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

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Speaker 2: Health, and they're off the free agent market and the

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Speaker 2: new league year has begun. Even though contracts cannot be

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Speaker 2: Negotiating enterprise began an hour ago and it is rolling downhill.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you.

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Speaker 2: Good to have the band back together again, as we

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Speaker 2: are back in the saddle and ready to roll for

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Speaker 3: Agency twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: And we'll bring up to speed right out of the

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Speaker 2: shoot here as there is plenty of stuff going on,

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Speaker 2: including Bills news, and we begin with the latest news,

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Speaker 2: which crossed officially about twenty five minutes ago. The Bills

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Speaker 2: have agreed to terms on a three year contract extension

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Speaker 2: with left tackle Dion Dawkins, wortha reported sixty million dollars.

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Speaker 2: This will presumably create more cap space for Buffalo. He

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Speaker 2: had a cap figure of sixteen point six million and

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Speaker 2: was in the last year of his deal. So we

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Speaker 2: had mentioned that Steve in the weeks leading up to

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Speaker 2: free agency that an extension for Dion Dawkins would make sense.

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Speaker 2: The Bills go ahead and do that, and so I

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Speaker 2: think we both anticipate that they've created a considerable amount

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Speaker 4: That's right, and it's going to help him in the

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Speaker 4: in the cap number. Dion was having fun with it

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Speaker 4: might be out of here, and then of course, five

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Speaker 4: minutes later they announced that he got signed an extension.

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Speaker 4: Gives you a little bit of palpitations there if you're

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Speaker 4: have Dion wrapped up. Helps him with the cap A

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Speaker 4: lot of other stuff going on around the league as well.

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Speaker 1: But it's by the way, it's good to be back

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Speaker 1: in the seat with you.

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Speaker 4: By yad, we're back a couple of weeks, a couple

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Speaker 4: of weeks since we've been doing the show together. The

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Speaker 4: good to have Brownie back in the and be back

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Speaker 4: with him. But thanks for listening. But this Dion Dawkins

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Speaker 4: thing makes a lot of sense. You knew what was happening.

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Speaker 4: He is headed into the last year of a contract.

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Speaker 4: He had maybe his best year ever this last season.

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Speaker 4: I mean, right, I mean, at least in the con

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Speaker 4: it's even in the conversation he did, so, Yeah, this

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Speaker 1: He did the same thing with Dawson Knox.

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Speaker 2: I think another guy that could be a candidate for

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Speaker 2: an extension is Taron Johnson. If they need to save

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Speaker 2: more money under the I think he would be a

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Speaker 2: viable candidate for an extension as well. We'll see if

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Speaker 2: something like that comes down the pike. According to ESPN's

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Speaker 2: Jeremy Fowler, to Steve's aforementioned point, he is reporting that

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Speaker 2: the Bills and tight end Dawson Knox have agreed to

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Speaker 2: a reworked contract. Knox had a cap figure of fourteen

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Speaker 2: point three million this year, so some relief was needed there.

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Speaker 2: Haven't seen the rework numbers yet, but presumably a good

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Speaker 2: portion of what was left on the deal in base

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Speaker 2: salary was put into a bonus. Perhaps a pay cut

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Speaker 2: as well, we don't know. I found the language interesting.

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Speaker 2: Usually when it's a straight restructure, they'll say restructure at

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Speaker 2: least the reporters out there, and this was called a

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Speaker 2: ten and a half million. So he'll be Trevor Lawrence's

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Speaker 2: next season, so there'll be a Mitch Morris homecoming of

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Speaker 2: I don't know, we haven't had a chance to talk

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Speaker 3: But that was an eon.

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Speaker 4: Ago, and it was really striking because you and I

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Speaker 4: Now Baits basicgo Bates and Morse are both gone now.

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Speaker 4: There is a void there and there is a depth issue.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think Connor McGovern will be moved

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Speaker 4: They like Aleck Anderson more than we thought or more

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Speaker 4: So maybe it's time for him to take over the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I like Aleck Anderson a little better because David

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Speaker 2: Would you be surprised if I told you that David

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Speaker 2: Edwards was twenty seven years old, I would be he's

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Speaker 4: Okay, Plug a man, plug a man, use him up right,

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Speaker 4: guy up. Don't say it up? Shoot your shot.

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Speaker 4: I like that, so I listen. I'm with everybody. I'm

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Speaker 4: Every move you make that caused you to have a

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Speaker 4: grit your teeth and just I guess okay, but you

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Speaker 1: It's just they'll have to make it work. It's a

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Speaker 2: And the good thing is you you made this move

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Speaker 2: you know, Connor McGovern secures the center spot and David

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Speaker 2: the rest of the goings on. The Houston Texans have

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Speaker 2: million dollars. Wide receiver news and this is Big T Higgins,

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Speaker 2: who was franchised by the Cincinnati Bengals, has requested a trade.

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Speaker 2: The presumption here is that the Bengals are just trying

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Speaker 2: expected to be interested. You kind of wonder, Steve. It's like, oh, great,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, one team I've been heard, And it's the worst

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Speaker 4: stink at drafting him, at least they did under Bill Belichick.

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Speaker 4: Get one who's proven, bring him in, plug him in.

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Speaker 4: But New England would with the money they've got to spend,

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Speaker 2: Kind of follow the Stefan Diggs model or the Tyreek

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Speaker 2: So that is another receiver effectively off the market and

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Speaker 1: Maybe I don't think so.

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Speaker 4: They got to find a way to keep Joe Burrow

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Speaker 4: but it's still that scenario that we've talked about.

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Speaker 2: Over the weekend, there was quarterback news. Baker Mayfield signs

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Speaker 2: a three year, one hundred million dollar deal to re

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Speaker 2: on a one year, four million dollar contract. That's a

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Speaker 2: pretty good race. Made four million last year. Now he's

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Speaker 2: gonna make one hundred million over the next three years.

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Speaker 4: I get it that, you know, but he earned it.

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Speaker 1: He's tough. He played hurt in Cleveland and paid a

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Speaker 2: And Mike Evans has been resigned on a two year,

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Speaker 3: So, yeah, the Bucks.

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Speaker 2: Reloading on offense with those two offseason signings. In the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, perhaps I'll say this it's a win for the

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Speaker 4: pay him thirty eight million. That gives them some space

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Speaker 4: I think it's a smart move football wise. Plus, Steelers

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Speaker 2: What does it say about Kenny Pickett here? What does

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Speaker 7: Right?

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Speaker 2: I'm just wondering if if thoughts of him as a

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Speaker 4: Well, if you're gonna tray a one year, you're gonna

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Speaker 4: Russ is not Russ is not gonna knock it out

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Speaker 3: Had twenty six touchdown passes.

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Speaker 4: He'll be okay, Like he is gonna be what he is,

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Speaker 4: it buys you some time. Pittsburgh and I haven't checked.

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Speaker 4: I can't remember where they're draft and I'll find out

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Speaker 2: But they're in front of the Bills. I want to say,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're in the bottom half.

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Speaker 3: I believe it's twenty three.

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Speaker 3: A lot snaps out of his hands, but a.

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Speaker 4: Lot of a lot of he's polarizing. So he's got

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Speaker 4: an injury history, yes, but he's been healthy. He's been

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Speaker 4: healthy is a big, a big number for him. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: so the Steelers could sign Russ, let him play, get

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Speaker 4: learn from Russ. Whether Russ is a good mentor or not,

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Speaker 4: nobody cares. You're you're gonna be coaching the kid up.

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Speaker 4: If he's the right kid. He's the right kid. So

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Speaker 4: I'm I'm I like what Pittsburgh did with Russ. He's cheap,

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Speaker 4: lot of sense. Now, I don't know if he's gonna

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Speaker 4: it's not gonna be a home run, Yeah, but it

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Speaker 2: Right, and that might be enough to get you to

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: We'll see one last bit of quarterback news over the

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Speaker 3: Behind Trevor Lawrence.

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Speaker 4: I'm yeah, the New England pay for all the success

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Speaker 2: have probably been far faster were it not for Brady

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Speaker 2: covering up a lot of the warts that this team

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Speaker 2: when I saw this contract, Steve. The Eagles have signed

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Speaker 2: their starting guard, he's Pro Bowl guard, Landon Dickerson, to

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Speaker 2: a four year, eighty four million dollar extension twenty million

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Speaker 1: That's a lot of money for a guard. For a guard,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of money for that position. Certainly, it's

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Speaker 3: It was almost irresponsible.

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Speaker 4: Let me just say this, There is no way in

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Speaker 2: And because kickers are people too, the Bucks have re

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Speaker 3: So good for him.

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Speaker 2: He's finally found a team and a long term contract

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Speaker 3: The first few years of his career, so congrats to him.

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Speaker 3: And the Jets have re signed Greg the leg zero

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Speaker 2: Uh and that's where they eight point four million dollars.

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Speaker 3: This just in baking news.

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Speaker 2: From NFL Networks in Rapaport The Jaguars are reportedly signing

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Speaker 2: Bill's wide receiver Gabe Davis to a three year contract.

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Speaker 2: So Gabe Davis goes much closer to home. He's from Sanford, Florida,

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Speaker 3: Right and here he is.

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Speaker 2: We're like a little over an hour into the free

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Speaker 4: Bill's fans feel like they know Gabe well enough to

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Speaker 5: Gabe.

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Speaker 1: Here's why Gabe is really valuable.

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Speaker 4: Bill's fans want more catches, more yards, more difference, making

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Speaker 1: Here's what other teams see.

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Speaker 4: A young guy who has been a big part, or

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Speaker 4: has been really good for his entire career. He started

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Speaker 4: why teams field Gabe is really really valuable. Of course,

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Speaker 4: Bills fans know why the Bills have tried are going

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Speaker 1: It is because of his production. It's just not there consistently.

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Speaker 2: Enough, right, and their cap situation, And yeah, they knew

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Speaker 3: Bills he was not prepared to compete with that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he absolutely did the right thing. Gabe did, no

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Speaker 4: And we'll see what the number of them. We'll see

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Speaker 4: I'm sure the Bills knew exactly what Gabe was going

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what about interesting to see what the numbers are.

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Speaker 2: I would estimate he's going to get somewhere between fourteen

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Speaker 2: more right. And you know, to me, don't I don't

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Speaker 2: know if I could stomach that. Well, Chad guy that

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Speaker 4: receivers coaching jackson Yes, And obviously Chad Hall was built

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Speaker 2: Him a lot, and all of that So Gabe's career

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Speaker 1: It's probably not going to change much. No, it might

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Speaker 1: change some, it might bump up some.

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Speaker 2: Gabe Davis played with a top two quarterback in the

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Speaker 2: NFL his first four years in the league. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I like Trevor Lawrence, but he's not Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: It'll be interesting to see what happens.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 4: It's going to be different for him, but maybe it'll

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Speaker 4: be a difference in a positive way.

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Speaker 1: You don't know.

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Speaker 4: But congratulations to Gabe Davis. It's something we all expected

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Speaker 4: and we wish him well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we'll see. I'm sure contract numbers will be

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Speaker 2: out sooner rather than later, so we'll pass those along too,

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Speaker 2: as soon as we get them. So yeah, Gabe Davis

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Speaker 2: reportedly headed to Jacksonville on a three year deal. Not unexpected,

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Speaker 2: you know, but you see it, and it's still makes

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Speaker 2: it feel.

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Speaker 3: A little weird inside. Yeah, because this is the only

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Speaker 3: team he's played for. Fourth round draft choice.

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Speaker 2: But change happens in this league, as we know, and

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Speaker 2: I think it only accentuates Buffalo's need to find a

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Speaker 2: number two receiver in the draft this spring. Yeah, think

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Speaker 2: about this because paying for one, paying for one isn't

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Speaker 2: really realistic.

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Speaker 1: What happened.

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Speaker 2: Now, if the Bill sign a guy, I think they'll

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Speaker 2: sign a veteran receiver, but not not for money that

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Speaker 2: these guys in the first wave or.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that the Bills could sign t Higgins

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Speaker 1: a fourteen million a year, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: They have to move somebody else out right to do that.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean to me, right now as it stands,

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Speaker 4: certainly it's going to be a drafted guy and it

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Speaker 4: may be anyway. But even if they do sign a

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Speaker 4: veteran free agent, so we'll depending on who it is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there is a report from Adam Schefter. ESPN says

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Speaker 2: Bill's defensive back Cam Lewis is re signing with the

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Speaker 2: on a two year deal worth four million dollars.

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Speaker 3: So that's good news.

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Speaker 2: It looks like the safety position will be bolstered for

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Speaker 2: Buffalo because currently under contract Taylor Rapp and DeMar Hamlin

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Speaker 2: that's it at the safety position. So Caam Lewis would

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Speaker 2: be a welcome return. And just to give you an

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Speaker 2: idea comparing apples to oranges and stuff, we know last week,

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Speaker 2: Saran Neil, one of the two gunners on punt coverage

485
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Speaker 2: and an a special teams player, was released because he

486
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Speaker 2: had a big contract number after signing a three year,

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Speaker 2: eleven million dollar extension. Now they bring back the other

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Speaker 2: gunner in cam Lewis two years, four million. That is

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Speaker 2: a major savings there, so a more modest contract. Bring

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Speaker 2: the guy into the fold. And now it looks like

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Speaker 2: Christian Wilkins is off the market. We didn't anticipate that

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Speaker 2: Miami would be able to resign him. Knowing that he

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Speaker 2: is headed. They are headed on a collision course to

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Speaker 2: a contract extension with to a Tonga bailoa. So Christian

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Speaker 2: Wilkins is going to the Raiders. So he gets a

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Speaker 2: four year deal worth one hundred ten million dollars. Wow,

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Speaker 2: that is not nearly the size of the contract for

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Speaker 2: Chris Jones who signed for I want to say five

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Speaker 2: and one fifty eight, So not that kind of money

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Speaker 2: but pretty close h eighty four point seventy five million

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Speaker 2: in guarantees. So gigantic money for Christian Wilkins who goes

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Speaker 2: to the Raiders and is out of the division now,

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Speaker 2: which is probably good news for the Bills.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that doesn't hurt the Bills at all.

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Speaker 3: Bills don't play the Raiders this year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's fine.

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Speaker 3: So and this is the problem.

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Speaker 2: See, people looked at the cap situation for the Bills,

509
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Speaker 2: fifty some odd million over the cap. Dolphins were also

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Speaker 2: fifty some odd million over the cap, but they didn't

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Speaker 2: have premiere players on their roster, quarterback Christian Wilkins, a

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Speaker 2: couple other key players on the Dolphins roster whose contracts

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Speaker 2: were up. And we're up for big money deals. I mean, yes,

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Speaker 2: the Bills have some important free agents, but not guys

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Speaker 2: who are at the top of the market, so to speak.

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Speaker 2: So Christian Wilkins out the door for the Dolphins as

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Speaker 2: he heads west to the Las Vegas Raiders. Man, the

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Speaker 2: news is flying in record pace.

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Speaker 5: We knew it would.

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Speaker 1: I mean, today was gonna be one of those days.

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Speaker 4: We didn't even book a guest today because we figured

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Speaker 4: this stuck kind of stuff's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: And here it is.

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Speaker 4: Since we've been on the show in the last twenty

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Speaker 4: five minutes, it's not like four.

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Speaker 1: Things going on.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know this the Dion Dawkins thing we

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Speaker 4: talked about at the top of the show, Dion was,

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Speaker 4: you know, was trolling the Bills fans about saying, hey,

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Speaker 4: it's been great, thanks for doing He probably had just

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Speaker 4: finished putting his signature on a three year extension when

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Speaker 4: he did that. I'll have to give him some trouble

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Speaker 4: about that, but yeah, Bills fans were going crazy over that.

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Speaker 4: Gabe Davis already signing or already agreeing to terms with Jacksonville.

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Speaker 4: That's gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: And then the news on cam Lewis and.

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Speaker 4: Cam Lewis signs back with the Bills, Christian Wilkins going

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Speaker 4: to the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: A lot's going on.

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Speaker 4: Then over the weekend the quarterbacks with Russ Wilson and

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Speaker 4: Baker Mayfield. Really interesting stuff. And teams are gonna change,

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Speaker 4: and we saw this at the end of the season.

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Speaker 4: The thing you got to remember is there's gonna be

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Speaker 4: a lot of new faces on the Buffalo Bills this year,

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Speaker 4: but the but the real names you gotta worry about,

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Speaker 4: and there's not as many as you might think. Josh Allen, Brandon, Bean,

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Speaker 4: Sean McDermott. You're gonna have a shot at it. And

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Speaker 4: all those teams that you're hearing about, they're getting better.

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Speaker 1: Making change.

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Speaker 4: Listen, they're all chasing it. They're all chasing the Bills

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Speaker 4: and the Chiefs, Baltimore's chasing. I mean, this is it's all.

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Speaker 4: There's like a handful of teams where you know, twenty

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Speaker 4: eight other teams wish they were at.

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Speaker 2: We want to throw it out there, since this is

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Speaker 2: the beginning of the free agent negotiating period, a Twitter

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Speaker 2: poll for you, and the question is as follows, what

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Speaker 2: are you thinking about the most here in free agency?

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Speaker 2: A A specific individual player, B money and the cap,

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Speaker 2: see a position group or D something else way in

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Speaker 2: at One Bill's Live or give us a call at

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Speaker 2: EIGHTO three zero five point fifty one eight at eight

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Speaker 2: five point fifty two five fifty those are the numbers

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Speaker 2: to get on board. We'll take a break here, we

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Speaker 2: come back. We'll lead off with Judy in Buffalo here

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Speaker 2: on One Bill's Live, presented by Colid of Health. It's

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Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back to One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 2: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you here on the opening

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Speaker 2: of the negotiating period in free agency for the NFL,

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Speaker 2: and we have a Twitter poll up for you right now.

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Speaker 2: What are you thinking about most in free agency, choices

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Speaker 2: are a specific individual player, money, a position group, or

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Speaker 2: something else. You can let us know at eight h

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Speaker 2: three zero five fifty one eight eight eight five point

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Speaker 2: fifty two five fifty the number to get on board

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Speaker 2: and we go back to the phones and leading us

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Speaker 2: off today is Judy in Buffalo.

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Speaker 3: How are we doing, Judy? What do you got for us?

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Speaker 7: Well?

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Speaker 9: You know, I don't understand all these guaranteed contracts. I

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Speaker 9: think there are paths of disaster. I'm not talking about

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Speaker 9: Dan Dawkins because I love him, Okay, but my point

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Speaker 9: has always been you go young and you get better

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Speaker 9: every year. There are players coming out who can can

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Speaker 9: electrify the field. All these has been that they're signing.

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Speaker 9: We need two three receivers who will take pressure off

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Speaker 9: Stefan Diggs, who is no longer a number one receiver,

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Speaker 9: who could be very effective in number two. And you

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Speaker 9: just send these young studs down the field. Maybe they

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Speaker 9: catch the ball, maybe they don't, but they're drawing defenders

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Speaker 9: away from from the talent that we already have. Okay,

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Speaker 9: these guaranteed contracts, to me, they're a joke.

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Speaker 7: You know, if I hit a.

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Speaker 9: Contract for two three years, it guaranteed me my lifetime forever.

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Speaker 9: I wouldn't care how I played. That's it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, that's it.

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Speaker 4: And that's that's what the owners have thought for years

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Speaker 4: and decades. And I'll say this too, Judy, there's a

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Speaker 4: lot in it you start getting. This is from a

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Speaker 4: former player. You guarantee guys money. The game doesn't change.

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Speaker 4: It still commands you to go out there and jump

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Speaker 4: in front of a bus every so often. And if

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Speaker 4: you if you don't have to do it for the money,

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Speaker 4: you ain't doing it.

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Speaker 2: And even if you have guaranteed money in your contract,

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Speaker 2: if you're not doing the job, they will find a

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Speaker 2: way to move on from you.

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Speaker 4: Right right, you want, that's right. But the non guaranteed

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Speaker 4: contracts make help ensure that the players who are playing

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Speaker 4: in the league play their best. We've all seen tons

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Speaker 4: of examples of guys who stop playing hard when they

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Speaker 4: get a guaranteed money or when they sign a new deal.

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Speaker 4: And I'll say this, I don't hold it against those

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Speaker 4: guys because I know I was there. It's really difficult

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Speaker 4: to play hard in the NFL because it hurts. It's

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Speaker 4: that simple. It hurts, and it's dangerous. That's that's the

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Speaker 4: big thing. It hurts, and it's dangerous, and you know

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Speaker 4: it's gonna hurt, and you know it's gonna be dangerous,

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Speaker 4: and you know there's no guarantees that you're gonna come

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Speaker 4: out of it. In fact, you're guaranteed not to come

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Speaker 4: out of it healthy any single game. So when you

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Speaker 4: start guaranteed money, guys take it out of gear and

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Speaker 4: they do what's best to keep healthy and to not

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Speaker 4: hurt and to not be uncomfortable and to come out

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Speaker 4: one hundred percent on the other side. And you lose

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Speaker 4: games because of guys like that, which is why, which

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Speaker 4: is why they.

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Speaker 2: Don't do it, and which is also why the Bills

628
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Speaker 2: put a ton of investment time into knowing what makes

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Speaker 2: players tick. You hear them talk all the time about

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Speaker 2: Bills DNA, and what Bills DNA is is guys that

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Speaker 2: are in love with the game. It's a priority. Their

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00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 2: work ethic mandates that they play the same way, whether

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Speaker 2: they're winning by thirty losing by thirty, whether they're thirteen

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Speaker 2: and two or two and thirteen, whether it's week two

635
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Speaker 2: or week sixteen. They come to practice every day the

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Speaker 2: same way. They play with the same effort and intensity

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Speaker 2: every Sunday. Those are the players the bills look for,

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Speaker 2: so they don't fall into that trap of giving guaranteed

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Speaker 2: money to a guy who's not going to bring it

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Speaker 2: once he gets paid.

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Speaker 4: And I'll say this too, even when you sign a

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Speaker 4: one year deal, even if that one year is guaranteed,

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Speaker 4: if you're a young enough guy, you're gonna want to

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Speaker 4: keep playing and you're gonna want to have a place

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Speaker 4: to play, and so you really kind of play harder

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Speaker 4: for next year's contract, so somebody will say, Wow, this

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Speaker 4: guy can really play. Every player would like to think

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Speaker 4: at some point they are the guy that would play

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Speaker 4: for free. You know, certainly I was probably in that

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Speaker 4: category for a stretch of my career.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't always there, though.

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Speaker 4: I mean certainly once you once you start getting whacked,

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Speaker 4: you play for your family, you play for your future,

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Speaker 4: financial gain, all of it. There are big reasons you play,

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Speaker 4: but it takes some incentive for you to get out

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Speaker 4: there and do it. Judy's right, guaranteed contracts are once

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Speaker 4: every contract in the NFL is guaranteed.

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Speaker 1: The game.

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Speaker 4: In my opinion, I don't want to overstay. Game will

660
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Speaker 4: go away. It'll completely go away. Because it'll be unwatchable.

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Speaker 4: It will be it'll be a completely different sport.

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00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 2: Because enough of the incentively taken out of playing your

663
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 2: body on the line.

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Speaker 4: Well, they've all you know already, we've you know. You

665
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 4: hear the cynics say, wow, it's playing flag football out there.

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00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 1: You can't hit the.

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00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 4: Quarterback and not And certainly that's true. If you go

668
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,240
Speaker 4: back and look in the sixties and seven, nineteen sixties,

669
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,439
Speaker 4: nineteen seventies and the way the game was played these days,

670
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:27,399
Speaker 4: you wouldn't recognize it. But obviously there's still a lot

671
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 4: of physicality out there. If you take that, if they

672
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 4: take that away, which would happen when players stop playing

673
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:37,800
Speaker 4: hard because they already got their money, it would it

674
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 4: would cease to be attractive.

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Speaker 1: It would cease to be attractive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, it would cease to be attractive. Dolphins, meanwhile,

677
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 2: have lost another player, safety.

678
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Speaker 3: John What the heck?

679
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 2: I always want to call him Robert Jones because that's

680
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 2: the guard on the team, But it's the safety on

681
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 2: the team, Brandon Jones. He has signed with the He's

682
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 2: gonna sign with the Denver Broncos on a three year contract.

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00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:00,919
Speaker 3: He was kind of a.

684
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,800
Speaker 2: Sub package safety for them, not one of their starting safeties,

685
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 2: but a sub package safety for them. Kind of a

686
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 2: versatile player who is often used by the Dolphins as

687
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 2: a spy on Josh Allen when they would play that

688
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 2: dollar package with seven DB's. He goes to Denver with

689
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 2: a chance to start there, knowing Justin Simmons is out

690
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 2: the door in Denver. So another player off of Miami's

691
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 2: defense going away in free agency. Let's get back to

692
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 2: the phones, though, and to Rick into Pew what's up, Rick?

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00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 10: Hey, guys, looks like everybody's jock strappably safe with Wilkins

694
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:42,399
Speaker 10: moving around anyways. Just had a question, any clarification why

695
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:47,919
Speaker 10: we have got fourth round compensation instead of third round

696
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 10: compensation for losing Edmonds.

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00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good question, Rick.

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00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 2: We have yet to get clarification on it. It did

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00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 2: strike me as odd, along with a lot of other people,

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00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 2: when that came down on Friday after noon, when excuse me.

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00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 2: All the compensatory picks were awarded to the teams that

702
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 2: were eligible to receive them, and the general consensus was

703
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 2: that Tremaine Edmonds provided the Bills had a net loss

704
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 2: of free agents, which they did.

705
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 3: They lost three.

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00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 2: Signed two in the signing window that the league considers

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00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 2: for awarding compensatory selections, that the size of that contract

708
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 2: and being a starting Pro Bowl caliber player would merit

709
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 2: a third round pick as compensation. Instead, the Bills were

710
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 2: awarded a fourth round pick. So now they have eleven

711
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 2: total picks in this year's draft, but they do not

712
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 2: have a third round selection because they traded their own

713
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 2: third round pick to the Packers to get Rasul Douglas

714
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 2: at the trade deadline last fall. So yeah, it's a

715
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 2: gaping hole in the Bills draft order where they're essentially

716
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 2: going to pick early on Night two or probably the

717
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 2: middle of Night two, you know, near the end of

718
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 2: round two, and then they're not gonna pick again until

719
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 2: about one pm on Day three. They will only have

720
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,359
Speaker 2: one pick on Day two of the draft, unless, of course,

721
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Speaker 2: they put together a package and trade up into the

722
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 2: third that's always possible, but as it stands right now,

723
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 2: no third round draft choice.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people felt they got robbed. I was surprised.

725
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 2: I really thought that Edmonds, with a seventy two million

726
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 2: dollar contract, would merit a third round selection as compensation,

727
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,799
Speaker 2: and unfortunately that did not happen. I don't know if

728
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,760
Speaker 2: you can lobby the league and try to get it amended.

729
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 2: I really don't think the league is very interested in

730
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 2: putting the toothpaste back in the tube, because that's a

731
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 2: difficult thing. But it would certainly warrant an inquiry. I

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00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,359
Speaker 2: would think, Yeah, there's got to be.

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Speaker 4: Black and white evidence of if this happens, then this

734
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 4: happens right, and it seems like and it doesn't seem

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00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 4: like that's in place.

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Speaker 2: There are other factors in determining the compensatory pick formula

737
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 2: that are far from concrete. We know that you have

738
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 2: to have a net loss of free agents. We know

739
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 2: the playing time and the contract size of the player

740
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 2: you lose is a factor as well that goes into

741
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 2: the formula. And then after that there are other factors

742
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 2: like their snap count for the team he goes to.

743
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 2: So if a guy signs a big contract, goes to

744
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 2: a new team, plays two games, gets hurt, that can

745
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 2: get factored into the compensatory pick formula as well. Tremaine

746
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 2: Edmonds played fifteen games last year, so to me, that

747
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 2: doesn't hold water. So yeah, it'd be interesting to see

748
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 2: if we can find out what the other factors were

749
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 2: that made it a four instead of a three.

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Speaker 3: So I'm with you, Rick. I was perplexed by that

751
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:50,720
Speaker 3: as well.

752
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 4: And I don't know if Rick, if you turned in

753
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,919
Speaker 4: turned on social media. Social media was a blaze because

754
00:38:55,960 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 4: of that, because the precedent that have been set and

755
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 4: the examples we have to look at told everybody involves

756
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 4: that it was going to be a three and it

757
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 4: turned out not to be. Yeah, and I haven't really

758
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 4: got I'm with you, we haven't really gotten explanations to

759
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:14,359
Speaker 4: what the difference was in the scenario that caused it

760
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:15,439
Speaker 4: to be a four instead of a three.

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00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:16,760
Speaker 3: Yeah.

762
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 2: So if and when we do get an answer on

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00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 2: that or some clarification, we'll be sure to pass it

764
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 2: along here on One Bill's Live. Question is out there

765
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 2: for you, so you let us know what are you

766
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:34,879
Speaker 2: thinking about with respect to free agency? Choices are there

767
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,399
Speaker 2: on the Twitter poll at one Bill's Live, so way

768
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 2: in if you'd like the early voting is favoring position

769
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 2: group is something that you are thinking about most concerning

770
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 2: free agency. I don't know where you came down on this, Steve,

771
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 2: but I was kind of split between a specific individual

772
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 2: player and the cap situation because the Bills still have

773
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 2: to get under Yeah, presumably, although who knows. Based on

774
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 2: the structure of the Dion Dawkins extension, maybe they're there,

775
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 2: or maybe there's still a little work to be done.

776
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 2: But as of this morning, they were still about what twelve.

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00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 3: Over I think twelve four over.

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00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,479
Speaker 2: There's still about twelve over and now Dawkins extension would

779
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 2: help Dawkins and Knocks.

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00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, although it should be.

781
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 4: You would think that the stuff we're using should be

782
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:22,319
Speaker 4: already updated if they did the Knox thing when they

783
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 4: said they did. So we'll have to wait and see.

784
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 4: But I'm I'm kind of with you. My take on

785
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 4: this was it's all about the cap I Brandon Bean

786
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 4: knows more guys than I do, and he knows the

787
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 4: team better than I do. He's him and Sean McDermot

788
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,359
Speaker 4: are up there saying, well, we can make this guy work,

789
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 4: and I like this guy. So they may see the

790
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 4: Bill's roster needs a little bit more clearly than all

791
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 4: of us can, because they've seen guys and talk to guys,

792
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:50,359
Speaker 4: and they know who's ready to emerge. You know, they

793
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 4: knew who's ready to have a breakout year. Plus Brandon

794
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 4: and his guys are neck deep in everybody else's roster

795
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 4: in the NFL. They know who's going to be available,

796
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 4: so they've got some guys that they can point to

797
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 4: and say yes, yes, yes, no to that guy, No

798
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 4: to that guy, no to that guy, but yes to

799
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 4: this one. That kind of stuff. So my focus is

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00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,800
Speaker 4: get some money, get some money to pay these dudes.

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00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 4: I trust that they're going to spend the money where

802
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 4: they want to. I trust them. Just get the money

803
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 4: somehow right and get the money.

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Speaker 3: Been hard at work doing that.

805
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:27,319
Speaker 2: So yeah, it'd be interesting to see what the next

806
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 2: step is called.

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00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:30,839
Speaker 1: Terry Terry, Yeah, feelisen will.

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00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,280
Speaker 2: In case you are just joining us the Bills news

809
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 2: of note that you should be apprized of first and foremost.

810
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 2: It looks like Gabe Davis is going to Jacksonville on

811
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 2: a new three year contract, so he joins Mitch Morris

812
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 2: down in Jacksonville. That's gonna be a heck of a

813
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 2: homecoming game when the Jaguars come up here in the

814
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 2: fall to play the Bills. Then cam Lewis reports are

815
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 2: out there from Adam Schefter that cam Lewis has re

816
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 2: signed with the Bills two years, four million dollars. As

817
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 2: the contract turn he has put out there. So Cam,

818
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 2: who plays a multitude of roles for the Bills gunner

819
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 2: on Punk coverage, Big Special Teams player also can back

820
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 2: up Taron Johnson at Nickel corner as well as a

821
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 2: backup at safety back in the fold, according to Adam Schefter,

822
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 2: So those are kind of your latest news. We reported

823
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 2: that earlier today. It was confirmed by the Bills Dion

824
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 2: Dawkins new contract extension, which will presumably save the Bills

825
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:28,360
Speaker 2: more money underneath the cap for this year going forward.

826
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 2: And there are reports out there, though it's not official,

827
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:35,360
Speaker 2: that Dawson Knox has also reworked his contract to create

828
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 2: cap space for Buffalo as well. That was reported by

829
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Speaker 2: ESPN's Jeremy Fowler. Got to take a break here, but

830
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 2: more of your phone calls when we come back. Will

831
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 2: lead off with Joseph in West Seneca when we return

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00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 2: here on One Bills Live presented by co Lot of Health,

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00:42:48,800 --> 00:43:06,480
Speaker 2: it's Buffalo Bills Radio.

834
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back to One Bill's Live.

835
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Speaker 2: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you here as the free

836
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 2: agent negotiating period is off and running. It started at noon.

837
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 2: Deals of plenty, including Bill's free agent receiver Gabe Davis reportedly.

838
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,280
Speaker 3: Going to Jacksonville on a three year contract.

839
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:28,360
Speaker 2: We have the terms now three years, thirty nine million dollars,

840
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 2: so he gets thirteen million a year. That is a

841
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 2: contract that the Bills were not going to be able

842
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,919
Speaker 2: to entertain at all with their cap situation. I think

843
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:39,799
Speaker 2: they knew what the market was going to bear. And

844
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:43,319
Speaker 2: there it is eleven million dollars signing bonus as a

845
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 2: part of that thirty nine million dollar deal for Gabe Davis.

846
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 2: Let's get back to the phones, though, and we go

847
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 2: to Joseph in West Seneca.

848
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 3: What do you got first, Joseph, Well, like you were.

849
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 11: Already saying with Gabe Davis going to Jacksonville, now do

850
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 11: you think Ridley becomes an option? Or with all the

851
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 11: wording out there right now, going about saying how t

852
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 11: Higgins and since he isn't really agreeing on a deal, granted,

853
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 11: I know we have no money, but he said in

854
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,240
Speaker 11: an interview he would love to catch passes from guys

855
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,839
Speaker 11: like Trevor Lawrence and Josh Allen. Do you think there's

856
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 11: a chance to we even have a shot at T.

857
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 11: Higgins or Calvin Ridley or someone else like that?

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00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 2: To add, I think It's very hard to do it, Joseph,

859
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 2: to the point that you made money, would have to

860
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 2: go out with a player for that money to come in.

861
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 2: Calvin Ridley is going to command every bit as much

862
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 2: money as Gabe Davis in my opinion. I could be

863
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 2: wrong on that. Maybe it's a little bit less, but

864
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 2: you're still talking ten eleven million dollars a year and

865
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 2: the Bills just don't have the room to do that.

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00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,320
Speaker 3: And it would be foolish. Well I shouldn't say.

867
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 2: Foolish, it it would be cost prohibitive to what they

868
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 2: have to get done with all the holes they currently have,

869
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 2: most notably on their defensive line at the safety position.

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Speaker 3: So as I.

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00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 2: With a draft class flush with receiver talent, premier receiver talent,

872
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 2: you can get a much cheaper option as your second

873
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,399
Speaker 2: receiver in the draft than you would on the free

874
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 2: agent market. And it's great to think about. Yeah, And

875
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:20,719
Speaker 2: if you want a trade for T Higgins, what I'm

876
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 2: offering Cincinnati is a player with a big contract here

877
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:27,880
Speaker 2: because you've got to move money out because what T

878
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:31,400
Speaker 2: Higgins wants is a long term contract.

879
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:32,760
Speaker 3: That's why he's asked for a trade.

880
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 2: Because the Bengals aren't talking extension with him because they

881
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 2: have to sign Jamar Chase next year to a multimillion

882
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 2: dollar deal, and they can't have two guys at the

883
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 2: same position gobbling up that much cap. So I don't

884
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:49,359
Speaker 2: see it as feasible. Maybe they convince somebody to take

885
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 2: a bargain basement deal, but I think that's the extent

886
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 2: of it. I still think Calvin Ridley is out of

887
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 2: Buffalo's territory.

888
00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 3: They have to invest with youth in the draft.

889
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,360
Speaker 2: Does that mean they're not gonna get a veteran receiver. No,

890
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 2: But I think you're looking more like one year, seven million.

891
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 2: I think you need to think more like the Leonard

892
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 2: Floyd deal you know at pass Rusher last year. That's

893
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 2: the kind of deal you're looking at for receiver. There

894
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:18,360
Speaker 2: are no double digit million per year. No eight figure

895
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,319
Speaker 2: receivers are coming here. I don't believe unless you send

896
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 2: money out.

897
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, now to your question, Joe, yes, football wise makes

898
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:28,760
Speaker 4: a lot of sense.

899
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,360
Speaker 1: The guy could play. He did. But the problem is

900
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 1: the the cap.

901
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 4: Is real because of the guys you've got on your

902
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 4: on your roster, you got to have a certain number.

903
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 4: You can only pay so much. Now, certainly later on

904
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 4: and down the road, you can manipulate it, but you can't.

905
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:47,279
Speaker 1: Do that now.

906
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 4: You only got so much room to do it. Now

907
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:53,799
Speaker 4: you can't, So the finances stop it. And that's this

908
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:56,320
Speaker 4: is where the cap comes into play. It's not about

909
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 4: fitting guys under the cap, because you can kind of

910
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 4: do that once the cap is set, but you got

911
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 4: to get there and you.

912
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:03,239
Speaker 1: Gotta have money to do it.

913
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:08,320
Speaker 4: So yeah, football wise, of course, any of these players

914
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 4: on the list you just we just showed on television.

915
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:12,840
Speaker 4: Any of the guys on the list from Calvin Ridley

916
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 4: all the way down could fit in Buffalo's football side,

917
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 4: but the finances aren't going to work. Diggs takes up

918
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 4: a chunk, Kincaid knocks, take up chunk, Miller Miller Vaughn

919
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 4: takes up a chunk. Deon Dawkins. Now this year he doesn't,

920
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 4: but next year he will. It's all that kind of stuff.

921
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 4: So there's yeah, they're just limited financially in what they

922
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:38,440
Speaker 4: can do.

923
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:38,799
Speaker 1: Right now.

924
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:42,800
Speaker 4: You're talking like four million dollar contract to Cam Lewis. Okay,

925
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 4: that's fine. It's one percent of your cap or you know,

926
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:48,840
Speaker 4: one and a half percent.

927
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, Uh, we have to take a break here because

928
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 2: when we come back, we anticipate that we will have

929
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Speaker 2: Deon Dawkins addressing the media in a zoom conference call.

930
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Speaker 2: We will carry it here in our number two on

931
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Speaker 2: this free agent negotiating period, day number one on one

932
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Speaker 2: Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio, the.

933
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:21,880
Speaker 1: One Bills Live presented by klia Health.

934
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:25,240
Speaker 2: All right, here, we are our number two, Chris Brown,

935
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:28,439
Speaker 2: Steve Tasker with you. We're awaiting the beginning of the

936
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Speaker 2: Dion Dawkins press conferences. He's scheduled to address the media

937
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 2: in of about ten fifteen minutes, So as soon as

938
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 2: that is up and running, we'll take you there live

939
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:38,959
Speaker 2: so you can hear about Dion and his new three

940
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:42,920
Speaker 2: year contract extension. In the meantime, we get back to

941
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:44,920
Speaker 2: the phones. Got a Twitter pull up for you today,

942
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 2: asking you what are you thinking about the most as

943
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 2: the free agency period begins with the negotiating window open today.

944
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:55,440
Speaker 2: Is it a specific individual player, the cap situation and

945
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:59,800
Speaker 2: Buffalo's money to spend, a specific position, group or something

946
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 2: else so you can weigh in add One Bill's Live

947
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 2: on Twitter, or you can hit us up on the phones,

948
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 2: which is where we go now to Gary in Louisiana.

949
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:08,360
Speaker 3: What do you got for us? Gary?

950
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:10,600
Speaker 12: Hey, guys, how y'all doing?

951
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:11,319
Speaker 3: We're doing well.

952
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 12: I kind of believe what what Steve Pasker said a

953
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 12: while ago about Brandy Bean.

954
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 8: I trust him.

955
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 12: I've never trusted in a GM or coach this much.

956
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 12: That's marve Lee the awesome. But I know they'll do

957
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 12: the right things. I know every time they touch somebody

958
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 12: they have a reason. So I think the Bills, fans,

959
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 12: everybody needs to understand trust these people. They know what

960
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:35,919
Speaker 12: they're doing. They'll put their right players around. Josh, we'll

961
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 12: be fine. We need to get younger defense anyway. So

962
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 12: if they're doing so far on one behind.

963
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:46,320
Speaker 2: All right, fair enough, Gary, appreciate the phone call, trust

964
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 2: the process.

965
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:49,439
Speaker 4: You're gonna agree with me. Gary can call it any

966
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 4: time you want, but I agree. I do trust those

967
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 4: guys know. And the thing that you have to realize,

968
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:00,840
Speaker 4: too is there's as much as we like the guys

969
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 4: on our team and know them and trust them, I've

970
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:06,000
Speaker 4: seen him play and scrutinize their play and their production,

971
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 4: Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott and their coaches. They know

972
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 4: these guys intimately. They know what they're like, their personality is,

973
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 4: they know the sound of their voice, they know the

974
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 4: way they walk around the practice field, They recognize them.

975
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:21,480
Speaker 4: They they evaluate him at a very high level. They

976
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 4: do the same thing with other players around the National

977
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,000
Speaker 4: Football League. They kind of dive as deep as they

978
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 4: can dive into these guys. So when they grab a

979
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 4: guy off, you know, for instance, you know, think about

980
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:39,920
Speaker 4: think about the trade last mid season last season when

981
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:43,399
Speaker 4: they got Rasul Douglas, and I know, people go back

982
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 4: and say, okay, Rasul Douglas.

983
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:46,239
Speaker 1: They go back and look at his stats from Green

984
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 1: Bay or whatever. We didn't know.

985
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:52,560
Speaker 4: The guy comes in and really for the way, for

986
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 4: whatever his limitations are, the guy was lights out for

987
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 4: the Bills in the second half of this season. This

988
00:50:57,160 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 4: last season, he was getting to turn over a game.

989
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 4: He killed it, you know.

990
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:05,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, had seven takeaways in six games.

991
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:08,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's so that's that's kind of what you're looking

992
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:11,399
Speaker 4: at with Brandon. He he sees guys like, who who

993
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 4: would have I would never have in a million years

994
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 4: gotten down to Rasseul Douglas on the Green Bay Packers

995
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 4: as a trade option for the Buffalo Bills mid season

996
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 4: last year.

997
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 1: I just don't know enough. But he does.

998
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 4: His guys do they know, you know, and they they

999
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:30,240
Speaker 4: pulled the trigger and gave themselves a real big boost

1000
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 4: defensively down the stretch in at a time in the

1001
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 4: season when they had to have it. So that kind

1002
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:40,440
Speaker 4: of to me is where I'm at mentally with this

1003
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,839
Speaker 4: this thing. I'm I'm I'm gonna sit back, I'm gonna

1004
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:45,920
Speaker 4: enjoy it. I know this too. The cap is an

1005
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 4: issue we have, and it's a good thing to have.

1006
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 4: Brandon has hit on so many draft picks and people,

1007
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 4: I know, we've had people call in this show and

1008
00:51:54,920 --> 00:52:00,960
Speaker 4: say they he blew it. You know, we traded he

1009
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:04,880
Speaker 4: traded Wyatt Teller, He missed on this guy, He missed

1010
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:08,320
Speaker 4: on that guy. These guys aren't paying that lot of Listen,

1011
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 4: if you look around the league, Brandon's doing really well

1012
00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 4: in their draft success. That's just the way it is.

1013
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 4: It's a crap shoot. It's trying to pick horses and

1014
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:17,359
Speaker 4: he can't read the racing for him.

1015
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 1: It's hard. We'll look at the.

1016
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,120
Speaker 3: Dolphins draft picks.

1017
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 4: So the simple fact of the matter is the problem

1018
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:25,400
Speaker 4: they have with a cap now is a result of

1019
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 4: picking these guys that are really good Dawson Knox, Tarren Johnson,

1020
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:32,920
Speaker 4: Matt Mulano, Dion Doc the whole thing. I don't know

1021
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:37,760
Speaker 4: if he picked Dean Dawkins, but you know the points made.

1022
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 1: Christian Benford, Terrell Bernard. I mean, let's go down, you

1023
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 1: know ed.

1024
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 4: So it's a good problem to have because there are

1025
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 4: a lot of guys they drafted, and let's face it,

1026
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:50,759
Speaker 4: we most of us would like to say, yeah, Gabe,

1027
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:51,319
Speaker 4: come back.

1028
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 1: The guy's great. I like him.

1029
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:55,439
Speaker 4: He does a good stuff, but he doesn't produce enough,

1030
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 4: so he's not really worth this much money. But we

1031
00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 4: take him back, you know what I mean, at a

1032
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:05,359
Speaker 4: lesser role or whatever. But you know, other teams are going.

1033
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:07,880
Speaker 1: To pay them. So that's it's a good spot to be.

1034
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 4: And it does speak to the success they've had in

1035
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:12,280
Speaker 4: the draft where they get these guys to their second

1036
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:15,720
Speaker 4: contract and it's a hard it's hard to say goodbye,

1037
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 4: but you kind of got to.

1038
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 2: Let's get back to the phones and waiting there is

1039
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Speaker 2: Carolyn Tonawanda, what's up, Carol, Yes, hello.

1040
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Speaker 13: Maybe we can have a little conversation about the cap.

1041
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:29,799
Speaker 13: You know, no doubt that the team is brutal it's

1042
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:33,440
Speaker 13: injury prone. But listening to some of the contracts, I

1043
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:35,920
Speaker 13: just think that they're outrageous and I don't think that

1044
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:37,839
Speaker 13: any team is going to be able to stay within

1045
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 13: their franchise cap as these salaries continue to escalate in snowball,

1046
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 13: you know, maybe there needs to be some revision or

1047
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 13: a cap per position and some type of range per

1048
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 13: year that you were playing. You know, if you're one

1049
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 13: of the better players, you get the higher range per years.

1050
00:53:56,840 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 13: You know, step by step it incrementally increases because you know,

1051
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 13: in time we're probably going to see a billion dollar contract.

1052
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:08,320
Speaker 13: We're halfway there with Mahome's contract right now. Or maybe

1053
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:11,879
Speaker 13: there could be some type of pay for performance per

1054
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:15,560
Speaker 13: game or incentive for the players. And also what kind

1055
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:17,840
Speaker 13: of incentive then is there, like for the bill to

1056
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:21,319
Speaker 13: do a great job of coaching, coaching and mentoring up

1057
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 13: only for us to you know, have excellent players and

1058
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:27,239
Speaker 13: then we end up trading them because we can't sustain them.

1059
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:29,640
Speaker 13: So I just would like to hear what you have

1060
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:31,320
Speaker 13: to say about some of these thoughts.

1061
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Speaker 8: Thanks.

1062
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:34,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a valid question, Carol, and a good one

1063
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 2: because that's a lot in there there. Yeah, I'll handle

1064
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 2: the first part that she was asking about, where are

1065
00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:42,759
Speaker 2: we headed with salary cap and stuff? And this has

1066
00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:46,799
Speaker 2: been a subject that's been broached already that with the

1067
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:50,480
Speaker 2: ever escalating salary cap, which went up a huge amount

1068
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 2: this year thirty million dollars, where what is the endgame?

1069
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 2: Are you going to reach the point where teams just

1070
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:02,279
Speaker 2: cannot sustain the level player salaries that continue to go

1071
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:05,359
Speaker 2: up and up and up and up. There has been

1072
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Speaker 2: talk I know already that somewhere in the future you

1073
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Speaker 2: may have to separate quarterbacks as a separate entity unto

1074
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:17,440
Speaker 2: themselves and assign a maximum percentage of the cap that

1075
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 2: your quarterback salary can take up to keep the quarterback

1076
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:26,400
Speaker 2: cost control under control, separate of everybody else because we

1077
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Speaker 2: all know they get paid the most money, and then

1078
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Speaker 2: have all the other players in a different cap pool

1079
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Speaker 2: for a team that has been broached as a subject

1080
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Speaker 2: that could be down the pike. I don't know what

1081
00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:40,640
Speaker 2: validity it holds for the decision makers on that front,

1082
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:42,760
Speaker 2: but that has been brought up as a potential solution.

1083
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 2: We'll see if that gains traction in the coming years.

1084
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, the owners have to get control

1085
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:54,359
Speaker 2: of their own spending here, and I think they will

1086
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:56,359
Speaker 2: do that to a certain extent, but even their own

1087
00:55:56,400 --> 00:56:00,399
Speaker 2: competitive juices kind of push the envelope on that front.

1088
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 2: And you have the escalating salaries that we see.

1089
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, and as long as the league grows, yes, the

1090
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 4: salaries are going to grow, no question about it. We

1091
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 4: got a huge jump this year in the salary cap.

1092
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:10,880
Speaker 4: So the salaries maybe get an out of control. But

1093
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 4: until rosters expand, which they have a little bit. But

1094
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:18,560
Speaker 4: if they expand some more, there's less there's more guys

1095
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 4: to pay with the same amount of money, you know,

1096
00:56:21,080 --> 00:56:25,319
Speaker 4: So as the league grows, everything grows, the rosters grow,

1097
00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 4: the paychecks grow, everything grows. So yeah, sooner or later, Yeah, feasibly,

1098
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 4: you probably will get to a billion dollar contract.

1099
00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:32,919
Speaker 5: Now.

1100
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:35,840
Speaker 4: Pat Mahomes already reworked his deal, so it's a different

1101
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 4: contract already than it was when he signed it.

1102
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:40,680
Speaker 1: But there you have it.

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00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:44,279
Speaker 4: I think the thing about it is incentives too. We've

1104
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 4: already talked about incentives for developing young player, Like teams

1105
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:49,480
Speaker 4: who develop a guy like Gabe Davis. He comes out

1106
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:51,920
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, he's worth thirteen million a

1107
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 4: year to another team. You can't pay him that the

1108
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:57,400
Speaker 4: Bills do get compensatory draft picks. If they do that

1109
00:56:57,440 --> 00:56:59,920
Speaker 4: a lot and guys leave the team because they can't pay,

1110
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 4: they get draft picks in return. Now, the Bills got

1111
00:57:03,239 --> 00:57:06,120
Speaker 4: stabbed in the back with a fourth compensatory pick, fourth

1112
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:09,800
Speaker 4: round compensatory pick rather than a third for Tremaine Edmonds.

1113
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 4: But be that as I made. That is the incentive

1114
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:14,439
Speaker 4: that is in place to do exactly what you said, Carol.

1115
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 4: Is a stute by you to see that it should

1116
00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 4: happen that way. That the salaries you can say they're outrageous.

1117
00:57:25,080 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 4: People said the same thing when I played, and they were,

1118
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:29,960
Speaker 4: you know, the salaries were ten percent of what they are.

1119
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 1: Now that's fine. I don't know.

1120
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 4: I'm listen. These guys get it. Let them get it

1121
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 4: that they earn it. The league is huge, It generates

1122
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:42,400
Speaker 4: a ton of of revenue. The players take the physical

1123
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 4: risks of playing it and they reap the financial benefits.

1124
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 4: Let them get paid what they can get paid. I

1125
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 4: think one of the things when you start tinkering with

1126
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 4: what you're talking about, though, Carroll and Browning, you know

1127
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:58,080
Speaker 4: this that players union sometimes fights against what fans think

1128
00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:01,880
Speaker 4: would be fair because they don't want to tie up

1129
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:05,720
Speaker 4: certain position groups into a different category than other position

1130
00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 4: group because they represent all those position groups, and if

1131
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:10,840
Speaker 4: they'd give it to one position group, they take it

1132
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 4: away from another.

1133
00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:13,560
Speaker 1: And none of the players want that.

1134
00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:15,680
Speaker 4: They want to get what they can get what, no

1135
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:18,520
Speaker 4: matter the position they can play. So to separate the

1136
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:22,040
Speaker 4: quarterbacks out of the mix would probably be fought hard

1137
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 4: against by the players union itself because of all the

1138
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:30,040
Speaker 4: guys involved. So there's all of that kind of political

1139
00:58:30,080 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 4: stuff that goes on in these CBA Collective Bargaining Agreements talks,

1140
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 4: and that's where all this would have to be done,

1141
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 4: all the things that you're talking about. So, and they

1142
00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:42,600
Speaker 4: talk about it at length, all the issues that all

1143
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:46,120
Speaker 4: of us think of out here in radio land, the

1144
00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 4: players and the coaches and the owners think about and

1145
00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:52,720
Speaker 4: talk about at length with a bigger depth of knowledge

1146
00:58:52,720 --> 00:58:55,120
Speaker 4: than all of us have. So believe me, they've broached

1147
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:57,440
Speaker 4: all of these subjects, and if they haven't been implemented,

1148
00:58:57,560 --> 00:59:00,240
Speaker 4: it's because somebody's fighting hard against it on one side

1149
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 4: or the other.

1150
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:05,640
Speaker 2: Back to the phones into Rex in Springville. What's up, Rex, how.

1151
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:06,400
Speaker 8: You guys doing today?

1152
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 3: Good?

1153
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 5: Good?

1154
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:12,920
Speaker 8: I'm just again I'm not trying to like bash Brandon

1155
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:15,240
Speaker 8: being I love Baron Bean, but I think that we

1156
00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:17,640
Speaker 8: sometimes give him way more credit than they should get.

1157
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:21,880
Speaker 8: We we we need to realize for sure, and I

1158
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:23,680
Speaker 8: know you guys will both disagree with me, but we

1159
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:25,440
Speaker 8: need to realize for sure that he hit on one

1160
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 8: draft pick. He got Josh Allen, and and after that,

1161
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:33,400
Speaker 8: if if the players that he selected, like he didn't

1162
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 8: get Matt Malonell, he didn't draft Eon Dawkins, he didn't

1163
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 8: draft Trey White, those are all previous regime picks.

1164
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 3: What do you think of What do you think of

1165
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 3: Taron Johnson in round four?

1166
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 14: Uh?

1167
00:59:45,240 --> 00:59:47,800
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think I think Karen Johnson's He's he's disposable.

1168
00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:49,439
Speaker 8: I think Karen Johnson is a good pick.

1169
00:59:49,440 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 3: You're right, he was a second team All Pro. Rex,

1170
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:54,080
Speaker 3: He's not pretty good, he's outstanding.

1171
00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:58,000
Speaker 8: He's he's a good football player that that we won't

1172
00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 8: sign the next time he's up up for a a contract.

1173
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:01,720
Speaker 1: Well, they already extended.

1174
01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:02,959
Speaker 3: They already extended him once.

1175
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:05,959
Speaker 1: How about this, Rex, Rex? But what Rex?

1176
01:00:06,760 --> 01:00:11,000
Speaker 4: Let me ask you this, Rex, cheap Rex, let me

1177
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:14,080
Speaker 4: ask you this, What do you know about other general managers?

1178
01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 4: Any other general manager you can name. Can you name

1179
01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:20,840
Speaker 4: another general manager? Let me I'll tell you this. I

1180
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:23,280
Speaker 4: challenge you to go look at other general managers around

1181
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:25,880
Speaker 4: the league and and come up with a guy who's

1182
01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:26,440
Speaker 4: done better.

1183
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:28,400
Speaker 1: I'll just I'll make it easy for it on a

1184
01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:28,960
Speaker 1: consistent base.

1185
01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:29,920
Speaker 3: I'll make it easy for you.

1186
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 5: Rex.

1187
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:32,720
Speaker 2: Just just go to the gms in this in this

1188
01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 2: division alone. Look at Chris Greer's last three drafts for

1189
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:38,880
Speaker 2: the Dolphins. Look at the Jets last three drafts for

1190
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:41,880
Speaker 2: the Jets, for Joe Douglas. Go look at the Patriots

1191
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 2: last three drafts, and now you know why the Bills

1192
01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 2: are atop the league, a top the division the last

1193
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:50,200
Speaker 2: four years. They've drafted better than their opponents. You want

1194
01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:52,640
Speaker 2: to go look at some other draft teams. Name your

1195
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:54,920
Speaker 2: name your team, I would.

1196
01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:57,240
Speaker 8: Say to suggest that some of our best football players

1197
01:00:57,240 --> 01:01:00,520
Speaker 8: again minus Josh got Got we hit that one and

1198
01:01:00,520 --> 01:01:02,200
Speaker 8: that and that's a big hit. I get it. But

1199
01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:04,840
Speaker 8: that's also kind of lucky too, because you you got

1200
01:01:04,840 --> 01:01:08,960
Speaker 8: to pick the fourth the fourth quarterback picked in that draft,

1201
01:01:09,160 --> 01:01:10,440
Speaker 8: and you hit it for sure.

1202
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:10,720
Speaker 3: That's right.

1203
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:12,800
Speaker 2: And and they're drafting at the bottom of the round

1204
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:13,440
Speaker 2: every year too.

1205
01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:16,600
Speaker 8: Rex, Yeah, but then then talk about the next best

1206
01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 8: players on our football team.

1207
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:18,680
Speaker 3: Terrell Bernard?

1208
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:20,680
Speaker 2: How did he look this year as a first year starter,

1209
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:21,840
Speaker 2: third round draft choice?

1210
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 1: Do you like him?

1211
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:24,120
Speaker 8: I do?

1212
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 3: Okay.

1213
01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:27,000
Speaker 8: I think he's a good He's a good competen be

1214
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:27,160
Speaker 8: in the.

1215
01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:29,200
Speaker 3: Pro Bowl next year if he has another year like that.

1216
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:30,440
Speaker 1: What about Christian Benford?

1217
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:33,400
Speaker 8: He's a compro running piece of this football team, a

1218
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 8: complimentary piece.

1219
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 1: He plays middle linebacker.

1220
01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:41,040
Speaker 8: Oh man, you know what. The only reason he's starting

1221
01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:44,320
Speaker 8: is because they couldn't pay the guy that they drafted before, who.

1222
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:46,600
Speaker 6: Was a great draft pick also and got a.

1223
01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:49,520
Speaker 2: Seventy two million dollar contract because he's a good player.

1224
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:51,800
Speaker 3: Rex, Come on.

1225
01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:56,600
Speaker 8: Man, Yeah, but how about a Vanessa? How about all

1226
01:01:56,640 --> 01:01:58,920
Speaker 8: our defensive linemen that we've picked at are just bus

1227
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:02,480
Speaker 8: You don't like it, Oliver? I like that, Oliver, But

1228
01:02:02,520 --> 01:02:04,160
Speaker 8: I don't you know what I would certainly suggest if

1229
01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:06,600
Speaker 8: you go back and look at that draft, you're not

1230
01:02:06,720 --> 01:02:10,200
Speaker 8: taking a defensive tackle at nine. That's crazy. You're gonna

1231
01:02:10,240 --> 01:02:11,080
Speaker 8: go take yourself?

1232
01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:14,360
Speaker 2: Oh so, now so now you want to change. So

1233
01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 2: now you're changing the argument to fit your premise. I mean,

1234
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:19,840
Speaker 2: you can't have an both ways, Rex, You just called

1235
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 2: us and.

1236
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:21,960
Speaker 3: Said, joh, you're changing your argument.

1237
01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 2: You called me and said, Josh Allen's the only good

1238
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:27,360
Speaker 2: draft pick that Brandon Bean has, And now you're changing

1239
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 2: the conversation saying, oh, he shouldn't have taken a defensive

1240
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:30,840
Speaker 2: tackle in that round.

1241
01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:32,920
Speaker 3: Come on, man, you can't change the argument.

1242
01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:37,440
Speaker 8: Alan is a good football player, but you would as

1243
01:02:37,560 --> 01:02:41,280
Speaker 8: a good GM. You're not taking a defensive tackle at

1244
01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:44,480
Speaker 8: nine ever, because you can just wait a day and

1245
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:47,320
Speaker 8: go get Wilkins. Well, you can get anybody Wilkins was.

1246
01:02:47,520 --> 01:02:49,160
Speaker 3: Wilkins was a top ten pick.

1247
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 8: Again, though, why waste a draft pick on him?

1248
01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:57,200
Speaker 1: Well, because because a good player wasted drafting.

1249
01:02:57,280 --> 01:02:59,720
Speaker 8: Wait, audition, it's the position.

1250
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:02,840
Speaker 1: Well here's the thing, Rex, here's the thing.

1251
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:05,320
Speaker 3: Yeah we got we all come on right, Rex?

1252
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:08,919
Speaker 1: Yeah you're right. Rex. Neither one of us agree with you. Yeah.

1253
01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:10,560
Speaker 3: I just I don't know how you get there.

1254
01:03:10,880 --> 01:03:13,320
Speaker 2: I mean, you want to challenge some of his picks

1255
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:15,600
Speaker 2: over the years, feel free to do that, but don't

1256
01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:18,560
Speaker 2: say he's had one good pick and it's Josh Allen.

1257
01:03:18,640 --> 01:03:22,040
Speaker 2: I mean, I want to believe that you're smarter than that.

1258
01:03:22,160 --> 01:03:24,840
Speaker 3: Rex. You sound like you know football.

1259
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:28,000
Speaker 2: I want to believe that that's not in your heart

1260
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:29,920
Speaker 2: of hearts that you believe that Josh.

1261
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 3: Allen is the only good draft choice of Brandon.

1262
01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:32,880
Speaker 1: I can't.

1263
01:03:33,120 --> 01:03:37,200
Speaker 3: I'm laughing, I can't. I mean, that's he been perfect.

1264
01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:38,640
Speaker 3: I'm sure he even.

1265
01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:40,560
Speaker 2: Even even he would tell you he hasn't been perfect,

1266
01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:43,800
Speaker 2: but many has been damn good. We have to turn

1267
01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:47,360
Speaker 2: now to the press conference as Dion Dawkins is addressing the.

1268
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 15: Media congratulations on the deal. What was it like? Can

1269
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:55,400
Speaker 15: you talk us through the prank you poll this morning?

1270
01:03:57,040 --> 01:03:59,200
Speaker 14: I don't really see it as a prank, you know,

1271
01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:06,120
Speaker 14: you know for the people that I'm an entertainer, I'm

1272
01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:10,040
Speaker 14: going to entertain, so, uh, you know, I like the

1273
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:14,760
Speaker 14: I was missing the mafia, simple as that I was

1274
01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:16,840
Speaker 14: missing the bills mafia.

1275
01:04:16,560 --> 01:04:21,160
Speaker 5: And I had to figure out which way I could

1276
01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:22,320
Speaker 5: do to.

1277
01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:27,720
Speaker 14: You know, get a little bit of something back and forth,

1278
01:04:27,760 --> 01:04:30,520
Speaker 14: and you know they love it, they hate it, but

1279
01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:31,520
Speaker 14: it's me.

1280
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:33,760
Speaker 5: I can't change.

1281
01:04:34,120 --> 01:04:35,840
Speaker 15: How long did you have that planned?

1282
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:37,320
Speaker 5: I didn't.

1283
01:04:38,200 --> 01:04:43,720
Speaker 14: Today Today was kind of real sporadic because I woke

1284
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:48,160
Speaker 14: up to a call from my agent and he was like, yo,

1285
01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:51,240
Speaker 14: like they're gonna put the but the news out in

1286
01:04:51,280 --> 01:04:53,320
Speaker 14: an hour, and I was like, well, I guess I

1287
01:04:53,360 --> 01:04:58,440
Speaker 14: have an hour to troll. So I just woke up trolling.

1288
01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:01,720
Speaker 14: I've of my workout, so it was like, troll, troll,

1289
01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 14: Hey it is and what it is? Oh man, I

1290
01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:08,760
Speaker 14: hate it. I hate it and I love it. It's

1291
01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:12,840
Speaker 14: just like I figured, like, you know, you talk about

1292
01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:15,080
Speaker 14: ranch if I can eat Ranch, and they were like,

1293
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:17,720
Speaker 14: Ranch is not a buffalo thing, so you can't be

1294
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:21,120
Speaker 14: talking about buffalo, so just keep him buzzing. But there's

1295
01:05:21,560 --> 01:05:25,560
Speaker 14: there's no plan, and my brain spins and when it spins,

1296
01:05:25,560 --> 01:05:26,480
Speaker 14: I just spit out.

1297
01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:31,520
Speaker 15: So it kept all of us on our toes too. Yeah,

1298
01:05:31,640 --> 01:05:33,320
Speaker 15: you had told us at the end of last season

1299
01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:35,440
Speaker 15: you felt you had had your best year. Yet how

1300
01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:37,320
Speaker 15: do you want to follow that up now that you've got,

1301
01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:38,959
Speaker 15: you know, three more years locked in here?

1302
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:42,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, everything that.

1303
01:05:44,720 --> 01:05:48,320
Speaker 14: Everything that we need, and we constantly say it, it's

1304
01:05:48,760 --> 01:05:51,040
Speaker 14: it's right in our hands, it's right in our backyard.

1305
01:05:51,880 --> 01:05:58,040
Speaker 14: If we're talking about me personally, I did have the

1306
01:05:58,520 --> 01:05:59,760
Speaker 14: best season of.

1307
01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:00,800
Speaker 5: My career, less yere.

1308
01:06:02,200 --> 01:06:04,880
Speaker 14: I figured my niche out, I figured out what I

1309
01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:11,680
Speaker 14: needed and the sources were there. You know, Will, I'm

1310
01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:15,560
Speaker 14: gonna speak on Will right like Will Greenberg at the facility,

1311
01:06:15,880 --> 01:06:19,720
Speaker 14: like everything outside of football that didn't come to me,

1312
01:06:19,880 --> 01:06:24,280
Speaker 14: kicksiding and all this stuff I mastered with Will, and

1313
01:06:24,320 --> 01:06:27,160
Speaker 14: then I mastered the little individual things inside of my

1314
01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:30,560
Speaker 14: kickstep after mastering this stuff outside of football. If I

1315
01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:34,200
Speaker 14: didn't confuse you there, like hopefully, but you're following along

1316
01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:41,640
Speaker 14: and it worked. So I think the recipe for what

1317
01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:45,120
Speaker 14: we're pushing for is there, and I see it and

1318
01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:47,400
Speaker 14: I've always seen it, and I'm there to help make

1319
01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:52,600
Speaker 14: that happen and to make it happen. But as an individual,

1320
01:06:53,360 --> 01:06:55,800
Speaker 14: I'm just gonna get better. I'm gonna get better. I'm

1321
01:06:55,800 --> 01:06:56,280
Speaker 14: planning on.

1322
01:06:56,280 --> 01:06:59,960
Speaker 5: More Pro Bowls, more all pros, more, all of that.

1323
01:07:00,120 --> 01:07:02,160
Speaker 14: If we're talking about self stuff, like I'm planning on

1324
01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 14: being the best version of myself.

1325
01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:07,480
Speaker 5: Again and again and again and again and again.

1326
01:07:07,320 --> 01:07:09,960
Speaker 14: And again, and for the community, you know, like I

1327
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:13,400
Speaker 14: can never leave that community, like I wouldn't walk away

1328
01:07:14,200 --> 01:07:17,280
Speaker 14: for nothing, you know, but myself. I'm gonna just keep

1329
01:07:17,320 --> 01:07:20,040
Speaker 14: growing and trying at my best to be the best

1330
01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:23,360
Speaker 14: version of myself and to help my teammates lead and

1331
01:07:24,120 --> 01:07:27,440
Speaker 14: become man and grow into this into this life of

1332
01:07:27,600 --> 01:07:28,640
Speaker 14: an NFL athlete.

1333
01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:32,800
Speaker 15: Thanks Deans again, appreciate you.

1334
01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:33,760
Speaker 5: Thank you.

1335
01:07:36,120 --> 01:07:41,160
Speaker 16: Hi dion congrats what some that nothing? Dionne, Well, I

1336
01:07:41,240 --> 01:07:43,000
Speaker 16: think you kind of sent us all into a frenzy

1337
01:07:43,040 --> 01:07:45,240
Speaker 16: for about ten minutes. So I guess part one of

1338
01:07:45,280 --> 01:07:47,480
Speaker 16: my questions is who did you tell that you were

1339
01:07:47,520 --> 01:07:50,000
Speaker 16: going to be an entertainer? Because when you posted it,

1340
01:07:50,040 --> 01:07:52,680
Speaker 16: like even day, Kwon Jones responded like, what's going on?

1341
01:07:52,760 --> 01:07:53,520
Speaker 16: Did anybody know?

1342
01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:57,160
Speaker 14: I didn't tell anybody, No, because nobody because when it

1343
01:07:57,200 --> 01:07:57,960
Speaker 14: comes down.

1344
01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:03,880
Speaker 5: To it, though, like like you can't be trusted. They

1345
01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:04,760
Speaker 5: were can be trusted.

1346
01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:06,560
Speaker 16: They were going to snitch on you.

1347
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:10,640
Speaker 14: Somebody was gonna squeal, And I was like, man, it'll

1348
01:08:10,640 --> 01:08:13,400
Speaker 14: only be pure if I keep it, if I keep

1349
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:13,760
Speaker 14: it home.

1350
01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:15,440
Speaker 5: So so you did.

1351
01:08:16,120 --> 01:08:19,599
Speaker 16: Why Buffalo? Why do you want to be here long term?

1352
01:08:19,640 --> 01:08:21,639
Speaker 16: Why is this the place that you want to spend

1353
01:08:21,760 --> 01:08:25,799
Speaker 16: you know, the next several years.

1354
01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:34,680
Speaker 14: Why Buffalo? You know, I kind of see it in

1355
01:08:34,720 --> 01:08:40,280
Speaker 14: a way, Matt, where when you start a new chapter

1356
01:08:40,360 --> 01:08:45,800
Speaker 14: in your life, you're born again. Like something is born,

1357
01:08:46,040 --> 01:08:50,559
Speaker 14: like something is created, something is transformed, something happens, some

1358
01:08:50,680 --> 01:08:54,160
Speaker 14: light grows, some light just starts to shine. And I

1359
01:08:54,200 --> 01:08:57,160
Speaker 14: feel like when I got drafted to the Buffalo bills

1360
01:08:59,320 --> 01:09:03,120
Speaker 14: and my weird analogies, right, and my weird analogies that

1361
01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:07,240
Speaker 14: I can't get away from. Like I was born, like

1362
01:09:07,280 --> 01:09:09,880
Speaker 14: I was a baby. I was born, and Buffalo was

1363
01:09:10,400 --> 01:09:14,360
Speaker 14: my mother and my father. So who the heck wants

1364
01:09:14,360 --> 01:09:19,439
Speaker 14: to walk away from mom and dad? Because I don't.

1365
01:09:19,680 --> 01:09:22,479
Speaker 14: And that's how and I see it like Buffalo embraced me.

1366
01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:26,720
Speaker 14: And when it comes to loyalty, like even.

1367
01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:31,599
Speaker 5: When it could be.

1368
01:09:31,560 --> 01:09:34,200
Speaker 14: The wrong thing or the right thing, or I'm loyal

1369
01:09:34,280 --> 01:09:38,240
Speaker 14: to what's loyal to me, and Buffalo has been loyal

1370
01:09:38,280 --> 01:09:43,680
Speaker 14: to me. And when it comes to being loyal, I

1371
01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:46,320
Speaker 14: try to define that and I try to live by that.

1372
01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:52,040
Speaker 14: And that's why, you know, Buffalo has shown me love.

1373
01:09:52,080 --> 01:09:53,559
Speaker 14: And I don't want to be like one of those

1374
01:09:53,560 --> 01:09:59,679
Speaker 14: guys to to walk away from greatness and to walk away,

1375
01:10:00,680 --> 01:10:05,160
Speaker 14: Oh there's palm trees or you know, like there's casinos

1376
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:08,000
Speaker 14: like no, like.

1377
01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:09,479
Speaker 5: Like Buffalo is Buffalo. I love it.

1378
01:10:09,520 --> 01:10:13,840
Speaker 14: The freaking snow, the wings, the table jumps, the the

1379
01:10:13,920 --> 01:10:17,320
Speaker 14: mats on the interviews, like like I like you guys,

1380
01:10:17,360 --> 01:10:21,040
Speaker 14: like I really do, man, And and I can't see

1381
01:10:21,040 --> 01:10:23,720
Speaker 14: myself starting over with somebody else. It'll be fake like

1382
01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:27,200
Speaker 14: I can't go somewhere else and smiling some other fans

1383
01:10:27,280 --> 01:10:30,320
Speaker 14: face naw, bro, I gave too much to you guys,

1384
01:10:30,880 --> 01:10:35,520
Speaker 14: and uh Buffalo is me and uh Bean and McDermott

1385
01:10:35,800 --> 01:10:40,800
Speaker 14: and put Pegoula like.

1386
01:10:39,200 --> 01:10:40,040
Speaker 5: Like that's why.

1387
01:10:40,320 --> 01:10:44,080
Speaker 14: That's why, Like mc sean McDermott honestly is freaking why.

1388
01:10:44,479 --> 01:10:46,360
Speaker 5: Brandon Bean and his family is why.

1389
01:10:46,920 --> 01:10:50,559
Speaker 14: And of course the Pogoulas and everything that they've done

1390
01:10:50,680 --> 01:10:53,800
Speaker 14: and and their kids and the relationship that I've grown

1391
01:10:53,840 --> 01:10:57,240
Speaker 14: with with his children, like like br it is. It

1392
01:10:57,320 --> 01:11:02,160
Speaker 14: is amazing and like what else more do you want?

1393
01:11:02,360 --> 01:11:05,200
Speaker 14: Like Buffalo is beautiful, just like the next place. So

1394
01:11:05,680 --> 01:11:07,680
Speaker 14: I got all of my friends and family there, so

1395
01:11:07,760 --> 01:11:08,240
Speaker 14: I'm there.

1396
01:11:08,840 --> 01:11:09,320
Speaker 5: I'm there.

1397
01:11:09,920 --> 01:11:12,400
Speaker 16: Awesome, congratsy On, thanks again, Thank you.

1398
01:11:16,760 --> 01:11:22,160
Speaker 17: Hey Dion, congratulations, Yeah, thank you. Love the shirt. Love

1399
01:11:22,200 --> 01:11:23,120
Speaker 17: the look looking good.

1400
01:11:23,280 --> 01:11:25,800
Speaker 18: You know, I got to have my tats out since

1401
01:11:25,840 --> 01:11:27,760
Speaker 18: I'm pacing interviews, you know what I'm saying with my

1402
01:11:27,800 --> 01:11:28,599
Speaker 18: shirts out.

1403
01:11:29,200 --> 01:11:31,880
Speaker 5: But I gotta have my shirt off. I'm a shirt

1404
01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:32,320
Speaker 5: off guy.

1405
01:11:33,120 --> 01:11:33,599
Speaker 15: Amazing.

1406
01:11:33,880 --> 01:11:37,439
Speaker 17: I'm curious for you. You just talked about why Buffalo. What

1407
01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:39,880
Speaker 17: is it like for you though that they want to

1408
01:11:40,040 --> 01:11:41,760
Speaker 17: give you know, commit to you in this way, you know,

1409
01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:44,040
Speaker 17: after all these years there after being a draft picked

1410
01:11:44,040 --> 01:11:45,840
Speaker 17: to like them, be like, no, we want you here

1411
01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:46,920
Speaker 17: for the foreseeable future.

1412
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:48,080
Speaker 15: What is that like for you?

1413
01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:54,840
Speaker 5: What is it like? Hopefully I answer the question the

1414
01:11:54,880 --> 01:11:59,200
Speaker 5: right way. I have a hard.

1415
01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:02,320
Speaker 14: I have a hard time of just trying to be normal,

1416
01:12:02,520 --> 01:12:10,360
Speaker 14: right Like, I'm at a position and I am at

1417
01:12:10,400 --> 01:12:15,320
Speaker 14: a place that I can change the narrative for offensive

1418
01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:19,160
Speaker 14: line men. I could, you know, make it better, make

1419
01:12:19,200 --> 01:12:22,840
Speaker 14: it cooler to be an offensive lineman. And Buffalo is

1420
01:12:22,840 --> 01:12:28,920
Speaker 14: one of those places that I can do that. And

1421
01:12:30,080 --> 01:12:33,880
Speaker 14: coming into the NFL, I always knew my goal. I

1422
01:12:33,920 --> 01:12:37,200
Speaker 14: wanted to create a different lane for offensive linemen.

1423
01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:40,360
Speaker 5: And I feel like Buffalo.

1424
01:12:42,760 --> 01:12:46,360
Speaker 14: Shows and gives me the platform and gives me the

1425
01:12:46,760 --> 01:12:50,639
Speaker 14: opportunity to show that offensive linemen are just as cool

1426
01:12:50,760 --> 01:12:54,479
Speaker 14: as your quarterback, and they're just as cool as your receiver,

1427
01:12:55,280 --> 01:12:59,840
Speaker 14: Like we all have personalities, like like we might not

1428
01:13:00,120 --> 01:13:04,559
Speaker 14: be the glam position on the football field, but if

1429
01:13:04,600 --> 01:13:07,799
Speaker 14: you really just look behind the curtain, the big.

1430
01:13:07,600 --> 01:13:10,120
Speaker 5: Guys are usually the ones that you.

1431
01:13:10,080 --> 01:13:13,240
Speaker 14: Know are the characters and have the personalities and go

1432
01:13:13,400 --> 01:13:17,280
Speaker 14: over and beyond. And I'm just trying to, you know,

1433
01:13:17,439 --> 01:13:20,280
Speaker 14: just shine light on the big guys and just show

1434
01:13:20,320 --> 01:13:25,880
Speaker 14: them that you know, it's cool to be big, opefully

1435
01:13:25,880 --> 01:13:28,160
Speaker 14: I answered, but your question, yeah.

1436
01:13:27,960 --> 01:13:28,360
Speaker 5: For sure.

1437
01:13:28,960 --> 01:13:34,120
Speaker 17: And I'm curious obviously with Mitch moving on this, just

1438
01:13:34,200 --> 01:13:36,960
Speaker 17: like how do you view from a leadership perspective the

1439
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:38,840
Speaker 17: hole that has to fill on the line and like

1440
01:13:38,880 --> 01:13:41,920
Speaker 17: how you guys say the word without him this season?

1441
01:13:42,240 --> 01:13:44,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's there's.

1442
01:13:45,479 --> 01:13:49,640
Speaker 14: Always a hole when you lose your center, simple as that.

1443
01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:57,719
Speaker 14: But me and Mitch led that room to together even

1444
01:13:57,720 --> 01:13:59,360
Speaker 14: though I didn't have a C on my chest.

1445
01:14:00,320 --> 01:14:00,439
Speaker 17: Uh.

1446
01:14:00,920 --> 01:14:03,880
Speaker 14: I was in every captains meeting, I was in every

1447
01:14:04,200 --> 01:14:05,840
Speaker 14: decision making point I was.

1448
01:14:06,320 --> 01:14:08,240
Speaker 5: We were there together.

1449
01:14:08,920 --> 01:14:17,519
Speaker 14: And when it's just like the army, it truly is

1450
01:14:18,080 --> 01:14:20,680
Speaker 14: like if you have a first I don't want to

1451
01:14:20,680 --> 01:14:22,040
Speaker 14: say it wrong, but if you have like a first

1452
01:14:22,080 --> 01:14:25,280
Speaker 14: sergeant and then you have a younger guy underneath him,

1453
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:28,640
Speaker 14: like we all know, like like in this world like

1454
01:14:28,800 --> 01:14:34,600
Speaker 14: we're playing with with with with flying flying flying bullets,

1455
01:14:34,640 --> 01:14:37,160
Speaker 14: like anybody can go down at any time.

1456
01:14:37,040 --> 01:14:39,639
Speaker 5: Due to an injury, due to a trade do.

1457
01:14:39,840 --> 01:14:42,800
Speaker 14: And due to something and with the cop and with

1458
01:14:42,880 --> 01:14:46,840
Speaker 14: the contract, so everybody has to be ready to do

1459
01:14:46,920 --> 01:14:52,679
Speaker 14: their part at all times. And the beautiful thing about

1460
01:14:52,680 --> 01:14:56,840
Speaker 14: it is, you know, Mitch goes on and now Mitch

1461
01:14:57,600 --> 01:14:59,520
Speaker 14: is going to be with the Jaguars.

1462
01:14:59,800 --> 01:15:01,040
Speaker 5: So so when it.

1463
01:15:01,040 --> 01:15:04,479
Speaker 14: Comes down to it, I'm more so happy that, you know,

1464
01:15:04,600 --> 01:15:08,560
Speaker 14: Mitch is able to continue to play football and provide

1465
01:15:09,000 --> 01:15:12,559
Speaker 14: for his family. But when it comes to Buffalo in

1466
01:15:12,600 --> 01:15:17,920
Speaker 14: a way of taking a hit of leadership roles, there's

1467
01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:22,680
Speaker 14: so many guys that have been picking everybody's brain that

1468
01:15:22,800 --> 01:15:28,240
Speaker 14: everybody is a leader in their own way, and from

1469
01:15:28,240 --> 01:15:32,360
Speaker 14: the inside, I don't want to say like it's not

1470
01:15:32,400 --> 01:15:38,320
Speaker 14: a big deal, but like we're gonna be okay regardless,

1471
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:42,639
Speaker 14: like regardless, like and I'm still gonna call Mitch. I'm

1472
01:15:42,640 --> 01:15:45,080
Speaker 14: still gonna ask Mitch what should I do and what

1473
01:15:45,200 --> 01:15:48,680
Speaker 14: shouldn't be done or what needs to happen, Like we're

1474
01:15:48,720 --> 01:15:52,400
Speaker 14: all still connected. It just sucks that Dad won't be there,

1475
01:15:55,000 --> 01:15:59,479
Speaker 14: but yeah, it's part of this league.

1476
01:16:00,120 --> 01:16:02,599
Speaker 17: Yeah, one very last question for me, did you make

1477
01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:05,960
Speaker 17: the picture yourself that you put out there? The wording was,

1478
01:16:06,200 --> 01:16:08,960
Speaker 17: the spacing was wild, Like did you make it?

1479
01:16:09,840 --> 01:16:11,040
Speaker 15: Okay? I just wanted to check.

1480
01:16:11,520 --> 01:16:13,680
Speaker 14: I had to trip you out because it was like

1481
01:16:13,720 --> 01:16:16,479
Speaker 14: all over the place and little and big words and

1482
01:16:16,479 --> 01:16:19,599
Speaker 14: little words. Yeah, that's how I do you know. That's

1483
01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:22,640
Speaker 14: that's the inside of my head. Like the inside of

1484
01:16:22,680 --> 01:16:25,479
Speaker 14: my brain is wild. So that's what you guys got.

1485
01:16:26,680 --> 01:16:28,400
Speaker 17: Glad we got to see a little bit of that.

1486
01:16:28,880 --> 01:16:29,120
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1487
01:16:29,320 --> 01:16:31,000
Speaker 18: I don't want you guys have see too much, might

1488
01:16:31,479 --> 01:16:42,639
Speaker 18: get scared. Grabs thank you? Yeah, who's that?

1489
01:16:43,040 --> 01:16:44,840
Speaker 19: This is sewn from Orchard Park.

1490
01:16:44,880 --> 01:16:45,040
Speaker 3: Bet.

1491
01:16:45,080 --> 01:16:48,759
Speaker 19: I was just calling your song describe yourself as a

1492
01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:51,519
Speaker 19: as as entertainer, and I was just wondering maybe if

1493
01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:54,280
Speaker 19: you could uh share a song with us to mark

1494
01:16:54,360 --> 01:16:57,400
Speaker 19: this this this is a special occasion.

1495
01:16:57,680 --> 01:17:01,559
Speaker 14: You said, Sean from Uh, I'm gonna tell you, Sean,

1496
01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:04,000
Speaker 14: I don't know who who it is, but you sound

1497
01:17:04,040 --> 01:17:05,040
Speaker 14: like McDermott.

1498
01:17:05,479 --> 01:17:06,879
Speaker 5: And if I were.

1499
01:17:06,720 --> 01:17:12,439
Speaker 20: To say, if this is Sean, welcome because I don't

1500
01:17:12,439 --> 01:17:14,960
Speaker 20: know you, but Sean, I'm gonna talk to you like

1501
01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:19,599
Speaker 20: i'll talk to my head coach, Let's ride, Let's ride out.

1502
01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:23,160
Speaker 14: And the song of choice that I would say, it'll

1503
01:17:23,160 --> 01:17:26,639
Speaker 14: probably be sweet Home Alabama, but I would probably change

1504
01:17:26,680 --> 01:17:28,560
Speaker 14: it to sweet Home Buffalo.

1505
01:17:28,840 --> 01:17:32,120
Speaker 5: So sweet Home Buffalo.

1506
01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:35,960
Speaker 19: And maybe and maybe you could talk about the like

1507
01:17:36,040 --> 01:17:42,040
Speaker 19: the maybe the wardrobe you're wearing for this special engageon Today, shirtless.

1508
01:17:41,560 --> 01:17:44,720
Speaker 14: Snow Man, shirtless snow. I don't care what nobody say.

1509
01:17:44,760 --> 01:17:47,639
Speaker 14: This is sharn it gotta be Sean talk like that.

1510
01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:51,599
Speaker 5: I knew it. Yeah, yeah, I was about to say, Man,

1511
01:17:51,640 --> 01:17:54,559
Speaker 5: IM about to say like, yeah, ain't nobody that sound

1512
01:17:54,680 --> 01:18:00,439
Speaker 5: and like that? That's Sean mcdeazey. Man, what up, buddy, Man?

1513
01:18:00,640 --> 01:18:03,880
Speaker 14: Hey, thank you man, thank you, appreciate you. We locked

1514
01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:04,559
Speaker 14: and loaded. Man.

1515
01:18:05,840 --> 01:18:07,519
Speaker 19: I just wanted to hear a little rap, you know,

1516
01:18:07,560 --> 01:18:08,560
Speaker 19: a little song that you have.

1517
01:18:10,160 --> 01:18:12,720
Speaker 14: See everybody wants a little bit entertainment when all the

1518
01:18:12,800 --> 01:18:13,800
Speaker 14: seasons starts right.

1519
01:18:14,240 --> 01:18:16,080
Speaker 19: Hey, you said you're an entertainer, man, So.

1520
01:18:16,040 --> 01:18:18,160
Speaker 10: I got you.

1521
01:18:19,080 --> 01:18:23,320
Speaker 5: I got you? Man, what swee? Yeah, that's that's that's

1522
01:18:23,360 --> 01:18:25,000
Speaker 5: the remax. We need that.

1523
01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:29,640
Speaker 14: Mom. I'm coming home to you.

1524
01:18:29,720 --> 01:18:30,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're the best buddy.

1525
01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:37,960
Speaker 5: We love you, man. I appreciate you. Thank you. Yeah.

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01:18:38,439 --> 01:18:40,479
Speaker 6: Hey, Dion John Warrew, can you hear me now?

1527
01:18:41,040 --> 01:18:42,120
Speaker 5: Yes? I can hear you now.

1528
01:18:43,080 --> 01:18:45,240
Speaker 6: How how cool is that? We don't often get a

1529
01:18:45,240 --> 01:18:47,840
Speaker 6: coach that comes on one of these zoom calls to

1530
01:18:47,920 --> 01:18:51,840
Speaker 6: congratulate you on coming back. How how how nifty? How

1531
01:18:51,960 --> 01:18:54,760
Speaker 6: how cool is that to have Sean, welcome you back

1532
01:18:54,800 --> 01:18:55,280
Speaker 6: that way.

1533
01:18:56,840 --> 01:19:00,719
Speaker 5: You know, it's just it's cool. Yes, it's very cool

1534
01:19:01,280 --> 01:19:02,320
Speaker 5: to simply answer.

1535
01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:04,920
Speaker 14: But that kind of just just just shows on like

1536
01:19:04,920 --> 01:19:06,520
Speaker 14: what I was just like talking about.

1537
01:19:06,680 --> 01:19:08,559
Speaker 5: Like when it comes down to it, it's.

1538
01:19:08,560 --> 01:19:13,320
Speaker 14: Mcdee, it's Bean, it's for goulas, like like come on,

1539
01:19:13,520 --> 01:19:16,680
Speaker 14: like that's my head coach. Like my head coach just

1540
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:18,760
Speaker 14: jumped on on a zoom call all where he could

1541
01:19:18,760 --> 01:19:22,559
Speaker 14: be chilling with his family just to say a couple

1542
01:19:22,600 --> 01:19:25,080
Speaker 14: of things and to put a smile on in my face.

1543
01:19:25,120 --> 01:19:28,479
Speaker 14: So it's it's those little wins that the coaches and

1544
01:19:28,520 --> 01:19:31,920
Speaker 14: the people here go beyond, go over and beyond to

1545
01:19:32,120 --> 01:19:35,400
Speaker 14: do to make it special. And we all know that

1546
01:19:35,479 --> 01:19:41,680
Speaker 14: it's a business, and for them to continue to do

1547
01:19:41,920 --> 01:19:44,320
Speaker 14: in what they do, it means everything.

1548
01:19:43,960 --> 01:19:44,759
Speaker 5: To all of them.

1549
01:19:45,160 --> 01:19:47,439
Speaker 14: And it's hard, Like he's in a position where it's

1550
01:19:47,479 --> 01:19:52,240
Speaker 14: tough to make decisions and it's tough to move pieces.

1551
01:19:51,920 --> 01:19:53,519
Speaker 5: And to do what he does.

1552
01:19:53,560 --> 01:19:58,080
Speaker 14: But that right there just shows why mcd is a

1553
01:19:58,200 --> 01:20:01,040
Speaker 14: mcd Like, there ain't no no coach like him. Man,

1554
01:20:01,080 --> 01:20:05,320
Speaker 14: he's a stone coke killer and he's a good man

1555
01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:08,080
Speaker 14: at heart. And that's all I can ask for and

1556
01:20:08,120 --> 01:20:11,880
Speaker 14: a great father, you know, So it's a win win

1557
01:20:11,960 --> 01:20:13,320
Speaker 14: win for Sean mcdd d.

1558
01:20:15,320 --> 01:20:18,479
Speaker 6: And and just the last thing. I mean, you talked

1559
01:20:18,520 --> 01:20:21,280
Speaker 6: about this being a business and and how you felt

1560
01:20:21,320 --> 01:20:23,760
Speaker 6: for for for not having mitched there and and you

1561
01:20:23,840 --> 01:20:27,360
Speaker 6: also watch Shorten and Trey. But how mindful were you

1562
01:20:27,479 --> 01:20:31,880
Speaker 6: were you in in these renegotiations and in doing this deal?

1563
01:20:32,240 --> 01:20:35,320
Speaker 6: Were you of the salary cap hit and and and

1564
01:20:35,360 --> 01:20:39,639
Speaker 6: perhaps being mindful of what your contract could do, especially

1565
01:20:39,680 --> 01:20:43,200
Speaker 6: this year moving forward as far as it hit hit

1566
01:20:43,240 --> 01:20:46,000
Speaker 6: against the team. If you know what I'm saying, I

1567
01:20:46,600 --> 01:20:47,000
Speaker 6: do know.

1568
01:20:47,120 --> 01:20:49,360
Speaker 14: So one I was I would I'm gonna try to

1569
01:20:49,400 --> 01:20:50,759
Speaker 14: answer that in three ways.

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01:20:50,840 --> 01:20:53,120
Speaker 5: I won't try to ramble, so try to keep me

1571
01:20:53,160 --> 01:20:54,120
Speaker 5: on track, all right.

1572
01:20:54,280 --> 01:21:00,479
Speaker 14: So Number One, when you see the news of people

1573
01:21:00,520 --> 01:21:03,559
Speaker 14: getting cut and people getting released and all this stuff

1574
01:21:03,600 --> 01:21:05,800
Speaker 14: and going on, and then you know that you're in

1575
01:21:05,920 --> 01:21:10,680
Speaker 14: negotiations for a contract, it sucks because the money has

1576
01:21:10,720 --> 01:21:15,040
Speaker 14: to be shifted around and whatever. And I don't want

1577
01:21:15,080 --> 01:21:20,280
Speaker 14: to take from any of my brothers. Two, I had

1578
01:21:20,320 --> 01:21:22,960
Speaker 14: the best season of my career last year. Knowing that

1579
01:21:23,040 --> 01:21:26,519
Speaker 14: I had the best season of my career, I could

1580
01:21:26,520 --> 01:21:26,960
Speaker 14: have waited.

1581
01:21:27,360 --> 01:21:28,720
Speaker 5: I could have waited and I.

1582
01:21:28,720 --> 01:21:31,840
Speaker 14: Could have had another great season and then acts to

1583
01:21:31,840 --> 01:21:35,240
Speaker 14: be the highest paid left tackle ever Like that's like,

1584
01:21:35,320 --> 01:21:41,519
Speaker 14: that's how that goes. And me, I would rather there

1585
01:21:41,600 --> 01:21:46,120
Speaker 14: be more money to go around for my teammates and

1586
01:21:46,160 --> 01:21:48,240
Speaker 14: for us to build the Super Bowl team that we

1587
01:21:48,360 --> 01:21:50,000
Speaker 14: need to win.

1588
01:21:50,520 --> 01:21:53,280
Speaker 5: Then for me to be like, oh, I want.

1589
01:21:54,680 --> 01:21:58,599
Speaker 14: Six million dollars like bro like like I want our

1590
01:21:58,680 --> 01:22:01,360
Speaker 14: teammates to be able to take care of other families

1591
01:22:01,800 --> 01:22:05,080
Speaker 14: number one. I want people to be happy number two.

1592
01:22:05,400 --> 01:22:09,480
Speaker 14: And I want to play great ball with happy teammates.

1593
01:22:09,840 --> 01:22:11,720
Speaker 14: I don't want nobody to be bitter. I don't want

1594
01:22:11,720 --> 01:22:16,880
Speaker 14: nobody to be upset. And you know, like you got

1595
01:22:16,920 --> 01:22:19,360
Speaker 14: to be mindfulness, Well, you have to be mindful when

1596
01:22:19,360 --> 01:22:22,679
Speaker 14: it comes to doing things and really like what you're

1597
01:22:22,680 --> 01:22:26,040
Speaker 14: asking for, Like are you asking for something that's gonna

1598
01:22:26,320 --> 01:22:29,160
Speaker 14: hurt others or are you asking for something that is

1599
01:22:29,200 --> 01:22:33,680
Speaker 14: going to do well for the mass? And obviously I

1600
01:22:33,720 --> 01:22:37,400
Speaker 14: am one of those guys that I'm for the mass,

1601
01:22:37,760 --> 01:22:41,439
Speaker 14: I really am. And I love my guys, and I

1602
01:22:41,479 --> 01:22:43,920
Speaker 14: hope whatever and whoever is supposed to get theirs can

1603
01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:47,400
Speaker 14: and get theirs and we can continue to move forward

1604
01:22:47,439 --> 01:22:50,519
Speaker 14: because we're all here for in one reason, and that's

1605
01:22:50,520 --> 01:22:54,320
Speaker 14: to bring a Super Bowl to Orchard Park and to

1606
01:22:54,360 --> 01:22:57,040
Speaker 14: walk through that city with that trophy and have our

1607
01:22:57,160 --> 01:23:01,240
Speaker 14: own celebration. So that's why, and we're here so for

1608
01:23:01,280 --> 01:23:02,680
Speaker 14: whoever needs a piece.

1609
01:23:02,400 --> 01:23:07,160
Speaker 5: Of the pot or the pie to go ahead and

1610
01:23:07,160 --> 01:23:07,320
Speaker 5: get it.

1611
01:23:08,439 --> 01:23:08,800
Speaker 3: All right.

1612
01:23:08,840 --> 01:23:12,240
Speaker 2: That's Dion Dawkins addressing the media. Some pretty heartfelt words

1613
01:23:12,280 --> 01:23:15,599
Speaker 2: from Dion and some pretty unselfish comments as well. We

1614
01:23:15,760 --> 01:23:17,800
Speaker 2: have to take a break though. When we come back,

1615
01:23:17,960 --> 01:23:22,559
Speaker 2: more of your phone calls. And another big money deal

1616
01:23:23,000 --> 01:23:26,360
Speaker 2: for quarterback Kirk Cousins, who is on the move, not

1617
01:23:26,520 --> 01:23:28,920
Speaker 2: resigning with Minnesota. We'll tell you where he's headed next

1618
01:23:28,920 --> 01:23:42,400
Speaker 2: here on One Bill's Live. Stay tuned, all right, some

1619
01:23:42,520 --> 01:23:46,840
Speaker 2: more breaking news here on free agency negotiation Day one

1620
01:23:47,439 --> 01:23:49,879
Speaker 2: as we get to the opening of free agency officially

1621
01:23:50,439 --> 01:23:54,160
Speaker 2: in two days time. SA Kwon Barkley is staying in

1622
01:23:54,200 --> 01:23:57,200
Speaker 2: the NFC East, but not with the Giants. He's headed

1623
01:23:57,240 --> 01:24:00,120
Speaker 2: to the Philadelphia Eagles. Giants fans are gonna love that one.

1624
01:24:00,720 --> 01:24:01,120
Speaker 3: Uh.

1625
01:24:01,160 --> 01:24:06,120
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Kirk Cousins, a man who has maximized his value

1626
01:24:06,200 --> 01:24:09,719
Speaker 2: perhaps better than anyone in the history of football, has

1627
01:24:09,960 --> 01:24:13,640
Speaker 2: done it again, signing with the Falcons. We're agreeing to

1628
01:24:13,720 --> 01:24:15,840
Speaker 2: terms with the Falcons on a four year deal. We

1629
01:24:15,880 --> 01:24:18,559
Speaker 2: don't have the total value of the contract yet, but

1630
01:24:18,720 --> 01:24:21,960
Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins, who has two hundred and thirty one million

1631
01:24:22,040 --> 01:24:25,400
Speaker 2: dollars in career earnings, is going to earn some more

1632
01:24:25,880 --> 01:24:26,799
Speaker 2: down in Atlanta.

1633
01:24:27,360 --> 01:24:28,280
Speaker 3: Unbelievable.

1634
01:24:28,400 --> 01:24:31,000
Speaker 4: He started out in two thousand, he's the goat, fourth

1635
01:24:31,080 --> 01:24:34,360
Speaker 4: round entry level thing. He got, you know, contract, four year,

1636
01:24:34,479 --> 01:24:36,880
Speaker 4: two point five million dollar deal. He saw the end

1637
01:24:36,880 --> 01:24:41,560
Speaker 4: of that, then got franchised, had a one year nineteen

1638
01:24:41,640 --> 01:24:45,920
Speaker 4: point nine million, next year franchise again twenty three point

1639
01:24:46,040 --> 01:24:49,240
Speaker 4: nine million, so twenty four million, then three years eighty

1640
01:24:49,360 --> 01:24:53,240
Speaker 4: four with the Vikings, and then another two year sixty

1641
01:24:53,320 --> 01:24:55,800
Speaker 4: six million dollars with the Vikings. He saw every cent

1642
01:24:55,880 --> 01:24:58,360
Speaker 4: of all of that. Wow, two hundred and three one

1643
01:24:58,360 --> 01:25:00,519
Speaker 4: point eight million on career earning, and now he just

1644
01:25:00,560 --> 01:25:02,800
Speaker 4: signed a four year extent or four year deal now

1645
01:25:02,840 --> 01:25:06,080
Speaker 4: with the Falcons. That's got to be north of what forty.

1646
01:25:05,840 --> 01:25:06,679
Speaker 1: Million a year? Right?

1647
01:25:06,840 --> 01:25:07,320
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1648
01:25:07,560 --> 01:25:09,920
Speaker 1: I mean if Daniel Jones is signing deals like that, if.

1649
01:25:09,880 --> 01:25:12,080
Speaker 2: Dale Jones is making forty a year, Kirk's gonna make

1650
01:25:12,080 --> 01:25:13,479
Speaker 2: plumb around forty six.

1651
01:25:13,400 --> 01:25:16,200
Speaker 1: Right plus Kirk was a free agent. He may get more.

1652
01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:18,360
Speaker 2: He is coming off an Achilles injury, so I don't

1653
01:25:18,360 --> 01:25:21,000
Speaker 2: know if he'll get tremendously more, but he'll get more.

1654
01:25:21,040 --> 01:25:22,599
Speaker 1: If there was interest, he'll get more.

1655
01:25:22,960 --> 01:25:25,640
Speaker 2: The Vikings already released a statement saying they tried to

1656
01:25:25,680 --> 01:25:28,600
Speaker 2: negotiate with Kirk's people, but it just didn't fit the

1657
01:25:28,640 --> 01:25:32,240
Speaker 2: short and long term vision of the club going forward.

1658
01:25:32,720 --> 01:25:36,920
Speaker 2: So Kirk Cousins moves on. He is an Atlanta Falcon. Unbelievable.

1659
01:25:37,160 --> 01:25:39,320
Speaker 3: Back to the phones into Mark and Amherst. Here, what's

1660
01:25:39,400 --> 01:25:39,720
Speaker 3: up Mark?

1661
01:25:41,400 --> 01:25:42,160
Speaker 7: He's doing today?

1662
01:25:42,240 --> 01:25:42,800
Speaker 3: Good?

1663
01:25:44,280 --> 01:25:44,720
Speaker 8: That's good.

1664
01:25:44,760 --> 01:25:48,479
Speaker 7: I just wanted to piggyback off the previous caller about

1665
01:25:49,000 --> 01:25:52,559
Speaker 7: Brandan Bean and about his success. I feel that he's

1666
01:25:52,600 --> 01:25:55,720
Speaker 7: definitely a top three GM in the league. I'd say

1667
01:25:55,720 --> 01:26:00,240
Speaker 7: there's Howie Roseman, obviously, Brett Veach and Brandon Dean. He

1668
01:26:00,240 --> 01:26:03,360
Speaker 7: has hits and misses. The one thing I will say,

1669
01:26:04,800 --> 01:26:07,360
Speaker 7: Cody Ford didn't work out, but he's still in the

1670
01:26:07,439 --> 01:26:11,680
Speaker 7: league eland the jury is still out. I think the

1671
01:26:11,720 --> 01:26:16,200
Speaker 7: Bills really wanted McDuffie, but Kansas City jumped ahead of them.

1672
01:26:16,560 --> 01:26:20,600
Speaker 7: And as far as rebuilding, what Brett Veach did with

1673
01:26:20,680 --> 01:26:24,960
Speaker 7: Kansas City after losing Tyreek Hill, they won the Super

1674
01:26:24,960 --> 01:26:28,240
Speaker 7: Bowl with the average receivers. Last year, they lost some

1675
01:26:28,439 --> 01:26:31,559
Speaker 7: higher priced offensive lineman a couple of years ago, they

1676
01:26:31,600 --> 01:26:35,280
Speaker 7: replaced them. Still, you know, beat a Super Bowl, so

1677
01:26:37,240 --> 01:26:43,799
Speaker 7: rebuilt the secondary with young players Snead McDuffie, and still

1678
01:26:43,960 --> 01:26:46,639
Speaker 7: obviously won the Super Bowl. So I think that he

1679
01:26:47,840 --> 01:26:50,200
Speaker 7: did a great job in hitting on those picks, and

1680
01:26:50,240 --> 01:26:52,519
Speaker 7: the coaching staff did a great job of putting those

1681
01:26:52,560 --> 01:26:55,840
Speaker 7: players in position and coaching them up to win. But

1682
01:26:55,960 --> 01:26:58,840
Speaker 7: other than that, I mean, Brandon Dean is phenomenal. I

1683
01:26:58,880 --> 01:27:01,520
Speaker 7: mean what he's done in tree aids and being aggressive

1684
01:27:01,920 --> 01:27:06,880
Speaker 7: and signing free agents totally impressive. I can't say enough

1685
01:27:06,880 --> 01:27:08,760
Speaker 7: good things about Brandon Bean, all right, And I was

1686
01:27:08,800 --> 01:27:11,120
Speaker 7: just asking you guys your opinion on that.

1687
01:27:11,400 --> 01:27:13,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I would agree wholeheartedly.

1688
01:27:14,120 --> 01:27:17,479
Speaker 2: I think Brett Veach has been outstanding for the Chiefs,

1689
01:27:17,479 --> 01:27:19,720
Speaker 2: there's no denying that. I think what you have to

1690
01:27:19,720 --> 01:27:22,280
Speaker 2: look at now is Brandon Bean faces something similar to

1691
01:27:22,320 --> 01:27:24,920
Speaker 2: what Brett Feach faced two years ago, which is basically

1692
01:27:24,920 --> 01:27:29,280
Speaker 2: rebuilding this roster with young draftable talent. That's the That's

1693
01:27:29,280 --> 01:27:30,960
Speaker 2: what sits in front of Brandon Bean now, which is

1694
01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:33,160
Speaker 2: why he said they have to hit on this draft quickly.

1695
01:27:33,160 --> 01:27:37,760
Speaker 1: Steve, He's right, You're right. Brandon Bean has done extremely well.

1696
01:27:37,840 --> 01:27:43,000
Speaker 4: Is Bill's GM, even outside of Josh Allen. So yeah,

1697
01:27:43,439 --> 01:27:45,960
Speaker 4: you're never gonna please everybody all the time, and you

1698
01:27:45,960 --> 01:27:49,040
Speaker 4: can nitpick every GM. But I think most Bills fans

1699
01:27:49,040 --> 01:27:51,720
Speaker 4: and most people around the league would tip their hat

1700
01:27:51,760 --> 01:27:53,200
Speaker 4: to how well he's done here in Buffalo.

1701
01:27:53,320 --> 01:27:54,880
Speaker 2: Got to take a break. We'll wrap it up next

1702
01:27:54,960 --> 01:28:13,960
Speaker 2: year on One Bill's Live. Stay tuned, all right, welcome

1703
01:28:14,000 --> 01:28:16,920
Speaker 2: back to One Bill's Live. Kirk Cousins has officially done

1704
01:28:16,920 --> 01:28:19,799
Speaker 2: it again. It's a four year deal worth one hundred

1705
01:28:19,840 --> 01:28:22,920
Speaker 2: and eighty million dollars, one hundred of which is guaranteed,

1706
01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:26,040
Speaker 2: which will put him where all times Steve on the

1707
01:28:26,040 --> 01:28:26,719
Speaker 2: earnings list.

1708
01:28:26,760 --> 01:28:32,080
Speaker 4: On the earnings list, kirk Cousins catapults up to what

1709
01:28:32,200 --> 01:28:35,080
Speaker 4: has just Shy just ahead and Drew Brees right behind

1710
01:28:35,120 --> 01:28:38,240
Speaker 4: Matt Ryan. But with the one hundred million guaranteed, that

1711
01:28:38,320 --> 01:28:41,719
Speaker 4: puts him in third place all time, behind Aaron Rodgers

1712
01:28:41,720 --> 01:28:44,960
Speaker 4: and Tom Brady. That is Kirk Cousins unbelieved, and he's

1713
01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:48,479
Speaker 4: in third place by one million dollars.

1714
01:28:48,520 --> 01:28:49,160
Speaker 3: It's amazing.

1715
01:28:49,720 --> 01:28:53,880
Speaker 2: Sae Kwon Barkley's contract three years, thirty seven and a

1716
01:28:53,920 --> 01:28:57,920
Speaker 2: half million to go to Philadelphia. The Dolphins have lost

1717
01:28:58,040 --> 01:29:01,080
Speaker 2: another member of their defense. They already Christian Wilkins to

1718
01:29:01,080 --> 01:29:05,639
Speaker 2: the Raiders earlier today, they lose reserve safety Brandon Jones,

1719
01:29:06,360 --> 01:29:08,639
Speaker 2: who goes to Denver, and now they have lost pass

1720
01:29:08,720 --> 01:29:12,760
Speaker 2: rusher Andrew van Ginkel, good player two year deal to

1721
01:29:12,880 --> 01:29:17,040
Speaker 2: the Vikings for twenty million dollars, fourteen of which will

1722
01:29:17,040 --> 01:29:21,080
Speaker 2: be guaranteed. We will continue with this free agent negotiating

1723
01:29:21,120 --> 01:29:23,600
Speaker 2: window on tomorrow's show, when there is bound to be

1724
01:29:23,640 --> 01:29:27,080
Speaker 2: plenty more news flying a plenty. But the market just

1725
01:29:27,200 --> 01:29:30,320
Speaker 2: opened for the negotiating window at noon today, and you

1726
01:29:30,320 --> 01:29:32,719
Speaker 2: can see how shock full of news we have been here.

1727
01:29:33,160 --> 01:29:35,160
Speaker 2: We will continue that tomorrow in earnest.

1728
01:29:35,240 --> 01:29:36,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna. We'll keep an eye on it and

1729
01:29:36,800 --> 01:29:38,120
Speaker 1: keep you up to great don't. You don't have to,

1730
01:29:38,240 --> 01:29:38,920
Speaker 1: we will.

1731
01:29:38,680 --> 01:29:41,040
Speaker 4: We'll recite all this stuff when it comes back tomorrow,

1732
01:29:41,040 --> 01:29:42,680
Speaker 4: and we're sure it'll be some stuff happened.

1733
01:29:42,439 --> 01:29:43,960
Speaker 3: That's right, and Bill's news as well.

1734
01:29:44,040 --> 01:29:45,920
Speaker 2: So we'll see you tomorrow here on one Bill's Live

1735
01:29:45,960 --> 01:29:57,000
Speaker 2: at one