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Speaker 1: Ah.

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Speaker 2: This is One Bill's Live, presented by Calida Health.

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Speaker 3: Well that.

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Speaker 2: Not heard.

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Speaker 4: The door?

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Speaker 5: I got the joint jumping trip.

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Speaker 2: Protect stop said, what's a good ga?

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Speaker 6: What a play by the defensive cabinets?

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Speaker 3: Timbo?

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Speaker 2: Here we go? Are you kidding me? Come? Come in?

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Speaker 5: How he's gonna take it and run?

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Speaker 7: Where the capital fo.

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Speaker 2: Time?

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Speaker 5: All right, welcome in to a special edition of One

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Speaker 5: Bill's Live here at the Key Bang Center downtown Buffalo.

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Speaker 5: And sitting between myself and Steve Tasker, is Martin be wrong?

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Speaker 8: Uh?

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Speaker 5: As we get set for Bill's Night here at the arena?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm happy that you guys are here. It's fun

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Speaker 6: energy when you guys are in.

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Speaker 2: The building and energy.

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Speaker 7: This place is an ice house, it will actually get older.

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Speaker 2: I got my coat out and I'm not taking it off.

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Speaker 7: Does Tamboni's are on the ice or the ice surfacers

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Speaker 7: are on the ice and when they leave.

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Speaker 2: Hold on, I gotta stop you right there.

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Speaker 5: They only accept ice surfacers as they're title Now I

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Speaker 5: thinks we are.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and Bony's a cool name coming out. Those are Olympias.

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Speaker 5: There's another company I got yes, yes, sorry I interrupted.

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Speaker 6: But when they leave the ice the temperature will drop

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Speaker 6: probably fifteen degrees in this place, so you guys are

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Speaker 6: in for a good two hours.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad I have my coat on them. Yeah. Put

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Speaker 2: that was that was a that was an executive decision,

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Speaker 2: and it proved to be a bunch of those fish towels.

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Speaker 2: And put those on my shoulders, and.

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Speaker 5: I was gonna wear mine as a kerchief. I got

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Speaker 5: no coverage up top.

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Speaker 7: I need a hat, save, I did say, and sabers like,

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Speaker 7: this is the perfect golf towel.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Here, it's not too long.

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Speaker 2: Out of the right stuff too. Yeah, that's nice. I

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Speaker 2: can I'll yeah, I'll be like it, saber to. It's

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Speaker 2: got a Bills jersey on. That's kind of cool, and.

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Speaker 7: It's Josh's jersey. We don't know that it's seventeen, but it's.

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Speaker 2: You can deduce that. I'm coming on the I'm coming

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Speaker 2: on the pre game tonight. I guess you with you

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Speaker 2: and you're gonna be somewhere. You're gonna be over the thing.

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Speaker 7: I'll be at the casino. I'd be at Buffalo Creek

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Speaker 7: Casino with the alumni.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be here for a minute with me and Duffer.

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Speaker 2: You can take the whole pregame if you want joy

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Speaker 2: to spot once again, I go to a pregame and

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Speaker 2: I can't drink because I gotta be on the air.

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Speaker 7: That is a that is an issue.

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Speaker 2: I find issue.

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Speaker 6: But and I know we're gonna talk bills or whatnot,

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Speaker 6: but I gotta ask you, guys, because I never know

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Speaker 6: if we're wearing black and red or blue and gold.

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Speaker 6: I gotta start writing it on my calendar. So today

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Speaker 6: I'm like, oh, I've remember wearing my black and.

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Speaker 7: Red stuff and we're not.

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Speaker 2: We're wearing blue and gold.

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Speaker 7: But what do you guys like?

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Speaker 2: Best do you like?

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Speaker 6: I'm I'm a sucker for the blue and gold because

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Speaker 6: how I got drafted in. But the black and red

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Speaker 6: is getting a lot of buzz.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I understand because those kids that remember the black

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Speaker 5: and red uniforms from the nineties, when you guys had

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Speaker 5: a fair amount of success, I mean, sometimes the most

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Speaker 5: recent success in whatever jersey. These they were sometimes carry

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Speaker 5: the day for fans because they remember the team being

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Speaker 5: successful in those uniforms, and I think that's part of it.

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Speaker 5: I think that's part of the reason they're so appealing.

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Speaker 2: But I'm I'm with you. Marty. I'm kind of partial

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Speaker 5: I don't think there Look, there are other teams out

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Speaker 5: there that wear blue and yellow, but it doesn't look

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Speaker 5: think it's different and it's I just think it's really cool,

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Speaker 5: super classic, and I'm that appeals to me. I mean,

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Speaker 5: I I grew up on Long Island as an Islanders

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Speaker 5: rails with that uniform with the Gordon's fishermen and everything else.

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Speaker 7: Did you have to wear the Gordon was there that year?

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Speaker 6: They had the fishermen and at the start of the

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Speaker 6: they went away from it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: But when I went when I played for Long Island

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Speaker 6: with the Islanders, we had the dark blue.

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Speaker 5: And which I could tolerate.

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Speaker 6: These were the original one, and then they went back there.

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Speaker 6: The original was way better. The Billy Smith and Denny Podvan,

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Speaker 6: those guys, Mike Bossy like, that's what you want, and

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Speaker 6: here in Buffalo is the same thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I watched the Blue and Goal.

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Speaker 6: And I think of I mean, Danny Gehre and Joe

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Speaker 6: of a hashek, though a lot of people remember a

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Speaker 2: The black and red. Yeah, I'm looking up. I have

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Speaker 2: no idea what you're talking about with this Horton fisherman. Guy,

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Speaker 2: Horton's fisherman.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And basically, think of a long shoreman with a hat,

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Speaker 5: a fisherman's hat on and a stick in his hand

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Speaker 2: Big white beard. And that's what it was. And look,

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Speaker 2: I get it.

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Speaker 5: You're you're on the island. You're trying to do the

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Speaker 5: maritime thing, and that whole thing.

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Speaker 2: I got it.

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Speaker 5: They just went too far in that direction where it's like,

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Speaker 5: is this a hockey team or are they selling fish sticks?

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Speaker 5: Like you didn't know the difference.

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Speaker 6: Now, it wasn't good and it didn't last that long

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Speaker 6: and it may not even be on the internet anymore.

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Speaker 5: Scrub scrub, scrub, come on ahead, like an aquamarine color

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Speaker 5: mixed in. H. Well, that's the thing that's so appealing

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Speaker 5: about the original Islander's logo is they actually have Long

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Speaker 5: Island in the logo, the actual map of the island.

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Speaker 6: So I can tell you where the building is and

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Speaker 6: where the rink is because I lived on Long Island

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Speaker 6: and I spent enough time on those roads stuck in

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Speaker 6: traffic that I was looking at the maps to try

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Speaker 6: to find alternate routes.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I know exactly off far West and where about

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Speaker 7: that logo?

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Speaker 2: You've been right, So you've been in Buffalo for long enough.

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Speaker 2: Now what do you think about like the Bills? Like

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Speaker 2: red helmet, white helmet, charging buffalo, standing buffalo.

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Speaker 7: I love the charging buffalo. I think that's great.

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Speaker 2: Although the white helmet with the charging buffaloes was big

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Speaker 2: when they brought it back huge.

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Speaker 7: I definitely like that. I think we have one at

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Speaker 7: the studio at one Bill's lot.

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Speaker 6: There's one Bills right, there's one there, But on my

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Speaker 6: set at home, my zoom work from home virtually. Like

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Speaker 6: I said, I have a red Bill's Helmets by Eric

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Speaker 6: Molts and so I remember Doug Floodie.

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Speaker 7: Eric molds peerless price like Deurman Thomas.

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Speaker 6: My first ever Bills game was the game that at

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Speaker 6: the end of the game, the Bills need a touchdown

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Speaker 6: and Doug Fludie goes to his right to give the

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Speaker 6: in It was a busted play. But but so to me,

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Speaker 6: that was like the red helmet and it was fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm well, he's gonna be partial reasons. I'll say

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Speaker 2: this though, I'm the white helmets and the jersey combinations

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Speaker 2: they have today. Pop. Yes, I mean whites, the all whites.

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Speaker 5: Really the Stormtrooper look when they go with the white,

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Speaker 7: Now, let me ask this because I have this discussion.

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Speaker 6: Like I'm a Bills fan, and I was since I

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Speaker 6: came to Buffalo and Rochester nineteen ninety seven and my

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Speaker 6: first year in Buffalo the Sabers full time was ninety nine.

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Speaker 7: I remember going to games, I got season tickets.

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Speaker 6: It was awesome. But we have these discussions with my

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Speaker 6: kids because now they're full into it. Like when Deep

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Speaker 6: picked the uniforms, does it make a difference because I

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Speaker 6: never had to deal with dad with hockey, it's either

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Speaker 6: blue or white or whatnot. But like as Josh Allen

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Speaker 6: the quarterback looking at his receivers if they're wearing red

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Speaker 2: Helmets too, there is something in that too, because I've

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Speaker 2: I've there was a couple of times when they first

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Speaker 2: started to come out with alternate helmets, like their third jersey.

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Speaker 2: Now teams can wear like once a year or whatever.

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Speaker 2: I was doing sidelines, and I know for I know,

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Speaker 2: without even talking to the players. It early in the game,

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Speaker 2: particularly if the team is wearing an alternate colored jersey

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Speaker 2: didn't get a chance to practice in it or whatever.

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Speaker 2: But the visual cues the quarterback goes back, and the

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Speaker 2: visual cues he's looking for are different. Yeah, and it

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Speaker 2: takes them maybe, you know, like a series say okay, now,

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Speaker 2: oh well wait a minute, okay, yeah, all right, this

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Speaker 2: is gonna look different. I've seen that happen early in

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Speaker 2: You can just tell he's like, it's not the same.

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Speaker 6: Seeing hockey, the socks are the visual cue because a

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Speaker 6: lot of time you're looking down at dice and you're

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Speaker 6: looking at the white socks or colored socks or like

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Speaker 6: a goalie, right, you're looking at the bottom half. And

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Speaker 6: that was always the thing, like you looked at basically

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Speaker 6: one color white or and away or home color. Now

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Speaker 6: a blue or red or whatever.

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Speaker 5: There's three teams in the a f C East all

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Speaker 5: have white helmets. Dolphins Jets and Bills. The Patriots the

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Speaker 5: only ones that have something a little.

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Speaker 2: Bit green now, though, aren't they They go back. You're

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Speaker 2: right about that. They just did that this year.

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Speaker 6: That's I got that Aaron Rodgers walking on the tunnel,

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Speaker 6: I'll t with the green helmet.

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Speaker 2: And that didn't go well. When when Jim Kelly came

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Speaker 2: And the red and g with the red Bill's helmet

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Speaker 2: the green Jets helmet didn't look all that dissimilar. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: And it was a it was a thing. Somebody came

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Speaker 2: in and was wearing red shoes or whatever. He couldn't

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Speaker 2: tell they were red shoes. They looked green to hear,

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Speaker 2: whatever it was. And so, and that's why back in

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Speaker 2: the day they switched from white helmets to red helmets

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Speaker 2: to get away from the Jets white helmet in the

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Speaker 2: Miami white helmets, so they could discern them in the game.

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Speaker 6: Well, I will say this, I had a goalie partner

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Speaker 6: that was color blind, and he didn't tell the coaches

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Speaker 6: in trading camp and we played red against green and

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Speaker 6: he had no idea who was on his.

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Speaker 7: Team, and he had a terrible game. And felt really bad.

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Speaker 6: And after the game, like the discrimmage, I'm talking to

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Speaker 6: gotta go talk to coach. I'm like, well, you may

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Speaker 6: want to wait, like you know, I'll tell you, like

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Speaker 6: let it go. He goes, No, I gotta go tell

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Speaker 7: Talk to coach. I'm color blind. I had no idea

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Speaker 7: It's a twelve months of a year business. There is

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Speaker 5: Yeah, your season lasts longer. Your season is get you

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Speaker 5: We we just have so many ten pole events through

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Speaker 5: Should all be burned, every last one of them until

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Speaker 7: There were you in Long Allen when they won their

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Speaker 5: No wonder who was your favorite player. I was a

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Speaker 7: The guy wins the Kenny Morrow wins, wins the Gold Americ.

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Speaker 5: that's nineteen straight playoffs season.

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Speaker 2: They're disappointed they lost, and thet they got swept.

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Speaker 7: And he looked in and they're.

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Speaker 7: So the Islanders went out to win eighty four, eighty five.

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Speaker 2: Eighty six.

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Speaker 6: They lost because they had their defenseman scoring his own

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Speaker 2: I've heard that. I had heard that, and that's that's

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Speaker 7: I'll tell you this though.

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Speaker 2: I will be partying. I will be popular. I'll give

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Speaker 2: we got to start making playing. My family who lives

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Speaker 2: it didn't happen to be like two grand didn't happen.

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Speaker 2: It didn't happen. They said, no, no, no, no, I

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Speaker 2: And I thought, and that was kind of neat to me,

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Speaker 6: It's a lot of money and a lot of phone

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Speaker 6: But but you're right, I think the place to be

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'd have to we have we'd go on location

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Speaker 7: You may have to party before the show.

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Speaker 6: It's well, we didn't go for like two and a

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Speaker 7: I couldn't believe how much they got works. You guys

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Speaker 5: They got the tour in the fall, and I will

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Speaker 5: Does not feel like a football stadium at all. You

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Speaker 5: So it's I can only imagine how loud it's gonna

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Speaker 2: Stacked when I go. When you go over there, and

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Speaker 6: It will be different, right because I mean, right now,

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Speaker 7: The open air.

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Speaker 6: I remember going to a game, and you guys would

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Speaker 7: And I remember the lost, Yeah, Bills won.

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Speaker 5: I remember let It Snow game. When Yeah, they started

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Speaker 7: And Peeris Price made us a catch in that game

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Speaker 5: One we got like ten, well, now one extra home

442
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Speaker 5: game this preseason games as we have nine at home

443
00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,480
Speaker 5: eight we have two presecon game, one home preseason game usually.

444
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Speaker 2: One when you have there's eleven games left in that place.

445
00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:17,240
Speaker 2: Eleven games and that's it.

446
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Speaker 5: For ten really and then get one preseason at home,

447
00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:21,840
Speaker 5: one preseason game, nine.

448
00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:26,760
Speaker 2: Ten games and that's all playoffs. Well, that's true. Possibly

449
00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:28,720
Speaker 2: that's true. Thing, wouldn't it be nice if it was

450
00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:30,760
Speaker 2: the last game in there was an AFC championship.

451
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Speaker 7: I don't know if the Savers are playing the night

452
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Speaker 7: before or the day of. I'm calling seconds, I'm not.

453
00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:46,520
Speaker 2: I'm not. We've already decided that's good, Stuffy.

454
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Speaker 5: Thanks for joining us here opening second and being so

455
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Speaker 5: welcoming here and your neck of the woods, because you know.

456
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Speaker 2: This is not our territory, it's yours. No but games.

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Speaker 7: You know where we are actually the TV set just

458
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Speaker 7: to our left.

459
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Speaker 6: You guys, walk in, come, say hi, love every time

460
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Speaker 6: we get to see you guys, and then, uh, you know,

461
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:10,720
Speaker 6: just hockey's a little dangers though, when you're sitting in

462
00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 6: the crowd watchbox, like robbery got hit again the other night,

463
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Speaker 6: Black guys.

464
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Speaker 2: And the old thing. I heard it too. I gotta

465
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Speaker 2: I gotta be honest with you. If I'm on the

466
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Speaker 2: ice and Rob's over there, I'm gonna zing one in

467
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Speaker 2: there every game. Just one, just one, just just yes,

468
00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:31,720
Speaker 2: just sing one in there every game. Have somebody draw straws.

469
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Speaker 2: Whoever gets on that. Okay, at some point you're the

470
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Speaker 2: guy tonight.

471
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Speaker 5: Remember when Rick joined him down there one time and

472
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Speaker 5: he had a helmet on.

473
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Speaker 6: With a man box was was broken and is like,

474
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Speaker 6: I'm not going up there with the stairs. Put me

475
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Speaker 6: in between the benches and he had the helmet and

476
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Speaker 6: the roser and that was Yeah, that was funny. You

477
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Speaker 6: got to man, you got a razor was at the

478
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Speaker 6: top the three hundred level the other night too, so

479
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Speaker 6: because he got hit against the Rangers against then, so.

480
00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 7: I brought him hot dogs and popcorn. Fans kept Brandham

481
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Speaker 7: food he's eating while on the air.

482
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Speaker 2: It was legend. That's the best.

483
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Speaker 5: Thanks, have fun on the broadcast tonight. We will take

484
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Speaker 5: a break and kick off the topic of discussion for

485
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Speaker 5: you today, which is how would you describe a Buffalo

486
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Speaker 5: sports fan? Think about that and join us when we

487
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Speaker 5: come back here on One Bill's Live presented by co

488
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Speaker 5: lot of health.

489
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Speaker 2: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right back here at the Key.

490
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Speaker 5: Bank Center Chris Brown Steve Tasker on a special Bills

491
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Speaker 5: Night edition of One Bill's Live, where we're gonna have

492
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Speaker 5: Sabers Sharks here at the arena tonight and it is

493
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Speaker 5: Bill's Night.

494
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Speaker 2: This guy's gonna be busy.

495
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Speaker 5: You got a lot of pregame responsibilities, in game responsibilities, No.

496
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Speaker 2: I mean yeah, not too many. Yeah. Watch, I have

497
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Speaker 2: the responsibility of watching the game in a suite with

498
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Speaker 2: Tim connolly saying hi, saying hi to some people. Let's

499
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Speaker 2: go sign me up for that response.

500
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Speaker 5: I think I'm in your section tonight. I got a

501
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Speaker 5: couple of tickets, right, I think I'm in your section.

502
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Speaker 2: I I got some pretty good seats. Nice, very nice.

503
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Speaker 2: So that'll be good. We are behind schedule here.

504
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Speaker 5: We got to go to around the NFL, which is

505
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Speaker 5: brought to you by Kalida Healthy, official Healthcare System of

506
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 5: the Buffalo Bills and the Jets are cutting wide receiver

507
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,480
Speaker 5: DeVante Adams. As expected, they were trying to find a

508
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 5: trade partner, but nobody was going to take on his

509
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:44,280
Speaker 5: thirty six million dollar salary, so they are going to

510
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 5: clip the three time All Pro from their roster. That

511
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 5: will free up thirty million in cap space. They've also

512
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 5: given permission to fellow receiver Alan Lazard to seek a

513
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,040
Speaker 5: trade before the start of the new league year on

514
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:03,159
Speaker 5: March twelfth. Lazard, I think is gonna be difficult to

515
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 5: trade as well. He's due to make eleven million in

516
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 5: base pay respectively. Not guaranteed, but he's probably gonna get

517
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Speaker 5: released too before we get to March twelve.

518
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Speaker 2: I don't see anybody if they know.

519
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,359
Speaker 5: If a team knows they're gonna release these guys anyway,

520
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:17,680
Speaker 5: why are you gonna start talking turkey?

521
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the only reason you do it is if you

522
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 2: really love the guy and he's.

523
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Speaker 5: Affordable and you don't want to compete for it.

524
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Speaker 2: And you don't want to compete, that's the thing. You

525
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:26,360
Speaker 2: don't want him to give free agents and the Jacks

526
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Speaker 2: the price up. But yeah, so i'm do you think

527
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:32,840
Speaker 2: do you think the Jets gonna tear it down?

528
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 5: I don't think they'll tear down the defense, but the

529
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,200
Speaker 5: offense is gonna undergo some change. I was talking to

530
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Speaker 5: our good friend Eric Allen, who works for New York

531
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Speaker 5: Jets dot Com, when we're at the combine last week,

532
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Speaker 5: and he's of the opinion that the offense is gonna

533
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Speaker 5: change considerably. They may go heavy two tight end sets

534
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Speaker 5: going forward, so there's gonna be some change there at

535
00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:01,440
Speaker 5: the tight end position for them. And he thinks that

536
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,880
Speaker 5: they're gonna have a greater commitment to running the football,

537
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 5: provided they make the necessary investments on their offensive line,

538
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,959
Speaker 5: because they got to redo that again because what they got.

539
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 5: They got old in decredit offensive lineman to start last.

540
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Speaker 2: Year and it didn't work. Yeah, that's not yeah, and

541
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 2: it's not a good year in the draft for offensive tackles.

542
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Speaker 2: You got to do it. I'm telling you. You got

543
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:25,160
Speaker 2: to do it the way the Bills do it. Get

544
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 2: the best players you can, no matter what position they are,

545
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,679
Speaker 2: and then build your team. You got good players at

546
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 2: all these positions. You couldn't find this guy or that guy,

547
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:34,879
Speaker 2: but you got everybody else is pretty good. You can

548
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,439
Speaker 2: make it work. You can't decide in February that you're

549
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 2: gonna go two tight ends all year. You know, go

550
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 2: out and get some guys, find out what you've got

551
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 2: and get a recipe for winning first and it starts

552
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Speaker 2: at quarterback. Of course, what they're gonna do there who knows,

553
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 2: But you got to go and find those guys. And

554
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,399
Speaker 2: that's how you do it. You don't you don't have

555
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 2: a philosophy, and then go fulfill the philosophy. Your philosophy

556
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 2: should be get the best players you can and let

557
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 2: them play well in your you know, build a system

558
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 2: that they can play well in. That's it. You're gonna

559
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 2: win games doing that. That's that's what the Bills have done.

560
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 2: And certainly it's easy when you got Josh and you know,

561
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:13,400
Speaker 2: and the crew that they've got, but that it looks

562
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 2: easy because they let these guys do what they do well,

563
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 2: and so you get you know, if you're gonna decide

564
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Speaker 2: in February, what you know your philosph you know, you

565
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Speaker 2: know here your quarterback's gonna be what are you doing?

566
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Speaker 5: Yeah, the Rams are gonna make a trade that becomes

567
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 5: effective March twelfth. They're sending veteran offensive lineman Jonah Jackson

568
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,400
Speaker 5: to the Bears in exchange for a sixth round pick

569
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Speaker 5: this year. The trade, as we said, can't be official

570
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 5: until the start of the new league here, but that

571
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 5: will be happening in well eight days. The Cowboys won't

572
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Speaker 5: be letting Osa Diggyiezuwa hit free agency. Dallas is resigning

573
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Speaker 5: the defensive tackle to a four year, eighty million dollar contract.

574
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Speaker 2: That's according to NFL Network.

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Speaker 5: The deal includes fifty eight million dollars guarantee. Well, diggi Zoo.

576
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 5: He had a good season. He's been a reliable interior

577
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:08,679
Speaker 5: defender for them. And knowing a player like DeMarcus Lawrence,

578
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 5: their veteran defensive end is coming off of their books

579
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Speaker 5: as a free agent and probably is not going to

580
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 5: be back at age thirty three, it freed up some

581
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 5: money to get you know, your twenty six year old

582
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 5: penetrating defensive tackle resigned.

583
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Speaker 2: So there it is.

584
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Speaker 5: Yeah, fifty eight million guaranteed, four years, eighty million. I

585
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 5: mean he's twenty million dollar.

586
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 2: A year DT. That's a big number. But you know,

587
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 2: we we've come to this conclusion and at this point

588
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 2: in history, the big guys are where it's at. You

589
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 2: gotta have them. You got to find them, and you

590
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 2: got to you got to get them lined up, and

591
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 2: you got to have them play. You got them tied up,

592
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 2: and you got to get them motivated. It's too easy

593
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 2: to turn it off down inside, where you can just

594
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 2: be a guy down in there, and you know, you

595
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 2: get and sign a guy to a guaranteed fifty eight million,

596
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Speaker 2: you're going to test his motivation.

597
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Speaker 5: Yes, the Minnesota Vikings here on franchise tag deadline Day,

598
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 5: are not expected to put the tag on quarterback Sam

599
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Speaker 5: Donald ahead of the four pm deadline today. Minnesota is

600
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Speaker 5: still interested in working to re sign Darnald, but they

601
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Speaker 5: would like to do so without using the tag. They've

602
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Speaker 5: got eight days before free agency, or actually six before

603
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Speaker 5: teams can start calling Sam Donald's people and say, hey,

604
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 5: I know you've been talking to the Vikings, but we're

605
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 5: gonna throw this much money at you. You want to

606
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 5: come play for us?

607
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Speaker 2: I mean, you gotta get it done pretty quickly, now,

608
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Speaker 2: Donald Donald. If I'm Sam Donald, as much as I

609
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 2: loved it in Minnesota, as much as it's awesome up there,

610
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 2: and you resurrected your career, which was your journeyman at best, yeah,

611
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 2: if not an out and out bust, it's great up there, awesome,

612
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 2: But hitting free agency after the season he just had,

613
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 2: you can't not do it. You can't not do it

614
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 2: talking you're talking about quarterback contract, I know, and there's

615
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 2: teams desperate out there, desperate the Raiders, But.

616
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Speaker 5: You played your Jets. You played your best football under

617
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Speaker 5: Kevin O'Connell. I mean, you looked like a completely different

618
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Speaker 5: You looked like, you know, like a first round pick.

619
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Speaker 5: You you looked like a first round pick for the

620
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 5: first time in your career. You finally found a coach

621
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Speaker 5: that knows how to tap into the best of what

622
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Speaker 5: you can do. And you're gonna leave that at the

623
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Speaker 5: risk of never playing that way again to get paid.

624
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 5: And it's not like you're not gonna paid in Minnesota

625
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 5: three years, Like, why why can't he sign a contract

626
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 5: like Baker Mayfield? Baker Mayfield last year, three years, one

627
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 5: hundred million dollars. I think Darnold could sign for forty

628
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 5: something a year easy, three years, one hundred and twenty million.

629
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Speaker 2: Why wouldn't you do that because you might get a

630
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Speaker 2: five year, two hundred and fifty million.

631
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Speaker 5: Yeah, but how much of that money is guaranteed? How

632
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Speaker 5: much of it are you going to see?

633
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 2: We're gonna find out, and plus more of it's gonna

634
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 2: be guaranteed when you got this other team over here

635
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 2: that's also in there, going well, we'll pay you this,

636
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 2: and we'll pay you that and d D Yeah, Sam,

637
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 2: you gotta hit free at that position, you got to

638
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 2: hit free. Ask Kirk Cousins how important free agents? I

639
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 2: just think Cousins made five hundred million dollars doing that

640
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 2: and and how yeah, and how did he look without

641
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell. Rich, That's how he looked. He's not enough money.

642
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 5: He can't spend all the money he has, his kids

643
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 5: can't spend all the money he has.

644
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 2: How he's he looked. You were sitting on that one

645
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 2: where I didn't. That just came to me. Look, I

646
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 2: get it.

647
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 5: It's not just Kevin O'Connell. Yeah, I know, it's Jordan Addison.

648
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 5: Jordan's Justin Jefferson.

649
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 2: Like, you know, I don't get it. I get it,

650
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 2: I get it, But you know you're you're talking about

651
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 2: even even so, he put together a See they were

652
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 2: fifteen and what were they fourteen and fourteen, fourteen and three,

653
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 2: fourteen and three. They put together an unbelievable season and

654
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 2: they done and then he well, he kind of went

655
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 2: belly up in the playoffs. There's no guarantees that you're

656
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 2: gonna did you like, like, we're gonna go, We're gonna

657
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 2: win a championship. Now the only guarantee is the zeros

658
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 2: on that deal when they say they're guaranteed, when you

659
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 2: sign your name, that's the guarantee. And that's what you

660
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 2: got to do for your family, for your career, for

661
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 2: your future, your kid's future, your grant, and you know

662
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 2: for this your grandkid's future. So that's you're talking maybe

663
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 2: over a dozen million dollars difference.

664
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Speaker 6: Right.

665
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 5: He's fifth in the NFL in passing yards this past

666
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 5: season and fifth in touchdown passes with thirty five.

667
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 2: A day after it broke that.

668
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 5: Cornerback Darius Sleigh will be a June first release by

669
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 5: the Eagles. Philadelphia is designating another defensive back for release

670
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 5: after June first. Veteran James Bradbury gonna be trimmed from

671
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 5: the roster as Philly looks to seek more or cap

672
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 5: savings come the summer. Bradbury had a season ending achilles

673
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 5: tendon injury just before the season, so I don't expect

674
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 5: to be there. There'll be a ton of interest there,

675
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 5: especially he's on the wrong side of thirty and he

676
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 5: is a major achilles injury, and he's he plays in

677
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 5: the defensive backfield.

678
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 2: That's that's a tough combination. If he wants to play somewhere.

679
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 2: It's gonna be up to him. He's not gonna his

680
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 2: days of big contracts are over.

681
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 5: You gotta he's gonna have to do a one year

682
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 5: prove it deal.

683
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was saying if yes, at veteran minimum. Let's

684
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 2: not to say he can't do it. No, But that's

685
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 2: probably what he's looking at. This is, you know, how

686
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 2: bad does he want to play? Really? That's if he

687
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 2: wants if he comes back and plays in other years,

688
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 2: because he really wants to play football, and that's and

689
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 2: tip and tip your hat to him. The interesting thing

690
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 2: is tough injury.

691
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 5: He's played some more safety here later in his career

692
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 5: when he started his career as a corner, and so

693
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 5: maybe he just transitioned to full time safety knowing the

694
00:33:56,680 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 5: demands of corner and everything are a little bit more intense.

695
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 5: So I'm curious to see what his decision is in

696
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 5: terms of what he considers himself. Now I am a

697
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 5: safety only, or I'm a versatile chess piece, whatever, But

698
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,359
Speaker 5: I can't imagine teams are gonna be breaking down his door.

699
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 5: They'll check the medicals, see how his recovery's going. But

700
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 5: he didn't even play that well when he was healthy

701
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty.

702
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 2: Three for the Eagles.

703
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 5: That's why they drafted two corners in the next draft,

704
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 5: Quinnon Mitchell and Cooper dejen because of how poorly Bradbury

705
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,800
Speaker 5: played the season before. It's sounding more and more like

706
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 5: the Steelers will lean toward quarterback Justin Fields as their

707
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 5: quarterback going forward fields in Russell Wilson pending free agents.

708
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 5: Feelds obviously on the front side of his career, Wilson

709
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 5: on the backside. And I think we all saw what

710
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 5: the limitations of the Pittsburgh offense were with Wilson in

711
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 5: the lineup.

712
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 2: Let's not forget there, four and two with Fields before

713
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 2: Russ had the calf injury early and they played for

714
00:34:54,640 --> 00:35:00,359
Speaker 2: six weeks four and two with Fields and and that's

715
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 2: that sounds wow, that's pretty good, right, Mike Tomlins still

716
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 2: pulled the trigger and put rus Wilson in, right, you know, so,

717
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,439
Speaker 2: I there was they were limited with Justin Fields as well,

718
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 2: but at least they know what they've got in him, right,

719
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 2: I Mean, that's that's a real He's got to go

720
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 2: with the youth and athletics because they felt limited with

721
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 2: Russ as well for different reasons.

722
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 5: Right, so right, yeah, top running answer, top running back

723
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,919
Speaker 5: prospect Ashton genty from Boise State. As pre draft thirty

724
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,760
Speaker 5: visits scheduled the Chicago Bears in Las Vegas Raiders.

725
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 2: The Raiders picked sixth, the Bears picked tenth in round one.

726
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 2: He he is one of the best contact balance runners

727
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,840
Speaker 2: I have seen in twenty years. I saw something this

728
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,319
Speaker 2: too that it didn't happen this last year because boys,

729
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 2: he didn't need him to do it. But the year

730
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 2: before he was first in FBS in yards receiving out

731
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 2: of the back four.

732
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 5: Oh, he's a versatile back, a guy can do. I

733
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 5: think he's gonna be He's got a really good chance

734
00:35:58,120 --> 00:35:58,760
Speaker 5: to be the first.

735
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 2: Guy can do everything. Yeah, so good for him, and

736
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 2: that's he's going to be an interesting Oh dude, yes, absolutely.

737
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 5: Wide receiver Darius Slayton not expected to return to the

738
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 5: Giants this offseason. He turns twenty eight this summer. He's

739
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 5: been somewhat of a downfield threat for the Giants. He's

740
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 5: averaged fifteen yards of reception for his entire career, been

741
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 5: about a five to seven hundred yard receiver the last

742
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 5: three seasons, and what has amounted to largely a poor offense.

743
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 5: He ran a four to three to nine at the

744
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 5: combine back in twenty nineteen when he was coming out

745
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 5: in the draft. Are you interested him in him as

746
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 5: a free agent perhaps for the Bills two year coming

747
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 5: off a two year, twelve million dollar contract. He's going

748
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,800
Speaker 5: to turn twenty eighth this summer. He's got downfield speed

749
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,240
Speaker 5: and his character is a plus.

750
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 2: What do you think? Yeah, you got to talk to him.

751
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 2: I think he is. Talk to him.

752
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 5: I think he fits the description of that tier two

753
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 5: free agent that Brandon Bean typically takes long looks at

754
00:36:58,239 --> 00:36:59,240
Speaker 5: and considers signing.

755
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 2: And you don't know what the future holds for mac Hollins, right,

756
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 2: you want to bring a guy in with that kind

757
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 2: of character to be in the room with Keon. You know, yeah,

758
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 2: I'm okay, let's talk to him.

759
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 5: And I think he can fit the description of a

760
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 5: field stretcher. You still think he has that in his

761
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 5: skill set.

762
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 2: I don't know, he's not gonna run a four three

763
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 2: nine after five six years, but he's still gonna have

764
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 2: that in him. You know that that ability it is,

765
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 2: you know know what that's supposed to look like. So

766
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 2: he could help he could help, but does say something

767
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 2: that the Giants are gonna cut him loose after having

768
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 2: a bad offensive year all around. So you don't want

769
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 2: to get rid of good, the good, the guys that

770
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 2: helped you. And if the Giants are saying goodbye to him,

771
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 2: I'd like to know the reasons for that, right right,

772
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 2: if you can find out.

773
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you know DeVante Adams is out there. Do

774
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,800
Speaker 5: you think he takes a one year deal from anybody?

775
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 2: What do you?

776
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 5: I mean, he's thirty two. I gotta see when he

777
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 5: turns thirty three.

778
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 2: I don't know. There's some teams out there. I could

779
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 2: see it, because I would consider him here on a

780
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 2: one year deal, nothing sure, nothing more. Oh sure, if

781
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 2: you can come here and play for a year, Yeah,

782
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 2: give it a shot. I think there's going to be

783
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 2: somebody more like along the lines of an Arizona Cardinals

784
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 2: who would say, we'll give you a three year deal.

785
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 2: You know that, you know what I mean? We need

786
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 2: one of those guys, does opposite Marvin Harrison Junior. Marvin

787
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 2: Harrison Junior's on his rookie contract, that kind of thing.

788
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 2: Doesn't turn thirty three until Christmas Eve, So yeah, I

789
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 2: could see something like that. There's certainly going to be

790
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 2: a market for DeVante Adams. The guy can really play

791
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:48,879
Speaker 2: one year deal. Certainly every team in the league would

792
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 2: talk to him about his price for a one year

793
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 2: deal if he's in.

794
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,919
Speaker 5: Eighty five catches for over a thousand yards and eight

795
00:38:55,040 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 5: touchdowns playing for the Raiders and the Jets, Like, yeah,

796
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 5: that's a good player switching mid season and still putting

797
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 5: up that production. I would even sign him to a

798
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 5: two year deal if you needed.

799
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:12,320
Speaker 2: Me to, wouldn't you. I'd signed him to a Curtis

800
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,839
Speaker 2: Samuel deal for sure. You know, if you get him

801
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 2: for that.

802
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 5: Two years and sixteen might be a little more than that,

803
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 5: but yeah, maybe not so something to get. I mean,

804
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 5: he's gonna be out there now.

805
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 2: Well yeah, you're gonna hear all them, but he's gonna

806
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 2: do very well. Just for what you said. His numbers

807
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:31,359
Speaker 2: and his production are still there. I mean, he's still

808
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 2: doing at a high level with a team that couldn't

809
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 2: play offense in Vegas and a quarterback that was a

810
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 2: shell of him his former self in the Jets with

811
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, and DeVante Adams is a commodity. He

812
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 2: is still a commodity at this point of his career.

813
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 2: Although you don't know where the the endpoint is yet.

814
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 2: I don't think he's reached it, and who knows what

815
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 2: it's going to look like when it happens. Yeah, I'm

816
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 2: absolutely you talk to the guy.

817
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I think that's it's gonna be an interesting

818
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,399
Speaker 5: market for him. Yes, just by virtue of the fact

819
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 5: that he produced in two places in the same season

820
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 5: with offenses that were less than consistent. Yes, to be

821
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 5: fair and kind quite frankly, topic of discussion for you today,

822
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:26,879
Speaker 5: what is the best way to describe a Buffalo sports fan.

823
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:31,880
Speaker 5: We're melding the two fan bases here, although there's presumably

824
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 5: a ton of overlap. You know, if you're a Bills fan,

825
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 5: I would venture to guess eighty five percent of you

826
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 5: we're also Sabers fans, maybe more. But what is the

827
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,720
Speaker 5: best way to describe a Buffalo's sports fan? Get creative

828
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 5: here if you want eight oh three oh five point

829
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 5: fifty one eighty eight, eighty five, fifty two, five fifty

830
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 5: the numbers to jump on board, and we do have open.

831
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 2: Lines for you right now.

832
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 5: Don't have time to give us a call, Hit us

833
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 5: up on the tweet sheet at One Bill's Live. Got

834
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:57,959
Speaker 5: to take a break here, but taking your phone calls.

835
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 5: Next on One Bill's Live, presented by Colida Hell, It's

836
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:20,800
Speaker 5: Buffalo Bills Radio. All right back here on a special

837
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 5: Bills Night edition of One Bill's Live. As we're here

838
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 5: at the key Bank Center getting set for Sabers Sharks

839
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:33,319
Speaker 5: in a squish the fish borrowing of a phrase. First,

840
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 5: ten thousand fans get one of these to wave some

841
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 5: rally towels here tonight. A topic of discussion for you

842
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 5: today is how would you best describe a Bills fan

843
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 5: or a Buffalo sports fan?

844
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 2: How would you best describe a Buffalo sports fan?

845
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 5: And we're taking your calls at eight oh three oh

846
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 5: five fifty one eight eight eight five fifty two five

847
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 5: fifty then.

848
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:57,359
Speaker 2: Number to get on board and Uh.

849
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 5: For me, it's one word loyal because for two organizations

850
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 5: that have had their share of valleys as much as peace,

851
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 5: the loyalty of a Buffalo sports fan I think is

852
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 5: pretty close to being unmatched. Yeah, because through thick and

853
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 5: thin they are there.

854
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can eat. We've talked about it a lots,

855
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,399
Speaker 2: particularly after the when the drought ended at the Bill

856
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 2: and now you talk about it, it's like, wow, So

857
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 2: it's been since twenty seventeen, Right, it's almost been ten

858
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 2: years since that drought had think about that's amazing. So

859
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:38,839
Speaker 2: this will be the eighth year since the drought ended,

860
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:47,919
Speaker 2: eighth season, and the fan base during that time literally grew. Yeah,

861
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 2: I mean they were still selling fifty thousand season tickets. Yeah,

862
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 2: I mean it was. That's amazing to me and that

863
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:58,360
Speaker 2: and it does speak to the kind of people that

864
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:00,880
Speaker 2: you know, grow up here and we get a lot

865
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 2: of this too. People grow up here and they live

866
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 2: and then they leave and they go out of the places,

867
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 2: but they remain bills fans. We've got, you know, we've

868
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,360
Speaker 2: got a list, We've got like thirty nine states that

869
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 2: have called the show. We've got people that reach out

870
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 2: to us from every state in the Union, you know,

871
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 2: almost every state in the Union and every place. So

872
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 2: it's we know that when you grow up here and

873
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 2: you kind of grab this fan base and you become

874
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 2: a fan, it sticks with you and it's you know,

875
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 2: it means and it's whatever it is to grow up here. Yeah,

876
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 2: it makes you that kind of person, right, I mean

877
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:40,440
Speaker 2: it's hard, it's it is hard. To describe, which is

878
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 2: why we kind of throw it out there, through it

879
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 2: out here. It's it's fun to think about though, because

880
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 2: it is. It's fun to be a part of the

881
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 2: fan base. When you know you got the Bills doing

882
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:52,359
Speaker 2: what they're doing and oh yeah, yeah, you get both

883
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 2: ends of the spect that's when it's rewarding. Yeah, exactly.

884
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 5: Uh, we're asking you the same question to day oh

885
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 5: three oh five fifty one eighty eight, five fifty fifty.

886
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,439
Speaker 5: We're gonna bounce over to the tweet sheet here, brought

887
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,359
Speaker 5: to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving

888
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 5: company of the Buffalo Bills. And Andrew says, being a

889
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 5: fan of Buffalo sports is never easy. We have our

890
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 5: ups and downs, but we are very passionate about our

891
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,839
Speaker 5: teams and we support our teams through thick or thin.

892
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 5: And one thing that we do as fans that not

893
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 5: a lot of other fans do is we support other

894
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:27,240
Speaker 5: teams slash players in their.

895
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 2: Time of need. Yeah. Bill's Mafia has wholeheartedly done that.

896
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 5: I mean everything from thanking Andy Dalton for helping us

897
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:38,840
Speaker 5: into drought to you know, Lamar Jackson gets a concussion

898
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 5: in a playoff game in Buffalo and they're donating money

899
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 5: to his Backpack for Kids foundation, and they've done that

900
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,720
Speaker 5: several times over with a lot of other player causes.

901
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:53,919
Speaker 2: I've that shouldn't never be forgotten. And it's the first

902
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:55,799
Speaker 2: time I've ever heard of anything like that. Oh, they're

903
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 2: the four runners in that end category. Other teams have,

904
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:00,839
Speaker 2: for feed done a little bit of that here of late.

905
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 2: But that's really amazing. That's really amazing. I've never seen

906
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,360
Speaker 2: a phenomenon like that in sports before this era of

907
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 2: Bill's Mafia, in this era, this version of the Bills,

908
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:16,360
Speaker 2: it's something to guys like you and me that we

909
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:18,879
Speaker 2: can take kind of pride in it when we when

910
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 2: we do the show and we talk to people and

911
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 2: we go to the combine and we talk to these

912
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:25,760
Speaker 2: you know, other guys from other teams and national media

913
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 2: people and all that there. It does put a different

914
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:34,839
Speaker 2: perspective on what people think about Buffalo in this market

915
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:38,400
Speaker 2: and this fan base. It's it does change things. It

916
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 2: changes things, and it's kind of it's very cool to.

917
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 5: See, like Mark Andrews drops the ball in the divisional

918
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 5: playoff this year and he's getting death threats from his

919
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 5: own fan base for dropping the ball, Yeah, and the

920
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:59,760
Speaker 5: Bills are Bills fans are making contributions to his charitable

921
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 5: or organization, which I believe was for pediatric diabetes or something,

922
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 5: because he's a diabetic himself. And it's just like, can

923
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 5: you this is what I've always wondered. If you're that

924
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 5: other fan base and you're just killing your own player, Yeah,

925
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 5: they're prolling him. And then you see the opponent's fan

926
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:26,439
Speaker 5: base donating to his charity, don't you think a little

927
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:27,400
Speaker 5: bit less of yourself?

928
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 2: A little bit? But I think some of them are

929
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 2: sitting there going, yeah, I see, They're like, yeah, you

930
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 2: should give him to his charity. He just gave you

931
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 2: the game kind of thing, right.

932
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 5: But there have been other instances the Lamar Jackson example,

933
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 5: guy gets a concussion, he's knocked out of the game.

934
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 2: That's different, and Bill's fans are donating. And how about

935
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:47,920
Speaker 2: the thing where it all started was the Andy Dalton

936
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 2: thing in Baltimore. That was a game that the Bills

937
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:54,319
Speaker 2: weren't even playing in, right, and he had no other thing.

938
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 2: He didn't do anything other than we except keep playing

939
00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 2: hard in a game that looked like they were gonna

940
00:46:58,800 --> 00:46:59,879
Speaker 2: lose it. And all of a sudden on a four,

941
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:04,400
Speaker 2: then eight or fourth and whatever that was froze it. Uh,

942
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:10,319
Speaker 2: guy scores a touchdown, Tyler Boyd touchdown, and he had

943
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 2: no reason to think anything was gonna happen, And certainly

944
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 2: the Bills fans came up and went came up big. Subsequently,

945
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 2: he came into town that next offseason. Frank Wright gave

946
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 2: him the Call of Courage Award because Andy's that kind

947
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:26,239
Speaker 2: of guy and he kind of had got a chance

948
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 2: to come in and say thank you and any appreciation.

949
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 2: Put a billboard up in town, I believe. I remember

950
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 2: it was pretty amazing and very cool to see that

951
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 2: that that is quintessentially a Buffalo thing, no question about it. Nelly.

952
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 5: On the tweet, she says, it looks like a fun evening.

953
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 5: I'd love to see the Sabers become strong contenders again

954
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 5: like the Bills did. Let's go Buffalo. At least they

955
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 5: stayed unlike the Braves. Oh yeah, Buffalo Braves. I was

956
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:56,240
Speaker 5: way before my time. I had no idea.

957
00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 2: I mean, I remember left in the mid to late seventies,

958
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 2: right I seven on TV is all I saw them on.

959
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 2: Ernie Di Gregorio and Bob McAdoo and those guys. Andy Smith,

960
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 2: that's the only doing reason I have to even remember him.

961
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:11,919
Speaker 2: I saw him on TV. Yeah.

962
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 5: I actually was in the NBA store in New York

963
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 5: City when I was visiting my daughter and they had

964
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 5: the coolest looking Buffalo braves at so I grabbed it

965
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 5: and I wear it all the time.

966
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:26,240
Speaker 2: It's awesome.

967
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:28,800
Speaker 5: It's got that b you know, with the with the

968
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:31,799
Speaker 5: Native American feather in it and stuff. It's really cool.

969
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 5: Their logo was good. Their team was competitive. They never

970
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 5: got by the Celtics, but their team was competitive. Yeah,

971
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 5: it's a shame. It's a shame that ownership kind of.

972
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 2: Did what they did. What is that is that? Are

973
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:46,880
Speaker 2: they Clippers?

974
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 8: Now?

975
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 2: They are the Clippers.

976
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:51,600
Speaker 5: They moved to San Diego, became the San Diego Clippers,

977
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:55,319
Speaker 5: and then the Clippers moved up to LA not too long,

978
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 5: early mid eighties, they moved up to Los Angeles and

979
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:02,959
Speaker 5: they've been there ever since. Barbara says Buffalo sports fans

980
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 5: are super loyal and fun capital F capital U capital N.

981
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 2: There is that.

982
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 5: Go to a Bill's tailgate you'll see just how fun

983
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:19,879
Speaker 5: they are. That's but yeah, loyal was my word.

984
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 2: So I'm with you. Barbara couldn't agree more.

985
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 5: Kay on the tweet sheet says this is our year.

986
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:33,439
Speaker 5: This is our year, and she says it another ten times.

987
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 2: She typed it out. So hey, speaking into existence, k manifested,

988
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:43,359
Speaker 2: I'm totally with you, so let her rip.

989
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,800
Speaker 5: I have no problem with that. We are up against

990
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:48,799
Speaker 5: the clock here. We have to take a break now,

991
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 5: but we come back, we're gonna be joined by the

992
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 5: Sabers head coach Lindy Ruff gonna pop on with us

993
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:57,799
Speaker 5: and do something he doesn't normally do, talk football. You'll

994
00:49:57,840 --> 00:49:59,839
Speaker 5: do that with us when we return here on One

995
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 5: Bills Live presented by Colida Health.

996
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 2: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. This is One Bill's Live presented

997
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 2: by Calida Health. Welcome back to One Bill's Live.

998
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 5: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker here on Bill's Night at the

999
00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,480
Speaker 5: Key Bank Center and joining us now Savers head coach

1000
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 5: Lindy Ruh. You're gonna talk more football than you've talked

1001
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:04,879
Speaker 5: all season here right now, because we're talking Bills more

1002
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 5: than we are Savers. I mean, I know you guys

1003
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:08,319
Speaker 5: got a game tonight and everything.

1004
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 2: But when was the last Bills game you went to?

1005
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 8: I went to a couple of year went to the

1006
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:15,239
Speaker 8: opener in one other game. I love going to the game,

1007
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:17,320
Speaker 8: I don't love driving to the traffic.

1008
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 2: What about do you have a go to tailgate or

1009
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 2: anything like that? Pre pre game. We've got to keep that.

1010
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 2: That's what I listen. I know I've got stop. I've

1011
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 2: got three stops. I make myself that I've kind of

1012
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 2: like three that you're telling us three, just three? And

1013
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 2: then and I was stopped by Kelly's little Winnebago there.

1014
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 2: You know it's free. He's got his own operation. Well

1015
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 2: here's the problem. And I don't know if you have

1016
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 2: this problem. I can't drink pregame because I do post game,

1017
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,359
Speaker 2: so I have to. I can see your work cars.

1018
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 2: I smoked cigars while I'm doing that, but I can't,

1019
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:53,279
Speaker 2: you know, have a pop, a celibratory pop or anything. Yeah,

1020
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:55,319
Speaker 2: that that takes the fun out of pregame right there.

1021
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:57,359
Speaker 2: When you can't even have a drink problem, that's kind

1022
00:51:57,360 --> 00:52:01,880
Speaker 2: of what pregaming is, right. So you got to get

1023
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 2: the bowling ball out. You have a little sip, so

1024
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:07,920
Speaker 2: you so you do you do? Okay, I think we

1025
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 2: found out one of the stuffs. So what's your preferred

1026
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 2: bowling ball. I can't say that's good. So you did

1027
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 2: go to the opener? He went to another game? Did

1028
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 2: you when you were you know, in Jersey and all that,

1029
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,279
Speaker 2: did you ever get back here for games or anything?

1030
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 2: Did you ever know? But I went to the Philly game.

1031
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:28,880
Speaker 2: I drove from Philly with with my son and my

1032
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 2: son and my wife and the game that rained, the entire.

1033
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 8: Overtime loss, the overtime loss where I where I thought

1034
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 8: I actually thought the officiating was terrible, and it was terrible,

1035
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:42,879
Speaker 8: but it was it was a drive. It poured rain

1036
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:44,799
Speaker 8: the whole way there. It poured rain the whole game,

1037
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 8: and then then poured the whole way back.

1038
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:50,279
Speaker 5: I mean it was a fifty nine yard field goal

1039
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:51,279
Speaker 5: and a rain storm.

1040
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 2: And that's yeah. Yeah, I mean it was an incredible game.

1041
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:57,960
Speaker 8: And you know, the people around me eventually figured out

1042
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:00,359
Speaker 8: that we were tell my son keep it quieting.

1043
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:02,440
Speaker 2: I mean, the Philly fans are right, you don't know

1044
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 2: what to get. You know, we're cheering for both teams,

1045
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 2: I said, guy, next thing, No, no, ready, cheering for

1046
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:10,400
Speaker 2: both teams. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it.

1047
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I was just you're you're one hundred percent

1048
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 5: right about the officiating of that game. At halftime, ten

1049
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 5: penalties for Buffalo won for Film.

1050
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I finished thirteen before all right, So you

1051
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:23,320
Speaker 2: go back. You got to, You got a chance to

1052
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:27,520
Speaker 2: be a Bills fan, live away, come back from a thousand,

1053
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 2: you know, miles away. When you're looking at from a distance,

1054
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 2: did you see does it feel like a fifty nine

1055
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 2: yard game winner in a rainstorm, Hail Murray thirteen seconds

1056
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 2: Minnesota overtime, coin flake, Minnesota game over? Does it Does

1057
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 2: it feel like what the heck man? Yeah? I feel

1058
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:53,799
Speaker 2: like that from a way a long way away, because

1059
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:57,800
Speaker 2: it did here. It does it? Really? Does? You know?

1060
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:00,759
Speaker 8: I think when you're away from here, you get a

1061
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 8: lot of grief for being a Bills fan. Uh you know,

1062
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:04,879
Speaker 8: it took a lot of guff, you know. And I'm

1063
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 8: chirping the Bills all the time, and uh so you know,

1064
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 8: when you lose a game, you hear it from the

1065
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:13,360
Speaker 8: people around where you're going. Sure, today's it's all Bills today,

1066
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:16,879
Speaker 8: so you know, And I'm not afraid to chirp about

1067
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:20,279
Speaker 8: the Bills, you know, And I love it, so I

1068
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 8: have to take it every now and then too.

1069
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:25,080
Speaker 5: We got a we got a theme tonight, which is

1070
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:28,280
Speaker 5: borrowed from the Bills when they play the Dolphins, squish

1071
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:31,799
Speaker 5: the fish, and people always correct us and remind us.

1072
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 5: They remind us that the dolphins are a mammal. You

1073
00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 5: actually have a legitimate mascot that's a fish in the

1074
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:40,800
Speaker 5: sharks tonight here, so it seems even more apropos for

1075
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:43,400
Speaker 5: you guys. But they'll be swinging the towels out here

1076
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:45,520
Speaker 5: kind of like we do for the Dolphins game. That's

1077
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 5: pretty pretty interesting that they drew that parallel here tonight.

1078
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:52,640
Speaker 2: Another thing, do you have like I've got we're bills.

1079
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 2: Do you have bills gear? I do have bills.

1080
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 8: What's your bills gear that you go to. I've got

1081
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:02,840
Speaker 8: the camouflage. Uh oh ca, yeah, that's nice. A hoodie

1082
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:05,239
Speaker 8: or jersey or what not, say a polo and then

1083
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:08,280
Speaker 8: I've got the three quarters zip bills.

1084
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:12,320
Speaker 2: Pretty pretty quite as maybe a little bit like this

1085
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:14,359
Speaker 2: right here. You had an eighty nine jersey or anything

1086
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 2: like that. I'd love an eighty nine jersey if you

1087
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:23,279
Speaker 2: want to get yeah, home or away home, all right,

1088
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:25,320
Speaker 2: you gotta I got red one too, I mean I

1089
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 2: gotta red would be nice.

1090
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 8: I got you know, what if you got me the right,

1091
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:31,319
Speaker 8: that would be my go to on Sundays. I would

1092
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:33,880
Speaker 8: wear my tasker jersey. How's that I'll make see if

1093
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:35,239
Speaker 8: I can make it happen. I'm not going to sign

1094
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:35,480
Speaker 8: it though.

1095
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:39,959
Speaker 2: That's speaking of uh, speaking of speaking of players both

1096
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:44,319
Speaker 2: former and current. Give me a one, you go back.

1097
00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:46,359
Speaker 5: I know you got a lot of things to worry

1098
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:48,160
Speaker 5: about on game night when you're behind the bench, but

1099
00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 5: I'm sure there are times and breaks in the action

1100
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:54,560
Speaker 5: where you you have noticed some Bills players taking in

1101
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:57,880
Speaker 5: the game. Dion Dawkins is hard to miss. He likes

1102
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:01,320
Speaker 5: sitting down by the glass and he he's a glass

1103
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 5: banger like a lot. Do you like when you have

1104
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 5: a break in a half a second during a timeout

1105
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:08,360
Speaker 5: or a TV break or whatever.

1106
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:10,240
Speaker 2: Is he noticeable?

1107
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:12,400
Speaker 5: And what's it like seeing Bills players down here?

1108
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 2: Yeah? People, Yeah, you know, I think that interaction is awesome.

1109
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:16,759
Speaker 2: You know.

1110
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:18,759
Speaker 8: I think when the sports teams in the city, when

1111
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:22,279
Speaker 8: when the players from different teams, you know, go to

1112
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 8: their venues, you know, and watch games, I think it's special.

1113
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:28,279
Speaker 8: I mean, this is a special place to play. And

1114
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 8: you know, when a football player shows up or football

1115
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:32,160
Speaker 8: players show up in your building to watch.

1116
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 2: It's like our group.

1117
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 8: I can just tell you our group of guys, I think,

1118
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:39,960
Speaker 8: you know, if there's an opportunity to go, they're all in.

1119
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 8: It's like almost every guy from our team is going

1120
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 8: to the Bills game.

1121
00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 2: And uh, you know, I think it.

1122
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:47,480
Speaker 8: It just shows you what a community and what a

1123
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:50,840
Speaker 8: what a sports city this is, and how you know

1124
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:52,520
Speaker 8: we all cheer for each other.

1125
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's how I got into the Saves way

1126
00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 2: back in the day. Can't hold Will Woolford and those

1127
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 2: guys had season tickets right and the old and they,

1128
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:05,359
Speaker 2: you know, give me the tickets for a day or something.

1129
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 2: We go to a game. And now a guy from Kansas, Yeah,

1130
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:10,920
Speaker 2: there was an ice drink in my state when I

1131
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:13,920
Speaker 2: grew up. And now I'm in one O five, I'm

1132
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 2: a season ticket holder, one O five right up behind,

1133
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 2: I'm like twelve and fourteen rows right behind your bench,

1134
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:22,960
Speaker 2: and you know it's you just kind of it's I'll

1135
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 2: say this though, I really have, like you said, the

1136
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:28,959
Speaker 2: players come, they come to the Bills games. The Bills

1137
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:31,400
Speaker 2: come here. You really because you appreciate what it takes

1138
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:34,480
Speaker 2: to be at that level. But let me tell you something,

1139
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:38,120
Speaker 2: you feel like you have a second job. If you

1140
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:42,640
Speaker 2: come to every single Savers game, I tip my hat

1141
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:44,520
Speaker 2: to you guys. That is a grind of a season.

1142
00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 2: Eighty two games and you know when you even hit

1143
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 2: every game of a homestand it's like, oh my gosh,

1144
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:52,080
Speaker 2: here we go. I gotta go back down, and it's

1145
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 2: like having an apartment now.

1146
00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 8: No, no, it is true. I mean, like, look, we're

1147
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 8: going to a segment right now. We're going five games,

1148
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 8: eight nights. Yeah, you know, you playing Montreal, you come home,

1149
00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:03,200
Speaker 8: you play a game back to back, you're gonna fly

1150
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:07,040
Speaker 8: to more. You play right you play Tampa, you play Florida,

1151
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 8: and then you're flying back and you're you're and you're

1152
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:12,400
Speaker 8: playing right away again. It you know, our sport is

1153
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 8: it is a different beast, It really is, you know,

1154
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:19,640
Speaker 8: and it it I think a lot of times it's

1155
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:23,400
Speaker 8: a it's a grind that you know, some people don't realize.

1156
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:25,120
Speaker 8: You know, when you're getting in, like last night, you

1157
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:28,360
Speaker 8: get in at one thirty. You're not counting on overtime.

1158
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:30,800
Speaker 8: You're not counting on de icing the plane, and you're

1159
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 8: not counting on you got to clear customs. You got

1160
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:35,360
Speaker 8: to get off the plane and the terminal, get back

1161
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:37,640
Speaker 8: on your plane and push across back to the other side.

1162
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 8: And your football guys have pretty well all your all

1163
00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 8: your cities in the same country.

1164
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 2: We got to deal with, you know, going over the

1165
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:49,160
Speaker 2: border and coming back. So I mean there's a lot. Yeah,

1166
00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:51,160
Speaker 2: and your games are just as intense as a football game.

1167
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 2: But here's the thing with football, we get six days

1168
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 2: to ramp up. You get, like you said, sometimes you

1169
00:58:56,960 --> 00:59:00,000
Speaker 2: get thirty six hours, sometimes you get eighteen hours. Sometimes

1170
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 2: times you get forty eight out you know, it's a

1171
00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 2: it's never you can't have a run up of six

1172
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:07,560
Speaker 2: days where you've got a set list of things that

1173
00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:09,480
Speaker 2: you got to accomplish. Now you've got to go through customs,

1174
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:10,560
Speaker 2: you got to get on the plane, you got to

1175
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 2: de ice, you got overtime, then you got a bus

1176
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:15,680
Speaker 2: or travel, then you don't travel, then you're back home.

1177
00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:19,080
Speaker 2: It's a helter skelter schedule. I can't even imagine. Yeah,

1178
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 2: well then and then you got to show up the

1179
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 2: next morning and talk to you guys. High point.

1180
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 8: Yeah, there's good parts of the job.

1181
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:28,440
Speaker 2: Point good point.

1182
00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:33,240
Speaker 5: Is there is there somebody on is there somebody on

1183
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:37,400
Speaker 5: staff that because I know, you know, Sean not with

1184
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 5: this athletic training staff, and then they have a sports

1185
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 5: science staff that tries to they even call it prehab

1186
00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 5: to keep their their guys' bodies fresh despite a travel schedule.

1187
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:51,680
Speaker 5: I imagine you guys have to help these guys try

1188
00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:54,360
Speaker 5: to come up with a cheat code to stay fresh

1189
00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:56,280
Speaker 5: through all of that stuff that you're described.

1190
00:59:56,400 --> 00:59:59,479
Speaker 8: I mean they, I mean the phrase you hear most

1191
00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:01,640
Speaker 8: often now as rest is a weapon. You know, like

1192
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:05,440
Speaker 8: don't bring them in, don't bring him in this morning,

1193
01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:08,680
Speaker 8: let them stay home, let them in and stuff. But

1194
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:11,600
Speaker 8: that's all sports science stuff too. On you know, even

1195
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 8: your practice load, how hard you can practice. You know,

1196
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:19,480
Speaker 8: players have heart rate monitors on, we have speed variables

1197
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 8: that you look at it practice. You know, I got

1198
01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:23,400
Speaker 8: all the data and they'll come in and they'll say,

1199
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 8: we got to keep the load down today. I mean

1200
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:28,720
Speaker 8: today can be you know, maybe twenty minutes or twenty

1201
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:30,720
Speaker 8: five minutes. You want to work on some special teams,

1202
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:33,720
Speaker 8: but you can't do the high end competitive stuff where

1203
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 8: you you know, keep the heart rate and a real

1204
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:37,920
Speaker 8: high rate and fatigue them at all because you know

1205
01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:39,240
Speaker 8: you're going to be playing the next day.

1206
01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:42,800
Speaker 2: It's amazing too, because the thing that gets forgotten all this,

1207
01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:44,880
Speaker 2: some of the guys you've got are like nineteen years old,

1208
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:50,600
Speaker 2: twenty years old. They're not you know, they're not like us, right, right,

1209
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 2: They're not ten year vets, right, some of them. Once

1210
01:00:53,040 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 2: in a while you get an older guy in there

1211
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:56,160
Speaker 2: that knows. But these guys, you got to kind of

1212
01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:58,320
Speaker 2: teach them that they have to learn at what their

1213
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:00,520
Speaker 2: game day routine needs. And it's different a for a

1214
01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:02,240
Speaker 2: nineteen year old than it is for a twenty nine

1215
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:02,640
Speaker 2: year old.

1216
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:05,080
Speaker 8: Yeah, Steve, I think that's so important that you know,

1217
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:07,480
Speaker 8: a young player has to develop a routine, and that

1218
01:01:07,640 --> 01:01:10,240
Speaker 8: routine can be different from any other player. Right, But

1219
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:12,480
Speaker 8: when you get a routine that that works for you,

1220
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:15,760
Speaker 8: the amount you sleep, the amount you eat, what you eat,

1221
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 8: you know what really works for you, and you can

1222
01:01:19,840 --> 01:01:22,520
Speaker 8: stick to that routine from a training sense to you know,

1223
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:25,480
Speaker 8: what you're doing after a game. You know, the big

1224
01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:28,200
Speaker 8: part about playing all these games and the five games

1225
01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:31,959
Speaker 8: any nights, because can you can you maintain a level

1226
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:34,240
Speaker 8: of strength, you know, like your physical strength starts to

1227
01:01:34,320 --> 01:01:36,600
Speaker 8: go down, you know, and we start measuring that, and

1228
01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:38,200
Speaker 8: then how do you get that back up when you

1229
01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:40,920
Speaker 8: have no rest, I mean you basically got to rest them,

1230
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:41,880
Speaker 8: try to refresh them.

1231
01:01:42,040 --> 01:01:43,840
Speaker 2: And also it seems to me it'd be a great

1232
01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:46,880
Speaker 2: way to lose weight, you know, that kind of grind

1233
01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:48,200
Speaker 2: that always on the go and the go on the go,

1234
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:49,600
Speaker 2: and you're trying to get rest here and you're trying

1235
01:01:49,720 --> 01:01:52,960
Speaker 2: that kind of help skelter stress. It's it's hard to

1236
01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:55,120
Speaker 2: because our guys are real Our guys used to be

1237
01:01:55,160 --> 01:01:59,160
Speaker 2: real sensitive about, you know, dropping ten pounds during a

1238
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:02,520
Speaker 2: stretch where you know, you you had so much going on,

1239
01:02:02,680 --> 01:02:03,640
Speaker 2: you didn't you didn't have that.

1240
01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:07,920
Speaker 8: It's yeah, well, you know, I'm amazed when I've been around, uh,

1241
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:10,520
Speaker 8: you know, the cafeteria of the Bills, I'm amazed how

1242
01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 8: much a football player, you know, how much they eat

1243
01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:16,160
Speaker 8: I mean hot like blast furnace. Yeah, I mean the

1244
01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:19,760
Speaker 8: the NHL is I mean, it's coined NHL stands for

1245
01:02:19,840 --> 01:02:23,200
Speaker 8: never Hungry League because there's food everywhere too, you know,

1246
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:27,240
Speaker 8: from postgame pizza in the room to the airplane food.

1247
01:02:27,720 --> 01:02:29,360
Speaker 8: You know, you get here in the morning, you got breakfast,

1248
01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:31,520
Speaker 8: you got lunch, you got snack, you got you know,

1249
01:02:31,640 --> 01:02:34,960
Speaker 8: so that parts the saying and players you know, we're

1250
01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:37,040
Speaker 8: trying to keep them away from losing weight, right.

1251
01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:43,240
Speaker 2: So we're in the same category. Yeah, great scene being

1252
01:02:43,280 --> 01:02:45,080
Speaker 2: on with you guys. Get on the links this summer

1253
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:46,800
Speaker 2: or something. I don't know. I don't I don't need

1254
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:48,880
Speaker 2: any lessons. Thank you night, Thanks for giving us some

1255
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 2: time day. We appreciate it. Good luck tonight.

1256
01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:54,280
Speaker 5: Thank you that Sabers head coach Lindy Roff here on

1257
01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:55,720
Speaker 5: Bill's Night at the Arena.

1258
01:02:56,040 --> 01:02:56,800
Speaker 2: We appreciate it.

1259
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:02,800
Speaker 5: So cool conversation there with Lindy, and you know he's

1260
01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:05,880
Speaker 5: probably happy to talk about football just to kind of

1261
01:03:05,920 --> 01:03:06,440
Speaker 5: switch it up.

1262
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:07,800
Speaker 2: You know, I didn't realize this.

1263
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:10,400
Speaker 5: I was talking to one of their PR people here

1264
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:13,440
Speaker 5: with the saybrus Chris Durkin, and he was just explaining

1265
01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:19,160
Speaker 5: how the media commitments for NHL head coaches. He had

1266
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:21,320
Speaker 5: to do an NHL thing this morning, then he had

1267
01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:24,840
Speaker 5: to do with gr hit with the flagship station, then

1268
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:28,720
Speaker 5: he had something else. If there's a pregame skate, there

1269
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:31,360
Speaker 5: is media availability where they can talk to the head coach.

1270
01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:34,400
Speaker 5: There wasn't this morning, and then he's got and if

1271
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:38,560
Speaker 5: there isn't, he has to provide media availability at like

1272
01:03:38,880 --> 01:03:40,920
Speaker 5: five for seven o'clock game, and then he's got to

1273
01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:41,720
Speaker 5: do postgame and.

1274
01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:44,880
Speaker 2: That's just for one game game. And plus as we

1275
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:49,160
Speaker 2: turn they're playing every other day. Yeah, the their schedules crazy,

1276
01:03:49,360 --> 01:03:51,760
Speaker 2: It's just absolutely crazy. It's a lot, and you can

1277
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:56,160
Speaker 2: you can imagine how difficult it is to navigate the scheduling.

1278
01:03:57,040 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 2: That's the one thing you could help by the interview.

1279
01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:04,480
Speaker 2: I would struggle with that because I'm football is man.

1280
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:07,880
Speaker 2: It is. It is ingrain. That's why there's so much

1281
01:04:07,920 --> 01:04:09,960
Speaker 2: pushback when THE'RENNA, We're gonna play on Monday night and

1282
01:04:10,040 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 2: what are we gonna you know, that messes up our

1283
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:16,480
Speaker 2: whole routine. Right next week we got now we're Mondays.

1284
01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:20,240
Speaker 2: We're playing instead of recapping the game yesterday and the

1285
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:23,160
Speaker 2: whole it just goes on and on, and these guys,

1286
01:04:23,480 --> 01:04:26,320
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, I don't even know if I

1287
01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:29,720
Speaker 2: could keep track of the game schedule in the that

1288
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:31,840
Speaker 2: far in the future to know that I got eight

1289
01:04:32,720 --> 01:04:34,360
Speaker 2: five games and eight nights coming up now.

1290
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:36,680
Speaker 5: And if you go to Stanley Cup Finals, you're playing

1291
01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:39,920
Speaker 5: over one hundred games. Oh my gosh, conceivably it's crazy.

1292
01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:42,680
Speaker 5: And you're not sweeping every series right right, So it's

1293
01:04:42,720 --> 01:04:45,600
Speaker 5: at least sixteen. It's probably more than that, and you're

1294
01:04:45,640 --> 01:04:46,280
Speaker 5: over one hundred.

1295
01:04:46,520 --> 01:04:51,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's a bear. It's a it's a it's

1296
01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:55,760
Speaker 2: a long season, and it's a big grind, and it

1297
01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:59,040
Speaker 2: takes a lot of thought and planning to get through it.

1298
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:02,960
Speaker 2: Physicals just one guy getting himself through it, let alone

1299
01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:04,560
Speaker 2: all the stuff that's got to go on around him,

1300
01:05:04,560 --> 01:05:07,160
Speaker 2: with his teammates and his family and the coaches got

1301
01:05:07,280 --> 01:05:08,760
Speaker 2: to get their work in. You gotta get work in,

1302
01:05:08,880 --> 01:05:10,720
Speaker 2: you gotta get better, you gotta change things. You got

1303
01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:13,600
Speaker 2: to coach him up, you gotta you know, trades happening

1304
01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:17,120
Speaker 2: in hockey like nobody's business. It's amazing. That's why I was.

1305
01:05:17,160 --> 01:05:20,840
Speaker 5: Asking him though about you know, we're the sports science.

1306
01:05:20,880 --> 01:05:24,040
Speaker 5: I would think for a schedule like this would be

1307
01:05:24,080 --> 01:05:26,800
Speaker 5: even more important than it would in the NFL. Yes,

1308
01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:28,800
Speaker 5: the wear and tear on bodies in the NFL is

1309
01:05:28,880 --> 01:05:35,600
Speaker 5: probably more severe, just it's just more there's more collisions,

1310
01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:38,600
Speaker 5: especially with today's hockey, which is really just a bunch

1311
01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:40,680
Speaker 5: of fast guys skating around twelve.

1312
01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:43,200
Speaker 2: It's a game. There's more risk for catastrophic stuff going

1313
01:05:43,240 --> 01:05:45,919
Speaker 2: on in football. But the problem with the difference would

1314
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:48,440
Speaker 2: be for me would be the fact that you know

1315
01:05:48,760 --> 01:05:51,040
Speaker 2: you don't get like, for instance, if you get a

1316
01:05:51,120 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 2: tweak last night in the Montreal game, you're playing today, Well, yeah,

1317
01:05:55,840 --> 01:05:58,200
Speaker 2: you don't get forty eight hours to see. Well, we'll

1318
01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:00,920
Speaker 2: see how it is on Wednesday then and then you know,

1319
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:02,720
Speaker 2: we'll keep him off. We'll keep him off the like

1320
01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:04,880
Speaker 2: the field. Yeah, but till Friday. See if you can

1321
01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:06,960
Speaker 2: walk through on Friday, and then we'll go on next Sunday.

1322
01:06:07,080 --> 01:06:08,440
Speaker 2: Now you're playing.

1323
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:12,560
Speaker 5: That's why I'm fascinated with how sports science like let's

1324
01:06:12,600 --> 01:06:14,240
Speaker 5: just say you had a sports science guy and an

1325
01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:16,800
Speaker 5: NFL team and then gets hired by an NHL team.

1326
01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:20,520
Speaker 5: The amount of shifts and changes with how they have

1327
01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:23,560
Speaker 5: to put a plan together for a hockey team as

1328
01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:26,960
Speaker 5: opposed to a football team. It's gotta be night and day,

1329
01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:30,160
Speaker 5: not only because of schedule, but because of the length

1330
01:06:30,280 --> 01:06:31,120
Speaker 5: of that schedule.

1331
01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:34,840
Speaker 2: And they also probably get a different, I don't know,

1332
01:06:34,920 --> 01:06:37,920
Speaker 2: a different type of injury they got to deal with.

1333
01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:41,240
Speaker 2: Plus the stuff that's chronic that a guy's dragging around

1334
01:06:41,320 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 2: for three weeks while he's trying to heal, and then

1335
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:45,240
Speaker 2: you go through a stretch like this where it's five games,

1336
01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:47,880
Speaker 2: eight nights, and the guy's kind of dragging around an

1337
01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:50,520
Speaker 2: ankle or an elbow or what have you, and it's

1338
01:06:50,600 --> 01:06:52,120
Speaker 2: like it just never gets a chance to rest or

1339
01:06:52,160 --> 01:06:54,280
Speaker 2: heal up. And then if you do get you know,

1340
01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:57,000
Speaker 2: then it's like, oh, I got like forty eight hours.

1341
01:06:57,240 --> 01:06:58,120
Speaker 2: I don't have to play, you know.

1342
01:06:58,280 --> 01:07:00,640
Speaker 5: So Lindy was telling us about the break for the

1343
01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:04,320
Speaker 5: Four Nations Cup. It was essentially a nine day break, right,

1344
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:05,560
Speaker 5: and that's a long break for.

1345
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:07,360
Speaker 2: It feels like a life. It feels like a lifetime.

1346
01:07:07,400 --> 01:07:10,640
Speaker 2: In the NFL, an extra two days, it's yeah, it's

1347
01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:14,840
Speaker 2: oh yeah, the bye week and then get a nine

1348
01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:17,240
Speaker 2: day break for the Four Nations. Oh my gosh, guys,

1349
01:07:17,480 --> 01:07:19,840
Speaker 2: just take a breath, you know. It's like, oh my gosh.

1350
01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:21,600
Speaker 2: The question we've.

1351
01:07:21,480 --> 01:07:25,800
Speaker 5: Posed to you today deals with being a Buffalo sports fan.

1352
01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:30,040
Speaker 5: How would you describe a Buffalo sports fan. We've had

1353
01:07:30,080 --> 01:07:33,160
Speaker 5: some interesting descriptions so far. Let's go to the phones

1354
01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:36,120
Speaker 5: and see what you think. At eighth three, five point fifty,

1355
01:07:36,480 --> 01:07:38,520
Speaker 5: we go to tom Over on the west side to

1356
01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:39,040
Speaker 5: lead us off.

1357
01:07:39,080 --> 01:07:39,520
Speaker 2: What are you offer?

1358
01:07:39,560 --> 01:07:46,440
Speaker 3: Stop good afternoon, guys. You reminded me, okay, Steam, First

1359
01:07:46,480 --> 01:07:49,520
Speaker 3: of all, you look cold. You ought to butt Matt Jacket.

1360
01:07:49,280 --> 01:07:52,480
Speaker 2: Up that you can hang meet in this building. It

1361
01:07:52,600 --> 01:07:53,480
Speaker 2: is so cold.

1362
01:07:56,000 --> 01:08:00,280
Speaker 3: Anyway, I would describe it as somebody like me. I've

1363
01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 3: told you about the time I went to Burlington, Vermont

1364
01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:06,600
Speaker 3: and it was Super Bowl twenty five and I was

1365
01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:10,000
Speaker 3: walking around in my Buffalo gear and all my friends

1366
01:08:10,080 --> 01:08:13,040
Speaker 3: are like, you're an idiot. You're an idiot, because they

1367
01:08:13,040 --> 01:08:16,120
Speaker 3: were all Giants fans and they were laughing at me,

1368
01:08:16,200 --> 01:08:19,240
Speaker 3: and nobody bothered me. I never got a hard time,

1369
01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:22,160
Speaker 3: and they were proud of me in the end because

1370
01:08:22,280 --> 01:08:25,040
Speaker 3: the Giants fans were all tolling me they'd rather have

1371
01:08:25,280 --> 01:08:29,080
Speaker 3: your team than their team. Then I went down to Tampa,

1372
01:08:29,320 --> 01:08:34,839
Speaker 3: Florida for one of your games when you played Tampa

1373
01:08:35,520 --> 01:08:38,400
Speaker 3: and I almost got kicked out of the game. And

1374
01:08:38,520 --> 01:08:41,840
Speaker 3: then after that game, my brother and I went down

1375
01:08:41,920 --> 01:08:44,800
Speaker 3: to Key West and we were driving back and we

1376
01:08:44,880 --> 01:08:48,280
Speaker 3: were coming through Miami. We're headed to Fort Lauderdale to

1377
01:08:48,400 --> 01:08:51,280
Speaker 3: go for lunch, and I put my Bills hat in

1378
01:08:51,360 --> 01:08:54,920
Speaker 3: his back window and he was having a fit because

1379
01:08:54,920 --> 01:08:57,960
Speaker 3: he's like, Oh, this is my wife's car. Somebody's gonna

1380
01:08:58,080 --> 01:09:01,679
Speaker 3: damage it. And I'm like, yeah, over it, and nobody

1381
01:09:01,840 --> 01:09:06,720
Speaker 3: damaged the car. Then I told you about just this

1382
01:09:07,080 --> 01:09:11,320
Speaker 3: past season when I went to the local coffee shop

1383
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:16,640
Speaker 3: and there was this huge San Francisco fan wearing a

1384
01:09:16,760 --> 01:09:20,560
Speaker 3: San Francisco jacket. Yep, I told you that one this

1385
01:09:20,760 --> 01:09:25,599
Speaker 3: year and yeah, and he didn't bother me. I told him,

1386
01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:29,439
Speaker 3: I go go get a new jacket, red, white and blue. So,

1387
01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:33,240
Speaker 3: I mean, I would have to describe a fan like

1388
01:09:33,439 --> 01:09:37,559
Speaker 3: me as being the ultimate fan because I'm not going

1389
01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:40,479
Speaker 3: to back down. I'm not a bandwagon fan.

1390
01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:41,360
Speaker 2: I'm not.

1391
01:09:43,320 --> 01:09:47,840
Speaker 3: I'm a loyal fan. And that's what you said, right, Chris. Loyalty.

1392
01:09:48,280 --> 01:09:52,760
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, loyalty. That is probably the number one adjective

1393
01:09:52,800 --> 01:09:54,800
Speaker 2: I would use for Buffalo sports fans.

1394
01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:57,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you never back away.

1395
01:09:57,479 --> 01:09:58,160
Speaker 2: Here's your team.

1396
01:09:58,280 --> 01:10:01,599
Speaker 3: You support your team through second thing, good and bad.

1397
01:10:02,280 --> 01:10:05,600
Speaker 3: I mean, we cry with the team, we celebrate with

1398
01:10:05,720 --> 01:10:09,120
Speaker 3: the team. And that's who the Bills fans are and

1399
01:10:09,360 --> 01:10:12,920
Speaker 3: done what's bringing the Bills mafia. And now you got

1400
01:10:13,040 --> 01:10:18,320
Speaker 3: other teams team fan bases emulating what the Bills do

1401
01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:23,160
Speaker 3: because they're starting to donate to different charities for different

1402
01:10:23,640 --> 01:10:27,960
Speaker 3: players when something happens. But the Bills Mafia is the

1403
01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:30,560
Speaker 3: one that started that, go ahead and talk about it.

1404
01:10:30,720 --> 01:10:32,120
Speaker 3: I know you got a break coming up.

1405
01:10:33,720 --> 01:10:36,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, no problem to Thanks for the call. Yeah, you're right.

1406
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:40,960
Speaker 5: They they have convinced other fan bases to pay it forward.

1407
01:10:41,080 --> 01:10:43,880
Speaker 5: They see what Bill's Mafia has done over the years,

1408
01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:45,920
Speaker 5: and they've kind of followed.

1409
01:10:45,680 --> 01:10:48,000
Speaker 2: Suit, particularly in this current point in history as well,

1410
01:10:48,040 --> 01:10:50,200
Speaker 2: where you got you had that long stretch where the

1411
01:10:50,240 --> 01:10:52,280
Speaker 2: Bills were kind of a laughing stock and they were

1412
01:10:52,720 --> 01:10:54,760
Speaker 2: you know, they were just an afterthought. They were never

1413
01:10:54,880 --> 01:10:59,200
Speaker 2: relevant even in their own division and the fan and

1414
01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:01,640
Speaker 2: then you know, the fan base, like we said, it

1415
01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:04,599
Speaker 2: grew during that time. And then when they finally popped

1416
01:11:04,640 --> 01:11:07,240
Speaker 2: onto the to the radar, you got Josh, you got McDermott,

1417
01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:09,479
Speaker 2: you got Brandon Bean, you got all these guys. And

1418
01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:11,400
Speaker 2: now they're they're they're in the playoffs and they're the

1419
01:11:11,439 --> 01:11:13,720
Speaker 2: only team. They're one of two teams that go to

1420
01:11:13,760 --> 01:11:15,400
Speaker 2: the playoffs five years in a row and win a

1421
01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:20,160
Speaker 2: playoff game five years in a row there and to

1422
01:11:20,360 --> 01:11:24,880
Speaker 2: have to get rewarded for it, I think it's a great,

1423
01:11:26,520 --> 01:11:29,200
Speaker 2: a great sales job for any any fan of any

1424
01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:31,240
Speaker 2: other team who said, well, you know, look at the Bills.

1425
01:11:31,280 --> 01:11:33,160
Speaker 2: Fans they hung in there, and now, look, you know,

1426
01:11:33,479 --> 01:11:35,559
Speaker 2: sooner or later you got to know that you're going

1427
01:11:35,640 --> 01:11:39,240
Speaker 2: to be rewarded, and that's why you hang around as

1428
01:11:39,280 --> 01:11:42,120
Speaker 2: long as you do. And then Bills fans have can

1429
01:11:42,320 --> 01:11:45,200
Speaker 2: are the poster fan base for that. You know, they're

1430
01:11:45,280 --> 01:11:50,320
Speaker 2: they're the poster child of being rewarded with with their loyalty.

1431
01:11:50,920 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 2: Let's go to Mary in North Carolina. What's up Mary, Hi, guys,

1432
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:58,559
Speaker 2: how are you this afternoon? Doing well? Hello?

1433
01:11:59,600 --> 01:11:59,720
Speaker 5: Oh?

1434
01:12:02,479 --> 01:12:02,639
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1435
01:12:02,800 --> 01:12:05,840
Speaker 4: The Bills fans, I have to say, are proud because

1436
01:12:05,880 --> 01:12:09,360
Speaker 4: no matter what city I visit, I almost always run

1437
01:12:09,439 --> 01:12:13,160
Speaker 4: into someone wearing either a Bill's shirt a Bill's hat,

1438
01:12:13,760 --> 01:12:15,560
Speaker 4: And all we have to say to each other is

1439
01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:17,200
Speaker 4: our universal greeting.

1440
01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:17,960
Speaker 5: Is go Bills.

1441
01:12:20,520 --> 01:12:25,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, agreed. Oh yeah, that's that's become part of the vernacular.

1442
01:12:25,880 --> 01:12:27,960
Speaker 2: I tell you. It's like aloha. Tell you say hello.

1443
01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:34,880
Speaker 2: That's right, It's like aloha, it's hello, goodbye, have a

1444
01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:37,800
Speaker 2: good day, have a good day. And it is just yeah,

1445
01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:41,639
Speaker 2: it is a universal greeting, and it has become more

1446
01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:44,599
Speaker 2: than just you know, it's not just a battle cry

1447
01:12:44,720 --> 01:12:48,960
Speaker 2: or something like that. It is a it's it's part

1448
01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:50,560
Speaker 2: of a way of life. It sounds like you know

1449
01:12:50,560 --> 01:12:52,320
Speaker 2: what I mean, It kind of is that, and that's

1450
01:12:52,840 --> 01:12:54,400
Speaker 2: it's fun to be a part of. Yeah.

1451
01:12:54,720 --> 01:12:58,599
Speaker 5: Yeah, we go from one North Carolina callar to another

1452
01:12:58,760 --> 01:13:01,400
Speaker 5: Gary in North Oh no, sorry Gary and North Collins.

1453
01:13:01,479 --> 01:13:05,839
Speaker 9: How you doing, Gary, I'm doing great. I would consider

1454
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:14,639
Speaker 9: us fans to be loyal masochists, but we still love

1455
01:13:14,680 --> 01:13:15,080
Speaker 9: our team.

1456
01:13:15,160 --> 01:13:15,360
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1457
01:13:17,640 --> 01:13:20,799
Speaker 5: Yeah, sometimes you gotta suffer. Yeah, you keep supporting.

1458
01:13:20,920 --> 01:13:22,960
Speaker 2: I get it. Yeah, I get why you went with

1459
01:13:23,080 --> 01:13:26,439
Speaker 2: that description. I understand it. Yeah.

1460
01:13:27,080 --> 01:13:30,320
Speaker 5: Look, we don't have to run through the list of suffering.

1461
01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:34,280
Speaker 5: It's long enough. And everybody that's been a loyal Buffalo

1462
01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:37,560
Speaker 5: sports fan knows knows what the laundry list looks like.

1463
01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:40,800
Speaker 2: It is tattooed on our hearts, right, so you don't

1464
01:13:40,840 --> 01:13:43,640
Speaker 2: really have to know the list. It's uh, you almost have.

1465
01:13:44,160 --> 01:13:47,439
Speaker 2: It's tattooed on your persona. I mean, everybody knows the

1466
01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:51,799
Speaker 2: words to the mantra of of how the tough breaks

1467
01:13:51,840 --> 01:13:54,800
Speaker 2: and the bad games and the and the rough things

1468
01:13:54,880 --> 01:13:56,840
Speaker 2: that have gone to the fan base has gone through

1469
01:13:57,080 --> 01:14:02,479
Speaker 2: and uh, it's uh yeah, it's it's part of the

1470
01:14:02,560 --> 01:14:05,439
Speaker 2: heritage of being a Bills fan and a person from Buffalo.

1471
01:14:06,360 --> 01:14:08,200
Speaker 2: We go to Bob in Buffalo, what do you got

1472
01:14:08,240 --> 01:14:08,679
Speaker 2: for his job?

1473
01:14:10,680 --> 01:14:15,240
Speaker 1: Bill stan is suffering from PTSD. Goes back as far

1474
01:14:15,280 --> 01:14:19,599
Speaker 1: as I can they go. You know, y mantras, there's

1475
01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:23,200
Speaker 1: always next year. Well from that point end of the

1476
01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:26,600
Speaker 1: season till the beginning next it's post traumatic stress disorder.

1477
01:14:29,360 --> 01:14:33,599
Speaker 5: Right, And and look, I get it, Bob, people throw

1478
01:14:33,680 --> 01:14:37,120
Speaker 5: that term around. Some people have real tough time with

1479
01:14:37,240 --> 01:14:40,040
Speaker 5: that disorder, So I certainly don't want us to make

1480
01:14:40,160 --> 01:14:45,080
Speaker 5: light of it. I understand what you're getting at, just

1481
01:14:45,160 --> 01:14:48,920
Speaker 5: because when things go the wrong way in a big game,

1482
01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:52,320
Speaker 5: it's hard not to be reminded of all the previous

1483
01:14:52,400 --> 01:14:56,639
Speaker 5: times where similar circumstances a rose. So I get why

1484
01:14:56,680 --> 01:15:02,600
Speaker 5: you're using that as a description. You know, I have

1485
01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:07,320
Speaker 5: a twenty one year old son who first his first

1486
01:15:07,439 --> 01:15:08,200
Speaker 5: fifteen years of.

1487
01:15:08,240 --> 01:15:09,800
Speaker 2: His life was the drought.

1488
01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:15,479
Speaker 5: Yeah, so and then you know, playoffs are here and

1489
01:15:15,520 --> 01:15:19,000
Speaker 5: he's all pumped for playoffs, and playoff exits without the

1490
01:15:19,120 --> 01:15:24,000
Speaker 5: ultimate prize hurt almost as much as being irrelevant, because

1491
01:15:24,040 --> 01:15:27,519
Speaker 5: you feel like you're even closer. Yeah, And it's a

1492
01:15:27,560 --> 01:15:30,559
Speaker 5: tough thing to deal with. But again, you come back

1493
01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:35,960
Speaker 5: to the loyalty and commitment to your fandom and that's

1494
01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:37,400
Speaker 5: what embodies Buffalo fans.

1495
01:15:37,840 --> 01:15:42,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny though it is. It's better to have

1496
01:15:42,240 --> 01:15:44,280
Speaker 2: a team like you've got now with Oh you have

1497
01:15:44,360 --> 01:15:46,599
Speaker 2: the crusher at the end of the season, rather than

1498
01:15:46,720 --> 01:15:48,559
Speaker 2: going through the season dead inside.

1499
01:15:49,040 --> 01:15:49,200
Speaker 8: You know.

1500
01:15:50,840 --> 01:15:54,479
Speaker 2: That's that's hard. It's hard. But Bill's fans have done

1501
01:15:54,520 --> 01:15:57,120
Speaker 2: all of it. Buffalo sports fans have done all of it,

1502
01:15:57,280 --> 01:16:01,080
Speaker 2: so it's it's something they're completely from the We have.

1503
01:16:01,160 --> 01:16:02,960
Speaker 5: To take a break here, but when we come back,

1504
01:16:03,320 --> 01:16:06,400
Speaker 5: it looks like the running back market in free agency

1505
01:16:07,080 --> 01:16:10,479
Speaker 5: has been reset, and not by a running back who

1506
01:16:10,600 --> 01:16:12,680
Speaker 5: was set to become a free agent, by one of

1507
01:16:12,720 --> 01:16:16,040
Speaker 5: the best running backs in football. We'll explain when we

1508
01:16:16,200 --> 01:16:18,280
Speaker 5: come back and how it might impact talks with one

1509
01:16:18,400 --> 01:16:20,760
Speaker 5: James Cook for the Bills when we return here on

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Speaker 5: One Bill's Live, presented by Cold of Health. It's Buffalo

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01:16:23,479 --> 01:16:42,920
Speaker 5: Bill's Radio. All right back here at the key Bank

1512
01:16:43,000 --> 01:16:47,960
Speaker 5: Center for Bill's Night. Sabers, Sharks, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

1513
01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:50,360
Speaker 5: with you, and as we told you before the break,

1514
01:16:51,080 --> 01:16:54,280
Speaker 5: the free agent running back market has just been reset

1515
01:16:54,600 --> 01:16:59,519
Speaker 5: by none other than Saquon Barkley. The Eagles are rewarding

1516
01:16:59,600 --> 01:17:03,720
Speaker 5: Barkley for his landmark career best season with a two year,

1517
01:17:04,479 --> 01:17:07,800
Speaker 5: forty one point two million dollar contract extension makes him

1518
01:17:07,800 --> 01:17:12,280
Speaker 5: the highest paid running back in NFL history. He is

1519
01:17:12,400 --> 01:17:16,840
Speaker 5: the first ever twenty million dollar a year running back.

1520
01:17:17,520 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 5: I have said for over a month that James Cook's

1521
01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:23,479
Speaker 5: not getting fifteen million dollars a year in the current

1522
01:17:23,560 --> 01:17:25,880
Speaker 5: running back market. Well, that market just shifted, and now

1523
01:17:25,920 --> 01:17:29,200
Speaker 5: it's a possibility I might fifteen million a year. It

1524
01:17:29,400 --> 01:17:33,120
Speaker 5: might be a possibility for him now at least that

1525
01:17:33,240 --> 01:17:38,000
Speaker 5: might be a jumping off point based on this, maybe

1526
01:17:38,600 --> 01:17:41,439
Speaker 5: five million less a year average annual value than twenty

1527
01:17:41,760 --> 01:17:43,520
Speaker 5: I don't think that's unrealistic.

1528
01:17:43,640 --> 01:17:44,479
Speaker 2: Doesn't sound like it is.

1529
01:17:45,120 --> 01:17:49,200
Speaker 5: Although this is a two year deal, right so yeah,

1530
01:17:49,240 --> 01:17:51,880
Speaker 5: but average annual value counts, Like that's what it's about.

1531
01:17:51,880 --> 01:17:53,120
Speaker 2: I'm gonna sign a guy to with a ten year,

1532
01:17:53,160 --> 01:17:54,800
Speaker 2: twenty million dollar deal a year deal.

1533
01:17:55,840 --> 01:17:58,799
Speaker 5: He got thirty six of that forty one million at signing,

1534
01:17:58,920 --> 01:18:00,479
Speaker 5: by the way, Yeah, uh.

1535
01:18:01,160 --> 01:18:04,080
Speaker 2: So thirty six right in his pocket. I don't know

1536
01:18:04,120 --> 01:18:06,040
Speaker 2: if it goes in his pocket this year. Well, right

1537
01:18:06,080 --> 01:18:09,479
Speaker 2: fully guarantee this the first year will probably be fully guaranteed.

1538
01:18:09,520 --> 01:18:11,920
Speaker 2: The you know, twenty whatever million of it will be.

1539
01:18:12,240 --> 01:18:16,240
Speaker 5: And he still has another fifteen million in incentives that

1540
01:18:16,360 --> 01:18:18,720
Speaker 5: he can still achieve that was left in from the

1541
01:18:18,840 --> 01:18:19,559
Speaker 5: original deal.

1542
01:18:19,800 --> 01:18:23,360
Speaker 2: Right, he can still get fifteen million dollars more than

1543
01:18:23,400 --> 01:18:28,599
Speaker 2: the forty one point two correct. Wow, that's a big deal.

1544
01:18:29,080 --> 01:18:31,400
Speaker 5: That is a big deal, and every other running back

1545
01:18:31,640 --> 01:18:34,040
Speaker 5: is doing backflips. As a matter of fact, James Cook

1546
01:18:34,439 --> 01:18:38,680
Speaker 5: already retweeted the report from ESPN's Adam Schefter with a

1547
01:18:38,720 --> 01:18:40,360
Speaker 5: pair of big googly eyes.

1548
01:18:40,760 --> 01:18:43,400
Speaker 2: And I'll say this too. We were talking about how,

1549
01:18:43,520 --> 01:18:47,360
Speaker 2: you know, James Cook and his deal. He didn't play

1550
01:18:47,400 --> 01:18:49,320
Speaker 2: as well as Saquon did last year, He didn't have

1551
01:18:49,320 --> 01:18:51,360
Speaker 2: as many carries, all of that stuff, and so he

1552
01:18:51,400 --> 01:18:54,360
Speaker 2: shouldn't really get as much as Saquon as Saquon's making it. Well,

1553
01:18:56,000 --> 01:18:58,679
Speaker 2: you think about it, and somebody on my social media

1554
01:18:58,920 --> 01:19:01,360
Speaker 2: brought it up to me. Akwon signed the twelve million

1555
01:19:01,360 --> 01:19:05,160
Speaker 2: dollar deal after a nine hundred yard after the year

1556
01:19:05,200 --> 01:19:07,640
Speaker 2: he had with the Giants two years ago. That's what

1557
01:19:07,720 --> 01:19:10,200
Speaker 2: the twelve million dollars. And then plus there's a little

1558
01:19:10,240 --> 01:19:13,200
Speaker 2: bit of you know, let's stick it to the Giants

1559
01:19:13,360 --> 01:19:17,040
Speaker 2: and the guy's better than the offense that he played

1560
01:19:17,080 --> 01:19:19,720
Speaker 2: in with New York Giants. So the Philly was like, oh,

1561
01:19:19,760 --> 01:19:21,880
Speaker 2: we'll take the guy and signed him. So there was

1562
01:19:21,880 --> 01:19:23,920
Speaker 2: a little bit of that in there. But this deal

1563
01:19:24,160 --> 01:19:26,680
Speaker 2: is more commensurate with what he did this last year

1564
01:19:28,160 --> 01:19:30,200
Speaker 2: without saying anything about what he's made do in the future.

1565
01:19:30,280 --> 01:19:37,280
Speaker 2: So yeah, Saquon was undervalued because of when he signed

1566
01:19:37,360 --> 01:19:40,080
Speaker 2: that deal with the Philadelphia Eagles because he's coming off

1567
01:19:40,120 --> 01:19:43,960
Speaker 2: of not a great year. So you're talking about James

1568
01:19:44,040 --> 01:19:46,400
Speaker 2: Cook who's coming off of his best year as a pro.

1569
01:19:47,800 --> 01:19:50,760
Speaker 2: That probably does pump the numbers up for him, no

1570
01:19:50,960 --> 01:19:54,479
Speaker 2: question about it. I think now the twelve million we

1571
01:19:54,560 --> 01:19:58,120
Speaker 2: were talking about the window like baseline that's gone. You

1572
01:19:58,200 --> 01:20:00,000
Speaker 2: wish you you could, you hope you could sign him

1573
01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:00,200
Speaker 2: for that.

1574
01:20:00,280 --> 01:20:02,680
Speaker 5: Now they're not getting them for eight million less per

1575
01:20:02,880 --> 01:20:05,280
Speaker 5: year on a contract than Saquon. He was a top

1576
01:20:05,360 --> 01:20:06,000
Speaker 5: ten running back.

1577
01:20:06,080 --> 01:20:08,320
Speaker 2: The only way around this now where the Bills sit

1578
01:20:08,439 --> 01:20:10,479
Speaker 2: right now, is if they franchise him because they don't

1579
01:20:10,479 --> 01:20:13,080
Speaker 2: have cap room to spend it yet. They until they

1580
01:20:13,200 --> 01:20:15,720
Speaker 2: get that, they're not doing it. They're not getting it

1581
01:20:15,800 --> 01:20:17,120
Speaker 2: done now.

1582
01:20:17,439 --> 01:20:20,439
Speaker 5: The only thing is so yeah, because the franchise tags

1583
01:20:20,479 --> 01:20:23,880
Speaker 5: have been set for twenty twenty five. They obviously will

1584
01:20:23,960 --> 01:20:29,639
Speaker 5: not include Barkley's new deal, so that's the benefit. So yeah,

1585
01:20:29,760 --> 01:20:33,960
Speaker 5: the tag you got till four o'clock today though, that's

1586
01:20:34,040 --> 01:20:34,599
Speaker 5: the only thing.

1587
01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:37,760
Speaker 2: Well, they don't need to tag him this year because

1588
01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:43,920
Speaker 2: he's on under contract, correct, And certainly there's gonna be

1589
01:20:43,960 --> 01:20:46,599
Speaker 2: a ton of guys now, a ton of running backs now.

1590
01:20:47,160 --> 01:20:52,960
Speaker 2: They're gonna be sitting back in their chair going dude, well,

1591
01:20:53,960 --> 01:20:55,479
Speaker 2: you know, well.

1592
01:20:55,560 --> 01:20:58,080
Speaker 5: I just find me I just find it interesting that

1593
01:20:58,360 --> 01:21:01,639
Speaker 5: about three weeks ago a bunch of running backs got

1594
01:21:01,720 --> 01:21:05,599
Speaker 5: on the phone on a conference call, and we're talking

1595
01:21:05,640 --> 01:21:08,439
Speaker 5: to each other, how do we raise our value? And

1596
01:21:09,160 --> 01:21:12,639
Speaker 5: Saquon's done it for them with one stroke of the pen.

1597
01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:15,759
Speaker 2: And so did Derrick Henry.

1598
01:21:16,439 --> 01:21:19,080
Speaker 5: Well Rojt and well he was a thirty year old

1599
01:21:19,160 --> 01:21:20,599
Speaker 5: only make an eight million though last year.

1600
01:21:20,720 --> 01:21:22,600
Speaker 2: That's not my point. My point is this, it's not

1601
01:21:22,840 --> 01:21:25,360
Speaker 2: so much about the money. Dereck Henry is not about

1602
01:21:25,360 --> 01:21:27,519
Speaker 2: the money. He's about the value he put those guys

1603
01:21:28,280 --> 01:21:31,080
Speaker 2: even to a bigger, a higher level offensively than they'd

1604
01:21:31,080 --> 01:21:33,080
Speaker 2: ever been before. So the value that he gave that

1605
01:21:33,200 --> 01:21:37,200
Speaker 2: offense is one thing. And what the world champions are

1606
01:21:37,240 --> 01:21:41,920
Speaker 2: willing to pay their running back puts it in perspective

1607
01:21:41,960 --> 01:21:46,200
Speaker 2: of financially, So Saquon's the financial standard, Dereck Henry is

1608
01:21:46,240 --> 01:21:48,880
Speaker 2: that is what a running back can do for a team.

1609
01:21:48,960 --> 01:21:50,320
Speaker 2: So you've got guys out there, go and listen. I

1610
01:21:50,360 --> 01:21:53,000
Speaker 2: can give you this production in this there's your standard.

1611
01:21:53,439 --> 01:21:57,000
Speaker 2: It Derrick Henry and Saquon put the running backs back it.

1612
01:21:57,400 --> 01:21:59,599
Speaker 2: You know, at the centerpiece of an offense. They weren't

1613
01:21:59,640 --> 01:22:02,000
Speaker 2: there five years and nobody was there.

1614
01:22:02,160 --> 01:22:07,360
Speaker 5: Yes, and they are troubled by their depressed value because

1615
01:22:07,360 --> 01:22:10,120
Speaker 5: if you look at the franchise tags for twenty twenty five,

1616
01:22:11,080 --> 01:22:14,680
Speaker 5: running back is the second lowest in the league. The

1617
01:22:14,800 --> 01:22:18,840
Speaker 5: only one lower is kicker, punter, kicker punter franchise tag

1618
01:22:18,920 --> 01:22:21,639
Speaker 5: six point three million. Running Back is the next lowest

1619
01:22:21,760 --> 01:22:25,880
Speaker 5: at thirteen point six, then tight end thirteen point eight,

1620
01:22:26,439 --> 01:22:32,040
Speaker 5: safety at eighteen point six. Man, o, man, that's something

1621
01:22:32,040 --> 01:22:35,160
Speaker 5: who's more important to a football team a feature back

1622
01:22:35,360 --> 01:22:36,000
Speaker 5: or a safety?

1623
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:40,880
Speaker 2: Well apparent, Well, here's the thing, and I'll go back

1624
01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:46,000
Speaker 2: to it again. There's not that many safeties that are elite.

1625
01:22:46,800 --> 01:22:52,000
Speaker 2: There's a ton of running backs that have elite physical abilities.

1626
01:22:53,479 --> 01:22:56,400
Speaker 2: There's more of them around. That's the problem. With running backs.

1627
01:22:56,439 --> 01:23:00,000
Speaker 2: There's more of those guys around, there's more plentiful support,

1628
01:23:00,160 --> 01:23:04,600
Speaker 2: there's they're everywhere. I was made this point yesterday. You

1629
01:23:04,720 --> 01:23:07,120
Speaker 2: look at the combine. They got all these every single

1630
01:23:07,240 --> 01:23:09,640
Speaker 2: running backs running in the four four, every one of them.

1631
01:23:09,680 --> 01:23:12,080
Speaker 2: They're all at four four eight four four four five

1632
01:23:12,240 --> 01:23:15,160
Speaker 2: or two four four five, four four and seven. They're

1633
01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:17,760
Speaker 2: all running four fours and they're all catching the ball.

1634
01:23:17,800 --> 01:23:21,120
Speaker 2: They're all doing this stuff. So what's the difference between

1635
01:23:21,120 --> 01:23:24,680
Speaker 2: getting a rookie who has got all that stuff going

1636
01:23:24,800 --> 01:23:28,439
Speaker 2: for him and Saquon Barkley who what you just trust

1637
01:23:28,479 --> 01:23:31,880
Speaker 2: that Saquon is gonna do it for sure? When you

1638
01:23:31,920 --> 01:23:33,800
Speaker 2: got another kid who if you coach him upright, he

1639
01:23:33,880 --> 01:23:36,320
Speaker 2: could be he could be what ninety five percent of

1640
01:23:36,400 --> 01:23:39,920
Speaker 2: what Saquon gives you, maybe he won't hurdle the guy backwards. Okay,

1641
01:23:40,400 --> 01:23:42,679
Speaker 2: I'll take the rest of it. So that's the problem.

1642
01:23:42,920 --> 01:23:45,639
Speaker 2: There's nine thousand running backs out there who are really

1643
01:23:45,800 --> 01:23:49,880
Speaker 2: close to be It's a high floor at that position,

1644
01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:52,680
Speaker 2: a very high floor. And there may be in you know,

1645
01:23:52,880 --> 01:23:55,040
Speaker 2: a limit up at the top where the where Saquon

1646
01:23:55,160 --> 01:23:57,439
Speaker 2: raises the roof, But the floor is clear up here.

1647
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:03,720
Speaker 2: So Yeah, give me a give me Ty Johnson at

1648
01:24:03,800 --> 01:24:05,880
Speaker 2: two point one a year on whatever he's making. I

1649
01:24:06,200 --> 01:24:09,000
Speaker 2: made that up. Give me Ty Johnson for two point

1650
01:24:09,040 --> 01:24:13,240
Speaker 2: one a year instead of Saquon at twenty and then

1651
01:24:13,320 --> 01:24:17,080
Speaker 2: give me, you know, two offensive linemen and an outside

1652
01:24:17,439 --> 01:24:19,160
Speaker 2: edge rusher. You know what I'm saying. You can get

1653
01:24:19,200 --> 01:24:21,840
Speaker 2: all those guys for the same money. It's a hard

1654
01:24:21,880 --> 01:24:28,320
Speaker 2: equation to to rationalize to me. That's why I'm still

1655
01:24:28,600 --> 01:24:32,479
Speaker 2: I'm like, dude, I don't know. I like, I saw

1656
01:24:32,680 --> 01:24:36,120
Speaker 2: twenty five running backs at the combine running the four fours.

1657
01:24:37,280 --> 01:24:39,360
Speaker 2: There's just too many guys like that around. That's why

1658
01:24:39,400 --> 01:24:39,840
Speaker 2: they just.

1659
01:24:40,360 --> 01:24:44,840
Speaker 5: Here's my concern. My concern is they wanted they want

1660
01:24:44,960 --> 01:24:47,880
Speaker 5: James Cook back in the fold. Oh, they want to

1661
01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:51,680
Speaker 5: sign him to a long term extension. That needle just

1662
01:24:51,760 --> 01:24:55,600
Speaker 5: became harder to threat because of this sake ques the extension.

1663
01:24:55,680 --> 01:24:57,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm not saying that that's I like James

1664
01:24:57,960 --> 01:25:01,200
Speaker 2: Cook a lot. He's great man, and and the team

1665
01:25:01,360 --> 01:25:06,760
Speaker 2: loves him and they won him back. But man, oh man,

1666
01:25:06,880 --> 01:25:12,240
Speaker 2: it's hard unless you're transcendent. That's hard to pop that bubble.

1667
01:25:13,520 --> 01:25:16,519
Speaker 2: That's hard. And it's a needle that you got a thread.

1668
01:25:16,600 --> 01:25:19,560
Speaker 2: It's not it's not you know, it's not a I

1669
01:25:19,600 --> 01:25:22,280
Speaker 2: don't know whatever analogy I'm looking for, but it you know.

1670
01:25:23,800 --> 01:25:28,519
Speaker 5: The negotiation became more challenging because of where the bill's

1671
01:25:28,600 --> 01:25:33,000
Speaker 5: current cap situation is and where the market for running

1672
01:25:33,080 --> 01:25:35,920
Speaker 5: a top flight running back just went in the last

1673
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:36,679
Speaker 5: twenty minutes.

1674
01:25:38,080 --> 01:25:39,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you went.

1675
01:25:39,680 --> 01:25:43,800
Speaker 5: From a franchise tag of thirteen point six for twenty

1676
01:25:43,920 --> 01:25:47,200
Speaker 5: twenty five and the top of the market is now twenty,

1677
01:25:48,600 --> 01:25:50,920
Speaker 5: and James Cook's gonna have to fit somewhere in between

1678
01:25:51,000 --> 01:25:55,560
Speaker 5: there thirteen point six and twenty, when prior to the

1679
01:25:55,600 --> 01:26:00,040
Speaker 5: Barklay deal you're probably somewhere between ten and twelve and

1680
01:26:00,120 --> 01:26:02,880
Speaker 5: a half and twelve, maybe thirteen at the very top,

1681
01:26:03,240 --> 01:26:06,760
Speaker 5: but not fifteen. Now, fifteen is a legitimate number to

1682
01:26:06,880 --> 01:26:10,600
Speaker 5: talk about James Cook. Yes, but just because of what

1683
01:26:10,720 --> 01:26:12,000
Speaker 5: happened in the last twenty minutes.

1684
01:26:12,120 --> 01:26:16,880
Speaker 2: Yes, but now you've got one guy making twenty. The

1685
01:26:16,960 --> 01:26:20,760
Speaker 2: franchise is still thirteen, So.

1686
01:26:20,840 --> 01:26:23,040
Speaker 5: Now your number is between thirteen and fifteen. It was

1687
01:26:23,120 --> 01:26:27,000
Speaker 5: ten to twelve, now it's thirteen to fifteen. And that

1688
01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:29,439
Speaker 5: could very well be the difference between oh, you know

1689
01:26:29,520 --> 01:26:33,240
Speaker 5: what we can do that I don't know if we can, yeah, absolutely,

1690
01:26:33,600 --> 01:26:35,800
Speaker 5: or one less players on the roster that you wanted

1691
01:26:35,840 --> 01:26:37,600
Speaker 5: to sign that's a veteran, or it may be.

1692
01:26:37,640 --> 01:26:39,240
Speaker 2: Well, we can't do it this offseason. We got to

1693
01:26:39,240 --> 01:26:41,120
Speaker 2: do it to the next offseason. We're gonna we gotta

1694
01:26:41,160 --> 01:26:43,560
Speaker 2: wait now, We've gotta wait. Now, We're gotta see what

1695
01:26:43,640 --> 01:26:44,559
Speaker 2: the cap looks like next.

1696
01:26:44,479 --> 01:26:46,800
Speaker 5: Year, or you're gonna have to more creatively structure it

1697
01:26:46,960 --> 01:26:50,880
Speaker 5: so the money doesn't hit until next year something cap wise. Yeah, yeah,

1698
01:26:51,439 --> 01:26:54,400
Speaker 5: So it's it's not an easy conversation for sure. All Right,

1699
01:26:54,400 --> 01:26:56,080
Speaker 5: we got to step aside, take a break here. We

1700
01:26:56,160 --> 01:26:58,040
Speaker 5: got one segment left. We'll see we can squeeze in

1701
01:26:58,080 --> 01:27:01,000
Speaker 5: a phone call and some final thought on the tweet sheet.

1702
01:27:01,280 --> 01:27:04,080
Speaker 5: As we've been asking you today, how would you best

1703
01:27:04,160 --> 01:27:07,479
Speaker 5: describe a Buffalo sports fan? We close it up next

1704
01:27:07,520 --> 01:27:09,599
Speaker 5: here on one Bill's Live from the key Bank Center,

1705
01:27:09,640 --> 01:27:12,080
Speaker 5: because anybody co lo out of health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

1706
01:27:26,600 --> 01:27:28,680
Speaker 5: All right, Chris Bround, Steve Tasker here at the key

1707
01:27:28,720 --> 01:27:33,000
Speaker 5: Bank Center, getting you set for Bill's Night for Saber Sharks.

1708
01:27:33,400 --> 01:27:34,880
Speaker 2: Steve will be a part of it. Keep an eye

1709
01:27:34,880 --> 01:27:35,280
Speaker 2: out for him.

1710
01:27:35,320 --> 01:27:39,000
Speaker 5: You'll see him bopping around pregame and'll be visiting some suits.

1711
01:27:39,360 --> 01:27:40,760
Speaker 5: You want to say hi to me. I'll be down

1712
01:27:40,800 --> 01:27:43,519
Speaker 5: in section one oh five tonight, Steve section. Actually not

1713
01:27:43,640 --> 01:27:45,960
Speaker 5: in your seats, but my section. I'm not in your seats,

1714
01:27:46,760 --> 01:27:48,439
Speaker 5: but you know what, I'm a few rows down from you,

1715
01:27:48,640 --> 01:27:49,920
Speaker 5: all right. I scored some great seats.

1716
01:27:51,479 --> 01:27:54,519
Speaker 2: We've been in that section for three or four yeah,

1717
01:27:54,840 --> 01:27:57,679
Speaker 2: three or four years, and and uh, that's great, it's great.

1718
01:27:57,840 --> 01:27:58,679
Speaker 2: Uh behind the bench.

1719
01:27:58,720 --> 01:28:00,320
Speaker 5: I don't know if you saw over a sh shoulder.

1720
01:28:00,360 --> 01:28:02,519
Speaker 5: They put coach McDermott to work a short time ago.

1721
01:28:03,040 --> 01:28:03,400
Speaker 2: They did.

1722
01:28:03,640 --> 01:28:08,360
Speaker 5: They had him out on the zamboni driving around back here,

1723
01:28:08,640 --> 01:28:10,519
Speaker 5: very slow, but he was in there. He was he

1724
01:28:10,680 --> 01:28:12,080
Speaker 5: was in the driver's seat doing it.

1725
01:28:12,320 --> 01:28:12,519
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1726
01:28:12,600 --> 01:28:16,519
Speaker 5: Yeah, so uh, you know, I'm sure you'll you'll see

1727
01:28:16,560 --> 01:28:20,800
Speaker 5: it somewhere in the social social media section.

1728
01:28:21,600 --> 01:28:24,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't get me started on his driving the zamboni.

1729
01:28:25,040 --> 01:28:28,720
Speaker 2: The Yeah, the Olympic whatever that is, the ice the.

1730
01:28:28,760 --> 01:28:31,320
Speaker 5: Olympia models now is what they use. I don't even

1731
01:28:31,320 --> 01:28:34,120
Speaker 5: think they used the Zamboni models. That's what that's what

1732
01:28:34,240 --> 01:28:37,120
Speaker 5: we grew up with. Yeah, but yeah, they had him

1733
01:28:37,600 --> 01:28:41,799
Speaker 5: doing the ovals. He was doing the ovals. Yeah, if

1734
01:28:41,840 --> 01:28:44,559
Speaker 5: you cut your own lawn, i'd like to know. I'd

1735
01:28:44,640 --> 01:28:46,839
Speaker 5: like to think be able to figure out your pattern

1736
01:28:47,479 --> 01:28:50,200
Speaker 5: for a zamboni. It's a much larger piece.

1737
01:28:50,040 --> 01:28:52,280
Speaker 2: Of machinery you're dealing with. Yeah, it's just not a

1738
01:28:52,400 --> 01:28:54,479
Speaker 2: rider moment. Getting the more up next to your house,

1739
01:28:54,520 --> 01:28:56,400
Speaker 2: you do. Just get the boards there and just kind

1740
01:28:56,400 --> 01:28:58,439
Speaker 2: of slide it. Yeah, I could do it. I'm sure

1741
01:28:58,479 --> 01:29:00,320
Speaker 2: I could do it. I don't want to do it though. Yeah,

1742
01:29:00,479 --> 01:29:02,360
Speaker 2: I know it's cold enough in here. I don't want

1743
01:29:02,360 --> 01:29:04,400
Speaker 2: to get out on the ice or freeze even more.

1744
01:29:05,400 --> 01:29:08,320
Speaker 5: Some final thoughts on the tweet sheets, Steve in terms

1745
01:29:08,360 --> 01:29:11,400
Speaker 5: of described the best description of what it is to

1746
01:29:11,439 --> 01:29:15,519
Speaker 5: be a Buffalo sports fan, Christian says, Buffalo sports fans

1747
01:29:15,760 --> 01:29:16,880
Speaker 5: are resilient.

1748
01:29:17,840 --> 01:29:20,320
Speaker 2: Yes they are. There is no debating that.

1749
01:29:21,439 --> 01:29:26,600
Speaker 5: Joey says relentless fanatics. B Robinson says loyal and not

1750
01:29:27,160 --> 01:29:29,400
Speaker 5: afraid to show it through good times and bad. I

1751
01:29:29,520 --> 01:29:31,720
Speaker 5: live in southwest Missouri, and I don't remember seeing many

1752
01:29:31,800 --> 01:29:35,599
Speaker 5: Chiefs fans until Mahomes came along and they started winning.

1753
01:29:36,200 --> 01:29:39,040
Speaker 5: I will agree with that Bill's fans wear their gear,

1754
01:29:39,520 --> 01:29:42,360
Speaker 5: whether they're a three and thirteen team or A fourteen

1755
01:29:42,439 --> 01:29:42,760
Speaker 5: and three.

1756
01:29:43,040 --> 01:29:45,120
Speaker 2: That's true, they do now. It's easier to wear it now,

1757
01:29:45,240 --> 01:29:45,639
Speaker 2: but still.

1758
01:29:46,120 --> 01:29:48,960
Speaker 5: And here's a good one from Jack Steadfast and hopeful.

1759
01:29:49,439 --> 01:29:53,519
Speaker 5: That's a good description, very nice, nice contributions today, Thanks

1760
01:29:53,560 --> 01:29:54,360
Speaker 5: for all the tweets.

1761
01:29:54,760 --> 01:29:56,240
Speaker 2: Steve will be here tonight, so will I.

1762
01:29:56,680 --> 01:30:03,160
Speaker 5: Sabers Night, Bill's Night, Saber Sharks, the mone