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S4 E1: Time To Pay The Bills · Nickel City Crew Podcast

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Fifteen decrease. You can see your breath out in the lake effect, Breacon
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tables and gets would you here? Wherese would you have to be? And
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to Ron Elvis in the lay Panche the members that you need to know,
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Where else would you have be? Welcome into the Nicol City Crew.
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stream Yard. We're so glad that you're joining us for some of your Buffalo
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Bills and NFL content again today, and as always, these are my Bill's
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thoughts set out loud. It's the vibe so ridiculous, the story say three
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with six the show can let me Where's would you want to be? All
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right, let's get straight to it. I'm excited, man, I really
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am excited. Season four Nickel City Crew is underway. I know that I
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speak for my co host as well when I say that, Damn it feels
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good to be back, man, I am. I'm really really excited for
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season four, really really excited to interact with all of you guys once again.
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Builds mafia. Nickel City Crew hit us up tonight in the chat,
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joining me as always riding shotgun my co host Adam Dump Truck Ruptsick. I'll
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at the crew DT. What's good man? Look at you? What's good?
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Like that? Let's go, let's go, heay st Patty's Day.
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We're in the season, We're in the vibe. What's up, Rob,
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We're back and I'm happy to be here for sure. I miss you,
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man, I miss you. We know it. You know that. We
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I talked to you a little bit about this pre show, like the NFL
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does a great job of. We're addicted. The super Bowl happens, we
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chill out for a few weeks, and then here we are back back right
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on the grindstone, baby, hitting it hard. So happy to be back,
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Nico City Crew. Season four, big season coming up for everybody.
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Welcome back, everybody, let's go, let's crack me back. Yeah,
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man, I'm so excited for it. Tonight's episode and for season four,
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We've come a long way, and again we're gonna be hitting you with live
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episodes all season long, so that way we could just interact with the fans
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and the chats and all the other stuff going on. So we're we're really
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excited about all of it. So welcome back. I mean, DT I
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named the episode of the way that I did because, boy, you know
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it's funny. You know, my profession, it's time to pay the bills.
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You know, sometimes those bills come due, and and rentless due,
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and all the other bills were due. And boy did Brandon being take care
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of a business. I mean literally within one day, drops the bills from
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forty million over the cap to getting under and cap compliant as they call it.
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And we'll go over the moves the boy, I mean, just to
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see the way that he worked the deals and to make sure that he got
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cap compliant, getting even Dawson Knox to take a pay cut, getting vond
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Miller to take a pay cut. I've got to tip my hat to Brandon
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Bean because once again he shows that he's a wizard. I mean, he
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can get things done, like he getshit shaken. I really have to appreciate
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the fact that he's on his crind. I really do well. If this
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last situation here wasn't a call for the salary cap is basically fake, rob
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right. I mean, come on, the Bills, fifty million dollars under
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the cap. They got to do all this miraculous stuff, nothing that we
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could never imagine signing any free agents, and then a couple days later this
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that, and then boom boom boom, and here we are signing free agent.
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So it's yes, it is a thing. You know, we're we're
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kicking the can if you will, down the road or whatever the case.
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But being in being we trust right in these years he's been doing it,
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and this salary cap is something that's like not real, right, it doesn't
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matter. We're the worst word, fifty mil, were the by far the
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worst in the NFL, and we come back and we're just like everybody else
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right now. So that's how it is, baby, Yeah, that's how
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it is. I mean, the Bills have a myriad of moves that they
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made. And it was interesting because, I mean it seemed like Twitter was
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blowing up, everybody's Instagram was blowing up, because you know, there were
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some some big names that were let go. Now, I don't think that
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it was necessarily a surprise, obviously, outside of Mitch Morris, and my
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personal opinion, DT, but I hadn't talked to you since. Like the
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blood Path, it was crazy. Jordan Poyer gone, mich Morris gone.
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You know, crowd favorite right here behind me, Tradavious White one of my
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favorite Buffalo bills. I'm gone, Saran Neil a special teamer gone, Deontay
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Hardy gone, along with Nahim Hines as well, which gave us, you
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know, all those wonderful memories with the kickoff returns back after the Patriots came
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after DeMar Hamlin. I mean, those were some crazy, crazy, crazy
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moves, and it was interesting because I wasn't surprised outside of Mitche like I
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said, DT, but just like the fact that it all came back.
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I had described it on Twitter like it was like just he was ripping the
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band aid off. He didn't want to go through it, you know,
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multiple days and stretch it out. Brandon me just literally just here, take
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the medicine, say your goodbyes, because this is the way that's going down.
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And he did it. He did it quick man. I mean it
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did not last long. One day. I think it was like around two
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two thirty and then by the time ship with bulloughgro at w g R.
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It was. It was over, man, I mean, everybody was gone.
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It was crazy. Well, Rob, I've been watching the Sopranos on
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HBO. I've never never watched that about Torano and the model. Oh yeah,
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and and you know coming in and you know, cutting out and being
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ruthless. And then we didn't really think of it until it actually happened,
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and we knew we had to make something. As I just said, it
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wasn't real or whatever. We had to make room somewhere somehow. And it's
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just coming from our psyche of you know, Tony Soprano goes to the therapist,
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right, that's his thing, through the whole thing of my boss,
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like showing his feelings in and through the drop. We're beat down, and
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then all of a sudden, this Bill's team and and the new wave starts
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coming in. All these names were the names we loved and the things that
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made us back on the map again. And and so that's playing with our
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emotions. Even though it had to happen, right, it had to happen
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things and it's all logical. You can you can make your argument for everything
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on that it had to happen, but it just it. It was weird
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seeing it actually happened, you know, like you didn't you didn't know who
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was actually gonna get cut. You know, a few were, but then
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when everyone did, it was like damn, like all these names are gone.
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And when you speak of Trudavious White, we'll get on on that.
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Like that probably made the most sense, to be honest, Rob, Unfortunately
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it was the dude that we talked we traded Patrick Mahones for whatever you want
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to say, and had a great career for us, a beautiful player for
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the Bills, and unfortunately those last two big injuries and paying them a lot
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of money. That was probably the one that made the most sense. And
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but that was the one that probably hit the most other than employer, you
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know that you really loved and in that new age post rout, you know,
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messing with our emotions and really really loving becoming a Bills fan harder again.
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And you know, so credit to those dudes, but it was tough
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to see him go for real. Yeah, I mean, like I said,
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outside of Mitch Moore, So it was nothing that was really too surprising,
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like Poyer was definitely was definitely more you know, polarizing. So everybody
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wanted to talk about Poyer, and they wanted to talk about, you know,
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where's he going? And then people were up at arms and we went
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to Miami. What did the case may be? But he had battled some
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injuries as well, so he was getting longer in the tooth, as they
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say. And I kind of understood the philosophy because the fact that you get
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safeties that are throwing their bodies around like Poyer does and they get banged up,
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those injuries excuse me to start to accumulate to the point where you just
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can't be the same play that you were. And we started to see that
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two seasons ago, and he battled through injuries. It seemed like that entire
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you know, twenty one season and then you know it was just a tough
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go for him now. And the same thing with Michael Hyde. And you
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saw Michael Hyde step away and it looks like he's gonna be retiring as well.
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He hasn't made anything official yet, but you look at a guy like
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that, You look at a guy like Mitch Morse who even though he was
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really great on the offensive line and the line was great and they were consistent,
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how many times could the bills, you know, really bank on them,
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you know, playing every single snap together. That's gonna be tough.
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He had an injury, you know history as well with those concussions. So
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I thought it was a situation where I was surprised by Morse. But you
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look at Tradevius, like you said, you look at Poyer, I mean
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saraan Neil. Yes, special teams matter. I can hear Jay Spence the
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king over at Buffalo Rublet's say the special teams matter, and they do.
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But I mean you could find somebody else to plug in for him on that
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front. And then when it comes to Hardy, I mean I never got
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a chance to know Hardy because of the fact that he was never on the
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damn field. So I couldn't miss something that I never saw. And obviously
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again that you know, Naim Heines gave us that wonderful, you know,
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performance against against the Patriots on after DeMar Hamlet. So for me, DT
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there was nothing outside of Mitch Morse that made me just my jaw drop and
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say, what the hell are you doing? Brandon being over there at one
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Bill's Drive. Everything seemed calculated. It seemed like they had thought about it.
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I was surprised by Mitch Morris, but it looks like they're gonna kick
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Connor McGovern over from guard to center. David Edwards that we'll talk about it,
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like resigned has an opportunity to go ahead and grab that left guard position.
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And because of that, after that DT, I mean, it looks
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I mean, you gotta you gotta cut, you gotta cut bait. And
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that's why I would never be a great GM for the Buffalo Bills, because
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the fact that I would get attached to players. And I think that that's
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a real good point to bring up, is because these you know, these
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things are emotional, and you know, I hear some of the people ragging
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on Kevin Adams, you know of the sabers across town, and they're talking
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about how he gets a little bit too emotional over the zendmus gurgensons and and
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all that type of stuff, and then drop it at Posso and listen,
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it's calculated, it's cold, and it's a business. These guys were not
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doing it for free, so they were compensated. They know what it's like
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to have to get the moving trucks and stuff like that and pick up their
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families and find a new city to live or find a new career. Whatever
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the case may be. It's cold, it sucks, but it is a
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part of professional sports CT. I mean, this is the way it goes.
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Man. You don't get these jobs forever unless you're trying. I would
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agree right that you're looking at and especially that the center of the quarterback of
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the line, if you will. You know, with Josh Allen, your
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your franchise guy. You want to have somebody who's comfortable with under there.
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But you look eleven draft picks, Rob In every draft, there's an offensive
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lineman getting picked every draft. You can't say that about any other position on
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the team. You know, every draft there's always an offensive lineman getting picked
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somewhere, whether it's late, whether it's early. You're always invested in that
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and especially now I'm the most critical of that and everything between. But Mitch
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Morris, Yes, injuries. I didn't realize it was that much money.
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I mean what it was eight million right leaves. Yes, I think you
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got to do it. McGovern is a proven player in this league, has
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played center. Penn State guy you know, played played it there too.
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He's got to go in and that'll be fine. I think that's an easy
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adjustment and then you rely on your guys on your roster now and those eleven
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draft picks you might get somebody else. I mean, Colan was really winning
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a great scheme last year for them. They improved. I know you you're
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hard on the line, but they did improve. So I mean, yeah,
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and the actual game plan of that too is the center. Yes,
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they're the quarter back and they got to call out everything on the offensive line,
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but blitzing up the middle on Josh Allen's probably not your best idea,
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you know when when he gets out about So that is truthfully a game plan
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that I think was a was a factor in this decision was we might not
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see a lot of hard pressure up the middle, especially on one seven,
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so we can afford to, you know, bring somebody in and have a
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question market center, bring somebody in a guard. That's the where you can
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really, you know, kind of interchange and leave the tackles alone. So
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that that might be something as well when it comes into it. But it's
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it's tough again, tough to see. We love Mitch Morris, a true
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leader in this league, but rob, I mean, we're looking at this
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seven Josh Allen, seven years in when the drought broke about seven years,
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you know, seven years tier we had this squad. Now it's the reset
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and the face of the new squad. You know, Josh Allen fat two
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faces of his career. This was the first face. Now this is the
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start of the second face. Yeah, that's what we're getting into. Yeah,
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phase two. It's at literally turn the page time, and that's you
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know, that's the harsh reality of pro sports. But you know, you've
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got a window. And I'm so sick of hearing all these prognosticators on the
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ESPN and Ryan Clark and Steven A. Smith who don't know shit about Buffalo
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Sports at all, for thirty thousand foot view talking about how all the windows
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close and there's more pressure on Josh Allen. Listen, this was always going
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to be the plan. You don't get a chance to keep the same core
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throughout a quarterbacks career. Quarterbacks normally are playing the longest, you know,
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along with you know, some of the linemen as well on the other side
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of the ball, but quarterbacks have the longevity. They get a chance to
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be protected. The league is is set up to protect those guys. So
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Josh Allen, You're going to see a lot of different iterations of the Buffalo
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bills around Josh Allen. It's important in my mind, and my view is
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that we maximize those different phases. We maximize those now, you know,
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I was a little bit salty after this first phase comes to a close.
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I wanted a little bit more to show for it than thirteen seconds. I
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wanted, you know, a Super Bowl berth at least one. Now we're
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into phase two, like you said, hopefully we can get a chance to
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get back to the super Bowl, our fifth super Bowl appearance, and see
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what happens with it, you know, with this with this unicorn, like
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you said, this musty TV quarterback that we have that we're also proud of.
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So, you know, phases changed, Things change, and I understand
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that I think that fans need to embrace it because of the fact that you're
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not going to have the same core every single year, and these guys,
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you know, for for a greater majority of them, they kind of just
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ched out. So we'll see how it goes now, yea, and Robe,
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one more point, what's the point? I'm sorry before we move on?
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You good? Good? What I looked at it, how I kind
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of coped with this and and got over this as we say, Nicol City
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Cruz therapy, right, And how I I worked with this was I looked
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at each individual that we let go, you know, the big names,
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the Trey White's, the Jordan Poyer, the Mitch Morrisons, and said,
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if they were free agents and never played for the Bills before, would I
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want to be bringing those guys on this team? You know? Would I
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want to be Would I be yelling at to go out when you get these
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dudes? And you know, realistically, I'm going to say, I don't
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know what you say, but the answer is no on all of them.
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Right. Everyone has has the age, has the injury, has the money.
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It's no point to go. So that's that's what kind of helped me
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get through it under this new new age you face. But that was my
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point. I couldn't see any of these guys going out and signing them if
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they weren't on the Bills, you know, going out and getting them.
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So well, see how it goes. I mean, it is interesting and
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I know that it's things. And we'll get to Poyer in a minute,
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because I had some lengthy fights with some people the other night, and you
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know about Jordan Poyer, because I've got a unique take on it as well.
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But I think that it's important to just make sure that you embrace the
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fact that that the core will change, and we got to understand that.
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Now when it comes to free agency, please check us out on the chat,
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join us, bring up any topics that you want to talk about that
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you want to hear DT and myself bring up. We're more than open to
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interacting with you guys. Again, that's why we're doing these lives during season
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four and beyond. We want to interact with Bill's Mafia, Nickel City crew.
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Let's let's chop it up together now, DT. Brandon Bean again was
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not, you know, not shy about doing what he had to do.
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And it's funny because you know, it's springtime, so what did they talk
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about spring cleaning and you're making sure that your house is in order and you're
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throwing out old shit. So he threw out a lot of old shit that
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he didn't need anymore, and then he's tidying up the place. And it's
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really funny because he didn't waste any time when it came to taking care of
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his own house. Now I know that we haven't made a bunch of splashes.
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We'll talk about Curtis Samuel in a moment, but other than that,
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we haven't done a lot of big splashes. But what he did do and
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what I do appreciate DT, is that he took care of his own house.
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He made sure that his own house wasn't fucked up. He made sure
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his own house wasn't all messy. Bringing back Mitch Trubisky, some people don't
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like it. It's pennanties on the dollar. It doesn't We need a backup
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quarterback. We need somebody that can actually come in just in case Josh god
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Forbid goes down. You've got Taylor rap I heard a lot of shit about
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Taylor rap Hey, listen, he's a safety. He likes to hit,
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he likes to move around. Was was he perfect last year? No,
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he was not perfect last year. But you need somebody to help replace Poorier
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and hide. You got matd Hat coming back. We don't need him,
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but we'll be a campbody trying to go ahead and compete for the punting position
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with our other punter, Sam Martin. And then you've got Edwards like we
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talked about on the offensive line. As McGovern shifts over to center, so
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I think that that's an important pick up and making sure that we're resigning again,
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keeping the house tidy a j Panessa DT. When it was, you
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know, the beginning of the season, we were like, oh man,
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he's in trouble. Bookie Basses in trouble. We both had to e cro
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on that one because he had he balled out last year was his best season
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as a pro. Had a couple of picks. We remember that one,
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you know, important picks that he had down there in Kansas City during the
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regular season. Unfortunately he got hurt after that. But I like a Epanessa
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coming back and it was not again I think I read it on Buffalo Rumnings.
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It was like sixtieth among defensive ends. I can I can stomach that.
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There's no there's nothing exorbit that you know, Brandon b did with these
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pickups. You've got jones, you know, being coming back. I mean
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I like that, I mean cam Lewis, I mean DT speak about it
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because I thought that that Brandon be did a great job of just making sure
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that he kept the house in order, and he made sure that he didn't
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lose anybody that he really needed to. And DAYDA was so important because of
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the fact you saw how Ed Oliver's game went to another level with the Kwan
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Jones next to him. It was so horrible to see him with that,
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with that pecking DT. But to see him back in the fold, I'm
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happy about that. I know we only got three defensive tackles, and that's
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what the drafts for. But I'm happy about what Brandon Bean did in house.
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Externally, We'll talk about Curtis samy hood in a minute, but he
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he did what he had to do to make sure that he fortified some of
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the holes and plugged and that's what free agencies really for. Yeah, I
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mean the you let the main that main Corp go all those releases the week
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before and then to put int respective this roster of fifty three or fifty two.
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It's got to get to ninety by training camp, you know, so
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some guys got to be out there, rob you know, and why not
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you know, Ajmpanza has we we talked about maybe not even making the team
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to having a great year. He earned He earned his you know, he
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earned the contract. We didn't pay the bank on him. We got him
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for a very modest amount. And if he produces and continues his trajectory.
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He's shown us that's gonna be well worth it in the future. So you
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got to have some guys, and why not have guys that know the system,
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know the play, and in in very question mark situations, especially on
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the defensive line, he comes out hits that we get him for a couple
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more years a jeffen as a if he continues to descend, it's the best,
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it's the best ascent excuse me, it's the best move. You know,
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Bean's made one of them. You could argue, and obviously you know
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we got love for ninety two d Kwon Jones, the great player. Like
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I thought, my personal philosophy on this was, he's a local guy from
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Binghamton. You know, it's it's year eleven for him. He's he's the
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same age as me. You know, it's a year eleven for him coming
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in this league. I didn't know if he was talking about retiring. He's
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from Binghamton, he's got business ventures out there. There's a lot of things.
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So I'm thinking we get him one year, three four million veteran one
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year deal and he gets the same deal he got two years ago when he
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came here two years sixty millions. So that shows me the experts, you
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know, Bean and the scouts and the experts, I think he's got more
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than the year. He just here for the business trip, to have it,
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be a good locker room guy and plug the whole a few plays.
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You know, every series they're saying, no, like you were as good
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as two years ago when we brought you here. So that's encouraging, you
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know, seeing seeing them go after guys that we knew were good on this
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scene. Yeah are you know, are strong and come back and invest in
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them. We can't keep everybody, but some guys come back, and so
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it's it's not a full clean house. There's still some common names. And
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obviously we love nine too. We love Jones shout out friend of the program.
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Really real good dude, du kwan. Let's go. You had the
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year off the back injury, come back, you were having a career year.
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Come back and have a better one. Let's go, let's go.
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I'm down with that. I love Day, I love him, and again
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he definitely elevated at Oliver's game. So that's what I really appreciate about it
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because he was a disruptive force and then out, you know, just kind
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of took it to another level now quickly before we transition as we move on
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to the wide receivers, who I know everybody's interested in and I'm so interested
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in as well. Just some quick quick notes in some house cleaning on the
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city Cruise behalf DT because I got into it with a few people on Twitter,
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and then I had Rachel Bush, you know, actually like liking some
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of my comments as well. Listen, I don't understand all the Poyer hate
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and I get it. Listen. I had to educate some of the younger
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Bill's mafia. They were talking about, Oh, I can't believe you went
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the Dolphins. This yo, it was coming Listen. Everybody's mad that he
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went to the Dolphins. And then I had to again, I had to
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educate some of the younger mafia members that listen, Derman Thomas went to the
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Dolphins and you know what I mean. And Bruce Smith and Andre Reid played
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for the you know, for the Commanders, believe it or not, after
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they were released. They were all released on the same day, a bloody
20:34
day back in two thousand, when you know, just the era of the
20:37
two of the actual nineties Bills Super Bowls runs came to an end and the
20:41
clear cap space all three of them had to leave the team. Listen,
20:45
Jordan Poyer has not violated any rules by going to play and continue his career.
20:48
He actually was fired by the Buffalo Bills and wants to keep playing.
20:52
That's his pirogative. People wants to keep playing. I know that he's a
20:56
Florida cat from down there, and you know his family is down there and
20:59
his wife and stuff like that. So listen all the Poyer I heard a
21:02
lot of just Poyer slander about Oh, he's a trader, and how could
21:07
he go he could go to any other team. No, you don't get
21:08
thirty one other teams that all want you. That's not how free agency works.
21:12
So listen. He found an opportunity to go back closer to home or
21:15
where he spends a lot of his time down there in South Beach. And
21:18
I'm not hating on him. I want him to stay healthy. Obviously,
21:21
I wouldn't root for him when the Bills go up against the Dolphins. Has
21:23
always squished the fish week. But I heard a lot of people just hating
21:26
on Ployer and talking about how they could not believe that he went to the
21:30
rival and that they lost respect for. And I'm like, I mean the
21:33
charity softball events, I mean all the things that he did on the field,
21:37
putting his body out there on the line, playing through injuries. How
21:40
could you have any respect that's been lost on a guy that has just been
21:42
a perfect example of what a Buffalo Bill should be, especially in this new
21:45
age, you know, social media and different things like that. He's been
21:48
very, very great in the community. And I just was I was taken
21:52
back by the fact that a lot of people were just so mad that he
21:55
went to the Dolphins, And I'm like, man, you guys are neglecting
21:57
the fact that Brandon Bean the Bills fired him. He wanted to keep his
22:00
plane going. Like I don't, I don't. I didn't know that.
22:06
Yeah, I was years old. That's why. That's why I like that
22:11
Instagram a little more positive Twitter, and like I found myself in your same
22:15
dealer down some rabbit holes with that, Like that's come on, come on,
22:18
you cannot come at Jordan Poyer for anything. He's given us anything and
22:22
then some and house money. Last year when he was a free agent he
22:25
was going to the Dolphins, it was like there was a reported thing I
22:29
think from from Chevary was going to the Dolphins happened. Then they came back
22:33
and and realistically, we love Jordan Boyer, but this year, come on,
22:37
we were we were critical. We weren't saying it out loud, but
22:40
we're like, damn, dude looks a little slower, the little office step
22:44
a little So, all right, go to Miami, so so we can
22:47
play you twice a year, and and you'd be not saying he was a
22:51
liability by any means. But a year later on Miami and you never know.
22:55
So it's a business. It's the way you gotta go. He lives
22:57
there, he literally lives there. And give the dude a break. He's
23:02
played in New York the last seven years with the worst state income tax in
23:07
the in the entire country. Let him go to Miami and not have any
23:10
state income tax. Play a year, get some get some bread, chilled
23:14
with Rachel Bush, who you know, support support for Rachel Bush on the
23:19
Yeah, I mean, I just I just don't understand that, you know,
23:22
I just didn't get it. I thought that there was a little Bill's
23:26
mafia again. I know that Twitter. Twitter. I think we can set
23:30
the president here. Nicol City Crew. If you're a real loyal Nicchol City
23:33
Crew fan, you got beef with Jordan Poyer going to the Dolphins like you
23:37
need a dm as separately, because we got to talk that out with that
23:41
guy. There's a lot of love, a lot of Yeah, exactly,
23:45
we we gave him there and realistically everybody thought we were giving him there last
23:48
year and it didn't And what did he do this year that made you think,
23:52
oh, no, you know, I mean, but he wants to
23:57
keep playing. Yeah, wants to keep playing all right now as we transition,
24:03
you know, DT. It's it's interesting to talk about wide receivers because
24:07
I know that they're the talk of Bill's Mafia right now, and they're the
24:11
talk of everything that's been going on. I know the Bill's signed guy Mac
24:14
Collins. I had to I'll be honest, I had to google his name.
24:17
I had no idea who the hell he was but what he had done
24:19
in the league. Didn't know anything about it. He's actually older than stuff
24:22
on dig so obviously again just more of a more of a special teams guy
24:26
and against a bigger body like Gave Davis was. But I don't expect on
24:30
the same type of production. Again, Curtis Samuel picked up today by the
24:33
Bill's Ford, former Carolina Panther. There's that connection once again. I spends
24:37
the last couple of years in Washington, and again not a not a deep
24:40
threat, not going down the field, taking the top off of the defense
24:42
type of threat, but somebody that works the underneath game, on the intermediate
24:45
game. And he's got some good rack on him as well. He uses
24:48
those yards have to catch to his ability. He can run all different types
24:51
of routes as well. And it's an interesting signing. And I was wondering.
24:53
I was talking to Justice before showing us, like, Justice, what
24:56
you think about it? Twitter again was real negative about Curtis sam and he
25:00
was like, that's because people don't understand roster building. It's a great pickup.
25:03
And I had to agree with Justice general in that one. I mean,
25:06
it's a it's a great pickup because of the fact that the money's in
25:08
line, no big crazy deal. This does not remove us, I don't
25:11
think from the draft or anything like that. On that wide receiver trading that
25:15
W g R and Jeremy White always talk about. And I'm just interested to
25:18
see what you think about the wide receiver room now and then going forward in
25:22
the next month for next next month's draft of DT, because I'm really excited
25:26
to see what they continue to do, because I don't think that anything that
25:30
they've done so far DT, you know, stops them from from going high
25:34
for one of those guys. I mean, hi, I don't. I
25:37
mean even the trade up. You can talk about all those draft picks that
25:40
they've got, maybe even trade up if you have to to go get one
25:41
of those studs. I think that it's going to be real important. The
25:45
wide receiver room, I think is the number one thing you and I were
25:48
looking at. And I know that so much of Bills Mafia feels the same
25:51
way. What are your thoughts on the DT, Mac Hollins and then again
25:55
Curtis Samuel coming into the Bills Well, Rob, I mean see Tasker said
26:00
it best the other day on one Bills Live. He said, training camp
26:03
again, I'm talking about numbers. You're going with fifteen receivers to a training
26:06
camp, right, So we're gonna we're gonna be up in this, you
26:10
know, no matter what, we're up in this, right, I'll start
26:14
with this. I'll start with this, A little trivia A little guessing game
26:17
for Nicol City Crewe new route eleven eleven catches eighty six yards, one touchdown.
26:25
Trent Shirfield correct of the end zone. That was all right, so
26:33
that was his touchdown. They probably most is eighty six yards that game in
26:37
Miami. Trent Shirfield comes in the Big Three. Miami was pissed when we
26:41
let him go. Oh, he's gonna be a great thing. Eleven catches,
26:45
eighty six yards, one touchdown for an entire year for Trent Shirfield.
26:49
Okay, Curtis Samuel comes in averaging six seven hundred yards, seven eight touchdowns,
26:56
sixty to seventy catches a year. You that was one. That's one
27:00
stat line. Eleven catches, eighty touchdowns. That's one game. That's the
27:06
entire year for Trent Sherfield. If anybody dogging Curtis Samuel coming in and adding
27:11
depth to this roster, last year you had Trent Chirfield, I feel like
27:15
Curtis Samuel's gonna be an equivalent spot, equivalent spot. As Khalil Shakiro moves
27:19
into that starting slot role, Stefan Diggs is still the number one. You're
27:25
You're gonna go out and you're gonna grabt somebody. I mean, you have
27:26
eleven draft picks. Stephan Diggs isn't here forever. You have to go get
27:30
a receiver in the draft. My philosophy was two in the first four rounds.
27:36
That might change now that we had Curtis Samuel. Let's just get let's
27:40
get one. Let's go get a nasty He will be the one when Stephan
27:44
Diggs lives. But right now he's got Stefan Diggs shakier moving into that slot.
27:48
And that three was Trent Shirfield. Now it's Curtis Samuel, Trent Sherfield
27:52
eleven for eighty six and one Curtis Samuel sixty for six hundred and six.
27:57
Right, Yeah, I like it. I mean I think that I think
28:00
that it's a good move. Again, the money lines up for me.
28:03
It wasn't anything crazy. I think it was fifteen million guaranteed, but it's
28:06
three years, thirty million. I mean that's nice and easy. Ten years.
28:11
That's a mad yes when you do it. Yes, absolutely so.
28:18
I think that it's a deal that we could swallow. And again, I
28:21
don't think that this stops us from actually going out and getting that that wide
28:23
receiver. Now as we transition and start talking about DT. I know that
28:26
we'll be talking about the draft more extensively next month as we ramp up.
28:30
But DT I I I already know that our GM loves to to wheel a
28:34
deal. I already know that he that he sometimes he gets that itch and
28:37
he's got to just go get his guy. He trades up for tremain and
28:40
but he trades up, you know, for Dion Dawkins. He's traded up
28:41
for really a lot of guys all across the draft board. I can't see
28:45
Brandon Bean just sitting still now. Maybe it's not round one, but I
28:49
really do think that's the time to strike. I'm not willing to give up
28:53
next year's first or anything. No crazy shit like that, I don't know.
28:56
Don't don't start going crazy Sammy Watkins days or anything like that. What
29:00
I am saying, I don't. I mean, unless we're talking about like
29:03
Roma Dunze or something like that, and that's at the way tippy top.
29:07
But coming from twenty eight being honest and being logical about it, it maybe
29:11
get into the low teens or something like that, or that, you know,
29:14
somewhere closer to nine, ten, eleven, twelve thirteens. You know,
29:18
somewhere, I think that that Brandon Bean is We've already's already shown us
29:22
that he's the wheeler dealer, that he will make a move if he feels
29:25
like he's guy is on the board. I'm talking Brian Thomas Junior. I'm
29:27
talking you know. It looks like Neighbors, I guess is one of the
29:32
consensus top guys with Harrison, and it looks like Roma Dunze might be out
29:34
of reach as well. But whatever they pick after that next crop, I
29:38
would love to see Brandon Bean move up. I'm not afraid of it.
29:41
As long as we're not giving up next year's first round pick for it,
29:45
I'm in favor. Man, Just move around. Eleven guys are eleven draft
29:48
picks will not make this team, even though we had some holes, I
29:51
don't think eleven draft picks make the Buffalo Bills. You know, final roster.
29:53
So Hey, spend spend some of that chips, man, spend some
29:56
of them chips. It's time, Bruce Buffer, time, it's time you
30:02
get up, get up and spend it. I mean, this is the
30:04
difference, you know, go going and finding it the last year, not
30:10
even justin Jefferson last year that running receivers that that bulked and went ahead a
30:14
buffalo and they trade up taking k but the zay Flowers, the uh,
30:18
give me, I'm blanking here, Give me the respection. This is These
30:22
are dudes that change franchises, you know. And if you can come up
30:26
ten with Josh Allen and get the next the guy who's gonna succeed Stefan Diggs,
30:32
this is a succession plan, and this needs to be a succession plan.
30:34
And that's why I'm you know, I'm confident in this, and I
30:37
wasn't too hurt about all these cuts and everything because this is a plan from
30:41
being like this is my first couple of years. Now this is the next.
30:45
We're planning for this next couple of years. And get cheap labor,
30:48
dude, cheap labor in this draft the receiver. We have to find our
30:51
next number one in this draft. And I'm gonna put my eye on this
30:55
literally more than I have since we were in the drought and we were looking
30:57
for the quarterback. Yeah, and you know, I'm gonna put my eye
31:00
on this draft more than previous years since the draft because I agree this has
31:06
to be our next number one receiver and if it goes up and these are
31:10
proven guys, like it's not the old days or these dudes have to sit
31:12
two three years. Like these guys are coming in and producing being small pros
31:17
right away. So that's true. You got to go in and get this
31:18
guy for seventeen. Get then the succession plan for stuff on Diggs. You're
31:22
doing your fine, you're building in there. When you talk like what else
31:26
you're gonna do defensive line, I mean yeah, I mean I think that
31:29
I think that it's more worth it to do it for wide receiver because in
31:32
the first round, specifically because of that fifth year. That's similar reason like
31:34
because like you can you can wait to the second round, and I think
31:37
you know we're twenty eighth in the second round as well, and you can
31:41
wait. But you know, just I just know how the draft always seems
31:44
to have runs. And you know you saw the run like you just spoke
31:47
about the running the wide receivers happened right be ahead of that game, ahead
31:49
of that run. Yes, so you know you've got to run in the
31:52
second round, early second round, and all of a sudden, T Higgins
31:56
and all those guys go early in the second round, and then you're looking
31:57
at your pick way back at twenty and you're like, damn, like,
32:00
you know, the five guys that I really liked are already gone. You
32:04
know, I'm not even talking about the Marvin Harrison juniors and the Roman Dundas
32:07
in the first round. I'm talking about my group of I've got five picked
32:10
out that I really like. I feel and that there's a chance that if
32:13
you wait till the second round, some of those guys are, if not
32:15
all of them, are going to be gone if they have some type of
32:17
run. So my thing is that get that fifth year option. It gives
32:21
you flexibility. It gives that actual that rookie like almost like a red shirt
32:24
ear where there's not a lot of pressure on him to perform right away.
32:28
If he does and he pops, great, you give him his opportunities.
32:30
But if he seems like he's struggling or he needs some type of more seasoning,
32:34
you have that extra year where you don't have to make a decision on
32:36
him. You don't have to cut him or trade him, or you know,
32:38
some type of cutting bait on this guy. I feel like that fifth
32:42
year on the wide receiver the way that they're getting paid now is just it's
32:45
it's important to have that fifth year and that cost control because I mean,
32:50
you could fuck around and wait till the second round your guy's gone. I
32:52
mean exactly. And here's one for you, Rob. If Stefan Diggs is
32:57
you know, let's fast forward for years, right, and if Gave Davis
33:01
was drafted, If Gave Davis is drafted this year, and it comes up
33:05
to, oh are we paying Gave Davis is exact same production, but but
33:10
we know Stefan Diggs is done completely right, that's now you're chasing your tail
33:16
exactly, a whole different story with Gave Davis. So that's what you know
33:22
you have. Yet you have an opportunity to get ahead of that exactly.
33:25
You have an opportunity to get that dude to succeed Diggs and still don't have
33:29
to pay him for a few years. That's that's gonna be key because you
33:32
know money, Money is everywhere, obviously, and it's and it's getting higher
33:36
and it's getting there. So if you can have a chance to get the
33:39
next number one receiver for basically nothing, you still like Curtis Samuel means nothing
33:45
to me. And the fact of being aggressive to move up for a wide
33:47
receiver. Yeah, I agree you guys that we shout out to nicol City
33:52
Crew Bill's Mafia. You guys are watching, We see you there. Shout
33:55
out to you guys. You guys are quiet tonight. Let me know what
33:58
you guys think. Let dump Truck know what you guys think about the wide
34:00
receiver. And we're cool with wide receiver first round. We gotta get warm
34:04
back up. We gotta get what everybody's Okay, it's still it's still off
34:07
season. Okay, I'll let everybody go. Man, we do honestly appreciate
34:09
over thirteen hundred people watching right now, So we really do appreciate the viewers
34:14
and you guys listening in and and DT's right. You don't have to chat
34:16
if you don't feel like it tonight. But I'm just interested to know what
34:19
the what the mafia feels. I think that that extra year on that fifth
34:22
year option for those first rounders is a really really important one. And yes,
34:25
you could, you can do Chop. I guess Chop Robinson is that
34:30
short for Port Chap, the guy from Penn State. I've heard about him.
34:34
You know, there's plenty of Michael. Yeah, there's plenty of Yeah,
34:37
there's plenty of defensive tackles that they're talking about. There's a center as
34:40
well, like some guy yeah, yes, sixty yeah, yes, yes,
34:51
yes, I can't call his name. I'm bad at the draft picks
34:53
sweat I think yeah, yeah, yeah, Fonte sweat or something like that.
34:57
Yeah, that's your refrigerator coming at you in about thirty mile. Yeah
35:00
that, I mean, it would be interesting. I just I do think
35:02
that the position and the way that the wide receivers are getting paid now nowadays,
35:07
if they do pop, I think that that option just gives you a
35:08
little bit more flexibility. Now, as we begin to wrap up, we
35:12
got to take a stroll around the league. This year, DT and I
35:15
are going to be doing picks. We're gonna be going battling head to head
35:19
to see who can have the better record. By the end of the year,
35:21
we're gonna do something for charity on the winner and and and donate to
35:24
charity and some different events, and we're gonna have some giveaways this year.
35:27
We've got a lot playing for Nickel City Crew, I've got Jersey giveaways,
35:30
I've got a lot of just different great ideas that I want to get you
35:34
guys engaged on and get you guys a part of So we got to take
35:36
a stroll around the league DT. I mean, man, the uh,
35:39
not only the AFC, the NFC, everything. It's just it's funny.
35:43
It's like it's like nasdak that that bell rings in free agency, and in
35:47
this case, it's always that little the legal tampering period. That shit opens
35:52
up DT, and it's like everybody is just buck wild. Everybody so and
35:55
so agree to terms and so so agreed to terms, and it's crazy.
35:59
The running back mar a DT, it's crazy. They didn't crazy. They
36:01
didn't get paid an exorbitant amount of money when you do like the you know,
36:06
annual average value. Excuse me, but every it seemed like it was
36:09
just a merry go round. Everybody switched running backs and it seems like nobody's
36:14
interested in the cheap backs. And I mean, I mean even Devin Singletary
36:17
got paid to go to the Giants. I mean, everybody moved around.
36:21
You got Barkley on the move, You've got Derrick Henry on the move,
36:24
DeAndre sweat Swift, excuse me. He was the first domino to fall going.
36:30
You know, it's it's crazy man. Everybody seems to be in on
36:34
all right, you want your running back, okay, all right, let's
36:36
trade. You want yours, okay, let's trade. And it's just been
36:37
crazy man. The running back market is blowing up. Not again, not
36:40
that they're getting paid a crazy amount of money, but the fact that everybody
36:44
seems to have a new seat. Well, it showed both sides, right,
36:47
It showed like, hey, listen, running backs are losing value.
36:52
They're crying for all this money and they're not getting it because they're a diamond
36:54
dozen and everything in between. But then they're they're getting paid to go places.
37:00
But then the places that are letting him leave are also like all right,
37:02
we're straight, like we we don't need you. For the best example,
37:07
the best example of that is the Cincinnati Bengals. See that's the Super
37:10
Bowl contender. When when Joe Burrow is is healthy, yeah, and they
37:14
let you know, Joe Mixon, who is a core of that offensive system,
37:17
let him god yeah. And so that shows that it's it's it's a
37:24
diamond dozen. But then when he goes somewhere like the Houston Texans who are
37:28
building and young and good. It's like, damn, now they're dangerous because
37:31
they got Joe Mixon. But one of the one of the AFC contenders just
37:36
said walk to give him to it, you know, so exactly exactly,
37:42
and the running back and and I'm still on the belief of a lot more
37:45
conservative in the running back game. We're grateful to have you know, James
37:49
Cook as as Honor's rookie deal and and Buddy and to a hopeful superstar.
37:52
But into the game of chasing these superstar running backs, it doesn't seem like
37:57
it ever works out, especially in the day's passing league. The Derrick Henry,
38:00
one of the best running backs in our generation, goes to one of
38:05
the best teams in the FC. Yes, it doesn't make him worse by
38:07
any means, right, but they could run Vegas wise, Vegas wise.
38:12
The odds didn't change the exact same odds either way. So and this team
38:15
that was born on the run, and Gus Edwards and all these no name
38:19
running backs having crazy running seasons. When it push came to shove in the
38:22
NC Championship, they run six times in the league. So they have offensive
38:28
Cord. They lost his mind that day, Yeah, exactly, so it's
38:32
such a back and forth game, like, yeah, these dudes are going
38:35
and getting paid, and Tony Pollard and Austin Eckler and they're going to getting
38:39
paid a d not crazy, but a decent amount. But at the same
38:43
time, they're walking away from teams that they were the All Star on and
38:45
they don't care anymore. So crazy. It's interesting to see. And I
38:50
mean, I was just I was I was definitely amused by the running back.
38:52
Like I said, it was like a merry go round. It just
38:54
seemed like everybody was trading backs and moving them around at different things like that
38:58
Swift goes to the Bears. I mean, like you said, Henry to
39:00
the Baltimore Ravens, they've got a scary They said that the video game is
39:04
like a video game matten Backfield. But you know, like somebody brought up
39:07
a great point that they always could run the ball, so like it's it's
39:09
not like anything crazy, like they've always been great at running the ball.
39:13
Well, they run the ball when it's most important and when it's time to
39:15
run that damn rock like they're supposed to during the playoffs. So it'll be
39:17
interesting to see how all of those things shake out, you know again,
39:22
Barkley on the move and and going back home to Pennsylvania with the Eagles,
39:24
so it'll all be interesting to see. It was just funny to see that,
39:27
you know, these guys, I mean, Zach Moss got paid.
39:30
I mean even Zach Moss is I think he's replacing mixing out and since that,
39:34
yeah, last year, there's nothing wrong with him. He definitely played
39:38
his best, you know, his best season as as a pro. He
39:42
was definitely better than he was with the Bills. But I'm like, damn,
39:44
okay, you got a little bag. So I'm not hating on the
39:45
running back market again. Uh, Nate my middle king. He'll never play
39:50
right back out there, do it because they just don't have to worry about
39:52
it. Let's go for Yeah they do. Yeah. They chew you up
39:58
and spit you out now U. Russell Wilson on the move, Uh,
40:01
Kirk Cousins on the move. You left in Russell. Everybody just wants the
40:05
Bagel Russell. It's funny because he is such an awkward dude that I can
40:08
definitely understand why motherfuckers think that he's fake and like this dude is not genuine
40:13
in the hell at all, but like he seems like a nice guy.
40:15
He got shipped on last year. I thought that he was way better than
40:19
what you know. Obviously Sean Payton just didn't like him, and it seemed
40:22
like it was it was going to be the type of the writing on the
40:23
wall when he got blown up and they were yelling at him like that and
40:27
he was just undressing this man on National TV. I said, Okay,
40:30
they're definitely done with him. And then obviously it comes out after the season
40:34
or towards the end of the season that they asked him to take that injury
40:36
guarantee off. So he's on the move. Kenny Pickett, I'm sure he's
40:38
pissed as hell because, uh, that's it for him out there in Pittsbury.
40:43
I don't care if you played it. I don't care if you played
40:45
across the street from the stadium. Uh you know Russell, Yeah, yeah,
40:51
absolutely, I mean it's yeah, I know. But I'm sure he
40:54
wants to play, but he's definitely not going to be starting over Russell Wilson,
40:58
Kirk Cousins going down, you know, on the NFC side of the
41:00
football. What's up man, this dude. Congratulations he's a snake oil sales.
41:07
He is a professional bank robber, a professional bank robber. One playoffs
41:13
with his agent is the best agent in the world. That's what Scott boris.
41:19
All these baseball agents and get these who's guaranteed money now hurt. They
41:22
ain't got nothing. Agent is the best in the world and forever will be.
41:28
This dude has five hundred million guaranteed in his career and that couches endorsements
41:32
or anything else has made with you know, his club cash. I like,
41:37
no, he's corny, and I like it. I mean, he
41:39
embraces it. I like half a billion dollars. They were showing the stats.
41:44
Granted it's it's different times, right, but Tom Brady making like three
41:47
hundred guaranteed and having four or thirty eight playoff wins, and then Kirk cous
41:53
is five hundred guaranteed with one playoff win, Like, come on, dude,
41:57
but for him, at least hate the player, hate the game,
42:00
I mean for sure, because he is definitely cashed in. Obviously things didn't
42:04
go as well in Minnesota, but you know he started it by you know,
42:07
to be honest, he got on that track by why how he treated
42:09
Washington let them tag him, and then they tagged him again, you know
42:13
what I mean exactly, and then he was like, well, you can't
42:15
tag me three times otherwise you're gonna be paying back. Then would have been
42:19
you know, the equivalent of one hundred million dollars something crazy like that.
42:21
They let him go. He spends another six seasons in Minnesota. I think
42:23
he's a he's a solid B to B plus quarterback. He's just not He's
42:27
not dynamic. He's not going to take and elevate your team. He doesn't
42:30
you know, he's not mobile, and you don't have to be mobile to
42:31
be dynamic. But he's just he's kind of just right along the middle.
42:35
He's better than average. But boy man, I mean, he just he
42:38
just keeps cashing cashing it. I can't I can't imagine paying a guy that
42:43
much money. But you know, I mean, like I said, I
42:45
can't hate the player, hate the game on film. I mean, he's
42:49
playing with arguably could be one of the best wide receivers in NFL history,
42:52
and Justin Jefferson. Yeah, and he's off a blowing Achilles at thirty five
42:58
getting two hundred million dollars. Yeah, yeah, one hundred million, you
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get to million guaranteed, four years, one eighty one hundred million guaranteed again
43:06
first first year fifty million dollars signing bonus fifty million dollars sign Oh, his
43:12
first contract, in his first contract in in Minnesota was fully guaranteed, like
43:15
ninety six million dollars. And that was the first time that anybody had heard
43:19
of that in respect to fully guaranteed. So shout out to Kurt the Falcons
43:23
who cares right, Shout out to Kirk Cousins and that Cole's cash. He's
43:28
got definitely plenty to spend now for sure, on top of all the other
43:30
money that he's made. So it's interesting, you know, like I said,
43:34
DT a lot of wide receivers on the movies. I was a little
43:36
bit shocked to see that money. Somebody had made a cool joke, a
43:38
funny joke on on Twitter that all, you know, all great wide receivers
43:42
just go to tend to see the kid paid, but not to win.
43:45
And that is just so true. I could not believe Calvin Ridley chose them
43:47
like the Titans. I said, well, you know, we'll loves uh.
43:51
You know, he's a strong arm quarterback, but like damn, like,
43:53
I mean, you had you pretty much had the pick of the little
43:55
number one wide receiver target out there pretty much for free agency, and he
44:00
picks the Titans, and I just I it was a head scratch. I
44:04
was not sure that I agreed with that one. But he got paid ninety
44:06
two million guaranteed, So same thing. Man. They free agency. You
44:09
can never blame these guys. They have a short amount of time to maximize
44:13
their their window and their window was finite because of the injuries. I mean,
44:16
I'll never I'll never blame these guys going after the cast t tam no,
44:20
no no. And this happens. This happens every year. You know,
44:22
it's it's the way of the league. The good teams have the less
44:25
money because they usually have the best players, and the bad teams have the
44:29
most money. And that's that's the point. To try to equivalate and bring
44:31
the parody to the league. And there's always those dudes that sign for the
44:36
crazy contracts on a team that you know really doesn't have a chance. I
44:39
mean, granted the Titans good, they got DeAndre Hopkins and now Calvin Ridley,
44:43
who is thirty years old, by the way, I know, I
44:45
forgot that, and everyone's the bills might Calvin Ridley and I'm like, oh,
44:51
he's kind of similar to Stefan Diggs. And then I look he's almost
44:54
over its yeah the whole year. Yeah, so good for him. And
45:00
he cooked us out in London, you know, so you can give him
45:04
that, Vin Ridley, but very straight the guy and go to go to
45:07
Tennessee, be with Will Levis and d Hop and you know, go you
45:12
might have a chance to make a run. And I don't know though,
45:14
Jaguars holded up pretty good too, So that Jaguars loaded up. The Texans,
45:19
you know, quietly are just you know, they're just building a team.
45:22
They had a ton of cap space and they're they're spending it wisely,
45:23
it seems like, so you know, you've got to keep your eyes.
45:27
Well, we'll kind of look and we're gonna take a deeper look at the
45:30
AFC coming up in the next couple of weeks. D T and I again,
45:32
we'll be back for live episodes. We'll kind of be sporadic. We'll
45:36
see how if we're going every week or every other week, and then after
45:37
the draft we'll start to ramp up and get yea Higgins, Yeah, yeah,
45:44
yeah, well yeah, absolutely, but we appreciate it tonight as we
45:47
begin to wrap up over sixteen hundred people watching right now, I mean,
45:53
I mean that means that the crew is growing. That means that people are
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46:27
for the summertime, DT. You were not lying. You talked about how
46:31
they trying to pull you back in. Those motherfuckers sent me my bill for
46:36
the season tickets, and then you and I started talking up. Like I
46:37
told y'all people to leave me alone for a little bit. I'm still exhausted.
46:40
But it's funny because once you get it, and then obviously they're doing
46:45
the you know, little promos about the new stadium and stuff like that,
46:47
and you just I don't know, DT, It's like these these motherfuckers just
46:51
they just get me right back. They're like, man, you know you
46:53
want to be a part of this shit. You're like, yeah, I
46:55
know, idea. It just feel like I feel like a like a scorn
47:00
spouse that's just coming back like yeah, I mean yes, I love you
47:04
like I could never be without you. So it's just so funny because I
47:07
think they sent it at towards the end of February, they let people know
47:09
that there was going to be a small price increase, and they sent out
47:13
the little invoices in March, and it was like, yeah, I love
47:16
you, like you know, I'll be back. It's just funny, DT,
47:20
because I needed I needed that time off for sure after the Super Bowl,
47:22
and they pull you back in just like the Godfather, get you,
47:27
get you right back and granted and an invest entertainment business in the world,
47:30
I mean, yeah, we come out and just when you're about to forget,
47:34
and then Todavi's White Jordan Poyer and Mitch Worser all released on the same
47:37
day, and you're back in football action, back and draft, the combines
47:42
rolling, and you're ready to roll. And yeah, at least until the
47:45
new stadium. You know, I just feel like it's it's just there for
47:49
us. It's you know, we're in it. We got one seven and
47:52
you know, I don't know, back to the soprano therapy situation, it's
47:57
like, do I just hypen up? You know, like, all right,
48:00
football's over, let's take a little break. And now it's like,
48:01
all right, march Man is coming. All right. I try to enhance
48:06
things and glorify things between that. Truthfully, I don't know if I really
48:10
care about, you know, but I try to love these ideas up and
48:15
something to look forward to so I can actually start looking forward to something I
48:19
want to look forward to, and that's one seven and the boys getting back
48:22
out on the field. So it's uh, it's real shout out, shout
48:25
out to the crowd at night. I appreciate that. And ye, Rob,
48:29
I mean it doesn't sound like we took a month off. We're click
48:34
yeah, man, click. Please check us out on Instagram and Twitter.
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Check out my co host Adam Truck Repsick on Instagram at at a repsick r
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screen. But again we released these. So we were released this episode from
48:50
Friday for your weekend. Getting ready, I've got We've got the the mother
48:54
of Nickel City Crew, Mama Crippen. I mean, she's got her birthday
48:57
coming up on Saturday. Shout out to Mama, the official mother of the
49:01
crew, along with with DT's mom as well, so we've got two bombas
49:05
of the crew watching over us. So happy birthday to Mama Crippen coming up
49:09
on the weekend. Other than that, DT, I mean, I've just
49:12
been enjoying the offseason. We've got sports. You already know. My Kings
49:15
are playing every damn sport and Nate's and seven on seven. Uh, he's
49:19
playing soccer as well, and then Bobby's playing you know, soccer, and
49:22
then he's playing rugby. He's into it. DT. He likes rugby.
49:24
He says he likes rugby better than tackle football. So that's been crazy.
49:29
It's been fun to watch him. He's on an elite team down here in
49:32
Charlotte, traveling all over so it's been crazy, and Nate's been doing his
49:35
thing with the seven on seven. So I've been in full offseason mode.
49:38
I needed the break and I and I promise you they I just I can't.
49:44
I can't stay away from these I mean, look, I just can't
49:45
stay away from DT I I got a I think you're right until I would
49:50
have some tough decisions, you know, when the new stadium comes and they
49:52
asking for those stupid PSLs. Until then, I'm like, where am I
49:55
going? Man? Like, where am I going? I'm calling you know,
49:58
I'm coming home, like I love you so much, Please win the
50:01
super Bowl exactly exactly. It's yeah, it strung us out to enough where
50:08
we can't feel bad about it. We can't feel bad about it, nickol
50:12
City crewise. So this is just the start season four gonna be a great
50:15
season. Let's go all right as we wrap up to not think out a
50:19
loud says, looks like we're drafting a safety first round in the get second
50:22
round. I don't know, think out loud, like, I'll be honest
50:25
with you, I would not. I don't think that you spend that kind
50:28
of draft capital on a safety. They are they're not running backs and they
50:32
are important, but like, man, that's just I just don't know if
50:37
you spend a first round pick on a safety unless he is justin Hamilton or
50:39
something like that. You got to be a game changer for me to want
50:42
to grab somebody like that first round. I really feel like wide receiver you
50:45
put in that work if and you almost buy a red shirt ear, that's
50:50
how I'm gonna I'm gonna choose to look at it. That's me personally.
50:52
I think I lost. So you've got your own opinions. Everybody can have
50:54
them. I don't know safety. If I wouldn't want to do that,
50:57
DT, that's that's me. I don't know about safety. Sean McDermott one
51:00
thing he's per when he developed safety. So I don't where we get them.
51:04
I don't care where we get them. Let's go okay, No,
51:06
I listen to DT. He had no problem. Well, listen. I
51:08
just don't want to get burned on the receiver in the second round, that's
51:10
all. I just don't want them to be a run top of round two,
51:13
and then all of a sudden we're watching on Sundays and looking like,
51:15
damn, we could have had the second round. You don't think here.
51:20
If we're not. We'll get into draft talk here on a few episodes.
51:22
But leget ain't making it in the second round. That dude is showing his
51:27
his freakness. She's he's gonna be a prime time player. He listen to
51:31
d T putting his draft hat on. Okay, all right, no problem,
51:35
I'm hearing you DT. Listen, man, I enjoyed it tonight.
51:38
DT. I am so happy. Like you said, I missed you as
51:40
well. Brother. Good to see your man in the flesh, at least
51:44
through these uh you know these technologies, he can't. It's good to see
51:47
you, man. I'm happy that you're doing. Okay, enjoy it.
51:51
We again, we'll we'll announce when we're coming out. We'll announce. It
51:54
might be a little bit sporadic as we're going in getting up to the draft.
51:57
And then you already know we hit you like novacain every single week when
52:00
the season starts, pretty much when training camp starts, we hit you every
52:02
week. So we're ramping back up as well. Bear with us, and
52:06
again we've got a lot of cool ideas for Nickel City crew this year.
52:09
Want to continue to interact with you. Thank thank god, loud. Thank
52:12
you man for interacting with us tonight. Thank you all for watching six.
52:15
You see that DT the stopped sixteen hundred came y'all, Nickel City crew.
52:20
I know y'a already. I know y'all out here, Bill's Mafia. We
52:22
love you guys, man, Listen out there, spread love, not hate.
52:27
These were my bills thoughts set out loud. I ain't nothing else to
52:30
say. DT hit them with a gold bills. Season four. We're kicking
52:34
off right, let's go on. I love it. I love it.