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It's One Bill's Live,

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presented by Calledlida Health.

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Welcome to a Thursday edition of

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One Bill's Live. Matti Glab alongside of CBS

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Sports. NFL analyst Chris Drapasso,

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who joins us for the show today

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and Chris, the players are back out there for

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practice again as otias

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are underway. And just as otis

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are underway, the off season

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rolls on more players getting

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signed to big time contracts.

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A player in the AFC East who's caught

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a lot of passes from Tuatugabailoa

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just signed a contract extension

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with the Miami Dolphins. Jalen Waddle,

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agreeing to terms on a three year deal worth

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eighty four point seven five million

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dollars, which includes seventy six million dollars

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guaranteed, makes him one of the league's

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top five highest paid receivers.

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He's put up three straight one thousand yard

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seasons since coming into the NFL,

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and did so last season just playing in fourteen

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games. Also has eighteen touchdowns

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so far in his NFL career and

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has had three straight seasons with at least

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seventy catches. The Dolphins are

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not just paying Jalen Waddle, they are

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also paying Tyreek Hill. That's

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two players who are making

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around thirty million

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dollars per year. Wow,

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Jalen Waddle another receiver

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getting paid big time money. This receiver

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market, it's going crazy.

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Yeah, it's going absolutely insane.

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We still have I mean, I do think Jay the

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Model probably deserves that type

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of money you mentioned, going over one thousand hours

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only in fourteen games, kind of dealt with like nagging

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injuries last season. But we still

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have Brandon Ayuk who wants a new deal. T Higgins

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of course in Cincinnati, and then the big ones,

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you know, justin Jefferson, what's he going to ultimately

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get? Are we going to see wide receivers,

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you know, more than thirty thousand dollars.

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I think we probably will, or thirty million

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dollars per year. We probably will. And

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to mention that Miami has two

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of these players, it's a total

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stark contrast from what we have in Buffalo

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with the Bills. They're really not paying anyone

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big money anymore. I mean, Stefan Diggs does

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have the dead cap hit, but we're starting

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to see that some teams are willing to shell out the huge

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money to their pass

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catchers. And then teams like the Bills, like the Chiefs,

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and like the Green Bay Packers, who

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have let go of elite veteran

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wide receivers over the last two or three years, are

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trying to go the more, you know, replace that production

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on the agger. So it's really interesting, especially

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within the AFC East. Just like that

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dichotomy of the financials at the

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wide.

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Receiver spot, it's interesting to see

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how teams put their rosters together.

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We are now months out of the NFL

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Draft, which I believe is the last time we saw

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each other was not at the NFL Draft,

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but at the NFL Scouting Combine,

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which was in preparation for the

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NFL Draft, and teams

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are looking quite different now that they have built

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up their rosters through the draft and free agency,

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and players are getting signed

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to big time deals, Jalen Waddle being

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the latest one. Juan Jennings

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also another wide

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receiver who got an extension

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with the forty nine Ers, a one year contract.

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He was a restricted free agent this year with the

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forty nine ers, so he signs a one year

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contract extension to keep

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him with San Francisco through

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the twenty twenty five season. The deal's

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worth up to fifteen point four million

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dollars with ten and a half

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million guaranteed. This is another

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player who's been in the year for three seasons, like Jalen

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Waddle. In his career seventy

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six catches, nine hundred and sixty three

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receiving yards, seven touchdowns.

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He had two hundred and sixty five receiving

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yards and one touchdown last season.

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If you do the math, he's making about seven

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point seven million dollars per year. This

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is a player who the forty nine ers think

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have a lot of has a lot of upside. He's

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shown up in some big moments for the

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forty nine ers and I think has a

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lot left in his tank. He overlapped

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with me when I worked at the University of Tennessee.

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He was a receiver there and somebody

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that fans and people who worked at the

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university fell in love with. He's a great guy.

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He really really cares about the sport.

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We hear and we learned

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when Stefan Diggs was here. He was a

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player who he just cared

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about football. He wanted to go out there win

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games. He pushed his teammates to

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be better players. And that is somebody

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who Jwan Jennings is He just really cares

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the game, has such a love for it, and it

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was so fun watching him grow

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as a collegiate football player

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now into the NFL. But bringing it

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back to the seven point seven million dollars

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per year, according to

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reports that we've seen, Curtis Samuel's deal

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for the Bills is three years, twenty

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four million dollars, and if you do

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the math there, that's about eight million dollars

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per year two different receivers. Curtis

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has spent more years in the league.

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Juwan Jennings not as much, but

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Juwan Jennings stats aren't anything crazy.

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Now they're thinking about what he can do

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in the next two years with this

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team. But you look at those two deals

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and you say, good job

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Brandon Bean.

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Yeah, totally.

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And that's been my thing

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that I've been hammering this offseason, that getting Curtis

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Samuel for only eight million dollars per year

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when we're seeing Jalen Wattle at

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twenty six million dollars per year, Devonte Smith

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good wide receiver for the Eagles, but the number

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two to aj Brown twenty five million

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average per year. To it, Curtis Samuel for only

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eight You mentioned with the context of Juwan

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Jennings to be very

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close to that. I think with Josh Allen,

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Curtis Samuel probably can be the best player

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that he's been. He's kind of been held back in

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Carolina when Brandon Bean was there twenty

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seventeen all the way through twenty twenty, and

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then in Washington never really had a

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high caliber quarterback. Now he gets that kind

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of feels similar to the John Brown signing

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in twenty nineteen, like this mid

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tier wide receiver who's a little smaller can

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get open but never had the elite level

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production. Because of the quarterback play, they

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can get the most out of him, and we could be looking as

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early as maybe October and say, wow, this looks

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like a huge bargain. Two other things

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about Curtis Samuel the wide receiver

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financials that I'm thinking about. I

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wonder paying Tyreek Kill that money,

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paying Jalen Waddle now twenty

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five twenty six million dollars per year, what

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happens with Tua, Like there's kind

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of a give and take there where they still have to pay

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to a tongue of Baila big money. Does

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that really speak to the Dolphins saying, hey, we kind

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of believe in our receivers more than our quarterback.

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And it's it's it

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will be interesting to see because they had to let Christian Wilkins

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go in free agency, their star defensive tackle who

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was kind of that nagging defender

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for Josh Allen over the last couple of years. They

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allocate the money to Jalen Wadel. What happens

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with Twetunguovailoa And then one other

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wide receiver that I forgot, Ceedee Lamsill has

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to get his contract too in Dallas. So

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I think within the next two

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months to maybe half a year, when

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these receivers are either traded or

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get their new deals, we're gonna be like, yeah, a top

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number one wide receiver is over thirty million

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dollars per season, and that Jennings deal to me with

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Ayuk, with Deebo Samuel, Christian

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McCaffrey, the offense runs through him in San

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Francisco. Now you re signed

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Jennings. You drafted Ricky Pearsall

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in the first round right before the Bills picked

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Omens.

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You're saying, he's looking like a great receiver already

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out there.

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It's too crowded of a wide receiver tight

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end room. What happens do we see

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at Brandon Ayuk trade. It kind of feels similarly

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going way back ten years ago, when the Bills

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drafted Sammy Watkins, it was like, oh, they have Sammy

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Watkins in Robert Woods and Stevie Johnson, and then

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Stevie Johnson.

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Was traded like two days later.

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We obviously haven't seen that yet in San Francisco,

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but there's just only one football to go around

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and so many weapons, and now like

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you're saying to invest in Juwan Jennings

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for the next two years, to me, indicates

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that either Debo or Brandon Ayuk is

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probably going to be on the move in the next couple weeks or months.

8:19

I mean, they have so many weapons on

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both sides of the football, it's hard to keep

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everybody on that team together.

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The Bills have them on their schedule

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coming out of the bye week. It'll be interesting

8:30

to see what the forty nine ers look like toward

8:33

the back half of the season, really the last

8:36

third of the NFL season. In Week

8:38

thirteen there is when they play the San

8:40

Francisco forty nine Ers at home.

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And Chris, I haven't gotten to talk to you since

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OTAs have started. Since

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the guys have really been back for workouts since

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April. Looking at the roster as it

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is right now, what are some of your biggest

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takeaways of how this

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Bills team looks at its current

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state here at the end of May.

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Yeah.

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I think to go into this offseason, it was

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not even just locally but nationally,

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like, what are the Bills going to do? They have so much dead cap

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space, they trade Stefon Diggs. It was kind

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of a seismic thing, and that came after releasing

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Jordan Poyer, Mitch Morse, things like that. I

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think Brandon Bean has kind of done what he's always

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done bargain bin free agent signings.

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I love that he made a ten

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player draft class that a lot of times he

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was trading up I don't want to say wasting those

9:27

draft picks, but not utilizing them to just get

9:30

as many roles at the table at wide

9:32

receiver, in the secondary, upfront,

9:34

on defense, along the offensive line,

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I think Cole Bishop is going to be great for this

9:38

defense as kind of that de facto replacement

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for Jordan Poyer. Dwayne Carter is going to be a

9:44

perfect up the field rusher to kind of spell

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at Oliver when he needs the rest. I

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really think the defense needed that type.

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And then even Javon Solomon being that

9:52

smaller closer in size to von

9:55

Miller type, I think that's again

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another kind of niche type of player that this defense

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needed. So for as much as

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you can pinpoint, you know, strengths

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and weaknesses of the entire draft class, Mike

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Edwards, Chase Claypool, so

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many pieces that Brandon Bean has brought in

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that are not gonna be you know, breaking

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the bank. We talked about Curtis Samuel already. I

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think he's done a very good job working both the

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draft and not overspending in free agency,

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but diversifying and not just pushing

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all his chips into one or two free agents, but adding

10:25

a lot of pieces, even Austin Johnson to be

10:28

that backup to day Kwon Jones as that block

10:30

eater. On the inside, it still

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looks like one of the most complete,

10:34

well rounded rosters in the AFC.

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Speaking of Chase Claypool, that was a

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late addition for the Buffalo Bills,

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and the roster you

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know, may not be exactly set right

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now as we head into training camp. Guys

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may get added to the roster, people

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may leave the roster, there may be some,

10:52

you know, a move here or there

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as we move into June and

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July, but Chase is one of the light

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additions to the wide receiver room. I

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think that addition is an interesting addition

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because of how people

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may perceive him in the league, of

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whether that be fans or whether that be teams

11:12

that he did play for. Someone

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who started out hot as an

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NFL wide receiver as a rookie,

11:19

had over eight hundred receiving yards

11:21

and nine touchdowns in his first

11:23

season with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and

11:26

then moves on to Chicago

11:28

and then Miami, and his role

11:31

changed a lot from being a

11:33

wide receiver that was looked at as, hey,

11:35

you're on the field a lot of the time,

11:37

to you're a special teamer and

11:40

you'll get a snap here and there at

11:42

the wide receiver position, but you're His

11:45

role changed quite a bit in

11:48

the what five four seasons

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he's been in the NFL. Three seasons that he's

11:53

been in the NFL got drafted

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in twenty twenty, so it hasn't spent

11:57

too much time in this league

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and has seen a lot of changeover

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I think in how he was used,

12:04

how he's been perceived but comes to Buffalo

12:08

because of the opportunities

12:10

within this wide receiver room. Not a clear cut

12:12

number one guy in the wide receiver room.

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He said, Hey, when we heard from him, he said,

12:16

that's why a lot of these receivers want

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to be here, is because there's opportunity

12:21

for everybody in this room right now. And

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I also loved what I heard

12:26

about the family atmosphere here. He said, it's

12:28

not just lip service. I feel it when I'm here,

12:32

and he's willing to be

12:34

a special team or he's willing to take

12:36

on that job with pride

12:38

and is happy to because he loves the

12:40

game. How did you

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look at this move that the Bills made by adding

12:47

a wide receiver like Chase Claypool, who in

12:49

the right system, maybe we see,

12:52

you know, some shades of his first two NFL

12:54

seasons.

12:55

Yeah, I think it kind of speaks to what

12:58

we were just talking about that the Bills are

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one of these unique teams that are not paying a

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wide receiver twenty four twenty five thirty

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million dollars a year that's playing on their team

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this season. Because I think

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for all that that Chase Claypool has said, I think a lot

13:11

of these wide receivers know like, oh, we

13:13

have Josh Allen throwing as the football, and that's

13:15

why I think maybe the Bills have more confidence

13:17

in that. The Chiefs have had confidence in trading

13:20

Tyreek Hill, the Packers trusted

13:22

Jordan Love, they were able to trade DeVante

13:25

Adams, get a bunch of draft picks, and now they look

13:27

like one of the best teams in the NFC. You

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mentioned it off off air to me that I

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think these teams understand we can probably

13:34

do that if we have an elite quarterback, and the

13:36

Bills have that. So I think it's not

13:38

just the front office understanding it or

13:40

a media member understanding it. It's these wide receivers

13:43

willing to sign one year deals. And really with Chase Claypool

13:46

his quarterbacks end of the career,

13:48

Ben Roethlisberger justin fields

13:50

and Tua coming into that Dolphins team midseason

13:53

as the fourth or the fifth or the sixth option, so

13:55

this is definitely the best quarterback situation he's

13:58

had, and just opportunity wise, like you mentioned,

14:00

there's no Stefan Diggs anymore. We've said it over

14:02

and over. Khalil Shakiir is the only wide

14:04

receiver that's caught a pass from Josh Allen. There's

14:06

plenty of opportunity there for this to be really

14:09

one of those prove it deals for someone

14:11

that six ' four two thirty eight four

14:13

four speed, forty inch vertical can

14:16

just he doesn't need to be one hundred catch type

14:18

player, but if he can make a few of those splash

14:20

plays down the field just rebounding the football,

14:23

just kind of being a bigger, more sleek version

14:25

of a tight end, he can maximize his impact

14:29

on this team and then financially after

14:31

the season.

14:32

I think it's interesting too, because it's not just Chase

14:34

Claypool who's played with NFL quarterbacks

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that are not at the top of the league

14:39

during the time when he played with them. Big Ben

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certainly was at one point, but he

14:44

got the last two years of Big

14:46

Ben. And you look at Mac Collins,

14:48

who has played with, you know, several different

14:50

quarterbacks, and also Curtis Samuel

14:53

who got a couple of years with Cam Newton and

14:55

then moved on to play for teams like the Commanders

14:57

and played with a slew of different

15:00

quarterbacks who I would not put

15:02

in the same category as Josh

15:04

Allen or Patrick Mahomes

15:06

or Lamar Jackson or Joe Burrow.

15:09

So you get several wide receivers

15:11

now who are part of this roster who Steve

15:14

Tasker has said it, and I know you said

15:16

it with him too. These guys could see

15:18

career numbers because of the

15:20

type of quarterback who's throwing

15:22

them the football, one that's one

15:25

of the best, if not the best, in the

15:27

NFL at his job.

15:28

Yeah.

15:28

One other point that I want to make, and this is definitely

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me being a nerdy draft

15:32

analyst. When you're looking at the draft, you're watching film, you're looking

15:34

over the analytics. I've always been a big age

15:36

proponent, and we had it kind of thrown for

15:39

a loop the last couple of years with COVID. There was like twenty

15:41

five and twenty six year olds this year's draft, which is

15:43

kind of weird to me because I remember pre

15:45

COVID, if there was a first rounder who was twenty

15:48

three, was like, WHOA, he's.

15:49

Way, way, way too old.

15:51

Chase Claypool only turns twenty six in July,

15:53

and we were talking Juwan Jennings twenty twenty

15:56

draft class. Curtis Samuel twenty

15:58

seventeen draft class. Curtis Samuel is only

16:00

eleven months older than Jawan Jennings.

16:02

Wow, so it feels like man, Curtis Samuel

16:04

has been in the league. This is going to be is what, his seventh

16:07

or eighth season in the league. Juwan Jennings is still

16:09

kind of learning his way in the NFL.

16:11

I mean, he's made some plays in the Super Bowl and NFC

16:14

title games. But Curtis Samuel, relative

16:16

to his age only being twenty seven,

16:19

has a lot of experience under his belt.

16:21

These are two, you know, in the prime of

16:24

their careers age wise, wide receivers.

16:26

Yep. And then you look at a guy like Kean Coleman

16:28

who just got drafted by the Bills, and he was the

16:30

younger ones in the draft class, one

16:32

of the younger ones in the draft class. He just turned

16:34

twenty one like two weeks ago. So

16:37

you look at age in that group and

16:39

there's several young wide receivers that

16:42

are a part of it. We kind of already

16:44

went around the NFL, but we've got a couple

16:46

more things we want to mention to you guys, so let's

16:48

continue to go around the NFL. It's presented

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by Clyde to Health, the official healthcare system of

16:53

the Buffalo Bills, and if you

16:55

didn't catch it yesterday, it was on Twitter

16:57

x whatever you want to call it. Rogers,

17:00

We're going to talk about him a lot as as

17:03

training camp rolls on, as

17:05

OTA's roll on as we get closer

17:07

to the season, because hey, the Bills play

17:09

them twice in the regular season. Who

17:11

knows what could happen if both

17:13

those teams make it to the playoffs.

17:15

But according to reports, Aaron Rodgers

17:18

dealt with right foot discomfort

17:20

during their practice on Wednesday. There

17:23

was a couple videos

17:26

on social media where he had

17:28

his cleats off and had

17:30

part of his sock off and the athletic trainer

17:32

goes over to him and is putting something

17:35

on his foot to obviously help with that discomfort.

17:38

But he ended up going back into practice

17:40

and went through drills. Seemed like

17:43

he didn't have any issues. But my

17:45

point here is sure,

17:48

it may not be the biggest deal, but if

17:50

this is something that is nagging and that

17:52

he has dealt with, which he has before

17:55

when it comes to foot issues, toe

17:57

issues at his age,

17:59

playing the quarterback position, something

18:02

like that is no joke because

18:05

I think about people that I know that are up there

18:07

in age that deal with feet

18:10

problems, and no they're

18:12

not in the NFL, but just

18:15

walking and standing is

18:17

sometimes a tough task. And if he's

18:19

dealing with this playing the quarterback position.

18:22

Yeah yeah.

18:23

By the way, if you're a Jets fan and you open up

18:25

Twitter yesterday and you

18:28

just and you still have the nightmare

18:30

burned into your brain of four snaps

18:32

into last season against the Bills, he blows his

18:34

achilles and you see the trainer

18:36

working on that foot and cutting up part

18:39

of his sock, Like, what's going through your

18:41

mind?

18:41

If you're a Jets fan.

18:42

It has to be like deja vu all

18:44

over again to

18:46

be someone that is going to be turning forty one.

18:49

And what I've always said, I

18:51

still think Aaron Rodgers can throw the football.

18:53

I think he's still, if healthy, one of the better quarterbacks

18:56

in the league, you know, top half of the league. But it's

18:58

so much of Aaron Rodgers when

19:00

he was winning MVPs and getting

19:02

deep into the playoffs and winning a Super Bowl was

19:04

his mobility and what he could do. He

19:07

was kind of like Josh Allen pre Josh

19:09

Allen in terms of off structure, still

19:11

making throws on the run. If that's

19:13

scaled back to seventy five percent

19:16

or half or lower, and you're just

19:18

talking about Aaron Rodgers from from within

19:20

the pocket. You can do so many more things schematically

19:23

on defense and not have to worry about him outside of the

19:25

pocket. That was always like almost number one

19:27

or number two on the defensive

19:29

game plan. Keep him in the pocket, don't let him get outside

19:32

at forty one years old, often Achilles, if he's

19:34

already having discomfort through OTA's wearing

19:36

shorts and a helmet. I'm

19:39

never one to project

19:41

injuries or say I'm gonna predict this guy's gonna get

19:44

hurt, but this one seems like a seventeen

19:46

game grueling schedule where the Jets,

19:48

in this loaded AFC and in a much

19:51

improved AFC East, even they're

19:53

gonna need all of Aaron Rodgers this season, they

19:55

can't have him out for four to six games.

19:57

For eight games are obviously not the entire

19:59

season, and as we saw kind of the disaster

20:01

that occurred last year when that happened.

20:03

So I just don't know if.

20:05

I feel super strongly or confident

20:07

about him being able to play all seventeen

20:09

games. And then even if he does, how

20:12

mobile will Aaron Rodgers be it would be

20:14

like taking away a strength of any

20:16

other quarterback, because to me, that was what always

20:18

made him so fun and so dangerous

20:20

for opposing defenses.

20:22

And you talk about okay, let's

20:25

just say maybe this is something that is

20:27

going to be nagging throughout the season. He

20:29

had that toe fracture during the twenty twenty one

20:31

season. But anyways, what was

20:33

the issue last season for this team,

20:35

aside from the fact that Aaron Rodgers went down

20:38

in the first game, it was the offensive

20:40

line. The offensive line couldn't hold

20:42

up. The offensive line couldn't give quarterbacks

20:45

the protection they needed to

20:47

have success. And if this

20:49

is going to be a version of Aaron Rodgers that needs

20:51

to stay in the pocket longer, you're

20:54

putting a taller task on

20:56

top of your offensive line, which they did

20:58

invest heavily into the offensive

21:01

line during the off season. They drafted Olufushanu

21:04

with the eleventh overall pick in the NFL

21:06

Draft. They're going get Tyron Smith in the

21:08

offseason and free agency and

21:10

a couple other pieces as well. But we

21:13

haven't seen this group together yet. This we

21:15

don't know. If this is a well oiled machine. We don't

21:17

know if it's going to be so, if

21:19

you're going to ask an offensive line, hey, we

21:21

need you to do a lot more than we thought we would

21:23

need you to do, I don't know what

21:26

that's going to look like.

21:26

Yeah, exactly. And this is part of why I've

21:29

been asking the question. I asked it

21:31

to Judy Batista yesterday. Have you ever seen a team

21:33

that's more all in on one season than the Jets?

21:35

Because you have Aaron Rodgers forty one Achilles injury,

21:38

Tyron Smith, big signing at left tackle

21:40

in his mid thirties, has dealt with a litany

21:43

of injuries in Dallas. Morgan Moses,

21:45

the right tackle that they signed thirty three years old.

21:47

Elijah Verra Tucker has been very good

21:49

in the early stages of his career at guard.

21:52

He's coming off a season ending injury. So

21:54

it's a group you have Mike Williams obviously at

21:56

wide receiver, but just really zero

21:58

in on the offensive line. It's a group that is

22:01

not congealed like the Bills is. I mean, they lose

22:04

Mitch Morse, but they have four pieces that

22:06

they know who is going to play up front.

22:08

The Jets don't have that.

22:09

It's a lot of new communication that needs

22:11

to occur, and we've seen a lot

22:14

of these players deal with injuries in the

22:16

past. Maybe they all just stay completely

22:18

healthy and the Jets are one of the more formidable

22:20

teams, but I think it's a very risky

22:22

bet for this team, not even just Hey,

22:25

you know, Curtis Samuel got injured what twenty twenty

22:27

one, but he's younger, it's easier to bounce

22:29

back. He played at a pretty good level

22:31

last season relative to the quarterback play. When you're

22:33

talking Aaron Rodgers at forty one, Tyron

22:36

Smith into his thirties, Morgan Moses at

22:38

thirty three, you're dealing with older players

22:41

that have not just dealt with an injury

22:43

last year, but have just gone through the bumps and bruises

22:45

of multiple NFL seasons.

22:47

And we've seen this offensive line get hurt

22:49

over and over and over again. It's not something

22:51

that just happened last season. I mean it was this season

22:53

prior to that too, where they've dealt with injuries

22:56

and had to have several

22:59

different fronts

23:01

come across from

23:03

Week one to week Week

23:06

eighteen. It's been a lot of different versions

23:08

of the offensive line that they have had to go through. Where

23:11

thankfully the Bills last season they were

23:13

lucky with Hey, we're gonna roll with the same five guys

23:15

pretty much the entire season, minus hey,

23:17

this person needs to come off the field for five snaps

23:20

to deal with something. Hopefully

23:22

that's the case again for the Bills, because I

23:24

think we saw the offense

23:27

really benefit from having

23:29

the same five guys on the field,

23:31

and we saw that through the run game opening

23:34

up and James Cook really coming on strong

23:37

toward the end of last season. Ty Johnson

23:39

sprinkled in there as well. I'm really excited to

23:41

see what Joe Brady does with this offense

23:44

and how he involves

23:46

the running game in it.

23:47

Yeah, and one point to that, I've been the

23:49

biggest proponent of you know, this is a Josh Allen

23:51

offense. We heard that from Joe Brady that the Bill should

23:53

be one of the past heaviest teams on first down,

23:56

neutral score situations, just any situation

23:58

they should lean. You know, one in doubt, let Josh

24:01

Allen throw the football, but in

24:03

those critical situations and if

24:05

the defense is dictating giving James

24:08

Cook, Ray Davis, and Ty Johnson's

24:10

light boxes and there's five, six, seven guys

24:12

in the box and you have a bigger, more formidable,

24:15

physical offensive line than you had maybe two or three

24:17

years ago with Ocyrus Torrens. David Edwards

24:20

is one of the bigger left guards

24:22

in the league. Connor McGovern's going to be one of the biggest centers

24:24

in the league this season. If

24:27

the defense is is begging you to run,

24:29

you have a talented, super talented running

24:31

back dynamic in James Cook. I

24:34

don't think you just always throw the

24:36

football just because you have Josh Allen. There

24:38

should be times we saw it. It was

24:40

perfect in that Dallas Cowboys game last

24:42

season. You know, it was billed as

24:45

this, you know, potential shootout. Then

24:47

it's crappy weather, it's rainy. They're

24:50

like, you know what, maybe we don't have to throw the football

24:52

forty times this game, and James Cook has over two

24:54

hundred yards from scrimmage and they were able to win

24:56

a key game that a lot of people thought, Hey, this is

24:58

where the Bills playoff run kind of halts.

25:00

They're going to lose to the Cowboys that can score all these points.

25:03

If you have the ability to be multi dimensional,

25:06

I think it's good to have that in your back pocket

25:08

and going in from the back

25:10

half of last year into this year. I think the Bills are more

25:12

apt to be successful consistently

25:15

on the ground, and they've been really at any other stage

25:17

of the Josh Allen arrow.

25:18

I was just going to bring that game up. They had two hundred

25:20

and sixty six rushing yards to just eighty

25:22

five passing yards, and I remember Joe

25:24

Brady was calling the plays by that point

25:27

in the season, and everybody kept

25:29

saying, including Sean McDermott, when we heard

25:31

from players and coaches in postgame

25:34

press conferences, it was kudos

25:36

to Joe Brady to sticking

25:38

with the run game. They had a plan

25:41

going into this game that most likely

25:43

was not, let's run the football the entire

25:45

game. They probably worked hard

25:48

at not probably, they did work

25:50

hard at installing things, at

25:52

figuring out how can we beat this

25:54

Cowboys defense with Josh's

25:56

arm and with the wide receivers

25:59

that we have. But the run game

26:01

started to work at one point and they

26:03

stuck to it. And I think it says

26:05

a lot about an offensive coordinator to

26:07

throw your game plan away and just stick to

26:09

what's working on the field, because you're

26:12

putting your pride aside to do what's

26:14

working.

26:15

Yeah, it's kind of the on field embodiment

26:17

to me of what Brandon Bean always talks about that roster

26:20

wise, they're always trying to improve and we're

26:22

coming up on June first. They could be

26:24

another signing like a Leonard Floor signing last year.

26:26

It's the on field embodiment where, yes,

26:29

you know what you have in Josh Allen. You want to

26:31

keep the fastball offensively and throwing the ball

26:33

through the air, but just continue to improve

26:35

to get the run offense

26:37

better and for as good as Devin Singletary

26:40

and Zach Moss Frank or that group was.

26:42

Early in the Josh Allen era, there were a lot of games where

26:44

it's like, man, the Bills just really can't run the ball when

26:46

they need to.

26:48

There's you know, everyone's

26:50

chasing.

26:50

The Kansas City Chiefs and Isaiah Pacheco

26:52

has been a godsend for that team early on last

26:55

season, throughout the mid mid

26:57

portion of the season, where the Chiefs weren't

27:00

really themselves offensively, they were not

27:02

having the production at the wide receiver spot.

27:04

Travis Kelsey was a little bit dinged up. They

27:07

were able to lean on their defense and Isaiah Pacheco

27:09

to be that just grinder to get

27:11

you one hundred yards on the ground to eat

27:14

the clock and then the defense can make a play and

27:16

then suddenly the Chiefs are winning a lot more football

27:18

game. So for as much as I again I

27:21

want and believe the Bills will be pass

27:23

heavy, it's very important to have

27:25

a run game that when needed, whether

27:28

it's in the fourth quarter of a game or the fourth quarter of a

27:30

season, it's vital, I think in today's

27:32

NFL, especially when teams are going

27:34

to come in saying we need to stop Josh Allen. Then suddenly James

27:36

Cook can go off for one hundred and fifty plus.

27:39

If you can run on light boxes, I mean,

27:41

you can do a lot for your team. That's

27:43

just you know, a cheat code right there. We've

27:46

got a Twitter topic for today,

27:48

what has been the best offseason moved

27:50

by the Bills? You can give as a call at eight h three to

27:52

five point fifty will be answering some phone

27:54

calls. Next, we also have Doug

27:57

Farrar coming on the show USA

28:00

Today, NFL writer and editor. He will

28:02

join us at two o'clock.

28:04

So we've got some great stuff coming up. Don't

28:06

go anywhere here on One Bill's Live represented

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by Clidahalth on Buffalo Bills Radio. We're

28:26

back here on One Bill's Live medi glab alongside

28:28

of Christrapasso. We've got a topic for

28:30

you today. What was the best off season

28:32

move by the Bills. You can tweet

28:34

at us or give us call it eighth three five

28:37

point fifty, But before we go to the tweet

28:39

sheet and the phone lines, I wanted to get your opinion

28:41

first. What would you say is the best move?

28:43

All right, I.

28:43

Won't spend too much time at repeating myself,

28:46

but I think just in terms of one transaction,

28:49

it was the Curtis Samuel signing to get

28:51

him at eight million dollars per season. We mentioned

28:53

it in the first segment. We've seen just

28:56

the beginning of the explosion of the wide receiver

28:58

position. Financially, we're going to get three or

29:00

four more giant deals. And

29:03

I use the DeVante

29:05

Smith comparison because

29:08

when I was in last week and i've I

29:10

did a little comparison or a projection

29:12

of based on what John

29:14

Brown, Cole Beasley, and Stefan Diggs the boost

29:17

that they got coming to Buffalo with Josh

29:19

Allen, Curtis Samuel should be right

29:21

around eighty catches one thousand yards.

29:23

That was Davonte Smith's stat

29:25

line last season. He's making twenty five

29:28

million per year. Curtis Samuel eight million.

29:29

Wow.

29:30

But to go Galaxy Brain, to kind of go next level

29:32

for you. The wasn't

29:34

really a move by the Bills. It was a decision from one of their

29:36

players, Von Miller, to just

29:39

walk up to Brandon Bean and say, I

29:41

will reduce my salary from seventeen

29:43

point one million.

29:44

To about eight million.

29:46

This year was huge for the Bills

29:48

to sign Nicholas Morrow and Mvs

29:51

and Mike Edwards and resign

29:53

Aja Epanessa and day Kwon Jones. Maybe

29:55

Dion Jones at linebacker is a

29:58

good insurance option. Early on Chase Clay we

30:00

talked about him. That was

30:02

something that none of us expected. I don't know if you did. I

30:04

certainly thought Von Miller's gonna be like, hey, you traded

30:07

for me, or you signed me. You gave me this gigantic

30:09

deal over one hundred million dollars. You got to pay

30:11

it out. But von Miller said, I'm willing after

30:14

last season, with such a disappointment, to bet

30:16

on myself, so to me in terms

30:18

of Brandon Bean being able

30:20

to restock the shells with bargain bin free agents.

30:23

That decision from von Miller, I

30:25

think was a very veteran leadership

30:27

type move to say, look, I've made an insane amount

30:29

of money in the NFL. I'll reduce my cap

30:32

hit, maybe earn him back and sentives to give

30:34

me motivation and also allow

30:36

Brandon Bean to make some more moves in free agency.

30:39

I really hope he comes out in Week

30:41

one early on in the season, von Miller

30:43

and just is the player that

30:45

we all wanted him to be in this Buffalo

30:48

Bill's uniform because last year was disappointing

30:50

for himself, but for all of us too, who

30:53

wanted to see, Okay, what can this guy do?

30:55

What can he give us when we know

30:57

what he's done in big time games.

31:00

So hopefully we get that version of von

31:02

Miller this season with a healthy day Kwon

31:04

Jones next to him. I mean, if you think about

31:06

this defensive line being

31:09

healthy with players like Greg

31:11

Russo and aj

31:14

Epanessa in there, and Ed

31:16

Oliver of course, with

31:18

some of the new players that we got

31:21

through free agency and drafted

31:23

in Dwayne Carter, John Solomon,

31:25

Austin Johnson, Dwayne Smooth,

31:28

like, some of these guys could be great

31:30

rotational players for this team.

31:33

And if you look at the starting four

31:36

that we're projecting

31:38

could be the starting for this could

31:40

be a pretty great defensive line if they stay

31:42

healthy, I believe.

31:44

And Sean McDermott is going to rotate as much as

31:46

any defensive coordinator head coach in the NFL.

31:48

So I think you're.

31:49

Reading off all those names, You're like, man, they have so many

31:51

defensive linemen, Well, they need that, And I think

31:53

that's been integral to defensive

31:56

players wanting to sign here and being okay

31:59

with one years because they know that their

32:01

coach is not gonna max them out and wear their

32:03

bodies down for future years

32:05

and for late into a season, so to

32:07

get some more pieces up front to have to go

32:10

seven eight deep, I think

32:12

really has helped and is a great philosophy

32:14

for Sean McDermott. So it's kind of like the

32:16

opposite or the similar

32:18

track as the wide receiver position, where there's so

32:21

many bodies you know not all of them are gonna

32:23

hit, but if one or two of the defensive lineman

32:25

hit, suddenly you're already six or seven deep. You have some

32:27

defensive linemen on rookie deals as

32:30

well, then Sean McDermott will really

32:32

have what he wants.

32:32

Bobby Babbitch too.

32:33

We don't know what he's gonna ultimately do with

32:35

the defense, but we know they want to rotate

32:38

up front, and we've seen von Miller

32:40

twenty twenty two, he was like tracking toward

32:42

maybe being a defensive Player of the year. Fluke

32:45

injury against the Lions on Thanksgiving

32:47

doesn't look like he really does anything to his

32:49

and he tears his ACL And what's

32:51

interesting to me, it kind of got lost in that game

32:53

in the Division A round loss to the Chiefs.

32:56

Von Miller was good in that game. There was the

32:58

last I think two Chiefs possis the

33:00

Bills were able to hold them before they

33:02

kind of ran out the clocks to get the Bills back

33:04

into that game. Later rush snaps

33:07

and wins where he was close to Patrick Mahomes

33:09

and was going to maybe be that closure. Maybe getting

33:12

a sack or a forced fumble

33:14

certainly pressured Patrick Mahomes, so it kind

33:16

of came alive a little in the final

33:18

game of the season. Maybe he just wasn't at

33:21

his age fully back

33:23

from the injury until you know, mid

33:25

January. Now he has an entire offseason, no surgery,

33:28

no injury setbacks. If

33:30

von Miller, now at a lesser cap number,

33:32

can be even eighty or ninety percent

33:34

of what he was in twenty twenty two, along

33:37

with all the additions up front that will rotate

33:39

through the you're mentioning, Maddie, I think

33:41

we're going to be looking at another top

33:43

flight Bills defensive line in twenty twenty

33:45

four.

33:46

Yeah. In twenty twenty two, von Miller did

33:48

have a great season up until you

33:50

know the second half of it when

33:53

we didn't see as much of him. But

33:55

he finished the season with

33:57

eight sacks playing in just eleven

34:00

games. That's almost a sack of game.

34:03

And I think if we get something

34:05

like that out of him this season, it

34:07

would really take that group to the next level.

34:10

I will quickly say what I think

34:12

was the biggest offseason move by the Bills.

34:15

I'm going with the coaching staff Joe

34:17

Brady hiring him as offensive

34:19

coordinator and hiring Bobby Babbage

34:21

as defensive coordinator. The way

34:23

that we've heard the players inside

34:25

the building talk about these two, rave

34:28

about these two the defensive

34:30

players say Bobby Babbitche is the smartest

34:33

guy I know. He just

34:35

has a brain knack for football

34:37

like no one else does. I really

34:40

am excited to see what it looks like when

34:42

Week one comes around. I know we

34:45

don't know yet if he's going to be the one calling

34:47

play Sean McDermott said, Hey, ask me

34:49

that question once we get into training

34:51

camp. Right now, we're just trying to get a handle

34:53

on things and teach guys this playbook.

34:56

But I think having him in that position

34:59

is going to do a lot for for this defense. And then

35:01

you have Sean mcderant as the head coach, who's just

35:03

a defensive minded coach.

35:06

We saw what he did last season in

35:08

that DC position, and just

35:10

having him over Bobby

35:13

Babbitch as someone who can help guide

35:15

and lead him as Bobby is in his

35:17

first time, first year as

35:20

a defensive coordinator, I think is

35:22

great for Bobby and is great for Sean.

35:25

I think those two will pair up really

35:27

nicely together. And I can't wait

35:29

to see what this defense looks

35:31

like under Bobby. And for the offense

35:33

too. I mean, all these players have

35:35

been saying Joe Brady wants to

35:37

create an offense that's for us. We're all

35:40

going to eat this

35:42

is Josh Allen's offense. Things that we've

35:44

heard Joe Brady say. And I just feel

35:46

like the relationship aspect

35:49

between the players and

35:51

Bobby and the players and Joe

35:54

is so great. They're

35:56

younger guys, so I feel like they jive

35:58

with them a little bit, they relate

36:01

it a little bit better, and that's

36:03

gonna pay off once the games start, because

36:07

this time right now is about creating

36:09

these relationships with these players

36:11

and if you can, if you can hit a home run

36:13

in May and June by

36:16

doing that, We've heard Josh Allen

36:18

say, I cannot

36:20

state how important

36:23

it is to build

36:26

those relationships right now because

36:28

it really does pay off once the season starts.

36:30

If Joe and Bobby

36:32

can do that right now with these guys, I

36:34

think we're going to see something special in September.

36:37

Yeah, very quickly. How about this.

36:39

There's obviously national talk about

36:41

what's this Bills offense going to look like?

36:43

Without Stefan Digg's right to me,

36:45

we've already seen it.

36:46

I mean last year down the stretch, there was

36:48

that line of demarcation going from Ken Dorsey

36:51

to Joe Brady. From

36:54

the game against the Jets at home, Joe Brady's

36:56

first game as the Bills offensive coordinator. Through the

36:58

regular season finale, Stefan

37:00

Diggs only averaged five catches in forty

37:02

five yards per game. And then he has three catches for

37:04

twenty one yards in the Divisional round, seven

37:07

catches for fifty two yards in the wildcard

37:09

round against the Steelers. So he's right at that average,

37:11

just about about four or five catches a game

37:13

for about forty or fifty yards. He

37:15

was not the elite player that Ken

37:18

Dorsey and Brian Dable could lean on earlier

37:20

in the Josh Allen era. And I

37:22

think what Joe Brady did without

37:25

Stefan Diggs was kind of maybe

37:27

I don't want to say, push Stefon Diggs out the door, but

37:30

made Brandon Bean a little bit more okay with

37:32

Hey, I've seen him spread the football

37:34

around. You mentioned everybody's eating. So to

37:36

me, that is the most encouraging part is that

37:39

he's not like, oh, I kind of have my hands tied

37:41

behind my back now because I don't have an elite receiver.

37:44

He was on the field.

37:44

Last year, but he was not the big producer

37:47

down the stretch in the Joe Brady offense last year.

37:49

So what do you guys think is the best offseason

37:51

move that the Bills have made in

37:53

the last couple months. So we've got Frank from

37:55

north Tonawanda who's been hanging on the phone

37:58

line, so we'll get right over to him. Frank, what do

38:00

you believe is the best move the Bills have made?

38:03

Thanks for taking my call. I think what the best

38:05

move was to make was actually a bunch of moves.

38:07

Getting a bunch of white outs who

38:10

actually aren't the traditional

38:12

wide outs in terms of production, but

38:15

actually our big guys like

38:17

these six three sixty four guys who can

38:19

actually back up the rule receivers

38:21

or pass catches we have on this team who are

38:23

Dalton and Kate and Knox.

38:26

But I've been thinking the Bills

38:28

offense this year as what I call the

38:31

twelve man two tight ends set

38:33

up with Dalton and Kate and

38:36

with Knox as the two starters

38:38

on the team, and the white Outs are

38:40

there to replace. Actually,

38:43

what Diggs's role was not in producing catches,

38:46

but really as a threat that freed

38:48

up those tight end guys to go out and get the

38:50

ball. And Gabe Davis was I

38:52

think he was like zero production in a

38:54

number of games during our Big five wins

38:56

at the end of the season, and actually,

39:00

I think his blocking ability is something we're

39:02

going to have to replace. So I think when

39:04

we look at Kapoole and all the guys

39:06

that we picked up at wide receiver,

39:09

it's actually going to be the good blockers, the guys

39:11

who can flex and go wide or

39:13

who can come in and play

39:16

like almost a tight end position, that

39:18

are going to be the key. And we're really going to see the

39:20

Bills really to the position list receivers

39:23

and things like that, and this is really going to be intriguing

39:25

as the year goes on.

39:27

Thanks for the call, Frank, appreciate it, and yeah,

39:29

that's I mean, that's a great point. By talking

39:32

about the receiver room all the receivers

39:34

they've added to it. The point about

39:37

blocking, Joe Brady brought up Curtis

39:39

Samuel the other day when asked about

39:41

what he's done so far and what

39:43

he's looked like so far, and Joe Brady

39:46

mentioned he's one of the greatest blockers I've

39:48

ever seen. So to be able to use

39:50

some of these players as blockers

39:52

and set up different things, you know, could

39:54

be another new wrinkle to this offense,

39:57

another new look to this offense.

39:58

And then how about the.

39:59

Fact too, that you're thinking of, you know, envisioning

40:02

Mac Collins or MVS or Justin

40:04

Shorter, who we actually haven't talked about today, which is the first

40:06

for me being it's normally always calls about

40:08

Justin Shorter.

40:09

I'm certainly intrigued as well. Chase Claypool.

40:12

You have a back in James Cook that is a

40:15

low four to four guy that has

40:17

proven to be someone that has early

40:20

in his career developed with his vision

40:22

in following his blocks between the tackles. But he wants

40:24

to get outside. And I think in that

40:26

Cowboys game a few others where James

40:28

Cook went over one hundred yards or maybe was

40:31

a low volume guy but hit a few big

40:33

plays. He's in the middle, bounces

40:35

to the outside. That's where you get a

40:38

Chase Claypool block or in the past a Gabe Davis

40:40

block that springs a twenty yard

40:42

gain into a forty or fifty yard game. So that's a good

40:44

point by Frank. And you were mentioning that too, that you thought

40:46

just throwing a bunch of darts at the wide

40:48

receiver room off the air to me that you like

40:51

that decision.

40:51

Something's gonna stick. Yeah, I like it too,

40:54

because, hey, the Bills did

40:56

not have lots of money to

40:58

spend in the off season. Brandon Bean And told

41:01

that countless numbers of times not to

41:03

expect anything huge in the

41:05

offseason in terms of players, because you're

41:07

paying a quarterback like Josh Allen,

41:09

you're paying some other premier positions. You

41:13

know, you trade stuff on digs, but you still have to

41:15

eat some of that money. And so

41:17

you look at a position like the

41:19

wide receivers in a different way, and you say, how

41:21

can we load up here and make

41:24

life easy for Josh by

41:26

having guys talented players to throw

41:28

to, but not paying somebody twenty

41:31

five to thirty million dollars a year. And they

41:33

do that by signing a slew

41:35

a different of different players who

41:37

I think can bring a lot to the table. And then

41:40

you do it by drafting someone who I

41:42

think has great upside.

41:44

Yeah, And the two receivers to me that

41:46

I think will harken Josh

41:48

back to twenty twenty, last three or

41:51

four years, Curtis Samuel Khalilshek. Here

41:53

they can get open Dalton Kinkaid is one of the

41:55

smoothest tight ends. I said last year in

41:57

the draft that he was not my number one

41:59

tight end, but he was definitely the smoothest

42:01

separator he could get open. But

42:04

what I also like is now you have an element

42:06

and gave Davis gave the Bills some of this

42:08

more earlier in his career than the last few

42:10

years. But they're these bigger

42:12

bodies that are back shoulder rebounder

42:15

types that allow Josh Allen to see

42:17

the tiniest little window, trust his arm

42:19

strength and his arm talent and his accuracy, and

42:21

to just rip the football when you're doing that. Even

42:23

to Stefan Diggs or John Brown or Cole

42:25

Beasley, that's not really their games.

42:28

But Chase Claypool certainly is keyon Coleman.

42:31

If he has a specialty, it's probably that MVS

42:34

as well. So I think you kind of give Josh Allen

42:36

both flavors of guys who he will

42:38

see open and others down the field,

42:40

those slot fades in the red zone that

42:43

he can just say, Eh, that guy's not really open, but I'm

42:45

just going to fire a seventy mile power fastball

42:47

to them and let them use their bodies to kind of

42:49

box out and win in those rebounding situations.

42:51

Think about what this team is going to be able to do

42:53

in the red zone this season. A lot of the times

42:55

in the last few years, our red zone target

42:58

was Dawson Knox because he was one one of the

43:00

biggest guys on the roster. And

43:02

now you have several guys on the roster

43:04

who are considered bigger receivers,

43:07

bigger players. You're going to be able to

43:09

toss that ball up not just to your tight ends

43:11

this season, but to several different wide receivers.

43:14

You're opening things up for the team in

43:16

the red zone in terms of who you can get to

43:18

get the ball to. That's going to pay off in more

43:20

touchdowns, more points on the scoreboard.

43:23

Yeah, totally.

43:23

And I think even with

43:26

it being so condensed there, they can still

43:28

run the football. We talked about that in the first segment,

43:31

but there were times, not

43:33

as much last year, but twenty twenty two where

43:36

the Chiefs were just creating all these different

43:38

formations in the red zone.

43:39

They were so good there. The Bills had some struggles there.

43:41

They've again done what I think

43:43

Brandon Bean is always working to do. Improve the roster

43:46

and to be better in the run game

43:48

and when we move it inside

43:50

the twenty, and the Bills can move it from twenty to twenty

43:52

as good as any team in football. We

43:54

need to be able to not just have a Stefon Diggs getting

43:57

open or like you're mentioning, Dawson

43:59

Knox is a crazy high touchdown numbers

44:02

relative to how many catches he's head in the NFL.

44:04

Maybe it's a Justin Shorter, Maybe it's a Chase Claypool.

44:06

Maybe it's a cool play design to James Cooker,

44:08

to Ray Davis. They have way more options

44:10

that are going to be viable threats

44:13

inside the ten, inside the twenty this.

44:14

Year, we got to take a break. When we return reading

44:16

more answers off of the tweet

44:18

sheet. What move do you think was the best

44:21

move the Bills made this offseason? Give us

44:23

a call here eight oh three, five fifty.

44:26

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44:44

We're back here on one Bills Live and we're

44:46

discussing what you think the best off

44:49

season move? What that

44:51

is? What was it? Is it? The

44:53

tight ends is it the

44:56

tight ends getting older, not new tight ends

44:58

because we didn't draft any time it ends.

45:00

But is it you know what we can expect

45:02

out of these guys in their second

45:04

season and don't kinkaid. Is it the wide

45:06

receiver room which looks very new

45:08

right now. Is it the defensive lineman,

45:10

the offensive lineman. I mean, you could pick a

45:12

position. There's a lot of new players on

45:14

this team, so we want to know what you think

45:17

is the best offseason move that the Bills

45:19

have made. Let's go over to Mike

45:22

in Mississippi on the phone. Mike,

45:24

how are you doing?

45:25

Hey, I'm doing good. I just

45:27

want to let y'all know. I drive

45:29

from Tunica to Golf Court on Mondays

45:32

and from Gulf Court up to Tunica on Fridays,

45:35

and this is all I have on the radio is

45:37

WGR five.

45:38

Point fifteen of the amazing Thank you.

45:41

The drive just flies

45:43

by because of you guys. Listen.

45:45

I just wanted to bring something up, and

45:47

I'm going to go to the tight ends, and that is

45:51

when we drafted Ken Kate. We had a

45:53

tight end that had almost one hundred

45:55

catches in the two previous years missing

45:58

for our games, and they had sixteen tds.

46:01

I think so. I think that when

46:03

McDermott went for another tight end, it

46:06

wasn't to upgrade, it was to compliment.

46:08

And I wanted to get your opinion. Do

46:10

you think we may be seeing something

46:13

similar to what they

46:17

had in New England when they had

46:19

Gronk and Hernandez as

46:22

primary targets where they were one

46:24

and two and put up big numbers.

46:26

Do you think we're going to see that with the

46:29

two D case and at

46:31

tight end.

46:33

Thanks for the call, Mike, appreciate it. Chris.

46:35

I'll start with you first. Do you believe that we could

46:38

see a little bit more out of those two

46:40

this season?

46:41

Yeah?

46:41

And I kind of liken it to Dallas

46:43

Goddard and Zach Ertz a few years ago in

46:45

Philadelphia that Ertz was the established veteran,

46:49

was maybe not someone that was going to have an extremely

46:51

high ceiling anymore. I mean, he set

46:54

the tight end catch

46:56

record the one season before Evan Ingram broke

46:58

it last year. But he was just consistent

47:01

on a day in and day out basis. That's Dawson

47:03

Knox and then Dallas Goddard was the bigger

47:06

athlete, had more pass catching upside. It feels

47:08

very similar to me, just in terms

47:10

of the dynamic that I think to his point,

47:13

it was not to just upgrade and to kind of

47:15

toss duston Knox aside. I mean, we saw that they

47:17

signed him to an extension. They believe in Dawson

47:19

Knox. What I like too is if you think

47:21

back to twenty nineteen when they drafted him,

47:24

he was on that famous Ole Miss team where

47:26

you're like, how do they not win the national title? They had AJ Brown,

47:29

DK Metcalf, and they also had

47:31

Dawson Knox. He was very raw as a

47:33

pass catcher and he was able to produce

47:35

in the red zone, like you're mentioning

47:38

early in his career when he maybe wasn't an amazing

47:41

separator route runner, but in that

47:44

time early in his career. Over the last

47:46

few seasons, Dawson Knox has become

47:48

one of the better, more athletic blockers

47:50

in the league. So that twelve personnel

47:53

why it's so difficult for

47:55

defenses to defend Ian.

47:57

We saw Josh Allen, you know, with Ken, Dorsey

47:59

and Brady have a passer rating over one

48:01

hundred out of twelve personnel with both

48:04

of those coordinators last season, is it going to

48:06

be a run? Is it going to be a pass? Are both tight

48:08

ends running routes is one

48:10

staying into block. It gives the

48:12

defenses so much to think about when

48:15

you're in four wide or five wide

48:17

receivers, it's all right, this is going to be a pass. We don't

48:19

really have to worry about the run. The pass rush

48:21

is different, the safeties,

48:24

the linebackers played differently. So I think, yes, we

48:26

will see maybe not as

48:28

much twelve personnel as maybe Ken

48:30

Dorsey envisioned, but I think it

48:32

will be a staple of the offense because

48:35

not a lot of teams have two really good and

48:37

athletic players. You have Kinkaid, who

48:39

even as a rookie, established that rapport

48:41

with Josh Allen, and certainly Dustin Knox

48:43

has that rapport, you know, having only

48:46

come into the league one year after Josh Allen.

48:48

So that really makes for a difficult

48:51

mismatch for corners, for safeties, for

48:53

linebackers. When the Bills are in that formation,

48:55

we don't see it a lot from other teams because most teams

48:58

have one good tight end and there's a

49:00

huge precipitous drop off in terms of their

49:02

tight end too. That's not the case here in Buffalo.

49:04

For Dawson too. He was

49:06

placed on injured reserve last year with that wrist

49:09

injury. He only played in twelve games last season.

49:11

So I don't think we've entirely seen

49:13

what Dawson and Dalton are going to look like together

49:15

on the field yet because we haven't

49:18

seen a healthy, full, healthy

49:20

season out of both of them together. So

49:22

I'm excited to see what that looks like in year

49:25

two for Dalton Kincaid and

49:28

what he can do building on the offense,

49:30

building on being Hey, I'm a second year

49:32

player in the NFL. Now I have a better

49:34

handle on things, and then hopefully a healthy

49:36

season for Dawson Knox as well. We've

49:39

got to take a break, but when we return, we're

49:41

gonna hear from Doug Farrar,

49:43

who works for USA Today as an

49:46

NFL writer and editor. He did

49:48

an awesome piece on Josh Allen.

49:50

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50:59

on the show who just that's a really cool interview

51:01

with Josh Allen. We're going to dig into all of

51:03

that and some more. So let's bring on USA

51:06

Today NFL writer and editor Doug Farrar,

51:08

who is joining us right now. Doug, thanks

51:10

for taking the time to be with us.

51:13

Oh, thanks so much. I always appreciate you guys having

51:15

me.

51:15

Doug, you just wrote a piece about Josh

51:18

Allen, a lengthy piece that covers

51:21

the past season, this upcoming season,

51:23

Joe Brady, and some of the new pieces within

51:25

this offense. I have to ask you first,

51:28

what was your biggest takeaway from getting

51:30

to talk to Josh.

51:32

Yeah, we spent about ten minutes on

51:35

Zoom a few days ago. I think the having

51:38

talked to him a few times before, just how much

51:40

he's sort of taken command of the team. He

51:43

seemed, you know, with all the changes on defense

51:45

and certainly with his receiver corps. I think Khalioshakir

51:48

is the only guy left on the roster as a receiver

51:50

who kind of passed from Josh last year. That's

51:53

a lot. He just seems really

51:55

kind of in command of the thing, and coming

51:57

into his seventh year, he's ready

51:59

to take ownership. He's tremendously

52:01

excited. Not that he didn't have ownership before,

52:03

but you know what I mean, he's really

52:06

excited about working with Joe Brady,

52:08

which manifested itself on the field to a point

52:11

in twenty twenty three. But as

52:13

you guys certainly know, no

52:15

coach can come in halfway through the season going

52:18

from you know, to

52:22

OC and put his whole off in. So,

52:24

you know, Josh telling me he's got all these new

52:27

concepts that makes you want to, you know, work on my footwork,

52:29

in my eyes and you know, my arm angle and everything.

52:31

He's just really excited about the way this is going to

52:33

go. So, you know, he just he seemed

52:36

very very up, very happy

52:38

about the way things are are going to go in the season,

52:40

and very much you

52:43

know, this is he's

52:45

he's really taken ownership of the whole thing again,

52:47

not that he didn't before, but there he seems

52:50

like a bit of a different guy in that regard.

52:52

My biggest takeaway Doug was the

52:55

I think a huge quote from Josh Allen

52:57

saying that his previous offense was a little

52:59

bit mundane.

53:00

Do you think that's spot on?

53:02

And kind of how do you view going

53:04

from the Ken Dorsey offense first half of twenty

53:06

twenty three into what will and

53:09

you mentioned in your article the first

53:11

full year of the true Joe Brady

53:13

offense in twenty twenty four.

53:15

Right, what he said was, it's not the same

53:18

mundane things I've been doing for the last six years,

53:20

which would bring Brian Dabel

53:22

into it too. It's

53:24

different stuff. My eyes have got to be better, my footwork

53:26

is it has to be better, and ultimately the bald placement has got

53:29

to be better. So it's forcing me to be a better

53:31

quarterback and to learn different things, which I'm all

53:33

about. Well, when you go back

53:35

to when he was selected in

53:38

twenty eighteen, and I think the biggest Josh

53:40

Allen stan would admit this when he came

53:42

out he was kind of a developmental guy. It wasn't all

53:45

there yet, which you know everybody

53:47

knows. It's not slamming Josh. He's come a long way

53:49

and good for him, but you

53:51

know, Dabell gave him man beaters and let

53:53

him use his legs and w

53:55

when team switched his own he went to more quick

53:58

games, so Dabel brought him along.

54:00

We'll always wonder, you know, a couple of more years of the table

54:02

what it might have been. I think with Dorsey,

54:05

and I kind of mentioned this at the time when Dorsey

54:07

was was let go, that

54:11

it wasn't a bad passing game. But

54:14

and certainly this this came to light when

54:16

I got to see what Brady was doing as

54:18

the season went along. There maybe with Dorsey

54:21

wasn't a sense of the routes weren't layered

54:23

and nuanced together in

54:26

the way that Brady

54:29

had done it. Through the end of the season,

54:31

you know, there were more four strongs, there were

54:33

more crossers, there were more mirrored routes

54:35

with Brady, and I think that gave

54:38

Josh more of a sense of Okay,

54:41

I can see the whole thing in front of

54:43

me. They actually used

54:45

less motion, They used less twelve

54:47

personnel, which had a lot to do with Bus and Knox having

54:50

the wrist injury and the illness. I

54:52

think they'll use more twelve with those two guys

54:54

in the season. But I think with Brady.

54:58

You just saw more of a

55:00

complete, more of a modern passing

55:02

game. And again that's with him only coming

55:04

in halfway through the season, installing

55:07

what he could with limited practice time.

55:09

So when Josh says that now Brady's

55:11

installing all these new concepts, I'm really excited to

55:13

see what that looks like.

55:15

I want to cover the

55:17

quarterback going into his seventh

55:20

NFL season a little bit more and look at

55:22

it from a big picture of an NFL perspective.

55:25

By the time you get into your seventh season, regardless

55:27

if you're the Bills quarterback or the Dolphins

55:30

quarterback or the Packers quarterback,

55:32

you know how the game is played. You have

55:34

a good feel for everything. You have a

55:36

good feel for understanding defenses.

55:38

And probably by that time you've been in

55:41

one to two offenses, at least

55:43

if you have had multiple offensive coordinators.

55:46

But does year seven and beyond,

55:49

if you're stuck with the same OC, does

55:52

it get mundane for most

55:54

quarterbacks because you

55:57

already understand the game. You already have a feel

55:59

for the game. So could it be a good thing

56:01

that he's getting a new OC in his

56:03

seventh season to push him

56:05

to learn new things about

56:07

how the game is played.

56:10

I think that can be the case. I think it was Mike Hombern

56:12

who said after about year ten, no matter how

56:14

good a coach is, the message starts to give a little stale.

56:17

So maybe that's what Josh was talking about to a point.

56:20

I know that I asked him for his three favorite

56:22

plays, and one of the plays was

56:25

the touchdown passed to Dalton Kinkaid against

56:27

the Steelers in the wildcard round where

56:30

they ran mirrored crossers to either side

56:32

and Kinkaid was right up the you know, they

56:34

were an empty and Kinkaid just ran a vertical

56:37

route with Miles Jack the linebacker, trying to cover him.

56:39

And they had done a lot of tapework

56:41

with the on the Steelers obviously the week

56:44

before and before the headset

56:46

cut off in Josh's helmet, Brady came down

56:48

and said, Josh, we got exactly the look, and before

56:51

Brady could finish the sentence, Josh says, like, We're like,

56:53

I know, we got it. So that

56:55

kind of communication, no matter what, and

56:58

that requires a lot of confidence in

57:00

and regard for each other, the coach and

57:02

the quarterback. So I think even

57:04

more than the schemes, when you have that

57:06

kind of relationship and a quarterback who's that excited

57:09

about it. I think that it magnifies

57:12

no matter what you're calling, it's just going

57:14

to help the overall thing, because you know, you can

57:16

put all the ex's nose on the field, but at a certain

57:18

point, if the quarterback doesn't completely believe

57:20

in them, you know you're only going

57:22

to get so far. So I think

57:25

you know it, it can go both ways. You can

57:27

get an oc with a quarterback

57:30

later and everything. And we've

57:32

seen this also where the quarterback

57:34

knows enough to know this isn't right for me, and that

57:36

can be a real problem. So I

57:38

think in Josh's case, he has a

57:40

guy who he knows is

57:42

trying to advance him in

57:45

his productivity, in his efficiency. You

57:47

know, he leads, you know, all these categories

57:50

since he came into the league. He also leads league interceptions

57:52

since twenty eighteen. So there is a

57:54

there is a yolo aspect to Josh's play, and

57:57

I think Brady is good at not

57:59

only he'll encourage that. On one hand,

58:01

because I also asked, Josh, you know, how do you balance

58:04

structure and improvisation, And you don't

58:06

want to take that away from a guy when he's you know, Josh

58:08

Allen, But I think Josh

58:10

has completely butt into what Brady wants to do.

58:12

And more so than oh they're running

58:14

a bunch of thirteen personnel or oh they're running

58:17

you know more trap or wham run plays.

58:19

That belief that the quarterback has in

58:21

the system is everything, and that year,

58:24

one, year twenty, it doesn't matter. You have

58:26

to have that.

58:27

Something else that really stood out to me in this article, which

58:30

you can find on touchdown wire dot usa dot

58:32

com, it was just a great overview

58:34

of your you know, ten minutes zoom that you reference

58:37

with Josh Allen, which is awesome, was

58:39

Josh Allen said something that on the surface

58:41

seems to make a lot of sense. That he said,

58:44

you know, situationally, understanding how to play

58:46

quarterback is very important. And he said, you

58:48

know, if it's a third and short

58:51

situation and that underneath target is

58:53

covered, he's probably gonna lean on his legs, which,

58:55

being Josh Allen, certainly makes sense. It's

58:57

third and long, say, he likes to

58:59

kind of tell to throw the ball deep, do you think

59:02

because it's kind of been a grape of mine for

59:04

as good as the Bills offense has been the last four or five

59:07

years, the yards after the catch have not really

59:09

been there. They have been near the bottom of the league and at

59:11

best like an average yards after the catch

59:13

team when the forty nine Ers, the Bengals,

59:16

the Chiefs

59:18

certainly have been so good after the catch. Do

59:20

you think that this current

59:23

Bills team tight ends, running backs, wide receivers,

59:25

these skill positions around him are

59:27

better positioned for Josh

59:29

Allen to maybe trust hitting that check down

59:32

on a third and eight and saying, hey, let Curtis

59:34

Samuel Khalil Shakir, you

59:36

know, create after the catch.

59:37

Or do you think that's.

59:39

Maybe taking away of part of what

59:41

is the best of Josh Allen that is really just

59:43

foot on the gas pedal in those kind

59:45

of high leverage situations.

59:47

Well, I think it goes back to the point of the layered

59:50

and nuanced route concepts, which I think

59:52

with Dorsey, and this is not to bash Dorsey,

59:56

but there were more ISO routes.

59:58

There was more like let Josh be Josh, Josh

1:00:00

kind of pull it out of the fire and you know, do his amazing

1:00:02

stuff. I know coaches

1:00:05

have had issues with Aaron Rodgers, you know who

1:00:07

can improvise and maybe at

1:00:09

his prian Rodgers may have been the best

1:00:12

pure passer I've ever seen. But

1:00:14

you know, you have to you have to

1:00:17

balance the two things. And

1:00:19

for Josh to say things

1:00:21

like with scrambled drills, we've done a lot of breakdowns

1:00:23

on it for our offense, I think there's been a lot of off

1:00:25

season work, and I think Brady did a lot of offseason

1:00:27

work to say, Okay, it's not just

1:00:30

we have this athletic freak who's six

1:00:32

five, two fifties bigger than the linebacker

1:00:34

who's trying to tackle him, and he can do everything.

1:00:37

It's well, let's really take a look at

1:00:39

what ever. We're talking to Bruce arians years

1:00:41

ago and when he had Carson

1:00:43

Palmer and Drew Stanton in Arizona, he said,

1:00:45

you know, I'll give the quarterback my fifteen,

1:00:48

but I want his fifteen because if he doesn't like what

1:00:50

I'm calling, I'm not gonna call it. So I

1:00:52

think there is there's more of a togetherness,

1:00:55

there's more of a you know, an

1:00:57

alignment between coach and quarterback.

1:01:00

So yes, I think there will be

1:01:02

that, but just in an overall sense,

1:01:04

it's really going to be more about what

1:01:06

does Josh do best? What does Josh believe in?

1:01:09

You know, what are his fifteen and we'll go from

1:01:11

there.

1:01:12

USA Today NFL writer Doug far Our joining

1:01:14

us on Oneville's Live right now. Doug,

1:01:17

I want to ask you a bit about

1:01:19

what you just said with Bruce Arian saying, Hey, I

1:01:22

want to be able to call the plays that the quarterback

1:01:24

wants me to call. We've heard a lot

1:01:27

simple right right exactly, but it's

1:01:29

not always true within the NFL, and I think it's

1:01:31

not always true still today you hear more

1:01:34

and more about, oh, this coach

1:01:36

wants to be for the players, wants to call

1:01:38

things that the players like. And we've heard

1:01:41

a lot of that already from offensive

1:01:43

players about Joe Brady. Josh Allen

1:01:45

has said that Joe Brady himself has

1:01:47

said, this is Josh Allen's

1:01:49

offense. I want to call plays

1:01:51

that are gonna fit what players

1:01:54

I have in it. I want them to eat.

1:01:56

We're all gonna eat. It's gonna be an offense

1:01:58

that maybe there's not a number umber one guy,

1:02:00

but we're going to rely on every single person

1:02:03

who's going to line up against

1:02:05

the defense. When

1:02:07

you hear an offensive coordinator

1:02:10

say that. I know some offensive

1:02:13

coordinators can say that and it's a half truth,

1:02:16

But how much do you believe that that is

1:02:18

true within what Buffalo is trying to

1:02:20

create in twenty twenty four.

1:02:23

I think it's true, Maddy, and I think it resonates

1:02:25

because Josh is the one saying

1:02:27

it's Joe Brady's offense, and I'm here to make it better.

1:02:30

So when when the OC

1:02:32

says it's the quarterbacks offense, and the quarterback

1:02:34

says it's the OC's offense, that's and you're like, Okay,

1:02:37

they're on the same page. So I don't

1:02:39

you know, like you said, you hear that a

1:02:41

lot, and sometimes you go in watch

1:02:43

the tape and you go, I don't think it's anybody's

1:02:46

offense. I don't know what they're doing here. And

1:02:48

there were elements of that last year, especially for

1:02:50

the Bills in the first half of the season, which

1:02:53

is one of the reasons I think it probably made the change.

1:02:56

I think in this case, everyone believes in it.

1:02:59

Another thing Josh said about

1:03:01

Brady is you can tell how much he loves

1:03:03

the game and how hard he works because he's always in the building

1:03:06

and those you know, we

1:03:08

again, we talk about the x's and

1:03:10

o's and the schemes and the metrics

1:03:13

and all that, and that's all cool, But when

1:03:15

you establish a buy in a culture of belief,

1:03:18

that's to me more important than anything because

1:03:20

it just it amplifies everything you're trying

1:03:22

to do. So yes, I think in this

1:03:25

case it does it. I think

1:03:27

it will play out as everyone has said, as

1:03:29

opposed to over going to sale this stuff, then

1:03:31

we're going to run this on the field and it doesn't matter.

1:03:34

I have a short and sweet one about twelve personnel

1:03:36

Joe Brady. We know that last year in

1:03:38

the ramp up to the twenty twenty three season, Ken

1:03:41

Dorsey just talked about twelve personnel over

1:03:43

and over and over again, and like you mentioned,

1:03:45

they were never really able to establish that.

1:03:47

I mean, Josh Allen was very good in twelve personnel,

1:03:50

you reference it in your article, but with Dawson

1:03:52

Knox getting hurt, they couldn't do that. Do you think this

1:03:55

season, being Joe Brady's offense, do

1:03:58

you think that he has that same type of

1:04:00

buy into twelve personnel or you

1:04:02

know, from his days in New Orleans with the Saints

1:04:04

and certainly at LSU with Justin Jefferson

1:04:06

and Jamar Chase more wide receiver

1:04:09

centric. Do you think he'll maybe lean toward

1:04:11

you know, there's so many wide receivers in this Bill's room

1:04:14

Maddie's talking about. You know, there's not

1:04:16

going to maybe be a number one, but there's maybe going to be

1:04:18

a bunch of number twos. How do you see the

1:04:20

Bills maybe personnel

1:04:22

wise? Are they going to lean toward twelve

1:04:24

personnel or maybe eleven where there's more wide receivers

1:04:27

on the field.

1:04:28

Well, the twenty and twenty two season, no team

1:04:30

ran fewer

1:04:33

snaps with two or more tight ends. In the Bills,

1:04:35

it was hilarious, like forty snaps the whole season.

1:04:38

I think the second least team was over

1:04:40

one hundred. So then they took Ki Kid

1:04:42

with a twenty fifth overall pick. They sign Knox

1:04:44

that big extension and with Dorsey

1:04:47

it was a lot of twelve and Josh

1:04:50

played well in it. The play

1:04:52

that Josh referenced to me the touchdown

1:04:54

to Kinkid against the Steelers that was in twelve personnel,

1:04:57

get a leave a fifty one yarder against

1:04:59

the Patriots which was in twelve

1:05:01

and both Knox and Kincaid were

1:05:03

in the bunch left and

1:05:06

Kinkaid ran the deep crosser over the middle,

1:05:09

and Knox ran the little just

1:05:11

a release route to the flat, and the

1:05:13

Patriots were in cover zero and just that little

1:05:15

thing with kret Sherfield running

1:05:18

kind of a fifteen yard up over

1:05:20

the numbers. It took their man

1:05:22

concept and just blew it apart. So

1:05:24

again, that is twelve personnel. It is later

1:05:26

in nuanced route concepts, and it's

1:05:29

with both Kinkaid and Knox

1:05:31

on the field. And I think especially with so many

1:05:34

new receivers. I mean again, Kleoshakiro

1:05:36

is the only guy who knows Josh Allen from

1:05:39

before, so they've got to get all

1:05:41

those guys together. Early

1:05:44

in the season, you could see a lot of twelve

1:05:46

personnel because those are the only guys Josh

1:05:48

knows those targets.

1:05:51

So you could certainly see a lot more of that early

1:05:53

in the season. I mean, you dropped one tight

1:05:55

end in the first round, you give

1:05:57

your other tight end a deal over fifty million

1:06:00

dollars, that is certainly your intent. And

1:06:02

Brandon Bean has talked about how especially

1:06:04

against nickel defenses, which is, as you guys

1:06:06

know, the new base in the NFL how

1:06:09

much you can really mess with a nickel or a

1:06:11

big nickel or a dying defense with two tighten

1:06:13

sets. I mean the Chiefs and nobody

1:06:15

thinks about this, but the Chiefs have led the NFL

1:06:17

in thirteen personnel in each of the last

1:06:20

two seasons. We think, oh, air raid, they're

1:06:22

spreading it out. No, not really. They want their

1:06:24

tight ends on the field. So I think, especially

1:06:26

early in the season, as everyone's

1:06:28

getting on the same pigel on new receivers, I think you can see

1:06:30

a lot more twelve as long as everyone's healthy.

1:06:33

The Bills offenses over the last

1:06:35

several seasons, the last three four

1:06:38

years have looked different. Under Sean

1:06:40

McDermott. We've seen an iteration of

1:06:42

this offense where it was smaller wide

1:06:44

receivers who were faster, and based

1:06:47

on the draft and some of these pickups

1:06:49

and free agency, we've seen this offense

1:06:52

get a little bit taller and stronger

1:06:54

in the receivers they're putting on the field.

1:06:57

Right now, a lot of people are counting

1:06:59

out the Bills just because so many

1:07:01

faces that were familiar faces

1:07:04

left this building in the offseason.

1:07:06

You bring in a lot of new players

1:07:08

on offense and defense, but sticking

1:07:11

to the offense, why should

1:07:13

opponents not overlook this team?

1:07:16

Why could this offense be just

1:07:18

as good, if not maybe better in

1:07:20

twenty twenty four when a lot of these

1:07:22

teams don't have tape on what this

1:07:24

group is going to look like?

1:07:26

Right, it's a good question. I think, well,

1:07:29

well, Kean Coleman, you have that absolute ball

1:07:31

winner at the point of attack, and he can you

1:07:33

know, you big guy run fast. I mean, those

1:07:35

are good attributes you have, and he

1:07:37

certainly is. And

1:07:39

Josh told me they're they're force feeding

1:07:41

him the whole playbook. They want him to be the EXI. So there's

1:07:44

no question about that. They've

1:07:46

made that clear. I

1:07:48

think again, with one

1:07:51

thing that I know Brady said in

1:07:53

this week's during this week's team

1:07:57

participation is that he wants

1:07:59

to make real that he's calling the right things for all

1:08:01

the receivers. So he he is drilling

1:08:04

down and making sure that he understands

1:08:06

the attributes. You know, well,

1:08:08

what's best for curtis Samuel? How can I

1:08:10

best utilize Chase Claypool and

1:08:12

then the next level, and I think Brady is

1:08:14

really good at this is how can I utilize a formation

1:08:17

in which it's you know, Knox

1:08:19

and Samuel and Claypool maybe

1:08:22

in you know, a bunch left or trips left.

1:08:25

What are their best routes? How can I mess

1:08:27

with this the most? Against cover three? You know,

1:08:29

what's my quarters beater? Because

1:08:31

teams are playing so much more quarters, So

1:08:34

it's not only getting the

1:08:36

best routes together for each receiver.

1:08:39

And this includes the backs as well, because the Bills

1:08:41

under Brady went to a ton

1:08:43

much or for strong receivers

1:08:46

either motioned or routes

1:08:49

go fo receivers to one side of the

1:08:51

field, and they were really successful with that. So it's

1:08:54

not just the best stuff for every receiver. I think

1:08:57

you see a lot more route concepts that

1:08:59

are advantageously to the receivers. But

1:09:01

giving Josh favorable reads and

1:09:04

then the time and just using

1:09:06

his acuity to know

1:09:09

where to go with the football. I don't think that

1:09:11

was there as much in the first half of the season. It

1:09:14

was a little better in the second half, and I

1:09:16

think you're going to see it more in twenty

1:09:18

twenty four. So if the offense

1:09:20

is better, I think as everyone

1:09:22

gets on the same page. And again it's rare to

1:09:24

see one position group grow, you know,

1:09:26

this much change in one offseason,

1:09:29

so it might take a minute, but I think over

1:09:31

time you could see a situation where maybe the Bill's offense

1:09:33

looks a little creaky at first just because everyone's

1:09:35

new, and then it could come together.

1:09:37

I have a quick follow up to that. You spoke

1:09:40

about Joe Brady putting in concepts

1:09:42

that work for every wide receiver,

1:09:44

running back, titan that's a part of this

1:09:46

group. Do you believe that's a tougher job as an

1:09:48

offensive coordinator to really look at

1:09:50

what you have and create an offense

1:09:53

based on what you have, rather than

1:09:55

thinking, Oh, here's the offenses I've ran

1:09:58

in the past, here's the teams I've been a part of

1:10:00

in the past. We're just gonna implement

1:10:02

a bunch of these things and putting on the field

1:10:04

and try and see if it works. Which one is tougher

1:10:07

to do?

1:10:08

Oh?

1:10:09

Interesting, Well, I think you're

1:10:11

always looking to I

1:10:13

mean, Brady's not He's not going to change

1:10:15

his whole offense because they can't. You know, Let's say

1:10:18

let's say they wanted elite neighbors and they couldn't get

1:10:20

him, so they got Ken Coleban. Oh, I have to change my whole offense

1:10:23

because they didn't get elite neighbors. I don't

1:10:25

know if that's true. I'm not you

1:10:27

know, throwing hypotheses hypotheses

1:10:30

out there. Every

1:10:32

offensive coordinator has systems that he would

1:10:34

prefer, and he's trying

1:10:36

to align the players

1:10:39

that he can get, either in the draft refregency

1:10:41

or the ones he already has if he's coming in new But

1:10:45

I also think that in today's NFL

1:10:48

you have to be multiple on offense because

1:10:50

defenses are so much more multiple. We've all

1:10:52

seen this, and it's certainly with the Bills with

1:10:55

player player and hide and their experience

1:10:57

and Trey White when they were all together. A

1:10:59

lot of cut switches, a lot of different fronts,

1:11:01

a lot of overloads and blitzes and stunts.

1:11:04

You have to be more multiple on offense because

1:11:06

defenses are counteracting

1:11:08

that multiplicity with their own multiplicity.

1:11:10

So if you're not on the same page with everything,

1:11:13

it's going to be a tough go. And that that's

1:11:15

true no matter who you are or who you

1:11:17

have on the field.

1:11:18

Last one for me, for as fun as it

1:11:20

is to talk about offense and Doug, you you've

1:11:22

done a great job kind of giving us an overview

1:11:25

of what this Bill's offense might look like that as so many

1:11:27

new pieces switching sides to the defensive

1:11:29

side of the ball. Yesterday we talked about who is

1:11:31

the most and we kind of posed a question

1:11:33

out there on Twitter, gave our own thoughts on

1:11:35

the most underappreciated or more or

1:11:38

most underrated player around the Bills. You

1:11:40

recently wrote about that and picked for Sewell Douglas.

1:11:43

Can you just kind of talk about what you've seen on

1:11:45

film, the four interceptions last year, and

1:11:47

just his fit in this more zone heavy

1:11:49

based defense here in Buffalo.

1:11:52

Yeah, it was hard not to talk about one of the linebackers,

1:11:54

but and I'm going to restue douglas fan

1:11:56

for a long time. In Green

1:11:58

Bay. Last season, before the trade, he

1:12:01

allowed twenty three catches on thirty four targets

1:12:03

for two hundred and seventy four yards, one hundred and two yards

1:12:05

after the catch, three touchdowns, one interception, and an

1:12:08

opponent passed rating of one. On nine point two

1:12:11

with the Bills, twenty three catches on forty

1:12:13

one targets for two hundred and sixty four yards seventy

1:12:15

seven yards after the catch, one touchdown, four interceptions,

1:12:18

and an opponent passer rating at forty four point

1:12:20

two WOW, which I believe was

1:12:23

fourth best for any cornerback taking at

1:12:25

least fifty percent of his team snaps. So

1:12:28

with Douglas, it was okay, I

1:12:30

found the right home. These guys were using me the

1:12:32

way I should be used. I think we all saw

1:12:34

with Green Bay's defense last year, and it's why they made

1:12:36

their own change that really wasn't the case.

1:12:39

So, you know, I've always

1:12:41

liked Douglas as a He's a due all. He can play

1:12:43

zone, you can play man, he can play off. He can He's

1:12:45

a decent presser, probably a better off guy.

1:12:48

But I think he really you

1:12:50

know, and we've all seen the transitions

1:12:52

in the secondary in the offseason. He

1:12:55

really helped I think more than probably

1:12:57

not more than you guys realized because you're talking about

1:12:59

the Bill all the time, but more than most

1:13:01

people naturally might have realized how much he helped

1:13:03

that defense, especially

1:13:06

in the push down the stretch. I just think he's a

1:13:08

really and you know, every

1:13:11

player is a system player. You know, there

1:13:13

are very few who are scheme transcendent. But

1:13:16

when Russell Douglas got the Buffalo

1:13:18

Boy, you could just see it right away that this guy was

1:13:21

aligned really well to what Sean McDermott

1:13:24

and his staff wants to do on that side of the ball.

1:13:26

And the Bills needed Russeull Douglas so

1:13:29

much at that point when they traded for him,

1:13:31

it was a hey, you got to come in here and

1:13:33

you got to work, and he did exactly that, and we're excited

1:13:35

to see what he can do this season as well.

1:13:37

Doug, thank you so much for joining us on

1:13:39

One Bill's Live. Appreciate the time.

1:13:41

Thanks Doug, my pleasure, Thank you so much.

1:13:44

All Right, that was Doug Farar explaining

1:13:47

quite a bit in detail when

1:13:49

it came to talking to Josh Allen his expectations

1:13:52

for the offense and for Joe Brady. I

1:13:54

thought it was a really nice article to read

1:13:57

and had a lot of great information

1:13:59

there from.

1:14:00

Yeah, I mean for someone in the media

1:14:02

field to be able to sit down and zoom with Josh

1:14:04

Allen for ten minutes talk xes and o's,

1:14:06

and then like we've kind of all been chomping

1:14:09

at the bit for it to kind of spin it forward and get

1:14:12

some maybe some early details

1:14:14

of sneak peek at what the Joe Brady offense might

1:14:16

look like, I think that's really cool to get that in May.

1:14:18

Yeah, and the fact that he

1:14:20

called out you know, I'm excited for a

1:14:22

new offense. I'm excited to learn some new

1:14:25

things. Not too much of a

1:14:27

shot at the people before, but just the

1:14:29

type of outlook that he has of

1:14:31

playing the quarterback position, wanting to

1:14:33

continue to add different

1:14:35

elements to his game. I think says

1:14:38

a lot about who Josh Allen is as a

1:14:40

player and as a quarterback, always

1:14:42

wanting to get better and trying

1:14:45

to learn more about the game. We'll see what it

1:14:47

looks like in terms of statistics

1:14:49

when we start playing here in September.

1:14:52

And I think, too, this is where I've kind of been

1:14:54

all off season. For as good as the Bills

1:14:56

have been the last five or six years, it

1:14:58

wasn't good enough. I think they ran

1:15:01

it back after getting to the AFC title game, and after

1:15:03

thirteen seconds they ran it back again, same coaching

1:15:05

staff, almost the exact same roster. And

1:15:08

even though Joe Brady did I think a

1:15:10

very good job for being thrown into the fire midway

1:15:13

portion of the season with the Bills, you know, right there

1:15:15

around five hundred, not in a playoff spot,

1:15:18

not certainly at the top of the AFC. East did

1:15:20

a great job maximizing the talent that he

1:15:22

had, but a lot of those pieces, Gabe Davis

1:15:24

gets hurt down the stretch, has a couple of goose eggs

1:15:26

to fon. Diggs, comes up short

1:15:29

in some key moments and just was not the elite

1:15:31

level producer that he was even in the first half of

1:15:33

twenty twenty three, that it was maybe time

1:15:35

for maybe not just a new receiver room, but

1:15:37

new set of eyes on the

1:15:39

offense as a whole in Joe Brady and a

1:15:42

quarterbacks coach in Ronald Curry. It

1:15:44

was probably time for just some new pieces

1:15:47

on the sidelines as well. So that's really interesting

1:15:50

and to me, very encouraging

1:15:52

moving forward for this Bills team that is

1:15:54

trying to go from being great to being Super Bowl

1:15:56

champions, And maybe that's what they needed, just some fresh blood

1:15:58

on the roster and the side.

1:16:00

Yeah, sometimes all you need is a little bit of shake up

1:16:02

to get where you really want to go.

1:16:04

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1:16:41

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1:16:51

who you believe it is. At aight oh three oh

1:16:53

five fifty, we've got a few people

1:16:55

hanging on the phone. We're gonna go over to Rick

1:16:57

from Arizona, who joins us on the show. Hey,

1:17:00

Rick, it's Richie.

1:17:02

But that's okay, man. I've

1:17:05

waited longer on the phone, but I think

1:17:07

it's been for Direct TV to correct some

1:17:10

imperfections in my reception. But it

1:17:12

was worth it. How's everybody today?

1:17:15

We're doing good. We're doing good. Do you have a question

1:17:17

for us or you want to weigh in on the twin topic?

1:17:19

The young gentleman had answered the phone

1:17:23

is a gracious person. And I've always said,

1:17:25

in any business, a lifeline between

1:17:28

you and your your

1:17:30

customers is a person on the phone.

1:17:32

And he did a great job. Anyway. I was born in Patavia,

1:17:35

so I've got all I know all the back roads

1:17:37

up there, and I've been out here in Arizona for twenty

1:17:39

eight years. But when Chris said this

1:17:41

morning about Aaron

1:17:44

Rodgers, that

1:17:46

he echoed everything I'd been

1:17:48

thinking. I don't this is

1:17:50

a personal opinion. Now, I don't

1:17:53

think Aaron Rodgers is going to last

1:17:56

if he even makes a couple of games. I mean,

1:17:58

he took three or four app and he was

1:18:01

out and when and that's

1:18:03

the first indication that you guys

1:18:05

made me aware of that he's having the

1:18:08

trouble, like with his foot

1:18:10

there. Yet I don't he personally

1:18:13

and nothing. He looks old,

1:18:17

and I don't think he's going to be very

1:18:19

mobile, and frankly,

1:18:21

I don't think he's going to I agree totally

1:18:24

with Chris. I've been I've been trying to call for a

1:18:26

long time. But Chris, when he mentioned this today,

1:18:29

I thought, boy, he was right in my wheelhouse.

1:18:31

Because I feel that way. If I

1:18:34

think if they're counting on him to

1:18:36

carry the mail for the New York Jets

1:18:38

this year. I think they're in trouble.

1:18:41

But anyway, you guys do a great job.

1:18:44

And commend that gentleman that took

1:18:47

my call. And like I said,

1:18:49

I know all the back rows from Buffalo to rot.

1:18:52

I've been used to ray horses

1:18:54

Buffalo race away in the Pavia Downs and

1:18:56

owned them and so on. But

1:18:58

you guys are doing a great You discussed

1:19:01

football the way it should be discussed,

1:19:03

not like ESPN

1:19:05

and all of it is. He's thinking. You stick right

1:19:07

to the information. And I'm grateful

1:19:09

and thank you so much.

1:19:11

Have a great day, Thanks so much for the

1:19:14

call, appreciate it. And listening

1:19:16

to the show.

1:19:16

National Show, we had Mississippi. We were getting

1:19:19

the geography of Mississippi in the last segment, now

1:19:21

Arizona. So this is not just like Western

1:19:23

New York people listening. We got your

1:19:25

country, multiple time zones

1:19:27

for one Bill's lives.

1:19:28

Pretty awesome, Pretty awesome, huh

1:19:30

uh. Talking about Aaron Rodgers

1:19:33

and if we think he's gonna make it an

1:19:35

entire NFL season, I want to bring it a step

1:19:37

further. Let's say he

1:19:39

doesn't make an entire NFL season. Is

1:19:42

he retiring next year?

1:19:45

I can't.

1:19:45

I mean, it's so hard to get inside the

1:19:47

mind of Aaron Rodgers

1:19:50

that it doesn't seem like the

1:19:52

type of retirement he would have envisioned

1:19:54

in his head to have back to back seasons

1:19:56

not being able to finish the season for

1:19:59

his illustrious of a first ballot Hall of

1:20:01

Fame career as he's had. But at

1:20:03

that point, to come back to back seasons

1:20:05

getting injured, there will almost

1:20:08

assuredly be a new head coach, a new GM,

1:20:10

a bunch of new different pieces in

1:20:12

New York. It wouldn't shock me if he kind

1:20:14

of goes into the more health

1:20:17

conscious or political realm.

1:20:19

If that happens again with him this.

1:20:20

Season with the Jets, yeah, it would be really hard.

1:20:23

I mean, kudos to him for coming

1:20:25

off of this Achilles injury and going

1:20:28

through with this NFL season. I mean

1:20:31

a lot of us talked about after he came

1:20:33

off the field and we figured out what it was,

1:20:36

is he going to come back? Is

1:20:38

this it for Aaron Rodgers? And

1:20:41

at the age that he's at, with

1:20:43

how long he's played the position in the NFL,

1:20:47

you can hang up the cleetson be fine. He's

1:20:49

had a great career and for

1:20:51

him to say, you know what, No, we're

1:20:54

gonna we're gonna train, We're gonna get

1:20:56

better. I'm gonna come back, and I

1:20:58

want to take this team

1:21:00

to the playoffs. I want to be the

1:21:03

quarterback of a team that has some

1:21:05

really, really great pieces. You

1:21:08

got to commend him for doing that.

1:21:09

Yeah, totally.

1:21:10

And to your question too, I caught

1:21:12

recently during I think it was maybe after

1:21:14

Jets Ota, that Aaron

1:21:17

was very candid and said,

1:21:19

you know, I get it that if we don't

1:21:22

do it this year. He didn't say what it was,

1:21:24

but maybe get to the playoffs, you know,

1:21:26

be above five hundred, win the game in the playoffs.

1:21:28

He's like, a lot of us are not going to be here next year.

1:21:31

So to me, I don't think that

1:21:33

was a direct indication that he's

1:21:35

like, Hey, if I don't do it this year, I'm going to retire.

1:21:38

But he knows, and I think it's obvious

1:21:40

that the Jets are all in and a lot of that hinges

1:21:43

on him and his health.

1:21:44

This season, we've got another caller, Mark

1:21:47

from Orchard Park joins us on the show.

1:21:49

Mark, how are you doing?

1:21:51

Oh, I'm fighting? How are used today.

1:21:53

Good, We're doing good? What do you have

1:21:55

for us?

1:21:57

Well, you know I called yesterday. I sus

1:21:59

the thing in with aj Epanessa.

1:22:03

But what I'm calling about, you know, yous

1:22:05

are talking about Aaron Rodgers.

1:22:08

Yep, probably Hall of Fame quarterback,

1:22:10

no doubt about it. But who cares

1:22:13

about that. We're talking about Buffalo

1:22:15

Bills. And I think

1:22:18

what they are doing

1:22:21

management wise is

1:22:24

they're setting it up. Yes,

1:22:26

we love Stefan dis he did so

1:22:28

great for us for you know, four

1:22:31

years in a row. But

1:22:34

the offense is gonna change. And what

1:22:36

I was listening to what Chris said,

1:22:39

and it made sense to me. They're

1:22:41

going to spread the things out. How

1:22:44

this is gonna work. It's gonna be

1:22:46

Josh Allen's game. He finally

1:22:49

is twenty eight years

1:22:51

old. He's in probably

1:22:54

the top echelon of where

1:22:56

he's gonna be for the next two years.

1:22:59

They have to have those receivers

1:23:02

and he's gonna spread the

1:23:04

ball. The offense is gonna totally

1:23:07

change. I see this offense

1:23:09

going, you know, way back to

1:23:11

when Mouse used to run it for Jim

1:23:14

Kelly and the Buffalo Bills.

1:23:16

So I'm gonna let you go with.

1:23:17

That, all right, thank you so much for

1:23:19

the call, Mark, And yeah, the wide

1:23:21

receiver room. The offense is definitely going to

1:23:23

change, but I've been saying this that

1:23:26

I don't think that means it's a bad thing, and I think

1:23:28

that was what Mark was getting at too, is this

1:23:31

iteration of the Bills offense

1:23:33

could be just what this team needs

1:23:35

to get over the hump. You never know unless

1:23:38

you try. You never know what something

1:23:40

is gonna be unless you give it a try, and

1:23:42

and if it doesn't work, then you've gotta Then

1:23:44

you gotta, you gotta pivot, you gotta do something

1:23:47

different, and that's what the Bills are doing right

1:23:49

now. Stefan Diggs was incredible

1:23:51

for this team when he was here, and Gabe

1:23:53

Davis gave us some really great games.

1:23:56

But hey, if you try and you're like,

1:23:59

we might need to pivot here for several different

1:24:01

reasons. Maybe it's a salary cap, maybe

1:24:04

it's what's upcoming in the draft class,

1:24:06

Maybe it's it's a new offensive coordinator.

1:24:09

There's several different reasons why people make

1:24:11

different decisions to decide to

1:24:13

move on or decide to try something new,

1:24:15

and the Bills are doing that right now.

1:24:17

And We don't know exactly

1:24:20

what it's gonna look like because we haven't

1:24:22

seen it yet. We haven't seen Week one come

1:24:24

yet, but who

1:24:27

knows. I'm excited because

1:24:29

it is something different and what

1:24:31

we have had in the past with this offense.

1:24:34

I don't want to discount it at all because

1:24:37

it's worked wonders for Josh

1:24:39

Allen. It's worked wonders for getting

1:24:41

this team to playoff appearance after

1:24:43

playoff appearance. But maybe

1:24:45

a couple switches here and there could

1:24:48

be the determining factor

1:24:50

into, you know, getting to what the players

1:24:52

have called the promised Land, getting to the Super Bowl.

1:24:55

You never know unless you try, and the Bills are doing that

1:24:57

right now.

1:24:57

Yeah, I think what the Bills are after last season

1:25:00

in the Chiefs during the regular season

1:25:03

had seven different leading

1:25:05

receivers in a game. The Packers had

1:25:08

nine different receivers lead the team

1:25:10

in receiving in a given game. The Bills

1:25:12

only had five different guys and it was mostly

1:25:14

Stefan Diggs. So not that the Chiefs

1:25:16

and the Packers you necessarily have to copy them,

1:25:19

but the Chiefs have won back to back Super Bowls.

1:25:21

The Green Bay Packers are not paying a

1:25:23

star receiver they traded DeVante Adams

1:25:25

when everyone thought, what the heck are you doing? This guy's elite

1:25:28

and look where they are now. They're way ahead of the Las

1:25:30

Vegas Raiders in terms of their team building process.

1:25:33

They were a few plays, just like the

1:25:35

Bills were away from reaching their respective

1:25:37

conference title game. So I think being closer

1:25:39

to having seven to ten different

1:25:41

receivers leading in a specific game where

1:25:43

one game it's Shakir, the next game it's Ray

1:25:45

Davis out of the blue, then it's Dawson

1:25:48

Knox, then it's you know, Curtis Samuel.

1:25:50

I think that's what the Bills ultimately want to go

1:25:52

for after getting so much production out

1:25:54

of Stefan Diggs, but then reaching

1:25:57

that point in the midway point of last season where

1:25:59

it's, oh, Digs doesn't go off,

1:26:01

what happens to our offense? And I think that's

1:26:03

really where the attack screeched

1:26:05

to a halt that led to Ken Dorsey's firing.

1:26:08

And you have to you

1:26:10

were paying a guy like Stefan Diggs, which means

1:26:13

that you can't pay everybody else.

1:26:15

It's hard to have elite wide

1:26:17

receivers on your roster

1:26:19

and have multiple of them. So maybe

1:26:22

having several guys who

1:26:24

you aren't paying twenty five million dollars

1:26:26

is going to help in terms of we

1:26:29

can deploy different people depending on

1:26:31

what teams we're playing, different

1:26:33

defenses. There's gonna be some holes

1:26:35

that you can exploit with a tight end, or

1:26:37

with a running back, or with a Curtis Samuel,

1:26:40

a gadget guy like him, that

1:26:42

maybe this is the better option to go with. Again,

1:26:45

we don't know what it's gonna look like, but these

1:26:47

are the possibilities out there for this

1:26:50

team. Right now, we're gonna take a break, but when

1:26:52

we return, we're gonna wrap up the tweet

1:26:54

sheet and close things up here on One Bill's Live,

1:26:56

or presented by Clyde Health on Buffalo Bills

1:26:58

Radio. All

1:27:14

right, we're back here on a One Bill's Live. Let's

1:27:16

finally get over to the tweet sheet.

1:27:18

It's presented by Corgan Moving Systems, the official

1:27:21

equipment moving company of the Buffalo

1:27:23

Bills, and we'll go first with Mafia

1:27:25

member Pod. So far, I think it's drafting

1:27:28

Keon Coleman, getting rid of digs and making

1:27:30

trades and making the trades they did to get

1:27:32

him. It could turn out to

1:27:34

be a great move for the franchise for years

1:27:37

to come. Plus, his vibes are immaculate.

1:27:40

I can't wait to see what Keon Coleman becomes

1:27:42

in a Buffalo Bill's uniform because while

1:27:44

his vibes are immaculate and

1:27:46

we love the person that he is, when he

1:27:48

gets on the field, he is serious.

1:27:51

He is a worker. I've watched him on the sidelines,

1:27:53

I've watched him in drills, and this

1:27:56

is somebody who's who's talking

1:27:58

to us, talking to other wide receivers.

1:28:01

You can see he's trying to learn from the

1:28:03

vets on this roster, and when

1:28:05

he puts his helmet on, this dude is all

1:28:08

about ball. It's not about joking

1:28:10

around out there. It's about making sure he

1:28:12

understands how to play the position at an

1:28:14

NFL level. And I love that because he can

1:28:16

balance both things for sure.

1:28:18

And what I love is that he doesn't

1:28:20

need to be a ninety five catch

1:28:22

fourteen hundred yard wide receiver

1:28:24

as a rookie. Dalonkin, Cage, Shakir Samuel,

1:28:27

We've talked about him a lot. It will help him

1:28:29

just acclimate doesn't need to

1:28:31

be hit the ground running type of player instantly

1:28:33

in Buffalo.

1:28:34

How about this one from Seth. He says, getting

1:28:36

younger Ray Davis and Cole Bishop

1:28:39

in the draft, especially Davis will be

1:28:41

an excellent compliment to Jimbo

1:28:43

and Brady's scheme, eventually replacing

1:28:46

Cook when he prices out, and I think Bishop

1:28:48

maybe a star immediately. We could see

1:28:50

him used as a rover, making plays all

1:28:53

over the field. Why did you like those

1:28:55

two editions?

1:28:56

Yeah, I think Cole Bishop when you watch

1:28:58

him on film, he did everything at Utah.

1:29:00

He was constantly aligning his teammates.

1:29:03

He kind of felt like a bigger, faster

1:29:05

version of Jordan Poyer. And for as amazing as Jordan

1:29:07

Poyer was, I think he even has a

1:29:09

decent candacy to eventually be a Bill's

1:29:12

Wall of Famer, Cole Bishop is just the

1:29:14

younger, faster version. And so to Seth's

1:29:16

point there, I think it was probably time with

1:29:18

him, with Mitch Morres, Trey White, even

1:29:20

Stefan Diggs to just get younger, infusome

1:29:22

youth into this roster.

1:29:24

Here's one more from Connor. The addition to the wide

1:29:26

receiver room, they have put together a room that looks

1:29:28

like an NBA team. Samuel Jaquira, the

1:29:30

guards, Coleman and mvs are the forwards.

1:29:32

Holland's shorter and shavers are the centers. A

1:29:34

great combo size and ability go

1:29:37

Bills. Hey, yeah, you could look at as

1:29:39

at it as an NBA roster. You do have

1:29:42

a lot of size now in that wide receiver position.

1:29:44

And that's not really something that the Bills had. They had a

1:29:46

bunch of smaller separators. Now you have

1:29:48

more diversity, like I said earlier,

1:29:50

for Josh Allen to be able to look at different types

1:29:52

of wide receivers once he's you know, in the

1:29:54

pocket or outside of the pocket.

1:29:56

All right, that's going to do us here for one. Bill's

1:29:58

Live. Thanks Chris for pointing in. Uh,

1:30:01

Steve Tasker is gonna be back tomorrow. Guys, have

1:30:03

a good rest of your day.

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