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- 0:09Fifteen degrees. You can see you a breath out here in the lake effect,
- 0:17breaking tables like a tree. Where else would you have to be?
- 0:23And Ran Elvis and the lay Panchow. Remember that you need to know.
- 0:30I want you out in now, your family. Where else would you happy?
- 0:38Where else would you welcome into the Nickel City Crew. I am your
- 0:44host, Rob Crippin. Please like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram
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- 0:57We're so glad that you're joining us for some of your Buffalo bills and NFL
- 1:00content again today, and as always, these are my Bill's thoughts are set
- 1:04out loud. It's a vibe so ridiculous. Joy plus eighty three was sick
- 1:14shout. Where else would you want to be? All right, let's get
- 1:23straight to it. I am really excited about tonight's episode for a multitude of
- 1:29different reasons. I know that everybody had a lot of fun on Monday night
- 1:33pun intended, but I wanted to start the show with a little bit of
- 1:36a lighter note for sure, and We're happy. We've been you know,
- 1:38promoting at Nickels City Crew for the last couple of weeks, now letting you
- 1:42know about what was coming up, and it's it's finally all Ryan for Sure
- 1:46joining us tonight. We've got a special guest we told you about him joining
- 1:49me as always, Ryan Shako with me my co host, Adam dump Truck
- 1:53rupsick ill at the Crew DT. Check them out on Instagram at Adam rupsick
- 1:57r U p c Z y okay DT. We got some ship to get
- 2:01into, man, but we're gonna well, we'll get to it later,
- 2:04man, but yeah, probably at the Crew DT. Man, I know
- 2:07it's been Nickel City. We're back, We're back. We'll get well,
- 2:09we'll chop it up a little tonight. But excited to be back home home
- 2:14opener. And we know we know the vibe and the meaning of what that
- 2:17means to all of us and how we became and everything in between. So
- 2:22excited for this week. Excited to chop it up, put it behind us
- 2:24and go. But big show tonight. Let's go, crew, Yea,
- 2:27let's go. It's a big show for sure, DT. And we're really
- 2:30excited joining us, you know, twenty six shirts. If you guys haven't
- 2:34gone over there, please hop on over at twenty six shirts dot com.
- 2:37We always talk about it and promoted here at Nickel City Crew, which again
- 2:39we simulcast on the Buffalo fan based podcast network. I got in touch with
- 2:45the Godfather and he was kind enough to let me come and kiss his ring.
- 2:49And then he told me, you know, to me, just don't
- 2:51talk any business on the on the day of my daughter's wedding. And I
- 2:53said, okay, no problem. So we're happy. Man Dell Read,
- 2:55one of the co founders of the Bills Mafia themselves, is in the building.
- 3:00Man, holla at the crew. Uh Dell, I mean we are.
- 3:04We're excited to have you. I mean, I mean, I don't
- 3:06know what we had to do. We have to road like anymore carpets,
- 3:07mem we are really excited to have them. I'm excited to be on.
- 3:10It's quite an intro. Thank you so much. That's, you know,
- 3:15very humbling. So no, thank you so much. I've been looking forward
- 3:17to as myself, just getting even you know, like you said, chop
- 3:21it up with you guys. I want to talk about you know, whatever
- 3:23you guys want to talk about Let's do it. Yeah, let's do it
- 3:28then, I mean we I know we can talk about the game for sure,
- 3:30and that's at everybody's mind, but we wanted to talk a few things
- 3:32about about you and about the Bill's Mafia themselves. I wanted you to kind
- 3:37of bring our listeners in behind the scenes, if you could. Some of
- 3:39our are a little young, I mean, Mike, even my Kings listened
- 3:43to the show, so some of the listeners may not know about Bill's Mafia.
- 3:46They'll hear it, they'll see it on stickers and things like that.
- 3:49Explain to the crew about Bill's Mafia, how it did it start. I
- 3:52know that there's been a lot of different stories about it. I don't know
- 3:53if it's could be Mitchell or Bill, Stevie Johnson or whatever happened, But
- 3:58how did it start? Because Bill's Mafia is obviously something that we identify with.
- 4:02It's really kind of how it's like a family. To be honest,
- 4:05that we always talked about the raffia means family and that that really brings true
- 4:10for me in DT for sure. Yeah, no, I'm happy to share
- 4:14it with you guys. I'll give you the abbreviated version because I could go
- 4:16on for an hour about it, because there's some of those details and rabbit
- 4:18trails, and sometimes I'm tempting to go down. But really it was a
- 4:24joke. It was a joke I made back in twenty eleven with UH,
- 4:28with Brian Harris and Leslie Willie and a few other folks. We had gotten
- 4:31blocks by Adam Schefter for some teasing that we sent his way back in twenty
- 4:36ten when Stevie dropped the pass and went on Twitter and kind of question god.
- 4:44Schefter retweeted it like a day later, and you know, we're Bills
- 4:46fans, so we're super sensitive, easily butt hurt. We're started going after
- 4:51him a little bit. And I always say that, like the promise,
- 4:55we weren't being nasty. We weren't dropping F bombs. Twitter wasn't like the
- 4:58vitriolic environment it can be now, really like for me at least, you
- 5:05know when I if I even saw again an F bomb or something that back
- 5:09then and they're like, WHOA, what is it? So right now it's
- 5:12like you gotta like whatever you see all the time. But like we were,
- 5:15we were being good natured about it, and he blocked us, and
- 5:16so I made a tongue in cheek reference to us like six months later,
- 5:21called us the Bills Mafia, and it was just a joke. It was
- 5:26a joke. And I was in the middle of picking up a pizza actually
- 5:28on a Friday night. Uh, picking the pizza. I'm waving to get
- 5:31done. I'm sitting there hanging out on Twitter like I always do, and
- 5:34fired off that tweet and closed my phone and took the pizza home, made
- 5:38the pizza. I looked at the phone later and I was like, oh,
- 5:40it's got some it's got some run. Yeah. Yeah, but I
- 5:43wasn't I wasn't trying to do anything with it, and like it kind of
- 5:46like just kind of that was it. It kind of blew over and then
- 5:47Bree kind of hyped it up over the summer and get into training camp and
- 5:55the h some of the players started seeing it and it was Barnett at yeah,
- 6:01yeah, yeah. They both had that long kind of ye Harris,
- 6:05I can see I can you know, ten years later, twelve years later,
- 6:09I can see why it gets kind of fuzzy, But like, no,
- 6:12Nick Barnett saw it, and uh, you know, I thought it
- 6:15was cool, and he made a custom mouth guard, and we all like
- 6:16were mind blown when a player was even seeing what we're doing and then embracing
- 6:20it. And then a bunch of players like Stevie right away, obviously,
- 6:26Aaron Williams, Fred Jackson, a bunch of players that started using it themselves
- 6:30and everything, and uh, you know, Brie and Leslie and I we
- 6:32were getting like our own audience build up from this joke that you know,
- 6:36just that we made that I made that We were kind of like trying to
- 6:41shepherd a little bit, and you know, created a website and started to
- 6:45like form a little bit of a community because Bill's Mafia at that time was
- 6:47not all Bills fans. It was a smaller subset of Bills fans on Twitter
- 6:53that were made fun of by the fans that didn't he goes some money.
- 6:56So like people used to call us burls Murfia all the time whole, but
- 7:00we were we were like the nerds a little bit in terms of those fans.
- 7:04But you know, we all it did was represent how much we love
- 7:08the team, how much we love each other as fellow fans, as a
- 7:11community Western New York and Western York at large, across the country of the
- 7:15world, and you know, we just we just continued to run with it.
- 7:19We did fundraiser tailgates, and you know, we weren't jumping through tables.
- 7:24I don't even know who started that. That was never us. Somebody
- 7:27jumped through a table once and yelled Bill's Mafia, and suddenly that was the
- 7:30thing. But but we've always really wanted to stress the family part of it,
- 7:33like you mentioned, because we're all you know, we only knew each
- 7:38other because we were staring into our phones talking about football. We shared that
- 7:42connection, we shared that love, and there was that, to use the
- 7:46word connection that we had. And so it was it was another uh fan
- 7:53uh Sean I can't remember his last name, dude, if you're watching this,
- 7:57I apologize. He actually the term fan base. He said he was
- 8:03trying to explain it to his girlfriend or whatever, and he said, yeah,
- 8:05we're like a family, were a fan base. I guess it's kind
- 8:07of a fan base. We saw that, dude, all right, yeah,
- 8:13and uh, I said, can we run with that? He's like,
- 8:15yeah, absolutely, go for it, and so we you know,
- 8:16wouldn't fast forward a couple of years, we created a nonprofit because we were
- 8:20doing stuff and we would didn't want to going it through our accounts. We
- 8:22wanted to have transparency, and so we called it. We called it Buffalo
- 8:28Fan Base Incorporated with the name of the nonprofit, and it just grew and
- 8:31grew, and then twenty six shirts grew out of that in twenty thirteen,
- 8:35and it's just gone to the point now where you know, Bill's Mafia.
- 8:39The Bills themselves have adopted the term. The people thought they stole that from
- 8:43us, and really what it was was they saw how popular the term was
- 8:48with the fans, with the players, and they said, we go,
- 8:52We're gonna embrace this. This is this is they're talking about us talking about
- 8:54Yeah, And so they brought me in before it was even announced that they
- 9:00were, you know, going to pursue that and everything, and you know,
- 9:03I had the opportunity to really talk with them at length. Ron Rakulia,
- 9:05Kim Pagoula got to really stress them like, this is not about like
- 9:11I know, I own a T shirt company, but this is not about
- 9:13T shirts. This is not about merchandise. Bill's Mafia is about community.
- 9:18It's about the family that we are and they really seem to understand it.
- 9:22And credit to them because they could have just you know, they could have
- 9:24just taken it. It's like, uh, this is mine now, taken
- 9:28it and run with it, and like, who what are we going to
- 9:30do except for like fire off mean tweets, you know, yes, And
- 9:33so they really embraced the origins of it, and they understood why we were
- 9:39doing what we were doing and what it represented. And you know, I've
- 9:41always had you know, their ear in terms of like if there was something
- 9:46that I wanted to you know, express or something I was concerned about there
- 9:50they would always listen. And that continues now. I mean, Ron is
- 9:52left and obviously Kim Pagoula situation. We pray for her, we hope for
- 9:56the best for her. But everybody in that organization that I have dealt with,
- 10:00outside of even those two names, have been awesome to work with.
- 10:03And it's it's cool because you know, the last thing you want is you
- 10:07don't want a weirdness between you and your your favorite team, right absolutely,
- 10:13that would be will be horrible, And there would have been no weirdest with
- 10:16them for me or for them with me. Who who might read? But
- 10:20it was it was great. I mean, they and they have like like
- 10:24I said, they shepherd it. They've done a great job of it,
- 10:26and they're always open to input. So that's a really sweet story and story
- 10:30because I mean that I mean and when you look at it, like you
- 10:33know, I'm on the website now since you're twenty six shirts at one point
- 10:35eight million raised to date, and if you guys again are not familiar,
- 10:39you know, twenty six shirts, they're they're all T shirt designs that are
- 10:43going. All the profits go to you know, these families and sometimes their
- 10:46situations are are really bad and really dire, and they've got children that are
- 10:50in trouble. What are the case may be. So the fact that you
- 10:52know, you guys give a portion of that to these families to help them
- 10:56and support them, I just think it's so dope because I love the shirts
- 10:58and I've bought you know, a few over the years for sure, and
- 11:01we kind of plugged that and then to hear the fan base, that's the
- 11:05part that really sticks with meat DT because that is literally it though, like
- 11:09Buffalo is a family, you know what I mean, and the bills do
- 11:11bring that together. So like that that name is so perfect and when you
- 11:15know, Justice General reached out to me and asked me if we could come
- 11:18on and I could start. When I started my podcast, I just I
- 11:20like the name the best time, Like, you know, built in Buffalo
- 11:22sounds cool. And I heard about Buffalo Rumblings where my boy Jay Spence is,
- 11:26but like Buffalo fan base, it just the name itself really intrigued me.
- 11:31So again, we we really appreciate it over here DT, because that's
- 11:35pretty cool of DV. I did not know the fan base card about it.
- 11:39Yeah, And I mean you're talking you kind of set the trend for
- 11:41the entire league of now every team has some sort of model, some sort
- 11:48of yeah right, and all the tightened up or school in Minnesota and in
- 11:52Mafia is kind of the leading the leader in that in that clubhouse, and
- 11:58it just sounds cooler, it's cleaner, it's you know, I'm proud to
- 12:01be a part of it. As I was down in New Jersey this weekend
- 12:03with you know, obviously going to the game with a bunch of all all
- 12:07Jets people and they're like, oh, you're in the mafia. I'm like,
- 12:11I'm a made man. I couldn't be more in the mafia, right,
- 12:16So that's it's it's a really cool thing that's kind of started the whole
- 12:20NFL. Like people like this stuff, you know. Yeah, no,
- 12:22I appreciate the kind of words man, and it's you know, really it's
- 12:26just uh. And Breed would say the same thing. Leslie would say the
- 12:30same thing. Anybody who's been around, you know for twelve years and part
- 12:33of it would would agree, like, dude, it never gets old.
- 12:39It never gets old being at the stadium and hearing the person over the PA
- 12:43say Bills Mafia, get on your feet or a new player you know,
- 12:48signed with a team or get drafted. First thing they tweet is just Bill's
- 12:52Mafia. That's it, Bills my head, you know, it just it's
- 12:54it's crazy. It's just loaded with so much meeting now, you know.
- 13:00Yeah, and it's uh, it's an honor to be to be a part
- 13:03of it. I didn't I always say like, if you know, if
- 13:05it wasn't Mafia, it was going to be something else, because Bills fans,
- 13:11our time was coming. We love this team too much not to unite
- 13:15and not to support the team with everything we have and to show our you
- 13:18know, our pride you know, out in the real world and social media
- 13:22and everything. So if it wasn't Bills Mafia. It was gonna be something
- 13:24else. But selfishly, I'm glad it was absolutely kudos kudos to you and
- 13:33in the whole founding fan base of really the setting the tone of like not
- 13:37making it corporate, not making it, you know, keeping it blue collar,
- 13:41keeping it true Bills fans culture and you know, and that means a
- 13:46lot. And I think that's why it stuck so long, and I don't
- 13:50think it'll ever leave. I mean, how can how can the maffia ever
- 13:52change? Now? You know, now you got mafia baby, your uncle,
- 13:56so many kids across Western York and the CUD. I mean, yeah,
- 14:00that mean Bill's Mafia. It permeates throughout the fan base and it really
- 14:03you know, it's funny that the Dell said that I know he's gotta he's
- 14:05got to skate out of here, but that that is funny because every single
- 14:09time I do see a new player sign free agency anything, you know,
- 14:11what's up my fia. You know, even when to came to town,
- 14:13you know, it was holling at the mafia. And that I can't imagine
- 14:16if it was my phrase or you know, or something that I had a
- 14:20part of of hearing that, because you're absolutely right. I don't even understand
- 14:22how it could never get old. So that that is really cool, man.
- 14:26We really appreciate you to that. Coming on again, head on over
- 14:28to twenty six shirts dot com and all of the proceeds a portion of the
- 14:33process, they actually go to these families. They go and actually help these
- 14:35families out that are going through some things with their T shirt designs. And
- 14:39again, the shirts are so dope. Shirts dope. I mean, these
- 14:43guys are always coming out with the good stuff. Yeah, yeah, we're
- 14:46trying, we're trying. I got an awesome team. It's not just the
- 14:48Dell Red Show. I got an awesome team that's working with me on that
- 14:50stuff. And uh, but yeah, you know, it's great. It's
- 14:54fun to do it. It's an honor to be like at the stadium or
- 14:58be Wegmans or wherever and somebody's wearing one of the shirts, like, oh
- 15:01my gosh, Like, you know, nothing pretty cool. You know,
- 15:05nothing's handed to us. We you know, we uh you know, we
- 15:09work for it. We appreciate it with people, Uh appreciate it. So
- 15:13just it's cool too. It's cool to be a part of this this family
- 15:16you know this fan base, you know that we have. Well, we
- 15:18are really excited again. Our shows are airing on Thursdays and we simulcast on
- 15:24the Buffalo Family based podcast network. Again, Delbry, we really appreciate you
- 15:28joining us, and I take it some time out of your night from your
- 15:30family. We appreciate it. Salute to the salute to your godfather, for
- 15:33sure. Man, we appreciate that you're joining us tonight. Man. No,
- 15:37I appreciate the indvite. Keep up with great work, guys. Okay,
- 15:39appreciate it. Detail man, Go Bills, Yeah, absolutely, go
- 15:43Bills. I mean that was Those are some cool stories man. I mean
- 15:46I could not even imagine being the founder of the Maha field. Like he
- 15:50said. You know, you've heard in the stadium where you see like you
- 15:52just saw your water bottle, Like that's that's pretty crazy, man. And
- 15:56I love that. And I love that point that you said about corporate.
- 15:58Now you know, I'm sure that they make some money, but they did
- 16:00not let the bills steal it from him and take it from him and make
- 16:03it all buttoned up. And I really like I like that a lot,
- 16:06DT for sure. Yeah, No, it speaks true, like I said
- 16:10the blue collar. It couldn't be more bills, couldn't be more western New
- 16:14York. And I I kind of knew like small stories of how it kind
- 16:18of got started, but it was really wrong linebacker, But I knew it
- 16:22was a linebacker, right, but it was They were waiting like and literally
- 16:26the mafia was waiting for something like this to come along. And and you
- 16:29know, thank God for the success the past couple of years to kind of
- 16:32blow it up and make it more than just a muffle thing. But but
- 16:36I love it. It's easy, it rolls off the tongue. It's I'm
- 16:38proud to be a man? Are you are? You are? We're all
- 16:45made, We're all made. We didn't have to kill anybody. Yeah,
- 16:49I love it. Man. Again, appreciate the rejoining us tonight for that,
- 16:53and again headed over to twenty six shirts dot com to kind of support
- 16:56and show your support as well. DT. We we got to get into
- 17:00it, and you know what I mean, Like I mean, I really
- 17:03appreciate del kind of coming on because it kind of gave it a little bit
- 17:06of levity to start the show. DT. Man, I've had a really
- 17:10hard week. I know that you and I talk off off air, off
- 17:12the time, and this week was really really tough for me. Now we'll
- 17:17get to your report from the Meadowlands and we'll get to your Medlife stadium experience.
- 17:19I know that it was raining and it was going through a lot of
- 17:22stuff down there, so you had a deaf and experience as well. Before
- 17:26we get to your game day experience in Jersey, DT, I've got it.
- 17:30I just I need to sit on the couch, if you don't mind,
- 17:32I have to lay down on this couch and I need your help,
- 17:33man, because what I'm what I'm trying, I'm going through some things right
- 17:37now, DT, I am working against I don't want to change how Josh
- 17:42Allen got behind me. Okay, he got on the matten covered because of
- 17:47some of the great things that he does and you know, leaping over linebackers
- 17:49and in cornerbacks and doing the things that he does that makes him Josh Allen.
- 17:53However, there is a clear problem that I'm seeing with him, and
- 17:57it goes back to last year and I know that you and I have talked
- 18:00about it, and I'm having some trouble kind of reckoning both of them because
- 18:06I don't want to neuter our quarterback. That again is why he's over my
- 18:08shoulder on this Matten cover. So you won't get you can't get the good
- 18:11without some of the bad. And I understand that how that works. You
- 18:14can't ask somebody to cook your gourmet meal in the kitchen and then bitch that
- 18:18the kitchen's dirty, you know what I mean. You know that's gonna happen.
- 18:19So there's gonna be some stuff that's spilled. Boy, DT, I'm
- 18:22going through right now, and I'm having a really tough time. Bills,
- 18:25as we all know, lose on Monday Night football in inexplicable fashion. Aaron
- 18:29Rodgers goes down four plays into the game DT, and we lose to Zach
- 18:34Wilson for a second time. It was inexplicable. Defense played well, they
- 18:38were providing pressure, they were even though the secondary was good for them as
- 18:42well. They only had one big run out to Bruce Hall. And the
- 18:45only way to lose that game DT was to let them in the game and
- 18:49keep them in the game, and and seventeen did a damn good job of
- 18:52it. And it's it's really got me messed up, to be honest,
- 18:56this week. I'm just going on right at least so robbed. I mean,
- 19:00we'll we'll chomp it up, We'll get into it. I mean,
- 19:03I think I'm gonna talk you out the ledge a little bit as you're you
- 19:06know, as the point of this shows the whole reason why you said,
- 19:08you know, your bill sought set out loud, and we do this almost
- 19:11therapy and good and bad ways. You know, we got to talk about
- 19:15the bad, we got to talk about the good and and so I think
- 19:17i'll, you know, by the end, you'll you'll be putting your hour
- 19:19to ly rate to me, and you know, I'll get you back where
- 19:22you need to be from when we meet up on Sunday for the Raiders.
- 19:26But it, yeah, it's a tough one anyway you look at it.
- 19:29And it all starts with the three hundred million dollar man. I mean,
- 19:33if if we're not paying our quarterback three hundred mill you can look at a
- 19:36lot of other excuses in this game. There's a lot of other things that
- 19:40you know, you can point to. But the dude with the with the
- 19:42bag gets the gets the blame. And and he stood up there and took
- 19:47it and stood up there and does it, and he always does and I
- 19:49think always will but you know, well, we'll get into it a little
- 19:52more. But tough for sure all the way around, especially in the fact
- 19:57of wins and losses and the Chiefs losing, the Bengals losing, and you
- 20:02could get a cheap one and a workman's victory. A sixteen to three would
- 20:06have been a fine. We've still been critical, but you know, the
- 20:10loss really really does hurt. And moving forward, it's gonna against the divisional
- 20:15opponent, the Kryptonite Zach Wilson good last year in the Metal Lands, they
- 20:18take them good, the Kryptonite rypt I mean DT. You know, listen.
- 20:26One thing that it's funny that we had del red on tonight because one
- 20:30thing that I've learned about the Mafia DT is that they are we are very
- 20:33defensive, you know what I mean of our guys, and we're very kind
- 20:37of you know, we kind of shelter and protect them, and I understand
- 20:40that that whole Moniker. One thing that the Mafia is made very clear is
- 20:44that you know, they don't like when you talk ill about Josh Allen and
- 20:47they and they'll go at anybody's neck. They'll go again, you know,
- 20:49Dolphins, any any other fan base. But The problem is that they also
- 20:52come at your neck, even if you're a part of the mafia and you're
- 20:56we're fellow members. Listen. I don't think that there's anything wrong with being
- 21:00critical of Josh Allen. And you've talked about it just to start two hundred
- 21:03and fifty million dollars one hundred and fifty guaranteed, so there's a level of
- 21:07accountability that comes with that. So because of that, I don't think that
- 21:11there's anything wrong with being critical of his play. Sometimes that makes people uncomfortable.
- 21:15Sometimes that makes people kind of squirm a little bit, but that doesn't
- 21:18bother me. I don't care that you'd get uncomfortable or that I said that
- 21:22he played shitty and that bothers you. Listen. I call a spade a
- 21:26spade. A part of this product, you know, the podcast and the
- 21:27actual platform was for me to actually get my stuff out there and be real.
- 21:30I can't be fake. I can't be in authentic because that's just not
- 21:33me. So I've got to keep it real DT. I named the episode
- 21:40the way that I did because I'm wondering if the sugar Hi Josh Allen is
- 21:42coming back, and I know that people want to say, well, don't
- 21:45be too hyperbolic. It goes back to last year, DT, right around
- 21:51that mid season. We talked about it on this show at nauseum about something's
- 21:53different. It's a little bit harder. I've got my theories on what's going
- 21:57on about it, But DT, I don't think that there's any way that
- 22:02you can combine Cincinnati game with this game and not be a little at least
- 22:07a little bit worried about your quarterback and worried about the direction that we're going
- 22:10in and say that everything is over with. I haven't said that we're not
- 22:12going to win the Super Bowl, that I hope that we win, but
- 22:15boy, this this sugar hi Josh Allen thing. I thought we were past
- 22:18this ship, to be honest, and I'm no, I'm starting to get
- 22:22worried again. I mean, and dan Orlosky really broke it down the other
- 22:26day so well and said it's time to grow up, and it made it
- 22:27set chills up my spot. I'm like, we had an entire episode about
- 22:30it's time to grow up and we were talking to the fan base. This
- 22:33is different, man, this is the quarterback, Like you said, two
- 22:36hundred fifty million dollars. This is this is the guy. If he can't
- 22:38get it together or he continues to think that he has to put on this
- 22:42cape, this could spell this could spell problems man for us this season.
- 22:45And we've got big things that we're trying to get accomplished this year. Well,
- 22:48the biggest argument against last the way things ended with the Cincinnati game was
- 22:53all right, offseason, let's regroup, let's roll or get back going.
- 22:57They went through a lot gets the Jets went through a lot all this bs,
- 23:03let's go, let's ball out again, and you know, like Black
- 23:04Madden cover the whole deal, like, well, regroup and get it done.
- 23:08And then the first chapter and the regroup and get it done is the
- 23:12worst we've ever seen. This is worse than probably the Texan sugar High because
- 23:18literally career high turnovers at four, you know, which we can break down
- 23:22those turnovers, won't you know, we won't go four turnovers this four turnovers
- 23:27and a loss is a loss. And scoring sixteen points is not gonna win
- 23:32a lot of games in the NFL. Scoring sixteen points turning the ball over
- 23:34four times, you're not gonna win, you know, realistically. And that
- 23:38was that was a proof even though the Jets do have a good roster and
- 23:41good team, but this was the chapter we were looking for the regroup for
- 23:45the reset, and it was probably the worst. It was completely opposite in
- 23:48the other directions. So so I understand the hesitant, I understand the kind
- 23:53of dark cloud over it, you know, but I'm going to be the
- 23:57cliche, you know, I'll overreact after week two and three. I'm not
- 24:02over reaction about week one. There's a lot of things that go back and
- 24:04you can you can stack up and say, well, this is consistent.
- 24:07This is the problem. Josh said it in his press conference. Same shit.
- 24:11He literally said, same shit, like yeah, so that you know
- 24:15there there's there's rightfulness to be concerned and that's not acceptable at all of what
- 24:19we saw on Monday night. You know, as we get as we break
- 24:22down the game a little more, I think I have some reasoning where I
- 24:26kind of go into and say, why I don't think it's as big a
- 24:30deal as I think you're saying to it. Because one of the things,
- 24:33one of the things that bothers me about and you just hit on it just
- 24:37at the end DT, is that just because he says that he understands,
- 24:40and he talks about that he understands. Does it Actions speak louder than words,
- 24:44So I need you to actually follow up with what you're saying. Yeah,
- 24:47all the season I've heard was how focused you are, and I'm so
- 24:51focused and I'm so focused on football and blah blah blah. And we talked
- 24:53about it, because you even talked about like, wow, that was a
- 24:56weird press conference that when Steph, you know, stephnis got back and he's
- 25:00tell my love and You're like, yeah, that's kind of weird, like
- 25:03because we already know that you love him, so why are you talking like
- 25:04that? So like all of the stuff is just a little bit odd to
- 25:07be and I've got my theories, but you break it down, man,
- 25:10I mean, for three interceptions, the fumble, you know it was,
- 25:14it was a bad game. And just to talk sometimes is following on deaf
- 25:17ears because I it's just like with my kids, man, I could tell
- 25:21them, but I have to watch what they're doing because you know, they
- 25:22could say anything to me. But I've got to see what your actions are
- 25:26lining up with your words before I'll trust you. And Josh has been good
- 25:29since literally he was a rookie at the talking part. You know, you're
- 25:33talking get the city behind him, and you know, and work out,
- 25:36but he has the city behind him for a reason. You know, you
- 25:38don't get it. Well, I might eat my words here, but you
- 25:41don't get on the cover of Man with on a fluke, even though there
- 25:45was a few flukes. But but since he's been in the league, right
- 25:52and we're thirteen and three. Last year the one of the best playoff of
- 25:56performances we've ever seen the year before that, and you know, great run
- 26:00to the FC Championship the year before that. So this dude isn't you know,
- 26:03it's not a He's not a fluke. And I don't think we have
- 26:07to argue that on Nickel City Crew. I don't think you think that.
- 26:08I don't think Nickeol City Crew thinks that at all. So I'm not saying
- 26:12it's an argument of him being a fluke or not. And he's back and
- 26:15whatever. But you have to, you know, the good has to weigh
- 26:19outweigh the bad. And we've been through a lot of bullshit, Rob You
- 26:22know that, the drought and everything. We know it more than anybody,
- 26:26but you know it is so are we lucky enough to have a perfect guy.
- 26:30Probably not who does have a perfect guy? Probably one team. Arguably
- 26:37maybe it's one five. I'm not gonna sit here on record and say it
- 26:40is one five. But other than one five, would rather have straight up
- 26:44all this. We can be critical, we can talk shit, we can
- 26:47we are that's our job right now on Nicol crew to be critical. One
- 26:49seven and what he did Monday night, because he did lose at if butts
- 26:56about that, But who looked me in the eyes? And who else would
- 26:59you rather have? Then one seven? Possibly some people may say one five
- 27:03because he has the accolades now and and he's in his earn bows. But
- 27:06who else would you have a rab in the entire world? Then one seven?
- 27:08And I think that's what you really got to dig down and get to,
- 27:11because yeah, there's the sugar high is gonna come out. The imperfections
- 27:15are gonna come out, but the good outweighs the bad for the last you
- 27:18know, four years we fell in love, and the world and the city
- 27:22has fallen in love. Bill's mafia has literally made this dude Elvis then something
- 27:26like darn near close to Jesus himself, you know. So it's it's that's
- 27:33the vibe. We have to vibe on it and it's not a fluke.
- 27:36And the stats show that and that the things have shown that. It's It's
- 27:40got gotten to me a little bit talking this week about you know, all
- 27:44the running less and the and chucking it up and doing that, Like,
- 27:47yes, he did all that Monday. He made horrible decisions and did all
- 27:49that. But I think the NFL is a flow game. There's a flow
- 27:52of a game, there's a flow of a series, there's a flow of
- 27:56the team. And there was a lot more going on, I think Monday
- 27:59than just Josh being sucked like he did suck straight We're going on talk to
- 28:03me. So let's just being in that stadium with that energy, Aaron Rodgers
- 28:11coming in being then it's gonna be a battle of division rival battle between you
- 28:17know, Rogers, Rogers and Allen. It's the start of a new new
- 28:19rivalry coming in nine to eleven. Rodgers is coming out with the flag like
- 28:23I'm literally crying in the stadium, like Robert, this is this is big
- 28:27time in all different levels. Rodgers goes out. It literally was like you
- 28:33can hear that place. They're just out and then so the game plan changes
- 28:40from like, all right, heavyweight battle, We're going in throw them with
- 28:44these dudes too. All right, Rogers is out. We gotta finish him.
- 28:47We gotta finish him quick, we gotta finish him. And then this
- 28:51great Jets defense did not let Josh Allen finish him, did not let Josh
- 28:56Allen and the boys finish him, and he made bad decisions and they worked
- 28:59into it and they didn't let him finish. And so when it gave time
- 29:03to like, oh shit, we're not able to finish these dudes, it
- 29:07kind of turned into a little bit of a panic and a little bit of
- 29:08off the rails and a little bit of sugar hi Josh, if you will.
- 29:11So I think they were bathing him, though, I think they were
- 29:15bathing him, and and and one in one word that I keep hearing all
- 29:18week DT you know, you know, I'm an avid WGR listening. I
- 29:22keep hearing boring, and different guests keep coming on and talking about boring.
- 29:26And he's got you know, does Josh Allen have a problem with boring?
- 29:29Because listen, the number one, the number one thing for the quarterback is
- 29:33to protect the football. And then number two after that is to help your
- 29:37team win. Eighty four turnovers DT since he entered the league. Now,
- 29:41you can slice it any kind of way you want, and you could put
- 29:45Bill's Mafia frosting on it and different things like that. And I understand that
- 29:48we love the guy, and I understand everything that you spoke about how much
- 29:52he's he's revered in the city. Eighty four turnovers since twenty eighteen is a
- 29:56lot of turnovers. Now, I think that everybody in the Mafia, everybody
- 29:59Nicholson true, can agree that that's a lot and that down. Yeah,
- 30:03if you bumped that down to sixty to fifty, you could have a strong
- 30:07argument that, you know, we might have a superfinger, we might sup
- 30:10yet that's valid. So listen. I keep hearing about boring DT, and
- 30:15what I was wondering is that what is it? Is there something that you're
- 30:18able to pinpoint because I don't know if it matters if you're at the game
- 30:22or if you're watching on TV. But there was a look on Josh Allen's
- 30:26face where it was almost like he was like the deer in the headlights.
- 30:29It was very eerily similar of Houston of the Game of with Houston and That's
- 30:33why I named the episode the way that I did, because of the fact
- 30:36that I'm wondering if does he get bored with the game plan? Does he
- 30:40get there's almost there's a bravado about him, and again that's why he's on
- 30:45the cover. That's what I'm trying to say. I'm I'm going through a
- 30:48dichotomy basically right now. I recognize what got him on the Matten cover.
- 30:52I recognize what has gotten him to superstar status. So you can't new to
- 30:56the guy and say, hey, don't run anymore, but you can death
- 31:00tell him to be smart and don't dive over a linebacker when you're definitely not
- 31:03gonna get the first down and it's third, you know, it's whatever in
- 31:06eleven and you're you're just taking a hit for no reason, like you saw
- 31:08Sean mcgarbett saying be smart, and he's not. He's not listening to that
- 31:11shit. So I'm trying to figure out as a bravado is that I'm the
- 31:15man and I can do anything and I am superman or is it just that
- 31:21he just literally has brain farts on the field, Because he hasn't really shown
- 31:23us a lot of that since the Houston game. Eighty four turnovers is a
- 31:26lot, but sometimes it's just football. They actually said on WGR he's only
- 31:30played three clean games last year out of all the games, and that's what
- 31:33no picks and no fumbles, so clearly up you know, you know what
- 31:37I mean. He's gonna exactly so that's a part of him. He's gonna
- 31:41put the ball on the ground, He's gonna throw some picks. Sometimes he
- 31:44might have a fumble. Sometimes I'm willing to accept all of that. What
- 31:47I don't want to what I'm not willing to accept, excuse me, DT
- 31:49is a blatant disregard for situations and moments. We didn't have to have,
- 31:52hey makers, we didn't have to go up against Aaron Rodgers. What Zach
- 31:56Wilson comes in the game. Just parked the car in the garage. That's
- 31:59all I need you to do. And he's he's acting crazy. He was
- 32:02acting like sugar high Josh Allen and throwing the ball and going for the gut
- 32:07sEH. And I just I just don't know if that's the right thing.
- 32:09And I'm also more worried is is anything that we can turn off on him?
- 32:14And I'm I'm I'm at a loss for that. I don't know if
- 32:15we can turn it off. It's got to be something with growth, because,
- 32:19like you just said, an eighty four turnovers thirteen and three last year
- 32:22not as a successful record season, but uh, you know, an incline
- 32:27of the best football we've seen the year before that. So he's not having
- 32:30the consequences, you know, with these losses. You know, with the
- 32:34with the you know, the the Jets game last year, it wasn't necessarily
- 32:37the worst Josh Allen game we've ever seen. The Vikings game kind of had
- 32:43a little bit of that to it, and when it come down the stretch
- 32:45into overtime, you know that that dumb pick, you know whatever. But
- 32:49its these these bad games aren't resulting in losses, you know. It's my
- 32:55point. So he might not necessarily be learning from these as quick as he
- 33:00should be because he's not. They're not translating to else. Now, quick
- 33:04news flash, here we go. There. It's it's a quick el early
- 33:07on when all the spotlights are on you, when everything's on you, and
- 33:12you know, so we can hope that translates to him, like shit,
- 33:15Okay, this is like I literally have to learn from this and maybe him
- 33:19not losing those games previously because of this other than you know, when he
- 33:22was a young playoff guy in Houston and everything like that. Because the playoffs
- 33:25last year wasn't him turning the ball over as much. There was a lot
- 33:29of other things going on in that one, and then the year before that
- 33:31definitely wasn't his fault, you know, So the big games haven't been his
- 33:37fault. I would consider Monday night a pretty pretty dawn big game. I
- 33:39mean, even though it's there's a lot of seasons, you know, there's
- 33:43their own one. You you gotta you gotta win that game, especially after
- 33:45the Chiefs and the Bengals and me or whatever you want to say, you
- 33:50gotta win that game. So I don't think he's felt the consequences of this
- 33:52carelessness. Even with eighty four turnovers, he hasn't felt the consequences this.
- 33:58Hopefully does that come down to coaching then, because you know, I've heard
- 34:04different rhetorics, and I don't think that he's you know, he's belligerent or
- 34:07anything like that. I literally, I'm starting to literally think that he either
- 34:12can't turn it off or it's like it's so hard to explain. But it's
- 34:16like his his fucket factor is very high, like, and he'll go to
- 34:21that sometimes. And that's the problem that I think that I have with it,
- 34:24is that sometimes he'll just nah and then he'll just do whatever, and
- 34:28like I need him to kind of rein it in and understand like time and
- 34:30place and what's going on in the game. I'm not saying that he's sugar
- 34:34high Josh all the time, but what I'm trying to say is that his
- 34:37his forget it, I'm just gonna do it myself factor is very high.
- 34:42And I'm wondering if it's because he had to do so much last year,
- 34:45So is he already now carrying bad habits where he can't even turn off the
- 34:50fact that I do have weapons, I do have guys that are over I
- 34:52mean, we could break down every pick if you want to. We've got
- 34:54the All twenty two and I you know, I've I've heard a lot of
- 34:58conjecture and Gabe Davis didn't run nice route on one and then other people said
- 35:00we shouldn't even throw the ball his way anyway, you know, so everybody's
- 35:04got an opinion. I'm wondering if he can if he can understands time and
- 35:07situation, if he understands risk reward, and sometimes I'm not sure if he's
- 35:12calculating it correctly, which obviously leads to either coaching or it's something that's internal
- 35:17in him that that will never. It'll never You'll always be Brett five type
- 35:21of thing. And like, if that's the shase, then green Bay,
- 35:22you know, we should be like green Bay Packers fans back in the day,
- 35:24just buckle up, because yeah, right, like right, you don't
- 35:30like that's how they had to live their lives every Sunday. They knew Brett
- 35:34five was gonna throw two or pick two or three picks. But they knew
- 35:37that they had Brett five. So they've got a chance to win. Yeah,
- 35:39so they got a chance to win it. So I'm wondering, you
- 35:43know, I'm not I'm not going all in on that yet. I mean,
- 35:45if it gets to that point, you know, it is what it
- 35:46is, it's better than the drought, so whatever, But I'm not there
- 35:52yet. I'm not there yet, And I mean, is this a you
- 35:53know, is this a consequence almost him lashing out as we talked to the
- 35:58season started Gangbusters year. They look so good and if they talked after that
- 36:01bye week, it kind of got a little, it got harder. There
- 36:04was no easy layoffs. There was nothing easy. And is it similar to
- 36:07that now coming into this year and Josh is kind of lashing out, like,
- 36:12all right, this is this is this is too boring, this is
- 36:15too where. This isn't the offense we're used to where I'm the most dynamic,
- 36:17and so I'm gonna start hawking it down the field and not throwing picks
- 36:21on purpose or anything like that, but just like shit, I'm I'm gonna
- 36:24launch it because it's not in the game plan, and this is this is
- 36:28where you want me to be. I want to be dynamic. I want
- 36:30to be launching it. And that's not a good forget it. He's got
- 36:37a high it's a high factor for him sometimes yeah, yeah, it's it's
- 36:42it's it's interesting. Go ahead, go ahead these please, I'm having a
- 36:45tough time. I think super fair to be critical, super fair to be
- 36:50critical. It's on him, but it's always been like that. It's not
- 36:52like he's just been We want him to take control, we want him to
- 36:55be the alpha, and then he does and it's not working our way.
- 37:00Monday night, and it's like, oh Josh, you're being like you're playing
- 37:04hero ball. You're you know, you're doing this, and so it's somewhat
- 37:07stupid. Man. I yelled at my TV DT when he's on the sideline
- 37:09he needs tries to gain an extra yard and it's the first quarter of the
- 37:13first game. Why are you getting smack? I yelled at my TV,
- 37:15like, just get out of bounds, Like why you Sometimes I feel like
- 37:19he's flexing, or sometimes I feel like he's he's trying to show Hurtle.
- 37:23Yeah, wants the next hurdle to be, Oh, Josh Allen Hurtle because
- 37:27he knows the reception the mafia will give him for that. But you can't
- 37:30play to that though, DT, you can't you understand what I can't.
- 37:36I can't have you making decisions because you want to make another poster or you
- 37:40want to go above Alan Street. Oh you know what I mean? And
- 37:44like I can't have that. I don't I don't need that, Like that's
- 37:45not that's not part of your job description. Your job description is not to
- 37:49jump over linebackers and corners. Now, it was cool and how many people
- 37:52have it in their man caves. Yes, we've always we've talked about that
- 37:55at the beginning, Like, you know, Josh gave us another highlight.
- 37:58He gave us another man came poster, another woman k posted like, I
- 38:01get it. I don't want you thinking about that ship though, when you're
- 38:05stepping on the field. I want you thinking about doing your job. You've
- 38:07got a game script, you've got different things that you want to get accomplished.
- 38:10Your OC wants to get accomplished. We're gonna talk about the OC here
- 38:13in a minute. It's just I'm I'm worried about the fact that his his
- 38:16fIF his fucking factor is so high that I don't know if he's able to
- 38:22turn it off. And I'm not trying to play both sides. I know
- 38:24what you're trying to say. I just he does make mistakes. I'm not
- 38:28trying to track him. But it's like some of the stuff he does just
- 38:30like, what are you doing? Man? So let's let's say let's say
- 38:34he is doing that shit right, he is saying, oh, I want
- 38:37to be on the next poster. This is why they love me, this
- 38:39is why Buffalo loves Let's I'm not I don't agree with that, but let's
- 38:43say he is doing that, Okay, well hopefully this last Tuesday, Wednesday
- 38:46and tomorrow is checking him off on that because nobody everybody's on the gass now,
- 38:53you know, everybody's oh what are you doing? You know? So
- 38:58yeah, I hope that kind of clicks, like oh damn, like the
- 39:01mafia actually doesn't want me to do all that shit. Like if I win,
- 39:05it's cool. But if I do that shit and we lose, you
- 39:07know, I'm a look like a It looks like a before when you were
- 39:12jumping over guys with your eleven seven yards from the first downmarket, you're just
- 39:15taking it for no reason. Now as we as we continue and you know,
- 39:19we'll begin to wrap up a little bit. But I still got some
- 39:21stuffing off my chest. And we talked about coaching DT and I'm interested because
- 39:24you already know that I you know, I love Dable and I thought that
- 39:29we, you know, fired the wrong coach. I'd rather have an offensive
- 39:30coach, and YadA, YadA, YadA. Now that I was premature on
- 39:34that, you know what I mean, nobody's been calling for Sean mcdermot's job
- 39:36or anything like that here at Nickel City Crew. However, you all know
- 39:39my disdain for, you know, for the choice that they made. Listen,
- 39:44man, it's almost it's almost like it's almost like the other analysis I
- 39:49made the last time, like that the parents are out of the house and
- 39:51they left you the credit card and you're going buck wild on the credit card
- 39:54and they can see everything that you're spending and they're like, why is why
- 39:58is that? Why is DT at home? And he he's buying this,
- 40:00buy this, any buy this? Like we said that you're supposed to use
- 40:04it for food and if you need some transportation, and you are, you're
- 40:07buying everything. Listen. Dab Dabel had an accountabilit He had some type of
- 40:13relationship. I don't know if their personal relationship or anything like that. I
- 40:15know he's a buffalo kid. But he had his ear how about that?
- 40:17And he had Josh's respect. One of the things I've always been worried about
- 40:21with Dorsey is that they're so close, and that's gonna lead to my wrap
- 40:24up. But you know, they're close and they're boys and stuff like that,
- 40:27and I don't I don't know if it's almost a peer relationship and I
- 40:31don't need him to be a parent or anything like that. I'm talking about
- 40:35I want you to respect your coaches and look at them as coaches. I'm
- 40:37sure he looks at Seal McDermott totally different than he looks at you know,
- 40:40Ken Dorsey get closer in age. They both played quarterback, YadA, YadA.
- 40:45There's a lot of different comparisons and similarities. I don't know if he
- 40:49listens to Dorsey the way that he did Dabele or and or you know,
- 40:54maybe this Dorsey's not as good as a job as Dabel was because Dabel had
- 40:58his ear and this ship he cut out quick and he would get on Josh
- 41:01and he would shoot out Josh and all. And maybe you know, Josh
- 41:05isn't He was in a different point of his career maturity wise, and he's
- 41:07coming up through the ranks. You know, twenty twenty had just happened when
- 41:10he really, you know, hits that meteoric rides. But it's different.
- 41:15I don't It's like, is Ken Dorset his boy? And that's why he
- 41:19Okay, all right, all right, Ken, yep, Like okay,
- 41:21I hear you, I hear you, as opposed to you know, you
- 41:23know Dable, who he respected in that way. Well, you just said
- 41:28it. And when he when you know, Dable was on the come up
- 41:31with and Josh was on the column. Josh was learning Josh's nobody. Josh
- 41:36was a you know, no, no, yeah, he's still he was
- 41:39still doing first round. Every everyone talks shit, the bills wasted to pick
- 41:46on him, and everything comes up. Builds with Dable, builds gets good,
- 41:52makes that run you know, is electric in every avenue, kind of
- 41:54gets a little taste of what he could be. He leaves, and I
- 41:59think Josh kind of has that's that on his shoulders of Okay, like I'm
- 42:04him now, like I have to be that guy at all times. At
- 42:07Dabele coming in probably a little more not as you know, matter of fact,
- 42:12a little more Hey, let's talk about this together. Let's do this
- 42:14together. And and that could have possibly led to Josh kind of not disrespecting
- 42:20him in any way, but you know, a completely different mindset of I
- 42:22need to do everything to be a superstar and winning a championship for Buffalo.
- 42:29Dabele has the has the blueprint, has the mindset too. I know I
- 42:32can do this. Shit, Dorsey, Let's see what you got. I
- 42:36believe in you. But you know, it's not so much like I need
- 42:39you anymore. It's I got this called the plays as opposed to I need
- 42:44dabele get me big. So that that's just the progression of anybody, but
- 42:49it's something great has to has to ride and develop like that. That was
- 42:52the story of any great ever. I mean, Tom Brady, I'm sure
- 42:54the same thing happened. Maybe not proces so, but but when you becoming
- 43:01sure, you have to also take that maturity to another level of you know,
- 43:07of listening to coach. So it might be both of those things.
- 43:09It might be Josh kind of you know, taking the he learned how to
- 43:13drive a Dable now he's now he's now he's drifting in the Framaro around the
- 43:16corner and endorsing. Might just not not have as nice a car as Dable
- 43:22did. So it could be a little bold. Okay, yeah, I
- 43:24can respect I can respect that, you know what I mean, I can
- 43:27respect that. It might be a little bit of both, you know,
- 43:29and I'm I'm I'm wondering about it now. You know, as we begin
- 43:31to wrap up, you know, there's it's a situation where you know,
- 43:35I know that it makes you know some people you know, uncomfortable. But
- 43:38like I watched, you know, the Quarterback one of the things that I
- 43:42took from the Quarterback DT one of the biggest things that I took from that
- 43:45with with Mahomes, specifically with one five that you talked about earlier the show
- 43:50one of the and again and I prefaced this knowing it's a production. I
- 43:53understand Hard Knocks is a production, and YadA, YadA, YadA. They're
- 43:57showing you the things that they want to show you, and they're showing you
- 43:59the best they that they can to get ratings, and yadadada YadA. However,
- 44:01however, what the biggest thing I took away from the Quarterback Series with
- 44:07with Mahomes was that he cares DT. Now let me explain before you know,
- 44:15I know exactly how the boy is. I can see the vain popping
- 44:19out of your your forehead right now or getting ready to listen. It's it's
- 44:22interesting because I know that Josh. I'm not saying that he doesn't care anything
- 44:28like that. However, there is a level of preparedness. There's a level
- 44:31of just a level of just preparation in general. Like I want my starting
- 44:37quarterback and this is me, this is my my rosy view. I want
- 44:40my starting quarterback to be obsessed with football. I want him to be like
- 44:44Jordan, like Kobe. Kobe was obsessed. Doesn't mean he's not a family
- 44:46man, doesn't mean he didn't care about his kids. You know, he's
- 44:49still he carved out of time and he you know, he compartmentalized his time.
- 44:52However, the number one and most important thing when they work with their
- 44:55family was their craft. And Mahomes strikes me that I don't know obviously everything
- 45:00that this behind the scenes or anything like that. With Mahomes, however,
- 45:04it was clear to see that football was very important to him, even after
- 45:07the success of winning a Super Bowl, and then in addition to it,
- 45:10he wanted more. Josh hasn't gotten to the same levels as as Mahomes has.
- 45:15He hasn't even gotten to the same levels as Burrow has by even representing
- 45:19the conference in the Super Bowl. What I'm wondering from you, DT,
- 45:22is is there any chance Because I listened to I think it was one Bills
- 45:25Live and they had on Jordan Palmer that's his for Bill's Bofia Nickels City.
- 45:29The crew don't know that's his quarterback. Coach he works with him throughout the
- 45:31off season and they're really really tight. And on one Bills Live, they
- 45:36had Jordan Palmer on for an interview and he talks about he's promoting his podcast.
- 45:38They got this podcast, the Quarterback Room qb Room. Check it out.
- 45:43Josh Allen was on the last episode and he says, you should watch
- 45:45it too, because then you know, YadA, YadA YadA. I only
- 45:49watched it DT because I wanted to see Josh was right before the season when
- 45:52I watched it, and I wanted to see him. This dude loves golf
- 45:55a lot. Not saying that he can't have any other I'm not. I'm
- 46:00I am tiptoeing. I am doing the best job I can right now.
- 46:05Nickel City Crew bills mofya to paint this the right way. He loves golf
- 46:08a lot. Like he loves it a lot. It's important to him.
- 46:13That's fine. He can have interests outside of football. But when I look
- 46:15at him, and I was watching that interview, and then he said something
- 46:19that struck me. He said that he was the best athlete on the planet.
- 46:22He thought, and you want that, you know what I mean to
- 46:24be a professional athlete you've got to have bravado. You won't make it in
- 46:28that league. You'll they'll chew you up and spit you out if you don't
- 46:30have confidence, if you don't believe in yourself. So I like that dog
- 46:32that he thinks that he's the man. But I think that there's a cocktail
- 46:37mix that comes together where it could it could be it can be deadly to
- 46:40our super bowls. He thinks he's the man. Okay, he are.
- 46:44You know, I'm the man. Loves the golf. So I don't know
- 46:46how much you're doing. You know, in the off season Madden cover,
- 46:50he's got the new actress and you know, we'll keep all the other stuff
- 46:53and I'll leave all the other stuff out. But you know, he's got
- 46:57a lot going on in his personal life. Will just say that to say
- 46:59the least, I mean, talk to me, DT, you know what
- 47:04I'm trying to say, And I just want you to talk to me because
- 47:06of the fact that when again I'm not saying Mahomes loves football more than Josh
- 47:09Allen, but what I am saying is that it's very clear to see that
- 47:13it's very important to him. Sometimes I'm not sure how important it is,
- 47:16and again I'm leaving it with the caveat that I don't follow Josh Allen around.
- 47:21I'm not a fly on the wall, so I don't know. I
- 47:22don't know, But boy, I wonder about some of that shit. I
- 47:25really do. I did. I watched the entire like forty minutes I watched
- 47:30it. I mean, they must have talked about golf and whiskey half to
- 47:31day. And that's fine. You can he can drink his whiskey and he's
- 47:35a grown man. He can go golf and he wants to golf one hundred
- 47:37courses, the top one hundred courses in the world. But like he was
- 47:42like naming him and he knows him, and like, I want you to
- 47:45know your craft, lad, and I say, you don't know cover two
- 47:46shell like that. But I'm just trying to say that I'm sometimes concerned about
- 47:52how much does this mean to him? And that and that I say that
- 47:54full full knowing I've got the Madden cover right behind me. I enjoy his
- 47:59success just like every other Bills bo Fia member does. Well, I'm the
- 48:02one end rob. Yes, that's that's tough, because you know, you
- 48:07you don't want your dude to be a robot you want your dude to be.
- 48:10And when you become a superstar in this league, you've got to be
- 48:14in the public eye like that. You've got to be in the commercials.
- 48:16You gotta be. Out of the celebrity golf tournament, you gotta be you
- 48:20know, you gotta be that celebrity that you know, that that point guard
- 48:22of life. You have to be there. Mahomes and those cats are right
- 48:27there with him at all those tournaments, at all those things. But I
- 48:30do get what you're saying. And when success doesn't come from that, it's
- 48:36easy to kind of lean back and say, oh, maybe he likes to
- 48:38you don't have too much fun. He likes to golf too much. He
- 48:40likes to do this too much. That was a good point you said in
- 48:44the Netflix series Rob on the Quarterback, because Mahomes has had the success and
- 48:49he's still and wants it more and wants more and needs that. And we
- 48:54kind of talked earlier about Josh having that success to become a superstar but doesn't
- 48:59have and he accolades for it, and is that, you know, is
- 49:02that what's kind of getting into his head and that bravado and like yo I'm
- 49:06good enough. I'm on the cover of mat and like, I'm all this
- 49:08stuff to be a superstar in this league and be and be great. But
- 49:15he hasn't won anything yet, right, So Mahomes, can you know,
- 49:16do all that and win the bowls and do whatever you need? But at
- 49:21the in the in the other hand, he still wants more, and we
- 49:23see that he need wants more. Josh can say it in the press conference,
- 49:28he can say it is he's focused on football. A super Bowl to
- 49:30Buffalo literally means everything to him. He said that multiple times. But then
- 49:35you know, we see him in the off season playing golf, dat and
- 49:37Hailey Stein but whatever the case is, and then losing Week one in horrible
- 49:42fashion. So I think you got a point, Rob. I mean,
- 49:46I'm not trying to is it is it? Is it? Or is it
- 49:52he's not good enough? You know that? Or he's not good enough or
- 49:55it's some of the stuff that we're talking about earlier. Yeah, some of
- 49:59the stuff that we talked about. So those are themes. I'm not gonna
- 50:01dismiss him. I thought tonight I was coming in a little more combative with
- 50:05you. I thought we would be fashion has a little more. This would
- 50:07be our first Nickel City crew of of really kind of going at each other
- 50:10of like nah, like so but no, those it's a good point.
- 50:15Now I'm like sitting here and listening to it thinking about it, like not
- 50:19blaming on that, but you see fifteen who does all that stuff too well?
- 50:23It gets the bulls and watch during the season, I'm like, what
- 50:28the what the guy is? He insane and it and it thought it made
- 50:31me think of Jordan. It made me think of Kobe and different things like
- 50:35that. And again I'm jo you know, Josh obviously coming back year after
- 50:40year looking a little bigger, looking a little that next, a little thicker,
- 50:44and you know, and he's the belt champion and all those preseason workouts
- 50:49they do and he's working the hardest, he's running the fastest. So like
- 50:52there is those but yeah, is he the dog in the in that weight
- 50:57room? That? Did you watch the swamp documentary Florida Gators one? They
- 51:01want to come out when they're like so basically Irban Meyer just ran that thing
- 51:05like a military camp basically, and so the dudes wouldn't could be going out
- 51:08and getting in trouble, you know, three four o'clock in the morning on
- 51:12a Saturday. Those would be the team workouts, like two am team workouts
- 51:15and they paint their faces and getting that weight room and you know, be
- 51:20slapping each other and like and doing like hard hard lifts. Is Josh Allen
- 51:23leading that charge in the weight room with those cats, We don't know,
- 51:28but that's I'm trying to listen. I'm trying to be I'm not even talking
- 51:31about you know, I'm just I'm just I'm trying to need he needs to
- 51:36level up and get those accolades. And then you know, the golf and
- 51:39the whiskey and everything is is cool, like, oh yeah, our quarterback
- 51:43sick and does this stuff because that's what mak Mahomes is doing right now,
- 51:46or or or be more you know, or be more private, you know
- 51:51what I mean. And I guess that that I guess that that's the balance,
- 51:52you know what I mean? Because exactly well, I don't want to
- 51:55hear about I don't hear about it. I don't want to hear about it.
- 51:59I don't want to hear about Hayley Stainfield. I don't want to hear
- 52:00about, you know, the drama with your ex girlfriend. I don't want
- 52:04to hear about, you know, rumblings in the city about what's going on
- 52:06with you last year. I don't want to hear about any of that.
- 52:07Let's let's keep everything a little bit tighter than If that's the case, I
- 52:10don't need you on the cover of Mad And then if it's distracting you from
- 52:15your job again, I don't know if it is. I don't know if
- 52:17it isn't. I'm not saying that I'm trying everybody. What we've been doing
- 52:21all week, We've been trying what the hell's wrong with Josh? On Monday
- 52:22night? Everybody, everybody's asking everybody the same thing. And I was thinking
- 52:25about it, just like all the other Bills Mafia members were, and I
- 52:30was wondering about different things and different reasons and different things that it could be.
- 52:34And one of my conclusions came because, listen, what did we do
- 52:36here on Nickel City Crew all summer and off season long? We defended fourteen?
- 52:40Why were we defending fourteen all offseason? Because everybody was trying to make
- 52:44him out to be some type of bad teammates, some type of pariah.
- 52:46We did a miseducation episode, literally letting everybody know, listen, this guy's
- 52:51getting ready to come back to work. Get off of his back because he's
- 52:52a great teammate. Then he comes back to work, everybody flips the fuck
- 52:55out because Sean McDermott sends him home. We didn't even have all the information
- 52:59till the next day. So what we do. We came back with another
- 53:01episode, said hey, okay, just chill. I'll be careful what you
- 53:04wish were because everybody wanted to kick him out of town. So I'm I
- 53:07invested a lot this offseason making sure that I got out the proper narratives,
- 53:12and I let everybody know, listen, Stefan Dix is a great guy,
- 53:15great teammate. What do we see on the sidelines on Monday night, DT,
- 53:17I know that you were at the game, but you've probably seeing that
- 53:20highlight. I tweeted it back out, you know, of him giving Josh
- 53:22the high ten and then letting him know like it's okay, like we're gonna
- 53:24get then, you know what I mean, He's keeping him encouraged. I
- 53:28think Stefan Diggs is so critically important to Josh Allen's success. He elevated Josh
- 53:32Allen with his play and he caught, he caught. He was a scapegoat
- 53:37for a lot of bs that had nothing to do with him. And I'm
- 53:38and it's almost like he's, you know, a personal babysitter in respects to
- 53:44on the field, not off the field. I don't know what you know
- 53:45how close they are off the fild. I'm talking about on the field.
- 53:47He's come on, man, come on. You know, like you're the
- 53:51quarterback. You're supposed to be rolling everybody else up. You're supposed to be
- 53:53staying positive, You're supposed to be having good body language, different things like
- 53:57that. And constantly Stefan Diggs is picking up seventeen. Not that he can't,
- 54:01but some like, you know, just like the Nulawski said he likes
- 54:05time to grow up? Man? Like what would he said? He had
- 54:07seven plays where he's like, what are you doing? Feet wrong? Eyes
- 54:08wrong? What? Like? What do you like time to grow up?
- 54:10Man? And I and I'm starting to wonder if it's you know, sometimes
- 54:15success comes and everybody's not ready for it. He is a superstar. You're
- 54:17absolutely right about that. DT. I would just really prefer them that I
- 54:22didn't know as much as I know about Josh Allen or or I don't see
- 54:24him as much or the podcast and everything else, because then it leaves you,
- 54:29you know, it leaves everybody open for interpretation or what what you're really
- 54:31doing. Because was it a bad thing when the Dallas Cowboys went on the
- 54:35vacation, you know, years ago, right before the playoffs? And is
- 54:37that why they lost to whoever they lost to? No, it's not.
- 54:40But if what we're talking about, but if the fans don't see it,
- 54:45then we don't even talk about it, and we're going to we're going to
- 54:46latch onto something after lost. It's a good point. It's a good point,
- 54:51and I'll leave it with we can hope that this is a this is
- 54:53an eye opener in before there they're you know, when these games have happened,
- 55:01they haven't had been at the highest stake or they haven't you know,
- 55:06they haven't been at the you know, the other than that playoff game,
- 55:08which but he was on the come up and that you know, we we
- 55:10were lucky to be in the playoffs there the ten and six and anything he
- 55:15did was right. So even if he did turn it over in the playoffs,
- 55:17like we didn't care, like it doesn't have the consequences as it does
- 55:22now, where all eyes are literally on him. Any breath you take is
- 55:27on you, and you pull shit like you did Monday night. It's gonna
- 55:30take a couple of weeks before people are you know, are saying some wild
- 55:35shit like paid him too early? You know this is he ever gonna be?
- 55:38Is you know, some stuff like that. So it's only gonna take
- 55:40a few weeks of that. So I hope he you know, this is
- 55:44a wake up call of realizing, like this is the show now you are
- 55:46the guy. You've done everything to be the Elvis, to be the guy,
- 55:51to be you know, in the linlight, everywhere else. So this
- 55:53has got to be This's got to be the wake up call. Mostly not
- 55:58gonna half point spread someday about to lie down, you know, Sunday.
- 56:01I can't wait for it. We'll wrap up tonight. You know it's gonna
- 56:06be interesting, you know. I mean, I don't. I hope that,
- 56:07you know, we don't lose it to my listeners or anything like that.
- 56:09I didn't, I haven't, I didn't say anything. I'm just I
- 56:14think I'm trying to I'm trying to point to different reasons and I'm pulling that
- 56:15straws. It's like everybody else that's trying to trying to figure it out.
- 56:19We are going to find out a lot DT on Sunday, and you're absolutely
- 56:22right about that. I'll leave on Saturday. I'll get up there. I'm
- 56:25gonna check you out and check out my best friend, you know, you
- 56:29know Ason, He's got his beautiful daughter, and I'm gonna check out some
- 56:30of my cousins and stuff like that, and then me and you will see
- 56:34each other Sunday morning. Man, how was it as we wrap up tonight?
- 56:37DT? Please give us some finel from that life staying and I know
- 56:39that the rain was crazy. We had planned to try to do a surprise
- 56:43YouTube lie for you guys. We were gonna try to come on for you
- 56:45know, fifteen twenty minutes and let DT take us around the parking lot a
- 56:50little bit, and then the storm literally put a kibosh on it because it
- 56:52was raining cats and dogs. Tell us about the experience, man, because
- 56:57we are really interested in hearing about what happened. Good. I'll tell you
- 57:00this. I a lot better than expected. A lot better than expected I'll
- 57:05give I'll give New York the Downstate, the all the kind of the qualms
- 57:10and pre negotiated ideas I've had in my head. They they proved me wrong
- 57:15a little bit. You know, everybody was pretty respectful. Everybody. It
- 57:19was a pretty chill vibe. I don't know if that's because you know,
- 57:22they have no faith in their team or what the case was, even when
- 57:25they had Rogers for the first five seconds, but it was a good vibe.
- 57:30We rolled in, took a party bust in there from New Jersey.
- 57:32As we rolled up, like you said that we have getting the alerts on
- 57:37our phone, shelter in place, you know, shelter in place, big
- 57:39big thunderstorm, rolling up, get in horrible rain, couldn't get the link
- 57:45loaded. Was trying to get other phones involved, couldn't get the link loaded.
- 57:49It kind of reminded when you try to like get up to in the
- 57:52stadium of the bills and you don't got service. Like once you're inside the
- 57:55stadium. It was that vibe. Outside of it, there were just a
- 57:59lot of heads, a lot out of service line around, you know,
- 58:00a lot going on. People talk shit about the stadium itself, of it
- 58:04looking like an air conditioner. Once that rain passed and it was kind of
- 58:07like that red sky dust over it. It looked pretty sweet. Yeah,
- 58:13it looked pretty sweet. You know. Tailgate was all right, it's no
- 58:16you know, it's no grass loot, uh, you know, Big Ben
- 58:20DJ and Tailgate. But it was a good time. People were ready to
- 58:23go, and I was and I'm in. I was out there hyped up
- 58:30as you know. I was out there. I've been waiting a long time
- 58:32for this day, long time for the turn, and I was talking some
- 58:37shit. Was not so much touch to the Jets fans. Not so much
- 58:43to the Jets fans, you know, exactly going outs, getting people say
- 58:49it's like, let's go, like you know, and my line, I
- 58:53ate my words quick was you know, seventeen about to bless these bitches.
- 58:58That's what I just kept saying, over and over and over again, like
- 59:01seventeen gonna bless them? And he did. Obviously, I love it.
- 59:07I love it. I love it. But you know, the crew I
- 59:10was with all Jets fans. I was literally on a bus of thirty people.
- 59:14I was one bill saying, there's twenty nine Jets fans. I was.
- 59:16I was not it was not swimming the gangway. Yeah, oh my
- 59:21god, there's gonna be something. The Bills people met us there that were
- 59:23sitting with us. They weren't on the bus though, so I was one
- 59:28nine Rob and so I was umfortable that that's that's what I'm saying. Yeah,
- 59:34that's conversial that they keep showing people displaced. It was almost like they
- 59:38like, I was like, uh, some of of a zoo animal,
- 59:42you know, like they were like, dude, Bill's mafia, Bill's Mafia,
- 59:45what's it like? Like you're Bill's You're die Hyde mafia, And I'm
- 59:49like, you're damn bro. I love it because you could see their faces
- 59:55in the background, like there's like some Jets fans in the background of the
- 59:59picture. And I will post that to borrow. I will post that so
- 1:00:01that goes along with this episode. And I put it out there on Thursday
- 1:00:05and they were looking at you like, oh my god, this is really
- 1:00:07what the man. Yeah, so I give it. I'll give it to
- 1:00:12the whole. It was better than I expected. We get into the game.
- 1:00:16That whole intro was amazing. Nine to eleven, the lights off.
- 1:00:21It was emotional. You know, everyone was crying and you felt the you
- 1:00:25know, the beautiful country we live in and you know that why we're free
- 1:00:29and why who we are, Like it felt good to kind of come together
- 1:00:32for for that moment, and you know, and the game starts and Rogers
- 1:00:37goes down and kind of the air comes out. But then, you know,
- 1:00:40obviously I'm still running my mouth. I'm like number two is my favorite
- 1:00:44player. I love Zach Wilson. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 1:00:49absolutely was coming on the way out. Was coming on the way out.
- 1:00:54You know, I kind of just put my head down and got to
- 1:00:57that bus as quick as I could. But it's nothing, nothing too crazy.
- 1:01:00But it was a good experience, good experience overall, good weekend,
- 1:01:06had some really good friends down there, and you know, overall obviously other
- 1:01:08than the loss ten out of ten, but man, I can't wait to
- 1:01:13be back back at home at home. Nothing like it's always fun going away,
- 1:01:17you know, and going on a trip with nothing like coming back and
- 1:01:20getting back in your own bed and coming back home. And we're about to
- 1:01:22get in our bed on Sunday's. Boy, boy boy, what a comforting
- 1:01:28feeling that will be Sunday one o'clock, which is now a rare occurrence for
- 1:01:30our popular Buffalo bills, our bills kicking off Las Vegas Raiders. They're coming
- 1:01:35across the country. I think they're already I heard on the WGR today already
- 1:01:38stayed out here. I heard in West Virginia somewhere hanging out to kind of
- 1:01:42cut down on the travel time and the lag and stuff like that on their
- 1:01:45body. So no problem, I mean, get acclimated all you want.
- 1:01:50You have never seen Bill's Mafia like this on opening opening Home Open. I
- 1:01:53mean like this, It's like a holiday DT and you already know that.
- 1:01:57So I'm excited for it. I know you're excited for it again. I
- 1:02:00will see you. I'll probably still see you Saturday. Man. I gotta
- 1:02:01catch up with anyway and give you a hug and then uh, and then
- 1:02:05we'll be out there before the before like we always talked about before the people,
- 1:02:07we're even ready to collect the money. We will be in the grass.
- 1:02:10Let's check us out. Anybody that hears this, you know, nicol
- 1:02:14City Crew Bills Mafia, always know that we will pin our location. Let
- 1:02:17you guys know, we do party right at the corner of California and Southwestern.
- 1:02:21It's actually directly in front of the stadium. Those grass loots that are
- 1:02:24privately owned. I mean we're out there. I mean we didn't joke around,
- 1:02:28big men. You know you heard them on Family Appreciation Week. We
- 1:02:30don't joke around. We are out there very very early to make sure that
- 1:02:34we're ready to go, get in our parking spots and uh and start to
- 1:02:37take in the festivity. So, DT, I appreciate you tonight. Man.
- 1:02:40You know, it's this was it was. It was better than I
- 1:02:44thought I had to get this stuff off. I thought I didn't fight tonight
- 1:02:47because I know that we've had some some you know, funny conversations through text
- 1:02:52message and stuff like that. But you know, I thought I kept it
- 1:02:53PG. I thought I did a good job. We played on the couch.
- 1:02:58We we let it out, we talked, we talked to the shrink
- 1:03:01and yeah, and we walked away a little better. I feel bad.
- 1:03:05I okay, I owe you. I'll go pay the lady at the front.
- 1:03:07You're right about that, DT. You said by the end of it,
- 1:03:09I would owe my feet and I will happily pay because I do feel
- 1:03:12better. Man. As always, please man shout out again. Dey'll read
- 1:03:15joining us at the beginning of the show. We really appreciate him again.
- 1:03:19We Yeah, that was really sweet. Man. Please go back listen to
- 1:03:22this episode if he didn't get a chance to hear him in the beginning.
- 1:03:24We are simulcasting each and every week on his podcast network. I'd be the
- 1:03:30Buffalo fan base. I love it, I love it, I love it,
- 1:03:31and we really appreciative. We already talked about twenty six shirts. So
- 1:03:35head over there, DT, man. We we wrapped up. We did
- 1:03:37everything were supposed to do tonight. Man, I mean, spread love not
- 1:03:40hate. These were my bills, thoughts, set out loud, hit him
- 1:03:43with it, God bills, DT. What I mean what we gotta holiday?
- 1:03:45We got a holiday to celebrate on Sunday. I'll be ready for the
- 1:03:47Holloway to start. Wait, wait to see it go and wait man,