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Speaker 1: This the One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. All Right,

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Speaker 1: welcome in. We're back from a day off Wednesday for Juneteenth.

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Speaker 1: Here on a Thursday edition of One Bill's Live, Chris

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Speaker 1: Brown Steve tasked you with you good to have you

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Speaker 1: with us, and uh more to discuss than you might

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Speaker 1: think at this time of year, and we'll dive into

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Speaker 1: all of it in just a bit here. But Steve,

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Speaker 1: I am, I am, I am going to take credit

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Speaker 1: for this, Okay, I have completely roped you in to

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Speaker 1: the soccer universe for the next month. If you are

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Speaker 1: even the most casual of soccer fans, you can get

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Speaker 1: your fill and then some. Because you have two tournaments

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Speaker 1: taking place on two continents, technically three continents, but in

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Speaker 1: any event, soccer out the wazoo at the highest possible level.

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Speaker 1: Because you have the Copa America, which typically involves South

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Speaker 1: American teams only, but because the twenty twenty six World

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Speaker 1: Cup is taking place in North America, they invited Canada,

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Speaker 1: the US and Mexico to participate and they are boom.

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Speaker 1: So that's a bonus. And then you have the Euros,

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Speaker 1: the European tournament for the champions of Europe, which involve

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Speaker 1: eight of the top ten teams in the world in

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Speaker 1: terms of countries. So both tournaments are happening simultaneously.

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Speaker 2: So Brownie, so typically me, we have are off.

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Speaker 3: We're in a bullpen and Brownie and now are the

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Speaker 3: only people that are in the office though, But there's

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Speaker 3: two TV. There's two TVs in there we're watching and

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Speaker 3: we got this game on. This morning's game.

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Speaker 1: Was between Slovenia and Serbia.

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Speaker 3: Slovenia and Serbia, and within like, uh, well, let's see,

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Speaker 3: Slovenia has never won a year a euro Game game

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Speaker 3: in the euro Tournament ever since. I've only been a

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Speaker 3: company country since ninety one, right, which is as Brownie

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Speaker 3: just told me. So I'm all of a sudden, you know,

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Speaker 3: obviously I'm rooting for the underdog. And sure enough they

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Speaker 3: go up one nothing, and like as per usual, I

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Speaker 3: am fully invested now and let's go. They're my guys, right,

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Speaker 3: I can't I couldn't find them on a map, but

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Speaker 3: that's my team, right. So they're playing and I see

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Speaker 3: a record setting performance. It's one nothing, and it's a

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Speaker 3: left in stoppage time, like it's ninety five minutes in

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Speaker 3: the what's the other team? Ser Serbia scores on a

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Speaker 3: corner header to tie it game. Over all the Slovenia

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Speaker 3: people were puking in their seats. They were crushed. It

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Speaker 3: was glorious, what a game.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the Serbians were going banana. The Serbians were losing

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Speaker 2: It was like the last you knew it. You could

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Speaker 2: see it on the clock.

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Speaker 3: You could tell the referees looking at his watch, he's

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Speaker 3: looking around.

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Speaker 2: They they get this ball off the end. They get it.

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Speaker 2: The guy runs over the corner sets there. The goalie

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Speaker 3: They got like they got guys the bus drivers in

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Speaker 3: like the whole Serbian team, the whole s Slovenian teams

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Speaker 3: fully invested now now I could. I don't know who

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Speaker 3: the next two now England's playing right now, yes, and

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Speaker 1: Gosh, England and Denmark.

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Speaker 3: I came to work this morning and was my old

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Speaker 3: usual self, and then I turned into this hoodlum.

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Speaker 1: It's great. It was great and for the casual for

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Speaker 1: the casual fans out there are people that don't like soccer,

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Speaker 1: you can always get behind Team USA. And they play

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Speaker 1: on Sunday at six pm against Bolivia. So check that

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Speaker 1: just got to hope they play up to their potential.

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Speaker 1: But if you want to root for USA, we're closing

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Speaker 1: in on fourth of July here Independence Day, celebrating the nation.

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Speaker 1: What better way to do it than to root for

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Speaker 2: How's Bolivia? Tell me?

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Speaker 1: I think they're a decent side. I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because well, Argentina is a defending world chance

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Speaker 1: and Messi is still playing with Alvarez and all the

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Speaker 1: because I'm telling you, when these guys play for their country,

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Speaker 1: they're laying it out there because the repercussions are going

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Speaker 1: those countries, Like it's it's different, yeah, because I remember

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Speaker 1: Cup two years ago. He comes home and he is

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Speaker 1: a veritable deity. They fans found out where his mom

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Speaker 1: her second floor balcony, like serenading Messi's mom.

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Speaker 2: That's when the Pope is asking for an audience with you.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, this is how far it goes. And you

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Speaker 1: mentioned the Pope, I'm going to give you another story.

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Speaker 1: World Cup Italy is in the semifinals. Okay, they're playing

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Speaker 1: on a Sunday in the semifinals World Cup. This is

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Speaker 1: like nineteen ninety. The Pope cuts his sermon short so

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Speaker 1: The Pope's sermon bless his heart. That's how serious it is.

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Speaker 3: Pope goes back, takes off all the robes and gown,

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Speaker 2: Let's go well, I mean, puts his big pointy hat on.

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Speaker 1: Vatican see, and it is his own country.

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Speaker 2: I know, right, he can do what he wants.

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Speaker 1: So you could he's up assuming they're rooting for Italy.

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Speaker 1: But who would know. But that that's our little soccer dissertation.

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Speaker 1: We won't gobble up the show. Polish though, uh, Pope

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Speaker 1: John Paul the second was Polish, I remember that. And

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Speaker 1: then who is there was one in between the Pope

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Speaker 2: It was I'm not trying to be disrespectful. I can't

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Speaker 1: Was somebody in between John Paul and Benedict. There was

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Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna remember. Now we'll have to google

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Speaker 1: you can get the answer. But yeah, so we're it's

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Speaker 1: it's wall to wall soccer for like the next month.

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Speaker 1: If you want it, well, I'll say this, it's worth

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Speaker 1: giving it a shot because outside of golf and baseball.

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Speaker 1: You really don't have this. Game six is coming to

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Speaker 1: Game six. Game it's tomorrow night. And that series got interesting.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: I was talking about how the NBA Finals and the

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Speaker 3: They won two straight and they look good doing They

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Speaker 3: looked like more like the team that got there right

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Speaker 1: And the pressure has completely shifted now, right, because you're

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Speaker 1: down three to zero, the pressure is on you, right, yes,

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Speaker 1: then you win game four, you stave off elimination. The

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Speaker 1: pressure is still on you three to one. Absolutely, But

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Speaker 1: after you win game five and you're going back to

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Speaker 2: But no, no, they're going back to Florida on the road.

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Speaker 1: Oh they are. Yes, it doesn't. It goes two two,

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Speaker 2: It does. But it started in It started in.

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Speaker 1: Oh I thought Game six was in Edmondon.

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Speaker 2: No, they're going back to Edmonton, now, yes, that's right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: That's okay.

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Speaker 2: So I had that the same thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So in my estimation, the pressure is now on Florida. Absolutely, Yes,

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Speaker 1: they still have game set been lying and wait for

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Speaker 1: the pressure has shifted to Florida here, even though they're

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, going in on the road in a game

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Speaker 3: six in the Stanley Cup Finals.

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Speaker 1: That place is gonna be bananas.

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Speaker 3: Oh and you know, Edmonton, there's nothing else talked about

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Speaker 3: thirty one years.

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Speaker 1: I know they have the Edmonton Eskimos, since.

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Speaker 3: The Canadian since the Canadian Canadian team have won the

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Speaker 3: Stanley Cuff's been thirty plus years. And look at this

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Speaker 3: play by kuld Chuck. We we saw it the other night.

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Speaker 3: What a what a play was and they ended up

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Speaker 3: scoring anyway, but man, oh man, kuld Chuck chases an

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Speaker 3: beebee play. Yeah not not only you know, certain beabs

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Speaker 2: It's awesome.

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Speaker 3: That's the best, because these guys, they'd live and breathe

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Speaker 3: it for months on end for these moments. Kuad Chuck

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Speaker 3: and just you know, and they're down one with twenty

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Speaker 3: his face. But that kind of play, right there, is

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Speaker 3: also the kind where you show you the head coach

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Speaker 3: last twenty seconds, in the first sixty seven minutes or

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Speaker 3: fifty seven minutes and forty seconds, that's when we need

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Speaker 3: right there, let's go. You know that it's just an

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Speaker 1: Well, there will always be universal respect for effort. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's nobody that can't not respect effort. And a double negative,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, everyone respects effort.

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Speaker 3: Particularly who does in the face of a certain defeat,

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Speaker 3: the last gasp effort And because we all here's the

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Speaker 2: Think about this. We've all seen it pretty.

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Speaker 3: In hockey, in soccer, in football, where one team is

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Speaker 3: quintessential reverse of that where it's not so is when

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Speaker 3: they get frustrated and start getting chippy.

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Speaker 2: That's the bad end of it.

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Speaker 3: But the pure end of just effort and trying to

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Speaker 3: hustle and save it and do that right there is

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Speaker 3: the purest form of it is the purest form of

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Speaker 2: And I I think it. You gotta tip your hat

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Speaker 2: to Ka.

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Speaker 3: Chuck for making that play in a game where he's

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Speaker 3: it in the last twenty he is still doing that.

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Speaker 3: It's an amazing play. It's an amazing play. I thought

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Speaker 2: Let's go yeah. Game six is gonna be in Edmonton. Man.

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Speaker 1: The entire city is going to be in that building

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Speaker 2: Yes, it will look like the Persia.

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Speaker 1: the NFL which is presented by Kalida Health, the official

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Speaker 1: going to be part of an NFL player themed Pepsi

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Speaker 3: This year, you're starting to hear just the front end

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Speaker 2: It's on social a little bit. They've teased it.

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry Check Absolutely. I mean the guy racks the

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Speaker 3: And the you're you're taking for Aelsten. I've done a

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Speaker 3: The premise of the commercial is that these guys are

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Speaker 3: and like promptly it may be a completely different kind

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Speaker 1: I'm not expecting one, right.

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Speaker 2: I don't think we're gonna see Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I think we're gonna see some tunics, my friend.

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Speaker 2: You think, oh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, you know helmet thing helmet with the push

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Speaker 1: They might be confusing the spartans.

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Speaker 2: And the three quarter sword and they get kind of

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Speaker 1: I don't know how they're gonna weave pepsi products into that,

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Speaker 1: but right I think it's gonna happen. Maybe I could

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Speaker 1: be wrong. Maybe what we see instead is there is

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's it and they all got Pepsi's in their hands.

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Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, Okay, maybe that's what happens.

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Speaker 2: I could see that too.

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Speaker 1: Then I'm fine with it. But you you have a

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Speaker 1: even Tremaine Edmonds. That guy's gladiator, Like he's a physical free.

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Speaker 2: Think about it. That See, that's the thing.

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Speaker 3: You're right, But I like this premise where they're all

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Speaker 3: they're like you and me watching a soccer watching a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so here's so, here's here's if I'm they're like buddies.

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Speaker 2: They're like four buddies, we're watching, and they got that

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Speaker 2: thing go the banter. Yes, okay, that's what I want

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Speaker 1: Or you could take it a step further. One of

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Speaker 1: start looking at these four. Right, Yeah, history says he

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Speaker 2: Right, I get it.

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Speaker 3: One of these things is not like the others. I

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Speaker 1: Now, if you whittle this down, let's just say that

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Speaker 1: That's a tough one man. And I might tell you

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Speaker 3: Henry intimidating events, a beast, that thick ponytail, he wears

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like he he might. He might be the pick there,

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Speaker 2: There's but there's a.

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Speaker 1: Like, there's no edge rushers here.

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Speaker 2: You think about think about this, we know the guy.

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Speaker 2: And Mitch is like Hey, Mitchy, how you do it?

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Speaker 1: You know he's a if he doesn't say a word.

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Speaker 2: If you don't know, but they look there's a ton

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I was a little disappointed in the casting people

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Speaker 3: And I know it's marketing, but I've heard some that

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Speaker 1: So here's the crazy thing.

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Speaker 1: Do you know how old the original Gladiator movie is?

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Speaker 2: I cannot walk Phoenix is in that thing, and he's

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Speaker 1: I cannot believe it is a twenty four year old,

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Speaker 1: The budget for this thing is supposed to be gigantic.

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Speaker 1: Ridley Scott is back as the director. He directed the original,

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Speaker 1: if you're a team that doesn't have an all world quarterback,

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Speaker 1: you can spend that money somewhere else. If you take

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Speaker 1: fifty five million and you can only spend it on quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: now you can't spend that money at other positions to

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Speaker 1: make your roster beat.

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Speaker 3: And what if your quarterback's only worth two million or

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Speaker 3: that's my fourth zero, that's my point right, I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 3: you got all this wasted space.

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Speaker 1: Now you're gonna have used anywhere else.

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Speaker 3: Now you're gonna have guys like Kyler Murray making fifty

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Speaker 3: five million and he's not worth that, right?

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Speaker 2: You know, well for us, Tua, you and I go

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Speaker 2: all the way around around around on Tua. He's got

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Speaker 2: a lot of numbers to back him up, and we

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Speaker 2: still don't think he's worth it.

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Speaker 3: You know, there's guys like that. What are the Denver

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Speaker 3: Broncos going to do paying their quarterback room fifty five million?

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Speaker 3: But because you know they're going to, they're gonna have

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Speaker 3: to Geno Smith in Seattle.

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Speaker 2: Please.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be very interesting to see if they come

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Speaker 1: up with some measure that ownership can get behind universally

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Speaker 1: and say, you know what, this makes a lot of sense.

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Speaker 1: This will facilitate a B and C. We don't see

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Speaker 1: any negative, unintended consequences by doing this separation. So this works.

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Speaker 1: If there's somebody that can come up with a formula

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Speaker 1: to make that work, I'll be i pressed because I

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Speaker 1: think there are a lot of pitfalls to it.

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Speaker 3: To your point, absolutely, what happens when they go direct

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Speaker 3: snap to Travis kelcey.

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Speaker 2: He said, I'm playing quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I got to be in that pool.

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Speaker 2: I got to be in that pool. But think about it, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean you could.

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Speaker 1: That's an extreme.

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Speaker 2: But there's another example. The Pittsburgh Steelers back in the day.

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Speaker 1: Slash right Cordell Stewart right right. He was aaid wide receiver.

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Speaker 3: He played wide receiver. He played quarterback in college. They

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Speaker 3: drafted him as a quarterback and then put him on

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Speaker 3: the field because he was an athlete. And they said, well,

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Speaker 3: you can only have three quarterbacks active on game day

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Speaker 3: or two quarterbacks active on game day. Well they had

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Speaker 3: two quarterbacks and Slash he was a wide receiver slash quarterback.

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Speaker 2: They got away with it.

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Speaker 3: So what are you going to do then if somebody

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Speaker 3: starts to they put us a six eight, three hundred

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Speaker 3: and six.

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Speaker 1: They're talking about using justin tackles on kick return. Right,

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Speaker 1: he's a kick return slash quarterback.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's this is a it's a it's a

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Speaker 3: slippery slope. So I don't I am dead setting it

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Speaker 3: and plus and I don't I don't know the ins

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Speaker 3: and outs of this. I'm just talking like I'm I'm

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Speaker 3: at the end of the bar and I've had a couple,

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Speaker 3: so it What are you gonna do when these teams

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Speaker 3: get these guys and the big markets have a lot

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Speaker 3: more ticket money and sweet money, and Dallas has got

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Speaker 3: all their money, and San Francisco's got all their money,

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Speaker 3: and New York's got all their money. In Buffalo and

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Speaker 3: Green Bay don't. And they've got to they got to

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Speaker 3: have now a separate salary cap. Now do you take

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Speaker 3: the twenty percent of the salary cap that goes to

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Speaker 3: quarterbacks off the normal salary cap?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Or does that numbers stay the same and you

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Speaker 1: just tack on another fifty.

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Speaker 2: Or do you just yeah? Or do you up the ante?

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Speaker 1: Because if that happens, guess what else happens? All the

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Speaker 1: non quarterbacks say, well, look at all this cap space

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Speaker 1: you have.

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Speaker 3: Pay me that's right, should be paying me more, that's right.

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Speaker 3: If you don't have a quarterback, you, I mean, I

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Speaker 3: don't know how you.

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Speaker 1: That's why I'm saying, if somebody can come up with

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Speaker 1: a formula that works for everybody, I'll be impressed, because

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Speaker 1: because I don't see it right now, and I haven't,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna pretend like I gave this painstaking thought.

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Speaker 1: But I see some unint unintended consequences here that are

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Speaker 1: not going to jive with a lot of owners. I

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Speaker 1: don't think owners want to be tacking on an extra

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Speaker 1: fifty five million on top of what they already pay

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Speaker 1: cap wise just to accommodate the quarterback position.

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Speaker 3: What if they have a guy that takes every snap

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Speaker 3: at quarterback all year listed as a wide receiver.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And then the other thing, too is what if you

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Speaker 1: commit all this money to that quarterback in the quarterback pool,

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, the guy has a career

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Speaker 1: ending injury and he's got guaranteed money out the wazoo

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Speaker 1: for the next five years. Now you're crippled there at

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Speaker 1: only one position, in a finite amount of money to spend.

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Speaker 3: Crippled in the money position, at the most important position

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Speaker 3: of all time. Right, I mean to me, there are

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Speaker 3: a lot of there's a lot of there's a lot

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Speaker 3: of stuff I got to get my mind around.

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Speaker 1: One last note to mention here, Actually there's two more

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Speaker 1: that I've got. Let me make sure I've got this right,

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Speaker 1: because I want to pull this up. So you saw

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Speaker 1: this about the NFL Comeback Player of the Year. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: we were all here in Buffalo up in arms when

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Speaker 1: Tamar Hamlin did not win NFL Comeback Player of the Year.

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Speaker 1: It went to Joe Flacco, who the only comeback he

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Speaker 1: made was off his couch. And I think Steve said

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Speaker 1: it best. I think it was the day after the

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Speaker 1: NFL honors and Steve says, how Damar Hamlin could not

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Speaker 1: win NFL Comeback Player of the Year is preposterous. And

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Speaker 1: I'm going to try to paraphrase this as best as

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Speaker 1: I can, But.

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Speaker 2: Steve, I can remember what I said.

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Speaker 1: Nobody came back from more than Damar Hamlin did. He

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Speaker 1: was dead, he came back from near death. I mean

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Speaker 1: they had to repacitate him twice. Joe Flacco stood up.

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Speaker 1: Nobody came back from more than Damar Hamlin. So because

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Speaker 1: of that, so dumb. Because of the ill fated outcome

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Speaker 1: of the voting by AP writers for the Comeback Player

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Speaker 1: of the Year award, which went to Joe Flacco, as

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Speaker 1: we know, the Associated Press has now provided guidelines for

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Speaker 1: voters choosing their picks going forward for NFL Comeback Player.

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Speaker 2: Of the Year.

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Speaker 1: Quote. The spirit of the AP Comeback Player of the

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Speaker 1: Year award is to honor a player who has demonstrated

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Speaker 1: resilience in the face of adversity by overcoming illness, physical injury,

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Speaker 1: or other circumstances that led him to miss playing time

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Speaker 1: the previous season. Joe Flacco did not overcome any of that.

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Speaker 1: The only thing he overcame was unemployment, right.

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Speaker 2: The fact he overcame nobody wanting him. Yes, oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: And there was a previous instance when let it just

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Speaker 1: happened just two years ago.

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Speaker 2: Let me just pile on.

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Speaker 3: I like Joe, he's pretty good, but let me just

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Speaker 3: pile on for a minute.

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Speaker 2: He's stunk. You found out at the end of their

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Speaker 2: season why he was available.

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Speaker 1: And at the end of his career.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: There was also the momentum for this apparently began two

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Speaker 1: years ago, because Gino Smith won Comeback Player of the

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Speaker 1: Year in twenty twenty two when he was finally thrust

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Speaker 1: into a starring role after being a backup for the

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Speaker 1: better part of his first ten years of his career,

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Speaker 1: and he got Comeback Player of the Year because he

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Speaker 1: started playing. He didn't overcome an injury, right, So that

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Speaker 1: award to Gino Smith coupled with the award to Joe

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Speaker 1: Flacco this past year when you had a a player

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Speaker 1: face a near death experience, have a long sustained rehab

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Speaker 1: which involved the consultation with about seventeen doctor opinions.

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Speaker 2: And extensive physical rehab.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and came back and played an NFL season. I mean,

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Speaker 1: talk about missing the mark, Holy Cats, man like that.

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Speaker 1: So I'm glad that the Associated Press has decided to

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Speaker 1: discipline themselves and their voters by saying, Hey, guys and girls,

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Speaker 1: men and ladies of the AP, can we please exercise

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Speaker 1: a little bit better judgment in what is truly a comeback?

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Speaker 2: How do you vote for Joe Flacco?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I remember when I was watching it live.

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Speaker 1: I'm watching it live, and I was like, all right, Tamar,

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Speaker 1: here we go, and they go Joe Flack. My mouth

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Speaker 1: fell open, It quite literally fell open, because I said

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Speaker 1: to myself, how how do you? How do you even

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Speaker 1: get there? Look, Joe did great stuff for the Browns.

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Speaker 1: You know, he comes in, he's like their fourth he was.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't their first quarterback, playing their second or their third.

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Speaker 1: He was the fourth quarterback to suit up for the Browns.

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Speaker 3: Last year and he and look, he did a great job.

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Speaker 1: Helped get him to the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: And he intercepted the season away.

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Speaker 1: That's right, the end three against the team that traded

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Speaker 1: them to Shaun Watson.

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Speaker 2: So that right, that right, all.

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Speaker 1: The brownsiest thing.

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Speaker 3: That that is a Cleveland thing right there. That is

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Speaker 3: a totally Cleveland concept.

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Speaker 1: But my mouth quite literally fell open that Damar did

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Speaker 1: not get that award. So I'm glad the Associated Press

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Speaker 1: is trying to address that in a positive fashion.

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Speaker 2: Yeah and uh yeah, yes, thank you.

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Speaker 1: So that they need to do better. Hopefully they will

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Speaker 1: do better. We have to break here, but before we do,

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Speaker 1: our topic of discussion today concerns the proposed eighteen game

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Speaker 1: schedule that keeps getting traction in NFL circles. What is

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Speaker 1: the ideal way in your mind to make that eighteen

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Speaker 1: game schedule work? You tell us at eight h three

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Speaker 1: zero five point fifty one eight eight eight five fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty the numbers to get on board open

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Speaker 1: lines for you there, We'll take your phone calls. Next

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Speaker 1: here on one Bill's Live, presented by co Lout of Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio movie. All right, what is the

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Speaker 1: ideal way to make an eighteen game schedule work? It's

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Speaker 1: gained momentum ever since. Commissioner Roger Goodell hopped on the

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Speaker 1: Pat McAfee show and announced it in front of a

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Speaker 1: live audience, saying that we'd like to move to eighteen games,

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Speaker 1: eliminate a preseason game. That was an interesting bit of

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Speaker 1: marketing that put the Commissioner Goodell utilized there. He had

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Speaker 1: a live audience. He's like, all right, let's pull the public,

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Speaker 1: and he just starts rolling stuff out. People are cheering,

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Speaker 1: They're not so enthusiastic about other things that he said.

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Speaker 1: It was live marketing. Yeah, and test marketing, I should say.

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Speaker 2: And then they also we talked about it too.

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Speaker 3: They want to move the super Bowl to President's Day

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Speaker 3: weekend so that there'll be a national holiday the next day.

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Speaker 3: So you got a super Bowl on the Sunday night,

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Speaker 3: and nobody's got to go to work the next day.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's got off, which is why we've been saying.

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Speaker 3: Since they have a two band between a two week

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Speaker 3: break between the NFC and AFC Championship games and the

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Speaker 3: super Bowl, put it on Saturday instead of the Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Give him thirteen days instead of fourteen, and then you

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Speaker 3: could have Sunday off as in and they're just gonna say,

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Speaker 3: now we'll just take another holiday and make it, make it.

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Speaker 3: We'll take Thanksgiving, now we're taking Christmas. We're gonna take

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Speaker 3: President's Day two.

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Speaker 1: How come they haven't, I mean, they're playing during Halloween.

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Speaker 1: Why haven't they like out out hardly hijacked Halloween.

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Speaker 2: They will if they can't, I don't know they can

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Speaker 2: find it way to do it. Yeah, I mean, Halloween's tough.

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Speaker 1: Because it's it's not always on a weekend.

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Speaker 2: Not always on a weekend, right, and it's also movable. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, you Halloween.

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Speaker 1: It's not terribly important. But you let us know ideal

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Speaker 1: way to make an eighteen game schedule work. You've heard

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Speaker 1: the tasker plan in the past, which is play two regular.

656
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,760
Speaker 2: Season games better than the receiver. What they're proposing.

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Speaker 1: Steve's plan is play two preseason games, then play two

658
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Speaker 1: regular season games right out of the preseason. Labor Day

659
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,320
Speaker 1: is a universal bye week for the league.

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Speaker 2: See how about that? See that's a give and take

661
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Speaker 2: because the league would be giving back a holiday right

662
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Speaker 2: before they take President's Day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, then you play your schedule. Are you are you

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Speaker 1: advocating the second bye week being another universal week off

665
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Speaker 1: or second week can be rotated, Yeah, rotated. And then

666
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Speaker 1: did you have a break between Championship week and Super Bowl? Yeah? Yeah,

667
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 1: okay another week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't do that because and here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's only two teams.

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Speaker 3: The off season would not be affected at all. You

671
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 3: can start training camps exactly the same way you do

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Speaker 3: now in late July and two weeks of practices, two

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Speaker 3: preseason games. The next week is a regular season game,

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Speaker 3: another regular season game, and then it's Labor Day and

675
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 3: you sit still, everybody chills, and you've got two regular

676
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 3: season games. Kind of find out who you are, do

677
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 3: some self analysis that the whole the whole country gets

678
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 3: to go out and barbecue and take a weekend off

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Speaker 3: last weekend of the summer.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to worry about what game.

681
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Speaker 3: You can look forward to the games, you can talk

682
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Speaker 3: about the games it just happened, boom, and then take

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Speaker 3: it off.

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Speaker 2: Yeah that's brilliant. I can I can't. I can't help pass. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I can't.

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Speaker 1: I cannot do it. I cannot do it enough. But

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Speaker 1: you let us know what your plan is. And here's

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Speaker 1: the other thing too to consider. As you know, you

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Speaker 1: call us at eight h three oh five fifty one,

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two, five fifty what what has to

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Speaker 1: be the give and take there? Do you think to

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Speaker 1: make this happen? Because ESPN dot COM's Brook Pryor, who

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00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: covers the Steelers on a regular basis, poll the opinions

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Speaker 1: of several NFL players. Dion Dawkins in fact, is quoted

695
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: in that story as well, and there is mixed reaction

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Speaker 1: from the players. Some like the idea of getting another

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Speaker 1: paycheck for playing another regular season game. There are others

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Speaker 1: who say, eh, wear and tear on the body. My

699
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 1: career is going to be shortened by this. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I like it. So there's some some difference

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Speaker 1: of opinion and some consternation among NFL players on this subject.

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Speaker 1: So what would it take do you think to give

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Speaker 1: the players to get them to acquiesce and accept an

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Speaker 1: eighteenth game eight oh three five point fifty one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two.

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing.

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Speaker 3: It's and I was a former player, but thrown on

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Speaker 3: an extra game at the end of the season, and

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Speaker 3: saying that that's some sort of some sort of line

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Speaker 3: that's getting crossed.

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Speaker 2: I go, no, that's just too much. That's way too much. Well,

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Speaker 2: what do you then don't go to the playoffs? What

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Speaker 2: if you play those eighteen games?

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Speaker 3: You get a chance to play in the division, in

715
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Speaker 3: the wild card round, the Divisional round, the championship round,

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Speaker 3: in the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: That's four more games that you're busting a gut to

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Speaker 2: be a part of. But no, this extra recoency. No,

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 3: In fact, you're gonna come down the stretch of the

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Speaker 3: regular season and you need that eighteenth game to get in.

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Speaker 3: If you can win it, you can get into the

723
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Speaker 3: playoffs to play four more.

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Speaker 2: It's like, now you know what that eighteenth can't do it,

725
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna call it. I'm gonna call it.

726
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Speaker 3: Here that what line are you gonna draw? What line

727
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Speaker 3: are you drawing here? There's no line to be drawn.

728
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 3: It's you and if you and here's the thing. If

729
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 3: it's that big a deal, serious, and this is the

730
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 3: ridiculousness of the argument. If that's a big a deal,

731
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Speaker 3: you walk away from your twenty million dollar salary, You

732
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Speaker 3: walk away from your two million dollar salary, walk away

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Speaker 3: from it. The game's too dangerous for you. Walk away

734
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Speaker 3: from your nine hundred thousand dollars a year job. Walk

735
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 3: off you pick, pick them, pick the thing you want,

736
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Speaker 3: pick whatever level of player you want. Walk off from

737
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Speaker 3: your nine hundred and eighty thousand dollars minimum wage veteran contract,

738
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Speaker 3: walk off from it. Make a point, that's how ridiculous

739
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Speaker 3: it is. That's the lowest end.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, So let's just so right now, take a

741
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Speaker 2: deep breath. That's not what this is about. It ain't

742
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 2: about the dangerous of the game. It's not it. It's

743
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 2: about what are we gonna get. It's about the mayor

744
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Speaker 2: of the revenue is it. Are we gonna go from

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Speaker 2: forty eight and a half percent.

746
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Speaker 1: It's like forty eight point eight right now.

747
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Speaker 3: To fifty percent or fifty two percent, or are we

748
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,800
Speaker 3: you know, are we gonna get a higher you know whatever,

749
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Speaker 3: We're gonna get more time off in the off season.

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Speaker 3: Are we gonna get the extra You're gonna give us

751
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:03,280
Speaker 3: the extra bye week. That's what it's about. Don't kid yourself.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the phone.

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00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 2: Danger about the perils of the game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go to the phones and see what you think.

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Speaker 1: At eight h three oh five to fifty open lines

756
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Speaker 1: for you there one eighty eight five point fifty two

757
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Speaker 1: five fifty to Mark and Amhurst to lead us off today.

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Speaker 1: What do you have for us? Mark?

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Speaker 4: Hey, Stephen Chris, I hope you're doing well. I just

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Speaker 4: wanted to make a couple of points and then get

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Speaker 4: your take on the first thing. If I may, I'd

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Speaker 4: like to piggyback on your point about the quarterback cap.

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Speaker 4: What do you think of this? If they did something

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Speaker 4: like a formula where say the quarterback cap would be

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Speaker 4: at seventeen percent, perhaps by position, receiver might be fourteen percent,

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Speaker 4: just as an analogy, left tackle might be twelve percent,

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Speaker 4: and then just go down the road. So they could

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Speaker 4: limit the cap per position, and this way, you know

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Speaker 4: you're not just singling out the quarterback as far as

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Speaker 4: the level of fairness, but you're also addressing the total team.

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Speaker 4: That's one point. The other point is about the eighteen

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Speaker 4: game schedule. I was thinking, well, currently there's three preseason games.

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Speaker 4: Put it down to two. Give everybody off Christmas week

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Speaker 4: so players and everyone else can enjoy the holiday with

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Speaker 4: their family, and then it's very super Bowl. Instead of

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Speaker 4: holding it on a Sunday, make it a Saturday so

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00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 4: that everybody can enjoy their evening and not worry about

778
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Speaker 4: going to work the next day. Thank you for taking

779
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Speaker 4: my question, Steve.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to let you answer the second part of

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Speaker 1: that because I have an interesting game.

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Speaker 2: I have a problem with it.

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Speaker 3: The Christmas week off, that's awesome, that's a great idea.

784
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 3: Take Labor Day off and Christmas week off, and everybody

785
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 3: gets those two bye weeks, and presto chango. You got

786
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 3: built in buys. Nobody's in the advantage of an early

787
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 3: bye week. Bad bye week, it's all the same. You

788
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:57,720
Speaker 3: don't get any added benefit from You only get the

789
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:02,280
Speaker 3: chance that you'll get an important player back over Christmas

790
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 3: weekend or Labor Day weekend. Somebody gets hurt, is gonna

791
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 3: get healthy during that time for some guys. It will

792
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 3: always be a good spot for the bye week, even

793
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 3: when it happens by chance. But if you schedule it

794
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 3: Christmas week, everybody's off, Labor Day week, everybody's off.

795
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Speaker 2: That would be fair.

796
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 3: It's not gonna happen because the Christmas week has proven

797
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 3: to be a cash cow. And ain't they ain't letting

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00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:30,320
Speaker 3: that cow out of the pasture. I mean that that's done.

799
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Speaker 3: I think that's captured for eternity. The percentage of for

800
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Speaker 3: positions like quarterback gets seventeen, wide receiver gets da da da.

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Speaker 1: Da da da. I don't think that makes sense.

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Speaker 2: I don't like it.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna get pushed back from the players and their

804
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,280
Speaker 1: agents because you're gonna they're gonna tell you, you're gonna

805
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 1: put my all world left tackles earning potential in a

806
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Speaker 1: box by restricting the percentage of the cap it can

807
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Speaker 1: take up. I have the best. Like, let's just say, hypothetically,

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Speaker 1: the next Jason Peters comes along and his agent says

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Speaker 1: he can only earn a max of twelve percent of

810
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Speaker 1: the cap, and oh, by the way, there's three other

811
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Speaker 1: offensive tackles on the roster. I got a problem with

812
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Speaker 1: that because now you're restricting the earning power of my player,

813
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,879
Speaker 1: who's the best left tackle in football. You're not doing it.

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00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: I think that's the problem.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you would undermine free agency, which is something the

816
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 3: players hold very dear and I think they will. I

817
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:29,760
Speaker 3: think they will fight against this separate cap as well.

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00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 2: The players will. I think they should.

819
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Speaker 3: Certainly, quarterbacks have some power within the game and in

820
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 3: the organizations, but when it comes to the union, it's

821
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Speaker 3: the rank and file that are going to carry the day.

822
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Speaker 3: So I don't think they're going to give anybody special

823
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 3: consideration where money's concerned. Like the quarterback separate cap.

824
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Speaker 2: I don't know why.

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00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 3: I don't know why the owners want to do that.

826
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Speaker 3: I don't get it. What's in it for them? Why

827
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:03,839
Speaker 3: are they thinking they should be able to do that?

828
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Speaker 1: I think they're just what's the upside? I think they're

829
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 1: going to reduce the total cap and just move a

830
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Speaker 1: certain part of that total cap over into a quarterback box.

831
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Speaker 1: Now how that changes the dynamics? I don't know that.

832
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Speaker 1: It's unclear to me why, and maybe I'm just not

833
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 1: smart enough to really.

834
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Speaker 2: I don't understand. I don't understand the upside for ownership.

835
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Speaker 2: What do they care? Who gets the money? Yeah?

836
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: Now, certain I don't have that answer.

837
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:32,239
Speaker 3: You've got a star like Josh and Pat and Joe

838
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 3: Burrow and Lamar and Justin Herbert. You go off these guys.

839
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 3: They sell tickets, they do all that. But man, oh man,

840
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Speaker 3: I think it's shortsighted to think you gotta you gotta,

841
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 3: you know, have a paradigm shift of the entire wage

842
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 3: scale because you happen to have a great.

843
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 2: Guy for ten years. You know, I don't know. I

844
00:44:58,040 --> 00:44:59,759
Speaker 2: don't know what the upside is for the ownership.

845
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,799
Speaker 1: Break time for us here, what is the ideal way

846
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 1: to make the eighteen game schedule work? What did? What

847
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: do the players need? What do the owners need?

848
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 5: You?

849
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 1: Let us know it? AIGHTO three oh five fifty? Got

850
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:12,319
Speaker 1: open lines for you there. We'll lead off with Dan

851
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 1: and ken Moore when we come back here on One

852
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Stay with us. Back here on One Bill's Live,

853
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, looking for you to

854
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,839
Speaker 1: give us an ideal way for the owners and the

855
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 1: players to make an eighteen game schedule work. What do

856
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 1: the players need? What should they get? What do the

857
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: owners need? What should they get? Eight O three oh

858
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 1: five fifty the number to jump on board. Let's go

859
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,439
Speaker 1: to the phones and to Dan in ken Moore? What's up, Dan?

860
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Speaker 6: How you're doing good? I have the perfect, perfect solution.

861
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:53,439
Speaker 6: Every team has a four has a foreign game bye

862
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:57,319
Speaker 6: week after and they can stay in the They'll stay

863
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 6: in the country that they're at a week so there's

864
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:05,240
Speaker 6: no rush back. It just seems like the players would

865
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:09,360
Speaker 6: like that and the owners wouldn't mind. If it's trying

866
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 6: to increase the NFL. That's what they want too, So

867
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:15,240
Speaker 6: it would work out both ways.

868
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the owners would be happy because you get

869
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:21,800
Speaker 1: more international presents and stuff. I get what you're saying, Dan, Yeah,

870
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:24,439
Speaker 1: not a not a bad idea. I mean, you got

871
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 1: to work the bye week simultaneously for the clubs that

872
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 1: are facing each other, so it's just perceived as equal.

873
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 3: It's a logistical problem, no question. But if I'm a

874
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 3: player and i'm here's my problem. So I got my

875
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 3: wife and at the time, one of the time, I'm

876
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 3: plan m I got three or four kids. Who's who's

877
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 3: footing the bill for me to stay in the foreign

878
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 3: country because I got to pay for a hotel for

879
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 3: all my kids.

880
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: I would think that coach and a team would want

881
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:58,879
Speaker 1: to get back soon enough anyway and use the bye

882
00:46:58,880 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 1: week state side.

883
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:02,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, who's I don't want to. I don't

884
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 3: want a vacation in Frankfurt. You know it's not I'm

885
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 3: I'm saying that about Frankfort, you know what I mean?

886
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:10,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to.

887
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,479
Speaker 3: I want a vacation in the Caribbean, someplace closer to home.

888
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:17,439
Speaker 3: I want a vacation and you know, whatever I want

889
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 3: to choose my vacation side.

890
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 2: I don't want you to do it.

891
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 3: And if you're gonna do it, you gotta pay me,

892
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 3: and you gotta pay me to do it, and you

893
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,359
Speaker 3: gotta pay for my family to be there. So I'm

894
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 3: not gonna one of the team's gonna. IM gonna stay

895
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 3: in the team hotel with my roommate, Pete Metzlar's. I mean,

896
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 3: I love Pete Wheatstraw, But come on, you know, I mean, no,

897
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 3: that's not gonna I get it. No, they can fix that.

898
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:39,439
Speaker 3: They can fix their foreign games the way they want.

899
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 3: But and the bye week is what it is. Yeah,

900
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,879
Speaker 3: it's it's money, is what it's gonna be. They're gonna

901
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 3: have to up. They're gonna have to up the percentage

902
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 3: of revenue revenues sharing that the players get. They're gonna

903
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,239
Speaker 3: have to give the players an extra bye week. They're

904
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 3: gonna have to end in Brownie. And I think they

905
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 3: got en large rosters, Maybe not in large the roster

906
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 3: as it is now, but designate more guys available on

907
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:09,399
Speaker 3: game day and make the roster bigger during the week

908
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 3: so that they can have more guys available to play,

909
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 3: so they can have more bodies in the mix available

910
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:17,919
Speaker 3: not just at practice stuff, but also on game day,

911
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 3: so they can you know, expedite rotation and players, you know,

912
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 3: have somebody to share the load on game day.

913
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 2: I mean, you look back.

914
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 3: I mean to tell you, I can't tell you how

915
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 3: grateful guys like I should be, like me should be

916
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 3: for the guys who played in the sixties and seventies.

917
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 3: I played in eighty five, was my first year in

918
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty five. The guys in the sixties and seventies

919
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:45,320
Speaker 3: who were playing on rosters that were like thirty six

920
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 3: thirty six. Yeah, I mean, you go out, you watch

921
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 3: those guys come on the field, and it looks like

922
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 3: it looks like the drum Corps.

923
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 2: It's so small. I mean, there's like nobody there. It's

924
00:48:57,960 --> 00:48:59,800
Speaker 2: the same thing that happens every year nowadays.

925
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 3: You got eighty you got ninety guys in training camp,

926
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:05,280
Speaker 3: you're out there data they cut down to fifty three

927
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 3: and you feel like you don't even have enough guys

928
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 3: to play. And that's fifty three. Think about thirty six

929
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 3: thirty six.

930
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 2: That's what he used to be.

931
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:15,680
Speaker 1: You had guys playing both ways.

932
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 3: He yet guys playing and it was a bar fight

933
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:23,359
Speaker 3: so guys like me should be really grateful because when

934
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 3: the eighty two strike hit and the eighty seven strike

935
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:28,759
Speaker 3: hit and they finally said, listen, yetta, give us some

936
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 3: more help.

937
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:32,520
Speaker 2: So the revenue expanded.

938
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:36,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, the rosters expanded with it.

939
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:39,799
Speaker 2: The game expanded. Now you had in my area, you

940
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:45,280
Speaker 2: had professional special teams players, guys who were scouted, given

941
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:47,640
Speaker 2: the role, not expected to do anything else. I mean,

942
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 2: that's that was it. You're here to do that. Even

943
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 2: that has changed now with the rules changes. But you

944
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 2: know back in the day that the game got big,

945
00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:01,680
Speaker 2: the game got bigger, and they need to do it again.

946
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:04,239
Speaker 3: It's growing. The game is growing. It needs to grow

947
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 3: a little bit more, and you need to give more

948
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:06,360
Speaker 3: guys on game.

949
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 1: Day break time for us here, but we are wide

950
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: open for phone calls in hour number two. Sir, if

951
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,359
Speaker 1: you're holding at ATO three oh five fifty, stay where

952
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:15,440
Speaker 1: you are. We will get to you in the next segment.

953
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 1: We do have some open lines as well. ATO three

954
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 1: oh five fifty. What's the ideal way to make this

955
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:23,799
Speaker 1: eighteen game proposed NFL schedule work? You let us know

956
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: at ATO three oh five fifty. We're back in a

957
00:50:25,680 --> 00:51:12,400
Speaker 1: flash here on One Bill's Live. This this One Bill's Live,

958
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 1: presented by calllighta health All right, hope you're doing well

959
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 1: here On this Thursday, Chris Brown Steve tasked with you

960
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live and asking you what is the ideal

961
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:26,280
Speaker 1: way to make the eighteen game proposed NFL schedule work.

962
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 1: It's currently a seventeen game schedule, as we all know,

963
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 1: but Roger Goodill already pounding the pavement to kind of

964
00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:36,799
Speaker 1: deliver a message that eighteen games are coming. What's your

965
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:38,880
Speaker 1: best way to lay it out? Eighth three oh five

966
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:41,919
Speaker 1: fifty one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty

967
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 1: the number to get on board. We do have some

968
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 1: open lines for you, apologize if people aren't picking up.

969
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 1: Hopefully they will here in short order at eight oh

970
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:52,440
Speaker 1: three five fifty. But we'll get to the phones and

971
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 1: to those of you holding and to Tom on the

972
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 1: west side first, what do you got for his time?

973
00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:58,080
Speaker 1: You're on One Bill's Live.

974
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 7: Good afternoon, guys. I'm still hot, and I'm surprised Steve

975
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:05,800
Speaker 7: ain't out on the golf course playing one hundred holes.

976
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:10,719
Speaker 7: I'm glad he's in studio anyway. I'm gonna start with

977
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:14,400
Speaker 7: what Steve was just saying, is expand the roster. I

978
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:16,760
Speaker 7: don't know how far you expand it, but you add

979
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 7: more players. Now, what I would do is, instead of

980
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:26,360
Speaker 7: the OTAs and the rookie mini camps, I would combine

981
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 7: the two and then give them the summer off, and

982
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:35,360
Speaker 7: then instead of three preseason games, give them two. But

983
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 7: give them an extra week of training camp because non pads,

984
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:44,359
Speaker 7: because half the time they're in non pads Anyway. Now,

985
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:48,320
Speaker 7: during the season, what you do is half the league

986
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 7: gets Week five or six off, or you could do

987
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:54,800
Speaker 7: six or seven, and then you do it again week

988
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:59,319
Speaker 7: eleven and twelve or twelve and thirteen. Now at the

989
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:03,840
Speaker 7: end of the season, you take away the last wildcard spot,

990
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 7: and what the four top teams and the two in

991
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 7: each conference get the extra by week back. And this

992
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:19,839
Speaker 7: would push it and President's Day so that your your

993
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:24,160
Speaker 7: Super Bowl ends up on a national holiday. Yeah.

994
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 1: The only thing I would say, Tom that would get

995
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:32,560
Speaker 1: roundly rejected in your plan is eliminating the extra playoff seed,

996
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:37,919
Speaker 1: because that is bookoo dollars. It's an extra playoff game

997
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 1: for the league to sell to networks for gigantic money.

998
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:44,640
Speaker 1: Adding the seventh seed was a money move and it

999
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:47,760
Speaker 1: created a windfall for this league in terms of revenue

1000
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:50,120
Speaker 1: from the television networks and streaming network.

1001
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:51,839
Speaker 2: I like the fact. I like it too.

1002
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 3: I mean, if you the problem is, if you go

1003
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,200
Speaker 3: to eight playoff teams, half the league gets in the playoffs.

1004
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:00,880
Speaker 2: That's kind of too many.

1005
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:06,440
Speaker 3: Now we only have you know, seven of sixteen is

1006
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:08,880
Speaker 3: to the eight of sixteen teams in each conference.

1007
00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:12,719
Speaker 2: I get that.

1008
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 3: That makes it even so you'd have two wild card

1009
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 3: games on wild card weekend, you'd have four teams to

1010
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 3: get the buye the four division winners, which makes sense.

1011
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:23,880
Speaker 1: He was saying he wanted to eliminate seed seven and

1012
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:25,360
Speaker 1: go back to the playoffs.

1013
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 2: Yes, no, you're not going to do that. You're not

1014
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:28,600
Speaker 2: going to do that.

1015
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:33,280
Speaker 3: The league wide bye week. The bye week when you schedule,

1016
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:37,000
Speaker 3: nobody cares. Literally nobody cares. I mean you can say,

1017
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,719
Speaker 3: well it makes it nobody cares. You get a bye

1018
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 3: week every time and listen. And since they instituted the

1019
00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:47,320
Speaker 3: bye week, which I was in the league, then everybody

1020
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:49,359
Speaker 3: the big question was always is this a good time

1021
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:52,759
Speaker 3: for the bye And everybody about three years into that,

1022
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 3: it was a stupid question because every single time you

1023
00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 3: ask me about. Yes, it's a perfect time for the

1024
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 3: bye You need a week, no matter when it.

1025
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 2: Is, right opening day week seventeen, it doesn't matter.

1026
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:08,080
Speaker 3: You need a bye week whenever it is. That's just

1027
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:11,239
Speaker 3: the way it goes. It's always the perfect time for

1028
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:13,839
Speaker 3: the bye week. So it don't matter. Nobody cares. When

1029
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:16,359
Speaker 3: you get your bye week. You get it, you take it,

1030
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:20,239
Speaker 3: you enjoy it, you need it, use it. Now, come

1031
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 3: back and play and shut up. I mean, nobody cares

1032
00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:25,399
Speaker 3: the fact that they get two of them. Yeah, that's good,

1033
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:29,320
Speaker 3: that's a foregone conclusion. It's too easy for the league.

1034
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 3: Who wants to lengthen the season anyway. Yeah, we'll throw in,

1035
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,480
Speaker 3: We'll throw in three bye weeks.

1036
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 2: What do they care?

1037
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:37,799
Speaker 3: As long as they got games on those weekends, what

1038
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:40,040
Speaker 3: do they care? The problem is this, they start. They

1039
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 3: want to lengthen the season as far as they possibly

1040
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:50,319
Speaker 3: can with games that matter, while still having compelling matchups

1041
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:54,399
Speaker 3: every weekend. They don't want, you know, pick your team.

1042
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:57,880
Speaker 3: They don't want the Carolina Panthers playing the Arizona Cardinals

1043
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:02,239
Speaker 3: on primetime this year's version. You know what I'm saying

1044
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:04,480
Speaker 3: that they don't want bad teams who're having bad years

1045
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:09,600
Speaker 3: with no stars and no history and no following, you know,

1046
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:12,319
Speaker 3: to be on prime time and these because everybody else

1047
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:15,440
Speaker 3: is on bye week. That's when they start stepping on

1048
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:17,640
Speaker 3: the toes of the TV people and the streaming people.

1049
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:21,440
Speaker 3: So they want a lot of teams available every weekend

1050
00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 3: so that if a matchup starts to look really sexy,

1051
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:27,400
Speaker 3: they put that on prime to lexit.

1052
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:28,279
Speaker 2: They flex it.

1053
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:33,719
Speaker 3: So the problem with flexing half the league is that

1054
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 3: you're gonna get stuff that I just said. You're gonna

1055
00:56:35,719 --> 00:56:39,880
Speaker 3: get sisters of the poor garbage games against the garbage team,

1056
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:43,239
Speaker 3: you know. So they're not going to do that either.

1057
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:47,680
Speaker 3: They want they want options, options, right, They want a

1058
00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:49,719
Speaker 3: full slate of games as often as they can get,

1059
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:53,680
Speaker 3: But they also want the season to stretch out. I mean,

1060
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 3: you know, we're light years away from having football year

1061
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:04,280
Speaker 3: round obviously, but you know, a game every two weeks

1062
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 3: football the game every two weeks, you're pretty close to

1063
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:11,719
Speaker 3: year round football. Yeah, so I don't know that that's

1064
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:15,279
Speaker 3: on the agenda, but yeah, we're you're talking about a

1065
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 3: lot of stuff that is sacrisanct to the NFL, and

1066
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 3: they're not going to give it up.

1067
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:22,520
Speaker 1: What is your ideal way to make an eighteen game

1068
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:25,920
Speaker 1: schedule work for the NFL. We're taking your calls at

1069
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 1: eight O three oh five point fifty and we got

1070
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 1: some open lines for you, So hang in there and

1071
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:34,160
Speaker 1: hopefully they pick up the phones. There. At Studio Control,

1072
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:38,520
Speaker 1: we go to Tom in Lakawana. Next, what's up, Tom?

1073
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 8: Nice? Let me give you my brilliant plan and then

1074
00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 8: let me give you all my reasons why before you

1075
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 8: hang up on me. Go ahead, okay, uh? Start training

1076
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:56,960
Speaker 8: camp one week earlier, drop a preseason game, play two,

1077
00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:01,360
Speaker 8: and then, depending how the calendar works, because it Labor

1078
00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 8: Day moves or could be the second, or it could

1079
00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 8: be that seventh, and that would mess things up for

1080
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:10,360
Speaker 8: an extra week. Everybody's off for Labor Day. You might

1081
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:13,720
Speaker 8: have to play two or three games in August, play

1082
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:16,160
Speaker 8: the rest of the season the other eighteen and with

1083
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:20,840
Speaker 8: the other by week being a floating schedule. One week,

1084
00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 8: play one week between conference championship games and Super Bowl,

1085
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:34,400
Speaker 8: and you play the super Bowl on Martin Luther King weekend.

1086
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:39,560
Speaker 8: Everybody still gets a three day weekend. Plus the other

1087
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:42,920
Speaker 8: main reason for the fans and the betterment of the

1088
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:46,920
Speaker 8: game is you're not playing games like this year they

1089
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 8: had to move to the Buffalo Pittsburgh game by a

1090
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:52,480
Speaker 8: day because of the climate change in the snowstorms. You

1091
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:57,040
Speaker 8: get better football in better weather. So who wants to

1092
00:58:57,040 --> 00:59:00,560
Speaker 8: play football in February when you can play football in Augus?

1093
00:59:01,520 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 8: So move everything that way. You still get the three

1094
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:10,880
Speaker 8: day weekend and instead of having the Thursday night game,

1095
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:14,080
Speaker 8: which they turned into pay per view. Anyways, college football

1096
00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:16,960
Speaker 8: is all screwed up. It's down to three conferences and

1097
00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:21,080
Speaker 8: it's it's I don't know, it's getting annoying. Move get

1098
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:22,640
Speaker 8: rid of the Thursdays. This is where you give the

1099
00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:26,440
Speaker 8: players and the health advantage. Get rid of the Thursday

1100
00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:30,400
Speaker 8: night games. Make it a Saturday night game and then

1101
00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 8: that way, and also bump the rosters up to you know, sixty,

1102
00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:40,040
Speaker 8: Get sixty players and you got it, and you can

1103
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 8: act you can activate fifty eight of them or something

1104
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:45,520
Speaker 8: so that you can you can rotate players. But this

1105
00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 8: way everything moves up. You get football done when you're

1106
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:52,160
Speaker 8: supposed to play football in the fall, not in the

1107
00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 8: winter when you're playing hockey. And it's better for the fans,

1108
00:59:56,240 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 8: it's better for the players. NFL still gets their money

1109
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 8: and I'm sure people would like to sit in the

1110
01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 8: last two weeks in August in the sun rather than

1111
01:00:06,680 --> 01:00:09,320
Speaker 8: the last two weeks in January. Oh, and then the

1112
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 8: other thing is, you know what they're gonna do. If

1113
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 8: they do this, They've already got the neutral field for

1114
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:16,360
Speaker 8: the Super Bowl. They're going to want to push it

1115
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:20,560
Speaker 8: for the two conference championships, which is ridiculous. If you've

1116
01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 8: earned your way to get to the conference championships, you

1117
01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:24,760
Speaker 8: should be able to play them at home if you're

1118
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 8: the better team and the higher seed. And it'll only

1119
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:29,040
Speaker 8: be another four or five years down the road and

1120
01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:31,480
Speaker 8: they'll want to move all the divisional games because they'll say, oh,

1121
01:00:31,560 --> 01:00:34,040
Speaker 8: better weather for all the teams. Let's all play them

1122
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:37,320
Speaker 8: in Hawaii and Miami and the West Coast.

1123
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:39,240
Speaker 1: You're funny you mentioned that, because that's another one of

1124
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:42,320
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker's idea. It's called NFL City. But that's for

1125
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:42,640
Speaker 1: the call.

1126
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:45,600
Speaker 3: Yeah it NFL City is what you're talking about, and

1127
01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:46,480
Speaker 3: it's my idea too.

1128
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:49,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, all that's good.

1129
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:49,800
Speaker 1: You could move.

1130
01:00:49,880 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 2: You could shift the whole season.

1131
01:00:51,480 --> 01:00:53,440
Speaker 3: A month earlier anyway, if you wanted to do that

1132
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:56,040
Speaker 3: and take it any way you want. Yes, you could

1133
01:00:56,040 --> 01:01:00,960
Speaker 3: do that, and that's a possibility as well. I don't

1134
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:03,200
Speaker 3: have a problem with it, and nobody should. I mean,

1135
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:06,040
Speaker 3: it's the same season shifted anywhere you want, you want it,

1136
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,320
Speaker 3: you want it two weeks earlier in the summer, and

1137
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:11,439
Speaker 3: two weeks earlier to finish in the winter.

1138
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:14,760
Speaker 2: Whatever. You're still at the you're still at the mercy

1139
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:15,160
Speaker 2: of the weather.

1140
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 1: You'd have to start considerably earlier. He was saying, start

1141
01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:20,960
Speaker 1: training camp a week earlier and play the super Bowl

1142
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:22,760
Speaker 1: on Martin Luther King Day. You can't do that if

1143
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:25,400
Speaker 1: you're adding a game and adding a bye week, and

1144
01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:28,720
Speaker 1: you know, because President's Day and Martin Luther King Day

1145
01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 1: are three weeks apart, right, I mean you're not making

1146
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:33,400
Speaker 1: up that time.

1147
01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:37,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not gonna Yeah, the yes, Uh, they could

1148
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:39,880
Speaker 3: finagle anything they want if they want to do that.

1149
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:48,800
Speaker 3: I don't think there's enough of a you know, sentiment

1150
01:01:49,680 --> 01:01:50,880
Speaker 3: to make that massive of.

1151
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:52,000
Speaker 2: A change in the calendar.

1152
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:55,400
Speaker 3: Because now you're talking about and it's for crazy as

1153
01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:59,200
Speaker 3: it sounds, you're talking about arena and stadium availabilities in

1154
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 3: some places. You're talking about logistical changes that are massive,

1155
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:09,280
Speaker 3: much more massive than than you know we can than

1156
01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 3: we know, Yeah, they could do it though. For sure,

1157
01:02:12,880 --> 01:02:14,880
Speaker 3: they could put the schedule and whenever they want it.

1158
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:18,440
Speaker 3: And I'm and I'll say this, you got a point,

1159
01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:23,800
Speaker 3: uh about the college football thing. If college football continues

1160
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:28,160
Speaker 3: to evolve very quickly, and they show any form of

1161
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:31,920
Speaker 3: softness about their television schedule and the viewers that it

1162
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:35,360
Speaker 3: brings to the table, you can bet that those those

1163
01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 3: television rights and those dates will somebody will be wooing

1164
01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:43,760
Speaker 3: the NFL to take them, and the NFL will oblige.

1165
01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:48,200
Speaker 3: I don't think Thursday night football is going anywhere but

1166
01:02:48,320 --> 01:02:50,280
Speaker 3: Friday and Saturday night. I don't think that Friday they'll

1167
01:02:50,280 --> 01:02:52,880
Speaker 3: do Friday night because of high school football, but college football.

1168
01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:56,120
Speaker 3: If these conferences don't get it together and they start

1169
01:02:56,200 --> 01:02:58,160
Speaker 3: evolving so quickly in the n I and all the

1170
01:02:58,160 --> 01:02:59,720
Speaker 3: things that are going on with college football, that I

1171
01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:03,000
Speaker 3: don't I begin to talk about. Yeah, the NFL would

1172
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:05,800
Speaker 3: move on those dates. I'm they already do a Black Friday.

1173
01:03:05,920 --> 01:03:10,160
Speaker 2: I am completely confident of it. Now. You're right.

1174
01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 3: Under the Tasker plan as well, the NFL city plan.

1175
01:03:15,280 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 3: The NFL would put up its own stadium in its

1176
01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:20,280
Speaker 3: own city. It would be like Disney World with the

1177
01:03:20,360 --> 01:03:23,320
Speaker 3: NFL shield on it instead of mouse ears. Yeah, and

1178
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:25,920
Speaker 3: they would own their stadium somewhere right, and it's their

1179
01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 3: own island whatever. I don't care, San Juan. Something they'll buy.

1180
01:03:31,160 --> 01:03:34,400
Speaker 3: They'll buy, you know, twenty thousand, just like Walt Disney did.

1181
01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:37,080
Speaker 3: They'll buy twenty thousand acres. They'll put a stadium up. First,

1182
01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 3: they'll start putting hotels around it, and soon when they

1183
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:43,000
Speaker 3: get the infrastructure. Now they have both NFC and AFC

1184
01:03:43,080 --> 01:03:45,240
Speaker 3: Championship games there and then two weeks later the Super

1185
01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:48,560
Speaker 3: Bowl and nobody leaves. And every cent you spend there

1186
01:03:48,600 --> 01:03:50,560
Speaker 3: in all the restaurants, in the bars, in the in

1187
01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:54,400
Speaker 3: the in the hotels, in the souvenir shops, in the

1188
01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:58,160
Speaker 3: walmarts and the targets, and they're all owned by the NFL.

1189
01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:02,280
Speaker 3: So every cent you spend down there, every taxi, everything

1190
01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:05,040
Speaker 3: goes right into their coffers. And then they'll and then

1191
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:08,760
Speaker 3: if if they so desire, any team, any city that

1192
01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:11,440
Speaker 3: wants the Super Bowl is all ostensibly bidding against the

1193
01:04:11,520 --> 01:04:14,200
Speaker 3: NFL city because if they can get more money doing

1194
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:16,560
Speaker 3: it themselves, they won't give it to you.

1195
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:21,760
Speaker 2: So the money goes up further. Yes, give it the

1196
01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:24,320
Speaker 2: you don't get the money. You don't. You don't. You

1197
01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:26,360
Speaker 2: don't get the game. Yeah, you don't get the game.

1198
01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:27,160
Speaker 1: Pony up the money.

1199
01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 2: You don't get the game, Yeah, you don't.

1200
01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:30,600
Speaker 3: If you don't, if you can't match our numbers that

1201
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:32,440
Speaker 3: we can do a Super Bowl for and get our

1202
01:04:32,480 --> 01:04:34,880
Speaker 3: profit from, you don't get to have the Super Bowl.

1203
01:04:35,320 --> 01:04:36,560
Speaker 2: Yes, all that's in there.

1204
01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:40,480
Speaker 3: Plus you'd have an The NFL city would also have

1205
01:04:40,600 --> 01:04:43,040
Speaker 3: their own championship eighteen whole golf course in the US

1206
01:04:43,080 --> 01:04:44,600
Speaker 3: Open would be there and everybody would go down to

1207
01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:49,160
Speaker 3: the NFL city. The National College Playoff game would be

1208
01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:53,240
Speaker 3: an NFL city. The combine were not the combine problem.

1209
01:04:53,240 --> 01:04:55,880
Speaker 3: If the draft certainly could be an NFL city. And

1210
01:04:55,920 --> 01:04:59,480
Speaker 3: in the off season, the nineteen ninety Buffalo Bills would

1211
01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:02,240
Speaker 3: have a party with the New York Football Giants of

1212
01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:04,440
Speaker 3: the nineteen nineties with Bill Parcels and Marv Leave and

1213
01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:07,520
Speaker 3: everybody down there for greet an alumni event. And we'd

1214
01:05:07,560 --> 01:05:08,600
Speaker 3: be down there in the off season.

1215
01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:11,400
Speaker 1: And may or even better, you take a cruise to NFL.

1216
01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:14,280
Speaker 3: City, Presto Chanjo, so you got the US Open on

1217
01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:17,000
Speaker 3: the golf course down there. You've got beach resorts down there.

1218
01:05:17,040 --> 01:05:20,200
Speaker 3: All in NFL City. You got the NFL Museum down there,

1219
01:05:20,240 --> 01:05:21,960
Speaker 3: not the Hall of Fame, but the museum would be

1220
01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:22,760
Speaker 3: down there.

1221
01:05:23,680 --> 01:05:26,480
Speaker 2: So yeah, Nfiler Bowl History Museum, soup.

1222
01:05:26,360 --> 01:05:29,800
Speaker 3: There you go, Super Bowl History Museum, which I am

1223
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:34,600
Speaker 3: a footnote in. So all of that stuff the NFL

1224
01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:36,560
Speaker 3: would it would be a cash cow for the NFL.

1225
01:05:36,560 --> 01:05:38,040
Speaker 3: And all you need to do is start small. You

1226
01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:40,920
Speaker 3: got to start small. Put a two billion dollars stadium

1227
01:05:40,920 --> 01:05:44,919
Speaker 3: down there. Start small. Put a stadium down there, get

1228
01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:46,840
Speaker 3: some hotels put up so you could have people come

1229
01:05:46,880 --> 01:05:49,280
Speaker 3: in and fill the stadium, and then just start putting

1230
01:05:49,320 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 3: reasons for people to show up, just like Vegas does shows, concerts, resorts,

1231
01:05:55,960 --> 01:06:02,120
Speaker 3: golf courses, water parks, restaurants, nightlife, souvenirs. You'd have a

1232
01:06:02,200 --> 01:06:05,200
Speaker 3: Walmart with everything in the Walmart would be a NFL

1233
01:06:05,200 --> 01:06:11,520
Speaker 3: logo thing yep, NFL City and the neutral site NFL

1234
01:06:11,560 --> 01:06:12,440
Speaker 3: games there you go.

1235
01:06:13,480 --> 01:06:13,840
Speaker 2: Love it.

1236
01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:16,840
Speaker 1: Let's go to Kevin and Hamburg. Next. What do you

1237
01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:18,320
Speaker 1: got for us? Kevin, you're on one of those lives

1238
01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:18,640
Speaker 1: you're doing.

1239
01:06:18,720 --> 01:06:22,080
Speaker 5: Thank for taking my call. Sure, I got a good idea.

1240
01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:25,560
Speaker 5: I like what that guy said about having Labor Day off.

1241
01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:28,400
Speaker 5: Of course, Steve, you said Christmas won't happen because it's

1242
01:06:28,400 --> 01:06:30,640
Speaker 5: too much of a cash cow, or it's been the

1243
01:06:30,680 --> 01:06:33,680
Speaker 5: last couple of years and all that. How about if

1244
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:36,400
Speaker 5: they had how about if they had Labor Day off

1245
01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:41,520
Speaker 5: and then Halloween or around Halloween would be the second

1246
01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:45,600
Speaker 5: bye because most athletes have kids and they want new

1247
01:06:45,640 --> 01:06:48,520
Speaker 5: kids to retreating, not get ready for a football game,

1248
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:51,320
Speaker 5: like two years ago when the Bills played the Packers.

1249
01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:54,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, Kevin, would you rather have Halloween off? Or

1250
01:06:54,320 --> 01:06:55,720
Speaker 3: would you rather have Christmas off?

1251
01:06:56,280 --> 01:06:59,400
Speaker 5: Oh? I don't even rather have Christmas off, Steave, But

1252
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:02,440
Speaker 5: you said or so not gonna happen as much because

1253
01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:03,439
Speaker 5: of the cash cow.

1254
01:07:03,640 --> 01:07:04,640
Speaker 2: Let me tell you something.

1255
01:07:05,120 --> 01:07:08,160
Speaker 3: The NFL is not gonna take a week off so

1256
01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:09,520
Speaker 3: kids can go trigger treating.

1257
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:13,000
Speaker 5: No, no, just around that time, right.

1258
01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:13,920
Speaker 1: No.

1259
01:07:14,080 --> 01:07:17,080
Speaker 3: And I'll say this too. The buys get sprinkled in

1260
01:07:17,160 --> 01:07:19,840
Speaker 3: because they want as many compelling games on every weekend

1261
01:07:19,880 --> 01:07:21,560
Speaker 3: as they want. They don't want any bye weeks. They

1262
01:07:21,600 --> 01:07:26,040
Speaker 3: want twenty weeks with no buys, no breaks, no, nothing

1263
01:07:26,080 --> 01:07:29,920
Speaker 3: they want because they they can't, they can't take the

1264
01:07:29,960 --> 01:07:33,920
Speaker 3: money in fast enough. When they get a Black Friday game, yeah.

1265
01:07:33,960 --> 01:07:36,120
Speaker 3: I mean they don't have a bank big enough to

1266
01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:39,680
Speaker 3: stack the cash in they I mean they.

1267
01:07:39,600 --> 01:07:40,920
Speaker 1: Sold Christmas to netflick.

1268
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:43,880
Speaker 2: They are they so they want more and more and

1269
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:46,400
Speaker 2: more and more. That eighteen you think eighteen games is

1270
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:47,960
Speaker 2: just because they think it's a round number.

1271
01:07:49,760 --> 01:07:52,800
Speaker 3: So that's I mean. Yeah, they'll sprinkle in the bye

1272
01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:57,040
Speaker 3: weeks wherever they want. And like I said before, nobody cares.

1273
01:07:57,640 --> 01:07:59,000
Speaker 3: We can say, well, it'll be nice.

1274
01:07:59,080 --> 01:08:01,040
Speaker 2: It'll be nice for the brownie, it'll be nice for

1275
01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:04,480
Speaker 2: the players if we give them that. We are you

1276
01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:06,560
Speaker 2: kidding me? Who cares? I don't care if they like it.

1277
01:08:06,880 --> 01:08:08,280
Speaker 2: They get a week off.

1278
01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:09,160
Speaker 1: Here's what's happening.

1279
01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:12,439
Speaker 2: They get a week off in November. Shut up, that's it.

1280
01:08:12,720 --> 01:08:13,520
Speaker 2: I mean, they don't care.

1281
01:08:14,680 --> 01:08:18,760
Speaker 3: And quite frankly, this comes down to and people say, well,

1282
01:08:18,800 --> 01:08:23,360
Speaker 3: and here's another question. No, if you have a five

1283
01:08:23,400 --> 01:08:26,599
Speaker 3: million dollar contract for the season, you get five million bucks.

1284
01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:31,840
Speaker 2: Whether the season is twenty five games or two, you

1285
01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:32,479
Speaker 2: get the money.

1286
01:08:32,880 --> 01:08:33,480
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1287
01:08:33,880 --> 01:08:37,040
Speaker 3: So if they're playing, go from seventeen games to eighteen

1288
01:08:37,080 --> 01:08:39,920
Speaker 3: games your check. And here's how it works in the NFL.

1289
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:43,400
Speaker 3: Your check gets chopped up into eighteen different increments. You

1290
01:08:43,439 --> 01:08:46,120
Speaker 3: get it every Monday after the game it used to be.

1291
01:08:46,080 --> 01:08:47,320
Speaker 2: Back in the day. You go up and they give

1292
01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:49,519
Speaker 2: you a check. Seriously, a game check. That's what a

1293
01:08:49,560 --> 01:08:50,080
Speaker 2: game check is.

1294
01:08:50,240 --> 01:08:52,720
Speaker 1: Think about this. If you're a vested veteran and you're

1295
01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:56,519
Speaker 1: on that team's roster through week one and then they

1296
01:08:56,520 --> 01:08:58,800
Speaker 1: cut you later in the year, you still get the money.

1297
01:08:58,840 --> 01:09:00,559
Speaker 1: You still get the money, right, you get a one

1298
01:09:00,600 --> 01:09:02,120
Speaker 1: time so shot at that.

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Speaker 3: These guys are saying, yeah, I'd like to get an

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01:09:04,200 --> 01:09:07,080
Speaker 3: extra game check. Well, that's fine, but your other seventeen

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01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:09,360
Speaker 3: or eight seventeen game checks are going to be one

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Speaker 3: one eighteenth smaller. So they're gonna get the same money

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01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:17,040
Speaker 3: because it's the same season you're talking about. They don't

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01:09:17,040 --> 01:09:22,840
Speaker 3: get an extra eighteenth of a paycheck or salary. They

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01:09:22,920 --> 01:09:25,960
Speaker 3: just get their salary chopped up once more. So that's

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Speaker 3: the way that works.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, the cat conceivably, though it's all relative, because

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Speaker 1: the cap would go up because the revenue would go

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Speaker 1: up with the extra game.

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Speaker 2: If it works, if they got and.

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01:09:35,760 --> 01:09:39,120
Speaker 1: Then there's a trickle down effect where players conceivably.

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Speaker 3: If they got dead more money, if they got six

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Speaker 3: billion extra dollars for doing the extra eight week eighteen,

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Speaker 3: which I don't know. Maybe they will six billion extra dollars.

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Speaker 3: That means divide six billion by thirty two, brownie, Yes

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Speaker 3: you do that. I'm not even taking a stab at.

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Speaker 3: It's like one hundred million, right, no, forty billion, forty million?

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Speaker 2: What is it? Well, hold on thirty two divided by six? No?

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01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 2: Thirty yes, six divided by thirty two? Okay, am I

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Speaker 2: gonna have to do this.

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Speaker 1: I don't have enough zeros?

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, just do What is a six nine zeros?

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Speaker 1: Right for six billion or no?

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Speaker 3: It's yeah, yeah, six hundred million divided by divided by

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01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:39,200
Speaker 3: thirty two equals yeah, it's like one point.

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Speaker 2: No, it's like, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: It's one hundred and eighty seven million bucks into each

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01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 3: team's bottom line for that for that week.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if that's right or not.

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01:10:48,600 --> 01:10:51,800
Speaker 3: Somebody's got who's got extra zeros on their phone? So

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01:10:51,840 --> 01:10:54,639
Speaker 3: it's six billion divided by thirty two. Each team gets that, right,

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01:10:54,680 --> 01:10:56,559
Speaker 3: and that goes right to their bottom line. That goes

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01:10:56,640 --> 01:11:01,439
Speaker 3: right into their operating expense thirty So that's and then

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01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:04,400
Speaker 3: that forty eight percent of that goes to the players

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Speaker 3: onto the cap. That's how it works so sooner or

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01:11:09,240 --> 01:11:11,040
Speaker 3: later the money does trickle down to the players. But

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01:11:11,040 --> 01:11:13,760
Speaker 3: that's gotta you gotta wait until the revenues are included

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01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:15,679
Speaker 3: and then it goes into the cap the next year.

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01:11:16,640 --> 01:11:18,760
Speaker 3: So it doesn't matter this eighteen game thing if it

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Speaker 3: happens even this year, which is not gonna happen this year,

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01:11:21,680 --> 01:11:23,160
Speaker 3: but even when it happens.

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Speaker 1: One hundred eighty fid right, one.

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01:11:25,360 --> 01:11:27,320
Speaker 3: Hundred and eighty seven million bucks right to the bottom

1344
01:11:27,360 --> 01:11:31,040
Speaker 3: line of this building. That's think about how much that is.

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01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:33,479
Speaker 3: That's seventy percent of the cap.

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01:11:34,200 --> 01:11:34,759
Speaker 1: It's a lot.

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01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:38,000
Speaker 2: It's a lot. It's a lot.

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01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:41,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, so uh.

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Speaker 2: You know, and that's like, that's real money.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's just and it's free except for you

1351
01:11:48,520 --> 01:11:49,920
Speaker 3: gotta pay the money to play the game.

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01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:53,320
Speaker 2: You gotta whatever, travel with the game, sell the.

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01:11:53,280 --> 01:11:56,280
Speaker 1: Tickets, put your team up in a hotel.

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01:11:56,400 --> 01:12:00,960
Speaker 2: Dude, take the money. Yeah, So that's that's how it works.

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Speaker 3: I cannot believe in this day and age we couldn't

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01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:05,880
Speaker 3: divide six billion by thirty two.

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Speaker 1: I didn't have enough zeros and I doing them. I

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01:12:08,680 --> 01:12:09,599
Speaker 1: don't like doing live.

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Speaker 3: That's why I asked you to do it, especially in

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Speaker 3: front of other people. That's exactly why I asked you

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Speaker 3: to do it. I didn't want to do it myself.

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Speaker 3: Nobody in the control room took a shot at it.

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Speaker 1: I helped. I did type it in.

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Speaker 3: You guys anyway, you guys were completely silent in our

1365
01:12:21,840 --> 01:12:23,040
Speaker 3: public math exercise.

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Speaker 1: There we go over to Mark in West Seneca. We

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01:12:26,439 --> 01:12:28,120
Speaker 1: know how to pull up phone calls. What's up Mark?

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Speaker 9: Hey, guys, how are you good?

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Speaker 4: Hey?

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Speaker 9: Obviously this needs a lot of itting. There's a lot

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Speaker 9: of different angles, and the more you talk about it,

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01:12:36,439 --> 01:12:40,519
Speaker 9: the more things come up about it. With all due respects, Steve,

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01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:43,240
Speaker 9: I just don't like your idea of Labor Day off.

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01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:47,800
Speaker 9: Believe the league wants any weeks won the season. Once

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01:12:47,840 --> 01:12:51,320
Speaker 9: the season starts to be dark, I don't think they'll

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01:12:51,439 --> 01:12:52,120
Speaker 9: the owners.

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Speaker 1: Will say this.

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01:12:52,680 --> 01:12:53,280
Speaker 2: Let me tell you this.

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Speaker 3: Here's why they start after Labor Day because they used

1380
01:12:56,160 --> 01:12:57,760
Speaker 3: to not start after Labor Day.

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01:12:58,360 --> 01:12:59,040
Speaker 7: They stopped.

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01:12:59,280 --> 01:13:02,880
Speaker 3: They stopped putting games on Labor Day because nobody was watching.

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01:13:04,360 --> 01:13:09,080
Speaker 9: So I realized. I didn't realize that. But I think

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01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:13,000
Speaker 9: once the season gets rolling, though, I just don't like

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01:13:13,040 --> 01:13:15,000
Speaker 9: the labor due I just don't like the Labor day

1386
01:13:15,040 --> 01:13:17,639
Speaker 9: idea because you wait so long for football to start,

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01:13:17,920 --> 01:13:19,799
Speaker 9: and when I look at it and sort of analyze

1388
01:13:19,840 --> 01:13:23,360
Speaker 9: a little bit, I'm looking at taking a week off

1389
01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:26,840
Speaker 9: so early in the season and the players. I mean,

1390
01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:29,400
Speaker 9: you go through a camp with ninety guys, you go

1391
01:13:29,479 --> 01:13:32,639
Speaker 9: through three games, and if the starters, the actual players

1392
01:13:32,640 --> 01:13:36,640
Speaker 9: on the team, what do they play at most a

1393
01:13:36,720 --> 01:13:40,439
Speaker 9: quarter to maybe maybe they played a lot a half

1394
01:13:40,520 --> 01:13:42,920
Speaker 9: in the whole preseason, and then you're gonna play a

1395
01:13:42,960 --> 01:13:45,800
Speaker 9: couple of games and you're not going and you're gonna

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01:13:45,840 --> 01:13:48,519
Speaker 9: be off. I mean when I look back, and I'm

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01:13:48,560 --> 01:13:51,479
Speaker 9: a football fan and i'm your age, Steve, so you

1398
01:13:51,479 --> 01:13:54,840
Speaker 9: know I've been around forever watching football when when I

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01:13:54,880 --> 01:13:57,599
Speaker 9: can when the buy came into existence, I always thought

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01:13:57,600 --> 01:14:00,840
Speaker 9: it was about the season became too long and the

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01:14:00,840 --> 01:14:03,960
Speaker 9: players needed to rest somewhere, okay, at least that break.

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01:14:04,520 --> 01:14:06,680
Speaker 9: And then it became like you said, where is it

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01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:09,080
Speaker 9: going to be in the schedule, And when I look

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01:14:09,120 --> 01:14:12,360
Speaker 9: at this, I hear a lot of talk about scheduling

1405
01:14:12,479 --> 01:14:15,240
Speaker 9: on the calendar, what time of year, where we're going

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01:14:15,320 --> 01:14:18,680
Speaker 9: to place this. That to me, it should be for

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01:14:18,760 --> 01:14:21,000
Speaker 9: the We should be setting it up for the players

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01:14:21,640 --> 01:14:25,680
Speaker 9: so that they get the best amount of rest strategically

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01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:29,240
Speaker 9: and keeping the quality of the game as high as

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01:14:29,280 --> 01:14:32,519
Speaker 9: possible through the season. And I've proposed this to you

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01:14:32,560 --> 01:14:37,479
Speaker 9: guys before three six week segments, and then let's say

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01:14:37,680 --> 01:14:41,719
Speaker 9: week six, the AFC is off and the only NFC games,

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01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:44,479
Speaker 9: and then the following week you reverse it, you play

1414
01:14:44,560 --> 01:14:47,479
Speaker 9: six more weeks, and you do it again. And now

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01:14:47,640 --> 01:14:50,160
Speaker 9: I'm saying, how you set that up on the calendar.

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Speaker 9: As a football fan, I don't really care, you know,

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01:14:53,960 --> 01:14:55,800
Speaker 9: For me, the bye week for the Bills is one

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01:14:55,840 --> 01:14:58,479
Speaker 9: of the worst days of the year. I hate when

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01:14:58,479 --> 01:15:01,680
Speaker 9: there's football and there's no Bills game, you know what

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01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:03,760
Speaker 9: I mean. So if I have to live with a buy,

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01:15:04,200 --> 01:15:07,720
Speaker 9: then let's set it up strategic strategically that it's for

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01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:11,479
Speaker 9: the players, it's for their health. Especially this affects the

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01:15:11,520 --> 01:15:14,840
Speaker 9: older players. Maybe this helps them a little bit more.

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01:15:15,560 --> 01:15:18,479
Speaker 9: And all the attrition of the game and all these

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01:15:18,520 --> 01:15:22,240
Speaker 9: different things. So again, maybe the quality comes up a

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01:15:22,280 --> 01:15:24,840
Speaker 9: little bit. Is it going to be tangible? I don't know.

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01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:28,160
Speaker 9: They don't have to play out over several seasons, but

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01:15:28,240 --> 01:15:31,120
Speaker 9: I want to see it where our teams get rest,

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01:15:31,439 --> 01:15:35,120
Speaker 9: it's equally spaced through the year for all the teams

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01:15:35,439 --> 01:15:38,679
Speaker 9: as far as AFC, NFC, I would think the TV

1431
01:15:39,240 --> 01:15:44,000
Speaker 9: contracts they would be able to be satisfied. You're always

1432
01:15:44,040 --> 01:15:48,040
Speaker 9: going to have compelling conference games. So all of this

1433
01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:50,160
Speaker 9: talk about one and all that we should have it

1434
01:15:50,640 --> 01:15:53,680
Speaker 9: six weeks, six weeks, six weeks, then we get into

1435
01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:54,440
Speaker 9: the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Opinion. Yeah, okay, that's fine. But here's the thing.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate, Mark, I appreciate your empathy for the players,

1438
01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:07,280
Speaker 3: but you may be the only guy that cares. Yeah,

1439
01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:10,599
Speaker 3: the six weeks, six weeks, there's nothing that says six weeks,

1440
01:16:10,640 --> 01:16:13,080
Speaker 3: six weeks, six weeks is the best thing for the players.

1441
01:16:14,640 --> 01:16:16,600
Speaker 3: It certainly isn't if you get us twisted ankle in

1442
01:16:16,640 --> 01:16:20,200
Speaker 3: week two. So I think the one thing you can

1443
01:16:20,360 --> 01:16:23,000
Speaker 3: count on is whenever the break happens, it's gonna happen,

1444
01:16:23,000 --> 01:16:26,240
Speaker 3: and players are gonna appreciate it. And the two weeks

1445
01:16:26,280 --> 01:16:28,880
Speaker 3: in if you played two pre regular season games before

1446
01:16:28,960 --> 01:16:32,240
Speaker 3: Labor Day, you've already played two preseason, two regular season

1447
01:16:32,280 --> 01:16:34,240
Speaker 3: and been in camp for two weeks as well. So

1448
01:16:34,240 --> 01:16:37,439
Speaker 3: that's six weeks right there. The season isn't just the

1449
01:16:37,479 --> 01:16:41,280
Speaker 3: regular season, it's it's everything in between those games as well.

1450
01:16:41,360 --> 01:16:43,920
Speaker 3: So and I'm not saying I don't like your idea,

1451
01:16:44,200 --> 01:16:46,519
Speaker 3: but yeah, the extra bye week seems like a given

1452
01:16:47,320 --> 01:16:51,240
Speaker 3: with an eighteen game schedule. The less preseason game seems

1453
01:16:51,280 --> 01:16:53,439
Speaker 3: like a given with a six week schedule. The things

1454
01:16:53,439 --> 01:16:55,320
Speaker 3: that we don't know about is how are they gonna

1455
01:16:55,320 --> 01:16:59,360
Speaker 3: give them bigger rosters? Are they gonna tinker with when

1456
01:16:59,400 --> 01:17:03,360
Speaker 3: the season starts and ends and as far as the playoffs,

1457
01:17:03,400 --> 01:17:05,280
Speaker 3: and are they gonna get to President's Day weekend like

1458
01:17:05,320 --> 01:17:11,720
Speaker 3: they plan? I think the answer is probably absolutely. What

1459
01:17:11,760 --> 01:17:13,840
Speaker 3: this is gonna look like, we don't know how it's

1460
01:17:13,880 --> 01:17:14,920
Speaker 3: gonna be divvied up?

1461
01:17:15,520 --> 01:17:16,920
Speaker 2: Is really the only question to me?

1462
01:17:17,200 --> 01:17:19,360
Speaker 3: Are the players gonna get more players to help them

1463
01:17:19,640 --> 01:17:22,760
Speaker 3: or different designations. They already got sixty nine guys in

1464
01:17:22,800 --> 01:17:27,360
Speaker 3: the building anyway, so there's plenty of bodies. But are

1465
01:17:27,400 --> 01:17:29,160
Speaker 3: they gonna put more of them on the active roster

1466
01:17:29,320 --> 01:17:30,519
Speaker 3: and give them more on game day?

1467
01:17:30,520 --> 01:17:31,439
Speaker 2: That's a real question.

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01:17:31,920 --> 01:17:33,599
Speaker 1: Break time for us here, but one are your phone

1469
01:17:33,640 --> 01:17:35,640
Speaker 1: calls when we come back? Sean and Buffalo Derek and

1470
01:17:35,720 --> 01:17:37,880
Speaker 1: Cheek to Wago will lead us off when we return here.

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Speaker 1: On One Bill's Live, presented by Colid of Health, It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, talking about the rumblings of

1473
01:17:54,400 --> 01:17:56,840
Speaker 1: an eighteen game schedule being on the horizon for the

1474
01:17:56,920 --> 01:18:00,280
Speaker 1: NFL and the ideal way to set that up. You

1475
01:18:00,360 --> 01:18:02,080
Speaker 1: let us know at eight o three oh five fifty

1476
01:18:02,400 --> 01:18:04,800
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty Back to the

1477
01:18:04,800 --> 01:18:07,400
Speaker 1: phones and to Sean in Buffalo. What's up Sean?

1478
01:18:09,200 --> 01:18:10,360
Speaker 8: Hey, guys, good afternoon.

1479
01:18:10,960 --> 01:18:13,240
Speaker 10: I just wanted to suggest that if you were to

1480
01:18:13,280 --> 01:18:15,360
Speaker 10: do to the full eighteen game season, you'd have to

1481
01:18:15,360 --> 01:18:17,200
Speaker 10: obviously have two by weeks. The way you do that

1482
01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:20,639
Speaker 10: up first four weeks, you do the first four weeks,

1483
01:18:20,680 --> 01:18:23,480
Speaker 10: in the last four weeks to do round robin a division,

1484
01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:28,240
Speaker 10: and in there you would add a like seed in

1485
01:18:28,280 --> 01:18:30,960
Speaker 10: the NFC. So you do first three games around robin

1486
01:18:31,040 --> 01:18:34,479
Speaker 10: of AFC East, and then for the Bills the number

1487
01:18:34,479 --> 01:18:37,519
Speaker 10: one seed in the NFC East and vice versa in

1488
01:18:37,560 --> 01:18:40,519
Speaker 10: the last four and then you do your bye weeks

1489
01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:43,680
Speaker 10: after the first four and before the last four, and

1490
01:18:43,720 --> 01:18:47,519
Speaker 10: you alternate the NFC. So the NFC would be weeks

1491
01:18:47,560 --> 01:18:50,519
Speaker 10: five and thirteen and swept stop them.

1492
01:18:50,560 --> 01:18:51,439
Speaker 4: And then could they.

1493
01:18:51,320 --> 01:18:53,040
Speaker 10: Please put the Super Bowl on Saturday?

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01:18:53,760 --> 01:18:55,240
Speaker 2: Thanks guys, Yeah, that's roy.

1495
01:18:55,600 --> 01:18:57,759
Speaker 3: I agree they should put the super Bowl on Saturday,

1496
01:18:57,840 --> 01:19:00,400
Speaker 3: unless they put it on President's Day weekend when you

1497
01:19:00,400 --> 01:19:02,720
Speaker 3: know it's national holiday the next day, which would be

1498
01:19:02,880 --> 01:19:07,439
Speaker 3: like a Saturday. I think this the eighteenth the round

1499
01:19:07,520 --> 01:19:11,280
Speaker 3: robin thing, Oh yeah, that's fine, pretty close, right. Nobody

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01:19:11,320 --> 01:19:15,320
Speaker 3: wants the not too many people except the tasker plans

1501
01:19:15,320 --> 01:19:17,800
Speaker 3: that way because of the Labor Day.

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01:19:17,960 --> 01:19:20,559
Speaker 2: Nobody wants the whole league silent for two twice a

1503
01:19:20,800 --> 01:19:22,559
Speaker 2: during the season. Uh.

1504
01:19:22,600 --> 01:19:25,719
Speaker 3: It does solve one problem, and that means whatever weekend

1505
01:19:25,760 --> 01:19:29,640
Speaker 3: they're playing, they're gonna get the best matchups available. But

1506
01:19:29,760 --> 01:19:33,360
Speaker 3: also the the round robin thing about playing like the

1507
01:19:33,360 --> 01:19:36,760
Speaker 3: other division, playing all three four teams in the other

1508
01:19:36,800 --> 01:19:40,439
Speaker 3: division your first four and the other the other the

1509
01:19:40,520 --> 01:19:43,360
Speaker 3: last four games playing your own division. Yeah, coming down

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01:19:43,360 --> 01:19:46,639
Speaker 3: the stretch, you know, that's that's fine. Who Yeah, that's fine.

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01:19:47,040 --> 01:19:49,519
Speaker 3: But it's logistically that's kind of tough.

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01:19:51,640 --> 01:19:53,120
Speaker 1: Well, especially for West Coast.

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01:19:53,240 --> 01:19:56,400
Speaker 3: Especially, yeah, for West Coast teams and all of that stuff.

1514
01:19:57,600 --> 01:20:03,760
Speaker 3: This eighteen game schedule will make the season more symmetrical

1515
01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:08,200
Speaker 3: and easily digestible because of the even number about and

1516
01:20:08,560 --> 01:20:12,160
Speaker 3: the divisions. There are four teams in every division, and

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01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:15,400
Speaker 3: you got the crossover games. It does set it up

1518
01:20:15,439 --> 01:20:20,519
Speaker 3: to be much more predictable and much more uniform, so

1519
01:20:20,560 --> 01:20:22,920
Speaker 3: you won't have this team with all these advantages in

1520
01:20:22,960 --> 01:20:25,839
Speaker 3: their schedule against this team who got you know, stabbed

1521
01:20:25,880 --> 01:20:29,400
Speaker 3: in the back by logistics and timing and bye weeks.

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01:20:29,120 --> 01:20:29,920
Speaker 2: And all of that stuff.

1523
01:20:30,240 --> 01:20:32,280
Speaker 3: It'll make it a lot more fair, I think, just

1524
01:20:32,360 --> 01:20:34,719
Speaker 3: by the fact that it's an even number, and they'll

1525
01:20:34,720 --> 01:20:37,639
Speaker 3: have a little bit more leeway to just that much

1526
01:20:37,640 --> 01:20:40,800
Speaker 3: more leeway to shift games around. So I'm not really

1527
01:20:40,840 --> 01:20:45,280
Speaker 3: into stonewalling and saying the first four weeks of your

1528
01:20:45,280 --> 01:20:49,000
Speaker 3: regular season are going to be against another division. Okay,

1529
01:20:49,000 --> 01:20:55,400
Speaker 3: that's fine. I'm you know, I don't know. I don't care,

1530
01:20:57,439 --> 01:20:59,599
Speaker 3: and I don't think the players union or anybody else

1531
01:20:59,640 --> 01:21:03,160
Speaker 3: does that. What they care about is what's what are

1532
01:21:03,160 --> 01:21:08,520
Speaker 3: the players as a union, as a group, as a whatever.

1533
01:21:09,800 --> 01:21:10,880
Speaker 2: How are they going to split it up?

1534
01:21:11,840 --> 01:21:15,479
Speaker 3: Are they in order to make this move and get

1535
01:21:15,560 --> 01:21:19,880
Speaker 3: more guys on game day and get the schedule massaged

1536
01:21:19,920 --> 01:21:22,200
Speaker 3: into the spots on the calendar where the league wants

1537
01:21:22,200 --> 01:21:25,720
Speaker 3: it and to maximize the revenue because of it, How

1538
01:21:25,800 --> 01:21:27,200
Speaker 3: much more revenue of the player is going to be

1539
01:21:27,200 --> 01:21:28,559
Speaker 3: able to ask for and get.

1540
01:21:29,120 --> 01:21:30,960
Speaker 2: That's the question. That's the question.

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01:21:31,680 --> 01:21:34,280
Speaker 1: Back to the phones and to Derek in Cheek to Waga,

1542
01:21:34,360 --> 01:21:35,000
Speaker 1: what's up? Derek?

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01:21:35,800 --> 01:21:40,719
Speaker 11: Hey, guys, how you doing good? My idea is just extend,

1544
01:21:40,880 --> 01:21:43,960
Speaker 11: extend the season by another week. Everybody gets there one

1545
01:21:44,320 --> 01:21:49,679
Speaker 11: one bye week, every every scheduled throughout the year, and

1546
01:21:50,880 --> 01:21:53,400
Speaker 11: each player can only play a maximum of seventeen games,

1547
01:21:53,439 --> 01:21:56,720
Speaker 11: whether it be an injury game that they miss or

1548
01:21:56,800 --> 01:22:00,200
Speaker 11: a scheduled day off. Every player in an entire team,

1549
01:22:00,200 --> 01:22:01,920
Speaker 11: you can only play the seventeen games.

1550
01:22:02,200 --> 01:22:03,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought about that too.

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01:22:03,360 --> 01:22:05,160
Speaker 3: When they moved to the seventeen or eighteen, I knew

1552
01:22:05,160 --> 01:22:07,120
Speaker 3: they were gonna go to the eighteen game schedule, and

1553
01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:09,120
Speaker 3: I said, that's fine. And I said they should have

1554
01:22:09,120 --> 01:22:10,920
Speaker 3: done it before they moved to seventeen. They should have

1555
01:22:10,960 --> 01:22:13,360
Speaker 3: just gone from sixteen to eighteen. And then said, okay,

1556
01:22:13,880 --> 01:22:18,040
Speaker 3: everybody can only play sixteen games, including like Pat Mahomes,

1557
01:22:18,160 --> 01:22:20,280
Speaker 3: Josh Allen, Justin Herbert, Joe Burrow. That you gotta have

1558
01:22:20,320 --> 01:22:22,800
Speaker 3: somebody to play. You gotta go two games a year.

1559
01:22:22,920 --> 01:22:23,120
Speaker 1: Now.

1560
01:22:23,240 --> 01:22:24,720
Speaker 2: If the guy gets hurt and he needs to take

1561
01:22:24,720 --> 01:22:25,799
Speaker 2: a week off, that's perfect.

1562
01:22:25,840 --> 01:22:26,120
Speaker 1: Time.

1563
01:22:27,160 --> 01:22:29,400
Speaker 3: Set him down to his game, give him an extra game,

1564
01:22:29,479 --> 01:22:31,200
Speaker 3: give him an extra week to get healthy so he

1565
01:22:31,200 --> 01:22:33,840
Speaker 3: can get back on the field. I think I have

1566
01:22:34,040 --> 01:22:37,400
Speaker 3: always said that would be an awesome way to go.

1567
01:22:38,320 --> 01:22:39,760
Speaker 3: In fact, if you're gonna do that, you may as

1568
01:22:39,760 --> 01:22:42,080
Speaker 3: well go to twenty games and say you can only

1569
01:22:42,120 --> 01:22:44,479
Speaker 3: play in eighteen of those, or you know what I mean.

1570
01:22:44,920 --> 01:22:46,880
Speaker 3: So you're gonna have to take everybody on the team

1571
01:22:47,040 --> 01:22:49,519
Speaker 3: is gonna have to take off for two games during

1572
01:22:49,520 --> 01:22:51,760
Speaker 3: the Raider season, either by injury or just say I

1573
01:22:51,760 --> 01:22:52,360
Speaker 3: want a week off.

1574
01:22:52,400 --> 01:22:54,639
Speaker 2: I got a wedding, I can see, I can whatever.

1575
01:22:54,880 --> 01:22:57,400
Speaker 1: I could see pushback from the coaches on that though,

1576
01:22:58,000 --> 01:23:01,400
Speaker 1: because they're saying, you're making my job harder. So then

1577
01:23:01,520 --> 01:23:04,479
Speaker 1: the solution to that would be more players at a

1578
01:23:04,520 --> 01:23:06,960
Speaker 1: coach's disposal. And now you get into how big is

1579
01:23:07,000 --> 01:23:09,479
Speaker 1: your game day roster again, Yeah, which I think is

1580
01:23:09,479 --> 01:23:12,880
Speaker 1: a worthy debate to have there for the coach's sake. Yeah,

1581
01:23:12,920 --> 01:23:14,519
Speaker 1: so you think about the players, and you think about

1582
01:23:14,560 --> 01:23:17,639
Speaker 1: the owners. Nobody thinks about the coaches and the stuff

1583
01:23:17,640 --> 01:23:20,320
Speaker 1: that they got to deal with gonna as a result

1584
01:23:20,360 --> 01:23:21,160
Speaker 1: of those decisions.

1585
01:23:21,200 --> 01:23:23,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're going to get into things too, like you

1586
01:23:23,200 --> 01:23:25,479
Speaker 3: doing the NBA with load management too, Like you're going

1587
01:23:25,560 --> 01:23:28,880
Speaker 3: to take your like Josh Allen plays for whatever, sixteen years,

1588
01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:31,800
Speaker 3: or you know, Aaron Rodgers plays for sixteen years, he

1589
01:23:31,840 --> 01:23:35,160
Speaker 3: plays in San Francisco's hometown like twice in his career,

1590
01:23:35,680 --> 01:23:38,639
Speaker 3: and one of those games he's off for the week

1591
01:23:39,640 --> 01:23:41,920
Speaker 3: and nobody in his hometown ever gets to see him play.

1592
01:23:43,200 --> 01:23:45,680
Speaker 3: Or you take little Johnny to the one game a

1593
01:23:45,760 --> 01:23:47,720
Speaker 3: year you go to the Buffalo Bills and you go

1594
01:23:47,840 --> 01:23:49,920
Speaker 3: in and the Kansas City Chiefs have Joey Bag of

1595
01:23:49,960 --> 01:23:53,960
Speaker 3: doughnuts at quarterback instead of Pat Mahomes. There's a little

1596
01:23:53,960 --> 01:23:57,960
Speaker 3: bit of that going on. So you know, there's but

1597
01:23:58,080 --> 01:23:59,560
Speaker 3: I agree with you if you want to, if you

1598
01:23:59,560 --> 01:24:01,840
Speaker 3: want to solve this rest issue, just say, okay, you're

1599
01:24:01,880 --> 01:24:08,720
Speaker 3: mandating twenty game schedule. The players are only allowed to

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01:24:08,760 --> 01:24:12,200
Speaker 3: play in eighteen of them. They're only allowed And then

1601
01:24:12,240 --> 01:24:14,439
Speaker 3: you could get away. You could do away with the

1602
01:24:14,479 --> 01:24:16,519
Speaker 3: bye week. Hey, you get two weeks off.

1603
01:24:16,560 --> 01:24:17,040
Speaker 2: Shut up.

1604
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:19,680
Speaker 3: You know, even if this is eighteen game schedule, you

1605
01:24:19,720 --> 01:24:22,520
Speaker 3: get too. Every player is only allowed to play in sixteen,

1606
01:24:22,960 --> 01:24:25,519
Speaker 3: just like the old days. So you can now, what

1607
01:24:25,560 --> 01:24:27,040
Speaker 3: are you going to do? You don't have a leg

1608
01:24:27,080 --> 01:24:31,360
Speaker 3: to stand on as a union. We're not giving you

1609
01:24:31,360 --> 01:24:33,880
Speaker 3: any more revenue at all because you're not playing any

1610
01:24:33,920 --> 01:24:38,280
Speaker 3: more games, right, so you know that's and let me

1611
01:24:38,320 --> 01:24:41,040
Speaker 3: say this too, You're right, it does make the coaches

1612
01:24:41,240 --> 01:24:41,920
Speaker 3: job harder.

1613
01:24:43,720 --> 01:24:44,320
Speaker 1: They don't care.

1614
01:24:44,479 --> 01:24:47,640
Speaker 3: Try sit across from the guy who's making you know,

1615
01:24:47,800 --> 01:24:51,880
Speaker 3: who owns the team and saying, listen, I don't know,

1616
01:24:51,920 --> 01:24:54,479
Speaker 3: you know, I need these gs, you know, like, dude,

1617
01:24:54,600 --> 01:24:57,760
Speaker 3: get out of here with that to walk, Go go.

1618
01:24:57,720 --> 01:25:00,120
Speaker 2: Watch some film, figure it out, figure it out like

1619
01:25:00,160 --> 01:25:00,719
Speaker 2: my grandfather.

1620
01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:02,120
Speaker 1: You just say, go take a long walk on a

1621
01:25:02,120 --> 01:25:02,639
Speaker 1: short pier.

1622
01:25:02,760 --> 01:25:05,439
Speaker 3: Figure it out, you know. So that's that's where it's

1623
01:25:05,439 --> 01:25:09,559
Speaker 3: gonna be. I have long advocated for that, to have

1624
01:25:09,840 --> 01:25:12,680
Speaker 3: the players only play those seventeen then the owners have

1625
01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:15,040
Speaker 3: then the players. You get the players to commit to

1626
01:25:15,040 --> 01:25:17,800
Speaker 3: that and say, listen, we think eighteen games is.

1627
01:25:17,800 --> 01:25:20,240
Speaker 2: Too much, and no, no.

1628
01:25:19,360 --> 01:25:21,280
Speaker 3: What if we take it to sixteen, will you give

1629
01:25:21,360 --> 01:25:24,000
Speaker 3: us back to forty five percent of the revenue?

1630
01:25:24,120 --> 01:25:26,840
Speaker 1: Not doing they're not well, I already feel they're yet

1631
01:25:26,920 --> 01:25:28,080
Speaker 1: right in short change.

1632
01:25:27,920 --> 01:25:30,040
Speaker 3: If they so, if they say, well, no, we'll take

1633
01:25:30,080 --> 01:25:33,200
Speaker 3: to keep the forty seven percent for eighteen games. For

1634
01:25:33,280 --> 01:25:36,519
Speaker 3: seventeen games, all right, you're still gonna only play seventeen games,

1635
01:25:36,520 --> 01:25:38,639
Speaker 3: but we're playing eighteen and you only get to take

1636
01:25:38,760 --> 01:25:40,600
Speaker 3: participate in seventeen.

1637
01:25:41,600 --> 01:25:44,000
Speaker 1: That ouch, Yeah, what.

1638
01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:45,479
Speaker 2: Are you gonna do? You got nothing to say.

1639
01:25:47,640 --> 01:25:51,400
Speaker 3: I It does open up a can of worms, no question.

1640
01:25:52,360 --> 01:25:56,160
Speaker 3: But it also gives teams an out when a quarterback

1641
01:25:57,439 --> 01:26:00,439
Speaker 3: really shouldn't be out there or or whatever. Give them

1642
01:26:00,439 --> 01:26:03,720
Speaker 3: a week off. They get one anyway. So there's a

1643
01:26:03,800 --> 01:26:06,200
Speaker 3: huge amount of benefit in that for the roster because

1644
01:26:06,200 --> 01:26:08,840
Speaker 3: you can pick when the guy needs a week off,

1645
01:26:09,640 --> 01:26:11,639
Speaker 3: rather than everybody gets a week off and he gets well,

1646
01:26:11,640 --> 01:26:14,120
Speaker 3: I was healthy two weeks ago, now I'm not. Now

1647
01:26:14,120 --> 01:26:15,720
Speaker 3: I got to play, and I was healthy two weeks

1648
01:26:15,720 --> 01:26:17,840
Speaker 3: ago when I went to the beach for a bye week.

1649
01:26:18,439 --> 01:26:22,360
Speaker 3: So yeah, all that is in it. I think that

1650
01:26:22,439 --> 01:26:25,320
Speaker 3: may be the better way to do this whole bye week.

1651
01:26:25,360 --> 01:26:28,040
Speaker 3: Give them, give them eighteen games, but they can only

1652
01:26:28,040 --> 01:26:31,000
Speaker 3: play in sixteen or seventeen of them. Now, as Buffalo

1653
01:26:31,000 --> 01:26:34,120
Speaker 3: Bills fans, a game that were're gonna do when Josh

1654
01:26:34,120 --> 01:26:35,120
Speaker 3: takes two weeks off.

1655
01:26:36,800 --> 01:26:39,920
Speaker 1: We have to take a break here, but when we

1656
01:26:39,960 --> 01:26:42,200
Speaker 1: come back. Some thoughts on the tweets sheet, which we

1657
01:26:42,280 --> 01:26:43,840
Speaker 1: have yet to crack open on how to make this

1658
01:26:43,920 --> 01:26:46,799
Speaker 1: eighteen game schedule work Here on One Bill's Live presented

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01:26:46,800 --> 01:27:04,320
Speaker 1: by Colida Healthy, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, kind

1660
01:27:04,320 --> 01:27:06,320
Speaker 1: of crack open the tweets sheet here before we go

1661
01:27:06,360 --> 01:27:08,599
Speaker 1: for the day. How to make the eighteen game schedule work.

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01:27:08,640 --> 01:27:11,160
Speaker 1: Tweet sheet brought to you by Corgan Moving Systems, the

1663
01:27:11,160 --> 01:27:14,599
Speaker 1: official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. Jack says, honestly,

1664
01:27:14,680 --> 01:27:17,519
Speaker 1: let's get rid of divisions. Play every team in the conference.

1665
01:27:17,520 --> 01:27:20,519
Speaker 1: That's fifteen games. Play two opposing conference teams, one home,

1666
01:27:20,560 --> 01:27:23,439
Speaker 1: one away in rotation, play one other conference team a

1667
01:27:23,479 --> 01:27:25,280
Speaker 1: second time. Could be a rival, that would be the

1668
01:27:25,320 --> 01:27:30,679
Speaker 1: eighteenth game would be home plus road with that team. Interesting.

1669
01:27:30,880 --> 01:27:35,439
Speaker 1: Wipe out the conference, yeah yeah, or divisions. Wipe out

1670
01:27:35,479 --> 01:27:38,360
Speaker 1: the divisions. There would be some travel issues with some

1671
01:27:38,400 --> 01:27:41,080
Speaker 1: of that. I would think some teams would have inordinately longer.

1672
01:27:41,320 --> 01:27:41,519
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1673
01:27:41,560 --> 01:27:45,680
Speaker 3: This eighteen game schedule thing is not about who and

1674
01:27:45,720 --> 01:27:50,040
Speaker 3: where and rivalries and division and all that stuff. It's

1675
01:27:50,080 --> 01:27:55,760
Speaker 3: about an extra game, a game week of income. And

1676
01:27:57,320 --> 01:27:59,559
Speaker 3: they're not going to change the formula they have right

1677
01:27:59,600 --> 01:28:02,559
Speaker 3: now with how who you play and how you play them.

1678
01:28:02,880 --> 01:28:03,920
Speaker 2: This eighteenth game.

1679
01:28:03,960 --> 01:28:05,639
Speaker 3: I don't even know what they'll do well, how they'll

1680
01:28:05,680 --> 01:28:09,960
Speaker 3: designate it, how it will be filled with whom I get.

1681
01:28:10,520 --> 01:28:12,400
Speaker 3: There are a lot of ideas out there. The eighteen

1682
01:28:12,439 --> 01:28:16,680
Speaker 3: games is very symmetrical with thirty two teams, and the

1683
01:28:16,720 --> 01:28:19,439
Speaker 3: schedule with and the divisions with four teams in each.

1684
01:28:20,080 --> 01:28:27,160
Speaker 2: But these are ancilliary issues. Who you play, when you're

1685
01:28:27,160 --> 01:28:28,880
Speaker 2: gonna play it. When the buye weeks are.

1686
01:28:30,360 --> 01:28:33,000
Speaker 3: The two game by the two week by is a given.

1687
01:28:33,160 --> 01:28:35,840
Speaker 3: I don't know, there's any way around it. The question

1688
01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:38,880
Speaker 3: is how the money's gonna get split up, and how

1689
01:28:38,880 --> 01:28:41,240
Speaker 3: the current money is it going to change being split up,

1690
01:28:41,760 --> 01:28:44,360
Speaker 3: what's it going to do for the cap, and how

1691
01:28:44,360 --> 01:28:46,599
Speaker 3: it's going to affect the preseason and the run up.

1692
01:28:47,760 --> 01:28:49,560
Speaker 2: That's what it's all about.

1693
01:28:49,320 --> 01:28:52,559
Speaker 1: Steve with a very succinct Steve on the tweet sheet,

1694
01:28:52,640 --> 01:28:56,600
Speaker 1: with a very succinct thought. Two preseason games, two buys,

1695
01:28:56,800 --> 01:28:59,720
Speaker 1: super Bowl, the Sunday before President's Day, Increase the game

1696
01:28:59,800 --> 01:29:04,120
Speaker 1: day roster to fifty. Yeah, it's forty eight. If you

1697
01:29:04,120 --> 01:29:05,880
Speaker 1: address eight offensive linemen.

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01:29:06,200 --> 01:29:06,920
Speaker 2: Give them fifty.

1699
01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:10,479
Speaker 1: I mean con I mean that was Fanny basically taking

1700
01:29:10,520 --> 01:29:13,519
Speaker 1: the two practice squad call up rule and making it

1701
01:29:13,560 --> 01:29:14,960
Speaker 1: a permanent fixture.

1702
01:29:15,120 --> 01:29:17,320
Speaker 3: Right, I would. I would just say, just, you know,

1703
01:29:17,520 --> 01:29:20,040
Speaker 3: make the rosters big. Go from fifty three to fifty seven.

1704
01:29:20,360 --> 01:29:22,519
Speaker 3: Give them sixty who cares, give them the Saint, give

1705
01:29:22,600 --> 01:29:26,559
Speaker 3: them nine guys on the practice squad and unlimited call

1706
01:29:26,680 --> 01:29:30,080
Speaker 3: ups and all that yiggity yiggity and just yeah, fine,

1707
01:29:30,280 --> 01:29:31,800
Speaker 3: just give them more players on game day.

1708
01:29:32,040 --> 01:29:34,559
Speaker 1: Yeah. Thanks for all the input today, it was an

1709
01:29:34,560 --> 01:29:37,479
Speaker 1: interesting discussion. Steve and I back tomorrow for a one

1710
01:29:37,560 --> 01:29:40,759
Speaker 1: pm Friday edition. Get your questions into the OBL Friday

1711
01:29:40,800 --> 01:29:42,320
Speaker 1: fan mail bag. You can do it right now with

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01:29:42,439 --> 01:29:44,240
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