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Speaker 1: touch down to don overtime, over time, Welcome to the show,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker. Oh baby, it's more snow on

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Speaker 1: What's wrong with us? Nothing wrong with us, Steve. I

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Speaker 1: month of March. And I'll tell you why. And it's

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Speaker 1: not the weather. The weather is well, we got sunshine here,

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Speaker 1: have sunshine. But that's not it's not about weather. March

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Speaker 1: we know spring is coming. That snumber number two, it's

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Speaker 1: I think for the Bills, maybe they can get a

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Speaker 1: little bit more out of their hot top draft pick. Well,

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Speaker 1: like Tremaine Edmonds. I mean he played started the middle

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Speaker 1: linebacker for the Bills for sixteen games last year. Those

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Speaker 1: are the kind of contributions you need at the top

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Speaker 1: of your draft. And you know, I think when you're

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Speaker 1: not talking about when you're talking about positions other than

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Speaker 1: the quarterback, I think you can expect a little more

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Speaker 1: out of those guys. So I see people saying, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we can draft well, and what to me, that means

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Speaker 1: those top four guys that we've talked about, they got

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Speaker 1: top three guys the first three picks out of this

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Speaker 1: draft or all on the top one hundred. The rest

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Speaker 1: of them are on Day three. I mean, they're they're

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Speaker 1: deep down in the draft. So I think if you

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Speaker 1: hit on those top three guys and they get on

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Speaker 1: the field right away, I think that's a really good draft.

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Speaker 1: Now you can certainly go deeper in that obviously and

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Speaker 1: hit a home run with some later round picks, but

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Speaker 1: I think the you know, realistically, I think those top

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Speaker 1: three guys are the ones you're looking at to be

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Speaker 1: right away on the field. Yeah, what do you think

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Speaker 1: give us a call? Lines open eight three fifty, toll

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Speaker 1: free one eight eight five fifty two five fifty. And look,

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Speaker 1: the thing that makes us, I think a viable question

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Speaker 1: and maybe a more important question today than it was

449
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Speaker 1: a week ago today, is that the Bills have already

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Speaker 1: demonstrated that their planning on being active. They've already been

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Speaker 1: active in the free agent market. They really have resigning

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Speaker 1: the first day this week, right resigning Phillips, Jordan Phillips

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Speaker 1: visits alone, spent a long a week or two ago.

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Speaker 1: A visit already from a tight end prospect Dwayne Allen,

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Speaker 1: a visit yesterday by cornerback Kevin Johnson. Report today from

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Speaker 1: Jason Lock on Fort CBS Sports of the Bills planned

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Speaker 1: to pursue offensive tackle Darryl Williams, who played at the

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Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers. I mean, the Bills I think have already

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Speaker 1: demonstrated that they are not going to sit back and

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Speaker 1: just be passive when it comes to free agency this year.

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Speaker 1: They plan on being active. They've already been somewhat active,

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Speaker 1: and I think the indications are that once the door

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Speaker 1: opens fully next week, with the legal tampering on Monday

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Speaker 1: and Wednesday, the free agency signing period beginning. Once that

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Speaker 1: door opens, they're they're likely to jump through it and

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Speaker 1: start making some moves. Steve. They might not be, you know,

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Speaker 1: doling out suitcases full of cash, getting all kinds of

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Speaker 1: household names, but it appears they're going to be activing

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Speaker 1: getting some players here. Yeah, and you can expect the

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Speaker 1: reason talk about these you know, this legal tampering and

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Speaker 1: the Bills are signing some guys already. There's a difference.

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Speaker 1: Some of these guys are street free agents. They're cut

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Speaker 1: off their team. The other guys that we're talking about,

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Speaker 1: the ones that they can't talk to just yet, are

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Speaker 1: the ones whose contracts are about to run out the

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Speaker 1: league year ends. And then when those contracts are done

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Speaker 1: and that timeframe is over for the guys who are

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Speaker 1: just ending their contracts and haven't been cut now they

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Speaker 1: become free agents and it starts, you know, as you said,

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Speaker 1: it starts Monday, and they can start talking to these

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Speaker 1: guys early. And that's when all these guys that actually

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Speaker 1: these other teams really for the most part, they wish

483
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Speaker 1: they weren't losing, but can't keep That's when that starts.

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Speaker 1: What's the best way for the Bills to get better

485
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Speaker 1: this season? Free agency or the draft? Give us a call,

486
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Speaker 1: sending a tweet, We'll discuss whatever you'd like to talk about.

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Speaker 1: We're having to discuss eight three fifty and toll free

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty Frank

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Speaker 1: and Rochester has something on his mind. Franco and you're

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Speaker 1: on the air. Yeah, you guys are terrific, great show.

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Speaker 1: You guys, you know, bring great perspectives, um follow both

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Speaker 1: your careers and all that. But just on the Kyler Murray,

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Speaker 1: there was an interview with Dan Patrick a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago that just totally was a bombshell. Well, he

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Speaker 1: would not answer any questions. And I think maybe Charnie

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Speaker 1: Cassley and others are borrowing from that he's familiar with.

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Speaker 1: That interview was bad. It was bad. Murray was bad. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Dan Patrick a couple of weeks ago had him in

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Speaker 1: studio and you know, it was still baseball versus football,

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Speaker 1: and he just it was dead silence. I mean, um,

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Speaker 1: it's almost like a meme. Now, So there's that but

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Speaker 1: so that's one thing. But just listening while I was

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Speaker 1: on hold, you know, Murph, yesterday you were talking about

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Speaker 1: more of a long term growth of the bills and

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Speaker 1: building and and and Steve was talking more about you know,

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Speaker 1: it's now, I mean, you know, with free agency and

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Speaker 1: the salary cap and all that stuff bringing in people.

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Speaker 1: I think you were maybe talking about on a Tonio

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Speaker 1: Brown you just why not because how many years do

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Speaker 1: you get to build a contender now? Right? Oh, it's

511
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Speaker 1: different than it was before. So, yeah, guys are forever entertaining.

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Speaker 1: And you're Frank Pantancil, Murph, you know what, you're so

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Speaker 1: self effacing. I knew you back when you were the

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Speaker 1: the play by play, Yeah, the play by play or

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Speaker 1: color guy with UM with Van or yeah, and you

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Speaker 1: you know what, you held your own and you've always

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Speaker 1: been a pro. Same with you, Steve. So you guys

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Speaker 1: do a great job. Thanks for thanks. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of bokays being tossed our way, Steve. You're going I

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Speaker 1: think that's a compliment. I think it is, But I

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Speaker 1: just wanted I'm glad you called Frank call anytime those

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Speaker 1: kind of complay. And look, here's the thing, Yeah, here's

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Speaker 1: the thing. Uh, our question today is about twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: and I think you get that distinction. I know you do,

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Speaker 1: and I want people to say, look, I believe you

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Speaker 1: have and I think the Bills have the right idea

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Speaker 1: here to build a sustaining sort of excellence here. It's

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Speaker 1: great to win in twenty nineteen, but it's more important

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Speaker 1: to build something that can win in nineteen, twenty, twenty one,

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Speaker 1: twenty two for a little bit here, a long while. Actually,

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Speaker 1: now you are right about this, Frank, which you said

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Speaker 1: about how you know the windows are smaller now in

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Speaker 1: the NFL and they were ten fifteen years ago. So

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Speaker 1: I think the Bills are approaching kind of what um,

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Speaker 1: the time when they have to win and it's this

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Speaker 1: year or next. I mean, they really do have to

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Speaker 1: be a serious playoff contender and maybe even a playoff

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Speaker 1: contestant this year, Steve, and if not, there will be

539
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Speaker 1: questions right about where they're going. Do they have the

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Speaker 1: right people in place? I really I agree. I mean

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Speaker 1: there's some pressure on them this year to be successful

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Speaker 1: and by successfully, I got to win more games than

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Speaker 1: they lose. Yeah, there's got to be a good reason

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Speaker 1: for it. There's got to be an unexpected you know,

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Speaker 1: bus wreck or something. Uh yeah, this is they've got

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Speaker 1: to show progress and they've got to show that this

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Speaker 1: is the right way to do it. And they're on

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Speaker 1: the right track and they've certainly you know, this is

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Speaker 1: their program. Now, this is their third year, two years

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Speaker 1: in two full seasons. They've got their their salary cap

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Speaker 1: in order, they've got their roster in order, they got

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Speaker 1: their quarterback in place. They had a strong defense a

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Speaker 1: year ago. There are a lot of things that they

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Speaker 1: can foundationally build on. Now. They've got to build something

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Speaker 1: that looks like a contender. They've got to build something

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Speaker 1: that looks like man, they're a handful of play I

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Speaker 1: don't know if I want any part of me. They

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Speaker 1: look like a team that's like when they when teams

559
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Speaker 1: see this team on the schedule, they're like, I don't know, right,

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Speaker 1: that's what we're looking for. I'm not saying they got

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Speaker 1: to go fourteen and two. I'm not saying they got

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Speaker 1: to go twelve and four. But they got to go

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Speaker 1: on into every game and have a fan base that

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Speaker 1: can look at him and say, I like our chances

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Speaker 1: in that game. You know, I don't want to go

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Speaker 1: into it. And it's gonna be interesting too, because this

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Speaker 1: is gonna be one of those years where Tom Brady's

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Speaker 1: going to be the quarterback of the Patriots again. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna be forty two this year. You've got a quarterback

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Speaker 1: that's coming into it and looking like he's the best

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Speaker 1: thing since sliced bread. How good are you gonna be?

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Speaker 1: Are you? Is this going to be one of those

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Speaker 1: years where finally Bills fans can go you know what,

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Speaker 1: I want to see us play those guys. I'm not

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Speaker 1: dreading the Patriots game. I want to see us play him.

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Speaker 1: And that's you know, that's a step that this club

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Speaker 1: hasn't taken in a while. Ye all right, Michael Hyde

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00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 1: standing might have joined us next Bill's safety. It was

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Speaker 1: two years ago tomorrow that he's or two years ago

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Speaker 1: Saturday that he signed his contract with the Buffalo Bills. Well,

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Speaker 1: kind of reminisce with Mike about that. Gets some thoughts

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Speaker 1: on free agency from Micah Hyde. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: come on back with us. One Bill's Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Glad of Health from One Bill's Drive In. This is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back. One Bill's Live from one

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. I'm John Murphy Steve Tasker alongside here until

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Speaker 1: three o'clock this afternoon. Free agency. They start talking on Monday,

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Speaker 1: they start signing on Wednesday, so it's six days away.

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Speaker 1: A couple of years ago. One of the first and

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Speaker 1: most important signings the Bills made two years ago Saturday

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Speaker 1: was the signing of safety Micah High, who was a

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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers player then signed down with the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: Micah joins us right now on the subway fresh take hotline. Mike,

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Speaker 1: A good afternoon, John Murphy and Steve task up here

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo. How are you doing. I'm good. How are

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Speaker 1: you guys doing? You have a good offseason? Great? Great

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Speaker 1: off season. I traveling a little bit, um you know,

598
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,119
Speaker 1: getting my body right, getting my mind right, and uh

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Speaker 1: ready to get back to it here. So you're coming

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Speaker 1: back here, well, obviously come back here for workouts. But

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Speaker 1: in the middle of that stretch June second, you've got

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Speaker 1: the Micah Hyde charity softball game coming up in downtown

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Speaker 1: Buffalo at the Bison's Park Sailing Field. Tell us about that, Mica,

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Speaker 1: what he got in mind for that? Um? Well, something

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Speaker 1: I did in the past. Um It was. It was

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Speaker 1: an event that Jordi Ulson put on Whiles in green Bay. Um,

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Speaker 1: so the same people that are doing it, I did

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Speaker 1: it in Green Bay. Want to know, experiment it and

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Speaker 1: Buffalo and I said, of course. So the all the

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Speaker 1: all the money raised is going to go towards uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, our foundation and matters for youth and UM,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a funny event. You know, the defense

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Speaker 1: is gonna whoop on the offense. Obviously that's that's that's simple.

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Speaker 1: But then um from there and go out there to

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Speaker 1: be have fun to the fans. It's kind of a

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Speaker 1: dead period where UM fans will have a lot of

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Speaker 1: roots to root for. UM. So we're gonna go out

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Speaker 1: there and have fun and smile and see what the

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Speaker 1: day is like. Isn't it gonna be only Buffalo Bills players?

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Speaker 1: You're gonna bring any of your other former teammates from

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Speaker 1: Green Bay? Is it? Or is it gonna be strictly

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Speaker 1: a Buffalo thing? No? No, just strictly a Buffalo things.

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Speaker 1: What is the imagine for youth foundation? Mica? What what

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Speaker 1: kind of work do you do so imagine for youth? Um?

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Speaker 1: We we donate UM, whether it's money or sportive equipment

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Speaker 1: to you know, kids that are less fortunate, or even

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Speaker 1: facilities um that aren't able to you know, have funds

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Speaker 1: to get stuff um or even academics, you know, schools

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Speaker 1: that don't have um, you know books a little kids

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Speaker 1: or libraries or whatever it may be. So we I

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Speaker 1: to uh, I feel like every year we're kind of

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Speaker 1: expanding our foundation and especially into two academics and and

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. So um, you know, we're just trying

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Speaker 1: to do as much as we can in the in

635
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Speaker 1: the Buffalo community and even my hometown fall story and um,

636
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 1: just where else we can help. Yep, Michael Hide down

637
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: the line with us is charity softball game coming up

638
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 1: June second. We'll have plenty of time to talk about

639
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: that is the weeks and months roll along. Mike. It

640
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: did strike me that it was just two years ago.

641
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: I think Saturday's the anniversary. If you're signing with the

642
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills two years ago, what do you recall about

643
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 1: that time and what do you recall going through your

644
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 1: head back then as far as what made the Buffalo

645
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 1: Bills attractive you back then? Well, going to my head

646
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 1: is day why does nobody want me? Yeah? This is uh,

647
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 1: you know, it was kind of one of those things that, um,

648
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 1: you know, my agent was talking to people at the

649
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: combine all that stuff, and you know they were they

650
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 1: were interested, but they you know, wanted to see what

651
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 1: was going to happen with me. You know, they were interested,

652
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 1: but they were interested. So um, as soon as Buffalo

653
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 1: came along, they were interested. And that's why. Um, you know,

654
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: they everybody they're welcome, welcome me with open arms. And

655
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: I was, I was, you know, ecstatic to be there.

656
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: So um, that was kind of what I experienced. And

657
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: and I can't remember just going to Buffalo and everyone

658
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: just showing you know, showing me so much love, and

659
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: I I just appreciate it so much. I appreciate that

660
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 1: you measure the interest by what the money. It would

661
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: seem to be the number one thing you'd look at

662
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: micat Um. I used to do it a couple of things,

663
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: so I wasn't necessary money. I was just I was

664
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 1: more about appreciation. I feel like what I did in

665
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 1: the past, you know, before going to Buffalo, that I

666
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: did so much. And then at the end, looking back,

667
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: you know, everyone's just and you know, it strange to

668
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: everyone's you know, and uh kind of looking at me like,

669
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 1: you know, and we think we can we can move

670
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: on without you. So that was kind of like a

671
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: that was kind of like a snap in the face.

672
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: And I just was telling about agent like I I

673
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: want to go to somebody that appreciates me and somebody

674
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 1: that is going to use me well and you know

675
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 1: with the the multiple things that I tend to do.

676
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: So um, you know that's that's kind of number one

677
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: thing is you know, the money, the money helps I want.

678
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna see her and say that it's not

679
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: about that because you know, you got to carry your

680
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: family at the same time. So um, but it was

681
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: it was definitely the appreciation that that uh that Buffalo

682
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: showed us did having a chance to start on the

683
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: defense being you know, be their guy. Have something to

684
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: do with it as well, Yeah, somewhat, um because I

685
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: was I feel like I was battling. You know, It's funny,

686
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: I just want to vacation. Um because weeks go with

687
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: Casey Hayward. We were we were talking about our times

688
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: in Green Bay and it's funny because we we were

689
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 1: like battling to get on the field. Like he was

690
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: thinking half the reps. I was thinking half the reps

691
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 1: and so it was, you know, it's it's hard to

692
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 1: getting the flow of the game when you're when you're

693
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: out there for a play that you get pulled out

694
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: and you go back. Uh, It's it's kind of difficult.

695
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 1: So uh, you know, I just wanted to be out

696
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: there full time, to be a full time player, four

697
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 1: down player, and and you know, fortunate enough, that's what

698
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 1: I've been able to do. Like I have, you know,

699
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: two years here, two seasons with a bill. UM, would

700
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: you say that what you've done here and now you've

701
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: performed how you've played as exceeded your expectations from a

702
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. No, No, definitely, not definitely not. UM.

703
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: I feel like the goals expectations that we have for

704
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 1: our team is is way higher than when anybody else

705
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: can give us. UM. You know, we finished obviously con defensively,

706
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: we finished second in the league, I think, and we

707
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: felt like we didn't even play, um neither as good

708
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: as football is what we could have. And that kind

709
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 1: of goes the same for me personally. I feel like

710
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,959
Speaker 1: the you know, first year in Buffalo, UM, things were

711
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 1: kind of going my way. The first half of the season,

712
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 1: the second half kind of died out. The same thing

713
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: last season. I was, um, I was. I don't want

714
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: to say I was, you know, super frustrated or anything,

715
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 1: but I was kind of just uh, um, not at

716
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 1: ease that, you know, the same situations. Um, the first

717
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: season in Buffalo, you know, those those situations were happening,

718
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 1: you know, whether if it was the interceptions or the

719
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: big plays and whatnot. But um, you know, just just

720
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: speaking to my coaches, you know, they basically just told

721
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: me just be patient. Just uh, you know, every season

722
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 1: is not gonna be like that first one, where you know,

723
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 1: tips and overthrows are gonna land in your hands and

724
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you just gotta you gotta

725
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,439
Speaker 1: be patient. And um. Yeah, that's why I'm just working,

726
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 1: working a lot more of this offseason, just getting my

727
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 1: body right and trying to put on some weight so

728
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 1: that you know, you could think, can withstand this whole

729
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: season and I can be even better going going to

730
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,800
Speaker 1: Buffalo in my third season there. Yeah, I want to

731
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 1: ask you too. You're you're a safety and you're you're

732
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 1: in the Pro Bowl in twenty seventeen. You're accepted as

733
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: one of the you know, the stalwarts of a really

734
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: good defense. You look around the league and you see

735
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: guys like Eric Weddle and Landon Collins being released from

736
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: their teams. Are really good players. Landon Collins a young player.

737
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: What do you make of this safety market that's out

738
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,360
Speaker 1: there right now, these guys being kicked to the curb

739
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: And is it a trend or what have you heard

740
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,399
Speaker 1: about that? Um? I don't know if it's a try.

741
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 1: I just think every you know, throughout the time, different

742
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:54,279
Speaker 1: positions get undervalued. Um. You know, there's been plenty of

743
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: times where you know, I can feel like the running

744
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 1: back position has good undervalued. You know, people just want

745
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: to go young and get you know, multiple backs and

746
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: do it that way rather than paying you know, a

747
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 1: guy twelve million, ten million dollars a year just to

748
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: you know, go out there and do what he does.

749
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:10,800
Speaker 1: So I think that has some part in it. You know,

750
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 1: every position is is kind of different, but I mean

751
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,800
Speaker 1: on our defense, the safety is huge. Um. You know,

752
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: we have Sean McDermot that used to be a safety

753
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,359
Speaker 1: coach and play tasting in the past, but he knows

754
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 1: how important it is to be a safety. Just the

755
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: calls and getting everybody lined up and doing all that.

756
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:31,800
Speaker 1: So on our defense and safety is very, very valued.

757
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: I can't necessarily speak for for anybody else's teams. Yeah

758
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: you don't. I think you're out of something there, Mike.

759
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 1: And we've been talking about this and thinking about this

760
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: for a couple of days now, and it seems to

761
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 1: me everybody, almost not everybody, but many teams have kind

762
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 1: of a different vision of what they want their safety

763
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:47,919
Speaker 1: to be. It depending on what kind of defense are playing,

764
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: and maybe that accounts for, you know, the different value

765
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: the teams have on safeties. Huh. So I think in

766
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,279
Speaker 1: our defense, you know, they we ask us, you know,

767
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: they ask us to always get the defensive lined up.

768
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 1: Number one, Number two, um, nothing gets over top of

769
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 1: our heads. And number three, you know, just tight, tight

770
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: coverage on the tight end receivers, whatever it may be.

771
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: And I think that, Um, that's what you know, me

772
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 1: and Paul have been able to do the last couple

773
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 1: of years is just you know, being positioned to make

774
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: plays and when the plays come our way, you gotta

775
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: make them. And you know you've you've seen us and

776
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: make a lot of plays in the last couple of years,

777
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 1: and that's why we're willing willing go out there and

778
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 1: play for a guy, right, Um, Sean McDermott and and

779
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: John Brother and Bobby Battis because they know how it

780
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:29,600
Speaker 1: is to play safety on this defense. What's it gonna

781
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: take for you guys on your side of the football,

782
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 1: the Bill's defense to take a step forward. I know

783
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: you were number two overall in the league, but what

784
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,320
Speaker 1: do you got to do to keep that going and

785
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: even to build on it? I think consistency, Um, you know, Uh,

786
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: first year in Buffalo, we we had you know, three

787
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 1: four games stress when we was getting blown out and

788
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: we couldn't stop and run at all. Last year was

789
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: kind of um was better, but we still had some

790
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 1: some respenses, which I know you're gonna have during the season.

791
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: It's a long season, playing a bunch of different variety

792
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 1: of teams. Um, you know it's the NFL that's going

793
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: to go bad. But just being consistent week in and

794
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: week out. And I think that you know, our practice,

795
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: our practice habits have got a lot better over the

796
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: last couple of years. And you know that's credit to

797
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 1: to Sean McDermott. So I think we're heading in the

798
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: right direction. We're gonna try to, you know, um, take

799
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 1: big steps this season and try to be that number

800
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 1: one defensive league. Hey, Mike, UM, I wonder if you've

801
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: thought about this it all. You know, Kyle Williams gone

802
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: there would seemingly be like a leadership boyd to a

803
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:27,880
Speaker 1: certain extent on the defensive side of the ball. At

804
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: age twenty seven, um be twenty eight later this year.

805
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: Do you think that maybe that's a role for you

806
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 1: to play with the Buffalo Bill's defense, to be a leader,

807
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:39,319
Speaker 1: vocal or otherwise. Um. You know, I've always I've always

808
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: consider myself a leader. UM, and I feel like I

809
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: don't need to try to be somebody. Obviously, no one

810
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:48,760
Speaker 1: can so Kyle Kyle of role. Um that is doesn't

811
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:50,360
Speaker 1: nearly impossible, is what he was able to do for

812
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 1: the community and for our football team. But um, beyond that,

813
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just gonna try to go out there

814
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: and just be the leader that I am and and

815
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 1: if they see fit, they see fit. Shouldn't be myself. Well,

816
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 1: it's about five or six weeks we'll have many of

817
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: you players back up here and not your park getting

818
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 1: ready for the offseason workouts. Here Mike, and thank you

819
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 1: for spending a few minutes with us here today. We

820
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 1: appreciate it. We'll see you in a little while, of course,

821
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 1: thank you for having Thank you MIKEA. Hyde. And don't

822
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,800
Speaker 1: forget his charity softball game coming up June second this

823
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: year to benefit the Imagine for Youth Foundation. Micah Hyde

824
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: putting on a charity softball game involving the Buffalo Bills

825
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 1: downtown Buffalo, the Bison's Park sailing Field. We'll hear more

826
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 1: about that obviously, as as the weeks move along. We

827
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: thank Mike ever joining us on the Subway Fresh Take

828
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: hotline presented by Subway Restaurants, probably locally owned. You know

829
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 1: what ioporous about that? June second. It's a Sunday, June second, Right,

830
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 1: that's what it said. Yeah, June second, Sunday. That is

831
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: the day before Jim Kelly's golf tournament. So there'll be

832
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: a lot of guys in town as well. Yeah, I

833
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: might make that, that might make that quite the deal. Yeah,

834
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 1: some of those guys show up, get a bunch of

835
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: Hall of famers going in there, hurting themselves, trying to swim.

836
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 1: Where do I sign up to? Where do I get?

837
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 1: Where do I sign up for? That. Yeah, thanks Michel,

838
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 1: Thanks for to Mica for joining us. Steve and I

839
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 1: coming back. Question of the day, what's the best way

840
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: for the Bills to get better in twenty nineteen free

841
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 1: agency or the draft? Pretty simple? Give us a call

842
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:17,880
Speaker 1: eight oh three, five fifty and toll free one eight

843
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. We're coming back

844
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: One Bills Live from One Bills Drive and this is

845
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live from

846
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. I'm John Murphy's he tasker alongside here

847
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Speaker 1: till three o'clock today. Good discussion with Micah Hyde his um.

848
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Speaker 1: I was a bit surprised about his reasons for coming

849
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: to Buffalo because we hadn't thought of Yeah, like nobody

850
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: else watching, is what he said, right, He wasn't getting

851
00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 1: interest for anybody. He was not happy with how he

852
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 1: was treated in Green Bay, right, and he wanted and

853
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: the Bills were the team that wanted him the most,

854
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 1: and it made him he goes and that was important

855
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Speaker 1: to him. Yeah, And I think he indicated that he

856
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Speaker 1: wasn't getting a lot of interest elsewhere either, right, Yeah,

857
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Speaker 1: and yeah, certainly the money was there, and I'm sure

858
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Speaker 1: he could have signed for less money somewhere else or

859
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Speaker 1: more money I don't know, the same money somewhere else.

860
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Speaker 1: But he said, there's no question what he remembers about

861
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Speaker 1: it is the fact that Buffalo really rolled out the

862
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Speaker 1: red carpet for him. And I remember when they signed him,

863
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: and even privately McDermott would tell you and me and

864
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Speaker 1: everybody around and said, yeah, he was our guy. Like

865
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Speaker 1: that guy he was. He was one of our important

866
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Speaker 1: guys that we wanted to get and they got him,

867
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Speaker 1: you know, and this day and age got him at

868
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Speaker 1: a value for what he's done for the club. So it's, uh, yeah,

869
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Speaker 1: you talked about a free agent that's made a difference

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Speaker 1: and been everything you'd hoped he'd be in more. Micah

871
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Speaker 1: Hides got to fit that, Yeah, wouldn't it be. I

872
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Speaker 1: mean that's what you want him to do. Now. The

873
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Speaker 1: Bill with free agents, they have a couple. I'm sure

874
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Speaker 1: they do have a couple of guys in mind that

875
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Speaker 1: they'd like to get on the roster quickly. They might

876
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Speaker 1: not even wait till next week. Right as we told you,

877
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: Jason lock On Forest says the Bills are going to

878
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: pursue offensive tackle Darryl Williams, who was an interesting prospect,

879
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 1: multiple knee injuries last year, including a dislocated kneecap, and

880
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: during MCL Bills with no a bottom playing in Carolina, right,

881
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 1: Brandom being especially with no bottom whatever? Were you? A

882
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Speaker 1: lot of people, and I mean me to a certain extent,

883
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: are getting are a little uncomfortable with how many Carolina

884
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 1: connections there are between the Bills, and certainly not all

885
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:34,720
Speaker 1: of them have been great, most notably the big receiver

886
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:38,439
Speaker 1: that I can't think who came last year. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

887
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Speaker 1: the big receiver that oh yeah, Calvin Benjamin. I couldn't

888
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Speaker 1: think of Calvin Benjamin's name for crying out loud. Yeah,

889
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 1: I mean, all the connection. But the point point is

890
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:50,839
Speaker 1: trying to make is that we all see that Sean

891
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 1: McDermott was a head coach that came to Buffalo from Carolina.

892
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Speaker 1: Brandon Bean was an assistant general manager who is now

893
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 1: the general manager of the Buffalo Bills, and they they

894
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Speaker 1: hired On Castillo, the offensive line coach from the Carolina Panthers.

895
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Speaker 1: They hired Dan Morgan who was from Carolina. Wasn't he

896
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Speaker 1: from Carolina? Okay? Right? He played Fort Carolina he played

897
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Speaker 1: in Carolina, So then then they've gotten Now they've got

898
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 1: another Calvin Benjamin came up from Carolina. Now they've got

899
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Speaker 1: another offensive tackle they're gonna bring up Carolina. That makes

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Speaker 1: a lot of people a little bit uncomfortable. I know

901
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Speaker 1: this too. Coaches do tend to gravitate towards things they know.

902
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 1: Players they know at least they know what they've gotten,

903
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,400
Speaker 1: what they can ask the guy to do. The unknown

904
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Speaker 1: is what scares coaches. They don't know about that guy. Guy.

905
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Speaker 1: I think he's okay, but I don't know. So they

906
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:39,879
Speaker 1: tend to shy away from players like that, and that's

907
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 1: why you see a lot of connections like that. But

908
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Speaker 1: I think some people even in this, you know, he

909
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Speaker 1: may be a really good offensive tackle who just had

910
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 1: a bad injury year. But I think it makes some

911
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 1: people uncomfortable. I don't know if it's a good thing

912
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 1: or bad thing. I think every player is different, every

913
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: coach is different, every executive is different, even if they

914
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Speaker 1: do come from the same source of late, which is

915
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 1: for the Bills, it's the Carolina Panthers. So I don't

916
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:06,359
Speaker 1: know what are your thoughts. Do you have any thoughts

917
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 1: about that? Teams usually play. Coaches and GM's usually go

918
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 1: where the guys are comfortable with. They know, Yeah, they will.

919
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:15,359
Speaker 1: They will know Darryl Williams, a former fourth round pick

920
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:19,440
Speaker 1: Carolina or was it two thy sixteen? I believe fifteen

921
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Speaker 1: fourth round pick. They will know him. They will know

922
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Speaker 1: him as a pretty good performer when he was healthy.

923
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 1: So why wouldn't they be comfortable with him? Who else

924
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 1: are they going to be interested? He is a unrestricted

925
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:30,320
Speaker 1: free agent and will hit the market. They would appear

926
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Speaker 1: next Wednesday, but maybe they start talking to him on Monday.

927
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 1: That's what Jason lack on Forest says. I don't think

928
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 1: I have a much a problem with it as some

929
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:38,800
Speaker 1: people do, because I know this, when things have not

930
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 1: gone well, they've they've corrected the mistake. And one Castillo

931
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 1: is no longer a coach, Calvin Benjamin's no longer a

932
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 1: player who was a fast receiver they brought They brought

933
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Speaker 1: in two years ago. You didn't last Carolina. Guys, they don't.

934
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Speaker 1: They don't hang in there if a guy's not going

935
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Speaker 1: to do it. So I think that's as important as anything.

936
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Speaker 1: They'll give the guy a chance, no question, but they

937
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Speaker 1: don't throw good money after bad. Let's take a call

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Speaker 1: here from Dominic in Rochester. Hello Dominic, welcome to the show. Yeah, Hey,

939
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 1: how you doing okay? Well? All right, Yeah, so I

940
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: was calling, Um, I just wanted to touch on our

941
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,360
Speaker 1: all this cast station we got. You know, there's so

942
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 1: many offensive linemen out there, some some pretty good ones

943
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:22,880
Speaker 1: that we can that we can get in, you know,

944
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 1: for Josh Allen, and if we protect Josh Allen, I

945
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: feel like he has a ton of potential, you know,

946
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 1: and then to make our wide receivers better because he

947
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,239
Speaker 1: has more time to get them open. So if we

948
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Speaker 1: can hit on some couple of linement this year, I

949
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 1: think that's the key to get better in two thousand nineteen.

950
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:40,359
Speaker 1: You think it's no matter what it takes. You put

951
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 1: offensive linemen above wide receiver, above tight end, above all

952
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 1: of that other stuff. I do. I do because if

953
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 1: you think about it, you know, if the offensive line

954
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: blocks better, Um, the receivers got more time to get open,

955
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: it gives Josh Allen more time in the pocket, and

956
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 1: you know, other positions get better through offensive line. I

957
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:03,439
Speaker 1: think it all starts through the offensive line. I really

958
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: like Matt Paradise and I feel like if we get him.

959
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 1: That would be a huge upgrade. And I feel like

960
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: the offensive line starts with the center. Yeah, well, I

961
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Speaker 1: agree with you a lot of that, Dominic. I like

962
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: where you're coming from, and I agree with it. I

963
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: think it's there's so many guys up there that you

964
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: you know, you want upgrade, or at least you want

965
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 1: to solidify. I think that's got to be your number one,

966
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,320
Speaker 1: your number one problem, and I think you can't forget

967
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:30,359
Speaker 1: they got sabotaged last year about this time on their

968
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 1: offensive line. They lost forty percent of the starting offensive

969
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 1: line totally out of the blue, Eric would due to

970
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 1: injuries and Richie Incognito doing due to an unexpected retirement.

971
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:42,919
Speaker 1: So they got gutted last year and it was something

972
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 1: they couldn't prepare for. They couldn't like line guys up

973
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: and start, you know, making trades or doing any of

974
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 1: this other stuff until after the fact, so that I

975
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:56,359
Speaker 1: think sabotage the entire season, and we couldn't tell at

976
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: that point, but it's something they couldn't prepare to compense

977
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Speaker 1: eight four. So I agree with you, Dominic. I think

978
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 1: that's where they should start. I think it should be

979
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 1: their number one priority. Either by the draft or by

980
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:09,360
Speaker 1: free agency. But that's step one for me, all right.

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Speaker 1: Coming up in the next hour, Dan Orlovsky from ESPM.

982
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: We'll do some quarterback talk and a lot of other

983
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: things with him. He'll join us in the next hour.

984
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Speaker 1: Come on back. One Bill's Live presented by Kalada Health

985
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:33,280
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. And this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello,

986
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio Network. Sports Update update from One Bill's Drive.

987
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:41,799
Speaker 1: The Bills gearing up for free agency. It opens next week.

988
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:46,320
Speaker 1: Legal tampering starts Monday, and signing period starts Wednesday. According

989
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 1: to a report and CBS Sports, the Bills are going

990
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 1: to pursue a free agent offensive tackle from the Carolina Panthers,

991
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:54,399
Speaker 1: Darryl Williams. Jason lock On four of CBS Sports says

992
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 1: the Bills and the Giants will pursue Darryl Williams. Both

993
00:46:57,560 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 1: then coach Sean McDermot and Bill GM Brandon Bean were

994
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 1: in Carolina for darrow Williams first couple of seasons. He

995
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:05,800
Speaker 1: had a breakout year in twenty seventeen, but suffered multiple

996
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 1: knee injuries last year, including a dislocated kneecap and tour

997
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: in NCL. He's only twenty six year old. When healthy,

998
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 1: he's considered a pretty good offensive lineman. Daryl Williams reportedly

999
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: is on the Bill's target list for free agents when

1000
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: free agency opens next week. Multiple teams have inquired about

1001
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:26,720
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals quarterback Josh R. Rosen's trade availability. That happened

1002
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 1: at the NFL scouting combine last week. That's what ESPN's

1003
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,399
Speaker 1: Adam Schefter says. The Cardinals, however, did not give those

1004
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 1: teams any indication they are willing to move on from

1005
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: Rosen at this time. It doesn't mean the Cardinals won't

1006
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 1: wind up shopping Rosen eventually, but they have not to date.

1007
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:42,279
Speaker 1: Cardinals sold the number one overall picking the draft. They

1008
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 1: made connected to Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray, which leads to

1009
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:49,280
Speaker 1: speculation in Rosen might be traded away buffal Those Savers

1010
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 1: back in action tonight, concluding their regular season series with

1011
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 1: the Chicago Blackhawks. They're in Chicago at the United Center

1012
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:58,280
Speaker 1: to play tonight eight thirty puck drop in Chicago. Jason

1013
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 1: Commonville has had success against the Hawks in recent games,

1014
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 1: ten points in his last ten games against Chicago, nine

1015
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 1: points in twelve career visits to Chicago college basketball. The

1016
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Speaker 1: Purple Eagles of Niagara began playing the Metro Atlantic Athletic

1017
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 1: Conference Tournament tonight. They're in Albany to play at nine

1018
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 1: o'clock tonight against Monmouth. The Eagles finished their regular season

1019
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,799
Speaker 1: as the eleventh seed in the twenty nineteen MAC Championships.

1020
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,880
Speaker 1: They beat Monmouth on January twenty six, seventy five to

1021
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 1: forty eight. That's who they played tonight. Niagara and Monmouth

1022
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:30,760
Speaker 1: in the MAC Tournament and Lebron James needed to score

1023
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 1: thirteen last night to pass Michael Jordan for fourth place

1024
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: on the NBA's all time scoring list. He did it

1025
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:38,959
Speaker 1: left handed lamp in the second quarter. Lebron now fourth place.

1026
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan is fifth place. Can you name the top

1027
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:45,800
Speaker 1: three scorer Steve Tasker in NBA history? I know Kareem

1028
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:50,839
Speaker 1: Abdul Jabbar being number one, and Kobe he's number three,

1029
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:57,280
Speaker 1: Lebron heye's number four and the one that always gets away.

1030
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 1: And you're right, Karl Malone, Yeah, that's just longevity, right,

1031
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:04,280
Speaker 1: Carmelo Well, I mean it's a good player, a longevity

1032
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 1: plus being a pretty good player. He's a good player,

1033
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:09,880
Speaker 1: and having John Stockton is your teammate. Yeah, female who

1034
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:13,480
Speaker 1: doesn't want to score. Yeah, you have my points too here. Yeah,

1035
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: that's good, you did well with it. Hey, Yeah, dani

1036
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Speaker 1: Or Lass is going to join us later on this hour,

1037
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Speaker 1: former NFL quarterback, longtime NFL quarterback, now analysts for ESBM.

1038
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 1: We're looking forward to talking with him. Want to hear

1039
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 1: from you though. We got phone lines open and all

1040
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: kinds of tweets to read for our Twitter poll today.

1041
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 1: And it's a good question. It's a simple question, and

1042
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,000
Speaker 1: we're getting a ton of response on this. Let me

1043
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 1: reiterate the question on Twitter today our topic of the day.

1044
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: Here are the Bills on the eve of personnel season

1045
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 1: in the NFL. We want to know from you what's

1046
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:43,920
Speaker 1: the best way for them to get better in twenty nineteen.

1047
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 1: What's the best way for the Buffalo Bills to get

1048
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 1: better in twenty nineteen. We get seven hundred sixty five

1049
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:52,239
Speaker 1: responses so far on Twitter. Fifty two percent of you

1050
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 1: say the best way to get better this year is

1051
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:56,840
Speaker 1: to sign key free agents. Forty eight percent say the

1052
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: best way is to draft. Well, they're both essential and

1053
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 1: we're talking about twenty nineteen. But yeah, we want to

1054
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 1: get your response to that, let's take one call on

1055
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: this topic, Jim and Lakeview. Go ahead, Jim, you're on

1056
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 1: the air. Yeah, John. I look at a lot of

1057
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:13,960
Speaker 1: the mock drafts and I see a lot of projection

1058
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 1: of the Bills taking a wide receiver with their number

1059
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 1: one pick. And I have two things. One. The first

1060
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 1: thing is why they should not, and the second thing

1061
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:26,800
Speaker 1: is why they will not. Okay, let's hear him. Okay,

1062
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 1: why they should not is, you know, Robert Foster showed

1063
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 1: a lot of potential. I think he's gonna be a

1064
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 1: great receiver, but he's very young. I think the guy

1065
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 1: we got from the CFL, Duke Williams, is going to

1066
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 1: turn a lot of heads and be productive, but he's

1067
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 1: very young. What we really need is a veteran receiver

1068
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: to come in and be productive, and that's through the

1069
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:48,120
Speaker 1: free agent market. We need a veteran to show these

1070
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:52,320
Speaker 1: guys and to be a reliable target. You know, there's

1071
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with taking a receiver a second, third, fourth row,

1072
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:56,879
Speaker 1: but that numbers the other. The other thing is why

1073
00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:00,320
Speaker 1: I'm sure the Bills will not believe the Bills Grass

1074
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 1: really evaluates or treasures wide receivers that highly and I

1075
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 1: say that because regardless of what they say, you can

1076
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 1: always back on somebody's experience in the NFL. And with

1077
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:18,160
Speaker 1: McDermott and being their greatest, most successful year was when

1078
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 1: they went fourteen and two and they went to the

1079
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. They had no wide receivers on that team.

1080
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 1: Their top receiver that year was Calvin Benjamin. He got

1081
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:27,880
Speaker 1: hurt in preseason. He was out. If you look at

1082
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,520
Speaker 1: the roster wide receivers they had in that Super Bowl year,

1083
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 1: those were all B receivers. And so that that thought

1084
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:37,440
Speaker 1: process is going to be, Hey, we can be successful.

1085
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:40,840
Speaker 1: We went to the Super Bowl out a number one receiver.

1086
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:43,879
Speaker 1: We don't need to be spending the number nine pick

1087
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: on a wide receiver. It's not necessary and we really

1088
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 1: need a veteran And that's that's kind of why I

1089
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 1: think they won and they well, let's well thought out, Jim.

1090
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call that was you're right. I mean,

1091
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:58,400
Speaker 1: they do come from a background of a team that

1092
00:51:58,440 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl, had a chance to win

1093
00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:03,759
Speaker 1: US Super Bowl with also rans playing wide receiver, and

1094
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:06,759
Speaker 1: you know a guy who's you know, the atomic bomb

1095
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 1: playing quarterback, which is kind of the formula that Josh

1096
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,400
Speaker 1: Allen kind of lends himself towards he's the best runner. Now.

1097
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 1: You know, he's the leading rusher on the team. He's

1098
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:17,520
Speaker 1: got the big arm, he's got the escapability, He's the

1099
00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 1: one that creates off the page. And all you really

1100
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:21,920
Speaker 1: need to do is run the football pretty well and

1101
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 1: play good defense, and you got a Super Bowl contender.

1102
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:26,320
Speaker 1: That could be a formula the Bills are going to.

1103
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 1: I don't think it means like you do. I'm not

1104
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:30,879
Speaker 1: so sold that they're going to pass on a really

1105
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:34,360
Speaker 1: good player at wide receiver because their formula is a

1106
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:36,279
Speaker 1: different one. I think they're gonna take the best guy there,

1107
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 1: and if it's a wide out, they'll take him. I

1108
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,439
Speaker 1: was looking over just now the receivers on Carolina's super

1109
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 1: Bowl team. Jericho Cotry, Okay, not great, Jevin Funches available now.

1110
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, Ted Ginn Jr. Those are

1111
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,839
Speaker 1: the three top receivers that year. You're right about that, Jim,

1112
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:54,080
Speaker 1: But I'm wondering as a receiver in this year's free

1113
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:56,320
Speaker 1: agent class that you think the Bills should be interested

1114
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 1: in pursuing. Well, yeah, and I would, you know, I

1115
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 1: would take any solid veteran, even a gold and taste

1116
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:05,320
Speaker 1: who can be productive for a year or two and

1117
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:09,040
Speaker 1: shephard and mentor these young receivers. You know, I think

1118
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 1: the foster is going to be a great receiver. Same

1119
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:13,080
Speaker 1: thing with a guy from the CFL. But you know,

1120
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:16,320
Speaker 1: you need veteran leadership and somebody that's been there and

1121
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: done that. It's been productive in the NFL for our

1122
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 1: quarterback and let the young guys, let leng guys flourish.

1123
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 1: But let's get a veteran in there who we know

1124
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:28,800
Speaker 1: has proven it in the NFL and as productive and

1125
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 1: as a good mentor for the young promising wide receiver

1126
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: corps that we have. Interesting point, Jim, I'm looking over

1127
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: the list of free agent wide receivers. Time Rail Williams

1128
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 1: of the Chargers has been linked to Buffalo. I just

1129
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 1: mentioned Funchs. I've been a fan of John Brown, who

1130
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:45,880
Speaker 1: just wrapped up one season in Baltimore. Randall Cobb might

1131
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 1: be a little bit too much of a veteran, but

1132
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: that's an interesting point. I mean, you're right, you go

1133
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 1: back and look at the track record and kind of

1134
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 1: take your clues from that. But gee, I still think

1135
00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 1: they need a number one receiver, whether it's draft or

1136
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 1: free agency number one guy, an unquestioned number one guy,

1137
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 1: which is why I'm not sure that Golden Tate even

1138
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 1: fulfills that role, Steve, but we'll see. You might be right. Well,

1139
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:09,959
Speaker 1: you're looking at the top of the list, the guys

1140
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 1: who made the most money last year who are going

1141
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:13,959
Speaker 1: to be free agents, and you're talking about name type

1142
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:17,720
Speaker 1: guys are like Damarius Thomas, Randall Cobb, Dante Moncrief, Pierre Garson,

1143
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:23,400
Speaker 1: Michael Crabtree, Tavon Austin, Golden Tate, Ryan Grant from Indianapolis,

1144
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:28,600
Speaker 1: John Brown, Germaine Curse, Terrence Williams, Cordarell Patterson, Kevin White.

1145
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:31,959
Speaker 1: Now now you're down to Mike Wallace. All of these guys.

1146
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:33,800
Speaker 1: The youngest one out of all the guys I just

1147
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 1: name is twenty seven, and that's a guy named Kevin

1148
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:38,839
Speaker 1: White from Chicago. Everybody else is at least twenty eight,

1149
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:42,000
Speaker 1: and there's old as thirty three. All those guys are

1150
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:45,839
Speaker 1: right around thirty years old. So there's good or bad.

1151
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 1: I think it's bad because Jim was looking for a

1152
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 1: veteran leadership. I get that. I get it. At Golden

1153
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: Tate's thirty one and he Philadelphia rented him at the

1154
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:58,759
Speaker 1: end of the season. He's gonna be free agent. He

1155
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:00,840
Speaker 1: kind of disappeared for me, if you want to know

1156
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:02,959
Speaker 1: the truth, he didn't. And although it's just a half season,

1157
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 1: I don't know how hard it is to acclimate to

1158
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 1: Phillies offensive scheme, but for a veteran, you'd think it'd

1159
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:12,759
Speaker 1: be easier. I don't think he did much for them.

1160
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 1: I agree, it doesn't do much for me. Right, Hey,

1161
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 1: what's the best way for the Bills to get better

1162
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. Let's go to the tweet sheet and

1163
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 1: find out from Bills and Mets fan. He says, Hey,

1164
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 1: this is the horse race that Steve's been looking for.

1165
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 1: It is pretty close my horse draft. Well, it's behind now,

1166
00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:30,359
Speaker 1: but we'll charge up the boards as April draws clear

1167
00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:33,480
Speaker 1: build through the draft, supplement through free agency. I think

1168
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 1: that's kind of the I think that's the template that

1169
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:38,960
Speaker 1: everybody wants to do. But again, the Bill's activity over

1170
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:42,320
Speaker 1: the last week or so in being linked to potential

1171
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:45,200
Speaker 1: free agents and street guys now leads me to believe

1172
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 1: that this free agency, with their money, this free agency

1173
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:49,360
Speaker 1: may be more important than it has been for a

1174
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:51,040
Speaker 1: couple of yeah, and there's some people on the tweet

1175
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 1: sheet that agree with you. Nick says the best way

1176
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 1: to get better now has to be key free agents.

1177
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 1: The draft picks will contribute it, but it may take time.

1178
00:55:57,320 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 1: Grab the experienced offensive line to protect Josh Allen now,

1179
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:03,439
Speaker 1: that in itself will help improve in the upcoming season.

1180
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 1: Get weapons, let the games begin, Let's go Buffalo. I

1181
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 1: mean that's I think. I think when you look at

1182
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:11,400
Speaker 1: it and he put it in and he read the

1183
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 1: question and the poll for what it is in twenty nineteen,

1184
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 1: I think the experience of free agents are what puts

1185
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:20,439
Speaker 1: them at the front by only four percent fifty percent.

1186
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:23,000
Speaker 1: It's kind of a coin flip because I think we

1187
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:26,440
Speaker 1: have seen draft picks here in Buffalo contribute in the

1188
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 1: past in their year one Tardavious White most recently. I

1189
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 1: know that they're you know, Josh Allen, Toremaine Edmonds. I mean,

1190
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:40,760
Speaker 1: there's been some guys that have done it pretty quickly.

1191
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:43,279
Speaker 1: And I don't think and let's face it, as many

1192
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:46,879
Speaker 1: holes as the Bills have, they're on the offensive side

1193
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:49,439
Speaker 1: of the ball. The defense. While they lack some depth

1194
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 1: at defensive line because of the departure of Kyle Williams.

1195
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:55,919
Speaker 1: You gotta think they're gonna be pretty good again, maybe

1196
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:58,759
Speaker 1: even better if Trent Murphy can come back and play

1197
00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 1: better and be healthy year from the from the get go,

1198
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 1: and practice better and be a force like they thought

1199
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:06,719
Speaker 1: he was going to be. Uh. Shack Lawson on a

1200
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 1: one year prove it deal to get to free agency

1201
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:12,239
Speaker 1: for him is going to be motivated to play extremely well.

1202
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 1: That defense is going to be good. So from years

1203
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:17,400
Speaker 1: past to this year, comparatively to this year, the Bills

1204
00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 1: have fewer holes to fill than ever before. Despite the

1205
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 1: fact that you think they may be gaping holes. Uh,

1206
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 1: there's not as many of them as there has been

1207
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:29,160
Speaker 1: in the past, at least holes with question marks surrounding them.

1208
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 1: And I think so. I think there's no question. You

1209
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 1: think they got to be better this year year. And

1210
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 1: if they can fix you can get somebody to help

1211
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 1: in the draft, it's gonna be able to do it.

1212
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:43,800
Speaker 1: Particularly I think on the offensive line he's gonna have

1213
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 1: He's gonna have whoever they drafted offensive line is gonna

1214
00:57:46,520 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 1: have a little experience around him, so they're gonna help

1215
00:57:49,360 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 1: him and prop him up mentally. You know, I think

1216
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 1: he can get some help in the in the draft

1217
00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:58,000
Speaker 1: this year. Hey, our last caller, Jim made a point

1218
00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:01,440
Speaker 1: about um drafts and who's linked with the Bills on

1219
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:04,000
Speaker 1: all the receivers being linked to the Bills. Um, did

1220
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:05,720
Speaker 1: we talk about We didn't talk about this yesterday. We

1221
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 1: were going to on Buffalo Bills dot com. Every week

1222
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:11,360
Speaker 1: they kind of put together a mock draft. Watch what

1223
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 1: are the mock draft saying about the Bills? National media

1224
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:17,680
Speaker 1: making their predictions for the Bills in the twenty nineteen draft,

1225
00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 1: and if you look at that list, it's pretty amazing.

1226
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah says the Bills at number nine will pick

1227
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf, receiver Mississippi. Vinny Eyer Sporting News It's got

1228
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:31,560
Speaker 1: dk Metcalf Mississippi says the Bills could use the best

1229
00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:33,960
Speaker 1: wide out in the class to help Josh Allen. Who

1230
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 1: wants to argue with that. Tom Fournelle CBS Sports his

1231
00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:43,280
Speaker 1: mock draft Bills, DK Metcalf and some of them some

1232
00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: of the reasoning they put there. Do you do you

1233
00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:47,840
Speaker 1: do when you what do you do when you invested

1234
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 1: in the franchise quarterback who can throw the ball a

1235
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:52,960
Speaker 1: mile but struggles with underneath stuff? Why you get him

1236
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 1: a wide receiver were can run a mile even if

1237
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 1: he's not the most polished route runner or agile athlete

1238
00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:02,680
Speaker 1: out there. DK Metcalf, Dan Kadar of sp Nation, He's

1239
00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:05,120
Speaker 1: got DK Metcalf as the Bill's first pick. I mean

1240
00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 1: all these mock drafts basically go in the same place. Yea,

1241
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 1: Bleacher Report, Joe Tanzy DK Metcalf, Draft Network, Kyle Krabs Metcalf,

1242
00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:16,640
Speaker 1: Lula ruf Off, Lucas Oil on Saturday, CBS Sports, Ryan

1243
00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:20,040
Speaker 1: Wilson Metcalf so one two three, nine out of ten,

1244
00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:23,320
Speaker 1: nine out of ten. One Matt Miller Bleacher Report says

1245
00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:25,760
Speaker 1: his mock draft has the Bills going with offensive linean

1246
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 1: Juwan Taylor from Florida nine out of ten say Metcalf.

1247
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I think, look, that'll change. Those mock drafts

1248
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 1: will always change. They don't mean anything. We know that.

1249
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 1: I think that what you're looking at is they're matching

1250
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:41,240
Speaker 1: the Bill's need with about where it is viewed metcalf

1251
00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 1: value would be somewhere in the first ten, at the

1252
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:45,520
Speaker 1: end of the top ten in the draft, something like that.

1253
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 1: I think that's all this signify. Steve. I don't think

1254
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:50,439
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a lock. The Bills are gonna

1255
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 1: draft DK Metcalf. It's it's a possibility for sure, But

1256
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a lock. Despite nine out of

1257
00:59:55,320 --> 00:59:58,080
Speaker 1: these ten mock drafts saying that he's their guy, nothing's

1258
00:59:58,080 --> 01:00:01,120
Speaker 1: a lock. Nothing, absolutely nothing. Well, we'll see. I mean,

1259
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 1: he had a great camp and I and he's on

1260
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:06,680
Speaker 1: the he's on the you know, shortlist of every analyst

1261
01:00:06,760 --> 01:00:09,320
Speaker 1: that's out there. Um, and then they look down the

1262
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:12,000
Speaker 1: list at the team who needs a wide receiver worse

1263
01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: or the most or would benefit the most by having

1264
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:17,520
Speaker 1: a guy of that caliber, and the Bills go right

1265
01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:21,400
Speaker 1: to the top of that list. And and that's that's

1266
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 1: basically as much research as you need to do. Yeah

1267
01:00:24,040 --> 01:00:26,840
Speaker 1: for your first mock draft and uh or your fifth

1268
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:29,080
Speaker 1: or fourth mock draft, whichever whichever this one is. This

1269
01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:32,760
Speaker 1: is the first post post combine mock draft, right, this

1270
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: was done a couple of days ago, So, um, it's

1271
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:39,160
Speaker 1: gonna be. It's gonna evolve, no question, and they're gonna

1272
01:00:39,160 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 1: start to get inklings from other teams about what they

1273
01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 1: really think about these guys, and other position groups will

1274
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:49,400
Speaker 1: dictate what guys get taken ahead of the Buffalo Bills,

1275
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:52,520
Speaker 1: and which guys drop to the Buffalo Bills. If there's

1276
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:55,240
Speaker 1: a more elite player at another position that the Bills

1277
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:57,960
Speaker 1: might need just as much, that may change the way

1278
01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 1: they feel about the Bills. Taken Dk that calf, But hey,

1279
01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:04,400
Speaker 1: that's as good a guess right now as any And

1280
01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:06,440
Speaker 1: nine out of ten guys made the exact same one.

1281
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:08,320
Speaker 1: What's the best way for the Bills to get better?

1282
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:12,840
Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen, let's discuss Steve from Alabama. Hello Steve, Alabama,

1283
01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:16,560
Speaker 1: New York, Alabama, Alabama, Steve and goes in Alabama, your

1284
01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:18,840
Speaker 1: buddy from the Senior Bowl. Oh yeah, how you doing, Steve.

1285
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:21,160
Speaker 1: Good to see, good to hear from you. Yeah, same here,

1286
01:01:21,200 --> 01:01:24,200
Speaker 1: Good to talk to you guys. I'm hoping we hit

1287
01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:26,680
Speaker 1: a home run with Duke Williams the CFL. He was

1288
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:30,160
Speaker 1: a really highly talented player at album before he had

1289
01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 1: the behavioral issues. And also I know he's a big

1290
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:35,320
Speaker 1: kid as well, so I'm hoping that that'll work out.

1291
01:01:36,240 --> 01:01:39,000
Speaker 1: The question I had is, let's just say, for instance,

1292
01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:41,600
Speaker 1: you know we kind of see this shift. I mean, obviously,

1293
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:45,360
Speaker 1: offensive line and receiver seemed to be the two big needs,

1294
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:49,440
Speaker 1: and let's just say, for instance, at nine, you had

1295
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:52,680
Speaker 1: a guy that dropped like a probably wanting of Josh

1296
01:01:52,760 --> 01:01:56,480
Speaker 1: Allen from Kentucky or one of the real elite defensive lineman.

1297
01:01:56,760 --> 01:01:59,400
Speaker 1: Let's say they dropped to you at nine. Of course

1298
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:03,240
Speaker 1: you have them rated higher on your board. Just below that,

1299
01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:06,680
Speaker 1: maybe a couple of slots, you have a receiver or

1300
01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:11,960
Speaker 1: offensive line. At what point does that best player available

1301
01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 1: versus the obvious need and where do you draw the

1302
01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:18,640
Speaker 1: line on that? Yeah, that's that's the sixty four dollar question, Steve,

1303
01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:22,600
Speaker 1: and you you articulated extremely well. You get a guy

1304
01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:25,880
Speaker 1: who is really really good at a position you kind

1305
01:02:25,920 --> 01:02:28,480
Speaker 1: of need somebody, and everybody would like to have somebody,

1306
01:02:28,960 --> 01:02:31,400
Speaker 1: but you know what, you've got some glaring needs other places.

1307
01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:33,720
Speaker 1: You don't know whether you should take that elite player

1308
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:37,840
Speaker 1: knowing that you're already really good on that side of

1309
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:40,840
Speaker 1: the ball, or a player that's going to be very good,

1310
01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:45,720
Speaker 1: maybe great, at a position you could really use. Now,

1311
01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:49,120
Speaker 1: I mean, right now, that's a great balancing act that

1312
01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:52,200
Speaker 1: that really, I think every team in every draft room

1313
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:56,280
Speaker 1: every year has to answer. There's no question. I mean you,

1314
01:02:56,800 --> 01:02:59,440
Speaker 1: and I'm not I'm not just saying I mean Nick

1315
01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:02,240
Speaker 1: Bosa could end up going and you fall into number nine,

1316
01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:04,880
Speaker 1: and he's maybe touted as the number one player overall.

1317
01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:07,920
Speaker 1: All these crazy things happen sometimes, and you've got to

1318
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:09,960
Speaker 1: be ready for it if you're a team like the

1319
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:13,160
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. And and I'm telling you what right now,

1320
01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:15,120
Speaker 1: I don't know the answer to your question, because it

1321
01:03:15,280 --> 01:03:19,080
Speaker 1: is I don't think there's a pat answer for any

1322
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:21,160
Speaker 1: one of the thirty two teams that we're talking about,

1323
01:03:21,600 --> 01:03:23,920
Speaker 1: let alone the Bills. And I know this. When that

1324
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:27,640
Speaker 1: kind of thing happens, there's a little bit of a discussion.

1325
01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:31,680
Speaker 1: They start talking about it, and then the general manager,

1326
01:03:31,840 --> 01:03:35,000
Speaker 1: the head coach, and coordinators all turn their eyes toward

1327
01:03:35,080 --> 01:03:38,800
Speaker 1: the guy who owns the team, and they say, well,

1328
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:41,520
Speaker 1: what do you think because they know a pick like this,

1329
01:03:42,400 --> 01:03:44,479
Speaker 1: they need him to sign off on it because there's

1330
01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 1: gonna be jobs at stake if they if they screw

1331
01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:49,880
Speaker 1: it up, right. I mean, that's that's the big question.

1332
01:03:49,920 --> 01:03:54,960
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it doesn't work that way. Yeah, maybe

1333
01:03:54,960 --> 01:03:57,360
Speaker 1: it doesn't. We're seeing that happen before we're here in Buffalo.

1334
01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:00,400
Speaker 1: Not maybe not on this with this owner. Okay, but

1335
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:03,800
Speaker 1: I've heard stories like that countless times about when you

1336
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:05,880
Speaker 1: get in the draft room and there's an argument or

1337
01:04:05,920 --> 01:04:07,760
Speaker 1: a discussion about who do they take, who do they

1338
01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:11,360
Speaker 1: not take? The owner has a voice in that, and

1339
01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:15,760
Speaker 1: particularly if it's a vehement argument about who to take

1340
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:18,720
Speaker 1: and who not to take, and it's about and particularly

1341
01:04:18,720 --> 01:04:21,439
Speaker 1: about a top five pick or a top ten pick

1342
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 1: and a team that really needs a guy or doesn't

1343
01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:25,280
Speaker 1: need a guy, or has to have a guy and

1344
01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:27,560
Speaker 1: a guy might turn out good or you're gonna hang

1345
01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:31,040
Speaker 1: a lot of importance on that position. Yeah, there's some

1346
01:04:31,120 --> 01:04:35,800
Speaker 1: guys that get their jobs tank stapled to that guy's career.

1347
01:04:36,640 --> 01:04:38,480
Speaker 1: You see it with quarterbacks a lot. I mean, who

1348
01:04:38,520 --> 01:04:42,200
Speaker 1: were kidding? And what? One more questions for mur I

1349
01:04:42,280 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 1: know you got a chance to go to the Senior

1350
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:46,280
Speaker 1: Ball and the comb and I know they're completely different

1351
01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:48,960
Speaker 1: as far as the way it structured, Um, what do

1352
01:04:49,040 --> 01:04:51,800
Speaker 1: you personally enjoy more? As far as what do you

1353
01:04:51,840 --> 01:04:53,800
Speaker 1: think you get more information? I know there's a larger

1354
01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:57,480
Speaker 1: fool combine that. As far as what was your take

1355
01:04:57,560 --> 01:05:00,960
Speaker 1: on kind of contrasting the two ye Bowl, no question

1356
01:05:01,080 --> 01:05:03,400
Speaker 1: for me. And yeah, you're at there, three hundred forty

1357
01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:08,320
Speaker 1: seven players at the Combine And about what seventy maybe

1358
01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:12,120
Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl, but because they're because they're on

1359
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:14,880
Speaker 1: the field in pads and sometimes not in pads, but

1360
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:16,880
Speaker 1: on the field of doing football stuff. I get much

1361
01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:18,360
Speaker 1: more out of that, you know. I mean I have

1362
01:05:18,560 --> 01:05:21,440
Speaker 1: fully formed impressions of some of the receivers I saw

1363
01:05:21,480 --> 01:05:24,600
Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl, Deebo, Samuel, Andy, Isabella, et cetera.

1364
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:27,440
Speaker 1: Fully formed impressions of corners that I watched there that

1365
01:05:27,520 --> 01:05:30,320
Speaker 1: I like, who's the kid from Temple rock yest scene?

1366
01:05:31,080 --> 01:05:32,600
Speaker 1: Love that kid, Love the way he played at the

1367
01:05:32,600 --> 01:05:34,120
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl. I get much more out of the Senior

1368
01:05:34,160 --> 01:05:36,920
Speaker 1: Bowl because there's you can watch practice, you know, and

1369
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:39,360
Speaker 1: you can get access to players. But I don't, you know,

1370
01:05:39,520 --> 01:05:41,360
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't need a good interview. I'm not

1371
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:43,600
Speaker 1: worried about who they're gonna draft, so I can interview

1372
01:05:43,680 --> 01:05:45,480
Speaker 1: him on the show you were? You want players? So

1373
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:48,240
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl? What about you? What about you, Steve?

1374
01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:49,640
Speaker 1: I mean you were at the Senior Bowl. What do

1375
01:05:49,720 --> 01:05:52,760
Speaker 1: you think I watched the watch the combine you know

1376
01:05:52,840 --> 01:05:54,560
Speaker 1: as well? And I'm with you. I really want to

1377
01:05:54,880 --> 01:05:57,200
Speaker 1: end the three names the kids from Temple, the corner

1378
01:05:57,240 --> 01:05:59,360
Speaker 1: from Temple, really jumped out, Yeah he was. Really he

1379
01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:01,680
Speaker 1: had a great week, oh, no question, to the point

1380
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:04,040
Speaker 1: where I go to the comedy last week and I'm

1381
01:06:04,040 --> 01:06:06,720
Speaker 1: watching What was a Monday, and I'm thinking, oh, there's

1382
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:08,160
Speaker 1: a rock Caes scene. I love that kid, you know,

1383
01:06:08,200 --> 01:06:10,640
Speaker 1: I loved him down to Mobile. I mean to me,

1384
01:06:11,040 --> 01:06:13,600
Speaker 1: he almost looked like the top one or two, you know,

1385
01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:16,440
Speaker 1: as far as a corners there and as a big kid.

1386
01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:19,200
Speaker 1: And then also you know, I could say I never

1387
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:21,560
Speaker 1: heard of the Andy Isabella kan until the Senior Bowl

1388
01:06:21,600 --> 01:06:26,600
Speaker 1: and then he just stood out. Yeah, Deebo Samuel's as well. Ye. Also,

1389
01:06:26,680 --> 01:06:28,960
Speaker 1: it seems to me since the Senior Bowl there's seems

1390
01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:30,960
Speaker 1: to have been a shift that hey, there's a lot

1391
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:33,560
Speaker 1: of depth at over line. And I think that maybe

1392
01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:37,520
Speaker 1: why you're seeing DJ Metcalf pop up in these mock

1393
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:40,360
Speaker 1: grass now, because they're thinking the Bills a thought addressing

1394
01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:42,960
Speaker 1: and free agency. There's a there's a lot of depth

1395
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:45,600
Speaker 1: an offensive line, which you could see that bow as well.

1396
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:47,560
Speaker 1: And you know, I, you know, I may disagree with

1397
01:06:47,600 --> 01:06:49,520
Speaker 1: you a little bit on that one team. I don't

1398
01:06:50,080 --> 01:06:53,120
Speaker 1: the best offensive lineman, it seems to me now the

1399
01:06:53,160 --> 01:06:55,840
Speaker 1: best prospects anyway, we're not at the Senior Bowl, right,

1400
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:59,120
Speaker 1: I mean, who's the kid from Kansas State, um that

1401
01:06:59,240 --> 01:07:01,080
Speaker 1: the Bills talk to And we talked to him a

1402
01:07:01,120 --> 01:07:04,280
Speaker 1: little bit at Senior Bowl, Risner Risnick, I forget his name,

1403
01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:07,480
Speaker 1: but I mean her tackle. Yeah, yeah, he was one

1404
01:07:07,520 --> 01:07:09,880
Speaker 1: of the better offensive linemen there. But there are now

1405
01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:12,280
Speaker 1: at least a half dozen other offensive lineman who may

1406
01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:14,880
Speaker 1: have jumped ahead of him in terms of prospect rankings,

1407
01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:17,320
Speaker 1: for whatever that's worth, who just weren't at the Senior Bowl.

1408
01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:18,800
Speaker 1: So I don't know if the Senior Bowl was a

1409
01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:21,400
Speaker 1: great And I know the Bills were looking at offensive linemen.

1410
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:24,240
Speaker 1: I mean I watched, I watched their general manager just

1411
01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:26,600
Speaker 1: lock onto the offensive line group at the Senior Bowl.

1412
01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:29,160
Speaker 1: But yeah, there's no question to me that Senior Bowl

1413
01:07:29,280 --> 01:07:32,040
Speaker 1: is much more valuable in terms of evaluation. I think,

1414
01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:34,800
Speaker 1: and look, I don't have the luxury to watch a

1415
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:38,000
Speaker 1: ton of college football, so I almost start playing catchup

1416
01:07:38,080 --> 01:07:41,400
Speaker 1: right at the three hundred schools, not thirty two teams,

1417
01:07:41,480 --> 01:07:43,520
Speaker 1: you know. And Dalton Risners, the kid you're talking about

1418
01:07:43,520 --> 01:07:45,960
Speaker 1: from Kansas State senior at six five, three hundred in

1419
01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:48,240
Speaker 1: the Big twelve. So yeah, you get and I think

1420
01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:50,600
Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl with only seventy five guys, they're

1421
01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:53,640
Speaker 1: playing football, you get all the I think, you get

1422
01:07:53,640 --> 01:07:55,560
Speaker 1: a chance. And I was having breakfast with a buddy

1423
01:07:55,560 --> 01:07:57,400
Speaker 1: of mine today and he says, you know what I

1424
01:07:57,480 --> 01:07:59,600
Speaker 1: would do, And he goes, I would have a guy.

1425
01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:02,920
Speaker 1: When you scout these guys, film the sidelines between the

1426
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:04,680
Speaker 1: play so you can find out whether they're a guy

1427
01:08:04,720 --> 01:08:06,480
Speaker 1: that's a raw, raw guy, a guy who guys are

1428
01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:08,640
Speaker 1: gravitating towards, or a guy who sits off by himself.

1429
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:10,480
Speaker 1: You gotta find that stuff out, and you gotta film

1430
01:08:10,560 --> 01:08:13,080
Speaker 1: that so you know. And that's what you find out

1431
01:08:13,160 --> 01:08:15,280
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl. You gotta see these guys interact with

1432
01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:17,680
Speaker 1: guys they haven't played with before and to see what

1433
01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:20,280
Speaker 1: kind of guy they are. That's like a guy like Montes.

1434
01:08:20,400 --> 01:08:24,200
Speaker 1: Sweat took about five steps forward because all of a

1435
01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:26,240
Speaker 1: sudden hits the guy's a team captain. I didn't know

1436
01:08:26,280 --> 01:08:30,400
Speaker 1: who he was old miss not a power how not Alabama?

1437
01:08:31,200 --> 01:08:35,160
Speaker 1: You know, not LSU. He's in Mississippi State. He Missippi State,

1438
01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:37,800
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, these guys from the SEC

1439
01:08:37,920 --> 01:08:39,400
Speaker 1: and all over the country saying, you know what that

1440
01:08:39,840 --> 01:08:41,800
Speaker 1: I like that guy, let's put him out there. Yeah,

1441
01:08:41,920 --> 01:08:44,360
Speaker 1: that's big, that's really big for a kid. And I

1442
01:08:44,479 --> 01:08:46,080
Speaker 1: think you see things like that at the Senior Bowl.

1443
01:08:46,120 --> 01:08:48,719
Speaker 1: You don't see it the combine, your pointing, the watching

1444
01:08:48,760 --> 01:08:51,240
Speaker 1: the combine over the weekend and watching some of them

1445
01:08:51,320 --> 01:08:54,160
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in particular, when I was watching Saturday, almost go

1446
01:08:54,240 --> 01:08:58,240
Speaker 1: out of their way to slap slap guys on the

1447
01:08:58,320 --> 01:09:01,400
Speaker 1: butter or cheering. That's a little pony, that's a little phony, right.

1448
01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:04,560
Speaker 1: Sometimes guys will deliberately do that at combined workouts to

1449
01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:08,160
Speaker 1: let everybody know, including the television audience. I'm a team guy.

1450
01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:11,280
Speaker 1: I root for my teammates. Well you know play, Yeah,

1451
01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:13,599
Speaker 1: you know, I get it, and you know what, let's

1452
01:09:13,640 --> 01:09:19,639
Speaker 1: face it, quarterbacks kills me to say for they're notch brighter,

1453
01:09:19,880 --> 01:09:21,880
Speaker 1: or at least they think they're an arch notch brighter

1454
01:09:22,240 --> 01:09:25,640
Speaker 1: than most guys. They know that always are on them

1455
01:09:25,680 --> 01:09:27,840
Speaker 1: when they're not even when they're not throwing right, they

1456
01:09:27,920 --> 01:09:30,160
Speaker 1: know their eyes are on them when they're standing around

1457
01:09:30,200 --> 01:09:33,960
Speaker 1: in line. They know that they're getting evaluated all the time,

1458
01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:37,439
Speaker 1: not just on their reps. And you can tell some

1459
01:09:37,600 --> 01:09:39,960
Speaker 1: of them take it to the extreme. Let's go to

1460
01:09:40,240 --> 01:09:42,479
Speaker 1: Tom in Batavia. Hello, Tom, Welcome, you're on the air

1461
01:09:42,520 --> 01:09:47,519
Speaker 1: with Li Hi guys. A nice talking to you. Yeah,

1462
01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:51,320
Speaker 1: as farn as a free agency, i'd like to see

1463
01:09:51,400 --> 01:09:55,800
Speaker 1: him go with the defensive players. And I don't know

1464
01:09:55,880 --> 01:09:59,840
Speaker 1: what you think about that, but I love to see

1465
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:03,439
Speaker 1: them as far as the draft go with maybe a

1466
01:10:04,400 --> 01:10:08,560
Speaker 1: center guard or guard tackle or tackle tight end that

1467
01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:12,200
Speaker 1: actually tackle that I would love to see him take that.

1468
01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:15,200
Speaker 1: You know, the first two draft picks. What do you

1469
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:19,639
Speaker 1: guys think about that? I don't have a problem with it, Tom,

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Speaker 1: as long as they got guys in free agency on

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01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:25,800
Speaker 1: the offensive line. I mean, I think if they get

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Speaker 1: guys at other positions, they're free to do that, that's fine.

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01:10:29,320 --> 01:10:31,280
Speaker 1: And if it's not an edge rusher who's better than

1474
01:10:31,360 --> 01:10:34,920
Speaker 1: the tight end one of their need positions. If there's

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01:10:34,920 --> 01:10:37,640
Speaker 1: a higher rated player than a tight end, you got

1476
01:10:37,760 --> 01:10:39,720
Speaker 1: to take the higher rated player, particularly if it's a

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01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:42,679
Speaker 1: if it's a player at at at a need position

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01:10:42,920 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 1: like offensive line or wide receiver. Tight ends. Okay, I

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01:10:47,479 --> 01:10:49,280
Speaker 1: love those guys. They're great, and we gotta we gotta

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01:10:49,280 --> 01:10:51,240
Speaker 1: sign like three or four five of them for training

1481
01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:53,240
Speaker 1: camp just to make sure that we've got enough bodies

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01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:57,160
Speaker 1: there to get through. But I think it all depends

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01:10:57,200 --> 01:10:59,320
Speaker 1: on where their roster is. When the draft hits, that's

1484
01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:03,479
Speaker 1: seven weeks and it's free agency period away. It's a

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01:11:03,600 --> 01:11:06,439
Speaker 1: lot of visits away, it's a lot of pro days away.

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01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:09,519
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna say do a B and C.

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01:11:09,760 --> 01:11:12,840
Speaker 1: I'm saying this. I want them to sign the best

1488
01:11:12,920 --> 01:11:16,439
Speaker 1: offensive lineman in the free agent market. I don't care

1489
01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:19,599
Speaker 1: if you have the highest paid center in the league

1490
01:11:19,640 --> 01:11:22,000
Speaker 1: now and the highest paid guard in the league. Even

1491
01:11:22,040 --> 01:11:24,320
Speaker 1: if you do that, you're talking about ten million bucks apiece.

1492
01:11:24,560 --> 01:11:27,280
Speaker 1: That's twenty million bucks off the cap this season, and

1493
01:11:27,439 --> 01:11:31,240
Speaker 1: that's leaves you with fifty seven million dollars to spend.

1494
01:11:31,280 --> 01:11:32,640
Speaker 1: I mean, you still got a lot of money to

1495
01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:34,720
Speaker 1: spend on other positions. But if you get those two

1496
01:11:34,760 --> 01:11:37,720
Speaker 1: guys along with the guys you've already signed and the

1497
01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:41,040
Speaker 1: guys you're gonna sign, that to me put you in

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01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:44,000
Speaker 1: a position where, Okay, if this kid, if this tight

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01:11:44,160 --> 01:11:49,200
Speaker 1: end from Iowa drops down to us at number nine,

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01:11:49,640 --> 01:11:52,519
Speaker 1: well you know, maybe maybe maybe we can Maybe if

1501
01:11:52,560 --> 01:11:55,760
Speaker 1: Hockinson from Iowa gets falls down or Noah Fan from

1502
01:11:55,800 --> 01:11:58,120
Speaker 1: Iowa falls to us, we'll take them. But I'm not

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01:11:58,200 --> 01:12:00,800
Speaker 1: getting I'm not getting wrapped up in this god of

1504
01:12:00,840 --> 01:12:02,560
Speaker 1: that hope we do this because it all depends on

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01:12:02,600 --> 01:12:05,200
Speaker 1: where the roster is when they pick. And also say

1506
01:12:05,280 --> 01:12:08,439
Speaker 1: this time, I do think there's so many would appear

1507
01:12:08,479 --> 01:12:12,960
Speaker 1: to be good qualified candidates for edge rush defensive lineman

1508
01:12:13,320 --> 01:12:15,120
Speaker 1: in the draft that I would prefer to go there

1509
01:12:15,160 --> 01:12:17,160
Speaker 1: and get them cheap, get them cheap on a cheap contract,

1510
01:12:17,240 --> 01:12:19,320
Speaker 1: keep around. I would rather because there are a lot

1511
01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:21,759
Speaker 1: of them. Hey, on offensive line, you know you mentioned

1512
01:12:21,840 --> 01:12:25,479
Speaker 1: the best offensive lineman. You and I have this little

1513
01:12:25,560 --> 01:12:28,880
Speaker 1: cheat sheet from Mike Clay. You know his fourth best

1514
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:31,680
Speaker 1: offensive tackle is in the draft or I'm sorry. In

1515
01:12:31,720 --> 01:12:34,800
Speaker 1: free agency, Darryl Williams, the guy linked to the Bills today.

1516
01:12:34,840 --> 01:12:37,680
Speaker 1: You know who his sixth best offensive tackle is one

1517
01:12:37,720 --> 01:12:40,439
Speaker 1: of one of ours? Jordan Mills. Jordan Mills right, Which

1518
01:12:40,520 --> 01:12:42,320
Speaker 1: goes back to the point I was making a couple

1519
01:12:42,400 --> 01:12:45,599
Speaker 1: of times earlier. Everybody looks at these guys different. Somebody's

1520
01:12:45,600 --> 01:12:47,519
Speaker 1: gonna sign Jordan Mills if the Bills don't. It doesn't

1521
01:12:47,560 --> 01:12:49,280
Speaker 1: appear the Bills are in a hurry to do that.

1522
01:12:49,360 --> 01:12:51,400
Speaker 1: Some meany's gonna sign John Miller and be pretty happy

1523
01:12:51,439 --> 01:12:53,600
Speaker 1: with those two guys who have played a lot in

1524
01:12:53,680 --> 01:12:55,479
Speaker 1: the league. It's gonna happen to be ready for that.

1525
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Speaker 1: Take a break. We're coming back where you expect to

1526
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Speaker 1: have our guest. We got oh Dan Orlovski from ESPN

1527
01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:03,639
Speaker 1: when we returned. Come on back to that One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:23,160
Speaker 1: Welcome back, One Doll's Live. I'm John Murphy. It's a

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01:13:23,200 --> 01:13:26,200
Speaker 1: one man show. Now. Steve Tasker feeling under the weather.

1531
01:13:26,280 --> 01:13:28,679
Speaker 1: So Steve took a hike. We wish him well, he'll

1532
01:13:28,680 --> 01:13:30,880
Speaker 1: be fine. If you know he started the show, he

1533
01:13:30,960 --> 01:13:32,400
Speaker 1: was trying to play hurt. He made it through half

1534
01:13:32,439 --> 01:13:34,559
Speaker 1: the show. Give him credit for that. Steve, feel better.

1535
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Speaker 1: We're gonna miss you. On the line with us right now.

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01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:40,519
Speaker 1: Former NFL quarterback for Detroit, for Houston, Indian Tampa Bay

1537
01:13:40,800 --> 01:13:44,320
Speaker 1: played twelve seasons in the NFL. ESPN football analysts Dan

1538
01:13:44,520 --> 01:13:46,800
Speaker 1: Orlovsky on the line with a stand your your golf buddy,

1539
01:13:46,840 --> 01:13:48,599
Speaker 1: Tasker just took off where sorry, you won't be able

1540
01:13:48,600 --> 01:13:51,600
Speaker 1: to say hi. Dam listen. Usually I have find some

1541
01:13:51,800 --> 01:13:55,960
Speaker 1: funny somebody, but like we've got the stomach bug in

1542
01:13:56,000 --> 01:13:58,080
Speaker 1: our house. For the third time this week. I don't

1543
01:13:58,080 --> 01:14:01,880
Speaker 1: wish out on anybody fight things, So I'm hoping, I'm

1544
01:14:01,920 --> 01:14:05,880
Speaker 1: hoping he feels better. Uh, but I just can't think

1545
01:14:05,880 --> 01:14:09,000
Speaker 1: of anything funny to say about it. We'll call you

1546
01:14:09,120 --> 01:14:11,240
Speaker 1: back in an hour, so maybe a little bit. Hey,

1547
01:14:11,320 --> 01:14:12,920
Speaker 1: thanks for spending a few minutes with this year, Dan,

1548
01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:15,400
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Today free agency coming up, and of

1549
01:14:15,479 --> 01:14:18,760
Speaker 1: course the quarterback situation is always interesting. I found it

1550
01:14:18,840 --> 01:14:20,840
Speaker 1: interesting today on Twitter you were doing a kind of

1551
01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:24,080
Speaker 1: a pretty comprehensive breakdown of Josh Rosen's rookie year where

1552
01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:28,080
Speaker 1: the Cardinals everybody anticipating a possible trade to come. Josh

1553
01:14:28,160 --> 01:14:30,400
Speaker 1: Rosen didn't have a good year, but he's a pretty

1554
01:14:30,400 --> 01:14:33,439
Speaker 1: good prospect still. Is that not correct? Yeah? I mean

1555
01:14:34,120 --> 01:14:37,599
Speaker 1: he was highly regarded coming out of UCLA last year,

1556
01:14:37,720 --> 01:14:40,519
Speaker 1: and some teams had him won, some teams two, some

1557
01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:42,840
Speaker 1: teams had a three. Ever, you know, people rank them

1558
01:14:42,880 --> 01:14:47,800
Speaker 1: where they feel. But to sit back and engage what

1559
01:14:48,200 --> 01:14:51,360
Speaker 1: was last year and have any idea of what kind

1560
01:14:51,400 --> 01:14:53,360
Speaker 1: of player he is is a little bit outrageous me.

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01:14:53,960 --> 01:14:55,840
Speaker 1: So you can make the case that when he wor

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01:14:55,880 --> 01:14:58,360
Speaker 1: a situation in the NFL last year, when it comes

1563
01:14:58,400 --> 01:15:01,400
Speaker 1: to talent level both sides of the ball, people to

1564
01:15:01,479 --> 01:15:05,320
Speaker 1: throw the ball to, protection from the offensive line. Offensive

1565
01:15:05,360 --> 01:15:07,760
Speaker 1: coordinator gets fired, then the heat coach obviously if you

1566
01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:09,599
Speaker 1: even seen get the end and the season gets fired

1567
01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:12,080
Speaker 1: and you go. You could take a lot of quarterbacks,

1568
01:15:12,200 --> 01:15:13,960
Speaker 1: even the ones that are really good, and put them

1569
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:16,240
Speaker 1: in that situation and they would play pretty poorly. So

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01:15:17,080 --> 01:15:20,040
Speaker 1: don't I don't necessarily think that we could just cast

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01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:23,040
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen aside as being you know, when he plays

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01:15:23,080 --> 01:15:25,280
Speaker 1: twelve games and the worst team the NFL and he's terrible.

1573
01:15:26,280 --> 01:15:28,639
Speaker 1: And I've been outspoken that, you know, since the day

1574
01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:33,280
Speaker 1: Arizona hired Cliff Kingsbury. I said, Kyler Murray's going one.

1575
01:15:33,400 --> 01:15:36,920
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just how I felt. But some team,

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01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:39,160
Speaker 1: if that is the case, some team is going to

1577
01:15:39,320 --> 01:15:44,160
Speaker 1: get a absolute feal in Josh Rosen in for the

1578
01:15:44,240 --> 01:15:47,040
Speaker 1: next ten years of that position. Could Rosen go for

1579
01:15:47,120 --> 01:15:49,519
Speaker 1: like a third round pick? I've seen that written about.

1580
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:51,320
Speaker 1: I mean, is that all it would take to get

1581
01:15:51,479 --> 01:15:54,120
Speaker 1: last year's tenth overall pick to somebody else's third rounder?

1582
01:15:54,760 --> 01:15:57,799
Speaker 1: Whoever gets who? If that's the case, the general managers,

1583
01:15:58,120 --> 01:16:00,479
Speaker 1: it should be padded on the back. I mean, there's

1584
01:16:00,520 --> 01:16:02,800
Speaker 1: a lot of traits to his game that you go,

1585
01:16:03,040 --> 01:16:05,600
Speaker 1: this guy has the chance to be not good or

1586
01:16:05,680 --> 01:16:08,439
Speaker 1: not a starter, but very good for the next ten years.

1587
01:16:08,479 --> 01:16:11,160
Speaker 1: And so if you can get him for a third

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01:16:11,280 --> 01:16:14,240
Speaker 1: round pick, man, you are ahead of the game because

1589
01:16:14,320 --> 01:16:16,040
Speaker 1: now not only are you getting him for a third

1590
01:16:16,120 --> 01:16:19,320
Speaker 1: round pick, but you're also in owning that rookie deal.

1591
01:16:19,720 --> 01:16:22,840
Speaker 1: But now you have basically if you take this year

1592
01:16:23,000 --> 01:16:24,760
Speaker 1: and then you hit on your first round pick this

1593
01:16:24,960 --> 01:16:28,920
Speaker 1: year and Rosen does become what I believe he can be,

1594
01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:32,639
Speaker 1: that's like, you know, doubling down. That's like having two

1595
01:16:32,720 --> 01:16:35,679
Speaker 1: first rounders in one year. And so I would imagine

1596
01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:38,200
Speaker 1: he goes for higher than that once people, you know,

1597
01:16:38,280 --> 01:16:41,960
Speaker 1: once he becomes public and free agency happens and there's

1598
01:16:41,960 --> 01:16:44,080
Speaker 1: still teams of need, I'd imagine he goes for at

1599
01:16:44,160 --> 01:16:46,160
Speaker 1: least the second rounder. Yeah. In fact, Steve and I

1600
01:16:46,200 --> 01:16:48,439
Speaker 1: were talking about that this morning before the show. Man.

1601
01:16:48,560 --> 01:16:50,200
Speaker 1: If all it takes is a third rounder to get

1602
01:16:50,240 --> 01:16:53,080
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen, every team in the league would jump on that, right.

1603
01:16:53,160 --> 01:16:57,520
Speaker 1: I mean, he'd immediately be a best backup in the league. Absolutely,

1604
01:16:57,640 --> 01:17:01,360
Speaker 1: He's cheap, and everyone knows the greatest commodity of general

1605
01:17:01,439 --> 01:17:04,719
Speaker 1: manager can have is a quarterback that somebody else wants.

1606
01:17:04,880 --> 01:17:08,080
Speaker 1: And so if you're a team that you know wants

1607
01:17:08,120 --> 01:17:10,200
Speaker 1: to take a fly or maybe you already like I said,

1608
01:17:10,200 --> 01:17:13,120
Speaker 1: the Chargers, like, why would the Chargers not give up

1609
01:17:13,200 --> 01:17:15,800
Speaker 1: at least a third rounder for Rosen and go, Okay,

1610
01:17:15,880 --> 01:17:18,360
Speaker 1: this guy could potentially be our futures. Yeah, but also

1611
01:17:18,479 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 1: let's see it. Let's give him extended playing time and

1612
01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:23,120
Speaker 1: see if we can flip him in the We've seen

1613
01:17:23,240 --> 01:17:25,600
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that maybe just play a game or two of

1614
01:17:25,640 --> 01:17:28,360
Speaker 1: the preseason and they get flipped. So if a third

1615
01:17:28,439 --> 01:17:31,000
Speaker 1: rounder is the price, there was gonna be plenty of

1616
01:17:31,160 --> 01:17:33,479
Speaker 1: teams calling. Well. And now the other end of the scenario,

1617
01:17:33,560 --> 01:17:35,200
Speaker 1: and you said it a minute ago, Kyler Murray, you

1618
01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:38,080
Speaker 1: expect from goal number one overall to Arizona? Is that

1619
01:17:38,240 --> 01:17:40,360
Speaker 1: the right move for the Cardinals? And is that the

1620
01:17:40,479 --> 01:17:43,360
Speaker 1: only move that the Cardinals can make now with Kingsbury

1621
01:17:43,400 --> 01:17:45,800
Speaker 1: and his head coach, it's the right move. And this

1622
01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:49,000
Speaker 1: is the reason why they've already they've already kind of

1623
01:17:49,200 --> 01:17:52,400
Speaker 1: made the you know, pudo move to go why not

1624
01:17:52,840 --> 01:17:55,519
Speaker 1: type of thing with click Kingsbury like they had made

1625
01:17:55,560 --> 01:17:58,000
Speaker 1: that decision with that hier to go, let's try something

1626
01:17:58,040 --> 01:18:01,200
Speaker 1: a little bit different. They didn't recycle a coach, They

1627
01:18:01,360 --> 01:18:04,000
Speaker 1: fired a guy that they hired after one year, and

1628
01:18:04,160 --> 01:18:07,280
Speaker 1: so they've already kind of went down that path of

1629
01:18:07,439 --> 01:18:10,479
Speaker 1: let's give this a try. And so if that's the case,

1630
01:18:10,840 --> 01:18:13,479
Speaker 1: why not go all in with it? Why not totally

1631
01:18:13,560 --> 01:18:18,519
Speaker 1: go let's just do so the whole package. And you

1632
01:18:18,640 --> 01:18:23,320
Speaker 1: hear all the time the concept of the saying, well,

1633
01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:27,280
Speaker 1: coaches have to put players and to be successful. This

1634
01:18:27,520 --> 01:18:30,640
Speaker 1: is an example of an organization having out an opportunity

1635
01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:33,000
Speaker 1: to their coach to be put in position to be

1636
01:18:33,120 --> 01:18:37,200
Speaker 1: successful because that's the style of offensive scheam and and

1637
01:18:37,600 --> 01:18:41,680
Speaker 1: all that Kimsbury wants to play. And so why why

1638
01:18:41,760 --> 01:18:43,920
Speaker 1: would you not? It just makes too much sense. And

1639
01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:46,320
Speaker 1: now you've got his comments that I would take them

1640
01:18:46,400 --> 01:18:50,320
Speaker 1: number one, You've got Steve Kine's comments of Roses our

1641
01:18:50,400 --> 01:18:54,479
Speaker 1: quarterback for now, and then there's rumors of them shopping Rosen.

1642
01:18:54,600 --> 01:18:58,559
Speaker 1: It just makes way too much sense for every box

1643
01:18:58,640 --> 01:19:01,559
Speaker 1: that needs to get checked it off. So Arizona then

1644
01:19:01,640 --> 01:19:04,519
Speaker 1: becomes watchable. Like Arizona, there becomes a team that people

1645
01:19:04,600 --> 01:19:07,599
Speaker 1: want to watch. Yeah, so, uh, you know, I think

1646
01:19:07,640 --> 01:19:09,640
Speaker 1: there's a lot, a lot of and it's not just

1647
01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:11,280
Speaker 1: a shot that dark. I think there's a lot of

1648
01:19:11,320 --> 01:19:13,799
Speaker 1: truth to it. And then we got into this discussion

1649
01:19:13,880 --> 01:19:16,360
Speaker 1: on our show last week at the combine. What does

1650
01:19:16,479 --> 01:19:18,800
Speaker 1: that say that that style of offense and that type

1651
01:19:18,840 --> 01:19:21,400
Speaker 1: of quarterback Cala Murray, what does that say about the

1652
01:19:21,479 --> 01:19:23,720
Speaker 1: status of NFL quarterback in and you played in the

1653
01:19:23,800 --> 01:19:26,360
Speaker 1: league for a dozen years, We're wondering if there's like

1654
01:19:26,439 --> 01:19:28,560
Speaker 1: a new paradigm or a new kind of template for

1655
01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:32,519
Speaker 1: what constitutes a legitimate NFL quarterback these days. Do you

1656
01:19:32,560 --> 01:19:37,400
Speaker 1: see that happening? Well, here's the thing. I don't quarterbacks.

1657
01:19:37,960 --> 01:19:40,280
Speaker 1: What has happened in the NFL last couple years is

1658
01:19:40,320 --> 01:19:43,280
Speaker 1: we have broken away from some old school taboo. So

1659
01:19:43,960 --> 01:19:47,120
Speaker 1: this planner looks like this, or skin color is this?

1660
01:19:47,280 --> 01:19:50,439
Speaker 1: So can't play or he can play? And so which

1661
01:19:50,520 --> 01:19:53,320
Speaker 1: is good is we've broken those bearriers down a little bit.

1662
01:19:53,800 --> 01:19:57,920
Speaker 1: I think the reality is, listen, to play quarterback in

1663
01:19:57,960 --> 01:20:00,360
Speaker 1: the NFL? Can you throw it? And can you space?

1664
01:20:00,840 --> 01:20:04,680
Speaker 1: And teams have the teams that are really honing in

1665
01:20:04,920 --> 01:20:08,599
Speaker 1: on that aren't necessarily looking at what the person looks

1666
01:20:08,640 --> 01:20:11,439
Speaker 1: like anymore? Can you do those two things? We don't

1667
01:20:11,479 --> 01:20:15,040
Speaker 1: necessarily care about your size that much anymore because John

1668
01:20:15,160 --> 01:20:17,960
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty years ago, you needed to be six three

1669
01:20:18,040 --> 01:20:20,200
Speaker 1: six four six five two ns and thirty pounds because

1670
01:20:20,240 --> 01:20:22,439
Speaker 1: you took the beating, you took the hits after hit.

1671
01:20:23,040 --> 01:20:26,040
Speaker 1: The rules are different now. Quarterbacks don't take the beating

1672
01:20:26,160 --> 01:20:29,919
Speaker 1: that they used to anymore because of the protected protection

1673
01:20:29,960 --> 01:20:31,720
Speaker 1: of that asset. And so you don't need to be

1674
01:20:31,920 --> 01:20:34,439
Speaker 1: big ben anymore because your body doesn't get beat up

1675
01:20:34,479 --> 01:20:37,840
Speaker 1: like you used to it. So certainly the movement of

1676
01:20:37,960 --> 01:20:40,400
Speaker 1: the quarterback I think is a little bit more accepted.

1677
01:20:40,720 --> 01:20:42,280
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, look at who's

1678
01:20:42,280 --> 01:20:44,639
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowls over the last fifteen years. It's

1679
01:20:44,680 --> 01:20:48,360
Speaker 1: been Peyton, it's been Braiding, it's been Breeze, it's been

1680
01:20:48,439 --> 01:20:51,320
Speaker 1: Russell Well. I mean, these guys that are incredibly accurate

1681
01:20:51,360 --> 01:20:54,160
Speaker 1: with the football and sink their way through football, and

1682
01:20:54,240 --> 01:20:57,040
Speaker 1: so all those other talents, those are all great, and

1683
01:20:57,200 --> 01:20:59,960
Speaker 1: that makes those players special. But at the end of

1684
01:21:00,120 --> 01:21:03,960
Speaker 1: the day, the fundamental aspect of thinking, it's growing still

1685
01:21:04,040 --> 01:21:06,120
Speaker 1: as paramount and it has been and always will be.

1686
01:21:06,439 --> 01:21:08,880
Speaker 1: And one more thing about I guess quarterback, and this

1687
01:21:09,080 --> 01:21:11,680
Speaker 1: plays into the old school narrative, What did you make

1688
01:21:11,960 --> 01:21:16,840
Speaker 1: Charlie Casserley's post combine comments about how badly Kyler Murray

1689
01:21:17,360 --> 01:21:19,600
Speaker 1: interviewed with teams around the league. It didn't seem to

1690
01:21:19,640 --> 01:21:21,800
Speaker 1: make a lot of sense coming out from whom it did,

1691
01:21:21,920 --> 01:21:23,479
Speaker 1: and when it did, I didn't think, what are you

1692
01:21:23,520 --> 01:21:25,479
Speaker 1: making of it? Yeah? It was odd, you know it was.

1693
01:21:25,560 --> 01:21:27,960
Speaker 1: It was really odd. I don't know mister Casserley at all.

1694
01:21:28,000 --> 01:21:31,360
Speaker 1: I do know that the pate doesn't show that does

1695
01:21:31,400 --> 01:21:34,040
Speaker 1: not show a guy that's not a teletoon or can't

1696
01:21:34,040 --> 01:21:37,120
Speaker 1: get on the board. I also know that, you know,

1697
01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:41,400
Speaker 1: sometimes guys handled themselves different. I remember an interview that

1698
01:21:41,479 --> 01:21:43,439
Speaker 1: I had with Jason Garrett at the combine. He was

1699
01:21:43,520 --> 01:21:45,479
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins, and he said, what's your greatest strength?

1700
01:21:45,520 --> 01:21:47,760
Speaker 1: I said my work ethic and he was like, well,

1701
01:21:47,880 --> 01:21:50,799
Speaker 1: everybody says, I said, no, it's my work, that work, ethics.

1702
01:21:50,960 --> 01:21:53,599
Speaker 1: I know I'm not good enough and he looked at

1703
01:21:53,640 --> 01:21:55,040
Speaker 1: me like huh, And I was like, I just know

1704
01:21:55,240 --> 01:21:57,759
Speaker 1: I'm not good enough, like I have to outwork everybody.

1705
01:21:58,200 --> 01:22:01,479
Speaker 1: And he did not like that. He was like, what

1706
01:22:01,560 --> 01:22:03,439
Speaker 1: do you I don't like that. And so that lack

1707
01:22:03,479 --> 01:22:06,439
Speaker 1: of confidence in a way trying to sit out to him.

1708
01:22:06,479 --> 01:22:10,320
Speaker 1: And so my thing is, like I used Baker Mayfield,

1709
01:22:10,400 --> 01:22:13,760
Speaker 1: even Josh Allen for you guys, those kids are picked

1710
01:22:13,880 --> 01:22:16,400
Speaker 1: out or elite not to be good. They're picked a

1711
01:22:16,560 --> 01:22:20,160
Speaker 1: chinge organizations. You can't do that thinking like, oh, well,

1712
01:22:20,520 --> 01:22:22,720
Speaker 1: thank you so much for drafting me. I know this

1713
01:22:22,920 --> 01:22:25,640
Speaker 1: is an uptill challenge and hopefully it work out, but like,

1714
01:22:26,160 --> 01:22:28,240
Speaker 1: I hope I'm your guy, Like You've got to go

1715
01:22:28,360 --> 01:22:31,439
Speaker 1: in there and thinking I've got to lead everybody, and

1716
01:22:31,600 --> 01:22:34,200
Speaker 1: you better believe in yourself. You better have a little

1717
01:22:34,360 --> 01:22:36,360
Speaker 1: eds to you in a little cockiness and a little

1718
01:22:37,240 --> 01:22:40,519
Speaker 1: overly confident in yourself to go play that position because

1719
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:43,400
Speaker 1: it's lonely at times. And so I didn't buy into

1720
01:22:43,479 --> 01:22:46,479
Speaker 1: it necessarily. I also think, and I said this, the

1721
01:22:46,640 --> 01:22:50,320
Speaker 1: reality is that shortly it was gonna we were gonna

1722
01:22:50,360 --> 01:22:52,559
Speaker 1: find out if there was any credit to that, because

1723
01:22:52,640 --> 01:22:55,080
Speaker 1: somebody was gonna either come out and say, yeah, that

1724
01:22:55,360 --> 01:22:58,000
Speaker 1: is who Kyler Murray is or nah, that's not the

1725
01:22:58,080 --> 01:23:00,960
Speaker 1: guy that I know. And Lincoln Riley, he's head coach Oklahoma,

1726
01:23:01,040 --> 01:23:03,519
Speaker 1: has come out and said that's nothing like the kids

1727
01:23:03,560 --> 01:23:05,680
Speaker 1: that I've known. And so I don't know if I'm

1728
01:23:05,720 --> 01:23:08,080
Speaker 1: putting any cloud in it. Let alone, and he's let

1729
01:23:08,120 --> 01:23:10,639
Speaker 1: alone much. We're on the line with Dan Orloski, former

1730
01:23:10,760 --> 01:23:13,519
Speaker 1: NFL quarterback ESPN football analysts. Let me get you to

1731
01:23:13,600 --> 01:23:15,960
Speaker 1: free agent quarterbacks moving around a little bit over the

1732
01:23:16,040 --> 01:23:19,400
Speaker 1: next coming up week. Here, Nick Falls apparently ready to

1733
01:23:19,439 --> 01:23:21,360
Speaker 1: go to Jacksonville. How's that going to work out? Does

1734
01:23:21,439 --> 01:23:23,800
Speaker 1: Falls have enough to be that type of quarterback you

1735
01:23:23,880 --> 01:23:27,280
Speaker 1: just talked about for the Jacksonville Jaguars. No, No, And

1736
01:23:28,400 --> 01:23:30,599
Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone. I don't think anybody can

1737
01:23:30,640 --> 01:23:33,920
Speaker 1: go down to Jacksonville and play well. I mean, listen,

1738
01:23:33,960 --> 01:23:36,320
Speaker 1: I believe that Nick Foles has proven himself to be

1739
01:23:36,360 --> 01:23:38,080
Speaker 1: a starting quarterback in the NFL. I don't know if

1740
01:23:38,080 --> 01:23:40,720
Speaker 1: there's any debate about that anymore. But the reality is

1741
01:23:40,840 --> 01:23:45,040
Speaker 1: Jacksonville has one one guy on their team with a

1742
01:23:45,160 --> 01:23:48,040
Speaker 1: hundred catches in his NFL career, and that's Marquislee. And

1743
01:23:48,080 --> 01:23:50,400
Speaker 1: he's coming off a devastating knee injury. So first of all,

1744
01:23:50,400 --> 01:23:52,080
Speaker 1: who's he gonna throw the ball too? I mean, they

1745
01:23:52,120 --> 01:23:55,880
Speaker 1: are depleted when it comes to production, and I know

1746
01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:58,320
Speaker 1: they've got a young player in dd Westbrook and Keen

1747
01:23:58,360 --> 01:24:02,360
Speaker 1: and Cold are okay, but like those are those aren't

1748
01:24:02,680 --> 01:24:05,280
Speaker 1: players that are really making differences for quarterbacks. And the

1749
01:24:05,360 --> 01:24:08,599
Speaker 1: second thing is John D. Flippo, who everyone is tying

1750
01:24:08,680 --> 01:24:11,400
Speaker 1: him with Nick Foles. That all sounds great, but John D.

1751
01:24:11,479 --> 01:24:13,000
Speaker 1: Felippo and I don't know him, but he's been a

1752
01:24:13,080 --> 01:24:15,760
Speaker 1: coordinator twice in the NFL. Once for Cleveland there was

1753
01:24:15,840 --> 01:24:18,679
Speaker 1: thirty first in the offense, and last year in Minnesota

1754
01:24:18,760 --> 01:24:20,680
Speaker 1: he was fired halfway through the year. And one of

1755
01:24:20,720 --> 01:24:23,439
Speaker 1: the reasons he was fired halfway through the year, which

1756
01:24:23,520 --> 01:24:26,439
Speaker 1: because he wasn't playing the kind of football that Mike

1757
01:24:26,520 --> 01:24:28,679
Speaker 1: Zimmer wanted to play. He wanted to run the football,

1758
01:24:29,040 --> 01:24:31,519
Speaker 1: use play action, played great defense. Well what do we

1759
01:24:31,600 --> 01:24:34,280
Speaker 1: think Tom Colson and Doug Morone want to do in Jacksonsville.

1760
01:24:34,400 --> 01:24:37,400
Speaker 1: They want to run the football, used play action, played

1761
01:24:37,439 --> 01:24:40,519
Speaker 1: great defense. And so I get the marriage of out

1762
01:24:40,600 --> 01:24:42,040
Speaker 1: he was in Philly, but I don't know if it's

1763
01:24:42,080 --> 01:24:44,080
Speaker 1: the perfect fit, and I don't know if anybody's going

1764
01:24:44,120 --> 01:24:46,559
Speaker 1: to go down there and be successful. So I hope

1765
01:24:46,640 --> 01:24:49,120
Speaker 1: that this is chance, but the expectations should not be

1766
01:24:49,280 --> 01:24:51,720
Speaker 1: what he wants in Philadelphia. And one more quarterback to

1767
01:24:51,720 --> 01:24:53,560
Speaker 1: ask you about him. This guy's not going anywhere. But

1768
01:24:53,880 --> 01:24:56,639
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger has been in a lot of people's bull's

1769
01:24:56,680 --> 01:24:58,639
Speaker 1: eye over the last couple of months or so because

1770
01:24:58,640 --> 01:25:00,880
Speaker 1: of everything that's gone on down there in Pittsburgh. Does

1771
01:25:00,920 --> 01:25:03,080
Speaker 1: he remain the right type of leader down there? And

1772
01:25:03,240 --> 01:25:06,120
Speaker 1: does the general manager do him a disservice when he

1773
01:25:06,160 --> 01:25:10,200
Speaker 1: calls all of Roethlisberger's teammates kids little kids? Yeah, Well,

1774
01:25:10,240 --> 01:25:12,880
Speaker 1: Kevin Colbert, their gym absolutely made him a disservant. And

1775
01:25:12,960 --> 01:25:16,360
Speaker 1: it shines a light on like, you know, I've been

1776
01:25:16,439 --> 01:25:18,559
Speaker 1: with a lot of teammates, a lot of great coaches,

1777
01:25:18,600 --> 01:25:21,560
Speaker 1: a lot of bad coaches, and his bad teammates, and

1778
01:25:22,320 --> 01:25:25,720
Speaker 1: the great coaches and great teammates never looked down on you.

1779
01:25:25,840 --> 01:25:27,639
Speaker 1: I've always said this. One of the great things about

1780
01:25:27,680 --> 01:25:31,439
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford and Peyton Manning was like this till Golf

1781
01:25:31,479 --> 01:25:34,120
Speaker 1: had this quality, like those guys have a complete understanding

1782
01:25:34,200 --> 01:25:36,360
Speaker 1: that they are a dark guy, Like they know that

1783
01:25:36,439 --> 01:25:39,200
Speaker 1: they are the guy, they are the franchise quarterback, but

1784
01:25:39,360 --> 01:25:41,960
Speaker 1: had disability to be a guy as well, where you

1785
01:25:42,000 --> 01:25:43,680
Speaker 1: can just be one of the fellas. And that is

1786
01:25:43,680 --> 01:25:46,640
Speaker 1: an endearing quality to everybody on your football team. And

1787
01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:51,200
Speaker 1: so Colbert did not do big then any favors with that. Now,

1788
01:25:51,680 --> 01:25:55,400
Speaker 1: great leaders and people who've got a really good feel

1789
01:25:55,800 --> 01:25:57,519
Speaker 1: I think there's a quality of like, you've got to

1790
01:25:57,560 --> 01:25:59,200
Speaker 1: be able to admit when you've got a little bit

1791
01:25:59,200 --> 01:26:01,600
Speaker 1: of like something wrong, or you've got a little bit

1792
01:26:01,600 --> 01:26:04,080
Speaker 1: of footlog I could get better at this, or I

1793
01:26:04,200 --> 01:26:06,559
Speaker 1: can work on that, And so I'm sure I think

1794
01:26:06,640 --> 01:26:09,439
Speaker 1: Ben has a lot of really good leadership qualities. At

1795
01:26:09,479 --> 01:26:12,200
Speaker 1: the same time, there's obviously some issues of what he's

1796
01:26:12,200 --> 01:26:14,439
Speaker 1: been when, what he's done in the media, and how

1797
01:26:14,479 --> 01:26:16,559
Speaker 1: he calls out players, and I think it's a huge

1798
01:26:16,560 --> 01:26:20,439
Speaker 1: opportunity for him to kind of change some ways he

1799
01:26:20,600 --> 01:26:23,519
Speaker 1: does some things and handles his business and maybe he

1800
01:26:23,640 --> 01:26:26,960
Speaker 1: does have to go about communicating to his teammates differently.

1801
01:26:26,960 --> 01:26:28,920
Speaker 1: So is he still a great player? Yeah? I let

1802
01:26:28,960 --> 01:26:32,080
Speaker 1: the NFL in passing last year, but be ignorant not

1803
01:26:32,240 --> 01:26:35,320
Speaker 1: to use this situation to grow as a leader. And

1804
01:26:35,439 --> 01:26:39,080
Speaker 1: Jarl right, I just alienated our best players, and if

1805
01:26:39,240 --> 01:26:40,720
Speaker 1: I did it to him, I could be doing it

1806
01:26:40,800 --> 01:26:43,240
Speaker 1: to others. You've got to learn from that. Great perspective

1807
01:26:43,240 --> 01:26:45,000
Speaker 1: on quarterbacks, Dan, we thank you for spending a few

1808
01:26:45,040 --> 01:26:46,719
Speaker 1: minutes with us here today. I hope to talk again.

1809
01:26:46,840 --> 01:26:49,479
Speaker 1: Thank you, appreciate you. John having to day Budd dan Orlovski,

1810
01:26:49,520 --> 01:26:51,840
Speaker 1: former NFL quarterback, twelve years in the league with several

1811
01:26:51,920 --> 01:26:55,040
Speaker 1: different teams. Now you see him on ESPN ESPN's Football

1812
01:26:55,080 --> 01:26:57,599
Speaker 1: Analysts talking about quarterbacking. That's what we always talk about,

1813
01:26:57,680 --> 01:26:59,640
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1814
01:26:59,720 --> 01:27:03,000
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1816
01:27:06,479 --> 01:27:09,280
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1817
01:27:09,320 --> 01:27:11,000
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1819
01:27:13,800 --> 01:27:46,559
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1820
01:27:46,600 --> 01:27:48,519
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1821
01:27:48,680 --> 01:27:50,840
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1823
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1824
01:27:58,040 --> 01:28:00,439
Speaker 1: in relief. That's right, Yeah, to be here. He's been

1825
01:28:00,479 --> 01:28:03,000
Speaker 1: a starter. I'm loose, I'm ready ready to go. Steve

1826
01:28:03,080 --> 01:28:05,639
Speaker 1: had to leave a minute ago, just feeling under the weather.

1827
01:28:06,240 --> 01:28:09,720
Speaker 1: Got a non sympathetic tweet from Brian Cook, who says,

1828
01:28:09,760 --> 01:28:13,040
Speaker 1: did Steve Tasker really quit at half time today? Why

1829
01:28:13,120 --> 01:28:16,120
Speaker 1: do receivers keep doing this to us? I think he's

1830
01:28:16,160 --> 01:28:18,320
Speaker 1: referring to Von tay Davis, who was another receiver. Yeah.

1831
01:28:18,360 --> 01:28:20,800
Speaker 1: Then he says, get well, Pasker. He's just getting Steve

1832
01:28:20,880 --> 01:28:22,320
Speaker 1: just under the weather. He'll be fine. He may be

1833
01:28:22,360 --> 01:28:25,080
Speaker 1: back tomorrow. But thanks Brownie. Good to have you in relief. Yeah,

1834
01:28:25,120 --> 01:28:26,880
Speaker 1: it was just down the hall anyway, watching the show,

1835
01:28:26,920 --> 01:28:29,760
Speaker 1: listening it was on. Yeah, I was listening to He

1836
01:28:29,800 --> 01:28:31,800
Speaker 1: wasn't paying at that. It was well, I'm doing other stuff,

1837
01:28:31,840 --> 01:28:33,680
Speaker 1: but yeah, I was listening to Mica, who you had

1838
01:28:33,720 --> 01:28:35,559
Speaker 1: on the show earlier, and what he had to say,

1839
01:28:35,600 --> 01:28:38,519
Speaker 1: and so yeah, it was good. Thanks thanks for coming in. Hey.

1840
01:28:38,640 --> 01:28:40,679
Speaker 1: One thing you may or may not have heard earlier

1841
01:28:40,720 --> 01:28:43,000
Speaker 1: on in the show. I mentioned this to Steve the

1842
01:28:43,080 --> 01:28:47,879
Speaker 1: starter today about look, I'm not predicting a big splashy

1843
01:28:47,920 --> 01:28:50,040
Speaker 1: free agent moves by the Bills next week, but when

1844
01:28:50,080 --> 01:28:52,360
Speaker 1: you look at what's going on here Spencer Long a

1845
01:28:52,400 --> 01:28:54,000
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. Okay, that was a couple of

1846
01:28:54,000 --> 01:28:57,360
Speaker 1: weeks ago, but they take care of business with Jordan Phillips,

1847
01:28:57,400 --> 01:28:59,960
Speaker 1: which I thought was kind of important to plug that hole.

1848
01:29:00,479 --> 01:29:03,439
Speaker 1: They have the cornerback Kevin Johnson, and yesterday they have

1849
01:29:03,520 --> 01:29:06,600
Speaker 1: the tight on Duyne Allen, and yesterday, apparently, according to

1850
01:29:06,680 --> 01:29:09,719
Speaker 1: Jason lack on Ford, they're involved with offensive tackled Darryl Williams,

1851
01:29:09,760 --> 01:29:12,759
Speaker 1: who will be free next Wednesday to sign. It appears

1852
01:29:12,760 --> 01:29:15,400
Speaker 1: to me the Bills are poised to be pretty active

1853
01:29:15,439 --> 01:29:17,040
Speaker 1: in the free agent marketing. I'm not again, I'm not

1854
01:29:17,080 --> 01:29:20,800
Speaker 1: saying big splashy signings, but active maybe numbers of people, right,

1855
01:29:20,880 --> 01:29:24,519
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm happily surprised by that. I have to say, well,

1856
01:29:24,800 --> 01:29:27,320
Speaker 1: I don't think it's it's all that different from what

1857
01:29:27,400 --> 01:29:29,080
Speaker 1: we saw last year. I mean they jumped in with

1858
01:29:29,240 --> 01:29:31,679
Speaker 1: guys they got released early. Also, I mean Chris Ivery

1859
01:29:31,800 --> 01:29:35,639
Speaker 1: was assigning before free agency opened. The aforementioned Vonte Davis

1860
01:29:35,800 --> 01:29:38,240
Speaker 1: was as well. You know, guys that were salary cap

1861
01:29:38,360 --> 01:29:42,759
Speaker 1: casualties were on you know, the radar of this front office.

1862
01:29:42,800 --> 01:29:45,760
Speaker 1: And here we are again. You know, Dwayne Allen a

1863
01:29:46,560 --> 01:29:49,840
Speaker 1: cut in New England, you know on the radar, Kevin

1864
01:29:49,960 --> 01:29:53,200
Speaker 1: Johnson cut earlier this week in Houston on the radar.

1865
01:29:53,320 --> 01:29:57,360
Speaker 1: Bring him in. So it's their following suit to some

1866
01:29:57,479 --> 01:30:00,479
Speaker 1: of what we saw last year. The difference is they've

1867
01:30:00,520 --> 01:30:03,960
Speaker 1: got a whole lot more cat money to spend, and

1868
01:30:04,400 --> 01:30:07,960
Speaker 1: you wonder which path they're going to take here, Murph,

1869
01:30:08,000 --> 01:30:10,760
Speaker 1: You know, are they going to you know, swing big

1870
01:30:10,960 --> 01:30:13,479
Speaker 1: maybe for one signing and then fill in the rest

1871
01:30:13,600 --> 01:30:16,560
Speaker 1: behind that with value free agents or are they or

1872
01:30:16,680 --> 01:30:19,599
Speaker 1: is quantity going to be more important than quality knowing

1873
01:30:19,680 --> 01:30:21,560
Speaker 1: the number of holes they have to fill. I'm not

1874
01:30:21,600 --> 01:30:23,120
Speaker 1: saying they're going to go on the cheap, but are

1875
01:30:23,160 --> 01:30:26,080
Speaker 1: they going to sign second tier players who are more

1876
01:30:26,120 --> 01:30:28,600
Speaker 1: affordable because they know they've got to sign three or

1877
01:30:28,680 --> 01:30:31,559
Speaker 1: four or five? Yeah? What did you make of lack

1878
01:30:31,640 --> 01:30:34,840
Speaker 1: on forrest report about the Bills being interested in Darryl Williams, who,

1879
01:30:34,880 --> 01:30:36,760
Speaker 1: when he was healthy a couple of years ago, was

1880
01:30:36,800 --> 01:30:39,320
Speaker 1: a pretty good offensive Yeah, I mean it's logical, it's

1881
01:30:39,439 --> 01:30:43,479
Speaker 1: logical thought. I mean, how much how much of an

1882
01:30:43,560 --> 01:30:45,360
Speaker 1: upgrade are we looking at if they do in fact

1883
01:30:45,439 --> 01:30:48,479
Speaker 1: land here? Yeah? Well, I want to say it's an upgrade,

1884
01:30:48,560 --> 01:30:50,800
Speaker 1: but he's coming back from a pretty serious knee injury,

1885
01:30:50,880 --> 01:30:53,600
Speaker 1: so I think there's a lot of ground to be

1886
01:30:53,760 --> 01:30:58,759
Speaker 1: covered there from a physical standpoint. Before you can stamp

1887
01:30:58,840 --> 01:31:03,639
Speaker 1: it an upgrade. Obviously before the injury, yes, a better player,

1888
01:31:03,760 --> 01:31:06,560
Speaker 1: I think across the board from an offensive tackle perspective,

1889
01:31:06,600 --> 01:31:10,439
Speaker 1: in terms of skill, physical ability, ability to work with

1890
01:31:10,560 --> 01:31:13,519
Speaker 1: a guard. All of that, he was better and would

1891
01:31:13,560 --> 01:31:16,320
Speaker 1: be an upgrade. The injury is what gives you pause.

1892
01:31:16,920 --> 01:31:20,280
Speaker 1: And knowing that people like you and I are not

1893
01:31:20,479 --> 01:31:23,480
Speaker 1: in there with the doctors pulling and prodding and evaluating

1894
01:31:23,640 --> 01:31:27,080
Speaker 1: MRIs and watching him work out, perhaps even before he

1895
01:31:27,240 --> 01:31:31,519
Speaker 1: signs somewhere, it's hard to definitively say yeah, he's going

1896
01:31:31,600 --> 01:31:34,599
Speaker 1: to be better. Let's see him play on a field

1897
01:31:34,840 --> 01:31:37,760
Speaker 1: or at least practice before we can say this guy's

1898
01:31:37,760 --> 01:31:39,720
Speaker 1: gonna be pretty darn good for them. Yep. All right,

1899
01:31:39,720 --> 01:31:41,280
Speaker 1: we got a lot to talk about with Chris Brown.

1900
01:31:41,400 --> 01:31:43,680
Speaker 1: He's in for the vacationing Steve Task. No, he's not

1901
01:31:43,760 --> 01:31:49,160
Speaker 1: vacations with the Porcelain Bowl right now. Vacation Steve Tasking.

1902
01:31:49,600 --> 01:31:52,599
Speaker 1: John Breach is coming up next hour's CBS Sports NFL writer.

1903
01:31:53,000 --> 01:31:55,080
Speaker 1: His father was an NFL kicker for a long time.

1904
01:31:55,320 --> 01:31:56,960
Speaker 1: We'll talk with him about a lot of this free

1905
01:31:57,000 --> 01:31:59,479
Speaker 1: agency stuff. We're gonna get Chris involved in our Twitter

1906
01:31:59,520 --> 01:32:01,280
Speaker 1: pool today and our topic of the day, what's the

1907
01:32:01,360 --> 01:32:03,920
Speaker 1: best way for the Bills to get better in twenty nineteen.

1908
01:32:03,960 --> 01:32:05,599
Speaker 1: All of that coming up an hour number three, Come

1909
01:32:05,640 --> 01:32:08,280
Speaker 1: on back. One Bill's Live, presented by Kalada Health from

1910
01:32:08,320 --> 01:32:21,639
Speaker 1: One Bill Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio, Hello Hills

1911
01:32:21,880 --> 01:32:26,400
Speaker 1: Radio Network. Sports Day Day comes from One Bill's Drive.

1912
01:32:26,479 --> 01:32:28,879
Speaker 1: The Buffalo Bills and the rest of the NFL poised

1913
01:32:28,920 --> 01:32:32,240
Speaker 1: to pounce on free agents. Next Monday is day one

1914
01:32:32,360 --> 01:32:34,920
Speaker 1: of the legal tampering period when they can talk to

1915
01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:38,400
Speaker 1: the free agents. Next Wednesday, six days away, is the

1916
01:32:38,439 --> 01:32:40,760
Speaker 1: first day they can sign those free agents. Jason lock

1917
01:32:40,840 --> 01:32:43,840
Speaker 1: on Fa of CBS Sports says the Bills are planning

1918
01:32:43,920 --> 01:32:47,240
Speaker 1: on pursuing offensive tackle Darryl Williams, who's played the last

1919
01:32:47,240 --> 01:32:49,280
Speaker 1: couple of years with the Carolina Panthers. The Bills and

1920
01:32:49,400 --> 01:32:52,280
Speaker 1: Giants said to be in pursuit of Williams. Williams had

1921
01:32:52,320 --> 01:32:55,080
Speaker 1: a good year in twenty seventeen, but suffered multiple knee

1922
01:32:55,080 --> 01:32:58,519
Speaker 1: injuries in twenty eighteen, including a dislocated kneecap and the

1923
01:32:58,600 --> 01:33:01,720
Speaker 1: touring MCL Twenty six years old. When he's healthy, he's

1924
01:33:01,760 --> 01:33:04,439
Speaker 1: regarded as one of the top fight young offensive linemen

1925
01:33:04,479 --> 01:33:06,720
Speaker 1: in the League Daryl Williams maybe a target for the

1926
01:33:06,760 --> 01:33:11,040
Speaker 1: Bills when free agency opens next week. According to ESPN,

1927
01:33:11,120 --> 01:33:13,360
Speaker 1: a number of teams have been quired about Arizona Cardinals

1928
01:33:13,439 --> 01:33:16,640
Speaker 1: quarterback Josh Rosen and his trade availability. They did it

1929
01:33:16,680 --> 01:33:19,160
Speaker 1: at the Combine last week. The Cardinals, however, have not

1930
01:33:19,320 --> 01:33:21,519
Speaker 1: given any teams any indication that they were willing to

1931
01:33:21,600 --> 01:33:24,240
Speaker 1: move on from their first round draft pick last year Josh.

1932
01:33:24,840 --> 01:33:26,800
Speaker 1: Cardinals hold the number one overall pick in the draft.

1933
01:33:27,040 --> 01:33:30,760
Speaker 1: They've been connected to Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray. ESPN's Tom

1934
01:33:30,920 --> 01:33:33,519
Speaker 1: mtchay as a Cardinals picky Murray number one overall in

1935
01:33:33,680 --> 01:33:36,800
Speaker 1: his most recent mock draft, and it would stand the

1936
01:33:36,920 --> 01:33:38,960
Speaker 1: reason that they might be in the mood to move

1937
01:33:39,080 --> 01:33:40,880
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen if they get a quarterback in the first

1938
01:33:40,960 --> 01:33:43,639
Speaker 1: round this year as well. Hockey Savers game night tonight

1939
01:33:43,720 --> 01:33:46,679
Speaker 1: in Chicago, wrapping up their season series with the Chicago

1940
01:33:46,720 --> 01:33:49,559
Speaker 1: Blackhawks at United Center. It's an eight thirty face off

1941
01:33:49,960 --> 01:33:53,000
Speaker 1: tonight in Chicago. Jack Eichel tied for eleventh in the

1942
01:33:53,080 --> 01:33:55,760
Speaker 1: league with twenty points in eighteen games since the All

1943
01:33:55,840 --> 01:33:58,639
Speaker 1: Star Break. Nine goals during that span tied for eighth

1944
01:33:58,720 --> 01:34:01,120
Speaker 1: in the league. Eight thirty face off tonight the Buffalo

1945
01:34:01,200 --> 01:34:04,360
Speaker 1: Sabers in Chicago college basketball. Tonight, the Purple Legals of

1946
01:34:04,479 --> 01:34:08,120
Speaker 1: Niagara opened playing the Mental Atlantic Athletic Conference Tournament in

1947
01:34:08,200 --> 01:34:11,360
Speaker 1: Albany the Times Union Center. Niagara, the eleventh seed, plays

1948
01:34:11,439 --> 01:34:14,360
Speaker 1: number six seed Monmouth tonight. That's a nine o'clock tip off.

1949
01:34:14,400 --> 01:34:17,760
Speaker 1: The Purple Legals hammered Monmouth seventy forty eight back when

1950
01:34:17,800 --> 01:34:21,000
Speaker 1: they played in late January at the Gallagher Center. And

1951
01:34:21,120 --> 01:34:23,280
Speaker 1: that's the update from One Bill Drive. John Murphy and

1952
01:34:23,439 --> 01:34:25,720
Speaker 1: Chris Brown. I was saying to h Chris is here

1953
01:34:25,760 --> 01:34:27,880
Speaker 1: for Steve Tash I was saying to with Steve, how

1954
01:34:27,960 --> 01:34:29,559
Speaker 1: I love the month of March mostly because of all

1955
01:34:29,600 --> 01:34:32,120
Speaker 1: the basketball. Steve, you're who fan, right Johnny's Room for

1956
01:34:32,120 --> 01:34:34,040
Speaker 1: your Saint John. Oh yeah, Look, they're looking like a

1957
01:34:34,200 --> 01:34:36,559
Speaker 1: nine seed right about now. So if they go out

1958
01:34:36,640 --> 01:34:38,240
Speaker 1: early in the Big East Tournament, they could be a

1959
01:34:38,280 --> 01:34:40,559
Speaker 1: ten or eleven and that wouldn't be good. But it's

1960
01:34:40,600 --> 01:34:42,479
Speaker 1: been a long time since they've been there. Ready for

1961
01:34:42,560 --> 01:34:44,000
Speaker 1: the game of the year. Of course, all He's got

1962
01:34:44,040 --> 01:34:48,439
Speaker 1: them right. So Saturday night, eight o'clock, Michigan Michigan State

1963
01:34:48,520 --> 01:34:50,400
Speaker 1: for the Big Ten. Maybe for the big Michigan States.

1964
01:34:50,439 --> 01:34:52,840
Speaker 1: So beat up they're not. I wouldn't worry. This is

1965
01:34:52,880 --> 01:34:54,920
Speaker 1: the best game of the year. I wouldn't worry about them.

1966
01:34:55,160 --> 01:34:57,519
Speaker 1: They got so many injuries it's too much to overcome.

1967
01:34:58,200 --> 01:34:59,960
Speaker 1: I mean, they'll get to the tournament, they'll probably win

1968
01:35:00,080 --> 01:35:03,080
Speaker 1: a game, maybe two, but they just don't have the

1969
01:35:03,720 --> 01:35:06,280
Speaker 1: bench anymore. They're just They're like a one man show

1970
01:35:06,320 --> 01:35:08,840
Speaker 1: on offense. Now, Okay, I'm not taking them as lately

1971
01:35:08,840 --> 01:35:10,920
Speaker 1: as you are. Okay. Chris Brown is in with us

1972
01:35:11,120 --> 01:35:13,840
Speaker 1: seeing tasker took a hike. He'll be back tomorrow, we hope.

1973
01:35:14,080 --> 01:35:16,160
Speaker 1: Joining us on the Subway Fresh Say Kidline to talk

1974
01:35:16,200 --> 01:35:18,960
Speaker 1: about NFL free agency and everything going on around the NFL.

1975
01:35:19,240 --> 01:35:22,639
Speaker 1: CBS Sports NFL writer. He's been with CBS since twenty eleven.

1976
01:35:22,960 --> 01:35:24,960
Speaker 1: John Breaches on the line. John, you were right next

1977
01:35:25,000 --> 01:35:27,080
Speaker 1: door to us at the Combine last week and we

1978
01:35:27,160 --> 01:35:28,840
Speaker 1: never got a chance to shake your hand and say hello.

1979
01:35:28,920 --> 01:35:31,000
Speaker 1: So I'll do it now. How are you good? Good?

1980
01:35:31,000 --> 01:35:33,519
Speaker 1: Do you have you on the show? Thank you? Yeah, definitely.

1981
01:35:33,560 --> 01:35:35,280
Speaker 1: I got a chance to talk to your producer, Jay,

1982
01:35:35,320 --> 01:35:37,519
Speaker 1: who I communicate with us all the time. Awesome guy.

1983
01:35:37,720 --> 01:35:40,000
Speaker 1: You guys were so busy. I feel like I couldn't

1984
01:35:40,000 --> 01:35:42,160
Speaker 1: even squeeze in five seconds to go say hello. I mean,

1985
01:35:42,360 --> 01:35:45,200
Speaker 1: nobody was working harder at the combine than you guys.

1986
01:35:45,360 --> 01:35:50,280
Speaker 1: I hope we got some buses listening. Wow, thank you, John. Yeah,

1987
01:35:50,320 --> 01:35:53,479
Speaker 1: that was great. Hey, the combine was interesting and the uh,

1988
01:35:53,880 --> 01:35:56,679
Speaker 1: the rising prominence of Kyler Murray, a guy who didn't

1989
01:35:56,680 --> 01:35:58,800
Speaker 1: even work out at the combine, maybe the story of

1990
01:35:59,160 --> 01:36:02,040
Speaker 1: the weekend there. This is a guy who measured in

1991
01:36:02,240 --> 01:36:04,320
Speaker 1: and waited in and then took the rest of the

1992
01:36:04,360 --> 01:36:05,960
Speaker 1: weekend off, and yet he could be the number one

1993
01:36:06,000 --> 01:36:09,880
Speaker 1: overall pick. Huh. Yeah, I really felt like Kyler was

1994
01:36:10,080 --> 01:36:13,120
Speaker 1: the big winner at the combine, which seemed almost impossible

1995
01:36:13,160 --> 01:36:15,840
Speaker 1: to believe since he didn't throw, he didn't run, But

1996
01:36:15,960 --> 01:36:18,880
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks who did throw and run just weren't impressive.

1997
01:36:18,920 --> 01:36:21,040
Speaker 1: And all Kyler Murray had to do was show up

1998
01:36:21,080 --> 01:36:22,559
Speaker 1: with a hand that was over nine and a half

1999
01:36:22,640 --> 01:36:26,680
Speaker 1: inches and not be five nine, and he accomplished both

2000
01:36:26,720 --> 01:36:29,040
Speaker 1: of those things and came out of the combine as, Hey,

2001
01:36:29,120 --> 01:36:31,320
Speaker 1: this guy feels like this is the best quarterback in

2002
01:36:31,320 --> 01:36:33,960
Speaker 1: the draft right now. So then what to what do

2003
01:36:34,040 --> 01:36:37,960
Speaker 1: you attribute the motivation on the part of Charlie Casserley

2004
01:36:38,200 --> 01:36:41,760
Speaker 1: with his so called sources telling him that, you know,

2005
01:36:41,920 --> 01:36:46,120
Speaker 1: Murray's leadership and study habits were panned by a host

2006
01:36:46,320 --> 01:36:49,120
Speaker 1: of NFL clubs that had him in for formal interviews.

2007
01:36:49,160 --> 01:36:52,640
Speaker 1: There's there's gotta be some team further down in the

2008
01:36:52,720 --> 01:36:55,519
Speaker 1: top ten that wants to ensure that Murray gets down

2009
01:36:55,600 --> 01:36:57,720
Speaker 1: to them, So they're trying to sully this guy's name.

2010
01:36:57,960 --> 01:37:00,960
Speaker 1: I don't I don't understand what's the rub here. Yeah,

2011
01:37:01,040 --> 01:37:02,720
Speaker 1: that's what it feels like. I mean, I think the

2012
01:37:03,200 --> 01:37:06,200
Speaker 1: biggest red flag with his castile's comments. You know, Casterley's

2013
01:37:06,200 --> 01:37:08,479
Speaker 1: the general manager for a long time, He's connected, But

2014
01:37:08,640 --> 01:37:12,160
Speaker 1: it does feel like the leadership thing when he said, hey,

2015
01:37:12,280 --> 01:37:15,080
Speaker 1: that Kyler Murrain doesn't have a good leadership, and he

2016
01:37:15,240 --> 01:37:17,519
Speaker 1: was basing on what he had heard from the Combine.

2017
01:37:17,640 --> 01:37:19,920
Speaker 1: It's I'm not sure how much you can really judge

2018
01:37:20,160 --> 01:37:22,439
Speaker 1: how well of a leader a guy is based on

2019
01:37:22,640 --> 01:37:25,320
Speaker 1: a ten minute interview at the combine. You know what

2020
01:37:25,360 --> 01:37:27,439
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So and you look at his track record,

2021
01:37:27,520 --> 01:37:29,320
Speaker 1: you look at what he did at Oklahoma last year,

2022
01:37:29,960 --> 01:37:31,960
Speaker 1: the guy who was a top ten pick in the

2023
01:37:32,120 --> 01:37:35,040
Speaker 1: MLBA draft. And if you're not a good communicator or

2024
01:37:35,040 --> 01:37:36,600
Speaker 1: a leader of some sorts, You're probably not going to

2025
01:37:36,640 --> 01:37:39,599
Speaker 1: be taken that high in the Major League Baseball draft.

2026
01:37:39,760 --> 01:37:43,080
Speaker 1: So it just felt it did feel like maybe someone

2027
01:37:43,240 --> 01:37:46,720
Speaker 1: was trying to maybe feeding Charlie's information, trying to sabotage

2028
01:37:47,439 --> 01:37:49,880
Speaker 1: Kyler's spot in the draft, hoping he falls a little further.

2029
01:37:50,080 --> 01:37:53,440
Speaker 1: But it was really weird comments to make after everybody

2030
01:37:53,800 --> 01:37:56,080
Speaker 1: kind of universally agreed that Kyler had a pretty Shawan

2031
01:37:56,120 --> 01:37:59,560
Speaker 1: combine as he should. Kyler Murray's agent came through his

2032
01:37:59,600 --> 01:38:04,520
Speaker 1: defense pretty vigorously, right, And since the Cassuley comments, yeah, absolutely,

2033
01:38:04,600 --> 01:38:07,360
Speaker 1: and the same one cassually, it really made it sound

2034
01:38:07,400 --> 01:38:09,600
Speaker 1: like he was trying to make Kyler Murray sound like

2035
01:38:09,720 --> 01:38:13,840
Speaker 1: the next Johnny Mantel. And what Eric Burkhart, his agent, did,

2036
01:38:14,080 --> 01:38:17,240
Speaker 1: was just came out with a flamethrower. I mean, you

2037
01:38:17,280 --> 01:38:21,040
Speaker 1: don't really hear an agent just ripped into a former

2038
01:38:21,160 --> 01:38:24,600
Speaker 1: NFL general manager, But that's exactly what Burkhard did. He just,

2039
01:38:25,439 --> 01:38:29,240
Speaker 1: you know, he he pointed out Cassuley's track record that

2040
01:38:29,520 --> 01:38:31,680
Speaker 1: he struggled with the Texans didn't draft a lot of

2041
01:38:31,720 --> 01:38:35,519
Speaker 1: great quarterbacks. And so when you look at that, if

2042
01:38:35,560 --> 01:38:38,120
Speaker 1: I'm a college prospect and I'm looking at Eric Burkhart.

2043
01:38:38,160 --> 01:38:40,519
Speaker 1: I'm saying, my god, that is my agent. That guy

2044
01:38:40,640 --> 01:38:43,000
Speaker 1: is going out and defending his clients. So I think

2045
01:38:43,040 --> 01:38:44,640
Speaker 1: the people that do look good at the end of

2046
01:38:44,680 --> 01:38:48,519
Speaker 1: the situation are Kyler Murray and Eric Burkhart. Yeah, because

2047
01:38:48,560 --> 01:38:51,400
Speaker 1: Charlie Cassule, he still has Heath Shuler drafted third overall

2048
01:38:51,479 --> 01:38:55,439
Speaker 1: on his resume. Show, So there's that. I want to

2049
01:38:55,520 --> 01:38:57,360
Speaker 1: kind of shift gears here because I was I was

2050
01:38:57,520 --> 01:39:01,240
Speaker 1: very interested about that thing that we saw on Oakland,

2051
01:39:01,760 --> 01:39:05,280
Speaker 1: the Raiders playing there in twenty nineteen. But there's a

2052
01:39:05,360 --> 01:39:07,759
Speaker 1: major hang up there. There's a lot of legal ease.

2053
01:39:08,880 --> 01:39:11,599
Speaker 1: Can you spell it out for the layman? So, because

2054
01:39:11,920 --> 01:39:16,160
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like it's lockstock and Barrel that they're

2055
01:39:16,200 --> 01:39:17,880
Speaker 1: going to play there, I mean, there seems to be

2056
01:39:17,960 --> 01:39:19,960
Speaker 1: this hang up here. I'm just wondering how long it

2057
01:39:20,040 --> 01:39:23,000
Speaker 1: gets too late. Yeah, last week it seemed like it

2058
01:39:23,120 --> 01:39:26,479
Speaker 1: was a given, and now we have the executive director

2059
01:39:26,560 --> 01:39:30,280
Speaker 1: of the Oakland Colliseum Authority came out yesterday and said, hey,

2060
01:39:30,400 --> 01:39:33,559
Speaker 1: there's actually this one significant issue and it might blow

2061
01:39:33,680 --> 01:39:36,320
Speaker 1: this whole deal up. It might not happen and He

2062
01:39:36,400 --> 01:39:39,280
Speaker 1: didn't say what the issue was, but San Francisco Chronicle

2063
01:39:39,439 --> 01:39:42,000
Speaker 1: is saying that the issue is over the amount of

2064
01:39:42,120 --> 01:39:45,400
Speaker 1: rent that the Raiders are paying at their practice facility,

2065
01:39:45,439 --> 01:39:47,799
Speaker 1: So they pay that rent to the city of Oakland

2066
01:39:47,840 --> 01:39:52,759
Speaker 1: to Alameda. So what you have and what this feels

2067
01:39:52,800 --> 01:39:56,559
Speaker 1: like is that the stadium authority thinks they have all

2068
01:39:56,640 --> 01:39:59,479
Speaker 1: the leverage in negotiations now because the deal falls apart.

2069
01:39:59,520 --> 01:40:01,080
Speaker 1: What are the d They don't have anywhere to go,

2070
01:40:01,160 --> 01:40:03,560
Speaker 1: There's no plan B. The NFL schedule is supposed to

2071
01:40:03,600 --> 01:40:05,720
Speaker 1: come out in a month, so it's not like they

2072
01:40:05,800 --> 01:40:09,000
Speaker 1: can go looking around the country to play somewhere. So

2073
01:40:09,120 --> 01:40:11,439
Speaker 1: it feels like the stadium authority is saying, hey, you

2074
01:40:11,520 --> 01:40:14,080
Speaker 1: need to accept these terms or will blow up the deal.

2075
01:40:14,479 --> 01:40:16,880
Speaker 1: And really, the Raiders only other option will probably need

2076
01:40:16,920 --> 01:40:19,040
Speaker 1: to play at leave By Stadium, and Mark Davis definitely

2077
01:40:19,040 --> 01:40:22,040
Speaker 1: doesn't want to do that. So I think that whatever

2078
01:40:22,400 --> 01:40:26,080
Speaker 1: terms the Coliseum Stadium authority is asking for and they're

2079
01:40:26,120 --> 01:40:28,040
Speaker 1: hoping to get over the next few days, the Raiders

2080
01:40:28,080 --> 01:40:30,000
Speaker 1: are probably gonna have to agree to it because they

2081
01:40:30,120 --> 01:40:31,880
Speaker 1: just can't have this deal blow up in their face

2082
01:40:31,920 --> 01:40:33,760
Speaker 1: at this point. I mean, what are you looking at

2083
01:40:33,800 --> 01:40:38,320
Speaker 1: San Jose a state like, where the heck are you playing? Yeah, exactly,

2084
01:40:38,400 --> 01:40:41,320
Speaker 1: I mean San Francisco mayor said no, you're not playing here.

2085
01:40:41,479 --> 01:40:45,160
Speaker 1: We can't have you, you know, and San Diego seems

2086
01:40:45,200 --> 01:40:48,400
Speaker 1: far fetched. And I don't know what Mark Davis thinks

2087
01:40:48,439 --> 01:40:50,200
Speaker 1: his options are. Maybe he's gonna go play in a

2088
01:40:50,280 --> 01:40:53,000
Speaker 1: grass field and Vegas and just had their early Well,

2089
01:40:53,120 --> 01:40:54,640
Speaker 1: John to mean, you don't have to agree with this,

2090
01:40:54,760 --> 01:40:58,439
Speaker 1: but to me, there's nothing about the Raiders impending moved

2091
01:40:58,479 --> 01:41:00,800
Speaker 1: to Las Vegas that's a good look for the league,

2092
01:41:00,840 --> 01:41:03,799
Speaker 1: not what's going on in Oakland, not what has happened

2093
01:41:03,840 --> 01:41:05,519
Speaker 1: so far, and not really what it waits him in

2094
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Speaker 1: Las Vegas. I just I just think this is a

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01:41:07,840 --> 01:41:10,679
Speaker 1: blackmark on the league. I really do believe that. Yeah,

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01:41:10,760 --> 01:41:15,240
Speaker 1: it seemed like the Raiders are dysfunctional, but I don't

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01:41:15,280 --> 01:41:18,440
Speaker 1: think the league was ready for the amount of dysfunction

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01:41:18,520 --> 01:41:20,400
Speaker 1: that was going to come with this move. It's been

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01:41:20,560 --> 01:41:26,000
Speaker 1: handled disastrously. It has just been whoa, you know, just

2100
01:41:26,320 --> 01:41:29,320
Speaker 1: jaw dropping moves that just keep happening, and not jaw

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01:41:29,439 --> 01:41:31,680
Speaker 1: dropping in a good way. And this is just a

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01:41:31,840 --> 01:41:34,599
Speaker 1: bad look for everyone that one of your main state

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01:41:34,640 --> 01:41:37,400
Speaker 1: teams The Raiders are a worldwide brand. They're a team

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01:41:37,479 --> 01:41:40,480
Speaker 1: that a lot of NFL fans around the world recognized,

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01:41:40,680 --> 01:41:42,840
Speaker 1: and the fact that they're kind of embarrassing the league

2106
01:41:42,840 --> 01:41:46,719
Speaker 1: with this situation, it's really amazing that the NFL hasn't

2107
01:41:46,800 --> 01:41:48,200
Speaker 1: kind of stepped in and said, you know what, you

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01:41:48,240 --> 01:41:49,840
Speaker 1: need to do this because we need to get this done,

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01:41:50,200 --> 01:41:52,040
Speaker 1: and you need a city to play in because we

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01:41:52,120 --> 01:41:55,160
Speaker 1: have a schedule to make it. Yeah, Raiders. Question about

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Speaker 1: Raiders football for a second, if I can. John. Our

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Speaker 1: guest is John Breach from CBS Sports CBS Sports dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Antonio Brown the Steelers have It's been said a couple

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01:42:05,040 --> 01:42:07,960
Speaker 1: of times. Now, Steelers want to make the move by tomorrow.

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01:42:08,000 --> 01:42:10,320
Speaker 1: I guess by the end of business tomorrow. Is Oakland

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01:42:10,400 --> 01:42:13,120
Speaker 1: the likely landing spot for Antonio Brown? Would you think?

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01:42:13,840 --> 01:42:16,000
Speaker 1: I mean, that's who It seems like hearing Derek Carr

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01:42:16,000 --> 01:42:18,120
Speaker 1: at a charity event say yeah, I want that guy

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01:42:18,200 --> 01:42:21,320
Speaker 1: on my team when there's probably only four quarterbacks in

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01:42:21,320 --> 01:42:23,120
Speaker 1: the NFL who would come out and say that openly.

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01:42:23,200 --> 01:42:26,439
Speaker 1: After Antonio Brown kind of threw Ben Roethlisford under the

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01:42:26,439 --> 01:42:29,760
Speaker 1: bus during Lebron's HBO show last week, so to hear

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01:42:29,760 --> 01:42:32,639
Speaker 1: a quarterbacks say that that's probably encouraging for Antonio Brown.

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01:42:33,080 --> 01:42:34,439
Speaker 1: And there aren't a lot of teams that have the

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01:42:34,560 --> 01:42:37,120
Speaker 1: resources to pull this deal off. But the Raiders, they

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01:42:37,200 --> 01:42:40,200
Speaker 1: have plenty of salary cap space, and if the Steelers

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01:42:40,280 --> 01:42:42,719
Speaker 1: want that first round pick, the Raiders have three first

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01:42:42,760 --> 01:42:45,479
Speaker 1: round pick. So it's a deal that really mesh as well,

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01:42:45,600 --> 01:42:48,599
Speaker 1: as long as the Raiders know what they're getting into.

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01:42:48,720 --> 01:42:52,120
Speaker 1: With Antonio Brown's personality and the fact that there's no

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01:42:52,240 --> 01:42:54,080
Speaker 1: way to tell how well this guy's gonna sit in

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01:42:54,120 --> 01:42:56,040
Speaker 1: the locker room, you trade for him, and then all

2133
01:42:56,040 --> 01:42:58,120
Speaker 1: of the studd in the locker rooms bown up because

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01:42:58,160 --> 01:43:01,000
Speaker 1: it's his attitude that's a problem. But you know, John

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01:43:01,040 --> 01:43:03,720
Speaker 1: Gruden seemed to love chaos, so this almost feels like

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01:43:03,800 --> 01:43:07,160
Speaker 1: the perfect fit. Yeah. And then just with respect to

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01:43:07,640 --> 01:43:10,839
Speaker 1: you know, the quarterback market. You know, everybody's expecting Nick Foles.

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01:43:11,040 --> 01:43:13,240
Speaker 1: You know, Jacksonville is going to be hot on his heels.

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01:43:13,320 --> 01:43:16,400
Speaker 1: Miami is supposedly interested, along with a handful of other teams.

2140
01:43:16,760 --> 01:43:19,280
Speaker 1: But then you have a guy that you know his

2141
01:43:19,439 --> 01:43:23,000
Speaker 1: case is now settled with the NFL and Colin Kaepernick.

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01:43:23,600 --> 01:43:26,720
Speaker 1: What is the likelihood that the door opens, maybe just

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01:43:26,840 --> 01:43:30,959
Speaker 1: a crack for Kaepernick to have some options and potentially

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01:43:31,040 --> 01:43:35,160
Speaker 1: be on a roster somewhere come this fall. I would

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01:43:35,240 --> 01:43:39,599
Speaker 1: say that, you know, last year, with all the clusion

2146
01:43:39,640 --> 01:43:41,240
Speaker 1: case everything going on, I would have put at like

2147
01:43:41,520 --> 01:43:45,759
Speaker 1: zero percent. But this year it feels like maybe ten percent.

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01:43:45,880 --> 01:43:47,720
Speaker 1: You know, you said the door could be open a crack.

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01:43:47,800 --> 01:43:50,519
Speaker 1: That kind of feels like what it is. He's thirty one,

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01:43:50,800 --> 01:43:53,320
Speaker 1: the clusion cases behind him, He's down the NFL for

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01:43:53,360 --> 01:43:56,679
Speaker 1: two years, so this feels like the last offseason where

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01:43:56,760 --> 01:43:59,760
Speaker 1: he would have a realistic chance to sign with an

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01:44:00,040 --> 01:44:02,519
Speaker 1: NFL team and maybe make the team as their backup

2154
01:44:02,680 --> 01:44:04,280
Speaker 1: or starting quarterback. You don't get it on this year

2155
01:44:04,280 --> 01:44:06,160
Speaker 1: and just too old. You've been out of NFL too long.

2156
01:44:06,479 --> 01:44:08,760
Speaker 1: His lawyer, Mark Garrigos, thinks it's going to happen. So

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01:44:08,880 --> 01:44:12,800
Speaker 1: it feels like this would be the offseason where his representation,

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01:44:12,920 --> 01:44:16,160
Speaker 1: his camp really pushes to get him signed. So it

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01:44:16,280 --> 01:44:19,439
Speaker 1: just depends on what teams are going to be willing

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01:44:19,560 --> 01:44:22,760
Speaker 1: to deal with the circus that would come with signing him.

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01:44:22,800 --> 01:44:24,479
Speaker 1: And that just means there's going to be media there

2162
01:44:24,479 --> 01:44:27,640
Speaker 1: every day. They're gonna get Kaepernet questions every day. But

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01:44:28,080 --> 01:44:30,559
Speaker 1: there are a lot of quarterback questions as Dolphins don't

2164
01:44:30,600 --> 01:44:33,559
Speaker 1: really have a quarterback. The Redskins don't really have a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: So it feels like there could be one team out there.

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01:44:36,200 --> 01:44:37,840
Speaker 1: It just takes one team that would take a risk

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01:44:37,880 --> 01:44:40,720
Speaker 1: on him. Hey, John, talking to me about receivers, if

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01:44:40,720 --> 01:44:43,479
Speaker 1: you would in a particular Golden Tate another veteran, I

2169
01:44:43,520 --> 01:44:46,000
Speaker 1: think he's thirty one years old. Is he really at

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01:44:46,040 --> 01:44:48,080
Speaker 1: the top of the class of free agent receivers coming

2171
01:44:48,080 --> 01:44:51,799
Speaker 1: out next week? This free agent class, this free agency

2172
01:44:51,800 --> 01:44:55,360
Speaker 1: class for receivers is not attracted, you know, And that

2173
01:44:55,800 --> 01:44:57,920
Speaker 1: is not taking anything away from Golden Tate. He's a

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Speaker 1: great receiver, but he's the top receiver in that class.

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01:45:02,160 --> 01:45:05,880
Speaker 1: You know, people might throw out Tyrrell Williams, Adam Humphrey's

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01:45:06,280 --> 01:45:08,600
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb, but I would say the Golden Tate is

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01:45:08,920 --> 01:45:11,240
Speaker 1: hands down the top receiver in the class and hope

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01:45:11,240 --> 01:45:13,439
Speaker 1: be able to go anywhere he wants, any team that

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Speaker 1: needs a receiver. And I know he said on a

2180
01:45:15,600 --> 01:45:19,280
Speaker 1: podcast recently that he loved to be catching passes from

2181
01:45:19,320 --> 01:45:22,280
Speaker 1: old Tommy Boy in New English. Probably sounds like a

2182
01:45:22,360 --> 01:45:25,439
Speaker 1: nightmare to you guys in Buffalo, But that feels like

2183
01:45:25,560 --> 01:45:27,439
Speaker 1: the best fit. You know, he won a super Bowl

2184
01:45:27,439 --> 01:45:30,240
Speaker 1: with the Seahawks in twenty thirteen, and I'm sure he

2185
01:45:30,280 --> 01:45:33,760
Speaker 1: would love to book end his career with another super Bowl,

2186
01:45:34,080 --> 01:45:36,559
Speaker 1: and the Patriots probably his best opportunity to get that done.

2187
01:45:36,680 --> 01:45:38,519
Speaker 1: Why did it No one thinks of John Brown my

2188
01:45:38,680 --> 01:45:41,000
Speaker 1: favorite is at the top of this free agent class,

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01:45:41,080 --> 01:45:43,960
Speaker 1: or near the top even, And he thought, yeah, I

2190
01:45:44,080 --> 01:45:46,040
Speaker 1: think it's just he kind of got lost. Last year

2191
01:45:46,479 --> 01:45:49,160
Speaker 1: when Joe Flacco was on the field. He put up

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01:45:49,200 --> 01:45:51,360
Speaker 1: some decent numbers, but then you go to this we're

2193
01:45:51,400 --> 01:45:54,160
Speaker 1: gonna run only and we're gonna run Lamar Jackson to death.

2194
01:45:54,160 --> 01:45:57,080
Speaker 1: They just weren't throwing off passes anyone involved. So over

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01:45:57,160 --> 01:45:59,040
Speaker 1: the last day eight weeks of the season is just

2196
01:45:59,400 --> 01:46:02,720
Speaker 1: John Brown went dark and so there's no you know

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01:46:02,840 --> 01:46:05,360
Speaker 1: that the film got out there and he has become

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01:46:05,439 --> 01:46:07,960
Speaker 1: kind of this forgotten guy. He's definitely one of those

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01:46:08,040 --> 01:46:11,320
Speaker 1: free agents that you could sign and by this time

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01:46:11,560 --> 01:46:14,040
Speaker 1: next year, everybody's gonna saying, how did we let John

2201
01:46:14,120 --> 01:46:16,320
Speaker 1: Brown fallen free agency? Or how did we get him

2202
01:46:16,320 --> 01:46:18,680
Speaker 1: for so cheap? So he's definitely could be a guy,

2203
01:46:18,800 --> 01:46:21,599
Speaker 1: a dark horse free agents that is contribute our big

2204
01:46:21,640 --> 01:46:24,240
Speaker 1: time in twenty nineteen. Yeah, because the thing the difference

2205
01:46:24,280 --> 01:46:26,599
Speaker 1: in the free agent wide receiver class this year maybe

2206
01:46:26,640 --> 01:46:28,479
Speaker 1: as opposed to last year. Last year you had a

2207
01:46:28,520 --> 01:46:33,519
Speaker 1: lot of good outside receiver talent available on the market,

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01:46:33,600 --> 01:46:35,760
Speaker 1: and this year the depth seems to be all in

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Speaker 1: the slot. I mean, Tate plays the slot. You got

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01:46:38,000 --> 01:46:41,320
Speaker 1: Adam Humphries in Tampa Bay. You got a few others

2211
01:46:41,400 --> 01:46:43,320
Speaker 1: there that are probably at the top of the list

2212
01:46:43,360 --> 01:46:45,839
Speaker 1: at the receiver position. I mean, John Brown's an exception,

2213
01:46:45,880 --> 01:46:47,920
Speaker 1: and there are a few others, but it seems like

2214
01:46:48,040 --> 01:46:50,760
Speaker 1: that's where the meat of this free agent class is

2215
01:46:50,800 --> 01:46:53,600
Speaker 1: at the receiver position. And the Patriots love throwing a

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01:46:53,640 --> 01:46:56,439
Speaker 1: slot receivers. I mean you say, well, they already have Edelman,

2217
01:46:56,560 --> 01:47:00,320
Speaker 1: but we've seen them in the past use multiple slot

2218
01:47:00,400 --> 01:47:03,439
Speaker 1: guys in their offense. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely, And you have

2219
01:47:03,520 --> 01:47:05,840
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley in there too, and he's, like you just said,

2220
01:47:05,920 --> 01:47:09,599
Speaker 1: the Patriots love you know, they'll design something special if

2221
01:47:09,640 --> 01:47:11,280
Speaker 1: they if they think the receiver is good enough to

2222
01:47:11,280 --> 01:47:13,080
Speaker 1: play the further team, they're not going to worry about

2223
01:47:13,400 --> 01:47:16,000
Speaker 1: what their quote unquote position is or what part of

2224
01:47:16,280 --> 01:47:18,479
Speaker 1: the offensor SOPs to play, and they'll find a way

2225
01:47:18,520 --> 01:47:21,080
Speaker 1: to get them on the field. And that's why they're good.

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01:47:21,120 --> 01:47:23,080
Speaker 1: That's what makes them so good. So it wouldn't be

2227
01:47:23,120 --> 01:47:25,280
Speaker 1: shocking if they end up with one of those block guys. Hey,

2228
01:47:25,400 --> 01:47:30,599
Speaker 1: John NFC champions. The Rams dodge questions all postseason about

2229
01:47:31,200 --> 01:47:33,439
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley and what the problem was. Now it comes

2230
01:47:33,439 --> 01:47:35,880
Speaker 1: out that he is what arthritic need and it could

2231
01:47:35,880 --> 01:47:37,360
Speaker 1: be a problem for them. How big of a problem

2232
01:47:37,400 --> 01:47:39,840
Speaker 1: are they looking at something that might necessitate a move

2233
01:47:39,920 --> 01:47:42,559
Speaker 1: If I'm sure, I'm sure they want to maintain their

2234
01:47:42,600 --> 01:47:44,720
Speaker 1: status as one of the top teams in the league.

2235
01:47:44,760 --> 01:47:46,519
Speaker 1: Do they need to do something at that position? Would

2236
01:47:46,520 --> 01:47:49,760
Speaker 1: you think, yeah, they're gonna have to sign someone, I

2237
01:47:49,800 --> 01:47:52,400
Speaker 1: mean less need. General manager talked about it a little

2238
01:47:52,439 --> 01:47:54,280
Speaker 1: bit to combine that he doesn't he made it sound

2239
01:47:54,320 --> 01:47:56,240
Speaker 1: like he doesn't think Todd Gurley is going to be

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01:47:56,479 --> 01:47:58,880
Speaker 1: able to carry the full load of being the every

2241
01:47:58,920 --> 01:48:01,320
Speaker 1: down running back that he's been for the last few seasons,

2242
01:48:01,920 --> 01:48:04,639
Speaker 1: and so, you know, talking to Sean McVay one on one,

2243
01:48:04,680 --> 01:48:07,280
Speaker 1: he admitted that the knee's not at full strength right now,

2244
01:48:07,400 --> 01:48:09,880
Speaker 1: and so their goal is to get that knee at

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01:48:09,920 --> 01:48:13,040
Speaker 1: full strength. This offseason, so they're working with their team

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01:48:13,120 --> 01:48:16,160
Speaker 1: doctors to get that done. And that's where you know,

2247
01:48:16,160 --> 01:48:18,599
Speaker 1: I put the report out there about stem cell. If

2248
01:48:18,720 --> 01:48:23,000
Speaker 1: his knee doesn't improve this offseason or if it gets worse,

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01:48:23,320 --> 01:48:25,479
Speaker 1: that's where something like stem cells treatment comes on the

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01:48:25,560 --> 01:48:28,280
Speaker 1: table because this team has to have contingency plans because

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01:48:28,280 --> 01:48:30,679
Speaker 1: they haven't really figured out a way to make Todd

2252
01:48:30,760 --> 01:48:34,919
Speaker 1: Gurley's knee consistently better. So the knee is definitely a concern.

2253
01:48:35,200 --> 01:48:38,120
Speaker 1: And with arthritis, you never know when it's gonna get

2254
01:48:38,120 --> 01:48:40,200
Speaker 1: so bad. Gurley might make up, wake up one day

2255
01:48:40,280 --> 01:48:42,960
Speaker 1: and he's having trouble walking it's so bad. Some days

2256
01:48:43,000 --> 01:48:45,759
Speaker 1: he might not feel it. So it's really a huge

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01:48:45,880 --> 01:48:48,320
Speaker 1: question mark. And I don't know if they'll do it

2258
01:48:48,360 --> 01:48:50,040
Speaker 1: in the draft or free agency, but I will be

2259
01:48:50,320 --> 01:48:53,719
Speaker 1: stunned if the Rams don't add a C. J. Anderson

2260
01:48:53,760 --> 01:48:56,080
Speaker 1: type players that can compliment Todd Gurley next year. Yeah,

2261
01:48:56,120 --> 01:48:58,639
Speaker 1: so why don't we roll that right into the bold

2262
01:48:58,720 --> 01:49:01,320
Speaker 1: predictions here that you've made for the offseason. But I mean,

2263
01:49:01,560 --> 01:49:03,920
Speaker 1: do you have one for who the Rams might sign

2264
01:49:03,960 --> 01:49:09,000
Speaker 1: as a running back replacement or security measure? Ooh? I

2265
01:49:09,080 --> 01:49:11,920
Speaker 1: mean there are a few guys out there, But I

2266
01:49:12,080 --> 01:49:15,519
Speaker 1: think they would probably go to the draft only because

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01:49:16,000 --> 01:49:18,240
Speaker 1: you know, Tevin Coleman, mark Ingram. I don't think that

2268
01:49:18,280 --> 01:49:22,479
Speaker 1: would go after somebody's high prices. Levan Bell, Jgia's out there,

2269
01:49:22,680 --> 01:49:25,439
Speaker 1: But it's just because they have so much money locked

2270
01:49:25,520 --> 01:49:28,000
Speaker 1: into Todd Gurley. I think it would make more sense

2271
01:49:28,080 --> 01:49:31,439
Speaker 1: for them to go towards the draft just because it's

2272
01:49:31,680 --> 01:49:33,479
Speaker 1: a lot cheaper a lot of these running backs. If

2273
01:49:33,479 --> 01:49:36,640
Speaker 1: they're getting just five to seven million dollars a year

2274
01:49:36,680 --> 01:49:39,519
Speaker 1: and you throw that on top of Todd Gurley's deal,

2275
01:49:39,640 --> 01:49:42,240
Speaker 1: than you are paying a lot of money at the

2276
01:49:42,320 --> 01:49:45,559
Speaker 1: running back position that you know, most successful teams aren't

2277
01:49:45,720 --> 01:49:49,000
Speaker 1: pouring that kind of resources into that position. John, last

2278
01:49:49,080 --> 01:49:50,799
Speaker 1: question we have for you is kind of a Bill's

2279
01:49:51,160 --> 01:49:53,679
Speaker 1: focused question. I mentioned my partner Chris here a little

2280
01:49:53,680 --> 01:49:57,439
Speaker 1: bit ago that I'm anticipating a busy free agent period

2281
01:49:57,560 --> 01:49:59,880
Speaker 1: for the Bills. I think there are signs that they've

2282
01:50:00,040 --> 01:50:03,040
Speaker 1: already begun to get get about their business here. I

2283
01:50:03,080 --> 01:50:06,040
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm anticipating big, splashy signings, but with

2284
01:50:06,240 --> 01:50:08,320
Speaker 1: all the needs Buffalo Bills have and with all the

2285
01:50:08,400 --> 01:50:10,640
Speaker 1: money they have, I think they're gonna get after it

2286
01:50:10,720 --> 01:50:13,320
Speaker 1: in the next week or two. What do you think. Yeah,

2287
01:50:13,439 --> 01:50:15,960
Speaker 1: I mean, it wouldn't be surprising. You guys need probably

2288
01:50:16,040 --> 01:50:20,120
Speaker 1: wide receivers, offensive lineman. There's a lot of good offensive

2289
01:50:20,200 --> 01:50:23,400
Speaker 1: tackles out there. You know, there's no first team All pros.

2290
01:50:23,439 --> 01:50:25,840
Speaker 1: But you know, we saw Trent Brown, who no one

2291
01:50:25,880 --> 01:50:27,640
Speaker 1: really had heard of. He gets traded the Patriots all

2292
01:50:27,680 --> 01:50:29,960
Speaker 1: of a sudden. He's a great player, had a really

2293
01:50:30,000 --> 01:50:34,040
Speaker 1: good season last year. So I think at offensive linemen

2294
01:50:34,560 --> 01:50:37,640
Speaker 1: there are definitely some guys that are very signable. And

2295
01:50:37,760 --> 01:50:39,639
Speaker 1: then you know, we mentioned a lot of the wide

2296
01:50:39,680 --> 01:50:43,559
Speaker 1: receiver class, and obviously Buffalo might look there in free agency,

2297
01:50:43,720 --> 01:50:46,360
Speaker 1: but since the Bolt picks so high, they might feel like, hey,

2298
01:50:46,640 --> 01:50:48,760
Speaker 1: we don't want to take a wide receiver in the

2299
01:50:48,880 --> 01:50:51,080
Speaker 1: top ten. So maybe you signed one in free agency

2300
01:50:51,160 --> 01:50:53,519
Speaker 1: so you don't have to worry about that. Let's see

2301
01:50:53,520 --> 01:50:55,519
Speaker 1: what happens. Hey, John, thanks for this, good to talk

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01:50:55,560 --> 01:50:57,720
Speaker 1: with you. Appreciate you coming on with us. Yeah, thanks

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01:50:57,720 --> 01:51:00,120
Speaker 1: for having me. Guys. Thanks John Breach, CBS for its

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01:51:00,200 --> 01:51:03,120
Speaker 1: NFL writer, been with them since twenty eleven. Joined us

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01:51:03,120 --> 01:51:06,200
Speaker 1: on the Subway Fresh Day compline presented by subway restaurants

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01:51:06,240 --> 01:51:09,200
Speaker 1: probably be locally owned and operated. Am I getting my

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01:51:09,280 --> 01:51:12,640
Speaker 1: hopes up for fund and free agency next week? I

2308
01:51:12,680 --> 01:51:15,880
Speaker 1: think there'll be a lot of considerations. I mean, how

2309
01:51:16,360 --> 01:51:17,880
Speaker 1: often are they going to pull the trigger and get

2310
01:51:17,960 --> 01:51:21,240
Speaker 1: deals done? I don't know. I mean, the only thing

2311
01:51:21,320 --> 01:51:24,320
Speaker 1: we have to go on is basically Brandon being telling

2312
01:51:24,400 --> 01:51:27,439
Speaker 1: us they're going to be pretty fiscally responsible and operation

2313
01:51:27,600 --> 01:51:30,599
Speaker 1: bank for anybody. Yeah, So to me, that means they're

2314
01:51:30,640 --> 01:51:33,920
Speaker 1: not getting in any bidding wars for a player. They

2315
01:51:34,040 --> 01:51:36,840
Speaker 1: have set values on all of these free agents that

2316
01:51:36,880 --> 01:51:39,600
Speaker 1: they're interested in, and they're not going beyond it just

2317
01:51:39,720 --> 01:51:43,800
Speaker 1: to get the guy in the door. Brandon said at

2318
01:51:43,840 --> 01:51:45,880
Speaker 1: the combine there's two reasons that he doesn't want to

2319
01:51:45,920 --> 01:51:52,360
Speaker 1: do that. Number One, you're overpaying, so you're compromising where

2320
01:51:52,400 --> 01:51:54,720
Speaker 1: you're going to be sitting in the future. Number Two,

2321
01:51:55,520 --> 01:51:57,479
Speaker 1: the player, if you overpay and probably is never going

2322
01:51:57,520 --> 01:52:00,240
Speaker 1: to live up to those expectations of the expectation of

2323
01:52:00,280 --> 01:52:03,040
Speaker 1: the fans, as teammates, the coaches, and then it becomes

2324
01:52:03,760 --> 01:52:07,200
Speaker 1: like almost a double fail kind of thing, and they're

2325
01:52:07,240 --> 01:52:09,400
Speaker 1: gonna be right back where they were two years ago

2326
01:52:09,439 --> 01:52:11,280
Speaker 1: when they had to get themselves out of cap jail here.

2327
01:52:11,360 --> 01:52:14,080
Speaker 1: So you know, I agree with his approach. It's going

2328
01:52:14,120 --> 01:52:17,160
Speaker 1: to be interesting to see how productive they can be

2329
01:52:17,400 --> 01:52:21,120
Speaker 1: in addressing the positional needs they have, make the upgrades

2330
01:52:21,160 --> 01:52:25,680
Speaker 1: they need to make while still staying fiscally responsible, not

2331
01:52:25,880 --> 01:52:28,479
Speaker 1: only for this year, but for future years when you're

2332
01:52:28,520 --> 01:52:32,240
Speaker 1: gonna have to start thinking about resigning. You know, the

2333
01:52:32,280 --> 01:52:34,560
Speaker 1: people from your first draft class in twenty seventeen, the

2334
01:52:34,600 --> 01:52:37,880
Speaker 1: Tredevious Whites, the Matt Milano's, the Dion Dawkins. They're gonna

2335
01:52:37,880 --> 01:52:40,280
Speaker 1: be coming up sooner rather than later here, So you can't,

2336
01:52:40,800 --> 01:52:43,240
Speaker 1: you know, go gaga with your free agent dollars this year,

2337
01:52:43,439 --> 01:52:46,160
Speaker 1: knowing the repercussions of what that'll mean in twenty twenty

2338
01:52:46,200 --> 01:52:48,639
Speaker 1: and twenty twenty one. Did you see our Twitter poll yesterday?

2339
01:52:48,640 --> 01:52:50,400
Speaker 1: I'd be interested in your take. I don't know that

2340
01:52:50,439 --> 01:52:52,920
Speaker 1: I care. What's the biggest selling point for the Bills

2341
01:52:53,320 --> 01:52:57,800
Speaker 1: to pitch to free agents? Is it Chris money, the

2342
01:52:57,920 --> 01:53:01,599
Speaker 1: fan base here, the atmosphere playing here, a chance to start,

2343
01:53:01,640 --> 01:53:04,160
Speaker 1: an opportunity to play, or the fact that you might

2344
01:53:04,200 --> 01:53:06,040
Speaker 1: be joining the team in the rise. Do you want

2345
01:53:06,080 --> 01:53:08,880
Speaker 1: to pick one of those? I mean, it's it's always

2346
01:53:08,920 --> 01:53:12,080
Speaker 1: money first, It always is. I mean people can say

2347
01:53:12,120 --> 01:53:14,000
Speaker 1: whatever they want. You can have guys coming in here

2348
01:53:14,120 --> 01:53:16,639
Speaker 1: saying I just want an opportunity. They also want money

2349
01:53:16,680 --> 01:53:20,479
Speaker 1: in their pockets. I mean, let's be real, so it's money,

2350
01:53:20,560 --> 01:53:22,960
Speaker 1: but I think there is an opportunity here to join

2351
01:53:23,040 --> 01:53:25,960
Speaker 1: a team on the rise, and also there's an opportunity

2352
01:53:26,000 --> 01:53:30,720
Speaker 1: in many cases here to genuinely compete for a starting job,

2353
01:53:30,840 --> 01:53:33,200
Speaker 1: especially if you're an offensive lineman, you know, looking to

2354
01:53:33,320 --> 01:53:35,160
Speaker 1: land a starting role and they think enough of you

2355
01:53:35,280 --> 01:53:38,479
Speaker 1: to bring you in and pay you good money. You

2356
01:53:38,560 --> 01:53:41,320
Speaker 1: got a pretty good look at it here, and I

2357
01:53:41,439 --> 01:53:44,480
Speaker 1: think proof of that is the way that Sean McDermott

2358
01:53:44,840 --> 01:53:47,760
Speaker 1: has run his training camps and offseason programs the last

2359
01:53:47,800 --> 01:53:49,759
Speaker 1: couple of years. Just look at some of the names

2360
01:53:50,080 --> 01:53:52,559
Speaker 1: that have stepped into starting roles. I mean, Robert Foster

2361
01:53:52,680 --> 01:53:55,040
Speaker 1: and Levi Wallace were two undrafted free agents. They don't

2362
01:53:55,040 --> 01:53:57,320
Speaker 1: even have any starts in the league, and look at

2363
01:53:57,360 --> 01:54:00,240
Speaker 1: how far they came in terms of the opportunity they

2364
01:54:00,360 --> 01:54:03,040
Speaker 1: created for themselves. So I think those are probably the

2365
01:54:03,120 --> 01:54:08,280
Speaker 1: best advertisements two free agents that hey, you work your

2366
01:54:08,320 --> 01:54:10,600
Speaker 1: tail off here and you earn it, you're gonna be

2367
01:54:10,680 --> 01:54:13,400
Speaker 1: on the field. Good point. I like that all right.

2368
01:54:13,439 --> 01:54:15,160
Speaker 1: We're talking to you when we come back. Chris Brown

2369
01:54:15,320 --> 01:54:17,080
Speaker 1: is here with us. I don't know from you about

2370
01:54:17,320 --> 01:54:19,000
Speaker 1: what's the way for the Bills to get better in

2371
01:54:19,040 --> 01:54:22,320
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. The best way is it just drafting well

2372
01:54:22,360 --> 01:54:25,840
Speaker 1: as it signed some good key free agents starting next week.

2373
01:54:26,080 --> 01:54:28,400
Speaker 1: Let's know what you think. Phone lines open. We'll read

2374
01:54:28,439 --> 01:54:30,120
Speaker 1: some of your tweets on the air as well, and

2375
01:54:30,240 --> 01:54:32,280
Speaker 1: the number to call eight h three five fifty and

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01:54:32,360 --> 01:54:35,760
Speaker 1: toll free one eight eight eight by fifty two five fifty.

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01:54:36,000 --> 01:54:38,560
Speaker 1: Chris Brown in for Steve Tasker. It's one Bills five

2378
01:54:38,800 --> 01:54:54,520
Speaker 1: from one Bill's driving. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. It

2379
01:54:54,680 --> 01:54:56,680
Speaker 1: is one of Bills five. I'm John Murphy. Chris Brown

2380
01:54:56,800 --> 01:54:59,520
Speaker 1: in for Steve Tasker. As we make it through the

2381
01:54:59,560 --> 01:55:02,280
Speaker 1: home stretch to the show, we're back again tomorrow. You

2382
01:55:02,400 --> 01:55:05,440
Speaker 1: may be back if Steve's not here, right, I don't

2383
01:55:05,480 --> 01:55:08,400
Speaker 1: know if I am available. Oh well, let's talk about that. Well.

2384
01:55:08,400 --> 01:55:10,920
Speaker 1: I've got I've got a college visit to go on

2385
01:55:11,080 --> 01:55:14,240
Speaker 1: with my daughter, so oh I will be down the

2386
01:55:14,360 --> 01:55:18,000
Speaker 1: road were going? Can I uh, you don't have to

2387
01:55:18,200 --> 01:55:20,280
Speaker 1: probably don't want to say it right now, Okay, I'll

2388
01:55:20,320 --> 01:55:22,680
Speaker 1: tell you off air. Okay, that's cool. That's I missed

2389
01:55:22,720 --> 01:55:24,840
Speaker 1: those days. That's pretty fun I used to make. I

2390
01:55:24,960 --> 01:55:26,160
Speaker 1: used to have a lot of fun on those trips.

2391
01:55:26,160 --> 01:55:29,040
Speaker 1: I would always have a side trip too. Um. I

2392
01:55:29,080 --> 01:55:31,040
Speaker 1: remember once going to you know where Bethell, New York

2393
01:55:31,160 --> 01:55:34,040
Speaker 1: is where I've heard of it. Yeah, great, great, it's

2394
01:55:34,080 --> 01:55:36,200
Speaker 1: a great museum. Actually, I just drove through there a

2395
01:55:36,240 --> 01:55:37,760
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago when I had to go down

2396
01:55:37,800 --> 01:55:41,440
Speaker 1: to the Pokeepsie Um. Where else baseball? We catch baseball

2397
01:55:41,840 --> 01:55:44,560
Speaker 1: on our college trips, you know, major League baseball. I

2398
01:55:44,640 --> 01:55:47,480
Speaker 1: miss those days, and we chose colleges. Works a little

2399
01:55:47,520 --> 01:55:51,000
Speaker 1: different with a daughter. Hey, so Brownie is here and

2400
01:55:51,120 --> 01:55:53,600
Speaker 1: we're here until three, and our Twitter poll is up

2401
01:55:53,680 --> 01:55:56,280
Speaker 1: and we like it. Let's recap that and let you

2402
01:55:56,360 --> 01:55:58,160
Speaker 1: know where that's at. The best way for the Bills

2403
01:55:58,160 --> 01:56:01,400
Speaker 1: to get better in twenty nineteen. We've got more than

2404
01:56:01,440 --> 01:56:03,360
Speaker 1: a thousand votes since it went up a couple of

2405
01:56:03,360 --> 01:56:07,600
Speaker 1: hours ago. Fifth, it's pretty close. It's unfortunate Steve isn't

2406
01:56:07,640 --> 01:56:09,320
Speaker 1: here right now because he would eat this up. Fifty

2407
01:56:09,360 --> 01:56:10,800
Speaker 1: three percent of you say the best way for the

2408
01:56:10,840 --> 01:56:13,160
Speaker 1: Bills to get better this year is to sign key

2409
01:56:13,240 --> 01:56:16,120
Speaker 1: free agents. Forty seven percent say, draft well, Brownie. We

2410
01:56:16,240 --> 01:56:20,440
Speaker 1: deliberately said this year, get better in twenty nineteen because

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01:56:20,520 --> 01:56:23,000
Speaker 1: everybody would rather draft well and keep guys around for

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01:56:23,040 --> 01:56:27,200
Speaker 1: a while. But I can't really argue with that now, No,

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01:56:27,280 --> 01:56:28,600
Speaker 1: I can't argue with it at all. As a matter

2414
01:56:28,640 --> 01:56:30,520
Speaker 1: of fact. Well, the only reason I would lean free

2415
01:56:30,560 --> 01:56:35,440
Speaker 1: agents in this particular poll is because that logic says

2416
01:56:35,560 --> 01:56:38,600
Speaker 1: that should give you the greater chance for immediate help.

2417
01:56:38,680 --> 01:56:42,680
Speaker 1: So if you're talking specifically for twenty nineteen, you know,

2418
01:56:42,800 --> 01:56:45,520
Speaker 1: I think if you pick the right free agents, the

2419
01:56:45,760 --> 01:56:49,680
Speaker 1: impact should be more immediate from that collection of players,

2420
01:56:50,040 --> 01:56:52,920
Speaker 1: arguably than the draft, although the last couple of draft

2421
01:56:52,960 --> 01:56:55,840
Speaker 1: classes have done pretty well for the Bills in terms

2422
01:56:55,880 --> 01:56:58,800
Speaker 1: of immediate impact. So but yeah, I mean, you get

2423
01:56:58,800 --> 01:57:01,560
Speaker 1: the right vets in here with the guys you already have,

2424
01:57:03,520 --> 01:57:06,320
Speaker 1: the free agents should should do more for you than

2425
01:57:06,400 --> 01:57:09,160
Speaker 1: your draft immediately. Yeah, first year, I think if he

2426
01:57:09,320 --> 01:57:11,880
Speaker 1: calls here, Eric in Connecticut, Hello, Eric, Welcome to the show.

2427
01:57:13,040 --> 01:57:16,440
Speaker 1: Hey guys, how's it going? John go into the bullpen

2428
01:57:16,520 --> 01:57:18,840
Speaker 1: and bringing the heat with Chris. That's a veteran manager

2429
01:57:18,960 --> 01:57:21,440
Speaker 1: mood right there. Yeah, didn't you see me make the call?

2430
01:57:21,520 --> 01:57:24,040
Speaker 1: To the bullpen. Get Chris warmed up. I got that

2431
01:57:24,280 --> 01:57:26,840
Speaker 1: sick cutter. Thank n't give you a warm up? Called, didn't?

2432
01:57:26,840 --> 01:57:28,840
Speaker 1: He said, Hey, yeah, Steve's not feeling well. You might go.

2433
01:57:29,040 --> 01:57:30,600
Speaker 1: He called to the He called to the pen. He

2434
01:57:30,720 --> 01:57:32,680
Speaker 1: literally did. He said, oh, you're good for this segment,

2435
01:57:32,760 --> 01:57:37,080
Speaker 1: but Steve just tossed his cookies, so we're gonna probably

2436
01:57:37,120 --> 01:57:39,200
Speaker 1: need you. Thanks Eric. Yeah, we're on top of it

2437
01:57:39,280 --> 01:57:41,640
Speaker 1: here for a change, so fitting just for you, Chris,

2438
01:57:41,720 --> 01:57:45,040
Speaker 1: because you're on as well. So I agree. Listen. I

2439
01:57:45,200 --> 01:57:47,720
Speaker 1: think free agency is more important, and I know receivers.

2440
01:57:47,760 --> 01:57:49,480
Speaker 1: It's a little iffy on how much you have to

2441
01:57:49,560 --> 01:57:53,640
Speaker 1: spend for okay receivers. I heard on the message board

2442
01:57:53,680 --> 01:57:55,960
Speaker 1: dancer ever everyone's talking about John Ross. But the one

2443
01:57:56,040 --> 01:57:59,440
Speaker 1: guy I saw last week the basin was available and

2444
01:57:59,520 --> 01:58:01,440
Speaker 1: I was flipping out excited, and I feel like no

2445
01:58:01,560 --> 01:58:05,600
Speaker 1: one noticed. I think trading for Nelson Ago, or if

2446
01:58:05,640 --> 01:58:07,520
Speaker 1: you could do a late fourth or fifth round pick,

2447
01:58:07,600 --> 01:58:09,000
Speaker 1: or even if you want to do another guy with

2448
01:58:09,080 --> 01:58:12,080
Speaker 1: a fifth year option like Shack and trade them. But

2449
01:58:12,280 --> 01:58:15,200
Speaker 1: Nelson agile or fits so well for the bills of

2450
01:58:15,280 --> 01:58:17,840
Speaker 1: that speed, and I think he's a very underrated player.

2451
01:58:18,240 --> 01:58:21,600
Speaker 1: He would make a solid number two. You add with Foster,

2452
01:58:21,760 --> 01:58:24,400
Speaker 1: and then because of that edition, you don't have to

2453
01:58:24,480 --> 01:58:26,120
Speaker 1: get the receiver in the first round. You can wait

2454
01:58:26,160 --> 01:58:28,320
Speaker 1: to the second and third, and then you could have

2455
01:58:28,480 --> 01:58:32,080
Speaker 1: three good receivers that you tell our three receivers are

2456
01:58:32,120 --> 01:58:34,200
Speaker 1: gonna be better than your three DV I hear Eric.

2457
01:58:34,240 --> 01:58:36,560
Speaker 1: I want to get Chris on this too. Yeah, I

2458
01:58:36,680 --> 01:58:38,240
Speaker 1: hear you in I want to get Chris's take. But

2459
01:58:38,280 --> 01:58:40,840
Speaker 1: I got two immediate reactions. Number one, I don't know

2460
01:58:40,880 --> 01:58:42,080
Speaker 1: if I want to trade, and I don't want to

2461
01:58:42,080 --> 01:58:44,920
Speaker 1: give up assets to get a wide receiver here, at

2462
01:58:45,000 --> 01:58:48,120
Speaker 1: least not that wide receiver. And the second thing is

2463
01:58:48,840 --> 01:58:51,000
Speaker 1: the Bills need to number one wide receiver. They need

2464
01:58:51,080 --> 01:58:53,360
Speaker 1: a complete package at wide receiver. I agree with the

2465
01:58:53,400 --> 01:58:56,360
Speaker 1: agil arci aide showed in Philadelphia. He's probably a pretty

2466
01:58:56,360 --> 01:58:59,120
Speaker 1: good number two. They probably have a candidate's more than

2467
01:58:59,200 --> 01:59:01,200
Speaker 1: one candidate for number two wide receiver. They need a

2468
01:59:01,320 --> 01:59:03,440
Speaker 1: number one, don't they, Chris, Yeah, they need a number one.

2469
01:59:03,560 --> 01:59:05,960
Speaker 1: A guy you can throw to eight to twelve times

2470
01:59:06,040 --> 01:59:07,560
Speaker 1: a week. I've said this on your air before. A

2471
01:59:07,600 --> 01:59:09,320
Speaker 1: guy you can throw eight to twelve times a week.

2472
01:59:09,360 --> 01:59:11,720
Speaker 1: Everybody knows you're throwing it to him in crunch time

2473
01:59:11,760 --> 01:59:14,320
Speaker 1: and he can still make plays for you. Now, does

2474
01:59:14,400 --> 01:59:16,800
Speaker 1: that really exist in the free agent market. I don't

2475
01:59:16,800 --> 01:59:19,480
Speaker 1: know if he does. Sure of being able to trade

2476
01:59:19,520 --> 01:59:24,520
Speaker 1: for Antonio Brown. No, I don't think he's a number one.

2477
01:59:24,560 --> 01:59:27,400
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I think he's a good number two. I

2478
01:59:27,520 --> 01:59:29,880
Speaker 1: just don't think he's a number one. UM. And you

2479
01:59:29,960 --> 01:59:33,760
Speaker 1: know with Aglore he works primarily out of the slot. UM.

2480
01:59:34,960 --> 01:59:37,040
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be very interesting to see

2481
01:59:37,160 --> 01:59:39,960
Speaker 1: the Bill's course of action here in free agency because

2482
01:59:40,400 --> 01:59:43,320
Speaker 1: the slot, I think is where initially they envisioned Zay

2483
01:59:43,400 --> 01:59:49,520
Speaker 1: Jones would make contributions to this football team, primarily because

2484
01:59:49,560 --> 01:59:53,280
Speaker 1: he just he has trouble with those more physical corners outside,

2485
01:59:53,800 --> 01:59:57,280
Speaker 1: so working inside with two way goes that's and he's

2486
01:59:57,520 --> 01:59:59,760
Speaker 1: he's very good at sitting down in the soft spots

2487
01:59:59,800 --> 02:00:03,440
Speaker 1: in zones. I think that's playing to his strengths putting

2488
02:00:03,480 --> 02:00:05,560
Speaker 1: him in the slot. If you bring Agalore on board,

2489
02:00:06,240 --> 02:00:09,040
Speaker 1: is Zay Jones taking a seat? Are you running double slots?

2490
02:00:09,200 --> 02:00:11,240
Speaker 1: I mean they did it in New England. Dable comes

2491
02:00:11,280 --> 02:00:13,840
Speaker 1: from that school. Maybe that's part of the plan, but

2492
02:00:14,040 --> 02:00:16,280
Speaker 1: it's going to be very interesting to see that not

2493
02:00:16,440 --> 02:00:18,680
Speaker 1: only who they bring in, but the type of receiver

2494
02:00:18,880 --> 02:00:22,080
Speaker 1: that player is knowing it's going to have an impact

2495
02:00:22,640 --> 02:00:25,120
Speaker 1: everybody else in the pecking order at the receiver position.

2496
02:00:25,400 --> 02:00:28,400
Speaker 1: The other common narrative we see murf at least out

2497
02:00:28,480 --> 02:00:32,920
Speaker 1: in cyberspace amongst fans and you know some outside observers,

2498
02:00:33,280 --> 02:00:36,400
Speaker 1: is the Bills should take care of receiver so they

2499
02:00:36,440 --> 02:00:38,800
Speaker 1: can address the lines in the draft. You know, get

2500
02:00:38,840 --> 02:00:41,080
Speaker 1: a lineback, or get a wide receiver and then address

2501
02:00:41,160 --> 02:00:43,200
Speaker 1: the lines in the draft, or get a veteran corner

2502
02:00:43,280 --> 02:00:45,880
Speaker 1: for depth, you know, get a linebacker and address the

2503
02:00:45,960 --> 02:00:48,800
Speaker 1: lines in the draft. I mean, I think it's really

2504
02:00:48,880 --> 02:00:52,240
Speaker 1: going to come down to who they can convince to

2505
02:00:52,360 --> 02:00:56,040
Speaker 1: sign here, who they can sell on Buffalo most effectively.

2506
02:00:56,080 --> 02:00:57,880
Speaker 1: If it's a receiver, well then yeah, maybe you can

2507
02:00:57,920 --> 02:00:59,680
Speaker 1: take that route. But it could be alignment that you

2508
02:01:00,120 --> 02:01:02,160
Speaker 1: really coved and you can convince him to sign, but

2509
02:01:02,240 --> 02:01:04,720
Speaker 1: you didn't get the receiver you wanted. It's really there's

2510
02:01:04,720 --> 02:01:07,800
Speaker 1: so many moving parts here. It's easy to stamp this

2511
02:01:07,960 --> 02:01:10,560
Speaker 1: and say, yeah, this should be their plan, but I

2512
02:01:10,640 --> 02:01:13,480
Speaker 1: think it's so fluid when you have thirty one other

2513
02:01:13,560 --> 02:01:15,640
Speaker 1: players involved. In terms of the other clubs in the

2514
02:01:15,760 --> 02:01:18,120
Speaker 1: NFL to say this should be their course of action.

2515
02:01:18,200 --> 02:01:20,920
Speaker 1: They have to be able to pivot in a matter

2516
02:01:21,040 --> 02:01:23,720
Speaker 1: of minutes based on how a phone call goes. Sometimes

2517
02:01:23,800 --> 02:01:26,480
Speaker 1: with a prospective free agent, Are you seen this difficult

2518
02:01:26,520 --> 02:01:29,240
Speaker 1: to sign free agents and Buffalo are you saying that? No, No,

2519
02:01:29,560 --> 02:01:31,720
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I'm no. I'm saying when you have

2520
02:01:31,960 --> 02:01:35,320
Speaker 1: thirty one other people, thirty one other teams competing for

2521
02:01:35,440 --> 02:01:39,720
Speaker 1: the same pool of talent, you have to be fluid, flexible,

2522
02:01:39,880 --> 02:01:43,760
Speaker 1: and have contingency plans in place in terms of where

2523
02:01:43,840 --> 02:01:46,160
Speaker 1: your focus has to be. You know, day one of

2524
02:01:46,200 --> 02:01:48,480
Speaker 1: the tampering window, they might say, well, look, our focus

2525
02:01:48,720 --> 02:01:52,560
Speaker 1: is this lineman and this receiver. Those are our first

2526
02:01:52,560 --> 02:01:54,560
Speaker 1: two options. If we don't get either of them, here's

2527
02:01:54,600 --> 02:01:57,800
Speaker 1: Plan B. That could all get blown up in ten

2528
02:01:57,880 --> 02:02:01,040
Speaker 1: minutes because the first three eyes on both lists could

2529
02:02:01,040 --> 02:02:03,400
Speaker 1: get signed somewhere else. I mean, you don't know, and

2530
02:02:03,440 --> 02:02:05,200
Speaker 1: you gotta be ready, and you have to be ready

2531
02:02:05,240 --> 02:02:08,680
Speaker 1: with plan C, D and E. Yeah. So that's just

2532
02:02:08,840 --> 02:02:11,280
Speaker 1: a small example as to how fluid it is and

2533
02:02:11,440 --> 02:02:13,720
Speaker 1: how quickly you know a GM has to pivot and

2534
02:02:13,800 --> 02:02:15,560
Speaker 1: say all right, this is our course of action. Now,

2535
02:02:15,760 --> 02:02:18,120
Speaker 1: go go, go and deploy your people to make the

2536
02:02:18,160 --> 02:02:19,720
Speaker 1: phone calls you need to make to try to get

2537
02:02:19,800 --> 02:02:22,120
Speaker 1: people in here, try to get an agent on the horn.

2538
02:02:22,400 --> 02:02:26,240
Speaker 1: So it's I mean it is it's organized chaos. Sometimes

2539
02:02:26,640 --> 02:02:28,920
Speaker 1: based on what those thirty one other teams are doing

2540
02:02:29,200 --> 02:02:32,000
Speaker 1: that impacts your plans. What's the best way for the

2541
02:02:32,040 --> 02:02:33,840
Speaker 1: Bills to get better in twenty nineteen? What do you

2542
02:02:33,920 --> 02:02:36,000
Speaker 1: think sending a tweet? Give us a call? Here is

2543
02:02:36,080 --> 02:02:38,840
Speaker 1: Mark on the line from Williamsville. Hello, Mark, Go ahead,

2544
02:02:38,840 --> 02:02:42,040
Speaker 1: and you're on the air with a how are you doing? John? Okay?

2545
02:02:42,920 --> 02:02:46,160
Speaker 1: I think Chris was just really right on just recently

2546
02:02:46,720 --> 02:02:50,680
Speaker 1: saying about the offensive line and where are they're going

2547
02:02:50,720 --> 02:02:54,480
Speaker 1: to get in free agency versus the draft. My only

2548
02:02:56,160 --> 02:02:59,080
Speaker 1: references you got to build a line if you're going

2549
02:02:59,120 --> 02:03:01,640
Speaker 1: to get better, not just than nineteen, but going to forward,

2550
02:03:02,040 --> 02:03:04,520
Speaker 1: you have to get better in the line. You have

2551
02:03:04,680 --> 02:03:07,960
Speaker 1: to dominate the line of scrimmage. Buffalo has used retreads

2552
02:03:08,600 --> 02:03:12,080
Speaker 1: were all of the last twenty years. They really haven't

2553
02:03:12,080 --> 02:03:16,240
Speaker 1: infested other than Eric Wood and Levitre. Back in Steve's years,

2554
02:03:16,360 --> 02:03:21,680
Speaker 1: we had probably our best offensive lineman talent wise in

2555
02:03:21,760 --> 02:03:23,920
Speaker 1: the seventies you had then Electric Company in the sixties

2556
02:03:23,960 --> 02:03:26,120
Speaker 1: you had Billy Sean Barbara and Bean Miller and those

2557
02:03:26,160 --> 02:03:29,160
Speaker 1: guys and control of the ball. I think this all

2558
02:03:29,200 --> 02:03:32,640
Speaker 1: this talk about DK Metcalf, great player, but if it

2559
02:03:32,760 --> 02:03:35,080
Speaker 1: was my choice, I'd rather have one of the better

2560
02:03:35,160 --> 02:03:39,000
Speaker 1: tight ends. I think that would be better for h

2561
02:03:40,440 --> 02:03:44,120
Speaker 1: Josh Allen going forward, I don't. I don't, and Hockinson

2562
02:03:45,000 --> 02:03:47,720
Speaker 1: not at nine overall, I don't. Yeah, if I moved

2563
02:03:47,760 --> 02:03:49,800
Speaker 1: down to fifteen, I wouldn't mind taking them. Then i'd started.

2564
02:03:50,600 --> 02:03:53,360
Speaker 1: I didn't get your post combine take on what DK

2565
02:03:53,560 --> 02:03:55,880
Speaker 1: Metcalf did. Um, let me give you mine, and I

2566
02:03:55,960 --> 02:03:57,760
Speaker 1: want you to just I want to see what you think.

2567
02:03:58,240 --> 02:04:00,360
Speaker 1: It was a great combine, A great weekend for Metcalf,

2568
02:04:00,440 --> 02:04:02,600
Speaker 1: a great Saturday on the field, all the testing was great.

2569
02:04:03,000 --> 02:04:06,280
Speaker 1: If I'm the Buffalo Bills now, I'm spending the next

2570
02:04:06,320 --> 02:04:10,600
Speaker 1: seven weeks looking into him deeply, because if he's there

2571
02:04:10,640 --> 02:04:13,640
Speaker 1: at nine, and if he checks all these boxes, he

2572
02:04:13,720 --> 02:04:16,360
Speaker 1: would be my guy. And I would wonder, A, what

2573
02:04:16,520 --> 02:04:18,600
Speaker 1: about the injury history? You know where are you were at?

2574
02:04:18,720 --> 02:04:21,760
Speaker 1: And b why does not the production and I know

2575
02:04:21,840 --> 02:04:24,040
Speaker 1: part of its injury, but why doesn't the production match

2576
02:04:24,520 --> 02:04:26,280
Speaker 1: what the numbers were that he put up at the combine.

2577
02:04:26,280 --> 02:04:29,000
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want answers to those two especially, and if

2578
02:04:29,080 --> 02:04:30,960
Speaker 1: I get the right kind of answers and he's there

2579
02:04:30,960 --> 02:04:33,240
Speaker 1: at nine, I don't know how you walk away from it.

2580
02:04:33,400 --> 02:04:35,920
Speaker 1: Tell you the truth, Yeah, the neck injury is a concern. Yeah,

2581
02:04:35,960 --> 02:04:38,200
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any question that anytime a neck

2582
02:04:38,360 --> 02:04:40,840
Speaker 1: is involved, especially at a contact position. And you can

2583
02:04:40,880 --> 02:04:43,400
Speaker 1: make the argument that they're all contact positions in football,

2584
02:04:43,520 --> 02:04:46,640
Speaker 1: but outside of running back in terms of skill positions,

2585
02:04:46,680 --> 02:04:48,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you take a lot of hits, often with

2586
02:04:48,400 --> 02:04:51,720
Speaker 1: your back to the defense, you know, so you're exposed

2587
02:04:51,840 --> 02:04:53,320
Speaker 1: a lot, and I know they've tried to take those

2588
02:04:53,400 --> 02:04:55,080
Speaker 1: hits out of the game, but the bottom line is

2589
02:04:55,440 --> 02:04:58,600
Speaker 1: that's a major contact position and I don't care you

2590
02:04:58,680 --> 02:05:03,040
Speaker 1: know how pumped up he is, the right hit could

2591
02:05:03,200 --> 02:05:06,920
Speaker 1: impact that. So you better really trust your doctors, your orthopedists,

2592
02:05:07,240 --> 02:05:10,400
Speaker 1: and what they're saying about his career longevity, no matter

2593
02:05:10,480 --> 02:05:13,320
Speaker 1: how impressive he looks with his shirt off, because I

2594
02:05:13,360 --> 02:05:15,200
Speaker 1: don't care how muscled up you are, if you don't

2595
02:05:15,200 --> 02:05:16,640
Speaker 1: have a neck that works, you're not gonna be able

2596
02:05:16,640 --> 02:05:20,280
Speaker 1: to play. That's number one, and a lot of that

2597
02:05:20,600 --> 02:05:23,600
Speaker 1: hopefully got ironed out with the medicals at the combine.

2598
02:05:24,840 --> 02:05:27,480
Speaker 1: They still might do additional medical testing based on what

2599
02:05:27,560 --> 02:05:29,920
Speaker 1: the findings were. They may need more time and bring

2600
02:05:30,080 --> 02:05:31,880
Speaker 1: him in for a visit or something to that extent

2601
02:05:33,760 --> 02:05:37,160
Speaker 1: that the athletic ability is undeniable. I don't think there's

2602
02:05:37,160 --> 02:05:40,360
Speaker 1: any question about that. I did find some of this,

2603
02:05:40,560 --> 02:05:42,640
Speaker 1: and you know we're nippicking here, but some of that

2604
02:05:42,760 --> 02:05:46,440
Speaker 1: short shuttle change of direction stuff not as impressive as

2605
02:05:46,520 --> 02:05:51,360
Speaker 1: his straight line speed. And I think right away he's

2606
02:05:51,400 --> 02:05:55,560
Speaker 1: a go route receiver. I mean, you cannot expect him

2607
02:05:56,720 --> 02:05:59,879
Speaker 1: to run the route tree with any kind of refined

2608
02:06:00,040 --> 02:06:05,840
Speaker 1: and from the beginning. So so now he's limited right

2609
02:06:05,880 --> 02:06:08,080
Speaker 1: and now, but now he's limited in what he can

2610
02:06:08,240 --> 02:06:13,280
Speaker 1: do for you early, early, and you're banking that he's

2611
02:06:13,280 --> 02:06:16,240
Speaker 1: going to get the rest of that stuff. And you know,

2612
02:06:16,360 --> 02:06:18,520
Speaker 1: I'm just playing a little bit of Devil's advocate here.

2613
02:06:18,560 --> 02:06:21,600
Speaker 1: I like him too, but um, and then you have

2614
02:06:21,800 --> 02:06:25,080
Speaker 1: to then you have to really investigate the production issues.

2615
02:06:25,680 --> 02:06:27,600
Speaker 1: You know, like you look at him and you say,

2616
02:06:28,520 --> 02:06:30,800
Speaker 1: how did this guy not dominate in college even in

2617
02:06:30,840 --> 02:06:35,480
Speaker 1: the sec the speed that he has, the physical talent,

2618
02:06:36,360 --> 02:06:38,160
Speaker 1: what the heck went on there, and you really got

2619
02:06:38,280 --> 02:06:40,760
Speaker 1: to dig deep and and and drill down on that

2620
02:06:41,360 --> 02:06:44,680
Speaker 1: and get answers that you feel good about so that

2621
02:06:44,840 --> 02:06:48,520
Speaker 1: you feel confident with the proper coaching here, in the

2622
02:06:48,600 --> 02:06:51,400
Speaker 1: proper system, with a quarterback who can throw it a mile,

2623
02:06:51,840 --> 02:06:53,760
Speaker 1: this guy is a fit for us. Yeah, I think

2624
02:06:53,800 --> 02:06:55,600
Speaker 1: we're on the same pagchrion. I'm not ready to draft

2625
02:06:55,680 --> 02:06:58,560
Speaker 1: him today, but I would think about drafting him in

2626
02:06:58,600 --> 02:07:01,560
Speaker 1: seven weeks if I get good answers. Right. But going

2627
02:07:01,640 --> 02:07:04,600
Speaker 1: back to our caller's point, he ain't gonna help you

2628
02:07:04,680 --> 02:07:06,720
Speaker 1: on a go route if you don't have a line

2629
02:07:06,720 --> 02:07:08,720
Speaker 1: that can protect your quarterback, because there's not gonna be

2630
02:07:08,840 --> 02:07:11,760
Speaker 1: enough time to chuck it down there. And so it

2631
02:07:11,920 --> 02:07:14,640
Speaker 1: can't be ignored. I mean, you've got three free agents

2632
02:07:15,720 --> 02:07:19,160
Speaker 1: who are offensive linemen from your roster who were starting

2633
02:07:19,240 --> 02:07:21,600
Speaker 1: for you in the second half of the season last year,

2634
02:07:22,440 --> 02:07:24,960
Speaker 1: and one of the guys that they replaced still has

2635
02:07:25,000 --> 02:07:29,360
Speaker 1: his arm in a sling in Russell Bodine, who's going

2636
02:07:29,400 --> 02:07:32,560
Speaker 1: to have, you know, a rehab that stretches probably into April,

2637
02:07:32,640 --> 02:07:36,360
Speaker 1: and may you know, and the only addition you've made

2638
02:07:36,480 --> 02:07:40,320
Speaker 1: is Spencer Long, who has some versative position flexibility that

2639
02:07:40,400 --> 02:07:44,840
Speaker 1: he can offer you. But just from a sheer numbers perspective,

2640
02:07:45,440 --> 02:07:47,640
Speaker 1: you've got to get it addressed. And I believe offensive

2641
02:07:47,680 --> 02:07:49,840
Speaker 1: line is an area that they're going to address both

2642
02:07:49,920 --> 02:07:53,080
Speaker 1: in free agency and in the draft because of the

2643
02:07:53,200 --> 02:07:56,240
Speaker 1: numbers that they need to add there. And maybe more

2644
02:07:56,320 --> 02:07:59,920
Speaker 1: than anything, what this offensive line needs is a veteran

2645
02:08:00,120 --> 02:08:04,000
Speaker 1: in the room. As much as talent was lost in

2646
02:08:04,040 --> 02:08:06,960
Speaker 1: the form of Richie Incognito and Eric Would, I think

2647
02:08:07,000 --> 02:08:09,600
Speaker 1: the thing that when by the board, as far as

2648
02:08:09,640 --> 02:08:12,600
Speaker 1: a lot of outside observers are concerned, is the leadership

2649
02:08:12,720 --> 02:08:15,720
Speaker 1: quotient that was lost when Eric Wood left that room

2650
02:08:16,040 --> 02:08:19,720
Speaker 1: and it was not capably filled. So I think the

2651
02:08:19,800 --> 02:08:22,360
Speaker 1: only way to do that is with a proven veteran

2652
02:08:23,000 --> 02:08:26,640
Speaker 1: that I've said before, has you know, Pelts on the wall,

2653
02:08:27,040 --> 02:08:30,320
Speaker 1: has been to the playoffs. Is a proven veteran talent

2654
02:08:30,640 --> 02:08:33,160
Speaker 1: that can lead that line, and then you try to

2655
02:08:33,240 --> 02:08:36,000
Speaker 1: get some hopefully some talent in the first two days

2656
02:08:36,040 --> 02:08:38,880
Speaker 1: of the draft added in also that has a chance

2657
02:08:38,960 --> 02:08:42,120
Speaker 1: to start right away, so you can you can steadily

2658
02:08:42,320 --> 02:08:44,520
Speaker 1: start to plug up these holes and not only do that,

2659
02:08:44,680 --> 02:08:47,480
Speaker 1: but make the line better than it was. Give me

2660
02:08:47,560 --> 02:08:52,360
Speaker 1: some names Arness. I really like Roger Staffold. I'd spend

2661
02:08:52,800 --> 02:08:55,800
Speaker 1: I'd spend big for him. I really would you need

2662
02:08:55,840 --> 02:08:59,200
Speaker 1: a mobile guard in this offensive line terribly in the

2663
02:08:59,280 --> 02:09:02,280
Speaker 1: worst way. They could not execute a screenplay because they

2664
02:09:02,320 --> 02:09:04,680
Speaker 1: did not have guards who could move. And I mean,

2665
02:09:05,200 --> 02:09:07,600
Speaker 1: I don't know the percentage of the playbook that that

2666
02:09:07,760 --> 02:09:10,080
Speaker 1: cuts out, but you gotta believe you're ripping out at

2667
02:09:10,120 --> 02:09:12,520
Speaker 1: least thirty pages of Brian Dabeles playbook because you can't

2668
02:09:12,560 --> 02:09:16,560
Speaker 1: run a screenplay. And then, not only that, how many

2669
02:09:16,640 --> 02:09:19,440
Speaker 1: fewer answers do you have when the pass rush is

2670
02:09:19,480 --> 02:09:22,640
Speaker 1: effective and you can't hold up and you can't throw

2671
02:09:22,720 --> 02:09:24,760
Speaker 1: a screen at them to back them off a little bit.

2672
02:09:24,920 --> 02:09:27,000
Speaker 1: I mean that that really puts you in a bind

2673
02:09:27,080 --> 02:09:29,320
Speaker 1: as a play caller. So you've got to get these

2674
02:09:29,360 --> 02:09:33,200
Speaker 1: answers so your playbook can open up again, be more expansive,

2675
02:09:33,240 --> 02:09:35,760
Speaker 1: and be more unpredictable. You don't have that in your

2676
02:09:35,840 --> 02:09:38,560
Speaker 1: offensive playbook. I mean, I know we're going back to

2677
02:09:38,640 --> 02:09:40,800
Speaker 1: what nineteen thirty, I mean, when are we going? And

2678
02:09:40,880 --> 02:09:43,320
Speaker 1: they need offensive lineman, no question, I guess I'm saying,

2679
02:09:43,720 --> 02:09:46,880
Speaker 1: if there's a chance that Metcalf is the next Julio Jones,

2680
02:09:46,920 --> 02:09:49,600
Speaker 1: and that's aj Green And if all those other things

2681
02:09:49,720 --> 02:09:52,320
Speaker 1: check out, then I'm drafting them and getting my offensive

2682
02:09:52,360 --> 02:09:55,480
Speaker 1: linemen later. If Metcalf is kind of like those right,

2683
02:09:55,560 --> 02:09:58,320
Speaker 1: And I think we should also remember too that we've

2684
02:09:58,360 --> 02:10:00,240
Speaker 1: got a month and a half of free agent see

2685
02:10:00,280 --> 02:10:03,920
Speaker 1: to work with to make everybody feel better about maybe

2686
02:10:04,000 --> 02:10:06,800
Speaker 1: going for that big splash talent in the draft at nine,

2687
02:10:07,680 --> 02:10:10,960
Speaker 1: you know, provided they get you know, alignment, maybe two

2688
02:10:11,960 --> 02:10:15,520
Speaker 1: that are experienced that you feel good about and say,

2689
02:10:15,720 --> 02:10:17,720
Speaker 1: you know what we can swing for the fences here

2690
02:10:17,800 --> 02:10:20,520
Speaker 1: on a skill position player that looks to be the

2691
02:10:20,600 --> 02:10:22,960
Speaker 1: real deal. I guess what we hope for if you're

2692
02:10:23,000 --> 02:10:26,760
Speaker 1: rooting for the Bills, is their free agency plan kind

2693
02:10:26,800 --> 02:10:29,680
Speaker 1: of follow suit, because they probably have by now, they

2694
02:10:29,720 --> 02:10:32,080
Speaker 1: have a free agency plan guys you talked about to

2695
02:10:32,280 --> 02:10:34,520
Speaker 1: look for, and if that happens, if they get kind

2696
02:10:34,520 --> 02:10:36,840
Speaker 1: of what they're looking for, then their draft plan, which

2697
02:10:36,920 --> 02:10:40,120
Speaker 1: follows six weeks later, would kind of fall in place, right.

2698
02:10:40,440 --> 02:10:42,880
Speaker 1: I mean, you hope that their free agency plan falls

2699
02:10:43,040 --> 02:10:45,680
Speaker 1: true first next week? Yeah, as close to true as it.

2700
02:10:45,720 --> 02:10:47,800
Speaker 1: It's never going to be perfect, but you hope, yeah.

2701
02:10:47,960 --> 02:10:50,440
Speaker 1: I mean, in terms of the holes they're trying to fill.

2702
02:10:50,480 --> 02:10:53,080
Speaker 1: I mean, Sean McDermott said it at the Combine. He

2703
02:10:53,200 --> 02:10:56,240
Speaker 1: said the goal of free agency is to get to

2704
02:10:56,320 --> 02:11:00,960
Speaker 1: the draft without any position emergencies, because then what are

2705
02:11:00,960 --> 02:11:03,680
Speaker 1: you doing? Then you're drafting for need, which Brandon Bean

2706
02:11:03,760 --> 02:11:06,320
Speaker 1: said he will never do drafting for starters. Really yeah,

2707
02:11:06,360 --> 02:11:07,840
Speaker 1: which is not good, Which is not a good form

2708
02:11:07,960 --> 02:11:09,520
Speaker 1: to break. Chris and I coming back with more One

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02:11:09,560 --> 02:11:12,160
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Speaker 1: Micah Hyde was with a Spills Safety We talked about

2716
02:11:44,560 --> 02:11:46,840
Speaker 1: free agency. It was two years ago this week when

2717
02:11:46,880 --> 02:11:48,960
Speaker 1: he signed down as a free agent with the Buffalo Bills,

2718
02:11:49,120 --> 02:11:51,040
Speaker 1: and we asked Micah Hyde about what was going through

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Speaker 1: his mind when he was being recruited by the Bills

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Speaker 1: two years ago to be a free agent signee. Here

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Speaker 1: it was kind of what I will say that you know,

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Speaker 1: my agent was talking to people at the combine all

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Speaker 1: that stuff, and you know they were they were interested,

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Speaker 1: but they you know, wanted to see what was going

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Speaker 1: to happen with me. You know, they were interested, but

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Speaker 1: they were interested. So um, as soon as Buffalo came along,

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Speaker 1: they were interested. And that's why. Um, you know, they

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Speaker 1: everybody they were welcome, welcome me with open arms. And

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Speaker 1: I was, I was, you know, ecstatic to be there.

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Speaker 1: So um, that was kind of what I experienced. And

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Speaker 1: I can remember just going to Buffalo and everyone just showing,

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Speaker 1: you know, showing me so much love, and I I

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Speaker 1: just appreciate it so much. I appreciate it that and

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Speaker 1: did the deal right. He signed after all the love

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Speaker 1: that was shown his way. Also around the show today,

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Speaker 1: Dan Orlanski, twelve years in the league, is a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: We're talking to him about Kyler Murray, about quarterbacks and

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Speaker 1: what might be a shifting quarterback paradigm in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Orlanski had some thoughts on what constitutes a legitimate NFL

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Speaker 1: quarterback today. What had happened in the NFL's last couple

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Speaker 1: years is we have broken away from some old school taboo.

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Speaker 1: So this player looks like this or skin color is

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Speaker 1: this can't play or he can't play? And so which

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Speaker 1: is good? If we've broken those barriers down a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I think the reality is listen to play quarterback in

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Speaker 1: the NFL? Can you throw it? And can you think?

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Speaker 1: And teams have the teams that are really honing in

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Speaker 1: on that aren't necessarily looking at what the person looks

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Speaker 1: like anymore? Can you do those two thinks? Olovski is

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Speaker 1: gonna be really good. You can pick those up at

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Speaker 1: Buffalo bills dot com. A little bit later on today,

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, thanks you coming in and filling in for

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Speaker 1: Steam Tasker. That's right. Did we retire the side here?

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Speaker 1: Did we get those saved? Got to say save a

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Speaker 1: safe situation. He came in in a safe situation and

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Speaker 1: he picks it up. Our production assistants George Blasteff, Colton Like,

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Speaker 1: Thomas honald Or, Kelly Rude, j J Jurito, Kevin Card,

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Speaker 1: James Robel, Our producer Jay Harris. Will see tomorrow and

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