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Welcome back to the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly
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sports podcast show in the world, ten years strong, and we have got
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a great, great installment of opposition Territory coming to you this week. There's
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an NFL team that we have not discussed yet on this particular podcast episode.
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I can't believe it, after all of our opposition Territory shows, we have
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not gotten into this particular NFL team. They've had an interesting offseason, They've
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had an interesting past couple of seasons, and it's going to be fascinating to
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watch this coming too in twenty three NFL season to see where this team specifically
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goes within the AFC. We've got a great guest coming to us this week.
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Let's get right to it and to get into this Buffalo Bill's team,
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this powerhouse team in the AFC. It is great to have in the podcast
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for the very first time, coming to us all the way from Buffalo Rumblings.
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And I know she's out there on the interwebs doing some other great stuff.
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We have the one and only Sarah Larson, and I gotta say this
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too, it is her birthday today and she take the time to chow up
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on the psc podcast show and our Opposition Territory pod. Sarah, thanks so
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much for joining us here on your birthday, Happy one, Thank you,
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thank you, thank you for having me. Absolutely, you know what this
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Bill's team, you know, I gotta say, it's gonna be interesting.
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Philadelphia Eagle is gonna be facing the Bills this year. I actually forget where
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it's gonna be. It's it gonna be in Buffalo. I know it's Actually
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it's in Philadelphia. It's one of this It's one of the stadiums I have
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to visit, so it'll be fun. It'll be fun to check that stadium
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up there the list. But I've been told, I've been told I should
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probably sit with some Eagles fans so I have protection. Absolutely, there's listen.
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Regardless of the media narratives that are out there, Philly sports fans,
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Eagles fans in general, are some of the greatest people. If you are
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welcoming with them, they will be welcoming to you as well. It's how
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it is. It's how it isn't Buffalo as well, So I agree,
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Yeah, there you go. Well, let's get into this Buffalo Bills team
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this off season. What they've done what they haven't done, what the future
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really looks like for them, because like, I still view this Bill's Team
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Sarah as one of the powerhouse teams in the AFC, even though you know
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they did lose some talent within this off season and losing that talent, I've
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been trying to think to myself, like, how would we describe this Bill's
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off season? So if you had one word to describe what the off season
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has been thus far and what it's been for Bill's Nation, what would that
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word be and why I would have to say low key? Because you know,
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yes we lost streaming Edmonds. He's really the only one that I think
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that you know, Bill's Mafia is upset that we lost. Um. You
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can't replace him, you you really can't. But um I feel like with
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mcd with well, sorry McDermott, we all call him victim. With with
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him taking over the defense, I feel like he's going to be a little
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bit more aggressive. He wanted to get a little smaller, he wanted to
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get faster. Um So, I think that there was really never a time
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or a moment that we ever thought we could afford to keep Tremaine. Um
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So I look forward to seeing how we're going to get aggressive on defense without
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him there um. But at the same time, I believe we've gotten better
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in all other in all other facets. You know, there's never there's not
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that one big splashy name that we you know, that everyone was hoping for.
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But there the incremental things that we did to get to get better,
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you know, bringing in Hardy, Hardy's and upgrade from McKenzie um. Our
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draft was was decent on paper. Obviously you never know until the season starts,
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oh well it's going to be but you know, drafting of Torrence and
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Kincaid. We got Torrance in the second round, which most people had predicted.
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I had projected him to us in the first. So it'll you know,
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I think that the season is you know, we did the small things
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to get better. Our lines gotten better. We you know, we signed
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a couple of you know, of different um a guard in McGovern I think
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that he's an upgrade from where we were last year. So I look to
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the line to hopefully protect Josh Allen this year and give him a little bit
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more time. And the line's getting healthier. So we had a lot of
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people out last year. Our turnover rate on our offensive line was pretty ridiculous.
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So I look forward to it. I say so, I say low
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key. So we didn't get those splashy names, but I think that we
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still got incrementally better at each position. All right, low key? What
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was not low key, Sarah, as we know and we got to talk
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about it, is the recent agree arement that was reached by defensive tackle at
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Oliver and the Bill's front office on that contract extension. It's a forty five
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million dollar guarantee on a four year, sixty eight million dollar contract. I
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mean, I've seen some back and forth from Bill's Nation online about whether or
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not this extension, whether or not it had to be done, or whether
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this was possibly you know, a quote overpay here. I wanted to get
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your thoughts on this new deal and what it really means for that front of
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the Bill's defense in the future as we're looking towards this twenty twenty three season.
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Yeah, I look at it. I was one of the proponents of
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trading, Okay, I was one of the you know, I think since
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mid season last year. I was a little unhappy with his play. I
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knew we had already signed him on, we had picked up his fifth year
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option, and I didn't feel like he was playing towards that fifth year option.
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I look, I'm hoping that again with mcderman taking over and his change
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of the scheme a little bit and getting a little bit more aggressive, I
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feel like he's probably going to be better. He can now kind of solidify
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himself as the three tech. Um he moved a little too much in the
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past, and we had so many injuries at defensive tackle as well that he
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wasn't able to to really just you know, solidify his spot there. So
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I think that with him there, um, you know, we have depth
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now along the one tech. So we have Punaford that we sign this year.
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So I honestly think we'll keep five defensive tackles this year. Tim Settle
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kind of being the the floater where he'll go back and forth, but you
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know, we have Jordan Phillips, day Quon Jones has been a breath of
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fresh air. So I kind of feel like day Quon Jones will, um,
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you know, will be the one tech and Oliver will be the three
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tech and then we'll have um, sorry, Phillips and Tim Settle and Punaford
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as the backups. So I think that we've actually you know, done a
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good job um in the off season getting additional people to come to come over
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here and for you know, really good amounts of cap space, um,
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you really low amounts of cap space. So I was one of the again,
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I was one of the people that was kind of a proponent for him
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to be traded. UM. But you never, you can't we can't see
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into the future. So obviously, if if he balls out this year,
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he would have been unapproachable next year, we would not have been able to
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reach an agreement. There are still two or three defensive tackles that should be
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reaching agreements this offseason UM for an extension. So at this point in time,
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Quentin Jefferson, who's also in our division, they're saying, you know,
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he could be demanding over twenty million if the price I would have just
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went up. UM. Again, if he doesn't have a great year,
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then then it, you know, looks like being made a terrible decision.
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If he has a great year, then he's brilliant, and you know,
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we all we all like to think that he's brilliant. So hopefully, hopefully
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this is the right decision. I feel like a little bit of it though,
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was because we lost Edmonds that we realize that we could get priced out
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of this, but also in doing so, it freed up five five point
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seventy five million dollars this year in cap space. The way I look at
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it right now, it's it's a three you know, three year forty five
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million dollar contract. If you include this year, we can it could be
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a three year fifty five million dollars or four year five million dollars, depending
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on how you look at it between the guaranteed money. So we're pretty much
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getting him for about fifteen million a year, and if you include this year,
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it's even it's even less. So you know, it could end up
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being a brilliant job because right now they're you know, defensive tackles are commanding
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eighteen to twenty five million on um, you know, on the open market,
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So it could be a brilliant um deal. We just don't know.
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I won't comment on it until he truly starts to play up to that contract.
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Well, Sarah, you definitely know your football, and we're certainly going
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to be talking about the defense a little bit more here and folks, you
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can follow Sarah on the Twitter dot com at Sarah Underscore Larson. She is
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a great, great follow and I know you're doing some other stuff out on
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the interwebs as well, some podcasting, getting some content out there. Tell
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everybody where they can find you. Yeah. So I do some writing for
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Buffalo Rumblings. You can always check that out. And then I also do
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a podcast. We are usually on Thursdays at nine pm. It's called Line
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to Gain. It's with Jerryostrowski. He's a former Buffalo Bill offensive lineman.
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Yeah, but we're actually moving to Wednesdays at nine pm starting June fourteenth when
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he comes back from vacation, so we will be moving over to Wednesday night.
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So check us out. It's definitely very fun having a former player.
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We get at it a lot good yet a lot of difference. We have
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a lot of differences of opinions and he does a shy away and he allows
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me not to die away. So we have a lot of fun button heads
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a lot. That's great. That is great. Well, sticking with the
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defense here, Sarah, you know, I've been thinking to myself with regard
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to this Bill's defense and what has been happening within the AFC East Division itself
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with Aaron Rodgers coming into a tackle Byloa is not a terrible quarterback, but
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any stretch of the imagination, and you know, sometimes you just don't know
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what's going to happen with the New England Patriots. You know, I look
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at the Bills defensive culture and leadership and how that might come together this season
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after defensive coordinator Leslie Fraser stepped away and the fact that the team lost,
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of course, as you mentioned, Tremaine Edmonds in free agency, and how
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big of a concern is this defense of the Buffalo Bills heading into twenty twenty
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three, kind of given what they lost, and of course Sean McDermott being
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a defensive mind, it's gonna be taken over. I think, you know,
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some of the defensive play calling perhaps and just some of the scheming,
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But you know, is it a concern for you in terms of the culture
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and leadership of this defense moving forward here? I think the concern that I
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have is everyone loved Leslie Frasier. Everyone in the locker room, you know,
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loved him. But I'm not really worried, to be honest with you,
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I'm actually kind of excited. Some of the biggest things that concerned me
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about our defense was that we're always playing off the ball. We were always
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in zone defense. We're you know, it was such a safe defense.
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And I'm not taking anything from from Leslie Frasier. We were one of the
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top defenses over the last five years every year, so I'm definitely not taking
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anything from him. But at the same time, you know, once you
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get to the playoffs, and I've said this, you know, over and
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over again at nausea, and probably once you get to the playoffs, it's
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win or go home. And you being so conservative in your defense. Um.
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You know, once you get behind or if you get in trouble there,
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you can't say, okay, well next game, we'll figure it out.
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UM. So I look forward to us being a little bit more aggressive.
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I look forward to blitzing more. Um. You know, we we
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definitely have the pieces um there to do it. But at the same time,
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you know, I feel like the defense in a hole has gotten better.
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We have one of the best defensive backs rooms in the league. Um.
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It's it's again, it's low key. It's a lot of people don't
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look at um look at our defensive backs that way. But we are deep.
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UM. But at both you know, the um at book corners are
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slot um slot or nickel corner um, and then our safeties we are deep
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all around. So I I just can't wait to to Sean McDermott kind of
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gets his hands on it. He's always been known to be a little bit
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more aggressive. He likes disguising the defense. So it's gonna be fun,
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especially the what we have on the line right now, in the different looks
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that he can give. I'm gonna be excited to see. Um if he
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tries to play to everyone's strengths and move people around a little bit and um
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and really put his stamp on the defenses here, It's gonna be interesting to
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see for sure. But let's move over to the offense now, Sarah,
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because it still seems like, even within the course of this off season,
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that the Bills may actually have some holes at wide receiver. You know,
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again, I read as an outsider. I read what happens within Bill's nation.
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Some folks saying, you know, we're gonna be just fine. Josh
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Allen's gonna be fine with the receiving cord that he has. Yet others say,
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you know what, we lost some key pieces and we lost some talent,
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you know, there's some uncertainty as well, some departures, you know,
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from this off season. Yet they did draft one of the top tight
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ends in Dalton Kincaide. I cannot wait to see how he performs during his
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rookie season. You know, they moved up two spots to get him.
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He is no slouch after what he did at the college level. So in
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a league where passing has become so dominant, Sarah, do you have concerns
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about how Josh Allen is going to get the ball down the field this coming
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season at all? I actually don't have as much concerns as I've had in
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the past. You know, we've we've always been in a little concern about
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the offensive line. UM. I will say that last year I had thought
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that we made enough upgrades on the line that we were going to get better.
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UM, and it proved that the line was just as bad as the
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year before, if not worse. UM. I think that this year,
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with McGovern coming on coming on, um Osireus Torrence, a healthy Spencer Brown,
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UM, I really think that we can get back to UM you know,
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at least where we were a couple of years ago, if not better.
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UM. My my biggest concerned. I will actually let me go with
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the positives. Okay, I think that I yeah, let me stop being
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so negative. UM. I think the positive here is UM. With the
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addition of Um of Hardy UM, he is definitely an upgrade from McKenzie.
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I think that he's a vertical threat, he's a slot threat. He's going
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to be a little gadget play guy like McKenzie was. But I think that
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the consistency, the consistency will be there more than it was with McKenzie.
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McKenzie was, and again, I love mackenzie. I'm not trying to to
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diss him as as a person. The consistency was just not there as a
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player, so we didn't really have that third wide receiver option. UM,
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and Hardy is going to kind of be the I would think the fourth or
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fifth option, So it really takes the pressure off of him. UM.
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But the biggest question we that Bill's fans have is whether or not Gabe Davis
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is going to become twenty twenty one Gabe Davis where he just you know went
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He went off the charge crash and everyone thought, okay, he's he solidified
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himself as wide receiver two. And then last year he had one game that
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was like one hundred and seventy one yards against the Steelers. Um, if
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you will remove that that game. The rest of the season, he kind
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of averaged more towards a wide receiver three um, And that's the concern there.
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He had quite a few drops. Now, I'm when you when you
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look at how many drops like Diggs had two we target him, so of
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course he's going to have a little bit more drops. So you know,
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the biggest concern I guess for all of Bill's mafia is whether or not Gabe
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Davis is really wide receiver too and can can consistently perform as wide receiver too.
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UM. But I think that Kincaid can come in and establish himself early
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on as long as we write him into the offense right away. And that's
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where everyone is looking to Ken Dorsey's to to be able to utilize you know,
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Kincaid this year. I'm excited. I've been saying twelve personnel for years
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and now and now we finally have you know, we can have you know,
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two tight end sets out there. I'm excited to see it. But
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what's really cool with Kincaid is that he can also line up as a slot
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and be a mismatch, you know for most defenses. So I look to,
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you know, see whether or not we're gonna utilize everybody correctly. Um,
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but you know, we'll see shakier out there a little bit more this
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year. He has a year under his belt. Now, he had flashes
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last year. I think he'll established himself this year as well. So the
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biggest question is whether or not Davis is going to be able to stand up.
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But if not, hopefully Kincaid does. And and we kind of use
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him as our wide receiver too, even though he is a tight end.
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I look, you know, moving along here, Sarah at the running back
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situation and running back room to James Cook. I think is expected to be
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running back one for the Bills this coming season. And my gosh, I
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love watching him play football in space. He's elusive in close quarters. He's
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been able to, you know, remarkably, you know, break tackles,
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you know, with with with with a stiff arms. Just an incredible running
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back in this league. In my opinion. He averaged five points seven yards
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per rush, you know, I mean, yes, it was a sample
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size, it was smaller than most running backs in the league. But my
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gosh, so impressive last season, So I'm wondering, how do you expect
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this running back room and perhaps the running backs within this offense here to kind
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of really take shape. They brought in Damian Harrison free agency this off season.
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They also have nine Hinds who I love, who actually picked up in
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one of my fantasy teams. Last year. Didn't do much for me.
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It was a little perplexed that the Bills didn't him a little bit more coming
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out of the backfield, especially on third down. But just wondering, how
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do you think this running back room is gonna look how they're going to perform
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this coming season? Right? James Cook to me like it took him most
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of the season to really get his footing. And at Georgia he was not
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the feature back. He was more, um, you know, the the
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off pace back coming, you know, coming onto the field. So he
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had to get that going. And once he did, um, we saw
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the kind of running back that he would be. And that's why Singletary was
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not in my you know, in my opinion, that's why he wasn't,
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you know, resigned, right, But I do, I do think James
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Cook will be the feature back. Um We will see his attempts will probably
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double um over the year, So he will not have five point seven yards.
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Yea, I am pretty I am pretty sure of that. But yeah,
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I definitely think that he will. Um, he will be the feature
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back now. I Damian Harris is going to be that, um, the
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pounding back that we haven't really seen short yardage, goal goal line. Um,
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there's times where you know, he he hits the line and just breaks
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free. So I'm really excited to see what he can do. He is,
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if nothing more, he has destroyed the Bills in the past. Yes,
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so he is. He is no longer on another team to do that
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to us anymore, especially the Patriots. So um, if nothing more,
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I'm excited for that. So I think that those will be you know,
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he'll be the off pace back. I think that now he hinds he came
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on, you know, at the trade deadline last year. So UM.
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A lot of people have actually made comments, um that you that we've interviewed
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that the offense is a very difficult offense. That Ken Dorsey has instilled a
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lot of different looks and um, it's a pretty complicated playbook. So you
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know, even Hines and made the comment that coming in mid seasons a little
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hard to get, you know, to get your your footing and everything.
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I think I think we will, you know, focus on him more on
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special teams. He'll be our our returner, um, at least for um
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for pump returns. He will definitely be the pump returner. I don't see
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us using him too much in the running game, but I do think that
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if he is in the backfield, it's probably going to be a passing down.
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Um, yeah, let him run him run a Texas route for God's
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sake, you know what I mean. He's Yes, we love to have
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him come out of the backfield. He is pretty much a sure catch,
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so you know we're throwing it to him. He has the he has the
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hands. So I love the fact that he has now a whole off season.
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Um, we also sign Latavius Murray. You know, I loved,
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I loved the signing when it happened. But the more that i've I've kind
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of looked at our fifty three men projected roster. I've I've done the every
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time we signed somebody else, I'm like, okay, so who we're gonna
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cut now, you know, in order to make the roster. I have
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a feeling he'll probably not make the fifty three man roster, but we will
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try to resign him for the practice squads. So, um, I don't
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I personally don't think he'd get picked up by another team right away, so
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the practice squad will will definitely be an option for him. I'm not really
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worried. We're not really a running team, so you know, most most
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of the time we're you know, we're putting it in Josh's hands. I
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just don't and Josh when he has the ball, I mean, he's another
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running back as well. I don't want to see him. I don't want
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to see him do seven hundred and fifty yards again, though I would like
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him to be more around, you know, the four hundred, protecting himself
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a little bit more and having a running game established. Um, you know,
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we actually ran the ball really well when you took into consideration his performance,
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so you know we I think we averaged like one hundred and twenty something
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yards per game. Not bad as a team, but when you subtract his
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yards, are running backs kind of struggled a little bit. So I think
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that featuring one back, which will be James Cook, he'll get his footing
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a lot sooner in this end of season, so I think he'll do well.
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It's definitely a passing league, but the running game is still so very
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important and critical. I mean, you take a look at the Philadelphia Eagles,
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who have really created a nice balance, and of course Jalen Hurts much
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like Josh Allen, has that mobile type of quarterback who's able to get third
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down yardage, who's able to really just make a mess of things out there
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for the opposing defense with his legs. But again, it's important to have
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that balance. I think the Eagles have really struck that over the past couple
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seasons, and it's gonna be interesting to see where the Bills go with their
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running back room. And again, folks talking to Sarah Larson if you're if
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you're listening to this on Tuesday, June sixth, wish her a happy birthday,
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because you know, you gotta wish everybody a happy birthday when it is
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their birthday. And you can find her on Twitter at Sarah Underscore Larson.
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Again, wish her a happy birthday if you're listening to this after the sixth,
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which are happy belated as well, and you can find out what she's
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doing and Ali her colleagues over at Buffalo rumblings doing some good stuff over there.
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And to close this out here, Sarah, you have to ask you
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just about the AFC East Division. I mean, it's gonna be a very
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interesting division. Jets now have a very legit quarterback from finally in their existence,
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they have a legit quarterback for God's sake. Probably the best NFL offseason
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move of the year, quite frankly the Dolphins. They have been a team
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that's been building, and the Patriots have also been building as well. We
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don't know what to really expect from them and mac Jones, So do you
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think the Bills have done enough this whether it's this offseason. I know it's
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been a low key offseason as you mentioned earlier, but do you think they've
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done enough in terms of their building to retain control of the AFC East.
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Yeah, I think And I'll start with what I feel like it will be
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the bottom, which will be the Patriots. I feel like feeling that's a
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good thing. That is to say, you know, even though we don't
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know what's going to happen, it's a great phrase to say. I mean,
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you never know what you're gonna get it with Bill Belichick and they do
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have and they do have an offensive coordinator. Finally, UM, last year,
24:12
I don't know what he was thinking, um with not having an actual
24:17
offensive coordinator. UM. So I think that the Patriots will be better this
24:21
year. Mac Jones he's a decent quarterback. I don't think he's the quarterback
24:25
of the future, and I think they're starting to realize that. Um.
24:26
But he can get the job done. Um. You know, when the
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pieces are there for them. I still think that there are a couple of
24:34
years away and maybe a quarterback away. Before you know, Bill Belichick can
24:40
can you know, prove that he's the coach that he is without Tom Brady?
24:44
Right? Um. I then I really am split a little bit between
24:48
the Jets and the Dolphins. Um. I kind of like the Dolphins coaching
24:55
staff book a little bit more. So That's why I have the Dolphins finishing
24:57
just you know, like maybe be tied or a game in front of the
25:02
Jets. UM at the two and three position. Um. So, the
25:06
Jets to me are are scary. You know. I've said for the last
25:10
two years that they've done enough in their in their drafts and um to in
25:15
their defense is ridiculous. In order to really succeed in the East, they
25:21
were just a quarterback away. UM, so that it scares me that they
25:26
now have a quarterback. But I still feel like they have to put all
25:30
the pieces together, and UM, I don't know if they can do that
25:34
in the in this year. UM, you know, enough to surpass the
25:40
Bills. UM. I would think that in two years they would have all
25:44
the pieces and you know, Breece Hall would be fully healthy coming off of
25:48
his ACL and you know they have, um a wide receiver room. That's
25:53
really great. Uh. I can't think of the Ohio State receiver all of
25:57
a sudden at the top of my head. Um, but he is,
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Yeah, Scarrett Wilson, thank you, um he you know, he was
26:06
amazing last year. So um, you know, between the two rookies coming
26:08
out and then again, they've had one of the best defenses over the last
26:12
few years. And I really honestly believe that in two years they can put
26:18
all the pieces together. But my hope is Aaron Rodgers decides to retire after
26:22
this year and stick it to stick it to the Jets. So that's the
26:27
way I look at them. The Dolphins are the one that I think that
26:30
this scares me the most. Um, I think that McDaniels is a pretty
26:36
you know, brilliant coach. Um. I don't like admitting that out loud
26:38
too much. It all, in my opinion, they have every piece that
26:44
they need to have the only they're pretty much a complete team. The only
26:48
thing that concerns that should concern Dolphin fans is whether or not to A remains
26:52
healthy, right and it's it's all going to kind of be, you know,
26:55
whether or not to A remains healthy when two is healthy and on.
26:59
I mean, he showed last year what this team can be, and the
27:02
team got better in the offseason. So I think that realistically with them getting
27:07
better UM at you know, multiple positions, they have probably one of the
27:11
best wide receiver duos. And now they just sign um you know, Um
27:15
Chosen changed his name to Chosen Um, so you know he's he's out there
27:22
now. So they have they have true three true wide receivers right now.
27:26
They have a really decent backfield. There's rumors that Um that Cook might be
27:32
you know, choosing to be traded there that would scare me even more.
27:37
UM, I don't want to see Delvin Cook in the AFC East, unless
27:40
it's on the Bills, which I don't think will happen, but um,
27:42
but we'll see. So I think that that the Dolphins season kind of hinders
27:47
on whether or not two it can remain healthy. But I still feel like
27:49
the Bills have done enough and I honestly believe, um that we are still
27:56
going to be the team. I think it'll be the hardest season we've had
28:00
in recent memory. I mean even last year we finished I think three or
28:03
four games in front of the second place team, So I think that it
28:08
won't be such a gap this year. It'll be one or two games.
28:12
We might split with the Dolphins, we might split with the Jets. I
28:15
think we'll still sweep the Patriots, but it'll you know, it'll definitely be
28:21
a little bit harder. But I kind of look at our schedule and I
28:22
say thirteen and four is our record, which will be enough to win the
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East. It's gonna be an interesting division, for sure. It's gonna be
28:30
one of the more fascinating divisions to watch in the NFL this coming season.
28:33
Again, folks, Sarah Larson from Buffalo Rumblings and you can find her on
28:38
the Twitter dot com at Sarah Underscore Larson. Sarah, happy birthday again,
28:44
and thank you for coming on the PSD podcast show. Joining us here on
28:48
Opposition Territory. I would love to talk to you again at some point down
28:51
the road, talk about the NFL, talk about the Bills. Come back
28:52
and join us in the future. All right, Thank you, Jeff.
28:56
It was great talking to Sarah for the very first time, and I do
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think it's interesting how she thinks the AFC Division is going to take shape this
29:04
coming season. I don't know. I think the Jets and Bills are really
29:07
going to be battling for first place. That's my personal opinion, and things
29:11
could certainly change. Things can change for all of our predictions here in June.
29:17
You know, training camp hasn't even started yet. We know what injuries
29:19
due to a team that is looking to make headway during the course of the
29:25
season. So I cannot wait to see what the AFC East is going to
29:29
do this year. One of the more fascinating divisions in professional football. So
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