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S3 E24: Let's Try This Again · Nickel City Crew Podcast

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H m hm hm m hm hm. Hi got the paper. Mm hmmm
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hm a mad Welcome into the Nickel City Crew. I am your host,
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Rob Crippen. Please like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram and Twitter
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at Nickel City crup. This episode, along with all of our episodes,
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are presented by Crippen Legacy Entertainment here on spreaker and stream yard. We're so
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happy that you're joining us for some of your Buffalo Bills and NFL content again
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today, and as always, these are my Bill's thoughts set out loud.
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All right, let's get straight to it. I am really really excited about
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tonight's episode for a bunch of different reasons. But we are YouTube live tonight
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and I think DT had dubbed it the Nickel City Crew Happy Hour. So
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really excited about that tonight. I know that you guys will wonder where we
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were yesterday on our release date, but we had to make some room in
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the building. You see them at the top right of your screen. I
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mean we had to make some room in the building. And listen. It's
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funny because I played that open kind of tongue in cheek, you know,
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James Brown, the revenge that he's talking about is best served cold, and
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it's really best served when you have an opportunity to kind of give back the
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same thing that you got when you're dished it out, excuse me. And
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unfortunately, you know it's not going to be like that Sunday Night. Both
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teams Cincinnati and Buffalo have an opportunity to make the playoffs. They most likely
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will. I did hear something earlier today that there's like a twenty percent swing
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on the playoff odds for the winner and loser from like sixty to eighty percent.
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But other than that, like Cincinnati ended our season in January and it
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was just really a tough pill to swallow. The game was horrible. Uh
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DT and I were there, and you know, it's just tough. Boy.
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Would really, really, really really be fun to beat these these dudes
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on Sunday Night. Joining me tonight as always my co host writing Shotgun Adam
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Dump Truck Ropsick. Check them out on Instagram at Adam Roupsick, r U
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p c z y K Holla at the crew DT. We are day late,
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but man, we not a dollar short. Man I brought I've brought
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some reinforcements with me tonight. Man, City. What's up man? Click
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clack, We're back. What's good DT? How we doing? How we
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doing? Happy to be back on the crew. As always another week,
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and man, it's Friday. It feels good to be on here Friday.
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You know, we us in mid week. We're rolling, We're in the
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grind and man, let's let's sit back and enjoy ourselves. Tonight. We
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got a we got a big one coming up, a big slate all the
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way around, and I'm looking forward to uh setting my ass on that cop
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to watch a lot of ball this weekend. That's for sure. He ain't
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lying. He ain't never lied, man. As you know, it's funny
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because I reached out and tried to get this young man back on. I
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really enjoy his work, and he kind of shook up my bills Mafia Soul.
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The other night he was running the he was running the post game on
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WGR, and he had said some things that just kind of sparked me.
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I just grabbed my phone started making notes and I'm like, man, so
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I know that I mentioned him last week on the episode, but I'm really
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on it again to have on the crew. Nate Geary of WGR check them
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out at Nate Gary Sports on Twitter Instagram. How at the crew, Nate.
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I mean, we're really happy to have you back. I know this
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is your first time getting a chance to see DT as well, but man,
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I'm really happy to have you back on Man, thanks for taking some
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time tonight, dude, It's my pleasure. You know, it's been a
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up and down season. They always are. They are marathons, they are
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never races. And it is never as bad as it seems like it was
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after Week one, and it's never as good as it seems like it was
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after that Dolphins game. So you know, you've got to try to keep
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that level head. I think that's what I think it's what everyone's sort of
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learning about this season is, you know, just trying to just trying to
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maintain that consistency. As much as you're looking for your football team to maintain
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that consistency, I think, you know, trying to maintain the level had
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to this trying to maintain and an understanding that you know, it is a
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long season, but you know games like today. I was listening yesterday Sam
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Munson, a Pro Football Focus, was on the Afternoon Show and was talking
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about how he likes to look at season seasons and groups of threes right where
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you know, they got their first third of the season where you're kind of
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taking all the things you work on all summer, you're fig putting this stuffup.
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That's right, you're putting this stuff on film. And then the second
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part that the second third of the season is really the when when you start
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to make adjustments, when you start to you know, put stuff out on
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film, and and how you're adjusting to how teams adjusted to what you've done
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in the first third of the season, and then the final third and then
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the playoffs is the adjustment to the adjustment, right, So I think that's
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kind of I think we're kind of right in the breadth of that that first
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adjustment period. And obviously the first big adjustment last week is you know,
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kind of seeing a new look offense with no Dawson, I seeing more eleven
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personnel, seeing he gets six catches, seeing Gabriel Davis do stuff we haven't
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seen him do his entire career. So I'm excited for the encore this week.
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And there's no doubt and you know what better stage in the sun that
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football against the team that you know, frankly, uh, if you if
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if any of these Bills players need added motivation, Uh, it's better chucked
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our heart rate because they should need no added motivation. Yeah, no,
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pun intended to as well. You know, obviously we're happy that tomorrow Hambling
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is good and we'll we'll talk about that because I know that that kind of
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comes up as well. But yet you're absolutely right they you know, there's
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no way DT that you can't get up for this game. There's no way
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that you can't really kind of you know, feel it. You know,
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it's massive. I keep calling it a massive tilt, and there's really no
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way to get around it. I know that we'll we'll touch on Thursday night
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real quickly because you know, we didn't get a chance to record until tonight.
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But I mean this, all eyes are on Cincinnati. Man. I
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feel like Bill Belichick, like on the Cincinnati TT because I am I'm locked
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in on this game. I'm nervous and uh it's it's a big one and
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they don't get much bigger than this. They really don't like and you know,
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when it comes to the regular season and how it can really you know,
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shape your season and shape what happens in the future. For most of
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our lives. We you know there there hasn't ever been a big till you
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know, and then finally you know, now we're you know, so you
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say nerve, you say pumped up, like I don't know where I'm at,
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somewhere in the middle between pumped up and nervous. But you know this
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is you want to pay per view, you want the main event. You
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got to come out and collect it. And this is what this team has
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brought. This is what seventeen has brought, you know, pay per view,
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all eyes on you, and you know we had one hundred Prime Times
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games this year and that'll be the case next year and the year after and
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and every year until seventeens out of the building. That's that's gonna be the
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new new vibe in Buffalo. So these are games we're gonna have to start
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getting used to start getting ready to go for. And yeah, we you
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say a little nervous, a little a little pumped up, but you know
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we haven't done enough to get us. You know, I wouldn't say not
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confident, but that nervous is always still in the back of our head because
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we know what we saw in the last thirty years of our lives and we
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know, you know, what they're capable of and what they're not capable of,
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and you know, anything can really happen when we kick on Sunday night,
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as we saw, you know last year. So it's you got to
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get up to these big ones and we're gonna have to start getting used to
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all these pay per view events. Yeah, I mean, it's interesting because
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Nate, they kind of touched on a couple of things that I had talked
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about before and had in my notes and kind of stole some of my notes
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because listen last week, you know, the Bills obviously again Thursday Night Football
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twenty four eighteen over the Bucks, and like it was crazy Nate watching that
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game because I was like, well, where the hell has this been?
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You know what I mean? And I'm looking at the eleven personnel and I'm
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looking at Dalton Kincate out there, and he shown me all the different things
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that you know, he was drafted for and he's Cold Beasley in a tight
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end's body, all the different things that we were sold by Brandon Bean before
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the season. And it was funny because they ran no huddle, they ran
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tempo for the first time, and I just finished up coaching my oldest king
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Bobby his football season and like you know, and a half and the game,
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we're yelling from the sidelights tempo temple, telling the quarterback hurry up,
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let's have succets the urgency and they did that from the jump Nate, And
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it was almost like what, like where was this? Like why why were
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you guys going away from some of the things that were really successful for you
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and got you to this level. And that's what kind of DT and I,
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you know, had been pondering over the last couple weeks because it really
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didn't make any sense to see that kind of performance and wonder where was this?
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Why why were you guys running away from who you were to start the
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season. And I understand twelve personnel, and I understand the Donkey Kong Brothers,
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the DK, and I understand all it's all cool, I said a
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couple of weeks ago. All sounds cool. Do what you're good at,
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stick to, you know, the things that have made you successful, because
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I think that that really, you know, success breeds success, and if
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you're in sales, you know I'm in sales, we all know how that
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works. And DT is the same way. If you find a routine and
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you find something that is working for you, you don't go away from it
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until you have to go away from it, so to speak. And I
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just I just thought that the Bills were getting a little bit cute, and
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I was really wondering what you thought about it, because that game that was
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not the Bills that we've really seen this year too much. Josha also had
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his quickest time for basically from snap to throw of the season, so there
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was definitely I think part of that is, you know, Josh's shoulder injury
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too. I think that they want to avoid him taking hits in the pocket.
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And I think you also saw a couple of calculated scrambles from Josh,
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a couple of design runs, which I know a lot of us has sort
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of been been asking to be reintegrated back into the offense, not as a
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core principle, but as a you know, break in case of emergency principle,
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and I think we saw that at times and non third downs and yeah,
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you know, I listen, I echoed some of the quote unquote too
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cute stuff, especially when you get around the goal line, getting in shotgun
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and trying to run duo from shotgun, right. I just feel like the
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best thing you can do is line up with your six foot five, two
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hundred and forty found quarterback and fall forward, just like just like the the
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Eagles. Eagles. Yeah, just just you know, like sometimes it is
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to me they get a little cute at the goal line, and you know,
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I think a lot of people think, you know, listen, it's
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the NFL, and talking about the NFL and being a fan of your team,
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a lot of it can be hyperbolic, right, And a lot of
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people, you know, seem to think that the Bills run one running play
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and it's the that that delayed you know, handoff to James Cook, which
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they haven't run in like three weeks. But like that's just what everybody's like,
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Oh, they're running the same play. It's like, well they are,
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and they aren't, right, and so there there, there's there is
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more to the to the story. But yeah, overall the offense, I
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kind of liked the identity that they went back to dictating terms a little bit,
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dictating matchups. I think that there was an expectation that having twelve person
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on the field would allow them to better dictate matchups that they were going to
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get more linebacker coverage on Dalton Kincaid or Dawson Knox, and I don't think
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that happened. They were they were gettings, they were getting matchups against lock
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corners, and the teams were not going to bigger sets. They were still
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running nickel and they were having some success early this season running the football out
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of that. But they just are not as dynamic as a passing team or
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they really couldn't find ways to get Dawson Knox I think included and you know,
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there was a there was a really good segment of like maybe it was
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over the wintertime, right after the draft that the Bills drafted Kincaid and Benjamin
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Solak Ringer was on the station talking about, you know, he's a Philadelphia
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Eagles fan and talking about it really wasn't until the Eagles moved on from zach
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Ertz that it really allowed Dale Scodder to sort of blossom into the player that
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he is. You know, I think a top five tight end in the
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league, and that they were actually a much less efficient offense with both of
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them on the field. And you know, I think the Bills are going
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to be facing an interesting decision if the offense continues to sort of send and
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progress into the unit that I think we were expecting them to see in predominantly
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eleven personnel, because I don't know that it necessarily makes things complicated, but
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I think it makes things interesting because if you know you're doing it with the
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larger part because of how well our Dalton kin Cag's playing, which you know,
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we saw him play, just his hands, the routes he's able to
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run, it's nice. They are different routes, they are different types of
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it's a different type of feeling when he's out there on the offense over over
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Dawson Knox and it's not a shot at Knox. So I think it's a
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better inline blocker, and I think there will be a place for twelve personnel.
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I'm just not sure it's going to be at the forty five percent clip
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we saw before the injury. So how that shakes out, what the dynamic
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between those two looks like when when they're all healthy, will be really interesting.
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But I tend to think that's a problem for later down the line.
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Just keep building, keep getting wins, keep you know, kind of getting
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the confidence back on the offensive side of the ball, and I think everything
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else will work itself out. Yeah, it'll be interesting to watch it.
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And you know, I had that same thought about, you know, watching
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the game. I was watching it with Nate and I'm like, man,
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this the Kincaid and in that route on the sideline. I'm like, oh,
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yeah, he looks good. And then I was kind of worried DT,
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and I'm like, I don't know, you know, when Knox gets
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back, if it's going to change, and you know, I want them
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to continue to again, you know, attack their successes and accentuate those types
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of things. So it will definitely be interest to see now, DT.
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You know, before we get to Cincinnati, I McDermott man, I had
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to call the radio station where Nate works or like, and I was like,
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I called the morning show, I couldn't get on. Then I called
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the afternoon show that I finally got on the afternoon show, and I was
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so heated these wimpy McDermott punts. I'm sitting there DT with they watching the
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game and I'm like, Son, this game should be over, Son,
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this game should be thirty one you know whatever. You know, like,
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Son, this game should be over. We keep giving them opportunities and like
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when is it going to click for this dude? Like, I'm being honest
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because what I what I heard DT, You know in the recourse afterwards,
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was that all the McDermott supporters were on WGR and call in, well,
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he'll he'll coach differently when it's Mahomes, he'll coach differently when it's Burrow.
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And like I called it to the station and showped to agree with me.
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He was like, I kind of agree with Rob, Like we have no
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proof that he's going to change, Like how can a Bengal changes stripes?
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How can a graft change the stripes? Like this is who he is and
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you already know how I feel about it, so I don't have to beat
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the dead horse DT. The Nicol City crew knows where I stand on on
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McDermott. But boy, those punts were like a microcosm for me. And
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I was just looking at the game and watching it like he is scared to
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end it. He doesn't want to end it. He wants to lean on
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his defense, even though they're injured. He wants to lean on them and
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give the ball back. And obviously Baker Mayfield is having a tough time moving
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the ball and not get all those and score effects and YadA, YadA,
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YadA. I understand all of the analytics to it. However, there's gotta
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be some type of gut. There's gotta be some type of feel to a
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game, and the coach has to have his finger on the pulse DT where
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it's like, man, these guys are shitty on offense. They can't move
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it against this. Let's just go ahead and end this because my defense is
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already banged up. So you're actually kind of being counterproductive because if your defense
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kind of banged up, why are you keep putting it back out in the
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field and forcing you know, I mean the Buccaneers to try to drive the
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length of the field and then it almost pit him. The ask if Godwin
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looks up like it really did d it was close as hell man, Like
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it was the analytics, you know whatever, whatever it is, I don't
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even know if it's analytically correct or give them that bullshit on that, like
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it's you pay you pay one seven, three hundred million dollars when when the
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game, you know, on fourth and two, and on fourth and a
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and on fourth and seven on the opposing team thirty like this is why you'll
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pay this guy three hundred million dollars, get get eight yards and win us
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to get the game at home, so we don't have to worry about it.
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Let's get out of here. How can you get it done? And
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you take all the you know, the the stubbornness and the analytics or whatever
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you want to call it, that when it comes down to it, you
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have to have confidence in your quarterback that you pay three hundred million dollars to
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to win you the game at home and in their territory, like it just
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has to. I spoke on this last week of what more confidence could you
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have on the other side of the ball that you still have to get your
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hands in it and still have to you know, put your mark on this
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game. And like you said, Rob, it's it's one turnaround, one
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one bounce of the ball, one Hal Murray, you will where you know,
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with porches and pitch pitchforks outside of outside of mcdermot's ash, you lose
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into the You lose into the bucks at home on Thursday night. Three three
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losses in four weeks, you know, because because you're punting and it's like
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it's you know, the whole velocity would change if they lose that game obviously,
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and I just don't know what more confidence you can get, but having
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seventeen on the other side of the ball to get you five yards, Like,
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what more do you want? If he's not doing it now, like
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you said, is he ever gonna do it? Yeah, I don't know.
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They I mean, we'll get ready to get to Cincinnati. I know
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that's the juicy reason why people are watching on YouTube. We appreciate the viewers,
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but I mean, I had to call you. I had to call
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your employer. I had to call your employer, mister Geary, and I
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I was on the radio, man, like what the hell are we doing?
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Because I know I'm hard to McDermott, and I should be hard on
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because he's he's a professional coach of a team that's trying to obtain a Super
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Bowl and I'm not giving out passes because he broke the drought. I'm appreciative
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of all of that type of stuff. I've always said that he's Jern and
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he's Rex. He's the same type of coach. He's got more bravado and
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more catchy slogans than Dick Juron and he doesn't look like a wet fish on
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the sideline and he doesn't eat dog biscuits and put on a a you know,
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college helmet to press conferences like Rex. So like, I understand it,
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and I appreciate him, but man, this guy is the same to
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me. He is run stopped the run, conservative at heart. This is
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his nature. And I just I just thought that it was just a perfect
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It was just a perfect personification of it right there on the field when the
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game is literally they're asking you to end the game and you're not. You're
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just you continue to punt. I had no idea why he kept doing it.
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You know, I think he's shown flashes over the course of his time
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as the Bill's head coach of being you know, very aggressive, and you
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know, if you look at any of the you know, essentially when's a
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buffer placement from a coaching perspective of punting, kicking field goals, going forward
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on fourth down, you know, like those sorts of in game decisions.
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He's kind of always constantly right near the top or at the top. I
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think I think I saw something from Eric Eager of Pro Football Focus where Dan
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Campbell was number one in the NFL in like neutral down situations where you know,
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should you go for it basically following the math when the math dictations you
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should go for it or not kick a field goal and try to get a
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first down or not punted plus territory. That Dan Campbell is, you know,
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in terms of wins above replacement, the best in football, and Derk
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Derbert was number three. So I do think that there is a level of
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some of these moments where you want him to be aggressive. Now, I
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think there were three consecutive drives in the end of the third quarter going into
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the fourth quarter, one of which was in plus territory, one of which
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and on that play that was in plus territory is fourth and two. Right
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now, Am I advocating that he goes for it in all three of those
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situations? I would say probably not. But I do think think that that
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fourth and two in plus territory is a situation where you want to put the
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hand in the ball, in the hand of your of your quarterback. You
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want to give them an opportunity to get a first down. But I also
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think, you know, Sean can be a victim of the moment at times,
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and what I mean by that is, you know, you go back
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to the week before in that loss where you have a big Dawson Knox drop
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on fourth down. You go back to the I think that was at the
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New York game where also you have a Dawson Knox drop in that game on
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fourth down. Now, I didn't end up, you know, costing them
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that game, but I think, you know, sometimes you can he can.
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He can be a little gun shy when you know things don't go right.
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And I don't know that I want to necessarily tack him for that,
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but I do think that generally speaking, he does a good job of following
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the math. When you know his analytics department on the field in real time
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says, hey, the mat says go for it. More times than not,
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he's going to go for it. I think in that game that there
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was a level that he trusted his defense. Frankly, the defense got off
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the field two times, but finally, you know, kept that drive alive
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and I got that that score for Tampa, that that made that twenty four
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to eighteen. But there was this feel, this narrative after the game that
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it felt like the offense sort of took their foot off the gas. And
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I'm not sure that I necessarily agree with the offensive philosophy getting conservative. In
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that game, I thought that they were still pressing the football down the field.
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They had a couple of nice deeper throws, you know, some some
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hot shots to to Gabriel Davis in that fourth quarter. I think at the
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end of the day, you know, it's I think a lot of there
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is more than just hey, the analytics say go for it or hey,
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the gut says go for it or don't go forward in this situation, that
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there is some there is some give and take. But I think for me,
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I'm always gonna be on the side of be aggressive considering who the quarterback
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is, you know, considering the ability for him to make plays off structure.
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But you know, I think part of this is too is the offense
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when they've been put in those situations and he has given them the benefit of
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the doubt and put them in situations to go for it that the offense hasn't
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come through. So I think it is important for this offense continue giving him
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reasons to say yes in those situations and not excuses to say no, Okay,
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sure, And that's that goes to our point, you know, Rob,
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you know, he the being that same conservative guy. It's almost like
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he, like Nate was saying, he he does well and plays the math
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and plays it when he should, but then when he when you wrong him,
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it's almost like he plays the See he told you, this is why
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we put ye see like I I this is, you know, get off
21:27
my back for trying to be, you know, a gun slinger. This
21:30
is why we do these things. And then so that's I I see it
21:33
both ways in that regard. But it's almost like that stubbornness of Sean that
21:37
we're you and me are kind of getting to of the fact of like he's
21:41
he's almost pricks not the right word, but he's like, you know,
21:45
he just won't let it rest, like he's got to be right at all
21:48
times. Yeah, and this is like okay, yeah, we went for
21:51
it and he dropped it. This is why we don't do that. It's
21:52
almost like he he would rather see that happen so he can stick to his
21:56
normal Emma. Yeah, I mean, I mean I respect what dates saying,
22:02
you know, I you know, a good point was brought up after
22:03
that game, you know, before we get to Cincinnati. Just how you
22:07
know, you're comparing him against his peers most of the league is shitty.
22:10
Most of the coaches are shitty at you know, at those situations and they
22:12
make the wrong decisions. And you see guys like Tomlin still winning games last
22:17
night, and you know they're horrible in those decisions. So you know,
22:19
I kind of take it with a grain of salt because who am I comparing
22:22
him again? So the fact that he's third and he's top of the league,
22:25
I understand. You know, I'm looking for h mean crunch time,
22:26
and that looked like it was a crunch time situation where I wanted him to
22:30
be a little bit more aggressive, you know. And it's the same way
22:33
when he's kicking all those field goals in THEFC Championship game, you know,
22:36
years back, you know, where he's not really reading the room and not
22:38
really understanding what was going on, that type of thing, leveraging the offense.
22:42
But you know, we'll see. Well, I'll leave him alone for
22:45
now. You guys, you talked me off the ledge again. It's fine.
22:47
This all good on the Cincinnati. As Belichick would say, as we
22:51
begin to wrap up tonight, I really put the shout out to Josh Clue.
22:53
Long time with the crew listening in, we appreciate him. He's on
22:57
the text line with us SO bills. He says, let Josh Cook,
23:00
I agree. Now as we get to Cincinnati, Fellas, I mean,
23:03
this is this is as big as we talked about it, and we talked
23:07
about the leading into the show. You know, it's funny because you know,
23:10
the scene of the crime and when everything happens. Last year, it
23:12
was just such a different year, you know, so many different things kind
23:17
of came up. And actually it's ironic that Nate and I talked about it
23:19
when it was your birthday weekend DT on that last show that he was on,
23:23
just about you know, just Nate had almost said, like we kind
23:26
of stubbed Ar tob before it even started. Got a rise, and you've
23:29
got the you know, the Tops massacre, You've got a lot of different
23:32
things, Dawson Back's brother passes away. There was a lot of things that
23:34
they were dealing with psychologically. And I don't like to use it as an
23:37
excuse because, you know, I understand that these guys are professionals and they
23:41
have to kind of put it all in a box, you know, and
23:44
go out and perform. But it's really hard to to kind of compartmentalize all
23:48
the different things that the Bills went through. Now that game last year,
23:52
how it ended. None of us saw coming. It was like a train
23:55
wreck. But you know, it's funny because this is really the first time
23:57
that these guys are going to get out in that field. I mean,
24:00
it's it's got to hit you, mama. Monday, DT had a great
24:03
piece up one Buffalo fanbase dot com about the psyche, you know her,
24:07
her background in psychiatric therapy, and like just how at some point between Monday
24:11
and Sunday, all of these guys are gonna have a little thing, you
24:15
know, a little something that comes up. They'll think about tomorrow. I
24:18
don't know if he'll dressed. I doubt if he'll dressed. But DT,
24:19
what are what are your thoughts on it? Just just in general, just
24:22
a thirty thousand foot view, because it's it's gonna be a little bit weird.
24:26
Whether it's whether it's acknowledged now, it's acknowledged you know yesterday, or
24:30
whatever the case may be. It's gonna be a little bit different when they
24:33
get out on the field for sure, because I mean, you know it
24:34
was that was an emotional scene for sure. They're playing I mean talking about
24:40
compartmentalizing, right, compartment I mean, these are crazy gladiators and they go
24:45
out and you know they have to kind of go out there with a living
24:49
life on the edge just to play the game in general. But then something
24:52
like last year happens with mar Hamlin. Everyone comes back to life. Everybody,
24:56
you know, we all are human and this is this is our brother
24:59
out here, and this is it all kind of hits again and you second,
25:02
guess, Okay, I lived this, you know, Gladiator Alpha,
25:06
reckless life. But this is the ship that can happen. So of course
25:10
it's gonna go through their head and it's gonna make it happen. And I'm
25:11
not trying to be insensitive to the issue here, but like you said,
25:17
all those things happened last year, and that was our excuse last year.
25:19
Right, this is this is why we lost the Angels. This is we
25:22
just ran out of gas. We we have too much. Is it another
25:26
year of like, oh, we went back to the we went back to
25:30
Cincinnati and it was too much emotion for us to handle and we got our
25:33
doors blown off us because so is this back you know, like that's what
25:40
we have to think be careful of as a fan base and as the players
25:42
out there, like we've already used this excuse, and we've talked about all
25:45
off season. We're running out of excuses as an organization of like, you
25:49
know, the thirteen seconds to the year before, we just weren't ready to
25:53
last year. All those things kind of piled up and happened. We go
25:57
in. Of course there's gonna be a motion. Of course, it's human
26:00
nature to feel this and feel some sort of thing here. But the Bengals
26:03
also felt, you know, they were it wasn't their teammate, but you
26:06
know, same same sports, same co worker out there. You know,
26:10
it could have been anybody on that field that happened to. So everyone's going
26:11
to be thinking about this when when you know, they go on that tunnel
26:15
and see it. But I would challenge it to we can't make this as
26:18
the excuse again, you know, And that might be the preaching of the
26:22
of the team this year of you know, we move on, and the
26:25
Marh Hammond doesn't want this to be the excuse, right, he wants the
26:27
team to move on and push through this. It's natural to feel this and
26:30
and be sensitive to it. But at the same time, I don't think
26:33
we can afford to make it our excuse any credence to it, Nate at
26:38
all. I mean I read this piece, Like I said, Mama Monday,
26:41
who's on the show last week. She did a great piece again check
26:44
it out at buffalofanbase dot com where we simulcast on. It was just great.
26:47
She was just talking about the mind and the minds different, you know,
26:49
Nate. So again she she had kind of said more along the lines
26:52
that they could they can be addressed, you know, they could be proactive,
26:55
and they were addressing it Monday Tuesday, that type of thing. So
26:57
it's not as much of the shock once Sunday night. But regardless if he
27:00
gets a jersey or not. I mean, it's it's gonna run through their
27:03
head at some point. Now, I don't know when I'm not you know,
27:07
I'm not a cycle analysis. I don't. I don't you know,
27:08
I don't understand everything about the brain, but I do know that just human
27:11
nature, they're going to think about it just a little bit at some point,
27:15
whether they did already or whether they do actually on the field on Sunday
27:18
night, Yeah, I think you know, Listen, it's an incredibly emotional
27:23
moment. For the franchise and for the guys that were on the field last
27:26
year. You know, all you got to do is go back to and
27:30
think about, you know, the looks on you know, Josh Allen's face
27:33
and in Trenamius White's face and some of his teammates, and you know,
27:37
thinking that you know that they lost a friend, a teammate, a brother
27:41
kind of right in front of them. So I also think it's a good
27:45
moment for the NFL in terms of, you know, kind of the aftermath.
27:48
I mean, this is a success story, right, I mean,
27:49
tomorrow is back playing in the NFL. I think there is a lot to
27:53
be said about how both head coaches Sean McDermott and Sean Taylor really handle it.
28:00
Yeah, I mean, I mean they Zach Taylor, I'm sorry,
28:03
not Zach, how they really handled the situation, how the league handled the
28:07
situation. So I think alling all, like, I think there's a lot
28:10
of positives to be taken out. I do think though that from an emotional
28:14
an emotional charge standpoint, Yeah, I mean, if if if they need
28:18
extra motivation for a game like this, then you know, I just you
28:22
know, I don't know what else, what else what else do you kind
28:25
of need for this game. I mean, it's a team that that whooped
28:27
you on your home on your home field, you know, less than a
28:30
year ago. That that's sort of this sort of downward trajectory for this team.
28:36
Right you had the quarterback and the wide receiver arguing on the sidelines,
28:40
and you know the the off season that was, and it sort of triggered
28:44
this, uh, this downward spiral that culminated to a Week one loss where
28:48
it's like, okay, is is everything wrong? Is is thing broken?
28:52
And then and then the Bills obviously you know Las Vegas and Washington and Miami
28:56
and everyone's got the vibes back and then it's been turbulence and turbulent since.
29:00
So I think this is one of those games that could be a jumping off
29:03
point for this for this Bills team. The rest of the way, you
29:04
can get out and get a win on the road against the Cincinnati Bengals team
29:07
that has found its way. This is not a good defense, though they
29:11
are an opportunistic defense in Cincinnata, but they are not a good one.
29:14
They are giving up I think the second most yards per play of any defense
29:18
in the NFL. But they are I think fourth or fifth and turnovers,
29:22
so they're turning the ball over a pretty high clip, I think first in
29:23
the league. And total interceptions they get after the quarterback. I think nine
29:27
percent of their dropacks. Our opponents drop backs end to the sacks, so
29:32
they're they're able to Hendrickson is good, Hubbard's good. They've got some pieces
29:36
along that defensive line. And the guy that I just think is just critically
29:40
under talked about is their their linebacker, which was Josh's teammate at Wyoming Wilson.
29:48
He is a criminally underrated, under talked one. He dominated last week
29:52
against San Francisco. I think he had two interceptions in that game by himself.
29:56
So yeah, I think for me, like the motivations there, this
29:59
is a team that whooped you. There's a little bit of revenge on the
30:02
mind, but I also think just the wanting to show off for your teammate's
30:06
going to be sort of a main, you know, motivation point for this
30:08
team as well. Yeah, DT, It's it's interesting because it's almost it
30:14
almost is you know, the loser of this game can kind of kissed the
30:17
number one seed goodbye, like I mean you can, I mean both teams
30:19
have all of their losses in conference DT, and you know, when it
30:22
comes down in the season, tiberkers things like that, that shit's gonna matter.
30:26
So a fourth AFC loss like this, you know, you could forget
30:29
about the one seed. You're probably going on the road for the playoffs more
30:32
than likely, unless you find a way to win the division. At least
30:33
you get one home game. But like it, this is a this is
30:37
big, like the ramification. I was thinking about it today about what happens
30:41
if you lose, and then I'm listening to the morning show and I'm like,
30:42
man, what what are some of the ramifications that go on to this?
30:47
And I mean, one seed definitely out of the window DT, But
30:48
like this is this is pretty big. Like it's a big deal. I
30:52
know it's halfway through the year, but this is a big deal. You
30:55
lose this game on the road, and you're gonna be kind of having more
30:56
of an up uphill battle the rest of the way because this schedules tough.
31:00
You can't change what's what's about to come, what's what's ahead of you right
31:04
right you. You can't change them behind you, but you can you can
31:07
forget about it by winning this game Sunday night. You know this would I
31:11
in my opinion, this game, a win Sunday Night would completely erase the
31:15
Patriots loss. Okay, I think that in general, you take that out
31:21
and and for the vibes, for the morale from moving forward and standings this
31:26
this would erase that loss that you know, Bengals got a tough schedule coming
31:29
up. Bill's got a tough schedule coming up, Eagles, Chiefs, Dolphins,
31:33
every good team. It's a tough schedule coming up. That's the nature
31:37
of the business and the nature are playing. You know, the ones in
31:38
all the divisions, but you know that your destinies written from from there on
31:42
out. You got to go out and win those games. But this is
31:45
an opportunity to kind of change the pass. I think Sunday and that that'd
31:48
be big to erase one of these bad losses this team has seen. Get
31:52
that morale back, get that confidence back that we saw in that three week
31:56
stand and say, okay, and now we beat the Bengals, who you
31:59
know and don't right, you know, almost getting disrespected this week for the
32:01
Buffalo. You come out as as the favorite and then the line instantly changes,
32:06
which is Okay, but these dudes are what started out one and for
32:08
and now they're unbeatable. Now they're unbeatable. I mean, I'm not saying
32:12
that they're trash by any means, they're let's go, I mean, like,
32:17
what the hell is this like, They're not an unbeatable team, and
32:22
there's a lot of stake at this game. The Bills can come back and
32:24
kind of cement themselves at the back, you know, settle the waters a
32:29
little bit, erase that Patriots loss, and then buck up for the rest
32:32
of the schedule. Yeah, I mean, Nate, I'm I'm I'm nervous.
32:36
I'm not I'm not gonna lie to y'all. I'm nervous. One of
32:38
the main reasons I'm nervous is, you know, the injuries. I'm starting
32:40
to wonder. DT had kind of been prepping me for the last couple of
32:44
weeks that the offense is gonna have to carry us at some point, and
32:45
the office is gonna have to carry us at some point. And then you
32:49
know, it shows up and it rears its ugly head, and he was
32:51
right about it. And and now I'm wondering with an offense this potent,
32:54
you know what I mean, like, can the d hold up and you've
32:57
got some injuries. You know, every level a key all pro is out.
33:00
You know, damn near because you know Dawan Jones is really playing some
33:02
of his best football period of his career. He was predicted he was actually
33:06
playing better than Olibrow on the low. I don't know, man, I'm
33:09
nervous because it looks like what DT was talking about. No, they're not
33:13
unbeatable, DT, but Burrow looks back. I mean when I watched that
33:16
game last week, got plopped down on the couch, took a little nap
33:19
before before I fell asleep, I saw Burrow running. I saw him doing
33:22
scrambles, and I'm like, shit, that calf must be all right,
33:24
because like he was all over the place and he had I mean, he's
33:28
throwing the guys off of him for would be sex Nate. Man, I'm
33:31
nervous. I'm my hands are up. I'm nervous. Like I'm nervous.
33:35
I'm nervous. So I think one thing you can expect is this is gonna
33:42
be a different defensive game plan that was in the playoffs. I think you're
33:45
gonna see a lot of what they deployed against the Miami Dolphins get deployed in
33:50
this matchup, and the best I think the good part about this matchup is,
33:54
yes they I think they've got a deeper group of wide receivers, but
33:58
they don't have that guy that you're absolutely terrified about beating you over the top.
34:02
This is not a shot at from mar Chase, So I think it
34:04
is, you know, a top five, top seven wide receiver in the
34:07
league. He's not Tyreek Hill in terms of how you have to game plan,
34:09
right, So you know they the Bills really deployed a coverage called Palms,
34:15
which is kind of like a yeah, it's the Palms coverage. Really
34:20
log jammed. What is palms? Because I heard Tony Romo talking about it?
34:23
So what is poems for the audience? Because I didn't but it sounded
34:27
cool and I was like, we talked about it, like I guess they
34:30
played Palms coverage and eat. I don't know, but it worked. So
34:32
there's like a show like it's it's it's a it's cover four. But there's
34:39
a lot of there's a lot of like what you would call route shadowing.
34:45
There's a lot of like where almost looks like Mann principles, but you're funneling
34:50
things to the inside. You're maintaining that cover four, which is really what
34:54
it's. There's a lot of levels of complex handoffs, meaning you get to
35:00
your zone, but passing guys off and being able to move. And they
35:04
were able to do that at the linebacker level because they had Milano and Bernard,
35:07
and both guys are fantastic in pass coverage. They're able to communicate at
35:10
a really high level pass guys off. Now, I think you're going to
35:14
see a lot of that in the dime looks that they're going to be able
35:16
to put out there with Jordan Ployer. But I actually think they keep this
35:19
game isn't necessarily about slowing down this Cincinnati Bengals pass game. I think it
35:24
has to start with not allowing them to establish Joe Mixon in the run game,
35:29
because I think that's one thing that did really well last week against San
35:30
Francisco is they were really able to establish the run, which then allowed them
35:36
to find themselves. I think that's the one thing that Bills defense did really
35:39
well against the Dolphins is the Dolphins to that point was at Week four week
35:44
five, really hadn't found themselves in a lot of second, third, third
35:49
and long situations. Now there was some help because they had a couple of
35:52
holding finalies. Taron Armstead goes down in that game. They did not establish
35:55
the run early in that game, and then they started having to play from
35:58
behind. So if you can make this Bengals offense a little bit more one
36:00
dimensional, take Joe Mixon out of the equation, get them in second and
36:05
long, third and long situations where they're you know, famously as Sean McDermot
36:07
and every NFL coach says, you know, off schedule, right, I
36:12
think that's really where you can start to dictate terms for this, for this
36:15
Bengals offense. And you know, I think part of this is not allowing
36:19
Joe Burrow to get the ball out the way that he wants to get the
36:22
ball out and get it out to that first target. If I think at
36:25
times last week against San Francisco, they were not able to move Joe off
36:30
of his first read like the Bills were able to move to off of his
36:32
first read. When you start to get the quarterbacks like Joe Burrow, like
36:36
like Tuatunga Bila, who are such you know, timing rhythm anticipatorial throwers,
36:44
and you force them to hold the ball. Those route combinations they start to
36:49
I would almost say like overcook overdeveloped, and then you don't necessarily have that
36:53
timing, that rhythm and anticipation at your disposal. So I think the one
36:58
thing that you heard after that that Miami Dolphins matchup was not just the story
37:01
about palms coverage, and I think you also heard a lot of the marrying
37:06
of coverage and pass rush, and we haven't quite seen that marriage since the
37:09
injuries of da Quan and Matt Mullano and obviously Trenedi is white. But I
37:14
think this is a good week that they can get back to it. This
37:15
is an offensive line in Cincinnati that has some names but has not played particularly
37:20
well. They've given up a lot of pressure early in the season. When
37:22
Joe couldn't move, it was bad. Now Joe's back to moving a little
37:25
bit better. But I still think, you know, this time around,
37:28
you've got a healthier von Miller. I think you got to have a big
37:30
game from Greg Russou and Leonard Floyd, and I think you've got to have
37:35
a real patented at Oliver performance where he's able to penetrate in the middle and
37:39
move Joe burrow off of his sides. Now he's mobile enough where he can
37:44
throw on the run. But if you can get Joe rolling out to his
37:47
left trying to throw, it's way better of a situation for this defense than
37:51
letting him carve you apart from the pocket. So I think you've gotta have
37:53
to have a big game from at Oliver. But I think it starts with,
37:57
you know, making sure on first down, when they turn around a
37:59
hand ball off to Joe Mixon that you do not give him opportunities to have
38:04
second and two, second and three where they can start to take shots down
38:07
the field and really try to hurt your defense over the top. Because I
38:09
think both of these defenses philosophically are going to sort of ask, they're going
38:14
to sort of want to do the same thing, which is, you can
38:15
take your yards in between the twenties, but when you get down to the
38:19
red zone and you're not scoring, and we're going to try to turn the
38:22
ball over, And I think both defenses have the same objective in this game.
38:24
I think whoever can can you know, perform the best, execute the
38:28
best defensively in this game is likely going to be the team that wins.
38:30
Yeah, DT. It's interesting because you know, talking about the you know,
38:35
the Miami game. You know what do we call it? We call
38:37
it McDermott's you know, his his magnum opus. Like there was his best
38:39
game as a defensive coordinator and as the coach of the Bills. And it's
38:43
it's funny because you know, I'm looking for some of the same things that
38:46
Nate's looking for. Him definitely looking to to limit you know, Joe Burrow
38:51
and things like that. I'm really really interested DT in the offense and scoring.
38:54
The thing that made the Miami game so unique to me, DT was
38:59
the fact that we didn't stop, like there was no It was almost as
39:02
if McDermott knew that this this game plan needed points. We needed to score
39:07
points because I don't know if my defense is good to hold them. Not
39:08
that he didn't have confidence in his d or anything like that, but that
39:12
he knew that points were going to be required. I want them to have
39:15
that same mentality on Sunday night. I want them to come into the game
39:19
thinking that they need to put up thirty that they need to put up thirty
39:22
five, and it's going to be interesting because I don't I don't know if
39:25
we can. You know, it's just sometimes it seems like the offense not
39:31
takes the foot out the gas, Nate, but sometimes it just seems like
39:34
they're they're looking for an opportunity to to establish the run, to you know,
39:40
slow the game down or what in the case may be. Miami was
39:43
not like that. It was never it was never that kind of situation.
39:45
And I'm just interested to know. I think we've got some problems with DT,
39:47
but I've I've never had that issue with my team. Like, I
39:52
just don't like looking at them where I want them to try to score every
39:55
time they like is that too hard to ask for? Is that under a
39:59
lit But like it just seemed like Miami the entire game plan was let's go
40:02
put up as many points as possible, and all of a sudden after fourteen
40:06
fourteen, like you just said, they changed Miami's game plan because they were
40:08
playing from behind, and that was all because the offense was continuing to go
40:13
after continue into attack. And I just hope that they have that same mentality.
40:15
Whether it works or not, I understand that, but I want them
40:19
to have that same type of mentality. Yeah, listen, I think you
40:22
know, staying on schedule and giving themselves second in shorts and using some of
40:25
those second and short situations to press the football down the field take shots instead
40:29
of you know, kind of turning around and constantly handing it off and listen,
40:32
there is something to be said about, you know, maintaining drives and
40:36
getting first downs, but I think there's also opportunities to be more opportunistic for
40:39
this offense to take shots, to be more aggressive, and be more points
40:44
oriented instead of time of possession oriented. And you know, I think that
40:47
there has been a mindset with Josh Allen for the last few years that all
40:52
points are good points. And although that's true, I think that they've fallen
40:58
into more of this level of wanting to find sustainability, wanting to find consistency.
41:02
And hey, I'm all for sustainability. I'm all for consistency, but
41:06
not at the risk, not at the best of stopping yourself from the big
41:10
plays, which is what's made this offense so potent over the last couple of
41:15
years. And using like to me, yes, I really loved how they
41:20
utilized Gabe Davis last week, but I'm also sort of waiting for him to
41:22
have that game where he goes three for one twenty in a score. I
41:28
liked the way that they deployed, Like there's a couple of plays where you
41:31
were, you know, on Carlton Davis where you're getting man coverage and Josh
41:35
is taking the ball and immediately ball's coming out back shoulder, real nice lofted,
41:39
very catchable football. Like that's a nice play against man coverage. I
41:43
like that against cover two when you're not going to get that honey hole and
41:45
you want to toss one in there and you want to create yourself some leverage
41:47
on the corner. Yeah, on the sideline. I love that. So
41:52
I think for me, in the same conversation about some of the pattern matching
41:58
stuff we were talking about, like with with what the Bills might try to
42:00
do against the Bengals defense, I think that they're going to try to do
42:02
the same thing against the Bills. I think that the the lack of Josh
42:08
Allen running the football has allowed defenses to be a little bit more aggressive in
42:14
coverage. I think the more they bring back scrambling Josh, the harder it
42:17
is to run man coverage against the Bills. And I think this has been
42:20
feasting on this Bills team by running man coverage and short of Stefan Diggs,
42:22
they haven't had an all of guys getting open. So yeah, I think
42:27
consistency matters for this offense, but not at you know, not by sacrificing
42:31
that the deep ball and and the big place and Josh by the way,
42:35
it has to hit them a couple of big opportunities. I know. I
42:39
think Diggs had a real big, good opportunity in that game against New England
42:44
that you know, they just they didn't connect and then it kind of felt
42:46
like they went back into their bubble. So yeah, I think part of
42:50
this is staying ahead of the sticks Thana on schedule and and and getting for
42:52
stalns and maintaining and keeping possession of football. But I think it also means
42:57
you score points is when and where you can. Yeah, DT are think
43:00
are they gonna let you know? Nate brings up a good point as we
43:04
begin to wrap up tonight again the Nickel City Crew happy hour. Are they
43:08
gonna let Josh run? Like are they waiting? Because that's been a debate
43:12
and it's like, well, maybe they're just waiting till the end of the
43:14
year and stuff like that, like I'm almost like like, okay, well,
43:17
then this is kind of the time, like this is the meat and
43:20
potatoes of your schedule coming up. Like if you guys were waiting to unleash
43:23
him, like I'm okay with it now now we've got the shoulder. So
43:27
maybe that's another excuse on why they won't DT, But like I'm if they
43:30
were waiting for a certain point in the season, I would I would like
43:34
to raise my hand and say that this is the time, like this is
43:37
it's okay now, you know what I mean, Like this is protecting him
43:39
type of thing. I almost think sometimes can can stablish and in the heart
43:44
at the same time because of the fact that we're almost we're almost taking away
43:47
the biggest weapon that we have and that's Josh Allen's legs, and the gravity
43:52
of the situation. You got me, am I good? All right?
43:54
Cool? Cool? So the gravity of the situation, like you said,
43:58
it's not the end of the year, and it's not that there's a lot
44:00
of hard games on the schedule, so it's not like you win this one
44:04
and you can coach in the playoffs. But there has to be an urgency
44:07
from one to seven as well, Like all right, we need to start
44:09
stacking this this crucial win. So when we get towards the end of the
44:14
year, you know, it's not as do or dies as we need it
44:16
to be. It's the NFL, so it's always gonna be like that.
44:19
But the fact they got to start getting some cushion. They got to start,
44:22
you know, the one seed whatever. I'm not as crazy about the
44:24
one Seed as I used to be, but you know, they got to
44:28
start getting some cushions, some confidence, and I think Josh knows that.
44:30
And it's like, are they gonna let him run? It's like, well,
44:34
if he sees it and he runs, what are they gonna do bench
44:37
him? No? You know, So it's I think there's also gonna be
44:39
a point where, you know, Josh just takes over and says like,
44:44
all right, like like you see, you know Lebron and when on a
44:46
team that a team full of scrubs at the end of the game, they're
44:51
still in it, and he just says, give me the ball, I
44:52
get to the rack, I get to like That's what I think you're gonna
44:55
start seeing from one to seven and not so much superhero, kay, but
45:00
I need to take over and win this game because you know, whatever the
45:04
game plan is, whatever it is, I'm sure he's listening to that,
45:06
and it's not going to go you know, a wall if you will,
45:08
But there's gonna be a point where one seven says, Okay, I need
45:13
to I need I know I can get thirty yards here, I'm going to
45:15
get it. So I got a question. I know, I know I'm
45:17
not the host of the show, but you mentioned something about about the one
45:21
seed and I wanted to ask you guys this question based on you know,
45:23
Sunday mornings game Dolphins and Chiefs. Would you rather the Dolphins win so that
45:32
you're a game further from the Chiefs potentially not getting home field advantage in the
45:37
playoffs, because for the love of God, I'd love for the Chiefs to
45:39
have to play a playoff game away from from Arrowhead Stadium. Or are you
45:43
guys just like no bye by no means, are is anyone here rooting for
45:46
the Dolphins to win a football game? You go, you take that first?
45:51
So I mean, yes, that would be that would be nice,
45:54
But I think we're in a reality where you know, that's reality. The
45:58
Chiefs are just going to be at air ahead and the player. It is
46:00
what it is, and that's something we gotta get used to it. Some
46:01
we're gonna have to go on and be we have enough. We have enough
46:06
playoff experience. I think we when we had a home game, when we
46:08
had home field last year. Granted it wasn't through the AFC Championship, but
46:13
you know, we came in and got our ask kicked at home. So
46:15
it's I don't know what I I with the schedule coming up. I'm not
46:19
saying we're not getting in, but the focus is getting in, and the
46:22
easiest way to get in, obviously is winning the division. So as much
46:27
as it pains me, as much as I would like to see Kansas City
46:30
out, I would rather win the division and get in that way. Oh
46:32
my god, DT, you already know where I'm going with this, Nate.
46:36
This is why I read Nate giary ol Man, because we are kindred
46:38
Bill spirits Man. How many times DT have I complained about Patrick Mahomes not
46:44
having to go stay in some shitty hotel. I mean, it's probably five
46:46
star war. It doesn't matter if like go stay in a hotel, be
46:50
away from your lady. Yeah you don't like Yeah, like come on,
46:54
man, like, give me a break. I want to see him on
46:57
the road. I just want to see what some type of adversity. I
46:59
want to see how they handle it. I just I am so sick of
47:01
this coasting ride. And and the really thing, the funny thing about the
47:06
one seed is and when they change the format like it makes it doubly important
47:09
now because the one and two seat used to get buyas when we were growing
47:13
up, and now all of a sudden, it's just the one seat that
47:15
gets it. So I'm I can never like, I want them to go
47:20
on the road. I want my whole you know that, you know,
47:22
the Bickel City crew knows where I'm at. Like I want to see him
47:25
uncomfortable. I still haven't seen him uncomfortable. He gets a chance to live
47:30
in this cushy mansion and drive right over the arrowhead every single You're right,
47:37
You're right, I guess that. I guess I'm just not worried about us
47:39
not getting in. So that's an interesting question. Uh, And I you
47:43
know, it's funny to kind of ponder, But no, hell, though
47:45
I want him to go on the road, I do because we do.
47:47
I mean, we do play them both, you know, head to head,
47:50
so you have some opportunities with tiebreakers and different things like that. The
47:52
head is the first time breaker, so if records come out that way,
47:55
you've got an opportunity. And we already beat Miami, so we'll see.
47:59
As we wrap up tonight again, check them out at Nate Geary Sports on
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Instagram, Twitter. We really appreciate your time tonight, Nate. I mean
48:07
one of w gr's finals to me. I mean, he's one of w
48:10
g r's finals to me, and I always, I always enjoy his work.
48:14
Yeah, I absolutely do. I love I like Jeremy White a lot,
48:16
but but Nate is He's top dog for me. Now. Yeah,
48:22
man, I appreciate it. If I say one thing that you know,
48:24
one thing that gr does lack is is a bike and you know you've got
48:29
to be corrected. All sas tell people what they need to hear, and
48:32
that's refreshing. Yep, I do. Yeah, he does not sugarcoat it
48:37
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They're all supporting a great cause and every purchase DT. I mean, I
48:59
was, I was laying alone, man, it was I let I let
49:00
my king stay up that night. I was, you know, fuck it,
49:04
It's Friday the next day, and I don't care. It's all good.
49:06
Dad says, you can stay up all night. And and me and
49:08
Nate we watched the entire game. I made some of that, you know,
49:12
like the little ground beef and then you get like the velveta cheese brick,
49:15
you know what I mean. Put it in the crack pot with some
49:17
salsa, you know what I mean, and get you know, get some
49:20
tortilla chips, and we we tore that shit up. But it was it
49:22
was just chill, man. I was right here at the house. We
49:24
had Bobby's last football practice right before. I told I was like, listen,
49:29
coaches like, I'm like, I'm out at seven forty something, like
49:31
y'all keep trying to run this practice law as the last practice of the year.
49:35
I promise you I'm leaving at seven forty something. So they got they
49:38
got practiced out on time, and I just came home, man, and
49:40
we just we just watched them and it was it was a good game to
49:43
watch until it was maddening, maddening excuse me at the end. But me
49:46
and Nate just enjoyed it. He stayed up the entire night. He was
49:50
happy. He didn't say a word. I think he was wonderful. If
49:52
I was gonna send him to bed like three or four times in the second
49:53
half, I was like, no, man, you don't have to keep
49:55
looking at the clock. You good man, You can stay up. So
49:59
we just we just d t That was it, man. What did you
50:00
How did you consume the game? And what did you do after? From
50:04
Minnesota? Yeah, shout out great weather week and in the buff it was
50:08
it was awesome. I mean I was out there in a short sleep and
50:12
it was kind of regretting wearing wearing pants, you know, I wish I
50:15
went went shorts and a short sleep. But we did it. We did
50:17
it well. Man. Was How was the bus? Yeah? I took
50:21
a twelve passenger van out there. We parked somewhere we don't usually parked right
50:25
on the corner. I'm prohibition there their little tailgate a little DJ going on
50:30
and we got there good and yeah the boys got tore up a little.
50:35
We had some friends in town and how to do it right? Yeah,
50:39
yeah, No, it was my first game I've been to. I went
50:43
to that game with my dad. Yeah, and me and my old man
50:45
went. I haven't been to a game with my old man since. Uh.
50:51
Stevie Johnson dropped that touchdown against Pittsburgh. And my last game that I
50:57
was in the stadium as a fan in was EJ Manual to sorry, close
51:04
your ears rop because I know, I know this is it's gonna be in
51:06
your city right now. But EJ Manual uh to Stevie Johnson at the end
51:10
of the fourth quarter to win. And then the last, the last Bills
51:20
game period, I was actually like in the stands for was the away game
51:22
the next year? Was it next year? Two years later when Za Jones
51:27
or I don't know who you want to blame, Tyrod or A Jones in
51:29
the corner of the end zone Week two in Charlotte, I thought it was
51:34
a drop. I thought it was a good throw from Tyroll, but like,
51:37
yeah, so, I don't know why my last two games happened to
51:39
be Charlotte you know, Uh, Carol, you got to hook up with
51:44
you next time. You dont here? Man, that's crazy. You don't
51:47
go to the games a lot like that. I mean I go, but
51:51
like you know, I'm there to you know, to work, Like Yeah,
51:54
I don't. I don't get to go and and tie it off in
51:57
the in the parking lot. I mean I got there at two already.
52:00
I was drinking from two thirty to eight, and then I had some as
52:05
DT said, Uh, yeah, I got after it. Yeah, D
52:08
like he would fit right in with the crew. We gotta go out there
52:10
for sure before the season is out. We're gonna send you an invite.
52:14
We normally, uh, we normally tailgate on the corner Southwestern uh in California,
52:20
right and right like literally in the grass roots grass lots, excuse me,
52:22
right and from the stadium. So that's like our spot. That's why
52:24
DT was saying that he went to a different spot. So I'm glad that
52:28
the van worked out, though, DT. So it did work out.
52:30
Everybody got their safe. You throw you don't get a driver, throw them
52:35
a couple of Hondi and you know everybody, you got ten, You got
52:37
ten people in there. It's it's it's changed and no one gets there,
52:40
gets back and don't have to worry about it. So that's beautiful, man,
52:45
that's beautiful. Well, listen, how will I'll be, you know,
52:47
consumed it this week? You know, it's just I'm nervous. I'm
52:50
a nervous wreck. So again the Nickel City Crew tailgate Report, presented by
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twenty six shirts dot Com. I mean, yeah, I'm just gonna chill,
52:57
man, I'll be right here. I'm gonna be a nervous fucking like.
53:00
I'm just gonna be nervous. I'm just I've been nervous all week,
53:04
and I think that the Cincinnati forty nine Ers game did not help. I
53:07
saw Burrow, he looked like himself. Again. The CAF doesn't seem to
53:09
be an issue. When I saw him scrambling, I started to Uh.
53:14
I'm like, well, that excuse is out the window. Like we're not
53:15
gonna get a cupcake game for sure. So I'm nervous. DT. I'll
53:20
be right at the crib. Nothing special. The boys are actually off on
53:22
school on Monday and Tuesday, so they'll probably be be hanging with me again,
53:27
and me and Nate will probably be just in lockstep right of the couch
53:30
watching the game, because that's my right or die. So that's it,
53:32
man, that's I will be right at the crib. I'll figure out something
53:36
to eat, and uh that's it man. Nothing fancy, nothing fancy.
53:38
Yeah, I'm behind man that that week off, that week and got me.
53:45
I'm still I'm still catching Friday, so I have a way of playing
53:49
jet for Sunday is probably gonna be dark boat all weekend. A lot of
53:52
ball, a lot of a lot of lines closed, not doing ship.
53:55
So yeah, we'll on Sunday, and you know I'm gonna I'm gonna take
53:59
your nervousness and change into confidence and change the pump up. You know it's
54:02
the League one seven, show them up. Let's let's make it happen.
54:07
Man. I appreciate it, Man, I appreciate both of your time tonight.
54:10
Again, we appreciate all the listeners that join the YouTube live again this
54:15
show will I'll immediately post it on our platform so that way everybody can consume
54:19
it tonight and this weekend. But again, man, please out there,
54:22
spread love not hate. These were my bills thoughts that out Loud hit them
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with a gold bills as we headed into the weekend. Please hit them with
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a Gold Bills Day, hit them with one DT. Hit them go bills,
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Go Bill six and three sixty three every week. I love it.
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I love it sixth day. I hear you, man,