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S3 E33: Never A Doubt · Nickel City Crew Podcast

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  Fifteen de crazy. You can see you breath out in the lake effect,
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  Breacon tables that getar wo Tree, Where's would you have to be? And
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  do Ron Elvis in the lay Panchow remembers that you need to know I don't
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  you out in now? Your family? Where's would you have to be?
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  Where's would you have be? Welcome into the Nickel City Crew. I am
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  your host, Rob Crippen. Please like us on Facebook and follow us on
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  Instagram and Twitter at nicol City Crew. This episode, along with all of
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  We're so glad that you're joining us for some of your Buffalo Bills and
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  NFL content again today, and as always, these are my Bill's thoughts said
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  out loud. He survived so ridiculous two story say anything was sick the show?
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  Where's would you want to be? All right, let's get straight to
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  it. I am. I'm so excited for tonight's episode. I've been really
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  just it's been honestly just been the whirl wind for me. As I was
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  watching the game against the Dolphins, I just it was I was joking with
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  h with Mama money that it just like everything was just flowing right out of
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  me, out of my head, and just I had so many thoughts and
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  so many different things that I wanted to get to tonight. And I'm just
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  so appreciative and grateful to have everybody in tonight joining me tonight writing Shotgun as
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  always my co host Adam dump Truck Repsick. Check them out on Instagram at
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  Adam Rupsick r u p c z y k DT click cla like we're back.
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  Holler at the crew man, what's up? I mean, you look
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  good with your little championship little swag. I see you over there at three
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  point thirty eleven, I see you there. Yeah. Let's go, baby,
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  let's go. Let's have Nickel City Crew. Good, good show tonight.
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  We got some of our you know, our our favorite guests on with
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  us pump to get into it. It's postseason, baby, it feels like
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  it's outside and it's each day, each day you can't take for granted now.
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  So surviving advance of the realists, even though we've been on this grind
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  for a while, Surviving advance of the realists. Let's go. Absolutely,
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  absolutely, I am so excited to have everybody on tonight, And you're absolutely
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  right. We we've been in that playoff mode and I was discussing that with
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  the editor in chief at Buffalo fan Base, the lovely miss Robin Monday.
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  Please check her out on Instagram at Twitter at Robin Monday. W Yo.
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  That stands for Wyoming. You see her hat, go pokes. How at
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  the crew, Mama Monday, our mama the Nickel City Cruise, Mama,
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  how at the crew? What's going on? I have missed you, I
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  have missed thank you so much? What a season. I'm listening to the
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  music intro and I hear a vibe so ridiculous. Oh, Richland just hit
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  it. He hit it, he killed it. You got to go back
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  to the archives. Mama Monday. We had him on after we picked him
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  as our as our our host for the actual opening and he's I mean,
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  he blessed us and let us use it as our intro and he's he hit
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  it all the lyrics. I'm so ridiculous. Does that? Does that not
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  tell us of the whole season? M h you ain't lying about it,
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  you ain't lying three words vibe so ridiculous. I'm happy to be here.
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  Thank you for inviting me. Absolutely and finally, last but not least,
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  joining us the creative director at Buffalo fan Base. My boy that this salute
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  to the general, mister Justice General Radford. You check him out on Twitter
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  and Instagram at JA seventeen MVP. What's good, Justice, what's up?
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  General? Salute? Salute? What's going on? I appreciate the love.
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  I appreciate you having me on as always is always a vibing time. I
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  get to hang out with you guys, and of course Auntie Robbin is his.
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  It couldn't get no better, man. I'm excited to build there.
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  Man, the bills are the playoffs? Two c come on? Come on?
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  I mean it's it's crazy because that's that's funny, because I just it's
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  funny, you know, tongue in cheek. I was just like when I
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  was writing my notes, I was like, well, you know, never
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  had a doubt, you know, I mean, just never had a doubt.
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  It was smooth sale. I never had a doubt. And I know
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  that I'm full of shit because at six and six I did not see this
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  be a DT talked about it last week and it's funny, DT, because
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  I mean, we could joke around and say we do it all along with
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  Boy, when it was when it was six and six, it was looking
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  bleak, and I couldn't even believe last week with the opportunity to go ahead
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  and win the division and the fact that Miami let us catch up and left
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  the door open for us. And boy, did we come right through it
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  and break the door open last week down in South Beach. Man, we'll
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  we'll get in and chop it up with DT. I mean, you couldn't
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  you couldn't have wrote this up man any other way. I really cannot believe
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  that we're sitting here two seed. Like like General said, it's crazy to
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  me. Resilience. Resilience, baby, I mean, we come in the
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  games we lost this year, when we were in our darkest point at six
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  and six, and all those games we agreed, you know, we didn't
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  get beat We beat ourselves in those right, and we knew we were better
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  than that and we knew we just had to kind of push through and get
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  it done. And the last six weeks of the year, they exactly what
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  they did. You know, they came in strong, started swinging and surviving
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  advanced mentality, and they were the better team and they got it done.
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  It wasn't always pretty, but they found ways to win and they showed resilience
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  and you know this that's the makings of a good team. Stefan Digg said
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  it to Josh and that NFL films, Yes, good teams show their good
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  teams. Ye and you know, and that's as we talked about the Chiefs
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  for years with this. They win these close games and that was my criticism
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  of this team when they were six and six. Is a team like the
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  Chiefs. They have two rings because they win these type of games. And
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  the Bills have shown that the past month and a half. So let's keep
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  it riding and keep it rolling. But the resilience and I talked last week
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  about what it means the legacy of this, you know, this is if
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  they go on to make a run and maybe even to the super Bowl this
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  year. This is the story they need. This is the legacy Josh Allen
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  needed, you know, to get over this hump, win this game,
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  four straight division title. We're back in the driver's seat, We're back the
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  favorite. We're back to the team nobody wants to mess with. Yeah.
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  Absolutely, you ain't lying about that. Justice, It's funny because you know,
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  one of my main notes was that, you know, Josh alan Is,
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  he's an experience. I mean, I'm gonna try to watch my custom
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  as much as I can. My mama, my real mama, Mama Mondey,
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  my actual mother is watching. So I'm gonna for a minimum to night
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  try to keep it PG. It is possible. PG thirteen. Josh Allen
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  is an experience general, I mean he is. It's crazy like watching him
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  play like it's wild, both good and bad. I had tweeted out how
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  frustrating he is to watch when he was throwing those picks and different things like
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  that, and like and then within the next half you're just cheering if you
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  as your couch and you just can't believe what he's doing. I mean that
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  third down run to get the first down, It's like, what, like,
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  what other quarterback in the league do that? Not one, I don't
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  know any of them. I mean, I'm talking about the actual physical action
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  of running like that. Labar Jackson is light. He's not trying to take
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  over the linebacker and run through anybody. This boy, Josh Allen man general,
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  He's he's something else. But he's ridiculous. Oh yeah, he's he's
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  absolutely ridiculous, and I would actually I actually challenged this whole He had a
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  bad first half narrative thing. Okay, I understand the first interception. Look,
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  you can you can judge them, you know what I mean, Like
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  you can you can call it egregious blindly for sure, But these are professionals,
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  Like he was expecting his wide receiver to do something. Clearly, he
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  expected him to do something that he didn't do, so clearly they weren't on
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  the same page. I don't think Josh Allen, a six year pro,
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  just threw it blindly just before after this, you know what I mean,
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  Like, I'm pretty sure there was some logic there, right, So that
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  one didn't go your way? Okay, cool, The second one was a
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  point. I mean, it's fourth down, like it's a good thing.
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  He caught it really instead of at you know the forty five you started your
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  own twenty. Yeah, when he ran over to the sideline and was celebrating,
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  like the coaches and stuff kind of got into him down. Yeah,
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  So absolutely right. And then of course the flat was open. I get
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  that people make mistakes, whatever the case may be, but the interception itself
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  was not like oh my god, you know what I mean. So and
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  then the fumble, your rookie offensive guard who's a stud by the way,
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  it just got beat by an all pro, Like that's that's all. He
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  got beat by all pro guys, all pro for a reason. Well,
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  you know he forced the fun Josh obviously, you know you gotta be more
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  careful with the ball. But you know, people weren't frustrated with Josh's turnovers.
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  They were frustrated because we were moving the football so efficiently and we had
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  ample opportunity who scored, and we weren't coming away with points they were taking.
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  They were like, I'm frustrated because the Bills aren't scoring points even though
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  they're moving the ball like buttering, right, So I need something to allocate
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  this frustration to reasoning as to why this is happening. Right, if you
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  take them individually, they're not like crazy horrible turnovers, like you don't want
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  to see them for sure. But it's not like he's just this airhead who'd
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  just be doing stuff, you know what I mean? Like that, which
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  is the narrative that is trying to be created about Josh Allen. But he's
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  the best quarterback in the world for a reason. If there was anything that
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  I would say the game, I think that was again the Patriots. He
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  just couldn't he could not get anything going like he was just he was literally
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  missing everything. Right, you want to if you want to tell me that
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  was a bad game, I agree with you, but you're not gonna tell
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  me. He just had four hundred four the plus total yards, two tuddies
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  and then you know, and then the clutch factor on top of stop talking
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  to me. All right, it's ridiculous, But little narratives are narratives,
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  and people are gonna put I don't know what the hate against Buffalo is.
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  I don't know why the national media hate Buffalo so much, or like why
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  they hate our quarterback, but they really have a grudge against us forward whatever
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  we did. And I don't know, man, But it's funny because Mama
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  Monday is funny because I had joked with DT during the game. We were,
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  you know, exchanging texts, and and I said, you know,
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  Josh Allen is like he's like a toxic girlfriend. And I can and I
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  can explain He's like you're never gonna leave her. You know, DT was
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  like she's she's smoking hot I'm like, yep, she's a smoke show.
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  You're not gonna leave her. She's amazing, she makes you happy. But
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  when she goes on a bender, I mean, she is just almost impossible
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  to deal with. And it was funny because I felt like that, you
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  know, watching him. No, I agree with with Justice that it wasn't,
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  you know, the most egregious, but it was just very frustrating.
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  Yes, the fact that they were moving the ball up and down the field
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  by Monday. But you know what, you're a toxic boyfriend. You know
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  why. You know why because you hould things that she did in her past
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  against her to day, Mama Monday speak to it. Because I was.
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  I was trading back and forth with DT during the game, and that was
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  the analogy I came up with. These like a toxic girlfriend. You're not
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  leaving her, but boy, she drives you crazy. And you know I
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  have seen this man, that's funny now for nine years. Right, Yes,
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  you've got a front row seat. You're right, you've got a front
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  row seat. Every once in a while, I go back and I'll plug
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  into YouTube and look at some of his Wyoming games, in particular one against
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  Boise State, and you watch that game and you see right then, exactly
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  what I saw than is what we see now. The talent jumps off has
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  not changed. He is authentic and whether or not, you know, you
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  can say what you want to about his mistakes and all that sort of thing.
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  And yeah, he could be like a toxic girlfriend, but you know,
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  you're just not gonna dump her. No, you just there's no way
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  you're gonna dump her because you're hooked. She's got to You are hooked.
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  She's got too many good, good traits that you love. You're absolutely right.
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  It's funny to look at it that way because I just I just chuckled
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  when I was talking with DT now Mama Monday before we go to DT,
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  because I think that there's a chance and I want everybody's opinion on this,
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  because there's a chance that he plays better when it's more chaotic. And I
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  wanted you to speak to that because I know that you studied the mind,
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  because it seems like and Chris Collinsworth even said it on the broadcast when they
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  were doing two minute drill, it seems like that is when he is at
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  his best, when he's at his most calm, when he's actually in the
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  most. And I thought about DT and I when we had broken down some
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  of his press conferences where he had that one press conference where he's like,
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  I don't know, I just need to slow down and I need to think
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  more and zero positive energy and all this other stuff, and then he said
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  it, He's like, well, I don't know, maybe I just need
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  to think less. And it was like, wait a minute, you just
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  contradicted yourself within the last ten seconds. So it's a situation where he seems
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  like he plays better, like he's more in control when things are chaotic.
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  It's the weirdest thing it is. It is a very weird thing. And
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  for any of the listeners that don't know my background, I was a psychotherapist
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  in another lifetime, so I have a different perspective looking at players and the
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  mentality of the game. Andy, you're very right to say that he thrives
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  under pressure. Seems like it because he does. And there are certain people
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  whose brains work that way neurologically, and Josh is one of them. Where
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  chaos actually creates Now this is going to sound counterintuitive, but it creates calm
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  in his mind. It creates a calmness in his mind because he's not thinking
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  about what am I going to do? He's in this chaotic situation where he
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  just reacts instinctively and there's no way that you can take that out of him.
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  I don't care. It's imprinted in his DNA and the germy can cry
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  and whine and yell and do whatever he wants to do with him, but
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  he's not going to change. That is instinctively who that is, exactly who
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  he is, and it's when he throws there are people like this. They
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  thrive in chaos, like the toxic girlfriend. There's no there's no drama going
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  on. Then you know, there's gotta get that juice. And that's where
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  Josh is. However, the thing that he has to learn how to a
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  little bit better is we have to work. Still. He has sugar high
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  Josh moments. He still has the sugar high on occasion, and he needs
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  to rain himself in and I think he's doing a better job of it,
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  but every once in a while it kind of leaves out. He reverts.
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  Absolutely he does. But you can't. You can't stop loving him. No,
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  you can't, you can't stop loving him. DT. It's funny because
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  McDermott at halftime. That was the one I have never I've never seen number
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  one. It's always coach speak. It's always, you know, all we
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  got to get then there. We gotta make some adjusts, but it's gonna
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  come out. And second it's always the same, it's blah blah blah.
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  And it was funny because I saw emotion from him. He had to he
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  had to actually compose himself because he was getting ready to trash Josh. He
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  was a little bit upset DT, and he was bad with that last play
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  with with you know, Josh ally passed the ball to Ty Johnson, keeps
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  the ball in play and and you know, he just said, you know,
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  quite plainly like that, that ball's got to be in the end zone
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  and what did the case may be? And like they caught him. But
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  like he had to compose himself for a second. DT. He was mad.
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  There was there was no there was no hiding it. Your coach was
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  Your coach was mad at that situation. He was he was not happy how
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  that sequence went out. Well, the Stallion's gonna buck sometimes, right Rob.
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  You know that this is last year against the Dolphins in the regular season
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  at home. The final play of the first half was that pass to Jim's
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  cook in the back of the end zone, and and McDermott after on the
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  way into the locker room on that one was like, well, good,
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  good thing he caught it, you know, good thing, we got the
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  touchdowns. Oh yeah, that was the same, So you know you're gonna
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  get You're gonna get that. Josh thought he had him and it was just
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  a yard short and Ty Johnson, a guy who doesn't have a ton of
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  experience running running seam routes down you know, doctor presser to get into the
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  end zone, which it was textbook targeting. By the way, that's why
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  he's in concussion protocol. You know, took the took the knock directly to
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  the helmet. But they're not gonna callation. I understand that, but exactly
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  exactly, you know, you're gonna you're gonna get the stallion to buck a
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  little and you know, the same exact thing happened last time they played Miami
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  and Buffalo, you know, last year, and they ended up scoring.
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  So it was all good. So you're gonna give a little give and take.
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  Going off of what Robin was saying about the kind of controlled chaos,
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  I agree I mean, you watch that play when the first the interception with
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  Gave Davis, Like they gotta figure that ship out. This has been too
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  and and in multiple times where Gave Davis looks like he's running a half assed
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  route, not looking for the ball and the ball's coming and it gets picked.
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  You know, it's happened all year. They got to figure that out
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  in the film. And that's one thing. But the deep ball the digs
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  where he missed him m hm, he had he had awesome protection there.
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  He was in the pocket clean and he had to do his step up and
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  make the throw. And yeah, he thought about it a little too much
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  and overthrew it. Now the second throw, deep ball the digs, he's
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  got three guys pressure him in his face. He throws it off his back
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  foot with a hand, said puts it puts exactly exactly the exact definition of
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  almost. He needs to be under that pressure to make a good throw.
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  And like within reason, I mean, I want him to be. I
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  want to stay upright, you know, with everything. But but I just
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  thought when she was talking about it kind of made me think about those I
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  noticed that in the game, Like man, he had a clean pocket and
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  he still couldn't make that throw, like can he not just throw the deep
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  ball? And then a couple of quarters later, he's got three guys in
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  his face, off his back foot and puts one, you know, out
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  of the mind right into the you know, that's that's kind of the Stallion
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  bucks sometimes And McDermot has the right to be upset with him in the beginning
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  of the year, losing games because of it. You know. Now it's
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  kind of turning that way. So I'm not I'm not upset with mcdermom being
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  upset with it, but you know, you got it, like this isn't
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  changing. This is stuff we're we're gonna be seeing and and the chances he
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  takes and when they connect, it's the best player in the world. When
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  they don't, there there's question on it. So that it's it's it's half
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  full, half empty mentality. But that's something. Yeah, I noticed that
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  when he when he's got pressure, it's easy. When he doesn't have pressure,
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  it almost like he double clutches. Do you agree, general, I
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  mean I know that you are. I mean, look at your your handle
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  at JA seventeen. You are one of his most staunchest defenders. But I
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  mean but do we have any credence on that? Like, it seems like
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  he is a it seems like he thrives in chaos. I don't know,
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  it's just a it's a thirty thousand foot view, but I I really think
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  that it's it's spot on. I wouldn't call myself a defender. I would
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  call myself a Josh Allen Truther. Yes, okay, okay, okay,
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  you no, no, no, I just because I don't feel like I
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  defend him. I feel like I give you just pointing out the obvious.
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  Yeah, it's it's like there is a a narrative being pushed about him every
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  single week, you know what I mean. And so I'm just literally like
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  pointing out how stupid people who are all I'm doing, Like, you know
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  what I mean. So, but as far as being thriving in chaos,
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  I mean, he's the joker. He's an agent of chaos. But it's
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  only because he was bred in it. He had to be, he was
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  warning. Right, you come into a team in twenty seventeen, that is
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  coming off of their first playoff appearance in seventeen years. Right, they have
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  no structure on the offensive side of the ball. Very they had good defense,
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  right, no structure on the offense, society of the ball. He
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  had Lashawn McCoy and that was it. Yeah, they have wide receivers and
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  have a tight end and offensive line, they have fullback. It was it
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  was him and and it was just like it was. It was Joshua,
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  Shawn and vibes right. So he had to he grew up in the he
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  matured whatever he could do in order to make it work. Right. So
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  then the second season, you take away with Sean and you give them Frank
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  Gore for whatever reason. I still don't understand that one. And then you
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  know, you got John Brown Cole Beasley for this second and third seasons and
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  good, not great, but yeah, you start to build more more stability,
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  right, blah blah blah bla blah blah blah bla blah. Niga Stefon
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  Diggs twenty twenty Now you're building more stability. Blah blah blah. Right,
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  Niets defind Diggs and that twenty twenty twenty one season, I feel like is
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  where they were stable, right, is where they had first had their first
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  glimpse of stability. And I believe that was the thirteen seconds game. Offense
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  did everything they needed to do to win that game. Right. I was
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  mad at day Ball for those three run plays in a row he called I
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  think it was like the second or third quarter or whatever, which was it
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  was a valuable possession and he kind of gave it away. But as far
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  as the offense and Josh Allen was concerned, there was plenty of stability there
• 22:04
  and he thrived in that as well. Now day Ball leaves and we've seen
• 22:10
  what Ken Dorsey's offense, So that first that first season, Josh is literally
• 22:17
  masking. He's masking chaos and it doesn't look like chaos because he's an agent
• 22:26
  of it, and therefore he finds stability in chaos. So it looks stable
• 22:33
  to the natural human eye. But it gets panemonium all over field are running
• 22:41
  you know, comebacks in the snow. Oh my god. Yeah yeah,
• 22:45
  yeah, they'll get you started on that. This is why, this is
• 22:48
  why I've been critical of this offensive line for years now, you know,
• 22:52
  and then this year they're better than for the least amount of sacks in the
• 22:56
  NFL. And and this is definitely one of their best years, I think
• 23:00
  with Josh Allen, but this dude deodorizes a lot of bad protection all the
• 23:03
  time. There's dudes in his face all the time. Yeah, a lot.
• 23:08
  I guess he does. He I think that you. I mean,
• 23:11
  I know that. I know for a fact that DT is hard on this
• 23:14
  line, and I understand it, but I try to give it a little
• 23:15
  bit of a pass because I remember what a bad line was. I think
• 23:18
  Cybo, like you talked about general, this is not. He has been
• 23:21
  very good. Yeah, and in the past protect least past you know,
• 23:23
  protection grades, they're they're they're they're grading out. The line we have right
• 23:26
  now is not a bad line. It's actually above average. Yeah, it's
• 23:30
  definitely the best league the rest of the league. It's above average. Actually,
• 23:36
  yeah, the stats are there. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not.
• 23:38
  This isn't a go at the line moment here. I'm just saying going
• 23:41
  off your point of like, hey, it's like the line that he hasn't
• 23:45
  had a good line really ever, and then he makes it look presentable.
• 23:48
  Yeah, correct, because opposed to any other quarterback in the NFL would be
• 23:52
  you know, taking sack. He's the ultimate old spice magin. Joe Burrow
• 23:57
  with the Buffalo Bills. Yeah, oh my six games Burrow is our quarterback.
• 24:04
  That's true now as we transition. It's funny because you know, everybody
• 24:10
  knows me. I'm on brand. I've got to stay on brand, and
• 24:12
  you know I'm you know, one of Sean McDermott's biggest detractors. I have
• 24:17
  not been satisfied. I have not been fooled by the monikers. I've not
• 24:21
  been fooled by trusting the process and all these different type of things, and
• 24:25
  we've already gone through that. I would be inauthentic if I did not on
• 24:29
  the flip side of that coin. Just give this man his flowers and respects
• 24:32
  to the jobs that he did. Those fourth down calls. We have to
• 24:36
  talk about it, fellows. I mean, listen, that is what what
• 24:40
  happened in those sequences on that last drive. General Mama Mondy was everything,
• 24:45
  and DT can attest to it. It's everything I've been asking for out of
• 24:48
  them as a coach. I don't care about the result as much as I
• 24:52
  care about the process in respects to how you are thinking. And what I
• 24:56
  mean by that is that I didn't I wasn't mad at the end of that
• 25:00
  drive when he went for it on the second fourth down and they didn't get
• 25:02
  it. I wasn't mad. I thought it was a good decision, and
• 25:04
  then the players didn't execute the play. You can run across transit at five
• 25:07
  o'clock in the afternoon if you want to. Because you make it across the
• 25:11
  street does not make it a good idea. It just means that you just
• 25:14
  didn't get hit by a car that day. But that doesn't make it a
• 25:17
  good idea. And it goes on the flip side of that coin. So
• 25:19
  the flip side is that I want him to be aggressive. I want him
• 25:22
  to coach that way all of the time. That has been some of my
• 25:26
  biggest things about him throughout his entire tenures that in the big games, the
• 25:30
  big moments, I thought that he got small. I thought that he got
• 25:33
  a little bit shy and tentative in respects to being too risky and things like
• 25:37
  that. And I think that that leads back to his defensive mindset and things
• 25:41
  like that. Mama Mundy DT knows I'm not lying. I mean, this
• 25:45
  man went for it when the chips were down. Now, maybe you know,
• 25:48
  a Syennate could say, well, they knew they were going to the
• 25:51
  playoffs and this and that, No, that team was out there to go
• 25:52
  get that number two seed, just like Miami was, and that was a
• 25:56
  big, big drive. And he goes for fourth down on his own thirty
• 26:00
  four. I mean, if I would be I would again, I would
• 26:03
  be inauthentic if I did not at least give this man a round of applause
• 26:07
  and give Hi flowers, because That's what I've been wanting from him. Exude
• 26:11
  confidence into your team from every game, whether it's Week one, Week eighteen,
• 26:15
  Wildcard, Divisional, super Bowl. I want you to coach like that
• 26:18
  all the time. He did on Sunday night, Mama Monday. I can't
• 26:22
  take it away from him. He did, he did, And I have
• 26:26
  a thought about that in terms of what may have led him to look within
• 26:34
  himself more do more self scouting the article that came out about him by Ty
• 26:44
  Dunn. You know that that article cut to his core. Oh yeah,
• 26:51
  you have to know. You had to know when you were watching him respond
• 26:56
  to that, you had to know that this was this was felt deeply by
• 27:02
  him. He viewed it as an attack on his character. He said it,
• 27:04
  He totally did. He said it, He meant what he said.
• 27:08
  And I think part of that process, though, when something like that happens.
• 27:15
  Most people who are self aware will look at themselves and say, okay,
• 27:25
  this is an opportunity for growth. This man's trying to take my ass
• 27:29
  down. I got down. Yeah, no, you're good. I don't
• 27:33
  know if my mom still listen it. Okay, speak freely, but es
• 27:38
  he he, this guy's trying to take me down. And I got to
• 27:45
  look at myself in the mirror, and maybe this is an opportunity for me
• 27:49
  to grow. And you ask if your players all the time? Growth?
• 27:55
  That's what I used to always get mad about. Are you are? Are
• 28:00
  you learning? What can you learn from this? Because we all know,
• 28:04
  at least we should those of us that try to become better people as we
• 28:08
  go along in life. We learn from our tragedies, we learn from the
• 28:15
  challenges. When somebody puts our back up against a wall, we don't just
• 28:21
  blame everybody else. We look in the mirror. We take a good,
• 28:23
  hard look and say, okay, better, what is it that this dude
• 28:29
  said that I need to pay attention to that I can gain I can gain
• 28:33
  something from And I believe that was part of it, was being more of
• 28:37
  a risk taker, because that was big criticism of him all the way along.
• 28:42
  You know that, just like you said, in the big moments,
• 28:45
  he got small, yes, and this moment he did not get small,
• 28:52
  and he was rewarded for it. And I think that all of this is
• 28:56
  coming together in McDermott's mind and helping him propel himself past his own fears.
• 29:06
  And I would so much rather have a coach that is willing to learn from
• 29:11
  his mistakes and say, Okay, let's just fire him and bring it in
• 29:15
  a whole new crew. No, you know, let's look, we'll talk
• 29:19
  about it later. But let's look at Mike Tomlin. He's been a very
• 29:23
  successive, successful coach his entire career, one of the most and that's in
• 29:32
  part because he had a he had an ownership group. His the roonies.
• 29:37
  They were never they're not going to fire this dude. Okay, he's having
• 29:41
  a bad year, we're going to give you whatever you need to do to
• 29:44
  make it better. And his bad years, he still wasn't under five hundreds.
• 29:48
  Crazy. It's just so amazing about him. That's just so amazing about
• 29:52
  him. But again, you look at McDermott and this opportunity that he had
• 29:59
  when his but was dragged across the mud. And I have to give him
• 30:07
  credit too, because it takes somebody with a lot of character and willingness to
• 30:11
  go in and look at yourself and say, Okay, this is what I
• 30:15
  need to do to be better. I need to be better. Like that's
• 30:21
  what I got. That's a great correlation. D You know, we had
• 30:23
  talked about it a bunch of times, so you know, speak to it
• 30:26
  because you know, you know, I've been on his ass like four since
• 30:30
  forever. And what's and and and what's the main criticism bet on that from
• 30:34
  both of us has been really from everyone has been almost you know, don't
• 30:37
  be too stubborn, don't be too much of a you know of a hard
• 30:41
  nose and hard ass to not you know, see change and see it.
• 30:44
  So maybe he isn't self aware, but in this case, if you put
• 30:47
  a mirror up in front of him, he wasn't afraid to look right.
• 30:51
  And and that's exactly what you know this is. This is kind of I
• 30:53
  don't know if it's direct correlation or not, but the vibe you're talking about,
• 30:57
  and the vibe we're getting to is you know, not taking risks to
• 31:03
  not do something wrong, and you know, not be blamed like, oh
• 31:06
  you did that and now we lost, like you need to. You know,
• 31:10
  it's changed to we're better than you. We're doing this because we're closing
• 31:14
  out the game, you know, And that was the right call in that
• 31:17
  situation to go for it on fourth down in your territory, in their territory.
• 31:19
  If we can close this out, we run the clock out, we
• 31:22
  win the division. We're better than you, so we're gonna make this run.
• 31:26
  So that's the It's not so much of you know, taking the risks
• 31:29
  and like, oh, I don't know if we should I don't know if
• 31:30
  we shouldn't. It's taking the risk to show like, all right, we're
• 31:34
  the better team. Let's go out and get it. That's what the good
• 31:37
  teams do, that's what the good quarterbacks do. And you know, and
• 31:40
  it was good to see in this game when it was kind of on the
• 31:42
  line and it didn't come as easy and they and they had to go earn
• 31:45
  it. He looked in the mirror, wasn't afraid to look, all right,
• 31:48
  we're we're better than this team. Let's go get it. We got
• 31:52
  one seven under there, let's get it done. And you know, they
• 31:53
  didn't eventually they closed it on the road, you know, the flips on
• 32:00
  the transit road. Is that you know what I mean, It doesn't it
• 32:01
  doesn't matter what happened at the end. It's the fact that the process.
• 32:05
  What are you? What are you? How are you thinking? How are
• 32:07
  you operating? So I'm with you exactly, and that you know, he
• 32:10
  might have not been self aware and he might have not think he was doing
• 32:15
  wrong. He's the head of this. He knows he has to be tough
• 32:16
  and hard knows and stubborn. But when they when someone put that mirror up,
• 32:21
  he wasn't afraid to look. And you know we're division champs. Yeah
• 32:23
  absolutely. Now as we transition, yeah no, I mean both of you
• 32:28
  guys have hit it on the head as we as we transitioned. You know,
• 32:30
  it's funny general because I mean, he took over the d you know,
• 32:34
  and I loved Leslie Frasier and DT knows that I did. I enjoyed
• 32:37
  his defenses. They were always top five. I thought that he was a
• 32:40
  great professional. I think he got a raw deal, you know, because
• 32:44
  I know that he wants to be a head coach again, and he really
• 32:45
  didn't get an opportunity I know the Rooney rule and all that other stuff with
• 32:49
  the interviews, but he I don't think he's gonna get to become a head
• 32:51
  coach again at his age. And I enjoyed his time here. However,
• 32:57
  I laughed and I scoffed at this whole narrative. I heard it from Joe
• 33:00
  Marino and I heard it from a lot of people in the off season that
• 33:02
  McDermott's more aggressive, and they talked to Ron Rivera, and he's aggressive.
• 33:07
  He's an aggressive coordinator. That's his nature and that's his nature, and I'm
• 33:09
  just like, I don't buy it. I don't buy it. I have
• 33:13
  to again say, you know that I was wrong about McDermott in general.
• 33:15
  His defense is much much different than Leslie Fraser's, and it is definitely more
• 33:22
  aggressive. It's more multiple, there's definitely more schematical schemes that he's throwing at
• 33:28
  these quarterbacks, and it's actually weak to weak. I mean, I remember
• 33:31
  the palms coverage on the first Miami game that that DT and I broke down
• 33:36
  when Romo was talking about the palms coverage and what does that mean and how
• 33:37
  was he trying to affect to it? Because Tua is such a rhythm based
• 33:42
  thrower in that McDaniel system and in general, I mean his defense has had
• 33:46
  all of the excuses that you could put out there, with the injuries,
• 33:50
  all of the reasons why they shouldn't be good. I think they are,
• 33:52
  you know, top five DVOA, they're twelfth or something like that. They're
• 33:54
  you know, top five in points allowed. I mean I have again,
• 33:59
  I'm not this is not a McDermott, you know, thank you show,
• 34:01
  but I have. I mean, I at least have to be on brand.
• 34:04
  If I'm gonna ride his ass and stay on him, then I've got
• 34:06
  to at least let him know and let it be known that you know,
• 34:09
  he's he's changed, Like his defense is not like Leslie Frasiers man. I
• 34:13
  gotta give it to him. I really do. Well. I no,
• 34:15
  I agree with you definitely more definitely more blitzing. There's just just there's just
• 34:21
  different things going on each week, and I just I've enjoyed it that to
• 34:23
  be honest, He's had every excuse with the injuries not to have a good
• 34:25
  defense, and he's got a great one. What do you think, general,
• 34:34
  Yeah, I mean, I I do agree that you definitely get a
• 34:37
  lot more pressure. I will say that if Leslie Frasier, you know,
• 34:44
  I have a bad defense by any stretchy imagination. Top five, top five
• 34:49
  every year, every year. Five is kind of underselling it a little bit.
• 34:53
  He was number one defense, Top three defense, you know what I
• 34:57
  mean, Like Leslie Frazer did the damn thing right. I will say that
• 35:00
  if Lelith Fraser had this particular defensive line with a little lot, looked a
• 35:06
  lot different. Okay, we know that positive positive. We know that Fraser
• 35:15
  like to get home with four. If you got Gregory Russo right now in
• 35:19
  his prime, a g faness who's balling out of control, Leonard Floyd was
• 35:22
  balling out of control, and Oliver Dakwan Jones. You put those guys in
• 35:28
  rotation in Leslie Fraser's defense, you're gonna get a defense this I won't say
• 35:35
  that just as good as this one, because I do think McDermot has made
• 35:38
  the defense better, That's what I'm trying. But I do say that Leslie
• 35:45
  Freight Dawan Jones is a huge piece on this. Well. When I say
• 35:54
  huge piece, I mean like the way that they're playing this year, and
• 35:58
  Oliver is playing like an All Pro was All Pro last year. It was
• 36:00
  good. It was it All Pro. Dakwhan Jones previous to his injury was
• 36:05
  literally playing like an All Pro and that's not an exaggeration. He did night
• 36:10
  too, he blew, So that's what I mean. Leonard Floyd had almost
• 36:15
  ten sacks this year, a Japanessa like these guys have been playing really,
• 36:20
  really, really good this year, and I think if they were to play
• 36:22
  that way under legend, which I mean, I guess you could argue that
• 36:25
  McDermott brought the best out of him. So I guess that's that's something for
• 36:29
  McDermott. But just to touch on his head coaching real quick, Okay,
• 36:34
  I really love what was said about him needing to have that growth mindset himself
• 36:40
  right, because Sean McDermott, if I have a bad team and I need
• 36:45
  that team to become a good team, there is not another coach in NFL
• 36:50
  history I want over Sean McDermott. He is great, He is great at
• 36:58
  blood, he is right at being good. But what we need from Sean
• 37:02
  McDermott is to learn how to be good at being great. Okay, he
• 37:07
  needs to learn when you're in the playoffs. And I'm, apart from you
• 37:13
  know, the second most prolific scorer in NFL history, because he's not Josh
• 37:16
  Allen, He's Patrick Mahomes. He's not Josh. He's not the most prolific
• 37:19
  scorer in NFL his three. He's the second most prolific scorer in NFL his
• 37:22
  three relative to the time he's played. Of course, in Patrick Mahomes,
• 37:28
  when you're across from him, Bro, you're don't punk the ball on fourth
• 37:31
  from two? What are you doing? Right? Right? So he needs
• 37:36
  to learn how to be good at being great, and I think Miami was
• 37:40
  the first step in towards towards that right because for this whole time, I've
• 37:47
  been like, you have the top three quarterback. Even if you don't think
• 37:52
  Josh Allen is the best quarterback in the world, at least he's a top
• 37:57
  three have a top three. DT says it all the time. What could
• 38:01
  give you more confidence than seventeen? Watching John W. Bro If seventeen makes
• 38:06
  a wild spectacular play on fourth and two in the whole stadium's rocking, now,
• 38:12
  do you know how much of a momentum swing that is? Bro?
• 38:14
  Like, thank you? That's what my problem with the Cincinnati game. The
• 38:17
  Cincinnati game could have been a close game at halftime, but he punted the
• 38:21
  ball away, yes, and then all of a sudden sevens We're going down
• 38:25
  at halftime, down fourteen or whatever the case may be, and there's just
• 38:29
  your sucking juice. Same way within the AFC Championship game. We weren't ready
• 38:32
  for that moment at that time, but we didn't know it. We were
• 38:36
  just that at that game. And then kicking field goals, kicking field goals,
• 38:38
  kicking field goals against mahomes like you. And then they asked him after
• 38:42
  the game, what were you trying to do with the field goals? Coach?
• 38:43
  He says, I wanted to give my guys some juice. What would
• 38:45
  have been better the juice than six points? Like it doesn't make any sense.
• 38:49
  He was taking the juice away. And we talked about this a bunch,
• 38:52
  right, don't be okay with being okay, and you know, organizationally
• 38:57
  from Pagoula down, don't be okay with being okay. What I've you know,
• 39:00
  focused on watching mcdermany's defense, obviously a lot closer this year, being
• 39:05
  we we talked about it. Nowhere to hide, like we wanted to be
• 39:07
  critical. I'm not hoping for demise, but we you know, we we
• 39:12
  were definitely closely watching to see where you be and what I gathered the whole
• 39:16
  eighteen eighteen week season. Kind of what I've gathered is, you know,
• 39:20
  he's a good he's a good poker player, right, He's a good He's
• 39:23
  a way where in the beginning he lets the game settle in. He kind
• 39:29
  of waits to see your hand and then and then he plays your hand.
• 39:32
  You know, it doesn't if you're coming out with with pocket kings. He's
• 39:36
  not trying to go get pocket aces on you. He's all right, I
• 39:39
  got you know, Matt Mullane's out, Tredavius White is out. I don't
• 39:43
  have pocket kings. I can go out and get triple fives though, and
• 39:45
  triple five's beats your pocket kings, and you know, let let me settle
• 39:50
  in, show show you your hand, and then we make adjustments and clamp
• 39:53
  down. And that seems to be when they are in control of games.
• 39:58
  That's the game script, and that's what's best, you know, for these
• 40:00
  big wins down the stretch especially. That's kind of how it's been in this
• 40:05
  first quarter. It was like, oh, here we go another back and
• 40:07
  forth. It's going to be a shootout again, just like that week four
• 40:09
  game at home in Buffalo when it was back forth back forth. Then you
• 40:14
  kind of make the adjustments clamp it down. The adjustment on that misdirection run
• 40:17
  we've been talking about with Big Ben this week was incredible to do, and
• 40:22
  teams came and the way that, all right, we don't have another ace
• 40:27
  to combat this ace like this is the fastest back in the league doing this.
• 40:30
  We don't have an ace to combat this. So we need, you
• 40:31
  know, to have triple sixes over here to beat them on the river.
• 40:35
  And that's you know, and that's kind of what I've taken in this eighteen
• 40:37
  week season of He lets it settle in, sees the other player's hand,
• 40:42
  and then comes back with what we can beat them with, not try to
• 40:45
  match it, just what we can beat them with. Analogy. Shout out
• 40:55
  to Nichol City Crew. We've got some listeners in here. I'll follow along
• 41:00
  with us and we love it. Man. Shout out to Josh Koule again,
• 41:01
  my first lieutenant. I'm the mayor of Section one oh four. He
• 41:05
  is my first lieutenant. I mean he's the he's the top chief assistant there
• 41:08
  at section one O four. So I shout out to him, shout out
• 41:10
  to no overgrow, and then absolutely shout out to Mama, my mom.
• 41:15
  She's hanging it. She's hanging it tough, so I appreciate it. Shout
• 41:19
  out, mister Lasagna, says AFC East Champs. That's four. That's a
• 41:22
  four peak. I mean, that's a four peak. So I like it
• 41:24
  a lot. Now as we transition, this is probably the part that I
• 41:29
  really wanted to get into before we talk about the Steelers real quickly. But
• 41:31
  I mean, as it's all going to wrap into into it, you know,
• 41:35
  Bill's again one o'clock on Sunday will play the Steelers Wildcard. They call
• 41:37
  it Super Wildcard Weekend. Now it's really gonna be interesting. I'm starting just
• 41:44
  to get this feeling. It's it's in my gut and I don't know what
• 41:47
  I mean. Obviously, Bill's mafia. I'm a fanatic. Yeah, yeah,
• 41:51
  he's a ticket holder since nine, so I'm obviously already rabbit. Doesn't
• 41:53
  take me much to get me there. However, however, I pride myself
• 41:59
  on being a realist. I swear, I swear to you, everybody,
• 42:01
  I mean, General Mama mondy DT already knows. I swear this could be
• 42:07
  like our best shot if you take a look at the landscape. I bet
• 42:10
  you know. You guys know. I listened to WGR all the time and
• 42:14
  they've been talking about it as well. But this landscape, if you take
• 42:16
  a look before the playoffs start, I really I really like our shot,
• 42:21
  I really do. We played Pittsburgh and then Baltimore sitting there waiting. So
• 42:25
  Baltimore, I guess, is apparently the class of the conference and everybody's afraid
• 42:29
  of them. And I understand, okay, no problem. I could have
• 42:31
  swore that mcdumermot has always had a great plan for crazy eight. Lamar Jackson
• 42:37
  could have swore I think they're two and one against Lamar Jackson. Now I
• 42:40
  don't know, you know, and I know General is getting ready to chip
• 42:43
  in it. Maybe you guys can correct me. But beat Pittsburgh, then
• 42:46
  you host Kansas City, most likely because Kansas City should take care of Miami.
• 42:50
  Miami is just ravaged by injuries right now, and I think it's going
• 42:52
  to be like negative ten degrees or something crazy like that in Missouri on Saturday
• 42:58
  night, so I have no idea how mitigate that. Yeah, I don't
• 43:00
  know how they're going to mitigate that. And then even if Miami somehow pulls
• 43:06
  off the upset and goes and takes care of business, then we're hosting Cleveland
• 43:10
  or Houston. And I understand, you know, CJ. Stroud, great
• 43:14
  quarterback, and he seems to be up, you know, up and coming
• 43:15
  and stuff like that, and Joe Flacco's got a great story and you know,
• 43:19
  nine years between playoff starts and YadA, YadA, YadA. But if
• 43:22
  you're telling me right now that it's it's all the chips are on Baltimore and
• 43:25
  I'm supposed to be afraid of them. I really I just look at the
• 43:29
  landscape and I just feel like a trip to Baltimore is just I don't I
• 43:34
  don't, I mean, call me crazy. What if I always said,
• 43:37
  DT, I don't care about the Super Bowl, get to the Bowl.
• 43:40
  I will let the chips fall you want to, I'll go to the barbershop
• 43:44
  general and if they want to make jokes, they make jokes. Now,
• 43:46
  So boy, I love losing Super Bowls. That's the joke, right And
• 43:49
  in zero and four, no problem? What do I always combat everybody with
• 43:52
  It'll never be done again. You can't disrespect the nineties bills. That's the
• 43:55
  reason I'm the fan that I am now because I was I was born with
• 43:59
  them, I grew up with them. So you can't ever disrespect for you
• 44:00
  on that. So what the worst is that they go to zero and five.
• 44:02
  So that's what I have to deal with. I will let the chips
• 44:05
  fall on Super Bowl Sunday. I just want to represent the conference in the
• 44:08
  Super Bowl. I really think we got a good shot, y'all speak.
• 44:13
  We were around the table since we were since we were six and six.
• 44:17
  You know, we're sitting in this restaurant like, damn, this is this
• 44:21
  is gonna be an expensive dinner. This is gonna be an expensive assid Like,
• 44:23
  I don't you know, thinking about the things you're gonna have to cut
• 44:27
  out next week. You know, got in a little over your head,
• 44:30
  You've got that nice bottle of line. This is gonna be expensive. Then
• 44:32
  the bill comes and it's like, what are we at Applebee's here? We
• 44:36
  got half off as then we we we sneak into the two seeds, one
• 44:39
  of the easiest roads all just we were we were so focused on you know,
• 44:45
  just getting in and and oh my gosh, what would happen if we
• 44:47
  missed, what a waste that would be then to automatically in and then having
• 44:52
  the best route other than having that one seed. And you know, it's
• 44:54
  storybook all the way around, the Steelers coming in here at spend point underdogs.
• 44:59
  Granted, team will get into that in a second, but then you
• 45:01
  know, you have a chance in the next game to flip that story book
• 45:06
  of the Kansas City Chiefs and Pat Mahomes taking his first ever general happened,
• 45:15
  and you know and me, you know, yelling outside of the Hilton on
• 45:19
  Saturday night or whatever else I gotta do, get that to get that script
• 45:24
  growing. Or you have back and you have a rookie quarterback who plays in
• 45:30
  a dome with with all his weapons kind of hurt or Joe Flacco, who
• 45:32
  you know. We'll leave it at that. So the script is there.
• 45:37
  It couldn't have been more favorable other than being the one seed obviously, but
• 45:39
  we never even were thinking about sniffing one seed ever. You know, even
• 45:44
  in the first part of the like after the first loss, it was like,
• 45:46
  yeah, we'll see and then six and six for sure, weren't thinking
• 45:50
  about it, and now we have one of the best, you know,
• 45:52
  story books you could kind of play out, so, you know, thinking
• 45:54
  it was going to be expensive, it turned out to be, you know,
• 45:58
  cheaper than we thought, and we got to take advantage. Mama Monday
• 46:00
  will go around the table on this playoff preview. I mean, am I
• 46:06
  crazy? I mean, I know THEE wanting to say, But I look
• 46:09
  around and I just like, man, I don't, I don't know.
• 46:12
  I mean, I respect Baltimore Lamar Jackson, your league MVP for the twenty
• 46:15
  twenty three season. He should be, he deserves it. However, I
• 46:20
  just don't. I can't. I'm a little bit worried about him because their
• 46:22
  defense is ferocious. However, I just trust Josh Allen and I don't know.
• 46:27
  I mean, I think we stack up like I don't if that is
• 46:30
  the only thing I'm supposed to be scared of. I don't know. This
• 46:32
  looks pretty good, Mama Monday. Looks pretty good. Is it's looking brighter?
• 46:38
  When you went from eleven to two, that was like a case of
• 46:45
  vertigo. Here's the deal. You're right, The pathway is there. Everything
• 46:54
  is in front of them, everything all all all the stars in the sky
• 47:01
  are aligning for them to be able to do whatever they want to do.
• 47:07
  And they can beat on any given Sunday whatever. They could beat any team
• 47:14
  in this league. I'm not afraid of the Ravens. No, I'm not
• 47:16
  even afraid of the San Francisco forty nine ers. Oh, I know.
• 47:21
  Help put the car before the horse. I just want to get to the
• 47:23
  super Bowl. I want to get there. We could break that down later,
• 47:25
  but I think in the conference, in the conference, it looks good,
• 47:29
  General, I mean it looks good. General. Talk to me.
• 47:32
  You're the one that You're the one that gave me the confidence to not really
• 47:37
  respect Baltimore as much as I was. I was giving them too much.
• 47:38
  Respective. You had to check me on the last time that you were on
• 47:42
  the show a couple episodes ago. Talk to them, Talk to the crew.
• 47:45
  What's up? Does this not look like? This looks just as good
• 47:47
  as it for Kansas City? Right? I mean thirteen seconds we were right
• 47:51
  there, and what was the scenario. The scenario was coming back home.
• 47:53
  If we take care of thirteen seconds, we come back home when we host
• 47:57
  the Bengals. We didn't know what the Bengals were at that point in time.
• 48:00
  Was Joe Burrow's first time in a playoff run. I mean, every
• 48:02
  every Bills fan wants to tell you that we would have gone to the super
• 48:05
  Bowl. And then obviously the loss last year, some of us have kind
• 48:07
  of retreated on that that that that take. But look around the conference,
• 48:10
  man, what's up? This is not this is a good field. Yeah,
• 48:15
  I mean I I even when we were six and six, I thought
• 48:19
  that we had a chance at the one seed. I'm'na be real with you,
• 48:22
  man, I never The reason I never play off, and I understand
• 48:28
  that, the reason I never really gave up is just because, like you
• 48:31
  see what this team is capable of, right, and you and you see
• 48:37
  the only way they can lose is that they beat themselves. It's like they're
• 48:42
  so much better than everybody else. They literally have to shoot themselves in a
• 48:45
  foot in order to lose games. And and it's like you you look at
• 48:50
  the losses. You lose two divisional games to Bombs, right, the Patriots
• 48:53
  and the Jets. Bombs should never lose those games. I should never lose
• 48:58
  to the Broncos, Right, you should not have lost the Eagles. You
• 49:02
  really should have won that game as four, we lost to Jacksonville in London.
• 49:10
  Oh yeah we did. We shouldn't have lost that game, but that
• 49:13
  one's understandable. And then there was another one of the Jets other no,
• 49:15
  no, that was one of them. Anyway, My point is I'm not
• 49:21
  scared of anybody because we are far and away the best team. We have
• 49:28
  the best quarterback. And when I say because everybody far and away, see
• 49:34
  hold on. The narrative on the Bills is the Bills go where Josh Allen
• 49:38
  takes them, and you never know what kind of gaming blah blah blah.
• 49:43
  As much as we're gonna talk about Kansas City's defense, in Baltimore's defense in
• 49:47
  San Francisco, our defense is it like our defense is legit, so like
• 49:53
  I don't understand why, Like they're just being discounted completely right, Like that
• 49:59
  makes no sense. And then on top of that, you also have the
• 50:02
  best quarterback on the planet, Like you know what I'm saying. So even
• 50:07
  if their defense may be better than us, it's only slightly. It's not
• 50:10
  like, you know, they fly around the ball. We fly around the
• 50:14
  ball. We first for the third most turnaments in the league this year,
• 50:19
  so we win here this week, and then of course you know, we'll
• 50:22
  have Miami coming back to us and we'll beat them again. No, Miami
• 50:25
  would go Miami. If they win, they'll go to play Baltimore. If
• 50:30
  they pull off the upset. If Kansas City wins, as they'll, they'll
• 50:32
  face us because the highest seed will face the lowest seed. So that's why
• 50:36
  I said if Miami, if Miami pulls off the upset, or what if
• 50:39
  the case may be, then they'll go and they'll play the Ravens and we
• 50:44
  would get you know, Cleveland or Houston. If everything goes according to form,
• 50:47
  like we think, the city wins in the cold, then Patrick Mahomes
• 50:51
  will have to get his pretty ass on a plane for the first time in
• 50:54
  the season. But that's not gonna happen because they're not gonna win that game.
• 51:00
  Who the Dolphins are gonna win. The injuries they have, Okay,
• 51:04
  what we talking about that bother time, injury, Bron I'm telling you something.
• 51:08
  I'm telling you something. Okay, watch watch what I say, Watch
• 51:13
  what I say? All right, So then we got Cleveland coming to us,
• 51:17
  and I don't think I don't think. I don't think Miami could beat
• 51:21
  Baltimore. So then of course we'll have to go take you know, to
• 51:23
  go slap around Baltimore in Maryland. You know what I mean. I ain't
• 51:27
  no problem, you know what I mean. So I went, you're more
• 51:31
  confident than that. I love that I went Robin up the water. Hey,
• 51:37
  bring me party, Bring me party, Hey, bring me party.
• 51:45
  All right, bring me Shanahan. If that's why, well I will be
• 51:50
  d t. I will be like or or bring me Prescott again so he
• 51:53
  could get walked all over again. All right, I'm not even thinking that
• 51:58
  far man. I swear if the Bills make this with both DT knows this
• 52:00
  about me, man, I would just be overjoyed just to be game.
• 52:05
  If they lose, you can cry. I'm gonna cry. I'm talking about
• 52:07
  I want to I want the experience again. I was five, six,
• 52:10
  seven and eight for the Super Bowl run. I want to wake up on
• 52:14
  Super Bowl Sunday as an adult. I was five. Yeah. I mean,
• 52:23
  of course we will all be hurt if we go to zero and five
• 52:27
  and the Super Bowl and lose. Of course we'd all be hurt. But
• 52:29
  I just want the opportunity to wake up that morning and know that my team
• 52:32
  is one of the last two remaining that this is it. At six thirty,
• 52:36
  there's gonna be a game, the biggest game of the year, and
• 52:37
  is gonna be a halftime show? Whoever's the halftime show? And I think
• 52:40
  it's usher this year. I just want to wake up and know that we
• 52:44
  are playing in the biggest game and that we earned it. And I haven't
• 52:46
  been able to have that feeling since I was I gotta challenge that, Rob
• 52:50
  because you know what I think. I think it's just like if you got
• 52:52
  your first million, right, you gonna be like, oh man, this
• 52:55
  million is great. I'm super comfortable. He got two million. Oh no,
• 53:02
  not with the bills. Not with the bill. DT knows. I'm
• 53:06
  not lying, DT. I'm one brand man. I just want to get
• 53:07
  bills. Make the super Bowl. You good. I'll let the chips fall.
• 53:13
  Man. You can't either win it or you lose it. There's no
• 53:15
  time, says. I'm not saying I won't be an appreciative of a Super
• 53:17
  Bowl berth, but I want to win that. Of course I want to
• 53:21
  win it, but I want to I won't. I won't stress myself out
• 53:24
  about it. I won't. I won't be leading up to it, talking
• 53:27
  about Man, if you lose this and that I'll be so happy. Mess
• 53:30
  yea work to do to listen to you DT, DT is funny because I
• 53:37
  look at the Steelers team as we begin to wrap up here a little bit
• 53:38
  tonight, and I appreciate everybody that's been listening in and your guys, obviously
• 53:42
  your time tonight for all of you, the Steelers. How can they be
• 53:45
  this? We'll just we'll go around on that one because I don't There's been
• 53:49
  something that's been on my chest that I want to get off my chest,
• 53:51
  and I want Mama Monday to talk about it as well, because she says
• 53:53
  that it's getting ready to be minus thirty pretty soon out there in Wyoming and
• 53:58
  she's got to get ready to get bundled up, make sure the ProPaint tank
• 54:00
  is full out there. And it's it's crazy because I don't I don't understand,
• 54:06
  and I want this. You guys can all kick this around. I
• 54:07
  don't understand, and I'm I'm still struggling with it because I hear Bill's Mafia
• 54:12
  talk about it all the time in a glorifying way. I don't understand why
• 54:16
  we embrace this weather, this crappy weather so much in respects to the football
• 54:22
  team. I'm not talking about being from what I'm from Western New York.
• 54:23
  I grew up in and you know, I would never move back. I
• 54:27
  love Charlotte. I love the softer winters and the warm winters. I would
• 54:30
  never move back. But I miss my Bills and the food and my family.
• 54:32
  However, it seems like Western New Yorkers embrace it in a way that
• 54:37
  they think that it's an advantage for us when they all they often forget that
• 54:40
  the weather when it's thirty mile an hour GUS or twenty five miles on our
• 54:45
  gusts like it's predicted to be on Sunday, it is an equalizer. I
• 54:49
  put it. I tweeted it out today. It's an equalizer for the crappy
• 54:52
  teams. So if I'm the Steelers and I have a pristine conditions that the
• 54:55
  Bills played in the domant, I know that that ship sailed. We're not
• 54:59
  getting a dome and we're gonna have a canopy, And they say the canopy
• 55:00
  is going to be sixty five percent covered, no problem, So that should
• 55:04
  be great whenever the new stadium comes. That doesn't not help us Sunday.
• 55:07
  These gusts and these kind of conditions does not help the team. We have
• 55:12
  a fast team and we have a quarterback that can sling it. Yes,
• 55:15
  just because Josh Allen can throw the ball through a country mile does not mean
• 55:17
  that I want him to have to go through blistering win. It doesn't make
• 55:22
  any sense to me that New England Patriots game that they call that the hurricane
• 55:25
  game or whatever. When when Bill Belichick beats us, they through three times,
• 55:30
  Mac Jones through three times. We should have not lost the game,
• 55:31
  but we did lose. You know why we lost the game was because the
• 55:35
  weather made it even. The two teams were not equal, and the weather
• 55:38
  brought the Patriots closer to us. It seems to be some mystifying glorification that
• 55:43
  Bill's mafi, Yeah, this is Buffalo, and this is this is hard
• 55:45
  for them, and they always harken back tomorrow, Levy and when it's you
• 55:49
  know, too hard for them, it's just right for us. I understand
• 55:52
  it, and it sounds cute. However, if we looked at it practically,
• 55:54
  again, I'm a practical Bills fan, the weather does not help us
• 55:59
  anymore than if we were in a Dome, and it seems like Bills Mafia
• 56:02
  loves to talk about the ones that I'm like, yeah, I don't want
• 56:06
  it to be an hour that doesn't help ours, that doesn't exist. And
• 56:10
  I think that's that goes back to the scars from the drought, right of
• 56:14
  hing that you know, we didn't have any Our punter was our best player
• 56:17
  for yearsman, and you know, and the fan base had to start materializing
• 56:23
  things to have an advantage for him. You know, yeah, I want
• 56:29
  to do. We're playing the Pittsburgh Steelers three hours down the road. It's
• 56:31
  gonna be the same weather in Pittsburgh. They deal with the same same junk
• 56:35
  day in and day out. Two I mean, there might be an advantage.
• 56:37
  Yet if you've got the Dolphins coming up, or if you got you
• 56:39
  know, Houston coming up with a rookie quarterback Dome, you know, okay,
• 56:44
  maybe, but these still why are we better than a lot of teams
• 56:47
  is because we have one seven. Yeah, one seven can't do what he
• 56:52
  does best, then it takes that advantage away to so I completely, I
• 56:55
  completely, I think it's it's it's bs but the but I will argue the
• 57:01
  fact when you say it's an equalizer. Sure it could be. But the
• 57:06
  fact when the chips are out here, it's it's a big it's a big
• 57:08
  game, it's wild card survive in advance right right, This Pittsburgh Steelers team,
• 57:14
  Granted the Bills team was down. You know, we were in some
• 57:16
  dark times this year, but we were, you know, still still at
• 57:20
  the wheel of the ship. This Pittsburgh Steelers team had dudes not finishing plays,
• 57:24
  had Ben Roethlisberger in an open interview saying, they don't know what it
• 57:29
  takes to wear the black and gold, you know, like legit organizational problems
• 57:35
  you know, coming out of them this year, and they have a nice
• 57:37
  little run at the end of the year and squeeze in. This isn't a
• 57:39
  situation where, you know, just because it's weather and and they're the Steelers
• 57:44
  and they beat you up in its ground and pound like we we've shown we
• 57:46
  can ground and pound too. Granted, I'm not I wouldn't. I would
• 57:50
  rather it be a good day and have all our weapons and be able to
• 57:52
  have that tem pointing spread, you know, to top notch. But and
• 57:57
  I agree, Rob, it's bs that people are talking. They just it
• 58:00
  just seems I'm not going to dig into the equalizer to the fact that this
• 58:06
  Pittsford Steelers team just because it is cold. Oh, now we're on the
• 58:08
  level playing field. Like no, like they they were dealing with some with
• 58:12
  the same stuff. We were even worse and they don't have one seven of
• 58:15
  the boys behind. So I did what you're saying. I agree to that,
• 58:19
  but I'm not. I'm not saying it's an equalizer this week. I
• 58:22
  just don't want it to show up in rear it's ugly head Mama Monday,
• 58:25
  where it's a situation where this team has no business being with us and Josh
• 58:30
  can't throw the ball effectively or something like that, and it kind of it
• 58:32
  brings them closer. That's all. The margin of error comes down in bad
• 58:37
  weather games. That's all I'm trying to say. I think that's legit.
• 58:42
  It is an equalizer. But I also think the one thing regarding the Steelers
• 58:46
  game in particular, the loss of TJ. Watt huge, huge, huge,
• 58:54
  huge. I thought about it when he went down in that game once
• 58:58
  against Baltimore. Yeah, that's a huge loss, and that is where we
• 59:02
  have to take advantage. And I think what we haven't talked about one of
• 59:10
  the things that makes this defense so great is the fact that we have depths.
• 59:17
  I mean, we're playing we get I thought, honestly, when Matt
• 59:22
  Milano went down, I was like, I don't know what this defense can
• 59:27
  do. And I'm on the list of apologizers for Terrell Bernard because that dude
• 59:37
  he can't. I'm on that list too. I did not see dude can
• 59:40
  ball pound for pound. He is Dino Mighte. And so I think with
• 59:49
  this where the Steelers are concerned, They've they've lost the best player they have
• 59:52
  on the team on offense or defense, and it is not going to be
• 1:00:00
  as daunting a task I would say, as it would be if we had
• 1:00:05
  t J. Watt. But I will say you never right off a Mike
• 1:00:09
  Tomlin team ever, because he will have those players motivated and he will get
• 1:00:15
  the most out of them that he can. And one more thing about Mason
• 1:00:20
  Rudolph. Mason Rudolph, he might have the strongest arm, but he is
• 1:00:28
  I don't want to say a grizzled veteran necessarily, but he's been around the
• 1:00:31
  block. And how many quarterbacks has Pittsburgh been through since Mason Rudolph has been
• 1:00:39
  on the team. There's been a few. There's been a few. He's
• 1:00:44
  always been the backup though, you know, he's always been He's always there.
• 1:00:45
  He's mister reliable and Najie Harris is. I'm sure they're going to run
• 1:00:53
  it a ton of times, and they play hard because they're in a division
• 1:00:59
  where they have to play hard all the time. So I think it's a
• 1:01:04
  mistake to kind of just look at the Steelers and go, oh, well,
• 1:01:08
  they just sort of back their way in no problem. I don't fear
• 1:01:13
  them in the sense that I might fear a different team, Okay, but
• 1:01:19
  I definitely respect them. I respect their game, and I respect their head
• 1:01:22
  coach. Oh yeah, I respect I've got a ton of respect for Mike
• 1:01:25
  Tomlin general. What do you think? How can I mean, how can
• 1:01:29
  they beat this? I mean, I'm being honest. I'm not trying to
• 1:01:30
  dismiss them, like like Robin had said, like Mama Monday said, But
• 1:01:34
  I mean, I just don't Other than the weather, I don't know.
• 1:01:37
  You know. I remember driving up six hundred and fifty miles for the opener
• 1:01:42
  two years ago and Pisburd beats us, and I was so v back.
• 1:01:47
  I was so mad because I'm like, that team is not better than us.
• 1:01:50
  I just drove all this way and they lost the game, and it's
• 1:01:52
  a block putton this and that. I don't I would, I guess I
• 1:01:55
  would think that it's got to be special teams, whether something silly. I
• 1:02:00
  don't. I don't know how they beat us. General, well, the
• 1:02:04
  Pittsburgh Steelers cannot beat the Buffalo Bills. That's just the fact that I got
• 1:02:08
  it. Okay, I'm writing it down. Unfortunately, what can happen is
• 1:02:16
  the Buffalo Bills can lose to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Okay, all right,
• 1:02:22
  the Pittsburgh Steelers are not capable of defeating like literally going out there and saying,
• 1:02:28
  yo, we're better than you. I don't care if they're not capable
• 1:02:32
  of that. Okay, okay, but thirty mile Power wins. As you
• 1:02:37
  said in the chat, the last time a crappy team came to our stadium
• 1:02:44
  in high wins, we lost. You know. Of course, now this
• 1:02:49
  time we have a much more a much more sustainable run game, a much
• 1:02:59
  more like certified run game. I think that James cook Is is one of
• 1:03:04
  the best backs in in the world or in the in the league ball security
• 1:03:09
  art. Somebody say ball security. It's just like this offense is filled with
• 1:03:17
  uber talented players who just picked the most inopportune times to do stuff. That
• 1:03:24
  was a that was a between Josh Allen, Early Dawson Knots James Cook and
• 1:03:36
  gave Davis uber talented and just picked the worst times in the world to just
• 1:03:40
  fold. Is wild, But like I said, they it would it would
• 1:03:46
  have to be like Josh throws like three inceptions. The wind is like crazy,
• 1:03:52
  like you know, and I really don't think that'll happen, especially to
• 1:03:58
  playoff Josh Allen. J Josh Allen doesn't play the way that people think that
• 1:04:02
  regular season Josh Allen plays. He's who will be our best running back?
• 1:04:06
  Who will be our best running back? He may be the best running back
• 1:04:11
  in the league if we're being honestly, maybe Lamar might be a little better.
• 1:04:15
  But you know, you look at like I said, it'll just take
• 1:04:20
  the Bills just be focused. If the Bills just go out there and say,
• 1:04:24
  let's not turn the ball over, catch the ball, go to the
• 1:04:29
  ground without the ball leaving your hands, and we win this game. If
• 1:04:32
  the Bills don't turn the ball over or don't commit like a ridiculous amount of
• 1:04:38
  stupid penalties will win this game easily. Really, I mean they don't have
• 1:04:42
  T J. Watt. They can't do any because our defense is better than
• 1:04:45
  their defense and they you know, they need and just to touch real quick
• 1:04:48
  on the stadium thing. Yeah, I don't get it. I don't understand
• 1:04:53
  that. Oh yeah, sh sailed. I know that. And you take
• 1:04:58
  a look at every team in the AFC North, the Ravens, Browns,
• 1:05:01
  Bangos, Steelers, they all have, you know, employed a mindset of
• 1:05:09
  defense crazy tough and run game crazy tough. Right then the Bills is lollieyah
• 1:05:15
  and like, hey, we got the best quarterback in the world. Okay,
• 1:05:17
  I'm not the best quarterback in the world, but no, the wind
• 1:05:20
  is our advantage. Like I don't understand that thought. Yeah that doesn't make
• 1:05:24
  sense. I mean that's why I wanted the dome, and the domes has
• 1:05:27
  gone, so like that ship is sailed. So maybe the maybe the can
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  of people will help out. I don't know how that really helps you,
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  So I hope, So, I just I just don't I think that we
• 1:05:34
  fantasize about it. And when I say we builds mafia, we fantasize about
• 1:05:39
  it being some type of advantage, and I think sometimes we forget that it's
• 1:05:42
  the same for us. And just because Josh Allen can throw it, you
• 1:05:45
  know, like I said, a country mile, he could throw it real
• 1:05:46
  hard, doesn't really mean that it's not you know, the receiver is still
• 1:05:49
  cold outside, so that ball still like a cement rock when it comes to
• 1:05:53
  the receiver's hands and stuff like that. So that's all it is what it
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  week, DT, you already know I cried. I cried it the other
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  day. Man. It's tough. Man. I coached my Kings basketball team,
• 1:06:48
  so this is basketball season right now. So I've got the first game
• 1:06:50
  of the day at nine thirty in the morning on Saturday for Nate, and
• 1:06:55
  then I've got the last game of the day at three point thirty for Bobby.
• 1:06:59
  By the time we get done with the game four thirty, then I
• 1:07:00
  got to get home. Then I've got to get on the road. I'm
• 1:07:03
  probably not on the road till five thirty six o'clock, drive up nine hours.
• 1:07:06
  It's just not it's it's not feastble. I don't like even driving,
• 1:07:11
  to be honest, at nighttime that long anymore. I like to get up
• 1:07:14
  early, crack at dawn. Then I can kind of follow the sun and
• 1:07:16
  I get on the road six or seven in the morning, and I'm there,
• 1:07:19
  you know, three o'clock, four o'clock, and it's a lovely trip
• 1:07:21
  and you could see all the foliage and stuff like that during the fall.
• 1:07:25
  It's just it's just not in the cars dt I am. I already cried,
• 1:07:29
  man, I'm not gonna cry again, and I'm gonna miss the tail
• 1:07:31
  game. I wish I could fry all the turkey. I want to fry
• 1:07:33
  you all the turkey. I just it's just this is not feasible. Man.
• 1:07:36
  I get on the road that late. I'm not getting there till what
• 1:07:39
  three four in the morning, and then I'm going to the game. Like
• 1:07:43
  I'll be up all day that I find the way to sleep day because they
• 1:07:45
  gotta leave Monday. Yeah. I don't care about cold as long as as
• 1:07:55
  long as get the Kings a couple of w s. Let's yeah, yeah,
• 1:08:00
  ins on Saturday. We'll bring home the windy Sunday and then we can
• 1:08:03
  when Patty and the boys come come next week. So you mean flack the
• 1:08:10
  boys. I don't understand. Oh goodness, gracious you love. I don't
• 1:08:15
  know. We'll talk about that another time, Justine. I think you're crazy,
• 1:08:17
  man, Miami. That that's the next Wednesday. Next Wednesday, I'm
• 1:08:25
  gonna come back on after that. Then I just want a lot of numbers
• 1:08:29
  so we get it's all good. We could build a whole new studio and
• 1:08:31
  all the nights. It's all good. So DT, what are your plans
• 1:08:34
  man for for the weekend. I know that the tailgate is gonna be lit.
• 1:08:36
  I know it is, yep. Been you know, been in contact
• 1:08:41
  obviously a big bend and the crew. He's got a big crew coming.
• 1:08:43
  I'm still figuring out my logistics. I have a you know, some things
• 1:08:46
  going on after the game. I gotta I kind of gotta play the you
• 1:08:50
  know, play my cards correctly. You know which I to not burn it
• 1:08:55
  both ends. But you know what happens in the playoffs, and it's in
• 1:08:58
  my back up. We probably gotta figure a way to make it happen.
• 1:09:00
  But okay, been in contact, nothing nothing stone yet. But you know,
• 1:09:05
  obviously the day earlier in the normal spot, it's been you know,
• 1:09:11
  a year where other one's busy with all the night games and whatnot. It's
• 1:09:15
  been tough. It hasn't been a normal you know, week after week after
• 1:09:17
  week at one o'clock where we're at the tailgate all together. We've had some
• 1:09:20
  good ones together, so let's you know, kudos to that everything in the
• 1:09:25
  middle. But yeah, it's a it's a business trip. We got to
• 1:09:28
  go in and take care of business. We'll see how it goes. And
• 1:09:30
  it's gonna be cold and wendy out there, but you know, is the
• 1:09:32
  season to the season, mama, Wendy all the way out mountain time in
• 1:09:38
  Josh Allen Country out there in Wyoming. What are your plans for Sunday?
• 1:09:42
  Sunday one o'clock steals Steely. Well, we're still gonna be below zero and
• 1:09:48
  so there won't be much travel involved unless there has to be. Uh,
• 1:09:54
  low key low low low key here you and your husband, now, you
• 1:09:58
  said he doesn't watch the games with you where he does? Absolute I love
• 1:10:04
  it. You sound like how in my room, and I swear at the
• 1:10:11
  clouds like me too. That's what you're isolated. I know that you had
• 1:10:17
  told me that he doesn't watch them in the same room with you. I
• 1:10:20
  didn't know if that doesn't apply to playoffs. It applies, and especially applies
• 1:10:25
  in the playoffs. I love it. I love it. You don't need
• 1:10:28
  that somebody saying something stupid. I totally understand it. I get it.
• 1:10:31
  Justice General up there east side Buffalo recipiece of the Jefferson Victims. You are
• 1:10:38
  right there in the heart of things. You already know. I went to
• 1:10:40
  the church right down the street, Jefferson and High. Where you what you're
• 1:10:43
  doing? Man? What you what you're gonna do Sunday? Man, Get
• 1:10:45
  some wings, get some get some good pizza. What you got playing?
• 1:10:48
  They ain't going to a party? I mean, how do you how you
• 1:10:50
  consume your bills? This is a big game, Like, That's why I
• 1:10:53
  asked Robbie, because sometimes the plans change for playoffs. I mean, yeah,
• 1:10:58
  I watch it with that's all. So what you're gonna do, General,
• 1:11:00
  Yeah, I actually moved more towards the area. So okay, you're
• 1:11:06
  going in our heart. No warm, but you know I am gonna tailgate
• 1:11:12
  this week. You are, okay? Okay, that's a good friend of
• 1:11:15
  mine, got me a birthday Kiff, and definitely want to collect on that.
• 1:11:20
  And or the Bills are undefeated when I tailgate, So definitely gonna do
• 1:11:27
  that. No, I am not going to the game. I don't enjoy
• 1:11:30
  I don't enjoy going to the games honestly, and also Joshua a, who's
• 1:11:34
  your favorite Green Mountain employee? If it's not me? Like, what's happening
• 1:11:40
  right now? Yeah, josh My, josh cool Exception one O four.
• 1:11:43
  Curtis has a question that we're gonna get to after you explain. So what
• 1:11:45
  what you're gonna do? Man? What's the plan? So you're gonna go
• 1:11:47
  to the tailgate, you at a bar after, or you're gonna come back
• 1:11:50
  home. How are you gonna consume home? Brother? I'm going home,
• 1:11:54
  Okay, okay, I'm not out a social butterfly. Okay, okay,
• 1:11:59
  okay, no problem with it, man. I mean the playoffs just bring
• 1:12:00
  out something out of everybody. So I always love, you know, getting
• 1:12:04
  everybody's plans. And that's the whole point of the Nickel City Crew tailgate reports.
• 1:12:08
  It really started with being DT letting everybody know about our all of our
• 1:12:13
  fun that we're having at the tailgates, and then it's kind of morphed to
• 1:12:15
  something more where we want to know where everybody's gonna watch it. So that's
• 1:12:17
  what's up real quick. I'm not telling I'm just saying. Curtis has a
• 1:12:23
  pretty decent question that's why, I said, were about to bring it up.
• 1:12:25
  Oh yeah, Curtis, Yeah, I said, we're gonna bring it
• 1:12:27
  up after I heard your after I heard what your plans were. Curtis asked
• 1:12:31
  us did Lenny have a good enough showing last week to enter the rotation?
• 1:12:35
  Playoff? Lenny? Anybody? So? I mean, now he was in
• 1:12:38
  the rotation, Curtis, last week he only had uh, let's see,
• 1:12:41
  he only had a couple carries. To be honest, it wasn't much on
• 1:12:44
  the ground, but he had seven carries for twenty yards on Sunday. I
• 1:12:47
  don't know what do you think, I mean, playoff Lenny is a real
• 1:12:49
  thing, asked Tom Brady. They've got the they've got the ring to prove
• 1:12:53
  it so, and he's got out of the backfield he could catch the ball.
• 1:12:55
  So I don't know what do you think they I mean, he got
• 1:12:57
  a he got a little bit of run. I think it's over for I
• 1:13:00
  really do. I think he's older and what he was bringing to the team
• 1:13:03
  he already broke. I mean I heard meeting. The players respect him,
• 1:13:08
  but he's he's he's he's almost as no sign. We signed for Matt later
• 1:13:15
  in the season and kind of eased them into this with I think with hopes
• 1:13:17
  and you know, to get him ready for the playoffs and get rolling,
• 1:13:20
  and you know, I think with more opportunities, he's gonna give us more,
• 1:13:24
  if not better than what Latavius Murray did throughout the year. Like you
• 1:13:29
  said, he can catch the ball to something Latavious wasn't great at, but
• 1:13:32
  you know, could could slam it as well. So I'm open to see
• 1:13:36
  opportunity. I'll give him. I'll give him reps and see what happens.
• 1:13:39
  Especially if Ty Johnson out, you know, with a concussion, it's gonna
• 1:13:43
  be a lot harder to you know, not give him reps. If anything,
• 1:13:45
  he should be worried about what Harley Steinfeldt thinks his hands on Josh's hips
• 1:13:50
  like that on those Yeah, he was helping him out the snowplow. He
• 1:13:58
  was helping him out. Yeah, that's funny. What do you what do
• 1:14:01
  you think? Uh, general playoff? Lenny? Could he reappear for the
• 1:14:04
  building. First of all, I don't know. There's a lot of Platavious
• 1:14:12
  Murray disrespect happened, and I don't like it. I just I don't like
• 1:14:16
  it. Hero Listen, hold on, Hold, on leadership playoffs, open
• 1:14:24
  off the rails. I mean, I don't think you're wrong in saying that,
• 1:14:29
  Like, but I don't think that like he just you know, can't
• 1:14:31
  bring anything else. I think that latavio Is Murray was damn good for us.
• 1:14:36
  He average on his four yards to carry season four touchdowns like Lata I
• 1:14:45
  mean, but come on now, Like it's the think the Bills are so
• 1:14:49
  predictable offense. The Bills are so predictable on offense. But I mean,
• 1:14:55
  also, Todd Johnson is in concussion protocols, so we're gonna see what tav
• 1:14:58
  Is Murray regardless. All right, So so I really appreciate everything with the
• 1:15:05
  Tavous Murray has brought twist this year. He's been a hard runner. He
• 1:15:10
  has been ample first downs for US. Uh he has been and oh no,
• 1:15:17
  no, no, I'm not expecting that from him. But I don't
• 1:15:20
  want him coming off the backfield when I got back what I'm saying a lot
• 1:15:23
  of times they would be lined up with him on the outside and he's kind
• 1:15:26
  of telegraphing what we're going to be doing because if he's in the game that
• 1:15:29
  we know not throwing. But okay, my overall. No, I'm just
• 1:15:35
  I'm just saying he was a hard runner for us, and I feel like
• 1:15:40
  he even boosted James Cook's confidence. Okay, we saw the Tavious Murray break
• 1:15:46
  a run and then you saw James Cook break a bigger run, but it
• 1:15:50
  was like only in that sequence until the Dallas game. It's like you didn't
• 1:15:54
  see James Cook really break off until the Davus Murray like open the hole and
• 1:15:59
  like you know what I mean, made them a little bit of friendly competition.
• 1:16:02
  Little to answer the question, he looked good to me, I like
• 1:16:08
  Latavio's. He looked good to me. He didn't look like he was running
• 1:16:12
  as hard as Latapo or or as like fluid as Latavious Murray was you're talking
• 1:16:17
  about. Yeah, it looked a little tight. Uh. Hips wasn't like
• 1:16:24
  swinging or anything like that. But yeah, fresh legs. He only had
• 1:16:29
  a couple carries. Uh, So I would like to see the playoff lady
• 1:16:32
  come out. He looked he looked fine. He looked fine, So you
• 1:16:35
  know, and James Cook didn't even have a good game in this last game,
• 1:16:39
  so clearly the run wasn't necessarily there. So you know, I think
• 1:16:43
  that he'll he'll, he'll be a good addition to the team. I think
• 1:16:46
  I think Lavius, Lenny and James cook looked so good. You probably don't
• 1:16:53
  see Ty Johnson for the rest of the season through February obviously. I think
• 1:16:58
  they rolled with those uh you know, I think they roll with Murray uh,
• 1:17:02
  Cooking and Fournette up until the play up until the Super Bowl when they
• 1:17:08
  playing it and win it. But yeah, I like playoff Lenny. I
• 1:17:12
  think that he gonna he's gonna get another ring this year. D T are
• 1:17:15
  you still here? We got a question from Christopher Little have any impact on
• 1:17:20
  the game. I want to let you just I'll just lob that one up
• 1:17:24
  to you. I don't need to Mama money. What do you think?
• 1:17:30
  Yes, ladies first, Ladies first, I haven't heard that in a long
• 1:17:39
  get back on the game. Ask Christopher, thanks for listening. Let's yes,
• 1:17:45
  yes, yes, yes. If you looked at his thighs, oh
• 1:17:49
  yeah. The answer to the question about whether or not you can push anything,
• 1:17:57
  because he can absolutely can. But here's the deal with with Fournette.
• 1:18:01
  What I would like to see is what I would like to see them do
• 1:18:05
  with the running backs as a whole, which is allow them to get into
• 1:18:10
  a rhythm. And so if you have a drive going and things are going
• 1:18:15
  well on the ground, let's just keep rolling with who we have rolling,
• 1:18:20
  okay, and let them get in a rhythm. Because I think that's the
• 1:18:25
  biggest thing in Fournette. You know, he gets stuck in and boom.
• 1:18:29
  He couldn't he didn't have enough time to get warmed up at all. Okay,
• 1:18:35
  So I think that it's unfair to these guys, and that's that's that's
• 1:18:41
  what was happening earlier in the season with Dorsey and Cook. In my opinion,
• 1:18:46
  he'd have Cooked in there, he'd pull him out and he would never
• 1:18:50
  get a chance to be in getting into a rhythm. And that's what Joe
• 1:18:54
  Brady saw, right. I think when he came on board, he saw
• 1:19:00
  which to Okay, we need to we need to feed this guy at the
• 1:19:02
  ball and see what he can do, because Dorsey never fed him the ball.
• 1:19:08
  Not the same thing. What are your thoughts of von Miller? Christopher
• 1:19:11
  wants to know, Oh, well, I'll just go first on the game.
• 1:19:17
  Probably not, and I don't know that he may even be inactive.
• 1:19:26
  They won't do that for the playoffs. They won't do that for the playoffs.
• 1:19:28
  But I'm sorry, mama, buddy, I can't stop laughing because me
• 1:19:32
  and DT have already talked about this and you've heard it on other episodes that
• 1:19:35
  just I don't I don't DT, man take it. Man, I don't
• 1:19:40
  know what to say anymore. Man, Yeah, right, she's right.
• 1:19:43
  Probably not, I mean unless it's unless it's gamemanship. Oh goodness, why
• 1:19:51
  why Yeah, like just pretending to play until the playoffs and then he's gonna
• 1:19:56
  turn it on. I don't see a solution, and I think that's what
• 1:19:59
  it was. My Monday, I was starting to ask d T was there's
• 1:20:02
  something wrong with him because he I watched him as a whole specific game.
• 1:20:06
  I think it was the Patriots game DT, something like that. I watched
• 1:20:09
  him like specifically, and it was like I saw him like stopping on past
• 1:20:14
  rushes and I'm just like, wait, he just real fast, and it
• 1:20:21
  was something where I think it was you said, DT, it was like
• 1:20:24
  Rousseau like out what something like that, like so outright chasing a running back
• 1:20:29
  or something like across the entire field. Yeah, yeah, and Bomb Miller
• 1:20:31
  was already close. So I don't mean to laugh at laugh at Christopher or
• 1:20:35
  or you Maama Mondy, but I uh, I don't have any faith to
• 1:20:39
  see you know, yeah, I'll leave it. You know, we saw
• 1:20:47
  we saw Deontay Hardy and Trent Sherfield last week who you know, not even
• 1:20:53
  being critical, just spinning the facts of the year. They have both done
• 1:20:57
  absolutely nothing the entire season, like literally nothing thing. They were just roster
• 1:21:00
  spots. And then you come out and you know, in week in the
• 1:21:03
  biggest game when you need you in Week eight team and have two of the
• 1:21:08
  biggest plays of the year and kind of earn, earn your keep and earn
• 1:21:10
  your money. So we can only hope this is kind of a similar situation
• 1:21:13
  for von Miller. We we picked them up last year to be a game
• 1:21:16
  ender in the playoffs, never made it to the playoffs, came back,
• 1:21:19
  wasn't the same. Now, you know, get yourself right, can you
• 1:21:23
  do it in the playoffs. I'll give me one more chance, you know,
• 1:21:26
  to to create that, to create that Deontay Hardy moment if you will,
• 1:21:31
  and you know, in a couple of sacks to end the game in
• 1:21:34
  the playoffs would be all worth it, right, So let's let's get back
• 1:21:38
  to that. He just needs a couple to get us all back and and
• 1:21:41
  we can. We just got a bank on that. That's we got to
• 1:21:44
  be positive on that. I am not going to hold my breath heavy stuffocate
• 1:21:47
  down here, Charlotte, So I'm not going with my breath. I don't
• 1:21:49
  know what happened. I know that it's not I don't I don't blame the
• 1:21:54
  off the field stuff or anything like that. I think that it's just,
• 1:21:57
  you know, the injury when you get that old and your body has to
• 1:22:00
  come back from it. He's already been through a CLS before. I have
• 1:22:01
  to think that it's different. I don't blame Brandon Bean forgiving him the bag.
• 1:22:05
  I don't blame Brandon Bean for being aggressive and bringing him to town.
• 1:22:09
  I was so happy when he came. DT was enjoying it as well.
• 1:22:11
  I love the fact that he chose us after just coming off winning the Super
• 1:22:15
  Bowl. I just think that that injury last year's last Thanksgiving just it really
• 1:22:17
  just messed up up. And I don't know really what we should expect anymore
• 1:22:21
  from a thirty something year old defensive end that's coming off of but some some
• 1:22:27
  a CLS some guys they take longer than others. Some you know, not
• 1:22:30
  everybody's Adrian Peterson. True, he is over the year mark though. Now
• 1:22:34
  Mama Monday's yep. Trey White too. Yeah, I guess, yeah exactly.
• 1:22:45
  I mean he's half my age. So I'm saying football when I say
• 1:22:48
  old football, Oh, don't you start, don't. My point point is
• 1:22:55
  we just need one, We just need one play. Yeah, and it's
• 1:22:58
  all worth it, you know, maybe the strip side falling falling. Nothing
• 1:23:00
  he's done this season. I love it. No, you know what,
• 1:23:05
  less than nothing. He gave us an unnecessary scandal. I don't even know
• 1:23:10
  why he's still in the team. Yeah, I mean, better be a
• 1:23:13
  strip sack if you going to be on the field, Like, I don't
• 1:23:15
  even like him on the field, to be honest with you. You know
• 1:23:17
  how it goes. So, I mean the athletes sometimes the better you are,
• 1:23:20
  the more that they'll they'll be willing to put up with. So we'll
• 1:23:24
  stay out of the personal because again I don't want to go to person because
• 1:23:26
  people don't like when I talk about Josh. We'll just we'll we'll let it,
• 1:23:29
  we'll let it lie. I really appreciate all of your guys. No,
• 1:23:33
  no, nothing nothing good man, we good. You're not gonna rope
• 1:23:40
  me in man, listen. I really appreciate all of your help tonight and
• 1:23:44
  being and joining us again. The editor in chief over at Buffalo fan Base,
• 1:23:47
  the lovely miss Robin Monday. Check her out on Instagram, Twitter at
• 1:23:51
  Robin Munday. One thing I have to add, because I will, I
• 1:23:56
  will be like, I will be in big time trouble. Yes, we
• 1:23:59
  have a podcast, Tea Time with Robin. Yes, yes, we we're
• 1:24:02
  live on Thursday mornings. It'll drop anywhere and where you find your podcast on
• 1:24:09
  Fridays. We have a lot of fun. He is the bomb. I
• 1:24:12
  love t She's the bomb. I love Mike, I love together. That's
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  awesome, Mike Suit. Shout out to ye. Throw the link in our
• 1:24:20
  group chat, Robert. Okay, we'll promote it for sure. Again.
• 1:24:26
  We love her. Thank you so much. Stay warm out there in Wyoming.
• 1:24:28
  We love you so much, Mama Monday again, Creative director at Buffalo
• 1:24:31
  fan Base. You already know. I mean, we've got big plans coming
• 1:24:34
  up for twenty twenty four. This brother gonna help us kind of take it,
• 1:24:38
  take it by storm. And I really appreciate you as always. Salute
• 1:24:41
  to the General Justice General Radford's holler at him on Instagram and Twitter at JA
• 1:24:45
  seventeen m v P. You know DT, I I love you man,
• 1:24:49
  You don I'm gonna miss you this week. I again, let's get Patrick
• 1:24:53
  Mahone's pretty ass on a plane and then I will make sure that I'm there
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  for the divisional round and I'll find somebody to cover. I I just can't.
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  I can't make it this week because it doesn't work logistically. Now,
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  as we wrap up a serious note, we are wrapping up tonight, but
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  rest in peace to Dylan Brody, Isaac's Buffalo Bill's fan thirty years old,
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  goes down to the game in Miami is shot and killed in an altercation after
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  outside of hard Rock Stadium, like a few blocks from the stadium. Now,
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  they say that people and witnesses or whatever said that there was some type
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  of altercation a guy in a car pulls a gun and kills him, and
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  I just I was talking to Robin pre show. I just I don't like
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  the world that we live in. When we do, you know, silly
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  shit like this. I mean, we've already talked about, you know,
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  the tops massacre and spreading hate. Why do I end every show by saying
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  it. It's not to sound cute or fun, it's to send positive energy
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  out there, spread love, not hate, I said, I end every
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  show that way on purpose. The fact that this young man went down there
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  and doesn't come home is a tragedy. I know that they have talked about
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  somebody that's going to be getting a go fund me page on there, so
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  if you go on Twitter or anything like that, you'll be able to find
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  some more information out about him. I know that they've been doing some write
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  ups, and ESPN already did a write up, but just senseless, senseless.
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  It doesn't even doesn't even cover it when I mean, this is professional
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  sports and is entertainment. It's like a concert, it's like a movie.
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  It's just a live production. No reason that you should lose your life for
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  anything. I don't care if they said, you know, fuck the Dolphins
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  or something like that, or he's making fun of fins up or something on
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  the way out. How does it go from from I'm making fun of your
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  team because we just want a game to you pulling out a gun and killing
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  me. So I don't know what he said or anything like that. I
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  don't care what he said. He didn't deserve to lose his life. So
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  really sad. Whoever knows this young man that killed him, right on him,
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  man, get him in jail, man, I don't I heard that
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  he was with people in that car. Those people know you guys have to
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  rest and lay your head on the pillow at night and know that you just
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  wish a witness the murder. Tell him this man, this is not cool.
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  It's not okay, So rest in peace to Dylan Brody Isaacs. I
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  heard it. It made me sick. It was the only thing that dampened
• 1:26:55
  all of the four Peak talk Sunday night was when, I mean the information
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  came out like before the Bills even got home, so we knew about this
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  as well down there. Just really just senseless, just such a tragedy.
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  So again, for the final time tonight, spread love out there, not
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  hate. Spread love. It's a game. It's a game. It's a
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  game. It's okay. It's entertainment. Should have never gone that way,
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  So rest in peace, mister Isaacs. Hit them with the go bills,
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  man. I mean, this has been a lot of fun tonight. I
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  enjoyed y'all. Man, H want to know right, d T want to
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  know. I love it,