4-26-24 Hour 2

Top 4 at 4 includes, best sports weekend so far of 2024?How do we feel about the Jets draft?What about the Bills? And Play of the Day

Episode Transcript

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On ninety five nine Fox Sports Radio. All Right, man, so I
you know, listen, I lovedoing the show with you guys, but
I have I gotta be honest withyou. I'm excited that it's over because
now it's just straight just downhill intothe kickoff of this season, and hopefully
it's gonna be the the Tom Goslowski, the third Andrew Santillo coming out party.

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That's what we're that's what we're gonnacall it. It's no longer it's
no longer the kickoff of the newFirebirds. It's it's it's Tommy gets Discovered
Day. No, I don't thinkthat's what this weekend, oh the thank
you. No, I think it'sa thing. I don't know what's gonna
happen this weekend. I know we'regonna have fun. I know Firebirds are
gonna pack the It is a greatweekend. One more time Capitol Region Sports.

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We are so fortunate here locally tohave a packed weekend like this that
we haven't had in a very longtime. Where tonight Albany Patroons, if
you go to their game Saturday night, you go to the Albany Firebirds.
We've been talking about it. We'vebeen doing the Live More Sunday the Albany
fire Wolves. Just about what twentyminutes ago you heard from Doug Jamison,

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the big man in between the pipes, to have a Friday, Saturday Sunday
weekend of Capitol Region sports. Andwe're talking about the best of the best
professional athletes representing the five one e. This is about as good as it
gets in the five one eight fora weekend like this. So I'm thrilled.
Uh, we've made it work.If you are a sports in if
you listen to the show, goout to these offense. What you can't

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say we made it work? Whatdo you mean, because we're gonna make
it work. You say you can'tsay we made it work on Monday?
Oh okay, Like, but youcan't, Like you can't, don't don't
don't, don't touch the money,don't spike the ball. You know we're
we're at midfield, buddy, youknow midfield. You know what I did
there because we talked about the NFLDraft and people love to give out draft

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day grades after the draft. Igave myself a grade before anybody had played.
That's what I did right there,gave myself an a before anybody had
put on the uniform. So thisis what happens when you have the draft
talk and the local sports talk.I'll weaven to one. The whole thing
just comes together as one. Yeah, I get you, but it's uh,
you know very you know me.I'm not what's this. I don't

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know who even said it. I'mnot superstitious, but I'm a little stitches
and I don't want to I don'twant to jinx anything. It's been it's
been a it's been an eventful day. It's been a productive day. I
had seventeen lists when I started.I'm down to three. So I feel
I feel good. I'm excited.Our team is ready. I know the
firewalls are ready. It's just it'sit's a good it's a good man.

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And and again, I can't waitto see you guys out there again where
you belong. So I know thepredators are in town. They've been bothering
me all day. They're nerds,and it's gonna fun. It'sna be a
lot of fun. I'm excited,dude, like I really really am.
I just Bob Belber, who runsthe building, came in earlier today and
already wishing us luck. So itwas, it was. It was pretty
cool. It feels like a legacyweekend. I don't know if we touched

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on this enough to the show today, but I'll do it one more time
that and I'm not doing the spikethe ball, celebrating the end zone.
Just talking about storylines because you're probablygonna hear the same storyline I say now
on the pregame show for the AlbanyFirebirds when they take on Orlando this Saturday.
As you mentioned, Andrew and Andrewsan antilon I on the call,
that a lot has happened over thelast year. Per se. If you're

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a Capitol region sportsman who follows indoorfootball and arena football and everything else,
a lot has happened. In fittingthe name the Albany Firebirds and the slogan
the talk the forged in fire isout there for a reason. Because if
we got into time machine and wentback to April twenty twenty three and asked,

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what's April twenty twenty four gonna looklike inside MVP Arena, there are
a lot of people here locally wouldsay, no, that's not gonna happen.
There are no indoor games coming footballis gonna take a back seat for
a while. Not only is itback on Saturday, but the Albany fire
Bird franchise is back. A lothas happened over the last few months.

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To have this happen is something tobe super proud of for everybody involved.
Yeah, and once you see thisteam, this is gonna be a really
special team. So you know,block party five o'clock, we're gonna have
hitt and run out there. Andobviously, you know, I know people
are are they don't know how tofeel about the whole NFL Network news,

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but as we covered it, itreally it's it doesn't matter to us.
It shouldn't matter to anyone. Really, it's it's you know, I know
the naysayers are going to enjoy it. But what was one in Milton where
the quarterback for Obama? The naysayers? Is that what that stands for?
Yeah, but it's gonna it's justyou know, it's kind of it's

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kind of interesting as it calls earliertoday, and you know, guys,
you know, because of you know, you had to negotiate the Nick contract.
You had to you know, backin the day you were part of
of the Yankees contract and West withOne and cumless and stuff. If you
don't have a relationship and something goeswrong, you're it's over. They're just
not gonna do it. So thefact that the NFL network and the NFL

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itself is like, no, no, no, no, no no,
we were in the AFL business.We we uh were. We believe in
you guys. Just because there's someyou know, some some minor hiccups or
honestly, I don't know what kindofhicups they are because they ain't here.
But there's some hiccups with with productioncrews. But that doesn't that doesn't mean
that this relationship is going anywhere.So that made me feel good. It's

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you know me, man, whensomething goes wrong, how do you act?
But everything goes right, everybody's perfect, something was wrong, how do
you act? And the NFL ison our side. So that's that's pretty
big for me. That's and againI think that's how you know Saturday,
you know, old Gazi Bear isgonna be out there talking some NFL execs,
is gonna be Godel's gonna be inhis basement eating M and m's or

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gummy bears or whatever he does.And you know, what that's a star
right, then that's a special neck. Heere, look at that thing.
Never seen anybody like it in thebusiness ever of all time. I'll see
what I said earlier in the showfor those who want have missed it,
Apple, Spotify and the iHeart appwith all the things that are being said
before kickoff involving look, sometimes thereare days it's better to stay off social

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media. You know, herm Edwardshad the quote don't press send, maybe
just don't open the app. Thereare days it's better to get off because
you can find yourself finding fake accountsand everybody else having their own. Some
days it's better to get off socialmedia. Today is one of those days,
just to stay off social media becausethere's a lot of nonsense out there.

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You did mention the NFL. Iwant to do this one more time.
I didn't think I was gonna dothis, but I liked how it
went yesterday to close this show,so I kind of want to do it
again. Uh. Seven o'clock coveragegets underway for Round two and Round three
of the NFL Draft last night eighto'clock, which I always thought it was
earlier, but seven o'clock tonight forRound two and round three. The Buffalo
Bills lead this thing off. Buton yesterday's show, to close the whole

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thing out, I asked for ahot take. I said, give me
something that you think is going tohappen in the NFL Draft, and guess
what cash in the bet? Baby. I told just six quarterbacks were going
in the first round. Sure enough, six quarterbacks went in that first round.
Uh, Levac, Your take was, what again I had? I

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had one of the top receiver sliding, so I got smoked the chalk took
me right down, took me rightdown. Yeah, And I don't that's
an odd one because well, lookingback at this, because you had two
predictions go because you had you hadthe quarterbacks, and you had Tony Kahan
wearing a neck brace. Cash cashthat wager. If that was a real
proubt bet to wager on, thanksa lot in New York. Uh,

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I want to do it again.Maybe because I'm riding a hot streak here
on the outside of the play daywe did an hour ago. But I
keep I think you did this tome. And now the reports that I've
seen before, I decided to sayoff social media today you've been mentioning the
name Spencer Rattler. I'm before wesign off today, I'm convincing myself that

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at some point he is going tobe drafted by the Giants. I don't
think it's today. I don't.So my take would be, we see
more receivers go today than people realize. As it happens every your first round
talent goes in the second round.But it feels like Spencer Rattler will be
a Giant. But I think youcan even get to the fourth round.
And that's my crazy smoke and takethat Rattler's not going to be a Giant

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today. It might be tomorrow.I like that. I think that he's
I actually was gonna say, here'shere's what sucks. Mian was he's going
to be a Raider today. ErRaiders pick forty fourth overall, the Giants
pick forty seventh overall. I thought, maybe, you know, it's the

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only reason I'm not as gung holeabout it as as I normally would be
is this current Raiders team is veryvery clearly a best player available team.
Like they're gonna go, who's whois the best player out there right now?
That's who we're bringing in. Butuh yeah, I mean that I
think, Yeah, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna I'm gonna steal your pick
a couple of picks earlier. Sounless the Giants trade ahead of me,

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Raiders take him and there you go. He's got all the swagger you want,
everything you want. He became astar with the Q being one series
where he was the one who hadthe big ego. He was the campus
prospect, the five star and everythingelse. And a different college worked out
well for him. And if wetold you, hey, the reason why
Spencer Ratler didn't play more at Oklahomais because he was beat out for his

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spot by Caleb Williams out loud.That doesn't sound so bad that you know,
remembered how that actually happened. Ohyeah, by the way, he
played better against SEC defenses. Hey, that's pretty good too. Hey,
all those things he said about SpencerRatler don't sound so bad out loud.
And I got a name for you. You know, I'm gonna toss his
name out here because I want thison the record, roll on this podcast
audience. Yesterday was one of thosedays where I was trying to figure out,

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like, hey, there's a fewplayers on my list here of people
I voted for for End of theseason awards, the Negirsky, the Lombardi
of how come nobody's talking about theseguys? And one of the names I
want people to look out for isa guy by the name of Jonah Ellis.
Jonah Ellis. He's a defensive linemanfrom Utah. And why I remember
the name Jonah Ellis is because Iwrote on my phone, who the hell's

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this? Eighty three from Utah?I call those I call those the wife
place or uh yeah, yeah,no, no, the hood At plays.
I call that the hood At playswhere it's like you're watching a game
sort of, or maybe the personnext to he's watching it and somebody else
Who's that? Who? Who At? He was that player this year that
was so dominant That eighty three isa defensive end jumped out to me.

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He's got a little Eden Hutchinson andin the Levac. So if you're a
fan who needs a defensive lineman ofthe NFL team and needs in D line,
that's my player to look out for. Formerly number eighty three from the
Utah Utes, Jonah Ellis aka hoodAt Dude, Who's gonna go properly today?
How about man I really hope theBills go key on Coleman, but

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I think it's gonna be load McConkiewith the first pick tonight. What do
you think. I don't want toagree with you at the end of the
show here, but I totally agreewith you on that it feels like the
wide receiver. Although although I've seensome talks that they want to make a
move for a veteran. T Higginshas been rumored, Brandon a Yuk has
been rumored. If you had therank who you want as a Bills fan,
you would want the veteran over therookie, And I know salary wise,

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he'd say, Gods, why wouldyou want a heavier salary because they're
a little bit more proven in theleague and you can have a little bit
more production potential out of those guysthat are rookie who's gonna learn everything involving
Josh Allen, So I would Iwould lean towards what you said and why.
I don't think they're gonna stop tryingto bring in a veteran until they're

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on the clock. That's how youknow. No, no, I take
it back. They will try toget the veteran until their pick is almost
over before they can go for therookie. Why not both? Why not
use this year's pick on a rookieand then give up one of next year's
picks for you know, for tHiggins or whoever. I mean, because
if I'm if I'm I feel likeit's a it's a great conditional pick,

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one of those ones where all right, Brandon Ayuk or or whoever goes out
and they're a top five wide receiver, I get a second round pick.
If they're a top ten, Iget your third. Anything below that,
I get your fifth, like,because you're not gonna give a first rounder
for anybody anymore. He's just notgonna do it. It would have happened
already, So I think, Ithink that's that's where I'm at. I

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would rather if I'm the Bills,Yeah, talk to me about next year's
picks for for players that aren't aheadof me, or you know, package
them up with something so I canreally enjoy myself and stack this team up
again. The Mafia, you getto lead this thing off. We think
possibly who knows by the time,covering the trading back again. That's what

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we have to do now with theNFL trap for a different you know I
keep in the podcast. He's alot of love in this segment for real,
Like you could be listening to thisand be like, no, no,
you guys are wrong about that.What do you mean It was like
ninety minutes before, it was twohours before. That was a greatness of
the NFL Draft was so much fun. And if anything from round two through
seven can bring us what round onebrought us, it's a stacked weekend.

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I would advise watching or following alongon your phone and going out to the
capital reach and local sporting events.But we got any drama like we got
on Thursday night, It's gonna bein an historically fun, exciting time for
football fans. Couldn't agree more.My friend couldn't agree more. Matter of
fact, like it makes me wantto like kind of like co op my

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workout to somebody else so that Ican sit home and watch the rest of
the draft. I wish there wassomebody who could teach me who to hire,
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you will not regret it. We'veused them in multiple businesses or whether it
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Express. All right, guys,it's time for me to got I got
a roll, brother, I gottaget this thing together. You know,

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I never thought i'd say this before. I've got to have interns count out
two thousand rally towels and then twentyfive hundred. I can't even tell you
what it is. Next week's Thursday'spromo is here off. It's yeah,
man, it's crazy. So Iwill see you when you get here tomorrow,
excited to at least do another gamewith you for NFL Network. Pops
back in the picture and I said, who knows, Maybe this is it.

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Maybe this is the Gazie Bear comingout party. That's what I think
we'll see, I hope. Sothis is an odd way to end the
show. You know what I'm gonnado it get a taste in this NFL
network. Wash your hands, don'ttouch your face. Fox Sports ninety five
None and not any guys hit thebutton. It's Levac and guzz on ninety

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five nine. Fox Sports Radio,The Wiley Jets, The Wiley Wiley Jets.
Okay, I started up for theGiants. Guys, wanting U start?
What do you think Jets trade backwith the Vikings just one spot and
they make a move four of thebig old offensive lineman. What'd you think?

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Well, let's read the text messagesfrom last night. Levac and I
texting during the Jet trade. SoI see the Jet trade going down,
and I got all excited because ithad to be about me because I was
on the air, and I said, I knew this was gonna happen.
I told you yesterday said the Jetsneeded two things. They either needed a
wide receiver as a target for AaronRodgers, or they needed a big old

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offensive lineman. And right when theytraded, I texted you I said I
finally got one, right lol.More so about the takes from yesterday,
but I think she did okay.I said the Jets would and should trade
if the wide receivers and offensive tackleswere gone. Now they'll get some other
big guy in the wide receiver inround two. Now. That text was
fired off very quick because I thoughtthe Jets would go down far deeper.

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They moved back one spot. Yeah, and they got the big man from
Penn State, who also was thehigh school teammate of Caleb Williams at Gonzaga
College high school prep. What aname of a high school? Yeah?
How great is that? You've gottwo top ten NFL draft picks plaining at
a prep school in DC. Butsure enough, Big Ola as they call

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him, out of Penn State endedup being the pick at number eleven.
So Jet fan there you go,like you've seen this happen before with those
guys taking big man up front MakaiBeckden and believes the most recent one where
Jet Fans got excited about an offensivetackle. So Beckden didn't work out,
injuries and more mckaie Beckton didn't workout. You hope big Ola will work
out. The bad part about thatpick is that he was projected to be

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the number two overall pick way backin the late fall. I should say,
yeah, probably about the fall.They thought it was gonna be Kayleb
Willias one and he was gonna betwo. When the scout into report comes
back about why did he slip andit says he didn't have a good season
or he wasn't as good. That'snot good, that's bad. You know
we're talking about red flags. Didn'tplay well would be a red flag to

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me. Did it look good ontape. That would be bad as well,
from the mcshay's and the Daniel Jeremiasand the Kuipers. If that's the
criticism, if he didn't have agood season, nervous. You have veterans
there, So I have no issueswhat the Jets did. I'm okay.
Rumors came out it wasn't brock Bauers. I'm fine with the pick. Good
job buying Joe Douglas again. Yeah, I like I liked the way he

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did it because it's one of thoseones where you move back one. It's
because so the Vikings reach out toyou. You reach out to the Vikings.
You go, hey, look,people are calling. I don't you
know. I don't know exactly whatyou thought you were gonna do here.
You know, at your pick,but it might not be here. I

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got guys calling. They probably wantyour stuff. You probably should go ahead
and jump ahead of me right now, just to make sure that you get
it. I mean, you know, I don't know, I don't know
how bad you want Jaj McCarthy orwhatever, but you why don't you go
up here and get it so Idon't have to give this spot to someone
else. Okay, here's another pickor so, and you're on your way

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and you still get the piece youwanted because you weren't gonna take JJ McCarthy.
You have Aaron Rodgers, and ifyou take JJ McCarthy, he's going
to cry, he's going to throwa fit. You're gonna have to get
him a baby. Bah bah,it's gonna be a problem. So I
thought it was Joe Douglas played itwell. I really I thought that was
that was one of the smarter slymoves of the first round of the draft.

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The one thing that's always been acompliment to Joe Douglas is, what
is this four four drafts in arow. There's still more rounds to go,
of course, but it's been along time. I don't think I
don't think it's ever happened that youand I have said that Joe Douglas has
had a bad draft. There havebeen times where the Jets one year was
considered one of the great drafts ofall time with the amount of talent they

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had one year. If they hadlike sixty two guys and they had to
cut about nine who all got pickedup, or some high percentage of guys
getting picked up, Jets have beenable to build solid rosters when it comes
to the X and o's and draftexperts and mocks and value and all those
things. When it comes to avalue beating talent, the problem is every
single Jet fan would tell you thosehaven't resulted in wins or any playoff appearances

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or any division championships. I'm nottaking anything that went away against the pick
from last night, but like,now's the time for the next step.
It sounds so obvious, but Jetfan gets so excited about days like this
where it's like Joe Douglas feels likeI got to pick right. I told
you Beckton was wrong. We canall understand that Zack Wilson was wrong.
There felt to be more wins thanmissus with Joe Douglas. The issue is

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now is that if the Jets suckin twenty twenty four, if the Jets
are below five hundred, I thinkthe Jets don't make the postseason done.
They're clear in house for everybody youknow, I think we all understand that.
So are they a better situation forAaron Rodgers today than they were twenty
four hours ago that I would stillsay yes to? But there are still
work to be done for Gang Green. Ooh, it's yeah. It is

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funny because again, they any otherscenario than the one that played out,
and they would have been fired.Like if any other scenario where you didn't
have an all world quarterback just hurthimself in four seconds and you have a
problem. All right, So let'sdo this, guys. So I like
what they did. I liked thepick. I actually I Johnahan was one
of the guys. I kind ofI wouldn't have mind if he ended up

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in silver and black. If youhad that pick, who would you have
taken If I was the Raiders GMin their spot. No, I'm saying
to you, the Jets and younow you've made this move. You're in
the eleventh spot. Everything's the wayit is because I know you and I
were looking at it. I waslike, I kind of think this is
when they grabbed rock Powers. No, but he ends up with rad I

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love the pick by the Jets.I would not have taken anybody else.
That is the exact person I wouldhave taken. The best offensive tackle you
probably have on your board, thebest person that you can make a decision
with going forward. If if he'sa guard to art off his career,
or he stays at tackle. Idon't think he's gonna start on the bench
because that's too much money. Butif he's in your starting rotation, great,
that's the hope. If somebody getshurt, you've got some depth.

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That is the exact person I wouldhave taken if I was the Jets.
All Right, I'm with you.I like I've kind of thought they were
gonna go ours, But all right, what is that? So now let's
let's stare to dream. How farcan they go with the help and offensive
line. That's about it. That'sprobably it. That's probably it. Jet
fans. I think you've got itcovered now at this point. Now the

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focus goes to wide receiver. Thefocus is can you find a wide receiver
in this upcoming day two, Daythree spot that can find a role on
the team. Garret Wilson's awesome.Everybody nobody doubts how good Garrett Wilson is.
Gary Wilson has been productive, hisstats have been there, and they
I think it was about a toptwenty if we really wanted to dive into
stats wide receiver in the fantasy world. That's without Aaron Rodgers. So what

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he can do statistically with Aaron Rodgersis all things to get excited about.
But do you wanta Keon Coleman.Is he the guy that you think could
be the best player in this widereceiver spot for you? Do you think
it's Mitchell out of Texas who cango make some plays for you? Do
you think it's Polk out of Washington? This is the spot where you gotta

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hope you find some You and Ilove Roman Wilson from Michigan. He just
might not be the same style ofplayer that they're looking for. I watched
Dez Walker Tezy goes By. Nowyou guys do like three different nicknames.
Tes Walker, I watched him Torchmy Syracuse Orangs, and I know he's
a little lower on the charts.Johnny Wilson VAK what about my six foot

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seven tight end wide receiver? Sothere's some talent out there. It all
depends on what the offense might wantto fit. Keep Nathaniel Hacket in the
room, Hell, put Rogers inthere. Let Rogers smoke some weed,
let him sit down, let himwatch it. I'm sorry, it's right.
Let him roll some tape and belike, all right, who do
you look? We all know you'regonna take you want anyways, why don't
you just tell us? Man,my job's on the line to make you

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look good, So why don't youtell me who you want here? Coming
up? Oh? Man? Allright? So man, I kind of
felt like, so what I wasmy goal was kind of like I did
earlier. I was gonna hit youwith the derned dream? How could it
could be? Nightmare? Like Ifeel like you kind of kind of hit
me with the nightmare where it's likeif you if you think you did enough
because of what you already had,and you don't grab the right wide receiver,

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you're still gonna be a middle ofthe pack team. Is that No,
it's no, no, no,no no. I won't go that
far. I won't go as faras to say if, like, if
you don't get a rookie wide receiverin round two, you're gonna be a
five hundred team. That's a lotof pressure to put on a wide receiver
because even if he has a goodseason, Aaron Rodgers could get her,
Breist Hall could get her. MaybeRobert Salad really does stink as a head

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coach. Those things could definitely bealtered by the lack of production or even
production of the wide receiver. SoI would not say it's a season or
bust if you don't get the widereceip ever, correct, But I mean
Aaron Rodgers is kind of annoying,so I don't know if we get it,
you have to make him happy.We've all understood this for every hard

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knock scene in every story. Sothat's what sucks for Joe Douglass. It's
make the team better, but alsomake Aaron Rodgers happy. Well, I
mean yeah, because it's again hehe both put you through hack because he
hurt himself and he's the reason youstill have your job because he hurt himself.
So now it's like, well,just imagine what we could be if
Aaron Rodgers with Aaron Rodgers. Ido. I still feel like the the

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deal with the Jets is going tobe. You know, do you get
Elijah vera Tucker back? Is heas good as he once was? This
this fishanu? Does he blow youaway as a rookie out of the gate,
because you know, it's like it'salways the violent offensive lineman that adapt
fast because it's like there's something you'vegot to even if you're not in real

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life. You just saw are onthe football field. The guy were kind
of nice. They always take alittle while because those defensive linemen have been
punch of people in the face fora long time. If this line comes
out just right, you could beon your way almost with what you have.
As far as I'm concerned, Ithink I think you're close. If
Rogers is time to make throws,Garret Wilson Breese all, you got some

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nice weapons on the Jets, andthe defense is pretty solid too. I
like this pick. I thought itwas a smart pick. I just hope
that the that the offensive line is, you know, good around him.
Entertaining is the word I'm gonna usehere for Jet fans over the next four
to five months, because you andI heard about the hype about the New
York Jets all summer long, andtwenty twenty three Jet fan was so excited

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they finally had their quarterback. Theroster was all in. This felt like
a Super Bowl contender. Some hadthem winning the Super Bowl, getting the
AFC Title Game, all those things, and in one play with Aaron Rodgers
blown out his achilles, everything changed. The season ever progressed, Zach Wilson
was gone. Everyone's stunk there haven'tbeen, and that many changes to the

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Jets roster and the ones they havehad to make, it seems like they've
blown out everybody who they thought wasthe problem. Got rid of some offensive
linemen, got rid of the quarterback, got rid of I think you used
the term a few months ago,the fall guy coordinators. Hey, we
wouldish we could fire everybody, butsomebody can't be employed. So they took
out the coordinators that weren't named NathanielHackett, Robert Sala, the decordinator.

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I believe his big old beard's stillsticking around to So they dumped everybody.
They feel like they got the rosterbetter, So that would tell me Jet
fans and others should still consider thema Super Bowl contender now that Rogers is
back, because this is basically thesame roster, but improved in the spots
they were terrible at. Doesn't havethat same type of aur or feel around
it though, well, because we'veseen what happens if anything goes wrong.

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And now, yeah, sure he'sgot the space bridge and he's healed,
and he's he's he's whatever, buthe's he's a year older. It's not
like he uh, you know,you can get young while this was happening.
It's still an issue that could verywell rear it ugly had at any
given time. So in a divisionwith the Patriots team that I don't know

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what they're gonna be, with aDolphins team that I don't know what they're
gonna be, and a Bills teamthat I don't know what they're gonna be,
what about the Jets, they couldget it done. It's very possible.
It felt like it was gonna comedown to the last game of the
season last year. If it wasgonna be the Jets, the Dolphins,
the Bills, it was gonna comedown to December and January matchups. Now
we will find out about Robert Salah, is it you are a bad coach

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or you're a great coach and itwas all about Rogers. We'll find out
about Aaron Rodgers because I know hisleg's blown out and he's closer to forty
than thirty. That's a really toughinjury. Although he thought he would break
modern medicine by coming back sooner,we're gonna find out, Like the truth
will be out this season, whetherit was Rogers, whether it was sala
whether it was Nathaniel Hackett. Ithink the fact that Green Bay was good

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this season without Rodgers may have beenstarting to up our hands a little bit.
Zach Wilson, there are gonna itfeels like a like vec You know
this. When I'm in studio,the soap opera General Hospital is on this
television in front of me, andI've found myself just looking up at times
of what's going on in the show. It's always on mute, but just
the emotion of these actors actresses onthe show makes me think, what is

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happening. There's a lot of drama, and we're gonna get answers after the
cliffhanger on the Friday episode. That'swhere we stand here. For the Jets.
We have a lot of questions.Who's telling the truth? Who's full
of malarkey? You's going to bean old bit back in Syrakese on a
morning show on the top forty station, mallarkey. That's what we're gonna find
out for the Jets. Now,look, they can still have some IDPAC

(29:41):
players. Joe Douglas can bring usa big time player. We will find
out. I am not gonna pickthe Jets in the division. I will
guarantee you that though, because there'sway too many questions I don't have answered.
Now I'm with you on that.I agree. It's the bills,
all right. So man, you'regonna elevate your brand. I'm in a
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long it's gonna take. With FoxSports ninety five, nine to nine eighty,
it's Lovak and Guz on the Voiceof the Capitol Regions Sports Fan Fox
Sports ninety five to nine and nineeighty. Well, it was it was
quite the evening. The Bills fanskind of feel bad for you. You
sat up all night you wait tosee what was going to be the president

(32:38):
of the tree for you on onon draft miss Eve and uh, they
traded back. But I think itwas a smart move. I like trading
back in that position. I thinkit mainly speaks to the fact that the
Bills believe they can still get whateverthey're looking for. Uh, you know,
a couple plays later, I thinkthey're good to go. So it

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was interesting, intriguing it happened.Here we go. Gods. Did you
like the trade back or do youthink they missed on too many wide receivers
by backing up? Isn't this SeanMcDermott and Brandon bean'sm o to trade back?
It feels like if you really area part of the Bills, Mafi,
you love the Bills. If someonetold you going into tonight, what

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were the two most likely outcomes forBuffalo, I should say last night where
the two most likely outcomes for Buffalo. One was getting that wide receiver that
had been talked about, and twois trading back. They love to trade
Buffalo. I mean I think backto that draft with Tradavius White way back
when, where they traded back toget him, and it felt like an
amazing thing that they did. Also, if we may remember way back when,

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wasn't there a time where the BuffaloBills were involved in the Patrick Mahomes
trade. Yeah, isn't that thetrade in twenty sixteen? Isn't that right?
Isn't it? And then they wentback to it again, right,
like, well back, tell meif I'm wrong here, if I'm living
in a bizarre world. Did theytrade again with the Kansas City Chiefs?

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They trade with the Chiefs again?And uh and and you know, listen
to it. There's there's no waythat worthy the what four? Was he
four? Tow one? You're ina four the combine? No way.
Patrick Maholmes strikes again, No way. All of a sudden, he airs
the ball out to Tyreek Hill.I'm sorry, uh worthy like he used

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to. I mean, okay,maybe it's every every bit possible. It
is. It's it's gotta be scary. You gotta feel a little snake bit
if you're if you're a Bills fan. Right now, it's gonna feel silly
to compare the NFL Draft to myhometown fantasy football league draft. But there
is a point here, and Ipromise and this truly, I feel more
and more every year that the NFLDraft feels like the local fantasy football draft

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with your buddies and friends. Becauseof this situation that should have happened last
night. I have a buddy namedNick, who once in a while can
make the draft. He does hisbest to do it. He lives out
of town. He does his bestto make the draft. But if he
can't do what he sends and hiscousin to draft form and he has a
whole sheet. But he tells hima rule. He goes, You're not
allowed to trade with Steve. Okay, he's watch him. He's gonna try

(35:13):
to pull the wool over your eyes. I want to beat him. You
can do a trade with anybody elsein that basement except Steve. I feel
like there should be a rule inBuffalo that you're allowed to do a trade
with thirty teams except the Chiefs.I don't care what they're offered to you.
And some Bills fans out of WesternYou're gonna be like, no,
that's stupid. Guys. You gottaget the best things. You gotta take

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it out your phone. No youdon't. You are competing against them.
That is the ultimate goals to takedown Kansas City. Yeah, you don't
want to trade with the Jets andthe Dolphins and the Patriot Kansas City.
I don't care who it is.So that's what should alarm me more about
anything, like why are they sobuddy buddy with the Chiefs when it comes
to these trades? Well, andit's it's if this does go that way,

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right, if this is a ProBowl game changing wide receiver. Bills
fan, welcome the way it usedto feel to be a Raiders fan when
we would trade with the Patriots.Like anything we did with the Patriots.
Oh, Randy Moss, he's done. It will never be anything. Let's
just give him up whatever. Allof a sudden, Randy Moss is Randy
Moss again. Richard Seymour, He'sgot play left of the tank now he
doesn't. He just wasted de picks, buddy, Like that's then again,

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there is that amazing moment where hepomms Ben Roethlisberger in the face straight to
the ground. That's still awesome nomatter what. Almost worth the picks.
But it does you feel that thegreat trade robbery that is the Chiefs to
the Bills right now, it's kindof way it feels like, why work
well with the team that sent youhome multiple years? I wonder if Buffalo

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has become the overthinker of the draftand we've done a lot of this,
and they've read a lot of thisand talked about well, I can rationalize
this decision because of these reasons,or I can tell you I'm the smartest
guy in the room because of this, and this is the moment. These
are the times where if Brandon beingand Sean McDermott want to tell us the
smartest person in the room because ofthis draft day, you get a little

(37:07):
bit of a say, a fewseasons to find out, oh, we
did this because of that, unlessthey've got some master playing here laid out
for Buffalo, or and this isprobably the most hopeful answer for Buffalo.
The reason they're scheduled too, that'sthe way I'm gonna put it, scheduled
to lead off the second round isthat they saw so many first round guys,

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first round talent going there. Therewas somebody they couldn't miss. Maybe
had somebody's a top fifteen player ontheir big board and now he's sitting here
at thirty three. That might bethe case. But I don't want to
say underestimated Buffalo's relationship with Kansas City, but it felt like I told you
this yesterday, they needed this draftboard anybody else. The draft's not over,

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but as of this moment, itfeels like they're going to settle and
take players far lower than who couldhave been contributors potentially with first round talent,
if they'd moved up, if they'dmoved out. It's a lot of
it's a lot of it could besalary cap work, you know what I
mean. And it's because if andif that's the case, you know,
the thirty third pick versus a thirtysecond pick, that's a difference. It's

(38:12):
a it's a big difference in money. The thirty third pick versus the twenty
eighth pick, that's a gigantic differencein money. And if you look like
what the Bills have done, theyhaven't added a bunch of picks in these
two trades. They've added, They'vethey've they've climbed, so it's like a
one to one pick, but they'rethey're third to fifth rounds. They've moved
up substantially. And I believe TimBrown or I can't remember who was somebody

(38:37):
posts the other day. Everybody knowschampionship teams are built between the third and
fifth round. The Bills are beingyou know, frugal and they're they're dancing
around. I guess for me justcomes down to this, Guys, if
if indeed you're gonna get that widereceiver that's supposed to be, you know,
to fill the hole of Stefan Diggs, and you're not going to do
it via trade. If you getyour dude and he's as good, if

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not better than worthy, than fine, you did a great job. But
if you end up getting just annihilated, Like if it's one of those things
where this guy becomes the next TyreekHill and now you've given them Patrick Mahomes
in Tyreek two point zero and youdon't get better because of it. You
can let the Patrickhomes thing slide alittle simply because of the fact that,

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well you've got Josh Allen. Butthat could be one of those things where
for the rest of your life asa Bills fit, you just feel like
the Chiefs are stilling your lunch body. You have to have these so heavily
tinted red in blue Bills Mafia sunglasseson. Oh, by the way,
what was everyone doing wearing those eclipsesunglasses yesterday? Did they know that the

(39:44):
eclipse had already happened? Anyways,you have to be so obsessed with the
Bills to not even be in touchwith reality. Then at the Chiefs get
to the super Bowl again, winthe super Bowl again, and we look
back in the history of what hasbeen the chief dynasty and a page in
that has not only beat Buffalo,but like you said, Levac twice in
the era of Mahomes, two timesin a seventy years span. On draft

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day on the first round, youworked with them to get that team better.
People are like, what that happenedin real life? That really?
You know what? I got soworked up about the Chiefs Bills relationship.
You said something I want to goback to adjust. To lead off the
segment here, you joked at theBills fans waited all night for the pick.
I gotta give love to our guy. He came out to one of
our vans recently shout out to Danto Marco, we appreciate his support.

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He's an awesome guy. He isa huge Bills fan. I was talking
to him this morning. He goes, I stayed up all night. I
stayed up all night waiting for myBills to make a pick, and then
I had to go to sleep.That I was done with. That was
the most tortured fan base. Issort of fun like that because everybody else
was getting into the draft and anflinthe fact that the Bills fan on the
East Coast had a step to rightaround midnight ish to watch their team just

(40:52):
trade out, it is kind ofIt's pretty funny. I think it's even
worse than the pick you don't like. Because it was a pick you don't
like. You go to bed like, ah man, that's stinks. Whatever
where this is like to be continued, it's it's the end of Sopranos.
Don't stop and then it's just nothinghappens. It is terrible. I feel

(41:13):
bad if Bills fans weren't so meanto me all the time. That makes
it feel a little bit better forsome reason. I guess I'm just as
evil as they are when you getright down to it. All right,
So all in all, Bills gettingincomplete from me. You know, see
what they actually do today, ifthey do anything today, And we move
on to the play of the day, brought to you by Mohawks Chevrolet.

(41:35):
Together, let's drive at Mowaks Heavywhere they always go out of their way
to please you. Guys, doyou gotta play I'm so proud of my
play from yesterday. I was soexcited about the Tony Kahan neck brace play
that I nailed. That had myhot take from the draft that I nail.
I know nobody's venmowed me. Iwould have cashed it on that,
man. I gotta you know.I've turned this into the kids complain about

(41:58):
my losers sponsored by Mohawk chavrolat loserlast night Nuggets and Lakers. Are you
kidding me? Combined ten of fiftyfive from three. That's a game that
we actually should give them more money. Like there's the cash out, there's
the cash in, and then it'slike, you know what, this bet
is so bad? I don't wantto cash it anymore. Take it back,

(42:19):
man. Do I want to goback to the NBA? No?
Do I want to go to MajorLeague Baseball? No? Back to the
ice? It is Levac. Let'sgo with Let's have fun with this one.
Let's do a three team money lineparlay Avalanche, Oilers, Rangers,
three favorites Rangers, Avalanche, Oilers, two on the road, one at

(42:40):
home. So three team Parlay Avalanche, Rangers, Oiler. I'll give you
a price on that. In asecond, I know that's I think it's
gonna be set around plus three pointforty. Let me confirm, so double
give me triple NHL money line,Rangers, Oilers, Avalanche plus three three
two. All right, all right, I see you now got to update

(43:07):
the New York Championship trio wager.It's right back down to flat value.
They took me down a flat valueafter a long and then you know,
I'm having fun with this. Itdidn't pay off last night, but it
has. I'm playing with house moneystill, the Pinstripe parlay. Let's go
Yankees money line and then both Vulpayand Judge to get a hit and then

(43:28):
Louis Hill six plus strikeouts, Sohit from Vulpe, hit from Judge,
six plus strikeouts from Louis Hill,and then the Yankees to win the thing.
And if that all happens plus twoseventy, I will enjoy myself with
a nice little Pinstripe parlay and cashthat bad boy. I ain't scared,
I ain't mad. I just wantmoney. That's that's who I am.

(43:52):
I would love to go to sleepright now, like right now. I
woke up bright and early this morning. I hit it man, because I
slept great last night. I've beenI've been at this office, guys since
five o'clock this morning. I gothere, yeah, buddy, oh yeah,
oh yeah. Well because like youknow, listen, man, I
got up. I was up.It was just one of those ones.
I went to bed a little early, put my mouth piece in. Thanks

(44:14):
to doctor fred Dreer and the IndegraveSleep Center and Boss the Spa, slept
greight. I was out, wokeup fresh, ready to go, grabbed
a shower, got myself together andgot in here to get to work.
Tomorrow's game day. Baby, nosleep before game day. Actually, if
you get good sleep, you don'tneed as much sleep. It's a beautiful
thing. So tonight when I gethome, same deal. Relax a little

(44:34):
bit. Take my mouthpiece. He'smy airway open, he's my snoring under
control, keeps my breathing happening,which is really nice. And then I'll
sleep great. I'll be ready forgame day five eight eight five six eight
five five eighty five, six eightyfive. Doctor fred Dreer and the Indegrave
Sleep Center me sleep better. They'regonna help you sleep better too. Let's
talk a little hoops, a littlea little uh a little little street fight

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