

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Speaker 1: cover them. The Bills have been looking to replace Levi

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Speaker 1: Wallace for a couple of years. They tried it with e. J. Gaines.

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Speaker 1: They tried it with Ken Kevin Johnson, they tried it

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Speaker 1: with Josh, and Levi's still there. They in fact, they

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Speaker 1: signed him to come back on a one year deal. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what do you think? What are about the cornerback market

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Speaker 1: out there on the free agency and the chances of

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Speaker 1: the Bills get a guy who can immediately step in

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Speaker 1: and play well. See that's the other factor, because you're

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Speaker 1: dealing with a guy who, with Levi Wallace, has been

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Speaker 1: the art now, so he understands Sean's system, Leslie's system,

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Speaker 1: and you don't have to worry about teaching him the

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Speaker 1: specifics of it, how to play in his zone with

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Speaker 1: spacing and understanding splits and route concepts. He knows all this.

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Speaker 1: So unless you feel you're going to get a guy

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Speaker 1: and doesn't mean who knows, maybe they draft one, but

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Speaker 1: unless you feel you're getting a guy in free agency

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Speaker 1: who's significantly better talent wise, and I think lee Vi

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Speaker 1: Wallace quite honestly, he's played reasonably well. So you're not

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Speaker 1: going to go that route because then you have to

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Speaker 1: teach a guy and you know there's a lot involved. Look, Steve,

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Speaker 1: you know that the corner position, particularly when you play zone. Look,

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Speaker 1: man is a little different animal. You say, hey, you

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Speaker 1: got him, but soon there's a lot of things that

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Speaker 1: go into his zone and it requires teaching and understanding,

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Speaker 1: and you have to start from scratch with that when

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Speaker 1: you get a new corner. Greg, just with respect to

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Speaker 1: Buffalo's offensive scheme, you know, we hadn't a chance to

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Speaker 1: talk to Emmanuel Sanders earlier today. He just signed his

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Speaker 1: deal here in Buffalo, and he said, I mean, we

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Speaker 1: were just kind of I don't know if we would

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Speaker 1: were floored by this, that might be a little strong,

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Speaker 1: but we were a little surprised because we think about

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Speaker 1: all of the time that these players spend studying their

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Speaker 1: own playbook, getting ready with their own game plan, repping it,

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Speaker 1: studying film of their opponent through the week, all of that,

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Speaker 1: and Emmanuel Sanders told us he was so enthralled by

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Speaker 1: what the Bills were doing offensively. In his few moments

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Speaker 1: of spare time, he would pull up the All twenty

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Speaker 1: two to try to figure out what exactly they were

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Speaker 1: doing with their route concepts. He was that interested last

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Speaker 1: year in what the Bills were doing. What do you think. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: production speaks for itself, Greg, but what do you think

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Speaker 1: was so eyecatching for even veteran receivers like Emmanuel Sanders

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Speaker 1: to say, Hey, I want to see what the heck

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Speaker 1: those guys are doing up there. Well, I think he's

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Speaker 1: probably referring to the fact that they play a lot

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Speaker 1: out of a spread offense. I think he's referring to

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Speaker 1: the fact that they run a lot of intermediate and

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Speaker 1: vertical route concepts and receivers like that. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of these these short passing games, and there's

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Speaker 1: a place for that, and every team has it. The

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Speaker 1: Bills have it obviously as well. Every team has a

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Speaker 1: complete playbook. But I think when you look at the

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Speaker 1: Bills offense, you see a really multidimensional pass game with

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Speaker 1: a lot of spread looks, a lot of three by

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Speaker 1: one sets to buy two sets empty sets, a lot

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Speaker 1: of ways for receivers to run, a lot of different

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Speaker 1: route concepts. And Sanders has been doing this a long time,

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Speaker 1: so this is not new to him. There's not going

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Speaker 1: to be route concepts that he doesn't understand. And bottom

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Speaker 1: line is they're a passing football team. He wants targets,

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Speaker 1: that's what receivers want. He wants targets. And knows he'll

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Speaker 1: get targets with the bills. And as before we start

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Speaker 1: talking about some of the signings around the league, I

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Speaker 1: just want to ask you, you know, this a couple

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Speaker 1: of days into free agency, what has surprised you the most?

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Speaker 1: If anything? Oh? Um, you know it's funny. I just

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Speaker 1: see it when when guys get signed. Um, I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to think the early part of like who signed right away?

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Speaker 1: I mean that's the thing that that you always try

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Speaker 1: to think about. You remember Chris who signed like right away?

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Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, the two tight ends for New England.

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Speaker 1: New England was pretty busy pretty early. Yeah, they were

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Speaker 1: busy early. Um. I guess I'm not surprised anymore these days.

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Speaker 1: You know, I always assume that guys are going to

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Speaker 1: get a lot of money. That's the nature of the business,

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Speaker 1: you know. I know the cap went down, so there's

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Speaker 1: more one year deals. I guess maybe that's the thing

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Speaker 1: that's a little more. Uh, you know, a bigger part

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Speaker 1: of the free agency this year is there are more

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Speaker 1: one year deals because the cap went down. So you know,

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Speaker 1: when you start getting the cap get going down, probably

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Speaker 1: for the first time has it I've gone down before

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Speaker 1: in a long time, certainly. I don't know, but there's

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Speaker 1: a lot more one year deals and you see that

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Speaker 1: because teams just don't have the money to give out. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and the only other time the cap went down was

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Speaker 1: the lockout here twenty eleven. Look, Greg, listen, We thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for the time. We're up against the

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Speaker 1: clock here, but thanks for joining us again. It was

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Speaker 1: good to start talking to you after a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a hiatus there. We look forward to talking to

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Speaker 1: you soon as we get more into the draft in

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Speaker 1: the not too distant future, because we know you're already

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Speaker 1: pounding away at the film. Sure am, I think I've

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Speaker 1: watched one hundred and sixty guys already. Good lord, awesome.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you don't alright, how you have

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Speaker 1: ice send me a list on a complete evaluation of

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Speaker 1: each one. Thanks, yeah, let Greg do all the heavy lifting.

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Speaker 1: Nice Steve, al right, guys, All right, Steve. We close

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Speaker 1: out this episode with our one burning question, and this

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Speaker 1: week that burning question is has any other AFC East

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Speaker 1: team closed the gap on the bill after this first

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Speaker 1: wave of free agency? In your estimation? Oh, I think so.

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Speaker 1: I think New England has really gotten a lot better

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Speaker 1: they've got more talent. They've got guys who have been

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Speaker 1: proven to be good in their system coming back off

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Speaker 1: the opt out list, and they've signed the best two

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Speaker 1: tight ends in the free agent market, Hunter Henry and

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Speaker 1: John hu Smith both guys going to New England. That's big.

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Speaker 1: And they've got two wide receivers that are quality guys.

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Speaker 1: Even if they're not you know, household names, they're quality,

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Speaker 1: proven pros and they're gonna be upgraded on their offensive

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Speaker 1: side of the football. Their defense will get better with

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Speaker 1: all the opt outs coming back, but their offense is

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Speaker 1: going to be significantly better. They resigned Cam Newton, and

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Speaker 1: I've told you this, I still don't think there's any

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Speaker 1: way Cam Newton starts for them on opening day. Now,

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Speaker 1: he's there as a placeholder, but he does not He

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Speaker 1: does not take the bulk of the snaps for them

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Speaker 1: throughout the regular season. I think there's a guy out there.

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Speaker 1: Don't know whether it's a veteran free agent or a

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Speaker 1: trade partner that they're going to look for, or a

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Speaker 1: kid coming out in the draft. Sooner or later, Probably sooner,

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Speaker 1: the New England patrons are gonna have a different guy

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Speaker 1: taking snaps. Cam Newton. I agree. I think he's a placeholder.

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Speaker 1: I think he might get to Week four if they

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Speaker 1: don't find an approven quarterback who's clearly better than Cam

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Speaker 1: Newton is. Yeah, I'm short of that. I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe he gets through the first month of the season.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting to see if they I think

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Speaker 1: they'll try to set up some kind of trade somewhere

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Speaker 1: to get approven veteran because I don't think Belichick at

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Speaker 1: sixty nine years old, wants to groom you know, the

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Speaker 1: next franchise quarterback necessarily and wait another two years. He's

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Speaker 1: trying to win now. I think that's the true and

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Speaker 1: I think that's a really good point. And that's what

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Speaker 1: I was going to say next. They're they're not waiting.

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Speaker 1: They want to win during that first four weeks of

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Speaker 1: the season. They want to get back in it and

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Speaker 1: stay in it for the for the duration. I think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna make every effort to get a guy there

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Speaker 1: they think they can win with on Week one. Now

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Speaker 1: they may think that about Cam Newton, not too many

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Speaker 1: outside the walls of Patriot Place think that. Yeah, But

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Speaker 1: if they do, fine, But I think they are hell

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Speaker 1: bent on upgrading that spot. I am convinced that their

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Speaker 1: defense will be back in the top ten next season.

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Speaker 1: I firmly believe that, just because Belichick knows how to

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Speaker 1: coach defense number one, number two of the opt outs

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Speaker 1: coming back that you mentioned some of the additions. They've

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Speaker 1: got some young players coming back into the pipeline that

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Speaker 1: I think are going to make a jump in terms

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Speaker 1: of their production. Guys like Kyle Dugger, that hybrid safety

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Speaker 1: that they have. They're raving about him coming into his

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Speaker 1: second year now, so I think there are going to

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Speaker 1: be some playmakers back on their defense. The Gilmore thing

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Speaker 1: could get a little harry if he's not traded and

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Speaker 1: they don't do anything with his contract, So that's interesting.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Gilmore is the trade bait to get the quarterback

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Speaker 1: they're looking for. We'll have to see on that. I'm

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Speaker 1: not convinced their offense is going to be back where

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Speaker 1: it needs to be to win football games. I am

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Speaker 1: concerned about the matchup problems that that two tight end

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Speaker 1: playmaking offense is going to have. And the reason why,

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Speaker 1: Steve is because as you know, I mean, I'm not

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Speaker 1: telling you anything you don't know, but they line up

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Speaker 1: in twelve personnel and start pounding you in the run game,

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Speaker 1: and you're like, okay, let's put our big people on

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Speaker 1: the field. Then you do, and now John who Smith

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Speaker 1: and Hunter Henry are running down the field catching passes

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Speaker 1: and you got linebackers and big safeties who can't keep

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Speaker 1: up with them. And then you say, okay, we got

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Speaker 1: to put our little people on the field again. And

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Speaker 1: then they run the ball right down your throat. That's

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Speaker 1: just the game they're gonna play with you, and they're

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Speaker 1: gonna go tempo so you can't sub Remember the Bills here,

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Speaker 1: Remember that game. The Bills decide they're gonna play dime

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Speaker 1: to cover Aaron Hernandez and Rob Greencowsky. I want to say.

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Speaker 1: It was like two thousand and nine somewhere in there,

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Speaker 1: and it was the second half of a game. It's

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Speaker 1: a close game. The Bill say, we're going to cover

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Speaker 1: these guys so we don't get beat deep. They put

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Speaker 1: their little people on the field and the Patriots are like, okay,

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Speaker 1: they ran it like twenty times in a row, just

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Speaker 1: ran it down their throat, three straight possessions, three touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: Game over, they lost like fifty six to twenty three.

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Speaker 1: I mean it wasn't even a game. I worry about

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Speaker 1: that to a certain extent, but that was with Brady. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it's different with Cam Newton unless you know,

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Speaker 1: as you said, they got an upgrade somewhere. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: agree that, and that there's a lot of unknowns now

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Speaker 1: because you know, we're sitting here in March, and there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of football and a lot of decisions that

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Speaker 1: have to be made about what their roster is ultimately

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Speaker 1: going to look like and who's gonna play well for them,

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Speaker 1: and same thing on Buffalo's side of it. But I

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Speaker 1: do think the burning question was who's gotten better? There's

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Speaker 1: no doubt New England Patriots. Yeah, I mean the Dolphins

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Speaker 1: are kind of hanging out. The Jets have too much

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Speaker 1: ground to cover. There's the gap is cavernous. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's like the Grand Canyon that the Jets have to

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Speaker 1: try to circumvent somehow, and that's not happening in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one. That team is building for twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Probably they're so far off the mark. The only other

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Speaker 1: cavegat to closing the gap in the division Steve the

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Speaker 1: possibility of Deshaun Watson landing in the division via trade.

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Speaker 1: That is the only thing that could really change things.

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Speaker 1: I was talking to one of my high school buddies

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Speaker 1: down on Long Island. He said, Jets fans are going nuts.

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Speaker 1: They are convinced they're getting Deshaun Watson. I think it's

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Speaker 1: fools gold right now. But if you look at it,

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Speaker 1: they have the most to offer in terms of capital,

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Speaker 1: much like the Dolphins do. And we've had people on

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Speaker 1: our daily show telling us the same thing. Those two

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Speaker 1: teams have a lot to offer. Now, we've also seen

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Speaker 1: the reports that Carolina is all in on trying to

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Speaker 1: acquire DeShawn Watson, not only because of the player that

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Speaker 1: he is, but think about the local celebrity that he is.

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Speaker 1: I mean that team plays in Charlotte, which is literally

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Speaker 1: forty five minutes to an hour drive from Clemson. Certainly

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Speaker 1: Bills fans would love it if he went to the

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Speaker 1: outside the conference and I we had this scenario during

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Speaker 1: the week where it came out that what Chicago was

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Speaker 1: offering Seattle for Russell Wilson, you know, three ones or

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Speaker 1: two ones? No, it was three three ones, a three

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Speaker 1: and two starting And when we have since learned that

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Speaker 1: that one starter was Khalil mack so and they said no, right.

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Speaker 1: So I think that was the one chance that Seattle

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Speaker 1: Seahawks had had of maybe getting in the Deshaun Watson sweepstakes.

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Speaker 1: Offering that package from the Bears that they got for

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, adding a little bit to it from their

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Speaker 1: own roster and thrown that at the Houston Texans to

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Speaker 1: get Deshaun Watson. The Houston Texas could would have been

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Speaker 1: really four ones, a three and two starters. Yeah, for

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Speaker 1: a guy who doesn't want to play for you, I

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Speaker 1: probably would have done it. I think I would have

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Speaker 1: got faith in your scouting department to refurbish your roster

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Speaker 1: with all that draft capital you have to Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: it didn't come to pass. Would have been would have

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Speaker 1: been delicious, It would have been would have happened, a

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Speaker 1: huge trade. But they didn't do it. But you wonder

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Speaker 1: if that sets the bar now for what Houston is

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Speaker 1: expecting to accept in terms of a trade, because that's

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Speaker 1: been that's out there now and they're gonna say, oh,

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Speaker 1: three ones into three and two starters for thirty one

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Speaker 1: year old quarterback. We got a twenty five year old

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Speaker 1: here who's a top five quarterback in the league. You

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Speaker 1: have to up the anti my friend, and somebody might

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Speaker 1: do I don't know that there's going to be somebody

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Speaker 1: might do that, and I think perhaps it might be

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Speaker 1: the one situation where once again, if you know, for

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Speaker 1: those of us from a thousand miles away, think that

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Speaker 1: the Houston, Texas might botch it by waiting too long.

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Speaker 1: They've botched a lot in the last calendar year or so.

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Speaker 1: That's one more. All right, that'll do it for another

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Speaker 1: episode of One Bill's Light. We remind you to subscribe

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