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S3 E3: New Blood · Nickel City Crew Podcast

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Fifteen degrees. You can see your breath out in the lake effect breaking tables
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lak it would tree? Where else would you have to be? And to
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run Elvis in the lay panchow? Remember that you need to know. I
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spot you out in now your family? Where else would you happy? Where
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else would you? Welcome into the Nickel City Crew. I am your host,
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Rob Crippin. Please like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram and
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so glad that you're joining us for some of your Buffalo bills and NFL content
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again today, and as always, these are my Bill's thoughts set out loud.
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It's about so ridiculous to destroy place anything was sick the show? Where
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else would you like to be? All right, let's get straight to it.
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Excited for tonight's episode, I'm really invigorated. I mean, it's just
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the draft when it comes. I know that we've spoken about, how you
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know, my co host and I are not kind of draft nerds or anything
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like that, but it's always fun. They get the new blood into the
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organization and to kind of check out these draft picks and see some of the
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things that they might offer your team. And I know that thirty two fan
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bases across the league are doing that right now. At the conclusion of the
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twenty twenty three NFL Draft last weekend, it was a lot of fun,
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to be honest, and some of the storylines and some of the things that
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we were talking about DT kind of came to forising as well. But I
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wanted to kind of go over the draft tonight and kind of um pointing forward
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to you know, next month. Next month, we've got the schedule release.
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I think the next week excuse me, we've got the schedule release.
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They're tentatively talking about the eleventh of the month, which is I think next
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Thursday for release in the schedule, and that should be very interesting as well,
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kind of get a chance to plan out your your fall and winter,
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if you're anything like my co host and I, I mean, it's just
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it's a big time of year when the when the schedule comes out, you
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get an opportunity to really see what you know, where you're going, when
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you're going there, and when the bills are going to be playing and that's
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all we care about for sure, as Bills Mafia, as Nickel City Crew.
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So without any further ado, joining me tonight as always my co host
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Adam dump Trump rubsick high at the crew, DT. What's good, DT,
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Man, we got a little bit of new blood in the organization.
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I'm I'm feeling good Man. Get the juice flowing, Nicol City. What's
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up? Yeah, the new face, the new faces, new number eighty
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six. Eighty six hasn't been a real famous number in Bill's history. I
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think a lot of short termers. I think Loston had it maybe one year.
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But hopefully this is the long term. Eighty six the long term answer,
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and overall, I think a decent drafts we'll get into tonight. But
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new faces. The baby's on the team now and Josh Josh Allen kind of
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relates to him as stupid rookies, right, so we'll see what they can
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do. Yeah, that should be interesting. You know, I'm really interested
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in it because of the fact that there's been a lot of debate about,
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you know, this newest draft pick in the first round pick, and we
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were kind of all wondering, you know, the wide receiver train now was
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on it, hoping for a wide receiver in the first two rounds, and
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it's just interesting how the board goes, you know what I mean, Like
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Vjon Robins had taken nice and early DT and then another running back surprise with
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Jamir Gibbs going to Detroit early on top fifteen pick. It's just you never
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It just kind of proves to our point for last week DT. You never
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know what's going to happen. You never know what's gonna go on. You
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really don't know where these teams have these guys evaluated and where they've got them
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pegged because we never get a chance to see their boards, and a lot
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of it was just crazy. Man. That wide receiver run happened right before
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the Bills got on the clock at their selected pick at twenty seven. And
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then Brandon Bean, which we talked about God Ancy. He kind of joked
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and alluded to it that he would get Ancy, and he does, and
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he moves up a couple of spots to make sure that he gets this guy
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in Dalton Kincaide, which we'll talk about. But the draft, the first
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round, man, I mean, Will Levin is sliding all the way out
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of the first round like there was just it was a little bit of a
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crazy round. I think they set the record for most trades in the draft,
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like forty three trades throughout the weekend. It was. It was a
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little bit back and forth. Man, it was wild. Especially that first
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round. You were kind of wonder what was going on? I mean,
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especially when Houston trade right back up to the number three, Like it was
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just it was kind of a whirlwind for a few picks right there. Yeah,
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it was probably the most riveting first round, you know, I've watched
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in recent number for sure, other than when you know, the Bills were
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picking top, top five, top ten, and I was real in tune
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to it, and yeah, it was. It was entertaining. A few
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moves, some some drama, uh you know, some some other things that
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popped up that that made it interesting to watch it, at least until they
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kept us up late until that Bills picked, you know, but they it
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was interesting up until then and with the trades, and I like that when
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when Houston did the two three, that's like you ever see that Kevin Costumer
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movie Draft, d Yes, yes, there he goes up. It gets
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like the two and three and everyone's like, what the heck, you could
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never do that, and the Texans did, and you know, it got
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some I think it's gonna be some premier players in this league. And the
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running backs were surprising with um B Jean Robinson. I kind of felt was
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going in the first round somewhere. Um but Jamir gives, I didn't think
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you know that had the second round written all. Now, did you see
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the Lions, like I mean, I'm sure they showed all the draft rooms
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they'd make the pick. They're all there excited though, and they made that
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Jamir pick gives like they were, Yeah, they were. And they Campbell,
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those guys who were apped up, I mean, and they took they
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took Jack Campbell too, so that Jack Campbell in some eyes would be reaches.
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And you know it's like people that were probably second rounds on all the
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boards and took them both early in the first. So yeah, yeah,
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a lot of a lot of drama. The will Levis thing is, you
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know you run that risk every year of like Malik Willis last year, right,
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and of just like the the guy that's highly totted and then you know,
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starts to slip. And last week it was weird. I don't know
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if it was just some some vegas, uh gamesmanship or what was going on.
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But all of a sudden, will Levis just shot up the you know
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the ranks is is maybe even the top QB out or number two. It
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was number two. We're gonna come up and get them and ye and all
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this ship and then you know he's sitting there, and that has to be
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tough for you know, anybody expect sitting there and you know, the cameras
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on you, and but you know, I had some decent looking ladies with
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them, but well, yeah, he had his mother with him, and
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then yes, his girlfriend called, or at least a lady friend of his
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called a lot of attention as well. I mean, yeah, it was
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interesting because you never know how that's gonna work out, and you know,
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it has to be shitty, to be honest, because I was thinking about
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it and kind of talking to some friends about it, and I was just
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like, man, you know, you're just sitting there and you come there
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and then you get dressed up, and you know you think that this is
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gonna be your shining moment that night, and then all of a sudden,
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it kind of you know, Aaron Rodgers, It's just kind of all just
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comes, you know, crashing down where you're just sitting there in the green
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room and guys are getting picked and you're giving you know, DAPs and handshakes,
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and then all of a sudden, your names was not called. And
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it's got to be an eerie feeling, for sure. So I did feel
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bad from regardless of the fact that he's a little bit polarizing. I don't
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really get it, you know, beside the male and the coffee thing,
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which obviously sounds disgusting, But other than that, I mean, like I
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have nothing to work, you know, no problems with Will Levins. And
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again, you know I heard that he was arrogant or something like that,
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and like I sait down here in Charlie, we heard all that type of
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same ship with Cam Newton and different things like that. So I really don't
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pay too much at too now. It's funny because some of the picks.
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You're absolutely right, you kind of alluded to it. Detroit, for sure,
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who trades DeAndre Swift after they get Jamir gives with the twelfth pick,
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and then they also take Jack Campbell, like you talked about at eighteen,
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there were some picks in there they didn't Swift till Friday after Yeah, so
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after the Dragon. Yeah, so they definitely this was all a part of
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their play in that respect. And it's funny because the wide receiver trade that
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w GR talks about so much, it started at pick twenty Jackson Smith and
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Jigba goes to Seattle and then it was just boom boom boom boom DT.
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I mean, Quentin Johnson goes to the charges A Flowers another target for for
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Lamar Jackson out there in Baltimore, and then followed up by Jordan Addison going
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up to pair with with you know, with Jefferson out there in Minnesota,
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and it was just like wow, Like it was right before the Bills were
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getting ready to pick. I was getting excited. I remember who texting you
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about like, well man, we might get lucky here. And I know
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I wanted Zay Flowers or somebody real similar to him, because I figured that
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Smith and Jigba would be the first one gone. And for a second there,
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DT, it looked like we might have a look at it. And
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yeah, I mean, just as fast as we thought that it was happening,
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you know, these guys just got gobbled up. Yeah, and I'm
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looking like when it goes twenty JSN and then uh, then it was Chargers,
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right, Chargers were twenty one. And when that happened, like my
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first instinct was to stay all right, trade up being trade up, get
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get get the next guy, get add as in their flowers, get add
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us their flowers. And then they went bang bang, and so then I
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just pretty much wrote, any you know, we're trading out of it.
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At that point, you know, I thought we were. We were done
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in the first round. We trade out, started building picks because we only
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had six to come in with. Um but uh, you know, everybody
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makes sense in that. I mean Seahawks could that could use the pair them
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with locking DK Metcalf other than Quentin Johnson and the Chargers, I get it.
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He seems like Canal and Mike Wallace, Mike Williams. They they two
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twenty million dollars guys, right, Hey, yeah, Mike Mike Williams,
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I'm two twenty million dollars guys. But they're really rarely on the field.
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At the same time, you know, Keenan Allen's either hurt or Mike Larmes
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either hurt. So maybe this was a good pick. Get you know,
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justin Herbert Young up and comer get them weapons as everyone is preaching here,
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and I like Qlinn Johnson just a big, big body guy. Um,
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I'd like to watching them at TCU and whatnot too. So that was the
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one I was like, ah, I didn't really you know. The other
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ones I can definitely see was Zay Flowers going to you know, the Ravens,
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that kind of fits there. They got their two big guys, now
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they got the you know, little little speedster through there, and then Jordan
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Addison to the Vikings. Vikings needed to get somebody in there to get the
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pressure off you know, JJ and as they just bracket and double triple,
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quadruple whatever they against him, So they needed at least some sort of threat,
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you know, on the other side. So I understood it all.
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And then after that I pretty much I was okay with it, but I
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wrote off any you know, offensive, any first round pick. At that
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point I was I thought we were moving back. Yeah. It's interesting because
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even you know, Brandon being kind of alluded to it, um, you
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know, in his post draft comments and talked about how you know that they
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wanted Kincaid and had he not been there then they were going to try to
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trade back if they could because of the fact that they didn't have any more
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grades, or at least they weren't going to divulge anymore grades that they had
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in respects to who they were looking to take. And it was a situation
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where I was kind of proud, you know, because of the fact that,
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regardless of the draft being a crapshoot or not, I like the fact
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that they had conviction. I like the fact that they had somebody that they
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liked that they wanted to go get and it as opposed to just drafting somebody
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just to draft them, or you know, God forbid, they're not able
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to trade back, so they're just kind of reaching on a position or something
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like that of need. I like the fact that they went to something that
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they thought that they had to have. And you know, to hear Brandon
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be talk about a DT, he was saying that I'm going to sleep better
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at night. You know, he's gonna he would miss that fourth round pick,
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which he's you know, he said he would, but you know,
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he said he would feel better sleeping at night with the fact that they went
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and got their guy, and Kinkaid is an interesting prospect, our first round
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pick. As you guys all know, Dalton Kincaid from Utah, the talented
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tight end who you know kind of can be viewed as, I'm what of
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a you know, of a slot receiver. It seems like the Bills are
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going to be trying to use them in that fashion to say the least,
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and DT I have to be you know, honest, I'm intrigued by him,
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not because of the fact that I you know, I'm not pretending that
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a tight end can be a slot receiver. I do understand the difference in
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the body type and things like that, but this guy seems to be,
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you know, ultra talented at catching the ball and moving without the ball and
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finding you know, you know, soft spots in the zone. Some of
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the things that obviously Cold Beasley did that they're looking for to kind of emulate.
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And I'm all for it. Like listen, if this guy can come
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in and catch a bunch of balls from Josh Allen and Josh is going to
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use him, then I'm all for it. That doesn't matter what his classification
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is, whether it's a wide receiver or tight end. I'm definitely okay with
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you know, an f tight end coming in, chilling there in the slot
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and just find a way to you know, great matchup nightmares for the defense,
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especially if they're a nickel. Yeah, all of its own identity.
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He'll be his own, you know, own player. He'll be in this
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offense differently than you know, other tight ends in the league. But we
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look, what's our really our biggest threat currently is the Chiefs. And what's
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the biggest threat within that Pat Mahomes and Travis Kelsey. So I'm not saying
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we have to you know, go step for step and do exactly what the
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Chiefs do, because that's not what the NFL's built. Like, you gotta
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you gotta play to what you got, right. But the factor of that,
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of that dominating tight end power, you know, is intriguing to me,
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you know, because it's the team that's one, you know, been
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to three Super Bowls one two in the last five years and be mainly because
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of eighty seven and Travis Kelsey. So he's always there, he's always open,
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he's always in the middle, you know, online backers and whatnot.
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And if this, if KNCAI can come in and give us any sort of
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that, I think that's you know, fifty sixty percent of that. I
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think it's a it's a hit, you know, in the first round.
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So um, the way something I took from that as well over looking at
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Pat over the past week and kind of the way Bean is talking, and
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it seems like they were going after this guy like this, this was their
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guy in the first round, Like I don't you know, it's easy to
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say that now because they picked him, but like the vibe was kind of
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feels like they weren't really looking at receiver. They were looking at this guy.
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And that's that's even more comforting to know that, you know, they
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have a plan and they and they want to you know, build something with
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Kincaid and whatnot through there. But uh wgr said this, and I agreed,
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Like you're looking at the past couple of years, you bring in you
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know, you bring in uh um, oh j Howard doesn't doesn't really cut
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it. You're bring in Jake Allister the year before, it doesn't really cut
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in. So it seems like they're they were trying to get that big athletic
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type tight end and it wasn't working out. So finally now uh they got
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it and here it is, And maybe that's what Dorsey was asking for,
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and that's what Dorsey and Josh wanted. It seemed like Josh was pretty happy
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about it from what being said. And uh, there was rumors around around
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town, you know, the rumor mills swinging up that when Josh went to
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the barbershop last week. Uh, he was he you know, he was
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real subtle. But they said just one name, one name in the first
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round, and he said Dalton kincaide, I guess at the barbershop. So
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that that was a report was quick quick to say that, and Josh kind
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of had him on his radar before the draft. And I think the Mafia
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Nico City crew probably took it a little. I think we got you,
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yeah, I think we got our hopes up for a wide receiver. And
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then and it kind of seemed like maybe and then from Utah, yeah exactly,
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it kind of seemed like we were we yeah, we were ever played
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twelve personnel right exactly. But then you know, couple yeah, a couple
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of days go by, Dust settles, Hey, this dude's this dude's legit.
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You know. So I like, I like, I didn't mind it
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when we actually took the pick, you know, but I'm a little more
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positive than the than the average man, I think, But uh, it's
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we'll take it. We'll see what happens. And it seems like the organization
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was this was kind of the guy, so if we could go up and
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get this, you know, we'll take it. And I'm excited to see
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what it does. But a lot of good points are bringing brought up,
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like what's production looked like this year? What's a successful first year for this
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guy? You know, is he obviously he's not gonna be Travis Kelsey year
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one, But what's a number you put on this guy that's like, Okay,
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we can do something with this or you know, or Wosten a pick.
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So that's what I'm interested to kind of look forward to. Yeah,
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I mean, we never see their draft boards, so we you know,
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obviously we'll never know if Brandon Mean would have taken one of the wide receivers
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had it been Dalton Kincaid and some of the other guys as well. But
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again, the conviction for me is what I you know, I appreciate it.
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I like the fact that he thought that Dallas was gonna, you know,
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take a tight end and he was pretty sure of it, and he
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kind of said that he had he had it on good authority that they would
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have. Um, I think that that's the truth. You know. They
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kept talking about how Mozzi Smith was, you know, their picked there at
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Dallas, but obviously you know, they could be bullshit as well. So
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UM, you know, I think that you know the fact that they thought
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that you know, Dallas was in position to take them, and they knew
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that they couldn't go into the next day without a pass catcher for Josh somebody
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to go ahead and get that ball and run some good routes, whether it
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be a wide receiver or classified as a tight end. Um, it makes
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me feel good because again that makes me, you know, the conviction regardless
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of the wrong or right. You know, we'll find out, you know,
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we'll find out if they're wrong or right on it. But the fact
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that they had the conviction, um, you know, puts me in a
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good place. Now as you shift to the second round and and and they're
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on out Osiris torn second yard excuse me, second round guard right at the
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top of round two. Man, I mean, this was an interesting pick
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because of the fact that this guy is a road greater DT. I mean,
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he reminds me of you like he is. He is no fun to
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go up against. Like, listen, this guy's gonna move people. He's
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gonna move grown men. Now, I don't know what he's really right on
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the pass pro to be honest, I heard some mixed reviews on that.
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But when it comes to the run game and actually creating space, Uh,
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this guy's one of those guys that he might he might disrupt your game plan
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in respects to the defensive line that you're going up against because of the fact
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that he's just so damn big. Now, I don't know what's gonna happen
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with McGovern. Then I know we've got Bates, who could you know,
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be a guard, he could be a tackle, He could do a lot
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of different things for this team. I know Question burries back as well,
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and obviously Spencer Brown will be on the right side until unless he's pushed.
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Man, I think that this is a guy TOWRDS that might be able to
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come in and like push Baits or push you know, somebody to get a
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starting guard spot and where it might be just McGovern the new prize toy of
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the offseason. Along with him at the guard positions on either side of Mitch
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Morrise. It just seems like this is a big guy. It was intentional.
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Again, if they wanted a more athletic, you know, guard,
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they could have gotten one. They picked a road grade or for a reason.
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That doesn't mean they're necessarily going to run the ball more, but it
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doesn't mean that they wanted somebody that could move men upfront. And it's got
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me intrigued as well, just like the first round pick. Yeah, in
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my opinion, the thing this offensive line is missing is that a little bit
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of mean to him, you know, a little bit of a bad boy
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to him. Spencer Brown has it a little bit, you know, but
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obviously had a rough year last year. But we need a little more grid
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and I think on that offensive line a little more we're gonna beat your ass
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type style. And you know, he brings that. I think he fell
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deeper because he is pretty strictly interior linement, you know, has never played
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tackle, has never really played center. You know, it's just has really
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barely ever played the other guard. So he's pretty pretty locked in as a
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as a standard interior linement. But we'll take it, you know, Phil.
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It's like when the Bills needed a quarterback for years. I was like
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draft seven quarterbacks to see which one works and keep it moving, kind of
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like that on the offensive defensive lines right now, Like they got a bass
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layer, we got the team around it. Fill in these gaps as much
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as you can. And I think we did a great pick with here.
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This guy's huge, he's mean, he's nice, and yeah, I think
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he's more than a push. I i'd expect him to really, you know,
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compete for that for a starting spot up there in the middle somewhere,
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you know, And I think that might be transition of we see McGovern on
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one side, Torns on the other horse and Bates kind of go on the
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center role as you work through there. So it'll be interesting to see.
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Um. I love to pick and a lot of steel talk going on there
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and just be it was deep and all the like I've seen him on mox
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in the first year, first round him up until the day, so it
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will we'll take that. And again being just kind of sitting there and thinking
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like, damn, it's this guy's still here where we got to take him?
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So? Uh well, I like everything about that big bruiser, Like
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you said, road grinder, I like that, yeah, road. Yeah,
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the road greader, he will move grown men out of their way,
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and I really am intrigued by that because I want Josh to stay as clean
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as possible, and then I want the holes to be opened up when we
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do decide to run or or screen pass with the case by base. So
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we'll see what his athleticism brings to the table on the pass pro and different
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things like that in screen game. But when it comes to running the ball
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or just literally stopping somebody from touching your quarterback, everything is is positive in
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that respect for all Cyres tourrans Now third round is probably one of the more
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interesting picks of the entire draft for the Bills, for sure, and it's
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because of the fact that there just seems to be a little bit of everything
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coming up out out. Excuse me about this guy after the draft DT Dory
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Williams from TC excuse me from two lane. It seems like he's rangey,
21:19
but he's a little light in the ass. Then Brandon Bean says he's gonna
21:23
play on the outside, which means that you're a backup to Matt Milano on
21:27
Nickel packages. So then why weren't you drafting somebody to play and replace Tremaine
21:33
Edmonds. I'm not really sure what their whole thing was on this. I
21:37
don't know if he was just the best linebacker available, whether the case may
21:40
be, but they went and got the guy. I mean, they didn't
21:41
draft up, you know, they didn't trade up for him or anything like
21:44
that. But third round, twenty eighth pick in that round Dorry and Williams
21:48
six one again a little bit light in the ass to twenty eight from two
21:52
lane. I mean, they say he's gonna play outside and he'll start his
21:55
career outside, not where Tremaine Edmonds was on the mic linebacker position. What
22:00
you make of it, because I was it was a little bit perplexing when
22:02
I read some of the stuff about them um and then heard Brandon Beats comments
22:06
as well. I was expecting that they would say that this guy's going to
22:08
compete in the mic with Terrell Bernard um with you know what I mean,
22:12
Dobson, But it doesn't seem like they're planning on doing that with them.
22:17
So I'm just kind of interested to see what direction they're taking this with Well,
22:19
immediately, I think two things. I think Dodson or Bernard has shown
22:25
something that they're they're cool with them being the starter and you know, and
22:27
they just want to build some depth and you know, they're not worried about
22:32
it, you know, or they got somebody in the in the wings to
22:33
sign, because there's really no other explanation, you know, of drafting this
22:38
guy as m as the first team all pros backup, you know, on
22:42
a team that's in a win now mentality, and they've made moves to to
22:47
prove that they are going to win now mentality. So this is kind of
22:49
a little uncharacteristic if they're just building depth in the third round, you know,
22:53
build a special teams guy, whatever the case is. And so the
22:57
only alternative in my eyes is, you know, Dodson or Bernard is shown
23:02
enough to be a starter next year, or they got somebody waiting in the
23:04
wings to you know, to sign, because the only other intangible, you
23:08
know, third round pick here is is because of one of those reasons,
23:11
I think. So it'll be interesting and I'm not writing them off by any
23:15
means. I mean, trym and Edmunds had a little more stock to him
23:18
when he was when he was drafted obviously first round and just was bigger overall
23:22
and you know, played great for us, I think, but just never
23:26
really had that comfortability and full out. Maybe this guy's a little more long
23:30
term. You won't see him for the first couple of years, and you
23:32
know, year three, four or five, they really think they can do
23:33
something, but it just goes, It goes too much against all the characteristics
23:40
being has been showing. So there's got to be something else up as sleeve,
23:42
you know, to contradict it. Yeah, I mean, we'll see.
23:47
I mean, whether they're going to give this guy a shot to play
23:48
the mic or whether you know what I mean, I don't. I don't
23:51
really know, to be honest, I do see the special team's value.
23:53
I know that they like special teams contributors. Um. I just was I
23:57
thought it was odd that a third round pick was not taken on a guy
24:00
that was actually going to have an opportunity to replace Tremaine, And because of
24:06
that, it's kind of just I'm just watching, that's all. We'll see
24:07
what this guy does and like again, give those guys helmets when it comes
24:11
a summertime at Saint John's fisher you know, let's see what you know,
24:15
what Dotson has, Let's see what Bernard has. Like everybody gets an opportunity
24:18
to earn their spot. And it was something that was brought up today on
24:22
w GR that was interesting was that maybe this is a you know, a
24:26
sign that there's a shift in philosophy from the Bills defensively and maybe, like
24:30
you just said that it wasn't something where the mic linebacker position. It's something
24:33
that they're going to place that much value on going forward, and maybe it's
24:37
not going to be as necessary and whatever scheme that Sean mcdermot's going to be
24:41
coming up with if it changes much. But I'll be watching it because it
24:44
was an odd pick, but not you know, like I said, I'm
24:45
not writing it off. Just like you said, it was just interesting,
24:48
you know, because it just didn't seem like it fit one of these things.
24:52
They're not like the other type of thing. But we'll see now.
24:53
Because of that trade up for a Dalton k the Bills missed out on a
24:56
fourth round pick. You know, Brandon being talked about how he was going
25:00
to be wringing his hands during the fourth round and you know, being mad
25:03
and saying, gosh, started to all the players that were gone that he
25:07
would have picked um. But in the fifth round, sixteenth picked. They
25:10
did get a guy, Justin Shorter from Florida, who is um, you
25:12
know, the joke has been that he's nothing, you know, not short
25:15
at all, six four two nine, big boy. I mean he's bigger
25:19
than Yeah. Yeah, he's a big He looks like t o damn dear.
25:23
Um, this guy is a big boy. And you know it's gonna
25:27
be interesting because you know, it's kind of reminiscent of James Hardy and some
25:32
of those other big receivers that we've had back in the past that kind of
25:34
flash in the pan. They really don't do much. But this is a
25:37
big guy. He's got great hands. Um. You know, sometimes he's
25:41
had some problems with drops early on in his Florida career, but um,
25:44
he was pretty consistent this last year. And man, I mean I have
25:48
no problem taking a flyer. Yes, I understand the wide receiver train.
25:51
Again, I was on it. I was in the first class car.
25:53
You know, I was waiting Listen Dalton kincaide plus a flyer on a guy
25:59
like Justin Shorter, I'm okay with it because of the fact that again you
26:02
didn't reach you didn't you didn't pull the Detroit Lions and grab JAMR. Gibbs
26:06
when you had no reason doing that. You didn't pull a Green Bay Packers
26:08
and take Lucas van Ness, who I guess it was like a rotational player
26:12
at Iowa at defensive end and they took him in the top fifteen. You
26:15
know, whatever was that the Packers picked. So I'm glad that they didn't
26:18
reach. I'm glad that they stuck to their principles. And listen, take
26:22
a flyer on a guy. Let's see what he's gotten, give him a
26:25
helmet, give him some pads and let him. Let him see if he
26:26
can catch some balls in camping, and see what he does in the preseason.
26:30
I have no problem with taking a flyer on a guy in the fifth
26:32
round because you're really not losing too much value because the fact that anything he
26:37
brings is going to be a positive. Yeah, this cat was. He's
26:41
got the physical looks like this dude's nice looking, and but he was like
26:48
the top receiver recruit out of high school. He was one of the top
26:52
wide receiver recruits coming out. I think he's from New Jersey. I'd have
26:56
to fact check that, but I think he's from New Jersey. And yeah,
26:59
he was like top tier wide receiver coming out. Didn't you know,
27:03
didn't live up to that hype and whatnot. And you know had a good
27:07
quarterback at least last year in Richardson. But um, yeah, I like
27:11
it. They talk a lot, he played a lot of special teams.
27:14
He's a punt flyer, um, a gunner. And when it comes to
27:17
that, and as we talked on the last pick about special teams, deep,
27:21
I don't love that in the third, but you go in the fifth,
27:23
sixth and get get some special teams depth and and somebody that can compete
27:26
for a jersey in the wide receiver room and and hold those guys accountable and
27:30
hold them up and have this physical, you know, specimen to to get
27:33
it done. I like to pick. Yeah, I like it a lot
27:38
because of the fact again that there's just not there's just not a lot of
27:41
downside. Like I don't see anything wrong with taking a flyer on a guy
27:45
like that. Um, you know, I'm interested in seeing what he can
27:48
provide in respects to a Gabe Davis clone or Gabe Davis replacement. I mean,
27:55
obviously you know that'd be lofty expectations, but we didn't expect that from
27:57
Gabe from Gabe Davis. Either, it's just interesting because Gabe Davis is coming
28:03
up on a contract year, you know what I mean, Like, it's
28:06
just interesting because Gabe Davis, we really were expecting. We were expecting so
28:11
much. And I told somebody the other day, I was like, maybe
28:14
we got a little bit spoiled by the Kansas City game. And obviously nobody's
28:17
gonna be breaking records every single time that they come out on the field,
28:22
and that game against the Chiefs was historic, and Jerry Rice had never even
28:26
put up a Sunday like that, a playoff game like that. So I
28:29
think that we got a little bit spoiled. He wasn't everything that we wanted
28:32
him to be last year, but I still have, you know, have
28:34
a little bit of faith that he can have a bounce back year. But
28:37
some of the type of stuff that he does on the sideline, it looks
28:40
like Shorter might be able to do. So I'm interested in seeing if that
28:42
would be something that can be replicated, because who knows if we can afford
28:47
to pay Gabe Davis. If he has a decent year, it has a
28:49
bounce back year, maybe you can't afford to keep him for eighteen nineteen million
28:53
or whatever he's going to command on the market. So it'll be interesting to
28:56
see the last two picks. Nick Broker a guard, another guard from Old
29:00
Miss, and then Alex Austin, a quarterback from Organ State to round out
29:03
the seventh round picks for the Bills. Again, Broker is just another mean,
29:07
nasty guy who's gonna go ahead and move some people around. UM A
29:11
big guy, six four, three hundred and five pounds, so he's a
29:14
you know, he fires off the ball, he hits guys in the mouth,
29:15
and again kind of staying in that same theme DT, just protecting John
29:19
Schallen. One of the things that I really enjoyed about this draft DT was
29:22
that it was offense. Now, it might not bend pass catcher for all
29:26
five picks in the first five rounds one of the case, maybe, but
29:30
it really was a situation where it was a concerted effort. It looked like
29:33
for the Bills to address offense. And I just I would be a hypocrite
29:37
if I said that I'm not on board with that. What I um,
29:41
you know, wanted to bring up when in the Torrance pick as well as
29:48
UM as this pick is now there's some competition on this offensive line, and
29:52
some of these vets know, like it's not acceptable, you know, Josh
29:56
gets touched, that's not acceptable, you know. And there's guys that are
30:00
that are that are road graders here that you know, are are ready to
30:04
protect and ready to go. And there's that competition of you know, we're
30:07
not just just this is the line we got play it. Not saying they're
30:11
taking plays off or anything like that, but the competition level I think is
30:15
raised now. In practice, it's gonna be everybody's waiting for a spot,
30:18
it's gonna be that much everyone's gonna be on their ship that much tighter,
30:22
you know, that much, that much crazier to be to protect seventeen.
30:25
If you seventeen gets touched, it's unacceptable. That's kind of philosophy literally the
30:30
rest of his career. And and I think this brings the competition level up
30:33
in the offensive line room, which is only gonna make everybody better. Yeah,
30:37
I mean, and obviously against some you know, some guys that have
30:40
had some you know, position flexibility, as you talked about with Bates earlier,
30:42
and some of the other guys, um, I know Broker played both
30:47
guard and tackle. It might be a situation where you just making sure that
30:49
you're planning ahead, like you talked about, you know, who knows how
30:52
long Mitch Morse is going to play, like we talked about last week,
30:55
m with his concussion history, So just kind of making sure that the cupboard
30:59
stays full, so to speak. And I'm okay with that, you know.
31:02
I mean, the wide receiver train was fun. It was fun to
31:03
kind of get on. But you know, what is Brandon being really supposed
31:06
to do? I remember texting you during the draft like when those when that
31:08
wide receiver run happened from twenty to twenty three, like, well, what
31:11
do you what are you supposed to do? I would again rather my GM
31:15
not reach at a position of quote unquote need um and go and get a
31:18
guy that they might have had a second round grade on, as opposed to
31:22
just going to get the guy that you like if you liked two of the
31:23
you know, he admitted he said he did not have you know, four
31:26
first round grades on those four receivers taken. So if you're going to take
31:30
him at face value on that and believe that he's telling us the truth,
31:33
which he really doesn't, haven't caught him any lies yet. Then if that's
31:37
the case, maybe maybe he had Smith and Jigba and Zay Flywers. Is
31:40
his first round is once those guys are gone. Maybe he looked at if
31:42
Dalton Kinki was like, all right, well, we can make this guy
31:45
a slot receiver and we can make him a big slot in the f you
31:49
know, tight end, and and let's just do it, like, let
31:52
you know, forget it. Let's just do it, and let's just see
31:53
what happens with it and see if Johns can get on the ball. I've
31:56
got no problem with taking flyers on guys like that because the fact that I
32:00
know was first round. I know it was a trade up. I know
32:01
you gave up a fourth round pick. But if you've got conviction and you'll
32:06
sleep better at night than hey, the bills the Pagoulas are paying you,
32:08
So I'm gonna I'm gonna go with that because of your job, gonna lie
32:13
not mind one thing interesting about that, Bean said. I think it was
32:16
a couple of days ago. He said, um to get the trade with
32:20
the Jaguars, he was like he had to like plead like a little like
32:23
schoolgirl, like he doesn't usually do that. You know, he had that.
32:28
He's straight up told the Jaguars, hey, I'm I'm picking Kinkaide.
32:31
I didn't move up to get in front of Dallas to get it, and
32:34
he doesn't usually, you know, you don't usually tell the people who you're
32:37
drafting to get the pick. And he said, you know, Sol.
32:40
So that's also plugs into what I was talking about earlier, like, I
32:45
think this guy was a lot more of their guy than than you know,
32:47
what was led on. I think, you know, he was probably right
32:50
up there with the with the JSN and one of those other guys for sure.
32:54
When he came to first round weapons and you know he was there,
32:57
they went went up and got him. And and the way he kind of
33:00
explained that of being like yeah, I basically just said to hey, I
33:02
want Dalton Kincaide. What do I have to do to get him? You
33:06
know? And that was kind of the the vibe they didn't do it.
33:08
Yeah, man, it's interesting, And you know, I know that you
33:12
know a lot of Bills fans will gripe in the bitch and moan. I
33:14
heard a little bit about it on w GR after the draft and the Bills
33:17
like you had already alluded to they don't run twelve versonnel and they never used
33:22
the tight ends now and they barely pass Ye's the Dawson Knox now and all
33:29
this other stuff. So listen, here's what I'll say to that is all
33:31
the chips are on the table in respects to you know, Ken Doorsey only
33:35
get your first time to have to say that it was your first time.
33:37
So last year was his first time on the job. I want to see
33:40
what he's got. Um, it's up to him. It's up to him
33:44
along with the quarterback. Now, I will put some of that at Josh's
33:46
doorstep. It is on Josh to make sure that he's incorporating the guys in
33:51
the offense, making sure that the weapons are being utilized and different things like
33:53
that. However, I want to put stress on a defense I want,
33:58
I do want the Kansas City if BACKDT, I wanted where there are so
34:01
many different weapons where you can't really key in on one guy. Now,
34:05
obviously you know fourteen is going to take up a large amount of the attention
34:09
from every defensive coordinator and would just do but outside of Stefon Diggs, like
34:15
make sure that there's weapons within the offense that everybody's worried about. I'm worried
34:19
about James Cook coming out of the backfield. I'm worried about you know,
34:22
Dawson Knox, he's lined up inline. I'm worried about, you know what
34:24
I mean, Kim Kaid, he's lined up outline. I'm worried about,
34:28
you know what I mean, Gay Davis, I'm worried about now. I'm
34:30
worried about, you know, Hardy. I'm worried about you know Shorter.
34:35
I'm worried about what was the other guys surfield from Miami. I'm worried about
34:38
a lot of guys on offense that can do some things when they've got the
34:42
ball in their hand and create some mismatches where it's not just one guy.
34:45
It's never just been one guy. Yes, Tyreek Hill with Patrick Mahomes made
34:50
for a deadly combination, but it was a lot of the other guys as
34:52
well that made life easier for Patrick Mahomes and for Tyreek Hill, including chiefly
35:00
you know again there's that name again, Kelsey, who is obviously the matchup
35:02
nightmare of a generation. So I just want to make sure that the Bills
35:07
are utilizing all of their options. Make sure Dorsey is putting it on Josh
35:10
Allen's plate so he can handle it, and then let's see what Josh does
35:14
with it. Take all the weapons you can throw him and get him at
35:16
his disposal, so that way Josh can kind of see what he's got on
35:21
a game to game basis, and maybe if it's a matchup team. I
35:22
don't mind being a matchup team. I don't mind being a team that exploits
35:25
what you do shitty. I don't mind being an offense that Dorsey's got a
35:30
plan for what you don't do well. That's what makes some of the best
35:32
offenses in the league. But just having one guy and it's just Stefan Diggs,
35:37
we've already seen how how that circus ends. Yeah, and I said
35:42
it a few times during during the season of when you play the Bills,
35:46
it's probably one of the it's probably the toughest week of your season for preparation.
35:51
In preparation, you know, with just all everything Josh Allen gives you.
35:53
But five years in a lot of tape on seventeen. Now you know
35:58
a lot of tape on seventeen. Not one dimensional, but you know,
36:01
like you said, one guy, Stefan Diggs doing the one thing a lot
36:05
of people on the cape or Josh put or he puts on the cape and
36:07
gets it done. Now throwing a little a little fold, a little little
36:12
curveball in where where teams are gonna have to think twice about it. And
36:15
your your point was exactly right. You have to incorporate them in the offense
36:19
to create that fear, to create that um, you know, temptation for
36:22
a defense to come down and work that because if he's just a pass catcher
36:27
that you know dust get the ball, then you're just back to your normal
36:30
self. So you got to create the fear and a lot of tape on
36:32
seventeen. So I think this is a nice little switch up of they're not
36:37
changing the whole offense or anything like that, but hey, we're gonna throw
36:39
some different things and nobody's ever seen and you know we're gonna utilize it too
36:44
to only open up Stefan Diggs more, only open up Gabe Davis more.
36:46
And when Gabe Davis was his best was when he wasn't what he was last
36:51
year. Yeah, exactly exactly. So So get back to that a little
36:57
throw some different books in and I think the nice thing about this you know,
37:01
slot tight end type deal is it doesn't have to be so far down
37:06
the field like you just gotta beat linebackers. You just gotta beat you know,
37:08
nick corners. And that's what eight That's what Travis Kelsey does literally all
37:13
the time. Like how is he so open every single play? It's because
37:15
he's he runs good routes and he's bigger than everybody. So that's that's what
37:21
this guy's gonna do. And um, they Josh has gotta be. You
37:23
know, Josh isn't afraid to whip it anywhere, but this is one he's
37:27
not gonna be, you know, wide open every play. It's it's gotta
37:30
be somebody you can just throw it up to and get him the ball.
37:31
If there's a couple of guys on him, just know he can get it.
37:34
And two drops in college four years of college, two drops. I
37:37
know. That's the thing. I watched the high I watched the highlight of
37:40
him that I think they played. You might have been UCLA or somebody,
37:45
and he had like sixteen catches and like two hundreds of yards and it was
37:50
just like, yes, that's what it was, Like, God like he
37:53
was he looked. He looked like a Travis Kelsey though. He was literally
37:58
all over the field and he was right in between the numbers in those hashes
38:01
and he was just chopping them up. Man. I mean it was short
38:04
stuff. It was you know, intermediate. You know, he had a
38:07
couple of nice red zone catches, a touchdown catching the red zone like so
38:10
I'm intrigued by him for sure. I mean I know that we'll argue,
38:14
and and you know, Jeremy White on w GR has already kind of gotten
38:16
into and a couple of you know, fans, we've been talking about,
38:20
you know, slot receiver, verse tight end, and he doesn't want to
38:22
call this guy a slot receiver. And I get that's fine. Listen to
38:25
me. It's tomato, tomato, potato, potato. I don't give a
38:29
shit what you call him. As long as he's open or like you said,
38:31
as long as he's finding gaps in the in the defense to make himself
38:36
presentable and available for Josh. That's really all I can. I don't really
38:38
care about it. I don't have anything to do with his contract or what
38:40
he's paid on the fifth year option and all this other stuff. Whether he's
38:45
classified like a Jimmy Graham. And remember when Jimmy Graham was arguing about his
38:49
status and say, why I line up in the slot all the time so
38:51
I should be paid while receiver, Well, they've paid you like a tight
38:53
end. So I mean, I don't have anything to do with this classification.
38:55
I want him to be open and presentable for Josh, available for Josh,
39:00
and I'm hoping that that Josh goes ahead and just utilizes them. I
39:04
mean, Dawson Knox should not feel slided by this in my opinion. I
39:07
mean, obviously he's a higher pick than him, but Dawson Knox has already
39:10
gotten his bag. Dawson Knox is a big part of the offense. Um,
39:15
Dawson Knox is somebody that I think that Josh trust. You've seen that
39:17
he trusts him. Now. He had a little bit going anywhere. Yeah,
39:21
he's not going anywhere. He had a little bit of a down year
39:23
in respects to production last year, but I don't think that that was a
39:27
function of Dawson Knox dropping off. I think that he was going through a
39:29
lot. His brother passed away. Obviously. Last year was a you know,
39:34
an emotional year for the entire team, and I think the entire team
39:37
will will tell you that as well, as they kind of echoed at the
39:39
end of the year after that Debacco against the Bengals. So to me,
39:44
Dawson Knox is still in line, not going anywhere, as you said,
39:46
And I think that they can feed off of one another. I don't think
39:50
that this should be a jealousy thing or anything like that. I think they
39:52
do two different jobs. This guy is not going to block and I and
39:55
as Brandon bead said after the draft, they're not going to ask him to
39:58
do the ship that he doesn't do well. So they're not going to ask
40:00
him to line up in line and take a take on a defensive end.
40:04
They're not going to really ask him to do that. They're gonna ask him
40:06
to do the things that have made him successful in college, and that is
40:08
be a pass catcher. Man, get open for you for your quarterback.
40:12
Yeah, don't drop and he and what he does, so yeah, I
40:15
love it. Yeah, I'm down with it. Man. As we as
40:20
we wrap up, the Bills made a couple of undrafted free agent signings and
40:23
I know that those guys will get to camp as well. And then they
40:27
made a surprising move after the draft, Um with a free agent with Lottavius
40:31
Murray. Now he's a name that we all know because he's been around the
40:35
league for so damn long Um started out with the race. Yeah he is.
40:38
Yes, he is a local guy, and I'm I'm really happy that
40:43
he's back. I think he's a Syracuse kid, right, Is that is
40:45
that true? Yeah? Yeah? Okay on Adaga High. So listen,
40:50
Lottavius Murray coming out the back end of his career. You want to talk
40:52
about a big back. That's a big back. I mean he's six three,
40:55
like six two or six three like that's a bit. He's a big
40:59
back. He's literally and figuratively a big back. So I'm interested to see
41:01
what he can bring to the table. I don't know if he's gonna make
41:05
the team. Um. I know that Damian Harris was picked up. I
41:07
know that Naim Hines. If the Bills want to make Naim Hines just their
41:10
pick, you know, just their kick returner and put returner, then there
41:14
might be a space for Murray on the team. UM as a mentor in
41:16
that locker room, UM, in that running back room for for Cook along
41:21
with Harris, Broncos leading rusher last year, Robert Granted they were in shambles,
41:29
but I mean he had almost as singletary. Yeah. Yeah, only
41:34
played thirteen games and what seven sixty seven cuddies had to go to had to
41:39
go to London twice because he was on the Saints and then it went to
41:44
the Broncos and had to go to London twice. And yeah, it's been
41:46
productive. Really, his whole career hasn't been a superstar anywhere, but it's
41:51
been definitely productive. Um. Yeah, and that's what they won back that
41:54
they didn't have in this repertoire was kind of the big bruiser, you know,
41:59
not the Booby Dixon if you if you need three, you'll get you
42:01
one. If you need one, I'll get you one. If you need
42:04
five, we'll get you one. You know, L'tavius Murray, Well we'll
42:07
get you. We'll get you a couple of yards. So so we'll Um.
42:10
I think he makes the team. I with the you know, Taiwan
42:14
Jones might not be coming back. Uh now with the draft of Duran Williams
42:19
shorter than uh teams. Uh, what's the last pick Alex Alex Austen.
42:25
Yeah, Alex Austen. That might be that special team filler you know that
42:30
Taiwan Jones was. So if Taiwan Jones goes, then they would definitely you
42:34
know, keep the same amount of half backs and and and I like it
42:37
only gonna push you know, different than Damian Hair, is different than uh
42:39
James Cook, definitely different than the name Hines. But like you said,
42:43
nine Hines got traded, only return kicks, barely played on the offense at
42:46
all last year, So if he doesn't do that this year, it's not
42:50
gonna be anything different. So I'll take I'll take Latavias Murray there to get
42:52
on the third and one, we put Latavias Murray in. That's a nice
42:55
little comb him Josh Allen, who's getting it. That's a tough tackle for
42:59
the deef. Yeah, instead of Josh running in, you know and getting
43:01
hit like you talked about, you know, getting Josh and having him take
43:05
less hits. This might be something that helps alleviate that for him and keeps
43:08
our quarterback out of some sticky situations on those short, larger situations where we
43:13
talked about it at the end of last you know, season two, like
43:15
it just seemed like they didn't really have a plan then, like okay,
43:17
well fuck it, Josh, you just kind of take it over and you
43:20
just do whatever. Maybe they have another option on some sort short yardage situations
43:24
where they can kind of plug in the Tavias Bury. I don't mind if
43:27
he makes the team at all. Um, I'll be interested to see if
43:30
he does. Like he said, a hometown kid, uh there, from
43:31
central New York and Syracuse area, So it'll be interesting. I'm excited about
43:36
that. Um. We've got you know, undrafted free agents and you'll see
43:39
that throughout the offseason, guys coming in again. The rosters are at ninety.
43:45
I think the Bills was signed as well. Boy, please don't let
43:51
me forget about Punta fod. It was. It was funny because we had
43:53
talked about how the defensive tackles everybody's on a one year deal. Brandon Bead
43:58
sticks with that same with that same formula. There's five defensive tackles on the
44:01
roster right now on one year deals. Tim Settle. We've got Jordan Phillips,
44:07
We've got day Kwan Jones, your boy, We've got now Puna Forward
44:10
along with with that Oliver who's playing on his fifth year option. Boy.
44:15
Man, like, listen, I don't mind it. I guess he had
44:17
a little bit of a down here, but he's a quick penetrator. He
44:21
can help out in the run game and kind of get up field as well.
44:23
He had three sacks last year, which was a career high for him.
44:25
But I mean, hey, another big boy. I have no man,
44:30
I have no problem with it. The way that the season ended with
44:34
with with Cincinnati running down our throats was really a hard thing to watch,
44:37
um, and that this guy can help out with that, I'm definitely all
44:39
on board. Thank you for Billy sack dance. He rubs his belly,
44:45
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But Capaccio said this today.
44:54
He had his down here. Seattle switched from a four three to three
44:58
four last year, okay, and so he strictly went to the nose garden,
45:00
you know, full gap, and that just you don't get any stats
45:05
doing that. You know, if you're you're a nose guard in the three
45:07
three, four or three five, you're just you're just plugging, that's all
45:12
talking to. Yeah. So he gets back into a four or four three
45:15
something he can get you know, a little more motion in He's not he's
45:17
gonna be one on one and you know, we'll see. But yeah,
45:21
Tim Settle had a little bit of a down year. Um to Klan Jones
45:23
is great, um At Oliver, say what you will, but yeah,
45:27
yeah, in the playoff game without Dakwanen was it was huge. So well
45:30
we'll we'll flip that backs. He we're putting the four brings and you know,
45:34
just bring that to Nassy that that that game in the trenches. Game
45:37
in the trenches. I mean, he addresses in the draft, but we'll
45:38
take it. We'll take it now. And and I'd like all of them
45:42
being on their final year, you know, because it's like, who are
45:45
we paying? Who's playing good enough? You don't pay good enough, you
45:49
don't see it. So that's a nice little ascentive to everybody's playing for that
45:52
for that next I mean, if you Klon Jones, Jordan Phillips might be
45:58
talking retirement. But other than that, it's let's you know, who are
46:02
we paying? Yeah. I like it a lot, Yeah, absolutely nothing.
46:06
Nothing better than the good old, good old, you know, heaping
46:07
spoonful of motivation to kind of get your defensive line in order and kind of
46:13
help out with with the edge rushers as well that will benefit from some penetration
46:16
upfront from those interior alignments. So we'll see. Man. I mean,
46:21
I again, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the draft. I really did
46:24
enjoy the coverage of it. Um. I like the fact that the Bills
46:27
wouldn't got their guy. You know, like I said before, you know,
46:30
we don't see the draft boards, so we have to take them at
46:31
face value and hum from some of the you know, actions of the Buffalo
46:36
Bills and Brandon being you have to kind of really give some credence to the
46:38
fact that this was one of the players that they really did target in the
46:43
first round with Dalton Kinkate. So the best of luck to the twenty twenty
46:45
three draft class from Nickel City Crew to them Bill's Mafia. I mean,
46:50
I know you guys are excited. Listen, next week, we've got an
46:52
episode. I mean we might just we might as well just you know,
46:55
go an extra night and just do it on next Thursday if we can squeeze
46:59
it in. And you know what I mean. As I mean, the
47:01
schedule of release is the time of year. It is my favorite time of
47:06
year besides when the actual season itself kicks off again. Being a season ticket
47:09
holder down here in Charlotte, I literally look out for this day because I
47:14
do plan my fall and winter baseball. What is going on when am I
47:17
coming home? What does the schedule look like? You know, I've got
47:21
you know, my King's birthdays in there in September and October, and just
47:24
just planning. Literally my entire my entire life DT is planned around that schedule
47:30
release. So it's not a joke for me. It is a way of
47:32
life. When that schedule comes out next week, I will be glued to
47:36
the TV on every matchup. Expect the bills to be in primetime DT and
47:40
and us you know the days of us meeting at the stadium man and early
47:45
in the morning, and it's a one o'clock kick. I don't know how
47:47
many times we're going to get a chance to do that this year. We
47:50
might be able to do it in the opening week, we might be able
47:52
to do it, and you know a few other times. But boy,
47:54
we are as I said last week, man, we're on the marquee.
47:58
There is nowhere to hide. We are one of the one of the main
48:00
attractions in the NFL right now, and the AFC just keeps getting better with
48:05
Aaron Rodgers coming to the Jets, and so there can be primetime games everywhere
48:08
everywhere. Last year was what we six or seven do we have including that?
48:15
I think we count? Yeah. Thanksgiving, man, we had a
48:21
whole bunch We had to open her. Yeah, we had a whole bunch
48:23
of stuff in there. Man. We had another we got money. Yeah,
48:30
there's a little conspiracy going on right now. Um. I don't know
48:34
if you've heard any of this. Is that about the hospital? Yeah yeah,
48:37
yeah, like hotspurs it gives the NFL like the three games there,
48:44
yes, okay, eight, okay, yeah, but it doesn't show the
48:51
opponent, right, it just shows the hometown game. Okay, yeah,
48:54
Jacksonville's I guess Jacksonville is playing two Monday games this year. Well they might
49:00
they They are definitely playing a London game because they always play a London game.
49:04
And then there was some speculation that they might play us in the game
49:07
that we're playing as the way two weeks yeah, and see if they can't
49:09
stay out there over the pond. So well, well, well it's crazy,
49:14
man. The NFL is just like we've always talked about it. There
49:15
behemoth. They take over, and we'll definitely all be glued next week.
49:20
So we'll probably go back a day and just wait U for the schedule to
49:23
come out next week, because it really is that big of a deal.
49:27
So as always, Van, I mean, please spread love not hate.
49:30
These were my bills thoughts, set out loud, hit up with a gold
49:34
bills. DT. The draft is here, man, the draft is done.
49:38
That Yeah. I like it, man, I like it a lot.
49:44
Man. We'll good best of luck to the twenty twenty three draft class.
49:46
We'll see you guys at Saint John Fisher Um in a couple of months.
49:51
Man, before you know it, DT, we're gonna be right there,
49:52
Man, We're gonna be right there before you know it. The weather
50:00
then good, Yeah, absolutely, man, I have I have. I
50:02
feel bad for you guys up there, man, for sure, because I'm
50:05
enjoying the weather down here Charlotte. Man. But you stay, you stay
50:07
good man. That you actually you had another time, aren't you? Where
50:09
you got it? On a myrtle beach? Next week so now we get
50:13
a little we'll get a little warmth coming in to see what the golf game
50:16
looks like after rusty winter. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, you didn't play
50:21
much golf during the blizzards, so yeah, well you'll dust off your clubs
50:23
and see what you got in the bag, man, So I appreciate you
50:27
as always. DT Man hit him a one more gold bills. Man hit them