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S3 E27: Guess Who's Back?! · Nickel City Crew Podcast

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Fifteen de crazy. You can see your breath out in the lake effect,
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I want you out in now your family? Where's would you have to be?
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Where else? Would you be? Welcome into the Nicol City Crew.
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bills and NFL content again today and as always is these are my bills thoughts
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set out loud. It's a vibe so ridiculous. Two Stay three was sick
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show. I collect Where's what you want to be? All right, let's
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get straight to it. Really excited for today's episode. We are coming to
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you live. We're not on a YouTube live, but we're going to release
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this as soon as we're done for your Black Friday shopping and everybody's about out
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and about excuse me, and enjoying the holiday season as it starts to approach.
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Hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving. We will get to the Turkey Day
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the Nickel City Crew Turkey Day Report and aptly named it for yesterday's events,
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and we can't wait to get to that at the end of the show today.
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But really excited, big, big, big week coming up. It's
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awesome that it came off of a win. The Bills again get an opportunity
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to get back in the win column with the victory over the New York Jets
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at home, and it was quite decisive, to be honest, thirty two
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to six. It was really great to see the team play the way that
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they did and to help me unpack that. And then as we take an
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eye and look forward towards the Eagles on this coming Sunday. Joining me as
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always my co host writing Shotgun Adam Dump Truck Repsick. Check out on Instagram
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at Adam Rupsick. Are you pe c Zyk? Howl at the crew,
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DT, what's good man? I know you're traveling back. What's up man?
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How at the crew? What's up? What's up? Rout? What's
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up? Nickel City? Happy Holiday, Happy, Thanksgiving to you and your
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family and all the crew. I hope everyone had a good one. But
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yeah, yeah, we're out here, man, and Thanksgiving A big part
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of Thanksgivings ball and that's what we love getting into. So so let's rock
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and roll, baby, Let's get into some ball for sure. I mean,
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you know, again, as DT said, hope everybody out there in
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the crew had a great day yesterday. We'll get to our Turkey Day report
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at the end of the show and kind of share some of the stuff that
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we went through. I know I've posted some stuff on Instagram yesterday for me
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and DT, but it was a fun day for sure. DT. I'm
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not sure if you heard. I know it was floating around on Twitter.
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But after that Khalil Shakir touchdown strike that Josh Allen had eighty one yards,
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that's the longest run or pass all season of any player in the NFL,
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not just Bill's. Josh came to the sideline. He put his helmet down
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and he said, you know what I mean, I feel like I'm fucking
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back and like he yelled it and he meant it. And somebody noticed that
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he got his haircut, he's got his fade like, you know, I
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rocked the ball fade. He had his fade nice and fresh, and I
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don't know, DT, but you know, it made me think of Mama
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Monday, and it made me think of just some of our other episodes where
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we're trying to dissect this man and trying to dissect some of the things that
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he might have been going through mentally, to be quite honest, and just
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some of the back and forth and kind of the pull and push, the
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tug of war that he kind of had in his own mind with you know,
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do I run, do I not run? Do you know what I
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mean? I take chances? Do I not take chances? And kind of
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we talked about just how he was almost like a neutered version of himself for
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a few weeks there, and I mean, just that sign to him,
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that emotion on the sideline DT, it kind of made me feel That's why
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I named the episode of the way that I did, because it just kind
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of made me feel like, maybe he is back, Like maybe he does
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have his swagger back, you know what I mean, And maybe this is
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a situation where this was the perfect tune up as we get approaching for the
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end of the year and these tough games coming up, DT, because we're
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gonna need seventeen to be on his shit. We're gonna need seventeen to be
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feeling really good about himself and feeling really good about the offense and the direction
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of the offense. And obviously this was for Joe Brady's, you know,
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first opportunity to call plays. And we'll get to that in a moment,
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but DT, starting with seventeen, your boy, the two hundred and fifty
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six million dollar man. I mean, he yelled it out and he boy,
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he really seemed like he believed it, like he feels like he's back.
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Well, let's be cautiously optimistic, go and and I share hope.
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I sure hope he is. But you said it two things. One,
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he finally got a freaking haircut that was starting to really get why they were
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kind of struggling. And then it just got panning over to him all blank
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faced and that hair curling up under the hat, looking all greasy, looking
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like he smelled out there. So you know, we needed we needed one
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seven, I think, to tighten up kind of get a new uh new
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look, new vibe going about him, and uh, you know, because
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that's kind of how he's always had it. He gets to go a little
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in the off season, then gets it tight for the season. And I
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don't know if Harley Steinfeld had something to do with it this year, but
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let's let's uh, let's keep that tight the rest of the season for sure.
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But you know, I think going in getting I love the energy,
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I love the confidence because that's what we've been longing for, right Rob.
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We've been longing for him to kind of have that swagger again this year and
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and sling it and and just feel that feel that dog you him. And
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when Tiger Woods was the best, he was it what he was better than
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everyone golf, but he had the intimidation factor. Yeah, he beat exactly
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exactly, and same with Michael Jordan and Kobe and all those guys and Josh
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you know, has to be have that confidence to be as good as he
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needs to be. So, you know, a good defense that they kind
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of picked it apart. He was very efficient, but uh, you know
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a lot of good games coming up, a lot of tough games coming up
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with some tough defenses, and like I said, going against the Bills,
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this is the defenses are their toughest week of the week. Even though it's
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been a tough year. Going up against one seven is a hard, hard,
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hard study. So I like the swagger, I like the confidence.
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I sure hope he's back, Rob, but we'll see. Yeah, no,
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I hope that he's back as well. You know, it was just
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funny just watching that that interaction from NFL Films, and I love that they
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got that that behind the scenes footage because you know, he was serious and
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and he was you know, he was yelling at and he was out there
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and he was just kind of in his little bag and in his zone as
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the kids would say, and like, you know, it's a situation where
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I want him to have that confidence. One of the most critical things about
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playing professional sports is confidence. I mean, it really is. When you
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get to that level, everybody is good, everybody's got talent, everybody studies
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for the most part, and it's what separates a lot of those guys,
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for a vast majority of the greats, is their confidence level. I mean,
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you talked about it, Kobe. You know, nobody out work Kobe.
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Nobody was going to be at the gym earlier than Kobe. Nobody was
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going to be studying his craft and footwork and movements and different things like that,
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and studying opponents and things like that. So confidence is a really important
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thing when you are playing professional sports, especially in the NFL where the stakes
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are so high. The money is there. We already we talk about all
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the time. He's a two hundred and fifty six million dollar man, So
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I want him to feel confident. And again, I thought about Mama Monday
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and some of those episodes where you know, we were just what's up going
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on in his head and what's going on with his psyche and are they psyching
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him out? Are they telling him too much? Is there too much on
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his brain? And remember we talked about that one press conference that was weird
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when you know, he literally stopped mid sentence. It was, you know,
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I need to you know, I just need to be thinking Moyd like,
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well maybe I don't know, maybe I don't need to think me as
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much, you know. So it was interesting to see some of those things
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from the Sideline kind of come to fruition where that was a laser. It
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was a really tough, pass tight coverage from Sauce Gardner, and it was
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a thing of beauty because I mean that thing was on a rope. He
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got it to him with very very little opening, and obviously shakiir And did
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the rest with the help of Dolphin and k down the field helping blocking.
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But it was that was a really really nice play DT, and it was
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something where maybe that is something that can catapult him because thirty two points on
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the on the Jets D is that hadn't been done this year DT. I
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mean, we put up points on a good defense that was no slouch,
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that was no Washington Commanders or anything like that. That was a legit d
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top five in the league. They've been that all year long, really under
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Robert Salah's tutelage, they've been just a top five unit. So I thought
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that that's something that we can take away from and we'll get to Joe Brady
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in a minute. But that passed within itself, which just a it was
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that was the thing of beauty man. The whole entire play was with something
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to watch. I really enjoyed watching those highlights. Calculated confidence, Robie,
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we sack like we want Josh to be back. We wanted to be confident,
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but it's got to be calculated confidence. Now he knows he can make
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that throw again. You know, that's the biggest That's the the biggest thing
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I saw, Like he knows he can step up and make that throw,
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and so he's confident with it. Now, don't get too crazy with it,
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you know, you can get it and make sure you're doing it at
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the right time, because I feel like that's kind of what he got away
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from was, you know, he was just trying to force that throw for
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the whole year, and it wasn't It wasn't clicking for him. You know,
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it wasn't clicking, and he was throwing the picks and and so he
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probably in his head was like, maybe I can't make that throw anymore,
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you know, and then hopefully this throw, like this clicks back in.
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I can make that throw. I'm confident I can do it, but calculated
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confidence. I've learned this year that I can't do that every single time.
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Wait for the right opportunity and strike when it's high. So hopefully this is
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a nice learning experience for one seven as he can get that confidence back,
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which we need him to get to be great. Right, it's calculated and
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he doesn't overdo it, but he learned from the first you know, ten
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weeks of the season. Absolutely, you know, that's a great point.
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You know. One of the things that you know that I enjoyed so much
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watching him was just again the emotion. You talked about, that malaise look
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that he had on his face so many times. And I understand that the
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cameras don't catch all of the action, and you get people calling up wgr
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well, why isn't anybody talking to Josh? This is that like you're you're
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taking that off of a just a brief snippet of a camera shooting over to
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him. But but the fact was still the remaining in the same I wasn't
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as concerned about who was talking to him because I knew that Joe Brady was
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there down on the field as Dorsey was upstairs, so I know that they
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communicate and they look at those little tablets. The thing for me was that
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weird look on his face. The thing for me was the malaise, was
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the was the you know, the deer in the headlights looked that. It
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kind of concerned me because I don't like that. I didn't like seeing him
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like that. So I really did enjoy the fact that the emotion was in
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him and he was letting that thing out there, and he ran down the
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field and met Shakir after that touchdown and was just right there to celebrate with
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his guys. So I really do enjoy because you know, Josh, what
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do We always call him the fun Golden Retriever, and you know, he's
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a fun loving kid. He's a gunslinger like Brett Favre, and we've got
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to deal with the you know, the positives and the negatives that come with
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that. However, that emotion, that passion that he plays with is palpable
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that the teammates feel it. You know, it kind of extends out to
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everybody on the football field. That's again why I think that Stefan Diggs is
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so damn important to this team because he brings that energy level each and every
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week and allows everybody to really get on their game. To know that I've
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got to match one for his intensity level, because this dude is ready to
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go play. He's ready to go after it. So it's gonna be interesting
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to see if Josh Allen can carry that over as we go forward. Now,
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for Joe Brady, it was funny DT because I had heard Nate Gear
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you know, I love him, and we had him on the show a
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few weeks back and he had said something that was really really nice on Twitter
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and I had to steal it. I was like, yeah, that's nice
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man. He pointed out that you know, it's the same art, it's
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the same paint, it's the same brushes, you know, paint brushes,
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it's the same canvas that you're trying to paint on, you know, the
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actual football field, however, a completely different artist. And I think that
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that is the key, because you know, Joe Brady is not calling different
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plays than Ken Dorsey did or anything like that, but he might be using
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different types of you know, formations and different types of motions. I heard
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about motion was being used, you know, to great length last week,
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and I guess there was more motion used last week than at any point in
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time throughout the season under Dorsey. So that was something that was very interesting
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to watch. And I'm really wondering if this is something that can be sustainable,
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if this is something that can be you know, that something that we
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can add back into our team as we go forward, because DT it's going
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to be really important for Joe Brady to to get in his groove, to
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understand what he wants, what he likes, what he doesn't. But the
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things that stuck out to me the most, you know, where the motions
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and the fact that we use more motion than at any point in time under
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Dorsey. And then the other thing, like I said, with the way
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that Nate Geary described it, it really struck a chord with me because they
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are the same plays, and they are the same paint and it is the
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same paint, and it is the same paint brushes, and they're painting on
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the same canvas, but it is a completely different artist. And I think
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that that's a great point because two people can see something totally different. You
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know. You think about those ink blobs and like, what do you see
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on the end? Somebody sees a bat, somebody else sees a monkey and
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that type of thing, And I think that that is kind of you know,
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the whole point of it is that Joe Brady is now painting this offense
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in a way that he wants it to be, and it's different from Ken
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Dorsey. And I think that we saw a little glimpse of that on Sunday.
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I just don't know how much we should anticipate that in the future,
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but I really do think that that's really at the crux of it, it's
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just a new artist somebody else that is coming in and putting his own fingerprints
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on it, because they are calling the same plays, but they did it
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in a totally different way, and we needed something like that, you know,
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we needed that jowld of new energy that Joel is something different, but
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it's kind of the similar when Dable left to when Dorsey took over, right,
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you know, they were in the same system and the similar situation,
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and it was not the same exact playbook, if you will, but a
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lot of the same concepts, a lot of the same deal because Dorsey was
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here as an understudied Dable and then this is kind of the same thing with
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Brady coming. But the difference Brady was an offensive coordinator, like you mentioned.
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You know, he's had his own type of his run around with different
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teams, different looks, different swaggers and characters, if you will, so
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coming in, you know, keeping it similar, but knowing he has a
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personnel to be able to do some creative things was good to see. The
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thing I like to take from this game is completions to six different receivers and
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the lowest receiving out of that was three catches, you know, so it
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wasn't like he was just passing around and everybody had one catch. He was
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passing it around and six guys had three or more receptions, So you know
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that was the way. Yeah. Yeah, as much as I love Digs
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to, you know, to dominate and cook defenses and have great days,
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I don't need him to. You know, if we can get the ball
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around and three guys can have you know, three for forty, three for
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fifty, that we don't need Digs to have twelve for one hundred and thirty.
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So, you know, longevity, talking him out, saving for playoffs,
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all that type of stuff. That type of thing can make the difference
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down the stretch. But I like the difference. And look, I like
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the difference. And like you said, he's had some talent with Joe Brady
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when he was down at LSU with with Burrow Chase and yeah and Jefferson,
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you know, yeah, he had the dogs and he you know, he
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can make it happen. So he knows he's got the talent on this team.
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And that's why it was so frustrating. As we've talked on this,
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you know, on Nicostad the whole year, Rob is the talent is here,
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and we're looking we're kicking ourselves and we're losing these games. We're not
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getting beat We're losing these games, and we have the talent. The answer
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is within. Hopefully this is the answer, you know, because I think
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we do have the talent to make a run. Yeah. I mean,
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it's gonna be interesting because you know, Joe Brady is not Kendorsey, you
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know. And you know that's a good point with the dable point because you
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know they haven't really changed the offense or anything like that, but you know
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there's different. There's wrinkles and the motion and things like that. So you
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know, whatever Brady thinks, you know, because anytime that you're behind another
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guy, you would always think about, well what would I do if I
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had this opportunity, you know, And that's just natural. You know.
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You think about your bosses and stuff, and there might be shit that your
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boss does and he might piss you off with and you got to do these
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reports, so you got to do it this way in this way, and
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you're like, man, if I'm ever in his position, I'm gonna do
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it this way because I think it's more efficient to do it this way.
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So that's totally natural for somebody to even be an understudy, to still have
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his own visions, to still have his own ideas. And I think that
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that's what you saw on Sunday was a case of a guy got an opportunity
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to grab that paint brush and he painted his own canvas. He painted his
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own picture of what he wanted the offense to look like, and it really
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looked, it really looked great on Sunday against the Jets. Now, as
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we transition a little bit before we do shout out to the defense, you
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know, d I know that we talked about how, you know, they're
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gonna have to be patchworking, and we talked about how the offense is gonna
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it's gonna be the onus on the offense to step up and make sure that
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they're pulling their weight because of all the injuries on the defense. But you
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know, kudos to to Sean McDermott, you know, kudos to the defense
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because they they have you know, obviously the Jets are not a great opponent
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offensively, and we understand that, so we won't get too carried away with
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it. But you know, back to back weeks where we gave enough the
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defense gave enough against Denver to win that game. The offense, you know,
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didn't bail him out. And then last week six points, Rasull Douglass
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looking great, that you know, feather in the cap to Brandon Bean with
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that trade deadline pickup two picks. I don't know how he got robbed of
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the you know, AFC defensive player the week. I guess they gave it
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a Ramsey. And maybe because Ramsey's picks were a little bit more timely and
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the game was closer. That's the only reason I could think of. Because
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he had two picks, a fumble recovery, a couple of tackles. He
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was all over the field and and that's a really nice pickup. I mean,
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what that does is it helps mitigate the loss of twenty seven. It
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helps mitigate the loss of him because you know Benford and Jackson on the outside,
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you know they're doing their best, and they're fine, they're they're serviceable.
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But if you've got another guy that could take the ball away create turnovers,
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that's a big deal for a defense. You know, we've been looking
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for more turnovers this year. And to see a guy come in like that
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right off the street, he was a ball hawk with the Green Bay Packers,
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and I mean he picks right up off of it man right here in
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Buffalo. And I really liked seeing his game because he was he was everywhere.
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He was right around the ball every single time on those boundaries. Yeah,
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he's somebody with a pulse on the defense, Rob And we'll we'll take
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it now with our injuries piling up on that side of the ball, it's
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like somebody that can play, you know, we will take him right in.
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But yeah, kudos, what a good pickup, you know when and
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talk about getting your confidence ready and hitting the ground and running. Now he's
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on this team knowing he's the number one, you know, defensive back other
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than the safeties out there, and he needs to hold that swagger and confidence
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to do that. So three takeaways in a game at home under your crowd
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the second week you're here, really your first full week of practice, there's
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gonna be a lot of confidence in your in your back pocket to you know,
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to go out and be like, all right, I'm the guy here.
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Now I have the opportunity to be the guy here, you know,
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for for miss the rest of this year and maybe in the next year.
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If I if I keep if I keep Rockett and rolling here. So you
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love that confidence and the chain reaction we talked about when Matt Milano was playing
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well in the beginning of the year, kind of how everybody raised their level
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of play to to because they be the one you meet, you know by
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you know, on it, and then you see the chain reaction. One
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player is having a good, good day in Rasoul Douglas, the defensive lines
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kind of getting home, the linebackers are where they need to be. And
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granted, like you said, the quarterback play is way under so far,
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especially with Doyle, and you know, as we're releasing this episode, the
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Jets are going to take the field again with this cat against the Dolphins for
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the Black Friday game. But credit to do what you had to do in
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the past couple of weeks. They've done it. The defense has done what
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they had to do, you know, kind of keep it in there,
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and the offense hasn't bailed them out. And finally the offense came around and
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bailed them out. And that seems to be the formula. Rob. I
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mean, would you agree this defense is serviceable? I mean, I'm not
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saying we're gonna shut down the Eagles and the Chiefs to you know, under
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twenty points. But if you can hold them right around there, you gotta
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be able to get that thirty spot and beat these teams. And that's gotta
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be our potion the rest of the year. Like this defense is serviceable.
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We know exactly what we're getting from the defense. We know exactly what we're
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getting. They're not They might have a little better day, but they're not
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gonna have a little worse day. You know, they'll either be right in
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the middle or they'll have a good day. They're not gonna they're not gonna
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blow a game for you. And they've proven that week in and week out.
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Yeah, and that's McDermid's baby. Let's go, let's focus on that.
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So really, this is the key to success. I think the rest
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of the season is you know what the d's gonna give you. The offense's
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gotta bail it out. So credit to the D. I'm looking forward to
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these guys to keep making plays and you know, not let it be a
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flash in the pan. Let's let's see this on a weekly basis. Absolutely,
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I mean, six games remaining, we're getting ready to shift our focus
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to the Eagles. But you know, you're absolutely right. The offense is
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gonna have to carry the day. I mean, it's funny because this is
21:00
what they called like nut cutting time, Like this is it like you know,
21:02
you see Dallas yesterday on Turkey Day and they're destroying you know, the
21:04
Commanders. They've got this great record, but they haven't really played anybody.
21:07
And you know, you could say the same thing about some other teams as
21:11
well, but like now it's it's time like put up or shut up.
21:14
As the schedules are starting to wind down and six games remaining for most teams
21:18
now coming up on the Sunday. I mean, this is it, Like
21:21
this is your your opportunity because of the fact that you're going to be going
21:23
up against some better opponents and the offense it's going to really be coming on
21:27
them to really bring it, because I mean, you're not. There's no
21:30
more cakewalks, there's no more you know, you messed up against the Patriots
21:33
and that was a game that you should have won. And you messed up
21:37
against the Giants and squeaked out and and the Bucks and you squeaked out and
21:38
then you lost the London game for whatever reason, and travel or not whateer
21:44
the case may be. But we haven't seen them play that complete game,
21:47
you know, since Miami, and it was fun to see against the Jets
21:49
again that it seemed more of a complete game. It seemed that everybody had
21:53
their shit together, and it was really good to see because you are going
21:56
to need to be buttoned up as you approach these final six games, point
22:00
blank. There's no way around it. There's no there's nowhere to hide.
22:03
And we talk about that all the time here at the crew. Uh,
22:06
You're gonna have to be able to step up and the offense, you know,
22:08
is going to be chiefly looked at to do so. So we'll see
22:11
and we'll monitor it now as we transition. Boy dt, I have I've
22:15
got a bunch of everybody. I've got tons of family on my mother's side
22:19
that lives in Philly. My grandmother lives in Philly. I've got tons of
22:22
cousins and and boy man, if I get one more fucking text message,
22:26
but my cousins in Philly talking shit to me, I mean I am.
22:30
I'm really getting over it. I'm really over it, and I'm having a
22:33
tough time with it. The Eagles nine and one, Uh, they look
22:37
great against against the Chiefs. Now not offensively, but their defense looked great.
22:41
They were able to hold Patrick Mahomes down, and it was a situation
22:45
where that game I watched it really closely because of the fact that obviously we
22:48
knew that those were our two next opponents. And I came away from those
22:52
watching the Eagles Chiefs game dt that I was like, listen, neither of
22:56
these offenses scare me. And that's why I was texting back to my like,
23:00
your offense doesn't scare me, man, Like, I know y'all got
23:03
the tout push, and I know that's a guaranteed yard or two if you
23:06
guys get in a short yard situation. But I mean, other than that
23:08
one throw down the sideline from Hurtz to Defonte Smith I had, I didn't
23:11
see aj Brown, I didn't see I haven't really been impressed with their offense
23:15
really all year. And I understand that they've got a nice defense, and
23:18
they plug a lot into that and they've poured a lot into that defensive side
23:22
of the football with the defensive line and the Georgia Boys and all that type
23:25
of stuff, But their offense didn't really scare me, so before we get
23:29
to the Chiefs or anything like that. We'll take our next opponent first.
23:32
I'm not that impressed by them. Now, I understand the record is pristine,
23:34
and they've won tight games, and there's a there's definitely a quality to
23:38
winning tight games. We talked about it before about how sometimes you know pressure
23:44
situations, that's where you know the diamonds come out. So you've got to
23:47
really prove yourself when it's tight and it's close, and it's and it's gonna
23:49
be nip and tuck. They've done a great job of that. You can't
23:52
take anyway anything away from the record. Excuse me, but ninety one Bill's
23:56
going on the road to Philly, and boy, I'm I can hear from
24:00
these Chiefs kick these Chiefs steak cousins DT because they are on me hard right
24:04
now. And I just keep telling them that I'm not that impressed by your
24:08
offense. And that's really all. That's my only rebuttal, I can't take
24:11
away the record, but I'm not that impressed by the offense. The very
24:15
pedestrian, very pedestrian looking for sure. I mean, I have Jalen Hurts
24:18
in one of my fantasy leagues as my quarterback. And if he didn't have
24:22
the rushing touchdowns, he wouldn't even be a top fifteen quarterback statistically. You
24:27
know. It's very pedestrian. They got the horses, you know, for
24:33
sure, yeah, you know, but they got a few injuries. As
24:36
goddards out. Swift's kind of slowed down. He started out with a huge
24:38
beginning of the year. He slowed down a little. Goddards out. Aj
24:42
Brown, you know, was leading the league up there with Tyreek Hill,
24:45
but against the Chiefs they kind of put press man on him and he didn't
24:48
do much. And then you obviously have DeVante Smith is a great too.
24:52
So the horses are there. Their offense could be solid, the line's always
24:56
good and always strong, but they've been pretty pedestrian, you know. And
25:00
and this win a lot of tight games, d t. They win a
25:03
lot of tight games, exactly exactly, And so what does that tell me?
25:07
Rob is an optimistic uh Nicol City crew member here. It's it's not
25:12
for a trap game, right, It's not for a trap game, and
25:15
it's teeing up. You win the tight games. Eventually one's got to lose,
25:18
and why not lose one out of the conference the Lions. The Lions
25:22
just lost yesterday for you, so you're still gonna have the one seed in
25:26
hand if you if you lose Sunday. So you know, this has got
25:29
trap, trap game, letdown game written all over it. Tell your cheese,
25:32
steaks cousins. Now that's funny. Yeah, I mean, I'm looking
25:37
at the Eagle schedule right now, and I mean I see a four point
25:41
win, a five point win, a seven point win. You know,
25:42
I see a six point win, I see a three point win. I
25:45
see a six point win, a five point win. You know, there's
25:47
only really one or two blowouts in that entire season, and and really they
25:51
weren't even big time blowouts. So it's it's something that I've been watching.
25:55
I've been monitoring it because of the fact that I knew that this was coming
25:57
up. I told you about you know, my friend Ao for you know,
26:00
shout out to him for Williams was south. He's a big time Eagles
26:03
fan down there in Florida. And you know, he hasn't been talking too
26:07
much shit to me, but like you know, he said the same thing
26:08
that he's excited for the game. But you know, his offense, he
26:11
doesn't know what's wrong with it right now? You know, the tush push
26:14
is fun, it's fun to talk about. It's fun to talk about.
26:17
You know, if they're going to change the rule and is it illegal and
26:18
you got to stop it, and you know if they can't stop and then
26:22
they run it well, And I understand that if you get into a third
26:23
and two or a fourth and two situation or shorter, you know, that's
26:26
almost guaranteed, especially if you're down there on the goal line. So I
26:30
understand that that's a weapon that they use. But you got to have more
26:33
than just a nice little rugby play to beat a football team. So again,
26:37
they have been doing that. They have been beating teams. I can't
26:41
I'm not taking anything away from nine to one. It's nine and one.
26:42
That's obviously they're the best record in the league for a reason. But I'm
26:47
not scared of this matchup, if that makes any sense. I like the
26:49
fact that it's on the road, number one, because of the fact that
26:52
I know it's a hostile environment things like that. But sometimes when you're on
26:56
the road, you get a chance to kind of get with your guys,
26:59
so to speak. So you know that playing sports and stuff like that.
27:00
It was you know, you go on the road to play your arrival,
27:03
that bus ride is intense, you know, to mean you're ready to go.
27:07
All day in school, you were ready to go. And obviously that's
27:08
on our little high school or college level, but as you go up the
27:11
ranks, it's the same thing. You're you're going to be in the same
27:15
hotel, you're going out to dinner the night before. It's it's just you
27:18
and your fellows, no distractions or anything like that. So I like the
27:21
fact that this game is on the road, huge game, you know,
27:22
primetime in respect to the fact that it's that four o'clock window with Nansen Romo,
27:26
and I just I just like it. There's something about the game that
27:30
I like. And now we might get blown out and I'll look like an
27:32
idiot in that respect, but I'm not. I'm not calling for a win
27:34
DT, but I'm definitely calling for a good game because the offense for the
27:37
Eagles doesn't scare me in And then you juxtapose that with with what Brady did
27:42
on last Sunday. Again, that was a different opponent, but their defense
27:47
was great. You know, the Jets defense is legit. We know that
27:49
and you know, he painted his own picture and it was definitely different than
27:52
door Seat. I saw some different wrinkles. I like his run game approach,
27:56
and you know, it's just it's just to be interesting. See,
28:00
I'm not scared. That's the best way to describe it. I'm ready for
28:03
Sunday. I'm not I'm not scared for Sunday. Yeah, I'm neither neither
28:08
because a couple of reasons. One, they've they've looked pedestrian and a lot
28:12
of close games, and you know, I think the Bills are capable.
28:15
And two it's like it's put up for shut up, like we have to
28:18
win, you know, basically, right, So I can't be scared.
28:22
I have to be confident, you know, in the Mafia and in the
28:26
crew, Like I gotta be confident here, rob, right, you know.
28:29
So so I'm I'm not scared for because I have to be confident.
28:33
And they look pretty pedestrian. Jalen hurts his knees been bothering him. He's
28:37
not gonna be running around like like he's used to, and you know,
28:41
and they're and so yeah, I'm ready to go there. There's some guys
28:44
on our team too that need to start showing up with Dave Davis, who
28:48
has I had a catching two games. Stefan Diggs was quiet last week.
28:51
Some of our you know, some prime time players, if you will step
28:53
up to the next level, and you know, it's kind of a coming
28:56
out party. Last week was Josh Allen. Now, let's this week be
29:00
a few more guys and no, I'm not scared. I'm pumped up.
29:03
Man four twenty five, Jim nance Romo. They're they're wearing their Kelly green
29:06
uniforms. Yeah, yeah, we're in icy white. The Bills in all
29:10
icy white. Yeah, you know we're not in one. The Bills kind
29:12
of sucked this year. We're in this nice we're in this nice all green
29:15
uniform and then boom, Josh Allen's back and the boys come and slap you
29:19
in the mouth. So let's ride, baby, Yeah, let's ride.
29:22
I mean, you know, that's the whole point with the with the ending
29:25
of this schedule, as we transition, it's just you know, there's nowhere
29:27
to hide, so that that you know, this is it. If we're
29:30
going to be a playoff team, you're about to find out. If we're
29:32
not, you're about to find out that as well. You know, with
29:34
these last six games, because there's nowhere to hide the Bills again, we'll
29:37
travel to Philly, they will take their bye week after that, and then
29:41
again we come right back on the road, go to KC home against the
29:45
Cowboys, which will be lit and be a charged aspensphere because of the fact
29:49
that we hate the Cowboys and the Super Bowls and all that type of stuff.
29:52
Nobody likes the Cowgirls in Western New York. And then Bill's Bafia,
29:56
so we know that. Then you've got the Chargers another primetime game, our
29:59
final prime game of the season. Possibly. I think that game's exclusively on
30:03
Peacock against Justin Herbert and la At so if I stadium in the stadium that
30:06
I like so much to see on TV. And then you finish up with
30:08
your last home game against the Patriots and then on the road with the Dolphins.
30:11
So we will find out everything about this team. With all the ups
30:15
and downs, with all of the roller coasters that we've gone through with our
30:18
Buffalo Bills this season, we'll find everything out about this team as we close
30:22
out the season. Now, as we begin to wrap up on this Black
30:26
Friday, I know everybody will be out there shopping, So hopefully you guys
30:29
put us on and get a chance to listen to us in the car or
30:33
on your iPads, on your AirPods. Excuse me as you're traveling around in
30:36
those malls and stuff like that. Just stay safe out there. No,
30:38
don't hit any fender benders or anything like that. We all know how to
30:41
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t shirts are really dope. Uh d t the Turkey Day Report, we
31:21
were we were battling a little bit. We had a little bit of a
31:22
battle of the Turkeys. I was trying to post some stuff out. You
31:25
know how bad I am at social media. Uh, my girlfriend is out
31:27
of town and she's she helps me out a lot with the with the social
31:32
media, and I needed to really just take over the page altogether because I
31:34
was having a trouble loading up some ship like I wanted to. But you
31:37
sent me some videos. I was able to get those out. We kind
31:40
of did the Battle of the Turkeys fan DT. You got to take us
31:44
through your day. Mine was was really cool, to be honest, man,
31:47
we got together. I had all three kings. This was my year
31:51
for Thanksgiving, but I actually let Quincy's mother host it, so she hosted
31:55
it at her at her house and it was it was cool, man.
31:57
We had two turkeys for We had the We had the Stinging Tarioki one that
32:02
we did for the tailgate that was a fan favorite at the Mafia at the
32:07
tailgate with the Nickel City Crew fans. That was really cool. So we
32:09
did that one again and again it got great reviews. And then I did
32:13
a little honey Hot DT. I wanted I wanted to mix it up a
32:15
little bit, so I did a honey Hot one. I injected it and
32:19
and fried both of those bad boys, and they came out perfect and pristine.
32:22
I'll try to get those those pictures loaded up four of you guys before
32:27
the game on Sunday because I'm waiting for my girlfriend to get back, so
32:29
she's got to help me because I'm having some trouble with the Instagram. But
32:31
I promise you man, we had a good time. It was It was
32:36
perfect. The birds turned out perfect. We cooked way too much food.
32:38
Everybody got a chance to take home some leftovers and stuff like that, so
32:42
I'll be nibbling on that type of stuff throughout the weekend. But it was
32:45
cool. Like you talked about earlier in the show of DT, Thanksgivings my
32:49
favorite holiday, and the main reason is because it's football, it's family,
32:52
and it's food. You know, it's just it all three just go together
32:54
so well. And listen to all the tributes of John Madden yesterday, and
32:58
I just can just remember being a kid growing up and listening to John Matten
33:01
and Pat Summer all and they're calling a Barry Sanders game at twelve o'clock or
33:06
they're calling the Cowboys game at four o'clock and all of those memories rushed back.
33:09
So it was really fun. We enjoyed it. The family all got
33:14
together and and everybody was was really cool. So we really had a good
33:16
time. What was it like, because I know you were at Mama Rugh
33:20
six and holding it down. I saw a Spatchcock, I saw a couple
33:22
of Spatchcock turkeys. But take us through, man, What what was it
33:25
like down there in Panama City? Man? I led the crew. Yeah,
33:30
well, I'm glad you you and you and the Kings had a good
33:32
day and uh, you know, a strong strong I bet it was a
33:36
little warmer down in Charlotte than it was up here, but not too bad.
33:39
You know. It was your typical Thanksgiving, you know, mid mid
33:42
forties, no snow, no rain, really no wind. So so that
33:45
was nice to kind of get rolling well. Last year with the Bills playing,
33:50
you know, at noon against the Lions, I had an idea to
33:52
have a little tailgate party, if you will, you know, for mainly
33:57
for the family to come over. And you know, all my family from
34:01
out of town is like, they're not Bill Stands, but they love the
34:04
Mafia. You know, they lived the vive and so little taste and you
34:08
know, We'll have a little tailgate party in the garage and watch watch some
34:10
of the game before the beautiful so beautiful. Yeah. So then so then
34:15
I this year, I was like, let's keep that going even though the
34:20
Bills aren't playing. It was a cool little thing to do in the morning.
34:22
And and it's just nowadays it just jams up when I get home.
34:28
You want to see everyone, you want to see your friends, you want
34:30
to do all that, and there's just not a lot of time. So
34:34
I was like, well, this is a good opportunity. I can have
34:36
my friends, you know that I see that live around the area, come
34:38
over for the tailgate party in the morning and then you know, go on
34:43
to there onto their thanksgivings for for the rest of the day. But I
34:47
was We're blessed this year because because my dad, Brian, Brian Ropsick shout
34:52
out, got a trigger this year, obsessed obsessed with can meats style.
35:00
Now. He was like yeah, so he was like, yo, like
35:05
you having that tailgate party again. I was like, I'm thinking about it.
35:07
He's like, have it again. I want some wing recipes. I'm
35:09
gonna try so, So I said, all I bet so, and ones
35:15
I saw yep. Ended up being a real nice turnout. All my friends
35:20
came over, the family came over early. We put a projector screen up
35:23
in the garage. Shout out to my uh sister and brother in law.
35:27
Derek brought down the the projector, had that going in the garage for the
35:31
parade and we did three wings. We did a the green ones were tequila
35:37
lime okay, and those were smoked, and then we did a hot and
35:43
then on the other side of the on the other side of the trigger on
35:45
the grill side, he did a hot grill, so we had a smoke
35:49
tequila lime hot grill, and then we did a double fry medium duck butter
35:55
crunch. The third match wow the wings in the morning for a little tailgate.
36:01
Ended up being a night about thirty people in the garage. The duck
36:05
bire was beautiful. It was a beautiful turnout. Everyone had a good time.
36:09
Then everyone went to their you know places, and then we we UH
36:15
spec cocked three birds, three twelve pounders. I had about twenty people at
36:21
my parents' house and U as soon as the wings were done, everyone left.
36:23
Me and my dad got got back out to the tragger, got those
36:28
got those sea seasoned up and the three birds went on the on the trigger
36:31
for the afternoon. So, oh, that was the smoke three smoke turkeys
36:37
were the deal. We underestimated it was a little cooler, so it took
36:40
a little longer than anticipated, but it was still efficient, you know.
36:45
But once you got to that, like four thirty five o'clock, you had
36:47
the grandma's you know, asking where the food is. Yeah, yeah,
36:52
yeah, I felt bad because my dad, it was a lot he was
36:54
doing, and he was he was really pumped and and you know, was
36:58
being serious about it. And then yeah, and he kind of had to
37:00
put the gas on and get those things cut quick too. Yeah, ye
37:04
serve. Yeah, but yeah, man, it was I've never had a
37:07
smoke turkey like that. And the skin's a little different there, but the
37:13
meat itself is here and he tasted all man and it was awesome, great
37:19
day overall. The tailgate party was a huge success. Uh, the wings
37:22
are great and then these turkeys were top notch. So yeah, it was
37:27
it was. It was a great day. It was a great day.
37:29
Everyone was shot afterwards. I definitely was feeling it and was supposed to stay
37:34
through the day but ended up bouncing back to Buffalo, gonna catch We got
37:37
Sabers tonight, Sabers penguins. Yeah, at the HSBC here, so we'll
37:43
be we'll be in that. But good Thanksgiving overall. Man. And I
37:45
don't I think smoking is the way to go, smoking or frying. I'm
37:49
done with the I mean, I agree. I mean I love that.
37:52
I fell in love with fran turkeys. You know that I've been doing that
37:55
at the tailgates for years now. That's a tradition that I got into front
38:00
Turkey's and maybe you know, like maybe almost five, six, seven years
38:02
ago, and I've been just hooked on it because it just locks in that
38:05
flavor. But I love smokers. I want I want a big boy smoker
38:08
like your dad, Like shout out to your dad. I want a big
38:12
boy smoker. I'm ready to step my game up. I want to try
38:14
some brisket. I want to try all of those different types of lifestyle.
38:19
Yeah, I bet, I bet I bet I I know, like you
38:22
told me that your dad takes it seriously. And I just love that because
38:24
you know, I love meat like I love meats. I love cooking meats
38:27
and different things like that. And I'm and I'm pretty good at it,
38:30
but I haven't you know, I haven't mastered all of the smoking techniques yet,
38:34
you know, not all of it. Now. I could do it
38:35
on a little small girl, but I would love to have, you know,
38:37
a bigger smoker and and kind of get things going in that respect.
38:40
So that that's that's what's up. Man. Shout out to my girlfriend Jody,
38:44
because she's definitely got to help me get my stuff up there on the
38:47
ground. So I would definitely work on that by by game time Sunday,
38:51
because it was just an epic failed yesterday. I got your stuff up and
38:53
then my stuff one of my posts came up was all black and I'm like,
38:57
I didn't even do anything. I don't know how this happened. But
38:59
yeah, we had all the turkeys going frying them up, and they did.
39:01
They really turned out great. So I want to share that with the
39:05
crew for sure. But listen, DT, this has been fun this Little
39:08
Black Friday episode. We're right before kickoff again. The New York Jets are
39:13
hosting the Miami Dolphins. Bill's Mafia root for the Jets to pull off some
39:17
type of miracle. I don't know how it's gonna happen with Tim Boyle as
39:21
you're starting quarterback for the New York Jets. But they'll be in there all
39:22
black for Black Friday, so we'll be hoping for a Thanks to Giving Day
39:28
miracle for sure. Other than that, the Bills and the Eagles will get
39:31
will get it going again four twenty five on Sunday Primetime, So that's perfect.
39:37
You get a chance to watch them the one o'clock games. Wake up
39:39
a little bit later. You don't have to worry about rushing or anything like
39:43
that to your tailgates or anything like that. Get with your family and friends.
39:45
But please enjoy the weekend everybody out there. Stay safe out there with
39:50
the again the traffic and all the hoopla of Black Friday and all the shopping
39:53
centers and the malls, parking lots. Just stay safe out there. You'll
39:57
get your stuff. Everybody don't get this stuff. As always, These were
40:00
my bills thoughts set out loud. Please spread love not hate. Hit them
40:05
with the gold bills, d T. I don't I don't know if I
40:07
lost year, DT might be still here, man DT. Hit them with
40:08
the gold bills. Okay, I'm gonna hit him with the gold bills for
40:12
you go bills. What DT would say is seven and five