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Speaker 1: you think you'd be able to see that on the

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Speaker 1: field and see not necessarily the struggle, but see them

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Speaker 1: learning and going to the veterans all the time and

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Speaker 1: talking to Josh Allen all the time, or the quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: or the coaches or whoever. But they're out there and

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Speaker 1: they're just playing there. Yes, of course they're talking the

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Speaker 1: veterans and their coaches, but they've made several impressive plays

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Speaker 1: during practice. And a guy like Devin Singletary has said,

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Speaker 1: whatever my role is this year, I'm going to be

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Speaker 1: fine with that. If I'm the number one guy, that's great.

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Speaker 1: If we're going to split the load, that's great too.

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Speaker 1: And that's the type of players that are on the surrest.

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Speaker 1: And I was just gonna say that because he's not

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Speaker 1: the only one that has stated that. I mean, Colb

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Speaker 1: Easley said it a week ago and he said, Hey,

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Speaker 1: whatever my role is, that's what it is. All I

448
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Speaker 1: care about is winning football games. And there's a trickle

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Speaker 1: down effect from Josh Allen with that, because Josh, who

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Speaker 1: is obviously the poster child for this team just by

451
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Speaker 1: virtue of the position that he plays, has said time

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Speaker 1: and again, you know, I don't care about the stats.

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Speaker 1: I care about the w's. He said that since his

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Speaker 1: rookie season, and I think he embodies that. He's genuine

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Speaker 1: about that, and it shows in the way that he

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Speaker 1: plays the game. And I think the most telling comment

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Speaker 1: from Josh this entire preseason Mattie is when he said,

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Speaker 1: I'm shifting my focus a little bit. I'm going to

459
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Speaker 1: concern myself more or with getting the ball in our

460
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Speaker 1: playmaker's hands this year than ever before. And that is

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Speaker 1: a shift because I think there was a part of

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Speaker 1: Josh's game even as early as last year where he

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Speaker 1: said or felt internally, I got to make it happen

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Speaker 1: for my team. I got to make the play, and

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Speaker 1: it wasn't always throwing the football. It was taken off

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Speaker 1: and running, you know, doing whatever. And I think he's

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Speaker 1: come to the realization that I got a lot of

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Speaker 1: good guys around me, I don't need to do all

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Speaker 1: that stuff. I can just be a facilitator and we

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Speaker 1: can really take off on offense this year. That was

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Speaker 1: the most telling statement for me in terms of how

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Speaker 1: Josh has changed from the end of last year to now.

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Speaker 1: It's that realization, that self awareness that hey, if I'm

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Speaker 1: just a good facilitator this offense is gonna take off.

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Speaker 1: And you've talked about it before too. It's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: Josh has to make all these changes heading into year three.

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Speaker 1: It's all on him. It's all on him, and you've

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Speaker 1: pointed out it's not all on him. He has an

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Speaker 1: entire offense that also shares the weight of moving forward together,

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Speaker 1: from the offensive line getting better chemistry, and from those

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Speaker 1: guys being together for a second straight year, to introducing

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Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs to the offense, and Zach Moss and Gabriel

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Speaker 1: Davis and Dawson Knox catching more balls not having as

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Speaker 1: many drops, to an increased connection with Cole Beasley and

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Speaker 1: John Brown which looks stellar through training camp. All of

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Speaker 1: these guys together have to take a step forward. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Josh is the quarterback, Yes, the ball's coming out of

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Speaker 1: his hands, but these guys also have to do their

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Speaker 1: part to be in the right place to make those catches.

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Speaker 1: Where I think some of that weight then comes off

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Speaker 1: of Josh. Yeah, and I think it will. And again

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Speaker 1: I think he's already established a strong level of faith

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Speaker 1: and chemistry in the players that are around him. You know,

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Speaker 1: you say, well, what about the new people, the new additions,

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Speaker 1: the new pieces and those chief pieces right now at

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Speaker 1: least are Mosson Stefon Diggs. You know, he's played with

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Speaker 1: John Brown, Cole Beasley, Devin Singletary Dawson, Notts, Tyler Croft, etc.

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Speaker 1: But even he has said he feels like they're in

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Speaker 1: a good place. He's not denying that there's still work

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Speaker 1: to do, but he feels as though they are in

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Speaker 1: a good place and on the right path to where

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Speaker 1: they want to get by the time they roll around

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Speaker 1: to September thirteenth and kick the ball off against the Jets.

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Speaker 1: All Right, our twitter poll again with roster cutdown Day

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Speaker 1: coming up this weekend on Saturday, what will be the

506
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Speaker 1: Bill's most difficult decision? You can hit us up on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet at one Bill's Live or give us

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Speaker 1: a call eight oh three five fifty one eight eight

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. There's certainly a lot to

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Speaker 1: choose from. We're not giving you the choices. We're leaving

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Speaker 1: it open to you to come to us with what

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Speaker 1: you think might be the most difficult decision there. We

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Speaker 1: should also remind you that coming up in our next segment,

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Speaker 1: we will have comments from Coach McDermott, who just spoke

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Speaker 1: to the media a short while ago right as we

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Speaker 1: were getting on the air, and we'll be hearing from

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Speaker 1: him for an update on the right side of the

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Speaker 1: offensive line and where things stand there and the ongoing

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Speaker 1: impact of no preseason games. Mannie and I just talked

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Speaker 1: about it earlier. You know, you're two weeks out from

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Speaker 1: your season opener. You still have seventy eight players on

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Speaker 1: the roster. You've got some evaluations to make here, but

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Speaker 1: you also have to get ready for that regular season

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Speaker 1: game one, and so you have to strike a balance

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Speaker 1: between getting enough of a look at guys you feel

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Speaker 1: you still have to evaluate, combined with all right, these

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Speaker 1: are our starters, let's get them ready here for Week one.

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Speaker 1: And so I think adding in the additional element of

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Speaker 1: the unknowns that being the Jets and not seeing any

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Speaker 1: tape on them whatsoever in a game setting, with all

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Speaker 1: of the new personnel that they have added, I think

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Speaker 1: it makes the task a little trickier. And we all

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Speaker 1: know this week one is going to be unknown central

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Speaker 1: for every team in the league because there is less

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Speaker 1: to go on than ever before. Yeah, Week one, uh

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Speaker 1: and maybe even week two, A lot of people have

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Speaker 1: been saying the first couple weeks of this season could

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Speaker 1: kind of just be a run up. You're you're trying

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Speaker 1: to figure things out, as is the referees on the field,

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Speaker 1: because hey, they haven't been around either again, right, I

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Speaker 1: think it'll be a trial period for everyone. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: kind of sucks that these games count week one in

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Speaker 1: week two because it will be the unknowns, especially for

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Speaker 1: week one, trying to figure everything out, not being able

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Speaker 1: to watch preseason tape. But you know, this team is

546
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Speaker 1: going to figure it out. They're going to find a way,

547
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Speaker 1: like their motto is this season, and the guys that

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Speaker 1: they're trying to evaluate to say, you know, are you

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Speaker 1: on the roster or are you off the roster? I

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Speaker 1: think there's an understanding that you might have to work

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Speaker 1: a little bit harder these next two weeks. We might

552
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Speaker 1: have to use you a little a little bit more

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Speaker 1: than we would want to these next two weeks, and

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Speaker 1: you're just going to have to go into the season

555
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Speaker 1: maybe a little bit more run down with some bumps

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Speaker 1: and bruises from practices than the normal year. And that's

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Speaker 1: just how this year is going to go. Yeah, there

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Speaker 1: might be some teams that are a little shaky out

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Speaker 1: of the gate just by virtue of the fact that

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Speaker 1: they haven't played preseason games. The run up is in

561
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Speaker 1: stark contrast to what they're used to. But as we've

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Speaker 1: heard coach McDermott say himself, you know, find a way

563
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Speaker 1: to be as prepared as possible because the most prepared teams,

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Speaker 1: and coach Frazier has said this also, the most prepared

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Speaker 1: teams are the ones that are going to benefit in

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Speaker 1: weeks one, two, and three when some other teams might

567
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Speaker 1: be still trying to get the kinks out. If you're

568
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 1: the more consistent team that can execute, you might win

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Speaker 1: some games that nobody expected you to just because you're

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Speaker 1: that much more ready than your opponent. And so that's

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Speaker 1: what the Bills are striving for, obviously, along with the

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Speaker 1: thirty one other teams. But let's face it, some teams

573
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 1: are going to do it better than others. All Right,

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Speaker 1: we've got to take a break, but when we come back,

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Speaker 1: we will hear from coach Sean McDermott. He's got an

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Speaker 1: update on the right side of the offensive line. We'll

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Speaker 1: hear that from him. And we're looking for help from

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Speaker 1: you on the Twitter poll with roster cutdown Day on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: what will be the Bill's most difficult decision? Weigh in

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Speaker 1: with us at one Bills Live or give us a

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Speaker 1: call eight oh three oh five fifty. It's one Bills Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Help. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. This

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Speaker 1: brow I'm Anny Glad with you here on a Monday

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, broadcasting from the Seneca Studios. Here

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive practice going on well, probably about fifty

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Speaker 1: sixty yards away from us as we speak. We are

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Speaker 1: the base thumping there during the first segment of the

588
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Speaker 1: show and getting ready for regular season football less than

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Speaker 1: two weeks away now, and that's why we've got you

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Speaker 1: folks on the Twitter poll and we're asking you, with

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Speaker 1: the roster cutdown day on Saturday to fifty three, what

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Speaker 1: will be the Bill's most difficult decision? Hit us up

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00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet and we'll get to your responses

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Speaker 1: very soon here. But first, as promised, Sean McDermott addressed

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Speaker 1: the media just before practice today, right as we were

596
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: going on the air here, and he did provide an

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Speaker 1: update of sorts on the right side of Buffalo's offensive line. Obviously,

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00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 1: people have been shuffling over there, and so here is

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Speaker 1: what coach had to offer with respect to that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: continuity is important, and you know, I wish I could

601
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Speaker 1: sit here today and say that we know exactly how

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00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 1: that's going to look. We're still looking at some things.

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Speaker 1: I think we got a pretty good feel how it's

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Speaker 1: going to look. John, There's been ongoing conversations every day, evaluations,

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Speaker 1: and so we're going to continue to look at some

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Speaker 1: things today as we take the field. Obviously there's a

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Speaker 1: guy or two out, but that also gives us an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to look at some things and we'll use that

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Speaker 1: opportunity to the best of our venders today. And just

610
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 1: to follow up, last year, you were comfortable with Ty

611
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Speaker 1: and Cody actually rotating throughout the entire season at that

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Speaker 1: position at right tackle. Is that something that you are

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Speaker 1: considering as well as a rotation at one of those

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Speaker 1: two spots. Not at this point, I'd rather not. I

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Speaker 1: do believe that consistency and the continuity piece just breed,

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Speaker 1: you know, higher level of execution. So we'll see. We'll

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Speaker 1: do what we have to do to put the best

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Speaker 1: product on the field. So that's pretty telling, Like without

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Speaker 1: saying who's going to be there. It's clear that coach

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Speaker 1: wants a defined starting five, whoever it is. He wants

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Speaker 1: continuity week to week to week to week. He believes

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Speaker 1: that is what breeds the most consistent play and the

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Speaker 1: best success up front, which is as we heard in

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Speaker 1: the follow up question in Stark, contrast to what we

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Speaker 1: saw last year when you had Cody Ford and Tye

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Speaker 1: and Secky platooning it right tackle all year last year,

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Speaker 1: at least until Ty got hurt. Yeah, I wonder if

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Speaker 1: last year, if Ty didn't get hurt, if we would

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Speaker 1: have seen that kind t nuity by the end of

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Speaker 1: the season, by the last six games of the season.

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Speaker 1: But Ty was out those last five games, six games

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Speaker 1: total last season. So this season I wonder if he

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Speaker 1: is going to be someone who who was part of

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Speaker 1: that five. And just like last year, Brian day Balls said,

635
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Speaker 1: we want the best five out there, and we're not

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Speaker 1: going to stop rotating until we think that we find

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Speaker 1: the best five. And it's good that we're rotating anyways,

638
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Speaker 1: because you can't count on the fact that all five

639
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Speaker 1: of these players are going to be healthy enough to

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Speaker 1: play through an entire game. For seventeen weeks. So while

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00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: they're trying to figure out who those five guys are,

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Speaker 1: they're also figuring out, Okay, who's the backup to this position,

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Speaker 1: who's the backup to that position, Who can also rotate

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Speaker 1: throughout the line through multiple positions, And I think with

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Speaker 1: some of the new offensive lineman that you bring on

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Speaker 1: in Brian Winters and Darryl Williams, these are some great

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Speaker 1: throughout the season, right And I don't think we're having

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Speaker 1: about the entire right side of the line, if John

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Speaker 1: Feliciano doesn't get injured right before the players report to camp,

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Speaker 1: because I think we probably could have put it to

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Speaker 1: that offensive line, among other things, his play, notwithstanding that

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Speaker 1: he was probably going to be the right guard. But

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Speaker 1: obviously with his injury and still being out indefinitely, a

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Speaker 1: kind of through a couple of balls up in the air,

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Speaker 1: and now it's up to the coaching staff to kind

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Speaker 1: of catch the ones that they want to stick in

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Speaker 1: those respective positions. So we'll just have to see how

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Speaker 1: it plays out when they line up you come Sunday,

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Speaker 1: September thirteenth, because I would anticipate that even if and

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Speaker 1: when coach knows who is starting five R what's the

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Speaker 1: motivation to let the Jets know who it is. So

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Speaker 1: I think he'll be playing a pretty close to the

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Speaker 1: vest if and when they do reach a decision. But

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Speaker 1: you're right about what Brian Dable said, because he was

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Speaker 1: saying because he was asked the same question last week

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Speaker 1: I think what he meant when he said, you know,

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Speaker 1: we covet the position flexibility that we do have there

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Speaker 1: with several players. I mean, you got three or four

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Speaker 1: players there that are capable of playing both of those positions.

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Speaker 1: So he said, we covet the position flexibility because of

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Speaker 1: the very thing that you mentioned. I mean, it's tough

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Speaker 1: going down there on the line of scrimmage. And while

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Speaker 1: the Bills have been fantastic in keeping players healthy over

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Speaker 1: the last two seasons combined where they had some injuries,

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Speaker 1: we're on the offensive and defensive lines. Harrison Phillips was

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Speaker 1: lost for the season with an ACL injury in Week three,

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Speaker 1: and we saw a tie and Sechie out for about

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Speaker 1: seven games, I want to say, with a high ankle

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Speaker 1: sprain last year. So that is where those injuries are

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Speaker 1: going to take place, just by virtue of the way

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Speaker 1: those positions are played, and so if you have that

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Speaker 1: position flexibility, it enables you to keep on trucking even

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Speaker 1: though you might not have the top five guys out

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Speaker 1: there for sixteen straight games. And I think this is

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Speaker 1: a really good problem to have, is trying to figure

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Speaker 1: out who those five are with less than two weeks

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Speaker 1: before the season begins, because that means you have more

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Speaker 1: than five guys that are talented enough to be starters

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Speaker 1: on this offensive line, and so when injuries do come

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Speaker 1: to to be able to fill those holes and fill

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Speaker 1: those voids. There's several offensive lines on other teams in

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Speaker 1: the NFL that may not even have enough to put

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Speaker 1: a starting five together truly, and they're leaning on people

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Speaker 1: that they would think of as backups to be a

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Speaker 1: starter on the offensive line. So I think this is

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Speaker 1: a great position to have. I think they're going to

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Speaker 1: have a lot of depth at the position as well

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Speaker 1: as the defensive line throughout the entire season, and we

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Speaker 1: hope that this team can be as healthy as they

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Speaker 1: were last season. But surely this season is very different

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Speaker 1: with COVID, with the ramp up period, with the loss

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Speaker 1: of OTAs and workouts and things of that nature. And

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Speaker 1: the other reason they're probably still evaluating this is game

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Speaker 1: like reps have been in limited and short supply. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about a scrimmage, you know, last week, and

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Speaker 1: maybe a couple of other live practices that they felt

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Speaker 1: gave them enough of a simulation to at least formulate

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Speaker 1: some concrete evaluations. But again, apps in a preseason, I

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Speaker 1: think some of these evaluations might take a little bit longer.

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Speaker 1: And I wouldn't be surprised if some of these competitive

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Speaker 1: spots are tight. Players are pretty tight in this competition,

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Speaker 1: Like no one has definitively said I'm the guy based

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Speaker 1: on their play. So coach McDermott addressed that as well,

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Speaker 1: the ongoing impact of no preseason games and how it

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Speaker 1: has forced them to evaluate in different fashion. Let's take

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Speaker 1: a listen to that. Having just kind of gone through it, however,

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Speaker 1: I would say that I would like to see some

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Speaker 1: some level of preseason work um so that we can,

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Speaker 1: you know, use that as a measuring stick as to

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Speaker 1: where we are and evaluate it at a higher level. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know. The hard part for me, honestly is is uh,

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Speaker 1: when we haven't had them as of this year, is

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Speaker 1: the planning piece. How do we how do we simulate

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Speaker 1: those situations? And and uh and games if you will? Uh.

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Speaker 1: And then they've been yelling at me. The players have

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Speaker 1: And so we have not in order. And this is

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Speaker 1: something probably people whether they understand or not, but I'll

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Speaker 1: say it that in order to have referees come and

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Speaker 1: ref are scrimmages, they have to test and become part

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Speaker 1: of the max number on the tier. And and so

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Speaker 1: I wasn't only to do that because then having referees

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Speaker 1: in here would have kicked somebody else out, because there's

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Speaker 1: a cap on the number we can have in our

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Speaker 1: building every day. And so I've been the referee and

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Speaker 1: a couple of my assistants have been referees. And that's

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Speaker 1: a tough job I can tell you I've experienced firsthand. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you better believe it, especially as competitive as Bill's practices. Yet,

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Speaker 1: could you imagine what he's getting an earful about. Good lord.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I think the most important thing to take

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Speaker 1: from that is he said he wants preseason games so

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Speaker 1: you can evaluate it at a higher level. Practice can

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Speaker 1: tell you some things about the capabilities of a player

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Speaker 1: and or players or player combinations like a right guard

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Speaker 1: even with the trained eyes of NFL coaches, you don't

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Speaker 1: really really know until you see them in a game

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Speaker 1: going against guys that are trying to look good for

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Speaker 1: their team and going all the way to the whistle.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, you don't have that, so the evaluation becomes

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Speaker 1: more challenging. And I think this is a coaching staff

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Speaker 1: knowing how methodical coaches where they don't want to miss

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Speaker 1: a thing. So I think they're trying to gather as

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Speaker 1: much information as possible before they come down and say definitively,

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Speaker 1: this is our right tackle, this is our right card.

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Speaker 1: And with these practices, you have like a practice script

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Speaker 1: that you're going through right no matter what position you're at.

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Speaker 1: You may be working on this down in distance, you

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Speaker 1: may be working on this scenario. You may be working

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Speaker 1: on a two minute offense. A four minute offense during

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Speaker 1: the practice. So it's tough to have those game like

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Speaker 1: situations where it's not like, Okay, here's the scripted plays

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Speaker 1: that we're going to run through today, where you can

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Speaker 1: just let them go. And that's what they were able

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Speaker 1: to do during the scrimmage. And so that's why I

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Speaker 1: think the scrimmage was so valuable, because that's as gamelike

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Speaker 1: as it can get. To have a scrimmage like that,

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Speaker 1: to go through pregame, to go through halftime, all of

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Speaker 1: that is so important for the staff, for the players,

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Speaker 1: for the new players, and everyone, like Sean McDermand said,

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Speaker 1: has had to wear multiple hats. Heath Farwell was talking

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Speaker 1: about how they were able to create a gamelike situation

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Speaker 1: for Tyler Bass and Stephen Haushka during the competition, and

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Speaker 1: he said that they would have Trey White like scream

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Speaker 1: at Tyler Bass to try and throw him off on

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Speaker 1: game winning field goals, and so you'd have the defensive

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Speaker 1: line and then you'd have Trey White just yelling whatever

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Speaker 1: at Tyler Bass. So everybody's had to wear different hats

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Speaker 1: throughout this whole thing. Like he said, you can't have

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Speaker 1: refs in here because that affects the number of people

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Speaker 1: that you can have in tier one or tier two.

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Speaker 1: So everyone, everyone has had to do things that they

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Speaker 1: probably aren't tasks with doing before these last few months

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Speaker 1: of entering inside the building. All right, we have to

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Speaker 1: take a break, but when we come back, we'll get

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Speaker 1: to your comments on the tweet sheet. As we are

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Speaker 1: asking you with roster cutdown day coming up on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: to get down to fifty three. What will be the

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Speaker 1: bill's most difficult decision? Weigh in on that at one

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Speaker 1: Brown Matty Glab with you here on a Monday edition

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Speaker 1: of One Bills Live. As we're just about set to

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Speaker 1: close out this first hour. We will have ESPN's Field

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Speaker 1: Yates in the second hour as he'll be coming up

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Speaker 1: right after the break at the top. But before that,

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Speaker 1: we want to get two your comments on the tweet

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Speaker 1: sheet as we are asking you with Roster Cutdown on

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Speaker 1: Saturday to fifty three what will be the Bill's most

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Speaker 1: difficult decision, And we go to the Tweechee now, which

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Speaker 1: off with one of our regulars, Tiffany, who says, in

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Speaker 1: my opinion, it's the defensive line. They have such depth.

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Speaker 1: Do you keep the veteran Trent Murphy who came on

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Speaker 1: strong to end last season getting pressures on opposing quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: or do you go with youth in Darryl Johnson. He's

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Speaker 1: a heck of a special teams player. Another team will

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Speaker 1: grab either player if released. And Maddie, I know we

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Speaker 1: talked about this a wide receiver, but it does hold

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Speaker 1: true for defensive end as well. I mean, you look

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Speaker 1: at that defensive end position. It is stacked. You got

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Speaker 1: young guys like Mike Love and Darryl Johnson who have

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Speaker 1: kind of asserted themselves at times through the course of camp,

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Speaker 1: and then you've got the wily veterans like you know,

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Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes, Mario Addison, Trent Murphy. So you've got extraordinary depth.

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Speaker 1: There are you keeping five defensive ends? I don't I

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Speaker 1: don't think so I don't know, maybe, but that's gonna

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Speaker 1: be tough. Right now, there's seven in the defensive end

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Speaker 1: group on the roster. Now. The only player that have

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Speaker 1: listed as a defensive alignment is Quintin Jefferson because of

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Speaker 1: his flexibility. But you look at this group of seven

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Speaker 1: and that's like, I don't want any of these guys

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Speaker 1: a really good camp, had another sack the other day.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, that's tough. That's tough especially and here's

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Speaker 1: the thing with the young players that's got to be

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Speaker 1: so tough for the coaching staff. You know, you work

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Speaker 1: so hard. You know, we hear what they say here

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Speaker 1: all the time, draft developer sign The player development here

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Speaker 1: has been as good as it's been since I've seen it,

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Speaker 1: since I've been around here. And it's a testament to

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Speaker 1: the way the coaches are able to develop young players

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Speaker 1: into quality contributors. And you see what they've done with

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Speaker 1: Darryl john Darrel Johnson and play special teams in his

843
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 1: life before he got here, and he was a contributor

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Speaker 1: on special teams as a rookie last year, even though

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Speaker 1: finding time on the defensive side of the ball proved

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Speaker 1: to be difficult for him, you know. And now you've

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Speaker 1: added Mario Addison to that group. Mike Love is healthy

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Speaker 1: now after having a monster camp last year and then

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Speaker 1: suffering the injury and missing all of last season. So, man,

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Speaker 1: there's a ton of factors there. And I always envisioned

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Speaker 1: these coaches at the table, you know, debating with one another,

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Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, man, this kid's really coming on.

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Speaker 1: Is he quite ready yet? I don't know, but maybe

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Speaker 1: by week five he could be really helping us. Do

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Speaker 1: we want to hold on to him or do we

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Speaker 1: take the wily veteran? And again, you have to look

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Speaker 1: at where this team is in terms of expectations too, Maddie, like,

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Speaker 1: people are expecting this team to go places. Does that

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00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:54,320
Speaker 1: mean you hang on to the vets that you know

860
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 1: you can count on in playoff situations? Or do you

861
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 1: trust that a young player will be able to come

862
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: along and develop enough that by the time you do

863
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 1: get to the postseason, that guy's ready. These are the

864
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:06,360
Speaker 1: kinds of things these guys have to weigh. It's not

865
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,239
Speaker 1: a man, it's tough. And when while I was talking

866
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 1: about this yesterday with Tyler Bass, he was asked, you know,

867
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:15,839
Speaker 1: are you taking a chance on this guy? You guys

868
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 1: have drafted him. Obviously you saw him in the Senior Bowl.

869
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:21,320
Speaker 1: Obviously you were attracted to him. You were able to

870
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 1: talk to him multiple times. Then he gets drafted, you

871
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: have this period where you guys are doing everything over zoom.

872
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 1: He finally gets here. He has a very great camp,

873
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:36,320
Speaker 1: very impressive. But are you are you taking a chance?

874
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 1: You don't have preseason tape on him. You have Stephen

875
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 1: Haushka here, who is a twelve year veteran. Is this

876
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:47,879
Speaker 1: somewhat of a chance? And Farwell was like, I mean, yeah,

877
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 1: this is a rookie, This is somewhat of a chance.

878
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 1: But we have trust in this player. We have confidence

879
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 1: in this player. We believe that he's going to have

880
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: a great season based on what he's shown so far,

881
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 1: based on the conversations that we've had, based on how

882
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:07,280
Speaker 1: he's interacted with this team, based on his mindset, based

883
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:10,720
Speaker 1: on everything that we have in the last few months

884
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: of evaluating him and other players. This is what we're

885
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 1: putting our trust in, right And I think you know,

886
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:22,240
Speaker 1: his kickoff ability obviously helped also in terms of pushing

887
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 1: him over the top. But yeah, I mean he was

888
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: right there in terms of kicking. I mean he answered

889
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 1: every question that they threw at him and came through

890
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: for the most part with flying colors. So yeah, I mean,

891
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: as as Coach Farwell said, he earned it, I mean

892
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 1: he really did. From Bill, you want to take Bill's

893
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:43,840
Speaker 1: tweet here. Yeah, Bill says, with roster cutdown on Saturday,

894
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:47,440
Speaker 1: what will be the Bill's most difficult decision? He says, cornerbacks.

895
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: We need to get the right guys who can get

896
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 1: out there and perform. As much as Turdavious is a

897
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:55,399
Speaker 1: lockdown dB, he can't cover the whole field. I still

898
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 1: think the biggest question on the roster is Norman. He

899
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 1: has history with coach, but can he back to his

900
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen twenty sixteen levels of play? Number One, This

901
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 1: guy needs to get healthy first. He hasn't been back

902
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: in practice since he has that hamstring injury. Now, I

903
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,200
Speaker 1: think this coaching staff is optimistic about him coming back

904
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 1: onto the field, but when that happens, we're not sure.

905
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 1: Hopefully it's before the season begins. But he was not

906
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:25,799
Speaker 1: at practice today either or not practicing today. He might

907
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 1: have been on the field, but hasn't practiced since he

908
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: went out with that hammy injury, and we hope it's

909
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 1: nothing bad. But this competition between Levi Wallace and Josh

910
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 1: Norman hasn't been able to be what everyone thought it

911
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 1: would be because Levi was out for a practice in

912
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 1: the beginning of training camp and now Josh Norman has

913
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 1: been out for several practices. And one thing that Leslie

914
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 1: Frasier talked about between the two of them was this

915
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 1: competition that they were going to have if both were healthy,

916
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: was that this would make both of them better players.

917
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, is competing with each other.

918
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 1: They're to get the best out of each other. They're

919
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: going to bring the best out of each other, and

920
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: unfortunately that hasn't been able to happen. Of course, Levi's

921
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:09,360
Speaker 1: competing with everybody on the field, but I would have

922
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:11,799
Speaker 1: liked to have seen those two go up against each

923
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:14,319
Speaker 1: other a lot more than we've been able to see

924
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: just based on healthiness. Yeah, and I mean those soft

925
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 1: tissue injuries are tough for dbs. They play at such

926
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:26,359
Speaker 1: a high impact, explosive position that you really tax your

927
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 1: muscles and your joints at those high impact positions, and

928
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 1: so you cannot come back too soon from a hamstring

929
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 1: injury and go play that position, otherwise you will reaggravate

930
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:37,800
Speaker 1: it and be right back in the same boat. So

931
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 1: they're going to be extra cautious to make sure they

932
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:42,920
Speaker 1: can get him ready for the regular season. Mattie and

933
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 1: I have to take a break, but when we come back,

934
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 1: we will have one ESPN's Field Yates joining us. We'll

935
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 1: ask him about some NFL news and notes and the

936
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 1: challenge of people like him with his fantasy football expertise

937
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:58,279
Speaker 1: after getting no preseason to go off of, have fun

938
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 1: ranking the players without seeing them. That and more coming

939
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: up next with field Yates here on One Bill's Live,

940
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello

941
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:22,000
Speaker 1: Bills Radio Network Sports Date, your sports update from One

942
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. The Bills currently holding practice as we approached

943
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:27,719
Speaker 1: the season opener now less than two weeks away. Among

944
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 1: those not participating today, John Brown and Quintin Jefferson due

945
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 1: to illness that is not COVID related. Also not participating today,

946
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: Tyler Croft, Victor Sulaco, Quintin Spain, Josh Norman, and Taiwan Jones.

947
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 1: The Jaguars continue to make roster impact moves over the weekend.

948
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 1: It was trading away star defensive end Yannikin Gockway to

949
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: the Vikings, and then this morning waving running back Leonard

950
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 1: Fournette after just three seasons with the club. The injury

951
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:59,000
Speaker 1: bug continues to hurt Charger safety Derwin James. He missed

952
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 1: eleven games past season. Now he's likely to miss significant

953
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 1: time after suffering a torn meniscus in his right knee

954
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 1: during Sunday's practice with the team. The Eagles, needing help

955
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:14,479
Speaker 1: at wide receiver, could seek their first rookie or could

956
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 1: see their rookie start. Rookie starter miss Week one excuse me.

957
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 1: Jalen Rigor, the Eagle's first round pick, exited practice early

958
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:26,160
Speaker 1: Sunday with a shoulder injury. No surgery is needed and

959
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 1: a firm timeline for his recovery is not yet in place,

960
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:31,359
Speaker 1: but Rigor could miss the season opener, which kicks off

961
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 1: September thirteenth against Washington. Two games tonight in the Stanley

962
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 1: Cup Playoffs, the Tampa Bay Lightning looked to close out

963
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:39,839
Speaker 1: their series with the Bruins. They lead that series three

964
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,959
Speaker 1: games to one, with Game five tonight at seven thirty.

965
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,399
Speaker 1: The nightcap is between the Stars and Abs. Dallas leads

966
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 1: that series three games to one. And some sad news

967
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:53,480
Speaker 1: to pass along in college basketball, legendary Georgetown coach John Thompson,

968
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,839
Speaker 1: a central figure of Hoya's basketball for several decades, has

969
00:51:56,840 --> 00:52:00,320
Speaker 1: passed away. According to a family statement, he was seventy

970
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 1: eight years old. And that is your sports update from

971
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive Time. Now to begin our number two

972
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:09,399
Speaker 1: of the program, Chris Brown Maddy Glab with you here

973
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live broadcasting from our Seneca studios and

974
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 1: joining us now. It's one ESPN Fantasy Football Extraordinaire Field. Yeah,

975
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:21,759
Speaker 1: it's obviously covers the league as well, but it is

976
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 1: the heart of fantasy football season because this is like

977
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:28,719
Speaker 1: draft week for a lot of fantasy people, and we've

978
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 1: talked field. Welcome aboard, and first of all, thanks for

979
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:33,920
Speaker 1: joining us and giving us some of your time. You know,

980
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 1: I know coaches have been asked a countless number of

981
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: times how they have tried to navigate, you know, this

982
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 1: training camp period without any preseason games. What the heck

983
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:46,439
Speaker 1: is it like for fantasy people like you to try

984
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 1: to put a board together for the local Joe's trying

985
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 1: to draft a roster. Yeah, it's truly interesting, So thanks

986
00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:56,839
Speaker 1: for having me on, Chris and Maddie, and I think

987
00:52:56,880 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 1: about players that have been making plays and training camp

988
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:04,400
Speaker 1: that aren't necessarily those you'd expect. So someone like Dab Davis, right,

989
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:07,360
Speaker 1: there's people's reporting that he's done a nice job and

990
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:10,320
Speaker 1: making a lot of plays throughout Bills training camp, and

991
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 1: yet I don't have any context for that, right. I

992
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: haven't been to a single Bills training camp practice. Right,

993
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 1: I haven't seen Gabe Davis play a bunch. And there

994
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:19,840
Speaker 1: are just one of the many examples that when we

995
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 1: see around the NFL right now, So as good as

996
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:25,840
Speaker 1: someone may look, or as much as someone might be struggling,

997
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:28,839
Speaker 1: we don't even have preseason games to sort of put

998
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 1: that as one piece of the puzzle amongst many other

999
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:34,960
Speaker 1: pieces of the puzzle. So this is a game fantasy

1000
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 1: football that is projection based, and it's core like we're

1001
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:41,320
Speaker 1: ultimately trying to figure out what's going to happen for

1002
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 1: one variable amongst twenty one other variables on the field

1003
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 1: this year. It feels like we're shooting blind even more.

1004
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:51,879
Speaker 1: But that's okay, that's part of what makes it fun

1005
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:54,080
Speaker 1: for us, and it's part of the reason why I

1006
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 1: am so excited, like everybody else is to have a

1007
00:53:56,840 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 1: full NFL Sunday just thirteen days from right now. Uh

1008
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 1: Field got to ask you about what's going on in Jacksonville.

1009
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 1: The Jags wave Leonard Fournette and trade Yannick and Gockway.

1010
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 1: Did you see both of these coming? You know? I

1011
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:17,319
Speaker 1: if you had told me this happened. So let's say

1012
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:21,239
Speaker 1: it was February fifteen, right after the last season ended,

1013
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:23,080
Speaker 1: and you told me that by the start of the

1014
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 1: season both players would no longer be with the Jaguars,

1015
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 1: I'd say, oh, yeah, totally by that, And yet a

1016
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 1: week ago I would have thought, no, that's not going

1017
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 1: to be the case. Um and Gothway did sort of

1018
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:39,719
Speaker 1: feel like he was, you know, on the outs. I

1019
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:41,680
Speaker 1: think that, you know, there was a sense, given the

1020
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:44,440
Speaker 1: fact that he did show up he was not signing

1021
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:46,839
Speaker 1: his franchise tender and made it clear from the get

1022
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:50,319
Speaker 1: go that he was not at all interested in being

1023
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:53,840
Speaker 1: a part of the Jaguars franchise going forward, that he

1024
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 1: was gonna come to pat. I just didn't know how

1025
00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 1: long that would take, and who Being with Fournette, I

1026
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:01,360
Speaker 1: kind of figured, given that we had made it this

1027
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:05,040
Speaker 1: far training camp, he was likely safe. That being said,

1028
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 1: you know, we are in the busiest transaction week of

1029
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 1: the year, with every NFL team meeting to make at

1030
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:15,200
Speaker 1: least twenty seven move by Saturday at four pm. And

1031
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:18,239
Speaker 1: I wonder what's next for Leonard Fournette. The Jaguars head

1032
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:21,440
Speaker 1: coach Ug Morons bed earlier today, Yeah, Hey, we tried

1033
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:23,759
Speaker 1: to get in for anything a fifth and signal and

1034
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:26,840
Speaker 1: nobody came through. So I wonder what's next for Leonard Fournette.

1035
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,239
Speaker 1: I imagine how clear waivers and then probably find a

1036
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:31,719
Speaker 1: job at a much lower pay rate than the four

1037
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:34,040
Speaker 1: plus million dollars he was new, you know. And so

1038
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 1: you look at that Jaguar's roster in there not devoid

1039
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 1: of talent, but you think about all the names that

1040
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:40,879
Speaker 1: have come off that roster the last couple of years,

1041
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 1: whether it's Calais Campbell who's now in Baltimore, or Jalen

1042
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 1: Ramsey who was now with the Rams, you know, and

1043
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:47,800
Speaker 1: now Yannick and Ghakway, who I think a lot of

1044
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:51,920
Speaker 1: people would consider a promising young pass rusher. You wonder

1045
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,399
Speaker 1: where it goes and then you say, okay, well they've

1046
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 1: got what do they have? I think it's four picks

1047
00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 1: in the top two rounds next year now, and you say, okay, good,

1048
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 1: they can reload. But then you look at their draft

1049
00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:04,880
Speaker 1: history and you say, are they gonna come through? Are

1050
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 1: they gonna get enough hits to rebuild their roster? You know, Chris,

1051
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:12,240
Speaker 1: and I don't want to make too many cross sport

1052
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 1: metaphors in my analysis, but you know, the idea of

1053
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:19,959
Speaker 1: the process in Philadelphia was that, you know, the best

1054
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:22,880
Speaker 1: way to win in the NBA is to collect likely

1055
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:26,840
Speaker 1: two to three star power level players and build a

1056
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 1: roster with the pieces around that. And the best way

1057
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:33,800
Speaker 1: to acquire star level players other than you know, a

1058
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 1: free agent, which we know is fleeting in the NBA,

1059
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:38,800
Speaker 1: a lot of the guys end up with just a

1060
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 1: core five to eight group of teams is to get

1061
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 1: a blueshift draft talent. And the Steelers, sorry, the Fixers,

1062
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:49,760
Speaker 1: excuse me, gave themselves many shots at a top players

1063
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:52,520
Speaker 1: they could. And you're right like people there saying, hey,

1064
00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:54,840
Speaker 1: this is all good because the Jaguars have the inside

1065
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 1: track on Trevor Lawrence or what have you and obviously

1066
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:01,560
Speaker 1: he's the Clemson core. Max is presumed by many to

1067
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:03,760
Speaker 1: be the top candidate to be the number one overall

1068
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:07,400
Speaker 1: picks some eight months out from the draft. That being said, like,

1069
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:10,480
Speaker 1: only one team, only one team is going to wind

1070
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 1: up with Trevor Lawrence next year, and it's probably getting

1071
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:14,840
Speaker 1: be the team that has the worst record at football.

1072
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 1: So there's a very fine line sport between you know,

1073
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 1: wanting to position yourself well for the future and also

1074
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:25,400
Speaker 1: not wanting to have a culture that gets flipped on

1075
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:28,880
Speaker 1: its head because guys expect to lose every Sunday and

1076
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:31,680
Speaker 1: don't you know, give their maximum effort. So that's a

1077
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 1: long way of saying that you're right, like it's all good.

1078
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: You know, in theory, it's it's it's useful or can

1079
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 1: be impactful to have high picks, but ultimately it's what

1080
00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:43,280
Speaker 1: you do with those picks that matters most. And you know,

1081
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:45,600
Speaker 1: one of our our job on the outside is to

1082
00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:50,919
Speaker 1: objectively analyze how organizations have handled the resources that they've

1083
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 1: had available to them. You know, it's never personal, but

1084
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:57,320
Speaker 1: I just think that when you have six players from

1085
00:57:57,520 --> 00:58:00,040
Speaker 1: two thousand and twelve to two thousand and seventeen, that

1086
00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 1: were drafted inside the top five, and only one of

1087
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 1: them made it to a second contract, which was your

1088
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:10,400
Speaker 1: quarterback like portals, which was at the time in some ways,

1089
00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 1: a way to help yourself out. From a cap standpoint,

1090
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:17,240
Speaker 1: that's not the kind of roster trafficker that you can

1091
00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:20,880
Speaker 1: have and expect your team to be good. And unfortunately

1092
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:22,800
Speaker 1: for the Jaguars they have not been able to cash

1093
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:26,360
Speaker 1: in on those major chips. Well, the charters didn't trade

1094
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:30,040
Speaker 1: anybody or wave anybody, but they did lose a significant

1095
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 1: part of their defense in safety Derwin James. What type

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00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:35,480
Speaker 1: of impact do you think that could have on the

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00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 1: team as a whole, especially if he's going to miss

1098
00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:42,680
Speaker 1: significant time with that meniscus injury. Yeah, gosh, it's such

1099
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:44,480
Speaker 1: a bummer and you just feel a snake bit and

1100
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 1: right it's you know, major injury after major injury for him.

1101
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 1: At his best, Derwin James is sort of this unicorn

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00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:57,440
Speaker 1: defensive flyer because while he is you know, excellent size

1103
00:58:57,680 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 1: and you know the kind of safety that could be,

1104
00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 1: you know, almost a linebacker if you told him to,

1105
00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:04,680
Speaker 1: he also can be a quarterback. He can be a

1106
00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:06,960
Speaker 1: deep safety, he can be a middle of the field, safety.

1107
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:09,960
Speaker 1: He can be an impact strong safety, so a really

1108
00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:14,480
Speaker 1: useful player. And you know, I think that the AFC

1109
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:19,800
Speaker 1: West has the best group of wide receivers in the league.

1110
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:21,959
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's at least a conversation. Maybe

1111
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:24,320
Speaker 1: the NFC South would take me to tap down that,

1112
00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 1: and it's a fairly reasonable argument. But there are some

1113
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:30,400
Speaker 1: excellent skill players in the AFC West, and Derwin James

1114
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 1: is the Charger's best chance to you know, make someone

1115
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 1: likes Travis Kelcey or Keenan Allen or you know, Cortland

1116
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 1: Sutton not necessarily disappear, but at least not end the

1117
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:44,960
Speaker 1: game for you before it begins. And the Chargers, who

1118
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: have had really bad injury locker once again unfortunately dealing

1119
00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 1: with some right now talking with Field Yates from ESPN

1120
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,480
Speaker 1: and you know, a Field. You look at how the

1121
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:59,480
Speaker 1: league has managed the COVID situation, and it's been excellent.

1122
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:03,600
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are casting a wary

1123
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:07,880
Speaker 1: eye now at the regular season, knowing the variables increased

1124
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:13,439
Speaker 1: greatly once teams start traveling for football games. So yeah,

1125
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:16,120
Speaker 1: you know, we know the wheels are already turning in

1126
01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:18,960
Speaker 1: the wake of the falls positives to try to get

1127
01:00:19,080 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 1: more point of contact testing to rule out false positives,

1128
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: to keep players eligible for Sunday games in the event

1129
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:26,560
Speaker 1: that's something like that crops up on a Friday or

1130
01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:31,080
Speaker 1: a Saturday. But what have you kind of heard, What

1131
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:34,400
Speaker 1: have been the rumblings, if any, from around the league

1132
01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 1: as we get closer to this regular season, knowing the

1133
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:42,400
Speaker 1: variables will increase. I'm guessing it's cautious optimism. Yeah, there's

1134
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:44,919
Speaker 1: some cautious optimism right now, and especially about the season

1135
01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 1: beginning on time. The league feels very good about that.

1136
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:50,240
Speaker 1: I think a lot of us should fairly feel about

1137
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:52,320
Speaker 1: the season. We're ten days away and right now there

1138
01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:55,480
Speaker 1: are four players on the reserve COVID list. That's a

1139
01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:59,240
Speaker 1: good sign. So I was going to say there were

1140
01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:01,440
Speaker 1: some whispers about this, but now it's out there publicly,

1141
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:04,720
Speaker 1: is that this is the final week that the NFL

1142
01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:07,720
Speaker 1: and the nfl PA have an agreement to test daily.

1143
01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:13,640
Speaker 1: And testing daily does not eliminate the possibility of someone

1144
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 1: having COVID. It does not, obviously, But what it does

1145
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:19,720
Speaker 1: is that every time you're walking into the building, you

1146
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:21,440
Speaker 1: know if you're good to go or not right, and

1147
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:24,400
Speaker 1: if the agreement you know if all of a sudden,

1148
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:29,960
Speaker 1: you're testing someone Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and then you get

1149
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:33,120
Speaker 1: tested on Monday, but something happens on Tuesday when you're

1150
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:35,920
Speaker 1: on your player's day off, or a coach or a staffer.

1151
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:38,200
Speaker 1: Because to be clear, this is not simply the players

1152
01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:41,000
Speaker 1: who have to be responsible. Everybody who goes into the building.

1153
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:44,320
Speaker 1: And if you have something happened to you on Tuesday

1154
01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:48,200
Speaker 1: and then you walk back in on Wednesday and you

1155
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:51,760
Speaker 1: know you you you test again, but you've been into

1156
01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:55,800
Speaker 1: the building for you know, late Tuesday workout or therapy

1157
01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:59,800
Speaker 1: session or whatever it may be, then obviously there's risks.

1158
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:03,960
Speaker 1: So I wonder if this agreement will be extended. My

1159
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:08,160
Speaker 1: own opinion is that it is a borderline necessity for

1160
01:02:08,240 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 1: the NFL owners to prioritize daily testing themselves, because ultimately,

1161
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:15,960
Speaker 1: if this season is compromised, I get it, the players

1162
01:02:16,040 --> 01:02:18,920
Speaker 1: can't play, but we would be naive to not believe

1163
01:02:18,960 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 1: that a lot of this has financial implication, and if

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01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:24,640
Speaker 1: we can't play football at the highest of levels, there's

1165
01:02:24,680 --> 01:02:27,080
Speaker 1: going to be a financial windfall. So if I'm the owners,

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01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:30,040
Speaker 1: I'm thinking long and hard about finding out what it's

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01:02:30,080 --> 01:02:33,760
Speaker 1: going to cost and preparing myself to pay, however, how

1168
01:02:33,920 --> 01:02:37,360
Speaker 1: much it's going to cost to daily tests for at

1169
01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:41,040
Speaker 1: least the near future and potential for the entire season,

1170
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:42,840
Speaker 1: if that's what it takes, so real quick feel to

1171
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:46,720
Speaker 1: follow up on that. I mean, you mentioned how close

1172
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:48,280
Speaker 1: we are to the start of the regular season, so

1173
01:02:48,720 --> 01:02:52,439
Speaker 1: we've seen some eleventh hour agreements come down the pike

1174
01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:56,000
Speaker 1: and get done between the NFL and the players Association.

1175
01:02:56,200 --> 01:02:58,080
Speaker 1: Do you see this one happening? I mean, we just

1176
01:02:58,160 --> 01:03:01,120
Speaker 1: saw JC Tredder tweeting this morning saying we have to

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01:03:01,240 --> 01:03:03,840
Speaker 1: remain just as vigilant as we have up until this

1178
01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:07,440
Speaker 1: point going forward, so clearly he's trying to push an

1179
01:03:07,480 --> 01:03:10,920
Speaker 1: agenda there. Yeah, I think there's a chance that this

1180
01:03:11,080 --> 01:03:14,040
Speaker 1: does get done, and I think it's just common sense, Chris, right,

1181
01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:19,240
Speaker 1: because you know the owners are You can't necessarily have

1182
01:03:19,520 --> 01:03:23,200
Speaker 1: owners speak to the pride that a lot are feeling

1183
01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:25,200
Speaker 1: in the league right now about the fact that there

1184
01:03:25,240 --> 01:03:28,040
Speaker 1: are so few players on the reserve COVID list and

1185
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:31,960
Speaker 1: then subsequently say, you know what, we're good on daily testing, right.

1186
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:34,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I think what we've learned from this virus,

1187
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:36,600
Speaker 1: and there's a lot that we've learned there's a lot

1188
01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:40,040
Speaker 1: that we're still learning about. Is that there's no way

1189
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:44,720
Speaker 1: to completely reduce the risk of the virus, obviously, but

1190
01:03:45,240 --> 01:03:49,120
Speaker 1: there are some things that have been proven to do

1191
01:03:49,280 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 1: a better job of suppressing the likelihood than not. And

1192
01:03:53,680 --> 01:03:56,960
Speaker 1: I think daily testing is something that players feel strongly about,

1193
01:03:57,160 --> 01:04:00,880
Speaker 1: and I don't think there's any reason why owners shouldn't

1194
01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:03,640
Speaker 1: feel strongly about it. Again, it's obviously a cost, is

1195
01:04:03,960 --> 01:04:06,720
Speaker 1: we get that, but I don't know the specific cost,

1196
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:08,640
Speaker 1: and I understand that I'm speaking out of turn by

1197
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:11,480
Speaker 1: not being able to recognize what those costs are. But

1198
01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:13,840
Speaker 1: I certainly would think if I were an NFL owner,

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01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:16,960
Speaker 1: that you know, the chance to have a full season

1200
01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:21,960
Speaker 1: is of even greater importance than whatever that cost might be,

1201
01:04:22,120 --> 01:04:24,760
Speaker 1: because I think it does a better job of increasing

1202
01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:27,640
Speaker 1: likely that we play fifteen games this year. There's some

1203
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:30,560
Speaker 1: notable free agents still left out there on the market

1204
01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:33,720
Speaker 1: available for teams to pick up and to Dave and Clowney, Logan,

1205
01:04:33,840 --> 01:04:37,800
Speaker 1: Ryan Devonte Freeman, Earl Thomas Snax, Harrison. What's the likelihood

1206
01:04:37,840 --> 01:04:39,840
Speaker 1: of some of these players getting picked up before the

1207
01:04:39,920 --> 01:04:43,919
Speaker 1: season begins? Also thinking about how much time it takes

1208
01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:46,520
Speaker 1: to get them actually in the building with the testing.

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01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:49,720
Speaker 1: You know, It's funny, Maddie, because if I'm one of

1210
01:04:49,800 --> 01:04:53,760
Speaker 1: those players, as much as I'm telling myself, hey, I'm

1211
01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:57,480
Speaker 1: a veteran, I don't need all these camp practices, I'm

1212
01:04:57,520 --> 01:04:59,520
Speaker 1: trying to get the building right now. I want to

1213
01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:01,520
Speaker 1: get some where I have a chance to get acclimated

1214
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:04,200
Speaker 1: from the COVID protocols, and also I want to have

1215
01:05:04,280 --> 01:05:06,960
Speaker 1: a chance to get some reps underneath me, right. And

1216
01:05:08,120 --> 01:05:10,840
Speaker 1: it is not it's not that we don't see injuries

1217
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:14,760
Speaker 1: in other training camps. We seem every year every year.

1218
01:05:15,240 --> 01:05:17,720
Speaker 1: But what we have seen this year is there is

1219
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 1: an abundance of soft tissue injuries that are going around

1220
01:05:20,800 --> 01:05:23,120
Speaker 1: in the NFL right now. And I think a lot

1221
01:05:23,160 --> 01:05:25,840
Speaker 1: of smart medical people are tracing that back to the

1222
01:05:25,960 --> 01:05:28,920
Speaker 1: fact that we didn't have OTAs, we didn't have the

1223
01:05:29,080 --> 01:05:31,880
Speaker 1: usual start to a training camp. And if I'm a

1224
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:33,840
Speaker 1: player like any of those that you mentioned, then a

1225
01:05:33,880 --> 01:05:37,120
Speaker 1: handful of other notable veterans, I'm motivated to get in

1226
01:05:37,280 --> 01:05:39,400
Speaker 1: right now now. Obviously that requires an offer, and that

1227
01:05:39,480 --> 01:05:42,520
Speaker 1: requires being willing to accept that offer. So my guess

1228
01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:45,440
Speaker 1: is that a couple of those players find work, but

1229
01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:48,040
Speaker 1: not necessarily all of them, because some of them may

1230
01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:50,720
Speaker 1: say I'm more inclined to wait for an injury. Maybe

1231
01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:52,920
Speaker 1: you're a Davante Freeman and you're saying to yourself, I

1232
01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 1: want to wait for an injury at someone's key running

1233
01:05:55,840 --> 01:05:58,120
Speaker 1: back spot before I accepted offer because I want to

1234
01:05:58,120 --> 01:05:59,720
Speaker 1: go some more where I can be the man or

1235
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:03,280
Speaker 1: that you're saying to yourself, I'm calling Jacksonville today, because

1236
01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:06,800
Speaker 1: although they have some depth of running back, they may

1237
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:09,240
Speaker 1: not have an obvious starter that they are going to

1238
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:13,439
Speaker 1: feel comfortable relying upon. So definitely, some of the roster

1239
01:06:13,600 --> 01:06:16,440
Speaker 1: movement this weekend will probably allow teams to revisit these

1240
01:06:16,520 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 1: notable unsigned free agents. But if I'm any of those guys,

1241
01:06:19,840 --> 01:06:22,480
Speaker 1: my call from my agents or whoever it is representing

1242
01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:25,720
Speaker 1: me that's helping me find a job, is I want

1243
01:06:25,800 --> 01:06:28,680
Speaker 1: something and done by the time that practices beginning Earnest

1244
01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:31,120
Speaker 1: a week from Wednesday, so nine days, so you know

1245
01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:33,840
Speaker 1: whatever that September eight I want to want September ninth,

1246
01:06:34,160 --> 01:06:36,439
Speaker 1: I want a job. And I know that's easier said

1247
01:06:36,480 --> 01:06:38,640
Speaker 1: than done, But now it might be the time where

1248
01:06:38,680 --> 01:06:41,600
Speaker 1: you don't have the chance to be choosy and picking anymore,

1249
01:06:41,760 --> 01:06:44,520
Speaker 1: you have to just go with what's available. Talking to

1250
01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:50,040
Speaker 1: ESPN's Field, Yates and Field look at the list of

1251
01:06:50,240 --> 01:06:52,880
Speaker 1: college players that are opting out of the twenty twenty season,

1252
01:06:52,920 --> 01:06:55,600
Speaker 1: the list continues to grow. Jamar Chase probably the most

1253
01:06:55,680 --> 01:06:58,800
Speaker 1: notable edition of late the wide receiver out of LSU,

1254
01:06:59,200 --> 01:07:03,120
Speaker 1: who is probably widely considered to be, if not the best,

1255
01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:05,880
Speaker 1: one of the top two receivers in this year's class.

1256
01:07:07,120 --> 01:07:10,120
Speaker 1: I would think it's a relatively easy decision for him,

1257
01:07:10,200 --> 01:07:13,440
Speaker 1: because there's enough tape of this guy for NFL teams

1258
01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:15,840
Speaker 1: to know what he's about. But how tricky is that

1259
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:19,560
Speaker 1: decision going to be for players that maybe are going

1260
01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:22,000
Speaker 1: into their junior year and we're thinking, ah, I'm coming out,

1261
01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:24,720
Speaker 1: or we're saying, I'd like to get a little more

1262
01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:27,160
Speaker 1: tape out there on me to kind of boost my stock.

1263
01:07:27,400 --> 01:07:31,560
Speaker 1: It's that's that is tough, man. Yeah, I think there's

1264
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:34,760
Speaker 1: about ten guys that it's not tricky for, and everybody

1265
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:38,160
Speaker 1: else is tricky because there are players that if they

1266
01:07:38,440 --> 01:07:41,760
Speaker 1: entered the draft right now without playing another down of football,

1267
01:07:42,160 --> 01:07:45,080
Speaker 1: maybe drafted in the first round, that might be like

1268
01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:49,320
Speaker 1: the twenty eighth pick, and if they had one great season,

1269
01:07:49,680 --> 01:07:52,480
Speaker 1: they may be in contention for the eighth pick, and

1270
01:07:52,760 --> 01:07:55,600
Speaker 1: I get it. Ultimately, being a multimillionaire at the age

1271
01:07:55,600 --> 01:07:58,360
Speaker 1: of twenty one or twenty two is way far ahead

1272
01:07:58,360 --> 01:08:00,560
Speaker 1: of the curve financially for most people at your age.

1273
01:08:01,160 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 1: But if you're the eighth pick in the draft and

1274
01:08:03,200 --> 01:08:06,720
Speaker 1: you're making thirteen fourteen million in your first contract over

1275
01:08:06,760 --> 01:08:10,760
Speaker 1: the first four years as opposed to six million, that's

1276
01:08:10,760 --> 01:08:13,240
Speaker 1: a huge difference. There's a lot of motivation. So other

1277
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:16,920
Speaker 1: than you know, maybe a Jamar Chase, you know, maybe

1278
01:08:17,040 --> 01:08:20,640
Speaker 1: if either Justin Field or Trevor Lawrence decides that, you know,

1279
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Speaker 1: if they opt out, obviously the big ten we're still

1280
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:26,519
Speaker 1: wondering if they may play a season at all. Other

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01:08:26,600 --> 01:08:29,120
Speaker 1: than a handful of guys, I think everybody's impacted by it.

1282
01:08:29,280 --> 01:08:35,439
Speaker 1: So ultimately, it's a really difficult decision for not just

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01:08:35,600 --> 01:08:39,400
Speaker 1: the fact that you know, it's there's obviously some health

1284
01:08:39,560 --> 01:08:42,560
Speaker 1: ramifications and some potential risk and all that. But you know,

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01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:44,760
Speaker 1: I say it is difficult in this sense, like even

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01:08:44,760 --> 01:08:48,320
Speaker 1: if your instincts are to opt out, like you still

1287
01:08:48,360 --> 01:08:51,280
Speaker 1: love this game, you still love your teammates, Like before

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01:08:51,720 --> 01:08:54,160
Speaker 1: you know, Jamar Chase knew the potential to be a

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01:08:54,200 --> 01:08:57,400
Speaker 1: top five pick in the NFL draft. He knew enrolling

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01:08:57,560 --> 01:09:00,040
Speaker 1: an LSU and being a part of a brotherhood in

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01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:03,960
Speaker 1: a family and winning a national championship with an unbelievable roster.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's fair to understand both sides of

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01:09:07,040 --> 01:09:09,679
Speaker 1: the argument for guys, even those are the highest of levels.

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01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:12,200
Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit of Bills here. We've seen

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01:09:12,320 --> 01:09:14,960
Speaker 1: Josh Allen through two weeks of training camp practices. He's

1296
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:17,519
Speaker 1: looked pretty good. His connection with those receivers has looked

1297
01:09:17,560 --> 01:09:20,479
Speaker 1: pretty good as well, considering that him and Stefan Diggs

1298
01:09:20,479 --> 01:09:23,080
Speaker 1: haven't had too much time together. How much do you

1299
01:09:23,160 --> 01:09:26,599
Speaker 1: think he needs to take a step forward in twenty twenty?

1300
01:09:26,640 --> 01:09:28,400
Speaker 1: What type of jump does he need to make to

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01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:32,920
Speaker 1: see the success that the world wants him to have. Yeah,

1302
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:34,680
Speaker 1: So the Bills are one of the teams in the

1303
01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:39,400
Speaker 1: NFL that, you know, if you just evaluated the defense alone,

1304
01:09:39,560 --> 01:09:41,360
Speaker 1: you can say, hey, they're going to be in the mix,

1305
01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:46,200
Speaker 1: right Like It's almost like the Bills defense sets the

1306
01:09:46,320 --> 01:09:51,839
Speaker 1: floor and the offense sets the ceiling, and any quarterback

1307
01:09:52,200 --> 01:09:53,800
Speaker 1: of any offense is going to be the guy that

1308
01:09:53,920 --> 01:09:58,200
Speaker 1: dictates the most. How his team performs. Josh Allen made

1309
01:09:59,200 --> 01:10:01,760
Speaker 1: incredible stripe last year. I mean, and I'm not talking

1310
01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:04,960
Speaker 1: just like accuracy percentage. I just thought that, you know,

1311
01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:07,120
Speaker 1: there was a certain leadership we saw from him, there

1312
01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:10,400
Speaker 1: was a playmaking ability, there was a fearlessness from him.

1313
01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:15,160
Speaker 1: But now he's got another year under his belt, an

1314
01:10:15,240 --> 01:10:18,120
Speaker 1: improved wide receiver group with the addition of Stefon Diggs,

1315
01:10:18,720 --> 01:10:22,559
Speaker 1: and also heighten expectations, right, And you know, I think

1316
01:10:22,840 --> 01:10:26,600
Speaker 1: most people would believe that there are two teams that

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01:10:26,720 --> 01:10:29,439
Speaker 1: are competing for the AFC East Championship this year. It's

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01:10:29,439 --> 01:10:31,560
Speaker 1: the two teams that did it last year, Patriots in

1319
01:10:31,600 --> 01:10:35,680
Speaker 1: the Bills. And with that comes expectations. And that's what

1320
01:10:35,800 --> 01:10:37,840
Speaker 1: I think is going to be ultimately that determines the

1321
01:10:37,920 --> 01:10:41,280
Speaker 1: Bill season is how Josh meets those expectations. And there

1322
01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:42,840
Speaker 1: are a lot of reasons to believe that he's going

1323
01:10:42,880 --> 01:10:45,920
Speaker 1: to continue to see a trajectory that is reflective of

1324
01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:48,360
Speaker 1: why the Bills, you know, felt compelled to use the

1325
01:10:48,360 --> 01:10:52,000
Speaker 1: sevenths kick on him in twenty eighteen, and why you know,

1326
01:10:52,080 --> 01:10:55,680
Speaker 1: he has the makings of a franchise quarterback. But it's

1327
01:10:55,680 --> 01:10:57,760
Speaker 1: also a prove it league and the third year is

1328
01:10:57,840 --> 01:11:00,519
Speaker 1: ten tends to be the year that we make some

1329
01:11:00,640 --> 01:11:04,799
Speaker 1: polesale decisions or evaluations on quarterbacks. You've got the looming

1330
01:11:04,960 --> 01:11:07,120
Speaker 1: decision on a fifty year option, and just the fact

1331
01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:09,120
Speaker 1: that you know you've had the two year sample size

1332
01:11:09,120 --> 01:11:11,200
Speaker 1: of him being a starter for most of these games.

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01:11:11,240 --> 01:11:13,600
Speaker 1: So Josh is one of the most intriguing players to

1334
01:11:13,680 --> 01:11:17,280
Speaker 1: watch in the NFL this year. I'm betting on him,

1335
01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:22,040
Speaker 1: but I also understand that from a quarterback that hasn't

1336
01:11:22,400 --> 01:11:26,360
Speaker 1: already experienced Lamar Jackson or Patrick Mahomes first two year success,

1337
01:11:26,840 --> 01:11:29,720
Speaker 1: all of these young quarterbacks in the NFL have a

1338
01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:32,040
Speaker 1: little bit more to prove. Last one we have for

1339
01:11:32,240 --> 01:11:35,840
Speaker 1: ye field. You know, we all expect, and you even

1340
01:11:35,880 --> 01:11:38,160
Speaker 1: referenced it, that this defense is going to be a

1341
01:11:38,240 --> 01:11:40,839
Speaker 1: top five unit again this year, and there's no indication

1342
01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:42,439
Speaker 1: that we've seen a training camp that that's going to

1343
01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:46,400
Speaker 1: change at all. They've been flat out dominant. Where do

1344
01:11:46,520 --> 01:11:50,160
Speaker 1: you feel an offense that ranked twenty third last year

1345
01:11:50,280 --> 01:11:52,840
Speaker 1: has to get? Can they just get top fifteen, get

1346
01:11:52,920 --> 01:11:55,320
Speaker 1: to the middle of the league as an offense and

1347
01:11:55,439 --> 01:11:57,880
Speaker 1: that would be good enough because it's hard to make

1348
01:11:57,960 --> 01:12:01,280
Speaker 1: that giant leap even with all that the Bills have

1349
01:12:01,400 --> 01:12:04,439
Speaker 1: had in talent wise, So I'm thinking, like, just get

1350
01:12:04,520 --> 01:12:06,800
Speaker 1: to the middle of the pack with your offense and

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01:12:06,880 --> 01:12:10,320
Speaker 1: that might be enough, right totally. I mean, then there's

1352
01:12:10,360 --> 01:12:12,200
Speaker 1: some recent teams that have showed you that can be

1353
01:12:12,280 --> 01:12:15,040
Speaker 1: the model, right, I mean, and I know that their

1354
01:12:15,080 --> 01:12:17,519
Speaker 1: fortune's turned last year, but the Bears a couple of

1355
01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:20,080
Speaker 1: years ago was a good offense. It wasn't the best

1356
01:12:20,160 --> 01:12:22,599
Speaker 1: in football, but they had a dynamic defense that carried

1357
01:12:22,640 --> 01:12:25,160
Speaker 1: them a long way. You know, the Patriots last year

1358
01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:28,680
Speaker 1: won eleven games in twelve games with an offense that

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01:12:28,960 --> 01:12:30,920
Speaker 1: was middle of the pack and if not lower than

1360
01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:33,519
Speaker 1: that a lot of categories, but an outstanding defense. You know,

1361
01:12:33,600 --> 01:12:35,679
Speaker 1: it builds themselves last year kind of the working model.

1362
01:12:35,760 --> 01:12:38,240
Speaker 1: So I'm with you, Chris, is that if this defense

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01:12:38,320 --> 01:12:40,240
Speaker 1: takes a leap to middle of the pack, I'm sorry,

1364
01:12:40,280 --> 01:12:42,080
Speaker 1: the offense takes a leap to middle of the pack,

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01:12:42,600 --> 01:12:45,240
Speaker 1: then you've got a major chance of winning twelve games

1366
01:12:45,320 --> 01:12:48,040
Speaker 1: this year. It becomes if it becomes a top ten offense,

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01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:49,880
Speaker 1: then you're talking about a team that's going to compete

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01:12:50,040 --> 01:12:53,280
Speaker 1: for the conference championship this season. So the sky is

1369
01:12:53,280 --> 01:12:56,719
Speaker 1: the limit for Buffalo this year for if the offense

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01:12:56,840 --> 01:12:59,840
Speaker 1: can sort of take propel itself forward. And then you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to overstate something just because it happened recently,

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01:13:03,080 --> 01:13:05,479
Speaker 1: but when you commit to Tyler Bass, a rookie kicker,

1373
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:08,360
Speaker 1: which isn't a major surprise given the draft pick investment

1374
01:13:08,400 --> 01:13:10,400
Speaker 1: you made, you know, you just want to see if

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01:13:10,439 --> 01:13:12,600
Speaker 1: a guy can handle riggers of being the guy. And

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01:13:13,479 --> 01:13:15,680
Speaker 1: it's an element based team. You're gonna have to kick

1377
01:13:15,720 --> 01:13:17,880
Speaker 1: in some gnarly wind snow and rain and all that

1378
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:20,760
Speaker 1: it comes in Western New York and some clutch kicks,

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01:13:20,840 --> 01:13:23,439
Speaker 1: and I think that most people are confident he'll be

1380
01:13:23,479 --> 01:13:24,800
Speaker 1: able to handle it. But those are the kind of

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01:13:24,880 --> 01:13:26,920
Speaker 1: things that can be the margins between a team that's

1382
01:13:27,240 --> 01:13:29,680
Speaker 1: really good and the conference contender versus a team that

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01:13:29,800 --> 01:13:32,080
Speaker 1: makes the playoffs but doesn't quite make it to that

1384
01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:34,760
Speaker 1: next level. All right, Field is always we thank you

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01:13:34,840 --> 01:13:37,080
Speaker 1: for your insight and good luck this week. Do you

1386
01:13:37,160 --> 01:13:39,880
Speaker 1: have your fantasy You guys have your fantasy Marathon day,

1387
01:13:39,920 --> 01:13:41,720
Speaker 1: don't you in that coming up this week? Or we

1388
01:13:41,800 --> 01:13:44,080
Speaker 1: had we had the marathon yep, And you know this

1389
01:13:44,160 --> 01:13:45,840
Speaker 1: week is going to be a busy week of lots

1390
01:13:45,880 --> 01:13:48,800
Speaker 1: and lots and lots of drafts, fun times around. All right,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate the time, Field, thanks very much. We'll be

1392
01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:52,920
Speaker 1: looking for you out there on ESPN to help us

1393
01:13:52,920 --> 01:13:55,920
Speaker 1: all out. That's Field Yates from ESPN. Busy on the

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01:13:55,960 --> 01:13:58,000
Speaker 1: fantasy side, but also keeps us here to the ground

1395
01:13:58,320 --> 01:14:01,160
Speaker 1: with respect to the NFL. And you find it funny

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01:14:01,280 --> 01:14:03,320
Speaker 1: right at the end there he mentioned Tyler Bass Mandy.

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01:14:03,360 --> 01:14:05,439
Speaker 1: I mean, we were talking about it earlier, and that

1398
01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:08,519
Speaker 1: is the thing people are wondering when when push comes

1399
01:14:08,560 --> 01:14:10,880
Speaker 1: to shove and the chips are down as much as

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01:14:10,920 --> 01:14:12,680
Speaker 1: these guys have tested him, we'll be able to do

1401
01:14:12,800 --> 01:14:14,360
Speaker 1: it in a game. And that's going to be a

1402
01:14:14,439 --> 01:14:18,000
Speaker 1: question until he answers it. Yeah, you can't bet on

1403
01:14:18,280 --> 01:14:21,479
Speaker 1: how this guy is going to do in in a

1404
01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:24,120
Speaker 1: wind turn Western New York, in the wind that comes

1405
01:14:24,160 --> 01:14:26,439
Speaker 1: through Bill's Stadium. But I've got to say during that

1406
01:14:26,680 --> 01:14:30,160
Speaker 1: training camp scrimmage, it was quite wind It was windy.

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01:14:30,240 --> 01:14:32,880
Speaker 1: You're right, yeah, it was, and he did right, he

1408
01:14:32,960 --> 01:14:35,040
Speaker 1: did well, right, Yeah, he was two for three. He

1409
01:14:35,160 --> 01:14:37,559
Speaker 1: missed a fifty five yard or was his long miss,

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01:14:37,680 --> 01:14:40,200
Speaker 1: which fifty five yards is pretty long. Well, yeah, and

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01:14:40,320 --> 01:14:42,920
Speaker 1: when you have windy conditions, it's a longer distance to

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01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:45,200
Speaker 1: travel and for the wind to affect the kicks, So yeah,

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01:14:45,200 --> 01:14:46,960
Speaker 1: you would understand that. And then he made two other

1414
01:14:47,160 --> 01:14:49,160
Speaker 1: from from a decent length. I can't remember off the

1415
01:14:49,160 --> 01:14:50,919
Speaker 1: top of my head, but he had a good scrimmage

1416
01:14:50,960 --> 01:14:53,759
Speaker 1: and made two extra points. Yeah. I mean, it looks,

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01:14:53,920 --> 01:14:55,800
Speaker 1: at least in the early going, like the kids got

1418
01:14:55,880 --> 01:15:00,439
Speaker 1: the metal to make kicks when they absolutely need And

1419
01:15:00,600 --> 01:15:02,519
Speaker 1: so we'll all just cross our fingers and hope for

1420
01:15:02,560 --> 01:15:04,400
Speaker 1: the best on that. All right, we have to take

1421
01:15:04,400 --> 01:15:06,400
Speaker 1: a break, but when we come back, we'll have more.

1422
01:15:07,080 --> 01:15:09,519
Speaker 1: We may even have a little sound from one Tyler

1423
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:12,720
Speaker 1: Bass to share with you, as he has effectively won

1424
01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:15,040
Speaker 1: the kicking competition. We'll hear from him in special Teams

1425
01:15:15,120 --> 01:15:18,479
Speaker 1: coordinator Heath Farwell when we come back. It's One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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01:15:32,960 --> 01:15:35,880
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown Matti glab

1428
01:15:35,960 --> 01:15:38,120
Speaker 1: with you here on a Monday edition of the show.

1429
01:15:38,320 --> 01:15:40,840
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker hitting a golf ball around somewhere or the

1430
01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:44,920
Speaker 1: charity golf tournament. He'll be back tomorrow and we're broadcasting

1431
01:15:44,960 --> 01:15:48,320
Speaker 1: from the Seneca studios here One Bill's Drive in Orchard Park.

1432
01:15:48,840 --> 01:15:52,679
Speaker 1: And before we get to the sound from Tyler Bass

1433
01:15:52,760 --> 01:15:55,240
Speaker 1: and from Special Teams coordinator Heath Farwell, we do want

1434
01:15:55,280 --> 01:15:59,479
Speaker 1: to reset the twitter poll which is with roster cutdown

1435
01:15:59,560 --> 01:16:02,920
Speaker 1: on Sunday and the need to get the roster down

1436
01:16:02,960 --> 01:16:06,200
Speaker 1: to fifty three, some twenty five players are gonna have

1437
01:16:06,240 --> 01:16:09,519
Speaker 1: to be moved off this roster. What will be the

1438
01:16:09,640 --> 01:16:13,160
Speaker 1: Bill's most difficult decision. We're leaving the choices to you today,

1439
01:16:13,600 --> 01:16:15,679
Speaker 1: so wagh in with what you think the most difficult

1440
01:16:15,720 --> 01:16:17,800
Speaker 1: decision might be when it comes to cutting this roster

1441
01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:21,800
Speaker 1: down to the required fifty three by four pm on Saturday.

1442
01:16:21,840 --> 01:16:23,320
Speaker 1: You can hit us up on the tweet sheet at

1443
01:16:23,320 --> 01:16:24,840
Speaker 1: one Bills Live, or you can give us a call

1444
01:16:25,160 --> 01:16:28,320
Speaker 1: at eight oh three five fifty one, eight eight five

1445
01:16:28,479 --> 01:16:33,040
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. But Tyler Bass has been mentioned

1446
01:16:33,080 --> 01:16:35,479
Speaker 1: more than once on the show today and with good

1447
01:16:35,520 --> 01:16:38,720
Speaker 1: reason because he has won the kicking competition outright from

1448
01:16:38,800 --> 01:16:41,320
Speaker 1: veteran Stephen Haushket. And let me just say this first, Maddie,

1449
01:16:43,160 --> 01:16:46,439
Speaker 1: I know he's a super talented kicker, Okay, I totally

1450
01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:49,280
Speaker 1: get it, physically gifted. I watched him at the Senior Bowl,

1451
01:16:49,560 --> 01:16:54,000
Speaker 1: ridiculous leg strength. I get all of that, but man,

1452
01:16:54,160 --> 01:16:57,240
Speaker 1: to come in here and to beat a kicker who

1453
01:16:57,400 --> 01:17:00,320
Speaker 1: is the eleventh most accurate kicker in the his street

1454
01:17:00,320 --> 01:17:04,240
Speaker 1: of the league, that's pretty I mean, bravo on that, man,

1455
01:17:04,400 --> 01:17:07,720
Speaker 1: like you gotta that's some doming. I mean, when you

1456
01:17:07,800 --> 01:17:09,920
Speaker 1: can do that one hundred percent. When I saw that

1457
01:17:10,040 --> 01:17:14,160
Speaker 1: news come across, I was like, what what, it's over.

1458
01:17:14,520 --> 01:17:19,040
Speaker 1: It's over already, It's over already. But I mean, he

1459
01:17:19,160 --> 01:17:21,759
Speaker 1: had a great camp, and I went through my notebook

1460
01:17:21,800 --> 01:17:25,559
Speaker 1: of practice notes and counted how many he made, how

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01:17:25,600 --> 01:17:28,200
Speaker 1: many he missed, and buy my practice notes, which I

1462
01:17:28,400 --> 01:17:30,560
Speaker 1: was at practice every day, so I think I have

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01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:33,960
Speaker 1: all of them on here. He was thirty two of

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01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:36,800
Speaker 1: thirty nine, so he made eighty two percent of his

1465
01:17:36,960 --> 01:17:41,000
Speaker 1: field goals, several from fifty yards. But as he farwell said,

1466
01:17:41,080 --> 01:17:45,040
Speaker 1: it's what matters what you do from forty to forty nine.

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01:17:45,160 --> 01:17:48,639
Speaker 1: That's what matters most, right, because that's that's where most

1468
01:17:48,720 --> 01:17:52,200
Speaker 1: of his opportunities are going to come from. And even

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01:17:53,120 --> 01:17:56,040
Speaker 1: I would say, yes, even between thirty and thirty nine,

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01:17:56,120 --> 01:17:58,240
Speaker 1: there are typically more attempts in a given year for

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01:17:58,320 --> 01:18:01,639
Speaker 1: a kicker from that distance then from fifty plus. Usually

1472
01:18:02,080 --> 01:18:04,559
Speaker 1: the amount of kicks a kicker will get a shot

1473
01:18:04,600 --> 01:18:07,960
Speaker 1: at from fifty plus is somewhere between five and eight

1474
01:18:08,360 --> 01:18:12,560
Speaker 1: in a given season. Maybe there will be more opportunities

1475
01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:14,880
Speaker 1: for Tyler because of his leg strength. We'll have to

1476
01:18:14,920 --> 01:18:18,200
Speaker 1: wait and see. But Tyler, as we know, won the

1477
01:18:18,280 --> 01:18:22,160
Speaker 1: kicking competition over the veteran Stephen Haushkea, and we wanted

1478
01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:24,439
Speaker 1: to begin with the way he found out that he

1479
01:18:24,520 --> 01:18:27,920
Speaker 1: won the competition. So here's Tyler giving us his assessment

1480
01:18:27,960 --> 01:18:30,519
Speaker 1: as to how he learned that he won won the

1481
01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:35,920
Speaker 1: kicking job. I saw the news on my phone and

1482
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:40,640
Speaker 1: then coach Fawell calls me and I was speechless. I

1483
01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:42,680
Speaker 1: had a lot of emotions going through it, just like

1484
01:18:42,760 --> 01:18:45,040
Speaker 1: I said, because nothing's been handed to me in life.

1485
01:18:45,120 --> 01:18:50,679
Speaker 1: So I got the call and really just I still

1486
01:18:50,720 --> 01:18:54,240
Speaker 1: haven't really processed it, but it was just an unbelievable moment.

1487
01:18:54,280 --> 01:18:56,240
Speaker 1: And it's like a dream for me. I know it's

1488
01:18:56,280 --> 01:18:58,639
Speaker 1: just the beginning of a dream, but it's one step

1489
01:18:58,720 --> 01:19:01,280
Speaker 1: for me. So I got the call. I was just

1490
01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:08,040
Speaker 1: super thankful, thankful for mister bean Coach McDermott, he's smiling

1491
01:19:08,120 --> 01:19:11,600
Speaker 1: just for believing in me and just really ready to

1492
01:19:11,680 --> 01:19:13,800
Speaker 1: get to work. And then after I got the call,

1493
01:19:13,880 --> 01:19:15,920
Speaker 1: I called my mom and you know, she was probably

1494
01:19:15,960 --> 01:19:18,040
Speaker 1: more excited than me. She was, you know, because we've

1495
01:19:18,120 --> 01:19:21,120
Speaker 1: been into a lot, so just she was happy. I

1496
01:19:21,200 --> 01:19:24,000
Speaker 1: called my family and yeah, So I enjoyed it for

1497
01:19:26,000 --> 01:19:28,720
Speaker 1: was it that Friday? And I enjoyed it Saturday on

1498
01:19:28,720 --> 01:19:31,080
Speaker 1: the off day. But now it's just time me to

1499
01:19:31,160 --> 01:19:34,000
Speaker 1: to work. So and he went right back to work.

1500
01:19:34,200 --> 01:19:36,200
Speaker 1: Is he was six or six on Sunday? Right, Yeah,

1501
01:19:36,240 --> 01:19:38,280
Speaker 1: he had a great day on Sunday. The pressure off

1502
01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:41,160
Speaker 1: really when you think about it, right, six or six,

1503
01:19:41,200 --> 01:19:43,800
Speaker 1: as long as it was from fifty One. Thing that

1504
01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:46,080
Speaker 1: I found funny about that quote was, you know a

1505
01:19:46,160 --> 01:19:48,800
Speaker 1: kid is young when he calls Brandon Bean mister bean.

1506
01:19:49,040 --> 01:19:52,479
Speaker 1: There you go, that's true. Um. The other thing that

1507
01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:55,360
Speaker 1: I take from this because I think going into this

1508
01:19:55,520 --> 01:19:59,439
Speaker 1: training camp, a lot of us thought, man, how is

1509
01:19:59,479 --> 01:20:01,559
Speaker 1: he going to prove that he can be clutch without

1510
01:20:01,600 --> 01:20:05,200
Speaker 1: any preseason games. But I think we have to credit

1511
01:20:05,280 --> 01:20:08,920
Speaker 1: the special teams coordinator here, Heath Farwell, because he made

1512
01:20:08,960 --> 01:20:12,040
Speaker 1: a point of really getting to know this kid in

1513
01:20:12,160 --> 01:20:15,400
Speaker 1: the pre draft process. You know, had dinner with him

1514
01:20:15,479 --> 01:20:18,439
Speaker 1: down there at Georgia Southern. This was right before COVID

1515
01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:20,519
Speaker 1: hit two. He went down there for a pro day,

1516
01:20:21,800 --> 01:20:24,040
Speaker 1: worked him out or a private workout. I think went

1517
01:20:24,120 --> 01:20:26,240
Speaker 1: down there for a private workout, worked him out. There

1518
01:20:26,360 --> 01:20:28,720
Speaker 1: was really no other coaches or scouts there. It was

1519
01:20:28,880 --> 01:20:32,360
Speaker 1: his time with Tyler and then they had dinner afterwards

1520
01:20:32,400 --> 01:20:33,920
Speaker 1: and he really kind of got to know him and

1521
01:20:34,600 --> 01:20:37,840
Speaker 1: what made him tick. And I think that extra investment

1522
01:20:37,880 --> 01:20:43,280
Speaker 1: of time I think gave coach Farwell the confidence that

1523
01:20:43,400 --> 01:20:46,000
Speaker 1: you know what this kid does have it. Would we

1524
01:20:46,080 --> 01:20:50,080
Speaker 1: have liked to see more in a preseason type setting, yes, obviously,

1525
01:20:50,479 --> 01:20:53,560
Speaker 1: because more information helps you make a better decision, But

1526
01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:57,639
Speaker 1: absent of that, I think spending that time with him

1527
01:20:57,680 --> 01:21:00,240
Speaker 1: back in the spring during the pre draft process really

1528
01:21:00,280 --> 01:21:04,599
Speaker 1: went a long way in convincing coach Farwell and probably

1529
01:21:04,680 --> 01:21:08,720
Speaker 1: helped him in advocating for Tyler to the rest of

1530
01:21:08,760 --> 01:21:12,040
Speaker 1: the coaching staff and making this decision. Yeah, his trust

1531
01:21:12,160 --> 01:21:17,240
Speaker 1: I think that he has in Tyler bast is pretty

1532
01:21:17,439 --> 01:21:21,200
Speaker 1: intense based on the quick relationship that they've been able

1533
01:21:21,240 --> 01:21:24,040
Speaker 1: to form, but a relationship that they've taken time to

1534
01:21:24,200 --> 01:21:28,000
Speaker 1: form in those you know, six months. If you look

1535
01:21:28,080 --> 01:21:32,519
Speaker 1: back to when it probably really began, and He's Farwell

1536
01:21:32,600 --> 01:21:35,439
Speaker 1: mentioned it's it's because of the relationship that I have.

1537
01:21:35,720 --> 01:21:40,479
Speaker 1: I know this kid, I trust this kid. His mindsets there,

1538
01:21:40,640 --> 01:21:43,680
Speaker 1: his work ethic is there. And he even said that

1539
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:47,920
Speaker 1: after a few few practices of Tyler Bast doing Tyler

1540
01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:51,559
Speaker 1: Bass things, Heath Farwell had quite a few veterans coming

1541
01:21:51,640 --> 01:21:54,479
Speaker 1: up to him saying, who's this kicker. What's the rookie's name?

1542
01:21:54,680 --> 01:21:59,400
Speaker 1: What's his name? He's really good? Wow, he's she should

1543
01:21:59,400 --> 01:22:01,920
Speaker 1: be on the team. Who is this guy? So to

1544
01:22:02,120 --> 01:22:05,040
Speaker 1: have veterans coming up to a special teams coordinator just

1545
01:22:05,120 --> 01:22:08,040
Speaker 1: a couple of practices in wanting to know everything about

1546
01:22:08,080 --> 01:22:11,240
Speaker 1: their new rookie kicker speaks volumes well. And I'll be

1547
01:22:11,320 --> 01:22:14,880
Speaker 1: the first to say it's hard for a kicker to

1548
01:22:15,080 --> 01:22:17,840
Speaker 1: impress regular position players to the point where they're doing

1549
01:22:17,920 --> 01:22:20,479
Speaker 1: stuff like you just referenced. I mean, you've got to

1550
01:22:20,520 --> 01:22:24,240
Speaker 1: have some special physical abilities to catch the eye of

1551
01:22:24,360 --> 01:22:27,719
Speaker 1: regular position players, and that's hard to do for a kicker.

1552
01:22:27,840 --> 01:22:31,599
Speaker 1: So I think that just that just says a lot

1553
01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:35,160
Speaker 1: about what his physical capabilities are. So let's listen to

1554
01:22:35,240 --> 01:22:38,280
Speaker 1: coach Farwell on his decision to keep the rookie Tyler

1555
01:22:38,320 --> 01:22:42,360
Speaker 1: Bass as this team's kicker for twenties twenty. I mean

1556
01:22:42,400 --> 01:22:46,320
Speaker 1: we look at everything, I mean from the results field

1557
01:22:46,360 --> 01:22:52,240
Speaker 1: goal percentage, to distance of kicks to kickoffs. I mean

1558
01:22:52,439 --> 01:22:55,080
Speaker 1: it's everything from we test the wind every single day,

1559
01:22:56,080 --> 01:22:59,400
Speaker 1: difficulty of kicks, and then of course big moments and

1560
01:22:59,439 --> 01:23:01,680
Speaker 1: how do we put it in those situations and and

1561
01:23:01,800 --> 01:23:04,519
Speaker 1: and how do they act off the field on the

1562
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:07,120
Speaker 1: field in meetings? How much how much of these guys

1563
01:23:07,240 --> 01:23:09,840
Speaker 1: picking up so uh you know, and that's where Tyler's

1564
01:23:09,880 --> 01:23:13,320
Speaker 1: really excelled. Uh, you know, off the field. On the field,

1565
01:23:13,560 --> 01:23:17,519
Speaker 1: he's really um you know, he's he's competitive. Um. You know,

1566
01:23:17,600 --> 01:23:20,560
Speaker 1: he showed the ability the mental side of it, and

1567
01:23:20,760 --> 01:23:23,240
Speaker 1: and that's where he really, um, you know, stepped up.

1568
01:23:23,280 --> 01:23:25,439
Speaker 1: And you know as a rookie, he doesn't act like

1569
01:23:25,560 --> 01:23:29,520
Speaker 1: a rookie. You know, he's a mature Um, he's competitive

1570
01:23:29,560 --> 01:23:32,320
Speaker 1: and he just understands, um, you know, the position as

1571
01:23:32,640 --> 01:23:35,200
Speaker 1: well as as any rookie I've been around. So he's

1572
01:23:35,240 --> 01:23:38,800
Speaker 1: a very talented young player. UM that just uh really

1573
01:23:38,840 --> 01:23:41,200
Speaker 1: has had a great camp and a great offseason in general.

1574
01:23:41,680 --> 01:23:43,560
Speaker 1: And UM, he's a guy that you know, he's a

1575
01:23:43,600 --> 01:23:45,400
Speaker 1: guy that we we've just been, uh, you know, super

1576
01:23:45,439 --> 01:23:49,840
Speaker 1: impressed with since he showed up so clear that he

1577
01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:52,200
Speaker 1: convinced Coach Farwell and the rest of the staff for

1578
01:23:52,280 --> 01:23:54,479
Speaker 1: that matter, that he will be the guy. And he

1579
01:23:54,720 --> 01:23:56,720
Speaker 1: is the guy, and I think it is important that

1580
01:23:56,840 --> 01:23:59,840
Speaker 1: he's you know, wise beyond his years about what the

1581
01:24:00,240 --> 01:24:04,120
Speaker 1: job entails, the magnitude of it. And let's not forget

1582
01:24:04,200 --> 01:24:06,240
Speaker 1: this too, Maddie. This is a team that's expecting to

1583
01:24:06,320 --> 01:24:09,040
Speaker 1: go places this year. I mean, there is likely to

1584
01:24:09,120 --> 01:24:13,400
Speaker 1: be scenarios in the postseason where they can need this

1585
01:24:13,479 --> 01:24:16,840
Speaker 1: guy to come through. And so having that mature type

1586
01:24:16,880 --> 01:24:21,200
Speaker 1: of approach I think gives at least for now, this

1587
01:24:21,400 --> 01:24:23,920
Speaker 1: coaching staff some piece of mind that even though this

1588
01:24:24,000 --> 01:24:27,040
Speaker 1: is a twenty two year old rookie, that he gets it.

1589
01:24:27,439 --> 01:24:31,240
Speaker 1: He knows how important his contributions have to be this

1590
01:24:31,400 --> 01:24:33,479
Speaker 1: year and how on point he has to be. And

1591
01:24:33,760 --> 01:24:37,120
Speaker 1: before training camp started, before Tyler Bass won the job,

1592
01:24:37,200 --> 01:24:40,880
Speaker 1: we talked at length about what rookie is going to

1593
01:24:40,920 --> 01:24:43,840
Speaker 1: have the greatest impact, what rookie will it be. It's

1594
01:24:43,880 --> 01:24:46,639
Speaker 1: going to be Tyler Bass, And I said that multiple times.

1595
01:24:46,680 --> 01:24:48,840
Speaker 1: If he wins this job, he is going to have

1596
01:24:49,000 --> 01:24:53,439
Speaker 1: the biggest impact on this team, because yes, they want

1597
01:24:53,479 --> 01:24:57,200
Speaker 1: to score touchdowns, but there's going to be several times

1598
01:24:57,479 --> 01:24:59,280
Speaker 1: where they don't make it into the end zone and

1599
01:24:59,320 --> 01:25:02,000
Speaker 1: they have to lie on three points going up on

1600
01:25:02,080 --> 01:25:04,360
Speaker 1: the scoreboard, and they have to rely on a rookie

1601
01:25:04,640 --> 01:25:06,920
Speaker 1: in Tyler Bass. And I was just on Twitter and

1602
01:25:07,360 --> 01:25:10,639
Speaker 1: Joe Marina from the Draft Network tweeted how rookie kickers

1603
01:25:10,680 --> 01:25:13,200
Speaker 1: have performed over the last three seasons in the NFL.

1604
01:25:13,640 --> 01:25:17,360
Speaker 1: In twenty seventeen, they were ninety five of one hundred nineteen,

1605
01:25:17,400 --> 01:25:20,120
Speaker 1: so seventy nine point eight percent. Twenty eighteen it was

1606
01:25:20,200 --> 01:25:23,760
Speaker 1: eighty four point three percent. Twenty nineteen rookie kickers were

1607
01:25:23,800 --> 01:25:26,559
Speaker 1: eighty two point eight percent, So overall in the last

1608
01:25:26,640 --> 01:25:29,799
Speaker 1: three years, it's eighty two point one percent from rookie

1609
01:25:29,880 --> 01:25:33,559
Speaker 1: kickers in the NFL. And that data is not lost

1610
01:25:33,640 --> 01:25:37,720
Speaker 1: on this Bill's team either, with the painstaking way they

1611
01:25:37,840 --> 01:25:40,880
Speaker 1: go through analytics and utilize it to their advantage. And

1612
01:25:40,960 --> 01:25:43,080
Speaker 1: you even heard Heath Farwell just talking about it there.

1613
01:25:44,800 --> 01:25:49,280
Speaker 1: They cut it so fine, all of those figures. You

1614
01:25:49,400 --> 01:25:52,759
Speaker 1: better believe they looked at the performance of rookie kickers

1615
01:25:53,080 --> 01:25:56,439
Speaker 1: over the last three years, because you're looking at what

1616
01:25:56,640 --> 01:25:59,559
Speaker 1: Stephen Hausker brought to the table, and his percentage had

1617
01:25:59,600 --> 01:26:03,479
Speaker 1: slipped a little bit the last couple of years, although

1618
01:26:03,479 --> 01:26:05,519
Speaker 1: we finished the season very strong. Last year, I think

1619
01:26:05,520 --> 01:26:07,559
Speaker 1: he hit his last thirteen in a row to end

1620
01:26:07,600 --> 01:26:11,719
Speaker 1: the season, including four in the playoff game. So they say, okay,

1621
01:26:11,800 --> 01:26:14,040
Speaker 1: well we've got this kid, and this is the percentage

1622
01:26:14,080 --> 01:26:16,000
Speaker 1: in college. We know the college isn't the same thing

1623
01:26:16,040 --> 01:26:18,360
Speaker 1: as pros, but how do rookies generally do when handed

1624
01:26:18,360 --> 01:26:20,400
Speaker 1: the job in the league? And you better believe they

1625
01:26:20,439 --> 01:26:23,320
Speaker 1: looked at those last three years. Now, granted Tyler bass

1626
01:26:23,439 --> 01:26:26,400
Speaker 1: is not those kickers, but how do rookies handle the pressure?

1627
01:26:26,680 --> 01:26:29,240
Speaker 1: How do they handle the attempts? I wouldn't be surprised

1628
01:26:29,280 --> 01:26:31,519
Speaker 1: if they looked at the scenarios around those attempts for

1629
01:26:31,560 --> 01:26:35,880
Speaker 1: those rookies. That is how methodical the analytics staff is

1630
01:26:36,000 --> 01:26:39,479
Speaker 1: here at one Bill's drive. So was that an element

1631
01:26:39,680 --> 01:26:41,800
Speaker 1: in making this decision? Could have been. We don't know

1632
01:26:41,920 --> 01:26:44,719
Speaker 1: for sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if it played

1633
01:26:44,720 --> 01:26:46,559
Speaker 1: a factor. All Right, we have to take a break,

1634
01:26:46,600 --> 01:26:49,080
Speaker 1: but when we come back, we'll have more from the

1635
01:26:49,160 --> 01:26:51,800
Speaker 1: tweet sheet from you as you tell us. With roster

1636
01:26:51,920 --> 01:26:55,439
Speaker 1: cutdown day on Saturday to fifty three, what will be

1637
01:26:55,960 --> 01:26:59,040
Speaker 1: the Bill's most difficult decision? We'll get to your answers

1638
01:26:59,120 --> 01:27:01,840
Speaker 1: next here on Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health.

1639
01:27:01,960 --> 01:27:17,120
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's radio back on one Bills Live.

1640
01:27:17,200 --> 01:27:19,439
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Maddy Glab with you on a Monday edition

1641
01:27:19,479 --> 01:27:21,760
Speaker 1: of the show, closing up the second hour of the

1642
01:27:21,840 --> 01:27:26,760
Speaker 1: program with your comments at one Bills Live as you

1643
01:27:26,880 --> 01:27:29,000
Speaker 1: respond to our Twitter poll the day, which is with

1644
01:27:29,160 --> 01:27:32,600
Speaker 1: Roster cutdown on Saturday to fifty three, what will be

1645
01:27:32,760 --> 01:27:35,759
Speaker 1: the Bill's most difficult decision? And we're leaving those choices

1646
01:27:36,360 --> 01:27:38,400
Speaker 1: up to you. You know, every so often we don't

1647
01:27:38,439 --> 01:27:40,080
Speaker 1: want to give you, guys the answers. We want you

1648
01:27:40,160 --> 01:27:42,840
Speaker 1: to come with your own, because sometimes that leads to

1649
01:27:42,880 --> 01:27:45,639
Speaker 1: even better answers. So we've got this one from Kyle

1650
01:27:46,400 --> 01:27:49,160
Speaker 1: and I was waiting on this one, Maddie. The wide receivers.

1651
01:27:49,600 --> 01:27:54,080
Speaker 1: I'm assuming we keep seven question Mark Diggs, Brown, Beasley

1652
01:27:54,120 --> 01:27:57,200
Speaker 1: and Davis are presumably locks. Now you have to choose Roberts.

1653
01:27:57,240 --> 01:28:01,200
Speaker 1: I think he's a lock, Duke, Hodgen, McKenzie and Foster.

1654
01:28:01,280 --> 01:28:03,800
Speaker 1: It will be interesting to see how it goes. He says,

1655
01:28:03,880 --> 01:28:07,680
Speaker 1: I predict Hodgens and McKenzie return with Duke on the

1656
01:28:07,840 --> 01:28:12,680
Speaker 1: practice squad. This is really, I mean, my goodness, I mean,

1657
01:28:12,760 --> 01:28:15,920
Speaker 1: a really tough spot here. And you can make the

1658
01:28:16,040 --> 01:28:22,240
Speaker 1: argument now with the emergence of Gabriel Davis, that five

1659
01:28:22,400 --> 01:28:25,760
Speaker 1: spots are essentially locked up because I'm Roberts is too

1660
01:28:25,840 --> 01:28:28,080
Speaker 1: valuable as a returner, he has to make the roster.

1661
01:28:28,600 --> 01:28:30,880
Speaker 1: And then you have Davis with the monster camp that

1662
01:28:30,960 --> 01:28:33,760
Speaker 1: he's had, along with the top three guys Diggs, Brown

1663
01:28:33,880 --> 01:28:37,360
Speaker 1: and Beasley. So that's five right there. Are you keeping

1664
01:28:37,520 --> 01:28:41,479
Speaker 1: more than six? Man? I don't think so they kept six.

1665
01:28:42,000 --> 01:28:43,960
Speaker 1: I think they kept six last year. I'll have to

1666
01:28:44,000 --> 01:28:45,760
Speaker 1: look it up, but I think they kept six last year,

1667
01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:47,479
Speaker 1: and they kept six of the year before. I remember that.

1668
01:28:49,360 --> 01:28:51,240
Speaker 1: I remember a time when it was just five. But

1669
01:28:51,760 --> 01:28:54,519
Speaker 1: more often than not, more teams are keeping six receivers

1670
01:28:54,560 --> 01:28:59,120
Speaker 1: on their roster. I have rarely seen seven. Rarely. Sometimes

1671
01:28:59,160 --> 01:29:01,560
Speaker 1: there's somebody with a work term injury and they're not

1672
01:29:01,600 --> 01:29:03,240
Speaker 1: gonna be ready the first couple of weeks the season,

1673
01:29:03,280 --> 01:29:06,920
Speaker 1: so they keep an extra. But sure of that, it's

1674
01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:09,479
Speaker 1: not often they keep seven. So I don't know, Kyle,

1675
01:29:09,520 --> 01:29:12,800
Speaker 1: if you're gonna get your wish? What do you think, Matbie?

1676
01:29:13,360 --> 01:29:17,000
Speaker 1: I think also another player who's had a impressive camp

1677
01:29:17,160 --> 01:29:20,000
Speaker 1: is Isaiah McKenzie. He's someone who's stood out to me

1678
01:29:20,080 --> 01:29:22,320
Speaker 1: and we've seen what he can do in games and

1679
01:29:22,640 --> 01:29:25,920
Speaker 1: we all know he's the jet sweep guy who is

1680
01:29:26,080 --> 01:29:30,080
Speaker 1: very valuable in those situations when he's on the field,

1681
01:29:30,160 --> 01:29:32,760
Speaker 1: But whenever he's had the ball throwing his way through

1682
01:29:32,840 --> 01:29:36,320
Speaker 1: training camp, he's made an effort to make the catch

1683
01:29:36,400 --> 01:29:40,240
Speaker 1: and he's been used in several different ways from an

1684
01:29:40,280 --> 01:29:44,760
Speaker 1: offensive perspective and standpoint. I've liked what I've seen out

1685
01:29:44,800 --> 01:29:47,040
Speaker 1: of him, and this offense knows what they can get

1686
01:29:47,080 --> 01:29:49,280
Speaker 1: out of him. And Brian day Ball said when he

1687
01:29:49,400 --> 01:29:51,840
Speaker 1: spoke to the media that Isaiah McKenzie is someone who

1688
01:29:52,000 --> 01:29:56,800
Speaker 1: brings an unlasting, an unending amount of energy to this

1689
01:29:57,000 --> 01:29:59,880
Speaker 1: group and he is someone who can find a spot

1690
01:30:00,120 --> 01:30:02,920
Speaker 1: for himself based on his talent. So I think that

1691
01:30:03,120 --> 01:30:06,800
Speaker 1: speaks to how valuable he is on this offense. When

1692
01:30:06,840 --> 01:30:09,200
Speaker 1: you have an offensive coordinator saying he's going to find

1693
01:30:09,240 --> 01:30:11,479
Speaker 1: a spot for him in this room, he'll do it

1694
01:30:11,600 --> 01:30:13,639
Speaker 1: on his own. If nobody gives him a spot, he's

1695
01:30:13,680 --> 01:30:16,120
Speaker 1: going to find his way to have a spot on

1696
01:30:16,280 --> 01:30:19,280
Speaker 1: this team, to have a role on this offense. So

1697
01:30:19,439 --> 01:30:21,720
Speaker 1: that's someone who has also stood out to me. But man,

1698
01:30:21,800 --> 01:30:24,320
Speaker 1: it's going to be tough to cut down from nine.

1699
01:30:24,360 --> 01:30:26,880
Speaker 1: And you wonder if some of these wide receivers on

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01:30:26,960 --> 01:30:28,799
Speaker 1: this roster are going to end up on the practice

1701
01:30:28,800 --> 01:30:30,719
Speaker 1: squad or if they're just gonna get picked up before

1702
01:30:30,760 --> 01:30:32,240
Speaker 1: some of these guys can even make it to the

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01:30:32,280 --> 01:30:36,280
Speaker 1: practice squad. Yeah, there's gonna be receivers that get moved

1704
01:30:36,320 --> 01:30:38,519
Speaker 1: off this roster when it goes to fifty three that

1705
01:30:38,600 --> 01:30:42,120
Speaker 1: are not going to get through waivers. I don't think,

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01:30:43,760 --> 01:30:45,920
Speaker 1: just based on what they've done here either in the past,

1707
01:30:46,680 --> 01:30:49,160
Speaker 1: or if there are people out there that think, well,

1708
01:30:49,360 --> 01:30:52,920
Speaker 1: they're better than what we have right now. And that's

1709
01:30:52,960 --> 01:30:56,639
Speaker 1: why I harbor a little concern about the New York Jets,

1710
01:30:56,720 --> 01:30:59,040
Speaker 1: because the Jets wide receiving corps right now is a

1711
01:30:59,200 --> 01:31:02,920
Speaker 1: mess do largely to injury. Denzel Mims has been out

1712
01:31:02,960 --> 01:31:05,240
Speaker 1: for an extended period of time with a hamstring injury,

1713
01:31:05,240 --> 01:31:09,400
Speaker 1: their top draft choice at the position, and then I

1714
01:31:09,479 --> 01:31:13,200
Speaker 1: believe it's Vincent Smith. He had an injury and so

1715
01:31:13,400 --> 01:31:17,920
Speaker 1: he's been out, and so it's Sam Darnold has been

1716
01:31:18,000 --> 01:31:22,160
Speaker 1: largely reduced to Brashad Perryman and Jamison Crowder as the

1717
01:31:22,240 --> 01:31:24,520
Speaker 1: only two guys he's been able to rely on consistently

1718
01:31:24,600 --> 01:31:27,400
Speaker 1: in in that receiving corps. And they had a scrimmage

1719
01:31:27,479 --> 01:31:30,200
Speaker 1: last week and by all accounts, the first team offense

1720
01:31:30,240 --> 01:31:33,040
Speaker 1: against the second team defense for the Jets, it went awful.

1721
01:31:33,320 --> 01:31:36,080
Speaker 1: It was horrible. Like they said, Sam Darnold was running

1722
01:31:36,080 --> 01:31:40,160
Speaker 1: for his life. And again, this is a team that's

1723
01:31:40,200 --> 01:31:43,000
Speaker 1: faced with trying to put together their offensive line much

1724
01:31:43,040 --> 01:31:46,320
Speaker 1: the way the Bills did last year, without offseason workouts,

1725
01:31:46,320 --> 01:31:49,960
Speaker 1: without a preseason, and so it's very much a work

1726
01:31:50,000 --> 01:31:53,240
Speaker 1: in progress down there. I just worry with all the

1727
01:31:53,360 --> 01:31:55,640
Speaker 1: problems that they have at their wide receiver position, that

1728
01:31:55,680 --> 01:31:57,920
Speaker 1: they'd be one of the teams apt to scoop up

1729
01:31:57,960 --> 01:32:01,640
Speaker 1: some of the players or at least to get this

1730
01:32:01,760 --> 01:32:05,160
Speaker 1: roster down to fifty three. For the Bills, I don't

1731
01:32:05,240 --> 01:32:07,799
Speaker 1: know if they can get up if they can afford

1732
01:32:07,840 --> 01:32:10,200
Speaker 1: to take seven receivers, though, Maddie, that's just going to

1733
01:32:10,280 --> 01:32:14,160
Speaker 1: be because here's the thing. There's a balance that you

1734
01:32:14,280 --> 01:32:17,320
Speaker 1: have to strike, not only position to position on offense,

1735
01:32:17,800 --> 01:32:21,600
Speaker 1: but balancing defense and offense along with your specialists. So

1736
01:32:21,960 --> 01:32:24,240
Speaker 1: you know, you can't have thirty players on offense and

1737
01:32:24,320 --> 01:32:27,400
Speaker 1: then just twenty, you know, twenty two on defense and

1738
01:32:27,840 --> 01:32:30,599
Speaker 1: or twenty on defense and then three specialists. It can't

1739
01:32:30,600 --> 01:32:33,519
Speaker 1: be that lopsided. So if you're gonna keep seven and

1740
01:32:33,600 --> 01:32:36,160
Speaker 1: wide receiver, you're Robin Peter to pay Paul. I mean,

1741
01:32:36,240 --> 01:32:38,680
Speaker 1: it's got you got to give somewhere else if you're

1742
01:32:38,720 --> 01:32:41,320
Speaker 1: gonna go fat at that position and take seven. So

1743
01:32:42,640 --> 01:32:45,160
Speaker 1: I'm more inclined to think they try to stash a

1744
01:32:45,280 --> 01:32:49,400
Speaker 1: receiver or two on the practice squad and probably keep six.

1745
01:32:49,880 --> 01:32:53,080
Speaker 1: But I agree with your assessment of McKenzie. It's clear

1746
01:32:53,200 --> 01:32:57,240
Speaker 1: to me that coach Dable sees value in him in

1747
01:32:57,479 --> 01:33:00,320
Speaker 1: terms of weekly matchups. We know that that is how

1748
01:33:00,439 --> 01:33:03,880
Speaker 1: he structures his offense game plan wise, each and every week.

1749
01:33:04,320 --> 01:33:09,559
Speaker 1: So you have a guy who can unquestionably stretch an

1750
01:33:09,640 --> 01:33:15,320
Speaker 1: offense horizontally and what that creates ore seems seems to

1751
01:33:15,479 --> 01:33:19,400
Speaker 1: exploit in that defense. So his speed has to be

1752
01:33:19,560 --> 01:33:24,040
Speaker 1: respected laterally, and when he comes in that jet suitep motion,

1753
01:33:24,439 --> 01:33:28,800
Speaker 1: whether he gets the ball or not, he impacts how

1754
01:33:28,880 --> 01:33:33,559
Speaker 1: a defense is aligned pre snap and post snap because

1755
01:33:33,600 --> 01:33:37,120
Speaker 1: he comes flying across that formation. You need people accounting

1756
01:33:37,160 --> 01:33:40,000
Speaker 1: for him defensively whether he gets the ball or not,

1757
01:33:40,760 --> 01:33:42,680
Speaker 1: and if he does, look out. I mean, he had

1758
01:33:42,720 --> 01:33:45,559
Speaker 1: that giant play that our MSG viewers are watching right

1759
01:33:45,600 --> 01:33:49,759
Speaker 1: now in the Week four game against the Titans. Huge

1760
01:33:49,840 --> 01:33:53,040
Speaker 1: play that's set up a score, and that was a

1761
01:33:53,120 --> 01:33:56,360
Speaker 1: game they won, what fourteen seven, So you know, you

1762
01:33:56,479 --> 01:34:01,640
Speaker 1: look at that and there's value there. The question is

1763
01:34:01,720 --> 01:34:04,880
Speaker 1: does the value of somebody else trump that, And those

1764
01:34:04,880 --> 01:34:07,120
Speaker 1: are the things that the coaching staff has to weigh out.

1765
01:34:07,240 --> 01:34:11,880
Speaker 1: So that's what's at play here. I unfortunately think Robert

1766
01:34:11,920 --> 01:34:14,880
Speaker 1: Foster has been a victim of circumstance more than anything else,

1767
01:34:15,760 --> 01:34:17,839
Speaker 1: due to the fact that he was in concussion protocol

1768
01:34:17,920 --> 01:34:20,360
Speaker 1: for a good portion at camp and now that he's

1769
01:34:20,400 --> 01:34:23,200
Speaker 1: coming back, he's probably just getting his legs under him

1770
01:34:23,240 --> 01:34:25,400
Speaker 1: and roster decisions are being made. That's a tough spot

1771
01:34:25,439 --> 01:34:28,400
Speaker 1: to be in. Yeah, especially with a wide receiver group

1772
01:34:28,520 --> 01:34:31,680
Speaker 1: that deep and that talented. You don't want somebody to

1773
01:34:31,960 --> 01:34:34,519
Speaker 1: be out for half of training camp practices. That's trying

1774
01:34:34,560 --> 01:34:36,439
Speaker 1: to fight for a spot on the roster, but he

1775
01:34:36,520 --> 01:34:39,720
Speaker 1: can't even fight because he's out with concussion protocol. I mean,

1776
01:34:40,040 --> 01:34:41,880
Speaker 1: you hate to see that for any of these players,

1777
01:34:42,000 --> 01:34:46,040
Speaker 1: especially a position group that is that deep. But we

1778
01:34:46,120 --> 01:34:48,679
Speaker 1: can read one more. I believe we got some time,

1779
01:34:49,400 --> 01:34:53,160
Speaker 1: todd says, whether to keep the veteran contracts like Murphy

1780
01:34:53,240 --> 01:34:56,240
Speaker 1: and DeMarco with the Caps staying the same and young

1781
01:34:56,360 --> 01:34:59,000
Speaker 1: talent emerging already moved on from how she go So

1782
01:34:59,120 --> 01:35:05,840
Speaker 1: he's more at space via cap space rather than position groups. Yeah,

1783
01:35:05,880 --> 01:35:08,000
Speaker 1: this is a compelling conversation and it's going to take

1784
01:35:08,040 --> 01:35:09,760
Speaker 1: more than the time we have right now, So I

1785
01:35:09,880 --> 01:35:11,360
Speaker 1: do want to take a break, but we will pick

1786
01:35:11,479 --> 01:35:14,840
Speaker 1: up on that conversation because that is a point of

1787
01:35:15,479 --> 01:35:18,920
Speaker 1: contention for general managers across the league, knowing the cap

1788
01:35:19,040 --> 01:35:21,439
Speaker 1: next year, at least as it stands right now, is

1789
01:35:21,479 --> 01:35:24,679
Speaker 1: one seventy five point nine, a sharp decrease from where

1790
01:35:24,680 --> 01:35:27,360
Speaker 1: they anticipated it to be, and you better believe it

1791
01:35:27,479 --> 01:35:30,479
Speaker 1: is going to impact the decisions of general managers and

1792
01:35:30,600 --> 01:35:33,280
Speaker 1: coaches and what their fifty three man roster is going

1793
01:35:33,320 --> 01:35:35,639
Speaker 1: to look like. So we will cover that ground when

1794
01:35:35,720 --> 01:35:38,240
Speaker 1: we return for our number three of one Bill's Live,

1795
01:35:38,560 --> 01:35:41,840
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

1796
01:35:52,680 --> 01:35:57,679
Speaker 1: Hello Bills Radio Network Sports Update. You're a sports update

1797
01:35:57,720 --> 01:36:00,280
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. The Bills are just about with

1798
01:36:00,360 --> 01:36:04,080
Speaker 1: their Monday practice as the season opener sits thirteen days away.

1799
01:36:04,160 --> 01:36:08,080
Speaker 1: Not participating today were John Brown and Quintin Jefferson due

1800
01:36:08,080 --> 01:36:12,440
Speaker 1: to illness, those illnesses not COVID related. Also not practicing

1801
01:36:12,560 --> 01:36:17,200
Speaker 1: Tyler Proft, Victor Sulaco, Quinton Spain, Josh Norman, and Taiwan Jones.

1802
01:36:17,479 --> 01:36:20,320
Speaker 1: The Jaguars continue to make roster moves. Over the weekend.

1803
01:36:20,360 --> 01:36:23,240
Speaker 1: They traded defensive end Yanikin Gokway to the Vikings for

1804
01:36:23,320 --> 01:36:26,240
Speaker 1: a second round pick and a conditional fifth round draft choice,

1805
01:36:26,600 --> 01:36:29,280
Speaker 1: and then this morning they waved running back Leonard Fournette

1806
01:36:29,640 --> 01:36:33,320
Speaker 1: after just three seasons. The Jags were unsuccessful in their

1807
01:36:33,360 --> 01:36:36,920
Speaker 1: attempts to trade the former first round draft choice. The

1808
01:36:37,040 --> 01:36:40,439
Speaker 1: injury bug continues to bite the Chargers and its safety

1809
01:36:40,560 --> 01:36:44,960
Speaker 1: Derwin James again. James, who missed eleven games in twenty nineteen,

1810
01:36:45,479 --> 01:36:48,639
Speaker 1: is likely to miss significant time with a meniscus injury

1811
01:36:48,640 --> 01:36:52,160
Speaker 1: he suffered in his right knee during Sunday's practice. The

1812
01:36:52,240 --> 01:36:55,200
Speaker 1: Eagles need help at wide receiver as they could see

1813
01:36:55,240 --> 01:36:58,400
Speaker 1: their top draft pick at the position miss week one.

1814
01:36:58,840 --> 01:37:01,800
Speaker 1: Jalen Raker. The Eagles first round pick exited practice early

1815
01:37:01,920 --> 01:37:05,040
Speaker 1: Sunday with a shoulder injury. No surgery is needed in

1816
01:37:05,080 --> 01:37:07,679
Speaker 1: a firm timeline for his recovery is not yet in place,

1817
01:37:08,000 --> 01:37:10,160
Speaker 1: but he could miss the season opener, which kicks off

1818
01:37:10,200 --> 01:37:16,519
Speaker 1: September thirteenth against Washington two games tonight. In the NHL Playoffs,

1819
01:37:17,240 --> 01:37:19,400
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Lightning looked to close out their series

1820
01:37:19,439 --> 01:37:21,680
Speaker 1: with the Bruins. They leave that series three games to one,

1821
01:37:21,840 --> 01:37:24,639
Speaker 1: game five tonight at seven thirty, and then the nightcap

1822
01:37:24,760 --> 01:37:27,920
Speaker 1: is the Stars and Avs. Dallas leads that series three

1823
01:37:28,000 --> 01:37:31,640
Speaker 1: games to one, and legendary Georgetown coach John Thompson, a

1824
01:37:31,760 --> 01:37:35,200
Speaker 1: central figure of Hoyer's basketball for several decades, has passed away.

1825
01:37:35,200 --> 01:37:37,880
Speaker 1: According to a family statement, Thompson took the Hoyest to

1826
01:37:38,000 --> 01:37:41,040
Speaker 1: three Final four appearances in nineteen eighties, winning the national

1827
01:37:41,120 --> 01:37:43,680
Speaker 1: title in nineteen eighty four. He also took them to

1828
01:37:43,800 --> 01:37:47,360
Speaker 1: Eleape eight appearances in nineteen eighty seven, eighty nine, and

1829
01:37:47,600 --> 01:37:51,000
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six. He was seventy eight years old. And

1830
01:37:51,160 --> 01:37:53,439
Speaker 1: that is your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Chris

1831
01:37:53,560 --> 01:37:55,680
Speaker 1: Brown Maddy glab with you our number three of the

1832
01:37:55,720 --> 01:37:59,479
Speaker 1: program as we're broadcasting live from the Seneca studio here

1833
01:37:59,479 --> 01:38:02,360
Speaker 1: at one Bill Drive in Orchard Park, and we wanted

1834
01:38:02,400 --> 01:38:04,599
Speaker 1: to pick up on the conversation that we wrapped up

1835
01:38:05,000 --> 01:38:07,680
Speaker 1: at the end of the last segment, which dealt with

1836
01:38:07,760 --> 01:38:11,280
Speaker 1: a tweet on the tweet sheet, which came from Todd.

1837
01:38:11,439 --> 01:38:15,640
Speaker 1: From Todd, thank you, Todd says, whether to keep veteran contracts? Now,

1838
01:38:15,680 --> 01:38:18,840
Speaker 1: this is a question with roster cutdowns on Saturday, what

1839
01:38:19,000 --> 01:38:22,200
Speaker 1: will be the Bill's most difficult decision. Many people have

1840
01:38:22,360 --> 01:38:26,960
Speaker 1: been commenting on positions. Todd commented on the salary caps,

1841
01:38:27,040 --> 01:38:30,160
Speaker 1: So whether to keep veteran contracts like Murphy and DeMarco

1842
01:38:30,280 --> 01:38:33,679
Speaker 1: with the caps staying the same and young talent emerging

1843
01:38:33,840 --> 01:38:38,080
Speaker 1: already moved on from Houshka, right, So that's a valid point.

1844
01:38:38,640 --> 01:38:41,840
Speaker 1: I think there will be some considerations, maybe not as

1845
01:38:41,960 --> 01:38:44,439
Speaker 1: much here, maybe as in other places where the cap

1846
01:38:44,520 --> 01:38:47,040
Speaker 1: situation is not as healthy as it is here in Buffalo.

1847
01:38:47,800 --> 01:38:50,080
Speaker 1: But I am of the firm belief that there are

1848
01:38:50,200 --> 01:38:53,880
Speaker 1: going to be some roster decisions made at the end

1849
01:38:53,920 --> 01:38:58,479
Speaker 1: of this week that will be influenced by where the

1850
01:38:58,600 --> 01:39:02,080
Speaker 1: cap sits for next year at one seventy five point nine. Obviously,

1851
01:39:02,160 --> 01:39:05,920
Speaker 1: the adjustment made due to the anticipated revenue losses because

1852
01:39:05,960 --> 01:39:09,920
Speaker 1: of COVID, no fans in the stands, etc. The cap

1853
01:39:10,120 --> 01:39:13,280
Speaker 1: was set for next year one seventy five point nine. Now,

1854
01:39:13,360 --> 01:39:16,280
Speaker 1: obviously teams can roll over cap savings from this year

1855
01:39:16,320 --> 01:39:20,800
Speaker 1: to next year to increase their cap floor. But yes,

1856
01:39:21,560 --> 01:39:23,400
Speaker 1: I think there are going to be some high priced

1857
01:39:23,439 --> 01:39:26,519
Speaker 1: players across the league who are going to get trimmed

1858
01:39:26,560 --> 01:39:30,080
Speaker 1: off rosters, not so much because of their abilities, but

1859
01:39:30,200 --> 01:39:33,880
Speaker 1: because of their price tag. I would anticipate some teams

1860
01:39:33,920 --> 01:39:35,880
Speaker 1: will probably go to some of those players and say, hey,

1861
01:39:35,960 --> 01:39:38,040
Speaker 1: can you work with us? Can we move down off

1862
01:39:38,120 --> 01:39:40,720
Speaker 1: this cap number. We'll give you some bonus money here,

1863
01:39:40,800 --> 01:39:42,679
Speaker 1: and maybe you could do this for us next year

1864
01:39:43,280 --> 01:39:45,840
Speaker 1: and make your cap figure more palatable for the cap

1865
01:39:45,920 --> 01:39:48,519
Speaker 1: that we have for next year. If that player says no,

1866
01:39:48,680 --> 01:39:52,240
Speaker 1: they're going to probably be looking for work now. Todd

1867
01:39:52,320 --> 01:39:55,800
Speaker 1: identifies Trent Murphy and Pat DeMarco personally. I think that

1868
01:39:55,920 --> 01:40:00,200
Speaker 1: Coach McDermott is the kind of guy that has the

1869
01:40:00,360 --> 01:40:05,559
Speaker 1: utmost respect for quote unquote glue players. You know, guys

1870
01:40:05,640 --> 01:40:08,479
Speaker 1: that hold teams together, and Trent Murphy and Pat de

1871
01:40:08,560 --> 01:40:12,840
Speaker 1: Marco fall in that category. Unequivocally. I know that coach

1872
01:40:12,920 --> 01:40:16,040
Speaker 1: McDermott thinks the moon of Pat DeMarco. I mean, this

1873
01:40:16,120 --> 01:40:17,840
Speaker 1: is a guy that's already been here for all three

1874
01:40:17,960 --> 01:40:21,559
Speaker 1: years of this build, and he has value. Even though

1875
01:40:21,600 --> 01:40:24,560
Speaker 1: he doesn't play a ton of snaps on offense, he

1876
01:40:24,760 --> 01:40:27,720
Speaker 1: is a valued contributor on special teams. Now, he's been

1877
01:40:27,760 --> 01:40:31,439
Speaker 1: out almost the entire camp though, Manny with the neck injury, right, Yeah,

1878
01:40:31,479 --> 01:40:33,559
Speaker 1: he's been out almost all of camps. So we've seen

1879
01:40:33,600 --> 01:40:37,560
Speaker 1: a lot of Reggie Gilliam from a fullback perspective in practices,

1880
01:40:37,640 --> 01:40:40,240
Speaker 1: he's caught a couple passes. But Sean mcderman said today

1881
01:40:40,280 --> 01:40:43,519
Speaker 1: the rookie Reggie Gilliam, he has a long way to go.

1882
01:40:44,360 --> 01:40:46,400
Speaker 1: We've just been seeing quite a bit of him because

1883
01:40:46,479 --> 01:40:50,080
Speaker 1: Pat DeMarco has been out. So you wonder if since

1884
01:40:50,160 --> 01:40:53,120
Speaker 1: Pat de Marco has been out, you know, is could

1885
01:40:53,200 --> 01:40:55,880
Speaker 1: this be the end for him? But I think he

1886
01:40:56,080 --> 01:40:58,479
Speaker 1: also adds so much to this team from a locker

1887
01:40:58,600 --> 01:41:01,600
Speaker 1: room standpoint, in his leadership skills that he brings to

1888
01:41:01,680 --> 01:41:03,960
Speaker 1: this team. He's been a captain for this team before.

1889
01:41:04,600 --> 01:41:09,080
Speaker 1: And Sean McDermott loves to keep those like you said,

1890
01:41:09,320 --> 01:41:12,760
Speaker 1: glue guys, loves to keep kind of the founding fathers

1891
01:41:12,920 --> 01:41:16,000
Speaker 1: of this team when he first got there together, and

1892
01:41:16,200 --> 01:41:18,799
Speaker 1: I would consider Pat DeMarco as one of those players,

1893
01:41:19,479 --> 01:41:23,439
Speaker 1: as is Trent Murphy. But injuries certainly don't help his

1894
01:41:23,680 --> 01:41:26,160
Speaker 1: argument of staying on this roster. Are they going to

1895
01:41:26,240 --> 01:41:28,280
Speaker 1: have to make some of those tough decisions to cut

1896
01:41:28,320 --> 01:41:31,320
Speaker 1: some veterans. We don't know. They're in a better position

1897
01:41:31,360 --> 01:41:34,759
Speaker 1: than some NFL teams are in terms of salary cap space,

1898
01:41:34,880 --> 01:41:37,080
Speaker 1: but again, this is a young team who's going to

1899
01:41:37,120 --> 01:41:39,439
Speaker 1: have to pay their players in the next couple of years.

1900
01:41:39,560 --> 01:41:42,640
Speaker 1: So Brandon Bean has been very evident and hey, we

1901
01:41:42,800 --> 01:41:44,840
Speaker 1: have to save for the future here. We know we

1902
01:41:44,960 --> 01:41:47,560
Speaker 1: have some significant pieces that we want to keep on

1903
01:41:47,640 --> 01:41:50,400
Speaker 1: this roster that are going to get some significant money

1904
01:41:50,439 --> 01:41:52,560
Speaker 1: in the next few years. And that's the balance that

1905
01:41:52,760 --> 01:41:57,160
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean is tasked with now. Because, as we've said before,

1906
01:41:57,240 --> 01:41:59,920
Speaker 1: even on today's show and probably several times before today,

1907
01:42:00,560 --> 01:42:02,400
Speaker 1: this is a team that's going for it this year.

1908
01:42:02,760 --> 01:42:05,600
Speaker 1: I mean, they're looking to make a run, and I

1909
01:42:05,800 --> 01:42:11,080
Speaker 1: think that you have to respect what veterans can bring

1910
01:42:11,200 --> 01:42:14,120
Speaker 1: to the table when the chips are down in high

1911
01:42:14,200 --> 01:42:16,599
Speaker 1: pressure situations, not only in the regular season, but most

1912
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Speaker 1: especially in the playoffs. And I mean, DeMarco has been

1913
01:42:20,720 --> 01:42:24,640
Speaker 1: to a super Bowl, so you know you have that

1914
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Speaker 1: and just that experience, the ability to calm people down

1915
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Speaker 1: in the room when you got young players sitting there

1916
01:42:32,120 --> 01:42:33,840
Speaker 1: looking at you and their eyes are darting around like

1917
01:42:33,920 --> 01:42:36,240
Speaker 1: what's going on? And that's a guy that can calm

1918
01:42:36,320 --> 01:42:41,160
Speaker 1: the waters real quick. And just having heard Coach McDermot

1919
01:42:41,240 --> 01:42:44,599
Speaker 1: speak about Pat DeMarco in the past, I think he's fine.

1920
01:42:44,680 --> 01:42:47,320
Speaker 1: And then when you hear him say today that Reggie

1921
01:42:47,360 --> 01:42:50,439
Speaker 1: Gilliam has a long way to go, I think that's

1922
01:42:50,640 --> 01:42:53,080
Speaker 1: strong indication that Pat DeMarco is going to be here.

1923
01:42:53,320 --> 01:42:55,560
Speaker 1: Trent Murphy, you might be able to argue is in

1924
01:42:55,680 --> 01:42:59,519
Speaker 1: a more tricky situation just because of the bounty of

1925
01:42:59,680 --> 01:43:04,479
Speaker 1: town that this team has a defensive end. You know,

1926
01:43:04,560 --> 01:43:06,599
Speaker 1: as we mentioned earlier in the show, you've got young

1927
01:43:06,720 --> 01:43:09,559
Speaker 1: up and coming talent in Darryl Johnson and Mike Love

1928
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Speaker 1: at that position. You've added a premier sack guy in

1929
01:43:14,360 --> 01:43:19,160
Speaker 1: Mario Addison at that position, and so you look at that,

1930
01:43:19,560 --> 01:43:22,280
Speaker 1: and then you look at his cap figure. I understand

1931
01:43:22,360 --> 01:43:25,639
Speaker 1: why Todd is wondering, you know, what is to become

1932
01:43:25,680 --> 01:43:29,200
Speaker 1: of Trent Murphy. Now, again, this is a glue guy

1933
01:43:29,439 --> 01:43:31,679
Speaker 1: that is tough as nails. You know what you're gonna

1934
01:43:31,720 --> 01:43:33,960
Speaker 1: get out of him every single week. There's a guy

1935
01:43:34,000 --> 01:43:36,479
Speaker 1: that can set the edge in the run game, seems

1936
01:43:36,479 --> 01:43:38,680
Speaker 1: to make plays on the ball at least half a

1937
01:43:38,760 --> 01:43:43,000
Speaker 1: dozen times a season. So I think aside from that

1938
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Speaker 1: first year in Buffalo, which was almost like a get

1939
01:43:45,240 --> 01:43:49,920
Speaker 1: well year for Trent, he was an impact player for

1940
01:43:50,040 --> 01:43:52,760
Speaker 1: them last season. I don't think there's any question about it.

1941
01:43:52,880 --> 01:43:56,560
Speaker 1: So where do you go with that? These are the

1942
01:43:56,640 --> 01:43:59,559
Speaker 1: tough decisions that you gotta make. So while I agree

1943
01:43:59,600 --> 01:44:03,360
Speaker 1: with Tod, those are gonna be tough calls, I wonder

1944
01:44:03,479 --> 01:44:07,000
Speaker 1: if they go that far and worry about next year

1945
01:44:07,320 --> 01:44:09,560
Speaker 1: right now. I don't know if they're ready to do that,

1946
01:44:09,800 --> 01:44:12,160
Speaker 1: especially with where they expect this team to go. Yeah,

1947
01:44:12,200 --> 01:44:15,000
Speaker 1: this team wants to win now. Levi Wallace. I asked

1948
01:44:15,080 --> 01:44:17,200
Speaker 1: him a couple of weeks ago about if there is

1949
01:44:17,240 --> 01:44:20,040
Speaker 1: anything different about this defense, and he said, we've got

1950
01:44:20,120 --> 01:44:22,280
Speaker 1: an edge to us. We know it's do or die.

1951
01:44:22,400 --> 01:44:24,000
Speaker 1: We know we want to win now. We know we

1952
01:44:24,160 --> 01:44:27,479
Speaker 1: have the pieces to win now. And defensive coordinator Leslie

1953
01:44:27,520 --> 01:44:30,519
Speaker 1: Frasier talks very highly of Trent Murphy. He said that

1954
01:44:30,600 --> 01:44:33,599
Speaker 1: Trent Murphy and Jerry Hughes are the two guys who

1955
01:44:33,800 --> 01:44:37,280
Speaker 1: set the tone at practice, especially for some of these

1956
01:44:37,360 --> 01:44:40,320
Speaker 1: younger players. A Japanessa walks on in the field first

1957
01:44:40,360 --> 01:44:44,280
Speaker 1: first practice, and Jerry Hughes and Trent Murphy are demanding

1958
01:44:44,560 --> 01:44:48,360
Speaker 1: the most out of every single player. You watch Jerry

1959
01:44:48,439 --> 01:44:53,400
Speaker 1: and Trent in practices, Holy moley, they are going after

1960
01:44:53,600 --> 01:44:57,719
Speaker 1: every single ball. They are so aggressive. Jerry will speak

1961
01:44:57,840 --> 01:45:01,320
Speaker 1: up when he needs to, and type of players are

1962
01:45:01,520 --> 01:45:04,000
Speaker 1: very important to a team that wants to go far.

1963
01:45:04,400 --> 01:45:06,519
Speaker 1: So let us know what you think. With roster cutdown

1964
01:45:06,560 --> 01:45:08,960
Speaker 1: on Saturday to fifty three, what will be the Bill's

1965
01:45:09,040 --> 01:45:13,080
Speaker 1: most difficult decision? From Ron he says, tight end. It's

1966
01:45:13,080 --> 01:45:15,200
Speaker 1: going to be a tough call on Jason Crum, who

1967
01:45:15,320 --> 01:45:18,040
Speaker 1: he thinks has a lot of talent. And you know,

1968
01:45:18,120 --> 01:45:22,280
Speaker 1: you look at the depth chart, okay, at the tight

1969
01:45:22,400 --> 01:45:27,240
Speaker 1: end position, Maddie. And again, much like Robert Foster with

1970
01:45:27,600 --> 01:45:31,360
Speaker 1: being in concussion protocol for almost the balance of training camp,

1971
01:45:31,960 --> 01:45:34,920
Speaker 1: Tommy Sweeney has been on pups from the very beginning,

1972
01:45:35,760 --> 01:45:38,960
Speaker 1: and you wonder where that goes. What is his prognosis?

1973
01:45:39,280 --> 01:45:41,080
Speaker 1: Does he have a chance to be ready by the

1974
01:45:41,160 --> 01:45:43,960
Speaker 1: regular season, and then is he consideration when he hasn't

1975
01:45:43,960 --> 01:45:46,360
Speaker 1: been on the field, does he go on reserve pup

1976
01:45:47,280 --> 01:45:50,360
Speaker 1: These are considerations for him. Then you take the rest

1977
01:45:50,400 --> 01:45:53,200
Speaker 1: of the lot there Dawson Knox, Tyler Croft, Lee Smith,

1978
01:45:53,360 --> 01:45:55,800
Speaker 1: Jason Crum, Nate Becker who was a player that was

1979
01:45:55,880 --> 01:45:58,880
Speaker 1: on the practice squad last year. Jason Crum was injured

1980
01:45:59,000 --> 01:46:05,200
Speaker 1: last year. Croom is an interesting prospect because of his

1981
01:46:05,439 --> 01:46:09,640
Speaker 1: athletic ability. He's a converted wide receiver that you know,

1982
01:46:10,479 --> 01:46:13,400
Speaker 1: learned tight end, tried to work on his blockings since

1983
01:46:13,439 --> 01:46:15,240
Speaker 1: he didn't have a lot of experience in that being

1984
01:46:15,280 --> 01:46:20,320
Speaker 1: a former receiver, and injury has been his bugaboo. You know,

1985
01:46:20,439 --> 01:46:22,439
Speaker 1: got nicked up last year and never got to the

1986
01:46:22,560 --> 01:46:26,400
Speaker 1: field and never really was part of the roster cutdown

1987
01:46:26,479 --> 01:46:29,280
Speaker 1: process because he was already you know, put on injured reserve.

1988
01:46:29,400 --> 01:46:32,559
Speaker 1: So tough for him. But now he's back. What's your

1989
01:46:32,600 --> 01:46:35,320
Speaker 1: assessment of how he's done so far in camp, because

1990
01:46:35,360 --> 01:46:37,400
Speaker 1: we really haven't talked much about him. I think when

1991
01:46:37,479 --> 01:46:40,479
Speaker 1: he's gotten the chance to make a play, he has

1992
01:46:40,520 --> 01:46:43,760
Speaker 1: done a great job. He's had some impressive catches where

1993
01:46:43,840 --> 01:46:47,599
Speaker 1: he has showcased that athleticism, that physicality, that run after

1994
01:46:47,840 --> 01:46:52,320
Speaker 1: catch ability as had Tyler Croft and Dawson Knox. I mean,

1995
01:46:52,680 --> 01:46:55,040
Speaker 1: when those three tight ends have been added into the

1996
01:46:55,120 --> 01:46:58,000
Speaker 1: mix catching the ball, they've all done a pretty good

1997
01:46:58,080 --> 01:47:03,280
Speaker 1: job of making a play. So Jason Krum, it's kind

1998
01:47:03,280 --> 01:47:06,519
Speaker 1: of like, what do you want out of your tight

1999
01:47:06,640 --> 01:47:09,240
Speaker 1: ends to make this roster? You know that Dawson Knox

2000
01:47:09,360 --> 01:47:10,560
Speaker 1: is going to be on this team, you know that

2001
01:47:10,720 --> 01:47:12,800
Speaker 1: Lee Smith is going to be on this team. What

2002
01:47:12,920 --> 01:47:16,000
Speaker 1: do you want out of the next two or three guys?

2003
01:47:16,120 --> 01:47:18,559
Speaker 1: The next two that you keep. Do you want somebody

2004
01:47:18,600 --> 01:47:20,360
Speaker 1: to be able to block Moore? Do you want somebody

2005
01:47:20,400 --> 01:47:22,320
Speaker 1: to be able to catch the ball? More? What do

2006
01:47:22,400 --> 01:47:25,639
Speaker 1: you what do you need from that player to add

2007
01:47:25,720 --> 01:47:28,360
Speaker 1: to this offense. So I think Jason Krum has done

2008
01:47:28,400 --> 01:47:31,240
Speaker 1: a great job this training camp when he's been involved

2009
01:47:31,320 --> 01:47:34,439
Speaker 1: in those type of plays. It's also nice that he's

2010
01:47:34,479 --> 01:47:38,000
Speaker 1: been healthy. We haven't seen that that much health out

2011
01:47:38,040 --> 01:47:40,000
Speaker 1: of Jason Krum out of the time that he's been

2012
01:47:40,040 --> 01:47:42,679
Speaker 1: on this roster. That's certainly has been a question mark

2013
01:47:42,760 --> 01:47:45,519
Speaker 1: in the past with him. So if he can keep

2014
01:47:45,600 --> 01:47:48,240
Speaker 1: that health, that's definitely positive for him. Isn't enough to

2015
01:47:48,320 --> 01:47:51,920
Speaker 1: make it onto the active roster. That's something that Brandon

2016
01:47:51,960 --> 01:47:53,639
Speaker 1: Bean's going to decide. I mean, I know it's hard

2017
01:47:53,680 --> 01:47:55,920
Speaker 1: for people to remember the twenty eighteen season, but he

2018
01:47:56,040 --> 01:47:59,840
Speaker 1: was getting regg he was up most weeks, and there

2019
01:48:00,000 --> 01:48:03,800
Speaker 1: were games where he flashed. I don't think we saw

2020
01:48:03,840 --> 01:48:06,320
Speaker 1: it week after week after week because his opportunities were

2021
01:48:06,360 --> 01:48:08,759
Speaker 1: few and far between. But there were games where he flashed,

2022
01:48:08,840 --> 01:48:10,920
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, you know, this might be a

2023
01:48:11,040 --> 01:48:12,720
Speaker 1: young guy that can help this team in a year

2024
01:48:12,800 --> 01:48:16,200
Speaker 1: or two. And then twenty nineteen is a complete lost cause.

2025
01:48:16,760 --> 01:48:19,000
Speaker 1: And now here we are in twenty twenty and suddenly

2026
01:48:19,360 --> 01:48:23,040
Speaker 1: the dynamics have changed. Dawson Knox is an emerging athletic

2027
01:48:23,120 --> 01:48:26,719
Speaker 1: tight end. But I would argue Maddie that Dawson Knox

2028
01:48:26,840 --> 01:48:28,600
Speaker 1: is the only tight end on this roster who is

2029
01:48:28,640 --> 01:48:32,840
Speaker 1: a better overall athlete than Jason Kroome. He's right there.

2030
01:48:33,040 --> 01:48:35,680
Speaker 1: I mean, he's right behind him, I think, And I

2031
01:48:35,800 --> 01:48:37,320
Speaker 1: think that's by virtue of the fact that he is

2032
01:48:37,360 --> 01:48:39,479
Speaker 1: a former wide receiver. Some might even argue he has

2033
01:48:39,520 --> 01:48:42,800
Speaker 1: better athleticism than Dawson Knox just by virtue of the

2034
01:48:42,840 --> 01:48:46,480
Speaker 1: position that he played. But if you're talking pure athleticism,

2035
01:48:46,840 --> 01:48:50,120
Speaker 1: nothing else. It's Knox and Chrome at the top of

2036
01:48:50,200 --> 01:48:52,840
Speaker 1: the list, and then Croft is probably right behind them

2037
01:48:53,320 --> 01:48:55,680
Speaker 1: with Sweeney and Becker, you know, and Lee Smith is

2038
01:48:55,680 --> 01:48:59,560
Speaker 1: pretty much your blocking guy. So yeah, you're right. What

2039
01:48:59,720 --> 01:49:02,840
Speaker 1: do they want from the position? Do they want depth

2040
01:49:03,400 --> 01:49:07,240
Speaker 1: in terms of athleticism, playmaking ability, or do they want

2041
01:49:07,320 --> 01:49:09,280
Speaker 1: depth in terms of maybe a guy that can do

2042
01:49:09,360 --> 01:49:12,639
Speaker 1: a little bit of everything, which is somebody like Tommy Sweeney,

2043
01:49:13,560 --> 01:49:16,280
Speaker 1: but he's injured. So how much does that impact the conversation?

2044
01:49:16,479 --> 01:49:19,680
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be fascinating between wide receiver and

2045
01:49:19,800 --> 01:49:24,400
Speaker 1: tight end because I think that the depth at wide

2046
01:49:24,439 --> 01:49:29,080
Speaker 1: receiver could ultimately impact the tight end position. You have

2047
01:49:29,320 --> 01:49:31,960
Speaker 1: so many weapons that you can deploy at the receiver position,

2048
01:49:32,400 --> 01:49:36,680
Speaker 1: does that reduce the need to have athleticism at tight end?

2049
01:49:37,479 --> 01:49:40,160
Speaker 1: You know? In droves? Shall we say I mean as

2050
01:49:40,200 --> 01:49:41,960
Speaker 1: you said, Dawson Knox, I mean the guy's a lock

2051
01:49:42,000 --> 01:49:44,760
Speaker 1: on the roster. He's an athletic playmaker, he's emerging as

2052
01:49:44,800 --> 01:49:47,320
Speaker 1: a young player. They want to work with that and

2053
01:49:47,439 --> 01:49:48,760
Speaker 1: see what they can get out of that, and it

2054
01:49:48,840 --> 01:49:52,120
Speaker 1: diversifies your offense. But do you need someone like him

2055
01:49:52,280 --> 01:49:55,400
Speaker 1: in reserve when you have extra receivers that can come

2056
01:49:55,439 --> 01:49:57,800
Speaker 1: on the field and make plays like Gabriel Davis and others,

2057
01:49:59,040 --> 01:50:01,080
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a push pull there. I think there

2058
01:50:01,120 --> 01:50:03,240
Speaker 1: really is when it comes to these roster decisions and

2059
01:50:03,400 --> 01:50:06,880
Speaker 1: you add length to the wide receiver position this year.

2060
01:50:07,000 --> 01:50:09,000
Speaker 1: That was one thing that was missing last year. What

2061
01:50:09,080 --> 01:50:12,200
Speaker 1: does the tight end position add from a pass catching standpoint? Length?

2062
01:50:12,400 --> 01:50:14,599
Speaker 1: Now they have that out of the wide receivers, can

2063
01:50:14,680 --> 01:50:16,559
Speaker 1: some of those wide receivers take on more of those

2064
01:50:16,600 --> 01:50:19,920
Speaker 1: blocking assignments. I think they can. Isaiah Hodgens looks like

2065
01:50:20,040 --> 01:50:22,600
Speaker 1: a tight end. Gabe Davis not as tall as a

2066
01:50:22,680 --> 01:50:24,840
Speaker 1: tight end, but he is the body of a tight end.

2067
01:50:24,920 --> 01:50:27,760
Speaker 1: He is a bigger type of wide receivers. So it'll

2068
01:50:27,800 --> 01:50:30,479
Speaker 1: be interesting to see again with this balance of the

2069
01:50:30,560 --> 01:50:33,800
Speaker 1: offense defense position groups, if they decide to maybe keep

2070
01:50:33,880 --> 01:50:36,519
Speaker 1: one more person in the wide receiver group and keep

2071
01:50:36,640 --> 01:50:39,080
Speaker 1: one less in the tight ends group. Back to the

2072
01:50:39,120 --> 01:50:41,439
Speaker 1: tweet sheet brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the

2073
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Speaker 1: official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. This one

2074
01:50:44,120 --> 01:50:47,759
Speaker 1: from Chris. He says, for me, I think it's defensive line.

2075
01:50:48,320 --> 01:50:50,679
Speaker 1: I hear good things out of all the players in camp.

2076
01:50:50,760 --> 01:50:52,560
Speaker 1: It's going to be hard to make cuts with so

2077
01:50:52,680 --> 01:50:55,240
Speaker 1: many talented players on the roster. Think about this, Mannie.

2078
01:50:55,280 --> 01:50:58,679
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if Star Latoula did not opt out.

2079
01:50:59,560 --> 01:51:03,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't make it even tougher, Like like

2080
01:51:03,960 --> 01:51:06,599
Speaker 1: even I know Tanzelle Smart as a player that you've

2081
01:51:06,640 --> 01:51:09,960
Speaker 1: written about in your practice reports, who's flashed. I mean,

2082
01:51:10,000 --> 01:51:11,439
Speaker 1: this was a guy that just came in the door

2083
01:51:11,800 --> 01:51:15,080
Speaker 1: at the end of July. He just got here and

2084
01:51:15,160 --> 01:51:18,880
Speaker 1: he's making plays. So you know, you think about the

2085
01:51:19,080 --> 01:51:22,320
Speaker 1: depth of talent, not just a defensive end, even at

2086
01:51:22,360 --> 01:51:25,840
Speaker 1: defensive tackle. I mean, Vincent Taylor has flashed, you know,

2087
01:51:26,000 --> 01:51:27,760
Speaker 1: and this was a guy that was up and down

2088
01:51:27,840 --> 01:51:30,280
Speaker 1: off the practice squad in the active roster last year,

2089
01:51:30,720 --> 01:51:34,160
Speaker 1: so he's made strides with his game clearly, so up

2090
01:51:34,240 --> 01:51:37,080
Speaker 1: and down. I mean that depth chart on the D line,

2091
01:51:38,400 --> 01:51:40,600
Speaker 1: I just I wonder how many they're going to be

2092
01:51:40,640 --> 01:51:43,560
Speaker 1: able to keep. I'm thinking, you know, nine at the

2093
01:51:43,760 --> 01:51:47,600
Speaker 1: high end, and then probably eight. I mean, eight is

2094
01:51:47,720 --> 01:51:51,200
Speaker 1: probably the number. But you know, if if they want

2095
01:51:51,240 --> 01:51:54,599
Speaker 1: to add a little luxury to the position, maybe they

2096
01:51:54,680 --> 01:51:56,840
Speaker 1: add one more if they think, you know, and the

2097
01:51:56,920 --> 01:51:59,560
Speaker 1: perfect way you can do that is if you have

2098
01:51:59,720 --> 01:52:02,200
Speaker 1: a defensive line and they can help you on special teams.

2099
01:52:02,240 --> 01:52:04,599
Speaker 1: And so now you talk about people like Darryl Johnson

2100
01:52:05,560 --> 01:52:09,160
Speaker 1: and Mike Love, so do they fit into the equation

2101
01:52:09,280 --> 01:52:12,160
Speaker 1: because of their special teams abilities. These are questions that

2102
01:52:12,240 --> 01:52:14,439
Speaker 1: are going to be answered when all those coaches are

2103
01:52:14,479 --> 01:52:17,320
Speaker 1: sitting around the table making these decisions this weekend. And truly,

2104
01:52:17,439 --> 01:52:20,439
Speaker 1: how much does this defensive line want to rotate? There

2105
01:52:20,479 --> 01:52:23,559
Speaker 1: four upfront? Because if they want to rotate their four

2106
01:52:23,600 --> 01:52:27,720
Speaker 1: a lot, guess, then maybe it's nine instead of eight.

2107
01:52:27,840 --> 01:52:30,240
Speaker 1: Maybe you keep one more person so you can have

2108
01:52:30,400 --> 01:52:35,080
Speaker 1: that fresh legability throughout the entire game. And then same

2109
01:52:35,160 --> 01:52:37,720
Speaker 1: can be said with the defensive line. The guys who

2110
01:52:38,439 --> 01:52:41,080
Speaker 1: they want to put on the practice squad, who knows

2111
01:52:41,120 --> 01:52:42,639
Speaker 1: if they're even going to make it to the practice

2112
01:52:42,640 --> 01:52:44,720
Speaker 1: squad before they get picked up by their teams. And

2113
01:52:44,840 --> 01:52:47,320
Speaker 1: that's the thing that they have to wait too, you know,

2114
01:52:47,439 --> 01:52:49,240
Speaker 1: in terms of how many they keep, they say, well,

2115
01:52:49,280 --> 01:52:52,880
Speaker 1: we only want to keep eight, Like are you gonna

2116
01:52:53,520 --> 01:52:56,240
Speaker 1: are you gonna put Darryl Johnson on waivers? Somebody's gonna

2117
01:52:56,240 --> 01:52:58,160
Speaker 1: scoop him up. I would think you have to assess

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Speaker 1: who's short at defensive end in the league and then

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Speaker 1: assess the likelihood of them getting scooped up, you know.

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01:53:05,920 --> 01:53:07,960
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Mike Love has a lot of

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01:53:08,040 --> 01:53:11,519
Speaker 1: great speed off the edge and can bend the corner

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01:53:11,680 --> 01:53:15,760
Speaker 1: really well, and I think there's potential there. But man,

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01:53:15,920 --> 01:53:18,240
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got two veterans in front of him

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Speaker 1: in Jerry Hughes and Mario Addison with the same skill set,

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01:53:22,600 --> 01:53:26,280
Speaker 1: and Addison has position flexibility. Mike Love is strictly a

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01:53:26,320 --> 01:53:31,559
Speaker 1: defensive end. It's man, it's gonna be hard. You're gonna

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01:53:31,560 --> 01:53:35,960
Speaker 1: say goodbye to some really good players and I don't

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01:53:35,960 --> 01:53:37,800
Speaker 1: know that would be so hard for me. I don't

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01:53:37,800 --> 01:53:40,040
Speaker 1: know if I could do it. And then you think

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01:53:40,040 --> 01:53:42,200
Speaker 1: about it with it's it's a game of matchups and

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01:53:42,320 --> 01:53:44,559
Speaker 1: Leslie Fraser wants to win those one on one matchups.

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01:53:45,200 --> 01:53:49,000
Speaker 1: Is Mike loves someone that offers that type of different

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01:53:49,360 --> 01:53:52,320
Speaker 1: body that may win those one on one matchups? Or

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01:53:52,600 --> 01:53:55,680
Speaker 1: is it Darryl Johnson because he's six six, because he

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01:53:55,760 --> 01:53:58,960
Speaker 1: can bat balls down and things like that. Yeah, from

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01:53:59,200 --> 01:54:01,160
Speaker 1: r Philbin, He's is I have to say wide receiver.

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01:54:01,280 --> 01:54:03,439
Speaker 1: If the two rookies beat out Duke and McKenzie, both

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01:54:03,479 --> 01:54:05,600
Speaker 1: of them. We picked up right away. It's nice to

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01:54:05,600 --> 01:54:07,800
Speaker 1: see an upgrade in the wide receiving corps. Yeah, I

2140
01:54:07,840 --> 01:54:10,360
Speaker 1: mean you can say, yeah, well, we'll just put Duke

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01:54:10,439 --> 01:54:13,559
Speaker 1: in Isaiah on the practice squad all you want. They're

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01:54:13,960 --> 01:54:19,120
Speaker 1: gonna get Scoopie. Yeah, I think they're making It's tough.

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01:54:20,640 --> 01:54:23,680
Speaker 1: Jeremiah also says wide receiver, it's not even close. I

2144
01:54:23,720 --> 01:54:26,240
Speaker 1: think it'd be crazy if Hodgens doesn't also make the cut,

2145
01:54:26,360 --> 01:54:29,479
Speaker 1: So who goes? While I like Duke and those contested

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01:54:29,560 --> 01:54:33,560
Speaker 1: catches in practice are cool, what about his separation and

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01:54:33,960 --> 01:54:36,040
Speaker 1: he won't get those throws his way in a game

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01:54:36,120 --> 01:54:39,600
Speaker 1: that counts? Do they keep Foster? Who flashed question mark?

2149
01:54:39,720 --> 01:54:44,480
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean it's not You got Mackenzie Foster

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01:54:44,800 --> 01:54:48,520
Speaker 1: and Duke Williams basically battling those two rookie kids and

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01:54:50,200 --> 01:54:53,840
Speaker 1: man and Duke again has had a very similar camp

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01:54:54,480 --> 01:54:58,040
Speaker 1: like he did last season, making some really impressive catches,

2153
01:54:58,200 --> 01:55:01,680
Speaker 1: laying it all out on the line to body up

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01:55:01,840 --> 01:55:05,640
Speaker 1: against corners, against safeties, to make those graphs you're seeing

2155
01:55:05,680 --> 01:55:08,800
Speaker 1: if you're watching on TV right now. I mean, he

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01:55:08,920 --> 01:55:12,600
Speaker 1: plays angry, he's a dog. He plays angry, he's dove

2157
01:55:12,680 --> 01:55:17,120
Speaker 1: to the ground sever on several occasions throughout practices, catching

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01:55:17,200 --> 01:55:22,320
Speaker 1: it in traffic, trucking into defensive players. This is a

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01:55:22,400 --> 01:55:24,960
Speaker 1: type of mentality that you would like to have on

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01:55:25,080 --> 01:55:26,880
Speaker 1: your team. Do you have space to keep him on

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01:55:26,960 --> 01:55:29,800
Speaker 1: your team? I'm not sure. We saw what he did

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01:55:30,000 --> 01:55:33,240
Speaker 1: in the Houston game not what you wanted out of him.

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01:55:33,680 --> 01:55:36,640
Speaker 1: He dropped some passes. You don't want a wide receiver

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01:55:36,760 --> 01:55:39,640
Speaker 1: that's going to drop those passes. Although in training campaign

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01:55:39,840 --> 01:55:43,120
Speaker 1: he hasn't been dropping a lot of passes, right And

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01:55:43,440 --> 01:55:45,120
Speaker 1: and you know, we were talking about the tight end

2167
01:55:45,160 --> 01:55:48,160
Speaker 1: wide receiver conversation Maddie and how one position could impact

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Speaker 1: the other. How different is Duke Williams from Jason Krum?

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01:55:51,720 --> 01:55:54,600
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? The same body type. I

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01:55:54,680 --> 01:55:56,600
Speaker 1: think Crum is a little quicker than him, a little

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01:55:56,640 --> 01:55:59,920
Speaker 1: faster in terms of the stopwatch. But are they terribly

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01:56:00,120 --> 01:56:02,280
Speaker 1: different from one another. I don't know that they are.

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01:56:02,960 --> 01:56:05,840
Speaker 1: And so if you keep one, it probably means you're

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Speaker 1: not keeping the other. And so that's where I think

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01:56:09,280 --> 01:56:12,040
Speaker 1: there could be some bleed over between positions like that

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01:56:12,560 --> 01:56:15,760
Speaker 1: in terms of who stays and who goes. So it's

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01:56:15,800 --> 01:56:18,560
Speaker 1: gonna be tough, it's gonna be tough at several positions

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01:56:18,600 --> 01:56:21,080
Speaker 1: this year. But I guess that's that's a good problem

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01:56:21,120 --> 01:56:23,240
Speaker 1: to have. It's a good dilemma because it means your

2180
01:56:23,320 --> 01:56:27,800
Speaker 1: roster is really, really good, you know. So won't be easy,

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01:56:27,920 --> 01:56:30,440
Speaker 1: but it's a good problem to have. For sure. I

2182
01:56:30,560 --> 01:56:34,760
Speaker 1: know that we had some other ground to cover, and

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01:56:34,880 --> 01:56:37,040
Speaker 1: we will do that, but it will probably save that

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01:56:37,200 --> 01:56:39,560
Speaker 1: for the next segment. We also have some NFL true

2185
01:56:39,600 --> 01:56:41,760
Speaker 1: false on the table to get too, so we will

2186
01:56:41,800 --> 01:56:44,120
Speaker 1: get to that also on the other side of this

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Speaker 1: break as Maddie and I step aside. This is One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Collid to Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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01:57:01,720 --> 01:57:04,000
Speaker 1: Well One Bill's Live, final half hour of the program.

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01:57:04,120 --> 01:57:05,960
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Maddie glab with you here on a Monday

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01:57:06,120 --> 01:57:08,000
Speaker 1: edition of the show. Ste it will be back tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: He's out at a charity golfing event today raising money

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01:57:11,680 --> 01:57:14,880
Speaker 1: for a good cause, no doubt. So it's time for

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Speaker 1: Maddie and I at this portion in the show to

2195
01:57:17,320 --> 01:57:22,760
Speaker 1: undertake the true or false portion of the program. Maddie,

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01:57:22,800 --> 01:57:25,600
Speaker 1: It's NFL True Falls brought to you by Yancey's Fancy

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01:57:26,200 --> 01:57:31,640
Speaker 1: New York's Artistan Cheese and the first item on the docket,

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01:57:31,720 --> 01:57:38,040
Speaker 1: Mattie deals with a very recent NFL transaction. It deals

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Speaker 1: with the trade of one Yannick Ingackway over the weekend

2200
01:57:42,360 --> 01:57:47,880
Speaker 1: from Jacksonville to Minnesota. And the question is true or false?

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01:57:48,800 --> 01:57:52,720
Speaker 1: The Vikings now have a top five edge rush duo

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01:57:53,480 --> 01:57:57,200
Speaker 1: following their acquisition of Ingaqway. So they've got Daniel Hunter

2203
01:57:57,280 --> 01:58:00,760
Speaker 1: on the other side, who's an accomp is pass rusher

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01:58:00,800 --> 01:58:03,800
Speaker 1: in his own right. But are they a top five tandem?

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01:58:04,040 --> 01:58:06,720
Speaker 1: That is that is the question before your true or false?

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01:58:07,800 --> 01:58:12,320
Speaker 1: Are they a top five tandem? I think two is

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01:58:12,320 --> 01:58:16,360
Speaker 1: a little high for those two, but I do think

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01:58:16,440 --> 01:58:19,800
Speaker 1: they could be in the top five conversation. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you look at on this list. This is coming from

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Speaker 1: CBS number one that had Nick Bosa and Armstead for

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01:58:27,160 --> 01:58:30,160
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. Number two was the Vikings, Number three,

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Speaker 1: the Bears Kleil mac Robert Quinn, number four Chargers Joey Bosa,

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01:58:35,480 --> 01:58:38,960
Speaker 1: Elvin Ingraham. I probably would have put them higher. Five

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01:58:39,120 --> 01:58:44,440
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, you got DeMarcus Lawrence, Everson Griffin. The Bills

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01:58:45,440 --> 01:58:51,680
Speaker 1: are not in the top five. Yeah, I wouldn't disappoint them,

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01:58:51,840 --> 01:58:55,160
Speaker 1: But would I put this Vikings tandem in the top five,

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01:58:55,360 --> 01:59:00,160
Speaker 1: it's pretty good. Um, I don't know if I can

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01:59:00,200 --> 01:59:05,080
Speaker 1: get there, And the only reason why is I just

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01:59:05,240 --> 01:59:08,800
Speaker 1: think him getting there. I mean, how much do you

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01:59:08,880 --> 01:59:11,080
Speaker 1: have to know the scheme up there to line up

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Speaker 1: a defensive end and the quarterback. It's it's not an

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01:59:14,720 --> 01:59:17,800
Speaker 1: overly cerebral position to understand, but he does have to

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01:59:17,880 --> 01:59:19,760
Speaker 1: learn how to work off those other guys, and he

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01:59:19,840 --> 01:59:24,400
Speaker 1: hasn't really played in any organized practice since last December

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01:59:24,840 --> 01:59:29,360
Speaker 1: because he's held out didn't sign his franchise tender. From

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01:59:29,400 --> 01:59:32,000
Speaker 1: a pure talent standpoint, I think you can make the argument,

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01:59:34,000 --> 01:59:36,520
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna say false here because I like Philly's

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01:59:36,560 --> 01:59:40,040
Speaker 1: tandem of Derek Barnett and Brandon Graham. I like DeMarcus

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01:59:40,120 --> 01:59:42,840
Speaker 1: Lawrence and Everson Griffin and Dallas who's the player that

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01:59:42,880 --> 01:59:46,680
Speaker 1: Minnesota lost and tried to replace, and then both Bosa

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01:59:46,760 --> 01:59:50,320
Speaker 1: combinations and san fran and with the Chargers I think

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01:59:50,400 --> 01:59:54,160
Speaker 1: are superior. And I'm going with your Bears, Maddie, the

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01:59:54,440 --> 01:59:56,880
Speaker 1: Mac and Quinn are a better tandem, so I think

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01:59:56,880 --> 01:59:59,440
Speaker 1: they're just outside the top five. So I'm gonna say false.

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Speaker 1: The Bills are at number seventeen. I was trying to

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Speaker 1: find them all the list. Um, which uh, that's why

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02:00:07,200 --> 02:00:09,000
Speaker 1: I gave my answer. I figured you were doing something

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02:00:09,040 --> 02:00:14,880
Speaker 1: over there. So where are you coming down on this one?

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Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna say from a talent standpoint, I'll

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Speaker 1: say true, okay, um, because, like you said, how much

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Speaker 1: do you really have to learn at a defensive end

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02:00:24,080 --> 02:00:27,040
Speaker 1: position when your main job is to get after the quarterbacks?

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02:00:27,120 --> 02:00:30,880
Speaker 1: So while he's just being brought on with ten days

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02:00:31,000 --> 02:00:35,080
Speaker 1: left until the NFL season begins, we're about two weeks

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02:00:35,120 --> 02:00:40,240
Speaker 1: away here, I think he has the talent to be

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Speaker 1: a top five duo Okay, fair enough so and and truthfully, um,

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Speaker 1: you know he's going to be motivated after going there,

2248
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Speaker 1: and he's essentially playing on a one year, twelve billion

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02:00:53,680 --> 02:00:57,240
Speaker 1: dollar deal, so it's a proven year, so he's going

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Speaker 1: to be playing like his hair's on fire, um, all

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02:01:00,600 --> 02:01:05,240
Speaker 1: season long. I think the only concern there is readiness

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Speaker 1: for the rigors of the NFL game. I mean, as

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02:01:07,920 --> 02:01:11,280
Speaker 1: we said, he has not practiced, he's been a holdout,

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02:01:11,360 --> 02:01:14,200
Speaker 1: didn't sign his franchise tender. So you just hope he

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Speaker 1: can stay healthy through the early stages of the season

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Speaker 1: and kind of play himself into shape. That's gonna bear

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Speaker 1: some watching. It'll be interesting to see if they monitor

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02:01:26,200 --> 02:01:27,840
Speaker 1: his reps in a game like I don't think you

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02:01:27,880 --> 02:01:29,320
Speaker 1: can throw them out there a week one and have

2260
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Speaker 1: him play sixty snaps. That would probably be ill advised,

2261
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Speaker 1: knowing he hasn't done much football. So they're all right.

2262
02:01:37,920 --> 02:01:42,480
Speaker 1: So that's number one second NFL True false Aaron Donald

2263
02:01:42,560 --> 02:01:47,320
Speaker 1: will break the single season sack record true or false.

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Speaker 1: The record is twenty two and a half by the

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02:01:50,360 --> 02:01:53,880
Speaker 1: New York Giants Michael Strahan, which he did all the

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02:01:53,960 --> 02:01:58,560
Speaker 1: way back in two thousand and one. So and the

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Speaker 1: last one that he got a little bit in question

2268
02:02:01,840 --> 02:02:04,600
Speaker 1: because Brett Farve took a dive and just laid down

2269
02:02:04,640 --> 02:02:06,240
Speaker 1: and let him jump on top of him for the

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Speaker 1: record breaker for twenty two and a half. I where

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02:02:12,640 --> 02:02:16,120
Speaker 1: are you coming down on this one? So the article

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Speaker 1: that this come from comes from. It says that he

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Speaker 1: or players could have an uptick in sacks because offensive

2274
02:02:26,320 --> 02:02:31,040
Speaker 1: linemen have had less time to prepare due to COVID

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02:02:31,200 --> 02:02:33,280
Speaker 1: in the off season and the ramp up period, which

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02:02:33,480 --> 02:02:35,640
Speaker 1: really that that makes a lot of sense. I think

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02:02:36,000 --> 02:02:39,920
Speaker 1: we could see defensive ends, defensive tackles have a higher

2278
02:02:39,960 --> 02:02:42,360
Speaker 1: sack number than in previous years due to the fact that,

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02:02:42,720 --> 02:02:45,480
Speaker 1: you know, some offensive lines truly really aren't set and

2280
02:02:46,400 --> 02:02:49,440
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of chemistry. Will it be Aaron

2281
02:02:49,520 --> 02:02:52,600
Speaker 1: Donald who breaks stray Hand's twenty two and a half

2282
02:02:52,840 --> 02:02:56,960
Speaker 1: sack record in a single season. I'm just saying no,

2283
02:02:57,280 --> 02:03:00,240
Speaker 1: because I know records are meant to be broken, but

2284
02:03:03,040 --> 02:03:05,120
Speaker 1: I don't know if this one can be broken this season.

2285
02:03:06,160 --> 02:03:08,640
Speaker 1: It's it's a big number. I mean, it really is.

2286
02:03:08,720 --> 02:03:10,640
Speaker 1: You got to get off to a flying start, and

2287
02:03:10,760 --> 02:03:13,280
Speaker 1: then you have to get some of those games where

2288
02:03:13,320 --> 02:03:15,280
Speaker 1: you get like a three sack game. You have to

2289
02:03:15,320 --> 02:03:19,880
Speaker 1: get like multiple three sack games to get there, because

2290
02:03:19,920 --> 02:03:22,800
Speaker 1: there's gonna be weeks where it's just not happening. Even

2291
02:03:22,880 --> 02:03:26,160
Speaker 1: as good as Aaron Donald is. I mean, he had

2292
02:03:26,200 --> 02:03:28,600
Speaker 1: twenty and a half two years ago, so he's come close,

2293
02:03:30,720 --> 02:03:35,400
Speaker 1: but he's I'm not saying he can't do it, but

2294
02:03:35,560 --> 02:03:38,360
Speaker 1: I think it's unlikely. That's a lot of sacks. I mean,

2295
02:03:38,440 --> 02:03:41,880
Speaker 1: he'd have to get twenty three sacks in sixteen games.

2296
02:03:42,560 --> 02:03:45,680
Speaker 1: And let's not forget this. I mean, god forbid, there's

2297
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Speaker 1: a COVID outbreak with the Ramps. You know what, I mean,

2298
02:03:47,960 --> 02:03:51,000
Speaker 1: there's those factors to consider also, you know, but if

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02:03:51,040 --> 02:03:52,680
Speaker 1: he misses a game or two because of that, let

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02:03:52,720 --> 02:03:57,000
Speaker 1: alone injury, So I mean, knock on wood. He's been healthy.

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02:03:57,040 --> 02:03:59,240
Speaker 1: He's only missed two games in the last four seasons,

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Speaker 1: so he's been a healthy player, which has helped him

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02:04:01,600 --> 02:04:03,520
Speaker 1: accumulate the numbers that he has. But I'm gonna say

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Speaker 1: false too. I think that's that's just a fat number.

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02:04:07,720 --> 02:04:10,960
Speaker 1: There's a reason that record hasn't been broken in twenty years,

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Speaker 1: So I'm inclined to say false as well. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: NFL true false numero trace Baker Mayfield is the player

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Speaker 1: under the most pressure in the NFL in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: the most pressure, I don't think so. I think there's

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02:04:31,120 --> 02:04:32,680
Speaker 1: a lot of players that are under a lot of

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02:04:32,760 --> 02:04:35,360
Speaker 1: pressure in twenty twenty, and I don't think Baker Mayfield

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02:04:36,560 --> 02:04:39,200
Speaker 1: is the one who's under the most pressure. Yes, he

2313
02:04:39,440 --> 02:04:43,040
Speaker 1: is under some pressure to perform well, to get his

2314
02:04:43,240 --> 02:04:46,800
Speaker 1: offensive weapons that he has in him on the same page,

2315
02:04:47,480 --> 02:04:50,200
Speaker 1: to win some games for his team, But I don't

2316
02:04:50,280 --> 02:04:53,440
Speaker 1: think he's under the most pressure. I look at a

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02:04:53,520 --> 02:04:57,720
Speaker 1: guy like Cam Newton, Aaron Rodgers, some bigger names in

2318
02:04:57,800 --> 02:05:00,400
Speaker 1: the game, who have been in the game longer, I

2319
02:05:00,440 --> 02:05:04,600
Speaker 1: should say, than Baker Mayfield. Yeah, I think he falls

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Speaker 1: into that category of pressure unquestionably, because really, when you

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Speaker 1: look at and say who is under pressure, it's the

2322
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Speaker 1: teams and the quarterbacks who underachieved last year, And he

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Speaker 1: is firmly in that conversation. I mean, they grossly underachieved

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Speaker 1: after everybody was ready to crown am AFC North champs

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Speaker 1: last year before the season even started, and we saw

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Speaker 1: how that panned out, and their coach got canned. So

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Speaker 1: and he didn't play well, and he would probably be

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Speaker 1: man enough to tell you that. So I think he's

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Speaker 1: right up there. I think another guy who falls into

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Speaker 1: this category is Jared Goff. Goff leads them to an

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Speaker 1: NFC title and a Super Bowl appearance, and they don't

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs the next year. So I think he's

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Speaker 1: under a tremendous amount of pressure in a really tough division.

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Speaker 1: I mean the NFC West, my goodness, I mean Seattle,

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Speaker 1: Arizona's coming on, you know, and San fran who went

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Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl last year, have fun in that division,

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Speaker 1: you know. So I think Baker is in the top three,

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Speaker 1: But I'm putting Jared Goff ahead of him just by

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Speaker 1: virtue of what he had done previously, you know, taking

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Speaker 1: the team to the Super Bowl and then missing the

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Speaker 1: playoffs completely. I mean, Baker Rayfield hasn't done anything yet,

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Speaker 1: So I think the pressure, the pressure is always on quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: Let's be honest. But I'm gonna say Jared Goff's higher

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Speaker 1: on the list than Bakers. So I will say false

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Speaker 1: for that one. And that is NFL true false brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Yancy's Fancy Yancy's Fancy New York's Artistan Cheese.

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Speaker 1: And you know you think about pressure, Yes, Josh Allen's

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02:06:44,800 --> 02:06:47,280
Speaker 1: under pressure because everybody's looking at him, but he'd be

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Speaker 1: way down on the list and helping him as the

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Speaker 1: fact that he's got a top five defense working with

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Speaker 1: him and he has, you know, more weapons on offense.

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Speaker 1: I wonder where they would put Josh Allen on that

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Speaker 1: list pressure on quarter backs? This season? Who has the

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Speaker 1: most pressure? Because let's not make any mistake about this,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen is unquestionably looked at as the lynchpin upon

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Speaker 1: which this team's fortune's rest. Because everybody knows the defense

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02:07:17,360 --> 02:07:21,760
Speaker 1: should be top five. The special teams arguably should be better.

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02:07:22,800 --> 02:07:27,200
Speaker 1: Your long distance kicking issues are hopefully by the wayside

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Speaker 1: with the new kid in town. So it does rest

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Speaker 1: on the quarterback here. But I don't know if i'd

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Speaker 1: even put him in the top ten quarterbacks in terms

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Speaker 1: of most pressure on him, you know what, You know

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Speaker 1: what I mean, Like, I just I don't know why.

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Speaker 1: I just don't feel like it's it's as high in

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Speaker 1: terms of where it registers. And he puts enough pressure

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Speaker 1: on himself. I mean there's pressure. But how about Mitchell Trubisky.

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Speaker 1: There's pressure on Sorry to bring up a sore subject,

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02:07:57,000 --> 02:07:59,960
Speaker 1: but not even getting started with the Bears, there's pressure.

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Speaker 1: I would put him ahead of Mayfield too, wouldn't you? Yes,

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Speaker 1: because what is his leash? Two games? Yeah, and then

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02:08:05,320 --> 02:08:07,240
Speaker 1: he's gonna get the hook and it'll be out. It'll

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Speaker 1: be the Nick Foles Show. They're not naming a starter

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Speaker 1: until the beginning of the season between him and four, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So I would put I'd put Drubisky up there as

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Speaker 1: more pressure. As I mentioned Jared Goff, I think is

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Speaker 1: under more pressure, and then Mayfield's probably third. I put

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Speaker 1: him there. You think there's pressure on Ben Roethlisberger coming

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02:08:29,640 --> 02:08:31,800
Speaker 1: back from injury. There's a little bit. I think there's

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02:08:31,840 --> 02:08:34,920
Speaker 1: some pressure on Sam Darnold to do something with his team.

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Speaker 1: I actually feel bad for him in a small way.

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Speaker 1: I mean, boy, that's it's gonna be a tough year

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Speaker 1: for him. I think there's some pressure on Kyler Murray

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02:08:45,240 --> 02:08:47,560
Speaker 1: to see what he can do with his new defensive

2384
02:08:47,600 --> 02:08:49,880
Speaker 1: weapons that he has in Arizona. A lot of people

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Speaker 1: are putting him in the MVP conversation already. That's pressure man.

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Speaker 1: Good grief, but but yeah, I would agree with that.

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Speaker 1: I think I think Murray's probably got a little more

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02:08:58,840 --> 02:09:02,320
Speaker 1: pressure because their defense isn't good as good as the Bills,

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02:09:02,480 --> 02:09:04,720
Speaker 1: so there's more on his plate to handle. And now

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Speaker 1: that he's got DeAndre Hopkins, the expectations are like through

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Speaker 1: the roof now on what he should be able to

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Speaker 1: do with that kind of a weapon. So I would

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Speaker 1: say he's got more pressure than Josh Allen has. I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to think and run down the list of quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: right now. Lamar Jackson has pressure to do it again

2396
02:09:23,560 --> 02:09:26,480
Speaker 1: right after underachieving in the playoffs last year. So the

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Speaker 1: expectation isn't just to get to the playoffs, it's to

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Speaker 1: win the whole dang thing after you underachieved following a

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Speaker 1: fourteen and two regular season. What kind of pressure does

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson have now that he doesn't have DeAndre Hopkins anymore.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's been the focal point of the offense.

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02:09:42,800 --> 02:09:47,000
Speaker 1: But even more so, now what about Ryan's Tannehill. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well yeah, because see now that's the other They made

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02:09:52,000 --> 02:09:55,160
Speaker 1: him the man there, right, and well, yes he got paid,

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02:09:55,360 --> 02:09:57,480
Speaker 1: and that's where the pressure lies because he got paid.

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Speaker 1: Because that situation is completely dif from Jared goff In

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02:10:01,480 --> 02:10:04,960
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield because those two underachieved last year, so there's

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Speaker 1: pressure on them to get back to where people feel

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02:10:07,240 --> 02:10:11,280
Speaker 1: their performance should be. For Ryan Tannehill, it's the opposite.

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02:10:11,360 --> 02:10:15,440
Speaker 1: He overachieved last year, got paid, and now it's like, well,

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Speaker 1: you better earn that money. So you know, everybody think

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Speaker 1: it's great being the quarterback all the time. There's some

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Speaker 1: pitfalls too. I'm not gonna I mean, I mean, hey,

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Speaker 1: if you've got the ability to play the position, go

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Speaker 1: play the position. There's a lot of hearts, but there's yeah,

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Speaker 1: it takes a certain kind of certain breed a cat

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02:10:33,880 --> 02:10:36,880
Speaker 1: to play that position, all right, So that is NFL

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02:10:36,960 --> 02:10:39,200
Speaker 1: true falls. We just wanted to expand the conversation there

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Speaker 1: and try to include Josh Allen with some other quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: because pressure's always there for the qbs. But that will

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Speaker 1: cover that one more segment for Mattie and I when

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Speaker 1: we return from the break, as we as we examine

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Speaker 1: what we have learned from today's show. That's coming up

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Speaker 1: next here on the other side of the break, it's

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health. This is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio time for what have we learned from

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Speaker 1: today's show? Brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction

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Speaker 1: equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. And we had

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Speaker 1: one ESPN's Field Yates on the show today and after

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Speaker 1: talking to him a little bit about fantasy football, we

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Speaker 1: asked him about the Bills and Maddie asked him about

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen and the jump he has to make in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Here's what he had to say about that.

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen made incredible strides last year. I mean, and

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Speaker 1: I'm not talking just like accuracy percentage. I just thought that,

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Speaker 1: you know, there was a certain leadership we saw from him.

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Speaker 1: There was a playmaking ability, there was a fearlessness from him,

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Speaker 1: but now he's got another year under hisself. It improved

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Speaker 1: wide receiver group at the addition of the fond dig

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Speaker 1: and also hiding expect right, And you know, I think

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Speaker 1: most people would believe that there are two teams that

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Speaker 1: are competing for the af TO East Championship this year,

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Speaker 1: the two teams that did it last year, Patriots in

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Speaker 1: the Bill, and with that comes expectations, and that's what

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Speaker 1: I think is going to be Ultimately that determines the

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Speaker 1: build season is how Josh meets those vacations. So that

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Speaker 1: was Field Yates and we were just talking about pressure

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Speaker 1: on Josh Allen this year, and it is unquestionably there

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Speaker 1: the one thing I wanted to run by you, Maddie.

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Speaker 1: So Leonard Fournette gets waived by the Jaguars today. As

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm going to give you the rundown of

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Speaker 1: the running backs that were taken after him in the

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen drafting. Already Yea, Christian McCaffrey, Dalvin Cook, Joe Mixon,

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Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara, Kareem Hunt, James Connor, to Riet Cohen, Marlon mack,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, Chris Carson, and Matt Brida and Austin Eckler

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Speaker 1: were undrafted. Oh my gosh, why you shouldn't take a

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Speaker 1: running back high in the draft. And you look at

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Speaker 1: what the Bills have done the last two years between

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Speaker 1: you know, Devin's singletary and round three and Zach Mowson

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Speaker 1: round three, and they've got two players who are going

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Speaker 1: to unquestionably help them this year. So you can make

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Speaker 1: whatevery argument you want. I suppose on the other side,

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Speaker 1: you could say Ezekiel Elliott was the fourth pick in

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Speaker 1: the draft, but it seems like more of these running

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Speaker 1: backs are later in the draft these days. Just words

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Speaker 1: to live by. I guess going forward, we'll see. I

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Speaker 1: wonder if he's gonna get picked up, and who's gonna

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Speaker 1: get picked up by. He's gonna get picked up, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: who doesn't. I don't know who sees him as a fit.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting to see. That's gonna do it

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Speaker 1: for a Monday edition of One Bills Live. My thanks

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Speaker 1: to Mattie Glab for filling in for Steve Tasker. Steve

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Speaker 1: will be back tomorrow in that very chair, as we

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Speaker 1: will be continuing with our coverage of the Bills preseason

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Speaker 1: preparations for the NFL regular season, as Week one is

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Speaker 1: now thirteen days away. For Mattie Glab I'm Chris Brown.

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Speaker 1: This has been One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio, expecially Spasment Serve fail