Latest / Nickel City Crew Podcast / S6 E17: We'll Take It
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- 0:00Speaker 1: 15 degrees, you can see your breath. Out here in
- 0:12Speaker 1: the lake of fact.
- 0:15Speaker 2: Breaking tables like it's poetry.
- 0:19Speaker 3: Where else would you have to be?
- 0:21Speaker 2: Been to Ron Elvis and the Leigh Ponshaw. The members
- 0:26Speaker 2: that you need to know. I want you out here now,
- 0:29Speaker 2: your family. Where else would you.
- 0:33Speaker 3: Have to be? Welcome in to the Nickel City Crew.
- 0:41Speaker 3: I am your host, Rob Crippen.
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- 0:50Speaker 1: our episodes, are presented by Crippen Legacy Entertainment here on
- 0:53Speaker 1: Spreaker and StreamYard. We're so glad that you're joining us
- 0:57Speaker 1: for some of your Buffalo Bills and NFL content again today.
- 1:00Speaker 1: And as always, these are my Bills thoughts said out loud.
- 1:06Speaker 2: It's a vibe so ridiculous.
- 1:11Speaker 1: All right, let's get straight to it. Really excited for
- 1:30Speaker 1: tonight's episode. Actually, this afternoon's episode, a special Saturday edition.
- 1:35Speaker 1: We'll tell you why in a moment. It's funny because
- 1:38Speaker 1: I named the episode the way that I did because
- 1:41Speaker 1: of the fact that, I mean, you looked at the
- 1:43Speaker 1: schedule to start the season. There's no way any sensible
- 1:48Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills fan would have said that they wouldn't take 5-1.
- 1:52Speaker 3: We'll take it.
- 1:52Speaker 1: There are things to clean up. And here to talk
- 1:55Speaker 1: about it with me, my co-host, as always, Riding Shotgun.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Check him out on Instagram and Twitter at Adam Rupczyk.
- 2:02Speaker 1: That's R-U-P-C-Z-Y-K.
- 2:05Speaker 3: Adam Dump. Trump said, holla at the crew. What's up, DT?
- 2:08Speaker 3: Holla at the crew. What's up, baby boy? How you doing?
- 2:11Speaker 2: Nickel City. Nickel City. What's up, baby? Saturday afternoon. We're
- 2:14Speaker 2: out here. Rob, how we doing? Another week into the
- 2:17Speaker 2: bye week. Five and one. Five and one.
- 2:22Speaker 4: We'll keep saying it all episode. Five wins, one loss.
- 2:27Speaker 4: Not perfect. Not for long league, the NFL. But Josh
- 2:32Speaker 4: Allen ain't no after a bye. We talked about that.
- 2:34Speaker 4: So here we go.
- 2:35Speaker 2: Ready or lock in?
- 2:36Speaker 4: And enjoy this bye week with you today, Rob.
- 2:38Speaker 3: Yeah, man.
- 2:39Speaker 1: I'm really happy that you found some time. And I
- 2:41Speaker 1: know that you've been the busy man, the busiest man
- 2:44Speaker 1: in North Buffalo.
- 2:45Speaker 3: Too busy, man.
- 2:46Speaker 1: Yeah, you finally get a chance to relax. And I've
- 2:50Speaker 1: had some fun stuff going on over here as well.
- 2:52Speaker 1: So we'll get to that at the end of the
- 2:54Speaker 1: show in the tailgate report. Well, first things first, DT,
- 2:58Speaker 1: let's take care of business. The Bills in Sin City
- 3:01Speaker 1: take down the Raiders 33-30 in a game that was
- 3:04Speaker 1: closer than it needed to be. And we'll talk about
- 3:06Speaker 1: some of the reasons why. But a win is a win.
- 3:09Speaker 1: We're never going to apologize for it.
- 3:11Speaker 3: You heard us.
- 3:12Speaker 1: After the Houston game. You heard us after the Chargers game.
- 3:16Speaker 1: I'm never giving back wins. I'm never apologizing for wins.
- 3:19Speaker 1: Of course, there's always things that you can work on
- 3:21Speaker 1: and things that you can improve on. But I am never,
- 3:24Speaker 1: ever going to apologize for a dub DT. They got
- 3:27Speaker 1: it done.
- 3:28Speaker 3: It was a Bill's take over. If you saw the
- 3:33Speaker 3: promo on.
- 3:33Speaker 1: IG, the flip pass that we'll talk about, When I
- 3:36Speaker 1: saw like the audio and it was like literally no
- 3:39Speaker 1: commentators and they just did the audio.
- 3:40Speaker 3: Of the stadium. It sounded like a home game damn near.
- 3:43Speaker 3: It was crazy.
- 3:44Speaker 1: And then all accounts, I'm talking people on WGR. I'm
- 3:47Speaker 1: talking people on IG, Twitter, anybody who was in Sin City.
- 3:51Speaker 1: They all talked about the mafia, how they took it
- 3:53Speaker 1: over in Vegas. And that was really cool to see.
- 3:56Speaker 1: We know that those mafia travels well, but DT, it really,
- 4:00Speaker 1: it really felt like it was way more bills fans
- 4:02Speaker 1: than Raiders fans. that day, and last Sunday, it was
- 4:05Speaker 1: really fun to watch, just to hear the crowd and
- 4:07Speaker 1: the atmosphere.
- 4:09Speaker 4: Freaking awesome, man, I mean, we travel so great, we've
- 4:12Speaker 4: been a part of them a few times, you know,
- 4:15Speaker 4: last year at your crib, really about this time, right,
- 4:17Speaker 4: we hitting the year anniversary on the Charlotte trip, so
- 4:22Speaker 4: we know what it's like, a whole takeover that day
- 4:25Speaker 4: at Tavern on the Tracks in Charlotte was insane, like,
- 4:28Speaker 4: just popped off to, like, where you couldn't even move,
- 4:30Speaker 4: and all those games and all those weekends in Nashville.
- 4:34Speaker 4: And I've been around and I've seen that stuff. And
- 4:35Speaker 4: it's like, man, there's gotta be over 50%. And then,
- 4:38Speaker 4: you know, the people like the reality sets in, it
- 4:40Speaker 4: was like, oh, maybe 60, 40 or whatever the case.
- 4:44Speaker 4: But then actual this week, you know, you got Capaccio
- 4:48Speaker 4: and all these guys that were on site saying like, no,
- 4:51Speaker 4: like it was more Bills fans than anything. And the
- 4:54Speaker 4: Raiders fans are no slouch fan base, right? They moved
- 4:57Speaker 4: into Vegas, but no slouch fan base and being able to,
- 5:00Speaker 4: for them to say that makes it feel like it's, uh,
- 5:04Speaker 4: it was, it must've felt so crazy in sin city. And, uh,
- 5:08Speaker 4: those scenes are the, just the, the sea of blue
- 5:11Speaker 4: walking in and out of the games.
- 5:12Speaker 3: That's awesome.
- 5:12Speaker 2: And Minnesota, a few weeks, I don't know.
- 5:14Speaker 4: If we're going to be seeing it like that. Minnesota
- 5:16Speaker 4: is a little more far off the map, but Hey,
- 5:18Speaker 4: it could be two six and one teams going into
- 5:20Speaker 4: a Monday night matchup.
- 5:21Speaker 2: You never know what Bill's mafia is going to do.
- 5:23Speaker 2: My ass will be there.
- 5:24Speaker 4: But let's go, Bills Mafia, for showing out, getting us
- 5:27Speaker 4: a big party, getting us that dub down the stretch.
- 5:30Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean, it was a gutty win. Like
- 5:33Speaker 1: I said, it was a little bit closer than it
- 5:34Speaker 1: needed to be. I think that that speaks to kind
- 5:37Speaker 1: of some of the defensive problems that we'll talk about
- 5:39Speaker 1: here in a moment. But Bills 33, Raiders 30, Josh
- 5:44Speaker 1: 255 through the air, two touchdowns. The touchdown that everybody
- 5:47Speaker 1: talks about. Again, you saw it on my IG preview.
- 5:50Speaker 1: That flip pass to Keon Colvin in the third quarter.
- 5:53Speaker 3: Listen, DT.
- 5:54Speaker 1: It's funny because they were talking like, well, Mahomes can
- 5:56Speaker 1: do that. And Mahomes is like, you're not doing it
- 5:59Speaker 1: like Josh, though. You are not doing it like 17.
- 6:02Speaker 1: That was a big time. Like, it's not just a
- 6:05Speaker 1: regular old flip pass from Sound or something like that.
- 6:10Speaker 1: He launched that motherfucker. And it was crazy because when
- 6:12Speaker 1: I watched the play, jaw hits the floor. It's never
- 6:15Speaker 1: a situation where I personally don't take it for granted
- 6:19Speaker 1: because of the fact that I appreciate and I remember
- 6:22Speaker 1: what it was like to not have a quarterback. So
- 6:24Speaker 1: it's not that we can get numb to it, but
- 6:26Speaker 1: you can kind of start to get numb to some
- 6:28Speaker 1: of the amazing plays that he makes. 12-yard flip pass,
- 6:32Speaker 1: but it really was– it felt like more than that
- 6:33Speaker 1: because he was behind the line. He makes two defense misses.
- 6:38Speaker 1: Then he's got Max Crosby chasing him down from behind
- 6:41Speaker 1: and just flicks that thing in, like, precision. It had
- 6:45Speaker 1: accuracy on it. It had actual velocity. Like, it was
- 6:49Speaker 1: almost like a damn near throw. it was different than
- 6:52Speaker 1: just like a regular old little, a couple yard pitch DT.
- 6:54Speaker 1: That thing was, it was crazy. And then everybody's talking
- 6:57Speaker 1: on IG and stuff like that. Hanging in the Lou,
- 6:59Speaker 1: hanging in the Lou, like that. That photo is going
- 7:02Speaker 1: to live on, man. That was a really sweet play.
- 7:04Speaker 3: I love it.
- 7:05Speaker 4: Next to another one, next to another one, next to
- 7:07Speaker 4: another one. It's not once in a career moves. He's
- 7:11Speaker 4: good every couple weeks for shit like this, Rob.
- 7:13Speaker 2: Let's go. This dude does this on a regular basis.
- 7:16Speaker 4: This isn't once a year. This isn't once every couple years.
- 7:19Speaker 4: He does it on a regular basis. And witness, the
- 7:22Speaker 4: Gatorade sign is still up downtown. Get around the circle.
- 7:25Speaker 4: You're going to see it next week, Rob. This thing
- 7:27Speaker 4: witnessed this dude every other week making.
- 7:31Speaker 2: Something you could put in the Louvre.
- 7:32Speaker 4: And I saw somebody the other day had one of
- 7:35Speaker 4: the big canvas paintings of the dive against Sam Fran,
- 7:39Speaker 4: you know, after the pitch back from Amari. And, you know,
- 7:42Speaker 4: just this one, too, with the flip.
- 7:46Speaker 2: You talked about Crosby.
- 7:47Speaker 4: Crosby being in that photo looking up like a little kid, like,
- 7:51Speaker 4: Josh Allen making dudes like Max Crosby look up like
- 7:54Speaker 4: little kids like this on the ground as he's whipping
- 7:57Speaker 4: it out. Jim Nance talks about it in the beginning
- 8:00Speaker 4: of the game, how, you know, Crosby's going to do
- 8:02Speaker 4: a little extra to get in your head.
- 8:04Speaker 2: And that's his game. That's his job. He's one of
- 8:06Speaker 2: the best pass rushers. He's also mean.
- 8:08Speaker 4: And, but he said, but the guy on the other
- 8:10Speaker 4: side of the ball feeds into that. And Josh, I'm
- 8:12Speaker 4: sure they were going back and forth, John, all game.
- 8:14Speaker 4: And then Boom, a little back forth. You're down to
- 8:17Speaker 4: my feet. Little chest pass in for the touchdown. What
- 8:20Speaker 4: you got to say about that, Max? What you got
- 8:22Speaker 4: to say about that?
- 8:23Speaker 2: Five and one.
- 8:26Speaker 3: I love it, man. I love it.
- 8:28Speaker 1: It was wonderful to see, and you're absolutely so right
- 8:31Speaker 1: about the fact that you just keep adding. I mean,
- 8:33Speaker 1: like his Hall of Fame reel, I don't know how
- 8:35Speaker 1: long they are, but the Hall of Fame reel is
- 8:36Speaker 1: just going to have so many just highlights after highlights,
- 8:40Speaker 1: and you'll probably be able to fill a.
- 8:43Speaker 3: Good five minutes worth of just highlights of Josh doing
- 8:46Speaker 3: his thing.
- 8:47Speaker 1: Running game, did his thing once again. The offensive line
- 8:49Speaker 1: is really locked in in respects of the running game.
- 8:51Speaker 1: James Cook, 95 yards, 122 carries. That's four, almost four
- 8:55Speaker 1: and a half a carry, and he scored a touchdown.
- 8:56Speaker 1: Didn't put the ball on the ground, which was key.
- 8:58Speaker 1: Keyon Coleman, again, he caught that flip pass from Josh.
- 9:01Speaker 1: But once again, a game where DJ Moore is out.
- 9:04Speaker 1: We talked about how we wanted him to rest, wanted
- 9:06Speaker 1: him to be ready for this Baltimore game coming up
- 9:08Speaker 1: after the bye week. DT, he keeps showing up. He
- 9:11Speaker 1: keeps being available. He keeps, I mean, four catches on
- 9:14Speaker 1: six targets. Like there's nothing, everything that you wanted him
- 9:18Speaker 1: to be. He is now becoming, and it's not like
- 9:20Speaker 1: he was, he didn't have the potential to do it,
- 9:22Speaker 1: but he was going through his own stuff and he
- 9:24Speaker 1: was going through his own way of being. It's really
- 9:26Speaker 1: about being a professional and about accountability and showing up
- 9:30Speaker 1: to work on time. And I, I mean, I saw
- 9:32Speaker 1: so many horrible takes on Twitter and shit like that
- 9:35Speaker 1: this weekend. Oh, people wanted to shit on Keon and
- 9:38Speaker 1: like people were not, I was never tried. People were
- 9:40Speaker 1: not trying to shit on Keon. It's important to be
- 9:42Speaker 1: a professional. It's important to come to work on time.
- 9:45Speaker 1: And McDermott had to draw a line in the sand
- 9:47Speaker 1: at some point in time. He didn't suspend them for
- 9:50Speaker 1: being late one time because that would be irresponsible of
- 9:52Speaker 1: a coach to do. You can lose the locker room
- 9:54Speaker 1: that way being that kind of a hard ass. It
- 9:56Speaker 1: obviously happened multiple times. We don't go to work with
- 9:58Speaker 1: these guys.
- 10:00Speaker 3: Give it grace. Give it room to breathe. He had
- 10:03Speaker 3: room to breathe.
- 10:03Speaker 1: He's now stepping into that professionalism DT where he's being reliable.
- 10:07Speaker 1: It's somebody that Josh can actually rely on and I
- 10:10Speaker 1: think that when DJ comes back DT there's a good
- 10:12Speaker 1: chance that he's your wide receiver too because Josh Palmer
- 10:15Speaker 1: hasn't really done much. I know he had a big
- 10:16Speaker 1: catch but all of his catches are boomer busts. It's
- 10:19Speaker 1: either a big play or you don't hear from him
- 10:21Speaker 1: all game. He's got a couple touchdowns on a couple
- 10:24Speaker 1: catches to start the year, and then he's hurt again
- 10:26Speaker 1: and all this other stuff, and he's not really playing well. DT,
- 10:29Speaker 1: I think that Keon is starting to step into that
- 10:31Speaker 1: wide receiver two role, which is really important because when
- 10:34Speaker 1: you do get DJ back, DJ opens up everything else
- 10:38Speaker 1: for the offense. He allows Kincaid to get off. He
- 10:41Speaker 1: allows Keon or whoever, whether it be Josh Palmer, Shakir
- 10:45Speaker 1: down the field. DJ is the key. He unlocks it
- 10:48Speaker 1: for the entire offense, and I can't wait to see
- 10:50Speaker 1: when they're fully formed because I think that they're a juggernaut.
- 10:53Speaker 1: They're putting up 30 GT without him, and they're not
- 10:56Speaker 1: skipping a beat. I think they could put up 35-40
- 10:59Speaker 1: with DJ back in the fold healthy.
- 11:00Speaker 3: I really do.
- 11:02Speaker 2: A warrior, a guy who wanted to play bad and
- 11:04Speaker 2: held him out.
- 11:05Speaker 3: I understand.
- 11:06Speaker 4: Good management, I think, by a young staff and Brady
- 11:09Speaker 4: and keeping him out going into this bye week. But
- 11:11Speaker 4: you said it. The vibe with Keon is I'm with it.
- 11:14Speaker 4: But I'm not being cautiously optimistic. I'm just not, you know,
- 11:18Speaker 4: he's not the next Jamar Chase or JJ. I'm not
- 11:21Speaker 4: saying that, but he's doing just exactly what he needed,
- 11:24Speaker 4: like you said. And he's going to benefit from that
- 11:26Speaker 4: because when DJ Moore comes back, then more attention goes
- 11:29Speaker 4: to him. He's never going to be double team Keon Coleman.
- 11:32Speaker 4: You know, like it's not a guy that is going to,
- 11:34Speaker 4: defenses are going to have to zero in on because
- 11:36Speaker 4: they got to worry about Kincaid and the running game
- 11:38Speaker 4: and Josh and Moore when he comes back. So Keon's
- 11:41Speaker 4: gonna have a nice little pocket here to to keep
- 11:44Speaker 4: improving but you know I think his ceiling is is
- 11:47Speaker 4: a little closer than than we're thinking as a fan
- 11:50Speaker 4: base right now like yes he's ascending but I think
- 11:53Speaker 4: we're gonna see a plateau in the plateau if it's
- 11:55Speaker 4: six catches for 60 yards a game giving me these
- 11:58Speaker 4: touchdowns every so often these first downs possession catches getting
- 12:01Speaker 4: up making plays like I'll take it the rest of
- 12:03Speaker 4: his career easily at that you know so We get
- 12:07Speaker 4: a Skylar Bell maybe to start stepping up, DJ Moore
- 12:09Speaker 4: for a few years. Keon Coleman keeps this great two-pace
- 12:13Speaker 4: with our tight ends and running game and Josh Allen.
- 12:16Speaker 4: We found a little nice nucleus we can build a
- 12:18Speaker 4: couple years on. So it's a nice little pocket for
- 12:21Speaker 4: him to be in. I think the ceiling's going to
- 12:23Speaker 4: come like he's not going to be the next Marvin
- 12:26Speaker 4: Harrison or something crazy like that. But what he's doing
- 12:30Speaker 4: for us is helping us win ballgames, and it's only
- 12:32Speaker 4: going to get better with DJ Moore, obviously. The Kincaid point,
- 12:35Speaker 4: I think they went to him, that touchdown. But again,
- 12:38Speaker 4: we get penalties, penalties, penalties. And we'll talk about that
- 12:41Speaker 4: later in the show. But they're going to Kincaid.
- 12:44Speaker 2: And shout out to the X, baby. RIP DMX.
- 12:47Speaker 4: But James Cook coming down with the X, covering that football.
- 12:54Speaker 3: Like Darnell Jefferson from the program. Yeah, it's funny. They
- 12:57Speaker 3: were talking about, man, should he carry it around? Should
- 12:59Speaker 3: he carry the ball around?
- 13:00Speaker 1: I'm like, that's Darnell Jefferson from the program.
- 13:02Speaker 3: They made him carry it.
- 13:03Speaker 1: That rock around campus, and that's so funny. So, yes, again,
- 13:07Speaker 1: James Cook, 95 yards on 22 carries, didn't put it
- 13:10Speaker 1: on the ground, and that is important. It's important for confidence,
- 13:12Speaker 1: important for his confidence, and obviously for the team as well. Now,
- 13:17Speaker 1: as we've switched sides of the ball, DT, you know,
- 13:21Speaker 1: this team is not without its warts. We obviously, you
- 13:23Speaker 1: always talk about we have the ultimate deodorant stick in 17,
- 13:26Speaker 1: and he kind of covers up for a lot of mistakes.
- 13:28Speaker 1: It's funny because now shout out to my boy Dale
- 13:32Speaker 1: on Twitter. I have heard from multiple people, and I
- 13:36Speaker 1: even heard it on WGR, the zones are tighter. Now,
- 13:39Speaker 1: we're not necessarily getting there. We're not necessarily tipping the
- 13:42Speaker 1: ball like we should, whatever the case may be. But
- 13:45Speaker 1: from the Chargers game, from the Patriots game, and that debacle,
- 13:49Speaker 1: and stuff like that, they're getting better. The zones are
- 13:53Speaker 1: starting to squeeze down, DT. Did you see something similar
- 13:56Speaker 1: in that? Because I understand that they didn't necessarily make
- 13:58Speaker 1: all the plays that we want them to make, but
- 14:01Speaker 1: I heard from multiple sources that And again, shout out
- 14:03Speaker 1: to my boy Dale on Twitter, who really broke it
- 14:05Speaker 1: down post-game on those Twitter spaces and talked about, listen, man,
- 14:09Speaker 1: the zones are getting tighter. You can tell that they're
- 14:12Speaker 1: picking up a little bit better. They're still running more
- 14:14Speaker 1: zone than man. I think that is still a direct,
- 14:18Speaker 1: it's a direct correlation to the fact that Jim Leonard
- 14:20Speaker 1: does not have the pieces that he wants. He told
- 14:22Speaker 1: us that in training camp. Nobody wanted to listen. I
- 14:25Speaker 1: was ears wide open listening to that. I don't think
- 14:28Speaker 1: that he can run all the man like he did
- 14:30Speaker 1: in Denver, you know, because he doesn't have Sertain. He
- 14:32Speaker 1: doesn't have all those types of guys to run that
- 14:34Speaker 1: scheme quite yet. However, the running zone, they were a
- 14:38Speaker 1: little bit tighter DT, a little bit. And I didn't
- 14:40Speaker 1: like Kirk Cousins walking up and down the field on us.
- 14:43Speaker 1: And I didn't like the end of the game situation
- 14:44Speaker 1: where he walks up and down. I didn't like that.
- 14:46Speaker 1: But I thought that the zones were a little bit
- 14:49Speaker 1: tighter after I was alerted to it. And looking back
- 14:52Speaker 1: at the game, I can agree with it.
- 14:54Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think we got to wake up
- 14:57Speaker 4: and face this one here. The 30 points is no
- 15:01Speaker 4: coincidence of us not being able to stop things. Yes,
- 15:05Speaker 4: Kurt threw a beautiful 60-yard ball that couldn't have been
- 15:08Speaker 4: better as a diving catch in the back of the
- 15:10Speaker 4: end zone to get there. But he threw a dime
- 15:13Speaker 4: on the other touchdown, too, when it went over the linebacker.
- 15:16Speaker 4: The zone was closer, but it went over the linebacker.
- 15:18Speaker 4: And guess what, Rob? We got some quarterbacks coming up
- 15:21Speaker 4: on the schedule we're going to have to take care
- 15:22Speaker 4: of that are going to make great play. So you
- 15:24Speaker 4: can't just blame it on a dime from an NFL quarterback,
- 15:27Speaker 4: you know, to, to get you to 30 points. Like you're,
- 15:30Speaker 4: you're going to get dimed up. That's, that's the league,
- 15:32Speaker 4: but we got to close those zones quicker. I don't
- 15:35Speaker 4: think that's a, okay. If we're getting closer, well then like,
- 15:39Speaker 4: there's no more excuses now after the bi-week now it's
- 15:41Speaker 4: got to be all the way there. Like it's, it's
- 15:43Speaker 4: not a coincidence. They're getting to 30. There's big holes
- 15:46Speaker 4: in it. I don't like, I don't care about training camp,
- 15:48Speaker 4: him not having the guys it's the NFL now. do
- 15:51Speaker 4: what you got to do to make stops. If it's
- 15:53Speaker 4: an experiment, a non-experiment, whatever, you got to do to
- 15:57Speaker 4: make stops. I think there's some bright spots we can
- 15:59Speaker 4: build in from this defense, but it's no coincidence the
- 16:02Speaker 4: 30s go up each week and you can't blame it
- 16:04Speaker 4: on dimes because you're going to see dimes in the.
- 16:06Speaker 2: Coming ones as well.
- 16:08Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 16:09Speaker 4: It's frustrating because you really look back at these games, Rob,
- 16:12Speaker 4: and it's like blowout victories.
- 16:15Speaker 2: Blowout victories.
- 16:16Speaker 4: This offense can't be bothered. Josh Allen is just literally
- 16:20Speaker 4: buzzsawing through anything in his way. It's going to be
- 16:23Speaker 4: like that the rest of the year, but it looks
- 16:25Speaker 4: like it's also going to be like that on the
- 16:26Speaker 4: other end. It's just a couple. It's just a couple.
- 16:29Speaker 4: We just need a couple stops. We talk about a
- 16:31Speaker 4: year in, year out. Just an average defense probably gets
- 16:33Speaker 4: us a couple rings by now. And, you know, here
- 16:36Speaker 4: we are, 30 points ain't a coincidence.
- 16:39Speaker 1: So that's what I got to say about that. I
- 16:42Speaker 1: have to agree with you. I mean, it didn't, it
- 16:44Speaker 1: didn't please me to see, uh, Kirk cousins, 313 yards.
- 16:48Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. They were some dots to Trey Tucker, um,
- 16:51Speaker 1: on those touchdowns, but Michael Mayer went off.
- 16:53Speaker 3: Uh, you know what I mean?
- 16:54Speaker 1: He had 95 yards, uh, you know, Brock Bowers had, uh,
- 16:57Speaker 1: had 70 yards. So it was a situation where he
- 17:00Speaker 1: was kind of getting whatever he wanted. Um, they kind
- 17:02Speaker 1: of did walk down the field a few times and
- 17:03Speaker 1: it was a little bit disheartening, but, um, Again, I'm
- 17:07Speaker 1: just trying to play devil's advocate.
- 17:10Speaker 3: The zones are at least tighter.
- 17:11Speaker 1: So hopefully, like you said, after the bye week, that
- 17:14Speaker 1: they get even tighter and they actually can get their
- 17:16Speaker 1: hands on a couple balls. I know that it was
- 17:19Speaker 1: funny because of the fact that, you know, watching the
- 17:21Speaker 1: game and watching Kirk Cousins, he's again, he's a statue.
- 17:24Speaker 1: You're getting ready to play some quarterbacks who are not statues.
- 17:27Speaker 1: You know, like Lamar is obviously the most, you know,
- 17:30Speaker 1: mobile quarterback in the league besides our quarterback. And then
- 17:32Speaker 1: you've got, you know, some other matchups with even Kyler Murray.
- 17:35Speaker 1: can bring it in respects to moving his feet and
- 17:37Speaker 1: stuff like that. So, I mean, you saw Caleb Williams
- 17:40Speaker 1: beat up, you know, they beat new England the other
- 17:42Speaker 1: night on Thursday night football. He obviously knows how to
- 17:44Speaker 1: move around the pocket. He's ascending as a quarterback. So
- 17:47Speaker 1: you're absolutely hitting it on the head. They are going
- 17:49Speaker 1: to have to get ready for more mobile quarterbacks. You're
- 17:51Speaker 1: not going to be able to rely on just a
- 17:54Speaker 1: statue back there. And if you're letting the statues carve
- 17:57Speaker 1: you up, it only gets more complicated when you have
- 17:59Speaker 1: a mobile quarterback, because obviously.
- 18:01Speaker 3: The threat of the run is there as well. So
- 18:03Speaker 3: you're right on that.
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- 18:27Speaker 3: Uh What's that?
- 18:28Speaker 1: A K gun report. All of the, all of the guys.
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- 18:34Speaker 1: I saw that he's bringing back Bill's world. They had
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- 18:51Speaker 1: a shout out to my boy, Tom. Shout out to
- 18:53Speaker 1: star point. Shout out to my boy, Bobby Hanson out
- 18:55Speaker 1: there in long Island. They've got you covered on the Sabres.
- 18:57Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with the Sabres. They
- 18:59Speaker 1: missed out on the goalie. I thought we needed a goalie.
- 19:01Speaker 1: Then people were saying, well, they paid too much. Then
- 19:03Speaker 1: other people were saying they didn't pay too much. So
- 19:05Speaker 1: New Jersey gets the goalie we need. Listen, they've got
- 19:07Speaker 1: all of that type of stuff covered for you at
- 19:10Speaker 1: I-86 Network. They'll cover hockey and the NHL in this season.
- 19:13Speaker 1: Hopefully the Sabres can get off the schneid. And I
- 19:15Speaker 1: think that DT has a special Sabres event coming up. Listen, DT,
- 19:20Speaker 1: as we transition, it's funny because I named the episode
- 19:24Speaker 1: the way that I did because I All of us,
- 19:27Speaker 1: sensible Bills fans would have taken 5-1. However, the bye
- 19:32Speaker 1: week to me is a time where you self-scout. That's
- 19:36Speaker 1: the time where you self-scout. You figure out some of
- 19:38Speaker 1: the things that are not working. You figure out your
- 19:40Speaker 1: deficiencies and you address them. I need to know your
- 19:44Speaker 1: confidence level in our GM who has been much blind.
- 19:47Speaker 1: He catches a lot of strays and he catches a
- 19:49Speaker 1: lot of arrows that he deserves to catch. How confident
- 19:53Speaker 1: are you that Brandon Bean is going to pull the
- 19:54Speaker 1: trigger on a trade?
- 19:55Speaker 3: Not call. I know they love it on Twitter now.
- 19:58Speaker 1: He's checking guy. He's checking man. He'll call and check
- 20:01Speaker 1: in on a guy. I need him to pull the
- 20:04Speaker 1: trigger on something and to make something happen.
- 20:06Speaker 3: I understand. I understand that it takes two to tango.
- 20:10Speaker 3: I understand it.
- 20:11Speaker 1: I just said he can't force someone to make a trade.
- 20:14Speaker 1: How confident are you, DT, specifically in identifying some needs
- 20:19Speaker 1: with Jim Leonard and then addressing them, actually pulling the
- 20:22Speaker 1: trigger on something? And we can talk about positions in
- 20:24Speaker 1: a moment, but I just want to know your confidence
- 20:25Speaker 1: level of it happening. There are some portions of the
- 20:27Speaker 1: mafia out there, DT, some portions of the Nickel City
- 20:30Speaker 1: crew that are like, this motherfucker is not going to
- 20:32Speaker 1: do anything.
- 20:32Speaker 3: He's going to sit on his hands. I don't necessarily
- 20:35Speaker 3: believe that.
- 20:35Speaker 1: I'm excited to hear what you think because.
- 20:38Speaker 3: I think it's necessary. I think a few moves are necessary.
- 20:41Speaker 2: Well, he can force a trade.
- 20:44Speaker 3: He can.
- 20:46Speaker 2: He has assets to do it. At the end of
- 20:48Speaker 2: the day, you just give them enough until they can't
- 20:50Speaker 2: say no. It is what it is.
- 20:53Speaker 4: At the end of the day, you can force a trade.
- 20:55Speaker 4: So if you really have to do something, you have
- 20:57Speaker 4: to do something. He's never been the one that has
- 21:00Speaker 4: to do, think he has to do it, right? So
- 21:03Speaker 4: why do I believe in it now? Probably not unless...
- 21:06Speaker 4: it is so loud. It's louder than it ever has been.
- 21:08Speaker 4: I think, you know, there was always fandom, but with
- 21:11Speaker 4: the internet and the social media and everything, it's louder
- 21:13Speaker 4: than it ever has been. And, you know, he is
- 21:16Speaker 4: the one that stays and there's question if he was
- 21:19Speaker 4: the right one to get fired, yada.
- 21:21Speaker 2: Yada, yada.
- 21:22Speaker 4: But then now it's like, it's louder than it ever
- 21:25Speaker 4: has been, especially if this defense starts blowing and we
- 21:27Speaker 4: blow another year of the prime.
- 21:29Speaker 2: Like I think Jerry is, is it's getting loud. It's
- 21:33Speaker 2: getting loud for him in there. So it's, Uh, it's.
- 21:36Speaker 4: Even if he doesn't do anything, I, I don't know.
- 21:38Speaker 4: I guess my confidence is low because what makes, what
- 21:41Speaker 4: makes me think he would, uh, you know, there has been,
- 21:44Speaker 4: we needed improvements in previous years and he doesn't do shit.
- 21:48Speaker 4: We definitely need improvements this year.
- 21:49Speaker 2: So we'll see.
- 21:51Speaker 1: What is the improvement? He made some wide receiver trades though. Like,
- 21:57Speaker 1: you know, he got, he got Amari and stuff like that.
- 21:59Speaker 3: And what was that? He got the other guy. Cooks
- 22:01Speaker 3: last year.
- 22:02Speaker 4: I mean, if you want to really get delicate here,
- 22:04Speaker 4: I'm not playing devil's advocate if I'm being hard on
- 22:06Speaker 4: him on that front. On the back end, we're talking
- 22:09Speaker 4: about guys, you know, like Keon Coleman, a draft pick
- 22:11Speaker 4: of his. If he turns out to be this ascending
- 22:14Speaker 4: note that he's on, you know, great. If DJ Moore
- 22:17Speaker 4: comes back and we score 40 a game, we're the
- 22:19Speaker 4: best show on turf 2.0, then okay, great acquisition. So
- 22:23Speaker 4: there's players, obviously, that he picked that are making this
- 22:26Speaker 4: team win ballgames. It's not every single pick. But I
- 22:29Speaker 4: think defensively, as we talked about, that's where it is.
- 22:32Speaker 4: But the argument of do you make the play defensively
- 22:36Speaker 4: or do you just push all the chips in and
- 22:38Speaker 4: really go get another crazy weapon on offense and see
- 22:41Speaker 4: what that does? Does one player change the defense? Yes.
- 22:47Speaker 4: Does it make us not let up 30 a game?
- 22:50Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 22:51Speaker 4: But I guess that's what we've got to find.
- 22:54Speaker 2: Fire sale, good team, going bad, what are we looking at?
- 22:58Speaker 3: Well, since you asked, I have a couple ideas.
- 23:01Speaker 1: I'm looking specifically at a team like Arizona, Buda Baker
- 23:05Speaker 1: on the back end.
- 23:06Speaker 3: I like that idea.
- 23:08Speaker 1: I think that Buda Baker can come in and help
- 23:09Speaker 1: out that safety room a lot. We'll talk about CJGJ
- 23:13Speaker 1: in a minute, you know what I mean, in his
- 23:15Speaker 1: spitting incident. But I like a guy like Buda Baker.
- 23:18Speaker 1: I like a guy like Derwin James. Now, Derwin James
- 23:20Speaker 1: is a little bit more of a box safety, so
- 23:22Speaker 1: I don't necessarily know if we need help in the
- 23:24Speaker 1: box because we're stopping the run.
- 23:27Speaker 3: We need coverage abilities, but Derwin James can cover as well.
- 23:29Speaker 1: It's not like he's just a one trick pony. I'm
- 23:31Speaker 1: looking at a guy even in the linebacker crew. Now,
- 23:35Speaker 1: I don't think that Zach Bond shakes free. I know
- 23:37Speaker 1: that he's worked with Jim Leonard before out there, Wisconsin.
- 23:41Speaker 1: I don't think that he shakes free from Philly, but
- 23:43Speaker 1: if Philly goes down in respects to selling off some pieces,
- 23:46Speaker 1: now that Jalen hurts is out for the year, then
- 23:48Speaker 1: maybe you can get a target, a guy like that.
- 23:50Speaker 1: I think that it's, it's specifically linebacker and safety matters. are,
- 23:54Speaker 1: are areas of need. Now, some people will say, just let,
- 23:58Speaker 1: let the young guys play. You know, shout out to
- 24:00Speaker 1: my boy, Jerick or Twitter. He'll always say, just let
- 24:02Speaker 1: the young boys play. Let Kilgore play. Let, let the
- 24:04Speaker 1: young guys just take their lumps. The only pushback I
- 24:08Speaker 1: have to take their lumps is that I just don't have,
- 24:11Speaker 1: I don't have the patience for quote unquote, wasting another year. Josh,
- 24:16Speaker 1: the offense is good enough to me right now that
- 24:19Speaker 1: I feel like go ahead and find a way to
- 24:22Speaker 1: just augment the defense whatever way you can because it's
- 24:25Speaker 1: most important to make sure that this defense is ready
- 24:30Speaker 1: and they're capable. As you said earlier in the show, DT,
- 24:33Speaker 1: we don't need top 10 defense. We don't need top
- 24:36Speaker 1: five defense. We need middle of the pack, couple stops
- 24:39Speaker 1: in the second half, and that can really be the difference,
- 24:43Speaker 1: Bills Mafia. Nickel City crew, I know that sometimes people
- 24:45Speaker 1: think I'm being facetious. Just a couple of stops in
- 24:49Speaker 1: the second half. can make all of the difference when
- 24:51Speaker 1: you have an offense that hums like this one. Again,
- 24:53Speaker 1: we're always assuming health. So if DJ Moore stays healthy,
- 24:57Speaker 1: Josh stays healthy, knock on wood, all that other stuff,
- 25:00Speaker 1: I think that there's just a couple stops in the
- 25:01Speaker 1: second half, it could make a big deal.
- 25:03Speaker 3: I think it could. It's the truth, Rob.
- 25:05Speaker 2: It's the truth. It's facts. The last seven years, look
- 25:09Speaker 2: at it. One stop. One stop.
- 25:12Speaker 4: And we got rings on our fingers and we've been
- 25:15Speaker 4: to the parade and we know the route. We have
- 25:18Speaker 4: a routine on parade day at this point. We have
- 25:21Speaker 4: a routine, Rob, on parade day at this point with
- 25:25Speaker 4: one stop in seven years.
- 25:27Speaker 2: It's fact. It's not a philosophy.
- 25:30Speaker 4: It is fact. The one stop is all we need. So,
- 25:34Speaker 4: I mean, I like the safety ideas. I would love
- 25:36Speaker 4: a Derwin James, a younger guy, Buda Baker kind of
- 25:39Speaker 4: on the tail end, but If it's a fix, it's
- 25:42Speaker 4: a fix. Jalen Kilgore does create some potential for me.
- 25:46Speaker 4: You can let the kids play, but you need other
- 25:48Speaker 4: veteran leadership then to make up for it. If you
- 25:51Speaker 4: do let the kids play, there has to be others.
- 25:53Speaker 4: And the linebacking core is just not doing it. I mean,
- 25:57Speaker 4: Dorian Williams' interception was because he didn't move. He literally
- 26:03Speaker 4: stood in the exact same spot from snap to pick,
- 26:07Speaker 4: and he did some chops of his feet, and he
- 26:09Speaker 4: intercepted Kirk Cousins.
- 26:12Speaker 2: So his one highlight was.
- 26:15Speaker 4: Because he didn't move in the whole season. Other than that,
- 26:18Speaker 4: he's over it. So linebacking... Give me maybe a linebacker.
- 26:23Speaker 4: I'd say that's my number one. I would love a
- 26:25Speaker 4: good big-name safety, too. But I guess I'm going to
- 26:31Speaker 4: settle on the corners.
- 26:32Speaker 3: You're just not expecting it. You're not expecting it being
- 26:34Speaker 3: the move.
- 26:35Speaker 2: No, no.
- 26:35Speaker 4: But I'm talking if we do, it's a linebacker safety.
- 26:39Speaker 2: I think you're right.
- 26:41Speaker 4: Corners-wise, we're good, especially bringing in Trey White. Not good,
- 26:44Speaker 4: but it's what we're going to get this year with
- 26:47Speaker 4: this corner squad.
- 26:49Speaker 2: And You know, IGB's been producing a little bit.
- 26:53Speaker 4: You know, he's shown some. Benford's kind of getting back
- 26:55Speaker 4: on it a little bit. Once he was, you know,
- 26:57Speaker 4: stuck on Bowers, he did a good job on Sunday.
- 27:00Speaker 4: So I think as good as it's going to get
- 27:03Speaker 4: in corner for now, why not get a safety or
- 27:05Speaker 4: a linebacker? I'm not as educated in the linebackers as
- 27:09Speaker 4: I am with, obviously, Buda Baker and Derwin James.
- 27:11Speaker 2: But I don't know. I don't believe in it, but
- 27:14Speaker 2: if he's going to go, it's got to be one
- 27:16Speaker 2: of those.
- 27:16Speaker 3: I agree.
- 27:16Speaker 2: It's got to be one of those two.
- 27:18Speaker 1: Well, it's funny that you mentioned that last guy who's
- 27:20Speaker 1: right over my shoulder, right, right down here. You know,
- 27:22Speaker 1: one of my favorite all time bills, Trey white back
- 27:25Speaker 1: in the fold. I caution people to just remember that
- 27:28Speaker 1: he's older and that I don't think that his role
- 27:31Speaker 1: is the same. And here's what I mean by that.
- 27:34Speaker 1: Nickel city crew bills, mafia. I don't think, don't think
- 27:37Speaker 1: that they're bringing in Trey white.
- 27:38Speaker 3: This is me personally.
- 27:39Speaker 1: I don't think they're bringing in Trey white to get
- 27:41Speaker 1: out there and go stand on opposite of Benford and
- 27:44Speaker 1: get ready to play. you know, a bunch of snaps.
- 27:46Speaker 1: I don't think that that is his role. I saw
- 27:49Speaker 1: a funny thing on Twitter. Somebody had Splinter, and he's carrying,
- 27:53Speaker 1: and he's walking with the four Ninja Turtles, and they
- 27:56Speaker 1: named them all, you know, Harrison, IGB, you know what
- 27:58Speaker 1: I mean, and Walker and stuff like that. He's there
- 28:01Speaker 1: to help with the secondary, to help them figure it out.
- 28:05Speaker 1: I think that part of the reason that they've been
- 28:06Speaker 1: having so much trouble with these coverages is that they're
- 28:10Speaker 1: thinking and they're not reacting, and they're not reacting because
- 28:13Speaker 1: they don't.
- 28:13Speaker 3: Know where to go. Now, I don't know why.
- 28:16Speaker 1: Obviously they study their playbooks, they watch film, yada, yada, yada.
- 28:19Speaker 1: I don't go to work with them, so I have
- 28:20Speaker 1: no idea the reason behind it. Trey White is a technician.
- 28:24Speaker 1: He knows where to go. He knows zone coverage. He's
- 28:27Speaker 1: been born in zone coverage, made his career in zone coverage.
- 28:31Speaker 1: He can help these guys get to the right spots quicker.
- 28:34Speaker 1: That's the big thing. Get to your spot and get
- 28:37Speaker 1: there faster. And I think that Trey White can help
- 28:39Speaker 1: with that. Don't expect him to be gobbling up Snaps,
- 28:44Speaker 1: I personally don't see that. I think that IGB, you're
- 28:46Speaker 1: absolutely right. He's been playing much better. They drafted him
- 28:49Speaker 1: to be a sticky man corner, and I think that
- 28:52Speaker 1: he's fitting that bill right now.
- 28:54Speaker 3: Benford, you're right.
- 28:54Speaker 1: He's coming back from injury, and hopefully he can get
- 28:56Speaker 1: his feet under him. Just don't expect Trey White to
- 28:59Speaker 1: be a player. He's more like that Poyer or Hyde
- 29:03Speaker 1: at the back end of their careers where they're being
- 29:05Speaker 1: a mentor. They're mentoring these guys to help them diagnose faster.
- 29:09Speaker 1: Why are you here? when you should be here? Why
- 29:11Speaker 1: are you there when you should be over there? Let's
- 29:14Speaker 1: get to our spots. Let's identify shit quicker so that
- 29:17Speaker 1: way you can react and get to the spot that
- 29:18Speaker 1: you need to so that the zone coverages are not tighter.
- 29:21Speaker 1: You're actually tipping balls or you're actually tipping the ball
- 29:24Speaker 1: in the air for interceptions for our team. I think
- 29:26Speaker 1: that that's Trey's role. And I'm happy that he's back.
- 29:29Speaker 1: I just don't want anybody to be fooled that he's
- 29:30Speaker 1: getting ready to come out and be prime troy white
- 29:33Speaker 1: i don't i don't i don't think you would be
- 29:34Speaker 1: um i don't think you'd be wise to think that's.
- 29:36Speaker 4: Coming we didn't i had very low expectations last year.
- 29:39Speaker 5: Yeah i know and he balled out and yeah and
- 29:41Speaker 5: he played well and he came out and he played
- 29:43Speaker 5: good minutes for us and you know at a overall
- 29:45Speaker 5: solid year but yeah i'm not expecting uh significant you
- 29:49Speaker 5: know week on week production but he may be a
- 29:52Speaker 5: play here and there you know down the stretch and
- 29:54Speaker 5: he makes a play that it's just a part of
- 29:56Speaker 5: the fairy tale right he gets in there and and
- 29:59Speaker 5: gets in a big.
- 30:01Speaker 3: You play it on, you play it on the video.
- 30:04Speaker 3: Like they, like they're doing all these documentaries on the bills.
- 30:06Speaker 3: You play that on the video for sure.
- 30:08Speaker 1: I know DT will get back with us in a minute,
- 30:10Speaker 1: but you know, I just want to caution everybody that,
- 30:13Speaker 1: you know, I don't think that Trey white's coming here
- 30:15Speaker 1: to gobble up snaps or anything like that. I think
- 30:16Speaker 1: that he's coming in to help out, to be a
- 30:19Speaker 1: mentor and to help these guys to get, get to
- 30:21Speaker 1: their spots quicker. Now, one of the topics of the week,
- 30:25Speaker 1: and we've got it covered. I know DT will be
- 30:26Speaker 1: back in a minute. CJ, GJ, listen, I was disappointed
- 30:34Speaker 1: in CJ, GJ, DT.
- 30:36Speaker 3: We agree on Trey White, by the way, before you
- 30:38Speaker 3: broke up.
- 30:38Speaker 1: But I was disappointed because of the fact that I
- 30:42Speaker 1: thought that he was brought in to be a change
- 30:44Speaker 1: of pace. He was brought in to be a leader,
- 30:47Speaker 1: but he's a dog. And I embrace that. There is
- 30:51Speaker 1: a line. Now, all men know, and if you don't know,
- 30:54Speaker 1: then you should ask somebody that can teach you. for
- 30:56Speaker 1: the young men out there in the crew and Bills
- 30:59Speaker 1: Mafia out there. You never spit on another man, number one.
- 31:01Speaker 1: That's the ultimate disrespect. And if you spit on another man,
- 31:05Speaker 1: you better be ready to fucking fight because most men
- 31:08Speaker 1: are going to be ready to go off on you
- 31:10Speaker 1: if you spit on another man. So competition or not,
- 31:13Speaker 1: heat of the moment or not, it was a line
- 31:16Speaker 1: that was crossed. What I wasn't in favor of was
- 31:19Speaker 1: firing him. I saw a lot of Bills Mafia would
- 31:21Speaker 1: just fire him. He's not playing well enough. to warrant this.
- 31:24Speaker 1: Where do you stand on it, DT? Again, you and
- 31:26Speaker 1: I agreed on Trey White and his impact and his
- 31:29Speaker 1: role going forward in this Bills defense. DT, CJ, GJ,
- 31:34Speaker 1: I was happy to have them because I felt that
- 31:36Speaker 1: we needed more dogs. I thought that they were doing
- 31:38Speaker 1: the right thing. It was a risk for Brandon Bean,
- 31:40Speaker 1: but I thought it was something worth taking on. I
- 31:42Speaker 1: thought that Brady could handle it. Now it's turning into
- 31:45Speaker 1: fire him. Now it's turning into is Brady condoning this shit?
- 31:49Speaker 1: And I don't know. I think we're missing the mark
- 31:50Speaker 1: just a little bit. Where do you stand on it? Again,
- 31:54Speaker 1: the baseline is you spit on another man, that's a
- 31:57Speaker 1: bridge too far. There's no debating that. There's no, well,
- 32:01Speaker 1: in this situation, no. You spit on me, you better
- 32:03Speaker 1: be ready to fucking scrap.
- 32:04Speaker 3: For real. You better be ready to scrap.
- 32:07Speaker 4: I don't think you can ever be good enough to
- 32:10Speaker 4: spit on someone. If he was playing an all-pro safety
- 32:13Speaker 4: level right now and did that, that doesn't make him
- 32:15Speaker 4: good enough to spit on someone, right?
- 32:17Speaker 3: No, hell no.
- 32:17Speaker 2: Everyone, we agree on that, but I'm done talking about it.
- 32:21Speaker 2: It's fine.
- 32:22Speaker 4: It's not fine, but it's not affecting my 5-1 right now.
- 32:25Speaker 4: It's not affecting going into Baltimore. Yes, we're going to
- 32:28Speaker 4: be without them. That's a situation.
- 32:32Speaker 3: Did you think he needed to be fired because of it?
- 32:35Speaker 2: What's his game check?
- 32:36Speaker 3: $ 700, 000?
- 32:36Speaker 4: He doesn't get his game check next week because he's suspended.
- 32:41Speaker 4: He doesn't need me on this podcast to tell him
- 32:43Speaker 4: he shouldn't have spit on somebody. Missing the 700 racks
- 32:46Speaker 4: is going to be punishment.
- 32:48Speaker 2: Enough in my eyes. It is what it is.
- 32:51Speaker 4: Who's replacing him? That's the other question. Now we're going
- 32:54Speaker 4: to start DeMar Hamlin out there? All right.
- 32:56Speaker 2: Fine. That's a good idea. So We can't afford to
- 33:00Speaker 2: lose him.
- 33:01Speaker 3: He knows it's wrong.
- 33:02Speaker 4: He's going to get charged $ 700K because of it, and
- 33:05Speaker 4: we move on to 6-1. That's where I'm at with it.
- 33:08Speaker 4: We're not cutting him. Shut the fuck up. We didn't
- 33:12Speaker 4: sign up for this. We did not sign up for that,
- 33:14Speaker 4: but either did he, and if he does that more,
- 33:16Speaker 4: he's going to get fired eventually anyway. So he understands that,
- 33:20Speaker 4: but it's $ 700K he's.
- 33:21Speaker 2: Missing out on. We're on to 6-1, as Bill Belichick
- 33:25Speaker 2: would say, on to Baltimore.
- 33:27Speaker 3: Yeah. VT is done talking about it. It's funny.
- 33:29Speaker 1: I mean, it gobbled up a lot of, a lot
- 33:31Speaker 1: of attention this week and on Twitter as well. You know,
- 33:34Speaker 1: I'm on Bill's Twitter all the time and I just couldn't,
- 33:36Speaker 1: I couldn't get with the people talking about fire. And
- 33:38Speaker 1: I was like, well, I don't, I don't know necessarily
- 33:40Speaker 1: what that does. And they're like, well, he's not playing
- 33:42Speaker 1: well enough to, to, to warrant a spot. I'm like you, you,
- 33:45Speaker 1: if he didn't spit, you weren't talking about cutting him.
- 33:47Speaker 1: So then don't cut him because he fucked up. Like
- 33:50Speaker 1: if he fucked up, then you give him a warning.
- 33:52Speaker 1: Like you said, he's missing a game check. That's a,
- 33:54Speaker 1: that's a big deal. I mean, nobody likes missing money.
- 33:56Speaker 1: So I never thought that firing him was the answer.
- 34:00Speaker 1: In addition to Brady is not running. He is not
- 34:03Speaker 1: Rex Ryan. People on Twitter that want to start comparing him.
- 34:06Speaker 3: To Rex Ryan.
- 34:09Speaker 1: I really think that you guys don't understand what a
- 34:12Speaker 1: player's coach is and what a player's coach means. A
- 34:14Speaker 1: player's coach is the opposite of Tom Coughlin. It's the
- 34:18Speaker 1: opposite of McDermott. A player's coach is somebody that empowers
- 34:22Speaker 1: the players to do their job And I'm not going
- 34:25Speaker 1: to micromanage you. What that means is that you have
- 34:27Speaker 1: your assignment. I've told you what I expect from you.
- 34:30Speaker 1: I told you what I need from you. And I'm
- 34:32Speaker 1: going to let you go out there and do it.
- 34:33Speaker 1: If you don't, I'm going to pull you. Or whatever
- 34:35Speaker 1: the case may be. But I've got your back when
- 34:37Speaker 1: it comes to, not small shit, but like the little shit.
- 34:41Speaker 1: Joe Brady's not worried about the little shit. He's worried
- 34:43Speaker 1: about how he can put up fucking 40 points on
- 34:45Speaker 1: a defense. He's worried, but he empowers Jim Letter to
- 34:48Speaker 1: do his job. He's not micromanaging every little thing. They
- 34:51Speaker 1: used to say conflict. set all the clocks, the giants
- 34:54Speaker 1: five minutes early. And if you were five minutes late,
- 34:57Speaker 1: or I mean, if you were on time, you were late.
- 34:59Speaker 1: Like I, I get all that and there's merit to
- 35:01Speaker 1: some of that. Obviously they want a Superbowl and stuff,
- 35:03Speaker 1: but it also wore on the players. And by the
- 35:06Speaker 1: time that he was done in New York, they were
- 35:08Speaker 1: sick of him. He was an asshole and they couldn't
- 35:10Speaker 1: stand him anymore. So there's a balance. Life was a lot,
- 35:13Speaker 1: a lot about balance. And I think that some of
- 35:15Speaker 1: the people that are calling and saying that, you know,
- 35:17Speaker 1: that Brady is a, is, is just a, he's a,
- 35:20Speaker 1: He's an enabler. I just couldn't, I couldn't disagree more.
- 35:24Speaker 1: And I don't think that we've had enough recent experience
- 35:27Speaker 1: with players. He's a players coach. He's not throwing his
- 35:30Speaker 1: guys under the bus to the media. He's not going
- 35:31Speaker 1: to talk shit to us in the, you know, to
- 35:34Speaker 1: the fans about his players. All of that type of
- 35:36Speaker 1: stuff is going to be kept in house. He could
- 35:37Speaker 1: have had a really stern message for CJ. He could
- 35:40Speaker 1: have put CJ on final warning. He's not going to
- 35:42Speaker 1: say that to us. He's going to come out to
- 35:44Speaker 1: the media and say, I got his back. He made
- 35:46Speaker 1: a mistake. He fucked up. That's what, and players do.
- 35:49Speaker 1: appreciate players, coaches like they do. They appreciate the Tomlins.
- 35:52Speaker 1: They appreciate the Dungys. I know that it's a, there's,
- 35:54Speaker 1: there's two ways to get the skin of cat. There's
- 35:57Speaker 1: more than one way. And I think that people should
- 35:59Speaker 1: just back off a little bit. He's not Rex Ryan
- 36:01Speaker 1: because he didn't fire CJ, GJ. Like it's, I think
- 36:04Speaker 1: you guys are just going a little bit too.
- 36:06Speaker 2: Far, especially in the NFL.
- 36:08Speaker 4: You know, it's, it's he's knows around it being a
- 36:12Speaker 4: younger guy.
- 36:12Speaker 2: Like these guys don't want to get talked down to it.
- 36:15Speaker 4: They know the standard, they know, you know, what it,
- 36:17Speaker 4: what it takes to, to make a living in this
- 36:20Speaker 4: league that a lot of people don't last long in
- 36:22Speaker 4: and a very small percentage of the population even can
- 36:25Speaker 4: sniff an opportunity for. So it's not about that. The
- 36:29Speaker 4: defense needs something, though, right? And you can be a
- 36:32Speaker 4: good defense and make stops. You can be a good
- 36:35Speaker 4: defense and be mean. You can be a good defense
- 36:37Speaker 4: and be both. Right now, we're not either, right? So
- 36:42Speaker 4: I'm hoping like a little, you can't spit on people
- 36:45Speaker 4: and get kicked out of the game and cause penalties,
- 36:47Speaker 4: but we need some bite in this defense because we're
- 36:49Speaker 4: not making stops. So let's try being a little mean
- 36:52Speaker 4: and try that tactic because we need something, whether some
- 36:55Speaker 4: stops or some meanness. We're not getting both. We don't
- 36:57Speaker 4: have either right now.
- 36:59Speaker 2: Give me something. He's going at Brock Bowers right there.
- 37:02Speaker 2: And I'm not.
- 37:03Speaker 4: Defending him, but he's going after Brock Bowers. Their best player,
- 37:06Speaker 4: their only chance to really make this anything, you know,
- 37:09Speaker 4: against us until Kurt did what he did. But he's
- 37:12Speaker 4: going at Brock Bowers intentionally, like to throw him off.
- 37:16Speaker 4: I think spitting obviously got out of hand and he spit.
- 37:20Speaker 2: He said, oh, I'm done then.
- 37:21Speaker 4: But his intention was to go at 89 to try
- 37:24Speaker 4: to give some sort of bite to this defense. He
- 37:26Speaker 4: obviously went way over. but we don't have any of it.
- 37:29Speaker 4: So give me something defense. I'm down with you, man. I, I,
- 37:33Speaker 4: I'm down with you.
- 37:34Speaker 3: I understand.
- 37:34Speaker 1: Again, like I said, we, we do not condone here
- 37:37Speaker 1: at nickel city crew official statements spitting on other individuals.
- 37:40Speaker 3: That is Bush league for sure. But I didn't think
- 37:42Speaker 3: you need to be fired for it. Now, as we
- 37:44Speaker 3: wrap up before we get to the tailgate report, DT. Okay.
- 37:48Speaker 1: Tomorrow we get a chance to relax a little bit.
- 37:51Speaker 1: We've got the bi-week again. I talked about how I
- 37:53Speaker 1: thought that the bi-week is about self-scouting looking around the league, DT.
- 37:56Speaker 1: Chicago did us a solid on Thursday night, beating the Patriots. Now,
- 38:00Speaker 1: you know, all the trolls want to say, well, they
- 38:02Speaker 1: did what you couldn't do.
- 38:02Speaker 3: That's fine.
- 38:03Speaker 1: We play them twice. You can get, you know, Patriot fans,
- 38:05Speaker 1: you guys can all go kick rocks. Like we'll, we'll
- 38:08Speaker 1: see you again. We'll get a chance to atone for
- 38:10Speaker 1: that game at the new Ralph that we, that we
- 38:12Speaker 1: let loose DT back, back in a good position game
- 38:16Speaker 1: and a half up in the East. We'll see some
- 38:18Speaker 1: good games tomorrow in respects to matchups. But for me,
- 38:22Speaker 1: Thursday was the start to the bye week because of
- 38:24Speaker 1: the fact that obviously it was featuring the Patriots. And
- 38:27Speaker 1: to me, DT, our bye week couldn't have got off
- 38:29Speaker 1: to a smoother start. Close game. Could have gone either way.
- 38:33Speaker 1: I understand that it could have gone either way, but
- 38:35Speaker 1: they lost. And I'm happy that they lost because of
- 38:37Speaker 1: the fact that it puts us back up, like.
- 38:38Speaker 3: I said, a game and a half up in the
- 38:40Speaker 3: AFC East. What did I tell everybody?
- 38:44Speaker 1: After the loss, I said, everything is still in front
- 38:47Speaker 1: of us. I am not backing down from that, DT.
- 38:50Speaker 1: Number one seed still available. Everything is there. I understand
- 38:53Speaker 1: the Chiefs are still undefeated. They're going to have a
- 38:55Speaker 1: tough test on Sunday night football against the Seahawks in Seattle.
- 39:02Speaker 1: Everything is still in front of us, including the one seed.
- 39:05Speaker 1: You do play Kansas City head to head as well.
- 39:07Speaker 1: I understand a couple of years ago we beat them
- 39:09Speaker 1: and then it still didn't matter. But that was because
- 39:11Speaker 1: they had a horseshoe stuck right firmly up their ass.
- 39:13Speaker 1: I don't expect that to happen again. DT, everything is there, man.
- 39:18Speaker 1: You look at that. Everything is there. All the goals
- 39:21Speaker 1: that you wanted as a Bills fan, they're all there, man,
- 39:24Speaker 1: including the number one seed. That's me personally. I don't
- 39:26Speaker 1: know how you feel. That's me personally. Everything is right there.
- 39:29Speaker 2: Dude, five and one. Five and one, Rob.
- 39:31Speaker 3: We're right.
- 39:31Speaker 2: We're one loss away from being perfect. That's why I
- 39:33Speaker 2: made the episode. We'll take it.
- 39:34Speaker 4: And it's a situation where we're going to go in
- 39:36Speaker 4: and everything is right in front of us.
- 39:38Speaker 2: We play the Patriots again. We play Baltimore. We play
- 39:41Speaker 2: the Chiefs.
- 39:41Speaker 4: You know, there's down the stretch, big games, we have
- 39:44Speaker 4: the opportunity to take and win and And hopefully we're
- 39:47Speaker 4: going to control our own destiny with that.
- 39:49Speaker 2: But it's all in front of us for sure this week.
- 39:52Speaker 4: Patriots did us a favor. Bears did us a favor.
- 39:55Speaker 4: We roll into since he plays Baltimore. One of those
- 39:57Speaker 4: teams is losing this week. That's a nice little matchup
- 40:00Speaker 4: with Amar being a little maimed coming into us, you know,
- 40:03Speaker 4: going against a big division rival.
- 40:05Speaker 2: The Browns are taking the lead in the AFC North.
- 40:08Speaker 2: Let's go.
- 40:08Speaker 4: Keep beating those teams. And, you know, I don't think
- 40:11Speaker 4: we're going to get much help The Chiefs in the West,
- 40:13Speaker 4: but who knows? Maybe the Broncos can make a late
- 40:16Speaker 4: surge or whatever, but it's all in front of us.
- 40:19Speaker 4: Jacksonville losing was nice as well last week in London.
- 40:22Speaker 4: Let's see if we can double up on that again
- 40:23Speaker 4: this week. Just wrote for all AFC teams to lose
- 40:26Speaker 4: that are anywhere decent, and it'll be a fun Sunday,
- 40:29Speaker 4: I hope for you.
- 40:31Speaker 1: Yeah, no, bye weeks here. You'll start off, you know,
- 40:34Speaker 1: what does DT always say?
- 40:36Speaker 3: Kegs and eggs. You've got the Steelers and the Saints
- 40:39Speaker 3: in Paris. Oh, in Paris?
- 40:40Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, in Paris, a little bit of civil unrest there.
- 40:43Speaker 1: I heard they had to cancel a party at a
- 40:45Speaker 1: bar and stuff like that. The NFL, just again, proving
- 40:47Speaker 1: that all they care about is money. They take away
- 40:49Speaker 1: a home game from New Orleans just to go over
- 40:51Speaker 1: to Paris where they're- Put them in a riot zone.
- 40:53Speaker 1: Where they're rioting, but let's get our money and then
- 40:56Speaker 1: we'll get out. They're greedy bastards, but that's how they work.
- 40:59Speaker 1: So you got the Saints taking on the Steelers in Paris,
- 41:02Speaker 1: so obviously you would root for them. Like DT said,
- 41:04Speaker 1: look for all AFC teams to lose with better records.
- 41:07Speaker 1: The Browns and the Titans- DT already talked about the
- 41:10Speaker 1: Bengals and the Ravens. So I would, I would personally
- 41:12Speaker 1: root for the Bengals because just get the Ravens another
- 41:15Speaker 1: loss before you see they come, excuse me, to Buffalo.
- 41:19Speaker 1: And then you've got Colts and Vikings. Vikings should be,
- 41:21Speaker 1: excuse me, the Colts should be done for the year.
- 41:23Speaker 1: Battle of the bottom of the AFC East got Dolphins
- 41:25Speaker 1: and Jets. That really doesn't matter too, too much. You've
- 41:28Speaker 1: got the Giants battling against, you know, the Texans and
- 41:32Speaker 1: everybody in Texas two and four. And are they coming back?
- 41:35Speaker 1: And no, I don't want to see CJ strategies playing
- 41:37Speaker 1: MVP level and this and that.
- 41:38Speaker 3: They lose this week and you can pretty much kiss
- 41:40Speaker 3: them goodbye. Two and five. That'll probably be it for
- 41:42Speaker 3: their record.
- 41:43Speaker 1: Cause then you've got to almost run the fucking table
- 41:45Speaker 1: to get into the playoffs.
- 41:46Speaker 3: So don't worry about that. Which they did last year
- 41:48Speaker 3: for the giants in that game. Yeah, I know.
- 41:51Speaker 1: I know the Broncos, like you talked about DT, they
- 41:53Speaker 1: play the Cardinals. Cardinals have the upset of the year
- 41:56Speaker 1: so far over the Rams last week. So, you know,
- 41:59Speaker 1: root for them to keep that momentum. And then Sunday
- 42:01Speaker 1: night football, Seattle. Just, I mean, I, I'm ready for
- 42:05Speaker 1: the chiefs to lose. I don't know if it's going
- 42:07Speaker 1: to work out. All I know is that the chiefs
- 42:08Speaker 1: love to run the ball. And I know that Seattle
- 42:10Speaker 1: stops the run and that's all something's got to give.
- 42:13Speaker 1: It's one of those classic matchups where the movable force
- 42:16Speaker 1: meets the.
- 42:19Speaker 2: K9 revenge.
- 42:20Speaker 3: Yes. Yeah.
- 42:21Speaker 1: K9 revenge game. So we'll see how that works in
- 42:24Speaker 1: that respect. Now the nickel city crew tailgate report is always.
- 42:29Speaker 1: And this week again, presented by queen city vintage head
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- 42:39Speaker 1: They are sponsoring our giveaways all season long. We really
- 42:42Speaker 1: do appreciate them. I think we've got another one coming
- 42:44Speaker 1: up for this week as well. I think the DT
- 42:46Speaker 1: is long.
- 42:47Speaker 3: I've got to get DT.
- 42:47Speaker 1: DT's just getting back this week. He's been the wedding
- 42:50Speaker 1: man all over Western New York, down to Manhattan.
- 42:53Speaker 3: I mean, he's doing it.
- 42:54Speaker 1: He's finally back in the saddle, so he'll get those
- 42:57Speaker 1: pictures to me, and that way we You can get
- 43:04Speaker 1: these gifts and give boys out to you guys. It's
- 43:09Speaker 1: been cool for me. Yesterday was my middle King Nate,
- 43:13Speaker 1: his 13th birthday. So now I have two teenagers in
- 43:15Speaker 1: the house. We went to dinner and then he wanted
- 43:18Speaker 1: to go check out the Hornets. He's a big time
- 43:19Speaker 1: Hornets fan. His basketball is like his first love besides
- 43:22Speaker 1: the Buffalo bills, much like me.
- 43:24Speaker 3: He's just like his dad. And we want, he wanted
- 43:26Speaker 3: to go see the Hornets. He loves the Hornets. They
- 43:28Speaker 3: got waxed. The best part of the game was the
- 43:31Speaker 3: halftime show.
- 43:32Speaker 1: Down here in Charlotte was Petey Pablo, who is affectionately
- 43:35Speaker 1: loved in the North Carolina and South Carolina areas. So
- 43:39Speaker 1: he did the halftime show performing his his famous song,
- 43:42Speaker 1: you know, helicopter. And that was the highlight of the show.
- 43:45Speaker 1: They were down 40 in the third quarter. I looked
- 43:48Speaker 1: at Nate at the fourth quarter getting ready to start.
- 43:50Speaker 1: I'm like, son, we got a chance to beat traffic.
- 43:52Speaker 1: We could be responsible and beat traffic. And he was
- 43:54Speaker 1: down with it because they were getting bludgeoned by the
- 43:56Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks last night.
- 43:57Speaker 3: But it was a really great night for me. Had fun.
- 44:00Speaker 3: So that was cool last week.
- 44:01Speaker 1: It was Nate and I, Quincy and his mom, and
- 44:05Speaker 1: we were all just watching the game and enjoying it
- 44:08Speaker 1: last week. But we've got big news at the end
- 44:10Speaker 1: of the show about next week. So you go ahead, DT.
- 44:13Speaker 1: Let me know how did it all end up, man,
- 44:15Speaker 1: because you're finally back in the saddle. 3.30, Linda the
- 44:17Speaker 1: Bachelor pad. You're finally there. How did it go with
- 44:20Speaker 1: Reverend DT running a wedding? I wish I could have
- 44:24Speaker 1: seen that shit.
- 44:25Speaker 2: Well, it was something, man. Quite the honor. Shout out
- 44:29Speaker 2: to the bride and groom, Christian and Hannah. uh, it was,
- 44:32Speaker 2: it was awesome.
- 44:33Speaker 4: And I was with, you know, this, this group of
- 44:35Speaker 4: people really for the, the, my whole wedding jaunt, you know,
- 44:38Speaker 4: it was similar family and friends. And so it was
- 44:41Speaker 4: kind of a month all together. And, and then this
- 44:43Speaker 4: was a great finale, uh, to the whole, uh, to
- 44:47Speaker 4: the whole process. Right. So, uh, first time up there,
- 44:50Speaker 4: I was, you know, I'm never nervous, but, uh, when
- 44:54Speaker 4: the lights are about to come on, the, the, it's, uh,
- 44:57Speaker 4: Get ready to go. Definitely chest was, I had a
- 45:00Speaker 4: little sweat coming down the brow, but we were ready
- 45:02Speaker 4: to go.
- 45:02Speaker 2: I think great execution.
- 45:06Speaker 4: My only critique on myself would be, I forgot to
- 45:09Speaker 4: tell the people to sit down, Rob.
- 45:11Speaker 2: So everyone, the bride comes in, everyone stands up, lights on.
- 45:16Speaker 4: I just get into the thing. I just get into
- 45:18Speaker 4: the ceremony, rip through.
- 45:19Speaker 3: So did they stand the entire time or did they
- 45:21Speaker 3: eventually sit?
- 45:22Speaker 4: So until about, probably about 10, 15, 10 minutes in
- 45:24Speaker 4: or so. And I flip it to the reading. And
- 45:30Speaker 4: to the father of the groom, he comes up. And Miranda, bridesmaid,
- 45:35Speaker 4: sister of the bride, is like, Adam, Adam, tell them
- 45:38Speaker 4: they can sit down.
- 45:39Speaker 2: And I just turned.
- 45:41Speaker 4: Everybody, 200 people, Rob, in this bar just standing up
- 45:46Speaker 4: looking at Rob.
- 45:47Speaker 3: Oh, my goodness. That's awesome.
- 45:49Speaker 2: But that was my only flaw. I got them down
- 45:52Speaker 2: halfway through. We finished strong.
- 45:55Speaker 3: Okay.
- 45:55Speaker 2: Great party. Good time.
- 45:57Speaker 1: Presented them to the state on behalf of me and
- 45:59Speaker 1: the state of New York. And you presented, you know,
- 46:02Speaker 1: did all that.
- 46:02Speaker 2: Did my thing. Signed the marriage license late.
- 46:05Speaker 4: They put a real small line and then they come
- 46:08Speaker 4: at the Reverend at 11 o'clock at the end of
- 46:10Speaker 4: the reception to sign on the small official government document.
- 46:14Speaker 2: Maybe we should have done that a little earlier, but
- 46:17Speaker 2: good weekend.
- 46:18Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 46:19Speaker 4: Overall, shout out to the bride and groom. The wedding
- 46:22Speaker 4: season is done for DT. We can focus on football.
- 46:25Speaker 4: My first weekend in Buffalo in, I think, in months.
- 46:28Speaker 4: So we're vibing out this week. Funny story for Nickel
- 46:32Speaker 4: City crew. I think you'll appreciate this as well, Rob.
- 46:35Speaker 4: Last night, do a little company happy hour. I get invited,
- 46:39Speaker 4: you know, Mr. Enterprise, as I do sometimes, get invited
- 46:42Speaker 4: to the events. And this was right in my backyard,
- 46:46Speaker 4: so they set me up, Rob. You know, I couldn't
- 46:48Speaker 4: say no.
- 46:49Speaker 2: Right on Hurdle.
- 46:50Speaker 4: A little happy hour. Please shout out Sterling. Sterling Tavern.
- 46:53Speaker 4: Nice little spot. They really revamped it.
- 46:56Speaker 3: Nice place.
- 46:56Speaker 2: Hurdle.
- 46:57Speaker 4: Had some food and some drinks there. Then we went
- 47:00Speaker 4: over to the Fright World. The old Kmart where I
- 47:03Speaker 4: live in North Buffalo.
- 47:04Speaker 2: The old Kmart is the Fright World. It's a massive.
- 47:07Speaker 4: It's like five haunted houses inside the old Kmart. Haunted
- 47:12Speaker 4: houses aren't the thing for DT. Let's get that through
- 47:14Speaker 4: Nickel City crew. I wasn't so much scared. Um, you know,
- 47:19Speaker 4: I'm the, I'm the big guy, right? So the, the
- 47:21Speaker 4: ladies in the front behind me are like, Oh, Adam, we're, we're,
- 47:24Speaker 4: we're hanging on to you. And there was a few
- 47:27Speaker 4: jump scares, but we were ready for him. My, my
- 47:30Speaker 4: code in there was elbows up, elbows up. So they
- 47:32Speaker 4: can't get close to the face, you know, just keep
- 47:35Speaker 4: walking through with the elbows up. So I had the
- 47:37Speaker 4: whole crew, but, uh, got, got turned around in one
- 47:40Speaker 4: Rob got turned around real bad in one. There was
- 47:43Speaker 4: chain link fences and strobe lights and, I was wearing
- 47:46Speaker 4: these sunglasses here. I was big X the plug.
- 47:50Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
- 47:51Speaker 4: I had my plug necklace and these sunglasses, and I'm
- 47:55Speaker 4: in the strobes in this chain link. I get all
- 47:58Speaker 4: turned around, get pinned down in there. Kind of panicked.
- 48:03Speaker 2: Couldn't get out. Sweating hot as hell. I'm wearing the jacket.
- 48:08Speaker 4: DT's pinned down. Some zombie jumps out at me. I
- 48:12Speaker 4: grabbed him. I said, you got to get me out
- 48:13Speaker 4: of here, bro.
- 48:15Speaker 2: I was like, he's like, oh, all right, man, all right.
- 48:19Speaker 4: Bounced me out the side door, walked out, walked home.
- 48:23Speaker 3: That was enough for me.
- 48:24Speaker 2: That is funny. Yeah, got turned around in there, Rob.
- 48:28Speaker 2: Couldn't get out. Kind of freaked out. Yeah.
- 48:31Speaker 4: Not about it. So that's how the bye week's starting.
- 48:35Speaker 4: But now you see the quad box behind me. We're
- 48:37Speaker 4: going to be chilling heavy, watching all the games this week.
- 48:40Speaker 4: Real nice to be back in the saddle.
- 48:41Speaker 3: Shout out.
- 48:42Speaker 2: Happy birthday, Nate. Teenager on the block. Let's go.
- 48:45Speaker 3: Two teenagers, man.
- 48:46Speaker 2: You know, Hornets have room for improvement.
- 48:49Speaker 3: But we'll go. Yeah, man. That's good, man. And where
- 48:54Speaker 3: are you headed tonight? I heard you're doing something tonight. Oh, yeah.
- 48:57Speaker 4: Well, Sabres, you know, I haven't been in town, so
- 49:00Speaker 4: meeting up with the team, probably seeing what's good for
- 49:03Speaker 4: the Sabres game first. First game I really– I've been
- 49:07Speaker 4: watching them here and there, but this will be a
- 49:09Speaker 4: cool little Saturday night. Get out and see the city
- 49:11Speaker 4: and see the Sabres.
- 49:12Speaker 3: All right. Sounds good to me.
- 49:14Speaker 1: Special news alert here on the Nickel City Crew Tailgate Report.
- 49:19Speaker 1: It's funny because I've told this story a few times
- 49:23Speaker 1: on the show, but DT and I are, we're like
- 49:26Speaker 1: brothers now. I mean, we, I don't even know what
- 49:28Speaker 1: I would do without him. And he's a part of
- 49:30Speaker 1: my family. My kids call him uncle DT and all
- 49:33Speaker 1: that other good stuff. And like he said, he came
- 49:35Speaker 1: down last year for the Charlotte, a game for the
- 49:38Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers game. We had a great time and he
- 49:40Speaker 1: was with the, with my Kings showing out and doing
- 49:44Speaker 1: his thing.
- 49:44Speaker 3: So I met DT funny. Yes. Delaware. Listen, because isn't
- 49:50Speaker 3: that where queen city vintage is on Delaware, right? Or
- 49:52Speaker 3: right across.
- 49:53Speaker 2: Okay.
- 49:53Speaker 3: Well, that's all same area, Allen street. It's all close.
- 49:57Speaker 3: So I'm on Delaware going on Allen.
- 50:00Speaker 1: And I've told this story before, but yeah, I was
- 50:03Speaker 1: in town for a week, a weekend for the bills game.
- 50:05Speaker 1: I've had season tickets since 2009. This is the first
- 50:09Speaker 1: season that I do not have them. And just standing
- 50:12Speaker 1: at a light, waiting for the light to change so
- 50:14Speaker 1: I can cross over on, you know, and I'm crossing
- 50:18Speaker 1: from Delaware and I'm crossing on to Allen. And I
- 50:21Speaker 1: look to this guy and we start talking and, you know,
- 50:24Speaker 1: we say what's up to each other. And we're just
- 50:26Speaker 1: talking about bills, you know, because that's what you do,
- 50:29Speaker 1: especially if it's bills weekend. You're just talking bills. And
- 50:32Speaker 1: we split, get to a bar, see the guy. Like, oh, man,
- 50:35Speaker 1: what's up, man? Let's get a shot. This and that.
- 50:39Speaker 3: Nope.
- 50:39Speaker 1: Didn't think anything of it at all. Didn't grab his number.
- 50:42Speaker 1: Didn't even, I don't even.
- 50:43Speaker 3: Think I asked.
- 50:43Speaker 1: I don't even think I asked your name. Like I just,
- 50:46Speaker 1: you know, cause that's, that's Bill's mafia. Like that's really
- 50:49Speaker 1: what Bill's mafia is all about, man. You don't need
- 50:51Speaker 1: to know everybody's name. And you listen, man, we're just all,
- 50:54Speaker 1: we're all connected by the bill. So, um, next morning,
- 50:57Speaker 1: get to the tailgate. My normal tailgate spot had never changed.
- 51:01Speaker 1: It's always been California Southwestern right in the grass lights,
- 51:04Speaker 1: right directly in front of the Ralph. You know, you
- 51:06Speaker 1: go down, um, southwestern after you cross california just a
- 51:11Speaker 1: few not even a few clicks and then right there
- 51:13Speaker 1: you make that left and there's got those huge grass
- 51:16Speaker 1: slots right there in front of the stadium so i'm
- 51:17Speaker 1: in the same spot that i'm always in getting out
- 51:20Speaker 1: dt always talks about he takes that ah breath of
- 51:23Speaker 1: fresh air you just i'm like man the bar levy's
- 51:26Speaker 1: right there's no place i'd rather be than right here
- 51:28Speaker 1: right now look to my right no shit it's the
- 51:32Speaker 1: dude from last night at the bar walk over this
- 51:35Speaker 1: and that before you know it man um just a
- 51:39Speaker 1: lifelong friendship.
- 51:40Speaker 3: I don't know what I would do without you, DT.
- 51:42Speaker 1: Shout out to Kenny Wills, one of the best people
- 51:45Speaker 1: that I know you and I both know.
- 51:47Speaker 3: He's a staple at the Bills tailgates.
- 51:50Speaker 1: Shout out to Ben and NK and all that type
- 51:53Speaker 1: of stuff in our corner right there.
- 51:55Speaker 3: But he offered tickets.
- 51:57Speaker 1: I do have to pay for them, but he offered
- 51:59Speaker 1: tickets right there in the club level. I owe DT
- 52:02Speaker 1: a ticket to a game. So, This Friday or Saturday,
- 52:06Speaker 1: still not sure because it's Halloween. So I still might
- 52:08Speaker 1: want to hang out with Princess Adi for her first
- 52:11Speaker 1: Halloween that she can actually go out. But if that
- 52:14Speaker 1: happens on Friday, then on Saturday, I will be coming
- 52:18Speaker 1: up to Buffalo to see the new Ralph for the
- 52:21Speaker 1: first time. And I cannot wait. DT and I will
- 52:23Speaker 1: be in the building. Bills Ravens. I heard from some
- 52:28Speaker 1: reliable sources on Twitter, DT, that this place is so
- 52:31Speaker 1: loud it'll make your head hurt. I don't know if
- 52:34Speaker 1: that's true. You've been there for preseason. I don't know
- 52:36Speaker 1: if you've been there for regular season yet. But DT,
- 52:40Speaker 1: I cannot wait to fucking find out.
- 52:42Speaker 3: I know that.
- 52:42Speaker 1: And I can't wait to see you, brother, whether it's
- 52:44Speaker 1: Friday or Saturday. I can't wait to see you. And
- 52:47Speaker 1: it all comes full circle, man. I had season tickets
- 52:49Speaker 1: from 09 all the way up until last year.
- 52:52Speaker 3: And I'm done. I'm out of the game now. I'm 40.
- 52:54Speaker 1: I'm over 441 now. I'm out of the season ticket
- 52:57Speaker 1: game all the way down here in Charlotte. But I
- 52:59Speaker 1: cannot wait to get up to a game with you
- 53:01Speaker 1: and to see you again. Enjoy the tailgate like we
- 53:04Speaker 1: always did. And enjoy the game, man. I can't wait, man.
- 53:07Speaker 1: It's been a long time since I've seen you last year.
- 53:10Speaker 1: And when I tell you I'm excited, I couldn't be
- 53:13Speaker 1: more excited. And it got me more amped because I
- 53:15Speaker 1: was on the Twitter space earlier this week. And they
- 53:17Speaker 1: were like, Rob, it made my fucking head hurt that game.
- 53:20Speaker 1: I think it was the Chargers game or something like that.
- 53:22Speaker 1: It made our head hurt. So I can't wait to
- 53:24Speaker 1: see what it's all about. I'm excited to see the
- 53:27Speaker 1: new Ralph. But more importantly, I'm excited to see my
- 53:29Speaker 1: friends and my people's. there at the tailgate and, and
- 53:33Speaker 1: to really just, I mean, that's what, that's how, that's, that's.
- 53:35Speaker 3: How I'll be a DT bet. People would always know.
- 53:38Speaker 3: How did you guys meet?
- 53:39Speaker 1: Just walking down the street, talking bills like that is it.
- 53:42Speaker 1: And I can't wait to see you, man. It's going
- 53:44Speaker 1: to be great.
- 53:45Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 53:45Speaker 2: A great story.
- 53:46Speaker 4: That's that's build our brand and, and doesn't even touch
- 53:49Speaker 4: our friendship, Rob.
- 53:49Speaker 2: Love it. And that's, I can't wait. That's, that's awesome.
- 53:53Speaker 4: We're, we're back nickel city crew live on location. I
- 53:57Speaker 4: got some ideas. We'll talk off.
- 53:58Speaker 2: Air about great content.
- 54:01Speaker 4: Um, obviously with our sponsor, you know, with, with, uh,
- 54:04Speaker 4: queen city, they're, they're going to be out and about
- 54:06Speaker 4: with their new tailgate bus, uh, a little, a little
- 54:08Speaker 4: treat teaser here, a little combo, uh, content coming your way,
- 54:12Speaker 4: nickel city crew.
- 54:13Speaker 2: So it's going to be a great day.
- 54:14Speaker 4: Um, I'm, I was scouting the, uh, 10 day radar
- 54:17Speaker 4: and that can change in a, in a blink. I
- 54:19Speaker 4: know Rob, but right now I'm not, I'm not going
- 54:21Speaker 4: to jinx it knocking on wood right here today. But
- 54:24Speaker 4: it's looking like a pure fall ball game next Sunday. Nice,
- 54:28Speaker 4: partly cloudy, partly sunny. Creeping up into the 60s. Your
- 54:32Speaker 4: perfect little fall AFC showdown. Lamar and crew coming to town.
- 54:37Speaker 4: It's going to be a big one. You thought the
- 54:38Speaker 4: Chargers game was loud. This one's going to be louder,
- 54:41Speaker 4: and I can't wait to be in there with you
- 54:43Speaker 4: and Kenny and Christina and the rest 60,000 rest of us.
- 54:48Speaker 2: We're going to pop off. chance to go six and
- 54:50Speaker 2: one with the crew on site. Let's go. That's going
- 54:53Speaker 2: to be lit. That's going to be lit, baby.
- 54:56Speaker 3: I can't wait. I really cannot wait for sure.
- 54:58Speaker 1: So I will, like you said, off air, I'll figure
- 55:01Speaker 1: out and let you know later in the week, how
- 55:02Speaker 1: it works in respects to logistics. It's going to be Friday, Tuesday,
- 55:05Speaker 1: or there's a chance that, um, that I, I go
- 55:08Speaker 1: trick or treating.
- 55:08Speaker 4: You came now to the, to the, uh, spooktacular one time, the,
- 55:12Speaker 4: the DT, uh, spooktacular Halloween party.
- 55:15Speaker 3: Is that what you're doing? You're doing that?
- 55:16Speaker 4: No, I've retired from hosting the spooktacular now, but that
- 55:20Speaker 4: was a, I remember that.
- 55:21Speaker 2: Was a good time. You came in with the nickel city, the,
- 55:23Speaker 2: our first logo.
- 55:25Speaker 3: Yes.
- 55:25Speaker 4: Our first logo, the nickel city crew attired and, uh,
- 55:29Speaker 4: you know, got down at the, Those are in the archives.
- 55:32Speaker 1: People have to pay money for that. That's behind the
- 55:34Speaker 1: paywall to get that episode. I think I was drunk
- 55:36Speaker 1: as fuck for that episode, for sure. I do remember
- 55:38Speaker 1: that back in the day, man. Yeah, it's funny, man.
- 55:41Speaker 1: The mafia means family. And like I said, you know,
- 55:44Speaker 1: priorities change, times change, stuff like that. I stuck it
- 55:46Speaker 1: out with season tickets as long as I could. I've
- 55:49Speaker 1: got four babies, three kings, one princess. That was it.
- 55:52Speaker 1: I went as long as I could once they did PSLs.
- 55:55Speaker 1: And I'm all the way in Charlotte, man. I wasn't
- 55:58Speaker 1: going to make that extra commitment. But I paid my dues,
- 56:01Speaker 1: but I still can't wait to get up there, man,
- 56:02Speaker 1: because I heard the stadium is rocking.
- 56:05Speaker 3: I heard it's loud. I heard it's amazing, and it's beautiful,
- 56:07Speaker 3: and I can't wait to see it.
- 56:09Speaker 1: I miss the Ralph, but it's always good for an upgrade.
- 56:12Speaker 3: And everything I've heard about that palace is that it's wonderful.
- 56:14Speaker 3: You've been there.
- 56:15Speaker 1: I told you that my youngest, King Quincy, went up
- 56:18Speaker 1: for the preseason game against the Panthers.
- 56:19Speaker 3: He loved it.
- 56:20Speaker 1: So I can't wait to just get up there for
- 56:22Speaker 1: a regular season game and to see what it's all about. Bills, Ravens,
- 56:26Speaker 1: 1 o'clock. It's right in our slot, right? What we're
- 56:30Speaker 1: used to and what we're normal and accustomed to. So
- 56:33Speaker 1: I cannot wait. It's the bi-week, Nickel City crew. It's
- 56:36Speaker 1: the bi-week, Bills Mafia. Listen, out there, you've got those
- 56:40Speaker 1: honey-do lists. Get them done this week. Get them done. Like,
- 56:43Speaker 1: whatever your wife, whatever your girl, whatever your significant other,
- 56:46Speaker 1: whatever they want you to do, get it done this
- 56:48Speaker 1: week because I promise you, you're going to be wrapped
- 56:50Speaker 1: up in these Bills. Once this Raven game comes next Sunday,
- 56:54Speaker 1: you're going to be wrapped up for the rest of
- 56:55Speaker 1: the season all the way until Valentine's Day. I promise you.
- 56:58Speaker 1: So Get your honey-do list done. Get to the pumpkin patch.
- 57:01Speaker 1: Go pick apples. Go do whatever you need to do
- 57:03Speaker 1: to make her happy. Do whatever you need to do
- 57:07Speaker 1: because it starts to ramp up DT. We are coming down.
- 57:10Speaker 1: I know it seems crazy to say, but we are starting.
- 57:12Speaker 1: It's time to lock in, as the kids say. It's
- 57:14Speaker 1: time to lock in.
- 57:17Speaker 4: Great time for a bye week. Beautiful week here in
- 57:20Speaker 4: Buffalo weather-wise. Beautiful weekend again. The sun's out. The windows
- 57:23Speaker 4: are open. The vibe is relaxed in the city. It'll
- 57:27Speaker 4: heighten back up into Halloween weekend next week. I mean,
- 57:29Speaker 4: Halloween on a Saturday, big game Sunday. The city's going
- 57:33Speaker 4: to be buzzing.
- 57:35Speaker 2: I can't wait. I can't wait for it.
- 57:36Speaker 4: But, yeah, let's take the next couple days and vibe in.
- 57:39Speaker 4: I haven't been in Buffalo in three months.
- 57:41Speaker 2: I'm chilling. Ball, ball, ball, chill. Let's go.
- 57:45Speaker 1: Yeah, man, listen out there. Enjoy your weekend. Enjoy your
- 57:48Speaker 1: bye week out there, Bills Mafia, Nickel City crew. Um, listen, I,
- 57:53Speaker 1: I guess DT and I will be next time we
- 57:55Speaker 1: see you, we'll be live on location. We're going to
- 57:57Speaker 1: have to figure something out. We'll be live on location.
- 57:59Speaker 1: I can't wait for it out there. Listen, enjoy your weekend.
- 58:03Speaker 1: Spread love. Now, Hey, Oh, shout out to DT over
- 58:06Speaker 1: 300 people on a random Saturday. We never even told
- 58:09Speaker 1: you that we were coming on Saturday until today. We,
- 58:12Speaker 1: we appreciate the love, man. We appreciate out there.
- 58:13Speaker 3: Twitter, Instagram. I see you, uh, Facebook. I see you.
- 58:17Speaker 1: Listen, we appreciate the love. We appreciate the support. Shout
- 58:19Speaker 1: out to my boy Nick Del Novo. His son's birthday
- 58:22Speaker 1: is today. I had Nate's yesterday. Listen, we're ready to go, man.
- 58:26Speaker 1: I am very, very excited. And DT is right. Perfect
- 58:29Speaker 1: time to just decompress because the bills will cover my
- 58:34Speaker 1: emotional state. They'll be in charge of my emotional state
- 58:37Speaker 1: all the way through Valentine's Day based on how these
- 58:41Speaker 1: next couple months go.
- 58:42Speaker 3: So I cannot wait, DT. Enjoy the weekend, DT.
- 58:46Speaker 4: Hey, and Valentine's Day is the bowl this year, so
- 58:48Speaker 4: literally up until that day and win it out and
- 58:51Speaker 4: then cancel the next three because you're coming up to
- 58:53Speaker 4: buff for the parade.
- 58:53Speaker 3: Coming for the parade, yes.
- 58:56Speaker 4: Yeah, it's good to be back. Nice little Saturday edition
- 58:59Speaker 4: of Nickel City Crew. Like clockwork, let's get into the week.
- 59:02Speaker 4: Nice bye week.
- 59:03Speaker 2: Tune up. Get ready to go. Get ready for six
- 59:06Speaker 2: and one.
- 59:06Speaker 3: Yes, let's do it. Out there, spread love, not hate.
- 59:08Speaker 1: These were my bills thoughts said out loud hit them
- 59:12Speaker 1: with a go bills dt.
- 59:15Speaker 4: Good vibe sitting at five and one good vibes bye
- 59:18Speaker 4: week go bills.
- 59:21Speaker 3: Go bills love it i love it go bills