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Speaker 1: It's One Bill's Live, presented by called Lida Health.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 3: We are in the midst of the free agency madness.

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Speaker 3: Teams are wheeling and dealing as they figure out who

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Speaker 3: was gonna be on their twenty twenty six roster. I'm

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Speaker 3: Maddy Glad. I'm joined by Steve Tasker. Chris Brown returns tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: It was a busy day yesterday, Steve, I felt like

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Speaker 3: we went on air at one o'clock and the madness

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Speaker 3: started at noon because that's when the legal tampering period start.

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Speaker 3: That goes through Wednesday at three point fifty nine. Wednesday

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Speaker 3: at four pm is the start of the new league year.

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Speaker 3: That's when these players can officially begin to sign their contracts,

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Speaker 3: players who are free agents and going to new teams.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh, it's a whirlwind. We do it because

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Speaker 1: we you know, we because it's what we do. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we're sitting here talking about this stuff. We go to

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Speaker 1: the combine, we get these and then we get it

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Speaker 1: jump in a free agency. Let me say, after yesterday,

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Speaker 1: I was like, you know, if if I wasn't doing

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Speaker 1: you just gotta wait until everything settles, Like okay, now,

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Speaker 1: who's on your team right now, who's on that team,

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Speaker 1: who's on this team. It's hard to keep dragging it,

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Speaker 1: it really is. And there's a lot of names you're

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Speaker 1: not familiar with that are going that are signing really

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Speaker 1: substantial deals. Yeah, and you just it's just so we

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Speaker 1: thought this would happen way back in the day without Oh,

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Speaker 1: free agency is gonna happen, and you know, like they

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Speaker 1: were right. I mean, people's shift teams. This is a

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Speaker 1: the the list is longer and longer every year, and

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Speaker 1: I think a little of it. We saw this with

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Speaker 1: Brandon Bean when he first start got here to Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: He had this penchant for signing guys to one year deals.

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Speaker 1: Now a lot of teams are doing that. You hear

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Speaker 1: a lot about two year deals, three year deals and

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Speaker 1: that kind of thing, and there are some of those,

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Speaker 1: particularly for the big names, but a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: just signed the one year deal and try and make

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Speaker 1: some value for themselves and then hit it next year

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Speaker 1: when the free agent market starts. So it really makes

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Speaker 1: for a lot of shuffling for guys that are contributors

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Speaker 1: franchise and man oh man, you saw it yesterday. Dozens.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and teams who have a lot of money to

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Speaker 3: spend in free agency are spending big early. The Raiders

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Speaker 3: have been adding to their roster like crazy, the Titans

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Speaker 3: as well. We go off air and it seems like

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Speaker 3: the edge rusher market just blew up with some players

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Speaker 3: getting paid big time money. We were on air and

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Speaker 3: Jalen Phillips deal came across, making thirty million dollars a

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Speaker 3: year with the Carolina Panthers, somebody who's had two huge injuries.

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Speaker 3: You didn't know what he would be on the market,

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Speaker 3: and people said during the off season or during the season,

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Speaker 3: I should say that Phillips could garner more money than

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Speaker 3: people thought he would. In thirty million a year for

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Speaker 3: somebody who has had some big time injuries but is

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Speaker 3: a strong pass pressure kind of sets the market.

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Speaker 1: I think he's still rounding back into form. He had

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Speaker 1: an achilles, then in acl almost in quick succession. As

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Speaker 1: soon as he came back from the Achilles, he blew

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Speaker 1: his ACL out, was sidelined, came back with Miami, and

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Speaker 1: then got traded to Philly. So he's had a herkey

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Speaker 1: jerky two years, almost two and a half years to

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Speaker 1: his career right now. But he's an incredible athlete and

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Speaker 1: he's time for one hundred and twenty million dollars.

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Speaker 2: Incredible.

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Speaker 3: Can you imagine being an agent during this time period

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Speaker 3: where you're some of the agents who have a long,

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Speaker 3: long list of players that are set to become free

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Speaker 3: agents in just a couple of days, keeping up with everything,

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Speaker 3: making sure you're staying on your p's and q's and

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Speaker 3: giving every player the amount of time that that player deserves.

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Speaker 3: Your phone must be ringing off the hook as you're

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Speaker 3: trying to talk to teams. Make sure that player is

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Speaker 3: getting that dollar figure that you think he deserves.

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Speaker 2: These guys, that's why they get paid for times like this.

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Speaker 1: You and I and Brownie, we all and all of

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Speaker 1: getting one hundred million dollars. Yeah, And that's the Guy's like, well,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, four year, one hundred million dollars, sixty.

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Speaker 1: Eight million dollars guaranteed. So yeah, all the edge rushers, yeah,

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Speaker 3: three years, thirty six million dollars twenty three point seven guaranteed.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, we saw the defensive line linebacker market kind

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Speaker 3: in free agency right now is Trey Hendrickson, the stout

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Speaker 3: jayaln Phillips that thirty million a year deal, and then

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Speaker 1: His only problem is that he's going to be thirty

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Speaker 1: two when this league year begin, when the when the

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Speaker 1: This was the hrcuy Jerky year where he was holding

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Speaker 1: Remember he was on franchise tag, So yeah, I would

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Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson is a really good player, still a really

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Speaker 1: good player. How long he's going to be a really

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Speaker 1: his production matches the price tag he's got, So will

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Speaker 1: if he's I will be really interested, really interested to

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Speaker 1: see what number he gets. And yeah, who's willing to

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Speaker 1: number for a guy who's thirty two years old exactly.

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Speaker 3: Had seventeen and a half sacks in twenty twenty three

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Speaker 3: and twenty twenty four. Let's get to some of the

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Speaker 3: Buffalo Bills news that came out after we went off

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Speaker 3: Conno mc govern is in the building today as he

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Speaker 3: agreed to terms on a four year deal. We expect

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Speaker 3: McGovern to sign later this afternoon. Met with the media

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Speaker 3: important information is how this deal came together. He said

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Speaker 3: McGovern explaining that he wanted to stay with the Bills

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Speaker 3: Bills and McGovern had some conversations about things. Ultimately Bean said, hey,

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Speaker 3: But as things heat up in free agency, McGovern realizing

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Speaker 3: him Colin Bean and saying, hey, can we get something together.

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Speaker 3: I want my center to stay in Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: And certainly having you know, the quarterback on your side

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Speaker 1: under a contract that he's going to be happy with.

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Speaker 1: I will say this about Brandon Bean, he does have

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Speaker 1: a pension except for James cook contract, Brandon Bean does

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Speaker 2: Signing guys early, getting stuff done early.

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Speaker 1: Get it done early, ahead.

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Speaker 4: Of the curve.

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Speaker 1: That is. I think it's you go back and look

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Speaker 3: Some other Bills news out there as well. According to

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Speaker 3: in search of a new backup quarterback with Mitch Trubisky

434
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Speaker 3: no longer a part of the team, and, according to

435
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Speaker 3: Adam Schefter, backup quarterback Kyle Allen coming back to Buffalo

436
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 3: as he agrees on a two year, four point one

437
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 3: million dollars deal worth up to six point one Now.

438
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 3: Allan was with the Bills in twenty twenty three, so

439
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:14,879
Speaker 3: the Allen brothers reunite. Josh Allen and Kyle Allen both

440
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 3: Allan's loved being together in that quarterback room. And we

441
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,720
Speaker 3: know just how important it is for Josh Allen to

442
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Speaker 3: have somebody in that room backing him up, who he trusts,

443
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Speaker 3: who he feels like helps him be a better quarterback

444
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:29,440
Speaker 3: in the NFL.

445
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the familiarity is no question. It seems like

446
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 1: it's something that's important to Josh. It has been. I mean,

447
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,120
Speaker 1: he has rotated these guys in and out time after time,

448
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 1: kind of the same cast of characters. Chase Daniels is

449
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,119
Speaker 1: a part of that too, And Chase Daniels is a

450
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 1: is one of those guys who gets what his job

451
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,360
Speaker 1: really is and as a backup to an elite guy.

452
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 1: So it doesn't surprise me. That's that's interesting that Kyle

453
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:56,520
Speaker 1: Allen's gonna circle back.

454
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Speaker 3: Circle back to Buffalo and sticking with the Bills. We'll

455
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 3: go to some specialists here. According to Over the Cap,

456
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:11,960
Speaker 3: the Bills and Tyler Bass have agreed to a revised contract.

457
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 3: The Bills are guaranteed one million in return for a

458
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,639
Speaker 3: one and a half million dollar pay cut a chance

459
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:22,400
Speaker 3: to earn back one million in incentives. Now, Bass's deal

460
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 3: goes through twenty twenty seven, becomes a free agent in

461
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty eight.

462
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 2: You remember, Bass missed.

463
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 3: All of the twenty twenty five season due to a

464
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,440
Speaker 3: severe growin injury, and updates that we've gotten from Brandon

465
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,640
Speaker 3: Bean this offseason have been that Bass has been working

466
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:42,400
Speaker 3: hard on making a comeback and that all injured players

467
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 3: are making strides in the right direction. We don't have

468
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 3: an exact timetable on Tyler Bass at the moment. Bean

469
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 3: did not give us a timetable really on anyone who's

470
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Speaker 3: coming back from injury that missed a better part of

471
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Speaker 3: the twenty twenty five season, But good to hear that

472
00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 3: he's making strides in the right direction.

473
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:01,200
Speaker 2: Has definitely been around the Bill.

474
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 1: We've seen of late. He's been out working out and

475
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:09,360
Speaker 1: doing rehabbing, and so yeah, that's smart move by him.

476
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: I mean, he could have hit the free agent market

477
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:17,879
Speaker 1: coming off the injury, but I think for me, I think,

478
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just I feel like the Bills

479
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 1: stuck with him when they didn't have to.

480
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like there's a mutual respect between.

481
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 1: The careers, and I think he kicked well for this

482
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 1: team when he was healthy and I think they know

483
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 1: that it's in there again, so they're giving him a

484
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 1: chance to prove it.

485
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,399
Speaker 2: And then punter Mitch Wasshnowski is re signing with the

486
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,880
Speaker 2: Bills on a one year deal. According to Diana Russini,

487
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 2: Wishnowski signed with the Bills last season. At the end

488
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 2: of September, he averaged forty one point nine net yards

489
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,200
Speaker 2: per punt and forty five point three yards per punt.

490
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:57,640
Speaker 2: Wishnowski became a piece to this team.

491
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,639
Speaker 3: At least on the special teams that really fit in quickly.

492
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 3: Here the the kicker and the snapper and your punter

493
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:08,280
Speaker 3: are a tight, tight group, and it seemed like Wishnowski.

494
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 2: Fit in with rotating.

495
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 1: It rotated through last year, three different punters on the

496
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:15,880
Speaker 1: roster different times, and Wishnowski uh came in and acquitted

497
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 1: himself really well. It's uh yeah, forty one point nine

498
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: that went. Here's how things have changed and the old

499
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,919
Speaker 1: guys back in the old generations of players like before

500
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: my time, my time and since, the old guys kind

501
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 1: of inspire guys to come in and be a part

502
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: of the league. And you get guys that can punt

503
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:39,880
Speaker 1: and they come in and when I played net punt

504
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 1: average was important, but nobody and I mean nobody ever

505
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 1: netted forty yards. It was like this holy grail. Nobody

506
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: could ever do it. Ray guy never did it. That

507
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 1: nobody ever did it. Now you got like twelve guys

508
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: that can net forty one yards forty yards of punt

509
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 1: and Wishnowski did almost forty two. That's a big number.

510
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 1: So that's that's huge, So good for good on him,

511
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,200
Speaker 1: and it's good to have him back in the fold.

512
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,880
Speaker 3: Good to have the Australian back on Buffalo's roster. We're

513
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 3: gonna take a break because when we return, Senator Connor

514
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 3: McGovern joins the show. Next on One Bill's Live, we're

515
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 3: presented by Clyde Help. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. When

516
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,400
Speaker 3: we're back on One Bill's Live, and we're so excited

517
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 3: to be joined by Sener Connor.

518
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 2: McGovern, who agrees to terms on a four year.

519
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 3: Deal, expected to sign later this afternoon. Connor, thanks for

520
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 3: taking the time to come on the show as you

521
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 3: do all of the media fun this afternoon.

522
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 2: Why did you want to come back to Buffalo?

523
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 5: It was just the right place. Me and my wife

524
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,719
Speaker 5: talked about it. It's the perfect fit for our family.

525
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 5: We love it up here and just the guys in

526
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 5: locker room, the coach staff, which just the right place

527
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 5: to be.

528
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know you were kidding around about Josh, you know,

529
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 1: having a say and all this, and because I know

530
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 1: players look out for each other, we have these conversations

531
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: about the contracts and stuff. But it is a different

532
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 1: kind of locker room and the culture does speak a

533
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 1: lot to like this. And you gotta know, you know,

534
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: bloom where you're planted kind of thing.

535
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 6: Right exactly.

536
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, just how close this locker room is in general,

537
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 5: and maybe Josh just really likes looking at my butt,

538
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 5: like who knows what it really is. But yeah, it's

539
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 5: nice to having seventeen in your corner.

540
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 2: Definitely nice to have seventeen in your corner.

541
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Speaker 3: Since you have been a bill since twenty twenty three,

542
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 3: where has your relationship grown most with Josh?

543
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 5: Just our trust with each other, especially taking over center

544
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 5: and like communication aspect, Like there's sometimes where he just

545
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 5: lets you make all the calls, like he knows, like

546
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 5: we're on the we're thinking the same thing. So if

547
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 5: he ever chimes in, I know, like it's not like

548
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 5: trying to mean like hey, like on the quarterback this No,

549
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 5: it's like no, like he sees something different and put

550
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 5: in like we just have full trust in each other

551
00:29:59,320 --> 00:29:59,959
Speaker 5: and that's a great thing.

552
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: And half, so what has the conversation been like now

553
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: that the coaching change has made all the between the

554
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 1: players and now you guys text privately and you go

555
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 1: out to dinner and you have buddies. Is and I

556
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: know this too. Everybody loves Sean. I mean, but this

557
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: is you know you always feel in vigorous. Okay, now

558
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 1: we got we got a new thing.

559
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 5: The biggest thing I see is just the energy, like

560
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 5: just to run the Joe brings us just very fun

561
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 5: and energetic way like about himself and loved working with Sean.

562
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 5: Great head coach, but just this new breath of fresh air.

563
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 5: It's just how anything goes. And like that you switch

564
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 5: things up and it's just nice to see that automatically.

565
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 1: Players just kind of said, listen, whether you whether you

566
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: love it or hey, you're gonna make the best of it,

567
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 1: right attitude you have to have.

568
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, And like like we said all this or something,

569
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 5: we love playing for him. But it's nice to switch

570
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 5: things up. And I think Joe's gonna do a fantastic job.

571
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 5: And now I'm excited to be here with that.

572
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 6: Right.

573
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 3: You joke during your press conference about you and Joe

574
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 3: Brady going back to your Penn State days where he

575
00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 3: was a GA and you were playing there collegiately. Since

576
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 3: you guys have this ten yure relationship going on, where

577
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 3: has Joe Brady changed the most.

578
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 6: He's very much say the same, always wearing his shorts on.

579
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 6: It's just like me.

580
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 5: It's one thing we've always connected on. But it's just crazy,

581
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,959
Speaker 5: like we're talking today, Like look like, hey, ten years ago,

582
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 5: look how much changed I was a fresh eighteen year

583
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 5: old kid playing Big ten football. He was a low

584
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 5: level GA just doing all this like grunt work, and

585
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 5: it's like ten years from now, he's now the head

586
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 5: coach of the Buffalo Bills and I just signed this

587
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 5: new contract. It's just crazy how fast life has really

588
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 5: changed for both of us.

589
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 3: How important are relationships in the game of football? Because

590
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 3: you he's a GA and you're a freshman, and you

591
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 3: guys probably think, you know, we're never going to cross

592
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 3: paths again because the game of football is so big,

593
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 3: but it's also so small at the same time, and

594
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 3: it's important to keep everybody you know in your corner

595
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 3: and make sure you have those good relationships with people.

596
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 6: A lot of it just comes down like who you

597
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 6: know in this business.

598
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 5: Like a lot of coaches when they bring in, they

599
00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 5: bring in their guys, they keep their plays around.

600
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 6: It's already have that connection and it makes it easier.

601
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 5: A lot of guys he's bringing in I already know,

602
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 5: Like he just brought in my quarterback from college, Tracemoc Sorely,

603
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 5: So like that's fun, like having familiar faces around and

604
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 5: just boost that chemistry even more.

605
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 1: What about the football side of this, I know it's

606
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: really early, but a lot of continuity coming back. I mean,

607
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: you know, David Edwards isn't gonna be there, but yeah,

608
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: you know, and the wide receiver room has been a

609
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 1: kind of a revolving door because of injuries and all that.

610
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: But this is there's a lot of continuity in this room.

611
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: What are you looking forward.

612
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 5: To the first Like the offensive mind point, it's gonna

613
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 5: stay the same, Like it's gonna be the same offense.

614
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 5: We returned four out of five offensive lineman. Dave's gonna

615
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 5: do a great job down New Orleans. So I'm excited

616
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 5: to see him play, but I'm just excited. Like, luckily,

617
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 5: over the last three years, we haven't had many injuries,

618
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 5: so a lot of us have played so much together,

619
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 5: so that helps a lot. And then all the tight

620
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 5: ends are coming back running back, so like there's a

621
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Speaker 5: lot of familiar faces, so at least we know we're

622
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 5: all in this together, and now we can help the

623
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 5: other sides of all like special teams defense that have

624
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 5: a lot more changes that we can be like the

625
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 5: pillar for them that they lean on a little bit more.

626
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 3: There's some great depth in the offensive line room, and

627
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 3: there's going to be a competition for that left guard spot.

628
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 3: As a veteran on this roster, what are you telling

629
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 3: some of the younger players about that competition?

630
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:13,719
Speaker 5: It's gonna be you have big shoes of Phil Dave

631
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 5: did a tremendous job in the last two years. But

632
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 5: most part just coming in, like you have me and

633
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 5: Dion next to you that have played a long time,

634
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 5: So don't stress about trying to over communicate stuff like that.

635
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 5: Just come in relaxed, be ready just to compete with

636
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 5: that job and just find your comfortability with it. Like,

637
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 5: like I know what it's like coming in as a

638
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 5: young guy like thrown in like I was in a

639
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 5: great situation. I had great guys around me, just being

640
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 5: that pillar for them to just really just lean on

641
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 5: and use us as strengths until they develop into their

642
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 5: own person.

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00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 1: All right, So new contract, same family, new pizza oven

644
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: now with all the new money.

645
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 5: No, that's all staying the same, all stay in the Yeah,

646
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 5: so really, no more expenses really coming along?

647
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 1: So well, I don't know. You might have one coming

648
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: up here. Yeah, I guess, congratulations, thank you.

649
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 6: Thank you.

650
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 5: Kids are kind of expensive, so it's nice to have

651
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 5: a new contract for that. But other than that, no

652
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 5: pizza ovens, I'll say, saying, have everything down in Florida.

653
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 5: So were already good there, but here we just get

654
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Speaker 5: the host more parties.

655
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Speaker 1: Now, there you go.

656
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,839
Speaker 3: Have we tried any new recipes lately? As you've been

657
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 3: in the off season mode, you got more time on.

658
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 2: Your hands coming now.

659
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 5: I know that's the problem. I do lose weight in

660
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 5: the off season, so try to stick away as much.

661
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 2: We're making salads, not that far.

662
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 5: I'm not a rabbit, but I eat less, no, but

663
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:30,399
Speaker 5: tinkering a little bit. I'm more on the baking side.

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Speaker 6: Right now.

665
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 5: So it's been a lot of fun, but trying a

666
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 5: couple of new cookie recipes. So maybe when I come

667
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 5: back for camp, we'll bring a couple out of by you.

668
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: It was interesting you said, you know, give us an

669
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: idea little timeline about you know, the conversations were happening

670
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: early on in the season. Then you said you kind

671
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 1: of tabled them because you want to play. And I

672
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 1: get that. You know, you didn't want to all that

673
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 1: stuff whipping around while you're trying to win games. To

674
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 1: give us a little timeline over these last couple of weeks.

675
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 1: And yeah, fastest thing came together.

676
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:56,359
Speaker 6: Believe or not, it happened so fast.

677
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 5: So all through that season we had conversations all the

678
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 5: time and and at the end of the season had

679
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 5: a great exit interview with being and he's gonna let

680
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 5: me test free agency. Like I knew at the end

681
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 5: day they would come back because like I said, like

682
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 5: I love being here. They knew that they wanted me back.

683
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 5: They loved me here, so.

684
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Speaker 1: Knew that got to have a final conversation.

685
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 6: Final final conversation.

686
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 5: We didn't talk all off, no nothing bad or anything

687
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 5: like that, like people blow that that usually happens, like

688
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 5: you knew before things going on. You Yeah, and right

689
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:27,839
Speaker 5: before freeqency. I remember Josh called me last week. It's

690
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 5: just hey, just checking out, like like what's going on

691
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 5: and a new updates, just how he always does, and

692
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 5: we're talking back and forth and literally it was Saturday

693
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 5: in the morning, the Bills call, give us an offer,

694
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 5: and just went back and forth. It maybe lasted thirty

695
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 5: minutes to an hour. All this con it literally felt

696
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:44,919
Speaker 5: like three days.

697
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: Thirty minutes to an hour, like a three cover three phone.

698
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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, multiple like between me being my agent

699
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 5: being like everything going back and forth, maybe thirty minutes

700
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:54,359
Speaker 5: to an hour. It took they get a deal done,

701
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:55,360
Speaker 5: but it literally felt.

702
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 6: Like three days.

703
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 5: So we talked about relative terms like it was a

704
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 5: very short time, but at the same time, I felt

705
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 5: like it went out forever.

706
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 1: Because it is important. I mean, you got a family

707
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: and you know, and it's something you've worked very hard

708
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: for and I want to have done yesterday.

709
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 6: Right, that would have been nice. But yeah, no, I'm

710
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:14,399
Speaker 6: very happy to be here.

711
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 3: Speaking of the importance of getting something done. This week,

712
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 3: we see so many different players going to new teams

713
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 3: or re signing with the team that they played for

714
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 3: the season prior. And there's a decision that goes into

715
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 3: figuring out where you want to go, and it's a

716
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 3: family decision, like you talked about you you talked with

717
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 3: your wife about where you guys wanted to go. You

718
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 3: have another baby on the way. Why was it so

719
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:43,280
Speaker 3: important to you to make this decision as a family

720
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 3: knowing that we're putting roots down in Buffalo, Like.

721
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 5: You could go chase the money whatever you want, Like

722
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 5: I'm sure if I would have hit afraid to see it,

723
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 5: would have got more money somewhere else, But that really

724
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 5: doesn't matter at the end of the day. Like we're

725
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 5: not big spenders, Like a couple of million dollars isn't

726
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,439
Speaker 5: really going to change our way of life. And we're

727
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 5: very happy with what we have here and we want

728
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 5: our kids to grow up here. Like it's like we

729
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:04,800
Speaker 5: talk like we're both from Pennsylvania, like the smaller towns,

730
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 5: the slower way of life here at which we love.

731
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 5: So we love the community here. I think we have

732
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:12,400
Speaker 5: the best neighbors and neighborhood in Orchard Park, Like they're awesome,

733
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 5: but we just really wanted to be around that zone

734
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 5: that made the decision.

735
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 6: So much easier.

736
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 3: Connor, you start here as a guard and then you

737
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 3: move over to center the last two years, and you

738
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 3: spoke about how you take more off of Josh Allen's plates,

739
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 3: your plate. You're making calls at the line of scrimmage,

740
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 3: sometimes making sure that Alan is set along with your

741
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 3: guards next to you. As you look back on coming

742
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 3: here in twenty twenty three and how you've grown, what

743
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 3: are you most proud of with where you're at right now,

744
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:40,359
Speaker 3: I'll just.

745
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 5: Say, overall, a relationships with everyone else. Like come here

746
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 5: as guard, you think like, all right, I'm just gonna

747
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 5: do my job, just be one of the five offense

748
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,760
Speaker 5: line and make sure Josh doesn't get touched open holes

749
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 5: for Jimmy. But now like slide on the center, you've

750
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 5: got more responsibility, and I love that aspect of it,

751
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 5: Like I'm the focal point of all the communication that

752
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 5: HAPs up up front, and it's just nice knowing that

753
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,240
Speaker 5: I can make Josh's job just a little bit easier.

754
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 6: And that's been a lot of fun growing into that role.

755
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: It seems like a long time ago now when Mitch

756
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,919
Speaker 1: left and you you took over the center spot and

757
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: Bill's fans, you know, they were you know, they worry

758
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: about everything. But when you we didn't know because they said, well,

759
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 1: we're thinking about having Connor McGovern move in from guard,

760
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: and Bill's fans like, what was he.

761
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,399
Speaker 5: Gonna like that? Our first bracts we had a bad

762
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 5: snap and everyone right.

763
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: But but to your credit, when the first time you

764
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: did a media press conference after you got moved to center,

765
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: it was after a long off season, the conversation was

766
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,439
Speaker 1: flying around, I don't know if it's gonna work. Your

767
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: enthusiasm about taking that spot was palpable. I mean you were,

768
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: you were ready for it, and that that that answered

769
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: every question. Every fan, every was like, oh he wants

770
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: to do that.

771
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 6: Yeah.

772
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 5: I got drafted as a center, like that's where I

773
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 5: always wanted to play. I got moved to guard, and

774
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 5: it's kind of always been searching to get back there.

775
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:57,839
Speaker 5: I knew when I signed here eventually I'll go to the center.

776
00:38:57,840 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 5: Didn't know it was gonna happen the way it did.

777
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:04,359
Speaker 5: But greatest, like like it was the greatest.

778
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 6: Part of it.

779
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: You feel more there than you did a guard.

780
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 6: Yes, exactly, it just felt natural. Going back.

781
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Speaker 3: Last question for me, Connor you spoke about the new

782
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 3: energy in this building with Joe Brady as your head coach.

783
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,240
Speaker 3: Where does the excitement go first with what's in store

784
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 3: for this team this upcoming season.

785
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,359
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the excitement really starts, what in two

786
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 5: or three weeks when we start Ota, So it's crazy.

787
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys are coming back.

788
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 5: So I'm excited for like the whole team to see,

789
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 5: like because Joe's been oc like he brings that energy

790
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 5: to the offense and how just how much he shows

791
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 5: that he loves everyone in the room. And like, I'm

792
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 5: excited for the whole team experience that. Like we get

793
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 5: up like before offense meeting starts, we're wap each other up,

794
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:44,800
Speaker 5: telling everyone how much you love him, just stuff like

795
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 5: that and just shows how much you care about that.

796
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 5: I'm excited for the whole team to fully experience that.

797
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 4: We love that.

798
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 2: Connor, congratulations. We're so excited.

799
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 3: You're staying in Buffalo and we'll see you back here

800
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 3: in a few weeks as the off season program begins.

801
00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:59,799
Speaker 3: We're going to take a break more here next as

802
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:02,400
Speaker 3: we return on one. Bill's Live were presented by Clydahealth

803
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 3: on Buffalo Bills Radio. All Right, we're back here on

804
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 3: One Bill's Live Mediclab alongside Steve Tasker. We just had

805
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 3: center Connor McGovern join the show talking about why he

806
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 3: wanted to stay in Buffalo and feeling like this is

807
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:28,799
Speaker 3: really the place he wanted to be because of his

808
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 3: connections inside of that locker room, because of how much

809
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 3: they love Buffalo. They said, Hey, we're from Pennsylvania. We

810
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:37,400
Speaker 3: like the simple life, and we love our neighbors.

811
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:38,399
Speaker 2: We love where we live.

812
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:41,319
Speaker 3: And I love to hear them from somebody about coming

813
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 3: to Buffalo and finding it as a real second home

814
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 3: for them and just thinking about Connor McGovern and what

815
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 3: he's meant to the Bills. Since twenty twenty three, McGovern

816
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 3: has turned into the glue of the offensive line, both

817
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 3: on the field and off the field. He's the player

818
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,839
Speaker 3: who's calling out things on the line of skirmage, making

819
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,919
Speaker 3: sure his higher offensive line and Josh Allen are ready

820
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 3: to go, and off the field, he's the one communicating

821
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:13,400
Speaker 3: as well, texting his teammates, making sure they've got a

822
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 3: dinner on the schedule every week, hosting those pizza parties.

823
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:21,359
Speaker 3: To think about potentially losing that on the offensive line,

824
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 3: I think it would have been a big blow for

825
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 3: the Bills just to lose somebody who's really been the

826
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 3: connective tissue of everything and stepped up in his game

827
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,319
Speaker 3: in terms of how he helps Allen and takes more

828
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 3: off Allen's played, and just how he brings people together

829
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:37,360
Speaker 3: off the field.

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Speaker 2: That's a really gift.

831
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,280
Speaker 3: That's a really big gift that people you know, are given,

832
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 3: and McGovern does a great job of using that gift.

833
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: I think you can lump Connor McGovern in with the

834
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: re signing and restructure of Dawson Knox as well. Both

835
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: those guys have been pillars of the offense, kind of

836
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:58,240
Speaker 1: the personality of it, guys who line up and play

837
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 1: a lot of snaps over the last few years. I

838
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 1: don't know that you could claim a lot of continuity

839
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 1: if both of those guys went. Certainly, David Edwards is

840
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: a is A was a part of that as well

841
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:14,439
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years. But you know, you'll

842
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 1: start going into you know, the rest of those guys

843
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: on that side of the ball and what you're looking

844
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 1: for in this squad, and you make the argument where

845
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 1: they're just this far away and just maybe a different

846
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: voice is going to put them over the top and know,

847
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: you know, don't want to change too much. You change

848
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 1: all that stuff on the defensive side, Now you start

849
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:33,759
Speaker 1: changing everything off is pretty pretty soon you don't know

850
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: if you're that close anymore. Players and their personalities make

851
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 1: a difference. And and McGovern and guys like Knox Tyler

852
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: Bass is one of those guys who has been in

853
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:51,359
Speaker 1: the past. So to bring those guys back, it's as

854
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 1: much about their production, but it's also about the kind

855
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 1: of guys they are in the culture that's been formed

856
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 1: here that gives this team a chance in every game

857
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 1: they line up in.

858
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Speaker 3: I also think McGovern has been one of the leaders

859
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:09,400
Speaker 3: in really committing to making sure the offensive line and

860
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 3: running backs are on the same page. I spoke to

861
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 3: McGovern during the season just about how much the rushing

862
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 3: offense had taken off, and James Cook ends the season

863
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,440
Speaker 3: as the rushing title leader. The Bills lead the league

864
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 3: averaging one hundred and sixty rushing yards per year, and

865
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:27,760
Speaker 3: McGovern said, where we're at right now with a rushing

866
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 3: offense has been years in the making. It's been a

867
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:33,720
Speaker 3: real commitment to making sure we're in each other's meetings,

868
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 3: making sure we're on the same page as we go

869
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 3: into the game and making sure we're communicating throughout the game.

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Speaker 2: I think there's been a real commitment too.

871
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 3: We want to make this work and we're willing to

872
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 3: put the extra time in to make sure we have

873
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:56,160
Speaker 3: as good of a rushing offense as possible.

874
00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 1: Right, And they came through. I mean two years ago,

875
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:06,280
Speaker 1: you know, Connor McGovern comes into Josh as the MVP.

876
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 1: Then you got the leading rusher for me, what's next.

877
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,879
Speaker 1: It's been a nice stretch for the offense here. They've

878
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: been in the top They were top one or two

879
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: in scoring two years ago, they were top three or

880
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 1: four in scoring this year.

881
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 2: All out of league low in sacks two years ago.

882
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 1: They Yeah, Josh is a hard guy, always has been

883
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:26,799
Speaker 1: a hard guy to sack. But the offensive line has

884
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 1: played and they rarely missed a game. I think Connor,

885
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:33,240
Speaker 1: I think Spencer Brown missed one game in twenty twenty

886
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 1: four and one game in twenty twenty five. They won

887
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 1: both of those outings. And it's just been really solid

888
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 1: up front and he's been a part of it. So

889
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: and I've said this as well, I that center is

890
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: it's a tough spot to play because it is about

891
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: your personality.

892
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 2: The bullets are flying, you're having to communicate with seconds

893
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:00,080
Speaker 2: to till your play goes off.

894
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:05,319
Speaker 1: Your ability to cut through and say, hey, do make

895
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:07,439
Speaker 1: a call, make it strong and know what you're doing.

896
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 1: Make it the right call, and even if it's not

897
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:12,280
Speaker 1: the right call, at least everybody's on the right page.

898
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: There's a lot in that. It's a complicated game, uh,

899
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: particularly when you're talking about offense, where on defense, everybody

900
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: could do the wrong thing and one guy makes a

901
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: play or the quarterback overthrows the pass, it doesn't matter.

902
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:28,280
Speaker 1: He could have laid down on the play. On offense,

903
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 1: none of that's true. It's choreographed. Everybody has to go

904
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: where they're supposed to go and do what they're supposed

905
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 1: to do. And some of it is very physically hard.

906
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 1: And the intricacies of the offensive line start with a voice.

907
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:44,280
Speaker 1: And it's not the quarterbacks, it's the center. And he said,

908
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 1: you know, he told it. You know the new guard

909
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 1: there is going to be a competition. He goes, you

910
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 1: got to tell the guy listen, Dean and I have

911
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:51,480
Speaker 1: been playing for a long time ago. You're not gonna

912
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: have to overthink this. You know what I mean, that

913
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 1: kind of information and kind of attitude is going to

914
00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 1: help a young player. I mean, they draft some I

915
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 1: don't know who's going to be a veteran or whatever.

916
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:03,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody already in the building right and.

917
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:06,880
Speaker 1: Could be Alec Anderson, could be They might move Vandermark

918
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: over there, right, who knows me? Yeah so or one

919
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 1: of the young tigers like Tyler Grable or yeah. So

920
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: that voice and having that communication. You know, you're just

921
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: lining up in there and you're trying to make your

922
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 1: name for you you're trying to get your twenty million

923
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,800
Speaker 1: dollar contract right as a young player, and you have

924
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: a guy there next to him say hey, just relax,

925
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 1: you're doing this. We're gonna do at that.

926
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 6: Then it's like.

927
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 1: Just you know, it's big, it's big, and I'm yeah,

928
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:38,720
Speaker 1: I'm excited for Connor and his family.

929
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm excited to a great family and great to

930
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 3: see you know, his wife and his daughter and they

931
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 3: got a baby on the way in the building and

932
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,399
Speaker 3: excited to be back here and really feeling like this

933
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 3: is the place that they want to.

934
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:52,240
Speaker 2: Put down roots.

935
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 3: So that's the latest on the Bills and the free

936
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 3: agency frenzy. That's going on here. At One Bill's Drive,

937
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 3: we spoke about the Dawson Knox new contract according to

938
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 3: Jeremy Fowler, the new addition at cornerback, the backup quarterback,

939
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:13,280
Speaker 3: and Kyle Allen coming back to the Bills, Tyler Bass's

940
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 3: contract being revised, and punter Mitch Wishnowski re signing with

941
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:20,799
Speaker 3: the Bills on a one year deal. According to Diana Russini,

942
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 3: it'll be interesting to see what.

943
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:25,400
Speaker 2: Are the next chips that fall in this equation.

944
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 3: You would figure with Connor McGovern coming back to the

945
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 3: Bills and the news out there about DJ Moore agreeing

946
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,360
Speaker 3: to terms on a deal with Buffalo, that the Bill's

947
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 3: next really focus on their defense.

948
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: Yes, I've said it too, and I think you and

949
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 1: I have had this conversation. Everybody out there has their

950
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: own feelings about how this draft is going to go.

951
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a lot like it

952
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:52,799
Speaker 1: was last year. They're gonna have like they're gonna take.

953
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:59,880
Speaker 1: If they have eight picks, I think they'll probably take seven,

954
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: five defenders at least, right I think that's what they'll do.

955
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I I think the Bills are gonna lean

956
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 1: heavy once again on the defensive side of the draft.

957
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:14,839
Speaker 1: They've got seven picks, and you know, they just picked

958
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 1: up the extra sixth rounder from the from Uh who

959
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 1: is it from? I can't remember who they got that from,

960
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 1: but uh was it for.

961
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:24,360
Speaker 2: The Taron Johnson trade?

962
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:26,760
Speaker 1: That's right, Yep, that's right from the Raiders.

963
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 4: Uh.

964
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: So I'm yeah, I think they're gonna lean heavy on it,

965
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:35,839
Speaker 1: very heavy on the defensive side. And who knows that's

966
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 1: in the draft.

967
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 3: Maybe they'll move around a little bit in the draft

968
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:39,880
Speaker 3: to to find a find a new spot in the

969
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 3: second round.

970
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 1: I mean, unless I don't have any I don't think

971
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:46,279
Speaker 1: this is gonna happen. But unless something happens and Trey

972
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 1: Hendrickson comes off his number and he signs a one

973
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 1: year deal with Buffalo and that comes, that may change things.

974
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: That's true, that may change things. But I as of now,

975
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 1: I know I think they're gonna draft out of those

976
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:02,760
Speaker 1: eight picks, they're going to draft seven.

977
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:03,359
Speaker 2: Yeah.

978
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:05,839
Speaker 3: And let's remember, you want to go into the draft too,

979
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 3: with not a lot of needs, so you want to

980
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 3: try and meet those needs in free agency and go

981
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:13,720
Speaker 3: into the draft thinking I can choose best available. So yeah,

982
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:17,279
Speaker 3: we're standing by for more Bills news. Nothing yet, but

983
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:19,120
Speaker 3: we're going to take a break because when we return,

984
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:22,760
Speaker 3: senior NFL writer for the Boston Boston Globe Ben Volin

985
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:25,600
Speaker 3: joining the show next. Here on One Bills Live, We're

986
00:49:25,600 --> 00:50:04,360
Speaker 3: presented by Clienthealth. I'm Buffalo Bills Radio.

987
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:11,959
Speaker 1: This is One Bill's Live presented by called Lyda Health.

988
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:14,839
Speaker 2: Welcomn to our number two of One Bill's Live.

989
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:17,879
Speaker 3: Matti glab alongside of Steve Tasker in the second day

990
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:21,440
Speaker 3: of the legal tampering period. It was a crazy Monday

991
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:25,799
Speaker 3: as the floodgate gates opened at noon and we continue

992
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:29,920
Speaker 3: on with the new league years set to begin Wednesday

993
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:30,920
Speaker 3: at four pm.

994
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:31,760
Speaker 2: That's when these.

995
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:35,840
Speaker 3: Free agency signings can become official and help us with

996
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:38,280
Speaker 3: everything that's been happening in the last day and a half.

997
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:40,919
Speaker 3: We now welcome senior writer for the Boston Globe, Ben

998
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,439
Speaker 3: Volin to the show. Ben, thanks for taking the time

999
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:44,359
Speaker 3: to chat with.

1000
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:47,319
Speaker 4: Us, Maddie and Steve. Great to see you guys. Thanks

1001
00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:47,879
Speaker 4: for having me.

1002
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 3: It's been a crazy start to the free agency period,

1003
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,920
Speaker 3: the legal tampering period that's happening right now. As you

1004
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 3: reflect on the last twenty four ish hours, what's been

1005
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 3: the most shocking news that's come up crossed your timeline.

1006
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 4: I don't know if anything has been totally shocking. Some

1007
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 4: of these contract numbers are are pretty eye opening. Alec

1008
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:11,359
Speaker 4: Pierce getting close to twenty nine million dollars a year

1009
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:15,400
Speaker 4: from the Colts, that's an eye opening number. Tyler Linderbaum

1010
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:18,560
Speaker 4: the Center getting eighty one million from the Raiders, almost

1011
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:21,880
Speaker 4: fully guaranteed. It was kind of like a Kirk Cousins contract.

1012
00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 4: That was an eye opening number. He reset this center

1013
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 4: market by a full fifty percent, So an eye opening

1014
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 4: number there. But you know, otherwise, honestly, the big move

1015
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 4: to me is mostly I'm waiting to see where these

1016
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:38,080
Speaker 4: quarterbacks fall. To attack of Biloa took one spot with

1017
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:41,759
Speaker 4: Atlanta yesterday. Sounds like Gino Smith might be headed back

1018
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 4: to the Jets. To me, Kyler Murray is a real

1019
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 4: intriguing option. He's only going to cost teams a million

1020
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:49,399
Speaker 4: dollars because the Cardinals are paying him about thirty six

1021
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 4: million fully guaranteed. And you know all the buzz has

1022
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:55,759
Speaker 4: been with Minnesota, which you know Kyler Murray was. Some

1023
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 4: of those weapons could be very intriguing. But you know,

1024
00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:00,960
Speaker 4: if I'm the Jets, why not take a shot on

1025
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 4: Kyler Murray, a former number one overall pick who's still

1026
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:06,440
Speaker 4: only twenty nine years old. If you're the Dolphins, well

1027
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:08,399
Speaker 4: I guess they've settled on Malik Willis. But if you're

1028
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 4: a team looking for a cheap quarterback, I don't know

1029
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 4: why you wouldn't. You know, look hard at Kyler Murray.

1030
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 4: I realized things didn't go well for him in Arizona,

1031
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 4: but I still think, certainly on a million dollars, it's

1032
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:22,279
Speaker 4: worth the lottery ticket, I guess of Kyler Murray. But

1033
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 4: you know, otherwise, you know, for free agency, the big

1034
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:30,319
Speaker 4: moves are trades. You know, Max Crosby, Michael Pittman. We'll

1035
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 4: see about AJ Brown. Usually the guys that get to

1036
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 4: free agency aren't necessarily the premier names.

1037
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you talk about AJ Brown and New England Patriots,

1038
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 1: you got you're up there at the Boston Globe. The

1039
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: Patriots have been. It was hot a week or two ago,

1040
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:45,920
Speaker 1: then it kind of cooled off. Now it's kind of

1041
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:49,839
Speaker 1: resurfaced again. Also, guys like Chris Olave, Romeo Dabbs, they're

1042
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,440
Speaker 1: still out there as well. What do you think the pay?

1043
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 1: It seems like a wide receiver one, particularly with the

1044
00:52:56,160 --> 00:53:00,360
Speaker 1: release of Steph Diggs, and the whole thing seems like

1045
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:02,239
Speaker 1: wide receivers at the top of the list. Maybe for

1046
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:03,759
Speaker 1: the Patriots, what do you think they're gonna do.

1047
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,239
Speaker 4: To me, that's the one hole that is worried. So

1048
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 4: they have other roster holes to fill, but finding a

1049
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 4: receiver to replace Stephan Diggs, to me, is a number

1050
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 4: one priority right now. And I don't know if it's

1051
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 4: going to happen this week. It might be something that

1052
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:21,759
Speaker 4: draws out over the course of the offseason, but it's

1053
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 4: probably gonna have to be a trade because all the

1054
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:27,320
Speaker 4: good names, you know, the Wandale Robinsons and Alec Pierces,

1055
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:30,360
Speaker 4: they all got snapped up quickly yesterday. Mike Evans even

1056
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:34,080
Speaker 4: so to me, like I think it's a j Brown

1057
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 4: or bost He's at twenty nine. I still think he's

1058
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:40,479
Speaker 4: the number one receiver. His contract isn't terrible, fifty million

1059
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 4: over the next two years. Him and Rabel obviously have

1060
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 4: that connection. That's that's why it makes an obvious sense

1061
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:48,520
Speaker 4: to me. You know, first, I kind of thought the

1062
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 4: Patriots should keep Stephan Diggs. I thought he was a

1063
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 4: good addition for them. And his contract wasn't crazy. They

1064
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 4: had other ideas. They moved on from Stephan Diggs. They've

1065
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 4: created a hole now, and you know, there's a thought

1066
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:03,279
Speaker 4: that maybe some of their younger guys could fill in

1067
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:05,480
Speaker 4: that that would be that'd be a tough sell for

1068
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:07,839
Speaker 4: Patriots fans. They want to keep the momentum going here

1069
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 4: from the Super Bowl run. So yeah, Chryst Olave's intriguing name.

1070
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 4: You know, his concussion history is definitely worry. Somebody had

1071
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:16,759
Speaker 4: a great year this year with eleven hundred yards with

1072
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 4: the Saints. Romeo Dobbs is a tough sell, but you know,

1073
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,760
Speaker 4: Aj Brown, maybe DK Metcalf becomes available now that Pittsburgh

1074
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:27,399
Speaker 4: has paid Michael Pittman. I do think there are gonna

1075
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:29,800
Speaker 4: be some trade options available, and to me, the Patriots

1076
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 4: they've got to do. They've got to make one of

1077
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 4: those moves.

1078
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 3: Bills fans were feeling a little bit heartbroken yesterday when

1079
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:38,720
Speaker 3: they saw some news coming across their timeline with Reggie

1080
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:42,239
Speaker 3: Gilliam agreeing to terms on a deal with the Patriots

1081
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 3: three years.

1082
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:46,800
Speaker 2: Worth up to twelve million dollars.

1083
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 3: And Gillium has been an important piece to Buffalo's offense

1084
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:52,479
Speaker 3: over the last several years really kind of the heart

1085
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 3: and soul of what Buffalo does in terms of blocking

1086
00:54:56,080 --> 00:55:01,520
Speaker 3: and helping out guys get open. The Patriots, why does

1087
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:03,160
Speaker 3: that make sense for what they need?

1088
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, they gave him, as you mentioned, the twelve million

1089
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:09,320
Speaker 4: over two years. I think six of it is fully guaranteed,

1090
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:13,320
Speaker 4: So a nice, healthy contract for a fullback. The traditional

1091
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:15,799
Speaker 4: blocking fullback has always been a staple of the Josh

1092
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 4: McDaniels offense.

1093
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: For years.

1094
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:20,440
Speaker 4: They had James Devlin here at number forty six with

1095
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:23,040
Speaker 4: the next role, you know, leading the way in the hole.

1096
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:26,120
Speaker 4: And this past year the Patriots they had a rookie

1097
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 4: that they liked for that role. His name is Brock Lampy,

1098
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:31,760
Speaker 4: but he got hurt in training camp and they couldn't

1099
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:34,400
Speaker 4: really replace that position throughout the season. They took a

1100
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:37,200
Speaker 4: tight end named Jack Westover and put him in that

1101
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 4: fullback role, but he was not a proficient, you know,

1102
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 4: lead blocker in the sense that like a Reggie gilliam is.

1103
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:46,839
Speaker 4: So it is interesting that the Patriots, you know, last

1104
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:48,719
Speaker 4: year a lot of fireworks for them. On Day one,

1105
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:51,439
Speaker 4: they get Milton Williams and Robert Splaine and a bunch

1106
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:54,040
Speaker 4: of free agents this year a lot quieter, but they're

1107
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 4: one of their big day one moves is going out

1108
00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 4: and getting a full back. Kind of hearkens back to

1109
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 4: the Bill Belichick days a little bit, but you know,

1110
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:04,759
Speaker 4: Josh McDaniels has always prioritized that position, and you can

1111
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 4: tell they're not messing around. They went out and got

1112
00:56:06,719 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 4: pretty much the best one in the NFL.

1113
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:11,399
Speaker 1: Well, let's stick with the AFC East and you talked

1114
00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:13,799
Speaker 1: about a little bit of Kyler Murray and going to

1115
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 1: the Jets to a tongo Ilo ended up in Atlanta.

1116
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Miami for a minute. It looked like

1117
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:23,279
Speaker 1: they were it was gonna be like Tank for Arch

1118
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:26,359
Speaker 1: in Miami. But then they go out and they get

1119
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 1: Malik Willis, who he was a guy that a lot

1120
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 1: of teams were looking at, no question about it, But

1121
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 1: when you really step back and look at it, it's

1122
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:38,759
Speaker 1: a very small sample size for what he's capable of.

1123
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:41,960
Speaker 1: He was at he was in Green Bay learning that

1124
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:44,640
Speaker 1: system and was there and got acclimated. It wasn't like

1125
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:47,520
Speaker 1: he just parachuted in and played well. He did play

1126
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:50,480
Speaker 1: well for them, but how do you think that's gonna

1127
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:51,240
Speaker 1: go in Miami?

1128
00:56:52,880 --> 00:56:57,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a very interesting situation. I in one sense,

1129
00:56:57,320 --> 00:56:59,560
Speaker 4: I give the Dolphins a lot of credit. They are

1130
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 4: paying two tagovloa fifty four million dollars to not play

1131
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:05,280
Speaker 4: for them, and then they turn around and give Malik

1132
00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 4: Willis forty five million guaranteed over two years, so twenty

1133
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:10,600
Speaker 4: two and a half million on top of it. So

1134
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:13,200
Speaker 4: that's a lot of money to be spending on the

1135
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 4: quarterback position. The Dolphins would probably be the one team

1136
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 4: that makes sense to make an investment like that into

1137
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:23,680
Speaker 4: Milik Willis. Jeff Haffley, the new coach, John Eric Sullivan,

1138
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:25,840
Speaker 4: the new GM did just come from Green Bay, so

1139
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 4: they spent the last two years with Malik Willis. You

1140
00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 4: know that said your your concerns are very valid. He

1141
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 4: has a tiny sample of playing on the field and

1142
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:38,680
Speaker 4: has not thrown many passes. And there are many cases,

1143
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 4: many examples of quarterbacks over the years that have had

1144
00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 4: a good game or two, but then when the league,

1145
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 4: the league finally catches on to them as they get

1146
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 4: more starts and more appearances. So the tank for arch

1147
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:52,800
Speaker 4: Manning still might be on this year in Miami. But

1148
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:55,640
Speaker 4: I do give them credit for going out and investing

1149
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:58,520
Speaker 4: in the quarterback position when they're already spending a ton

1150
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 4: of money on Tua play for them.

1151
00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 3: And this is a bigger conversation. I mean, Miami is

1152
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 3: one team who is paying money for a quarterback and

1153
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:09,120
Speaker 3: then it doesn't work out, and they're willing to move

1154
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 3: on from that quarterback and still pay for that salary

1155
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:14,560
Speaker 3: to try and figure out a new fit. You mentioned

1156
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 3: the Arizona Cardinals paying a good chunk of Kyler Murray's

1157
00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 3: salary this year too, and I know Kirk Cousins there's

1158
00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:24,000
Speaker 3: still some money owed there from the Atlanta Falcons. What

1159
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:26,920
Speaker 3: does this say about the bigger picture of the NFL

1160
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:30,080
Speaker 3: and teams really wanting to find that guy and not

1161
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 3: being afraid to pay money to move on from somebody.

1162
00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:37,240
Speaker 4: It means these teams are a wash in cash. They

1163
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 4: are printing their own money. The salary cab keeps going

1164
00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:44,120
Speaker 4: up by you know, twenty million dollars every year. The

1165
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:48,919
Speaker 4: cash infusion from the legalization of gambling, I don't think

1166
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:53,160
Speaker 4: can be overstated. These the teams are making money hand

1167
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:56,560
Speaker 4: over fist. They get the check they get for their

1168
00:58:56,640 --> 00:59:00,320
Speaker 4: one thirty second share of National TV money cover their

1169
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:04,480
Speaker 4: entire you know, roster and salary plus one hundred million dollars.

1170
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:07,840
Speaker 4: So they just have so much money and if Tua

1171
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:10,960
Speaker 4: isn't the right quarterback, they're not gonna let a fifty

1172
00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:13,040
Speaker 4: four million dollar guarantee get in the way. And I

1173
00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:15,960
Speaker 4: do give them credit for that. Unfortunately, that's money that's

1174
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:20,000
Speaker 4: not being spent on the active roster. But they're not.

1175
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:22,920
Speaker 4: They're willing to swing big and if they make a mistake,

1176
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:25,480
Speaker 4: they're willing to cut a big check to make it right.

1177
00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 4: And it just shows how well business is booming in

1178
00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 4: the NFL these days.

1179
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's you kind of get it's kind of confusing.

1180
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:36,920
Speaker 1: It's the fifty four million. Yeah, it's they're losing the value.

1181
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:40,360
Speaker 1: They don't lose the money, right, The money's already spent

1182
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:44,440
Speaker 1: and that's money they don't get to spend this year again,

1183
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 1: so they get to keep that money in their pocket

1184
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 1: rather than give it to the rest of the roster.

1185
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:53,840
Speaker 1: So it sounds like they don't have the money to

1186
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:56,000
Speaker 1: say they got the money. They're just not allowed to

1187
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,520
Speaker 1: buy it, right, They're not allowed to spend on the player.

1188
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:02,200
Speaker 1: So yeah, you're right, the financial situation sounds like, Wow,

1189
01:00:02,240 --> 01:00:04,200
Speaker 1: that's too bad. They're gonna eat that money. The money's

1190
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 1: already been eaten. They just get to keep the next

1191
01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:09,200
Speaker 1: check they get instead of paying it to somebody else.

1192
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:13,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, that's that's the way that the NFL.

1193
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:15,720
Speaker 4: You know, each team is going to have a budget

1194
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:19,240
Speaker 4: for their roster for the year, and whether fifty four

1195
01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 4: million of it goes to Tua or they spread the

1196
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:25,320
Speaker 4: head among eleven players, that's how it goes. So, I mean,

1197
01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:28,280
Speaker 4: no question it's gonna hurt the dolphins chances this year,

1198
01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 4: not only the cash they have to pay it to it,

1199
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 4: but then of course the sixty seven million dollars dead

1200
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:37,280
Speaker 4: cap on top of the seventy the Dolphins have one

1201
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:40,320
Speaker 4: hundred and forty million dollars in dead cap. That's nearly

1202
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:43,640
Speaker 4: fifty percent of the salary cap this year. So just yeah,

1203
01:00:43,680 --> 01:00:47,840
Speaker 4: you know, historic mismanagement of the team's finances. But they're

1204
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:50,840
Speaker 4: just ripping off the band aid this year and starting

1205
01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 4: fresh under a new regime and maybe this one will

1206
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:55,960
Speaker 4: finally be the one that gets it right. But it's

1207
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:58,080
Speaker 4: been you know, twenty five years since the Dolphins have

1208
01:00:58,120 --> 01:00:59,240
Speaker 4: really had success down there.

1209
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:03,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's that's really that's really crippling. I mean,

1210
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:06,680
Speaker 1: there's just no way around it. They can say they

1211
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:09,200
Speaker 1: don't have to the Last time they tanked for two

1212
01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:11,120
Speaker 1: of the they didn't tank well enough and they ended

1213
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:13,600
Speaker 1: up picking five instead of one, and they ended up

1214
01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:16,560
Speaker 1: losing out Joe Burrow and they and they got Tua instead,

1215
01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:20,200
Speaker 1: and now they're still crippled from that. So I don't

1216
01:01:20,240 --> 01:01:21,880
Speaker 1: know that they'll mess this one up the way they

1217
01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:25,520
Speaker 1: did the last one. One thing, let's stick in the ABC,

1218
01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 1: let's go to the Jets.

1219
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:29,000
Speaker 2: Hold on, there's some Patriots news that just come out

1220
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:32,600
Speaker 2: that just has just come out. We got sources.

1221
01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:36,240
Speaker 3: According to Ian Rappaport, Packers free agent wide receiver Romeo

1222
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:39,240
Speaker 3: Dobbs is signing a deal with the Patriots, So a

1223
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:41,600
Speaker 3: new weapon for Drake May.

1224
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:43,760
Speaker 2: How do you react to this move?

1225
01:01:46,240 --> 01:01:48,920
Speaker 4: I mean, they had to make a move, so they

1226
01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:52,200
Speaker 4: had to do something to replace Stefan Diggs. I don't

1227
01:01:52,240 --> 01:01:56,120
Speaker 4: love it. It feels like a value proposition. He is younger,

1228
01:01:56,960 --> 01:01:59,800
Speaker 4: he's never had more than seven hundred something yards, you know,

1229
01:02:00,160 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 4: I think he's had. He gets banged up a little bit,

1230
01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:06,360
Speaker 4: and the Packers that that system just does kind of

1231
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:10,560
Speaker 4: crank out wide receivers. So I don't know. I feel

1232
01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:13,800
Speaker 4: like this is, Yeah, they got younger, But I don't

1233
01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:16,360
Speaker 4: know if the Patriots got better by releasing Digs and

1234
01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:19,680
Speaker 4: going to Romeo Dobbs. You know, we'll see. But it

1235
01:02:19,720 --> 01:02:23,640
Speaker 4: does feel like they're kind of banking on youngsters like

1236
01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:26,800
Speaker 4: Kyle Williams and Efton Chishen to take another step this year.

1237
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:31,640
Speaker 4: But you know, it does feel like the Patriots are

1238
01:02:31,640 --> 01:02:34,120
Speaker 4: going bargain shopping a little bit. Yeah.

1239
01:02:34,200 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 3: Romeo Dobbs had seven and twenty four receiving yards last

1240
01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:41,360
Speaker 3: season for six touchdowns, a career high in him for

1241
01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 3: receiving yards. A career high for touchdowns was in twenty

1242
01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:48,360
Speaker 3: twenty three when he had eight. Some other news that

1243
01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 3: just has come out as well, The Raiders are sending

1244
01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:55,960
Speaker 3: quarterback Gino Smith and a twenty twenty six seventh round

1245
01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:59,120
Speaker 3: pick to the New York Jets in exchange for twenty twenty.

1246
01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:00,360
Speaker 2: Six sixth round pick.

1247
01:03:00,760 --> 01:03:04,120
Speaker 3: Per Adam Schefter, the Jets have been making a lot

1248
01:03:04,120 --> 01:03:06,480
Speaker 3: of moves. A lot of those moves have been on defense,

1249
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:09,200
Speaker 3: but looking at a quarterback, they decide to go with

1250
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:09,960
Speaker 3: Gino Smith.

1251
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know he's a good veteran presence for them,

1252
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:17,120
Speaker 4: and you know Aaron Glenn I think is clearly on

1253
01:03:17,160 --> 01:03:20,440
Speaker 4: the hot seat this year, and especially they fired his

1254
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 4: entire coaching staff except they kept him. So they're under

1255
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:27,040
Speaker 4: a lot of pressure to win. And Geno Smith has

1256
01:03:27,080 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 4: a lot of starts under his belt and can provide

1257
01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:32,200
Speaker 4: some veteran leadership and I wouldn't be surprised given where

1258
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:34,120
Speaker 4: they're at a quarterback if they go find a second

1259
01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:37,800
Speaker 4: veteran in case Gino gets hurt or doesn't work out,

1260
01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:40,560
Speaker 4: they can have a fallback option because Aaron Glenn has

1261
01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 4: to he's got to win seven or eight games this year.

1262
01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:46,680
Speaker 4: He's got to, you know, turn turn this Jets program

1263
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:50,040
Speaker 4: around quickly. So you know, it's a good safe move

1264
01:03:50,720 --> 01:03:52,760
Speaker 4: and he's only going to cost him a million dollars.

1265
01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:55,520
Speaker 4: That said, I would have taken the shot on Kyler Murray.

1266
01:03:56,480 --> 01:03:58,720
Speaker 4: What do you have to lose? I think the ceiling

1267
01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:01,720
Speaker 4: would be so much higher there. But I think the

1268
01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:04,960
Speaker 4: Jets they're just looking for some good veteran leadership and

1269
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 4: Gino Smith should definitely provide that.

1270
01:04:06,840 --> 01:04:08,919
Speaker 1: What do you think? All right? So that's one less

1271
01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:13,200
Speaker 1: spot Kyler Murray has to land. What's your call? Does he?

1272
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:16,360
Speaker 1: So Aaron? Maybe Aaron Rodgers goes back to Pittsburgh, maybe

1273
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:18,919
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray shows up there, you know, because there's there's

1274
01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:21,760
Speaker 1: some there's always these obvious places that need a guy

1275
01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:26,560
Speaker 1: that and you know, Mike McCarthy and Pittsburgh's got to

1276
01:04:26,600 --> 01:04:29,840
Speaker 1: have somebody who can sling it. What are your thoughts

1277
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:30,560
Speaker 1: about that? Now?

1278
01:04:32,120 --> 01:04:35,560
Speaker 4: All the buzzes with the Minnesota Vikings, that's a team

1279
01:04:35,560 --> 01:04:39,240
Speaker 4: that's been open about wanting to bring in competition for

1280
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:42,480
Speaker 4: JJ McCarthy. I don't think they're done with JJ McCarthy,

1281
01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:45,640
Speaker 4: but I think they've realized the error of their ways

1282
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:48,440
Speaker 4: last year when they got rid of Sam Darnold handed

1283
01:04:48,880 --> 01:04:51,640
Speaker 4: McCarthy the job coming off knee injury when he hadn't

1284
01:04:51,640 --> 01:04:54,520
Speaker 4: played and really proven anything, and then the only backup

1285
01:04:54,560 --> 01:04:56,480
Speaker 4: they went and got was Sam Howell, which was a

1286
01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:59,200
Speaker 4: disaster and they had to scramble and go get Carson Wentz.

1287
01:04:59,200 --> 01:05:01,480
Speaker 4: So this year, I think they want to reel back

1288
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:04,840
Speaker 4: up and I think Kyler Murray would be a really

1289
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:08,160
Speaker 4: intriguing option for them. You know, if I'm Kyler Murray,

1290
01:05:08,200 --> 01:05:11,400
Speaker 4: I would rather go to the Jets where there's less competition.

1291
01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:13,240
Speaker 4: But if the Jets don't want you, there's nothing you

1292
01:05:13,240 --> 01:05:16,720
Speaker 4: can really do about it to go play for Kevin O'Connell,

1293
01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:19,560
Speaker 4: to have Justin Jefferson there. If you're Kyler Murray, you got

1294
01:05:19,600 --> 01:05:21,760
Speaker 4: to feel confident you can beat out JJ McCarthy for

1295
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:24,520
Speaker 4: the starting job. If you're the Vikings, there's no real

1296
01:05:24,520 --> 01:05:27,680
Speaker 4: commitment there. It's just a year, it's just a million dollars.

1297
01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:31,680
Speaker 4: It's worth the lottery ticket. So now that Gino Smith

1298
01:05:31,760 --> 01:05:35,040
Speaker 4: is officially a Jet, I do think that the buzz

1299
01:05:35,520 --> 01:05:37,520
Speaker 4: of Kyler Murray going to the Vikings is only going

1300
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:38,280
Speaker 4: to get stronger.

1301
01:05:38,840 --> 01:05:41,760
Speaker 3: One position group that we've had our on, just because

1302
01:05:41,760 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 3: Buffalo is switching defenses with the new defensive coordinator in

1303
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:46,919
Speaker 3: Jim Leonard from a four to three to three four

1304
01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:51,280
Speaker 3: is the defensive line and edge rushers and defensive tackles

1305
01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:54,120
Speaker 3: who will fit in this new look defense. And as

1306
01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:58,080
Speaker 3: we've seen pass rushers go off the market, it seems

1307
01:05:58,160 --> 01:06:00,600
Speaker 3: like some of these teams are willing to pay top

1308
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:03,640
Speaker 3: dollar for some of these edge rushers. I mean, Boye

1309
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:06,280
Speaker 3: Mafe gets a three year deal with the Bengals worth

1310
01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:09,880
Speaker 3: sixty million dollars. Ota fey Oway signs a four year

1311
01:06:09,920 --> 01:06:14,120
Speaker 3: deal worth one hundred million dollars going to the Commanders

1312
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:17,440
Speaker 3: agreeing to terms on that four year deal, and Trey

1313
01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:21,040
Speaker 3: Hendrickson is waiting to find a number that's going to

1314
01:06:21,160 --> 01:06:25,520
Speaker 3: work for him. Do you believe Hendrickson could get that

1315
01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:28,800
Speaker 3: thirty or four million or thirty or forty million dollars

1316
01:06:28,880 --> 01:06:29,800
Speaker 3: he's looking for.

1317
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:33,479
Speaker 4: I think I'd be surprised if he got that much,

1318
01:06:33,840 --> 01:06:36,920
Speaker 4: maybe on a one year deal. A team that's, you know,

1319
01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:41,280
Speaker 4: fancies itself a Super Bowl contender, does throw kind of

1320
01:06:41,280 --> 01:06:43,360
Speaker 4: a big paiday at him. But he's on the wrong

1321
01:06:43,400 --> 01:06:45,960
Speaker 4: side of thirty, and he's had a couple of bad

1322
01:06:46,040 --> 01:06:48,680
Speaker 4: years there, like not as productive on the field, and

1323
01:06:48,720 --> 01:06:53,040
Speaker 4: then with the high profile contract squabbles with the Bengals,

1324
01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:57,520
Speaker 4: Trey Hendrickson I think was probably he'd probably do well

1325
01:06:57,520 --> 01:06:59,200
Speaker 4: for himself if he just took a one year deal

1326
01:06:59,200 --> 01:07:01,600
Speaker 4: and that hit free agent see again next year. Kind

1327
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:03,800
Speaker 4: of bet on himself a little bit. And to me,

1328
01:07:03,880 --> 01:07:06,080
Speaker 4: he's more of a four to three defensive end. I

1329
01:07:06,120 --> 01:07:08,400
Speaker 4: think that's those are the defenses he's played in most

1330
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:10,640
Speaker 4: of his career. I don't think he's I don't think

1331
01:07:10,640 --> 01:07:12,760
Speaker 4: he fits as well as a three to four edge rusher.

1332
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:15,440
Speaker 4: So frankly, I think the Patriots could still use some

1333
01:07:15,520 --> 01:07:17,640
Speaker 4: help at edge, and I think they should have their

1334
01:07:17,680 --> 01:07:20,760
Speaker 4: eye on Trey Hendrickson. Supposedly the Cowboys are going to

1335
01:07:20,800 --> 01:07:23,000
Speaker 4: be in on him, but you know, I just don't

1336
01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:26,560
Speaker 4: think he's quite the premiere edge rusher anymore. Those guys

1337
01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:29,640
Speaker 4: you mentioned are younger, they're still in prime of their

1338
01:07:29,680 --> 01:07:33,200
Speaker 4: career and hitting free agency the first time. Hendrickson being

1339
01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:34,840
Speaker 4: thirty one years old, I think he's going to have

1340
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:36,960
Speaker 4: to be a little more realistic with what he's going

1341
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:38,000
Speaker 4: to get on the market.

1342
01:07:38,200 --> 01:07:40,160
Speaker 1: Which team so far, I know it's early, I mean

1343
01:07:40,200 --> 01:07:44,360
Speaker 1: we haven't really started free agency technically, But which team's

1344
01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:46,360
Speaker 1: caught your eye? I mean, which team do you feel

1345
01:07:46,400 --> 01:07:48,600
Speaker 1: like it's like, hey, I like that move. Was it

1346
01:07:48,600 --> 01:07:50,480
Speaker 1: one of the big splash ones or somebody less under

1347
01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:50,920
Speaker 1: the radar?

1348
01:07:51,920 --> 01:07:54,240
Speaker 4: I mean, I do like the Ravens getting Max Crosby.

1349
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:58,200
Speaker 4: I think between Crosby and Lamar Jackson, you've got two

1350
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:00,480
Speaker 4: of maybe the eight best players in the NFL, you know,

1351
01:08:00,560 --> 01:08:03,160
Speaker 4: and real leaders and elite players on both sides of

1352
01:08:03,200 --> 01:08:07,000
Speaker 4: the football. So the Raven's clearly not messing around. They're

1353
01:08:07,040 --> 01:08:09,080
Speaker 4: they're making big moves this year to try to take

1354
01:08:09,080 --> 01:08:12,600
Speaker 4: advantage of Lamar Jackson's window. You know, like I said,

1355
01:08:12,640 --> 01:08:15,960
Speaker 4: I like the Raiders move with Tyler Linderbaum, Like you

1356
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:18,200
Speaker 4: don't usually think of a center, but for the Raiders

1357
01:08:18,200 --> 01:08:22,679
Speaker 4: like rebuilding and trying to protect their young quarterback Fernando

1358
01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:26,200
Speaker 4: Menzota Mendoz I like getting that, you know, a young

1359
01:08:26,280 --> 01:08:28,559
Speaker 4: center to kind of anchor their line there in Linderbaum,

1360
01:08:28,560 --> 01:08:30,760
Speaker 4: who's probably the best in the league. You know, Other

1361
01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:33,439
Speaker 4: than that, it's just guys signing their old players. Like

1362
01:08:33,560 --> 01:08:36,360
Speaker 4: John Harbaugh goes to the Giants and he signs Isaiah Likely,

1363
01:08:36,400 --> 01:08:39,200
Speaker 4: you know, his former Raven And you look at the Titans,

1364
01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:42,479
Speaker 4: they're just adding all of Robert Salas and Brian Davils

1365
01:08:42,479 --> 01:08:45,240
Speaker 4: old players from the Giants. So it's just a lot

1366
01:08:45,320 --> 01:08:49,799
Speaker 4: of reunions going on. You look at this the free agency,

1367
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:51,599
Speaker 4: it feels like this big frenzy, and then you sit

1368
01:08:51,680 --> 01:08:54,160
Speaker 4: back and look at the totality of the moves and

1369
01:08:54,200 --> 01:08:57,080
Speaker 4: it's there. There haven't been too many seismic moves yet

1370
01:08:57,240 --> 01:08:59,680
Speaker 4: to me, other than maybe Max Crosby. But you know,

1371
01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:02,679
Speaker 4: age if he gets traded, I think that would definitely qualify.

1372
01:09:02,920 --> 01:09:06,400
Speaker 4: And this feels like a year where again trades are

1373
01:09:06,439 --> 01:09:08,200
Speaker 4: going to be the bigger moves than maybe the free

1374
01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:09,000
Speaker 4: agency moves.

1375
01:09:09,240 --> 01:09:12,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're a team in the AFC, you're watching

1376
01:09:12,200 --> 01:09:15,880
Speaker 3: the Ravens grab Max Crosby and you're thinking, oh, man,

1377
01:09:15,920 --> 01:09:18,479
Speaker 3: are we going to have to face that team in

1378
01:09:18,600 --> 01:09:21,760
Speaker 3: January when it really matters. I know the Patriots and

1379
01:09:21,800 --> 01:09:25,120
Speaker 3: the Bills are thinking exactly that. Ben, Thanks for the time,

1380
01:09:25,160 --> 01:09:28,600
Speaker 3: We appreciate it. You go work on that Romeo Dobbs information.

1381
01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:30,840
Speaker 4: All right, thanks a lot, guys.

1382
01:09:30,840 --> 01:09:33,800
Speaker 3: All right, that was Ben Vollen joining us from the

1383
01:09:33,840 --> 01:09:36,480
Speaker 3: Boston Globe, a senior NFL rider.

1384
01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:38,679
Speaker 2: Who is in the madness with us.

1385
01:09:38,760 --> 01:09:43,439
Speaker 3: As the Patriots reportedly adding a new wide receiver to

1386
01:09:43,479 --> 01:09:46,599
Speaker 3: their roster in Romeo Dobbs, who had over seven hundred

1387
01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:50,479
Speaker 3: yards last season with the Green Bay Packers along with

1388
01:09:50,560 --> 01:09:56,240
Speaker 3: six receiving touchdowns. The Jets have been movers and shakers

1389
01:09:56,360 --> 01:09:57,280
Speaker 3: in this free well.

1390
01:09:57,320 --> 01:09:59,360
Speaker 1: They had a lot of an awful lot of money

1391
01:09:59,400 --> 01:10:03,479
Speaker 1: to spend, and the question is always the same, it's

1392
01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:06,400
Speaker 1: did they pick the right guys first of all? And

1393
01:10:06,520 --> 01:10:08,680
Speaker 1: did they overpay or did they get bargains or did

1394
01:10:08,720 --> 01:10:11,360
Speaker 1: they pay what they had to pay to get them.

1395
01:10:11,400 --> 01:10:15,880
Speaker 1: That's certainly significant in the trade talks. As you know,

1396
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:18,679
Speaker 1: people have been talking about the Bills and Dj Moore.

1397
01:10:20,479 --> 01:10:22,360
Speaker 1: Yeah he's a good player, but is he that good

1398
01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:25,880
Speaker 1: a player? Well, it depends on what happens with this

1399
01:10:25,960 --> 01:10:28,720
Speaker 1: new team that he's on, which happens to be this one, right,

1400
01:10:29,680 --> 01:10:32,600
Speaker 1: same thing with Max Crosby. Will he be as successful

1401
01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:36,400
Speaker 1: with the Ravens as he was with the Las Vegas

1402
01:10:36,479 --> 01:10:39,760
Speaker 1: Raiders or will heave be even better with the with

1403
01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:45,479
Speaker 1: the Ravens. Yeah, the teams with the most money to spend,

1404
01:10:45,479 --> 01:10:48,960
Speaker 1: I think I think they're being a little more cautious

1405
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:51,519
Speaker 1: than I thought they would be, really be Frankly, frank.

1406
01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:54,000
Speaker 3: I'm surprised by some of some of these deals. Were

1407
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:57,519
Speaker 3: seeing just the money with you know, Alec Pierce, some

1408
01:10:57,600 --> 01:10:59,519
Speaker 3: of these ed rushers making big time money.

1409
01:10:59,560 --> 01:11:01,720
Speaker 2: The money, Tyler Linderbaum money.

1410
01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:07,360
Speaker 1: The money is always shocking, Yeah, for regular people like us.

1411
01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:10,960
Speaker 1: But when you look at the and you go down,

1412
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:12,960
Speaker 1: another thing that you'd like to do is if you

1413
01:11:12,960 --> 01:11:14,679
Speaker 1: go on spot Track or one of the other over

1414
01:11:14,720 --> 01:11:16,519
Speaker 1: the cap or one of the other let's say, they'll

1415
01:11:16,520 --> 01:11:19,200
Speaker 1: give you the percentage of the cap that the player

1416
01:11:19,320 --> 01:11:21,000
Speaker 1: is and some for some of these guys it's like

1417
01:11:21,080 --> 01:11:24,680
Speaker 1: point five percent point. Oh, it's not even it's a

1418
01:11:24,680 --> 01:11:28,639
Speaker 1: half a percentage point. Yeah, it's a drop in the butt.

1419
01:11:28,680 --> 01:11:31,640
Speaker 1: And that's a one point five million dollar contract. So

1420
01:11:33,240 --> 01:11:35,479
Speaker 1: you know a guy like Josh who's making a you know,

1421
01:11:35,560 --> 01:11:39,040
Speaker 1: fifty six million dollar cap hit, it's still eighteen point

1422
01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:41,120
Speaker 1: six percent of the cap or something like that. So

1423
01:11:41,760 --> 01:11:43,960
Speaker 1: the numbers are going to go up exponentially, but it's

1424
01:11:43,960 --> 01:11:46,960
Speaker 1: the percentages if you look at those, those tend to

1425
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:51,839
Speaker 1: stay pretty much within norms. And certainly there are swings

1426
01:11:51,840 --> 01:11:57,240
Speaker 1: in the pendulum where for a certain time, some position

1427
01:11:57,520 --> 01:11:59,960
Speaker 1: that's not really a money position, like now safety position,

1428
01:12:00,360 --> 01:12:03,080
Speaker 1: or he's kind of having a resurgence defensively for a

1429
01:12:03,080 --> 01:12:05,520
Speaker 1: lot of teams because now the safeties are so versatile,

1430
01:12:06,080 --> 01:12:08,599
Speaker 1: they're becoming more valuable because now they can cover man

1431
01:12:08,680 --> 01:12:11,800
Speaker 1: and they can cover better players in man coverage. So

1432
01:12:12,280 --> 01:12:14,959
Speaker 1: you know, now that safety spot is getting a resurgence

1433
01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:16,360
Speaker 1: and they're starting to make a little bit more money,

1434
01:12:16,400 --> 01:12:19,120
Speaker 1: you're starting to be more coveted. So it's stuff like

1435
01:12:19,160 --> 01:12:21,640
Speaker 1: that that maybe moves the percentages a little bit on

1436
01:12:21,680 --> 01:12:24,400
Speaker 1: from franchise to franchise, but they never really get out

1437
01:12:24,439 --> 01:12:28,280
Speaker 1: of that that out of whack until Tyler Linderbaum signs

1438
01:12:28,280 --> 01:12:31,960
Speaker 1: for thirty millions. But yeah, I mean it's stuff like that.

1439
01:12:32,040 --> 01:12:39,640
Speaker 1: It that's a yeah, So I'm we'll see. I'm The

1440
01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:43,400
Speaker 1: numbers are big, but the cap is enormous and it's

1441
01:12:43,439 --> 01:12:46,040
Speaker 1: only getting Bigger's Ben Bolin said. The check. You know,

1442
01:12:46,880 --> 01:12:49,599
Speaker 1: there is a distribution that happens in the league where

1443
01:12:49,640 --> 01:12:54,000
Speaker 1: every where the league sends all the money out once

1444
01:12:54,040 --> 01:12:57,160
Speaker 1: a year and a certain whatever date it is, every

1445
01:12:57,240 --> 01:12:59,519
Speaker 1: club gets like a five hundred million dollar check.

1446
01:13:00,080 --> 01:13:00,759
Speaker 2: It's crazy.

1447
01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:04,320
Speaker 3: It's big numbers, yep, And it's just it's keeping on

1448
01:13:04,479 --> 01:13:08,360
Speaker 3: growing with the viewership that you see teams and markets

1449
01:13:08,400 --> 01:13:10,360
Speaker 3: pulling in from all different places, and.

1450
01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:13,639
Speaker 1: They maximize it as well as the league's very well.

1451
01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:17,200
Speaker 1: People pooh pooh it and they throw darts at the league,

1452
01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:21,800
Speaker 1: and certainly they don't get everything right all the time machine,

1453
01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:26,519
Speaker 1: but most every issue they face, at some point in

1454
01:13:26,560 --> 01:13:28,479
Speaker 1: the future or in the present, they will get it

1455
01:13:28,560 --> 01:13:31,640
Speaker 1: right because that's what they do. It takes them a

1456
01:13:31,680 --> 01:13:34,240
Speaker 1: long time to get there sometimes, but man oh man,

1457
01:13:35,560 --> 01:13:36,679
Speaker 1: they get it right.

1458
01:13:37,560 --> 01:13:38,960
Speaker 2: Here's the update on the numbers.

1459
01:13:38,960 --> 01:13:42,599
Speaker 3: With Romeo Dobbs and the Patriots, they're reaching an agreement

1460
01:13:42,680 --> 01:13:46,960
Speaker 3: on a four year, eighty million dollar deal per Jeremy Fowler.

1461
01:13:47,640 --> 01:13:52,160
Speaker 3: So Dobbs the newest wide receiver, newest weapon for Drake

1462
01:13:52,280 --> 01:13:53,360
Speaker 3: May on the Patriots.

1463
01:13:53,400 --> 01:13:54,519
Speaker 2: We're going to take a break, but.

1464
01:13:54,600 --> 01:13:58,400
Speaker 3: More free agency madness next here on One Bill's Live,

1465
01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:15,640
Speaker 3: represented by Clyde Health on Buffalo Bill Radio. All right,

1466
01:14:15,680 --> 01:14:18,880
Speaker 3: welcome back to One Bill's Live. The Bill's releasing some

1467
01:14:19,240 --> 01:14:24,240
Speaker 3: information as it's official that Titan Dawson Knox has agreed

1468
01:14:24,280 --> 01:14:28,880
Speaker 3: to terms on a three year deals contract now running

1469
01:14:28,920 --> 01:14:32,280
Speaker 3: through twenty twenty eight. And if you look at knox

1470
01:14:32,320 --> 01:14:35,240
Speaker 3: a season last year, four hundred and seventeen receiving yards,

1471
01:14:35,439 --> 01:14:40,679
Speaker 3: four touchdowns made, twelve starts, played in seventeen games.

1472
01:14:41,280 --> 01:14:42,639
Speaker 2: Best year Knox had as.

1473
01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:45,200
Speaker 3: A Bill was in twenty twenty one, where he was

1474
01:14:45,280 --> 01:14:50,000
Speaker 3: that red zone target for Josh Allen nine touchdowns, five

1475
01:14:50,080 --> 01:14:53,719
Speaker 3: hundred and eighty seven receiving yards. I was telling Steve

1476
01:14:53,760 --> 01:14:56,840
Speaker 3: in the break, I can't believe Knox is set to

1477
01:14:56,880 --> 01:14:59,920
Speaker 3: play in his eighth season in twenty twenty six.

1478
01:15:00,120 --> 01:15:01,960
Speaker 2: Time flies for some reason.

1479
01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:04,960
Speaker 3: I still feel like he's he's a fifth year tight

1480
01:15:05,040 --> 01:15:09,280
Speaker 3: end who's still younger. But Knox is a veteran on

1481
01:15:09,320 --> 01:15:11,760
Speaker 3: this team. It makes me think of I'm kind of

1482
01:15:11,800 --> 01:15:15,439
Speaker 3: a veteran now too. I'm set to participate in my

1483
01:15:15,479 --> 01:15:17,200
Speaker 3: eighth NFL season next year as well.

1484
01:15:18,120 --> 01:15:24,800
Speaker 1: Exactly the we've seen him all of it. Didn't know

1485
01:15:24,840 --> 01:15:27,400
Speaker 1: who he was when he was drafted, came in, hung

1486
01:15:27,439 --> 01:15:32,200
Speaker 1: in there, played well, and has just been solid his

1487
01:15:32,360 --> 01:15:38,280
Speaker 1: entire career. I said it earlier, and it really is

1488
01:15:38,320 --> 01:15:42,559
Speaker 1: the personality that I associate with him. He's not the

1489
01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:44,760
Speaker 1: guy that is going to get twelve targets a game,

1490
01:15:46,160 --> 01:15:47,960
Speaker 1: but man, oh man, once in a while he gets

1491
01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:49,920
Speaker 1: a target and it's a twenty five yard game when

1492
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:51,400
Speaker 1: you got to have it out of your own end.

1493
01:15:51,560 --> 01:15:53,840
Speaker 1: On the forty nine Ers game, he did that. In

1494
01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:56,599
Speaker 1: the snow game, he caught a twenty six yard pass

1495
01:15:56,960 --> 01:16:00,200
Speaker 1: coming out of the Bills end, out of nowhere to

1496
01:16:00,240 --> 01:16:03,120
Speaker 1: have it. This snow game against Cincinnati we're looking at

1497
01:16:03,200 --> 01:16:05,800
Speaker 1: right now, had a couple of cats. In fact, it's

1498
01:16:05,840 --> 01:16:07,759
Speaker 1: the exact same route they ran a couple of times,

1499
01:16:07,760 --> 01:16:11,600
Speaker 1: and there he is, turning it up the sidelines. Just

1500
01:16:12,720 --> 01:16:17,439
Speaker 1: has the ability to make big plays and he's always ready.

1501
01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:22,000
Speaker 1: He caught the first two touchdowns in the perfect playoff

1502
01:16:22,040 --> 01:16:26,320
Speaker 1: game against the Patriots, had two touchdowns really early in

1503
01:16:26,320 --> 01:16:28,599
Speaker 1: that game. Of course it was a runaway, but just

1504
01:16:28,760 --> 01:16:32,160
Speaker 1: an amazing, amazing time he's had here in Buffalo, and

1505
01:16:32,439 --> 01:16:37,519
Speaker 1: I'm kind of hoping it's going into his eighth year.

1506
01:16:37,640 --> 01:16:40,240
Speaker 1: I hope he ends up being here for like thirteen years. Places.

1507
01:16:40,479 --> 01:16:42,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, you just get that sense that this is where

1508
01:16:42,880 --> 01:16:43,479
Speaker 2: he wants to be.

1509
01:16:43,880 --> 01:16:50,240
Speaker 1: Hopefully it is his new wife there. She's a Buffalo girl.

1510
01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:51,759
Speaker 2: And they just had a baby this season.

1511
01:16:51,880 --> 01:16:54,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's pretty awesome.

1512
01:16:54,479 --> 01:16:58,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, And as we reflect on some of the news

1513
01:16:58,160 --> 01:17:01,240
Speaker 3: that has just come out over the last several minutes,

1514
01:17:01,360 --> 01:17:05,960
Speaker 3: Geno Smith going to the Jets. The whole quarterback conversation

1515
01:17:06,120 --> 01:17:09,599
Speaker 3: is very interesting now because Gino Smith moves on from

1516
01:17:09,600 --> 01:17:13,040
Speaker 3: the Raiders and you realize the Raiders have the first

1517
01:17:13,040 --> 01:17:18,760
Speaker 3: overall pick, likely going to draft Fernando Mendoza as they

1518
01:17:18,800 --> 01:17:22,599
Speaker 3: begin a new era with Clint Kubiak as their head coach,

1519
01:17:22,640 --> 01:17:25,360
Speaker 3: and they spend big time money on a center because

1520
01:17:25,360 --> 01:17:27,960
Speaker 3: they want a center who can help out a young quarterback.

1521
01:17:28,600 --> 01:17:30,920
Speaker 3: The Raiders are gonna need a veteran quarterback in that

1522
01:17:31,040 --> 01:17:37,400
Speaker 3: room to help a rookie quarterback grow and understand the game. Yeah,

1523
01:17:37,439 --> 01:17:38,839
Speaker 3: so who's gonna go there.

1524
01:17:38,760 --> 01:17:43,240
Speaker 1: When the dust settles. It's gonna be really interesting to

1525
01:17:43,240 --> 01:17:46,360
Speaker 1: see how the quarterback carousel is gonna because we have

1526
01:17:46,560 --> 01:17:48,400
Speaker 1: a couple of well like Gino Smith was in the

1527
01:17:48,400 --> 01:17:51,759
Speaker 1: mix this year, Kyler Murray is in the mix this year.

1528
01:17:53,520 --> 01:17:56,080
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers still hasn't decided what he's going to do.

1529
01:17:56,680 --> 01:17:59,560
Speaker 1: Malik Willis now is going to land in Miami to

1530
01:17:59,640 --> 01:18:03,080
Speaker 1: a tong I Lois switched to Atlanta to mentor that.

1531
01:18:05,960 --> 01:18:09,840
Speaker 1: So I all right, we'll see yep.

1532
01:18:10,720 --> 01:18:13,559
Speaker 3: Diana Russini just tweeted that a few teams have called

1533
01:18:13,920 --> 01:18:16,960
Speaker 3: the San Francisco forty nine ers about mac Jones as

1534
01:18:17,000 --> 01:18:22,400
Speaker 3: a possibility. Many interested around the league describe their price

1535
01:18:22,479 --> 01:18:27,639
Speaker 3: as astronomical. This is, according to Rusini, uh so mac

1536
01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:31,479
Speaker 3: Jones and his team apparently asking for big time money.

1537
01:18:32,360 --> 01:18:36,080
Speaker 1: Well, it's the Niners asking if they want to trade

1538
01:18:36,120 --> 01:18:39,640
Speaker 1: for him. Yes, they're you know, giving him up. You know,

1539
01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:44,599
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins is still out there. Yeah, it's really interesting.

1540
01:18:44,760 --> 01:18:49,040
Speaker 1: And let's not forget too this last season we had

1541
01:18:49,040 --> 01:18:51,280
Speaker 1: a forty five year old dude come out of retirement

1542
01:18:51,280 --> 01:18:53,240
Speaker 1: as a high school coach and Philip Rivers come in

1543
01:18:53,360 --> 01:18:55,519
Speaker 1: play three games for the Ghost. Now they went oh

1544
01:18:55,680 --> 01:19:00,280
Speaker 1: and three in those games. But but Philip Rivers quitted

1545
01:19:00,320 --> 01:19:04,639
Speaker 1: himself pretty well. He wasn't didn't look out of place. Now,

1546
01:19:04,720 --> 01:19:07,840
Speaker 1: certainly he wasn't elite like he once was, but man,

1547
01:19:07,880 --> 01:19:13,400
Speaker 1: he could function in that offense. So that does change

1548
01:19:13,400 --> 01:19:18,880
Speaker 1: the conversation about these quarterbacks. And Sam Darnold won the

1549
01:19:18,880 --> 01:19:22,559
Speaker 1: Super Bowl this year? Who was people were throwing dirt

1550
01:19:22,560 --> 01:19:23,760
Speaker 1: on him five years ago.

1551
01:19:24,960 --> 01:19:29,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, and look at what happened. People thought, oh, you

1552
01:19:29,280 --> 01:19:32,840
Speaker 3: can't do it. The Vikings, Then we're good, right.

1553
01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:38,840
Speaker 1: The resurrection of these careers and guys coming in playing

1554
01:19:38,920 --> 01:19:43,680
Speaker 1: really well for teams other than the ones who drafted him.

1555
01:19:43,720 --> 01:19:47,679
Speaker 1: Gino Smith in Seattle, he played well for them, didn't

1556
01:19:47,720 --> 01:19:52,000
Speaker 1: go so well in Vegas, so he's available again. But

1557
01:19:52,040 --> 01:19:55,120
Speaker 1: here we go. I think the conversation is really interesting

1558
01:19:55,120 --> 01:19:57,800
Speaker 1: around the quarterbacks where they are, and it's starting to

1559
01:19:57,840 --> 01:20:03,200
Speaker 1: be more apparent than it's ever been that environment needs

1560
01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:05,880
Speaker 1: to be different for each of these guys. Certainly there's

1561
01:20:05,920 --> 01:20:07,719
Speaker 1: some things that had to be similar. Obviously, they're playing

1562
01:20:07,880 --> 01:20:10,000
Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL, so it's not that much different.

1563
01:20:10,040 --> 01:20:16,679
Speaker 1: But the atmosphere and the coaching they get really matters apparently, right.

1564
01:20:16,720 --> 01:20:19,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, you want to go to a place that you

1565
01:20:19,320 --> 01:20:21,720
Speaker 3: feel like you're valued, and if you're going to a

1566
01:20:21,760 --> 01:20:23,640
Speaker 3: place where you're going to be a backup, I get it.

1567
01:20:23,800 --> 01:20:26,320
Speaker 1: I mean we all sit we sit here and people

1568
01:20:26,400 --> 01:20:28,680
Speaker 1: talk about Josh and Josh is the reason they're doing

1569
01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:35,120
Speaker 1: so good. And but there's coaching staffs out there. I think,

1570
01:20:35,160 --> 01:20:38,400
Speaker 1: Maddie that there's coaching staffs out there that would have

1571
01:20:38,439 --> 01:20:43,519
Speaker 1: messed it up with Josh. Right, Yeah, you got to

1572
01:20:43,560 --> 01:20:45,719
Speaker 1: think if there's somebody out there who all.

1573
01:20:45,600 --> 01:20:47,439
Speaker 2: Thirty two teams would hit a home.

1574
01:20:47,400 --> 01:20:50,400
Speaker 1: Run with Alan Josh had a defensive head coach, but

1575
01:20:50,439 --> 01:20:52,920
Speaker 1: he had Brian Daboll and all these guys, and Joe

1576
01:20:52,960 --> 01:20:53,920
Speaker 1: came in later.

1577
01:20:54,120 --> 01:20:55,760
Speaker 2: Team willing to commit weapons to it.

1578
01:20:56,840 --> 01:20:59,560
Speaker 1: And afterwards, I mean, they didn't know, they didn't know

1579
01:20:59,600 --> 01:21:03,400
Speaker 1: who they are, right. But the next his second year

1580
01:21:03,439 --> 01:21:05,040
Speaker 1: in the league, they got him an offensive line and

1581
01:21:05,080 --> 01:21:08,920
Speaker 1: they have never wavered from that. His first year when

1582
01:21:08,960 --> 01:21:11,200
Speaker 1: they finally did when the second year, when they finally

1583
01:21:11,240 --> 01:21:13,400
Speaker 1: did get the Houston playoff game, they did have an

1584
01:21:13,439 --> 01:21:17,080
Speaker 1: offensive line, was much better. Got Mitch Morse after Pat Mahomes'

1585
01:21:17,720 --> 01:21:20,720
Speaker 1: MVP season, so they started to solidify that up front.

1586
01:21:20,680 --> 01:21:23,160
Speaker 2: But eventually get John Brown and Cole Beasily.

1587
01:21:23,640 --> 01:21:27,080
Speaker 1: You look around at the quarterbacks now, man, coaching really matters,

1588
01:21:27,439 --> 01:21:30,439
Speaker 1: and it might be like you got Malik Willis down

1589
01:21:30,240 --> 01:21:34,479
Speaker 1: in Miami. He was thirty of thirty five in the

1590
01:21:34,520 --> 01:21:38,360
Speaker 1: one game he played last year, eighty five percent completion percentage,

1591
01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:42,120
Speaker 1: played great for the Packers. Do you really think he's

1592
01:21:42,160 --> 01:21:43,000
Speaker 1: gonna play like that?

1593
01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:46,599
Speaker 2: You gotta have the right person coaching you up.

1594
01:21:47,200 --> 01:21:49,400
Speaker 3: You got to have that person who is going to

1595
01:21:49,400 --> 01:21:51,439
Speaker 3: get the best out of you, and I think a

1596
01:21:51,439 --> 01:21:54,959
Speaker 3: lot of it in today's day and age with younger players,

1597
01:21:55,000 --> 01:21:58,040
Speaker 3: you have to have a personality match. You can't have

1598
01:21:59,080 --> 01:22:03,479
Speaker 3: the coach asked to understand how that player learns and

1599
01:22:03,600 --> 01:22:07,400
Speaker 3: grows and what that player responds to. And as a coach,

1600
01:22:07,439 --> 01:22:10,559
Speaker 3: you have to be willing to adapt and shift and

1601
01:22:10,720 --> 01:22:13,680
Speaker 3: change the way that you coach so you are adhering

1602
01:22:13,720 --> 01:22:16,759
Speaker 3: to exactly what that player needs. That's where growth happens

1603
01:22:16,960 --> 01:22:20,400
Speaker 3: in the NFL. It doesn't happen from I don't care

1604
01:22:20,400 --> 01:22:22,200
Speaker 3: who's coming in here. I'm going to coach you the

1605
01:22:22,280 --> 01:22:25,519
Speaker 3: exact same way, and I expect this and that out

1606
01:22:25,520 --> 01:22:25,760
Speaker 3: of you.

1607
01:22:25,880 --> 01:22:28,439
Speaker 2: Even if you don't respond to that, you got to.

1608
01:22:28,520 --> 01:22:30,680
Speaker 2: You gotta adjust, You gotta adjust.

1609
01:22:30,920 --> 01:22:31,439
Speaker 3: It used to be.

1610
01:22:32,320 --> 01:22:37,639
Speaker 1: Because it used to be before free agency. Basically you'd

1611
01:22:37,720 --> 01:22:39,600
Speaker 1: bring the players you want in because you knew what

1612
01:22:39,640 --> 01:22:41,519
Speaker 1: they could do from college or whatever. You bring those

1613
01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:43,320
Speaker 1: kind of guys in, and you're coaching your team. You're

1614
01:22:43,360 --> 01:22:45,560
Speaker 1: coaching your team the same way every year, running the

1615
01:22:45,600 --> 01:22:48,400
Speaker 1: same offense every year, and the coaching staff and all that.

1616
01:22:48,840 --> 01:22:51,760
Speaker 1: Now with the with the change in roster and all

1617
01:22:51,800 --> 01:22:57,240
Speaker 1: that stuff, you NFL coaches today build it around the

1618
01:22:57,280 --> 01:23:00,840
Speaker 1: players you can't like. So these cores come in and

1619
01:23:00,960 --> 01:23:05,479
Speaker 1: this is this is completely simplifying a very complex problem.

1620
01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:07,680
Speaker 1: But they come in and say, okay, what can you

1621
01:23:07,720 --> 01:23:10,599
Speaker 1: see this? You can see this, you can see that,

1622
01:23:10,720 --> 01:23:12,000
Speaker 1: you can do this. You can all right, So we're

1623
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:14,160
Speaker 1: gonna start. Our offense is gonna be this. You're gonna look,

1624
01:23:14,280 --> 01:23:16,479
Speaker 1: you're gonna hit these tight ends and you canna hit

1625
01:23:16,520 --> 01:23:18,479
Speaker 1: the backs, and you'll throw once in a while, we'll

1626
01:23:18,520 --> 01:23:20,479
Speaker 1: throw one over the top, just to keep them honest.

1627
01:23:20,880 --> 01:23:22,360
Speaker 1: And that's what we're gonna do. And you're gonna get

1628
01:23:22,400 --> 01:23:24,479
Speaker 1: used to that. And then as the guy gets into

1629
01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:26,719
Speaker 1: that and masters it. It's like, Okay, now we're gonna

1630
01:23:26,720 --> 01:23:28,599
Speaker 1: throw it a little bit deeper over the middle. Now

1631
01:23:28,600 --> 01:23:30,760
Speaker 1: we're gonna sprinkle in a wide receiver deep cross and

1632
01:23:30,760 --> 01:23:32,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna be able to hit that. And you can

1633
01:23:32,240 --> 01:23:34,360
Speaker 1: do that, and then you know, there's more and more things,

1634
01:23:34,560 --> 01:23:36,479
Speaker 1: and you give the guy a chance to have some success,

1635
01:23:36,720 --> 01:23:38,599
Speaker 1: and you figure out a way to win games when

1636
01:23:38,640 --> 01:23:41,599
Speaker 1: the guy can only do that much. And then later

1637
01:23:41,680 --> 01:23:44,280
Speaker 1: on that's the what they did with Josh. And of

1638
01:23:44,320 --> 01:23:46,200
Speaker 1: course they get the big break with Josh because if

1639
01:23:46,280 --> 01:23:48,200
Speaker 1: if he can't see it and doesn't want to throw it,

1640
01:23:48,560 --> 01:23:51,720
Speaker 1: he'll just tuck it down and become a buffaloe and

1641
01:23:51,800 --> 01:23:54,360
Speaker 1: bowl some people over. So you know, they had enough

1642
01:23:54,360 --> 01:23:56,840
Speaker 1: success with him doing that that they could expand it

1643
01:23:56,880 --> 01:23:59,160
Speaker 1: over time. And Josh as as smart as they come,

1644
01:23:59,200 --> 01:24:03,360
Speaker 1: so he picked it up. Coaching can mess it up

1645
01:24:03,400 --> 01:24:06,599
Speaker 1: as much as they can help. And you get all

1646
01:24:06,600 --> 01:24:13,800
Speaker 1: these Kyler, Murray, Gino, Kirk Cousins, all these guys that

1647
01:24:13,840 --> 01:24:18,760
Speaker 1: are whipping through now Minnesota apparently to now, yeah, apparently

1648
01:24:18,880 --> 01:24:21,840
Speaker 1: Minnesota is not the quarterback mecha we thought it was

1649
01:24:21,880 --> 01:24:27,240
Speaker 1: gonna be. Ye, We're not done yet with this free

1650
01:24:27,240 --> 01:24:30,800
Speaker 1: agency I'm and just because they get a guy like

1651
01:24:30,920 --> 01:24:33,759
Speaker 1: Kyler Kyler Murray or Gino Smith or even Kirk Cousins

1652
01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:37,600
Speaker 1: or even Aaron Rodgers, for goodness, there's no guarantees that

1653
01:24:39,640 --> 01:24:41,679
Speaker 1: they're not gonna it's not gonna blow up in their face.

1654
01:24:41,760 --> 01:24:46,120
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, you mentioned Rogers being available. There's also Russell Wilson,

1655
01:24:46,360 --> 01:24:50,799
Speaker 3: Zach Wilson, Tyrod Taylor, Joe Flacco, Jimmy g Trey, Lance

1656
01:24:50,880 --> 01:24:54,640
Speaker 3: Carson Wentz as some names who are still available on

1657
01:24:54,880 --> 01:24:58,240
Speaker 3: the open market. And we saw the Commanders re signed

1658
01:24:58,320 --> 01:25:01,639
Speaker 3: backup quarterback Marcus Riota to a one year deal worth

1659
01:25:01,760 --> 01:25:05,040
Speaker 3: seven million, then quarterback Kenny Pickett reached an agreement on

1660
01:25:05,080 --> 01:25:06,920
Speaker 3: a one year deal with the Panthers worth up to

1661
01:25:06,960 --> 01:25:10,000
Speaker 3: seven and a half million, and former Chiefs quarterback Gardner

1662
01:25:10,040 --> 01:25:12,800
Speaker 3: Minshew agreeing on a one year, eight million dollar deal

1663
01:25:12,800 --> 01:25:15,439
Speaker 3: with the Cardinals, and case Keenum still in the league.

1664
01:25:15,479 --> 01:25:18,240
Speaker 3: We're signing re signing with the Bills on a two year,

1665
01:25:18,320 --> 01:25:20,799
Speaker 3: five and a half million dollar deal, and the Bills

1666
01:25:21,280 --> 01:25:24,439
Speaker 3: grab a familiar face in Kyle Allen to be their

1667
01:25:24,520 --> 01:25:30,160
Speaker 3: backup for twenty twenty six. So the quarterback chips are

1668
01:25:30,200 --> 01:25:33,280
Speaker 3: falling and they will continue to fall as teams move

1669
01:25:33,400 --> 01:25:37,320
Speaker 3: on from players and figure out we got an open

1670
01:25:37,360 --> 01:25:39,880
Speaker 3: spot and we need to get a backup in here.

1671
01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:43,000
Speaker 3: The Raiders being one of those teams. As Gino Smith

1672
01:25:43,080 --> 01:25:46,559
Speaker 3: heads to the Jets. You got to find a nice

1673
01:25:46,640 --> 01:25:47,439
Speaker 3: veteran who.

1674
01:25:47,240 --> 01:25:50,960
Speaker 2: You believe will help you. Yeah, with a new rookie in.

1675
01:25:50,920 --> 01:25:53,600
Speaker 1: There, what kind of yeah, because I've always say, you know,

1676
01:25:53,600 --> 01:25:55,479
Speaker 1: the backup quarterbacks got to help the first guy get

1677
01:25:55,520 --> 01:25:58,639
Speaker 1: bet get well, who's who's that guy? For Geno Smith?

1678
01:25:59,360 --> 01:25:59,920
Speaker 1: Who is that?

1679
01:26:00,520 --> 01:26:00,840
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1680
01:26:00,960 --> 01:26:04,040
Speaker 3: I would think you you just bring in another veteran quarterback,

1681
01:26:04,120 --> 01:26:06,600
Speaker 3: two guys who are kind of the same ye in

1682
01:26:07,080 --> 01:26:11,160
Speaker 3: age and what they've done, and it's you do you

1683
01:26:11,200 --> 01:26:12,120
Speaker 3: make it a competition?

1684
01:26:13,200 --> 01:26:16,559
Speaker 1: I don't know, Maybe it depends. It'll depend on the

1685
01:26:16,600 --> 01:26:19,439
Speaker 1: money and how that's divvied up. If one guy's making

1686
01:26:19,560 --> 01:26:21,120
Speaker 1: ten times what the other one is, it's not a

1687
01:26:21,120 --> 01:26:26,040
Speaker 1: competition anymore. But yeah, yeah it'll be. I think it's

1688
01:26:26,080 --> 01:26:30,040
Speaker 1: fascinating this time of year, and well, but we're sitting

1689
01:26:30,040 --> 01:26:31,760
Speaker 1: here talking about it, and we had ben Volin on

1690
01:26:32,120 --> 01:26:36,439
Speaker 1: round round with all the just the AFC East. Sometimes

1691
01:26:36,439 --> 01:26:39,040
Speaker 1: it's better just to turn everything off and turn it

1692
01:26:39,080 --> 01:26:41,479
Speaker 1: on in like four weeks and to see who's who

1693
01:26:41,560 --> 01:26:45,000
Speaker 1: landed where, because it's a swirl right now.

1694
01:26:46,160 --> 01:26:49,920
Speaker 3: It is a swirl free agency frenzy happening right now.

1695
01:26:49,960 --> 01:26:51,360
Speaker 3: We're going to take a break. But when we were

1696
01:26:51,360 --> 01:26:53,439
Speaker 3: turning closing things up here on One Bill's Live, We're

1697
01:26:53,479 --> 01:27:09,519
Speaker 3: presented by Clyde Health on Buffalo Bills Radio. All right,

1698
01:27:09,560 --> 01:27:12,439
Speaker 3: we're back here on One Bill's Live Mattie Glab.

1699
01:27:12,240 --> 01:27:14,920
Speaker 2: And Steve Tasker. And to finish out today's show.

1700
01:27:15,520 --> 01:27:18,880
Speaker 3: You know, since I am the Chicago Bears representative on

1701
01:27:18,880 --> 01:27:21,679
Speaker 3: One Bill's Live, I grew up in Chicago. My family's

1702
01:27:21,680 --> 01:27:24,519
Speaker 3: still there were the weekend I was, I know, not

1703
01:27:24,640 --> 01:27:26,720
Speaker 3: this past weekend, but like a month ago, month ago.

1704
01:27:26,840 --> 01:27:29,280
Speaker 1: So what's your what's your family say about DJ Moore?

1705
01:27:29,400 --> 01:27:31,880
Speaker 3: We got to cover what the Chicago people are saying

1706
01:27:31,880 --> 01:27:35,040
Speaker 3: about DJ Moore because they know him very well. So

1707
01:27:35,720 --> 01:27:38,720
Speaker 3: the DJ Moore news comes out that he's agreed to

1708
01:27:38,880 --> 01:27:43,599
Speaker 3: terms with a deal being traded from Chicago to the Bills.

1709
01:27:43,960 --> 01:27:45,080
Speaker 2: I get a text for my.

1710
01:27:45,160 --> 01:27:48,640
Speaker 3: Dad and my dad said, you guys have got a

1711
01:27:48,680 --> 01:27:51,600
Speaker 3: great one. I know we didn't do as much for

1712
01:27:51,680 --> 01:27:54,479
Speaker 3: the Bill for the Bears last season, but he was

1713
01:27:54,520 --> 01:27:57,439
Speaker 3: an important piece to the roster and is known as

1714
01:27:57,560 --> 01:28:02,519
Speaker 3: being a great player, a great human being in the NFL,

1715
01:28:02,840 --> 01:28:06,320
Speaker 3: and that's what you hear in Bears circles as people

1716
01:28:06,400 --> 01:28:10,280
Speaker 3: were reacting to this news was man, it's a bummer

1717
01:28:10,320 --> 01:28:12,920
Speaker 3: to let a guy like this go. He meant a

1718
01:28:12,960 --> 01:28:16,519
Speaker 3: lot to the team and was a great weapon even

1719
01:28:16,560 --> 01:28:20,120
Speaker 3: going back to the Justin Fields days for Justin Fields,

1720
01:28:20,479 --> 01:28:23,519
Speaker 3: and was important to Caleb Williams in the beginning of

1721
01:28:23,560 --> 01:28:27,519
Speaker 3: his career and is just a good personality and digging

1722
01:28:27,560 --> 01:28:31,320
Speaker 3: into the Dj Moore tape, More is an athletic, speedy

1723
01:28:31,360 --> 01:28:33,840
Speaker 3: wide receiver who can be used all over the field.

1724
01:28:33,960 --> 01:28:37,360
Speaker 3: He can separate and win against man coverage, which is

1725
01:28:37,400 --> 01:28:40,960
Speaker 3: something that Buffalo's offense was lacking. So to get somebody

1726
01:28:41,360 --> 01:28:44,680
Speaker 3: who's going to be three feet away from a defender

1727
01:28:44,960 --> 01:28:47,400
Speaker 3: who can win in those moments when you need somebody

1728
01:28:47,400 --> 01:28:49,639
Speaker 3: to I think is going to be huge for Buffalo.

1729
01:28:50,080 --> 01:28:54,639
Speaker 3: Had some great seasons with Joe Brady and Carolina one

1730
01:28:54,680 --> 01:28:57,680
Speaker 3: thousand yard seasons and is one of five players with

1731
01:28:57,760 --> 01:29:00,559
Speaker 3: fifty plus catches on throws of twenty or more air

1732
01:29:00,680 --> 01:29:04,160
Speaker 3: yards over the last five seasons. So I'm excited that

1733
01:29:04,280 --> 01:29:06,360
Speaker 3: he's becoming a Buffalo Bill.

1734
01:29:06,880 --> 01:29:10,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that you get you dig into it from

1735
01:29:10,280 --> 01:29:14,760
Speaker 1: the other side, you try to, and it comes down

1736
01:29:14,760 --> 01:29:17,960
Speaker 1: to what that really was was a move. It was

1737
01:29:18,000 --> 01:29:20,479
Speaker 1: an economic move. They got DJ Moore, they got Roma,

1738
01:29:20,840 --> 01:29:26,800
Speaker 1: not DJ Moore. Roma doonsa Devin Duverne a lot for them. Yeah,

1739
01:29:26,840 --> 01:29:30,639
Speaker 1: so they got a young core and he was making

1740
01:29:30,720 --> 01:29:32,680
Speaker 1: he's making twenty five million bucks a year and he

1741
01:29:32,800 --> 01:29:35,880
Speaker 1: kind of the young guys, and you got a good one.

1742
01:29:35,880 --> 01:29:37,880
Speaker 1: We'll see, we'll see one way to live up to.

1743
01:29:37,960 --> 01:29:39,320
Speaker 1: But man oh man, it looks like he's gonna be

1744
01:29:39,360 --> 01:29:39,720
Speaker 1: the right time.

1745
01:29:39,960 --> 01:29:41,840
Speaker 2: Ry thanks for tuning into One Bill's Live.

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01:29:41,920 --> 01:29:45,320
Speaker 3: Chris Brown back tomorrow as free agency continues.