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Speaker 1: a restrictive cap, You've got two starters and a top

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Speaker 1: one form or another, Butcker being restricted, Feliciano and Williams

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Speaker 1: being unrestricted. So how do you address the Bills offensive

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Speaker 1: line make up this offseason? When we asked this question,

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Speaker 1: we're asking you kind of a multi layered question here.

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Speaker 1: Who do you resign? Who can you afford? Where do

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Speaker 1: you look to replenish talent the draft or free agency?

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Speaker 1: These are all things that we're asking you at eight

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Speaker 1: two five fifty. You can give us an answer on

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Speaker 1: the Twitter poll as well. Provide your answers there at

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live on our Twitter handle, so we'll take

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Speaker 1: any and all answers or suggestions on that end. We

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Speaker 1: do want to go to the phones though, at eight

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Speaker 1: O three oh five fifty open line for you there,

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Speaker 1: and we'll begin today with Karen and East Damhurst, Karen,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one bills

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Speaker 1: live him. I just happened to put your show on,

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Speaker 1: accidentally running the channels on my TV. Well, we're glad

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Speaker 1: you stopped where you did. I did, yes, And you know,

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Speaker 1: I watched that three o'clock game on Saturday, the one

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Speaker 1: Saturday you guys were on it at three o'clock in

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Speaker 1: the afternoon. They played Okay, go ahead. And one thing

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Speaker 1: I noticed, and it's really making me kind of sad,

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Speaker 1: is that the guys are so rough with each other,

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Speaker 1: throwing each other around the field. It's not what I'm

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Speaker 1: used to seeing in football as a teenager or a kid. Okay,

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Speaker 1: what game are you referring to? You know, I can't remember.

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Speaker 1: All I know is I got really upset with that game.

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Speaker 1: It was just before the Super Bowl. Yeah, the AFC

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Speaker 1: Championship game against the Kansas City Chief. Yeah. I did

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Speaker 1: get a little chippy. You're right, They're right. And I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you when that game was over, I was really

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Speaker 1: those guys were throwing the other ones around the other team,

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Speaker 1: not our team. Yeah, our team didn't start it. No,

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Speaker 1: it was the other team. Yeah, very upset about that

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Speaker 1: kind of a thing going in. It's Karen, I get it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And we address that actually on the show the following Monday,

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Speaker 1: saying that too many officials at all levels of sports

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Speaker 1: the rules of the game. They're also there to control

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Speaker 1: the temperament of the game. And if you let things

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Speaker 1: in the helmet with no repercussions and let other stuff

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Speaker 1: then you have something that you can't control anymore because

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Speaker 1: you have two sides going at each other in a

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Speaker 1: way that runs a foul of the rules, and then

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Speaker 1: you've lost control of the game. And that's what we

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Speaker 1: saw to a certain extent in that game. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: that's that's the way it is. We did. We had

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Speaker 1: a long conversation about it, and that I put that

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Speaker 1: on the officials. The players are going to play it

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Speaker 1: to the level of which they can get away with

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Speaker 1: trying to win, and the officials need to keep a

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Speaker 1: lid on and they didn't. I thought in that and

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Speaker 1: it was a much different, much different atmosphere in the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl two weeks later. Um, Carl Jeffers was the

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Speaker 1: Game official, was he not? He was? Yes, so well,

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Speaker 1: no Jeffers. I think Jeffers did the Ravens game. That's

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Speaker 1: what the Bills. The Jeffers did the Ravens game, and

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Speaker 1: then he also did the Super Bowl for the for

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, the Chiefs Bucks. So you know, consistency, I've

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Speaker 1: ask for from officials. I thought that game, whenever it

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Speaker 1: making it like that. And I think that game, that

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Speaker 1: AFC Championship Game, is a perfect example. How would you

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Speaker 1: address the Bills offensive line make up this offseason? Eight

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Speaker 1: oh three five fifty one fifty two five fifty open

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Speaker 1: line for you there, But we go to frank and

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Speaker 1: Williamsville for rank what do you have for us You're

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Speaker 1: on one Bills Live. I would like to ask you

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Speaker 1: guys a two part question and then I'll hang up

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Speaker 1: and listen. Sure it has to do with obviously the

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Speaker 1: game on Sunday, And the first part of the question

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Speaker 1: is do the Buffalo Bills is it starts stands right now?

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Speaker 1: Do they have the personnel to beat the Kansas City

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Speaker 1: Steve wild Back, you mentioned about every game has its

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Speaker 1: happened the way they happen, or does it manage that way?

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Speaker 1: Did the Tampa Bay people do something different than the

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Speaker 1: Bills do? Or even the Green Bay game with Green

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Speaker 1: the field. Do these does the games become like a

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Speaker 1: thing of their own or is it the DNA of

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Speaker 1: these games managed by the coaches and the coordinator. Well,

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Speaker 1: every game is different because every every team's got different

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Speaker 1: strengths and weaknesses. So for instance, if if just an example,

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Speaker 1: if you've got a great defensive line in Tampa Bay

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Speaker 1: great secondary in just an okay defensive line, the matchups different,

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Speaker 1: and the coordinators are going to call different plays because

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Speaker 1: they'll call plays tilted towards that guy, or they'll use

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Speaker 1: that guy as a decoy. All and wherever they line

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Speaker 1: him up makes every play different, and every play is

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Speaker 1: different for that reason, and that makes every game different.

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Speaker 1: So you talk about a DNA, yeah, the Bills could

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Speaker 1: beat that. The Bills could beat any team on a

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Speaker 1: given Sunday. We had this conversation yesterday Frank that we

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Speaker 1: thought that that Super Bowl as a and transpose that

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Speaker 1: onto the AFC Championship game. The Chiefs played better against

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Speaker 1: the Bills than they did against the Bucks. And some

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Speaker 1: of that was and a lot of it was the

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, no question about it. But also like

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Speaker 1: for instance, the Baltimore Ravens didn't play as well as

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Speaker 1: they could have played when they came to Buffalo and

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Speaker 1: played him in the Divis round. But the Bills played

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Speaker 1: much better against the Ravens, both defensively and offensively than

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Speaker 1: they did against the Chiefs in the championship game. You've

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Speaker 1: got to play well on a given day, and it's

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Speaker 1: a little unpredictable as to why that, why it is

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Speaker 1: playing well. Whatever. It could have been a bad breakfast

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Speaker 1: for all we know. The point of the matter is this.

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Speaker 1: I think the Bills can beat the Chiefs on any

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Speaker 1: given Sunday. I think the Chiefs can beat the Buccaneers

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Speaker 1: on any given Sunday. I think the Baltimore Ravens can

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Speaker 1: beat those teams on any given Sunday. But they got

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Speaker 1: to play well on that day. And every game is different,

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Speaker 1: with the officiating, with the game plan, with who's healthy

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Speaker 1: who's not, with what each team does well and what

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Speaker 1: they don't do well, and what they're doing well now

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Speaker 1: that they didn't do the last time these two teams played.

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Speaker 1: Everything goes in the mix, and there's a million variables

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Speaker 1: So every game is different, even between the same two teams,

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Speaker 1: as We've seen a couple of times this year, so

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Speaker 1: I would agree, yes. I would say, yeah, the Bills

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Speaker 1: weeks ago at the end of the season. Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: Bills could beat that team. They can't do it in

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Speaker 1: the same way as they're currently constituted that the Bucks

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Speaker 1: did it in my estimation, because they cannot get pressure

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Speaker 1: with their front four. You would take every one of

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Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers starting four defensive linemen over every

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Speaker 1: you put out there in the starting lineup. Ask ten

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Speaker 1: NFL executives, they would take all four of Tampa Bay's

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Speaker 1: just I guarantee it. I mean, there's just the talent

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Speaker 1: and Edmonds, but I'm telling you right now, most NFL

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Speaker 1: executives are taken Devin White and Lavonte David over those

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Speaker 1: two men as it stands now and response to the caller,

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Speaker 1: After the game, the Bucks played exactly the Chiefs, exactly

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Speaker 1: the same way the Bills tried to play the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: The Bucks just got it done with the guys up front.

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Speaker 1: They got they were chasing Pat Mahomes all over the yard,

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Speaker 1: and the Bills couldn't get there that fast and do that,

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Speaker 1: do it that well, and that that was the difference

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Speaker 1: and that's from a lot of sources, not just us.

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Speaker 1: Tom and Fairport will be up next on the phones

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Speaker 1: at eight three, five fifty. But there is an open

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Speaker 1: line for you there. How would you address the Bill's

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Speaker 1: offensive line make up this offseason? You know they have

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Speaker 1: free agents to take care of from their own roster.

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Speaker 1: Do they look in free agency to add to the

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Speaker 1: try to replenish the talent there? And who can you afford?

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live, Chris Brown, Steve Castor. As we are

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Speaker 1: asking you on a Wednesday, how would you address the

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Speaker 1: And you've got some free agents among that group from

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Speaker 1: feel free to chime in an eight O three, five

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Speaker 1: But we go back to the phones now and we

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Speaker 1: lead off with JJ and Buffalo JJ, what do you

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Speaker 1: have for us here on one Bills Live. Hi, guys,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing today good. Good. So the offensive

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Speaker 1: offensive line. You have to give the offensive lines from credit. Okay,

642
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,280
Speaker 1: when the guys passing forty five, fifty fifty five times

643
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 1: a game, but we're not running into the third and

644
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: fourth quarter when we establish a lead. Obviously that other

645
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: teams can see off on us all game long with

646
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: the pass rush. So my question is, I mean, are

647
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,720
Speaker 1: we talking about the play call here, are we talking

648
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 1: about the lack of a stunt running back? Or are

649
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: we talking about a bad offensive line? I mean, in

650
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: my Homble opinion. You know, I think we should call

651
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: the running plays a lot more when we get up

652
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,240
Speaker 1: by a slight lead. And I think that maybe the Bills,

653
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: instead of focusing on drafting we're citing big name offensive linemen,

654
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: should go after a running back that can really pound

655
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: it between the tackles when we get a little lead.

656
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I like their approach this year. They signed

657
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: like eight or ten guys medium level offensive lineman. Let

658
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,400
Speaker 1: them off fight it out for the five jobs. And honestly,

659
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: I don't think the problem lies with the offensive line.

660
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:48,399
Speaker 1: I'm going to hang up and see what you guys

661
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: think about that. Okakay, thanks for the call, JJ, appreciate it.

662
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: I will I will say this. It was a good

663
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: pass blocking unit, probably above average. They were pretty good,

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Speaker 1: you know, protecting Josh Allen, especially down the stretch. I

665
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 1: think there was like a four or five game stretch

666
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 1: where it was only sacked once in an entire game. Now,

667
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: Josh's escapability certainly helps in that regard. He helps make

668
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: that line look good in certain cases, but the vast

669
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 1: majority of their performance in terms of pass protection was

670
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: very good this season. The problem lies in their ability

671
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: to execute in the run game when they absolutely have

672
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,479
Speaker 1: to run the football in the cases that you mentioned JJ,

673
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 1: when they're up on the scoreboard and they want to

674
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: shorten the game, they had trouble doing that. They really

675
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:32,919
Speaker 1: only did that in two games this year, the last

676
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 1: seven minutes of the Steelers game when they were up

677
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: and the Chargers game and the New England game was

678
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: a lot tighter, though, I mean, they're a force fumble

679
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 1: away from losing that game potentially, So I would say

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00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 1: the best two examples are probably the Chargers game where

681
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:48,840
Speaker 1: they ran it more than they threw it, and the

682
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 1: Steelers game where they killed the last seven minutes on

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00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 1: the clock. Outside of that, though, it was tough sledding

684
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: when they run it. When they were running it and

685
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: the opponents knew they were running it, they stoned them.

686
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: This team is not good on first down running the football,

687
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 1: which is why Brian Dabele eventually came to the conclusion

688
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:08,399
Speaker 1: of we're having trouble running on first down, so we're

689
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: just going to throw it all the time. And they

690
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:11,839
Speaker 1: wound up throwing the ball more than any other team

691
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 1: in the league on first down in terms of percentages.

692
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Speaker 1: So I think what you're dealing with here is number one,

693
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 1: you need the guys up front to perform better in

694
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 1: the execution of the run game. Schematics number two. I

695
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 1: do agree with you to a certain extent. JJ. There

696
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: is a schematic element to some of the struggles that

697
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 1: the run game had. Namely, they went away from being

698
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,320
Speaker 1: any kind of a gap scheme whatsoever and went almost

699
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 1: solely to a zone running scheme, and they ran outside

700
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: zone and an ordinate amount of times. And with the

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00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: two backs that they have who are not burners and

702
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: can't get to the edge as quick as maybe a

703
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:53,240
Speaker 1: faster back en, I think it didn't match up very well.

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00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,839
Speaker 1: And it allowed even those safeties that are playing deep

705
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 1: to respect Buffalo's pass game to flow to the ball

706
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: if it's an outside and they can get an angle

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00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 1: on that play and make a play close to the

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00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, where if you have a guy that

709
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: can get to the edge quickly, they're not hitting him

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00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: until these five or six yards down the field. And

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00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 1: so then you say, well, maybe they should have schemed

712
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 1: up more inside runs, straight ahead running, if you will,

713
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 1: to get those backs who are not super explosive to

714
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and to the second level quicker,

715
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,280
Speaker 1: but maybe they didn't feel they could execute those based

716
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: on the lineman they had. I don't know. These are

717
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 1: questions that only the coaching staff can answer. Yeah, it's

718
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,359
Speaker 1: and now there's no simple answer. You can't say, well,

719
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: the offensive line wasn't good enough. You know, the back

720
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 1: wasn't good enough, the offensive coordiner wasn't committed enough, they

721
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:44,919
Speaker 1: weren't successful enough. All of those things are probably true

722
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: at one point or another. And what happens I think

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00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 1: in a lot in a large measure, if you're going

724
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 1: to generalize, which is what we all have to do anyway,

725
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't get into the film study and

726
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,479
Speaker 1: say because the same play could be running, there would

727
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: be two different reasons. We don't know what their responsibilities.

728
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 1: I think the simple fact of matters. They just need

729
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 1: to get more consistent execution upfront. The running backs have

730
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: to probably have a hand in that as well, finding

731
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: the right spot or making a little something out of

732
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: something that might not have been there. It could be

733
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 1: the defensive front that they face on a given play.

734
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 1: But I think I knew know this calling play as

735
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 1: offensively philosophically as this. When you've got stuff that works,

736
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: really well, most of the time they get you get

737
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 1: you give that stuff more opportunity to work more. So,

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00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 1: if you got a running game that's not doing really

739
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 1: all that good, but you got a running back and

740
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 1: a quarterback that's killing it, you're not gonna take the

741
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 1: ball out of his hands. You're gonna keep doing that

742
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 1: until a team stops it. And this team at times

743
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: during this season was unstoppable, so they had no reason

744
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:54,359
Speaker 1: to turn around hand the ball off. There's a little

745
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: bit of that going on. The running game wasn't as

746
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 1: productive and therefore it didn't get as many opportunities, and

747
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: when it did get as many opportunities, it was even

748
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: less successful, and they went to it even less. But

749
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: by the same token, they were handful. Man. They were

750
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: thirteen and three and with a shot with a hail

751
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,399
Speaker 1: Mary going fourteen and two. They were a really good

752
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 1: football team because they could throw it whenever they wanted to,

753
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:26,399
Speaker 1: I mean whenever they wanted to, and they didn't really

754
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 1: need to or want to run the ball. Well, but

755
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: when they got into games where you play these really

756
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:32,880
Speaker 1: good teams in the playoffs, in the deep and in

757
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:36,359
Speaker 1: the divisional round, in the championship round, yeah, you got

758
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 1: to be a more complete football team than the Bills were,

759
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: and they certainly didn't get very many game reps because

760
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: the way they were winning games didn't lend itself to

761
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: them getting grooved in. The running game didn't get didn't

762
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,799
Speaker 1: They weren't a team that was gonna run it more

763
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,359
Speaker 1: than they threw it. So, I mean, there's a ton

764
00:40:55,440 --> 00:41:00,360
Speaker 1: of stuff folded into this run game quote unquote problem

765
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: that the Bills had, and it's a little overblown because

766
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 1: when you when you look at a team like the

767
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,839
Speaker 1: Bills and you're thinking, okay, what where they came up shore, Well,

768
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:08,359
Speaker 1: they could have run the ball a little better? Yet,

769
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: and they were thirteen and three and they scored five

770
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: hundred points. I think they just want to I think

771
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:14,839
Speaker 1: they the coaching staff in the front office just wants

772
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: to believe that when they need it, it's there and

773
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: it can be effective. That's all they're looking for here.

774
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:22,279
Speaker 1: So how do they get to that point? And that's

775
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: what they've got to work on. All this is all

776
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 1: academic at this point, because you can't go back and

777
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 1: this offensive line is gonna be five, maybe three or

778
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: four certainly a different combination than it was at any point.

779
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: This year, they're gonna have new faces up there. It's

780
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,839
Speaker 1: gonna be a completely different offensive line next year. All

781
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 1: this stuff about last year's academic yeah, because they got

782
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 1: to build it from the ground up again. All Right,

783
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:42,919
Speaker 1: we're up against the break, so we have to step

784
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,439
Speaker 1: aside quickly. Tom in Fairport, you'll lead us off next.

785
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 1: He's got a question about Mitch Morse and where his

786
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: cap situation puts him this offseason. We'll get to that

787
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Speaker 1: when we return here on One Bill's Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Colloid to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back the

789
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: One Bills Live. First round seat chaster with you talking

790
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 1: about the way to handle Buffalo's offensive line this offseason.

791
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 1: You know about the free agents, the right tackle Daryl Williams,

792
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: the right guard, John Feliciano. You also got Ike Bucker

793
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 1: a restricted free agent, Brian Winners, Tie and Seki. There's

794
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 1: going to be change on the offensive line. But what

795
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,319
Speaker 1: is the best course of action there in terms of

796
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:30,799
Speaker 1: who you resign, who you go out and sign, who

797
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 1: you can afford, where do you look to replenish the

798
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 1: talent with respect to the draft? Eight three five fifty,

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Speaker 1: we go to Tom in Fairport, Tom, what do you

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Speaker 1: have for us? You're on one bills live. Hey, thanks

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00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:46,720
Speaker 1: for taking my call today. Guys, Sure a few things here. First,

802
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 1: I know that decisions have to be made for this team,

803
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:54,200
Speaker 1: and the line's a big thing. First words, Ford play.

804
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: He plays a better guard than he did tackle. That's

805
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 1: my first point. And Mike Buckner, I think his tenders

806
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: affordable and I think he's they should bring him back

807
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 1: and suck it with Mitch Morris. I don't know what

808
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 1: his cap hit is or what his situation is, but

809
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:18,720
Speaker 1: with the concussions and with the injury, maybe that decision

810
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: has to be made and that could free up the

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Speaker 1: money for Feliciano. I'll hang up and listen to your thoughts. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would tend to agree with you, Tom. I think

813
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 1: Ford is a better guard than a tackle. But if

814
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 1: for some reason they can't get Daryl Williams back into

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00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 1: the fold and they can't find a suitable veteran to

816
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 1: replace him, they may have to kick Ford out to

817
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 1: write tackle again like they did in his rookie year.

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00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:43,439
Speaker 1: That is something that could happen that may force their

819
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: hand if they can't afford to get Daryl Williams back

820
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: in the fold, and I would make him priority number

821
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:52,479
Speaker 1: one among the free agents that they have on offensive line.

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00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 1: I unily Daryl Williams back, I think even more than

823
00:43:55,640 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 1: John Feliciano, quite frankly. And then with respect to Butcher, yes,

824
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:03,879
Speaker 1: he's a restricted free agent. You give him the low

825
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,399
Speaker 1: tender and you can get him back. The only risk

826
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: there is if someone else signs him to an offer sheet.

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00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,360
Speaker 1: You get no compensation if you sign him at the

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00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 1: low tender because he was an undrafted rookie, So that's

829
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:19,240
Speaker 1: the risk you have there. Then with respect to Mitch Morse,

830
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,919
Speaker 1: I don't think he's a cap casualty, but I think

831
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 1: he is a prime candidate for a contract restructuring. And

832
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: just to bring everybody up to speed, he's in the

833
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 1: third year, he's entering the third year of a four

834
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 1: year deal. He's got a base salary of just over

835
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:37,239
Speaker 1: seven million dollars in twenty twenty one and a cap

836
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:42,359
Speaker 1: hit of ten point three. The problem is, even if

837
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:44,360
Speaker 1: you cut him, you leave five and a half million

838
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 1: of dead cap on your books, and that's just not

839
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: a thing that makes sense from a money standpoint number one,

840
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:55,359
Speaker 1: and then number two, I don't think subtracting him from

841
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 1: your roster helps you. All you're doing is creating another

842
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:01,279
Speaker 1: hole to fill. Yes, can you fill it with John

843
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 1: Feliciano if you resign him, Yes, But I don't think

844
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 1: that's a productive way to solve your problem. So I

845
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:10,720
Speaker 1: think the Bills go to Mitch Morris at some point

846
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:13,279
Speaker 1: this offseason and see if they can work out a

847
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:16,720
Speaker 1: restructured deal with him. Maybe extend him a year, maybe

848
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 1: two years, give him some more money up front, that

849
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: kind of thing to alleviate his cap figure right now,

850
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 1: to make more room to address your offensive line by

851
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: bringing other people back, or whatever the case might would be.

852
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: What amount two is putting a third year on outside

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Speaker 1: of the next two at a small with a small salary,

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Speaker 1: and then giving him most of what he's going to

855
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 1: get over the next two years as a bonus for

856
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:48,319
Speaker 1: this year to make his number this year more palatable.

857
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 1: Knowing you're dealing with a restrictive care give him this,

858
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 1: give him his salary this year of what seven million

859
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:55,800
Speaker 1: bucks or whatever, give it to him as a bonus,

860
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: a roster bonus or a camp bonus or whatever. And

861
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:01,879
Speaker 1: then you give him like a you know, a couple

862
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 1: of hundred thousand dollars as a salary this year, but

863
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 1: he's already got the money in his pocket, and then

864
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 1: next year he would have him you know, his cap

865
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 1: hit would be mostly bonus anyway as well, and in

866
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:16,320
Speaker 1: his third year he would get it be all salary.

867
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 1: So you know, you can structure it that way. You

868
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 1: alleviate some of the pain you're going to feel this

869
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: year with the constricted cap and uh and Morse would

870
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 1: probably go to it because he gets the money up front. Yeah, well, yeah,

871
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 1: you gotta give him. Provide an incentive for the guy

872
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 1: that's helping you out. So I think he's a prime

873
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:38,440
Speaker 1: candidate for a contract restructuring. Let's go to Patrick and

874
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 1: Hamilton next. Patrick, what do you have for us? You're

875
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:45,800
Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live. Yes, first of all, they I

876
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 1: agree with what Steve said about the refereeing and that

877
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,759
Speaker 1: with the with the game, because the first thing I

878
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 1: noticed when they played Kansas City was boy, that these

879
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:57,880
Speaker 1: guys are being real physical with the receivers. And I

880
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:00,360
Speaker 1: thought when they played Tampa Bay said they would have

881
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 1: never got away with that. But my question is when

882
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 1: the Belts are playing zone against Kansas City and it

883
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,360
Speaker 1: seemed like somebody would just slide into a soft spot

884
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:13,920
Speaker 1: in the zone. And is there not a way that

885
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:17,240
Speaker 1: we'll say the back person in the zone can say, Okay,

886
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: there's three of us here and only one go man,

887
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: go man. Direct one of the linebackers to go a

888
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 1: man in the receiver. Well, I mean, Steve can speak

889
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 1: better to this than I can. But there are times

890
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 1: where maybe on one half of the field you do

891
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 1: play man. If you're shadowing a guy, for example, maybe

892
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: you have Tardavious White following somebody, he might man up

893
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 1: his man on his side and they might play zone

894
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: on the other half of the field. That can happen

895
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 1: at times with respect to coverages. But the simple answer

896
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:47,800
Speaker 1: to this, Patrick, I think, is you play zone coverage

897
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 1: effectively if you have a front four that can get

898
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 1: consistent pressure. And that's what Tampa Bay had and that's

899
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 1: why their zone coverage schemes were more effective than you

900
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:00,360
Speaker 1: saw from the Bills, because they were four singing the

901
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,759
Speaker 1: quarterback into hurry throws. If he can sit back there

902
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:04,319
Speaker 1: all day, he can wait for a guy to sit

903
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 1: in a soft spot. But if you have a better

904
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: pass rush, your own coverage on the back end is

905
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: a lot more effective, right, And the Bills, if they

906
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 1: wanted to get pressure, they send extra people, which means

907
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 1: the guys filling the zones in the defensive secondary, there's

908
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 1: fewer of them and there's more space to cut bigger spaces.

909
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:27,319
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's that's why I mean, ideally, let's just

910
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 1: I'll exaggerate to make a point. You would want to

911
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,680
Speaker 1: drop ten guys into coverage where there's no place to

912
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:34,840
Speaker 1: throw it and get a pass rush with this one guy.

913
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 1: That would be great, right, So the quarterback is running

914
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 1: for his life from the one guy you sent to

915
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: rush him and nine other guys you can double up

916
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: almost everybody else, right. So that's that's the exaggeration of

917
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:49,840
Speaker 1: what you're thinking about. Four defensive lineman rushing the passer,

918
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 1: getting quick pressure on him. And that is the key

919
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:57,799
Speaker 1: to being a great defense in today's NFL, because the

920
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:00,319
Speaker 1: guys in the secondary are so well well school enough

921
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 1: and athletic enough to stick with anybody. Like you know,

922
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:04,360
Speaker 1: even if you've got a Tyreek Hill in the Travis

923
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:09,280
Speaker 1: Kelsey Mahomes can't find him. They just can't find them

924
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:11,719
Speaker 1: because the pressure gets there too quick and there's too

925
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:14,319
Speaker 1: many guys covering them up break time for us. But

926
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Speaker 1: when we return, we have the founder of spot track,

927
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Speaker 1: one of the best salary cap sites, not only for

928
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 1: the NFL but for all professional sports. Our own Mike

929
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 1: Janitty will join us next and we call him our

930
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 1: own because he's a local guy. So we talked to Mike.

931
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: Next is we try to survey the offensive line landscape

932
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:38,960
Speaker 1: and some of the financial breakdowns of the Bills by position,

933
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: because I can tell you right now, as we pointed

934
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:44,880
Speaker 1: out yesterday, there was an inordinate percentage of Buffalo's salary

935
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: cap commitments to the defensive line, and that's the area

936
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:50,719
Speaker 1: that one area of the team that has to change significantly.

937
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 1: How did they address that? We'll talk to Mike about

938
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Speaker 1: that next. Here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health,

939
00:49:55,880 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio, Hello Hills Radio Network, Sports or

940
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 1: sports Update from One Bill's Drive. Russell Wilson confirmed a

941
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 1: report over the weekend that he has grown increasingly frustrated

942
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 1: by the team's inability to protect him, saying quote, I'm

943
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:21,239
Speaker 1: frustrated at getting hit too much. Seahawks QB made those

944
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:24,399
Speaker 1: remarks on Tuesday. Wilson has taken three hundred ninety four

945
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,359
Speaker 1: sacks in his nine seasons, including forty seven last year.

946
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:30,439
Speaker 1: Wilson also said earlier Tuesday on The Dan Patrick Show

947
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: he wasn't sure whether he's available in a trade or not,

948
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: adding quote, that's a Seahawks question. Like Tom Brady, Wilson

949
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:39,360
Speaker 1: also wants a voice in the makeup of the roster.

950
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 1: Quarterback Taylor Heineke was a good bet to return to

951
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: the Washington Football Tream team as a restricted free agent

952
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 1: this offseason, but now he's a sure bet. On Wednesday,

953
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: Heinekey agreed to a two year deal with the team

954
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 1: worth eight point seven five million, which also includes incentives

955
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 1: tied to how many starts he makes. Heineck signed with

956
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 1: Washington's practice squad in December, replacing Dwayne Haskins, and started

957
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:03,960
Speaker 1: the team's wildcard playoff game against the Bucks. There's been

958
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,720
Speaker 1: scuttle butt a plenty in regard to Las Vegas Raiders

959
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: quarterback Derek Carr being a trade candidate. However, there's a

960
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: chance a Raiders QB could be dealt, but it's not Car.

961
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 1: Following one season as a backup with the Raiders and

962
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:18,240
Speaker 1: one very impressive showing in relief of car Marcus Mariota

963
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 1: is drawing trade suitors in Mariota, though the Raiders have

964
00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 1: a former first rounder who flashed brilliance in twenty twenty

965
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 1: and has some believing promise lies ahead. This year's rookie

966
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: evaluations are kickstarted early, with presumptive number one overall picked

967
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, holding a pro day throwing session for teams

968
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:39,359
Speaker 1: this Friday. Lawrence is holding the throwing session early so

969
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 1: he can have laboram surgery on his non throwing shoulder,

970
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 1: rest up and be ready in plenty of time for

971
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:47,239
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one NFL season. The Savers back on

972
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 1: the ice this morning as the team tries to get

973
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: back to game action following a week long pause due

974
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:54,080
Speaker 1: to COVID protocol issues last week. The team now faces

975
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: a more condensed schedule, with a total of six games

976
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:59,800
Speaker 1: being postponed. Their next schedule game is Monday against the

977
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:03,400
Speaker 1: new Our Islanders here in Buffalo. That's your sports update

978
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:06,400
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. Chris brown'ste tasker with you for

979
00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:09,399
Speaker 1: hour number two of the show and joining us on

980
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 1: the line right now is the spot Track founder and editor,

981
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 1: also host of the spot Track podcast. It is one

982
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 1: Mike Jinitty joining us. Mike, how you doing, guy, Everything

983
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 1: well with you and your family doing well? Guys. Thanks

984
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:25,840
Speaker 1: for having me back on the show. Yeah, no problem.

985
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 1: We wanted to get you on because we're trying to

986
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 1: kind of dice up what is going to be a

987
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 1: very restrictive cap situation, as you well know, for the

988
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 1: Bills and for that matter, thirty one other NFL teams

989
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:39,319
Speaker 1: who were budgeting for somewhere between two ten and two

990
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,400
Speaker 1: fifteen as a cap, and that is not going to

991
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 1: be the case even in a best case scenario. I

992
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 1: think one ninety might be the absolute peak of where

993
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:51,520
Speaker 1: the league may go with the number four this year.

994
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 1: So I guess give us your initial impressions, Mike as

995
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:58,319
Speaker 1: to what you think that means for the Bills in

996
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 1: their current cap situation. Yeah, you're right, thirty two teams

997
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:04,800
Speaker 1: have to deal with this now. It sounds like that

998
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 1: number is down more than one eighty one mark, which

999
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 1: is lower than than I was I was anticipating. I was,

1000
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:11,760
Speaker 1: I was with you. I thought one nine the floor

1001
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 1: when we got down to business here, So I'm a

1002
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 1: little disappointed to see it's going to be lower than that,

1003
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: which means, you know, there's probably one or two players

1004
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:20,719
Speaker 1: and every single roster now that are going to be

1005
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,080
Speaker 1: on the on the wrong side of it, whether that's

1006
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 1: you know, an absolute pay cut to stay or just

1007
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 1: a flat out cap casualty. You know, in terms of

1008
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 1: the Bills, that's probably John Brown. You know, he's probably

1009
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 1: not on my list in a normal cap yere whether

1010
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:37,360
Speaker 1: we're a cap neutral or cap increase, but you know,

1011
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:41,880
Speaker 1: going down eighteen million in cap space, his numbers probably

1012
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:43,799
Speaker 1: too high right now as it stands, So that's probably

1013
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:45,440
Speaker 1: the one that stands out for the Bills. How much

1014
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,240
Speaker 1: space do you think if a team most teams feel

1015
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: comfortable going into free agency where they're they're kind of

1016
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 1: in the same spot as the Bills, and most of

1017
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 1: these teams where they've got maybe one position or two position,

1018
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:58,839
Speaker 1: maybe three guys they'd like, maybe three starters, they've got

1019
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 1: to maybe find a replace four or something like that.

1020
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:03,840
Speaker 1: How much cap space do you think is comfortable for

1021
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 1: those teams if they're going to get like a middle

1022
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:07,640
Speaker 1: of the road free agent and you're not going to

1023
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:10,600
Speaker 1: pay fifteen million bucks for running back or something like that.

1024
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:13,920
Speaker 1: You know, how much what does the what do you

1025
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 1: think they're the thoughts are most of the league as

1026
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 1: to how comfortable they need to be to get done

1027
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:22,359
Speaker 1: what they want to get done. I think if your

1028
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:24,759
Speaker 1: draft class, if you've got a standard draft class and

1029
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:28,320
Speaker 1: you're looking for one decent sized free agent swing, fifteen

1030
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 1: millions probably the low mark. That's the floor you want

1031
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 1: to be at in terms of what you want to

1032
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:35,360
Speaker 1: end up into. Um, you know, most teams like to

1033
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,399
Speaker 1: be in that twenty to twenty five million dollar range,

1034
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 1: and really, you know, the four or five cap casualties

1035
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 1: I have for the Bills gets them to about twenty

1036
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 1: two in terms of our numbers. So that's that's the

1037
00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:46,279
Speaker 1: sweet spot. I think that you want to be in

1038
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:49,759
Speaker 1: with you know, some minor holes to fill, some some

1039
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:52,879
Speaker 1: BC free agents to bring in, and a decent sized

1040
00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:55,400
Speaker 1: draft class to sign as well. So between fifteen and

1041
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:57,719
Speaker 1: twenty five is the sweet spot. Anywhere anywhere inside of there,

1042
00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:01,520
Speaker 1: you're you're probably okay. Here's the canal I find myself

1043
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 1: and when I try to map out where they may go,

1044
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:07,360
Speaker 1: Mike with respect to the defensive line in particular, because

1045
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:12,280
Speaker 1: that's the position group that is gobbling up the largest

1046
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 1: percentage of their cap right now thirty percent at fifty

1047
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:19,400
Speaker 1: five million in change, and that group, I think, in

1048
00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 1: terms of a pass rush anyway, greatly underachieved in delivering

1049
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:26,680
Speaker 1: what they were counted on to deliver. And so now

1050
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 1: you've got a situation where you've got veteran players that

1051
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:32,839
Speaker 1: cost a good deal of money, some of which are

1052
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:35,480
Speaker 1: not even in the final year of their deals. Mario Addison,

1053
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 1: Vernon Butler, Quentin Jefferson. And now you have to ask yourself,

1054
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 1: do we just need to give this group more time

1055
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:47,399
Speaker 1: or do we have to make some difficult decisions and

1056
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 1: cut these contracts off now to try to retool with

1057
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:55,000
Speaker 1: a different group of talent and hope that we're better.

1058
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:58,759
Speaker 1: I guess my question to you, Mike, is how easy

1059
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:01,879
Speaker 1: or difficult is that based on the numbers that those

1060
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:04,479
Speaker 1: guys sit at right now, Number one, the dead cap

1061
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:07,840
Speaker 1: they would put on the bill's ledger, and then what

1062
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 1: could potentially be out there in terms of talent. Well,

1063
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 1: that's that's exactly the position that I'm identifying as being

1064
00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:16,920
Speaker 1: able to clear as much space as possible, because you're right,

1065
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Speaker 1: there's three players there that could go, you know, on

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00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:24,520
Speaker 1: most rosters, but they also have similar roles, So I

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00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 1: think it was more about signing those players for depth,

1068
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 1: not so much for long term, which was a good

1069
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 1: move obviously. You know it worked to some degree. You're

1070
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 1: getting kind of a free agent back in Star Latuli's

1071
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 1: got to kind of take on two of those roles,

1072
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 1: so you've already kind of fit the bill with that,

1073
00:56:39,239 --> 00:56:42,320
Speaker 1: and you can squeeze him in financially, so that that's

1074
00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:44,600
Speaker 1: exactly what I'm talking about, where you Brandon being may

1075
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 1: go and say, hey, you want to take pay cuts

1076
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:48,520
Speaker 1: straight out pay cuts to stand this roster. We're happy

1077
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:51,200
Speaker 1: to keep you here. But I think you can flip

1078
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:54,600
Speaker 1: two of those players into some sort of free agent

1079
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:57,520
Speaker 1: pass rusher just to get the quarterback guy, which I

1080
00:56:57,560 --> 00:57:00,200
Speaker 1: think this team is lacking outside of Jerry Hughes, who's

1081
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:02,160
Speaker 1: you know, on the wrong side of thirty at this point.

1082
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:04,839
Speaker 1: You said earlier that you thought maybe one or two

1083
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:07,880
Speaker 1: guys for every NFL team might be on the wrong

1084
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:11,319
Speaker 1: side of this. But you know, it's kind of a

1085
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:14,000
Speaker 1: spectrum because you've got all the Jaguars on one end

1086
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,640
Speaker 1: of it. Who've got you know, seventy nine million dollars

1087
00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:18,440
Speaker 1: in cap space all the way to the other end

1088
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:20,880
Speaker 1: where you've got New Orleans, who's seventy million dollars over

1089
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 1: the cap kind of thing, So everybody falls somewhere in there.

1090
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:26,720
Speaker 1: Is there going to be because of the you know,

1091
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:30,560
Speaker 1: eighteen million dollars cap hit, everybody's taken. Is there gonna

1092
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 1: be an you know, a flooding of the market at

1093
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 1: every position across the league, And there's gonna be some

1094
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:39,160
Speaker 1: teams that can really refurbish their rosters and some that

1095
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:43,000
Speaker 1: are gonna get gutted. Yeah, the teams that want to

1096
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:45,920
Speaker 1: play and bringing new toys at the top of that

1097
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 1: cap space list, they're gonna have the ability to do.

1098
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 1: So it's whether they want to or not. Right like,

1099
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 1: who are the Patriot? Who are the Patriots want to

1100
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:54,200
Speaker 1: be this year? You know, do the Colts need to

1101
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:56,200
Speaker 1: make wholesale changes or is that money going to a

1102
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 1: quarterback and then extending a lot of their own players,

1103
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:01,760
Speaker 1: seeing for a team like Washington, who's maybe a quarterback

1104
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 1: away right now, maybe Miami as well. So you know,

1105
00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 1: the Bills kind of fall in the middle of this

1106
00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:09,480
Speaker 1: conversation where they're going to have to create space to

1107
00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:11,120
Speaker 1: do any kind of damage they want to do in

1108
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:14,520
Speaker 1: terms of adding or resigning pieces. But you're right. You know,

1109
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:18,000
Speaker 1: a team like Jacksonville, outside of being able to bring

1110
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:20,120
Speaker 1: in Trevor Lawrence, they don't have much clout with them.

1111
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 1: But a team like Buffalo now has a winning pedigree

1112
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:24,080
Speaker 1: to go with it, so you're going to be able

1113
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:27,160
Speaker 1: to bring in players add a little bit less number

1114
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:29,360
Speaker 1: one because they're a winning franchise now, and number two

1115
00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:32,000
Speaker 1: because everybody's gonna have this cap crunch, So there's gonna

1116
00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 1: be leveraged from the front officers to say, hey, you

1117
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 1: got to play ball this year because everybody's gonna have

1118
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 1: to play ball. The interesting and I agree with you,

1119
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:42,680
Speaker 1: Mike about getting to go get the quarterback kind of

1120
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:45,960
Speaker 1: guy for the Bills. They obviously need that. The interesting

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00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:48,960
Speaker 1: thing that I found just using some of your number

1122
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 1: charts that you have cap allocation and whatnot for some

1123
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 1: of these teams positional spending, which is a great page

1124
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 1: that you got on your site Defensive Tackle. The Bills

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00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:01,080
Speaker 1: last year ranked fourth in the league in terms of

1126
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:05,080
Speaker 1: cap dollars, spent twenty point three million dollars, and we

1127
00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:08,240
Speaker 1: see what the results were both against the run, where

1128
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 1: they were like seventeenth in the league and yards per

1129
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:13,959
Speaker 1: carry against They were seventeenth in the league pass rush.

1130
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:16,479
Speaker 1: We know where they came up short there. So I said, okay,

1131
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:18,720
Speaker 1: well who's number one, two and three, who's ahead of

1132
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 1: the Bills in defensive tackle spending? Indianapolis with a premier

1133
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:27,440
Speaker 1: player in Brentson Buckner or DeForrest Buckner? Sorry, La Rams

1134
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 1: with a premier player in Aaron Donald, Philadelphia with a

1135
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:33,560
Speaker 1: premier player in Fletcher Cox. And Kansas City with a

1136
00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:36,720
Speaker 1: premier player in Chris Jones. Do you need a premier

1137
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 1: player as opposed to a collection of B tier players?

1138
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:42,800
Speaker 1: Is this what the evidence is telling us right now

1139
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:46,080
Speaker 1: going forward? Well, it's a great point because you know

1140
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:48,520
Speaker 1: many of the other discussions I'm having right now is

1141
00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:51,640
Speaker 1: the exact opposite. It's don't go heavy on any one

1142
00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:54,400
Speaker 1: singular player because it's all about depth, which is clearly

1143
00:59:54,440 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 1: what the Bills approach was last year with wide receiver,

1144
00:59:56,640 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 1: with defensive tackle, with a lot of positions, and you

1145
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:02,560
Speaker 1: know it held Fork down. But you're right, those numbers exist.

1146
01:00:02,560 --> 01:00:04,919
Speaker 1: But out Star, I mean Star is not a part

1147
01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:08,040
Speaker 1: of that cap percentage. So when we're talking about bringing

1148
01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:10,560
Speaker 1: him back in the fold, there's a surplus and if

1149
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:12,800
Speaker 1: you can you know, convert two, two or three of

1150
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:16,880
Speaker 1: those bodies into one sizeable player this offseason might even

1151
01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:18,640
Speaker 1: be a draft pick, you know, So maybe the cap

1152
01:00:18,720 --> 01:00:20,840
Speaker 1: isn't a part of this. Maybe it's more about just

1153
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:23,440
Speaker 1: getting the production out of one singular player. This is

1154
01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:25,840
Speaker 1: an area that the Bills can do this. I wouldn't

1155
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:29,000
Speaker 1: recommend this for the wide receiver position, the running back position,

1156
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 1: even the tight end position. To some degree, I think

1157
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:33,320
Speaker 1: those are positions you can still win with depth and

1158
01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:36,680
Speaker 1: lower overall spending. But look, you got to show up

1159
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:39,480
Speaker 1: the lines. There's no question about that. Yeah. And you

1160
01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:42,400
Speaker 1: talk about, you know, rolling those guys over or spending

1161
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 1: another they've already spent two high draft picks on the

1162
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:48,000
Speaker 1: defensive line with that Oliver and aj Epenesa they brought

1163
01:00:48,040 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 1: in the free agents. I don't think there's any question.

1164
01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:53,440
Speaker 1: I said this yesterday that the Bill's philosophy is pretty obvious.

1165
01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:57,440
Speaker 1: They want that d line to get pressure without help,

1166
01:00:58,040 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 1: and they were forced to bring a lot of help

1167
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 1: to get pressure this year. And I think their philosophy

1168
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:06,160
Speaker 1: is probably gonna stay the same. So the question becomes,

1169
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:08,480
Speaker 1: are they going to trade these guys out and try

1170
01:01:08,480 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 1: and get guys in who can come in and be

1171
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:13,560
Speaker 1: productive right away, or or are they gonna do it

1172
01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:15,920
Speaker 1: with a draft pick where they can get a cheap labor. Certainly,

1173
01:01:15,920 --> 01:01:18,280
Speaker 1: if they get a swing for the fence kind of guy,

1174
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:21,200
Speaker 1: like a like a JJ Water or a or whatever

1175
01:01:21,240 --> 01:01:25,080
Speaker 1: one of these other high named guys, they're only gonna have,

1176
01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:27,520
Speaker 1: you know, the same kind of guys around. They're gonna

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01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:29,440
Speaker 1: have lesser guys around them than what they feel it

1178
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:32,400
Speaker 1: even this year as far as death's good, because they're

1179
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna lose it wherever they spend it on

1180
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 1: that guy. Right, So it's where are you prioritizing your

1181
01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:41,600
Speaker 1: money early? Because look the names are mentioning you could

1182
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:44,600
Speaker 1: add Brandon Williams, Malie Jackson. There's gonna be some significant

1183
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:47,120
Speaker 1: cap casualties or just straight out releases from a lot

1184
01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:49,160
Speaker 1: of these franchises a little bit older, and we're not

1185
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:51,760
Speaker 1: talking about twenty five year olds, but uh, you know,

1186
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:53,640
Speaker 1: guys who should be able to produce for this two

1187
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:55,680
Speaker 1: to three year window that the Bills are gonna want

1188
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:58,439
Speaker 1: to push in. So, uh, you know, the next couple

1189
01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:00,520
Speaker 1: of weeks are big for teams like the Bills that

1190
01:02:00,920 --> 01:02:02,360
Speaker 1: don't have a ton of room to work with, but

1191
01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 1: want to bring an a vent who's been paid before,

1192
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:06,160
Speaker 1: who can play ball a little bit with the cap

1193
01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:09,240
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, but can make a significant impact

1194
01:02:09,240 --> 01:02:11,640
Speaker 1: in year one without having to do too much damage

1195
01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:13,160
Speaker 1: to the rest of the rosters. So you're right, it's

1196
01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:15,280
Speaker 1: a good year for that because we're seeing big names

1197
01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:18,280
Speaker 1: at least being discussed about moving forward. We look at

1198
01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 1: we're talking about the offensive line today on the show here, Mike,

1199
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:26,240
Speaker 1: and again go into your positional spending page. Third most

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01:02:26,360 --> 01:02:30,920
Speaker 1: money in the league last year, twentieth running the football,

1201
01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:33,440
Speaker 1: twentieth in yards per carry average, and they drop thirty

1202
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:36,720
Speaker 1: six point two million in investments on their offensive line.

1203
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:40,240
Speaker 1: You know, Las Vegas and Tampa were the only teams

1204
01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:42,600
Speaker 1: that spent more money than them, you know, on their

1205
01:02:42,640 --> 01:02:47,720
Speaker 1: respective offensive lines. Is this this situation? And you may

1206
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:49,400
Speaker 1: not even have the answer to this, so forgive me

1207
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:51,680
Speaker 1: on this, but I have to believe the front office

1208
01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:54,240
Speaker 1: right now is trying to say to themselves, does this

1209
01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:57,040
Speaker 1: group just need more time on the job together, or

1210
01:02:57,120 --> 01:03:00,360
Speaker 1: do we have to maybe part ways with some of

1211
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:02,840
Speaker 1: these free agents, not bring them back and try to

1212
01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:05,520
Speaker 1: find upgrades which could be out there and what is

1213
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:10,800
Speaker 1: anticipated to be a buyer's market. The answer is probably both.

1214
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:13,360
Speaker 1: I mean, having seen what Brandon Bean has done now

1215
01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:16,560
Speaker 1: for three four years, he doesn't just pick one avenue

1216
01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:18,920
Speaker 1: and stick with it and lock himself into it. You know,

1217
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:21,240
Speaker 1: there's going to be in my opinion, one of the

1218
01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:24,640
Speaker 1: first two picks to fix that right side of the line,

1219
01:03:24,680 --> 01:03:28,160
Speaker 1: along with some sort of free agent news signing, along

1220
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:31,880
Speaker 1: with probably bringing back both Feliciano and Daryl Williams because

1221
01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:35,560
Speaker 1: there's flexibility, there's there's some trust there, and they're not

1222
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:37,600
Speaker 1: going to break the bank. I mean, Daryl Williams shouldn't

1223
01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:39,360
Speaker 1: go for more than ten million per year in a

1224
01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:42,560
Speaker 1: multi year contract. Feliciano, you know, probably half of that

1225
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:45,680
Speaker 1: anniversatile player at himself. So I don't think you're locking

1226
01:03:45,720 --> 01:03:47,640
Speaker 1: yourself in anything. What I don't think they're going to do,

1227
01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:49,840
Speaker 1: even though I've heard it a few times, is swing

1228
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:51,840
Speaker 1: big in some kind of trade, some kind of Stefan

1229
01:03:51,960 --> 01:03:54,120
Speaker 1: Diggs type move to go and try to bring in

1230
01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:57,040
Speaker 1: a pre eminent right tackle. I just don't. I don't

1231
01:03:57,080 --> 01:03:59,480
Speaker 1: think you have to do that because this this offensive

1232
01:03:59,520 --> 01:04:03,040
Speaker 1: line was bad enough to react that way. I think

1233
01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:06,320
Speaker 1: you can fill the goal with a couple of avenues

1234
01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:08,800
Speaker 1: here and be a little bit more cap conscious with it.

1235
01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:12,160
Speaker 1: So you know, we've seen being be very versatile with

1236
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:14,440
Speaker 1: this picks. You know, you know tie in second John Feliciano.

1237
01:04:14,480 --> 01:04:17,480
Speaker 1: Those are players who can who can move down, up

1238
01:04:17,520 --> 01:04:19,600
Speaker 1: and down that line on different positions, and that seems

1239
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 1: to be where the league is going. It's not about having,

1240
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:24,880
Speaker 1: you know, one solid right guard and one solid left guard.

1241
01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:27,000
Speaker 1: You've got to be able to fill the seventeen week

1242
01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:30,480
Speaker 1: schedule and go from there. Are there any certainly I

1243
01:04:30,480 --> 01:04:32,320
Speaker 1: don't think there is on the Buffalo Bills, But is

1244
01:04:32,360 --> 01:04:35,800
Speaker 1: there anybody around the league, any player that you think

1245
01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:40,960
Speaker 1: might have a chance at a franchise tag this year? Well,

1246
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:44,360
Speaker 1: I wouldn't put it past Matt Mulano just because what

1247
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:46,240
Speaker 1: I have him valued at on a multi year contract

1248
01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:48,800
Speaker 1: is almost identical to what his franchise tag would be.

1249
01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:51,760
Speaker 1: So to at least hold him there on a thirteen

1250
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:53,760
Speaker 1: point six million dollars tag to get a multi year

1251
01:04:54,240 --> 01:04:56,920
Speaker 1: contract done makes some sense to me. But you know,

1252
01:04:57,120 --> 01:04:59,160
Speaker 1: I think there's probably a better chance that he moves

1253
01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:01,880
Speaker 1: on and gets valued high or somewhere else. So, um, look,

1254
01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:04,040
Speaker 1: there's a ton of franchise tag candidates this year, more

1255
01:05:04,040 --> 01:05:05,959
Speaker 1: than I've ever been able to put together into a list.

1256
01:05:06,040 --> 01:05:08,720
Speaker 1: So uh, you know, you know, the numbers are coming down.

1257
01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:11,440
Speaker 1: The wide receiver tag should be less than sixteen million dollars,

1258
01:05:11,440 --> 01:05:14,360
Speaker 1: So you know, when you're talking about a price tag

1259
01:05:14,400 --> 01:05:16,560
Speaker 1: that's ten million less than the number one wide receiver

1260
01:05:16,640 --> 01:05:18,800
Speaker 1: in football, you're gonna have some players get tagged in

1261
01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:21,920
Speaker 1: terms of you know, a Will Fuller or Kenny Golladay.

1262
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:25,120
Speaker 1: You know, along those lines, there's gonna be guards that

1263
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:27,400
Speaker 1: There's gonna be players that get second franchise tags this

1264
01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:29,280
Speaker 1: year because of where we are. You know, I think

1265
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:32,439
Speaker 1: Brandon Scherff the Garden and Washington probably hits a second tag,

1266
01:05:32,800 --> 01:05:35,520
Speaker 1: so question Dak Prescott's getting a second franchise tag at

1267
01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:39,040
Speaker 1: least temporarily. So it's a big list. I actually just

1268
01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:41,320
Speaker 1: posted a piece on the site that that gives you

1269
01:05:41,360 --> 01:05:44,320
Speaker 1: about twenty five names I think could be franchise tag candidates,

1270
01:05:44,840 --> 01:05:47,520
Speaker 1: and I think it'll get utilized at least for the

1271
01:05:47,520 --> 01:05:50,240
Speaker 1: short to him this offseason. Talking to Mike Janity, founder

1272
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:53,280
Speaker 1: and editor of spottrack dot com, with respect to Mulano,

1273
01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:56,440
Speaker 1: if you do franchise him though, and he signs it,

1274
01:05:57,080 --> 01:05:59,680
Speaker 1: you know, sooner rather than later. How much does that

1275
01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:02,560
Speaker 1: compromise the rest of what the Bills feel they need

1276
01:06:02,600 --> 01:06:07,040
Speaker 1: to do this offseason? That's the risk, and in my opinion,

1277
01:06:07,080 --> 01:06:08,600
Speaker 1: you just go and try to get a multi year

1278
01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:10,479
Speaker 1: contract done so that you can figure out the cap

1279
01:06:10,600 --> 01:06:13,040
Speaker 1: this year and maneuver it and be fluid with it.

1280
01:06:13,120 --> 01:06:16,959
Speaker 1: So he's a fringe candidate, but just because the numbers align,

1281
01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:18,600
Speaker 1: I got to put him on the list, right. And

1282
01:06:18,640 --> 01:06:21,240
Speaker 1: then we heard a couple of weeks ago Brandon being

1283
01:06:21,280 --> 01:06:26,680
Speaker 1: in an interview say that, yes, we could sign Josh

1284
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:29,920
Speaker 1: to his extension this offseason. We'd have to get creative,

1285
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:34,240
Speaker 1: but it is doable. Question to you, though, Mike, is

1286
01:06:34,880 --> 01:06:38,720
Speaker 1: how much does that compromise the flexibility or is there

1287
01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:41,000
Speaker 1: a way that they can structure it that would allow

1288
01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:44,360
Speaker 1: them the flexibility they need in a restrictive cap year,

1289
01:06:44,520 --> 01:06:48,320
Speaker 1: maybe similar to the Mahomes deal. So before twenty twenty,

1290
01:06:48,440 --> 01:06:52,880
Speaker 1: he's eyeing a Deshaun Watson contract superstandard, just the four

1291
01:06:52,960 --> 01:06:55,360
Speaker 1: year extension with a good sized signing bonus that that

1292
01:06:55,440 --> 01:06:58,320
Speaker 1: really doesn't hold too much deadcap. It's kind of low risk,

1293
01:06:58,520 --> 01:07:02,720
Speaker 1: high cash. You know, a traditional quarterback extension. But you're right,

1294
01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:07,200
Speaker 1: what we saw with Mahomes basically didn't move the needle

1295
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:09,400
Speaker 1: in terms of the Chiefs cap number this year, and

1296
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:12,600
Speaker 1: it slightly moves it next year. So if the Bills

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01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:14,160
Speaker 1: are gonna do it this year, they're gonna have to

1298
01:07:14,160 --> 01:07:15,800
Speaker 1: be a little bit more creative. They're gonna have to

1299
01:07:15,840 --> 01:07:19,320
Speaker 1: go somewhere in between Deshaun Watson and Patrick Mahomes, both

1300
01:07:19,360 --> 01:07:21,880
Speaker 1: in terms of the number, you know, the dollar signs

1301
01:07:21,920 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 1: and the structure so that they can sort of keep

1302
01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:27,320
Speaker 1: Josh's cap figure somewhat neutral this year so they can

1303
01:07:27,320 --> 01:07:30,120
Speaker 1: continue to build around it, but also get some cash

1304
01:07:30,120 --> 01:07:31,640
Speaker 1: in his pocket and make sure he's happy over the

1305
01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:34,080
Speaker 1: next three four years when it really matters. So you know,

1306
01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:37,360
Speaker 1: it's probably a seven year contract now where you know

1307
01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:39,920
Speaker 1: before the season, like I said, it's probably a four

1308
01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:42,600
Speaker 1: plus two, so maybe a six year contract at the most,

1309
01:07:43,560 --> 01:07:47,919
Speaker 1: which teams are gonna be under the most salary cap

1310
01:07:48,080 --> 01:07:51,240
Speaker 1: trouble of this offseason, and what's it gonna mean for

1311
01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:54,160
Speaker 1: their roster? I mean, you know, part of this has

1312
01:07:54,160 --> 01:07:56,160
Speaker 1: to do with, you know, the guys they actually have

1313
01:07:56,280 --> 01:08:00,640
Speaker 1: under contracts to the Los Angeles like the Chargers. You know,

1314
01:08:00,680 --> 01:08:02,640
Speaker 1: they've got a lot of money. They've got thirty three

1315
01:08:02,640 --> 01:08:04,480
Speaker 1: million in cap money, but they've only got forty five

1316
01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:06,880
Speaker 1: guys on their roster, right, I mean, so you've got

1317
01:08:07,280 --> 01:08:09,440
Speaker 1: you've got these teams that yeah they got well out, buddy,

1318
01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:11,320
Speaker 1: they got a lot of cap money, but they got

1319
01:08:11,320 --> 01:08:14,080
Speaker 1: nobody on the team, right, So who's in the worst

1320
01:08:14,120 --> 01:08:17,760
Speaker 1: shape And what's it gonna mean for them going forward? Yeah,

1321
01:08:17,800 --> 01:08:19,559
Speaker 1: that that sits out right there. I mean, that's a

1322
01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:21,439
Speaker 1: good team that needs to fill some pieces. They're gonna

1323
01:08:21,479 --> 01:08:23,400
Speaker 1: have to make some tough decisions in terms of veterans

1324
01:08:23,439 --> 01:08:26,120
Speaker 1: to go, Melvin Ingram, Chris Harris, you know, a lot

1325
01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:28,719
Speaker 1: of the secondary that's under underachieved or just been flat

1326
01:08:28,760 --> 01:08:31,320
Speaker 1: out injured. You know, there's no there's no uh, there's

1327
01:08:31,360 --> 01:08:33,120
Speaker 1: no way to sugarcoat of the Eagles and the Saints

1328
01:08:33,240 --> 01:08:35,880
Speaker 1: aren't in dire trouble right now. There's gonna be some

1329
01:08:35,920 --> 01:08:39,160
Speaker 1: significant losses from a roster standpoint, especially specifically on the

1330
01:08:39,160 --> 01:08:42,000
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball for both and trading Carson

1331
01:08:42,040 --> 01:08:44,719
Speaker 1: Wentz isn't gonna fix that if you're Philadelphia. So wow,

1332
01:08:45,040 --> 01:08:46,760
Speaker 1: you know, keep an eye on that. That's really not

1333
01:08:46,800 --> 01:08:48,559
Speaker 1: going to move the needle at all from from a

1334
01:08:48,560 --> 01:08:51,479
Speaker 1: cat perspective, So, uh, you know, they're in trouble. The

1335
01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:53,680
Speaker 1: Rams have kind of already done their homework. They're kind

1336
01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:56,920
Speaker 1: of done in terms of what they've had to replenish.

1337
01:08:57,000 --> 01:08:59,439
Speaker 1: You know, they're gonna bring in some vet minimum contracts

1338
01:08:59,479 --> 01:09:02,439
Speaker 1: to go from there. And you're talking about the bottom barrel.

1339
01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:05,679
Speaker 1: Atlanta stuck. You know, Atlanta can't move on from Matt Ryan.

1340
01:09:05,720 --> 01:09:08,400
Speaker 1: That's how bad that contract looks right now. So they're

1341
01:09:08,400 --> 01:09:10,840
Speaker 1: in just sort of a I would expect them to

1342
01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:13,439
Speaker 1: be tanking with Matt Ryan and Julio Jones if you

1343
01:09:13,439 --> 01:09:16,040
Speaker 1: can possibly do that and really bring that thing down

1344
01:09:16,040 --> 01:09:18,040
Speaker 1: to the floor for a twenty twenty two draft pick.

1345
01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:20,559
Speaker 1: But look, there's teams at the bottom of this cap

1346
01:09:20,640 --> 01:09:22,960
Speaker 1: list right now that are very very good. The Saints,

1347
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:26,920
Speaker 1: the Packers, the Rams, the Chiefs. You know, the cap

1348
01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:29,040
Speaker 1: rooster is coming home to roost at this point, and

1349
01:09:30,080 --> 01:09:32,720
Speaker 1: it's gonna be troublesome, but there's gonna be a lot

1350
01:09:32,720 --> 01:09:34,920
Speaker 1: of creativity. Mickey Lewis and the Saints they do this

1351
01:09:34,960 --> 01:09:37,120
Speaker 1: every single year. They put themselves in trouble every year

1352
01:09:37,479 --> 01:09:39,280
Speaker 1: and they find some creative way to get out of it.

1353
01:09:39,320 --> 01:09:41,240
Speaker 1: So I'm not doubting them. I'm just saying it's going

1354
01:09:41,280 --> 01:09:42,760
Speaker 1: to be harder than ever this year. I think I

1355
01:09:42,800 --> 01:09:45,479
Speaker 1: might be worried. If Benson was my accountant, I would

1356
01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:48,200
Speaker 1: have would Mickey Lewis if he was my accountant, I

1357
01:09:48,240 --> 01:09:51,800
Speaker 1: would have real concerns. How do you jump through all

1358
01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:53,439
Speaker 1: these hoops each and every year? I want to get

1359
01:09:53,479 --> 01:09:56,519
Speaker 1: back to the defensive end situation one more time here, Mike,

1360
01:09:56,560 --> 01:09:57,840
Speaker 1: I'm going to take a swing at this, and you

1361
01:09:57,880 --> 01:10:00,479
Speaker 1: tell me what you think about it. In term getting

1362
01:10:00,479 --> 01:10:03,080
Speaker 1: and get after the quarterback guy, There's a good chance

1363
01:10:03,280 --> 01:10:06,400
Speaker 1: that J. J. Watson cap casualty in Houston. There's a

1364
01:10:06,400 --> 01:10:09,040
Speaker 1: good chance that Von Miller is a cap casualty in Denver.

1365
01:10:10,320 --> 01:10:12,960
Speaker 1: Knowing that it's a buyer's market, I guess my question

1366
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:17,280
Speaker 1: to you is, what do you think is a realistic

1367
01:10:17,360 --> 01:10:19,960
Speaker 1: price at which guys like that can be had? Are

1368
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:22,960
Speaker 1: we talking a cam Newton type depressed economy deal like

1369
01:10:23,280 --> 01:10:25,400
Speaker 1: one year for seven and a half or are we

1370
01:10:25,439 --> 01:10:28,160
Speaker 1: looking at one year twelve and a half? Where where

1371
01:10:28,240 --> 01:10:31,479
Speaker 1: is their range for guys like that, assuming they come

1372
01:10:31,520 --> 01:10:35,679
Speaker 1: off the books for those other teams as cap casualties. Yeah. Look,

1373
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:40,519
Speaker 1: Jadavian Clowney and Yannicking Gockway really put this market into

1374
01:10:40,560 --> 01:10:43,800
Speaker 1: a tizzy these past couple of seasons because for you know,

1375
01:10:43,960 --> 01:10:45,559
Speaker 1: teams just kind of put their foot down and said,

1376
01:10:45,560 --> 01:10:47,320
Speaker 1: we're not doing it. We're not giving these guys sixteen

1377
01:10:47,360 --> 01:10:50,720
Speaker 1: seventeen million a year, even on one year tenders, just

1378
01:10:50,800 --> 01:10:52,320
Speaker 1: to just to bring them in and hope they can

1379
01:10:52,560 --> 01:10:55,400
Speaker 1: provide us twelve thirteen sacks. You know, the only the

1380
01:10:55,439 --> 01:10:57,280
Speaker 1: only team that really did that is Tampa Bay on

1381
01:10:57,320 --> 01:10:59,559
Speaker 1: a franchise tag with Shack Barrett and and you know

1382
01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:03,040
Speaker 1: he he worked out nicely. So I'm somewhat concerned for

1383
01:11:03,080 --> 01:11:07,280
Speaker 1: those twenty eight to thirty two year old pass rushing

1384
01:11:07,479 --> 01:11:09,559
Speaker 1: you know have done it in the past, can they

1385
01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:12,519
Speaker 1: still do it in the future kind of players. You

1386
01:11:12,560 --> 01:11:14,600
Speaker 1: know that the contract I've been looking at, which I

1387
01:11:14,640 --> 01:11:18,519
Speaker 1: think is reasonable, is justin Houston, who's finishing a contract

1388
01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:21,280
Speaker 1: right now that was two years, twenty four million, about

1389
01:11:21,320 --> 01:11:24,280
Speaker 1: twelve a year. That seems about right, especially in the

1390
01:11:24,320 --> 01:11:27,080
Speaker 1: market rent right now, for Melvin Ingram, for von Miller,

1391
01:11:27,120 --> 01:11:29,519
Speaker 1: for JJ Watt. You know, twelve million a year is

1392
01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:32,280
Speaker 1: still good pay. It's way more than you know, JJ

1393
01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:34,880
Speaker 1: Jadavian Cline was able to reel in over the past

1394
01:11:34,920 --> 01:11:36,720
Speaker 1: couple of seasons. I think his market's down in that

1395
01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:39,639
Speaker 1: six and seven million dollar mark right now. So you're

1396
01:11:39,680 --> 01:11:42,000
Speaker 1: gonna be able to bring in maybe not your favorite player,

1397
01:11:42,320 --> 01:11:44,599
Speaker 1: but maybe your second or third favorite player in terms

1398
01:11:44,600 --> 01:11:46,519
Speaker 1: of being able to rush the pass her And I'd

1399
01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:48,160
Speaker 1: put that twenty four million over two A is the

1400
01:11:48,200 --> 01:11:52,200
Speaker 1: benchmark right now, right it makes good sense. What any

1401
01:11:52,640 --> 01:11:53,880
Speaker 1: what do you think is gonna Is there gonna be

1402
01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:57,479
Speaker 1: any surprise moves this off seat for instance, these quarterbacks.

1403
01:11:57,479 --> 01:12:00,519
Speaker 1: I mean, Aaron Rodgers is not going anyplace. Russell's not

1404
01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:04,040
Speaker 1: going any place. But you know, we've heard some some whispers.

1405
01:12:04,640 --> 01:12:07,360
Speaker 1: But you know, do the teams like to do the

1406
01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:09,800
Speaker 1: Packers go all in with Aaron Rodgers one more time?

1407
01:12:09,920 --> 01:12:13,080
Speaker 1: Or do they you know, I mean the championship game,

1408
01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:18,720
Speaker 1: I know, back to back championship games. I don't think

1409
01:12:18,720 --> 01:12:20,719
Speaker 1: they have to do too much with Aaron Rodgers outside

1410
01:12:20,760 --> 01:12:23,120
Speaker 1: of bringing in better weapons. I think that's exactly what

1411
01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:25,120
Speaker 1: he meant when he said what he said wasn't about

1412
01:12:25,160 --> 01:12:26,880
Speaker 1: him moving around. It's about just give me a wide

1413
01:12:26,880 --> 01:12:29,160
Speaker 1: receiver too that I can actually utilize in the in

1414
01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:30,880
Speaker 1: the red zone. Get me a tight endeck can utilize

1415
01:12:30,920 --> 01:12:33,719
Speaker 1: in the red zone. To me, that's how that gets fixed.

1416
01:12:34,760 --> 01:12:37,400
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, this Russell Wilson thing feels more

1417
01:12:37,400 --> 01:12:40,160
Speaker 1: real than it's ever felt before we had this two

1418
01:12:40,200 --> 01:12:41,920
Speaker 1: or three years ago, when it was really about a contract.

1419
01:12:41,920 --> 01:12:43,560
Speaker 1: I don't think it's about a contract this time. I

1420
01:12:43,600 --> 01:12:46,960
Speaker 1: think it's really about their their lack of ability to

1421
01:12:47,040 --> 01:12:49,559
Speaker 1: bring in an actual offensive line that can that can

1422
01:12:49,560 --> 01:12:52,800
Speaker 1: function over a seventeen game schedule. And I think if

1423
01:12:52,800 --> 01:12:56,840
Speaker 1: they don't make significant movement a post June first trade

1424
01:12:56,880 --> 01:13:00,160
Speaker 1: of Russell Wilson to for instance, Denver, who I think

1425
01:13:00,200 --> 01:13:01,439
Speaker 1: is going to be a sneaky team here in the

1426
01:13:01,479 --> 01:13:03,479
Speaker 1: next couple of months, that's an offense ready to go

1427
01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:07,439
Speaker 1: that is quarterback deficient right now. That'd be my big

1428
01:13:07,520 --> 01:13:10,080
Speaker 1: That would be my big move, is Russell Wilson to

1429
01:13:10,280 --> 01:13:12,160
Speaker 1: want to look at and and don't count out the

1430
01:13:12,160 --> 01:13:14,880
Speaker 1: Saints with a quarterback situation. I can't believe for a

1431
01:13:14,880 --> 01:13:16,800
Speaker 1: second they're going to roll with Jamis Winston over the

1432
01:13:16,840 --> 01:13:18,800
Speaker 1: next two three seasons. Then just hope it works out.

1433
01:13:19,479 --> 01:13:21,639
Speaker 1: So if there really are big names like Russell Wilson

1434
01:13:21,720 --> 01:13:24,680
Speaker 1: being thrown out there Denver, and the Saints are going

1435
01:13:24,720 --> 01:13:27,120
Speaker 1: to be calling, so you know, stay tuned to that. Yeah,

1436
01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:29,280
Speaker 1: And yet that leads me to my next question, Mike,

1437
01:13:29,320 --> 01:13:31,720
Speaker 1: because and the last one for me, because I was

1438
01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:34,639
Speaker 1: wondering about this, knowing all of these teams that are

1439
01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:37,719
Speaker 1: operating in restrictive cap situations due to where the number

1440
01:13:37,880 --> 01:13:41,479
Speaker 1: is or where it's anticipated to be. I was wondering

1441
01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:45,000
Speaker 1: how many teams hold their water and wait to cut

1442
01:13:45,040 --> 01:13:48,479
Speaker 1: people until after June first, knowing the hit will be less. Obviously,

1443
01:13:48,520 --> 01:13:50,519
Speaker 1: they've got to be under the number by the start

1444
01:13:50,520 --> 01:13:52,280
Speaker 1: of the new league year. But I wonder if some

1445
01:13:52,320 --> 01:13:56,439
Speaker 1: teams find creative ways to get their biggest guys that

1446
01:13:56,520 --> 01:13:59,960
Speaker 1: hit their dead cap, how many can afford to really

1447
01:14:00,120 --> 01:14:02,280
Speaker 1: wait till June first to put him out in the market.

1448
01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:07,160
Speaker 1: Then I'm just wondering if if those dynamics or those

1449
01:14:07,479 --> 01:14:12,080
Speaker 1: hoop jumping gymnastics with the cap have a chance of

1450
01:14:12,160 --> 01:14:15,360
Speaker 1: happening post June first, because that post June first has

1451
01:14:15,439 --> 01:14:17,519
Speaker 1: kind of died on the vine the last several years.

1452
01:14:17,520 --> 01:14:20,960
Speaker 1: It's not the big cap help that it used to be,

1453
01:14:21,080 --> 01:14:23,320
Speaker 1: or teams haven't exercised it as much. I'm wondering if

1454
01:14:23,320 --> 01:14:27,080
Speaker 1: we see more of that in a restrictive cap year, right,

1455
01:14:27,120 --> 01:14:30,360
Speaker 1: And what you're saying is, if you're going to designate

1456
01:14:30,360 --> 01:14:32,599
Speaker 1: somebody a post June first release, you have to carry

1457
01:14:32,680 --> 01:14:35,799
Speaker 1: their whole cap hit until June first. So, for instance,

1458
01:14:36,160 --> 01:14:38,840
Speaker 1: you know Russell Wilson is what he is, thirty five

1459
01:14:38,920 --> 01:14:41,240
Speaker 1: million and change, it's the Seahawks have to hold that

1460
01:14:41,280 --> 01:14:44,280
Speaker 1: until June second. The creativity, we we've already seen it

1461
01:14:44,320 --> 01:14:46,880
Speaker 1: happen with what the Saints did and with Drew Brees.

1462
01:14:47,280 --> 01:14:49,679
Speaker 1: If we know that the that the divorce is happening,

1463
01:14:50,720 --> 01:14:53,120
Speaker 1: and there's a there's a possibility to do this after

1464
01:14:53,240 --> 01:14:55,760
Speaker 1: June first, meaning there's more than one contract year on

1465
01:14:55,800 --> 01:14:59,400
Speaker 1: the contract, then what you do is you just restructure

1466
01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:03,120
Speaker 1: the contract. Essentially, he takes a virtual pay cut down

1467
01:15:03,120 --> 01:15:05,519
Speaker 1: to the minimum salary for whatever it would be. So

1468
01:15:05,600 --> 01:15:08,000
Speaker 1: for Drew Brees, that's a little over one million dollars.

1469
01:15:08,240 --> 01:15:10,880
Speaker 1: He essentially just took nineteen million dollars off of his

1470
01:15:11,280 --> 01:15:14,600
Speaker 1: contract funny money to lower his cap hit so that

1471
01:15:14,640 --> 01:15:18,360
Speaker 1: the Saints could carry him to June second, process his

1472
01:15:18,439 --> 01:15:21,639
Speaker 1: retirement and save themselves twenty three million dollars of cap

1473
01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:24,120
Speaker 1: I mean they literally that way. They were able to

1474
01:15:24,120 --> 01:15:26,120
Speaker 1: do this in twenty twenty one by basically just getting

1475
01:15:26,200 --> 01:15:28,639
Speaker 1: him to say, Hey, your contract's not gonna matter anyway,

1476
01:15:28,680 --> 01:15:30,880
Speaker 1: let's just maneuver it. And by the way, the Eagles

1477
01:15:30,920 --> 01:15:32,400
Speaker 1: have done this with two players as well. They're going

1478
01:15:32,479 --> 01:15:34,880
Speaker 1: to designate two players as post June first cuts. They

1479
01:15:34,880 --> 01:15:37,439
Speaker 1: brought him down to minimum salaries and it's like the

1480
01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:40,559
Speaker 1: contract never existed. So that's the kind of stuff that's

1481
01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:42,320
Speaker 1: going to happen with thirty two teams. I have to

1482
01:15:42,360 --> 01:15:44,760
Speaker 1: imagine it. I wonder if Houston tries to go down

1483
01:15:44,760 --> 01:15:48,560
Speaker 1: that road, if they see their relationship with Watson as unsustainable,

1484
01:15:48,680 --> 01:15:50,080
Speaker 1: do they go to him and say, well, if you

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01:15:50,120 --> 01:15:51,840
Speaker 1: do want adda here, you're gonna need to do this

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01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:54,120
Speaker 1: and do the June first thing with him. I wonder

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01:15:54,160 --> 01:15:58,720
Speaker 1: if that's even an option because he's demanding, and I

1488
01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:01,040
Speaker 1: guess that's the wrong word to use, but because he's

1489
01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:04,000
Speaker 1: saying what he's saying, if they're gonna trade him, it's

1490
01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:05,800
Speaker 1: going to be immediately. They're gonna take the twenty one

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01:16:05,840 --> 01:16:07,559
Speaker 1: million dollars hit and do it now because they want

1492
01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:10,160
Speaker 1: the draft picks and they want this to matter. In April.

1493
01:16:10,600 --> 01:16:13,120
Speaker 1: So if it's gonna be to Miami, for instance, you

1494
01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:14,720
Speaker 1: want to get this done as soon as possible so

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01:16:14,760 --> 01:16:17,200
Speaker 1: that you can get on with this and make your

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01:16:17,200 --> 01:16:19,439
Speaker 1: off season as plentiful for you as possible. So that's

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01:16:19,479 --> 01:16:21,000
Speaker 1: not a situation I would put it in, but maybe

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01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:25,080
Speaker 1: JJ Watt maybe Yeah, yeah, all right, Mike, great stuff.

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Speaker 1: As always, we appreciate it. Thanks for all the insight

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01:16:28,520 --> 01:16:30,639
Speaker 1: on the crunching the numbers for us. You're like our

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01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:33,519
Speaker 1: personal accountant this time of year, so thanks very much

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01:16:33,520 --> 01:16:35,920
Speaker 1: for that. Thanks for having me guys. All right. Mike

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01:16:35,960 --> 01:16:39,080
Speaker 1: Janinny from spottrack dot com. Great site. You want to

1504
01:16:39,080 --> 01:16:41,360
Speaker 1: just get some immediate You want to get your hands

1505
01:16:41,360 --> 01:16:44,120
Speaker 1: on numbers right away around the league or in any

1506
01:16:44,160 --> 01:16:46,920
Speaker 1: other league. I mean, Mike doesn't just do NFL, he

1507
01:16:47,360 --> 01:16:50,760
Speaker 1: does Major League Baseball, he does NBA, he does he

1508
01:16:50,800 --> 01:16:54,840
Speaker 1: does Major League Soccer. Steve, it's always got it all there.

1509
01:16:55,280 --> 01:16:59,840
Speaker 1: And I love the positional spending page US. It's just

1510
01:17:00,160 --> 01:17:03,000
Speaker 1: it's really good stuff. And you see that the Bills

1511
01:17:03,479 --> 01:17:06,160
Speaker 1: are spending thirty percent of their cap dollars on the

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01:17:06,200 --> 01:17:08,960
Speaker 1: defensive line, and yet that's an area where they've said

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01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:12,080
Speaker 1: themselves they need to be better. So how do they

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01:17:12,200 --> 01:17:16,400
Speaker 1: change that percentage number and still get better. They may

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01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:19,599
Speaker 1: have to subtract from that commitment in terms of salary

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01:17:19,600 --> 01:17:23,280
Speaker 1: CAB dollars and then reinvest in some other way. At

1517
01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:25,400
Speaker 1: the very same position about it, the Bills are spending

1518
01:17:25,479 --> 01:17:28,840
Speaker 1: thirty million plus dollars on defensive end in fourteen or

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01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:32,599
Speaker 1: fifteen million dollars on defensive tackle. They got a lot

1520
01:17:32,600 --> 01:17:36,440
Speaker 1: of guys on the roster. It's it's a ton of money.

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01:17:37,200 --> 01:17:40,000
Speaker 1: Actually it's thirty and it's fifty four million does fifty

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01:17:40,040 --> 01:17:42,760
Speaker 1: five million dollars twenty four on defensive end, thirty on

1523
01:17:42,800 --> 01:17:45,200
Speaker 1: defensive tackle. Yeah, they got a ton of guys and

1524
01:17:45,240 --> 01:17:47,240
Speaker 1: that's where most that's where the bulk of they're spending

1525
01:17:47,280 --> 01:17:50,920
Speaker 1: has been. They've been trying to fix that, and I

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01:17:50,960 --> 01:17:53,679
Speaker 1: think they think it's important. I think that speaks to

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01:17:53,760 --> 01:17:58,000
Speaker 1: the priority they put on that spot. And we'll see

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01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:00,800
Speaker 1: if they want to stand pat or tweak it even

1529
01:18:00,840 --> 01:18:03,120
Speaker 1: further this offseason, which I think they're going to. Yeah,

1530
01:18:03,160 --> 01:18:05,479
Speaker 1: it's gonna be real interesting break time for us. But

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01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:08,800
Speaker 1: when we come back, more on this and more on

1532
01:18:08,880 --> 01:18:12,080
Speaker 1: where you feel the Bills and how the Bills need

1533
01:18:12,080 --> 01:18:16,320
Speaker 1: to address their offensive line makeup this offseason. They've got

1534
01:18:16,360 --> 01:18:19,040
Speaker 1: free agents, there'll be people out in the market. Obviously,

1535
01:18:19,040 --> 01:18:21,920
Speaker 1: you have the draft. What's your course of action to

1536
01:18:22,040 --> 01:18:24,519
Speaker 1: course correct that group in terms of the run game

1537
01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:27,000
Speaker 1: and making it better next season? Your calls next at

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01:18:27,040 --> 01:18:29,160
Speaker 1: eight oh three oh five fifty and your comments on

1539
01:18:29,200 --> 01:18:31,240
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet when we return here on one Bill's Line,

1540
01:18:31,240 --> 01:18:47,680
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, it's Buffalo Bills Radio. Hey,

1541
01:18:47,720 --> 01:18:50,360
Speaker 1: how would you address the Bills offensive line makeup they

1542
01:18:50,439 --> 01:18:53,280
Speaker 1: saw season? That's what we want to know, really, I mean,

1543
01:18:54,080 --> 01:18:56,719
Speaker 1: it's free agent decisions to make from their own roster.

1544
01:18:57,600 --> 01:18:59,960
Speaker 1: You're curious as to what made shape might shake out

1545
01:19:00,040 --> 01:19:02,559
Speaker 1: of the trees on the free agent market. It's a

1546
01:19:02,680 --> 01:19:04,920
Speaker 1: it's a pretty good offense. It's a pretty good draft

1547
01:19:04,960 --> 01:19:08,559
Speaker 1: as we understand it for offensive tackles and even guards

1548
01:19:08,560 --> 01:19:13,400
Speaker 1: and centers to a certain extent um. So there's that, uh,

1549
01:19:13,439 --> 01:19:16,040
Speaker 1: and then that has to all be rolled into what

1550
01:19:16,240 --> 01:19:19,880
Speaker 1: is going to be a restrictive cap situation. You heard

1551
01:19:19,920 --> 01:19:22,439
Speaker 1: Mike Janity just on with us from spottrack dot com,

1552
01:19:22,760 --> 01:19:24,760
Speaker 1: one of the best salary cap sites you're gonna find

1553
01:19:24,760 --> 01:19:27,320
Speaker 1: out there, saying he's here and it's gonna be around

1554
01:19:27,360 --> 01:19:30,679
Speaker 1: one eighty one eighty one. That's not a lot. It's

1555
01:19:30,680 --> 01:19:32,320
Speaker 1: not a lot of room. Well, no, it's not going

1556
01:19:32,360 --> 01:19:34,519
Speaker 1: to leave a lot of room. It's not. But even

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01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:38,880
Speaker 1: if it's one eighty one eighty one, Uh, the bills

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01:19:38,920 --> 01:19:40,880
Speaker 1: will be under, but bills will be by much. Bills

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01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:43,639
Speaker 1: will be seven and eight million under. Yeah, they've got

1560
01:19:43,680 --> 01:19:46,559
Speaker 1: three point eight or three point nine to roll over

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01:19:46,600 --> 01:19:50,080
Speaker 1: and it's there one eighty five now yea, So it's

1562
01:19:50,080 --> 01:19:52,400
Speaker 1: gonna be right nip and tuck tight and you know,

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01:19:52,479 --> 01:19:54,840
Speaker 1: so they'll they'll be able to, you know, pick and

1564
01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:57,360
Speaker 1: choose how they want to get help from that as well.

1565
01:19:57,400 --> 01:20:00,120
Speaker 1: But I yeah, the bills are not in diet or

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01:20:00,200 --> 01:20:02,479
Speaker 1: straits like some of these compared to some other teams.

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01:20:02,760 --> 01:20:05,040
Speaker 1: And I think with like you said, if they go

1568
01:20:05,080 --> 01:20:09,960
Speaker 1: down the list and say restructure, restructure, restructure, and release,

1569
01:20:10,680 --> 01:20:13,759
Speaker 1: they could clear up like like Janettie said, twenty twenty

1570
01:20:13,800 --> 01:20:16,640
Speaker 1: million dollars in cap space, and that's that number I

1571
01:20:16,680 --> 01:20:18,320
Speaker 1: said the other day off and I'm talking about it.

1572
01:20:18,320 --> 01:20:20,439
Speaker 1: It's just twenty million dollars. You can get whatever you want.

1573
01:20:20,479 --> 01:20:23,439
Speaker 1: You know. Let's go to the tweet sheet to see

1574
01:20:23,439 --> 01:20:25,799
Speaker 1: what you think brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems,

1575
01:20:25,800 --> 01:20:29,160
Speaker 1: the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. Michael

1576
01:20:29,240 --> 01:20:33,400
Speaker 1: leads us off and he says nothing. They just need

1577
01:20:33,439 --> 01:20:36,599
Speaker 1: more time playing together. It was a brand new line

1578
01:20:36,720 --> 01:20:39,640
Speaker 1: last year with no OTAs or preseason. How does that

1579
01:20:39,680 --> 01:20:42,560
Speaker 1: one grab you? I think that's rose colored glasses. And

1580
01:20:43,560 --> 01:20:46,479
Speaker 1: I'll say that I will say this in defense of

1581
01:20:46,640 --> 01:20:52,439
Speaker 1: his point, even though I think it's positively spun to

1582
01:20:52,439 --> 01:20:57,519
Speaker 1: say the least. This never, this was never the line

1583
01:20:57,560 --> 01:20:59,920
Speaker 1: they thought they were going to have. When the preseason started,

1584
01:21:00,200 --> 01:21:03,720
Speaker 1: Cody Ford got hurt, Mitch Morse was nicked in and

1585
01:21:03,760 --> 01:21:08,080
Speaker 1: out of the lineup, while because was it a quad

1586
01:21:08,160 --> 01:21:12,200
Speaker 1: or was towards pack. Yeah, so Feliciano was out for

1587
01:21:12,240 --> 01:21:14,800
Speaker 1: the first six or eight weeks, and when he got

1588
01:21:14,840 --> 01:21:17,120
Speaker 1: back they had three snaps together. Morse goes out with

1589
01:21:17,160 --> 01:21:19,519
Speaker 1: the concussion. Then before he gets back, Cody Ford is

1590
01:21:19,520 --> 01:21:23,680
Speaker 1: out year for the year. So they never had the

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01:21:23,720 --> 01:21:25,800
Speaker 1: five guys they thought they were going to have to

1592
01:21:25,880 --> 01:21:29,640
Speaker 1: begin with. And then of course they filled in with

1593
01:21:29,720 --> 01:21:32,000
Speaker 1: the winners and Butker and the rest that you know,

1594
01:21:32,040 --> 01:21:34,960
Speaker 1: they may do with the fifth guy. Butker I think

1595
01:21:35,000 --> 01:21:39,599
Speaker 1: has taken over for Cody Ford. U. So yeah, that defense,

1596
01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:42,720
Speaker 1: they were shuffled around all year, even without a preseason

1597
01:21:42,760 --> 01:21:45,320
Speaker 1: and regulars and you know all of that stuff, plus

1598
01:21:45,360 --> 01:21:48,800
Speaker 1: the injuries and stuff during the regular season. So there

1599
01:21:48,880 --> 01:21:51,639
Speaker 1: is that to be said. But I think even having

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01:21:51,720 --> 01:21:54,200
Speaker 1: said all of that, I still think that's pretty rose

1601
01:21:54,240 --> 01:21:58,320
Speaker 1: colored glasses, pacific, because logic would say, Steve that even

1602
01:21:58,360 --> 01:22:01,599
Speaker 1: with all of that disruption down the stretch, once they

1603
01:22:01,640 --> 01:22:05,320
Speaker 1: got it, you know, a starting five together, albeit not

1604
01:22:05,360 --> 01:22:07,160
Speaker 1: the one they thought they were gonna have, but you

1605
01:22:07,240 --> 01:22:09,920
Speaker 1: basically had Iike Butcher at left guard instead of Cody Ford,

1606
01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:12,360
Speaker 1: and everything else was in place for the better part

1607
01:22:12,360 --> 01:22:14,680
Speaker 1: of the last six seven weeks of the season. You

1608
01:22:14,720 --> 01:22:17,240
Speaker 1: would like to say you would see progress in the

1609
01:22:17,320 --> 01:22:21,320
Speaker 1: run game over that final month of the season, And

1610
01:22:21,720 --> 01:22:24,759
Speaker 1: I don't think that Hammit happened with any great degree

1611
01:22:24,760 --> 01:22:27,160
Speaker 1: of success, like where you're like, oh, look at that,

1612
01:22:27,200 --> 01:22:29,640
Speaker 1: it's coming together. Look at this, look at this consistency.

1613
01:22:29,680 --> 01:22:31,840
Speaker 1: Now oh here we go. Now we got now that,

1614
01:22:31,920 --> 01:22:33,479
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, you didn't see that

1615
01:22:33,560 --> 01:22:36,000
Speaker 1: on a consistent basis. Saw it in the Pittsburgh game.

1616
01:22:36,600 --> 01:22:39,800
Speaker 1: You saw it in the Chargers game, but the rest

1617
01:22:39,800 --> 01:22:43,639
Speaker 1: of that regular season. You just didn't see it. Even

1618
01:22:43,680 --> 01:22:47,519
Speaker 1: in games where they were up handily. They had trouble

1619
01:22:47,600 --> 01:22:50,920
Speaker 1: running the football to close out New England Monday Night,

1620
01:22:51,320 --> 01:22:54,479
Speaker 1: close out Dolphins in Week seventeen. You know, I know

1621
01:22:54,520 --> 01:22:56,679
Speaker 1: they were up by large margins and it didn't really matter.

1622
01:22:57,320 --> 01:23:00,280
Speaker 1: But even in those instances, you didn't see it back

1623
01:23:00,280 --> 01:23:03,160
Speaker 1: and looked and you forget. You know, Josh had you

1624
01:23:03,200 --> 01:23:05,719
Speaker 1: said he had like one three hundred yard game before

1625
01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:09,000
Speaker 1: the season started, was like that finale in two thousand.

1626
01:23:09,560 --> 01:23:11,240
Speaker 1: I don't think he threw for three hundred. I think

1627
01:23:11,280 --> 01:23:14,960
Speaker 1: he had three hundred yards from scrimmage. Okay, But he

1628
01:23:14,960 --> 01:23:17,400
Speaker 1: comes out this year and he goes three twelve and

1629
01:23:17,439 --> 01:23:20,600
Speaker 1: Week one four fifteen. In Week two, three eleven, and

1630
01:23:20,640 --> 01:23:25,519
Speaker 1: Week three the Rams they or the Raiders, he goes

1631
01:23:25,560 --> 01:23:30,920
Speaker 1: two eighty eight, two touchdowns, no interceptions. You know, then

1632
01:23:30,920 --> 01:23:33,240
Speaker 1: he has the Tennessee game of two sixty three and

1633
01:23:33,240 --> 01:23:34,920
Speaker 1: then the Chiefs game. But then he goes back to

1634
01:23:35,040 --> 01:23:37,479
Speaker 1: three h seven, four fifteen to eighty. I mean, the

1635
01:23:37,520 --> 01:23:40,000
Speaker 1: guy had seven three hundred yard games and two four

1636
01:23:40,080 --> 01:23:45,840
Speaker 1: hundred yard games during this season. They didn't know. I

1637
01:23:45,840 --> 01:23:50,160
Speaker 1: don't think the Bills anticipated well, nobody did Josh taking

1638
01:23:50,200 --> 01:23:54,719
Speaker 1: a step forward like he did, and and we changed

1639
01:23:54,720 --> 01:23:57,080
Speaker 1: the identity that we're talking about. And I get into this,

1640
01:23:57,120 --> 01:23:59,040
Speaker 1: we're you know, and I get it. It's natural and

1641
01:23:59,360 --> 01:24:01,519
Speaker 1: it's it's what we do because we're trying, the team's

1642
01:24:01,520 --> 01:24:03,519
Speaker 1: trying to get better, and we're kind of watching them

1643
01:24:03,520 --> 01:24:06,960
Speaker 1: do it and kind of give our perceptions about how

1644
01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:11,720
Speaker 1: they should do it. They won thirteen games, they won

1645
01:24:11,800 --> 01:24:17,320
Speaker 1: fifteen games. There's not much wrong, right, But what happens

1646
01:24:17,320 --> 01:24:19,840
Speaker 1: if you win thirteen games again next year and again

1647
01:24:19,880 --> 01:24:22,960
Speaker 1: you're stopped by the Chiefs. I can't get there again.

1648
01:24:23,240 --> 01:24:25,720
Speaker 1: It'll depend and you'll be asking yourself why didn't we

1649
01:24:25,760 --> 01:24:30,040
Speaker 1: do more? Because well, the reason you don't do more

1650
01:24:30,160 --> 01:24:32,080
Speaker 1: is pretty obvious sitting at this end of it. If

1651
01:24:32,120 --> 01:24:36,360
Speaker 1: you have money to spend, there's no cap space, and

1652
01:24:36,439 --> 01:24:39,040
Speaker 1: you had no idea it was going to happen until

1653
01:24:39,200 --> 01:24:41,720
Speaker 1: you were well into the offseason this year. You didn't

1654
01:24:41,760 --> 01:24:43,400
Speaker 1: even know if you're gonna have a season this year,

1655
01:24:44,080 --> 01:24:46,719
Speaker 1: and so it's easy to see why you couldn't fix

1656
01:24:46,760 --> 01:24:50,160
Speaker 1: it coming up with eighteen million dollars less a cap

1657
01:24:50,200 --> 01:24:53,400
Speaker 1: space to do it. So there's a lot of reasons

1658
01:24:53,880 --> 01:24:57,240
Speaker 1: why it's going to be difficult for you. But nevertheless,

1659
01:24:58,800 --> 01:25:00,760
Speaker 1: this is a team that they're missing too much. And

1660
01:25:00,760 --> 01:25:02,680
Speaker 1: I think we had this conversation first segment of the

1661
01:25:02,720 --> 01:25:05,479
Speaker 1: show today when one of the guys, you know, one

1662
01:25:05,479 --> 01:25:07,559
Speaker 1: of the callers, asked, do you think they could beat

1663
01:25:07,600 --> 01:25:10,560
Speaker 1: the Chiefs as their roster was currently constructing. I said, yeah,

1664
01:25:10,600 --> 01:25:12,400
Speaker 1: I mean the Chiefs played great against him on the

1665
01:25:12,560 --> 01:25:15,000
Speaker 1: AFC Championship. They might have beaten them the way they

1666
01:25:15,000 --> 01:25:18,360
Speaker 1: played on Super Bowl Sunday, particularly with that offensive line

1667
01:25:18,360 --> 01:25:20,960
Speaker 1: that they had. The Bills off defensive line might have

1668
01:25:21,000 --> 01:25:26,599
Speaker 1: been able to play significantly better against those five guys. Yeah,

1669
01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:29,240
Speaker 1: but but that's you go with what you got. I mean,

1670
01:25:29,240 --> 01:25:31,200
Speaker 1: they went they got him in the AFC Championship, not

1671
01:25:31,240 --> 01:25:35,320
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. That's the way it goes. Um, This team,

1672
01:25:35,360 --> 01:25:37,360
Speaker 1: the way it was currently constructed, was good enough to

1673
01:25:37,360 --> 01:25:41,680
Speaker 1: compete with anybody in any given son, anybody and the

1674
01:25:41,760 --> 01:25:45,559
Speaker 1: Chiefs the Chiefs as well. So you know, certainly they

1675
01:25:45,600 --> 01:25:48,000
Speaker 1: were gonna have to play better than they did offensively

1676
01:25:48,080 --> 01:25:52,840
Speaker 1: to beat them on AFC Championship week. But man oh man, uh,

1677
01:25:52,960 --> 01:25:55,000
Speaker 1: there's not much wrong with what they did this year.

1678
01:25:55,120 --> 01:25:58,160
Speaker 1: They got a lot of guys playing really well, then

1679
01:25:58,200 --> 01:26:00,320
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to do it again because as they,

1680
01:26:00,680 --> 01:26:02,439
Speaker 1: like I keep saying, they're gonna have to build it

1681
01:26:02,439 --> 01:26:05,680
Speaker 1: from the ground up once again. Morior comments from the

1682
01:26:05,720 --> 01:26:08,000
Speaker 1: tweet sheet coming up here in the next segment, as

1683
01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:10,559
Speaker 1: well as your phone calls at eight three fifty one

1684
01:26:10,680 --> 01:26:13,280
Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty open line

1685
01:26:13,720 --> 01:26:17,120
Speaker 1: for you there, How would you address the Bills offensive

1686
01:26:17,160 --> 01:26:21,760
Speaker 1: line makeup this offseason in preparation for twenty twenty one?

1687
01:26:22,040 --> 01:26:23,599
Speaker 1: Steve and I back in a moment here on One

1688
01:26:23,600 --> 01:26:26,240
Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

1689
01:26:38,280 --> 01:26:40,760
Speaker 1: We'll go back to one Bills Live. First ground Steve

1690
01:26:40,840 --> 01:26:43,519
Speaker 1: Tasker taking you through a Wednesday edition of the program

1691
01:26:43,600 --> 01:26:46,680
Speaker 1: up until three pm. And we're getting back to the

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01:26:46,720 --> 01:26:49,479
Speaker 1: tweet sheet where we're asking you, how would you address

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01:26:49,520 --> 01:26:53,000
Speaker 1: the Bills offensive line makeup this season? This offseason? And

1694
01:26:53,160 --> 01:26:55,280
Speaker 1: Nick t says, I know we're tight with camp space,

1695
01:26:55,320 --> 01:26:58,599
Speaker 1: but I think resigning John Feliciano is a priority. Our

1696
01:26:58,680 --> 01:27:00,800
Speaker 1: run game struggled, but it was no noticeably better when

1697
01:27:00,840 --> 01:27:02,760
Speaker 1: he was in the lineup. Also, what do you think

1698
01:27:02,800 --> 01:27:06,320
Speaker 1: the chances are that Mitch Morse is cut for cap space.

1699
01:27:06,560 --> 01:27:08,679
Speaker 1: As I said earlier in the show, Nick, I think

1700
01:27:08,680 --> 01:27:13,280
Speaker 1: he's a prime candidate for a contract restructure. But I

1701
01:27:13,280 --> 01:27:15,920
Speaker 1: don't know if subtracting further from the line, knowing you

1702
01:27:15,960 --> 01:27:19,320
Speaker 1: have five free agents that are offensive Lineman helps the

1703
01:27:19,400 --> 01:27:22,559
Speaker 1: situation or the equation in terms of moving this line

1704
01:27:22,600 --> 01:27:25,040
Speaker 1: forward and making it better. But I do think he's

1705
01:27:25,040 --> 01:27:28,200
Speaker 1: a prime candidate for restructuring. I think they'll make every

1706
01:27:28,240 --> 01:27:31,040
Speaker 1: effort to keep him. It's hard to think you're going

1707
01:27:31,080 --> 01:27:32,680
Speaker 1: to get better when he lose good players. He's a

1708
01:27:32,680 --> 01:27:36,599
Speaker 1: good player, yeah, and so I think they'll make an

1709
01:27:36,600 --> 01:27:39,679
Speaker 1: effort to restructure him. I think they'll make an effort

1710
01:27:39,720 --> 01:27:43,120
Speaker 1: to restructure a lot of guys with the same kind

1711
01:27:43,160 --> 01:27:48,400
Speaker 1: of you know argument or you know, sell job that Listen,

1712
01:27:48,439 --> 01:27:50,320
Speaker 1: we need your help. This is the year when it's

1713
01:27:50,360 --> 01:27:51,599
Speaker 1: going to be all hands on deck. We need your

1714
01:27:51,600 --> 01:27:55,160
Speaker 1: help with this outward cap. You know it's either you

1715
01:27:55,200 --> 01:27:59,280
Speaker 1: know it was not forecast by anybody in the entire league.

1716
01:27:59,320 --> 01:28:05,400
Speaker 1: A pandemic basically cut our cap by a projected twenty

1717
01:28:05,400 --> 01:28:08,000
Speaker 1: five million dollars. We're twenty five million dollars short of

1718
01:28:08,000 --> 01:28:11,320
Speaker 1: where we thought we would be. Right more than that,

1719
01:28:11,400 --> 01:28:13,680
Speaker 1: I mean if you're thinking two hundred and twenty, yeah,

1720
01:28:13,720 --> 01:28:15,800
Speaker 1: you're thinking about two fifteen was the high end of

1721
01:28:15,800 --> 01:28:18,519
Speaker 1: the projection, right, you're gonna be at one eight. Oh yeah.

1722
01:28:18,520 --> 01:28:22,360
Speaker 1: It is more than public math. But anyway, that's that's

1723
01:28:22,360 --> 01:28:24,240
Speaker 1: the point. And you get a guy like written Mitch Moore,

1724
01:28:24,360 --> 01:28:25,920
Speaker 1: you come to him and he say, listen, Mitch, here's

1725
01:28:25,960 --> 01:28:28,200
Speaker 1: the thing. If you want to go out and be

1726
01:28:28,200 --> 01:28:31,640
Speaker 1: a free agent, okay, but you're the highest paid or

1727
01:28:31,720 --> 01:28:34,240
Speaker 1: two years ago you're the highest paid center in the league.

1728
01:28:34,479 --> 01:28:36,120
Speaker 1: I think you were still one of the highest paid

1729
01:28:36,120 --> 01:28:37,840
Speaker 1: centers in the league. If you think you can get

1730
01:28:37,880 --> 01:28:40,120
Speaker 1: that money in this climate and you want a shot

1731
01:28:40,160 --> 01:28:43,479
Speaker 1: at it, bless your heart. But I think if you're

1732
01:28:43,479 --> 01:28:46,200
Speaker 1: Mitch Morris, you're thinking, you know, I don't think that's

1733
01:28:46,200 --> 01:28:49,120
Speaker 1: gonna be out there, and you know, for a guy

1734
01:28:49,200 --> 01:28:52,880
Speaker 1: like me, so I'll take the restructuring. And what it

1735
01:28:52,880 --> 01:28:54,679
Speaker 1: means is he's gonna get the same money, he's gonna

1736
01:28:54,680 --> 01:28:57,000
Speaker 1: get anywhere more in his pocket right now, right and

1737
01:28:57,080 --> 01:28:59,439
Speaker 1: it's just gonna it's gonna come at different intervals. I

1738
01:28:59,439 --> 01:29:02,320
Speaker 1: think the player would be really, you know, welcome that,

1739
01:29:02,680 --> 01:29:04,680
Speaker 1: and he may not be the only one they do

1740
01:29:04,760 --> 01:29:06,639
Speaker 1: that too. There are others, is what. Maybe it might

1741
01:29:06,720 --> 01:29:11,080
Speaker 1: be that Mario Addison, Vernon Butler, Quentin Jefferson, all of

1742
01:29:11,080 --> 01:29:13,800
Speaker 1: those guys may be, you know, in line to say, hey, listen,

1743
01:29:13,800 --> 01:29:17,560
Speaker 1: how about a restructure. John Brown may be in that situation.

1744
01:29:17,600 --> 01:29:19,840
Speaker 1: There's a ton of me, you know, Steph Diggs could

1745
01:29:19,840 --> 01:29:23,920
Speaker 1: restructure his deal. You know, it's all on the table.

1746
01:29:24,240 --> 01:29:27,639
Speaker 1: All the guys that are making a good buck are

1747
01:29:27,760 --> 01:29:32,680
Speaker 1: candidates for it because ostensibly because the club can restructure

1748
01:29:32,720 --> 01:29:35,120
Speaker 1: them without changing the amount of money they're ultimately going

1749
01:29:35,200 --> 01:29:37,080
Speaker 1: to get if they see the end of the contract. Yeah,

1750
01:29:37,840 --> 01:29:40,200
Speaker 1: so there you go. And that's and in all likelihood

1751
01:29:40,200 --> 01:29:42,519
Speaker 1: they get more now if they put some of their

1752
01:29:42,520 --> 01:29:45,559
Speaker 1: base salary into bonus money and give it to him now,

1753
01:29:45,600 --> 01:29:48,439
Speaker 1: but spread that bonus hit over the life of a

1754
01:29:48,479 --> 01:29:51,479
Speaker 1: deal which they may extend a year or two or whatever.

1755
01:29:52,200 --> 01:29:54,479
Speaker 1: And then you know, so there's all of that in there.

1756
01:29:54,479 --> 01:29:57,200
Speaker 1: So all these guys are on the you know, on

1757
01:29:57,240 --> 01:30:01,080
Speaker 1: the menu obviously forgetting their deals structured and giving them

1758
01:30:01,120 --> 01:30:03,120
Speaker 1: team a chance to get on top of the cap

1759
01:30:03,120 --> 01:30:05,519
Speaker 1: and go out and actually make this team way better.

1760
01:30:06,120 --> 01:30:07,880
Speaker 1: If they could get all those guys I just mentioned

1761
01:30:07,880 --> 01:30:11,280
Speaker 1: to restructure and free up twenty five to twenty five

1762
01:30:11,320 --> 01:30:14,000
Speaker 1: plus million dollars in cap space. They have a shot

1763
01:30:14,000 --> 01:30:16,960
Speaker 1: at Milano. Now you got a shot at Milano or

1764
01:30:17,400 --> 01:30:20,519
Speaker 1: Daryl Williams, John Feliciano. Yeah, and that's just the tip

1765
01:30:20,560 --> 01:30:22,840
Speaker 1: of the iceberg. I mean, you can get forget about

1766
01:30:22,880 --> 01:30:25,400
Speaker 1: signing your own guys. You're talking about getting better. There

1767
01:30:25,439 --> 01:30:28,919
Speaker 1: might be better options out there. Yeah, for pass rushers

1768
01:30:29,680 --> 01:30:32,920
Speaker 1: and your own guys getting signed back. You might be

1769
01:30:32,960 --> 01:30:37,639
Speaker 1: able to do both. So, yeah, restructuring is a real thing.

1770
01:30:37,800 --> 01:30:39,840
Speaker 1: And I get thirty two year old von Miller, and

1771
01:30:39,880 --> 01:30:42,800
Speaker 1: I don't think you can't cut Mitch Morris because he's

1772
01:30:43,080 --> 01:30:45,800
Speaker 1: more expensive to cut than he is to keep. That's

1773
01:30:45,840 --> 01:30:48,000
Speaker 1: the way. His contract destructure doesn't help you enough. He

1774
01:30:48,040 --> 01:30:52,799
Speaker 1: doesn't help you from Tiffany resigned both Feliciano and Williams

1775
01:30:52,800 --> 01:30:54,680
Speaker 1: to lockdown the right side of the line. The next

1776
01:30:54,680 --> 01:30:57,120
Speaker 1: step falls on Cody Ford being able to stay healthy.

1777
01:30:57,439 --> 01:30:59,120
Speaker 1: They trade it up to get him, so they believe

1778
01:30:59,120 --> 01:31:01,599
Speaker 1: in his talent and Bill he's the great unknown. Drafting

1779
01:31:01,600 --> 01:31:04,920
Speaker 1: alignment as insurance would make sense. I do agree with that.

1780
01:31:05,040 --> 01:31:07,719
Speaker 1: I think they have to draft lineman on both sides

1781
01:31:07,760 --> 01:31:12,040
Speaker 1: of the ball quite frankly us Steve has mentioned they

1782
01:31:12,080 --> 01:31:14,960
Speaker 1: have invested high draft choices each of the last two

1783
01:31:15,040 --> 01:31:19,360
Speaker 1: years in defensive lineman at Oliver and aj Epenessa. Do

1784
01:31:19,360 --> 01:31:22,639
Speaker 1: you flip the script now and know when you're picking thirtieth,

1785
01:31:24,160 --> 01:31:28,200
Speaker 1: do you go offensive line? I think that's a real possibility. Um,

1786
01:31:29,000 --> 01:31:30,920
Speaker 1: maybe even in the second round. You know you're picking

1787
01:31:31,640 --> 01:31:38,440
Speaker 1: sixty third or whatever, and are we picking thirtieth, Yeah,

1788
01:31:38,479 --> 01:31:41,840
Speaker 1: sixty two, I'll take it. I'll take it. You get

1789
01:31:41,840 --> 01:31:43,280
Speaker 1: a good You're gonna get a good player. You'll get

1790
01:31:43,280 --> 01:31:45,320
Speaker 1: a good player, Gonna get a couple of good players.

1791
01:31:45,320 --> 01:31:47,680
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see where the best value is

1792
01:31:47,720 --> 01:31:49,479
Speaker 1: at that point in the draft. Where was the run?

1793
01:31:49,640 --> 01:31:51,840
Speaker 1: Was there a run on linebackers? Was there a run

1794
01:31:51,880 --> 01:31:54,519
Speaker 1: on you know, wide receivers? Was you know? We know

1795
01:31:54,560 --> 01:31:57,000
Speaker 1: there's gonna be quarterbacks draft in the first round. How

1796
01:31:57,000 --> 01:31:59,360
Speaker 1: many are drafted early to push the other talent down

1797
01:31:59,400 --> 01:32:01,280
Speaker 1: at the other positions that the Bills are looking at?

1798
01:32:01,640 --> 01:32:04,760
Speaker 1: You know, right, those are the big questions as we

1799
01:32:04,800 --> 01:32:06,800
Speaker 1: watch the first round unfold. We're gonna be waiting a

1800
01:32:06,800 --> 01:32:08,920
Speaker 1: long time here, Steve. We're gonna be doing a show

1801
01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:12,040
Speaker 1: draft night now. Are we Well, if we are, it's

1802
01:32:12,040 --> 01:32:14,200
Speaker 1: gonna be a late We need I need to gather

1803
01:32:14,240 --> 01:32:17,360
Speaker 1: our forces. And if we are, it's gonna be a

1804
01:32:17,439 --> 01:32:19,519
Speaker 1: late night. And what we should do is a lobby

1805
01:32:19,560 --> 01:32:22,559
Speaker 1: to come on at like ten thirty, not not eight.

1806
01:32:22,880 --> 01:32:26,240
Speaker 1: You know, in an afternoon nap. You can't show that's

1807
01:32:26,240 --> 01:32:31,719
Speaker 1: advised that listen, let's get Maddie. Well, let's get mad

1808
01:32:32,080 --> 01:32:36,880
Speaker 1: do it either either that's either that's Steve or or

1809
01:32:37,080 --> 01:32:40,160
Speaker 1: we lobby Brandon being to trade up or trade out completely,

1810
01:32:40,200 --> 01:32:43,720
Speaker 1: and we'll see you tomorrow. Yeah, trade up or trade out.

1811
01:32:45,120 --> 01:32:46,840
Speaker 1: He moves around a lot on the board. I think

1812
01:32:47,160 --> 01:32:50,760
Speaker 1: a good chance of convincing him to move out. That's

1813
01:32:50,840 --> 01:32:54,080
Speaker 1: killing us. Move up or move out, that'll help us.

1814
01:32:54,080 --> 01:32:57,000
Speaker 1: We'll be done. We can't do a show with it's

1815
01:32:57,040 --> 01:32:58,800
Speaker 1: the draft, man, Come on, you only get one night.

1816
01:32:58,840 --> 01:33:01,760
Speaker 1: It's gonna be virtual again in Well, that doesn't matter,

1817
01:33:01,800 --> 01:33:03,960
Speaker 1: that doesn't impact us on the show Cleveland. What if

1818
01:33:04,000 --> 01:33:07,719
Speaker 1: we now listen, if we're gonna go to Cleveland, Yeah,

1819
01:33:07,840 --> 01:33:10,000
Speaker 1: then we could take an afternoon nap, get ready and

1820
01:33:10,080 --> 01:33:13,160
Speaker 1: kind of gear up. Right. I love about all your

1821
01:33:13,200 --> 01:33:17,760
Speaker 1: decision making a side effect of the pandemic. What can

1822
01:33:17,800 --> 01:33:21,000
Speaker 1: I say, you know, we have to take a break

1823
01:33:21,040 --> 01:33:22,720
Speaker 1: when we come back. More of your comments on the

1824
01:33:22,720 --> 01:33:25,400
Speaker 1: tweet sheet. How you would address the Bill's offensive line

1825
01:33:25,520 --> 01:33:29,800
Speaker 1: makeup this offseason and do it with a restrictive cap

1826
01:33:29,840 --> 01:33:33,400
Speaker 1: to boot? How'd you like that added thing thrown onto

1827
01:33:33,439 --> 01:33:37,320
Speaker 1: your plate there? It's like, well, yeah, and you got

1828
01:33:37,320 --> 01:33:39,320
Speaker 1: guys you want to bring back, you got these other things.

1829
01:33:39,320 --> 01:33:41,519
Speaker 1: You put yourself in a strong cap position. Oh wait, no,

1830
01:33:41,600 --> 01:33:43,400
Speaker 1: you're not in a strong cap position because of a

1831
01:33:43,439 --> 01:33:47,000
Speaker 1: pandem minus thirty five to forty million dollars. Thanks for that. Wow,

1832
01:33:47,800 --> 01:33:50,160
Speaker 1: it's an interesting work around. So we want your thoughts

1833
01:33:50,160 --> 01:33:52,479
Speaker 1: next here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health,

1834
01:33:52,520 --> 01:34:07,559
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio, Will's Radio Network Sports Date, your

1835
01:34:07,680 --> 01:34:10,320
Speaker 1: sports update from One Bill's Drive. Russell Wilson confirmed a

1836
01:34:10,400 --> 01:34:13,240
Speaker 1: report over the weekend that he has grown increasingly frustrated

1837
01:34:13,240 --> 01:34:15,599
Speaker 1: by the team's inability to protect him, saying quote, I'm

1838
01:34:15,600 --> 01:34:19,080
Speaker 1: frustrated at getting hit too much end quote. The Seahawks

1839
01:34:19,200 --> 01:34:22,680
Speaker 1: quarterback made those remarks on Tuesday. Wilson has taken three

1840
01:34:22,760 --> 01:34:25,759
Speaker 1: hundred ninety four sacks in his nine seasons, including forty

1841
01:34:25,760 --> 01:34:28,680
Speaker 1: seven and twenty twenty Wilson also said earlier Tuesday on

1842
01:34:28,680 --> 01:34:30,919
Speaker 1: the Dan Patrick's Show, he wasn't sure whether he's available

1843
01:34:30,920 --> 01:34:34,280
Speaker 1: in a trade or not, adding quote, that's his Seahawks question.

1844
01:34:34,680 --> 01:34:37,360
Speaker 1: Like Tom Brady, Wilson also wants a voice in the

1845
01:34:37,439 --> 01:34:40,639
Speaker 1: makeup of the roster. Quarterback Taylor Heineke was a good

1846
01:34:40,640 --> 01:34:42,760
Speaker 1: bet to return to the Washington football team as a

1847
01:34:42,840 --> 01:34:46,240
Speaker 1: restricted free agent this offseason, but now he's a sure thing.

1848
01:34:46,640 --> 01:34:48,920
Speaker 1: On Wednesday, Heineke agreed to a two year deal with

1849
01:34:48,960 --> 01:34:51,439
Speaker 1: the team, where at eight point seven five million, which

1850
01:34:51,479 --> 01:34:54,160
Speaker 1: also includes incentives tied to how many starts he makes.

1851
01:34:54,479 --> 01:34:59,280
Speaker 1: Heineke side with Washington's practice squad in December, replacing Dwayne Haskins,

1852
01:34:59,280 --> 01:35:02,599
Speaker 1: who got released. Easton started the team's wildcard playoff game

1853
01:35:03,000 --> 01:35:06,160
Speaker 1: against the Super Bowl champion Bucks. There has been some

1854
01:35:06,200 --> 01:35:10,080
Speaker 1: scuttle butt in regard to Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Derek

1855
01:35:10,160 --> 01:35:13,639
Speaker 1: Carr being a trade candidate. However, there's a chance a

1856
01:35:13,640 --> 01:35:16,880
Speaker 1: different Raiders quarterback could be dealt. Following one season as

1857
01:35:16,880 --> 01:35:19,719
Speaker 1: a backup with the Raiders and one very impressive showing

1858
01:35:19,720 --> 01:35:22,759
Speaker 1: in relief of Car, Marcus Mariota is drawing trade suitors.

1859
01:35:23,040 --> 01:35:25,479
Speaker 1: In Mariota though the Raiders have a former first rounder

1860
01:35:25,520 --> 01:35:28,880
Speaker 1: who flashed brilliance in twenty twenty, and as some believing

1861
01:35:29,240 --> 01:35:34,479
Speaker 1: promise lies ahead, this year's rookie evaluations are kickstarted early,

1862
01:35:34,520 --> 01:35:37,400
Speaker 1: with presumptive number one overall picked Trevor Lawrence, holding a

1863
01:35:37,439 --> 01:35:40,519
Speaker 1: pro day throwing session for teams on Friday this week.

1864
01:35:40,840 --> 01:35:43,599
Speaker 1: Lawrence is holding the throwing session early so he can

1865
01:35:43,640 --> 01:35:46,920
Speaker 1: have labora surgery on his non throwing shoulder, rest up

1866
01:35:47,080 --> 01:35:48,800
Speaker 1: and be ready in plenty of time for the twenty

1867
01:35:48,840 --> 01:35:51,920
Speaker 1: twenty one NFL season. The Sabers back on the ice

1868
01:35:51,960 --> 01:35:53,840
Speaker 1: this morning as the team tries to get back to

1869
01:35:53,880 --> 01:35:56,240
Speaker 1: game action following a week long pause due to COVID

1870
01:35:56,320 --> 01:35:59,800
Speaker 1: nineteen protocols last week. The team now faces a more

1871
01:36:00,080 --> 01:36:02,720
Speaker 1: dense schedule, with the total of six games being postponed.

1872
01:36:02,760 --> 01:36:07,120
Speaker 1: Their next schedule game Monday against the Islanders here in Buffalo.

1873
01:36:07,320 --> 01:36:09,559
Speaker 1: That is your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Chris

1874
01:36:09,640 --> 01:36:12,360
Speaker 1: Brown Steve Tasker with you, broadcasting live from the Seneca

1875
01:36:12,400 --> 01:36:17,240
Speaker 1: Studios in Orchard Park, and we're talking Bill's offensive line

1876
01:36:17,840 --> 01:36:22,160
Speaker 1: and the decisions they're in for this offseason. With five

1877
01:36:22,280 --> 01:36:25,320
Speaker 1: free agents, counting Ike Bucker, who's a restricted free agent,

1878
01:36:26,320 --> 01:36:31,400
Speaker 1: the restrictive cap, and the knowledge that the coaching staff

1879
01:36:31,439 --> 01:36:35,720
Speaker 1: and the front office want to see improvement in Buffalo's

1880
01:36:35,800 --> 01:36:38,960
Speaker 1: run game. So where does that leave you at eight

1881
01:36:39,160 --> 01:36:43,280
Speaker 1: three fifty in terms of how you feel this offensive

1882
01:36:43,320 --> 01:36:47,000
Speaker 1: line should be addressed. We go to the tweet sheet

1883
01:36:47,040 --> 01:36:49,800
Speaker 1: and I think we're up to Nate here. Steve Nate says,

1884
01:36:49,840 --> 01:36:52,880
Speaker 1: the offensive line did fairly well most of the season.

1885
01:36:53,200 --> 01:36:55,760
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I would change anything, but I

1886
01:36:55,800 --> 01:36:58,559
Speaker 1: have one question. When is the deadline for opt outs

1887
01:36:58,560 --> 01:37:02,280
Speaker 1: for the twenty two season. Well, opt outs have not

1888
01:37:02,360 --> 01:37:05,599
Speaker 1: been even broached as a subject. I think the NFL

1889
01:37:05,760 --> 01:37:11,040
Speaker 1: is hoping against hope that things are back. I'll say this,

1890
01:37:11,200 --> 01:37:13,960
Speaker 1: there will be no opt outs in the twenty twenty

1891
01:37:14,040 --> 01:37:19,920
Speaker 1: one season because you'll have two choices, well three choices.

1892
01:37:19,960 --> 01:37:25,160
Speaker 1: I guess, play or not play. And if you want

1893
01:37:25,160 --> 01:37:28,360
Speaker 1: to play, get vaccinated. If you don't want to get vaccinated,

1894
01:37:28,400 --> 01:37:29,920
Speaker 1: you can still play, but you're not gonna be able

1895
01:37:29,920 --> 01:37:31,920
Speaker 1: to opt out. If you opt out, it means you're retiring.

1896
01:37:32,720 --> 01:37:35,439
Speaker 1: You can because of the vaccine. The vaccine takes Yeah,

1897
01:37:35,479 --> 01:37:38,240
Speaker 1: the vaccine takes the opt out off the table. The

1898
01:37:38,320 --> 01:37:44,360
Speaker 1: league is gonna say listening no thanks, but no, right,

1899
01:37:44,360 --> 01:37:47,040
Speaker 1: they're not gonna let They won't go for that, just

1900
01:37:47,080 --> 01:37:50,840
Speaker 1: get vaccinated. By that time, everybody will be able to

1901
01:37:50,880 --> 01:37:55,080
Speaker 1: get vaccinated. I would think, yes, um, and that's that's

1902
01:37:55,120 --> 01:37:56,599
Speaker 1: where it will be, So there will be no opt

1903
01:37:56,600 --> 01:38:00,320
Speaker 1: out option. I'm sure this season from Rachel along the

1904
01:38:00,320 --> 01:38:03,640
Speaker 1: tweet sheet, the AFC championship in Super Bowl showed that

1905
01:38:03,760 --> 01:38:06,640
Speaker 1: games are still won and lost at the line of scrimmage.

1906
01:38:07,000 --> 01:38:08,840
Speaker 1: So I think we'd be foolish not to take an

1907
01:38:08,840 --> 01:38:11,439
Speaker 1: offensive or defensive lineman in the first round of the draft.

1908
01:38:11,720 --> 01:38:13,960
Speaker 1: If there is a good run blocker available, I say

1909
01:38:14,000 --> 01:38:18,400
Speaker 1: we take him at pick thirty. Now, Steve and I

1910
01:38:18,520 --> 01:38:24,519
Speaker 1: are far from diving deep into the draft pool this year.

1911
01:38:25,000 --> 01:38:26,960
Speaker 1: We'll be doing that in the coming weeks, of course,

1912
01:38:27,000 --> 01:38:29,240
Speaker 1: to get better prepared for the draft. We're a little

1913
01:38:29,240 --> 01:38:31,280
Speaker 1: behind because the Bills had such a good season, went

1914
01:38:31,320 --> 01:38:33,800
Speaker 1: deep into the playoffs. I mean, heck, the Senior Bowl

1915
01:38:33,840 --> 01:38:35,760
Speaker 1: went by like a blip. We're gonna be We're gonna

1916
01:38:35,760 --> 01:38:39,280
Speaker 1: be way behind because no games, no games to watch,

1917
01:38:39,400 --> 01:38:43,680
Speaker 1: no combine, no you know, yeah, I mean, how are

1918
01:38:43,680 --> 01:38:46,160
Speaker 1: you gonna find these guys? Well, you have to do

1919
01:38:46,200 --> 01:38:48,560
Speaker 1: a lot of reading up and rely on YouTube and

1920
01:38:48,640 --> 01:38:52,200
Speaker 1: other ways of acquiring game tape. It's it's it's a

1921
01:38:52,200 --> 01:38:55,720
Speaker 1: difficult season for college evaluation all the way around. And

1922
01:38:55,760 --> 01:38:57,639
Speaker 1: you just read the thing about Trevor Lawrence. He's having

1923
01:38:57,680 --> 01:38:59,960
Speaker 1: an early pro day coming up pretty soon and he's

1924
01:39:00,000 --> 01:39:03,960
Speaker 1: can have surgery on his non throwing soldiers so non

1925
01:39:04,080 --> 01:39:10,720
Speaker 1: throwing shoulder. So you know, there's a lot of curveballs

1926
01:39:10,720 --> 01:39:14,600
Speaker 1: being thrown at at everybody and they're still adjusting to it.

1927
01:39:14,680 --> 01:39:17,040
Speaker 1: We're not through all the adjustments we've got to make

1928
01:39:17,080 --> 01:39:19,240
Speaker 1: just because the regular season Super Bowl were gone. I

1929
01:39:19,240 --> 01:39:21,479
Speaker 1: will tell you this, Steve, there is one guy that

1930
01:39:21,520 --> 01:39:26,120
Speaker 1: you should absolutely know. There is a left tackle out

1931
01:39:26,120 --> 01:39:31,400
Speaker 1: of Northwestern by the name of Rashaw Slater, and he

1932
01:39:31,600 --> 01:39:36,560
Speaker 1: is widely seen as a top five offensive line prospect.

1933
01:39:37,080 --> 01:39:40,320
Speaker 1: So there's a guy for you to remember, Rashawn Slater.

1934
01:39:40,520 --> 01:39:42,920
Speaker 1: Rashawn Slater. I don't know if he's related to Jackie

1935
01:39:42,920 --> 01:39:45,639
Speaker 1: Slater in any way. I know he's the last guy.

1936
01:39:45,840 --> 01:39:48,519
Speaker 1: Jackie Slater's son is Matthew Slater. I played with the

1937
01:39:48,600 --> 01:39:52,120
Speaker 1: number four pick overall pick in the draft at Northwestern

1938
01:39:52,160 --> 01:39:55,240
Speaker 1: named Chris Hinton, who's oh yeah, by the Denver Broncos,

1939
01:39:55,240 --> 01:39:58,280
Speaker 1: and then he played with the Colts for John Elway,

1940
01:39:58,360 --> 01:40:01,960
Speaker 1: right John Elway? Yeah, uh yeah, Yogi was a big dude.

1941
01:40:03,040 --> 01:40:06,880
Speaker 1: That was his name. Bro. Is that because I think

1942
01:40:06,920 --> 01:40:09,000
Speaker 1: at the time he was the first offensive lineman, as

1943
01:40:09,320 --> 01:40:12,400
Speaker 1: he was the first offensive lineman to go to the

1944
01:40:12,439 --> 01:40:14,600
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl as a rookie. I think he was the

1945
01:40:14,640 --> 01:40:20,640
Speaker 1: first one that he wasn't capital stud. Yeah, yeah, he

1946
01:40:20,680 --> 01:40:22,799
Speaker 1: could play. And now he's got a couple of sons

1947
01:40:22,840 --> 01:40:27,920
Speaker 1: that the story goes, he's quick aside. So Chris takes

1948
01:40:27,920 --> 01:40:29,960
Speaker 1: his two boys. He's out looking around. He goes into

1949
01:40:30,080 --> 01:40:31,840
Speaker 1: one of the season and I can't even remember this

1950
01:40:31,880 --> 01:40:34,080
Speaker 1: name of the school. So he comes in with his

1951
01:40:34,160 --> 01:40:37,439
Speaker 1: sons and he says, we just like to kind of

1952
01:40:37,439 --> 01:40:39,519
Speaker 1: look around if it's possible. You know, you know, my

1953
01:40:39,600 --> 01:40:42,479
Speaker 1: name Christen. And the secretary you can bet you can

1954
01:40:42,640 --> 01:40:46,120
Speaker 1: bless her heart, secretary of the football office. She's just

1955
01:40:46,160 --> 01:40:50,200
Speaker 1: a receptionist. She sees Chris, he sees his two sons.

1956
01:40:50,520 --> 01:40:53,840
Speaker 1: She says yes, and shees just one minute, like in

1957
01:40:53,960 --> 01:40:57,680
Speaker 1: five seconds, the head coaches in the room and he goes, yeah,

1958
01:40:57,840 --> 01:40:59,479
Speaker 1: let me talk to you and your boys. Because she

1959
01:40:59,600 --> 01:41:02,479
Speaker 1: saw Chris, who is as gigantic. He was as big

1960
01:41:02,520 --> 01:41:05,559
Speaker 1: as an suv and his two boys standing next to him,

1961
01:41:06,160 --> 01:41:09,560
Speaker 1: and he's here, well, one of him is like sixteen

1962
01:41:09,640 --> 01:41:11,559
Speaker 1: and the other ones like twelve. And even then she

1963
01:41:11,640 --> 01:41:14,559
Speaker 1: could say, oh my gosh, look at those. And so

1964
01:41:14,600 --> 01:41:18,160
Speaker 1: the coach comes down and shows him, so, yeah, they're

1965
01:41:18,200 --> 01:41:21,479
Speaker 1: gonna I'm I'm watching for those two. Yeah. The other

1966
01:41:22,040 --> 01:41:27,639
Speaker 1: highly touted offensive tackle prospect is Piney Sewell from Oregon.

1967
01:41:27,680 --> 01:41:31,400
Speaker 1: He's fat pe n e I and then his last

1968
01:41:31,479 --> 01:41:34,920
Speaker 1: name is Sewell se w e l L. Another offensive

1969
01:41:34,920 --> 01:41:38,680
Speaker 1: tackle six six three twenty five. And the thing I

1970
01:41:38,720 --> 01:41:42,240
Speaker 1: like about this guy is he's considered to be a bulldozer,

1971
01:41:42,800 --> 01:41:47,040
Speaker 1: trench trench dominator. What about this Rashaan Slater from Northwestern

1972
01:41:47,160 --> 01:41:50,280
Speaker 1: So more of the athletic kind of left tack bigsie

1973
01:41:50,360 --> 01:41:55,479
Speaker 1: technician six three three h five um dependable as a

1974
01:41:55,560 --> 01:41:58,920
Speaker 1: run blocker, but considered a technician as a pass block

1975
01:41:59,439 --> 01:42:03,280
Speaker 1: refined technique, good feet And who's Sewell play for Oregon?

1976
01:42:04,920 --> 01:42:09,320
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, they're on the list. There's others. Give

1977
01:42:09,360 --> 01:42:14,280
Speaker 1: me the for a guy who like me, give me

1978
01:42:14,320 --> 01:42:18,639
Speaker 1: the big guy, give me the giant. I mean, there's

1979
01:42:18,640 --> 01:42:21,920
Speaker 1: a reason those guys get you know, chances in the

1980
01:42:22,000 --> 01:42:25,240
Speaker 1: NFL chance a big man's game. It is a big

1981
01:42:25,280 --> 01:42:28,480
Speaker 1: man's game. And I once had a front office executive

1982
01:42:28,479 --> 01:42:31,559
Speaker 1: in this league tell me, because they said, well, what

1983
01:42:31,600 --> 01:42:35,439
Speaker 1: about the exceptions. There's always some guy that's an exception

1984
01:42:35,479 --> 01:42:37,479
Speaker 1: to the rule that excels in the league. You know,

1985
01:42:37,640 --> 01:42:40,840
Speaker 1: I mean the Steve Largent was what five? Yeah, you

1986
01:42:40,840 --> 01:42:44,599
Speaker 1: know what I mean, like um or even you know

1987
01:42:44,680 --> 01:42:48,479
Speaker 1: some undersized linebacker that's just unbelieving, like John Randall who's

1988
01:42:48,600 --> 01:42:52,880
Speaker 1: defensive and he says to me, he goes, there are exceptions,

1989
01:42:53,280 --> 01:42:54,920
Speaker 1: but you better not have more than one of those

1990
01:42:54,920 --> 01:42:59,840
Speaker 1: on your team. If you have two where you have three,

1991
01:43:00,280 --> 01:43:03,640
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have him all the time because injuries.

1992
01:43:04,040 --> 01:43:06,680
Speaker 1: And if you have too many of them, you're too small, yes,

1993
01:43:06,720 --> 01:43:08,439
Speaker 1: and you're gonna get run over. It's amazing to me

1994
01:43:08,479 --> 01:43:10,840
Speaker 1: because from a guy like me, a small guy who

1995
01:43:10,840 --> 01:43:12,760
Speaker 1: played in a big man's game, I'm telling you it's

1996
01:43:12,760 --> 01:43:16,160
Speaker 1: a big man's game. Take my word for it. And

1997
01:43:16,240 --> 01:43:19,479
Speaker 1: that's why guys, this list, we're looking at it on

1998
01:43:19,479 --> 01:43:23,880
Speaker 1: the screen. These guys they're big, they're big dudes. They're

1999
01:43:24,080 --> 01:43:29,760
Speaker 1: big dudes. And most of them, I know, most of

2000
01:43:29,840 --> 01:43:32,080
Speaker 1: all of them could probably outrun me right this minute.

2001
01:43:34,800 --> 01:43:37,160
Speaker 1: Here's a guy to keep an eye on. That kid

2002
01:43:37,200 --> 01:43:42,840
Speaker 1: from Oklahoma, Creed Humphrey, former wrestler. I don't see there

2003
01:43:42,840 --> 01:43:45,840
Speaker 1: you go center see centers do that? You know he

2004
01:43:45,880 --> 01:43:47,880
Speaker 1: could play guard too, that kids six five, he's a

2005
01:43:47,920 --> 01:43:52,160
Speaker 1: big guy. Yeah, Creed Humphrey, I like that. Yeah, former wrestler.

2006
01:43:53,000 --> 01:43:54,320
Speaker 1: I'll tell you if you go to OU and you're

2007
01:43:54,320 --> 01:43:56,920
Speaker 1: a wrestler, they're gonna try out. Oh yeah, yeah, they

2008
01:43:56,920 --> 01:43:59,559
Speaker 1: don't mess around. Yeah, good stuff. That's that's good stuff.

2009
01:43:59,560 --> 01:44:02,240
Speaker 1: I'm with you totally. Well, I'm glad that our crew

2010
01:44:02,240 --> 01:44:04,840
Speaker 1: back there we're looking at these offensive line prospects. That's

2011
01:44:05,800 --> 01:44:08,200
Speaker 1: that's a kind of extra bit of stuff we give

2012
01:44:08,240 --> 01:44:10,240
Speaker 1: you here on one fills. There you go, especially if

2013
01:44:10,280 --> 01:44:14,080
Speaker 1: you're watching on MSG. Yeah, because offensive tackles offensive guards

2014
01:44:14,120 --> 01:44:16,760
Speaker 1: one center centers are a different kind of guy too.

2015
01:44:16,800 --> 01:44:20,679
Speaker 1: They're usually they're the thinkers of the crew. Really smart

2016
01:44:20,720 --> 01:44:23,479
Speaker 1: guys and articulate, are really good communicators. As most of

2017
01:44:23,520 --> 01:44:28,600
Speaker 1: these guys probably are way above average communicators, very articulate

2018
01:44:28,880 --> 01:44:32,040
Speaker 1: and very well thought. That's the best guys are that way.

2019
01:44:33,120 --> 01:44:37,400
Speaker 1: That's just as big and strong and athletics. Athletic as

2020
01:44:37,439 --> 01:44:42,559
Speaker 1: they are, most of them are really interesting guys, smart guys.

2021
01:44:42,720 --> 01:44:44,840
Speaker 1: That's they're a breed apart, and that's why they're so

2022
01:44:44,880 --> 01:44:47,240
Speaker 1: hard to find. That's why they're so hard to find.

2023
01:44:47,360 --> 01:44:51,200
Speaker 1: From Jack on the tweet sheet, keep Feliciano, the old

2024
01:44:51,240 --> 01:44:53,920
Speaker 1: line was tougher and felt much improved after he returned.

2025
01:44:53,960 --> 01:44:56,280
Speaker 1: He brings leadership in a nastiness to the big boys.

2026
01:44:56,640 --> 01:44:58,639
Speaker 1: I'd like to bring Williams back, but I think he'll

2027
01:44:58,680 --> 01:45:01,320
Speaker 1: get paid and may price him self out, so Bean

2028
01:45:01,360 --> 01:45:04,280
Speaker 1: will need to bargain hunt for a third straight year

2029
01:45:04,680 --> 01:45:09,040
Speaker 1: at right tackle. Mike Jennety had a little bit different

2030
01:45:09,040 --> 01:45:11,880
Speaker 1: opinion last hour. He thought that Williams could be had

2031
01:45:11,920 --> 01:45:15,080
Speaker 1: for ten million a year, which isn't killing you for

2032
01:45:15,120 --> 01:45:18,200
Speaker 1: a starting offensive tackle. Granted it's not your left tackle.

2033
01:45:18,439 --> 01:45:20,680
Speaker 1: But think about this though. You get a little bit

2034
01:45:20,680 --> 01:45:24,440
Speaker 1: of a break trying to sign him this year because

2035
01:45:24,880 --> 01:45:27,000
Speaker 1: and you can structure the contracts. Say listen, give him

2036
01:45:27,360 --> 01:45:29,200
Speaker 1: out this year. All this money goes up front. It's

2037
01:45:29,240 --> 01:45:32,479
Speaker 1: a four year deal. You give him a ten million

2038
01:45:32,479 --> 01:45:35,280
Speaker 1: dollars signing bonus, so the first year is this year,

2039
01:45:35,720 --> 01:45:38,720
Speaker 1: but you have a minimum on Pangraph five salary, right,

2040
01:45:38,800 --> 01:45:40,960
Speaker 1: and then next year after that is it's a twelve

2041
01:45:41,080 --> 01:45:43,960
Speaker 1: million dollar a year average after that, or maybe you

2042
01:45:44,080 --> 01:45:47,320
Speaker 1: give it to him. You structure the first two years

2043
01:45:47,320 --> 01:45:49,400
Speaker 1: like the Mahomes contract. The first year it's a ten

2044
01:45:49,439 --> 01:45:52,599
Speaker 1: million dollars signing bonus, the second year it's a twelve

2045
01:45:52,640 --> 01:45:56,519
Speaker 1: million dollar roster bonus. And then you know, after that

2046
01:45:56,840 --> 01:45:58,880
Speaker 1: and all this stuff gets pro rated the last two

2047
01:45:58,920 --> 01:46:01,599
Speaker 1: years of the contract, when and then the market goes

2048
01:46:01,640 --> 01:46:04,040
Speaker 1: way up, you know you've got your You've got your guy,

2049
01:46:04,200 --> 01:46:06,000
Speaker 1: and you can afford him. It is pretty crazy to

2050
01:46:06,080 --> 01:46:08,000
Speaker 1: think that, yes, it would be the third straight year

2051
01:46:08,000 --> 01:46:10,880
Speaker 1: you're looking at another guy at right tackle. I think

2052
01:46:10,920 --> 01:46:15,280
Speaker 1: they I think they valued the stability that Daryl Williams

2053
01:46:15,280 --> 01:46:19,080
Speaker 1: brought to the right tackle position after platooning and Secky

2054
01:46:19,160 --> 01:46:23,040
Speaker 1: and forward the entire year the year prior right and

2055
01:46:23,160 --> 01:46:25,439
Speaker 1: still that's nothing to sneeze at stability. No, it's not.

2056
01:46:25,640 --> 01:46:28,120
Speaker 1: And Secky's got probably not going to be around. I

2057
01:46:28,160 --> 01:46:31,120
Speaker 1: think probably Bates is going to be the guy that

2058
01:46:31,240 --> 01:46:34,000
Speaker 1: swings is swing tackle this year. Although he's a little

2059
01:46:34,000 --> 01:46:37,720
Speaker 1: bit unprovenum he has that versatility which if you're going

2060
01:46:37,800 --> 01:46:40,519
Speaker 1: to be a backup you've gotta have. He's been working

2061
01:46:40,560 --> 01:46:43,000
Speaker 1: in this system the last two years. You know, I

2062
01:46:43,040 --> 01:46:45,479
Speaker 1: think they've probably got plans for him and have told

2063
01:46:45,560 --> 01:46:47,840
Speaker 1: him that he's going to have a chance to step

2064
01:46:47,880 --> 01:46:50,599
Speaker 1: in on the field, particularly in the absence if there

2065
01:46:50,680 --> 01:46:53,479
Speaker 1: is an absence. And Trey Adams is a developmental guy.

2066
01:46:53,600 --> 01:46:56,080
Speaker 1: You know, he was an undrafted rookie that was on

2067
01:46:56,120 --> 01:46:59,160
Speaker 1: the practice squad all year long. Huge man, he's six

2068
01:46:59,360 --> 01:47:03,879
Speaker 1: eight three plus and long. Yeah, he's a little soft.

2069
01:47:04,360 --> 01:47:06,000
Speaker 1: I mean he's watched him run his forty at the

2070
01:47:06,040 --> 01:47:07,880
Speaker 1: Combine all that, and he was one of those guys

2071
01:47:07,880 --> 01:47:09,560
Speaker 1: that early in his college career was going to be

2072
01:47:09,600 --> 01:47:12,960
Speaker 1: a high pick and then some injuries and injury back

2073
01:47:13,000 --> 01:47:16,160
Speaker 1: in jan He's so he's a little bit unproven and

2074
01:47:16,200 --> 01:47:18,400
Speaker 1: he's got he's got some red flags even as a

2075
01:47:18,439 --> 01:47:21,559
Speaker 1: guy who's you know, been signed to a futures contract. Um,

2076
01:47:23,080 --> 01:47:25,760
Speaker 1: you know, he's a flyer. I think I'm curious as

2077
01:47:25,760 --> 01:47:28,200
Speaker 1: to what he looks like after a full off season

2078
01:47:28,240 --> 01:47:31,760
Speaker 1: of an NFL conditioning strength and conditioning program. May not

2079
01:47:31,800 --> 01:47:33,559
Speaker 1: get he may not get a full off season this

2080
01:47:33,640 --> 01:47:37,280
Speaker 1: year either, right, you know, it's and that's up to

2081
01:47:37,360 --> 01:47:38,920
Speaker 1: him Jordan Devi, who was a guy who was on

2082
01:47:38,920 --> 01:47:42,679
Speaker 1: the practice squad who they brought up only three years old. Yeah,

2083
01:47:42,920 --> 01:47:47,000
Speaker 1: gotta have bounced around the league. Yeah, I think you

2084
01:47:47,040 --> 01:47:50,320
Speaker 1: are who you are. Yeah, but I like I like

2085
01:47:50,439 --> 01:47:54,559
Speaker 1: Brian Bates a lot. Feliciano Um and Darryl Williams are

2086
01:47:54,600 --> 01:47:57,840
Speaker 1: the two guys now in Tiniseki and Brian went Tynisecki

2087
01:47:58,880 --> 01:48:02,040
Speaker 1: is an extremely gifted player, but he's you know, he's

2088
01:48:02,840 --> 01:48:07,160
Speaker 1: thirty five, thirty five, he's old young in the game.

2089
01:48:07,280 --> 01:48:09,839
Speaker 1: He's been fragile. Yes, he's been a little bit fragile

2090
01:48:10,000 --> 01:48:12,720
Speaker 1: and had a hard time staying one hundred percent. But

2091
01:48:13,600 --> 01:48:16,000
Speaker 1: when he's on the field for short bursts, he is.

2092
01:48:16,840 --> 01:48:18,880
Speaker 1: He's an elite. He plays an elite level. He puts

2093
01:48:18,920 --> 01:48:21,000
Speaker 1: your hand, his hands on you. It's over. Yeah, he

2094
01:48:21,080 --> 01:48:24,040
Speaker 1: has got meat hook, he does. He can play a

2095
01:48:24,160 --> 01:48:26,559
Speaker 1: meat hook if you can keep if you can keep

2096
01:48:26,640 --> 01:48:31,120
Speaker 1: tying a secky healthy. He's a He's a foundational piece

2097
01:48:31,160 --> 01:48:32,920
Speaker 1: of an offensive line. But because of his health and

2098
01:48:33,000 --> 01:48:35,519
Speaker 1: his age, he can't count on. He's a reserve yet.

2099
01:48:35,600 --> 01:48:39,559
Speaker 1: Best from Keith on the tweet sheet, restruct your Morse

2100
01:48:40,400 --> 01:48:44,120
Speaker 1: sign Williams. Look at improving the interior of the line.

2101
01:48:44,160 --> 01:48:48,240
Speaker 1: Winters doesn't cut, it can't run the ball when needed.

2102
01:48:49,160 --> 01:48:51,680
Speaker 1: I like those. I like restructuring Morrise. I think that

2103
01:48:51,800 --> 01:48:55,559
Speaker 1: helps get you in a place where you can sign

2104
01:48:55,600 --> 01:48:58,599
Speaker 1: Williams to a long term deal. So it's a good

2105
01:48:58,680 --> 01:49:02,800
Speaker 1: question to a to take care of b If it's

2106
01:49:02,840 --> 01:49:07,639
Speaker 1: one or the other, is it Williams or Feliciano. Well,

2107
01:49:07,680 --> 01:49:09,559
Speaker 1: Williams is going to cost you more. So I think

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01:49:09,560 --> 01:49:11,559
Speaker 1: it comes down to how much room have you created

2109
01:49:11,640 --> 01:49:16,120
Speaker 1: for yourself by maybe restructuring Morse, maybe cutting another player.

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01:49:16,160 --> 01:49:19,920
Speaker 1: It's harder to find right tackle or guard right tackle, right, Yeah,

2111
01:49:19,920 --> 01:49:25,000
Speaker 1: they're hard to find the particular particularly but yeah, particularly

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01:49:26,000 --> 01:49:29,200
Speaker 1: you know in this environment. And and I love Feliciano.

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01:49:29,240 --> 01:49:32,000
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's the emotional juice on that

2114
01:49:32,640 --> 01:49:35,840
Speaker 1: offensive line. Um. I gotta tell you too, though, if

2115
01:49:35,880 --> 01:49:37,800
Speaker 1: they're if you're among them, and I'm not saying I'm

2116
01:49:37,800 --> 01:49:39,560
Speaker 1: in this group, but there's a group a crew, and

2117
01:49:39,640 --> 01:49:41,360
Speaker 1: we hear from him on social media and in our

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01:49:41,360 --> 01:49:43,880
Speaker 1: tweet sheet and all that about. You know, they've got

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01:49:43,880 --> 01:49:45,720
Speaker 1: to play better. They got to be better upfront than

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01:49:45,760 --> 01:49:47,439
Speaker 1: they were this year. They got a run block better

2121
01:49:47,439 --> 01:49:51,000
Speaker 1: than all that. And if you're so, if you're in

2122
01:49:51,040 --> 01:49:54,680
Speaker 1: that camp, are you really even interested in bringing any

2123
01:49:54,720 --> 01:49:56,880
Speaker 1: of those guys back and not thinking about upgrading at

2124
01:49:56,880 --> 01:50:00,360
Speaker 1: every spot? Right? I mean it'll be hard had to do,

2125
01:50:00,479 --> 01:50:03,640
Speaker 1: no question. But if if that's your case, it's like

2126
01:50:03,680 --> 01:50:05,720
Speaker 1: bringing back the same roster, expect him to be this

2127
01:50:05,840 --> 01:50:10,120
Speaker 1: much better. I don't know. I don't know. Now you

2128
01:50:10,200 --> 01:50:14,200
Speaker 1: won thirteen games. Yeah, so they're not We're doing something right. Yeah,

2129
01:50:14,200 --> 01:50:17,519
Speaker 1: they're not drowning out there. But if you're of the

2130
01:50:17,680 --> 01:50:19,960
Speaker 1: mind that the offensive line's got to play better, why

2131
01:50:19,960 --> 01:50:22,320
Speaker 1: are you sitting here? Why is anybody sitting here saying, yeah,

2132
01:50:22,320 --> 01:50:24,800
Speaker 1: you gotta sign Daryl Williams and you gotta sign Feliciano back.

2133
01:50:24,800 --> 01:50:28,080
Speaker 1: It's imperative. Well, there's four or five starters coming back,

2134
01:50:28,200 --> 01:50:30,200
Speaker 1: and you're thinking they're gonna either you can run the

2135
01:50:30,200 --> 01:50:32,240
Speaker 1: ball better with those same same guys, or are they

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01:50:32,280 --> 01:50:35,240
Speaker 1: gonna change everything up or do they think that the

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01:50:35,240 --> 01:50:38,560
Speaker 1: fix is as simple, is as simple as changing the schematics?

2138
01:50:38,800 --> 01:50:41,200
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, I mean that's right, that's right.

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01:50:42,080 --> 01:50:44,400
Speaker 1: All the guys change the scheme a little bit in

2140
01:50:44,479 --> 01:50:46,960
Speaker 1: terms of what you're calling, and when that's it's a

2141
01:50:47,000 --> 01:50:49,640
Speaker 1: real question mark that I think is guys like you

2142
01:50:49,680 --> 01:50:52,280
Speaker 1: and me, who are even though we're in proximity close

2143
01:50:52,320 --> 01:50:54,679
Speaker 1: to we're million miles away from what the offensive line

2144
01:50:54,680 --> 01:51:00,600
Speaker 1: coach and what Brian Dabole thinks about those guys up front. Yeah,

2145
01:51:00,080 --> 01:51:03,599
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at the way this thing has

2146
01:51:03,640 --> 01:51:08,040
Speaker 1: been put together under this regime. It was a mess.

2147
01:51:08,080 --> 01:51:09,800
Speaker 1: And eighteen they went out and fixed it in the

2148
01:51:09,840 --> 01:51:12,280
Speaker 1: off season. They had money to spend, they spent it.

2149
01:51:12,760 --> 01:51:15,080
Speaker 1: They had four news starters in the offensive line. Dion

2150
01:51:15,200 --> 01:51:18,479
Speaker 1: Dawkins was the only holdover, and it took him good

2151
01:51:18,600 --> 01:51:21,519
Speaker 1: six to seven weeks in a normal off season to

2152
01:51:21,600 --> 01:51:24,920
Speaker 1: really get some traction. But they improved greatly. But they

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01:51:24,960 --> 01:51:28,280
Speaker 1: got to the playoffs. Yes, they were much better football

2154
01:51:28,360 --> 01:51:30,679
Speaker 1: right because of those guys. And nobody was talking about

2155
01:51:30,680 --> 01:51:33,320
Speaker 1: fixing the offensive line in the twenty nineteen off season

2156
01:51:33,640 --> 01:51:35,760
Speaker 1: last year at this time. No. No, but they did

2157
01:51:35,840 --> 01:51:41,639
Speaker 1: lose well, no, they they brought everybody. Yeah, quinnin Spain

2158
01:51:41,680 --> 01:51:45,600
Speaker 1: didn't get through the whole season, but he was resigned ultimately,

2159
01:51:46,479 --> 01:51:49,400
Speaker 1: and then they signed Brian Winners right before the season

2160
01:51:49,479 --> 01:51:51,439
Speaker 1: started after he was a cap cut of the Jets.

2161
01:51:53,560 --> 01:51:59,439
Speaker 1: So yeah, and now you got further than you did

2162
01:51:59,439 --> 01:52:03,200
Speaker 1: the year before. But you've got free agents in the

2163
01:52:03,240 --> 01:52:05,800
Speaker 1: mix now, and now you're wondering, do we keep the

2164
01:52:05,840 --> 01:52:08,479
Speaker 1: same formula or do we tweak it? How do we

2165
01:52:08,479 --> 01:52:11,040
Speaker 1: tweak it? Do we get a veteran free agent? Do

2166
01:52:11,120 --> 01:52:13,639
Speaker 1: we get a draft choice that's top notch, that's plug

2167
01:52:13,680 --> 01:52:17,839
Speaker 1: in play, And that's the discussion we're having today. Jeremy

2168
01:52:17,880 --> 01:52:20,840
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet says, remember during the dark years

2169
01:52:21,080 --> 01:52:23,599
Speaker 1: when we signed Langston Walker and Derek Dockery and had

2170
01:52:23,600 --> 01:52:25,960
Speaker 1: the biggest line in the league. We had some solid

2171
01:52:26,080 --> 01:52:28,880
Speaker 1: running game ability, then we had no passing team to

2172
01:52:28,960 --> 01:52:31,439
Speaker 1: utilize them. I think that's the route we need to go.

2173
01:52:31,560 --> 01:52:36,720
Speaker 1: So Jeremy saying, get big or go home, that's a philosophy,

2174
01:52:37,000 --> 01:52:39,559
Speaker 1: it is. I'm not one hundred percent against it, that's

2175
01:52:39,600 --> 01:52:43,040
Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah, Langston Walker and Derek Dockery weren't real

2176
01:52:43,120 --> 01:52:46,839
Speaker 1: good answers, to be quite honest with Jeremy. Derek Dockery

2177
01:52:46,920 --> 01:52:52,200
Speaker 1: largely underachieved here. Langston Walker was serviceable, then ran into

2178
01:52:52,240 --> 01:52:57,360
Speaker 1: weight issues. Yeah, I'm a big fan of a big,

2179
01:52:57,400 --> 01:53:00,559
Speaker 1: strong offensive line. They didn't have a quarter. Problem is

2180
01:53:01,520 --> 01:53:04,280
Speaker 1: when they get big, the bigger they get the slower

2181
01:53:04,320 --> 01:53:09,240
Speaker 1: they get. Yeah, generally speaking, Um, there are obviously exceptions

2182
01:53:09,240 --> 01:53:13,400
Speaker 1: to that, but it's just if you're if you're gonna

2183
01:53:13,400 --> 01:53:17,120
Speaker 1: go big, you better be able to just steamroll people

2184
01:53:17,320 --> 01:53:19,800
Speaker 1: because if you can't, right now, you're limited in a

2185
01:53:19,800 --> 01:53:23,360
Speaker 1: different way, right, if you can't pass pro whatever. And

2186
01:53:23,520 --> 01:53:27,360
Speaker 1: I'm because ultimately that's what this offensive line is going

2187
01:53:27,400 --> 01:53:29,719
Speaker 1: to have to do most of the time. Sixty percent

2188
01:53:29,920 --> 01:53:31,479
Speaker 1: to sixty two percent of the time, they're gonna have

2189
01:53:31,479 --> 01:53:37,160
Speaker 1: to pass. The Baltimore Ravens have are looking to trade

2190
01:53:37,439 --> 01:53:41,320
Speaker 1: Jerome Brown, not Jerome, move Orlando Borlando Brown because they

2191
01:53:41,439 --> 01:53:45,040
Speaker 1: just paid Ronnie Stanley, their left tackle, a big contract extension.

2192
01:53:45,680 --> 01:53:48,559
Speaker 1: Orlando Brown is entering the final year of his rookie

2193
01:53:48,560 --> 01:53:50,920
Speaker 1: deal and after that they know they're not going to

2194
01:53:50,960 --> 01:53:53,640
Speaker 1: be able to pay him, right, so they're looking to

2195
01:53:53,680 --> 01:53:56,320
Speaker 1: move to get something back one year back. Now, if

2196
01:53:56,320 --> 01:53:58,400
Speaker 1: you could make a trade with the Baltimore Ravens to

2197
01:53:58,439 --> 01:54:00,840
Speaker 1: get Orlando Brown and put him plug him in at

2198
01:54:00,880 --> 01:54:05,639
Speaker 1: right tackle, the problem is, as soon as he gets traded,

2199
01:54:05,640 --> 01:54:08,080
Speaker 1: he's gonna be looking for big money. Yeah, unless you

2200
01:54:08,120 --> 01:54:11,559
Speaker 1: can say hold down, Yeah, I'm gonna take carry next year,

2201
01:54:11,720 --> 01:54:16,240
Speaker 1: right right, If you could do that, or if you could,

2202
01:54:16,560 --> 01:54:18,840
Speaker 1: or if he's one of the guys, if you're fixing

2203
01:54:18,920 --> 01:54:21,439
Speaker 1: up some money, structure the deal and push it down

2204
01:54:21,439 --> 01:54:24,080
Speaker 1: the road a little bit. Now. I was looking at

2205
01:54:24,120 --> 01:54:27,720
Speaker 1: the percentage breakdowns in terms of where Buffalo's money is

2206
01:54:27,760 --> 01:54:32,280
Speaker 1: devoted here on the positional spending that spottrack dot com has,

2207
01:54:33,200 --> 01:54:36,360
Speaker 1: and it didn't surprise me to see the thirty percent

2208
01:54:36,400 --> 01:54:38,960
Speaker 1: of their cap is going to the defensive line, after

2209
01:54:39,000 --> 01:54:41,480
Speaker 1: all the free agents they signed on that side of

2210
01:54:41,480 --> 01:54:44,080
Speaker 1: the ball last offseason. I was surprised to see that

2211
01:54:44,120 --> 01:54:47,080
Speaker 1: the offensive line, which is a position group of comparable

2212
01:54:47,200 --> 01:54:52,240
Speaker 1: numbers in terms of bodies, fourteen point three percent steve

2213
01:54:52,480 --> 01:54:57,800
Speaker 1: half the spending half. Right. That surprised me. I mean

2214
01:54:57,840 --> 01:55:00,080
Speaker 1: I thought i'd be like somewhere near twenty, know what

2215
01:55:00,120 --> 01:55:02,840
Speaker 1: I mean, Like, you got ten guys on the defensive line,

2216
01:55:02,840 --> 01:55:04,960
Speaker 1: ten guys on the offensive line. I didn't expect the

2217
01:55:05,000 --> 01:55:08,280
Speaker 1: disparity to be that large. Their entire offensive well, it's

2218
01:55:08,280 --> 01:55:11,800
Speaker 1: only six guys, but their entirety of the offensive line

2219
01:55:11,840 --> 01:55:15,680
Speaker 1: was twenty six point six point four million. Yeah, that's

2220
01:55:16,280 --> 01:55:18,400
Speaker 1: half of what they spent on the defensive line. It's

2221
01:55:18,400 --> 01:55:23,120
Speaker 1: not crazy. Spot Track hasn't ranked. This offensive line in

2222
01:55:23,160 --> 01:55:25,840
Speaker 1: this whole group is ranked twenty six out of thirty two. Yeah,

2223
01:55:25,880 --> 01:55:29,240
Speaker 1: so you wouldn't want to spend thirty percent of your

2224
01:55:29,280 --> 01:55:31,879
Speaker 1: cap on something that was ranked that low. But thirteen

2225
01:55:31,960 --> 01:55:35,280
Speaker 1: fourteen percent okay, Yeah, so that begs the question should

2226
01:55:35,320 --> 01:55:38,960
Speaker 1: you invest in a higher caliber player? You know what

2227
01:55:39,040 --> 01:55:41,520
Speaker 1: I mean? Like, well, yeah, I mean you can't. But

2228
01:55:41,880 --> 01:55:45,440
Speaker 1: and I get it it. Offensive line is different than

2229
01:55:45,480 --> 01:55:47,760
Speaker 1: defensive line. It is because you're not going to rotate

2230
01:55:47,840 --> 01:55:50,120
Speaker 1: offensive lineman through, even though we've seen him do that

2231
01:55:50,200 --> 01:55:52,600
Speaker 1: at times. Platoon, get one guy or here or there.

2232
01:55:52,880 --> 01:55:56,560
Speaker 1: But if you've got that big lynchpin like your left tackle,

2233
01:55:56,600 --> 01:55:58,920
Speaker 1: like Dion Dawkins and Mitch Moose, you got two guys

2234
01:55:58,960 --> 01:56:01,040
Speaker 1: that are kind of lynch nds. You get the other

2235
01:56:01,080 --> 01:56:05,280
Speaker 1: tackle set in stone, you're gonna you're gonna be sitting

2236
01:56:05,320 --> 01:56:09,240
Speaker 1: pretty and you know, depending on what kind of guards

2237
01:56:09,280 --> 01:56:11,800
Speaker 1: you want to get or can afford, it's a pretty

2238
01:56:11,800 --> 01:56:15,520
Speaker 1: good offensive line. But I'm I'm with you. I was

2239
01:56:15,880 --> 01:56:21,680
Speaker 1: shocked that they didn't spend that much on their offensive line. Yeah.

2240
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Speaker 1: Eighteen point two percent at wide receiver, eighteen point four

2241
01:56:25,360 --> 01:56:28,440
Speaker 1: percent at defensive back. That's because those are high priced positions.

2242
01:56:29,400 --> 01:56:31,960
Speaker 1: So even though you don't have a high number of

2243
01:56:31,960 --> 01:56:34,600
Speaker 1: wide receivers, you know, you only have six on the

2244
01:56:34,680 --> 01:56:37,920
Speaker 1: roster eighteen percent. Dbs are a little different. You got

2245
01:56:37,920 --> 01:56:40,760
Speaker 1: about ten dbs eighteen percent. It's the same percentage. It's

2246
01:56:40,880 --> 01:56:46,880
Speaker 1: really hard to disparage the wide receivers and the defensive

2247
01:56:46,880 --> 01:56:50,200
Speaker 1: backs secondary for how well they've played this year. Yes,

2248
01:56:50,320 --> 01:56:53,120
Speaker 1: you know, they played really really well. That's why. But

2249
01:56:53,400 --> 01:56:55,640
Speaker 1: that's why I am of the belief they spend thirty

2250
01:56:55,680 --> 01:56:59,840
Speaker 1: four million dollars on their dbs in twenty twenty. I

2251
01:57:00,440 --> 01:57:04,720
Speaker 1: think they invest there with draft choices. I think they

2252
01:57:05,960 --> 01:57:10,600
Speaker 1: maybe one, yeah, maybe two. I'm like corners, Like, maybe

2253
01:57:10,640 --> 01:57:12,800
Speaker 1: you get one on Day two and maybe get another

2254
01:57:12,800 --> 01:57:14,480
Speaker 1: one on Day three somewhere at the back end of

2255
01:57:14,520 --> 01:57:16,760
Speaker 1: the draft. I mean, Dane Jackson was a seventh round pick,

2256
01:57:16,800 --> 01:57:18,960
Speaker 1: and that guy's going to compete next year for a

2257
01:57:18,960 --> 01:57:22,320
Speaker 1: more prominent role in that secondary. I believe, Um, yeah,

2258
01:57:22,400 --> 01:57:25,040
Speaker 1: they could do it. And there's there's guy's gonna be

2259
01:57:25,160 --> 01:57:26,840
Speaker 1: and there's also gonna be some free agents out there

2260
01:57:26,880 --> 01:57:28,320
Speaker 1: that you might be able to touch. Yeah. I know

2261
01:57:28,360 --> 01:57:30,720
Speaker 1: you were getting all gay guy about Patrick Peterson. Yeah,

2262
01:57:30,760 --> 01:57:32,880
Speaker 1: he poopoo gonna be out there. He poop pooed that

2263
01:57:32,920 --> 01:57:34,880
Speaker 1: he doesn't think he's gonna happen, Oh, that he's gonna

2264
01:57:34,880 --> 01:57:36,720
Speaker 1: get cut out right, Yeah, he doesn't think that's that

2265
01:57:36,800 --> 01:57:41,720
Speaker 1: he's available anyway. But I'm it's easy enough to see

2266
01:57:41,760 --> 01:57:44,520
Speaker 1: these cap hits with you know, wide receiver, the secondary,

2267
01:57:44,560 --> 01:57:48,680
Speaker 1: great linebackers, eight percent of the cap, all the linebackers.

2268
01:57:48,720 --> 01:57:51,320
Speaker 1: Of course, Edmonds and Milan are still on their rookie deals.

2269
01:57:51,760 --> 01:57:55,200
Speaker 1: That'll change if they get Milano back in the fold. Yeah, Matakevich,

2270
01:57:55,640 --> 01:57:59,240
Speaker 1: aj Klein, all those guys, they're they're making as much

2271
01:57:59,240 --> 01:58:01,240
Speaker 1: as as those other to aj Klein could be in

2272
01:58:01,280 --> 01:58:04,600
Speaker 1: line for a restructure. Ask two years left on his deal,

2273
01:58:05,560 --> 01:58:08,320
Speaker 1: you know, help us out. We're trying to get Milano back.

2274
01:58:08,720 --> 01:58:10,920
Speaker 1: This is that the other Maybe you come to an

2275
01:58:10,920 --> 01:58:15,640
Speaker 1: agreement there. So aj aj Klein is, uh, well, let's

2276
01:58:15,640 --> 01:58:20,320
Speaker 1: see two years left. Yeah, let me just I'm on

2277
01:58:20,360 --> 01:58:24,560
Speaker 1: the I'm on the wrong page. I stink. Here we go,

2278
01:58:24,920 --> 01:58:27,360
Speaker 1: don't fold under pressure here, get to the page, Steve right,

2279
01:58:27,400 --> 01:58:31,400
Speaker 1: I know, here we go. Aj Klein is pulled down

2280
01:58:31,800 --> 01:58:35,440
Speaker 1: four million bucks this year. Yeah, and his cap hit

2281
01:58:35,560 --> 01:58:39,440
Speaker 1: was you know, six points he's got six point four

2282
01:58:39,520 --> 01:58:41,760
Speaker 1: hit this year. Yeah, so they may go to him

2283
01:58:41,800 --> 01:58:43,680
Speaker 1: and say, hey, look, you're a reserve on our team.

2284
01:58:43,720 --> 01:58:46,880
Speaker 1: We value a veteran leadership. Can you help us out.

2285
01:58:46,920 --> 01:58:48,640
Speaker 1: We'll tack an extra year on the back end. We'll

2286
01:58:48,640 --> 01:58:50,560
Speaker 1: get put some money in your pocket. Now. He took

2287
01:58:50,600 --> 01:58:52,440
Speaker 1: some heat when he first got on the field because

2288
01:58:52,480 --> 01:58:54,920
Speaker 1: he was never supposed to play, and he took some

2289
01:58:54,960 --> 01:58:57,080
Speaker 1: heat when he got on the field after Milano's injury

2290
01:58:57,120 --> 01:58:58,800
Speaker 1: because he didn't. You know, they were. In my opinion,

2291
01:58:58,840 --> 01:59:01,680
Speaker 1: and we talked about it a million times, I thought

2292
01:59:01,680 --> 01:59:03,800
Speaker 1: they were trying to make a J. Klein do what

2293
01:59:03,880 --> 01:59:06,560
Speaker 1: a what Matt Milano did, and he just he's not

2294
01:59:06,640 --> 01:59:08,080
Speaker 1: up to that. There's not to me guys up to that.

2295
01:59:08,160 --> 01:59:09,720
Speaker 1: But when they started to saying okay, we're gonna be

2296
01:59:09,760 --> 01:59:12,480
Speaker 1: out for a while, then they started asking AJ Klein

2297
01:59:12,600 --> 01:59:15,600
Speaker 1: to do different things that AJ Klein could do, and

2298
01:59:15,640 --> 01:59:17,640
Speaker 1: the defense played better with him in there, and he

2299
01:59:17,680 --> 01:59:20,160
Speaker 1: was he was much more successful even started, you know,

2300
01:59:20,240 --> 01:59:23,160
Speaker 1: churning out a couple of turnovers and that kind of thing. So, um,

2301
01:59:24,760 --> 01:59:28,040
Speaker 1: I think he may be a prime candidate for that

2302
01:59:29,200 --> 01:59:31,400
Speaker 1: might also be the reason for Russell Wilson's so upset

2303
01:59:31,400 --> 01:59:33,640
Speaker 1: because he smacked him around in that Seahawks game in

2304
01:59:33,680 --> 01:59:36,040
Speaker 1: Week ten, And maybe the AJ Clein says a week

2305
01:59:36,360 --> 01:59:39,280
Speaker 1: it might be the tap aj Clein on the short

2306
01:59:39,360 --> 01:59:42,480
Speaker 1: say you're the guy this year you're gonna start. I

2307
01:59:42,520 --> 01:59:44,480
Speaker 1: don't think you can call your defense the same way

2308
01:59:44,480 --> 01:59:47,320
Speaker 1: if he's the guy with Edmunds. But that may not.

2309
01:59:47,600 --> 01:59:50,440
Speaker 1: That may be something they're willing to do. Knowing what

2310
01:59:50,480 --> 01:59:52,840
Speaker 1: they know about him from this last year. They might say,

2311
01:59:52,880 --> 01:59:55,160
Speaker 1: you know what, let's we need you to do more.

2312
01:59:55,240 --> 01:59:59,760
Speaker 1: And because of the salary cap, Milano's gone, you're the guy,

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Speaker 1: you know, And if del Sean Phillips and the rest

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Speaker 1: of those guys don't pan out, yeah, Tyrrell Dodson, all

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Speaker 1: of these guys, um, yeah, we'll see. There's a lot.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of question marks. Every guy who's signed

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Speaker 1: on the roster is his is gonna have to he's

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Speaker 1: they're gonna pull his contract out and say, okay, how

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Speaker 1: can this guy help us? You know? And they say,

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Speaker 1: can we restructure him? We'll find out and what can

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Speaker 1: we do? And they will every single guy, every single guy.

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Speaker 1: The ripple effects of a pandemic that's what the gym's

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Speaker 1: job is supposed to be. Yea, he didn't. He's not.

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Speaker 1: He's not gonna step on anybody's toes. They're not gonna well,

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Speaker 1: I can't believe it. No, No, they understand it. Players

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Speaker 1: get it, and it may help some of them. They

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Speaker 1: may like that deal, you know. Yeah, So I'm every

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Speaker 1: single guy who's under contract, all the way from Tredavious White,

2329
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Speaker 1: who's the biggest cap hit, all the way down to

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Speaker 1: let's see who's the last guy the Antonio william There

2331
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Speaker 1: you go. Everybody is up. I think he's okay, Antonia Williams.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they're not gonna ask him, Hey, look, can you

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Speaker 1: be structuring service five grand? Yes, he will probably not

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Speaker 1: restructure break time for us when we return Little NFL

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Speaker 1: true false. It's been a minute since we did a

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Speaker 1: little true false, so we're gonna do that when we return.

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Speaker 1: Here on One Bill's Live, presented by Collid of Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio, One Bills Live, Chris Brown, Steve

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Speaker 1: Jast your final half hour of the program and sign

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Speaker 1: for a little true false. Haven't done this in a while,

2341
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Speaker 1: Steve NFL True false brought to you by Yancey's Fancy

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Speaker 1: Yancey's Fancy New York's artists in Chiefs first on the docket.

2343
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Speaker 1: Let's go. The refs in the Super Bowl were inconsistent,

2344
02:02:00,280 --> 02:02:02,720
Speaker 1: but they were not the reason the Chiefs lost the game.

2345
02:02:03,000 --> 02:02:06,880
Speaker 1: True or false, I would say that is true. They

2346
02:02:06,880 --> 02:02:09,080
Speaker 1: were not the reason that you don't lose by thirty

2347
02:02:09,120 --> 02:02:11,520
Speaker 1: one to nine because of the refs. I thought Twitter

2348
02:02:11,680 --> 02:02:14,440
Speaker 1: was going to break when the Chiefs were getting called

2349
02:02:14,480 --> 02:02:19,760
Speaker 1: for defensive holding and past interference, and at one point

2350
02:02:19,800 --> 02:02:21,840
Speaker 1: in the game they had eight penalties to the Bucks one,

2351
02:02:23,240 --> 02:02:28,360
Speaker 1: and we actually saw the Tyronne Matthew interception get called

2352
02:02:28,360 --> 02:02:32,880
Speaker 1: back because of a penalty, right penalty in the end zone.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it had an impact. I know, I couldn't

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Speaker 1: help but think, oh geez, I wish they were calling

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Speaker 1: that in the AC title. We heard that a bunch

2356
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Speaker 1: of here in Buffalo, Buffalo sitting there shrugging their shoulders,

2357
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Speaker 1: like going, I don't want to hear it. Would have

2358
02:02:47,720 --> 02:02:49,280
Speaker 1: been nice to get that last week, right, Yeah, I

2359
02:02:49,280 --> 02:02:50,680
Speaker 1: don't want to hear it. You should have been called,

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Speaker 1: you know, and you know Bill's fans will tell you that,

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Speaker 1: and of course Chiefs fans are livid, and you know,

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Speaker 1: Tyronne Matthew in the whole crew, and I get it too,

2363
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Speaker 1: and I kind of agree with it. The Chiefs did

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02:03:06,680 --> 02:03:08,920
Speaker 1: the right thing starting out that game. Let's see what

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Speaker 1: we can get away with. The problem is they didn't

2366
02:03:10,960 --> 02:03:13,080
Speaker 1: never adjusted to it. And if they're gonna putting their

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Speaker 1: hands all over those guys, you're gonna get called. Yeah,

2368
02:03:16,240 --> 02:03:18,160
Speaker 1: you run the risk of being called. And when you

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Speaker 1: started getting called, you gotta stop doing it. You can't

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Speaker 1: just keep doing it. And they didn't. And that's so

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm yeah, I'm not a thinking that the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: oh that that lost to the officials. There is a

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Speaker 1: little bit of NFL transactional news. The Broncos are releasing

2374
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Speaker 1: cornerback AJ Booyer. According to a source, no word it's

2375
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Speaker 1: to when it's going to happen, but one of the

2376
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Speaker 1: Broncos beat reporters, Mike Cliffs, who covers the Broncos for

2377
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Speaker 1: nine News, is reporting that AJ Booyer will be out

2378
02:03:52,640 --> 02:03:56,360
Speaker 1: there just one small example of the veteran talent that

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02:03:56,480 --> 02:03:58,920
Speaker 1: is going to find itself in the free agent market.

2380
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Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you how good A J. Bouye is,

2381
02:04:01,120 --> 02:04:03,440
Speaker 1: but he's been he was with the Tech Stars for

2382
02:04:03,480 --> 02:04:06,080
Speaker 1: a long time. Yeah, he's been on He's been on

2383
02:04:06,120 --> 02:04:07,960
Speaker 1: the field a lot for a lot of for a

2384
02:04:08,000 --> 02:04:11,360
Speaker 1: bunch of NFL team. Now there's a reason he's bounced around.

2385
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Speaker 1: But you're right, we're gonna see a lot of that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a lot of it. NFL True false Number two. Brady

2387
02:04:20,800 --> 02:04:23,640
Speaker 1: owes his seventh Super Bowl win to the brilliant work

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Speaker 1: of the Bucks coordinators. True or false. By the way,

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Speaker 1: I was true on the refs as well. I agree

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Speaker 1: with you. This is a harder one for me because certainly,

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02:04:32,840 --> 02:04:36,640
Speaker 1: but I thought Brady played great his ability to get

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Speaker 1: the ball out and put in where it needed to go.

2393
02:04:38,760 --> 02:04:41,640
Speaker 1: And I'll say, yeah, no question. I mean every team,

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02:04:41,680 --> 02:04:43,560
Speaker 1: every game at this level, when you play well and

2395
02:04:43,600 --> 02:04:45,880
Speaker 1: the team plays like it did, the coordinators deserve a

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Speaker 1: ton of credit. And you know, the players absolutely executed

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02:04:50,440 --> 02:04:54,440
Speaker 1: this game plan the Bucks, especially to perfection. So I

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Speaker 1: get it. I'll say, yeah, he does owe it to

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Speaker 1: him to a certain extent, no question. Now, don't kid

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Speaker 1: yourself and Tom Tom. Tom Brady played really, really good

2401
02:05:04,400 --> 02:05:06,200
Speaker 1: and there was a point where he was twenty to

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02:05:06,280 --> 02:05:09,360
Speaker 1: twenty six for one ninety five and three touchdowns. Right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I like, I respect for the coordinators as

2404
02:05:12,320 --> 02:05:14,840
Speaker 1: much as the next guy. Yeah, but I'm gonna say

2405
02:05:14,880 --> 02:05:18,839
Speaker 1: false to the coordinators. They were a part of the puzzle.

2406
02:05:18,920 --> 02:05:21,920
Speaker 1: But yeah, my god, that guy went out and did it. Yeah.

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02:05:22,000 --> 02:05:23,800
Speaker 1: And and of course the defense. I mean there's a

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02:05:23,800 --> 02:05:25,920
Speaker 1: lot of people thought that maybe a defensive player was

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02:05:25,960 --> 02:05:28,560
Speaker 1: gonna win the MVP instead of Brady. But he put

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Speaker 1: together that kind of game. He just made it. Look yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: I get it. I'm gonna go here, go there. He

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02:05:32,880 --> 02:05:35,040
Speaker 1: didn't have to move, wasn't hurried, the ball came out

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Speaker 1: on time, on target. Um. And he made some great

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02:05:38,520 --> 02:05:40,600
Speaker 1: throws I either throw the gronk down the middle or

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02:05:40,880 --> 02:05:44,400
Speaker 1: later in the game where uh he snapped off a

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02:05:44,440 --> 02:05:48,960
Speaker 1: big run. Plays like that. Um, you don't tend to

2417
02:05:49,000 --> 02:05:50,760
Speaker 1: give the quarterback a lot of credit, but that's a

2418
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady play. Yeah. And uh yeah, yeah, I the

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02:05:56,320 --> 02:05:58,680
Speaker 1: coordinators did a fantastic job. But man oh man, the

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Speaker 1: guys on both sides of the ball, the Bucks played great.

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Speaker 1: They executed the perfection. Speaking of Tom Brady, they're they're

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Speaker 1: having the Super Bowl parade on the water in Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 1: I saw they're having a boat parade, and Brady had

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Speaker 1: the Lombardi Trophy with him on the back of his

2425
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Speaker 1: boat and came up with the brilliant decision to throw

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Speaker 1: the Lombardi trophy to another boat where Scotty Miller, one

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Speaker 1: of his receivers, was across the canal. Here. Fortunately Scotty

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Speaker 1: Miller caught the trophy. He completed that pass two, so

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Speaker 1: that pass was completed. He's got six of those. Why

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Speaker 1: does he care about the seventh way? He started getting

2431
02:06:36,520 --> 02:06:39,920
Speaker 1: a little bit more cavalier with the an interesting diving expedition.

2432
02:06:40,080 --> 02:06:42,800
Speaker 1: How fast and who would have jumped in after that thing?

2433
02:06:42,840 --> 02:06:45,720
Speaker 1: If that thing goes off the edge. It's only seven pounds,

2434
02:06:45,800 --> 02:06:48,920
Speaker 1: but still it's going to sink pretty fast. It's not

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02:06:49,000 --> 02:06:51,320
Speaker 1: that deep. They're in the Tampa Bay Harbor, right there

2436
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Speaker 1: in the inner harbor, so it's not you know, it's

2437
02:06:53,040 --> 02:06:56,400
Speaker 1: like a three hundred yard circle of water, so they'd

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Speaker 1: find it. Man, can you imagine the League office watching

2439
02:07:01,640 --> 02:07:05,840
Speaker 1: this footage. I got you gotta beat. Tom Brady's probably

2440
02:07:05,840 --> 02:07:08,840
Speaker 1: had a you know, a candy bar sound, so he's

2441
02:07:08,840 --> 02:07:12,520
Speaker 1: all sure. We have learned that. While Scottie Millar did

2442
02:07:12,560 --> 02:07:17,840
Speaker 1: catch the trophy. He apparently did drop Chris Godwin's phone

2443
02:07:17,880 --> 02:07:21,440
Speaker 1: in the water. It's his fellow receiver and teammate, so

2444
02:07:22,040 --> 02:07:26,680
Speaker 1: caught the trophy, dropped Chris Godwin's phone, Lombardi trophy. He's

2445
02:07:26,720 --> 02:07:29,839
Speaker 1: one for two phone. I'm I'm taking the trophy into

2446
02:07:29,960 --> 02:07:32,720
Speaker 1: your Phone's your phone's going in the drink, Brownie. I'm sorry,

2447
02:07:33,960 --> 02:07:37,680
Speaker 1: it is what it is. Yeah, uh NFL true falls

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Speaker 1: number three. The Steelers should part ways with Ben Roethlisberger

2449
02:07:45,400 --> 02:07:48,360
Speaker 1: now to bring everybody up to speed on the current situation.

2450
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Speaker 1: Roethlisberger has a cap figure of over forty one million dollars,

2451
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Speaker 1: and the Steelers have said in no uncertain terms that

2452
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Speaker 1: if Roethlisberger is to return to the roster, it will

2453
02:08:00,080 --> 02:08:04,200
Speaker 1: have to be done at a severely reduced cap figure,

2454
02:08:04,440 --> 02:08:07,960
Speaker 1: probably at least half of what his cap figure currently is,

2455
02:08:08,480 --> 02:08:13,640
Speaker 1: maybe more. He and yeah, if they cut him, it's

2456
02:08:13,680 --> 02:08:17,440
Speaker 1: a twenty one million dollar hit, right. If they don't

2457
02:08:17,480 --> 02:08:20,640
Speaker 1: cut him, it's forty two million or whatever it is.

2458
02:08:20,680 --> 02:08:24,000
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's an outrageous number because and half

2459
02:08:24,040 --> 02:08:27,120
Speaker 1: of it is pro rated signing bonus or whatever. And

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02:08:27,200 --> 02:08:30,400
Speaker 1: so even if they cut him, it's twenty plus million

2461
02:08:30,960 --> 02:08:35,400
Speaker 1: against their cap. I don't know how they would structure

2462
02:08:35,400 --> 02:08:38,760
Speaker 1: it so that he, you know, would get that money.

2463
02:08:39,040 --> 02:08:44,520
Speaker 1: But I don't know how you cut ties with the

2464
02:08:44,560 --> 02:08:49,880
Speaker 1: guide and not have it get ugly. I would say no,

2465
02:08:49,960 --> 02:08:52,720
Speaker 1: I would I would say restructure him and bring him

2466
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Speaker 1: back if at all costs. Well, right now, at this moment,

2467
02:08:56,720 --> 02:08:59,400
Speaker 1: they don't have a better answer at the position, right

2468
02:08:59,600 --> 02:09:03,080
Speaker 1: they They signed cast off Dwayne Haskins to a reserve

2469
02:09:03,160 --> 02:09:09,040
Speaker 1: futures deal, one year deal, and you know, whatever you

2470
02:09:09,080 --> 02:09:11,920
Speaker 1: want to do with that. That doesn't give me any

2471
02:09:11,920 --> 02:09:16,400
Speaker 1: sense of comfort for depth at the position because he's

2472
02:09:16,440 --> 02:09:18,400
Speaker 1: been kind of a wayward guy the last couple of

2473
02:09:18,440 --> 02:09:22,760
Speaker 1: years in Washington. Oh my Juju Smith Schuster probably not

2474
02:09:22,920 --> 02:09:28,800
Speaker 1: coming back. And you're also picking twenty fourth, so you're

2475
02:09:28,840 --> 02:09:31,320
Speaker 1: probably not getting one of the top quarterback prospects either.

2476
02:09:32,320 --> 02:09:34,160
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, you don't have a better option

2477
02:09:34,160 --> 02:09:37,160
Speaker 1: than Ben, no question about it. Now. Ben's not going

2478
02:09:37,200 --> 02:09:39,080
Speaker 1: to play at a forty two million dollar level. I'll

2479
02:09:39,080 --> 02:09:40,440
Speaker 1: go out on a lim and say that, Oh he's not.

2480
02:09:40,520 --> 02:09:42,280
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I'm of the opinion that

2481
02:09:42,320 --> 02:09:45,920
Speaker 1: he should retire. Yeah, and that's an option as well.

2482
02:09:46,840 --> 02:09:49,000
Speaker 1: And the Steelers will be looking for the guy. If

2483
02:09:49,040 --> 02:09:52,200
Speaker 1: I'm the Steelers, though I don't see anybody like that

2484
02:09:52,320 --> 02:09:54,320
Speaker 1: out there on or on my roster. Now, you could

2485
02:09:54,360 --> 02:09:56,760
Speaker 1: go out and say, okay, I'm gonna trade and get

2486
02:09:56,800 --> 02:10:00,080
Speaker 1: one of these guys. Could you imagine Russ Wilson on

2487
02:10:00,120 --> 02:10:04,240
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers or a Deshaun Watson or who else?

2488
02:10:04,440 --> 02:10:10,600
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold, Yeah, that I could see, but you can't.

2489
02:10:10,600 --> 02:10:12,560
Speaker 1: That's what they gotta do. But you can't even inherit

2490
02:10:12,600 --> 02:10:16,920
Speaker 1: a salary like that unless you're moving this guy. Well,

2491
02:10:16,960 --> 02:10:19,840
Speaker 1: if Sam Darnold is still on his rookie deal, yeah,

2492
02:10:19,880 --> 02:10:22,160
Speaker 1: and you could get him, say listen, we'll take care

2493
02:10:22,160 --> 02:10:23,960
Speaker 1: of let's see, let's have approve a deal, we'll give

2494
02:10:24,000 --> 02:10:27,320
Speaker 1: we'll send You could even send Roethlisberger to the Jets,

2495
02:10:27,400 --> 02:10:30,400
Speaker 1: right or whatever. But you can say, here you go

2496
02:10:31,480 --> 02:10:33,600
Speaker 1: and we're getting we're cutting ties. We're gonna get it,

2497
02:10:33,640 --> 02:10:36,000
Speaker 1: but you gotta have it. You can't cut ties with

2498
02:10:36,040 --> 02:10:39,280
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger unless you have a viable option. And that

2499
02:10:39,440 --> 02:10:41,200
Speaker 1: is the only reason I am agreeing with you and

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02:10:41,320 --> 02:10:43,040
Speaker 1: saying false. If you as soon as you have a

2501
02:10:43,080 --> 02:10:46,040
Speaker 1: better option, though, you better say yeah, Ben, it's been great,

2502
02:10:46,120 --> 02:10:49,240
Speaker 1: and they don't, but we gotta part, so I will

2503
02:10:49,280 --> 02:10:52,480
Speaker 1: say false as well. That is NFL true false. Brought

2504
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Speaker 1: to you by Yancy's Fancy New York's Artists and Cheese

2505
02:10:55,240 --> 02:10:58,120
Speaker 1: break time for us. But when we return, it's what

2506
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Speaker 1: have we learned from today's find out what that is?

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Speaker 1: When we come back here on One Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kaloid of Health, it's Buffalo Bills Radio time for

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Speaker 1: what had we learned from today's show? Brought to you

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Had Mike Janety on the show, founder and

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Speaker 1: editor of spottrack dot com, one of the better salary

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Speaker 1: cap websites that you're going to find out there. And

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Speaker 1: on w gr's Morning Show with Howard and Jeremy, did

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Speaker 1: say that they could fit a Josh Allen extension in

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02:11:49,680 --> 02:11:52,800
Speaker 1: this offseason despite the restrictive cap, admitting they'd have to

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02:11:52,840 --> 02:11:56,760
Speaker 1: get creative. So we asked Mike what kind of Josh

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02:11:56,840 --> 02:12:01,320
Speaker 1: Allen extension it would look like in an offseason like this,

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Speaker 1: So before twenty twenty, he's eyeing a Deshaun Watson contract superstandard,

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02:12:08,520 --> 02:12:10,680
Speaker 1: just a four year extension with a good sized signing

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02:12:10,720 --> 02:12:13,040
Speaker 1: bonus that that really doesn't hold too much dead cap.

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02:12:13,080 --> 02:12:16,360
Speaker 1: It's kind of low risk, high cash, you know, a

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02:12:16,440 --> 02:12:19,960
Speaker 1: traditional quarterback extension. But you're right, what we saw with

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02:12:20,040 --> 02:12:24,080
Speaker 1: Mahomes basically didn't move the needle in terms of the

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02:12:24,120 --> 02:12:26,560
Speaker 1: Chiefs cap number this year, and it slightly moves it

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02:12:26,640 --> 02:12:29,240
Speaker 1: next year. So if the Bills are gonna do it

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02:12:29,240 --> 02:12:30,760
Speaker 1: this year, they're gonna have to be a little bit

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02:12:30,760 --> 02:12:32,839
Speaker 1: more creative. They're gonna have to go somewhere in between

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02:12:32,880 --> 02:12:36,320
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson and Patrick Mahomes, both in terms of the number,

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02:12:36,600 --> 02:12:39,120
Speaker 1: you know, the dollar signs and the structure, so that

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02:12:39,480 --> 02:12:42,480
Speaker 1: they can sort of keep Josh's cap figures somewhat neutral

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02:12:42,560 --> 02:12:44,839
Speaker 1: this year so they can continue to build around it,

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02:12:44,880 --> 02:12:46,880
Speaker 1: but also get some cash in his pocket and make

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02:12:46,920 --> 02:12:48,760
Speaker 1: sure he's happy over the next three four years when

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02:12:48,800 --> 02:12:52,360
Speaker 1: it really matters. It's gonna be interesting to see what

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02:12:52,400 --> 02:12:55,320
Speaker 1: the Bills ultimately decided to do there, because Josh certainly

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02:12:55,360 --> 02:12:59,040
Speaker 1: earned the right to get an extension. I mean, he's

2539
02:12:59,080 --> 02:13:04,120
Speaker 1: proven that he is the franchise guy. And if you

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02:13:04,160 --> 02:13:06,560
Speaker 1: can do it in such a way, similar to the

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02:13:06,560 --> 02:13:09,360
Speaker 1: way the Chiefs did it with Mahomes. You can certainly

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02:13:09,400 --> 02:13:11,920
Speaker 1: justify it and it doesn't hurt you in terms of

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02:13:11,920 --> 02:13:15,120
Speaker 1: addressing the other needs of the roster. Yeah, certainly he's

2544
02:13:15,120 --> 02:13:16,880
Speaker 1: done everything they've asked him to do, and he took

2545
02:13:16,880 --> 02:13:18,920
Speaker 1: an enormous leap. He was number two in the NFL

2546
02:13:19,000 --> 02:13:23,440
Speaker 1: and MVP voting this year. You know, you can strike

2547
02:13:23,480 --> 02:13:25,200
Speaker 1: while the iron is hot. But he's also got two

2548
02:13:25,240 --> 02:13:27,800
Speaker 1: years left on this deal, so there's really no hurry now.

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02:13:27,840 --> 02:13:30,280
Speaker 1: But if you want to restructure it, I think the

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02:13:30,320 --> 02:13:33,360
Speaker 1: Mahomes deal is very intriguing because they push a lot

2551
02:13:33,400 --> 02:13:36,240
Speaker 1: of money down the road. He didn't kill the cap

2552
02:13:36,360 --> 02:13:38,960
Speaker 1: last year for them or and he won't this year again,

2553
02:13:39,400 --> 02:13:41,160
Speaker 1: So I think it's a it's a you know, they

2554
02:13:41,160 --> 02:13:43,000
Speaker 1: can get as creative as they want to, but the

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02:13:43,040 --> 02:13:45,400
Speaker 1: Mahomes contract, because of its structure and the way they

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02:13:45,440 --> 02:13:47,760
Speaker 1: structured down the road when the Caps grows and grows

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02:13:47,760 --> 02:13:50,120
Speaker 1: and grows, gives him a chance to get it in

2558
02:13:50,560 --> 02:13:53,200
Speaker 1: and give him his money while it's guaranteed he doesn't

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02:13:53,200 --> 02:13:54,920
Speaker 1: get it for a while, and it makes a lot

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02:13:54,960 --> 02:13:59,240
Speaker 1: of sense for the team's cap were going forward ESPN's

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Speaker 1: Field Yates on the docket for our Thursday edition of

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live. Be sure to join Steve and me.

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Speaker 1: Then we'll see you tomorrow at noon.