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Speaker 1: being able to work through that. The mental toughness it takes,

431
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Speaker 1: not only physical toughness that's obvious, but the mental toughness

432
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Speaker 1: that it takes to play in this league. And what

433
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Speaker 1: it meant to him to play down the stretch and

434
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Speaker 1: how poortant it was to him. Awesome. Thanks Sean, have

435
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Speaker 1: a great Officeason appreciate it. Yeah, thanks Kelly too. Hey Sean,

436
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:53,520
Speaker 1: how are you doing good? How are you okay? So, Sean,

437
00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,719
Speaker 1: I know you you mentioned after the game you were

438
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Speaker 1: going to give some thought to You've faced challenges decisions

439
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:07,919
Speaker 1: in games, personnel usage, strategic all that right along as

440
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Speaker 1: a head coach you mentioned on Sunday, I believe that,

441
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe if you had it to do over,

442
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:17,439
Speaker 1: you might do something differently regarding the going for at

443
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,359
Speaker 1: least one of the two a couple of the field goals,

444
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:23,719
Speaker 1: and I know there's one before the half, but there

445
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 1: also was one in the second half that could have

446
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 1: been a go for it situation. As you've reflected on

447
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,760
Speaker 1: that yourself, what kind of thoughts do you have to it?

448
00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:35,919
Speaker 1: And also if you could walk through maybe more now

449
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,080
Speaker 1: that you've had a chance to analyze it, what was

450
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,480
Speaker 1: behind doing what you did, why you thought that was

451
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:45,159
Speaker 1: the right thing to do, because it's obviously gotten a

452
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,000
Speaker 1: whole lot of second guessing as you can imagine, sure

453
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Speaker 1: well when things and think when you get the result

454
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Speaker 1: we got the other night, there's usually a lot of

455
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Speaker 1: second guessing. It's funny how that works, right, but understand

456
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,720
Speaker 1: it's part of the job and certainly take that responsibility

457
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Speaker 1: head on one before half, really felt like, you know,

458
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 1: morale was a big piece of that. You know, they

459
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:09,120
Speaker 1: had momentum, they were getting the ball after half as well,

460
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 1: Vic and felt like we needed to come away with

461
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Speaker 1: points at that one because even though sometimes analytics may

462
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 1: say one thing, and whether it said it or not

463
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 1: on our chartum, I think there's a human element to

464
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Speaker 1: the game at the end of the day. And felt

465
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Speaker 1: like we needed to come away with points. Is I

466
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Speaker 1: look at those guys in the locker room and say, hey,

467
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Speaker 1: we got something to show for that drive we put

468
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Speaker 1: together at the end of the half, and I thought

469
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Speaker 1: that was important because it was getting awfully, awfully tough

470
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,480
Speaker 1: tough sled there for a little bit and then after half. Yeah,

471
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Speaker 1: that's the one that you know, even now, I'm still

472
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Speaker 1: continuing to process through and and uh, you know, on

473
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Speaker 1: one hand, I felt at the time that you know,

474
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Speaker 1: we were I think we were two of eight at

475
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Speaker 1: halftime on third downs and we were struggling someone third downs.

476
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Speaker 1: Felt like I think it was a twelve point lead

477
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Speaker 1: at the time we could get to nine, that that

478
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Speaker 1: would change what we needed from two scores to a

479
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Speaker 1: score and a half. However you want to say that

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Speaker 1: in your verbiage. But but you know, even with that,

481
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Speaker 1: that's still the one that that very open with you

482
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Speaker 1: here that I still think about, Hey, you know, maybe

483
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Speaker 1: I should have gone forth there fourth and three. Felt

484
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Speaker 1: like if we could get it to fourth and one

485
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 1: and fourth and two, I know for sure we would

486
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Speaker 1: have went for it. And so maybe you know, a

487
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Speaker 1: third down and sticking around and there getting that you know,

488
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 1: one or two yards, So we felt a little bit

489
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,960
Speaker 1: more comfortable going forth there. But so score came into

490
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Speaker 1: play a little bit there. But you know, at the

491
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Speaker 1: end of the day, that's you know, Patrick Mahomes is

492
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Speaker 1: a good quarterback. And so that's the piece in my

493
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 1: mind to vic where I'm like, you know, kicking myself

494
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,400
Speaker 1: a little bit at the end of the day, let's

495
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:44,919
Speaker 1: just be aggressive there and and and whatnot. So always

496
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 1: learning from those situations and more than anything, I think

497
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Speaker 1: alignment as with me and my staff too, and the

498
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 1: guys that helped me. They've done such a great job

499
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:57,119
Speaker 1: all year. And so that's another piece of us growing

500
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 1: as a team as an organization of if we're in

501
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,639
Speaker 1: that situation again, Um, you know this is how we

502
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 1: want to handle it one way or the other. So

503
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: a lot to learn from And Sean, just one fault

504
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 1: you anticipated where I wanted to go next, which is

505
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Speaker 1: how how you the process of Ultimately the call is

506
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:18,639
Speaker 1: yours of course, but the input from others, Um, it

507
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,919
Speaker 1: doesn't function the way you want to. Is that something

508
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 1: to maybe look at for the future, you know, just

509
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 1: those conversations that lead to your saying yeah, go forward

510
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Speaker 1: or not. Yeah, no, I know where you're going with

511
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: your question. But yeah, man, it's all again like I said,

512
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 1: you know, Lee, I haven't just had this conversation with myself.

513
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:38,879
Speaker 1: I've had with with the members of my staff that

514
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: I worked so closely with during the game and game management,

515
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 1: and I feel like we've gotten so much better this

516
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,400
Speaker 1: year in that area, but with more room to grow

517
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Speaker 1: and those listen. As a coach, as a leader, you're

518
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: always going to be when things don't work out. You're

519
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 1: always going to be second guests and hindsight's easy when

520
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 1: after the fact, but it's when you're in that situation

521
00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 1: the variable as you're you're trying to evaluate and what's

522
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 1: best for your football team. That's the decision. I'm always

523
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:04,679
Speaker 1: going to make it, trying to make the best decision

524
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: for our team, and and you only get X amount

525
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 1: of time to do it. But yeah, alignment with my

526
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: staff of Hey, if this situation comes up again, with

527
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 1: this type of opponent in this situation of a game, hey,

528
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: let's talk about that. And you know my mindset going

529
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 1: forward and I need this or and so those are

530
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: healthy conversations that have taken place, and really, in fact,

531
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 1: they happen after every game VIC and every experience we

532
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,359
Speaker 1: go through or we watch other people go through that.

533
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Speaker 1: So we try and continue to make good notes and

534
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Speaker 1: keep a good record and resume for us moving forward.

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Speaker 1: All Right, Sean, thank you, and as sal said, thank

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Speaker 1: you for you know how you handled us all your fens. Yeah,

537
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 1: I appreciate appreciate everyone out there, Vick yourself included, and

538
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 1: appreciate everyone's support. Getting some really good stories about our

539
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: organization out there. And it's really cool in this community

540
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: you can pair together with media. We have all our

541
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 1: own separate jobs to do, but become kind of one family.

542
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 1: Or in Western Europe, which is pretty special. Appreciate you guys.

543
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: Hi Sean, it's Jay with the Buffalo News. Do these

544
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Speaker 1: stats tell a different story than maybe your film and

545
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 1: video review of Ed Olipher's play this season? Well, I'm

546
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,160
Speaker 1: not at this point the off season, Jay, what stats

547
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 1: are you talking about? I'm not sure it's not. Well,

548
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: you know, you look at his sack numbers, maybe they're

549
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,399
Speaker 1: not as high as some people would have hoped for

550
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: a former top ten draft pick. That's just one number.

551
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: So I guess, just you know, box score scouting versus

552
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: what you're seeing on the film, is it telling a

553
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: different story? Yeah, I think from time and time it

554
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: can sometimes that they're consistent with one another. At the

555
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: end of the day, when you look at the film,

556
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Speaker 1: I think Ed has made improvements in a second season.

557
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: Do I think there's more work to be done. Absolutely,

558
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: and just like there is with our entire football team.

559
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: So we're early in the off season, yet I think

560
00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: that's probably a I would know more later in the

561
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: offseason where I can look better of an answer at

562
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: their day. Okay, And then two housekeeping items. Number one,

563
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: are you aware of any updates in terms of your staff?

564
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 1: Thing that could be referring to Leslie and Ken who

565
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: you know it's been reported our candidates for outside of

566
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 1: jobs or any other changes on your staff. And then

567
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: number two, have you met with Nate Breski and are

568
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Speaker 1: you aware of any medical procedures meaning surgeries that you

569
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: know that players will need this offseason. Yeah, so I'll

570
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 1: start with that one first. Very little information yet coming

571
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 1: from Nate's office on who many offseason surgery. We just

572
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: have kind of some early thoughts on that. And then

573
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: the other one with respect to our coaching staff. When

574
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 1: you have success, there's always people that want to look

575
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: at your team and maybe pull people off of your

576
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: off your team, off your staff, and so that's that's

577
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 1: to be expected. I think both of those two are

578
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 1: are highly qualified and I have a lot of CONFI

579
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 1: it's in both of those two men. We'll see what

580
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 1: with the tuger holds for both of them and we'll

581
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Speaker 1: go from there. Thanks Free Times. Yeah II Sean Adambarini, Um,

582
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Speaker 1: I just want to kind of get into some of

583
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Speaker 1: the specifics on a decision making on the field goals

584
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Speaker 1: you had mentioned, you know, the wise and the what

585
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 1: ifs and off the top had mentioned you got out

586
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 1: of outcoached the other night. UM, I guess in the

587
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: bigger picture, beyond just those two instances you discussed, Um,

588
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: how do you feel that happened? How were you outcoached

589
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 1: in that game? Well, when you lose the game, at

590
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you're out coached. That's why

591
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: I look at myself first. So at the end of

592
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 1: the day, we want fifteen games this year, UM lost four,

593
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: and so I start with myself and I was in

594
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: those four games. When you lose the game, that's that's

595
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 1: that's just how I'm built at them. And UM, so

596
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: I look at myself first. That's what a leader does,

597
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: and that's the way. That's the way I look at him.

598
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 1: So and my other is on Josh talking to him

599
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: yesterday and we don't know when I'm getting get the

600
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 1: chance to talk to him again. Right going into the

601
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 1: off season. But I asked generally about the idea of

602
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: a long term contract and he didn't really want to

603
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: get into that. But on a follow up, I said,

604
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Speaker 1: what do you think you proved? And he said, I

605
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: think I proved they didn't make a mistake by drafting

606
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: me back in twenty eighteen. I guess your thoughts on

607
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Speaker 1: his season, the idea of the concept of getting him

608
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: up locked up long term and you know, having found

609
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Speaker 1: an answer at the most important position as you emerged

610
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 1: from thirty year in his career. Yeah, I mean, Josh

611
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: continued to show signs of improvement, significant improvement this year

612
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: in particular, feel very comfortable with Josh as our quarterback.

613
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: And I think the contract, all that type of stuff

614
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: he usually handles itself in the off season, and a

615
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: lot of confidence and brand to handle all that, whether

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00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: it's Josh the situation or the other situations that we

617
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: have other free agents that are that are whose contracts

618
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 1: are up, that are important pieces of our our team,

619
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Speaker 1: and so full confidence in Brandon and his staff to

620
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Speaker 1: do what we need to do to move forward and

621
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Speaker 1: close the gap, move forward. What did he show you?

622
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: This would be it for me. But what did Josh

623
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Speaker 1: show you, you know, this year in terms of the

624
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 1: growth that everyone was kind of hoping for and what

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00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: he was able to deliver on the field. Yeah, I

626
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: mean there's very few parts of his game that aren't

627
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 1: developed after his third season that you say, well, he

628
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 1: really struggles in this area. I mean you can say,

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Speaker 1: I think it's a small conversation of things that he

630
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: still needs to evolve in, and he would tell you

631
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: probably the same in those areas. So I've seen him

632
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Speaker 1: do much of what it takes to win and win

633
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: at a high level. And I think he answered quite

634
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 1: a few of the questions that were out there about him,

635
00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: maybe from outside this building, specifically about his play. And

636
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: I know that the comforting piece to me about Josh

637
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: is he's going to go back to work. And I

638
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: know the comments he made the other day after the

639
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: game about again taking responsibility. I think when you do

640
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Speaker 1: that as a leader, that says a lot about yourself

641
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: and it says a lot about what you're driven to

642
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: accomplish in the future. And so he's an extremely driven,

643
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 1: extremely driven young man with a bright future, and he's

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Speaker 1: done a great job leading our team this season in particular.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Sean, appreciate this year. Thank you. Yeah, thanks having

646
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Speaker 1: good morning, Sean John Warrel, John, congrats on making it

647
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Speaker 1: through this unusual chaotic year. But hopefully we can do

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Speaker 1: this at one Bill's Drive next year. But um aside

649
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: from that, a year ago, Brendan Bean, you know, placed

650
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: an emphasis on the need to score points going into

651
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Speaker 1: last off season and delivered with us upon Diggs and

652
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Speaker 1: what in some other moves. What might be the emphasis

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Speaker 1: going into this offseason as far as needs go, it's

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Speaker 1: probably a little bit too early, honestly, I mean just

655
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Speaker 1: coming off you know, we're eleven thirty and Tuesday after

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Speaker 1: the after Sunday night game. Honestly, John, So I have

657
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Speaker 1: some early thoughts, but it's probably premature, you know, just

658
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Speaker 1: to get into them at too deep of a level

659
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Speaker 1: right now. But like I said, just generally speaking overall, Jo,

660
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 1: we've got to improve. I've got to improve. Our team's

661
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,439
Speaker 1: got to improve. Our staff has to improve. If here's

662
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: what I know from experience. If you sit here and

663
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Speaker 1: say all we need to do is do this much

664
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Speaker 1: more to make it to the super Bowl, you're wrong.

665
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:43,280
Speaker 1: You got to start over. I mean, yes, you carry

666
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Speaker 1: a lot of things forward, but every year you got

667
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Speaker 1: to start over. You got to rebuild the football team.

668
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Speaker 1: You got to grow as an individual. I mean, you've

669
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Speaker 1: got to take it upon yourself just because we had success,

670
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: to ask yourselves the hard yourself the hard questions. Listen.

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Speaker 1: I can start off saying we've got to be able

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Speaker 1: to run the football better. Right, There's certain things of

673
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: our team that that I can tell you right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into them, but you have

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Speaker 1: to take that growth mindset approach because to think, well

676
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Speaker 1: we made that, we won fifteen games and lost four,

677
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Speaker 1: well we're perfect. Now we're not. And even if we were,

678
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 1: we you got to take the growth mindset approach. And

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Speaker 1: so that's what you do when you're a winner. That's

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Speaker 1: what you do when you're hungry to be the best,

681
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Speaker 1: hungry to be the best. And that's what we're going

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Speaker 1: to continue to do um as long as I'm the

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Speaker 1: head coach here. You got to do that because just

684
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: because it's like going from I coaching the pros right, well,

685
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: you're coaching the pros. Well, that doesn't mean you know everything.

686
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Speaker 1: And I got my first position coach. I think a

687
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 1: lot of the state states young position coaches make is

688
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Speaker 1: a I must know it all now because I've been

689
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: given a position coach job. Now you don't. In fact,

690
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: you've got to work harder. And so that's that's the

691
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Speaker 1: mindset we got to have around here. I respect that answer.

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Speaker 1: Just finishing up his press conference, we're gonna we're gonna

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Speaker 1: take take it just a short minute here. Take a

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Speaker 1: break and come back. Sean McDermott finishing up lots in

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Speaker 1: that in that post season pressor that we're gonna keep

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Speaker 1: track of. We're gonna take a break right here. This

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Speaker 1: is One Bill's Live, Steve Tasker, Chris Brown Here, One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. As we just

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Speaker 1: wrapped up with coach McDermott as he addressed the media

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Speaker 1: season ending press conference, and we anticipate general manager Brandon

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Speaker 1: Bean will be doing that this week as well, and

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Speaker 1: if when that happens, we'll be bringing that to you

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Speaker 1: as well. Here an hour early on today because of

704
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Speaker 1: that season ending press conference, and Steve, he found I

705
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Speaker 1: almost chuckled a little bit because he mentioned something that

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Speaker 1: you were addressing right before we joined Coach McDermott, that

707
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of people out there as excited as

708
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: they are about the season the Bills just put together.

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00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:07,360
Speaker 1: A lot of them are thinking, oh wow, we just

710
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 1: gotta do this much more and this will be a

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Speaker 1: super Bowl team. And even coach McDermott addressed that very

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Speaker 1: subject and he said, well, no, it doesn't work that

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Speaker 1: way in the NFL, because once you get to next season,

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Speaker 1: everything's different. The rosters different and you're starting from square

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Speaker 1: one all over again. Nineteen guys are restricted or unrestricted

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Speaker 1: free agents. It starts Trent Murphy, Tyler Croft, Josh Norman,

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Speaker 1: Tyna Seki, John feliciano' Brian Winters, Andre Roberts, Daryl Williams,

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Speaker 1: Matt Barkley, Taiwan Jones, t J. Yeld and Dean Marlowe,

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Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie, Levi Wallace, Andre Smith, del Shaun Phillips, Matt Milano,

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Speaker 1: Corey Borkez and Ike Butker. All those guys, every last

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Speaker 1: one of them could be gone. They probably won't all

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Speaker 1: be gone, but that's the amount of guys that are

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Speaker 1: going to be different in the locker room. That's like

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Speaker 1: changing thirty percent of your work force worse in your

725
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 1: wherever place. You work with brand new people that you

726
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 1: don't know, and you expect it to be the exact

727
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: same kind of production and the same kind of win loss,

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00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:14,879
Speaker 1: the same kind of look and feeling identity the same.

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00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be, just like this year was completely

730
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Speaker 1: different than it was a year ago, even though they

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Speaker 1: were both playoff teams. You gotta start from scratch. They

732
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Speaker 1: tear the whole thing down and start. That's what I

733
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:31,919
Speaker 1: said earlier, Brownie. It's like you get you go from

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Speaker 1: almost getting to the super Bowl, you're in the AFC

735
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Speaker 1: Championship game, and you're back to zero and zero with

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Speaker 1: like you gotta pick guys to play next year. Man,

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a bummer. It's a huge depend it's

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Speaker 1: a depressing week here, you know, and it's gonna be

739
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Speaker 1: a completely different teams. So all the stuff they did

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Speaker 1: this last year to get to where they were, you

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Speaker 1: throw it away. It's not gonna help. None of it will, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean you may. You may get to September. You

743
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,359
Speaker 1: might have a different defensive coordinator. If Leslie Frasier gets

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00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 1: a head coaching job, you might have a different quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: coach if Ken Dorsey gets the OC job in Seattle.

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Speaker 1: So there's coaching staff changes that could take place. There

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Speaker 1: are obviously player changes that are going to take place.

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Speaker 1: To say that all fifteen of those unrestricted free agents

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Speaker 1: is going to be back here next year, I think

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Speaker 1: is foolhardy to assume. So there will be changes. Rosters

751
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: change twenty five to thirty percent in the NFL year

752
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 1: over year. It's just the cost of doing business, and

753
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 1: you can make the argument, maybe more so with other

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Speaker 1: teams than this year because we address this yesterday, Steve,

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00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:40,399
Speaker 1: I know that with the cap anticipated as to where

756
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Speaker 1: it's going to be, it will force the hands of

757
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 1: a lot of these clubs that weren't as fiscally responsible

758
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: as the Bills to part ways with really really good talent. Absolutely,

759
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Speaker 1: you know what's going to happen these players for the

760
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: Bills's think about some of the teams around the National

761
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: Football League that would love to get their hands on

762
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Speaker 1: John Feliciano, b or Kez, of course, Matt Milano. All

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Speaker 1: these guys have got a shot at fallen someplace. And

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Speaker 1: Andre Roberts is going to be in high to me,

765
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Speaker 1: he's a Pro Bowl player. So you've got and you know,

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Speaker 1: then you've got guys that that you don't see on

767
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Speaker 1: the field very much but are still a part of

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Speaker 1: the chemistry and what makes things work, like Matt Barkley.

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Speaker 1: You know, so guys like Matt Barkley, Ken Dorsey, who

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Speaker 1: all have a contributing credit to for Josh Allen's development.

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Speaker 1: You change that what happens to your you know, to

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Speaker 1: the to the goose, that's that's laid the golden egg

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Speaker 1: here this year and Josh Allen, you know, you don't

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Speaker 1: want anything to get in the way of his his

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Speaker 1: development and his continued success. So there's a lot in

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Speaker 1: this offseason that we've never seen before because of the

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Speaker 1: cap situation. All right, break time for us, But when

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Speaker 1: we come back, more of this discussion on some of

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Speaker 1: coach McDermott's comments, including Josh Allen and the question being

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Speaker 1: posed to coach about a potential contract extension. We will

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Speaker 1: delve into that when we come back on One Bills

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, Tasker. You bonus hour today as we got

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Speaker 1: on the air and hour early, and we're doing that

785
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 1: because head coach Sean McDermott had his season ending press conference.

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Speaker 1: We brought you the first twenty minutes of that and

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Speaker 1: it's just wrapping up about now. So if and when

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Speaker 1: it does come to a conclusion anything other than anything

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Speaker 1: other than what we covered that is noteworthy, we will

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Speaker 1: be sure to bring that to you. Steve, we were

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Speaker 1: kind of still listening to some of that during the

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Speaker 1: break and the speed question came up, and I think

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Speaker 1: we all know that the deficiency in speed in terms

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Speaker 1: of the King as a city, Chiefs and everybody else

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Speaker 1: was readily apparent for the Bills on the field on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill being the most outstanding example. Although Hardman isn't

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Speaker 1: slow either, as as we've heard it said for a

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Speaker 1: long time, Steve, it's a big man's game, but it's

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Speaker 1: also a game in which speed kills. And so you

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Speaker 1: ask yourself, do the Bills need to become faster across

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Speaker 1: the board, whether it's on offense to keep pace with

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Speaker 1: this team or on defense to try to keep them

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Speaker 1: under wraps. Yes, I think they need more speed on

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Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. Um, you know, I you

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Speaker 1: think about it. Devin Singletary, as much as we like

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Speaker 1: him and as elusive as he is, Um, they're not.

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Speaker 1: They're not snapping off a sixty five yard run. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna get run down. The same thing with Zach Moss

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Speaker 1: and at the white out position, it's with Asama Mackenzie,

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Speaker 1: may being the exception of a guy that they use

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Speaker 1: like uh, like the Chiefs use Tyreek Hill. You know

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Speaker 1: they don't. Tyreek Hill plays a lot more than Devin

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Speaker 1: than Isaiah McKenzie gets on the field for the Buffalo Bills. Now,

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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, the Bills Fiel has to gives him

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Speaker 1: the best chance to win, and I get it. Gabriel Davis,

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Speaker 1: John Brown, Cole Beasley and of course Digs those guys.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta make a tough decision to sit

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Speaker 1: one of those guys down. And Isaiah McKenzie, for some reason,

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Speaker 1: they don't put him at wide receiver. Running routes is

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Speaker 1: the way they do these other guys, so he can't

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Speaker 1: get on the field as a wide out. That's an

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Speaker 1: issue because he's fast enough to, you know, put a

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Speaker 1: team in duress with his speed, and so is John Brown.

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Speaker 1: But they they it seemed to me, and even on

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Speaker 1: the defensive side, particularly man, it's hard to keep up

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Speaker 1: with those guys. You saw our team just trying to

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Speaker 1: rally and heard those hymn those guys in when they

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Speaker 1: snapped off those big runs with me, Cole Hardman and

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Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill. It was pretty frightening to see those guys

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Speaker 1: running around the field like that. So, yeah, you've got

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Speaker 1: to answer speed with speed, and I think there are

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Speaker 1: ways you can do that and without having guys that

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Speaker 1: actually match up on them, Like the Bills need a

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Speaker 1: better pass rush. They got to put Mahomes under duress

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Speaker 1: right from the start. That would help because they're safe.

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Speaker 1: Their secondary is good, even if it isn't as fast

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Speaker 1: as the wide receiving crew of the Chiefs. But you

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Speaker 1: could really help them out if you could just get

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Speaker 1: to the quarterback a half a second faster as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's you know, you can say, yeah, we need to

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Speaker 1: get faster, but you have to find the right kind

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Speaker 1: of fast and you have to find it at the

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Speaker 1: right spots to help impact not only what you're trying

844
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Speaker 1: to do offensively, but what you're trying to stop the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs from doing. And that's that's easier said than done.

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Speaker 1: I'm still amazed this this guy Tyreek Hill. It's twenty

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Speaker 1: one miles per hour. I mean I have trouble hitting

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Speaker 1: that on my racing bike. As I said on the

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Speaker 1: show yesterday, I have to work hard to get there,

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Speaker 1: and this guy does it on two legs. It's just

851
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: not it doesn't it's it's other worldly almost so finding

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00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:06,359
Speaker 1: that somewhere else is easier said than done. But it's

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00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: gonna be really interesting. I mean, it's funny because when

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Speaker 1: you think about it, Steve. People used to poke fun

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00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:15,240
Speaker 1: at Al Davis whenever you would just take the fastest

856
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: guy in the draft, no matter what position, Just give

857
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 1: me the fast guy. But I think with what the

858
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: Chiefs are doing and what they've put on the field

859
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:26,319
Speaker 1: the last two years, nobody's laughing anymore. Nope, not at all,

860
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 1: not at all. I mean we got to go to

861
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: a break. But yeah, I mean that's that speed is

862
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 1: a question that's gonna haunt this team, I think throughout

863
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:35,439
Speaker 1: the draft process and into training camp. All right, break

864
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: time for us when we come back. We begin the

865
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:42,359
Speaker 1: show at it's normal schedule time. As we begin our

866
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 1: three hour soldiourn through a Tuesday Kyle Brandt coming up

867
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 1: in a little while from Good Morning Football, so stay

868
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: tuned for that. Plentymore are coming up here on One

869
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: of Mills Live, presented by Collid of Health. It's Buffalo

870
00:45:52,640 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. At a Steve Tasker who has been all

871
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 1: over the field. Kind of unique. He was kind of

872
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:21,320
Speaker 1: a dual role player for you state a stave, a blimp.

873
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 1: We're not even in the straded here of normalcy. Well,

874
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: welcome in to a Tuesday edition of One Bill's live

875
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: Chris Brown Steam Tasker with you in case you are

876
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: just joining us at our regularly scheduled time. We were

877
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: on an hour early today due to coach McDermott's season

878
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 1: ending press conference which just wrapped up a short time ago,

879
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:49,800
Speaker 1: and there were some interesting comments made there. One was

880
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: just made Steve in the last ten minutes which I

881
00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:57,840
Speaker 1: thought struck the perfect note for where this team believes

882
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 1: they have to go from here. And coach McDermott said,

883
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: and I wrote it down because I wanted to get

884
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 1: this right. Getting this far has to make us even

885
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:12,440
Speaker 1: hungry or going forward, rather than making us feel like

886
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: we've arrived. What do you think of that? That's where

887
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:17,800
Speaker 1: you have to live. I mean, that's that's where this

888
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 1: whole culture sits is on that growth. You gotta grow,

889
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:24,879
Speaker 1: You gotta keep going. You got to strive for something better.

890
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 1: And it'll be interesting to see how that plays if

891
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:28,879
Speaker 1: they ever do go to and win a Super Bowl.

892
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 1: How do you continue to not think you've arrived after that?

893
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 1: That that's when you've got a real challenge ahead of you.

894
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:38,880
Speaker 1: But now after a loss like this one, it's easy

895
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: to get your guys and tell you got to do

896
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: you have more to do. You've got to get better

897
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 1: in every way, shape and form. It's an easy sell

898
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:47,440
Speaker 1: when you fall short of the ultimate goal, and it

899
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: hurts really bad for these guys. And like I say that,

900
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 1: the further you go into the playoffs, the further the

901
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 1: drop after you don't get to the super Bowl. So

902
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 1: it's pretty it's pretty devastating for a lot of these guys,

903
00:47:58,040 --> 00:47:59,359
Speaker 1: and it's an easy sell to tell them, Hey, we're

904
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: gonna have to play do better if we're going to

905
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:04,319
Speaker 1: take that final step that we all want. So yeah,

906
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:06,279
Speaker 1: it makes a lot of sense. That's where he has

907
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 1: lived for the last four years and that's why this

908
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 1: program and this team has elevated its play at every

909
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 1: level to this point. And I think I wouldn't be

910
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 1: surprised if that was kind of the theme and the

911
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:21,800
Speaker 1: chord that coach McDermott probably struck with his players yesterday

912
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 1: in the exit meetings. You know, let's not rest on

913
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:28,839
Speaker 1: our laurels here and think we've arrived, and this isn't

914
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:31,360
Speaker 1: This isn't the kind of group that you would expect

915
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: to do that anyway. They're kind of a grinders from

916
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 1: top to bottom, so you wouldn't expect them to rest

917
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: on their laurels in any way, shape or form, but

918
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 1: making them even hungrier, I think is an exciting thing

919
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: to think about going forward. I mean, that's why Stefan

920
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,399
Speaker 1: Diggs is standing out there on the field to take

921
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 1: it all in and watch the AFC Championship celebration by

922
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. That's why he stood out there to watch it.

923
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 1: He wanted to remember how much that hurt to sit

924
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 1: there and watch it and not beyond the the stage

925
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 1: lifting the Lamar Hunt Trophy himself. Right, Yeah, that you

926
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 1: got to remember remember stuff like that, and that's uh.

927
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 1: You know, watching those celebrations that you thought you might

928
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 1: be a part of U is part of the thing

929
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 1: that you carry with you during the offseason. You think

930
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 1: about it when you think about where like when they

931
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 1: get back to training camp next year and they start

932
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:23,800
Speaker 1: playing the regular season, they'll remember back to this moment,

933
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 1: to moments like that where Steph Diggs is watching that ceremony.

934
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:30,400
Speaker 1: They'll remember it and remember there are bigger things ahead.

935
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: Even after a win or loss, they're going to start

936
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: thinking about what they went through in Kansas City and

937
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 1: the Arrowhead Stadium last Sunday night. So you carry those

938
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 1: memories with you, you carry the pain with you, and

939
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:45,280
Speaker 1: the motivation, you know, drives you into a better place.

940
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it speaks well of where they're at

941
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:54,319
Speaker 1: mentally if they can all you know, end up there

942
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 1: in their offseason workouts. But you know, they got to

943
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:58,320
Speaker 1: put in the work and that's all there is to it.

944
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:03,279
Speaker 1: Jen Manager Brandon Bean will address the media in his

945
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: season wrap up press conference tomorrow, and that one is

946
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 1: also scheduled for eleven AM, so presumably we'll be on

947
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 1: the air an hour earlier tomorrow as well and bring

948
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 1: you that live and you know, give you our reactions

949
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:21,239
Speaker 1: as well, much like we did today with coach McDermott

950
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier having his second interview with the Texans for

951
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 1: their head coaching vacancy. He is reportedly doing that in

952
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:31,839
Speaker 1: person now that he is available with the Bills season over.

953
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 1: David Culley, Ravens quarterbacks coach, passing game coordinator and former

954
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 1: Bills assistant coach, is also said to be getting an

955
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 1: interview for that position. We know Eric b Enemy's also

956
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 1: in the running for that job too, so we'll just

957
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:50,360
Speaker 1: have to see where everything lands. In the coming days,

958
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,840
Speaker 1: we do want to get to some of the comments

959
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 1: by Josh Allen, some of the players we were able

960
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:01,440
Speaker 1: to bring you live on the show Monday. Josh Allen

961
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 1: was the last player made available to the media and

962
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 1: it was after we were off the year here on

963
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, so we did want to bring you

964
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 1: some of his more noteworthy comments. And as you know,

965
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:14,359
Speaker 1: if you heard any of his comments in the post

966
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:18,399
Speaker 1: game Sunday night, you knew that this loss was going

967
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:21,279
Speaker 1: to stick with him. But here is Josh on the

968
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:25,279
Speaker 1: sting of losing and if it feels the same as

969
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 1: the loss to Houston the year before, I mean, yeah,

970
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 1: I definitely think it's if not more, following a game

971
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:40,200
Speaker 1: short of your goals, you know, it's it's never fun,

972
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:43,759
Speaker 1: I guess, like moving forward from here, if you don't

973
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 1: if you don't win the whole thing, you're gonna have

974
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:50,920
Speaker 1: these type of feelings in these types of emotions, a

975
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 1: lot to learn from, a lot to grow from. You know,

976
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 1: as a team, we'll use it. We'll use it the

977
00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 1: right way. I got no doubt that. And the guys

978
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:05,000
Speaker 1: in this locker room and every year's different, and they're

979
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: gonna have different players and different teammates. M but you

980
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 1: know the foundation that our front office, our coaching staff

981
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 1: are um, Kim and Terry have laid here for us.

982
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:20,720
Speaker 1: That's not going to change. And we got to continue

983
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 1: to trust the process and following coaches footsteps and you know,

984
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 1: just try to be try to be better. And we

985
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:31,880
Speaker 1: know we have to get better. And um it showed

986
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:35,239
Speaker 1: last night. You know, we didn't play how we we

987
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: should have, could have would have played. And that that's

988
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 1: what hurts the most is knowing that we didn't put

989
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 1: our best product on the field. And um, it is

990
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 1: what it is, you know, they again it's all it

991
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:49,680
Speaker 1: hats off to the Chiefs and what they will to

992
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,959
Speaker 1: do last night, and that's a really, really good football team.

993
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 1: Um It's won a lot of games this year for

994
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 1: a reason, and they're the defending super Bowl champs for

995
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 1: a reason. Um. So you know, there's no excuse to

996
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:04,239
Speaker 1: why we didn't do it other than we got we

997
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 1: gotta go out there this offseason get better and find

998
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 1: ways to improve in every area that we can't. So

999
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 1: that's Josh basically summing it up. I think the thing

1000
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:17,360
Speaker 1: that sticks in his craw more than anything Steve Is.

1001
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 1: I think he knows in his heart of hearts that

1002
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:23,560
Speaker 1: as a team, they did not play their best football game.

1003
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:25,920
Speaker 1: And Josh, make no mistake, is the first one that's

1004
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 1: going to point the finger at himself more than anybody else.

1005
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 1: But I think that's what's that's what's hitting him, you know,

1006
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: square in the chest, even a day removed from the game,

1007
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:40,239
Speaker 1: is that, man, we know we could have played better

1008
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 1: than we did. And when you don't put your best

1009
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 1: foot forward in a game of that magnitude, it certainly

1010
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:49,560
Speaker 1: eats at you. Yeah, I mean they got outplayed, There's

1011
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 1: no question about it. And Sean McDermott alluded to it

1012
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: earlier and he admitted it last yesterday. You got you

1013
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: got outplayed, you got out coached. They just played and

1014
00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:00,880
Speaker 1: did everything better than the Bills did on Sunday night

1015
00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:03,200
Speaker 1: in Arrowhead. The Bills have got a lot of things

1016
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 1: to work on, particularly if you look at if you

1017
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,520
Speaker 1: took that game as an entire season, the Bills have

1018
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 1: got a long way to go to beat that team.

1019
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:12,400
Speaker 1: They got to play better, execute better, and they've got

1020
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 1: to get more talent at different spots on their roster.

1021
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 1: And so it's so Josh sitting there in the in

1022
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 1: the cherry was twenty four hours after the game or

1023
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 1: less talking to the media. That's still fresh in his

1024
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:27,439
Speaker 1: mind about how short they fell in that final game,

1025
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: and that's that's pretty hard to live with, knowing how

1026
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:31,879
Speaker 1: you know, they kind of sacrifice and the hard work

1027
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 1: that you all put into it to get there. So

1028
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:35,920
Speaker 1: it's gonna sting for a while for these guys, no

1029
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:38,479
Speaker 1: question about it, and it's still fresh in their minds.

1030
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:41,360
Speaker 1: How far they have to go. It'll probably take. For me,

1031
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 1: I would think it's gonna take them coming out and

1032
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 1: playing and beating a few teams early on next season

1033
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 1: to get their confidence back, and it's like, yeah, we are,

1034
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:51,319
Speaker 1: you know, to remind themselves how good a football team

1035
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 1: they are because they came up so short in the

1036
00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:59,799
Speaker 1: championship game. At the same time, though, you know it's

1037
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 1: easy to say, but man, it really hurts when somebody

1038
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:05,399
Speaker 1: says to you, well, you know, this is a game

1039
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:07,120
Speaker 1: where you got to show up and show out and

1040
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:08,960
Speaker 1: play your best to even have a chance to win.

1041
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:13,840
Speaker 1: And when you can recognize, you know, at face value,

1042
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:18,239
Speaker 1: we didn't show what we are capable of. As you

1043
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:20,960
Speaker 1: mentioned with with all that you put into this season

1044
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: to make it as successful as it was. Yeah, it's

1045
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:26,319
Speaker 1: it's tough to take, and I do anticipate it's going

1046
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:28,000
Speaker 1: to stick with them for a bit. Josh, on the

1047
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:32,640
Speaker 1: positive side, did was able to reflect to the point

1048
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:34,800
Speaker 1: where he was able to kind of lay out some

1049
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:37,640
Speaker 1: of the things he was most proud of with respect

1050
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:39,800
Speaker 1: to his own play and the team's play this season.

1051
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:45,080
Speaker 1: And I'm proud of power guy spot to the very end. Um.

1052
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:49,200
Speaker 1: You know, there's a few key games this year that, um,

1053
00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:51,880
Speaker 1: we just found ways to win football games and we

1054
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 1: played really good complimentary football. Um, you know up until

1055
00:55:56,360 --> 00:56:00,399
Speaker 1: that game last night, and just every experience, every game

1056
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:03,000
Speaker 1: that we can begin it allows us to learn and

1057
00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:06,280
Speaker 1: grow from it. And to have those three extra games

1058
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 1: this offseason or this this postseason. I was gonna it's

1059
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:13,719
Speaker 1: gonna help us out. And you know we're we're by

1060
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 1: no means done. Um, you know next year is going

1061
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:19,799
Speaker 1: to be you know, I'm super excited already and super

1062
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:22,319
Speaker 1: excited about this whole process of feeling this this hurt

1063
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:25,879
Speaker 1: and this pain and letting it feel me and using

1064
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:28,400
Speaker 1: it in the right way and focusing everything that I

1065
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:30,880
Speaker 1: have towards trying to become better and trying to be

1066
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:33,280
Speaker 1: the best version of myself. I'm in the best quarterback

1067
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 1: of this team, um, in order to help us win

1068
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 1: football games. And UM, you know I get the feeling.

1069
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:41,359
Speaker 1: That's that's how a lot of guys feel right now.

1070
00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 1: And we're we're not satisfied obviously, and I feel like

1071
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:50,360
Speaker 1: I'm learning this lesson now. But unless you win the

1072
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:53,399
Speaker 1: whole thing, you just you're not satisfied with how it ended.

1073
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: You know, there's always things you could have done better.

1074
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:59,319
Speaker 1: And you know, hindsight is twenty twenty and uh, that's

1075
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:02,919
Speaker 1: that's what sucks about it. But again him all are

1076
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 1: from will grow from it and will be better from it. Yeah,

1077
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 1: and it's you know, it's hard not to think that.

1078
00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:16,480
Speaker 1: You know, Josh is sitting there running plays through his head.

1079
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 1: He said, there's going to be plays in that game

1080
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 1: that he's going to run through his head for two

1081
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 1: or three months. The only way to get those out

1082
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 1: of your head, I would imagine Steve is to get

1083
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 1: back to work. And I think we know that he'll

1084
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 1: be doing that in short order. After they've been taken

1085
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 1: two or three weeks off. He'll get back with Jordan

1086
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 1: Palmer out West and get back to his to do list. Really, yeah,

1087
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:39,040
Speaker 1: the way you get rid of those plays is to

1088
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 1: come out and play some football and make a play

1089
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:44,440
Speaker 1: like the one you left on the field in the

1090
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:46,200
Speaker 1: Chiefs game, you know what I'm saying, So that you

1091
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 1: know you put it behind you and you're gonna be

1092
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:52,160
Speaker 1: better going forward. Those kind of things are help, you know,

1093
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 1: help you put it to bed. But the opportunities that

1094
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:59,440
Speaker 1: you miss in games like that live with you. I mean,

1095
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:02,440
Speaker 1: I still think about plays that I made or didn't

1096
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:06,480
Speaker 1: make during my career, you know, decades ago, right, So

1097
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:09,440
Speaker 1: it's the opportunities that you miss in games that were

1098
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:12,800
Speaker 1: this important that stick with you. And I have no

1099
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:16,080
Speaker 1: doubt that a guy like Josh, who's who had so

1100
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:19,479
Speaker 1: many opportunities and played, you know, so much in that game,

1101
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:21,760
Speaker 1: he's going to have more than a handful of plays

1102
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:23,440
Speaker 1: that he wishes he had back and wish he could

1103
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 1: change or wish that he could have made a different

1104
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:30,240
Speaker 1: decision or a better play. So, yeah, that doesn't surprise

1105
00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 1: me at all. That's that's kind of where a lot

1106
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 1: of players live. Where where do you feel? Because he

1107
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:38,480
Speaker 1: said this, he believes that their time in the playoffs

1108
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 1: this season, getting two victories in the process, getting all

1109
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:44,480
Speaker 1: the way to the AFC title game. He believes it

1110
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:47,880
Speaker 1: will serve them well going forward. Where does this kind

1111
00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 1: of playoff experience help most immediately? Because as we said earlier, Steve,

1112
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:56,200
Speaker 1: the roster is going to turn over. There are going

1113
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 1: to be new pieces, but a good portion of this

1114
00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:02,080
Speaker 1: roster is going to have this playoff experience under their belt.

1115
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:05,480
Speaker 1: Where does that show up next seasons to help them.

1116
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 1: I'll tell you exactly where it shows up. They come

1117
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:09,640
Speaker 1: into a wildcard game next year, they're playing against a

1118
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: team like maybe Miami or a team like Jacksonville who

1119
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:16,919
Speaker 1: have not been to the playoffs. Where those guys that's

1120
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:20,880
Speaker 1: a pressure packed situation for those Jacksonville players or or whatever,

1121
00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:23,040
Speaker 1: or the you know whatever team in Miami or whoever

1122
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:25,640
Speaker 1: else they play in a wildcard round. The Bills will

1123
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:28,560
Speaker 1: show up there. That's nothing for them. That is not

1124
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:32,400
Speaker 1: a pressure pack situation. They've been there before. In fact,

1125
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:34,280
Speaker 1: the next week when they get it, they said, that's all, Hey,

1126
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:37,760
Speaker 1: let's just go play. It is not an unknown level

1127
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 1: of playoffs for Then the Bills got into the division

1128
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 1: round of the playof the first round of the playoffs

1129
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:45,640
Speaker 1: and played against the Indianapolis cold team. You think, wow,

1130
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:47,920
Speaker 1: that's a pressure pack situation. It's the exact same situation

1131
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:51,120
Speaker 1: they were in last year. The Baltimore game is a

1132
00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:53,320
Speaker 1: different animal. They're playing against a team that's playing well

1133
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:56,240
Speaker 1: enough to have won a playoff game. Both those teams

1134
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 1: were better than the Bills were two years or last

1135
00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:01,960
Speaker 1: year when they couldn't get to the divisional round. So

1136
01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:04,040
Speaker 1: when you get back to the same spot next year,

1137
01:00:04,120 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 1: all these guys that have been through it are like, yeah,

1138
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:07,680
Speaker 1: we've been here, I know what this is like. Oh,

1139
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:12,360
Speaker 1: let's play. You know, you're you're thinking about not about

1140
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:14,240
Speaker 1: how big the moment is or what happens if we lose.

1141
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:17,080
Speaker 1: You're thinking about, Hey, this is this is not what

1142
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:19,080
Speaker 1: we're about. This is a game that we just got

1143
01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:21,880
Speaker 1: to play and get through. Let's go, let's play. It's

1144
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:25,160
Speaker 1: not an unknown for these guys, And that's that's the

1145
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:29,000
Speaker 1: big difference. You attack it from a totally different perspective of,

1146
01:00:29,840 --> 01:00:32,320
Speaker 1: you know, almost deserving to be there. This is old news,

1147
01:00:32,480 --> 01:00:35,440
Speaker 1: this game, We've been here. Let's let's get over this

1148
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:39,360
Speaker 1: hump and play. Um, It's it's old news by that time,

1149
01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:42,800
Speaker 1: and that that means it doesn't hold the pressure and

1150
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:47,360
Speaker 1: the unknown and all the consequences that were so dire.

1151
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:49,880
Speaker 1: It's like, nah, it's yeah, it's this another swing at it,

1152
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:53,880
Speaker 1: let's go. And that's that's an enormously different mindset for

1153
01:00:54,080 --> 01:00:56,160
Speaker 1: Bills players who went through this this year. In this

1154
01:00:56,280 --> 01:01:02,880
Speaker 1: championship game. Josh also commented about what he felt he

1155
01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:11,760
Speaker 1: proved individually as a quarterback this season. I proved, you know,

1156
01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:14,000
Speaker 1: that they didn't make a mistake by by drafting me

1157
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 1: going back a few years ago, and um, and I

1158
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:18,760
Speaker 1: got to continue to go out there and have that

1159
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:22,800
Speaker 1: same mindset. And I'm just trying to help this team

1160
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:30,000
Speaker 1: win with whatever and whichever way that I can, simple, easy,

1161
01:01:30,080 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 1: peasy proved that they didn't make a mistake and drafting me,

1162
01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:36,960
Speaker 1: And I imagine, and I don't think enough people think

1163
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:42,680
Speaker 1: about this steve the pressure a first round draft choice

1164
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:48,760
Speaker 1: quarterback feels in terms of making good on the risk

1165
01:01:48,880 --> 01:01:51,640
Speaker 1: that the franchise took on you in the first place.

1166
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:54,640
Speaker 1: Maybe some guys it doesn't even register, But for a

1167
01:01:54,760 --> 01:01:58,400
Speaker 1: quarterback as self aware as Josh, I imagine he thinks

1168
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:02,480
Speaker 1: about that every day At Actus in every game. Um,

1169
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:06,000
Speaker 1: maybe not constantly, but I think it rolls around in

1170
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:10,600
Speaker 1: his head quite frequently. And good on him for being

1171
01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:13,160
Speaker 1: able to come through and deliver to the point where

1172
01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:17,240
Speaker 1: he feels, you know, I've proved them right, I've I've

1173
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:21,680
Speaker 1: done that this year. How far away is Josh from

1174
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:28,800
Speaker 1: where the preseason expectations and the you know, the doubts

1175
01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:34,440
Speaker 1: that surrounded him after last season? How far has he

1176
01:02:34,600 --> 01:02:37,280
Speaker 1: elevated himself above all of that? Do you think? I mean?

1177
01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:41,200
Speaker 1: I because for us, um it seems obvious the guys

1178
01:02:41,240 --> 01:02:45,840
Speaker 1: in the conversation for the MVP this season and at

1179
01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:50,080
Speaker 1: times was phenomenal and you know, led his team to

1180
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 1: a thirteen and three record with a with a stout offense.

1181
01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:55,200
Speaker 1: This wasn't a team that was like, you know, a

1182
01:02:55,240 --> 01:02:57,400
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens team that ran the ball and played defense.

1183
01:02:57,480 --> 01:02:59,720
Speaker 1: This was an offense. This is a team that was

1184
01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:02,760
Speaker 1: set around a passing game with a quarterback that was

1185
01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:06,880
Speaker 1: slinging it through for forty five hundred plus yards. So

1186
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:11,000
Speaker 1: you know, how far away is he now five months

1187
01:03:11,080 --> 01:03:12,720
Speaker 1: after the beginning of this season, when there were so

1188
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 1: many people who doubted him and now you know, you've

1189
01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:19,280
Speaker 1: got you know, the guys who are doubting him are

1190
01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 1: are you know cuckoo? Right? So yeah, he's right. I mean,

1191
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:29,280
Speaker 1: he's silenced a lot of critics, So it's yeah, you

1192
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:32,920
Speaker 1: gotta think like man, he's he did. He did exactly that.

1193
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:35,040
Speaker 1: He proved that the club knew what it was doing

1194
01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:37,040
Speaker 1: and has developed him in a way that makes him

1195
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:40,160
Speaker 1: sustainable for the future. And he's he has proved to

1196
01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:44,640
Speaker 1: be a playoff winning quarterback. So yeah, he's silenced a

1197
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 1: lot of people. And for those of us in Buffalo

1198
01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:49,280
Speaker 1: watching this, man, oh man, like I said, he's light

1199
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 1: years where he from where he was or the expectations

1200
01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:54,720
Speaker 1: were just five months ago. And I don't want to

1201
01:03:54,720 --> 01:03:56,800
Speaker 1: put any more on him than people already do. But

1202
01:03:57,720 --> 01:03:59,760
Speaker 1: I harkened back to the interview we had with Jordan

1203
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:04,480
Speaker 1: Or about three weeks ago. You and I looked at

1204
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:06,960
Speaker 1: each other quizzically after he said there really is no

1205
01:04:07,120 --> 01:04:09,320
Speaker 1: ceiling to Josh's game. He said, this is the tip

1206
01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:14,600
Speaker 1: of the iceberg. Just the thought that he can still

1207
01:04:14,680 --> 01:04:19,160
Speaker 1: go up from here is almost hard to picture. Yeah,

1208
01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:20,760
Speaker 1: if you know what I mean, it is. But also

1209
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:23,720
Speaker 1: everybody can get better. But man, also, Brownie, I mean

1210
01:04:23,920 --> 01:04:26,200
Speaker 1: you think about it. What they saw in Mahomes last night.

1211
01:04:26,240 --> 01:04:28,680
Speaker 1: There's some there's some tape coming out of that game

1212
01:04:28,720 --> 01:04:30,800
Speaker 1: the other night. Some Mahomes made some throws that were,

1213
01:04:31,520 --> 01:04:35,280
Speaker 1: you know, unbelievable. The other night Mahomes played phenomenal with

1214
01:04:35,320 --> 01:04:36,840
Speaker 1: a bad toe and all the stuff that going on

1215
01:04:36,880 --> 01:04:39,760
Speaker 1: in their offense. You know, with Tyreek Hill and Miko Hardman.

1216
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:42,720
Speaker 1: Mahomes and the way he plays is he's a different

1217
01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:45,080
Speaker 1: kind of throwing quarterback than Josh, no question about it.

1218
01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:48,360
Speaker 1: But that's the kind of throws and an awareness of

1219
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:51,440
Speaker 1: what's going on around you that you know, not too

1220
01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:53,880
Speaker 1: many guys have. And if Josh wants to, you know,

1221
01:04:53,920 --> 01:04:56,440
Speaker 1: if he wants to take a step forward, watch Mahomes.

1222
01:04:56,720 --> 01:05:00,240
Speaker 1: That guy played phenomenally in the championship game and has

1223
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:04,720
Speaker 1: for a while. So certainly Josh can play better just

1224
01:05:04,960 --> 01:05:07,680
Speaker 1: being himself and being a better version of himself every year,

1225
01:05:08,280 --> 01:05:10,320
Speaker 1: but also if he adds some things to his game

1226
01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:14,640
Speaker 1: about you know, knowing where his guys are gonna be,

1227
01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:18,720
Speaker 1: making some throws even quicker or off platform than he

1228
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:24,080
Speaker 1: did this year, certainly he can do that. But there's

1229
01:05:24,160 --> 01:05:27,960
Speaker 1: always things from other guys games that Josh could look

1230
01:05:27,960 --> 01:05:29,120
Speaker 1: at and say, you know what, I need to think

1231
01:05:29,120 --> 01:05:31,600
Speaker 1: about that and and give that a shot. And I'd

1232
01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:35,840
Speaker 1: say this too, Brownie. Josh didn't turn the football over

1233
01:05:35,880 --> 01:05:38,040
Speaker 1: too much this year. Had ten interceptions on the regular

1234
01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:40,760
Speaker 1: season or something like that. Thirty seven touchdowns, ten interceptions,

1235
01:05:41,960 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 1: right there are more touchdown. I think he left some

1236
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:48,120
Speaker 1: touchdowns on the table, and I also think he left

1237
01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:51,840
Speaker 1: some some interceptions on the table, meaning there were some

1238
01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:55,080
Speaker 1: times when he needed to, you know, take a more

1239
01:05:55,320 --> 01:05:56,880
Speaker 1: put the ball at risk to give his guys a

1240
01:05:56,960 --> 01:06:00,880
Speaker 1: chance to make a play. Those law throws, I think

1241
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:03,400
Speaker 1: he throws away too all too often and doesn't give

1242
01:06:03,440 --> 01:06:08,040
Speaker 1: guys life. For instance, that Steph Diggs catch in Las

1243
01:06:08,200 --> 01:06:09,960
Speaker 1: Vegas where he threw it up as kind of a

1244
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:12,400
Speaker 1: fifty fifty bald Diggs came down with it. There's a

1245
01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:14,320
Speaker 1: couple of plays like that that Diggs came down with

1246
01:06:14,480 --> 01:06:17,120
Speaker 1: during a regular season. And there's one the other night

1247
01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:19,560
Speaker 1: in Kansas City that we just saw a moment ago

1248
01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:21,280
Speaker 1: where he threw it. It was out about high and

1249
01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:23,440
Speaker 1: out of bounds. If he throws that hot inside and

1250
01:06:23,520 --> 01:06:26,120
Speaker 1: a little bit air under it, it's a touchdown for Diggs.

1251
01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:28,480
Speaker 1: In the Chiefs game, there are things like that where

1252
01:06:28,560 --> 01:06:31,760
Speaker 1: Josh is still hesitant to trust his arm and his

1253
01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:34,720
Speaker 1: accuracy and his teammates. So there's a little bit of

1254
01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:36,920
Speaker 1: that left on the field as well in Josh's game

1255
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:41,880
Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, fair enough. We do also have a

1256
01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:45,720
Speaker 1: Twitter poll today as we are checking in with you

1257
01:06:46,280 --> 01:06:49,880
Speaker 1: at eight oh three five fifty two, five fifty and

1258
01:06:50,120 --> 01:06:53,080
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet at one Bills Live. What's number

1259
01:06:53,160 --> 01:06:57,760
Speaker 1: one on your Bills offseason to do list? There's certainly

1260
01:06:58,480 --> 01:07:03,480
Speaker 1: a long list, maybe even longer than most people would anticipate,

1261
01:07:03,560 --> 01:07:05,880
Speaker 1: Steve for a team that got to the AFC Title game.

1262
01:07:05,920 --> 01:07:08,440
Speaker 1: But if you look up and down this roster and

1263
01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:10,960
Speaker 1: then you look at the free agents who could potentially depart,

1264
01:07:11,720 --> 01:07:14,280
Speaker 1: you kind of say to yourself, Wow, there are a

1265
01:07:14,360 --> 01:07:17,480
Speaker 1: handful of things that that could be addressed here in

1266
01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:21,240
Speaker 1: the off season. And I don't know if any anybody

1267
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:24,400
Speaker 1: at first Blush would have thought that with a team

1268
01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:29,840
Speaker 1: that was so successful. Yeah, and certainly they lit it

1269
01:07:29,920 --> 01:07:31,520
Speaker 1: up in the passing game. I mean they were, they

1270
01:07:31,560 --> 01:07:34,800
Speaker 1: were really productive, and their defense was playmaking toward down

1271
01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:38,160
Speaker 1: the stretch of this season. They finished the regular season

1272
01:07:38,200 --> 01:07:41,640
Speaker 1: with a big flourish scoring all kinds of points and

1273
01:07:41,720 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 1: setting records and really getting into the top one or

1274
01:07:44,360 --> 01:07:49,080
Speaker 1: two teams in the NFL and most offensive categories. But

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Speaker 1: there is some things that when you look at this team,

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Speaker 1: you think, Okay, I wish I had this and this

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Speaker 1: from the tweet sheet about are what Twitter poll? What's

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Speaker 1: the number one on your Bills offseasonst to do list

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Speaker 1: from Nick t He says our team is talented but unbalanced.

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Speaker 1: We need to improve our run game and pass rush.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's better to do that through

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Speaker 1: free agency or the draft, but that's what we need

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Speaker 1: to address. A run game and a pass rush. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: something on both sides of the ball. I can see that.

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Speaker 1: How do you what's the best way? People? Do you

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Speaker 1: think it's a running back to improve the running game

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Speaker 1: or do you think it's offensive line or both. Probably

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Speaker 1: want to start on the offensive line personally, But I

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Speaker 1: don't think you should completely overlook the fact that you

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Speaker 1: probably need more speed on your pass rush and more

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Speaker 1: speed at the running back position. And I don't think

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Speaker 1: you have to invest, you know, even an early draft

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Speaker 1: pick to do that. We were talking about this yesterday, Steve,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the best running back in the postseason for

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs so far has been Daryl Williams. I mean

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Speaker 1: he's undrafted. He's an undrafted player. Yeah, and how many

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Speaker 1: times have we seen that over the years. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Terrell Davis was a back to back two thousand yard rusher.

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Speaker 1: He was a six round draft choice. So you can

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Speaker 1: find running backs, talented running backs, physically gifted running backs

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Speaker 1: pretty easily. They're out there. You can find all pro

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Speaker 1: running back. Yeah. Quality linemen are a little bit harder

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Speaker 1: to find because of the nature of the college game now,

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Speaker 1: and so I would be more inclined to invest there

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Speaker 1: and you know, get some guys that can stand in

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Speaker 1: there against the best of the best, because I mean,

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Speaker 1: we can talk about Sunday's game all we want. Chris

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Speaker 1: Jones had a day for that Chief's defensive line on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Just his hand use is just just so it's elite.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it is elite what he does with his hands.

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Speaker 1: And even some of the best offensive linemen have trouble

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Speaker 1: with him. You know, I'm not saying the Bills or

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Speaker 1: subpar because they had their struggles with him. Everybody does.

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Speaker 1: But it's an indication that if you want to get

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Speaker 1: by a team like that that has elite talent, whether

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Speaker 1: it's Kelsey or Hill or Chris Jones, you got to

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Speaker 1: upgrade in certain areas. It's just it's just the price

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Speaker 1: of doing business. If you want to get past that team,

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01:10:03,840 --> 01:10:06,639
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the proverbial hump until you beat them. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's I think that's right. There's no question that the

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Speaker 1: Bills will attempt to upgrade it. You can bet too.

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Speaker 1: And this from Nick h on number one job in

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Speaker 1: the to do list for Bills offseason. He says, the

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Speaker 1: edge rusher and resign the O line after that, secondary

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Speaker 1: help and a tight end. So you got edge rusher,

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Speaker 1: OH line, secondary help and a tight end. That's a

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01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:32,320
Speaker 1: that's a subtle mention of four things. All of a

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Speaker 1: sudden the list got long. It's like when you go

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Speaker 1: to the grocery store and you only go for two things,

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Speaker 1: and then you're walking out of there and all of

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01:10:37,920 --> 01:10:39,600
Speaker 1: a sudden, you got two bags full of stuff and

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Speaker 1: you're like, how did they get all of this? Right?

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Speaker 1: I never go to the grocery store hungry. I'm totally

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Speaker 1: with you, So I and they they have been trying.

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Speaker 1: And we said this on the broadcast, and we mentioned

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Speaker 1: it even yesterday on Monday that the Bills have been

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Speaker 1: trying to replace Levi Wallace for three years. They can't

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Speaker 1: get it done, true, do you They have not invested

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Speaker 1: a draft pick any higher than Round seven to do it, though,

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Speaker 1: But they brought in they did sign a couple of

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Speaker 1: veteran free agents. They brought in a five million dollars

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Speaker 1: a year free agent in Josh Norman. That's nothing. That's

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01:11:16,840 --> 01:11:21,120
Speaker 1: not nothing, correct. They brought in a former They brought

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01:11:21,160 --> 01:11:24,519
Speaker 1: in a former first round pick last year and he

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01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:27,439
Speaker 1: couldn't get it done. Now, the reason he was available

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01:11:27,479 --> 01:11:29,160
Speaker 1: because he was a bust as a first rounder I

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01:11:29,200 --> 01:11:31,000
Speaker 1: guess for Houston and he was a little but he

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01:11:31,040 --> 01:11:34,559
Speaker 1: was a little injured for them. But they haven't been

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Speaker 1: able to get that done. Edge rusher, Yeah, I'm totally

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Speaker 1: with you. But those guys don't just fall off the

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Speaker 1: trees either. You know, well, I think I think edge

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Speaker 1: rusher and you know, a top flight corner with a

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Speaker 1: great physical skill set. You know they can play press man,

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Speaker 1: can you know shadow somebody? Those you have to invest

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Speaker 1: in the first two days of the draft. That's where

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Speaker 1: you get those kinds of players. A quality guard for

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01:12:04,240 --> 01:12:06,960
Speaker 1: your offensive line, you can get those guys early on

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01:12:07,080 --> 01:12:14,200
Speaker 1: Day three that can be pretty good players sometimes if Yeah,

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Speaker 1: tight end is an interesting position. I think they feel

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Speaker 1: they have an athletic mismatch player in Dawson Knox, and

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Speaker 1: I believe his athletic skill set projects to that. The

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Speaker 1: question is where is the ceiling for Knox? I thought

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Speaker 1: he took a nice step this year. You know, made

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Speaker 1: some plays for this team, was the beneficiary of a

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Speaker 1: good deal of single coverage because of the attention on Diggs, Brown, Beasley, etc.

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Speaker 1: And even though he had a few hiccups early in

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Speaker 1: the season with ball security and pulling it in consistently,

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Speaker 1: I thought over the second half of the season he

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Speaker 1: was markedly better. Yeah, he became a reliable red zone

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Speaker 1: He was injuring in COVID during the first half of

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Speaker 1: the season, right right. The question there is do you

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Speaker 1: believe he can take another step and how close is

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Speaker 1: that to being not just a capable player, a nice

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01:13:11,080 --> 01:13:14,280
Speaker 1: mismatch in the red zone, but a player that can

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Speaker 1: dominate in the way that Travis Kelsey can. Because Travis

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Speaker 1: Kelsey is a unicorn, quite frankly, and so do you

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Speaker 1: dive back into the draft to try to find somebody

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Speaker 1: like that, because I'll tell you right now, I've seen

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Speaker 1: that kid from Florida play Kyle Pitts the tight end.

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Speaker 1: That's an athlete. That kid is a thoroughbred and he's

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Speaker 1: going to probably go in the first fifteen picks. That

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Speaker 1: kid could be a Travis Kelsey in three or four years.

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Speaker 1: He is that good. But as Steve said, those guys

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01:13:43,560 --> 01:13:47,120
Speaker 1: don't grow on trees, so he might be the only

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Speaker 1: one in a lot. I haven't gone too deep at

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Speaker 1: the tight end position in the draft class yet, but

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Speaker 1: I know that kid's pretty special. Yeah, most teamed it's

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Speaker 1: it's hard to invest a high draft pick in a

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Speaker 1: tight end because so much depends so much of their

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Speaker 1: success depends on other factors that are out of their control.

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Speaker 1: Good quarterback, you know, you got to have a spot

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Speaker 1: in a in an offense that knows how to get

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Speaker 1: you the football. You've got to be in you know,

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Speaker 1: certainly if you've got the physical prowess. A lot of

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Speaker 1: guys come in as one or the other. Either they're

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Speaker 1: a great pass catching tight end or they're a Lee

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Speaker 1: Smith and or an offensive glorified offensive tackle. Those guys

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Speaker 1: are hard to find and I've always said it's better

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01:14:30,280 --> 01:14:33,000
Speaker 1: to steal them than to waste a big high draft

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01:14:33,080 --> 01:14:36,560
Speaker 1: pick on them somewhere else. But because even if the

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01:14:36,600 --> 01:14:39,760
Speaker 1: guy looks the part, sometimes he never fills out into

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01:14:39,840 --> 01:14:42,800
Speaker 1: the guy you hoped he would be. So it's they're

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01:14:42,840 --> 01:14:46,120
Speaker 1: hard to find. I I agree. I I'd rather steal

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01:14:46,200 --> 01:14:48,400
Speaker 1: one than try and build one. But they're they're well

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01:14:48,439 --> 01:14:50,080
Speaker 1: on their way with knocks. You're right, he took an

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01:14:50,120 --> 01:14:52,920
Speaker 1: ok step forward this year. Certainly in the red zone.

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01:14:52,960 --> 01:14:54,519
Speaker 1: He was pretty good because they used him in the

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Speaker 1: red zone, cut a lot of touchdowns late in the

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Speaker 1: second half of the season. So maybe if that continues,

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Speaker 1: he's the guy you want. All right, break time for us.

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Speaker 1: But when Steve and I come back, more of your

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Speaker 1: comments on the tweet sheet, and Steve and I are

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Speaker 1: also going to get into a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: discussion on the offseason quarterback landscape, particularly in the AFC,

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01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:17,759
Speaker 1: and how multiple teams could have new quarterbacks come twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one. That's coming up next year. On One Bills

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Collid to Health, this is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Chris Round Steve, you asked me One Bild Live Tuesday

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Speaker 1: edition and we do want to get back to the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet, which is brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems,

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Speaker 1: the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. As

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Speaker 1: we have been asking you guys today what's the number

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01:15:53,240 --> 01:15:56,960
Speaker 1: one thing on your Bills off season to do list?

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01:15:57,600 --> 01:16:00,479
Speaker 1: And I believe we're up to Max here who says

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01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:03,719
Speaker 1: pass rush that d line doesn't get to the quarterback

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01:16:03,800 --> 01:16:07,599
Speaker 1: consistently some games they do, other games not at all.

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Speaker 1: Also a linebacker, I don't know if it's a scheme

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01:16:10,880 --> 01:16:14,760
Speaker 1: thing or bad read and reaction, but poyers shouldn't need

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Speaker 1: to make one hundred and twenty tackles. Linebackers should be

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01:16:17,920 --> 01:16:22,160
Speaker 1: tackling them before reaching their many times. What's your what's

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Speaker 1: your take on that? With the Poyer thing as it

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01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:29,400
Speaker 1: pertains to linebackers making plays, Uh, yeah, I get some

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Speaker 1: of that, but I do also think they use their safeties.

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01:16:33,680 --> 01:16:37,760
Speaker 1: They're called safeties. But in this game, when you go

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01:16:37,880 --> 01:16:40,800
Speaker 1: with two linebackers and five dbs all the time, teams

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01:16:40,800 --> 01:16:42,200
Speaker 1: are going to test you in the run game. That

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01:16:42,280 --> 01:16:44,519
Speaker 1: means somebody's got to get involved, and that's Poyer and

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Speaker 1: the teams have enough wherewithal to run it they're not

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01:16:47,600 --> 01:16:51,200
Speaker 1: gonna run it Edmonds. They're gonna run it Poyer. That's

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Speaker 1: the way it works. They're gonna run at the light guy,

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01:16:53,800 --> 01:16:55,719
Speaker 1: And that's just that's just a function of the people

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01:16:55,800 --> 01:16:58,200
Speaker 1: you have on the field. They'll run it theyn't for

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01:16:58,320 --> 01:17:01,759
Speaker 1: sure run it at a tear Aaron Johnson and Jordan Poyer,

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01:17:02,120 --> 01:17:03,960
Speaker 1: and they're not gonna run They're gonna not gonna run

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01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:06,960
Speaker 1: at Milano or Edmonds. They're gonna run away from those guys.

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01:17:07,000 --> 01:17:08,880
Speaker 1: And that's that's kind of the function of that. So

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01:17:09,400 --> 01:17:11,920
Speaker 1: I think it's more function of playing dime defense ninety

1448
01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:16,439
Speaker 1: percent of the time rather than Poyer or Milano or

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01:17:16,560 --> 01:17:19,920
Speaker 1: Edmond's not making the plays they're supposed to make. Yeah,

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01:17:20,160 --> 01:17:23,439
Speaker 1: and not for nothing. For what it's worth, Tremaine Edmonds

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01:17:23,479 --> 01:17:25,920
Speaker 1: was still the leading tackler on this team this season

1452
01:17:26,520 --> 01:17:30,120
Speaker 1: and third in tackles was Taron Johnson because they were

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01:17:30,160 --> 01:17:34,040
Speaker 1: a nickel ninety percent of the time. So it's it's

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01:17:34,160 --> 01:17:36,120
Speaker 1: it's largely about who's on the field the most, and

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01:17:36,520 --> 01:17:39,080
Speaker 1: those guys get a ton of snaps. So you understand it.

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01:17:39,160 --> 01:17:42,000
Speaker 1: From Tiffany, she says, I had high hopes for our

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01:17:42,080 --> 01:17:44,160
Speaker 1: running backs and it never really panned out. I think

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01:17:44,200 --> 01:17:45,920
Speaker 1: an upgrade should be at the top of the list

1459
01:17:46,320 --> 01:17:49,200
Speaker 1: of offseason moves. At pick thirty, you have the chance

1460
01:17:49,280 --> 01:17:52,360
Speaker 1: to grab a good running back. Nagie Harris from Alabama

1461
01:17:52,400 --> 01:17:55,360
Speaker 1: would look good in a Bill's jersey. The question is,

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01:17:55,439 --> 01:17:57,360
Speaker 1: is Najie Harris is gonna last that long? And there

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Speaker 1: are some people who believe he might not. YEA. And

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01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:05,120
Speaker 1: there's a kid, yeah at n is also out there

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01:18:05,160 --> 01:18:09,920
Speaker 1: as well. Um, and there's a speed guy. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: that that helps you in a couple of different fronts.

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01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:16,080
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm with you, Brownie. I'm more about the

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01:18:16,120 --> 01:18:17,840
Speaker 1: big dudes up front than I am. You've got it.

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Speaker 1: You've got uh. Darryl Williams and John Feliciano are both

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Speaker 1: as of you know, February fifteenth, off the team because

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01:18:25,800 --> 01:18:30,000
Speaker 1: they're free agents. Their contracts are up. Um that's an

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01:18:30,040 --> 01:18:35,479
Speaker 1: issue tie and second restricted restricted free agent. So you

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01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:38,200
Speaker 1: got some guy and now you got Cody Ford coming

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01:18:38,240 --> 01:18:42,800
Speaker 1: back into the fold. But I think your offensive line

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01:18:42,840 --> 01:18:46,360
Speaker 1: is where you begin. Yeah, and it's going to be

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01:18:46,400 --> 01:18:49,960
Speaker 1: an interesting discussion with respect to Feliciano because I think

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01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:52,360
Speaker 1: we would all agree when he came back into the lineup.

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Speaker 1: There was a noticeable uptick in the in the temperament

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01:18:56,320 --> 01:18:59,439
Speaker 1: of that offensive line, not just its performance. Right. I

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01:18:59,479 --> 01:19:03,000
Speaker 1: don't think there's any question he is. He's the firecracker

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01:19:03,520 --> 01:19:06,479
Speaker 1: or the fuse lighter, or the cattle whatever you want

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01:19:06,479 --> 01:19:09,760
Speaker 1: to call it, catalyst of that group. He's the heart

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01:19:09,840 --> 01:19:11,880
Speaker 1: and soul of the group, and eat their emotional leader

1484
01:19:11,960 --> 01:19:14,439
Speaker 1: for sure. Uh. You saw it the other night when

1485
01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:18,400
Speaker 1: you know when when Josh goes down flips the ball

1486
01:19:18,960 --> 01:19:22,479
Speaker 1: at Okaf's face the first you know, the offensive lines

1487
01:19:22,600 --> 01:19:24,960
Speaker 1: right there on top of him, And that's John Feliciano

1488
01:19:25,040 --> 01:19:27,000
Speaker 1: being in the point of the spirit that they're they're

1489
01:19:27,040 --> 01:19:30,360
Speaker 1: all headed that way. So, um, you need a guy

1490
01:19:30,400 --> 01:19:32,519
Speaker 1: to set that tone, and Feliciano has done it for

1491
01:19:32,560 --> 01:19:36,519
Speaker 1: the last three years. Um, they they need some guys

1492
01:19:36,840 --> 01:19:39,760
Speaker 1: up there. They're they're gonna be decimated. I don't know

1493
01:19:39,840 --> 01:19:42,160
Speaker 1: how many years more years. Tinu Seki's gonna want to

1494
01:19:42,200 --> 01:19:48,320
Speaker 1: play or can play. He's in his mid thirties. Felician Yeah, Feliciano. Um,

1495
01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:51,200
Speaker 1: Daryl Williams, I'm sure all these guys love their year

1496
01:19:51,280 --> 01:19:54,360
Speaker 1: here and one would love to come back. But you know,

1497
01:19:54,520 --> 01:19:58,439
Speaker 1: if the bills are gonna pay you, you know, six

1498
01:19:58,560 --> 01:20:00,439
Speaker 1: bucks to come back, and somebody else gonna pay you

1499
01:20:00,520 --> 01:20:02,360
Speaker 1: ten bucks to come back. You know, you're going for

1500
01:20:02,439 --> 01:20:04,800
Speaker 1: your family's sake, You're gonna go play for ten bucks. Right.

1501
01:20:04,880 --> 01:20:11,200
Speaker 1: So yeah, and it's now, having said that, we don't

1502
01:20:11,200 --> 01:20:13,280
Speaker 1: know what the CAP's gonna be and what teams are

1503
01:20:13,280 --> 01:20:15,599
Speaker 1: actually even gonna have any money to spend at all.

1504
01:20:16,360 --> 01:20:18,240
Speaker 1: I mean, there may be a team like New Orleans

1505
01:20:18,360 --> 01:20:20,760
Speaker 1: looks looks like they they're gonna have to feel a

1506
01:20:20,800 --> 01:20:23,400
Speaker 1: team with twenty five guys on it because they ain't

1507
01:20:23,400 --> 01:20:25,720
Speaker 1: got any money to spend pay anybody, let alone just

1508
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:29,439
Speaker 1: I mean even minimum wage. So we'll see, it's gonna

1509
01:20:29,439 --> 01:20:31,120
Speaker 1: be a weird offseason and we're gonna have to watch

1510
01:20:31,160 --> 01:20:33,840
Speaker 1: how these teams handle where their cap is next season.

1511
01:20:35,120 --> 01:20:38,840
Speaker 1: And the other thing that's going to spark headlines through

1512
01:20:38,880 --> 01:20:43,759
Speaker 1: the course of the off season is the juggling act

1513
01:20:44,160 --> 01:20:47,240
Speaker 1: that's going to ensue with the quarterback position. Last year,

1514
01:20:47,320 --> 01:20:50,160
Speaker 1: we thought we saw a lot of quarterback movement. I

1515
01:20:50,240 --> 01:20:53,080
Speaker 1: think this year is gonna supersede that by a by

1516
01:20:53,120 --> 01:20:58,519
Speaker 1: a wide margin, with teams interested in shedding themselves of

1517
01:20:58,600 --> 01:21:02,679
Speaker 1: an expensive quarterback salary, all of the Lions with Matt Stafford,

1518
01:21:02,720 --> 01:21:05,960
Speaker 1: who are already interested in fielding trade offers for him

1519
01:21:06,040 --> 01:21:09,920
Speaker 1: and he Stafford and the club have agreed to part ways,

1520
01:21:10,320 --> 01:21:12,480
Speaker 1: so it's just a matter of finding him a destination.

1521
01:21:12,960 --> 01:21:15,160
Speaker 1: We don't know where that Deshaun Watson thing is going

1522
01:21:15,240 --> 01:21:18,040
Speaker 1: to end up, although it could largely be predicated on

1523
01:21:18,439 --> 01:21:21,240
Speaker 1: who's hired as head coach. Maybe that helps to keep

1524
01:21:21,280 --> 01:21:23,640
Speaker 1: Watson in the fold in Houston, which you have to

1525
01:21:23,680 --> 01:21:26,040
Speaker 1: believe the Texans want to do, but he could very

1526
01:21:26,120 --> 01:21:28,800
Speaker 1: well be on the move, hopefully not to the AFC East.

1527
01:21:29,280 --> 01:21:32,320
Speaker 1: Good grief. You see that story came out over the weekend. Well,

1528
01:21:32,439 --> 01:21:35,000
Speaker 1: what Deshaun Watson's first two choices are the Jets and

1529
01:21:35,080 --> 01:21:38,360
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. And I'm sitting there going seriously like, really,

1530
01:21:38,680 --> 01:21:41,840
Speaker 1: those are the first two choices. I don't anticipate the

1531
01:21:41,920 --> 01:21:44,519
Speaker 1: Jets doing that, Steve, because I think they would have

1532
01:21:44,600 --> 01:21:46,200
Speaker 1: to give up too much of what's going to help

1533
01:21:46,240 --> 01:21:49,439
Speaker 1: them build the roster back into a formidable side. Yeah,

1534
01:21:50,160 --> 01:21:52,519
Speaker 1: just to get Watson there, and then you have the quarterback,

1535
01:21:52,560 --> 01:21:54,519
Speaker 1: but you don't have anything else to help it. If

1536
01:21:54,560 --> 01:21:58,719
Speaker 1: the Jets have an ounce of self awareness. Sam Darnold

1537
01:21:58,840 --> 01:22:01,280
Speaker 1: is not the problem with Am Darnald. It was Adam

1538
01:22:01,360 --> 01:22:04,920
Speaker 1: Gase and the dysfunction and the poor roster and all

1539
01:22:04,960 --> 01:22:06,400
Speaker 1: of that around him. You know you don't have to

1540
01:22:06,840 --> 01:22:09,679
Speaker 1: you know, I mean you think Deshaun Watson is gonna

1541
01:22:09,680 --> 01:22:15,040
Speaker 1: fix what ailed Sam Darnald. No, so don't do it, Jets,

1542
01:22:15,600 --> 01:22:18,439
Speaker 1: Shaun Watson. We got a call. Let's let's go. We'll

1543
01:22:18,439 --> 01:22:20,200
Speaker 1: take our first call of the day. Call. This is

1544
01:22:20,640 --> 01:22:22,920
Speaker 1: from Jesse and Buffalo. Jesse. You're on One Bill's Life

1545
01:22:22,920 --> 01:22:25,880
Speaker 1: with Stephen Chris. What's on your mind? Hey, guys, how

1546
01:22:25,880 --> 01:22:29,200
Speaker 1: are you doing today? Doing good? Hey? I don't think

1547
01:22:29,240 --> 01:22:32,960
Speaker 1: there's much wrong with the defense. Honestly, I think the

1548
01:22:33,120 --> 01:22:35,800
Speaker 1: abscess of starlince to delay or a lot of I've

1549
01:22:36,080 --> 01:22:38,400
Speaker 1: definitely said his name wrong. I'm leaving that Star. I

1550
01:22:38,479 --> 01:22:41,280
Speaker 1: believe the absence of Star showed how important he was.

1551
01:22:42,160 --> 01:22:44,479
Speaker 1: I was definitely one of the guys that, you know, Oh,

1552
01:22:44,560 --> 01:22:46,439
Speaker 1: we don't need Star, he makes too much. We need

1553
01:22:46,479 --> 01:22:50,160
Speaker 1: to let him go. This year, I really wish Star played.

1554
01:22:50,600 --> 01:22:52,720
Speaker 1: It makes a big difference, and it showed a lot

1555
01:22:52,880 --> 01:22:55,920
Speaker 1: on why player has to come up so much to

1556
01:22:55,960 --> 01:22:59,679
Speaker 1: help the guys out, and why Edmands is doing working

1557
01:22:59,720 --> 01:23:03,439
Speaker 1: way harder than he normally does to get full his

1558
01:23:03,560 --> 01:23:06,519
Speaker 1: lane and make the tackle. Guys are all you see

1559
01:23:06,560 --> 01:23:08,720
Speaker 1: his lineman running straight to heatman's get him out the way.

1560
01:23:09,960 --> 01:23:14,599
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, yeah, thanks Jesse, and I'll echo that. Yeah,

1561
01:23:14,640 --> 01:23:18,680
Speaker 1: there's no question that stars absence left him without a

1562
01:23:18,720 --> 01:23:20,960
Speaker 1: big body down inside. At least one more big body.

1563
01:23:21,320 --> 01:23:26,439
Speaker 1: I don't think Star low to Lalay a defensive tackle

1564
01:23:27,560 --> 01:23:31,760
Speaker 1: would have vastly changed the Bill's fortunes defensively. He would

1565
01:23:31,800 --> 01:23:34,240
Speaker 1: have helped absolutely, no question about. He's a great player

1566
01:23:34,439 --> 01:23:36,639
Speaker 1: and worth the money. To me, the worth the money

1567
01:23:36,640 --> 01:23:39,920
Speaker 1: they paid him. But you're gonna need like two of

1568
01:23:40,040 --> 01:23:43,639
Speaker 1: him or three of him if you're going to really

1569
01:23:43,920 --> 01:23:47,479
Speaker 1: change the fortunes of the defense. Yeah, and let's not

1570
01:23:47,560 --> 01:23:50,280
Speaker 1: forget too that. I think he turns thirty two years

1571
01:23:50,360 --> 01:23:53,320
Speaker 1: old next year, so he's not a spring chicken either.

1572
01:23:53,400 --> 01:23:55,320
Speaker 1: So yes, I still believe he can play and help

1573
01:23:55,400 --> 01:23:58,360
Speaker 1: this football team. But thirty two is a spring chick.

1574
01:23:58,400 --> 01:24:01,479
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to well. For you and for me

1575
01:24:01,560 --> 01:24:04,560
Speaker 1: it is, but you know for a football player that

1576
01:24:04,720 --> 01:24:07,560
Speaker 1: it's not. And I think they at least have to

1577
01:24:07,640 --> 01:24:11,840
Speaker 1: get somebody in the pipeline that can eventually take over

1578
01:24:11,960 --> 01:24:14,840
Speaker 1: for him, you know, in that role where you know

1579
01:24:15,040 --> 01:24:16,720
Speaker 1: that guy's going to be able to tie up two

1580
01:24:16,800 --> 01:24:19,720
Speaker 1: people to let the run, to let the linebackers run

1581
01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:22,400
Speaker 1: and hit. Yeah, And they need a guy like that

1582
01:24:22,560 --> 01:24:25,439
Speaker 1: upfront for sure. Yeah. Certainly, big guys like that up

1583
01:24:25,479 --> 01:24:27,960
Speaker 1: front help make the life of Tremaine Edmonds and Matt

1584
01:24:28,000 --> 01:24:31,280
Speaker 1: Malana all that much easier and more productive as well.

1585
01:24:31,360 --> 01:24:34,920
Speaker 1: But I think I'm I'll say it again. I'm gonna

1586
01:24:34,960 --> 01:24:37,519
Speaker 1: say it from now until the draft until Opening Day,

1587
01:24:38,240 --> 01:24:42,600
Speaker 1: they need more athletic, big bodies up front. Bigger and

1588
01:24:42,760 --> 01:24:46,240
Speaker 1: more athletic bodies up front on both sides of the football,

1589
01:24:46,720 --> 01:24:50,559
Speaker 1: on both sides. Yeah. And then and then secondarily, they

1590
01:24:50,680 --> 01:24:56,519
Speaker 1: have to add some speed, speed at running back, probably

1591
01:24:56,720 --> 01:25:00,120
Speaker 1: some speed on defense at the corner position. And and

1592
01:25:02,280 --> 01:25:04,840
Speaker 1: you know you got you gotta add speed. You gotta

1593
01:25:04,880 --> 01:25:07,040
Speaker 1: be faster on the field. Yeah, I just have to be.

1594
01:25:07,400 --> 01:25:09,400
Speaker 1: You gotta start looking to the guys you'd love and

1595
01:25:09,520 --> 01:25:12,479
Speaker 1: respect about trying to get better at those spots. Does

1596
01:25:12,560 --> 01:25:15,280
Speaker 1: Isaiah Hodgins come in and is he faster than Gabe Davis?

1597
01:25:15,360 --> 01:25:18,840
Speaker 1: Can he contribute more than Gabe Davis? Does John Brown

1598
01:25:18,960 --> 01:25:22,479
Speaker 1: continue to be a guy that you can count on,

1599
01:25:22,640 --> 01:25:24,759
Speaker 1: or do you start thinking, okay, maybe we can upgrade

1600
01:25:24,760 --> 01:25:27,040
Speaker 1: to a bigger Maybe Isaiah Hodgins gets plugged in for

1601
01:25:27,160 --> 01:25:30,960
Speaker 1: John Brown, or and Gabe Davis moves to the outside,

1602
01:25:31,120 --> 01:25:33,559
Speaker 1: or John Brown moves the outside and Gabe Davis's spar

1603
01:25:33,680 --> 01:25:37,240
Speaker 1: or maybe you know all of that stuff. Maybe Cole

1604
01:25:37,280 --> 01:25:39,320
Speaker 1: Beasley doesn't bounce back as hard as well as we

1605
01:25:39,400 --> 01:25:41,800
Speaker 1: want him to. I don't know, but there's gonna be

1606
01:25:41,880 --> 01:25:43,880
Speaker 1: a time when these four guys that they went with

1607
01:25:44,000 --> 01:25:47,000
Speaker 1: at wide receiver and Gabe Davis, Steph Diggs, Cole Beasley,

1608
01:25:47,120 --> 01:25:50,120
Speaker 1: John Brown are gonna need somebody to step in for them,

1609
01:25:50,680 --> 01:25:53,439
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be competition out there as well. What

1610
01:25:53,680 --> 01:25:56,240
Speaker 1: kind of competition they bring in is another question, because

1611
01:25:56,240 --> 01:25:58,439
Speaker 1: if you're gonna talk speed on offense, you start at

1612
01:25:58,479 --> 01:26:01,040
Speaker 1: wide receiver. You can stay it. You can say you

1613
01:26:01,080 --> 01:26:04,000
Speaker 1: can start a running back. That's fine, But he's a

1614
01:26:04,080 --> 01:26:07,799
Speaker 1: throwing league. And even if you brought in Chris Johnson,

1615
01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:10,160
Speaker 1: you know, the Y two K kid who's faster than

1616
01:26:10,240 --> 01:26:14,280
Speaker 1: he like a Tyreek Hill, he's still only you're still

1617
01:26:14,320 --> 01:26:18,599
Speaker 1: gonna be a throwing football team. Um, So you're if

1618
01:26:18,680 --> 01:26:22,640
Speaker 1: you talk speed particularly offensively you're talking about, because you

1619
01:26:22,680 --> 01:26:24,679
Speaker 1: can't just plug a guy in. You gotta take somebody

1620
01:26:24,720 --> 01:26:27,800
Speaker 1: off the field. You gotta take. You pick who's it

1621
01:26:27,840 --> 01:26:31,439
Speaker 1: gonna be. Um, if you take Dawson Knocks off, say hey,

1622
01:26:31,479 --> 01:26:34,080
Speaker 1: we'll put five wides on and we'll put some speed

1623
01:26:34,120 --> 01:26:36,240
Speaker 1: out there. Well that's fine, but you can't run out.

1624
01:26:36,360 --> 01:26:39,320
Speaker 1: You can't run. You know, you're not gonna run the

1625
01:26:39,360 --> 01:26:42,840
Speaker 1: football effectively out of that group. Um, So I just

1626
01:26:42,960 --> 01:26:45,960
Speaker 1: wonder if you get I wonder if you get speed

1627
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:50,240
Speaker 1: at running back, just to add it as another element.

1628
01:26:50,520 --> 01:26:53,320
Speaker 1: The guy's gotta catch, he's got to be he's gotta

1629
01:26:53,320 --> 01:26:55,160
Speaker 1: be able to split out that that's part of the

1630
01:26:55,240 --> 01:26:57,760
Speaker 1: job description these days. You're never gonna find a guy

1631
01:26:57,920 --> 01:27:02,240
Speaker 1: like a you know, even an Adrian Peterson, Jim Brown,

1632
01:27:02,600 --> 01:27:05,280
Speaker 1: one of those. All running backs in the NFL need

1633
01:27:05,360 --> 01:27:08,360
Speaker 1: to have the ability to split out wide and run routes.

1634
01:27:08,439 --> 01:27:12,720
Speaker 1: That's just that's a versatility you have to have. So

1635
01:27:13,880 --> 01:27:16,519
Speaker 1: all right, break time for us. But when we come back,

1636
01:27:16,600 --> 01:27:19,479
Speaker 1: more than discussion on what the Bills should have at

1637
01:27:19,560 --> 01:27:22,560
Speaker 1: the top of their offseason to do list and the

1638
01:27:22,680 --> 01:27:26,000
Speaker 1: impending quarterback landscape in the league as we are expecting

1639
01:27:26,640 --> 01:27:31,240
Speaker 1: some household names to be wearing different colored uniforms next season,

1640
01:27:31,280 --> 01:27:33,080
Speaker 1: and what it could mean for the balance of power

1641
01:27:33,640 --> 01:27:35,880
Speaker 1: in the AFC. Those things are coming up next here

1642
01:27:35,920 --> 01:27:37,599
Speaker 1: on One Bill's Line, presented by a Lot of Health.

1643
01:27:37,640 --> 01:27:56,000
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio Addicial Extended Edition, as we

1644
01:27:56,120 --> 01:27:58,479
Speaker 1: brought to Sean mcdermot's season ending press conference in the

1645
01:27:58,520 --> 01:28:01,599
Speaker 1: eleven o'clock hour, just about wrapping up what would normally

1646
01:28:01,640 --> 01:28:03,599
Speaker 1: be the first hour of the show. Kyle Brandt coming

1647
01:28:03,680 --> 01:28:07,560
Speaker 1: up in our second regular hour of the program for

1648
01:28:08,000 --> 01:28:10,799
Speaker 1: his weekly visit, his final weekly visit of the season,

1649
01:28:11,520 --> 01:28:13,719
Speaker 1: and we also want to get back to the phones

1650
01:28:13,800 --> 01:28:16,840
Speaker 1: at eight oh three, five fifty. So, Steve, who do

1651
01:28:16,920 --> 01:28:18,599
Speaker 1: we have on the line right now? We have got

1652
01:28:18,840 --> 01:28:21,400
Speaker 1: down from Amherst Done. You're on with Chris and Steve.

1653
01:28:21,439 --> 01:28:28,840
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Hi, guys, great season, good show. The only

1654
01:28:28,920 --> 01:28:34,320
Speaker 1: complaint that I have about the game is, and I

1655
01:28:34,439 --> 01:28:39,280
Speaker 1: know this is Monday Money horrorbacking, but it seemed obvious

1656
01:28:39,360 --> 01:28:42,760
Speaker 1: to me that the zone that they were playing and

1657
01:28:42,880 --> 01:28:47,040
Speaker 1: the first half was not working. It was clear that

1658
01:28:47,120 --> 01:28:50,680
Speaker 1: they were getting open, especially Kelsey. So I'm kind of

1659
01:28:50,760 --> 01:28:53,080
Speaker 1: wondering why it took so long. I think in the

1660
01:28:53,160 --> 01:28:57,280
Speaker 1: second half they switched switched a little bit, But why

1661
01:28:57,320 --> 01:29:00,320
Speaker 1: did it take so long for them to adjust? And

1662
01:29:00,439 --> 01:29:02,280
Speaker 1: when you looked at Casey the way they were playing,

1663
01:29:02,280 --> 01:29:04,360
Speaker 1: they were playing man to man, so obviously they didn't

1664
01:29:04,400 --> 01:29:06,800
Speaker 1: respect our receivers or they just felt they could cover

1665
01:29:06,920 --> 01:29:12,080
Speaker 1: them and it was very effective. So just wondering about

1666
01:29:12,120 --> 01:29:14,639
Speaker 1: your comments. And also I think they need a pass

1667
01:29:14,760 --> 01:29:18,840
Speaker 1: rush because that would help them immensely in the past

1668
01:29:19,040 --> 01:29:22,280
Speaker 1: past defense part. Thanks and I'll hang up all right, don,

1669
01:29:22,360 --> 01:29:24,400
Speaker 1: Thank you appreciated. What do you think, Brownie? I mean,

1670
01:29:25,680 --> 01:29:29,080
Speaker 1: were they slow in adjusting to what the Chiefs were

1671
01:29:29,120 --> 01:29:33,679
Speaker 1: doing offensively? Well, I think they were reluctant to choose

1672
01:29:33,720 --> 01:29:35,920
Speaker 1: the alternative because the alternative was what you saw on

1673
01:29:35,960 --> 01:29:38,320
Speaker 1: the second half, Tyree Hill running for seventy one yards

1674
01:29:38,400 --> 01:29:43,600
Speaker 1: after a five yard pass. They chose to have the

1675
01:29:43,720 --> 01:29:47,120
Speaker 1: Chiefs nickel and dime them down the field with Kelsey underneath.

1676
01:29:47,640 --> 01:29:50,400
Speaker 1: I think that the only way that that approach was

1677
01:29:50,479 --> 01:29:55,320
Speaker 1: going to be effective was if they could limit Kelsey

1678
01:29:55,680 --> 01:29:58,839
Speaker 1: after the catch. As I was saying in the pregame

1679
01:29:58,880 --> 01:30:02,880
Speaker 1: when we were on Sundays, if you have Travis Kelsey

1680
01:30:02,960 --> 01:30:07,000
Speaker 1: with eight receptions for sixty yards. That's a victory defensively.

1681
01:30:07,479 --> 01:30:10,439
Speaker 1: But the problem is when he has eight or nine

1682
01:30:10,520 --> 01:30:13,600
Speaker 1: catches for one hundred and ten yards and two touchdowns,

1683
01:30:14,080 --> 01:30:16,960
Speaker 1: that's it doesn't sound like a big difference, but it is.

1684
01:30:17,680 --> 01:30:21,439
Speaker 1: And at halftime he had nine for ninety two, which

1685
01:30:21,960 --> 01:30:25,719
Speaker 1: doesn't sound great, and it put them in position to score.

1686
01:30:25,800 --> 01:30:27,560
Speaker 1: And we know they rattled off twenty one points in

1687
01:30:27,640 --> 01:30:30,120
Speaker 1: ten minutes of game clock. So with the way the

1688
01:30:30,200 --> 01:30:32,040
Speaker 1: game was going, they're like, all right, well let's try

1689
01:30:32,240 --> 01:30:34,880
Speaker 1: something different and see if we have more success with that.

1690
01:30:35,880 --> 01:30:39,960
Speaker 1: But they did not, obviously, And I think Don partially

1691
01:30:40,000 --> 01:30:43,000
Speaker 1: answered his own question Steve when he said, we need

1692
01:30:43,120 --> 01:30:45,240
Speaker 1: more of a pass rush. I think that would help

1693
01:30:45,840 --> 01:30:47,920
Speaker 1: the guys on the back end. Well, that's why they

1694
01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:50,760
Speaker 1: don't play man across the board. The Chiefs can do

1695
01:30:50,880 --> 01:30:53,519
Speaker 1: that because they have Chris Jones, they have Frank Clark,

1696
01:30:53,960 --> 01:30:56,760
Speaker 1: they have guys that can get to the passer. And

1697
01:30:56,880 --> 01:30:59,479
Speaker 1: because of that, you feel more confident playing a higher

1698
01:30:59,600 --> 01:31:04,000
Speaker 1: risk defensive playing, you know, playing higher risk defensive coverage

1699
01:31:04,040 --> 01:31:06,320
Speaker 1: on the back end, namely in the form of man coverage.

1700
01:31:06,360 --> 01:31:10,080
Speaker 1: So they do have talented players in their secondary. I

1701
01:31:10,160 --> 01:31:12,720
Speaker 1: don't think there's any question about that. But you're not

1702
01:31:12,800 --> 01:31:15,800
Speaker 1: playing man across the back unless you're confident that at

1703
01:31:15,880 --> 01:31:18,040
Speaker 1: least some of the time your guys can get home

1704
01:31:18,160 --> 01:31:20,920
Speaker 1: up front, because that makes the coverage on the back

1705
01:31:21,040 --> 01:31:23,800
Speaker 1: end so much easier. Yeah, I think you hit it.

1706
01:31:24,040 --> 01:31:26,960
Speaker 1: Hit it on the head. I mean, it's pick your poison.

1707
01:31:27,040 --> 01:31:31,479
Speaker 1: Do you want to have them make twelve execute twelve

1708
01:31:31,560 --> 01:31:33,040
Speaker 1: plays you get down the field or you want to

1709
01:31:33,040 --> 01:31:36,960
Speaker 1: play man and have him execute three. That's the difference.

1710
01:31:37,400 --> 01:31:40,200
Speaker 1: Even on the one the middle of the three touchdown

1711
01:31:40,280 --> 01:31:42,920
Speaker 1: drives in the second quarter or whenever the Chiefs had

1712
01:31:42,960 --> 01:31:45,880
Speaker 1: those three touchdown drives, the middle one was five plays,

1713
01:31:45,920 --> 01:31:47,960
Speaker 1: eighty five yards or something like that. I mean, they

1714
01:31:48,040 --> 01:31:52,160
Speaker 1: just they tore it up so and that's you know,

1715
01:31:52,320 --> 01:31:54,160
Speaker 1: one was a run play around the end and all

1716
01:31:54,200 --> 01:31:56,160
Speaker 1: that they catch them in, they catch them in zone

1717
01:31:56,200 --> 01:31:59,120
Speaker 1: coverage or man coverage, whichever it's. You know, do you

1718
01:31:59,160 --> 01:32:01,080
Speaker 1: want to give up the big play for the touchdown?

1719
01:32:01,200 --> 01:32:03,040
Speaker 1: Did you want to make them have to execute four

1720
01:32:03,120 --> 01:32:05,519
Speaker 1: or five or six or twelve plays to get in

1721
01:32:05,600 --> 01:32:07,960
Speaker 1: the end zone. I think you know the answers pretty obvious.

1722
01:32:08,000 --> 01:32:09,200
Speaker 1: You don't want to give them the chance at a

1723
01:32:09,240 --> 01:32:14,200
Speaker 1: big play because then you give up the points too fast.

1724
01:32:15,080 --> 01:32:18,640
Speaker 1: So yeah, the Bills adjusted, no question, or you said it,

1725
01:32:18,720 --> 01:32:21,200
Speaker 1: Brownie was Kelsey in the first half, Tyreek kill in

1726
01:32:21,280 --> 01:32:22,960
Speaker 1: the second half. It was zoned in the first half,

1727
01:32:23,040 --> 01:32:25,240
Speaker 1: man in the second half, and they paid the price

1728
01:32:25,360 --> 01:32:27,200
Speaker 1: both ways. It Chiefs team, And that's why it's so

1729
01:32:27,280 --> 01:32:30,920
Speaker 1: a little disconcerting for Bills fans. You'd have to it's

1730
01:32:31,000 --> 01:32:34,680
Speaker 1: more than just like for instance, two years ago, two

1731
01:32:34,720 --> 01:32:39,439
Speaker 1: off seasons ago, or the Houston playoff game. I remember

1732
01:32:39,479 --> 01:32:42,400
Speaker 1: having the conversation day after day after the Houston game.

1733
01:32:42,439 --> 01:32:44,120
Speaker 1: It was such a bitter loss because it was an

1734
01:32:44,160 --> 01:32:46,759
Speaker 1: overtime game and very low and there were twelve players.

1735
01:32:46,800 --> 01:32:48,400
Speaker 1: You'd go down in that game and say, hey, if

1736
01:32:48,439 --> 01:32:50,120
Speaker 1: this would have gone, we would have won. If this

1737
01:32:50,120 --> 01:32:51,679
Speaker 1: would have happened, we would have won. If that would

1738
01:32:51,680 --> 01:32:52,840
Speaker 1: have happened, we would have won it. And if this

1739
01:32:52,920 --> 01:32:54,640
Speaker 1: would have happened, we would have won. Any one of

1740
01:32:54,680 --> 01:32:57,679
Speaker 1: those things was the difference in that game, the Chiefs game.

1741
01:32:58,160 --> 01:33:00,240
Speaker 1: It's a long list of things that all would have

1742
01:33:00,240 --> 01:33:02,280
Speaker 1: had to happen together for the Bills to win that game.

1743
01:33:02,600 --> 01:33:04,880
Speaker 1: The Chiefs were better at every at every fast and

1744
01:33:04,960 --> 01:33:07,519
Speaker 1: every level, they adjusted better, they adjusted faster, and their

1745
01:33:07,560 --> 01:33:12,439
Speaker 1: adjustments were more effective. Their their defensive line was better

1746
01:33:12,520 --> 01:33:15,840
Speaker 1: than our offensive line too often, and vice versa. Their

1747
01:33:15,880 --> 01:33:18,360
Speaker 1: offensive line was better than our defensive line too often,

1748
01:33:19,360 --> 01:33:21,880
Speaker 1: and their secondary, Our secondary wasn't as good as their

1749
01:33:21,920 --> 01:33:26,000
Speaker 1: receivers were too often. So it was it was a

1750
01:33:26,080 --> 01:33:29,439
Speaker 1: game in this Chiefs game where you really get the

1751
01:33:29,479 --> 01:33:31,679
Speaker 1: feeling like, now, they were a great team playing great

1752
01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:35,920
Speaker 1: That's a hard team to beat. So any adjustments you're

1753
01:33:35,960 --> 01:33:37,880
Speaker 1: feeling like we should have made could have made the

1754
01:33:38,160 --> 01:33:40,400
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott going fourth on fourth down. You really think

1755
01:33:41,120 --> 01:33:43,840
Speaker 1: in retrospect that those two fourth downs would have made

1756
01:33:43,840 --> 01:33:45,920
Speaker 1: all the difference, And they may have made a difference

1757
01:33:45,960 --> 01:33:48,080
Speaker 1: for a minute or two of that game, but I

1758
01:33:48,160 --> 01:33:50,160
Speaker 1: don't know that they would have changed everything the Chiefs

1759
01:33:50,160 --> 01:33:54,040
Speaker 1: would have been doing offensively. So i'm i'm I'm of

1760
01:33:54,120 --> 01:33:56,639
Speaker 1: opinion that that game was a yardstick and the Bills

1761
01:33:56,680 --> 01:33:59,080
Speaker 1: didn't measure up in a lot of fronts. So and

1762
01:33:59,200 --> 01:34:01,479
Speaker 1: that's I think why they're doing some soul searching here

1763
01:34:01,520 --> 01:34:05,240
Speaker 1: in these first couple of days of this offseason. All right,

1764
01:34:05,320 --> 01:34:08,360
Speaker 1: break time for us, but when we return, it is time.

1765
01:34:09,040 --> 01:34:13,400
Speaker 1: Lord Kyle Brandt Good Morning Football and honorary member of

1766
01:34:13,439 --> 01:34:17,320
Speaker 1: the Bills Mafia after two very successful hype videos. We'll

1767
01:34:17,560 --> 01:34:19,760
Speaker 1: check in with Kyle when we returned here on One

1768
01:34:19,840 --> 01:34:22,719
Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Forsenter by Killid to help his Buffalo Bill's

1769
01:34:22,800 --> 01:34:46,320
Speaker 1: Radio at a Steve Tasker who has been all over

1770
01:34:46,479 --> 01:34:48,080
Speaker 1: the fields. Kind of unique. He was kind of a

1771
01:34:48,200 --> 01:34:54,760
Speaker 1: dual role player for you, Steve a blimp. We're not

1772
01:34:54,840 --> 01:35:03,160
Speaker 1: even in the credit fear of normalcy that for another

1773
01:35:03,240 --> 01:35:06,600
Speaker 1: hour of One Bill's Live, Christ Brown Steve Tasker with you.

1774
01:35:06,760 --> 01:35:10,840
Speaker 1: We are awaiting to make contact with one Kyle brand

1775
01:35:10,960 --> 01:35:14,360
Speaker 1: from Good Morning Football. And if Kyle knew he was

1776
01:35:14,920 --> 01:35:17,720
Speaker 1: on with us today? You think that? Do you think

1777
01:35:17,800 --> 01:35:19,519
Speaker 1: Kyle knew he was supposed to be on with us today?

1778
01:35:19,600 --> 01:35:23,519
Speaker 1: Or is this, you know, just hope. So I don't know,

1779
01:35:23,600 --> 01:35:25,160
Speaker 1: I don't well, I don't know. The season is kind

1780
01:35:25,200 --> 01:35:30,439
Speaker 1: of over for us now, right he comes on during season, right, Yeah,

1781
01:35:30,560 --> 01:35:33,120
Speaker 1: I suppose we fire one across his bout and let

1782
01:35:33,200 --> 01:35:35,200
Speaker 1: him know, like, hey, we're counting on you today or anything,

1783
01:35:35,439 --> 01:35:39,240
Speaker 1: or well, we sent out a tweet that added him,

1784
01:35:39,320 --> 01:35:42,280
Speaker 1: so he probably saw that. So maybe he's scurrying to

1785
01:35:42,479 --> 01:35:47,439
Speaker 1: his to his zoom machine to get on and technically

1786
01:35:47,520 --> 01:35:51,120
Speaker 1: the football season is not over right, so but maybe

1787
01:35:51,160 --> 01:35:54,679
Speaker 1: too we can we can get it. If he's like me, Brownie,

1788
01:35:54,720 --> 01:35:56,599
Speaker 1: if he's like me. I mean, I woke up today, man,

1789
01:35:56,680 --> 01:35:59,920
Speaker 1: I was down. I was way down. Just so good

1790
01:36:00,040 --> 01:36:02,200
Speaker 1: press Like yesterday was okay. I needed to come in

1791
01:36:02,280 --> 01:36:04,960
Speaker 1: and you know and talk to you guys and the

1792
01:36:05,040 --> 01:36:07,040
Speaker 1: Bills and some of the Bills mafia out there that

1793
01:36:07,160 --> 01:36:09,120
Speaker 1: you know, kind of commissary talk about the game is

1794
01:36:09,160 --> 01:36:11,639
Speaker 1: great season. Remember all that. Now it's like, oh, yeah,

1795
01:36:12,200 --> 01:36:13,840
Speaker 1: we had six months of this before we actually have

1796
01:36:13,920 --> 01:36:17,880
Speaker 1: something interesting to talk about. You know, I'm so bummed. Well,

1797
01:36:18,080 --> 01:36:20,720
Speaker 1: I know I wouldn't go that far. We've got free

1798
01:36:20,800 --> 01:36:24,960
Speaker 1: agency coming up here and a couple of months. I

1799
01:36:25,040 --> 01:36:27,000
Speaker 1: mean it's always I mean we'll talk about the super

1800
01:36:27,040 --> 01:36:29,439
Speaker 1: Bowl obviously, after that thing gets put to bed, and

1801
01:36:29,520 --> 01:36:32,919
Speaker 1: then and then you know, we get into free agency,

1802
01:36:33,040 --> 01:36:37,320
Speaker 1: the draft. Yeah, it's a it's a twelve month year.

1803
01:36:37,400 --> 01:36:39,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I get it. It's a twelve month season

1804
01:36:39,240 --> 01:36:41,599
Speaker 1: for the NFL. It's never there's never an off season.

1805
01:36:41,800 --> 01:36:44,519
Speaker 1: I think there's like a two weeks in June right

1806
01:36:44,560 --> 01:36:47,920
Speaker 1: before training camp. That's the off season. Because we're gonna

1807
01:36:48,040 --> 01:36:50,719
Speaker 1: we start getting into training camp and I mean, I'm sorry,

1808
01:36:50,760 --> 01:36:54,160
Speaker 1: a free agency coming up here pretty quick. The Senior

1809
01:36:54,240 --> 01:36:57,880
Speaker 1: Bowl is this week, and all of that's changed too,

1810
01:36:57,920 --> 01:36:59,920
Speaker 1: because it's still all the COVID protocols that we have

1811
01:37:00,120 --> 01:37:02,600
Speaker 1: to live through and live and live with. So I

1812
01:37:02,760 --> 01:37:04,519
Speaker 1: get it, there's gonna be a lot going on. But man,

1813
01:37:04,600 --> 01:37:07,559
Speaker 1: oh man, what a downer that we don't have another

1814
01:37:07,600 --> 01:37:09,680
Speaker 1: Bills game to talk about in a year that we

1815
01:37:09,760 --> 01:37:12,880
Speaker 1: had so much fun. Was so gosh, Brownie, it was

1816
01:37:12,920 --> 01:37:17,000
Speaker 1: so fun. It was a lot of fun. And it's

1817
01:37:17,040 --> 01:37:20,240
Speaker 1: gonna be different next year. Hopefully it'll be even better.

1818
01:37:20,360 --> 01:37:23,080
Speaker 1: But come on, like you're more positive than me. I'm

1819
01:37:23,120 --> 01:37:25,000
Speaker 1: not the one that you usually got to be cheering

1820
01:37:25,040 --> 01:37:26,920
Speaker 1: you up. What the heck's going on? I know, berk

1821
01:37:27,040 --> 01:37:29,599
Speaker 1: up there, Sparky. It's just a day, she said. Day.

1822
01:37:29,600 --> 01:37:30,920
Speaker 1: I'll be all right. I'll be all right by the

1823
01:37:31,000 --> 01:37:32,880
Speaker 1: next break, by the next commercial break. Man, I get

1824
01:37:32,960 --> 01:37:35,240
Speaker 1: Kyle on here, he'll he'll brighten our day up as well.

1825
01:37:35,680 --> 01:37:37,479
Speaker 1: And that and that's the thing about it. It was

1826
01:37:37,560 --> 01:37:39,160
Speaker 1: kind of fun for me all for all those years

1827
01:37:39,200 --> 01:37:41,080
Speaker 1: I was working with CBS doing the games in the booth.

1828
01:37:41,520 --> 01:37:43,240
Speaker 1: You know, during the week I was totally you know,

1829
01:37:43,280 --> 01:37:45,040
Speaker 1: it was one hundred percent Bills as you know, listening

1830
01:37:45,080 --> 01:37:47,800
Speaker 1: to all the radio shows and all that stuff. And

1831
01:37:47,880 --> 01:37:50,080
Speaker 1: then on the weekends I'd go do whatever. I'd do

1832
01:37:50,200 --> 01:37:53,639
Speaker 1: Miami Cleveland, or i'd do San Diego Oakland, or i'd

1833
01:37:53,640 --> 01:37:56,000
Speaker 1: do you know, one of those games. So I was

1834
01:37:56,080 --> 01:37:57,760
Speaker 1: kind of down the middle of So even at the

1835
01:37:57,880 --> 01:37:59,840
Speaker 1: end of it, I had all the national stuff that

1836
01:37:59,880 --> 01:38:01,280
Speaker 1: I was all up on and we could you know,

1837
01:38:01,280 --> 01:38:02,599
Speaker 1: I'd go all the way to the Super Bowl where

1838
01:38:02,600 --> 01:38:06,200
Speaker 1: the Bills were in it or not. And now I

1839
01:38:06,280 --> 01:38:09,599
Speaker 1: don't Yeah, that's that's not a thing. So I am.

1840
01:38:10,400 --> 01:38:12,400
Speaker 1: I am in a I don't know. I was in

1841
01:38:12,479 --> 01:38:14,760
Speaker 1: a bad way this morning, just kind of coming to grips. Now,

1842
01:38:14,920 --> 01:38:16,559
Speaker 1: yesterday was kind of a closure day. Now I got

1843
01:38:16,640 --> 01:38:18,040
Speaker 1: to wake up and go on with my life. And

1844
01:38:18,080 --> 01:38:21,840
Speaker 1: it's I'm bummed, but I will Kyle all right, Well,

1845
01:38:22,080 --> 01:38:25,120
Speaker 1: I do believe we have one Kyle Brand on now.

1846
01:38:25,640 --> 01:38:28,519
Speaker 1: So Kyle Brand from Good Morning Football, and he of

1847
01:38:28,640 --> 01:38:34,479
Speaker 1: the enormously popular Bills hype videos joins us now and Kyle,

1848
01:38:34,560 --> 01:38:36,759
Speaker 1: this is the last hurrah for you for this season.

1849
01:38:36,920 --> 01:38:39,080
Speaker 1: So I'll get to thank you as out of the

1850
01:38:39,120 --> 01:38:42,080
Speaker 1: way right off the top. So thanks for being a

1851
01:38:42,120 --> 01:38:43,800
Speaker 1: part of our show on a weekly basis here in

1852
01:38:43,840 --> 01:38:47,280
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty campaign. It's it's been a blast man. Listen,

1853
01:38:47,360 --> 01:38:49,360
Speaker 1: we all are adults. We got jobs, we have kids,

1854
01:38:49,400 --> 01:38:50,800
Speaker 1: we have families. There's a lot of things to do

1855
01:38:50,880 --> 01:38:53,080
Speaker 1: throughout the week that we dread that we don't like.

1856
01:38:53,439 --> 01:38:56,400
Speaker 1: I always look forward to this. I consider the two

1857
01:38:56,439 --> 01:38:58,400
Speaker 1: of you guys friends of mine in the industry, and

1858
01:38:59,080 --> 01:39:01,240
Speaker 1: I made a lot of new runs in Western New

1859
01:39:01,320 --> 01:39:03,920
Speaker 1: York over the past four or five, six months, even

1860
01:39:03,960 --> 01:39:06,560
Speaker 1: two years. So it's awesome, awesome to be here. I

1861
01:39:06,640 --> 01:39:08,519
Speaker 1: don't want to say goodbye. I don't want this to

1862
01:39:08,560 --> 01:39:10,439
Speaker 1: be the last one. Guys. I gotta say this though.

1863
01:39:10,479 --> 01:39:12,560
Speaker 1: We got to start lining our getting our ducks in

1864
01:39:12,600 --> 01:39:14,840
Speaker 1: a row as well, because I think it's high time

1865
01:39:15,520 --> 01:39:18,559
Speaker 1: that during this next season, maybe early on in the year,

1866
01:39:18,680 --> 01:39:20,519
Speaker 1: you've got you've got to make a trek to Buffalo,

1867
01:39:20,760 --> 01:39:23,680
Speaker 1: take in a game here and bring the family, make

1868
01:39:23,760 --> 01:39:26,680
Speaker 1: a weekend of it, have some fun in Western New York,

1869
01:39:27,160 --> 01:39:28,720
Speaker 1: just to say that you know you've done it, and

1870
01:39:28,800 --> 01:39:30,680
Speaker 1: so you kind of get a feel for the atmosphere,

1871
01:39:30,760 --> 01:39:33,439
Speaker 1: and particularly one with fans in the stands. Well, Steve,

1872
01:39:33,760 --> 01:39:35,640
Speaker 1: you you invited me to Buffalo. It's like you know

1873
01:39:35,680 --> 01:39:37,880
Speaker 1: Wayne Newton saying I should come to Vegas Like I'm in.

1874
01:39:40,200 --> 01:39:42,360
Speaker 1: You don't have to twist my arm, dude, I'll be there.

1875
01:39:42,600 --> 01:39:44,599
Speaker 1: We can drive it from where we are right now

1876
01:39:44,680 --> 01:39:47,800
Speaker 1: and I think four or five hours. My kids listen.

1877
01:39:48,400 --> 01:39:50,200
Speaker 1: I'm never gonna say that I know all the cool

1878
01:39:50,280 --> 01:39:53,200
Speaker 1: places to go. My kids want to see Niagara Falls.

1879
01:39:54,320 --> 01:39:57,280
Speaker 1: I will say this right before the Buffalo bill play

1880
01:39:57,280 --> 01:39:59,240
Speaker 1: their last game of the season. I got a rapid

1881
01:39:59,479 --> 01:40:03,440
Speaker 1: education in wings over the weekend. We had the Wingstravaganza

1882
01:40:03,479 --> 01:40:06,320
Speaker 1: at my house on Saturday afternoon. And I mean, I'm

1883
01:40:06,360 --> 01:40:09,639
Speaker 1: telling you, I'm not exaggerine. I probably a fifty wings

1884
01:40:09,640 --> 01:40:12,000
Speaker 1: on Saturday. It was a lot. And that's with the

1885
01:40:12,160 --> 01:40:14,880
Speaker 1: blue cheese, with the celery and the carrots. And let

1886
01:40:14,920 --> 01:40:17,080
Speaker 1: me tell you, I'm not gonna name drop a bunch

1887
01:40:17,080 --> 01:40:19,880
Speaker 1: of places. I'm not gonna name a favorite. The Duffs

1888
01:40:19,960 --> 01:40:23,240
Speaker 1: were incredible, incredible, and they got a lot of love

1889
01:40:23,280 --> 01:40:25,400
Speaker 1: in our kitchen. Very nice. That's good. I'll tell you

1890
01:40:25,479 --> 01:40:27,760
Speaker 1: this too. Bring them, bring the family. You can stay

1891
01:40:27,800 --> 01:40:29,400
Speaker 1: at that. I got a big house. I raised five

1892
01:40:29,479 --> 01:40:32,000
Speaker 1: kids in it. It's empty, drop by. You can stay

1893
01:40:32,040 --> 01:40:33,880
Speaker 1: at Art with us for the weekend. Don't worry about

1894
01:40:33,880 --> 01:40:36,519
Speaker 1: a hotel all that. And then oh that's incredible. It's

1895
01:40:36,560 --> 01:40:39,760
Speaker 1: like it's the Kennedy Compound of Western New York. There

1896
01:40:39,800 --> 01:40:44,960
Speaker 1: you go. You know a lot, all right. I hope

1897
01:40:45,000 --> 01:40:47,360
Speaker 1: you like I got a four year old, so I

1898
01:40:47,400 --> 01:40:49,280
Speaker 1: hope you like Peppa Pig. It's just a little British

1899
01:40:49,360 --> 01:40:52,160
Speaker 1: pig that never stopped talking. That's what we watched first.

1900
01:40:52,240 --> 01:40:54,960
Speaker 1: Leeve I got a granddaughter that's five, and I've got

1901
01:40:55,280 --> 01:40:59,559
Speaker 1: five grandsons that are three and under. Awesome, and it's

1902
01:40:59,600 --> 01:41:01,160
Speaker 1: gonna be and by that time there's going to be

1903
01:41:01,880 --> 01:41:05,679
Speaker 1: so yeah, okay, I'm in, I'm in, I'm way in. Yeah,

1904
01:41:05,720 --> 01:41:10,519
Speaker 1: thank you. So I saw you guys around the table

1905
01:41:10,920 --> 01:41:13,680
Speaker 1: on Good Morning Football, Kyle, and you do spend some

1906
01:41:13,840 --> 01:41:17,400
Speaker 1: time on the bills and what lies ahead for them,

1907
01:41:17,640 --> 01:41:20,840
Speaker 1: and you know, I know Nate Burlison thinks that you know,

1908
01:41:20,880 --> 01:41:24,880
Speaker 1: with McDermott, this team's well positioned going forward. You guys

1909
01:41:24,960 --> 01:41:27,840
Speaker 1: talked about some other subjects as well, but what is

1910
01:41:27,920 --> 01:41:32,479
Speaker 1: your takeaway from twenty twenty For the Bills. What sticks

1911
01:41:32,479 --> 01:41:35,840
Speaker 1: with you the most? Knowing they're starting from square or

1912
01:41:35,920 --> 01:41:38,240
Speaker 1: one in twenty twenty one, just like every other team

1913
01:41:38,280 --> 01:41:41,160
Speaker 1: in the league. You start at the bottom of the mountain. Again, well,

1914
01:41:41,479 --> 01:41:43,280
Speaker 1: if I were to give out a game ball, as

1915
01:41:43,360 --> 01:41:46,679
Speaker 1: we in the season, I would give it to Trey White.

1916
01:41:46,720 --> 01:41:48,360
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why. It's not because of how

1917
01:41:48,400 --> 01:41:49,600
Speaker 1: he played in the game. I know he had his

1918
01:41:49,640 --> 01:41:52,080
Speaker 1: issues in the game, as everybody on defense did. But

1919
01:41:52,400 --> 01:41:55,479
Speaker 1: I thought I respected and I liked his postgame comments

1920
01:41:55,520 --> 01:41:57,240
Speaker 1: the most, and I don't they actually might have been

1921
01:41:57,240 --> 01:41:58,880
Speaker 1: the next day, but what he said since the loss,

1922
01:41:59,400 --> 01:42:01,479
Speaker 1: he just came out in his very own Trey White

1923
01:42:01,520 --> 01:42:03,439
Speaker 1: type way. He was very candid, and he said, listen,

1924
01:42:04,240 --> 01:42:05,719
Speaker 1: we gotta figure out a way to be the Chiefs.

1925
01:42:06,080 --> 01:42:08,519
Speaker 1: That's that's the bottom line. They're the gold standard. They

1926
01:42:08,600 --> 01:42:10,879
Speaker 1: got the quarterback, they got the coach, that got everybody.

1927
01:42:11,200 --> 01:42:13,320
Speaker 1: We have to figure out a way to beat these guys.

1928
01:42:13,920 --> 01:42:16,600
Speaker 1: And this is a huge deal here. This is this

1929
01:42:16,840 --> 01:42:19,080
Speaker 1: is not a Buffalo Bills thing. This is not a

1930
01:42:19,160 --> 01:42:23,559
Speaker 1: Josh Allen thing. This is Shaun Watson, Baker Mayfield, who

1931
01:42:23,640 --> 01:42:27,200
Speaker 1: knows Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, all of these great young

1932
01:42:27,320 --> 01:42:30,519
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the AFC have two choices. They can get

1933
01:42:30,560 --> 01:42:32,320
Speaker 1: to the playoffs every year and lose to the Chiefs,

1934
01:42:32,360 --> 01:42:34,519
Speaker 1: so they can decide to take them out. And this

1935
01:42:34,760 --> 01:42:35,960
Speaker 1: is not a next year. I think this is the

1936
01:42:36,040 --> 01:42:38,400
Speaker 1: next ten, fifteen years, and he's not going anywhere, and

1937
01:42:38,600 --> 01:42:41,160
Speaker 1: there'll be new Kelsey's and there'll be new Tyreeks. So

1938
01:42:41,560 --> 01:42:44,160
Speaker 1: when Trey White came out and just said, listen, I'm

1939
01:42:44,200 --> 01:42:45,840
Speaker 1: not going to beat around the bushit we have to

1940
01:42:45,960 --> 01:42:50,280
Speaker 1: beat the Chiefs, and I loved it. It's true. I

1941
01:42:50,439 --> 01:42:52,479
Speaker 1: know philosophically, I've been kind of wrestling with us when

1942
01:42:52,479 --> 01:42:53,960
Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys have been too, and it's something

1943
01:42:54,040 --> 01:42:56,120
Speaker 1: that three of us have talked about for really two years.

1944
01:42:56,880 --> 01:42:59,479
Speaker 1: Is this Do you look at this as a as

1945
01:42:59,560 --> 01:43:02,640
Speaker 1: a a huge success of a season. Is it just

1946
01:43:02,920 --> 01:43:05,280
Speaker 1: it's done, This was a great, great season, or are

1947
01:43:05,320 --> 01:43:07,840
Speaker 1: you left longing with it. I've gone back a little

1948
01:43:07,880 --> 01:43:10,760
Speaker 1: bit because you get to the final four, you want

1949
01:43:10,800 --> 01:43:12,600
Speaker 1: to win the damn super Bowl. You're not happy to

1950
01:43:12,680 --> 01:43:14,880
Speaker 1: be there. But I've had a couple of days to

1951
01:43:14,960 --> 01:43:17,360
Speaker 1: think about it and what they accomplished this year to

1952
01:43:17,439 --> 01:43:19,560
Speaker 1: go from you know, they've never won squat in the

1953
01:43:19,560 --> 01:43:22,400
Speaker 1: playoffs in a quarter century to They beat the Colts,

1954
01:43:22,720 --> 01:43:25,320
Speaker 1: they beat the Ravens. I think it was a very

1955
01:43:25,400 --> 01:43:27,840
Speaker 1: successful season, but I would just cost and everybody not

1956
01:43:27,880 --> 01:43:30,320
Speaker 1: to be satisfied. Yes, certainly you got to be. It

1957
01:43:30,439 --> 01:43:32,240
Speaker 1: was an absolute blast to be a part of. They

1958
01:43:32,280 --> 01:43:35,640
Speaker 1: won fifteen games over the course of the season. Yeah. Absolutely,

1959
01:43:35,720 --> 01:43:37,360
Speaker 1: There's a ton of teams that would trade places with

1960
01:43:37,439 --> 01:43:39,320
Speaker 1: them in a heartbeat. But you get that close, you

1961
01:43:39,360 --> 01:43:42,920
Speaker 1: gotta thinks it's not about that, it's about getting winning.

1962
01:43:43,160 --> 01:43:45,200
Speaker 1: And I think it's really it was a smart move

1963
01:43:45,280 --> 01:43:47,439
Speaker 1: by by Tredavius and a lot of other guys in

1964
01:43:47,479 --> 01:43:49,880
Speaker 1: the organization as well. You gotta give you gotta take

1965
01:43:49,920 --> 01:43:53,200
Speaker 1: your hats off to the Chief Chiefs because, first of all, yes,

1966
01:43:54,960 --> 01:43:57,400
Speaker 1: they we kind of said this on our program. They

1967
01:43:57,520 --> 01:43:59,320
Speaker 1: looked coming down the stretch of the season like they

1968
01:43:59,400 --> 01:44:01,519
Speaker 1: took it out a year. They were doing enough to win,

1969
01:44:02,160 --> 01:44:04,320
Speaker 1: and you worried, like, okay, what are they that good

1970
01:44:04,520 --> 01:44:06,599
Speaker 1: or are they you know that? And we found out

1971
01:44:06,720 --> 01:44:08,760
Speaker 1: they are that good. They are a great team. And

1972
01:44:08,880 --> 01:44:11,479
Speaker 1: in that championship game against the Bills, they played great.

1973
01:44:12,200 --> 01:44:14,439
Speaker 1: They got a lot, they got a big engine under

1974
01:44:14,479 --> 01:44:16,439
Speaker 1: the hood, and it goes on both sides of the ball.

1975
01:44:16,760 --> 01:44:20,680
Speaker 1: Tyranne Matthews, Chris Jones and those guys on the defensive

1976
01:44:20,720 --> 01:44:24,040
Speaker 1: side played just as well against the Bills offense, or

1977
01:44:24,080 --> 01:44:26,080
Speaker 1: maybe not just as well, but pretty well. And that

1978
01:44:26,280 --> 01:44:29,599
Speaker 1: offense with Mahomes and those guys, they were off the hook.

1979
01:44:29,760 --> 01:44:33,120
Speaker 1: And that is a big, big mountain to climb for

1980
01:44:33,240 --> 01:44:36,120
Speaker 1: every other team in the conference. It's true. And listen,

1981
01:44:36,400 --> 01:44:38,160
Speaker 1: I think what we're arriving SD it sounds like in

1982
01:44:38,240 --> 01:44:41,560
Speaker 1: your voice is just there's acceptance. Okay, you're not in

1983
01:44:41,640 --> 01:44:44,600
Speaker 1: denial anymore, You're not angry, reached that stage of acceptance.

1984
01:44:45,320 --> 01:44:48,640
Speaker 1: And I accept that the Chiefs were much better. I mean,

1985
01:44:48,680 --> 01:44:51,160
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, like I think they played ten times.

1986
01:44:51,200 --> 01:44:52,960
Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs win seven maybe eight. I think

1987
01:44:52,960 --> 01:44:55,000
Speaker 1: they were that much better. That's okay, Like you got

1988
01:44:55,040 --> 01:44:57,280
Speaker 1: your work to do now, Like you know what is

1989
01:44:57,280 --> 01:44:59,960
Speaker 1: out in front of you. It's what's crazy about Kansas City,

1990
01:45:00,080 --> 01:45:03,080
Speaker 1: especially pretends of that game is it sounds like a joke,

1991
01:45:03,160 --> 01:45:05,720
Speaker 1: but I'm dead serious. I knew that the Bills were

1992
01:45:05,800 --> 01:45:09,120
Speaker 1: in trouble the second the extra point hit the upright,

1993
01:45:09,520 --> 01:45:12,439
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, they're screwed, because there's something about even

1994
01:45:12,600 --> 01:45:14,800
Speaker 1: even if it hadn't even if even if it hadn't

1995
01:45:14,840 --> 01:45:17,000
Speaker 1: gone and they go up ten nothing. There's something about

1996
01:45:17,080 --> 01:45:19,439
Speaker 1: this Kansas City team where when they bleed a little

1997
01:45:19,439 --> 01:45:21,479
Speaker 1: bit earlier, they get really mad and then they just

1998
01:45:21,600 --> 01:45:23,840
Speaker 1: unleash hell on you. It's like in the games that

1999
01:45:23,920 --> 01:45:26,360
Speaker 1: they've lost, the very few with Mahomes, you kind of

2000
01:45:26,360 --> 01:45:28,400
Speaker 1: got to sneak up on him. You gotta hang around,

2001
01:45:28,600 --> 01:45:32,200
Speaker 1: you know, going a halftime sixteen ten, within a score.

2002
01:45:32,520 --> 01:45:35,360
Speaker 1: There's something in their DNA, and when it's reading, it's Mahomes.

2003
01:45:35,400 --> 01:45:38,479
Speaker 1: And when they get down, they turn incredible. And so

2004
01:45:39,520 --> 01:45:41,280
Speaker 1: when they must have punched and the Bills punched it in,

2005
01:45:41,400 --> 01:45:43,080
Speaker 1: you know, all Bill signs are going crazy. I was like,

2006
01:45:43,200 --> 01:45:45,320
Speaker 1: this might not be good because they might have woke

2007
01:45:45,400 --> 01:45:47,400
Speaker 1: up the sleeping Giant, and sure enough that the game

2008
01:45:47,520 --> 01:45:52,519
Speaker 1: was never the same. We had John McDermott make his

2009
01:45:53,000 --> 01:45:57,559
Speaker 1: season wrap up press conference today and he was kind

2010
01:45:57,560 --> 01:46:00,400
Speaker 1: of talking along the same lines as the comments you

2011
01:46:00,479 --> 01:46:02,960
Speaker 1: mentioned that trudevious whitehead. He said, we have to ask

2012
01:46:03,040 --> 01:46:07,960
Speaker 1: ourselves tough questions, but in the same breath he also said, hey,

2013
01:46:08,360 --> 01:46:11,320
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are in year eight of their program. We're

2014
01:46:11,360 --> 01:46:14,920
Speaker 1: in year four, so I think because of that disparity,

2015
01:46:15,439 --> 01:46:18,880
Speaker 1: he feels that they can continue to close ground. I

2016
01:46:18,960 --> 01:46:21,960
Speaker 1: guess the question going forward, though, Kyle, is how quickly

2017
01:46:22,040 --> 01:46:24,519
Speaker 1: can that ground be closed? Because, as you said, we're

2018
01:46:24,560 --> 01:46:27,040
Speaker 1: talking about a ten years stretch here where you know,

2019
01:46:27,160 --> 01:46:29,360
Speaker 1: Ma Holmes is going to be the quarterback in Kansas City,

2020
01:46:29,840 --> 01:46:33,120
Speaker 1: and you know, to his credit, Coach said, you know,

2021
01:46:33,240 --> 01:46:36,160
Speaker 1: getting this far has to make us even hungrier rather

2022
01:46:36,280 --> 01:46:38,719
Speaker 1: than making us feel like we've arrived. So the question

2023
01:46:38,800 --> 01:46:41,439
Speaker 1: for you, though, is is it just as simple as saying,

2024
01:46:42,080 --> 01:46:44,919
Speaker 1: let's turn into Al Davis and start drafting the fastest

2025
01:46:44,920 --> 01:46:48,560
Speaker 1: people we can find, you know, signing giant humans to

2026
01:46:48,640 --> 01:46:50,400
Speaker 1: play on the line. I mean, is it that simple

2027
01:46:50,520 --> 01:46:52,960
Speaker 1: or is there something that goes deeper than that here

2028
01:46:53,000 --> 01:46:56,040
Speaker 1: in terms of matching up with the Chiefs better going forward?

2029
01:46:56,760 --> 01:47:00,160
Speaker 1: You know, the Al Davis thing I totally get, but

2030
01:47:00,439 --> 01:47:03,760
Speaker 1: I think then you become like the Chiefs knockoff. It's

2031
01:47:03,880 --> 01:47:06,040
Speaker 1: it's like your your dollar store Chiefs. You're not going

2032
01:47:06,080 --> 01:47:07,519
Speaker 1: to do it as well as them. They're not going

2033
01:47:07,560 --> 01:47:09,479
Speaker 1: to be as fast as Tyreek, and you're not going

2034
01:47:09,520 --> 01:47:11,760
Speaker 1: to execute it as well as the enemy does and

2035
01:47:12,800 --> 01:47:14,720
Speaker 1: Mahomes does as good as the Bills are. I mean,

2036
01:47:14,760 --> 01:47:16,280
Speaker 1: you have to find your own way to do it.

2037
01:47:16,479 --> 01:47:18,599
Speaker 1: It's just um. You know, we went around the table

2038
01:47:18,640 --> 01:47:21,880
Speaker 1: today and we said, well, what's a positive takeaway that

2039
01:47:21,960 --> 01:47:23,759
Speaker 1: you can build on? And you know you mentioned Burlasson,

2040
01:47:23,800 --> 01:47:26,599
Speaker 1: said McDermott, and you know I did my thing on Well,

2041
01:47:27,000 --> 01:47:29,559
Speaker 1: Alan and Diggs were incredible and they didn't have training

2042
01:47:29,640 --> 01:47:31,000
Speaker 1: camp and a lot of things that have been said

2043
01:47:31,000 --> 01:47:33,559
Speaker 1: about them, so they will be great and they will

2044
01:47:33,600 --> 01:47:35,400
Speaker 1: be excellent. I have every reason to believe. And I

2045
01:47:35,479 --> 01:47:37,840
Speaker 1: told Bills fans buy a Diggs jersey by an Allan Jers.

2046
01:47:37,960 --> 01:47:40,800
Speaker 1: That's the future. But that's not enough. Like, you can't

2047
01:47:40,920 --> 01:47:43,160
Speaker 1: beat the Chiefs with just Alan and Diggs. It's a

2048
01:47:43,240 --> 01:47:45,160
Speaker 1: nice combination. You could lead the league and they could

2049
01:47:45,160 --> 01:47:47,479
Speaker 1: still lose by twenty to the Chiefs. There's got to

2050
01:47:47,520 --> 01:47:50,000
Speaker 1: be more. I mean, there's there has to be more firepower.

2051
01:47:50,040 --> 01:47:52,360
Speaker 1: And I just I don't know. I grew up in

2052
01:47:52,439 --> 01:47:55,160
Speaker 1: Chicago and I know a lot of Bills fans who

2053
01:47:55,200 --> 01:47:58,800
Speaker 1: have been through the tough times. They remember the nineties NBA,

2054
01:47:58,920 --> 01:48:01,560
Speaker 1: eighties NBA, and there's gonna be some teams in the

2055
01:48:01,600 --> 01:48:03,400
Speaker 1: ask you over the next ten years. That are the

2056
01:48:03,479 --> 01:48:05,600
Speaker 1: car Malone and they're the Charles Barkley and they're the

2057
01:48:05,600 --> 01:48:08,479
Speaker 1: Patrick Ewen and they're there. Reggie Miller, great great players,

2058
01:48:08,560 --> 01:48:10,840
Speaker 1: great entities. They were just playing at the wrong time

2059
01:48:10,880 --> 01:48:12,800
Speaker 1: and they played against Jordan. And that's what you have

2060
01:48:12,920 --> 01:48:15,519
Speaker 1: in the AFC. You don't want to be the quarterback again.

2061
01:48:15,600 --> 01:48:18,240
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, Josh Allen Baker Mayfield who was saying twenty

2062
01:48:18,280 --> 01:48:20,479
Speaker 1: years from man, great career. We had a great run,

2063
01:48:20,560 --> 01:48:22,479
Speaker 1: but ah Man Mahomes was just too tough and we

2064
01:48:22,600 --> 01:48:25,320
Speaker 1: never won the big one. Like screw that. You have

2065
01:48:25,479 --> 01:48:27,680
Speaker 1: to get through that because I think Patrick Ewen and

2066
01:48:27,760 --> 01:48:29,599
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley, all those guys that it's sill miserable because

2067
01:48:29,640 --> 01:48:31,960
Speaker 1: they couldn't beat Jordans. Like you have to find a way.

2068
01:48:32,000 --> 01:48:33,880
Speaker 1: And I don't know what it is, Ronnie. I don't

2069
01:48:33,880 --> 01:48:36,400
Speaker 1: think it's just getting fast players. I think it's some

2070
01:48:36,479 --> 01:48:38,920
Speaker 1: tangible things like McDermott talked that about today, where like

2071
01:48:38,960 --> 01:48:41,200
Speaker 1: you actually have to run. I think their past rush

2072
01:48:41,240 --> 01:48:43,240
Speaker 1: has to be a little bit. It's a lot of things. Watch.

2073
01:48:43,360 --> 01:48:45,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how the Buccaneers they're gonna

2074
01:48:45,200 --> 01:48:48,200
Speaker 1: beat him. They're so good and they're so young. That

2075
01:48:48,400 --> 01:48:50,120
Speaker 1: was my question as well. You know you can see

2076
01:48:50,120 --> 01:48:52,240
Speaker 1: it all these things. Can Tom Brady find a way

2077
01:48:52,280 --> 01:48:54,920
Speaker 1: to beat Mahomes? I mean that's a guy that if

2078
01:48:54,960 --> 01:48:57,679
Speaker 1: you're you're talking about a guy who's got the depth

2079
01:48:57,760 --> 01:48:59,759
Speaker 1: of knowledge of how to do it, it's Tom Brady

2080
01:48:59,840 --> 01:49:01,759
Speaker 1: and plus both these teams will probably be one hundred

2081
01:49:01,760 --> 01:49:03,920
Speaker 1: percent healthy by the time the game rolls around. How

2082
01:49:04,000 --> 01:49:07,160
Speaker 1: do you see I mean way early, and there's not

2083
01:49:07,240 --> 01:49:12,080
Speaker 1: gonna be like this big extravaganza in Tampa Bay. We're

2084
01:49:12,120 --> 01:49:14,720
Speaker 1: just gonna be talking about in situations like this just off,

2085
01:49:14,840 --> 01:49:18,320
Speaker 1: you know, on radio, What do you think about two

2086
01:49:18,400 --> 01:49:20,800
Speaker 1: weeks out? What do you think about the Super Bowl? Well,

2087
01:49:21,120 --> 01:49:23,280
Speaker 1: I'm glad the Bucks won the game because I think

2088
01:49:23,320 --> 01:49:25,400
Speaker 1: the Packers would have got annihilated by Kansas City. I

2089
01:49:25,479 --> 01:49:27,240
Speaker 1: don't think their defense would have been able to do anything.

2090
01:49:27,760 --> 01:49:29,719
Speaker 1: So we'll have a good matchup. You know, we reached

2091
01:49:29,800 --> 01:49:32,200
Speaker 1: this point like where we're at a stalemate in terms

2092
01:49:32,240 --> 01:49:34,760
Speaker 1: of how you talk about the quarterbacks where we were

2093
01:49:34,800 --> 01:49:36,840
Speaker 1: discussing it. I'm sure you guys have done similar things,

2094
01:49:36,880 --> 01:49:40,320
Speaker 1: and you know, I think it was Peter Schrager at

2095
01:49:40,360 --> 01:49:42,880
Speaker 1: the table. He kept saying, you know, Brady has done

2096
01:49:42,920 --> 01:49:44,800
Speaker 1: this and this is the tenth Super Bowl, and he's

2097
01:49:45,080 --> 01:49:47,679
Speaker 1: how do you possibly bet against Brady on this stage?

2098
01:49:47,720 --> 01:49:49,360
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, I agree with you, but

2099
01:49:49,720 --> 01:49:52,040
Speaker 1: how do you possibly bet against the Homes on this stage?

2100
01:49:52,680 --> 01:49:55,479
Speaker 1: It's there's some there's like a stalemate between that's a

2101
01:49:55,560 --> 01:49:57,000
Speaker 1: rock and a hard place, and I don't want to

2102
01:49:57,080 --> 01:50:01,200
Speaker 1: count either of them out the game itself. Like you know,

2103
01:50:01,320 --> 01:50:03,559
Speaker 1: we did the thing that you do that we did

2104
01:50:03,680 --> 01:50:05,160
Speaker 1: last week, all of us did, where you go back

2105
01:50:05,200 --> 01:50:07,160
Speaker 1: and look at the prior game between the two teams,

2106
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Speaker 1: just like we looked at Packs, Bucks and we looked

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01:50:09,160 --> 01:50:12,000
Speaker 1: at Chiefs Bills. You know, the Bucks and the Chiefs

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01:50:12,000 --> 01:50:15,120
Speaker 1: have already played. And Tyreek Hill went absolutely ballistic and

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01:50:15,200 --> 01:50:17,760
Speaker 1: said two hundred yards in the first quarter, and then

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01:50:17,800 --> 01:50:19,439
Speaker 1: the Bucks came back and made it a game. I

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01:50:19,720 --> 01:50:22,120
Speaker 1: don't take a cun from that other than this, and

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01:50:22,240 --> 01:50:25,759
Speaker 1: this is this is your extremely early tangible key. Whatever

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01:50:25,840 --> 01:50:28,680
Speaker 1: we are twelve days off from the Super Bowl. The

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01:50:28,760 --> 01:50:31,240
Speaker 1: pass rush was really good that last time. A Jpp

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01:50:31,360 --> 01:50:33,240
Speaker 1: and Shack Barrett, the same guys who went nuts against

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01:50:33,280 --> 01:50:36,519
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, last week, and now you have both of

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01:50:36,680 --> 01:50:40,040
Speaker 1: the chiefs two best tackles and Fisher and Schwartz both out.

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01:50:40,680 --> 01:50:44,200
Speaker 1: So Mahomes is usually not sacked, most reason sacked all

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01:50:44,280 --> 01:50:46,519
Speaker 1: years four times and that was on a win. So

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01:50:46,840 --> 01:50:50,439
Speaker 1: if that's anything, losing their best tackle already being out Schwartz,

2121
01:50:50,640 --> 01:50:52,400
Speaker 1: maybe the past rush can get to them. But other

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01:50:52,479 --> 01:50:54,800
Speaker 1: than that, like, I can't bet against the Chiefs after

2123
01:50:54,840 --> 01:50:57,599
Speaker 1: what I just saw them due to Buffalo, I would

2124
01:50:57,640 --> 01:50:59,760
Speaker 1: agree and then agree with them that that was a

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01:51:00,000 --> 01:51:02,599
Speaker 1: that was an absolute exhibition on something for the Chiefs.

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01:51:02,880 --> 01:51:06,600
Speaker 1: What about Brownie? Yeah, no, I was. I was just

2127
01:51:06,720 --> 01:51:09,760
Speaker 1: thinking about, you know, how this Bills team could be

2128
01:51:09,840 --> 01:51:12,600
Speaker 1: different next year. And obviously we're we're all waiting to

2129
01:51:12,680 --> 01:51:15,400
Speaker 1: see what happens down in Houston and Wesley whether Leslie

2130
01:51:15,439 --> 01:51:18,479
Speaker 1: Fraser is their choice. And you know, we also know

2131
01:51:18,560 --> 01:51:21,200
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks coach Ken Dorsey's getting interviewed up in Seattle

2132
01:51:21,240 --> 01:51:25,519
Speaker 1: for an OC job. But knowing Dable is going to

2133
01:51:25,600 --> 01:51:29,040
Speaker 1: be back in the Fold next year, how much do

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01:51:29,160 --> 01:51:33,240
Speaker 1: you think that accelerates Josh Allen's curve? Kyle, Because we

2135
01:51:33,600 --> 01:51:36,800
Speaker 1: we we had Jordan Palmer his offseason quarterbacks coach for

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01:51:36,920 --> 01:51:39,240
Speaker 1: lack of a better term. On the show like three

2137
01:51:39,320 --> 01:51:43,200
Speaker 1: weeks ago, he said Josh doesn't have a ceiling because

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01:51:43,240 --> 01:51:47,240
Speaker 1: of his elite physical characteristics and his and his football

2139
01:51:47,320 --> 01:51:49,360
Speaker 1: IQ and Steve and I looked at each other like,

2140
01:51:49,640 --> 01:51:53,720
Speaker 1: holy crap, there's well there's no ceiling. How how much

2141
01:51:53,760 --> 01:51:56,200
Speaker 1: do you think that could be further accelerated? Knowing Dable

2142
01:51:56,280 --> 01:51:58,080
Speaker 1: still in the fold at least for twenty twenty one,

2143
01:51:58,439 --> 01:52:01,080
Speaker 1: it's a big win. It's like last year Mahomes retained

2144
01:52:01,120 --> 01:52:04,800
Speaker 1: the enemy and now look where he is again. He's

2145
01:52:04,840 --> 01:52:06,880
Speaker 1: got to be better. Look, you know, we love Josh

2146
01:52:06,920 --> 01:52:08,920
Speaker 1: and I try to talk as constructively as possible. I

2147
01:52:09,280 --> 01:52:11,719
Speaker 1: think for them to win that game against the Chiefs,

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01:52:12,000 --> 01:52:14,439
Speaker 1: I think he needed to be excellent and he wasn't.

2149
01:52:15,000 --> 01:52:17,240
Speaker 1: He was he wasn't. He was a little shaky. We

2150
01:52:17,400 --> 01:52:19,559
Speaker 1: had what we've called them during Le Sugar High, Josh

2151
01:52:19,640 --> 01:52:21,320
Speaker 1: Allen come out a few times where it gets really

2152
01:52:21,360 --> 01:52:23,880
Speaker 1: worked up. It was it wasn't a great game for him,

2153
01:52:24,320 --> 01:52:27,080
Speaker 1: And sure he's gonna get better. You know, I say

2154
01:52:27,120 --> 01:52:29,360
Speaker 1: that about these quarterbacks all the time. I don't know.

2155
01:52:29,400 --> 01:52:31,920
Speaker 1: I remember growing up in the nineties and the two thousands,

2156
01:52:32,040 --> 01:52:34,759
Speaker 1: like Steve when you were playing these quarterbacks, they wouldn't

2157
01:52:34,840 --> 01:52:37,960
Speaker 1: hit their prime quote unquote until you know, the sixth

2158
01:52:38,200 --> 01:52:41,120
Speaker 1: seventh season, Like they're getting to become season veterans and

2159
01:52:41,280 --> 01:52:44,200
Speaker 1: now they're really getting it. I still think Mahomes and

2160
01:52:44,280 --> 01:52:47,760
Speaker 1: Allen are entering their primes now, like next season, and

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01:52:48,000 --> 01:52:50,240
Speaker 1: Mahomes already has a Super Bowl and MVP. He's still

2162
01:52:50,280 --> 01:52:53,560
Speaker 1: a young guy. So as it pertains to Allan, I

2163
01:52:53,680 --> 01:52:55,599
Speaker 1: still look at him and see it untapped. He's too

2164
01:52:55,680 --> 01:52:57,840
Speaker 1: big and too gifted to not keep doing and keep

2165
01:52:57,920 --> 01:53:00,360
Speaker 1: getting better. But I don't know. It's like anything I

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01:53:00,400 --> 01:53:02,840
Speaker 1: say about Allen, it's always like, yeah but Mahomes, Yeah

2167
01:53:02,880 --> 01:53:05,000
Speaker 1: but Mahomes, And I resent myself saying it, but it's

2168
01:53:05,000 --> 01:53:07,800
Speaker 1: just like I watched the games and the whole league

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01:53:08,000 --> 01:53:10,720
Speaker 1: is yeah, but Mahomes. So I don't know. If I

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01:53:10,800 --> 01:53:12,519
Speaker 1: was Josh Allen, I'd be like I'd be like Rocky

2171
01:53:12,600 --> 01:53:14,760
Speaker 1: training in Siberia with a picture of Drago. There'd be

2172
01:53:14,800 --> 01:53:16,360
Speaker 1: a picture of Mahomes on the mirror as I did

2173
01:53:16,400 --> 01:53:19,479
Speaker 1: my abs, because like he's kind of dictating the entire world,

2174
01:53:19,600 --> 01:53:22,439
Speaker 1: Like that's that's what I would do. He's the Drago.

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01:53:22,600 --> 01:53:24,680
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot to that, Kyle, because of this.

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01:53:24,880 --> 01:53:26,719
Speaker 1: You know, these two guys are very young, and certainly

2177
01:53:26,760 --> 01:53:29,400
Speaker 1: Mahomes has three AFC championships under his belt in his

2178
01:53:29,560 --> 01:53:31,200
Speaker 1: fourth year at the end of his fourth year here,

2179
01:53:32,280 --> 01:53:35,960
Speaker 1: and and Josh Allen's been to the playoffs twice his

2180
01:53:36,080 --> 01:53:38,360
Speaker 1: last two years, and now he's gotten to the championship game.

2181
01:53:38,400 --> 01:53:40,840
Speaker 1: And we talked about this, what the lessons the Bills

2182
01:53:40,880 --> 01:53:42,920
Speaker 1: will take away from this game, and I think it's this.

2183
01:53:43,320 --> 01:53:45,400
Speaker 1: You know, the Bills fans were all in a not

2184
01:53:45,600 --> 01:53:49,000
Speaker 1: over the AFC Championship game because there was so much pressure,

2185
01:53:49,160 --> 01:53:52,400
Speaker 1: so much at stake, so much going on. The whole

2186
01:53:52,439 --> 01:53:55,200
Speaker 1: season was riding on winning this game. And I told

2187
01:53:55,240 --> 01:53:59,479
Speaker 1: Brownie this earlier in the program. Next year, the Bills

2188
01:53:59,479 --> 01:54:01,800
Speaker 1: will take this stuff for granted. It won't be that

2189
01:54:02,040 --> 01:54:05,280
Speaker 1: big unknown cliff that they or this unknown wall that

2190
01:54:05,360 --> 01:54:08,040
Speaker 1: they have to break through. They'll have been there. And

2191
01:54:08,160 --> 01:54:10,559
Speaker 1: I think you're right. These young quarterbacks who have been

2192
01:54:10,640 --> 01:54:13,639
Speaker 1: and got had some success. Now as they get further

2193
01:54:13,720 --> 01:54:16,120
Speaker 1: and further into their careers, these big games are gonna

2194
01:54:16,120 --> 01:54:18,240
Speaker 1: be like Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, this is just another

2195
01:54:18,320 --> 01:54:22,840
Speaker 1: day at the office for these guys. That's right, and

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01:54:22,960 --> 01:54:26,200
Speaker 1: I think that that changes how they approach everything in

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01:54:26,280 --> 01:54:28,320
Speaker 1: the lead up to that game, and it makes them

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01:54:28,439 --> 01:54:31,000
Speaker 1: their teammates more prepared for those moments as well. I

2199
01:54:31,600 --> 01:54:33,440
Speaker 1: think you're right, these got the fact that these are

2200
01:54:33,480 --> 01:54:36,080
Speaker 1: so young. Certainly Mahomes has had a ton of success

2201
01:54:36,280 --> 01:54:39,080
Speaker 1: and won a world championship, but a guy like Josh Allen,

2202
01:54:39,160 --> 01:54:42,560
Speaker 1: a guy like Deshaun Watson, these guys like Lamar Jackson,

2203
01:54:43,560 --> 01:54:47,920
Speaker 1: these repeatable years where they get to that playoff level

2204
01:54:48,680 --> 01:54:53,640
Speaker 1: will then become the expected, not the pressure filled, be

2205
01:54:53,800 --> 01:54:55,600
Speaker 1: all end all kind of thing for them, and it'll

2206
01:54:55,640 --> 01:54:58,080
Speaker 1: become more and more competitive. I think for that reason.

2207
01:54:58,520 --> 01:55:01,400
Speaker 1: Gay men, Steve, it's it's funny to that note, sitting

2208
01:55:01,440 --> 01:55:04,640
Speaker 1: here talking on this like, you know, this melancholy Tuesday,

2209
01:55:05,000 --> 01:55:07,320
Speaker 1: And I think back to when we talked last week,

2210
01:55:07,960 --> 01:55:11,360
Speaker 1: and Brownie remember this. I posed the question to Steve about,

2211
01:55:11,440 --> 01:55:13,720
Speaker 1: given the history and all the scar tissue with Buffalo,

2212
01:55:14,200 --> 01:55:16,640
Speaker 1: would there be any sense at all that it would

2213
01:55:16,680 --> 01:55:19,040
Speaker 1: be better to lose in the title game than get

2214
01:55:19,080 --> 01:55:22,080
Speaker 1: to another Super Bowl and lose a fifth Super Bowl

2215
01:55:22,120 --> 01:55:24,600
Speaker 1: and have the heartache. And you remember, I mean Steve

2216
01:55:24,960 --> 01:55:27,120
Speaker 1: started banging on the pulpit and was like, you have

2217
01:55:27,200 --> 01:55:29,480
Speaker 1: this incredible monologue about and you got to throw that

2218
01:55:29,600 --> 01:55:31,920
Speaker 1: punch and I absolutely not, And you've got to go

2219
01:55:32,040 --> 01:55:35,480
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl and Steve, you're so right, because

2220
01:55:35,600 --> 01:55:37,600
Speaker 1: you know, I developed a lot of love for this team.

2221
01:55:37,640 --> 01:55:39,960
Speaker 1: I'm disappointed this week too, and you are so right.

2222
01:55:40,040 --> 01:55:43,080
Speaker 1: It's always better to go to the game and swing

2223
01:55:43,160 --> 01:55:48,120
Speaker 1: them and throw the punch and maybe they will next year. Yep. So, Kyle,

2224
01:55:48,200 --> 01:55:49,640
Speaker 1: I do have to say you did a hell of

2225
01:55:49,680 --> 01:55:54,800
Speaker 1: a job capturing the what has created all that scar

2226
01:55:54,920 --> 01:55:58,760
Speaker 1: tissue in the last hype video that you did put together.

2227
01:56:00,160 --> 01:56:02,880
Speaker 1: You know, whether you're mentioning wide right and years of

2228
01:56:03,000 --> 01:56:07,640
Speaker 1: disappointment and whatever. It was almost cathartic in a way

2229
01:56:07,720 --> 01:56:10,680
Speaker 1: for a lot of people, I think, um, which was

2230
01:56:10,760 --> 01:56:13,080
Speaker 1: why I think they gravitated to you in the way

2231
01:56:13,120 --> 01:56:15,440
Speaker 1: that they did on social media, maybe even more last

2232
01:56:15,480 --> 01:56:18,840
Speaker 1: weekend than the weekend before. So so good on you

2233
01:56:19,040 --> 01:56:21,760
Speaker 1: for for putting that together. I have one completely off

2234
01:56:21,800 --> 01:56:24,800
Speaker 1: topic question that I was talking about though before we

2235
01:56:24,920 --> 01:56:27,560
Speaker 1: let you go. Um, it is football related. As we

2236
01:56:27,680 --> 01:56:30,520
Speaker 1: know you you played your college ball at Princeton. So

2237
01:56:31,240 --> 01:56:33,840
Speaker 1: am I right that Ross Tucker was a teammate of yours. There.

2238
01:56:33,920 --> 01:56:36,440
Speaker 1: You guys crossed over there for what a year or

2239
01:56:36,440 --> 01:56:39,440
Speaker 1: two couple of years. Oh no, well you're you're right,

2240
01:56:39,520 --> 01:56:43,960
Speaker 1: except for the last party we Russ Tucker was my teammate,

2241
01:56:44,240 --> 01:56:47,840
Speaker 1: my fraternity brother, my roommate. We were in the same

2242
01:56:48,000 --> 01:56:50,920
Speaker 1: social club, we were in the same exact class, and

2243
01:56:51,240 --> 01:56:53,440
Speaker 1: uh yeah, we've done everything. Like I was at his

2244
01:56:53,520 --> 01:56:55,480
Speaker 1: house a month ago with his kids, Like he's the best.

2245
01:56:55,520 --> 01:56:58,320
Speaker 1: He's a lifelong friend. Oh there you go. Wow, yeah

2246
01:56:58,400 --> 01:57:04,840
Speaker 1: that is. That's a good party right there. And he

2247
01:57:05,120 --> 01:57:08,320
Speaker 1: was that guy. He was like basically the John Belushi

2248
01:57:08,920 --> 01:57:10,880
Speaker 1: kind of that guy where he's like, you know, I

2249
01:57:11,040 --> 01:57:12,800
Speaker 1: came here and it's a good school, but I sort

2250
01:57:12,840 --> 01:57:14,360
Speaker 1: of have a chip on my shoulder because I feel

2251
01:57:14,360 --> 01:57:15,960
Speaker 1: like I should be playing at ten States and I'm

2252
01:57:16,000 --> 01:57:18,560
Speaker 1: a better player than I shouldn't. I'm kind of going

2253
01:57:18,680 --> 01:57:21,080
Speaker 1: beneath my my weight class here in this school. So

2254
01:57:21,160 --> 01:57:23,160
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna have a bunch of beers and smash

2255
01:57:23,280 --> 01:57:25,200
Speaker 1: things and push nerds that type of stuff. It was

2256
01:57:25,240 --> 01:57:27,440
Speaker 1: a different time back in the nineties. Yeah, yeah, it was.

2257
01:57:27,480 --> 01:57:29,240
Speaker 1: I mean he was up here as a player, as

2258
01:57:29,280 --> 01:57:30,880
Speaker 1: you know, for a few years, so you know, we

2259
01:57:31,000 --> 01:57:32,920
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to cover him, and I mean he

2260
01:57:33,000 --> 01:57:35,080
Speaker 1: was a hood when he was here, so I got

2261
01:57:35,320 --> 01:57:37,880
Speaker 1: college Ross Tucker. I can't imagine that. Oh it was crazy.

2262
01:57:37,960 --> 01:57:41,120
Speaker 1: I mean it's that's a million stories for off the air.

2263
01:57:41,320 --> 01:57:43,480
Speaker 1: He just knows that he was the six five, three

2264
01:57:43,600 --> 01:57:46,600
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen pounds and couldn't chug a bush light

2265
01:57:46,680 --> 01:57:51,920
Speaker 1: to save his life. That that was that was his reputation. Kyle,

2266
01:57:52,000 --> 01:57:54,960
Speaker 1: man's been a great year. Thanks so much, bro Stan,

2267
01:57:55,120 --> 01:57:57,440
Speaker 1: You're the best brownie. I love you, guys. I'll be

2268
01:57:57,600 --> 01:58:03,600
Speaker 1: back anytime. Bill's Mafia respectfully and gracefully dismount only to

2269
01:58:04,080 --> 01:58:06,240
Speaker 1: mount up in September. We will see you then. In

2270
01:58:06,320 --> 01:58:08,840
Speaker 1: the meantime, thank you for the wings and God bless you.

2271
01:58:09,040 --> 01:58:11,000
Speaker 1: And we're all serious about the invitation to come up

2272
01:58:11,040 --> 01:58:13,000
Speaker 1: here in this next season. It'll be a fun time.

2273
01:58:13,280 --> 01:58:15,240
Speaker 1: I'm there, my man. Thank you so much. Steve. All right,

2274
01:58:15,840 --> 01:58:18,840
Speaker 1: all right, that's Kyle Brandt joining us from Good Morning

2275
01:58:18,840 --> 01:58:22,720
Speaker 1: Football for the last time this season. And uh man,

2276
01:58:22,800 --> 01:58:26,800
Speaker 1: he is a riot, can Steve, Can you imagine Ross

2277
01:58:26,960 --> 01:58:33,360
Speaker 1: Tucker and him? Yes, no, I mean yeah, that's a

2278
01:58:33,800 --> 01:58:36,840
Speaker 1: Ross Tucker. I mean, holy cow, in college. I mean,

2279
01:58:37,120 --> 01:58:39,919
Speaker 1: Kyle's got an energy level now he's in his early forties.

2280
01:58:40,600 --> 01:58:42,560
Speaker 1: Could you imagine him in his twenties and then with

2281
01:58:42,760 --> 01:58:46,879
Speaker 1: Ross Tucker as a catalyst. Yeah, I listen, I've witnessed

2282
01:58:46,920 --> 01:58:53,120
Speaker 1: a lot of Yeah, I'm sure, but I'm just thinking

2283
01:58:53,160 --> 01:58:56,920
Speaker 1: of those two characters together. My goodness. That's that's just

2284
01:58:57,120 --> 01:59:00,480
Speaker 1: one more straw on the camel's back right there. Yeah,

2285
01:59:01,000 --> 01:59:03,200
Speaker 1: all right, break time for us. But when Steve and

2286
01:59:03,240 --> 01:59:05,600
Speaker 1: I come back, we'll get back to the tweet sheet

2287
01:59:05,640 --> 01:59:07,280
Speaker 1: as we are, asking you what is at the top

2288
01:59:07,400 --> 01:59:10,600
Speaker 1: of your Bills off season to do list, and we'll

2289
01:59:10,600 --> 01:59:13,640
Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about this quarterback landscape in

2290
01:59:13,720 --> 01:59:16,480
Speaker 1: the AFC. We hope to still at the top of

2291
01:59:16,520 --> 01:59:18,320
Speaker 1: the mountain, but there's a lot of other competition that

2292
01:59:18,400 --> 01:59:20,760
Speaker 1: could potentially get in the way going forward. We'll talk

2293
01:59:20,760 --> 01:59:22,680
Speaker 1: about that when we return here on One Bills Live,

2294
01:59:22,680 --> 01:59:40,240
Speaker 1: because anybody collie to help. It's Buffalo Bills Radio, as

2295
01:59:40,600 --> 01:59:46,480
Speaker 1: one feld wide here on a Tuesday, as we're motoring

2296
01:59:46,520 --> 01:59:51,440
Speaker 1: our way through what was the season ending press conference

2297
01:59:51,480 --> 01:59:54,360
Speaker 1: for One Sean McDermott today, we brought that to you

2298
01:59:54,520 --> 01:59:57,960
Speaker 1: live at eleven am. We'll probably do the same tomorrow

2299
01:59:58,000 --> 02:00:00,880
Speaker 1: when Brandon Bean, general manager of the Bills, scheduled to

2300
02:00:01,000 --> 02:00:05,080
Speaker 1: have his season wrap up press conference and Steve and

2301
02:00:05,160 --> 02:00:08,200
Speaker 1: I discussing today Number one on the Twitter poll, what

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02:00:08,360 --> 02:00:10,200
Speaker 1: is at the top of your offseason to do list

2303
02:00:10,280 --> 02:00:12,320
Speaker 1: for the Bills? Feel free to chime in on that

2304
02:00:12,520 --> 02:00:15,200
Speaker 1: at one Bills Live on Twitter, or you can give

2305
02:00:15,280 --> 02:00:17,120
Speaker 1: us a call at eight oh three oh five fifty.

2306
02:00:17,200 --> 02:00:19,080
Speaker 1: I believe we've got some people holding out right, Steve

2307
02:00:19,200 --> 02:00:21,360
Speaker 1: must go to Greg and West Seneca. Greg, you're on

2308
02:00:21,440 --> 02:00:23,240
Speaker 1: with Chris and Steve this one Bills Live. What's on

2309
02:00:23,360 --> 02:00:27,040
Speaker 1: your mind? Hey guys doing man? I enjoy your show

2310
02:00:27,120 --> 02:00:30,200
Speaker 1: a lot. Thanks for hanging on for us. I wish

2311
02:00:30,320 --> 02:00:32,720
Speaker 1: that's not a problem. Man. I'm staying on anyway, so

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02:00:32,840 --> 02:00:38,040
Speaker 1: I'll be there till three o'clock at least. That's the

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Speaker 1: pass rush that seems to be a little bit of

2314
02:00:43,120 --> 02:00:46,480
Speaker 1: a problem. And I guess my question to you is

2315
02:00:47,080 --> 02:00:50,400
Speaker 1: how happy is JJ Watton Houston? And do you see

2316
02:00:50,480 --> 02:00:57,120
Speaker 1: that as a possibility in Buffalo? And also the two

2317
02:00:57,200 --> 02:01:02,120
Speaker 1: pickups they just had, like within the last month, Kenny

2318
02:01:02,200 --> 02:01:06,320
Speaker 1: Stills and Devant Freeman. Do you see that I'm being

2319
02:01:06,360 --> 02:01:10,480
Speaker 1: on the team next year. Okay, and thanksfull they call

2320
02:01:10,520 --> 02:01:14,920
Speaker 1: Greg appreciate it interesting. First, JJ Watt, there is some talk.

2321
02:01:15,080 --> 02:01:19,600
Speaker 1: Now we all know that Deshaun Watson once out of Houston,

2322
02:01:19,680 --> 02:01:23,440
Speaker 1: he's so mad and it's irreconcilable. I'll believe that when

2323
02:01:23,480 --> 02:01:30,000
Speaker 1: it happens. Secondly, the Houston Texans got some cap problems.

2324
02:01:30,680 --> 02:01:32,760
Speaker 1: And usually when it comes down to a team with

2325
02:01:32,880 --> 02:01:34,800
Speaker 1: the kind of situation that Houston does, they got to

2326
02:01:34,840 --> 02:01:36,960
Speaker 1: do one of two things. One, they either got to

2327
02:01:37,000 --> 02:01:39,240
Speaker 1: restructure some contracts with they gotta get rid of a

2328
02:01:39,240 --> 02:01:41,880
Speaker 1: lot of people period. Then they might have to also

2329
02:01:42,000 --> 02:01:45,280
Speaker 1: restructure some contracts, meaning Deshaun Watson or j. J Watt,

2330
02:01:45,440 --> 02:01:47,400
Speaker 1: who has signed a long term He signed one hundred

2331
02:01:47,440 --> 02:01:49,880
Speaker 1: and three million dollars deal about three four years ago.

2332
02:01:51,800 --> 02:01:54,839
Speaker 1: JJ Watt's happiness in Houston is irrelevant to the equation.

2333
02:01:54,920 --> 02:01:56,720
Speaker 1: It's more about the economics of it. And if they

2334
02:01:56,800 --> 02:02:00,840
Speaker 1: want to trade that guy, I doubt they do, But

2335
02:02:01,200 --> 02:02:03,440
Speaker 1: well I don't. I don't know how tradeable he is

2336
02:02:03,520 --> 02:02:05,320
Speaker 1: because he's got one year left on his deal with

2337
02:02:05,400 --> 02:02:07,760
Speaker 1: a seventeen and a half million dollar price tag on it, right,

2338
02:02:08,080 --> 02:02:10,000
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody wants to inherit that and a

2339
02:02:10,080 --> 02:02:13,600
Speaker 1: thirty two year old player, so it's they're probably gonna

2340
02:02:13,640 --> 02:02:15,600
Speaker 1: ultimately have to release him. I would think Steven then

2341
02:02:15,640 --> 02:02:17,440
Speaker 1: he starts over somewhere else on a one or a

2342
02:02:17,480 --> 02:02:19,600
Speaker 1: two year deal. That's right. He's and he's struggled to

2343
02:02:19,640 --> 02:02:22,120
Speaker 1: stay healthy. He has not been the same player he

2344
02:02:22,200 --> 02:02:24,320
Speaker 1: was when he was three time Defensive Player of the Year.

2345
02:02:25,520 --> 02:02:27,760
Speaker 1: He's just not the same guy. He's thirty two, and

2346
02:02:27,880 --> 02:02:30,560
Speaker 1: he's got some miles on him and he's never gonna

2347
02:02:30,600 --> 02:02:32,800
Speaker 1: live up to as well. I'd just say never. He's

2348
02:02:32,880 --> 02:02:35,080
Speaker 1: probably not going to live up to a seventeen million

2349
02:02:35,160 --> 02:02:38,720
Speaker 1: dollar cap hit for anybody, and with the cap problems

2350
02:02:38,760 --> 02:02:41,800
Speaker 1: that Houston has, I would anticipate they got to cut

2351
02:02:41,880 --> 02:02:43,880
Speaker 1: him loose. He'll be out there and he'll be one

2352
02:02:43,880 --> 02:02:47,240
Speaker 1: of those names out there that's available for teams where

2353
02:02:47,240 --> 02:02:49,760
Speaker 1: the Bills wouldn't be a player. He's not going to

2354
02:02:49,800 --> 02:02:52,800
Speaker 1: command seventeen million bucks, but he may command you know,

2355
02:02:53,000 --> 02:02:56,640
Speaker 1: six or seven or ten or whatever, and for a

2356
02:02:56,720 --> 02:02:59,400
Speaker 1: one year, prove a deal with the Buffalo Bills, you

2357
02:02:59,520 --> 02:03:02,200
Speaker 1: might get the most out of him. And that's kind

2358
02:03:02,200 --> 02:03:03,880
Speaker 1: of what the Bills do with guys like that. We've

2359
02:03:03,960 --> 02:03:08,280
Speaker 1: seen that. Certainly, they pay star star Lutu Lalay a

2360
02:03:08,320 --> 02:03:09,760
Speaker 1: lot of money and he came in on five year

2361
02:03:09,920 --> 02:03:11,960
Speaker 1: but he's seen every money mint of that and and

2362
02:03:12,120 --> 02:03:16,720
Speaker 1: he's he's played all those years. What JJ wants um

2363
02:03:17,880 --> 02:03:19,440
Speaker 1: is gonna you know, what he's gonna be willing to

2364
02:03:19,520 --> 02:03:23,880
Speaker 1: do is gonna be really huge. But yeah, players like

2365
02:03:24,040 --> 02:03:26,800
Speaker 1: JJ Watt, he may not be the best one available

2366
02:03:27,840 --> 02:03:30,480
Speaker 1: when this is all said and done. There are gonna

2367
02:03:30,480 --> 02:03:35,360
Speaker 1: be guys who are younger and talented that are gonna

2368
02:03:35,360 --> 02:03:37,720
Speaker 1: be more effective probably next year than JJ Watt would be.

2369
02:03:37,840 --> 02:03:40,040
Speaker 1: So yeah, this this market is going to be flooded

2370
02:03:40,080 --> 02:03:43,200
Speaker 1: at every position. I think, don't you Brownie? I do?

2371
02:03:43,800 --> 02:03:47,160
Speaker 1: I do? And when I think about the bills pass rush,

2372
02:03:47,240 --> 02:03:49,320
Speaker 1: what I keep coming back to is a statement that

2373
02:03:49,440 --> 02:03:53,240
Speaker 1: we've heard from both Leslie Fraser and from Sean McDermott

2374
02:03:53,520 --> 02:03:58,160
Speaker 1: from the day they got here. Their philosophy defensively is

2375
02:03:58,200 --> 02:04:02,320
Speaker 1: to get home by rushing front four. And I have

2376
02:04:02,520 --> 02:04:07,040
Speaker 1: to say this year they rarely got home when they

2377
02:04:07,160 --> 02:04:12,200
Speaker 1: just rushed for rarely to the point where Coach Fraser

2378
02:04:12,240 --> 02:04:16,080
Speaker 1: and the defensive staff had to switch a lot of

2379
02:04:16,160 --> 02:04:21,120
Speaker 1: things around to generate pressure on a somewhat consistent basis,

2380
02:04:21,440 --> 02:04:26,160
Speaker 1: and it often involved blitzing defensive backs who have speed

2381
02:04:26,640 --> 02:04:30,040
Speaker 1: to get there quick enough on an outside rush or

2382
02:04:30,240 --> 02:04:33,400
Speaker 1: you know, through an inside gap. Yeah, I know the

2383
02:04:33,480 --> 02:04:36,720
Speaker 1: linebackers were used as well, but the majority of the success.

2384
02:04:36,800 --> 02:04:38,840
Speaker 1: If you look at the sack totals, there's almost every

2385
02:04:38,880 --> 02:04:41,600
Speaker 1: defensive back has a sack this season, which I think

2386
02:04:41,680 --> 02:04:44,120
Speaker 1: speaks to how much they had to utilize them to

2387
02:04:44,320 --> 02:04:48,440
Speaker 1: generate pressure on the quarterback. And so if your base

2388
02:04:48,560 --> 02:04:52,320
Speaker 1: philosophy is compromised because you don't have the guys that

2389
02:04:52,400 --> 02:04:55,480
Speaker 1: can get home when you're only rushing four, then you

2390
02:04:55,600 --> 02:04:58,000
Speaker 1: have to look at upgrading that personnel. So I agree

2391
02:04:58,000 --> 02:05:00,240
Speaker 1: with the call and don't think the Bills haven't tried

2392
02:05:00,320 --> 02:05:02,800
Speaker 1: to do that. They spent a first round draft pick

2393
02:05:02,840 --> 02:05:05,280
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years a Japanessa this last year,

2394
02:05:05,280 --> 02:05:09,680
Speaker 1: who's I think it was early second, right, wasn't a yeah,

2395
02:05:09,760 --> 02:05:11,680
Speaker 1: And then they got Ed Oliver before that as a

2396
02:05:11,760 --> 02:05:14,240
Speaker 1: top ten pick or a top twelve pick. I can't

2397
02:05:14,240 --> 02:05:16,160
Speaker 1: remember exactly the number here is, but they got two

2398
02:05:16,280 --> 02:05:19,320
Speaker 1: high draft picks on that line. Oh yeah, and you

2399
02:05:19,440 --> 02:05:24,560
Speaker 1: know they're they're not, you know, knocking it out of

2400
02:05:24,600 --> 02:05:27,400
Speaker 1: the park so far. Now, certainly they've been solid contributors.

2401
02:05:27,440 --> 02:05:31,400
Speaker 1: A Japanessa developed nicely, ed Oliver working from down inside.

2402
02:05:31,480 --> 02:05:33,360
Speaker 1: It's hard to make a name for yourself as a

2403
02:05:33,400 --> 02:05:36,520
Speaker 1: pass rusher from the defensive tackle spot. But both those

2404
02:05:36,640 --> 02:05:41,320
Speaker 1: guys represent a lot of investment of draft capital, and um,

2405
02:05:41,480 --> 02:05:43,360
Speaker 1: you know, it's still we're sitting here saying, yeah, the

2406
02:05:43,400 --> 02:05:46,000
Speaker 1: Bills need a better pass rush. That's hard to live

2407
02:05:46,080 --> 02:05:48,600
Speaker 1: like that. I think it's I think it's predicated though,

2408
02:05:48,640 --> 02:05:51,320
Speaker 1: Steve on speed. Right here, we are talking about speed

2409
02:05:51,360 --> 02:05:56,680
Speaker 1: again because Ed Oliver is a quick player, a penetrating player.

2410
02:05:57,360 --> 02:05:59,480
Speaker 1: Is he a fast player? I don't. I don't know

2411
02:05:59,560 --> 02:06:02,600
Speaker 1: if he is well, and maybe you don't need to

2412
02:06:02,640 --> 02:06:06,800
Speaker 1: be from that position anyway. But aj Epanessa is a

2413
02:06:06,880 --> 02:06:11,440
Speaker 1: player that they had drop weight in training camp, like

2414
02:06:11,840 --> 02:06:15,360
Speaker 1: upwards of fifteen to twenty pounds to make him lighter

2415
02:06:15,480 --> 02:06:19,640
Speaker 1: but very trim. Now he's not fast. He's more of

2416
02:06:19,720 --> 02:06:22,920
Speaker 1: a speed to power rusher off the snap like he's

2417
02:06:22,920 --> 02:06:25,280
Speaker 1: a power rusher, He's not a speed rusher. I think

2418
02:06:25,320 --> 02:06:30,120
Speaker 1: you need a guy that strikes fear in opposing offensive

2419
02:06:30,160 --> 02:06:33,200
Speaker 1: tackles that if I overset, this guy could be buy

2420
02:06:33,280 --> 02:06:34,800
Speaker 1: me on the inside in the blink of an eye.

2421
02:06:35,120 --> 02:06:37,760
Speaker 1: They need a guy that can bend the corner get

2422
02:06:37,800 --> 02:06:40,000
Speaker 1: to the quarterback in two and a half seconds on

2423
02:06:40,120 --> 02:06:43,200
Speaker 1: a clean break. I mean, that's that's what they need. Probably,

2424
02:06:43,680 --> 02:06:46,080
Speaker 1: we've talked about the speed quotient on offense. To keep

2425
02:06:46,120 --> 02:06:49,040
Speaker 1: pace with the Chiefs, you need speed off the edge here,

2426
02:06:49,440 --> 02:06:51,760
Speaker 1: premier speed. You're probably not going to get that draft

2427
02:06:51,840 --> 02:06:54,040
Speaker 1: in thirtieth either, so it's going to be a problem

2428
02:06:54,160 --> 02:06:56,280
Speaker 1: that I'm probably a free agent that they're probably gonna

2429
02:06:56,280 --> 02:06:57,680
Speaker 1: do it. Let's go back to the phones and talk

2430
02:06:57,760 --> 02:07:00,440
Speaker 1: to Dan from Erie. Dan, you're on one Bills Live

2431
02:07:00,480 --> 02:07:03,520
Speaker 1: with Stephen Chris. What's on your mind? Hey, guys, how

2432
02:07:03,520 --> 02:07:07,720
Speaker 1: are we doing? Thanks for taking my call. I believe

2433
02:07:07,800 --> 02:07:12,839
Speaker 1: that addressing the offensive and defensive line is very important,

2434
02:07:13,280 --> 02:07:17,560
Speaker 1: but just as important is running back. Because when you're

2435
02:07:18,280 --> 02:07:21,240
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator playing the Bills and you know that we're

2436
02:07:21,280 --> 02:07:23,960
Speaker 1: going to throw nine times out of ten, they don't

2437
02:07:24,000 --> 02:07:25,880
Speaker 1: respect our running game at all, and I think that

2438
02:07:26,040 --> 02:07:30,080
Speaker 1: needs to be developed. I would agree with you, Dan,

2439
02:07:30,160 --> 02:07:32,160
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call, and that we've gotten a lot

2440
02:07:32,200 --> 02:07:34,120
Speaker 1: of calls and a lot of attention about that today

2441
02:07:34,800 --> 02:07:37,320
Speaker 1: from our tweet sheet as well as callers were. I

2442
02:07:37,400 --> 02:07:39,120
Speaker 1: think a lot of people are jumping on the running

2443
02:07:39,160 --> 02:07:43,640
Speaker 1: back bandwagon, Brownie, And I think you and I are

2444
02:07:43,760 --> 02:07:46,720
Speaker 1: of a mind that I think the running game starts

2445
02:07:46,760 --> 02:07:49,200
Speaker 1: with your offensive line more so, even more so than

2446
02:07:49,280 --> 02:07:52,520
Speaker 1: it does with the guy you hand the football too. Yeah,

2447
02:07:52,800 --> 02:07:56,000
Speaker 1: And if you want an example, look at the Pittsburgh Steelers.

2448
02:07:56,960 --> 02:08:01,280
Speaker 1: The offensive line that they had, probably from about two

2449
02:08:01,400 --> 02:08:04,920
Speaker 1: thou and fourteen to twenty nineteen, was one of the

2450
02:08:05,000 --> 02:08:11,320
Speaker 1: best in football. And Levan Bell and you know, a

2451
02:08:11,800 --> 02:08:16,160
Speaker 1: third round pick and James Connor a third round pick

2452
02:08:17,160 --> 02:08:20,560
Speaker 1: where pro Bowl caliber had pro Bowl caliber production, both

2453
02:08:20,640 --> 02:08:24,800
Speaker 1: of them running behind the same guys. And what did

2454
02:08:24,880 --> 02:08:27,480
Speaker 1: Levion Bell do in New York with the Jets when

2455
02:08:27,520 --> 02:08:30,840
Speaker 1: they had no offensive line that was respectable in the

2456
02:08:30,920 --> 02:08:33,200
Speaker 1: run game? He averaged two point seven yards to carry.

2457
02:08:34,840 --> 02:08:37,280
Speaker 1: And then as this Pittsburgh offensive line got older, what

2458
02:08:37,440 --> 02:08:40,600
Speaker 1: happened this year to their running game? It vanished completely.

2459
02:08:40,680 --> 02:08:42,880
Speaker 1: Couldn't run the ball, they couldn't set the line of scrimmage.

2460
02:08:43,200 --> 02:08:45,800
Speaker 1: So Steve and I are on the same page on this.

2461
02:08:47,000 --> 02:08:49,600
Speaker 1: You build a good you put a good offensive line together,

2462
02:08:50,720 --> 02:08:52,480
Speaker 1: you could have me running back there and I could

2463
02:08:52,520 --> 02:08:55,440
Speaker 1: get three yards. Well, you think that's what Parapolis Coast did.

2464
02:08:55,480 --> 02:08:57,760
Speaker 1: They bolstered their offensive line draft. They've got one of

2465
02:08:57,760 --> 02:09:00,400
Speaker 1: the most dominant offensive lines in the world, and their

2466
02:09:00,480 --> 02:09:03,360
Speaker 1: guy came from Their running back came from nowhere this

2467
02:09:03,480 --> 02:09:05,400
Speaker 1: year and had a phenomenal year. He was a real

2468
02:09:05,600 --> 02:09:08,360
Speaker 1: force coming down the stretch for the Colts, and he

2469
02:09:08,560 --> 02:09:12,400
Speaker 1: was well, Jonathan Taylor is a super talent too, Right,

2470
02:09:12,960 --> 02:09:15,760
Speaker 1: he was the other because he's really good. But you're

2471
02:09:15,800 --> 02:09:19,080
Speaker 1: talking about Niheim Hines. Marlon Mack the year before he

2472
02:09:19,160 --> 02:09:22,520
Speaker 1: got injured, he was a really productive running back in

2473
02:09:22,600 --> 02:09:25,920
Speaker 1: that system because of the line play. Yeah, it's so

2474
02:09:26,240 --> 02:09:28,240
Speaker 1: you can win here. You can win here with two

2475
02:09:28,360 --> 02:09:31,040
Speaker 1: third round picks in Moss and Singletary. If you have

2476
02:09:31,080 --> 02:09:33,800
Speaker 1: a line like the Steelers were able to put together

2477
02:09:33,840 --> 02:09:36,640
Speaker 1: for those four or five six years, you can win

2478
02:09:36,720 --> 02:09:38,760
Speaker 1: with anybody back there. Hearing the Chiefs have a good

2479
02:09:38,760 --> 02:09:42,600
Speaker 1: offensive line at Darryl Williams is more than productive enough

2480
02:09:42,680 --> 02:09:45,080
Speaker 1: in that offense, and granted he's facing a lot of

2481
02:09:45,160 --> 02:09:47,400
Speaker 1: light boxes because of the talent. You have a wide

2482
02:09:47,440 --> 02:09:50,320
Speaker 1: receiver in Kansas City and a tight end, but they

2483
02:09:50,360 --> 02:09:52,320
Speaker 1: also have a pretty good line. So that should not

2484
02:09:52,400 --> 02:09:55,040
Speaker 1: be dismissed. Think about this though, too. I'm Brownie. I mean,

2485
02:09:56,000 --> 02:09:58,680
Speaker 1: you've got it's rare that you're gonna pick a guy

2486
02:09:58,880 --> 02:10:04,720
Speaker 1: like a you know, Saquon Barkley, great talent, but what

2487
02:10:04,920 --> 02:10:06,760
Speaker 1: can he do? You know, what what is he doing?

2488
02:10:06,840 --> 02:10:10,000
Speaker 1: He's not going to carry you to a playoff run.

2489
02:10:10,080 --> 02:10:12,040
Speaker 1: Your quarterback and your receivers are going to do that

2490
02:10:12,120 --> 02:10:14,440
Speaker 1: your offense. You need an offensive line to protect your

2491
02:10:14,520 --> 02:10:16,680
Speaker 1: quarterback and to spread it out. And because I think

2492
02:10:16,720 --> 02:10:19,680
Speaker 1: it's and granted as rare as a guy as sa

2493
02:10:19,800 --> 02:10:25,080
Speaker 1: Quon Barkley, as as Zeke Elliot is, those guys you

2494
02:10:25,160 --> 02:10:27,600
Speaker 1: know are running, you got to have an offensive line

2495
02:10:27,600 --> 02:10:29,640
Speaker 1: ahead of those guys. Is it easier to find or

2496
02:10:29,800 --> 02:10:33,560
Speaker 1: more expensive to find one truly talented running back who

2497
02:10:33,560 --> 02:10:36,400
Speaker 1: will make those guys better? Or do you find three

2498
02:10:36,480 --> 02:10:40,000
Speaker 1: or four really good guys that make would make anybody better?

2499
02:10:41,120 --> 02:10:43,600
Speaker 1: It's what assets do you have to work with? Can

2500
02:10:43,680 --> 02:10:46,200
Speaker 1: you find enough good offensive lineman to get you over

2501
02:10:46,280 --> 02:10:49,120
Speaker 1: the hump? That way? I get it. It's easier to

2502
02:10:49,160 --> 02:10:52,160
Speaker 1: pick one supremely talented running back in the in the

2503
02:10:52,280 --> 02:10:55,520
Speaker 1: draft and plug him in behind the offensive line. Think

2504
02:10:55,520 --> 02:10:58,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna be okay. It didn't work for C. J. Spiller,

2505
02:10:58,720 --> 02:11:01,880
Speaker 1: it didn't work for you know a lot of guys,

2506
02:11:01,920 --> 02:11:06,600
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch. Yeah, go down the list. Certainly there have

2507
02:11:06,640 --> 02:11:08,520
Speaker 1: been some good running backs here. But man, I'm telling you,

2508
02:11:08,600 --> 02:11:11,520
Speaker 1: it starts up front. It's not the guy that's carrying

2509
02:11:11,600 --> 02:11:15,720
Speaker 1: the ball there. Every great as, every good team and

2510
02:11:16,800 --> 02:11:19,400
Speaker 1: at every level can find a guy that will take

2511
02:11:19,440 --> 02:11:22,400
Speaker 1: the football and run with it. But it's hard to

2512
02:11:22,480 --> 02:11:24,680
Speaker 1: find five guys up front that will make a lot

2513
02:11:24,720 --> 02:11:26,960
Speaker 1: of guys look good. If you can find those guys,

2514
02:11:27,880 --> 02:11:30,200
Speaker 1: then the running back position will take care of itself.

2515
02:11:30,240 --> 02:11:32,600
Speaker 1: And those guys that you've gotten most in singletary probably

2516
02:11:32,640 --> 02:11:36,680
Speaker 1: good enough, more than good enough to get it done. Yeah,

2517
02:11:37,400 --> 02:11:39,640
Speaker 1: all right, break time for us when we return, more

2518
02:11:39,680 --> 02:11:42,120
Speaker 1: of this, more of your phone calls at eight five fifty,

2519
02:11:42,160 --> 02:11:44,920
Speaker 1: and more of your comments from the tweet sheet before

2520
02:11:44,960 --> 02:11:47,720
Speaker 1: we get to the two o'clock hour, where we're going

2521
02:11:47,760 --> 02:11:50,360
Speaker 1: to review some of the comments that coach McDermott made

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Speaker 1: today in his season up press comments. Stay tuned. We're

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Speaker 1: back in a moment here on One Bill's Lives, presented

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Speaker 1: by Colt of Health Sit Buffalo. Bill's Radio Brown addition,

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Speaker 1: and we want to get right back to your phone

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Speaker 1: calls as we are asking you what is at the

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Speaker 1: top of your offseason to do list for the Bills? Steve,

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Speaker 1: Who do we have waiting for us? There? Fifty Leon

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02:12:30,120 --> 02:12:32,800
Speaker 1: and Buffalo Leon. You're on One Bill's Live with Steve

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02:12:32,840 --> 02:12:37,400
Speaker 1: Tasker Chris Brown. What's on your mind? Hey, guys, I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you. One of the things I'm curious about is

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Speaker 1: I thought that Williams kid ran out. I was a

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Speaker 1: little surprised he didn't put him in um Is style

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02:12:46,120 --> 02:12:48,720
Speaker 1: Latula La gonna make a huge difference. And what about

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02:12:48,760 --> 02:12:51,600
Speaker 1: Cody Ford in the offensive line? I think I read

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Speaker 1: somewhere they're gonna move Felicia or to center and put

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Speaker 1: Cody in. Is it there? And Steve, you talked about

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Speaker 1: some free agents on the defensive lane. Can you kind

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Speaker 1: of point out some of them we might be interested in? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I can. I can go down a list, U. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for sure. Let's see here free agent defensive lineman. There's

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Speaker 1: a ton of them. Let's just let's stay here, hold

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Speaker 1: on and Steve. And Steve's working with a list that

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02:13:20,160 --> 02:13:23,760
Speaker 1: could dramatically change based on some high price Yeah, veteran

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02:13:23,800 --> 02:13:26,040
Speaker 1: players that could get clipped off of rosters because the

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02:13:26,120 --> 02:13:28,520
Speaker 1: cap issues. This office thinking about this. The New York Giants.

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02:13:28,640 --> 02:13:30,960
Speaker 1: Leonard Williams, who's a former Jet, got traded to the Giants.

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Speaker 1: He's going to turn out to be a free agent.

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Speaker 1: He's uh twenty seven years old. First round pick of

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02:13:35,920 --> 02:13:39,760
Speaker 1: the Jets, Leonard Williams, big defensive tackle Jadeveon Clown is

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02:13:39,800 --> 02:13:41,600
Speaker 1: going to be a free Justin Houston's going to be

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02:13:41,640 --> 02:13:45,120
Speaker 1: free Yannick and Goackway, Ryan Carrigg and Tyrone Crawford and

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02:13:45,200 --> 02:13:49,360
Speaker 1: Dominican Sue Trent Murphy from the Bills, Solomon Thomas from

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02:13:49,960 --> 02:13:55,040
Speaker 1: San Francisco, de Kwon Jones from Tennessee, Everson Griffin from Detroit,

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Speaker 1: Oka four from Kansas City, Deniko Autry from Indianapolis, Bruce

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Speaker 1: Servan Seattle, Jonathan Hankins, Corey Peters, Aubrey Jones, Lawrence Guy Romeo, Aquara,

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Speaker 1: Rory Robertson Harris, Adam Butler, Shelby Harris, there's a Holt

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02:14:12,320 --> 02:14:14,640
Speaker 1: and these are the guys yet we're talking about like

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02:14:14,680 --> 02:14:18,880
Speaker 1: Steve McClendon, Tyson Alu Alu. So there's a ton of

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Speaker 1: guys here, and I'm that's just there's six times that

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Speaker 1: on this list. Those are the ones that are whose

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02:14:26,000 --> 02:14:29,440
Speaker 1: contracts are up. Those aren't necessarily the one the best

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02:14:29,520 --> 02:14:31,360
Speaker 1: ones who are gonna be available, even when you're talking

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Speaker 1: about Leonard Williams and Jadavian Clowney, because teams are gonna

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Speaker 1: have to get rid of the guys they really want

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Speaker 1: because of the salary cap issues some of them have.

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Speaker 1: There's gonna be some really talented free agents out there,

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02:14:41,680 --> 02:14:46,800
Speaker 1: starting caliber defensive linemen, linebackers, defensive backs, in every other position.

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Speaker 1: They're all gonna be available out there because of the

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Speaker 1: salary cap getting chopped by at least thirty million dollars.

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Speaker 1: So how about Cody and Starr? How big a deal

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02:14:56,640 --> 02:14:58,480
Speaker 1: are they for us next year? Well? I think they're

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02:14:58,480 --> 02:15:00,240
Speaker 1: gonna help, But I don't think one guy I on

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02:15:00,280 --> 02:15:02,360
Speaker 1: either defensive line is gonna happen now. Certainly, Star when

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Speaker 1: he's in there, is gonna make a difference, no question. Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that there aren't weren't times when Butler

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Speaker 1: or Jefferson were playing, weren't playing just as well as

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02:15:12,040 --> 02:15:14,320
Speaker 1: Starr would have. But to have another guy in there,

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02:15:14,360 --> 02:15:17,480
Speaker 1: it's gonna give you more solid play for more snaps.

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02:15:18,320 --> 02:15:21,160
Speaker 1: So I couldn't tell you whether you know Vernon Butler

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02:15:21,400 --> 02:15:26,280
Speaker 1: or Quentin Jefferson or at Oliver or Justin Zimmer or

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02:15:26,280 --> 02:15:29,360
Speaker 1: those guys. Certainly Zimmer and at Oliver high motor guys,

2583
02:15:29,400 --> 02:15:34,080
Speaker 1: but they're undersized. Harrison Phillips seemed to play better as

2584
02:15:34,120 --> 02:15:36,840
Speaker 1: the year progressed, coming off his ACL from last year.

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02:15:37,560 --> 02:15:40,080
Speaker 1: But you know, one guy doesn't is not going to

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02:15:40,160 --> 02:15:43,560
Speaker 1: make the difference. They need quality. With their philosophy of

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02:15:43,720 --> 02:15:47,520
Speaker 1: rolling eight guys through there, you gotta wonder how how

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02:15:47,640 --> 02:15:51,720
Speaker 1: good they can get that deep. And I think the

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02:15:51,800 --> 02:15:55,760
Speaker 1: thing we also have to remember here too is the Bills,

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Speaker 1: as a matter of course, in the offseason, do not

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02:15:59,160 --> 02:16:02,280
Speaker 1: swing big very often. I mean, in Brandon Bean's tenure,

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02:16:02,960 --> 02:16:07,080
Speaker 1: there's only one player that he has truly paid top

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02:16:07,120 --> 02:16:09,960
Speaker 1: of the market money for and that was Mitch Morse.

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02:16:10,720 --> 02:16:13,480
Speaker 1: That was it. Yeah, everybody else has been you know,

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02:16:13,680 --> 02:16:17,800
Speaker 1: tier two free agents, affordable guys or one year deal guys.

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02:16:18,280 --> 02:16:20,800
Speaker 1: And that's the way they operate. So the head of

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02:16:20,840 --> 02:16:23,600
Speaker 1: the notion that the Bills would go after maybe Shack

2598
02:16:23,680 --> 02:16:26,280
Speaker 1: Barrett in free agency, you know, the edge rusher for Tampa,

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02:16:26,320 --> 02:16:27,640
Speaker 1: who's going to be a free agent at the end

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02:16:27,640 --> 02:16:29,760
Speaker 1: of the year. They're not paying that guy eighteen million

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02:16:29,840 --> 02:16:32,160
Speaker 1: dollars a year. That's just not happening. Go ahead on

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02:16:32,240 --> 02:16:34,080
Speaker 1: what just now you might you may have to turn

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02:16:34,160 --> 02:16:37,080
Speaker 1: to the draft to fix that. Hey, I'm interested in

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02:16:37,240 --> 02:16:40,080
Speaker 1: Obviously Steph Diggs was the greatest trade and maybe in

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02:16:40,120 --> 02:16:44,320
Speaker 1: our history. But I'm curious about Cody Ford and Yah,

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02:16:44,560 --> 02:16:46,320
Speaker 1: more so, a lot of guys think he doesn't really

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Speaker 1: belong on that line anymore. What do you think, Well,

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02:16:48,560 --> 02:16:50,680
Speaker 1: that's a good point. And if if they don't think

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02:16:50,760 --> 02:16:52,320
Speaker 1: Mitch has given it to him, or if they're worried

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Speaker 1: about him. You know, in his concussion symptoms that he's

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02:16:55,160 --> 02:16:57,600
Speaker 1: had a couple of years in a row. They could

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Speaker 1: move Feliciano down to center and put Cody for Cody Ford,

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02:17:00,800 --> 02:17:02,240
Speaker 1: you got to expect to come in and play and

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02:17:02,320 --> 02:17:04,520
Speaker 1: play well coming back. Although he had a you know,

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02:17:04,560 --> 02:17:08,200
Speaker 1: serious knee injury this year that ended his tenure. They

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02:17:08,360 --> 02:17:10,360
Speaker 1: probably got a really good handle on how good a

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Speaker 1: guard Cody Ford's gonna be and whether they need to

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02:17:13,000 --> 02:17:16,840
Speaker 1: upgrade or not. Certainly, losing him was a problem for

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02:17:16,920 --> 02:17:20,039
Speaker 1: this offensive line, but because they never had the five

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02:17:20,120 --> 02:17:22,720
Speaker 1: guys they thought they would have. Feliciano was out of

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02:17:22,720 --> 02:17:25,720
Speaker 1: the lineup until four games or eight six eight games

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Speaker 1: into the season. As soon as he came back, Mitch

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02:17:28,480 --> 02:17:31,360
Speaker 1: Morse got hurt and was out, and then Cody Ford

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02:17:31,400 --> 02:17:34,000
Speaker 1: got hurt. So they never had Feliciano, Cody Ford, and

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02:17:34,080 --> 02:17:35,720
Speaker 1: Mitch Morris on the field at the same time for

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02:17:35,800 --> 02:17:40,039
Speaker 1: more than three snaps. So who knows what they're gonna

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Speaker 1: whether they want to go back to that and try

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02:17:41,720 --> 02:17:43,520
Speaker 1: and get those three guys healthy on the field, or

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Speaker 1: whether they want to move forward and upgrade one or

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Speaker 1: two of those positions. Now, they got to sign Feliciano

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Speaker 1: if they want him, because he's a free agent. So

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Speaker 1: there's that as well. And you're right, the big swing.

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Speaker 1: Let's say it again about him, Daryl Williams. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: the running back william To ran so good in Antonio Williams,

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Speaker 1: Antonio Wimpson. Yeah, I get it. Overwhelmed. Yeah, but you

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02:18:10,920 --> 02:18:13,240
Speaker 1: can just you can bring him back and he can

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02:18:13,320 --> 02:18:15,080
Speaker 1: try to win a spot as the third running back

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Speaker 1: on this roster. Yeah, he's not. If he shows well

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02:18:17,600 --> 02:18:20,320
Speaker 1: in the preseason, maybe he does get more opportunities. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we've seen head coach Sean McDermott is not shy about

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02:18:24,440 --> 02:18:26,920
Speaker 1: benching somebody at the drop of a hat. I mean,

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02:18:27,360 --> 02:18:29,600
Speaker 1: Zach Moss has a fumble deep in his own end

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02:18:29,640 --> 02:18:32,840
Speaker 1: against Arizona in Week ten, he's on the bench until

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02:18:32,879 --> 02:18:35,600
Speaker 1: the end of the game. Devin Singletary drops a pass

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02:18:35,680 --> 02:18:38,240
Speaker 1: last Sunday with nothing but green grass in front of

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02:18:38,280 --> 02:18:41,400
Speaker 1: him on a screenplay that's perfectly designed. He's out of

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02:18:41,400 --> 02:18:43,120
Speaker 1: the game until the last three minutes of the game,

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02:18:43,160 --> 02:18:46,240
Speaker 1: and TJ. Yeldon plays the rest. So if somebody shows

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02:18:46,280 --> 02:18:49,920
Speaker 1: well at the running back position, don't get an opportunity,

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02:18:50,160 --> 02:18:52,960
Speaker 1: they will. But Antonio Williams was an undrafted rookie and

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02:18:53,000 --> 02:18:56,560
Speaker 1: you're playing in games of giant playoff magnitude. There's a

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02:18:56,600 --> 02:18:59,440
Speaker 1: trust factor there that I think it's more of the

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02:18:59,560 --> 02:19:02,400
Speaker 1: fear of the unknown than anything else. I don't think

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02:19:02,400 --> 02:19:06,720
Speaker 1: it's that maybe Antonio Williams wasn't capable. It's that you

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02:19:06,840 --> 02:19:09,600
Speaker 1: don't you haven't seen enough of him to know, Hey,

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02:19:09,720 --> 02:19:12,600
Speaker 1: does this guy know how to uh, you know, read

2657
02:19:12,680 --> 02:19:15,160
Speaker 1: his keys in a in a blitz pick up situation?

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02:19:15,200 --> 02:19:17,080
Speaker 1: Where is he gonna get our quarterback? Yeah? That's that's

2659
02:19:17,120 --> 02:19:19,200
Speaker 1: the important thing too. Certainly, when you hand him the ball.

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02:19:19,760 --> 02:19:21,640
Speaker 1: All these guys know what to do, but do they

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02:19:21,760 --> 02:19:26,160
Speaker 1: know who to step into and block when the front

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02:19:26,280 --> 02:19:28,480
Speaker 1: is a little bit muggled up front and you're gonna

2663
02:19:28,560 --> 02:19:31,280
Speaker 1: leave Josh Allen and the future of the franchise in

2664
02:19:31,440 --> 02:19:34,119
Speaker 1: the hands of Antonio Williams, who may step the wrong

2665
02:19:34,200 --> 02:19:37,200
Speaker 1: direction and leave a free rusher in on your quarterback.

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02:19:37,920 --> 02:19:41,920
Speaker 1: That's the issue. So I want to thank you guys.

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02:19:42,040 --> 02:19:44,280
Speaker 1: I love your show. I watch it almost every day.

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02:19:44,440 --> 02:19:46,720
Speaker 1: Thank Leon, thanks a lot. I appreciate that. Thank you.

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02:19:46,840 --> 02:19:48,640
Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging in there, man. I appreciate you hanging

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02:19:48,680 --> 02:19:52,360
Speaker 1: on hold as well. All Right, we gotta take a

2671
02:19:52,400 --> 02:19:54,680
Speaker 1: break because we are at the top of the hour now,

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02:19:54,800 --> 02:19:58,520
Speaker 1: But more on what should be at the top of

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02:19:58,640 --> 02:20:02,600
Speaker 1: the Bills offseason list when we return. We'll also play

2674
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Speaker 1: you some of the highlights of Sean McDermott's season ending

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02:20:06,080 --> 02:20:08,120
Speaker 1: best Conference. It's all coming your way next here on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo

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02:20:10,560 --> 02:20:31,600
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker who has been all

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02:20:31,760 --> 02:20:33,680
Speaker 1: all of our fields. Kind of unique. He was kind

2679
02:20:33,720 --> 02:20:36,720
Speaker 1: of a dual role player for you, stave of a lily.

2680
02:20:36,959 --> 02:20:41,879
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the strated here

2681
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Speaker 1: of normalcy here, and welcome back to our number three.

2682
02:20:50,680 --> 02:20:53,119
Speaker 1: It's really our number four for Steve and myself here

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02:20:53,160 --> 02:20:57,720
Speaker 1: on one Bills Live. As we are discussing what sits

2684
02:20:57,760 --> 02:21:00,840
Speaker 1: at the top of your offseason priority list for the Bills.

2685
02:21:01,360 --> 02:21:04,120
Speaker 1: We're talking about the QB landscape and the AFC and

2686
02:21:04,600 --> 02:21:07,080
Speaker 1: how it could change quite dramatically across the league with

2687
02:21:07,800 --> 02:21:09,720
Speaker 1: some signal callers that could be on the move to

2688
02:21:09,760 --> 02:21:13,120
Speaker 1: Shaun Watson, Matt Stafford. We know Trevor Lawrence is probably

2689
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Speaker 1: coming into the AFC either with the Jaguars at number one,

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02:21:17,520 --> 02:21:20,000
Speaker 1: maybe even the Jets at number two if for some

2691
02:21:20,240 --> 02:21:22,960
Speaker 1: ungodly reason the Jaguars pass on him. I don't know,

2692
02:21:25,000 --> 02:21:27,640
Speaker 1: but yeah, and you know, we got into a discussion

2693
02:21:27,680 --> 02:21:30,600
Speaker 1: about offensive and defensive line and you know, kind of

2694
02:21:30,640 --> 02:21:34,920
Speaker 1: improving things. They're getting bigger, stronger, being a better line

2695
02:21:34,959 --> 02:21:38,120
Speaker 1: of scrimmage unit in terms of resetting that line of

2696
02:21:38,160 --> 02:21:40,520
Speaker 1: scrimmage two yards down field more often than not for

2697
02:21:40,600 --> 02:21:43,840
Speaker 1: the offensive side. So yeah, there's there's a lot to

2698
02:21:43,959 --> 02:21:47,720
Speaker 1: chew on there. And I know we also are going

2699
02:21:47,800 --> 02:21:51,520
Speaker 1: to be playing some of the more notable comments from

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02:21:51,600 --> 02:21:53,640
Speaker 1: head coach Sean McDermott as he had his season wrap

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Speaker 1: up press conference today, and we also wanted to revisit

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Speaker 1: the Sweet Cheat, which is brought to you by Corrigan

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Speaker 1: Moving System. Steve, do you have anybody holding it? Eight?

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Speaker 1: We got a couple. Let's go. Okay, let's go there

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Speaker 1: for all right, let's take. Let's take. Ryan's been holding

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Speaker 1: for a little over twenty minutes. Brian, you're on Royan

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02:22:14,560 --> 02:22:16,520
Speaker 1: with Steve and Chris. Brian, thanks for holding? What do

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Speaker 1: you got? Thank you? I just want to know, um,

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Speaker 1: when it comes to finding a new running back, should

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02:22:21,840 --> 02:22:23,720
Speaker 1: the Bills do the exact same thing and did with

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02:22:24,160 --> 02:22:26,920
Speaker 1: Stefan Disons make a trade to someone like Dallas for

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02:22:27,000 --> 02:22:32,240
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott or Cleveland for Nick Chubb. I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: That's what I would do. Huh, I would go by.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing. Here's the here's the list of free

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Speaker 1: agent running backs. If you if you're interested, I'll give

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Speaker 1: you the first eight or ten. Kenyan, Drake, Todd Gurley,

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Speaker 1: Mark Ingram, Tevin Coleman, James White, Matt Brita, Mike Davis,

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Speaker 1: Rex Birkhead, Carlos Hyde, Brian Hill, Leonard Fournette, Taiwan Jones,

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Speaker 1: Malcolm Brown as the first group, and right behind Malcolm

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Speaker 1: Brown is TJ. Yelden. So all those guys, and most

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Speaker 1: of those guys like Drake had six hundred and fifteen snaps,

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Speaker 1: Girly five hundred, Mark Ingram one hundred and sixty, James

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02:23:12,600 --> 02:23:16,120
Speaker 1: White three hundred and thirty, Tevin Coleman sixty three snaps,

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Speaker 1: Matt Breed one hundred and fifty snaps, and you got

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Speaker 1: Mike Davis with five hundred and eighty. You know, Leonard

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Speaker 1: Fournette had three hundred and eighty three, Malcolm Brown had

2727
02:23:24,120 --> 02:23:26,560
Speaker 1: four hundred and seventy two. All those guys for different teams.

2728
02:23:26,600 --> 02:23:33,640
Speaker 1: But you know it's I like the guys that got.

2729
02:23:36,040 --> 02:23:39,280
Speaker 1: Certainly you're gonna probably lose t J. Yelden, but I

2730
02:23:39,400 --> 02:23:42,000
Speaker 1: think you can pick up a guy. I'm Brownie. I'm

2731
02:23:42,040 --> 02:23:44,280
Speaker 1: just with you on this. I just I don't think

2732
02:23:44,320 --> 02:23:46,480
Speaker 1: the key is changing running backs, haying. The key is

2733
02:23:46,560 --> 02:23:48,920
Speaker 1: changing the guys up front if you want to run

2734
02:23:48,959 --> 02:23:50,840
Speaker 1: it better or being more committed to even if you

2735
02:23:50,879 --> 02:23:52,920
Speaker 1: wanted to add a running back, I am not adding

2736
02:23:52,959 --> 02:23:56,320
Speaker 1: a free agent who's over age twenty eight, right, production

2737
02:23:56,440 --> 02:23:59,480
Speaker 1: drops off a cliff at that age. It's been documented

2738
02:23:59,520 --> 02:24:02,160
Speaker 1: for about the last ten years. Any running back over

2739
02:24:02,280 --> 02:24:04,440
Speaker 1: age twenty eight they start to decline. Are there a

2740
02:24:04,520 --> 02:24:09,480
Speaker 1: few exceptions, Yes, there are athletic freaks like Adrian Peterson,

2741
02:24:09,800 --> 02:24:14,119
Speaker 1: who's an athletic anomaly, was good after age twenty eight,

2742
02:24:14,760 --> 02:24:17,240
Speaker 1: and there are a few others. But the vast majority

2743
02:24:17,280 --> 02:24:20,240
Speaker 1: of running backs go into decline at age twenty eight.

2744
02:24:20,280 --> 02:24:22,760
Speaker 1: It is the most punishing position to play in football,

2745
02:24:23,680 --> 02:24:27,720
Speaker 1: and it's largely a committee position now in the league.

2746
02:24:28,120 --> 02:24:31,080
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry again is probably one of only two or

2747
02:24:31,160 --> 02:24:33,840
Speaker 1: three guys in the league that carries the load for

2748
02:24:34,080 --> 02:24:37,680
Speaker 1: the running game for his respective team. Otherwise it's a

2749
02:24:37,720 --> 02:24:41,840
Speaker 1: committee position. So to invest heavily in a position that's

2750
02:24:41,840 --> 02:24:44,080
Speaker 1: only going to give that person a part time role,

2751
02:24:44,160 --> 02:24:49,480
Speaker 1: I think is foolish. Antonio Williams could be your third

2752
02:24:49,560 --> 02:24:52,080
Speaker 1: running back on this roster next year, the undrafted rookie

2753
02:24:52,120 --> 02:24:54,080
Speaker 1: that everybody's fallen in love with after one good game

2754
02:24:54,120 --> 02:24:56,760
Speaker 1: against Miami. If you like him so much, make him

2755
02:24:56,800 --> 02:25:00,560
Speaker 1: your third back. But if you put together an improved

2756
02:25:00,640 --> 02:25:03,800
Speaker 1: offensive line, those three guys are gonna look even better

2757
02:25:03,840 --> 02:25:05,640
Speaker 1: than they do now. Yeah, they're all gonna get better,

2758
02:25:05,760 --> 02:25:08,000
Speaker 1: no question about it. Let's go back to the phones, Brownie,

2759
02:25:08,080 --> 02:25:11,039
Speaker 1: and we'll talk to Kevin in Hamburg. Kevin, you've got

2760
02:25:11,120 --> 02:25:15,640
Speaker 1: a different position than running back. Go ahead, I heard

2761
02:25:16,040 --> 02:25:19,680
Speaker 1: Buddy looked it up. Zach Urge has one year on

2762
02:25:19,760 --> 02:25:22,520
Speaker 1: his contract, but he might be cut, and he has

2763
02:25:22,600 --> 02:25:25,560
Speaker 1: super Bowl winning experience. If he could get back to

2764
02:25:25,640 --> 02:25:27,880
Speaker 1: the format he was when he when the Eagles won

2765
02:25:27,959 --> 02:25:30,440
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, he would be an awesome of He's

2766
02:25:30,440 --> 02:25:32,680
Speaker 1: got experience. Who would be building went to the Super Bowl.

2767
02:25:32,800 --> 02:25:39,640
Speaker 1: He's got that experience of winning the Super Bowl. Yeah,

2768
02:25:40,000 --> 02:25:42,920
Speaker 1: I hear you, and that sounds yeah. I get a

2769
02:25:43,040 --> 02:25:44,680
Speaker 1: zach ER's a good player, and you're right. There's a

2770
02:25:44,720 --> 02:25:46,600
Speaker 1: lot that goes into this because he's got one year

2771
02:25:46,720 --> 02:25:48,240
Speaker 1: left on his deal. He has played well for that

2772
02:25:48,320 --> 02:25:52,959
Speaker 1: team at times. And I'll say this, Brownie, we don't

2773
02:25:53,000 --> 02:25:57,959
Speaker 1: even know who's gonna be available yet. It's so early

2774
02:25:58,040 --> 02:26:00,600
Speaker 1: in the offseason, and certainly we come up with all

2775
02:26:00,600 --> 02:26:03,040
Speaker 1: these perfect scenarios for the Buffalo Bills. If zach Ertz

2776
02:26:03,120 --> 02:26:05,320
Speaker 1: became available, there'd be a like a lot of these

2777
02:26:05,360 --> 02:26:06,880
Speaker 1: players we're talking about, they're gonna be a ton of

2778
02:26:06,920 --> 02:26:11,840
Speaker 1: teams interested, and including the one he's leaving, because you know,

2779
02:26:11,920 --> 02:26:14,360
Speaker 1: they may want to resign him to a different deal

2780
02:26:14,440 --> 02:26:16,160
Speaker 1: or redo his deal. I don't think they'll cut him

2781
02:26:16,160 --> 02:26:17,480
Speaker 1: to do it. Or they may cut him to get

2782
02:26:17,560 --> 02:26:20,240
Speaker 1: under the cap at a certain point and then want

2783
02:26:20,280 --> 02:26:22,039
Speaker 1: to sign him right back, and he may be amenable

2784
02:26:22,040 --> 02:26:23,320
Speaker 1: to that. So there's a lot of things that we

2785
02:26:23,360 --> 02:26:25,280
Speaker 1: don't know about who's going to be available because a

2786
02:26:25,320 --> 02:26:27,720
Speaker 1: lot of guys on rosters right now with years left

2787
02:26:27,760 --> 02:26:30,760
Speaker 1: on their contract will become available because of the cap

2788
02:26:30,840 --> 02:26:34,280
Speaker 1: getting chopped. Yeah, but you put zach Ertz and Dawson

2789
02:26:34,360 --> 02:26:37,080
Speaker 1: Knox on the same field at the same time, that's

2790
02:26:37,080 --> 02:26:40,360
Speaker 1: a matchup problem for just about any defense in football. So,

2791
02:26:40,920 --> 02:26:43,640
Speaker 1: you know, you talk about how unique Tyreek Hill and

2792
02:26:44,000 --> 02:26:47,280
Speaker 1: and Travis Kelsey are. You put Dawson Knox and zach

2793
02:26:47,400 --> 02:26:50,840
Speaker 1: Ertz on the field together. I don't know what personnel group,

2794
02:26:50,879 --> 02:26:52,560
Speaker 1: and you're putting out there to cover both of those

2795
02:26:52,640 --> 02:26:55,600
Speaker 1: guys in the passing game, right, I mean, Knox is

2796
02:26:55,640 --> 02:26:58,840
Speaker 1: six the Knox is six six, you know, great red

2797
02:26:58,920 --> 02:27:01,039
Speaker 1: zone target. He's a great red zone target, has proven

2798
02:27:01,080 --> 02:27:02,760
Speaker 1: to be this year. It was it was his best

2799
02:27:02,840 --> 02:27:05,440
Speaker 1: attribute this year. I think And also I did notice too,

2800
02:27:05,560 --> 02:27:08,480
Speaker 1: he took a step forward in his past protection responsibilities.

2801
02:27:08,800 --> 02:27:11,879
Speaker 1: He was much more sound and his ability to keep

2802
02:27:11,959 --> 02:27:15,400
Speaker 1: people away from Josh for longer periods of time. And

2803
02:27:16,240 --> 02:27:18,280
Speaker 1: and he costs a lot of touchdown passes down on

2804
02:27:18,360 --> 02:27:21,080
Speaker 1: the red zone. This one against the Colts in the

2805
02:27:21,200 --> 02:27:25,080
Speaker 1: playoffs was a huge one. So yeah, and ERTs with

2806
02:27:25,200 --> 02:27:28,720
Speaker 1: the experience he has, absolutely he could make a difference.

2807
02:27:29,600 --> 02:27:32,440
Speaker 1: You're right though, if instead of it's it's an interesting

2808
02:27:32,520 --> 02:27:34,800
Speaker 1: philosophy to see what you think about this Brownie. It's

2809
02:27:34,840 --> 02:27:37,160
Speaker 1: a different philosophy. What would you think about, you know,

2810
02:27:37,280 --> 02:27:41,080
Speaker 1: trying to beat the Chiefs in a completely different way

2811
02:27:41,240 --> 02:27:44,039
Speaker 1: than the Chiefs are trying to beat everybody else, for instance,

2812
02:27:45,120 --> 02:27:48,640
Speaker 1: with tight ends rather than a guy like Tyreek Hill

2813
02:27:48,720 --> 02:27:52,240
Speaker 1: and kept one tight end of Kelsey and Mikole Hardman

2814
02:27:52,280 --> 02:27:56,200
Speaker 1: and Sammy Wadkins and Clyde Edwards, Hilair, you do it

2815
02:27:56,320 --> 02:27:58,760
Speaker 1: with a couple of tight ends and John Brown and

2816
02:27:59,480 --> 02:28:06,120
Speaker 1: Colby's and Steph Diggs. Steph Diggs, Yeah, I wouldn't. I

2817
02:28:06,160 --> 02:28:08,039
Speaker 1: wouldn't have a problem with that. It would harken back

2818
02:28:08,080 --> 02:28:11,039
Speaker 1: to the days of Hernandez and Gronkowski in New England.

2819
02:28:11,840 --> 02:28:14,440
Speaker 1: You saw what Baltimore did in terms of creating matchup

2820
02:28:14,480 --> 02:28:16,920
Speaker 1: problems with their three tight end usage two years ago

2821
02:28:17,600 --> 02:28:21,000
Speaker 1: when they had Andrews Hurst and Boyle, and then they

2822
02:28:21,040 --> 02:28:23,720
Speaker 1: traded away Hurst and upset the apple Cart. Right, so

2823
02:28:25,080 --> 02:28:28,240
Speaker 1: the problem can be done. You can find mismatches that way. Absolutely.

2824
02:28:28,240 --> 02:28:31,440
Speaker 1: If you put Ertz and Knocks on the field at

2825
02:28:31,480 --> 02:28:33,920
Speaker 1: the same time, the running back's going to be there.

2826
02:28:34,000 --> 02:28:36,440
Speaker 1: So you got you know, say, Devin Singletarre on the field.

2827
02:28:36,480 --> 02:28:39,119
Speaker 1: Now you gotta take the You gotta take John Brown,

2828
02:28:39,520 --> 02:28:41,920
Speaker 1: Gabriel Davis or Cole Beasley off the field. One of

2829
02:28:41,959 --> 02:28:44,320
Speaker 1: those three has to leave because you can't have four

2830
02:28:44,400 --> 02:28:49,080
Speaker 1: wides and two tight ends and a pack. Right. But

2831
02:28:49,240 --> 02:28:52,360
Speaker 1: now you've become infinitely, infinitely more versatile instead of being

2832
02:28:52,400 --> 02:28:55,960
Speaker 1: an eleven and ten personnel team almost exclusively, because those

2833
02:28:56,000 --> 02:28:58,640
Speaker 1: two personnel groupings were used eighty five percent of the

2834
02:28:58,720 --> 02:29:01,320
Speaker 1: time on all of Buffalo's offense it plays this season

2835
02:29:01,680 --> 02:29:05,440
Speaker 1: total of eighty five percent Between the two. You get

2836
02:29:05,480 --> 02:29:08,160
Speaker 1: a Zach or It's suddenly you're an eleven, ten and

2837
02:29:08,360 --> 02:29:12,279
Speaker 1: twelve personnel team. I think it makes you more versatile.

2838
02:29:12,400 --> 02:29:15,800
Speaker 1: It makes the personnel groupings harder to defend, especially if

2839
02:29:15,840 --> 02:29:17,440
Speaker 1: you go tempo and you can get your guys on

2840
02:29:17,520 --> 02:29:19,800
Speaker 1: the field before they can sub It's a different it's

2841
02:29:19,840 --> 02:29:22,720
Speaker 1: a different animal than Lee Smith and Dawson Knox on

2842
02:29:22,840 --> 02:29:26,000
Speaker 1: the field one hundred percent because you got two tight ends,

2843
02:29:26,440 --> 02:29:29,200
Speaker 1: it can really run right. So that's a difference that

2844
02:29:29,400 --> 02:29:33,600
Speaker 1: that you see right away. And but you know, then

2845
02:29:33,800 --> 02:29:36,200
Speaker 1: once again, you still have to decide is it going

2846
02:29:36,280 --> 02:29:38,320
Speaker 1: to be Diggs and Beasley or Digs and Brown on

2847
02:29:38,360 --> 02:29:42,240
Speaker 1: the field. You're gonna have two wideouts, you know with them,

2848
02:29:42,480 --> 02:29:45,400
Speaker 1: so I'm not worried about them figuring that out. You'd

2849
02:29:45,440 --> 02:29:48,720
Speaker 1: have an embarrassment of riches at that point, right, But

2850
02:29:48,840 --> 02:29:50,280
Speaker 1: you got to find a way to use them all.

2851
02:29:50,320 --> 02:29:51,720
Speaker 1: And you got to find a way to threaten the

2852
02:29:51,840 --> 02:29:56,000
Speaker 1: defense with all of those guys. And certainly it's it's

2853
02:29:56,040 --> 02:29:58,880
Speaker 1: a creative nightmare or not create a creative gift. I

2854
02:29:58,959 --> 02:30:02,960
Speaker 1: guess more portantly creative dream. Uh for an offensive coordinator

2855
02:30:02,959 --> 02:30:06,880
Speaker 1: to have that much, but yeah, that would be uh, yeah,

2856
02:30:06,920 --> 02:30:10,520
Speaker 1: I could see that, and they may try it. They

2857
02:30:10,600 --> 02:30:12,280
Speaker 1: may do it. They may go after zach Ertz or

2858
02:30:12,400 --> 02:30:16,520
Speaker 1: somebody else, um of that ilk you know, to find

2859
02:30:16,720 --> 02:30:19,040
Speaker 1: a tight end that's worth it. You know, you get

2860
02:30:19,080 --> 02:30:21,800
Speaker 1: a guy like Darren Waller or somebody from the Raiders

2861
02:30:21,879 --> 02:30:24,000
Speaker 1: if they're if they get into a spot where he

2862
02:30:24,080 --> 02:30:27,879
Speaker 1: becomes available, or a guy like uh, who's the one

2863
02:30:27,920 --> 02:30:30,080
Speaker 1: in Tampa Bay, the kid that came out the tight

2864
02:30:30,160 --> 02:30:32,760
Speaker 1: end that came out a couple of years ago, Cameron

2865
02:30:32,840 --> 02:30:36,920
Speaker 1: Brad Are you talking about Oj Howard who is a

2866
02:30:37,080 --> 02:30:41,360
Speaker 1: physical freak that has just never really reached his potential, right,

2867
02:30:41,560 --> 02:30:43,880
Speaker 1: so hurt this year? Yeah, I mean all of that

2868
02:30:44,000 --> 02:30:47,160
Speaker 1: stuff is on the table and it and for us

2869
02:30:47,320 --> 02:30:49,360
Speaker 1: right now this week, Brownie, we can say it. And

2870
02:30:49,480 --> 02:30:52,840
Speaker 1: Kevin Is from Hamburg said it. This is all about

2871
02:30:52,879 --> 02:30:56,600
Speaker 1: beating the Chiefs now. I mean, that's forget about you know,

2872
02:30:56,640 --> 02:30:58,320
Speaker 1: the AFC East and all of that. You got to

2873
02:30:58,360 --> 02:30:59,800
Speaker 1: get to the tournament sooner or later. You don't have

2874
02:30:59,800 --> 02:31:03,040
Speaker 1: to go Arrowhead and you gotta have a plan to

2875
02:31:03,160 --> 02:31:07,240
Speaker 1: score with those guys. That's all there is to it. Yeah,

2876
02:31:07,440 --> 02:31:09,400
Speaker 1: And in case anybody forgot, the Bills have to go

2877
02:31:09,480 --> 02:31:12,560
Speaker 1: back to Arrowhead next year in the regular season, so

2878
02:31:12,800 --> 02:31:14,760
Speaker 1: they'll be right, They'll be right back there during the

2879
02:31:14,800 --> 02:31:17,320
Speaker 1: regular season. I'm okay with that. You'd love to go

2880
02:31:17,440 --> 02:31:19,320
Speaker 1: back there and let's see it again. Let's go I

2881
02:31:19,400 --> 02:31:22,440
Speaker 1: want to see you know, you need tous tests, you

2882
02:31:22,520 --> 02:31:24,840
Speaker 1: need to run some experiments to find out what's gonna

2883
02:31:24,879 --> 02:31:28,160
Speaker 1: work when it really counts, and a regular season match

2884
02:31:28,240 --> 02:31:30,600
Speaker 1: up with those guys are really be helpful. I think

2885
02:31:31,840 --> 02:31:35,120
Speaker 1: absolutely anybody else waiting for us A three and me

2886
02:31:35,240 --> 02:31:38,240
Speaker 1: bro Okay, so let's get back to the tweet sheet

2887
02:31:38,280 --> 02:31:42,640
Speaker 1: while we have the opportunity to do so. Where people

2888
02:31:42,720 --> 02:31:44,360
Speaker 1: have been chiming in there in terms of what their

2889
02:31:44,480 --> 02:31:48,000
Speaker 1: number one priority is on the Bills offseason to do list,

2890
02:31:48,320 --> 02:31:50,840
Speaker 1: and Rachel says the lines need to be bolstered on

2891
02:31:50,959 --> 02:31:53,200
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball, especially since I'm sure we'll

2892
02:31:53,240 --> 02:31:56,000
Speaker 1: lose some guys this offseason. If we can create a

2893
02:31:56,120 --> 02:31:58,360
Speaker 1: d line that can get pressure without blitzing our elite

2894
02:31:58,440 --> 02:32:02,680
Speaker 1: dbs can make our defense. Rachel, you're speaking my language.

2895
02:32:03,080 --> 02:32:07,040
Speaker 1: I'm with her total that defense and offensive line. I

2896
02:32:07,200 --> 02:32:11,680
Speaker 1: think when we when our team struggled, it was it

2897
02:32:11,800 --> 02:32:14,560
Speaker 1: was about losing the line of scrimmage. I didn't do

2898
02:32:14,600 --> 02:32:16,400
Speaker 1: it all that much. I mean, they won thirteen games.

2899
02:32:16,480 --> 02:32:20,280
Speaker 1: They were good, particularly this offensive line in past protection.

2900
02:32:21,520 --> 02:32:27,200
Speaker 1: But I think that's where this defense changed from when

2901
02:32:27,240 --> 02:32:29,520
Speaker 1: it was a top three defense in two thousand nineteen.

2902
02:32:30,480 --> 02:32:32,680
Speaker 1: Was the guys up front? You had five new faces

2903
02:32:32,680 --> 02:32:34,520
Speaker 1: if you count Harrison Phillips as a guy who only

2904
02:32:34,560 --> 02:32:37,360
Speaker 1: played three games in twenty and eighteen and was injured.

2905
02:32:37,640 --> 02:32:40,000
Speaker 1: He came back in nineteen, and I think like count

2906
02:32:40,040 --> 02:32:41,720
Speaker 1: him as a new face as five out of the

2907
02:32:41,760 --> 02:32:43,840
Speaker 1: eight guys that did not play for the team in

2908
02:32:43,879 --> 02:32:46,520
Speaker 1: twenty and eighteen that were part of the mix in

2909
02:32:46,600 --> 02:32:49,480
Speaker 1: two thou nineteen. And then you had Zimmer in there

2910
02:32:49,520 --> 02:32:58,240
Speaker 1: as well. You had Ajpanessa, Justin Zimmer, Jefferson, Jefferson, Butler

2911
02:32:58,600 --> 02:33:01,560
Speaker 1: and Addison. All those guys were new to the mix

2912
02:33:01,680 --> 02:33:04,040
Speaker 1: and that and it took them a long time to

2913
02:33:04,200 --> 02:33:06,680
Speaker 1: figure it out up front, a long time. And now

2914
02:33:07,080 --> 02:33:08,640
Speaker 1: you know a lot of those guys are A couple

2915
02:33:08,680 --> 02:33:14,160
Speaker 1: of them were on one year proven deals. Yeah it's uh,

2916
02:33:15,360 --> 02:33:19,000
Speaker 1: well yeah, one year, well now, let's see. But other

2917
02:33:19,080 --> 02:33:22,960
Speaker 1: got signed multi year. Addison was a three year deal.

2918
02:33:23,879 --> 02:33:25,400
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think if there was any one year

2919
02:33:25,440 --> 02:33:27,480
Speaker 1: deals up there. I don't believe there were, yeah, because

2920
02:33:27,520 --> 02:33:29,200
Speaker 1: none of them are on the free agent list right now.

2921
02:33:29,320 --> 02:33:32,200
Speaker 1: So yeah, they're all signed up through next year. So

2922
02:33:33,040 --> 02:33:36,360
Speaker 1: you bring anybody in of any ILK talk about ratching

2923
02:33:36,400 --> 02:33:39,600
Speaker 1: it up the competition level, that'll be for real. The

2924
02:33:39,760 --> 02:33:42,000
Speaker 1: first guy the first ground Buffalo's free agent list is

2925
02:33:42,040 --> 02:33:46,320
Speaker 1: Trent Murphy. Yes, Trim Murphy is the only free agent

2926
02:33:46,560 --> 02:33:49,880
Speaker 1: right on that side of the ball up front. Yeah,

2927
02:33:49,920 --> 02:33:54,080
Speaker 1: you're right. We did have some comments from coach McDermott

2928
02:33:54,120 --> 02:33:55,560
Speaker 1: that we wanted to bring your way in case you

2929
02:33:55,680 --> 02:33:57,680
Speaker 1: missed the bonus hour of the show today in the

2930
02:33:57,720 --> 02:33:59,760
Speaker 1: eleven o'clock hour. We went on an hour early with

2931
02:34:00,000 --> 02:34:05,800
Speaker 1: which McDermott giving us his postseason wrap up speech address

2932
02:34:05,920 --> 02:34:09,200
Speaker 1: with Q and A with the media, and we want

2933
02:34:09,320 --> 02:34:13,959
Speaker 1: to start with his assessment of the twenty twenty season

2934
02:34:14,600 --> 02:34:23,280
Speaker 1: as a whole organization. We showed that we keep and

2935
02:34:23,480 --> 02:34:26,640
Speaker 1: and and it maintained safety first, and we care about

2936
02:34:26,680 --> 02:34:29,160
Speaker 1: our people. And I think that leaders that starts up

2937
02:34:29,200 --> 02:34:33,600
Speaker 1: top with with Kim and Terry and and UH. And

2938
02:34:33,720 --> 02:34:35,119
Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day, we won.

2939
02:34:35,480 --> 02:34:37,600
Speaker 1: We won some games and had a successful season on

2940
02:34:37,680 --> 02:34:41,560
Speaker 1: the field. I'll be very disappointed in in the UH

2941
02:34:41,800 --> 02:34:47,160
Speaker 1: in the game a couple of days ago. Yeah, and

2942
02:34:48,040 --> 02:34:51,120
Speaker 1: I think what what kind of got lost and almost forgotten?

2943
02:34:51,440 --> 02:34:53,480
Speaker 1: Steve and I guess this is a credit in the

2944
02:34:53,520 --> 02:34:56,920
Speaker 1: way the league as a whole navigated the pandemic. Was that, oh,

2945
02:34:56,959 --> 02:34:58,480
Speaker 1: by the way, the team was dealing with a lot

2946
02:34:58,520 --> 02:35:01,440
Speaker 1: of restrictions and protocol because of the pandemic, and yet

2947
02:35:01,520 --> 02:35:03,600
Speaker 1: still got through it, and not only got through it,

2948
02:35:03,720 --> 02:35:06,000
Speaker 1: but when thirteen and three in the process and won

2949
02:35:06,080 --> 02:35:09,720
Speaker 1: two playoff games. So yeah, that's I mean every team,

2950
02:35:10,520 --> 02:35:12,600
Speaker 1: not every team got through it with the same measure

2951
02:35:12,600 --> 02:35:15,400
Speaker 1: of success, Steve. I mean the Raiders were an abomination,

2952
02:35:15,760 --> 02:35:20,680
Speaker 1: got fined multiple times, had two outbreaks, irresponsible behavior documented

2953
02:35:21,000 --> 02:35:26,160
Speaker 1: for everybody to see. Tennessee had had a problem, and

2954
02:35:26,280 --> 02:35:28,480
Speaker 1: now I'm gonna the third team is gonna slip my mind.

2955
02:35:29,600 --> 02:35:32,720
Speaker 1: And Cleveland had multiple issues. And Baltimore, Yeah, I forgot

2956
02:35:32,720 --> 02:35:35,760
Speaker 1: about Baltimore. So you know, I'm not saying their players

2957
02:35:35,840 --> 02:35:39,720
Speaker 1: were necessarily irresponsible. You don't know if anybody was at fault.

2958
02:35:39,800 --> 02:35:43,120
Speaker 1: This is a highly contagious disease, as we know, but

2959
02:35:43,280 --> 02:35:46,160
Speaker 1: certainly some teams dealt with it better than others. Yes,

2960
02:35:46,240 --> 02:35:48,120
Speaker 1: you know, and I think you'd put the Bills in

2961
02:35:48,840 --> 02:35:51,279
Speaker 1: one of the better, one of the better handling clubs

2962
02:35:51,320 --> 02:35:54,000
Speaker 1: in dealing with it and staying strict with their protocols.

2963
02:35:54,120 --> 02:35:56,240
Speaker 1: The Bills. You know, they won thirteen games in the

2964
02:35:56,320 --> 02:35:58,160
Speaker 1: midst of all this, and certainly there are other teams

2965
02:35:58,200 --> 02:35:59,720
Speaker 1: that they were the two seat in the conference. So

2966
02:36:00,720 --> 02:36:03,240
Speaker 1: McDermot is right. They overcame the challenges and did very well.

2967
02:36:03,320 --> 02:36:07,800
Speaker 1: They were positioned well, they were disciplined, and they handled

2968
02:36:07,879 --> 02:36:11,120
Speaker 1: the hurt whatever hurdles they had to with COVID as

2969
02:36:11,160 --> 02:36:13,040
Speaker 1: well or better than most of the teams did. I

2970
02:36:13,160 --> 02:36:16,960
Speaker 1: think the big in the big picture though, Brownie, We've

2971
02:36:16,959 --> 02:36:18,400
Speaker 1: talked about it a couple of times. I brought it

2972
02:36:18,480 --> 02:36:21,360
Speaker 1: up a couple of times and everybody says, yeah, you're right,

2973
02:36:21,400 --> 02:36:23,920
Speaker 1: it is it. But then they don't really get People

2974
02:36:24,000 --> 02:36:28,520
Speaker 1: have no idea the gargantuan accomplishment it was for the

2975
02:36:28,640 --> 02:36:33,480
Speaker 1: National Football League to get every single regular season and

2976
02:36:33,640 --> 02:36:39,640
Speaker 1: postseason game in to this point, with the amount of

2977
02:36:41,080 --> 02:36:43,800
Speaker 1: problems that it presented at the beginning to get them in.

2978
02:36:44,240 --> 02:36:46,440
Speaker 1: Certainly there were some delays. Certainly there were some teams

2979
02:36:46,480 --> 02:36:48,840
Speaker 1: that got the short end of it in any given week,

2980
02:36:49,680 --> 02:36:51,640
Speaker 1: and you know, teams had to overcome it. All the

2981
02:36:51,680 --> 02:36:55,320
Speaker 1: teams were affected at some level by this pandemic. But

2982
02:36:55,440 --> 02:36:57,960
Speaker 1: to get a sports front, a sports league to get

2983
02:36:58,000 --> 02:36:59,560
Speaker 1: all its games in in the midst of what a

2984
02:36:59,640 --> 02:37:02,000
Speaker 1: hockey season had to go through, what the NBA had

2985
02:37:02,040 --> 02:37:04,440
Speaker 1: to go through, what Major League Baseball had to go through,

2986
02:37:04,680 --> 02:37:09,800
Speaker 1: and the NFL, without bubbling up, got it in. And

2987
02:37:09,920 --> 02:37:12,880
Speaker 1: I don't think you can underestimate how gargagean of an

2988
02:37:12,879 --> 02:37:15,879
Speaker 1: accomplishment that is for a pro sports league to get

2989
02:37:15,959 --> 02:37:18,680
Speaker 1: that done. My hat's off to them, and certainly the

2990
02:37:18,720 --> 02:37:21,000
Speaker 1: Bills were the beneficiaries of it. Could you imagine now

2991
02:37:21,000 --> 02:37:23,320
Speaker 1: if this season had not taken place, what the Bills,

2992
02:37:23,640 --> 02:37:26,720
Speaker 1: Bills fans would have missed. I mean, it'd be tragic.

2993
02:37:27,879 --> 02:37:30,480
Speaker 1: But they didn't and the league deserves a lot of

2994
02:37:30,560 --> 02:37:32,840
Speaker 1: credit for getting it in. I'm gonna pound on that

2995
02:37:33,000 --> 02:37:37,400
Speaker 1: drum for a long long time. Yeah, kudos to the

2996
02:37:37,480 --> 02:37:39,840
Speaker 1: league as a whole, and to the Bills for the

2997
02:37:40,000 --> 02:37:42,560
Speaker 1: job they did in kind of mitigating the spread. They

2998
02:37:42,600 --> 02:37:45,440
Speaker 1: had a couple of little brush fires, but they were quickly,

2999
02:37:45,840 --> 02:37:48,920
Speaker 1: doubt you know, quickly covered up and you know, it

3000
02:37:49,000 --> 02:37:52,000
Speaker 1: didn't become a major problem. You know, they had people

3001
02:37:52,120 --> 02:37:56,840
Speaker 1: quarantined in their homes. You know, I think this was

3002
02:37:56,879 --> 02:37:59,120
Speaker 1: a forgotten question. I don't know if anybody from the

3003
02:37:59,200 --> 02:38:02,520
Speaker 1: media asked about this. But you know, Tommy Sweeney, the

3004
02:38:02,640 --> 02:38:08,480
Speaker 1: tight end he had, he had COVID, recovered from it,

3005
02:38:08,920 --> 02:38:12,600
Speaker 1: but then developed, you know, one of those side effect issues,

3006
02:38:12,640 --> 02:38:15,840
Speaker 1: which was myocarditis, and had to be put on injured

3007
02:38:15,840 --> 02:38:19,440
Speaker 1: reserve because of it. Now, the anticipation is that he'll

3008
02:38:19,480 --> 02:38:23,480
Speaker 1: be fine when the team resumes their offseason conditioning program

3009
02:38:23,560 --> 02:38:27,200
Speaker 1: in April. But I don't know if it's a sure thing.

3010
02:38:27,280 --> 02:38:30,680
Speaker 1: I don't know if if certain medications can control that condition,

3011
02:38:31,480 --> 02:38:33,760
Speaker 1: But I guess we'll find out and due course here

3012
02:38:34,160 --> 02:38:37,840
Speaker 1: as to what his future is. So there are some

3013
02:38:38,000 --> 02:38:40,320
Speaker 1: people that dealt with it and had no lingering issues.

3014
02:38:40,879 --> 02:38:43,040
Speaker 1: There were other cases that were much different, as we know,

3015
02:38:43,240 --> 02:38:45,360
Speaker 1: and too many people out there know as well. Yeah.

3016
02:38:45,920 --> 02:38:49,360
Speaker 1: The other comment by coach McDermott, Sorry, Steve. The other

3017
02:38:49,440 --> 02:38:51,959
Speaker 1: comment by coach McDermott was the one that I think

3018
02:38:52,000 --> 02:38:54,640
Speaker 1: we wanted to pass along to everybody the most, and

3019
02:38:54,879 --> 02:38:59,199
Speaker 1: that was on what coach thinks needs to be done

3020
02:38:59,680 --> 02:39:02,880
Speaker 1: to take the next step to reach the Chiefs level

3021
02:39:03,240 --> 02:39:06,840
Speaker 1: of success. They're in year eight right and we're in

3022
02:39:06,959 --> 02:39:09,360
Speaker 1: year four, But that that's a little bit of a

3023
02:39:09,480 --> 02:39:11,840
Speaker 1: feel for how long they've been building their program and

3024
02:39:11,959 --> 02:39:17,000
Speaker 1: where we are. Um, there's a lot that we've improved

3025
02:39:17,040 --> 02:39:19,880
Speaker 1: in Heather in terms of what's gotten as to where

3026
02:39:19,920 --> 02:39:22,840
Speaker 1: we are. But to Trade's point and what we shared

3027
02:39:22,840 --> 02:39:24,680
Speaker 1: as a team yesterday is there is still a gap

3028
02:39:25,760 --> 02:39:27,760
Speaker 1: from where in terms of where we are and where

3029
02:39:27,800 --> 02:39:31,000
Speaker 1: they are. Uh. And that's just it's just not one answer,

3030
02:39:31,840 --> 02:39:35,200
Speaker 1: UM as to that it solves that problem. We all

3031
02:39:35,320 --> 02:39:38,320
Speaker 1: have to starting with me, as I mentioned earlier at

3032
02:39:38,360 --> 02:39:40,000
Speaker 1: the outset of my opening statement, we all have to

3033
02:39:40,080 --> 02:39:44,000
Speaker 1: continue to ask ourselves, um, the hard questions of of

3034
02:39:44,480 --> 02:39:47,160
Speaker 1: the what ifs and the whys and the house and

3035
02:39:47,680 --> 02:39:49,640
Speaker 1: we as a staff have to get better and improve.

3036
02:39:49,760 --> 02:39:52,320
Speaker 1: We have to improve our roster, we have to improve

3037
02:39:53,080 --> 02:39:56,240
Speaker 1: our operation and what we do and UM. And so

3038
02:39:56,440 --> 02:39:58,520
Speaker 1: we have a lot of respect for them. They're well coached,

3039
02:39:58,520 --> 02:40:00,040
Speaker 1: and they have they have a good roster, and and

3040
02:40:00,120 --> 02:40:02,480
Speaker 1: they played better than we did. They coach better than

3041
02:40:02,560 --> 02:40:05,560
Speaker 1: we did. And so but this is a learning experience

3042
02:40:05,640 --> 02:40:08,120
Speaker 1: for us. A lot of our players have never been

3043
02:40:08,160 --> 02:40:11,040
Speaker 1: in a game of that magnitude on that stage, and

3044
02:40:12,840 --> 02:40:17,200
Speaker 1: I'm confident that we will learn from that experience. Those

3045
02:40:17,200 --> 02:40:19,240
Speaker 1: players in particular were learned that had never been in

3046
02:40:19,320 --> 02:40:22,120
Speaker 1: that situation, and we as an organization, I think learned

3047
02:40:22,120 --> 02:40:24,039
Speaker 1: a lot by going through the week we just went through.

3048
02:40:26,520 --> 02:40:28,800
Speaker 1: So there it is, Steve, and it kind of echoes

3049
02:40:28,840 --> 02:40:30,600
Speaker 1: some of what we were saying. It's not going to

3050
02:40:30,680 --> 02:40:33,360
Speaker 1: be one guy. You're not going to add one player

3051
02:40:34,120 --> 02:40:36,720
Speaker 1: and suddenly be at the Chiefs level. And I can

3052
02:40:36,840 --> 02:40:40,680
Speaker 1: understand how Bills fans might feel or fall into that

3053
02:40:40,840 --> 02:40:44,240
Speaker 1: trap of thinking that way because of the enormous impact

3054
02:40:44,360 --> 02:40:47,120
Speaker 1: that Stefan Diggs had on this team this year. But

3055
02:40:48,400 --> 02:40:51,160
Speaker 1: there's a chasm there, and even coach admitted it and

3056
02:40:51,240 --> 02:40:54,360
Speaker 1: the players recognize it. There is a gap between the

3057
02:40:54,879 --> 02:40:57,920
Speaker 1: team that made it to the AFC Championship Game in

3058
02:40:58,040 --> 02:41:00,600
Speaker 1: the Bills, and the team that advanced the Super Bowl

3059
02:41:00,640 --> 02:41:02,480
Speaker 1: in the Chiefs. There is a gap there and the

3060
02:41:02,560 --> 02:41:04,760
Speaker 1: Bills where the number two seed and the next best

3061
02:41:04,800 --> 02:41:07,440
Speaker 1: team probably after the Chiefs and the AFC this year,

3062
02:41:07,480 --> 02:41:09,840
Speaker 1: and yet there is still that gap that exists. Yeah,

3063
02:41:09,959 --> 02:41:13,160
Speaker 1: And it's the hard part of it is when you

3064
02:41:13,280 --> 02:41:15,480
Speaker 1: get into a situation like this where the Bills are

3065
02:41:15,560 --> 02:41:18,200
Speaker 1: where you've got some guys who have maybe been with

3066
02:41:18,320 --> 02:41:20,760
Speaker 1: you from the beginning, from all four years or whoever

3067
02:41:20,840 --> 02:41:23,680
Speaker 1: the last couple of years or certainly this year, who

3068
02:41:23,720 --> 02:41:26,320
Speaker 1: have helped you and contributed mightily to a lot of

3069
02:41:26,360 --> 02:41:28,880
Speaker 1: wins for your team. If you want to get better,

3070
02:41:29,680 --> 02:41:32,320
Speaker 1: you have to upgrade at every position and have competition

3071
02:41:32,360 --> 02:41:34,520
Speaker 1: to every position. When you take the field next year,

3072
02:41:34,560 --> 02:41:38,160
Speaker 1: there may maybe some people, some players and coaches and

3073
02:41:38,320 --> 02:41:40,520
Speaker 1: whatever who are near and dear to a lot of

3074
02:41:40,560 --> 02:41:42,400
Speaker 1: Bills fans that may not be on the field because

3075
02:41:42,440 --> 02:41:46,680
Speaker 1: the club needed upgrade those spots. It's hard when you

3076
02:41:47,080 --> 02:41:49,280
Speaker 1: have to start from scratch the way the Bills will

3077
02:41:49,360 --> 02:41:52,280
Speaker 1: have to this offseason, because of the amount of free

3078
02:41:52,280 --> 02:41:54,680
Speaker 1: agents they have, because of the cap getting cut by

3079
02:41:54,760 --> 02:41:57,400
Speaker 1: thirty million dollars, because of the roster turnover that is

3080
02:41:57,440 --> 02:41:59,480
Speaker 1: always there. There are going to be some guys that

3081
02:41:59,560 --> 02:42:02,720
Speaker 1: have contributed mightily to this team this year that got

3082
02:42:02,760 --> 02:42:05,200
Speaker 1: you to the AFC Championship that won't be around next year.

3083
02:42:05,400 --> 02:42:07,520
Speaker 1: That's why it's a sad day when you clean your

3084
02:42:07,600 --> 02:42:10,440
Speaker 1: locker out. A lot of these guys won't be there

3085
02:42:10,560 --> 02:42:13,640
Speaker 1: next year. Or maybe they'll be there through the entire

3086
02:42:13,760 --> 02:42:17,119
Speaker 1: offseason and get to the final cuts of the preseason

3087
02:42:17,160 --> 02:42:19,800
Speaker 1: and then their release because you just got a guy

3088
02:42:19,840 --> 02:42:23,680
Speaker 1: who's better. That's it's that simple, and it may be

3089
02:42:23,879 --> 02:42:26,200
Speaker 1: some there's always it used to be been my day.

3090
02:42:26,240 --> 02:42:28,360
Speaker 1: There was always every training camp. It was an old adage.

3091
02:42:29,080 --> 02:42:33,000
Speaker 1: There's always somebody that really surprises you that gets cut.

3092
02:42:33,120 --> 02:42:37,400
Speaker 1: A veteran, a beloved player, an all time grade, even whatever.

3093
02:42:37,879 --> 02:42:42,199
Speaker 1: There's always somebody who surprises you when they get replaced.

3094
02:42:42,280 --> 02:42:44,480
Speaker 1: And I think for this team this year, there may

3095
02:42:44,600 --> 02:42:46,959
Speaker 1: be more than just a couple of those guys when

3096
02:42:47,000 --> 02:42:51,360
Speaker 1: they hit the field in twenty twenty one. The last

3097
02:42:51,400 --> 02:42:53,440
Speaker 1: one we wanted to get to before the break was

3098
02:42:54,120 --> 02:42:57,880
Speaker 1: Coach mcgerman's comments on Stefan Diggs and the and the

3099
02:42:58,000 --> 02:43:02,040
Speaker 1: much viewed video of him staring there for minutes on

3100
02:43:02,360 --> 02:43:05,600
Speaker 1: end watching the AFC title celebration of the Chiefs. It

3101
02:43:05,760 --> 02:43:07,959
Speaker 1: was clear that Stefan Diggs wanted to remember it. Coach

3102
02:43:08,040 --> 02:43:10,880
Speaker 1: mcderman actually went out, gave him a hug, came back

3103
02:43:10,920 --> 02:43:12,400
Speaker 1: out of the locker room to go retrieve him and

3104
02:43:12,400 --> 02:43:14,280
Speaker 1: get him back in the locker room and had a

3105
02:43:14,320 --> 02:43:16,880
Speaker 1: conversation with him. Here was coach on Diggs watching the

3106
02:43:16,959 --> 02:43:21,480
Speaker 1: Chiefs postgame celebration. So we were getting ready to close

3107
02:43:21,520 --> 02:43:24,440
Speaker 1: the locker room doors. I was getting ready to address

3108
02:43:24,480 --> 02:43:28,800
Speaker 1: the team and I got word that Josh, Josh Morman

3109
02:43:29,040 --> 02:43:30,880
Speaker 1: and Steph we're still out there, so I wanted to

3110
02:43:30,879 --> 02:43:33,880
Speaker 1: go out there and bring him in. And you know,

3111
02:43:33,959 --> 02:43:35,600
Speaker 1: when I got to both of them. Stuff was the

3112
02:43:35,640 --> 02:43:38,120
Speaker 1: first one I got to, and he was emotionally, he

3113
02:43:38,240 --> 02:43:41,959
Speaker 1: was visibly upset, and so listen, I can understand why

3114
02:43:41,959 --> 02:43:44,360
Speaker 1: he wanted to stay out there and watch that. I've

3115
02:43:44,400 --> 02:43:47,440
Speaker 1: been around this game and those games enough, including the

3116
02:43:47,520 --> 02:43:51,480
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, where I can tell you I don't want

3117
02:43:51,520 --> 02:43:54,280
Speaker 1: to watch it anymore because I know how hard is

3118
02:43:54,320 --> 02:43:56,280
Speaker 1: to watch it, but but you learn from it, and

3119
02:43:56,400 --> 02:43:59,040
Speaker 1: that's part of what he needed to do to get

3120
02:43:59,120 --> 02:44:02,520
Speaker 1: closure and also from it. And when I got to him,

3121
02:44:02,560 --> 02:44:04,720
Speaker 1: he was obviously, like I said, visibly upset, and I

3122
02:44:04,840 --> 02:44:07,840
Speaker 1: just wanted to be there for him as a teammate.

3123
02:44:08,480 --> 02:44:11,080
Speaker 1: Nothing really more than that love him and care for him.

3124
02:44:11,120 --> 02:44:13,440
Speaker 1: And whether it's Steph Diggs or the last manute our roster,

3125
02:44:13,480 --> 02:44:17,640
Speaker 1: I would have done the same thing and Steve, we

3126
02:44:17,720 --> 02:44:19,480
Speaker 1: are up against the break. But when we come back,

3127
02:44:19,520 --> 02:44:22,640
Speaker 1: I do want to ask you about the value of

3128
02:44:23,000 --> 02:44:26,520
Speaker 1: those disappointments as fuel. You've certainly had your share of

3129
02:44:26,560 --> 02:44:29,240
Speaker 1: those in your playing careers, So we'll get Steve's take

3130
02:44:29,280 --> 02:44:31,600
Speaker 1: on that. When we return here on one Bill's Live

3131
02:44:31,640 --> 02:44:50,520
Speaker 1: presented by Collie to help It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. After

3132
02:44:50,600 --> 02:44:52,480
Speaker 1: we'll get back to the phone calls in just the moment,

3133
02:44:52,520 --> 02:44:55,320
Speaker 1: because we know we have some people waiting there. But Steve,

3134
02:44:55,440 --> 02:44:58,040
Speaker 1: let's just pick up on where we left off. You know,

3135
02:44:58,120 --> 02:45:02,200
Speaker 1: you heard coach McDermott talking about how Stefan Diggs needed

3136
02:45:02,240 --> 02:45:08,480
Speaker 1: to experience and witness that AFC postgame celebration by the Chiefs.

3137
02:45:08,560 --> 02:45:11,240
Speaker 1: He had to witness it. Mcdermot's seen in enough times

3138
02:45:11,280 --> 02:45:13,760
Speaker 1: where he doesn't need it anymore, but it led me

3139
02:45:14,520 --> 02:45:17,480
Speaker 1: down the path of hearing some of the players talking

3140
02:45:17,520 --> 02:45:21,640
Speaker 1: about using that game as fuel. Diggs took it a

3141
02:45:21,680 --> 02:45:24,000
Speaker 1: step further. He wanted to see the opponent he just

3142
02:45:24,160 --> 02:45:28,000
Speaker 1: lost to celebrating. So maybe when he doesn't feel like

3143
02:45:28,160 --> 02:45:32,240
Speaker 1: running ten extra routes to get a route perfect, he'll

3144
02:45:32,280 --> 02:45:35,120
Speaker 1: think of that and want to do it. And it

3145
02:45:35,280 --> 02:45:37,320
Speaker 1: just kind of sparked a thing in my head because

3146
02:45:37,360 --> 02:45:39,160
Speaker 1: I've heard some of your guys that you played with

3147
02:45:39,280 --> 02:45:42,560
Speaker 1: off and say, you know, if we don't lose that

3148
02:45:42,680 --> 02:45:45,560
Speaker 1: first one by an eyelash, I don't know if we

3149
02:45:45,640 --> 02:45:47,680
Speaker 1: go to four in a row. Yeah, so there is

3150
02:45:47,840 --> 02:45:50,000
Speaker 1: there is merit to that, right. Yeah, It's a huge

3151
02:45:50,040 --> 02:45:52,879
Speaker 1: motivating thing when you get up there. It's like there's

3152
02:45:52,920 --> 02:45:56,400
Speaker 1: so much from having gone through a situation like the

3153
02:45:56,440 --> 02:45:58,840
Speaker 1: Bills went through last year in Houston, losing in the

3154
02:45:58,879 --> 02:46:00,920
Speaker 1: first round and then using that to fuel them to

3155
02:46:01,040 --> 02:46:05,080
Speaker 1: go even further this year. Same thing for Steph Diggs

3156
02:46:05,080 --> 02:46:07,680
Speaker 1: and some of these guys. This year, you got this far.

3157
02:46:07,920 --> 02:46:10,840
Speaker 1: Next year, it's going to be an expected level of accomplishment.

3158
02:46:11,040 --> 02:46:12,760
Speaker 1: It's not going to be anything new. You're You're not

3159
02:46:12,840 --> 02:46:16,800
Speaker 1: going to have that that big you know, guys, I

3160
02:46:16,879 --> 02:46:19,200
Speaker 1: hope we play well in this big game kind of feeling.

3161
02:46:19,400 --> 02:46:20,880
Speaker 1: You know, you're gonna go out there and you're gonna

3162
02:46:20,879 --> 02:46:22,560
Speaker 1: be playing hard because this is what you worked to

3163
02:46:22,680 --> 02:46:28,760
Speaker 1: get to and using that as motivation. It'll come in

3164
02:46:28,840 --> 02:46:33,200
Speaker 1: handy at a number of different junctures down this offseason

3165
02:46:33,240 --> 02:46:35,000
Speaker 1: and through the regular season next year and even into

3166
02:46:35,000 --> 02:46:37,200
Speaker 1: the playoffs next year. They're gonna they're gonna think back

3167
02:46:37,280 --> 02:46:39,920
Speaker 1: to this game next year thinking, guys, we were here

3168
02:46:40,000 --> 02:46:42,400
Speaker 1: once before. It's not enough just to do this. We've

3169
02:46:42,440 --> 02:46:44,400
Speaker 1: got to do this and this and this. You know,

3170
02:46:44,520 --> 02:46:49,720
Speaker 1: it's it's just so there's so much that goes into

3171
02:46:49,800 --> 02:46:53,600
Speaker 1: this that you remember that you feel is important and

3172
02:46:53,800 --> 02:46:56,240
Speaker 1: is going to help you, you know as you as

3173
02:46:56,280 --> 02:46:58,320
Speaker 1: you just travel down the road in the future in

3174
02:46:58,360 --> 02:47:00,920
Speaker 1: your career. It's there's just a tough a ton in

3175
02:47:01,040 --> 02:47:06,240
Speaker 1: it that that is beneficial later on. That's why we

3176
02:47:06,280 --> 02:47:10,360
Speaker 1: asked Steve these questions. All right, cool, let's uh, let's

3177
02:47:10,400 --> 02:47:12,200
Speaker 1: get to the phones though. Where we got people waiting

3178
02:47:12,200 --> 02:47:13,960
Speaker 1: at eight oh three oh five fifty. What do we have?

3179
02:47:14,040 --> 02:47:16,600
Speaker 1: All right, we got rich We'll start with rich In Webster.

3180
02:47:16,760 --> 02:47:18,800
Speaker 1: Rich thanks for calling, Thanks for waiting a few minutes.

3181
02:47:19,680 --> 02:47:24,200
Speaker 1: What's on your mind? Our personnel? I mean, you know,

3182
02:47:24,280 --> 02:47:26,800
Speaker 1: we talk about upgrading the roster and you look at

3183
02:47:26,879 --> 02:47:29,640
Speaker 1: one of our receiver corps. Wow, how do you upgrade

3184
02:47:29,680 --> 02:47:33,480
Speaker 1: that receiver corps? Because every care receiving corps was solid um,

3185
02:47:33,640 --> 02:47:35,960
Speaker 1: you know. Granted, John Brown got hurt, missed a lot

3186
02:47:36,040 --> 02:47:38,880
Speaker 1: of time, but Brian and Diggs arriving John Brown was

3187
02:47:39,080 --> 02:47:43,600
Speaker 1: what was was Josh's favorite target and looking to work

3188
02:47:43,640 --> 02:47:46,040
Speaker 1: to Josh Ellen getting the off season to become that

3189
02:47:46,680 --> 02:47:50,760
Speaker 1: at seventy percent answer and and improve his accuracy. I

3190
02:47:50,800 --> 02:47:52,840
Speaker 1: can't imagine what he's gonna do next year. I mean,

3191
02:47:53,440 --> 02:47:56,320
Speaker 1: you know, I mean Mahomes, who is now our Tom

3192
02:47:56,400 --> 02:48:00,240
Speaker 1: Brady unfortunately. Um, but you look at the two games

3193
02:48:00,280 --> 02:48:05,840
Speaker 1: that we played the Chiefs. The Chiefs clearly just did

3194
02:48:05,959 --> 02:48:09,360
Speaker 1: whatever they want wanted in that championship game, yet they

3195
02:48:09,400 --> 02:48:12,000
Speaker 1: only beat us by fourteen points and one was one

3196
02:48:12,160 --> 02:48:15,400
Speaker 1: one was a late scoring touchdown. I just know, I'm

3197
02:48:15,480 --> 02:48:17,600
Speaker 1: proud of my guys. I'm proud of my team, and

3198
02:48:18,560 --> 02:48:21,560
Speaker 1: you know, I'm yeah, it's next Year's a new season.

3199
02:48:21,840 --> 02:48:24,400
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll be right back there, all right, Rich,

3200
02:48:24,520 --> 02:48:26,880
Speaker 1: Thanks appreciate it. And you're right, there's a lot to

3201
02:48:26,920 --> 02:48:29,040
Speaker 1: be happy about with where the team is, no question

3202
02:48:29,120 --> 02:48:33,120
Speaker 1: about it. But they're chasing. There's still somebody out there

3203
02:48:33,160 --> 02:48:36,520
Speaker 1: to chase. There's absolutely no question about it, right, Brownie, Right.

3204
02:48:36,680 --> 02:48:39,160
Speaker 1: And I think Steve you would agree with me since

3205
02:48:39,520 --> 02:48:41,880
Speaker 1: you live the league as a player for thirteen years.

3206
02:48:42,879 --> 02:48:45,160
Speaker 1: You can't stand pat in this league, no matter how

3207
02:48:45,240 --> 02:48:47,640
Speaker 1: good you are, because if you stand pat, you get

3208
02:48:47,800 --> 02:48:51,400
Speaker 1: left behind. Right. So they got to keep looking for

3209
02:48:51,480 --> 02:48:55,080
Speaker 1: ways to improve. And yes, it's a dynamic receiving corps.

3210
02:48:55,120 --> 02:48:59,720
Speaker 1: I agree, but you could use a little more juice

3211
02:49:00,320 --> 02:49:02,760
Speaker 1: from an explosion standpoint. I mean, John Brown is a

3212
02:49:02,800 --> 02:49:04,480
Speaker 1: deep threat. I'm not denying that for a second. And

3213
02:49:04,520 --> 02:49:06,920
Speaker 1: I love John Brown. Guy was a thousand yard receiver

3214
02:49:07,000 --> 02:49:10,039
Speaker 1: two years ago. Ran into some injuries this year which

3215
02:49:10,080 --> 02:49:14,360
Speaker 1: compromised his effectiveness and his availability. And let's not forget this, Steve.

3216
02:49:14,440 --> 02:49:16,920
Speaker 1: We've talked all day about how the roster changes so

3217
02:49:17,080 --> 02:49:19,600
Speaker 1: dramatically from one year to the next. They're gonna have

3218
02:49:19,720 --> 02:49:22,040
Speaker 1: the sixth round pick here next year too. And Isaiah

3219
02:49:22,120 --> 02:49:24,400
Speaker 1: Hodgins who never even took the field because of a

3220
02:49:24,440 --> 02:49:27,720
Speaker 1: shoulder injury that landed him on injured reserve and eventually surgery.

3221
02:49:27,840 --> 02:49:31,760
Speaker 1: So he's not a speed guy, but he's a size guy,

3222
02:49:32,240 --> 02:49:34,600
Speaker 1: and so that could present a different dynamic to the

3223
02:49:34,640 --> 02:49:37,400
Speaker 1: receiving corps. And this is a unit that had six

3224
02:49:37,680 --> 02:49:41,080
Speaker 1: receivers on the active roster. Isaiah McKenzie is a free agent.

3225
02:49:41,240 --> 02:49:43,880
Speaker 1: Is he back or does Isaiah Hodgins take the sixth spot?

3226
02:49:44,280 --> 02:49:46,440
Speaker 1: You know, how does it all shake out? I think

3227
02:49:46,560 --> 02:49:49,360
Speaker 1: is a major question. Maybe somebody comes in in training

3228
02:49:49,400 --> 02:49:52,400
Speaker 1: camp and knocks the socks off the coaching staff and

3229
02:49:52,520 --> 02:49:55,640
Speaker 1: now you've got a fine room for that. So yeah,

3230
02:49:55,920 --> 02:49:58,879
Speaker 1: I mean, the top four are intriguing in all likelihood

3231
02:49:58,920 --> 02:50:01,400
Speaker 1: all four will be back the roster in twenty twenty one.

3232
02:50:01,520 --> 02:50:04,160
Speaker 1: They're all under contract and they all offer something to

3233
02:50:04,280 --> 02:50:08,520
Speaker 1: this offense, but there are no guarantees in this league.

3234
02:50:08,560 --> 02:50:11,800
Speaker 1: It is a cutthroat league because of the enormous amount

3235
02:50:11,800 --> 02:50:14,720
Speaker 1: of competition that's at play in every single training camp,

3236
02:50:14,800 --> 02:50:17,480
Speaker 1: every single July. Changes are This is nothing I need

3237
02:50:17,520 --> 02:50:19,959
Speaker 1: to tell Steve, but that's kind of the way it goes.

3238
02:50:20,200 --> 02:50:22,760
Speaker 1: Changes are inevitable. It's that just the way. That's the

3239
02:50:22,800 --> 02:50:26,840
Speaker 1: way of the world, and it is listen, faces, the

3240
02:50:27,080 --> 02:50:29,360
Speaker 1: Bills are great. It's gonna be fun to watch because

3241
02:50:29,360 --> 02:50:31,920
Speaker 1: the Bills roster is gonna be hard to make. But

3242
02:50:32,080 --> 02:50:35,600
Speaker 1: if you make it, you're gonna have high expectations attached

3243
02:50:35,640 --> 02:50:37,840
Speaker 1: to you, so it'll be interesting to see. Let's take

3244
02:50:37,879 --> 02:50:40,560
Speaker 1: one more call Mike from New Jersey. Mike, you're on

3245
02:50:40,600 --> 02:50:44,959
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live with Stephen Chris. What's on your mind? Hi, guys,

3246
02:50:45,080 --> 02:50:47,320
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. Um. I just want to

3247
02:50:47,520 --> 02:50:50,000
Speaker 1: start out by saying, you know, first of all, thanks

3248
02:50:50,160 --> 02:50:53,320
Speaker 1: thank you guys for your your level headed approach that

3249
02:50:53,400 --> 02:50:55,640
Speaker 1: you've taken, you know, through the season and especially over

3250
02:50:55,720 --> 02:50:58,080
Speaker 1: the last couple of days. You know, it's a tough

3251
02:50:58,520 --> 02:51:01,520
Speaker 1: defeat and there's a lot of emotions running high from

3252
02:51:01,560 --> 02:51:04,080
Speaker 1: callers and you know, stuff like that, but you guys

3253
02:51:04,120 --> 02:51:08,840
Speaker 1: have handled it great, and uh, I appreciate that. My

3254
02:51:09,320 --> 02:51:13,240
Speaker 1: question that I have is is regarding Leslie Frasier. Um,

3255
02:51:15,480 --> 02:51:17,280
Speaker 1: you know, the talk about him going to Houston and

3256
02:51:17,360 --> 02:51:21,000
Speaker 1: how much that will actually affect the Bills. And I

3257
02:51:21,080 --> 02:51:23,440
Speaker 1: guess it goes back to the beginning of the twenty

3258
02:51:23,480 --> 02:51:27,720
Speaker 1: eighteen season when our defense first game against the Ravens,

3259
02:51:27,760 --> 02:51:30,520
Speaker 1: we got you know, crushed, and then the first against

3260
02:51:30,520 --> 02:51:32,440
Speaker 1: San Diego we were getting beat and then we got

3261
02:51:32,520 --> 02:51:34,920
Speaker 1: the Vontae Davis thing at half time with him Quitton

3262
02:51:35,720 --> 02:51:38,440
Speaker 1: and I believe it was McDermott that said that he

3263
02:51:38,560 --> 02:51:40,879
Speaker 1: took over the play calling on defense at that point

3264
02:51:41,520 --> 02:51:44,160
Speaker 1: and the Bills did better in the second half. And

3265
02:51:44,360 --> 02:51:48,200
Speaker 1: I wonder how much does Leslie Frasier actually call the

3266
02:51:48,320 --> 02:51:51,240
Speaker 1: defense or is it really Sean McDermott and Leslie's more

3267
02:51:51,280 --> 02:51:55,000
Speaker 1: of a caretaker And you know, like a lot of

3268
02:51:55,040 --> 02:51:58,119
Speaker 1: people are criticizing Leslie, but maybe it's really not him.

3269
02:51:58,200 --> 02:52:00,920
Speaker 1: Maybe it's you know McDermot too, you know, So I

3270
02:52:01,000 --> 02:52:04,160
Speaker 1: doesn't wonder what your thoughts on that are guys. I

3271
02:52:04,200 --> 02:52:07,520
Speaker 1: think it's one hundred percent Leslie's defense with Sean McDermott

3272
02:52:07,520 --> 02:52:09,480
Speaker 1: as a as a voice in the room, no question

3273
02:52:09,640 --> 02:52:13,360
Speaker 1: Leslie now. And early on I think it was year

3274
02:52:13,480 --> 02:52:17,880
Speaker 1: one of the friend of Sean McDermott being here where

3275
02:52:17,920 --> 02:52:20,520
Speaker 1: he took over the play calling for Leslie Frasier and

3276
02:52:20,560 --> 02:52:25,199
Speaker 1: it lasted like a half and and Sean would admittedly

3277
02:52:25,240 --> 02:52:28,440
Speaker 1: he learned something from that as well, And in fact,

3278
02:52:28,520 --> 02:52:31,720
Speaker 1: the next week he gave Leslie Frasier the game ball

3279
02:52:32,160 --> 02:52:34,680
Speaker 1: when Leslie Frasier came back and made the made the

3280
02:52:34,760 --> 02:52:38,480
Speaker 1: calls and and you know, so it's Leslie Frasier's defense,

3281
02:52:38,560 --> 02:52:40,800
Speaker 1: no question about it. Now. Sean McDermott is a smart

3282
02:52:40,920 --> 02:52:42,880
Speaker 1: defensive coach and he's got a voice in the room.

3283
02:52:42,920 --> 02:52:44,880
Speaker 1: And Leslie Frasier will be the first to tell you

3284
02:52:45,240 --> 02:52:47,080
Speaker 1: he'd be silly not to listen to what Sean has

3285
02:52:47,160 --> 02:52:51,000
Speaker 1: to say. But it's Leslie Frasier is a true coordinator.

3286
02:52:51,360 --> 02:52:55,000
Speaker 1: He calls it, he deploys it, He comes up with

3287
02:52:55,080 --> 02:52:57,440
Speaker 1: a game plan with all his assistants, just like every

3288
02:52:57,480 --> 02:52:59,520
Speaker 1: other coordinator in the in the in the league does.

3289
02:53:01,040 --> 02:53:02,840
Speaker 1: But he's the guy who calls the plays, just like

3290
02:53:02,920 --> 02:53:07,720
Speaker 1: Brian Dabo calls the offensive plays. So yeah, I would

3291
02:53:07,760 --> 02:53:10,280
Speaker 1: agree with that. He only I mean, going back to

3292
02:53:10,360 --> 02:53:12,600
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, he only took the play calling duties that

3293
02:53:12,640 --> 02:53:15,760
Speaker 1: Steve said for about a half. That was the end

3294
02:53:15,800 --> 02:53:18,440
Speaker 1: of that. The very next week, Leslie's back to calling

3295
02:53:18,480 --> 02:53:20,680
Speaker 1: the plays on the sideline and it's been his baby

3296
02:53:21,200 --> 02:53:23,440
Speaker 1: for the better part of the last four years, with

3297
02:53:23,560 --> 02:53:26,080
Speaker 1: the exception of that one half of football. And I

3298
02:53:26,160 --> 02:53:28,720
Speaker 1: think you have to remember that was Sean mcdermot's first

3299
02:53:28,760 --> 02:53:32,200
Speaker 1: year as a head coach, and you know, I'm sure

3300
02:53:32,320 --> 02:53:35,440
Speaker 1: he was told and advised by people who have been

3301
02:53:35,480 --> 02:53:38,240
Speaker 1: head coaches in this league before that the best head

3302
02:53:38,240 --> 02:53:39,720
Speaker 1: coach is the one that gets out of the way

3303
02:53:39,879 --> 02:53:43,720
Speaker 1: and trusts his people to do their jobs. And Sean

3304
02:53:44,440 --> 02:53:46,480
Speaker 1: decided it was time for him to step in based

3305
02:53:46,520 --> 02:53:49,080
Speaker 1: on the way that game was going, and decided to

3306
02:53:49,160 --> 02:53:52,720
Speaker 1: take things over. But I think afterwards he realized, hey,

3307
02:53:52,800 --> 02:53:55,520
Speaker 1: I hired Leslie Fraser for a reason because I trust

3308
02:53:55,560 --> 02:53:58,360
Speaker 1: this man to run our defense. And so I think

3309
02:53:58,879 --> 02:54:03,640
Speaker 1: in reviewing how that came unfolded, he realized he had to,

3310
02:54:04,240 --> 02:54:07,840
Speaker 1: you know, prove that he trusted his defensive coordinator and

3311
02:54:08,440 --> 02:54:12,039
Speaker 1: went forward from there, and Leslie has done a marvelous job.

3312
02:54:12,080 --> 02:54:14,080
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a team to finished top five

3313
02:54:14,520 --> 02:54:16,560
Speaker 1: against the past two out of the last three years,

3314
02:54:16,640 --> 02:54:18,280
Speaker 1: top five in the league two out of the last

3315
02:54:18,320 --> 02:54:22,320
Speaker 1: three years, and made enormous strides in the second half

3316
02:54:22,400 --> 02:54:27,880
Speaker 1: this season with a with a y with a Revamps

3317
02:54:28,000 --> 02:54:30,280
Speaker 1: front seven and a Matt Milano that wasn't there right

3318
02:54:30,320 --> 02:54:32,680
Speaker 1: and playing with a backup. So yeah, I'm totally with you,

3319
02:54:32,800 --> 02:54:37,800
Speaker 1: and I think that's uh, I think that's you know, yeah,

3320
02:54:37,879 --> 02:54:41,199
Speaker 1: he's it's a you know, and every time game doesn't

3321
02:54:41,200 --> 02:54:43,520
Speaker 1: go well, if if an offense plays well against your

3322
02:54:43,560 --> 02:54:45,760
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator is the worst thing ever. People are wanting

3323
02:54:45,800 --> 02:54:47,400
Speaker 1: him out of town. Same thing with the offense. If

3324
02:54:47,440 --> 02:54:49,520
Speaker 1: you go out and you score, hang three points up.

3325
02:54:49,520 --> 02:54:55,640
Speaker 1: I know Baltimore Ravens, Greg Roman, the offensive coordinator the

3326
02:54:55,720 --> 02:54:59,200
Speaker 1: Ravens was getting roasted the week after they lost to

3327
02:54:59,200 --> 02:55:02,080
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills here in Buffalo in the playoffs. You know,

3328
02:55:02,760 --> 02:55:08,920
Speaker 1: it's it's lazy, and it's it's unfortunately predictable that anytime

3329
02:55:08,959 --> 02:55:11,080
Speaker 1: a game goes bad, one or two, one or the

3330
02:55:11,120 --> 02:55:15,200
Speaker 1: other or both coordinators get vilified, just like they are

3331
02:55:15,240 --> 02:55:19,119
Speaker 1: in Green Bay this week, so it's it's just it's

3332
02:55:19,160 --> 02:55:20,840
Speaker 1: the way. It's the way of the world. I think,

3333
02:55:22,879 --> 02:55:25,320
Speaker 1: all right, break time for us, But when we come back,

3334
02:55:25,400 --> 02:55:28,600
Speaker 1: we will close things up with what have we learned

3335
02:55:28,959 --> 02:55:31,160
Speaker 1: from Today's show? That's coming up next year on One

3336
02:55:31,240 --> 02:55:34,280
Speaker 1: Bill's Live Presentnybody Collie to help, It's Buffalo Bills Radio

3337
02:55:49,360 --> 02:55:53,280
Speaker 1: time for What have we learned from Today's show? Presented

3338
02:55:53,320 --> 02:55:56,800
Speaker 1: by Skyworks, the official construction of Freeman Rental Company of

3339
02:55:56,840 --> 02:56:01,120
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills and Steve. I think we were expecting

3340
02:56:01,720 --> 02:56:03,840
Speaker 1: the Bills to be this self aware, but I still

3341
02:56:03,920 --> 02:56:06,800
Speaker 1: think it was nice to learn that they're all too

3342
02:56:06,959 --> 02:56:09,520
Speaker 1: in tune with the fact that there is a gap

3343
02:56:09,600 --> 02:56:13,480
Speaker 1: that still exists between them and the Chiefs, who right

3344
02:56:13,560 --> 02:56:16,000
Speaker 1: now are the standard bearers in the AFC. Yeah, I

3345
02:56:16,080 --> 02:56:20,560
Speaker 1: think that game left a mark on them. They played

3346
02:56:20,640 --> 02:56:23,640
Speaker 1: really The Bills did not play bad football, but they

3347
02:56:23,680 --> 02:56:26,920
Speaker 1: were outplayed. They came in I think they felt really

3348
02:56:27,000 --> 02:56:31,119
Speaker 1: prepared and they got out out athletic size now played,

3349
02:56:31,800 --> 02:56:33,960
Speaker 1: and there were a couple of times when they got

3350
02:56:34,040 --> 02:56:37,320
Speaker 1: caught looking the wrong way and lost their discipline. There

3351
02:56:37,400 --> 02:56:39,640
Speaker 1: was enough blame to go around in the Bills locker

3352
02:56:39,720 --> 02:56:43,160
Speaker 1: room and without playing, you know, a poor game, they

3353
02:56:43,280 --> 02:56:45,760
Speaker 1: could not play well enough to beat that team that night,

3354
02:56:45,800 --> 02:56:47,480
Speaker 1: and they and they didn't see their way out. And

3355
02:56:47,560 --> 02:56:49,200
Speaker 1: I think that really left a mark on them. And

3356
02:56:49,240 --> 02:56:53,200
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna stick with them and kind of

3357
02:56:53,360 --> 02:56:55,959
Speaker 1: propel them to see to let them know how hard

3358
02:56:56,080 --> 02:56:57,800
Speaker 1: they've got to work to get back to the same

3359
02:56:57,879 --> 02:56:59,920
Speaker 1: point next year and how far they have to go.

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02:57:00,560 --> 02:57:03,000
Speaker 1: But I think if I know them well, and i'm

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02:57:03,120 --> 02:57:05,520
Speaker 1: I think I do, they're looking forward to it. I

3362
02:57:05,640 --> 02:57:08,200
Speaker 1: think they will, maybe not today, maybe not this week,

3363
02:57:08,480 --> 02:57:10,640
Speaker 1: but by the time this season rolls around, they're gonna

3364
02:57:10,640 --> 02:57:12,840
Speaker 1: be looking forward to seeing that team again and working

3365
02:57:12,920 --> 02:57:15,400
Speaker 1: hard to play better and beating them the next time.

3366
02:57:16,640 --> 02:57:19,039
Speaker 1: And they will see them again in the regular season.

3367
02:57:19,080 --> 02:57:20,920
Speaker 1: As we know with the Bills have to go back

3368
02:57:20,959 --> 02:57:24,680
Speaker 1: out to Kansas City next season on their regular season schedule.

3369
02:57:24,760 --> 02:57:27,240
Speaker 1: We'll find out in mid April what week that will be.

3370
02:57:28,800 --> 02:57:31,920
Speaker 1: It's it's interesting because the Bills didn't play their best

3371
02:57:31,959 --> 02:57:35,840
Speaker 1: game against the Chiefs and lost, and I'll bet you

3372
02:57:36,040 --> 02:57:38,119
Speaker 1: that the Ravens are probably saying the same thing about

3373
02:57:38,160 --> 02:57:40,280
Speaker 1: their game with the Bills just the week before. The

3374
02:57:40,400 --> 02:57:43,160
Speaker 1: Bills probably played the best defensive game of the season

3375
02:57:43,720 --> 02:57:46,360
Speaker 1: against the Ravens, and the Ravens were just a little

3376
02:57:46,400 --> 02:57:48,120
Speaker 1: bit off of their mark of what they had been

3377
02:57:48,200 --> 02:57:51,400
Speaker 1: the previous five weeks, and they're probably harboring some similar

3378
02:57:51,480 --> 02:57:54,320
Speaker 1: feelings to that of the Bills. Yeah, I agree, and

3379
02:57:54,480 --> 02:57:55,800
Speaker 1: that's the way. If that's way it is at the

3380
02:57:55,840 --> 02:57:57,800
Speaker 1: pro level, you think, if you can play your best,

3381
02:57:57,879 --> 02:58:00,800
Speaker 1: you're gonna beat just about everybody. Us the ball bounces

3382
02:58:00,879 --> 02:58:03,000
Speaker 1: the wrong way. So I think there's no question the

3383
02:58:03,080 --> 02:58:04,800
Speaker 1: Bills are gonna They're gonna lick in their wounds, and

3384
02:58:04,879 --> 02:58:07,240
Speaker 1: they will be for a while. But as they start

3385
02:58:07,280 --> 02:58:10,000
Speaker 1: to turn their sights on free agency and the players

3386
02:58:10,040 --> 02:58:12,320
Speaker 1: at home start reading names of guys that they're signing

3387
02:58:12,360 --> 02:58:14,840
Speaker 1: and what's going on, they're gonna get enthusiastic about what's

3388
02:58:14,840 --> 02:58:18,480
Speaker 1: ahead of them for next year. Brandon Bean's seasoned rap

3389
02:58:18,680 --> 02:58:21,320
Speaker 1: up press conference tomorrow and Mark Ross will be on

3390
02:58:21,400 --> 02:58:24,720
Speaker 1: the show, NFL analysts from NFL Network, former front office

3391
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Speaker 1: exact Steve and I'll see tomorrow