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S3 E19: Rivalry Renewed · Nickel City Crew Podcast

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Fifteen degrees. You can see your breath out in the lake effect, breaking
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today and as always, these are my bills. Thoughts set out loud.
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It's a vibe so ridiculous. Two story plus eighty three was sick the show
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connect? Where else would you like to be? All right, let's get
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straight to it. I'm really excited about tonight's episode. You know, it's
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funny because you know, you all know what Nicols City krevs. Five,
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six, seven, and eight for the Super Bowl run. And it's funny
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because those teams, you know, shape me and shape my Bills fandom,
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and I've told those stories before, but back when you look, you can
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go to Pro Football Reference dot com. You look at some of those teams
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back in the nineties. We didn't win every division every year, We didn't
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win the division every single time we went out there, and one of the
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thorns in our sides was none other than those Miami Dolphins that are are coming
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to Orchard Park this week. I mean, you go back to the history
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of that team and the rivalry with the Bills in the nineties, and you
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think about and Marino, You think about the Mark Brothers, you know,
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Clayton and Duper, You think about just the right you know, coach Shula
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against coach Levy, and just there was so much into those games. I
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mean, you know, Jim Kelly against Marino just seemed like it was the
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heavyweight Titans going at it. There were a few other matchups that you wanted
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to see, and they even had playoff rivalries. So this week for me,
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hits different. Joining me tonight as always my co host riding Shotgun Adam
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dump Truck Rupsick. I know he's traveling back from Syracuse today, How Adam
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check him out on Instagram at Adam Rupsick are up c z y k how
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at the crew DT? I mean this is this is Dolphins week squished the
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fifth week. I mean, I'm really excited. Man, this stuff hits
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different for me. Man. I'm a nineties I'm an eighties baby man growing
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up in the nineties. This hits different for me. Man. I love,
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I love to get after the Dolphins. Man, it just hits different
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for me. I don't know how to explain the rivalries real, baby,
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it's inaction, It's it's everywhere. And like you said it, I mean,
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you're you know, you got a few years on me, Robits.
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But when I growing up, it was never the Patriots, it was never
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the Jets. It was always swished the fish. Baby. So I remember
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walking into games as a as a kid, and they had the Dolphins on
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the little the little toy dolphins on a stick, and you'd walk by and
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step on it, you know, get ready to squish the fish and gonna
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be back Nickel City. We're out here. This is this is football now,
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I'm I'm baby. We were to get it, got it and and
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now we're we're we're rolling almost you know, we'll get into week four,
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and you hit that used to be the quarter point of the year, and
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it's it's time to go, baby, It's time to go. Soa ye,
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yeah, yeah, click clack week back. You know, it's absolutely
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right. You know, it's funny because you're you hit on something that I
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had thought about earlier today, because you know, the Patriots for me were
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never a rivalry. That doesn't add up as a rival for me. You
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know, that's big brother beating up on little brother. You've got, you
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know, twenty years of dominance, you know, twenty years of Bill Belichick
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and Brady beating our heads into into the dirt. That's not a rivalry.
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You've got to actually win some games with, you know, with your opponent
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to actually be considered a rival. And and even though we went you know,
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against the Dolphins last year and went two and one, it was a
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situation dt where they gave us some games last year. And I mean we
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even talked about, you know, the snow game at the end of the
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game at the end of the year, excuse me, the Snow Global game.
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And then we've got, you know, the playoff game the week after
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with Skyler Thompson coming in and that game was way closer than any of us
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ever anticipated. You know, you've got to have some type of back and
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forthward to be a rivalry. And it seems like the Dolphins are are stepping
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up their game, and obviously we'll get into what they did last week that
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everybody has heard about it. They're the buzz of the league right now.
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But the Patriots never felt like that. For me, it was Brady and
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Belichick owning us this is a rival when you got back in fourth two talented
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teams, you know, great in the standings, great in the eyes of
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the NFL community, and it just seems I just it's so juicy. I
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can't I mean, I can't wait to just even get talking about it because
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I know we've got to still go over last week the boy rivalries when it's
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back and forth, and the Patriots never even resonated for me, they were
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just beating us up. Yeah, yeah, I mean it was. It
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was almost a defeated streak against that. Yeah. I remember. I remember
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the two wins the Bills had against him, you know, very vividly because
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they were so memorable because it you know, it never happened. So it's
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it's gonna be a good week. We'll get into it, but yeah,
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let's let's let it roll out, Rob. Yeah. I mean, listen,
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you know, last week we saw how the Bills took care of business
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on the road against the Washington Commanders. It was an interesting game to kind
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of look at because there were so many different things that you could take away
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from it. You know. One of the things that obviously was the biggest
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story DT was that the defense kind of just you know, it just took
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over. I mean, it was a situation where we were all over them
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from the very beginning of the game, not really giving them any type of
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room to breathe. We had already heard before him that Sam, how you
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know, it's only his fourth start. He likes to hold the ball a
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little bit. He likes to let plays develop and get the ball to his
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receivers downfield. And it was a situation where everything kind of came to fruition.
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He was holding the ball and we were getting after him big time,
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and none other than to Roel Bernard, We've got to get to because the
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defense it was just it was ferocious on Sunday, DT, and it was
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a situation where everything seemed to be clicking on that side of the ball,
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and it wasn't because of the fact that you know, Sean mcdermock was dialing
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up these exotic blitz or anything like that. It seemed to be just more
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four men upfront, creating pressure, creating a situation where he had to hold
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the ball, and then obviously you've got to have in order from the hold
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of all, you've got to have good coverage on the back end. And
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it seemed like the cover which was great because of the fact that he didn't
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have anywhere to go with the ball freely for the great, great scheme,
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great game plan, I mean they had it was it was never even a
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whiff of success for that commander's offense. I mean the Bills were swarming them
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early. They didn't they didn't bring that much which they didn't bring that much
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pressure, which was great to see as a fan, you know, and
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when you can get pressure without it, we is the defense has always been
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good year after year after year, and the McDermott the pressure has been lacking.
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And this year the pressure seems better than it has been even last year
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with von Miller, and you know, it seems a little better than it
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was. So that's good to see as a fan, the defense kind of
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overall, you know, the picks were coming in bunches. You know,
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everybody had had some juice. And offensively, you know, the same deal.
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Very efficient but good team win overall, great game plan. This is,
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you know, what we're used to in this new era of Bills fans,
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what we need to happen to be honest, we we got to take
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care of these games and these teams that are a little inferior to us.
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I mean, credit to the Commanders, I think they'll be fine, they
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meant even make the playoffs this year, but you got to win these inferior
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games. And the past two weeks the Bills have done strictly that. Yeah,
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they really have, and it's it's a situation where you don't want to
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give up away any any wins. Like you know, we already talked about
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with Week one and how we lament that that that missed opportunity, and it
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was a situation where they just kind of jumped on these guys from the beginning,
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like we had already talked about. It really didn't give them any any
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air to breathe. It was fun to see Terrell Bernard DT. I mean,
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we've got to give this this guy his flowers because of the fact that
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it was a situation where this guy was all over the field. It was
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something really to behold. The one thing about Tremainet is and I know that
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we've talked about, you know, Tremaine, and we've kind of caught some
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flat because some people thought that we've been a little bit harsh on him.
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And I know that he was a polarizing figure. But the only really main
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thing and I remember when we talked with Big Bike from you know, not
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your every podcasts in the seven one six, it was it was so what
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he had talked about that at night. You know, he's always making those
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tackles and stuff like that, and the dregs are flowing, but he's not
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making any type of big plays. And it I mean, Terrell Art he
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was. He was a menace on the field DT. I mean, it
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wasn't it's not even over you know, over exaggeration, like he was everywhere
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on the field making plays. And I think that's the difference of what we
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were looking for. It was always like forty nine, you're there, you're
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range. I know that you're you know, you're kind of deterring the quarterbacks
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were throwing your way sometimes when you're in coverage, But where are the flat
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place? Where are the interceptions? Where are the forced fumbles? Where are
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the big sex? When are you going to make some some stuff pop?
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And boy, man Bernard, he did all of those things and more on
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on Sunday, Man it was it was crazy man AFC Defensive Player of the
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weekend. It was you know, deserveringly, So kudos the four three man.
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I mean we're talking small sample size, right, you know, but
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it's kind of we talked about it a few weeks ago that it was a
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three man competition. A linebacker, he gets hurt in training camp and then
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comes back and it's just the starter. So he was probably the starter of
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the whole time. He had the edges of the whole time. They had
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a plan, they had a plan in place. They let forty nine walk,
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you know, with this plan in place. So it's good to see
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kind of the foundation of that coming together in a small sample size. But
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you know, he's he's showing great, great things if you break that down.
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Last week and it wasn't the best stat and granted the Bears are horrible,
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and you know, they had a tough game against the Chiefs, but
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I saw a stat eleven eleven targets to somebody Tremaine Edmunds was guarding on Sunday
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against the Chiefs. They threw it to him eleven times and ten receptions out
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of those election, you know, and on the reverse we got two sacks
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an interception of fumble, forced fumble for Dreel Bernard. I mean, granted,
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two very different teams and very different circumstances, but you know, that
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just kind of puts it into perspective for me. Like you said, yeah,
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he was great. He was a big body of first round pick and
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Josh's draft. You'll like to see him, you know, produce for us
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a little more. But now we do have a guy that is producing.
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Hopefully he can he can keep that longevity and already's had some injury issues,
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so you know, knock on wood that we're not gonna be running in any
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of that BSS as the year goes on. But you know, the production
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is there, and I love that. I love to seeing that stat of
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they just threw two forty nine. They're not scared of him. Nobody's really
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scared of him because he's never really made people pay and on one week on
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tape, I'll tell you what, two is not gonna be looking to get
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it anywhere near four. It doesn't seem like he will because it was a
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situation where this guy was literally everywhere. I mean, he was shooting gaps.
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They call you know, they call it triggering. We teach that in
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football for Bobby's football team, you know, to mean that I helped coach
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DT. You know that I help out with them, and like we're always
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talking about our linebackers triggering downhill, not waiting for the blocks to come to
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you, but actually triggering him and forcing the forcing the issue, forcing the
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action. On that fumble recovery that you're talking about, he was just active
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and it was him and you know, Tarn Johnson and they're all there and
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they're getting to the quarterback and all of a sudden, the balls on the
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ground and and you know what I mean, fourth three is ready to go
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get it. And you can't be a part of that play if you're not
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already in the play, so to speak. So I loved it. Nine
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sacks for this Bill's defense. It was really just fun to watch them them
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to go to work, and you know, on a side note, just
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for the defense. You know ninety one DT I mean at Oliver, he
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got the bag. We talked about it, and he's you know, I
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saw stat on ESPN that he's second in the league in defensive tackle pressures at
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fifteen to start the season, only behind. I think it's the rookie out
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of there from from the Eagles. So like it's it's pretty sweet, man
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like, or it may might be a heart grow or whatever the case,
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but it being but like it's it's it's cool to see ninety one pushing the
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pocket. That's what we wanted to see from him. That's what we wanted
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to see. I know everybody's not going to be Warrant Sap. We don't
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expect him to be Warrant Sap or Aaron Donald, but we do want him
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to be commensurate of a top ten pick and push that pocket. Make those
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guys uncomfortable because no quarterback. As we've already talked about les pressure up in
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the middle. Ninety one has been bringing it this season. He's second in
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the league into defensive tackle pressures. He's got fifteen already learned that bag.
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Just like you said, the only defensive interior defensive lineman on a contract.
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You know as you go through and you know, my boy, my boy
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day day is also at ninety two. He's pushing it as well. A
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good point I'd like to bring up on you know, this defensive line is
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they're getting pressure who don't afford a healthy scratch, right, and because they're
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are getting there, they're believing in epan as that they're believing in in Leonard
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Floyd off the edge, bringing Greg Russa inside. As we talked about in
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kind of the preseason about that could be something that a nice little fold did
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this defense that we could see with Rousseau and that size coming in the middle,
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so that this allows them they're they're comfortable on the outside, which allows
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the middle of that that pocket to be pushed back. And they're gonna need
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that in full force this week against the Dolphins and and all that size to
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make that happen. But you know, kudos again, we really need that
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defensive line to continue pressure all season. It's it's where you win in the
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NFL. Quarterback makes plays and then more defenses getting to the other team's quarterback.
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That's the only way Tom Brady was ever stopped in his Glory days.
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The only way Peyton Manning was ever stopped, the only red Pastor Mahomes was
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stopping that Super Bowl against the Bucks. What happened, The Bucks were all
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over Pat Mahomes. So it's the key to winning in the in the league
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robin, and this line has proven thus far that they got the moxie to
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kind of get it done. And you know, I don't know where these
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offensive lines rank as we kind of move forward, well whatever, the fact
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of the matter is that you know, they're getting home. Yeah, no,
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I mean, they are getting home. And it's it's funny because you
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know, you look at guys like you know, Ajmpanessa. We've been critical
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of him in the off season. He's got to pick six, you know
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what I mean in a second on the day. You know, we talk
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about guys like Leonard Floyd that were brought in to do exactly what he did,
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and that is, you know we talked about in the off season,
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just hold down the fort so that we're not missing forty until he gets back.
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And not only is he holding on the fort, but he's providing great,
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you know reps for these guys. Two sacks on the too. Yeah,
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absolutely coming off an entry. Yeah, you know you talked about your
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boy day day, you know, de Kwon Jones a second and a half
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and then obviously at Oliver that we talked about with a second a half and
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result with a with a sack on the day. I mean nine sackses is
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a lot for any defense on any Sunday. And the fact that they got
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him in bunches, it was really cool to see another cool to see,
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cool thing to see excuse me, DT for the defense was you know,
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Trenavious White, my guy, one of my favorite Buffalo Bills, getting a
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chance to get back in the intersection column. That was really fun to see
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DT because I mean that's the way he jumped that round. I was like,
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oh my goodness, leaping over, the hand, eye coordination, all
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of those types of things were just a little clicking on that play. And
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it was really fun to see. Same thing with with Micah Hyde. You
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know, he's gone through his battles with the injuries last year and he was
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a little bit dined up to start the season. But boy, the way
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he jumped that route, I mean, that is coaching. That is that
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is you know, film study, that is being you know, prepared and
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being in the right places, understanding schemes, understanding what's coming at you.
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You've seen it on film, and that way you don't. You're you're rocking
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back and you're kind of almost baiting the quarterback into a mistake. And it
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was really pretty to see how he jumped that route. As soon as that
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ball left his hand, he knew where it was going and he got a
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chance to jump into it. It was fun to see those guys kind of
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get back and get their confidence going, because as you talked about, they're
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about to be tested like no other this week. Yeah. Absolutely, Well
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we'll see what it's you know, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah,
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absolutely, yeah, absolutely, and see them become themselves again, you
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know. And and we when when Trey White last year comes back, it's
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still a little skittish, and teams are kind of thrown at him. Mean,
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he's not making plays in like cause is he ever gonna be back?
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And then you see a play like that and it's like that was the first
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team All Pro play. You know, we're looking star. So it was
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it was nice see high my spoiler excuse me, and I see White really
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locked that up. I mean that pick I mean, that's Sports Center Top
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ten all day. Like that was the only thing he rolled out of the
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end zone. They got it on the one yard line. But I mean
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that was jumping over a guy diving hands. You gotta be yeah, you
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gotta be real, real aware. You've got to be hyper aware and hyper
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you know, just just really ready for the moment because that ball's coming in
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quick and you got to make sure you dive over the guy. And he
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just looked like a you know, like an old Trey White on that one.
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It was really beautiful. So listen as we wrap up on this game.
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I mean, seventeen was a fishing again, DT. It was no
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type of big mistakes, nothing crazy in his performance. He did, you
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know, do a little bit again of you know, taking what the defense
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gave him. Then you know, two hundred and eighteen yards. Obviously it's
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not a ton. He did have that deep pick later in the game,
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but it was no big deal. The thing that was really unlocked for him
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was, you know, him running. He was running a little bit more
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on Sunday, DT, and I think that that might be something that could
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be a good thing for the Bills against the Dolphins here on Sunday coming up,
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and we'll talk about that. But he ran the ball a little bit
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more obviously had that ten yard touchdown run, but he wasn't really asked to
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do too much. I mean, we were in control. It was funny
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because second half it started and it was still sixteen nothing, so it's a
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it's only a two score game technically, And you know, I was getting
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a little bit nervous because I didn't want, you know, I know,
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the Jets kind of game kind of gives me a little bit of nightmares,
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and I didn't want anything, you know, weird to happen where we let
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them back in the game. But we were really the defense was in such
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control that he didn't have to do anything really too flashy, I mean,
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to be honest, he had a nice touchdown to gave Davis that was really
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on a rope, but other than that, he really didn't have to do
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too much. Twenty to thirty two, two hundred and eighteen yards. I
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know it's not anything that you write home about, but he also did stay
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out of the ditch, and I think that's important as well, just to
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continue to keep the car on the road. As you you know, you
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start to progress when the because it's dominated the way that they were, you
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could get a little nitpicky on the offense of the first and second downs were
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pretty pretty bad. I mean, there was a graph of you know,
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the seventeen first first down plays were you know, fifteen of the seventeen where
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you know, two yards zero yards are negative. And then the one touchdown
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to Gabe Davis. They they played the field position the defense gave him with
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the turnovers and like you said, just just didn't do anything too crazy.
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And the scrambling I like to see because you're we're gonna see that, you
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know, with that pressure coming and I said it last week of you know
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that all first first round pick defensive line is gonna bring, you know,
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some heavy pressure, and that's the way to beat it. Just go right
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back into him and break that break that seal, and he'll he'll have those
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open looks he you know, he man when he did it have a nice
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slide he did when I thought he was gonna slide, kind of crank it
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out outside for another ten yards. And that's what he loves to do.
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And that's when he's his best, when he has that confidence under him and
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he's doing stuff like that. But I think we're gonna see a lot more
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of that this year when defense is really try to bring it and bring that
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pressure right through the pocket. Josh squeeze us through that one hole and he's
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got fifteen yards before anybody's even close to touching him. So like to see
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that. You could get a little nitpicky on that first week. It felt
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like first down was hard, really didn't go down and field much, didn't
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really get anything going. And then second down you're running and you know,
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so that's where the nitpick might come in. But it was by design.
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I think they took what they get when when it's a different game and it's
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a different you know, type of deal, maybe in a shootout this week,
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it's we're gonna see different stuff on first down. I I'm confident and
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I would like to, you know, say stuff like that that we will
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see different, you know, and not just you know, these little dump
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out bs you know, no game plays just to get the drives stalled out.
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But I think it was a nature of the game. It was a
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nature of what the defense was given. And I'm not you know, looking
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at it too much, but if you had to pick something out it'd be
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that. Yeah, absolutely, I agree. I mean, you know some
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of those you know passes adult and cacade on the outside and again they're they're
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doing everything. Latterly, it seems like with him so far, nothing really
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you know, in the middle of the field quite yet. So we'll see
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if they've got some different things drawn up. You know. It's funny they
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ran the ball well, you know, James cook your boy Jimmy Cooks ran
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it well again for a second consecutive week. Just missed one hundred yards with
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ninety eight, a great average on the day. It'll be interesting to see
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DT because as we transition, man, as my father would say, rest
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in peace, What in the ham sandwich is going on? Man? With
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the dolphins? Seventy points DT? I know that you know, you guys
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all know I'm a ABBOT WGR listener. And they said, you know,
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they're talking. Maybe it's hyperbolic because are we acting this way because of seventy
20:41
points. I don't give a damn almost about the opponent. I almost don't
20:45
give a dab about the situation and how long the starters were out there,
20:48
different things like that. Seventy points is seventy points it's only happened one other
20:52
time in the league since the merger, or a team that scored four points
20:56
and they set the record for yards seven hundred and twenty six yards of total
20:59
offense. Absolutely ridiculous. What in the hand Sandwich is going on? Man?
21:03
This seems like a team that I don't know. Man, I don't
21:07
know if if McDaniel's breaking the mold or what, but it just seems like
21:11
they are are steps ahead. It's like the Shanahan offense even on another level.
21:15
And I don't even know how that's even possible, because Shanahan runs a
21:18
wonderful offense in San Francisco. But his protege McDaniel. Man, this this
21:22
cat is just built a little bit different. Man, with the way that
21:26
they are running, some of their emotions. It's it's it's this is wild
21:29
sauce. Man. I was watching some of the stuff on Twitter, the
21:30
cut ups, and this is seventy points DT seventy Come on, man,
21:34
that's mad and stuff. Man, you hear me DT seventy points. Yeah,
21:45
yeah, we want to talk to me, Man, talk to me,
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man, talk to me. A complete slacking, you know. And
21:52
it's it started off, I mean on that first almost the second play of
21:55
the game. I mean, you're you're if a d are touched down to
21:59
tire rekill and then you know, it just compounds after that. I mean,
22:03
seventy definitely a little exaggerated. You know, probably at the forty point
22:07
market looked like Denver just straight up gave up, you know, in a
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way of you know, that was embarrassing, and I would not want any
22:15
part of that organization, you know, to be to be a part of
22:18
that and give up on a stage like that, and you know, think
22:21
that that's acceptable in any manner. But the forty still, forty to ten
22:26
is still a blot or whatever. It was forty to thirteen run then at
22:30
the end it was just run after run after run, just to you know,
22:33
run the clock out, and they could have scored more. You know,
22:36
it was point ten minutes left. So it's, uh, you know,
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I never gonna see that again. Definitely aren't going to see that Sunday.
22:47
It's something. I'm not saying it's nothing, but it's it's definitely a
22:49
little more exaggerated than than we like to think. Oh really, okay,
22:53
it's interesting. I mean two running backs, Uh, you know, raheem
22:56
mosted and then e hm, you know, they had four touchdowns each.
23:00
You don't really hear that often coming out of a backfield. They just had
23:04
a wonderful day. It seemed like everything seemed to work for them, and
23:07
it was really crazy to watch. I mean, they pulled two with about
23:10
eight minutes to go. I thought that they could have scored around eighty to
23:14
four points, so they could have scored another two touchdowns that they really wanted
23:15
to So, you know, I go with I'll go with you on that.
23:18
I understand that the opponent seemed to be a little bit checked out and
23:22
and it showed in the way that they played. I don't, you know,
23:26
necessarily want to call guys quitting, you know what I mean, because
23:27
I'm not on the field, But it sure looked like they were just interested
23:30
in the game, you know, after the point of just getting beaten,
23:34
beaten down so much so it's it's crazy. The thing about McDaniel DT and
23:38
I wanted to get your thoughts on it because this guy is it's interesting because
23:45
he is a young guy, he's innovative, he comes from that Shanahan tree,
23:51
and it's a situation where I'm just interested to know what you think about
23:53
him, because you already know my affinity for for Davil. You already know
23:57
my affinity for the offensive side of the football. It's something that I've I've
24:02
always longed for with the Bills. I want that offensive continuity. I want
24:06
one of those young guys. I want one of those innovators to be calling
24:08
my running my team, to be honest, if they can't be the OC,
24:12
go ahead and be the head coach. And I understand that that we're
24:15
not in that situation right now. But this McDaniel kat is different. Some
24:18
of the stuff that he's doing is they talked about how it could be you
24:22
know, like a CFL light, you know what I mean, Like where
24:25
the CFL they get a chance to get that running start. He's kind of
24:26
doing that with the horizontal motions, orbit motions. He's doing a lot of
24:32
different things that are making defenses kind of shift their pants. To be completely
24:37
honest, and I'm wondering what you think about it, because he's an innovator.
24:41
He's somebody that I think is changing the game. I don't know.
24:44
I mean, the game of the NFL is a lot of ebbs and flows
24:47
and people will catch up and stuff like that. But this guy seems to
24:52
have it all together in that respect. And I'm interested to know what you
24:56
think about him, because I think he's really sharp. I think that he's
24:59
calling the games the way that we played the games on that and like,
25:03
you know, we're gonna throw this thing, We're gonna create confusion. And
25:06
then and now he's he's scheming up run game to go with it and flip
25:10
passes and different things like that. He just seems to be so versatile in
25:12
his approach with their offensive scheme, and it's something that I'm concerned about.
25:17
I'm not going to lie and sit here and tell you that we're getting ready
25:18
to dominate on Sunday. We'll get predictions later in the show. But this
25:22
this cat is he's on it, man, he's on it DT. If
25:26
you ask me, it's creative, it's a it's a new fat a.
25:30
You know. Speaking of gr Or the other day, Ross Tucker was on
25:33
and or Things Tuesdays with Shopping the Bulldog, and he was like, they're
25:37
one big game away from having a nickname, you know, offensive, you
25:41
know, greatest show on tur for you know what whatever the case is,
25:45
and and they are. I mean, if they do something like this again,
25:48
you know, it's it's it's gonna happen. But it was this new
25:51
rob like, is this is this motion stuff new? Like this is the
25:53
first time the NFL has ever seen anything like this? Like, well,
25:57
I don't think it's the first time that we've seen motion. I mean,
26:00
you know, those coaches sometimes, I have never seen that. Every I
26:06
think that this is a consensus out there that we have never seen these.
26:11
It's horizontal and then you're getting your you're getting your wattles, you're getting your
26:14
hills full speed, and then they're going ahead and attacking on the snap counts.
26:18
You've got to have good precision with that. Everybody's got to be on
26:21
the same page. I saw some plays man where they've got you know,
26:25
he'll starting out looking like he's at you know, in the slot. Then
26:27
he's coming back to the backfield and he's racing right back out to the outside,
26:30
and then he's getting all of the attention. There's one play that I
26:33
watched particular, he got all the attention. They pitch it out to eight
26:36
chain and he's running and you know, Hill was just essentially a blocker and
26:38
then they ran a different scheme off of that, you know later in the
26:42
game, and it was like, it just seems like every play that they
26:45
call has a spider web of other different options that they can run off of
26:49
it. And the window dressing, as they call it, is it's really
26:52
it's really fucking with defenses because they have no idea where guys are going to
26:56
be, and it's having a it's putting stress on them to make sure that
27:00
they're aligned the right way. And I totally get it, because I don't
27:03
I would be. I'd be nervous if Tyreek Hill was running full speed at
27:06
me. I know I would be. That's for the pressure, and that's
27:08
part of it. It's like the Tiger Woods factor, you know, of
27:12
they're already be before they get to the course exactly, the the intimidation of
27:17
you know, okay, this this dude's faster than me. I gotta make
27:19
sure I'm here. I gotta make sure I'm here, And then that's all
27:22
you're thinking about. You know, you're not seeing the play developing and jumping
27:26
on on something that you might instinctively do if that wasn't in your head in
27:30
the first place. So I think that's part of it. That's that's part
27:33
of what it is. It was a very similar you know vibe. This
27:37
motion stuff might be new, but this offense in general was very similar.
27:41
Last year. They used the speed, they use the zone run. They
27:45
got it up field and and worked efficiently with that. But towards the end
27:48
of the year you started to see teams, you know, disrupt that time,
27:52
you know, just rup the one, just rup the two, and
27:55
and that led to some demise. And granted, you know, then two
27:57
goes out and you know a few other things happen and whatnot. But the
28:03
Tom Brady feel of getting that ball out so quick you into that first read
28:07
into that second read is tough to stop because if you're if you're not there
28:11
disrupting it, it's there and then it's there again, and it's there again,
28:15
and it just chain reacts out through there. So I think it's a
28:18
mix of intimidation and you know the fact that defenses are so worried about getting
28:23
beat and getting burned with a speed that they're not doing their technical you know,
28:29
part of the defense in their assignments, and they're one eleven, so
28:33
you know, it's gonna be tough to stop McDermott, though past couple of
28:37
weeks has had great defensive game even Week one. You know, I had
28:40
great defensive game plans. You know. Granted we might have not seen the
28:44
best offenses in the world the past three weeks, but the defensive game plan
28:48
I feel is always there. Josh plays good against these dudes. You know,
28:52
I'm confident, but it's it's it's gonna be a tough offense to stop.
28:56
Yeah, it's interesting, you know, I mean, they're they're just
29:00
they're operating at a different level for sure. I mean, I know he
29:02
comes from the you know, the answer to trying to answer, I don't
29:03
really know the answer to it, other than the fact that he comes from
29:07
that Shanahan Tree and Shanahan as an innovator, and he does those motions,
29:11
and he does a lot of the different window dressing things to get the defense
29:14
put in stress situations. But this is really on another level in respects to
29:17
the like I said, the horizontal motions, and there's so many different things
29:22
that are moving, so many different parts that are moving that is put in
29:23
the stress on the defenses. And and yes, Denver definitely quit. But
29:27
in the beginning of the game they look lost. So that's the one thing
29:30
that I'm kind of looking to and kind of holding onto is the fact that
29:33
the bills have to be buttoned up and as we continue to transition. I
29:37
wanted to talk about the matchups because this is really something where I think that
29:41
it's going to be on. It's predicated on looking a little bit at the
29:45
New England game. So I it would probably be you know, incumbent upon
29:49
McDermott to make sure that he takes a look at the film. And obviously
29:52
the coaches do that and they're you know, I mean, there's a copycat
29:55
league, all those different types of things that we talk about, so we
29:56
know that he's going to look and see what Belichick did to kind of stifle
30:00
him. I think they held him to twenty four points. I've heard that
30:03
they ran a lot of those three safety looks. Taylor rap hasn't looked the
30:06
best for us, but maybe we've got to put him out there on the
30:07
field and maybe give them some different looks. I'm interested to know what can
30:11
we do to slow them down, because before we flip the ball and go
30:15
with Buffalo's offense, I'm more worried about the pass rush. It doesn't matter
30:19
if you're winning up front if he's going to get the ball out that fast.
30:23
And I heard that he's throwing the ball to his first read like eight
30:26
percent of the time or something like that, And I heard that on gr
30:30
from from Joe Marino. I think and likes that's a crazy stat That means
30:33
that wherever his eyes are going to start to play, he's probably going to
30:37
throw the ball there. So that does give you a little bit of advantage
30:40
to know that he's probably leaning towards that first read. However, you've got
30:42
to make sure that you're in the right zone, that you're sitting down in
30:45
the right spots, all eyes on the quarterback, and then also making sure
30:48
that you're in your run fits as well, because they will run the ball
30:52
as they've they've shown you with most in a chain. So my thing is
30:55
that I want to make sure that the defense is ready to go because I
30:59
don't know how much they can pull from that New England game, but I
31:02
would I think it would behoove McDermott to kind of look figure out what frustrated
31:07
them that night up in Foxborough, because other than that, they've they've just
31:10
been a scoring show. I mean, even against the charges, they put
31:12
up a ton of points. I wouldn't be surprised if we see you know,
31:18
kier Ela or DeMar Hamlin, not a you know in the game in
31:22
this one. Yeah, get that extra more of a hockey shift type defensive
31:26
backfield. Keep rotating them out and keep them, keep them moving, give
31:30
them different looks as well, you know, maybe three safeties, maybe people
31:33
up in the box, maybe you know, back and forth in that regard.
31:37
Because Jayleen, I haven't updated, I haven't looked too much in the
31:41
injuries this week, but Dyalen Wattle is probably gonna be back. He was
31:45
out last week. That's crazy without him, So you know, it's it's
31:49
another fold and even scarier. But I think in that regard, yes,
31:53
take from the Patriots tape, but you know with that, create your own
31:57
little version to it. That get back on this Bill's defensive line, who's
32:02
played so great the first three weeks of the season. Even though two does
32:06
get the ball out and it's tough to get to them, they're gonna any
32:08
chance they get, they're gonna have to disrupt it and get to them.
32:10
And maybe that is bringing somebody like Gregor so into that middle, getting those
32:15
hands up, that big six seventh frame. You know, it's gonna be
32:17
tougher to get it across the middle. Would excuse me when you got dudes
32:21
like that, you know, hands up. So it'll be interesting. But
32:24
I expect to see, you know, those dudes on the field see hier
32:28
Elam, see a little more rotation back to a couple of years ago when
32:31
it was almost like a hockey hockey de style defensive rotation. Yeah, I
32:37
mean it doesn't even sound that crazy, you know, because Elam is one
32:40
of your faster corners. The speed in the secondary has been questioned, you
32:45
know, you know, hide and bore, your getting longer in the tooth,
32:47
different things like that. So we've talked about all of those things in
32:50
the offseason. It'll be interesting. I mean, I think it's been funny
32:52
that and maybe it's just been funny that that that that Elam can't get a
32:58
jersey, and I think that that's been one of the things that's been kind
33:00
of weird. I know that they obviously they love Benford and he's been well,
33:02
but even in a rotational point, they don't even want to give him
33:05
a jersey on Sundays, so that's a little bit weird. So if he's
33:07
not up for this week, then I would have really some doubts about his
33:12
future with the Buffalo Bills started with next offseason, because this would be a
33:15
week that you would think that you want all hands on deck. It's many
33:19
available bodies, not even just for injuries, but just for the fact of
33:22
how many players. I mean, this team can run a bunch of plays,
33:24
you know, depending on their drives. They had a bunch of their
33:28
drives were long drives. They were sixty something plus yard drives. So it
33:31
wasn't all just bombs on Sunday for the Dolphins. They were they were doing
33:35
methodical stuff as well, and then obviously getting the home runs as well with
33:38
their run games. So it'll be interesting to see DT as we flipped the
33:42
ball and we start to transition. It's it's funny, man. I heard
33:46
somebody say today they might have even been Marino like that. You know.
33:50
Listen, the Bills can cause some troubles, you know, for Big Fangio
33:52
on that defense as well, and I agree with that. My main thing
33:55
is that I don't the offense. I don't have any problem necessarily with the
34:00
offense. I'm just wondering. You're right about the first and second down.
34:05
I'm more worried about it is What is is Josh still denying throws basically or
34:10
turning down easy throws? What are the case may be? Like, I'm
34:13
not sure about this Dolphin Kincay thing. It seems like everything that Dorsey's drawn
34:16
up for him is lateral to the line of scrimmage that I don't I'm pretty
34:21
sure that that's not how you want to use him. I thought he was
34:22
going to be a slot receiver and they told us all this shit, you
34:24
know, to start the season about you know, things to expect from him,
34:28
and I know that he's a rookie, but I haven't seen that unlocked
34:30
yet, so I'm wondering if that's going to get unlocked this week. I
34:32
don't know if they're holding stuff back. I don't know what they're doing.
34:35
But I'm looking for the offense too. They've come by their points tt.
34:38
I'm not complaining. I'm just trying to figure out is Josh turning down throws
34:43
or is he just not making the throws or is it just not being schemed
34:45
up that way, because it just seems like you know, this past week,
34:50
like you talked about, it was just some weird calls first and second
34:52
downs. The offense didn't do too much in respects to explosive plays. And
34:57
I think that you're going to have to be explosive on Sunday, I really
35:00
do. I think that there there could be a chance where you give them
35:04
the ball four or five planes, bing, bang, boom. They scored
35:07
a touchdown. Okay, Josh on the field. Now it's time for Ken
35:08
Dorson to respond, and I want to make sure that they can. Yeah.
35:13
I think they're capable of getting downfield. And and like I said,
35:15
I'm gonna be confident in the fact of that. That kind of was the
35:20
game plan and they took what the game gave them. Over the past week.
35:22
The defense was so dominant. Yeah, exactly, we're efficient when they
35:27
needed to be and when they need to turn up the heat and the pressure
35:30
a little bit. They got that in the repertoire. I mean, you
35:31
got a quarterback that obviously loves to do shit like that. Yeah, it's
35:37
definitely in the guns somewhere. You know, it's definitely in the gun somewhere.
35:40
So you know, there's a lot of talent all over the ball on
35:45
the offensive end, and I think similar to this commander's game, they're gonna
35:47
bring that pressure the Dolphins did last year in Miami. All three games they
35:52
brought heavy pressure to Josh and almost zero blitzing at points. So that's gonna
35:57
be a result of we're gonna have to hit them back with aggressiveness as well.
36:00
I'm the offensive end. And you know, if this even on defense,
36:05
if they score, you know, twenty five thirty points, the offense
36:07
obviously to win the game is gonna have to score thirty points. So they
36:13
have obviously no no issue of doing that as we've seen the past couple of
36:16
weeks. But the fact the fighting aggression with aggression, and that's not hawking
36:22
it down the field and being completely mindless and all that type of things.
36:25
But you know, having a first down play that's you know, a post
36:30
draft to Digs for twenty five yards, having a first round play to to
36:32
Uh, you know, maybe James Cook on a nice little uh on a
36:36
nice little triangle route you know, up the middle for twelve fifteen. So
36:40
I think it's in the repertoire. And and like you said, maybe they
36:44
are kind of hiding some stuff and when you're up, you know, thirty
36:46
seven to three, you don't need you don't need to get exactly exactly.
36:52
So that's what it's for. And in a divisional game that it might come
36:55
out and we might see some stuff that. Okay, that's that's what we're
36:59
looking for on on that first and second down. So I'm copying it.
37:01
You know, we'll see that when the game gives us that. You're going
37:05
to see that aggression fight with aggression. Yeah, I mean, I really
37:07
hope. So I don't like picking on Ken Dorsey or anything like that.
37:10
And I know that he's an easy punching back when things don't go well,
37:14
and he's also punching back when things do go well because then people are still
37:16
complaining. Listened to people complaining about him, So I want him try to
37:20
get to the root of of what's going on. I do not like the
37:22
second down runs. I'll be honest about that. I never liked that from
37:25
any for any oc. It doesn't matter if it was I mean, yeah,
37:29
I don't know it would like those second town runs. Yeah, what
37:31
is best case scenario on a second town run? Yeah? Maybe? Yeah,
37:36
Well, best case there was the first down, but it's most likely
37:38
going to be the second best case scenario three to five yards, so you're
37:42
you're in thirty six, third and four, third and five, third and
37:45
six. It never makes sense. It never makes sense to me. I
37:47
don't get it. So I'm hoping that they get away from that habit because
37:52
again, these guys coming from South Beach, they can strike quick. We've
37:54
seen it obviously on display throughout this season, and they they're setting records up
38:00
there. You're that's so funny that Ross Tucker said. I didn't hear that
38:01
part, but yeah, they are getting dangerously close to it. They have
38:05
nickname in a minute, because yeah, they are. They're putting it on
38:07
people, and I just am impressed. I like to give, you know,
38:10
like I said, credit honor where it's due. I like mcdanel.
38:14
I like I like the way that he coaches, and it seems like he's
38:17
always got his foot to the gas in that respect. Obviously they pulled off
38:21
on Sunday, but he's always he's trying to score on every single possession period,
38:25
and I like that mentality. Sometimes McDermott is a little bit more conservative
38:30
for my taste, and and it's just the just the difference between offensive and
38:34
the defensive. That's all. Rob It's first down, last game, it's
38:37
it's first quarter. Excuse me, it's fourteen seven Dolphins Broncos. Fourteen seven.
38:43
Dolphins go for it there on their own forty on four down, they
38:46
don't get it. Broncos get the ball down fourteen seven in the first quarter
38:52
in Miami territory, and you know, Russell Wilson sucks, it takes a
38:54
sack and they got a punt, and you know, it's it's crazy after
38:58
that. But that, you know, that's a point of there was an
39:02
opportunity even if it gets kind of little out of hand in Buffalo this reekend,
39:06
it's like, oh shit, they're back and they get up on us
39:07
by two scores and it's fourteen seven, Like, there was still an opportunity
39:12
for Denver to get back into that game, right, and you know,
39:15
so it's not going to be important this week. Then, you know,
39:17
answer really quickly overshadowed. But it wasn't all. It wasn't a complete lost
39:23
cause it was for three quarters, but there was still, you know,
39:28
some competitive juice in there. So I'm saying, even worst case scenario gets
39:31
a little out of hand and they get up on us. A few scores
39:34
there there there, probably will give us some opportunity to get back in the
39:37
game. Yeah, that'll be good to see. I mean, I'll be
39:40
interested in it. This is a big week. It's a it's a big
39:44
matchup. I know that obviously, there's so much football to be played,
39:46
but I really do feel like the winner of this game could be in the
39:50
driver's seat for the division. I don't I'm still not worried about New England
39:52
too much. I'm still not worried obviously about the Jets because they're floundering as
39:57
well now since the Rogers injury Week one against US. So this could be
40:00
you know, this could be now, It could come down all the way
40:02
to the end of the season. And we've got a match up their second
40:05
week that excuse me, the second matchup in South Florida, and that's where
40:07
the division where the case maybe, but this is a big one. You
40:09
already let the Jets game slip, so you've got one loss already in the
40:13
division. This is a big one to go ahead and go ahead and get
40:15
You're at home, the crowd's going to be into it. You already know
40:19
that will be in full force, and it'll be interesting to see how they
40:22
respond, because I do think that the Dolphins can get after it a little
40:24
bit and you might have to answer some of their blows. Now, as
40:28
we transition tonight and then begin to wrap up, we've got another Nickel City
40:31
Crew tailgate report. We're gonna give them to you. You know, doesn't
40:35
matter home or away DT. We were still you know, getting ourselves,
40:38
getting our gating raids, our PDA lights after the first week of the Bill's
40:43
holiday and kind of you know, recovering from week two. What was it
40:46
like for you man, enjoying the game? What were you up to?
40:50
I know that on my end here we laid low, man. I had
40:53
you know, my kings with me. Their mothers came over and you know,
40:58
brought some chicken wing dip and some others up for the kids to eat,
41:00
and we all we had a crazy rager party the night before Bobby ye
41:07
oh my god, eleven kids DT eleven kids in my house for Bobby's birthday
41:14
party and it was just wild. So what happened was that we had Bobby's
41:15
football game and then we told the parents to meet us at the house afterwards,
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and you know, we figured you have enough time to to have Bobby's
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shower and then he'll and then you know, we'll we'll have a little bit
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of downtown before they come. Man, we had walked through the door.
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One kid is already there, like ready to meet us at the door.
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So I'm like, Bobby and run and getting the shower, start getting yourself
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ready. And they just started coming in like like like like cockroaches, and
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he just kept showing up, like four kids kept getting dropped off. So
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it was funny. Man. We've got like a little portable basketball hoops.
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So I was in the garage and then they were all outside in the back
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alley and I was like, you know what, let me just roll this
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down. Man, We'll roll down. So I said, go ahead,
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grab these, uh these bags of sands. Of the boys grabbed the bag
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of stand A couple of them are grabbing the big bags of sand in the
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followed me and I rolled the portable hoop all the way down to my pool,
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which is very close and they just repaved it DT so they actually put
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basketball lines on the park or a portion of the parking lot. So I
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brought the hoop down, put it in there and they played basketball DT.
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They were at the park. They played all night long, it seemed like
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until the it went dark, and it was really really cool. Man.
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We had pizza at the park. It was it was cool man cupcakes.
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And that was really good for me because then my house doesn't have to get
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dirty. I'm a clean frigs. I have to clean that ship up,
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throw everything out in the trash and the trash cans at the park. So
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it was really cool man. He had a great time. But boy,
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but we got back to that house DT, it was it was mayhem man.
42:38
I was like, stayed up stairs. Do not come downstairs unless you
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need to get some damn water. Other than that, stay upstairs, stay
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out of my office, and you can have the whole rest of the upstairs.
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But it was it was really cool. They were well behaved. They
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stayed up all night DT. I was. It was like I tried to
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outlast them. It was like four thirty in the morning and I'm like,
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those like five kids that were still up. Bobby had already gone to sleep,
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and there's like five kids that are still up. But I'm looking at
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their eyes and look what are y'all still doing like over playing this, this
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and this. I'm like, oh my gosh, stay quiet, I'm going
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to bed, quincy a sleep with me downstairs. Just stay quiet, and
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they did, man. So it was really fun. Man. They had
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a great time, Bobby had a great time, and they had a good
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time hanging out. So I just hung low. Man. After that rager
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the night before, I was this chilling band and their mothers came over and
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brought some stuff for me to nibble on. And then other than that,
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man, I was just watching the game and I was not in the mood
43:29
to do anything. No bars, no nothing. I was cool. They
43:31
took everything out of me. It was a nice laylow weekend up here up
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here in the buff as well. You know, went down, the parents
43:39
did a little that on Friday and Saturday, came back early Sunday and you
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know, and didn't tell really didn't get a hold of anybody, didn't try
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to. Yeah, I agree, it was you know, had to you
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know, you've you've been you see living room Senior, living room Junior.
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We got the Sunday ticket. So this was kind of my first you know,
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because week one I was at the game, and then week two when
44:06
we were at the game, and so this is my first, uh first
44:08
experience to try to juggle you know, Sunday ticket and the bills on Bowl
44:13
TVs on Junior and Senior, and he kind of worked that all around,
44:16
and so that was fun getting the hang of that and and getting my remote,
44:20
my remote game and Jack and uh it was a nice, low key
44:24
day. Was it was the game obviously felt like a w early and and
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it kind of filtered through. The four o'clock games were kind of trash,
44:34
so that allowed me to. Uh we made some tacos here at the Bachelor
44:37
Pads, some nice uh nice tacos over overdid it? You know? I
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made way too much. So we've been eating tacos for three days, so
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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, so probably got to get something different tonight.
44:52
But uh yeah, Lo Loki was a good you know, kind of re
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revamp week, revamp win, and uh yeah, it was a good day.
45:00
Now, what are your plans for for Sunday? I know that you
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and I won't be together. I'm supposed to leave on Saturday as normal and
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I'll be up there sometime in the afternoon, is the plan? Right?
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Now? What are your plans because you've got some cool plans coming up through
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your job. So so tell the crew about what you've got planned up for
45:20
this week because it's it sounds like, yeah, yeah, it's gonna be
45:22
a good weekend. Obviously, you know, tough one not to not to
45:25
be there in the stadium. We the crew, and it gonna be gonna
45:30
be a big one, gonna be loud or seventy five and Sonny we're looking
45:34
at for a forecast. It's so it's gonna be premo. It's gonna be
45:37
premo. But yeah, this weekend they have, you know, a shout
45:40
out active listener to the crew. Noah, Noah and Uh in his family.
45:45
They have a nice set up up on Lake Ontario up north in like
45:50
the Youngstown area. Okay, so a nice little like outdoor indoor barn.
45:54
Uh Electric, got a got a few TVs in there, a real real
45:58
nice spot. And I'm gonna be hosting my all my employees at work.
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Uh, We're doing a little party up, a little viewing party. We
46:07
got. We're gonna be smoking some pork butt. Okay, there you go,
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pork going. We're gonna have some meatballs, We're gonna have some dogs
46:15
on the grill. We got a cag in there. It'll be a good
46:19
time. So getting all the employees up and the majority of my driving team
46:23
is all you know, retired, older, older guys, so they're looking
46:27
forward for something to do and you know, get away and and enjoy this
46:30
day. So I'm gonna miss you guys. Gonna be a great day to
46:34
be at the stadium and field that energy. But we're gonna have a good
46:37
day up on Mike Ontario as well. Yeah, absolutely. I mean it's
46:39
funny. I had talking to reached out to Big Ben and Kenny and stuff
46:43
like that, trying to figure out plans, and they're not going to be
46:45
making it up this week. So my plans were already tempered anyway. And
46:49
if I'm not, you know, it's still up in the air. But
46:50
if I get up there, I should get up there. And if I
46:52
do, I'll probably just take advantage of the fact that I don't have to
46:55
come pick you at six thirty in the mood. Yeah, we can sleep
46:59
until out. Yeah, and I'll probably just go get you know, I
47:02
love the original pank account, so they've got they've only got one here in
47:07
Charlotte, and I missed that place. You know, I used to go
47:09
to the one that I used to I graduated from williams the South, as
47:13
you know, so I used to go to the one on Main Street all
47:15
the time in Williamsville back home, and they've got one down here and it's
47:19
forever away, so I rarely get a chance to go there. And so
47:23
if that's the case, if I'm up, I'll go to the Pank Accounts
47:25
right there in op right up from the stadium and get some breakfast, get
47:30
my paper. I feel like a true true fan, and you know,
47:31
have my stuff on and kind of just relax because it'll be a little bit
47:35
more chilled than with you when we're up at the crackhead down beating the park
47:38
a lot of employees or whatever. So it seems like it's, you know,
47:43
it seems like it's gonna be more of a chill week when it comes
47:45
to the tailgate. But you know, I again, no place i'd rather
47:49
be and squitch the fish week. I mean, that's the stadium is gonna
47:52
be full throttle DT. I mean it. I mean, the It's was
47:55
what I talked about in the beginning of the show, like it just the
47:58
rivalry extends back. There's different portions of Bill's Mafia that it means something different
48:02
too. And for our age demographic, you know, like you said,
48:06
I'm a little bit older than you, but like Dan Marino and the Mark
48:09
brothers like that, Like we couldn't stand in the Dolphins because they were good,
48:12
and that's what makes a rivalry. We were never good against the Patriots,
48:15
so I never considered it one. And this is a it's fun,
48:17
man. I like the fact that the Dolphins are are the talk of the
48:22
league right now. I like all of that type type of stuff because I
48:23
want to squitch the fish on Sunday, bring them back down a peg,
48:27
bring them back to reality. I want to get after them. I think
48:29
that the Bills can get it done on Sunday being at home. It's just
48:32
it's just it brings something. Just rivalries just bring something out of you.
48:36
It's just different than a regular one o'clock game against the against a random team
48:39
that you don't you rarely see. It just it just it just hits a
48:43
little bit different. Yeah, And for the past couple of years now,
48:45
the you know, we it's kind of been the chip on the shoulder just
48:50
shutting the Dolphins up a little bit there, who they thinking they really are?
48:52
And you know, and Kudo's great, great great week last week,
48:57
great start to this season. But let's knock them down if you PAGs and
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show who the king of this division is and and squish the fish the real
49:04
way. I mean, Bill still, you know, the everyone all the
49:07
Dolphins. We're worried about the Dolphins, Vegas says, the Bills of minus
49:12
three right now, their home, their home favorites, you know, and
49:15
the line is only kicking that way. So it's you know, it's it's
49:17
it's not gonna be no seventy point blowoff, you know, y'all y'all gonna
49:23
be ready to go on third down, well any down. Really, it's
49:25
not just third down and games like, it's full through third. And it
49:30
was loud and there two weeks ago, Robin. I'm sure it's gonna be
49:34
even louder than this one. Seventy five and yeah, I mean seventy five
49:38
Sunday, perfect weather, everything is just gonna be kind of set the stage
49:43
for it to be a wonderful day. So I'm excited for it. I
49:45
know you are as well. I hope that you have some fun up there
49:49
at like Ontario and enjoy your people's at work. That sounds like a really
49:52
fun thing. So that that again is the Nickeo City to Nickeo City grow.
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Excuse me tailgate report. I've had a blast again, DT. It's
49:59
good catching up with you. I'm sorry I'm going to miss you this week,
50:01
but we'll be back together before you know it. Man, I mean,
50:05
this is it. I'm excited man, that the juice is flowing.
50:07
These weeks get me going, and the juice is definitely flowing. I can't
50:10
wait for Sunday to come, and I know that you can't wait as well.
50:14
So enjoy the game, DT, because this is this is what it's
50:16
all about. Man. Go take your division opponent, you're at home,
50:20
get your crowd into it, and go take care of business because you know
50:23
you want to add up these wins. But the division with the divisional games
50:27
are they are worth twice as much. They really are huge. I said
50:30
it in the beginning of the show. You know you're super excited for the
50:34
season. The season starts and it's kind of almost a little numbness to it,
50:37
you know, because it's like, oh, it's actually happening, and
50:39
now you know, Week three, Week four, Now you are, you've
50:44
kind of transitioned and you're accustomed to it now and you're ready to you're ready
50:46
to go. Maybe this is this is a great week to be ready to
50:51
go. This is a great week to be ready. And this game is
50:55
an end all be all. Let's let's get that across. We'll keep the
50:59
proper respective, we'll keep the problems. This game isn't end all be all,
51:01
but man, it'd be it'd be real nice to get this didn't mean
51:06
a lot for you know, to knock them down a little bit, get
51:07
some confidence for us. You know, you go in with with these teams
51:12
of the you know, Kansas cities right there. The Bengals barely escaped all
51:15
and three the other day, like these these wins mean something necessarily, So
51:19
it's it's not end all be all, but it would mean a lot to
51:22
knock these knock these jokes off. Man. Yeah, man, let's let's
51:24
stack it up. Man, Let's send them back to South Florida feeling sad
51:29
for sure. And the coach is so damn cool and all this other stuff,
51:30
and he's wearing that shirt last year trolling us and all, you know,
51:34
I wish it was colder, so let's let's give him a little bit
51:36
of taste his own medicine. The weather would be great. There'll be no
51:37
excuses out there on the football field. And I love when the games are
51:40
like that. I don't you know that one game in Miami and it's a
51:43
damn heat stroke and Stefan Dick's got double ivs and all that stuff. Yep,
51:46
we lost, but damn mother nature played apart. I love it when
51:50
there's nothing, there's no extra additives to it. It's it's just football's ball,
51:53
baby's ball, baby click clack me back. So I love it man,
51:57
as always been, Please spread love, not hate. These were my
52:00
bills, thoughts said out loud. Hit him with a gold bills DT,
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I mean this quits the fish week. Hit him with a gold bills man.
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Let's go God bills, Go bills, Go bills. Three more