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S6 E11: It's Time!!! · Nickel City Crew Podcast

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  Speaker 1: 15 degrees, you can see your breath. Out here in
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  Speaker 1: the lake of fact.
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  Speaker 2: Breaking tables like it's poetry.
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  Speaker 3: Where else would you.
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  Speaker 1: Have to be?
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  Speaker 4: Pinto, Ron, Elvis, and the Leigh Ponshaw.
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  Speaker 2: The members that you need to know.
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  Speaker 3: I want you out here now, your family.
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  Speaker 2: Where else would you.
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  Speaker 4: Have to be?
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  Speaker 3: Welcome in to the Nickel City Crew. I am your host,
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  Speaker 3: Rob Crippen.
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  Speaker 5: Please like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram
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  Speaker 5: and Twitter at NickelCityCrew. This episode, along with all of
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  Speaker 5: our episodes, are presented by Crippen Legacy Entertainment here on
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  Speaker 5: Spreaker and StreamYard. We're so glad that you're joining us
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  Speaker 5: for some of your Buffalo Bills and NFL content again today.
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  Speaker 5: And as always, these are my Bills thoughts said out loud.
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  Speaker 2: It's a vibe so ridiculous.
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  Speaker 6: All right, let's get straight to it.
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  Speaker 3: Really, really excited for tonight's episode.
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  Speaker 5: It's funny, just the offseason can drag on and it
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  Speaker 5: drags on and it drags on and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 5: You get to the eve of the season like we
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  Speaker 5: are now. And I talked about it last week. I
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  Speaker 5: just get so excited.
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  Speaker 3: I'm ready. That renewed optimism of a new season.
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  Speaker 5: I really can't wait to just kind of sink our
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  Speaker 5: teeth into tonight's episode. Joining me, riding shotgun, my co-host,
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  Speaker 5: Adam Dubtruck-Rupczyk. Check him out on Instagram and Twitter at AdamRupczyk, R-U-P-C-Z-Y-K.
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  Speaker 5: Holla at the crew, DT.
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  Speaker 3: We made it, baby. We made it, DT. Holla at the.
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  Speaker 2: Crew, DT.
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  Speaker 3: We made it.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, Rob? What's up, Nickel City? We're back Friday night,
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  Speaker 2: the last Friday before we kick our 1-0 to move
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  Speaker 2: to the parade on Valentine's Day, Super Bowl 61. We're
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  Speaker 2: ready to go, baby. We talk about it all offseason
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  Speaker 2: in the training camp with the ramp up, the ramp up,
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  Speaker 2: the ramp up. We're professional tailgaters now, Nickel City crew.
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  Speaker 2: You know that about Rob and I. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: we're getting pretty good at managing expectations and not getting
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  Speaker 2: too high too quick. Now, boom, here we are. All
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  Speaker 2: bets are off. You can get as enthusiastic as you want.
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  Speaker 2: 1 p.m. Eastern, Sunday, that's what we do it for.
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  Speaker 2: That's what everything builds up for this whole from the
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  Speaker 2: February till now. We want to see 17 and the
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  Speaker 2: boys back in action, and we get it.
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  Speaker 3: We get it all.
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  Speaker 2: We get all the football back. We had a little
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  Speaker 2: taste this week, and now we get it back. So,
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't be more excited, Rob. It's one of the best
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  Speaker 2: days of the year, of the life, getting ready to
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  Speaker 2: go for football. You can't beat it in America, baby.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, you can't.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I always say that the offseason, the schedule
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  Speaker 5: release is my favorite time until you get to the game.
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  Speaker 5: Like once you get to this time now, this is it.
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  Speaker 5: This is what takes the cake. And I'm really, really
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  Speaker 5: excited about the season and the 26 season. Like I
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  Speaker 5: said last week, just the renewed optimism, everything about it
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  Speaker 5: is something that I just can't wait for it. So
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  Speaker 5: Let's get into it. Our guests will be joining us shortly.
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  Speaker 5: It's funny because, DT, you know, this is the little
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  Speaker 5: house of horrors down there in Houston with the Texans.
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  Speaker 5: It's funny because when you think about this matchup and
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  Speaker 5: you think about some of the games that we've had,
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  Speaker 5: and you can actually go back to Sugar High, Josh,
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  Speaker 5: if you want to. That's a long time ago. But
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  Speaker 5: if you want to, you can go back to that game.
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  Speaker 5: You can go back to, obviously, two years ago when Josh,
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  Speaker 5: you know, pretty much played the worst game I've ever
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  Speaker 5: seen him play. I kind of let go of that
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  Speaker 5: Green Bay game because he was so young. He was
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  Speaker 5: a baby back then, but a couple years ago, 24,
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  Speaker 5: that was a horrible performance. Last year, we saw how
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  Speaker 5: that went in respects to Deion Dawkins being concussed and
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  Speaker 5: Spencer Brown having the shoulder injury and how that affected
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  Speaker 5: the game plan. DT, I'm ready to just kind of
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  Speaker 5: exercise these demons because I feel like we've got some
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  Speaker 5: matchup things that we can exploit in respects of this
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  Speaker 5: matchup against Texans, and you know, previous performances don't necessarily
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  Speaker 5: predict what's going to happen in the future.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm ready to kind of put all that kind of.
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  Speaker 5: Stuff to bed because this is a new team, new
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  Speaker 5: head coach now for the first time in a long time.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm, I'm not really given too much credence to
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  Speaker 5: the fact that we have not played well there before
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  Speaker 5: affecting what's going to happen on Sunday. I think that
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  Speaker 5: that's a clean slate in that respect. I'm interested to
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  Speaker 5: hear what you think about it.
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  Speaker 2: Rob, we've been preaching, preaching, preaching new, New team, new coach,
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  Speaker 2: new stadium, new defense, all this newness. And so, yes,
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  Speaker 2: let's get rid of the House of Whores and the
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  Speaker 2: Houston Texans from our old regime and break through that
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  Speaker 2: and get it done. The House of Whores is great.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that where they put Lamar Odom's bed from the
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  Speaker 2: Bunny Ranch in the new House of Whores in Vegas?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's there. So we need to go down
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  Speaker 2: and change the scene and not make it the House
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  Speaker 2: of Whores anymore. From the wildcard playoff game, one of
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  Speaker 2: the first legit chances we had in a playoff game
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  Speaker 2: and past the drought, yeah, we went down to Jacksonville
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  Speaker 2: and put up a field goal. But coming into that
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  Speaker 2: first playoff game with Josh, we knew he was legit.
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  Speaker 2: We knew this was going to be the start of
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  Speaker 2: a lot of playoff appearances. They come out. He runs
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  Speaker 2: a scamper up the sideline for I think it was
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  Speaker 2: like a 35-yard gain. And then they do the pitch
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  Speaker 2: back to John, the smoke round. the smoke Brown throwback
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  Speaker 2: for the, for the TD. And Josh does the smoke,
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  Speaker 2: the smoke dance, um, to start it off. And we're
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  Speaker 2: up 16, nothing, you know, in the, in the playoff game.
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  Speaker 2: And it's okay. This is, this is how it feels.
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  Speaker 2: This is what a good team feels like obviously end
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  Speaker 2: up blowing it a lot of it because of, there
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  Speaker 2: was a lot of factors, but a lot of it
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  Speaker 2: because of, you know, the, 17, being a wild, crazy boy, right?
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  Speaker 2: So he comes out of there, and then it's a tough,
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  Speaker 2: it's not just so much for the Bills, because we're
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  Speaker 2: losing these games by minuscule. It went to overtime in
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  Speaker 2: the wild card, it took a 60-yard field goal, and
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  Speaker 2: at the buzzer game last year, the last three times,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's mainly just the Josh House of Horrors.
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  Speaker 2: He goes crazy, in the wild card. Then he goes
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  Speaker 2: nine for 31 and literally goes to sleep on the
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  Speaker 2: field and they don't pull him. And then last year
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  Speaker 2: gets sacked eight times with no tackles and had a
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  Speaker 2: chance to win down the stretch, but just was beaten
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  Speaker 2: and battered all game. Didn't have the, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: focus and wherewithal to get that last throw done when
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  Speaker 2: they needed it to win, you know, on that BS
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  Speaker 2: Thursday night game last year. So it's mainly the house
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  Speaker 2: of horrors for Josh. And We talked about it with
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  Speaker 2: the Jaguars a few years ago, Rob. When the Jaguars
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  Speaker 2: were coming in on Monday night and I said we
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  Speaker 2: owed them one, well, we owe these MFers one even
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  Speaker 2: bigger because he didn't just beat us in London on
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  Speaker 2: some BS. They didn't just beat us here and there.
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  Speaker 2: They're taking out one seven on a regular basis and
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  Speaker 2: making them look bad. So if anybody owes them, it's
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  Speaker 2: 17 owes them. And I don't want to be on
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  Speaker 2: the other side of having to get paid by that.
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  Speaker 2: So That's what we're hoping. House of Horrors is over.
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  Speaker 2: Lamar Odom's bed's over there. And we're starting a new chapter.
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  Speaker 2: But mainly, it's 17 needing to make a new chapter
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  Speaker 2: for himself. I can go down there and beat ass too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that. Like I said, it would be
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  Speaker 3: interesting to see it.
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  Speaker 5: I just don't want to put too much credence into
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  Speaker 5: past performances, again, predicting future in respects to the fact
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  Speaker 5: that I know some of the.
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  Speaker 3: Players are the same. I get all that type of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But I think that there were some, you got to think, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Josh is at least Josh is sitting there like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I got to get these dudes. Like, yeah, I can't
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  Speaker 2: be getting bested. Like nobody best him. He gets beat,
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  Speaker 2: but nobody best him. And they've been besting him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right about that.
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  Speaker 5: Now, you know, as we, as we transition and I,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I do want to get some thoughts from
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  Speaker 5: our guests who's with us now, you know, listen, the co-founder,
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  Speaker 5: of buffalo fanatics check out buffalo fanatics they've got great
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  Speaker 5: content including our boy rico with the rico report on
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  Speaker 5: him and his boy uh z-bot listen holla at the
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  Speaker 5: crew welcome back we are happy to have you back all.
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  Speaker 7: The way all the way from north of the border
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  Speaker 7: our our favorite canadian listen holla at the crew rico
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  Speaker 7: listen holla at the crew tgif thank you for being
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  Speaker 7: back on brother man we have Appreciate your time tonight.
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  Speaker 4: What it do, man? Listen, is my audio okay? Because
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  Speaker 4: I have to restart my computer. I hope we're not lagging.
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  Speaker 3: We're okay. You sound good. You sound good.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, I appreciate y'all for having me on again. Listen,
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  Speaker 4: I feel like a horrible host. You guys keep bringing
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  Speaker 4: me on and I'm like, hey, you can't come to
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  Speaker 4: my house. One of these days, bro, I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: open the door and let your Americanos in. But I
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  Speaker 4: appreciate you guys. I got a quick question for y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: How y'all feel about the Buffalo Bills making an announcement
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  Speaker 4: that they're going to be playing the old Canadian anthem
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  Speaker 4: in your stadium, in your country.
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  Speaker 3: I feel about that. Are you hating it?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm not hating.
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  Speaker 3: No, we got, listen.
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  Speaker 2: I just think it's not about ball. It's, it's political
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  Speaker 2: and we don't, we're about ball.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 4: That's all.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, I will say this.
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  Speaker 5: DT and I are longtime season ticket holders up until
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  Speaker 5: this season.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a bunch of Canadian fans that come over
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  Speaker 3: from the border.
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  Speaker 5: From Ontario and stuff like that. So we got nothing
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  Speaker 5: but love for you, Rico.
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  Speaker 3: We good, man.
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  Speaker 5: Listen, we're not going to let the geopolitical bullshit break us.
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  Speaker 5: We are not going to be broken up over this.
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  Speaker 5: Sing the anthem just like a damn hockey game. You're
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  Speaker 5: welcome in the house, man. You're welcome in the new crib.
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  Speaker 4: I find it so fascinating how people get up in arms.
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  Speaker 3: You don't get to play that. They do it in
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  Speaker 3: hockey games.
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  Speaker 4: Was it like 15% to 20% of the people that
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  Speaker 4: fill the freaking stadium yeah our canadians if not more
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  Speaker 4: yeah absolutely season ticket holders bro play the song for
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  Speaker 4: three seconds call it a day it's all good man
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  Speaker 4: we're across the we're across the pond bro we have
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  Speaker 4: the raptors we got the blue jays we got a
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  Speaker 4: whole bunch of international players bro we play it all.
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  Speaker 3: Nah, Nickel City crew, we're not with that bullshit.
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  Speaker 4: So you already know.
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  Speaker 3: I love it. You are welcome in the new crib, man,
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  Speaker 3: for sure. Like you said, there's a bunch.
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  Speaker 4: Of season tickets. I appreciate it. Thank you for having
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  Speaker 4: me on, fellas. I appreciate y'all, man.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, what do you think, Rico, about past performance predicting
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  Speaker 5: future performance?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not necessarily buying it.
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  Speaker 5: I understand, again, that there's a lot of players that
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  Speaker 5: carry over from last year and the year before.
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  Speaker 3: We talked about it before you got on.
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  Speaker 5: Josh Allen plays arguably his worst game two years ago
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  Speaker 5: nine for 30 in that debacle.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, his receiver core is way different. There's a lot.
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  Speaker 3: There are some similarities, but there's a lot of things
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  Speaker 3: that are different, Rico.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not assuming that because we have struggled before that
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  Speaker 5: we're going to struggle on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: I'm ready to go get these motherfuckers.
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  Speaker 4: Like, I'm ready.
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  Speaker 3: I'm amped up. I'm in regular season mode. I'm ready.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, past performances does affect it. Like, you can't tell
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  Speaker 4: me it doesn't, right?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 4: And here's the deal. It's like anything. bro, you're playing ball.
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  Speaker 4: We've all played basketball in our, in our day at
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  Speaker 4: some point, or if you didn't play league ball, you
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  Speaker 4: didn't play rec ball. You play with your boys or whatever,
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  Speaker 4: or you play middle school, whatever.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You miss four straight free throws.
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  Speaker 3: It gets in your head.
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  Speaker 4: It's in your head. So you back to the free
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  Speaker 4: throw line routine as always, but the last four misses
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  Speaker 4: is on your mind. So you can't tell me the
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  Speaker 4: last two misses is not on Josh Allen and the
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  Speaker 4: Bills' mind. I don't give a rat's A if you
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  Speaker 4: got new players or not. Guess who the main players are, right?
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  Speaker 4: Josh Allen was a main player.
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  Speaker 3: He was there.
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  Speaker 4: He knows, right? Joe Brady was part of it. He
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  Speaker 4: knows he was there. He may not have been the
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  Speaker 4: leader in the house, but he was there. So past games,
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  Speaker 4: past practice does affect the game. Now, how psychologically are
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  Speaker 4: they going to overcome it? Now, what's going to help
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  Speaker 4: are their players that weren't around for this nonsense, right?
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  Speaker 3: C.J.
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  Speaker 4: Gardner-Johnson's ready to say.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he ready for some good back, too. And
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  Speaker 3: he ready for some good back, too. We ain't playing
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  Speaker 3: that game.
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  Speaker 4: We ready to roll. What are we doing here? What
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  Speaker 4: are we crying about last week, last game? Nah, bro,
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  Speaker 4: it's a new game.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm going to tell you something right now. Zach,
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  Speaker 4: let's just say Josh Allen gets smacked in the back.
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  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: First couple plays.
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  Speaker 4: I remember that. I remember that from last year. I
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  Speaker 4: don't feel good. Now it makes Josh kind of, you
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  Speaker 4: got it over there? Can I trust you? Right. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Let me, let me keep playing. If these bookends can
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  Speaker 4: do their job and allow Josh to just be in
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  Speaker 4: this game, bro, we're good. But yes, everybody, everybody understands
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  Speaker 4: what happened last year, but you can flip it in a,
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  Speaker 4: in a way that allows you to say, you know what?
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  Speaker 4: I do remember what happened last year and it ain't
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  Speaker 4: going to happen again. We're going to handle it.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: You definitely see DT gets it, man. I remember what
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  Speaker 4: happened last time. I remember you ain't going to do
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  Speaker 4: it to me again.
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  Speaker 3: But here's the deal.
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  Speaker 4: We've had this very conversation four straight times with the
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  Speaker 4: Kansas City Chiefs. We were like, no, no, no. We
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  Speaker 4: can't lose a fourth playoff game to the Kansas City Chiefs,
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  Speaker 4: can we? Four times Super Bowl contenders. We're not going to.
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  Speaker 3: OK, we lost the first one. We're not going to
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  Speaker 3: lose the second hour. We know. Right. Right.
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  Speaker 4: So it plays a part. But listen, it's a new year.
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  Speaker 4: It's a new coach, new vibe. Hopefully the new vibes
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  Speaker 4: carry over into this upcoming game this Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead, DT. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: They're not the Chiefs in that regard of the playoff scenario.
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  Speaker 2: That's why it means so much to just get over
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  Speaker 2: this hump. I said a couple weeks ago that the
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  Speaker 2: AFC South is just a fake division. It's not real.
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  Speaker 2: It's not real cities, not real franchises. I mean, Houston
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  Speaker 2: obviously is a real city, but you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: like the diehard fans. Are they really the diehard fans
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  Speaker 2: in the AFC South? Give me a break. So the
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  Speaker 2: fact of the matter is I don't respect them like
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  Speaker 2: the Chiefs, not even close. So get this slip off
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  Speaker 2: my radar. Get this weird energy that we go down
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  Speaker 2: there and we get our ass kicked with these, not peasants,
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  Speaker 2: but these underneath us. They are not worthy of us.
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  Speaker 2: They are not worthy of 17. The Chiefs, different story.
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  Speaker 2: They got the credentials and they beat us so they
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  Speaker 2: can say that, but they're not the same. They're not
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  Speaker 2: the same. So I want to get rid of these
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  Speaker 2: little people in front of us, get rid of this
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  Speaker 2: weird energy that's about it because that's not what we
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  Speaker 2: need to focus on. We need to get that in
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  Speaker 2: our rearview mirror, but at the same time go around and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, belt to ass. We owe them one. 17
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  Speaker 2: owes them one. So get these dudes out of here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sick of them talking about it.
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  Speaker 3: Rico called a timeout. Go ahead, Rico.
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  Speaker 4: You called a timeout. You could be as sick as
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  Speaker 4: you want, but the Texans have our number. The nerds.
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  Speaker 4: The nerve of you to say, hey, we're sick of
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  Speaker 4: these peasants. I know for lack of a better word.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: They took belts to ass to us. Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 4: You have to respect them. Listen, I'm going to tell
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  Speaker 4: you this, DT, with love. Don't be that Bills fan
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  Speaker 4: that gets all hyped up before the season. Listen, we
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: need to ground ourselves and understand this is a team
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: that dominated us the first game. They made Josh go
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: nine for 31, made this brother uncomfortable. Although we were
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: still in the game.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: Lost by a six-yard field goal.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: That Josh Allen, exactly, that Josh Allen version that we
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: saw that game, we didn't like it.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: We hated it.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: He hated it.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but his receivers were garbage that day.
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: Regardless of the fact, guess who we had? We had 17, right?
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: We had 17, and we still had a chance to
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: win the game. You just mentioned it. You just mentioned it.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: And now we got whooped. We got whooped heavy.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: It was bad.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: And we're going to sit here and go, no, we
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: don't have.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: The– luxury to do that, to turn our noses up.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: We don't have the audacity.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: To even talk like that. Until we win by 14
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: on Sunday. Until we win by 14 on Sunday.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: Then we can talk.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: Then we can talk because we got the monkey off
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: the back, but we don't have the, we cannot be
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: talking like we're going to do big, big things. Listen,
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: that's a team we still got to respect. This is
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: a contending Super Bowl team that we're about to play.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: This defense, this defense can carry this Houston, Texas all
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: the way through. It's what the offense is planning to do.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: CJ Stroud, from what I understand, he's been a different
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: guy he's been working out he's been doing all this
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: good stuff if he's who they think they say he
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: is that texans gonna be a scary ass team dt
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: shame on you shame on you i.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: Love it now as we transition let's sink our teeth
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: into it then um because it's interesting we'll go offense
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: and then we'll go defense the bills offense uh rico
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: against this texans unit that you're talking about it's funny
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: because when you talk about last year when you talk
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: about some of the situations that we went through, eight sacks. Again,
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: we talked about it, though. Tackles, you talked about the bookends.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: They were struggling that day. We had Deion Dawkins, obviously,
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: with a concussion.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: It was clear.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: Spencer Brown was struggling with that shoulder, then tried to
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: play through it, and it was almost to a detriment
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: to the team that he stayed in the game. I'm
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: interested to know what you think about this matchup because,
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: for me, I look at it as different. And you're
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: entitled to your opinion. That's why we invited you here.
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: We love getting different opinions on stuff. I don't think
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: that the wide receiver room was adequate in either of
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: the last two years to even give Josh Allen a
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: fair shot. So with DJ Moore coming in, he's the
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: best receiver that we've had since Diggs left. I think
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: that gives a different dynamic to this offense where it's
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: going to allow Josh Allen to do the things that
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: he needs to do in respects to third down situations,
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: whether it be third and short, third and medium, or
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: maybe even third and long. Hopefully we're not in too
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: many of those scenarios, but He's got the confidence because
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: he knows he's got the horses, whether it be more,
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: whether it be Shakir, whether it be your boy, your
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Canadian boy, Palmer. I mean, I'm not really ever counting
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: on Keon anymore. But listen, James Cook in the backfield.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: I feel like the weapons are adequate now, Rico, where
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: Josh Allen can have a little bit more confidence, a
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: little bit more swag. Now, obviously, you don't have the
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: protection up front. Nothing else matters. So we we can
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: all agree on that.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: I don't know, Rico. I got to push back on you.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: I think that the receiving cores these last two years,
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: he was throwing to, I mean, it was bad these
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: last couple years in Houston.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: I don't disagree.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: I don't disagree. This is just off the rip because
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: of his weapons.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: I don't disagree. I'm with you. It wasn't adequate. We
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: saw it, right? A, if your bookend tackles are not
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: protecting you, it's going to be very difficult for you
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: to find your receivers downfield. But the receivers downfield didn't
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: help him any. He having to hold on to the
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: football way longer than he needs to. Everyone has a
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: part to play in this whole situation. But I don't disagree.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: I think what we have right now in the receiving
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: room is going to be a vast difference. We might
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: see a difference, Josh. Now, everyone's got to play their part, right?
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: I used to cringe when I heard this terminology, the 111th.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: But everybody's got to really do their 111th in order
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: for this thing to work. um okay josh is just
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: too damn good for the texans to just come in
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: here and just and just make us uncomfortable again i
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: think okay brady understood the underside the assignment and so
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: did brandon b they understood the assignment we saw what
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: happened let's make sure that the front lines is exactly
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: the way it was last year but we're healthier and
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: right we've got something to actually look forward to throwing
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: the football downfield to receivers that are actually capable not
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: your elijah moores and not your your Keon Coleman's of
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: the world. And he was, he was a rookie the
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: year before that. So there's a lot that comes into
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: play with this, but I think this receiving core, Dalton
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Kincaid being part of this situation, this equation is going
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: to help tremendously. So this could be a very interesting game.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: The NFL knows how to mess with us, right? To
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: give us the Texans right off the rip. Golly, but
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: got to be excited about it.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: DT, I mean, when you look at the offensive side
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: of the ball, Obviously, the mystery, and we've talked about
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: it in our offensive preview a couple weeks ago, Joe Brady,
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: how different is the offense going to look now that
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: he's got full control? I feel like, I don't know,
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: there's just a level of confidence that I have now.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: I won't go as far as you, but I won't
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: go as far as Rico on the other side either.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: I'm right in the middle. I do respect the Texans.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: I do respect what they have done to us in
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: respects to belt to ass.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: I get that.
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: I also think that I agree with you, DT. We
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: owe them one, and they know that in the back
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: of their mind. How do you feel about this offense
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: and the weaponry that Josh has? Because to me, he's
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: got more to work with, and that just makes me
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: feel more comfortable before we get to Sunday at 1 o'clock.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: It makes me feel better about the whole situation. I
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: understand Daniil Hunter and all those guys. I understand Will Anderson.
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: Those guys are freaks.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: I get it.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: I feel more comfortable because I feel like I've got
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: more ammunition.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: That's just me.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Josh Allen 8-0 off a bye. He just had a
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: 36-week bye.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Going into this game.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, this is a situation where this is
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: the best-case scenario to play a team like this, a
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: team that is– kind of a kryptonite and, you know,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: by getting to the quarterback and getting Josh off his game,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: what better way than to play him when you have
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: all this time to prepare and when you're the healthiest, right?
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: This is a situation where you're in a kind of
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: a script type of motion on both sides of the ball,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: you know, in a way to get it out quick,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: move the ball quick. We have the leading rusher in
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: the NFL last year, run at these dudes to slow
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: them down on the edges and then just get into
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: your game. You have the receiving core you didn't have,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: as we mentioned, you know, earlier in the show, your
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: linemen are healthy. You have the Kincaid portion of this
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: offense where we got to flip the weaknesses, right? They're
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: going to come at us thinking they're the better. Obviously,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: they have the upper hand on the ends, and they're
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: going to come at us in that regard for our weakness.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: We need to get the ball to the middle of
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: the field in their weakness. Their defensive backfield is great.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Their linebackers are decent, but it's definitely the lower part
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: of their defense. So we got to flip the weaknesses
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: and get the ball to the middle of the field
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: quick outs to Dalton Kincaid, who's in the game now
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: this year. That wasn't last year. So flip the weaknesses
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: and coming in and coming in basically off the biggest
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: buy where you had all this time to prepare, all
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: this time to keep the goods upright, keep 17 upright.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: That's the goal the entire season. And you've had all
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: this time to prepare. It's usually three or four days
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: to prepare. Now it's 36 weeks to 12. Exactly. To
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: know how to chip block and double down and not
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: let 17 get in those situations where he's going to
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: get hit blindside or not be able to get on
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: his game that way. So flip the weaknesses. And you've
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: had the bye week to figure out how to protect
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: the goods.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: I got a question. I'll start with DT and then
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: my man can go right after.
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: So check this out.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: So I'm looking at the bills and we're excited for
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: what they're going to be doing defensively. And we're certainly
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: excited for what they're going to do offensively with the
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: new pieces. Where do you guys have your worry? Where's
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: where's your where's your. where you have some trepidation? Are
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: you looking at the offensive side of the ball where
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, I don't know if I like that?
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Or is it on the defense? Where is it that
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: you guys have a slight worry where, not that we'll
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: get exposed anywhere, but where is it that, I'll just
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: leave it at this, where is your worry.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Going into this game? Go ahead, DT, because I already
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: know what I'm about to say. Go ahead.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the defensive line.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: There's so many people on it, and it's almost just
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: you threw so many people, it's enough to say like, okay,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: they got to be good, and if they're not, how
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: screwed are we?
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, we're thin, we're thin in the defensive backfield
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: as well, but I think defensive line, we put the
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: most emphasis on and it's easiest to just say, Oh,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: there's this name, this name, this name.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Will be fine.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: And then if we're not, you know, we, we got
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: it a real internal issues there. So, so that's my,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: my darkest fear, but that the defensive line won't be
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: up to what the standard is.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: And to take it a step further, Rico, since you
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: asked for me, it's the defense as a whole.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Now, I'm excited about getting away from Ben, but don't break.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: You haven't been around.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: I don't know if you caught some of the episodes,
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: but like our defensive preview a couple of weeks ago,
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: like I'm excited to get away from Ben, but don't break.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: Now there's a flip side to every coin. So the
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: flip side to the coin is that you will give
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: up some plays. Now that's being more aggressive. The way
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: that Leonard wants to attack this defense and have it
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: attack in the office. He just talked about it the
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: other day, how we want them to have to play us.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: We want them to have to react to what we're doing.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: He's not just going to sit back. between the 20s
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: and let them just kind of dictate and drive all
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: the way down the field and then try to clamp
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: up in the red zone like McDermott did. So for me,
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: it's the defensive approach as a whole. That gives me
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: the biggest trepidation. Again, I'm not scared of it. Just
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: because I'm nervous about it, not scared of it. I
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: embrace this new change because you already, I mean, you
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: know me well enough. You know, Rico, see me on Twitter.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: I was not a McDermott fan. So because of that,
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: I'm ready for this. I asked for this change. So
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: I can't be scared that it's now at my doorstep. However,
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: I think that that's the biggest thing. You will get
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: some more big plays that are given up. Now, one
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: of the things that McDermott's defenses did well was take
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: away the ball. As long as Leonard's defense can keep
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: that up, which is hard, I know it's not easy,
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: but as long as he can create turnovers, then I'm
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: okay with that, with giving up more big plays. We're
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: going to give up more big plays. I think Bill's Mafia,
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: be ready for that. That's not necessarily just Sunday. I
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: don't know what's going to happen on Sunday.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: None of us do.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: I think, holistically for the 2026 season going forward. Bills Mafia,
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: Nickel City Crew, Buffalo Fanatics, be ready for bigger plays
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: to be given up. However, I'm banking on Leonard heating
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: that quarterback up. I heard something about heat.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: His ass up.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: Greg Cosell said heat up. CJ Stroud, let's heat him up.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: And I'm down for that. I'm ready to see what
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: happens when we start to turn up the pressure on
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: these teams. So I'm excited about that. Now, as we
• 25:48
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• 26:40
  Speaker 3: He can't help it. He's a host. When you got
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• 26:46
  Speaker 5: Listen, we flipped the side of the ball.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: DT.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: I do not trust CJ Stroud at all. I said
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: it on Twitter today. I'll say it again. He's trash
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: to me. He's more hype than substance to me. He's
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: more hype than substance to me. Rico, I'll give you
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: a chance to rebuttal. He's more hype than substance to me, DT.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: I'm not worried about this young man. And it's funny
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: because I heard a clip that was floating around on
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: Twitter today while I was working, and it was Greg
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: Cosell saying, turn up the temperature. Turn up the heat
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: on CJ Stroud. He said because a lot of times
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: he'll react to pressure that is perceived that may not
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: actually be there. Isn't that the entire some of the
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: tentpoles of what Jim Leonard is trying to do, DT,
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: with this defense is simulated pressure.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: Five men up at the line. You don't know who's coming.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: You don't know who's dropping back. I'm down. I'm ready.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: I'm ready for him. I'm ready for all the smoke.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: I really am.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: You look at last year, we don't want to, you know,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: dig into too much of last time opponents, but what
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: did they do in, you know, in the nine for
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: 31 game, they went deep to Nico Collins on one
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: of the first plays, right? They went, they went deep
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: to Nico Collins on one of the first plays. He
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: popped his hand me and you know, who they say,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: who knows what would have happened the rest of the game.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: So I think that's their, their method to try to
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: get on us because they know they can't settle into
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: a long game with C.J.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Stroup.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: And so they try to throw those shots and get
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: up early. But he is a lot of hype. He
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: had a down year last year, but he's coming back.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: We talked about healthy and being healthy around Josh. They're
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: all coming back healthier on that side of the ball
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: as well, where he had a lot of guys out
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: most of the year, including his offensive line. They bring
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: in David Montgomery to help split that run game with
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: a strong potential in Woody Marks. So It's healthy, and
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: it's different, and it's new, but I think they're in
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: the same boat where they don't want to go into
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: a long game and have C.J. Stroud gut out a
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: 26 or 31 performance. I think it's going to be
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: a lot younger than that. The quarterback play the past
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: couple games we've seen, granted one was in Australia, so
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: how much you put on it, but the quarterback play
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: has not been good in the last two games. Brock
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Purdy played decent towards the end of the game to
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: pull 49ers away, but hopefully that carries over with C.J.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Stroud being a little rusty on that side of the ball.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: But I think their game plan is going to be
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: to kind of get those big plays early. I hope
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: we're not so susceptible to it where we just can't
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: ever stop it. I just think it might happen a
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: little more often. But, hey, people bitch and bitch and bitch.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: The mafia says, oh, Joe Brady throws too many screens.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Is Sean McDermott limiting this guy? Are we running too much? Well,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: if we start letting off big plays and we get
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: down or we got to go out there, Josh Allen
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: is just going to go out and have to score points.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: So we're not going to have to worry about him
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: being limited by any means. if this defense starts letting
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: off big plays. So glass half full, I guess, on
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: that side, if we can't stop any big plays, but
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: might be more susceptible. We have to attack the ball
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: on defense. Like I said, I'm calling out the defensive line,
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: the trenches, the trenches. You know, I think our defensive
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: backs have proven they can make plays. They got to
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: stay healthy because they're pretty thin back there. But defensive line,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: it all comes down to that. If they can be
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: halfway decent, we are going to be a dominant team
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: this year. And it's going to start off, I think,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Houston coming out, trying to spike us early, trying to
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: get down, take advantage of that deep play early, and
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: not letting C.J. Stroud get into a long, gutted-out game.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Because in those situations, yeah, you're right. I don't believe
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: in them.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: Rico, what's your confidence level for, not necessarily the Bills defense, because, again,
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: it's an unknown.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: It's a huge unknown. What are your thoughts on Houston's offense?
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on C.J. Stroud? I'm interested because
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: now I'm arguing with my boy Frank.
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: Z, and he's cussing me out saying, I mean, he
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: took a janky offensive line to the playoffs three years
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: in a row, and that ain't shit. I mean, listen,
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: I don't trust him. I'm ready for him to prove
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: me wrong. Well, I'm not ready for him to prove
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: me wrong, but if he does, he does. I haven't
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: seen anything worth writing home about since his rookie year.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: That's me personally.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: I mean, listen, we still have to have respect for C.J.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: Stroud because we know what kind of play he can.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: We're all about respect for the opponents. We saw that
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: brother as a rookie, and he lit the league up
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: as a rookie. 4,000 yards passing.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: He looked good.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: The brother was cooking, right?
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: He was cooking.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: I look at the last match. We don't watch the Texans.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: We watch the Bills. So we kind of catch a
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: couple highlights or when he's facing us. So he missed
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: three games last year. Davis Mills came in and did
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: what he needed to do. But then I started looking
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: back to like, okay, so when we lost to them 23-21,
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: Diggs was on the squad. when that day that Josh,
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: he wanted to have that day back. Nine for 30,
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: 131 yards. Bro, CJ Stroud went 28 for 38 against us,
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: 331 yards, 8.7 yards a pop against a defense typically
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: that we usually keep guys at bay from tossing the
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: rock all over the place, right? Obviously, we picked him
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: off once, we sacked him once, but he had a 97.6 rating.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: So it wasn't like he just fell off the horse
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: all of a sudden. So from what I understand, I
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: had my man Rob Landon. Rob Land, excuse me. That
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: he has been working out. Diligently.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: So you're going to see. He cut his hair. I
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: saw that.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: CJ Stroud coming into the game. So we're looking forward
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: to seeing what it. Yeah, I mean, he's a different cat.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: So just working out. You guys already know what time
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: it is, man. Whenever you hear a player say, yo,
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: I've been working out all summer. The summer that Tuatunga
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: Bailoa was learning how to fall down, learning how to jiu-jitsu,
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: learning how to bro. He was working out. He lit
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: the league up.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: He lit the league up.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: He was actually amongst some of the top quarterbacks in
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: the game.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah. What are we talking about? Who isn't
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: working out?
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Like, who's not working out in the summer?
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: These professional athletes.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: Some quarterbacks don't. C.J. Stroud wasn't. This is my point.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: C.J.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Stroud wasn't. He wasn't doing it. There was a point
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: where Josh Allen wasn't really working out heavy during the summer.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: And then there was a one season that he worked
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: out heavy and had a monster season. Bro, you can't
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: tell me that when you really put the work in,
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: you don't see the results.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Yes, they work out.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: But when you really put the work in, bro, you're
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: going to see the results. So that's what Texans fans
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: are expecting from CJ Stroud. Now, whether that turns into
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: something on Sunday, that's a whole nother ballgame. But they're
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: prepared for him to light the skies up and do
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: really good things. But here's the thing. I don't necessarily
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: think The Texans, and this is based on what I
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: was getting from my Texans guy, and he made me
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: really think about it, right? Who did they bring in
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: as a running back for the Texans this offseason?
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: David Montgomery.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: David Montgomery is a bad man. That boy can run
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: the rock. Hard runner. Hard runner. What kind of running
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: back have we had issues defending and stopping?
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Hard runners.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: Hard runners between the tackles hit you in the mouth.
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: So they're going to try to counter it. And try
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: to run the football on us because that's been our weakness.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: Stopping the run. So why am I going to light
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: the skies up when I can run the football? So
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: until we show that we can actually stop the football.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: I do agree with you there. I do agree with
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: you there.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: You see what I'm saying?
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: We're going to have to prove it. We're going to
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: have to prove it.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: We're going to have to prove it. The same way
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: he's going to have to prove that he's back, if
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: you will. We're going to have to prove that we
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: can stop the run. And we don't know that yet.
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: Preseason is preseason. We know that.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: I will give you that.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: We saw the Rams. Everybody thought Rams are going 1-0. Boy,
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: they got blasted. Them boys got blasted, man. So, listen,
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: that's why we love the NFL because any given Sunday,
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: we have things we got to prove on our end.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: I'm giving you guys nuggets that I was going to
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: bring from my show, but you know what I mean?
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: We on the Nickel City crew.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: We going to get it.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: We going to get it popping. So, that's the way
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: I see things. So, let's not get too hyped up
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: and harped up on CJ's job. We got to look
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: at the totality. What was it? Willie Marks?
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Who was the running back for the Texans last year?
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Willie Marks, yeah.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: Rookie, yeah.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: He's second year. A lot of potential.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: A lot of potential. But that wasn't the guy that
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: they were depending on to run the rock. It was
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: Joe Mixon. And Joe Mixon gave us the business. We
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: know Joe Mixon. Joe Mixon didn't play. He's out of
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: the league right now or retired or whatever the case is.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: So Willie Marks wasn't supposed to be that guy. And
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: Chubb was a shell of himself. So now they got
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: themselves a run game. So we'll soon see what this
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: game is going to entail.
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: Go ahead, DT, because one thing that I'm definitely going
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: to agree with Rico on is that we are going
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: to have to prove it. I was going to get
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: a shot in and say this is not McDermott's defense anymore,
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: so I don't want to hear that shit. But he
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: is right about proving it. You are going to have
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: to show that you can talk.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: You have to.
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: Because a team that can run the ball can control clock, DT.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: They can control pace of the game, different things like that.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: If you get rammed in the face, once again– whether
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: it be week one or throughout the season, it will make.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: For a long, long season.
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: It'll make for some long games in respect to the
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: fact that we've got to, we've got to force them
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: into situations where they're relying on CJ. And I will
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: agree with Rico on that. I don't, I don't necessarily
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: don't think that we can. I know that you were
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: a little bit down on the defensive line, DT. I just,
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: I'm ready to see it.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: How about that? I'm ready to see a DT.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: I mean the, what I said earlier, obviously about their
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: game plan being to, to try to get some big
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: pops on us, but, Yes, I think that's still true,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, what's the biggest
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: part about the game plan when you're going up against
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills? The biggest part of the game plan
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: is contain 17, keep 17 off the field, don't let
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: 17 score six touchdowns on you. That's the game plan
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: every time you play the Buffalo Bills. There's really nothing
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: else involved. At the end of the day, it comes
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: down to don't let 17 score six touchdowns on you,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: and the best way to do that is keep them
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: off the field. So yes, in this game plan of
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: of having that new, improved run game, that healthy offensive line,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: they're going to come at a team that's historically known
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: to not be able to stop the run, for sure.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: But that's a point of emphasis. It is a strong
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: point of emphasis, and we worked out in the summer, well,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: we said we're going to stop the run, so we'll
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: see what happens.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: Worked out.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: DT, there you got salty about that. Rico, I like that.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: I mean, you know, everybody works out. I don't really
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: care about C.J. Stroud, but Rico is right about the
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: running game. Now, as we transition, you know, Again, we
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: started the episode with it, Rico, and I don't know, man.
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: It's been House of Horrors. I understand your free throw point.
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: I understand all of it. One of the big things
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: that I've been going through on these Twitter spaces, you
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: know about the Twitter spaces.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: You and I are active on Twitter. We get in
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: these Twitter spaces. I got in arguments the other day
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: with my own fellow Mafia members.
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: Shout out to my boy LeSean and my boy Sheed,
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: who was on the episode the other day. Like, listen,
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: a lot of people in Bill's Mafia on the Twitter
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: spaces want to tell me that this game is not
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: for all the marbles is would be hyperbole, but they
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: are telling me that it's, it's huge.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: It's huge. It's huge.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: It's huge.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: My pushback Rico has been that there are.
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: 16 games after this game.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Now, is it an AFC game?
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: That makes, obviously that's an important game to win. I
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: think that it could have some seating implications. You know, that's,
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: that's right. But my only pushback is that we have
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: no idea. what type of team Houston's going to be.
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: We have no idea what type of team the Bills
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: are going to be. We can assume that Houston will
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: be a front-runner, like you talked about, a Super Bowl
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: contender like us, or at least an AFC contender like ourselves.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: We can assume it, but what did we just watch
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: last night? Everybody wants to crown the Rams, and they
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: come out and they lay an egg. Obviously, it was
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: in Australia, but they come out and lay an egg.
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: Seven points, lowest amount in Stafford's career with the Rams.
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: I push back Rico on that. It being the end
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: all be all on Sunday, because, and that's when or
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: loss when obviously we'll feel great. We get the monkey
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: off our back. We prove that we can beat them
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: a loss. I still feel like everything's right in front
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: of us. How do you feel about it? Because we've
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: had some heated discussions on those Twitter spaces this week, where.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: I'm in the corner that everything's still in front of you.
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: I literally heard Spencer Brown say the same thing yesterday
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: or today, whenever it was talking about, Oh, when then
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: we're going to the Superbowl, if we lose seasons over,
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: obviously he was being sarcastic. I don't, I think that
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: everything is still in front of us if we lose
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: this game. Obviously, we all want to win the game.
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: I don't think that anything is lost um for the
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: season if we lose this game yes it's afc yes
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: it's important but you just don't know how the things
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: are going to play out it's way.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Way too much football left that's my opinion.
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: You're you're not wrong but and here here's where i'm
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: gonna i'm gonna push back on you a little bit because.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: Okay no problem i've been used to it all week
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: And don't.
• 39:43
  Speaker 7: Know it matters.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: I kind of, I like your style. I like your
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: style because you're a bit of a contrarian. And I
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: like that. That makes for good potting. You know what
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: I'm saying? So like to, to just sit there and agree. Yup.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: You're right.
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: No, no, I don't agree, but hear me out. So,
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: so here's the deal. Let's look, let's look at the
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: Ravens last year.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: The Ravens last year, the Ravens go win super confident
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: going up against the bills. They're whooping the bills belt
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: to ass against the bills and the bills come back
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: and beat them 41 40.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: Then the very next game, Ravens play the Lions. They
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: lose 38-30. Now you're 0-2. You lost a conference game
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: to the Bills. Then you lose to a big-time opponent
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: against the Lions. Then you lose to the Texas, get
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: blown out 44-10, okay? Now we're 0-3. You still got
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: the rest of the season ahead of you. No. You
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: are in win-now mode. You're in win-now mode.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: Did you not see the Ravens last year?
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: They were in full panic mode, bro. They had to.
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: Week three, you're not even in October yet, and you're
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: already in win-now mode? You're damn right. It's all for
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: the marbles. This is psychological from last year. This is
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: a tone-setting game. You set the tone by beating the
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: team that everybody thinks is going to be, you know
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: what I mean? Everybody's talking about D'Amico Ryan. Tremendous respect
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: for D'Amico Ryan. You got Daniil Hunter. You got Will Anderson.
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: You got Henry Toto. You got Shigeru. You got Stingley, Petrie. Bro,
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: that's a squad.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. That's a squad. Their defense is real.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: If the Bills come out here and you see the analysts,
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: all analysts are picking Texans.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: I saw that today.
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: Texans. Texans.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: Don't we love that?
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: Yes, you're damn right.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: Take it personal.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: You better come in here and you handle business because now...
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: Z-Bot and I were talking about this last week. The
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: Bills lose.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: What?
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: They're going to dump on us. They are going to
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: dump on us.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: I don't give a damn about the talking heads.
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: But hear me out. But if the Bills win.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: They want to crown us, just like Spencer Brown said.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: They're supposed to win. You feel me? They're supposed to win. So, yes,
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: it freaking matters. And don't play it off like it's nothing,
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: because I absolutely hate going 0-1 to start a season.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: It just aesthetically looks terrible. I just hate 0-1. I
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: prefer 1-0, but who doesn't, right? But going 0-1, then
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: you got to face the Lions.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: You saw the first four games the Bills got to face.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: Tough schedule all around.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: So you lose the first one. You go up against
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: the Lions, and on Thursday night, short week, blah, blah, blah,
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: anything can happen. All of a sudden, Bills are 0-2.
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: Holy smokes. If you don't think– what is it, the saxophones?
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: The saxophones are going to be loud. Bro, we got
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: to handle business against Texas. I'm just saying.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: DT. DT, put me in my place.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: I'm in the middle here. I see it both ways.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: I see it both ways accordingly. That's a great setup,
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: you know, Rico, with taking out– We're got lions. We
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: got literally, we got the lions next week. And, and this, the,
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: we've talked about this schedule all off season is there's no,
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: there's no, there's no breakdowns in it. There's no breakdowns.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: There's you get maybe a Vegas that's on the road
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: and then your divisional opponents, which is, that's it. There's
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: no breakdowns in this whole entire schedule. There's game after
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: game after game. So yes.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: The fact is it's not over because you still have
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: 60 more games and you can lock in and do
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: whatever you have to do.
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: Sure. That's all I'm trying to say.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: But there is a tone of this that there isn't
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: going to be a lot of room for mistakes. But
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about any of that. My focus is.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: If you want to win the Super Bowl, we are
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: a Super Bowl contending team. We are a team that
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: is one of the best quarterbacks in a generation, and
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: we will never see him again, and it'll be the
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: biggest tragedy in the world if he doesn't win a ring.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: It's the worst sports story. He's not a Philip Rivers.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: It's the worst sports story ever if this dude doesn't
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: get a ring. So this is hyper-focused Super Bowl inch
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: by inch by inch by inch. The The New England
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Patriots during their dynasty, I hate their guts, but in
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: their dynasty, week one, no matter who they played, this
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: was a Super Bowl game. That's what greatness is. Perfection
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: is greatness. These inches matter. These inches we miss out
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: on every single year.
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: They do.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: The inches matter, and this going into a team that
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: beats the shit out of you when you have one
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: of the best quarterbacks and you can't see because he
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: goes 9 for 31 and gets sacked eight times last
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: year on primetime. If you want to go change that
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: script because it is perfection. It's not even about the
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Texans or even want to know. It's about going in
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: and dominating. And that's what they need to do to
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: be a Super Bowl winning team. So this it starts now. Yes,
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: the world's not over. They still got 16 games and
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: Josh Allen. We're going to make the playoffs. But on
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: the other end. It could spiral quickly because there are
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: a lot of good teams we play, but I'm in
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: the middle. I'm in the hyper focus of the perfection
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: needed to win a Super Bowl, and it starts here.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: It's the mindset of the entire building, the way you walk,
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: the not stepping on the line, the way you tie
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: your shoe. It all matters, and week one matters bigger
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: than ever against a team that has implications from the
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: past or whatever. Yep. But it's about the perfection. It's
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: about the legacy. It's not about the 16 more games
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: or it's not about the schedule after this. It's about
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: literally perfection to win a Super Bowl. It doesn't matter
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: who it is Sunday. It's got to be one in them.
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter who it is.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: It's got to be one in them.
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: He's squirming right now. He's squirming right now in his seat.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: Ooh, I want to push back so hard.
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: Like I did on those Twitter spaces this week, but
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: I love the energy from you, DT.
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: I love, I love your logic. That's what it tastes.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: That's what it tastes.
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: Listen, I understand.
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: But when people want to tell me, listen, when I
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: was arguing with cats this week, when people want to
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: tell me, they said all the same thing that you
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: guys are saying about psychological. I can go with y'all
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: on that, that psychologically, man, it's going to be man.
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: What did Rico just say? Aesthetically, just doesn't look good.
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: 0-1.
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: In the building, I'm sure it's going to be even worse,
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: you know, than we really wanted to get this game.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: I think because of the opponent, it makes it worse
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: because this is the opponent. Man, we can't beat these motherfuckers. Like,
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: we can't beat.
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: Then they want to talk about playoff matchups and different
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: things like that. That's where I stop. For me, that's
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: where I stop. Yes, I can assume all day that
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: Houston is going to be running the AFC South and
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: they're going to be a division. And then if you
• 46:05
  Speaker 5: lose this game, they want to tell me they lose
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: this game. Then you got to go back to Houston.
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: We don't know what the matchups are going to be.
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: How can we forecast the playoff matches in week two?
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: There's no way that we know what's going to happen.
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: So for me, I'm not going to be happy if
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: we lose the game.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: That doesn't even make any fucking sense.
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: But I am going to keep a perspective and a
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: level head if we lose because, man, that was tough.
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: That team seems to have our number.
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: Hopefully, if we ever have to meet them again, we
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: can- We don't have a choice.
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: Shoot, this season's not over. Composers, let's get back to it. Fellas,
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: let's go.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: We don't have a choice, of course.
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: Right. But we ain't trying to be there. But that's
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: like saying water is wet. Like, of course, all right.
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: That doesn't even need to be said. But for me,
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: I'm going to keep the type of mind frame where
• 46:55
  Speaker 5: If it doesn't work out on Sunday, I am not
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: going to think that the number one seed is out
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: of play, that winning the division is out of play,
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: that getting a chance to host a.
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: Playoff game or whatever. Now we're going to be a
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: wildcard team because we lost to Houston. None of that shit.
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: None of that shit is true.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: But losing is unacceptable. Losing Sunday is unacceptable.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: It's unacceptable.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: It doesn't mean it's over, but it's unacceptable.
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: Okay. Hold on. Hold on. Go ahead, Rico.
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: Hold on.
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Rico. You can have last word on that.
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: I don't want to argue, y'all.
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: Listen, arguing is good.
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: It's healthy. It's healthy. I love it. I love it.
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: What was the record of the Bills? Like, okay, who
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: was the first seed in the league last year?
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: In the conference.
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: I'm getting old.
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: Denver was the one seed in the conference. All we
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: care about is the conference.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: How many games did Denver.
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: Lose last year? 14 and 3. 14 and 3. I'm
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: not saying that we're going to be the one seed.
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: Stop it.
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: Stop it. Stop it, Nickel City crew.
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: 14-3.
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: I'll answer your question.
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: 14-3 was the answer to your question.
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: 14-3.
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: That's what it took to get the number one seed.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: So to say, well, if we lose one game, you
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: know what I mean, we've got the rest of the season. Bro,
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: you can't lose two more. But maybe. Say goodbye to
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: the number one seed.
• 48:11
  Speaker 5: Okay, but we haven't even gotten the one seed.
• 48:14
  Speaker 6: We're starting out the season talking about the one seed?
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: We're already talking about, like, if we lose, it's not
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: a big deal.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: No, it is a big deal.
• 48:19
  Speaker 5: No, I didn't say it wasn't a big deal.
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: Your demeanor's telling me that.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: All hope is not lost. No, I said all hope
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: is not lost. Yeah.
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: All hope is not lost, but they're still like, bro,
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: we can't afford to lose any of these games because
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: it's a conference game. It gets a big-time team. Bro,
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: we're trying to get that number one seed so we
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: can play at home and not worry about going anywhere else.
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: Hell yeah, every damn game matters. And we got to
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: win it right now. It started right now. Rico, DT. Rico, DT.
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: Are we going 17-0? Raise your hand if we're going 17-0.
• 48:46
  Speaker 5: Go ahead.
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: For the audience. I'll put the bet in. If you
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: ask Pierre, he'll tell you 17-0. I believe in it.
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: That's bloviating.
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: I'm not talking about record. I'm talking about the perfection
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: needed to be.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: A champion in this league. And we have not reached
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: that perfection because we've been sloppy in different corners and
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: different areas. Of a regular season. We need to mop
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: up those corners to win a championship. And beating this
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: team is a good corner to follow. mop up in
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: week one.
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: I'm with DT on it. Hey, ring the bell for DT, man.
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: Ring the bell. I'm with y'all on that. Okay. No problem. Listen,
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: I mean, I like it, man. I like it.
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: It's a good, it's a good debate. I, you know,
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: and I, and I am a really appreciative of your
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: time tonight. Rico, and I know that you've got your
• 49:39
  Speaker 5: own show to do soon. So we'll wrap up on that. Listen,
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: the Nickel City Crew tailgate report is presented by Queen
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: City Vintage. Head on over to Queen City Vintage. I
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: know the DT said that they just had their annual
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: sale this last week. Listen, they're on Elmwood right across
• 49:53
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  Speaker 5: got giveaways each and every week starting next week. We've
• 50:00
  Speaker 5: got the giveaways coming for y'all. We're going to take
• 50:02
  Speaker 5: care of y'all. Listen, our boy Nick and Kai, they've
• 50:05
  Speaker 5: got you covered. Over there at Queen City Vintage, all
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: of the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres nostalgic gear, the drip,
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: as the kids say. They've got it all for you, man.
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: Check them out, Queen City Vintage on Elmwood across from
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: 40 Thieves. Okay, as we wrap up tonight then, Rico,
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: I know it's been a while since you've been on
• 50:22
  Speaker 5: the crew.
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: It was last year. Tell us how you're consuming the
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: game on Sunday. Report. Let us know what your plans
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: are up there across the border. You are the North.
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: We are the North. What you doing? How you getting ready?
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: Listen, we do it every year the same way. We
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: have the 80 screen TV, the 80 inch screen TV. Listen,
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: I told wife when we moved into this new place,
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: I said, listen, I don't need a whole lot. Give
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: me my space so I can do my podcasting and
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: all my stuff and give me my 80 inch TV
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: so I can chill out and play my PlayStation and
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: watch the game. I got the two things I needed.
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: The rest, you can do what you want. I will
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: be watching the game at home, solo, dolo, like I
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: like to do it.
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: And you know what I mean? I'll have my sodas.
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: I'll have my food. We'll do it all up. And
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: hoping for a phenomenal game because I know it's going
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: to be a tough one.
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: It is. And we got to start 1-0, man. We
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: just got to start 1-0.
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: It just looks good going to 1-0, going into the
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: Thursday night game against the Detroit Lions at home. Bro, like,
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: what more do you want, baby?
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: We got to go. I can't go into 0-1. yes
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: getting into a new season i.
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: Thought come on bro though we can't do that we
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: gotta win it man so that's how you win and
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: then you win and.
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: Then you win and then you win you're.
• 51:32
  Speaker 5: Seven and one and you're like damn everything's still in
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: front of us but all right no problem i'll let
• 51:36
  Speaker 5: you live i'll let you live i'll let you live
• 51:38
  Speaker 5: listen tell them where they could check you out rico
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: we really appreciate your time tonight again the co-founder of
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: buffalo fanatics listen.
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: I appreciate you before you even tell people where you
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: can find me listen nickel city crew buffalo fan base
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: yo listen Great stuff. They got a good crew out
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: there putting content out. People don't realize how tough it
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: is to consistently put content out and keep the conversation going.
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: So I appreciate you guys for having me on. Hope
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: I was able to bring a little energy to it.
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: Keep it going.
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: I got to match your energy. So I had to
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: come through. But y'all can find me, the Rico Report
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: on the Buffalo Fanatics. I'm live every Tuesday night. every
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: wednesday night with my guy the thot and a few
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: other people and i'm back at it with my boy
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: re uh bot rico and bot on friday nights and
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: then we do the pre-game live game with my man
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: pierre and then the post game on the buffalo fanatic
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: so all things buffalo fanatics you can catch me on
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: twitter rico underscore bf y'all know what time it is.
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: Man i appreciate you rico man we really do man
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: enjoy your time up there you said dolo watching the
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: game on the 80 inch.
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: I can't, I can't be mad at you, man.
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: Listen, get something to eat, get something, some poutine or
• 52:42
  Speaker 5: whatever they eat up there in Canada.
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: That poutine will, will, will rival your beef on whack.
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: I ain't mad at you, man. I ain't mad.
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: I'm just teasing you, man. We, we really appreciate your time.
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: Appreciate you boss.
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: DT. Yo Rico.
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: Nice.
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: I appreciate you guys.
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: DT. What?
• 53:01
  Speaker 5: I want to get back to the conversation so bad,
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: but I am going to let, I'm going to let
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: Rico live, man. It was great debate, and I love it,
• 53:09
  Speaker 5: and that's why I love differing opinions, DT.
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: You already know that.
• 53:13
  Speaker 5: I don't ever want to sound like an echo chamber.
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: That doesn't make for good content. I always want to
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: be able to have some good banter, so that was
• 53:19
  Speaker 5: really good.
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: I can't wait to listen back to it.
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: DT, I will go first because I think that you've
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: got a little bit more planned than I do in
• 53:26
  Speaker 5: that respect, but again, we talked about it a little
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: bit last week, DT. The tailgate report for me, we
• 53:31
  Speaker 5: are really excited. I told you that It is my oldest,
• 53:34
  Speaker 5: King Bobby. Your nephew, his 15th birthday on Sunday, 9-13.
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: I mean, freshman on the block. I asked him, I
• 53:41
  Speaker 5: was like, what do you want, man? Think about it.
• 53:43
  Speaker 5: What do you want on the menu? He came back
• 53:45
  Speaker 5: to me earlier this week. He said, Dad, I know
• 53:47
  Speaker 5: what I want on the menu. I said, what you
• 53:48
  Speaker 5: want on the menu, son? He said, I want some
• 53:49
  Speaker 5: blue cheeseburgers. I said, yes, no, no problem. We got you.
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: So when I say blue cheeseburger, he's talking about the
• 53:55
  Speaker 5: official with the actual crumble in it. So, you know,
• 53:57
  Speaker 5: you season up that meat, that ground beef, and then
• 54:00
  Speaker 5: go ahead on and And mixing those blue cheese crumbles, man.
• 54:02
  Speaker 5: And then that shit melts on the grill, man. It's
• 54:05
  Speaker 5: just so good. And we got the Blackstone. You've been
• 54:08
  Speaker 5: down here. You see how I set up. So we'll
• 54:10
  Speaker 5: have a party here at the house, man, with all
• 54:13
  Speaker 5: the kids there. Ivy will be with her mother. But
• 54:16
  Speaker 5: other than that, all my kings will be with me, man.
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: Cannot wait. 1 o'clock kickoff. And we're going.
• 54:21
  Speaker 5: To celebrate Bobby's birthday. Obviously, we'll have a cake or
• 54:23
  Speaker 5: something like that for him. And I'm excited, man.
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: Anytime. What do we always say? Bill's. The Mafia is family.
• 54:31
  Speaker 5: The Mafia football, it just all meshes. And damn near
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: all my babies are in football season. Three out of
• 54:38
  Speaker 5: four are in football season. So I can't wait for it.
• 54:41
  Speaker 5: I'm very excited about it. Again, he wants blue cheeseburgers
• 54:44
  Speaker 5: on the menu. We are going to make it happen.
• 54:46
  Speaker 5: Probably some fresh cut fries. That's how his mom rolls.
• 54:49
  Speaker 5: So she's probably going to want some fresh cut fries
• 54:51
  Speaker 5: and stuff like that. So we're going to get it right, man.
• 54:53
  Speaker 5: We'll be right here at the Crippin' Household. Everybody just
• 54:56
  Speaker 5: watching it and enjoying it. So that's me, man. We're
• 54:58
  Speaker 5: keeping it simple. But we give him the birthday boy
• 55:00
  Speaker 5: what he wants, man. And that's it, man. We will
• 55:02
  Speaker 5: be right here at the crib celebrating Bobby's birthday.
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: Love that.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: Love that. Bobby, happy birthday, Bobby.
• 55:09
  Speaker 5: 15.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: Isn't that crazy?
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: He's driving the Infinity.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: He's going to be driving the Infinity soon.
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, man. That's crazy.
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: It's wild to me. It's wild. Wild.
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: Well, shout out.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: Happy birthday, Bobby. You guys, you know, that's going to
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: be a good day. That's going to be a good day.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: Tell all the boys I said what's up. Yep, let's go.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: Big week. Shout-out last week, Kai and Paige, listeners to
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: the show, Die Hard. They had their volleyball tournament, their
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: pool volleyball tournament. We started out there. We did the
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: show from there and then rocked it Saturday. Your boy
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: DT took them all the way to the championship, went
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: all the way to the ship.
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: What happened?
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: But didn't get it done. Paige, shout-out Paige, the champion,
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: the host. She won it, and her team was our
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: boy Brett. You know Brett. Oh! And my old roommate,
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: my old roommate, Lubai, Zach Lubai. So the three of
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: them took it home. We went to the ship, and
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: they were too tall of a task for us. So
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: shout out Paige and her squad.
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: You didn't do enough.
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: You didn't clean up your corners and all this other shit.
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: You weren't committed to perfection. I was not perfect. I
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: was not perfect. Yeah, ask anybody after that, including my mother.
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: But continue on. So this week, the main tailgate, we
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: lock in. 1 p.m. Eastern, heading down to the old,
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: you know, the Panama City home base.
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: Oh, you're going back home. Okay.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: Yep, back with my besties, Kai and Paige, my parents,
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: Kai's parents. They do a big Sunday showdown every week.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: They have a great game day. Shout out Cheney Road.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: We're going to do it right. The Double TVs, Kai's dad, Jeff,
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: has got a Sloppy Joe platter on the menu, and
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: he does everything. It's going to be awesome. It's going
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: to be a hit. It's going to be a hit.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: Nice day, good weather, 1 p.m. Eastern, indoor-outdoor television. We
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: got good vibes everywhere. 1-0. They're big Vikings fans at
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: the end, so boom, 4 o'clock Vikings, but all focus
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: on the 17 and the boys at 1 p.m. So
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: we're ready to rock. Sloppy Joe's, Cheney Road, 1 p.m.
• 57:07
  Speaker 4: Eastern.
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: I'm down with that. Look at that.
• 57:10
  Speaker 5: You're back in your old stomping grounds in Panama City
• 57:13
  Speaker 5: with some Sloppy Joe's, man, for game day.
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: I can't be mad. How can I be mad at that?
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: Just make sure that you got a bib on. I
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: can't be mad. Don't wear the jersey.
• 57:20
  Speaker 5: Don't get nothing on the white jersey or the Knickles
• 57:22
  Speaker 5: of the Crew jersey, whatever the case, man.
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: I can't be mad at that.
• 57:25
  Speaker 5: Listen, I'm so damn excited about this season, DT, and
• 57:30
  Speaker 5: you already know that.
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: And please don't let this argument let.
• 57:32
  Speaker 5: Y'all think that I'm the old Robinson, Cripson on Knickles
• 57:35
  Speaker 5: of the Crew, that he's okay losing.
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: That's not what the fuck I said. Please do not
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: put words in my mouth. Everybody wants the Bills to
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: go 17-0. I want them to go 17-0.
• 57:44
  Speaker 5: I'm realistic, and I understand that we're placing we're getting
• 57:47
  Speaker 5: ready to face a tough opponent. And like DT said
• 57:50
  Speaker 5: many times throughout the episode, Rico said it, an opponent
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: that has had our numbers. It is going to be
• 57:54
  Speaker 5: good for the psyche if we can go ahead and
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: exercise that demon and get them off of our backs.
• 57:59
  Speaker 5: That would be a huge thing for the psyche. The
• 58:02
  Speaker 5: only thing I was trying to say is if the
• 58:03
  Speaker 5: season's not over, we don't lose. And yes, it would
• 58:05
  Speaker 5: fuck up the psyche. You go back and you win
• 58:08
  Speaker 5: against Detroit for the home opener. I mean, that place,
• 58:10
  Speaker 5: I can't imagine a world where we lose that home opener.
• 58:12
  Speaker 5: And that's just me personally. I understand a short rest.
• 58:15
  Speaker 5: I just can't imagine the first game at the new
• 58:18
  Speaker 5: Ralph that we lose.
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: I just, I just, I, I, in my mind, I
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: can't see it.
• 58:21
  Speaker 5: So I'm really excited for Sunday DT. I mean, a
• 58:24
  Speaker 5: great opponent. You're right about it.
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: There's no, you and Rico told nothing but the truth tonight,
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: a great opponent. I respect them more than you do.
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: I don't respect. I know, but the defense division, the
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: D the defense is legit.
• 58:39
  Speaker 5: And we have seen it obviously firsthand. So we'll see
• 58:41
  Speaker 5: how it goes on Sunday, but listen out there, everybody
• 58:44
  Speaker 5: just have just a great time, man. It's, I know
• 58:46
  Speaker 5: a bunch of people.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, man.
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: Sheed going down there. My boy LeSean going down there
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: to Houston. Everybody enjoy it.
• 58:51
  Speaker 5: Be safe, whether you're at home, whether you're going to
• 58:54
  Speaker 5: the game, whatever you're doing, just be safe out there.
• 58:57
  Speaker 5: And I'm excited, DT. Like, if week one, like, I'm
• 59:04
  Speaker 5: so damn excited that I'm going.
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: To be nervous by the time it kicks off, DT.
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: You already know me.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: This is what we do it for, football. is family
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: mafia's family it's all it's nickel city crew baby this
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: is what we do this is what we do week
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: by week before we know it it's it's christmas it's
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: new year's it's super bowl and hopefully we're in it
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: but this is what we do it for it's the
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: best it's the best It's everyone around you loves it.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: And everyone around you loves 17. And that just makes
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: it even better. So I can't wait. I can't wait.
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: It's 1 p.m.
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: Eastern.
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: We're ready to go. It's finally here. And then it
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: just starts rolling and rolling and rolling. And let's stay
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: positive and perfect. Positive and perfect.
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: We're going to win. We're going to win. We're going
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: to win. We're going to win. There is no just.
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: We're going to win. So I'm excited. I'm going to
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: keep all.
• 59:52
  Speaker 5: Thoughts positive like DT just implored me to, and I am.
• 59:54
  Speaker 5: I do expect us to win the game. I think
• 59:57
  Speaker 5: that it's a game that we can win regardless of
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 5: the past. That's literally how I started the episode. I
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 5: don't think the past affects the future. I understood Rico's point,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 5: but I think that we can exercise those demons.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: It's a new team. What does DT always say?
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 5: New team, new ring, new stadium, all that.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: It's new, man. Everything is new.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 5: I do have a lot of optimism about that. Listen,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 5: I'm excited, DT. Give me One game, and we'll end
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 5: on that. Give me one game for you bettors out there,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 5: the betting community. Give me one game this week for
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 5: the underdog. I know that obviously a lot of people
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 5: would have loved to say San Francisco.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: Last night if they would have known. I should have known.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 5: I was happy I didn't gamble on that game because
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 5: I knew better than all that hype being praised and
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 5: heaped on the Rams.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: What have you got?
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 5: Give me one sleeper, one underdog that can win this week.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 5: I've got mine picked out.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: The worst two teams on the slate, Jets, Titans. I
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: like the Jets on the road against the Titans.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: Take them. Get them maybe plus 120.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: I like it, yeah.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think at this point in time with
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 5: Tua being out, now the Steelers are probably going to
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 5: be the favorite because they were already at home. I'll
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 5: take the Packers. on the road against your Vikings.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: I know that you got some fans in there. I know.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: No Micah Parsons and stuff like that.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: I know they got guys like that. I don't think
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: you can tell.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 5: Hey, man, listen, you can get mad at me, but
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 5: I do think that Green Bay is going to be
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 5: a tough team out there in the NFC this year.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 5: So we'll see how it goes, man. Listen, out there, everybody,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 5: please enjoy week one. Spread love, not hate. We've got
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 5: enough fucking hate going around in this world. Spread love,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 5: not hate. These were my Bill's thoughts said out loud.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 5: Hit them with a Go Bills DT. Ain't nothing else
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 5: to do it but to do it. Like, ain't nothing
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 5: else to do but to do it.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: This is what we do it for. Joe Brady says,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: put the ball down and we play. Put the ball
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: down and we play. 1 p.m. Eastern, 1-0, Go Bills.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: I love it, Go Bills. I love it, I love it,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: I love it.