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- 0:08Speaker 1: Fifteen decrease.
- 0:09Speaker 2: You can see your breath.
- 0:13Speaker 3: Out in the lake effect.
- 0:16Speaker 2: Breacon tables like getar a tree?
- 0:19Speaker 1: Wherese would you have to be?
- 0:22Speaker 2: And do Ron Elvis in the lay Pancho.
- 0:26Speaker 1: The members that you need to know, I.
- 0:29Speaker 3: Won't you out here? Now?
- 0:30Speaker 1: Your family? Where's would you have be?
- 0:37Speaker 3: Where else would you have be? Welcome into the Nicol
- 0:41Speaker 3: City Crew. I am your host, Rob Crippen.
- 0:45Speaker 4: Please like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram
- 0:47Speaker 4: and Twitter at Nickel City Crew. This episode, along with
- 0:51Speaker 4: all of our episodes, are presented by Crippen Legacy Entertainment
- 0:54Speaker 4: here on Spreaker and stream Yard. We're so glad that
- 0:57Speaker 4: you're joining us for some of your Buffalo Bills and
- 0:59Speaker 4: NFL content again today and as always, these are my
- 1:03Speaker 4: Bill's thoughts set out loud.
- 1:06Speaker 2: It survived so ridiculous, two, three or six, the show God, Where's.
- 1:17Speaker 3: Would you like to be?
- 1:20Speaker 4: All right, let's get straight to it. We made it
- 1:25Speaker 4: from the final time when the clocks at triple zero
- 1:27Speaker 4: in the AFC Championship game, that heartbreaking loss to the
- 1:32Speaker 4: Chiefs last year to now. It has been a long road.
- 1:37Speaker 4: Bills Mafia have been a long road. Nicol City Crew.
- 1:40Speaker 3: We made it.
- 1:40Speaker 4: We made it through the draft, the offseason, free agency,
- 1:43Speaker 4: we made it through it all. We are finally back.
- 1:47Speaker 4: Our beloved Buffalo Bills will kick off the twenty twenty
- 1:49Speaker 4: five NFL season in earnest Sunday night under the lights
- 1:54Speaker 4: at the Ralph the Farewell season. Oh it just all
- 1:58Speaker 4: comes together and it just brings us mouth to my face.
- 2:00Speaker 4: Joining me tonight as always my co host writing Shotgun
- 2:04Speaker 4: Adam Dump Truck Rupsick. Check them out on Twitter and
- 2:07Speaker 4: Instagram at Adam Rupsick. Are you Pete c z Yk
- 2:11Speaker 4: Holla at the Crew DT.
- 2:13Speaker 3: We made it. We made it.
- 2:16Speaker 1: The city. We're back. We're back. We're back. Out of
- 2:19Speaker 1: the the the heat. We got through the spring, we
- 2:21Speaker 1: got some golf in. It was a good hot summer.
- 2:24Speaker 1: Now we're in that nice forty five to fifty five
- 2:26Speaker 1: every morning when you wake up, that good fall fall weather,
- 2:30Speaker 1: and two days away from from kickoff of what we
- 2:33Speaker 1: all been anticipating, a real long time rob and I've
- 2:35Speaker 1: been you know, I talk about it every year. We
- 2:37Speaker 1: kind of ramp up, go through the preseason. I'm working
- 2:40Speaker 1: on my fan hood, you know, I'm working that up,
- 2:43Speaker 1: working that up, working that up, and we're gonna peek.
- 2:45Speaker 1: We're gonna peak eight thirty Sunday night, baby, and I
- 2:48Speaker 1: can't wait. It's gonna be rowdy, it's gonna be live,
- 2:51Speaker 1: it's gonna be one to remember, hopefully in the last
- 2:54Speaker 1: last one in the in the ralph And and we
- 2:57Speaker 1: made it. We made it, Baby. Sorry we missed you
- 2:59Speaker 1: last week, Nicholas. I know you guys did a great
- 3:01Speaker 1: job holding it down while I was out, and we'll
- 3:04Speaker 1: keep it moving. But this is a big one. This's
- 3:07Speaker 1: a big one, Rob.
- 3:08Speaker 3: It is a big one. And it's funny.
- 3:10Speaker 4: That's the reason that I named the episode the way
- 3:12Speaker 4: that I did DT was because it's you know, when
- 3:15Speaker 4: you look at season openers and stuff like that, you
- 3:17Speaker 4: always in the schedule comes out, we do our schedule
- 3:19Speaker 4: release show and stuff like that, and you're looking and
- 3:21Speaker 4: you're counting up wins, and you're stacking up wins and
- 3:24Speaker 4: trying to figure out where your team could land. It's
- 3:27Speaker 4: always seems to be not always, but most of the
- 3:29Speaker 4: time it seems to be like a nice little cupcake,
- 3:31Speaker 4: you know, for the good teams, a nice little cupcake,
- 3:34Speaker 4: almost like college football esque, where you know you've got
- 3:36Speaker 4: Southeast Missouri State coming in and they're playing Alabama.
- 3:40Speaker 3: You know what I mean. You got a chance to
- 3:41Speaker 3: just go ahead and you.
- 3:42Speaker 4: Know, stretch out your legs, figure out what's working and
- 3:45Speaker 4: what's not gonna work. But you don't have any real
- 3:47Speaker 4: threat of losing the game. DT, there are no there
- 3:51Speaker 4: are no soft starts with this man. You are starting
- 3:54Speaker 4: off with a heavyweight matchup the Buffalo Bills. I loved
- 3:58Speaker 4: Buffalo Bills facing off against the Baltimore Ravens. I mean, DT,
- 4:03Speaker 4: it's it's a matchup that, like, listen, win or lose.
- 4:07Speaker 4: We lose the game, but we'll go pessimistic first. We
- 4:10Speaker 4: lose the game, the season is not over. You got
- 4:12Speaker 4: sixteen more left. The one seed that we all have
- 4:14Speaker 4: been talking about, and we talked about it specifically on
- 4:16Speaker 4: this show in the offseason. It's still within reach. There's
- 4:19Speaker 4: no you know, there's no there's no end to the
- 4:21Speaker 4: one seed talker chatter. With a loss in Week one, however,
- 4:26Speaker 4: DT boy will win over this type of opponent at
- 4:30Speaker 4: home at the Ralph under the lights.
- 4:32Speaker 3: It would it would go a.
- 4:33Speaker 4: Long way, It would go a long way. If you
- 4:36Speaker 4: can find a way to get this victory on Sunday Night.
- 4:39Speaker 1: I think you said it at one point last year.
- 4:41Speaker 1: If we went on like a role in a certain
- 4:43Speaker 1: point of the season, you're not gonna be able to
- 4:44Speaker 1: tell me shit about the Belt because we were about it,
- 4:47Speaker 1: and we go out there, and we go out there
- 4:49Speaker 1: and belt to ass on Sunday night with littus test.
- 4:53Speaker 1: The people are on notice. The world is on notice.
- 4:56Speaker 1: They just got through Hard and now obviously here in Buffalo,
- 4:58Speaker 1: we know what we got. And everyone just watched Hard
- 5:01Speaker 1: Knocks around the world and saw seventeen and what he means,
- 5:03Speaker 1: and he comes out here and lays it down on
- 5:06Speaker 1: Sunday night. The world's gonna get behind this Bills team
- 5:08Speaker 1: real quick. But you gotta be humble both ways. It
- 5:12Speaker 1: is week one, It is a long year. I like it, Rob,
- 5:15Speaker 1: I like it. Last year you could call it a
- 5:16Speaker 1: cupcake in Arizona, and we damn we damn sure, and
- 5:22Speaker 1: we had a hurdle and a broken hand to win
- 5:25Speaker 1: that game from from well behind down seventeen points at
- 5:27Speaker 1: one point. So there, it really is no such thing
- 5:30Speaker 1: as a cupcake in the NFL, especially in the early
- 5:32Speaker 1: season where you don't know if these supposed bad teams
- 5:35Speaker 1: are gonna be bad, but I can guarantee you something.
- 5:38Speaker 1: The Bills are gonna be good, and so are the
- 5:39Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. So we are not in any cupcake scenario.
- 5:43Speaker 1: Both of these teams are gonna be fighting for not
- 5:45Speaker 1: just playoff spots, but that one seed and that Lombardi.
- 5:48Speaker 1: I love the litmus test right out of the gate.
- 5:50Speaker 1: It's gonna show you what we got early. It's gonna
- 5:52Speaker 1: let you build on it, and then a pretty cupcake
- 5:55Speaker 1: schedule if you will, after this. So either way you
- 5:58Speaker 1: look at it, it's gonna be a good one. And
- 6:00Speaker 1: I like the pressure. I'm a glove to the pressure.
- 6:02Speaker 3: Rob.
- 6:02Speaker 1: Hopefully the team does too.
- 6:04Speaker 3: Yeah, listen to you, Listen to you.
- 6:06Speaker 4: I know we talked pre show last night a little
- 6:09Speaker 4: bit and kind of got some of our thoughts out there,
- 6:11Speaker 4: and we want to share it with with Nicol City
- 6:13Speaker 4: Crew and Bill's Bafia. It's funny that you talk about
- 6:15Speaker 4: it that way, because you know, last year, what was
- 6:19Speaker 4: one of my main things was that, you know, towards
- 6:21Speaker 4: the end season, as the playoffs got started and we
- 6:23Speaker 4: started to wind down on the regular season, I didn't
- 6:26Speaker 4: like the matchup with Baltimore. And one of the reasons
- 6:28Speaker 4: that I didn't like it was because of obviously seeing
- 6:31Speaker 4: what happened, you know, in front of my eyes earlier
- 6:34Speaker 4: in the year, and how they kind of, you know,
- 6:35Speaker 4: took you talk about belt to ass they took that
- 6:38Speaker 4: belt to that ass on the Bills last year during
- 6:40Speaker 4: the regular season, and so as we approached the postseason DT,
- 6:44Speaker 4: I was a little bit worried about the matchup because
- 6:47Speaker 4: of the fact that I didn't think that we matched
- 6:49Speaker 4: up well against Baltimore. And because of that, I was
- 6:53Speaker 4: more nervous about the Divisional round game than the potential
- 6:57Speaker 4: AFC Championship game against Kansas City. I mean, Kansas City,
- 7:01Speaker 4: what was it seven to zero in one score games.
- 7:04Speaker 4: I mean, they had the whole few stuff firmly right
- 7:07Speaker 4: up there the rear end last year, and and I
- 7:09Speaker 4: just I just didn't think they were a good team,
- 7:11Speaker 4: you know, not a great team. You know, there were
- 7:12Speaker 4: obviously a good team, They're Kansas City, but I didn't
- 7:14Speaker 4: think they were a great team. I was not worried
- 7:16Speaker 4: about that matchup or that potential matchup in the AFC
- 7:18Speaker 4: Championship game. I was wringing my hands. I was looking
- 7:22Speaker 4: through my fingers. I was worried about that Baltimore matchup,
- 7:25Speaker 4: and to be honest with you, DT, nothing about that
- 7:28Speaker 4: divisional round game is really washing it in my feelings
- 7:33Speaker 4: because of the fact that I thought that the Bills
- 7:35Speaker 4: were lucky to.
- 7:35Speaker 3: Get out of that game alive.
- 7:37Speaker 4: I really was, and I was interested to hear what
- 7:40Speaker 4: you thought about it, because this still seems like a
- 7:43Speaker 4: bad matchup for me. I'm not trying to be doual
- 7:45Speaker 4: with glue Listen, Nickel City Crew, WILLSBU. I have to
- 7:47Speaker 4: keep it real, I have to keep it on brand.
- 7:50Speaker 4: I have to keep it funky. I do not like
- 7:52Speaker 4: this matchup for the Buffalo Bills one Sunday night because
- 7:55Speaker 4: of a lot of mitigating factors that we'll talk about
- 7:57Speaker 4: later on in the show. But I just wanted your
- 7:59Speaker 4: thirty thousand and fot view of how you view this
- 8:02Speaker 4: back because I'm not I'm not excited that we're playing
- 8:05Speaker 4: against some Baltimore Ravens in this particular team all week one.
- 8:08Speaker 3: I'm just not excited.
- 8:10Speaker 1: Yeah, even after seven years of seventeen being our quarterback,
- 8:14Speaker 1: making the playoffs pretty much guaranteed, dominating through the league,
- 8:18Speaker 1: leading you know in offense. We still have a little
- 8:21Speaker 1: bit scars of the drought, right and when a good
- 8:24Speaker 1: team comes in or we got to play a good team,
- 8:26Speaker 1: there's still a little nervousness about it. And that's okay.
- 8:29Speaker 1: The Baltimore Ravens deserve to have some nervousness around them.
- 8:32Speaker 1: They are great roster top to bottom, and they've historically
- 8:35Speaker 1: been known to be kind of a mean squad right
- 8:38Speaker 1: from the Ray Lewis days all you know, all the
- 8:41Speaker 1: way through of like of really screwing you up if
- 8:44Speaker 1: you're not ready to play them. And now they got
- 8:46Speaker 1: the battering ram of Derrick Henry, the MVP, Lamar Jackson,
- 8:51Speaker 1: a good young receiving corps. Their defense just keeps getting
- 8:54Speaker 1: more stacked and more stacked line of scrimmage on both
- 8:57Speaker 1: sides of solid and they continue to have that AFC
- 9:00Speaker 1: North mentality of being bruisers and you know they'll come,
- 9:03Speaker 1: They'll come smacky in the face if you're not ready.
- 9:05Speaker 1: So definitely, you know, concern on the fact that this
- 9:09Speaker 1: team is not gonna lay down, and no team in
- 9:12Speaker 1: the NFL will but this, and there's a lot I'd
- 9:14Speaker 1: probably pick, you know, this team last, and out of
- 9:17Speaker 1: all the other thirty one team obviously not including us,
- 9:20Speaker 1: so all the other thirty teams, I picked this team
- 9:22Speaker 1: last to like have to play, but we gotta do it.
- 9:26Speaker 1: You gotta play who you gotta play, and I'm excited
- 9:28Speaker 1: for the opportunity. The roster is solid, their team is solid.
- 9:33Speaker 1: They they're gonna be coached great by by Harball and
- 9:36Speaker 1: the boys. But I'd love this. This is what we've
- 9:41Speaker 1: transitioned to, like when seven years ago, when we're scared
- 9:44Speaker 1: to play, like, oh, let's not just lose by a lot,
- 9:47Speaker 1: you know. And ironically the rookie the debut for Lamar
- 9:51Speaker 1: and Josh wasn't a blowout in the opening game of
- 9:54Speaker 1: the season in Baltimore. The Bills got their ass kick.
- 9:57Speaker 1: Josh came in and Lamar came in at the same time.
- 10:00Speaker 1: I'm in the same draft. And they're always kind of
- 10:01Speaker 1: living in the shadow of Pat Mahomes early, you know,
- 10:04Speaker 1: in the in the year before and and so they
- 10:08Speaker 1: they're connected in a way of like battling back and
- 10:10Speaker 1: forth for MVP one and two the last couple of years.
- 10:13Speaker 1: So the storyline is great, But I like now I've
- 10:17Speaker 1: transitioned from you know, seven years ago of like, let's
- 10:20Speaker 1: not lose that bad and keep it respectful to like
- 10:23Speaker 1: I want this now. I want to see the best
- 10:25Speaker 1: of the best, because I do want to be ready
- 10:27Speaker 1: when we get deep down into that season and we
- 10:30Speaker 1: got to make that push to get in that inch
- 10:32Speaker 1: we have to get that we've fallen short from. And
- 10:35Speaker 1: I think games like this right out of the gate,
- 10:37Speaker 1: where you know there's a lot of rookies on our team,
- 10:39Speaker 1: there's a lot of rookies on their team too, but
- 10:41Speaker 1: really just seeing what we got early and setting the
- 10:44Speaker 1: tone for the season. It's not a ramp up how
- 10:46Speaker 1: to be a pro. This is how you win in
- 10:47Speaker 1: the league. It's if you aren't coming correct on Sunday,
- 10:50Speaker 1: you you were gonna get embarrassed. And I kind of
- 10:53Speaker 1: like that pressure it puts on a young team and
- 10:56Speaker 1: a pressure that I know the Vets, especially Josh Allen,
- 10:59Speaker 1: are ready and embrace it and kind of would rather
- 11:02Speaker 1: have this than kind of going into a you know,
- 11:04Speaker 1: a Saints Week one or something like that. So that's
- 11:07Speaker 1: my philosophy. Respect to the Ravens, respect to the roster
- 11:10Speaker 1: that's always been bad. Man. When I say bad, like
- 11:13Speaker 1: bad ass is what I mean. And a roster that's
- 11:16Speaker 1: always been bad ass, but we have also put ourselves
- 11:19Speaker 1: on the pedestal of the NFL to be up with
- 11:21Speaker 1: the best of them, and the gambling line is literally
- 11:25Speaker 1: dead knocks right down the middle. So it's it. I
- 11:28Speaker 1: like it. I like having to have these bros right
- 11:31Speaker 1: out of the gate because it's gonna, like you, we
- 11:34Speaker 1: need to play at this level all season long.
- 11:38Speaker 4: You know, it's funny because I like that your approach,
- 11:41Speaker 4: and I and I and I respect your approach because
- 11:43Speaker 4: of the fact that you're absolutely right about that there's no.
- 11:47Speaker 3: There's no way to hide right from from the word jump.
- 11:50Speaker 4: And I kind of do like the kind of, you know,
- 11:51Speaker 4: the solace that gives me as a Bills fan because
- 11:54Speaker 4: I kind of I'm gonna know a little bit about
- 11:55Speaker 4: my team now. Obviously, this Week one team is not
- 11:58Speaker 4: going to be the same as it is in Week
- 12:00Speaker 4: eighteen when we're lining up for the season finale, regular
- 12:03Speaker 4: season finale against the Jets.
- 12:04Speaker 3: I understand that.
- 12:05Speaker 4: However, the litmus test that it provides is something that
- 12:09Speaker 4: I think that you can glean into and it's something
- 12:11Speaker 4: that you can actually take some things from and extract
- 12:14Speaker 4: from as we move forward and push forward into the.
- 12:16Speaker 3: Year, specifically about the Ravens.
- 12:19Speaker 4: Let's get before we go to the offense, we'll talk
- 12:21Speaker 4: about the defense first. Listen, DT, I am here's one
- 12:27Speaker 4: of the main reasons why I am nervous about the
- 12:30Speaker 4: game in respects to Sunday. And again we've already given
- 12:33Speaker 4: out a disclaimer. The season is not over. If the
- 12:35Speaker 4: Bills lose, the season is not over. If the Bills win.
- 12:38Speaker 4: It doesn't matter on either side in respects to the
- 12:40Speaker 4: one seed and playoff seeding stuff like that. So obviously
- 12:43Speaker 4: we're going to keep things in perspective. However, as I
- 12:46Speaker 4: said to start the show, it would be a great,
- 12:48Speaker 4: great win if we can get it to start the
- 12:49Speaker 4: season because this is a quality opponent.
- 12:51Speaker 3: Speaking to that quality opponent, I'm not sure.
- 12:57Speaker 4: I'm not sure DT, that the Ravens are capable of
- 13:00Speaker 4: carving up the Bills defense however they want. Now, let
- 13:05Speaker 4: me explain before Bill's Baby, before nicol City crew goes crazy. Yes,
- 13:09Speaker 4: we have some new pieces on the defense, and yes,
- 13:12Speaker 4: Brandon Bean you know, kind of influxed talent into the defense.
- 13:16Speaker 3: Well, we talk about at the end of the Kansas
- 13:18Speaker 3: City game, it.
- 13:18Speaker 4: Was oh Man we just hadn't have the horses, and
- 13:20Speaker 4: just as General's on, we didn't have the horses. We
- 13:22Speaker 4: don't have the Blue Chippers. We've got some guys TJ. Sanders,
- 13:25Speaker 4: Deontay Walk, Deontay Walker. We've got some guys that can
- 13:29Speaker 4: play and hopefully they'll make an impact. However, the team
- 13:34Speaker 4: that Lamar Jackson fields on offense, they just seem to have.
- 13:38Speaker 3: An answer for anything.
- 13:39Speaker 4: If you want them to run it down your throat,
- 13:41Speaker 4: they can run it down your throat if you've got
- 13:42Speaker 4: some If he corners, Lamar Jackson has already proved that
- 13:46Speaker 4: he is not just a running quarterback, you know.
- 13:48Speaker 3: Shout out to Bill Pollion.
- 13:49Speaker 4: He had to apologize recently because of the fact that
- 13:52Speaker 4: Listen Lamar is a pocket passer with the ability to run,
- 13:55Speaker 4: same way that Josh Allen is a pocket passer with
- 13:57Speaker 4: the ability to run. I'm most worried I think about
- 14:01Speaker 4: when I look at this Bill's defense, because I'm looking
- 14:03Speaker 4: at a lot of young guys in rotation on the
- 14:06Speaker 4: defensive line.
- 14:07Speaker 3: The secondary's crazy. With Trey White being out.
- 14:10Speaker 4: Now, it looks like it could be Dorian Strong, it
- 14:13Speaker 4: could be JaMarcus Ingram.
- 14:15Speaker 3: I don't know who's going to be quarterback number two.
- 14:17Speaker 4: You've got Cole Bishop stuff that we talked about of
- 14:19Speaker 4: the offseason, and he was hurt again and then he
- 14:22Speaker 4: was looking iffy and listen. I just I'm worried about
- 14:25Speaker 4: the ways, the amount of ways they can attack the
- 14:28Speaker 4: Bill's defense. And that's what kind of gives me a
- 14:30Speaker 4: little bit of pause in respects to that side of
- 14:32Speaker 4: the ball because I don't know what to expect from
- 14:35Speaker 4: a t J. Sanders DT. I don't know what to
- 14:37Speaker 4: expect from a Deontay Walker. Those guys are brand new.
- 14:40Speaker 3: You know.
- 14:40Speaker 4: Obviously you got Bosa and he's healthy, so that's a sign,
- 14:43Speaker 4: an encouraging sign. Excuse me, but I'm just worried about
- 14:47Speaker 4: what could be ahead because this is the type of team.
- 14:50Speaker 4: They could beat you how you how do you want it?
- 14:52Speaker 4: I can give it to you how you want it.
- 14:54Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's you know, that's the tough, toughest way
- 14:58Speaker 1: to stop, right, It's the game plan you only have.
- 15:00Speaker 1: Well this at least, I will say we've had the
- 15:03Speaker 1: most time to prepare for this game plan. We've had
- 15:05Speaker 1: literally you know, since that since that schedule came out,
- 15:09Speaker 1: and well we knew we were playing them at one point,
- 15:11Speaker 1: you know, already in the season, but as soon as
- 15:13Speaker 1: that schedule came out in May, you know, we had
- 15:16Speaker 1: sense then to prepare for this team on all facets
- 15:19Speaker 1: of that. We know they can hit us in all directions,
- 15:20Speaker 1: so you got to be ready to go with that.
- 15:23Speaker 1: The Bills have continually other than you know, obviously the playoffs,
- 15:27Speaker 1: we've been very critical and we should be. They are
- 15:29Speaker 1: horrible defense in the playoffs. We don't get off the field.
- 15:32Speaker 1: It's it's tough to watch and it's cost us probably
- 15:34Speaker 1: a Lombardi or two, you know, to be completely honest.
- 15:37Speaker 1: So but they do find a way with the bend
- 15:41Speaker 1: don't break mentality where it's not anybody so far like
- 15:45Speaker 1: on an island per se. You know, it's very rare
- 15:47Speaker 1: looking through the past of the Bills and McDermott's defenses
- 15:51Speaker 1: other than like Kyrie Elam in Jacksonville on a crazy
- 15:54Speaker 1: London game that you're like, damn, this dude's got to
- 15:57Speaker 1: get off the field. Maybe a little to mour Hamlin,
- 16:00Speaker 1: but overall, I think you know, the the levels of
- 16:03Speaker 1: this d it really doesn't put anybody out in a
- 16:06Speaker 1: solo situation where it's like he is not ready to
- 16:09Speaker 1: go and where you are getting exposed. I think the
- 16:12Speaker 1: levels and the backup and the way this defense operates is,
- 16:15Speaker 1: you know, having everyone's back rotating as a unit. And
- 16:18Speaker 1: that's cliche to say because all defenses are are kind
- 16:21Speaker 1: of built that way. But the Bills, I think have
- 16:23Speaker 1: done a good job over the years with maybe masking
- 16:26Speaker 1: not having the talent and being out there with that
- 16:28Speaker 1: bendo and break mentality. And that's kind of the way
- 16:30Speaker 1: where you know, in a situation like this where you
- 16:33Speaker 1: almost you know, don't like you give them, You're not
- 16:37Speaker 1: giving them on purpose, but think they have the edge
- 16:41Speaker 1: in a way, and then they start attacking that one direction, like, oh,
- 16:44Speaker 1: we can run it hard with Derrick Henry and then
- 16:46Speaker 1: all of a sudden we clamp it up and lock
- 16:48Speaker 1: it down with Derrick Henry. Last year in that divisional round,
- 16:51Speaker 1: they made a point right out of the gate, Dereck
- 16:52Speaker 1: Henry wasn't going to run down our throat, and then
- 16:55Speaker 1: what did they do? Mar Jackson stepped back and and
- 16:58Speaker 1: made made some good plays and through for probably too
- 17:02Speaker 1: many yards in a situation that came down down to
- 17:04Speaker 1: the wire. So they are capable of it, but I
- 17:07Speaker 1: think the defense will be capable of kind of making
- 17:10Speaker 1: that bendo break mentality that we are going to give
- 17:13Speaker 1: up points. You know, Zay Flowers in a fantasy setting
- 17:16Speaker 1: is probably a pretty good start this week. But we
- 17:20Speaker 1: got as we get to the other side of the ball,
- 17:22Speaker 1: we got a stud offense as well. And we've been
- 17:25Speaker 1: talking all You've been talking all off season about basically,
- 17:28Speaker 1: screw the defense. We just got to go out and
- 17:29Speaker 1: score forty anyway, right So if you don't want to
- 17:34Speaker 1: concede to that Week one, you think we've gotta be
- 17:37Speaker 1: fresh right now, we gotta be ready. We got to
- 17:39Speaker 1: be flying around the field, even if we are a
- 17:40Speaker 1: little outmatched in those regards. But the defensive backfield tough
- 17:45Speaker 1: right now, I'll agree to it. This linebacking cor though not.
- 17:49Speaker 1: We have an all pro coming back in Mett Molona
- 17:51Speaker 1: who is allegedly back, and we will see Sunday night.
- 17:55Speaker 1: You got the captain Trel Bernard, who has always makes plays.
- 17:59Speaker 1: Last You're gonna text you all the time. Forty three
- 18:01Speaker 1: just makes place. Now he's what eight, Now he's number
- 18:03Speaker 1: eight as a catch, and you know the linebacking corpse
- 18:06Speaker 1: there veterans on the defensive line will see if if
- 18:09Speaker 1: these rookies are halfway decent on Sunday, it's gonna be noticeable.
- 18:13Speaker 1: And I just think, I don't think we're gonna, you know,
- 18:16Speaker 1: shut this team down by any means, but I think
- 18:18Speaker 1: the way that's built and the way there are veterans
- 18:23Speaker 1: and pros and situations of this defense that can make
- 18:26Speaker 1: it sustainable to get through this game. Get Josh All
- 18:29Speaker 1: on the ball back. We're not gonna clamp these dudes
- 18:31Speaker 1: up under twenty points, but we're not gonna let them
- 18:34Speaker 1: get forty five either. And I think right out of
- 18:36Speaker 1: the gate, where the freshest we've been, there's there's enough
- 18:40Speaker 1: on the defense to kind of, you know, it's a
- 18:43Speaker 1: wide open landscape Sunday, wide open landscape. Every they're gonna
- 18:46Speaker 1: try to They don't know what they can get on us.
- 18:48Speaker 1: We don't know what they can get on us either,
- 18:50Speaker 1: So it's more of a mind game if you will
- 18:53Speaker 1: make them think they're getting something and they're not and
- 18:56Speaker 1: just kind of keep that time ticking off the field.
- 18:58Speaker 4: So you keep getting see And that's what I was
- 19:01Speaker 4: going to ask you, do you think that the Bills
- 19:03Speaker 4: might might invoke a ball control type of offense and
- 19:09Speaker 4: game plan to kind of limit the actual exposure. Almost
- 19:13Speaker 4: named the episode limited Exposure because of the fact that
- 19:16Speaker 4: I don't know if Sean mcgermott is willing to have
- 19:18Speaker 4: a Dorian Strong or JaMarcus Ingram be in the limelight
- 19:21Speaker 4: for you know, sixty sixty five plays against this Baltimore offense.
- 19:26Speaker 4: So I was going to ask you you stole my
- 19:28Speaker 4: notes that we didn't even share. Do you think the
- 19:30Speaker 4: Bills might incorporate more of a ball control type of
- 19:34Speaker 4: offense like they kind of like they did against the
- 19:36Speaker 4: Ravens last year in the playoffs, where we're not going
- 19:39Speaker 4: to give you as many opportunities to burn us, We're
- 19:41Speaker 4: not going to give you as many opportunities to hurt
- 19:43Speaker 4: us because.
- 19:43Speaker 3: Of the fact that we know on the back end
- 19:45Speaker 3: we're a little bit.
- 19:45Speaker 1: Then I think it's in the game plan, but I
- 19:47Speaker 1: don't think that's how we're starting off. I think I
- 19:50Speaker 1: think we're really going to roll it out and put
- 19:52Speaker 1: our dogs against their dogs and see what happens, and
- 19:54Speaker 1: if we're holding in there, we don't need to make
- 19:56Speaker 1: that game plan. I think it's in the game plan
- 19:58Speaker 1: as a fall, fall back and a fail safe. But
- 20:00Speaker 1: I think we're not going out that way. We're not
- 20:04Speaker 1: starting the game like that.
- 20:05Speaker 3: I like it. I like it. I like it.
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- 21:08Speaker 3: DT. Okay, well we'll flip the side of the ball because.
- 21:12Speaker 4: You you just told me that we're coming out guns
- 21:14Speaker 4: blazing on offense. I don't have anybody on the Billfalo
- 21:19Speaker 4: Bill's defense that's as good as Kyle Hamilton.
- 21:21Speaker 3: I don't have.
- 21:22Speaker 4: Anybody on the Buffalo's Bill's defense that's probably as good
- 21:26Speaker 4: as as Patrick Queen. I know that the defensive tackle
- 21:29Speaker 4: and Mata Buquet, he was a stud, an All Pro
- 21:33Speaker 4: two years ago, not last year, but two years ago.
- 21:35Speaker 3: Listen, DT, they.
- 21:36Speaker 4: Have studs on that side of the ball too. Does
- 21:39Speaker 4: everybody eats get an oncre? Does everybody eats get an oncre?
- 21:43Speaker 4: Because listen, Joe Brady is rolling out that offense. I
- 21:46Speaker 4: expect to see run heavy. I expect to see James
- 21:49Speaker 4: Cook featured. I expect to see a situation where I mean,
- 21:54Speaker 4: I don't know, man, Listen, I'm not a proponent of
- 21:57Speaker 4: it because it doesn't look the way that I wanted
- 21:59Speaker 4: to look.
- 21:59Speaker 3: That does not mean that it's not going to work.
- 22:01Speaker 3: We found that out last year.
- 22:03Speaker 4: I told you guys, if everybody eats works again, I
- 22:07Speaker 4: will shut up. I will be quiet about everybody eats.
- 22:10Speaker 4: How do you feel about the Buffalo Bills offense coming
- 22:13Speaker 4: into week one? Because, listen, love it or hate it,
- 22:17Speaker 4: this is the offense. This is the approach that Joe
- 22:19Speaker 4: Brady wants to employ and wants to use to to
- 22:23Speaker 4: attack defenses. And this is this is it. We need
- 22:26Speaker 4: some guys to step up because the fact that if
- 22:28Speaker 4: everybody's eating, then everybody better grab their fork in their plate.
- 22:32Speaker 4: Because of the fact that opportunities are going to be
- 22:34Speaker 4: there when you've got a guy like seventeens.
- 22:36Speaker 1: Yeah, and why not, especially just in this case. I
- 22:39Speaker 1: like that fourteen's of safety and not like a cover,
- 22:42Speaker 1: cover corner or anything like that. So you know, it's
- 22:45Speaker 1: it's a little harder to stay away from him, you know,
- 22:48Speaker 1: because he can be all over the field a little more.
- 22:49Speaker 1: But uh, you know, it's it's it's part of the
- 22:53Speaker 1: game plan. You're gonna have a guy like this every
- 22:54Speaker 1: week now in the NFL. And Patrick Queen's on the Steelers.
- 22:57Speaker 1: By the way, Rob he moved, he went cross cross.
- 23:00Speaker 3: He is, Well, who did they have no line back?
- 23:02Speaker 1: They got Smith? Probably better, it's probably better, Yeah, probably better.
- 23:09Speaker 1: And Van Doy, you know, came off and beat our
- 23:11Speaker 1: ass last year. But hopefully he's old and we can
- 23:13Speaker 1: That's what I met. Yeah, I think everybody eats yes,
- 23:18Speaker 1: but it's all it's down to, you know the cliche.
- 23:20Speaker 1: We get back to you right away. Line of scrimmage.
- 23:22Speaker 1: This game is a line of scrimmage game from top
- 23:25Speaker 1: to bottom. This is it's a it's a dog fight.
- 23:27Speaker 1: It's big, big players on both sides. The line of
- 23:30Speaker 1: scrimmage needs. Whoever wins the line of scrimmage obviously will
- 23:33Speaker 1: have the upper hand. But I think they're gonna set
- 23:35Speaker 1: the tone to get what they what they need to
- 23:37Speaker 1: do a little quicker, And what you need to do
- 23:39Speaker 1: a little quicker in this game might be you need
- 23:41Speaker 1: to get to thirty eight. You need to get to
- 23:43Speaker 1: thirty five first, and you got to start that pretty quick.
- 23:46Speaker 1: You can't you can't ease your way in to get
- 23:48Speaker 1: into thirty five, you got to go out there and
- 23:50Speaker 1: you know, and start scoring pretty much on the first
- 23:53Speaker 1: drive to reach a number like that. So the this
- 23:57Speaker 1: offensive line, I'm putting a lot of faith in coming
- 23:59Speaker 1: back being strong, being fresh, and you know, really really
- 24:04Speaker 1: getting the push off, using this crowd behind him to
- 24:07Speaker 1: really get the push off. They need to set the
- 24:09Speaker 1: tone early so we can start climbing to that number
- 24:12Speaker 1: that we're gonna need to get to to win the game.
- 24:14Speaker 1: And I think that's where it starts. Josh is gonna
- 24:16Speaker 1: do his thing. Obviously, he's out here trying to trying
- 24:19Speaker 1: to you know, everybody just saw him for five weeks
- 24:21Speaker 1: on hard knocks and he comes out and lays in
- 24:22Speaker 1: the egg week one. It's not gonna you know, not
- 24:25Speaker 1: that he's written off by the world, but this is
- 24:27Speaker 1: the opportunity to really get the world behind him. He
- 24:29Speaker 1: comes out here guns blazing, So not that he's thinking
- 24:32Speaker 1: about that, but you know, as a fan, I think
- 24:35Speaker 1: that would be really cool. We got James Cook back
- 24:38Speaker 1: with these running backs are fine, They're ready to go.
- 24:41Speaker 1: Starts at the line of scrimmage, though. We need to
- 24:43Speaker 1: dominate early on the offensive end, so we can start
- 24:45Speaker 1: moving the ball, putting the pressure on this, you know, Ravens.
- 24:49Speaker 1: If it is into a shootout, we have to set
- 24:51Speaker 1: the tone of that shoot out by by the line
- 24:53Speaker 1: of scrimmage and getting going early.
- 24:55Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 24:55Speaker 4: But you know here, here's the thing that I'm worried about,
- 24:58Speaker 4: because yes, the offensive line is great. Aaron Kromer, Love Love, Jimbo,
- 25:02Speaker 4: you know who. That was a big proponent, and I
- 25:03Speaker 4: know you were as well. Of getting them paid and
- 25:05Speaker 4: good vibes. We named an episode that way because I
- 25:07Speaker 4: wanted him to get his money. So that way, everything
- 25:10Speaker 4: was just cool and copoesthetic this year, and I didn't
- 25:12Speaker 4: want any type of drama that was unnecessary.
- 25:15Speaker 3: Here's the thing that I worry about when I talk.
- 25:17Speaker 4: About the bills offenses, because everybody eats is it's a
- 25:22Speaker 4: moniker that that that they've embraced. Last year it worked,
- 25:25Speaker 4: I had, I had to shut up. I told you
- 25:27Speaker 4: guys that I was getting back up. I told you
- 25:29Speaker 4: guys last week I'm ready to fight. I've got the stamina.
- 25:31Speaker 4: If it doesn't work this year, I'll be back to
- 25:33Speaker 4: talking shit. If it works this year, I'll be quiet
- 25:36Speaker 4: forever about that approach. That Joe Brady wants to take
- 25:38Speaker 4: my only not my only, but one of my main
- 25:43Speaker 4: one of my main worries about everybody eats this particular year,
- 25:47Speaker 4: because it looks like it's pretty much the same offensive
- 25:49Speaker 4: got you know out as Hollands and as Palmer out
- 25:51Speaker 4: as you know another guy, and then there's another guy.
- 25:54Speaker 4: I'm worried about the fact that some guys may not
- 25:58Speaker 4: step up. And that's the that's the one thing that
- 26:00Speaker 4: can mess up your everybody eats and the t shirts
- 26:03Speaker 4: that are passed around at the rallies is that if
- 26:07Speaker 4: Dalton Kin Kate is not ready to step up DT,
- 26:09Speaker 4: it's a it's a problem. Now, step up does not
- 26:12Speaker 4: mean that he is he becomes Travis Kelce this year.
- 26:14Speaker 4: That's not what that means. Because you guys already told
- 26:16Speaker 4: me Bill's Mafia that everybody eats. So everybody listen, grab
- 26:20Speaker 4: your fork in your plate. If Dalton and Kate doesn't
- 26:23Speaker 4: have his fork and plate, If Kean Coleman, who's been
- 26:25Speaker 4: nagged by a little groin injury, who was a full
- 26:27Speaker 4: participant today, if he's not ready to go and doesn't
- 26:30Speaker 4: have his fork and plate, I think that it starts
- 26:32Speaker 4: to have a cumulative effect.
- 26:34Speaker 3: Does that make sense? Where well, Dalton.
- 26:36Speaker 4: Didn't really do what we wanted to do today and
- 26:39Speaker 4: Keon didn't really you know, make up a splash play
- 26:41Speaker 4: like we would need him to make today. And then
- 26:43Speaker 4: Josh Palmer just got started and he made a couple
- 26:46Speaker 4: of plays. But it's kind of all on Squill, Khalis
- 26:48Speaker 4: Shakir and and and the run game. They shut down
- 26:51Speaker 4: the run game and and then all you know, and
- 26:53Speaker 4: then all of a sudden, we're waking up on Monday.
- 26:55Speaker 4: It was like, dang, Josh didn't really have anywhere to
- 26:57Speaker 4: go with the football because nobody was gaining separate nobody
- 27:00Speaker 4: was winning their routes, different things like that. I'm worried
- 27:03Speaker 4: about everybody eats rearing its ugly head on the fact
- 27:06Speaker 4: of the the eaters not stepping up. And that's what
- 27:10Speaker 4: I wanted to hear your your your thoughts on because listen, man,
- 27:13Speaker 4: there's no more there's.
- 27:14Speaker 3: No more time. There's no more time for anybody.
- 27:17Speaker 4: If I if I say there's no more time for McDermott,
- 27:19Speaker 4: then I can't be biased and on the flip side
- 27:21Speaker 4: of the wall not say that there's more Well, the
- 27:23Speaker 4: offense has more time. They need to be coming out firing,
- 27:26Speaker 4: ready to go right now Sunday night.
- 27:29Speaker 3: I need Dalton to show up. I need Keon Coleman
- 27:32Speaker 3: to show up.
- 27:32Speaker 4: I need to see help Josh out because if he
- 27:35Speaker 4: puts on that Superman cap and he's trying to do
- 27:37Speaker 4: it all himself.
- 27:38Speaker 3: We've seen the Jets game a couple of years.
- 27:39Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's it's not good when Josh just
- 27:42Speaker 4: puts on the cape and tries to do everything.
- 27:44Speaker 3: And that's literally what off.
- 27:46Speaker 4: It's what everybody eats is supposed to to mitigate, right,
- 27:49Speaker 4: that they're supposed to stop Josh from doing that, and
- 27:51Speaker 4: he obviously did it last year. To the tune of
- 27:53Speaker 4: the MVP, I'm worried about everybody having their forking plate
- 27:56Speaker 4: dt and ready to eat.
- 27:58Speaker 1: But that kind of contradicts of rob right, because that's
- 28:01Speaker 1: the point of everybody eats is everybody gets a little
- 28:03Speaker 1: so if if the one guy doesn't have their stuff,
- 28:06Speaker 1: they go they go to the next and the next
- 28:08Speaker 1: and the next, and and that's the point of not
- 28:11Speaker 1: that's the whole point of everybody eats that I.
- 28:17Speaker 3: Can't eat, Yeah, I got to open your mouth, right,
- 28:19Speaker 3: that's what I'm sorry.
- 28:20Speaker 1: Agreed, and I will agree that Dalton You know, but
- 28:23Speaker 1: as we went through and we got rid of Stefan
- 28:24Speaker 1: Diggs last year, and we broke down the roster and said,
- 28:27Speaker 1: all right, Dalton Kin Kate has to have this. This
- 28:30Speaker 1: body catches in yards that void. This uh, Kean Coleman
- 28:34Speaker 1: has to have this as a rookie to fill that void.
- 28:36Speaker 1: And we we kind of made that reality and it
- 28:39Speaker 1: didn't work out that way, but it still did by
- 28:41Speaker 1: putting out the most the most productive offense you know,
- 28:44Speaker 1: the team's ever had. So yes, I do agree Dalton
- 28:48Speaker 1: Kin Kid and Keon Coleman, and you know, a guy
- 28:50Speaker 1: like Curtis Samuel and somebody Josh Palmer we have never
- 28:53Speaker 1: even seen, and Elijah Moore who might have upside but
- 28:56Speaker 1: we don't really know, and there's a weird r around him. Yes,
- 28:59Speaker 1: they all need to step up and play the roles.
- 29:01Speaker 1: But the beauty of the everybody eats mentality is that
- 29:04Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be you know, they if they don't,
- 29:07Speaker 1: that there's still backups and still plans to get through that.
- 29:11Speaker 1: And everybody eats is creative because Josh Allen is as
- 29:14Speaker 1: progressed to who he is Everybody Eats could have never
- 29:17Speaker 1: been a thing in the beginning of his career, for
- 29:19Speaker 1: you know, just the way he played. Now he's taking
- 29:21Speaker 1: the checkdowns, taking the open looks, taking to whoever is there.
- 29:24Speaker 1: And I think that also helps the offense and the
- 29:27Speaker 1: pressure of that in knowing that if you might get
- 29:31Speaker 1: the ball on every play, so you have to be
- 29:33Speaker 1: ready and ready to go and up to that standard
- 29:36Speaker 1: each week, so exactly, and I think overall that's been
- 29:41Speaker 1: the standard now for a entire two seasons, an entire
- 29:44Speaker 1: offseason with basically the same same squad for the most
- 29:47Speaker 1: part other than you know, Elijah Moore and Josh Palmer,
- 29:50Speaker 1: and I'm not expecting them to have a thousand yards
- 29:53Speaker 1: a piece this year. But the whole point of Everybody
- 29:56Speaker 1: Eats is that if these guys don't step up, there
- 29:59Speaker 1: is still other op that we can go to. And
- 30:01Speaker 1: then literally the fail safe option is is the Superman
- 30:05Speaker 1: Cape and let's go and even that option week one
- 30:08Speaker 1: is still keeping us in this game. So I agree, Rob,
- 30:12Speaker 1: I agree, I think they do need to step up,
- 30:14Speaker 1: But the whole point of Everybody Eats is if they don't,
- 30:16Speaker 1: there's still other options to it. And the only thing
- 30:19Speaker 1: everybody eats is still in existence and is a thing
- 30:22Speaker 1: at all is because Josh Allen has matured to this
- 30:25Speaker 1: point in his career, well, he will literally find anybody.
- 30:27Speaker 1: And I think these guys know that every route they
- 30:30Speaker 1: run they could get the ball, and so they're playing
- 30:33Speaker 1: it as they are the number one receiver every single
- 30:35Speaker 1: time because they could be.
- 30:38Speaker 4: Yeah, but that doesn't that doesn't answer the question of
- 30:40Speaker 4: what happens on third and seven if Kean Kleman runs
- 30:43Speaker 4: the wrong route or he's not ready to catch the
- 30:46Speaker 4: ball or what. You know, we saw last night Ceedee
- 30:48Speaker 4: Lamb dropping some some money, some money passes from you know,
- 30:51Speaker 4: Dak Prescott played well last night.
- 30:53Speaker 1: And he let him down could add two hundred yards.
- 30:56Speaker 3: Yeah, so then.
- 30:56Speaker 4: That's what that's kind of my point is that if
- 30:59Speaker 4: these guys are not need to step up, you don't
- 31:01Speaker 4: get redos. You just have to go through the next week.
- 31:03Speaker 4: So that's not I get. I guess that's some of
- 31:05Speaker 4: my my trepidation. So Okay, no problem, I.
- 31:10Speaker 1: Agree, I agree on unred percent. But it's it's also
- 31:14Speaker 1: like this is in the building now, this is the culture,
- 31:17Speaker 1: this is the there isn't we have been close to perfect,
- 31:21Speaker 1: and close to perfect isn't good enough. You know, we
- 31:23Speaker 1: have to be perfect to win, Like we have to
- 31:26Speaker 1: be perfect to get this Lombardy here in Buffalo, and
- 31:28Speaker 1: we've been close, but we haven't done it. And so
- 31:31Speaker 1: this has to be the main drag of any from
- 31:35Speaker 1: day one of mini camp till Sunday night, the Moniker
- 31:40Speaker 1: the thing everyone needs. Everyone has to be ready to
- 31:43Speaker 1: go because we need to be perfect, and so we
- 31:45Speaker 1: can only hope that that fuels each other to Hey,
- 31:48Speaker 1: I might get the ball this play, so I have
- 31:49Speaker 1: to act like I'm the number one receiver on this play.
- 31:52Speaker 1: And that's every single play, and that's what that's what
- 31:54Speaker 1: we've been preaching out for two years. So I agree.
- 31:57Speaker 1: If they don't step up, we are going to see it.
- 31:59Speaker 1: If they don't step up, we are going to see it.
- 32:01Speaker 1: And it is going to be tough and it is
- 32:02Speaker 1: going to be harder to get things going. And we
- 32:04Speaker 1: can be very critical next week when that happens, but
- 32:07Speaker 1: the I have to be confident in the fact that
- 32:10Speaker 1: this is what what if we do the whole mini camp,
- 32:13Speaker 1: in training camp and everything for is to get everybody
- 32:16Speaker 1: prepared for Sunday night at eight thirty, and to be
- 32:19Speaker 1: prepared and then everybody eats offense. You have to feel
- 32:21Speaker 1: like you're the number one receiver at all times. So
- 32:24Speaker 1: it's not just something we made up today that they're like, okay, shit,
- 32:28Speaker 1: let's see why it works Sunday. I think this has
- 32:31Speaker 1: been the full thing the whole time. And what better
- 32:34Speaker 1: way to prepare these guys to step up than preparing
- 32:36Speaker 1: them for now two years to do this right?
- 32:40Speaker 3: You're right, as you're right, Okay, but I but.
- 32:42Speaker 1: I definitely agree with you, Robin the fact if they don't,
- 32:45Speaker 1: it's going to be noticeable.
- 32:46Speaker 3: Obviously, it will be obviously noticeable. You're absolutely right about that.
- 32:49Speaker 4: Now, as we transition, we've got, you know, some housekeeping.
- 32:53Speaker 3: It looks like Tyler Bass is not going to go.
- 32:55Speaker 4: They put them on injured reserve earlier this this today
- 32:58Speaker 4: in the afternoon, it looks like Matt Prater is joining.
- 33:02Speaker 3: The Buffalo Bills.
- 33:03Speaker 4: I guess I heard a stat that he will be
- 33:05Speaker 4: the oldest buffalo bill in history. What he laces up
- 33:09Speaker 4: and kicks off for us on Sunday night at forty
- 33:12Speaker 4: one years old, No problem there. I mean, I usually
- 33:14Speaker 4: don't give a shit about kickers until I care about
- 33:17Speaker 4: them when they're missing kicks.
- 33:19Speaker 3: So we'll see how he does.
- 33:20Speaker 4: Trey White, we've talked about really unlikely that you'll see
- 33:23Speaker 4: him out there Bill's Mafia on Sunday night. He did
- 33:25Speaker 4: not practice again today, so it's pretty much it's pretty
- 33:29Speaker 4: much a foregone conclusion. He's listed as doubtful technically, but
- 33:33Speaker 4: you don't expect to see him out there. So again,
- 33:35Speaker 4: Dorny and Strong or JaMarcus Ingram will take his place
- 33:39Speaker 4: as cornerback two opposite of Christian Benford. Now good news,
- 33:42Speaker 4: Christian Benfer was back on the field. We talked about
- 33:44Speaker 4: that same thing with Kean Coleman. They were both dealing
- 33:48Speaker 4: with some groin issues, so they should be back out
- 33:50Speaker 4: there on Sunday and ready to go. DT What is
- 33:54Speaker 4: an X factor or what is the X factor that
- 33:57Speaker 4: you see in this game, because definitely am sick of
- 34:00Speaker 4: talking about injuries, but it's gonna be hard if Lamar
- 34:04Speaker 4: Jackson carves up the Buffaloville's defense and he's picking on
- 34:08Speaker 4: cornerback too. He's picking on even Christian Benford a little bit,
- 34:11Speaker 4: and all of a sudden you're looking at it and
- 34:13Speaker 4: then he's got three hundred yards passing. They scored thirty
- 34:16Speaker 4: one points, and they beat us thirty one twenty four
- 34:18Speaker 4: or thirty one twenty. It'll look bad, it'll feel bad.
- 34:22Speaker 4: But that crowd that I got to hear shout out
- 34:24Speaker 4: to Widower, last week's guest. He'll be ready to tell
- 34:26Speaker 4: you it was injuries. I can't stand when that is
- 34:29Speaker 4: an excuse. But sometimes injuries are not an excuse, they
- 34:32Speaker 4: are a reason. Do you think injuries are going to
- 34:35Speaker 4: be a reason that we possibly lose on Sunday?
- 34:38Speaker 1: I don't think they can be, because, like you said,
- 34:41Speaker 1: we've already used it. It's already been a thing. It's
- 34:44Speaker 1: gonna be a thing the entire NFL season, and you
- 34:47Speaker 1: know so it's just something you can't use. I think
- 34:50Speaker 1: the X factor you said it kind of in this
- 34:52Speaker 1: as you were just saying the X factor is three
- 34:54Speaker 1: hundred yards, Rob, The X factor is three hundred yards.
- 34:57Speaker 1: What quarterback throws three hundred yards? That's my X factor.
- 35:02Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a shootout. I'm real much
- 35:05Speaker 1: as I want to, Ben, don't break and have faith
- 35:07Speaker 1: in this defense coming down. Okay, not shutting this team.
- 35:11Speaker 1: We're not shutting this team up. We're not shutting this
- 35:13Speaker 1: team under twenty. I'd be very surprised if that happened.
- 35:16Speaker 1: So who gets to three hundred yards? I like, I
- 35:19Speaker 1: like us getting too three hundred yards? Could they get
- 35:21Speaker 1: to three hundred yards? Sure? But I think that X
- 35:23Speaker 1: factor is there's gonna be one quarterback that does. That
- 35:25Speaker 1: quarterback that does is gonna win. So that's my X factor.
- 35:27Speaker 1: Can't be the injuries. We've already used the excuse. I agree,
- 35:30Speaker 1: it's not an excuse. It's gonna be something the entire year.
- 35:33Speaker 1: It's gonna be something the entire year. It is, so
- 35:36Speaker 1: every week we're just writing off another season in the
- 35:38Speaker 1: prime because we're injured. No, it can't be. We've we've
- 35:41Speaker 1: I agree it can't be. And so next man up,
- 35:44Speaker 1: Let's ride the X factors.
- 35:45Speaker 3: Three hundred yards three hundred yards.
- 35:48Speaker 4: That's interesting, you know, it's funny because when I think
- 35:50Speaker 4: about the X factor, I'm like, well, my immediate default
- 35:54Speaker 4: setting is like.
- 35:54Speaker 3: Just stop Derrick Henry and just stop, you know what
- 35:57Speaker 3: I mean?
- 35:57Speaker 4: Him and Lamar from getting you know, somebody asked me
- 35:59Speaker 4: the other I was on a space and my boy,
- 36:01Speaker 4: she'd was like, what what's the what do you what
- 36:04Speaker 4: do you want to see as the totals, Like, I
- 36:05Speaker 4: guess keep him under one hundred and twenty combined between
- 36:08Speaker 4: lamar And and Derek, and I was like, I think
- 36:11Speaker 4: that that that's like a successful night. You know, I
- 36:14Speaker 4: think he ran for about seventy or something like that.
- 36:16Speaker 4: He ran for like seventy in the playoffs. So however
- 36:19Speaker 4: you get it that they can hold them under one
- 36:20Speaker 4: twenty one to ten, that'd be a victory. My X
- 36:23Speaker 4: factor is definitely going to be on the just the
- 36:26Speaker 4: outside the secondary. I literally named the episode, you know,
- 36:29Speaker 4: secondary concerns, Like I'm worried about the secondary. If they
- 36:33Speaker 4: can if they can find a way to make plays,
- 36:35Speaker 4: if they can find a way not to get embarrassed.
- 36:37Speaker 4: We saw Kyrie Elib last night out there getting burned
- 36:41Speaker 4: and then Twitter's blowing up like, oh, I guess the
- 36:43Speaker 4: Bills didn't make a bad decision and stuff like that. Listen,
- 36:46Speaker 4: if if these young guys can come in and play well,
- 36:49Speaker 4: Cole Bishop whoever is starting at cornerback too, you know,
- 36:53Speaker 4: wrap out there helping out Bishop in the back end.
- 36:56Speaker 4: If these guys on the boundaries can help out in
- 36:58Speaker 4: the secondary.
- 36:59Speaker 3: I think it'll go a long way for Buffalo Bill's.
- 37:02Speaker 4: Victory because I do I personally feel like the approach
- 37:05Speaker 4: for Baltimore is going to be to attack them. I
- 37:08Speaker 4: don't not that they're not going to try to run
- 37:10Speaker 4: the ball, but because of the fact that if Buffalo
- 37:13Speaker 4: is trying to make a concerted effort to stop the run,
- 37:16Speaker 4: they have no problem going to the to the air
- 37:19Speaker 4: with Lamar Jackson. So I'm I think the X factor
- 37:22Speaker 4: is how the secondary plays. I'll be watching them keenly
- 37:25Speaker 4: to see how they're reacting to to certain coverages, to
- 37:28Speaker 4: certain route concepts because of the fact that I think
- 37:30Speaker 4: that they are They're they're kind of front and setting
- 37:33Speaker 4: for me when it comes to Sunday Nights game DT.
- 37:37Speaker 1: Yeah, when you go into the casino, Yeah, let's let's throw.
- 37:41Speaker 1: You sit down at a slot, boom, you hit, You
- 37:44Speaker 1: throw your money and you hit. You cash out. Okay,
- 37:47Speaker 1: you invested and he cashed out on the investment. What
- 37:50Speaker 1: did we invest in the most this offseason?
- 37:52Speaker 3: Rob defense? Where on the defense defensive line?
- 37:57Speaker 1: Yes, So if we need to cash out on this
- 38:01Speaker 1: investment early and it cashes, it might not be if
- 38:04Speaker 1: we kept it in there a little longer, we might
- 38:06Speaker 1: have made a little more money. But cash out is
- 38:08Speaker 1: a cash out. If we're up money when we walk
- 38:11Speaker 1: out of there, we're up money when we walk out
- 38:12Speaker 1: of there, and you can't tell me that's not a
- 38:14Speaker 1: good play. So I think we need to Our investment
- 38:17Speaker 1: in this defensive line is going to need to spark
- 38:19Speaker 1: early to mask if there is going to be a
- 38:22Speaker 1: situation where we might get carved up on the back
- 38:24Speaker 1: end of this defense. The way to combat that is
- 38:27Speaker 1: the place we invested the most in and the entire
- 38:29Speaker 1: team this offseason, on the defensive line. They need to
- 38:33Speaker 1: that investment needs to cash out for us week one.
- 38:37Speaker 3: Okay, okay, well then.
- 38:41Speaker 4: That leadst Man, but that leads nowhere else to look
- 38:44Speaker 4: but Brandon Bean and and and Sean McDermott at the end.
- 38:47Speaker 3: Of this game and at the end of the season.
- 38:49Speaker 4: Is because you know, I'll probably name an episode down
- 38:51Speaker 4: the road, no excuse, there's no excuses for those guys.
- 38:54Speaker 4: So I need to see the baby. I need to
- 38:56Speaker 4: see this all work. You have now invested in this again.
- 38:59Speaker 4: You have now gone round two of giving Sean McDermott
- 39:02Speaker 4: his his weapons. Sean McDermott, Bobby Babbage, I don't care.
- 39:05Speaker 4: I mean, Bobby Babbage to me is just a disciple
- 39:07Speaker 4: of Sean McDermott. I mean he's running mcdermot's defense. I
- 39:10Speaker 4: need to see I need to see it work. I
- 39:12Speaker 4: understand that there's some young guys in the middle, ye
- 39:14Speaker 4: j Sanders, Deana Walker, but I don't.
- 39:16Speaker 3: I just don't. In Josh Allen's prime, I have a
- 39:19Speaker 3: I have a very low tolerance for bullshit. I just
- 39:22Speaker 3: don't ask.
- 39:23Speaker 1: You asked what the what it would be if if
- 39:25Speaker 1: we start getting carved up on the defensive backfield, then
- 39:28Speaker 1: we then we okay, then we need to go where
- 39:30Speaker 1: we invested the most. Bosa, three big ass dudes in
- 39:35Speaker 1: the middle, like the vets of that Oliver who got
- 39:38Speaker 1: paid and has been better right, like you know, the
- 39:42Speaker 1: veteran leadership at the Kwan Jones. Like we go where
- 39:45Speaker 1: we've invested the most and hopefully it cashes out. If
- 39:49Speaker 1: we're getting carved up. You asked, if we're getting carved up,
- 39:51Speaker 1: what happens? Go to our investment?
- 39:53Speaker 3: All right, no doubt, no doubt.
- 39:55Speaker 4: As we begin to wrap up tonight, I really appreciate
- 39:58Speaker 4: your time tonight, listen. Shout out to the I eighty
- 40:00Speaker 4: six network. We have partnered up with them. They are
- 40:03Speaker 4: gonna get ready to uh to do some simulcasts with
- 40:06Speaker 4: us and allow us to simulcasts on their network as well.
- 40:09Speaker 4: Shout out to my boy Tom woo chicking along with
- 40:11Speaker 4: his buddy Bobby.
- 40:13Speaker 3: Listen.
- 40:13Speaker 4: They are they're doing a great thing over there. Check
- 40:15Speaker 4: them out. I eighty six network. It's just a it's
- 40:19Speaker 4: like a rebrand. They're coming out with their rebrand. They
- 40:21Speaker 4: asked us to join. I said, we have no problem
- 40:23Speaker 4: joining and doing some simulcast. So you'll see some stuff
- 40:26Speaker 4: over the next course of a couple of weeks and
- 40:28Speaker 4: we'll start to link up with them and start to
- 40:30Speaker 4: do some simulcast. So shout out to the I eighty
- 40:32Speaker 4: six network for their support as well to Nicol City Crew.
- 40:36Speaker 4: Now DT final thing before we get to the Tailgate Report.
- 40:44Speaker 4: Final thing, what will be your reaction on Monday, Because
- 40:51Speaker 4: listen to me, most likely it's a close game either way,
- 40:55Speaker 4: right Bill's win close, Ravens win close. To me, there's
- 41:00Speaker 4: only one team that could blow out the other team.
- 41:03Speaker 4: Now you may disagree, listen, there's only one way that
- 41:07Speaker 4: it's a blowout, and that would be something that we
- 41:09Speaker 4: saw last year and reminiscent of that. So for me,
- 41:13Speaker 4: I'm going to I am going to take Solas. I'm
- 41:16Speaker 4: going to be happy, quote unquote happy even if it's
- 41:20Speaker 4: a loss on Sunday, as long as the defense is
- 41:22Speaker 4: competent and it's competitive. If we are getting shredded all
- 41:25Speaker 4: over the field, I really almost couldn't care how many
- 41:29Speaker 4: points we scored. I mean, if we scored if we
- 41:31Speaker 4: lose thirty five, thirty three, that, yeah, obviously it'll make
- 41:34Speaker 4: you feel good about the offense and stuff like that,
- 41:36Speaker 4: but I'll still be mad that we lost. What do
- 41:39Speaker 4: you feel what's the most likely scenario on Sunday and
- 41:42Speaker 4: how will you feel after it?
- 41:43Speaker 3: Because I'm not.
- 41:46Speaker 4: Prepping for a Bill's loss, but I'm definitely, definitely I'm
- 41:49Speaker 4: accepting of the fact that it could happen. And I
- 41:51Speaker 4: just don't see the Bills blowing out the Ravens. So
- 41:55Speaker 4: we'll put the other thing to the side. Ravens blow
- 41:57Speaker 4: us out, everybody would be mad. We already know everybody
- 41:59Speaker 4: would be mad. I see it as a close game
- 42:01Speaker 4: either way, and hopefully it is. How would you feel
- 42:04Speaker 4: win or loss and give me in pact kind of
- 42:06Speaker 4: paint what Monday looks like for you, since we won't
- 42:08Speaker 4: be back till next week.
- 42:09Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the season is over.
- 42:12Speaker 3: We've already we've already conceded that.
- 42:14Speaker 1: The most most likely situation is a close winner loss
- 42:18Speaker 1: either way, right, I think? So when you know it
- 42:20Speaker 1: gets into the blowout territory, I you know, I go
- 42:23Speaker 1: back to the history of Sean McDermot and josh Anllen.
- 42:26Speaker 1: You can count on your fingers the amount of times
- 42:29Speaker 1: we've lost by more than seven points with these dudes. Okay,
- 42:32Speaker 1: so one was last year against the Baltimore Ravens in
- 42:36Speaker 1: Baltimore on a on a you know, a early season game.
- 42:41Speaker 1: So it could happen. But I think the magic of
- 42:46Speaker 1: the start of the season, the magic of the hype,
- 42:48Speaker 1: the magic of rolling your team out there and you
- 42:50Speaker 1: don't know what to expect. I don't see any reason
- 42:53Speaker 1: why the Bills can't blow it out. Is it likely? No?
- 42:56Speaker 1: But is the Ravens blowing the Bills out likely? Hell no?
- 43:00Speaker 1: Hell no? And so I I could I see a
- 43:06Speaker 1: close game, of course, but I also will party and
- 43:11Speaker 1: have faith in the magic that could happen on a
- 43:14Speaker 1: blowout either way, because that early season, that first game
- 43:18Speaker 1: just a good dame script and a and a couple
- 43:21Speaker 1: of bounces either way with a this place is gonna
- 43:24Speaker 1: be crazy Sunday night. This is It's gonna be crazy
- 43:28Speaker 1: Sunday until. So that might be a team where a
- 43:32Speaker 1: couple a couple of bounces early and you know you
- 43:35Speaker 1: have a good game plan. Josh Allen scores his first
- 43:37Speaker 1: three possessions. It's twenty one four, you know, twenty one
- 43:40Speaker 1: to three early. You know that's that's a recipe for
- 43:43Speaker 1: a blowout either way. But I'm not rolling out blowouts
- 43:46Speaker 1: on on the Bill side. I don't think it's as
- 43:49Speaker 1: likely on the Raven side. I think obviously most likely
- 43:52Speaker 1: as a winner loss in the in the close regard,
- 43:55Speaker 1: I'm I'm not thinking about a loss though, Rob, I'm
- 43:58Speaker 1: not thinking about a loss. I'm gonna be just right.
- 44:01Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm I'm observing it. I'm educated. I
- 44:05Speaker 1: know the Ravens are bad dudes. I know Lamar Jackson's
- 44:07Speaker 1: a bad dude. But we got the batter, dude. We
- 44:10Speaker 1: got the batter, dude, and that's what I'm going in
- 44:12Speaker 1: at on Sunday. I'm not thinking about a loss. I
- 44:14Speaker 1: don't waited all off season to not get pumped up
- 44:17Speaker 1: for this game and expect to win it. I'm educated,
- 44:20Speaker 1: and I know there's a possibility the Ravens are coming
- 44:23Speaker 1: here and handle business. But I am not expecting that.
- 44:26Speaker 1: I am. I am my whole preseason to walk out
- 44:30Speaker 1: of here with a win. And that's what we're gonna do.
- 44:33Speaker 1: That's my that's the ship I'm standing on right now.
- 44:36Speaker 1: Our dude's batter. The energy is there last opener in
- 44:39Speaker 1: the Ralph. We ain't hyped up like this to be
- 44:43Speaker 1: okay with a loss. Like, yes, it's not gonna ruin
- 44:45Speaker 1: our season. We're not hyped up like this to be
- 44:47Speaker 1: okay with a loss.
- 44:48Speaker 3: I love it. I'm not don't listen, don't swing over it.
- 44:52Speaker 3: That's it, that's it.
- 44:53Speaker 1: I'm not playing the ship. How I'm gonna feel, how
- 44:55Speaker 1: I'm gonna feel Monday. What the g R people are
- 44:57Speaker 1: gonna say, Oh, I told you so, told you so,
- 45:00Speaker 1: We could have we could have been better. Not I'm
- 45:02Speaker 1: for eight thirty Sunday night. We got the better, dude.
- 45:06Speaker 1: I'm not worried. I hate listen, I'm educated, I'm not worried.
- 45:11Speaker 1: This is the beauty of us being this good for
- 45:13Speaker 1: this long. We can have the fucking swagger Sunday night.
- 45:17Speaker 1: We can have the moxie to go in there and
- 45:18Speaker 1: say you gotta beat us, you gotta beat us.
- 45:21Speaker 3: Rob Listen, I'm not trying to convince you. I love it.
- 45:26Speaker 4: I listen, Bill's Bofia Nichol City Crew, I listen, listen.
- 45:31Speaker 3: I have no problem with what DT is saying at all.
- 45:34Speaker 4: I want everybody to realize and like you said, he's educated.
- 45:37Speaker 4: But but listen, no, no, listen, You're not gonna get
- 45:40Speaker 4: any fights out of me. I'm definitely not trying to
- 45:43Speaker 4: fight my one of my best friends in DT.
- 45:45Speaker 3: Listen, Truck, you got it.
- 45:47Speaker 1: No fight. This is just this is the passion of
- 45:50Speaker 1: like the build up, like I'm so pumped up for this,
- 45:53Speaker 1: like we we it's a privilege to be able to
- 45:56Speaker 1: be this pumped up, and we've got have that privilege and.
- 46:00Speaker 4: Dark and we've gone through some dark days and you
- 46:02Speaker 4: know what I mean. And we've gone through the drought,
- 46:03Speaker 4: and we've gone through the four straight losses. So I
- 46:06Speaker 4: agree with you that it is definitely your privilege to
- 46:08Speaker 4: be in a position where you can expect to win.
- 46:12Speaker 4: You know, no, no problem, We'll We'll leave it right there.
- 46:14Speaker 4: You are absolutely right. We all of Bills, Mafia, all
- 46:17Speaker 4: of Nickel City, because we can all have the confidence
- 46:20Speaker 4: on Sunday night that the bills are going to go
- 46:21Speaker 4: ahead and get it done. And again, we just talked
- 46:24Speaker 4: for the last forty five minutes about different mitigating factors
- 46:27Speaker 4: that we may not get it done. And what happens
- 46:29Speaker 4: this DT is on board. He said, we're getting a W.
- 46:32Speaker 4: I have no problem with that at all. I want
- 46:34Speaker 4: us to get the W.
- 46:35Speaker 3: I was just trying to make sure that we were clear.
- 46:37Speaker 4: Listen, as we begin to wrap up tonight, the Nickel
- 46:40Speaker 4: City Crew Tailgate Report is back. It is again sponsored
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- 46:56Speaker 3: Didn't see them in hard knacks. I was, I was
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- 47:22Speaker 4: At the end of tonight's episode, DT and I will
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- 47:44Speaker 4: for week one. So listen, head on over to Queen
- 47:47Speaker 4: City Ventures, DT. What's got what you got going for
- 47:53Speaker 4: this weekend? I I I've got a confession to make.
- 47:56Speaker 4: I'll let you go first. It's it's mine is more
- 48:00Speaker 4: procedural and a little bit of business and stuff like that,
- 48:02Speaker 4: but I'll let you go first.
- 48:04Speaker 3: What you get, What you got going on this weekend?
- 48:06Speaker 1: DT, Well, tonight, it's gonna be a very behaved night
- 48:09Speaker 1: for DT. On a Friday night at the Bachelor Pad.
- 48:12Speaker 1: We're gonna watch some ball. We're gonna watch Pat Mahomes
- 48:14Speaker 1: get kidnapped by the cartel, and we're gonna and we're
- 48:17Speaker 1: gonna hang out tomorrow. Got an early golf tournament taking
- 48:20Speaker 1: my got an employee golf tournament down a little ways away.
- 48:24Speaker 1: You gotta be there early, so I'm up and at
- 48:26Speaker 1: him right out of the gate. Get out, get some golf,
- 48:28Speaker 1: and get back for some college football. Relax. So relax tonight,
- 48:32Speaker 1: play golf, Relax Tomorrow. Then we got game day Sunday.
- 48:36Speaker 1: Game Day Sunday. We're getting the we're getting this particulars together.
- 48:39Speaker 1: Don't have the exact you know, plans yet, but obviously
- 48:42Speaker 1: gonna be at the UH at the main lot at
- 48:44Speaker 1: Club Dub is as Big Ben and the crew will
- 48:47Speaker 1: call it Club Dub. We'll get the tents together, get
- 48:49Speaker 1: the Kenny with the smoker going, Ben's with the one
- 48:51Speaker 1: and twos, and it's gonna pop off and everyone's gonna
- 48:54Speaker 1: be ready to go. Eight thirty game always means that
- 48:58Speaker 1: tailgate goes a little long. You can only get that
- 49:00Speaker 1: so early for at one o'clock. You can only get
- 49:03Speaker 1: there so early for a one o'clock. Even us crazy people,
- 49:06Speaker 1: when we're there at seven eight in the morning for
- 49:07Speaker 1: a one o'clock it's still only about a four hour tailgate.
- 49:10Speaker 1: At eight thirty game, that tailgate can be eight nine
- 49:14Speaker 1: hours real easy. So you've got to be a We
- 49:16Speaker 1: are professional tailgate said it one hundred times on the show.
- 49:19Speaker 1: We are professional tailgaters, and I will be a professional
- 49:22Speaker 1: on Sunday night. But we'll be there early. We'll be
- 49:26Speaker 1: at the same spot down in you know, the grass
- 49:28Speaker 1: loot and enjoying ourselves. Ready, ready to bring the energy.
- 49:32Speaker 1: I just had last segment there. If I get in
- 49:36Speaker 1: this stadium, whoever sit next to me, they better be
- 49:38Speaker 1: ready because I'm gonna be that guy. I'm gonna be
- 49:41Speaker 1: that guy.
- 49:42Speaker 3: I love it. I love it. I love it. Lizzen.
- 49:45Speaker 4: I ain't got no problems with you. I ain't mad
- 49:46Speaker 4: at you now my confession. Tickle City crew, and please
- 49:50Speaker 4: enjoy the golf tournament tomorrow. Good DT in college football
- 49:56Speaker 4: as well, because I'm interested in some college football tomorrow.
- 49:59Speaker 3: On my side, we've got chilled. Not tonight.
- 50:02Speaker 4: I'm gonna do some grocery shopping after the show, get
- 50:04Speaker 4: the kids all ready to go and rid it up
- 50:06Speaker 4: for it for next week. And then tomorrow we've got
- 50:09Speaker 4: Nate QB one second game of the year. We are
- 50:13Speaker 4: on an away game, so we got to go forty
- 50:14Speaker 4: five minutes away and we are going in the hostile
- 50:17Speaker 4: territory and we are not fearing another boy. We are
- 50:20Speaker 4: not fearing another boy on that other team. Listen, I
- 50:22Speaker 4: promise you it's the Lake Nomer Giants against the Weddington
- 50:25Speaker 4: I think I don't even know who they already, doesn't matter.
- 50:26Speaker 4: I think it's Wedding Good Titans. It don't matter who
- 50:28Speaker 4: they are. It's about us. We're gonna take care of
- 50:30Speaker 4: what we got to going on. So I'm really excited
- 50:32Speaker 4: about that second game of the regular season for for Nate,
- 50:35Speaker 4: my middle king, and he's QB one. He's had a
- 50:37Speaker 4: good week of practice, DT he's ready to go. He's
- 50:40Speaker 4: been you know, going through his progressions, different things like that.
- 50:43Speaker 3: They've been working on different things.
- 50:44Speaker 4: So I was really excited and really encouraged by what
- 50:47Speaker 4: I saw out there at practice this week, So I'm.
- 50:49Speaker 3: Ready to go get a dub. You know what I
- 50:51Speaker 3: mean as that, I'm ready to go.
- 50:52Speaker 4: Get a dub sitting the stands on Saturday and then
- 50:54Speaker 4: come back Saturday night and watch some more college football. Now, confession,
- 50:59Speaker 4: Nicol City Crew. I tried. I tried. I did all
- 51:03Speaker 4: I could do, and DT's been with me every step
- 51:05Speaker 4: of the way over some clerical errors. So it is
- 51:09Speaker 4: not my fault over some clerical errors with the Buffalo
- 51:13Speaker 4: Bills and their season ticket department and different things like that.
- 51:18Speaker 4: I mean, I don't need to get in all to
- 51:20Speaker 4: the degritty, but basically, they charged me more than they
- 51:22Speaker 4: were supposed to charge me. Then I asked for a
- 51:24Speaker 4: refund so I could get back on the payment plan,
- 51:26Speaker 4: and then when I asked for a refund, they took forever.
- 51:28Speaker 4: And then when I finally got the refund, I almost
- 51:30Speaker 4: would just kind of just said, you know, effet, I'm
- 51:32Speaker 4: not going to the new stadium. We're not doing the PSLs.
- 51:36Speaker 4: And because this was the farewell to where I wanted
- 51:38Speaker 4: to be in the building, and I try, I tried.
- 51:41Speaker 4: DT knows I'm telling the truth. Nicol City Crew. I
- 51:43Speaker 4: tried everything I could to make this work with them,
- 51:45Speaker 4: and it just became to a point where it was
- 51:47Speaker 4: more of a headache than it was for to be
- 51:51Speaker 4: worth it and to be honest, because we weren't going
- 51:52Speaker 4: to make it up there for every game. And you
- 51:53Speaker 4: already know that, DT. We talked about it. So we're
- 51:56Speaker 4: going to try to sell some games back, but you
- 51:58Speaker 4: know what I mean, how can we get back what
- 51:59Speaker 4: we invested and all this? And then just I just said,
- 52:02Speaker 4: forget it. DT is coming down for the Carolina Panthers
- 52:06Speaker 4: hosting the Buffalo Bills in late October, and I said,
- 52:09Speaker 4: you know what, that's enough for me. I will get
- 52:12Speaker 4: back up to the Ralph sometime this year in the
- 52:14Speaker 4: regular season hopefully, and if not, then I'll get back
- 52:17Speaker 4: up to the Ralph definitely for a playoff game that
- 52:19Speaker 4: we should be hosting.
- 52:20Speaker 3: If we take care of business and take care of
- 52:22Speaker 3: that division.
- 52:23Speaker 4: You guaranteed obviously one at least playoff game at home
- 52:26Speaker 4: if you win the division. So because of that, I regret,
- 52:30Speaker 4: I regret to announce that we do not have season
- 52:32Speaker 4: tickets this year.
- 52:33Speaker 3: DT and I made an executive decision. It was hard.
- 52:37Speaker 3: I talked to management and it was the best thing
- 52:39Speaker 3: for a.
- 52:40Speaker 4: Father of five down here Charlotte, thirteen hundred miles round
- 52:45Speaker 4: trip away. I made an executive decision to just cut ties.
- 52:49Speaker 4: I'm not going to the new stadium anyway. I'm not
- 52:50Speaker 4: getting the PSLs and all that other stuff, so we
- 52:53Speaker 4: cut ties. Am I'm sad to regret it.
- 52:56Speaker 3: DT.
- 52:56Speaker 4: Please send me as many pictures and videos as you can.
- 52:59Speaker 4: On Sunday, we'll be missing you, guys. I'm gonna go
- 53:02Speaker 4: head on and do a Boston butt. I'm gonna do
- 53:04Speaker 4: a pork shoulder, grill it out on the grill, smoke
- 53:07Speaker 4: it for seven eight hours until that thing is fall
- 53:10Speaker 4: until you can pull the bone right out of it.
- 53:11Speaker 4: And we're gonna be all here together. Man, Me and
- 53:14Speaker 4: the Kings will be here together on Sunday night watching it.
- 53:16Speaker 4: They get to stay up. They got school the next day,
- 53:18Speaker 4: but it doesn't matter. It's a holiday. They can stay
- 53:21Speaker 4: up and watch the game with them. We're good to
- 53:23Speaker 4: go there. So that's the plan for me. That's the
- 53:25Speaker 4: Tailgate report for me. We are Nate's game tomorrow, college
- 53:29Speaker 4: football at night, and then yes, we will be smoking
- 53:32Speaker 4: a Boston butt on Sunday all day and I'll just
- 53:36Speaker 4: be listening to g R. I'll be listening to the
- 53:38Speaker 4: content watching the games at one o'clock and four o'clock
- 53:41Speaker 4: and that's it. But that I had to, Hey, Dt,
- 53:44Speaker 4: I had to be responsible. I'm forty now, I'm a
- 53:47Speaker 4: grown man. I'm forty.
- 53:48Speaker 3: I had to be responsible.
- 53:50Speaker 1: You could be the kicker of the Buffalo Bills.
- 53:51Speaker 3: I had to let it go, absolutely, man, I had
- 53:55Speaker 3: to let it go.
- 53:56Speaker 4: So I'm gonna miss you guys on Sunday, but please
- 53:59Speaker 4: have all of the fund in the world.
- 54:00Speaker 1: Man, Hey Rob, we will miss you as well, completely understand.
- 54:05Speaker 1: And you said it. Nickel City Crew takes on Charlotte
- 54:08Speaker 1: late October. That's gonna be one for the ages. That's
- 54:12Speaker 1: literally what they say. It's gonna be a movie. It's
- 54:13Speaker 1: literally gonna be a movie. We might have to make
- 54:15Speaker 1: a movie. Call Hard Knocks, Hard Knocks, get them back
- 54:19Speaker 1: down for Nickel City in October and Charlotte. So we're
- 54:21Speaker 1: pumped up for that. We are gonna have that. We
- 54:24Speaker 1: are gonna have that home playoff game.
- 54:25Speaker 3: Rob.
- 54:25Speaker 1: We are gonna get in this Ralph one more time
- 54:27Speaker 1: together and bring your ratchet because we're ripping the seats
- 54:30Speaker 1: out and taking them home with us in the AFC
- 54:32Speaker 1: Championship Game as we go. So so yeah, we we
- 54:36Speaker 1: love you, Rob, We will miss you, but you're you're
- 54:37Speaker 1: gonna be there and uh, I'm sure we'll be facetiming
- 54:40Speaker 1: all day. You'll be there, you know, in in in spirit.
- 54:42Speaker 1: So definitely understand. We we stand together no matter what.
- 54:47Speaker 4: Yeah, man, we stand together for sure. And I want
- 54:50Speaker 4: you guys to have a fantastic time out there. Like
- 54:52Speaker 4: I said, I just had to make a decision based
- 54:53Speaker 4: on family and finances.
- 54:55Speaker 3: It just it's a lot going on.
- 54:57Speaker 4: And by the time that they had fed up and
- 54:59Speaker 4: it wasn't my f but by the time the Bills
- 55:01Speaker 4: had fed up there at their accounting department of the
- 55:03Speaker 4: season ticket department, I just it's too much hassle.
- 55:07Speaker 3: I've been with you guys.
- 55:07Speaker 4: Since two thousand and nine, since the fiftieth anniversary season too,
- 55:12Speaker 4: and I've been there man, So I've been loyal. I've
- 55:14Speaker 4: got nothing else to prove to anyone in respects to
- 55:17Speaker 4: Bill's baffay or to the Buffalo Bills themselves. I'm dedicated
- 55:20Speaker 4: and I'll sit this one out, but I will make
- 55:23Speaker 4: it up to the Ralph for at least one game
- 55:26Speaker 4: hopefully hopefully the playoffs, we can take care of business
- 55:29Speaker 4: and we can and close out the Ralph the right way.
- 55:32Speaker 3: DT, it's when was your first opener?
- 55:34Speaker 4: Because I was thinking back WG I was talking about
- 55:37Speaker 4: this one.
- 55:37Speaker 3: I was like, man, I think that my first opener was.
- 55:42Speaker 4: And I was like, man, I know, I'm going way back,
- 55:44Speaker 4: but I thought it was might have been Rex Ryan's
- 55:47Speaker 4: first year, the Percy Harvin against the Colts.
- 55:50Speaker 3: I think that was, like you know what.
- 55:52Speaker 4: I mean was seasons like mine goes back to nine.
- 55:57Speaker 4: You know, so I've been up there and stuff like that,
- 55:59Speaker 4: but but you you miss games and stuff, you sell
- 56:01Speaker 4: tickets back and stuff like that. So it's been sporadic.
- 56:03Speaker 4: But like, man, DT, we go way back. When when
- 56:07Speaker 4: was your first opener? Do you can you even go
- 56:09Speaker 4: back that far?
- 56:10Speaker 1: I well, I know the one with seasons was that
- 56:12Speaker 1: Colts game Percy Harvin from Tyrode that deep drop. We
- 56:17Speaker 1: took a party bus from Syracuse as well before we met,
- 56:20Speaker 1: and I knew about the brass loader anything like that.
- 56:25Speaker 1: I think it was. I think it was the Jets
- 56:31Speaker 1: like five or six years before that with uh was
- 56:38Speaker 1: it was?
- 56:39Speaker 5: It lost Man, Yeah, yeah, JP Lossman, yes or no,
- 56:44Speaker 5: it was it was Houston, Houston, JP lost Man, Houston day.
- 56:49Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 56:50Speaker 1: They bawled out Lee Evans. I think had like a
- 56:52Speaker 1: buck sixty and they beat Houston at home in the
- 56:55Speaker 1: home opener. That was my first opener.
- 56:57Speaker 4: Yeah, my first opener goes back. I mean I think
- 57:00Speaker 4: that it was before nine, but I can remember going
- 57:02Speaker 4: to see the Bills play against I think it was
- 57:05Speaker 4: the Steelers, and I mean, but I'm young.
- 57:08Speaker 3: This is back in the late nineties and stuff like
- 57:10Speaker 3: that was my first opener. But it was funny listening
- 57:12Speaker 3: to gr this.
- 57:13Speaker 4: Morning, because you're trying to like trace back, and I'm like,
- 57:15Speaker 4: I can't even go back that far, Like I don't
- 57:17Speaker 4: even remember when it was, but listen so many memories
- 57:20Speaker 4: there at the Route, and always it gives me chills
- 57:23Speaker 4: DT when I hear you talk about that story about
- 57:25Speaker 4: how you never wanted the clock to end when you
- 57:27Speaker 4: went to your first game, and that just always brings
- 57:30Speaker 4: a tear to my eye because I remember what it
- 57:32Speaker 4: was like for me going to the Route for the
- 57:34Speaker 4: first time, and then going you know, and then becoming
- 57:37Speaker 4: a season ticket holder, getting older after I moved down
- 57:39Speaker 4: here to Charlotte, all of the memories. Listen this season,
- 57:43Speaker 4: just enjoy it, Bill's Mafia, Soak it all in. Sunday Night,
- 57:46Speaker 4: soak it all in. I heard there's gonna be a
- 57:48Speaker 4: drone show at halftime and all this other stuff, and listen,
- 57:51Speaker 4: soak it all in. Take as many videos as you can,
- 57:54Speaker 4: just to kind of be nostalgic and to make sure
- 57:56Speaker 4: that you have these memories because it's truly a great place.
- 57:59Speaker 3: It's truly place that means a lot to us.
- 58:01Speaker 4: And I know that we'll have fun at the new stadium,
- 58:03Speaker 4: and you and I will be there and the home
- 58:05Speaker 4: openers and stuff like that. We'll have a lot of
- 58:07Speaker 4: fun at the new Stadium. But it's going to be
- 58:08Speaker 4: a lot different. There's something about the rock Pile. There's
- 58:11Speaker 4: something about the three hundreds. There's something about just the
- 58:14Speaker 4: fact of, like when it's a sunny day and we're
- 58:17Speaker 4: sitting down there in the hundreds and it's just the sun,
- 58:19Speaker 4: it just seems like God is watching in the mills
- 58:22Speaker 4: play And I know that that can seem dramatic, but
- 58:24Speaker 4: it seems like man like there is nothing else going on.
- 58:28Speaker 4: And that's what makes Mark Levy's words ring true, like
- 58:31Speaker 4: that's where else would you rather be? And like, listen, man,
- 58:34Speaker 4: I moved down to Charlotte in six and by nine
- 58:37Speaker 4: I told you guys, it's a joke. But like I
- 58:39Speaker 4: was scratching like a crack addic and I was like
- 58:41Speaker 4: I don't want to be here on a Sunday in Charlotte,
- 58:45Speaker 4: like I need to be back with my people. And
- 58:47Speaker 4: that's what spurred everything in two thousand and nine to
- 58:48Speaker 4: get those season tickets.
- 58:50Speaker 3: I was like, what, what is it? Some gas?
- 58:52Speaker 4: And then I had like, you know, like Bobby was
- 58:54Speaker 4: in the other and I'm like what, I'm just gonna
- 58:56Speaker 4: spend some gas and to go like no problem, man.
- 58:59Speaker 3: And they were the.
- 58:59Speaker 4: Cheapest season tickets in the league at the time. DT yeah,
- 59:02Speaker 4: us in Cleveland. Cleveland was like at seven fifty. We
- 59:05Speaker 4: were at like nine hundred dollars. And I was like whatever, man,
- 59:09Speaker 4: Like I for two tickets, not one two.
- 59:11Speaker 1: And I was like, man, people are paying that to
- 59:13Speaker 1: get in Sunday.
- 59:16Speaker 4: I know, I saw the stuff up. It's crazy, man,
- 59:18Speaker 4: It's just just the memory. So just that's my my
- 59:21Speaker 4: PSA to Bill's mafia. Enjoy all of it. Enjoy the
- 59:24Speaker 4: national anthem. Enjoy the tailgate with your people and your
- 59:28Speaker 4: family and friends. It's just going to be something where
- 59:30Speaker 4: this is the last home opener, and this is the last,
- 59:33Speaker 4: and we're just going to keep doing the more, the last,
- 59:35Speaker 4: the last, the last, the last, all season long. Enjoyed
- 59:38Speaker 4: out there, Bills Mafia. If you're up there in Western
- 59:39Speaker 4: New York or if you're traveling for that game, it's
- 59:43Speaker 4: you're now. One thing you did say tonight, I disagree
- 59:45Speaker 4: with a lot of shit you said tonight, DT, but
- 59:48Speaker 4: one thing that you said is true.
- 59:49Speaker 3: It is going to be full throttle.
- 59:51Speaker 4: On Sunday night, so uh Lamar's cadence is going to
- 59:54Speaker 4: be all messed up that it's going to be full
- 59:57Speaker 4: throat and I can't I cannot wait, DT.
- 59:59Speaker 3: I'm really excited for this game.
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: The last home opener before Lombardi.
- 1:00:07Speaker 3: I love it. I love it. I love it. I
- 1:00:09Speaker 3: love it. I love it.
- 1:00:10Speaker 4: I'm with that energy, man. I'm down with you. Man,
- 1:00:12Speaker 4: I'm down with you. Eventually it's got to happen. I mean,
- 1:00:16Speaker 4: I'm down. I'm down with you, man. Listen out there,
- 1:00:19Speaker 4: enjoy your weekend for sure. Be safe out there, enjoy
- 1:00:22Speaker 4: the game all the festivities. Be safe out there as
- 1:00:24Speaker 4: well on Sunday leading into Sunday night. DT is right,
- 1:00:27Speaker 4: those tailgates can go a little bit long on those
- 1:00:29Speaker 4: night games, so make sure you pace yourself and make
- 1:00:32Speaker 4: sure that you actually can get into the stadium. You
- 1:00:34Speaker 4: don't want to be passed out in the parking lot.
- 1:00:35Speaker 4: So listen, be good out there, listen, spread love out there,
- 1:00:39Speaker 4: not hate. These were my bills, thoughts said out loud
- 1:00:41Speaker 4: with a go bills, DT, Go bills one and all
- 1:00:45Speaker 4: want to know, I love it, I love it, I
- 1:00:47Speaker 4: love it, I love it.