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S3 E34: :13 Redemption · Nickel City Crew Podcast

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The members that you need to know. I put you out here now,
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your family. Where's would you happy? Where else would you welcome into the
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some of your Buffalo bills and NFL content again today, and as always,
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these are my Bill's thoughts set out loud. It's a vibe so ridiculous to
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stow up a sady three with six the show. I can let us spy.
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Where's would you like to be? All right, let's get straight to
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it. I was just talking pre show with my co host and I just
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I'm i am amped up. I mean, I just spoke with my season
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ticket representative and got make sure that all the playoff tickets are ready to go
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for Sunday, and I am I'm amped up today, man, I really
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am excited for everything that's about to come. Joining me this afternoon as always,
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writing Shotgun, my co host Adam dumb Truck Repsick. Check them out
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on Instagram, Twitter at Adam Repsick. Are you p c zyk Ho at
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the Crew DT? What's good? Man? I am? I'm amped man.
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I just called. You know, I'm amped, man. We've been
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talking pre show. I'm ready to go. Go Bills, Man Ill at
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the Crew DT. What's good? Go Bills, Go Bills? What's up?
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Bill's Mafia? Nicol City Rob. We're out here, man. Third
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year in a row, well, fourth year in a row. We've at
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least made it to the divisional and yeah, and the excitement is real and
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and you know, nothing nothing better than them bringing in. It's it's January,
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it's winter, it's playoff football. You know, we got fetus snow
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on the ground. And the vibes here, man, the vibes here.
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We've been here before. But but you're right, feels a little different.
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This week feels a little different. Yeah, it's hitting a little bit different
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for me for sure. And that's why I named the episode the way that
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I did, because I've been thinking a lot about this matchup and and obviously
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you got to get through the wildcard round first, and we'll get to that.
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But just the fact that like, it seemed like as soon as the
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game hit hit Triple Zeros, I was ready to turn the page to Kansas
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City. So I'm really excited to get into it and let's and let's chop
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it up DT. That Wildcard game was a lot of fun, man,
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It was a lot of fun to watch. And I know that you were
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there and and the fans look crazy and and and throwing up the snow looked
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like it was kind of like a little bit of Lebron James vibe at the
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scorer's table and just throwing up the chalk. And it was a lot of
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fun though to watch, and it aesthetically it was really pretty on TV.
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And I know that Terry Pagola, the owner, came out and talked about
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how he thanked the fans and the mafia for for showing up, showing out,
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getting the stadium all cleared out, and then obviously the atmosphere that they
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created. That was a really fun game that that went over Pittsburgh. Man,
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it was it was a lot of fun. Bills win thirty one seventeen
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and it was it was a ball. Yeah. I mean you look talking
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you know, all weekend, the build up them moving the game itself to
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to Monday night and realistically looking outside, like, man, I don't you
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know, they obviously couldn't have played Sunday. We can all agree on that.
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That's not even an argument anymore. But the fact to get that field
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cleared off, and but not the seats, it just wasn't enough time,
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not enough manpower. They had people in there trying to shovel, but they
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couldn't get there. And even you wouldn't need a lot more people, you
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know, to get that whole stadium cleared out. So it was it was
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plus and minus, you know, obviously the cool thing and the snow was
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flying up and down, and I thought there'd be a little less people there.
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I thought we'd be about ten thousand light you know, going into it,
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just because of all the other factors. And you know, it looked
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like it was it was packed to the gills, man, And it was
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packed to the gills. I don't know if that was because you know,
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the snow was in the seats, so those seats are already tight, and
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then the snow kind of made it even tighter, and it looked, you
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know, full. But as you saw the overhead shots, as I'm seeing
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there that you didn't really see snow at all in the stadium. Everybody was
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overing it up, you know, but but there was heavy snow, you
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know, in there, and it got a little unsafe at some points.
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You know, the stairs were slick and people were falling. But you know
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after the touchdowns, when the when the snow was up in the air,
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and like you said, looked like Lebron and Josh Allen, you know,
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channeled his Lebron to get us that dove sunny and every Monday, and that's
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what it's about, making these stories. Another step in the playbook, another
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step in the legacy. We talked about it and beating the Dolphins and winning
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this division, you know, going into a team with Pittsburgh who's pesky and
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tough, but you know we were, we were we're the better team and
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everyone knew that from the start, and we went there and showed it to
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him. So all around great, the whole build up to this game,
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having to wait an extra day and all the bs that came with it,
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but you know, the results were the same no matter when that game was
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thirty one seventeen. We'll take that. We'll take that all day. Rob
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Yeah, absolutely, I mean I was semi nervous when they cut it to
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seven. But some on WGR made a great point that, you know,
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there was never a point where Pittsburgh was driving with the opportunity to tie the
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game. Yeah, they never had the ball. Every time that they scored,
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you know, we got the ball back and obviously they kept scoring.
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And I mean it's funny because that Josh Allen run. I mean, you
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could just add it to the list dt. I mean, he's on Madden
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right behind me. Uh. You know, everybody loves Josh Allen. We've
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got some of the highlights of him jumping over linebackers, him jumping over safeties
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and and just trucking dudes and taking dudes on at the at the you know,
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the goal line. I mean that run, I mean it goes down
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and for everybody that's talking about I mean, I know Pittsburgh fan fans are
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trying to be salty and talking about a fake slide and all this other shit,
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and I'm like, listen, man, that was not a fake slide.
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It was a beautiful play, and I mean it's something that's going to
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go down in history, is one of his best plays. Somebody said that
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they'll play it at his Hall of Fame induction, and they're damn right about
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that because the way that he trucked that one dude was just it was absolutely
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ridiculous. Pittsburgh, that's your all s quarterback. You're bad draft in the
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first round. He was the one that stud in that whole fake slide crap
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you know in college where it was actually a fake slide, and yeah,
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I'm thinking of that too. This was a no flake slide. Rob the
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man. The man shoveled his feet to be able to make a move and
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he did and ran through people good blocking down field? Was it nineteen point
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eight miles an hour? Rob Crats? I mean I like to get a
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bike. You can't get a bike that quick, you know, so at
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two hundred and forty pounds sixty five sixty six coming down at you downhill.
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You know, we saw in two weeks ago in the in the H Division
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championship game, if you will, uh the I forget his name, but
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one of the defensive backs there when on his third and fifteen run just kind
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of stepped out of the way, and they said, made a business decision.
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Yeah, you know, not get you know, ran over you see
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it in the NBA all the time. But somebody comes off the baseline and
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gonna put you on a poster. People get out of the way. And
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you're starting to see that with defensive backs and linebackers. When Josh Allen starts
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coming down the field, baby, oh yeah, that one dude that he
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ran over, I mean that he hit the ground. Number twenty didn't want
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none of that, none of that smoke right after. And it was funny
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to watch it because Number twenty it seemed like he looked and saw twenty three
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go down and was like, nah, fuck that I'm not I'm not even
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gonna be a part of this. And it was really crazy to see it.
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Great run obviously again something that goes into the history books for him on
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his highlight reel, and it was really fun to watch that run. What
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about to sell it? What do you think? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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just just flexing on him. I love it, you know what I
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mean? And I mean and that's him, that's Josh. And it's funny
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because when you talk about that, even that Madden cover behind me is that's
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a you know that epitomizes Josh Allen. You know the fact that he's a
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he's a baller. And it was funny you said last week, and it
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was something when I was listening back to you, like, you know,
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sometimes the horse is going buck, you know, like and that's Josh,
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Like you're you know, that's the micro CAUs above him, you know,
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because of the fact that what was Joe Brady saying, get down, get
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down, And then he said he could hear some people on the you know,
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sideline telling him to slide, and then I was like, I'm not
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gonna slide. He's like, fuck it, Like I'm not sliding, and
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like, I just love the fact that he is authentically him. Josh Allen
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is him. He doesn't he's not fake. I don't do fake I don't
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do you know, any of that type of stuff. I'm not into that
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kind of energy. And he's just he's himself all of the time. He's
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always going to be Josh Allen. And I think that that's something that we
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have to embrace. And we talked about that before with the turnovers and YadA
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YadA YadA, that we've got to take the good with the bad. But
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Josh Allen is authentically Josh Allen, and I can appreciate that because I know
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what my quarterbacks is going to give me. I know what he's going to
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bring to the table. And until he's physically not able to, I expect
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that those type of plays from him for the rest of his career, until
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he's not able to. We've been waiting for this, rob We always knew
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Josh Allen in one seven added in him, you know, added in him,
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and we've been waiting for it. In the early part of his career.
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Was you know, he does he get the blame or does he get
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it because he is so young and he hasn't taken quite over yet and this
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and that, and then now it's like, all right, the legacy is
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yours, Josh. It's kind of up to you, you know, as
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a lot of other things have to happen, but it's up to you.
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And we've been saying it for a couple of weeks back and forth to each
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other. He won't let it happen. He's winning this And that's like the
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type of vibe I think he's he's on, like he's on this time of
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like he knows the NFL, the way it rolls, the ups and the
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downs and the bounces you need and to get Lucky's and we're six and six,
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rattle off all these wins in a row, have the second seed,
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and now we're hosting Kansas City in the divisional round. You know this,
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anybody's taking this in August, this scenario. Anybody's taking this scenario really,
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no matter what you give them in between, you know they're they're taking this.
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So as I saying behind it, and you know, this is part
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of the leg seat. I think he's established enough now where he puts it
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on his shoulders too. He always has, but it's a little different now.
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It's like I have the ability to do this. I'm not gonna let
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us lose. And the thirteen second game is a thirteen second game whatever,
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but it's a it's the second to blow through those doors. And like say,
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you know, like I, we're not even gonna get it to a
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point where the game isn't in my hands. You know, I'm gonna get
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this to a point where we get comfortable enough where the game it doesn't have
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to be out of my hands to be decided. I want to decide it
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with it in my hands by by getting up a lot. And it just
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the way he plays, He's always played good in the wild card, his
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stats, you know, significantly jump up with completion percentage and that look in
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his eye and and everything else. And the divisional had a dad year last
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year, but the previous you know, two divisionals they played in, you
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know, he was great. So that that story of not gonna let it
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happen, it's there. And going back to the game real quick here,
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Rob, what a lot of people you know. Obviously the run was the
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biggest highlight of that thing, and the Khalil secured touchdown took second. But
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that throw, the daltonk and cave from the touchdown, the direct play after
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the fumble recovery, I mean, that's why he is an e leade quarterback
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in the NFL. Rob, Yes, we love we love his rushing,
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yes, everything else, but that throw is why he's won in this league
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because nobody, you know, nobody can make it with that type of power
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Like that was a like frozen rope literally and right in the basket too,
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right in the bread basket, I mean, right, all the extraordinary things
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more than I usually do. I'm used to extraordinary, But now it's in
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nobody else's hands but mine. I won't let it happen. I'm getting this
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team to the Promised Land. Yeah, it was. It was a frozen
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rope and it was. It was lovely to see because of the fact that
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the precision on it and that that is what I love about Josh because that's
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what I think separates him from even Mahomes, who will obviously talk about in
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this episode tonight, but like you know, Lamar Jackson, same thing.
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Lamar is a good thrower, but like Josh, combines the best of both
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worlds because of the fact that he there's nothing that he's deficient and when it
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comes to armstrng, when it comes to putting the ball on the money,
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wherever he needs to put it, he can find a way to get it
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there. And I just I respect that so much because the fact that some
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guys give you one and not the other. And Mahomes is great and he's
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got a lot of offscript stuff that is amazing to watch. And Lamar Jackson
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obviously the human joy Sticks, so we know about all those types of things.
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But it's crazy to see because of the fact that this guy is constantly
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showing his ability in both ways. Like he is he is the true He's
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the true ultimate weapon. I mean he's Captain America, he's Captain Buffalo.
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He is a quarterback that I don't think that there's any play that he can't
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make. And when you have that confidence, I think that it exudes to
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the team. Obviously, it bleeds down to the team on offense and on
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defensive. You heard the guys talking about it even after his run. I
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mean, we've got all the guys given their accounts of it, and it
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was just like Shakira was like, listen, if you've got to deal with
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somebody like that, good luck, you know what I mean. And I
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just feel like that if he's locked in. We heard him say the other
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day that the ball's coming out the best that it's ever come felt coming out
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of his hands. You know. We heard that that one time when he
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was talking, you know, on the sideline right after the you know,
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the Dorsey switched to Joe Brady. It's like, I feel like I'm fucking
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back, Like you know what I mean. It was lovely to see that
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pravado, that confidence, and we talked about that, and it's just a
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situation where I've got so much confidence in this young man coming into Sunday that
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I don't even know what to do with myself. I'm I really really do
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believe in Josh Allen. I think that he could take us to the promised
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life. I mean the will, He's got a will. The the team
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of you know there, it's a pretty good mix on this team of vets
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and and young guys. You know. That's that's kind of been one of
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the one of the things a lot of people don't talk about on this squad
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is you know, between the two you got, you have the experience and
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and the and the hard drive of some Vets on this as well as a
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lot of young talent, up and coming guys, and both of them respond
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to one seven. That's why he's the alpha. That's why he's the the
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grade a dog in this room because the Vets, you know, follow on
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his energy as well as the new guys follow up on his energy. And
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that's something you know, all year we've been kind of seeing young guys stepping
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up and making plays because of Josh Allen and defensively, you know, trying
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to trying to hold up for the for the offense because of Josh Allen and
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and that and that's straight up, man. So the legacy is true.
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We keep talking about it, and you know, we knew how much this
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man could mean of this city. We know how much he already does,
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and you know he has to will this team. There has to be so
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many other things that happen, especially to beat the Chiefs coming up. But
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I'm almost like and a loss for words of like not that I'm not excited,
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not that I'm not excited of the of the wild card win, you
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know, but we all knew that was just kind of a roadblock to this
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matchup, you know. And it's like, not that I don't want to
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talk about it by any means, We'll get into it in your own but
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like it's it's almost like I'm sitting here, eat the appetizer, and I
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don't want to say this game is the the entre. But like I meant,
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you don't have to feel bad about it, man, I've already ready
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to turn the page. You don't have to feel bad about it. As
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soon as the clock said zero, I was thinking about KC. I was
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thinking about the fact that they were coming and we got to talk about it
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because of the fact that you know, it's it's funny because we've been waiting
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for this DT and and That's really what I wanted to get through tonight was
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that we we've been waiting for this, We've been asking for this. And
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we'll talk about the injuries in a moment, and we'll talk about some different
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you know, dynamics of the game. But you know, if you think
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about it, Bill's Mafia, we have asked for this for a long time.
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We have asked for this, really since thirteen seconds the AFC Championship Game.
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I look at that as found money and shout out to the complex numbers
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and Josh Klul the Nickel City Cruise in the building. We appreciate y'all support.
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Listen. I looked at the AFC Championship Game as found money. Okay,
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I didn't expect to be there, and if you're honest with yourself,
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you didn't expect to be there either. Bill's Mafia. And it was a
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situation where it was like, man, we in the casino and if we
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just found you know, I mean a thousand dollars outside of it, like
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let's go in and let's let's gamble, let's see if we can win something.
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And it was cool, and then you know, obviously we've gone through
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it, and you know, we talked at nausea about the coach and the
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coaching decisions and different things like that, kicking the field goals that next year,
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that Divisional round game. DT has left an impression on all of Bill's
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Mafia that has not gone away. And it's a situation where I feel like
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this is an opportunity. It's why I named the episode of the way that
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it did. This is an opportunity to exercise some of those demons in that
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respect, because no, it's not the same in respects to the fact that
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it's not the AFC Championship Game or it's not the super Bowl, but this
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really will take care of a lot of those thirteen second scars because the fact,
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if you remember, Casey didn't win the super Bowl that year, right,
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So like it's a situational like let's get a little bit of payback,
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man, Like we wanted them to come here. We always said that if
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we had an opportunity to have Patrick Mahomes here, that we can affect the
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game as Bill's Mafia, then what do we have? We have COVID where
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we're not able to do that, and there was nobody in the stadium.
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I want a random Tuesday or Wednesday night whatever that makeup game was, and
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it was. It's crazy because I've been waiting for this. I have been
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waiting for an opportunity to get Patrick Mahomes in the building, put them on
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the plane. What do we always say? And now it's like DT,
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We've got it right where we want it. It doesn't matter about their team,
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it doesn't matter about you know that they're not the best passing offense that
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they used to be and Tyreek Hill's gone. I get excited about this game
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because of the fact that this is what I've been waiting for. I don't
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care if not about Kansas City as much as is about us. What are
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we going to do? When are we ready to stand up? We've asked
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for them to come, They're coming, And now I feel like it's time
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to It's time to pay the rent man, like, let's let's go.
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It's time. It's kind of bills are due. We we talked about what
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what's going to lead. You know that we're running out of excuses as an
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organization. You know that the first AFC Championship we weren't ready. Thirteen seconds
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was a miracle thing. Last year was you know, nobody was up who
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knows what the drama was behind it. We'd get out, coach whatever,
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or run a lot of excuses, all those you know, in those years
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of making these excuses, we set a precedent. We need to be home
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in the playoffs, so when Kansas City comes, we can beat them at
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home. And we've never seen it. I've never seen one to five in
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the flesh rob We've never seen one of the best you know, what's going
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to go down as one of the best players in our game in our stadium.
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We've never seen it, you know, And that's something that it builds
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up and the excitement boils over because all the excuses that have happened, we
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set to not have those excuses anymore, and now we got them. So
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we got to stop asking. We gotta stop asking for these things to happen,
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because now we got it. So it's it's time to put up.
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It's time to put up. That's that's straight up, from the last person
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in the mafia in that stadium to the sitting on your couch to Josh Allen
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himself, all of then across the country. This is what we've asked for,
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This is what we needed. As we said, this is what we
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asked for. This is what we needed and now we got it. So
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we got to show up, man, what you're gonna do with it?
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Man? If you listen. And now I'm starting to get those vibes that
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you know, and not in a negative way of any anything like that,
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but like, if we can't beat the now, then win, you know
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what I mean. Like, and that's and I think that that's starting to
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become a little bit fair. Tyreek Hill is gone and all this other type
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of stuff, and Kelsey looks old and YadA YadA, YadA, and and
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the offense has not looked, you know, well for Kansas City this entire
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year. And they've had a tough time with with drops and with receivers and
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you know, and Tony's fucking up and all this other type of stuff that's
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been going on with their team. Listen, if we can't beat them now,
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then when. So it's a situation where I've been looking at it as
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I'm not afraid of Patrick Mahomes anymore. And I told you that after a
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couple of those wins that we had previously that you know, I used to
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call them the boogeyman, and I don't call him the boogeyman anymore. And
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I used to be scared of them, and don't turn off the lights.
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I'm not scared of Patrick Mahomes anymore. Now. I understand and I respect
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his talent, and I understand the fact that he's one of the best quarterbacks
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in the league, if not the best, and I'll give him his flowers
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on that, but I'm not scared of him. I know that seventeen can
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match up with him, and I'm just in the vibe of I've just got
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that energy where I mean, I'm ready to go, man like, if
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we can't beat him now, then I really want a lot of that stuff
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to type, you know, to shut up, Like we'd have to really
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kind of stuff it with a lot of the talk because of the fact that
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you know, there's no more excuses. DT. You're absolutely right, there's
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nothing else to really run to, and in reality, you know, time,
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time doesn't stop kicking, right, Rob, And hopefully we have we
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see a long, long ass more time with Josh Allen and this team and
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whatever the nucleus is that made us successful thus far is. But it's taken
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half of the dude's career to get to what we wanted a whole playoff game
20:07
against the Chiefs, you know, and now you know we got it,
20:11
so the opportunities don't We can't squander these anymore. You know. It's taken
20:15
six seven years to get this. We built from nothing, we built from
20:19
the drought. We've built this consistency, we've built the dominance, and now
20:25
we have to finish the job. And it's taken Josh's half of his career
20:29
to get to this point, one playoff game against the Chiefs at home,
20:33
you know, So like putting that into perspective, it really can't be squandered.
20:37
Like, it takes a lot of things to happen. It takes the
20:41
look, it takes the bounces, it takes this and that, and it
20:44
takes it takes winning. And that's what all there is left to do on
20:48
Sunday, no matter how it goes, no matter what it takes, seven
20:51
years of Josh's Allen's career comes down to this game at six thirty Sunday round.
20:56
Like it it's cliche kind of to say it, but like it's that,
21:00
man, it really is big. It's the biggest game of my life
21:03
in that stadium, absolutely biggest life in that stadium. Absolutely. I think
21:07
this is the biggest game in thirty years, hands down. I was talking
21:10
to a Kansas City fan today, shout out to John Eisman out there in
21:14
Kansas, uh in Missouri, and I mean, this is the biggest game.
21:18
And he was talking, He's lamenting his passing you know game, and
21:21
he's like, I don't know, I'm a little bit nervous about this one.
21:22
Gona have a heart attack and all this other stuff. And I'm like,
21:25
this is the biggest game in thirty years for us, for Bill's Mafia.
21:27
And he was like, yep, they were talking about that that it
21:30
sounds like it's been thirty years. And I'm and that's legit. You know,
21:33
I was five, six, seven and eight for the Super Bowl run.
21:34
So you know, they're all memories, but they're all, you know,
21:37
different memories. And you're even younger than I am, so like,
21:41
this is this is it. I've never you know, been able to experience
21:42
this as an adult. Playoffs, you know, the drought does that.
21:45
You know, the drought was old enough to drive and buy cigarettes and and
21:49
and die for our country, Like, you know, the drought was was
21:52
old, you know, So it's a situation where we've been through a lot,
21:56
and to break the drought was was was glorious. But this is really,
22:00
like Sunday is really what it's about. Like that AFC Championship Game a
22:03
couple of years ago, That's what it's really about. Having an opportunity to
22:06
go and represent your conference in the super Bowl or being very you know,
22:08
very close to it. And I understand that after thirteen seconds. We all
22:11
used to like to say, like I said last week, that we thought
22:15
we were gonna beat Cincinnati, and I understand that that changed after we lost
22:18
to them last year. And maybe everybody doesn't want to feel that way,
22:19
but the whole point is that every year is a new year, and they
22:22
stack on top of each other, which is what you were talking about,
22:25
DT, And I just want to maximize on Josh's prime. He's prime.
22:30
He looks like optimism prime right now. He's ready to go right now.
22:33
So that's why I have that energy of if not now when, because of
22:37
the fact that I think it's all set up for us now. I understand.
22:38
And we'll talk about the injuries here in a moment, because there's you
22:41
know, there's a bunch of them on the defensive side of the football.
22:44
But to me, offense was gonna win us a Super Bowl anyway. DT,
22:47
I'm being honest, like, offense was gonna win us a Super Bowl
22:48
anyway. What do I always talk about passing game and offense and Dorsey and
22:53
the differences between him and day Bowl and then we get go to Joe Brady.
22:57
I always will lean on offense because that's the way that the league is
23:00
going in fantasy football and points points points. So because of that, I'm
23:04
I'm still gonna lean on it, and I'm gonna lean on seventeen because I'm
23:07
leading on seventeen. I just don't I just I just think that we can
23:11
get it done. Man, It's got it, but it's got to start
23:14
right now. On Sunday yesterday, you know, Pittsburgh was the appetis.
23:17
But this this is it. This is where the meal comes out hot and
23:18
ready. Yeah. Yeah. And the league that I talked earlier, the
23:22
seconds don't stop. The league don't stop either. You know, as we
23:26
talked to, the AFC is getting packed. The AFC is getting hard,
23:30
you know, and now the Chiefs look out there in Houston, and I
23:33
mean off off Gate got exactly You've got the Chargers still in the wings.
23:37
You got other teams, you know, building up and getting scary. And
23:41
the Steelers roster, i mean, granted as a darn good roster all over
23:45
the ball. They got younger draft picks, they got people everywhere. They
23:48
just have you know, quarterback. Yeah. And so as much as the
23:52
time, you know, the time doesn't stop, and that the the AFC
23:56
just keeps getting better and the opportunity. It's not just like, Okay,
24:00
we got better than the Chiefs now, so we're good. It's like,
24:03
now other teams are good, you know, so you got to keep rocking.
24:06
Josh Anas Salar, he's gonna hit next year. Like there's so many
24:08
other factors that happen that you know, and we're not. This isn't a
24:12
window episode with the open or anything like that, but it shows it took
24:18
us this long to get this game that we say we needed and we wanted.
24:22
We needed this to win a super Bowl. That's what we say,
24:25
right, that's what we said. Now it's got it. It's took us
24:27
this long to get it. It didn't come as orthodox as we would have
24:30
envisioned it, but it's fucking here, man, and and we can't look
24:34
at anything else other than beating this team, because this team might not be
24:38
our biggest threat next year. You know, we might be like, oh,
24:41
we need to that one. As it turned to we need a home
24:44
game to host the Texans. We need a home game to host the Chargers.
24:47
Who's the next home game? We need to be able to make it
24:49
to the Super Bowl. It's very clear that the Chiefs were the answer this
24:53
whole time. I don't know if they will be in the future, but
24:56
it is still now. It is still now, yeah, and it will
24:59
be Sunday night. A six Yes, ben O four eight one just said
25:03
like why all you know, how come all the quarterbacks coming down in the
25:04
AFC? You know what I mean? It is funny because I mean it's
25:07
looking like it's that conference, and I think that that this this year bore
25:11
out the same way. The NFC was not as strong as the AFC.
25:14
That's why we you know, the AFC is beating each other up because the
25:15
NFC was so garbage, and you know they're picking up their wins on the
25:18
NFC as well. So it's crazy because you're absolutely right. The time does
25:22
not stop. The clock does not stop ticking. And the time is now,
25:25
and I just have that energy about, you know the fact that I
25:27
just feel I feel confident in Josh Allen. I feel confident in the offense
25:30
and the direction that it's going. And because of that, I just feel
25:33
like this is you know, there's no time like the president, like I
25:36
said, Rent is due. It's time to get it paid. So as
25:38
we transition a little bit dt before we get into some of the nuts and
25:42
bolts, you know, it's it's it's it sucks, you know to see
25:47
when guys go down, and like I'm I would be you know, lying
25:49
to be honest if I didn't say that. I was a little bit concerned
25:52
when I saw Torel Bernard go down and how he's been playing and how much
25:56
he stepped up. And then you know, we've got you know, Taron
25:59
Johnson, only All Pro, second team All Pro, goes down and I'm
26:02
not sure if he's gonna be able to get back at six days from a
26:03
concussion. This is a second concussion of the year, mind you, So
26:07
I'm a little bit worried about it. I wanted to know if you can
26:10
talk me off the ledge, if we want to be if we want to
26:15
be fair, we would say that, you know, these are some guys
26:17
that are starting because they're starters, and and sometimes the backups are not as
26:21
good as the starters. That's why they're starting. And then the flip side
26:22
of that coin DT is that you know, Case has not really looked great
26:26
on offense the entire year. They put up some points last week, but
26:30
they have not been a juggernaut. I mean, we held them the seventeen
26:32
in KC in Chiefs Kingdom. So I'm looking at it as is this something
26:37
that we really need to be worried about or is it really just next man
26:40
up? I know that it's Kansas City, it's Patrick Mahomes, so maybe
26:42
it'll be a little bit naive to think that it's next man up. But
26:47
if you know, client's got to play significant minutes, if you know,
26:51
I don't even know, maybe bailin spector can get I don't I don't know
26:52
what the what the plan is on the secondary. If it's just Benford's out,
26:56
then what do we have Cam Lewis and you know some other guys and
26:59
Kyrie them who made a great pick. I mean, is it something to
27:03
worry about or should I just chill or is it all good because Kansas City
27:06
has been ship on offense this year. Well, it's something it's not something
27:10
to worry about till it is right. And that's a bad mentality because you
27:14
don't want to be you know exactly exactly. So you look at the defense
27:19
has been you know, beat up all year long, and not just here
27:23
and there, like all pro players have gone up consistently, but the next
27:27
man up has been up, and you know, the next guys up have
27:30
stepped up, the backups have played out and showed out and played strong,
27:33
and you know, and he goes back to the most recent example of you
27:37
know, a J. Klein coming off Hiss couch to lead the team in
27:40
tackles last year. And but there is you know, to go to your
27:45
concerning point a couple of things. One team and coach. You don't want
27:49
to be strolling out your scrubs if you will is a be read. You
27:55
know, he's gonna find the mismatch. He's gonna find, you know,
27:57
the the where it's bleeding and try to cut that whole open bigger and bigger
28:02
and bigger and just and keep you up. But there's a difference between next
28:07
man up in a second string role to next man up and dudes we haven't
28:11
seen on the field the entire season, you know. And that's where you're
28:14
right, that's where there's some concern in my head too, because you're going
28:18
up against one of the best coaches to Cosmus matches in that regard. And
28:22
it's not like these dudes are just next man up. They're the backups.
28:25
Like you're seeing dudes off the couch. You're seeing dudes that haven't got a
28:27
jersey all year out there getting a lot of minutes. And I I mean,
28:36
yeah, the next man up all year is kind of proven to me
28:38
that they can. But but these dudes haven't yet. And this is the
28:41
biggest stage, you know, so it'd be very you can see it kind
28:45
of go. It's it's a miracle story, great heroic gesture if they come
28:49
out and shut it down because they are, you know, so deep on
28:52
the depth chart, and then on the opposite side of that they don't and
28:56
they get their ass kicked. It's like, oh, it's because you know,
28:57
it's because they're third force. So yeah, there's no middle ground in
29:02
this. It's it's it's heroic or it's or it's you know, it's ggy,
29:07
there are there is room to be concerned. There is room to be
29:10
concerned. But at this point you got to lead on that positivity of this
29:14
team's been beat up all year on defense and McDermott's called great defense and held
29:18
strong and beat really good offensive teams with a with a backup, you know,
29:22
beat up defense. So you hope that trend continues, but this is
29:26
going to be the hardest test to do that. Yeah, I mean shout
29:29
out again the spin off four eight one. I mean, he speaks on
29:32
it just like you said that. Yeah, McDermott, you have to give
29:33
him flowers and I put it in my notes. He stole my notes that
29:37
you know, McDermott has kind of been the patchwork. He's been the band
29:40
aid of this defense all year long with his uh, his schemes and the
29:42
way that he's been approaching it, and he's been able to really cover up
29:47
deficiencies for this defense. So because of that, you know, you have
29:49
to have some faith in the in the man, because of the fact that
29:52
he's shown it all year. So it's not just one game or two game.
29:55
And we lost Milana way back in London and and and day day that
29:57
same day as well. So it's been a situation should where he's been kind
30:00
of with the patchwork. He's done this before, and I think it's encouraging
30:06
to be honest, that Kyrie Elam had that pick. And I'll explain it
30:08
because the fact that he did that in a playoff game after sitting so long,
30:12
I thought that that just spoke to not only McDermott, but it spoke
30:15
to the character of the player because listen, I've been I've been buried on
30:19
the bench, I've been made fun of. During the trade deadline, you
30:22
guys were talking about should should I leave it? Should you guys trade me
30:26
for a future asset? And I feel like the fact that he got that
30:29
pick has to do nothing but build his confidence. And because of that,
30:33
I mean that has to bowl well on Sunday night. Correct, Like,
30:36
if this guy is thrust in the competition because Benford can't play, that doesn't
30:40
hurt that Kyrie Elam just got a sniff of some playoff success in a critical
30:45
moment right there on the goal line in a hell of a pick by the
30:47
way to stay in bounds, and he really read that route for the wide
30:51
receiver. So it's it's a situation where I have to have faith in McDermott
30:55
at this point in time because he has shown it all year long that despite
30:57
the injuries, he's a will still feel the not even a competent defense,
31:02
he's able to feel the great defense to this point. Yeah, I mean,
31:06
kay, you're elam especially he was a laughing stock was you know in
31:11
London, got all cut up and really never got on the field again.
31:15
And it started this game. He got he got ran over straight up and
31:22
then you know a horrible pass interference you know where he just got straight up
31:26
beat and just jumped on the guy so he didn't get buy him for a
31:30
touchdown. And then on that same drive two plays later comes up with a
31:33
great pick and then almost had an outstanding pick in the second half that would
31:37
have been even a crazier pick if he he got his feet down. He
31:40
was so focused on that. You know he didn't. He didn't catch the
31:41
ball. So yeah, the confidence is huge. I mean where else would
31:47
you have gained confidence rather than in that situation, especially after the start he
31:51
had where it was like oh same old Kyrieland. This is why he's not
31:53
on the team. This why he doesn't get a jersey every week and then
31:56
he comes out and pumps that up. And you got to give Sean mcdermock
32:00
credit for getting ready to do that. So the confidence there. Hopefully Rasoul
32:04
Douglas gets back everything else involved on that defense side of the ball. But
32:08
you know there's still the nucleus there. The veteran leadership is still there and
32:12
healthy on this team. Granted Trey White, mattvill excuse me, Matt mlono,
32:16
but the but the new cleast and heart is still there. Michael Hyde,
32:21
Jordan Poyer right there, rightep, yep, healthy, absolutely go.
32:25
So you know you got to build that confidence from the back up and especially
32:30
with these younger DB's coming in there and letting them know yet you can do
32:31
this, you can guard you know these scrubs that that Kansas City has on
32:36
the as wide receivers. Yeah, we'll see as we continue to transition.
32:40
Curtis wants to notice Shaki balling out put Gabe Davis on notice for next season,
32:45
trade to pick for him and help with the cap space. I don't
32:47
know, to be honest, Curtis, that's a great question. You know,
32:52
I think that shakiir is a little bit different. I think what Shaki
32:53
has done to answer your question directly is that he has proved to be everything
32:59
that Kolbe's athletically could not be. I mean that that touchdown run that he
33:02
made DT was a situation where I mean, I saw him do it in
33:06
college. I just saw a replay on Twitter that he did the same thing
33:07
at college at Boise State. I think, Curtis, you have found your
33:12
slot receiver of the future in Khalishakir, And I think that you have confidence
33:16
in saying that DT because of the fact that he is way more athletic than
33:20
Beasley ever was. And I think he's going to provide a dynamic for the
33:23
team going forward where listen, he's on his rookie deal and then he might
33:27
be a situation where you want to resign this guy at the end of it
33:29
if he continues his trajectory. Because of the fact that he's good and we
33:32
liked him when we was drafted. He barely played last year, so we
33:37
didn't really make any indictments on him or any type of judgments on him.
33:39
But I mean, that's your that's your that's your wide receiver. Slop,
33:43
your slop receiver. That's your wide receiver. Three. I don't think he
33:45
plays on the outside boundary like Gabe. But this dude, this dude can
33:47
get it done. He's easily but way better, way, way more efficent
33:52
this year, to be honest. But when he caught the ball, it
33:57
was fifteen yards and every time, every time time, the dude is twelve
34:00
to fifteen yards and he's electric and he catches everything and it's right there.
34:05
And we need him to have more opportunities. We need him to have more
34:07
opportunities, and him making highlight reels like this is just gonna help that cause.
34:12
But I agree, I think it's different from Dave Davis. Here's a
34:15
question, Rob, Let's you know, kind of reverse that of if you're
34:17
another team. Okay, if you're another team and you had a chance to
34:22
get Dave Davis, I feel like it's a it's a steal for another team.
34:27
Like yes, he we were a little spoiled as Bills fans because we've
34:30
seen him score four touchdowns in a game and then we see him go you
34:34
know, we've seen him drop completely off as well as the do nothing,
34:37
you know, back and forth. So we're the general consensus of it's not
34:40
good enough. But another team coming in a guy who plays second fiddle and
34:45
can have one hundred and fifty and eight catches and a touchdown for you,
34:47
you're probably happy to have him. So yeah, Granted, I love Kalushakir.
34:52
I don't think he's gonna be on the outside broundary. Like you said,
34:54
it's different positions. It's a new age, new in. But before
34:59
we get too hot on kicking Jay Davis out the door, the police thinks
35:02
about him. You know, I feel like teams will be jumping to get
35:06
a young receiver like Dave Davis. Granted, he says up down. Did
35:09
you give him a contract? Though? You be more consistent? Do you
35:13
give him a contract? Gotta pay him? Yeah? I mean, so
35:16
is he if he's not taking a hometown discount. I don't. I don't
35:21
know if I can go with you on that one. That's more convers What
35:23
type of confidence you have, What type of the confidence you have for somebody
35:28
to replace him? You know what I bring. We don't go after DeAndre
35:30
Hopkins, we don't go after Odell Beckham. We bring in Trent Sherfield,
35:34
who had didn't even know he was on the team. Until last week.
35:39
True, No, I mean that that's all valid and and and you know
35:43
it's a situation where I'm I would have to lean on Brandon Bean to be
35:46
honest, I'd have to lean on Brandon Bean to you know, to draft
35:49
somebody. We need to go wide receiver in round one in my opinion,
35:52
regardless of how this season turns out, and continue to add to the cupboard
35:54
because again, what we talked about the job, you know that the clock
35:58
doesn't stop ticking it, Josh Allen and different things like that, surrounding move
36:01
with weapons, and we still, you know, we still are in a
36:04
situation where, you know, we we need more weapons. We always need
36:07
more weapons. I want us to be flush with weapons, so I never
36:10
want us to be complacent with that. So that's more of a conversation for
36:14
the offseason. But I do appreciate the question, Curtis, because it's interesting.
36:16
I don't think that that Shaker, anything he's doing on the field's gonna
36:20
bump Dave gave us or or take his money away if the Bills decide to
36:23
give it to him. I just I don't know if I give it to
36:24
He's a great, great blocker, great teammate, he's respected in the locker
36:30
room. Can you quantify that and how much money does that cost? Because
36:34
there are there are too many zero games for me person that's me personally.
36:37
Now, maybe that's a structure of the offense or or Joe Brady as difference
36:40
to Ken Dorsey, but he was he was having some over games with both
36:45
coordinators, to be honest, DT, So you know, I don't really
36:49
know where to lay that and how much money that's worth in the end now
36:52
as we transition, uh DT, I'm it's funny because I've been waiting for
36:59
this game so long and I'm wondering about like Cadence, I've been thinking a
37:02
lot about you know, you know my King Nate in my middle King,
37:06
he's you know, he plays quarterback now and he's in his little seven o
37:07
seven Elite league and he's learning coverages and different things like that Bill's Mafia.
37:15
The Cadence can be affected by you on Sunday night and let me because it's
37:20
not even just it's not just third down and it's not even just when they're
37:23
in the actual coming out and they're you know, at the line of scrimmage.
37:28
But I heard, you know, Ross Tucker talking about yesterday on WGR
37:30
that you know, it's when they're in the huddle and if they can't hear,
37:34
you know, it makes it difficult. I just I call them Bill's
37:37
Mafia to stand the fuck up on Sunday night and just be in a situation
37:40
where you've got a full throttle. I joked with you pre show, DT,
37:44
I might just drink you know, tea all morning long with you know,
37:47
and maybe smike it a little bit. And I'll just drink some tea
37:50
and be ready to go because I'm gonna give it everything that I've got.
37:52
I mean, drive six hundred and fifty miles. I drive thirteen hundred miles
37:55
round trip. Season ticket holders since I'm since two thousand and nine, Like
37:59
this is the game I've been waiting for, Like this is the whole reason
38:02
why I have season tickets. It was for an opportunity to follow my team.
38:06
Why did I want season tickets way back then? Because I missed the
38:08
Bills after moving down to Charlotte, and then after that, I wanted to
38:13
say that I was on the ride DT. I wanted to say that in
38:16
twenty twenty one, when the Bills won the Super Bowl, I was on
38:20
the ride or twenty twenty three or twenty twenty four. I wanted to just
38:23
be able to say that I was a part of the number I was in
38:27
the building. How many people came to the you know, to the comeback
38:30
game. Steve Tasker always jokes that there was one hundred and fifty thousand you
38:32
know, Bills fans therapy if he let them tell it, you know,
38:35
after people left the stadium that they came back, you know, and everybody
38:37
told them I was there. I was there, and you know, half
38:39
of them were lying about it. I wanted to be able to say that
38:42
I was on the ride and I'm going to give it everything that I've got
38:45
from the moment that he steps on the field until he goes on the sideline.
38:49
I'm not gonna let up. And learning a little bit more about quarterback
38:52
play. It's not just when they're at the line of scrimmage. It's about
38:55
when they're in that damn huddle too, because if it's hard to hear and
38:58
what did you say, I mean saying damn plays dt like fourteen you know
39:01
words long and zebra this and next, why you know, like let's let's
39:05
let's suck up their whole everything, and and and that's what the twelfth Man's
39:08
all about, Nicol City, Bill's mafia. If that don't get you pumped,
39:13
track there, fifty miles, thirteen hundred round, Yeah, let's go.
39:19
And you coming up and you're gonna give it, you're all we all
39:21
as well better give it our goddamn all. Let's go. You know.
39:23
That's that's straight up. We've asked for this. It's not online, you
39:27
know, Sean McDermott, Josh Allen defense, whatever it is, it's not
39:30
on them. It's on us too. It's on us. We we fight
39:34
for this pride, for this twelfth Man, and and let's go earn it.
39:37
Let's play our one twelfth if you will. Let's do our job Sunday,
39:39
if you will, and go out there and give it everything that pumped
39:44
me up, Rob You're right. If that don't do this has to be
39:46
our best performance too. This has to be everything. You've got the season
39:50
ticket over wherever long, however, however long you've been in there, however
39:53
many times, however, I don't care if you come you're coming to the
39:55
first time, I don't care if you're coming for the first time. Yes,
39:59
cheer like you've never cheered before. Get up exactly, give it everything.
40:04
Sound. I love that. I love that fully, fully endorse that.
40:09
I appreciate the endorsement. I mean, it's it's funny because just I've
40:13
just been thinking about that, and like I said, it was tough once
40:15
the game went zero's. Like I said, the only time I was nervous
40:17
was for a half second when that one dude winning the end zone. It
40:21
was twenty four to seventeen, and I was like, uh, let's you
40:23
know, uh, you know, whatever the case may be. And then
40:24
we scored right afterwards and put the game away. But it's like, this
40:28
is it, Like this is the time to do it. And because of
40:30
that, I turned the page like that to Kansas City. I was ready
40:34
to think about them right away. I was ready to think about the matchup.
40:37
I was, I mean, this is everything that we've wanted because of
40:38
the fact that they are coming here. Patrick mahone. It was funny because
40:43
Patrick Mahomes has to get on a plane and we've talked about it so many
40:45
times DT, and you made me laugh, Like hell last week when you
40:47
were like, man, I'll have to go outside the hotel and bang pots
40:51
and stuff like that and pans, And it was so funny because I was
40:53
watching all the coverage leading up to the Steelers game and all the reporters on
40:58
site, and they're downtown on Main Street and they're right by Chad's and they're
41:00
all giving the little reports because it was the travel band on and it was
41:04
funny because I was thinking about, man, like where is their hotel going
41:07
to be? If we win, you know what I mean today against Picksburgh,
41:09
Like where's the hotel gonna be? And you know, thinking about the
41:13
Jordan flu game and like damn, like you know what I mean, Like
41:15
this, let's send this, do some pizza or some fucked up wings or
41:19
something like, let's do something new affect it. And you know, obviously
41:22
it's tongue in cheek and it's all fun and games, but the whole point
41:24
remains the same that I don't want this to be a pleasant trip for this
41:29
dude, like straight up, like I don't want this to be some type
41:31
of pleasant trip. I don't want this to be some type of cool and
41:35
all we'll go, We'll head out to anchor bar or we're ordering some anchor
41:37
bar or something like that or they're ordering some duffs like no, man,
41:40
Like, I don't want this to be some cool little novelty trip. I
41:43
want this to be pain all day, like I wanted to be pain And
41:47
I'm gonna just do my part DT. I'm gonna do the best I can
41:50
to do my partner. You and I were getting ready to get to the
41:52
Nicol City Crew tailgate report, but like, I just want it to be
41:57
so amp and and spin on. Four eighty one hits against this crowd would
42:00
probably be the loudest it has ever been. And I don't I I thought
42:04
about that Josh Allen run and I was listening to the crowd DT, and
42:07
I'm like, oh, it's gonna be way louder than that next week,
42:08
you know, Like it's gonna be way louder than that. It's gonna be
42:12
full throttle. I feel like everybody wants to exercise those demons of thirteen seconds.
42:16
And this chief seems never seen the mafia. Man, this chief seems
42:20
never seen the Mafia. And then so to come in and see it for
42:22
the first time and then see it at literally its highest level in our lifetime,
42:25
we've been those hands our entire li likes. And this is gonna be
42:29
the biggest, the loudest, the biggest, rowdiest, you know, mafia
42:31
game that's ever been. And that's that's their first into it. That's there,
42:36
that's their I like that. Easy buckets. Make this, make this
42:39
trip hell from one to five in the boys, Yeah, I want to
42:43
make it hell. Every time you see that man on the field, Yell.
42:45
If you see Taylor Swift, you know, yell, if you you
42:49
know she'll she'll be in a box. I'm sure she's not gonna be like
42:52
Ryan Fitzpatrick chilling under those red heating likes. She's definitely gonna be in a
42:55
box. But but just make him feel feel's mafia. Stand up, be
42:59
proud. We are proud, face and base. We're a good fan based
43:00
again, rest in peace to Dylan Brody. Isaac's again. We don't we
43:05
don't do any of that crazy stuff. And you know he lost his life
43:07
going down to Miami and that was a horrible thing. You know, we're
43:09
we're good fans. We're not like Philly fans. And you know, I
43:13
heard, you know something that made my you know, stomach kurdle when I
43:15
heard about the Chicago Bulls and the Chicago Bulls fans like food Jerry Krause's widow
43:21
while she was on the field on the court when they were doing a homage
43:24
to the ninety five ninety six Bulls tail houses like I just put it on
43:28
tw it and I'm like, okay, Chicago, you guys officially are the
43:30
worst fan, right you guys you took the mantle from Philly or whoever else,
43:32
Like those are chivy fans. Like no, like Bhil's mafia, We're
43:36
great fans. We tailgate well, we support each other. And it's a
43:39
situation where I just think, like it should be, this should be a
43:42
culmination for us. I was so happy that Terry Pigula. Terry did like
43:45
acknowledge that acknowledge the atmosphere from the other night, But like this is this
43:50
should be where we This is where you you puff out your chest, this
43:52
is where you we are Bill's Mafia, all that type of stuff that we
43:55
taught. We had Dell read on the godfather of of Bill's Mafia, and
43:59
like all of those types of things, I think ring true. It all
44:01
comes together in one big conglomerate on Sunday night where we all get a chance
44:06
to puff out of our chests as Bill's Mafia, whether you're in the stadium
44:08
or whether you're all across the country or the world. I think that this
44:13
is a chance for us to stand up and have your chest out. I
44:15
really do. Let's go. Let's go now. As always, as we
44:21
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44:39
I mean we talk pre show. I can't. I've not had an opportunity
44:44
to come up as many games as I wanted to this year. Ended up
44:46
selling back a lot of the tickets. Just life and I told you about
44:50
how things were just rough for me down here and listen. I mean,
44:53
I can't miss it, DT, I won't miss it. I've already got
44:57
everything clear. I found a way to find somebody to help me co my
45:00
kings Is basketball games on on Saturday, DT. I'm I'm leaving in the
45:04
morning. DT. I've got to get to you, baby boy. I've
45:07
got to get to you. I can't. There's nothing else I can do.
45:08
Man, I'm getting ready to buy a turkey tonight. I'll put it
45:12
in the fridge, stuff to let it throw out, Okay, put it,
45:14
put it in the truck on the way up. It'll be plenty cold
45:16
to keep it cool on the way up to Buff. But I plan on
45:20
hitting the road by no later than eight am on Saturday, man, and
45:22
I should be in Buff by five o'clock before the sun really goes down.
45:25
DT. I can't. I can't. I can't miss it. I can't.
45:29
There's there's no way I can't miss it. I can'tn't expect you won't
45:32
expect you to And I'll take you with open arms. You know what we
45:36
gotta do Saturday. We'll make it happen. We'll get we'll get prep,
45:38
we'll get ready to go. And yeah, I feel like it's been a
45:42
that type of not a down year, you know, just a year of
45:45
life, you know, with with with all our main crew, you know,
45:47
with all our main crew, we obviously with everybody that it hasn't been
45:52
a consecutive in and out, but I'll tell you Sunday it's gonna be.
45:57
It's gonna be everybody, everyone's gonna be on. I talked to the Talk
46:00
to the Syracuse, my Syracuse boys, my old you know boy out Morgan.
46:06
They're getting ready and they couldn't make it last week with the with the
46:09
weather and the in and out, and I came late because I had the
46:13
work on Monday, and it was all Now it all comes to a head.
46:15
Let's make up for everything that we kind of have lost this year,
46:19
if you will, and come come out swinging, baby, come out swinging
46:22
Sunday. I love it. I love it. Twenty twenty four. It's
46:24
a new year. We shake off all the all the bullshit in twenty twenty
46:29
three. And there was no way that I could miss this game. There
46:30
was no way that I was not going to be anywhere other than right in
46:32
my section. I got in contact with my season ticket ladies, Section one
46:37
O four stand up. Josh Klue, my first lieutenant out there man wrote
46:39
twenty four seats fourteen fifteen, Like I have to be there. She called
46:44
me back. She was like, we got your seats, You're good to
46:45
go, and like I just I've got to be there. There's no way
46:49
that I could miss the game. I've been thinking about it ever since.
46:52
Like I said, the clock hit triple zeros on Sunday against Pittsburgh. So
46:55
I'm really enjoying it. I'm really getting ready for atmosphere that that is even
47:00
more electric than last week, and last week was really fun. I hope
47:04
that they, you know, we get some help. Bill's BOFFI, if
47:06
you have an opportunity, once the travel vands are lifted, let's dig out
47:08
the stadium again. I guess we've got to dig it out again, I
47:12
guess, but at least we get a couple of weeks to do that,
47:15
a couple of days excuse me to do that, and it should be ready
47:17
to go for Sunday night. But dt I mean, I say we get
47:21
out there nice and early as always, and I'll have the I'll have the
47:22
turkey, Frire, I'll have the oil and I'll have the turkey. We'll
47:25
shoot that bird up like Barry Bond Saturday night. I love it. I
47:30
love it. What do we think we tease a little uh tease, a
47:32
little tailgate touch to the to the proof we have at the tailgate. We
47:37
should it's only fitting. It's only fitting, DT and I will join you
47:43
just like we are right now. We're gonna find a way to get it
47:45
done. YouTube live or or Twitter live, we're both. We'll figure out
47:49
Justice General. Salute to the General. He'll he'll direct us on how to
47:52
get that done. And again we we appreciate him. So yes, we
47:54
will definitely come live from the tailgate. There's no other way that we could
47:58
do a DT. I mean, you have, right, what a great
48:00
idea. So we'll come to you live from the tailgate. I would assume
48:04
that we'll be out there nice and early and we'll have some content for you
48:07
because you're absolutely right. I think the whole the whole crew is going to
48:09
be there. I think the whole crew should be there, and it should
48:13
be a blast. Man, it really should be a blast. Let's go
48:15
nothing luck to it, bro nothing left to it, nothing left to it,
48:20
to do it as always spread love not Hey. These were my bills,
48:23
thoughts said out loud. Hit them with they go bills, DT,
48:28
one final time before I see you on Saturday, Man, go go bills,
48:31
Go Bills Championship. Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it.
48:36
Give it to me let's do it.