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S3 E22: Identity Crisis?! · Nickel City Crew Podcast

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Fifteen de crazy. You can see you breath out in the lake effect,
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Breacon tables and guitar. Would you wherese would you have to be? And
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to Ron Elvis in the lay, Panchow remembers that you need to know.
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I want you out here now, your family? Where's would you have to
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be? Where else? Would you be? Welcome into the nicol City Crew.
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I am your host, Rob Crippen. Please like us on Facebook and
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Buffalo bills and NFL content Again to day and as always, these are my
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bills thoughts set out loud. It's about so ridiculous two story, say three
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was six? I can like, where's what you want to be? All
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right, let's get straight to it. Really excited for tonight's episode. As
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always, it was crazy. I was driving back to Charlotte on Monday after
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the game, and it's funny because I almost had the same feeling that I
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had when you know, I come up and the Bills lose. I think
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that, you know, my co host and I joked about that a few
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episodes ago, but I'm so happy that we didn't lose that game. That
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was not pretty, not anything that we expected. Definitely a nail bier as
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the Bills barely escape Sunday Night Football against the New York Giants fourteen to nine.
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It was something else. But the weekend was really crazy as well,
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and in a positive voice, so I can't wait to get to all of
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the details and kind of chop it up. Joining me tonight as always my
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co host writing Shotgun Adam Dump Truck Rupsick how at the Crew DT. You
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can check them out on Instagram at Adam rubsick r u p c z y
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k DT. I would have been so mad driving back to Charlotte had we
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not been able to come away with that game. And Tarren Johnson helps us
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out with a little bit of a PI on the last play and lets everybody
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there at one Bills Drive get out feeling a little bit better, just a
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little bit better than had the Bills have been coming out of there three and
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three. Well, I'd say a lot better because loss. It's you know,
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a big difference in today's NFL, especially for you know, for our
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team, the Buffalo Bills. But good to be back, nicol City crew.
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Good to be here. It's been a weird, you know, a
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weird game Sunday. It was a weird week so far. Been gloomy up
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here, and I know you kind of had to drive through the gloom to
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get up here Saturday, and probably had to do the same on the way
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back. Hopefull you get a little sunshine out and shot out this week to
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help it out. But yeah, it was, it was. It feels
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felt the game itself was weird. And then the past couple of days,
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you know, with listening to other media and kind of just a vibe around
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has been you know, kind of dark, so weird. As we've talked
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about, you know, progressing it as fans, and you know, we'd
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love to be foreign to in the drought and here we were sitting at four
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and true but just isn't good enough. And we'll dig into that tonight.
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So you know, let's let's go. Click clack, we're back, click
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clack, We're back. Absolutely right. You know, it's funny because I
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cannot you know, I've been listening just like you have some of the back
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and forth throughout the week and you guys all know I'm gonna have a WJR
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listener and did things like that. But I can't help but think about our
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grow Up episode DT because it feels a lot, you know, like that,
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because you know, expectations have raised, and these are the ways,
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you know, these are kind of how the fan bases go. When you're
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you've got a team that's talented, that has high expectations, that you're looking
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forchampionship, there's really not too much room to go to go you know up.
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You know, there's not too many things that are going to really impress
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you. So I embrace it. I love the fact that this team is,
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you know, so good, and we've had so much success over these
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last few years. And I kind of like it because you know, I
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know that how how gloomy and truly dark it is when your team has no
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hope. This team has hope. This team you know that that's been constructed,
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is really a team that we're ready. We're right on the you know,
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the precipice. We felt that with thirteen seconds, we felt that,
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you know, the next year as well, and it's just been some missed
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opportunities, But I kind of like the fact that this is our reality as
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opposed to the drought, you know, you know, mentality and just being
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happy, you know, for a competitive game against a team that you didn't
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think you're going to beat or anything like that, or you squeak out a
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win. This this reality is much is much sweeter to me, and I
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kind of embrace it because that's really what the crux of that grow Up episode
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was all about. And I encourage people to go back and listen to it
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because we had such a great time doing it, and it was really a
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p to say to Bill's Mafia to let them know that it was okay to
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you know, raise your expectations for a team that's good and the team that's
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stacked. They listen, rob they listened. I mean back then when we
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had to grow Up episode, it was it was I wouldn't say, I
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don't know the statistic on it if it was split fifty to fifty of people
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saying like, oh, would you rather have the drought? Would you rather
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be this? But we've talked about it consistently. Are the Bagula's Is McDermott
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okay with being okay, and you know, you got to grow up and
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you got to be and I think now the tide's totally shifted to Sunday.
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You know, it's tough to find somebody excited and happy about that w and
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so that's you know, the Mafia listened to the Crew. They listened to
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you, Rob, you were the point guard in that and we had grown
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up to realize that, you know, we know Sunday even though it was
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a dub and it's hard to win this league. Sunday's not gonna be good
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enough to when you ring and play some of these teams down the schedule,
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you're you're gonna have to face. So you know, as we get into
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it, we can only hope the Bills also listen to us. And if
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they were okay with being okay, I think as a room, as a
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team, as a as a culture, they have to also realize that Sunday
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wasn't good enough to be beaten some good teams down the stretch and win in
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a bull So yeah, I mean, you know, Bills are foreign too,
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So we'll try to keep everything in perspective as we kind of dive into
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it real quick here. You know, it was just a weird game.
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DT. I know you and I were obviously both there, and we'll get
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to the Nicol City Crew tailgate report at the end of the show. But
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it was just it was just a weird day. I mean, three quarters
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no points DT. How many times that first time since what it was a
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long time? These are something like that, Like I've never really experienced anything
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like that. Even the drought bills, you know, would score points.
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And it was weird because the night was perfect. You know, by the
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time we're walking into the stadium, there's no rain, it's not wet,
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and you know what, what's the excuse. The energy was great in the
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building. They gave us those little cool bracelets and they turn out the lights
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and that's fun for everybody to kind of put on their phones and and and
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takeing that that audience and that scene. But like, this was just a
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weird game. It's crazy because the offense has been under Dorsey, it's kind
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of been like a little bit Doctor Jekyll Mister Hyde like. And what I
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mean by that is that I don't know really what I'm going to get from
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them, and that's not a good feeling. I want to know. Consistency
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is one of the most important things for a team and a fan base to
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kind of have confidence in and to know like, this is my team,
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regardless if they're going to be shitty or not. You know, the fans
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know what's going on in Houston. They're just pleasantly surprised that they're five hundred.
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You know, the fans know what's going on in you know, Arizona
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or Denver. What are the case. Maybe they understand they see the writing
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on the wall. And then the same thing for the great teams. The
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Chiefs fans expect, you know, have certain expectations, and the same thing
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for US and Ravens fans and now Dolphins fans have raised their expectations. I
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don't know what to expect from this offense. It's not a comforting feeling.
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I don't I didn't really count any layups DT the other night. I mean,
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besides that, you know, the beautiful orbit motion with you know,
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Deyance Hardy. Other than that, like, I didn't see a lot of
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just easy stuff white so hard all the time. This is dating back to
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last year DT, when you know, second half of the year things were
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just kind of struggling, and then the juxtapost that with Brian Davill, who
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everybody knows here at Nichol City Crew I love so much and miss. It
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was just a it was just a weird, weird night. And I'm not
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exactly sure how you feel about it, but I know that it's something.
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It just it was just odd the whole night. I'm stumbling through it right
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now because the whole night was just really weird. I couldn't believe what I
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was seeing on the field. Yeah, it's I mean, yeah, for
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coming up for the past couple of years, you feel the rise of this
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team and the rise of Josh Allen, and you know, it really kind
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of went from you know, something that was just basic to a dominant performance
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each and every night, and you know, you're putting up crazy stats,
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doing all this crazy stuff. And then you know, we last year,
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we see it in the beginning of the year kind of falls off and never
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got it back. As we're go into the playoffs this year, to start
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great, you have your three games in a row where you dominate, and
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now you know, your two games in a row where like you said,
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doctor JackAM you know, and that is the stand we're in. The I
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think there's a lot of factors that go into this. Rob The one I
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know you put in your notes when we were talking pre show was, you
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know, the NFL is a tough league, and these defenses are catching up,
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like you barely see, you know, kind of fads last for a
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long time. I mean, the Dolphins are doing well right now and with
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with what they got going on, and you think that the defenses are going
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to start catching up to that. The Chiefs really haven't looked out standing on
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offense all year, but they're finding ways to win games and B five and
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one and really kind of the forty nine ers have that new scheme with Christian
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McCaffrey and all the other weapons other than their quarterback are taking over, and
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that's some kind of news. So I think there's there's a lot of things
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to go into it. The Bills specifically, though, defenses might be catching
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up. You know, when you break down the numbers here, it's they're
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they're really just kind of average, you know, if you will all the
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way around, and when you see when you're used to seeing dominance and then
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you see average, you might mistake it for bad, you know, And
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I wouldn't say necessarily they're they're bad. I mean, someday was not scoring
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in three quarters. That's that's bad. I mean the but the statistics as
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we'll get in the night, I think back up a little while. You
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know, they're they're right in the middle of the pack, and a lot
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of things that they need to uptick a little more to get that bite,
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to get that swagger back. But you know, you said it, the
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only layup line we saw was the hardy on that orban motion. We don't
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see a lot of that really at all. I mean, we're seeing some
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basic ass ship. You know, we're unning straight up draws and from the
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gun and you know, not a lot of creative routes, and you know,
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and then it turns into uninforcing it stuff on Dick. So I agree,
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it's kind of frustrating. It's it's tough to put your finger on it
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because you want to compare yourself around the league and you see all these other
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teams that you know are good but are also kind of not dominated. I
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mean there's a few obviously, the Dolphins are, and the and the forty
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nine ers are, but you know, your your Chiefs, your Ravens,
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your other teams are the Bengals. You know, teams that had crazy offensive
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production are kind of getting caught up with defenses and having these type of nights.
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So I think it's a little bolth. We got to be a little
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more creative and Dorsey's got to do that, but we also have to execute
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and you know, also realize that the defenses are catching up to the sleep.
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Yeah, I mean, I guess that that's something that you know,
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if you want to grab a piece of of solace, and this whole thing
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is that, you know, you're absolutely right. There have been some struggling
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offenses around the league, you know. I I think about the you know,
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the opponents and stuff like that. You know, the Giants really didn't
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have that great of a d and it was, you know, a major
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struggle. So I wonder what that means. I mean, there's a lot
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of things that I'm just wondering about when it comes to the team, and
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I'm you know, I wonder why, you know, the offense looks so
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staggned, and I wonder why they you know, Ken Dorsey loves to run
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the ball and second down so much. I mean that just I kept seeing
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that on Sunday night, and I'm like, why do we keep running the
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ball and second down. You know, I'm wondering if you know, McDermott
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is kind of you know, seeping into some of this with his his mindset
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and the different things about you know, running the ball. We're running the
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ball board. Now, Josh Allen doesn't run the ball. I'm hoping that
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that's going to be coming back towards the end of the year and obviously playoffs
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and they kind of unleash him, so to speak. So you're absolutely right
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because there are so many different factors that I can't put my finger on the
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twelve verse eleven personnel. I know that we talked about that last week and
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it's annoying. That's been another topic of conversation this week because it's still a
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high uptick. I mean, they're they're running that twelve personnel that committed to
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it. I don't know if that's really you know, suits Josh Allen and
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suits the offense, but it's something that they are definitely doing and it's not
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anything that it seems like it's going away anytime soon. But for me,
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it's the six games with the three bad offensive performances that really concerned me the
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most. To be honest, DT and they make me a little bit nervous
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because of the fact that you juxtapposed that with the Cincinnati game last year.
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I need you to be clicking by the end of the year. The only
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saving grace that they're getting for me right now is that it's not the end
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of the year. I told you go promise you guys want to go on
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this ride, go on this roller coaster and not just look ahead to the
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playoffs. So I'm really, you know, making a concerned effort to do
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that. And that's really the only thing that makes me feel better is the
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fact that it's it's early in the year. There's a lot of football left
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to be played. But you know, half the games, you know,
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your offense looks like shit. That's that's just not it's not that encouraging,
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you know what I mean. And I'm just wondering, you know, who
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are you, you know, doctor Jacobistard, Like, who is this offense?
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And I really just feel like there's a lack of identity And I don't
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know all the time if if even from Ken Dorsey on down, if they
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really know who they want to be. And that's that's I guess that's one
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of the main things that I'm trying to get a handle on. Who are
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who are they? It's a it's a game of inches, too, Rob,
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I mean there we have been blessed with some you know, we talk
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about winning the Super Bowl. You have to be a good team, but
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you also have to have bounces go your way. And in the past couple
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of years, I feel like we've been blessed with a lot of game of
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inches. Like there's not a lot of tipballs, there's not a lot of
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drops, there's not a lot of oh that what could have been? And
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all the past two games, especially the Jaguars and the Giants, I've seen
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a lot of close calls like that, you know, with some tip balls
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out or a drop here, he just made it to the line here.
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And it's kind of like the Vikings last year eleven and one and one score
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games. Now they can't win a one score game to you know, solve
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their life. So I think it's just the mean is catching back up as
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well with you know, you're not gonna hit everything, and the game of
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inches are you know, there are gonna be tips, there are gonna be
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situations that you know aren't gonna go your way, and that could mean a
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difference of a game and a flow of a game. And that's why I
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was critical McDermott last week when we're talking to Jaguars and maybe going forward on
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fourth down a few times. This doesn't help our argument here. Maybe the
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past two games of the past two games of you know, figuring out and
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being stagnant. The Jaguars game fourteen to forty, run to pass, Okay,
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so obviously superseded the pass. Granted at the end they had to only
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pass because they're down and had to make things happen. But fourteen to forty
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in the past not even close, you know, passing way more. Sunday
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a lot closer thirty two to nineteen or yeah, thirty two to twenty nine.
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You know, so you're running the ball a lot more, not passing
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as much. And why is that? So that's really what you got to,
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you know, look into as you look down down the NFL, there's
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a ton of teams that run the ball more than Bills. And granted,
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I don't never want to be in the top you know, of running it,
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but there's a lot of good teams on this list that you know,
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run the ball more than the Bills. You got your Chiefs, you're Ravens,
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your Eagles, you're and granted that that's the way to look. But
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the way that I'm worried about. We're not getting production from anybody else other
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than Stefan Diggs. And it's easy to say, like, go to digs,
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Go to digs, go to digs. Sixteen targets and ten catches that
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six still misses, you know, that are crucial. That could be six
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plays to other receivers that I'm not saying he's gonna go perfect every game,
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but you kind of fel me here, Rob, like, you know,
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six misses is a kind of big deal. I was dying on the rock
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of you know, Diggs is the only one producer, which he is,
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but we're still missing him six times in a game. And then you look
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down and it's huge drop off everywhere else. Dave Davis comes out Sunday,
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has a few good, few good plays, and then fumbles the ball.
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Josh Allen doesn't even look at him the rest of the night, you know,
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Dawson Knox and back to back games. Granted King Cabe wasn't in you
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know, this week out taking cushion, but back to back games Dawson Knox
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is coming in with six targets, three catches, seventeen yards two games in
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a row. Stames that line, they're fifty percent success rate going to Dawson
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Knox. So if nobody is helping, nobody is executing other than Stefan Diggs,
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and that might be you know, it might be the players themselves,
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and it might be Dorsey kind of you know, in that in that play
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route of you got to get other people involved in the layup lines them.
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Why can't we see more plays? That's the only play we've seen the Dante
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Deontay Hardy like that all year, you know, when granted it was on
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the put the play in and goes back to your twelve personnel. That's why
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he's not on the field, you know, because the twell personnel, but
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the twelve personnel. You got a tight end who's catching one catch a game
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and the rookie, or you got Dawson Knox who's getting targeted six times and
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only catching three for less than twenty yards two games in a row, just
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not going to cut it. And you look at them, oh, Dalton
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Kinkad Cold Beasley in a tight end's body. Whatever you want to put it,
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is running twelve fourteen yard routes and catching first downs and and Dawnson,
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Knox and Kinkaid are running three, four or five out routes and not catching
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the ball. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's tough that you know,
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gave Davis fumble. I don't know if that would have if that affected,
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but Johnson's got to, you know, force him a little more. And
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in the game, oh, I can't trust you. But then you know,
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then you're forcing it to digs and nobody else is helping out. And
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you know, so I think it's a mix of scheme and players not executing
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because you know, it's tough to watch him just not gonna get it done
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in twelve personnel. Your two tight ends are combining for twenty two yards a
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game. You're right, like it's bullshit. Yeah, I mean, it's
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just that the problem that I mean, I I you know, I defend
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Diggs and you know that I get sensitive about him. You know, I
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know that he produces, and I know that you know six there are six
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missues like you said out there, but you know he is reliable. I
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know that you know Josh looks to him as a comfort and maybe it's part
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of the fact that you know, nobody else is really stepping up. I
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don't know if they're not capable, and I don't think that that's the case.
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I'm wondering why they're not on the field, they're not given more opportunities.
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Sherfield, you heard it. He was a camp he was a camp
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superstar, and then he comes in and does nothing. And I know that
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these were not you know, household names before they got signed by the Bills,
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but Hardy was somebody that they invested and they that was their first free
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agent that being brought in. So I know that, you know, they
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gave them at least money because they had a priority and they had a plan
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to use them. But they don't. So that's again where it comes down
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to. I'm trying to find the culprit, is what it was, and
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that's what I was doing last week after the London game. I was trying
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to find what is the reason why this is happening. Why do I see,
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you know, if you know, such a low snap count for Deonta
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Hardy every single week. I thought he was fast. I thought he could
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stretch defenses. I thought he could put you know, defenses in compromising situations.
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I'm not getting any of those things. So I'm just wondering, like,
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is this a full, you know, a philosophy thing. Is this
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what they're doing. Is it all a rused are they Are they doing it
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just to show it and put it on tape early in the year and then
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flip the script later in the year. It's a scenario, right, Yeah,
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that's the best case scenario with all this pressure, twelve personnel, twelve
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personnel, all these all these dudes in twelve personnel and you kind of look
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block and then you have some other stuff in your repertoire that you come out
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and you know you, yeah, pull as you go to the game.
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Yeah, but I and then again, I mean as we break down,
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this offensive line was looking good for a stretch and they're you know jackl and
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Hyde too, like they they can look great so far this year, and
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Sunday night they didn't look good at all. Josh never looked comfortable and that
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you know, might have forced some things that you know, timing's off and
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this and that, and they kept getting the ball tipped and he you know,
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he took some big hits and and and it was flustered. So that
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that comes down to it too. There's a lot of I think things going
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on that you know, hopefully we can get out or not. Well,
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you know, I hope that we can. You know, Josh Allen,
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you're you're absolutely right to mention that he did his shoulder. He's on the
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injury report this week. Sean McDermott said that he will practice or did practice
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today. Again, we release these episodes on Thursday, but Wednesday he did
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participate in practice, so we hope that he's obviously okay. Again though,
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you know, for all the people that want to say, you know,
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Josh Allen is it's too you know, risky to have him running. He
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got hurt for a second time in the pocket, you know what I mean.
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So just everybody keep that markdown and just remember that because that whole fallacy
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that quarterbacks that run get hurt more often. Again, it's not true.
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Lamar Jackson has not hurt outside the pocket. Same thing with you know,
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Josh Allen, are going to get hurt in the pocket because of the fact
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that their bodies are not reactive and ready for the contact that's coming as opposed
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to win. They're running, they're in control, they know what contacts coming,
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they see it coming and then they adjust to it. So it's just
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another thing to kind of keep an eye on so as we transition DT.
20:49
I mean, you know, it's it's funny because the offense and there has
20:53
been the talk of the town. The defense has obviously been great. Mc
20:56
dermott's still leading a great unit, and Sunday night was no dial for you
21:00
know, nine points. I saw a lot of goal line stands. I'm
21:03
really proud of the defense because of the fact that, you know, while
21:06
the office is trying to get their shit together, the defense has been one
21:08
of the constants on this team throughout, even when we've traveled over to London.
21:14
I mean, the Jacksonville Jaguars didn't do anything crazy exotic to us.
21:17
They didn't you know, torch us for a whole bunch of points or anything
21:18
like that. Obviously, that's coming off of the Miami game where McDermott was
21:22
at his best. You know, I'm excited about the defense at the very
21:26
least DT coming out of this game, and it's one of the reasons why
21:30
I chose to try to stay optimistic after I got a chance to calm down
21:33
and decompress, driving that six hundred and fifty miles back to Charlotte, because
21:37
I was definitely hotter than a rattlesnake the night before. But I mean,
21:41
the defense is it's it's good, DT. I think it's it's consistently and
21:45
it's provenly good. I know that we've got some injuries at all three levels
21:49
that are really serious, but I'm telling you, if we can get Dame
21:52
Jackson back in the in the backfield, in the quarterbacks, and obviously Kyrie
21:56
even even looked okay for the first time on Sunday night, they might be
22:00
able to mitigate some of this stuff. I know that Dawan Jones is a
22:03
big deal to lose, and I know the same thing obviously about all pro
22:04
Matt Milano. But if they can continue to just stay steady and and give
22:08
more reps to Dorian Williams in Milano's stead I mean, Terre Bernard is obviously
22:14
on the job trending right now as well. If they can find a way
22:17
to hold it together, this might be one of the calling cards that helps
22:19
us when the offense does get back on track. Because a good defense travels
22:23
anywhere, you could put it in any weather, any situation, and they've
22:26
they've been they've been stellar this year. DT. I think they leave the
22:30
league in sacks right now, they're saying. So. I mean, I've
22:33
been proud of the defense for sure, and and I can't take that away
22:36
from McDermott. I know that's his baby over there. They've been good all
22:37
year, regardless of opponent, the good ones, the bad ones. They've
22:41
dominated the This is supposed to be the positive point of the show here.
22:47
We moved to the defense, the consistent, the good part. But you
22:49
know, I think it's a it's a ticking time bomb, you know,
22:52
of you know, this defense has you know, has battled and they've gone
22:57
through adversity, gone through a ton of injuries. There's gonna be a game
23:02
or two, you know, coming up where they're just not gonna have their
23:03
stuff and they're you know, or they're tired or there it's too many injuries
23:07
to come back from and get picked apart. And that's the game. We're
23:11
gonna need this offense to, you know, to carry you through and do
23:14
it. And that's what Josh said in the post game. In the post
23:17
game in the locker room with the with the team, he literally before he
23:19
broke the team down apologized to the defense like straight up said, yo,
23:23
d thanks for holding us in. We gotta be better for you. And
23:26
you know, and so they know, like eventually this defense is battered.
23:30
You know, it's not a full strength defense. It's been battered. You
23:33
got older safeties, you got injuries everywhere. Eventually a team's gonna pick you
23:37
apart and put thirty thirty five on you. And that's the day that offense
23:41
has gotta get going. So you know, as this is the positive point
23:45
and kudos to this defense. You know, you've gotta be You've got to
23:48
be realistic in the fact that one of these days it's gonna be a tough,
23:52
tough day for this defense. And that's why so much more pressure on
23:56
this offense to get a rolling and get it up because that you know,
23:59
a lot of good teams, a lot of good offenses coming down the schedule,
24:02
and a lot of good receivers that can get you know, one on
24:04
one picked on with with some of these guys that we're really gonna start seeing
24:07
something. And we're super critical now of the offense. I hope we're a
24:11
little more lenient when it comes to the defense. With everything they've been through
24:14
in the consistency they've shown to us, but I think it's a ticking time
24:18
bomb before we start getting burned. Not consistently, but you know, back
24:22
coming. Yeah, I mean that Pop is gonna need to have that offense
24:25
back up. Yeah, I mean, they've been good enough to be six
24:27
and zero. To be quite honest, they have played that type of defense
24:30
for this team. The only reason that we have the two losses is due
24:33
to the offense. So you know, kudos and like you said, had
24:37
off to them and I that is funny because you know, I was trying
24:40
to be positive and trying to flip it. But yeah, I mean that
24:42
that makes sense that there could be a chance that they get a little bit
24:45
weary, so to speak. I know, von Miller just getting back,
24:48
just getting his legs up under him and things like that. They've been up
24:51
in his snap count. That did again on Sunday night a little bit.
24:53
But yeah, they're gonna they're you know, they're gonna have one of their
24:56
days as well, and the offense needs to be able to pick them up
24:59
so not always fear for them to have to stand on their head while the
25:03
offense is you know, kind of playing around with their food, so to
25:04
speak. So we'll see how it goes now and we as we transition.
25:08
I mean, this is a cool week. It's an interesting week because you
25:12
know, we know the opponents so well and they can, you know,
25:15
garner up so many emotions quickly. Patriots Week is just always a week where
25:21
you know you're paying attention because of the fact that this division. You're paying
25:23
attention because of the history, the Scar tissue, all the all the things
25:26
that Brady and Belichick did to us that gave us nightmares over those that twenty
25:30
year run. But you know, the Boogeyman night is over. I mean,
25:33
the Boogeyman is gone. He's out of the building, he's moved out
25:37
in DT. I really can't wait to get to Foxborough and to see that
25:41
game on Sunday on TV because the fact that I think that this could be
25:45
an opportunity again to have kind of a get right game. Now we're two
25:48
weeks removed from Jacksonville. I remember being in the stands on Sunday night when
25:52
the offenses is being horrible and I'm looking around a people like, what's excuse
25:56
this week? We're back. We've been back from Jack, you know what's
26:00
excuse We've been back home from London. What's the excuse this? What's the
26:03
excuse going to be? So I feel like we've got a couple more weeks
26:06
removed from that, so that can't be used an excuse. I know we're
26:08
going to be playing on a short week following that week Thursday night when they
26:12
host the Bucks, But no excuses go on the road. You're with your
26:17
brothers, you don't have any type of distractions or anything like that. It's
26:19
an opponent that you can get up for, a division rival, so to
26:23
speak, and somebody that you have literally dominated since McDermott has been a part
26:27
of this team with this tenure. I love it. I'm excited. I
26:30
love the fact that Belichick is getting all this shit and they're talking about firing
26:33
them, and they're talking about the end of the run and is he damaging
26:37
his legacy, which I think is a little bit silly because he's done so
26:41
much. But it's just funny just to look at all of it because the
26:42
fact that, I mean, the Patriots just give They bring emotion out of
26:48
you. You can't say Patriots Week and then just have a blank face unless
26:51
you just haven't been paying attention to that twenty year run pre McDermott era.
26:55
You know, you remember those those two wins. You know that over and
27:00
over and then you know as you transition, it's it's sweet. It's sweet
27:04
that you know we get the Patriots, we can get up and you know,
27:07
we know we kind of have the upper hand. But you know,
27:10
as I say it every year every game when we you know on Nicols City
27:14
Crew, you can never take this. Never count out this team, never
27:15
count out. You know Coach Belichick, he's always got stuff up his sleeve.
27:21
And just when you think they're they're dead and literally looking like the worst
27:23
team in the NFL, not even trying. You know that's the game they
27:27
step up and throw something at you and you're like, whoa, let's go.
27:30
And it can't be that way. Sunday like as to be a right
27:36
game. It couldn't be more perfect. You finally have a normal week,
27:38
a normal practice, generally healthy for the most part. The travel is a
27:44
forty minute flight to Boston. You know, it's not like anything crazy going
27:48
on. You got to go in win this division game, make it happen.
27:51
You already got one loss in the division. Don't even think about making
27:53
it too. It has to be a get right game. And you know
27:57
you can't take them for granted. It's a it's a great history, and
28:00
that's why we love it. That's why we're gonna get up for this Sunday
28:03
game and feel it. But it's sweet knowing you have the upper hand on
28:07
the on the Patriots and all the all the massholes, if you will,
28:10
and you know, cheering and literally saying like, oh we our season doesn't
28:14
start to the playoffs all those years and blah blah blah blah. Now we
28:18
got one seven, Now we got the boys. Let's go in there and
28:21
get right, you know, just give me, gimme Raiders, Commanders,
28:26
Dolphins all over again, if you know, if that's if that's the way
28:29
the season is gone. We're gonna have two bad games and then three in
28:32
a row. Good whatever, Let's make this then the good one and let's
28:36
party on Sunday and enjoy ourselves. To beat the Patriots is never gonna get
28:41
old, even if the Patriots are never recoup of what they were and the
28:44
Bills you know, stink again or whatever the case is. Any Patriots Bills
28:48
game is you know we've been scarred too much. Rob any win against the
28:52
squad sick, So let's let's go. Let's get Yeah, man, I
28:56
can't I can't even imagine it getting old because of all those things you talked
28:59
about. I just remember going to the stadium for those games during the drought
29:03
against the Patriots and just how much I couldn't stand them, and how Brady
29:07
would piss me off, and how they the fans and how arrogant they were.
29:10
And now it was just so frustrating seeing them in the parking lot during
29:14
the tailgates and just knowing like they're in our building. And then Gronkowski is
29:18
a hometown kid. You know. I went to Wayisms South, he went
29:19
to North. I played basketball against his brother, you know what I mean.
29:23
So it was just it was horrible because of the fact that there was
29:26
so many different things that could just stick at you when you think about the
29:30
Patriots, and then they were so damn good. Obviously if they were shitty,
29:32
it wouldn't have really battered. And that's kind of what I talked about
29:34
when I said that it wasn't really a rival. Arrival for me was the
29:37
Dolphins because the Patriots didn't count that they always beat us, and I just
29:41
remember those games and just remember how demoralized that would be after they would just
29:45
get it done. So I have loved this little turn of the tables.
29:48
I've enjoyed it, to be honest, and I'm gonna be locked in Sunday
29:51
Man that Stefan Diggs has owned them. Josh Allen's played some good games against
29:55
them. I know he's had a few clunkers as well, but for the
29:57
most part he's been really really solid against them, even up there in Foxborough.
30:02
And I'm looking forward them to again the offense to get right, find
30:06
find your rhythm. I think that was one of the most frustrating things about
30:10
Sunday Night DT was there was no rhythm, that everything was choppy. I
30:14
know that, you know, execution is a big part of it, and
30:15
you know, gave Davis drops that ball, and Stefan Diggs had dropped the
30:18
ball, and you know all the other things that you could try to blame
30:22
it on, but they're just I just want to see a rhythm. I
30:23
don't want to see it look so stagnant. I don't want to see it
30:26
look so choppy. And I guess that's regardless of what personnel you're in.
30:30
I mean, I'm not a I'm not gonna sit here and just say you
30:33
got to come out shotgun for wide all. But but gosh darn it,
30:37
we were pretty good when we were doing that a couple of years ago.
30:38
I understand the defenses as I understand that offenses can't stay the exact same So
30:42
I understand the evolution of the game, and I know why. You know,
30:45
Ken Dorsey is not just running the exact same offense that Brian David was
30:49
and calling play for play. I get it. I'm not an idiot in
30:52
that respect, but I also know that you don't need to drift too far
30:56
away from what you were successful at because that's what made you successful. So
31:00
you know what I mean. There's got to be some type of blend in,
31:03
some type of marriage of the two, and I'm hoping that Ken Dorsey
31:07
and the offense can find a way to balance that because I think that that's
31:08
really what we're looking for is you don't have to be Brian Daviel Kendorse.
31:12
You don't have to be exactly him and call the plays exactly the way he
31:15
did, but I do need you to not drift too far away from what
31:18
Josh Allen does well, number one, and what your offense does well,
31:22
and that is including, you know, accentuating, excuse me, your talents.
31:26
I need the guys that can make place to get the ball in positions
31:30
to make plays. You understand what I mean, Samantha narrative. Cementtha narrative.
31:34
I mean he's like it's been so like it gets more and more critical
31:38
hour by hour, game by game, second by second. In these games,
31:42
it gets more critical and more critical in the public, you know,
31:45
is expecting great inness more and more and more. And you got to cement
31:48
the narrative, especially on a team like the Patriots, of these these cats,
31:53
this is an easy dub for them for twenty years. This is an
31:56
easy dub all Bills come in to town. Let's go now. It's kind
32:00
of changing, Like, oh, the season ticket holder is going to sell
32:01
their game. I don't want to go out on one o'clock and see the
32:05
Bills come in here and kick our ass. You know, you have to
32:07
cement that narrative of like, yes, sell your freaking tickets. You don't
32:12
want to see this game, and you know, get back on track and
32:15
like you said said, you got to find the identity find for the Bills,
32:17
take them well like you think they like it in this criticism, like,
32:22
you know, we win the game and and it literally that's the end
32:24
of the season, and Josh Allen and Ken Dorsey and you know, people
32:28
are calling for Dorsey's head all over, you know, and everywhere else.
32:34
It's like it's super critical. You have to cement the narrative. And you
32:37
know, the beautiful thing of the Patriots, how they were so good and
32:40
you know, they didn't have a perfect game every game, but they found
32:44
way to win and you always kind of knew they were gonna win. Two
32:46
minutes left in the game and they're down, you knew they were gonna win.
32:50
The Chiefs gotta have that vibe now, you know. And that's what
32:53
we're striving for as an organization and as a team. And that's what like,
32:59
you have to know are gonna win this game going in and that's got
33:01
to be the scheme, the offense to play calling. It has to Yes,
33:06
that's all important, but we also have to vibe into the culture of
33:10
we know we're gonna win Sunday. I mean, I hope we do,
33:15
you know, And I would like say, I really think they're going to
33:20
but you know, I'm I'm not at the yet of any game where i
33:23
know we're gonna win. Yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right. And it's
33:27
been because of the offense and like I said, some of the some of
33:30
the you know, Doctor Jekyll, mister Hyde kind of traits that they've had.
33:32
So we'll we'll see how it goes. I know, Patriots, we
33:35
will get everybody up and and everybody will be ready for it. So you
33:37
don't need Bill's Mafia to to kind of be standing at attention for this one.
33:40
We'll be ready in full force to watch this game. And I know
33:44
some people will travel down there as well to Boston. Now, yeah,
33:49
yeah, absolutely, you gotta get right one o'clock Sunday, one o'clock.
33:53
Everything that everybody in Bill's Mafia Nicols City Crew is definitely used to for sure.
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But I mean the game was the end and that's the stuff, you know,
35:00
the main course, and that's how we we finished the weekend. But
35:02
uh, it was really fun leading up to the weekend. So I know
35:07
that everybody is eager to hear about, you know, how we we hooked
35:09
back up. But for me personally, I mean I got out of here
35:14
a little bit before ten o'clock or so on Saturday morning, and Bobby had
35:19
a football game, so I was really playoff game. So I was really
35:22
nervous as I was getting up and I wanted to know updates and different things
35:25
like that from his mom and and making sure that I was staying plugged in
35:29
when they were getting and hitting the field. So that was how my drive
35:31
up was. It was a little raining, like you said, so I
35:34
kind of take things easy when it's raining, and and really DT when I
35:37
got up there, man, you told me where to go, and the
35:40
weekend just kind of got started from there, I think it was. It
35:44
was it called side. Is it sidelines? Is that what it's called?
35:45
Ye? Downtown? Yeah, man, I mean I I go, I
35:52
got settled in, put the turkey in some water to help it continue to
35:55
dethaw, and then I mean literally I met you. It's idelines, man,
36:00
And it was a really cool atmosphere, a bunch of college football.
36:01
All the Sabers were battling the Islanders that night, and it was it was
36:07
pretty cool, man, I mean it was. It was a fun,
36:08
fun weekend. Shout out to your boy Brett Kittie he's a maniac taking care
36:14
of us and and kind of looking out for us there at the bar and
36:16
uh and keeping us hydrated for sure. But it was it was really cool
36:20
DT and and the weekend kind of literally just kicked off from there. Yeah,
36:23
it's a it's a good spot. I mean, we don't get out
36:25
there often. You know, it's a definitely a sports themed place. Like
36:30
you're not just going to chill there. You want to go there for a
36:32
sports atmosphere. You know, A decent, decent little crowd in there.
36:36
The the NBC Sports crew was there, not not Treico or collins Worth,
36:40
but the other There was some cameraman there I was talking to and you know
36:45
everyone in Buffalo. It didn't see uh, I didn't see a lot of
36:46
Giants fans in there. You know. It was pretty Bill centric and you
36:50
know, the Sabers game was a was a big hit as well in a
36:52
big usc Notre Dame. That was a big football game was going on in
36:55
there. But yeah, that was a it was a good time. We
36:58
got the crew got together, the drinks were flowing, you got to swing,
37:04
you know, having a good time. A nice little u, nice
37:06
little crew and my niece my niece snuck in there. Yees yeah, yep,
37:10
yes, chop it up and Calina absolutely great, great people. And
37:15
that was by random, by random, yes, yes, it was one
37:19
accident. You were like, yo, what's up? And then the Labors
37:24
game ended. It was time to cut it short and get the bird ready
37:28
for Sunday. Rob. We we had it back to three thirty with the
37:30
with the boys, and I got that puppy what we call it injected like
37:35
Barry Bonds. We got that look good. Yeah, Rich in the Nickel
37:42
City Archives. We'll release that video someday. That was That was good,
37:46
absolutely, yeah, man. We we shot it up. I think it
37:51
was stinging honey. Tarioki was the flavor that I saw in the isle that
37:54
kind of caught my eye. And we we shot the bird up and got
37:58
it all ready to go and and put it in the fridge and put it
38:00
on ice and let it let it kind of cool up for till the next
38:02
day. Now, the next day was really it was really cool because you
38:07
know, I didn't know exactly how many people were gonna have and then I
38:09
talked to you, and you didn't really know if I knew that we were
38:13
going and and my best friend Ace was gonna be coming and getting out of
38:15
the house and coming to a gape. So we we got up. We
38:17
linked up, and I grabbed him and the three of us kind of cruised
38:21
to the stadium and it was just cool, man. We had the turkey
38:23
ace, mades of macaroni and cheese, and some some green beans as well,
38:28
and some butter sauce, and then we just kind of went out there
38:30
and then shout out again to mister and missus Willis. Kenny Willis and his
38:32
wife always are hooking it up, always making sure that they've got something for
38:37
us to chomp on. And again they brought back, by popular debate,
38:40
those little bacon rap bites that you love so much DT. I mean,
38:44
they were there again by popular debate. Money on THO. I'm saying,
38:49
any restaurant anywhere, anybody you know, it could be a classy restaurant,
38:52
a hole in the wall. Those things are those things are primo. Those
38:57
that we got sauceed, cream cheese wrapped and sausage and cream cheese wrapped and
39:04
bacon and then yeah and smoked, yeah, smoked. Yeah, that's the
39:07
key right there, and it's really good, man. It was awesome man.
39:09
So shout out to Caleb Fife hooking us up with you know, with
39:13
the the generator and you know, the tent and and also with the fire
39:17
to kind of help people out there were a little bit too cold and happy
39:21
plated birthday to to miss Bianca as well. So it was just it was
39:24
just a cool vibe as it was. It was a spontaneous It was spontaneous.
39:29
I mean obviously the some of the ogs were not. We're not around,
39:32
you know for this tailgate obviously the Syracuse squat and Big Ben and and
39:37
everything else, and you know, so it's a little lighter and I we
39:42
weren't going in with many expectations and it turned out to be, you know,
39:45
one of the one of the better tailgates out there. No no dishrest
39:49
there. We obviously it's good until you guys get there. But we missed
39:53
everybody. But it was a nice time. Mm hmm. Turkey turned out
39:58
perfect day. I think the overall the conversations are good. Man. That
40:01
turkey was melting your mouth, good mixing the maca. She's at that perfect
40:06
time, like there was a perfect time to eat it, right around that
40:08
five o'clock when it was really kind of going that. You know, the
40:12
buzz was kicking in a little bit and as the sun went down and uh
40:17
yeah, good good vibes all over the place. Man. That was that
40:20
was That was a fun time. Yeah, man, it was. It
40:22
was really cool. Man. It was like you said, it was as
40:23
more spontaneous. We had our plans. We knew we were gonna meet up
40:28
with with Kayla. I mean I had talked to her on Instagram earlier in
40:30
the morning and she had said that she was going to try to get out
40:32
there, and then we ended up parking right next to each other, which
40:35
was perfect. We came around the same time, which was perfect, and
40:37
it really kind of all kicked off from there. So I really enjoyed it.
40:40
So shout out to them as well, and shout out I've got a
40:44
couple shout outs DT. Shout out to John juryz Uski, you know what
40:47
I mean, Like that's you know, baby dumb truck, I mean baby
40:50
dub truck, but double two. I'd like to say, yeah, I'd
40:53
like to say, you know, listener exclusive listener to Nickel City Crew,
40:58
appreciate your support for Love. I was, you know, I was messing
41:01
with him I didn't really believe this, but I was messing with him a
41:04
little bit, and I said, I was calling him wish app dump truck,
41:07
you know with dump truck, because he's a you know, he's a
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similar so he likes to have a good time. He loves the bills.
41:19
He can he can slug a beer pretty quick man. And uh, he
41:22
challenged me. You know, we always take him down and and he keeps,
41:28
he keeps coming back. It's almost like he knows he's gonna lose.
41:30
But I respect his dedication to come and want to get better, you know,
41:35
want to get better. And that crew reminds us of you know,
41:38
of us when we were younger in the tailgate roll like, they're coming and
41:42
they want to get better. They want to be professional tailgaters someday like Robin
41:46
on their way. So I didn't really mean it, John, I didn't
41:49
real truck. You know, one day you'll you'll, uh, you'll,
41:53
you'll definitely live into the dump truck junior vibe. But you're your own man,
41:58
You're your own vibe. And yeah, it's a good time when you
42:00
guys, when you and your boys roll through. It's it's that young energy
42:04
we need the games are flowing, the you know, the games are rocking,
42:07
and it's a good vibe because fit In Well, yeah, no,
42:10
John's crew is cool too, man. We've been we've been tailgating with them
42:14
for like you said, a few years. And just shout out to him.
42:15
He was a big time star at the Pew with lacrosse and hockey,
42:19
so I just wanted to give him his shout out. Shout out to Kurt
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Losol, you know he was. I had a really good time talking with
42:24
him because I'm a I'm a a historian. DT. I love the Bills,
42:28
so I love it all. I loved, you know, not just
42:30
the nineties, the nineties I won how it became a Rabbit fan, but
42:34
I love the history of the Bills and the old time Bills and the rock
42:37
pile, the original rock pile at Warme Royal Stadium again right there on on
42:42
Jefferson and Best and like that's I love that. I love the you know,
42:45
the history of it. So he goes way back with his dad and
42:47
his grandfather. They used to go out to war Memorial Stateium. I loved
42:51
hearing that. He said it back then it was if you can carry it,
42:52
you can drink it. And I mean, could you imagine, like
42:55
if you can carry it into the stadium, you can drink it, I
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mean these days, and like it would just be amazing that the contraptions and
43:02
the different things that people would be coming up with to get into the stadium
43:06
and all it's all just all good, you know what I mean, Like
43:08
it was no big deal. And he was telling me how they could get
43:10
the coolers in and take them to the stadium, and you guys, they
43:13
were just drinking and have a good time with his dad as a grand dad.
43:15
So shout out to Kurt Loso. And then one final special shout out
43:20
DT was you know my boy Robin in section one oh four. I've seen
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this guy DT every single year for years, you know in you know face
43:28
and you know high five and stuff like that, but never took the time.
43:30
He actually took the time to come up to me during a time out
43:35
and introduce himself formally. We took a picture, traded numbers. So definitely
43:38
big shout out to Robin. I just love his passion, love watching him
43:42
and again I've seen him for years. In section one four, again I'm
43:45
the mayor, so I'm supposed to know all of my constituents and I know
43:47
them by face. I don't know them all by name, but I know
43:50
them all by face. And I definitely felt like the mayor because he came
43:53
up to me and told me how much he appreciated me and seeing me over
43:57
the years. And that was really cool because section one O four is my
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that is my that's my spot, man, and I've got my routine and
44:04
I love it. And just shout out again to Aaron and Mobley aka Ace
44:08
again check him out at Buffalo's Best Opticians. He came out and got out
44:12
of the house of DT. We finally got him out of the house and
44:14
it was really nice to see him. Well. He did well. He
44:16
kind of messed up with the football and he missed out, you know,
44:20
and and we had that a little bit of a fiasco on that. But
44:22
I'm gonna let him slide on that one because he is my best friend.
44:25
But it was good to see him as well. So it was great.
44:30
Man. The actual tailgate itself was really wonderful. Like you said, it
44:32
was more spontaneous, but it was the same faces that we always are used
44:36
to seeing, and I really enjoyed the vibe the Turkey turned out great and
44:38
everybody had a great time. They all loved it, So that makes my
44:42
heart smile. Now, what are your plans for this week? DT?
44:44
I am more I'm a little bit more business like approach on Patriots Week,
44:47
and that you know. That's regardless of Tom Brady or not. I don't
44:51
I have too much scar tissue to take them, you know, as a
44:54
joke. I do respect their organization. I respect Bilichick. I think again,
44:59
it's a little bit silly when somebody says that his legacy is being tarnished.
45:01
That doesn't make sense. His legacy is Samanity's gonna, you know,
45:05
moon walk into the in the canton, or get wheelchaired in whatever the case
45:08
may be. But if his legs are working, he can do whatever he
45:12
wants to do. When it comes to getting in the canton, he can't
45:14
mess that up. So I take these weeks seriously. I'll be just chilling,
45:16
maybe put some burgers on the grill, but it's gonna be more workman
45:21
like. I will be ready to go. And the Bills look like they're
45:23
gonna be wearing all white icy, so I'll put all white with them,
45:27
and I will be I'll be more workman like. I'm not nothing crazy.
45:30
I'm not going to a bar or anything like that. It's time to it's
45:31
time to get this done. This is a huge Division game. So I'll
45:35
be locked in right there from the couch, right there from my old man
45:37
Joe. Well, Rob, I'm going opposite. I don't know if I
45:44
love it. This is a big week of you know, uh, shout
45:46
out listeners kind page. This is the Minnesota trip. We so flying out,
45:52
flying out Saturday, Buffalo to Mini getting down in Minneapolis. Got a
45:59
nice day playing football day Ohio State. I'm going to hit them all of
46:04
America. Dinner at Manny Steakhouse Saturday night, let's go shout out right there,
46:09
and then you know, wake up for game day. And I haven't
46:12
ever really been. You know, last year when we went it was the
46:15
Bills played Thursday, and then we went to the Kings Packers opening on Sunday.
46:20
So now Bills are playing the Monday Vikings forty nine ers. Monday night
46:23
is the game. We're going. Oh, Monday night, Okay, I
46:24
was gonna say right at the same time, Yeah, all right, Monday
46:28
night, yep. So going in you'll catch it. You'll catch the game.
46:31
You'll catch the game there in Minnesota. Got a noon game, yep,
46:35
noon game, So I'm kind of looking forward to. I've never been
46:37
in the city. I've always kind of wanted to do a Backers you know,
46:40
bar experience, if you will. So I'm doing my research. I
46:45
haven't locked it down yet. There's a few I've done. I've looked through
46:49
and and got one of them called like Buffalo Tap. The other one is
46:52
like where the Bills backers like website is? Is that some bowling alleys?
46:55
But I haven't been able to get in touch with anybody on it. Yeah,
46:59
okay, but I want to, you know, get down games at
47:01
games at noon because they're in power back so games at noon. Uh So
47:06
I'm not I think I'm gonna if we if we're just at the airbnb whatever,
47:09
we're chilling workmen, but if we can find a place to watch it.
47:14
So, Nickel City, if you got any recommendation, has ever been
47:15
out many for a game or no anybody got any family out there? Let
47:19
me know, because I want to kind of get that vibe of going to
47:22
a bar in a different city with all Bills fans and like having that vibe.
47:25
I always see it, you know, with my friends from out of
47:28
town or you know, in Denver, La or wherever they're going, you
47:30
know, and obviously yeah, yeah, with the with the tracks and that,
47:34
that type of vibe just seems really fun. So hoping I can secure
47:37
one of the members, yeah out there, absolutely exactly. And then a
47:45
good Sunday night game as you go into you got Eagles Dolphins. That's gonna
47:50
be good. And then Monday, Monday, I'm going to you know,
47:52
see McCaffrey and the Boys against the Vikings, which that stadium is is awesome,
47:57
and it's gonna be little Monday night no matter, even if the Vikings
48:00
aren't you know, pulling through as much as they should this year, that
48:05
it's gonna be an NFC battle. So looking forward to that, looking forward
48:08
to the weekend. It's gonna be a good time. But yeah, looking
48:12
for that Bill's Backer experience on Sunday. All right, Well, that sounds
48:15
like a real plan. That sounds awesome. Again, Please give my warmers
48:20
to Page and Kai again till Page. I'm still mad that. I mean,
48:23
I have another loss now, so I mean, this fantasy football league
48:27
thing is not working out for me. That's exactly why I have not played
48:30
fantasy football in well over a decade is because I'm no good at it.
48:34
And yeah, well I'm trying my ass off. I love it the Commission.
48:39
The Commission's going through a few a few struggles right now, but you
48:43
keep your head up and hopefully you can get things right by week seventeen because
48:46
my season is definitely down the drain for sure. So I've literally just donated
48:51
to that league. But it's all good man. I love the camaraderie.
48:53
I like you. You said the text messages out each week letting everybody know
48:57
the high scores and stuff like that, So I love you take it serious.
49:00
I know fantasy football is its own industry now and so many people love
49:04
it, so I don't. I don't knock it just because I haven't been
49:07
into it. I know that it's it's a very popular thing and it brings
49:09
a lot of people together from across the country. You know, a lot
49:13
of your friends and stuff like that you can have and that's something definitely a
49:15
communal thing. So definitely props to you Commission, despite your record. Props
49:21
to you for the league because I know that you've been running in and taking
49:22
it seriously. So DT man, I had a blast this weekend, man,
49:28
and it is always great seen you. I will do a dump tomorrow.
49:31
I'll dump all the videos and all the stuff that I have for the
49:35
weekend when the when this episode drops again, we drop on Thursday, so
49:38
I'll do it all. I'll let everybody in behind the scenes and again the
49:42
Nickel City crew, tailgate reporters. We're getting great reviews, so we'll definitely
49:45
hashtag that in twenty six shirts. But DT man, I had a blast,
49:50
Man, it was always great seeing you. I won't probably make it
49:53
up for the Thursday night Bucks game, so until I see again. Man,
49:58
it was just it was a blast. Man. It felt like old
50:00
times has always been. It really did. Much love Rob, much love
50:02
Rob. The weekend is so much better when the crews together. Man,
50:06
we do it right now. You know, we're developing, We're developed into
50:09
you know, great friends and brothers and and and we just flow well together
50:15
and all obviously on here we do and you know, in real life better
50:19
together. We're better together, Rob. So yeah, I appreciate, appreciate
50:24
everything. It was a it was a great weekend, and and you were
50:29
a big part of that man. So much love much of the crew.
50:30
Much love for you, Rob, absolutely man. You keep dipping the Dodger
50:35
Man and do your thing up there. You know I got nothing but love
50:37
for you. DT. As always, these were my bills thoughts, set
50:40
out loud, spread love, not hate. Everyone hit them with a god
50:45
bills, DT. I mean we needed. This is Patriots, we get
50:47
we not. It is no no fucking around. Let's go. This is
50:51
pat contract. Go bill, Go bills five and two. Five and two
50:55
looks good, looks good. Go bills EGO