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Speaker 1: Oh great time watch Steve Tasker to the times down

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Speaker 1: that time. Okay, during a week Welcome everybody, Welcome to

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Speaker 1: one bill Slide presented by Kalina Health. Welcome to Monday,

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Speaker 1: April six. Happy to have you with us in the audience.

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Speaker 1: I'm John Murphy Radio only today, no TV. I'm at home.

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Speaker 1: Steve's at home. Steve Tasker co hosts from home, right, Steve, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: how you doing, MURF good weekend? Little little uh well,

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Speaker 1: little no normal. I guess not much going on, that

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Speaker 1: much going on. Yeah, we spent the last fifteen ten

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Speaker 1: minutes or so we're all trying to get to the

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Speaker 1: technical expertise of Steve as we get ready to do

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Speaker 1: our show. And apparently by Mike is two U two

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Speaker 1: sensitive picks up. I have been in quarantine for so long.

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Speaker 1: I'm starting to nitpick Murph's technical setup at his home.

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Speaker 1: That's how far we've fallen. By the way, by the

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Speaker 1: way too uh, not for nothing, but you know, I

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Speaker 1: usually have verned my dog on the desk. Ye usually

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Speaker 1: hear him snoring. Yeah, he's completely abandoned us. He will

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Speaker 1: not he's done, He's done with the show. Does he

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Speaker 1: have a ratings diary. He just yeah, no, if he doesn't, don't,

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Speaker 1: don't worry about it, right exactly exactly, he's not helping

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Speaker 1: us or hurting us. Right now, starting new week, happy

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Speaker 1: to be with you here. We're starting our third week

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Speaker 1: show from home. And it's getting to be old hat now, Steve, right,

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Speaker 1: we have a yeah down pretty much. Yeah, and it's yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's like the new normal, you know, pop on and

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Speaker 1: let's go. It's uh, it's getting more and more difficult

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Speaker 1: because of the lack of fresh news and fresh programming

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Speaker 1: Is there anything going on? You know, and normally that's

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Speaker 1: kind of the case now anyway. But you know, the

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Speaker 1: fact that you can watch old games now, you know,

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Speaker 1: game passes doing their thing and they've got you know,

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Speaker 1: ESPN showing all these classic games on because they don't

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Speaker 1: have any live sports. You know, some of the stuff

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Speaker 1: distracts is from our regular football watching, like they go

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Speaker 1: to golf with you know, the Masters would be coming up,

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Speaker 1: this would be Monday of Masters week. You know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: today would be final for Monday, they'd be the National

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Speaker 1: Championship rights right, right, yeah, right, yeah, yeah, it'd be Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So all that stuff's off, there's nothing to watch, and

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Speaker 1: so it's um, it changes, everything changes everything. I have

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Speaker 1: trouble watching old games, not just that I know the outcome.

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Speaker 1: habit of watching old games. There were a couple I

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Speaker 1: like you said, NFL Network's got an old game on

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Speaker 1: or a couple every day, and there's old hockey to watch,

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Speaker 1: and it's old basketball games to watch unless they're really old,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, if they're five years ago.

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Speaker 1: nineteen Yeah they should be. You know, they should show

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Speaker 1: that we turned into turned into bar fights. You know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: those would be kind of fun, except you know, the

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Speaker 1: broadcast quality would be I don't think it would be

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Speaker 1: I mean, just you and I let's start a little business.

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Speaker 1: We'll go we'll pay the money. We'll get the rights

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Speaker 1: to do this. We'll put the old nineteen seventy eight

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Speaker 1: who cares because you a game from nineteen seventy eight. Nope,

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Speaker 1: So you could watch it like it was fresh. You know.

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Speaker 1: I get you know, you're onto something because I watching

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Speaker 1: take a video shot, a camera shot of Melaniland and

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Speaker 1: the broadcast booth pouring himself a beer a Valentine, you know, right,

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Speaker 1: you build the broadcastcast like that. Well, I was back

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Speaker 1: cuppies are on every day, you know, yeah, and Harry

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Speaker 1: a lot of sense to me if you could modernize

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Speaker 1: In the middle of its offseason. The NFL now two

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Speaker 1: schedule to begin, and it will begin on April twenty third,

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Speaker 1: which is two weeks from this Thursday. Two and a

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Speaker 1: half weeks away. What's how many days. Is that sixteen

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Speaker 1: seventeen days away? Our Twitter pulled today. So here's the bill.

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Speaker 1: Here's the Buffalo Bills without a first round pick, right,

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Speaker 1: they traded theirs to Minnesota to get Stefan Diggs, so

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Speaker 1: Friday night, Day two of the draft. What's you? And

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Speaker 1: of course the draft is gonna be different now it's

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Speaker 1: the names of the drafted players. They'll have remote shots

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Speaker 1: how the network executes the draft coverage, it will be

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Speaker 1: be something else? Right now? On Twitter, sixty percent of

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Speaker 1: As the draft approaches two and a half weeks, away.

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Speaker 1: What's your number one reason for watching this year if

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Speaker 1: to do. And the draft, the way the network executes

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Speaker 1: this thing's kind of mushroomed into what it has become,

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Speaker 1: this huge extravaganza and a citywide thing. Remember it was

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Speaker 1: all that stuff is still there, But for Bills fans

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Speaker 1: a regular basis, this is a way different draft. And right,

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Speaker 1: four yard field goal and it was right in front

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Speaker 1: of us. I mean, we look straight and there's the

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Speaker 1: goal post and it was plenty long enough, and we

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Speaker 1: thought it was good. We're high fiving and celebrating, and

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Speaker 1: then we looked around and no one else was. After

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Speaker 1: the kick when he realized, oh he missed, you couldn't

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Speaker 1: tell for our seats whether he made or missed, because

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Speaker 1: it was certainly long enough, but it didn't go through

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Speaker 1: the goal posts, and the building lost too. They lost

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Speaker 1: ninety seven and didn't beat him again until the final

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Speaker 1: year when I got when I got to Buffalo, a

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Speaker 1: couple of the guys on the team, guys like Joe Devlin,

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Speaker 1: I think maybe Tim Vogler, some of the old offensive

438
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Speaker 1: linemen were there in seventy nine, maybe uh well Smerless,

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Speaker 1: those guys, and they talked about that happening where they

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Speaker 1: hadn't beaten his team for any of their career, for

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Speaker 1: the length of their career, right, and so they finally

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Speaker 1: got it. They drove the ball down, did everything exactly right,

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Speaker 1: worked the clock, got it down, got in position, put

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Speaker 1: the ball in the middle of the field too, I think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: like took it, you know, had everything. All they had

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Speaker 1: to do was put it through. And you'll still see

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Speaker 1: the highlight of that when he kicks it, he grabs

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Speaker 1: the sides of his helmet because he was immediately simultaneously

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Speaker 1: with the time when he kicks it, he missed it,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, that was and those guys that were on

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Speaker 1: the team then still and like you know, this was

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Speaker 1: six or seven, eight years later and they were still

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Speaker 1: bitter about it. Yeah. I remember walking out of the

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Speaker 1: stadium that day. It was a beautiful I think September afternoon, sunshining.

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Speaker 1: The Bills lost ninety seven, thinking okay, they'll never beat

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins though, when everybody else so beat everybody else,

457
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Speaker 1: just because now it was going to be well one

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Speaker 1: more year, you know, nine plus years have never beaten

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins. I mean it was painful at the time.

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Speaker 1: They beat him the next year, but man, that hurt.

461
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Speaker 1: Tom Dempsey passed away. I never met him. I heard

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Speaker 1: he was a good guy. And that's my Tom Dempsey memory,

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Speaker 1: as painful as it is. Oh that hurt. Hey, what's

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Speaker 1: going on in the NFL? Not much? Today would be

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Speaker 1: the day where teams with new coaches in the league

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Speaker 1: would start their offseason workout. So Dallas with Mike McCarthy,

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Speaker 1: Giants with Joe Judge, Washington with Ron Ribera, Carolina with

468
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Speaker 1: Matt Rule, Cleveland with Kevin stink Stefanski. We're scheduled to

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Speaker 1: start addressing their full squads today and we're scheduled to

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Speaker 1: start their off season workouts. Not going to happen when

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Speaker 1: they can start to congregate remains to be Seeing the

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Speaker 1: Bills schedule to start in two weeks April twentieth, unlikely

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Speaker 1: that that'll happen two weeks from today, and we'll just

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Speaker 1: be on hold for a while, Steve. But no offseason

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Speaker 1: workouts for the teams with new coaches who were hoping

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Speaker 1: to get that started today. There's only five of them, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that's a little less than average, I think, right,

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Speaker 1: usually it's about like eight of them. Yeah, all right,

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Speaker 1: So and this is we really don't nobody really feels this.

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Speaker 1: I don't think. I mean, the coaches, you know, you

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Speaker 1: kind of feel they're probably kind of chomping at the bit.

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Speaker 1: But for the most fans like you and me, and

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Speaker 1: for most of us, it's like, okay, well whatever, that's

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Speaker 1: it's not even a blip on the radar. This is

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Speaker 1: I think though. This is obviously it's the first thing

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Speaker 1: that's happened in the off season of the NFL that

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Speaker 1: there's they had to acquiesce to the to the pandemic,

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Speaker 1: you know, they had to stop so we'll see. Um

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Speaker 1: it's uh, I don't know, Well, it's a long way

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Speaker 1: away and we just ride this out, continue to write

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Speaker 1: it out. But yeah, the first the first worked on

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Speaker 1: the off season for them for the NFL is this one,

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Speaker 1: as we said, two weeks until the bills were scheduled

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Speaker 1: to start. I know, I get I get more excited

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Speaker 1: about practice than you do. But more than practice, it's

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Speaker 1: just good this time of year April, when players start

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Speaker 1: showing up around the building. You know, that field house

498
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Speaker 1: where our office is is dark and cold and nothing

499
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Speaker 1: going on for three months, and all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: players arrive and it's sort of an uplift. It won't

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Speaker 1: happen on schedule this year. I'll be I'll miss that,

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Speaker 1: see I will. Yeah, and players will too, you know,

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Speaker 1: veteran players who were kind of used to it, you

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Speaker 1: think about it, they don't get together. Yeah, they put

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Speaker 1: together that nice run last year. They had all that

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Speaker 1: the really good vibe that was coming out of the

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Speaker 1: locker room as they have you know every year with

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott in all these teams that really took a

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Speaker 1: step forward, like Buffalo, and you know you felt like, man,

510
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Speaker 1: you really had more to do and that then the

511
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Speaker 1: season was ended, you know, in overtime in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: and this would have been the next couple of weeks

513
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Speaker 1: will be the first time when all of those guys

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Speaker 1: sit in the same room again. You know it'll be

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Speaker 1: the first time, and it's always a really nice feeling

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Speaker 1: of you know a little. It's better than that first

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Speaker 1: day of school feeling, you know, where you go in

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Speaker 1: and see all your buddies again, the people that were

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Speaker 1: in your class last year. That kind of way better

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Speaker 1: than that. And it's it's an underrated day, I think

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Speaker 1: for most guys in there. In there, you know their

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Speaker 1: cycle of life in the NFL. So when does the

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Speaker 1: NFL start? Did they play on time in September? And

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Speaker 1: nobody knows? President Trump held a conference call with the

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Speaker 1: Major League Sports commissioners Saturday, and he said According to ESPN,

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Speaker 1: the President said he believes the NFL season should start

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Speaker 1: on time in September. Said he hopes they have fans

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Speaker 1: backed in stadiums and arenas by August and September. It's

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Speaker 1: currently unclear if medical experts will agree with him. Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean, California's governor said he He says,

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Speaker 1: I'm not anticipating that the NFL season will open in

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Speaker 1: August September with eighty thousand fans in the seats, and

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Speaker 1: Governor Almo said he's going to follow the recommendations of

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Speaker 1: healthcare professionals. Wouldn't be the first time that the president

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Speaker 1: spoke without accurate grounding in reality, Steve, But we'll see. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it's too early to tell. I think it is. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but it's hard, you know, it's too early to tell,

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Speaker 1: no question. We all hopeful, but sitting here where we're

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Speaker 1: sitting here, Murph, three weeks into this quarantine and or

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Speaker 1: this social did whatever you want to call it, this lockdown,

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Speaker 1: and we're three weeks in and there's no you know,

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Speaker 1: still dark at the end of the tunnel, right, Um,

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Speaker 1: hard to get to that point, but it's also hard

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Speaker 1: to imagine not getting there. You know. We're kind of

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Speaker 1: in a quandary about what to think, and we just,

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Speaker 1: you know, even if we got minute by minute accurate

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Speaker 1: statistics about what was going on, uh, who was who

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Speaker 1: had it, who tested for it, who's you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, if he had accurate statistics about everything that's

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Speaker 1: going on, Uh, we still wouldn't know what to do.

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Speaker 1: So all of that stuff put together is uh, it's

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Speaker 1: kind of strange. I don't know we're in as they say,

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Speaker 1: it's the it's the phrase of this this little point

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Speaker 1: in history, it's uncharted waters. So I think we in fact,

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00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 1: it looks like we've lost Murph to uncharted waters. His

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Speaker 1: Internet has popped off. And now we're gonna go We're

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Speaker 1: gonna take a break. We're gonna go to break. Uh,

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Speaker 1: we'll be back One Bill's Live. We've got Chris spield

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00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:50,919
Speaker 1: and coming on at one o'clock, Bob Glauber from Newsday

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Speaker 1: coming on at two o'clock, and we will be back

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Speaker 1: right after this. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome Back

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Speaker 1: one Go five, presented by Kalin of Health. I'm John Murphy,

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Speaker 1: Steve task around the line. We are coming to the

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Speaker 1: line from our homes again. We're radio only. We apologize

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Speaker 1: for that. Someday, I don't know. Do you think someday

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Speaker 1: we'll get back on TV, Steve, I don't know. I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm not putting it out of the realm of possibility.

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Speaker 1: People might like it better like this. No, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: That'll be our next Twitter poll too intrusive? Yeah, do

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Speaker 1: you care if we're back on TV? Our Twitter poll today,

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Speaker 1: what's your reason for interest? In this year's NFL draft.

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Speaker 1: Is it who the Bills might target as a need

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Speaker 1: for the second round? Their first pick will be in

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Speaker 1: the second round Friday, fifty fourth overall. Would it be

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Speaker 1: how the network executes a draft coverage? Would it be

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Speaker 1: first round surprises and drama? Whatever you think, give us

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Speaker 1: a call. The phone line's wide open eighth three five fifty,

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

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Speaker 1: and the tweet sheet brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems,

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Speaker 1: the official movers of the Buffalo Bills from Kyle. He says,

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Speaker 1: b as the whole where where the Bills turned to

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Speaker 1: the draft is exciting. I feel like this is a

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Speaker 1: whole new, unseen method on how the draft is going

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Speaker 1: to work. Especially with EA Sports doing the handshake with

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Speaker 1: the commissioner. It'll be a very cool experience that I

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Speaker 1: look forward to. Let's it all about see what's he

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00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: talking about? What's the sports doing? I do not know.

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Speaker 1: I think it's an animated version of a guy who's

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Speaker 1: getting drafted going in and hugging an animated version of

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Speaker 1: the commissioner. As if we're all feeling deprived of that

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Speaker 1: because of the draft. That'll be exciting really ea sports? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: whatever from Michael, what's your reason for interesting to have

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Speaker 1: Michael says, big Bills fan just wanting He wanted to

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Speaker 1: establish that big Bills fan always excited for the draft,

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Speaker 1: but after two months of little to know sports, this

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Speaker 1: will be a welcome distraction. I do think Michael has

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00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: got to point there, Steve. I think people are starved

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Speaker 1: for any kind of sports right now, don't you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And plus some symbolis of normality, something that we're that's

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Speaker 1: outside of their realm of going from their house to

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Speaker 1: the supermar market, to the gas station or whatever, the

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Speaker 1: two places that you're allowed to go to that you

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Speaker 1: need to go to, whatever circle of activity you can

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Speaker 1: possibly have. They're looking for something normal outside of that,

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Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, and it's weird not to have any

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Speaker 1: of that going on. So yeah, I'm with him. I

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Speaker 1: think it's a great way to, you know, to be distracted,

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Speaker 1: but also have some form of like we're not completely

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Speaker 1: in an alternate reality here. We're just we've got just

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Speaker 1: this collective, collective action that we're all taking that makes

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Speaker 1: the world look a little bit differently than it usually does.

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Speaker 1: You know, the league, the NFL is talking about a

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Speaker 1: schedule to come out before May ninth, which would be

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Speaker 1: nine and five up, two weeks before after the draft,

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Speaker 1: And I would imagine in those two weeks the draft

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Speaker 1: will service sort of a will be clinging to hope

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Speaker 1: that the league's going to start on time, right, cleaning

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Speaker 1: to hope that a schedule will be announced and that

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Speaker 1: they'll be ready to play in September, where you don't

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Speaker 1: if that'll be the case, but the draft should provide

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Speaker 1: some of that. Did you ever to read Peter King's

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Speaker 1: column today, Steve, I did not. I was gonna get

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Speaker 1: to it, and I've had it up. I've got it up,

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Speaker 1: I just have not read it yet. Well, you were

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Speaker 1: mentioned in it for your birthday. He wishes you a

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Speaker 1: happy birthday for later in the week. But among the

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Speaker 1: other interesting things he wrote were kind of a concept

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Speaker 1: for scheduling, like what the league might do, Like he's

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Speaker 1: thinking the league might put together a sixteen game schedule

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Speaker 1: and maybe a fourteen game schedule and a twelve game schedule,

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Speaker 1: thinking that if they have to shorten it or truncate

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Speaker 1: the schedule somehow, they'll be set to go. And maybe

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Speaker 1: that's what they announced on May nights, And he said,

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Speaker 1: you know, like if you go sixteen to fourteen, maybe

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Speaker 1: you make those first two games kind of non divisional,

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Speaker 1: one home, one away for each team, so that you

637
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: could lose those two and not have a tremendous impact

638
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: on the schedule, which would be very interesting. I think, Yeah,

639
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: it might be the right way to do it. You know,

640
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: it might be the right Just have contingency plans, you know. Yeah. Yeah,

641
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: so they could start to start the season as late

642
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 1: as they wanted, you know, if it would move it.

643
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 1: I think I guess they would move the start to

644
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: the season if it turned from a sixteen game to

645
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: a fourteen game, it'd move it back three weeks and

646
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: just because of the bye week, and then move it

647
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 1: back another two weeks because of you know, if they

648
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: go to a twelve game schedule, right or fourteen? Yeah,

649
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, that makes sense. I could

650
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 1: see that. Of course, the guys that you know sit

651
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: there and try and do these schedules are going to

652
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: be they get no break. But making doing three times

653
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: the work in half the time, that's well, you know,

654
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 1: welcome to the medical profession. Yeah right, let's take a

655
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: call here. Tim in North Typa, wanna hello, Tim, you're

656
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: on the air. Go ahead, welcome to show. Yeah, I

657
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: kind of talk to you guys a little bit about

658
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: the running backs before. And I'm curious if you think

659
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: that the Bills would look for a guy that would

660
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 1: be as similar to single Tarry or compliment him in

661
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: style I albom the top of running backs all have

662
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: different qualities, so to speak. Taylor, he's a breakout guy,

663
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: but he's got holes the size of the truck. Same

664
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: thing with Hilarious at LSU Dobbins from Ohio State's a

665
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 1: really violent runner, but he's great and swift from Georgia.

666
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: He's got a lot of like Barry Sanders quality. How

667
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 1: do you think they would look like a guy starts

668
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: fitting their team. I think I'll tell you this, Tim.

669
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 1: My thought about this is that I don't think certainly

670
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 1: in some cases you might think, well, we've got we've

671
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: got a way to like give the defense something completely

672
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: different than what we're looking at. I think one of

673
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: the things you got to think about when you're talking

674
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: about different kinds of running backs is the kind of

675
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 1: offense they're running. You're you've got different types of running plays,

676
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: no question, and different running backs use different types of

677
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: running plays A versa running back can run a couple

678
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: of different You can run a zone scheme or a

679
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 1: power scheme where you've like a power scheme is where

680
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 1: you like pull the guards and get him out around

681
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: the edge, or pull an off tackle and trap the

682
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: inside garden run it up inside. Those would be more

683
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: power block power running game. Then the zone read would

684
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: have the all five offensive lineman coming off the ball

685
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: together and trying to get up to the second level

686
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: and immediately make the line of scrimmaged like a broken

687
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 1: level kind of place for the back just to find

688
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:14,840
Speaker 1: a crease and take one step, one cut and go.

689
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:18,479
Speaker 1: So there's different kinds of philosophy for running backs. Some guys,

690
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 1: some running backs run one well and not the other

691
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 1: and vice versa, and some run pretty well both of them.

692
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 1: But I think this you're asking if you want like

693
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: a Derrick Henry type of running back to complement a

694
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 1: Devin single type singletary type of running back, right or basically,

695
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 1: But I think the thing is this what they do

696
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:43,799
Speaker 1: usually NFL front offices and scouting departments is what they're

697
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 1: trying to do is project onto these players each one individually,

698
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: without thought about what's surrounding them, about what other running

699
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: backs they have are, about their kind of style of running,

700
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 1: or their style of running game or whatever. They look

701
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 1: at these running backs in college prospects as their own

702
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: little entity, and they try and they try and forecast

703
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 1: how good a pro that guy's gonna be, no matter

704
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 1: what style he is. And having said that, I think

705
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 1: what they would do is this tim They're gonna pick

706
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 1: the best guy. If there's two guys that are completely different,

707
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 1: they're gonna pick the guy they think is going to

708
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 1: have the best career as a pro, regardless of the

709
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,320
Speaker 1: running back they already have on their roster, you know

710
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Because they think the better pro is

711
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: going to help that running back better than having some

712
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: guy with a specific style. I think that's my philosophy,

713
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: and I think that's what other teams do. Steve, Are

714
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 1: you saying that size doesn't matter? You know what I mean?

715
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,879
Speaker 1: Running style doesn't matter as far as the running back

716
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 1: they might take. No, I'm thinking I'm saying what matters

717
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: is the perceived future, how good or bad that's going

718
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: to be for any given running back, whether he's a big, big, fast,

719
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: guy or a small, shifty, quick guy, whether he's a

720
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 1: pass receiving running back or a or running back who's

721
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: not that limited, a guy who can run and run

722
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,240
Speaker 1: the ball in between the tackles and run nifty pass routes.

723
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 1: They're gonna what they're gonna do is is ascribe a

724
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 1: best case scenario to this guy's pro career and how

725
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 1: good could he be, and if he's better than the

726
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,399
Speaker 1: other guy that's on the board, that's the guy they take.

727
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 1: No matter what their styles are. Whether you've got a

728
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: five nine guy that's built and looks exactly like Devin

729
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: Singletary or a guy who's built more like Eddie George

730
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 1: or Derreck Henry, they're gonna pick the guy who they

731
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,799
Speaker 1: think can have the best career, and that's the guy

732
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:42,239
Speaker 1: they'll take, regardless of the style, because coaches will believe

733
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:44,240
Speaker 1: they can get the most out of him and whatever

734
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: they ask him to do. So they're gonna take the

735
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 1: guy with the best hot upper end, regardless of his

736
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: style or his physical attributes. Good call. Let's take a

737
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: call here from Anthony and Rochester. Go ahead, Anthony, you're

738
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: on the air. Hey, I hope you and your families

739
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: are healthy and safe. Just wanted to ask you a

740
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 1: little uh, not so much related to the draft, but

741
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 1: I think what I love about this regime with both

742
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: Coach McDermott and Brandon Bean is the culture that they've

743
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 1: established in the locker room. I think that they've shown,

744
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 1: you know, they're really building something good here and all

745
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 1: the guys for the most part they're bringing in, you know,

746
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: have kind of bought in and are you know, loving

747
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: they're changing the outlook of other people as far as

748
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 1: free agents wanting to come to Buffalo. My question is

749
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: that you know, I would never I wouldn't have asked

750
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: this before because I never, you know, thought of, you know,

751
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 1: mister Bean doing something like this. But when there was

752
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: you know, the scuttle about Antonio Brown possibly you know,

753
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 1: I'm glad that never happened, But given the waste Stefan

754
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,919
Speaker 1: Diggs lift Minnesota, I'm just curious as what you guys think,

755
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 1: you know, was that just a bad situation which kind

756
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:05,800
Speaker 1: of gave him a bad taste in his mouth, or

757
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 1: if you guys have had any interact and to you know,

758
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 1: speak to maybe his character is you know, do you

759
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: think this is gonna be a good fit for him,

760
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: because I'm super excited as to what he could bring

761
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 1: to the team. But you know, our locker room being

762
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 1: the way it is, it would just be it would

763
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:23,719
Speaker 1: be really heartbreaking to see something disrupted what they've built

764
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: so far. Yeah, that's a good question, Anthony. We have

765
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: not had a chance to talk to dig Jet. They're

766
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 1: still believe it or not, working out details of physicals

767
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 1: and paperwork going back and forth. And once he gets

768
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: signed officially, which I don't anticipate it's going to be

769
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 1: a problem at all. Well, we'll try to get him

770
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 1: on the show. From what we can tell from the

771
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: people we've talked to in Minnesota and elsewhere, Steve he

772
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 1: seemed to have a problem with the way he was

773
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,720
Speaker 1: being used in that offense. And it wasn't a totally

774
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 1: disruptive thing, but he certainly made himself. He made himself

775
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,320
Speaker 1: heard as far as his objections to how little he

776
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,280
Speaker 1: was used, how he had to share targets with Adam feeling,

777
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 1: how he maybe would have preferred they didn't run the

778
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 1: ball as well, and he made himself heard on that

779
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 1: is that gonna disrupt the Buffalo locker room of a

780
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 1: similar thing happens I don't know, what do you think,

781
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 1: Steve Well. Two things. One, that problem that they had

782
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 1: early in the season did not last the entire season.

783
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:19,800
Speaker 1: He was not an unhappy camper through sixteen weeks. Certainly

784
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 1: in week three or four, I think that was it was.

785
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 1: It was a thing during the week one on the

786
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: sidelines of one game when he was frustrated and the

787
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 1: team wasn't winning. But I don't get the perception that

788
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,839
Speaker 1: it was an ongoing week by week thing where they thought, man,

789
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: we can't live with this guy, because up until even

790
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 1: the Niners, even the Vikings said, and this last week,

791
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 1: last week, remember Murphytt came out that the way we

792
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 1: got a chance to ask Brandon Being about walking us

793
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,720
Speaker 1: through how that trade came about. Right at the outset

794
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: of the same day he was traded, the Vikings told

795
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: Brandon Being that they are not shopping him. Yea, you know,

796
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: so they didn't want to get rid of him. He

797
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: was not a big problem for them in that regard,

798
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 1: like he was a camp us malcontent who was being

799
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 1: a problem for all the other players around him. It

800
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: was not the case. So they were they were perfectly

801
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 1: happy to keep Stefon diggs On their team, So that

802
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 1: says something right away that they weren't that unhappy with

803
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 1: the way he was being with their teammates and on

804
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 1: the sidelines. And the second thing about that is the

805
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 1: Bills have people in their organization and reached out to

806
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 1: other people in step Stefon Diggs past to vet him.

807
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: What kind of guy is he? Why is he unhappy?

808
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: What's the story? Will it be worse here or will

809
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 1: it be better here in Buffalo? And certainly all those

810
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:44,320
Speaker 1: boxes got checked, uh in the in the affirmative that

811
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 1: it was gonna work out here in Buffalo and he

812
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 1: was going to be happy here. So I think they

813
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: did their due diligence and plush their due diligence probably

814
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 1: as much as what I said. They found that it

815
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 1: wasn't he wasn't. It wasn't a bad big deal in Minnesota. Certainly.

816
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: That's the only downside to his whole season last year

817
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: was a week of being unhappy. He didn't get enough

818
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,319
Speaker 1: throws in a loss, you know, or targets in a loss. Yeah.

819
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:13,879
Speaker 1: You know what else is interesting Steve talking to being

820
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 1: what was it last Thursday? We talked to him and

821
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: he said it on the media conference call. He said

822
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: it to us, and I've heard Sean say this too. McDermott.

823
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:23,839
Speaker 1: They want to make it known that they're not looking

824
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 1: for choir boys, and that's not the so and I'm

825
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 1: not saying that Anthony and the caller said that, but

826
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 1: they have they have a type of guy in mind

827
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: that they want for this roster. Is that a choir boy. No.

828
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 1: I mean they can handle guys with personalities and guys

829
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 1: who may stir up crap once in a while. But

830
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 1: what they really want our guys who like to play

831
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 1: and win and practice hard to get better to win.

832
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 1: And I think they wanted out there that they're not

833
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 1: looking to assemble a you know, a team full of

834
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 1: choir boys. They're looking for good football players who'd like

835
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,319
Speaker 1: to play football, and they want that message out there,

836
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Well, yeah, they're they're looking

837
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:59,320
Speaker 1: for pros. They're looking for guys who are professional athletes,

838
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 1: guys who are committed to being as good as they

839
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 1: can be, and all the stuff that goes on off

840
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 1: the field takes care of itself when you've got a

841
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,800
Speaker 1: guy who's committed enough to being as good as he

842
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: can be on the football field and be smart enough

843
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,840
Speaker 1: to know that he'd better. You know that the stuff

844
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 1: that's happening off the football field can the stuff that's

845
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 1: happening off the football field can just you know that

846
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: will will affect what happens on the field, and so

847
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: they don't let it. So if they're committed enough not

848
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:35,719
Speaker 1: to let those bad things off the football field or

849
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: any other things, their family, their their home life, their

850
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 1: situation with their with their businesses away from the field,

851
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 1: if all of that takes a backseat to what they're

852
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 1: doing on the football field, that's the kind of commitment

853
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: and professionalism the Bills are looking for. It has nothing

854
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:54,799
Speaker 1: to do with, you know, their charitable foundation so much.

855
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: It has to do with their commitment of playing and

856
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 1: winning and being committed. Right all right, we have phone

857
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: lines open. We'll take more calls. Eight oh three oh

858
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Speaker 1: five fifty toll free one eight eight five fifty two

859
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: five fifty. What do you think? What's your reason for

860
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 1: keeping an eye on the draft in two and a

861
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 1: half weeks. Let us know what it is. We'll take

862
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 1: your phone call, We'll read from the tweet sheet, might

863
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 1: even go back to the Twitter poll and see what

864
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:16,840
Speaker 1: you say. Come on back one Bill's Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Collida Health Radio only, no TV today. This is Buffalo

866
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:29,840
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Welcome back, one day five from Monday afternoon.

867
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: John Murphy at home, Steve Taskers at home. We're coming

868
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 1: to you by Front of Center by Collida Health Radio

869
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 1: Only Today. Chris Spielman coming up in a couple of

870
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: minutes from our Bills line back. We're going to join us.

871
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 1: Let's get back to the well, Let's get to the

872
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: Twitter pool today. The draft two and a half weeks

873
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:49,359
Speaker 1: away now. It is Thursday, April twenty, third Round one.

874
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,560
Speaker 1: The Bills get involved in round two with Dan in

875
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 1: mind and knowing that it's going to be a different draft.

876
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 1: What's your reason for interested in this year's NFL draft?

877
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:58,800
Speaker 1: Is it who the Bill's target is a need in

878
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: the second round? Sixty one percent say that's your main

879
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:03,840
Speaker 1: reason for keeping an eye on an eye in the draft?

880
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,440
Speaker 1: Is it first round surprises drama? Twenty one percent and

881
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:09,880
Speaker 1: say that's what you're looking for? Is it how the

882
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,839
Speaker 1: network networks execute their draft coverage? Thirteen percent say that's

883
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: the one or is it something else? Give us a

884
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,840
Speaker 1: call eight three five fifty twelve three one eight eight

885
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two, five fifty What do you think

886
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 1: it's a network coverage dat right? Well, for me it

887
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: is because you know, I'm in the media business. I mean,

888
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: I'm kind of interested in how they're going to do it.

889
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 1: I'm interested also and how the league carries it off

890
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 1: and what it's gonna look like, so all of that

891
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 1: kind of the way it's gonna look on TV and

892
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 1: what's gonna be like. For instance. Two, you're probably just

893
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 1: like me, it's been years since you didn't have an

894
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 1: event to be at on Draft Day, right or a show.

895
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 1: We did the show last year. Yeah, we're on the

896
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: We're on the air last year, so it'll be different.

897
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 1: It'll be one more thing that's different in our yearly

898
00:44:56,800 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 1: schedule going forward. So it'll be interesting. That's an interesting

899
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 1: part about it. More tweets than the tweet sheet brought

900
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 1: you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official Moves of the

901
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills brand says I think I'm interested in what

902
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: the Bills do with all of their picks in the draft,

903
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:13,279
Speaker 1: not just the second round, also to see if they

904
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,959
Speaker 1: trade up or down and who they get. Good point,

905
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: they may not stick there at fifty four overall, Steve,

906
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:20,399
Speaker 1: they may move up. I'm not saying they're gonna move

907
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:23,359
Speaker 1: up to top ten on the draft, but Brandon Means

908
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 1: said it last week. You know, if they're after day one,

909
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 1: if they're reassessing this, they do after the first round

910
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 1: and see if there's a couple of players who they

911
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:32,920
Speaker 1: anticipated would be gone in the first round still there

912
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:36,840
Speaker 1: before the second round begins. They may, they may strike,

913
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 1: they may put together because they've got, you know, all

914
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 1: those picks that their draft is backloaded now, so why

915
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 1: what do you know? What do you think, Murph? What

916
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: if if they say, for instance, they get it and

917
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 1: they're gonna move up and there's a guy they want

918
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 1: to move up for. What if they move from fifty

919
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 1: four to like, well, you know not but like to forty.

920
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 1: You know, it would take a lot, but it might

921
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 1: be worth It would take a lot to do it.

922
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:04,359
Speaker 1: But who would that be? That's the questions. And we'll

923
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 1: never know the answer that until it happens, because it

924
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: and we don't even know what position it would be. Right, Well,

925
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: that's that's a more realistic question. What my answer, I

926
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 1: think it would be an offensive linement that they think

927
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 1: maybe he'll be there at forty. He might not be

928
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: there fourteen picks later. Let's go get him. And even

929
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 1: if we have to give up our third round or

930
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,359
Speaker 1: fourth round or to move up those fourteen spots, let's

931
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 1: do it. Let's go get an offensive linement that we want,

932
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 1: a tackle that we want, right, I mean it could

933
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:30,320
Speaker 1: be it could be an offensive linement, it could be

934
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 1: that could be anybody though really it could be a

935
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 1: defensive tackle or an edge russer or some rusher or somebody.

936
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: I'll tell you the truth. I would not do it

937
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 1: for our running back. No, I wouldn't either. I wouldn't either,

938
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: not with Devin Singletary in the fold and all those

939
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 1: guys out on the street. You know. No, that's the

940
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 1: interesting part. And plus move up what would they move

941
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: up if it wasn't like fifty four up to like forty,

942
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 1: who would you move up like five slots to get

943
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:00,919
Speaker 1: you know, why would that be worth it? Well? Offensive line?

944
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 1: If there's look, Cody Ford was what thirty seven, I

945
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:06,879
Speaker 1: want to say last year, he was in the top

946
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 1: ten of the second round. And if they can get

947
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: up into the top ten of the second round without

948
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 1: doing you know, laying wasted the rest of their draft.

949
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: I would do that to get a starting caliber offensive

950
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 1: lineman as Cody Ford is. I would do that get

951
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:22,840
Speaker 1: a starting right tackle. Yeah, I mean I would sure,

952
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 1: because that would be because we're talking about it. We're

953
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:28,399
Speaker 1: in a different place than we were a year ago.

954
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:30,839
Speaker 1: You know, we're in a place where you know, they

955
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: just needed I'd like to get like one guy. Yeah,

956
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: you know they could really start and beat and plug

957
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:38,279
Speaker 1: and play. Get him for sixteen weeks and he's a

958
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: stud from start to go, start to finish. You get

959
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: a guy like that by moving up, that may be

960
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: worth a roll of the dice with three later round

961
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: draft picks, you know what I'm saying. Yep, And they

962
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 1: have seven picks right now going into the draft. If

963
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:53,879
Speaker 1: they come out of the draft to having selected four

964
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 1: players but used it to move around a little bit,

965
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 1: I'd be okay with it. To get four players, not

966
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:00,320
Speaker 1: a lot, But what the heck, If you get a

967
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 1: start out of that, that's good. We're almost the point

968
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:04,840
Speaker 1: I said this is the earlier part of the Show's

969
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:06,800
Speaker 1: a different kind of draft for the Buffalo Bills, for

970
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 1: the Bills fans, because they've got I mean, they got

971
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 1: probably they got all twenty two starters they'd like, you know,

972
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 1: I mean, they got twenty two guys they could go

973
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: in start the season with. But if you want to

974
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 1: upgrade that, maybe you could do it. Maybe one, maybe

975
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 1: two of the picks in this draft one maybe, and

976
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: that's a maybe. So it's almost the point where you know,

977
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 1: if you can get guy, you think, yes, we can

978
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: upgrade one spot, throw the rest of those picks away,

979
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:36,439
Speaker 1: use them to get that guy. You know what I'm saying,

980
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: it's yep, And it wouldn't even be a bump in

981
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: the radar for the way this team looks right now

982
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 1: starting headed into a regular season game. I'll be honest

983
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: with you. We always knew that was a possibility to

984
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:49,919
Speaker 1: maneuver around. But when Brandon Bean said that last week

985
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: about re stacking their draft board, you know, the night

986
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:56,880
Speaker 1: after Round one and seeing if he brought it up,

987
00:48:57,640 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 1: he said, then we sit down and see if we

988
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:01,279
Speaker 1: can make a move to move up and get a

989
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: guy that would really want somewhere in the first half

990
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:05,400
Speaker 1: of the first round as opposed to waiting until the

991
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 1: twenty second pick of the first round. He brought it up,

992
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,600
Speaker 1: which makes me think he's thinking of that and I

993
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: would love to see that. That would That wouldn't make

994
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: the draft for me if they made him move up

995
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 1: and got a player, even if they I don't even

996
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 1: care how good the guy turned out to be. If

997
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 1: they may, no, I don't. I mean, I just I

998
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:23,839
Speaker 1: think that would be an aggressive Brandon Being type move

999
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: to put together a package to move up, and let's

1000
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 1: say the first half of the first round top sixteen,

1001
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:31,359
Speaker 1: they'd have to move up at least six to move

1002
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:33,000
Speaker 1: up and get a guy that they really think a

1003
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:35,880
Speaker 1: lot of. Even if you know you're giving up six rounders.

1004
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:40,359
Speaker 1: They got two six rounders, one seventh rounder, a fourth, fifth,

1005
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: a third. Maybe it'll take a third to move up

1006
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:43,759
Speaker 1: that much. I think i'd be kind of fun to watch.

1007
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:46,319
Speaker 1: I really do that would make the draft for me. Yeah,

1008
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 1: I mean it certainly would raise some eyebrows and have

1009
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: people sit up and you know, sit up in their chair.

1010
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 1: But how about this, Murphy, This is more likely. It's

1011
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: not because I don't think that's enough draft capital will

1012
00:49:57,719 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: move up. I mean, if if you took a fifth,

1013
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:04,280
Speaker 1: six fifth to sixth and a seventh, you still wouldn't

1014
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:07,800
Speaker 1: have enough to move up from fifty four to forty.

1015
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:09,759
Speaker 1: You got a dart in front of me, What would

1016
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:13,239
Speaker 1: think I would take? Well, here's here's what I'm gonna say.

1017
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 1: I think it would take a player. I don't want

1018
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:18,279
Speaker 1: to give up any players, right, that's the thing. It

1019
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 1: would have to be a player, and they have start.

1020
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 1: I don't have the chart handy in front of me,

1021
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: but I don't have a hand I looked it up

1022
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 1: earlier and I was shocked that it would take. The

1023
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 1: Bills couldn't move up into the top ten. Even if

1024
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 1: they had their first round draft pick at twenty two.

1025
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 1: It would take all of their picks this year, and

1026
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:40,040
Speaker 1: they still wouldn't be able to move up that far.

1027
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 1: So that's you know, you're talking about an enormous leap

1028
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:48,480
Speaker 1: and a lot of draft capital uh to uh to

1029
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 1: move and it just it's just not feasible. It's not

1030
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 1: feasible unless you found a team that has a hankering

1031
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:58,360
Speaker 1: for one of your players. All Right, I got a

1032
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:00,440
Speaker 1: draft value chart, and I won't wait your time with

1033
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 1: it now, but I'll look it up and see what

1034
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 1: it would take to move up until let's say the

1035
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:07,720
Speaker 1: first half of the second round. What that might take, Yeah, say,

1036
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 1: move up to forty. Okay, all right, I'll do that.

1037
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 1: I'll spend time during the break. We got a break

1038
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:16,359
Speaker 1: coming up here. When we come back, Chris Spielman, former

1039
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 1: Bills linebacker, we'll join us to talk about how he's

1040
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:22,239
Speaker 1: been helping raise money to benefit the coronavirus in the

1041
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 1: pandemic response. That's coming up in our number two One

1042
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Kalida Health, We're coming to you

1043
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 1: from our home. Steve's at home. I'm at home. This

1044
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Hello, Bills Radio Network. Sports Update.

1045
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:44,360
Speaker 1: The update from One Bills Live. Phase one of the

1046
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 1: NFL offseason was supposed to start today for five different

1047
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:50,439
Speaker 1: NFL teams with new coaches. That is on hold, of course,

1048
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 1: with what's going on with the coronavirus pandemic. NFL Network

1049
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:57,800
Speaker 1: says the NFL and the Players Association are still hammering

1050
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:00,399
Speaker 1: out the tales of a virtual offseason, which will delay

1051
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 1: to start of Phase one for at least a week.

1052
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 1: For now, teams may send players tablets iPads for voluntary

1053
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 1: use on their own as they quarantine away from team facilities.

1054
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:14,840
Speaker 1: In the original offseason timeline, the Giants, the Cowboys, Washington Carolina,

1055
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,520
Speaker 1: and Cleveland could have been addressing their full squads today

1056
00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: with workouts. The Bills offseason workouts scheduled to start in

1057
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:23,439
Speaker 1: two weeks on April twentieth, but right now everything's on hold.

1058
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 1: In a conference call up with the weekend with Major

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Speaker 1: League Sports Commissioners, President Donald Trump says he believes the

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Speaker 1: NFL season should start on time in September. Trump says

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Speaker 1: he hopes they have fans back in stadiums and arenas

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Speaker 1: by August and September. California Governor Gavin Newsom says he

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Speaker 1: is not anticipating the NFL season would open in August

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Speaker 1: or September with eighty thousand fans in the stands. Former

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00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: Saints and Bills kicker Tom Dempsey, who famously made a

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00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:51,520
Speaker 1: sixty three yard field goal in nineteen seventy, then NFL

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00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:54,239
Speaker 1: record that stood for forty three years, has died due

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Speaker 1: to complications of the Coronavirus's daughter said Dempsey was seventy

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Speaker 1: three years old. He had been battling alzheimer and dementia.

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Speaker 1: He was a resident of a senior living center outside

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Speaker 1: New Orleans. Los Angeles. Rams are not gonna think twice

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Speaker 1: about moving forward with their recently rebranding effort. The Rams

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00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 1: have no plan to move away from new logos and

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00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 1: colors and are taking in stride some of the backlash

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Speaker 1: they've received from fans and even all the fame running

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00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:22,839
Speaker 1: back Eric Dickerson, and the golf schedule has been thrown

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Speaker 1: into upheaval. The British Open at Royal Saint George's has

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00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:29,360
Speaker 1: been canceled. The PGA Championship has been moved to August,

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Speaker 1: the US Open to September. The Ryder Cup will remain

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Speaker 1: in its original late September data. Now the announcement today

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Speaker 1: the Masters will be held November twelfth through the fifteenth

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00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:41,719
Speaker 1: in Augusta, Georgia. And that is the update from One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live, John Murphy Steam Tasker Company from our home today.

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Speaker 1: As our show continues on doing the show Radio only today,

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00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 1: We've got Chris Spielman's coming on the show in a

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00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 1: moment or two. What do you think of moving the

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00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:56,880
Speaker 1: Masters still November, Steve, They're gonna miss some of that

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00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:01,719
Speaker 1: great springtime flower floral atmosphere on Augusta National. Yeah, it's

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00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:04,560
Speaker 1: different than November than it does. And yeah, well they're

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00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 1: not gonna be any what are they azaleas or whatever

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00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:10,240
Speaker 1: they call ye all less stuff is gonna be different.

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00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:15,560
Speaker 1: This is it's gonna be a full calendar year before

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00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:19,200
Speaker 1: we all feel normal again. I know, at least right

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00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 1: and just in the sports world anyway, Certainly we'll feel

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00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:27,000
Speaker 1: normal when when we're all allowed to just go out

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00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 1: and go out to dinner and go to the grocery

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00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 1: store and all of that without a second thought. That'll

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00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,359
Speaker 1: feel a lot more normal. But in the sports world

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00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. Seriously, I think when we'll feel that

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00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:41,680
Speaker 1: it's getting back to normal is when March Madness rolls

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00:54:41,719 --> 00:54:44,800
Speaker 1: around again. Right boy, Unless the well unless the NFL

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00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:47,919
Speaker 1: goes off without a hitch, then it'll feel normal for sure.

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00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 1: Right maybe that'll happen. I think that'll do it if

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00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 1: the NFL does. If everything happens in the NFL is

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00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 1: able to go off without a hitch and start, even

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00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 1: if it's a herky jerky preseason, the first time they

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00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 1: came get into the air and there's people in the

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00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 1: stands watching, it'll feel like all of us in our

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00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:09,400
Speaker 1: old selves again. I'm the line with us right now.

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00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:12,200
Speaker 1: Former Bills linebacker also played with the Lions and the

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00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:14,359
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. He played with the Bills in ninety six

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Speaker 1: and ninety seven. Now and Analystsmen's Fox Sports remember the

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Speaker 1: College Football Hall of Fame from Ohio State, former Bills

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Speaker 1: linebacker Chris Spielman on the line. Hello, Chris, John Murphy

1115
00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:25,360
Speaker 1: and your former teammates Steve Task around the line with us.

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00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 1: How are you doing today? Good afternoon, man, how are

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00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:30,880
Speaker 1: you guys? We're good. We're hanging in and you and

1118
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:34,160
Speaker 1: your family is doing well. I hope we're in Columbus right, Yeah, Yeah,

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00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:37,640
Speaker 1: everything's good, you know, just making the most of the opportunity.

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Speaker 1: I think in life, you know, great challenges bring great opportunities,

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00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:44,960
Speaker 1: and so and a lot of us are defined. At

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00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 1: least I'm trying to tell my kids when whenever there's

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00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:51,360
Speaker 1: difficulties or challenges, it's how you respond. What are you

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00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:53,480
Speaker 1: going to do? Is it going to control you or

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00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 1: are you going to control it? So we're doing our

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00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 1: best to try to control it by controlling the situation

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00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:01,960
Speaker 1: that we're in. I know, Chris, you've been one of

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00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:05,120
Speaker 1: those players that were so thoughtful and so well studied.

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00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:07,359
Speaker 1: When you played, you knew a lot of details about

1130
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 1: what was going on in the field. Even things that didn't,

1131
00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:14,799
Speaker 1: you know, necessarily affect you on the field. And one

1132
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:17,319
Speaker 1: of the things you're doing these days, you're putting technique

1133
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:20,800
Speaker 1: films and videos on your Twitter side. You're kind of

1134
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:24,840
Speaker 1: teaching people with your Twitter page about the techniques you

1135
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:27,319
Speaker 1: used as a to be a linebacker for so long

1136
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Any kind of response that you've gotten

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00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 1: from those that maybe kind of reinforced your desire to

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00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:36,360
Speaker 1: do it or maybe made you feel good about the

1139
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:39,920
Speaker 1: videos you were putting out. I mean, I did it

1140
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 1: because I think one people always think of me this

1141
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 1: really serious guy, and I probably was. I mean I

1142
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 1: was as a player, and you know, Steve knows me

1143
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 1: a little bit. Steve and I spent two years together

1144
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:53,880
Speaker 1: in the locker room, and so I think for me,

1145
00:56:56,120 --> 00:57:00,200
Speaker 1: I wanted to show kind of my real personality us

1146
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 1: and so they're they're actually I think some of them

1147
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:05,759
Speaker 1: are pretty funny. Some people might not take when I'm

1148
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:08,840
Speaker 1: stripping my wife with the TP and showing how, you know,

1149
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:10,920
Speaker 1: how many shoppers will go for that on the ground

1150
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:13,240
Speaker 1: and how to recover the TP if you get the scrum.

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00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 1: So I think, you know, it's been I think overall

1152
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 1: we've probably had. If you combine to all the videos,

1153
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 1: I think there's six or seven close to four, four

1154
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 1: hundred thousand views, So it's been pretty successful, I think.

1155
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 1: And fun. Yeah, I've seen someone Chris, you use your kids,

1156
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 1: your daughters, right and some of the instructional videos you

1157
00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 1: put it on there. Yeah, and uh, you know, they're

1158
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:40,760
Speaker 1: they're my scout team. Unfortunately though, everything's the negotiation in life,

1159
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:43,920
Speaker 1: so some of them are are me dancing with them.

1160
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 1: But we take that and turn it into a football

1161
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:50,320
Speaker 1: technique somehow. So it's again, it's it's again. It's it's

1162
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 1: about us and in the in this house, controlling our

1163
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:59,479
Speaker 1: situation and how we respond to being locked in the house.

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00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 1: And that's just what we chose choose to do. We're

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00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 1: not going to let this thing constantly give us fear

1166
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 1: in our faceplace a big party in it too. You know,

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00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:11,120
Speaker 1: I'm not living in fear. I'm going to live smart

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00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:15,880
Speaker 1: and I'm going to live responsibility responsibily, but I refuse

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00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:19,520
Speaker 1: to live in fear. Well, you also took some advant

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00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:21,560
Speaker 1: as you said, this is kind of an opportunity in it,

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00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 1: and it you know, brings back a lot of memories

1172
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 1: about the atmosphere you brought to our locker room about

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00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:30,240
Speaker 1: making the most of every opportunity you've The Spielman Family

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00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:33,360
Speaker 1: Foundation has used this as an opportunity to to do

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00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:37,640
Speaker 1: some good. You're obviously involved with breast cancer research that

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00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 1: took the life of your wife and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: just a decade ago. Tell us about your latest venture

1178
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:48,440
Speaker 1: into that and how that's going. Well, it's not involved

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00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:53,160
Speaker 1: with our family Foundation. What this is is just a

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00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:58,440
Speaker 1: straight cash exchange. So I decided I do a podcast.

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00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:01,080
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you guys have ever met

1182
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 1: a friend of mine that helped write a book that

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00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:06,840
Speaker 1: I wrote called Bruce names Bruce Wholey is a feat

1184
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 1: writer for a long time around the NFL and Ohio state.

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00:59:09,640 --> 00:59:13,600
Speaker 1: And we do a podcast, and so both of us

1186
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:16,640
Speaker 1: are men of faith, and so we believe that in

1187
00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:20,040
Speaker 1: a faith without deeds is a faith that is dead.

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00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:22,960
Speaker 1: So we decided what we were going to do is

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Speaker 1: I was going to put four hundred dollars in for

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00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 1: a week, and then we were going to draw names

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00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 1: out of a bucket for people that nominated them through

1192
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:37,320
Speaker 1: our email Steelman Wholly podcast at Gmail. And by doing that,

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00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:41,080
Speaker 1: we would send out a hundred dollars checks to four

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00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:45,800
Speaker 1: people every week. Well, I realized quickly that two things,

1195
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:50,440
Speaker 1: that that's not enough money to hopefully help somebody longer,

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00:59:50,680 --> 00:59:53,160
Speaker 1: for a longer period of time, and that I'm going

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00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:55,840
Speaker 1: to need a lot more money because I don't have

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Speaker 1: the kind of money to write four hundred dollars every

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Speaker 1: single week to somebody. So what we decided to do.

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Speaker 1: I said, Bruce, look, I got some memorabilia. I think

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01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:07,959
Speaker 1: we can raise some quote unquote real money. And I said,

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Speaker 1: what I want to do is I want to do

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01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:13,680
Speaker 1: it for forty weeks. And the significance of the number

1204
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Speaker 1: forty is the quarantine I believe means in Italian and

1205
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:24,560
Speaker 1: it's close to meaning forty. Also there's forty days in length.

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01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 1: And also there's a strong biblical reference in connection to

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Speaker 1: the number forty. And so what we decided to do

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01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:35,000
Speaker 1: is put this memorabilia up. And what we're going to

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01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:39,520
Speaker 1: do now I'm in the process of getting there is

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01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:45,720
Speaker 1: raised forty thousand dollars and from now until the end

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Speaker 1: of January or toward the beginning of February. I forget

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01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:52,280
Speaker 1: where we marked when we started this, but for forty

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01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:55,040
Speaker 1: weeks now we're going to give a thousand dollars a

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01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:59,360
Speaker 1: week away by the hopefully by the funds raised from

1215
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:02,720
Speaker 1: the memorability. And it's it's not a charity. Whatever I

1216
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 1: make off for Vbay's going into an account and from

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01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:08,760
Speaker 1: that account, it's going out to the people that we're

1218
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:11,680
Speaker 1: drawn from the bucket. So and people ask me, well

1219
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:15,760
Speaker 1: can I donate? And my suggestion is to you is

1220
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Speaker 1: look at your neighbor, look at your friend. Don't wait

1221
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:22,360
Speaker 1: for somebody to ask help, somebody that you know that

1222
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 1: needs help, or to help the food bank or whatever

1223
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:28,200
Speaker 1: is something close to you, because obviously this is something

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01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:34,040
Speaker 1: that affects everybody everywhere. So Christ what kind of things

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01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:36,800
Speaker 1: you oction in off? I saw that your Ohio State

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01:01:36,880 --> 01:01:39,160
Speaker 1: Big Ten Championship ring is one and you you've also

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01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:41,960
Speaker 1: auctioned off some Bills member Bill yuh I got yeah.

1228
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:46,040
Speaker 1: I offered off a game game warn Bills Jersey from

1229
01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:52,040
Speaker 1: ninety seven season that went for eleven hundred and twenty

1230
01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:54,960
Speaker 1: five dollars. And I don't know if you guys know,

1231
01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:57,520
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys have the Sabers obviously, but the

1232
01:01:57,680 --> 01:02:02,560
Speaker 1: Captain of the Blue Jacket's Nick Folino match that offer

1233
01:02:02,680 --> 01:02:06,480
Speaker 1: so we doubled that, which was really cool, and I

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01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:09,520
Speaker 1: got Nick a Bill's T shirt. He's paid eleven hundred

1235
01:02:09,560 --> 01:02:13,400
Speaker 1: dollars for a Bill's T shirt that I had. Pretty good,

1236
01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:18,160
Speaker 1: A good deal for me, bad for Nick. I think, Chris,

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01:02:18,240 --> 01:02:20,360
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you this too. And I know this.

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01:02:20,560 --> 01:02:22,320
Speaker 1: I mean, you wouldn't be parting with any of the

1239
01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:24,120
Speaker 1: stuff if it really wasn't important you. But is there

1240
01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:28,800
Speaker 1: anything on your list of paraphernalia that you think is

1241
01:02:30,080 --> 01:02:32,480
Speaker 1: is maybe the most valuable. I mean, what piece of

1242
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:34,720
Speaker 1: paraphernale speaks to you more so than any of the

1243
01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 1: stuff like jerseys and all of that. Well, I'm just

1244
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:41,600
Speaker 1: an interesting story. I sold the Big ten championship ring

1245
01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:46,160
Speaker 1: from nineteen eighty four for twelve thousand, and the gentleman

1246
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:51,680
Speaker 1: is so gracious and kind offered. I said, let's make

1247
01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 1: a deal that when I die, and when you die,

1248
01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:57,560
Speaker 1: your son find your oldest son who went to school

1249
01:02:57,600 --> 01:03:00,600
Speaker 1: with my oldest daughter. He finds her, gives her back

1250
01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:05,360
Speaker 1: the ring, and he said deal, And so I think

1251
01:03:05,440 --> 01:03:09,720
Speaker 1: for me. Look, Steve John, I'm sorry I don't know this,

1252
01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:11,840
Speaker 1: but Steve, I know you have a strong faith that

1253
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:17,400
Speaker 1: our faith at times requires sacrificial giving. And so I

1254
01:03:17,560 --> 01:03:21,000
Speaker 1: know that I have the memories and I'll miss the memorabilia.

1255
01:03:21,600 --> 01:03:25,200
Speaker 1: But I don't need the memorabilia because I have the memories.

1256
01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:27,200
Speaker 1: I know that I played in that Rose Bowl game.

1257
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 1: I know that my experience with the Buffalo Bills was

1258
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:34,120
Speaker 1: an awesome experience. I know what the people of Detroit

1259
01:03:34,360 --> 01:03:37,880
Speaker 1: me being a lion means. I remember those games. I

1260
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:40,080
Speaker 1: mean I lived it. I was there. I was in

1261
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:42,680
Speaker 1: that locker room with Jim Kelledy and Steve Pastor and

1262
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:46,000
Speaker 1: Bruce Smith and Andre Reid and Thurman Thomas and Bryce

1263
01:03:46,120 --> 01:03:51,400
Speaker 1: Pop and Sam Rodgers. I lived that. And so the

1264
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:55,160
Speaker 1: memorabilia is really really cool to have. But I look

1265
01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 1: at it as it's a small sacrifice. Yet it isn't sacrifice,

1266
01:03:59,440 --> 01:04:02,800
Speaker 1: but it's one that is worth more hanging up in

1267
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:06,080
Speaker 1: my weight room. It's worth more and somebody else's weight

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Speaker 1: room when that person has been blessed enough to be

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Speaker 1: able to see the vision that I have and help

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Speaker 1: not only me serve God, but help those people that

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Speaker 1: are in need. So it's a win win win. Three

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01:04:19,560 --> 01:04:22,560
Speaker 1: people win. The person who buys it, I win because

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01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:24,840
Speaker 1: I get to serve, and the person who's getting it

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01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:27,160
Speaker 1: wins because they get some relief. And if you know,

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01:04:27,200 --> 01:04:29,520
Speaker 1: you win two hundred and fifty bucks and you's somebody

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01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:31,880
Speaker 1: out of work that pays a bill or buys a

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01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:33,920
Speaker 1: week's worth of groceries for you that you don't have

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01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:36,960
Speaker 1: to worry about. Yeah, I agree with that, Chris. There's

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01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:39,600
Speaker 1: a lot to live as well. And I know this too,

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Speaker 1: with all the parapherne you I've gotten over the years,

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01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:46,440
Speaker 1: most of it, for most of it is worthless to

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01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:49,840
Speaker 1: everybody accept me, you know, And that's the only stuff

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01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:52,920
Speaker 1: I keep, And a lot of it is intrinsically not valuable.

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01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:54,960
Speaker 1: But I know this too that there are things out

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01:04:55,040 --> 01:05:00,960
Speaker 1: there that it's not the My career was never has

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01:05:01,040 --> 01:05:03,880
Speaker 1: never been about, you know, rings or stuff like that.

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01:05:04,280 --> 01:05:08,240
Speaker 1: I cherish the relationships more so than anything that, you know,

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01:05:08,320 --> 01:05:10,160
Speaker 1: having guys like you on my team, being with in

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01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:12,840
Speaker 1: that locker room with you and Sam Rodgers and Bryce,

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01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:16,480
Speaker 1: Pop and Bruce and Jim and Thurman Andre all those guys. Uh,

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01:05:16,720 --> 01:05:18,480
Speaker 1: that's really what the fun of it is. So I

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01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:24,000
Speaker 1: applaud your willingness to uh sacrificially give maybe fragments of

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01:05:24,080 --> 01:05:26,760
Speaker 1: those memories away to some people who would appreciate them

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01:05:26,800 --> 01:05:32,120
Speaker 1: and use the proceeds to help others who um or

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01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:34,640
Speaker 1: you know, could not care less about that stuff. And

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01:05:34,720 --> 01:05:36,919
Speaker 1: I think it's use it for the benefit. I gotta

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01:05:37,120 --> 01:05:41,120
Speaker 1: you know, give you a clap for that. That's that's awesome.

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Speaker 1: It's good. Good to hear you doing that. Well, I think, um,

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Speaker 1: John and Steve that you know what, So how does

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01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:50,960
Speaker 1: you know? What does football teach us throughout our life? Right?

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01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:52,919
Speaker 1: What you give or grow, what you keep, you lose.

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01:05:53,160 --> 01:05:57,480
Speaker 1: And it's amazing. Yeah, by giving up something on eBay,

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01:05:58,200 --> 01:06:01,520
Speaker 1: collecting the money from the day and turning it over,

1304
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:04,720
Speaker 1: given that money away, Look how that has grown and spread,

1305
01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:07,640
Speaker 1: you know. And it's the same. It's all about where

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01:06:07,920 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 1: we are a team or a country in the middle

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01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:13,560
Speaker 1: of the pandemic and those of us that have been

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01:06:13,600 --> 01:06:19,360
Speaker 1: blessed enough to take action and just don't hide, but

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01:06:19,520 --> 01:06:26,840
Speaker 1: take action, responsible action. I believe it's our responsibility to

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01:06:27,040 --> 01:06:32,400
Speaker 1: do so. Bive with Chris Fielman, former Bill's linebacker Chris

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01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:36,880
Speaker 1: two part question Number one is do the auctions continue still?

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01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:40,160
Speaker 1: And number two, where exactly does the money go after

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01:06:40,240 --> 01:06:43,560
Speaker 1: these auctions take place? Well, I thought I just explained

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01:06:43,600 --> 01:06:48,640
Speaker 1: where the money went, I'm sorry, I wasn't clear the money,

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01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:51,400
Speaker 1: I sell the item, I get the money. Then for

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01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:56,080
Speaker 1: forty weeks from my account, Bruce and I, Boullie and

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01:06:56,160 --> 01:07:00,000
Speaker 1: I are going to write a check for a thousand dollars.

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01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:04,480
Speaker 1: That collars will divided by four. Four people per week

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01:07:04,520 --> 01:07:08,160
Speaker 1: will receive two hundred and fifty dollars. They email our

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01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:13,080
Speaker 1: podcast Fielman Hooley Podcast at Gmail, and then we picked

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01:07:13,120 --> 01:07:17,160
Speaker 1: the We we pick all the nominations. We pick four

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01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:19,600
Speaker 1: names every single week for the next forty weeks, and

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01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:21,640
Speaker 1: if you don't win one week, it doesn't matter. You

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01:07:21,720 --> 01:07:24,040
Speaker 1: stay in the in the drawing or in the pool.

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01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:27,520
Speaker 1: I'm sorry if I wasn't clear, I got it. And

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01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:33,960
Speaker 1: how many more weeks? You can to do this until

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Speaker 1: the end of February or January. End of January or February,

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01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:42,920
Speaker 1: that's will be the end of the forty weeks. So

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01:07:43,120 --> 01:07:46,160
Speaker 1: we'll have to look at the calendar and determine exactly

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Speaker 1: when that is. Yeah, we're with Chris Spielman former Bill's

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Speaker 1: lineback around the line with this, Hey, Chris, um let

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Speaker 1: me if I can't just get your thoughts on. I

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01:07:57,240 --> 01:07:59,360
Speaker 1: know you're doing some work with Fox Sports. Have you

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01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:01,680
Speaker 1: thought it all any chance to keep an eye on

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01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:04,320
Speaker 1: what the Buffalo Bills have done this offseason trying to

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01:08:04,320 --> 01:08:08,040
Speaker 1: build themselves into a championship contender. Yeah, I saw they

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01:08:08,120 --> 01:08:14,160
Speaker 1: took advantage of one ricks fieldman with a trade they

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01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:16,800
Speaker 1: got the better of him. Huh. Well, I think both

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01:08:16,880 --> 01:08:19,240
Speaker 1: teams actually went on that deal. I mean, I think

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01:08:19,320 --> 01:08:23,880
Speaker 1: Stefan is a great gift and a good player and

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01:08:23,960 --> 01:08:29,240
Speaker 1: will help that offense and help Josh Allen have another target.

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01:08:29,280 --> 01:08:31,160
Speaker 1: And I think Rick did pretty well and some of

1343
01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:34,080
Speaker 1: the draft picks he was able to get from that.

1344
01:08:34,360 --> 01:08:38,479
Speaker 1: So I think that was a win win situation for

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01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:42,200
Speaker 1: the Bills. And I mean, if I'm a Bills fan,

1346
01:08:42,280 --> 01:08:44,519
Speaker 1: I'm excited because I do think they have a team

1347
01:08:44,640 --> 01:08:50,519
Speaker 1: that it's fun to watch because it maybe I'm wrong,

1348
01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:53,240
Speaker 1: but it doesn't seem like there's a huge amount of

1349
01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:55,479
Speaker 1: the ego on that team. I mean, it seems like

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01:08:55,600 --> 01:08:58,400
Speaker 1: they're Sean does a great job as coaching and bring

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01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:01,720
Speaker 1: those guys together and keep the focused on admission. At

1352
01:09:01,760 --> 01:09:05,439
Speaker 1: least that's my experience. I haven't done many Bills games.

1353
01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:09,880
Speaker 1: I've done one or two in my what had it

1354
01:09:09,960 --> 01:09:12,920
Speaker 1: been four or five year career doing NFL football from

1355
01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:16,479
Speaker 1: coming from college football. But I do sense that from

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01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:18,280
Speaker 1: that team, And I don't know if that's accurate or not,

1357
01:09:18,439 --> 01:09:22,240
Speaker 1: but that's my sense. You think you're right, and it is.

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01:09:22,360 --> 01:09:25,320
Speaker 1: It's it's been a really fun ride for Bills fans

1359
01:09:25,400 --> 01:09:27,280
Speaker 1: here in Western New York to watch this team take

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01:09:27,360 --> 01:09:30,519
Speaker 1: shape and the feelings that they have about each other.

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01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:34,240
Speaker 1: Do you have any special memories maybe of your career

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01:09:34,320 --> 01:09:37,439
Speaker 1: where you had a team that emulated the kind of

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01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:39,479
Speaker 1: vibe that the Bills kind of put out. One of

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01:09:39,520 --> 01:09:43,280
Speaker 1: those teams where everybody was on board, unselfish, and whether

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01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:46,800
Speaker 1: you won a lot of games or not, the atmosphere

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01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:50,160
Speaker 1: seemed to be something special. Do you have a you know,

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01:09:51,160 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 1: a time in your career where that was the case

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Speaker 1: for maybe at least a season, or maybe two or

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Speaker 1: three or four seasons, two particular seasons. I mean, Steve,

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Speaker 1: I know you know, every season for guys like you

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01:10:03,560 --> 01:10:05,960
Speaker 1: and I that well, I don't want to speak for you,

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Speaker 1: but I know you played with it. I think you

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01:10:07,920 --> 01:10:09,640
Speaker 1: played with a ship on your shoulder. I played a

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01:10:09,720 --> 01:10:11,600
Speaker 1: shipping on my shoulder, and I thought it was a

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01:10:11,640 --> 01:10:14,919
Speaker 1: privilege to be in the NFL and not a privilege

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01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:16,840
Speaker 1: for the NFL to have me in it. So every

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01:10:16,960 --> 01:10:20,920
Speaker 1: year was special for me and UH and UM. But

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01:10:21,360 --> 01:10:24,360
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one season we were ended up being thirteen

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01:10:24,400 --> 01:10:27,960
Speaker 1: and five, got b by the real Washington Redskins in

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01:10:28,120 --> 01:10:31,080
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game. Of course, that was a Bill

1381
01:10:31,200 --> 01:10:34,320
Speaker 1: Super Bowl year. But that year was so special because

1382
01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:37,920
Speaker 1: we were such a close team, not only in the

1383
01:10:38,040 --> 01:10:41,240
Speaker 1: locker room but out of the locker room, right and

1384
01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:45,040
Speaker 1: just our families did everything. It was everybody did everything together.

1385
01:10:45,120 --> 01:10:48,479
Speaker 1: We do Thanksgiving parties together, we would do Christmas parties.

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01:10:48,560 --> 01:10:51,320
Speaker 1: We would gather at players houses and there and there

1387
01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:54,240
Speaker 1: would be, you know, twenty five couples showing up for

1388
01:10:54,400 --> 01:10:57,040
Speaker 1: game night if we're crying out loud, you know. And

1389
01:10:57,560 --> 01:11:01,320
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, that all came together that year. And

1390
01:11:01,439 --> 01:11:04,160
Speaker 1: it's funny how close you are off the field sometimes

1391
01:11:04,240 --> 01:11:06,640
Speaker 1: the direct reflection of the success that you have on

1392
01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:11,439
Speaker 1: the field. The second year was nineteen ninety six, my

1393
01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:14,040
Speaker 1: first year with the Bills, and I thought that that

1394
01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:17,680
Speaker 1: was the coolest experience for me, being a new guy

1395
01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:21,439
Speaker 1: coming in there, but just seeing, you know, guys like

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01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:24,439
Speaker 1: Steve Pastor and Jim Kelly and Andre Reid and I said,

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01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:29,400
Speaker 1: man and Bruce Smith and Bryce and Thomas Smith and

1398
01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:32,240
Speaker 1: Kurt Schultz and Marlon Kerner. I mean, I can't believe

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01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:35,200
Speaker 1: I get to play with these dudes and I'm part

1400
01:11:35,280 --> 01:11:36,519
Speaker 1: of their team, and I get to be in a

1401
01:11:36,560 --> 01:11:40,400
Speaker 1: huddle with them and Steve. You know, we had fun

1402
01:11:41,400 --> 01:11:44,120
Speaker 1: as off the field too. I just remember going to

1403
01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:47,280
Speaker 1: Jim's house or going to somebody's house and we all

1404
01:11:47,360 --> 01:11:51,840
Speaker 1: got together and we were we were brothers. Not only

1405
01:11:51,960 --> 01:11:55,439
Speaker 1: obviously there's a natural brotherhood that takes place on the field,

1406
01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:58,559
Speaker 1: but man, off the field, I thought it was special.

1407
01:11:58,680 --> 01:12:00,560
Speaker 1: It was for me. It was a great fans for me.

1408
01:12:00,640 --> 01:12:03,120
Speaker 1: It was a great experience for me and the Buffalo

1409
01:12:03,240 --> 01:12:06,519
Speaker 1: Bills fans. I remember taking Stephanie because those is the McKinley.

1410
01:12:07,200 --> 01:12:12,559
Speaker 1: The McKinley mall is that the one? And I don't remember.

1411
01:12:12,640 --> 01:12:14,760
Speaker 1: We go to movie night on Friday night and all

1412
01:12:14,800 --> 01:12:17,559
Speaker 1: these people are walking around the billster that said, my gosh,

1413
01:12:17,640 --> 01:12:21,360
Speaker 1: I'm back in high school or college. This is awesome. Yea,

1414
01:12:22,280 --> 01:12:24,799
Speaker 1: on Friday night they were wearing a gear. It was awesome.

1415
01:12:26,320 --> 01:12:28,439
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you too, you've you've all You'll always

1416
01:12:28,479 --> 01:12:31,599
Speaker 1: be kind of linked despite your years with the Bills

1417
01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:33,840
Speaker 1: and and with the Browns, but you're you were a

1418
01:12:33,960 --> 01:12:36,479
Speaker 1: Detroit Lion before you were anything else in the NFL.

1419
01:12:37,200 --> 01:12:39,160
Speaker 1: Uh And you look back and you look at what

1420
01:12:39,320 --> 01:12:42,120
Speaker 1: the Lions are doing, Matt Patricia trying to win there.

1421
01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:46,160
Speaker 1: It's always been a difficult city to win in in Detroit.

1422
01:12:46,400 --> 01:12:49,720
Speaker 1: Do you think you know how much patience will the

1423
01:12:49,840 --> 01:12:52,960
Speaker 1: Detroit ownership give Matt Patricia. What do you see there

1424
01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:55,280
Speaker 1: and in Detroit and how that's gonna go for him?

1425
01:12:55,960 --> 01:12:59,720
Speaker 1: I think it's it's been made pretty clear that, you know,

1426
01:12:59,800 --> 01:13:02,080
Speaker 1: they got to get to the playoffs this year, you know,

1427
01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:06,320
Speaker 1: I think I think it's been clear. I don't get

1428
01:13:06,439 --> 01:13:09,840
Speaker 1: in the head of missus Ford and what her direction is,

1429
01:13:10,600 --> 01:13:14,200
Speaker 1: but I think you know that they had some rough

1430
01:13:14,360 --> 01:13:17,320
Speaker 1: injuries last year obviously, but they have a really good quarterback.

1431
01:13:17,400 --> 01:13:19,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what the you guys are

1432
01:13:19,760 --> 01:13:21,439
Speaker 1: in the AFC a lot, but I don't know what

1433
01:13:21,560 --> 01:13:24,120
Speaker 1: the feeling is of Matthew Stafford, but I think he's

1434
01:13:24,280 --> 01:13:27,880
Speaker 1: really good when healthy, and pretty good offense once they're

1435
01:13:27,880 --> 01:13:31,360
Speaker 1: all healthy. I mean, you know they're playing with the

1436
01:13:31,560 --> 01:13:35,479
Speaker 1: running back from Alabama, Scarborough. Last year he was on

1437
01:13:35,560 --> 01:13:38,759
Speaker 1: the street. He was at home watching an ID discovery.

1438
01:13:38,800 --> 01:13:40,599
Speaker 1: They call him, Hey, by the way, you're starting running

1439
01:13:40,640 --> 01:13:43,840
Speaker 1: back next week. I mean they were getting got guys,

1440
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:46,640
Speaker 1: you know, and the improvement needs to be made on

1441
01:13:46,800 --> 01:13:51,080
Speaker 1: defense and Matt and and Bob when the general manager,

1442
01:13:52,080 --> 01:13:54,360
Speaker 1: you know, they want the Patriot guys. I mean they're

1443
01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:58,080
Speaker 1: bringing more what Jamie Collins is there. Now they've gotten guys.

1444
01:13:58,120 --> 01:14:01,439
Speaker 1: They're connections with Matt and Bob when they were at

1445
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:04,719
Speaker 1: New England. And you know, if they get their defense Gon,

1446
01:14:06,040 --> 01:14:08,840
Speaker 1: there can be a really really good team. And I

1447
01:14:08,880 --> 01:14:11,679
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys had a chance. And yeah,

1448
01:14:11,720 --> 01:14:13,880
Speaker 1: I know you guys are busy on Sundays, and John,

1449
01:14:13,920 --> 01:14:15,559
Speaker 1: I know you're doing the games. Are you still doing

1450
01:14:15,600 --> 01:14:17,840
Speaker 1: the games? John, I'm sorry, Yes, sir, Yes, sir, I

1451
01:14:17,880 --> 01:14:21,640
Speaker 1: am yeah. And I know Steve doing his thing at

1452
01:14:21,720 --> 01:14:24,680
Speaker 1: CBS like I do my thing that Fox. But when

1453
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:27,240
Speaker 1: you look at there's a running back by the name

1454
01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:30,599
Speaker 1: of carry On Johnson who's kind of been nicked up,

1455
01:14:30,600 --> 01:14:33,320
Speaker 1: but when he's healthy, I really think he has a

1456
01:14:34,160 --> 01:14:37,879
Speaker 1: pretty good chance to be really good. And Kenny Golladay

1457
01:14:37,960 --> 01:14:40,400
Speaker 1: is a good young wide receiver and Marvin Jones junior're

1458
01:14:40,400 --> 01:14:42,360
Speaker 1: a good player, so they got a lot of good

1459
01:14:42,400 --> 01:14:44,559
Speaker 1: things going on for them if they can stay healthy.

1460
01:14:44,640 --> 01:14:48,720
Speaker 1: Like anybody else, we say that about thirty one other teams. There.

1461
01:14:48,800 --> 01:14:51,680
Speaker 1: You go, Hey, Chris, um, when you left Buffalo is

1462
01:14:51,680 --> 01:14:53,599
Speaker 1: a while, I go ninety seven you and a couple

1463
01:14:53,640 --> 01:14:57,120
Speaker 1: of years after that, you established the Chris Fieldman Family Foundation.

1464
01:14:57,200 --> 01:14:58,760
Speaker 1: Are you still doing that and what kind of work

1465
01:14:58,800 --> 01:15:02,840
Speaker 1: do they do? Um? Well, the Family Foundation is something

1466
01:15:03,400 --> 01:15:08,720
Speaker 1: totally different, and we're not doing that anymore because that

1467
01:15:08,880 --> 01:15:12,160
Speaker 1: was all non breascipe established. The one I think you're

1468
01:15:12,240 --> 01:15:15,920
Speaker 1: I hope you're referencing, John is the Stephanie Spielman Fund

1469
01:15:15,960 --> 01:15:21,599
Speaker 1: for Breast Cancer Research. Raised raised twenty three million dollars

1470
01:15:22,520 --> 01:15:28,760
Speaker 1: since it's conception. My daughter, oldest daughter, who has been

1471
01:15:29,880 --> 01:15:33,240
Speaker 1: unfortunately in or around the cancer world for most of

1472
01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:36,680
Speaker 1: her life, is actually in the development fundraising office of

1473
01:15:36,760 --> 01:15:42,400
Speaker 1: the James Cancer Hospital and she works directly with not

1474
01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:46,000
Speaker 1: only Stephanie's fund, but a bunch of other cancer funds.

1475
01:15:46,040 --> 01:15:48,400
Speaker 1: And it's just such a joy to see her pick

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Speaker 1: up her mother's mantle and carry forward and carry on.

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01:15:53,160 --> 01:15:59,120
Speaker 1: And when your kids starting, Steve, I know you got

1478
01:15:59,240 --> 01:16:01,760
Speaker 1: a boatload of kids like me. But when your kids,

1479
01:16:02,320 --> 01:16:04,920
Speaker 1: when you and Sarah right, you guys just got to

1480
01:16:05,040 --> 01:16:07,760
Speaker 1: fall over the place. But when your kids start to

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01:16:09,520 --> 01:16:12,240
Speaker 1: practice what you've preached to them their whole life and

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01:16:12,720 --> 01:16:15,600
Speaker 1: they put it into action and they don't even know

1483
01:16:15,680 --> 01:16:18,479
Speaker 1: they're putting an action, that's when you can step back

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01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:21,360
Speaker 1: as a parent and say, all right, that was a

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01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:23,360
Speaker 1: pretty good job with that one. Move on to the

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01:16:23,439 --> 01:16:28,280
Speaker 1: next one, Chris. One last thing I got to ask

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01:16:28,320 --> 01:16:32,080
Speaker 1: you about. Over this last weekend, Um, NFL Network aired

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01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:34,600
Speaker 1: your story of Football Life. Tell us what went into that?

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01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:39,360
Speaker 1: How you were you happy with the way it turned out? Um,

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01:16:40,880 --> 01:16:42,960
Speaker 1: I mean I heard, I heard it was on this weekend.

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01:16:43,439 --> 01:16:45,760
Speaker 1: Um I didn't. I didn't. I haven't seen it in

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01:16:45,840 --> 01:16:48,160
Speaker 1: a while, But yeah, I was happy with the way

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01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:53,080
Speaker 1: it turned out. I think, Um, you know, they had

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01:16:53,120 --> 01:16:56,559
Speaker 1: a little faith segment at the end there, and if

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01:16:56,640 --> 01:16:58,880
Speaker 1: I would, I think they did a phenomenal job. Don't

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01:16:58,880 --> 01:17:00,479
Speaker 1: get me wrong, but I think that fa part of

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01:17:00,520 --> 01:17:04,000
Speaker 1: that played a bigger role in our stephinitely a nice

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01:17:04,040 --> 01:17:08,280
Speaker 1: journey than that was portrayed in NFL Life. But it Uh,

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01:17:08,680 --> 01:17:11,120
Speaker 1: they did a phenomenal job and captured a lot of

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01:17:12,240 --> 01:17:17,720
Speaker 1: a lot of my personality and what I was as

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01:17:17,760 --> 01:17:21,240
Speaker 1: a young guy and what I ended up to being.

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01:17:21,600 --> 01:17:24,400
Speaker 1: I mean, gosh a bid I couldn't stand doing an interview,

1503
01:17:24,439 --> 01:17:27,600
Speaker 1: and now I'm on TV and radio and podcasts and

1504
01:17:27,680 --> 01:17:32,639
Speaker 1: all that crap. So it's funny with it. You'll take it. Great,

1505
01:17:32,720 --> 01:17:34,639
Speaker 1: great catching up with you. Thanks so much for coming

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01:17:34,680 --> 01:17:36,400
Speaker 1: on with us, and good luck with your effort over

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01:17:36,439 --> 01:17:39,439
Speaker 1: the next forty weeks. All right, God bless you guys.

1508
01:17:39,520 --> 01:17:42,840
Speaker 1: Man hanging there. How we respond? Everybody respond? Let's go attitude,

1509
01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:50,280
Speaker 1: all right. Chris Filman, former Bills Browns Lions linebacker, played

1510
01:17:50,280 --> 01:17:53,080
Speaker 1: with the Bills ninety six ninety seven analysts for Fox

1511
01:17:53,160 --> 01:17:56,880
Speaker 1: Sports on TV, and he's auctioning off member Bible Yeah

1512
01:17:56,920 --> 01:17:59,840
Speaker 1: on eBay to help those affected by COVID nineteen. Lots

1513
01:17:59,880 --> 01:18:02,320
Speaker 1: of Bills items there. That's pretty good stuff. You have

1514
01:18:02,400 --> 01:18:04,280
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff, but I think you admitted that

1515
01:18:04,400 --> 01:18:07,600
Speaker 1: they they're not really worth anything, and maybe just the

1516
01:18:08,120 --> 01:18:10,559
Speaker 1: memory is worth more to you than anything else. Huh Yeah,

1517
01:18:10,640 --> 01:18:13,880
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, who wants a stack of football cards?

1518
01:18:13,920 --> 01:18:16,400
Speaker 1: You know? I got I mean, I got all that

1519
01:18:16,520 --> 01:18:18,840
Speaker 1: stuff and I but one thing I do have something

1520
01:18:18,920 --> 01:18:21,519
Speaker 1: that that's kind of interesting. But now it's almost obsolete.

1521
01:18:21,640 --> 01:18:23,680
Speaker 1: Nobody appreciates it. The only thing I have that I

1522
01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:26,000
Speaker 1: think is kind of neat because I've never seen one,

1523
01:18:26,360 --> 01:18:29,240
Speaker 1: you know, everybody had, not everybody, but some of the

1524
01:18:29,400 --> 01:18:32,200
Speaker 1: guys are lucky enough, like myself to be on the

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01:18:32,320 --> 01:18:35,000
Speaker 1: cover of Sports Illustrated, right, Oh yeah, yeah, So I

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01:18:35,040 --> 01:18:38,240
Speaker 1: got to cover Sports Illustrated, which you know, they print

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01:18:38,640 --> 01:18:41,759
Speaker 1: the cover and there's what havever many thousands of copies

1528
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:44,600
Speaker 1: that they make of that magazine that week, right in,

1529
01:18:44,640 --> 01:18:48,080
Speaker 1: Sports Illustrator came out once a week for all those decades.

1530
01:18:48,120 --> 01:18:51,280
Speaker 1: Now it's you know, it's with the way of the magazine.

1531
01:18:51,320 --> 01:18:54,320
Speaker 1: Nobody you know, reads magazines anymore in print for them.

1532
01:18:54,400 --> 01:18:58,280
Speaker 1: They it's all you know, online. But I had my

1533
01:18:58,360 --> 01:19:00,679
Speaker 1: picture on the cover, and I had have the copy

1534
01:19:02,080 --> 01:19:04,920
Speaker 1: that was mailed to me. You remember on magazine copies,

1535
01:19:04,960 --> 01:19:08,040
Speaker 1: when they send it to your house, it's printed on

1536
01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:11,160
Speaker 1: the magazine cover your name and address and who got

1537
01:19:11,240 --> 01:19:15,559
Speaker 1: that subscription. Right, So I've got the cover of Sports

1538
01:19:15,600 --> 01:19:18,360
Speaker 1: Illustrated that was mailed to my house. So not only

1539
01:19:18,479 --> 01:19:21,760
Speaker 1: is it my picture on the cover, it's my name

1540
01:19:21,840 --> 01:19:25,040
Speaker 1: on the mailing label. You know what I mean? Yeah,

1541
01:19:25,320 --> 01:19:27,240
Speaker 1: I mean that's kind of that's really the only unique

1542
01:19:27,280 --> 01:19:29,400
Speaker 1: piece I've got, right, because it would be a one

1543
01:19:29,439 --> 01:19:31,559
Speaker 1: of a kind. Yeah, hang on to that for sure.

1544
01:19:31,680 --> 01:19:34,880
Speaker 1: Not that it's worth anything financially, but just no, but

1545
01:19:35,000 --> 01:19:37,000
Speaker 1: you want to have that. That's something you want to have, right,

1546
01:19:37,160 --> 01:19:40,719
Speaker 1: That's that's really the only thing. Yeah, all Right'm gonna

1547
01:19:40,720 --> 01:19:42,840
Speaker 1: take a breakcare come back. Let's get back into our

1548
01:19:43,120 --> 01:19:46,240
Speaker 1: Twitter poll question. What for what reason are you interested

1549
01:19:46,240 --> 01:19:48,599
Speaker 1: in this year's NFL draft? Is it who the Bill's getting,

1550
01:19:48,640 --> 01:19:51,719
Speaker 1: the second round, how the network executes its draft coverage,

1551
01:19:51,800 --> 01:19:54,320
Speaker 1: or maybe first round surprises? What do you think? Give

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01:19:54,400 --> 01:19:57,240
Speaker 1: us a call eight h three h five fifty outside Buffalo,

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01:19:57,320 --> 01:20:01,280
Speaker 1: toll free one eight five Steve and I coming back.

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01:20:01,320 --> 01:20:03,840
Speaker 1: One Bills Live presented by Kalaida Health And this is

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01:20:03,960 --> 01:20:14,679
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Steve Daft, John Murphy observing the social

1556
01:20:14,760 --> 01:20:16,640
Speaker 1: distance about three and a half miles apart. I'm in

1557
01:20:16,720 --> 01:20:19,280
Speaker 1: my home, Steve's in his home. We're doing the show

1558
01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:21,760
Speaker 1: once again Radio only one Bills Live. We're here from

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01:20:21,800 --> 01:20:24,040
Speaker 1: noon to three. Coming up a two Bob Blobber who

1560
01:20:24,080 --> 01:20:26,960
Speaker 1: covers the NFL for Newsday. We'll talk to him about

1561
01:20:27,000 --> 01:20:29,639
Speaker 1: some of the goings on around the NFL. In the meantime,

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01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:31,760
Speaker 1: our Twitter poll is still up eight h three h

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01:20:31,880 --> 01:20:34,960
Speaker 1: five fifty toll free from Outside Buffalo one eight eight

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01:20:35,080 --> 01:20:38,040
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty question. What's your reason

1565
01:20:38,120 --> 01:20:40,920
Speaker 1: for interest in this year's NFL draft? Is it who

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01:20:40,960 --> 01:20:42,559
Speaker 1: the Bills get in the second round? Is it how

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01:20:42,600 --> 01:20:45,400
Speaker 1: the network executes the draft coverage? Or is it first

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01:20:45,479 --> 01:20:47,920
Speaker 1: round surprises? Maybe you're looking for let's hear from you,

1569
01:20:47,960 --> 01:20:49,880
Speaker 1: give us a call. What do you guys see? Well,

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01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:53,680
Speaker 1: we were talking earlier in the show about all the

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01:20:53,800 --> 01:20:57,160
Speaker 1: Bills draft picks. If they were added up and put together,

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01:20:57,280 --> 01:20:59,080
Speaker 1: how high could the Bills jump in the draft just

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01:20:59,160 --> 01:21:02,040
Speaker 1: for maybe one pick? And this from the Pro Football

1574
01:21:02,160 --> 01:21:06,799
Speaker 1: Reference value chart that they use. If the Bills traded

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01:21:07,120 --> 01:21:10,559
Speaker 1: all let's see one, two, three, four, five, six, seven

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01:21:10,680 --> 01:21:15,120
Speaker 1: picks in the draft, they've got a second, third, fourth,

1577
01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:21,160
Speaker 1: or two fours, a five and one fourth, a fifth, two, sixth,

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01:21:21,200 --> 01:21:24,560
Speaker 1: and a seventh right, So that all adds up to

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01:21:24,960 --> 01:21:30,639
Speaker 1: enough points to make to jump up inside. Let's see

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01:21:30,680 --> 01:21:35,479
Speaker 1: where is it the top just inside the top thirty

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01:21:36,479 --> 01:21:39,240
Speaker 1: of the first round, like to twenty eight, twenty nine

1582
01:21:39,280 --> 01:21:42,960
Speaker 1: of the first round. Actually twenty nine thirty of the

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01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:46,519
Speaker 1: first round. So if they traded all their picks by

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01:21:46,560 --> 01:21:49,200
Speaker 1: that value chart, the Bills could jump all the way

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01:21:49,280 --> 01:21:52,040
Speaker 1: up to like the twenty ninth pick of the draft,

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01:21:53,080 --> 01:21:54,919
Speaker 1: and then they would happen they do? Are you suggesting

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01:21:54,960 --> 01:21:56,920
Speaker 1: they do? Now? I'm just saying that's what we're kind

1588
01:21:56,920 --> 01:21:58,639
Speaker 1: of talking about. You know, if we were talking about

1589
01:21:58,680 --> 01:22:00,840
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean, because he left it open to maybe trading

1590
01:22:00,920 --> 01:22:03,320
Speaker 1: up or down and a couple of spots or five

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01:22:03,360 --> 01:22:05,559
Speaker 1: spots or how much, and we decided how much would

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01:22:05,600 --> 01:22:08,960
Speaker 1: it take to do that? You know, all of their

1593
01:22:09,040 --> 01:22:11,439
Speaker 1: picks put together would get them jump them all the

1594
01:22:11,520 --> 01:22:13,120
Speaker 1: way up to the second round. But that means they

1595
01:22:13,120 --> 01:22:15,599
Speaker 1: wouldn't have a second rounder. You'd be given up pick

1596
01:22:15,720 --> 01:22:19,120
Speaker 1: number fifty four and all those other picks for like

1597
01:22:19,920 --> 01:22:24,000
Speaker 1: pick number thirty. So I don't know if it's not

1598
01:22:24,120 --> 01:22:27,160
Speaker 1: worth it. One draft chart I look like looked at said,

1599
01:22:27,200 --> 01:22:29,320
Speaker 1: if the Bills give up their second and third round

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01:22:29,360 --> 01:22:31,880
Speaker 1: there fifty four and eighty six, they could move up

1601
01:22:32,520 --> 01:22:34,800
Speaker 1: to about forty, which is what we talked about. That's

1602
01:22:35,120 --> 01:22:37,479
Speaker 1: top half of the second round. I do that. I

1603
01:22:37,560 --> 01:22:39,320
Speaker 1: think I might do that if there's a guy that

1604
01:22:39,400 --> 01:22:41,519
Speaker 1: fell down there. Yeah, if you had a guy drafted

1605
01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:44,719
Speaker 1: you said, yeah, he's probably gonna get picked between fifteen

1606
01:22:44,800 --> 01:22:48,040
Speaker 1: and twenty five or the first round, and he's still

1607
01:22:48,120 --> 01:22:51,680
Speaker 1: there at forty, you think, wow, yeah, you know, we

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01:22:51,720 --> 01:22:54,280
Speaker 1: should grab this guy, and then maybe you think about

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01:22:54,320 --> 01:22:57,200
Speaker 1: doing something like that, right, Yeah, and particularly in particularly

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01:22:57,240 --> 01:23:01,439
Speaker 1: if he was like in the right position. Yeah, some tackles, Yeah, right, exactly,

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01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:03,600
Speaker 1: I give up second, you know, move up, give up

1612
01:23:03,600 --> 01:23:06,040
Speaker 1: your second rounder fifty four and your third rounder eighty

1613
01:23:06,080 --> 01:23:08,519
Speaker 1: six to move up to forty or so. I do

1614
01:23:08,680 --> 01:23:11,160
Speaker 1: that if the tackle you like is there. All depends

1615
01:23:11,200 --> 01:23:12,640
Speaker 1: on you. I just wouldn't do it to get to

1616
01:23:12,720 --> 01:23:15,400
Speaker 1: the position unless there's somebody you really like. I just

1617
01:23:15,520 --> 01:23:17,439
Speaker 1: have a feeling that Brandon mean might do something like

1618
01:23:17,560 --> 01:23:19,960
Speaker 1: that in two and a half three weeks. But what

1619
01:23:20,040 --> 01:23:23,200
Speaker 1: do you think? Yeah, go ahead, Steve, He's he's yeah.

1620
01:23:23,280 --> 01:23:25,559
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy loves doing that. Don't you get

1621
01:23:25,600 --> 01:23:29,320
Speaker 1: that feeling. He's a bigger wheeler dealer than a GM

1622
01:23:29,400 --> 01:23:32,200
Speaker 1: we've ever had around one Bill's drive. I think I

1623
01:23:32,280 --> 01:23:34,320
Speaker 1: can't think of it. I mean you can go back

1624
01:23:34,360 --> 01:23:36,800
Speaker 1: and say maybe the Cornelli has been at trade when

1625
01:23:36,840 --> 01:23:40,040
Speaker 1: there's three teams involved and multiple picks by all the

1626
01:23:40,120 --> 01:23:42,960
Speaker 1: teams involved. That was pretty complicated. It was just one

1627
01:23:43,760 --> 01:23:46,559
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean seems like he's doing this every offseason, right,

1628
01:23:46,640 --> 01:23:50,120
Speaker 1: every draft, moving up, moving down, moving sideways, picking up

1629
01:23:50,160 --> 01:23:52,719
Speaker 1: picks here, trading a player and some picks for players

1630
01:23:52,760 --> 01:23:55,720
Speaker 1: in a pick. It's he does it a lot. It's

1631
01:23:55,760 --> 01:23:57,960
Speaker 1: a different atmosphere now than it really ever has been

1632
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:00,800
Speaker 1: in the league, right. I mean, there's more managers like

1633
01:24:00,920 --> 01:24:03,799
Speaker 1: Brandon Mean who are willing to negotiate, willing to make moves.

1634
01:24:04,080 --> 01:24:06,439
Speaker 1: I think the atmosphere is different, which helps that along.

1635
01:24:06,520 --> 01:24:08,000
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think I agree with you on that

1636
01:24:08,120 --> 01:24:11,000
Speaker 1: he's more flexible, let's say, and more open to moving

1637
01:24:11,040 --> 01:24:13,920
Speaker 1: around than most Bills gems in the past. What do

1638
01:24:13,960 --> 01:24:15,920
Speaker 1: you think? What's your reason for interest in this year's draft.

1639
01:24:16,000 --> 01:24:18,120
Speaker 1: Let's go to the tweet cheap brought here by Corrigan

1640
01:24:18,240 --> 01:24:21,240
Speaker 1: Moving systems. The official movers are the Buffalo Bills. Jack says,

1641
01:24:21,720 --> 01:24:23,800
Speaker 1: the Bills are our team. So clearly that's my main

1642
01:24:23,920 --> 01:24:26,120
Speaker 1: reason of interest in the draft this year, to see

1643
01:24:26,120 --> 01:24:28,439
Speaker 1: who they select and who they pass on. This year,

1644
01:24:28,479 --> 01:24:31,200
Speaker 1: I'm more interested to see how the NFL executes the coverages.

1645
01:24:31,240 --> 01:24:34,000
Speaker 1: This will be like no other draft in the past. Also,

1646
01:24:34,040 --> 01:24:35,639
Speaker 1: I want the distraction. I think a lot of people

1647
01:24:35,640 --> 01:24:38,320
Speaker 1: are looking for that distraction seed, you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah,

1648
01:24:38,320 --> 01:24:41,960
Speaker 1: I think everybody's ready for a break or I don't know.

1649
01:24:42,479 --> 01:24:46,160
Speaker 1: For me, we're used to being busy and doing things

1650
01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:51,040
Speaker 1: and going out and whatever, shopping, eating out, getting together

1651
01:24:51,080 --> 01:24:53,639
Speaker 1: with friends, or just going to whatever store we want.

1652
01:24:55,680 --> 01:24:58,879
Speaker 1: It's a little bit disrupted, no question. It almost seems

1653
01:25:00,240 --> 01:25:04,080
Speaker 1: like you're at a resort you really wish you weren't

1654
01:25:04,080 --> 01:25:05,559
Speaker 1: at or something. You know what I'm saying. I mean,

1655
01:25:05,640 --> 01:25:07,519
Speaker 1: you were all kind of on vacation like I'm not.

1656
01:25:07,920 --> 01:25:09,760
Speaker 1: I mean, I know that I've got enough food in

1657
01:25:09,800 --> 01:25:11,360
Speaker 1: the house. I know I don't have to worry about

1658
01:25:11,360 --> 01:25:14,639
Speaker 1: that too much, at least not yet. So really it's

1659
01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:17,160
Speaker 1: about while and away the time and trying to find

1660
01:25:17,240 --> 01:25:21,520
Speaker 1: something productive to do so that it's not really sacrifice

1661
01:25:21,880 --> 01:25:24,840
Speaker 1: to be going through all this right now. But there's

1662
01:25:24,880 --> 01:25:29,120
Speaker 1: no question I'm looking for something to do that some

1663
01:25:29,400 --> 01:25:32,920
Speaker 1: gives me some sense of normalcy. Yeah, you know, and

1664
01:25:33,120 --> 01:25:37,800
Speaker 1: maybe the draft will be it could be. Here's a

1665
01:25:38,280 --> 01:25:41,240
Speaker 1: from the tweet sheet from Tiffany. I enjoy watching the

1666
01:25:41,280 --> 01:25:43,400
Speaker 1: culmination of all the hard work for these athletes when

1667
01:25:43,400 --> 01:25:46,680
Speaker 1: the commissioner calls their name. Watching Ed Oliver, seeing the

1668
01:25:46,760 --> 01:25:48,960
Speaker 1: pure joy, his pure joy and excitement of having this

1669
01:25:49,080 --> 01:25:51,640
Speaker 1: name called was amazing. I'm interested to see how the

1670
01:25:51,760 --> 01:25:55,439
Speaker 1: NFL captures this year's moments. Good point. I think that, Yeah,

1671
01:25:55,439 --> 01:25:57,599
Speaker 1: it might be more difficult because all those players, those

1672
01:25:57,640 --> 01:25:59,280
Speaker 1: thirty two first rounders, are not going to be in

1673
01:25:59,360 --> 01:26:01,759
Speaker 1: one place. So can they get a camera to everybody

1674
01:26:01,800 --> 01:26:03,800
Speaker 1: who is likely to be drafted in the first round?

1675
01:26:03,880 --> 01:26:07,360
Speaker 1: Probably not. Do they even put a camera in somebody's home.

1676
01:26:07,439 --> 01:26:08,880
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how they're gonna do that.

1677
01:26:09,240 --> 01:26:11,479
Speaker 1: You might have to wait a while. I think Peter

1678
01:26:11,640 --> 01:26:14,720
Speaker 1: King kind of details it in depth today, Steve how

1679
01:26:15,520 --> 01:26:18,519
Speaker 1: the league and the network partners, NFL Network and the

1680
01:26:18,680 --> 01:26:21,280
Speaker 1: ESPN are really working hard to figure out the best

1681
01:26:21,320 --> 01:26:24,360
Speaker 1: way to show this draft. In fact, Peter King speculators, maybe,

1682
01:26:24,640 --> 01:26:27,280
Speaker 1: and they've had separate draft broadcasts in the past, ESPN

1683
01:26:27,360 --> 01:26:29,760
Speaker 1: and NFL Network. Maybe they'll get together and have just

1684
01:26:29,880 --> 01:26:31,880
Speaker 1: won this year and you know, put together the talent

1685
01:26:31,960 --> 01:26:34,479
Speaker 1: and kind of pool their resources and finding a smart

1686
01:26:34,520 --> 01:26:37,920
Speaker 1: way to do it without too much disruption. Probably, But

1687
01:26:38,120 --> 01:26:40,080
Speaker 1: you know, you think about it. Can they get a camera?

1688
01:26:40,520 --> 01:26:42,519
Speaker 1: It could because this is just me being my and

1689
01:26:42,680 --> 01:26:44,679
Speaker 1: you've said it. I mean, I'm like the most tech

1690
01:26:44,920 --> 01:26:48,360
Speaker 1: unsavvy guy there is, but I didn't say it. But

1691
01:26:49,720 --> 01:26:52,679
Speaker 1: everybody's got a camera. Everybody's got a handful of cameras

1692
01:26:52,720 --> 01:26:55,720
Speaker 1: in their house. Everybody's got a phone or or a laptop.

1693
01:26:56,000 --> 01:26:57,360
Speaker 1: I mean, you and I are doing this show and

1694
01:26:57,400 --> 01:26:59,560
Speaker 1: we're looking at each other talking while we're you know,

1695
01:26:59,600 --> 01:27:02,080
Speaker 1: three half miles apart. It seems to me like the

1696
01:27:02,200 --> 01:27:04,920
Speaker 1: technology would be in place if somebody can just you know,

1697
01:27:05,000 --> 01:27:08,200
Speaker 1: bridge the gap between what you want to see and

1698
01:27:08,760 --> 01:27:11,720
Speaker 1: what the story you want to tell and reaching out

1699
01:27:11,800 --> 01:27:14,600
Speaker 1: to get all these different guys that are scattered to

1700
01:27:14,680 --> 01:27:17,240
Speaker 1: the four winds across our country, where they're going to be,

1701
01:27:18,040 --> 01:27:21,320
Speaker 1: what they're doing when they're gonna get picked, when they

1702
01:27:21,400 --> 01:27:23,200
Speaker 1: need to be ready to get picked, when you know

1703
01:27:23,240 --> 01:27:26,640
Speaker 1: what I mean that coordination is the real problem. But

1704
01:27:26,960 --> 01:27:30,400
Speaker 1: the technology, to me, is more than adequate to make

1705
01:27:30,479 --> 01:27:31,800
Speaker 1: something happen. If you want to get a look at

1706
01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:33,759
Speaker 1: the guy's face, or get a look around his apartment

1707
01:27:33,880 --> 01:27:36,679
Speaker 1: or his dorm room, or his house, his family's house,

1708
01:27:37,479 --> 01:27:39,880
Speaker 1: everybody's got a camera. It'll be interesting to see if

1709
01:27:39,880 --> 01:27:42,080
Speaker 1: they can put those to use. This will be different

1710
01:27:42,080 --> 01:27:45,040
Speaker 1: because usually when they do go to a draft prospects house,

1711
01:27:45,160 --> 01:27:48,080
Speaker 1: there's what ten or fifteen or twenty people family and

1712
01:27:48,120 --> 01:27:50,519
Speaker 1: friends in the room. When they get drafted, they get word. Now,

1713
01:27:50,560 --> 01:27:53,240
Speaker 1: if they're following, you know, the guidelines, there'd be them

1714
01:27:53,280 --> 01:27:55,400
Speaker 1: and maybe one or two other people. That'd be kind

1715
01:27:55,400 --> 01:27:57,439
Speaker 1: of sad. I think some of those draft picks won't

1716
01:27:57,439 --> 01:27:59,479
Speaker 1: get to celebrate with their family and friends the way

1717
01:27:59,479 --> 01:28:02,280
Speaker 1: they have in that years. H Well, it's you know,

1718
01:28:02,400 --> 01:28:06,840
Speaker 1: they think about it. It is an entire age group

1719
01:28:07,240 --> 01:28:10,200
Speaker 1: of twenty ones or twenty twos this year, seek college

1720
01:28:10,240 --> 01:28:13,200
Speaker 1: seniors this year and then the NFL draft some juniors

1721
01:28:13,240 --> 01:28:16,679
Speaker 1: as well. They're getting deprived of the ability to finish

1722
01:28:16,720 --> 01:28:20,320
Speaker 1: their college education this year on campus. Yeah, they're getting

1723
01:28:20,360 --> 01:28:22,560
Speaker 1: deprived of their ability to walk across the stage and

1724
01:28:22,600 --> 01:28:25,839
Speaker 1: get their diploma when they earn it. They're getting deprived

1725
01:28:25,920 --> 01:28:29,760
Speaker 1: of the of the opportunity to spend the last three

1726
01:28:29,840 --> 01:28:32,400
Speaker 1: months or so with their college friends or you know

1727
01:28:32,439 --> 01:28:33,920
Speaker 1: as well as I do, Murph. Some of these people

1728
01:28:33,960 --> 01:28:37,479
Speaker 1: you're friends with them forever and they you know, then

1729
01:28:37,560 --> 01:28:40,280
Speaker 1: you're you're gone. So They're getting deprived of a lot

1730
01:28:40,360 --> 01:28:43,280
Speaker 1: of opportunities to do these little rights of passage that

1731
01:28:43,520 --> 01:28:46,960
Speaker 1: so many Americans have done for decade after decade after decade.

1732
01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:49,599
Speaker 1: And we're kind of old guys like us are taking

1733
01:28:49,640 --> 01:28:51,920
Speaker 1: it for granted that it's no big deal, and it

1734
01:28:52,120 --> 01:28:55,120
Speaker 1: kind of is. You don't get how about it getting

1735
01:28:55,200 --> 01:28:57,280
Speaker 1: drafted in the first round of the National Football League

1736
01:28:57,320 --> 01:29:01,760
Speaker 1: and none of your friends are there. That stinks. It

1737
01:29:01,920 --> 01:29:04,720
Speaker 1: really stinks. Yeah, I feel bad for these kids. I

1738
01:29:04,800 --> 01:29:07,200
Speaker 1: feel I really feel bad. I do too. One more

1739
01:29:07,320 --> 01:29:10,080
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet from seth we're asking people what

1740
01:29:10,200 --> 01:29:12,920
Speaker 1: are they watching the draft? Forces says all about the red, white,

1741
01:29:12,920 --> 01:29:15,280
Speaker 1: and blue. The second round pick will obviously be exciting,

1742
01:29:15,360 --> 01:29:16,840
Speaker 1: but I'm interested to see what they do with the

1743
01:29:16,880 --> 01:29:19,960
Speaker 1: rest of the picks. Hard to see more than four

1744
01:29:20,120 --> 01:29:23,000
Speaker 1: or five total selections. I anticipate some moves from being

1745
01:29:23,439 --> 01:29:26,880
Speaker 1: packaging and trading up to get DNA guys. You could

1746
01:29:26,920 --> 01:29:28,719
Speaker 1: be onto something. We've talked about that a lot today.

1747
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:31,160
Speaker 1: I look, they got seven picks. Now, if they come

1748
01:29:31,200 --> 01:29:33,479
Speaker 1: out before or five, I would not be surprised, and

1749
01:29:33,479 --> 01:29:35,439
Speaker 1: I would not be surprised if they move somewhere to

1750
01:29:35,479 --> 01:29:37,640
Speaker 1: get a guy they're interested in. Like I said, you

1751
01:29:37,720 --> 01:29:39,760
Speaker 1: can if you give them your second and then third,

1752
01:29:39,800 --> 01:29:42,840
Speaker 1: you can move up to the top forty. I'd do that. Yeah,

1753
01:29:43,520 --> 01:29:46,000
Speaker 1: if there's a guy. What about moving down even you know,

1754
01:29:47,439 --> 01:29:50,080
Speaker 1: for what more picks? I don't know, maybe move down

1755
01:29:50,160 --> 01:29:52,280
Speaker 1: five slots, pick up another pick, and then they can

1756
01:29:52,320 --> 01:29:55,920
Speaker 1: still pick up maybe what a project wide receiver. Yeah,

1757
01:29:56,040 --> 01:29:58,719
Speaker 1: I just don't think they need They don't need numbers.

1758
01:29:58,760 --> 01:30:00,599
Speaker 1: You know, they have a pretty good or the roster.

1759
01:30:00,720 --> 01:30:02,800
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, you're right, I mean that's it's

1760
01:30:02,960 --> 01:30:06,040
Speaker 1: it's a weird and in different kind of draft atmosphere

1761
01:30:06,080 --> 01:30:07,639
Speaker 1: for the Bills this year. It'll be interesting to see

1762
01:30:07,680 --> 01:30:11,960
Speaker 1: how they do it and what their philosophy is. And yeah,

1763
01:30:12,080 --> 01:30:14,320
Speaker 1: we'll see. I'm with you, though, Murph. I think it's

1764
01:30:14,320 --> 01:30:16,719
Speaker 1: going to be really intriguing to see the path this takes,

1765
01:30:17,200 --> 01:30:19,280
Speaker 1: particularly since you and I both know he likes to

1766
01:30:20,000 --> 01:30:23,880
Speaker 1: Wheeland deal. Maybe this season like this, maybe this is

1767
01:30:23,960 --> 01:30:26,400
Speaker 1: one of the constant and not having any high draft

1768
01:30:26,479 --> 01:30:29,519
Speaker 1: picks up there, a second or third rounder, but you know,

1769
01:30:29,600 --> 01:30:33,800
Speaker 1: sacrificing those round draft picks is maybe some consequences of

1770
01:30:33,920 --> 01:30:36,720
Speaker 1: him being such a wheeler dealer, you know, they they

1771
01:30:36,800 --> 01:30:39,120
Speaker 1: traded him away. They traded away the number one this year,

1772
01:30:40,040 --> 01:30:43,760
Speaker 1: number two next year. Maybe. All right, we gotta break.

1773
01:30:43,800 --> 01:30:46,439
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1774
01:30:46,640 --> 01:30:48,639
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1775
01:30:48,760 --> 01:30:59,040
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01:30:59,240 --> 01:31:02,479
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1777
01:31:02,560 --> 01:31:05,600
Speaker 1: All right, Steve, let's play What's for lunch? Are you

1778
01:31:05,680 --> 01:31:08,840
Speaker 1: ready this? Or there? Almost? Hold on? Hold on, hold

1779
01:31:08,840 --> 01:31:11,439
Speaker 1: on horse for me. Okay, I'm ready waiting. Here we go.

1780
01:31:12,000 --> 01:31:13,880
Speaker 1: Pick what's for lunch? What would you rather have? Pick

1781
01:31:13,960 --> 01:31:16,680
Speaker 1: one player to have in your defense, Khalil Mack or

1782
01:31:16,800 --> 01:31:22,040
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald. I'm good? Can I go first? Khalil Mack

1783
01:31:22,200 --> 01:31:24,519
Speaker 1: is a great player, A great player. I think Aaron

1784
01:31:24,600 --> 01:31:26,840
Speaker 1: Donald makes a bigger difference than Khalil Mack makes so.

1785
01:31:26,960 --> 01:31:29,599
Speaker 1: A guy who can dominate inside the way he does

1786
01:31:29,720 --> 01:31:32,479
Speaker 1: and dominate the line of scrimmage. Aaron Donald would be

1787
01:31:32,560 --> 01:31:35,000
Speaker 1: my choice. Two good players. I'd take aby one of

1788
01:31:35,040 --> 01:31:37,120
Speaker 1: them my roster, but I'd take Aaron Donald before i'd

1789
01:31:37,120 --> 01:31:40,160
Speaker 1: take Kalil Mack. I would too, because he plays defensive tackle.

1790
01:31:40,280 --> 01:31:42,840
Speaker 1: Same reason I think that's more disruptive down inside. Those

1791
01:31:42,920 --> 01:31:46,160
Speaker 1: guys are harder to find. There's not so many great

1792
01:31:46,240 --> 01:31:49,439
Speaker 1: pass rushers that come from the inside of the defensive line,

1793
01:31:49,640 --> 01:31:52,559
Speaker 1: and I think that does more to disrupt the quarterback's

1794
01:31:52,560 --> 01:31:54,720
Speaker 1: ability to throw it than an edge rush guy. So

1795
01:31:55,200 --> 01:31:57,679
Speaker 1: I'd say the same thing. I'd say Aaron Donald. Plus

1796
01:31:57,800 --> 01:32:02,840
Speaker 1: he is he has been as even more consistent in

1797
01:32:03,000 --> 01:32:05,599
Speaker 1: his production than maybe any player on the defensive side

1798
01:32:05,640 --> 01:32:07,760
Speaker 1: of the ball. So I'd say Aaron Donald because of

1799
01:32:07,880 --> 01:32:11,000
Speaker 1: his position and because of his consistency. All right, what's

1800
01:32:11,040 --> 01:32:13,639
Speaker 1: for lunch? Part two? This is a this is a layup.

1801
01:32:13,640 --> 01:32:16,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you go first. Better offense than twenty

1802
01:32:16,280 --> 01:32:19,720
Speaker 1: twenty the Baltimore Ravens or the Kansas City Chiefs. I

1803
01:32:19,920 --> 01:32:22,920
Speaker 1: say Kansas City Chiefs, Yeah, why wouldn't you? Right? Yeah,

1804
01:32:23,360 --> 01:32:27,360
Speaker 1: I think Pat Mahomes his abilities make it all difference

1805
01:32:27,400 --> 01:32:30,240
Speaker 1: and a little bit of Baltimore. And I know they

1806
01:32:30,280 --> 01:32:33,559
Speaker 1: were very good this last year, but the Bills bottled

1807
01:32:33,600 --> 01:32:37,639
Speaker 1: them up pretty good. They don't throw the ball well enough,

1808
01:32:37,720 --> 01:32:40,800
Speaker 1: and I think it's a throwing leagues. Ultimately, that's that's

1809
01:32:40,840 --> 01:32:43,479
Speaker 1: their downfall. They don't throw it as well as other teams.

1810
01:32:43,640 --> 01:32:47,519
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson's a very good player, very good quarterback. But

1811
01:32:48,040 --> 01:32:51,360
Speaker 1: I think they won a little bit with the novel

1812
01:32:51,520 --> 01:32:54,920
Speaker 1: nature of their offensive approach last year, and I think

1813
01:32:54,920 --> 01:32:57,200
Speaker 1: that'll wear off. And I got it. They have to

1814
01:32:57,280 --> 01:32:58,720
Speaker 1: prove to me they can throw it as what as

1815
01:32:58,760 --> 01:33:01,080
Speaker 1: the Chiefs do to be kind of offense. I look

1816
01:33:01,120 --> 01:33:03,800
Speaker 1: for the Ravens to I'm not saying they're gonna tank out,

1817
01:33:03,840 --> 01:33:05,080
Speaker 1: but I don't think they're gonna be as good as

1818
01:33:05,080 --> 01:33:07,240
Speaker 1: they were a year ago. And I think it'll be

1819
01:33:07,360 --> 01:33:09,840
Speaker 1: mostly Yeah, I think it would be mostly because of

1820
01:33:09,960 --> 01:33:12,840
Speaker 1: struggles on offense for the Baltimore Ravens. All Right, GM

1821
01:33:12,920 --> 01:33:16,040
Speaker 1: on a hotter seat in twenty twenty, Bill O'Brien of

1822
01:33:16,080 --> 01:33:20,160
Speaker 1: the Texans, Bob Quinn of the Lions, Ryan Pace of

1823
01:33:20,240 --> 01:33:23,320
Speaker 1: the Bears. Who's on the hottest seat among those three? Oh,

1824
01:33:23,400 --> 01:33:26,920
Speaker 1: I think it's Bill O'Brien. The moves that he made

1825
01:33:27,720 --> 01:33:30,240
Speaker 1: and the and they they still have to sign Laramy

1826
01:33:30,320 --> 01:33:36,559
Speaker 1: Tunsil to a contract, They lost DeAndre Hopkins. They were

1827
01:33:36,600 --> 01:33:39,559
Speaker 1: a playoff team a year ago, and to see if

1828
01:33:39,600 --> 01:33:43,400
Speaker 1: they take an enormous step backward after the marquee moves

1829
01:33:43,439 --> 01:33:45,720
Speaker 1: that Bill O'Brien has made I don't know if he

1830
01:33:45,800 --> 01:33:50,160
Speaker 1: can survive that. Bob Quinn with the Lions, certainly they've

1831
01:33:50,200 --> 01:33:52,599
Speaker 1: got a twelve month window. We just spoke to Chris Bioman.

1832
01:33:52,680 --> 01:33:57,040
Speaker 1: Has been made clear from ownership in Detroit that they

1833
01:33:57,200 --> 01:34:01,679
Speaker 1: it's playoffs are nothing in Detroit. And for the Bears,

1834
01:34:02,200 --> 01:34:04,719
Speaker 1: they've been on the down. They've been on a decline

1835
01:34:04,800 --> 01:34:07,639
Speaker 1: for since they had the really good season two years ago.

1836
01:34:08,160 --> 01:34:11,479
Speaker 1: And I know, I don't Yeah, the Bears are gonna

1837
01:34:11,520 --> 01:34:13,439
Speaker 1: be what they were that last year. I think they're

1838
01:34:13,439 --> 01:34:16,320
Speaker 1: gonna be disappointing in comparison to where they were two

1839
01:34:16,400 --> 01:34:19,360
Speaker 1: years ago. So but I still think Bill O'Brien because

1840
01:34:19,400 --> 01:34:22,040
Speaker 1: of the marquee moves that he's made, I think he's

1841
01:34:22,080 --> 01:34:25,439
Speaker 1: on the hottest seat of all. Yeah O'Brian, of course

1842
01:34:25,439 --> 01:34:28,200
Speaker 1: as coach and general manager, which makes it even more

1843
01:34:28,280 --> 01:34:30,720
Speaker 1: interesting to contemplate his future. But I agree with you

1844
01:34:30,800 --> 01:34:33,400
Speaker 1: O'Brien is on the hotter seat. Bob Quinn of the Lions.

1845
01:34:33,400 --> 01:34:34,760
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got a coach who could be in

1846
01:34:34,840 --> 01:34:37,080
Speaker 1: trouble as well. So it remains to be seeing what

1847
01:34:37,080 --> 01:34:40,120
Speaker 1: will happened they with Matt Patricia last one what's for lunch?

1848
01:34:40,560 --> 01:34:44,839
Speaker 1: Better play, better trick play in NFL history, Philly Special

1849
01:34:45,800 --> 01:34:49,559
Speaker 1: or the Marino Fake Spike. You gotta go with Philly Special,

1850
01:34:49,720 --> 01:34:52,080
Speaker 1: right They won a Super Bowl with that play In particular,

1851
01:34:52,160 --> 01:34:54,800
Speaker 1: that Marino fake spike was funny and it was fun,

1852
01:34:55,120 --> 01:34:57,400
Speaker 1: but it didn't have the impact that the Philly Special did.

1853
01:34:57,680 --> 01:35:00,680
Speaker 1: Right Yeah, I think, yeah, that's what does I love

1854
01:35:00,800 --> 01:35:05,920
Speaker 1: the fake spike because for one thing it was It's

1855
01:35:06,000 --> 01:35:10,120
Speaker 1: different because it wasn't a called play. They had rehearsed it,

1856
01:35:10,880 --> 01:35:13,639
Speaker 1: but only two guys knew that play was coming, Marino

1857
01:35:13,880 --> 01:35:18,479
Speaker 1: and the receiver. They just made eye contact and said

1858
01:35:18,600 --> 01:35:21,120
Speaker 1: and you know, and decided, hey, let's try this right here,

1859
01:35:21,360 --> 01:35:23,599
Speaker 1: they were gonna spike at everybody on the field thought

1860
01:35:23,640 --> 01:35:26,640
Speaker 1: it was a spike except Marino and the receiver. And

1861
01:35:27,120 --> 01:35:28,880
Speaker 1: to pull it off like that kind of makes it

1862
01:35:28,960 --> 01:35:31,679
Speaker 1: special to me. But the Philly Special in the Super

1863
01:35:31,720 --> 01:35:34,400
Speaker 1: Bowl and having that be a play like it was

1864
01:35:34,520 --> 01:35:38,880
Speaker 1: an awareness play and executed to perfection with let's see

1865
01:35:38,960 --> 01:35:42,640
Speaker 1: one to shift and you know, a lateral from a

1866
01:35:42,720 --> 01:35:44,720
Speaker 1: guy from a running back to a tight end to

1867
01:35:44,840 --> 01:35:46,800
Speaker 1: make a perfect throw. That takes a lot of moving

1868
01:35:46,840 --> 01:35:48,639
Speaker 1: parts to get that going. Yeah, I like the Philly

1869
01:35:48,720 --> 01:35:52,000
Speaker 1: Special too, but there are two different plays for different reasons.

1870
01:35:52,040 --> 01:35:54,160
Speaker 1: I like them. The nerve to call that play in

1871
01:35:54,200 --> 01:35:56,360
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl is what gets me. But Philly Special,

1872
01:35:56,400 --> 01:35:58,040
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I mean that took that

1873
01:35:58,200 --> 01:36:00,240
Speaker 1: took a lot of nerve. It took guts to call

1874
01:36:00,320 --> 01:36:02,360
Speaker 1: that play when they did. You know, Frank Reich was

1875
01:36:02,400 --> 01:36:06,759
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator for that team, and after that game

1876
01:36:07,560 --> 01:36:10,680
Speaker 1: I heard I spoke to him or heard from him.

1877
01:36:10,800 --> 01:36:14,760
Speaker 1: He said, I gotta tell you. Um Foles came over

1878
01:36:15,160 --> 01:36:19,439
Speaker 1: and said, hey, how about the Philly Special? Uh. And

1879
01:36:19,680 --> 01:36:23,639
Speaker 1: in that moment and I can't I can totally relate

1880
01:36:23,720 --> 01:36:27,000
Speaker 1: to this. In that moment, it was a test for

1881
01:36:27,120 --> 01:36:31,000
Speaker 1: the head coach about who they were gonna be and

1882
01:36:31,200 --> 01:36:33,880
Speaker 1: how much he was how how much confidence he had

1883
01:36:33,920 --> 01:36:36,160
Speaker 1: in his players that had gotten him to a super Bowl,

1884
01:36:36,840 --> 01:36:46,240
Speaker 1: and for when when uh, when uh, Doug Peterson said yeah,

1885
01:36:46,680 --> 01:36:53,560
Speaker 1: let's run it, I think a wave of confidence and assuredness.

1886
01:36:53,600 --> 01:36:55,880
Speaker 1: I mean that just said something to those players and

1887
01:36:55,960 --> 01:36:59,120
Speaker 1: those coaches about how much faith their head coach had

1888
01:36:59,200 --> 01:37:02,000
Speaker 1: in them and that they were all on the same page,

1889
01:37:02,400 --> 01:37:04,759
Speaker 1: thinking the same thoughts. It was just a real moment

1890
01:37:05,160 --> 01:37:08,000
Speaker 1: when the moment Doug Peterson said, yeah, let's run it.

1891
01:37:08,720 --> 01:37:12,840
Speaker 1: That game was over all the guys around him and

1892
01:37:12,920 --> 01:37:15,640
Speaker 1: all the coaches on the headset and all that just

1893
01:37:16,120 --> 01:37:19,880
Speaker 1: it was a real wave of confidence boost that really

1894
01:37:19,960 --> 01:37:22,160
Speaker 1: permeated him for the next for the rest of the game.

1895
01:37:22,479 --> 01:37:25,400
Speaker 1: And I thought when Frank articulated it that way, I

1896
01:37:25,760 --> 01:37:27,560
Speaker 1: was really touched by that. I thought it was a

1897
01:37:27,640 --> 01:37:30,919
Speaker 1: great moment. And you're right, the play call was absolutely courageous.

1898
01:37:31,080 --> 01:37:33,080
Speaker 1: By the way, if that game is over. Also, if

1899
01:37:33,200 --> 01:37:35,360
Speaker 1: if that play fails, you said, it's over as soon

1900
01:37:35,400 --> 01:37:37,640
Speaker 1: as he calls the play. What if, you know, incomplete

1901
01:37:37,640 --> 01:37:39,680
Speaker 1: pass or a fumble or whatever, the game might be

1902
01:37:39,800 --> 01:37:42,120
Speaker 1: over there too, right, Yeah, I mean either way, it

1903
01:37:42,160 --> 01:37:44,160
Speaker 1: still came down. It still came down. They were the

1904
01:37:44,240 --> 01:37:47,240
Speaker 1: Patriots were still in Hail Mary shouting distance at the end.

1905
01:37:47,320 --> 01:37:49,320
Speaker 1: You know, it was a close game, a really hard

1906
01:37:49,360 --> 01:37:51,560
Speaker 1: fought game. But I think one of the things, you know,

1907
01:37:51,680 --> 01:37:54,680
Speaker 1: I think that that play at Philly Special had a

1908
01:37:54,760 --> 01:37:57,360
Speaker 1: little bit of a carryover effect to the rest of

1909
01:37:57,400 --> 01:38:00,519
Speaker 1: the squad. And I think that's you know, when you're

1910
01:38:00,520 --> 01:38:03,559
Speaker 1: talking about nuances that make a big difference, I think

1911
01:38:03,600 --> 01:38:06,000
Speaker 1: that was probably one that did third and five hour

1912
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Speaker 1: of the show coming up. Bob Glaubert, NFL columnists for Newsday,

1913
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Speaker 1: is going to join us. Come on back for that.

1914
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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented back Alatta Health coming on the

1915
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Speaker 1: radio only today. This is Buffalo Bills Radio Hills Radio Network.

1916
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Speaker 1: Sports up date can't date from One Bill's Live. The

1917
01:38:27,160 --> 01:38:31,000
Speaker 1: NFL five teams were scheduled to start their offseason workouts today.

1918
01:38:31,080 --> 01:38:33,439
Speaker 1: That's not going to happen obviously. The league and the

1919
01:38:33,439 --> 01:38:37,360
Speaker 1: players Association still hammering out the tales of a virtual offseason.

1920
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Speaker 1: Today was going to be the start of Phase one

1921
01:38:40,400 --> 01:38:42,479
Speaker 1: off offseason workouts that will be on the hold for

1922
01:38:42,520 --> 01:38:45,880
Speaker 1: a while. For now, teams may send players tablets, iPads, etc.

1923
01:38:46,200 --> 01:38:49,200
Speaker 1: For voluntary use. In the original timeline, though, teams that

1924
01:38:49,320 --> 01:38:52,160
Speaker 1: hired new coaches in the offseason would have been able

1925
01:38:52,160 --> 01:38:55,559
Speaker 1: to start offseason workouts today. That includes Mike McCarthy and Dallas,

1926
01:38:55,640 --> 01:38:58,280
Speaker 1: Joe Judge in New York, Round Rivera in Washington, that

1927
01:38:58,479 --> 01:39:02,000
Speaker 1: Ruling Carolina, and Kevin's Fans in Cleveland. The Bill's offseason

1928
01:39:02,040 --> 01:39:05,599
Speaker 1: workout scheduled to start in two weeks. On April twentieth,

1929
01:39:05,960 --> 01:39:08,479
Speaker 1: President Trump said over the weekend in a conference call

1930
01:39:08,560 --> 01:39:11,519
Speaker 1: with Major League Sports Commissioners that he thinks the NFL

1931
01:39:11,600 --> 01:39:15,200
Speaker 1: season should start on time in September. That's what ESPN

1932
01:39:15,280 --> 01:39:17,360
Speaker 1: said anyway. Trump said he hopes they have fans back

1933
01:39:17,439 --> 01:39:21,799
Speaker 1: in stadiums and arenas by August. In September, Trump declined

1934
01:39:21,840 --> 01:39:23,880
Speaker 1: to give it an exact date when he was asked

1935
01:39:23,920 --> 01:39:26,960
Speaker 1: when fans can return to arenas. Former Bills and New

1936
01:39:27,040 --> 01:39:30,479
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints place kicker Tom Dempsey passed away over the

1937
01:39:30,560 --> 01:39:34,519
Speaker 1: weekend due to coronavirus complications from coronavirus. He was seventy

1938
01:39:34,560 --> 01:39:37,400
Speaker 1: three years old. Dempsey famously made a sixty three year

1939
01:39:37,479 --> 01:39:40,639
Speaker 1: field goal in nineteen seventy despite being born without toes

1940
01:39:40,680 --> 01:39:44,479
Speaker 1: on his right kicking foot. Dempsey has deaths I positive

1941
01:39:44,479 --> 01:39:47,599
Speaker 1: for coronavirus a little more than a week ago. RAMS

1942
01:39:47,880 --> 01:39:50,320
Speaker 1: CEO Kevin Demof says the new logo is not going

1943
01:39:50,360 --> 01:39:53,439
Speaker 1: to change despite all the criticism. Demof has been heading

1944
01:39:53,479 --> 01:39:55,080
Speaker 1: the project for more than two years to get a

1945
01:39:55,120 --> 01:39:58,080
Speaker 1: new logo for the Rams. He talked about how there

1946
01:39:58,160 --> 01:40:01,160
Speaker 1: has been considerable criticism for the ram's new look, it

1947
01:40:01,240 --> 01:40:03,559
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, They're going to stay with it, and Gulf's

1948
01:40:03,600 --> 01:40:06,840
Speaker 1: various organizers announced the revamp scheduled of the majors this year.

1949
01:40:07,120 --> 01:40:09,479
Speaker 1: The Masters is now going to be in November, November

1950
01:40:09,520 --> 01:40:12,160
Speaker 1: twelfth or the fifteenth. The British Open at Royal Saint

1951
01:40:12,200 --> 01:40:15,760
Speaker 1: George's was canceled, the PGA Championship moved to August, and

1952
01:40:15,880 --> 01:40:18,360
Speaker 1: the US Open is now in September. The Ryder Cup

1953
01:40:18,400 --> 01:40:21,400
Speaker 1: will remain in its original late September date. And that

1954
01:40:21,760 --> 01:40:24,720
Speaker 1: is the update from One Bill's Live. John Murphy and

1955
01:40:24,800 --> 01:40:27,120
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker coming to you from our home. Steve, how

1956
01:40:27,200 --> 01:40:29,840
Speaker 1: you doing your right over there? Yeah, doing good, doing good.

1957
01:40:29,920 --> 01:40:34,679
Speaker 1: Sunshine and out. It's always good to Sunshine makes everything better. Yeah,

1958
01:40:34,760 --> 01:40:37,040
Speaker 1: that's right, good point. I'm a line with us now

1959
01:40:37,200 --> 01:40:40,160
Speaker 1: Newsday NFL columnists. He's covered the league since nineteen eighty five.

1960
01:40:40,479 --> 01:40:42,759
Speaker 1: He is president of the Pro Football Writers of America,

1961
01:40:42,800 --> 01:40:45,000
Speaker 1: author of the book Guts and Genius. Happy to have

1962
01:40:45,080 --> 01:40:47,519
Speaker 1: Bob Glauber, I'm with us, Hello, Bob, John Murphy, Steve

1963
01:40:47,600 --> 01:40:49,519
Speaker 1: Tasker up here in Buffalo. Thanks coming on with us.

1964
01:40:50,280 --> 01:40:52,679
Speaker 1: Hey guys, thanks for having me. Appreciate it. Great to talk.

1965
01:40:53,600 --> 01:40:55,400
Speaker 1: How are things going in your neck of the woods.

1966
01:40:55,439 --> 01:40:57,439
Speaker 1: How is your family? Everybody healthy? What can you tell

1967
01:40:57,479 --> 01:41:00,160
Speaker 1: us about all that pop first, Yeah, yeah, thank you

1968
01:41:00,200 --> 01:41:03,560
Speaker 1: for asking. We're we're doing okay. Um, it's just you know,

1969
01:41:03,680 --> 01:41:06,000
Speaker 1: we're we're going day by day, hour by hour in

1970
01:41:06,080 --> 01:41:08,120
Speaker 1: the New York, New Jersey area, so it's um in

1971
01:41:08,280 --> 01:41:11,040
Speaker 1: Long Island as well. So listen, man, this is as

1972
01:41:11,080 --> 01:41:13,760
Speaker 1: difficult as it gets, and um, we're just we're just

1973
01:41:13,880 --> 01:41:17,840
Speaker 1: hoping everything uh gets better. You know, Well, don't get

1974
01:41:18,120 --> 01:41:20,080
Speaker 1: how don't we get too personal? How many your wife

1975
01:41:20,120 --> 01:41:22,160
Speaker 1: and your how many children do you have? Are you?

1976
01:41:22,520 --> 01:41:25,800
Speaker 1: You know, what's your situation? Well? I live with my

1977
01:41:25,920 --> 01:41:28,759
Speaker 1: wife and my younger daughter and she's actually a teacher

1978
01:41:28,840 --> 01:41:32,000
Speaker 1: and she's teaching online, um you know now for her

1979
01:41:32,040 --> 01:41:34,840
Speaker 1: school district, and we're just kind of borrowed in. I

1980
01:41:34,880 --> 01:41:37,320
Speaker 1: have an older daughter who lives in Providence and she's

1981
01:41:37,320 --> 01:41:39,880
Speaker 1: in the education field as well, and she's on her own.

1982
01:41:39,960 --> 01:41:43,000
Speaker 1: But we talked every night, and um, you know, we're

1983
01:41:43,080 --> 01:41:46,639
Speaker 1: just just trying to hang in about that's a friend

1984
01:41:46,680 --> 01:41:48,280
Speaker 1: of mine told me that last week. Just kind of

1985
01:41:48,280 --> 01:41:49,760
Speaker 1: think of this in terms of day to day and

1986
01:41:49,880 --> 01:41:52,519
Speaker 1: that's that's good for our personal issues as you describe,

1987
01:41:52,520 --> 01:41:53,920
Speaker 1: and we on Steve and I both feel it, but

1988
01:41:54,000 --> 01:41:56,439
Speaker 1: also I think for the NFL in general. You know,

1989
01:41:56,600 --> 01:41:59,360
Speaker 1: don't try to figure out now April six, what's it

1990
01:41:59,400 --> 01:42:02,680
Speaker 1: gonna look like in September, a full five months from now.

1991
01:42:02,840 --> 01:42:05,599
Speaker 1: Just get through this day and figure it out tomorrow. Maybe,

1992
01:42:05,600 --> 01:42:07,320
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I think there's a good approach.

1993
01:42:07,880 --> 01:42:09,840
Speaker 1: I do think that's a good approach. It kind of

1994
01:42:09,840 --> 01:42:12,200
Speaker 1: reminds you of that video that Bill Belichick put out.

1995
01:42:13,479 --> 01:42:16,839
Speaker 1: I thought it was kind of very comforting that Belichick

1996
01:42:16,960 --> 01:42:19,760
Speaker 1: is basically saying, you know, just trying to stack good

1997
01:42:19,840 --> 01:42:23,160
Speaker 1: days together, and yeah, you know, he's right, and it

1998
01:42:23,320 --> 01:42:26,960
Speaker 1: was I never thought Bill Belichick would be a comforting

1999
01:42:27,080 --> 01:42:30,320
Speaker 1: presence in a pandemic. I mean, you think about it,

2000
01:42:30,479 --> 01:42:35,639
Speaker 1: but he kind of got it done there. I'm gonna

2001
01:42:35,640 --> 01:42:38,160
Speaker 1: have to find that the league is. The league is

2002
01:42:38,240 --> 01:42:40,720
Speaker 1: really in a strange place, though, because as as we

2003
01:42:40,960 --> 01:42:42,960
Speaker 1: sit here and you know, our shows going on, there

2004
01:42:43,040 --> 01:42:45,559
Speaker 1: are certain parts of the of the industry that are

2005
01:42:45,640 --> 01:42:49,120
Speaker 1: kind of grinding along. And you wrote an article about

2006
01:42:49,200 --> 01:42:53,439
Speaker 1: agents and players and what their struggles are are, particularly

2007
01:42:53,479 --> 01:42:56,320
Speaker 1: guys trying to get their contracts signed agents and what

2008
01:42:56,479 --> 01:42:59,920
Speaker 1: their personal obstacles are. Once you explain to us why

2009
01:43:00,160 --> 01:43:04,920
Speaker 1: it's hard for players at this point in NFL history, well, Steve,

2010
01:43:05,040 --> 01:43:08,880
Speaker 1: the whole, the whole system has really kind of been

2011
01:43:08,920 --> 01:43:11,719
Speaker 1: flipped upside down, especially now that the league has decided

2012
01:43:11,760 --> 01:43:13,800
Speaker 1: to go ahead with business as usual. And I did

2013
01:43:13,920 --> 01:43:15,720
Speaker 1: want to talk to a number of agents and I

2014
01:43:15,840 --> 01:43:17,800
Speaker 1: was fortunate enough to you know, get a hold of

2015
01:43:17,840 --> 01:43:22,080
Speaker 1: guys like Rosenhaus and Tom Condon, Sky Alan Herman represents

2016
01:43:22,080 --> 01:43:24,240
Speaker 1: a lot of players in New York and just get

2017
01:43:24,280 --> 01:43:27,400
Speaker 1: a sense of what they're going through with their players. Um,

2018
01:43:27,520 --> 01:43:30,360
Speaker 1: and it's it's different, and it's difficult, you know, these

2019
01:43:30,520 --> 01:43:33,360
Speaker 1: these kids especially, you know, we know the blue chip

2020
01:43:33,479 --> 01:43:36,920
Speaker 1: prospects are going to go high, and Joe Burrow is

2021
01:43:36,920 --> 01:43:40,880
Speaker 1: gonna go one. You know, does two, ago, two, three, five, six,

2022
01:43:41,120 --> 01:43:44,479
Speaker 1: You know, we'll see what happens. You know, Derek Brown

2023
01:43:44,600 --> 01:43:47,240
Speaker 1: is going to get a top ten, you know pick.

2024
01:43:47,880 --> 01:43:50,320
Speaker 1: But it's the guys in the second, third, fourth and

2025
01:43:50,439 --> 01:43:52,880
Speaker 1: the lower round guys who you know, a lot can

2026
01:43:53,000 --> 01:43:55,679
Speaker 1: change in this kind of time during a normal draft

2027
01:43:55,760 --> 01:43:57,720
Speaker 1: period where you know, you go on these visits and

2028
01:43:58,120 --> 01:44:00,639
Speaker 1: you get to perform for coaches, you get to interview

2029
01:44:00,680 --> 01:44:03,439
Speaker 1: with the GMS personally, and the visits mean a lot,

2030
01:44:03,520 --> 01:44:08,519
Speaker 1: and that can really affect a prospect's draft status and

2031
01:44:08,800 --> 01:44:10,880
Speaker 1: where he ends up going. So you don't have that,

2032
01:44:11,040 --> 01:44:12,760
Speaker 1: you don't have the benefit of that. They're doing these

2033
01:44:13,120 --> 01:44:16,640
Speaker 1: meetings on Zoom and all kinds of social media, and

2034
01:44:16,920 --> 01:44:19,360
Speaker 1: they're trying their best. So it's a real challenge for agents.

2035
01:44:19,880 --> 01:44:22,640
Speaker 1: You know. Jurosas told me a story about it was

2036
01:44:22,800 --> 01:44:24,679
Speaker 1: March twelve, and that was the day that the NFL

2037
01:44:24,800 --> 01:44:28,439
Speaker 1: basically got shut down. All the scouts were recalled. And

2038
01:44:28,600 --> 01:44:30,439
Speaker 1: he says, in March twelfth, IM on the way to

2039
01:44:30,640 --> 01:44:34,759
Speaker 1: U Miami Airport to go see a workout in Michigan

2040
01:44:34,840 --> 01:44:37,479
Speaker 1: the pro day and I find out everything's off and

2041
01:44:38,080 --> 01:44:39,960
Speaker 1: he hasn't been on the road since. And this is

2042
01:44:40,000 --> 01:44:42,120
Speaker 1: a guy who travels, you know, three or four times

2043
01:44:42,160 --> 01:44:45,280
Speaker 1: a week, just about every week of the year. So

2044
01:44:45,640 --> 01:44:49,640
Speaker 1: it really is it's it's a challenge for them to

2045
01:44:49,840 --> 01:44:52,799
Speaker 1: just reach out to their clients to kind of guide

2046
01:44:52,840 --> 01:44:55,679
Speaker 1: them through the process. And these rookies are, they're excited,

2047
01:44:56,520 --> 01:44:59,320
Speaker 1: but it's it's kind of a nerve racking time. Everything

2048
01:44:59,479 --> 01:45:02,519
Speaker 1: is different, you know, no pre draft parties, no. You know,

2049
01:45:03,439 --> 01:45:05,960
Speaker 1: one guy, this guy Ron Slaven, who's based in Dallas,

2050
01:45:06,040 --> 01:45:07,599
Speaker 1: he was telling me one of his clients said, Yeah,

2051
01:45:07,600 --> 01:45:10,680
Speaker 1: I'm going to basically get drafted, hug my mom and

2052
01:45:10,960 --> 01:45:13,760
Speaker 1: go to bed and that'll be in. So it's just

2053
01:45:14,040 --> 01:45:20,280
Speaker 1: such a different and unique and difficult time. Um. You know,

2054
01:45:20,400 --> 01:45:22,880
Speaker 1: it's a life and death situation obviously, and I'm not

2055
01:45:23,000 --> 01:45:26,439
Speaker 1: minimizing that, nor were they, but it's it's a challenging

2056
01:45:26,520 --> 01:45:31,439
Speaker 1: time for everyone involved, especially these young players who really

2057
01:45:31,479 --> 01:45:33,280
Speaker 1: are going to find out in the next few weeks

2058
01:45:33,360 --> 01:45:36,639
Speaker 1: where where they're going to end up eventually to start

2059
01:45:36,720 --> 01:45:39,720
Speaker 1: their NFL careers. Yeah, Bob Stephen, I were just talking

2060
01:45:39,760 --> 01:45:42,320
Speaker 1: about that last hour about it's it's and you're right,

2061
01:45:42,400 --> 01:45:44,519
Speaker 1: it's not a life and death thing, and there are

2062
01:45:44,720 --> 01:45:47,200
Speaker 1: plenty of life and death issues now, but these players

2063
01:45:47,320 --> 01:45:49,720
Speaker 1: kind of get cheated out of that that party, that

2064
01:45:49,960 --> 01:45:51,760
Speaker 1: moment when the phone call comes in there in a

2065
01:45:52,400 --> 01:45:55,080
Speaker 1: family room with fifteen or twenty family members and friends.

2066
01:45:55,120 --> 01:45:57,640
Speaker 1: You know that that really shouldn't happen this year in

2067
01:45:57,680 --> 01:45:59,920
Speaker 1: the draft, right with social distancing the way it isn't

2068
01:46:00,000 --> 01:46:02,000
Speaker 1: they get they get cheat it out of an opportunity

2069
01:46:02,040 --> 01:46:05,840
Speaker 1: to celebrate that way, Yeah, they sure do. And um,

2070
01:46:06,280 --> 01:46:08,800
Speaker 1: but listen, it's like, you know, high school seniors don't

2071
01:46:08,800 --> 01:46:11,320
Speaker 1: get to get their graduation. College seniors don't get that.

2072
01:46:11,840 --> 01:46:15,880
Speaker 1: No proms, and um, a lot of stuff in regular life.

2073
01:46:16,160 --> 01:46:19,679
Speaker 1: You know, weddings are being canceled and for God's sake,

2074
01:46:20,080 --> 01:46:24,240
Speaker 1: people can't attend funerals because of this thing. So um,

2075
01:46:25,000 --> 01:46:29,000
Speaker 1: it's it's impacted everybody. UM. I think the NFL, I

2076
01:46:29,240 --> 01:46:31,800
Speaker 1: think it's okay what they did and going ahead with

2077
01:46:31,880 --> 01:46:34,280
Speaker 1: the off season. It was a little bit weird at

2078
01:46:34,320 --> 01:46:36,000
Speaker 1: the beginning of it. It's like, wow, did they did

2079
01:46:36,040 --> 01:46:38,160
Speaker 1: they do this? You know, we got such serious stuff

2080
01:46:38,160 --> 01:46:40,559
Speaker 1: going on. But you know, they went ahead with free agency,

2081
01:46:40,600 --> 01:46:43,000
Speaker 1: and I think it gave people a chance to talk

2082
01:46:43,040 --> 01:46:46,000
Speaker 1: about things. Hey, we talked about hey, it's Tom Brady

2083
01:46:46,080 --> 01:46:49,000
Speaker 1: gonna be good for the Buccaneers, um or not? And

2084
01:46:49,280 --> 01:46:50,920
Speaker 1: and that was a kind of a talking point to

2085
01:46:51,200 --> 01:46:54,400
Speaker 1: at least get our minds on something else. And I

2086
01:46:54,680 --> 01:46:57,120
Speaker 1: think for that reason, it's it's the correct decision to

2087
01:46:57,200 --> 01:46:59,840
Speaker 1: hold the draft. Um. I don't don't mind them doing

2088
01:46:59,880 --> 01:47:01,880
Speaker 1: that because you know what, bottom line, it's not putting

2089
01:47:01,920 --> 01:47:05,320
Speaker 1: anyone in harm's way. It's basically a virtual event. Anyway,

2090
01:47:05,360 --> 01:47:08,839
Speaker 1: they jazzed it up with the players coming to wherever

2091
01:47:08,920 --> 01:47:11,080
Speaker 1: the draft is held and yes, it's a big production,

2092
01:47:11,160 --> 01:47:13,679
Speaker 1: but as long as you're not putting people in harm's way,

2093
01:47:14,800 --> 01:47:16,519
Speaker 1: I don't see anything wrong with it, and people are

2094
01:47:16,600 --> 01:47:19,760
Speaker 1: getting kind of a healthy dose of sports in a

2095
01:47:19,840 --> 01:47:22,680
Speaker 1: world where we have no games right now. Is that

2096
01:47:22,840 --> 01:47:24,920
Speaker 1: the only reason you think that maybe it's a good

2097
01:47:25,000 --> 01:47:27,360
Speaker 1: thing that the NFL is kind of doing it's best

2098
01:47:27,439 --> 01:47:29,479
Speaker 1: to keep on schedule. I'm certainly it's been a little

2099
01:47:29,520 --> 01:47:33,160
Speaker 1: bit disrupted with offseason workouts and OTAs and that kind

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01:47:33,200 --> 01:47:35,599
Speaker 1: of thing, But is that really is that the only

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01:47:35,800 --> 01:47:38,920
Speaker 1: reason that it's a good thing. I mean, because when

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Speaker 1: push comes to shove, there really are life and death

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01:47:41,880 --> 01:47:45,040
Speaker 1: situations that we're all dealing with. But what other reasons

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01:47:45,240 --> 01:47:47,160
Speaker 1: are there that maybe it is a good thing that

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01:47:47,920 --> 01:47:53,080
Speaker 1: some part of our normal landscape keeps chugging along. Yeah, well,

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01:47:53,120 --> 01:47:56,439
Speaker 1: I think there is just the discussion of it. We're

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01:47:56,479 --> 01:48:00,200
Speaker 1: able to kind of evaluate what teams are doing. It's

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01:48:00,200 --> 01:48:03,679
Speaker 1: also I think there's a benefit for the young players themselves,

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01:48:03,800 --> 01:48:06,640
Speaker 1: especially the players entering the draft. You know, if you

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01:48:06,760 --> 01:48:09,719
Speaker 1: push it off, and again, I don't think anyone would

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01:48:09,720 --> 01:48:12,720
Speaker 1: have a problem if they did, although some I think

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01:48:12,760 --> 01:48:16,880
Speaker 1: the overwhelming majority of football fans are happy that they

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01:48:17,000 --> 01:48:20,560
Speaker 1: kept with the program. But you know, the kids, the

2114
01:48:20,680 --> 01:48:22,760
Speaker 1: young players they got, they gotta know where they're going

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01:48:22,840 --> 01:48:25,519
Speaker 1: to be. So if there is a season, let's say,

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01:48:25,920 --> 01:48:29,559
Speaker 1: God willing, everything gets better and the season is able

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01:48:29,600 --> 01:48:33,240
Speaker 1: to start on time or with a slight delay, well

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01:48:33,360 --> 01:48:35,439
Speaker 1: it's I think it's better for the young players to

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01:48:35,560 --> 01:48:37,400
Speaker 1: know where they're going to be, so they can at

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01:48:37,479 --> 01:48:39,960
Speaker 1: least get into playbook. They can at least know where

2121
01:48:39,960 --> 01:48:42,479
Speaker 1: they're going to live. They can know who their coaches,

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01:48:43,000 --> 01:48:45,920
Speaker 1: what the offseason plan is, and get their minds into

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01:48:46,040 --> 01:48:48,880
Speaker 1: it and their bodies as well as much as they can.

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01:48:49,600 --> 01:48:52,200
Speaker 1: So I think for that reason, if you're going to

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01:48:52,240 --> 01:48:54,400
Speaker 1: go ahead with the league here, you went ahead with

2126
01:48:54,439 --> 01:48:57,200
Speaker 1: the free agency, you have the draft, at least they

2127
01:48:57,320 --> 01:48:59,840
Speaker 1: know and the coaches know who they're going to have

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01:49:00,320 --> 01:49:02,920
Speaker 1: and there is contact there. So I again, I think

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01:49:03,280 --> 01:49:06,120
Speaker 1: when you look at the whole thing, it's going to

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01:49:06,200 --> 01:49:09,479
Speaker 1: be a positive. You know, once things do resume, and

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01:49:09,520 --> 01:49:11,400
Speaker 1: hopefully there will be a season. I don't know if

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01:49:11,439 --> 01:49:14,760
Speaker 1: there will be. I just don't because you look at

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01:49:15,479 --> 01:49:17,559
Speaker 1: you look at China and you see the news reports

2134
01:49:17,640 --> 01:49:20,280
Speaker 1: that there, you know, everything was kind of opened up,

2135
01:49:20,320 --> 01:49:22,479
Speaker 1: but now they're getting more infections. And I think the

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01:49:22,760 --> 01:49:25,799
Speaker 1: California governor, Governor Newsom said, it's like a boomerang effect,

2137
01:49:26,400 --> 01:49:30,160
Speaker 1: and you get you get one positive test in the NFL.

2138
01:49:31,000 --> 01:49:34,360
Speaker 1: It's over look what happened with basketball. One positive test

2139
01:49:34,520 --> 01:49:37,719
Speaker 1: done shut it down, the whole sports world shut down.

2140
01:49:38,400 --> 01:49:41,160
Speaker 1: So these are really kind of treacherous times and they've

2141
01:49:41,160 --> 01:49:45,120
Speaker 1: got to be very very careful about opening this thing up. Um.

2142
01:49:45,360 --> 01:49:47,760
Speaker 1: But again, if if they do end up having some

2143
01:49:48,040 --> 01:49:51,080
Speaker 1: kind of a season, better for these young players to

2144
01:49:51,200 --> 01:49:53,200
Speaker 1: know where they're going to be as soon as they can.

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01:49:54,240 --> 01:49:56,920
Speaker 1: With Bob Bob or NFL Columness for Newsdays, covered the

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01:49:56,960 --> 01:49:59,680
Speaker 1: league since the mid eighties. Bob, I'm not going to

2147
01:49:59,720 --> 01:50:02,280
Speaker 1: ask you whether the league will open on time, if

2148
01:50:02,360 --> 01:50:04,720
Speaker 1: games will start in September, But when do you think

2149
01:50:04,960 --> 01:50:06,640
Speaker 1: is the time when the league has to make up

2150
01:50:06,680 --> 01:50:08,880
Speaker 1: it's mind. They're talking about the schedule. They'll be released

2151
01:50:08,880 --> 01:50:11,040
Speaker 1: in May. They can wait even longer than that to

2152
01:50:12,200 --> 01:50:13,960
Speaker 1: give it a green light or not right, they can

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01:50:14,040 --> 01:50:17,040
Speaker 1: wait a little while longer than that, Yes, but I

2154
01:50:17,120 --> 01:50:19,200
Speaker 1: think they're going to hold to that time. I think

2155
01:50:19,240 --> 01:50:21,200
Speaker 1: they want to do it by May ninth. And I

2156
01:50:21,320 --> 01:50:25,400
Speaker 1: think that because like what again, you could put the

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01:50:25,439 --> 01:50:28,160
Speaker 1: schedule out and you can put a sixteen game schedule

2158
01:50:28,240 --> 01:50:30,920
Speaker 1: out and you can keep it out there until you know,

2159
01:50:31,120 --> 01:50:34,880
Speaker 1: September ninth. Theoretically the first game is the tenth, but

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01:50:34,960 --> 01:50:37,559
Speaker 1: obviously they wouldn't do that. They'd make a call before

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01:50:37,560 --> 01:50:40,000
Speaker 1: well before that, if they're going to delay it. But

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01:50:40,200 --> 01:50:42,679
Speaker 1: you know, you go back to and Steve was playing

2163
01:50:42,720 --> 01:50:45,200
Speaker 1: in the eighties, Um, you go back to the eighties

2164
01:50:45,600 --> 01:50:48,200
Speaker 1: two season they had, you know, they didn't really resume

2165
01:50:48,320 --> 01:50:52,479
Speaker 1: the regular season until November, and they got they got

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01:50:53,080 --> 01:50:55,000
Speaker 1: I think it was a nine game season. They played

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01:50:55,360 --> 01:50:58,800
Speaker 1: at an extra playoff round and Washington Redskins came out

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01:50:58,840 --> 01:51:00,439
Speaker 1: and won the Super Bowl that year. And you know

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01:51:00,520 --> 01:51:03,800
Speaker 1: there's no asterisk next to that super Bowl maybe for

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01:51:03,880 --> 01:51:07,120
Speaker 1: the regular season. But so they they've had a little

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01:51:07,160 --> 01:51:10,400
Speaker 1: bit of experience with that, and I think they could

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01:51:10,800 --> 01:51:14,160
Speaker 1: ramp things up stay within a month if if things

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01:51:14,200 --> 01:51:17,840
Speaker 1: are clear and they have a month's notice. And I'm

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01:51:17,880 --> 01:51:20,559
Speaker 1: just kind of you know, estimating on that, but if

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01:51:20,600 --> 01:51:25,000
Speaker 1: you're talking about getting training camp going, getting some workouts going,

2176
01:51:25,160 --> 01:51:28,840
Speaker 1: allowing the players to launch into the physical part of

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Speaker 1: the season, and it's it's different than just, OK, your

2178
01:51:31,520 --> 01:51:34,439
Speaker 1: basketball or baseball, you can't just you know, warm up

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Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks and go. In football's much different,

2180
01:51:37,479 --> 01:51:41,400
Speaker 1: much more physical. What can bob? What can we? Maybe?

2181
01:51:41,520 --> 01:51:46,280
Speaker 1: Are we underestimating the National Football League's ability to be flexible?

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01:51:46,360 --> 01:51:49,000
Speaker 1: I mean, we've heard rumors that maybe they'll have a

2183
01:51:49,080 --> 01:51:51,640
Speaker 1: sixteen game schedule ready to go, but if if it

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01:51:51,720 --> 01:51:54,160
Speaker 1: starts to get moved back, if something happens, or if

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01:51:54,200 --> 01:51:56,200
Speaker 1: it's touch and go, they could go to a fourteen

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01:51:56,280 --> 01:52:01,240
Speaker 1: game schedule or a twelve game schedule. Are we underestimating

2187
01:52:01,320 --> 01:52:03,080
Speaker 1: the league? Are you even as big as it is,

2188
01:52:03,880 --> 01:52:07,280
Speaker 1: are we underestimating its ability to be nimble and adjust

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01:52:07,320 --> 01:52:11,280
Speaker 1: to that? Well, if anyone is underestimating it, I would

2190
01:52:11,320 --> 01:52:15,120
Speaker 1: think that's a mistake because you've got some of the

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01:52:15,560 --> 01:52:20,000
Speaker 1: best sports minds in the history of pro sports, not

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01:52:20,120 --> 01:52:23,639
Speaker 1: just the pro sports landscape right now. They are going

2193
01:52:23,800 --> 01:52:28,240
Speaker 1: to They're going to get this thing done one way

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01:52:28,320 --> 01:52:32,400
Speaker 1: or another. If it is physically possible to start a

2195
01:52:32,520 --> 01:52:34,960
Speaker 1: season and don't forget you know. There was an important

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01:52:35,080 --> 01:52:38,000
Speaker 1: article that came out last week. Doctor Allen Sills, the

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01:52:38,040 --> 01:52:40,960
Speaker 1: chief medical officer of the NFL, basically said, look, if

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01:52:41,520 --> 01:52:44,200
Speaker 1: we've got to get the testing procedures done. We've got

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01:52:44,280 --> 01:52:46,200
Speaker 1: to get no infections. We've got to get a lot

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01:52:46,320 --> 01:52:49,639
Speaker 1: of things in place before we're going to think about

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01:52:49,760 --> 01:52:53,960
Speaker 1: having a season in a contact sport with fans in

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01:52:54,000 --> 01:52:57,120
Speaker 1: the stand. So excuse me. A lot has to happen

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01:52:57,720 --> 01:53:00,880
Speaker 1: before the time comes when they have to decide on

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01:53:00,960 --> 01:53:04,040
Speaker 1: a season. But I absolutely think Steve that that you

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01:53:04,120 --> 01:53:08,519
Speaker 1: could have a different kind of season. And I think

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01:53:08,600 --> 01:53:12,479
Speaker 1: they are planning. I know Jeff Pash, the league's lead

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01:53:12,680 --> 01:53:16,000
Speaker 1: legal person, last week said, you know we're going ahead

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01:53:16,120 --> 01:53:18,160
Speaker 1: sixteen games. You know we're planning to start on time.

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Speaker 1: You know that they've got contingency plans going. There's there's

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01:53:21,560 --> 01:53:25,719
Speaker 1: no question about it. With Bob Globber from Newsday talking

2211
01:53:25,720 --> 01:53:28,080
Speaker 1: about the league and let me get let's pretend for

2212
01:53:28,120 --> 01:53:29,680
Speaker 1: a minute that the league is going to start out

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01:53:29,680 --> 01:53:33,240
Speaker 1: of time. Bob, you've written a post about offseason winners

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01:53:33,280 --> 01:53:35,240
Speaker 1: and losers. You've got the Bills. Is one of your

2215
01:53:35,520 --> 01:53:39,200
Speaker 1: offseason winners so far? What do you see here? You know,

2216
01:53:39,280 --> 01:53:41,400
Speaker 1: I like the Bills overall. I like the way that

2217
01:53:41,520 --> 01:53:44,559
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean has constructed the roster and Sean McDermott, those

2218
01:53:44,640 --> 01:53:46,920
Speaker 1: those two guys work hand in glove, and I think,

2219
01:53:47,280 --> 01:53:49,360
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you got to swing for the fences

2220
01:53:49,720 --> 01:53:51,479
Speaker 1: and when you feel like you have a team that's

2221
01:53:51,520 --> 01:53:54,000
Speaker 1: ready to contend, you got to do a deal like

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01:53:54,160 --> 01:53:57,720
Speaker 1: the Stefan Digg's trade, and it was aggressive, it was ambitious,

2223
01:53:58,200 --> 01:54:01,400
Speaker 1: and it was pretty bold. But I think they have

2224
01:54:02,360 --> 01:54:05,679
Speaker 1: They're coming off a great learning experience getting to the playoffs.

2225
01:54:05,720 --> 01:54:07,400
Speaker 1: You know, some things happen in that playoff game that

2226
01:54:08,120 --> 01:54:11,360
Speaker 1: looking back, there are some coaching moves and some plays

2227
01:54:11,439 --> 01:54:14,000
Speaker 1: that I'm sure Show mcdermo would have had wanted to

2228
01:54:14,040 --> 01:54:18,000
Speaker 1: have back. But they took that next step and they've

2229
01:54:18,040 --> 01:54:20,240
Speaker 1: gotten to the playoffs a couple of times under this coach,

2230
01:54:20,360 --> 01:54:24,000
Speaker 1: and they've got the makings of something special. And Josh

2231
01:54:24,080 --> 01:54:26,479
Speaker 1: Allen going into that third year, it's a very pivotal

2232
01:54:26,600 --> 01:54:28,320
Speaker 1: year for him. He knows it and the team knows it.

2233
01:54:28,840 --> 01:54:31,120
Speaker 1: So I think I think the Dick's trade, I think,

2234
01:54:31,280 --> 01:54:34,000
Speaker 1: you know, the addition last year of Cole Beasley, they've

2235
01:54:34,040 --> 01:54:38,280
Speaker 1: got a really good solid defense. I think this team

2236
01:54:38,440 --> 01:54:40,400
Speaker 1: is you know, without Tom Brady in the division, you

2237
01:54:40,520 --> 01:54:42,280
Speaker 1: look for a team to kind of step up into

2238
01:54:42,360 --> 01:54:45,320
Speaker 1: that role. Seems like the Bills have what it takes

2239
01:54:46,120 --> 01:54:48,200
Speaker 1: and what some of the other things on the other

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01:54:48,320 --> 01:54:51,240
Speaker 1: end of the spectrum. There was always people, and I

2241
01:54:51,320 --> 01:54:53,560
Speaker 1: mean it's sports, there's always two sides of the same coin.

2242
01:54:54,040 --> 01:54:56,200
Speaker 1: What about the losers? Who who do you think have

2243
01:54:56,320 --> 01:54:59,400
Speaker 1: put themselves maybe in a precarious situation. And by precarious,

2244
01:54:59,440 --> 01:55:01,720
Speaker 1: I mean you know at this point it's you know,

2245
01:55:02,040 --> 01:55:04,840
Speaker 1: you start these season with these general managers and head

2246
01:55:04,880 --> 01:55:09,080
Speaker 1: coaches in precarious positions. That means if it does go bad,

2247
01:55:09,280 --> 01:55:11,200
Speaker 1: they don't survive it. Are there any of those guys

2248
01:55:11,240 --> 01:55:13,920
Speaker 1: on them out there that you saw from this offseason

2249
01:55:14,360 --> 01:55:17,560
Speaker 1: that may not survive this next regular season? Well, let's see.

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01:55:17,680 --> 01:55:20,080
Speaker 1: Let me let me go the top of the list.

2251
01:55:20,160 --> 01:55:21,960
Speaker 1: Let's see if you guys can guess this. If there's

2252
01:55:22,000 --> 01:55:28,360
Speaker 1: a coach away a Hall of Fame receiver for a

2253
01:55:28,440 --> 01:55:31,720
Speaker 1: pretty good running back, I don't know that that would

2254
01:55:31,720 --> 01:55:35,640
Speaker 1: seem to fit the bill right now. Bill O'Brien trading

2255
01:55:35,680 --> 01:55:39,400
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins, I'm like, just I'm trying to figure that

2256
01:55:40,280 --> 01:55:42,840
Speaker 1: any which way you can. I just can't see the

2257
01:55:42,920 --> 01:55:45,160
Speaker 1: merits of it. There must have been some stuff going

2258
01:55:45,240 --> 01:55:47,400
Speaker 1: on behind the scenes, but you know, you take away

2259
01:55:47,640 --> 01:55:51,560
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson's favorite target. You take away a guy who

2260
01:55:51,600 --> 01:55:54,800
Speaker 1: has done nothing but excel at a Hall of Fame

2261
01:55:54,920 --> 01:55:57,240
Speaker 1: level for a number of years, and you trade them

2262
01:55:57,280 --> 01:56:00,160
Speaker 1: for a running back in a league where it's a

2263
01:56:00,200 --> 01:56:03,640
Speaker 1: passing league. I don't know. I just still can't wrap

2264
01:56:03,720 --> 01:56:06,520
Speaker 1: my arms around that one. So Bill O'Brien absolutely on

2265
01:56:06,560 --> 01:56:10,800
Speaker 1: the hot seat. And you know he's a playoff caliber coach,

2266
01:56:11,360 --> 01:56:13,720
Speaker 1: but that one kind of leads you to believe that,

2267
01:56:13,840 --> 01:56:17,400
Speaker 1: you know what, unless your name is Bill Belichick, you

2268
01:56:17,560 --> 01:56:22,360
Speaker 1: shouldn't have a coach being the general manager. And that's it. Yeah, yeah, Hey,

2269
01:56:22,440 --> 01:56:24,280
Speaker 1: let me ask you about another general manager and Bob,

2270
01:56:24,360 --> 01:56:27,000
Speaker 1: you're right down there in the New York area. Why

2271
01:56:27,080 --> 01:56:30,280
Speaker 1: does Joe Douglas get so many high marks from people

2272
01:56:30,320 --> 01:56:33,480
Speaker 1: who cover the Jets? And canny kind of overcome what

2273
01:56:34,480 --> 01:56:36,960
Speaker 1: obstacles his coach, Adam Gaze white foot in his way?

2274
01:56:37,920 --> 01:56:42,520
Speaker 1: Was that for a Buffalo question? Adam Gates just because

2275
01:56:42,560 --> 01:56:46,920
Speaker 1: of who he is as a coach, Yeah, yeah, Steph

2276
01:56:46,920 --> 01:56:48,920
Speaker 1: and I have doubts about Adam Gase. I know, and

2277
01:56:49,000 --> 01:56:51,680
Speaker 1: we know the des talent by the way, especially a quarterback,

2278
01:56:51,720 --> 01:56:55,760
Speaker 1: but I just don't know if he can maximize their talent. Yeah, listen,

2279
01:56:55,840 --> 01:56:59,000
Speaker 1: he had a bad year and he did well Tourdy

2280
01:56:59,040 --> 01:57:00,600
Speaker 1: and I believe they went six two in the in

2281
01:57:00,680 --> 01:57:03,360
Speaker 1: the last half, weaker schedule and Sam Donald was finally

2282
01:57:03,440 --> 01:57:07,760
Speaker 1: healthy and not sick. But you know, and support. You

2283
01:57:07,840 --> 01:57:11,000
Speaker 1: remember that Gaze was very instrumental in bringing Joe Douglass

2284
01:57:11,040 --> 01:57:13,760
Speaker 1: to the Jets. So those two guys are tight. And

2285
01:57:14,320 --> 01:57:16,600
Speaker 1: it's going to take a lot for Joe Douglass to

2286
01:57:16,680 --> 01:57:18,520
Speaker 1: be in a position where he's going to make the

2287
01:57:18,600 --> 01:57:20,360
Speaker 1: move to fire Adam Gaze. So a lot has to

2288
01:57:20,440 --> 01:57:23,040
Speaker 1: happen there now. I think, I think you're the reason

2289
01:57:23,120 --> 01:57:26,800
Speaker 1: you're seeing Joe Douglass get compliments for what he's doing

2290
01:57:26,920 --> 01:57:29,400
Speaker 1: is and I kind of agree with this. He's taken.

2291
01:57:30,160 --> 01:57:32,520
Speaker 1: He's got a lot of needs. Man, he got offensive

2292
01:57:32,560 --> 01:57:37,320
Speaker 1: line needs a pass rusher, had the secondary um Druemain

2293
01:57:37,440 --> 01:57:39,880
Speaker 1: Johnson was one of the worst free agent signings ever

2294
01:57:40,680 --> 01:57:44,560
Speaker 1: and he needs death. So what he did was he

2295
01:57:44,680 --> 01:57:48,440
Speaker 1: didn't overspend. And I think we've seen and Mike mccagmuan

2296
01:57:49,480 --> 01:57:51,880
Speaker 1: really went crazy. You know, he's spending money like like

2297
01:57:52,280 --> 01:57:55,200
Speaker 1: like a drunken sailor in free agency last year, and

2298
01:57:55,680 --> 01:57:58,400
Speaker 1: you know, you get that sugar high sometimes, although they

2299
01:57:58,480 --> 01:58:00,440
Speaker 1: just didn't work out from the start because you know

2300
01:58:00,680 --> 01:58:03,600
Speaker 1: Donold's illness early in the season with Mono, it kind

2301
01:58:03,600 --> 01:58:06,760
Speaker 1: of doomed them right from the start. But Douglas took

2302
01:58:06,800 --> 01:58:11,640
Speaker 1: a very responsible approach, stayed within his salary cap limits,

2303
01:58:11,920 --> 01:58:15,880
Speaker 1: and got decent offensive line talent. Now, George fan is

2304
01:58:15,960 --> 01:58:19,080
Speaker 1: not the second coming of Anthony Munio's will. You know,

2305
01:58:19,160 --> 01:58:21,600
Speaker 1: we'll be the first one to say that. But the

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Speaker 1: guy who can who can step in there and play

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01:58:24,640 --> 01:58:29,320
Speaker 1: um Connor McGovern good center, good value. Alex Lewis traded

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01:58:29,440 --> 01:58:31,920
Speaker 1: for him last year with Baltimore, and he is. He

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01:58:32,040 --> 01:58:36,080
Speaker 1: did a nice job last year. And they they've gotten

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01:58:37,040 --> 01:58:39,560
Speaker 1: kind of you know, they're picked themselves up a little

2311
01:58:39,560 --> 01:58:41,920
Speaker 1: bit by the boost straps in a very responsible way.

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01:58:42,000 --> 01:58:44,800
Speaker 1: But it's still not complete. You lose Robbie Anderson, you

2313
01:58:44,840 --> 01:58:49,240
Speaker 1: getshop paramount receiver, fine, but you got a draft somebody.

2314
01:58:49,320 --> 01:58:52,160
Speaker 1: But you know, the draft needs kind of do lend

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01:58:52,240 --> 01:58:54,520
Speaker 1: themselves to what the Jets are looking for, and I don't.

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01:58:54,720 --> 01:58:56,840
Speaker 1: I don't. Let's see, it's it's not out of the

2317
01:58:56,920 --> 01:58:59,560
Speaker 1: realm responsibility that he does go offensive tackle in the

2318
01:58:59,600 --> 01:59:03,320
Speaker 1: first It's a good draft for tackles, and it's a good,

2319
01:59:03,480 --> 01:59:05,800
Speaker 1: really good draft for receivers, so he can kind of

2320
01:59:06,200 --> 01:59:11,960
Speaker 1: address those two needs in this draft, no question. The

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01:59:12,040 --> 01:59:15,480
Speaker 1: big thing is he doesn't have a legitimate pass rusher,

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01:59:15,560 --> 01:59:18,120
Speaker 1: and I don't think that's going to happen. I don't

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01:59:18,160 --> 01:59:21,080
Speaker 1: think they're gonna end up with Clowney. I mean, even

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01:59:21,080 --> 01:59:23,600
Speaker 1: if they do, we've seen Clowney be a you know,

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01:59:23,760 --> 01:59:26,920
Speaker 1: a great one week and average to you know, non

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Speaker 1: factor the next week, so that you know that's he's

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01:59:29,880 --> 01:59:31,600
Speaker 1: not the be all and end all. And he's looking

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01:59:31,680 --> 01:59:34,480
Speaker 1: probably for a one year deal. So I think Douglas

2329
01:59:34,600 --> 01:59:36,760
Speaker 1: has done a good job, solid resigned a lot of

2330
01:59:36,800 --> 01:59:38,760
Speaker 1: his guys on a one year deal. At least he's

2331
01:59:38,800 --> 01:59:42,040
Speaker 1: got him and he can extend them if they see fit.

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01:59:42,440 --> 01:59:44,440
Speaker 1: So I think he's done a solid job in less

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01:59:44,480 --> 01:59:47,240
Speaker 1: than one year on the job. Well, I got to

2334
01:59:47,280 --> 01:59:49,760
Speaker 1: ask you about the other team that plays in MetLife Stadium,

2335
01:59:50,080 --> 01:59:54,840
Speaker 1: the Giants. Eli Manning walking away after handling that job

2336
01:59:54,920 --> 01:59:57,240
Speaker 1: as starting quarterback of the Giants maybe better than any

2337
01:59:57,320 --> 02:00:00,600
Speaker 1: quarterbacks handled any other job in his through the league,

2338
02:00:00,640 --> 02:00:03,080
Speaker 1: in that environment and through the years, went in two

2339
02:00:03,160 --> 02:00:05,960
Speaker 1: Super Bowls, and then walking away leaving Daniel Jones for

2340
02:00:06,160 --> 02:00:09,640
Speaker 1: Joe Judge. How do you see things in that transition

2341
02:00:09,760 --> 02:00:13,560
Speaker 1: from you know, an iconic, you know, Hall of Fame quarterback,

2342
02:00:15,080 --> 02:00:17,880
Speaker 1: whether you debate it or not, into Daniel Jones and

2343
02:00:17,960 --> 02:00:20,600
Speaker 1: a new head coach. Yeah, listen, man, it's a it's

2344
02:00:20,600 --> 02:00:24,360
Speaker 1: a period of transition for sure for everybody. Um, Joe

2345
02:00:24,440 --> 02:00:27,560
Speaker 1: Judge is one of those unlucky handful of coaches who

2346
02:00:27,640 --> 02:00:29,760
Speaker 1: in his first year has got to deal with the

2347
02:00:29,840 --> 02:00:33,400
Speaker 1: semi Today, they opened up their quote unquote offseason program

2348
02:00:33,840 --> 02:00:35,800
Speaker 1: because the first year coaches get to open it a

2349
02:00:35,840 --> 02:00:39,000
Speaker 1: week early, and Joe Jogg's got nobody to talk to. Um,

2350
02:00:39,160 --> 02:00:42,840
Speaker 1: he's he's he's on zoom talking to his players. So

2351
02:00:43,080 --> 02:00:45,960
Speaker 1: it's just weird for him. And it's unfortunate because as

2352
02:00:46,000 --> 02:00:49,040
Speaker 1: a first year guy, it's so urgent to get your

2353
02:00:49,400 --> 02:00:51,360
Speaker 1: program up and running in the off season, and he

2354
02:00:51,760 --> 02:00:55,040
Speaker 1: will not have the benefit of doing that. Um. You know,

2355
02:00:55,080 --> 02:00:57,640
Speaker 1: I think he looks at Daniel Jones as a capable

2356
02:00:57,800 --> 02:01:00,280
Speaker 1: young quarterback, but there's there's a lot of room to

2357
02:01:00,360 --> 02:01:03,000
Speaker 1: grow for him. Um. Joe Judge has been around Tom

2358
02:01:03,080 --> 02:01:05,320
Speaker 1: Brady for a long time. He's seen greatness. He knows

2359
02:01:05,360 --> 02:01:07,480
Speaker 1: what it looks like he's not gonna fake it and

2360
02:01:07,640 --> 02:01:11,560
Speaker 1: he's not gonna see anything that will be anything other

2361
02:01:11,640 --> 02:01:15,040
Speaker 1: than what you need from your quarterback. So I think

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02:01:15,080 --> 02:01:18,000
Speaker 1: there is talent with Daniel Jones. I don't know that

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02:01:18,120 --> 02:01:21,320
Speaker 1: the ceiling is as high as an Eli Manning at

2364
02:01:21,360 --> 02:01:23,840
Speaker 1: the very top, but but I think he's he's good

2365
02:01:23,960 --> 02:01:26,360
Speaker 1: enough to work with and and be a leader. And

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Speaker 1: I think it was an important year for Daniel Jones

2367
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Speaker 1: to have watching the way Eli Manning did it, watching

2368
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Speaker 1: the greatest professional I've ever covered. Um. Eli may not

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Speaker 1: have said much and may not have been that newsworthy,

2370
02:01:40,120 --> 02:01:43,200
Speaker 1: but man, he stood up there. He never ducked, and

2371
02:01:44,120 --> 02:01:48,960
Speaker 1: it was like he is the perfect role model for

2372
02:01:49,320 --> 02:01:51,720
Speaker 1: a guy who is trying to be a professional. And

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02:01:52,000 --> 02:01:54,240
Speaker 1: I think Daniel Jones will benefit from having had that,

2374
02:01:54,720 --> 02:01:56,680
Speaker 1: and I think he'll I think he'll do okay with

2375
02:01:57,400 --> 02:02:00,720
Speaker 1: being the face of the franchise New York. He's got

2376
02:02:00,760 --> 02:02:04,320
Speaker 1: that kind of personality, very low key um and you know,

2377
02:02:04,400 --> 02:02:07,120
Speaker 1: we'll we'll take the hits when he has to so,

2378
02:02:07,480 --> 02:02:09,360
Speaker 1: but now it's a matter of just being good enough

2379
02:02:09,400 --> 02:02:13,720
Speaker 1: to win games. Well, what a great tribute to Eli Manning. Seriously,

2380
02:02:13,800 --> 02:02:17,000
Speaker 1: Bob next time. My boys, my kids would always say, Dad,

2381
02:02:17,000 --> 02:02:18,560
Speaker 1: why do you like Eli Manning so much? You just

2382
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Speaker 1: explain why that was great? I really agree with you

2383
02:02:21,200 --> 02:02:25,160
Speaker 1: on that. Well, that's great, um because I think Eli, Um,

2384
02:02:26,400 --> 02:02:29,160
Speaker 1: he like I marveled at him. I mean week after

2385
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Speaker 1: week after week after week after week after year after,

2386
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Speaker 1: And I don't mean to be monotonous about it, but

2387
02:02:35,360 --> 02:02:40,200
Speaker 1: like that's it's just you know, six sixteen years of that. Yeah,

2388
02:02:40,280 --> 02:02:45,280
Speaker 1: every time, and look at he had the right father,

2389
02:02:45,920 --> 02:02:48,760
Speaker 1: and you know we would talk about it. Why why

2390
02:02:49,040 --> 02:02:51,520
Speaker 1: why do you Why are you so good with the media?

2391
02:02:51,600 --> 02:02:54,120
Speaker 1: Why do you He would talk in the big group.

2392
02:02:54,440 --> 02:02:56,040
Speaker 1: You gotta understand, like, can you go in the locker

2393
02:02:56,120 --> 02:02:58,800
Speaker 1: room you guys have seen get a big group for

2394
02:02:58,920 --> 02:03:01,760
Speaker 1: the Wednesday press cop and you stand up there for

2395
02:03:01,880 --> 02:03:05,440
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. The cameras, TV cameras melt away, some more

2396
02:03:05,480 --> 02:03:08,240
Speaker 1: writers are there, and it gets down, down and down.

2397
02:03:08,320 --> 02:03:10,800
Speaker 1: So after about thirty minutes, it's you could be the

2398
02:03:10,960 --> 02:03:13,280
Speaker 1: last person there and he will stand there and answer

2399
02:03:13,360 --> 02:03:16,680
Speaker 1: your question. So going thirty five minutes and he just

2400
02:03:16,800 --> 02:03:20,600
Speaker 1: stands there. And Archie is a great father to have

2401
02:03:21,040 --> 02:03:24,040
Speaker 1: because Eli would would you know he was a kid

2402
02:03:24,240 --> 02:03:26,920
Speaker 1: when when Archie played and he just saw, well, that's

2403
02:03:27,040 --> 02:03:29,640
Speaker 1: that's what you do. See you would say, that's what

2404
02:03:29,720 --> 02:03:31,400
Speaker 1: we're supposed to do. I saw it for my dad.

2405
02:03:31,960 --> 02:03:35,040
Speaker 1: That's you know, it's it's part of the deal. And

2406
02:03:35,160 --> 02:03:37,200
Speaker 1: Heed a couple of the Super Bowls there too, by

2407
02:03:37,240 --> 02:03:40,200
Speaker 1: the way, Yeah, yeah, I would. I would agree with you, Bob.

2408
02:03:41,120 --> 02:03:44,800
Speaker 1: He gave forget about numbers and even the World Championships.

2409
02:03:44,800 --> 02:03:47,120
Speaker 1: The example he set for how to do it in

2410
02:03:47,160 --> 02:03:50,440
Speaker 1: the most most difficult of media markets and for such

2411
02:03:50,480 --> 02:03:54,080
Speaker 1: a long time, and to never once crack or to

2412
02:03:54,240 --> 02:03:58,680
Speaker 1: snap or to go rogue. Um, it's really a tribute

2413
02:03:58,680 --> 02:04:00,680
Speaker 1: to him. I mean, I've been on the other side

2414
02:04:00,720 --> 02:04:03,080
Speaker 1: of the microphone as a player, not to that extent,

2415
02:04:03,240 --> 02:04:05,880
Speaker 1: but I've seen how difficult that can be. And I

2416
02:04:06,000 --> 02:04:08,720
Speaker 1: think the gift he gave, you know, to those young

2417
02:04:08,800 --> 02:04:10,720
Speaker 1: players as an example into all of us, even in

2418
02:04:10,760 --> 02:04:13,360
Speaker 1: the media, as an example, is he was free to

2419
02:04:13,440 --> 02:04:18,160
Speaker 1: be himself, and who he was himself was the real

2420
02:04:18,280 --> 02:04:22,240
Speaker 1: secret of why he was successful. He was nobody other

2421
02:04:22,320 --> 02:04:24,920
Speaker 1: than who he was. He didn't try to put anything

2422
02:04:25,000 --> 02:04:27,280
Speaker 1: on for the media or anything. He was a true

2423
02:04:27,400 --> 02:04:30,400
Speaker 1: professional and he took the time to let other people

2424
02:04:30,480 --> 02:04:32,280
Speaker 1: do their job, and if it was his job to

2425
02:04:32,360 --> 02:04:35,280
Speaker 1: be there for them, he did it. And he never

2426
02:04:35,400 --> 02:04:38,840
Speaker 1: short took shortcuts. So I'm with you. I think he

2427
02:04:38,920 --> 02:04:41,880
Speaker 1: was a real example. And you know, in retrospect now

2428
02:04:41,960 --> 02:04:44,440
Speaker 1: you're kind of glad the guy got two World championships

2429
02:04:44,480 --> 02:04:50,120
Speaker 1: out of that kind of sacrifice, sacrificial you know, his

2430
02:04:50,320 --> 02:04:53,640
Speaker 1: career he put forth in New York. I just I

2431
02:04:53,680 --> 02:04:56,560
Speaker 1: couldn't be I couldn't be more impressed with his legacy

2432
02:04:56,600 --> 02:04:59,240
Speaker 1: as a player. Yeah, and he had the unique ability

2433
02:04:59,720 --> 02:05:02,440
Speaker 1: to like Jeter had this as well with the Yankees.

2434
02:05:02,640 --> 02:05:05,840
Speaker 1: He just had the ability to kind of compartmentalize. And

2435
02:05:05,920 --> 02:05:09,360
Speaker 1: he and I once asked him like he had this, Yes,

2436
02:05:09,560 --> 02:05:12,440
Speaker 1: this habit. He'd be at a press conference and he

2437
02:05:12,480 --> 02:05:14,600
Speaker 1: asked him a question, and I would I would ask him.

2438
02:05:14,640 --> 02:05:17,600
Speaker 1: I'd ask him hundreds of questions over his career and

2439
02:05:17,760 --> 02:05:20,880
Speaker 1: he'd answered He'd look at you momentarily and then would

2440
02:05:20,920 --> 02:05:24,280
Speaker 1: look above your head, like he literally looked, didn't look

2441
02:05:24,320 --> 02:05:27,720
Speaker 1: in your eyes, he just looked above your head. Maybe

2442
02:05:28,160 --> 02:05:30,960
Speaker 1: last year or the year before. I I after his

2443
02:05:31,240 --> 02:05:32,880
Speaker 1: press rule was over, I go, he can I ask

2444
02:05:32,920 --> 02:05:35,720
Speaker 1: you a weird question? He goes what you know, do

2445
02:05:36,040 --> 02:05:39,400
Speaker 1: you do you purposely like look above people when I

2446
02:05:39,640 --> 02:05:41,520
Speaker 1: like when you answer their questions. He goes, what do

2447
02:05:41,600 --> 02:05:43,280
Speaker 1: you mean? I said, well, I've asked you a lot

2448
02:05:43,280 --> 02:05:46,600
Speaker 1: of questions. Now, now mind you, he's looking at my

2449
02:05:46,680 --> 02:05:49,600
Speaker 1: eyes like normally when I'm asking him this, So I'm thinking, oh,

2450
02:05:49,600 --> 02:05:51,840
Speaker 1: I'm an idiot. But I said, well, a lot of

2451
02:05:51,920 --> 02:05:54,000
Speaker 1: times you'll answer a question and then you'll look above,

2452
02:05:54,160 --> 02:05:56,680
Speaker 1: and that in my mind, I'm thinking, well, maybe that's

2453
02:05:56,720 --> 02:06:00,520
Speaker 1: your way of, you know, not engage so that you

2454
02:06:00,600 --> 02:06:02,680
Speaker 1: protect yourself. You just you know, you can kind of

2455
02:06:03,360 --> 02:06:05,880
Speaker 1: go on and and just do your job and not

2456
02:06:06,240 --> 02:06:10,320
Speaker 1: kind of get get caught up in it. He goes, no,

2457
02:06:10,800 --> 02:06:12,680
Speaker 1: I've never noticed. Now you're gonna now you're gonna make

2458
02:06:12,720 --> 02:06:17,240
Speaker 1: me self conscious. But but I think they Steve did

2459
02:06:17,360 --> 02:06:19,120
Speaker 1: look in my eyes a little bit after, you know,

2460
02:06:19,240 --> 02:06:22,920
Speaker 1: other questions where it's he but again he went back

2461
02:06:22,960 --> 02:06:25,680
Speaker 1: to that your vert back to that looking above. And

2462
02:06:26,280 --> 02:06:28,760
Speaker 1: I do think it's a way, maybe in his it's

2463
02:06:28,880 --> 02:06:31,560
Speaker 1: it's not a defense mechanism, but when you look for

2464
02:06:31,680 --> 02:06:35,240
Speaker 1: things that how did this guy survive for sixteen years

2465
02:06:35,840 --> 02:06:39,320
Speaker 1: with this New York media? Um and listen it wasn't

2466
02:06:39,320 --> 02:06:42,360
Speaker 1: always good because it was a gradual assent when Tom

2467
02:06:42,440 --> 02:06:45,280
Speaker 1: Coughlin took over and brodyeli and they got two super

2468
02:06:45,360 --> 02:06:48,840
Speaker 1: Bowls within those first wood, you know, seven or eight years,

2469
02:06:49,440 --> 02:06:52,280
Speaker 1: and then it went bad and he had a lot

2470
02:06:52,320 --> 02:06:55,000
Speaker 1: of bad seasons and he had to stand up for

2471
02:06:55,080 --> 02:06:58,440
Speaker 1: a lot and um, listen, if it takes looking above

2472
02:06:58,600 --> 02:07:02,000
Speaker 1: the questioner to get for that, hey, old power, that's

2473
02:07:02,000 --> 02:07:06,160
Speaker 1: a good, good learning experience. You're right, that is a

2474
02:07:06,200 --> 02:07:09,160
Speaker 1: weird question, Bob, but I'm glad you asked it. Hey, Bob,

2475
02:07:09,240 --> 02:07:11,600
Speaker 1: thank you for this. To stay healthy and your family

2476
02:07:11,640 --> 02:07:14,240
Speaker 1: and maybe we'll talk again sometime. Thank you. All right,

2477
02:07:14,320 --> 02:07:17,280
Speaker 1: sounds great, guys, Thanks for having me, Thanks Bob. Bob

2478
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Speaker 1: Glauber is coulonists for Newsday's NFL columnists cover the league

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Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty five, President of the Pro Football Writers

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Speaker 1: of America. You join us on the line to talk

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Speaker 1: about not just the Giants and the Jets, but the

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Speaker 1: Bills before that and the NFL in general. And the

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Speaker 1: one thing seemed that, to say, Bob Glauber connected as

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Speaker 1: they come. Nobody really knows what's going to happen with

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02:07:35,680 --> 02:07:38,120
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season in the NFL. No, but I

2486
02:07:38,200 --> 02:07:40,200
Speaker 1: think a lot of options are open to it, and

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Speaker 1: they are gonna do everything they can to make something

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Speaker 1: happen for a season, even if it is abbreviated. But

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Speaker 1: for right now, why not go full steed, full speed

2490
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Speaker 1: ahead and have the draft at least? Hey, we got

2491
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Speaker 1: a good Twitter poll up and you can. We got

2492
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Speaker 1: full lines open for you if you want to get involved.

2493
02:07:56,960 --> 02:07:59,640
Speaker 1: What's your reason for interest in this year's draft? It

2494
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Speaker 1: is about two and a half weeks away. It is Thursday,

2495
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Speaker 1: April twenty third. What are you gonna look look at

2496
02:08:04,800 --> 02:08:06,240
Speaker 1: in the draft this year? Is it gonna be who

2497
02:08:06,240 --> 02:08:08,800
Speaker 1: the Bills target as a need in the second round?

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Speaker 1: Sixty percent of our respondents on our Twitter polls eight

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Speaker 1: that's what they're looking fat looking at. Is it gonna

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Speaker 1: be a first round surprise or drama in the first round?

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Speaker 1: Twenty two percent of you say that's it? Is it

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Speaker 1: how the network executes its draft coverage? Fourteen percent to

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Speaker 1: say that's it? Only four percent of something else in mind.

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Speaker 1: you gonna watch the draft for this year? Give us

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. May want to weigh in on

2515
02:09:01,400 --> 02:09:03,880
Speaker 1: a Twitter poll today? What reason do you have, Bills fan?

2516
02:09:04,000 --> 02:09:07,200
Speaker 1: Without your team, without a first round pick, and with

2517
02:09:07,760 --> 02:09:10,760
Speaker 1: the whole spectacle, the fun part of the draft going

2518
02:09:10,840 --> 02:09:12,960
Speaker 1: by the boards, why would you watch the draft? Let

2519
02:09:13,040 --> 02:09:15,280
Speaker 1: us know, give us a call eight three fifty two

2520
02:09:15,360 --> 02:09:18,800
Speaker 1: three one eight eight five fifty two five fifty. NFL

2521
02:09:18,880 --> 02:09:21,640
Speaker 1: Team Steve got a memo this afternoon moments agoing from

2522
02:09:21,640 --> 02:09:26,880
Speaker 1: Commissioner Goodell about the plans for the draft, and here's

2523
02:09:27,000 --> 02:09:29,520
Speaker 1: here's the gist of it, Club Seed Rights Goodell Rights.

2524
02:09:29,720 --> 02:09:32,040
Speaker 1: Clubs have been advised to prepare to conduct the twenty

2525
02:09:32,120 --> 02:09:36,720
Speaker 1: twenty draft entirely outside their facilities and a fully virtual format,

2526
02:09:37,080 --> 02:09:40,839
Speaker 1: with club personnel in separate locations and able to communicate

2527
02:09:40,920 --> 02:09:46,680
Speaker 1: with another and draft headquarters by phone or internet. Clubs

2528
02:09:46,720 --> 02:09:50,600
Speaker 1: will conduct their draft operations remotely, club personnel separately located

2529
02:09:50,640 --> 02:09:52,480
Speaker 1: in their homes. So I guess we kind of saw

2530
02:09:52,480 --> 02:09:55,280
Speaker 1: it that way coming. I'll tell you. The first thing

2531
02:09:55,440 --> 02:09:58,440
Speaker 1: is the Bills have such a great draft room upstairs

2532
02:09:58,480 --> 02:10:01,480
Speaker 1: there with the video wall and all the access to

2533
02:10:01,520 --> 02:10:03,440
Speaker 1: all that video. It's a shame that all goes to ways.

2534
02:10:03,520 --> 02:10:05,240
Speaker 1: I know they can look at the video, but man,

2535
02:10:05,400 --> 02:10:11,440
Speaker 1: that room is spectacular up there. When they connect the draft, yeah, well, no,

2536
02:10:13,320 --> 02:10:16,080
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough because they're gonna be at their homes.

2537
02:10:16,160 --> 02:10:19,360
Speaker 1: I mean, that's it. Virtual means virtual. They're not gonna

2538
02:10:19,360 --> 02:10:24,720
Speaker 1: be together. That is strange because you know, Murphy, you've

2539
02:10:24,760 --> 02:10:28,120
Speaker 1: been I've been in and around, you know, and heard

2540
02:10:28,360 --> 02:10:31,560
Speaker 1: tons of stories from all kinds of people who have

2541
02:10:31,680 --> 02:10:34,080
Speaker 1: been in draft rooms and been in for a minute myself.

2542
02:10:35,000 --> 02:10:37,520
Speaker 1: There's always a debate right up until the time they

2543
02:10:37,600 --> 02:10:40,160
Speaker 1: pick up the phone and call the guy. It's like okay,

2544
02:10:40,240 --> 02:10:42,240
Speaker 1: and they always get to the point where it's usually

2545
02:10:42,280 --> 02:10:44,880
Speaker 1: get to the point where okay, anybody have any you know,

2546
02:10:45,480 --> 02:10:48,600
Speaker 1: last thoughts before we do this, right, And there's always like,

2547
02:10:48,760 --> 02:10:52,600
Speaker 1: what do you think, and that's gonna be out the window. Well,

2548
02:10:52,840 --> 02:10:54,680
Speaker 1: help me think through this. I was just thinking about

2549
02:10:54,720 --> 02:10:57,640
Speaker 1: the dialogue and by the time your moments and the

2550
02:10:57,680 --> 02:10:59,840
Speaker 1: Bills don't have a first round. We appreciate that. But

2551
02:11:00,400 --> 02:11:02,120
Speaker 1: you would think Brandon meaning, and we should talk to

2552
02:11:02,200 --> 02:11:04,000
Speaker 1: Brandon before the draft. He's gonna need a couple of

2553
02:11:04,120 --> 02:11:06,280
Speaker 1: different phone lines, right, He's gonna need an open line

2554
02:11:06,280 --> 02:11:09,120
Speaker 1: to the owners. He won't just be able to go

2555
02:11:09,200 --> 02:11:11,880
Speaker 1: with one phone, right, He's gonna need an open line

2556
02:11:11,880 --> 02:11:15,320
Speaker 1: to scouts, right. I mean, he's gonna have a bunch

2557
02:11:15,360 --> 02:11:18,520
Speaker 1: of voices, I would think, and you know, different phones.

2558
02:11:18,600 --> 02:11:20,440
Speaker 1: Probably he's a way to do it, right, or I

2559
02:11:20,480 --> 02:11:22,400
Speaker 1: guess on the internet maybe, like you know, what are

2560
02:11:22,400 --> 02:11:26,240
Speaker 1: we talking about, zoom meeting, zoom meeting or Google hangout.

2561
02:11:26,240 --> 02:11:27,480
Speaker 1: You can do it that way, I guess. But you're

2562
02:11:27,480 --> 02:11:29,400
Speaker 1: gonna want to hear from a lot of voices right

2563
02:11:29,480 --> 02:11:31,960
Speaker 1: before you draft, I would think, including owners and scouts

2564
02:11:32,000 --> 02:11:37,680
Speaker 1: and assistant gms, etc. Right, I agree, And that's how

2565
02:11:37,800 --> 02:11:40,400
Speaker 1: they work. It is gonna and it'll probably it'll change

2566
02:11:40,440 --> 02:11:42,920
Speaker 1: what they're able to do too. I mean, nyum, not

2567
02:11:43,200 --> 02:11:46,240
Speaker 1: everybody is probably gonna have the voice that they normally would,

2568
02:11:46,600 --> 02:11:48,360
Speaker 1: and that'll be hard for some of them. That'll be

2569
02:11:48,400 --> 02:11:50,400
Speaker 1: hard for some guys. You put on all this work

2570
02:11:50,440 --> 02:11:54,120
Speaker 1: and then you submit it and then that's it. You

2571
02:11:54,240 --> 02:11:57,640
Speaker 1: kind of gotta wait in a waiting room and watch

2572
02:11:57,720 --> 02:12:00,480
Speaker 1: on TV while you find out what the guy is above.

2573
02:12:00,560 --> 02:12:05,360
Speaker 1: You said, you know, yeah, I mean, I guess it's

2574
02:12:05,520 --> 02:12:10,920
Speaker 1: gonna be crazy. Wow, you know what, It'll be neat too.

2575
02:12:12,080 --> 02:12:14,160
Speaker 1: You know, years down the road to come back to

2576
02:12:14,280 --> 02:12:17,640
Speaker 1: this twenty twenty draft and say, Okay, who handled it better?

2577
02:12:18,120 --> 02:12:21,240
Speaker 1: And even then it's gonna be subjective, Well they got

2578
02:12:21,360 --> 02:12:23,560
Speaker 1: more guys out of this, or they seem to do

2579
02:12:23,600 --> 02:12:26,200
Speaker 1: it really well, and you know, then you gotta go.

2580
02:12:26,320 --> 02:12:28,880
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to keep track, if possible, about who

2581
02:12:28,960 --> 02:12:30,360
Speaker 1: did it right and how they did it and what

2582
02:12:30,440 --> 02:12:32,600
Speaker 1: they did differently than everybody else that gave them an

2583
02:12:32,720 --> 02:12:36,000
Speaker 1: edge where they got eighty percent of their draft picks

2584
02:12:36,160 --> 02:12:39,480
Speaker 1: just right. You know, Yeah, it's gonna be different. And

2585
02:12:39,600 --> 02:12:41,560
Speaker 1: again we're not talking about it like it's the end

2586
02:12:41,560 --> 02:12:43,560
Speaker 1: of the world. It's not. The NFL will get through it,

2587
02:12:43,640 --> 02:12:45,400
Speaker 1: the Bills will get through it. But it's definitely gonna

2588
02:12:45,400 --> 02:12:48,480
Speaker 1: be different. Um, and now they have two and a

2589
02:12:48,480 --> 02:12:51,040
Speaker 1: half weeks to put it together. It's gonna be a

2590
02:12:51,160 --> 02:12:54,200
Speaker 1: different thing. I don't know what it'll look like on TV. Right,

2591
02:12:54,280 --> 02:12:57,560
Speaker 1: you would think the networks or network is gonna want

2592
02:12:57,600 --> 02:13:00,520
Speaker 1: to set up a camera with brand and being or

2593
02:13:00,600 --> 02:13:03,120
Speaker 1: maybe they just do him on his cell phone or

2594
02:13:03,240 --> 02:13:05,600
Speaker 1: Skype or something. But they want to be They're gonna

2595
02:13:05,600 --> 02:13:07,680
Speaker 1: want to be in contact with all thirty two teams

2596
02:13:07,760 --> 02:13:09,840
Speaker 1: in some way. So what do they do? I guess,

2597
02:13:09,880 --> 02:13:11,760
Speaker 1: I guess just use a cell phone camera or maybe

2598
02:13:11,800 --> 02:13:14,520
Speaker 1: Skype or something, right, I guess I'm just thinking to

2599
02:13:14,640 --> 02:13:16,120
Speaker 1: the top of my head, I'm just thinking through them

2600
02:13:16,160 --> 02:13:21,080
Speaker 1: because that's you know, you got open lines everywhere, and

2601
02:13:21,200 --> 02:13:23,280
Speaker 1: you got to have people on them, so they're man

2602
02:13:23,480 --> 02:13:27,400
Speaker 1: so you don't miss a call. Can you imagine? I

2603
02:13:27,480 --> 02:13:33,000
Speaker 1: mean goodness, So, yeah, that is crazy. It's crazy to

2604
02:13:33,840 --> 02:13:37,320
Speaker 1: think about how that what how big a monkey wrench

2605
02:13:37,440 --> 02:13:40,560
Speaker 1: that throws into the machine of the NFL Draft. It's

2606
02:13:40,600 --> 02:13:43,040
Speaker 1: really gonna be strange. We were thinking, we were talking

2607
02:13:43,080 --> 02:13:45,520
Speaker 1: about some of the issues and they'll they'll sort it out.

2608
02:13:45,560 --> 02:13:47,600
Speaker 1: They will two and a half weeks. But Peter King,

2609
02:13:47,720 --> 02:13:50,280
Speaker 1: in a very good report Today's Football Morning in America

2610
02:13:50,360 --> 02:13:53,080
Speaker 1: talk about how some NFL teams are concerned about the

2611
02:13:53,200 --> 02:13:58,720
Speaker 1: security of their technology, like I guess people have hacked

2612
02:13:58,760 --> 02:14:03,600
Speaker 1: into some Zoom meeting formats And can you imagine if

2613
02:14:03,720 --> 02:14:06,440
Speaker 1: you're you're on the and I'm not talking about draft night,

2614
02:14:06,520 --> 02:14:08,600
Speaker 1: this could happen in the next two weeks. You're having

2615
02:14:08,640 --> 02:14:12,200
Speaker 1: a serious discussion about which which offensive tackle that you

2616
02:14:12,240 --> 02:14:14,840
Speaker 1: want to draft with four or five scouts and personnel people,

2617
02:14:14,840 --> 02:14:16,240
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, the guy from the Colts

2618
02:14:16,240 --> 02:14:18,560
Speaker 1: finds a way into that that would be a security problem.

2619
02:14:18,720 --> 02:14:20,440
Speaker 1: And I can see how things worry about that a

2620
02:14:20,480 --> 02:14:24,360
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, And I'll tell you truth and not

2621
02:14:24,480 --> 02:14:27,600
Speaker 1: for nothing, because I'm you know, I'm sitting here thinking

2622
02:14:27,600 --> 02:14:29,840
Speaker 1: about how to think what a great year not to

2623
02:14:30,000 --> 02:14:33,840
Speaker 1: be have the pressure of being like the fifth team

2624
02:14:33,920 --> 02:14:36,600
Speaker 1: overall or the top ten or top fifteen picks where

2625
02:14:36,640 --> 02:14:38,920
Speaker 1: you gotta get a guy right where you've got to

2626
02:14:38,960 --> 02:14:41,120
Speaker 1: get it. And now you've got this thing going on

2627
02:14:41,280 --> 02:14:44,760
Speaker 1: where you know, usually that's that's pretty good. But to

2628
02:14:44,920 --> 02:14:47,640
Speaker 1: not have any picks until fifty four players into this,

2629
02:14:48,360 --> 02:14:50,480
Speaker 1: this might be a great year. Not to have the

2630
02:14:50,720 --> 02:14:55,360
Speaker 1: entire future of your franchise riding on a franchise quarterback

2631
02:14:55,440 --> 02:14:57,480
Speaker 1: who's twenty two years old that you don't even know

2632
02:14:57,520 --> 02:14:58,840
Speaker 1: who he is yet or which one's going to be

2633
02:14:58,880 --> 02:15:02,400
Speaker 1: available yet. Be a nice year to lay out for that. Yeah,

2634
02:15:02,720 --> 02:15:05,840
Speaker 1: no question. Those don't draft until the second round, all right?

2635
02:15:05,920 --> 02:15:08,160
Speaker 1: Eight oh three oh five fifty toll free one eight

2636
02:15:08,360 --> 02:15:10,600
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Do we have

2637
02:15:10,680 --> 02:15:12,800
Speaker 1: time for two? Or false? What do you think, Steve? No, Yes,

2638
02:15:13,280 --> 02:15:18,160
Speaker 1: your fault not today. Okay, to take a break first, Well,

2639
02:15:18,200 --> 02:15:19,840
Speaker 1: fill two minutes for me and then we'll take a break.

2640
02:15:20,160 --> 02:15:26,040
Speaker 1: All right, go what now you want to do? Or false?

2641
02:15:26,280 --> 02:15:28,040
Speaker 1: I could have let Yeah, I could have let. If

2642
02:15:28,280 --> 02:15:30,520
Speaker 1: Verne hadn't abandoned this, I'd have held the micap to him,

2643
02:15:30,560 --> 02:15:32,720
Speaker 1: let him snore. We could listen to him snore. I

2644
02:15:32,800 --> 02:15:34,680
Speaker 1: want to say this. And we kept bob bobber for

2645
02:15:34,760 --> 02:15:37,440
Speaker 1: a long time. Last half hour. He was outstanding, and

2646
02:15:37,840 --> 02:15:40,280
Speaker 1: we talked from him a long time about the NFL

2647
02:15:40,360 --> 02:15:42,880
Speaker 1: and what the NFL does now with the current situation

2648
02:15:42,960 --> 02:15:44,600
Speaker 1: it's and I thought he was I thought he had

2649
02:15:44,640 --> 02:15:46,920
Speaker 1: some good ideas and really the right perspective. I'm where

2650
02:15:46,960 --> 02:15:48,840
Speaker 1: the league is and how the next couple of months

2651
02:15:48,960 --> 02:15:51,760
Speaker 1: might go. In particular, nobody knows what the league's gonna do,

2652
02:15:51,840 --> 02:15:53,720
Speaker 1: and really just living day to day is a way

2653
02:15:53,720 --> 02:15:55,320
Speaker 1: to do it. Now. I think, yeah, we you and

2654
02:15:55,400 --> 02:15:59,120
Speaker 1: I talked too about how quickly the NFL is going

2655
02:15:59,160 --> 02:16:02,080
Speaker 1: to be able to adapt to whatever happens. And I

2656
02:16:02,280 --> 02:16:05,160
Speaker 1: asked him, if you know how nimble could the league be?

2657
02:16:05,400 --> 02:16:07,160
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, they got a sixteen game schedule

2658
02:16:07,200 --> 02:16:11,600
Speaker 1: over seventeen weeks preseason, regular season, postseason, and he goes,

2659
02:16:11,880 --> 02:16:14,880
Speaker 1: don't underestimate them. I mean, they'll get it. They've got

2660
02:16:14,920 --> 02:16:16,760
Speaker 1: some of them, and he gave paid in the company.

2661
02:16:16,800 --> 02:16:20,040
Speaker 1: They got the best minds in pro sports anywhere, and

2662
02:16:20,160 --> 02:16:23,480
Speaker 1: they're they're way out in front of this. So he's right.

2663
02:16:23,840 --> 02:16:26,040
Speaker 1: I mean, every time we get to a situation like

2664
02:16:26,160 --> 02:16:30,640
Speaker 1: this with you know, union disunity or labor management talks

2665
02:16:30,680 --> 02:16:34,600
Speaker 1: that aren't going well or or what have you. You know,

2666
02:16:34,800 --> 02:16:37,480
Speaker 1: hurricanes in South Florida where they got games going on,

2667
02:16:37,720 --> 02:16:40,560
Speaker 1: or wildfires and West Coast where they got games going on.

2668
02:16:40,640 --> 02:16:43,560
Speaker 1: I remember doing a Miami Dolphins San Diego Chargers game

2669
02:16:43,920 --> 02:16:47,480
Speaker 1: in Baton Rouge when I was with CBS. They're pretty nimble,

2670
02:16:48,040 --> 02:16:50,640
Speaker 1: and we get the feeling this the NFL and a

2671
02:16:50,720 --> 02:16:53,480
Speaker 1: lot of times it does. Particularly in their rules. They

2672
02:16:53,600 --> 02:16:57,960
Speaker 1: move at a glacial pace, you know, but when they

2673
02:16:58,040 --> 02:17:01,280
Speaker 1: have to, man oh man, do they shift into gears

2674
02:17:01,320 --> 02:17:03,440
Speaker 1: and get things done. So I think he's right. I

2675
02:17:03,520 --> 02:17:05,640
Speaker 1: think the league will be nimble enough to handle this

2676
02:17:05,840 --> 02:17:09,439
Speaker 1: if indeed, well, I guess, just nimble enough to maximize

2677
02:17:09,480 --> 02:17:12,440
Speaker 1: whatever window they're gonna have. I guess, you know, they

2678
02:17:12,520 --> 02:17:15,080
Speaker 1: know how to maximize the financial part of the two

2679
02:17:15,440 --> 02:17:18,000
Speaker 1: that they'll leave many nickels on the table. And I

2680
02:17:18,160 --> 02:17:21,560
Speaker 1: say that with deep appreciation for the smart people who

2681
02:17:21,680 --> 02:17:23,879
Speaker 1: run the league and at each team. They don't leave

2682
02:17:23,879 --> 02:17:27,240
Speaker 1: many nimbles on the table, especially we have. You say,

2683
02:17:27,240 --> 02:17:29,360
Speaker 1: they have the great admiration with the few nickels that

2684
02:17:29,400 --> 02:17:32,600
Speaker 1: we get on the table, right, I mean, it's just

2685
02:17:32,720 --> 02:17:35,080
Speaker 1: my role, Marle. Let's add our names down to the

2686
02:17:35,120 --> 02:17:37,160
Speaker 1: bottom of that list. And you know what else they have.

2687
02:17:37,320 --> 02:17:41,000
Speaker 1: They have really smart they have really smart television people.

2688
02:17:41,160 --> 02:17:43,520
Speaker 1: And I have a feeling that that draft, which is

2689
02:17:43,600 --> 02:17:45,959
Speaker 1: what seventeen days away now two and a half weeks, Yeah,

2690
02:17:46,000 --> 02:17:48,720
Speaker 1: the twenty third, I think that's gonna be even though

2691
02:17:48,760 --> 02:17:50,360
Speaker 1: the Bills aren't in the first round. And this goes

2692
02:17:50,400 --> 02:17:52,440
Speaker 1: to our Twitter poll. Even though the Bills aren't in

2693
02:17:52,440 --> 02:17:54,360
Speaker 1: the first round. I think it's gonna be compelling TV.

2694
02:17:54,520 --> 02:17:57,480
Speaker 1: It'll be the first live TV on for a month

2695
02:17:57,600 --> 02:18:00,520
Speaker 1: or two, almost two months. It'll be meaning full stuff

2696
02:18:00,560 --> 02:18:03,360
Speaker 1: that impacts all these teams. I have a feeling, even

2697
02:18:03,440 --> 02:18:07,120
Speaker 1: with the technical logistics put in their way, with the

2698
02:18:07,160 --> 02:18:09,160
Speaker 1: problems putting their way, they're going to find a way

2699
02:18:09,400 --> 02:18:11,560
Speaker 1: to make that really good television to draft this year,

2700
02:18:11,680 --> 02:18:14,320
Speaker 1: especially first route, don't you think? Yeah? And I do

2701
02:18:14,680 --> 02:18:16,360
Speaker 1: think that not only is the league have a lot

2702
02:18:16,400 --> 02:18:18,160
Speaker 1: of good minds, whether they've got a lot of partners

2703
02:18:18,200 --> 02:18:20,880
Speaker 1: in the broadcast industry with a lot of good minds

2704
02:18:20,920 --> 02:18:24,800
Speaker 1: as well, and they've got a symbiotic relationship that they

2705
02:18:24,959 --> 02:18:27,720
Speaker 1: all want this to work, and they all wanted to

2706
02:18:27,720 --> 02:18:30,680
Speaker 1: be as maximized to the greatest extent. So it will

2707
02:18:30,760 --> 02:18:39,320
Speaker 1: be an enormously team oriented across industry cooperation and they'll, yeah,

2708
02:18:39,360 --> 02:18:41,760
Speaker 1: they'll do what they can for the football fans that

2709
02:18:41,840 --> 02:18:43,880
Speaker 1: are out here. So we'll see and we'll see what

2710
02:18:44,000 --> 02:18:46,400
Speaker 1: window they're allowed to use. All right, now, we gotta

2711
02:18:46,400 --> 02:18:48,320
Speaker 1: take a break. One Bill's Live presented by a lot

2712
02:18:48,320 --> 02:18:50,560
Speaker 1: of Health for coming here from Home again today Radio only.

2713
02:18:50,720 --> 02:19:03,000
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Okay, so what have we

2714
02:19:03,120 --> 02:19:05,320
Speaker 1: learned from today's show? Brought to you by Skyworks, the

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Speaker 1: official construction equipment rental company in the Buffalo Bills. A

2716
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Speaker 1: little bit earlier, we have Bob Glauber on from New

2717
02:19:10,680 --> 02:19:13,600
Speaker 1: York Newsday. You talked about the importance of keeping some

2718
02:19:13,760 --> 02:19:16,560
Speaker 1: regularity in terms of beginning the season, especially in the draft.

2719
02:19:16,640 --> 02:19:19,080
Speaker 1: He says, the young players need to have a draft

2720
02:19:19,160 --> 02:19:21,840
Speaker 1: at the end of this month. Here's Bob Glauber. The kids,

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Speaker 1: the young players, they got to know where they're going

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Speaker 1: to be. So if there is a season, let's say,

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Speaker 1: God willing, everything gets better and the season is able

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Speaker 1: to start on time or with a slight delay, I

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Speaker 1: think it's better for the young players to know where

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Speaker 1: they're going to be, so they can at least get

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Speaker 1: into playbook. They can at least know where they're going

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Speaker 1: to live. They can know who their coaches, what the

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Speaker 1: offseason plan is, and get their minds into it and

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Speaker 1: their bodies as well as much as they can. So

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Speaker 1: I think for that reason, if you're going to go

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Speaker 1: ahead with the league year, you went ahead with free agency,

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Speaker 1: you have the draft. At least they know and the

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Speaker 1: coaches know who they're going to have and there is

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Speaker 1: contact there, So again, I think when you look at

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Speaker 1: the whole thing, it's going to be a positive once

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Speaker 1: things do resume. Bob Gloubler of New York News City,

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Speaker 1: I think he's right, Steve right. They have a right

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Speaker 1: to know, and certainly they don't feel better if they know.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and that's for them. There's no reason they

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Speaker 1: shouldn't if this can be done on time. They're moving

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Speaker 1: into an industry that's physically demanding and a little and

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Speaker 1: brutal at times, and they need to be as prepared

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Speaker 1: as they can and that means time in the billion,

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Speaker 1: time in their offense. And the one thing they need

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Speaker 1: to know is where that what city that's going to

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Speaker 1: be in and get that relationship started as quickly as possible.

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Speaker 1: It really does go a long way toward making the

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Speaker 1: guy comfortable enough to progress into the first year of

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Speaker 1: his career. The drafts coming up in two and a

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Speaker 1: half weeks, we asked a question what's your reason for

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Speaker 1: interest in this year's draft, and six twenty votes on

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Speaker 1: the Twitter poll, sixty percent you say you want to

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Speaker 1: know who the Bills target in the second round. Twenty

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Speaker 1: two percent say, want to look for first round surprises,

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Speaker 1: that sort of thing. Tomorrow show should be good. That

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Speaker 1: Brown from w ro OCTV in Rochester, we'll join us.

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Speaker 1: We'll get his perspective on the moves the Bills have

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Speaker 1: made and the talking the Bills have done in the

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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks with Josh Allen last Friday and

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Speaker 1: Brandon Bean earlier last week. And Brandon, by the way,

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Speaker 1: has that initiative now for contests, and if you're interested

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Speaker 1: in that, you can go to the website check out

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Speaker 1: the article on Buffalo Bills dot Tom Little direct you

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Speaker 1: to the website to look for how you win some

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Speaker 1: special events with Brandon being the Bills GM. Alright, Steve

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Speaker 1: Good Show today you have ask good show looking forward

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Speaker 1: to tomorrow now Yeah, me too. Yeah, And we got

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Speaker 1: a short week Friday off pre arranged because of the

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Speaker 1: Easter weekend holiday, so that's coming up. Hey. Our production

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Speaker 1: assistance thanks to George Blast, Jeff Coltneck, Thomas Honalder, Kelly Rude,

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Speaker 1: JJ Turito, Kevin Cargis, Games Robo, Brayton Wilson producing back

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Speaker 1: at Intercom, and our overall producer is Jay Harris producing

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Speaker 1: from his home all right, Steve, we'll talk you tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Thanks a lot. All right, Murf, good talking to you,

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Speaker 1: a great show. Talk to you. Be careful, be safe,

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Speaker 1: and that goes for everybody out there too. Thanks for listening,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, John Murphy, One Bills Live presenter mikel A

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Speaker 1: Health from One Bill's Drive is where we used to

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Speaker 1: beat the Seneca studio. Now we're doing it from our home.

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Speaker 1: That's where we'll be tomorrow. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.