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S5 E6: Hard Knock Mafia · Nickel City Crew Podcast

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Speaker 1: Fifteen decrease.
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Speaker 2: You can see your breath.
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Speaker 1: Out in the lake effect. Breaking tables like guitar would
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Speaker 1: you here?
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Speaker 2: Where's would you have to be?
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Speaker 1: And do ron Elvis in the lay panchol the members
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Speaker 1: that you need to know.
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Speaker 2: I won't you out here? Now?
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Speaker 1: Your family? Where's would you have to be?
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Speaker 2: Where's would you have be? Welcome into the Nickel City Crew.
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Speaker 2: I am your host, Rob Crippen. Please like us on
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Speaker 2: City Crew. This episode, along with all of our episodes,
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Speaker 2: stream Yard. We're so glad that you're joining us for
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Speaker 2: some of your Buffalo Bills and NFL content again today
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Speaker 2: and as always, the he's on my Bill's thoughts set
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Speaker 2: out loud?
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Speaker 1: It so ridiculous? Was six the show?
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Speaker 2: Where's what you want to be? All right, let's get
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Speaker 2: straight to it. Really excited for today's episode, this afternoon's episode.
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Speaker 2: Computers are very very frustrating, and we apologized for yesterday.
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Speaker 2: I apologize personally, came ready to go. Uh, talked to
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Speaker 2: my co host pre show. I had a nice chance
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Speaker 2: to catch up on our week and then went to
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Speaker 2: my computer and the internet Wi Fi was gone. Didn't
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Speaker 2: do anything wrong, went and checked my router, my mote
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Speaker 2: of everything's on, everything's clicking, and it's just gone. So
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Speaker 2: needless to say, I had a really tough time. But
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Speaker 2: I finally had a chance to catch somebody on YouTube
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Speaker 2: and they helped me through it with a tutorial. And
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Speaker 2: it was just very, very frustrating because I am not
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Speaker 2: computer savvy. I'm not tech savvy, as you guys all
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Speaker 2: know out there. So my apologies for yesterday's missed episode,
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Speaker 2: but we click clack, we're right back joining me this afternoon.
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Speaker 2: My co host writing Shotgun as always Adam Dump truck rucks.
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Speaker 2: Check them out on Instagram, Twitter at Adam repsick, are
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Speaker 2: you Peach c z y k? How at the crew dt?
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Speaker 2: I guess hey, better late than never, Better late than never? Baby?
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Speaker 1: Hey, Yeah, no no harm, no foul were out here?
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Speaker 2: Rob?
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Speaker 1: What's some nicol City?
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Speaker 2: What's up?
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Speaker 1: Rob? Yeah? Yesterday was a decent day. People might have
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Speaker 1: been out and about today. Kind of cold in buff.
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Speaker 1: I know our listeners aren't only located in Buff but
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Speaker 1: anybody around a good day to kind of sit back
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Speaker 1: and listen to the crew this afternoon, this gloomy forty
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Speaker 1: degree you know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely well, I'm really excited and we do. Thank
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Speaker 2: you guys for joining us. Again, my apologies for yesterday,
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Speaker 2: but I wanted to get into a couple of things
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Speaker 2: with you, DT, because this is that time of year
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Speaker 2: before summer break where everybody's trying to come up with
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Speaker 2: something to talk about. Everybody looks great at OTAs and
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Speaker 2: shorts and shells, and nobody's actually hitting or doing much
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Speaker 2: of real work, but everybody's got an opinion on everything.
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Speaker 2: So I wanted to touch on a few different topics
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Speaker 2: for sure. And you were out last week. We missed out.
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Speaker 2: So a happy blated birthday to the mama of the crew,
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Speaker 2: Mama Rupsick. It was our birthday and DT was celebrating
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Speaker 2: with Mama Rupsick. So we missed you guys last week.
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Speaker 2: But we're back. Click clack, We're back, DT. You missed
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Speaker 2: the news Man last week. Our bills are featured on
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Speaker 2: HBO's Hard Knocks. When I saw it come on Twitter
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Speaker 2: last week, I couldn't do anything but smile. And the
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Speaker 2: reason is because I'm selfish and because I love that show.
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Speaker 2: And I love the behind the scenes looks. I know
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Speaker 2: that the Bills may not be necessarily thrilled about it
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Speaker 2: in respect of the Brass and Vandon Bean and Sean McDermott,
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Speaker 2: but as a consumer, as entertainment product, I'm excited. Man,
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Speaker 2: I'm really excited about Hard Knocks because I think it's
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Speaker 2: a good I think it's a great peek into the
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Speaker 2: to the backstories of of some of the Buffalo Bills
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Speaker 2: that we love and we follow. And if you've ever
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Speaker 2: watched that show, and I know a lot of you know,
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Speaker 2: NFL fans and Bill's Mafia fans have over the years,
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Speaker 2: you get some good content for sure, whether it be
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Speaker 2: those backstories for those underdogs, or whether it be some
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Speaker 2: type of rift between some type of teammates or whatever
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Speaker 2: the case may be. Then you've got to get a
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Speaker 2: chance to see some of the families and different things
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Speaker 2: like that. HBO does a really great job of highlighting
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Speaker 2: some of those backstories. And we're going to talk about
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Speaker 2: one that probably is going to be fort and Center. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think our this squad is has a
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Speaker 1: lot of character in, it has a lot of storylines in,
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Speaker 1: it has the MVP of the league in it. You know,
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Speaker 1: there's so many ways they can kind of go the
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Speaker 1: olden days of Hard Knocks, Like the show Hard Knocks was,
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Speaker 1: you know, kind of the gritty training camp show.
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Speaker 2: It was.
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Speaker 1: It showed the pops. It showed people literally grind into
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Speaker 1: making an NFL roster, and you know, and kind of
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Speaker 1: following that over the years, I think personal opinion's gotten
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Speaker 1: a little softer as you know, you get in. But
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Speaker 1: they're also on some bad teams, you know, and that
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Speaker 1: was kind of the rule. A bunch of bad teams
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Speaker 1: get it to give them a little exposure or whatever.
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Speaker 1: That rule change this year and HBO couldn't have picked
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Speaker 1: the bills quick enough, you know, they said, well, if
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Speaker 1: we can get anybody, we want to go, you know,
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Speaker 1: after these guys. So I think it's it's gonna be good.
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Speaker 1: They've done it, you know, for so long. They got
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Speaker 1: to know, like it's a professional deal. You know, it's
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Speaker 1: not gonna be that much of a distraction. They're probably
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Speaker 1: gonna be around, but there's cameras around these guys all
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Speaker 1: the time anyway, So I don't think it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: much of a distraction. I think they hit a gold
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Speaker 1: mine with you know, opportunities that can go with this team,
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Speaker 1: and yeah, we know the greatness of the Bills, we
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Speaker 1: know the greatness of Josh Allen, and it's starting to
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Speaker 1: kind of creep into the world and people like watching
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Speaker 1: them on primetime and you know, the Bills are kind
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Speaker 1: of the New America's team, as some people say, and
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Speaker 1: I think after this, you know it's gonna be there's
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Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of extra fans out there. We
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Speaker 1: got to take advantage of nicchol City crew, gather up
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Speaker 1: some of the people coming in on the Hard Knock
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Speaker 1: crowd and you know, really seeing what this team is
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Speaker 1: and you know, the the identity and the culture of
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Speaker 1: this team that's very consistent the past, you know, Sentence
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Speaker 1: mcdermom bean and Josh Allen era has been very consistent.
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Speaker 1: And now the world kind of gets to see that.
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Speaker 1: So I'm excited a lot of different ways they can go.
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Speaker 1: Gonna be some good storylines and you know what what
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Speaker 1: better way to kind of put put our labor out
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Speaker 1: on the onto the Grand Scheme.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny because you know when I look at
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Speaker 2: it and I think about that show and obviously, you know,
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Speaker 2: they just did their first or I think it might
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Speaker 2: have been first or second training camp, but it was
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Speaker 2: like the off season version last year with the Giants.
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Speaker 2: And obviously Joe Shane catches a lot of shit because
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Speaker 2: of his comments about, you know, year for them. Yeah, right, absolutely,
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Speaker 2: And and I don't think that there's anything that we
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Speaker 2: can really step in too much. I know that there's
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Speaker 2: one topic for sure that they're going to cover that
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Speaker 2: we want to talk about here in a quick minute.
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Speaker 2: But when it's when it comes to like stepping in
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Speaker 2: it or something like that, these guys really don't do that.
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Speaker 2: Brandon Bean doesn't do that. Sean McDermott is the king
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Speaker 2: of not really saying anything. Same thing with Josh Allen.
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Speaker 2: He kind of keeps at vanilla. So I don't expect
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Speaker 2: there be there to be any bombshells or any really
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Speaker 2: opportunities for them to step in in it because the
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Speaker 2: fact that there's really not much for them to come
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Speaker 2: after us for the draft's over, so you're not going
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Speaker 2: to be seeing the draft board or remember last year
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Speaker 2: they had caught a clip of different color codes and
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Speaker 2: everybody's wondering what the color codes meant. So he don't
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Speaker 2: have to worry about the draft and it's really just
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Speaker 2: a training camp thing. Now, what are some of the
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Speaker 2: things that you think that they're going to go over.
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Speaker 2: I know that we're getting ready to talk about Jimmy
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Speaker 2: Cooks in a minute, but besides him and his contract situation,
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Speaker 2: I think that Keon Coleman has got to be one
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Speaker 2: of the front and center really candidates for them to watch.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's funny, he's charismatic. He comes into Buffalo
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Speaker 2: last year with the cookies and the coat and stuff
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Speaker 2: like that, and then he has a little bit of adversity.
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Speaker 2: You know, he starts out the year a little bit slow.
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Speaker 2: Then he kind of picks up on that trajectory I
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Speaker 2: had in like a five game stretch where he was
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Speaker 2: starting to show himself and starting to play really well.
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Speaker 2: Highlight about that Seattle game. And then after that he
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Speaker 2: got hurt and it was a little bit you know,
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Speaker 2: it was much to be desired, and then really it
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Speaker 2: kind of all came to a d which I definitely
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Speaker 2: expect to hear, which was you know, Brandon Beanan and
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Speaker 2: Sean McDermott kind of calling him out and cincad out
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Speaker 2: at the end of the year and just kind of
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Speaker 2: talking about we need more from him. We need him
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Speaker 2: to be a professional, We need him to understand how
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Speaker 2: to handle himself after he comes back from injuries. I
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Speaker 2: think that Keon Coleman is i mean front and center
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Speaker 2: besides seventeen and him getting married and stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: This weekend, this is going to be a storyline that
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Speaker 2: they're going to follow Keon Coleman. He's gold for any
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Speaker 2: type of producer. You never know what's going to come on.
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Speaker 1: Walking SoundBite and video clip for sure. I mean they're
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Speaker 1: probably gonna have a team just separate to just follow
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Speaker 1: him around, you know, the whole time. Name so, I
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Speaker 1: think he's definitely gonna be one. Obviously, they're going to
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Speaker 1: be able to highlight, you know, seventeen and the offseason.
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Speaker 1: You know, you you know you're going to see a
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Speaker 1: few golf clips. The boys are going to be golfing
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Speaker 1: in training camp, and you know, they'll probably follow around
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Speaker 1: to golf with the boys and another I like the
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Speaker 1: rookies coming in. Bills kind of do their own version.
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Speaker 2: Of the Bills embedded.
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Speaker 1: The Hard Knocks with the embedded series, right that's and
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Speaker 1: they do a really good job with that and the
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Speaker 1: media team and that's kind of basically what Hard Knocks is.
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Speaker 1: It's just the Bills version of it. And the one
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Speaker 1: they did on the draft with these guys come in
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Speaker 1: and I thought was very good, and there seems like
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of character. You know, we always have
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Speaker 1: Mad Max and the way he kind of his his
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Speaker 1: you know, enthusiasm, and that's gonna be good and trying
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Speaker 1: to make the team and it's it's a team of
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Speaker 1: veterans too, you know, so there's gonna be a lot
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Speaker 1: of Dion Dawkins. I think is gonna be obviously in
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Speaker 1: the spotlight of that, and he likes the when the
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Speaker 1: camera's on him and he gets the people going when
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Speaker 1: it comes to that. So definitely, Keon Coleman, I think
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Speaker 1: we'll see a little golf uh Dion Dawkins, and then
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Speaker 1: I think the personality of these rookies is really gonna
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Speaker 1: shine up too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, I agree with you. Now as we transition
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Speaker 2: a little bit, and it kind of it bleeds into
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Speaker 2: the Hard Knocks thing for sure, because O tas are
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Speaker 2: underway and the Bills are are are fast at it,
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Speaker 2: and Josh Allen showed up and and I know that
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Speaker 2: he got out of town because he rumors are that
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Speaker 2: he's getting married this weekend, and I saw a picture
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Speaker 2: on TMZ or something like that yesterday on Twitter and
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Speaker 2: talking about Josh Allen lands in California. He has got
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Speaker 2: his golf clubs with him, so that golf claim that
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Speaker 2: you're talking about. He's always ready to golf and get ready.
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Speaker 2: But some of the things that I think that they
10:16
Speaker 2: can be touching on Joey Bosa shows up. They said
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Speaker 2: last week Thursday he got hurt pulled. I think it
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Speaker 2: was a calf or something like that, So he's out.
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Speaker 2: Sean McDermott actually says that you really don't expect to
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Speaker 2: see him the rest of the summer until training camp.
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Speaker 2: So I know that they're getting ready for the OTAs.
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Speaker 2: One more week of those and then they'll break for summer.
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Speaker 2: And he's pretty much said that Joey Bosa is going
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Speaker 2: to be on the shelf. What are your thoughts on
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Speaker 2: Joey Bosa. I know that I've saw a lot of
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Speaker 2: fodder on Twitter and back and forth and stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: My position, DT is that I really don't care, just
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Speaker 2: because of the fact that it's May and we're getting
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Speaker 2: ready to turn the calendar to June tomorrow. But I
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Speaker 2: need this guy ready for January to terrorize quarterbacks. I
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Speaker 2: understand that it's a concern because he just got here
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Speaker 2: and it's another one of those soft tissue injuries, but
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Speaker 2: I really don't even I'm not expecting much from him
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Speaker 2: in respects to earlier on in the year. I understand
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Speaker 2: that they've got that six game suspension for Hoyton and
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Speaker 2: Ogunjobi the bash brothers, but really I'm really looking forward
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Speaker 2: to seeing what Joey Bosa can do if he can
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Speaker 2: stay healthy when it comes time for January, man, you know,
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Speaker 2: December football, January football, playoff football in the hopefully end
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Speaker 2: of February. That's that's really when I need this guy
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Speaker 2: to step up. I'm not too concerned just because of
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Speaker 2: you know, the calendar. It's it's only getting ready to
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Speaker 2: be June.
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Speaker 1: Sure, it is. It is kind of far out. It's
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Speaker 1: not like we got, you know, a playoff game this
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Speaker 1: Sunday and he's out for or anything like that. But
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Speaker 1: you know, kind of the concern. That's why we got him,
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Speaker 1: you know, because his his free agency came up, and
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Speaker 1: the Chargers did, wouldn't We're kind of sketchy on investing
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Speaker 1: back in him because of the injuries. We get him,
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Speaker 1: I think for a decent deal and you know, he
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Speaker 1: comes here on a one year, proven deal and you know, oh,
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Speaker 1: if he's not injured, he's gonna be a beast and
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Speaker 1: he's gonna make his money and we're good. We don't
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Speaker 1: even get to the first team practice, you know, and
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Speaker 1: he's injured. So it's a little discouraging knowing like the
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Speaker 1: history of him is this, and then he's right on
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Speaker 1: on character, you know, right out of the gate and
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Speaker 1: you know, popping it. But you're right, the calendar isn't
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Speaker 1: you know, it's not like we got a game tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: It's not even if he's ready through training camp, you know,
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Speaker 1: like you said, we're gonna even late in the season. Uh,
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Speaker 1: the kind of thing with von Miller. Came in, had
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Speaker 1: a great start to the year and then popped his
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Speaker 1: acl on Thanksgiving and you know, we don't see him again.
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Speaker 1: If we had a choice, we would all obviously picked
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Speaker 1: him to have that second half of the season and
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Speaker 1: been out. You know, if you had to be out
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Speaker 1: half the season, be out the first half and come
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Speaker 1: back to the second half. So this isn't anything that's
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Speaker 1: going to sideline this guy, you know, through training camp
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Speaker 1: or anything like that. But I would, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: a little you might want to take couraging knowing this
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Speaker 1: is kind of them of this guy, and that's why
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Speaker 1: he's on the move in the first place. We get
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Speaker 1: him on kind of a risk and then right away
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Speaker 1: he's already you know, already popped it, so we'll see.
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Speaker 1: I'm with you, like you kind of talk me down
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Speaker 1: a little. I'm not too concerned, but it is just like,
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Speaker 1: come on, like that really had to happen, you know now,
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Speaker 1: but maybe maybe it's a good thing it never happens again.
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Speaker 1: He is a great year with us, and it's all
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Speaker 1: it's all worth it. But it just kind of setting
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Speaker 1: up to me that this is you know, this might
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Speaker 1: be the situation more than once.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree with you on that. I think
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Speaker 2: that there might be something about it. And that's why
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Speaker 2: I said we might have to ease up off the
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Speaker 2: gas of him. And I don't think that they're working
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Speaker 2: him hard or anything like that in respects to OTAs
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Speaker 2: or anything like that. He might have just had something
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Speaker 2: going where he's practicing that he pulls a calf. It's
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Speaker 2: discouraging because, like you said, it's soft tissue, it's non contact,
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Speaker 2: and this is kind of his his mo o and
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Speaker 2: his theme. However, it might just want to it might
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Speaker 2: serve as a warning to the Bills and the training
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Speaker 2: staff to just make sure that we ease up on
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Speaker 2: this guy. We don't need to take it too hard
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Speaker 2: with him in respects to the off season. Let's get
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Speaker 2: him ready to go for September and then we'll ease
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Speaker 2: him into it and kind of ramp him up as
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Speaker 2: we get towards the back end of the season. Now,
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Speaker 2: as we transition. One of the number one things that
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Speaker 2: Hard Knocks is notorious for. I remember in the day DT.
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Speaker 2: I don't even know if you were watching back then,
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Speaker 2: but the Jets were featured. It was back when Rex
14:04
Speaker 2: Ryan was with them, the whole let's go get a
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Speaker 2: goddamn snack. Well, that particular year was the Revus Island
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Speaker 2: and it was just a huge deal. I mean it
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Speaker 2: was a big, big problem. Revius was not there. You know,
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Speaker 2: they were wondering what was going on. I remember this
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Speaker 2: one time, towards the conclusion of it, they showed Rex
14:23
Speaker 2: Ryan going to some restaurant to meet previous at his agent.
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Speaker 2: They didn't go in. They weren't allowed to go into
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Speaker 2: the restaurant, so they just got the camera outside of
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Speaker 2: the restaurant and then all of a sudden they come
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Speaker 2: out and the deal's done, and they're you know, they're
14:33
Speaker 2: queuing up ESPN and Scheffner. They're talking about they struck
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Speaker 2: a deal with the Revs. But one of the things
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Speaker 2: that Hard Knox loves, and it's juicy for their content,
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Speaker 2: is a contract dispute or some type of rift between
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Speaker 2: the team and player. And we obviously saw that play
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Speaker 2: out last year with say Kwon Barkley in their off
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Speaker 2: season audition with the Giants DT. We didn't expect Jimmy
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Speaker 2: Cooks to be there at OTAs he didn't come. We
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Speaker 2: don't expect to see him next week. That makes sense.
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Speaker 2: He has little leverage in this situation. The only thing
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Speaker 2: he can really do is withhold his services. He does
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Speaker 2: that and he exercises that last week. We don't anticipate
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Speaker 2: seeing him next week either. How do you think this
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Speaker 2: is going to go? Because I know that this is
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Speaker 2: on the tip of all Bill's Mafia's minds, because this
15:14
Speaker 2: is really one of the first times that Brandon Bean
15:16
Speaker 2: has had to deal with this thing. We had a
15:17
Speaker 2: small version of it with Poyer, but that was really
15:20
Speaker 2: nothing much. I know, Drew Rosenhouse came to training camp
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Speaker 2: one week and then pretty much that was it. It
15:24
Speaker 2: was over after that. Poyer wanted to be a bill.
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Speaker 2: He was going to play it out and really never
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Speaker 2: got contentious, so to speak. DT. I'm telling you, I'm
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Speaker 2: not exactly sure in respect to how many different ways
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Speaker 2: this thing can go. Because the one thing I will say,
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Speaker 2: and I want to get your thoughts on it, I
15:41
Speaker 2: do not in the end, I do not think that
15:44
Speaker 2: James Cook is willing to not get game checks. Okay,
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Speaker 2: I don't think that he's willing to go that far,
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Speaker 2: but I do think that he is willing to skip
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Speaker 2: out on training camp or do whatever they call it
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Speaker 2: the hole. Then where he comes he's not really working out,
15:57
Speaker 2: and I mean the HBO cameras, they'll eat that shit
15:59
Speaker 2: up because the fact that I mean, this is the
16:01
Speaker 2: first time that Brandon Bean's been faced with this kind
16:03
Speaker 2: of you know, this kind of drama for sure. I
16:06
Speaker 2: mean I can't think of another case.
16:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's that's true, and you can tell it
16:10
Speaker 1: makes everybody a little uncomfortable, you know, because they're they're
16:13
Speaker 1: pushing like the narrative that it's all good, it's all business.
16:17
Speaker 1: You know, we got a good relationship with them.
16:19
Speaker 2: It is what it is.
16:20
Speaker 1: You know, they're really and yeah, and it's just like okay,
16:24
Speaker 1: well then what's the defense going to be if this
16:26
Speaker 1: does go into training camp and he's not there, you know,
16:29
Speaker 1: then is it still always in a good spot? He'll
16:31
Speaker 1: be here when you needs, Like, then you got to
16:33
Speaker 1: start changing your narrative a little, like, hey, like we
16:35
Speaker 1: need this guy here. You know, we're preparing for a
16:37
Speaker 1: super Bowl. You know, we need this guy. So it's
16:40
Speaker 1: kind of delicate right now. I really hope it's just
16:44
Speaker 1: kind of we wake up and you know, you have
16:46
Speaker 1: a headache when you go to bed, you wake up
16:48
Speaker 1: and it's gone type of thing. Camp training camp comes,
16:52
Speaker 1: we wake up, James Cook is out there, ready to
16:54
Speaker 1: ready to rock and roll. The few things that concern
16:58
Speaker 1: me with this rob is he is not like he's
17:03
Speaker 1: a very quiet person, right so I think, you know,
17:07
Speaker 1: in all this, if if any media kind of gets
17:10
Speaker 1: a hold of him or you know, gets him, like
17:13
Speaker 1: I just hope a like a sound bite doesn't come
17:15
Speaker 1: out where it kind of looks like it's really bad,
17:18
Speaker 1: but it's just him just not you know, he's not
17:21
Speaker 1: taking the above and beyond pr like, no, it's good,
17:25
Speaker 1: we're working it out. It's all business. He kind of
17:27
Speaker 1: gives them like more of a cryptic like answer just
17:30
Speaker 1: because he's a little quiet or not like he did
17:32
Speaker 1: it on purpose or anything like that. But then the
17:34
Speaker 1: media takes it and runs like, oh, Jim James Cook
17:37
Speaker 1: ain't playing he said, you know, he's he's unhappy, And
17:39
Speaker 1: so that concerns me a little bit that things might
17:42
Speaker 1: start getting thrown around, you know, when they start pressing
17:46
Speaker 1: him a little on it, you know, because he's just
17:48
Speaker 1: he's going through the business end. The other thing that
17:50
Speaker 1: concerns me a little is having me he personally doesn't
17:54
Speaker 1: have the experience, but brother Delevan has been through multiple
17:58
Speaker 1: contract disputes and knows how to get his money and
18:00
Speaker 1: knows how to be a successful, you know, player in
18:02
Speaker 1: the league. And so he's not just his agent, he's
18:06
Speaker 1: also getting his older brothers saying oh, yeah, you'll be fine,
18:08
Speaker 1: just do you know, just do this, do this, and
18:11
Speaker 1: it might be you know that that is a little
18:14
Speaker 1: concerned to get So those are my two concerns on
18:17
Speaker 1: the situation. I'm still not like super worried about it.
18:23
Speaker 1: And like we said, the leverage just really isn't there
18:25
Speaker 1: for him. You know, he would literally just have to
18:28
Speaker 1: miss out on money. And he's not getting that much
18:29
Speaker 1: money and you know, and I don't think that's going
18:32
Speaker 1: to lead him to get the sixteen million dollars a
18:34
Speaker 1: year on another team, you know, somewhere else. So his
18:38
Speaker 1: leverage is really not the greatest. It's just like, I
18:43
Speaker 1: want to get paid, get him paid.
18:45
Speaker 2: Here, here's here's here's one thing. Here's one thing that
18:48
Speaker 2: I'm I I am worried about though, and I and
18:51
Speaker 2: I want to be honest with you about this because
18:53
Speaker 2: you mentioned it earlier in your comment. You said, we're
18:56
Speaker 2: in a super Bowl window and we're and we're trying
18:58
Speaker 2: to contend. So here's where it can get it can
19:01
Speaker 2: get shitty is because players understand when guys are trying
19:05
Speaker 2: to get their money, so they're gonna stay out of it.
19:07
Speaker 2: They're gonna they're gonna be you know, hey, we support them.
19:10
Speaker 2: We understand the football is a business. There's a business
19:12
Speaker 2: side of it as well. We support them that type
19:14
Speaker 2: of thing, we understand why he's not here. That last
19:17
Speaker 2: for a certain amount of time. But then eventually when
19:20
Speaker 2: it comes time for you know, training camp is winding
19:22
Speaker 2: down and we're getting closer towards September, and that calendar
19:26
Speaker 2: starts to turn for you know, late August, and we're
19:28
Speaker 2: starting to get, you know, towards Labor Day. Then it's
19:31
Speaker 2: a situation where I think that things could get a
19:33
Speaker 2: little weird because of the fact that, hey man, we're
19:35
Speaker 2: trying to win a Super Bowl. We need you. And
19:38
Speaker 2: then if he does come back, is he given his
19:40
Speaker 2: best effort? You know, all of those different types of
19:43
Speaker 2: things are going to be starting to be questioned because
19:44
Speaker 2: of the fact that, you know, if he's hopping out
19:46
Speaker 2: of bounds. You know, just there's a lot of different
19:48
Speaker 2: ways that it can be covered up. You know. I
19:50
Speaker 2: remember them talking about step On Stephan Gilmour excuse me
19:53
Speaker 2: back in the day, and like you know, they say,
19:55
Speaker 2: he does he's in the contract year and he doesn't
19:57
Speaker 2: want to you so he had some mistackles and stuff
19:59
Speaker 2: like that, and the you to accuse of him not
20:01
Speaker 2: sticking his nose in there because he wanted to get
20:02
Speaker 2: his money. I don't know if it's true or not,
20:04
Speaker 2: but I know that eventually he went to New England
20:06
Speaker 2: and got his money. And then what did he do.
20:08
Speaker 2: He became the defensive player of the year, you know,
20:10
Speaker 2: and helped them win a Super Bowl. So there is
20:12
Speaker 2: a little bit of truth to protecting yourself and stuff
20:14
Speaker 2: like that. You just talked about Dalvin as well. There's
20:17
Speaker 2: no way that he wants him to show up to
20:19
Speaker 2: mini camp, no way that he wants him to show
20:20
Speaker 2: up to training camp and not get his money because
20:22
Speaker 2: he doesn't want to risk that injury. So I'm a
20:25
Speaker 2: little bit worried because of the fact that because we're
20:27
Speaker 2: in that Super Bowl window. Here's where I look at it.
20:30
Speaker 2: I know that the metrics say don't pay running backs
20:33
Speaker 2: and they're interchangeable, and I have heard about how great
20:36
Speaker 2: Ray Davis is and Tyd Johnson. I get it. He's
20:40
Speaker 2: the most explosive player on the team besides Josh Allen DT.
20:44
Speaker 2: And that's my only worry is that I don't have
20:46
Speaker 2: time to mess around in a Super Bowl window with
20:48
Speaker 2: Josh Allen over pennies when it comes to the salary cap.
20:52
Speaker 2: In the salary cap is flugayzy, it's fake. So because
20:55
Speaker 2: the salary cap keeps going up, TV deals keep going up,
20:58
Speaker 2: everybody's getting paid. Are we really gonna quibble over he
21:02
Speaker 2: wants fifteen bills? Want to give him nine? Or he
21:04
Speaker 2: wants fifteen bills, are willing to give him ten? Can
21:07
Speaker 2: we find a way to come to the middle ground.
21:09
Speaker 2: Maybe he wants a four year deal, Okay, well we'll
21:11
Speaker 2: give him a three year deal. Or maybe he wants
21:13
Speaker 2: a three year deal. Can we get to you a
21:14
Speaker 2: two year deal and just bump up the guarantees. There
21:16
Speaker 2: has to be a way for Brandon beating the massage
21:18
Speaker 2: this thing, because I don't want it to get ugly
21:22
Speaker 2: when we don't really need the distractions right now. This
21:25
Speaker 2: is a Super Bowl window team where favored in Vegas
21:28
Speaker 2: to win the AFC. And I know that doesn't mean
21:30
Speaker 2: anything that a lot of people, but it just means
21:32
Speaker 2: that the bills are really, really good. We're in a
21:33
Speaker 2: good window right now. I don't want to be messing
21:36
Speaker 2: around with this thing when it comes time for late August. Man,
21:39
Speaker 2: I just don't. I just think that there's a way
21:42
Speaker 2: for this to go really bad because the players won't
21:44
Speaker 2: be supporting him as much because we'll be getting closer
21:46
Speaker 2: to the season and then he you put somebody in
21:49
Speaker 2: the corner man and all of a sudden, you know,
21:51
Speaker 2: they lash out, and I'm just a little bit worried exactly.
21:54
Speaker 1: And so you're saying it's you got to put You're
21:57
Speaker 1: putting it on the bills now to say, hey, you
22:00
Speaker 1: did it. But like you kind of just gotta.
22:03
Speaker 2: You don't have to capitulate to him and give him
22:04
Speaker 2: everything that he wants. You don't have to give him
22:06
Speaker 2: fifteen million, but there's got.
22:07
Speaker 1: To do hard to all him and not do anything
22:09
Speaker 1: and we risk all that stuff happened in this year.
22:12
Speaker 1: Just figure out something, maybe pay a little more than
22:14
Speaker 1: you wanted to, but you just do it for the
22:17
Speaker 1: simple fact to clear that distraction.
22:19
Speaker 2: And keep it moving, keep the lunch room in a
22:21
Speaker 2: good degree. I think that that the worst case scenario,
22:25
Speaker 2: because we both agree he's not going to miss game checks.
22:27
Speaker 2: The worst case scenarios to disrespect him and make him
22:30
Speaker 2: like come to work or don't get paid, and then
22:32
Speaker 2: he comes to work and he's in the shitty in
22:34
Speaker 2: a shitty movie. I think, yeah, and.
22:35
Speaker 1: Then and then that's you know, hopefully that wouldn't be
22:39
Speaker 1: a sole reason for anything. But we talk about all
22:41
Speaker 1: these like inches and how close we get every year,
22:44
Speaker 1: and oh well, this year it was that, and then
22:47
Speaker 1: and then it was the DeMar Hamlem thing, and then
22:49
Speaker 1: it was Josh Allen drama. Then it was you know,
22:52
Speaker 1: all this every year something thirteen seconds. And then it's like,
22:56
Speaker 1: oh well, you know James Cook was you know in
22:59
Speaker 1: ad on the year and like and it's like, we
23:02
Speaker 1: won't have that next year because it's not like we
23:05
Speaker 1: can't have those. We have to eliminate all of those,
23:07
Speaker 1: like and and that You're right, that might just be
23:10
Speaker 1: something that can pop out of the covers, that that
23:12
Speaker 1: could be it. I would hope, you know, the culture
23:15
Speaker 1: and you know the other fifty two you know, can
23:18
Speaker 1: make up for if it does go south and does
23:21
Speaker 1: kind of get into that type of situation. You know,
23:25
Speaker 1: we still got to get through that and push through
23:26
Speaker 1: that adversity and not let that affect us. But that
23:28
Speaker 1: very well could happen. So I agree. I like that point, Rob.
23:31
Speaker 1: I think you know, if you're being like you said,
23:33
Speaker 1: it's it's a fake salary cap anyway, just figure it out.
23:37
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, get him a few bucks. There's
23:40
Speaker 1: got to be something you can say to this guy
23:42
Speaker 1: that's gonna get him in the building and somewhat happy,
23:45
Speaker 1: at least for one more year. You know, whether it's
23:48
Speaker 1: a like you said, a two year deal will bump
23:50
Speaker 1: up a few guarantees, you play, you played good two
23:53
Speaker 1: years and you know, maybe we'll maybe we'll even shop you.
23:56
Speaker 1: You know, we'll do a sign in trade or something
23:59
Speaker 1: next next year to get you out on another team
24:02
Speaker 1: and then you'll get a new contract with them or
24:04
Speaker 1: something like that to just kind of ease him up.
24:06
Speaker 1: And you know, because yeah.
24:08
Speaker 2: That's I just think that there's ways of massage, and
24:11
Speaker 2: if you're branded, mean, there's ways of massage. Instead of
24:13
Speaker 2: making it, give them five million five and give them
24:14
Speaker 2: a bump this year, give them, you know, eight million guaranteed,
24:17
Speaker 2: and give him a bunch of incentives and then give
24:19
Speaker 2: him guarantee. Hey man, we'll give you your freedom. All
24:21
Speaker 2: I ask is that you what did Brandon me say?
24:23
Speaker 2: We'd love to see him do it again. We'd love
24:25
Speaker 2: to see him do it again. Touchdowns are not translatable,
24:28
Speaker 2: they're not linear, just like turnovers. You can't you can't
24:32
Speaker 2: guarantee that we're going to have those limited turnovers and
24:34
Speaker 2: then we're going to take the ball away same way.
24:36
Speaker 2: He's not going to rush for sixteen touchdowns. So of
24:39
Speaker 2: course his agent and of course Dalvin Cook his brother,
24:41
Speaker 2: have told him that hopefully he's not naive. As long
24:43
Speaker 2: as he's not naive and delusional, then he knows of that.
24:46
Speaker 2: So he wants to get paid on past performance and
24:49
Speaker 2: future performance, well on the boom of.
24:52
Speaker 1: You know, the Saquons of the world, and exactly so yourself.
24:56
Speaker 1: That's that's good business on his part. But yeah, and
24:59
Speaker 1: i'd like like what you said there, Rob, It's is
25:03
Speaker 1: a little salary cap like issue, like, yeah, we kind
25:06
Speaker 1: of overpaid for a running back that's worth that's way
25:10
Speaker 1: better than the worst case scenario of him showing up
25:14
Speaker 1: and playing like shit, losing respect and all this.
25:16
Speaker 2: You know. Yeah, I just I just think that there's
25:19
Speaker 2: there's two and I hope, yeah, we hope.
25:21
Speaker 1: Really we haven't seen something like you said, maybe poor
25:25
Speaker 1: you're quickly and that really was never a vibe of
25:28
Speaker 1: any sort or any worry of any sort. So maybe
25:31
Speaker 1: this is being kind of first one where he's gotta,
25:34
Speaker 1: you know, bite the bullet and kind of kind of
25:36
Speaker 1: sacrifice that like, all right, yes, it's not in our
25:38
Speaker 1: philosophy to pay this a running back, YadA, YadA, yadda.
25:41
Speaker 1: But we're in the super Bowl when now we can
25:44
Speaker 1: have the distractions. Here's nine million two years you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah exactly. I think that there's something that they
25:50
Speaker 2: can massage and figure out a way to give him
25:52
Speaker 2: a month this year and maybe again guarantee his freedom
25:55
Speaker 2: next year. We promise not to tag you whatever the
25:57
Speaker 2: case may be, so well, we'll see how it plays out.
25:59
Speaker 2: It is definitely going to be one of the number
26:01
Speaker 2: one storylines as we head into training camp again, we're
26:03
Speaker 2: getting ready one more week of OTA's Bill's Mafia and
26:06
Speaker 2: then they're breaking for summer. It'll be summer break. Kids
26:09
Speaker 2: are getting ready to get out for summer break. The
26:11
Speaker 2: Bills will be out for summer break as well, and
26:12
Speaker 2: that's when everybody starts to do their praying and handwringing
26:16
Speaker 2: and different things like that that everybody stays out of
26:18
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Speaker 2: of the first things you asked me at the end
27:08
Speaker 2: of our pre show a little soire yesterday? We were talking,
27:12
Speaker 2: we're catching up and you're like, what do you think
27:14
Speaker 2: about fourteen? And it's so funny because it was a
27:18
Speaker 2: topic and it was funny because I think it was
27:22
Speaker 2: Wednesday they were talking about it on gr because it
27:25
Speaker 2: had just come out. At the afternoon show and Chowping
27:28
Speaker 2: the Bulldog were talking about it. And it's funny because
27:31
Speaker 2: I tried not to. I mean, yes, I'm a I'm
27:34
Speaker 2: definitely a fourteen apologist in respects that I supported him.
27:37
Speaker 2: I don't like rewriting history and how a lot of
27:40
Speaker 2: the bill's BAFFI. I feel like shit on him in
27:43
Speaker 2: respects to the even his Ota thing when he didn't
27:46
Speaker 2: the mandatory mini cap. Excuse me, he came, they lied,
27:50
Speaker 2: said he wasn't there, and then Brandon Bean had to
27:52
Speaker 2: tell the excuse me. Then McDermott had to tell the
27:54
Speaker 2: truth and said, oh, we had a conversation and I
27:56
Speaker 2: sent him home that type of thing. Let him go
27:58
Speaker 2: home for the day. So I'm like, oh, okay, And
28:00
Speaker 2: we started to smell that. We talked about that a
28:02
Speaker 2: couple of seasons ago, DT, and that was really the
28:04
Speaker 2: first rift where we started to see that the things
28:06
Speaker 2: could be fractured and things could be starting to unravel. DT.
28:11
Speaker 2: You asked me about him, and it's funny. I try
28:13
Speaker 2: not to get triggered. But Choping the Bulldog we're talking.
28:15
Speaker 2: It just showed specifically he's talking. He's bringing up old
28:18
Speaker 2: shit and he's bringing up the Cincinnati with you know
28:21
Speaker 2: deep excuse me, fourteen's putting his arms up. We were
28:24
Speaker 2: at that game. We know that there was a lot
28:25
Speaker 2: going on, and obviously the Demorrow Hamlet thing gets a
28:27
Speaker 2: lot of credit for that. But I had to call in.
28:30
Speaker 2: I called in. They were busy that night, so I
28:32
Speaker 2: called him the next day and I was I just
28:34
Speaker 2: had to get off my chest because I thought that
28:36
Speaker 2: he was misunderstood. We had the literal episode the mis
28:39
Speaker 2: education of stuff on Diggs. DT. It's funny because this
28:43
Speaker 2: guy is still polarizing within the Bafia and he doesn't
28:47
Speaker 2: even play for US. He's two years removed for playing
28:49
Speaker 2: for US, two teams removed now. He played for Houston
28:51
Speaker 2: last year, caught the ACL injury, was doing quite well
28:54
Speaker 2: before he got hurt. And then obviously he goes to
28:57
Speaker 2: the division rival, to the New England Patriots this offseason
29:00
Speaker 2: as their free agent pick up. They overpay for him
29:03
Speaker 2: because they need a wide receiver one he's on the
29:05
Speaker 2: boat doing this thing. DT. Give me your thoughts because
29:09
Speaker 2: I called. I called them the gr not to defend
29:11
Speaker 2: that I was defending, because they kind of triggered me
29:14
Speaker 2: with to talking about the past and all the other stuff.
29:15
Speaker 2: And I will not allow people in the mafia to
29:18
Speaker 2: rewrite the history of fourteen and seventeen. They were a
29:21
Speaker 2: symbiotic relationship. It was good for both of them, and
29:24
Speaker 2: it helped ascend Josh Allen to the to the start
29:27
Speaker 2: and that he is. They were both good for each other.
29:29
Speaker 2: And I won't let everybody rewrite history because he dropped
29:31
Speaker 2: the pass against Kansas City.
29:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that it's still polarizing, it's still in the
29:37
Speaker 1: news because all those people you know that we've been
29:39
Speaker 1: arguing with the past two years, they are they're playing
29:43
Speaker 1: the oh, you know, see see how we were right,
29:45
Speaker 1: See how we were right, you know, and it's apples
29:48
Speaker 1: and oranges. I think it's completely a different situation. Am
29:51
Speaker 1: I happy that this doesn't happen And he's on the
29:55
Speaker 1: bills and he's not as a mini camp and this
29:57
Speaker 1: video comes out and he's on the bills, and like,
30:00
Speaker 1: that's a whole thing we're battling with this week, and
30:02
Speaker 1: you know, we're probably finding a way to to to
30:05
Speaker 1: defend him some way. I mean, my defense would be
30:08
Speaker 1: I'm on that boat one hundred out of one hundred times.
30:12
Speaker 1: I'm on that boat one hundred out of one hundred
30:14
Speaker 1: times in Miami having a good time. So I can't
30:16
Speaker 1: blame him for that. But yeah, I mean it's it's
30:19
Speaker 1: to the point where he obviously this wasn't like he
30:22
Speaker 1: got like worked on a little bit and was just like, oh,
30:25
Speaker 1: I kind of know, I didn't know people were call
30:26
Speaker 1: Like he he knew kind of what was going on.
30:29
Speaker 1: He knew this was gonna get out, and he kind
30:30
Speaker 1: of liked likes that. Right, Yeah, it's gonna be interesting
30:35
Speaker 1: seeing you know, the Patriot way and hard ass rabel
30:37
Speaker 1: and you know how all that's gonna go down. But
30:41
Speaker 1: I don't, you know, I didn't. I don't see him.
30:45
Speaker 1: I don't look it down upon him for something like this.
30:48
Speaker 1: I think it's more of a you know thing in
30:50
Speaker 1: the media. It's like, oh, Digs likes, you know, likes
30:53
Speaker 1: kind of pushing the envelope a little and feeling this,
30:56
Speaker 1: and you know, at this point in his career for
30:59
Speaker 1: a new team, he's made his money. I don't necessarily
31:02
Speaker 1: he probably doesn't truly believe that the Patriots are true
31:05
Speaker 1: Super Bowl contenders. Yeah, of course, and so you know
31:09
Speaker 1: what he.
31:10
Speaker 2: Just left us. He knows what a Super Bowl contender
31:11
Speaker 2: looks like.
31:13
Speaker 1: You know, it's not that he doesn't care, but he's
31:15
Speaker 1: just like, I'm just living my life, you know at
31:17
Speaker 1: this point, and I'm getting paid to play football all
31:20
Speaker 1: come out on Sundays and play hard and that's basically it.
31:22
Speaker 1: And that's kind of the He had a little bit
31:25
Speaker 1: of that vibe in Buffalo, and that's what people really
31:27
Speaker 1: couldn't swallow. You know, he didn't say he wanted he
31:30
Speaker 1: loved chicken wings, he didn't say he loved blue cheese,
31:33
Speaker 1: and people like just like God, just couldn't couldn't handle that.
31:37
Speaker 1: And you know, and he's he's still doing that now.
31:40
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, I'm not going to OTA's. I'm going
31:42
Speaker 1: to Miami with you know, on a boat with some
31:44
Speaker 1: bad He's like when it comes to the you know,
31:48
Speaker 1: the bag of substance or whatever the hell it was, like,
31:51
Speaker 1: who cares on that too? Like nobody can prove anything
31:56
Speaker 1: one you know, it could be Himalayan seesaw from which
32:00
Speaker 1: you know, they just the appetized roll of bland. You
32:04
Speaker 1: need a little you know, need a little seasoning on it.
32:07
Speaker 1: So I'm not I'm not rushing to and that was
32:09
Speaker 1: kind of bothering me on g R all week to
32:12
Speaker 1: that like all these people like hsing these like party
32:16
Speaker 1: drugs and are like you'll never be even been by
32:18
Speaker 1: Miami like like this, like like oh, it just current,
32:23
Speaker 1: like they're talking like there's something like doctor. You know
32:26
Speaker 1: who's that doctor on MTV Doctor Drew. Oh yeah, So
32:31
Speaker 1: it was it was a little annoying. I'm happy it's
32:35
Speaker 1: not you know, he isn't on the bills and this
32:37
Speaker 1: is happening because it would just be ridiculousness. But I
32:41
Speaker 1: don't blame stuff on Diggs for chilling on a boat
32:44
Speaker 1: and in voluntary mini camp on a on a team
32:47
Speaker 1: where he can't even be out there anyway with his
32:49
Speaker 1: A C L and you know, and like we said,
32:52
Speaker 1: he probably doesn't think they're contender let him go on
32:54
Speaker 1: the boat, and but they can deal with that.
32:56
Speaker 2: Now. It's just funny to me. It's funny because I
33:00
Speaker 2: here's the correlation, and we'll move on because it's just again,
33:03
Speaker 2: he doesn't play for as any board. The correlation that
33:05
Speaker 2: I put was just that it's interesting to me that
33:08
Speaker 2: he's still so polarizing because of the fact that I
33:12
Speaker 2: remember the reaction after the mini camp, the mandatory mini camp,
33:17
Speaker 2: and I just I was appalled that the next day
33:21
Speaker 2: when I turned on gr and you guys can go
33:23
Speaker 2: back in the archive and listen to that episode back.
33:26
Speaker 2: I mean, I was going crazy because half of the
33:29
Speaker 2: Mafia was kept calling in and saying, trade this dude
33:32
Speaker 2: and get him out of here. And he was in
33:34
Speaker 2: the midst It was coming off of year two of
33:37
Speaker 2: greatness with Josh Allen. I just I couldn't believe how
33:40
Speaker 2: many of the mafia. And it wasn't all of the Mafia,
33:42
Speaker 2: so I'm not, you know, lumping everybody together, but there
33:45
Speaker 2: was like it was it felt like it was half
33:46
Speaker 2: and half and it was like, get him the hell
33:49
Speaker 2: out of here. And I couldn't. I just couldn't believe
33:51
Speaker 2: that nobody was willing to take a step back and
33:55
Speaker 2: look at it from his perspective and see, Okay, well,
33:57
Speaker 2: why is this guy possibly upset? If we're upset over
34:00
Speaker 2: thirteen seconds, then how in the hell can you be
34:03
Speaker 2: mad that he's not? And I keep getting hit in
34:05
Speaker 2: Twitter with this, Well, he's got to be a pro
34:07
Speaker 2: and he's got to get And that's what I called
34:08
Speaker 2: gr And I was like, you listen, I think Stefan
34:10
Speaker 2: Diggs was still mad about thirteen seconds and he wasn't
34:13
Speaker 2: even get over and everybody on you know, gr chopping book,
34:15
Speaker 2: like we're like, yeah, but you got to be a pro.
34:17
Speaker 2: You got to be better than that. You can't undermine
34:19
Speaker 2: any And I'm like, I don't think he was trying
34:21
Speaker 2: to undermine anything. I just think he looked at his
34:23
Speaker 2: boss sideways. And I'd been looking at McDermott sideways ever
34:26
Speaker 2: since thirteen seconds too, So like I can't expect more
34:29
Speaker 2: of him just because he's a professional, he's paid. I
34:31
Speaker 2: think that he's still a human. And if your boss
34:34
Speaker 2: messes up the biggest presentation that you've had all year,
34:37
Speaker 2: when when it's time for you guys to go get
34:39
Speaker 2: and secure this big client, like you're gonna look at
34:42
Speaker 2: him sideways after you guys are walking out of that boardroom,
34:44
Speaker 2: like what the hell was that man? Like I was
34:46
Speaker 2: counting on you. I did my job, I brought my
34:48
Speaker 2: part of the presentation, was ready to go, and you
34:50
Speaker 2: fumbled this shit. I will be mad. And I just
34:53
Speaker 2: I think he lost respect for McDermott. I think he
34:55
Speaker 2: lost respect for you know, some of the people within
34:58
Speaker 2: that organization, not necessarily Josh Hallen or anything like that.
35:01
Speaker 2: That was still his guy. He never bitched about targets
35:04
Speaker 2: because he was getting all the damn targets. He never
35:05
Speaker 2: bitched about yards or something like that because he was
35:08
Speaker 2: getting it all. I just thought that the correlation is
35:10
Speaker 2: that half of you guys never really liked the guy,
35:13
Speaker 2: and you only tolerated him because he was scoring touchdowns
35:15
Speaker 2: for your team. And as soon as there was a
35:18
Speaker 2: little hint of divo or anything from Minnesota, you were
35:21
Speaker 2: ready to turn on them. And I just couldn't believe
35:22
Speaker 2: it because the production was so great that you do
35:26
Speaker 2: turn your eyes. You know, every that's in every industry,
35:29
Speaker 2: the performers. You always turned the blind eye to the
35:31
Speaker 2: performers because they're the ones that make the engine go.
35:34
Speaker 2: And you know that in your industry with sales, you
35:36
Speaker 2: know how it goes.
35:37
Speaker 1: Yep, And this in this specific situation, now I agree,
35:40
Speaker 1: you know with what you're saying on the bills, But
35:42
Speaker 1: now that's still the Still the kind of the mo
35:45
Speaker 1: of people coming at him this week are like, oh,
35:47
Speaker 1: you got to be a pro, you know, you got
35:48
Speaker 1: to be a professional. Well, that's what pro, a pro athlete,
35:53
Speaker 1: you can get out of yacht in Miami with a
35:54
Speaker 1: bunch of with a bunch of baddies and enjoy your day.
35:57
Speaker 1: That's what pro athletes do. That's what we want to Like, Oh,
36:00
Speaker 1: I want to be playing football professionally. I also want
36:03
Speaker 1: to go to the clubs and sit with all the
36:05
Speaker 1: hot women and do all the all the stuff pros
36:08
Speaker 1: can do. He is being a pro by doing this.
36:11
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't I don't understand it, you know,
36:13
Speaker 2: And I hear you John, you know John say there's
36:16
Speaker 2: times that he says Dig's got his contract extension after
36:18
Speaker 2: thirteen seconds. Anybody that says thirteen seconds was the reason
36:21
Speaker 2: Diggs left was at least a year or two early.
36:23
Speaker 2: And that and that, and that's true. Like that's to me,
36:26
Speaker 2: Like he wasn't he wasn't trying to get out of
36:28
Speaker 2: Buffalo after thirteen seconds. He was just upset and he
36:32
Speaker 2: and he wasn't letting it go. And I think that, again,
36:34
Speaker 2: what do we talk about. Sometimes sometimes people are not
36:38
Speaker 2: comfortable being uncomfortable, and Diggs was always comfortable being uncomfortable,
36:42
Speaker 2: and he was always challenging everybody. And I think that
36:44
Speaker 2: you're absolutely right, there is some truth to what you
36:46
Speaker 2: said too about he would never just oh, I love
36:48
Speaker 2: Buffalo and this now, after that whole mini camp fiasco,
36:52
Speaker 2: he did come in and say, you know, and he
36:53
Speaker 2: did pander to the media and he, oh, you know,
36:56
Speaker 2: I want to retire a bill and stuff like that,
36:57
Speaker 2: and they're like, well, why are you happy to What
36:59
Speaker 2: did he tell them? Straight up? It doesn't matter if
37:01
Speaker 2: I'm happy, that's not that has nothing to do with
37:03
Speaker 2: my job. My job is to come out and perform,
37:05
Speaker 2: and I'm going to do that. And I think that
37:07
Speaker 2: that's the thing that I respected most about him was
37:09
Speaker 2: that it doesn't matter if he wanted to go on
37:12
Speaker 2: a yacht with Josh Allen or go golfing. That wasn't
37:15
Speaker 2: his thing. He's a fashion guy, Josh is a golf
37:17
Speaker 2: drinking guy. They're not. They don't have to be best
37:19
Speaker 2: buddies for them to perform on the field when it
37:21
Speaker 2: comes time. In between those lines, am I getting ready
37:23
Speaker 2: to do my job? There's no way that for those
37:25
Speaker 2: four years you could say Stephan Diggs is ready to
37:27
Speaker 2: do his job. He was always ready and I guess
37:31
Speaker 2: he dropped that ball against Kansas City and everybody says
37:33
Speaker 2: he sucks. So it is what it is. Now as
37:36
Speaker 2: we begin to wrap up today, listen, DT, it's funny
37:39
Speaker 2: because we are getting ready to come to that point
37:42
Speaker 2: in the season where it is going to be summer
37:44
Speaker 2: break and there's gonna be the dog days of summer
37:47
Speaker 2: and then training camp ramps up. What are some of
37:49
Speaker 2: the things that you are really really looking forward to
37:52
Speaker 2: and maybe either you got a player or two in mind,
37:54
Speaker 2: because I've got one for sure that I in my
37:56
Speaker 2: crosshairs for sure that I'm going to be watching because
37:59
Speaker 2: of the fact that of all the different chatter that
38:01
Speaker 2: I've heard about him throughout the off season and last season,
38:04
Speaker 2: things like that. So I want you to go first.
38:06
Speaker 2: But as we start to put a bowl on on
38:08
Speaker 2: the off season, we start to get ready for our
38:11
Speaker 2: summer break and then they'll get back for training camp.
38:14
Speaker 2: Before training camp comes up, what are some of the
38:17
Speaker 2: storylines or players, what are you really really keyten on
38:21
Speaker 2: as we get as we get ready.
38:23
Speaker 1: Well, I mean we talked about it earlier. I'd like
38:25
Speaker 1: four to just get settled and avoid any you know,
38:28
Speaker 1: future problems with four coming up. But I'm an zero
38:32
Speaker 1: in on on the defensive line. I want I want
38:36
Speaker 1: training camp to come in. I want these dudes to
38:38
Speaker 1: look big and bad, and they are, and I wanted
38:42
Speaker 1: to be significant out there at Saint John Fisher on
38:45
Speaker 1: HBO that first episode, people saying, Damn, this d line
38:49
Speaker 1: is nasty looking, and it's been a little undersized. It's
38:53
Speaker 1: been underperforming since Mario Williams. It's been underperforming since then.
38:57
Speaker 1: And so I think this is an opportunity to really
39:00
Speaker 1: kind of change that narrative. And you know that kind
39:03
Speaker 1: of the the bus team right getting off the bus,
39:06
Speaker 1: those dudes when they're walking into training camp, Damn, these
39:09
Speaker 1: dudes are big. This defensive line is gonna be a problem.
39:11
Speaker 1: So that would be something I'd like to zero in on,
39:13
Speaker 1: and I'd like for us to get a safety I
39:14
Speaker 1: don't know if that's gonna happen. Oh really, I don't
39:17
Speaker 1: know if that's gonna happen. And that might be an
39:19
Speaker 1: in camp type of situation. Okay, but there's there's some
39:23
Speaker 1: guys out there that I think are are very serviceable
39:26
Speaker 1: that we could get, you know, on the cheap right now.
39:29
Speaker 1: So you know, being that maybe a couple of weeks
39:32
Speaker 1: into camp, a couple of weeks in the camp you
39:34
Speaker 1: had somebody in it's a depth piece something like that.
39:36
Speaker 1: But those will be my my things, I'm you know,
39:40
Speaker 1: until training camp starts. I want to see just the
39:43
Speaker 1: beef of this new improved defensive line for to get
39:46
Speaker 1: done and maybe throw.
39:47
Speaker 2: A new safety in there. Okay. Interesting. I It's funny
39:52
Speaker 2: because when you talk about defensive line then I just
39:54
Speaker 2: get like a chill up my neck because I was
39:56
Speaker 2: arguing with I mean, I'm always arguing with people on Twitter.
39:59
Speaker 2: I told you I love it, you know, but it
40:00
Speaker 2: was funny because you know, somebody's trying to argue and say,
40:03
Speaker 2: you know what I said, Well, this is like the
40:05
Speaker 2: this is like the second or third time that McDermot
40:08
Speaker 2: and Bean are revamping this line and you know, like
40:10
Speaker 2: this is kind of the theme of there. And they
40:12
Speaker 2: were like, well, you know, we really haven't done this,
40:14
Speaker 2: We really haven't done it overhaul. And I'm like, what
40:16
Speaker 2: are you like? We draft? All he does is draft
40:19
Speaker 2: defensive lineman for for McDermott, Like, what you like? This is?
40:23
Speaker 2: So it'll be interesting. I'll save all of that. We
40:25
Speaker 2: have a surprise when we do our defensive line preview,
40:28
Speaker 2: not defensive line, but our defensive preview every No, you
40:31
Speaker 2: guys know, every year we do our offensive preview for
40:33
Speaker 2: the year, our defensive preview for the year. We do
40:35
Speaker 2: have a very special guest that's going to be coming on.
40:37
Speaker 2: He is intricately connected to Bill's MAFI and to the players.
40:42
Speaker 2: So I don't want to give it away, but we
40:44
Speaker 2: do have a really special guest coming on when we
40:45
Speaker 2: do our defensive preview. And when you said defensive line,
40:48
Speaker 2: it gave me a chill, DT, because we're I'm not.
40:51
Speaker 2: I mean, we are running out of excuses for McDermott
40:54
Speaker 2: and I feel like I say that every year. But
40:56
Speaker 2: once again, Brandon Bean loaded him up. What did we
40:57
Speaker 2: say before the draft, were sure this is a great idea. Well,
41:00
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter what I think, because they did it.
41:02
Speaker 2: They gave him another shot at it. They revamped his line.
41:05
Speaker 2: I really need to see results, DT, I need to
41:09
Speaker 2: see results from this defensive line this year, because if
41:11
Speaker 2: defense was the reason that we lost last year, where
41:13
Speaker 2: they said we scored twenty nine points, that's plenty to
41:15
Speaker 2: win the game. I agree. So you don't want to
41:17
Speaker 2: blame the offense, even though the last two years the
41:20
Speaker 2: offense did have the ball with a chance to go
41:22
Speaker 2: win the game, and they didn't. Not blaming Josh Allen,
41:24
Speaker 2: not blaming Joe Brady. I'm just state in facts, the
41:27
Speaker 2: offense did have the ball with a chance to win it,
41:29
Speaker 2: and they couldn't get it done the last two years.
41:31
Speaker 2: If you want to blame it on defense last year,
41:33
Speaker 2: I don't know how you're going to be able to
41:34
Speaker 2: blame it on defense again this year. Because McDermott got
41:37
Speaker 2: everything that he wanted. DT, he got everything that he wanted.
41:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's stacked up. Offense scores the most points in
41:45
Speaker 1: franchise history, gets a little better, line stays intact. Defense,
41:49
Speaker 1: load him up, make stops, make up for those turnovers
41:53
Speaker 1: we're probably not going to get this year.
41:54
Speaker 2: I like that. Yes, I love when everybody keeps that
41:57
Speaker 2: in mind. Now DT on my end what I'm looking for,
42:00
Speaker 2: and you can chime in this dude eighty six. I mean,
42:06
Speaker 2: they love to talk about him. They love to talk
42:09
Speaker 2: about his physique, his matchup, how he's a matchup nightmare,
42:15
Speaker 2: How he's a mismatch for linebackers, how he's too fast
42:19
Speaker 2: for them and he's too big for safeties and all this. Listen,
42:22
Speaker 2: I just got it. I have to see something, man,
42:25
Speaker 2: I really do. I know the key on Coleman's and
42:27
Speaker 2: the crossairs as well, but you know he's year two, Kinkaid,
42:31
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to make a decision on if you
42:32
Speaker 2: want to pick up this fiftye option in a minute.
42:34
Speaker 2: On this guy, I don't know, man, I haven't seen it.
42:37
Speaker 2: I know that Josh. Now, Josh Allen is culpable as well.
42:40
Speaker 2: They did a mock up and they talked about how
42:42
Speaker 2: he had the most unketchable passes were to what a
42:45
Speaker 2: Dolphin King kaid last year. So Josh Allen is not
42:48
Speaker 2: absolved of any type of criticism from this whole issue.
42:51
Speaker 2: But I've got to see it. Whatever whatever they saw
42:54
Speaker 2: in him and Brandon Bean, I mean, didn't brand Bean
42:56
Speaker 2: trade up for him. I think he did because they
42:58
Speaker 2: had their little run on receivers, Jay said and went
43:00
Speaker 2: and all those guys went, and then they traded up
43:02
Speaker 2: for Kincaid to make sure that they got him ahead
43:04
Speaker 2: of Dallas. I just got I've got to see it, DT.
43:07
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. I don't know if
43:08
Speaker 2: if he needs to be Josh's new golfing buddy or
43:11
Speaker 2: or what this offseason I need to see whatever they saw.
43:14
Speaker 2: I know the Utah. I think they said Utah called
43:16
Speaker 2: nineteen passes one U week against USC or something like that.
43:19
Speaker 2: And Williams, yeah, I got I don't know, man, I'm
43:23
Speaker 2: running out of you can hear me. I can barely
43:26
Speaker 2: finish the sentences. I'm running out of it. Man, I
43:28
Speaker 2: don't know, Like, if this guy is so special, then
43:31
Speaker 2: I've got to see it. And I and I know
43:33
Speaker 2: that Josh has missed them on some throws, but goddamn, man,
43:36
Speaker 2: like I need to see it. I haven't seen it yet.
43:39
Speaker 1: I really have it, and I think it came out.
43:41
Speaker 1: You know, he was a little more banged up than
43:43
Speaker 1: the I put on it last year. You know, that
43:45
Speaker 1: was a pretty serious knee situation, and he just really
43:49
Speaker 1: wasn't able to, you know, to be He was able
43:51
Speaker 1: to be out there, but not be what he needed
43:53
Speaker 1: to be. So I agree, and you know we we
43:56
Speaker 1: kind of I defended the when Diggs leaves last year
43:58
Speaker 1: and everybody eats mantra, and you know we kind of
44:01
Speaker 1: broke it down. If like, all right, we need these
44:03
Speaker 1: guys to come up. You know, they need to have
44:05
Speaker 1: fifteen more catches. They need to have you know, this
44:07
Speaker 1: many more touchdowns, this many more yards, and Kinkaid was
44:10
Speaker 1: a big part of that, and he didn't really fit
44:14
Speaker 1: that this year, and we kind of got lucked out
44:16
Speaker 1: by by a rogue mccollins having a good couple, you know,
44:20
Speaker 1: good couple of games, and and Khalil Shakir kind of
44:23
Speaker 1: overperforming them what we expected, you know, and a few
44:26
Speaker 1: other guys getting involved, and that kind of made up
44:28
Speaker 1: for the lack of efficiency eighty six had. So I agree,
44:31
Speaker 1: I think it's it's getting to a point where, you know,
44:34
Speaker 1: if you're leaving this everybody eats thing. We need the
44:37
Speaker 1: playmakers to make the plays. And Keyan Coleman is still questionable.
44:41
Speaker 1: All the other receivers you kind of know where their
44:43
Speaker 1: ceiling is. You know, it's not gonna be a We're
44:46
Speaker 1: not getting a Justin Jefferson or Jamar Chase out of
44:49
Speaker 1: the group we have, right, but Kinkaid still kind of
44:54
Speaker 1: has that vibe to him where like he can be
44:56
Speaker 1: the dominant force on this offense and we haven't seen
44:59
Speaker 1: it yet. You're you're exactactly right, but it's just we
45:02
Speaker 1: see it slowed down a little bit last year, but
45:04
Speaker 1: eighty seven on the Chiefs. You know, big, but not
45:08
Speaker 1: that fast and not that athletic and just kind of
45:11
Speaker 1: open and makes plays and gets it done. And it's like, so,
45:14
Speaker 1: if this dude is fast and athletic, why can't we
45:17
Speaker 1: see something somewhat similar of that. You know, like he
45:20
Speaker 1: has a lot more intangibles than Travis Kelcey, it seems
45:23
Speaker 1: other than Dayton Taylor Swift, and he's still you know,
45:27
Speaker 1: he's still kind of underperforming. So health has got to
45:30
Speaker 1: be key with that this year. If you know, if
45:32
Speaker 1: it's another if it's a healthy year and it's still
45:34
Speaker 1: a little block, I think you have your full answer
45:37
Speaker 1: on what this guy is truly about. If it's a
45:39
Speaker 1: healthy year and he does kind of finally hit that,
45:42
Speaker 1: you know it wouldn't be this would be his third year,
45:45
Speaker 1: but you know, a real push, then you know we
45:48
Speaker 1: might have something. So I agree he's probably the one
45:51
Speaker 1: that needs to do the most. I think Kean Coleman
45:54
Speaker 1: still house money in this type of situation. If he's
45:57
Speaker 1: anything good, you know, it's it's it's all positive. If
46:00
Speaker 1: he's blah, it's it's it's kind of not expected. But
46:04
Speaker 1: we aren't going to be that surprised, but we know
46:06
Speaker 1: he wasn't a separator when we drafted him.
46:08
Speaker 2: So that's that.
46:09
Speaker 1: Puts another bla year up. It's going to be heavily criticized.
46:13
Speaker 1: So I think you're on on point there to keep
46:15
Speaker 1: an eye on him.
46:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm keeping an eye on him. And again I
46:17
Speaker 2: know that it's not it's not popular within the mafia
46:20
Speaker 2: to to criticize seventeen or whatever the case may be.
46:23
Speaker 2: But we know here we keep it funky, we keep
46:25
Speaker 2: it real here in Nicols City Crew. So I will
46:26
Speaker 2: not absolve absolve Josh Allen of some blame for it,
46:30
Speaker 2: because again he I mean they had a mock up
46:33
Speaker 2: and they said like that literally Kinkaid had the most
46:35
Speaker 2: out of tight ends, had the most like uncatchable balls,
46:38
Speaker 2: and you know seventeen really wasn't putting them in good
46:40
Speaker 2: situations a lot of times. I think he got him
46:41
Speaker 2: hurt in that indie game or whatever, when that sideline
46:44
Speaker 2: throw like he let him out of got it hurt.
46:48
Speaker 2: So I won't absolve seventeen, but they gotta they do
46:51
Speaker 2: have to figure it out. They got to figure it out.
46:54
Speaker 2: We'll see, we'll see. Well again, we'll do the offensive
46:56
Speaker 2: preview next month when training game gets rolling, the defensive
47:00
Speaker 2: preview as well. We've got a special guest for that,
47:02
Speaker 2: so I'm really really excited about that when it comes
47:05
Speaker 2: time to talk for defense, because I am done giving
47:07
Speaker 2: McDermott excuses. I feel like a broken record with that,
47:10
Speaker 2: but we'll see what it goes. Listen, DT, I really
47:12
Speaker 2: appreciate you joining me today. Listen, six hundred people, DT.
47:16
Speaker 2: You must be onto something that It must be cold
47:18
Speaker 2: up there in the rough buff in the seven one
47:21
Speaker 2: sixth man, six hundred people watching us today. We really
47:23
Speaker 2: appreciate you guys taking some time out of your Saturday
47:25
Speaker 2: down here in Charlotte. It's nice. Give us a nickel
47:27
Speaker 2: sick of your crew tailgate report, DT, because we'll be
47:31
Speaker 2: back next week and then we're taking summer break too, man,
47:34
Speaker 2: So give me a tailgate report. What's going on this weekend?
47:37
Speaker 2: What do you got going? Because it is it's slow
47:40
Speaker 2: motion down here. I got a few things going on.
47:42
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, we'll lead off the tailgate report with
47:45
Speaker 1: we're official. We're official now for Charlotte on October had
47:58
Speaker 1: a little miscolm. We won't put any names involved this week,
48:01
Speaker 1: but got excited booked, booked the flights down to Charlotte.
48:06
Speaker 1: The next day, realized wrong weekend, the weekend the Bills
48:12
Speaker 1: are playing there, so I had to adjust that. But
48:16
Speaker 1: that's all taken care of now, you know, we we
48:18
Speaker 1: you know, we kind of broke that out when the
48:20
Speaker 1: schedule at least came out about our plans and so
48:24
Speaker 1: that's that's official. That's exciting. That's gonna be a great
48:26
Speaker 1: week uh, you know for us and you know for
48:29
Speaker 1: our fans alike. Are gonna be able to you know,
48:31
Speaker 1: we'll do some good content that weekend. Yeah, really really
48:34
Speaker 1: lay it down in the Queen City. H So that's good.
48:39
Speaker 1: And then here, yeah, just trying to get into this
48:41
Speaker 1: warm weather. We're having little spurts of it and it
48:43
Speaker 1: gets cold and this weekend isn't great, but just trying
48:46
Speaker 1: to get that golf game, like Josh Allen great and
48:49
Speaker 1: I'm coming out of the gate this year a little
48:52
Speaker 1: hotter than usual. I uh, I'm playing. I'm playing decent,
48:56
Speaker 1: so I'm getting out of the drive box, okay, and
48:59
Speaker 1: I just gotta put everything else together. So that's DT's
49:02
Speaker 1: work in the next couple of weeks. Get that golf game.
49:05
Speaker 1: Mid season four him excited to be coming down to
49:08
Speaker 1: Charlotte for real on the right weekend.
49:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I was laughing when he told me
49:12
Speaker 2: that you made it for the wrong weekend. But I
49:14
Speaker 2: was like, I'm pretty sure they got those twenty four
49:16
Speaker 2: hour forty eight hour rule where you could switch it
49:18
Speaker 2: and get the right date. So I'm glad that you
49:20
Speaker 2: got that all figured out. We cannot wait to host you.
49:23
Speaker 2: We are really really happy about that. Over here, man, Listen,
49:27
Speaker 2: we are slow motion here in Charlotte. We had Quincy's
49:31
Speaker 2: last baseball game this morning. Another two rips, I mean
49:35
Speaker 2: two yokes, just right up the middle. So he had
49:37
Speaker 2: a good finish to his baseball season. He definitely was
49:40
Speaker 2: the best player on the team when it comes to
49:42
Speaker 2: fielding and hitting. He really, like I told you, he
49:45
Speaker 2: was kind of lukewarm on it, so I still got
49:47
Speaker 2: to work. I'm like, listen, monster, you're the best player
49:50
Speaker 2: of the team. I'm like, I won't force you to
49:52
Speaker 2: play next year, but you might want to think about it.
49:54
Speaker 2: But he is all about football. He were getting ready
49:56
Speaker 2: to sign him up for flag football, and he's got
49:58
Speaker 2: his mouth guard. He must want to wear it half
50:00
Speaker 2: the day when he's at my house like for no reason,
50:03
Speaker 2: just run around with the mouthguarden working it in. So
50:06
Speaker 2: he's very very excited for flag football. Can't wait to
50:09
Speaker 2: get that started. We've got my other daughter, Flow, She's
50:13
Speaker 2: got a dancer title tonight, our first dancer title, so
50:16
Speaker 2: we're all getting ready for that, and we're getting ready
50:19
Speaker 2: to go down there tonight to do that. I'm literally
50:21
Speaker 2: looking at the monitor right now. Princess Ivy just woke
50:23
Speaker 2: up from her nap, so she's ready to go. She's
50:26
Speaker 2: ready to go. So we are all getting ready to
50:28
Speaker 2: go support Flow for her first dancer title today and
50:31
Speaker 2: then and then what we got tonight. I think it's
50:33
Speaker 2: Game six, right, Game six series. Yeah, I'm really happy
50:39
Speaker 2: that the Knicks one the other night. I want to
50:41
Speaker 2: see it go seven, just for the drama, just for
50:43
Speaker 2: I mean, I kind of. It's one of my guilty
50:46
Speaker 2: presdents is watching, you know, watching the Knicks fans when
50:49
Speaker 2: they get their hearts broken and stuff like that. So
50:51
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just fun. It's good sports fun. I
50:54
Speaker 2: don't have a dog in the fight, but I really
50:56
Speaker 2: do enjoy that series, and I'm happy that they won
50:58
Speaker 2: Game five to force Game six tonight, so we are
51:00
Speaker 2: just cooling in. Maybe get some pizza tonight after the
51:02
Speaker 2: recital and then kick back and and watch Game six man.
51:06
Speaker 2: But listen, DT, I'm really really excited that you're coming down.
51:09
Speaker 2: Can't wait. I got the whole itinerary ready for you, man,
51:12
Speaker 2: and we we can't wait to host you. Man. We're
51:14
Speaker 2: really really excited. It is going to be Bill's Mafia
51:17
Speaker 2: South for sure'll.
51:18
Speaker 1: Be here before we know it too, be here before
51:20
Speaker 1: we know it. Enjoy the summer right now, Nickel City,
51:23
Speaker 1: because we know it goes quick. And then as soon
51:25
Speaker 1: as that summer is over, it's literally the biggest blur
51:28
Speaker 1: every year. Time week one week one when that Super
51:32
Speaker 1: Bowl kicks literally feels like it's two days.
51:34
Speaker 2: So it really feels. It's crazy how fast the season goes.
51:37
Speaker 2: And and you're absolutely right about that. You ain't never
51:39
Speaker 2: lied about that. Listen out there, nicol City Crew, Bill's
51:42
Speaker 2: Mafia spread love not hate. Really appreciate you guys joining
51:45
Speaker 2: us today. Listen, these are my bills thoughts that out loud.
51:49
Speaker 2: Hit it with the go, Bill's DT. We got one
51:50
Speaker 2: more week than we're on summer break, one more week
51:53
Speaker 2: than we go on break maybe we can go on
51:54
Speaker 2: a boat.
51:55
Speaker 1: No, no Himalayan.
51:57
Speaker 2: So it's all.
52:00
Speaker 1: If it gets over fifty degrees, we might have an
52:03
Speaker 1: opportunity to get on the water. But yeah, let's go
52:06
Speaker 1: Go Bills, Go Bills. Princess Ibby wants. She's up from
52:10
Speaker 1: her nep.
52:11
Speaker 2: You're gonna say, hey, Princess Iby see uncle, DT, you
52:15
Speaker 2: see uncle, she's getting bigger.
52:18
Speaker 1: DT huh oh Man exponentially.
52:23
Speaker 2: Yes, princess Ivey says, go Bills. She wants to tell
52:26
Speaker 2: everybody go Bills. She's not gonna talk right now, but
52:28
Speaker 2: she is very, very excited for the season, her second season.
52:32
Speaker 2: She was born, I told you, DT. Remember she was
52:34
Speaker 2: born on a Bill's game. So this is this is
52:37
Speaker 2: my good luck charm. She's gonna bring us. She's gonna
52:39
Speaker 2: bring us a Super Bowl Bills Bobby Nicol City Crew.
52:41
Speaker 2: I can't wait. Leave it.
52:42
Speaker 1: I believe it.
52:43
Speaker 2: Win to Go Bills, hit Winn to Go Bills. Oh,
52:47
Speaker 2: I love it, I love it. I love it.