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S5 E25: On The Brink · Nickel City Crew Podcast

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Speaker 1: Fifteen decrease.
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Speaker 2: You can see your breath out in the.
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Speaker 1: Lake effect, breaking tables like guitar would you wherese would
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Speaker 1: you have to be? And to Ron Elvis in the
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Speaker 1: lay panchow the members that you need to know. Won't
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Speaker 1: you out here?
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Speaker 2: Now?
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Speaker 1: Your family? Where's would you have to be?
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Speaker 2: Where's would you have be? Welcome into the nicol City Crew.
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Speaker 2: I am your host, Rob Crippen. Please like us on
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Speaker 2: City Crew. This episode, along with all of our episodes,
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Speaker 2: are presented by Crippen Legacy Entertainment here on Spreaker and
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Speaker 2: stream Yard. We're so glad that you're joining us for
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Speaker 2: some of your Buffalo Bills and NFL again today and
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Speaker 2: as always, these are my Bill's thoughts set out loud.
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Speaker 1: It's a vibe so ridiculous, two story three six?
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Speaker 2: Where's what you want to be? All right, let's get
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Speaker 2: straight to it. Excited still for today's episode, This morning's episode,
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Speaker 2: it's it's uh. It's been a few days now and
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Speaker 2: I can't say that I feel any better, but I'm
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Speaker 2: hoping to get through this therapy session and that my
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Speaker 2: co host can help me at least make a little
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Speaker 2: bit of sense of it, because I'm I haven't been
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Speaker 2: in this place in many, many years now since Josh
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Speaker 2: Allen has taken over at the helm of the Buffalo
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Speaker 2: Bills and ascend it to the heights that he has
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Speaker 2: joining me this morning my co host as always writing
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Speaker 2: Shotgun Adam Dump Truck Repsick. Check him out on Instagram
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Speaker 2: and Twitter at Adam Reupsick. Are you c Zyk at
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Speaker 2: the crew DT? We gotta do it sometimes we go
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Speaker 2: through these weeks where we got to just take the medicine.
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Speaker 2: So let's do it today, you and I if you
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Speaker 2: don't mind, because boy it was that was tough to
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Speaker 2: watch Thursday.
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Speaker 1: Nicol City, Nicol City, what's up? Happy Saturday? Rob? How
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Speaker 1: are you man? Good to see I know I missed
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Speaker 1: last week. You guys held it down, did a great job.
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Speaker 1: But it's good to be back as always, even though
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Speaker 1: we're not coming to you in better terms at an
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Speaker 1: eight and three, standing at a seven and four. Still
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Speaker 1: three games over that five hundred mark playoffs in our
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Speaker 1: in our in our windshields, So tough one. We gotta
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Speaker 1: do it. But happy to be here as always. Nickel City.
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Speaker 1: Let's chop it up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's chop it up. Bills lose in Houston. It
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Speaker 2: seems like that's the graveyard for the Bills in recent years.
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Speaker 2: We're always losing down there in Houston twenty three, nineteen.
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Speaker 2: And that's really not the story. The story is how
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Speaker 2: Josh Allen was kind of just thrown around on that
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Speaker 2: on that Night hoston a couple nights ago. It was
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Speaker 2: funny because when I was watching the game, I mean,
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Speaker 2: we knew that Texans the number one defense in the league,
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Speaker 2: and they've got those great edge rushers. They've got some
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Speaker 2: great cornerbacks, and Lassiter and Stingley on the outside. I
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Speaker 2: think Stingley even missed the game. But listen, it was
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Speaker 2: a situation where I was I was concerned about the
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Speaker 2: pass rush, for sure. I was concerned about what they
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Speaker 2: could bring. I did not expect eight sacks, twenty three
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Speaker 2: pressures or something crazy like that. They kept hitting Josh,
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Speaker 2: touching them. The offensive line had a bad day, and
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Speaker 2: I think that it was aided by Joe Brady's inability
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Speaker 2: to have any type of adjustments. I didn't see much
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Speaker 2: of an adjustment from the game plan standpoint of chipping
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Speaker 2: them or doing something to help those guys back their DT.
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Speaker 2: And that was really it was really concerning because of
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Speaker 2: the fact that we knew what the we knew what
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Speaker 2: the scouting reports said. The scouting report said that these
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Speaker 2: guys like to get after. You'd like to pin their
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Speaker 2: ears back. You've got to find a way to get
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Speaker 2: the running game involved to kind of keep them at bay.
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Speaker 2: And James Cook rips off that first, you know, forty
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Speaker 2: five yard run and then after that they kind of
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Speaker 2: go away from the run game a little bit. He
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Speaker 2: was averaging almost twelve yard excuse me, almost seven yards
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Speaker 2: of carry. So I really didn't understand that. There's just
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Speaker 2: a lot of questions and I'm left with this game
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Speaker 2: with more questions and answers DT, and maybe you can
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Speaker 2: help me with some of them, maybe you can't. But
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Speaker 2: seeing our prize possession get touched the way he was
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Speaker 2: was was not in the cards. That's not something that
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Speaker 2: you want.
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Speaker 1: Well, you said it after you said questions, you said answers,
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Speaker 1: and there was a lack of it. And I know
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Speaker 1: I wasn't on last week, you know when we talked
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Speaker 1: about the Dolphins loss, and that was my qualm in
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Speaker 1: that game of again in this one the Thursday night.
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Speaker 1: There's just no answers as an MVP, as a perennial
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Speaker 1: team in the NFL that, you know, if we want
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Speaker 1: to start talking about it, we got to start being
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Speaker 1: about it. And being about it is Tom Brady scores
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Speaker 1: the touchdown on the ten yard line, Peyton Manning scores
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Speaker 1: the touchdown on the ten yard line. And I'm not
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Speaker 1: saying it's only Josh Allen thing, but the answers. There
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Speaker 1: needs to be answers when the MVP is playing quarterback
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Speaker 1: on your team, and there wasn't. Now For yes, the
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Speaker 1: Bucks game was a nice one in the middle, thank god,
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Speaker 1: or we might be in a whole hell of a
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Speaker 1: lot more trouble, you know, as as we're sitting here
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Speaker 1: talking today. But there's no answers in that Dolphins game.
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Speaker 1: We get through the Bucks game and then it comes
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Speaker 1: again that scouting report. Like you said, Rob, we knew
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Speaker 1: this would be it. So there's not something we can
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Speaker 1: do to not get franchise quarterback touched like that and
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Speaker 1: sacked eight nine times. There's not something we can do
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Speaker 1: to you know, maneuver around that. So I it's just
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Speaker 1: it's frustrating because you said that there's questions, but the
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Speaker 1: answers need to be placed on this team. There needs
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Speaker 1: to be answers. There needs to be adjustments made when
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Speaker 1: you are a contender, and it's just a lack of
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Speaker 1: heart in those past couple losses. That makes it very discouraging,
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Speaker 1: you know, with all the talent around and we're just
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Speaker 1: playing games off like this, So no answers, rob, no answers,
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Speaker 1: and that's discouraging.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's discouraging because and I think that,
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Speaker 2: you know, one of the things that bothers me is that,
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Speaker 2: you know, when you we've talked about Joe Brady at
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Speaker 2: nauseum throughout the off season and into the season, and
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Speaker 2: you know, wondering if this everybody eats thing was gonna
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Speaker 2: work for a second go round, and I just don't, like,
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Speaker 2: I don't I don't see like a sequence. I don't know,
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Speaker 2: like you know, they always talk about, you know, how
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Speaker 2: the offensive coordinator is supposed to be setting stuff up.
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Speaker 2: He's supposed to be setting up plays, and they'll run
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Speaker 2: this play because he wants to show this look. And
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Speaker 2: then the next time he could show that look and
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Speaker 2: do something else off of it. And think for things
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Speaker 2: like that it seems like the offense is so predictable
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Speaker 2: because we know he's gonna run mesh, he's gonna run screens,
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Speaker 2: and then after that, it's like, okay, we're just gonna repeat,
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Speaker 2: and he's just gonna repeat. So I don't know if
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Speaker 2: that is because of the the weapons or what the
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Speaker 2: case may be, but again, that's those are the guys
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Speaker 2: that they wanted, you know, those are the guys that
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Speaker 2: they picked. It's it's almost as if it's disjointed DT,
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Speaker 2: like there's no rhyme or reason to what he's doing
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Speaker 2: on the offensive side of the football. And because of that,
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Speaker 2: you've got an offense that is predictable. You've got an
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Speaker 2: offense that where you know, guys like Will Anderson and
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Speaker 2: Daniel Hunter could just te off on your quarterback, you know.
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Speaker 2: And I understand that the tackles take some responsibility as well.
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Speaker 2: And you saw Dion Dawkins quitting on a couple of plays,
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Speaker 2: which was really weird and uncharacteristic of him, but I
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Speaker 2: mean it was it just seemed disjointed DT, I get.
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Speaker 2: I think that's the best way that I can put it.
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Speaker 2: There was no building of plays. We talked to tone
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Speaker 2: last week when you were out and he talks about
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Speaker 2: how the OC is supposed to build plays together and
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Speaker 2: run them together. I saw none of that on on
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Speaker 2: Thursday night, and it was almost just a it was
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Speaker 2: just predictable. Like they talk about us when we're in shotgun,
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Speaker 2: we're passing under center, We're gonna run same type of thing.
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Speaker 2: It just there's not a lot of variation in the offense.
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Speaker 2: And I think that that's costing us now because now
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Speaker 2: we are looking at a situation where we got to
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Speaker 2: keep up. You know, we can't lose to Pittsburgh next
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Speaker 2: week because otherwise we'll be in a situation where we'll
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Speaker 2: be out of the playoffs or with all these other
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Speaker 2: teams kind of smilesaled them together at four six and four.
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Speaker 2: So it's it's tough DTV. This guy, Joe Brady is
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Speaker 2: just not He's not doing it for me, man, he's
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Speaker 2: not doing it for me.
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Speaker 1: Well, the first the first point was questions and answers
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Speaker 1: and the lack of answers, and now we're into, you know,
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Speaker 1: being proactive or reactive, and obviously you'd like to be proactive,
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Speaker 1: especially when you got one seven back there and you
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Speaker 1: can really kill dudes, you want to be proactive and
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Speaker 1: get ahead and of that defensive scheme, and I thought
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Speaker 1: that's what we were doing in that first series when
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Speaker 1: you know, it was a great long drive. And then
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Speaker 1: we came down and James Cook has busted a nice
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Speaker 1: long one that's kind of the tempo, kind of long
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Speaker 1: the sleep, James Cook bus one long the sleep, Josh
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Speaker 1: Allen goes over the top, whatever it is. But the
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Speaker 1: proactive stopped right after that. You mentioned it. It was
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Speaker 1: we were no longer proactive, and then proactive is better
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Speaker 1: than reactive, but we weren't even reactive either. Like you said,
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Speaker 1: there wasn't a rhyme or reason. We were just kind of, yes,
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Speaker 1: dumping it off to a screen pass. We have to
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Speaker 1: get the ball out quick if we're getting you know,
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Speaker 1: mauled on and Josh doesn't have any time. Sure, that's
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Speaker 1: a way to get the ball out quick, but there's
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Speaker 1: also other ways like upfield and and as stat I
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Speaker 1: didn't get to say on the last week of fifty
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Speaker 1: seven percent of khalilsha Kars targets behind the line of scrimmage,
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Speaker 1: and that was similar. There was a few deep His
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Speaker 1: best play was the hooking ladder and then he fumbled,
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Speaker 1: you know, in a crucial spot for us. So like this, dude,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of money around this offense that we're
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Speaker 1: just not utilizing. There's no rhyme or reason, and and
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Speaker 1: we weren't even being reactive. Like brob when you're getting
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Speaker 1: your ass kicked, Yeah, you want to be proactive, but
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Speaker 1: like if you don't, if they get you first, like
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Speaker 1: you eventually have to be reactive. Like you it's not
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Speaker 1: the best choice, but you have to do it. And
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Speaker 1: they weren't reactive, like and that's it's the answer is
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Speaker 1: not like it's almost an arrogance for what like, yes,
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Speaker 1: you have Josh Allen and he can do so much,
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Speaker 1: but then there's the arrogance of we're not changing, we're
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Speaker 1: not adjusting, We're we're just gonna let this balloon just
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Speaker 1: keep the air, just keep coming out of it, and
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Speaker 1: not do anything about it. It's and that Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: I sit here two days later, very very frustrated.
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Speaker 2: Rob obviously, Yeah, I think a lot of Bill's Bomfi
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Speaker 2: was frustrated, you know, And it's it's bringing up, you know,
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Speaker 2: different questions, and it's bringing you know, and things that
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Speaker 2: we can't answer right now. And McDermott's future and Bean's
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Speaker 2: future for the first time, you know, and I can't
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Speaker 2: even remember the last time Brandon Bean was under cross hairs,
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Speaker 2: but now he is, you know, solely in the crossairs
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Speaker 2: because of the fact that you know, he chose this.
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Speaker 2: And he goes on WGR and he pumps his chest
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Speaker 2: out and he talks about thirty points a game, and
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Speaker 2: he cusses out Jeredy and Joe and lets him know that,
10:30
Speaker 2: you know, the wide receiver conversation is stupid, even though
10:32
Speaker 2: you know, last year he proved that he understood that
10:35
Speaker 2: everybody eats wasn't working. That's why he goes out and
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Speaker 2: trades for Marik Cooper. What happens this year? This year
10:40
Speaker 2: we find out that he's trying to trade for Jaylen Wattle,
10:42
Speaker 2: but he doesn't want to give up twenty six first
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Speaker 2: round pick. And I don't know if he leaked that,
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Speaker 2: or who leaked that, or who thought that it was
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Speaker 2: going to make him look better, but it made him
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Speaker 2: look worse because then Bill's boffiy is looking at it like, well,
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Speaker 2: why didn't you give up the pick? Because you know
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Speaker 2: what I mean, we need help, right now, like you
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Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like, why are you being so
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Speaker 2: stubborn about something that we need help right now? So
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Speaker 2: it's interesting because I know a lot of these questions
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Speaker 2: can't be answered right now, DT, But you know, we
11:06
Speaker 2: could talk about it however we want to talk about it,
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Speaker 2: and I know that nothing's going to change right now,
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Speaker 2: but I do think that it's a serious conversation that
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Speaker 2: we need to have coming up at the end of
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Speaker 2: the season. If we don't get to the Super Bowl DT,
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Speaker 2: and I put this on Twitter yesterday, I'm ready to
11:20
Speaker 2: I'm ready to blow it up. If there's not a
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl appearance, the division around won't do it for me.
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Speaker 2: The AFC Championship Game, a third appearance under this regime, won't.
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Speaker 2: It won't do it for me. You've got to get
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Speaker 2: to the super Bowl. I've already. I've always been consistent.
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Speaker 2: I'll let the chips fall from there if you actually
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Speaker 2: get to the to the Bowl, get to the show,
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Speaker 2: or I'm gonna be ready for wholesale changes. I really am.
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Speaker 2: And that includes McDermott obviously, that includes being something here
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Speaker 2: is not clicking, obviously, Brady, it's just something is not working. DT.
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Speaker 2: And I'm not okay. Just sitting here another year and
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Speaker 2: we're just going into another off season and nothing changes.
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Speaker 2: I'm just not okay. This is just we just don't
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Speaker 2: know how much time we have left with Josh.
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Speaker 1: The room for air is is smaller and smaller, and
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Speaker 1: the room for air is is proven a more in short,
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Speaker 1: when it's when we get the inch, the thirteen seconds,
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Speaker 1: like we have to be perfect, and it seems like
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Speaker 1: we're straying away from that perfection, Like maybe we had
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Speaker 1: some more talent on previous teams, maybe it was the
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Speaker 1: culture thing, but like whatever it is now, if it's
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Speaker 1: less talent and less culture, it seems like we're getting
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Speaker 1: no farther away. Like if there's less talent, we need
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Speaker 1: to be more nails, we need to be more disciplined,
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Speaker 1: and we're jumping off sides on fourth and one to
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Speaker 1: win the ball game, like there are three turnovers, like
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Speaker 1: we need to be if we don't have the talent,
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Speaker 1: we need to be perfect in the culture, in the discipline,
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Speaker 1: in the in that inch, and we're and we're farther
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Speaker 1: away from that, Like adversity, you have to face adversity
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Speaker 1: in an eighteen game season in the seventeen game season,
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Speaker 1: eighteen weeks. You have to face it and you need
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Speaker 1: warriors to lead you through that. And shit, for a
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Speaker 1: billion dollars, we got one of the best, and I
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Speaker 1: just we need the that bite. And it's it's it's tough.
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Speaker 1: It's tough because it feels like we're getting farther away
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Speaker 1: with the philosophy and all this, like the philosophy you
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Speaker 1: need to be tighter, and we're looser with less talent.
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Speaker 1: We're looser with less talent.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and I hear, you know, I hear
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Speaker 2: just like a lot of the Mafia talks about, you know,
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Speaker 2: the talent issue that you're talking about, and it's just
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Speaker 2: not there and they don't have the horses. And we've
13:29
Speaker 2: talked about that in the off season. We've we've discussed that,
13:31
Speaker 2: we've talked about, well, you know what I mean, we
13:33
Speaker 2: need some blue chippers and stuff like that. But I
13:36
Speaker 2: think that the one word that you said was bite.
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Speaker 2: And I think that that's one of the things that
13:40
Speaker 2: always bothers me is because of the fact that we
13:43
Speaker 2: had a dog, we had bite, and they got rid
13:46
Speaker 2: of him. They said that he was too he was
13:48
Speaker 2: too loud, he was too boisterous. He was too you
13:51
Speaker 2: know what I mean, and he and he rubbed too
13:52
Speaker 2: many people the wrong way. And you run a guy
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Speaker 2: like that out of town. And then what did we
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Speaker 2: do last week? We talked about attitude reflects leadership. Why
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Speaker 2: did we name it that way? I named it that
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Speaker 2: way because I saw Josh sulking on the sidelines. I'm
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Speaker 2: not engaging with his teammates, you know, just kind of
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Speaker 2: sitting there with that blank, you know, weird fucking stare
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Speaker 2: on his face where you can't tell what he's what
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Speaker 2: he's thinking because of the fact that he's just kind
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Speaker 2: of just sitting there blank. And I can't stand when
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Speaker 2: I see him like that. And I haven't seen him
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Speaker 2: like that too many times throughout his tenure, but you know,
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Speaker 2: that Miami game, he was like that, and he was
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Speaker 2: just sitting there with that malaise over his face. You
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Speaker 2: had a dog, Brandon Bean, and you you chose to
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Speaker 2: get rid of him because he made other people uncomfortable.
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Speaker 2: I said it back then and I'll say it now.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's okay to be uncomfortable. Sometimes you need to
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Speaker 2: be uncomfortable. Everything can't always be just you know, sunshine
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Speaker 2: and rainbows and when you got a guy in there
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Speaker 2: that's stirring things up, that's that's demanding accountability, that's demanding
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Speaker 2: your best. I need your best, DT, I need your best.
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Speaker 2: I need you to show up and be at your best.
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Speaker 2: It's funny because I brought it up, but they said
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Speaker 2: that the boy tray Fion Henderson out there in New
14:59
Speaker 2: England said, Steph pushes me. He said, He's always on
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Speaker 2: my ass. He's always reminding me that I can be great,
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Speaker 2: and then I'm supposed to be great and he's demanding
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Speaker 2: it from me. Then the guy goes off for three touchdown.
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean. It's like, listen, I don't
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Speaker 2: know if there's a correlation, but you're gonna be hard
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Speaker 2: pressed to tell me that there's not a correlation between
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Speaker 2: the fact that Josh Allen they describe him as a
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Speaker 2: golden retriever. We always talk about we need a pit bull.
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Speaker 2: Josh is not that. That's not his nature. Shout out
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Speaker 2: to Mama Monday. She tells us, you know, many times
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Speaker 2: on multiple occasions of just not Josh's nature. Who is
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Speaker 2: going to lead, Who's going to be in that film
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Speaker 2: room or on that sideline? DT that says, this is
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Speaker 2: unacceptable what we're doing as a team, not not necessarily
15:40
Speaker 2: the coaches, not necessarily anything else. Us. We're gonna we're
15:44
Speaker 2: gonna hold each other accountable. And you talked about Dion
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Speaker 2: jumping off sides or that's that's short forth down where
15:51
Speaker 2: Josh could have just you know, you know he could
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Speaker 2: QB sneak right up the middle. But you know they're
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Speaker 2: running some you know, wid zone play with James Cook
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Speaker 2: is huffing, puffing, trying to ask to come out of
16:00
Speaker 2: the game, and they're sending his ass back in the game.
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Speaker 2: Weird stuff going down there at one Bill's Drive, Man,
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Speaker 2: There's just there's weird stuff on game days. And I'm wondering,
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Speaker 2: where are my alphas, where are my dogs? Where are
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Speaker 2: my leaders that are are going to demand that this stops?
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Speaker 2: Because pretty soon DT, I know you you said it's
16:17
Speaker 2: all in the windshield, but you go to Pittsburgh and
16:20
Speaker 2: lay an egg and I promise your shit is gonna
16:22
Speaker 2: get real, real cloudy, real quick.
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Speaker 1: And that's fair, and that's fair. But they they got
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Speaker 1: to know that too, right, And I believe I believe
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Speaker 1: there's it's capable. Still. I believe there's some dogs that
16:33
Speaker 1: come out of people. But the thing about the Stefan Diggs,
16:35
Speaker 1: it's very prevalent this week is the success of the Patriots,
16:38
Speaker 1: and it's easy to see. But even if you did that,
16:41
Speaker 1: if it was a bright move for the team or not,
16:42
Speaker 1: even if you did it, you got to replace it.
16:45
Speaker 1: And we didn't. And that's what we're getting into. There
16:47
Speaker 1: was no replacement for that situation. The replacement is this
16:51
Speaker 1: everybody eats. And yes, the argument to everybody eats was
16:55
Speaker 1: the numbers were there, the production was there. We went
16:57
Speaker 1: into Thursday night the second ranked offense in the league
17:00
Speaker 1: against the best defense in the league. It was the
17:01
Speaker 1: battle of the tops. Like it's not like we are
17:04
Speaker 1: mediocre in offense going through it. But the point is
17:08
Speaker 1: when it breaks down, it seems like there's nothing that
17:12
Speaker 1: the ebbs and flows of everybody eats mentality. When it's dead,
17:15
Speaker 1: it is dead, and it is not and being dead
17:18
Speaker 1: is unacceptable to be a Super Bowl contender. When you
17:20
Speaker 1: need these games on the road and you're dead because
17:23
Speaker 1: it's just not working for you that night and you're
17:25
Speaker 1: getting blown up on the line and you have no
17:27
Speaker 1: other way to go about it, then the production doesn't matter.
17:30
Speaker 1: I don't give a shit if you're scoring as many
17:32
Speaker 1: touchdowns in franchise history. And this I know my tone
17:35
Speaker 1: is kind of changing today, but I'm a little pissed obviously,
17:37
Speaker 1: and we'll get back down. But it's that it's not
17:41
Speaker 1: good enough, and that's what we talk about. The dog
17:43
Speaker 1: that isn't gonna make it good enough. And because he
17:45
Speaker 1: said it wasn't good enough, that's why he was out
17:47
Speaker 1: of town. I don't know, I'm not fully there on
17:49
Speaker 1: the but that's a different story for a different day.
17:51
Speaker 2: I know we didn't replace them.
17:53
Speaker 1: We didn't replace them, and then now who does it?
17:56
Speaker 1: And it obviously falls to seventeen first of all, Like
17:59
Speaker 1: if you're a extreme competitor and you envision the super
18:02
Speaker 1: Bowl and you want to bring it to Buffalo more
18:04
Speaker 1: than anything in your world, then you got to get
18:06
Speaker 1: in people's asses when we're jumping off sides on fourth down.
18:09
Speaker 1: That I keep using that example, but that's the ballgame
18:11
Speaker 1: right there. That's the ballgame. So it's the itch, it's
18:15
Speaker 1: the thirteen seconds, and you gotta get tighter. We need
18:19
Speaker 1: the dog, we need the dog. And I agree one
18:22
Speaker 1: hundred percent the Ebbs and flow aren't holding up to this,
18:25
Speaker 1: so somebody's got to step up. There's there's gotta be
18:28
Speaker 1: damage control. There's got to be we're falling, let's stop
18:31
Speaker 1: falling until we hit the ground.
18:33
Speaker 2: You've got you've got you know, you talk about ebbs
18:36
Speaker 2: and flows. It's been a roller coaster season. I would
18:39
Speaker 2: define it as a roller coaster season. You know what
18:41
Speaker 2: I mean because you you look like world beaters. You know,
18:45
Speaker 2: week one, you know, making that big comeback, you go
18:47
Speaker 2: jump out to four and oh, and then after you
18:50
Speaker 2: jump out to four and oh, you know, you have
18:52
Speaker 2: a loss, and it's a divisional loss. Okay, New England's
18:55
Speaker 2: trying to come they're they're on the come up. I'll
18:58
Speaker 2: even give you that and grant you that a night game,
19:00
Speaker 2: and you know, fine, but then the next week, you know,
19:03
Speaker 2: you don't, you know, you back it up with another loss,
19:06
Speaker 2: you know, to Atlanta where a team that you're supposed
19:08
Speaker 2: to be you go down there and you get you
19:10
Speaker 2: get do dog raced in the first half. You come
19:12
Speaker 2: out second. It's kind of the same. It's same thing Thursday,
19:15
Speaker 2: horrible first half, only three points given up in the
19:17
Speaker 2: second half. You've got that inexplicable loss to the Dolphins
19:20
Speaker 2: in Miami in South Beach, where you're not supposed to
19:22
Speaker 2: lose that game. Like it's just all these ups and downs.
19:25
Speaker 2: Where's Kean Coleman, Well, he's on the sideline because he's
19:28
Speaker 2: been disciplined. Where's you know, Palmer? Palmer's got, like they said,
19:33
Speaker 2: eighteen catches all season. You're paying him eleven million dollars nothing.
19:38
Speaker 2: Nothing in the offense, He's a non factor. I mean
19:41
Speaker 2: of his best plays was, you know, first half in
19:44
Speaker 2: Atlanta before he gets hurt, and then after that we
19:46
Speaker 2: don't hear from him again, didn't hear from him earlier
19:48
Speaker 2: in the year before that? I mean, where are your answers?
19:51
Speaker 2: We've got Gabe Davis back out on the field and
19:53
Speaker 2: shout out together. I never, you know, disliked Gabe or
19:56
Speaker 2: anything like that, but we moved on from him for
19:58
Speaker 2: a reason, brought him back. Now he's in the lineup.
20:01
Speaker 2: I mean, because if you trusts Josh and Josh trust him.
20:04
Speaker 2: But where are the answers? I mean, it seems like
20:07
Speaker 2: Samuel and Moore just flip flop every other week because
20:10
Speaker 2: one's hurt or ones not get into a jersey and
20:12
Speaker 2: they just kid flip flopping. I don't The reason I
20:15
Speaker 2: had a problem with everybody eats is because you cannot
20:18
Speaker 2: have an offense full of B minuses and c pluses
20:22
Speaker 2: and then tell me that they are going to get
20:25
Speaker 2: the job done. I don't care about last year. I
20:27
Speaker 2: understand they scored the thirty points a game. I got it.
20:30
Speaker 2: I heard Brandon Bean. I always thought that it was
20:32
Speaker 2: bullshit because of the fact that when you need a
20:36
Speaker 2: money down, when I need to go somewhere and I
20:38
Speaker 2: need to get something done, when it's crunch time, who
20:41
Speaker 2: do I go to? And before him, it was always
20:43
Speaker 2: fourteen for Josh. Now who does he go to? And
20:46
Speaker 2: now it just seems like it's just smilesal I love Shakir.
20:49
Speaker 2: I understand that he's got that breakaway yak ability. I mean,
20:53
Speaker 2: outside of him, it was nothing. And you want to
20:55
Speaker 2: tell me that it's be all because dlphin kin kid
20:57
Speaker 2: was out. I dt there's always some type of built
21:00
Speaker 2: in excuse where they'll they'll hit you with this, and
21:03
Speaker 2: they'll hit you with this, and they'll hit you with this.
21:05
Speaker 2: I'm getting fed up because again we are like another
21:08
Speaker 2: loss away from being all up in the muck in
21:11
Speaker 2: the mire of this entire AFC. And the AFC was
21:13
Speaker 2: wide open this year, DT, and the conference was supposed
21:17
Speaker 2: to be ours and the one seed was definitely within
21:19
Speaker 2: our reach. We talked about it to start to see.
21:22
Speaker 2: We did all these episodes in the offseason leading up
21:24
Speaker 2: about how wide and number one seed vibes and all
21:27
Speaker 2: this other shit. I'm I'm frustrated, DT. I'm frustrated by
21:31
Speaker 2: the product on the field because I don't see why
21:34
Speaker 2: everybody else couldn't see what I saw, and that is
21:37
Speaker 2: that this is a fallacy. This everybody eats shit to
21:40
Speaker 2: me was garbage and it was never going to work
21:43
Speaker 2: with bees and c minuses. That's what garbage teams do.
21:46
Speaker 2: We're not supposed to be a garbage team. Surround Josh
21:49
Speaker 2: with all the weapons, go out there and try to
21:50
Speaker 2: score forty regardless of your deficiencies on defense. And I
21:55
Speaker 2: just I'm more upset right now with the offense than
21:59
Speaker 2: the def And I just don't know where the answers
22:01
Speaker 2: come from. I really don't.
22:03
Speaker 1: I mean, the defense isn't losing us games, right They're
22:07
Speaker 1: they're not making crucial stops sometimes, but they're not losing
22:09
Speaker 1: US games. The offense is losing US games. Nine zachs,
22:12
Speaker 1: three turnovers, that's losing you games. You know, not being
22:15
Speaker 1: able to score on the ten yard line, that's losing
22:17
Speaker 1: you games. So you talk about the losses, Patriots loss
22:23
Speaker 1: is your divisional hard hardship. Okay. Then you back it
22:27
Speaker 1: up with your with your punch in the mouth game,
22:28
Speaker 1: your Baltimore Ravens game last year. You back it up
22:30
Speaker 1: with the Falcons. Okay, then you're back on track with
22:33
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Here we are back on track with the
22:35
Speaker 1: Panthers and Chiefs. And then then you have the abysmal
22:39
Speaker 1: Dolphins and that was just like, okay, you only get
22:43
Speaker 1: one of those a year. You only get one of
22:44
Speaker 1: those a year, you know.
22:47
Speaker 2: If you're a great team, if you're a great team.
22:49
Speaker 1: And then you you have a questionable two with the
22:52
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. And then you come in and have a
22:54
Speaker 1: third one right here, like right now, and it's so
22:58
Speaker 1: now it's it's something wrong. There was the excuse of
23:01
Speaker 1: an NFL season for the Falcons, for the for the Patriots,
23:05
Speaker 1: maybe for the Dolphins. But now that's what I'm saying,
23:11
Speaker 1: there's something wrong right, It's not working. Now everybody eats
23:13
Speaker 1: isn't working. There's something not right with y'all. There's something wrong.
23:17
Speaker 1: Joe Brady thinks random Bean stinks. I don't know, but
23:19
Speaker 1: there's something wrong here, because there's it's not an excuse
23:22
Speaker 1: of the ebbs and flow of a season anymore. It's
23:25
Speaker 1: you have unacceptable losses now, and only time you take
23:29
Speaker 1: unacceptable losses is if you're not that good.
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Speaker 2: there from on location pretty soon. Uh DT. As we
25:02
Speaker 2: transition a little bit, I wanted I want to I
25:05
Speaker 2: want to get realistic and talk about what we've now
25:08
Speaker 2: put ourselves in and I know that it could be
25:12
Speaker 2: sometimes sobering to do, but we need to do it
25:14
Speaker 2: before we get out of here today. I want to
25:16
Speaker 2: talk about just the AFC and and and we don't
25:20
Speaker 2: need to harp one the the squandered opportunity. Now, let's
25:23
Speaker 2: look at it. And what I've been doing, you know,
25:25
Speaker 2: on the Twitter spaces. You know, I'm on Twitter all
25:27
Speaker 2: the time, and on those Twitter spaces shout out Twittle
25:30
Speaker 2: and those boys. I say, now, just just get me
25:34
Speaker 2: in the tournament, you know what I mean. Now, I'm
25:36
Speaker 2: just treating it like, you know, like it was back
25:38
Speaker 2: in the day when we were the drought bills, and
25:39
Speaker 2: I just want to get it. Just get in the tournament. Okay.
25:43
Speaker 2: The AFC is not that strong overall as a conference.
25:47
Speaker 2: It's not that strong. Even some of the top teams.
25:49
Speaker 2: You can poke holes in in Denver. You could say
25:51
Speaker 2: that they might be a little bit flu gazy because
25:53
Speaker 2: of their their offense. Their defense is great, but you
25:55
Speaker 2: know bo Nicks, nobody is scared of him. Indie, you
25:58
Speaker 2: could poke holes in them and say, well, they're led
26:00
Speaker 2: by Danny Dimes and we've never seen this version of them,
26:03
Speaker 2: you know, obviously, you know JT is the engine that
26:05
Speaker 2: kind of makes them go. But I'm not really scared.
26:07
Speaker 2: Pittsburg is a division leader. We'll see. We're getting ready
26:10
Speaker 2: to go there next week. And then you've got the
26:12
Speaker 2: wildcard teams. The Chargers, they've got plenty awards with no tackles.
26:16
Speaker 2: You know. Jacksonville's got plenty awards. Houston, we just saw them.
26:19
Speaker 2: You don't want to be tied with them now because
26:21
Speaker 2: of the tiebreaker from head to head DT get get
26:25
Speaker 2: a get a ticket to the tournament. Yes, it's hard
26:29
Speaker 2: to win three games. I hear that all the time.
26:31
Speaker 2: It's hard to win three games on the road. It
26:33
Speaker 2: has been done, so I don't want anybody to tell
26:35
Speaker 2: me that it can't be done. It can be done.
26:38
Speaker 2: Get I'm I've kissed the number one see goodbye. I'm
26:41
Speaker 2: really kissing. I mean unless unless, unless, since he beats
26:46
Speaker 2: New England this week to help us out, I'm gonna
26:49
Speaker 2: kiss the AFC East goodbye. Where do you stand on it?
26:52
Speaker 2: Because I just say get in and then I'll just
26:54
Speaker 2: let the chips fall. And I've already stated before that
26:56
Speaker 2: unless you get to a Super Bowl, I'm ready for
26:58
Speaker 2: wholesale changes. So outside of that you just kind of
27:01
Speaker 2: have to sit back and watch and let's see. Let's
27:02
Speaker 2: see I when you get lucky, some sometimes weird chip
27:05
Speaker 2: happens in the playoffs. I think that that's where I'm
27:07
Speaker 2: gonna leave myself for my own sanity. For me, that's
27:10
Speaker 2: what I think I need to do well.
27:12
Speaker 1: I think you have to be if you're part of
27:14
Speaker 1: the mafia and you believe in one seven, you have
27:17
Speaker 1: to be you know, hype. If you get in and
27:19
Speaker 1: think you got a chance, like right, like, you get
27:22
Speaker 1: in and out, think you have a chance, ain't possibly.
27:24
Speaker 1: If you're in, you got a chance. So I agree,
27:27
Speaker 1: one hundred percent, let's just get in. It really doesn't matter.
27:29
Speaker 1: There was odds out that the Chiefs have a better
27:31
Speaker 1: chance of the AFC Championship than their division, the Bills
27:34
Speaker 1: have a better chance of an AFC championship than their division.
27:37
Speaker 1: Like it's a uh, it's a league of parody, but
27:40
Speaker 1: it's also you know, I think the Bills are still
27:43
Speaker 1: a good team, and I think the Chiefs are still
27:45
Speaker 1: a good team. And like the point is, like not
27:47
Speaker 1: everyone's having a killer season. We've talked about not the
27:50
Speaker 1: one seed was right there, and we might have squandered whatever,
27:53
Speaker 1: But there's winnable games coming up. I think the Steelers
27:56
Speaker 1: is a great bounce back game to a team that,
27:58
Speaker 1: you know, Mike Aaron Rodgers might not even be in there,
28:00
Speaker 1: and even if he is, whatever, Like, that's a team
28:03
Speaker 1: that is decent this year. But you could go in
28:06
Speaker 1: and take care of then you got a real test,
28:09
Speaker 1: you know, But the tests this year have been okay.
28:11
Speaker 1: You know, the Chiefs have been okay. The the you know,
28:14
Speaker 1: the Ravens we slid by, like, the test have been okay.
28:18
Speaker 1: And so if the Bengals are coming in a must
28:20
Speaker 1: win situation at home, we kind of own one from
28:22
Speaker 1: that playoff loss. Even if Joe Burrow's back, which who knows,
28:25
Speaker 1: they go out and lose this week. That's eight losses
28:27
Speaker 1: and like, if I'm Cincinnati, why am I even you know,
28:30
Speaker 1: why am I even bringing back that glass? Boy? You know,
28:32
Speaker 1: if you if you got eight losses and the dudes
28:34
Speaker 1: made a glass, like, what's the point. But we're still
28:38
Speaker 1: probably seeing him? And then you have your own fate
28:40
Speaker 1: against the Patriots. You got a Browns team late in
28:43
Speaker 1: the year that you got to win. Really doesn't matter
28:45
Speaker 1: about that Eagles game. Playoff wise, probably not. And then
28:48
Speaker 1: you beat the brakes off the Jets with the red
28:50
Speaker 1: helmets to end it. So I think the it's still
28:54
Speaker 1: with the loss, there's an eighty seven percent chance to
28:56
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. It's not like we're in def con mode.
28:59
Speaker 1: But like you said, we're one loss away from being
29:01
Speaker 1: deaf con. But I think it's a good bounce back opportunity.
29:05
Speaker 1: So glass half full here. You know, you get sacked
29:08
Speaker 1: nine times, you have three turnovers, you completely get dominated
29:11
Speaker 1: in the game, and you're ten yards away from winning
29:14
Speaker 1: it pretty easily the other night. So yes, horrible all
29:18
Speaker 1: the way around. But we're not dead, we're not daring,
29:22
Speaker 1: and there's and there's some clean and I'm not saying
29:24
Speaker 1: you know you said that or whatever, but like I know,
29:27
Speaker 1: if we're if we're moving on, it's it's it's we're
29:31
Speaker 1: behind seventeen. There's we've we've proven we can ball out.
29:35
Speaker 1: I don't go. I don't know if this team has
29:38
Speaker 1: longevity to ball out, but we've proven Bet Jackson. But
29:42
Speaker 1: then we lose the Panix to A and fucking Davis Mills.
29:46
Speaker 1: Like it's so this has just been a week. It's
29:49
Speaker 1: been is it you know, is it like, hey, we've
29:51
Speaker 1: turned back in January when we go out of Rome. Yeah,
29:53
Speaker 1: it was just a focused thing. We're actually nasty, you
29:56
Speaker 1: know whatever. Hopefully that's the case, right, But I I
29:59
Speaker 1: think it's it's okay to be critical today. I think
30:01
Speaker 1: it's okay to be frustrated because that's some bullshit. That's
30:05
Speaker 1: some bullshit. But but there's some there's some clean horizons coming.
30:11
Speaker 1: I think that the Pittsburgh is just a that's just
30:13
Speaker 1: a good, you know, blue collar gay We just going
30:17
Speaker 1: it's a fight and we win that like easily, and
30:19
Speaker 1: it just keeps rolling through the holidays. And I don't know,
30:22
Speaker 1: I'm keeping full on that A punch in the face.
30:25
Speaker 1: The dogs come out of people now. Now people are pissed.
30:27
Speaker 1: Now you're starting to get pressed, you know, out there
30:30
Speaker 1: going to Tim Horton's It's now Oh Bill's mafia too, yo,
30:34
Speaker 1: you motherfucker's let's go.
30:40
Speaker 2: I love it. I love it, man, I mean you
30:43
Speaker 2: feel that, okay? I mean yeah, no, Listen, the mood
30:46
Speaker 2: has the mood has changed, and I think that we
30:49
Speaker 2: can agree on that the mood has changed. The vibe
30:51
Speaker 2: has changed around the team, and I think that it's
30:55
Speaker 2: it comes from a place of of us yearning for
30:57
Speaker 2: that parade. It comes from a place of knowing how
31:00
Speaker 2: great seventeen is. It comes from a place of how
31:03
Speaker 2: many years can we waste? How many years can we
31:05
Speaker 2: flush down the toilet? And for me personally, I'm in
31:08
Speaker 2: a situation where I'm I'm so I've never even been
31:14
Speaker 2: I've never been so frustrated at Brandon Bean before that.
31:16
Speaker 2: This is new for me because of the fact of
31:19
Speaker 2: his bravado. I didn't like how he treated those guys
31:21
Speaker 2: on the show, but I understood that he had He
31:24
Speaker 2: could say scoreboard, you know, and then what did we say?
31:26
Speaker 2: You don't put up banners for points per game? So
31:29
Speaker 2: it was kind of a it was it was almost
31:30
Speaker 2: a fun back and forth because it's the off season.
31:32
Speaker 2: There's nothing really to talk about and sink your teeth in.
31:35
Speaker 2: Now that shit's not so funny, you know what I mean.
31:37
Speaker 2: Now it has an age that well, you know, looking
31:39
Speaker 2: back at it and all the wide receiver problems, and
31:41
Speaker 2: now the trade deadline has passed, so now it's now
31:45
Speaker 2: now the joke is not so funny, you know what
31:47
Speaker 2: I mean. And now I'm kind of like I'm kind of.
31:49
Speaker 2: You know, I'm pissed, to be honest, because I said
31:52
Speaker 2: it and I saw that it wasn't going to work,
31:53
Speaker 2: and now it isn't working. And you've got, like I said,
31:56
Speaker 2: eighteen catches from Palmer on the season more and those
31:59
Speaker 2: guys flipped up the in and out of the light up.
32:01
Speaker 2: But now I'm like, like, why didn't you? You know
32:03
Speaker 2: what I mean. I'm almost like a like a parent
32:05
Speaker 2: who keeps telling the like, you can't run in the street.
32:07
Speaker 2: You can't run in the street, you know what I mean?
32:09
Speaker 2: And then cars are zooming by and you're like, why
32:10
Speaker 2: aren't you listening? Look how fast that car was going by.
32:13
Speaker 2: You almost got hit, you know what I mean. Like
32:15
Speaker 2: that's what I'm trying to say, you know what I mean.
32:16
Speaker 2: At the Houston game and it's like, look at look
32:18
Speaker 2: at how fast that car was moving you We just
32:21
Speaker 2: got hit, you know what I mean. Like it's crazy.
32:23
Speaker 2: So I Brandon Bean is in my sights now too,
32:26
Speaker 2: and he has he really hasn't been, you know, because
32:28
Speaker 2: when people want to talk about draft picks DT, what
32:31
Speaker 2: I always like, draft the drafts a crap shoot, Like,
32:33
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, you rank the guys, and
32:35
Speaker 2: pretty much everybody ranks the guys the same, you know
32:37
Speaker 2: what I mean, and they all they're all scouting the
32:39
Speaker 2: same guys, and then it's a crap shoot. There's Hall
32:42
Speaker 2: of famers in later rounds that everybody passed on, and
32:44
Speaker 2: then the Brady and you know, there's just multiple examples.
32:47
Speaker 2: The Bills picked Terrell Troup one pick ahead of Rob Grinkowski,
32:50
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like there's just there's endless
32:53
Speaker 2: you know, examples of how the draft is just it's
32:55
Speaker 2: just weird and it's a crapshitt and sometimes it's just
32:57
Speaker 2: throwing darts. I'm I am. I'm offended that Josh Allen
33:03
Speaker 2: in this prime has been surrounded by these type of weapons.
33:06
Speaker 2: And you're right, we're not dead DT, but it might
33:08
Speaker 2: just be a situation where you have to lean all
33:11
Speaker 2: the way into the run game, lean all the way
33:13
Speaker 2: into it and maybe just try to ride. Uh, you know,
33:16
Speaker 2: James Cook to the postseason, I'm being completely honest, because
33:20
Speaker 2: you just said it's gonna be a fight with Pittsburgh.
33:22
Speaker 2: I mean, what better way than to slow the game
33:24
Speaker 2: down and just run the ball, you know, Like I
33:27
Speaker 2: don't I don't know if Brady's past concepts are I know,
33:31
Speaker 2: throw the ball, and I know that that McDermott says
33:34
Speaker 2: he needs a multi dimensional offense. I just don't know
33:36
Speaker 2: if you got it, DT, I don't. I don't know
33:37
Speaker 2: if you've got the horses this year.
33:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, but if we're talking about being dogs and stepping out,
33:43
Speaker 1: and you know, if if we want a Super Bowl bad,
33:45
Speaker 1: so we're being critical and pissed. If Josh Allen wants
33:48
Speaker 1: Super Bowl bad, he better be critical and pissed and
33:50
Speaker 1: that dog coming out. We need him to fucking throw
33:53
Speaker 1: for six tuddies and go crazy to have the confidence
33:56
Speaker 1: to be the dog, you know, we need him to
33:57
Speaker 1: be right now. He was laughing like a in the
34:00
Speaker 1: Bucks game, like running into the end zone like that
34:03
Speaker 1: type of like intensity and swagger comes from him being
34:06
Speaker 1: a baller, you know. So like, yeah, I think if
34:11
Speaker 1: use as a crutch with the James Cook because he
34:13
Speaker 1: is an all Pro running back now and he is
34:15
Speaker 1: producing for us, so like yes, but we also need
34:18
Speaker 1: the ball with seventeen because when he's balling, that's when
34:20
Speaker 1: he gets his swagger out, and his swagger is needed
34:23
Speaker 1: to leave this team. So yeah, it's it's all in.
34:26
Speaker 1: It's deep use this week and a half, this many
34:28
Speaker 1: bye like these seasons like it. Literally teams talk about
34:33
Speaker 1: having a Sunday night game and then being oh, it's
34:35
Speaker 1: a short week because we had a game on Sunday
34:37
Speaker 1: night and then we play next week at one o'clock.
34:38
Speaker 1: It's still a short week. On Sunday night. This was
34:40
Speaker 1: literally a three day, you know, short week. Turn it around.
34:44
Speaker 1: Now you have a week and a half until you've
34:46
Speaker 1: got to travel an hour and not even probably a
34:50
Speaker 1: you know, they probably you know, from Buffalo to Pittsburgh,
34:53
Speaker 1: easy drop, no travel, worry about a week and a
34:56
Speaker 1: half off, bounce back if that dog and him, let's
34:59
Speaker 1: see all dimensional. But I see where you're coming from.
35:02
Speaker 1: But I think except for seventeen to.
35:04
Speaker 2: Be then we're gonna need him.
35:05
Speaker 1: We're gonna need he's gonna he's gonna have to ball
35:07
Speaker 1: out to He doesn't just get it. He gets it
35:10
Speaker 1: by balling out, you know.
35:12
Speaker 2: I I, I NO, I definitely agree with you on that.
35:14
Speaker 2: You know, because his energy it gets heightened. You're absolutely
35:17
Speaker 2: right by by him just going out and running over
35:19
Speaker 2: guys and throwing touchdowns and stuff like that. So we'll
35:21
Speaker 2: see as we begin to transition and and wrap up
35:24
Speaker 2: this morning. Bill's again DT just spoke about it. They're
35:28
Speaker 2: off obviously on Sunday, got this little mini by They
35:31
Speaker 2: travel to Pittsburg. We'll go through the rest of the schedule,
35:33
Speaker 2: just be done with it. They travel to Pittsburgh. We're
35:36
Speaker 2: home for the Bengals. Looks like Joe Burrow will be back.
35:38
Speaker 2: Looks like he is back on track to he might
35:41
Speaker 2: even play on Sunday. I guess they're saying now, Uh,
35:44
Speaker 2: then we've got to go travel and play against the Patriots. Uh.
35:47
Speaker 2: And it'll be interesting to see how that goes in
35:49
Speaker 2: that respect, because the Patriots, we all know that they're
35:52
Speaker 2: they're running the division right now. And then we've got
35:55
Speaker 2: the Browns DT at home, excuse me. On the road,
35:58
Speaker 2: we've got the Eagles, you know what I mean, and
36:01
Speaker 2: who knows what they're playing for. They might have a
36:04
Speaker 2: number one seed locked up or their their division locked up,
36:06
Speaker 2: so they might be just trying to rest, guys. I
36:08
Speaker 2: don't know, you know how they are, because they they've
36:10
Speaker 2: got a lot of family issues uh at that locker
36:13
Speaker 2: room as well, even despite their record. And then we
36:16
Speaker 2: end the season against the Jets, DT. I never would
36:18
Speaker 2: have thought that I'm not going to actually see the
36:21
Speaker 2: Ralph again. What do we say when we passed up
36:23
Speaker 2: on the Ravens, I said, I'll be there for the playoffs.
36:27
Speaker 2: I it's it's a real chance if we don't get
36:30
Speaker 2: a home playoff game, and if we do, it'll because
36:33
Speaker 2: there were some upsets at this point in time. So
36:35
Speaker 2: all I can pray for now DT is the highest seed,
36:38
Speaker 2: just the highest possible seeds, the five seed, if you
36:40
Speaker 2: don't win the division, and and maybe we can get
36:43
Speaker 2: lucky and maybe one of the top seeds go out
36:45
Speaker 2: and and I can come back to the Ralph. I
36:48
Speaker 2: never imagine that that I wouldn't see the Ralph again.
36:51
Speaker 2: I thought for sure we were going to win the division.
36:53
Speaker 2: I was. I was positive. That's why I took the gamble.
36:57
Speaker 1: Well, they owe us, then let's go.
37:00
Speaker 2: Let's roll some out.
37:00
Speaker 1: Nickel City Crew and had helped Rob get back. You know,
37:04
Speaker 1: That's that's what you need to play for. That's what
37:06
Speaker 1: I'm gonna cheer for. At least man we didn't hate.
37:08
Speaker 1: We we don't know a lot of ball left. We're
37:10
Speaker 1: not to Thanksgiving yet, right six games, but uh yeah,
37:14
Speaker 1: let's let's roll it out. I mean, yeah, the five
37:18
Speaker 1: seeds you can still get one. Though, the five seeds
37:20
Speaker 1: you can still get one.
37:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, yeah, yeah technically I mean technically, well no,
37:25
Speaker 2: not a seventh seed camp, but yeah, technically. So we'll see.
37:30
Speaker 2: As we wrap up tonight, the Queen City Vintage is
37:34
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37:36
Speaker 2: We've already talked about Queen City Vantage DT. Take me
37:39
Speaker 2: through last week real quick as we wrap up today. Listen,
37:43
Speaker 2: on my end, it was great because well until the game,
37:47
Speaker 2: but it was it was great last week. I had
37:50
Speaker 2: a great time. We did what did we do for
37:54
Speaker 2: We did Italian sausages, you know, the peppers and the
37:57
Speaker 2: onions and stuff like that, all on on the grill.
38:00
Speaker 2: Had a great time, had all the babies with me,
38:02
Speaker 2: all my kings and my princesses with me, and we
38:04
Speaker 2: had a great time. Watched the game and then it
38:07
Speaker 2: was you know, Bill's ball out forty four points. Everybody's
38:09
Speaker 2: in a great mood. You know, yeah, you gave up
38:11
Speaker 2: thirty two, but it was just it was one of
38:12
Speaker 2: those classic shootouts and it was really really fun. On
38:15
Speaker 2: my end, Quincy has started basketball now, so he's in
38:18
Speaker 2: his basketball season I coached. They wanted to be called
38:20
Speaker 2: the Thunder. So it's funny how the little babies they
38:23
Speaker 2: follow the trends, so they wanted to be the Thunder
38:25
Speaker 2: because the Thunder just won the title. And I've got
38:27
Speaker 2: a squad ten little boys and they are there. They're
38:30
Speaker 2: really good. I've got some good kids on that team,
38:32
Speaker 2: so I'm really excited. Unfortunately, Nate's team got canceled. They
38:36
Speaker 2: couldn't find at least eight damn kids and all of
38:39
Speaker 2: Cornelius and Huntersville to join the rec league and because
38:43
Speaker 2: of that, they wouldn't let me coach a five man team,
38:46
Speaker 2: so they canceled his season. I'm really hurt for him.
38:48
Speaker 2: We're gonna get him into some different basketball, some camps
38:51
Speaker 2: and stuff like that because he really wants to play.
38:52
Speaker 2: He doesn't want to skip an entire season. So that
38:55
Speaker 2: was sad. But I'm still coaching the rec center that
38:58
Speaker 2: you saw when you came down here to visit DT
39:00
Speaker 2: the n r r C, the Northern Regional Rec Center Thunder.
39:03
Speaker 2: So we got my sixty two. They look really good,
39:06
Speaker 2: so I'm excited. We've got practices on Thursdays that that's
39:08
Speaker 2: why we're not doing Thursdays anymore. We're still gonna try
39:11
Speaker 2: to get at you guys, Nichols City Crew either on
39:13
Speaker 2: Wednesdays or Fridays now that we're in this kind of
39:16
Speaker 2: basketball season where I'm coaching, so uh dt that's it
39:19
Speaker 2: for me. Tailgate report. We had a great time uh
39:23
Speaker 2: Italian Sausages on the grill and it was It was
39:25
Speaker 2: really a great time. Culminated with the Bills win on Thursday. Again,
39:29
Speaker 2: like I said, we went out to Al's for the
39:31
Speaker 2: first half dollar Wings. My boy Lee Shan for Twitter,
39:35
Speaker 2: who's down here in Charlotte with with me, came to
39:37
Speaker 2: the game to Al's with his entire crew. It was
39:41
Speaker 2: really cool to see him show the love and we
39:43
Speaker 2: had a great time. Like I said, I left at halftimes,
39:46
Speaker 2: so I wasn't there for the ending, but it was
39:49
Speaker 2: it was fun until it was yeah.
39:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feeling yeah. Well last week Bucks, we had
39:57
Speaker 1: the whole, the whole showdown. Went out to the grass lot,
40:01
Speaker 1: Ben and Anna Kay they they picked me up at
40:04
Speaker 1: Earl Bright and Early I think seven a M got
40:07
Speaker 1: me from the Hamburg Enterprise there. I went over to
40:11
Speaker 1: the our lot. We set up pretty soon Kenny was
40:14
Speaker 1: there pretty soon, Kayla, the whole rest of the boys, everybody,
40:17
Speaker 1: Syracuse squad came special guest shout out Scott, Scott, Scotty, Scott,
40:26
Speaker 1: I made the track from Ohio, uh to they they
40:30
Speaker 1: parked in the grass lot. They came down. They saw
40:32
Speaker 1: what Club Doub was all about. Then on the ones
40:34
Speaker 1: and twos, we were having a great Kenny had the
40:36
Speaker 1: spread man, we had a French toast cast role. We
40:40
Speaker 1: had a brisket, We had venison jerky.
40:44
Speaker 2: Uh.
40:44
Speaker 1: There was there was soups, there was dips, there was
40:48
Speaker 1: a bloody Mary bar. It was the whole, the whole
40:50
Speaker 1: kingole as always. Uh, the heat, you know, we had
40:54
Speaker 1: the sides up on the tank. It was a little
40:56
Speaker 1: windy and cool. But you you know, in Club Dub
40:58
Speaker 1: you can be in there in a T shirt and
40:59
Speaker 1: shore it's it's like your living room baby. On tailgate Sunday,
41:02
Speaker 1: we do it right. Tailgate professionals, you know where to
41:04
Speaker 1: find us. Yeah, and Scott Scott shout out Scotty, and
41:07
Speaker 1: they came down, met the crew and you know saw
41:11
Speaker 1: how we saw how we get down. So I think
41:13
Speaker 1: they had a really good time and it was a
41:15
Speaker 1: pleasure to formally meeting Scott and yeah, he said, yeah,
41:19
Speaker 1: A good day, good day in the stadium. A little
41:21
Speaker 1: injury update, but we'll get on that off air. This
41:23
Speaker 1: is an off air story, A little injury update. We
41:27
Speaker 1: move on into the week. Short game week. We love
41:31
Speaker 1: it and uh didn't do much of the game. A
41:33
Speaker 1: solo at the batch pad at the Grip. Yeah, and
41:36
Speaker 1: that's I got to stop doing that because I did
41:38
Speaker 1: the same thing for the Dolphins game and it's just
41:40
Speaker 1: a you know, can't be doing that. It's too dark
41:42
Speaker 1: and they play that bad by yourself.
41:45
Speaker 2: So you were, you were at the grip watching it.
41:48
Speaker 1: I changed the vibe, I said, all right, on the
41:50
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, I turned everything off, all the lights off,
41:53
Speaker 1: and I just sat living room Junior with the iPad
41:55
Speaker 1: to watch the fourth quarter. I was like, this is
41:56
Speaker 1: going to change the vibe you were, and they almost did.
42:01
Speaker 1: And I people text me all night. You know, everyone
42:04
Speaker 1: was all pissed and I was about to send some
42:06
Speaker 1: long pissed text. They did the hook and ladder. I
42:08
Speaker 1: was back in it and then we were out of
42:11
Speaker 1: it just as quick. So it's it was a tough one,
42:14
Speaker 1: tough loss, seven and four. We're moving on, but a
42:16
Speaker 1: couple good you know, definitely a good tailgate for the
42:18
Speaker 1: Bucks game.
42:19
Speaker 2: You know, you're it was.
42:21
Speaker 1: It was a bang bang play, very routine, but a
42:24
Speaker 1: good time as always.
42:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, it was. It's funny because you know, we
42:29
Speaker 2: we ride the roller coaster with them, and it's it's
42:31
Speaker 2: funny that it's always that little meme or whatever it
42:33
Speaker 2: talks about where it's like, you know, now they do
42:36
Speaker 2: it every year DT before the playoff, excuse me, before
42:39
Speaker 2: the regular season starts, as like, well, I guess for
42:41
Speaker 2: the next six months, I'm gonna let my football team,
42:43
Speaker 2: you know, guide my my mood. And it was It's
42:46
Speaker 2: so funny because now obviously we again we always talk
42:49
Speaker 2: about that night talk. I'm reminding Bill's Mavia Nico City Crew.
42:52
Speaker 2: That's tongue in cheek, that's that's Bill's feelings. I got kids,
42:56
Speaker 2: I've got responsibilities. DT is an exec, he's got job,
42:59
Speaker 2: he's got responsibilit We could keep things in perspective. We're
43:01
Speaker 2: not degenerates. However, it does change your mood, your vibe.
43:05
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I go to the gas station
43:07
Speaker 2: and they're like, how you doing. I'm like good, I'm like,
43:09
Speaker 2: you know what, Wait, I'm not good, you know what
43:10
Speaker 2: I mean? My team keeps losing. So so that's the
43:12
Speaker 2: tongue in cheek fun part of it. And I always
43:15
Speaker 2: love that meme every year before it comes out because
43:17
Speaker 2: it's absolutely right the way the team goes and definitely
43:20
Speaker 2: guides my mood from a sports perspective, because when the
43:23
Speaker 2: Bills lose, I'm just a little bit on edge. When
43:26
Speaker 2: they win, I'm like, you know what, the sun is
43:28
Speaker 2: shining just a little bit brighter today. It feels great,
43:30
Speaker 2: So it'll be fun to see. Man, listen, six games left,
43:34
Speaker 2: DT we wrap up. I mean, I appreciate you. I'm
43:39
Speaker 2: letting me know and reminding me that it's not over. Yes,
43:41
Speaker 2: we are right in the thick of it. I think
43:43
Speaker 2: if you look at the playoffs right now, I think
43:44
Speaker 2: we're a six seed and it's just a smizzle of
43:47
Speaker 2: four lost teams as well right around us. So we'll
43:50
Speaker 2: see six games left. I'm at now, I've just put
43:53
Speaker 2: my feet up and I'm just saying, just get in
43:55
Speaker 2: the tournament and I'll trust that the chaos, there's just chaos,
44:00
Speaker 2: and when it comes into tournament style play, it's one
44:03
Speaker 2: and done. You don't bring your best that day. You're
44:05
Speaker 2: taking your ass home, So anything can happen. The two
44:08
Speaker 2: seed can go down. I mean anything can happen, and
44:10
Speaker 2: we've seen it before. The one seed does not always
44:13
Speaker 2: go to the super Bowl. Have a better chance, but
44:15
Speaker 2: you don't always get there. So I guess we'll just
44:18
Speaker 2: leave it their DT.
44:21
Speaker 1: I sit here on this Saturday morning, and you put
44:25
Speaker 1: any team in front of me, I like us still.
44:27
Speaker 1: So if I'm still saying that, we're still good, baby,
44:31
Speaker 1: I like us against any team you put in front
44:33
Speaker 1: of us, even today on this Saturday morning, November twenty second,
44:36
Speaker 1: I like us. Get some turkey next week. Relax. We
44:40
Speaker 1: finish off that weekend with a big win in Pittsburgh
44:42
Speaker 1: and we should keep going from there.
44:44
Speaker 2: Listen. I appreciate it. Yeah, I mean you're absolutely right.
44:47
Speaker 2: Listen out there, nicol City Crew Bill's Bafia. Listen enjoy Thanksgiving. Everybody.
44:52
Speaker 2: Be safe. I know that they that Friday or that
44:55
Speaker 2: Wednesday before is a huge go out night. I remember
44:58
Speaker 2: that when I was younger and stuff like that. All
44:59
Speaker 2: the kids back in town. Just be safe out there,
45:02
Speaker 2: enjoy your family and your friends. However, you guys choose
45:04
Speaker 2: to do on Thursday, we will be off. I'm gonna try.
45:08
Speaker 2: We're gonna try to come Black Friday for you guys
45:11
Speaker 2: before that game. I think there's a three thirty game
45:13
Speaker 2: or something like that on Black Friday. So we're gonna
45:14
Speaker 2: try to come on Black Friday. If not, we will
45:17
Speaker 2: get an episode in before Sunday Sunday's game against Pittsburgh.
45:20
Speaker 2: Other than that, man, enjoy your family, listen. This is
45:23
Speaker 2: why Thanksgiving is my personal favorite holiday, because it's not
45:26
Speaker 2: all the glitz and the glamor of Christmas. It's it's
45:28
Speaker 2: literally your your family, your friends, food and football. It's
45:33
Speaker 2: all those and it's just a great time. I love
45:35
Speaker 2: it because it's not a lot of glitz and glamour.
45:37
Speaker 2: It's just about the foundation. What are you thankful for?
45:39
Speaker 2: I'm thankful for my family. I'm thankful for my good
45:42
Speaker 2: friends like like d T. I'm thankful for you guys.
45:44
Speaker 2: Nicol City Cruz shout out to all listen. I got
45:47
Speaker 2: a nice message on Twitter this morning DT from a
45:50
Speaker 2: listener shout out here, selecting me and my boyfriend love
45:53
Speaker 2: your takes. We want to tune in again, you know.
45:55
Speaker 2: Shout out to my boy Zach who's been showing the love.
45:57
Speaker 2: Shout out to my boy Nick. I mean I met
46:00
Speaker 2: reconnected with him from kindergarten, like literally, not figuratively like kindergarten,
46:04
Speaker 2: or we've met each other on Facebook, and I was like, yo,
46:06
Speaker 2: man hop on man. He's always listening to the show.
46:09
Speaker 2: So that's what I'm thankful for. I'm thankful for this
46:11
Speaker 2: outlet DT. Like you know, I'm thankful that I get
46:14
Speaker 2: a chance to kind of get this stuff off my
46:16
Speaker 2: chest because now I feel better. I yelled about it
46:18
Speaker 2: and I feel better getting off my chest. So be
46:21
Speaker 2: with the people you love on Thursday. Share it however
46:25
Speaker 2: you choose to do. Always out there, spread love, not hate.
46:29
Speaker 2: These were my bills, felt said out loud. Hit him,
46:31
Speaker 2: Hit him with the gold bills, DT Man Enjoy Turtle Bills,
46:34
Speaker 2: Go bills, Happy Thanksgiving, Love you, Rob, Go bills, No
46:39
Speaker 2: do do you? What? What's the record?
46:41
Speaker 1: Well, well we can't. We can't go up now. So
46:45
Speaker 1: it is Go bills seven and four, Go Bill seven
46:49
Speaker 1: and four.
46:50
Speaker 2: I love it, I love it, I love it. God
46:53
Speaker 2: Bills