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Speaker 1: honest and yes, it'll be the truth. Yeah, And that

430
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Speaker 1: goes back to what Eric Wood said on our show yesterday. Steve,

431
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:38,399
Speaker 1: he is the same person every single day, and to

432
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Speaker 1: take it a step further, he practices what he preaches.

433
00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,240
Speaker 1: He is an open book in saying I don't have

434
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Speaker 1: all the answers, and I think for players that's refreshing

435
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 1: because a lot of times coaches act like they do

436
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,520
Speaker 1: have all the answers. And he's one of those guys

437
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 1: who's humble enough to say, hey, I don't know everything.

438
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 1: If you've got a good idea, bring it to us, right,

439
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Speaker 1: we'll look at it. If we think it makes sense,

440
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:03,960
Speaker 1: we'll add it in. You guys are as much a

441
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Speaker 1: part of this as we are, you know, so I

442
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:11,680
Speaker 1: think I think that has an inherent value in pushing

443
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Speaker 1: players further and getting them to be the best version

444
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Speaker 1: of themselves here because they know their input matters not

445
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,719
Speaker 1: just what they do on the field. They're collective input

446
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 1: off the field in the meeting room seeing something on

447
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,240
Speaker 1: film and saying, hey, coach, what about this, and no

448
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,920
Speaker 1: one it's gonna get an open invitation and be heard

449
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:37,959
Speaker 1: and legitimately considered and that's when you put a culture

450
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Speaker 1: in like that, Brownie, I can tell you, well, here's

451
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Speaker 1: what the effect it has on the locker room. So

452
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Speaker 1: when a guy comes up and he comes up with

453
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Speaker 1: this suggestion and they get back to and the suggestion works,

454
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Speaker 1: or at least they say he said, well, they didn't

455
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Speaker 1: do it because of this, He goes, I suggested this.

456
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Speaker 1: That gets around the locker room. He goes, hey, I

457
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Speaker 1: suggested this, and they're gonna we're gonna try it, and

458
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be awesome whatever. What that does to the

459
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Speaker 1: locker room is guys are going you mean, you mean

460
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Speaker 1: like it's empowering and inspiring. So listen, if I don't

461
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Speaker 1: want to come up with some cockamami wild idea, if

462
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna suggest this, they're gonna consider it. I don't

463
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 1: want to look like a dope, but I want to help, right,

464
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Speaker 1: So that's the thing you want it. So you're you

465
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:22,959
Speaker 1: got all these guys, all is group think, All fifty

466
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Speaker 1: three of those guys, all sixty sixty of these guys,

467
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:29,680
Speaker 1: seventy of them actually are gonna be sitting there trying

468
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 1: to think of new ways to help and say, what

469
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Speaker 1: if we tried this and they and they can get

470
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Speaker 1: they can you know they'll they'll implement it. And that's

471
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Speaker 1: pretty empowering and pretty inspiring for guys who are really

472
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Speaker 1: good at what they're doing. And some of them you

473
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Speaker 1: took the two safeties. Think about the think about the

474
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 1: knowledge and experience michae Hyde and Jordan Poria can bring

475
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Speaker 1: to the table, and it's like, yeah, that's a great idea,

476
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 1: let's do it. Or it could be something as simple as, Hey, coach,

477
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 1: the guys are hanging this week, like right, we're really

478
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Speaker 1: beat up like that last weeks I was super physical.

479
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 1: Can we just back off on the reps when we

480
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Speaker 1: get to Thursday, our only padded practice of the week.

481
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 1: Can we just like maybe even just go shells or something.

482
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Speaker 1: He hears all of that, He listens to that, and

483
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:16,119
Speaker 1: so it's from stuff as simple as that to the

484
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Speaker 1: x's and os, and the input is there, and the

485
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:20,919
Speaker 1: two way communication is a real thing here, and I

486
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: think it makes a difference from Bills and Mets fan

487
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet. It would be very hard for

488
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 1: McDermott to top Marv. However, win a Super Bowl and

489
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: everything changes. I don't think we're really that far away

490
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Speaker 1: from it happening. If it happens this year, McDermott shoots

491
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:39,119
Speaker 1: to the top like a rocket. Winds are knocked. Well,

492
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,800
Speaker 1: he's talking. He's talking about yeah, where they rank in

493
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Speaker 1: all time coaches, not strictly based on wins or win percentage.

494
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Speaker 1: And I get that. I mean, you win the whole

495
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,959
Speaker 1: kitten kaboodle. You know, it's like you said the other day, guy,

496
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 1: never buy another drink in this town. Again, That's the

497
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: way it is. And that's true. But here, and here's

498
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Speaker 1: the thing. And I know this, and I know a

499
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 1: lot of fans know this, and we don't kind of

500
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 1: think about it too much, but when you get to

501
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:05,880
Speaker 1: be that good, when you get to be a team

502
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: that is super Bowl caliber, it doesn't mean you get

503
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,160
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl every year. Look at the New

504
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints. They've been super Bowl calorner for what half

505
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,119
Speaker 1: a dozen years now, they won one already. Then they

506
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: go and they get beat by a fluke play in Minnesota,

507
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 1: that Stefan Diggs touchdown that we thought we heard the

508
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: call yesterday of it. They get a non call by

509
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 1: the LA Rams. Super Bowl color doesn't mean you win

510
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 1: the super Bowl every year. But it does mean you

511
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Speaker 1: knew you were good enough to get there and you

512
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Speaker 1: had a chance at it. So when the push comes

513
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 1: to shove, that's where you want to be, all right,

514
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: Steve and I need to step aside, because coming up

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Speaker 1: next will be one head coach Sean McDermott be joining

516
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: us here on One Bill's Live to talk about his

517
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 1: new contract extension as well as how things are coming

518
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 1: together here amidst this pandemic. It's a training camp unlike

519
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 1: any other that he his coaches and his players who

520
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 1: are trying to undertake. How is that thing going here

521
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Speaker 1: through this first week or two. I'll ask him about

522
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 1: that and much more coming up next on One Bill's Live,

523
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Speaker 1: presented by a Lot of Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: All right back on One Bill's Live Chris Brown, Steve

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00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 1: tasking with you and joining us now as promised is

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Speaker 1: One Bill's head coach Sean McDermott, who just put pen

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Speaker 1: to paper on a six year contract extension yesterday. And

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of signs of approval from Bill's

529
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: mafia and the fan base at large after hearing the

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Speaker 1: news about that. So that was great, and we do

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Speaker 1: want to welcome coach in at this time, and coach

532
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 1: obviously we're not the first, but congratulations anyway on the

533
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Speaker 1: contract extension. And my first question to you, coach, is

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Speaker 1: and the timing may not have lined up right where

535
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: you were around your players, but was there an announcement made?

536
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: Probably not by you, somebody else probably had to do this,

537
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: knowing how humble you are, But did somebody else make

538
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: the announcement about your contract extension to the players, and

539
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: if so, what was the reaction because I'm kind of

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Speaker 1: predicting we're envisioning a jubil in locker room, people hopping

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00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: up and down and going bananas. No I you know,

542
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Speaker 1: I the way that you know, the social media works

543
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 1: and media over all these days, that the players knew

544
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: about it rather quickly. It's a little bit unique timing

545
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: with uh, you know, the players in the building. You know,

546
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 1: usually these things happen sometimes in the off season, off

547
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: season months when the players are away, and so it's

548
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 1: a little bit unique from that standpoint. But yeah, the

549
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: players found out pretty quickly, and and you know, certainly

550
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Speaker 1: appreciate their their thoughts and their well wishes and everything,

551
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be great to be able to raise

552
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Speaker 1: our kids in Western New York for the first year

553
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: of future at least. Yeah, that's one of the things

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Speaker 1: I thought about when it was announced yesterday. Your kids

555
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 1: are gonna they're gonna be Buffalo kids. You know that now.

556
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I know they weren't born here, but their

557
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: formative years are going to be right here in Western

558
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Speaker 1: New York. And I know that. You know, for me,

559
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 1: I was a dad too, and all my kids are

560
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 1: Western new Yorkers as well. That's kind of got to

561
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Speaker 1: give you a sense, particularly in the profession of coaching,

562
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,959
Speaker 1: where you know, you pitch a tent, you're almost like

563
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: nomads at certain points in your career. Now, to have

564
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: that right now, to have that stability, you got to

565
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 1: feel really good about your family having a place where

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Speaker 1: they can really sink some deep roots. Yeah, we've been,

567
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 1: you know, very happy with the community. It just it

568
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 1: fits us and hopefully we fit the community as well,

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00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 1: and people in Buffalo, around Buffalo and Western New York

570
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: couldn't be nicer. It's been a great experience for us

571
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: and just becoming part of the community in a lot

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Speaker 1: of ways. Hopefully we're giving as much to the community

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Speaker 1: as we're getting from the community in terms of giving back,

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Speaker 1: you know, and so it's it is nice to see

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Speaker 1: our kids, you know, to be able to get their

576
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Speaker 1: feet firmly planted in the ground and make their friends

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Speaker 1: that they've made and be able to hopefully continue building

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00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: those friendships in the years to come. Now, you guys,

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Speaker 1: you and Brandon, seeing as how you know, you guys

580
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: have kind of got to the point where there is

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00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: going to be some stability in the organization. You guys

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00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: have never wavered from your original plan of how you're

583
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: gonna build this, how you're going to formulate this roster,

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00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: the culture you're going to instill. Does this give you,

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Speaker 1: I know, it gives you some validation for your plan,

586
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: But does it give you some freedom to maybe now

587
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: do some things you wanted to do didn't know if

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00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: you'd have the time to do it. Is there any

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00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: kind of change in the plan or does this free

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00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: you up because of the long timeline to do some

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00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: more long term planning with how you run things or

592
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 1: do things or whatever is that? Does that Does it

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00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 1: give you some freedom to do something like that long

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00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: term with the organization? Well, we've always had Yeah, we've

595
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: always had a long term plan, and you know, you

596
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: hope and pray that you're you're able to see it through.

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00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 1: And in this case, now we're able to have the

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00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 1: time to see it through. And not a lot of

599
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,479
Speaker 1: coaches and jams get that get that opportunity anymore. So

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00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: we're certainly thankful and grateful for that. Overall, though, I

601
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: think you know, just when you take to me a

602
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: responsible approach and you're a steward of an organization like

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00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: Brandon myself being stewards from day one, to me, that's

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00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: the responsib way that we've had to tarrying Kim and

605
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: the fans of the Buffalo Bills is to take take

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00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: that approach that is in the best interest of the organization.

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00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: And even though you do that, in the back of

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00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: your mind you're saying, hey, I've got to do what's

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00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: right for this organization, even though I may not be

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00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:39,239
Speaker 1: here now we can now we're here, and and uh,

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00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 1: you know, and so yeah, it provides a little bit

612
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: more clarity and there is a bigger picture approach to it.

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Speaker 1: At this point, Coach, I know that this is this

614
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: was going to be you knew this back in April.

615
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 1: This was going to be a training camp that was

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Speaker 1: going to be very unique and probably unlike any other before.

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Speaker 1: You know, in light of the pandemic. How has it

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00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 1: gone here for the better part of the last two weeks.

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Speaker 1: We know that going in the obvious goal is to

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Speaker 1: have players so comfortable with these new protocols that they

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Speaker 1: can focus on their job and on football. So how

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Speaker 1: do you think it's kind of gone. How how has

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Speaker 1: the building and everybody around it undertaken this and how

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00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: smoothly of things gone to this point. Yeah, it's been incredible.

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00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: I mean just watching um, you know, the building, the

626
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 1: building being transformed over the course of the summer months

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Speaker 1: by our operations staff, Brian Bird, Running Row, Kevin me

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Speaker 1: Gang and the many other people that have worked hard

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Speaker 1: to get us to even open the doors. And now

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Speaker 1: to watch our staff and how they have embraced the

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Speaker 1: protocols and our players. Man, just great examples of how

632
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: adjustable we are as human beings and adaptable and so

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00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 1: we've really been able to get into a routine now

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00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: as a team, which has been important for our growth

635
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: in the early days and weeks of training camp. And

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00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 1: what we'll do going in the next couple of days

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Speaker 1: starting tomorrow, is transition into our first real practices where

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00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:17,439
Speaker 1: we're competing at a high level against one another and coach.

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00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 1: With respect to that, we're all familiar with the time

640
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 1: constraints involved for you and your coaching staff and the

641
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: personnel department to kind of assist you in making a

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00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: lot of these roster decisions, and you're doing it with

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Speaker 1: a lot less evaluation time and evaluation evidence to go

644
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Speaker 1: on absent a preseason. So with that in mind, are

645
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Speaker 1: you able to conduct proper position battles at spots where

646
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,839
Speaker 1: maybe it is not a clear cut starter, you know,

647
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Speaker 1: or true incumbent. Do you conduct them the same way

648
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: you always have or will there have to be some

649
00:34:54,760 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: tweaking because of the time constraints involved. Yeah, one hundred percent, Chris,

650
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: there's definitely tweaking. We need to be very intentional. We're

651
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 1: always intentional, but in this case, we can't sit back

652
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,320
Speaker 1: and say, well, we'll see what they look like coming

653
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: this Thursday in the in the first preseason game or

654
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 1: next week in the second preseason game. We don't have

655
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: that luxury. So what we do have is an opportunity

656
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: as a team to grow and evaluate, and so we

657
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 1: need to be intentional with the rep plan every week,

658
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 1: who's getting what reps every day? Really? And then also

659
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 1: when we do scrimmage, who do we really want to see?

660
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: Who do we think we already know about? And then

661
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: who do we need to see so that we can

662
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: make good sound decisions moving forward as a coaching staff,

663
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,320
Speaker 1: when you go through the preseason, you also get a

664
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Speaker 1: chance to see other teams preseason games. None of that

665
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: is going to happen this year. In fact, you may

666
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: not know who the eleven starters for the Jets are

667
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: going to be on game in Week one, and vice versa.

668
00:35:55,719 --> 00:36:00,360
Speaker 1: They may not know you're starting eleven. How much apprehension

669
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Speaker 1: does that give a coaching staff not knowing exactly what's

670
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 1: gonna happen when they line up, who they're gonna have

671
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,479
Speaker 1: out there, what their personnel look like, and the same

672
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 1: for you, how much freedom does that give you to

673
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: maybe do some things unexpectedly in game one, week one

674
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:17,839
Speaker 1: of the NFL season this year, maybe an unprecedented unveiling

675
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: of some funky stuff, right, for lack of a better

676
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 1: way to put it, Yeah, there's always in week one,

677
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: there's always, I think most head coaches myself for sure,

678
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:33,319
Speaker 1: the unknown. There's apprehension around the unknowns in particular of

679
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:37,919
Speaker 1: all years this year, you know, and so not being

680
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 1: able to watch a team, an opponent in this case,

681
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: through the preseason, seeing what they're doing, knowing that all

682
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: the while there is probably they're holding back let's just say,

683
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 1: twenty five percent of their playbook for the first game

684
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,400
Speaker 1: and second game, first quarter of the season. Some are

685
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: thereabouts that there's gonna be a lot of unknowns this

686
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 1: year as we head into that first game. But what

687
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 1: we've got to do is master a week what we

688
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: can and control what we can and get ourselves to

689
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 1: a point fundamentally where we're ready to go. Talking with

690
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: Bill's head coach Sean McDermott signed a six year contract

691
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 1: extension yesterday, Coach, you've you've used the mantra find a

692
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 1: way with your club. The players seem to have embraced

693
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: that holdheartedly. You've also had to be creative. And I

694
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: know Brandon being touched on this when he made Tyler

695
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 1: Bass a draft choice in the sixth round back in April.

696
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: But the clutch gene is a pretty important quality for

697
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Speaker 1: a kicker at the NFL level. I think you know that,

698
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 1: Stephen Houshke has that in his makeup. Trying to find

699
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:43,760
Speaker 1: that in a rookie kicker absent preseason game like situations,

700
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:45,959
Speaker 1: how creative are you going to have to be to

701
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: try to ascertain whether Tyler Bass has that in him? Well, Tyler,

702
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 1: And then to your point, many of the other new

703
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 1: players that are that are in their first year with

704
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:04,280
Speaker 1: the Bill, those rookies included across all position groups, because

705
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 1: as as Steve knows, there's no substitute for experience, UH,

706
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: in particular at the specialist position. At a specialist position

707
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: like kicker place kicker, there's been a lot of games

708
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: won and lost over the years at that position. You know,

709
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 1: having said that, we've got to do our job and

710
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: I've got to do my job to continue to put

711
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:26,919
Speaker 1: him in those positions where we can build the experience level,

712
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 1: build the reps, and then he can learn from from UH.

713
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Speaker 1: You know, all all those experience, all those experiences going

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Speaker 1: into this to training camp and then through training camp

715
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Speaker 1: and then as we close out training camp, and to

716
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 1: your point, we've got a lot of confidence and UH

717
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 1: and House and what he's been able to do at

718
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 1: a high level for so long, in particular in those

719
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: clutch moments, and so Tyler is a good young player.

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Speaker 1: We planned to continue to expose him to those situations

721
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,359
Speaker 1: and it's a it's a good, good battle to watch

722
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Speaker 1: unfold the course of training camp here. How's the health

723
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: of the roster right now? I know that you know,

724
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: we haven't heard about it positive COVID tests or anything

725
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: like that, but also the football injuries. How is the

726
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 1: I know that the run up was very gradual, and

727
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 1: it seems like you're you know, you're ramping up to

728
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 1: I guess Monday where you're getting your full prided practice in.

729
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 1: How's the health of the roster? You know, the how

730
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: are they handling the COVID tests and all of that?

731
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Speaker 1: And I guess they're going to extend the daily COVID tests, Uh, indefinitely.

732
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Speaker 1: How's all that going with how the guys are feeling,

733
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Speaker 1: how they're responding and when they got on the field,

734
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Speaker 1: how are they how are they doing? Yeah, Steve, the

735
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 1: you know the first part. As I pulled up to

736
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Speaker 1: the testing site this morning, it's amazing again just to

737
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: see how things have changed and yet how adaptable we

738
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Speaker 1: are to to finding new routines rather quickly having to

739
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: pull into the testing site every day myself before we

740
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: head into work. Certainly unique, but again just just shows

741
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: you how how resilient we are as human beings, and

742
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: this team how and these guys are. They've done a

743
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: great job, you know. I just think that the health

744
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 1: overall of our football team, our medical staff does a

745
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 1: great job. Nate Brescie, Joe Collins too, just to name

746
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: a few that do a great job. Eric Siano, our

747
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 1: strength coach and his staff, you know, to allow us

748
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 1: to monitor where we are in terms of the load

749
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,399
Speaker 1: on the players and what they what they may need

750
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 1: in the days ahead. So we're I would say, overall

751
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:28,839
Speaker 1: probably like a lot of teams right now, and we've

752
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 1: got a few strains here and there, but overall healthier

753
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: at this time in training camp then maybe in years past.

754
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:42,439
Speaker 1: That said, we are going to get into the dog

755
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 1: days of a training camp over the next couple of

756
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 1: days in the weeks, and I think that'll be a

757
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: great separator for us as a football team. Last one

758
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 1: I have for your coach, with all the newness that

759
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 1: everyone has had to undertake amidst COVID one, that seems

760
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 1: to be an effort to help rosters is the expanded

761
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 1: practice squad. It was already going up from ten to

762
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: twelve under the new CBA. It looks like you get

763
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,400
Speaker 1: four additional spots on top of that for a total

764
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 1: of sixteen. Looking at that, how much does it change

765
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 1: the dynamic of the decision making with respect to your

766
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 1: roster this season? Yeah, you know, we've already seen the

767
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: impact that some positive cases can have on a team

768
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 1: and a staff, just in terms of replacement costs, if

769
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 1: you will. And so you know, if if if one

770
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: person tests positive, then obviously the people that have been

771
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 1: around them, there needs to be consideration given to those

772
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: people that could have been exposed. And so rather quickly

773
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:50,399
Speaker 1: we can get ourselves into a situation to your point, Chris,

774
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: where we need to dip into that practice squad and

775
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:56,800
Speaker 1: bring a player or two up and maybe in short notice,

776
00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: so that practice squad, I think the complex and you'll

777
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: see around the league will have changed a little bit

778
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: from strictly developmental to having players on that practice squad

779
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:08,319
Speaker 1: that can actually come up to the varsity and help

780
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: in a short amount of time. Now it gives me

781
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: I watched a little bit of what they're doing in

782
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 1: LA on hard knocks with the Raiders and Rams and

783
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 1: the Chargers, and how the protocols are, and I've seen

784
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: it firsthand in this building trying to come onto the

785
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 1: property and get off the property. It gives me a

786
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: little bit of optimism that the league may be able

787
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: to It looked for a while like this was going

788
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: to be a miracle if the league could take the

789
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 1: field get regular season games in fans or no fans.

790
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: It really looked like a monumental task with a million

791
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 1: of hot obstacles in the way. But over the last

792
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 1: week or so, I've started to get a little more

793
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 1: optimistic that they may pull it off. How do you

794
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: feel about the league's ability to get sixteen regular season

795
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: games in without a hitch and go to the playoffs

796
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:52,439
Speaker 1: and get all this done without it going a little

797
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 1: bit sideways because of player positive test positives and all

798
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 1: the things that accompany the COVID. Well, I think managing

799
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 1: expectations is important at the forefront. Where there are going

800
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 1: to be continued positive cases like there was at the beginning,

801
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,240
Speaker 1: There's going to be some rolling hills and some dips

802
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:12,360
Speaker 1: and whatnot, and that's that's to be expected, and we

803
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 1: all have to understand that, and the NFL in this case,

804
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: our organization in particular, has done a phenomenal job of

805
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:24,959
Speaker 1: implementing these measures if you will that you know, whether

806
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: it's testing different protocols we have in placed inside the building,

807
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 1: the masking that's going on, and then really the execution

808
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: of it at the at the player level of the

809
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: staff level. You walk around in our building, everyone's masking

810
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 1: up to the best of their ability. They're distancing to

811
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 1: the best of their ability, and the execution and the

812
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: discipline that's unfolded is to me is incredible to watch.

813
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: Last one, what do you tell these guys when they

814
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 1: leave the building? I mean, the only hole in the

815
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 1: bubble is them going home every night. What's the message? Yeah,

816
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 1: I tell them to go over to your house and

817
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: you've got plenty of room to spread out over there

818
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:07,400
Speaker 1: and uh East Aurora and just uh you know, no,

819
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 1: you know they have to be We all have to

820
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 1: be responsible, right. Um. We have a responsibility to ourselves,

821
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: but we also have a responsibility to our community to

822
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 1: do to do things the right way and to be responsible.

823
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: I'm realistic as well. These guys, a lot of them

824
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:24,719
Speaker 1: are just in their young twenties. I know how I

825
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 1: was in my young twenties. I'm a few years removed

826
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:30,720
Speaker 1: from that now, which I know you both are as well.

827
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 1: But but uh, but yeah, it does take a sense

828
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 1: of responsibility, ownership and discipline. Coach. You can come to

829
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,720
Speaker 1: my house anytime, but since you got a new contract,

830
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 1: the rent is really expensive, just so you know, but

831
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Speaker 1: you're welcome, come on over. Thanks for the time, coaches

832
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 1: always you know you're a musing guy this time of year,

833
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,240
Speaker 1: so we appreciate the time. Thank you, and congrats again.

834
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Speaker 1: All right, thanks guys, easy, all right. Bill's head coach

835
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:57,360
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott, fresh off a six year contract extension that

836
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: he put pen to paper on and h you know,

837
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 1: he had the press conference earlier today and he covered

838
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 1: a lot of his construction of this roster in the

839
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 1: building and whatnot. But we wanted to get into it

840
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 1: with him about how training camp's going amidst the pandemic

841
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: and all of that, and we'll reflect on some of

842
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:17,359
Speaker 1: his answers when we come back, because we know we're

843
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 1: up against it here on the break, but we'll take

844
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: a quick break and come back with more as we

845
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 1: reflect on what coach McDermott shared with us here on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo

847
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 1: Bill's radio back on One Bill's Live. Chris Brown Steve

848
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:51,280
Speaker 1: Tasker with you as we are closing out this first

849
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 1: hour of the program, but plenty more coming your way

850
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: in our number two and our number three. We'll get

851
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 1: to that in a second, But first things first, how

852
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: what kind of did you grab most from coach McDermott's

853
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: assessment of how things have been going here about two

854
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:12,239
Speaker 1: weeks in amidst this COVID pandemic and their adjustments they're in.

855
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 1: I think given all the uncertainties that he alluded to

856
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 1: during the whole interview, I think they're I think everybody's

857
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,359
Speaker 1: pretty happy with how they're progressing. They feel good about

858
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,280
Speaker 1: the football end of it, and they feel good about

859
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,839
Speaker 1: the guys staying up with the protocols. And hearing him

860
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 1: talk about all the stuff was going on. In the

861
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:30,400
Speaker 1: wide ranging nature of what we asked him about, you

862
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 1: kind of forget about how many million things are on

863
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:37,239
Speaker 1: the head coaches play, how many how many people he

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00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: has to touch base with, how many decisions he has

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00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 1: to make, how many you know, football decisions, protocol decisions,

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00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 1: you know. Well, yeah, I mean, this whole pandemic has

867
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Speaker 1: added like you know those laundry you know, those scenes

868
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,480
Speaker 1: like in the Mary Tyler Moore show where they drop

869
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:54,839
Speaker 1: a stack of papers in the people person's inbox. That's

870
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:58,240
Speaker 1: what happened with COVID just added a whole nother stack

871
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 1: of stuff on top of the things that he's already deal.

872
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: Kudos to the guys in the stadium operations here and

873
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: all the people in the front office and all the

874
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 1: people that you know, Kim and Terry and all the

875
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 1: executives up on that end of the building as well

876
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 1: as the football side of it. The guys that the

877
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:15,839
Speaker 1: nuts and bolts kind of crewed down here getting all

878
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: this done and walking through what had to be done,

879
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 1: what it was going to look like, what they were

880
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 1: gonna have to do, moving furniture out of whole wings

881
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,319
Speaker 1: of this building so they could spread out tables, and

882
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: I mean, the whole place has been transformed, and it's

883
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:31,359
Speaker 1: a lot of sweat and sacrifice and time to get

884
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:33,319
Speaker 1: it done. The big thing I pulled out of some

885
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:39,840
Speaker 1: of Coach's answers was him admitting, with respect to player evaluations,

886
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 1: position battles. They are going to have to tweak the

887
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 1: way they do that, and there are going to be

888
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 1: we're gonna see practices I think where an entrenched starter

889
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:56,439
Speaker 1: is not going to see time with a specific unit

890
00:47:56,520 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 1: during a specific, specific segment of practice because they have

891
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 1: to see the guy they don't know in that spot.

892
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:06,919
Speaker 1: Can this guy be a backup at this position? Can

893
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 1: he play at this level with the ones? You're gonna

894
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 1: see some shifting and changing of lineups from day to

895
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 1: day in training camp that I don't think we've really

896
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 1: seen to the degree. We're gonna see it this summer

897
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,319
Speaker 1: because they have to see these guys in practice. There's

898
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 1: nowhere else to see them. And I think you're gonna

899
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 1: see it very early, and a lot very early. I

900
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 1: think you're gonna do that very quickly and verily, because

901
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 1: later into training camp they're gonna get ready to get

902
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 1: ready for the season. You gotta get ready. You gotta

903
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 1: get your guys ready. You gotta get poor, poor Year

904
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 1: and Hide ready. You gotta get Tredavious ready. You gotta

905
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 1: get Tremaine ready, get line recks on the field. You

906
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: gotta get the rotation of the guys that are actually

907
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 1: gonna play on the field and ready, and they don't

908
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 1: even know who those guys are gonna be yet. There's

909
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: in most cases they do. But yes, there are going

910
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:48,759
Speaker 1: to be a handful of areas that they have to

911
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: get ironed out quickly and then get them lined up.

912
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 1: I mean, we remember all the problems that this line

913
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 1: had with respect to getting all five together last year

914
00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: because of injuries. And this guy's out, this guy's in,

915
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:03,359
Speaker 1: this guys in concussion protocol, you got to know who

916
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: can step in and fill a role because you might

917
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:08,399
Speaker 1: lose a starter to COVID at the drop of a hat.

918
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:10,800
Speaker 1: So you got like twelve guy, you got twelve defensive

919
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:14,240
Speaker 1: lineman in camp, You've got, say, for instance, nine spots

920
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: for a defensive line up front, two sets of four

921
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 1: and maybe an extra guy to play special teams or whatever.

922
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,360
Speaker 1: So you've got to get your four guys for first

923
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Speaker 1: and second and third down, and maybe a third down

924
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:27,960
Speaker 1: as a different group, and maybe on third And here's

925
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: the thing, you got nine guys to rotate in at

926
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Speaker 1: four spots. So you've got to find out which four

927
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 1: combinations the one you want on the field, And any

928
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 1: given time, they don't even know who the best guys

929
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Speaker 1: are yet, I mean, they got an idea who's pretty good,

930
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 1: but they got three guys that are brand new that

931
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 1: have to play. Yeah, that's the challenge with a capital C.

932
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: And the degree of the margin of error is important,

933
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:51,919
Speaker 1: and I don't know how you shave it down when

934
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Speaker 1: you have this tight a window of time and no preseason.

935
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:00,799
Speaker 1: I mean, those are valuable snaps that you're losing in

936
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Speaker 1: a live setting. So it's gonna be it's gonna be

937
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:06,000
Speaker 1: a challenge. But you know, I think we know as

938
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 1: methodical as coaches along with his staff, that they'll make

939
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 1: it as perfect a science as they can under the circumstances.

940
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Speaker 1: We have to take a break, but when we come back,

941
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Speaker 1: we will be listening to some comments from Josh Allen,

942
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Speaker 1: who met the media today via a zoom conference call.

943
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:26,320
Speaker 1: Will play you some of the most intriguing sound bites

944
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:29,279
Speaker 1: from that press conference coming up in the next hour here,

945
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Speaker 1: So stay with us here on One Bill's Live, presented

946
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:43,839
Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello

947
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio Network Sports date. Here a sports update from

948
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:51,440
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. Bill's head coach, Sean McDermott, Inc. Day

949
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 1: new six year contract extension on Monday, which we'll keep

950
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Speaker 1: him at the Helm through the twenty twenty five season.

951
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Speaker 1: If you missed the first hour of today's show, McDermott

952
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 1: joined us and you can go back and listen or

953
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:05,360
Speaker 1: watch his entire interview on all of the Buffalo Bills

954
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 1: media platforms around the NFL forty nine ers tight end

955
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:12,279
Speaker 1: George Kittle has reached a long term contract agreement with

956
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 1: the club that has reset the tight end market, Kittle

957
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: agreeing to a five year, seventy five million dollar packed

958
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 1: that included an eighteen million dollar signing bonus. One of

959
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 1: the best remaining twenty twenty three agents has found a

960
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:29,479
Speaker 1: landing spot. Defensive end Everson Griffin, who spent his entire

961
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Speaker 1: ten year career with the Vikings, has agreed to terms

962
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Speaker 1: with the Cowboys. Griffin has seventy four and a half

963
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:37,719
Speaker 1: career sacks, which included eight sacks last season and a

964
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Speaker 1: career high thirteen in twenty seventeen. In their second quote

965
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Speaker 1: unquote home game in Buffalo, the Toronto Blue Jays made

966
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 1: history on Wednesday against the Miami Marlins, even though they

967
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 1: did not get the win in a fourteen to eleven loss.

968
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:55,120
Speaker 1: The Jays became the first team in Major League Baseball

969
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: history to lose a game in which they recorded eighteen

970
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 1: hits and seven home runs. Stanley Cup playoffs continue this

971
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:06,759
Speaker 1: afternoon and tonight with four games on the schedule. At

972
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:08,840
Speaker 1: three PM, it's Game two between the Lightning and the

973
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 1: Blue Jackets. The Golden Knights look to go two games

974
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Speaker 1: up on the Blackhawks. Then it's the Hurricanes looking to

975
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Speaker 1: even their series with the Bruins at a game apiece,

976
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Speaker 1: and then finally in the nightcap, it's the Flames and Stars.

977
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Speaker 1: Calgary leads that series one game to nut. That is

978
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Speaker 1: your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown, Steve

979
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Speaker 1: Tasker with you as we begin our number two of

980
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Speaker 1: the program from our Seneca studio here at One Bill's Drive.

981
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Speaker 1: It is One Bills Live, and we're gonna get into

982
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:38,919
Speaker 1: a little bit of what Josh Allen had to say

983
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 1: today he met the media via a zoom conference call.

984
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Speaker 1: And you know, we want to we want to give

985
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 1: you the highlights. Instead of giving you the full twenty

986
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Speaker 1: minutes of question and answer, we figured we give you

987
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:55,240
Speaker 1: the high points of this and naturally, the soup djour

988
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: is coach McDermott's contract extension. We asked coach last hour

989
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:02,839
Speaker 1: how the players reacted when they got the news, So

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00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: Josh was asked that very question today, Steve. Here's what

991
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:10,000
Speaker 1: he had to say about coaches extension. I mean, super

992
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: happy obviously for him and his family. He's he's worked

993
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:15,960
Speaker 1: extremely hard. He deserves every single you know penny that

994
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,160
Speaker 1: he's gonna get. Um, you know, as far as the

995
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 1: direction of this team, like he's he's led us in

996
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 1: the right direction. I know, Buffal had been in the

997
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 1: playoffs in seventeen years. Whatever the case, maybe he comes

998
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 1: in and three and takes us to two. So I

999
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:31,440
Speaker 1: mean he's he's got this team on the right trajectory. Um.

1000
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,400
Speaker 1: You know, the messaging to this team obviously is that

1001
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: the playoff caliber and trust in the process. And that's

1002
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 1: exactly what we've done. That's exactly what he's done. It's

1003
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:41,480
Speaker 1: only led to good things. So we're going to continue

1004
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 1: to follow his follow his lead. Um, you know, as

1005
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: a as a head coach. To to kind of get

1006
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 1: that extension. Obviously, there's some relief there where now he's

1007
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:52,480
Speaker 1: he's got some relief and he can go out there

1008
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 1: and just just coach um. So we're super excited as

1009
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 1: a team that you know, obviously have him lockdown for

1010
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 1: the next six years and we're looking forward to you know,

1011
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 1: it's been as much as much time with him as

1012
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: we can and developing that relationship now. I did see

1013
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:09,440
Speaker 1: Josh on Good Morning Football last week and he was

1014
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 1: ragging coach a little bit because he was asked about

1015
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 1: coaches workouts and Josh Allen said, I've never seen coach

1016
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:18,839
Speaker 1: workout maybe a push up here or there, And I said, oh, careful, now,

1017
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:23,439
Speaker 1: coach mcdermotts workout. Coach mcdermot's done with his workout before

1018
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:25,320
Speaker 1: Josh Allen even rolls out of bed. I don't know

1019
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:28,759
Speaker 1: about that, but yeah he does. Yeah, Sean works out. Yeah,

1020
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 1: he's an old wrestler and so there he's wired that

1021
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 1: way and that's you know, that says enough about it. So, yeah,

1022
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 1: you see McDermott up there and they've got he's got.

1023
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:39,360
Speaker 1: You might not see him because he's he's bundled up

1024
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 1: in a plastic suit on a bike for an hour

1025
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Speaker 1: and a half. Yeah. Those Yeah, it's no joke. His

1026
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:48,440
Speaker 1: his workouts are no joke. Josh is always he always

1027
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 1: does it when the players don't need him right right,

1028
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 1: So he's that's the crack of dawn or sometime before

1029
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 1: the sun kind of like one of those tooth Ferry

1030
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:57,800
Speaker 1: workouts you work out. He's like, oh, yeah, I workout.

1031
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 1: Being a Philadelphia guy and being a fan of the

1032
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:04,960
Speaker 1: Rocky movies, I mean, if you see some of the

1033
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 1: training scenes you know, in those, especially in the first

1034
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Speaker 1: two Rocky movies, like Rocky two, the training sequences that

1035
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 1: they they're showing, I mean, they are insane for some reason.

1036
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Speaker 1: I see coach McDermott using some of those, incorporating the

1037
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:26,600
Speaker 1: sins workout, and Josh is the thing about it is

1038
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:29,719
Speaker 1: you get this culture thing going, and you every time

1039
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:33,880
Speaker 1: you talk to these players and coaches about other players

1040
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:36,600
Speaker 1: and coaches in this building, you get a sense of

1041
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:40,239
Speaker 1: the chemistry that's there. Josh talked about the chemistry that

1042
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:43,839
Speaker 1: he has with with Sean McDermott and to see those two,

1043
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 1: let's face that those two guys are kind of the

1044
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:48,520
Speaker 1: face of what's going on over here. And Josh spoke

1045
00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:51,799
Speaker 1: to us to the media also about the chemistry with

1046
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Speaker 1: McDermott and the coaching staff. And here's what Josh said,

1047
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 1: about this culture and how it's taking route. Super beneficial

1048
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:00,759
Speaker 1: just knowing the ins and outs of what a what

1049
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:03,080
Speaker 1: a coach is looking forward, a coach is asking his players,

1050
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 1: um to do you know, the familiarity with with him

1051
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:09,240
Speaker 1: and obviously he's more on the defensive side of the football,

1052
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 1: but gitting to pick his brain about some different coverages

1053
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 1: that we're going to see this year. And obviously he's

1054
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 1: extremely knowledgeable and um, I want to talk to him

1055
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 1: as much as I can and really dive into a

1056
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:24,839
Speaker 1: defensive minded person. So that's been super helpful. But as

1057
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Speaker 1: far as you know, you keep the same head coach

1058
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 1: and that usually follows with keeping most of the staff around.

1059
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 1: I know, guys, year and year out, there's gonna be

1060
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:35,279
Speaker 1: a couple of changes here or there, um I know,

1061
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:38,400
Speaker 1: and when you start winning, uh, there's probably some more

1062
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:40,640
Speaker 1: changes coming too. But you know, we're taking it one

1063
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 1: day at a time, and to have the same coach

1064
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:45,279
Speaker 1: and the same offensive coordinator now for going into my

1065
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:50,319
Speaker 1: third year. The familiarity with the system, the verbiage, the terminology, um,

1066
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Speaker 1: you know, and me being able to relay messages from

1067
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 1: from coach McDermott to the players and then I really

1068
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:58,160
Speaker 1: think the quarterbacks an extension of the head coach and

1069
00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:01,960
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator. So to have that relationship with both

1070
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:05,360
Speaker 1: of them that I do, it's been super, super helpful. Yeah,

1071
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:08,760
Speaker 1: and I mean there's no denying that. I mean, Josh

1072
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:11,920
Speaker 1: Allen's growth as much as he deserves credit for it,

1073
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:14,839
Speaker 1: for putting the work in not only when he's here

1074
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 1: for six or seven months of the year, but the

1075
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:20,919
Speaker 1: time when he's away and he's working on his game

1076
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 1: personally when nobody's watching. That all deserves credit. But you

1077
00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 1: can't tell me that the trajectory of his improvement has

1078
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:36,600
Speaker 1: not been enormously impacted by the stability of this coaching staff,

1079
00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 1: particularly on the offensive side of the ball the last

1080
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:42,600
Speaker 1: three years, same coordinator about it, and the quarterback coach

1081
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 1: has been here the last two years in Ken Dorsey.

1082
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 1: So just having that along with the same scheme, I mean, Steve.

1083
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 1: We can run down the list of quarterbacks that have

1084
00:57:55,720 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 1: come through the door since Jim retired, and one of

1085
00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:04,760
Speaker 1: the main stumbling blocks for a lot of them was

1086
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:09,040
Speaker 1: the lack of stability at the offensive coordinator position and

1087
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 1: the offensive scheme it was constantly changing. And that is

1088
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 1: so crippling to any quarterback. Forget about you know, a

1089
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 1: young quarterback who's got a lot on his plate to

1090
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: begin with, getting used to the speed of the game,

1091
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:25,040
Speaker 1: reading all these different coverages, disguises, this, that, and the other,

1092
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 1: and then you got to learn a whole new scheme

1093
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:28,760
Speaker 1: the next year and try to be just as good,

1094
00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 1: if not better. I mean, that's just you're almost setting

1095
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:35,400
Speaker 1: some people up for failure in that way. And there's

1096
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:39,000
Speaker 1: probably some quarterbacks that came through here that did fail

1097
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 1: in large part because of that turnover. I'm not saying

1098
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:44,960
Speaker 1: they were going to be superstars, but I think they

1099
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:47,480
Speaker 1: would have stood a better chance of succeeding in some way,

1100
00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:52,040
Speaker 1: shape or form at that position on this roster if

1101
00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:55,520
Speaker 1: there was just a little bit more stability. So would

1102
00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:58,320
Speaker 1: Josh have been a success all by himself? Yeah, maybe,

1103
00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:01,320
Speaker 1: But you can't tell me that his trajectory as a

1104
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:04,680
Speaker 1: quarterback has not been greatly enhanced by the fact that

1105
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 1: he's had the same people in place and the same

1106
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:09,800
Speaker 1: scheme for each of his first two seasons and now

1107
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:12,000
Speaker 1: going on to his third season. Yeah, there's no doubt

1108
00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 1: about it. It's and here's and I said this a

1109
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:16,600
Speaker 1: lot and we allude to it a lot about we

1110
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 1: talk about an evolution of the offense, think about how

1111
00:59:20,680 --> 00:59:24,320
Speaker 1: far down the evolutionary the evolutionary chain the offense was

1112
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:26,840
Speaker 1: in New England Tom Brady, after doing it for twenty years,

1113
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:29,920
Speaker 1: by the time you get to that. And it was

1114
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 1: the same with Jim Kelly in the offense that he

1115
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:36,840
Speaker 1: ran here in Buffalo with that K gun. They we

1116
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:39,880
Speaker 1: evolved little by little over the course of a season,

1117
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 1: of the course of a training camp. And once you

1118
00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:45,160
Speaker 1: get into the second year of that offense, then you

1119
00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:48,280
Speaker 1: start to streamline it, and then you can throw in

1120
00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 1: an extra word, and it's a wrinkle off a play

1121
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:52,479
Speaker 1: that you run all the time, and that extra word

1122
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:56,000
Speaker 1: becomes a play of its own only, and it's it's

1123
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,840
Speaker 1: a full play, but it's only a wrinkle on a

1124
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:01,560
Speaker 1: play that you've always run. It looks completely different. And

1125
01:00:01,600 --> 01:00:04,200
Speaker 1: so by the time new guys come in, you're telling

1126
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 1: them this play and then you say oh, and then

1127
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:07,760
Speaker 1: then you get up to the line you say this.

1128
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 1: When you say that word, they don't know what you're

1129
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:14,240
Speaker 1: talking about, and it's the same play, except with the wrinkles.

1130
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:18,040
Speaker 1: So all of that evolution happens only when you get

1131
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:21,640
Speaker 1: a chance to get all that digested and you know,

1132
01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:24,320
Speaker 1: stored away so that you can say, oh, you know what,

1133
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 1: for this week, we're gonna call this play. We're gonna

1134
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:28,480
Speaker 1: run it like we always do, except if you say this,

1135
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:31,360
Speaker 1: we're gonna throw this wrinkling because it'll crush him, you know.

1136
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:33,960
Speaker 1: And that's what you do, and that's how and then

1137
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 1: that word is in your vocabulary and it's part of

1138
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:38,880
Speaker 1: the offense, and you keep going from there. And you

1139
01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:41,600
Speaker 1: can imagine, you know, you got eighty plays in a game.

1140
01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:44,200
Speaker 1: You may run the same play a couple of times,

1141
01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:48,240
Speaker 1: but you're running out of eighty five plays. You're running

1142
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:53,080
Speaker 1: seventy different plays unless one is working uncommonly well, and

1143
01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:55,840
Speaker 1: that's usually in the run game. Yeah, and even then

1144
01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:57,440
Speaker 1: it's one it's to the right, and then the same

1145
01:00:57,480 --> 01:01:00,560
Speaker 1: play to the left, so you know it's so that's

1146
01:01:00,640 --> 01:01:02,760
Speaker 1: the way it is now. So that's a lot of

1147
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:05,120
Speaker 1: digestion and a lot of knowledge you've got to have

1148
01:01:05,240 --> 01:01:07,760
Speaker 1: under your belt to have seventy different plays or sixty

1149
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:11,520
Speaker 1: different plays that and even the same play out of

1150
01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 1: different formations, different personnel packages. So you got the same

1151
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:17,439
Speaker 1: play out of two tights and three wides and two

1152
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:20,600
Speaker 1: backs and one tight and two all those personnel combinations.

1153
01:01:21,240 --> 01:01:22,960
Speaker 1: The same play can be run out of all those,

1154
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 1: but you're standing in a different spot with a different responsibility.

1155
01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:28,640
Speaker 1: That's where you're at it an offense. When when you

1156
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:31,520
Speaker 1: get into that, you know, the year two, year three,

1157
01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:34,400
Speaker 1: none of that stuff has to be like what what

1158
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:37,919
Speaker 1: are you talking about? So it's like, okay, let's go right,

1159
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:39,680
Speaker 1: It's like, here's what we're gonna ruin this week. I

1160
01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:41,800
Speaker 1: got it. Let's go that kind of thing. And it's

1161
01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:46,960
Speaker 1: it just talk about light years difference, difference, And Josh

1162
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:50,880
Speaker 1: actually addressed that very development now heading into year three

1163
01:01:50,920 --> 01:01:56,200
Speaker 1: in the league, playing the game mentally a lot better

1164
01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 1: understanding my offense the best that I can understand at

1165
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:03,520
Speaker 1: the end, and ounced the protection where I'm hot, you know,

1166
01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:06,320
Speaker 1: understanding what the defense can do in a certain play

1167
01:02:06,640 --> 01:02:08,360
Speaker 1: which would cause us problems and if I need to

1168
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:09,919
Speaker 1: get out of that playlet's get out of that play.

1169
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:13,520
Speaker 1: But um, you pair that with the good relationship that

1170
01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:16,320
Speaker 1: I have with coach day Ball and Coach Dorsey and

1171
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:19,960
Speaker 1: understanding what plays I do and don't like, and um,

1172
01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:22,520
Speaker 1: you know, coach Dabele is going to call the games

1173
01:02:22,560 --> 01:02:24,160
Speaker 1: the right way for me, and I'm going to be

1174
01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:25,800
Speaker 1: able to go up there and execute them the right way.

1175
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:28,320
Speaker 1: So and not only that, just the guys that we

1176
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:31,320
Speaker 1: got on offense now just understanding that when I get

1177
01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:33,760
Speaker 1: them the ball, good things happen. So we're gonna try

1178
01:02:33,760 --> 01:02:37,840
Speaker 1: to do that as as swiftly and as as often

1179
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:42,880
Speaker 1: as we can. Yeah, and why not? And I think

1180
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:47,000
Speaker 1: it was interesting because we talked to John Brown last week,

1181
01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:50,600
Speaker 1: and you know, he was naturally asked about Stefan Diggs

1182
01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 1: and spreading the ball around. And I mean, to a man,

1183
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:59,120
Speaker 1: the skill position players on offense say, Josh really is

1184
01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:02,240
Speaker 1: just throwing to the guy that's open. And when you

1185
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:06,280
Speaker 1: have the talent at your disposal that Josh has, you

1186
01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:09,720
Speaker 1: can do that. Like I know, soccer is very different

1187
01:03:09,720 --> 01:03:13,240
Speaker 1: from football, but when you're a younger kid and you

1188
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:17,440
Speaker 1: have options and you can pass it to the really

1189
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:19,440
Speaker 1: good finisher, or you could pass it to this kid

1190
01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:22,280
Speaker 1: over here who might not be as good, you're giving

1191
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:23,920
Speaker 1: it to the guy that's probably gonna score for you.

1192
01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:30,680
Speaker 1: On this roster, you got a multitude of playmakers where

1193
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:33,720
Speaker 1: you don't shy away for a second about well, I

1194
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:36,040
Speaker 1: really want to get it to digs. Here. This guy's

1195
01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:37,760
Speaker 1: wide open, but I don't know if he's gonna get

1196
01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:42,200
Speaker 1: the first half. Like you got capable guys across the board.

1197
01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:47,040
Speaker 1: That's got to be so freeing for a quarterback. Yeah,

1198
01:03:47,040 --> 01:03:49,600
Speaker 1: And I think it's also empowering for everybody in the

1199
01:03:49,640 --> 01:03:51,640
Speaker 1: offense knowing that if you can beat your guy, you

1200
01:03:51,640 --> 01:03:54,160
Speaker 1: got a chance to get the ball. And a lot

1201
01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:57,200
Speaker 1: of people think and I get it, because the only

1202
01:03:57,240 --> 01:03:58,920
Speaker 1: time you hear about it being a problem is when

1203
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:02,920
Speaker 1: it's a problem for teams. Even Steph Diggs this was

1204
01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:04,760
Speaker 1: he was accused of it last year, throwing a fit

1205
01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:06,680
Speaker 1: on the sidelines where he wasn't getting the ball or whatever.

1206
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:12,000
Speaker 1: Listen to this. Invariably, if the team's winning, everybody's happy,

1207
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:15,360
Speaker 1: whether they're getting one catch or twenty catches. If you're winning,

1208
01:04:15,880 --> 01:04:20,240
Speaker 1: everybody's happy. And that's what it boils down to, certainly

1209
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:22,960
Speaker 1: if the offense and when it gets to be a problem,

1210
01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:25,560
Speaker 1: it isn't even if you're losing. So if you're scoring

1211
01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:29,440
Speaker 1: thirty five points a game and you're still losing, the

1212
01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:31,160
Speaker 1: guys on the offensive side of the ball, whether they're

1213
01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:33,640
Speaker 1: getting the ball or not, are pretty happy. Because they

1214
01:04:33,680 --> 01:04:35,960
Speaker 1: know they're getting You know, the offense is clicking, you're

1215
01:04:35,960 --> 01:04:40,440
Speaker 1: doing the right things. When you're losing and your offense

1216
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:42,520
Speaker 1: can't score points and you're not getting and you're not

1217
01:04:42,560 --> 01:04:45,960
Speaker 1: getting a chance to help, that's when it's frustrating. And

1218
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:49,200
Speaker 1: so if Josh is hitting the open guy and they're

1219
01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:52,320
Speaker 1: playing efficient offense and they're things are going well on

1220
01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:55,320
Speaker 1: that side of the ball, and you're winning games. Even

1221
01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:57,440
Speaker 1: if you're not winning games, but your offense is playing well,

1222
01:04:57,440 --> 01:05:01,680
Speaker 1: whether you're helping or not, you're okay, you're you're playing well.

1223
01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:05,440
Speaker 1: You're you're losing for a different reason. But when you

1224
01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:07,960
Speaker 1: feel like the team's not winning and you're not getting

1225
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:10,120
Speaker 1: a chance to help, I could have done more kind

1226
01:05:10,160 --> 01:05:12,600
Speaker 1: of thing, Give me a chance to help, that's when

1227
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:14,600
Speaker 1: you start to get frustrated as a player. And that's

1228
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:16,600
Speaker 1: you hear a lot about it like it happens all

1229
01:05:16,600 --> 01:05:19,160
Speaker 1: the time. It doesn't happen that often, but when it does,

1230
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:23,000
Speaker 1: that's the reason the player is bummed at the production

1231
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:24,600
Speaker 1: of his side of the football and he's not getting

1232
01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:28,600
Speaker 1: a chance to help. That's why particularly great players get

1233
01:05:28,600 --> 01:05:31,120
Speaker 1: frustrated at times with an offense. And so if you're

1234
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:33,640
Speaker 1: if the quarterback's throwing to the open guy and things

1235
01:05:33,680 --> 01:05:36,760
Speaker 1: are going on, you're winning games. Nobody will ever complain.

1236
01:05:36,880 --> 01:05:39,520
Speaker 1: And speaking of the weapons on the offensive side of

1237
01:05:39,560 --> 01:05:43,160
Speaker 1: the ball, we've heard very positive returns on the two

1238
01:05:43,240 --> 01:05:46,760
Speaker 1: rookie receivers in this draft class, Gabe Davis and Isaiah Hodgins.

1239
01:05:47,040 --> 01:05:49,600
Speaker 1: We heard it from Brian Dable who said these guys

1240
01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:51,760
Speaker 1: are on top of their stuff. We heard it from

1241
01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:55,160
Speaker 1: John Brown who the other day call them the best

1242
01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:58,760
Speaker 1: rookie receivers in terms of knowing a new scheme better

1243
01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:01,840
Speaker 1: than anybody he's been around four which was very high praise.

1244
01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:06,920
Speaker 1: Josh Allen was asked a similar question today about his

1245
01:06:07,160 --> 01:06:10,439
Speaker 1: initial observations of the two rookie receivers. Here's what he said.

1246
01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:15,160
Speaker 1: They definitely um dope into their playbook this offseason. They've

1247
01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:18,160
Speaker 1: done a good job as far as um no knowing

1248
01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:21,480
Speaker 1: where they're going, what they're doing. Um again, they're you

1249
01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:23,760
Speaker 1: know there, there's still a lot of room to grow

1250
01:06:23,760 --> 01:06:26,440
Speaker 1: with these two. And I expect these too. Actually their

1251
01:06:26,480 --> 01:06:29,280
Speaker 1: their draft picks and um they're gonna be good players.

1252
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:31,480
Speaker 1: And I really do think that. But we had to

1253
01:06:31,520 --> 01:06:33,240
Speaker 1: keep going one day at a time. Still trying to

1254
01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:36,320
Speaker 1: find some familiar ground with both of them here, and um,

1255
01:06:36,360 --> 01:06:38,120
Speaker 1: I do I see a lot of promise in both

1256
01:06:38,120 --> 01:06:39,760
Speaker 1: of them though, and I'm super excited they're on our

1257
01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:42,440
Speaker 1: team because they do bring um kind of a different

1258
01:06:42,440 --> 01:06:45,040
Speaker 1: piece to to our puzzle that we have here in Buffalo,

1259
01:06:45,120 --> 01:06:48,000
Speaker 1: and that is high praise from John and uh again,

1260
01:06:48,080 --> 01:06:50,440
Speaker 1: we're we're excited to have these two two young guys

1261
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:52,640
Speaker 1: that have been putting a lot of work and um,

1262
01:06:52,960 --> 01:06:54,880
Speaker 1: like I said, they've they've been very knowledgeable in their

1263
01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:57,080
Speaker 1: playbook and um, they're only gonna grow. And but we

1264
01:06:57,120 --> 01:06:59,920
Speaker 1: gotta take it one day at a time with them. Translation,

1265
01:07:00,120 --> 01:07:01,520
Speaker 1: I haven't had a ton of time on the field

1266
01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:03,240
Speaker 1: with him because I'm trying to get ready with the

1267
01:07:03,240 --> 01:07:06,360
Speaker 1: top three guys right now, right And it makes makes

1268
01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:10,640
Speaker 1: some sense sooner or later, though, they got to get

1269
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:13,160
Speaker 1: the whoever's gonna be there is gonna have to get ready,

1270
01:07:13,360 --> 01:07:16,280
Speaker 1: and I don't I cannot see him kicking really good

1271
01:07:16,280 --> 01:07:18,680
Speaker 1: players at the curve, you know. I gotta think Gabe

1272
01:07:18,760 --> 01:07:23,560
Speaker 1: Davis and um, you know, Isaiah Hodgens, Duke Williams, all

1273
01:07:23,560 --> 01:07:25,560
Speaker 1: these guys are going to get a chance to show

1274
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:29,040
Speaker 1: what they can do. But you know, Josh's got to

1275
01:07:29,040 --> 01:07:30,600
Speaker 1: get ready to play with more guys than just those

1276
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Speaker 1: top three that we've been talking about all offseason. True, true,

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01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:37,960
Speaker 1: But that's that's how many opportunities Job one. How many

1278
01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:40,360
Speaker 1: opportunities are gonna get with the ones is another story, John.

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01:07:40,360 --> 01:07:42,200
Speaker 1: They might be catching more passes from Matt Barkley and

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01:07:42,200 --> 01:07:44,040
Speaker 1: Thann Josh. Probably through the first couple of weeks. Job

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01:07:44,040 --> 01:07:47,320
Speaker 1: one is picking up fifty three and then Job two

1282
01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:51,120
Speaker 1: is getting four or five and six wide receiver ready

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01:07:51,120 --> 01:07:55,760
Speaker 1: to play with number one quarterback. But it just seems

1284
01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:58,040
Speaker 1: you start thinking about what they've got to do and

1285
01:07:58,080 --> 01:07:59,760
Speaker 1: how little time they've got to do it, and how

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01:07:59,800 --> 01:08:03,840
Speaker 1: few and no games to play. You just think it's

1287
01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:07,760
Speaker 1: just monumental the difference it's going to be in evaluating players,

1288
01:08:07,800 --> 01:08:12,640
Speaker 1: and these coaches McDermott and Brandon Bean, they're gonna have

1289
01:08:12,720 --> 01:08:16,040
Speaker 1: to agonize over making these decisions because they just they're

1290
01:08:16,120 --> 01:08:18,200
Speaker 1: not gonna know as much as they usually do when

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01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:19,840
Speaker 1: they get these get to the point where they got

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01:08:19,840 --> 01:08:22,160
Speaker 1: to make a cut. Yeah, it's like personnel people say

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01:08:22,200 --> 01:08:25,479
Speaker 1: all the time, information helps you make the decision, the

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01:08:25,560 --> 01:08:28,880
Speaker 1: best decision, And they're going to be short on a

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01:08:28,960 --> 01:08:33,520
Speaker 1: lot of information this summer, and not from their own shortcomings.

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01:08:33,960 --> 01:08:38,240
Speaker 1: It's from the situation they're stuck in right now, which

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01:08:38,320 --> 01:08:41,080
Speaker 1: is no preseason games and a limited amount of practice

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01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:44,120
Speaker 1: time on a field playing real football. Yeah. The old

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01:08:44,160 --> 01:08:47,000
Speaker 1: adage is the coaches don't cut players, players cut themselves.

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01:08:49,320 --> 01:08:51,280
Speaker 1: I don't know that might get turned on. It's er

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01:08:51,320 --> 01:08:53,920
Speaker 1: this time. Yeah, I don't know if that's completely accurate. Um,

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01:08:54,560 --> 01:08:58,040
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some guys I wish I knew something, something,

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01:08:58,040 --> 01:08:59,680
Speaker 1: I wish I had seen something, something. I wish I

1304
01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:02,680
Speaker 1: had a chance to get a look at this, or

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01:09:02,720 --> 01:09:06,120
Speaker 1: that it's really going to be a difficult process and

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01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:07,880
Speaker 1: it's going to be one I think that coaches are

1307
01:09:07,920 --> 01:09:14,360
Speaker 1: really gonna find frustrating, really frustrating. Well yeah, and I

1308
01:09:14,360 --> 01:09:18,400
Speaker 1: mean there are times every summer where a team will

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01:09:18,439 --> 01:09:20,680
Speaker 1: cut a guy and it was the wrong decision. This

1310
01:09:20,720 --> 01:09:22,640
Speaker 1: guy goes somewhere else and lights it up and you're like,

1311
01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:24,960
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I can't believe we made a mistake

1312
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:28,599
Speaker 1: on that guy. And it really chaps a personnel department.

1313
01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:32,400
Speaker 1: I could happen a lot, I think, Yeah, I think

1314
01:09:32,439 --> 01:09:34,760
Speaker 1: the degree of error this year could be higher for

1315
01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:37,000
Speaker 1: teams across the board. I think he got a lean

1316
01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:39,280
Speaker 1: towards the veteran player too, because this is a team

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01:09:39,400 --> 01:09:42,719
Speaker 1: You're gonna need guys that at least it won't whatever

1318
01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:44,080
Speaker 1: moment you put them into it is not gonna be

1319
01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:46,320
Speaker 1: too big. Yeah, you know they're gonna step up to

1320
01:09:46,360 --> 01:09:48,840
Speaker 1: the plate. They've been there before, been somewhere like this.

1321
01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:51,479
Speaker 1: Well yeah, but that's why I asked coach about, you know,

1322
01:09:51,760 --> 01:09:54,200
Speaker 1: finding the clutch gene and a guy like a kicker,

1323
01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:56,320
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, how do you know

1324
01:09:56,439 --> 01:09:59,800
Speaker 1: how the hell are you finding that this training camp

1325
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:02,920
Speaker 1: without preseason games. Yeah, I mean you could tell them, oh, yeah,

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01:10:02,920 --> 01:10:04,559
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna get lunch if you don't make

1327
01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:06,519
Speaker 1: this fifty two yard But it's not the same thing

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01:10:06,520 --> 01:10:09,640
Speaker 1: as a game when it's fifty two yards with a

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01:10:09,720 --> 01:10:12,800
Speaker 1: stiff breeze left to right in an outdoor stadium and

1330
01:10:12,840 --> 01:10:16,000
Speaker 1: you're on grass and you got sixty five thousand people

1331
01:10:16,040 --> 01:10:18,960
Speaker 1: telling you you're you're a horrible person, and you know

1332
01:10:19,040 --> 01:10:21,800
Speaker 1: your mom doesn't shower and you got to make that kick. Ye,

1333
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:25,840
Speaker 1: that's different. It's different, and you can't replicate it. I'm sorry,

1334
01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:28,280
Speaker 1: there's no and you know what too not for They're

1335
01:10:28,280 --> 01:10:32,280
Speaker 1: all different situations. You know, even a first quarter extra

1336
01:10:32,320 --> 01:10:37,680
Speaker 1: point in a preseason game for first time kicker in

1337
01:10:37,680 --> 01:10:40,240
Speaker 1: the NFL. Think about think about it. There's a thirty

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01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:42,479
Speaker 1: five yard, a thirty three yard, now thirty three yard

1339
01:10:42,560 --> 01:10:44,479
Speaker 1: or you're getting in there. You've never even this is

1340
01:10:44,560 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 1: You're you're in the NFL. Now, Bro, it's a preseason.

1341
01:10:47,439 --> 01:10:49,599
Speaker 1: But there's a game, and there's people watching, and you've

1342
01:10:49,600 --> 01:10:52,160
Speaker 1: got guys, you got big tough dudes on the side,

1343
01:10:52,160 --> 01:10:55,320
Speaker 1: like you've got big eyeballs watching you too, Bro, hit

1344
01:10:55,400 --> 01:10:59,920
Speaker 1: this kick? Yeah, and it's different. Yeah, it's different. It's different.

1345
01:11:00,080 --> 01:11:02,639
Speaker 1: You're you're starting on a lifelong dream and this kick

1346
01:11:02,720 --> 01:11:06,200
Speaker 1: means something. Yeah wow right, Yeah, it's not gonna happen.

1347
01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:09,320
Speaker 1: You can't replicate it, You just can't. Last one from

1348
01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:11,720
Speaker 1: Josh Allen would be of interest, I think to some

1349
01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:14,000
Speaker 1: Bill's fans who have tried to keep their ear to

1350
01:11:14,040 --> 01:11:18,960
Speaker 1: the ground on this so called contest that is, you know,

1351
01:11:19,120 --> 01:11:23,559
Speaker 1: in the work supposedly with respect to one Super Bowl

1352
01:11:23,720 --> 01:11:27,440
Speaker 1: MVP by the name of Pad Mahomes, this throwoff competition

1353
01:11:27,479 --> 01:11:29,759
Speaker 1: who's got the bigger arm? You know, we know Mahomes

1354
01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:31,960
Speaker 1: was upset about his Madden rating for arm strength and

1355
01:11:32,040 --> 01:11:34,599
Speaker 1: Alan had a ninety nine for arm strength and who

1356
01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:37,160
Speaker 1: can throw it further? This, that, and the other. So

1357
01:11:37,560 --> 01:11:40,839
Speaker 1: Josh was asked for an update on a potential throwoff

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01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:45,520
Speaker 1: with the Chiefs quarterback. We'll see. I know we play

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01:11:45,600 --> 01:11:48,000
Speaker 1: on that Thursday night game, and I don't think we

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01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:51,040
Speaker 1: should throw off before the game, but we might just

1361
01:11:51,040 --> 01:11:53,479
Speaker 1: go out there and chatting see if we can hunker

1362
01:11:53,560 --> 01:11:57,280
Speaker 1: something down in the offseason. And and did Josh's credit,

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01:11:57,640 --> 01:12:00,120
Speaker 1: he does want to talk to mahomes about, you know,

1364
01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:03,679
Speaker 1: raising money for charity as as an extension of this

1365
01:12:04,040 --> 01:12:07,120
Speaker 1: throwoff contest. And yes, please do it in the offseason

1366
01:12:07,160 --> 01:12:10,040
Speaker 1: because I don't need somebody yanking an ac joint or

1367
01:12:10,680 --> 01:12:12,800
Speaker 1: pop on a shoulder capsule because you're trying to heave

1368
01:12:12,800 --> 01:12:15,679
Speaker 1: a ball down the field for what amounts to nothing

1369
01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:18,240
Speaker 1: that counts in the standings or the win loss count. Right,

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01:12:18,520 --> 01:12:22,519
Speaker 1: I agree, But it's it's fun the fans. It's an

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Speaker 1: illustration also in this day and age of how small

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01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:27,639
Speaker 1: the league is. These guys talk, talk talk to each

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01:12:27,640 --> 01:12:30,559
Speaker 1: other all the time. They're friends, they're um. You have

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01:12:30,600 --> 01:12:33,120
Speaker 1: friends on a lot of other teams that you know,

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01:12:33,280 --> 01:12:36,400
Speaker 1: and so it's kind of neat to see the camaraderie

1376
01:12:36,720 --> 01:12:39,640
Speaker 1: in and around the National Football League across the sidelines

1377
01:12:39,680 --> 01:12:42,559
Speaker 1: from each other. And I hope they do. I hope

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01:12:42,560 --> 01:12:44,360
Speaker 1: they raise a ton of money for charity. It'd be

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01:12:44,479 --> 01:12:47,400
Speaker 1: kind of anice idea. So that's Josh Allen in a

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01:12:47,479 --> 01:12:50,479
Speaker 1: nutshell from his press conference today. So hopefully we kind

1381
01:12:50,479 --> 01:12:52,639
Speaker 1: of painted the picture of the ground that he covered there.

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01:12:53,040 --> 01:12:56,559
Speaker 1: We will get back to your tweet sheet comments as

1383
01:12:56,560 --> 01:12:59,960
Speaker 1: we are asking you where in the wake of coach

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01:13:00,080 --> 01:13:02,519
Speaker 1: mcdermot's six year extension do you think he could end

1385
01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:05,160
Speaker 1: up on the Bills All time Coaches win list. He's

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01:13:05,200 --> 01:13:08,200
Speaker 1: already fifth. Can he get up as high as Marv?

1387
01:13:08,320 --> 01:13:10,840
Speaker 1: Can he put some heat on the Hall of Fame?

1388
01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:15,320
Speaker 1: Coach weigh in on the Bills Twitter handle at one

1389
01:13:15,360 --> 01:13:18,200
Speaker 1: Bills Live and let us know why you think coach

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01:13:18,280 --> 01:13:20,680
Speaker 1: can get as far as you believe he can. We're

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01:13:20,760 --> 01:13:22,960
Speaker 1: interested in taking your comments there and we'll get to

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01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:25,080
Speaker 1: some of those when we come back here on One

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01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:28,200
Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health, This is Buffalo Bill's

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01:13:28,280 --> 01:13:44,360
Speaker 1: Radio mis Brown Steve Casker, One Bills Live coming to

1395
01:13:44,400 --> 01:13:46,880
Speaker 1: you from the Seneca Studio at one Bills Drive in

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01:13:47,280 --> 01:13:51,519
Speaker 1: Orchard Park, and we are back to the topic of

1397
01:13:51,560 --> 01:13:53,840
Speaker 1: the day, which is where is a realistic place for

1398
01:13:53,840 --> 01:13:56,519
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott to end up on the Bills all time

1399
01:13:56,640 --> 01:13:59,759
Speaker 1: wins list and why we all know Hall of Fame

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01:14:00,120 --> 01:14:02,560
Speaker 1: coach Marv Levy has one hundred and twelve wins his

1401
01:14:02,600 --> 01:14:05,040
Speaker 1: Bill's head coach and leads the way by a wide margin.

1402
01:14:05,120 --> 01:14:07,880
Speaker 1: Louse Sabin with sixty eight after two coaching since with

1403
01:14:07,960 --> 01:14:11,400
Speaker 1: the Bills and a couple of AFL titles, Chuck Knox

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01:14:11,479 --> 01:14:14,000
Speaker 1: with thirty seven, Wade Phillips with twenty nine, Sean McDermott

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01:14:14,040 --> 01:14:17,360
Speaker 1: with twenty five, and we'd expect him to pass Wade

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01:14:17,400 --> 01:14:20,000
Speaker 1: Phillips would take a monumental year this year to get

1407
01:14:20,040 --> 01:14:22,880
Speaker 1: by Chuck Knox, but conceivably by the end of twenty

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01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:28,080
Speaker 1: twenty one coach McDermott's in third, So just how high

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01:14:28,120 --> 01:14:30,160
Speaker 1: do you think he can get? And right now leading

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01:14:30,160 --> 01:14:33,679
Speaker 1: the way is top two, only behind Levy getting forty

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01:14:33,680 --> 01:14:37,000
Speaker 1: seven percent of the vote. But I'm surprised Steve over

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01:14:37,120 --> 01:14:39,519
Speaker 1: thirty two percent of our respondents. We got four hundred

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01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:43,519
Speaker 1: votes in already a shot at the top. He can

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01:14:43,560 --> 01:14:46,639
Speaker 1: get there. I'm realistic he can't. He's a young guy.

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01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:49,160
Speaker 1: But from this one from the tweet sheet from Josh

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01:14:49,160 --> 01:14:51,920
Speaker 1: Allen Shorts, he says, realistically he could be second all

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01:14:52,040 --> 01:14:54,559
Speaker 1: time behind Marv. He does have potential to pass him, though.

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01:14:54,560 --> 01:14:56,519
Speaker 1: If the average is ten wins a year for six years,

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01:14:56,560 --> 01:14:59,360
Speaker 1: that puts him at eighty five. If they have success

1420
01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:01,679
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, of course he'll be around even longer.

1421
01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:03,519
Speaker 1: And I think that's the key, and we all agree

1422
01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:07,599
Speaker 1: longevity is the crucial element to this entire process. If

1423
01:15:07,640 --> 01:15:12,760
Speaker 1: you go for ten years at an NFL team, that's

1424
01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:15,040
Speaker 1: what it's going to be, and that'll put him at

1425
01:15:15,040 --> 01:15:19,920
Speaker 1: ten years, puts him two years past this extension. It's

1426
01:15:19,960 --> 01:15:22,280
Speaker 1: a long time, but he'll still only be he'll be

1427
01:15:22,479 --> 01:15:25,840
Speaker 1: younger than I am right now. And even as well

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01:15:25,880 --> 01:15:30,719
Speaker 1: as the Bills are positioned now, there are very few

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01:15:30,720 --> 01:15:33,479
Speaker 1: teams that turn in ten wins year in and year

1430
01:15:33,520 --> 01:15:36,040
Speaker 1: out for an extended period of time. The Patriots are

1431
01:15:36,080 --> 01:15:40,320
Speaker 1: obviously the one glaring exception to but there aren't too

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01:15:40,360 --> 01:15:42,680
Speaker 1: many teams like them that have done that on a

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01:15:42,720 --> 01:15:45,920
Speaker 1: perennial basis. So you know, one year you might only

1434
01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:49,720
Speaker 1: get eight one year, you might only get nine, you know,

1435
01:15:49,760 --> 01:15:52,839
Speaker 1: if you have to do some some cap cutting measures,

1436
01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:54,760
Speaker 1: because you know, you went for it for a couple

1437
01:15:54,800 --> 01:15:58,240
Speaker 1: of years to try to win the whole thing. You know,

1438
01:15:58,640 --> 01:16:00,880
Speaker 1: sometimes the chickens come home to roost and you got

1439
01:16:00,880 --> 01:16:03,559
Speaker 1: to kind of have somewhat of a blood letting and

1440
01:16:03,720 --> 01:16:05,920
Speaker 1: rebuild the roster again, and there might be a lean

1441
01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:09,639
Speaker 1: year in there somewhere. Um. You know, because it looks

1442
01:16:09,640 --> 01:16:11,479
Speaker 1: like coach mcdermots is going to be around, not only

1443
01:16:11,520 --> 01:16:15,320
Speaker 1: for this current build, but you know maybe a in

1444
01:16:15,360 --> 01:16:19,240
Speaker 1: the distant future it's hair down in another build. Knowing

1445
01:16:19,320 --> 01:16:23,479
Speaker 1: the sick lick nature that this league can work in UM.

1446
01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:27,320
Speaker 1: Based on the fortunes of certain franchises, some are able

1447
01:16:27,360 --> 01:16:31,240
Speaker 1: to sustain it better than others. You know, Pittsburgh comes

1448
01:16:31,280 --> 01:16:36,400
Speaker 1: to mind, obviously New England, and there are others. The

1449
01:16:36,439 --> 01:16:39,200
Speaker 1: Giants used to be that way, Sattle has been that way,

1450
01:16:39,320 --> 01:16:42,040
Speaker 1: fallen on hard time. Seattle is another good current example.

1451
01:16:42,560 --> 01:16:46,920
Speaker 1: So it all comes from stability. Usually stability the you know,

1452
01:16:46,960 --> 01:16:49,639
Speaker 1: it starts with ownership. Mean it's stable ownership, but also

1453
01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:52,519
Speaker 1: when the owners can find a guy, and I've said

1454
01:16:52,520 --> 01:16:55,719
Speaker 1: this before in the program, I spoke to Art Rooney,

1455
01:16:55,920 --> 01:17:01,439
Speaker 1: noh Dan Rooney, who just passed away a handful of

1456
01:17:01,479 --> 01:17:04,320
Speaker 1: years ago, and I asked him what his crimes. He's

1457
01:17:04,320 --> 01:17:06,800
Speaker 1: the guy that hired three head coaches in fifty years. Yeah,

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01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:09,400
Speaker 1: that's pretty good, he said. You hire the smartest guy

1459
01:17:09,439 --> 01:17:11,599
Speaker 1: you can find, and you support him until he figures

1460
01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:15,960
Speaker 1: it out. And that's that. There's the geniuses in the

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01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:19,000
Speaker 1: simplicity of that. You know, there's gonna be some lean years.

1462
01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:20,680
Speaker 1: You gotta live with it, and knowing the guy that

1463
01:17:20,760 --> 01:17:22,240
Speaker 1: whoever else you're gonna bring in is gonna have to

1464
01:17:22,320 --> 01:17:25,920
Speaker 1: learn the exact same lessons this guy's already learned. So

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01:17:26,080 --> 01:17:30,160
Speaker 1: live with it and move on. And you know, the

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01:17:30,240 --> 01:17:32,880
Speaker 1: early success that Sean McDermott had here as head coach

1467
01:17:33,240 --> 01:17:35,760
Speaker 1: set him up for success on doing it with a

1468
01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:37,559
Speaker 1: roster that was less than what it should have been

1469
01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:40,040
Speaker 1: and with the financial constraints that they were trying to

1470
01:17:40,040 --> 01:17:42,160
Speaker 1: get out of. They did have one set back here,

1471
01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:45,240
Speaker 1: no question, in twenty eighteen. But with a rookie quarterback

1472
01:17:46,760 --> 01:17:49,479
Speaker 1: and the defense, the defense that they were able to construct,

1473
01:17:49,640 --> 01:17:52,559
Speaker 1: this is a team that's stable going forward. That's you know,

1474
01:17:52,640 --> 01:17:57,400
Speaker 1: the stability is key, and I think you got to

1475
01:17:57,439 --> 01:17:59,920
Speaker 1: be committed to it, even in the lean times, which

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01:18:00,600 --> 01:18:03,080
Speaker 1: you know, three years in, they certainly seem to be

1477
01:18:03,600 --> 01:18:05,800
Speaker 1: willing to do that. Back to the tweet sheet brought

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01:18:05,800 --> 01:18:08,240
Speaker 1: to you by a Core Agan Moving Systems, the official

1479
01:18:08,240 --> 01:18:10,640
Speaker 1: equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills from Jack A.

1480
01:18:12,080 --> 01:18:15,160
Speaker 1: If he and Bean can keep a strong core together

1481
01:18:15,280 --> 01:18:17,960
Speaker 1: and build around it and Alan develops, there is no

1482
01:18:18,040 --> 01:18:21,360
Speaker 1: reason he can't pass Saban. Catching Marv would be a feat,

1483
01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:26,280
Speaker 1: but sixty eight wins isn't surmountable. He needs more than that,

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01:18:26,320 --> 01:18:28,600
Speaker 1: doesn't he. Oh, he's talking about what he needs to

1485
01:18:28,640 --> 01:18:32,800
Speaker 1: catch Saban. Pagoulas have faith in him and love the stability,

1486
01:18:32,880 --> 01:18:35,800
Speaker 1: they will allow him to continue his program. Yeah. I

1487
01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:38,920
Speaker 1: mean a six year extension gives you a lot more rope.

1488
01:18:38,920 --> 01:18:40,679
Speaker 1: And I think he's built up a lot of sweat

1489
01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:44,120
Speaker 1: equity with this ownership in light of what he's been

1490
01:18:44,160 --> 01:18:46,400
Speaker 1: able to construct here in his first three seasons. So

1491
01:18:47,240 --> 01:18:49,640
Speaker 1: you know, even in a lean year, he's going to

1492
01:18:49,680 --> 01:18:52,479
Speaker 1: get the benefit of the doubt from ownership. Well, yeah,

1493
01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:57,479
Speaker 1: because and rightfully so. When you get to a point

1494
01:18:57,520 --> 01:19:01,960
Speaker 1: when and I think in commentaria, at this point where

1495
01:19:01,960 --> 01:19:04,639
Speaker 1: you know what you're looking at and they say, listen,

1496
01:19:04,640 --> 01:19:06,600
Speaker 1: well we had a rough year this year. Well, A,

1497
01:19:06,800 --> 01:19:09,240
Speaker 1: B and C happened, that was out of our control.

1498
01:19:09,880 --> 01:19:12,200
Speaker 1: You gotta be willing to live with that. And it

1499
01:19:12,240 --> 01:19:14,040
Speaker 1: hasn't always been that. It's not that way around the

1500
01:19:14,120 --> 01:19:16,639
Speaker 1: National Football League all the time. We've seen that. And

1501
01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:19,640
Speaker 1: when you get to the point where yeah, okay, you

1502
01:19:19,680 --> 01:19:22,280
Speaker 1: should have known this and you didn't do anything about it,

1503
01:19:22,360 --> 01:19:24,040
Speaker 1: then you start to get into a place where the

1504
01:19:24,160 --> 01:19:27,040
Speaker 1: head coach does start to become responsible for the problems.

1505
01:19:28,040 --> 01:19:30,360
Speaker 1: I don't anticipate that happening with this crew, though. They

1506
01:19:30,400 --> 01:19:33,160
Speaker 1: seem on top of it at every turn, and they

1507
01:19:33,920 --> 01:19:35,920
Speaker 1: you know, when they lose games, it's because they get

1508
01:19:35,960 --> 01:19:38,599
Speaker 1: out played by a team that's in really good you know, spot,

1509
01:19:38,600 --> 01:19:41,280
Speaker 1: a really good spot, got some great players who make

1510
01:19:41,320 --> 01:19:44,240
Speaker 1: great plays against them. They don't ever seem unprepared and

1511
01:19:44,320 --> 01:19:46,200
Speaker 1: this rot he always seems to and him and his

1512
01:19:46,240 --> 01:19:48,800
Speaker 1: coaching staff I said earlier, they always seem to get

1513
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:51,120
Speaker 1: the most out of their guys. Rarely do they have

1514
01:19:51,320 --> 01:19:55,320
Speaker 1: down weeks where they're just not even in the game.

1515
01:19:55,680 --> 01:19:58,040
Speaker 1: The only exception you can point to last year would

1516
01:19:58,040 --> 01:20:00,920
Speaker 1: be the Philadelphia game where they just didn't have it

1517
01:20:01,040 --> 01:20:06,040
Speaker 1: that day. UM. In previous years, under previous regimes, there

1518
01:20:06,040 --> 01:20:09,160
Speaker 1: were a countless number of games where you would look

1519
01:20:09,160 --> 01:20:11,120
Speaker 1: at it and say, the Bills should have won that game,

1520
01:20:11,479 --> 01:20:14,080
Speaker 1: like they should have they're better than that team, Like

1521
01:20:14,120 --> 01:20:16,719
Speaker 1: they not beat not one of the top three teams

1522
01:20:16,720 --> 01:20:18,559
Speaker 1: in the conference, but they should have beat that team

1523
01:20:18,600 --> 01:20:22,800
Speaker 1: this week, and they don't, um, because it's almost like

1524
01:20:22,840 --> 01:20:25,120
Speaker 1: they would play down to the level of their competition.

1525
01:20:26,080 --> 01:20:28,920
Speaker 1: They should have beat the Patriots twice last year. Yeah,

1526
01:20:29,000 --> 01:20:31,559
Speaker 1: that's the only time when but they were still you know,

1527
01:20:31,560 --> 01:20:35,559
Speaker 1: they were still one. That's right, that's right, and they

1528
01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:39,040
Speaker 1: got maybe the best quarterback of all time doing stuff.

1529
01:20:39,080 --> 01:20:42,840
Speaker 1: In that second game against Buffalo. Tom Brady was heiring

1530
01:20:42,880 --> 01:20:45,160
Speaker 1: it out down the field like you know, like a

1531
01:20:45,200 --> 01:20:48,240
Speaker 1: young Tom Brady. He hit some long balls on him

1532
01:20:48,240 --> 01:20:49,960
Speaker 1: and they were kind of daring him to do it

1533
01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:52,960
Speaker 1: a little bit, I think as well. But I think

1534
01:20:52,960 --> 01:20:55,120
Speaker 1: those are the only time and that you know, that's

1535
01:20:55,160 --> 01:20:57,519
Speaker 1: the ballpark you're in. When you're getting losing one score

1536
01:20:57,600 --> 01:21:00,559
Speaker 1: games to the greatest head coach and quarterback of all time,

1537
01:21:01,640 --> 01:21:05,040
Speaker 1: you're still pretty good. And that's uh So, those those

1538
01:21:05,120 --> 01:21:06,880
Speaker 1: kind of games you gotta be kind of willing to

1539
01:21:06,920 --> 01:21:10,479
Speaker 1: live with because you know, I've seen teams in my

1540
01:21:10,560 --> 01:21:14,599
Speaker 1: broadcast career with CBS, I saw teams literally steal games

1541
01:21:15,360 --> 01:21:19,240
Speaker 1: with where they weren't as good. And you know who

1542
01:21:19,280 --> 01:21:22,280
Speaker 1: was notorious for doing that was Jeff Fishery. You know,

1543
01:21:22,320 --> 01:21:24,160
Speaker 1: he hung around the league a long time because his

1544
01:21:24,240 --> 01:21:29,320
Speaker 1: teams would steal games. And you know, some some coaches

1545
01:21:29,320 --> 01:21:32,679
Speaker 1: can do that, but you gotta be willing to live

1546
01:21:32,720 --> 01:21:35,080
Speaker 1: with it when your roster's not that good, you're getting

1547
01:21:35,080 --> 01:21:37,840
Speaker 1: beat by better teams. I get that, but you don't

1548
01:21:37,840 --> 01:21:40,240
Speaker 1: see that very often with Sean McDermott and his coaching staff.

1549
01:21:40,240 --> 01:21:43,360
Speaker 1: They they seem up, they seem this. The players played

1550
01:21:43,560 --> 01:21:48,760
Speaker 1: beat themselves, and too many times Bill's teams beat themselves

1551
01:21:48,800 --> 01:21:51,320
Speaker 1: in the first decade and a half, you know, And

1552
01:21:51,360 --> 01:21:53,719
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't want to split hairs, but it's different.

1553
01:21:53,760 --> 01:21:57,720
Speaker 1: Beating yourself is different than like like last year in

1554
01:21:57,720 --> 01:22:01,840
Speaker 1: that second Patriots game, there was about three or four

1555
01:22:01,960 --> 01:22:04,559
Speaker 1: long balls Josh didn't hit that should have. There were

1556
01:22:04,600 --> 01:22:08,280
Speaker 1: difference makers. That's not beating yourself. That's just not playing well.

1557
01:22:08,320 --> 01:22:11,640
Speaker 1: That's execution. Yeah, that's not playing well enough. When you

1558
01:22:11,680 --> 01:22:14,559
Speaker 1: beat yourselves when you're in New England and Leodis McKelvin

1559
01:22:14,640 --> 01:22:16,240
Speaker 1: coughs the ball up when you got the lead with

1560
01:22:16,520 --> 01:22:19,080
Speaker 1: less than a minute go in your own right, that's

1561
01:22:19,120 --> 01:22:24,920
Speaker 1: beating yourself. Yeah. Um, when you on a Monday night

1562
01:22:24,920 --> 01:22:27,719
Speaker 1: game against Dallas, when you get five turnovers, that that's

1563
01:22:27,760 --> 01:22:31,639
Speaker 1: beating yourself. You have two touchdowns off interceptions especial teams touchdown,

1564
01:22:31,800 --> 01:22:33,760
Speaker 1: that's beating yourself. Up twenty four to three, and you

1565
01:22:33,800 --> 01:22:37,000
Speaker 1: don't win the game. That's beating yourself. This team doesn't

1566
01:22:37,000 --> 01:22:38,680
Speaker 1: do that under this coaching staff. I'm not saying it

1567
01:22:38,720 --> 01:22:40,680
Speaker 1: will never happen, and I'm saying, but you know what

1568
01:22:40,760 --> 01:22:43,000
Speaker 1: I mean. Steve almost bit through his lip there on

1569
01:22:43,040 --> 01:22:50,799
Speaker 1: the that's Monday. You don't beat yoursels game reference. Oh well,

1570
01:22:51,200 --> 01:22:54,240
Speaker 1: hopefully there are a lot more good games ahead. They

1571
01:22:54,240 --> 01:22:56,880
Speaker 1: can make us forget about all those bad games from years.

1572
01:22:57,120 --> 01:22:59,200
Speaker 1: Just send you into a funk when you start thinking

1573
01:22:59,200 --> 01:23:01,080
Speaker 1: about the seventeen in your draught about you want to

1574
01:23:01,080 --> 01:23:04,439
Speaker 1: th game that it's like, ah, they beat themselves so

1575
01:23:04,640 --> 01:23:08,719
Speaker 1: often this I don't see that with this crew. And

1576
01:23:08,920 --> 01:23:11,320
Speaker 1: that's why that's the difference. And there's a lot of

1577
01:23:11,360 --> 01:23:14,800
Speaker 1: things this jif that's difference. And also the difference is

1578
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:18,519
Speaker 1: when you got a team that just absolutely looks joyful

1579
01:23:18,560 --> 01:23:21,200
Speaker 1: when they play, even in big games and big moments,

1580
01:23:22,160 --> 01:23:23,400
Speaker 1: they want to lay it on the line for you.

1581
01:23:23,600 --> 01:23:26,320
Speaker 1: They are doing it and it's fun to watch him celebrate.

1582
01:23:26,360 --> 01:23:28,400
Speaker 1: They love each other and it's an easy team to

1583
01:23:28,560 --> 01:23:32,559
Speaker 1: root for for that reason alone. They put their arms

1584
01:23:32,560 --> 01:23:35,080
Speaker 1: around each other, and they put their arms around the

1585
01:23:35,120 --> 01:23:37,280
Speaker 1: fan base, and the fan base puts its arms around him.

1586
01:23:37,320 --> 01:23:39,400
Speaker 1: It's a it's a love fest on game day, and

1587
01:23:39,439 --> 01:23:43,320
Speaker 1: that's fun spot to be in for everybody, and they're

1588
01:23:43,320 --> 01:23:46,280
Speaker 1: winning games doing it. From Jeremy on the tweet sheet,

1589
01:23:46,320 --> 01:23:49,240
Speaker 1: Coach McDermott will easily end up in second place. Even

1590
01:23:49,280 --> 01:23:51,960
Speaker 1: if he averages nine wins a season, with a couple

1591
01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:54,360
Speaker 1: of great season in there and even a rough one,

1592
01:23:54,680 --> 01:23:57,479
Speaker 1: he will tie coach Saban. He should be able to

1593
01:23:57,520 --> 01:23:59,760
Speaker 1: remain the coach here in Buffalo long enough to stay

1594
01:24:00,000 --> 01:24:05,479
Speaker 1: and longer than his current contract extension. Things go well

1595
01:24:06,200 --> 01:24:08,679
Speaker 1: and Josh ends up being who he should be, Yeah,

1596
01:24:08,720 --> 01:24:12,040
Speaker 1: he could get another contract easily. Yeah, because what's Josh

1597
01:24:12,080 --> 01:24:14,400
Speaker 1: twenty four? At the end of this contract, he'll be thirty.

1598
01:24:14,520 --> 01:24:16,840
Speaker 1: He'll be in his prime as a quarterback. He'll be

1599
01:24:16,840 --> 01:24:19,000
Speaker 1: in another four years, Josh Allen will be right in

1600
01:24:19,040 --> 01:24:22,040
Speaker 1: his wheelhouse where he should be, you know, throwing, and

1601
01:24:22,200 --> 01:24:25,439
Speaker 1: you know in the playoffs he should be an old

1602
01:24:25,439 --> 01:24:27,479
Speaker 1: hat at the playoffs, all of that stuff. And then

1603
01:24:27,680 --> 01:24:30,840
Speaker 1: at the end two from Bill's Fans sixty nineteen sixty five,

1604
01:24:30,920 --> 01:24:33,280
Speaker 1: he's right about this. Coach McDermott still has to prove

1605
01:24:33,320 --> 01:24:35,519
Speaker 1: he's a playoff winning coach. That's fair. But I'll tell

1606
01:24:35,560 --> 01:24:40,160
Speaker 1: you this, it's fair. In those games against the Jacksonville

1607
01:24:40,240 --> 01:24:46,439
Speaker 1: Jaguars and the Houston Texans, they didn't get out coached. No,

1608
01:24:47,320 --> 01:24:50,519
Speaker 1: they had. In Jacksonville they just could not get past

1609
01:24:50,560 --> 01:24:53,080
Speaker 1: a defense with with Tyrod Taylor quarterback, and then Nathan

1610
01:24:53,080 --> 01:24:55,120
Speaker 1: Peterson had to come in when Tyrod went out at

1611
01:24:55,120 --> 01:24:57,479
Speaker 1: the end of the game. Remember, and then in Houston

1612
01:24:57,640 --> 01:25:00,960
Speaker 1: they had a great player making some plays against him

1613
01:25:01,360 --> 01:25:04,400
Speaker 1: and Deshaun Watson. He just just took out a game,

1614
01:25:04,720 --> 01:25:08,360
Speaker 1: took the game over. And to his credit, Bill O'Brien said,

1615
01:25:08,360 --> 01:25:10,360
Speaker 1: give him the game, let's go, put it on his

1616
01:25:10,360 --> 01:25:14,639
Speaker 1: shoulders and let's go. But McDermott and Leslie Frazier, don't

1617
01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:17,840
Speaker 1: forget that play that beat the Bills. They had two

1618
01:25:18,120 --> 01:25:22,640
Speaker 1: untouched rushers on the quarterback. They both busted him and

1619
01:25:22,680 --> 01:25:25,920
Speaker 1: they both missed him. That's not getting out coached. That's coaching.

1620
01:25:26,040 --> 01:25:29,639
Speaker 1: That's out that's out coaching them. They had him and

1621
01:25:29,720 --> 01:25:31,880
Speaker 1: they got away. The players let him off the hook.

1622
01:25:31,960 --> 01:25:36,519
Speaker 1: That's not getting out coached. So I you know, that's yeah,

1623
01:25:36,560 --> 01:25:38,800
Speaker 1: playoff winning coach. You got a point. I get it,

1624
01:25:39,400 --> 01:25:42,599
Speaker 1: but they have yet to be out coached in those spots. Uh.

1625
01:25:42,680 --> 01:25:45,080
Speaker 1: They put their players in a great spot to win

1626
01:25:45,400 --> 01:25:47,679
Speaker 1: and it's up to the players to execute. In my opinion,

1627
01:25:47,720 --> 01:25:51,200
Speaker 1: that's that's coming from an alumni. Yeah, we gotta take

1628
01:25:51,240 --> 01:25:54,160
Speaker 1: a break, but more coming your way from the tweet sheet.

1629
01:25:54,320 --> 01:25:57,760
Speaker 1: And up at two o'clock will be one Bill Barnwell,

1630
01:25:58,000 --> 01:26:03,000
Speaker 1: ESPN columnist who did an interesting piece on the offensive

1631
01:26:03,000 --> 01:26:07,240
Speaker 1: weapons for all thirty two teams. He ranked them. I

1632
01:26:07,240 --> 01:26:10,080
Speaker 1: think the Bill's got some pretty good candidates there, so

1633
01:26:10,120 --> 01:26:12,240
Speaker 1: we'll see where he had those. When we talked to

1634
01:26:12,280 --> 01:26:14,679
Speaker 1: Bill at the top of the hour. Back in a second,

1635
01:26:14,680 --> 01:26:17,920
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker Chris Brown One Bills Live presented by Kalid

1636
01:26:17,960 --> 01:26:33,960
Speaker 1: to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's radio back on One

1637
01:26:34,000 --> 01:26:37,400
Speaker 1: Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve tasker with you, and we

1638
01:26:37,439 --> 01:26:41,040
Speaker 1: did want to get this out there. The tight end

1639
01:26:41,040 --> 01:26:44,800
Speaker 1: market was reset earlier this offseason when Austin Hooper signed

1640
01:26:44,800 --> 01:26:47,400
Speaker 1: a fifty two million dollar deal with the Cleveland Browns.

1641
01:26:48,840 --> 01:26:52,360
Speaker 1: That thing got blown out of the water today by

1642
01:26:52,439 --> 01:26:56,600
Speaker 1: the contract that San Francisco gave George Kittle, and understandably so.

1643
01:26:56,760 --> 01:27:01,679
Speaker 1: But Steve, five years, seventy five million dollars, that's wide

1644
01:27:01,680 --> 01:27:04,160
Speaker 1: receiver money for a tight end. What do you think

1645
01:27:04,200 --> 01:27:06,880
Speaker 1: it means. I think it means if you're that guy,

1646
01:27:07,040 --> 01:27:09,120
Speaker 1: that's what you can come in. I mean, George Kittle

1647
01:27:09,200 --> 01:27:11,240
Speaker 1: is here's the thing about George Kittle. He's not just

1648
01:27:11,320 --> 01:27:15,959
Speaker 1: a pass catcher. He is a blocker and a physical

1649
01:27:16,040 --> 01:27:19,800
Speaker 1: presence on the team. He's a matchup problem and he's

1650
01:27:19,800 --> 01:27:22,000
Speaker 1: a focal point of their offense. He gives them matchups,

1651
01:27:22,040 --> 01:27:24,960
Speaker 1: he gives him production. And I think that's what teams

1652
01:27:25,000 --> 01:27:27,040
Speaker 1: are really willing to pay. And I think it does

1653
01:27:27,080 --> 01:27:29,679
Speaker 1: say this, Brownie. If you got a head coach, particularly

1654
01:27:29,960 --> 01:27:32,160
Speaker 1: in like they do in San Francisco, a head coach

1655
01:27:32,200 --> 01:27:37,360
Speaker 1: like Kyle Shanahan who's hands on in the offense, if

1656
01:27:37,360 --> 01:27:39,280
Speaker 1: he wants the guy signed they're going to sign him.

1657
01:27:40,160 --> 01:27:44,240
Speaker 1: And it also gives you the idea too, that it

1658
01:27:44,280 --> 01:27:46,800
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what position you play, if you're a productive

1659
01:27:47,640 --> 01:27:50,120
Speaker 1: you'll get your money. And I think that's what George

1660
01:27:50,160 --> 01:27:52,599
Speaker 1: Kittle found out and what people are seeing around the league.

1661
01:27:52,600 --> 01:27:54,800
Speaker 1: The guys. The guy's a beast. There ain't no question about.

1662
01:27:54,840 --> 01:27:57,880
Speaker 1: I didn't just reset the market though. I mean, he

1663
01:27:58,120 --> 01:28:01,559
Speaker 1: is far and away like the highest paid tight end.

1664
01:28:02,200 --> 01:28:07,439
Speaker 1: And you wonder how this is going to impact other

1665
01:28:07,479 --> 01:28:11,720
Speaker 1: teams with game breaking tight ends because the tight end

1666
01:28:11,760 --> 01:28:16,280
Speaker 1: money has suddenly moved to an area where it's on

1667
01:28:16,320 --> 01:28:21,960
Speaker 1: a par with top receiver money. Here's the thing too, George.

1668
01:28:22,000 --> 01:28:24,200
Speaker 1: I mean, if you got a tight end that had

1669
01:28:24,240 --> 01:28:28,280
Speaker 1: a couple of seasons like George Kittle's had, okay, we'll

1670
01:28:28,280 --> 01:28:29,559
Speaker 1: see it. But if you got a guy that had

1671
01:28:29,640 --> 01:28:33,280
Speaker 1: like one that is pretty good, well he's not gonna

1672
01:28:33,320 --> 01:28:34,559
Speaker 1: have You don't have to pay him that man, he's

1673
01:28:34,600 --> 01:28:37,760
Speaker 1: not worth that money, right, I mean that bars you know, Yeah,

1674
01:28:37,800 --> 01:28:41,160
Speaker 1: George Kittle's got a great contract, but that bar's really

1675
01:28:41,240 --> 01:28:44,479
Speaker 1: high to reach George Kittle level in the run game,

1676
01:28:44,520 --> 01:28:48,840
Speaker 1: in the past game, I mean, tight ends like that

1677
01:28:48,880 --> 01:28:51,439
Speaker 1: don't happen often. That's why that you know, he set

1678
01:28:51,479 --> 01:28:54,760
Speaker 1: the market. And he's a young guy, right, what is

1679
01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:57,720
Speaker 1: the third year player, fourth year player? I mean he's

1680
01:28:58,080 --> 01:29:00,559
Speaker 1: he's like twenty four to twenty five. I want to say, yeah,

1681
01:29:00,640 --> 01:29:02,639
Speaker 1: so they're gonna play for a while at that level.

1682
01:29:02,760 --> 01:29:06,240
Speaker 1: That is a guy hitting it big when he is

1683
01:29:06,280 --> 01:29:09,439
Speaker 1: at the height. You know, his contracts up. They went

1684
01:29:09,479 --> 01:29:12,000
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. He was a huge reason why

1685
01:29:12,600 --> 01:29:15,720
Speaker 1: he's hugely productive. They like him. He's as good in

1686
01:29:15,760 --> 01:29:17,400
Speaker 1: the run game as he is in the past game,

1687
01:29:17,439 --> 01:29:21,000
Speaker 1: and he's dominant in both. Yeah, that's the kind of

1688
01:29:21,000 --> 01:29:25,320
Speaker 1: contract guy like that commands. Incredibly efficient player. Pro Football

1689
01:29:25,360 --> 01:29:30,080
Speaker 1: Focus noted that he led the league in reception yards

1690
01:29:30,080 --> 01:29:33,479
Speaker 1: per route run last season three point three yards. Games

1691
01:29:34,360 --> 01:29:38,200
Speaker 1: also force twenty miss tackles on receptions in twenty nineteen.

1692
01:29:38,240 --> 01:29:41,679
Speaker 1: That's the most among tight ends. So, I mean he's

1693
01:29:41,680 --> 01:29:45,400
Speaker 1: not only a really good blocker at the line, soft hands,

1694
01:29:45,600 --> 01:29:48,760
Speaker 1: but he's also athletic enough to make people miss. And

1695
01:29:49,600 --> 01:29:52,840
Speaker 1: you know, the run after catch tight ends, that's the

1696
01:29:52,920 --> 01:29:56,120
Speaker 1: rare breed. Oh yeah, the guy the run after catch

1697
01:29:56,160 --> 01:29:59,160
Speaker 1: guys at the tight I mean Kellen Winslow was like

1698
01:30:00,080 --> 01:30:04,639
Speaker 1: the first prototype of that. Kelen Winslow Senior. Run after

1699
01:30:04,720 --> 01:30:09,840
Speaker 1: catch tight ends are very rare because of this. When

1700
01:30:09,880 --> 01:30:12,000
Speaker 1: they when the tight end runs after the catch, he's

1701
01:30:12,040 --> 01:30:16,680
Speaker 1: got DBS chasing him. You can't outrun those guys. I mean,

1702
01:30:16,720 --> 01:30:19,080
Speaker 1: those guys out run gazelles. I mean it's a it's

1703
01:30:19,080 --> 01:30:22,080
Speaker 1: a stamp, you know. So what it means is he's

1704
01:30:22,080 --> 01:30:24,160
Speaker 1: a physical runner and he's got that stiff arm like

1705
01:30:24,360 --> 01:30:26,280
Speaker 1: you know, Dawson Knox kind of stiff arm thing, and

1706
01:30:26,320 --> 01:30:30,240
Speaker 1: he shucks tacklers. A run after catch tight end is

1707
01:30:30,280 --> 01:30:35,439
Speaker 1: great because they run with dbs and they're big and

1708
01:30:36,560 --> 01:30:40,840
Speaker 1: a lot of times I've said, if a DB's fast

1709
01:30:40,960 --> 01:30:43,640
Speaker 1: enough to catch him, he's usually not big enough to

1710
01:30:43,680 --> 01:30:46,439
Speaker 1: tackle him, And if the guy's big enough to tackle him,

1711
01:30:46,479 --> 01:30:50,160
Speaker 1: he's usually not fast enough to catch him. There, those

1712
01:30:50,160 --> 01:30:52,400
Speaker 1: guys are rare. They're rare in a league full of

1713
01:30:52,479 --> 01:30:55,240
Speaker 1: rare guys. And so that's you know, that's why you

1714
01:30:55,280 --> 01:30:57,560
Speaker 1: get seventy five million dollars. Five year deal is a

1715
01:30:57,640 --> 01:31:01,080
Speaker 1: tight end. But just for average annual value, Hooper's deal

1716
01:31:01,200 --> 01:31:03,519
Speaker 1: was ten and a half average annual value, we're now

1717
01:31:03,560 --> 01:31:06,680
Speaker 1: at fifteen. I mean that's a big jump at a

1718
01:31:06,760 --> 01:31:09,680
Speaker 1: position that did not command this kind of money in

1719
01:31:09,720 --> 01:31:13,759
Speaker 1: comparison to other positions like defensive end, quarterback, wide receiver,

1720
01:31:13,880 --> 01:31:18,080
Speaker 1: and corner, and very quickly tight end is moving into

1721
01:31:18,120 --> 01:31:20,880
Speaker 1: that upper echelon so many times to see where it goes.

1722
01:31:20,880 --> 01:31:23,040
Speaker 1: Some of these contracts and Mahomes contract as well, and

1723
01:31:23,080 --> 01:31:25,040
Speaker 1: some of the other contracts you see are a nod

1724
01:31:25,080 --> 01:31:27,559
Speaker 1: also to what the projected growth of the league is

1725
01:31:27,560 --> 01:31:29,800
Speaker 1: going to be. Yeah, so they think they can. It'll

1726
01:31:29,840 --> 01:31:31,840
Speaker 1: be easy to afford at the end of the contract

1727
01:31:32,000 --> 01:31:34,320
Speaker 1: as much as as much money as they have at

1728
01:31:34,360 --> 01:31:36,160
Speaker 1: the front of the contract. It'll be easier at the

1729
01:31:36,160 --> 01:31:39,080
Speaker 1: back end. Time to step aside. But when we return,

1730
01:31:39,200 --> 01:31:42,320
Speaker 1: we will have one Bill Barnwell with us, the ESPN

1731
01:31:42,360 --> 01:31:47,240
Speaker 1: columnist who ranked the offensive players for each of the

1732
01:31:47,240 --> 01:31:50,840
Speaker 1: thirty two NFL clubs. Where did the Bills rank on

1733
01:31:50,880 --> 01:31:52,960
Speaker 1: that list? We will check in with Bill when we

1734
01:31:53,000 --> 01:31:56,000
Speaker 1: come back. It's One Bill's Live, presented by Collid to Health.

1735
01:31:56,439 --> 01:32:13,000
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio Lofalo Bill's Radio Network. Sports Here,

1736
01:32:13,080 --> 01:32:15,519
Speaker 1: sports update from One Bill's Drive. Hills head coach Sean

1737
01:32:15,600 --> 01:32:18,880
Speaker 1: McDermott inked the new six year contract extension Monday, which

1738
01:32:18,920 --> 01:32:20,719
Speaker 1: we'll keep him at the Helm through the twenty twenty

1739
01:32:20,720 --> 01:32:23,760
Speaker 1: five season. If you miss the first hour of today's show,

1740
01:32:23,840 --> 01:32:26,280
Speaker 1: McDermott joined us and you can go back and listen

1741
01:32:26,840 --> 01:32:29,960
Speaker 1: or watch the entire interview on all of the Buffalo

1742
01:32:29,960 --> 01:32:33,799
Speaker 1: Bills media platforms around the NFL. As we mentioned last segment,

1743
01:32:33,880 --> 01:32:36,120
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers tight end George Kittle has reached a

1744
01:32:36,160 --> 01:32:39,920
Speaker 1: long term contract extension with the club and as reset

1745
01:32:40,000 --> 01:32:43,400
Speaker 1: the tight end market in the process. Five years seventy

1746
01:32:43,439 --> 01:32:47,400
Speaker 1: five million dollars for Kittle, including an eighteen million dollar

1747
01:32:47,880 --> 01:32:50,960
Speaker 1: signing bonus. One of the best remaining twenty twenty free

1748
01:32:51,000 --> 01:32:53,840
Speaker 1: agents has found a landing spot defensive end Everson Griffin,

1749
01:32:53,880 --> 01:32:56,080
Speaker 1: who spent his entire ten year career with the Vikings

1750
01:32:56,080 --> 01:32:59,160
Speaker 1: and degree to terms with the Cowboys. Griffin at seventy

1751
01:32:59,160 --> 01:33:02,000
Speaker 1: four and a half career sacks, which included eight last

1752
01:33:02,040 --> 01:33:06,960
Speaker 1: season and a career high thirteen in twenty seventeen. In

1753
01:33:07,040 --> 01:33:09,639
Speaker 1: their second home game in Buffalo, the Toronto Blue Jays

1754
01:33:10,160 --> 01:33:13,240
Speaker 1: made history on Wednesday against the Miami Marlins. Even though

1755
01:33:13,240 --> 01:33:16,160
Speaker 1: they lost in a slugfest fourteen to eleven, the Jays

1756
01:33:16,240 --> 01:33:19,400
Speaker 1: became the first team in Major League Baseball history to

1757
01:33:19,479 --> 01:33:22,600
Speaker 1: lose a game in which they recorded eighteen hits and

1758
01:33:22,920 --> 01:33:27,320
Speaker 1: seven home runs. The Stanley Cup Playoffs continue this afternoon

1759
01:33:27,400 --> 01:33:30,240
Speaker 1: and this evening with four games on the slate, but

1760
01:33:30,240 --> 01:33:34,320
Speaker 1: there is some breaking news. Canadians GM Mark Bergevon announced

1761
01:33:34,400 --> 01:33:37,599
Speaker 1: that head coach Claude Julian was admitted to the hospital

1762
01:33:37,680 --> 01:33:41,880
Speaker 1: last night with chess pains. These undergoing tests today, the

1763
01:33:41,880 --> 01:33:46,040
Speaker 1: team says it is not COVID related. Kirk Muller will

1764
01:33:46,080 --> 01:33:49,320
Speaker 1: assume head coaching duties for the rest of the Canadian

1765
01:33:49,439 --> 01:33:54,200
Speaker 1: series with the Philadelphia Flyers on the Stanley Cup Playoffs

1766
01:33:54,200 --> 01:33:57,240
Speaker 1: slate this afternoon and evening, it's the Lightning and the

1767
01:33:57,280 --> 01:34:00,320
Speaker 1: Blue Jackets. In Game two, the Golden Knights look to

1768
01:34:00,360 --> 01:34:03,520
Speaker 1: go two games up on the Blackhawks. Then it's Hurricanes

1769
01:34:03,760 --> 01:34:06,519
Speaker 1: looking to even their series against the Bruins at one apiece.

1770
01:34:06,920 --> 01:34:10,320
Speaker 1: Flames and Stars in the nightcab Calgary leads that series

1771
01:34:10,720 --> 01:34:14,439
Speaker 1: one game to none. And that is your sports update.

1772
01:34:15,280 --> 01:34:18,559
Speaker 1: And joining us on the line right now is ESPN

1773
01:34:18,640 --> 01:34:22,639
Speaker 1: columnists Bill Barnwell, who's always coming up with creative ways

1774
01:34:22,760 --> 01:34:25,720
Speaker 1: to kind of rank different aspects of the NFL, and

1775
01:34:26,240 --> 01:34:29,040
Speaker 1: most recently he put together a piece where he ranked

1776
01:34:29,080 --> 01:34:32,519
Speaker 1: the offensive weapons of all thirty two teams and he

1777
01:34:32,600 --> 01:34:36,799
Speaker 1: had the bills and pretty lofty company. Steve Bill, Thanks

1778
01:34:36,800 --> 01:34:39,160
Speaker 1: for joining us. Good to have you on again. How

1779
01:34:39,280 --> 01:34:42,880
Speaker 1: you doing, hey, guys, how are you? We're doing well.

1780
01:34:42,920 --> 01:34:45,160
Speaker 1: We're doing well. We're waiting for real football as we

1781
01:34:45,200 --> 01:34:48,880
Speaker 1: are inching closer to that with padded practices coming our

1782
01:34:48,920 --> 01:34:51,680
Speaker 1: way on Monday. So we're obviously looking forward to that,

1783
01:34:51,800 --> 01:34:54,679
Speaker 1: especially with all the expectations here in Buffalo this season.

1784
01:34:56,000 --> 01:34:59,679
Speaker 1: What has been let me first start with the way

1785
01:34:59,720 --> 01:35:03,280
Speaker 1: thing have gone in the respective NFL camps to this point.

1786
01:35:03,800 --> 01:35:07,000
Speaker 1: You know, there were some initial positives with COVID and

1787
01:35:07,120 --> 01:35:09,559
Speaker 1: players going on the reserve list, but it seems like

1788
01:35:09,600 --> 01:35:13,599
Speaker 1: those numbers are are dying down now and I think

1789
01:35:13,720 --> 01:35:16,920
Speaker 1: less than one percent is the infection rate. So what's

1790
01:35:16,920 --> 01:35:20,280
Speaker 1: your initial impressions of how things have gone here the

1791
01:35:20,280 --> 01:35:23,519
Speaker 1: first couple of weeks for the NFL. Well, I mean, obviously,

1792
01:35:23,720 --> 01:35:26,360
Speaker 1: you know, better than the alternament. I think better than

1793
01:35:26,400 --> 01:35:29,080
Speaker 1: maybe you know he would have expected coming in, and hopefully,

1794
01:35:29,479 --> 01:35:31,240
Speaker 1: of course it stays that way. But we think we

1795
01:35:31,320 --> 01:35:33,760
Speaker 1: see in other sports, you know, it doesn't take very long.

1796
01:35:33,800 --> 01:35:36,760
Speaker 1: It takes one case or one night out or you know,

1797
01:35:36,800 --> 01:35:40,200
Speaker 1: a couple of foolish decisions or or just not realizing

1798
01:35:40,240 --> 01:35:42,400
Speaker 1: that you have it to spread it to a much

1799
01:35:42,520 --> 01:35:47,160
Speaker 1: larger portion of population or of a team. So I

1800
01:35:47,240 --> 01:35:49,920
Speaker 1: think we're hopefully seeing that, you know, players are seeing

1801
01:35:49,960 --> 01:35:53,560
Speaker 1: what's happening in baseball, seeing what's happening another sports where

1802
01:35:53,640 --> 01:35:56,839
Speaker 1: players have been very respectful and it have been bubbled

1803
01:35:56,840 --> 01:35:58,960
Speaker 1: and have been able to protect themselves. And I think

1804
01:35:58,960 --> 01:36:01,920
Speaker 1: we're hopefully seeing that, you know, players are going to

1805
01:36:01,960 --> 01:36:03,840
Speaker 1: be smart about but what they do and how they

1806
01:36:03,880 --> 01:36:07,080
Speaker 1: conduct themselves, and hopefully that should minimize the risk of

1807
01:36:08,040 --> 01:36:10,720
Speaker 1: a serious infection spreading throughout a team or throughout the

1808
01:36:10,760 --> 01:36:13,240
Speaker 1: league as a whole. What's your level of optimism about

1809
01:36:13,280 --> 01:36:15,479
Speaker 1: the regular season? How likely it is that it goes

1810
01:36:15,479 --> 01:36:18,559
Speaker 1: off without a hitch? Oh boy? I mean I would

1811
01:36:18,600 --> 01:36:20,160
Speaker 1: love to tell you that I feel like you know,

1812
01:36:20,240 --> 01:36:22,479
Speaker 1: it would be a season without a hitch, but I

1813
01:36:22,520 --> 01:36:25,559
Speaker 1: think it has to be realistically expect effected that we're

1814
01:36:25,560 --> 01:36:26,920
Speaker 1: going to have some issues. I mean, you look at

1815
01:36:26,920 --> 01:36:30,240
Speaker 1: baseball again, you know, the most similar sport in terms

1816
01:36:30,240 --> 01:36:33,200
Speaker 1: of how where it's being played, of course being played

1817
01:36:33,240 --> 01:36:36,000
Speaker 1: mostly in the United States. And then on top of that,

1818
01:36:36,080 --> 01:36:39,160
Speaker 1: also that there is not a bubble. And I think

1819
01:36:39,160 --> 01:36:43,280
Speaker 1: the bubble situation for hockey in Canada and for basketball

1820
01:36:43,280 --> 01:36:46,519
Speaker 1: in America has been really helpful and really effective. And

1821
01:36:46,560 --> 01:36:48,400
Speaker 1: I think without a bubble, it's going to be tough

1822
01:36:48,439 --> 01:36:50,880
Speaker 1: to expect that players are going to be, you know,

1823
01:36:50,920 --> 01:36:53,400
Speaker 1: healthy and protected for a full seventeen game season. I

1824
01:36:53,400 --> 01:36:56,559
Speaker 1: think we'll get something, you know, resembling a full season,

1825
01:36:56,600 --> 01:36:59,519
Speaker 1: or something resembling you know, uh, you know, sort of

1826
01:36:59,520 --> 01:37:02,200
Speaker 1: a normal season. But I have to think we're going

1827
01:37:02,240 --> 01:37:05,160
Speaker 1: to have some games that get postponed. It maybe drops

1828
01:37:05,160 --> 01:37:07,160
Speaker 1: out here and there. It's definitely not going to be

1829
01:37:07,200 --> 01:37:09,320
Speaker 1: a normal season at least based on what we were

1830
01:37:09,320 --> 01:37:12,000
Speaker 1: seeing in baseball. Now. Bill, I know was a little

1831
01:37:12,000 --> 01:37:14,920
Speaker 1: while ago, but you put together a piece for ESPN

1832
01:37:14,960 --> 01:37:17,120
Speaker 1: dot com where you rank the offensive weapons for all

1833
01:37:17,160 --> 01:37:19,880
Speaker 1: thirty two NFL clubs. But you did it with some

1834
01:37:20,000 --> 01:37:24,600
Speaker 1: qualifiers here, So before anybody jumps down your throat or

1835
01:37:24,600 --> 01:37:26,600
Speaker 1: blows you up on Twitter or anything, I wanted to

1836
01:37:26,640 --> 01:37:28,880
Speaker 1: kind of go over some of those. You didn't factor

1837
01:37:28,920 --> 01:37:31,759
Speaker 1: in contract value. You were only looking at twenty twenty,

1838
01:37:33,280 --> 01:37:37,960
Speaker 1: and then you gave more weight to a team's wide

1839
01:37:37,960 --> 01:37:42,800
Speaker 1: receiving corps. Maybe just explain why you had wide receivers

1840
01:37:43,040 --> 01:37:46,639
Speaker 1: matter more than other positions. Yeah, they're looking at really

1841
01:37:46,680 --> 01:37:50,519
Speaker 1: running backs, wide receivers and tight ends and these weapon rankings,

1842
01:37:50,520 --> 01:37:52,799
Speaker 1: and I think of those three, look at the contracts

1843
01:37:52,800 --> 01:37:54,680
Speaker 1: that are being candid out and maybe George Kittle is

1844
01:37:54,720 --> 01:37:57,720
Speaker 1: the exception given that he got his extension or is

1845
01:37:57,720 --> 01:37:59,840
Speaker 1: getting an extension today. And a great player deserves to

1846
01:37:59,840 --> 01:38:02,120
Speaker 1: get paid a lot of money. But wide receivers do

1847
01:38:02,200 --> 01:38:04,759
Speaker 1: get paid a lot more than running backs and insight

1848
01:38:04,880 --> 01:38:07,400
Speaker 1: ends almost twice as much at the top of the market.

1849
01:38:07,439 --> 01:38:09,280
Speaker 1: So the NFL has kind of come out and said, hey,

1850
01:38:09,520 --> 01:38:12,240
Speaker 1: you know, basically implying with how much they pay different

1851
01:38:12,240 --> 01:38:15,000
Speaker 1: players and different positions that we think wide receivers are

1852
01:38:15,040 --> 01:38:16,920
Speaker 1: a lot more valuable. So to me, you know, when

1853
01:38:16,920 --> 01:38:19,479
Speaker 1: I was looking at these different teams and the different weapons,

1854
01:38:19,680 --> 01:38:22,080
Speaker 1: I really wanted to give a sort of age to

1855
01:38:22,080 --> 01:38:26,440
Speaker 1: the teams that had deep, talented, top tier wide receivers,

1856
01:38:26,479 --> 01:38:29,719
Speaker 1: because those guys are more valuable, according to the NFL

1857
01:38:30,040 --> 01:38:33,200
Speaker 1: than you know, similar players at different positions. How did

1858
01:38:33,200 --> 01:38:38,120
Speaker 1: you handle the level of veteran versus rookie type of valuation?

1859
01:38:38,200 --> 01:38:41,480
Speaker 1: Certainly rookies usually the value is placed as a perception

1860
01:38:41,560 --> 01:38:45,280
Speaker 1: about how well they'll play. How did you handle that? Yeah,

1861
01:38:45,320 --> 01:38:47,559
Speaker 1: I think you're looking at history. You know, I really

1862
01:38:47,560 --> 01:38:49,720
Speaker 1: feel like you can't really sit here and say, you know,

1863
01:38:49,760 --> 01:38:51,720
Speaker 1: you're gonna know what Henry Roggs is going to turn

1864
01:38:51,760 --> 01:38:54,000
Speaker 1: into if you look at Boston Knox is a great example, right,

1865
01:38:54,000 --> 01:38:55,920
Speaker 1: a guy who, you know, if he'd asked me this

1866
01:38:55,960 --> 01:38:57,599
Speaker 1: time last year, he was going to be the third

1867
01:38:57,640 --> 01:38:59,760
Speaker 1: string tight end behind Tyler Croft and Lee Smith and

1868
01:39:00,000 --> 01:39:01,880
Speaker 1: guy who got on the field because Scroff got hurt,

1869
01:39:02,160 --> 01:39:04,960
Speaker 1: made plays, obviously had some drop issues. But a guy

1870
01:39:04,960 --> 01:39:07,320
Speaker 1: who looks like a really promising player now heading into

1871
01:39:07,400 --> 01:39:10,559
Speaker 1: year two, and we couldn't anticipated that heading into what

1872
01:39:10,600 --> 01:39:13,160
Speaker 1: would have been training camp at that point last year.

1873
01:39:13,200 --> 01:39:14,880
Speaker 1: So to me, I think I'm looking at you know,

1874
01:39:15,000 --> 01:39:17,840
Speaker 1: kind of historically, how does this work out? You know,

1875
01:39:17,840 --> 01:39:20,439
Speaker 1: if you're a receiver being taken up to the end

1876
01:39:20,479 --> 01:39:21,880
Speaker 1: of the first round, Well, how often do those guys

1877
01:39:21,920 --> 01:39:23,960
Speaker 1: turned into stars? How often are those stars is rookies

1878
01:39:23,960 --> 01:39:26,360
Speaker 1: because this is really about twenty twenty as opposed to

1879
01:39:26,479 --> 01:39:28,920
Speaker 1: kind of the you know, their full careers, and with rookies,

1880
01:39:28,960 --> 01:39:32,280
Speaker 1: I mean even the top guys, even your Calvin Johnson's,

1881
01:39:32,280 --> 01:39:35,080
Speaker 1: your Julio Joneses really do seem to take a step

1882
01:39:35,080 --> 01:39:37,960
Speaker 1: forward in the year two before and don't really have

1883
01:39:38,080 --> 01:39:40,280
Speaker 1: those sort of dominant season from year when you get exceptions.

1884
01:39:40,320 --> 01:39:42,479
Speaker 1: Van Kuom Bolton comes to mind, but those are few

1885
01:39:42,479 --> 01:39:44,559
Speaker 1: and far between. So to me, I'm really looking more

1886
01:39:44,720 --> 01:39:47,240
Speaker 1: veterans here than I think rookies, because it really is

1887
01:39:47,240 --> 01:39:49,160
Speaker 1: just going to be about what happens in twenty twenty.

1888
01:39:49,479 --> 01:39:51,679
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just kind of go through some of these,

1889
01:39:51,720 --> 01:39:54,479
Speaker 1: at least the ones that made me caught me by

1890
01:39:54,479 --> 01:39:58,080
Speaker 1: a surprise a little bit. Believe me. I don't think

1891
01:39:58,120 --> 01:39:59,920
Speaker 1: the Lions are gonna make a whole lot of noise

1892
01:40:00,040 --> 01:40:03,680
Speaker 1: in the league. Um, but when you're going strictly by

1893
01:40:03,720 --> 01:40:06,479
Speaker 1: some of the criteria that you laid out, um, And

1894
01:40:06,520 --> 01:40:08,799
Speaker 1: I know Kerrie and Johnson's got to come back from injury,

1895
01:40:09,360 --> 01:40:13,400
Speaker 1: but Johnson, Galladay and Hawkinson, I mean, that's that's pretty good.

1896
01:40:13,479 --> 01:40:16,760
Speaker 1: I mean Golladay, I mean, I mean, Galladay killed it

1897
01:40:16,800 --> 01:40:18,639
Speaker 1: for me in fantasy last year, and that's a completely

1898
01:40:18,680 --> 01:40:21,680
Speaker 1: different animal here. But still, I mean that's that's a

1899
01:40:21,680 --> 01:40:24,400
Speaker 1: pretty good cast to start with, right, And they were

1900
01:40:24,520 --> 01:40:28,120
Speaker 1: twenty fifth. Yeah, I'll tell you there's there's always one

1901
01:40:28,160 --> 01:40:30,679
Speaker 1: team each year where people are like, what are you thinking?

1902
01:40:31,160 --> 01:40:32,720
Speaker 1: The Lions were that team this year. So I think

1903
01:40:32,720 --> 01:40:34,320
Speaker 1: I might have been a little harsh on the Lions.

1904
01:40:34,360 --> 01:40:36,360
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, I think with T J. Hawkinson,

1905
01:40:36,600 --> 01:40:38,479
Speaker 1: I think he's a difference maker. He's the X factor

1906
01:40:38,520 --> 01:40:41,160
Speaker 1: in that group because we do see again year two

1907
01:40:41,240 --> 01:40:43,960
Speaker 1: tight ends do take a step forward, uh and do

1908
01:40:44,040 --> 01:40:47,120
Speaker 1: really improve typically in their second season. So if Hawkinson

1909
01:40:47,200 --> 01:40:49,080
Speaker 1: delivers to the potential we saw them coming out of

1910
01:40:49,080 --> 01:40:51,200
Speaker 1: school that made him a top ten pick, I think

1911
01:40:51,200 --> 01:40:53,040
Speaker 1: they're going to be in great ship. Kenny Galladay is

1912
01:40:53,040 --> 01:40:56,040
Speaker 1: an excellent, you know, physical uh you know, big body,

1913
01:40:56,160 --> 01:41:00,040
Speaker 1: super talented receiver, Marvin Jones an underrated guy. Guys a

1914
01:41:00,280 --> 01:41:02,000
Speaker 1: year after a year dropped off a little bit in

1915
01:41:02,080 --> 01:41:04,320
Speaker 1: recent years, was still pretty productive. And then I mean

1916
01:41:04,360 --> 01:41:06,479
Speaker 1: I think I'm a little concerned about the running game.

1917
01:41:06,560 --> 01:41:08,320
Speaker 1: You know, terry On Johnson has not been healthy for

1918
01:41:08,360 --> 01:41:11,320
Speaker 1: any extended period of time. I Fiandre Swift coming really

1919
01:41:11,439 --> 01:41:13,360
Speaker 1: you know, very talented player, but we haven't seen him

1920
01:41:13,360 --> 01:41:15,280
Speaker 1: play yet. So I think if you get more out

1921
01:41:15,280 --> 01:41:17,840
Speaker 1: of Hockinson this year and more out of the running backs,

1922
01:41:17,840 --> 01:41:19,559
Speaker 1: I think they could take a big leap forward in

1923
01:41:19,560 --> 01:41:23,439
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. How much weight did you give to

1924
01:41:23,760 --> 01:41:26,960
Speaker 1: or maybe this is a kind of a backhanded photo

1925
01:41:27,040 --> 01:41:29,599
Speaker 1: negative of how effective quarterbacks are. How much weight did

1926
01:41:29,600 --> 01:41:32,960
Speaker 1: you give to the guy throwing the football? If any zero? Zero?

1927
01:41:33,040 --> 01:41:34,760
Speaker 1: The goal. The goal was to try and avoid that

1928
01:41:34,800 --> 01:41:37,240
Speaker 1: because I think, you know, it's obviously you know, you

1929
01:41:37,240 --> 01:41:40,560
Speaker 1: can rank offensives. That's easy, and another this was hard Necessarily,

1930
01:41:40,560 --> 01:41:42,000
Speaker 1: It's just you know, I think a lot of people

1931
01:41:42,000 --> 01:41:43,479
Speaker 1: are going to rank offenses, and so I kind of

1932
01:41:43,479 --> 01:41:45,360
Speaker 1: wanted to just take a step backwards and say, okay,

1933
01:41:45,560 --> 01:41:48,519
Speaker 1: let's throw quarterbacks out of the situation. If there's an

1934
01:41:48,520 --> 01:41:52,519
Speaker 1: average quarterback, with an average offensive line, with an average coach,

1935
01:41:52,560 --> 01:41:55,720
Speaker 1: with an average game, you know, an average weather, who

1936
01:41:55,720 --> 01:41:58,599
Speaker 1: would you want for your your core running backs, wide

1937
01:41:58,600 --> 01:42:01,240
Speaker 1: receivers and tight end. So I try to really keep

1938
01:42:01,280 --> 01:42:03,679
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks out of the situation as much as possible.

1939
01:42:03,760 --> 01:42:06,120
Speaker 1: Obviously it's not perfect. You're always going to think about,

1940
01:42:06,160 --> 01:42:08,200
Speaker 1: you know, Tyreek Hill and Patrick Mahomes. You're always going

1941
01:42:08,280 --> 01:42:11,280
Speaker 1: to think about, you know, George Killer, Jimmy Garoppolo. You

1942
01:42:11,280 --> 01:42:14,439
Speaker 1: can't really escape the quarterback situation. But I tried my best.

1943
01:42:14,960 --> 01:42:17,639
Speaker 1: Probably the most interesting thing, and we're talking to Bill Barnwell,

1944
01:42:17,840 --> 01:42:22,200
Speaker 1: ESPN dot com columnist that I found on the list

1945
01:42:22,240 --> 01:42:24,400
Speaker 1: were the two teams you had right next to each

1946
01:42:24,400 --> 01:42:28,200
Speaker 1: other in Arizona and Buffalo at nine and eight respectively.

1947
01:42:28,240 --> 01:42:32,559
Speaker 1: I think these are two offenses that people see taking

1948
01:42:32,560 --> 01:42:35,800
Speaker 1: a sizeable step forward this year. Obviously, Arizona has the

1949
01:42:35,880 --> 01:42:39,960
Speaker 1: high profile acquisition of DeAndre Hopkins and they also, oh,

1950
01:42:40,040 --> 01:42:42,960
Speaker 1: by the way, traded for Kenyan Drake, who's now going

1951
01:42:43,040 --> 01:42:45,600
Speaker 1: to be in their backfield instead of David Johnson. But

1952
01:42:45,760 --> 01:42:49,680
Speaker 1: that that receiving corps goes really deep. And I know

1953
01:42:49,720 --> 01:42:51,559
Speaker 1: Andy Isabelle it didn't really get a chance to do

1954
01:42:51,600 --> 01:42:54,120
Speaker 1: a whole lot last year, but he looks like a

1955
01:42:54,120 --> 01:42:57,840
Speaker 1: perfect slot compliment for you know, guys like Larry Fitzgerald,

1956
01:42:57,840 --> 01:43:01,559
Speaker 1: Hopkins and Kirk, and they're right there with the Bills.

1957
01:43:01,600 --> 01:43:03,120
Speaker 1: I mean, it really is going to make for a

1958
01:43:03,120 --> 01:43:06,400
Speaker 1: fascinating game later this season when those two teams square

1959
01:43:06,439 --> 01:43:09,640
Speaker 1: off in Arizona. But did you see a lot of

1960
01:43:09,640 --> 01:43:13,880
Speaker 1: similarities between those two groups. Yeah, I mean, obviously both

1961
01:43:13,920 --> 01:43:16,560
Speaker 1: teams added a top tier wide receiver. The Cardinals of

1962
01:43:16,600 --> 01:43:19,960
Speaker 1: corustrated for John Jre Hopkins Bill shortly thereafter, even on

1963
01:43:20,000 --> 01:43:21,559
Speaker 1: the same day, if I'm not mistaken, or a couple

1964
01:43:21,560 --> 01:43:23,080
Speaker 1: of days later. I mean, it seems like a blur.

1965
01:43:23,160 --> 01:43:25,439
Speaker 1: It seems like years ago at this point. But shortly

1966
01:43:25,439 --> 01:43:28,519
Speaker 1: thereafter they trade for Stefan Diggs, So you're adding two

1967
01:43:28,600 --> 01:43:31,560
Speaker 1: just absolute superstar guys when they're healthy. Obviously, you know,

1968
01:43:31,720 --> 01:43:33,880
Speaker 1: not the same player, different sorts of players, different sorts

1969
01:43:33,880 --> 01:43:36,760
Speaker 1: of personalities, and who knows how either moog will work out,

1970
01:43:36,800 --> 01:43:39,559
Speaker 1: but you know, I think certainly both teams can feel

1971
01:43:39,560 --> 01:43:42,040
Speaker 1: like we added a significant talent. And I'll tell you

1972
01:43:42,040 --> 01:43:44,599
Speaker 1: what you know. This is really from watching Josh Allen

1973
01:43:44,680 --> 01:43:47,559
Speaker 1: this year. Just my opinion, and obviously, you know, for

1974
01:43:47,640 --> 01:43:50,360
Speaker 1: a Nisan child, their opinion. Larry Fitzerald is a great player,

1975
01:43:50,400 --> 01:43:52,519
Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to disparage Larry Fitzgerald, but at

1976
01:43:52,520 --> 01:43:55,120
Speaker 1: this point of his career. Man, I watched John Brown

1977
01:43:55,160 --> 01:43:58,200
Speaker 1: last year. John Brown was awesome. John Brown did such

1978
01:43:58,240 --> 01:44:01,160
Speaker 1: a good job with Josh Allen and in that offense,

1979
01:44:01,200 --> 01:44:03,840
Speaker 1: he was a legitimate number one wide receiver to me,

1980
01:44:04,000 --> 01:44:06,160
Speaker 1: and better than I think anyone else. Arizona had him

1981
01:44:06,200 --> 01:44:08,880
Speaker 1: their roster heading into this season. Beside Hopkins. So to me,

1982
01:44:09,200 --> 01:44:11,160
Speaker 1: you know, health might be an issue with John Brown,

1983
01:44:11,200 --> 01:44:13,439
Speaker 1: of course he's had some issues in the past, but

1984
01:44:13,479 --> 01:44:15,839
Speaker 1: I think a guy who you know, is super talented

1985
01:44:15,840 --> 01:44:18,479
Speaker 1: and who is one of the best number two wide

1986
01:44:18,479 --> 01:44:20,680
Speaker 1: receivers in football. And to me, that was kind of

1987
01:44:20,760 --> 01:44:24,240
Speaker 1: why I gave the Bills the nudge over the Cardinals.

1988
01:44:24,280 --> 01:44:25,920
Speaker 1: You could sit here and say, hey, you got Kenyan Drake.

1989
01:44:25,960 --> 01:44:28,559
Speaker 1: The Bills don't have a running back maybe as promising

1990
01:44:28,640 --> 01:44:30,400
Speaker 1: or as productive as Kenyan Drake was in the second

1991
01:44:30,439 --> 01:44:33,040
Speaker 1: half last year. But again, go back to that wide receiver,

1992
01:44:33,120 --> 01:44:35,479
Speaker 1: that kind of tiebreaker rule, and you know, digs and

1993
01:44:36,080 --> 01:44:37,880
Speaker 1: Digs and Brown I think are one of the best

1994
01:44:37,880 --> 01:44:41,400
Speaker 1: one two punches in all of football. Talking to Bill Burnwell,

1995
01:44:41,640 --> 01:44:43,960
Speaker 1: and I want to talk to you a little bit

1996
01:44:44,000 --> 01:44:47,000
Speaker 1: about the rash of signings we've had around the National

1997
01:44:47,040 --> 01:44:49,519
Speaker 1: Football League. The Buffalo Bills signed their head coach Sean

1998
01:44:49,560 --> 01:44:53,240
Speaker 1: McDermott to a six year extension. George Kittle just signed

1999
01:44:53,320 --> 01:44:56,760
Speaker 1: his extension. It's that time of year where teams kind

2000
01:44:56,760 --> 01:44:58,320
Speaker 1: of have things lined up and they can kind of

2001
01:44:58,360 --> 01:45:00,240
Speaker 1: see down the road a little bit financially, and they

2002
01:45:00,280 --> 01:45:04,599
Speaker 1: feel comfortable signing key guys, anybody else do you think

2003
01:45:04,680 --> 01:45:07,440
Speaker 1: there's a player out there who's standing on the precipice

2004
01:45:07,479 --> 01:45:10,519
Speaker 1: of resetting a market for a position like George Kittle

2005
01:45:10,600 --> 01:45:13,760
Speaker 1: just did for the tight end. Kittle, I think it's

2006
01:45:13,760 --> 01:45:17,559
Speaker 1: going to be a really sort of significant outlier because

2007
01:45:17,560 --> 01:45:19,479
Speaker 1: it just made sense, right, This is a guy who

2008
01:45:20,200 --> 01:45:22,880
Speaker 1: is a phenomenal to a football player, you know, I

2009
01:45:22,880 --> 01:45:24,639
Speaker 1: think the best to a player at his position. Maybe

2010
01:45:24,640 --> 01:45:27,559
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey is a better receiver, but Kittle is a

2011
01:45:27,640 --> 01:45:30,719
Speaker 1: much better blocker and just a complete player for that offense.

2012
01:45:30,720 --> 01:45:32,720
Speaker 1: So the forty Diners are a team who they have

2013
01:45:32,720 --> 01:45:34,720
Speaker 1: no qualms. If they think you're worth it, they're going

2014
01:45:34,800 --> 01:45:37,200
Speaker 1: to pay you wherever they think is right as opposed

2015
01:45:37,200 --> 01:45:39,479
Speaker 1: to maybe what the market might bear for a given

2016
01:45:39,520 --> 01:45:41,680
Speaker 1: position that's right out for them in the past. So um,

2017
01:45:41,760 --> 01:45:44,479
Speaker 1: not so priborly they handed up that's sort of significant contract.

2018
01:45:44,600 --> 01:45:48,040
Speaker 1: But you know, to me, I was thybe like a

2019
01:45:48,080 --> 01:45:51,320
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lattimore or a Jalen Ramsey at cornerback kind of

2020
01:45:51,320 --> 01:45:53,320
Speaker 1: a similar position where tight end and been stagged for

2021
01:45:53,360 --> 01:45:55,720
Speaker 1: a few years. Cornerback has also been stagged, and we

2022
01:45:55,720 --> 01:45:58,080
Speaker 1: haven't only seen a massive deal for a cornerback. But

2023
01:45:58,160 --> 01:46:00,360
Speaker 1: I think Jalen Ramsey is the guy. It comes to

2024
01:46:00,400 --> 01:46:02,479
Speaker 1: mind where the Rams do trade those two first round

2025
01:46:02,479 --> 01:46:05,000
Speaker 1: picks to get Jalen Ramsey, so you know they'll all in.

2026
01:46:05,080 --> 01:46:07,160
Speaker 1: They're not gonna let him move on for nothing. They're

2027
01:46:07,160 --> 01:46:09,800
Speaker 1: not gonna let him hit free agencies. So I think

2028
01:46:09,840 --> 01:46:11,200
Speaker 1: he comes to mind for me, is kind of the

2029
01:46:11,280 --> 01:46:13,760
Speaker 1: next guy. Maybe Marshawn Montimore at the Stints want to

2030
01:46:13,760 --> 01:46:15,960
Speaker 1: get that deal done as well. Last note that I

2031
01:46:16,000 --> 01:46:19,599
Speaker 1: wanted to address regarding your offensive weapons for all thirty

2032
01:46:19,600 --> 01:46:22,320
Speaker 1: two teams and ranking those was the rest of the

2033
01:46:22,360 --> 01:46:25,240
Speaker 1: division for the Bills, you know you had you had

2034
01:46:25,240 --> 01:46:28,560
Speaker 1: the Dolphins thirtieth, the Jets twenty ninth, and the Patriots

2035
01:46:28,600 --> 01:46:30,760
Speaker 1: twenty first. And I know New England ed is coming

2036
01:46:30,800 --> 01:46:32,360
Speaker 1: off a year where they had the number one defense

2037
01:46:32,400 --> 01:46:35,439
Speaker 1: in football, but that's been riddled by player opt outs

2038
01:46:35,439 --> 01:46:39,639
Speaker 1: and free agent departures. So I mean, could it set

2039
01:46:39,720 --> 01:46:44,200
Speaker 1: up any better for Buffalo's chances here? I mean, by

2040
01:46:44,200 --> 01:46:47,920
Speaker 1: the way you've got the skill positions ranked for these

2041
01:46:47,920 --> 01:46:50,040
Speaker 1: other three teams in the AFC East, I mean it

2042
01:46:50,080 --> 01:46:53,000
Speaker 1: doesn't even look like a contest. I mean, you guys

2043
01:46:53,000 --> 01:46:55,240
Speaker 1: watched those those Patriots games last year, right, I mean

2044
01:46:55,280 --> 01:46:57,960
Speaker 1: those games were they came down to a couple plays

2045
01:46:57,960 --> 01:47:00,280
Speaker 1: here and there. First game, you know, Josh I made

2046
01:47:00,280 --> 01:47:02,719
Speaker 1: a few mistakes, he panicked, he made some bad decisions

2047
01:47:02,760 --> 01:47:05,560
Speaker 1: with the football, but that game came down to a

2048
01:47:05,560 --> 01:47:07,639
Speaker 1: block punt. I'm not mistaken. And in the second game,

2049
01:47:07,960 --> 01:47:10,960
Speaker 1: you know, a drop on my final drive, maybe gosh

2050
01:47:11,000 --> 01:47:13,719
Speaker 1: Allen again, maybe make one better throw, they get a touchdown.

2051
01:47:13,720 --> 01:47:15,519
Speaker 1: They win that football game. And I'm not taking anything

2052
01:47:15,560 --> 01:47:17,479
Speaker 1: away from the Patriots. They are a great football team,

2053
01:47:17,520 --> 01:47:20,080
Speaker 1: but those games are closed. Those games were you know,

2054
01:47:20,800 --> 01:47:23,080
Speaker 1: one break here or there that Bills win both those games.

2055
01:47:23,120 --> 01:47:25,599
Speaker 1: So to me, think about what's happened over the last

2056
01:47:25,760 --> 01:47:28,280
Speaker 1: you know, six months, the Patriots have gotten worse. They've

2057
01:47:28,320 --> 01:47:30,960
Speaker 1: they've downgraded the quarterback. Even if you think Cam Newton

2058
01:47:31,040 --> 01:47:32,720
Speaker 1: is going to be a pretty useful player, and I

2059
01:47:32,720 --> 01:47:35,320
Speaker 1: do think he's going to do They've obviously, I lost

2060
01:47:35,320 --> 01:47:37,599
Speaker 1: a bunch of talent on defense, both to free agency

2061
01:47:37,600 --> 01:47:40,320
Speaker 1: and then to opt out WAYD to COVID. And I

2062
01:47:40,360 --> 01:47:42,080
Speaker 1: don't you know, I don't want to disparage anybody. I

2063
01:47:42,080 --> 01:47:44,639
Speaker 1: think those are wise decisions to make. If you're trying

2064
01:47:44,640 --> 01:47:46,840
Speaker 1: to protect your family and protect yourself. But obviously they

2065
01:47:46,840 --> 01:47:48,400
Speaker 1: aren't going to be worse on defense than they were

2066
01:47:48,400 --> 01:47:50,400
Speaker 1: a year ago. It's hard to be any better than

2067
01:47:50,439 --> 01:47:52,840
Speaker 1: how they were, and that was an old football team

2068
01:47:52,840 --> 01:47:55,200
Speaker 1: really to begin with. The Bills are not as young

2069
01:47:55,200 --> 01:47:56,920
Speaker 1: as people think because they have invested a lot in

2070
01:47:56,960 --> 01:47:59,080
Speaker 1: free agency. But Bills are a team that you had

2071
01:47:59,120 --> 01:48:01,160
Speaker 1: a lot of key positions are young guys who could

2072
01:48:01,240 --> 01:48:03,280
Speaker 1: get better. How one could get better. Jim Dawkins could

2073
01:48:03,280 --> 01:48:06,679
Speaker 1: get better, you know, Dawson Knox get better. They've added

2074
01:48:06,680 --> 01:48:08,880
Speaker 1: a bunch this year in free agency. I mean, I

2075
01:48:08,920 --> 01:48:11,040
Speaker 1: think you have to argue that, you know, the Bills

2076
01:48:11,040 --> 01:48:12,679
Speaker 1: are the better football team right now, and if they're

2077
01:48:12,680 --> 01:48:14,800
Speaker 1: going to happen for the Bills, I mean, it has

2078
01:48:14,840 --> 01:48:17,880
Speaker 1: to be this year, right What else could happen to

2079
01:48:17,920 --> 01:48:20,120
Speaker 1: make it more likely that it seems for them in

2080
01:48:20,120 --> 01:48:23,320
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one of the things that happened last season

2081
01:48:23,320 --> 01:48:25,679
Speaker 1: at the end, we saw the Tennessee Titans catch lightning

2082
01:48:25,680 --> 01:48:27,720
Speaker 1: in a bottle a little bit with Ryan Tannehill and

2083
01:48:27,760 --> 01:48:30,720
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. Certainly Derrick Henry is going to come back

2084
01:48:30,800 --> 01:48:32,719
Speaker 1: and they expect big things from him, and they expect

2085
01:48:32,760 --> 01:48:35,439
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill to come back and play well as well.

2086
01:48:35,640 --> 01:48:38,120
Speaker 1: The Houston Texans. I'm the reason I'm saying that Titans

2087
01:48:38,120 --> 01:48:41,400
Speaker 1: and the Texans. They're in the same division, but both

2088
01:48:41,400 --> 01:48:44,360
Speaker 1: those teams are you know, it's hard to catch lightning

2089
01:48:44,400 --> 01:48:47,439
Speaker 1: in a bottle and keep it lit. And the Houston

2090
01:48:47,479 --> 01:48:50,559
Speaker 1: Texans they're going to take the field with a vastly

2091
01:48:50,600 --> 01:48:52,920
Speaker 1: different array of offensive weapons than they did a year ago,

2092
01:48:52,920 --> 01:48:55,840
Speaker 1: most notably because DeAndre Hopkins. And you look around with

2093
01:48:55,920 --> 01:48:59,320
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Seven teams making the playoffs in the AFC,

2094
01:48:59,600 --> 01:49:02,040
Speaker 1: those two teams that made the playoffs last year, the

2095
01:49:02,040 --> 01:49:05,360
Speaker 1: Titans and the Texans, they may be two teams that

2096
01:49:05,400 --> 01:49:08,320
Speaker 1: struggle to get back there for for different reasons, but

2097
01:49:08,400 --> 01:49:11,840
Speaker 1: the playoff field for the AFC may look different with

2098
01:49:11,880 --> 01:49:15,480
Speaker 1: those two teams being in the position they're at now. Absolutely,

2099
01:49:15,560 --> 01:49:17,479
Speaker 1: and I mean everything's up for grabs this year. You know,

2100
01:49:17,520 --> 01:49:20,360
Speaker 1: who knows If you know the Ravings are gonna have you,

2101
01:49:20,479 --> 01:49:22,160
Speaker 1: let say the Mark Jaxson's sides a week two, Hey,

2102
01:49:22,280 --> 01:49:25,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna opt out the whole you know, division changes.

2103
01:49:25,160 --> 01:49:27,120
Speaker 1: What if the Chiefs say, hey, you know we have

2104
01:49:27,240 --> 01:49:29,519
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes signed to a twelve year contract and we

2105
01:49:29,600 --> 01:49:32,200
Speaker 1: had a you know, an outbreak in our facility. Let's

2106
01:49:32,280 --> 01:49:34,479
Speaker 1: let's move on. Let's take this year. We're gonna you know,

2107
01:49:34,479 --> 01:49:36,479
Speaker 1: resk Patrick Mahomes. We're not going to risk him. We

2108
01:49:36,560 --> 01:49:38,439
Speaker 1: have a guy locked up for the next eleven years

2109
01:49:38,439 --> 01:49:41,240
Speaker 1: as a franchise quarterback. We're gonna win some Super Bowls.

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Speaker 1: Let's not you know, put him behind a porous offensive

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Speaker 1: line this year. If we was a bunch of our

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Speaker 1: line into uh, you know, the coronavirus and they're not

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Speaker 1: able to play at their usual level, I mean, anything

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01:49:50,720 --> 01:49:52,360
Speaker 1: is extra grabs this year. But I do think that

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01:49:52,680 --> 01:49:54,519
Speaker 1: the Bills are well positioned. I mean they're they're not

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01:49:54,520 --> 01:49:56,720
Speaker 1: only well position to win the division well positions. Let

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01:49:56,800 --> 01:49:59,200
Speaker 1: me come away with a first round by that's not

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Speaker 1: out of the question, or or host a homeplay on

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Speaker 1: hostal home playing games you went to the division obviously,

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Speaker 1: But you know, I think they're in they're in good

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01:50:06,160 --> 01:50:09,040
Speaker 1: shape here. I mean, obviously, we don't know what happens.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've seen teams like the Bears for example,

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01:50:11,320 --> 01:50:12,760
Speaker 1: of course last year, where they kind of sad like

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01:50:12,760 --> 01:50:14,880
Speaker 1: they were about to take the next step. Great defense,

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01:50:14,960 --> 01:50:17,840
Speaker 1: young quarterback, and then such a whisky did struggle and

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01:50:18,080 --> 01:50:20,040
Speaker 1: then took a step backwards unfortunately and missed the post

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01:50:20,040 --> 01:50:22,800
Speaker 1: season and made some changes. But you know again, I

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01:50:22,800 --> 01:50:24,800
Speaker 1: think if it's going to happen, this is the year

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01:50:24,840 --> 01:50:26,960
Speaker 1: where it makes sense for it to happen. Bill. We

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Speaker 1: appreciate your time, enjoy reading your material, so keep it

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Speaker 1: up there on ESPN dot com and thanks again for

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Speaker 1: your time. As always my pleasure, guys, Thanks Bill. Bill Barnwell,

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Speaker 1: ESPN dot com columnist, ranking the offensive weapons for each

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01:50:41,760 --> 01:50:43,479
Speaker 1: of the thirty two teams in the league. He had

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Speaker 1: the Bill's eighth overall, and when you understand that he

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01:50:47,680 --> 01:50:50,519
Speaker 1: gave extra weight to a team's receiving corps, you understand

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01:50:50,600 --> 01:50:53,400
Speaker 1: why I mean Diggs, Brown and Beasley. That's a pretty

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01:50:53,400 --> 01:50:55,840
Speaker 1: good start. And then when he got into the nuts

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Speaker 1: and bolts of it, he thinks a lot more of

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01:50:58,080 --> 01:51:00,400
Speaker 1: John Brown, perhaps than a lot of other people give

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01:51:00,479 --> 01:51:02,960
Speaker 1: him credit for John Brown, and I agree. There were

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01:51:02,960 --> 01:51:05,320
Speaker 1: times last year, particularly on those deep balls, where Josh

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01:51:05,360 --> 01:51:07,800
Speaker 1: had a hard time doing it, and Josh was worried

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01:51:07,800 --> 01:51:10,840
Speaker 1: about throwing interceptions, and he was overthrowing everybody, seemingly for

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01:51:10,880 --> 01:51:13,400
Speaker 1: the second two thirds of the season. I just remember

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01:51:13,439 --> 01:51:17,920
Speaker 1: that double move on Stefan Gilmore where that was a game. Yeah,

2147
01:51:18,000 --> 01:51:20,000
Speaker 1: and that's a that's a misplay that gives you the game.

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01:51:20,840 --> 01:51:24,320
Speaker 1: Those kind of opportunities weren't on the receivers. They were

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01:51:24,320 --> 01:51:26,679
Speaker 1: more on Josh. But when you look at what John

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01:51:26,680 --> 01:51:29,000
Speaker 1: Brown was able to do last year for the Buffalo Bills,

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01:51:29,040 --> 01:51:30,720
Speaker 1: he got a lot of separation and got deep and

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01:51:30,800 --> 01:51:35,000
Speaker 1: got behind the defenses a lot. And you know, so,

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01:51:35,160 --> 01:51:37,040
Speaker 1: I don't think because he didn't catch all those balls

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01:51:37,040 --> 01:51:39,439
Speaker 1: and because they couldn't hit on him, he didn't get

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01:51:39,479 --> 01:51:41,720
Speaker 1: the respect that he probably would have gotten had they

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01:51:41,800 --> 01:51:45,719
Speaker 1: hit on half of them. So he's right. John Brown

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01:51:46,720 --> 01:51:49,439
Speaker 1: was an enormous upgrade at the number one wide receiver

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01:51:49,520 --> 01:51:51,360
Speaker 1: last year for the Buffalo Bills, and they got even

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01:51:51,400 --> 01:51:54,800
Speaker 1: better this year bringing Stefan digs in. So I yeah,

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01:51:54,800 --> 01:51:56,559
Speaker 1: when you look at it, in the totality of who

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01:51:56,600 --> 01:51:59,880
Speaker 1: they've gotten, who they're projected to line up at wide receiver,

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01:52:01,120 --> 01:52:03,599
Speaker 1: the Bills do stand up pretty well against every other

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01:52:03,600 --> 01:52:06,040
Speaker 1: team in the league. Yeah. And if we thought that

2164
01:52:06,160 --> 01:52:09,559
Speaker 1: the tight end market got turned on its ear with

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01:52:09,600 --> 01:52:12,880
Speaker 1: George Kittle, there is news now that the Chiefs are

2166
01:52:12,920 --> 01:52:16,519
Speaker 1: closing in on a four year extension for Travis Kelsey.

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01:52:16,640 --> 01:52:23,320
Speaker 1: I'm trying right now madly to get some numbers. Doesn't

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01:52:23,360 --> 01:52:27,160
Speaker 1: look like there's anything yet, but Kelsey has two years

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01:52:27,200 --> 01:52:29,280
Speaker 1: remaining on his existing deal. It looks like they're going

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01:52:29,320 --> 01:52:32,720
Speaker 1: to tack on four more to that for you lock

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01:52:32,800 --> 01:52:34,880
Speaker 1: them up for the next six seasons for all intents

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01:52:34,880 --> 01:52:38,280
Speaker 1: and purposes. And they've been working on this extension for

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01:52:38,320 --> 01:52:40,920
Speaker 1: some time. According to some of these national reporters like

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Speaker 1: Jeremy Fouler from Espnity and Rappaport obviously from NFL Network.

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01:52:46,320 --> 01:52:48,639
Speaker 1: They're saying the deal should be done in the next

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01:52:48,960 --> 01:52:54,200
Speaker 1: day or so, but no numbers as of yet. Can

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01:52:54,240 --> 01:52:56,800
Speaker 1: you imagine what the people in the Kansas City offices

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01:52:56,840 --> 01:53:01,040
Speaker 1: are thinking today, Like, son of a gun freaking Kittle

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01:53:01,160 --> 01:53:04,320
Speaker 1: signed it two days before we had this thing wrapped up,

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01:53:05,120 --> 01:53:07,600
Speaker 1: and now we may have to fork over more money

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01:53:07,720 --> 01:53:10,720
Speaker 1: because of that. Damn Kittle in San Francisco might be

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01:53:11,080 --> 01:53:14,400
Speaker 1: I don't know, I feeled sooner rather than later. Argument. Yeah,

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01:53:14,439 --> 01:53:17,360
Speaker 1: if you're getting down to the to the you know,

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01:53:17,640 --> 01:53:20,960
Speaker 1: to the cruxt of it, and his is a five

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01:53:21,040 --> 01:53:24,400
Speaker 1: year deal. Kittles is and you're talking about a four

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01:53:24,520 --> 01:53:28,360
Speaker 1: year deal with Kelsey. Certainly these numbers are going to

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01:53:28,439 --> 01:53:30,639
Speaker 1: affect the way Kelsey perceives the deal. You offered, give

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01:53:30,680 --> 01:53:33,439
Speaker 1: me sixty over four. I need my fifteen a year, right,

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01:53:33,640 --> 01:53:36,639
Speaker 1: I mean, we just heard Bill Barnwell say he thinks

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01:53:36,720 --> 01:53:41,840
Speaker 1: that Kelsey is a better receiver Kittle. Kittle is a

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01:53:41,880 --> 01:53:46,000
Speaker 1: better all around tight end than Kelsey. I kicked most people. No,

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01:53:46,400 --> 01:53:50,799
Speaker 1: here's the thing. If you're in, if you're in Kelsey's

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01:53:50,920 --> 01:53:53,639
Speaker 1: in the Kansas City Chiefs tight end and this guy

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01:53:53,640 --> 01:53:56,479
Speaker 1: in San Francisco just signed this mega deal, you can

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01:53:56,520 --> 01:53:58,719
Speaker 1: look at the Chiefs and say, Okay, you're only offering

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01:53:58,760 --> 01:54:01,280
Speaker 1: me thirteen a year. I get it, it's a four

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01:54:01,360 --> 01:54:04,360
Speaker 1: year deal. But here's the thing. Three years have a

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01:54:04,400 --> 01:54:08,639
Speaker 1: better be guaranteed. Now you know, I'll take the thirteen

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Speaker 1: a year. But now I get, I get, I get

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01:54:11,479 --> 01:54:14,439
Speaker 1: twenty six million guarantee, I get the big signing bonus now,

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Speaker 1: and I get the rest of the contract. You know,

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01:54:16,920 --> 01:54:18,920
Speaker 1: eighty five percent you're not going to meet the average

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01:54:18,920 --> 01:54:21,640
Speaker 1: annual value. You gotta guarante guaranteed. You gotta give me

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01:54:21,880 --> 01:54:24,200
Speaker 1: some guarantee. And Kelsey is not a young man, he's

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01:54:24,240 --> 01:54:28,920
Speaker 1: thirty right, yeah, he's thirty years old. So but if

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01:54:28,920 --> 01:54:30,720
Speaker 1: you're given County the money, if he sees the end

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01:54:30,760 --> 01:54:32,920
Speaker 1: of that contract, but if you're given Kelsey the money

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01:54:33,000 --> 01:54:36,320
Speaker 1: up front anyway, he doesn't care neither the chiefs. He's

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01:54:36,360 --> 01:54:38,480
Speaker 1: got his money. He's and he'll be worth even if

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01:54:38,520 --> 01:54:41,000
Speaker 1: the end of contract his cap it'll be five million

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01:54:41,040 --> 01:54:44,160
Speaker 1: a year. Ye, fine, who cares. He's already got front loaded.

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01:54:44,200 --> 01:54:47,080
Speaker 1: It's front loaded ye, and and be happy with it,

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01:54:47,160 --> 01:54:50,440
Speaker 1: you know. So that's but that's if I'm kittle and

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01:54:50,520 --> 01:54:53,840
Speaker 1: you don't want to start from scratch and say, okay, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,

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01:54:53,960 --> 01:54:55,840
Speaker 1: My boy just got fifteen a year and you're offering

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01:54:55,880 --> 01:54:59,200
Speaker 1: me twelve point five a year. We need to rethink that.

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01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:01,960
Speaker 1: Instead of doing that, he'll just say, I'll take the

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Speaker 1: twelve point five a year, but you gotta guarantee one

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01:55:04,160 --> 01:55:06,280
Speaker 1: hundred percent of it. And the chiefs will say, well,

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01:55:06,280 --> 01:55:09,760
Speaker 1: maybe not one hundred percent, how about you know, seventy

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01:55:10,280 --> 01:55:12,400
Speaker 1: And he'll say how about ninety percent? And they'll say

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01:55:12,440 --> 01:55:14,680
Speaker 1: eighty five percent and he'll say, okay, you know what

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01:55:14,760 --> 01:55:20,040
Speaker 1: I mean. Yeah, yeah, there's some the chiefs are like

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01:55:20,080 --> 01:55:24,760
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are pushing back from the table. They're like, oh,

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01:55:25,120 --> 01:55:31,640
Speaker 1: son of a girl, missed it by that much. That'll

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01:55:31,680 --> 01:55:35,320
Speaker 1: be interesting. I want to hear the Kansas City media

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01:55:35,640 --> 01:55:37,920
Speaker 1: ask Kelsey when it was all said and done, what

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01:55:37,960 --> 01:55:39,960
Speaker 1: happened with that contracts? You know what I mean. I

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01:55:40,040 --> 01:55:44,200
Speaker 1: want to know how that. Yeah, I want hard knocks

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01:55:44,240 --> 01:55:48,400
Speaker 1: on that team right now. That would be something. Before

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01:55:48,440 --> 01:55:51,360
Speaker 1: we take a break, a quick look at the updated

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01:55:51,360 --> 01:55:57,440
Speaker 1: tweet sheet as we are asking you on the Twitter

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01:55:57,440 --> 01:56:04,320
Speaker 1: poll today, what is the realistic finishing point for Sean

2234
01:56:04,400 --> 01:56:08,520
Speaker 1: McDermott in all time wins in Bill's coaching history, and

2235
01:56:08,640 --> 01:56:13,200
Speaker 1: the choices are top three, top two, or right at

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01:56:13,240 --> 01:56:16,240
Speaker 1: the top, even surpassing Hall of Fame coach Marv Levy

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01:56:16,840 --> 01:56:21,400
Speaker 1: and top two has been the leader so far, and

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01:56:21,600 --> 01:56:23,520
Speaker 1: this one from the Brunner. I don't see any reason

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01:56:23,560 --> 01:56:25,160
Speaker 1: why he can't end up as one of the best

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Speaker 1: Enfranchise history. In my opinion, he has one of the

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01:56:28,240 --> 01:56:30,680
Speaker 1: best young signal callers on both sides of the ball,

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01:56:31,080 --> 01:56:33,320
Speaker 1: and he has shown a real talent for development of players,

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01:56:33,320 --> 01:56:36,200
Speaker 1: which will enable him to keep us competitive for many years. Now.

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01:56:36,200 --> 01:56:39,760
Speaker 1: That's the first time we've heard that Steve. Player development,

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01:56:42,160 --> 01:56:45,680
Speaker 1: that's a quintessential component of being a successful head coach.

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01:56:45,760 --> 01:56:48,040
Speaker 1: Been a hallmark. Maximizing the value of the players you

2247
01:56:48,080 --> 01:56:49,560
Speaker 1: have in your aster has been a hallmark of his

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01:56:49,600 --> 01:56:51,800
Speaker 1: tenure here in Buffalo. Already at three years in. He's

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01:56:51,800 --> 01:56:55,360
Speaker 1: got young players that, even during the course of their

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01:56:55,440 --> 01:56:59,160
Speaker 1: rookie seasons or their careers here, they get better from

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01:56:59,200 --> 01:57:02,440
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season to the end. They start

2252
01:57:02,480 --> 01:57:04,560
Speaker 1: from where they left off the season before, and they

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01:57:04,600 --> 01:57:07,600
Speaker 1: start getting better again. Tremaine Edmonds and Josh Allen are

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01:57:07,720 --> 01:57:11,080
Speaker 1: the two most notable examples. Tredavious White is another. Matt

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01:57:11,160 --> 01:57:17,920
Speaker 1: Milano is a is an absolute quintessential player development guy

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01:57:17,920 --> 01:57:20,400
Speaker 1: is now a starting linebacker and a guy who many

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01:57:20,400 --> 01:57:22,040
Speaker 1: people thought if he stayed health he'd been a Pro

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01:57:22,080 --> 01:57:24,920
Speaker 1: Bowl and he's a fifth rounder. How about Levin Wallace,

2259
01:57:25,040 --> 01:57:30,280
Speaker 1: like guy Robert Foster. You know, all these guys who

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01:57:30,360 --> 01:57:33,360
Speaker 1: have gotten themselves to an NFL level who there was

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01:57:33,400 --> 01:57:36,560
Speaker 1: a lot of doubts about when they first came here.

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01:57:37,320 --> 01:57:40,480
Speaker 1: It's all player development and that's and that's an enormous

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01:57:40,760 --> 01:57:44,520
Speaker 1: aspect of Sean mcdermot's resume as a head coach here

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01:57:44,520 --> 01:57:47,160
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. That has gone except for you and me

2265
01:57:47,320 --> 01:57:50,000
Speaker 1: talking about it every day, it goes largely unnotice around

2266
01:57:50,000 --> 01:57:52,480
Speaker 1: the league. Yeah, so we will get to more of

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01:57:52,520 --> 01:57:55,280
Speaker 1: your comments from the tweet sheet as you respond to

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01:57:55,320 --> 01:57:58,320
Speaker 1: what's realistic in terms of where coach McDermott ends up

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01:57:58,320 --> 01:58:01,040
Speaker 1: on the Bills coaching all time I'm wins list now

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01:58:01,160 --> 01:58:05,000
Speaker 1: with a six year extension, and there might even be

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01:58:05,040 --> 01:58:09,680
Speaker 1: a little time for some NFL true falls down. So

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01:58:09,720 --> 01:58:11,640
Speaker 1: we'll get to all of that, Steve and I will

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Speaker 1: when we come back on One Bill's Live presented by

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01:58:13,960 --> 01:58:29,920
Speaker 1: Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's radio final half hour

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Speaker 1: of the program. Here on One bills Live from the

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01:58:32,080 --> 01:58:34,960
Speaker 1: Seneca Studios at One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

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01:58:35,040 --> 01:58:39,240
Speaker 1: with you, and we are reading your comments as to

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01:58:39,480 --> 01:58:43,680
Speaker 1: where you feel is a realistic place for Sean McDermot

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01:58:43,760 --> 01:58:45,640
Speaker 1: to end up on the Bills all time win list.

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01:58:45,680 --> 01:58:48,640
Speaker 1: And you're telling us why. We know Marv Levy's at

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01:58:48,640 --> 01:58:50,200
Speaker 1: the top of the heap with one hundred and twelve

2282
01:58:50,280 --> 01:58:53,720
Speaker 1: career wins with the Bills, Lou Saban with sixty eight

2283
01:58:55,600 --> 01:58:59,480
Speaker 1: Saban is certainly attainable for McDermott. But you know what

2284
01:58:59,640 --> 01:59:01,720
Speaker 1: is out. They are ways he's gonna have to have

2285
01:59:01,800 --> 01:59:03,160
Speaker 1: to hit it hard for a couple of years to

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01:59:03,240 --> 01:59:06,600
Speaker 1: do it. He's he's forty three wins away from Sabans,

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01:59:06,640 --> 01:59:09,480
Speaker 1: so he's a handful of years yet to get to

2288
01:59:09,520 --> 01:59:13,720
Speaker 1: that point. And um and then another handful of years

2289
01:59:13,720 --> 01:59:15,560
Speaker 1: to get up to where to where Marv is getting

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01:59:15,600 --> 01:59:18,480
Speaker 1: one hundred and twelve win. That's that's gonna take some doing.

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01:59:18,560 --> 01:59:23,520
Speaker 1: And think about it for Marv. I think probably not

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01:59:23,560 --> 01:59:27,200
Speaker 1: even a hundred of those are regular season wins. I

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01:59:27,200 --> 01:59:30,400
Speaker 1: think they're probably over ten or twelve or fourteen of

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01:59:30,440 --> 01:59:33,080
Speaker 1: the playoffs, I think, right, I think these Do they

2295
01:59:33,080 --> 01:59:37,040
Speaker 1: account postseason wins in this total? No, let's see, so

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01:59:37,120 --> 01:59:40,200
Speaker 1: the Bills these first three years ten and six, six

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01:59:40,240 --> 01:59:42,920
Speaker 1: and ten, nine and seven, So yeah, they're only counting

2298
01:59:42,920 --> 01:59:45,640
Speaker 1: regular season wins. Well, yeah, but that's he doesn't have

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01:59:45,640 --> 01:59:50,280
Speaker 1: a playoff win. Oh, you're right, you're right. Way, So

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01:59:50,680 --> 01:59:53,200
Speaker 1: Wade was Wade was eight and eight, ten and six,

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01:59:53,240 --> 01:59:55,920
Speaker 1: and eleven and five, So what's that twenty one? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're only counting regulars. Well, he didn't have a playoff

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01:59:58,200 --> 02:00:03,400
Speaker 1: win either. Damn, this is not working. Trying. Somebody tells,

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02:00:03,440 --> 02:00:05,960
Speaker 1: try to rule it out. It's got to be total wins, right,

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02:00:06,040 --> 02:00:09,880
Speaker 1: playoffs and regular season? Does it not? Do they count

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02:00:09,920 --> 02:00:12,160
Speaker 1: or not? Somebody, Somebody chime in and tell us because

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02:00:12,160 --> 02:00:15,480
Speaker 1: we're now we're we don't know what we're talking about again.

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02:00:17,840 --> 02:00:23,440
Speaker 1: But anyway, okay, say not this is only regular season

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Speaker 1: win because I think it's like one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: two or something like that for career, right, he wanted

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02:00:28,400 --> 02:00:30,560
Speaker 1: to playoff games. Yeah, I think he's around one hundred

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Speaker 1: and third somewhere between one. But it was only eleven

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02:00:32,320 --> 02:00:38,120
Speaker 1: years he was here, right, Yeah, it's just here in fact. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The reason I know that is because it was because

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Speaker 1: Marv Levy's first game as head coach of the Buffalo

2316
02:00:43,880 --> 02:00:46,000
Speaker 1: Bills was my first game as a Buffalo Bill. Yeah,

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02:00:46,120 --> 02:00:48,720
Speaker 1: and his last game was my last. The game I

2318
02:00:48,760 --> 02:00:50,800
Speaker 1: got thrown out of ended up being his last game

2319
02:00:50,800 --> 02:00:55,920
Speaker 1: as well. So we were here identically for the exact

2320
02:00:56,000 --> 02:00:58,760
Speaker 1: same number of games. Of course, I was injured here

2321
02:00:58,760 --> 02:01:00,280
Speaker 1: and there and didn't play in a bunch of them,

2322
02:01:00,280 --> 02:01:03,680
Speaker 1: but um, that's hard. My career is exactly like his

2323
02:01:04,200 --> 02:01:10,160
Speaker 1: eleven and a half years, So you know, that's he's

2324
02:01:10,320 --> 02:01:13,840
Speaker 1: got to have a scene. He was many Yeah, he's

2325
02:01:13,880 --> 02:01:17,680
Speaker 1: got a ton of playoff wins. A ton of playoff wins,

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02:01:17,720 --> 02:01:21,480
Speaker 1: he does, and but right now not factored in that

2327
02:01:21,520 --> 02:01:24,040
Speaker 1: total as we know it. And on the on the

2328
02:01:24,080 --> 02:01:28,120
Speaker 1: Twitter poll, almost half of you say he'll end up

2329
02:01:28,160 --> 02:01:35,440
Speaker 1: top two, right behind Marv um decent percentage. Almost a

2330
02:01:35,520 --> 02:01:37,800
Speaker 1: third of you think you could get to the top

2331
02:01:37,840 --> 02:01:39,880
Speaker 1: of the heap. That's that's gonna take a lot, it

2332
02:01:39,920 --> 02:01:42,360
Speaker 1: really is. As Steve said, that's that's gonna take some

2333
02:01:42,520 --> 02:01:45,920
Speaker 1: doing to get that far. And he's probably gonna need

2334
02:01:45,960 --> 02:01:48,880
Speaker 1: another contract after his current one to get there. Yeah,

2335
02:01:48,880 --> 02:01:55,080
Speaker 1: it's hard to imagine his first three years going better

2336
02:01:55,160 --> 02:02:01,400
Speaker 1: given what he inherited. It's hard to imagine him having

2337
02:02:01,440 --> 02:02:03,760
Speaker 1: a better start to his career than he did. And

2338
02:02:03,800 --> 02:02:06,800
Speaker 1: he had a better start than Marv Levy. Did you

2339
02:02:06,840 --> 02:02:09,680
Speaker 1: know it took mark because Marv had his first year

2340
02:02:09,720 --> 02:02:11,640
Speaker 1: he took over for Hank Buller. I think we won

2341
02:02:11,680 --> 02:02:14,000
Speaker 1: two or three games in the second half of the season.

2342
02:02:14,080 --> 02:02:17,200
Speaker 1: Then we were I think what five and eleven the

2343
02:02:17,240 --> 02:02:19,080
Speaker 1: next year and eight, Well, no, we weren't because it

2344
02:02:19,120 --> 02:02:22,200
Speaker 1: was eighty seven was a strike year. Yeah, so then

2345
02:02:22,320 --> 02:02:24,440
Speaker 1: so we didn't. We struggled then too, and then seven

2346
02:02:24,440 --> 02:02:26,520
Speaker 1: and eight or yeah, But then eighty eight hit and

2347
02:02:26,520 --> 02:02:28,480
Speaker 1: they were twelve and we went twelve and four, So

2348
02:02:28,520 --> 02:02:30,040
Speaker 1: then he was off and run and then were nine

2349
02:02:30,080 --> 02:02:31,400
Speaker 1: and seven the next year, and then they were in

2350
02:02:31,440 --> 02:02:33,600
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl years where they're going. We were going

2351
02:02:33,720 --> 02:02:37,200
Speaker 1: thirteen and three, fourteen and two. So they add up

2352
02:02:37,200 --> 02:02:39,920
Speaker 1: pretty quick then. But that was but sup. My point

2353
02:02:39,920 --> 02:02:42,560
Speaker 1: is Sean McDermott's career has started off even in some

2354
02:02:42,600 --> 02:02:46,040
Speaker 1: ways a little better than Marv Levys. Because um, one

2355
02:02:46,120 --> 02:02:48,360
Speaker 1: little NFL note to throw in here before we get

2356
02:02:48,360 --> 02:02:52,760
Speaker 1: to NFL true falls and this is the Remember we

2357
02:02:52,800 --> 02:02:55,320
Speaker 1: said that teams are going to be tested and how

2358
02:02:55,360 --> 02:03:00,520
Speaker 1: well they can maintain decorum with the COVID protocols. The

2359
02:03:00,600 --> 02:03:05,760
Speaker 1: Seahawks just cut rookie cornerback Kamas Silver after he was

2360
02:03:05,800 --> 02:03:09,800
Speaker 1: caught on video trying to sneak a female visitor into

2361
02:03:09,840 --> 02:03:14,320
Speaker 1: the team hotel. According to sources, the woman was wearing

2362
02:03:14,440 --> 02:03:18,320
Speaker 1: Seahawks gear in an attempt to disguise herself as a player.

2363
02:03:19,880 --> 02:03:23,120
Speaker 1: Obviously this did not work, but a clear message has

2364
02:03:23,120 --> 02:03:26,160
Speaker 1: been sent on the responsibility everyone has in the NFL's

2365
02:03:26,200 --> 02:03:30,920
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen world put the team at risk suffer the consequences.

2366
02:03:32,160 --> 02:03:40,200
Speaker 1: Steve has that one grab you wait, bro ah, how

2367
02:03:40,240 --> 02:03:42,600
Speaker 1: did you think you were going to pull that off?

2368
02:03:44,240 --> 02:03:47,400
Speaker 1: Why would Oh my gosh, let me get my lady

2369
02:03:47,440 --> 02:03:51,840
Speaker 1: friend up in here. This won't be a problem. Come in,

2370
02:03:52,160 --> 02:03:56,200
Speaker 1: pay me a visit, and I'll catch up with you

2371
02:03:56,240 --> 02:04:01,280
Speaker 1: on the weekend. Oh man, this is this is the problem.

2372
02:04:01,360 --> 02:04:04,520
Speaker 1: It's hard, man, This is the problem that NFL teams

2373
02:04:04,520 --> 02:04:07,320
Speaker 1: are going to run into. And it doesn't surprise me

2374
02:04:07,360 --> 02:04:10,360
Speaker 1: at all that it's a rookie. You know it's And

2375
02:04:10,400 --> 02:04:12,920
Speaker 1: I tell you this too. Pete Carroll's probably sitting there

2376
02:04:12,920 --> 02:04:14,840
Speaker 1: going he's a pretty good please Okay, what was he

2377
02:04:14,840 --> 02:04:19,360
Speaker 1: a rookie free agent or I believe? Yeah? Okay, sober right,

2378
02:04:19,400 --> 02:04:21,240
Speaker 1: So he's I'll look him up. But I think if

2379
02:04:21,240 --> 02:04:23,000
Speaker 1: he's if he's not a draft pick, if he's a

2380
02:04:23,080 --> 02:04:26,680
Speaker 1: rookie free agent, perfect time to send a big message

2381
02:04:26,680 --> 02:04:31,720
Speaker 1: to your roster. Yep, you know, see you guy, goodbye. Yeah,

2382
02:04:31,800 --> 02:04:33,760
Speaker 1: thanks for coming, Thanks for thank you for giving us

2383
02:04:33,760 --> 02:04:37,200
Speaker 1: the opportunity to discipline the rest of our roster with you,

2384
02:04:37,400 --> 02:04:42,680
Speaker 1: using you as an example, I appreciate what a horrible decision.

2385
02:04:44,640 --> 02:04:50,800
Speaker 1: Horrible decision. Um, that's what you're looking at think about

2386
02:04:50,800 --> 02:04:52,880
Speaker 1: it now here's and we've talked about it and joked

2387
02:04:52,920 --> 02:04:56,040
Speaker 1: about it, but it's it's a real thing. And I

2388
02:04:56,200 --> 02:04:58,280
Speaker 1: said this, before you get to the first month of

2389
02:04:58,280 --> 02:04:59,840
Speaker 1: the season. You got to get through this first month

2390
02:04:59,880 --> 02:05:02,360
Speaker 1: of a season when about every team will win one, lot,

2391
02:05:02,400 --> 02:05:04,680
Speaker 1: lose one, or win a couple, lose a couple. You

2392
02:05:04,800 --> 02:05:06,960
Speaker 1: gotta have every team go through losing a game and

2393
02:05:07,000 --> 02:05:09,360
Speaker 1: then winning a game so they get both ends of

2394
02:05:09,360 --> 02:05:11,040
Speaker 1: that spectrum under their belts, so they can say they

2395
02:05:11,040 --> 02:05:12,840
Speaker 1: can win a game and not feel like they've got

2396
02:05:12,840 --> 02:05:15,880
Speaker 1: to go out and dance on the bar in celebration.

2397
02:05:16,360 --> 02:05:18,080
Speaker 1: And then you got to lose a game, so they

2398
02:05:18,160 --> 02:05:22,240
Speaker 1: don't climb inside a bottle and go out and do

2399
02:05:22,280 --> 02:05:25,320
Speaker 1: that to commiserate about a loss. You gotta get them

2400
02:05:25,320 --> 02:05:27,240
Speaker 1: to where they can do it. And just like it's

2401
02:05:27,280 --> 02:05:30,400
Speaker 1: like Sean mcnern, just be the same guy on Monday,

2402
02:05:30,520 --> 02:05:32,280
Speaker 1: win or lose. You got to come in and keep

2403
02:05:32,320 --> 02:05:34,920
Speaker 1: it going and you got to set that example and

2404
02:05:35,000 --> 02:05:37,400
Speaker 1: head coach does it and hear it with Sean McDermott.

2405
02:05:37,400 --> 02:05:39,040
Speaker 1: We've heard it a hundred times over the last couple

2406
02:05:39,080 --> 02:05:42,520
Speaker 1: of days because of his contract extension and you've got

2407
02:05:42,560 --> 02:05:44,960
Speaker 1: to teach your players to be the same guy in

2408
02:05:45,040 --> 02:05:47,600
Speaker 1: victory and defeat. On Monday. You're still going to come

2409
02:05:47,600 --> 02:05:50,200
Speaker 1: in and grind it. You're gonna do it. And you've

2410
02:05:50,240 --> 02:05:51,920
Speaker 1: got to get through this first month of the season

2411
02:05:51,920 --> 02:05:53,880
Speaker 1: for these young players and the new players on your

2412
02:05:53,960 --> 02:05:57,960
Speaker 1: roster to see how it's done and to stay on

2413
02:05:58,040 --> 02:06:03,280
Speaker 1: the wagon. And somebody fell off the wagon. Some Yeah,

2414
02:06:03,320 --> 02:06:08,000
Speaker 1: there's an undrafted rookie cornerback comasivarand from Seattle, and he

2415
02:06:08,080 --> 02:06:10,800
Speaker 1: has been cut because he tried to sneak a girl

2416
02:06:10,840 --> 02:06:17,440
Speaker 1: into the hotel, the team hotel. Yeah, like the quarantine hotel. Yeah,

2417
02:06:17,440 --> 02:06:22,960
Speaker 1: come on, man, you rockhead, Come on, what are you doing. Okay,

2418
02:06:23,040 --> 02:06:25,680
Speaker 1: so we've covered that ground. But I think that is

2419
02:06:25,720 --> 02:06:29,120
Speaker 1: gonna pop up from time to time. Unfortunately, you know

2420
02:06:29,120 --> 02:06:31,560
Speaker 1: what they'll think about it. Though Seattle did a lot

2421
02:06:31,560 --> 02:06:35,720
Speaker 1: of people favor Now that word gets around, m hmm,

2422
02:06:37,080 --> 02:06:38,680
Speaker 1: tell me that's not going to be on the screen

2423
02:06:38,720 --> 02:06:41,080
Speaker 1: in the team meeting room. Oh that is of every

2424
02:06:41,200 --> 02:06:44,000
Speaker 1: NFL club tomorrow. That's you just fell through the trap

2425
02:06:44,040 --> 02:06:49,320
Speaker 1: door door. Bro. You're thank You're like the trap door,

2426
02:06:49,560 --> 02:06:54,960
Speaker 1: You're into the alligator. Thanks. That's a great example that

2427
02:06:55,240 --> 02:06:58,520
Speaker 1: I'm sure every NFL head coach will just either subtly

2428
02:06:58,640 --> 02:07:00,600
Speaker 1: or maybe not so subtly, will make sure that that

2429
02:07:00,680 --> 02:07:04,040
Speaker 1: makes the rounds around the locker room. Man, that's just done.

2430
02:07:04,120 --> 02:07:07,080
Speaker 1: Thank you. By your career as an as a football

2431
02:07:07,120 --> 02:07:10,920
Speaker 1: player is over. Yeah, because you've shown you don't care.

2432
02:07:11,120 --> 02:07:15,680
Speaker 1: So thanks for coming. All right, Steve, Time for NFL

2433
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Speaker 1: True false brought to you, as always by Yancey's Fancy

2434
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Speaker 1: Yancey's Fancy New York's artists and cheese. First on the

2435
02:07:24,600 --> 02:07:29,840
Speaker 1: docket for you, Steve, Russell Wilson and Bobby Wagner represent

2436
02:07:29,920 --> 02:07:36,360
Speaker 1: the top offensive defensive duo in the NFL. True or false?

2437
02:07:37,720 --> 02:07:39,560
Speaker 1: Now you really got to run through the rolodecks of

2438
02:07:39,680 --> 02:07:43,280
Speaker 1: NFL teams. Yeah, I'm gonna say better offense defense. That's

2439
02:07:43,400 --> 02:07:45,520
Speaker 1: it's a tough one. They're they're certainly in the conversation.

2440
02:07:45,960 --> 02:07:50,000
Speaker 1: He's good. Yeah, you could. I don't know. You can

2441
02:07:50,080 --> 02:07:55,840
Speaker 1: make a case for Ben Roethlisberger and the guy the

2442
02:07:55,840 --> 02:07:59,000
Speaker 1: the Bosa brother on the other side of the bos brothers. No,

2443
02:07:59,120 --> 02:08:02,160
Speaker 1: it's a JJ wat T J Watt, t J Watt. Okay,

2444
02:08:02,600 --> 02:08:06,839
Speaker 1: you could make a case for Deshaun Watson jj watt. Okay,

2445
02:08:07,000 --> 02:08:09,240
Speaker 1: I like that one. You could make a case for

2446
02:08:10,600 --> 02:08:14,120
Speaker 1: like Marcus Peters Kyler Murray, although Kyler Murray would be

2447
02:08:14,160 --> 02:08:16,280
Speaker 1: the link week link in that you know who could

2448
02:08:16,280 --> 02:08:19,400
Speaker 1: be you know who could be a combo in maybe

2449
02:08:19,440 --> 02:08:23,480
Speaker 1: two years time, Kyler Murray and Isaiah Simmons. There you go. Yeah,

2450
02:08:23,560 --> 02:08:26,320
Speaker 1: that's a good one. Not right now, but maybe a

2451
02:08:26,400 --> 02:08:30,040
Speaker 1: year or two. That's Simmons. And certainly Russell Wilson deserves

2452
02:08:30,080 --> 02:08:32,840
Speaker 1: to be in the conversation for you know, the offensive guy. Yeah,

2453
02:08:32,880 --> 02:08:34,760
Speaker 1: and hopefully in a couple of years Josh Allen and

2454
02:08:34,760 --> 02:08:37,720
Speaker 1: Tremaine dam exactly, or Josh Allen and Trey White. That's right.

2455
02:08:37,840 --> 02:08:42,720
Speaker 1: So but to say Russell Wilson, you got Michael Thomas

2456
02:08:42,800 --> 02:08:47,560
Speaker 1: and Cam Jordan, that's not bad, right, um, Pat Mahlmes,

2457
02:08:47,560 --> 02:08:51,600
Speaker 1: and for Drew Brees and Cam Jordan, or and Turan Matthu,

2458
02:08:51,960 --> 02:08:55,280
Speaker 1: I mean Tyrann Matthew. I always I cannot Tyrone get

2459
02:08:55,280 --> 02:08:57,280
Speaker 1: the syllables right on his name. I don't know why

2460
02:08:57,320 --> 02:08:59,560
Speaker 1: I have such a mental blocks. Say they're in the conversation,

2461
02:08:59,560 --> 02:09:01,320
Speaker 1: but I don't. I'm not ready to bequeath that on them.

2462
02:09:01,360 --> 02:09:06,720
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say false false. Okay, I am a

2463
02:09:06,720 --> 02:09:10,480
Speaker 1: fan of Bobby Wagner, and because I don't know that

2464
02:09:10,480 --> 02:09:14,200
Speaker 1: the others quite reached the level, and I think Russell

2465
02:09:14,240 --> 02:09:17,280
Speaker 1: Wilson's the top ten quarterback, I will say true in

2466
02:09:17,280 --> 02:09:19,840
Speaker 1: this particular instance. I'm hoping in a year or two

2467
02:09:19,920 --> 02:09:22,960
Speaker 1: now that Josh Allen and Tremaine Edmonds or Josh Allen

2468
02:09:23,000 --> 02:09:26,680
Speaker 1: and Trey Wider part of that conversation. True false Number two, Steve,

2469
02:09:26,800 --> 02:09:32,360
Speaker 1: the NFL should consider Friday night games. Fridays, Saturdays and

2470
02:09:32,400 --> 02:09:37,200
Speaker 1: Sundays could be wide open to the NFL. Now, I

2471
02:09:37,200 --> 02:09:43,040
Speaker 1: believe there is some kind of anti trust exemption for

2472
02:09:43,120 --> 02:09:45,600
Speaker 1: broadcast purposes that they would have to hoop. They would

2473
02:09:45,600 --> 02:09:48,320
Speaker 1: have to jump through there. Maybe, but I say yes,

2474
02:09:48,920 --> 02:09:51,000
Speaker 1: certainly do yes. Actually, I'm reading it right now. The

2475
02:09:51,120 --> 02:09:54,600
Speaker 1: NFL first would need a waiver of the primary conditions

2476
02:09:54,880 --> 02:09:59,400
Speaker 1: for the NFL's long standing broadcast anti trust exemption that

2477
02:09:59,520 --> 02:10:02,200
Speaker 1: the NFL i'll televised no games on Fridays or Saturdays

2478
02:10:02,240 --> 02:10:05,200
Speaker 1: from Labor Day through early December. Thus, in exchange for

2479
02:10:05,320 --> 02:10:08,040
Speaker 1: respecting the turf of high school and college football, the

2480
02:10:08,160 --> 02:10:10,640
Speaker 1: NFL received the ability to market games to networks as

2481
02:10:10,640 --> 02:10:14,000
Speaker 1: a group, not as the individual businesses that they are right.

2482
02:10:14,160 --> 02:10:16,800
Speaker 1: So that's that's the hook there. So they got to

2483
02:10:16,800 --> 02:10:20,920
Speaker 1: get through that legal hoop. We'll see if they can.

2484
02:10:21,000 --> 02:10:23,200
Speaker 1: I would I yeah, they should. That there's going to

2485
02:10:23,240 --> 02:10:25,120
Speaker 1: be a huge void there in the fall. Let them

2486
02:10:25,160 --> 02:10:28,040
Speaker 1: fill it if they can. It's gonna be on temporary basis,

2487
02:10:28,520 --> 02:10:31,000
Speaker 1: So yes, I say true. I will say true as well.

2488
02:10:31,280 --> 02:10:33,200
Speaker 1: We have to take a break. We'll be back with

2489
02:10:33,280 --> 02:10:36,560
Speaker 1: what have we learned? Coming up next year on One

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02:10:36,600 --> 02:10:39,320
Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's

2491
02:10:39,400 --> 02:10:58,280
Speaker 1: Radio time for what have we learned from today's show?

2492
02:10:58,440 --> 02:11:01,960
Speaker 1: Presented to you by Guy Works, the official construction equipment

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02:11:02,000 --> 02:11:06,280
Speaker 1: rental company of the Buffalo Bills. And what we learned

2494
02:11:06,440 --> 02:11:10,040
Speaker 1: is we've got more breaking news today, Steve, Yes, we do.

2495
02:11:10,600 --> 02:11:14,560
Speaker 1: Adam Schefter is reporting that the Bills have reached a

2496
02:11:14,640 --> 02:11:19,600
Speaker 1: contract extension with one left tackle Dion Dawkins, and he's

2497
02:11:19,640 --> 02:11:23,120
Speaker 1: reporting it to be a four year deal worth sixty

2498
02:11:23,400 --> 02:11:30,760
Speaker 1: million dollars. So super exciting there on that front. And

2499
02:11:30,920 --> 02:11:35,760
Speaker 1: we're waiting for official confirmation from the team, which I

2500
02:11:35,800 --> 02:11:38,040
Speaker 1: have not seen on social media as of yet. I'm

2501
02:11:38,080 --> 02:11:41,480
Speaker 1: searching feverishly to see if it's been made official by

2502
02:11:41,480 --> 02:11:43,880
Speaker 1: the team. So deon Dokins being reported to sign a

2503
02:11:43,920 --> 02:11:46,040
Speaker 1: four year extension on the same day George Kittle does.

2504
02:11:46,040 --> 02:11:47,920
Speaker 1: It's that time of year, Brownie, where the teams kind

2505
02:11:47,920 --> 02:11:49,800
Speaker 1: of get that stuff out of the way. They did

2506
02:11:49,800 --> 02:11:52,560
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott yesterday he signed his deal. Now as being

2507
02:11:52,600 --> 02:11:55,080
Speaker 1: reported that they took care of the left tackle, Dion Dawkins.

2508
02:11:55,240 --> 02:11:59,839
Speaker 1: We know that Tradavious White, Josh Allen, Tremaine Edmonds, Matt Milano,

2509
02:12:00,040 --> 02:12:02,360
Speaker 1: all these guys are standing the line. They've performed and

2510
02:12:02,480 --> 02:12:04,480
Speaker 1: done everything that the club has asked them to do.

2511
02:12:04,560 --> 02:12:06,560
Speaker 1: And it started with the head coach. They got him done.

2512
02:12:06,680 --> 02:12:09,680
Speaker 1: Now the left tackle, they've got him done. And we'll

2513
02:12:09,680 --> 02:12:12,600
Speaker 1: see what happens in the coming months and even in

2514
02:12:12,640 --> 02:12:14,880
Speaker 1: the off seasons. As much as we know about. But

2515
02:12:15,200 --> 02:12:20,400
Speaker 1: the Bills signing that seems reported to sign mister Snowman

2516
02:12:21,240 --> 02:12:25,200
Speaker 1: Snowman to a four year deal. Congratulations Dion Dawkins, if

2517
02:12:25,240 --> 02:12:28,400
Speaker 1: indeed it's true, which it probably is. Yeah, And so

2518
02:12:29,480 --> 02:12:34,600
Speaker 1: this is the first of the initial building blocks for

2519
02:12:34,640 --> 02:12:37,400
Speaker 1: this team that has been signed to a second contract

2520
02:12:37,800 --> 02:12:42,440
Speaker 1: from that twenty seventeen inaugural draft class. Under Sean McDermott.

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Speaker 1: So the three principal players from that draft class that

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Speaker 1: you would assume the Bills would make efforts to bring

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Speaker 1: back into the fold Tredavious White, Dion Dawkins, and Matt Milano.

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Speaker 1: Those are the three guys from that inaugural draft class

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Speaker 1: that are still here and play key roles on the

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Speaker 1: roster as starters. So we'll see where it goes. We

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Speaker 1: heard Matt Milano last week on a conference call when

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Speaker 1: he was asked about a new contract. He said, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm not focused on that. I'm focused on playing football,

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Speaker 1: and if I do the right things on the field,

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Speaker 1: hopefully the number will be right, you know, and we

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Speaker 1: can and I can stay in Buffalo a long time,

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Speaker 1: he said, this is where he wants to stay, absolutely.

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Speaker 1: But great news for Dion Dawkins. We'll wait for official

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Speaker 1: team confirmation, but Adam Schefter with that report that it's

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Speaker 1: a four year, sixty million dollar extension for Dion Dawkins.

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Speaker 1: So congrats to the Snowman and we'll see where it

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Speaker 1: goes from here. Steve, Big newsday today, huh yeah, big

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Speaker 1: show today as well. Yeah, the Snowman is signed to

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Speaker 1: an extension and Sean McDermott was on with us josh

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Speaker 1: admisonas you can go back and listen to all the

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Speaker 1: parts of the show. Lots going on and the training

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Speaker 1: camp is well underway. That'll do it for a Thursday

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Speaker 1: edition of One Bills Live. Come back and join us

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Speaker 1: tomorrow as we're presented by Kalida Health here on Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. See you tomorrow.