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Speaker 1: Oh, good time taskers. Time to time. Time, there comes

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Speaker 1: another week. Here we go One Bill's Live from One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. Coming to you from Orchard Park, snowy Orchard

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Speaker 1: Park today. Happy to be with you for the next

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Speaker 1: three hours talking Bill's football, NFL football. John Murphy, Steam Tasker.

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Speaker 1: Coming off the weekend, going into a week, next week,

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Speaker 1: next Wednesday, a week for ten days away. We'll be

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Speaker 1: set for the draft. Good afternoon, everybody. I'm John Murphy.

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Speaker 1: This is Team Tasker. Welcome to the show, stee, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to you. How are you today. It's good to be back,

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Speaker 1: Good to be back. Nice, RESTful weekend. Had some stuff

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Speaker 1: going on. Watch a bunch of aaf this weekend. Watched

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Speaker 1: uh uh, A couple of movies. Not a couple of movies.

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Speaker 1: That's not right, kind of touch. I kind has surfed

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Speaker 1: across a couple of movies. But spent time with the family.

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Speaker 1: It's lousy. All weekend watching movies. Yeah, didn't watch much sports.

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Speaker 1: Um right by nisis Friday night and the weekend went

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Speaker 1: We got crushed, don't it's not he's unlucky Dad doesn't

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Speaker 1: and you know, right up we wait until midway, almost

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Speaker 1: You miss hockey. It was a highlight, I believe me,

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Speaker 1: because it was downhill from the Sabers were playing really good.

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Speaker 1: Plus we didn't want to stand in line. I'm not

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna point in my life Murph where I really

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Speaker 1: So if you're missing the game action, you know, hey,

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Speaker 1: on Friday. I was doing basketball on Friday. Canisius basketball.

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Speaker 1: you will signed in those cases many Well you signed

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Speaker 1: I get you cheapening the value of your What do

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Speaker 1: and that was one college basketball game. Any at any

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Speaker 1: moment Saturday and Sunday, there were as many as ten

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Speaker 1: or fifteen college basketball individable on my TV. So that's

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Speaker 1: gonna you know, who knows what your favorite team is

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Speaker 1: or what conference you're interested in? You you would be

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Speaker 1: part of that other percentage of thirty seven percent? How

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Speaker 1: are we gonna hand? How are we gonna handle? On

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Speaker 1: our show One Bills Live? What March madness? What do

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Speaker 1: you mean? How are we gonna handle? Yeah, we gotta.

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Speaker 1: I mean we got to talk about it. Right. We've

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Speaker 1: been taken off works so we can watch games that'd

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Speaker 1: be that would be optimal, Yes, that would be optimal.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna happen. What do you mean?

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Speaker 1: How are we gonna handle? We gotta talk. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: do a show on it. We're gonna do like every

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Speaker 1: Monday after the weekend. I don't know. I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: remember what we've done in the past because I feel guilty,

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Speaker 1: you know, talking about college basketball when we're doing the

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live. I would, but we're kind of you

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Speaker 1: never you never has the States talk savers hockey. You

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Speaker 1: never good point. Yeah, we'll be all right. We'll figure

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Speaker 1: it out. Which sporting event were you gonna brackets? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: We no, no, no, we're not allowed. We're not allowed. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Which sporting event were you most interested in this past weekend?

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Speaker 1: Give us a call, we'll discuss eight oh three five

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Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty? Was it uh NBA All Star Weekend? Was

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Speaker 1: it the Daytona five hundred? Was it the Alliance of

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Speaker 1: American Football or something else? Luck you hear from you,

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Speaker 1: just to see what you're you know, now the NFL

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Speaker 1: is shut down for a while. Where your sports interests

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Speaker 1: go this time of year? People would I think, say, well,

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Speaker 1: it's a dead time of year. It's not really dead.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot going on, including the Daytona

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Speaker 1: five hundred, which as a loyal and fairly sizeable audience,

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Speaker 1: including college sports, including the Sabers, who have a loyal

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Speaker 1: and sizeable audience here in Buffalo and Western New York.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting that the Alliance of American Football on our

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll in the early going here gets twenty nine

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Speaker 1: percent of the votes. That's almost a third of the

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Speaker 1: votes for a league that's two weeks old. That's amazing, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the ratings were pretty good last week. I

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Speaker 1: haven't seen any ratings report yet on this week, but

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Speaker 1: I think you'd have to admit I'm going to say

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Speaker 1: that the Alliance has been a surprising success, I believe

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Speaker 1: through the first couple of weeks, and I think the

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Speaker 1: second week was actually a stronger weekend than last weekend.

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Speaker 1: You had last weekend Week one, you had one blowout

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Speaker 1: of the four games here. As we're pretty competitive, these

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Speaker 1: were really competitive, and you start to see some things

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Speaker 1: develop with the analytics of the game. And we're gonna

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Speaker 1: have Cynthia Freeland on who's an analytics expert on the

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Speaker 1: AAF and she's she's on the NFL's networks coverage of

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Speaker 1: the league this two going for two. Every score I

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Speaker 1: gotta tell you, Murph, it really adds to the interest

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Speaker 1: for these games. I am captivated by that just by

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Speaker 1: that alone. There's no I hate that. But I've missed

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Speaker 1: the kickoffs. I haven't missed them. I hate to say

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Speaker 1: that they would take that out of football completely, but

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Speaker 1: I'm ready for that offense to come back on. We'll

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Speaker 1: see what they can do. It's they've been really competitive games.

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Speaker 1: I thought all four games this last weekend had moments

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Speaker 1: where they were really compelling. They just sucked me in,

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Speaker 1: you know, what can I say? I started watching them,

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Speaker 1: I was like, Wow, this is pretty good, you know,

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Speaker 1: and that what's gonna happen? So that doesn't always happen,

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Speaker 1: even with NFL games these days, but those games certainly

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Speaker 1: did it. So I'm the AAF continued and I had

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Speaker 1: another strong weekend of competitive games. And the fact that,

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Speaker 1: and I've said it time and time again when we

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Speaker 1: talk about it, the fact that there's only four games,

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Speaker 1: it's almost refreshing. It's easier to keep drafting. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: it's like, oh yeah, it's it really is. It's so nice.

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Speaker 1: There's just no there's no no ants like what am

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Speaker 1: I missing? You know? There's nothing else to miss. There's

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Speaker 1: nothing to miss. I gotta say to hear Steve Tasker,

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Speaker 1: one of the all time special teamers in NFL history,

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Speaker 1: say I don't miss kickoffs. That that's I'm not saying.

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Speaker 1: It's alarming to me, but you get my intention when

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Speaker 1: you say that. If anyone's going to miss kickoffs or

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Speaker 1: special teams plays, it would be you. Yeah, and you don't. Well,

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Speaker 1: they've become kind of you know, what can I say?

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Speaker 1: They're a little bit uh throw in now, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean if people are nothing happens on them, so

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Speaker 1: you know, what's there to miss? They're kind of kind

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Speaker 1: of sour not soured me on them, but my expectations

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Speaker 1: are so low when I see them anyway, why why

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Speaker 1: get excited about them anymore? So that means we're this close. Now,

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Speaker 1: if Steve Tasker doesn't watch kickoffs, doesn't care about kickoffs,

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Speaker 1: we're this close to eliminating kickoffs. I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: I think the league is committed to keeping them in

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Speaker 1: the game. I think they'll continue to tweak it though

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Speaker 1: they're gonna chant keep changing. I hope they do. The

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Speaker 1: only thing that's wrong with them now there's two things

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Speaker 1: wrong with them. One you don't get enough returns during

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Speaker 1: the games, and two there's no way to get an

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Speaker 1: onside kick anymore. So those two things kind of make

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Speaker 1: it like, all right, we got we gotta fix it again.

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Speaker 1: I would think they will. I don't know, though, We'll see,

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Speaker 1: we'll see. Hey, um, we're gonna take your phone calls

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Speaker 1: on this topic. Which sporting event were you most interested

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Speaker 1: in this past weekend and we'll read something from the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet coming up in the next segment. If you

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Speaker 1: got a thought on this, give us a call. Eight

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Speaker 1: one eight eight five fifty tw We're just getting rolling

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Speaker 1: today with one bills Live. We got Michael Renner from

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Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus coming up in one Cynthia Freeland from

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Speaker 1: the NFL Network coming up at two o'clock, and plenty

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Speaker 1: of time for you to discuss with us. Coming up

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Speaker 1: next week, we've got live coverage from the NFL Scouting

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Speaker 1: Combine in Indianapolis. It starts a week from Wednesday, February

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Speaker 1: twenty seventh. We're there Wednesday, Thursday, Friday February twenty seventh

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Speaker 1: through March first at the scouting Combine in India. Make

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Speaker 1: sure you get ready for that. We'll be ready for

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Speaker 1: it as well. The Combine coverage coming up starting next Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: Steve and I coming back with more One Bills Live

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. And this is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: It's the Monday edition and one goes live. Good afternoon,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker here until three o'clock. The snow

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Speaker 1: is up blowing here in Orchard, pol Look at it.

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Speaker 1: A couple of inches overnight at our place. See you

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Speaker 1: probably got about the same two too and a half anage. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't bad. It started late last night, so it's

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Speaker 1: it lightly snowed throughout the night. I imagine we didn't

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Speaker 1: get very much, but it was starting last night. Our

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll today, which sporting event were you most interested

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Speaker 1: in this past weekend? Give us a call to discuss

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Speaker 1: eighth three five fifty to three one eight eight fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty from the tweet sheet from t many

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Speaker 1: twenty two. He chooses other as most of them respondents.

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Speaker 1: Heavy says the Alliance of American Football is unwatchable with

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Speaker 1: the horrible camera angles and sloppy play. I was most

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Speaker 1: interested in Sabers games, what a let down and UFC fights, Well,

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Speaker 1: there you go, we did. I gotta say though, Team

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Speaker 1: Many twenty two year in the vast minority, with all

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Speaker 1: the with the feedback we've gotten so far. Really yeah, everybody, everybody.

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Speaker 1: I was leading the pack here. Yeah, I know. But

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Speaker 1: a lot of people are saying the a I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about specifically what he said about the AAF. He said

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Speaker 1: it's unwatchable. A lot of people are saying, man, they

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Speaker 1: liked it a lot. Go on, what can I say?

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Speaker 1: It's the games are competitive, and you're right, they're being

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Speaker 1: done by CBS Sports Network. There was a game on

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Speaker 1: T and T, but NFL Network had a couple of

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Speaker 1: games as well, so um, you know, you gotta kind

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Speaker 1: of look for him to find him. But they're really

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Speaker 1: worth it. I gotta hate I gotta tell you, Murph,

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Speaker 1: it's starting to draw me in. I'm starting to be

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Speaker 1: invested in the AF. Really. Yeah. I didn't think that

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Speaker 1: wasna I didn't think I was gonna have, you know,

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Speaker 1: I didn't think it was gonna get hooked like that.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm looking forward to watching them. Wandering Jack tweetson

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Speaker 1: watch both awful savers games, but found myself drawn to

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Speaker 1: the Alliance of American Football again both days and got

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Speaker 1: some interesting fun games to watch. There will be some

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Speaker 1: guys playing. Who will get NFL contracts is spring summer

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Speaker 1: upon the conclusion of the AAF season. Garrett Gilbert has

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Speaker 1: looked great. Garrett is Gail Gilbert's son. Do you think

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Speaker 1: he was born in Buffalo or is he too young

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Speaker 1: for that? Probably was yeah, Gail left here what ninety

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Speaker 1: four and maybe not. Yeah, it might be too ny

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Speaker 1: for you five years ago. Yes, he's too young. Probably

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Speaker 1: maybe born when he was when Gayl was in San Diego,

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Speaker 1: but he did. Garet Gilbert looks really good. He looks

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Speaker 1: like a polished product. Although uh, you know he's for

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Speaker 1: what he's supposed to be doing. He looks really good.

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Speaker 1: He looks as good as any quarterback in that league

591
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Speaker 1: playing for the Orlando Apollos and Steve Spurrier. So it was, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they are good games. Also, we're getting a ton of

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Speaker 1: stuff in about other stuff people have watched. Eric Morno

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Speaker 1: says the genesis is open on golf from Scott College basketball.

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Speaker 1: That's your thing, Murph, And then also somebody Matthew Barts

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Speaker 1: says Hey, what about the Buffalo Bandits their first place

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Speaker 1: in the NL. Let's talk about them for a minute.

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Speaker 1: Just give him a minute once in a while for

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Speaker 1: about the Bandits. Are they leading a little cross league?

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Speaker 1: You can't watch them on TV though you can't watch him,

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Speaker 1: give me a chance to watch it. Garrett Gilbert. By

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Speaker 1: the way, he was born in Afo. Steve twenty seven

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Speaker 1: years old, July first, It says, Buffalo, New York, twenty

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Speaker 1: seven years old, nineteen ninety one. Call here from Damon

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Speaker 1: on Grand Island. Hello, Damon, go ahead, you're on the year. Hi, Hey,

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Speaker 1: guys doing great. I'm met, Yeah, from Grand Island. I'm

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Speaker 1: driving through Canada go to Michigan for work. At least

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Speaker 1: I can still get a signal for your show. Good. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I voted other or I would vote other as well

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Speaker 1: for the Bandits. Season tickets member and you can watch

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Speaker 1: them on if you get Bleacher Report, you can live

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Speaker 1: stream the Bleacher Report. You can see all the NL games,

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Speaker 1: the Bandits and everyone else. Okay, watched all of them

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Speaker 1: home games. I'm going to as a season ticket member

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Speaker 1: and there away games. I watch it streaming on Bleacher Report.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, they're doing great. Satan two first place in

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Speaker 1: the league. Awesome, glad to hear that. And they they're

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Speaker 1: also expanding the league now. They're adding a couple of

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Speaker 1: new teams next year. I'm to eleven, they'll get the

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Speaker 1: I think they're trying to get up to sixteen teen,

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Speaker 1: So you're going to see more teams, a bigger league.

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Speaker 1: And I guess they're trying to make sure it doesn't

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Speaker 1: interfere with the summer lacrosse leagues and trying to make

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Speaker 1: sure it all works out. But I think it's going

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Speaker 1: to it's expanding, and definitely between Canada and the US,

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Speaker 1: the box lacrosse is definitely a growing sport. Damon, let

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Speaker 1: me ask you this, And since you're a season ticket holder,

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Speaker 1: are they I know they used to really fill that place.

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Speaker 1: At least the lower bowl was almost completely full. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that even back in the day they even

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Speaker 1: sold tickets to the upper bowl. But are they still

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Speaker 1: drawn that many fans? A lot of guys, a lot

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Speaker 1: of people are very die hard lacrosse fans. Are they

634
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 1: still selling the bottom bowl of that place out in

635
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: the arena? Yeah? I mean, for the most part, one

636
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: and two hundred levels are pretty full. I mean, like

637
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: any other event they give you an attendance. You don't

638
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: know how actor it is based on ticket sales versus

639
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,719
Speaker 1: how many actually showed up. It said they were over

640
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: over thirteen thousand Saturday night. But yeah, I know, especially

641
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 1: when they get to the playoffs this year, they should

642
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: then you should see up to yeah, between fifteen and

643
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: eighteen thousand, like usually do when they're getting into that

644
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 1: into that part of the season. Awesome. Damon, what do

645
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: you pay for your ticket? Damon? What's the ticket costs?

646
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 1: Season ticket holder? Well, season ticket member, where you're like

647
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: for two seats and the two hundred it's with parking

648
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,719
Speaker 1: because we park right in the ramp too. It's all included.

649
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 1: It's like between six and seven hundred dollars season tickets

650
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,239
Speaker 1: for nine home games with the parking in the two

651
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: hundred level right in the center for tickets for no

652
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: total for two tickets. Wow. Wow, that's nice, Like between

653
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: six and six to seven hundred range. So it's not

654
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 1: that bad. And they've got all the and they've got

655
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: all the concessions and all the stuff they have for

656
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 1: open for hockey, open for the the lacrosse league as well,

657
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 1: all the bars, all the all the kiosks, all the

658
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: beer vendors, all the food vendors, all all that's open. Yeah,

659
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 1: they don't, um, I know, like in the hockey they'll

660
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: come in like to your seats sometimes, I guess, or

661
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's war in the sweets, but

662
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 1: they don't come walk into your seats. But all the

663
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: vendors are open for beer, alcohol, everything, so um, yeah,

664
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: you can definitely get what you want there about Iam

665
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 1: can Steve you get an ice cream? No kidding? Oh yeah,

666
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: oh yeah you get the creamery is open. Oh it's

667
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: a home run. Then, thanks Damon, Thanks Damon, park on

668
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 1: that pard level of that ramp and the barking. You

669
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: walk right into your seat so you don't even have

670
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 1: to go very far outside if you have part right

671
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: in the rams. Appreciate a call from ahead Paul you

672
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: around the air. Hey guys, I just wanted to talk

673
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: about the kickoffs. I agree they have become boring. Um.

674
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: I think that people want excitement, so like and I

675
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: get you gotta have handoffs, you gotta have running plates.

676
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: Everybody wants a big play to lighten it up. I would,

677
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: you know, push the kicker back a little bit and

678
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: maybe you know, if it goes in the end zone,

679
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 1: start at the fifteen yard line, so it gives some

680
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: team incentative to run it out. Another thing, on the

681
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 1: on site kicks, make it five yards instead of ten

682
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 1: where the offensive team that's kicking the ball could get

683
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: that ball. Makes it more exciting for the fans when

684
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: they think there's a better chance for their team or

685
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: the other team to lose the ball. That's I mean,

686
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 1: that's just my opinion. And sabers over the weekend. Okay, thanks, Well,

687
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: we got a guy right here who was on the

688
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: NFL committee on kickoffs last time. While I was in

689
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: the room. I was invited and I probably spoke too much.

690
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 1: But by the way, yeah, I agree with you. The

691
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: issue is and this face of this is how we

692
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: got to this. It's all player safety. And if you

693
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 1: want to give make guys standing start and give it

694
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: a five yard run, yeah, I don't have a problem

695
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: with that. Makes sense. You put the ball in play,

696
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: Uh see if you can get it done and I

697
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 1: you know, make them go line up closer together from

698
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: a standing start. If you want to get an on

699
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: side kick making only five yards, you can do that. Um, yeah,

700
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: that'd be interesting. But it'd be interesting injury. But that's right,

701
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 1: that's why we got to this point. So I don't

702
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: know that yours, Paul. I don't know if your solution

703
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: would take them back down the road they've tried to leave,

704
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: you know. So that's what we can't can't tell is

705
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: the like we always say, the law of unintended consequences. Hey,

706
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 1: you know what happened over the weekend. See that we

707
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: have not yet discussed. And it happened about an hour

708
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: after we went out the air on Friday. I guess

709
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: you could argue it was part of a Friday news dump.

710
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,800
Speaker 1: The Bills released tight end Charles Clay, going into the

711
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: final year of his five year contract with the Bills.

712
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,400
Speaker 1: Thirty years old, signed with the Bills in twenty fifteen.

713
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,760
Speaker 1: He was given the transition player tagged by the Miami Dolphins,

714
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 1: and the Bills signed him to an offer sheet, an

715
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 1: expensive offer sheet. They will save four and a half

716
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: million dollars on their cap by releasing Charles Clay first

717
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:36,839
Speaker 1: two seasons. He was solid a couple of fifty catch

718
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:40,320
Speaker 1: seasons for the Buffalo Bills last couple of years twenty seventeen.

719
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,879
Speaker 1: In twenty eighteen, not good. One hundred eighty four yards

720
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: receiving this past year. This past season the first time

721
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: in his eight year NFL career that Charles Clay did

722
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,880
Speaker 1: not catch a touchdown pass. So Charles Clay, who they

723
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: paid a lot of money, no question about that. We

724
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: talked about him a lot on this show over his

725
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 1: four years here, and I said it then, I'll say

726
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,840
Speaker 1: it now if you don't pay him that he's not

727
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: a buffalo bill. He was identified as a weapon they

728
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 1: needed in their offense back in twenty fifteen, so they

729
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 1: overpaid with the offer sheet got him. He was productive

730
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: fifty catches a year and about I want to say,

731
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: eight or ten touchdown catches every year, and then this

732
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: past year, in the last two years, really his production drop.

733
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: He wasn't healthy the last couple of years, that's for sure,

734
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: you know. And he barely practiced this past year, maybe

735
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: one or one and a half two days per week

736
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 1: he would practice because of lingering, back issues and knee issues,

737
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: and he could not be effective. So they they move

738
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: on without Charles Clay. They have a hole now at

739
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:38,919
Speaker 1: tight end. They have one tight end on the roster,

740
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: Jason Crum, the only tight end on Buffalo's roster for

741
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. But Charles Clay, I think was an interesting

742
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 1: signing when it happened. A productive player for a couple

743
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: of years, and his production dropped off precipitously, and you

744
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,360
Speaker 1: know he changed to Steve I just I don't know.

745
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 1: He just didn't seem as I don't want to say

746
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 1: he was disengaged, but he just didn't seem as he was.

747
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: He was unable to py. Yeah, and I think that

748
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 1: started to ebb away at his ability to contribute and

749
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: the team's desire to trust him. You can't be ready

750
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: to play unless you practice and get ready to play.

751
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 1: Certainly it was. He was a very productive player with Miami,

752
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 1: and I was really happy. And the first two years

753
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 1: bore that out. Fifty plus catches in the offense, and

754
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 1: you're gonna laugh, and people say, well, fifty you got

755
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 1: guys catching eighty five balls a game. You got tight

756
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: ends catching eighty five catches a year, that kind of thing,

757
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,800
Speaker 1: pushing a hundred catches a year. And listen, he was

758
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: in Buffalo playing with Tyrod Taylor in an offense that

759
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: was built to run the football. When they signed him,

760
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 1: I was very excited about it, and he bore that out.

761
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: The guy's got a lot of ability, but over the

762
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: course of his particular the last couple of years, he

763
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 1: has not been able to practice consistently. And I think

764
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: with the with the struggles their offensives has had, with

765
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 1: changing head coaches two years ago and putting in a

766
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: new offense, changing quarterbacks midstream a couple of times. This

767
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,359
Speaker 1: last season they had four different quarterbacks. You wouldn't think

768
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 1: guy's gonna catch eighty five balls in the offense the

769
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 1: Bills were running this year. But even so, with a

770
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: young quarterback like Josh Allen, you need your guys to

771
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: practice all the time. And I think that's the one

772
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:15,800
Speaker 1: thing from the outside looking in from my perspective, that

773
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 1: held Charles Clay off the stat sheet a lot this

774
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,839
Speaker 1: year was incentability to for an quarterback, whoever which one

775
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:24,879
Speaker 1: it was of the week, to get used to throw into.

776
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:26,879
Speaker 1: The guy didn't catch as many touchdowns as I thought

777
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,479
Speaker 1: looking at the numbers now, it's first year here, fifty

778
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 1: one catches three touchdowns, his second season here fifty seven

779
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:37,280
Speaker 1: catches four touchdowns, twenty seventeen forty nine catches two touchdowns,

780
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 1: and last year thirteen games twelve starts, twenty one catches,

781
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 1: zero touches. You can say too that the thing that

782
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna you know, the defining play of his season

783
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:47,919
Speaker 1: this year was the drop pass on the goal line

784
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: in Miami and that week sixteen was it or fifteen,

785
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: but ye, yeah, it was at the end of the

786
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 1: year when Josh Allen and they all he needed to

787
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: do is complete that pass. If he complete that, they

788
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: win the game. And they and it didn't work. So

789
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 1: it was December or nine. So it's week fift week

790
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: fifteen of the season and that play he's kind of

791
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: defining play's kind of so disappointing because there's one play

792
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:18,359
Speaker 1: where Josh Allen uses athleticism to extend the play, ran

793
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: up towards line scrimmage, turned his hips and slung it

794
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 1: and the ball did come out of his hands right

795
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:26,359
Speaker 1: and Charles play, Charles Clay couldn't break on the ball

796
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 1: enough to get it. If that play, if that pass

797
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 1: is completed, the Bills get another win. Yep, they win

798
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:33,919
Speaker 1: seven games on the year. If everything, you know, everything

799
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 1: stays the same. So yeah, that was that's kind of

800
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 1: the play that's unfortunately it sticks with you. But there

801
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 1: you go it will be, I believe, and I've even

802
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:46,879
Speaker 1: caught some of it over the weekend. A tendency to say,

803
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 1: what a terrible free agent bust, what a terrible overpayment.

804
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 1: And I get that, and yet they paid him an

805
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 1: awful lot. That was the only way to pry him

806
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,279
Speaker 1: loose from Miami was to pay him as much as

807
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 1: they paid him. But I wouldn't say he was a

808
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: free agent us fifty catches a year for he's never

809
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,439
Speaker 1: gonna earn years. And when he got productive in terms

810
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: of making scores the first couple of years, and he

811
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: fell out badly when his when his health faltered in

812
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 1: the last season especially, and it's hard to listen. You

813
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: can't blame him for getting the money. This was all

814
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: out of his hands. The Dolphins put the put the

815
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 1: offer sheet down and transition transition tag. So that's what

816
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: the that's what they had to do to get him

817
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 1: that that was a going right. It's not out you know,

818
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: it's not Charles clay fault. All the money was making

819
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: hard to live up to all that money, particularly when

820
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: you're getting thrown to by quarterbacks that you know that

821
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 1: weren't named Roethlisberger. Breeze and Brady. So you're right, I

822
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: would not. I would never have considered him a bust

823
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 1: at all. Um. People will look and say, well, he

824
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: didn't perform him up to that money. Look, let me

825
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 1: just it's gonna sound lecturing, but get ready. You know,

826
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:55,759
Speaker 1: the Bills have money to spend in free agency. They're

827
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: going to overpay some people this year. You could argue

828
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 1: in fact or one o'clock Gas makes an art that

829
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: will discuss with him, Mike Renner, that the Bills vastly

830
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 1: overpaid Star Lotulilay this past year. I don't know if

831
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 1: I agree with that, but whoever you sign on the

832
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: free agent market is going to be overpaid. Otherwise they

833
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: don't move, they don't go. And you have to do that.

834
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: You're in competition with others to sign people, and so

835
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 1: you got to be careful in the free agent market

836
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 1: and be decisive about what you want to do and

837
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,800
Speaker 1: careful that you minimize the overpayment that you will have.

838
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 1: You will overpay people in free agency. They will do

839
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,360
Speaker 1: it again in the next in about three and a

840
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,359
Speaker 1: half weeks. You're right, they're gonna do it again. Now

841
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: here's the thing too, though, sometimes you I don't think

842
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,839
Speaker 1: they've overpaid for Micah Hyde or Jordan Poyer, Right, those

843
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,359
Speaker 1: were the first two guys that the Bills signed when

844
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott became head coach as free agents, and certainly

845
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,720
Speaker 1: those two guys have performed as well as you can expect,

846
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 1: both of them at a Pro Bowl lel level both

847
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 1: the years they've been here and have led the defense

848
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 1: to a number two ranking in the league and the

849
00:40:55,920 --> 00:41:00,359
Speaker 1: top five ranking three or four categories defensively this past year.

850
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 1: I think star La gets a little bit of credit

851
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 1: for that as well. I mean, this is a team

852
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: that was number one in yards given up passing this

853
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 1: year in the NFL. They were very good against the run,

854
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,359
Speaker 1: actually they were middle of the pack against the run,

855
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 1: but yards per play they were very good. Yards per

856
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,360
Speaker 1: pass play they were very good. So it was a

857
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: top five defense and Starlo tou Lala, Jordan Poor, Micah Hide,

858
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: those free agents that we spoke about were instrumental in that.

859
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 1: So you know, that's it's hard for me to look

860
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: out to anybody on the defensive side of the ball

861
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:38,799
Speaker 1: and say, wow, you vastly overpaid for it. Certainly, Trent

862
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:41,319
Speaker 1: Murphy struggled with injuries this year, so you can kind

863
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 1: of say, well, he didn't give us what we paid

864
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 1: for for him, but you know, by the same toney,

865
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: he couldn't get on the field sometimes, so free agencies

866
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:49,840
Speaker 1: around the corner, and then the Bills are going to

867
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 1: have to spend some money to get some guys that

868
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: are as productive as the guys they've got. I would hope,

869
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 1: and I almost really kind of secretly hope that these

870
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,399
Speaker 1: are guys they get. Like I didn't know who Micah Hyde.

871
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: I'd certainly I heard his name. Jordan Poyer, I had

872
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: covered he was with the Browns for a while. I mean,

873
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: I knew some of these guys names. I didn't know

874
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: what the Bills thought of them, But when they signed him,

875
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 1: I was like, gosh, I don't know. I don't know

876
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 1: these guys. And I kind of hope that's the way

877
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: it goes this year. Yeah, so we can repeat that.

878
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: I don't I don't need to get Lejadeveon Clowney and

879
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: play pay him twenty two million bucks a year to

880
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 1: come in and then take it out of gear like

881
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:28,720
Speaker 1: Mario Williams did from the Houston Texans. You know, although

882
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: Mario had a couple he had a couple of good years,

883
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: effective player, but that's hard to live up to one

884
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:35,840
Speaker 1: hundred million dollar contract, right, So I'd much rather have

885
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: guys kind of middle of the road contracts who are

886
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: the right kind of guys who are really going to

887
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 1: come in and prove that you know, to earn it.

888
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,359
Speaker 1: And if you can find guys like that, that's where

889
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 1: I think your wheelhouse should be. If you have thoughts

890
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 1: on Charles Clay, if you have thoughts on the weekend

891
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 1: in sports, what you paid attention to? Give us a call.

892
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 1: We got time for a few more phone calls were

893
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: coming up. At one o'clock, Mike Renner from Pro Football

894
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: Focus will join us. We'll take a break right here,

895
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 1: One Bills Live presented by Kalaida Health. This is John

896
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 1: Murphy and Seve Tasker from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo

897
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. One Bill's Live from One Bills Drive, John

898
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,720
Speaker 1: Murphy's team Tasker here until three o'clock today, or Cynthia

899
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 1: Freeland from NFL. Now, what's going to join us at too?

900
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:28,240
Speaker 1: We're minutes away from Michael Renner from Pro Football Focus.

901
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: You're gonna talk about free agency. Twenty three days of

902
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 1: twenty four days away. Is that right? It's three weeks

903
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:40,320
Speaker 1: from Thursday, this coming Thursday. Yeah, I believe. Yeah. Anyway,

904
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 1: it's March thirteenth. So, um, last night's hockey, we're asking

905
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 1: you what did you watch over the weekend and what

906
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: were you most looking forward to when it comes to uh,

907
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: your your sports viewing over the weekend. We're saying we

908
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 1: asked this question because there's a lot to choose from.

909
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 1: Which event, which sporting event were you most interested in

910
00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:59,320
Speaker 1: this past weekend? We know there are a lot of

911
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 1: Savers fans out there. Sabers lost miserably last night in

912
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 1: New Jersey, and an interesting question. I just can't get

913
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 1: it out of my head. So he came up with

914
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 1: the in the postgame locker room down there in Jersey,

915
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 1: what are the reporters? I'm not sure who it was,

916
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: asked Sam or iiheart? Is it over? Are you toast?

917
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:20,920
Speaker 1: Sam Reinhart's response was excellent, Here it is? Are you

918
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:24,479
Speaker 1: guys you know just about toast here? I mean effort wise,

919
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:26,440
Speaker 1: you say it's there, but I mean you're six points out.

920
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:29,319
Speaker 1: You showed no signs of putting together a winning streak game.

921
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 1: Are we toast? Yeah? I mean you're looking at a situation.

922
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 1: You're lost to the thirtieth place team. I mean, where

923
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,799
Speaker 1: where does this team stand at this point? Just called

924
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: you saw Friday? That's that's one way you guys look

925
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: at it. But no, we certainly feel right in the mix. Um,

926
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:46,919
Speaker 1: you know we have another uptune in a couple of days.

927
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: Doesn't make it easier with other teams winning, But no,

928
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 1: we don't feel we're toasted at all. Um, you know

929
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:55,799
Speaker 1: it's it doesn't take much to turn around, but um,

930
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 1: you're not. Then the day we got to bear down. Yeah,

931
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 1: and yeah we need let's dump out. That's right because

932
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:03,359
Speaker 1: the most important words there were the first three. Are

933
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 1: we toast? Steve? I see T shirts with that? I

934
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 1: think that should be the new slogan. Are we toast?

935
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 1: Are we? Are we toast? On this show? What do

936
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 1: you think? I don't think so I can see you

937
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:14,439
Speaker 1: and I aren't. Because he's a toast, a T shirt

938
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 1: with a piece of toast and butter. Sam ryin Hard

939
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,359
Speaker 1: or Jack or somebody somebody should go get T shirts

940
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:23,239
Speaker 1: made bricks, pass him around the locker room, say let's

941
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: see if for toast? Are we toast? Are we toast? Love?

942
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 1: That around it and the way you can see uh

943
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:33,800
Speaker 1: ryin hard when he's asking, you know, toast? Are we toast?

944
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,359
Speaker 1: That's what I almost want to slap the microphone out

945
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:38,399
Speaker 1: of the guy's hand to say, how about this toast? Yeah,

946
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 1: what do you mean? We are we? You know? Yeah,

947
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 1: it's amazing. And then the guys ask a question and

948
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: it's and it's disrespectful and no it isn't. It is. No,

949
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,359
Speaker 1: it isn't. Yes it is. You know you're asking him,

950
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 1: is it over? Are you toast? That's it's a joke question. No, No,

951
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: I disagree. He's asking him if he's a loaf of

952
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: bread that's been in a toaster. No, you're gonna takes him.

953
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:05,920
Speaker 1: Is your season over? That's he didn't ask him if

954
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:07,720
Speaker 1: he was season over? He asked him if he was toast.

955
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 1: We can't handle slang. We can't handle figures. It's unprofessional.

956
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 1: Slang is unprofessional. Blown, it is wrong. If listen, it's

957
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 1: comes up to you, if you're jack icle, or if

958
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:23,719
Speaker 1: you know what he meant met when he said are

959
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: you guys toast? Of course? Okay, that's all that's all

960
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: that matters. You knew what he meant, you knew what

961
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:30,840
Speaker 1: the I didn't even know who asked the question. You

962
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:32,720
Speaker 1: know what he meant? Yeah, it was a Jersey guy, probably,

963
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: I doubt it. I know what he meant. You knew

964
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: what he meant. Well, it's not a bad question because

965
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 1: it's disrespectful. I disagree. Yeah, I got right to the

966
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 1: heart of the manner. Are you toast? I just like

967
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: this kind of you kind of did it? What I

968
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:51,879
Speaker 1: get it? We're a bagel, right, Yeah, yeah, exactly, But yeah,

969
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 1: it is it's a it's a casual and I think

970
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:57,880
Speaker 1: it's I think it's I say, I'm professional. That's a

971
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: little overstatement, Yeah, but I think I think, yeah, it's

972
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: it's like you don't care. I mean that, it's it's

973
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 1: a it's a disrespectful question. Disagree, it's absolutely confrontational. Disagree.

974
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 1: If that happened in a bar. If that's if that

975
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 1: happened in a bar, you punch the guy, period, We're like,

976
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? You push the guy? Like,

977
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 1: how about you your toast? Right now? Let's go, I'm

978
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 1: gonna butter you up right now. That's what you do.

979
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:28,799
Speaker 1: Yeahs some stranger comes up to you and says, hey,

980
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 1: are you toast. Now, your season over? What's that? Get colloquial?

981
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 1: If you don't do that unless that guy knows him personally,

982
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:38,840
Speaker 1: unless they have a relationship, that's different. A buddy can

983
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 1: come up and say that to you, because you have

984
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: a relationship. Some stranger in the in a bar or

985
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,239
Speaker 1: whatever comes up and says, hey, are you toast? You

986
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: guys toast? No? Yeah, go ahead and try it. See

987
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 1: what you do it. You don't do that, that's oh yeah,

988
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. Why don't you try that

989
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 1: with Darryl? Darryl tallely that it's not I'm not talking

990
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:02,759
Speaker 1: about a reporter and Tom talking about some strange reporter. Yeah,

991
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 1: I am a guy in a professional setting. You're talking

992
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 1: about a kind of professional saying. I'm just talking about

993
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:10,360
Speaker 1: a guy casually walking up. That's that's a fight. I

994
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 1: don't know it's a fight. I'm talking about the reporter.

995
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:16,240
Speaker 1: I know. That's even more worse because it's a professional

996
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:18,840
Speaker 1: setting that you're trying to like, you're confronting, you're insulting

997
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: in your season's over with twenty guys left the games

998
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 1: enough to play. Why are you even showing up? That's

999
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 1: what he's saying. Why do you even show up? His

1000
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 1: question is is your season over? Are you toast? When

1001
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 1: somebody has toasts, they're done. I'm it's a disrespectful way

1002
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: to say something that's easier to say just the way

1003
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 1: you did. I think cloaquial doesn't have to be. It's

1004
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: not disrespectful the way people talk, not in a professional setting.

1005
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 1: I disagree on the air. You would on the air.

1006
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:46,799
Speaker 1: I mean we say stuff like that all the time.

1007
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:48,800
Speaker 1: We kid around, but we're not talking with the guys

1008
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 1: sitting here. You gotta be respectful of a guy's professions.

1009
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:54,879
Speaker 1: Between saying that and saying, hey, is your season over?

1010
00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:02,239
Speaker 1: No difference. He called him a name toast. Yeah, not

1011
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:05,879
Speaker 1: exactly an insult. No what whoa? Whoa whoa? You're saying

1012
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:08,320
Speaker 1: that's not an insult. No, it's a way of talking.

1013
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:10,440
Speaker 1: He didn't say you are toast? He said, is your

1014
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 1: season total? It's disrespectful. Disagree? Oh, I completely. Do you

1015
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: want to keep this going? Or can we get to

1016
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:17,760
Speaker 1: a break? And we're coming back with more? One Bills

1017
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Driving This is Buffalo Bill's Radio,

1018
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:35,239
Speaker 1: Your Toast, Buffalo Bill's Radio Network Sports Stop date. The

1019
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 1: update from one Bill's drive, the Buffalo Sabers take their act. Now.

1020
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 1: I'm continuing on the road to Florida to play the

1021
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: Florida Panthers tomorrow, the fourth and final meeting between these

1022
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 1: two teams this year. Well, last time, they played the

1023
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 1: Sabers one four to three with a couple of goals

1024
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:50,440
Speaker 1: from Jeff Skinner. Last night, the Sabers lost to New

1025
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: Jersey four to one Sam Raynart where Buffalo's only goal.

1026
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:55,879
Speaker 1: Sabers out shop the Devil's thirty five to twenty four,

1027
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: but came up with a loss four to one to

1028
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:00,439
Speaker 1: the New Jersey Devils. Former Sabers gold to to Ryan

1029
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:02,799
Speaker 1: Miller is now the all time leader in wins by

1030
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:06,360
Speaker 1: a US born goaltender is Anaheim duck Speed Washington. Last night,

1031
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 1: five to two, Miller made twenty three saves, his first

1032
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 1: start since December ninth. He got his thirty three hundred

1033
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 1: seventy fifth victory, breaking a tie with John ben Besbrook.

1034
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:17,320
Speaker 1: Ryan Miller the all time leader in wins by a

1035
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 1: US born goaltender in National Hockey League history. Buffalo Bills

1036
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: in the market for a tight end now. Late last Friday,

1037
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:28,279
Speaker 1: they gave themselves some relief cap wise by releasing tight

1038
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 1: end Charles Clay. Clay going into the final year of

1039
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: his five year contract that he signed with the Bills

1040
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:36,160
Speaker 1: back in twenty fifteen. His production dropped his past season,

1041
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 1: which is twenty seven catches, one hundred and eighty four

1042
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 1: yards and no touchdowns. The Bills would just one tight

1043
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:44,280
Speaker 1: end on the roster now, and that would be Jason Krum.

1044
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:48,840
Speaker 1: The Lions released veteran safety Glover Quinn, and along with

1045
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:52,360
Speaker 1: receiver Bruce Ellington and linebacker and Nicholas Griegsby, Quinn signed

1046
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:54,880
Speaker 1: a five year deal with Detroit after playing out his

1047
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:59,000
Speaker 1: contract in Houston in twenty seventeen. The Lions handed the

1048
00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen Pro Bowl Or a two year contract extension.

1049
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 1: Cardinals quarterback Josh Rosen continues his rough offseason, and he

1050
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: had an accident with his tesla. Posted a picture on

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Speaker 1: Instagram with a massive dent in the rear drivers door.

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00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 1: Cardinal said it was a minor accident, no injuries reported.

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00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 1: The attorney for Colin Kaepernick says that the quarterback still

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00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 1: absolutely wants to play in the NFL. He projected the

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00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers in New England Patriots as two of the

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00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:26,960
Speaker 1: best landing spots for him, and last night Kevin Durant

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00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:28,959
Speaker 1: stole the show in the NBA All Star Game, thirty

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00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:32,919
Speaker 1: one points for Team Lebron, helping them win the NBA

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00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: All Star Game by a final score of one seventy

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00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:40,400
Speaker 1: eight to one sixty four. Amazing. All right, are we toast? Now?

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Speaker 1: The show goes on two more. I'm just talking T shirts.

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Speaker 1: I know a great T shirt. I would wear a

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Speaker 1: T shirt. Are we toast? Joining us right now? On

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Speaker 1: the subway, Fresh Taka, I'm going to talk a little

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00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 1: bit about NFL free agency. I'm gonna talk a little

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00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 1: bit about the NFL Draft and happy to have an

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00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:57,839
Speaker 1: expert on the line with us right now. Mike Renter,

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00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus senior Analysts's been with them since two

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00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:03,960
Speaker 1: thy twelve. Contributor to The Washington Post, Mike John Murphy,

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Speaker 1: Steve Task, you're here in Buffalo. Thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for joining us. Are you doing? Thanks for having me on? Yeah,

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00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 1: you make free agency just a couple of weeks away.

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Speaker 1: I want to start with the Bills free agent signing

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00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 1: from last year. You had a brief tweet last week

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00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:21,720
Speaker 1: about Starlotulalae. Let me just read it. Starlotulae has sixty

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00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:24,560
Speaker 1: five total pressures over the last four seasons. He's played

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00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:27,279
Speaker 1: four hundred and seventy five snaps last year, despite being healthy,

1078
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: turns thirty years old this year, cannot feasibly be released

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00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:33,799
Speaker 1: till twenty twenty one, and has camp hits over ten

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00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,320
Speaker 1: million the next four seasons. People lose their minds in

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00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 1: free agency. You're saying the Bills lost their mind and

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00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 1: their deal for Lula? Is that right? It is what

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00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 1: I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. It's obviously a little

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00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:47,760
Speaker 1: harsh when you're read it out loud like that exactly.

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00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:50,319
Speaker 1: I think in today's day and age, paying that much

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00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 1: for a nose tackle, who's not going to affect the

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00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 1: passing game, which is you know what is most important,

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00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: which is the reason why the Bills had such a

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00:52:57,080 --> 00:52:59,239
Speaker 1: good defense last years, is what they did in terms

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00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:02,400
Speaker 1: of coverage and rushing the passer. I think that's just

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00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 1: now where you should be investing your money. And I

1092
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 1: think they have a lot bigger needs obviously along the

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00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:09,720
Speaker 1: off side of the ball, and you know other positions

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00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 1: defensively where that money could have been de Yeah, well,

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00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 1: it's interesting too, because here's the thing the Bills do,

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00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:18,319
Speaker 1: y rotate all their off defensive lineman through. They really

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00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 1: felt it was important. It's for me, and I get

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00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 1: you're right. I mean, nobody's ever going to have the

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00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:26,839
Speaker 1: sexy numbers from the defensive tackle spot that say an

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00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:30,239
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald hasn't he's I don't know. I can't think

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00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:32,360
Speaker 1: of another one who actually gets after the passer as

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00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:37,520
Speaker 1: well as even in that conversation, really defensive tackles aren't there.

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00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:41,719
Speaker 1: You're right to affect the passing game. What they're really

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00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 1: there to do is open it up for other guys

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00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:46,640
Speaker 1: to make play. So it's hard to see spending you know,

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00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:48,400
Speaker 1: ten million bucks a year on a guy like that.

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00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:50,759
Speaker 1: But by the same token, then I got to look

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00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:52,880
Speaker 1: at what that meant to the defense. And if you've

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00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 1: got a top five defense like the Bills have had

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00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:57,400
Speaker 1: in so many categories, I don't know. I kind of

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00:53:57,440 --> 00:53:59,359
Speaker 1: shrugged my shoulders and say, well, they know what they're

1112
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:01,840
Speaker 1: doing and all to let it slide. Certainly they're getting

1113
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 1: some value at other spots. Yeah, I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: just because you have a top five defense, think you're

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00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 1: gonna still ejectively evaluate individual play along, you know that defense.

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00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 1: Just because you know the Chiefs had the best offense

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00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 1: in the NFL this year, doesn't mean they're less guard

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00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:17,200
Speaker 1: is at all pro doesn't mean he's worth the money

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00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 1: they're paying him. I think you still have to look

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Speaker 1: at each player and what they're bringing to the table.

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Speaker 1: And yes, with two away, you know, eat up double teams,

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00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:27,279
Speaker 1: and yes, that's a valuable sort of trait to have

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Speaker 1: and someone who's selfless enough to do that. But there's

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00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 1: a lot of guys who are selfless and you don't

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Speaker 1: have to pay them ten million dollars to eat up

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Speaker 1: double teams. All that. One more question on this. We're

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Speaker 1: not going to hammer you on this, Mike, because it's

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00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: a valid point you make. But we're just talking about

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Speaker 1: this in relation to Charles Clay, a former tight end

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00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:46,200
Speaker 1: that the Bill signed to a offer sheet what four

1131
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 1: years ago now? Now he's released most of the time,

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00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 1: if not all the time. And free agency, you overpay,

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00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 1: You pay more than what the value might be for

1134
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:55,839
Speaker 1: a player, otherwise you don't get him. He's not gonna move,

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00:54:55,920 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 1: isn't it right? Yeah? I mean, by definition, paying someone

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00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:03,960
Speaker 1: to fregency from another team, you think they're worth more

1137
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:05,840
Speaker 1: than that other team did to them, and they know,

1138
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:07,920
Speaker 1: you know, they have seen them more than you have.

1139
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:09,920
Speaker 1: They probably have a good idea of what their real

1140
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:12,279
Speaker 1: value with so by that token, you're paying them more

1141
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:14,319
Speaker 1: than the people who know in best think that he's worth.

1142
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 1: So you are usually overpaying. But I think there are

1143
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 1: times where when you have a roster that's you know,

1144
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:23,399
Speaker 1: close to competing, where it's good to start going after

1145
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:25,960
Speaker 1: free agents using that, you know, excess cap spaces like

1146
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:28,719
Speaker 1: the Bills have now with the roster talent that they have,

1147
00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:32,400
Speaker 1: that's when you start targeting players free agency that Bill

1148
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:34,759
Speaker 1: you know, bigger like sig needs. Obviously they have a

1149
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:37,279
Speaker 1: ton offensively, but guys that start and that could be

1150
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 1: there not just one or two years, but three or

1151
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:41,239
Speaker 1: four years down the line. Yeah. And it's interesting too

1152
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:43,880
Speaker 1: because a couple of years ago, when Sean McDermott took over,

1153
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 1: and we were talking about this earlier in the show,

1154
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:47,719
Speaker 1: they made a couple of signings that people were kind

1155
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:51,000
Speaker 1: of raising their eyebrows out, didn't really not very big waves,

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00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 1: and it was Micah Hyde and Jordan Poorer, two guys

1157
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:56,240
Speaker 1: who have really transformed the secondary of the Bill's defense

1158
00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:59,439
Speaker 1: and did it really and was the engine that drove

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00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 1: them to the layoffs two years ago. Those are kind

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Speaker 1: of the I would call them middle range free agents

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00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:10,760
Speaker 1: that really kind of do have a shot at giving

1162
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: you what you pay for. Are there any guys like

1163
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 1: that available at other positions around the league this year

1164
00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 1: that maybe you're going to be under the radar signings,

1165
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:23,479
Speaker 1: but maybe those guys that do give you the rare

1166
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 1: free agent value. Yeah, I think that is where freegency is.

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00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 1: That expect when guys like Hide Employer who were not

1168
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:33,400
Speaker 1: starters at their respective you know, with the Packers and

1169
00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:35,880
Speaker 1: with the Browns, they were basically backups. Is why they

1170
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 1: didn't get valued by their respective franchises. And so you

1171
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:41,800
Speaker 1: have you see the talent there and you see the

1172
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,200
Speaker 1: fit and so I think that's where you can get

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00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:47,239
Speaker 1: the most or impact for year dollars. The best you know,

1174
00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:49,399
Speaker 1: use of your money can be at that and guys

1175
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,800
Speaker 1: to plug holes and that sort of thing. There's a

1176
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:55,480
Speaker 1: handful i'd say in this class that I'd be targeting

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00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 1: in that sort of range. You know, if you need

1178
00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:00,960
Speaker 1: to pass Rush or someone like Shaquille Bear from Denver Bronco,

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00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 1: it's just because he was the starter there. He got

1180
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:05,840
Speaker 1: replaced by Bradley Choll, but is always in our grading

1181
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:07,680
Speaker 1: been effective, and so I think you'll go a little

1182
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:09,600
Speaker 1: under the radar because he only played a hand, you know,

1183
00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventies or so snaps a season ago,

1184
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:14,359
Speaker 1: because he got replaced, but he got replaced by good

1185
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:16,480
Speaker 1: players there. So I think I'd target him some like

1186
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 1: him and free agency on the offensive side of the ball,

1187
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:21,400
Speaker 1: someone like Tyroll Williams, if you really I get that

1188
00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:24,760
Speaker 1: offense is going to be probably overpriced this offseason because

1189
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:27,959
Speaker 1: there's so little talent at receiver, at running back, along

1190
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:29,920
Speaker 1: the offensive line that is going to be available. But

1191
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:32,080
Speaker 1: I think someone like Tyroll Williams when he was the

1192
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:34,840
Speaker 1: number one receiver there for the Chargers put up over

1193
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:37,240
Speaker 1: a thousand yards. Obviously, Keenan Allen comes back and he

1194
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:39,040
Speaker 1: is the one eating up all the targets there, but

1195
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 1: I think Williams still offers a lot so what he

1196
00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:43,280
Speaker 1: can bring the table on the line. With Mike Grinn,

1197
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Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus senior analysts, the post you had last Friday,

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00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 1: I'm Pro Football Focus. Mike dealt with the projection of

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Speaker 1: where the top free agents might land when free agency

1200
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:54,960
Speaker 1: opens up in March thirteenth, and it seems to be

1201
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 1: pretty good market into free agency for pass rush guys, right,

1202
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:02,640
Speaker 1: DeMarcus law Awrence and a couple of others. D Ford,

1203
00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 1: you think all these guys are moving or are they

1204
00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:06,600
Speaker 1: going to be staying where they are right now? Do

1205
00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:09,640
Speaker 1: you think I get a handful end up staying in place.

1206
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:13,440
Speaker 1: I can't see Jadavn Clowney get going anywhere other than Houston.

1207
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 1: Obviously they have a lot of cap space. Can just

1208
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:18,920
Speaker 1: tag him easily. D Ford. Similarly in Kansas City, and

1209
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:21,960
Speaker 1: I'd also say to Marcus Lawrence, I don't see him

1210
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:23,680
Speaker 1: going anywhere, But I do think there's a good chance

1211
00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:29,120
Speaker 1: someone like Trey Flowers, Darius Smith, Preston Smith. There's a

1212
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:31,480
Speaker 1: handful on the market to make it to free agency,

1213
00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:35,000
Speaker 1: and this is the year to be needing defensive line talent,

1214
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:37,600
Speaker 1: whether it's the draft or free agencies, both classes just

1215
00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:39,960
Speaker 1: seem loaded. If you need help, I think you'll be

1216
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:42,920
Speaker 1: able to find it somewhere. Frank Clark from Seattle, you

1217
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:46,560
Speaker 1: see him moving on somewhere. I think he could. The

1218
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:48,600
Speaker 1: interesting thing with him is I'm not sure there's going

1219
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:50,520
Speaker 1: to be a huge market for him, so I do

1220
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:53,320
Speaker 1: think his price tag will be a little lower just

1221
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:56,760
Speaker 1: because of obviously the semestic violence incident. Yet at Michigan

1222
00:58:56,840 --> 00:58:58,680
Speaker 1: some teams just don't even want to touch him, So

1223
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:02,479
Speaker 1: I do think he could be a cheaper free agent,

1224
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:04,800
Speaker 1: But I do think he's also a big need for

1225
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:06,640
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. They can't afford really to let him go,

1226
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 1: so I don't really see a big franch I take,

1227
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:10,920
Speaker 1: but I think I think he probably ends up back

1228
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 1: in Seattle if I had to bet. Yeah. And you

1229
00:59:13,120 --> 00:59:16,880
Speaker 1: also made a mention of Sheldon Richardson of the Jets

1230
00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 1: being a free agent or maybe ending up on the

1231
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:25,440
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's roster. If he's let's talk about Sheldon Richardson,

1232
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:27,320
Speaker 1: how likely do you think it is he moves and

1233
00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:30,000
Speaker 1: how likely is it that he ends up as a

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00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:33,440
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill. So the Vikings are a little cash strapped

1235
00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:35,680
Speaker 1: after you know, breaking the bank for Kirk Cousins, so

1236
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:38,080
Speaker 1: I do think there's a good chance that well, they're

1237
00:59:38,120 --> 00:59:39,600
Speaker 1: not going to be able to train both him and

1238
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:43,040
Speaker 1: Anthony bar so one of them for sure leaving, and

1239
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:44,960
Speaker 1: I'm not sure who was going to be. But I

1240
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:48,400
Speaker 1: do think if it is Richardson. He has He's always

1241
00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 1: teased this high level talent. When he was back with

1242
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:53,800
Speaker 1: the Jets, he had some dominant, dominant years, went over

1243
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:56,760
Speaker 1: to Seattle and then Minnesota. Last couple of years, didn't

1244
00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:58,640
Speaker 1: quite you know, advanced in his career like we had

1245
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:00,960
Speaker 1: hoped we see, you know, then actual progression of guys

1246
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:02,560
Speaker 1: getting better as they go along. He kind of took

1247
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:04,760
Speaker 1: a step back. But I do still think he's one

1248
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:06,360
Speaker 1: of the better you have the tackles in the League's

1249
01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:09,959
Speaker 1: still very young, and obviously he's had his awful dishes

1250
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:11,720
Speaker 1: as well. So another guy who probably won't get a

1251
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 1: huge contract compared to the talent that he's going to

1252
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:17,040
Speaker 1: bring to the table. Yeah, former Bills draft pick Ronald

1253
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:19,520
Speaker 1: Darby now the Eagles, is now a free agent. You

1254
01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 1: have him projected to the New York Jets. How do

1255
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:24,000
Speaker 1: you see that working out for him there? What do

1256
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:27,400
Speaker 1: you think? Yeah? So, I think Derby, you just basically

1257
01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:29,560
Speaker 1: have to go to a system that's a man heavy

1258
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:33,480
Speaker 1: sort of system. He was obviously the Bill's thought he

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Speaker 1: was expendable because his own instincts, just his sort of reading,

1260
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:39,680
Speaker 1: reactability and that sort of off coverages is not up

1261
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:42,200
Speaker 1: to as not the system you want him playing, and

1262
01:00:42,320 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 1: that's why the Bills got were happy to part ways

1263
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:46,080
Speaker 1: of them because he just would not have fit in

1264
01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 1: in that scheme. So I do think he has to

1265
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:51,240
Speaker 1: go to somewhere that's going to have a ton of

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01:00:51,320 --> 01:00:54,160
Speaker 1: man principles. So that's why the Jet. Obviously there's a

1267
01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:57,640
Speaker 1: handful of team Jets, Bills, Polts that just have basically

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01:00:57,880 --> 01:01:00,080
Speaker 1: blank sort of checks to hand out this offseas with

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01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 1: how much Chaps say they have and Jets, you can't

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Speaker 1: deny the need there at cornerback after we saw their

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01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:08,840
Speaker 1: play even with Trueman Johnson, So I think that would

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Speaker 1: be a big need for them. We had last week

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Speaker 1: we had a writer from Baltimore on our program, and

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Speaker 1: when we mentioned Levion Bell to kadri Ishmael, his mouth

1275
01:01:23,120 --> 01:01:26,040
Speaker 1: was watering. And it seems like the entire Baltimore Ravens

1276
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:29,680
Speaker 1: locker room would love to get Leveon Bell, not only

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Speaker 1: for how it would hurt the Steelers to lose a

1278
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:35,480
Speaker 1: good player, but also what he could do for their team.

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Speaker 1: How likely is that landing spot for Levion Bell in Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: I think it's one of the few teams that will

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Speaker 1: be able to be willing to actually pay him sort

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Speaker 1: of the ballpark that he wants, because I don't think

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01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:50,600
Speaker 1: there's going to be a huge market for his talent

1284
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:52,959
Speaker 1: just after diving out of a year at his age,

1285
01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:55,520
Speaker 1: how many touches he's had already. There's just too much

1286
01:01:55,640 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 1: risk involved in giving a guy a big contract like that.

1287
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:01,880
Speaker 1: The running back position. But of Baltimore Ravens have gone

1288
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:04,880
Speaker 1: as run heavy as any team in modern football history.

1289
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:06,800
Speaker 1: With Lamar Jackson, they were running you know they were

1290
01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:09,280
Speaker 1: going to break if he played the whole season, they

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01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:11,360
Speaker 1: would have broken the single season rushing records for a team.

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Speaker 1: That's just how frequently they were running the ball. And

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01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:16,360
Speaker 1: if you're all in a strategy like that, all of

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01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:19,080
Speaker 1: a sudden, running back position is a lot more valuable

1295
01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:21,560
Speaker 1: than it might be around the NFL today for other

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01:02:21,640 --> 01:02:23,680
Speaker 1: teams that are more past heavy. So I think he

1297
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:26,320
Speaker 1: brings that to the table, obviously, something different than what

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Speaker 1: they had in Gus Edwards and whatnot running ball at

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Speaker 1: the end of the year. So I do think that

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01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:31,880
Speaker 1: would be one team that would be a perfect fit.

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Speaker 1: Four Bells Services or with Mike Grinner from Pro Football Focus,

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01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:37,720
Speaker 1: one more free agency question for you, Mike before we

1303
01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 1: move on to the draft, and that would be the Bills.

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01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:41,880
Speaker 1: As you meant, I think you just mentioned them as

1305
01:02:41,880 --> 01:02:44,360
Speaker 1: one of the teams with a ton of cash available

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01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:47,560
Speaker 1: to spend. The ton of cap room, given the crop

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01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:49,680
Speaker 1: of free agents likely to be out there, and given

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01:02:49,720 --> 01:02:51,880
Speaker 1: the Bills needs, what would be the best possible free

1309
01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:54,360
Speaker 1: agency strategy for the Buffalo Bills in a couple of weeks.

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01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 1: I think the best strategic truly, in my opinion, would

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01:02:57,280 --> 01:03:00,160
Speaker 1: be to try to sign multiple offensive line And I

1312
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:04,240
Speaker 1: know that that's not a great class for playmakers offensively,

1313
01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:05,600
Speaker 1: and you need all the help you can give to

1314
01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:08,440
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. But I do think with his playing style,

1315
01:03:08,520 --> 01:03:11,840
Speaker 1: the way he makes plays with his leg, can make

1316
01:03:11,880 --> 01:03:13,760
Speaker 1: plays outside the pocket, you want to give him as

1317
01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:16,480
Speaker 1: kind of protection as he possibly can. They did not

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01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:19,440
Speaker 1: have a great offensive line last year. Sign guys who

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01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:21,840
Speaker 1: are ready to contribute right away, Guys who can impact

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01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:24,040
Speaker 1: next ras off ofsive line. Because if you go to

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01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:26,439
Speaker 1: the draft and you spend your first round or maybe

1322
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:28,000
Speaker 1: a second or a third round round it there's no

1323
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:29,600
Speaker 1: guarantee those guys are gonna be able to step in

1324
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 1: right away and pass protect or Josh Allen. If you

1325
01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:34,960
Speaker 1: get NFL ready, guys, guys who have proven that all

1326
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:37,120
Speaker 1: of a sudden, someone like Jawan James at right tackle,

1327
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:39,600
Speaker 1: someone like you know, Roger Staffole that guard. These guys

1328
01:03:39,640 --> 01:03:42,240
Speaker 1: who have been in the league. You know they're proving commodities.

1329
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:44,400
Speaker 1: You know they're going to be upgrade. I think that's

1330
01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:46,800
Speaker 1: your best bet because you got to give him more

1331
01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:48,840
Speaker 1: help than they gave him last year. Yeah. Yeah, And

1332
01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:51,600
Speaker 1: as this free agency market starts to settle and it

1333
01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:54,160
Speaker 1: goes through its process, it gets right to the draft,

1334
01:03:54,200 --> 01:03:56,600
Speaker 1: and that sets these teams up where maybe they've addressed

1335
01:03:56,880 --> 01:03:59,680
Speaker 1: some of the needs they have. And then Ken look

1336
01:03:59,720 --> 01:04:01,360
Speaker 1: at the draft in a different way, and you have

1337
01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:03,800
Speaker 1: in one of your mock drafts you have the Buffalo

1338
01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:06,440
Speaker 1: Bills trading their first round pick, which has been kind

1339
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:08,880
Speaker 1: of a it's kind of the flavor of the week

1340
01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:10,840
Speaker 1: for people thinking about it a lot. Or for the

1341
01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:14,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. That number nine spot where the Bills sit

1342
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:17,600
Speaker 1: might be pretty attractive to a lot of teams that

1343
01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:21,240
Speaker 1: are drafting behind them. Yeah, there's a number of reasons

1344
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:22,720
Speaker 1: why I think it would make a ton of sense

1345
01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:24,800
Speaker 1: to the Bills to drop down from one of them

1346
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:28,200
Speaker 1: is obviously, you have the Redskins and the Dolphins sitting

1347
01:04:28,240 --> 01:04:31,040
Speaker 1: there in the teams right now, both desperately in need

1348
01:04:31,120 --> 01:04:34,040
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks. Both wanted to jump someone like maybe Denver

1349
01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:37,160
Speaker 1: or even the Bengals to get up there and draft

1350
01:04:37,240 --> 01:04:39,560
Speaker 1: a quarterback. You get there guy sort of thing like

1351
01:04:39,600 --> 01:04:41,480
Speaker 1: the Bills did a season ago. So I think that,

1352
01:04:41,720 --> 01:04:43,880
Speaker 1: for one reason is attractive and too it's just because,

1353
01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:45,840
Speaker 1: like I said, the Bills need Dolphins talent. They need

1354
01:04:45,960 --> 01:04:48,880
Speaker 1: someone to go around Josh Ellen. And in this draft,

1355
01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 1: it is a defensive heavy draft of value at skill positions,

1356
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:54,560
Speaker 1: of value on the off of the line. It's not

1357
01:04:54,640 --> 01:04:56,640
Speaker 1: going to be there with the ninth overall pick. It

1358
01:04:56,760 --> 01:05:00,080
Speaker 1: might be either with the twentieth overall pick, but you

1359
01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:02,200
Speaker 1: can get recouse him. So if you trade down to twenty,

1360
01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:03,919
Speaker 1: you get some value out of it, get more picked

1361
01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:06,919
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you can build even more talent

1362
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:08,919
Speaker 1: around him. So I do think if you're just gonna

1363
01:05:08,960 --> 01:05:11,280
Speaker 1: sit there and draft a wide receiver and office alignment

1364
01:05:11,320 --> 01:05:14,000
Speaker 1: at nine, that's not going to be nearly as valuable

1365
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:16,040
Speaker 1: as if you drive trade it down, drafted it off

1366
01:05:16,080 --> 01:05:17,880
Speaker 1: from you know, maybe I'll office Bligne it there, and

1367
01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:19,560
Speaker 1: then a wide receiver in the second or third onund

1368
01:05:19,560 --> 01:05:21,160
Speaker 1: whichever you rob, you get a pick back from it.

1369
01:05:21,240 --> 01:05:25,520
Speaker 1: I think that'd be much better team building strategy than ten.

1370
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:29,080
Speaker 1: And how much does Kyler Murray impact the Bills? I mean,

1371
01:05:29,640 --> 01:05:32,080
Speaker 1: if there's a quarterback needy team and the first eight

1372
01:05:32,120 --> 01:05:35,040
Speaker 1: picks have been completed and Kyler Murray's is still out

1373
01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 1: there on the board available to be drafted, the Bills

1374
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:40,720
Speaker 1: could be in a pretty sweet spot right there, couldn't they. Yeah.

1375
01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:42,760
Speaker 1: I think they have to be elated that Kyler Murray

1376
01:05:42,800 --> 01:05:45,720
Speaker 1: said he's playing football, just because I think someone will

1377
01:05:45,800 --> 01:05:48,040
Speaker 1: end up coveting him highly in the draft, and that

1378
01:05:48,120 --> 01:05:50,720
Speaker 1: just means a team's drafting him, you know, a position

1379
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:53,520
Speaker 1: that the Bills don't need, leaving the business Bills probably

1380
01:05:53,560 --> 01:05:55,200
Speaker 1: a better player that they couldn't need, if I do

1381
01:05:55,360 --> 01:05:57,520
Speaker 1: think they should be very happy about that, And that's

1382
01:05:57,840 --> 01:05:59,320
Speaker 1: why I had it. I think it might mocks them

1383
01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:02,360
Speaker 1: someone trading up to go get yeah. Yeah, and you

1384
01:06:02,480 --> 01:06:05,320
Speaker 1: had the Redskins trading up to get to Kyler Murray.

1385
01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:10,040
Speaker 1: You had the Bills choosing a quarterback Byron Murphy from Washington.

1386
01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:11,760
Speaker 1: What can you tell us about him if the Bills

1387
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:14,000
Speaker 1: move down and take him later on in the first round.

1388
01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:16,640
Speaker 1: So again, like I said, there's just not a ton

1389
01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:19,200
Speaker 1: of skilled disition players in this draft worthy of taking

1390
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:22,080
Speaker 1: top ten, top fifty, and I think offensive line could

1391
01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:24,800
Speaker 1: be a possibility there. But at the same time, we

1392
01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:27,400
Speaker 1: saw how well or Davis White worked out for the Bills,

1393
01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:30,520
Speaker 1: how much of an immediate impact a cornerback position can have,

1394
01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:33,880
Speaker 1: in my opinion, the second most valuable position after quarterback

1395
01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:37,160
Speaker 1: in the NFL today, and Byron Murphy has the best

1396
01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:39,160
Speaker 1: zone instincts of any cornerback in the CHEF. He is

1397
01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:43,120
Speaker 1: an incredible playmaker at making plays in off coverage, reading

1398
01:06:43,200 --> 01:06:45,840
Speaker 1: routes in front of him, and going and attacking the football,

1399
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:48,120
Speaker 1: very much like Urdavis White was coming out. So you

1400
01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:50,640
Speaker 1: pair him with Sir Davious White, you'll have three years

1401
01:06:50,680 --> 01:06:53,640
Speaker 1: of both of them on rookie contracts. That's just the

1402
01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:56,680
Speaker 1: makings of a dominant defense. That's going to be a

1403
01:06:56,800 --> 01:06:59,440
Speaker 1: dominant defense four years to come. So I do think

1404
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:01,760
Speaker 1: that if that's where you end up, I think that

1405
01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:05,000
Speaker 1: would be uh, you know, you need all this help offensively,

1406
01:07:05,040 --> 01:07:07,360
Speaker 1: but you still got to go with the value. And

1407
01:07:07,400 --> 01:07:08,880
Speaker 1: I think the value would be there at the cornerback

1408
01:07:08,920 --> 01:07:10,800
Speaker 1: stition if fire and Murphy is available. And one of

1409
01:07:10,840 --> 01:07:13,360
Speaker 1: the things about this draft, you've got experts saying that

1410
01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:15,960
Speaker 1: they're even though the quarterbacks in this draft are not

1411
01:07:16,160 --> 01:07:18,600
Speaker 1: high level, elite maybe guys or a lot of them,

1412
01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:20,960
Speaker 1: there still may be as many as four picked in

1413
01:07:21,040 --> 01:07:24,040
Speaker 1: the first round. And that means the draft orders it

1414
01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:28,960
Speaker 1: stands today is probably gonna change drastically on Draft Day.

1415
01:07:29,960 --> 01:07:32,560
Speaker 1: And that means, I mean, let me just ask you,

1416
01:07:32,640 --> 01:07:36,040
Speaker 1: if a team is in the top ten, how many twos,

1417
01:07:36,080 --> 01:07:38,560
Speaker 1: how many threes? I mean, what kind of collateral do

1418
01:07:38,680 --> 01:07:41,320
Speaker 1: you get for a top ten pick in a trade

1419
01:07:41,360 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 1: on Draft Day? You get a lot. I mean it

1420
01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:47,720
Speaker 1: is so even trading back from so we saw where

1421
01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:49,920
Speaker 1: the moves the season ago, even just the Bengals trading

1422
01:07:49,960 --> 01:07:52,120
Speaker 1: back from eleven to twenty one, they got a starting

1423
01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:55,080
Speaker 1: left tackle and they got Quarity Glenn. You know, they's

1424
01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:58,720
Speaker 1: that's a big that's a big piece that you can

1425
01:07:58,880 --> 01:08:01,640
Speaker 1: gain from just moving back ten spots in the draft.

1426
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:03,840
Speaker 1: In the build this year, they have even a higher

1427
01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:06,440
Speaker 1: pick than that. So if they want to move back

1428
01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:08,440
Speaker 1: to the twenties, you can get you know, maybe even

1429
01:08:08,480 --> 01:08:10,400
Speaker 1: the next year's first round or something like that. We

1430
01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:12,680
Speaker 1: saw those Saints give up that to move from what

1431
01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:15,720
Speaker 1: was a twenty eight or so to fourteen last year

1432
01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:18,360
Speaker 1: with the Packers. So I do think when you're in

1433
01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:20,879
Speaker 1: the top ten in the draft, even a handful of positions,

1434
01:08:20,960 --> 01:08:23,840
Speaker 1: teams are willing to lose their mind, so to speak,

1435
01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:26,280
Speaker 1: and just give up a lot to go get their guy,

1436
01:08:26,400 --> 01:08:28,479
Speaker 1: especially at the quarterback position. So I do think that

1437
01:08:29,240 --> 01:08:31,320
Speaker 1: they're in a prime spot to get a lot of

1438
01:08:31,439 --> 01:08:33,960
Speaker 1: draft capital back. Hey, this is a non draft question,

1439
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:37,120
Speaker 1: but something that came across on PFF the guy. You

1440
01:08:37,160 --> 01:08:41,040
Speaker 1: guys do a great job grading players, units teams all

1441
01:08:41,080 --> 01:08:43,640
Speaker 1: over the NFL, and we found it interesting that the

1442
01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:47,880
Speaker 1: Bill's defensive backfield, the secondary is was graded as a

1443
01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:51,000
Speaker 1: top ten unit in twenty eighteen. Can you talk about that,

1444
01:08:51,120 --> 01:08:53,760
Speaker 1: the grades that were given and maybe why you thought

1445
01:08:53,800 --> 01:08:57,120
Speaker 1: the secondary was so strong for Buffalo? Yeah? Thanks. It

1446
01:08:57,200 --> 01:08:59,679
Speaker 1: goes back to those two safety signings of Muca Hide

1447
01:09:00,160 --> 01:09:03,320
Speaker 1: and to an employer, highs arguably a top ten, top

1448
01:09:03,360 --> 01:09:05,519
Speaker 1: five to top ten safety at this point after what

1449
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:07,519
Speaker 1: we've seen from the last two seasons. They're both just

1450
01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:11,000
Speaker 1: perfect fit for that scheme and Buffalow. Davis White has

1451
01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:14,000
Speaker 1: been basically everything and more for that secondary. He started

1452
01:09:14,160 --> 01:09:17,519
Speaker 1: tracking number one receivers this year, more and more than

1453
01:09:17,600 --> 01:09:19,760
Speaker 1: he did as a rookie. And that's just so big

1454
01:09:19,840 --> 01:09:21,559
Speaker 1: for a defense when you have a guy who can

1455
01:09:21,640 --> 01:09:23,919
Speaker 1: track number one receivers, because even if he doesn't completely

1456
01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:26,080
Speaker 1: shut them down, it all of a sudden gives your

1457
01:09:26,080 --> 01:09:30,240
Speaker 1: second cornerback an easier, you know, job to do having

1458
01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:31,840
Speaker 1: to track a number two receiver. And I think it

1459
01:09:31,960 --> 01:09:33,760
Speaker 1: just does so much for your defense when you don't

1460
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:36,080
Speaker 1: have to worry about Davis White gets burnt. See, if

1461
01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:38,240
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about that, seek's on his

1462
01:09:38,320 --> 01:09:40,720
Speaker 1: own and everyone else can do their things. So I

1463
01:09:40,840 --> 01:09:45,200
Speaker 1: think that just all around day very talented secondary at

1464
01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:46,880
Speaker 1: this point that they given had more pieces too, it

1465
01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:49,080
Speaker 1: could be taken to the next level they sort of

1466
01:09:49,439 --> 01:09:52,800
Speaker 1: you know, Seahawks esque run with how much young talents

1467
01:09:52,800 --> 01:09:54,800
Speaker 1: they have in it. Yeah, And I agree with you,

1468
01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:57,800
Speaker 1: and I think it's not off the table for the

1469
01:09:57,880 --> 01:10:01,720
Speaker 1: Bills to continue to strengthen their secondary. Like you said,

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Speaker 1: maybe take a corner opposite Tredavious White. But I think

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Speaker 1: it all depends. Like we've said earlier on the free

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Speaker 1: agent market. If they can fill some holes, which all

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01:10:10,200 --> 01:10:13,200
Speaker 1: these teams are trying to do, that only gives them

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01:10:13,240 --> 01:10:16,360
Speaker 1: the opportunity to strengthen an already strong position on their team.

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Speaker 1: And that's that's really what everybody's watching. Yeah, I think

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01:10:20,880 --> 01:10:23,320
Speaker 1: there's a number of holes. You want to go into

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Speaker 1: the draft, not targeting need. You want to go into

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Speaker 1: the draft basically with an open mind saying, if we

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Speaker 1: get to x X and XT pit and the best

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Speaker 1: player is available, we take that best player, regardless of position.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to say we're pigeonholed into lest guard

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Speaker 1: or you know, defensive tackle, you know which position, just

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01:10:41,160 --> 01:10:43,560
Speaker 1: because that's how you're raftered with bills. That's how you

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01:10:43,600 --> 01:10:45,479
Speaker 1: want to use the agency is to basically open up

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01:10:45,520 --> 01:10:47,519
Speaker 1: your options or the draft. So I do think they

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Speaker 1: should be players to start filling some holes to open

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Speaker 1: up their options come draft time. Like one last question

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Speaker 1: where you comes from one of our Twitter followers, Little Bistro,

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Speaker 1: who says, was he on the Bachelorette? You were? We

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Speaker 1: talked about that a couple of year to go with you.

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Speaker 1: I believe right, I was, Yesh did not. I was

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Speaker 1: definitely on that. We did get to play football on it,

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01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 1: so I perfect do you can ask about that every

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Speaker 1: day or almost every day. I get asked about it

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Speaker 1: a lot. We'll find out they're very intrigued by Thanks

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Speaker 1: for answering football questions from us. That we appreciate it, Mike,

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Speaker 1: thanks for man. Thanks right. Mike Grinner, senior analysts, Pro

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Speaker 1: Football Focused. He's been with them since two thoy and twelve,

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Speaker 1: the contributor to the Watchington Post. Yes, I contestant on

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Speaker 1: the Bachelorette. Yep, you remember you watched The Bachelor. I

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01:11:35,760 --> 01:11:38,800
Speaker 1: did not. I didn't get this news to me. But yeah,

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01:11:38,840 --> 01:11:40,920
Speaker 1: he knows what he's talking about, the free agent marks

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01:11:40,960 --> 01:11:43,040
Speaker 1: and how teams are strategizing to do it, and I

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01:11:43,360 --> 01:11:46,320
Speaker 1: think it's interesting to think about. I kind of agree

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01:11:46,320 --> 01:11:49,080
Speaker 1: with him about what the Bill's strategy is going to be.

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01:11:49,320 --> 01:11:52,800
Speaker 1: A number nine pick is gold and there's nobody in

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01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:55,360
Speaker 1: this draft that this that I think this team needs

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01:11:55,400 --> 01:11:57,360
Speaker 1: to go and get. There's no need in our team

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01:11:57,439 --> 01:11:59,320
Speaker 1: that's going to be filled by guys in this draft.

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Speaker 1: There don't think there's a left tackle that's gonna be

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Speaker 1: there that's gonna be worth the number nine overall pick.

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Speaker 1: A guard, a center, a wide receiver, certainly, I don't

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01:12:06,600 --> 01:12:10,040
Speaker 1: think there's a guy who's gonna bust it loose. Maybe

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01:12:10,160 --> 01:12:13,920
Speaker 1: a pass rusher, okay, but like Joey Bose is not

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01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:16,839
Speaker 1: gonna be there, and I don't I couldn't name another

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01:12:16,920 --> 01:12:20,799
Speaker 1: one that's gonna be that dominant except your boy Sweat.

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01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:25,160
Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, Mark Marquis Sweat, Montez Sweat, that's it.

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Speaker 1: You know. What I noticed about him, same thing I

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Speaker 1: noticed about Lebron James when I saw him come out

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Speaker 1: as an eighteen year old high school kid. He looks

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01:12:34,880 --> 01:12:40,439
Speaker 1: thirty two, you know what I mean. Hentes Sweat looks

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01:12:40,479 --> 01:12:43,040
Speaker 1: like a mature, grown man. And I don't know what

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01:12:43,160 --> 01:12:44,559
Speaker 1: he's like as a prey. He may be a six

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Speaker 1: year old emotionally for all I know, but he looked

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01:12:47,240 --> 01:12:49,479
Speaker 1: like a mature guy. And I looked like guys were

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01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:52,280
Speaker 1: treating him that way, like he was a more mature guy.

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01:12:52,439 --> 01:12:54,880
Speaker 1: Maybe that just happens when you get a nice beard

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01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:57,160
Speaker 1: or something. I don't know, but that's what I noticed

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01:12:57,160 --> 01:12:58,880
Speaker 1: about him, and that's one of the things I was like, hey,

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Speaker 1: you know, I kind of piqued my interest as a

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01:13:01,840 --> 01:13:05,040
Speaker 1: kind of guy. He might be one of those mature

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01:13:05,280 --> 01:13:07,880
Speaker 1: leadership guys that the Buffalo Bills have been looking for.

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01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:10,160
Speaker 1: So we'll see. But it's interesting to think about because

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01:13:11,479 --> 01:13:14,240
Speaker 1: that number nine pick is going to be worth something

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01:13:14,439 --> 01:13:16,120
Speaker 1: very big to one of the other teams in the NFL,

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01:13:16,160 --> 01:13:18,280
Speaker 1: and it's going to be interesting to see what happens

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01:13:18,360 --> 01:13:20,560
Speaker 1: with it if the Buffalo Bills indeed either use it

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01:13:20,680 --> 01:13:22,640
Speaker 1: or trade it. Well the thing. Mike Genniford joining us

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01:13:22,680 --> 01:13:25,639
Speaker 1: on the Subway fresh Day huntline presented by Subway Restaurants

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01:13:25,680 --> 01:13:28,479
Speaker 1: proud to be locally owned and operated. Hey, what did

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01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:31,559
Speaker 1: you wind up watching on TV this weekend? What were

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01:13:31,600 --> 01:13:33,559
Speaker 1: you going into the weekend hoping to watch? That's our

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01:13:33,920 --> 01:13:35,920
Speaker 1: kind of a Twitter poll that Steve came up with

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01:13:36,040 --> 01:13:40,200
Speaker 1: for today. Getting some interesting responses to this today, and

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01:13:40,360 --> 01:13:42,960
Speaker 1: you can respond on Twitter around the telephone nine, Which

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01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:45,320
Speaker 1: pointing event were you most interested in this past weekend?

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01:13:45,479 --> 01:13:48,320
Speaker 1: Was it the Alliance of American Football? Was it the

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01:13:48,400 --> 01:13:51,560
Speaker 1: Daytona five hundred, was it NBA All Star weekend? Or

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01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:53,439
Speaker 1: was it something else? Give us a call, it will

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01:13:53,479 --> 01:13:56,680
Speaker 1: discuss eight oh three five fifty toll free one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty lines open. We'll

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01:14:00,120 --> 01:14:02,599
Speaker 1: have some tweets to read. Come on back. One Bill's Live,

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01:14:02,680 --> 01:14:05,840
Speaker 1: presented by Goliah Help from One Bill's Driving. This is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Had no idea what you're talking about. Yeah,

1555
01:14:26,880 --> 01:14:30,920
Speaker 1: talk to me, don't get me handsome. Mom's up pointing stuff.

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01:14:30,960 --> 01:14:33,519
Speaker 1: I'm sitting. There's a I think. Mike Grinner we just

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01:14:33,640 --> 01:14:35,880
Speaker 1: had on and he said the things that we're talking about,

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01:14:35,920 --> 01:14:38,120
Speaker 1: philosophy of free agents. And I said, you know, I

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01:14:38,200 --> 01:14:39,960
Speaker 1: like those middle of the road free agents, kind of

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01:14:39,960 --> 01:14:41,920
Speaker 1: the under the radar guys like Micah Hyde and Jordan

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01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:43,559
Speaker 1: Poor your word for the Bills two or three years

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01:14:43,600 --> 01:14:47,720
Speaker 1: ago now, and and Mike Grinner said, listen, it was

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01:14:47,760 --> 01:14:50,160
Speaker 1: great because Mikeah Hyde wasn't a starter in Green Bay

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01:14:50,720 --> 01:14:53,200
Speaker 1: and he and he wasn't. He was a nickelback. And

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01:14:53,920 --> 01:14:56,200
Speaker 1: some of our our listeners, you know, brought him to

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01:14:56,280 --> 01:14:58,080
Speaker 1: task on Twitter say hey, I thought you know, and

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01:14:58,160 --> 01:14:59,800
Speaker 1: he says, yeah, he was nickel. He played a lot

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01:14:59,840 --> 01:15:01,760
Speaker 1: of but he was a good player. And that's how

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01:15:01,880 --> 01:15:05,880
Speaker 1: you got such good value for a guy like Micah Hyde,

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01:15:05,960 --> 01:15:07,760
Speaker 1: who was a really good player, but he was on

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01:15:07,840 --> 01:15:10,080
Speaker 1: a team that was so deep at safety. They had

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01:15:10,200 --> 01:15:14,880
Speaker 1: established starters that he was under the radar, so the

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01:15:14,960 --> 01:15:17,479
Speaker 1: Bills targeted him, find him, bring him over, and he

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Speaker 1: turns into a Pro Bowl safety and maybe one of

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01:15:19,720 --> 01:15:21,280
Speaker 1: the and like Mike Render thinks he's one of the

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01:15:21,360 --> 01:15:25,720
Speaker 1: top five, top three safeties in the league. And if

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01:15:25,760 --> 01:15:31,320
Speaker 1: you can that's to me is the ideal scour the NFL.

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01:15:32,040 --> 01:15:36,120
Speaker 1: Look for teams that are very good in one area

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01:15:36,800 --> 01:15:38,880
Speaker 1: and target one of their players that could be a

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01:15:38,960 --> 01:15:43,320
Speaker 1: starter somewhere else and who wants a shot, and you

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01:15:43,439 --> 01:15:47,240
Speaker 1: give him half the money. You give a superstar, a

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01:15:47,360 --> 01:15:49,880
Speaker 1: guy like a Sammy Watkins or a Marcel Darius or

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01:15:49,880 --> 01:15:54,160
Speaker 1: a Jadevian Clowney what he's gonna get, or Levion Bell

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01:15:54,720 --> 01:15:57,320
Speaker 1: Antonio Branni, give him half or a third of that money.

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Speaker 1: They love it. They think it's a great fine because

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01:16:00,200 --> 01:16:01,600
Speaker 1: now they're gonna get a chance to play, and they

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01:16:01,640 --> 01:16:02,880
Speaker 1: come in and knock it out of the park, like

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01:16:02,960 --> 01:16:05,400
Speaker 1: Michael Hyde and Jordan Poor your have. That's a great philosophy.

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Speaker 1: If you can identify players who are going to be

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Speaker 1: free agents who have not broken into the starting lineup

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01:16:12,479 --> 01:16:14,600
Speaker 1: for their team because that team is so good at

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01:16:14,680 --> 01:16:17,519
Speaker 1: that position, and they bring them over. You bring them

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01:16:17,520 --> 01:16:20,760
Speaker 1: over to your place and they thrives. That's a great philosophy.

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01:16:20,880 --> 01:16:23,240
Speaker 1: What almost strikes me off the top of my head.

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01:16:23,720 --> 01:16:26,120
Speaker 1: It would almost be a starting point when you first

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01:16:26,160 --> 01:16:28,439
Speaker 1: you identify the guys I'm talking about a year ago,

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01:16:28,560 --> 01:16:31,360
Speaker 1: the guys who might turn out to be free agents,

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01:16:31,479 --> 01:16:34,120
Speaker 1: unrestricted free agents, and then you look at team depth

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01:16:34,200 --> 01:16:36,479
Speaker 1: charts and say, okay, who's ahead of them? Who are

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Speaker 1: they playing? Who's ahead of them? Right? Start with that.

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01:16:38,560 --> 01:16:39,840
Speaker 1: Who do we think is going to break out a

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01:16:39,880 --> 01:16:42,040
Speaker 1: little bit? Who's ahead of them on the roster? Maybe

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01:16:42,080 --> 01:16:44,160
Speaker 1: that guy is a free agent target? Yeah, And he

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01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:48,160
Speaker 1: mentioned a guy, a pass rusher in Denver at Shaquille

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01:16:48,280 --> 01:16:52,559
Speaker 1: and I cannot remember Shaquille's last name was supplanted during

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01:16:52,600 --> 01:16:54,240
Speaker 1: the seat. He was a starter, then supplanted by a

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01:16:54,280 --> 01:16:56,760
Speaker 1: really good player who got back in the lineup. Those

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01:16:56,880 --> 01:16:59,519
Speaker 1: kind of guys and those kind of situations, if you

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01:16:59,600 --> 01:17:03,120
Speaker 1: can point them around the league, that's I think a

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01:17:03,200 --> 01:17:05,880
Speaker 1: brilliant strategy if you can pull it off. Seaquille Barrett

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01:17:06,120 --> 01:17:08,680
Speaker 1: Shaquille Barrett, who was a starter for the Broncos on

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01:17:08,760 --> 01:17:11,800
Speaker 1: a pretty good defense and then was supplanted by either

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01:17:12,800 --> 01:17:15,479
Speaker 1: von Miller or whoever coming back on the lineup, who

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01:17:15,560 --> 01:17:18,920
Speaker 1: sat him down? And that's a lot of fun stuff

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01:17:18,960 --> 01:17:21,080
Speaker 1: to think about as a free agency approaches. Were about

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01:17:21,320 --> 01:17:24,280
Speaker 1: three and a half weeks away from it. It's gonna

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01:17:24,280 --> 01:17:26,560
Speaker 1: be fun. It's gonna be fun. We're gonna be Actually,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be at the combine before free agency starts,

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Speaker 1: are we not? Yes? Yeah, We're to combine next week

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Speaker 1: next week, right, that's right. It's looking forward to that.

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Speaker 1: We were there Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, next week. Okay, hey,

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Speaker 1: what do you a couple of things we can talk

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Speaker 1: about Charles Clay release over the weekend late Friday. Nobody

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01:17:44,280 --> 01:17:46,800
Speaker 1: has any thoughts on that. That's open for discussion. We

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01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:49,280
Speaker 1: can talk about our Twitter poll today, which deals with

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01:17:50,439 --> 01:17:53,280
Speaker 1: your weekend and your sports weekend. As far as being

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01:17:53,320 --> 01:17:55,280
Speaker 1: a sports fan, what did you what did you look

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01:17:55,320 --> 01:17:57,160
Speaker 1: forward to this weekend? What came through for you in

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01:17:57,320 --> 01:18:00,559
Speaker 1: terms of television viewing or live attendance. Guess that's where

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01:18:00,600 --> 01:18:03,120
Speaker 1: you had a caller, uh, talk about the bandits game?

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01:18:03,320 --> 01:18:05,200
Speaker 1: You're which sporting event were you're most interested in this

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01:18:05,280 --> 01:18:07,800
Speaker 1: past weekend? Put a couple of options on the Twitter poll.

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01:18:08,080 --> 01:18:10,720
Speaker 1: Alliance of American Football DAYTONA five hundred and NBA All

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01:18:10,760 --> 01:18:13,160
Speaker 1: Star weekend or something else. Let us know eight three

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Speaker 1: fifty two three one eight eight by fifty two five

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Speaker 1: fifty want to read from the tweetcheet and we've gotten

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Speaker 1: a couple of these. PGA tour of the Genesis Open

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01:18:21,120 --> 01:18:23,559
Speaker 1: was good this weekend. This is from j D and Rochester.

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01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:26,880
Speaker 1: The AAF is very interesting and the Daytona five hundred

1640
01:18:26,960 --> 01:18:29,439
Speaker 1: had a crazy ending, so obviously j D and Rochester

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01:18:29,600 --> 01:18:35,040
Speaker 1: was surfing through the through the options awesome. Also, Adam

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01:18:35,120 --> 01:18:38,439
Speaker 1: Renzoni says the AAF is great to watch. There's no kickoffs,

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01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:42,120
Speaker 1: good scoring, and it's yet it's watchable. Number two or

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01:18:42,200 --> 01:18:45,479
Speaker 1: two of the games had great comebacks, including the AAF

1645
01:18:45,680 --> 01:18:48,479
Speaker 1: Apollos game. Great game to watch. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: a lot of support for the AAF for for a

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01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:55,599
Speaker 1: brand new league. I get the sense that the AAF

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01:18:55,840 --> 01:18:59,839
Speaker 1: is much different than the WFL, the USFL, the XFL,

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01:19:00,479 --> 01:19:04,479
Speaker 1: NFL Europe. It's a much different feel about it than

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01:19:04,560 --> 01:19:06,040
Speaker 1: we've seen in the passage. It seems like it's got

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01:19:06,160 --> 01:19:09,280
Speaker 1: staying power to me at this early stage. Yeah, people

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01:19:09,320 --> 01:19:12,439
Speaker 1: are really interested in it. It's just different enough to

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01:19:12,520 --> 01:19:16,080
Speaker 1: be interesting, competitive enough to be compelling. What you watch,

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01:19:16,120 --> 01:19:20,680
Speaker 1: and it keeps your attention and and you're you're kind

1655
01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:23,000
Speaker 1: of thinking, these teams are some of these guys are

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01:19:23,040 --> 01:19:25,240
Speaker 1: gonna You're gonna see him on Sunday in the fall too,

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01:19:25,400 --> 01:19:27,280
Speaker 1: So it's it's got a lot going for it, I

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01:19:27,360 --> 01:19:29,920
Speaker 1: think great. From the tweet sheet here from Rob Trueman,

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01:19:30,280 --> 01:19:32,240
Speaker 1: he said it was very much looking forward to watching

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01:19:32,280 --> 01:19:35,719
Speaker 1: the Sabers and college basketball this weekend thanks to Sabers

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01:19:35,880 --> 01:19:40,240
Speaker 1: ineptness and Murs Wolverine's queshing my terps. My weekend to

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Speaker 1: sports watching was hugely disappointing. There's always that, there's always

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01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:46,360
Speaker 1: that you look forward to something and then it doesn't.

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01:19:46,520 --> 01:19:48,400
Speaker 1: And here's some one of the problems too with the

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01:19:49,160 --> 01:19:52,360
Speaker 1: AFL from Brian Cook, I was I was most drawn

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01:19:52,439 --> 01:19:55,920
Speaker 1: to the AAF but it's not nearly as accessible to watch,

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Speaker 1: so I was unable to find an accessible medium to

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Speaker 1: view without a cable subscription. Who college hoops? It is? Sigh,

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01:20:02,479 --> 01:20:04,840
Speaker 1: So he's a college hoops guy, but only after the

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01:20:04,920 --> 01:20:07,040
Speaker 1: successive Where were the games you watch him with the

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01:20:07,280 --> 01:20:13,280
Speaker 1: CBS Sports Network TNT And what's wrong with that? So

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01:20:13,400 --> 01:20:15,880
Speaker 1: you can't get they're not broadcast there, you're they're only

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01:20:15,960 --> 01:20:19,360
Speaker 1: cable cable or direct TV or satellite. You gotta you

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01:20:19,439 --> 01:20:21,880
Speaker 1: can't get him on Broad and they weren't on NBCCBS

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01:20:22,120 --> 01:20:25,200
Speaker 1: or ABC. Yeah, I wouldn't to look for Fox. Here's

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Speaker 1: a call from Roy and Amherst. Hello Roy, go ahead,

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Speaker 1: you're on the ear Oh yes, I hate a question

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Speaker 1: about the HC. Are you only thing about Clark? Uh?

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01:20:34,800 --> 01:20:39,400
Speaker 1: From Seattle? Yeah? Frank? Is it Frank Clark. He's a guy,

1680
01:20:39,560 --> 01:20:42,400
Speaker 1: and he spent somewhat productive In fact, Renter talked about

1681
01:20:42,479 --> 01:20:44,200
Speaker 1: him a minute ago. But it also has a little

1682
01:20:44,200 --> 01:20:47,639
Speaker 1: baggage from his collegiate career. He had some domestic violence

1683
01:20:47,720 --> 01:20:52,840
Speaker 1: issues in at in college in Michigan. Um. Yeah, Frank Clark. Um.

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01:20:53,400 --> 01:20:55,320
Speaker 1: I don't know. He's had a rough past. I don't

1685
01:20:55,320 --> 01:20:57,360
Speaker 1: know if he fits in with what they're looking for here,

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01:20:57,640 --> 01:20:59,960
Speaker 1: but a fairly productive player. I wouldn't break the bank

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01:21:00,160 --> 01:21:05,360
Speaker 1: to sign Frank Clark. And what about Earl Thomas at

1688
01:21:05,400 --> 01:21:07,840
Speaker 1: the strongest position on the Buffalo roster. The thing it's

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01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:10,080
Speaker 1: hard to bring another safety. And don't think he's gonna

1690
01:21:10,120 --> 01:21:12,719
Speaker 1: crack the starting lineup, even if it is Earl Thomas.

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01:21:12,800 --> 01:21:15,240
Speaker 1: And if he do, how much is it gonna cost

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01:21:15,320 --> 01:21:17,960
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have three safeties on the field. I mean,

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01:21:18,240 --> 01:21:20,519
Speaker 1: or you know you're gonna take Jordan Poyer Micah Hide

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01:21:20,560 --> 01:21:23,519
Speaker 1: off the field. That's the problem with that. So I

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01:21:23,640 --> 01:21:25,600
Speaker 1: see it. Yeah, Earl Thomas is a great player, but

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01:21:26,520 --> 01:21:29,439
Speaker 1: this is one of those teams where all of a

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01:21:29,479 --> 01:21:33,040
Speaker 1: sudden you'd be taking somebody off the field that you

1698
01:21:33,160 --> 01:21:35,400
Speaker 1: really need on the field or has really played well,

1699
01:21:35,520 --> 01:21:37,360
Speaker 1: or so you got too much of a good thing.

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01:21:37,360 --> 01:21:40,320
Speaker 1: I would think if you brought Earl Thomas over. Thanks

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01:21:40,360 --> 01:21:43,519
Speaker 1: for your call, Hey, Steve, this is out there. Dan

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01:21:43,600 --> 01:21:47,040
Speaker 1: Hans's NFL dot com wrote this Hard Knocks last year

1703
01:21:47,080 --> 01:21:48,840
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. A lot of people like that show.

1704
01:21:48,840 --> 01:21:51,280
Speaker 1: I watched one and a half episodes maybe last year.

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01:21:52,120 --> 01:21:56,519
Speaker 1: Right now, there are five, I think, just five teams

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01:21:56,600 --> 01:21:59,280
Speaker 1: that could qualify. In order to qualify for Hard Knocks.

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01:21:59,800 --> 01:22:02,439
Speaker 1: You are you are you avoid being on Hard Knocks

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01:22:02,520 --> 01:22:05,240
Speaker 1: if one you have a first year head coach, Two

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01:22:05,360 --> 01:22:07,240
Speaker 1: you have a playoff berth in the last two seasons

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01:22:07,280 --> 01:22:09,880
Speaker 1: that would eliminate the Buffalo Bills. Or three you've been

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01:22:09,920 --> 01:22:12,040
Speaker 1: on a Hard Knocks in the last ten years. So

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01:22:12,640 --> 01:22:14,479
Speaker 1: most of the teams in the NFL are knocked out

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01:22:14,479 --> 01:22:17,400
Speaker 1: because of that first year head coach, playoffs last two years,

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01:22:17,600 --> 01:22:20,479
Speaker 1: or you've been on a Hard Knocks before? Five options

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01:22:20,520 --> 01:22:23,320
Speaker 1: for Hard Knocks? Can I run these five by it?

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01:22:24,680 --> 01:22:28,000
Speaker 1: I'm all over it? The New York Giants on Hard Knocks,

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01:22:28,400 --> 01:22:31,880
Speaker 1: the Oakland Raiders, the San Francisco forty nine Ers, the

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01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:34,840
Speaker 1: Washington team or the Detroit Lions. Who would you like

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01:22:34,920 --> 01:22:37,240
Speaker 1: to see on Hard Knocks? Out of that group? I would?

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01:22:37,320 --> 01:22:39,960
Speaker 1: You know? I have both for Oakland too. Right right

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01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:41,680
Speaker 1: now we don't even know where they're gonna play. I mean,

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01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:44,360
Speaker 1: how much drama is that what's supposed to be their

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01:22:44,479 --> 01:22:46,760
Speaker 1: last year in Oakland? You would imagine there's all kinds

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01:22:46,800 --> 01:22:50,720
Speaker 1: of drama and all sorts of complications about that. A

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01:22:50,920 --> 01:22:54,960
Speaker 1: glib and articulate head coach who certainly is comfortable being

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01:22:55,040 --> 01:22:58,160
Speaker 1: on camera. Yeah, Oakland would be my number one choice

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01:22:58,200 --> 01:23:00,679
Speaker 1: to be on Hard Knocks. Yeah. Mine was fall closely

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01:23:00,800 --> 01:23:04,320
Speaker 1: by the New York Giants. Um I'd like to see

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01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:07,360
Speaker 1: what's going on over there, how they're going to handle

1730
01:23:07,439 --> 01:23:09,680
Speaker 1: ELI and all the things that are going on over there.

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01:23:09,720 --> 01:23:12,479
Speaker 1: I think um Odell Beckham Junior would love to be

1732
01:23:12,600 --> 01:23:15,720
Speaker 1: on Hard Knocks he would. He would do take over.

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01:23:15,800 --> 01:23:17,920
Speaker 1: He would do anything to get on camera. He'd take

1734
01:23:17,960 --> 01:23:19,760
Speaker 1: over the show. He would he'd take over the show.

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01:23:20,120 --> 01:23:23,040
Speaker 1: I'm not so in San Francisco is a little bit intriguing.

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01:23:23,280 --> 01:23:26,360
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo coming back from a big injury. Uh, they're

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01:23:26,400 --> 01:23:29,960
Speaker 1: in a very tough division out there. Um, and there's

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01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:34,479
Speaker 1: some expectations tied to them. But but Washington and Detroit,

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01:23:35,800 --> 01:23:37,880
Speaker 1: I could not be less interested in from one of

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01:23:37,920 --> 01:23:40,040
Speaker 1: those two. There's not possible for me to be any

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01:23:40,240 --> 01:23:44,000
Speaker 1: less interested in Washington or Detroit. So there you have it.

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01:23:44,040 --> 01:23:45,680
Speaker 1: I mean, that's where i'm That's where i'm I'm kind

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01:23:45,720 --> 01:23:48,439
Speaker 1: of with you. Giants could be interested interesting if they

1744
01:23:48,560 --> 01:23:52,679
Speaker 1: have a rookie quarterback, m well ready to challenge Eli Manning,

1745
01:23:52,720 --> 01:23:55,559
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, if there's a legitimate challenger, Well,

1746
01:23:55,600 --> 01:23:58,120
Speaker 1: that'd be they're gonna put themselves in position in position

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01:23:58,160 --> 01:23:59,560
Speaker 1: to get that guy. I don't know that would be

1748
01:23:59,640 --> 01:24:02,559
Speaker 1: compared Helling. Yeah, I would love to see that. I'm

1749
01:24:02,600 --> 01:24:05,080
Speaker 1: not that. I like Eli a lot, and I think

1750
01:24:05,120 --> 01:24:08,000
Speaker 1: he's gotten a little bit of a he's a little

1751
01:24:08,040 --> 01:24:10,040
Speaker 1: bit of got a little Joe Flacco in him. He's

1752
01:24:10,040 --> 01:24:12,040
Speaker 1: a little bit of a flatline guy, and people are like,

1753
01:24:12,120 --> 01:24:13,840
Speaker 1: you know, kind of give us something here, would you,

1754
01:24:13,960 --> 01:24:17,000
Speaker 1: And he doesn't. And his play has not been stellar

1755
01:24:17,080 --> 01:24:19,040
Speaker 1: the last handful of years. He's got two super Bowl

1756
01:24:19,080 --> 01:24:21,439
Speaker 1: wins Joe Flacco had won. Those two guys are almost

1757
01:24:21,479 --> 01:24:23,920
Speaker 1: the same guy. They're just not effective for some reason

1758
01:24:24,040 --> 01:24:26,080
Speaker 1: or other, and it's hard to pinpoint as to why.

1759
01:24:26,479 --> 01:24:29,120
Speaker 1: Certainly Joe Flacco has been injured, which has hurt his

1760
01:24:29,560 --> 01:24:34,160
Speaker 1: ability to be productive, but Eli is just it just

1761
01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:36,800
Speaker 1: seems to play bad. And that's amazing for a guy

1762
01:24:36,840 --> 01:24:39,160
Speaker 1: who's won two super Bowls. So I think that might

1763
01:24:39,280 --> 01:24:42,400
Speaker 1: be intriguing, particularly, like you said, Murph Man, if they

1764
01:24:42,520 --> 01:24:48,200
Speaker 1: draft anybody at that spot, that's a circus. It's a

1765
01:24:48,760 --> 01:24:51,000
Speaker 1: circus that rolls into town overnight. You know how the

1766
01:24:51,080 --> 01:24:53,479
Speaker 1: story with hard knocks usually when you talk about potential

1767
01:24:53,560 --> 01:24:55,880
Speaker 1: candidates is well, they don't want it. This team doesn't

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01:24:55,920 --> 01:24:57,240
Speaker 1: want it. This team doesn't want it. You know who

1769
01:24:57,320 --> 01:24:59,760
Speaker 1: might want it? Who probably does want it? The Oakland Raids,

1770
01:25:00,360 --> 01:25:02,080
Speaker 1: as they get set to move to Las Vegas to

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01:25:02,160 --> 01:25:05,200
Speaker 1: build their their new brand, they're gonna have to, you know,

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01:25:05,640 --> 01:25:08,759
Speaker 1: get some fans in Vegas. They'll have no problem selling tickets,

1773
01:25:08,800 --> 01:25:10,880
Speaker 1: I'm sure, but I would think that that would benefit

1774
01:25:10,960 --> 01:25:13,760
Speaker 1: their new brand, the Raiders, the Las Vegas Raiders, to

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Speaker 1: be on a Hard Knocks. Yes, this year, they kind

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01:25:16,120 --> 01:25:18,120
Speaker 1: of set the tone and lay the groundwork for the

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01:25:18,160 --> 01:25:19,560
Speaker 1: type of team they're going to be in Vegas the

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01:25:19,600 --> 01:25:21,519
Speaker 1: following year. Or they might want to be. They might

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01:25:21,600 --> 01:25:22,760
Speaker 1: want to say, yeah, we want to be on, but

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01:25:22,800 --> 01:25:24,760
Speaker 1: we want to wait till our first year in Vegas. Yeah,

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01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:26,519
Speaker 1: you know, they might want to push it off one year,

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01:25:27,160 --> 01:25:30,000
Speaker 1: say we promise we'll do it next year. Okay, they

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01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:32,120
Speaker 1: can sell season tickets for next year if they're on

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01:25:32,200 --> 01:25:35,240
Speaker 1: this year. That's true, that's true. Or they might or

1785
01:25:35,320 --> 01:25:38,360
Speaker 1: they might have a chilling effect on season tickets, you

1786
01:25:38,439 --> 01:25:40,559
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Yeah, So I don't know, but yeah,

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01:25:40,680 --> 01:25:42,360
Speaker 1: Hard Knocks coming up. It's going to be interesting to

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01:25:42,400 --> 01:25:44,479
Speaker 1: see who they pick. There's only and the reason we

1789
01:25:44,680 --> 01:25:46,599
Speaker 1: pick these five teams is these are the only five

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01:25:46,680 --> 01:25:50,599
Speaker 1: teams that don't have the option to say no. These

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01:25:50,680 --> 01:25:53,840
Speaker 1: five teams can't get out of it if they're the

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01:25:53,920 --> 01:25:57,439
Speaker 1: ones that the HBO wants to put on. So for

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01:25:57,520 --> 01:25:59,880
Speaker 1: all the for the three reasons that you said, they

1794
01:26:00,040 --> 01:26:01,760
Speaker 1: haven't been in the playoffs the last two years. They

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01:26:01,800 --> 01:26:05,559
Speaker 1: don't have a brand new head coach, and some other

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01:26:05,640 --> 01:26:07,880
Speaker 1: reason I can't think of, which why what's the third reason?

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01:26:08,280 --> 01:26:09,800
Speaker 1: They have not been on Hard knocks and long and

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01:26:09,840 --> 01:26:11,720
Speaker 1: they haven't heard. Yeah, it's been a decade since they've

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01:26:11,720 --> 01:26:16,160
Speaker 1: been on. So that's uh, that's the criterion. And there's

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Speaker 1: only five teams left. Muriel and AMers has a thought

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01:26:19,680 --> 01:26:21,680
Speaker 1: on what she was looking forward to keeping an eye

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01:26:21,720 --> 01:26:23,960
Speaker 1: on on sports this weekend. Muriel, welcome to the show.

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01:26:24,000 --> 01:26:26,080
Speaker 1: You're on the air with this. Oh thank you. Um.

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01:26:27,160 --> 01:26:32,920
Speaker 1: I was answering your twist, your poles. Yeah, and I

1805
01:26:33,200 --> 01:26:39,880
Speaker 1: look forward to UV basketball and Duke and also the AFL,

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01:26:40,680 --> 01:26:48,680
Speaker 1: especially Salt Lake um City team. Why why Salt Lake? Uh,

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01:26:49,200 --> 01:26:52,400
Speaker 1: Brandon um Oliver was on that team. There you go,

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01:26:52,680 --> 01:26:55,880
Speaker 1: oh yeah, there we go. All right, thanks Mimurriel. That's

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01:26:55,880 --> 01:26:58,240
Speaker 1: those are good reasons. Yeah, Brandon all and he played well.

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01:26:58,320 --> 01:27:00,200
Speaker 1: I saw him carry the rock a couple of him.

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01:27:00,360 --> 01:27:03,439
Speaker 1: He was, he's playing well. Thanks for calling. Here is

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01:27:03,760 --> 01:27:07,760
Speaker 1: Gary on his cell phone. Hello, Gary, go ahead, Hey guys,

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01:27:07,800 --> 01:27:11,400
Speaker 1: here y'all doing being good? Yeah, I like to talk

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01:27:11,400 --> 01:27:15,479
Speaker 1: about Charles Claysy online. Yeah, go ahead, I thought, you know,

1815
01:27:16,280 --> 01:27:18,800
Speaker 1: if they're gonna sign him now you know, got twenty

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01:27:18,840 --> 01:27:21,600
Speaker 1: six wenty seven and he stayed healthy. I think it

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01:27:21,600 --> 01:27:23,960
Speaker 1: would have been a better signing because I don't think

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01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:26,360
Speaker 1: ty Rod you can throw in the middle. We all

1819
01:27:26,439 --> 01:27:29,720
Speaker 1: know that. I think Josh it's gonna be a better

1820
01:27:29,840 --> 01:27:31,400
Speaker 1: thrower in the middle of field. And I think that

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01:27:31,560 --> 01:27:34,120
Speaker 1: really would have been you know, if he's healthy, that

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01:27:34,160 --> 01:27:37,640
Speaker 1: would have been a better you know, match up far

1823
01:27:37,720 --> 01:27:40,439
Speaker 1: as talent and usage, because that's what it's all about.

1824
01:27:40,560 --> 01:27:42,920
Speaker 1: You know, you have a player, is he gonna fit

1825
01:27:43,040 --> 01:27:45,880
Speaker 1: the scheme in the quarterbacks because receivers only get the

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01:27:45,880 --> 01:27:48,360
Speaker 1: ball for about give him the ball. Yeah, I get you.

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01:27:48,439 --> 01:27:49,920
Speaker 1: I mean you're right, Gary. I mean it wouldn't it

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01:27:49,960 --> 01:27:52,599
Speaker 1: be nice to have Charles Clay at twenty six years old, healthy,

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01:27:53,040 --> 01:27:56,000
Speaker 1: coming into hisself and with a Josh Allen. Yeah absolutely,

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01:27:56,040 --> 01:27:59,320
Speaker 1: I mean I get you, um, Charles. But for me,

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01:28:00,040 --> 01:28:03,400
Speaker 1: Charles Clay was a good free agent signing, not a

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01:28:03,479 --> 01:28:07,479
Speaker 1: great one. He had some ability and it was really

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01:28:07,600 --> 01:28:09,559
Speaker 1: up to the offense to try and get him the football.

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01:28:09,600 --> 01:28:11,400
Speaker 1: They didn't have a quarterback that liked to throw between

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01:28:11,439 --> 01:28:12,840
Speaker 1: the numbers. They had a guy that liked to throw

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01:28:12,920 --> 01:28:15,759
Speaker 1: outside the numbers, and they struggled to throw the football

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01:28:15,760 --> 01:28:19,000
Speaker 1: at all, really, or they just weren't very good at

1838
01:28:19,040 --> 01:28:21,320
Speaker 1: it for a couple of years, most of the prime years.

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01:28:21,360 --> 01:28:22,800
Speaker 1: That would have been great to have him. And then,

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01:28:22,880 --> 01:28:24,960
Speaker 1: of course, as we all know, the injuries set in

1841
01:28:25,040 --> 01:28:26,479
Speaker 1: on him and that kind of set him back, so

1842
01:28:26,960 --> 01:28:30,559
Speaker 1: he couldn't contribute here of late, and he couldn't practice either.

1843
01:28:30,640 --> 01:28:33,400
Speaker 1: So yeah, all that stuff if would have, could have should.

1844
01:28:33,400 --> 01:28:35,240
Speaker 1: It would have been nice if Charles Clay was five

1845
01:28:35,360 --> 01:28:37,080
Speaker 1: or six years younger and the Bills signed him to

1846
01:28:37,120 --> 01:28:39,400
Speaker 1: a rookie deal. Yeah, And there are tight ends available

1847
01:28:39,479 --> 01:28:42,080
Speaker 1: in free agency. I've always been a fan of Max Williams,

1848
01:28:42,080 --> 01:28:44,599
Speaker 1: who was down there in Baltimore, pretty productive tight end,

1849
01:28:44,800 --> 01:28:47,080
Speaker 1: former second round draft pick. He's twenty four years old.

1850
01:28:47,160 --> 01:28:49,960
Speaker 1: He's hitting the free agent market. Jared Cook hitting the

1851
01:28:49,960 --> 01:28:54,320
Speaker 1: free age of market from Oakland. Cincinnati has Tyler Eifert,

1852
01:28:54,680 --> 01:28:58,360
Speaker 1: cj Uza Zama, I'd forget how to say this, and

1853
01:28:58,479 --> 01:29:00,880
Speaker 1: Tyler Croft I'll schedule to be free agents. They may

1854
01:29:00,920 --> 01:29:03,200
Speaker 1: not be on March thirteenth foot right now. And there's

1855
01:29:03,439 --> 01:29:05,639
Speaker 1: supposed to be some pretty decent free agents in the draft.

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01:29:05,800 --> 01:29:07,839
Speaker 1: In fact, we're going to talk about that with Cynthia

1857
01:29:07,920 --> 01:29:10,320
Speaker 1: Freeland from NFL Network. She's coming up a little bit

1858
01:29:10,360 --> 01:29:12,160
Speaker 1: after two o'clock. We'll take a breakcare we got a

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Speaker 1: few more minutes left in this hour. Come on back.

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive and this is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: One little snowstorm today, nothing we can handle. Thanks for

1863
01:29:41,560 --> 01:29:45,800
Speaker 1: tuning in. We got this under control. So Colin Kaeperni's

1864
01:29:45,880 --> 01:29:49,200
Speaker 1: attorney says, yes, he wants to play in the NFL.

1865
01:29:49,280 --> 01:29:51,240
Speaker 1: He says the Carolina Panthers the Patriots two of the

1866
01:29:51,280 --> 01:29:53,800
Speaker 1: best landing spots for him. The agent is Mark Garagas.

1867
01:29:54,400 --> 01:29:59,400
Speaker 1: He talked a day after Kaepernick and Eric Reed greased

1868
01:29:59,400 --> 01:30:02,000
Speaker 1: to settlement with the NFL on their collusion grievances against

1869
01:30:02,040 --> 01:30:05,400
Speaker 1: the league. Peter King wrote about this in a his

1870
01:30:05,520 --> 01:30:09,840
Speaker 1: post on Mondays Football Morning in America, and I really

1871
01:30:09,920 --> 01:30:13,559
Speaker 1: read it, read it hard today this morning, thought about

1872
01:30:13,600 --> 01:30:16,880
Speaker 1: it pretty hard. It's hard. It's very difficult to determine

1873
01:30:16,920 --> 01:30:20,040
Speaker 1: what happened here. Did Kaepernick and read settle because they

1874
01:30:20,120 --> 01:30:22,519
Speaker 1: thought that that might be the best they can do,

1875
01:30:22,640 --> 01:30:24,800
Speaker 1: that they were going to lose their grievance or did

1876
01:30:24,840 --> 01:30:27,000
Speaker 1: the NFL settle because they thought they were gonna lose,

1877
01:30:27,040 --> 01:30:30,280
Speaker 1: And there's no evidence either way, Steve. There have been reports,

1878
01:30:30,520 --> 01:30:34,080
Speaker 1: none really substantiated, on how much money Kaepernick and Read

1879
01:30:34,120 --> 01:30:36,160
Speaker 1: would get from the league in this settlement, and they

1880
01:30:36,240 --> 01:30:37,880
Speaker 1: really got the clamps down out. They're not going to

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01:30:38,000 --> 01:30:41,519
Speaker 1: tell it's a grievance filed in October twenty seventeen. It

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Speaker 1: went before a hearing officer who kind of mediated this settlement.

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01:30:49,800 --> 01:30:52,639
Speaker 1: Kaepernick filed a grievance under the Collective Bargaining Agreement alleging

1884
01:30:52,680 --> 01:30:55,920
Speaker 1: collusion against signing him to an NFL contract. Peter King

1885
01:30:55,960 --> 01:30:58,200
Speaker 1: wrote about it in a really interesting way, talking about

1886
01:30:58,240 --> 01:31:00,840
Speaker 1: how the league is coming off a pretty good year,

1887
01:31:00,920 --> 01:31:03,360
Speaker 1: believe it or not, in terms of its image and

1888
01:31:03,439 --> 01:31:05,719
Speaker 1: what went on this past year, and they really didn't

1889
01:31:05,720 --> 01:31:12,120
Speaker 1: want to have the specter of owners being deposed testifying

1890
01:31:12,240 --> 01:31:13,880
Speaker 1: under oath and the things that might come out in that.

1891
01:31:13,960 --> 01:31:16,120
Speaker 1: And they said, the league said, what would be more

1892
01:31:16,320 --> 01:31:18,960
Speaker 1: damaging to our image to settle dis grievance and make

1893
01:31:19,000 --> 01:31:23,360
Speaker 1: it go away with a sealed agreement or have these owners,

1894
01:31:23,560 --> 01:31:27,040
Speaker 1: you know, deposed under scrutiny and who knows what they

1895
01:31:27,120 --> 01:31:29,160
Speaker 1: might say, right, some of these owners, you would worry

1896
01:31:29,200 --> 01:31:31,400
Speaker 1: about them under oath what they might say. Well, it's

1897
01:31:31,439 --> 01:31:35,680
Speaker 1: also the fact that by disclosure discovery they can bring

1898
01:31:35,760 --> 01:31:41,519
Speaker 1: in phone records, texts, everything, and private emails to the table.

1899
01:31:42,640 --> 01:31:46,080
Speaker 1: And there's these owners, there's a lot of stuff in

1900
01:31:46,080 --> 01:31:48,840
Speaker 1: then they made they don't want to want, probably embarrassing. Yeah,

1901
01:31:50,520 --> 01:31:53,240
Speaker 1: and that's probably what led to it as well. But

1902
01:31:53,400 --> 01:31:55,160
Speaker 1: you got to know too. And I and our good

1903
01:31:55,200 --> 01:31:58,480
Speaker 1: friend Amy Trask said this as well. Whatever Colin Kaepernick

1904
01:31:58,840 --> 01:32:03,840
Speaker 1: when Eric read got from this settlement, its split thirty

1905
01:32:03,880 --> 01:32:07,080
Speaker 1: two ways, right, you know, I mean, it's a league

1906
01:32:07,120 --> 01:32:11,519
Speaker 1: wide settlement and an interesting and I would really and

1907
01:32:11,840 --> 01:32:15,120
Speaker 1: it may get leaked out what the settlement was. I've

1908
01:32:15,160 --> 01:32:17,719
Speaker 1: heard both things. I've heard sixty to eighty million dollars

1909
01:32:17,760 --> 01:32:19,680
Speaker 1: and I've also heard that it's going to be much

1910
01:32:19,760 --> 01:32:21,720
Speaker 1: less than what people may think it should have been

1911
01:32:21,800 --> 01:32:24,880
Speaker 1: or would have been, whichever the way, whatever way it went.

1912
01:32:26,840 --> 01:32:29,639
Speaker 1: You know, I know that Colin Kaepernick in the suit

1913
01:32:29,720 --> 01:32:32,360
Speaker 1: said that it was about collusion of keeping him out

1914
01:32:32,360 --> 01:32:36,120
Speaker 1: of the league. I think it was more than that.

1915
01:32:36,200 --> 01:32:38,320
Speaker 1: I don't think Colin Kaepernick in any way shape or

1916
01:32:38,360 --> 01:32:42,320
Speaker 1: form sold out because he does have the opportunity now

1917
01:32:42,400 --> 01:32:44,920
Speaker 1: to come back and play in the league if they

1918
01:32:45,000 --> 01:32:47,400
Speaker 1: if he's so desires and I would not be surprised

1919
01:32:47,960 --> 01:32:51,000
Speaker 1: if he gets an opportunity, says, I think you're gonna

1920
01:32:51,000 --> 01:32:52,800
Speaker 1: see in the next two weeks and somebody's gonna step

1921
01:32:52,920 --> 01:32:55,439
Speaker 1: up and do the right thing. He said, you want

1922
01:32:55,479 --> 01:32:59,679
Speaker 1: me to predict too, he said, Patriots Panthers can kapern

1923
01:33:01,479 --> 01:33:03,400
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say Kaperta can't help a team, but

1924
01:33:03,479 --> 01:33:05,880
Speaker 1: he's not ready to play right I mean right now.

1925
01:33:06,479 --> 01:33:07,640
Speaker 1: I don't know that he's been I don't know that

1926
01:33:07,680 --> 01:33:09,200
Speaker 1: he's been working out, but if he's in shape, he

1927
01:33:09,200 --> 01:33:11,240
Speaker 1: can certainly do it. He's got the physical abilities. I

1928
01:33:11,320 --> 01:33:14,000
Speaker 1: think it's going to be really interesting because all the

1929
01:33:14,280 --> 01:33:16,479
Speaker 1: all the people who have been critical of him, and

1930
01:33:16,479 --> 01:33:18,840
Speaker 1: all the people who have been supportive of him, we're

1931
01:33:18,880 --> 01:33:20,640
Speaker 1: all talking from places we don't know. We've seen him

1932
01:33:20,680 --> 01:33:22,720
Speaker 1: play well. He took the forty nine ers the last

1933
01:33:22,720 --> 01:33:24,800
Speaker 1: half of that season to the playoffs or to the

1934
01:33:24,880 --> 01:33:27,439
Speaker 1: super Bowl and was within a two point conversion of

1935
01:33:27,520 --> 01:33:30,040
Speaker 1: tying it up late, so we've seen him play well.

1936
01:33:30,080 --> 01:33:31,800
Speaker 1: But then in the last two or three years after that,

1937
01:33:32,520 --> 01:33:35,080
Speaker 1: not so much. And then we saw him walk away

1938
01:33:35,160 --> 01:33:37,800
Speaker 1: from a twelve million dollar contract for the forty nine ers,

1939
01:33:38,640 --> 01:33:42,599
Speaker 1: which was curious to me. And I've never really heard

1940
01:33:43,080 --> 01:33:44,840
Speaker 1: the ins and outs of whether he thought he was

1941
01:33:44,840 --> 01:33:47,400
Speaker 1: gonna get cut or whether he thought he was being underpaid.

1942
01:33:47,520 --> 01:33:49,760
Speaker 1: Certainly the nine and there was some thought, you know,

1943
01:33:49,840 --> 01:33:53,320
Speaker 1: it could go both ways. But once he gets signed

1944
01:33:53,360 --> 01:33:57,160
Speaker 1: by a team, an NFL team, and they start evaluating

1945
01:33:57,360 --> 01:34:01,479
Speaker 1: him with no rose covered asses and no hatred involved,

1946
01:34:01,479 --> 01:34:03,080
Speaker 1: when you've got guys who want to win games, and

1947
01:34:03,120 --> 01:34:06,120
Speaker 1: if he can help him, he's gonna stay. That's when

1948
01:34:06,280 --> 01:34:09,479
Speaker 1: the rubber meets the road and all the rhetoric can stop.

1949
01:34:09,560 --> 01:34:11,080
Speaker 1: We'll get a chance to see what the guy can

1950
01:34:11,160 --> 01:34:14,080
Speaker 1: really do on some place, in someplace, some other team

1951
01:34:14,120 --> 01:34:17,640
Speaker 1: than the forty nine ers. Look, whether collusion or not,

1952
01:34:17,720 --> 01:34:20,080
Speaker 1: and I don't believe there was collusion, you know, provable

1953
01:34:20,120 --> 01:34:22,840
Speaker 1: collusion on a part of the owners. If you signed

1954
01:34:22,880 --> 01:34:26,040
Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick because you think he can help your football team, okay,

1955
01:34:26,479 --> 01:34:28,240
Speaker 1: you also have to accept that there's going to be

1956
01:34:28,400 --> 01:34:32,680
Speaker 1: significant protests and outrage over that. And I think for

1957
01:34:32,760 --> 01:34:35,280
Speaker 1: a team the calculation will be and this is not collusion.

1958
01:34:36,040 --> 01:34:40,040
Speaker 1: The calculation for a team is is this backup quarterback

1959
01:34:40,160 --> 01:34:43,160
Speaker 1: worth all the grief we're going to catch when we

1960
01:34:43,240 --> 01:34:45,080
Speaker 1: signed him, when we play him, when we line up

1961
01:34:45,120 --> 01:34:47,559
Speaker 1: for the national anthem? Is he worth all that grief?

1962
01:34:47,840 --> 01:34:49,680
Speaker 1: I think at this point a tough question. I think

1963
01:34:49,720 --> 01:34:52,360
Speaker 1: at this point, I think that has kind of died down.

1964
01:34:53,360 --> 01:34:56,040
Speaker 1: I don't know, not that we haven't, you know, not

1965
01:34:56,120 --> 01:34:57,800
Speaker 1: that it doesn't mean he's not going to kneel down

1966
01:34:57,840 --> 01:35:00,439
Speaker 1: anymore at the at the anthem, But I think when

1967
01:35:00,880 --> 01:35:04,439
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any question that when it came

1968
01:35:04,479 --> 01:35:07,720
Speaker 1: out why he was going to neil came out too

1969
01:35:07,840 --> 01:35:09,720
Speaker 1: long after the fact that he was. He had been

1970
01:35:09,800 --> 01:35:12,439
Speaker 1: kneeling for a month, and and you know, obviously for

1971
01:35:12,520 --> 01:35:16,280
Speaker 1: the cause that he really believes in still doesn't it's

1972
01:35:16,400 --> 01:35:19,639
Speaker 1: and all of us can really sympathize with the apparent

1973
01:35:19,760 --> 01:35:23,080
Speaker 1: act of what he did outweighed what he was trying

1974
01:35:23,120 --> 01:35:25,880
Speaker 1: to say. And that's why now that the message has

1975
01:35:25,880 --> 01:35:28,360
Speaker 1: gotten out and says listen to I'm not protesting the military,

1976
01:35:28,479 --> 01:35:31,600
Speaker 1: or that it's social justice, then that does cast a

1977
01:35:31,640 --> 01:35:33,639
Speaker 1: different light on It will be interesting to see whether

1978
01:35:33,720 --> 01:35:37,920
Speaker 1: the backlash will be Let's face was distorted deliberately by

1979
01:35:39,240 --> 01:35:43,840
Speaker 1: certain people. Sure, political agenda, yeah, yeah, right, It's just

1980
01:35:44,000 --> 01:35:45,960
Speaker 1: it became a weapon for people to wield in any

1981
01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:48,920
Speaker 1: way the shape or form they chose fit. That would

1982
01:35:48,920 --> 01:35:52,320
Speaker 1: happen again. And you think, listen, think, oh yeah, it

1983
01:35:52,360 --> 01:35:55,600
Speaker 1: would happen. Of course, of course it would people in

1984
01:35:55,680 --> 01:35:58,439
Speaker 1: high offices. But here's the thing, and here's the thing.

1985
01:35:58,680 --> 01:36:02,599
Speaker 1: You forget nineteen sixty eight when the two gentlemen who

1986
01:36:02,680 --> 01:36:04,400
Speaker 1: won the hundred and one and two and the two

1987
01:36:04,439 --> 01:36:08,760
Speaker 1: hundred meter dash put their heads down with the black Yeah,

1988
01:36:10,320 --> 01:36:14,200
Speaker 1: how are they viewed now? Not too bad? No, I

1989
01:36:14,240 --> 01:36:17,719
Speaker 1: mean they're They're highly respected for the courage that they showed.

1990
01:36:17,800 --> 01:36:19,800
Speaker 1: I think that down the line, I think that's probably

1991
01:36:19,840 --> 01:36:23,479
Speaker 1: where Colin Kaepernik will get to. And I think it's

1992
01:36:23,560 --> 01:36:25,200
Speaker 1: really and I'm not gonna take either side. I'm just

1993
01:36:25,280 --> 01:36:28,519
Speaker 1: saying I think it's gonna be really interesting because I

1994
01:36:28,720 --> 01:36:30,360
Speaker 1: like you, Murph the way. The more we talk about

1995
01:36:30,479 --> 01:36:33,080
Speaker 1: right here, I think it's gonna happen. I just don't

1996
01:36:33,120 --> 01:36:36,120
Speaker 1: know football wise, how he can help, because he hasn't

1997
01:36:36,160 --> 01:36:38,000
Speaker 1: for a couple of years. But I could be wrong

1998
01:36:38,080 --> 01:36:39,840
Speaker 1: on that. All right, we gotta break here coming up

1999
01:36:39,880 --> 01:36:43,560
Speaker 1: Cynthia Freeland from NFL Network. We'll talk about NFL analytics.

2000
01:36:43,640 --> 01:36:45,880
Speaker 1: That's her especially, but she also has been a lot

2001
01:36:45,920 --> 01:36:48,639
Speaker 1: of attention to the Alliance of American Football. She's coming

2002
01:36:48,720 --> 01:36:50,760
Speaker 1: up next. Come on back, One Bill's Life, presented by

2003
01:36:50,840 --> 01:36:53,320
Speaker 1: Collat of Health from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo

2004
01:36:53,439 --> 01:37:09,719
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio bufalohill S Radio Network Sports got the update

2005
01:37:09,760 --> 01:37:12,280
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. Sabers on the road. They had

2006
01:37:12,320 --> 01:37:14,320
Speaker 1: to Florida Now. They played the Panthers tomorrow night, the

2007
01:37:14,400 --> 01:37:17,040
Speaker 1: fourth and final meeting between Buffalo and Florida this year

2008
01:37:17,520 --> 01:37:19,880
Speaker 1: in the regular season. The last time they met, Sabers

2009
01:37:19,920 --> 01:37:21,360
Speaker 1: won four to three. They got a couple of goals

2010
01:37:21,400 --> 01:37:24,080
Speaker 1: from Jeff Skinner. Buffalo coming off of four one loss

2011
01:37:24,080 --> 01:37:26,080
Speaker 1: to the Devils last night, their second loss in a row.

2012
01:37:26,400 --> 01:37:29,120
Speaker 1: Sam Reinhart with the Sabers only goal, which made a

2013
01:37:29,160 --> 01:37:30,960
Speaker 1: two one late in the second. The Sabers out shot

2014
01:37:31,000 --> 01:37:33,040
Speaker 1: in New Jersey, but lost it by a score of

2015
01:37:33,120 --> 01:37:36,400
Speaker 1: four to one. Former Savers goaltender Ryan Miller as now

2016
01:37:36,680 --> 01:37:39,400
Speaker 1: as the NHL record for most wins by a goaltender

2017
01:37:39,479 --> 01:37:42,599
Speaker 1: born in the United States last night is Anaheim Duck

2018
01:37:42,640 --> 01:37:45,360
Speaker 1: Speed Washington five to two. Miller, who missed a ton

2019
01:37:45,400 --> 01:37:47,720
Speaker 1: of action earlier this year in the knee injury, made

2020
01:37:47,760 --> 01:37:50,600
Speaker 1: twenty three saves his first start since December ninth, and

2021
01:37:50,720 --> 01:37:52,960
Speaker 1: picked up his three hundred and seventy fifth career victory,

2022
01:37:53,240 --> 01:37:56,799
Speaker 1: breaking the tie with John ben Biesboro for most wins

2023
01:37:56,840 --> 01:38:00,360
Speaker 1: by an NHL goaltender born in the United States. The

2024
01:38:00,479 --> 01:38:02,840
Speaker 1: Bills add tight end to their list of needs as

2025
01:38:02,840 --> 01:38:05,840
Speaker 1: they approached a free agency and the draft. They did

2026
01:38:05,920 --> 01:38:08,439
Speaker 1: it in a big way last Friday when they released

2027
01:38:08,560 --> 01:38:11,880
Speaker 1: vetteran tight end Charles Clay. Clay, thirty years old, entering

2028
01:38:11,920 --> 01:38:13,640
Speaker 1: the final year of his five year contract that he

2029
01:38:13,680 --> 01:38:16,559
Speaker 1: signed with the Bills back in twenty fifteen. Bill signed

2030
01:38:16,600 --> 01:38:18,160
Speaker 1: him to an offer sheet when he was given a

2031
01:38:18,479 --> 01:38:21,120
Speaker 1: transition player tag by the Miami Dolphins in that year.

2032
01:38:21,400 --> 01:38:23,600
Speaker 1: Had a couple of good seasons for the Bills, the

2033
01:38:23,640 --> 01:38:26,240
Speaker 1: first three averaging about fifty catches per year, but declined

2034
01:38:26,280 --> 01:38:28,719
Speaker 1: this past season. A career low one hundred and eighty

2035
01:38:28,760 --> 01:38:32,240
Speaker 1: four yards receiving for Charles Clay last season and no touchdowns,

2036
01:38:32,439 --> 01:38:34,680
Speaker 1: first time in his eight year NFL career that he

2037
01:38:34,800 --> 01:38:37,840
Speaker 1: never scored a touchdown. The Lions release safety Glover quint

2038
01:38:37,880 --> 01:38:40,599
Speaker 1: over the weekend. He spent six seasons with Detroit, signed

2039
01:38:40,640 --> 01:38:42,880
Speaker 1: a five year deal to Detroit after playing out his

2040
01:38:42,960 --> 01:38:46,200
Speaker 1: rookie contract in Houston. Glover Quinn let go by the

2041
01:38:46,400 --> 01:38:49,479
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. And Kevin Durant stole the show last night

2042
01:38:49,520 --> 01:38:53,160
Speaker 1: in Charlotte as he won the second All Star MVP Award.

2043
01:38:53,439 --> 01:38:55,960
Speaker 1: Durant scored a team had thirty one points for Team Lebron,

2044
01:38:56,360 --> 01:38:58,479
Speaker 1: helping to lead his team of All Stars back from

2045
01:38:58,520 --> 01:39:02,040
Speaker 1: a twenty points they wanted one seventy eight to one

2046
01:39:02,240 --> 01:39:05,800
Speaker 1: sixty four in the NBA All Star Game. And that

2047
01:39:06,120 --> 01:39:08,680
Speaker 1: is the update from One Bill Strive, John Murphy and

2048
01:39:08,720 --> 01:39:10,639
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker are coming to you from our one Buffalo

2049
01:39:10,720 --> 01:39:13,840
Speaker 1: studio on this chilly day in Orchard Park. Joined on

2050
01:39:13,960 --> 01:39:16,080
Speaker 1: the Subway Fresh Tight Cointline by one of our favorite

2051
01:39:16,120 --> 01:39:19,599
Speaker 1: guest She is the NFL analytics expert for NFL Network,

2052
01:39:19,800 --> 01:39:24,160
Speaker 1: contributor to NFL, NFL Fantasy Live, and NFL Game Day Morning,

2053
01:39:24,400 --> 01:39:26,040
Speaker 1: and does a lot of work now with the Alliance

2054
01:39:26,080 --> 01:39:28,800
Speaker 1: of American Football. Happy to have Cynthia Freeland on the

2055
01:39:28,840 --> 01:39:31,599
Speaker 1: Subway Fresh Ta Kintline sit THEIA, John Murphy Steve Tasker

2056
01:39:31,640 --> 01:39:33,559
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Thank you very much coming on with us

2057
01:39:35,160 --> 01:39:38,160
Speaker 1: from both Does this mean that we are preemptive from

2058
01:39:38,200 --> 01:39:40,560
Speaker 1: having you on the show Live with Us in Indianapolis

2059
01:39:40,600 --> 01:39:42,880
Speaker 1: next week? Are you going to the Combine? I will

2060
01:39:42,960 --> 01:39:45,479
Speaker 1: be at the Combine and I will absolutely always come

2061
01:39:45,520 --> 01:39:47,400
Speaker 1: on with you. You know that we love that. Thank you.

2062
01:39:47,880 --> 01:39:50,200
Speaker 1: Listen away. I gotta ask you first thing out of

2063
01:39:50,240 --> 01:39:52,599
Speaker 1: the box. We've been seeing you on the NFL Network

2064
01:39:52,680 --> 01:39:57,600
Speaker 1: with the AAF with Rod Woodson and Terrell Davis. This

2065
01:39:57,920 --> 01:40:00,960
Speaker 1: AAF is really compelled telling to me, I'm starting to

2066
01:40:01,000 --> 01:40:02,880
Speaker 1: get drawn in by it. Is that kind of the

2067
01:40:02,960 --> 01:40:05,800
Speaker 1: vibe you guys are getting from around the country. You know,

2068
01:40:06,080 --> 01:40:09,880
Speaker 1: it's been so interesting to see people's responses just in general.

2069
01:40:10,360 --> 01:40:14,599
Speaker 1: The two main things are people love the stories, especially

2070
01:40:14,680 --> 01:40:17,160
Speaker 1: these kind of smaller school kids who didn't get quite

2071
01:40:17,200 --> 01:40:19,400
Speaker 1: the look that they may have had they gone to

2072
01:40:19,479 --> 01:40:22,280
Speaker 1: a Power five school, and now they're just kind of exploding.

2073
01:40:22,320 --> 01:40:24,880
Speaker 1: You saw this guy, this receiver named Charles Johnson, who

2074
01:40:24,920 --> 01:40:27,840
Speaker 1: went to Grand Valley State explode for one hundred and

2075
01:40:27,920 --> 01:40:30,800
Speaker 1: ninety two receiving yards yesterday. So these are just great

2076
01:40:30,840 --> 01:40:33,200
Speaker 1: stories of people who like either they're kind of trying

2077
01:40:33,240 --> 01:40:36,639
Speaker 1: to revive their NFL career or they're trying to really

2078
01:40:36,680 --> 01:40:40,599
Speaker 1: get it started. Cynthia, what, it's too early to say

2079
01:40:40,960 --> 01:40:42,920
Speaker 1: how many of these guys will make it in the NFL,

2080
01:40:43,040 --> 01:40:44,920
Speaker 1: But what do you think the target is? I mean

2081
01:40:45,560 --> 01:40:48,479
Speaker 1: eight teams are we looking at fifteen players more or

2082
01:40:48,560 --> 01:40:52,040
Speaker 1: less potentially winding up on the NFL rosters in twenty nineteen.

2083
01:40:52,720 --> 01:40:55,400
Speaker 1: So there's about four hundred and fifteen total players in

2084
01:40:55,439 --> 01:40:58,240
Speaker 1: the AF and they kind of it's a little bit

2085
01:40:58,280 --> 01:41:00,800
Speaker 1: different days forty four people come out, there's fifty two

2086
01:41:00,840 --> 01:41:03,080
Speaker 1: man rosters. So that's that's kind of the way that

2087
01:41:03,160 --> 01:41:05,680
Speaker 1: the math works out. And I think that what you're

2088
01:41:05,720 --> 01:41:08,800
Speaker 1: gonna see is you're gonna see probably like you know,

2089
01:41:09,200 --> 01:41:13,400
Speaker 1: two or three really truly be impactful on the field

2090
01:41:13,640 --> 01:41:16,880
Speaker 1: this first season. But the conte like being able to

2091
01:41:16,920 --> 01:41:19,439
Speaker 1: contribute to a practice squad and the ability to play

2092
01:41:19,479 --> 01:41:21,840
Speaker 1: the spring ball. Maybe you see kind of more and

2093
01:41:22,000 --> 01:41:25,160
Speaker 1: more sort of permeate through the ranks, Like the Lewis

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01:41:25,240 --> 01:41:27,519
Speaker 1: Perez who's the quarterback for the Iron. He has a

2095
01:41:27,560 --> 01:41:30,160
Speaker 1: good chance. He was actually with the Rams until their finals. Cuss,

2096
01:41:30,240 --> 01:41:32,519
Speaker 1: they loved him there. You know, you see all these

2097
01:41:32,640 --> 01:41:36,599
Speaker 1: players who are like able to contribute kind of at

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01:41:36,680 --> 01:41:38,920
Speaker 1: least give themselves a shot in the practice squad. Oh,

2099
01:41:38,960 --> 01:41:41,519
Speaker 1: I know that you're an analytics person, so I'm going

2100
01:41:41,560 --> 01:41:44,200
Speaker 1: to ask you what's the most interesting thing analytically that's

2101
01:41:44,200 --> 01:41:45,960
Speaker 1: come out of the league. Have you gotten any feedback

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01:41:46,000 --> 01:41:49,880
Speaker 1: on the rule differences or things like that. So I

2103
01:41:50,040 --> 01:41:52,240
Speaker 1: think it's cool to see the impact of the thirty

2104
01:41:52,280 --> 01:41:55,000
Speaker 1: five second play clock, so you have to get things

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01:41:55,080 --> 01:41:57,479
Speaker 1: in quickly. So you're seeing some of these quarterbacks like

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01:41:57,560 --> 01:42:00,479
Speaker 1: obviously Garrett Gilbert who's on an NFL wrestler seventeen. He

2107
01:42:00,560 --> 01:42:03,160
Speaker 1: played for the Panthers. He started. He has an advantage

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01:42:03,160 --> 01:42:05,360
Speaker 1: in the situation because he's called placed from the line

2109
01:42:05,400 --> 01:42:07,720
Speaker 1: of scrimmage before. But then you're starting to see these

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01:42:07,760 --> 01:42:11,000
Speaker 1: guys like I'll mention Louis Perez again. He actually his

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01:42:11,160 --> 01:42:14,240
Speaker 1: pocket presents the awareness and ability to make decisions to

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01:42:14,280 --> 01:42:16,639
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. Like that's showing some really good

2113
01:42:16,760 --> 01:42:19,679
Speaker 1: pro potential early on in this league. And the ability

2114
01:42:19,760 --> 01:42:24,000
Speaker 1: to complete passes is absolutely key. We'll start to see

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01:42:24,080 --> 01:42:26,760
Speaker 1: that improve. The completion percentage right now is just a

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01:42:26,840 --> 01:42:29,680
Speaker 1: little under sixty percent league wide. It'll go up to

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01:42:29,720 --> 01:42:32,320
Speaker 1: a more NFL level of like sixty five, you know,

2118
01:42:32,439 --> 01:42:35,639
Speaker 1: sixty six percent as the season goes on, but it's

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01:42:35,680 --> 01:42:37,479
Speaker 1: kind of getting used to each other. They only had

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01:42:37,520 --> 01:42:41,120
Speaker 1: twenty eight practices and one reel. They did like a

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01:42:41,200 --> 01:42:44,919
Speaker 1: sort of round robin. They did all of their preseason

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01:42:45,000 --> 01:42:47,600
Speaker 1: sort of over one weekend in San Antonio, so it

2123
01:42:47,680 --> 01:42:49,640
Speaker 1: wasn't like a preseason like where you used to So

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01:42:49,720 --> 01:42:52,080
Speaker 1: they really only had like thirty chances to play together

2125
01:42:52,160 --> 01:42:55,439
Speaker 1: before game started. You'll see these teams. Gell got a

2126
01:42:55,479 --> 01:42:58,519
Speaker 1: Garrett Gilbert nugget for you. Here's Cynthy born in Buffalo,

2127
01:42:58,600 --> 01:43:00,360
Speaker 1: believe it or not, back in ninety nine one one.

2128
01:43:00,439 --> 01:43:03,400
Speaker 1: His dad played for the Bills. Well there you go. Yeah,

2129
01:43:03,439 --> 01:43:06,719
Speaker 1: I think it comes back to Buffalo. Yeah, your age

2130
01:43:06,760 --> 01:43:08,920
Speaker 1: comes back to haunt you because I played with his dad.

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01:43:09,040 --> 01:43:13,040
Speaker 1: So I got to ask you. It really is an issue,

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01:43:13,040 --> 01:43:14,920
Speaker 1: and I think one of the things about it has

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01:43:14,960 --> 01:43:17,559
Speaker 1: been competitive. I think one of the things that's interesting

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01:43:17,600 --> 01:43:19,800
Speaker 1: about it is there they had so little time to

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01:43:19,920 --> 01:43:22,719
Speaker 1: prepare for this season, and I think last week, week

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01:43:22,800 --> 01:43:25,080
Speaker 1: one of the preseason or a week one of the

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01:43:25,120 --> 01:43:28,400
Speaker 1: regular season seemed like a little bit like an NFL preseason.

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01:43:28,479 --> 01:43:30,960
Speaker 1: There's just you can kind of see the rough edges

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01:43:31,000 --> 01:43:34,080
Speaker 1: around the offense where guys are doing their job and

2140
01:43:34,200 --> 01:43:36,400
Speaker 1: not really thinking about the big picture because they haven't

2141
01:43:36,439 --> 01:43:38,519
Speaker 1: been there long enough to understand it. Have you heard

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01:43:38,840 --> 01:43:43,160
Speaker 1: feedback from teams or players that that's the case. Yeah,

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01:43:43,200 --> 01:43:45,200
Speaker 1: I mean, look some of the shifts and the motions,

2144
01:43:45,280 --> 01:43:47,880
Speaker 1: like the way the old line has to come together

2145
01:43:48,080 --> 01:43:50,760
Speaker 1: like that takes a little time. Most old lines don't

2146
01:43:50,840 --> 01:43:53,720
Speaker 1: change very much season to season in NFL teams, and

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01:43:53,840 --> 01:43:56,320
Speaker 1: so when you're getting together and it's new and they're

2148
01:43:56,600 --> 01:43:59,160
Speaker 1: you know, you're different play callers and different styles and

2149
01:43:59,200 --> 01:44:01,600
Speaker 1: all these different things kind of happening at once, I

2150
01:44:01,760 --> 01:44:04,360
Speaker 1: think you'll start to see that old line play, especially

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01:44:04,479 --> 01:44:06,800
Speaker 1: if through That's kind of the whole point is, is

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01:44:06,840 --> 01:44:10,560
Speaker 1: that make a competitive game that's fast paced. So you

2153
01:44:10,680 --> 01:44:13,080
Speaker 1: see in this one time of possession really matters because

2154
01:44:13,080 --> 01:44:16,480
Speaker 1: the defenses get really tired. You know that Memphis expresses

2155
01:44:16,560 --> 01:44:18,840
Speaker 1: up pretty much the entire game, and then Birmingham came

2156
01:44:18,880 --> 01:44:21,840
Speaker 1: back because they just Memphis couldn't get their defense off

2157
01:44:21,880 --> 01:44:23,680
Speaker 1: the field. And that's similar to what you see in

2158
01:44:23,720 --> 01:44:26,360
Speaker 1: the NFL style game, but it's just faster because the

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01:44:26,520 --> 01:44:28,439
Speaker 1: way though the rules work, it just makes the whole

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01:44:28,520 --> 01:44:31,760
Speaker 1: game go really fast. Cynthia Freeland from NFL Network, Our guests,

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01:44:31,800 --> 01:44:34,559
Speaker 1: we're talking about the Alliance of American Football. After two

2162
01:44:34,600 --> 01:44:37,400
Speaker 1: weeks in an interesting game yesterday in San Diego, pro

2163
01:44:37,520 --> 01:44:40,720
Speaker 1: football returned to San Diego yesterday with Atlanta at the

2164
01:44:40,760 --> 01:44:43,320
Speaker 1: San Diego Fleet. What kind of reception did they get, Cynthia,

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01:44:43,400 --> 01:44:45,479
Speaker 1: What did you see and hear from that? You know,

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01:44:45,800 --> 01:44:49,840
Speaker 1: it was kind of amazing because living in southern California,

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01:44:49,920 --> 01:44:52,439
Speaker 1: I can tell you when it rains, people do not

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01:44:52,640 --> 01:44:55,040
Speaker 1: leave their house like you think. It was like, you know,

2169
01:44:55,200 --> 01:44:57,840
Speaker 1: like the snowiest snow day of them all, Like in Buffalo,

2170
01:44:57,880 --> 01:44:59,960
Speaker 1: you either like fourteen inches or at least of snow

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01:45:00,080 --> 01:45:03,840
Speaker 1: before people even consider like changing their daily pattern. But

2172
01:45:04,240 --> 01:45:06,920
Speaker 1: here in southern California, it's like sprinkling and people like,

2173
01:45:07,000 --> 01:45:08,920
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm just gonna call it an inside game.

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01:45:09,439 --> 01:45:12,200
Speaker 1: So the fact that they had like they had a

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01:45:12,360 --> 01:45:15,880
Speaker 1: really good turnout. I can't remember what the final number was,

2176
01:45:16,080 --> 01:45:18,599
Speaker 1: but it was something in like I want to say,

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01:45:18,760 --> 01:45:20,439
Speaker 1: don't quote me, but I think it was like something

2178
01:45:20,520 --> 01:45:23,840
Speaker 1: more like around twenty thousand. So in the rain in

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01:45:24,080 --> 01:45:26,920
Speaker 1: southern like, that's amazing, Like so cal people do not

2180
01:45:27,400 --> 01:45:29,439
Speaker 1: Like I'm Probischigan, so I can I can say this,

2181
01:45:29,600 --> 01:45:32,720
Speaker 1: but Southern California people, you know, they stay inside if

2182
01:45:32,760 --> 01:45:36,960
Speaker 1: it's even a tiny bit of weather. I know exactly

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01:45:37,000 --> 01:45:41,200
Speaker 1: what you mean. I started my professional football career in Houston,

2184
01:45:41,280 --> 01:45:43,920
Speaker 1: Texas and the Astrodome, and if it was raining outside,

2185
01:45:44,360 --> 01:45:46,160
Speaker 1: they would not come to the game because they didn't

2186
01:45:46,160 --> 01:45:48,000
Speaker 1: want to walk from their car to the stadium in

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01:45:48,040 --> 01:45:50,439
Speaker 1: the rain, let alone sit and watch a football game.

2188
01:45:50,760 --> 01:45:52,519
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you this now, a more serious question.

2189
01:45:52,600 --> 01:45:56,160
Speaker 1: What's the biggest issue facing the league right now? You know,

2190
01:45:56,240 --> 01:46:01,280
Speaker 1: I think it's it's trying to navigate making these players,

2191
01:46:01,720 --> 01:46:04,640
Speaker 1: like personalizing them given how fast the game is. Like

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01:46:04,760 --> 01:46:07,879
Speaker 1: usually in games you have you know, there's no kickoffs,

2193
01:46:07,920 --> 01:46:10,360
Speaker 1: so that's one area where you have a game stop.

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01:46:10,400 --> 01:46:12,760
Speaker 1: It's John, you know a lot about this, right, like

2195
01:46:12,920 --> 01:46:15,439
Speaker 1: calling all these games, you're you're all over this, right,

2196
01:46:15,520 --> 01:46:17,120
Speaker 1: you get a break, you can drink some water then,

2197
01:46:17,880 --> 01:46:21,640
Speaker 1: but that doesn't happen. There's the backstory time, there is

2198
01:46:21,760 --> 01:46:24,519
Speaker 1: no like it's hard to get out these cool stories.

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01:46:24,920 --> 01:46:27,559
Speaker 1: Like you know, again I'm talking a lot about Louis

2200
01:46:27,600 --> 01:46:30,559
Speaker 1: Perez again, but he was going to be a professional bowler,

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01:46:30,640 --> 01:46:34,400
Speaker 1: taught himself how to play football using sort of YouTube

2202
01:46:34,439 --> 01:46:38,240
Speaker 1: tutorials and walked onto Texas A and M Commerce, which

2203
01:46:38,400 --> 01:46:40,639
Speaker 1: believe or not is a school right, Like I didn't

2204
01:46:40,640 --> 01:46:43,160
Speaker 1: even know that existed. So you know, these are great

2205
01:46:43,240 --> 01:46:46,519
Speaker 1: stories and like the ability to show kind of who

2206
01:46:46,600 --> 01:46:49,559
Speaker 1: are the comps to probe players who really has a chance.

2207
01:46:49,800 --> 01:46:52,920
Speaker 1: I'm telling you Charles Johnson, that receiver I talked about,

2208
01:46:53,160 --> 01:46:55,679
Speaker 1: he has a real shot in the NFL. His bees.

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01:46:55,720 --> 01:46:58,360
Speaker 1: Like the technology in this league is absolutely crazy. Like

2210
01:46:58,720 --> 01:47:00,960
Speaker 1: you know that we have good technology as the next

2211
01:47:01,000 --> 01:47:03,519
Speaker 1: Gens Stats, but the af PICK kind of pumped that

2212
01:47:03,680 --> 01:47:06,240
Speaker 1: up the next level. So I can see real time

2213
01:47:06,320 --> 01:47:09,320
Speaker 1: like how fast Like how fast someone's running isn't as compelling,

2214
01:47:09,600 --> 01:47:13,080
Speaker 1: but how precisely they run a route that's really compelling

2215
01:47:13,200 --> 01:47:15,800
Speaker 1: to me. So that's where an area where you start

2216
01:47:15,840 --> 01:47:18,040
Speaker 1: to see sort of these like here's the players who

2217
01:47:18,080 --> 01:47:20,040
Speaker 1: have a real chance of making it. Yeah. One of

2218
01:47:20,080 --> 01:47:22,360
Speaker 1: the things about there's forty regular season games that have

2219
01:47:22,439 --> 01:47:26,479
Speaker 1: to be played. You've got through two two weekends already,

2220
01:47:26,760 --> 01:47:30,000
Speaker 1: and it's kind of become a laboratory for this technology

2221
01:47:30,040 --> 01:47:33,240
Speaker 1: and implementing it that you've talked about you. The AAF

2222
01:47:33,439 --> 01:47:36,360
Speaker 1: has an app that is starting to take off now

2223
01:47:36,479 --> 01:47:39,920
Speaker 1: because you can keep track of these players and every

2224
01:47:40,000 --> 01:47:43,519
Speaker 1: play in real time, how fast they're running, whether it

2225
01:47:43,600 --> 01:47:45,320
Speaker 1: was a run, whether it was a past. You can watch.

2226
01:47:45,439 --> 01:47:48,200
Speaker 1: It's not like watching the game live. It's more of

2227
01:47:48,280 --> 01:47:52,200
Speaker 1: a graphic status, you know. It's kind of a graphic

2228
01:47:52,280 --> 01:47:55,639
Speaker 1: that you watch take shape as the play evolved. It's

2229
01:47:55,760 --> 01:47:57,760
Speaker 1: really interesting and I think that's one of the real

2230
01:47:57,880 --> 01:48:00,760
Speaker 1: key ingredients to what drives in just particularly for a

2231
01:48:00,840 --> 01:48:03,760
Speaker 1: young audience, because you really want to know who like

2232
01:48:03,880 --> 01:48:06,080
Speaker 1: the josh Allens are right, You want to know who

2233
01:48:06,400 --> 01:48:09,640
Speaker 1: like people who you didn't maybe like josh An's a

2234
01:48:09,640 --> 01:48:11,519
Speaker 1: good example, just because he didn't go to a big school,

2235
01:48:11,640 --> 01:48:13,920
Speaker 1: you know, so you want to know more about these people.

2236
01:48:14,040 --> 01:48:16,160
Speaker 1: You want to know kind of like you know, Trent Richardson,

2237
01:48:16,240 --> 01:48:19,559
Speaker 1: he's pretty a pretty known entity. But even Jarrell Presley,

2238
01:48:19,680 --> 01:48:22,519
Speaker 1: who isn't running back, you know that that actually spend

2239
01:48:22,600 --> 01:48:25,880
Speaker 1: some time with the Chargers until he heard his at achilles.

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01:48:25,920 --> 01:48:27,760
Speaker 1: Like those are people you want to know a little

2241
01:48:27,800 --> 01:48:29,559
Speaker 1: bit when you if you start to care, you want

2242
01:48:29,600 --> 01:48:31,240
Speaker 1: to know a little bit more about it, right, So

2243
01:48:31,760 --> 01:48:34,320
Speaker 1: that's where like that's the challenge that they think that

2244
01:48:34,360 --> 01:48:37,200
Speaker 1: they're having obviously, like, look like it needs to be

2245
01:48:37,280 --> 01:48:39,920
Speaker 1: competitive and stay competitive. We need to see, you know,

2246
01:48:40,240 --> 01:48:42,040
Speaker 1: keep seeing more games that look a lot more like

2247
01:48:42,160 --> 01:48:44,880
Speaker 1: that skin Antonio versus Orlando game, and that's what I

2248
01:48:44,960 --> 01:48:48,000
Speaker 1: think we'll start to see, Cynthia, I keep reading and

2249
01:48:48,120 --> 01:48:51,000
Speaker 1: hearing that the part of the appeal of that of

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01:48:51,080 --> 01:48:55,000
Speaker 1: that app is that it will easily translate into gambling

2251
01:48:55,040 --> 01:48:58,320
Speaker 1: when gambling is you know, essentially legalized all over the country,

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01:48:58,920 --> 01:49:00,920
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of betting on the sports. Do

2253
01:49:01,000 --> 01:49:03,479
Speaker 1: you see that as part of where the league is headed? Perhaps?

2254
01:49:04,520 --> 01:49:06,840
Speaker 1: You know, I think the interesting part about like what

2255
01:49:07,000 --> 01:49:09,080
Speaker 1: the app can do and the different these cases for

2256
01:49:09,200 --> 01:49:11,560
Speaker 1: it are like it's an incubator for a lot of

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01:49:11,640 --> 01:49:14,800
Speaker 1: different things and make you know, I think when it

2258
01:49:14,920 --> 01:49:19,080
Speaker 1: comes to the proliferation of gambling across all sports betting,

2259
01:49:19,120 --> 01:49:22,360
Speaker 1: like until the NFL figures out where exactly stands on it,

2260
01:49:22,760 --> 01:49:25,120
Speaker 1: the AAF and all the you know, the app is

2261
01:49:25,200 --> 01:49:28,960
Speaker 1: really partnered with the NFL, So until the NFL figures

2262
01:49:29,000 --> 01:49:31,040
Speaker 1: out like Okay, this is our stance and this is

2263
01:49:31,080 --> 01:49:32,679
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. And by the way, the NFL

2264
01:49:32,720 --> 01:49:34,840
Speaker 1: won't do that until they can figure out like the

2265
01:49:34,960 --> 01:49:37,400
Speaker 1: monetary consequences. And it's got to be in all the

2266
01:49:37,479 --> 01:49:39,920
Speaker 1: states that the NFL operates, it's we're the biggest and

2267
01:49:40,280 --> 01:49:42,720
Speaker 1: most you know, the league that makes the most money.

2268
01:49:42,800 --> 01:49:44,640
Speaker 1: So the NFL is going to take its time and

2269
01:49:44,800 --> 01:49:47,680
Speaker 1: creates a right strategy for gambling that it wants, and

2270
01:49:47,800 --> 01:49:50,439
Speaker 1: then then it will kind of funnel down into these

2271
01:49:50,479 --> 01:49:52,479
Speaker 1: other things. But look, it's fun to play the app

2272
01:49:52,600 --> 01:49:54,559
Speaker 1: right now, even though there's no real payoff. You get

2273
01:49:54,600 --> 01:49:56,640
Speaker 1: some points and you know, I could play Rod in

2274
01:49:56,680 --> 01:49:58,560
Speaker 1: the green room for points, and you know I was

2275
01:49:58,600 --> 01:50:00,880
Speaker 1: love beating Rob at anything. So I can't be run

2276
01:50:01,000 --> 01:50:04,840
Speaker 1: within it almost anything except for me guessing. One more

2277
01:50:04,960 --> 01:50:08,000
Speaker 1: question for you about the incubator status of the Alliance

2278
01:50:08,040 --> 01:50:10,920
Speaker 1: of American Football, and that's in terms of playing rules.

2279
01:50:10,960 --> 01:50:16,160
Speaker 1: You know, no extra points, no kickoffs, showing the instant

2280
01:50:16,200 --> 01:50:19,720
Speaker 1: replay process unfolding. These could all be eventually, if not

2281
01:50:19,840 --> 01:50:24,360
Speaker 1: sooner than later, taken and used in the NFL. Right, yeah,

2282
01:50:24,520 --> 01:50:28,400
Speaker 1: I mean it's funny because like some of them like

2283
01:50:28,760 --> 01:50:30,200
Speaker 1: like look like I don't know if we're going to

2284
01:50:30,240 --> 01:50:32,600
Speaker 1: get rid of kickoff. It's just it's just not I

2285
01:50:32,800 --> 01:50:34,800
Speaker 1: kind of. I think it's fun and it's really fast,

2286
01:50:34,880 --> 01:50:36,880
Speaker 1: but like you know, like that's maybe one way like

2287
01:50:36,960 --> 01:50:38,760
Speaker 1: people make their money, right, Like there's a bunch of

2288
01:50:38,800 --> 01:50:41,000
Speaker 1: special teams players and that would be a bummer if

2289
01:50:41,000 --> 01:50:43,160
Speaker 1: they didn't get to make a team because they there's

2290
01:50:43,200 --> 01:50:47,240
Speaker 1: no you know, they've they've really significantly limited special teams.

2291
01:50:47,320 --> 01:50:50,280
Speaker 1: But it's it is safer in terms of where most

2292
01:50:50,320 --> 01:50:52,960
Speaker 1: injuries happen. I guess, you know, according to some and

2293
01:50:53,040 --> 01:50:55,240
Speaker 1: we'll see if that actually plays out here. But they

2294
01:50:55,640 --> 01:50:59,559
Speaker 1: but I think that that that the ref the miched

2295
01:50:59,600 --> 01:51:04,280
Speaker 1: up talking about the replace that people will be clamoring

2296
01:51:04,400 --> 01:51:07,840
Speaker 1: for that like that is awesome. It feels so fair

2297
01:51:08,280 --> 01:51:10,120
Speaker 1: and you feel like like you know, there was a

2298
01:51:10,400 --> 01:51:14,720
Speaker 1: you know, the there was a questionable call and they're like,

2299
01:51:14,800 --> 01:51:17,200
Speaker 1: we just don't have enough evidence to overturn it. And

2300
01:51:17,400 --> 01:51:19,400
Speaker 1: even if no matter if you agree or disagree, you're like,

2301
01:51:19,439 --> 01:51:21,280
Speaker 1: well they didn't have enough evidence, Like you know, you

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01:51:21,479 --> 01:51:24,559
Speaker 1: heard it, so you felt you felt like you were

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01:51:24,600 --> 01:51:27,400
Speaker 1: a part of it, and that like authenticity was that's

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01:51:27,479 --> 01:51:29,360
Speaker 1: something where people aren't going to let that go like

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01:51:29,479 --> 01:51:30,840
Speaker 1: there now that they have it, they're not going to

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01:51:30,880 --> 01:51:32,840
Speaker 1: be like, you know, what we'll go back to not

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01:51:33,360 --> 01:51:36,439
Speaker 1: having any transparency. You know, people love that. It's I

2308
01:51:36,520 --> 01:51:38,599
Speaker 1: think that's awesome. Yeah, and that's one of the things

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01:51:38,680 --> 01:51:41,000
Speaker 1: that once you give it to the fans that you

2310
01:51:41,080 --> 01:51:44,599
Speaker 1: can't really take it away. They'll they'll bump, they'll bum out.

2311
01:51:44,720 --> 01:51:47,720
Speaker 1: I get that. I was gonna ask you, now, next,

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01:51:48,080 --> 01:51:50,760
Speaker 1: what about the standings? It looks Orlando Apollos or two

2313
01:51:50,800 --> 01:51:53,400
Speaker 1: and oh what other team? I mean what teams and

2314
01:51:53,479 --> 01:51:56,040
Speaker 1: what what head coaches have been able to get their

2315
01:51:56,080 --> 01:51:58,800
Speaker 1: stuff instilled and get their guys playing well? What head

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01:51:58,840 --> 01:52:00,640
Speaker 1: coaches have impressed in this? You get along with the

2317
01:52:01,160 --> 01:52:04,640
Speaker 1: who's leading in the standings. Look, Burrier has done an

2318
01:52:04,680 --> 01:52:07,000
Speaker 1: awesome job. Plus he's the most fun ones to listen to.

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01:52:07,160 --> 01:52:11,040
Speaker 1: My deep single tims buy fireworks, the bestness. So there's

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01:52:11,840 --> 01:52:14,120
Speaker 1: UM and I think they'll start to get there, they'll

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01:52:14,120 --> 01:52:16,400
Speaker 1: start to get like, they start to look really good.

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01:52:16,520 --> 01:52:18,760
Speaker 1: I doesn't finish the game like. It's interesting to see

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01:52:18,840 --> 01:52:21,880
Speaker 1: Christian Hackenburg's development, just kind of remembering him from college

2324
01:52:21,920 --> 01:52:24,360
Speaker 1: and where he was drafted and stuff. But I'm sure

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01:52:24,479 --> 01:52:26,720
Speaker 1: you know, you know obviously to the time of the Jets,

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01:52:26,720 --> 01:52:29,839
Speaker 1: so he's in division UM and then it was interesting.

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01:52:30,000 --> 01:52:32,519
Speaker 1: It's interesting to see to me, like the Fleet they

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01:52:32,640 --> 01:52:36,599
Speaker 1: kind of like got themselves going. But it seems right

2329
01:52:36,640 --> 01:52:39,320
Speaker 1: now that the hot Shots, um, the hot Shots and

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01:52:39,400 --> 01:52:43,160
Speaker 1: the Orlando Apollos are the two teams to beat. You know,

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01:52:43,240 --> 01:52:45,360
Speaker 1: they like I we do power rankings, which is kind

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01:52:45,400 --> 01:52:47,519
Speaker 1: of funny to me just because like it's it's hard.

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01:52:47,680 --> 01:52:49,880
Speaker 1: It's hard to like, I'm using a lot of actual

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01:52:50,040 --> 01:52:53,040
Speaker 1: data that I know about these people, but but it's

2335
01:52:53,320 --> 01:52:56,760
Speaker 1: it's hard to create a real model because it's brand new. Sure,

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01:52:56,920 --> 01:52:58,720
Speaker 1: but you know those are those seemed like the few

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01:52:58,760 --> 01:53:00,920
Speaker 1: teams to beat. Synthia free and the Iron by the way,

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01:53:01,000 --> 01:53:03,040
Speaker 1: the defense is great at the birming am im. Oh yeah,

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01:53:03,080 --> 01:53:06,160
Speaker 1: Cynthia Freeland, NFL network analytics expert, and you take all

2340
01:53:06,200 --> 01:53:09,759
Speaker 1: of that expertise to the Combine in Indianapolis next week. Cynthia,

2341
01:53:10,080 --> 01:53:12,560
Speaker 1: this would seem to me to be to me to

2342
01:53:12,680 --> 01:53:14,840
Speaker 1: be your wheelhouse, right because the combine is all about

2343
01:53:15,120 --> 01:53:20,120
Speaker 1: measurements and time and and all these analytical measurements of

2344
01:53:20,160 --> 01:53:21,920
Speaker 1: how these players are. What are you going to look

2345
01:53:21,920 --> 01:53:24,120
Speaker 1: at this week, this next week at the combine, and

2346
01:53:24,320 --> 01:53:25,519
Speaker 1: what are you going to be keeping an eye on

2347
01:53:25,560 --> 01:53:28,040
Speaker 1: when you go to the combine next week. So the

2348
01:53:28,120 --> 01:53:30,160
Speaker 1: combine is like one piece in a puzzle, right. So

2349
01:53:30,479 --> 01:53:32,639
Speaker 1: the reason is that the reason that it's so interesting

2350
01:53:32,880 --> 01:53:34,559
Speaker 1: is because well, first of all, you kind of get

2351
01:53:34,560 --> 01:53:36,559
Speaker 1: all the coaches in one place, and I can ask

2352
01:53:36,600 --> 01:53:39,439
Speaker 1: some questions and annoy them, and it's better than texting

2353
01:53:39,479 --> 01:53:41,880
Speaker 1: them because I just feel bad finding a person because

2354
01:53:41,880 --> 01:53:43,479
Speaker 1: then I can like be like I'll biope with it

2355
01:53:43,560 --> 01:53:47,240
Speaker 1: and nope, deal um and uh. But ultimately it's like,

2356
01:53:47,600 --> 01:53:49,720
Speaker 1: you like, the way I've done things is I like

2357
01:53:49,840 --> 01:53:52,639
Speaker 1: look at everyone from who they became in the NFL,

2358
01:53:52,840 --> 01:53:55,080
Speaker 1: what systems they played in, for whom did they play,

2359
01:53:55,439 --> 01:53:57,040
Speaker 1: and then I do a kind of backwards, so I

2360
01:53:57,080 --> 01:53:59,599
Speaker 1: look at who they became, what they were in NFL

2361
01:53:59,800 --> 01:54:02,400
Speaker 1: and to create a profile backwards, and the combine is

2362
01:54:02,439 --> 01:54:04,200
Speaker 1: kind of just one stop on that. So for me,

2363
01:54:04,720 --> 01:54:07,439
Speaker 1: the combine is like, does what we think we know

2364
01:54:07,520 --> 01:54:10,280
Speaker 1: about these players? So their resume from college? Does the

2365
01:54:10,360 --> 01:54:12,519
Speaker 1: eye test that we see in person for the combine

2366
01:54:12,600 --> 01:54:15,440
Speaker 1: kind of match? So do they fall within these prototypical

2367
01:54:15,600 --> 01:54:20,320
Speaker 1: ranges you know of if they fall outside of it? Why? Right?

2368
01:54:20,439 --> 01:54:22,400
Speaker 1: Like you know there's there's kind of ranges for like

2369
01:54:22,520 --> 01:54:24,840
Speaker 1: who we think they should be, right, Like Nick Bosa

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01:54:24,960 --> 01:54:27,400
Speaker 1: should be awesome at a short shuttle. He's the edge

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01:54:27,439 --> 01:54:29,600
Speaker 1: defender coming out of Ohio's date, right, Like you know,

2372
01:54:30,200 --> 01:54:33,040
Speaker 1: these people should do certain things in certain ways, right

2373
01:54:33,120 --> 01:54:36,440
Speaker 1: like Kyler mur shorter than we expect, like and then

2374
01:54:36,480 --> 01:54:38,720
Speaker 1: if and if it's out of range, like why and

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01:54:39,080 --> 01:54:41,240
Speaker 1: what does that mean? So it's really more of just

2376
01:54:41,400 --> 01:54:44,320
Speaker 1: like you know, looking at prototypes and kind of vetting

2377
01:54:44,360 --> 01:54:47,080
Speaker 1: what we're seeing and then kind of speaking to coaches

2378
01:54:47,080 --> 01:54:49,560
Speaker 1: and understanding like does the medical check out, how do

2379
01:54:49,640 --> 01:54:52,440
Speaker 1: they do in their interviews? These intangible things that you

2380
01:54:52,520 --> 01:54:56,040
Speaker 1: know are are more kind of what comes out next, right, So,

2381
01:54:56,200 --> 01:54:58,160
Speaker 1: like you take all this analytical stuff and then you

2382
01:54:58,280 --> 01:55:00,120
Speaker 1: filter it through the lenses of coaches to a been

2383
01:55:00,200 --> 01:55:03,080
Speaker 1: super generous with their time with me, and then you create, like,

2384
01:55:03,560 --> 01:55:07,840
Speaker 1: you know, a model that looks at opportunity. Cynthia, I

2385
01:55:07,960 --> 01:55:10,920
Speaker 1: got one question for you, and it's you get all

2386
01:55:10,960 --> 01:55:13,160
Speaker 1: these numbers, and you compile all this data and you

2387
01:55:13,280 --> 01:55:16,160
Speaker 1: have a pretty good idea and I know it's it's

2388
01:55:16,240 --> 01:55:19,440
Speaker 1: never completely predictive, but it does give you a foresight

2389
01:55:19,520 --> 01:55:22,320
Speaker 1: into what you think might happen. And even in game

2390
01:55:22,440 --> 01:55:25,840
Speaker 1: day management, do you ever get the numbers people, I

2391
01:55:25,960 --> 01:55:29,000
Speaker 1: will say, like you do numbers people, like you get

2392
01:55:29,080 --> 01:55:33,240
Speaker 1: totally frustrated when all the analytics point to something that

2393
01:55:33,400 --> 01:55:36,040
Speaker 1: seems so obvious, and yet when you get in the

2394
01:55:36,520 --> 01:55:38,800
Speaker 1: fray of the moment, a team or a coach or

2395
01:55:38,840 --> 01:55:42,920
Speaker 1: somebody goes completely the opposite way, like they didn't go

2396
01:55:43,080 --> 01:55:45,520
Speaker 1: for it on fourth down, or they didn't run this

2397
01:55:46,160 --> 01:55:49,480
Speaker 1: play or that kind of does it frustrate the numbers

2398
01:55:49,560 --> 01:55:52,080
Speaker 1: people when the human being side of it gets in

2399
01:55:52,120 --> 01:55:54,760
Speaker 1: the way. You know what's funny is like, I think

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01:55:54,840 --> 01:55:58,080
Speaker 1: the reason that I have some have been able to

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01:55:58,960 --> 01:56:00,760
Speaker 1: get people to listen to me and talk to me

2402
01:56:00,840 --> 01:56:03,000
Speaker 1: about you know, the number side of it is that

2403
01:56:03,480 --> 01:56:05,560
Speaker 1: like all I want to do is I want to

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01:56:05,800 --> 01:56:08,240
Speaker 1: I think the coach is better off knowing if they're

2405
01:56:08,280 --> 01:56:11,960
Speaker 1: taking me a high or low probability option. Like I

2406
01:56:12,040 --> 01:56:13,880
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on in the middle of the game.

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01:56:13,960 --> 01:56:16,560
Speaker 1: Maybe your right tackle is like extra tired, or he

2408
01:56:16,600 --> 01:56:18,680
Speaker 1: had this you know, he wasn't feeling well earlier, and

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01:56:19,000 --> 01:56:20,680
Speaker 1: you don't want to go up because you don't want

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01:56:20,680 --> 01:56:22,600
Speaker 1: to get him class because either for the next drive,

2411
01:56:22,720 --> 01:56:25,760
Speaker 1: Like there's so much that I don't know So for me,

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01:56:26,120 --> 01:56:28,960
Speaker 1: the best you can do is to create a system

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01:56:29,040 --> 01:56:32,640
Speaker 1: where somebody has the awareness to know I'm doing the

2414
01:56:32,760 --> 01:56:35,840
Speaker 1: higher probability thing or the lower probability thing in the

2415
01:56:35,920 --> 01:56:39,720
Speaker 1: situations and you can take either path. It doesn't bother me,

2416
01:56:40,000 --> 01:56:42,040
Speaker 1: but it's you know, it's like, but which one is

2417
01:56:42,080 --> 01:56:44,000
Speaker 1: it sets? Like if you don't know if you're doing

2418
01:56:44,080 --> 01:56:47,120
Speaker 1: the higher a lower probability thing, then like you don't

2419
01:56:47,200 --> 01:56:49,280
Speaker 1: know if you're you know what I mean. Like, So

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01:56:49,400 --> 01:56:51,800
Speaker 1: to me, it's like just bringing greater awareness. So it

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01:56:51,920 --> 01:56:54,240
Speaker 1: doesn't really frustrate me as much as it does like

2422
01:56:54,800 --> 01:56:57,240
Speaker 1: make me think, like, you know, like who's the most

2423
01:56:57,280 --> 01:56:59,120
Speaker 1: self aware of coaches? Because I think the most self

2424
01:56:59,160 --> 01:57:01,280
Speaker 1: aware of coaches or the ones that you're the best. Wow,

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01:57:01,360 --> 01:57:03,080
Speaker 1: that's really gonna answer a really good argument for the

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01:57:03,200 --> 01:57:05,520
Speaker 1: use of analytics. Cynthia. Thank you for being with us.

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01:57:05,560 --> 01:57:07,120
Speaker 1: We'll see you next week. You didn't ask me a

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01:57:07,200 --> 01:57:09,360
Speaker 1: good question, John, You gotta ask you what I want

2429
01:57:09,400 --> 01:57:11,880
Speaker 1: to happen? Well, what do you want to happen? Well

2430
01:57:12,000 --> 01:57:17,080
Speaker 1: from the AFRO Center, there's a center from the hot Shots.

2431
01:57:17,200 --> 01:57:19,880
Speaker 1: His name is you? Ready for us? Josh Allen? I

2432
01:57:20,000 --> 01:57:23,240
Speaker 1: want the pills they make Josh Allen come on their team,

2433
01:57:23,480 --> 01:57:26,280
Speaker 1: and then I want the Jet to draft Josh Allen

2434
01:57:26,320 --> 01:57:29,120
Speaker 1: from Kentucky because I want center Josh Allen to be

2435
01:57:29,200 --> 01:57:33,480
Speaker 1: protecting cornerback josh On in case defensive edge prusher Josh

2436
01:57:33,560 --> 01:57:36,160
Speaker 1: Allen comes to get him. That is a play by play,

2437
01:57:36,240 --> 01:57:38,920
Speaker 1: guys nightmare. That's a play by play nightmare right there,

2438
01:57:39,080 --> 01:57:41,520
Speaker 1: or you're or the best moment of play by play

2439
01:57:41,520 --> 01:57:43,440
Speaker 1: every because you only need to remember one name that

2440
01:57:43,800 --> 01:57:47,040
Speaker 1: got a good point point. Yeah, hey, we'll see an indie.

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01:57:47,800 --> 01:57:51,520
Speaker 1: Sounds good. Save traveled. Thank you. Cynthia Freeman, NFL analytics

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01:57:51,640 --> 01:57:54,000
Speaker 1: expert for the NFL Network, a lot about the Alliance

2443
01:57:54,040 --> 01:57:57,360
Speaker 1: of American Football, which she's covering on a weekly basis now.

2444
01:57:57,480 --> 01:58:00,680
Speaker 1: She does like the the pregame intermission half show. Yeah.

2445
01:58:00,680 --> 01:58:04,240
Speaker 1: She's one of those. Yeah yeah, and uh I do

2446
01:58:04,320 --> 01:58:06,400
Speaker 1: a good, really nice job. I'm like, I'm like, I

2447
01:58:06,480 --> 01:58:10,400
Speaker 1: tell you, Murph, it's it's good. I gotta tell you

2448
01:58:10,520 --> 01:58:11,760
Speaker 1: as just say it. I'll just say it out right,

2449
01:58:11,800 --> 01:58:14,720
Speaker 1: it's good. It's it's they're good games. They break them

2450
01:58:14,800 --> 01:58:17,360
Speaker 1: down well, and while they're not, they don't have the

2451
01:58:17,400 --> 01:58:20,120
Speaker 1: production value from behind the scenes like they you know,

2452
01:58:20,160 --> 01:58:22,000
Speaker 1: they need a couple more cameras you'd like to see

2453
01:58:22,160 --> 01:58:25,040
Speaker 1: or some of that stuff. Than that, it's really it's

2454
01:58:25,200 --> 01:58:29,480
Speaker 1: it's good football, what can I say, Much more competitive

2455
01:58:29,480 --> 01:58:31,240
Speaker 1: than I thought it might be. We thank Cynthia for

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01:58:31,360 --> 01:58:33,840
Speaker 1: joining us on the Subway Fresh Take hotline, presented by

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01:58:34,200 --> 01:58:36,960
Speaker 1: Subway Restaurants, probably locally owned and operated, and she did

2458
01:58:37,040 --> 01:58:39,520
Speaker 1: not rule out a return appearance on the show next

2459
01:58:39,560 --> 01:58:41,240
Speaker 1: week at the Combine. She's a great guest to have.

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01:58:41,400 --> 01:58:45,160
Speaker 1: We're gonna be at the Combine in a week from Wednesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,

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01:58:45,360 --> 01:58:48,520
Speaker 1: February twenty seventh, February twenty eighth, March First with our

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01:58:48,520 --> 01:58:50,880
Speaker 1: show noon to three One Bills Live from the NFL

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01:58:50,920 --> 01:58:53,440
Speaker 1: Scouting Combine. Coming up next week, we're back with morn

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01:58:53,480 --> 01:58:55,520
Speaker 1: a Moment One Bills Live from One Bills Drive, and

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01:58:55,560 --> 01:59:11,760
Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back One Bill's Live

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01:59:11,880 --> 01:59:15,000
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. John Murphy, Steve Tasker. We're almost toast.

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01:59:15,280 --> 01:59:20,960
Speaker 1: It's almost three o'clock, so disrespect and I think it's

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01:59:21,080 --> 01:59:23,080
Speaker 1: I think it's the whole thing just strikes me as

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01:59:23,120 --> 01:59:27,240
Speaker 1: funny in the midst of a pretty disappointing Sabers week.

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01:59:27,840 --> 01:59:31,200
Speaker 1: Question of the week. Are we toast? Are we toast?

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01:59:32,320 --> 01:59:35,560
Speaker 1: We are making T shirts? Are we toast? What? Are

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01:59:35,600 --> 01:59:38,200
Speaker 1: we toast? What? I don't know why I find that funny.

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01:59:38,720 --> 01:59:40,720
Speaker 1: It's kind of warped. I guess huh No, it's not

2474
01:59:40,840 --> 01:59:44,360
Speaker 1: life and death. It's a losing street. Um, hey, let

2475
01:59:44,440 --> 01:59:46,240
Speaker 1: us know what you think. Are we toast? We're almost toast.

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01:59:46,280 --> 01:59:48,600
Speaker 1: We're here until three. Our topic of the day has

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01:59:48,640 --> 01:59:52,520
Speaker 1: been your weekend following sports? What did you do? What

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01:59:52,640 --> 01:59:55,400
Speaker 1: did you follow? What were you most interested in over

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01:59:55,440 --> 01:59:57,680
Speaker 1: the weekend? It's a Twitter pole. Right now, we're about

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01:59:57,680 --> 02:00:00,240
Speaker 1: two and a half hours into the Twitter pole. Which

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02:00:00,320 --> 02:00:02,680
Speaker 1: pointing event were you most interested in this past weekend.

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02:00:02,680 --> 02:00:06,080
Speaker 1: We got more than seven hundred fifty votes, and right

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02:00:06,160 --> 02:00:08,680
Speaker 1: now thirty seven percent of you had something other than

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02:00:08,760 --> 02:00:11,960
Speaker 1: what we suggested. Thirty six percent, twenty seven percent of

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02:00:12,040 --> 02:00:14,200
Speaker 1: you said the Alliance of American Football. That's impressive. Of

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02:00:14,240 --> 02:00:17,560
Speaker 1: twenty five percent said the Daytona five hundred twelve percent

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02:00:17,640 --> 02:00:20,280
Speaker 1: said the NBA All Star weekend. But more than a

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02:00:20,360 --> 02:00:22,120
Speaker 1: third of you said something another, which could be what

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02:00:22,240 --> 02:00:26,680
Speaker 1: college basketball? Buffalo bandits? What else is a sabers? Obviously

2490
02:00:26,760 --> 02:00:28,920
Speaker 1: you might have been interested in. Which pointing event were

2491
02:00:28,960 --> 02:00:31,240
Speaker 1: you most interested in this past weekend? Give us a

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02:00:31,240 --> 02:00:33,480
Speaker 1: column we'll discuss eight oh three oh five fifty and

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02:00:33,520 --> 02:00:36,600
Speaker 1: toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two five

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02:00:36,640 --> 02:00:38,920
Speaker 1: fifty or sending a tweet? You got some stuff on

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02:00:39,000 --> 02:00:42,400
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet there. Step from Joe Mazer DAYTONA five

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02:00:42,520 --> 02:00:45,040
Speaker 1: hundred was a classic. Also watched the AAF and liked

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02:00:45,080 --> 02:00:46,760
Speaker 1: what I saw. A fast paced even though the play

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02:00:46,840 --> 02:00:49,360
Speaker 1: was a little sloppy. However, that's expected from a brand

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02:00:49,400 --> 02:00:52,520
Speaker 1: new league in their first year. Then Stave Tasker for

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02:00:52,640 --> 02:00:55,960
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, Well, that shoots that tweet right out?

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02:00:58,160 --> 02:01:00,680
Speaker 1: Does that fit in one hundred forty characters? It? Did?

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02:01:00,960 --> 02:01:03,320
Speaker 1: You think he kept his answer short? Just here he

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02:01:03,360 --> 02:01:06,720
Speaker 1: put a double exclamation points, So yes, it did. Breathing

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02:01:06,840 --> 02:01:11,640
Speaker 1: room okay. And from Tyler van Vorhees UFC on ESPN

2505
02:01:11,720 --> 02:01:13,240
Speaker 1: last night. It was a great card. I got a

2506
02:01:13,280 --> 02:01:14,960
Speaker 1: kind a couple of those. UFC must have been really

2507
02:01:15,000 --> 02:01:17,920
Speaker 1: good on ESPN last night. Not in my wheelhouse, Yeah,

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02:01:17,960 --> 02:01:21,200
Speaker 1: it's not my Nima tweets in AF. The San Antonio

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Speaker 1: Orlando game is incredible. It was very good game. I

2510
02:01:23,960 --> 02:01:26,800
Speaker 1: watched it from start to finish, and it was nineteen

2511
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Speaker 1: to nineteen at the half and ended up or San

2512
02:01:32,160 --> 02:01:34,480
Speaker 1: Antonio went way up. They went up by twelve in

2513
02:01:34,560 --> 02:01:38,600
Speaker 1: the third quarter, and in the fourth quarter Orlando came

2514
02:01:38,640 --> 02:01:40,280
Speaker 1: back in one big It was. It was a pretty

2515
02:01:40,280 --> 02:01:43,040
Speaker 1: amazing game, very fun to watch. Doug Briggs tweets in

2516
02:01:43,400 --> 02:01:45,480
Speaker 1: when we asked Switch Sporting event were you most interested

2517
02:01:45,520 --> 02:01:47,920
Speaker 1: in this past weekend? Doug Briggs says, great question, Murph,

2518
02:01:48,160 --> 02:01:50,200
Speaker 1: Steve and the boys. I'll give Steve credit for this one.

2519
02:01:50,600 --> 02:01:52,760
Speaker 1: He goes on to say, I'm gonna say daytona five hundred.

2520
02:01:52,840 --> 02:01:55,640
Speaker 1: Just something about those crazy finishes in the past makes

2521
02:01:55,680 --> 02:01:57,720
Speaker 1: you want to tune. And also, did you see Colton

2522
02:01:57,760 --> 02:02:00,360
Speaker 1: Schmidt in the AAF I did not who you played? Uh?

2523
02:02:00,600 --> 02:02:02,760
Speaker 1: You got me? I think it. How's he doing? I'm

2524
02:02:02,800 --> 02:02:05,440
Speaker 1: gonna try, Okay, Yeah, he's good, guys putting well, he's

2525
02:02:05,480 --> 02:02:06,800
Speaker 1: you know, he's got that. He's got a big leg.

2526
02:02:06,880 --> 02:02:09,880
Speaker 1: He always has um and you know, who knows what

2527
02:02:10,200 --> 02:02:12,160
Speaker 1: one of the reasons, what reason he's not with the

2528
02:02:12,200 --> 02:02:15,120
Speaker 1: Bills anymore? But uh, he get injured and replaced or no.

2529
02:02:15,280 --> 02:02:17,200
Speaker 1: I think it was a consistency exactly what I was

2530
02:02:17,240 --> 02:02:19,240
Speaker 1: gonna say, I thought it was just a little inconsistent,

2531
02:02:19,600 --> 02:02:21,560
Speaker 1: that was it. But once in a while he'd he'd

2532
02:02:22,320 --> 02:02:24,200
Speaker 1: hit the long one and then you know, the other

2533
02:02:24,240 --> 02:02:25,520
Speaker 1: want to come off the side of his foot. So

2534
02:02:26,400 --> 02:02:28,000
Speaker 1: that's the way it is, and that's I think that's

2535
02:02:28,040 --> 02:02:31,200
Speaker 1: the difference. Great players can do it on a consistent basis,

2536
02:02:31,280 --> 02:02:33,560
Speaker 1: and that's what they want up at the NFL level.

2537
02:02:33,600 --> 02:02:35,840
Speaker 1: I got a call here from Keith in Buffalo. Hello, Keith,

2538
02:02:35,880 --> 02:02:37,760
Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air with this. Hey, how

2539
02:02:37,760 --> 02:02:40,200
Speaker 1: you guys doing? Okay? I just got a question for

2540
02:02:40,520 --> 02:02:42,400
Speaker 1: both of you. Just I was just wondering your opinions,

2541
02:02:42,680 --> 02:02:45,680
Speaker 1: UM on AFC East so far, UM the teams that

2542
02:02:45,800 --> 02:02:49,080
Speaker 1: hired like new coaches and new gms, And I'm just wondering, um,

2543
02:02:49,760 --> 02:02:51,720
Speaker 1: what what you like about THEOM, what you don't like Abouttom?

2544
02:02:51,760 --> 02:02:53,480
Speaker 1: And do you think that any of these moves are

2545
02:02:53,560 --> 02:02:57,000
Speaker 1: really gonna help these teams turn the corner? Yeah, Keith,

2546
02:02:57,600 --> 02:03:00,360
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's hired a new GM really, right Greer?

2547
02:03:01,280 --> 02:03:03,480
Speaker 1: I guess he's been promoted, but they have essentially the

2548
02:03:03,600 --> 02:03:06,120
Speaker 1: same most all four of the teams in the division

2549
02:03:06,200 --> 02:03:09,080
Speaker 1: have the same general manager. Greer was like a personnel guy.

2550
02:03:09,200 --> 02:03:14,280
Speaker 1: Now he is even more higher up personnel wise head coaches. Yeah,

2551
02:03:14,840 --> 02:03:17,760
Speaker 1: so just overall, you're Keith, You're asking overall opinions on

2552
02:03:17,840 --> 02:03:19,400
Speaker 1: the AFC East. You want to go first? Do you

2553
02:03:19,440 --> 02:03:21,440
Speaker 1: want me to go? I can do it. New England's

2554
02:03:21,600 --> 02:03:23,080
Speaker 1: You're They're still going to be the team to beat,

2555
02:03:23,280 --> 02:03:25,280
Speaker 1: no matter what happens in the offseason, no matter how

2556
02:03:25,320 --> 02:03:27,120
Speaker 1: but bad they look or how good they look. I mean,

2557
02:03:27,160 --> 02:03:29,880
Speaker 1: they're still going to be the team that you're everybody's chasing.

2558
02:03:30,240 --> 02:03:34,400
Speaker 1: Miami is I think the most interesting team because Brian Flores,

2559
02:03:36,240 --> 02:03:38,960
Speaker 1: nobody knew who he was outside of that building before

2560
02:03:39,040 --> 02:03:41,840
Speaker 1: this season. Then he became defensive coordinator, although it's still

2561
02:03:41,840 --> 02:03:45,040
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick is the de facto defensive coordinator, and he

2562
02:03:45,160 --> 02:03:47,360
Speaker 1: emerged onto the scenes from nowhere and now is a

2563
02:03:47,560 --> 02:03:49,960
Speaker 1: head coaching candidate. And now he's got a job with

2564
02:03:50,120 --> 02:03:53,320
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins in the same division that he just left.

2565
02:03:53,360 --> 02:03:55,160
Speaker 1: I think that's a really interesting place to look and

2566
02:03:55,240 --> 02:03:59,240
Speaker 1: see how he's going to take over that. Adam Gase,

2567
02:04:00,720 --> 02:04:02,360
Speaker 1: I don't know how a guy can be a head

2568
02:04:02,400 --> 02:04:04,800
Speaker 1: coach with the Miami Dolphins for three and I like

2569
02:04:04,920 --> 02:04:06,800
Speaker 1: the guy. Don't get me wrong. But he was a

2570
02:04:06,840 --> 02:04:10,240
Speaker 1: head coach for the Miami Dolphins for three years, had

2571
02:04:10,280 --> 02:04:15,400
Speaker 1: an incumbent quarterback, was known as a quarterback developer and

2572
02:04:15,600 --> 02:04:19,280
Speaker 1: Adam and Ryan Tannehill is the same quarterback now that

2573
02:04:19,360 --> 02:04:21,240
Speaker 1: he was when Adam Gase took over. I don't know

2574
02:04:21,400 --> 02:04:26,680
Speaker 1: why you would think Sam Darnold is gonna be better

2575
02:04:27,200 --> 02:04:29,640
Speaker 1: for Adam Gase when Adam Gase couldn't get much out

2576
02:04:29,640 --> 02:04:33,640
Speaker 1: of Ryan Tannhill. Now, Tannehill was injured half the games

2577
02:04:34,120 --> 02:04:36,480
Speaker 1: that Gas was there in Miami and the year that

2578
02:04:36,560 --> 02:04:38,320
Speaker 1: he played for all those games they didn't go to

2579
02:04:38,360 --> 02:04:41,160
Speaker 1: the playoffs. But Ryan Tannehill was a guy that when

2580
02:04:41,240 --> 02:04:44,480
Speaker 1: he was playing under Adam Gase, I didn't see him

2581
02:04:44,520 --> 02:04:47,440
Speaker 1: getting better, better, better, better, better, And it was a

2582
02:04:47,480 --> 02:04:49,560
Speaker 1: little bit of a roller coaster. And so I don't

2583
02:04:49,600 --> 02:04:53,440
Speaker 1: know how Adam Gase is gonna do with Sam Darnald.

2584
02:04:53,520 --> 02:04:55,800
Speaker 1: And Plus two, the other thing that the New York

2585
02:04:55,880 --> 02:04:58,200
Speaker 1: Jets have to deal with that nobody else does is

2586
02:04:58,240 --> 02:05:00,240
Speaker 1: the New York media market. We already saw from his

2587
02:05:00,320 --> 02:05:04,480
Speaker 1: opening press conference. He got crushed for how he looked

2588
02:05:04,520 --> 02:05:06,840
Speaker 1: in the media conference, and that's just one more thing

2589
02:05:06,920 --> 02:05:08,280
Speaker 1: that he's got to deal with, and he didn't have

2590
02:05:08,360 --> 02:05:09,960
Speaker 1: to deal with in Miami. So I don't I think

2591
02:05:10,040 --> 02:05:12,520
Speaker 1: that's interesting. Let me, Keith, let me answer your question

2592
02:05:13,000 --> 02:05:15,040
Speaker 1: the short version. I don't think the Dolphins are interesting

2593
02:05:15,080 --> 02:05:17,040
Speaker 1: at all. I think Dolphins are going to be awful.

2594
02:05:17,480 --> 02:05:20,160
Speaker 1: No quarterback answer really on the table at all for

2595
02:05:20,160 --> 02:05:23,360
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins right now. I think the Bills. I

2596
02:05:23,560 --> 02:05:26,200
Speaker 1: would agree with Steve. The Patriots are the team to

2597
02:05:26,280 --> 02:05:28,120
Speaker 1: beat and are going to remain that way until they

2598
02:05:28,160 --> 02:05:30,040
Speaker 1: go Now, the Bills are the most interesting team. They

2599
02:05:30,080 --> 02:05:33,280
Speaker 1: could go either way, right they should go up second

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02:05:33,360 --> 02:05:35,400
Speaker 1: year with Josh Allen, ten draft picks, a ton of

2601
02:05:35,440 --> 02:05:39,360
Speaker 1: money to spend in free agency and defense. I think

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02:05:39,360 --> 02:05:41,800
Speaker 1: the Bills are much more interesting, interesting than Dolphins or

2603
02:05:42,120 --> 02:05:43,560
Speaker 1: or the Jets. I think those two are on the

2604
02:05:43,600 --> 02:05:45,480
Speaker 1: way down. Yeah, I think the Buffalo And we said

2605
02:05:45,520 --> 02:05:47,840
Speaker 1: this right after the after the season. You know, the

2606
02:05:47,880 --> 02:05:51,000
Speaker 1: Bills were six and ten. Not a good season. Certainly,

2607
02:05:51,040 --> 02:05:54,480
Speaker 1: some interesting things happened Josh Allen's development as people watched,

2608
02:05:54,520 --> 02:05:57,880
Speaker 1: but I think it was You'd be difficult, hard pressed

2609
02:05:57,920 --> 02:05:59,680
Speaker 1: to find any team that won six games or less,

2610
02:05:59,760 --> 02:06:01,600
Speaker 1: or even seven games or less in the NFL. There's

2611
02:06:01,640 --> 02:06:04,040
Speaker 1: more optimistic about their future than the Buffalo Happy is

2612
02:06:04,120 --> 02:06:06,120
Speaker 1: six and ten team in the league. That's exactly right,

2613
02:06:06,240 --> 02:06:08,120
Speaker 1: and it's funny as it's Sam we're making a joke.

2614
02:06:08,200 --> 02:06:10,800
Speaker 1: It really is true. They really do feel like they

2615
02:06:10,880 --> 02:06:13,080
Speaker 1: are on point and on schedule and headed in the

2616
02:06:13,200 --> 02:06:17,080
Speaker 1: right direction. They are not toasted, they are not NFL

2617
02:06:17,160 --> 02:06:19,280
Speaker 1: true or false. Brought to you by Yancey's Fancy New

2618
02:06:19,360 --> 02:06:21,440
Speaker 1: York's artists in Chiefs. Here we go the league, the

2619
02:06:21,560 --> 02:06:24,880
Speaker 1: NFL should extend the time of play if tied after regulation.

2620
02:06:25,240 --> 02:06:27,760
Speaker 1: This is a response to all the hu and cry

2621
02:06:27,840 --> 02:06:30,360
Speaker 1: about how the Chiefs never saw the ball in overtime

2622
02:06:30,400 --> 02:06:33,000
Speaker 1: in their playoff game against the Patriots. Here's the solution.

2623
02:06:33,080 --> 02:06:35,480
Speaker 1: The Boston Herald puts this out there, a simple and

2624
02:06:35,560 --> 02:06:39,120
Speaker 1: they call brilliant overtime simple solution. The Herald says, once

2625
02:06:39,200 --> 02:06:41,920
Speaker 1: the clock reaches zero and regulation, just keep playing football

2626
02:06:42,040 --> 02:06:44,480
Speaker 1: under the rules of football until the score no longer

2627
02:06:44,600 --> 02:06:46,680
Speaker 1: is tied. Don't invent any hokey rules or leave too

2628
02:06:46,760 --> 02:06:48,680
Speaker 1: much in the hands of luck with a coin flip.

2629
02:06:48,880 --> 02:06:51,840
Speaker 1: If time expires and the score is tied, continue playing

2630
02:06:51,880 --> 02:06:53,480
Speaker 1: with the ball at the same spot of the field

2631
02:06:53,680 --> 02:06:55,760
Speaker 1: with the same down and distance and the same team

2632
02:06:55,840 --> 02:06:58,400
Speaker 1: in possession. If nobody is scored after ten minutes of game,

2633
02:06:58,440 --> 02:07:00,360
Speaker 1: clock declared the game of tie. Look, I'll tell you

2634
02:07:00,400 --> 02:07:02,360
Speaker 1: why it's not gonna work. You know, Steve has said

2635
02:07:02,400 --> 02:07:05,680
Speaker 1: it earlier today in the show Unintended Consequences. If if

2636
02:07:05,720 --> 02:07:08,040
Speaker 1: a game is tied and you don't have the pressure,

2637
02:07:08,080 --> 02:07:10,160
Speaker 1: if we can win it now or take our chances

2638
02:07:10,240 --> 02:07:12,760
Speaker 1: in overtime, you will play for the tie. You got

2639
02:07:12,800 --> 02:07:14,800
Speaker 1: the ball, you will say, oh, we're gonna We're gonna

2640
02:07:14,880 --> 02:07:17,560
Speaker 1: keep the ball here because we know the game. The

2641
02:07:17,600 --> 02:07:20,440
Speaker 1: clock's gonna stop, They'll reset the clock and we'll set

2642
02:07:20,520 --> 02:07:22,960
Speaker 1: up the ball. If if you don't have the specter

2643
02:07:23,080 --> 02:07:25,280
Speaker 1: of a of a coin flip or the other team

2644
02:07:25,320 --> 02:07:28,920
Speaker 1: getting possession or as the rules now stands, the opportunity

2645
02:07:28,960 --> 02:07:31,320
Speaker 1: to possess and would change the way that game's end.

2646
02:07:31,400 --> 02:07:34,160
Speaker 1: Close and tie games. Ind No, it's not fourth fourth,

2647
02:07:34,240 --> 02:07:36,320
Speaker 1: not brilliant, and it's simple but not brilliant. I don't

2648
02:07:36,360 --> 02:07:39,680
Speaker 1: like that idea. I agree. I say false as well,

2649
02:07:39,720 --> 02:07:42,240
Speaker 1: because it takes away one element of a degree of

2650
02:07:42,280 --> 02:07:44,920
Speaker 1: difficulty for the coaching staff. Clock management at the end

2651
02:07:44,920 --> 02:07:47,320
Speaker 1: of the game is critical, even when the game is tied,

2652
02:07:48,360 --> 02:07:50,360
Speaker 1: you've you've got to. I think you should put them

2653
02:07:50,440 --> 02:07:53,240
Speaker 1: under the pressure. And you've seen it too. Where are

2654
02:07:53,240 --> 02:07:54,680
Speaker 1: they going to a show? They've got to and they

2655
02:07:54,840 --> 02:07:59,320
Speaker 1: just kneel down to go to overtime, Maybe that would

2656
02:07:59,320 --> 02:08:01,480
Speaker 1: go away. They got to keep trying to keep first downs.

2657
02:08:01,560 --> 02:08:06,120
Speaker 1: But I don't know there is a off the cuff.

2658
02:08:06,920 --> 02:08:11,040
Speaker 1: I say there probably has to be some unintended consequences

2659
02:08:11,120 --> 02:08:13,120
Speaker 1: for that, as as Murph just alluded to. I don't

2660
02:08:13,160 --> 02:08:15,400
Speaker 1: know exactly what they would be, but I think it

2661
02:08:15,440 --> 02:08:17,920
Speaker 1: would take away from the drama at the end of

2662
02:08:17,960 --> 02:08:20,800
Speaker 1: the game. And I don't have a listen, I don't,

2663
02:08:20,920 --> 02:08:23,280
Speaker 1: I don't care. If I really don't, I think you can.

2664
02:08:23,600 --> 02:08:25,480
Speaker 1: It's crazy to say this, but I really don't. Just

2665
02:08:25,640 --> 02:08:27,200
Speaker 1: flip a coin to see who wins the game. What

2666
02:08:27,320 --> 02:08:31,120
Speaker 1: do I care? You know who cares. Let's just move

2667
02:08:31,200 --> 02:08:35,640
Speaker 1: on because flip any any anything you do that involves

2668
02:08:37,000 --> 02:08:38,920
Speaker 1: you know, whether they get it or you get it

2669
02:08:39,040 --> 02:08:43,200
Speaker 1: or whatever, A missed call, listeners, it's a coin flip anyway,

2670
02:08:43,600 --> 02:08:46,400
Speaker 1: So there you go. I'm it doesn't matter. These don't

2671
02:08:46,440 --> 02:08:47,800
Speaker 1: change it from what they are now. I like them

2672
02:08:47,840 --> 02:08:52,520
Speaker 1: where they're at now, and we've and we've evolved to

2673
02:08:52,600 --> 02:08:55,120
Speaker 1: this point. There's no reason because you didn't get to

2674
02:08:55,120 --> 02:08:57,800
Speaker 1: see more of Patrick Mahomes that we need to change

2675
02:08:57,840 --> 02:09:00,280
Speaker 1: the rules Part two NFL two or follows. The forty

2676
02:09:00,360 --> 02:09:02,600
Speaker 1: nine Ers should be featured on the Hard Knocks this year,

2677
02:09:03,480 --> 02:09:05,840
Speaker 1: simply put false. We talked about it earlier. I think

2678
02:09:06,760 --> 02:09:08,680
Speaker 1: they are not the team that most people want to

2679
02:09:08,720 --> 02:09:10,920
Speaker 1: see on a hard Knocks. I think the Oakland Raiders

2680
02:09:10,960 --> 02:09:14,920
Speaker 1: are false. Who forty nine ers should be fee? No?

2681
02:09:15,720 --> 02:09:18,720
Speaker 1: Come on, no, So Raiders are the giants. You don't

2682
02:09:18,760 --> 02:09:21,040
Speaker 1: want the forty niners on there? And of course I

2683
02:09:21,160 --> 02:09:23,800
Speaker 1: would want the forty nine ers before I want Detroit

2684
02:09:23,960 --> 02:09:28,000
Speaker 1: or Washington. I don't know, Washington might be fun. No,

2685
02:09:28,600 --> 02:09:31,720
Speaker 1: they are not the team Jimmy Garoppolo is I mean yeah,

2686
02:09:31,920 --> 02:09:33,840
Speaker 1: I mean he's a he's a very pretty man. But

2687
02:09:33,920 --> 02:09:35,800
Speaker 1: I don't want to see him on hard knocks. You

2688
02:09:35,880 --> 02:09:38,560
Speaker 1: know I'm not interested in you know, I'm let's come on,

2689
02:09:38,680 --> 02:09:41,120
Speaker 1: let's get something interesting. John Gruden and the Raiders are

2690
02:09:41,160 --> 02:09:44,400
Speaker 1: the only option here. Wow, they're the only option. A

2691
02:09:44,560 --> 02:09:46,400
Speaker 1: very pretty man. That sounds like a topic for a

2692
02:09:46,440 --> 02:09:49,280
Speaker 1: future A little stars, A little tongue in cheek though, okay,

2693
02:09:49,360 --> 02:09:54,200
Speaker 1: ye back pedaling, Yeah, finally, NFL tur or false. Rob

2694
02:09:54,280 --> 02:09:56,800
Speaker 1: Grenkowski is a first ballot Hall of Famer. This one

2695
02:09:56,960 --> 02:10:01,120
Speaker 1: is interesting. Tempted to say no, but I don't know.

2696
02:10:01,320 --> 02:10:03,680
Speaker 1: He's been awfully productive. You know this came. I read

2697
02:10:03,720 --> 02:10:07,160
Speaker 1: something in the paper about greatest athletes ever to come

2698
02:10:07,160 --> 02:10:09,720
Speaker 1: out of Buffalo. Rob Gronkowski's name has to be included

2699
02:10:09,760 --> 02:10:12,320
Speaker 1: in that. Somebody mentioned Warren Spat the all time winning

2700
02:10:12,320 --> 02:10:14,840
Speaker 1: this left handed pitcher in Major league history. He has

2701
02:10:14,880 --> 02:10:16,880
Speaker 1: to be at that, maybe at or near the top

2702
02:10:16,920 --> 02:10:19,600
Speaker 1: of that list. But Gronkowski is a first ballot Hall

2703
02:10:19,600 --> 02:10:23,800
Speaker 1: of Famer. Oh it pains me to say false, but

2704
02:10:24,120 --> 02:10:25,720
Speaker 1: I could be talked into it the other way. What

2705
02:10:25,800 --> 02:10:28,760
Speaker 1: do you think? No, I'll say true, first ballot, first

2706
02:10:28,800 --> 02:10:33,920
Speaker 1: time he's seen I have not seen his his career statistics.

2707
02:10:34,280 --> 02:10:37,040
Speaker 1: But if there's more than if there's one guy in

2708
02:10:37,120 --> 02:10:39,080
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame with fewer statistics in him, or

2709
02:10:39,120 --> 02:10:41,840
Speaker 1: two or five, they're in the Hall of Fame as

2710
02:10:41,880 --> 02:10:43,920
Speaker 1: a tight end. With him with all the rings that

2711
02:10:44,000 --> 02:10:45,960
Speaker 1: he has and the crucial catches he made, and the

2712
02:10:46,040 --> 02:10:49,600
Speaker 1: dominant force that he's been, absolutely I would say he

2713
02:10:49,720 --> 02:10:53,520
Speaker 1: is a first ballot. How how many years has he played?

2714
02:10:53,960 --> 02:10:56,000
Speaker 1: I want to say about nine eight nine? Is that?

2715
02:10:56,200 --> 02:10:58,280
Speaker 1: I guess that's that would be the argument I would

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Speaker 1: look at, has he been around long enough? He's a

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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer as you go in as soon as

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Speaker 1: he's eligible. I don't know. That's a tough one, all right.

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Speaker 1: That's NFL two or false brought to you by Yancey's

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Speaker 1: Fancy America's artists in Cheese or New York's one of

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Speaker 1: the fifty states. Steve and I coming back. We're not

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Speaker 1: toast yet, but we're getting close. It's One Bill's Live

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bills Radio. You know

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Speaker 1: we're at the end of the show. We kind of

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Speaker 1: take stock of what we have learned from today's show.

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Speaker 1: We had. Michael Renner, analysts for Pro Football Focus, does

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Speaker 1: a great job. He's written about the draft, written about

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Speaker 1: free agency, and he wrote not long ago that the Bills,

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Speaker 1: through PFF, through their grading system. The Bills are a

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Speaker 1: top ten defensive backfield in the NFL. We asked him

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Speaker 1: about it goes back to the two safety signings of

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Speaker 1: Mica Hide and to an employer, Hides arguably a top ten,

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Speaker 1: top five to top ten safety at this point after

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Speaker 1: what we teams from in the last two seasons. They're

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Speaker 1: both just perfect fit for that scheme in Buffalo and

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Speaker 1: went to Davids. White has been basically everything and more

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Speaker 1: for that secondary. He started tracking number one receivers this year,

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Speaker 1: more and more of than he did as a rookie.

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Speaker 1: And that's just so big for a defense when you

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Speaker 1: have a guy who can tract number one receivers, because

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Speaker 1: even if he doesn't completely shut them down, it all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden gets your second cornerback an easier, you know,

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Speaker 1: job to do. Like Renner joining us from Pro Football

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Speaker 1: Focus a little bit ago, and Cynthia Freeland on from

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Speaker 1: NFL Network, she has done a great job covering the

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Speaker 1: first couple of weeks of the Alliance of American Football.

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Speaker 1: She talked about micing up the officials in the Alliance

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Speaker 1: and what that's meant to viewers on TV. I think

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Speaker 1: that that the rest the micd up rest talking about

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Speaker 1: the replace that people be clamoring for. That like that

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Speaker 1: is awesome. It feels so fair, and you feel like like,

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Speaker 1: you know, there was a you know, the there was

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Speaker 1: a questionable call and they were like, we just don't

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Speaker 1: have enough evidence to overturn it. And even if no

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Speaker 1: matter if you agreed or disagree, you're like, well, they

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Speaker 1: didn't have enough evidence. Like you know, you heard it,

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Speaker 1: so you felt you felt like you were a part

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Speaker 1: of it, and that like authenticity was that's something where

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Speaker 1: people aren't going to let that go. Yeah, we'll find out.

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Speaker 1: Off to a good start. A Twitter poll today, we

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Speaker 1: asked the question which pointing event were you most interested

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Speaker 1: in this weekend? Most of you were kind of all

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Speaker 1: over the place, which is fine. We offered other as

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Speaker 1: an option. In thirty seven percent of you said other,

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Speaker 1: twenty seven percent said the Alliance of American Football, twenty

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Speaker 1: four percent said Daytona five hundred, twelve percent said NBA

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Speaker 1: All Star Weekend. Interesting recap of the weekend, Steve, wasn't it, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't. It kind of came to us because the

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Speaker 1: Daytona five hundred yea in the AFL and the All

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Speaker 1: Star weekend and kind of competition, what interest you most.

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Speaker 1: It was pretty good production assistance George Blasteff, Colton like

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Speaker 1: Thomas hounld Route, J J. Rito, Kevin cart Just James Rubel,

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Speaker 1: our producer Jay Harris. See you tomorrow noon One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Live on Buffalo Bill's Radio