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Speaker 1: As we expected Steve franchise tag deadline day is today.

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Speaker 1: roster be better than people thought they would be. Yeah,

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00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:37,680
Speaker 1: for sure, we have a great locker the room, man.

432
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,040
Speaker 1: And shout out to Devin and Zach for being able

433
00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 1: to get it done like they did. Man. But Uh.

434
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:43,720
Speaker 1: At the same time, you know, we have such a

435
00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,520
Speaker 1: great locker room, and we have great leaders. Josh is

436
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,359
Speaker 1: such a great leader and Tremaine, like you said, but

437
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:51,399
Speaker 1: you know, I was super lucky to be a rookie

438
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 1: with those kind of guys around me, man, and just

439
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 1: help me stay positive in those situations, because those guys

440
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:58,720
Speaker 1: seem what I do in practice, and they seem the

441
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:00,600
Speaker 1: potentially that I had. So you know, the biggest thing

442
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,639
Speaker 1: eight Tim was just to stay ready and when that

443
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,159
Speaker 1: time comes, you know, take advantage of it. So before

444
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 1: we get to your new NASCAR affiliation, Antonio, last one

445
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 1: for you. As you're as you're leaving One Bill's Drive

446
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 1: at the end of the season, you're going through the

447
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 1: exit interviews with the coaches. What was the feedback you

448
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:19,679
Speaker 1: got from the coaching staff not only in terms of

449
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,119
Speaker 1: what you were able to put on the practice in

450
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,879
Speaker 1: game field as a rookie, but maybe some of the

451
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:28,200
Speaker 1: things they wanted to see from you between year one

452
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:30,360
Speaker 1: and year two. So you're ready when you get back here.

453
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,400
Speaker 1: You know, I had a really really great interview man,

454
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 1: in it it left me, helped me leave Buffalo with

455
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:41,679
Speaker 1: a positive mindset coming in the next year. Um, and

456
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 1: the biggest thing was just to come back and state

457
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,800
Speaker 1: and make sure I'm healthy. Um, I think I think

458
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 1: I have a shot. And as long as I keep

459
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,640
Speaker 1: progressing kind of like I did throughout the season, I think,

460
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,080
Speaker 1: you know, if everything continues to go like it is,

461
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 1: I think I'll be okay. Yeah, And it's it seems

462
00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:58,239
Speaker 1: like a long way now. I mean we're sitting here

463
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,359
Speaker 1: in March, free agencies hitting and the you don't even

464
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,199
Speaker 1: know who the offensive linemen are going to be and

465
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:03,919
Speaker 1: how training camps are gonna be or whether it's going

466
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 1: to be in person or remote and all of that. Um,

467
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:11,359
Speaker 1: you look back over the last year and it's a

468
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 1: you're long. We are long a lot further than just

469
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 1: twelve months away from where we were. What do you think?

470
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,679
Speaker 1: And going forward? You got into this NASCAR, Um, you

471
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 1: got into it while you're growing up in North Carolina,

472
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's a it's a sport that has rarely

473
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 1: been as diverse as to have you know, black guys involved.

474
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 1: What was is that part of why you got in?

475
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: And how's your reception been? What has been the impetus

476
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 1: for your involvement and how's it going? Yeah? So one

477
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 1: of my goals. You know, yes, it is. It is

478
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,880
Speaker 1: difficult for well, it's not common to see it as

479
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 1: many black guys getting involved in the sport as it

480
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 1: is now. And I think NASCAR has done a great

481
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,920
Speaker 1: job adding that diversity. But growing up, you know, I

482
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 1: knew if I continue to go down the path with

483
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 1: the football track and um, I got to where I'm

484
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,879
Speaker 1: at i am today, I'd have a chance that you know,

485
00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,679
Speaker 1: possibly getting involved in Nascar. Um And you know, my

486
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 1: goal is to on the team in NASCAR. That's what

487
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,400
Speaker 1: I'm working in towards. And you know, I think it's

488
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 1: very realistic at this point. But I know, like I said,

489
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 1: the diversity part with NASCAR is grown, man, and I'm

490
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 1: excited to be a part of that sport because I

491
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,200
Speaker 1: definitely think that third sport in America right now is

492
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,680
Speaker 1: it's kind of it's kind of for grabs in all. Honestly,

493
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,160
Speaker 1: I do think that NASCAR has a potential to take

494
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 1: that over for sure. Yeah, and so if we've got

495
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 1: it right here. You used to go to races as

496
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 1: a kid in North Carolina because I was I was

497
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,640
Speaker 1: looking at where New London is on the map there.

498
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,400
Speaker 1: I mean you're you're about halfway between Charlotte Motor Speedway

499
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 1: and Caraway Speedway. Were you guys hitting all those stops

500
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 1: as a kid or were you at some of the

501
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,640
Speaker 1: smaller Yeah, yeah, for sure. We went to Charlotte moor

502
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 1: S Freeway mostly. Um, that's the only one I went

503
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: to as a kid. But I watch I mean, my

504
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 1: granddad we used to watch every race. Man. My granddad

505
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: was such a he was a huge football fan but

506
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,920
Speaker 1: also a huge NASCAR fan, and some Sundays he'd even

507
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,439
Speaker 1: have the NASCAR races on over the NFL games. So

508
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes I'll be watching NASCAR and not football.

509
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: But it was big growing up for me. And you know,

510
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: my grand dad passed in August, so that that really

511
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 1: motivated me to do something in NASCAR out of honoring him.

512
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: So you kind of get affiliated with the Joe Graft

513
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 1: car and Joe was I mean, he was essentially like

514
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 1: a rookie driver himself, and you're a rookie NFL player.

515
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 1: How much do you think the parallels of your two

516
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,680
Speaker 1: careers kind of serve each of you well with this

517
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: new partnership. Yeah, it's actually amazing the similarities me and

518
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: Joe had from our rookie seasons. He didn't have the

519
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,240
Speaker 1: season he wanted to last year. Obviously I didn't have

520
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 1: the season I wanted to last year, but he showed,

521
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 1: you know, he showed potential towards the end, and the

522
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 1: same kind of situation with myself. But also I knew

523
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 1: that that Joe with more practice because that rookie year

524
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 1: for NASCAR, they didn't have any practice laps, they didn't

525
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:50,680
Speaker 1: get to run the tracks. So you got a guy

526
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,879
Speaker 1: that that's his first year in the car on tracks

527
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,360
Speaker 1: and he's never drove on you know, he's he's got

528
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: to be better, you know he's and he's definitely so

529
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 1: much better this year. We're sending fourteenth on the points

530
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,400
Speaker 1: right now, and that's such a huge jump for where

531
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 1: we were last year. But but yeah, so many similarities.

532
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: We also share the same sports psychologists and doctor Desiree Festa,

533
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 1: which she's with the Bills, So it's a lot of

534
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 1: things me and Joel having common and I think it

535
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 1: just worked. You you also got a chance, and I

536
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 1: told you when we were in the break, you know,

537
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 1: I got a chance to drive a pace car at

538
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 1: Watkins Glenn. You were the Grand Marshal for the Bucked

539
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,640
Speaker 1: Up two hundred NASCAR Truck Series race. What's the now,

540
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 1: You're drivers like Joe Graft Junior, they all cross over

541
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 1: into different rides, right, they can drive truck, stock car

542
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: and road races and also oval tracks as well. Give

543
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: us a little insight as to the different skill sets

544
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 1: those guys have to have and what and what what

545
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: does being a Grand Marshal at one of those things

546
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: in tail? I mean, what do you have to do? Well?

547
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: We our team did a great job in Las Vegas, man,

548
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 1: and we had a lot of things set up, so

549
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 1: we actually bucked up as our sponsor, our main sponsor

550
00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 1: on our car for Exffinity, and as you said that,

551
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 1: we actually got it to where it was the bucked

552
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 1: Up two hundred chuck race. So that was huge right there.

553
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: And then having me as the Grand Marshal, you know,

554
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 1: that was you know, I used to watch guys to

555
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: do that as a kid, and now I'm down there

556
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: doing it and that was just so excited man. And

557
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: I got to represent the Bills as I did it.

558
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 1: I definitely want my Bills shirt and I had the

559
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 1: energy and all of that, but now it was it

560
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: was excited man. And I think we got a lot

561
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: of things to the store as a team. U Joe

562
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: Joe dro over really good in Vegas as well. We

563
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: finished eighteen and it bumped us up in the points.

564
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 1: But it's just excited, man. I just can't say enough

565
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 1: about it. We did a lot of great things out

566
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 1: of in Vegas for sure. And as far as and

567
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 1: we're talking to Antonio Williams Bills running back, as far

568
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 1: as your role with the team, as I understand it,

569
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 1: you're a pretty damn good salesman. So you know you're

570
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 1: you're looking to establish, you know, sponsorship partnerships, right like

571
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: with outside businesses to kind of sponsor the race, team,

572
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: sponsor the car, all that kind of stuff. It's pretty impressive.

573
00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: They're saying, you're a very convincing guy. What were you

574
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: doing in college? What classes were you taking to kind

575
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: of master that? Man? Are you just a people person?

576
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 1: You know? It's funny, man, I'm actually a psychologist major,

577
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: So I am really a people person and I just

578
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 1: know how to connect with people. And it's you know,

579
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 1: selling things, it's really about It's not really selling, it's

580
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 1: more so, i'd say having people believe in your vision

581
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 1: and understanding their visions and at the same time and

582
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 1: when you can meet at the medium at that point

583
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 1: it usually works out. But yeah, we got some big

584
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 1: deals done. We actually just close on ze grills and

585
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 1: we'll be running that car this week in Phoenix. Zegriz

586
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 1: Wood Pillar Grill based out of San Francisco and China.

587
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, it's fun. Man, it's fun to talk

588
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: to people. It's fun to get those deals is done.

589
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: And it's the bigger, the bigger and better deals we get,

590
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 1: the better our car is. Man. So I mean it's

591
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 1: a competitive sport and I'm a competitive person. So it's fun.

592
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: How many can you sign? You sign a lot of deals.

593
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: I mean you can. It's possible to sign, like have

594
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 1: your car running and what's by the way, what number

595
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 1: is your car? Oh? Seven zero seven O seven, So

596
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 1: you could have the like you say, a different sponsor

597
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: for every week, right, I mean your car could have

598
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: a different paint job every week. Right, Yeah, technically you could.

599
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: But what you really want to try to do is

600
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 1: get get certain sponsors to you know, sponsor you for

601
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: a certain amount of races and really help get their

602
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 1: brand out because it is a sponsor we're trying to help,

603
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: you know, companies and products get getting notoriety. UM, and

604
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 1: the better we drive, the more camera time we get,

605
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: the more people see that brand. UM and Joe's doing

606
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: a really good job is staying towards the top of

607
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 1: the back and allowing Bucked up to get that recognition

608
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 1: and allowing Ze Grills to get that recognition. So that's

609
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: that makes it easier to convince people and get those

610
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: deals done. Because you got a good driver, you know,

611
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 1: they're more interested in making something to happen with you.

612
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: So Antonio, maybe just give us an idea on the

613
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: schedule here, like where where can bills fans keep an

614
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: eye out for your guys car here in the coming weekends,

615
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: you know, as far as you know television coverage and whatnot. Yeah,

616
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 1: so the we'll be in Phoenix this week. We raced

617
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: at three o'clock and then next week we're in Atlanta.

618
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: I believe it's at three. Don't hold me to that

619
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 1: Phoenix shot time. I'm not a hundred percent shox. I

620
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: know Atlanta is at three o'clock and then Phoenix will

621
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 1: be uh Phoenixes this week. So we got a good

622
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: shot of Phoenix. We ran a good race here in

623
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: Vegas is last week, so we're just gonna try to

624
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: keep building enough of that. Now, let me ask you

625
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 1: about your offseason schedule for the Bills. What have they

626
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: told you about what you can expect coming down the road?

627
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: I mean, you got free agency on the seventeenth of

628
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: this month, then you go the draft a month later.

629
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: What about OTA's mini camps all of that. What how

630
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: specific or what are they giving you to expect coming

631
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: in the coming months for offseason veterans in the NFL. Yeah, honestly,

632
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: it's still kind of up in the air, man, and

633
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: we're not one hundred percent sure. We're just kind of

634
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: sitting and waiting and staying ready. And Uh, for me,

635
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: I've been lucky to have great trainers this offseason and

636
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: continue to get me ready, so whenever that time comes,

637
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 1: I'm definitely I'll definitely be prepared. So I'm actually training

638
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: during the weekdays and then on the weekends, I traveled

639
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: to the NASCAR races, so I've been some were busy,

640
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: but I'm definitely in great shape of I've cut a

641
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: few pounds and I've even got more explosive and everything,

642
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: so I'm excited man, I'm super excited for the second year.

643
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: Last one from me, Antonio, I was, you know, Steve

644
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 1: mentioned the draft. I'd be remiss if I didn't ask

645
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 1: you to put your your best pro scouting hat on

646
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: and give us a scouting report on a couple of

647
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: your college teammates that are coming out in this year's

648
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 1: draft who were in that running back room with you.

649
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: So maybe tell us a little bit about Michael Carter

650
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 1: and Javonte Williams and maybe they're individual skill sets because

651
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: I don't think they're They're They're pretty different in terms

652
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: of style, aren't they Yeah, they are, they are. And

653
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: the one thing that I could say about both of

654
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 1: those guys, they are great people, man, besides the fact

655
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: that they're great, running bare great people. And I'd love

656
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: to have you know both of them in Buffalo, honestly,

657
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: because we had such great chemistry in that running back room, man,

658
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: and we made it work and we had that three

659
00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: bag you know, rotation, and it worked really well. Um

660
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 1: but um. But yeah, Vonte Javonte, he's a we're a

661
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 1: similar style. I'd say we're very similar. Vante is a

662
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 1: little shorter than me, I believe, but a physical back

663
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: great hands, great balance, it's all of that. And then

664
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 1: he got Mike. Mike's the agile guy. Michae will make

665
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: you miss and you know, Mike's more powerful than people

666
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,839
Speaker 1: expect too, so he'll he'll tack a punch with the two.

667
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, it's just those guys are such

668
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: great guys and fun to play with. And you know,

669
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: I'm sure wherever they end up, if it is in

670
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: Buffalo or wherever, you know, they're gonna be successful, man,

671
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: because that's just the type of guys they are. Well, Antonio, thanks, man,

672
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: it's great talking to you. Yeah, we're absolutely thanks. We

673
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: appreciate the time. Good luck with the race team. We'll

674
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 1: be keeping an eye out for that, and we look

675
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: forward to finally meeting your face to face here hopefully

676
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 1: in the summer when when training camp is an in

677
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: person activity. Again, absolutely, man, I'm looking forward to it.

678
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: Take care, we'll see you. That's Antonio Williams Bills running back,

679
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: who is also invested in that Joe Graft Junior race team.

680
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: Keep an eye out for them on the end NASCAR circuit.

681
00:34:57,680 --> 00:34:59,439
Speaker 1: We'll take a break, but when we come back, Steve

682
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,840
Speaker 1: and I will have more including your comments on the

683
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: Twitter poll. When we return here on One Bill's Live,

684
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome

685
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Jasper with

686
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: you here on a Tuesday. Good conversation with Antonio Williams. There.

687
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: Good to finally make his acquaintance. Steve, it was so

688
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: crazy last year because you know, we're literally on the

689
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,839
Speaker 1: other side of the fieldhouse from these players. We never

690
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:40,240
Speaker 1: met the rookie class, really the other side of the wall.

691
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: And yeah, I didn't even know what he looked like.

692
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: That's crazy because we usually have a good amount of

693
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,479
Speaker 1: face tign with the players just by virtue of beating

694
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: here every single day and doing interviews with him and whatnot.

695
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 1: And that just did not happen at all. It's just

696
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:01,760
Speaker 1: so he's been here for season. We didn't We didn't

697
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 1: see hide nor hair of him. It's a strange. It's

698
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: a strange phenomena. You work, you know, you sit there

699
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: and work for the same coming. And I watched every

700
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: game in person here in Buffalo, and uh I could

701
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,840
Speaker 1: I could not. And it's true a lot of the guys.

702
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: I couldn't pick him out of the lineup. It's you

703
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 1: never see him, you know, the helmets on and from

704
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: us in the booth. We're a thousand miles away, you know,

705
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 1: we're fifty yards away. You can't recognize them. You don't

706
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 1: get a chance to talk to him. We usually, you know,

707
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,319
Speaker 1: media relations is usually pretty good to us. They'll come in,

708
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,399
Speaker 1: We'll get all these guys, like after we draft guys,

709
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: they'll come right on the show first week in town.

710
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: You know, in the offseason, we'll get the draft class

711
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,360
Speaker 1: in sitting in the studio. We'll get all the you know,

712
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 1: the captains will come in and talk to us in

713
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: the studio. We'll get the guys you know who have

714
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: you know, had a great game or I have a

715
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: charity event going on or what have you. They'll all

716
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: come in and talk to us in the studio in person,

717
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: get anybody nobody not even know. And even getting him

718
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: on Zoom was hard. So I yeah, a little bit,

719
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 1: and just like Antonio said, a little bit of normalcy

720
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: in this offseason and going into the regular season will

721
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: be a very welcome change for everybody. Yeah. But he's yeah,

722
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's very articulate. The kids got his

723
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: head on straight, you can tell. And um, just from

724
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: everything we've read with his involvement in the NASCAR A venture,

725
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: he is, Uh, he's a guy. He's a very ambitious

726
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: young man. So good on him for, you know, for

727
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: taking the bull by the horns and getting involved. I mean,

728
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 1: this guy's what twenty two twenty three at the most

729
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: and doing this kind of stuff. Good on him for

730
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: being ambitious and being an entrepreneur. I mean, he's gonna

731
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:44,839
Speaker 1: be doing stuff long after his playing careers over. I'm

732
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: pretty confident of that just from that fifty years conversation. Yeah,

733
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:49,919
Speaker 1: he wants he wants to own a team, a racing team.

734
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 1: That's that's that's a big commitment, a big commitment. And

735
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 1: h certainly he was off And that's it's interesting too

736
00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:59,839
Speaker 1: because you know, you see him pop on I had

737
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:02,720
Speaker 1: when we saw him play against Miami before that game,

738
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 1: we didn't know it was going to be him the

739
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 1: whole game. Didn't he thought it might be t J.

740
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: Yelled and you know whatever, and didn't have any idea

741
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: what to expect from him, and certainly coming in and

742
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 1: playing like he did against the Dolphins on that the

743
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: Week seventeen game was man oh Man he was the

744
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: flavor of the month, wasn't he, Brownie? I know what

745
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: he looked like fresh legs in week seventeen, That's what

746
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 1: he looked like. I mean, and those guys, and you

747
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: could speak to this more than I can. Those guys

748
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 1: have an advantage, you know, coming You know, they've been

749
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: on the prat not that they haven't been working hard,

750
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 1: but they haven't been taking the pounding that all these

751
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 1: other players on the field to a large degree have

752
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: over the course of the first fifteen games. So this

753
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 1: guy comes in, he's fresh as a daisy, and he

754
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 1: looked at in that game. Yeah, and there's a there's

755
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 1: a lot in there, you know, when you come in

756
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: with a guy, and for him, you know, the for

757
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 1: the Dolphins players, for the Bills players, it's about the

758
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 1: playoff birth. The Dolphins are playing trying to get in

759
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: and it kind of it kind of went away from

760
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: him in the first half and they were kind of

761
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: filling out the time in the second half. And and

762
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 1: for the Bills, they're trying you know most you know,

763
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 1: the guys on the sidelines and the and the star player,

764
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 1: they're trying to come out of this healthy and stay sharp.

765
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 1: But you get a guy like Antonio Williams, you know

766
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: where his mindset is, because, yeah, I'm showing off. That's

767
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 1: the entire planet I am. This is my this is

768
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,800
Speaker 1: my deal right here, and he played like it, and

769
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,800
Speaker 1: you know, bless his heart, he knocked it out of

770
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: the park that day. He could not It's hard to

771
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 1: imagine him playing any better. So yeah, good to talk

772
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: to him and catch up with him, and certainly we

773
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: wish him a lot of luck with that NASCAR Exfinity

774
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: Series team with Joe Graft juniors driver, and I'll be

775
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:44,799
Speaker 1: keeping an eye out for them, see if they start

776
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,359
Speaker 1: moving up the points standings there, see what they can

777
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: do in this racing season. But we are also talking

778
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 1: about the Dak Prescott deal and the potential lessons that

779
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: can be learned from the way that all played out. Obviously,

780
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: it turned into two and a half year saga between

781
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: the Cowboys organization and the quarterback. It ended well, it

782
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,840
Speaker 1: had a good ending. But what lessons can the Bills

783
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 1: take from the Dak Prescott contract negotiations, Knowing they've got

784
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 1: their own quarterback that they're going to need to address

785
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,399
Speaker 1: here in the not too distant future, maybe sooner rather

786
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: than later, depending on what the final cap number is.

787
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean appeared on the Chris Collinsworth podcast last week

788
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: and basically laid out their plans. He said, in a

789
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,480
Speaker 1: perfect world, they'd like to do a deal, you know,

790
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: before next season, but if the CAB number is an

791
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 1: issue and clearing cap space is a problem, they may

792
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 1: just have to go with the fifty year option to

793
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 1: buy themselves some time and then address it next year.

794
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: So that's the path is still to be determined. It

795
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 1: will happen. I don't think it's a question of if,

796
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: it's a question of when. But I wonder what lessons

797
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,760
Speaker 1: they can take from this day Dak prescott saga, because

798
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: that one dragged on far longer than any of the

799
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: parties involved wanted it to. And I think we know

800
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: that the front office and the quarterback have a very

801
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 1: good working relationship, but when you get down to brass

802
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 1: tacks and dollars and cents, sometimes it can get a

803
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 1: little sticky. Yeah, I think all of us, me, you

804
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,879
Speaker 1: and Dak Prescott and we can we can all learn

805
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: from what we see the Cowboys did with Dak Prescott.

806
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 1: And that's two sides that really wanted it to work out, right.

807
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:35,240
Speaker 1: But for the most part, yeah, and for the problem,

808
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 1: the problem comes down to this browny, particularly right now

809
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 1: in the NFL. You get to these like the Carson

810
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: Wentz deal, the Deshaun Watson deal, the Jared Goff deal,

811
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: the all of these quarterback contracts and Pat Mahomes contract too,

812
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 1: not just the ones that go bad, but the ones

813
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:59,319
Speaker 1: that go good. Supposedly they're all different. And we're all

814
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 1: getting some insight more and more with social media and

815
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 1: with the access and the openness that the league has

816
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 1: in these dealings and what we all know and can

817
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:13,839
Speaker 1: watch every step that they take. We can see how

818
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: each of these quarterback problems or blessings, whatever you want

819
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: to call them, take place. And I think there's no

820
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: question this Dak Prescott is both the good and the

821
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 1: bad or the quarterback conversation every team has to have.

822
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 1: You gotta get it, you'd like to get it done early.

823
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: Think if if the Cowboys could have gotten Dak tied

824
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: up for thirty three million bucks instead of forty you know,

825
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 1: on a five year deal a couple of years ago.

826
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 1: You're talking right, a couple of years ago. You know

827
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: he wanted no part of it. And rightfully so. And

828
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:47,840
Speaker 1: I think now it's gonna be I think the holy

829
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 1: Grail now and Dak is smart for doing this, because

830
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 1: Mahomes ain't gonna do this. Dak's gonna get another kick

831
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:59,320
Speaker 1: at the can in four years. The deal's up. Mahomes

832
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: is tied up for his entire career, well for the

833
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: entirety of the bulk of his career. He's also going

834
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 1: to get close to half a billion dollars for doing that,

835
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be. Yeah, Yeah, it's gonna be. And

836
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 1: he doesn't see a lot of that contract for for

837
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 1: years and years, like twenty twenty five, twenty twenty seven. Yeah. Yeah.

838
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:20,240
Speaker 1: I think the numbers start to get fatter in twenty

839
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: twenty two and then they really polluted up in twenty

840
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: three and twenty four. Um. Yeah. And that's a whole

841
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 1: other layer to this conversation, because which path do the

842
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 1: bills take, you know, or do they try to take

843
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:38,360
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen on a long term contract extension. Do

844
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 1: they take the path that was blazed by the Chiefs

845
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 1: with Patrick Mahomes, which has pretty friendly cap money in

846
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 1: the early stages of the deal, but it's a long

847
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: contract that promises and guarantees a lot of money, or

848
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: do they go the short route, which is what the

849
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 1: Cowboys ultimately did, even though you knew they did not

850
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 1: want to. They wanted a longer term commitment. But ultimately

851
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: they acquiesce and give him the four year deal, not

852
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,720
Speaker 1: a five or a sixty year contract. I just wonder

853
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 1: where the bills are going to come down on that,

854
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 1: knowing at least my inkling is that Josh and his

855
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,320
Speaker 1: representatives are probably gonna want to go the way of

856
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,959
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, so they can take another swing and maybe

857
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 1: even another swing after that that, to me, presumably will

858
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: be the way they want to go. Well, to me,

859
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:33,880
Speaker 1: this went Dak's Prescott went in his favor on a

860
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: couple of different fronts. One, he got a big number

861
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 1: per per year, forty million per year. That's a that's

862
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 1: a big number. Secondly, it's a short deal, only four years,

863
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:50,320
Speaker 1: which also is in favor of Dak Prescott. And third

864
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,879
Speaker 1: he got most of it one hundred and twenty six

865
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:59,239
Speaker 1: million of it guaranteed. So all of that stuff in

866
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: that mix will tell you what kind of leverage Dak

867
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 1: Prescott had. And you know, for the Cowboys, I mean

868
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 1: that all the all the nuts and bolts are in there.

869
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: If you want to sign a guy, you know, if

870
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,439
Speaker 1: you want to get the deal done, you gotta give him,

871
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 1: you know, a lot more guaranteed. But Dak Prescott got

872
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: a big number and guarantees and short term all three

873
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 1: of those things were in his favor. And I think

874
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 1: it speaks to the leverage he had with the Cowboys,

875
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 1: not so much that like everybody else had, he had

876
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:34,240
Speaker 1: already played through one franchise tag and was working on another.

877
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:39,840
Speaker 1: And that's you know, so that says a lot about

878
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 1: his leverage over the Cowboys. A lot of quarterbacks never

879
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:44,799
Speaker 1: get to that point. They're not willing to do that.

880
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 1: If you are, I think the numbers speak for themselves

881
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 1: and think that's the way to go. All right, we

882
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:52,239
Speaker 1: have to take a break, but we will get to

883
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 1: your comments on the tweet sheet about what lessons the

884
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 1: Bills can take from this Dak Prescott contract negotiation and

885
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: the new deal that those two parties struck. But before

886
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 1: we do that, when we come back, we will have

887
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:08,279
Speaker 1: former NFL pass rusher Chris Long joining us. He'll be

888
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: on when we return here on One Bill's Live Presented

889
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 1: by Kalota Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio, Buffalo Bills Radio Network.

890
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 1: Sports Update, Your sports Update from One Bill's Drive. Ian

891
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:32,879
Speaker 1: rapid Port of NFL media reporting the Bill Center. Mitch

892
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 1: Morse has restructured his contract to help give the team

893
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 1: some cap relief for the twenty twenty one season. Morse

894
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 1: will reportedly cut his salary by nearly two million dollars

895
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 1: as part of the agreement, but can earn some of

896
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: it back through incentives. Under the original terms of his contract,

897
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: Morse was set to make seven million in base salary

898
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:51,919
Speaker 1: have a cap hit if just over ten million. Morse

899
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: has spent the last two seasons with Buffalo, and he

900
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:57,439
Speaker 1: started thirty regular season games over that span, as well

901
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: as starting all four of the teams playoff games. Franchise

902
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 1: tag deadline day in the NFL, and some tags are

903
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: trickling out across the league. Among the most recent reports

904
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 1: of players getting tagged Giants defensive lineman Leonard Williams, Jet

905
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: safety Marcus may, Tampa Bay wide receiver Chris Godwin, Washington

906
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:18,399
Speaker 1: guard Brandon shirt and Caroline offensive tackle Taylor Moten. It

907
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:22,880
Speaker 1: looks like Jacksonville offensive tackle Cam Robinson could be joining

908
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 1: that list soon. According to multiple reports, the deadlines to

909
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:30,080
Speaker 1: tag players is four pm today. A year ago, Dak

910
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 1: Prescott and the Cowboys couldn't reach a deal on a

911
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:35,400
Speaker 1: contract extension, so the QB played under the franchise tag

912
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:39,959
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. This year, as the franchise tag deadline loom,

913
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 1: the two sides finally struck a deal. Prescott will get

914
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 1: a four year, one hundred and sixty million dollar contract.

915
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: He also gets a no trade clause and no tag clause,

916
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:52,800
Speaker 1: and one hundred and twenty six million is guarantee around

917
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 1: the AFC. He's two teams making deals. Trent Brown, the

918
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl offensive tackle, being traded from the Raiders to

919
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 1: the Patriots. The deal includes Brown agreeing to rework his contract.

920
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 1: He'll play on a one year, eleven million dollar deal

921
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 1: for New England before hitting free agency next offseason. This

922
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 1: will be Brown's second stint with New England. The Patriots

923
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,880
Speaker 1: previously traded for him in twenty eighteen after he had

924
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,360
Speaker 1: spent his first three seasons in the league with the

925
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 1: forty nine ers. Dolphins and Titans also swung a deal.

926
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:23,399
Speaker 1: Tennessee agreed to trade offensive line in Isaiah Wilson their

927
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: first round pick last year to Miami. Titans send a

928
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: seventh round pick in twenty twenty two along with Wilson

929
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: in exchange for a twenty twenty one seventh rounder to

930
00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 1: complete the deal. And finally, the Sabers looking to end

931
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 1: their seven games slide with a victory over the Flyers

932
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 1: tonight in Philly. Tonight's face off set four seven pm.

933
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 1: That is your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown,

934
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you for hour number two of a

935
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,840
Speaker 1: Tuesday edition of One Bills Live. I'm broadcasting from the

936
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 1: Seneca Studios here in Orchard Park, and we're waiting to

937
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:58,720
Speaker 1: be joined on the line by former NFL pass rusher

938
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 1: played for the Rams, played for the Patriots, played for

939
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 1: the Eagles, winning a Super Bowl there. It is one

940
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:09,760
Speaker 1: Chris Long who will be joining us here shortly, and Steve,

941
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask him about this quarterback thing too,

942
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 1: because you know, this is um it's a big deal

943
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 1: for Dak Prescott, as we know, and it just seems

944
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 1: like the quarterback deals just keep on coming, and we

945
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:24,479
Speaker 1: know that with each passing deal the numbers are going

946
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 1: to go up. So you know, you wonder about the

947
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: timing of the Josh Allen deal. And some people might

948
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 1: just simply say, wow, sooner is better than later because

949
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:40,759
Speaker 1: you can get him relatively cheaper than you would if

950
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:43,239
Speaker 1: you sign him two years from now. But you got

951
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 1: to wonder if this restrictive cap situation might kind of

952
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 1: compromise their parameters under which they can negotiate something. I

953
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:56,280
Speaker 1: don't know where you stand on it. No, I agree

954
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 1: with I agree with that to some extent. I also

955
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:00,879
Speaker 1: think and that I'm and you know, this is all

956
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 1: over two people speculate about what's behind the lines and

957
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: what's behind the deal. Um, And I think there is

958
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:10,400
Speaker 1: probably some confidence by a guy like Jerry Jones that

959
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 1: the TV deals that they're negotiating right now are going

960
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 1: to be massive and he'll afford it and this this

961
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:19,320
Speaker 1: contract is going to be well worth it. Um. I

962
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:21,319
Speaker 1: don't know what you think about that, Brownie, but I

963
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:24,399
Speaker 1: think there's no question. And we've already seen one deal

964
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:29,399
Speaker 1: almost double for like one game a week. Uh, and

965
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: that's it's a massive. No, the numbers are massive. You're

966
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:36,800
Speaker 1: talking about the TV deals now, Yeah, the TV deals,

967
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 1: And so there's a lot of people thinking Jerry sees

968
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 1: this coming down the down the pipe, and Jerry's part

969
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 1: of the committee, Lady has been in the past, part

970
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: of the committee that negotiates those deals with the networks.

971
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 1: And you know, I just I just think they know

972
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 1: that that's gonna come down and this this contract is

973
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 1: going to be well worth it in the third and

974
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 1: fourth years of the deal, even if if it's a

975
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:04,360
Speaker 1: big number here at the beginning, this restrictive cap and

976
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:06,880
Speaker 1: this year it's it's forced teams. It's gonna force teams.

977
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:09,719
Speaker 1: And we're seeing it already a massive number of transactions

978
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 1: around the league and restructures and cuts and you know,

979
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 1: franchise tags. Some are surprising given the economic times and

980
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:21,959
Speaker 1: some are not. And I think this Dak Prescott deal,

981
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 1: you know, speaks to all of that. It's interesting too, Brandy,

982
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 1: that they could have done this deal two years ago,

983
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 1: but they get it done when in the least likely

984
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:39,840
Speaker 1: point in history right of the league. You know, that

985
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: just goes to show the cap is real. But man,

986
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:46,279
Speaker 1: oh man, if you really want something, you can you

987
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 1: can afford to fit it under, right, that's what the

988
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 1: Cowboys have done. Yeah, I just you know, and you say, well,

989
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:56,080
Speaker 1: if if the Cowboys and Dak Prescott can get a

990
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:58,320
Speaker 1: deal done on a long term thing and a restrictive

991
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:00,160
Speaker 1: cap here, what's to keep the Bills from doing that?

992
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 1: And I would tend to agree, Um, but I just

993
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: wonder if they're if they have the wherewithal to kind

994
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:10,799
Speaker 1: of get there as creatively as they would like in

995
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:13,560
Speaker 1: a restrictive cap here. But we'll have to We'll have

996
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: to just see where that goes and see what path

997
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 1: they choose to take in an offseason that again, is

998
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 1: unlike any other time now though, to have one Chris

999
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: Long join us, currently the host of the green Light podcast.

1000
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 1: And wow, he's got the color scheme working behind him too. There, Wow,

1001
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:33,560
Speaker 1: look at this. But yeah, Chris Long joining us. Former

1002
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 1: NFL defensive end, two time Super Bowl champ with the

1003
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 1: Patriots and Eagles. Chris, thank you for taking some time.

1004
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. How you guys doing during this pandemic.

1005
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:44,880
Speaker 1: Everybody healthy in the family. I think we're having trouble

1006
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:46,839
Speaker 1: hearing Chris. Hold on a quick second here, Chris, We're

1007
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:52,320
Speaker 1: gonna see if we can. Right. It's still kind of

1008
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 1: my rookie year here. I just just bless man, really

1009
00:52:57,719 --> 00:53:00,960
Speaker 1: really lucky. Um, you know, I live in Charletts, VI, Virginia,

1010
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: so smaller towns, so we haven't really it's a college town.

1011
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: They've done a good job. But I got two young kids,

1012
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: I have a flexibility to stay home and a podcast

1013
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:10,920
Speaker 1: for living, so life is good. I'm just thinking about

1014
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 1: other people out there and hoping they're doing all right. Yeah,

1015
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 1: and it's this, you know, this offseason kind of winds up.

1016
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:20,399
Speaker 1: Are you surprised at the stuff going on? I mean

1017
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: we could see it coming down the road, tons of transactions,

1018
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 1: guys getting cut, guys getting restructured, and then you see

1019
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:29,440
Speaker 1: a mega deal get done with DAK. I mean, it's

1020
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 1: all over the map right now. And you know, I

1021
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 1: know you. I played with your against and with your dad. Yeah,

1022
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 1: it's the league for what we used to go through.

1023
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 1: It used to move like a glacier and now stuff happens, Man,

1024
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 1: it happens like an avalanche every off season. Is this

1025
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:50,840
Speaker 1: a surprise to you or is there anything surprising about

1026
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:53,879
Speaker 1: the DAK deal in this kind of climate. Well, first off,

1027
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: Steve big fan and so nice to talk to you.

1028
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 1: And then also, you know, I think this, you know,

1029
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 1: my second offseason into this thing in the media or whatever,

1030
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,800
Speaker 1: you want to call it. It's almost like all the

1031
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:10,840
Speaker 1: rules you started to learn about free agency and the

1032
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 1: cap and that sort of thing, because as a player

1033
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:15,480
Speaker 1: you pay attention, but you don't when you know to

1034
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 1: the degree that you have to when you have a

1035
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 1: podcast or whatever. So you know, the cap going down,

1036
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 1: the uncertainty there Dak's contract. That whole saga was so

1037
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 1: kind of it felt unprecedent. You got this player that

1038
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:31,360
Speaker 1: kind of bet on himself in one and the worst

1039
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 1: possible thing happened that could have happened to him happened, right,

1040
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:38,840
Speaker 1: So you know, it's just a very interesting turn of events.

1041
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 1: And I think what makes it great is as players,

1042
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 1: we're always rooting for players, but when you're rooting for

1043
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:48,440
Speaker 1: somebody like Dak, who I think objectively any former player,

1044
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:50,839
Speaker 1: any player, would tell you. We could argue about whether

1045
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:52,759
Speaker 1: he's a top five quarterback, that sort of thing, but

1046
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:55,400
Speaker 1: you're paying for a lot of what you're paying for

1047
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:59,200
Speaker 1: there is the quality of human being and the crazy

1048
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:02,799
Speaker 1: circus that Alas is having a guy under center there

1049
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:07,120
Speaker 1: that can kind of handle that he's got it the

1050
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 1: X and knows we'll see if he gets the you know,

1051
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:11,400
Speaker 1: gets the money's worth out of it. But guys like

1052
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:14,120
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson are looking this deal and they're

1053
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 1: pretty excited. Yeah, and you know, mentioning franchise quarterbacks as

1054
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:20,440
Speaker 1: you did. You know the Bills now have one in

1055
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, as you well know. But I want to

1056
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:27,160
Speaker 1: get your player perspective on this aspect of it, because

1057
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 1: when teams are searching for a franchise quarterback, it's it's

1058
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 1: all consuming in terms of the roster construct and and

1059
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 1: you're just you're obsessed with it until you have one

1060
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 1: on your roster. But then the dynamics change when you

1061
00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:44,320
Speaker 1: have one in terms of how you build the roster

1062
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:48,319
Speaker 1: around that player, because there's a defined direction with that

1063
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:51,719
Speaker 1: guy in his respective skill set. But from a player perspective,

1064
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:54,239
Speaker 1: you know, knowing the years that you spend in Saint Louis, Yes,

1065
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:57,480
Speaker 1: they tried to draft a franchise guy in Sam Bradford,

1066
00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:00,320
Speaker 1: mixed success do more to injury from him. Yeah, it

1067
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:03,239
Speaker 1: couldn't stay healthy. Yeah. So as you've got to the

1068
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:05,400
Speaker 1: end of your time in Saint Louis and finally became

1069
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 1: a free agent, how how imperative was it for you

1070
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:13,759
Speaker 1: to find a team with a proven franchise quarterback. Because

1071
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,239
Speaker 1: I mean, the GMS deal with it in their way.

1072
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: I'm curious how players like you, veteran players looking to win,

1073
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: deal with it in your way in free agency. Yeah,

1074
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:26,719
Speaker 1: it's tough, you know, Listen. I was very lucky in

1075
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:29,520
Speaker 1: Saint Louis, made a lot of money and had individual success,

1076
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:32,719
Speaker 1: but I always felt empty and I didn't know any

1077
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 1: other way. Like my reality in the NFL was come

1078
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:37,840
Speaker 1: home and you know, it's a foregoneclusion. You probably lost.

1079
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:39,840
Speaker 1: You wake up in the morning on Sunday morning, You're like,

1080
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:42,399
Speaker 1: put your big boy pants on. You're gonna be able

1081
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:44,279
Speaker 1: to You gotta take care of yourself and control what

1082
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:47,040
Speaker 1: you can control. It was almost like a shock going

1083
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:49,879
Speaker 1: to winning cultures and like just watching the offense and

1084
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:52,480
Speaker 1: just assuming that things are going to work out, like

1085
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:55,640
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a ten play drive, third and eight,

1086
00:56:55,719 --> 00:56:58,920
Speaker 1: they're gonna convert. Like that felt so foreign to me

1087
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:01,799
Speaker 1: because we can never land a quarterback for a long

1088
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 1: period of time. And Sam, you know you heard Kyle

1089
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 1: Rudolph's comments recently. It kind of probably made some people's

1090
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:10,920
Speaker 1: eyebrows rays. Sam would have you know, catapulted them in

1091
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:13,200
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl or whatever. I disagree, and Sam's one

1092
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:14,719
Speaker 1: of my best friends. That's because we would have kicked

1093
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 1: their ass just like we did in the playoffs. But

1094
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:22,320
Speaker 1: I do think that had Sam gotten healthy, we'd have

1095
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 1: had more success. Now, to your point, you cannot win

1096
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:28,840
Speaker 1: without one, and I think that's why every team has

1097
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:30,840
Speaker 1: to look at when they draft in the top ten,

1098
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:34,080
Speaker 1: top fifteen. You know, what do we do if we

1099
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 1: already think we have one, do we really have like

1100
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:39,240
Speaker 1: the guy of the future, you know, Kyler Murray, that

1101
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 1: deal with Josh Roseen. That's gonna pop up more now

1102
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 1: Like when I came in the league, the new the

1103
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:47,440
Speaker 1: old CBA, a Sam Brad for good luck, like that's

1104
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:49,920
Speaker 1: what you're stuck with, or whoever gets drafted in the

1105
00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:54,240
Speaker 1: top five. Now there's more, there's more wiggle rooms. So

1106
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 1: I think that every team has to look at that

1107
00:57:57,320 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 1: every offseason. And when I was done in Saint Louis,

1108
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 1: I just sold out to win and I was basically

1109
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:06,000
Speaker 1: a good handicapper for two three years. Yeah, because you're

1110
00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:08,960
Speaker 1: like the perfect example. I mean, you go play with Brady,

1111
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 1: you win there, you go, and then you even go

1112
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:13,000
Speaker 1: to Philly and you win there. Not maybe under the

1113
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:15,760
Speaker 1: circumstances of a true franchise quarterback, since Nick had to

1114
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:18,280
Speaker 1: finish it off for you guys. But I mean, was

1115
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:21,200
Speaker 1: it imperative for you, Like I'm going somewhere where they

1116
00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 1: have a rock solid QB, where you know we got

1117
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 1: a chance to win something here because I'm running out

1118
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 1: of years, Yeah, for sure. I mean, like it's funny

1119
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 1: because I was a little older when I got in

1120
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 1: the league, so I was maybe twenty three, so my

1121
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:35,560
Speaker 1: eight years was like, okay, time's ticking. I'm thirty one.

1122
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 1: Now I've never hit the market. You know. They read

1123
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:39,760
Speaker 1: me up a year early in Saint Louis off the

1124
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 1: thirteen sack year, so I never had the time to

1125
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 1: like really consider other options. And for me, it came

1126
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:52,320
Speaker 1: down to Atlanta and New England, and those are the

1127
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:54,760
Speaker 1: two teams that play in the Super Bowl. So you know,

1128
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:58,840
Speaker 1: I went down to Atlanta. I met with Dan Quinn,

1129
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:00,960
Speaker 1: and I love Dan and Quinn. The only thing I

1130
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:04,560
Speaker 1: like about Atlanta was the damn facility is in Louisiana

1131
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 1: or I don't even know if Louisiana borders Georgia, but

1132
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 1: it doesn't. The thing is Lowry Branch low branches out. Yeah,

1133
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:15,440
Speaker 1: it's farther than Orchard Park. Yeah from Buffalo. Yeah, yeah,

1134
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:18,480
Speaker 1: Now there was that. And then like Dan when I

1135
00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:20,440
Speaker 1: was meeting with him, like you know, almost gotten the

1136
00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 1: end of the meeting, and he's like, you know, I

1137
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:25,480
Speaker 1: love your game, I love your versatility. I want you

1138
00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:28,280
Speaker 1: to be our Michael Bennett. And in my head all

1139
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:32,120
Speaker 1: I heard was like four eye three technique, four three technique,

1140
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:36,040
Speaker 1: rushing inside. And coincidentally I played more in the three

1141
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:38,480
Speaker 1: in New England than I ever bargained for. But I

1142
00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 1: just felt like the thing that pushed me over the

1143
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:43,240
Speaker 1: edge was Tom Brady and nothing, it's Matt Ryan, nothing

1144
00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 1: against Dan Quinn, but Bill and you know at that point,

1145
00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:51,520
Speaker 1: there's it's different in basketball if you bring Chase like

1146
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 1: it can be a little cheap, but in football it's

1147
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:55,600
Speaker 1: a crap shoot. Tell me he's gonna win the Super

1148
00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:57,280
Speaker 1: Bowl next year. You don't know. Even in the Patriots

1149
00:59:57,360 --> 01:00:00,440
Speaker 1: dynasty years, they went like a decade between Super Bowls,

1150
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:04,000
Speaker 1: and if it weren't for Malcolm Butler, it had been

1151
01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 1: even hunger, right, And that's one of the things here

1152
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:09,520
Speaker 1: in Buffalo where they get to the champion the AFC

1153
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 1: Championship and they run into the Chiefs and right after

1154
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: that game, and it's a little bit reactionary, no question.

1155
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:16,320
Speaker 1: Everybody kind of goes through this where if we would

1156
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:18,680
Speaker 1: have done this and this, or if we had this

1157
01:00:18,720 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 1: type of player in this spot, we would have gone

1158
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:23,600
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl this year. So they become obsessed

1159
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:27,920
Speaker 1: with molding their franchise to beat a single team like

1160
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:30,360
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, and like a lot of people talked about

1161
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:32,640
Speaker 1: beating the Patriots in those years and Tom Brady and

1162
01:00:32,720 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 1: all of that. But the real question for me, and

1163
01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:37,640
Speaker 1: I've said this on our show a ton, when you're

1164
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:40,320
Speaker 1: good enough to get to the championship game the last

1165
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:43,840
Speaker 1: four or five or six teams in it in each conference,

1166
01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:47,120
Speaker 1: if they play well on that game that weekend, they

1167
01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:49,520
Speaker 1: could go the distance. I mean they could go They're

1168
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:52,240
Speaker 1: good enough to play well to beat any of those teams.

1169
01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 1: And the Bills run into a Chiefs team that played

1170
01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:56,480
Speaker 1: extremely well, maybe their best game in the second half

1171
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:59,040
Speaker 1: of the season that game they played them, and they

1172
01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 1: couldn't beat them because the Chiefs played well. But it's

1173
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:04,800
Speaker 1: not something that you need to chase some magic elixir

1174
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:07,160
Speaker 1: to put you over the hump to get to the

1175
01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:09,439
Speaker 1: super Bowl. You need to make your team as good

1176
01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:12,560
Speaker 1: as it can be, and it should be enough if

1177
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:15,080
Speaker 1: you play well on that day. I think you put

1178
01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:17,440
Speaker 1: your blinders on and you retool your team the way

1179
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:19,600
Speaker 1: you think your team means to improve. You don't try

1180
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:23,120
Speaker 1: to contrive some Now I'm not GM, Okay, I like,

1181
01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:25,479
Speaker 1: but I'm just telling you I've been a player where

1182
01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:29,280
Speaker 1: and you know this is like after years they overthink themselves,

1183
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:33,840
Speaker 1: like coaches, you know, front office people, they overthink. And

1184
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:36,680
Speaker 1: you know, I've been on Super Bowl teams where you

1185
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:38,680
Speaker 1: come back the next year and like I felt like,

1186
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 1: you know, we did a little too much or we

1187
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:44,680
Speaker 1: tried to do too much to retool or reinvent the wheel,

1188
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:47,000
Speaker 1: when you really don't need to reinvent the wheel. You

1189
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:49,440
Speaker 1: need to add the pieces that can take you the

1190
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:52,120
Speaker 1: next level. Like what are your weaknesses? Like, Okay, for Buffalo,

1191
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:55,360
Speaker 1: you saw that everybody knows like you wish you had

1192
01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:58,880
Speaker 1: a double digit sack guy, like a dominant, dominant rusher.

1193
01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:02,640
Speaker 1: I loved r Hughes. Jerry Hughes one of my favorite players,

1194
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:06,480
Speaker 1: Like so underrated that you know pressures hits like disrupting

1195
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:10,160
Speaker 1: the game. If you added one more rusher, you know,

1196
01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:13,280
Speaker 1: and I like Mario Addison, but I think they probably

1197
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:16,560
Speaker 1: missed one dominant dude, whether it's you know, an inside

1198
01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:19,840
Speaker 1: guy to pair with your young draft pick Mahomes. If

1199
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:22,720
Speaker 1: you want to beat Mahomes and people thought this was cliche,

1200
01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:25,520
Speaker 1: you gotta be able to hit him. And of course

1201
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:27,240
Speaker 1: you're never gonna get the old line in that shape

1202
01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:30,880
Speaker 1: again as the Buccaneers got him. But there's a lot

1203
01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:33,000
Speaker 1: of things to your points, Steve, in that game. Now

1204
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:36,560
Speaker 1: they handily beat y'all, but there were different intersections in

1205
01:02:36,600 --> 01:02:39,000
Speaker 1: the first half where it went this way, we did this,

1206
01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:41,480
Speaker 1: We're at least in the game later, and that game

1207
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:46,320
Speaker 1: in the rain, it didn't seem as lopsided. So I

1208
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:48,640
Speaker 1: think there is like a degree of if you're indivision

1209
01:02:48,640 --> 01:02:50,400
Speaker 1: with somebody you're gonna playing twice a year, you make

1210
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:53,680
Speaker 1: moves to stop this guy, right, you know, like like

1211
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:57,680
Speaker 1: Arizona drafting the kid from Clemson. To me, that screamed, okay,

1212
01:02:57,680 --> 01:02:59,600
Speaker 1: we got we got somebody for George Kittle, And the

1213
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:03,280
Speaker 1: same thing with Jamal Adams going to Seattle, like you're

1214
01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:06,760
Speaker 1: trying to match strength for strength. But if you're worried

1215
01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:08,520
Speaker 1: about the chiefs man, just get as good as you

1216
01:03:08,560 --> 01:03:11,800
Speaker 1: can be right to your point. Yeah, uh, speaking of

1217
01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:15,600
Speaker 1: trying to add to your roster, your brother just recently

1218
01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:18,880
Speaker 1: tweeted that he's coming out of retirement. So, knowing how

1219
01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:21,520
Speaker 1: well you are at handicapping where to go in free

1220
01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:24,000
Speaker 1: agency to win a ring, I wonder if you might

1221
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:26,720
Speaker 1: be able to exact some undue influence on Kyle on

1222
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:30,240
Speaker 1: our behalf. Knowing that the Bills have five offensive linemen

1223
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:32,800
Speaker 1: whose contracts are up this offseason. I'm just saying, I'm

1224
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:41,000
Speaker 1: just throwing it out there. Well, it's funny because yeah,

1225
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,080
Speaker 1: I just we just broke that and it tickled me

1226
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 1: to death that Adam Scheffer had to quote tweet my

1227
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:51,880
Speaker 1: co host for sharing. So Kyle gave us the scoop,

1228
01:03:52,560 --> 01:03:54,760
Speaker 1: and I'm excited for him. I'm a little bit terrified

1229
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:57,160
Speaker 1: for him because you know, pro football is easy to

1230
01:03:57,560 --> 01:04:00,320
Speaker 1: it's not easy to just stop and then pick up.

1231
01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:04,120
Speaker 1: But he's a freak man. He'll be fine. Um like

1232
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:06,280
Speaker 1: Buffalo should be in the mix man for the for

1233
01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:08,360
Speaker 1: the factors you just mentioned. But I'm not his agent.

1234
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:10,240
Speaker 1: I don't you know. I'm not Kyle. I can't think

1235
01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:12,880
Speaker 1: for him. I can tell you though, like I've always

1236
01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:16,480
Speaker 1: my whole career thought y'all had a really cool thing

1237
01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:18,800
Speaker 1: going up there, and now you guys are good, Like

1238
01:04:19,080 --> 01:04:22,080
Speaker 1: who wouldn't want to play in Buffalo. It's just it's

1239
01:04:22,120 --> 01:04:24,920
Speaker 1: just something about it, the fans and the tradition and

1240
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:29,320
Speaker 1: the stadium. I love how small and intimate it is,

1241
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:31,440
Speaker 1: and you know, you walk in there, you feel like

1242
01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:34,360
Speaker 1: it's a college atmosphere. Like I was, I was jealous,

1243
01:04:34,400 --> 01:04:36,440
Speaker 1: like when I go up there and play. So he

1244
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:39,560
Speaker 1: should definitely consider Buffalo. And you guys do need offensive linemen.

1245
01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:40,800
Speaker 1: Right before I popped on and I was like, look

1246
01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:43,840
Speaker 1: what we just broke. Maybe they'll last thing about Kyle. Yeah,

1247
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:46,760
Speaker 1: that's well, yeah, we had to. And it's interesting because

1248
01:04:47,720 --> 01:04:50,560
Speaker 1: I've been I've been, we've been harping on this and

1249
01:04:50,560 --> 01:04:53,640
Speaker 1: and you know how, and it kills me when people

1250
01:04:53,640 --> 01:04:55,200
Speaker 1: in our end of it. Now, you know out here

1251
01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:57,560
Speaker 1: in the media talk about in the Bills, you know,

1252
01:04:57,600 --> 01:04:59,320
Speaker 1: they don't run it well, so guys just get a

1253
01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:02,800
Speaker 1: better running back. And they don't even look that they

1254
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:05,560
Speaker 1: have five or four offensive linemen that are free agents,

1255
01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:07,680
Speaker 1: and they got another one that's a restricted free agent.

1256
01:05:07,680 --> 01:05:09,600
Speaker 1: They're gonna have. They got three guys that were they're

1257
01:05:09,600 --> 01:05:13,200
Speaker 1: starting five that are aren't even under contract now, but

1258
01:05:13,240 --> 01:05:16,920
Speaker 1: they're saying they're talking about running backs. I'm it's nuts

1259
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:21,880
Speaker 1: to me. And in a year like this, with Kyle

1260
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:23,960
Speaker 1: coming back into the mike, there's no question there's going

1261
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:28,760
Speaker 1: to be a market for his services. And I've I've

1262
01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:32,280
Speaker 1: said both these. For the Bills to get back to

1263
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:33,919
Speaker 1: where they were, they've got to do it up front

1264
01:05:33,960 --> 01:05:37,440
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. You're absolutely right. I mean,

1265
01:05:37,480 --> 01:05:39,360
Speaker 1: like when you think about the Bills, you know, when

1266
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:41,160
Speaker 1: I was in the league, I thought about rushers, I

1267
01:05:41,160 --> 01:05:43,600
Speaker 1: thought about guys up front. I thought about road grading

1268
01:05:43,680 --> 01:05:47,439
Speaker 1: kind of offensive lineman, whether it was Richie or Eric

1269
01:05:47,520 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 1: Wood or even Glenn like some of his better years. Um,

1270
01:05:52,680 --> 01:05:55,280
Speaker 1: you know, that's an identity. It's cold weather football. It's

1271
01:05:55,320 --> 01:05:57,479
Speaker 1: like you got to build up front, man. And yeah,

1272
01:05:57,480 --> 01:06:00,439
Speaker 1: I think it's it's kind of like shortsighted just thinks

1273
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:03,880
Speaker 1: we'll fix it with a running back because as it's

1274
01:06:03,920 --> 01:06:06,720
Speaker 1: been driven home over and over again. Like and I'm

1275
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:10,640
Speaker 1: not knocking running backs, it's just like they're a little

1276
01:06:10,680 --> 01:06:13,919
Speaker 1: bit more interchangeable than offensive lines. In my opinion, and

1277
01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:16,560
Speaker 1: you know, look at it like an Aaron Jones, like

1278
01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:19,600
Speaker 1: buy or beware. He's a great player, He's probably gonna

1279
01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:22,480
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna make you happy no matter where he

1280
01:06:22,560 --> 01:06:24,400
Speaker 1: ends up. I haven't followed the news if there's any

1281
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:27,480
Speaker 1: lean on where he's going or whatever. But a guy

1282
01:06:27,560 --> 01:06:30,640
Speaker 1: like that, like, Okay, you play with Aaron Rodgers, Davante Adams,

1283
01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:33,560
Speaker 1: You've got a dynamic play caller. You have solid oh

1284
01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:36,200
Speaker 1: line until they had some injuries or whatever. But what

1285
01:06:36,360 --> 01:06:39,840
Speaker 1: does that project to somewhere else? And I think you're

1286
01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:43,400
Speaker 1: you're wiser to start with the offensive one. Talking with

1287
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:46,320
Speaker 1: former NFL defensive lineman Chris Long, also host of the

1288
01:06:46,360 --> 01:06:50,120
Speaker 1: green Light podcast, and we should also mention this a

1289
01:06:50,160 --> 01:06:52,280
Speaker 1: former Walter Peyton Man of the Year as well. And

1290
01:06:52,320 --> 01:06:56,160
Speaker 1: I know you're still active with your community endeavors, you know,

1291
01:06:56,160 --> 01:07:00,360
Speaker 1: whether it's your foundation, you know, serving for Bright Futures

1292
01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:04,920
Speaker 1: for communities, or your water Boys project in East Africa.

1293
01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:07,640
Speaker 1: How what is the status of those things, And maybe

1294
01:07:07,680 --> 01:07:11,600
Speaker 1: just speak to how your involvement may have morphed and

1295
01:07:11,720 --> 01:07:14,440
Speaker 1: changed now that you don't have to worry about getting

1296
01:07:14,480 --> 01:07:16,640
Speaker 1: to an NFL facility at seven in the morning and

1297
01:07:16,840 --> 01:07:18,680
Speaker 1: leaving at six at night, you know, six days a

1298
01:07:18,680 --> 01:07:21,880
Speaker 1: week for seven eight months. Well it's funny because I've

1299
01:07:21,880 --> 01:07:23,720
Speaker 1: said this, whether it was like the media or just

1300
01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:28,280
Speaker 1: like being okay with walking away from the game. If

1301
01:07:28,320 --> 01:07:30,080
Speaker 1: you'd told me there was gonna be a pandemic right

1302
01:07:30,200 --> 01:07:31,280
Speaker 1: as I got out of a league, I was like,

1303
01:07:31,320 --> 01:07:33,600
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have lasted like I just I wouldn't know

1304
01:07:33,720 --> 01:07:36,080
Speaker 1: what to do with myself. And so the same thing

1305
01:07:36,080 --> 01:07:39,800
Speaker 1: with the Foundation, Like it's hard when you leave the

1306
01:07:40,480 --> 01:07:42,520
Speaker 1: game because if you're smart as a player, you know,

1307
01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:45,560
Speaker 1: people don't really care, you know, like people know who

1308
01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:47,840
Speaker 1: you are, Like they like to give you a hug

1309
01:07:47,880 --> 01:07:49,800
Speaker 1: if they see at a bar, they want your autograph,

1310
01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:52,320
Speaker 1: but like people don't get behind your stuff the same way.

1311
01:07:52,400 --> 01:07:56,080
Speaker 1: Now we have some really core, you know, fanatical Chris

1312
01:07:56,080 --> 01:07:59,040
Speaker 1: Long Foundation water Boys supporters, they'll always be there. But

1313
01:07:59,160 --> 01:08:01,120
Speaker 1: going out and getting a new people is hard when

1314
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:03,280
Speaker 1: you don't have a jersey on anymore. So one of

1315
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:06,800
Speaker 1: the biggest things is we passed this off to you know,

1316
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:10,840
Speaker 1: an active captain. I'm still grinding, I'm still you know,

1317
01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:14,680
Speaker 1: the CEO behind the scenes, I'm still engaging with retired athletes.

1318
01:08:14,720 --> 01:08:16,960
Speaker 1: But when it comes to fundraising as an active player,

1319
01:08:17,360 --> 01:08:19,880
Speaker 1: we needed some people that could step up, and so

1320
01:08:19,920 --> 01:08:24,040
Speaker 1: I got Myles Garrett to go with us this past year.

1321
01:08:24,080 --> 01:08:26,880
Speaker 1: And obviously with everything that happened to him, this was

1322
01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:30,560
Speaker 1: in the word that he did and that happened to him,

1323
01:08:30,560 --> 01:08:33,840
Speaker 1: to be fair, it was one of those things where

1324
01:08:33,960 --> 01:08:36,160
Speaker 1: I saw it was already in the works, like we

1325
01:08:36,280 --> 01:08:38,240
Speaker 1: picked Myles Garrett and then the helmet thing happened, and

1326
01:08:38,240 --> 01:08:41,960
Speaker 1: I was like, oh no, Like, what are we gonna do? Well.

1327
01:08:42,040 --> 01:08:45,799
Speaker 1: I believe in people second chances, and I believe in people,

1328
01:08:46,479 --> 01:08:50,479
Speaker 1: you know, rebuilding themselves, and I believe Miles is a

1329
01:08:50,479 --> 01:08:54,000
Speaker 1: good kid. And it was never I didn't flinch, and

1330
01:08:54,040 --> 01:08:55,800
Speaker 1: we didn't flinch, and we thought, this is the guy

1331
01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:57,559
Speaker 1: we want leading us in the future. He's a he's

1332
01:08:57,600 --> 01:08:59,880
Speaker 1: a good kid. He had a terrible moment and he's

1333
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:01,479
Speaker 1: how to fix that and he's got to make amends

1334
01:09:01,479 --> 01:09:04,200
Speaker 1: for that. And I think this work allows him to

1335
01:09:04,240 --> 01:09:06,800
Speaker 1: help do that, and it helps us remain relevant. And

1336
01:09:06,800 --> 01:09:09,280
Speaker 1: we're gaining new players all the time. So we do

1337
01:09:09,360 --> 01:09:12,519
Speaker 1: large solar powered wells in East Africa. We're closing in

1338
01:09:12,600 --> 01:09:15,280
Speaker 1: on five hundred thousand people serviced we've done almost one

1339
01:09:15,360 --> 01:09:18,320
Speaker 1: hundred large, large wells. We also do domestic work, so

1340
01:09:18,360 --> 01:09:20,719
Speaker 1: we might have a project outside Buffalo at some point.

1341
01:09:21,040 --> 01:09:23,559
Speaker 1: A lot of people in the United States do not

1342
01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:26,000
Speaker 1: have access to clean water. And it's not just the flints.

1343
01:09:26,400 --> 01:09:29,559
Speaker 1: It's single family homes, as communities, a small rural towns.

1344
01:09:29,640 --> 01:09:32,200
Speaker 1: So some of my home, you know, some places near

1345
01:09:32,200 --> 01:09:35,639
Speaker 1: my hometown in Virginia, they don't have water. So we're

1346
01:09:35,640 --> 01:09:38,599
Speaker 1: trying to get in there at Navajo Nation. If you're

1347
01:09:38,600 --> 01:09:41,719
Speaker 1: an indigenous person in this country, you have seventeen times

1348
01:09:41,760 --> 01:09:44,360
Speaker 1: a chance of not having clean water as somebody like

1349
01:09:44,400 --> 01:09:46,479
Speaker 1: the dudes on this podcast to look like us. So

1350
01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:50,080
Speaker 1: there's all types of in the water space inequities and

1351
01:09:50,360 --> 01:09:52,519
Speaker 1: things we can address, and we can address him here

1352
01:09:52,720 --> 01:09:55,200
Speaker 1: and in place like East Africa. So waterboys dot org.

1353
01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:58,640
Speaker 1: We also launched water for her International Women's Day. We

1354
01:09:58,800 --> 01:10:01,360
Speaker 1: roll it out a bunch of great lunchers there because

1355
01:10:01,600 --> 01:10:03,840
Speaker 1: it is a women's issue. All the burden falls on

1356
01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:07,040
Speaker 1: women and girls gathering unclean and clean water. And I

1357
01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:09,080
Speaker 1: know that you've been a huge part of this, So

1358
01:10:09,160 --> 01:10:12,240
Speaker 1: you know you've been recognized by by the NFL Forward

1359
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:14,280
Speaker 1: and I want to speak to you, because I say

1360
01:10:14,320 --> 01:10:17,519
Speaker 1: this once in a while on our show and mostly

1361
01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:21,320
Speaker 1: in passing that the NFL, and you know, certainly you

1362
01:10:21,400 --> 01:10:24,120
Speaker 1: hear about guys who struggle or can't handle the fame

1363
01:10:24,160 --> 01:10:27,479
Speaker 1: and fortune and who or who aren't great guys. But

1364
01:10:27,560 --> 01:10:29,280
Speaker 1: it's been my experience, and you played on a lot

1365
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:31,800
Speaker 1: more teams that I played on two different teams, and

1366
01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:34,439
Speaker 1: I know that you played on more than that and

1367
01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:37,280
Speaker 1: played for a long time as well. The league is

1368
01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:40,599
Speaker 1: really populated by pretty quality people from top to bottom,

1369
01:10:40,720 --> 01:10:44,479
Speaker 1: and I think that gets lost in the headlines and

1370
01:10:44,520 --> 01:10:46,920
Speaker 1: the and the social media and the outrage that you

1371
01:10:46,920 --> 01:10:48,880
Speaker 1: hear about this that and the other some slide or

1372
01:10:48,880 --> 01:10:54,439
Speaker 1: the disrespect or players show boat whatever. Yeah, I'm I'm

1373
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:56,559
Speaker 1: a big proponent of what the NFL is and what

1374
01:10:56,600 --> 01:10:59,439
Speaker 1: it stands for and the guys who populate it at

1375
01:10:59,479 --> 01:11:03,840
Speaker 1: every level. And certainly it has its issues, but they

1376
01:11:03,880 --> 01:11:07,240
Speaker 1: embraced those issues more openly than I think any other

1377
01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:10,240
Speaker 1: entity in the US. I agree. I agree. I mean,

1378
01:11:10,360 --> 01:11:13,680
Speaker 1: like you know, like the shield, the league, like you know,

1379
01:11:13,760 --> 01:11:16,200
Speaker 1: front offices, owners, like I can't speak to all that

1380
01:11:16,280 --> 01:11:18,160
Speaker 1: all the time, like, but I can tell you about

1381
01:11:18,280 --> 01:11:21,559
Speaker 1: the men that I played with and you know, I

1382
01:11:21,600 --> 01:11:25,040
Speaker 1: know you feel the same way. Steve is like to

1383
01:11:25,200 --> 01:11:28,640
Speaker 1: ascend to that level. I don't think people understand that

1384
01:11:28,680 --> 01:11:30,840
Speaker 1: you can't just be talented. There are some guys who

1385
01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:35,360
Speaker 1: are just talented, but the the the intellectual acumen it

1386
01:11:35,400 --> 01:11:42,439
Speaker 1: takes to master a playbook, the regimented kind of routine,

1387
01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:45,680
Speaker 1: from dieting to fitness, to exercise to taking care of

1388
01:11:45,680 --> 01:11:48,360
Speaker 1: your body to I mean, it is a three hundred

1389
01:11:48,400 --> 01:11:52,360
Speaker 1: and sixty five day year job. And there are some

1390
01:11:52,439 --> 01:11:55,720
Speaker 1: really responsible, great men in our league. And it came

1391
01:11:55,720 --> 01:11:58,880
Speaker 1: down to, like the other day, I was like, I

1392
01:11:58,920 --> 01:12:02,400
Speaker 1: was picking members for my foundation and we're in the

1393
01:12:02,439 --> 01:12:04,840
Speaker 1: process of that right now, right now, and I said,

1394
01:12:05,760 --> 01:12:10,240
Speaker 1: there's one guy that I would trust with my children,

1395
01:12:10,280 --> 01:12:12,479
Speaker 1: that I know outside my family if I had to

1396
01:12:12,560 --> 01:12:14,240
Speaker 1: leave for a week. It's a guy like Matthew Slayter.

1397
01:12:14,320 --> 01:12:16,600
Speaker 1: Well that's a lie, because there's probably five guys I

1398
01:12:16,640 --> 01:12:19,280
Speaker 1: played with like that, but I had to have Matthew

1399
01:12:19,320 --> 01:12:22,000
Speaker 1: Slayter on my board. And like, there are so many

1400
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:24,559
Speaker 1: guys like Matthew Slayter who people in Buffalo probably don't

1401
01:12:24,600 --> 01:12:28,360
Speaker 1: like it as much, but like guys like that who

1402
01:12:28,439 --> 01:12:31,160
Speaker 1: don't make the news because they're never bad news guys

1403
01:12:31,680 --> 01:12:35,280
Speaker 1: and bad news seals, and so I think, like, you know,

1404
01:12:35,439 --> 01:12:37,960
Speaker 1: the countless guys that you're referring to that I played

1405
01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:41,400
Speaker 1: with never get the same shine. And I got lucky

1406
01:12:41,479 --> 01:12:43,000
Speaker 1: Walter Payton Man of the Year and all that stuff.

1407
01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:44,920
Speaker 1: Like I almost felt guilty getting that a war because

1408
01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:46,360
Speaker 1: I know there's better guys than me in the league.

1409
01:12:46,400 --> 01:12:48,920
Speaker 1: I'm an okay guy. We've been very productive off the field,

1410
01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:53,519
Speaker 1: I'll just say that. And so there are just so

1411
01:12:53,560 --> 01:12:56,240
Speaker 1: many quality people in the NFL. But to your point,

1412
01:12:56,439 --> 01:12:58,960
Speaker 1: it doesn't make the news when people do good things,

1413
01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:02,519
Speaker 1: and that sucks, and I hate that, but it's the reality,

1414
01:13:02,520 --> 01:13:04,200
Speaker 1: and we take it on the chin all the time.

1415
01:13:04,479 --> 01:13:07,160
Speaker 1: We do like we're all bad people. If you look

1416
01:13:07,160 --> 01:13:09,360
Speaker 1: at a lot of the statistics for rates that we

1417
01:13:09,400 --> 01:13:11,200
Speaker 1: get in trouble and that sort of thing, they don't

1418
01:13:11,240 --> 01:13:14,280
Speaker 1: reflect the general population. And in fact, all the bad

1419
01:13:14,320 --> 01:13:16,400
Speaker 1: news about what's going to happen to you after football

1420
01:13:16,479 --> 01:13:19,880
Speaker 1: is all it's people feed on that, you know, And

1421
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:23,920
Speaker 1: it's to the point where when you retire, if I

1422
01:13:24,080 --> 01:13:25,960
Speaker 1: read what's supposed to happen to me, as a former

1423
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:27,800
Speaker 1: football player who played eleven years in the league in

1424
01:13:27,840 --> 01:13:30,240
Speaker 1: the trenches, I'm gonna lose my mind and I'm gonna

1425
01:13:30,240 --> 01:13:34,000
Speaker 1: be a terrible degenerate, you know, member of society and

1426
01:13:34,040 --> 01:13:36,760
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. There's guys like my dad, there's

1427
01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:41,879
Speaker 1: guys like you that are leading positive, awesome lives after football,

1428
01:13:41,920 --> 01:13:44,120
Speaker 1: and so I think, like from the quality of the

1429
01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:46,880
Speaker 1: men that we played with too, you know, what's the

1430
01:13:46,920 --> 01:13:51,559
Speaker 1: next chapter, Like, we need to recalibrate that conversation because

1431
01:13:52,040 --> 01:13:53,680
Speaker 1: there's a lot of really awesome dudes that played in

1432
01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:56,920
Speaker 1: our league who are set for life after financially but

1433
01:13:56,960 --> 01:13:59,920
Speaker 1: also as people. Last one for me, Chris, and we're

1434
01:13:59,880 --> 01:14:01,680
Speaker 1: going to end this on a much lighter note. But

1435
01:14:01,920 --> 01:14:04,360
Speaker 1: it's been a great conversation because I've got to get

1436
01:14:04,360 --> 01:14:07,120
Speaker 1: the answer to this. So you were just talking about

1437
01:14:07,120 --> 01:14:10,519
Speaker 1: shine and everything, and I can't help but think of

1438
01:14:10,560 --> 01:14:14,280
Speaker 1: all the shine that the Manning family gets in the NFL,

1439
01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:18,799
Speaker 1: and the shine for the Long family is woefully behind

1440
01:14:19,000 --> 01:14:21,559
Speaker 1: in terms of that. So I'm always curious, and I

1441
01:14:21,600 --> 01:14:23,519
Speaker 1: know you're not. I know you're not a self glosser

1442
01:14:23,560 --> 01:14:27,000
Speaker 1: at all, but do you stop and think sometimes when

1443
01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:29,640
Speaker 1: you see all the shine that three quarterbacks get in

1444
01:14:29,680 --> 01:14:32,960
Speaker 1: comparison to a couple of defensive lineman and an offensive

1445
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:36,280
Speaker 1: lineman in the long family. Well, it's hard because you know,

1446
01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:40,920
Speaker 1: it's like there's also the boss, the boss reality there.

1447
01:14:41,280 --> 01:14:44,400
Speaker 1: The second generation is better than our second generation if

1448
01:14:44,439 --> 01:14:50,519
Speaker 1: they play this out like you know, the accolades, and

1449
01:14:50,600 --> 01:14:54,880
Speaker 1: there's nobody in my opinion, down four three end that's

1450
01:14:54,920 --> 01:14:57,080
Speaker 1: as dominant as Joey Bosa in the game right now

1451
01:14:57,120 --> 01:14:59,559
Speaker 1: in my opinion like that, I enjoy watching down in

1452
01:14:59,600 --> 01:15:02,160
Speaker 1: and down out. I think they should be in the

1453
01:15:02,200 --> 01:15:06,920
Speaker 1: conversation the Kelsey's you've got two all pros. The Mannings

1454
01:15:06,920 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 1: are quarterbacks. Quarterbacks always get the credit like me and

1455
01:15:10,080 --> 01:15:12,200
Speaker 1: my brother, Like, you know, I was a real good player.

1456
01:15:12,240 --> 01:15:14,320
Speaker 1: My brother's a real good player. Dad's a Hall of Famer.

1457
01:15:14,360 --> 01:15:17,879
Speaker 1: But you know we'd have to be riding Dad's coattails

1458
01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:20,360
Speaker 1: pretty hard. He's got the cold jacket, right. I think

1459
01:15:20,400 --> 01:15:22,800
Speaker 1: the Mannings owned that title, and their quarterbacks they can

1460
01:15:22,840 --> 01:15:26,240
Speaker 1: have it all right, fair enough, Yeah, Chris, really good conversation.

1461
01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:28,400
Speaker 1: We appreciate the time, Good luck with the green Light

1462
01:15:28,479 --> 01:15:31,599
Speaker 1: podcast and all the good stuff you're doing out community wise.

1463
01:15:31,600 --> 01:15:33,760
Speaker 1: We'll keep an eye out for some of those endeavors,

1464
01:15:34,920 --> 01:15:38,960
Speaker 1: especially that the reservation stuff with the Native American community.

1465
01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:42,280
Speaker 1: We got a lot of Native American population up here

1466
01:15:42,360 --> 01:15:46,040
Speaker 1: in western New York, so that is a startling statistic.

1467
01:15:46,120 --> 01:15:49,000
Speaker 1: Just about the clean drinking water. It's I mean that

1468
01:15:49,080 --> 01:15:52,080
Speaker 1: you enlighten me today. Blow your mind, yeah, they'll blow

1469
01:15:52,120 --> 01:15:54,320
Speaker 1: your mind. But it was great talking to you guys.

1470
01:15:54,320 --> 01:15:56,519
Speaker 1: And I love watching the Bills. Man, that's one of

1471
01:15:56,600 --> 01:15:58,600
Speaker 1: my side teams. I put it that way. It's I

1472
01:15:58,640 --> 01:16:00,920
Speaker 1: watched the Bills and I'm like a closet Bills fan.

1473
01:16:01,200 --> 01:16:03,439
Speaker 1: All right, fair enough, thanks for the time again, I

1474
01:16:03,520 --> 01:16:06,519
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thank you for this long former NFL defensive end,

1475
01:16:06,880 --> 01:16:10,599
Speaker 1: former Walter Peyton Man of the Year. That guy's just

1476
01:16:10,680 --> 01:16:14,479
Speaker 1: got his priorities in order in every way, so good

1477
01:16:14,479 --> 01:16:16,160
Speaker 1: to talk to him. We have to take a break,

1478
01:16:16,160 --> 01:16:17,960
Speaker 1: but when Steve and I come back, we'll get your

1479
01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:20,559
Speaker 1: thoughts on the tweet sheet. As we are asking you

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Speaker 1: on the Twitter poll today, what lessons can the Bills

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Speaker 1: take from the dak Prescott negotiations and how they all

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01:16:28,080 --> 01:16:31,000
Speaker 1: unfolded over the span of two years before resulting in

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Speaker 1: that four year deal that got completed overnight. We're back

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Speaker 1: with those comments next, as well as your phone calls

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Speaker 1: open line for you at eight O three five fifty

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Speaker 1: when we return here on One Bills Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalida Health Buffalo Bills Radio, Welcome back to One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. Second half of the

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Speaker 1: show underway. Good conversation station there with Chris Long. Uh,

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Speaker 1: who's you know staying busy Steve? But man, we ran

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01:17:06,960 --> 01:17:08,400
Speaker 1: out of time. I had some other stuff I wanted

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01:17:08,400 --> 01:17:09,840
Speaker 1: to ask him. Wanted to ask him if his dad

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01:17:09,840 --> 01:17:11,760
Speaker 1: ever talked to him about how out of breath he

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01:17:11,880 --> 01:17:16,160
Speaker 1: was in that AFC Championship came up here, because then

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01:17:16,240 --> 01:17:18,280
Speaker 1: you say, like, you guys knew you had him in

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Speaker 1: the first quarter when you saw all those defensive linemen

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01:17:20,560 --> 01:17:23,559
Speaker 1: already with hands on hips and huffing and puffing, begging

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Speaker 1: for a sub and they couldn't do it at that yet.

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Speaker 1: At that time, um, there was a lot of talk

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Speaker 1: about us weren't going so fast at that point of

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01:17:32,600 --> 01:17:35,479
Speaker 1: that season, right, and and they everybody's got a plan, right,

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01:17:35,520 --> 01:17:39,080
Speaker 1: and they and the Raiders, you know, the media was

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01:17:39,160 --> 01:17:41,439
Speaker 1: questioning the Raiders guys and coaches about, hey, how are

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01:17:41,439 --> 01:17:43,800
Speaker 1: you gonna handle what's gonna happen? What are you gonna do?

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01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:46,479
Speaker 1: How's it gonna go? What? You know? Are you gonna

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01:17:46,479 --> 01:17:47,680
Speaker 1: be able to you know, because we had to get

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01:17:47,680 --> 01:17:50,760
Speaker 1: teams taking time outs like that, and they said, no, no,

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01:17:50,880 --> 01:17:53,920
Speaker 1: Once you know, we get lined up and we'll be fine.

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01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:56,040
Speaker 1: You know, we were ready for it. We got a plan.

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01:17:56,200 --> 01:17:58,000
Speaker 1: We you know, we're gonna be all right. And then

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01:17:58,240 --> 01:18:02,280
Speaker 1: you know, first dry offensive drive the game they got

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01:18:02,320 --> 01:18:07,280
Speaker 1: there sitting there, you know, calling time out. You know

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01:18:07,320 --> 01:18:08,680
Speaker 1: it was and it was you know if I mean

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Speaker 1: the first drive and third I remember, you forget a.

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Speaker 1: Thurman's in the Hall of Fame, right, so he showed

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Speaker 1: it in that game. You want to talk about coming

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Speaker 1: out and getting your team off to a fast start,

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01:18:21,360 --> 01:18:26,080
Speaker 1: Thurman did it for us offensively, I am was unbelievable.

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01:18:26,280 --> 01:18:28,960
Speaker 1: And then then the Raiders felt like they had to

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Speaker 1: do a little something special offensively to catch up and

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Speaker 1: start throwing interceptions, and it is you know, yeah, that

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01:18:36,640 --> 01:18:41,480
Speaker 1: game got out of hand quick. Yeah, I'm I'm assuming

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Speaker 1: that how he doesn't reference that game all that often

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01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:47,519
Speaker 1: with his boys, But it's just I was gonna just

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Speaker 1: poke some fun in his dad a little bit. Um.

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Speaker 1: We ran out of time there, so save it for

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Speaker 1: next time if we ever get Chris on again. We

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Speaker 1: are talking about the lessons that the Bills, and for

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01:18:59,000 --> 01:19:00,639
Speaker 1: that matter, any other team, and it's got to sign

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Speaker 1: a quarterback to a second contract that'll be up for

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01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:05,759
Speaker 1: the Browns in the not too distant future as well.

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Speaker 1: What lessons can the Bills take from the Dak Prescott

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01:19:09,240 --> 01:19:12,080
Speaker 1: contract negotiations that I think we can all agree dragged

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01:19:12,080 --> 01:19:14,360
Speaker 1: on far longer than anybody wanted to see it, both

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Speaker 1: parties involved as well, So what can be taken from that?

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Speaker 1: And we're asking for your comments on the tweet sheet

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01:19:20,320 --> 01:19:22,479
Speaker 1: also at eight oh three oh five fifty open line

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01:19:22,479 --> 01:19:23,920
Speaker 1: for you if you want to chime in on that

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01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:26,719
Speaker 1: and how it pertains to a Josh Allen contract extension,

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01:19:27,040 --> 01:19:29,040
Speaker 1: feel free to do so there or toll free one

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. And we lead

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Speaker 1: off with Jack on the tweet sheet, which is brought

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01:19:35,280 --> 01:19:38,439
Speaker 1: to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving

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01:19:38,479 --> 01:19:40,960
Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills, and Jack says the lesson

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01:19:41,160 --> 01:19:44,200
Speaker 1: is the Bills better load up the brink struck because

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01:19:44,200 --> 01:19:46,519
Speaker 1: if DAK is getting that kind of pay day, Alan

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01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:49,720
Speaker 1: who's younger and has more playoff success is going to

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01:19:49,760 --> 01:19:53,120
Speaker 1: command the moon all caps. I just hope we can

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01:19:53,120 --> 01:19:55,479
Speaker 1: structure his deal in a similar way that Casey did

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01:19:55,520 --> 01:19:59,240
Speaker 1: with Mahomes to push some of his big dollars down

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01:19:59,280 --> 01:20:04,360
Speaker 1: the road. And that really is the question here, Steve Right.

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01:20:04,680 --> 01:20:09,559
Speaker 1: What path do they take. Do they go long, long

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01:20:09,760 --> 01:20:12,680
Speaker 1: term but throw a boatload of money at him with

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01:20:13,080 --> 01:20:15,599
Speaker 1: a bunch of guarantees to get him locked up so

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Speaker 1: they don't have to revisit it really ever again. Or

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01:20:19,640 --> 01:20:24,719
Speaker 1: do they anticipate the Allen camp coming to them and saying, well,

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Speaker 1: we'd like a deal much like the Dak Prescott deal

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01:20:26,720 --> 01:20:29,200
Speaker 1: that would be great with us knowing that by the

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Speaker 1: time he gets out of it, he's only gonna be

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Speaker 1: twenty eight. I think you start, you start the negotiations.

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Speaker 1: You know, both teams can, both sides can be honest,

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Speaker 1: and they can say what's really important to us and

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01:20:40,400 --> 01:20:42,840
Speaker 1: what's really important to you? And how's that gonna mesh

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Speaker 1: And if if you know, Josh comes out and says,

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01:20:48,360 --> 01:20:50,280
Speaker 1: we all we all know that Josh is never gonna

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01:20:50,320 --> 01:20:52,160
Speaker 1: have to, you know, worry about where his next rent

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01:20:52,240 --> 01:20:57,000
Speaker 1: checks coming from. But the question is what's he wanted

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01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:02,479
Speaker 1: to look like, and is he gonna is it what's

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01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:05,840
Speaker 1: important to Josh? Is it the guaranteed money? Is it

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Speaker 1: the length of the deal? Is it average per year?

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Speaker 1: Is it what he gets right up front? Is it?

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Speaker 1: You know? Is it important it's a four year deal

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Speaker 1: or a ten year You know, Josh may want now,

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Speaker 1: I want you to give me a ten year deal.

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01:21:20,120 --> 01:21:21,920
Speaker 1: You know, I want them a homes deal kind of.

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01:21:22,120 --> 01:21:25,400
Speaker 1: I want a big, huge number, and I want a

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Speaker 1: lot of it guaranteed and all of that stuff. And

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Speaker 1: I'll give you as much help as you want. If

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01:21:29,800 --> 01:21:31,679
Speaker 1: you're going to guarantee me a ton, you can push

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Speaker 1: it off until year six, but I'm gonna get the money.

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Speaker 1: So all of that stuff gets put out on the

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Speaker 1: table and then they start to work lower and lower

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01:21:41,680 --> 01:21:44,439
Speaker 1: down the list about where they can help each other

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Speaker 1: on lesser important things to the contract. But you know, Josh,

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Speaker 1: you's got to sit down with him, with his family

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Speaker 1: and with his agent and decide what's really important to

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Speaker 1: him about the deal. And certainly every deal is different.

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Speaker 1: The Deshaun Watson's deal is very different from the Dak

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Speaker 1: Prescott deal, is very different from the Pat Mahomes deal,

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Speaker 1: and it's very different from the Carson Wentz deal. All

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Speaker 1: of it's different. And then two, I'll be very interested

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Speaker 1: to see what Baker Mayfield does. Yeah, you know, it's

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01:22:19,800 --> 01:22:22,439
Speaker 1: not so much about Sam Darnold anymore, but it is

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01:22:22,479 --> 01:22:27,880
Speaker 1: about Baker Mayfield. You know, what are those teams, what

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01:22:27,880 --> 01:22:30,719
Speaker 1: are those contracts gonna look like, and who's gonna go first? Yeah,

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01:22:30,720 --> 01:22:33,240
Speaker 1: because what is different. I don't think there's any question

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Speaker 1: about this. I mean, it doesn't seem like a big difference,

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Speaker 1: but you know, these guys are, you know, two and

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Speaker 1: three years younger than Prescott. There's a longer window in

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Speaker 1: which for them to play in the league, arguably barring

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01:22:49,600 --> 01:22:53,280
Speaker 1: major injury, of course, And so I don't know that

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01:22:53,360 --> 01:22:56,080
Speaker 1: would it would have any impact on how the negotiations

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01:22:56,080 --> 01:23:00,320
Speaker 1: would go, but it is a factor. And what do

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01:23:00,400 --> 01:23:03,240
Speaker 1: we know about Josh to this point. We know that

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01:23:03,840 --> 01:23:06,519
Speaker 1: he has stated that he wants to play his entire

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01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:13,200
Speaker 1: career here. I think that's that's documented, that's known. But

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01:23:13,320 --> 01:23:17,320
Speaker 1: obviously money can sometimes have a way of compromising some

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01:23:17,400 --> 01:23:21,679
Speaker 1: of those things in terms of making things sticky. Now again,

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01:23:21,800 --> 01:23:25,960
Speaker 1: I will restate Josh and this front office and this

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01:23:26,040 --> 01:23:30,639
Speaker 1: coaching staff have an exemplary relationship, So it's not really

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01:23:30,680 --> 01:23:35,599
Speaker 1: a concern of mine. But Dak Prescott's a good soldier too,

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01:23:36,520 --> 01:23:39,439
Speaker 1: and always has been so, and we saw how that went.

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01:23:39,600 --> 01:23:43,519
Speaker 1: So I think they've just got a As long as

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01:23:43,520 --> 01:23:49,320
Speaker 1: they all stay proactive and can agree to some measure

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01:23:49,320 --> 01:23:55,040
Speaker 1: of compromise, there's no reason that the Bill's quarterback negotiation

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01:23:55,160 --> 01:23:57,920
Speaker 1: or any other team that's coming up anytime soon should

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01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:00,000
Speaker 1: drag on the way the Dallas one did. And that's

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Speaker 1: probably the biggest thing to take away from it, don't

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Speaker 1: you think. Yeah, I'll say this, Um, you know, when

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01:24:05,520 --> 01:24:09,240
Speaker 1: you start talking about numbers like this, you start talking about,

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01:24:09,800 --> 01:24:13,040
Speaker 1: you know, the franchise's core philosophy and I and this,

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01:24:13,280 --> 01:24:18,480
Speaker 1: I don't think this franchise um under Kim and Terry Pogoula.

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01:24:18,760 --> 01:24:20,920
Speaker 1: I mean, they don't balk at that stuff. I mean

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01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:24,000
Speaker 1: they wrote they wrote a big check just for a

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01:24:24,040 --> 01:24:27,559
Speaker 1: weight room, right, you know, so you kind of knowing

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01:24:27,720 --> 01:24:30,920
Speaker 1: that the and plus the numbers are there for for

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01:24:31,120 --> 01:24:32,880
Speaker 1: the Bills, I mean for the NFL. I mean the

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01:24:33,240 --> 01:24:35,439
Speaker 1: numbers for an NFL team are always you know in

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01:24:35,479 --> 01:24:40,040
Speaker 1: the black, right. Uh, So you gotta think if if

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01:24:40,040 --> 01:24:42,439
Speaker 1: the accounting works, they'll they'll jump as high as they

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01:24:42,479 --> 01:24:44,479
Speaker 1: need to. But I think, you know, at this point

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01:24:44,800 --> 01:24:46,639
Speaker 1: now they're not doing it. They may be doing it today.

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01:24:46,680 --> 01:24:51,479
Speaker 1: I don't know, But it just comes down to, you know,

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01:24:51,560 --> 01:24:55,320
Speaker 1: the numbers and the number. If the numbers work, I

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01:24:55,320 --> 01:24:57,680
Speaker 1: don't think anybody's gonna have a problem paying it. But

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Speaker 1: what that number is remains to be seen. I I

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01:25:00,080 --> 01:25:03,200
Speaker 1: think it's I don't know. I just think it's done.

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna get done. I don't think there's

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01:25:05,080 --> 01:25:09,519
Speaker 1: any way. Yeah, no, it's a franchise. Let's that guy right,

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01:25:09,600 --> 01:25:11,519
Speaker 1: And I'll say this, it went a little further than

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01:25:11,560 --> 01:25:15,000
Speaker 1: I thought it would with Dallas and dak given Jerry Jones, Ah,

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01:25:15,120 --> 01:25:18,040
Speaker 1: maybe not. You think about it. Emmett Smith held out

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01:25:18,040 --> 01:25:22,800
Speaker 1: after winning a Super Bowl. You know, it hasn't always

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01:25:22,840 --> 01:25:27,639
Speaker 1: gone smooth and rosie for Jerry, and he has said that, hey,

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01:25:27,960 --> 01:25:30,160
Speaker 1: he goes, I always pay for overpay for stuff that

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01:25:30,160 --> 01:25:34,160
Speaker 1: I really want, and he has. Yeah. I don't know

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01:25:34,479 --> 01:25:38,639
Speaker 1: how contentious it would ever get between Josh and the club.

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01:25:39,400 --> 01:25:43,680
Speaker 1: I doubt that it would. Yeah, the most I could

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01:25:43,720 --> 01:25:45,719
Speaker 1: see it doing is say they couldn't get it done

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01:25:45,760 --> 01:25:48,840
Speaker 1: just yet, They're gonna franchise him for a year before

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01:25:48,880 --> 01:25:53,240
Speaker 1: they signed the deal. Yeah, but you know, then people,

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01:25:53,360 --> 01:25:54,800
Speaker 1: you know, you start to get a little tense about

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01:25:54,840 --> 01:25:56,519
Speaker 1: whether it's gonna get done like they did with Dak

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01:25:56,600 --> 01:25:59,200
Speaker 1: last year. You know. So I don't I can't see

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01:25:59,200 --> 01:26:01,840
Speaker 1: it getting to that point. But then again, we're sitting

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01:26:01,880 --> 01:26:04,880
Speaker 1: in a rose garden here now after the fifteen win season,

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01:26:04,920 --> 01:26:07,320
Speaker 1: they just hung up, right, all right, we have to

1658
01:26:07,360 --> 01:26:08,840
Speaker 1: take a break, but more of your thoughts on the

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01:26:08,880 --> 01:26:10,920
Speaker 1: tweet sheet and your phone calls at eight oh three

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Speaker 1: five fifty one eighty eight, five fifty two, five fifty

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01:26:14,600 --> 01:26:16,919
Speaker 1: What lessons can the Bills take from the Dak Prescott

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01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:20,040
Speaker 1: contract negotiations now when they got a quarterback that's going

1663
01:26:20,120 --> 01:26:22,720
Speaker 1: to be due a lot of money in the very

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01:26:22,720 --> 01:26:25,759
Speaker 1: near future. Your phone calls and more of your comments

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01:26:25,760 --> 01:26:27,840
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet next here on One Bills Live

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Speaker 1: presented by Collid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome

1667
01:26:43,040 --> 01:26:45,720
Speaker 1: back to one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Chasker with you.

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Speaker 1: Earlier on in the show, we had Bills running back

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01:26:48,760 --> 01:26:52,320
Speaker 1: Antonio Williams, who as we know, played his college ball

1670
01:26:52,320 --> 01:26:55,360
Speaker 1: at North Carolina. I asked him for a scouting report Steve,

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01:26:55,400 --> 01:26:58,400
Speaker 1: if you remember on two of his fellow and former

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01:26:58,439 --> 01:27:01,200
Speaker 1: teammates at North Carolina who are in this year's draft class,

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01:27:01,240 --> 01:27:06,360
Speaker 1: Michael Carter, one running back, and Javonte Williams. Javonte Williams

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01:27:06,400 --> 01:27:08,519
Speaker 1: is getting an awful lot of love in the pre

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01:27:08,680 --> 01:27:10,599
Speaker 1: draft process, Steve, and I'm going to give you an

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01:27:10,640 --> 01:27:14,479
Speaker 1: idea as to how much. Daniel Jeremiah, you know, who

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01:27:14,479 --> 01:27:17,320
Speaker 1: works for NFL Network, also does the Chargers games out

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01:27:17,320 --> 01:27:20,000
Speaker 1: west on the radio and has been on our show

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01:27:20,360 --> 01:27:24,680
Speaker 1: apparently in a radio interview today, said he's ready to

1680
01:27:24,800 --> 01:27:29,040
Speaker 1: put Javonte Williams ahead of Naji Harris in terms of

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01:27:29,120 --> 01:27:34,040
Speaker 1: running back prospects. So just a little inkling as to

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01:27:34,120 --> 01:27:38,599
Speaker 1: where the pre draft buzz is going on Javonte Williams, Well,

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01:27:38,600 --> 01:27:40,439
Speaker 1: what that you know, what that comes down to is

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01:27:40,479 --> 01:27:43,840
Speaker 1: just the absolute measurable. Somebody probably did they have a

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01:27:43,880 --> 01:27:47,240
Speaker 1: pro day or something at North Carolina. Yeah, I gotta

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01:27:47,280 --> 01:27:51,000
Speaker 1: check the calendar. I'm not sure. Yeah, that's what it does.

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Speaker 1: That's what does it, Brownie. You know that the guy

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01:27:53,320 --> 01:27:56,000
Speaker 1: comes out and he bench presses two twenty five, you know,

1689
01:27:56,040 --> 01:27:58,760
Speaker 1: a thousand times. You know, he jumps, has a nine

1690
01:27:58,800 --> 01:28:02,280
Speaker 1: foot vertical jump, But you know what I mean, all

1691
01:28:02,280 --> 01:28:04,559
Speaker 1: of that stuff and he runs a four flat forty

1692
01:28:04,640 --> 01:28:06,320
Speaker 1: yard debt. You know, he just knocks it out of

1693
01:28:06,360 --> 01:28:08,679
Speaker 1: the park physically, and everybody says, oh, there's the guy,

1694
01:28:09,200 --> 01:28:14,840
Speaker 1: because I keep saying it. The draft is about physical characteristics.

1695
01:28:15,880 --> 01:28:18,000
Speaker 1: All the other stuff that they find out about will

1696
01:28:18,080 --> 01:28:20,880
Speaker 1: raise and lower your draft status, but nothing gets you

1697
01:28:20,920 --> 01:28:24,840
Speaker 1: to the top of the board like being big, strong, fast,

1698
01:28:24,920 --> 01:28:28,760
Speaker 1: and athletic. That's it. Yeah, and I totally get it.

1699
01:28:29,080 --> 01:28:31,719
Speaker 1: And you know, we've had long conversations on this show

1700
01:28:31,760 --> 01:28:34,240
Speaker 1: about elite traits and quarterbacks and how we don't see

1701
01:28:34,280 --> 01:28:37,800
Speaker 1: that in Tua tonga Iloa. And it'd be interesting to

1702
01:28:37,840 --> 01:28:41,400
Speaker 1: see where the Dolphins go with him, although the latest

1703
01:28:41,439 --> 01:28:43,920
Speaker 1: reports out of South Florida are they are committed to

1704
01:28:43,960 --> 01:28:48,160
Speaker 1: Tuah and unless a sweetheart of a deal comes their

1705
01:28:48,200 --> 01:28:51,040
Speaker 1: way with respect to Deshaun Watson, they're probably hitching their

1706
01:28:51,040 --> 01:28:55,879
Speaker 1: wagon to him going forward. Here. It just still amazes

1707
01:28:55,920 --> 01:28:57,559
Speaker 1: me that he was the fifth pick in the draft

1708
01:28:58,120 --> 01:29:02,599
Speaker 1: and was picked ahead of Justin Herbert. And you want

1709
01:29:02,640 --> 01:29:05,479
Speaker 1: to and I gotta I gotta think there's some buyer's

1710
01:29:05,560 --> 01:29:08,960
Speaker 1: remorse there. Well, you think, And here's the thing, you

1711
01:29:09,080 --> 01:29:12,040
Speaker 1: just talked about somebody lightening it up on their pro day.

1712
01:29:12,439 --> 01:29:15,400
Speaker 1: I remember Justin Herbert at his pro day at Oregon.

1713
01:29:16,360 --> 01:29:21,960
Speaker 1: He stood flat footed in a square stance, you know,

1714
01:29:22,680 --> 01:29:25,360
Speaker 1: belly button facing the other upright at the other end

1715
01:29:25,400 --> 01:29:29,519
Speaker 1: of the field, stood flat footed, cocked his arm back,

1716
01:29:29,560 --> 01:29:34,200
Speaker 1: and threw the ball sixty yards, didn't stride, didn't step,

1717
01:29:34,320 --> 01:29:38,400
Speaker 1: didn't wind up, just through its sixty yards. I'm good

1718
01:29:40,320 --> 01:29:48,000
Speaker 1: elite physical traits. It's crazy, Uh, I don't know how. Yeah,

1719
01:29:48,040 --> 01:29:51,920
Speaker 1: that's why they do those things. I get it. Everybody

1720
01:29:51,960 --> 01:29:59,320
Speaker 1: loves too and he's a tremendous guy. But you you're

1721
01:29:59,360 --> 01:30:03,879
Speaker 1: talking about a sport that commands that demands of physical

1722
01:30:05,080 --> 01:30:10,400
Speaker 1: to physical traits, and if you don't measure those, they're

1723
01:30:10,400 --> 01:30:13,400
Speaker 1: not gonna come from any place. I mean, you don't,

1724
01:30:13,520 --> 01:30:19,640
Speaker 1: You're not gonna they're not gonna emerge. Um that you know,

1725
01:30:20,000 --> 01:30:23,040
Speaker 1: there's just a ton of examples of it. Yeah. Now,

1726
01:30:23,120 --> 01:30:26,160
Speaker 1: certainly there's other guys who click all the physical boxes

1727
01:30:26,160 --> 01:30:29,160
Speaker 1: and turn into train wrecks like Ryan Leaf and all

1728
01:30:29,320 --> 01:30:32,200
Speaker 1: Tony Mandrich and you know, you know other guys although

1729
01:30:32,240 --> 01:30:34,760
Speaker 1: they you know, they just couldn't play or didn't live

1730
01:30:34,840 --> 01:30:39,000
Speaker 1: up to it. But man, oh man, that's that's where

1731
01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:43,680
Speaker 1: you start. That's why a guy like Davant Javonte Williams

1732
01:30:43,760 --> 01:30:48,360
Speaker 1: is jumping up ahead of Naja Harris because somebody saw

1733
01:30:48,439 --> 01:30:53,200
Speaker 1: him do something that was impressive. Right. Yeah, I'm trying

1734
01:30:53,200 --> 01:30:56,840
Speaker 1: to madly scan to find the North Carolina Pro Day.

1735
01:30:56,880 --> 01:31:00,360
Speaker 1: I'm on the list of pro days here, and it

1736
01:31:00,439 --> 01:31:03,160
Speaker 1: may it may have happened already, because I'm going, I'm

1737
01:31:03,160 --> 01:31:04,920
Speaker 1: scrolling down the list and I haven't. Oh here. It

1738
01:31:05,000 --> 01:31:08,759
Speaker 1: is March twenty ninth, so it has not happened yet, Steve,

1739
01:31:09,280 --> 01:31:14,120
Speaker 1: And yet the buzz is alive. And well, somebody's watching film,

1740
01:31:14,200 --> 01:31:16,400
Speaker 1: that's all. You know. They just got down to that.

1741
01:31:16,640 --> 01:31:19,120
Speaker 1: They got down to a certain game in North Carolina

1742
01:31:19,240 --> 01:31:21,640
Speaker 1: and they thought, wow, look at that, look at that guy.

1743
01:31:22,200 --> 01:31:25,760
Speaker 1: It's true. That's how that happened. Somebody does something makes

1744
01:31:25,760 --> 01:31:27,439
Speaker 1: you sit up on the You get it all the

1745
01:31:27,479 --> 01:31:30,000
Speaker 1: time on social media, and I know not everybody's on

1746
01:31:30,000 --> 01:31:32,360
Speaker 1: Twitter and they don't spend time, you know, we you know,

1747
01:31:32,360 --> 01:31:34,759
Speaker 1: I don't know. I must follow a couple hundred people

1748
01:31:36,080 --> 01:31:39,880
Speaker 1: and most of them are NFL related, right yeah, And

1749
01:31:40,400 --> 01:31:44,479
Speaker 1: every so often you get one of those tweets from

1750
01:31:44,600 --> 01:31:53,560
Speaker 1: some guy who says, hey, look at this, and I go, okay,

1751
01:31:53,840 --> 01:31:59,599
Speaker 1: show me, show me twenty of those. Right, No, one

1752
01:31:59,720 --> 01:32:03,000
Speaker 1: is fine. Yeah, one is fine. Doing it against dental

1753
01:32:03,080 --> 01:32:05,320
Speaker 1: I always say this, He's doing it against dental students,

1754
01:32:05,360 --> 01:32:07,839
Speaker 1: that's fine. I want to see him doing it against

1755
01:32:08,600 --> 01:32:13,360
Speaker 1: you knows White, right. I want to see him doing

1756
01:32:13,400 --> 01:32:17,280
Speaker 1: it against Patrick Patrick Peters, Right. I mean I want

1757
01:32:17,280 --> 01:32:19,800
Speaker 1: to see him doing it against Aaron Donald. You know.

1758
01:32:19,800 --> 01:32:21,240
Speaker 1: I don't want to see him doing it against a

1759
01:32:21,280 --> 01:32:23,760
Speaker 1: guy who's going to be working for GE next year.

1760
01:32:26,920 --> 01:32:29,519
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we'll have to mark that on our calendar,

1761
01:32:29,560 --> 01:32:32,240
Speaker 1: the North Carolina Pro Day. Not that neither of us

1762
01:32:32,280 --> 01:32:35,439
Speaker 1: are really interested. Yeah, I say, gee, because I got

1763
01:32:35,479 --> 01:32:38,280
Speaker 1: a kid working for GE. Well there you go. Um, yeah,

1764
01:32:38,320 --> 01:32:40,439
Speaker 1: but yeah, I'll we'll have to keep an eye on

1765
01:32:40,479 --> 01:32:42,400
Speaker 1: that pro day. Not that neither of us really want

1766
01:32:42,400 --> 01:32:44,200
Speaker 1: the Bills to be selecting a running back in the

1767
01:32:44,240 --> 01:32:47,400
Speaker 1: first two rounds. We're all about the lines and building

1768
01:32:47,439 --> 01:32:50,400
Speaker 1: those back up. But yeah, that's where that's at. And

1769
01:32:50,479 --> 01:32:54,200
Speaker 1: he's got another now. His teammate, Michael Carter is more

1770
01:32:54,200 --> 01:32:58,439
Speaker 1: of that jitterbug guy. Um, although you heard Antonio say

1771
01:32:58,560 --> 01:33:03,040
Speaker 1: packs a punch too. Sometimes is underrated. But we're getting

1772
01:33:03,040 --> 01:33:05,840
Speaker 1: to that season now and there's more transactions going on

1773
01:33:05,880 --> 01:33:09,400
Speaker 1: around the league too. Adam Schefter was reporting that Alan Robinson,

1774
01:33:09,439 --> 01:33:12,160
Speaker 1: the wide receiver in Chicago, has now been tagged. That

1775
01:33:12,320 --> 01:33:15,559
Speaker 1: was widely anticipated, although I can guarantee you that Alan

1776
01:33:15,640 --> 01:33:20,360
Speaker 1: Robinson is probably disappointed because he was indicating he wanted

1777
01:33:20,400 --> 01:33:22,639
Speaker 1: out of Chicago, and I guess you can understand why

1778
01:33:22,760 --> 01:33:25,599
Speaker 1: when there's no answer at the quarterback position, at least

1779
01:33:25,600 --> 01:33:30,879
Speaker 1: for the long term. And then another player release, Adrian

1780
01:33:30,960 --> 01:33:35,040
Speaker 1: Claiborne released by the Cleveland Browns. And this is going

1781
01:33:35,080 --> 01:33:38,679
Speaker 1: to continue, Steve right up until the seventeenth as teams

1782
01:33:38,680 --> 01:33:41,760
Speaker 1: scramble to shed salary off of their roster so they

1783
01:33:41,800 --> 01:33:44,800
Speaker 1: have the financial flexibility to improve the roster where they

1784
01:33:44,800 --> 01:33:49,360
Speaker 1: feel it needs improvements. Yeah, and this is I mean,

1785
01:33:49,479 --> 01:33:54,000
Speaker 1: you got I'm looking at yesterday's transaction list and and

1786
01:33:54,040 --> 01:33:59,280
Speaker 1: it's you know says, I mean, it's it's like twenty

1787
01:33:59,360 --> 01:34:03,280
Speaker 1: moves and you've heard of all the guys usually oh yeah,

1788
01:34:03,320 --> 01:34:06,920
Speaker 1: big names. That's not the the ah uh, it's just starting.

1789
01:34:06,920 --> 01:34:09,719
Speaker 1: I mean this, this transaction list is going to grow

1790
01:34:09,840 --> 01:34:12,720
Speaker 1: exponentially over the next week or so until we get

1791
01:34:12,760 --> 01:34:17,880
Speaker 1: to you know Wednesday. Uh, the tampering period starts Monday, right,

1792
01:34:19,640 --> 01:34:23,240
Speaker 1: that is uh, yes, that is correct. Three day it's Monday,

1793
01:34:23,320 --> 01:34:27,640
Speaker 1: Tuesdays tampering period Wednesday two days and then seventeenth is

1794
01:34:27,680 --> 01:34:30,640
Speaker 1: the start of the league here, right, and that's now

1795
01:34:30,640 --> 01:34:34,920
Speaker 1: it's midnight on seventeenth. I'll have to double check up,

1796
01:34:34,960 --> 01:34:38,320
Speaker 1: but that sounds right to me. Might be it's midnight,

1797
01:34:38,439 --> 01:34:43,840
Speaker 1: four midnight. I'm pretty sure it's midnight. But yeah, so yeah,

1798
01:34:43,880 --> 01:34:46,240
Speaker 1: it's it's crazy and that we're gonna have all kinds

1799
01:34:46,280 --> 01:34:47,880
Speaker 1: of stuff. It's gonna be hard to keep on top

1800
01:34:47,920 --> 01:34:51,360
Speaker 1: of it, um quite honestly, even for us sitting here

1801
01:34:51,400 --> 01:34:53,920
Speaker 1: just hovering over it all the time, Steve. When we're

1802
01:34:53,920 --> 01:34:58,400
Speaker 1: sitting here on Thursday next week or sorry, Wednesday next week,

1803
01:35:00,160 --> 01:35:02,080
Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's gonna be like we're doing a

1804
01:35:02,120 --> 01:35:06,000
Speaker 1: telephone right, Like I don't know what our actually right,

1805
01:35:06,200 --> 01:35:07,760
Speaker 1: I don't know what our guys can do. But we're

1806
01:35:07,800 --> 01:35:10,920
Speaker 1: gonna have to put like a board up. Uh you know, oh,

1807
01:35:10,960 --> 01:35:13,000
Speaker 1: let's check the board. Where are we now on the

1808
01:35:13,160 --> 01:35:17,600
Speaker 1: You know it's true, You're exactly right, and come in

1809
01:35:17,640 --> 01:35:19,320
Speaker 1: from the west coast. We're gonna hit in and what

1810
01:35:19,680 --> 01:35:23,960
Speaker 1: what's the toad board? Say, that's what it is. That's

1811
01:35:24,000 --> 01:35:26,880
Speaker 1: gonna be fun though. I enjoy that stuff though, so

1812
01:35:26,920 --> 01:35:29,760
Speaker 1: it'll be good. It's it's nice, it's fast moving and

1813
01:35:29,760 --> 01:35:31,240
Speaker 1: you gotta have you know, it's funny too. It's all

1814
01:35:31,240 --> 01:35:33,160
Speaker 1: about you know which websites you've got open so you

1815
01:35:33,160 --> 01:35:35,720
Speaker 1: can kind of keep abreast of everything that's going on. Well, yeah,

1816
01:35:35,760 --> 01:35:43,320
Speaker 1: you know the trades, re read, structures, cuts, Oh my gosh. Yeah,

1817
01:35:43,400 --> 01:35:45,800
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun. We'll be, as you like to say,

1818
01:35:46,120 --> 01:35:49,000
Speaker 1: neck deep in it. But we've yeah, we've got to

1819
01:35:49,000 --> 01:35:51,160
Speaker 1: take a break here. But when Steve and I come

1820
01:35:51,200 --> 01:35:53,800
Speaker 1: back for our number three of the program, we want

1821
01:35:53,840 --> 01:35:57,200
Speaker 1: your participation. Open phone lines for you for the next segment,

1822
01:35:57,479 --> 01:36:00,639
Speaker 1: as we are asking you what lessons and be taken

1823
01:36:01,160 --> 01:36:05,599
Speaker 1: by the bills from the DAK Prescott contract negotiations. Knowing

1824
01:36:05,680 --> 01:36:07,679
Speaker 1: they've got a quarterback, they're going to have to sign

1825
01:36:07,760 --> 01:36:10,840
Speaker 1: to a long term deal sooner rather than later, we'll

1826
01:36:10,840 --> 01:36:12,639
Speaker 1: take your phone calls at eight oh three oh five

1827
01:36:12,760 --> 01:36:15,720
Speaker 1: fifty one, eight eighty five fifty two five fifty got

1828
01:36:15,720 --> 01:36:18,040
Speaker 1: open lines for you there. Steve and I back in

1829
01:36:18,040 --> 01:36:20,519
Speaker 1: a moment here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalada Health.

1830
01:36:20,600 --> 01:36:35,240
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio, Balo Bills Radio Network Sports. You're

1831
01:36:35,240 --> 01:36:38,040
Speaker 1: a Sports Update from One Bill's Drive. Ian rappid Port

1832
01:36:38,080 --> 01:36:40,840
Speaker 1: of NFL Media reporting the Bill Center Mitch Morris has

1833
01:36:40,880 --> 01:36:44,040
Speaker 1: restructured his contract to help the Bills with some cap

1834
01:36:44,080 --> 01:36:46,559
Speaker 1: relief for the twenty twenty one season. Morse will cut

1835
01:36:46,560 --> 01:36:48,920
Speaker 1: his salary by nearly two million as part of the deal,

1836
01:36:49,400 --> 01:36:52,880
Speaker 1: but can earn some of it back through incentives. Under

1837
01:36:52,920 --> 01:36:55,240
Speaker 1: the original terms of the contract, Morse was set to

1838
01:36:55,240 --> 01:36:57,559
Speaker 1: make seven million in salary and have a cap hit

1839
01:36:57,600 --> 01:37:01,000
Speaker 1: of just over ten million. Franchise tag deadline Day in

1840
01:37:01,040 --> 01:37:04,439
Speaker 1: the NFL, and some tags are trickling out across the league.

1841
01:37:04,439 --> 01:37:07,479
Speaker 1: The latest players to receive the tag Bears wide receiver

1842
01:37:07,560 --> 01:37:12,479
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson and Jaguar's offensive lineman Cam Robinson. Among the

1843
01:37:12,520 --> 01:37:15,439
Speaker 1: others tag to this point, Giants defensive lineman Leonard Williams,

1844
01:37:15,520 --> 01:37:18,679
Speaker 1: Jets safety Marcus May, Tampa Bay wide receiver Chris Godwin,

1845
01:37:18,760 --> 01:37:23,400
Speaker 1: Washington guard Brandon Churf, and Carolina offensive tackle Taylor Moten.

1846
01:37:23,960 --> 01:37:27,680
Speaker 1: Denver's Justin Williams, their safety, also got the tag a

1847
01:37:27,760 --> 01:37:31,320
Speaker 1: while back. Deadline to tag players is four pm today.

1848
01:37:31,680 --> 01:37:34,320
Speaker 1: A year ago, Jack Prescott and the Cowboys couldn't reach

1849
01:37:34,360 --> 01:37:37,360
Speaker 1: a deal on a contract extension, so the quarterback played

1850
01:37:37,439 --> 01:37:40,680
Speaker 1: under the franchise tag for the second time in twenty twenty.

1851
01:37:40,680 --> 01:37:43,479
Speaker 1: This year, as the tag deadline loom, the two sides

1852
01:37:43,520 --> 01:37:46,000
Speaker 1: finally struck a deal. Prescott gets a four year, one

1853
01:37:46,080 --> 01:37:49,920
Speaker 1: hundred sixty million dollar contract, also gets a no trade clause,

1854
01:37:50,040 --> 01:37:52,400
Speaker 1: a no tag clause, and one hundred and twenty six

1855
01:37:52,479 --> 01:37:57,000
Speaker 1: million is guaranteed, including sixty six million in assigning bonus.

1856
01:37:57,240 --> 01:38:00,800
Speaker 1: Around the AFC's two teams making deals, Trent Brown, the

1857
01:38:00,800 --> 01:38:04,360
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl offensive tackle, being traded from the Raiders back

1858
01:38:04,400 --> 01:38:07,320
Speaker 1: to the Patriots. The deal includes Brown agreeing to rework

1859
01:38:07,360 --> 01:38:10,000
Speaker 1: a contract he'll play on a one year, eleven million

1860
01:38:10,000 --> 01:38:12,560
Speaker 1: dollar deal in his second stint with New England or

1861
01:38:12,760 --> 01:38:16,920
Speaker 1: before hitting free agency. In twenty twenty two. Dolphins and

1862
01:38:16,960 --> 01:38:20,960
Speaker 1: Titans also made a trade. Tennessee agreed to send offensive

1863
01:38:21,000 --> 01:38:23,840
Speaker 1: lineman Isaiah Wilson, their first round pick from last year,

1864
01:38:23,920 --> 01:38:26,679
Speaker 1: to Miami. The Titans will send a seventh round pick

1865
01:38:27,040 --> 01:38:29,719
Speaker 1: next year and Wilson to Miami for a twenty twenty

1866
01:38:29,720 --> 01:38:33,360
Speaker 1: one seventh rounder to complete the deal. Finally to the

1867
01:38:33,400 --> 01:38:36,080
Speaker 1: Ice Buffalo, looking to end it's seven game slide with

1868
01:38:36,120 --> 01:38:38,519
Speaker 1: a victory over the Flyers tonight in Philadelphia, but they'll

1869
01:38:38,560 --> 01:38:41,799
Speaker 1: be doing it without forward Jack Eichel, the team captain,

1870
01:38:41,840 --> 01:38:43,880
Speaker 1: will not play tonight due to an upper body injury.

1871
01:38:43,920 --> 01:38:47,439
Speaker 1: Tonight's face off is set for seven pm. That is

1872
01:38:47,439 --> 01:38:49,920
Speaker 1: your sports update from One Bill's Drive Chris Brown Steve

1873
01:38:49,960 --> 01:38:52,400
Speaker 1: Tasker with you for hour number three of the program

1874
01:38:52,439 --> 01:38:55,639
Speaker 1: here on a Tuesday, and Steve, I decided to take

1875
01:38:55,640 --> 01:38:59,600
Speaker 1: the time to look up how much time on the

1876
01:38:59,600 --> 01:39:02,160
Speaker 1: field Isaiah Wilson had with the Titans. As you know,

1877
01:39:02,200 --> 01:39:06,160
Speaker 1: their first round pick last year, was slated to be

1878
01:39:06,320 --> 01:39:09,320
Speaker 1: their right tackle for the foreseeable future, with Taylor Luan

1879
01:39:09,400 --> 01:39:12,599
Speaker 1: on the other side. And I looked it up. I

1880
01:39:12,640 --> 01:39:15,160
Speaker 1: was stunned. It was even less time on the field

1881
01:39:15,160 --> 01:39:19,280
Speaker 1: than I anticipated. He appeared in one game for the Titans,

1882
01:39:19,600 --> 01:39:23,759
Speaker 1: played three snaps on offense and one snap on special teams.

1883
01:39:24,439 --> 01:39:29,160
Speaker 1: That is his career in a Titans uniform. That's horrible.

1884
01:39:31,240 --> 01:39:34,920
Speaker 1: That's hard to do. I mean, isn't that harder? I mean,

1885
01:39:35,479 --> 01:39:38,040
Speaker 1: think about this, Steve, because you know you and I

1886
01:39:38,080 --> 01:39:40,559
Speaker 1: have both been around long enough to remember this. Mike

1887
01:39:40,640 --> 01:39:43,160
Speaker 1: Williams was the fourth pick in the draft for the Bills,

1888
01:39:43,439 --> 01:39:46,040
Speaker 1: the offensive tackle that was supposed to anchor their new

1889
01:39:46,040 --> 01:39:50,439
Speaker 1: offensive line, and as we all know, his career did

1890
01:39:50,520 --> 01:39:53,519
Speaker 1: not go well here. He vastly underachieved. But he was

1891
01:39:53,560 --> 01:39:56,120
Speaker 1: still on this roster for like four or five years

1892
01:39:56,520 --> 01:39:58,640
Speaker 1: and was in and out of you know, largely a

1893
01:39:58,760 --> 01:40:01,400
Speaker 1: starter and out of the lineup. They even tried him

1894
01:40:01,439 --> 01:40:04,160
Speaker 1: at guard for a time before he finally became a

1895
01:40:04,200 --> 01:40:07,360
Speaker 1: cast off. After about four years in a Bill's uniform.

1896
01:40:07,520 --> 01:40:11,920
Speaker 1: This guy lasts one season, appears in one game, plays

1897
01:40:11,920 --> 01:40:14,920
Speaker 1: a total of four snaps, and is now out the door.

1898
01:40:18,200 --> 01:40:23,000
Speaker 1: It's hard to do. You got a really stink yeah,

1899
01:40:23,000 --> 01:40:25,240
Speaker 1: and not just stick on the field. Yeah. It's like

1900
01:40:25,360 --> 01:40:30,400
Speaker 1: every aspect of your personality and persona has to be

1901
01:40:30,560 --> 01:40:33,960
Speaker 1: subpar to go along with all the elite athletic traits

1902
01:40:33,960 --> 01:40:35,920
Speaker 1: that you show. Well, that's just what we were talking about.

1903
01:40:36,479 --> 01:40:38,080
Speaker 1: That's how you get to be a number one draft

1904
01:40:38,120 --> 01:40:41,000
Speaker 1: because all those elite traits that he ticked off. Physically,

1905
01:40:42,120 --> 01:40:45,160
Speaker 1: he didn't want to play, He didn't want to play

1906
01:40:45,280 --> 01:40:47,840
Speaker 1: or work hard. Yeah, and I know I know that

1907
01:40:47,960 --> 01:40:51,479
Speaker 1: Miami got him for a song in this trade. But who,

1908
01:40:52,280 --> 01:40:54,400
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a project I want to undertake,

1909
01:40:54,560 --> 01:40:57,839
Speaker 1: you know, especially in a year where you're really expected

1910
01:40:57,880 --> 01:40:59,920
Speaker 1: to take another step. I mean, they were a ten

1911
01:41:00,160 --> 01:41:03,920
Speaker 1: win team last year, top five defense in terms of

1912
01:41:03,920 --> 01:41:09,080
Speaker 1: points against. And I understand you're trying to fortify that

1913
01:41:09,160 --> 01:41:12,920
Speaker 1: offensive line as best you can to protect a quarterback

1914
01:41:12,960 --> 01:41:15,479
Speaker 1: who is not big in stature and you don't want

1915
01:41:15,520 --> 01:41:20,840
Speaker 1: getting hit. But man, I don't know if I'm dealing

1916
01:41:20,840 --> 01:41:27,080
Speaker 1: with this dude. Yeah, here's the problem. You get the guy, Okay,

1917
01:41:27,080 --> 01:41:29,960
Speaker 1: he starts to play. He plays good in the preseason

1918
01:41:30,120 --> 01:41:31,720
Speaker 1: or whatever, and he's starting. He gives you a little

1919
01:41:31,760 --> 01:41:33,280
Speaker 1: bit of an effort and think, okay, we're gonna give

1920
01:41:33,320 --> 01:41:35,080
Speaker 1: the guy a shot at him. You never know when

1921
01:41:35,080 --> 01:41:38,720
Speaker 1: that guy's gonna shut it off, you know, because he's

1922
01:41:38,760 --> 01:41:41,880
Speaker 1: obviously he's never turned it on for Tennessee. I mean,

1923
01:41:41,880 --> 01:41:44,320
Speaker 1: he never turned the fawcet on right, right, So you

1924
01:41:44,360 --> 01:41:47,240
Speaker 1: never know when the guy's gonna whatever's gonna send him

1925
01:41:47,240 --> 01:41:49,559
Speaker 1: into the tank and he's gonna become a slug again.

1926
01:41:49,640 --> 01:41:53,080
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy wasn't motivated in his rookie year,

1927
01:41:53,280 --> 01:41:57,000
Speaker 1: where you are so eager to prove yourself that you

1928
01:41:57,120 --> 01:42:00,200
Speaker 1: belong on the team, and on a good team, a

1929
01:42:00,280 --> 01:42:03,040
Speaker 1: perennial playoff team, a team that went to the AFC

1930
01:42:03,200 --> 01:42:08,240
Speaker 1: title game. And now he's got to try to do

1931
01:42:08,320 --> 01:42:10,679
Speaker 1: it all over again in a new place. You're gonna

1932
01:42:10,680 --> 01:42:13,320
Speaker 1: tell me he's gonna be more motivated down there. I

1933
01:42:13,680 --> 01:42:16,800
Speaker 1: just don't see it. I don't see it. And all

1934
01:42:16,800 --> 01:42:21,040
Speaker 1: the distractions there are in Miami, holy crow. Yeah, I

1935
01:42:21,080 --> 01:42:23,680
Speaker 1: mean they gave him away for nothing. Well, that just

1936
01:42:23,680 --> 01:42:25,679
Speaker 1: shows you how badly they wanted him off the roster.

1937
01:42:25,920 --> 01:42:29,160
Speaker 1: And here's another thing too, Steve, by making this trade,

1938
01:42:30,080 --> 01:42:34,519
Speaker 1: the Dolphins inherit his rookie contract. It's not like this

1939
01:42:34,600 --> 01:42:36,800
Speaker 1: guy's on a one year deal and it's like performer,

1940
01:42:36,840 --> 01:42:40,559
Speaker 1: you're out, you know. I mean, yes, they can release him,

1941
01:42:40,560 --> 01:42:45,360
Speaker 1: no big deal. But still it's just like wow, yeah,

1942
01:42:45,479 --> 01:42:50,479
Speaker 1: it's yeah, how do you do it? I don't know

1943
01:42:50,479 --> 01:42:52,439
Speaker 1: how guys like that slip through the cracks, you know,

1944
01:42:52,520 --> 01:42:54,519
Speaker 1: I don't know how you don't find out that that

1945
01:42:54,560 --> 01:42:57,599
Speaker 1: guy's gonna turn it off when he gets his first

1946
01:42:57,640 --> 01:43:01,960
Speaker 1: big check, you know. Yeah, um, just he just never

1947
01:43:02,000 --> 01:43:04,200
Speaker 1: shows up. And and and we saw it here. I

1948
01:43:04,200 --> 01:43:06,679
Speaker 1: mean you we've seen it with different players throughout the ages.

1949
01:43:06,720 --> 01:43:09,839
Speaker 1: When when it used to be we could watch practice, Brownie,

1950
01:43:09,880 --> 01:43:12,080
Speaker 1: you'd go out there and you'd see Mike Williams out there,

1951
01:43:12,439 --> 01:43:16,920
Speaker 1: and you'd see Aaron Maybin out there, and you'd see

1952
01:43:16,960 --> 01:43:20,040
Speaker 1: guys who were like you think, and you give them

1953
01:43:20,040 --> 01:43:21,720
Speaker 1: every benefit of the doubt as long as you can.

1954
01:43:21,800 --> 01:43:25,360
Speaker 1: You think. You know, that's that's not normal, right. You're

1955
01:43:25,400 --> 01:43:27,840
Speaker 1: looking at the guy and he's doing why why is

1956
01:43:27,880 --> 01:43:30,479
Speaker 1: he doing that? He's not right. I think that's not

1957
01:43:30,520 --> 01:43:32,280
Speaker 1: what I would be doing if I was in his spot.

1958
01:43:32,400 --> 01:43:34,639
Speaker 1: That's not how I would act. I can't forget about

1959
01:43:34,680 --> 01:43:36,960
Speaker 1: what he did and how he played. That's beside the point.

1960
01:43:37,200 --> 01:43:40,880
Speaker 1: It's everything else. How you present yourself, how you show

1961
01:43:40,960 --> 01:43:43,479
Speaker 1: up to practice, you know. And I don't have no

1962
01:43:43,560 --> 01:43:46,880
Speaker 1: idea what he was like in meetings, but you know,

1963
01:43:46,920 --> 01:43:49,519
Speaker 1: you get guys that you know, they come out and

1964
01:43:49,520 --> 01:43:56,360
Speaker 1: they're standing around and they're not engaged. It's unbelievable lack

1965
01:43:56,400 --> 01:43:59,439
Speaker 1: of professionalism, and they'll just playing a hard work that

1966
01:43:59,479 --> 01:44:01,720
Speaker 1: they want to do. Right. I still remember going up

1967
01:44:02,840 --> 01:44:07,040
Speaker 1: going out to practice every day, and I mean, I

1968
01:44:07,080 --> 01:44:11,000
Speaker 1: can't even count how many times Mike Williams had a

1969
01:44:11,000 --> 01:44:14,200
Speaker 1: little something and couldn't practice. Like I was going out

1970
01:44:14,240 --> 01:44:16,960
Speaker 1: there like, oh, he's not practicing again, Okay, let's just

1971
01:44:17,040 --> 01:44:19,280
Speaker 1: mark the mark the X next to his name there, Okay,

1972
01:44:19,360 --> 01:44:22,840
Speaker 1: moving on next day, not praying okay, thank you here,

1973
01:44:22,800 --> 01:44:24,600
Speaker 1: we're going whatever, you know, And then we got to

1974
01:44:24,640 --> 01:44:27,960
Speaker 1: go to the coach, you know, whether it was Greg

1975
01:44:28,000 --> 01:44:30,280
Speaker 1: Williams or Mike Mularkey and be like, well, what's what's

1976
01:44:30,280 --> 01:44:34,920
Speaker 1: going on with him? And it got I think it

1977
01:44:35,000 --> 01:44:38,080
Speaker 1: got just as tiring for the coaches trying to explain

1978
01:44:38,120 --> 01:44:39,880
Speaker 1: what the hecks going on with that guy as it

1979
01:44:39,920 --> 01:44:43,200
Speaker 1: was for us to mark him is not participating. Yeah,

1980
01:44:43,240 --> 01:44:46,599
Speaker 1: he's got he's got a cavity in his left chest, right,

1981
01:44:46,640 --> 01:44:50,960
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, you know that's exactly you know, he's

1982
01:44:51,080 --> 01:44:53,560
Speaker 1: he's got to he's he's got a hurt attitude. I

1983
01:44:53,600 --> 01:44:58,240
Speaker 1: don't know what, and there's nothing the guy can do

1984
01:44:58,280 --> 01:45:00,479
Speaker 1: because here's the here's the problem. You get a GM

1985
01:45:00,600 --> 01:45:02,320
Speaker 1: GM doesn't want to lead give up on the guy.

1986
01:45:02,400 --> 01:45:04,280
Speaker 1: He starts looking to coaches like why can't you get

1987
01:45:04,280 --> 01:45:06,160
Speaker 1: anything out of this guy? And I was like, well

1988
01:45:06,200 --> 01:45:09,640
Speaker 1: wait a minute away. You know, it's like there's just

1989
01:45:09,680 --> 01:45:13,280
Speaker 1: no way around it is and it's an absolute atrocity

1990
01:45:13,320 --> 01:45:16,160
Speaker 1: trying to get the guy to play, and it becomes

1991
01:45:16,200 --> 01:45:19,800
Speaker 1: a drag on everybody around you. Yeah, and it's having

1992
01:45:19,840 --> 01:45:23,960
Speaker 1: seen those things here firsthand that leads me to believe

1993
01:45:24,400 --> 01:45:27,320
Speaker 1: that Miami might be in for a lift that they

1994
01:45:27,360 --> 01:45:31,720
Speaker 1: just can't They can't pull off with a with a

1995
01:45:31,800 --> 01:45:35,439
Speaker 1: back hoe, you know, with a fork lift. This is

1996
01:45:35,439 --> 01:45:40,960
Speaker 1: gonna you know, in some ways, Brownie taking a lift

1997
01:45:41,040 --> 01:45:44,439
Speaker 1: like like this guy isa Wilson, Isaiah Wilson goes to Miami.

1998
01:45:44,560 --> 01:45:48,200
Speaker 1: It's easier to turn Isaiah Wilson into a player than

1999
01:45:48,240 --> 01:45:52,200
Speaker 1: it is to find a player in the seventh round. Fair.

2000
01:45:52,560 --> 01:45:54,800
Speaker 1: That's fair, you know what I mean, That's fair. That's

2001
01:45:54,800 --> 01:45:59,320
Speaker 1: the that's their thinking. And quite frankly, I would imagine

2002
01:45:59,360 --> 01:46:02,600
Speaker 1: that the role that they're gonna give him is going

2003
01:46:02,680 --> 01:46:05,839
Speaker 1: to be pretty short. Like Brian Flores does not mess around.

2004
01:46:05,840 --> 01:46:10,800
Speaker 1: I mean, if he's not yeah, if he's not convinced

2005
01:46:10,920 --> 01:46:13,679
Speaker 1: that this guy is going to turn it around, he'll

2006
01:46:13,680 --> 01:46:16,000
Speaker 1: be out on the street like a weekend to training camp.

2007
01:46:16,880 --> 01:46:21,280
Speaker 1: I mean he doesn't maybe maybe before maybe before maybe before,

2008
01:46:21,760 --> 01:46:24,400
Speaker 1: Which will be the real interesting part here, Steve, Because

2009
01:46:24,760 --> 01:46:29,479
Speaker 1: if there is spring practice of any kind, and early

2010
01:46:29,600 --> 01:46:32,240
Speaker 1: signs are that there won't be and it will be virtual.

2011
01:46:32,360 --> 01:46:36,760
Speaker 1: But this guy not on the field or anything voluntary.

2012
01:46:36,840 --> 01:46:40,000
Speaker 1: If he's not participating in it, becaues, Hey, it's voluntary.

2013
01:46:40,240 --> 01:46:42,000
Speaker 1: I don't have to be there, you know. If he

2014
01:46:42,080 --> 01:46:46,000
Speaker 1: starts skipping out on that stuff, like Brian Flores is

2015
01:46:46,040 --> 01:46:50,960
Speaker 1: not having it right, you would think not. I can't

2016
01:46:51,000 --> 01:46:56,320
Speaker 1: speak for Brian Flores, but it's Yeah, it's always frustrating

2017
01:46:56,360 --> 01:47:01,680
Speaker 1: for for vet old guys like me who you know,

2018
01:47:01,760 --> 01:47:03,320
Speaker 1: I mean, I you know you got I had to

2019
01:47:03,360 --> 01:47:06,240
Speaker 1: work really hard just to stay in there, let alone

2020
01:47:06,280 --> 01:47:10,479
Speaker 1: get in there, yea. And to see guys who are

2021
01:47:10,560 --> 01:47:14,360
Speaker 1: so gifted just not know how to do that. M

2022
01:47:14,400 --> 01:47:17,000
Speaker 1: it's pretty frustrating not only for guys like old guys

2023
01:47:17,000 --> 01:47:18,439
Speaker 1: like me, but also the guys that have to coach

2024
01:47:18,520 --> 01:47:20,120
Speaker 1: them are forced to coach him and forced to play

2025
01:47:20,120 --> 01:47:22,080
Speaker 1: with them because y'all got other guys on that roster.

2026
01:47:22,800 --> 01:47:26,120
Speaker 1: So the other guys playing you know, backup tackles in Tennessee,

2027
01:47:26,240 --> 01:47:28,439
Speaker 1: or the guys who actually played around him, they're out

2028
01:47:28,479 --> 01:47:33,000
Speaker 1: there working hard and doing it. Hey, guess what, He's

2029
01:47:33,000 --> 01:47:34,960
Speaker 1: getting a paycheck every week just like they are. And

2030
01:47:35,000 --> 01:47:37,880
Speaker 1: he's not playing at all, so it's it's a it

2031
01:47:38,000 --> 01:47:40,720
Speaker 1: starts to be a drag on the you know, on

2032
01:47:40,800 --> 01:47:43,280
Speaker 1: the attitude of the team and particularly the guys in

2033
01:47:43,360 --> 01:47:46,680
Speaker 1: this position group. Uh, we should get back to the

2034
01:47:46,720 --> 01:47:50,040
Speaker 1: tweet sheet here, because that's enough about Isaiah Wilson. We've

2035
01:47:50,040 --> 01:47:53,800
Speaker 1: talked that to its limit and it's gonna be really

2036
01:47:53,840 --> 01:47:57,280
Speaker 1: interesting to watch, though. My interest is peaked to see

2037
01:47:57,320 --> 01:48:01,479
Speaker 1: how long that lasts. M I'm you know, them, they're

2038
01:48:01,479 --> 01:48:04,040
Speaker 1: in the division, so I'm all about them taking flyers,

2039
01:48:04,120 --> 01:48:05,720
Speaker 1: you know, taking a shot like that on a guy

2040
01:48:05,760 --> 01:48:09,200
Speaker 1: that I don't think salvageable. Yeah. Right, But back to

2041
01:48:09,240 --> 01:48:11,679
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet as we are asking you, what lessons

2042
01:48:11,680 --> 01:48:15,320
Speaker 1: can the Bills take from the Dak Prescott contract negotiations,

2043
01:48:15,360 --> 01:48:18,240
Speaker 1: either in terms of how long they dragged on or

2044
01:48:18,280 --> 01:48:22,200
Speaker 1: the structure of the contract. And Jeremy says, wait until

2045
01:48:22,200 --> 01:48:25,360
Speaker 1: the end of this upcoming season. Yes, he deserves to

2046
01:48:25,400 --> 01:48:27,800
Speaker 1: be paid, but let's get back to back seasons of

2047
01:48:27,880 --> 01:48:30,800
Speaker 1: equal or better than twenty twenty season play. Would like

2048
01:48:30,880 --> 01:48:32,920
Speaker 1: to see how he plays against defenses that had an

2049
01:48:33,040 --> 01:48:37,040
Speaker 1: entire offseason of conditioning and preseason games. What do we

2050
01:48:37,120 --> 01:48:39,559
Speaker 1: think about that? Steve because that's an interesting dynamic to

2051
01:48:39,600 --> 01:48:46,120
Speaker 1: this conversation. The Carson Wentz pitfall argument that is firmly

2052
01:48:46,280 --> 01:48:48,240
Speaker 1: entrenched in the minds of a lot of front office

2053
01:48:48,280 --> 01:48:51,799
Speaker 1: people after the way that went. And I know Jared

2054
01:48:51,840 --> 01:48:56,200
Speaker 1: Goff is not as good an example, but we can't

2055
01:48:56,240 --> 01:48:59,000
Speaker 1: forget the fact that that guy's twenty six and after

2056
01:48:59,080 --> 01:49:01,120
Speaker 1: taking his team to an NFC title in a Super

2057
01:49:01,200 --> 01:49:07,360
Speaker 1: Bowl appearance, his game fell off precipitously. Yeah, and I

2058
01:49:07,800 --> 01:49:11,120
Speaker 1: get it. It's it's a legitimate question, except I think

2059
01:49:11,200 --> 01:49:13,000
Speaker 1: Josh is a different guy than those guys. I think

2060
01:49:13,040 --> 01:49:15,720
Speaker 1: every guy's different, no question. And I think one of

2061
01:49:15,760 --> 01:49:22,360
Speaker 1: the reasons I think Josh's play is repeatable is that

2062
01:49:23,680 --> 01:49:28,439
Speaker 1: his play has steadily progressed each and every year. Now,

2063
01:49:28,439 --> 01:49:30,840
Speaker 1: certainly there was a big step this last year, but

2064
01:49:30,880 --> 01:49:33,719
Speaker 1: it kind of that third year window you would expect

2065
01:49:33,720 --> 01:49:36,240
Speaker 1: maybe if he's gonna take methodical steps the third year

2066
01:49:36,280 --> 01:49:38,280
Speaker 1: and be that big step, which where guys get to.

2067
01:49:39,280 --> 01:49:43,240
Speaker 1: And I think that's where he's gonna be. And I

2068
01:49:43,320 --> 01:49:46,280
Speaker 1: we even one of our guests on the show this

2069
01:49:46,320 --> 01:49:49,720
Speaker 1: week said, you know, it's no fluke. The change that

2070
01:49:49,760 --> 01:49:52,880
Speaker 1: you see in Josh Allen was no Fluke this year,

2071
01:49:52,920 --> 01:49:55,320
Speaker 1: it seems to be the guy who he has become,

2072
01:49:55,840 --> 01:50:00,800
Speaker 1: and I would agree with that. It was not a

2073
01:50:00,960 --> 01:50:03,479
Speaker 1: nice stretch of games during the season that got him

2074
01:50:03,520 --> 01:50:06,200
Speaker 1: to the runner up. It was Week one all the

2075
01:50:06,240 --> 01:50:09,280
Speaker 1: way through to Week seventeen. The guy was lights out.

2076
01:50:10,360 --> 01:50:13,200
Speaker 1: He showed off every aspect of his game, his arm,

2077
01:50:13,640 --> 01:50:17,519
Speaker 1: his athleticism, his ability to read defenses, throw the ball

2078
01:50:17,520 --> 01:50:21,519
Speaker 1: into tight windows consistently. They scored twenty nine and a

2079
01:50:21,560 --> 01:50:27,639
Speaker 1: half points a game this season. That's hard to do,

2080
01:50:28,000 --> 01:50:31,679
Speaker 1: and in large part it was because of Josh Allen.

2081
01:50:31,760 --> 01:50:34,400
Speaker 1: So I would agree. I'd like to see we all

2082
01:50:34,439 --> 01:50:37,200
Speaker 1: want him to see him do it again, But I

2083
01:50:37,200 --> 01:50:41,000
Speaker 1: don't think that's a carrot that you know. I don't

2084
01:50:41,040 --> 01:50:43,400
Speaker 1: think we're gonna be able to catch. I think he

2085
01:50:43,439 --> 01:50:45,720
Speaker 1: will repeat it. And and and like you said, we're not

2086
01:50:45,880 --> 01:50:48,360
Speaker 1: unless you know, they get this deal done and we're

2087
01:50:48,360 --> 01:50:51,080
Speaker 1: gonna get another year of this, right, We're gonna get

2088
01:50:51,120 --> 01:50:53,720
Speaker 1: another year to see what we can what he can do.

2089
01:50:54,000 --> 01:50:57,760
Speaker 1: When the cap starts to bounce back, We'll see what

2090
01:50:57,840 --> 01:51:00,760
Speaker 1: Josh Allen can do this next year. Because I don't

2091
01:51:00,800 --> 01:51:02,599
Speaker 1: it doesn't look like they're gonna be able to get

2092
01:51:02,640 --> 01:51:06,479
Speaker 1: the thing done. I don't know. You could say that now,

2093
01:51:06,520 --> 01:51:08,519
Speaker 1: but it may take nothing, no time at all. But

2094
01:51:10,080 --> 01:51:12,960
Speaker 1: you run the risk of a Carson Wentz scenario, of

2095
01:51:13,040 --> 01:51:15,800
Speaker 1: a Jared Goff scenario where they do where he does

2096
01:51:15,880 --> 01:51:18,960
Speaker 1: fall off. But it's easy to say it now, but

2097
01:51:19,000 --> 01:51:21,320
Speaker 1: I just don't see it happening. I think his play,

2098
01:51:21,400 --> 01:51:23,760
Speaker 1: the way he progressed, the way he played year in

2099
01:51:23,880 --> 01:51:28,320
Speaker 1: year out, is what you want to see from a

2100
01:51:28,360 --> 01:51:30,719
Speaker 1: guy who's gonna be able to do that all the time.

2101
01:51:33,640 --> 01:51:36,000
Speaker 1: You know, you think about Jared Goff, he was a

2102
01:51:36,040 --> 01:51:39,720
Speaker 1: bust as a rookie. They thought he was done, and

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Speaker 1: a coaching change puts him in the Super Bowl. Carson

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Speaker 1: Wentz the changes in his coaching staff in large part

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Speaker 1: or what's credited with, you know, causing his drop off

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Speaker 1: with Frank Reich and all those and that staff was

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01:51:57,680 --> 01:52:00,360
Speaker 1: broken up after the Super Bowl. Carson Wentz is never

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Speaker 1: the same Josh Allen's going to have the same staff intact.

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Speaker 1: So it's a legitimate question can he do it again?

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Speaker 1: Can he play that well again? What you know, one

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Speaker 1: of the things you got to ask is is the

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Speaker 1: team going to be the same around him? And how

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01:52:22,720 --> 01:52:26,040
Speaker 1: good are they going to be right, and that is

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Speaker 1: something that has nothing to do with him and everything

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Speaker 1: to do with what he's going to be capable of

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Speaker 1: doing or what his expectations should realistically be. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: just think it's interesting that, despite this widely successful season

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01:52:36,880 --> 01:52:41,600
Speaker 1: that almost vaulted him to the league MVP, that the

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01:52:41,720 --> 01:52:45,400
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz issue and the Jared Goff issue has caused

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Speaker 1: enough concern in the minds of Bills fans that they're

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01:52:48,520 --> 01:52:51,240
Speaker 1: at least saying to themselves, well, maybe we should wait

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Speaker 1: for another year of production before we start doling out

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Speaker 1: forty two million dollars a year because they see the

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Speaker 1: cap jail that it's kind of put the Eagles in

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01:53:00,680 --> 01:53:04,120
Speaker 1: right now. And eventually the Rams are gonna have to

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01:53:04,160 --> 01:53:07,840
Speaker 1: answer that bell too. The bell will soon toll for

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01:53:07,920 --> 01:53:12,080
Speaker 1: them with cap issues, not only because of the dead

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01:53:12,120 --> 01:53:15,639
Speaker 1: cap that they incurred by moving GoF but the contract

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01:53:15,640 --> 01:53:19,840
Speaker 1: they inherited with Matthew Stafford. So it's interesting that it

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01:53:19,920 --> 01:53:23,400
Speaker 1: is at least in the thought process of Bill's fans,

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01:53:23,400 --> 01:53:25,760
Speaker 1: this is not just a wild sign them. Now, get

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01:53:25,800 --> 01:53:27,599
Speaker 1: him signed, get it done. We need to lock him

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01:53:27,680 --> 01:53:29,479
Speaker 1: up all of that. It's like whoa hold on? Well,

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01:53:29,520 --> 01:53:32,280
Speaker 1: maybe maybe we should see another season of that before

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Speaker 1: we commit forty two million a year to him, You

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Speaker 1: know what I mean. I just find it interesting that

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Speaker 1: it is on the radar of Bill's fans minds. Listen,

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Speaker 1: whenever he signs this contract, whatever the big number is

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Speaker 1: gonna be, there's gonna be a little bit of who

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01:53:47,040 --> 01:53:48,720
Speaker 1: I hope he can earn it, you know, I hope

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Speaker 1: he can. Well, they're already saying that about Dak, like

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01:53:51,920 --> 01:53:55,240
Speaker 1: now that the question that's going on in Dallas right now,

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Speaker 1: now that the contract's finally done after two and a

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01:53:57,439 --> 01:54:00,519
Speaker 1: half years, they're already saying, well, how much pressure is

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01:54:00,560 --> 01:54:02,040
Speaker 1: on Dak now to win the Super Bowl with this

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01:54:02,080 --> 01:54:04,040
Speaker 1: kind of a contract. And it's like, holy cow, It's

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01:54:04,040 --> 01:54:07,639
Speaker 1: like the guy probably hasn't even signed the damn thing yet, right,

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01:54:07,960 --> 01:54:09,880
Speaker 1: That's the way. That's the way it is. But there's

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01:54:09,920 --> 01:54:12,759
Speaker 1: there's gonna be that angst every time a quarterback signs

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01:54:12,760 --> 01:54:14,559
Speaker 1: a deal because of what you see around us in

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01:54:14,600 --> 01:54:18,559
Speaker 1: the landscape right this minute. You know, Carson Wentz, Jared

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01:54:18,680 --> 01:54:25,200
Speaker 1: goff Um, Dak Prescott, Deshaun Watson, all of them, all

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01:54:25,240 --> 01:54:27,840
Speaker 1: of them, and even going back to Sam Bradford, thinking

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01:54:27,920 --> 01:54:30,160
Speaker 1: we had Chris long On earlier in the show, he

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01:54:30,280 --> 01:54:32,680
Speaker 1: remembered Sam Bradford. You get a guy like Sam Bradford

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01:54:32,680 --> 01:54:37,600
Speaker 1: who could really play, except the fact that he was broken.

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Speaker 1: So you know, it's all out there. We're gonna You're

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01:54:46,720 --> 01:54:49,000
Speaker 1: never gonna even when he signs this deal and we

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01:54:49,080 --> 01:54:51,360
Speaker 1: all believe he's the guy and it's all great, and

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Speaker 1: you know, even if he if they go to and

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Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl and then sign him, they're still

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Speaker 1: gonna be that angst as to whether he can do

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01:54:57,880 --> 01:55:00,400
Speaker 1: it again, Can he do it as he or guy? She? Yeah,

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01:55:01,840 --> 01:55:05,800
Speaker 1: all of that stuff is gonna be there because we've

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Speaker 1: seen it so often not go well for the club

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Speaker 1: or for the player or both. Andrew on the tweet

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01:55:12,320 --> 01:55:15,480
Speaker 1: sheet says, well, one thing's for certain, if the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: would give would have given him a contract extension earlier,

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Speaker 1: it would have helped them this year with the cap.

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Speaker 1: Beans a lot smarter when it comes to contract negotiations,

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01:55:23,720 --> 01:55:25,960
Speaker 1: So I'm not worried. He always finds a way to

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01:55:26,120 --> 01:55:29,960
Speaker 1: make his team better. Tiffany says, call in the brinkstruck

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01:55:30,080 --> 01:55:33,040
Speaker 1: loaded with money. Dak's a good QB. Broke the bank.

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Speaker 1: I can only imagine what the Bills are going to

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01:55:34,840 --> 01:55:37,440
Speaker 1: have to pay Josh, and my opinion is Sealing is

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01:55:37,520 --> 01:55:40,360
Speaker 1: much higher than Das. I'm pretty sure the Cowboys haven't

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Speaker 1: made it to a championship game in recent history. Steve,

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Speaker 1: there is something to be said about that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, who came into the league two years after

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01:55:48,720 --> 01:55:52,880
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, has three more playoff wins or two more

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Speaker 1: playoff wins than Dak Prescott does. Yep, So I mean

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Speaker 1: that alone. He's younger. Yeah, and he's younger, and that

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01:56:02,280 --> 01:56:04,720
Speaker 1: alone could could drive the price up. It's going to

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Speaker 1: drive the price up simply because of the fact that

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Speaker 1: he's signing after Dak Prescott is signing. We know that's

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Speaker 1: the only direction these contracts go. He's up, Um, Dak

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01:56:12,840 --> 01:56:16,280
Speaker 1: wasn't didn't even finish on the field last year. Yeah,

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01:56:16,320 --> 01:56:20,280
Speaker 1: and up until you know this Dak Prescott contract, it

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01:56:20,360 --> 01:56:22,960
Speaker 1: was Deshaun Watson's deal that was kind of the standard, right,

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01:56:23,320 --> 01:56:25,360
Speaker 1: you can say the Mahomes dealing and Mahomes deals kind

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01:56:25,400 --> 01:56:26,520
Speaker 1: of bit of a bit of a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a unicorn, right, a ten year contract. It's a ten

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Speaker 1: year contract, but the average annual value is still tops

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Speaker 1: in the league at forty five per right, But think

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Speaker 1: about this forty five per year ten years from now,

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Speaker 1: and the cap goes up seven or maybe ten percent

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Speaker 1: or seven percent a year, the CAP's gonna be double

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Speaker 1: what it is now in a decade. Yeah, more than

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Speaker 1: double because of the cap that's that's constricted. Now, you

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01:56:55,440 --> 01:56:59,200
Speaker 1: could argue that that contract will be outdated and obsolete

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Speaker 1: in a year and a half. With all these quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: coming up in the twenty eighteen class, I mean, you

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01:57:04,040 --> 01:57:07,160
Speaker 1: got Josh, Lamar and Baker who are all in line

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01:57:07,200 --> 01:57:11,400
Speaker 1: for big second contracts based on their play. Some will

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01:57:11,400 --> 01:57:17,080
Speaker 1: make more than others, but still, I mean you've got

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01:57:18,080 --> 01:57:20,400
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got those three guys. You've got other

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01:57:20,440 --> 01:57:23,840
Speaker 1: guys coming up. If Rogers goes somewhere else in a

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01:57:23,920 --> 01:57:26,200
Speaker 1: year or two, he's gonna sign for a big contract.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it really is a brilliant I gotta say

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Speaker 1: it's really a brilliantly constructed contract, the Mahomes deal, because

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01:57:33,600 --> 01:57:36,560
Speaker 1: not for the getting any money, yes, for the Chiefs,

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01:57:36,720 --> 01:57:38,760
Speaker 1: but it's also for Mahomes. I mean, he's sitting there

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Speaker 1: with the highest guy per per year, and he's he's

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Speaker 1: guaranteed a boatload of money, and he gets a big

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Speaker 1: balloon payment in five years that's like seventy million bucks,

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01:57:51,880 --> 01:57:54,760
Speaker 1: and just when the cap is gonna be rolling along

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01:57:54,840 --> 01:57:56,760
Speaker 1: really well, he's gonna get a lot of balloon payments.

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Speaker 1: So it's gonna be hard for him to look the

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01:57:58,040 --> 01:58:00,080
Speaker 1: chiefs in the eye and say, hey, I need more money.

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01:58:00,160 --> 01:58:02,680
Speaker 1: We're giving you seventy million next year, so sit down

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01:58:02,680 --> 01:58:07,280
Speaker 1: and shut up. So it really is constructed. Well, the

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Speaker 1: only time you can see it really going south is

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01:58:09,640 --> 01:58:12,120
Speaker 1: like really like eight or nine years into the deal,

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01:58:12,920 --> 01:58:18,200
Speaker 1: where he's making what thirty percent less than the guys

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Speaker 1: around the league or whatever, and he's an you know,

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01:58:20,360 --> 01:58:22,880
Speaker 1: at that time, he's had whatever success he's had, and

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Speaker 1: you know, I think it's a brilliantly constructed contract because

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01:58:27,720 --> 01:58:30,919
Speaker 1: it does give him some guarantees. It's in huge numbers.

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Speaker 1: You got security of a ten year deal, and you know,

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Speaker 1: just when you think maybe it's going to be outdated

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01:58:39,160 --> 01:58:41,640
Speaker 1: or whether he starts getting balloon payments every so often,

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01:58:42,240 --> 01:58:44,880
Speaker 1: it's it makes a lot of sense for a team

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01:58:45,040 --> 01:58:50,960
Speaker 1: who is willing to, you know, for better for worse,

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Speaker 1: live with the guy for ten years. Yeah, Well, that's

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01:58:54,120 --> 01:58:57,480
Speaker 1: an easy guy to live with. But yeah, and the

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01:58:57,600 --> 01:58:59,280
Speaker 1: next we have to take a break. But the next

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01:58:59,320 --> 01:59:03,240
Speaker 1: part of this kind versation we'll deal with once the

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01:59:03,360 --> 01:59:06,960
Speaker 1: Josh Allen contract is done. How does it change the

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01:59:07,080 --> 01:59:10,720
Speaker 1: dynamics of constructing the roster knowing how much of the

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Speaker 1: cap it will gobble up? How does the approach have

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01:59:13,600 --> 01:59:16,320
Speaker 1: to morph and change for Brandon being in this front

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01:59:16,360 --> 01:59:20,480
Speaker 1: office to keep strong pieces around Josh Allen knowing Josh

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01:59:20,560 --> 01:59:23,880
Speaker 1: is commanding a much higher percentage of the total cap.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that when we return here on One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Browns to tasker

2247
01:59:44,360 --> 01:59:46,800
Speaker 1: with you final half hour of the program, talking about

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01:59:46,880 --> 01:59:50,480
Speaker 1: lessons learned from the Dak Prescott contract and taking your

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01:59:50,480 --> 01:59:53,280
Speaker 1: comments on the tweet sheet about it in terms of

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Speaker 1: what lessons the Bills can take from it and apply

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Speaker 1: to their upcoming negotiations with one Josh Allen. Uh NDP.

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02:00:01,520 --> 02:00:03,840
Speaker 1: On the tweet sheet, Steve says, can't help, but wonder

2253
02:00:03,880 --> 02:00:06,680
Speaker 1: how the Cowboys will afford all the pieces around deck

2254
02:00:06,760 --> 02:00:10,080
Speaker 1: for a Super Bowl run. Interesting to see what Alan does?

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Speaker 1: Do you want one hundred and twenty six million in

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Speaker 1: the bank or eighty million and a couple of rings,

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02:00:14,760 --> 02:00:17,000
Speaker 1: not to mention the money having those rings brings to

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02:00:17,040 --> 02:00:22,240
Speaker 1: your brand. So NDP is arguing, don't kill the bills

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02:00:22,320 --> 02:00:25,280
Speaker 1: on a new contract, so there's money to be spread

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Speaker 1: around to help construct the rest of the roster um.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's I don't know if anybody's

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Speaker 1: worrying about that kind of stuff on any team. Yeah,

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02:00:35,000 --> 02:00:37,480
Speaker 1: I think it's up to the you know, you leave

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02:00:37,520 --> 02:00:39,360
Speaker 1: that up to the front office to find guys who

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Speaker 1: can play and get them on your team. I'm you know,

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Speaker 1: paying them, I get it and all of that, but

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02:00:44,080 --> 02:00:48,360
Speaker 1: draft better, you know, and I and I think it'll

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Speaker 1: be possible. And I think quarterbacks know, you know, what

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Speaker 1: their their market value is. They're they're the most high

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02:00:54,320 --> 02:00:55,840
Speaker 1: they're the highest paid guy on the team. And then

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02:00:55,840 --> 02:00:59,400
Speaker 1: you've got a guy and there's there's no getting around it.

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Speaker 1: Brady has always taken below market value. Yeah, and he

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Speaker 1: he's the guy with the seven rings. So yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: but I think more often than not, we've seen quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: taking what they believe to be fair market value. First

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02:01:20,720 --> 02:01:23,000
Speaker 1: and foremost, it's not their job to figure out how

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Speaker 1: to construct the roster at you know, at the end

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02:01:25,520 --> 02:01:27,680
Speaker 1: of the day, that's that's on the front office. And

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Speaker 1: if they're willing to pay me forty two million dollars

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02:01:30,440 --> 02:01:32,280
Speaker 1: to do my job to the best of my ability,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna find fault with that. I'm taking it,

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02:01:37,840 --> 02:01:40,839
Speaker 1: and it's up to them to figure out how to

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02:01:40,880 --> 02:01:43,640
Speaker 1: construct the rest of the roster, which is going to

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Speaker 1: be uncharted territory for this franchise, something they haven't had

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Speaker 1: to do in a very, very, very long time. And

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Speaker 1: even when they had a quarterback, whether it was Drew

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02:01:53,360 --> 02:01:57,240
Speaker 1: Bledsoe or Jim Kelly, the numbers weren't nearly as astronomical

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Speaker 1: as they are now. At the quarterback position. In terms

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02:02:00,120 --> 02:02:04,440
Speaker 1: of percentage of your cap it's as high as it's

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02:02:04,440 --> 02:02:08,720
Speaker 1: ever been, and understandably so. But it shifts your approach.

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02:02:08,800 --> 02:02:10,760
Speaker 1: It forces you to shift your approach and how you

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02:02:10,800 --> 02:02:13,240
Speaker 1: construct the roster. And this you could take that all

2293
02:02:13,240 --> 02:02:17,240
Speaker 1: the way back to the Cold Stays when Polion had

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02:02:17,640 --> 02:02:20,440
Speaker 1: big money committed to Peyton Manning, he had giant money

2295
02:02:20,480 --> 02:02:24,720
Speaker 1: committed to Dwight Freeney, Robert Mathis, Reggie Wayne, and a

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Speaker 1: couple of others, and then he filled in the rest

2297
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Speaker 1: of the roster with middle tier free agents and what

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02:02:31,800 --> 02:02:34,120
Speaker 1: he was hoping would be good draft choices who could

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Speaker 1: contribute sooner rather than later on cheap rookie deals. That's

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Speaker 1: where the Bills are headed if they're going to pay

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen giant money. And I mean, I'm not telling

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying anything that Brandon Bean and his staff

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02:02:47,880 --> 02:02:51,680
Speaker 1: doesn't already know. But it's going to look different, I guess,

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02:02:51,800 --> 02:02:53,600
Speaker 1: is the point I'm trying to make to Bills fans

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Speaker 1: going forward. Once you hand him the giant contract. Yeah,

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02:02:57,720 --> 02:02:59,480
Speaker 1: we need to go on and do a study about

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02:02:59,560 --> 02:03:01,640
Speaker 1: you know, what the the starting quarterbacks in the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl make in relation to the percentage of cap that

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Speaker 1: they soak up um year to year. And if there's

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Speaker 1: a if there's a magic percentage, maybe that's what you

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Speaker 1: base your contract on. You know, you say, listen, whatever

2312
02:03:14,200 --> 02:03:17,160
Speaker 1: the cap year is, I get I get twenty percent

2313
02:03:17,200 --> 02:03:20,560
Speaker 1: of the cap in any given year, whatever it is,

2314
02:03:20,800 --> 02:03:25,600
Speaker 1: and just ride with that. That way that your your

2315
02:03:25,720 --> 02:03:27,640
Speaker 1: your number goes up and down with the growth of

2316
02:03:27,640 --> 02:03:29,720
Speaker 1: the league. It'll go up every year obviously from this

2317
02:03:29,800 --> 02:03:33,680
Speaker 1: point on. And if and if Josh signed that deal. Um,

2318
02:03:35,040 --> 02:03:37,760
Speaker 1: he would stay abreast of all the other guys that

2319
02:03:37,800 --> 02:03:39,920
Speaker 1: are making top dollar. He would get a year over

2320
02:03:40,000 --> 02:03:43,960
Speaker 1: year average that would be pretty darned good. But his

2321
02:03:44,040 --> 02:03:49,320
Speaker 1: percentage would still leave the club enough funds to buy

2322
02:03:49,320 --> 02:03:51,560
Speaker 1: a roster to get them as deep as they want

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02:03:51,600 --> 02:03:53,320
Speaker 1: to go. Um And it would be a you know

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Speaker 1: that that may be a way to do. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if the league would let you do that. I

2326
02:03:57,320 --> 02:03:59,440
Speaker 1: don't know if that's legal in the in the by

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02:03:59,560 --> 02:04:03,120
Speaker 1: laws of the NFL. But you know, you had these

2328
02:04:03,200 --> 02:04:08,480
Speaker 1: quarterbacks like like that, like Mahomes who his contract, he

2329
02:04:08,480 --> 02:04:10,960
Speaker 1: gets a ton of cash paid to him in balloon

2330
02:04:11,040 --> 02:04:16,440
Speaker 1: payments during the life of the deal instead of having

2331
02:04:16,440 --> 02:04:19,160
Speaker 1: a ride and a roller coaster financially with dead money

2332
02:04:19,200 --> 02:04:21,680
Speaker 1: and risking dead money. And if you cut the guys

2333
02:04:21,960 --> 02:04:24,640
Speaker 1: dead you know that kind of thing. Just make it

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Speaker 1: a percentage of whatever's coming down from the league and

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02:04:28,480 --> 02:04:31,240
Speaker 1: go from that. And I know the league. I don't

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02:04:31,240 --> 02:04:32,920
Speaker 1: know if the league allows that, but it makes a

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02:04:32,920 --> 02:04:38,240
Speaker 1: lot of sense to me. Yeah. The other argument is

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02:04:38,360 --> 02:04:43,200
Speaker 1: one that's raised here by Kevin on the tweet sheet.

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02:04:43,920 --> 02:04:47,160
Speaker 1: Pay up and pay quick. The longer you wait to

2340
02:04:47,200 --> 02:04:51,200
Speaker 1: sign Josh the more expensive it's going to be. Now.

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02:04:52,000 --> 02:04:56,120
Speaker 1: To me, Steve, this is just once. You're talking forty

2342
02:04:56,120 --> 02:04:58,200
Speaker 1: million dollars a year to just forty two million dollars

2343
02:04:58,240 --> 02:04:59,680
Speaker 1: a year really make a whole hell of a lot

2344
02:04:59,680 --> 02:05:01,680
Speaker 1: of different prints. I mean over the life of the contract.

2345
02:05:01,720 --> 02:05:05,600
Speaker 1: I suppose it does. But the bottom line is you're

2346
02:05:05,600 --> 02:05:07,840
Speaker 1: gonna have to pay him one way or the other

2347
02:05:08,440 --> 02:05:11,000
Speaker 1: if you have to wait a year. Even if you

2348
02:05:11,120 --> 02:05:14,680
Speaker 1: save two million dollars a year on a contract by

2349
02:05:14,680 --> 02:05:17,040
Speaker 1: signing him now instead of later, that means you're using

2350
02:05:17,080 --> 02:05:19,040
Speaker 1: the fifty year option, And the fifty year option is

2351
02:05:19,080 --> 02:05:21,600
Speaker 1: twenty one point seven, So I mean, what are you

2352
02:05:21,680 --> 02:05:24,680
Speaker 1: really saving by waiting? I think the most important thing

2353
02:05:24,720 --> 02:05:27,080
Speaker 1: is to get the right deal that works for the

2354
02:05:27,120 --> 02:05:30,120
Speaker 1: club and works for Josh Allen. If that happens this offseason, great,

2355
02:05:30,160 --> 02:05:32,880
Speaker 1: If it happens next offseason, fine, as long as it

2356
02:05:32,960 --> 02:05:36,240
Speaker 1: happens right. Yeah, And the guys we're talking about with

2357
02:05:36,360 --> 02:05:38,920
Speaker 1: job with you know, the top paid quarterbacks in the

2358
02:05:39,000 --> 02:05:43,600
Speaker 1: league is Mahomes, Russ Wilson, Dak Prescott, and Deshaun Watson.

2359
02:05:45,240 --> 02:05:49,080
Speaker 1: Those four guys you're talking. If you pay Josh twenty

2360
02:05:49,120 --> 02:05:52,560
Speaker 1: million bucks a year, it is an absolute bargain. I mean,

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02:05:52,600 --> 02:05:57,120
Speaker 1: twenty million bucks is like the lowest of the floor. Yeah,

2362
02:05:57,120 --> 02:05:59,920
Speaker 1: in terms of the top tier, that's a deal. Yeah,

2363
02:06:00,080 --> 02:06:04,320
Speaker 1: that's a yeah, that's that's a stop gap guy. Um,

2364
02:06:05,160 --> 02:06:07,879
Speaker 1: So what happens is you know it's gonna be expensive

2365
02:06:07,920 --> 02:06:09,800
Speaker 1: when you sign him, but only for a little bit

2366
02:06:09,800 --> 02:06:12,560
Speaker 1: because two years later it's gonna look cheap. No matter

2367
02:06:12,600 --> 02:06:17,360
Speaker 1: when it happens, Dak Prescott's deal in four years is

2368
02:06:17,400 --> 02:06:22,880
Speaker 1: gonna be pretty good. Not phenomenal, not great, It's gonna

2369
02:06:22,920 --> 02:06:26,120
Speaker 1: be why, it's a good top of the market, right,

2370
02:06:27,360 --> 02:06:29,760
Speaker 1: guys are gonna leap frog. Yeah, you know, you don't

2371
02:06:29,760 --> 02:06:33,000
Speaker 1: think Josh's gonna over Josh. He's gonna leap over him.

2372
02:06:33,040 --> 02:06:36,160
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson's gonna leap over him. I think I think

2373
02:06:36,360 --> 02:06:41,760
Speaker 1: uh Russell Wilson had the highest paid contract in the

2374
02:06:41,840 --> 02:06:45,839
Speaker 1: league for like a week and a half, right, Um,

2375
02:06:46,960 --> 02:06:49,920
Speaker 1: and you signed it was gonna happen pretty fast. I

2376
02:06:49,960 --> 02:06:51,960
Speaker 1: want to say it was Mahomes, but I don't know

2377
02:06:51,960 --> 02:06:54,360
Speaker 1: if I'm right on that. Um, But it's one of

2378
02:06:54,400 --> 02:06:56,520
Speaker 1: those guys, or maybe it was Deshaun Watson. I think

2379
02:06:56,520 --> 02:07:00,240
Speaker 1: it was DeShawn Watson. It might have been like a

2380
02:07:00,280 --> 02:07:01,800
Speaker 1: week and al it's like a week and a half

2381
02:07:01,840 --> 02:07:04,160
Speaker 1: after and everybody was calling it too. They're like, well,

2382
02:07:04,240 --> 02:07:06,360
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's highest paid quarterback in the league on an

2383
02:07:06,400 --> 02:07:09,800
Speaker 1: average annual basis for now, but it'll be short lived

2384
02:07:09,880 --> 02:07:12,480
Speaker 1: because and then sure enough it happened. So no matter

2385
02:07:12,520 --> 02:07:14,960
Speaker 1: what they paid Josh, it's gonna turn into a bargain

2386
02:07:15,000 --> 02:07:16,920
Speaker 1: at the end. Hopefully it'll be a bargain by the

2387
02:07:17,000 --> 02:07:21,920
Speaker 1: end of the Deal's that's what you're hoping, and that's

2388
02:07:22,480 --> 02:07:24,440
Speaker 1: and that's the way it is for these contracts. They

2389
02:07:24,480 --> 02:07:26,840
Speaker 1: get smaller and smaller as the cap grows and grows

2390
02:07:26,920 --> 02:07:28,920
Speaker 1: every year. And the cap you know this, we all

2391
02:07:28,960 --> 02:07:31,600
Speaker 1: know this. That CAP's gonna take an enormous leap next year.

2392
02:07:31,680 --> 02:07:35,800
Speaker 1: I think, well in comparison to one eighty whatever. Yes

2393
02:07:36,000 --> 02:07:39,200
Speaker 1: it will, because it's gonna it's gonna get back towards

2394
02:07:39,240 --> 02:07:41,160
Speaker 1: the number it was supposed to be this year, which

2395
02:07:41,480 --> 02:07:43,480
Speaker 1: this year was supposed to be somewhere between two ten

2396
02:07:43,520 --> 02:07:46,680
Speaker 1: and two fifteen. You're thirty million shy of that. But

2397
02:07:47,200 --> 02:07:51,080
Speaker 1: with all of the flood of new TV revenue, along

2398
02:07:51,080 --> 02:07:54,520
Speaker 1: with an extra game of inventory in the regular season,

2399
02:07:55,240 --> 02:07:58,480
Speaker 1: two extra games of inventory in the playoffs. At the

2400
02:07:58,640 --> 02:08:02,320
Speaker 1: very least, it's twelve percent more product going into the

2401
02:08:02,360 --> 02:08:07,080
Speaker 1: hopper with an extra game. Yeah, so you know, ratchet

2402
02:08:07,080 --> 02:08:11,680
Speaker 1: it up, Ratchet that end of the TV revenue and

2403
02:08:11,960 --> 02:08:16,720
Speaker 1: your ticket revenue by twelve percent. And you're talking, you know,

2404
02:08:16,920 --> 02:08:19,440
Speaker 1: and you're talking on a pile of a billions of dollars.

2405
02:08:19,520 --> 02:08:22,680
Speaker 1: Twelve percent adds up really quickly. So it's and plus

2406
02:08:23,000 --> 02:08:25,160
Speaker 1: bouncing back from what it is this year at one

2407
02:08:25,240 --> 02:08:27,480
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty one hundred and eighty five million, and

2408
02:08:27,520 --> 02:08:30,480
Speaker 1: it gets back to it'll be back to and well

2409
02:08:30,600 --> 02:08:35,320
Speaker 1: surpassed the cap it should have been this year, because

2410
02:08:35,360 --> 02:08:37,360
Speaker 1: you'd think if it got to two twelve to fifteen

2411
02:08:37,440 --> 02:08:39,640
Speaker 1: this year, it was going to grow another ten or

2412
02:08:40,520 --> 02:08:43,280
Speaker 1: seven to ten percent next year, seven to ten percent,

2413
02:08:43,320 --> 02:08:46,760
Speaker 1: another fourteen million dollars. So you're already talking two hundred

2414
02:08:46,760 --> 02:08:50,040
Speaker 1: and thirty million up from one hundred and eighty this year. Man,

2415
02:08:52,320 --> 02:08:53,880
Speaker 1: it's gonna be up. Do you think this year is

2416
02:08:53,880 --> 02:08:55,800
Speaker 1: going to be a spending frenzy? Wait till next year?

2417
02:08:55,880 --> 02:08:59,760
Speaker 1: Holy cats? Yeah, and it's gonna be. And here's the

2418
02:08:59,800 --> 02:09:02,000
Speaker 1: thing too, And now it's going to be just the

2419
02:09:02,040 --> 02:09:04,640
Speaker 1: reverse if you've got the money, you're gonna be able

2420
02:09:04,680 --> 02:09:07,960
Speaker 1: to buy whatever you want this year, next year. Even

2421
02:09:07,960 --> 02:09:09,720
Speaker 1: if you've got the money, you're gonna have to pay

2422
02:09:09,760 --> 02:09:12,839
Speaker 1: through the nose you get. Just you know, the market's

2423
02:09:12,840 --> 02:09:16,360
Speaker 1: gonna be, so the bidding will be. These guys are

2424
02:09:16,360 --> 02:09:18,720
Speaker 1: gonna give me this ridiculous contract. Will you give me

2425
02:09:18,760 --> 02:09:22,960
Speaker 1: a stupid contract? Thank you? How stupid do you want

2426
02:09:22,960 --> 02:09:25,480
Speaker 1: to get? Um? Right? Yeah, there'll be some of that.

2427
02:09:25,600 --> 02:09:30,440
Speaker 1: They will, you know they will, yeah, j J Yeah.

2428
02:09:30,600 --> 02:09:33,520
Speaker 1: JT on the tweet sheet says, Dallas made Dak wait

2429
02:09:33,640 --> 02:09:37,000
Speaker 1: two years too long. Josh is young and has proven

2430
02:09:37,000 --> 02:09:39,480
Speaker 1: he's our franchise QB. He's taken us place as we

2431
02:09:39,520 --> 02:09:42,160
Speaker 1: haven't been in years, playoffs, AFC Championship game, and he

2432
02:09:42,160 --> 02:09:44,200
Speaker 1: improves every year. Fans love him. Look at the money

2433
02:09:44,200 --> 02:09:47,440
Speaker 1: they donated for his grandmother. Pay that man now. JT

2434
02:09:47,720 --> 02:09:49,760
Speaker 1: is thinking all the awful lot with his heart here.

2435
02:09:50,360 --> 02:09:52,160
Speaker 1: And as we know, if you're gonna be in a

2436
02:09:52,200 --> 02:09:54,240
Speaker 1: stute businessman, you got to think more with your head

2437
02:09:54,240 --> 02:09:59,080
Speaker 1: than your heart here. But I understand it, um and yeah,

2438
02:09:59,520 --> 02:10:01,320
Speaker 1: I don't think you have to worry about them paying him.

2439
02:10:01,320 --> 02:10:04,720
Speaker 1: They will pay him just a matter of when Joe

2440
02:10:04,800 --> 02:10:07,120
Speaker 1: to wrap up the tweet sheet real quick, Steve says,

2441
02:10:07,160 --> 02:10:09,840
Speaker 1: get the deal done this offseason, six to seven year

2442
02:10:09,880 --> 02:10:12,960
Speaker 1: deal structured to minimize twenty twenty one cap number, only

2443
02:10:12,960 --> 02:10:17,200
Speaker 1: going to get more expensive. If you're wait, yeah, well

2444
02:10:17,240 --> 02:10:19,240
Speaker 1: they're right. I mean it's gonna get more It is

2445
02:10:19,280 --> 02:10:21,760
Speaker 1: gonna get more expensive. But the quicker you signed him,

2446
02:10:21,760 --> 02:10:27,560
Speaker 1: also the quicker it'll become a bargain for the team.

2447
02:10:28,120 --> 02:10:29,920
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, here's where I'm at. And I was

2448
02:10:29,920 --> 02:10:31,760
Speaker 1: reading the thing from one of the good friends of

2449
02:10:31,800 --> 02:10:35,120
Speaker 1: the show, Dan Orlovsky, who treated this out. He's right there.

2450
02:10:35,160 --> 02:10:38,240
Speaker 1: They're kind of four types of quarterbacks. And I just

2451
02:10:38,280 --> 02:10:39,720
Speaker 1: sent this to you, Chris. I don't know if you

2452
02:10:39,760 --> 02:10:44,240
Speaker 1: got it yet. There's quarterbacks you win because that guy's

2453
02:10:44,240 --> 02:10:47,480
Speaker 1: your quarterback. Yeah. The second one is quarterbacks you can

2454
02:10:47,520 --> 02:10:50,720
Speaker 1: win if he is your quarterback. The third one you

2455
02:10:50,760 --> 02:10:54,280
Speaker 1: can win in spite of the fact that he's your quarterback.

2456
02:10:54,600 --> 02:10:59,800
Speaker 1: And there's another group that you can't win with that guy. Okay, job,

2457
02:11:00,600 --> 02:11:05,040
Speaker 1: in a lot of games you win because he's your quarterback.

2458
02:11:06,360 --> 02:11:10,000
Speaker 1: There was that's different than it has been. And Buffalo

2459
02:11:10,000 --> 02:11:12,880
Speaker 1: and Buffalo for a long long time. But I think

2460
02:11:12,920 --> 02:11:16,600
Speaker 1: it's true with Josh Allen. Yeah, it'll be interesting to

2461
02:11:16,680 --> 02:11:19,160
Speaker 1: see when it unfolds, not if it will. It's a

2462
02:11:19,240 --> 02:11:21,800
Speaker 1: foregone conclusion. He's gonna get big money at some point,

2463
02:11:22,000 --> 02:11:24,000
Speaker 1: whether it's this calendar year or next. We have to

2464
02:11:24,000 --> 02:11:25,640
Speaker 1: take a break with Steve and I back to wrap

2465
02:11:25,640 --> 02:11:27,440
Speaker 1: it up. When we return here on One Bill's Live,

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02:11:27,480 --> 02:11:43,240
Speaker 1: presented by Collid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. It

2467
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Speaker 1: is time for what have we learned from today's show?

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Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills. Head Bills running back Antonio

2470
02:11:52,520 --> 02:11:55,720
Speaker 1: Williams on the show today, who after we talked to

2471
02:11:55,800 --> 02:11:58,640
Speaker 1: him about his rookie season and the trials and tribulations

2472
02:11:58,640 --> 02:12:04,440
Speaker 1: of the pandemic kind of compromising his opportunities here in Buffalo.

2473
02:12:04,960 --> 02:12:07,560
Speaker 1: We also talked to him about his off the field pursuits,

2474
02:12:07,560 --> 02:12:12,760
Speaker 1: including his investment in a NASCAR Exfinity Series race team.

2475
02:12:13,000 --> 02:12:15,680
Speaker 1: Growing up. You know, I knew if I continue to

2476
02:12:15,720 --> 02:12:18,080
Speaker 1: go down the path with the football track and I

2477
02:12:18,120 --> 02:12:20,000
Speaker 1: got to where I'm at I am today, I'd have

2478
02:12:20,040 --> 02:12:22,720
Speaker 1: a chance of, you know, possibly getting involved in NASCAR.

2479
02:12:23,320 --> 02:12:24,920
Speaker 1: And you know, my goal is to all the team

2480
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Speaker 1: in NASCAR. That's what I'm working in towards, and you know,

2481
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Speaker 1: I think it's very realistic at this point. I mean,

2482
02:12:30,400 --> 02:12:32,480
Speaker 1: my granddad we used to watch every race. Man. My

2483
02:12:32,520 --> 02:12:35,160
Speaker 1: granddad was such a he was a huge football fan

2484
02:12:35,240 --> 02:12:38,280
Speaker 1: but also a huge NASCAR fan. And some Sundays he

2485
02:12:38,280 --> 02:12:41,000
Speaker 1: didn't even have the NASCAR races on over the NFL games.

2486
02:12:41,080 --> 02:12:44,320
Speaker 1: So you know, sometimes I'm be watching NASCAR and not football.

2487
02:12:44,440 --> 02:12:47,440
Speaker 1: But it was big growing up for me. And you know,

2488
02:12:47,480 --> 02:12:50,600
Speaker 1: my granddad passed in August, so that really motivated me

2489
02:12:50,640 --> 02:12:54,400
Speaker 1: to do something in NASCAR out of honoring him. Really

2490
02:12:54,440 --> 02:12:58,280
Speaker 1: good to uh chat with Antonio Williams today, Steve. And

2491
02:12:58,520 --> 02:12:59,960
Speaker 1: I know I mentioned this to you in the break.

2492
02:13:00,000 --> 02:13:02,760
Speaker 1: When I hear him talking, I hear Stevie Johnson's voice,

2493
02:13:02,800 --> 02:13:07,320
Speaker 1: he sounds just like him. We we got a preview

2494
02:13:07,360 --> 02:13:10,400
Speaker 1: of that soundclip in the break and we couldn't see

2495
02:13:10,480 --> 02:13:14,560
Speaker 1: him speaking, and sounds just like Stevie, just like him,

2496
02:13:14,600 --> 02:13:18,160
Speaker 1: Like same bass to his voice almost same big deep

2497
02:13:18,240 --> 02:13:22,480
Speaker 1: barrel with barrel voice. Yeah, it's crazy, it's gonna be interesting.

2498
02:13:22,480 --> 02:13:24,840
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting at training camp because I really

2499
02:13:24,880 --> 02:13:27,280
Speaker 1: do think they're gonna be some competition. And Antonio Williams

2500
02:13:27,320 --> 02:13:29,120
Speaker 1: is a guy that fits right in with Zach Mowson

2501
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Speaker 1: Devin Singletary. I mean those those are three guys that

2502
02:13:34,280 --> 02:13:38,200
Speaker 1: are very very equal. I think Uh and Tonio Williams.

2503
02:13:38,200 --> 02:13:41,200
Speaker 1: Both those guys are a little bigger than Devin Singletary. Yep.

2504
02:13:41,840 --> 02:13:44,120
Speaker 1: But Devin and his shiftiness, it's gonna it's gonna be

2505
02:13:44,160 --> 02:13:46,640
Speaker 1: interesting training camp we ever get there. He's more like Zach.

2506
02:13:46,800 --> 02:13:49,680
Speaker 1: I think contact balance, you know, lower his shoulder, that

2507
02:13:49,720 --> 02:13:52,160
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Yeah, it'd be interesting competition for sure.

2508
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Speaker 1: Be sure to join Steve and I tomorrow when we'll

2509
02:13:55,600 --> 02:13:58,200
Speaker 1: have the founder of the NFL Draft Scout and ESPN

2510
02:13:58,280 --> 02:14:01,080
Speaker 1: Draft analyst Matt Miller on the You don't want to

2511
02:14:01,080 --> 02:14:03,080
Speaker 1: miss it as we get closer to draft time to

2512
02:14:03,280 --> 02:14:05,720
Speaker 1: this spring. We'll see you tomorrow here on one Bills Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Colli to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.