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S3 E8: Be Careful What You Wish For · Nickel City Crew Podcast

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Fifteen degrees. You can see your breath out here in the lake effect breaking
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a crazy, crazy two days. It's probably some of the craziest two days
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you can really go through for mid June when it's supposed to be quiet time.
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This is the last time before the players will break as you know,
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after the mandatory OTAs and mini camp are done this week, that's it.
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The guys are gone. They'll be gone for about a month until camp next
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month, and then that's that's it. This is the last time that you're
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going to see these guys for a little while. So you hope that everybody
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stays healthy, everybody stays out of trouble. But boy, do we have
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some news before they break camp tomorrow. Joining me as always my co host
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Adam Dump Truck Rupsick. Follow them on Instagram at Adam Rupsick, r upc
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z y k Hollow at the Crew Dump Chuck Man. They are going crazy,
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crazy is going nuts. DT you told me to stay off of w
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GR. You guys know here at Nicol City Crum an avid w GR listener,
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you told me to stay off. Shout out to Big Ben Fanella.
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They told me to stay off at w GR. I couldn't help it,
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um and I boy, I wish I would have listened to you guys.
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It's been a madhouse on Twitter. I mean it's been a madhouse everywhere I've
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been going. Man, Um, how at the crew DT? What's good
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tonight? Man? What's Nicole City? Nicolbe City? We're back, Rob,
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good to be back? Man? And man another starting off the year
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with some heavy drama, you know, or at least alleged heavy drama.
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Yeah, if you will. And um, we look back and I'll say
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the cliche as we're lifting the Lombardi and in February we look back and say,
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hey, remember when stefang drama And I'm June thirteenth, Rob, June
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thirteenth, by all means three months before we even kick off. So let's
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let's buckle in and unpack this because man, we got more defended to do.
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That's for sure. It's crazy because I could have swore that if we
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took care of us a couple of weeks ago with the mis education of Stefan
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Diggs. And then you know, we got some good feedback from that episode,
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and I really appreciate, uh, you know, the members of the
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crew listening and supporting it. Shout out to Justice General who was on and
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kind of helped us with some of that type of stuff and promoting it.
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It's been crazy, man, So as we all know, unless you've been
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under a rock, yesterday the Bills kicked off the final week of mandatory minicamp.
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Excuse me of mandatory minicamp. That was last week. This was,
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you know, all voluntary, and then this week was the final week of
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OTA slash mini camping. It started out with a mandatory portion on Tuesday today
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Wednesday, which we record, and then tomorrow Thursday when we released these episodes
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and Stefan Diggs was not there. Now, the tone, to me,
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DT was set by our wonderful head coach. So many people loved to jenuflect
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and and praise Sean McDermott. He kind of set the tone by letting everybody
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know in the morning press conference then eighty nine players were there. Hey,
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eighty nine guys were there. One guy's not. Stefan Diggs is the name
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of the guy that is not here, and he was quote very concerned.
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Now it's interesting that he was very concerned because he said it twice throughout that
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press conference and kind of left it at that. He seemed like he was
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a little bit pissed off. He was in a bad mood, you know.
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Sal Capaccio kind of said and echoed the same thing on w GR yesterday,
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and then all of a sudden today Stefan Diggs. Actually yesterday we still
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find out that he was at the facility DT and now he got his physical
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on Monday, and he came back to the facility to speak with Brandon Bean
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and Sean McDermott on Tuesday yesterday, and then he apparently allegedly left before practice.
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Now, obviously, what is an agent supposed to do when he catches
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wind of this um. He protects his client. That's what a good agent
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will do. So, you know, a dear Bakari, lets everybody know
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that, hey, my client was actually at one Bill's Drive. He was
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there, he got his physical done on Monday, and he left. He
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left before practice. But he had every intention of practicing. He had every
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intention of participating for the entire mandatory minicamp session. And it was interesting to
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hear because it signed it was. It was quickly apparent to me that everybody
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was getting ready to choose their size, and everybody was getting ready to pick
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where they were going to stand on this whole little you know, so called
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battle, and boy did it become that DT man. The fans were ready
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to ship Stefon Diggs out of Buffalo faster than you can. I mean then
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you could even yesterday. And it was wild. It was a wild It
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was just a wild sequence of events because I was worrying, how the hell
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did we get here? How did we go from defending this guy a couple
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of episodes ago and letting everybody know that he's, you know, a great
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teammate, he's a you know, two time captain, voted by his peers.
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He's integral to what the bifful of Bills do on offense? How do
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we go from that to this where people are they were ready to ship him
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out of town DT. It was not a joke. You got a chance
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to see where a lot of people were standing in Bill's mafia on this particular
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subject, and it was, to be honest, it was a little bit
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frightening to see how many people were ready to get rid of a premiere all
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pro, one of the best wide receivers in the league, in the prime
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of his career. They were ready to ship him out, and it was
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it was mind boggling. To me it was money. Yeah, Rob,
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I'll admit, I'll admit I was wrong a few weeks ago when we did
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the Miseducation of Stepman Diggs. I kind of was under the storyline of that.
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There's some rumblings and talk about it, but I think it's a lot
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of media hype and the fans themselves don't have actually think, um, you
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know these things and would never want you know, Stefan Diggs to be out
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of here, or never actually give them shit for not going to voluntary workouts
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or were not. And then that's you know, was I was proved wrong
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very very quickly yesterday, and the fact of um, you know, as
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soon as it happened, the switch was flipped and people were were going at
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throats, and um, you know, it was something that we had to
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address two weeks ago because it was in the rumblings and people were talking about
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it. I hoped it was just you know, media hype and and you
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know, propaganda if you will, to push something that wasn't there. And
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then something like this happened yesterday and all hell breaks loose. So um,
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I'm concerned on a few different levels of you know, the specific issue itself
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and you know, definitely the way these fans react because these players, you
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know, as much as they're professionals, and they tone a lot out.
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They hear a lot of stuff too. And and one war is in here
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busting his asked for us and me and all pro, leading the team in
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all aspects and being literally, like you said, the second best player on
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the team other than one seven. So to him putting in all his heart
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and soul into this field. And then here's the fans immediately talking about that
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after one practice that nobody knows why or what right we'll dig into the night.
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Yeah, you know, it could could rub him the wrong way,
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and um, you know, and that that's not good either. So concerned
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on a few different levels tonight, Rob, Yeah, man, it was
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interesting because the way that it turned so quickly made me a little bit uncomfortable
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to be honest. Um, you know, like I said, you know,
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we joke around. You guys told me to stay off w G or
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I couldn't. I was listening and today I got to a point where I
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was listening to One Bills Live and I literally had to turn my radio.
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I just had to turn the app off. I was like, okay,
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I can't back to back calls. He's a he's a headcase. M.
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He's paid, he should just go to practice. M. Nothing he needs
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to be upset about. Nothing, like like we like we're in the locker
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room, Like we know what's going on the dynamics of the team. And
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I think that that's one of the major things that that people forget. We
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are not in the locker room, and we're gonna kind of splice through what
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could be some of the things that he's upset about tonight and kind of do
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our own investigation here, our Nicol City and crew investigation. But to be
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honest, we don't know, and we don't know, and because we don't
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know really what was bothering him in respects to his disconnect with the team,
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or whether it be with the coordinator, or whether it be with the coaching
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staff or Josh Allen himself, the whole point is that I have to trust
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that the guys in the locker room, the coaches, will find a way
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to handle it. I have to trust that they understand They know stuff on
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digs better than we do, They know Josh Allen better than we do.
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We really don't know what the problem was and for the speculation, it's fine.
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It's fun to conjecture and to kind of figure out and kind of put
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the puzzle pieces together, and we'll do some of that tonight obviously, But
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the fact of that there were just so many just stern, staunch positions of
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he's bad, he needs to get out of here, he wants to go
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to Dallas, he wants to play with his brother, and all this other
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weird, weird stuff that was going around. Really just it was just disheartening.
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DT Like, there's no other way to put it, because of the
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fact that without any facts, knowing anything, we were ready to turn on
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him, and I I just was not comfortable with it. Again, we
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did that episode a couple episodes ago, the miseducation and stuff on Dix,
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because we were trying to let everybody know about his passion. We were trying
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to let everybody know about some of the things that are important to him.
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If you don't think that that fourteen wants to win that, I don't know
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what else you think that he's after. He already got paid, he's already
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got the recognition, he's been an all pro, he had a great career
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in Minnesota before he got to here, but he wanted to He wanted to
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raise it to another level. He wanted to go even higher. He wanted
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to be a better player. He thought that there was more meat on the
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bone, and he went for it. He forced his way out. He
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got out, And I'm happy that Brandon Meat picked him up because he has
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raised and elevated the play of the offense. He has elevated and raised really
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the play of the team. He permeates throughout the whole team. We talked
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about it on that episode DT. His energy is infectious. It affects the
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entire team in a positive way, not a negative way. It affects it
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in a positive way. And I just don't understand why you wouldn't want somebody
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like that on your team. But boy Bill's mafia kind of stood up yesterday
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once that word mandatory came on. It was boy you better get to practice.
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You better be right there ready to practice it. If you're not,
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you're trying to show up your teammates. And I just don't think that that's
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the case. Well, let's get this point across, rob It's pretty much
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as close to impossible as it gets. That Stefan Dix isn't a build next
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year, like he absolutely, you're not gonna you're not gonna trade them,
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not taking dead cap, first first round draft capital. In that regard,
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you're and you're not gonna release him and take thirty million dead cap. It's
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literally impossible. He would not be you know, signed, and well part
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of them not Yeah, exactly, So let's get that. Let's let's squash
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that right now. Like there's no way he's leaving, no way they're looking
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into a trade for him. There, there's no way. So he's here.
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Let's figure out what the issue is to keep everyone unhappy, keep this
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cohesion and when when the super Bowl? That's that's number one. And whatever
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we have to do to get there, if it takes a little more grit,
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if it takes a little more getting into asses, that's what we gotta
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do, right But the let's squash that right away. And I was definitely
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uncharacteristic, you know yesterday, I I'm pretty laid back in it and I
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let people do their talking. But I was I was getting a little addressed
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yesterday. I was some people were catching the hands with me on Instagram too.
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Everybody everybody in the post were like you know, everyone just had something
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to say. The pictures. The one picture I won't I won't say the
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handle. I won't say the handle, but it was like a picture of
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digs and it said, uh this this makes my tummy hurt or something.
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And I was like, come on, like it's crazy, but kidding,
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it's It's crazy though, because in times of adversity sometimes you really do see
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where people stand and that and that was one of the things that it was
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maybe the best thing about yesterday for me was the fact that I was able
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to see where a lot of people stay. Not that it's you know,
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obviously it's sports and it's nothing serious in that regards, but from a sports
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standpoint, from a Bill's Mafia standpoint, I got a chance to know some
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of my members. My fellow ever, is a little bit better yesterday because
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yeah, I was very surprised to see how many people were ready to ship
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amount of town. But it's but it's also on the reverse end. That
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why we had this episode two weeks ago, because it was, you know,
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fear mongering, like, oh, Stefan Diggs isn't a camp and everyone
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starts, you know, kind of talking about it. Oh yeah, he
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isn't a camp. Yeah, lies in the a camp and then all eyes
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are on this day. So I'm not saying it's anybody's fault in particular,
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but the media definitely gaslighted this thing to you know, for it to be
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a story, for this many eyes to be on it yesterday. If Stefan
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Diggs was a voluntary you know, a couple of weeks ago and he showed
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and he didn't show up yesterday, I don't think anybody would even like even
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if they reported it, I don't think anybody would have said anything. You
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know. It was the fact that people were building up and it was almost
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what concerned me, Robin, like you were saying, is the real colors
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of people like it. It was almost like these people didn't want him to
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come so they could so they could dig in and be like yep, sheet,
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you know, just just like Arrows, all this all this bullshit is
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real. He is a bad teammate. He is not, you know,
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in Malcolm, it was just it was almost easier for people to want that,
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which I don't know as a Bills fan, in being a part of
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this and seeing what you know, going through the drought like we did and
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seeing what the greatness Stefan Dix is brought to this team. I don't eat
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even if you know something legit is going on here, Why would you want
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to wish negativity on that? Why would you want to be like, yep,
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told you a great he's a scumbag. Like That's what bothered me the
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most, Like people really like I told you so, but like he told
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you so? What like you want one for to be like this? Like
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I don't know. So that's that's where I kind of on the grave a
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little bit, you know, and kind of, you know, we were
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really ready for a chance to kind of you know, to take some shots
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at him, to be honest. And I think that that's what it was,
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because I think that his energy makes some people uncomfortable, to be honest
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with you, DT, I think that's his his passion makes some people uncomfortable.
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You know. I heard a lot of references to the Cincinnati game DeMar
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Hamlet situation. And I heard people on WGR calling in yesterday on Tuesday show
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and talking to old Man. Well, you know, he was he was
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ready to play, and he was the only one ready to play. And
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this is because they because for if there was a ten minute period where we
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didn't know if they were going to get back on the field or not.
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So he was taking it upon himself to make sure that he was getting everybody
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amped up ready to go back out if they had to go back out And
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we've already touched on that a couple episodes to go by how DeMar Hamlet's first
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the first things he said out of his mouth when he woke back up was
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did we win the game? So Stefan Diggs was ready to go back out
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there if the NFL said go back out there. Once they said chill,
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he was chill. But until then he didn't know if they had to go
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back out there, So he wasn't gonna let those guys go out there with
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tears in their eyes. He was trying to get them fired up to go
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back out and play the game if the NFL was going to require them to
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finish it. So I'm just it was very, very interesting. One of
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the most interesting characters DT in this whole thing is again and we've spoken about
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it, was Sean McDermott man. I really feel like, and I know
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sometimes when you have previous biases about a person, you know you can you
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can find ways to get to the end result that you want to get to,
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I think, which is the point we're talking about. Yeah, yeah,
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I think. And I was just gonna say that I think that a
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lot of people were doing that with Stefan Diggs that already felt uncomfortable with him
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or didn't like him or something like that, or had some stuff bubbling under
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the surface. You guys all know here at Nickel City Crew that I am
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not his biggest proponent. I am. I'm not that impressed with some of
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the you know, the monikers and the trust, the process and some of
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the cool things and find a way and all this other type of stuff.
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I understand that he's professional. We've talked about it at nauseam. I appreciate
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the success that he has brought to the bills and the level of professionalism.
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However, I am not giving this man carte blanche to just do whatever he
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wants to do. So he kind of set the stage for us yesterday DT
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Nickel City Crew. He let us know in the morning. Eighty nine guys
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were there. They had one tryout player as well there. Stefan was not
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in attendance. This is the mandatory portion of Mini Camp the last camp that
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they will have before they break before training camp. Listen, he says he's
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very concerned. He used the words twice and said very concerned. I feel
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like that set the tenor for the rest of the day. Everybody at that
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point in time was all, oh, well, the coach is very concerned.
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Now I'm very concerned. Maybe if I was, maybe if I was
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at a level four concerned, now the coach at these very concerned. Now
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on on a level eight or nine, now I'm really concerned, or a
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level ten. And I saw plenty of people way over a ten yesterday.
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So here is Sean McDermott today. Again. We released these episodes on Thursday,
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so this is from Wednesday afternoon. Stephan Diggs comes back. His agent
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again was protecting his client. Let everybody know out in the media that my
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client was at one Bill's Drive. He showed up one Monday for physicals.
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He passed his physical and then he talked to Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott.
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On Tuesday, he was in the building and then he was ready to practice.
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For whatever reason we don't know, he left. Here is Sean McDermott
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with some of the reasons why he was very concerned, and I guess today
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not very concerned, if that makes any sense. I wanted to follow up
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my comments regarding steps situation from yesterday, and doing so hope to provide better
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clarity for all right, and a better understanding of the situation. I think
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there's a lot of things out there that aren't accurate. Um, let me
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be clear, as Steph did everything that we that he was asked to do.
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He was here Monday and executed his physical on time. Steph reported yesterday
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Tuesday and reported from meetings, at which time we had a good conversation,
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great communication, and we got to a point yesterday where I just we just
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felt like we all needed a break and some space, and so I gave
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Steff permission to get some space and and uh and head out and uh,
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and then picked up those conversations after practice. Now, my first thing,
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and the first I think it was off sale and it wasn't kapacha, but
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I think it's the other sales salm right now, he's the first one.
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He was right on it. Asked him why did he say why in the
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ham sandwiches? My father would say, DT, did you stay very concerned
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that yesterday because now you're trying to spend it to the mafia. Nicolas,
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You're trying you're trying to spit it that everything is fine. Um, no
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big deal. I gave him permission yesterday you said nothing. You gave us
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no whiff of permission. Do you know that this would have had no legs.
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This story would have had very little legs if it would if he would
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have just came out and said, you know what, we had some great
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conversations this morning. Um, we felt like we needed a little bit of
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a break, and we let stuff go. He's been excused from today's practice
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that now, obviously people will still speculate. Obviously people are still gonna do
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their investigating, like we're gonna do a little bit later tonight. But but
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a lot of the meat and a lot of the teeth are going to be
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taken out of this conversation. If you just are up front and out us
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from the beginning. I don't buy it. He was pissed yesterday. He
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sounded pissed. It was a very curt and short answer. When he was
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asked about the attendance of the actual first uh you know, mandatory minicamp.
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You hear this guy I mean he is, he's now now it's no Now,
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it's no big deal? What what? And that the first thing is
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all I mean, there's a lot of misinformation out there. What misinformation?
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I mean like the band came to practice and then didn't practice and left the
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facility, and now you're trying to make us believe that it was no big
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deal that you gave him the day off. I don't know, man,
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I'm sorry, man, I'm calling bullshit. That sty sketchy rod, It's
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sketchy. And so we got to look at this down two avenues, right,
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because again, we don't know what happened. Nobody does other than even
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I mean, I was genuinely believed some of the players don't even know.
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Um the way they were kind of talking today, like Mitch Morrise was just
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like, you know, I don't know. I hope he's good, Like
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I'm trying to do my job, you know. So, but we got
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to look at this down two avenues. One. Did Stefan Diggs come in
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with an issue and use this as kind of his platform? He knew there
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was kind of some build up to this. He knew there was kind of
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you know, so he knew all eyes were gonna be on him. I
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want to get my point across this as an opportunity to do that. Was
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it Stefan Diggs or was it the reverse side of the team knowing, all
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right, fourteen's coming back into the building. We're we're gonna let him know.
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It's not acceptable what he did last year. It's not acceptable to be
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yelling on the sidelines every time we're having a bad day. Yeah, and
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Stefan was just coming back to get back to work and the team, the
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team sits down and puts him in his place and Digs like, well,
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hold on a minute, you know, and goes on from there. And
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that might have caused McDermott to kind of have that attitude of I'm very concerned.
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I you know, we set him down and tried to straighten him up,
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and he you know, and and he walked out. So and then
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kind of reeled that back on today. So both avenues here. Was it
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Diggs coming in with an issue or was it the team bringing Digs in to
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address an issue? You know, So that's kind of the avenues you got
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to look at it, and and you can play the fiddle on both ways
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with how you know, the players and McDermott, you know, kind of
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acted with the way he was very concerned and everything was good, and I
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was what got me concerned, not was coach mcdermoy. Yesterday was Josh Allen's
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press conference. Yeah. Really, he's a budding he's a budding superstar.
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He's getting good with the media. He knows what to say. But he
22:37
had some tale must have some tales yesterday. And he's not that season yet,
22:45
Rob, He's not that season yet, And there was there was some
22:48
uneasiness in him there. He know I love him, man, I love
22:56
we know this like this. This is one of the best favorite stories of
23:00
Mafia is the cover of Sports Illustrated the best friends playing called Duty together.
23:03
They love each other. The clip before the Detroit came where he's like,
23:07
I'm thankful for you. He's like, all that we know, we know
23:12
you love each other, So why are you up on the podium on this
23:15
all this drama happened and you're sitting there going, oh, I just love
23:18
him, man, I just love him. So that makes me think,
23:21
like damn, like maybe something legit is going on, like if QB one
23:26
is kind of you know like that and Von very polished with the media.
23:29
He even had some falter like I'm on step side. He kept saying I'm
23:33
on step side, and then Capaccio, I think, was actually like,
23:36
well, what's the other side, and he's like, oh no, there's
23:37
not two sides. Yes, And it was just all real wonky yesterday.
23:44
And I as much as yeah mcdermots are very concerned and the players get in
23:48
those press conferences. That's kind of what got me a little rattled when it
23:52
came to that, because I was still holding true like it's fine, we
23:55
got we'll figure it out, and then they start talking and I'm like,
23:56
damn, like maybe something legit is going down. So both avenues. Was
24:00
it Diggs coming in with an issue or was it the team bringing the issue
24:04
too? Stuff on dis Yeah, man, it was interesting because you know,
24:07
I just thought that everybody really didn't handle it the right way in respects
24:11
to you know. I mean, Josh said the best that he could,
24:14
and I know a lot of people are sympathetic for him, and he's got
24:17
to be listen, he's paid very very well. He is the face of
24:18
a billion dollars franchise. If he's got to get up there and take some
24:22
arrows. Then that's part of the job description. You know, he is
24:25
the quarterback. That's the most important position, you know. But he did
24:27
sound he did he did sound alarming to a lot of people. He used
24:32
um, maybe fifty five sixty times. He almost said offensive coordinator and that
24:37
stopped himself and offensive court and stopped like so listen. I have always will
24:41
do some little, you know, some little investigating here, but I have
24:45
always thought that it was a situation where Stefan Diggs wants the level to be
24:48
raised. And I don't think that he is accepting anything mediocre from anybody.
24:53
And that could be the coaches, that could be the OC, it could
24:56
be you know, McDermott. It can go down to his team, doesn't
25:00
matter. I think that it's really interesting that Josh Allen, throughout the entire
25:03
offseason has been letting everybody know that he's so focused and that he's more focused
25:07
than he's ever been, and that he's ready to go, not that he
25:11
wasn't before, and he's always you know, ready, just not that I
25:12
wasn't before, but I'm more focused than ever before. And McDermott will echo
25:17
those things, and then all of a sudden we've got issues with um you
25:21
know what's going on with Stefan Diggs. And like you said, the build
25:23
up leading up to this was kind of in a situation where it was it
25:27
was almost like it was like a pressure cooker and it was getting ready to
25:30
pop off. And yesterday might have I don't know what happened yesterday, and
25:33
you don't know either, and nobody knows. But it was really interesting that
25:37
he came, got his physical on Monday, comes back for practice on Tuesday,
25:42
and then doesn't practice, and then today we have our head coach telling
25:47
us that they had great conversations and they had and positive and wonderful conversations,
25:52
and I gave him the day off. But then again, the key thing
25:56
is that he neglected to tell the media yesterday when he lets everybody know that
25:59
these very concerned. So I thought it was just weird. I thought everything
26:02
was just out of sequence, basically, and push that message to the team.
26:06
You know, listen, if Josh, when you get up on the
26:08
podium, deflect, We're all good. We'll figure it out, no problem.
26:12
And it wasn't like it was like we're working some things internally non football
26:18
related, non football, but then everything you talked about was football? Yeah,
26:22
well, what what's internal on a football team that isn't football related?
26:26
Rob? You know? So uh, you know, then people started talking
26:29
about mental stuff, and which is you know, something would if if that's
26:33
it, you know, that's something needs to be addressed whatever. But there's
26:37
there's only a certain few things it could be. If it was you know,
26:42
Diggs coming with the problem and and then so something my first initiate yesterday
26:48
it was like, well, if it's Digs has an issue, why didn't
26:51
he bring this up you know, three months three months ago or through the
26:53
offseason, sit down and be like, yo, listen, I'm not okay
26:56
with this, we gotta do this, this and this different. Right.
27:00
My answer might have been because he knew it would cause some sort of a
27:03
scene yesterday in a way that was like let's see, like, let's see
27:07
what happens when I pop off like this. So that kind of almost makes
27:12
me lean to that ladder or what I was talking about. Maybe Dick's came
27:17
in with no issues yesterday and the team kind of brought the issue to him,
27:21
you know, So that's then then that's why McDermott was acting like that,
27:23
and that's why, you know. It was like, oh, we're
27:26
gonna we're gonna show him, we we're you know, we're gonna show him
27:27
out of control how we handled things here. And then then they saw how
27:30
bad it blew up, and we're like, well, it's all good practice.
27:36
Yeah, it was all good because you can't handle him, you know
27:38
what I mean, He's he is not a situation where you could just you
27:41
can't bullshit him, you know what I mean, You're not gonna be able
27:42
to besim. Um. I don't know, you know, I kind of
27:45
tend to think that it was a situation where he might have been a little
27:48
bit upset with the direction of the offense. UM. I think that it
27:52
could be, you know, maybe a little bit directed towards Ken Dorsey.
27:56
UM. I tried to call into WJR yesterday. I didn't have time to
27:59
to weight on hold because so many people were dry or you know, logging
28:02
up the lines. But I really thought that there was a situation where it
28:04
could have been maybe a Ken Dorsey thing DT where he doesn't like the direction
28:11
of the offense, came in wondering what are the plans? Are we just
28:15
running the back and when they told him that, you know, we're kind
28:17
of just running the back. We're gonna try to do the same thing again.
28:19
That's that's not gonna be okay for him because he saw how last year
28:22
ended, he saw how thirteen seconds ended, and it's a situation where good
28:26
is not good enough anymore for him, Um okay, and mediocre is not
28:30
okay anymore for him. Um. He wants a ring, not that other
28:33
people don't. It seems like there's always a misconception that because he's so hungry,
28:37
well, that doesn't mean that other people are not hungry. Never said
28:41
that. People are not saying that Josh Allen doesn't care or the coaching staff
28:44
doesn't care as much. It's just that he shows his passion in a different
28:48
way, and he's going to be vocal about his displeasure. He's going to
28:52
be vocal about what he wants to see done. I really get a lot
28:56
of sense that he is looking to be heard and anytime that somebody's not listening
29:00
to you, DT and you know that as men, it's a little bit
29:03
different for us because we thrive on respect. And if I'm asking you for
29:07
something and if I'm voicing my concern to you DT and you're kind of sloughughing
29:11
me off and kind of, you know, sweeping me under the rug and
29:12
giving me lip service. That's gonna piss me off quick. It's gonna make
29:15
me mad because I can tell you that you're being disingenuous. I can tell
29:18
that you're not really listening to me, and you're kind of condescending right now.
29:22
You're kind of you know what I mean, You're kind of playing with
29:23
me right now, and that's gonna piss me off. If they were any
29:27
way, shape or form acting like that towards Stefan Diggs, I can understand
29:32
this guy being upset because of the fact that listen, man, I keep
29:34
telling you all that this is the way that things need to go. I
29:37
know what I'm talking about. I've got high football IQ. It's not just
29:41
Ken Dorsey that's smart. It's not just you know McDermott that's smart about football.
29:45
I know football too. I've been playing this sport my whole life,
29:47
and you guys keep not listening to me. You guys are not paying me
29:49
any attention. I can see how that could really make somebody upset, especially
29:55
somebody that's passionate about their craft. And serious about their craft. I could
29:57
see that trust the process. No man's above the team. You know,
30:02
hey, coach, we I think we got to change some things up next
30:04
year. Trust the process. No man's above the team. And maybe he
30:07
saw that as yet exactly that, you know, like, all right,
30:10
they're not gonna listen, So I'm gonna wait till mandatory camp and I know
30:14
it's about to pop off, and I'm gonna cause a little bit of a
30:15
scene and make them, make them know what they got in me, you
30:19
know. And so maybe that was it too, and all this. You
30:22
know, there's this talk about like, yeah, he's a competitor, but
30:26
like that he's he's still got to go to practice, and I agree,
30:29
but if he was excused, he would have been there. It sounds like
30:32
he would have been there. So so I don't think that's the issue where
30:34
he's just gonna start boycotting things because he's he's upset. You know, he's
30:37
not that type of guy or or that player, and that's gonna that's gonna
30:41
roll forward. I think this is an opportunity if listen, if other guys
30:45
on the team got to start getting that type of dog in them, you
30:48
know, they got to start acting with that aggression and that fire too,
30:52
you know, so Diggs doesn't have to do it all, you know.
30:53
And I spoke about that in the Miseducation episode about that's I think seventeens step
31:00
to become a great is to take that, you know, to get into
31:03
people. And you know, if somebody runs a bad route, like you're
31:07
into him on the sideline, you're the one yelling with your hands out on
31:10
the sideline like and and that's not making you a bad teammate. That's perfection
31:14
is the only acceptable outcome. And I think that's you know a lot of
31:18
maybe that's what Digs is trying to get through, like I can't be the
31:21
only one like this. I can't be the only one, you know.
31:25
And not that everyone isn't passionate or anything, but like you guys gotta be
31:29
pissed about this, you know. So maybe that's this is an opportunity for
31:33
other players on the team to really, you know, get into it and
31:36
have that you know, sort of biting him where it's like, yo,
31:38
you didn't touch that line on that on that sprint, like fuck you.
31:41
Like we're trying to win a super Bowl, like let's go so uh instead
31:45
of alienate him, is like, oh, he's he's just competitive and not
31:48
everyone else shows their competitiveness like that, Well we gotta we gotta start seeing
31:52
more, you know, more of that grit on the team too, so
31:56
he doesn't feel like he has to do at all. You know what,
31:59
it sounds a lot like to me, DT, It sounds like expectations have
32:04
been raised, and it sounds like it sounds like the grow up episode that
32:07
we did, and it's time for everyone to grow up. We are not
32:12
the drought bills anymore and it's okay. The way that the fans talked yesterday
32:16
was disgusting because of the fact that it was almost like, you guys want
32:22
to go back to shitty football because if you're kicking stuff on digs out of
32:24
town, then who can you play with him? If you're going to kick
32:28
an all pro out of town because he skipped a mandatory practice or what's set
32:31
Now we find out today that it was excused from practice so everybody could get
32:37
some space. The coach wants to tell you and have you believe If that's
32:40
the case, then it sounds like everybody needs to start to grow up.
32:44
Expectations have raised. It's not okay. What's been okay is not okay.
32:49
I'll repeat that again. What's been the status quo? And oh man,
32:52
that's good enough. Try is not okay anymore. It's time for everybody to
32:57
graduate. They were ready yesterday. A lot of fans are ready to get
33:00
rid of them DT. And it was disheartening because I'm like, what do
33:04
you think that this damn office is going to look like without Stefan Dix?
33:07
Does anybody even want to close their eyes and imagine what the team would look
33:10
like if it wasn't for Stefan Dix. Josh Allen, your own quarterback,
33:15
said it yesterday, said this does not work what we're trying to do here
33:17
without him. He was clear and concise with that. He would there was
33:22
no arming, there was no you know, stuttering or anything like that.
33:25
He said, it does not work what we're trying to do without fourteen.
33:30
I think that that is the biggest ring of endorsement that you can give any
33:32
player is to say that, listen, man, what we're trying to accomplish
33:36
here doesn't get accomplished if he's not a part of it. If that's not
33:39
the biggest ringing endorsement. I don't know what is. Fans are one thing
33:44
because like you said in the grow Up episode, like we lived through the
33:46
drought. Some people are just happy to be somewhat decent and they can call
33:51
it a day with being somewhat decent. This nobody on this team was in
33:53
the drought. They don't give a shit about us missing the playoffs for seventeen
33:58
years. This is the Bills team now, and most of this roster has
34:00
only enjoyed, you know, decent success. So that is elevating success from
34:07
year to year has got to be the priority with these guys. That It's
34:10
not the excuse of like, oh, settling, like some fans can settle
34:15
whatever. You and I aren't. We're elevating our game. But this team,
34:19
every every person on this roster and this team only knows this winning way.
34:22
But the winning way is keeps getting knocked out in the divisional rounds.
34:27
So we got to step up to a next level. And I think that's
34:30
what Gigs's main thing is trying to do. Like I'm getting on the gas
34:34
full board until everybody freaking understands what's like what we need, like we have
34:38
to go full board. There's no other excuse. Like we thought we had
34:42
it all. We had the nice roster last year, we went through all
34:44
the trials and tribulations, still still only three of uses and it wasn't good
34:50
enough. So all that, like where we think it's good, we have
34:52
to go above and beyond that. And and it might be a little aggressive
34:57
to some people, but that's what it's going to take to win the ball
34:59
Man. And what I respected, I'm glad that you said that at the
35:01
end, because what I respected about Stefan Diggs is that he's willing to get
35:05
uncomfortable. He's willing to get uncomfortable. So you know, it's interesting because
35:09
you know, uncomfortable is that's where the best stuff can come from, is
35:14
when you're not comfortable. You know, the tragedy with George Floyd and then
35:19
afterwards, you know, I used to watch a Manuacho and I talked about
35:22
it in season one of Nickel City Crew and and like they used to do
35:24
uncomfortable conversations with a black man, and I used to love those episodes because
35:29
he was talking about real life issues and they were conversations that a lot of
35:34
people don't want to have. And he would have on Matthew McConaughey and other
35:37
stars would be on there and they would talk and they would chop it up,
35:39
and you know, he had on cops, black cops, white cops,
35:42
and it was great because the conversations were normal conversations that you wouldn't want
35:46
to have, uncomfortable conversations where you can have growth from. I think that
35:51
Stefan wants the offense to grow. I think he doesn't want it to be
35:54
stagnant. And I think that he left so many clues in that Dan pas
36:00
Patrick interview that we did that we replayed on the Miss Education episode where he
36:05
kind of left you guys the tea leaves and maybe you know, a lot
36:07
of people didn't listen to it, but I encourage everybody to YouTube that that
36:13
Dan Patrick Stefan Digg's interview right around the Super Bowl was Super Bowl Week,
36:15
and he really did tell some of the stuff that was pissing him off.
36:21
He said that right around by week, just like we said that the offense
36:24
was harder, that it was going away, he said that they were going
36:27
away from some of the stuff that had made them successful earlier in the year.
36:30
That bothered him because of the fact that why are we trying to reinvent
36:34
the wheel? I think he really misses Dable. I think he misses the
36:37
structure of the offense, some of the easy layups. We talked about,
36:39
layup lines and stuff like that. We the fans saw the same thing that
36:44
the players obviously were experiencing, and we're not crazy with what we saw with
36:46
our eyes. The offense was having a difficult time in the second half of
36:51
the year. Points were harder to come by. Um, you know,
36:53
Josh Allen was putting on the cape. You've talked about it at nause MDT
36:58
and I think that it was the situation where he doesn't want to just press
37:00
the replay button. How about that. He doesn't want to just press the
37:04
replay and say, well, we'll just we'll let the chips fall this year.
37:07
He wants to see something change. He wants to see some type of
37:09
something, something different to actually make up for the lack of whatever they were
37:15
lacking last last year. And I'm not trying to put everything on Dorsey's feet
37:17
or McDermot or anything like that. I'm just saying that something was wrong.
37:21
It was different. The offense was harder, and I think that he noticed
37:24
it just the same way that we notice it as fans. So why is
37:28
he the bad guy because he's pointing it out to his peers and to his
37:30
coaches. I don't. I don't think that that makes him a bad guy.
37:34
I think that that makes him somebody that is hungry to win. Again,
37:37
not saying that the other players are not hungry to win. I'm just
37:40
saying that he's willing to step up and say something. And I admire that.
37:45
I don't I don't shun him for that or want to ship him out
37:47
of town for that. And if he's saying that, it's stopped just checking
37:52
the boxes, right If if you're McDermott, stop just getting the getting the
37:55
ten, twelve, eleven wins, and you know we're good enough, we're
38:00
successful, We're in the playoffs. That's good enough. If you're if you're
38:02
Ken Dorsey, I'm gonna get move the ball around. We're gonna be prolific
38:07
on offense. But I'm just doing it to show that I'm a capable coordinator,
38:10
not to win games and be risky and and and be the best you
38:14
know in the league. It's we're gonna spread the ball around. Just to
38:16
spread the ball around. We're gonna you know, we're gonna run this just
38:20
to show you I can run. I'm not to say that, I'm not
38:24
exactly exactly. So stop just so if he's if Digs is saying that,
38:29
it's he's saying stop checking the boxes, like we're checking the boxes. Isn't
38:32
good enough? Like we need to elevate, we need to take risk,
38:37
we need to be mean, or we need to be faster, we need
38:39
to do everything better, and we not just for the accolades. And in
38:44
the box, the only accolade is the ring. And and that's what you
38:47
know, that's what I think. If this is the issue, that's what
38:51
he's preaching. And you had a great point. Robbie's leaving Tea leaves it's
38:53
it's it's it's not acceptable. And I do not blame him for that,
38:58
because I don't want to walk out of another Divisional ASC championship at home whatever,
39:02
walking on that other loss, like man another where we had Josh Allen,
39:07
stefand Diggs and we didn't get it done and and and that's that's what
39:10
they're trying to avoid. So if that, if that's the case, that
39:14
makes the most sense, I'd say, good, we tash this out and
39:16
talk this out, because that's the most clarity I think I've had on it
39:20
when you said that, like he's been leaving the tea leaves of you know,
39:23
this good is not good enough and and that's and if if he's bringing
39:28
that and that's the issue, that's good, that means they're they're gonna have
39:31
to listen and players are gonna have to step up to that level and get
39:36
on board, you know, to make it. I need to make a
39:37
scene so everyone gets on board. And it's not just Stefan Diggs. I
39:40
don't think saying I know all you have to say, like, because I
39:45
don't think he just says I. I think you know, he realizes that
39:50
it's it. Things have got to change and be different, and we can't
39:52
just check the boxes and we're not just spreading the ball out to spread the
39:55
ball out. And maybe that's you know a little bit of beef into Josh,
40:00
of equipping quipping a cock to this, you know, to this organization,
40:04
like start being a baller and let's let's ball out. Like yeah,
40:07
so I mean and I mean, and he talked about it even with Dan
40:09
Patrick had talked about how you know they put so much into this, uh,
40:13
you know, they they dedicate so much time. He dedicates year round
40:15
to getting his body right to you know. And then he was like,
40:19
when when we'd go out there do that, it was all for that,
40:21
you know what mean? And he's preferring obviously to the Cincinnati game and when
40:24
when Dan Patrick, we we listened to it, guys, when Dan Patrick,
40:28
you know, pinned him down on the side, you know, the
40:30
side all I keep hearing yesterday and today at the sideline, the sideline outburst,
40:35
that sideline outburst and all, and I'm like, listen, man,
40:37
And he even talked about it and said it was a culmination when Dan Patrick
40:42
pinned him down on it, and how did you do? How did you
40:44
feel about it? Why did you react that way? It wasn't just that
40:46
that he missed him on the third play of the game. And everybody,
40:49
you know, Mike Show on w GR loves to talk shit about digs because
40:52
he hold it was a third play of the game and you're bringing negative energy
40:57
and to the team and stuff like that, because you don't know what Josh
41:00
Allen is going through on that play. And it's the third play that game
41:02
he keeps talking about and was pissing me. It doesn't matter if it's the
41:06
third play, fifth play, last play. He said it was a culmination.
41:09
It was. It could have been weeks before he wasn't getting the ball.
41:13
I mean, I went to Detroit, you know, to watch the
41:15
Bill's play and on Thanksgiving it was, you know, right till the end,
41:19
and then he finally got the ball, and you know what I mean.
41:21
And then that Cleveland game in Detroit, you know, Sean mcdermot's got
41:24
his hands on his shoulders trying to calm him down because he had gone a
41:28
whole half without getting a pass or whatever the case may be. I don't
41:30
think that he's worried about targets, don't. I don't think he would even
41:35
care about targets if we went seventeen and oh and win a super Bowl.
41:37
It's not about that. He's not looking for recognition from targets. He thinks
41:42
that he can affect the offense in a positive way. So he wants to
41:45
whatever is going on. And if that means throwing me the ball, then
41:49
fine enough. If that means that everybody's rolling coverage and Dave David is ready
41:52
to shine like in thirteen seconds and break records. Fine, it doesn't matter,
41:55
but we've got to find a way to win these games that we keep
41:59
coming up short on. And I think that that's what he's obsessed about.
42:01
He is obsessed with winning. I told you DT that I watched the Last
42:05
Dance and he reminds me a lot of Michael Jordan, because Michael didn't care
42:08
about your feelings. He didn't care about anything that was going on other than
42:13
winning. And if you didn't want to get on the train, then he
42:15
was gonna ridicule you until you did get on on his level. And I
42:19
just I see a lot of I see a lot of Michael Jordan's stuff on
42:22
Dicks. He is not accepting less than greatness. He wants greatness and that
42:27
includes everybody. McDermott, Dorisey, Alan, his teammate, all the other
42:31
teammates. He is expecting you guys to step up. It is not okay
42:36
just to be okay anymore. And I don't think he I think he looks
42:37
at every year that they don't win it now that they have this great team
42:40
that you talked about, DT as a wasted opportunity. I really do think
42:45
they looks at it like that. Yeah, he said about the stats are
42:47
not the issue here. He's not bitching about not getting the ball for his
42:51
stats. He's bitching about not getting the ball because he believes and I believe,
42:54
he's the best chance to win. Yeah, straight up, how could
42:59
you argue? How could you argue that? You know, so Josh,
43:01
Josh Allen best player, but he is the best option for us to win
43:06
games, you know, down the stretch, like it's down if you have
43:08
a gun to your head and you say I got to throw the ball to
43:12
one player, it's gotta be one four. Everybody's got to agree on that.
43:15
Like it's not a hidden deal here, like we don't have We're not
43:20
you know, as blessed and some of these other teams with two crazy number
43:22
one guys, Like it is a clear cut number one he is if this
43:27
is why this whole thing happened, and he is upset, it is because
43:30
he thinks he's the best option to win games. And how do you not
43:34
agree? Yeah, I mean Josh Allen, like I said, he said
43:37
it yesterday, best that none of this works. And I just that quote
43:40
just stuck with me when I listened to the interview because a lot of people
43:44
were talking about it. Josh sounded nervous, and Josh sound a little bit
43:46
unsure, and Josh was trying to tiptoe and stuff like that. So I
43:50
listened to it, and I'm playing with the kids in the back alley and
43:52
we're playing and we're going to the park and we're walking around and I've just
43:54
got it on and I'm listening to him. And it was funny because he
43:58
did say I'm about fifty five times, but he but he did say that
44:00
one thing and I really really honed in on, and it was that none
44:04
of this works. And it's just it just seems so logical to say because
44:08
as fans, we see the same thing, and it's just sometimes it's like,
44:12
you know, here's your sign, you know what I mean, like
44:14
duck, Like you know what I mean like duh. Of course, you
44:15
know, everybody can tell that this guy is is very important to the team,
44:20
very important to the success. And I'm not saying force feeding the ball.
44:22
I was on Buffalo Rumblings. I love that community and I like to
44:25
go back and forth with some of those guys on there, and you know,
44:28
the bunch of all, he's just worried about his target. And I'm
44:30
like, he's not worried about targets. He doesn't care about targets. I'm
44:32
like, look at thirteen seconds. That's not what is focuses, you know,
44:37
That's not what drives him is is how many targets he gets and how
44:40
many yards he gets. It's about winning, and he wants to win,
44:44
and he's sick of coming up short. So I'm not going to continue to
44:46
repeat myself because of the fact that I you know, the Bills want you
44:51
to believe that it's done, which is laughable. Um, they wanted to
44:53
think that it's over the coach today. I don't even need to play the
44:57
rest of his interview. You can go listen to it. Um. It
44:59
was just funny to see that he started off the interview that way. By
45:01
um really just just he was just full of shit to be honest to me,
45:05
that all of a sudden he was excused. But yesterday you wouldn't tell
45:09
us that he was excused, which would have literally, um stopped half of
45:14
the Yeah, like it would have stopped half of it. Um, if
45:16
you told him that he was a cused, because then all we would have
45:19
talked about with Nan. He must be pretty pissed. What was what did
45:21
they talk about? You know they we the coach that they had great conversation,
45:23
but he still went home to and everybody. He said, everybody needed
45:27
some space, is what he said today. So that's fine. Um,
45:30
they're trying to dress it up, they're trying to put lipstick on a pig.
45:32
That's fine. I don't, like you said in the beginning of the
45:35
show, I don't want there to be problems. I don't want there to
45:37
be um, you know, drama or anything like that. However, if
45:40
it's in the name of raising the level, then you guys already know here
45:44
a Nickel City crew, I'm all about growing up. I'm all about putting
45:47
your big boy pants on, your big girl pants on, and let's go
45:51
get us a ring, let's go get the fans of parade. I'm all
45:53
about that energy. Um, if it's about growing up and not being okay
45:58
with mediocre, I'm all about it. Because, as you talked about DT
46:01
living through the drought, We've had enough mediocre for two lifetimes. So I'm
46:06
good with mediocre. I enjoy the success that the bills are are enjoying right
46:10
now, and I love watching my team play. And that's why I think
46:13
it was so stark yesterday DT, as we begin to wrap up, just
46:16
just crazy, how many people were ready to turn their back on it and
46:22
and and I don't know what. I don't know. I mean right now
46:23
as we sitting here, DT, I don't know I'm gonna name the episode,
46:27
but it's gonna be something along those lots. It's got to be something
46:29
with that, because yesterday was so stark, and today it bled into it
46:31
a little bit before practice. Was just how many people were ready to just
46:37
they're just done. They were just done. And I was like, wait
46:38
a minute, what about all the touchdowns? What about all the like you
46:42
talked about the romance with with you know, with Josh in seventeen and fourteen,
46:45
And they, oh, it reminds us of Jim Kelly and Andre Reid,
46:49
and we love it and this and that just as fast as they do
46:52
it, just as fast as they love all of the positives one side one
46:55
one sign of of of of problems. And they were they were, they
47:00
were done. There were a lot of people yesterday and you guys know who
47:02
you guys are at Bill's Maffia. You guys were done with this guy,
47:06
and I just hope you guys keep that same energy because I think he is
47:08
um. He's intricral to what we do here. He is so important and
47:12
as John said, nothing gets done without him, especially on offense. Yeah,
47:15
I'll leave with my last point here tonight, Rob of you know,
47:19
the people that were on that, the mafia that was acting like that,
47:22
really better watch themselves because this isn't gonna be This isn't gonna be this team
47:27
forever. There's gonna be a point where the Bills stink again and we're gonna
47:30
be hopefully doing Nicols City Crew talking about you know, when we're getting our
47:34
next franchise, whatever, whatever the case is. Watch yourself because this isn't
47:37
lasting forever. And I bet half those people calling in causing the scene on
47:44
Instagram causing the scene yesterday, about half of them are putting their one for
47:47
Jersey on on Sunday this year. They're putting the digs Allen sign in their
47:52
front yard. They're you know, they're they're ready to go. When he's
47:54
scoring touchdowns and winning for us, it's all good. And then a little
47:59
bit of drama on him out. So watch watch yourself. I like that
48:04
it's not always gonna be like this, and and you and I, and
48:07
there's there's a there's some fans like you and I that we're gonna get to
48:09
a point where it's gonna boil over for us too, and we're gonna start
48:13
coming at y'all as well. Yeah, man, I'm chilling. I've been
48:15
chilling. I've been chilling. I'm trying to. I was. It only
48:20
took a little bit. I had to get pissed. It bothered you.
48:23
Pissed, it bothered you. Today I was listening to One Bills Live and
48:28
I had to turn it off. I was going to get my car watched
48:30
and I just had to turn I had to turn it off because I was
48:31
like, headcase, he's a and and this guy was basically telling the other
48:37
guy was like, basically, shut up, go to practice. You have
48:38
he said it. You have nothing. He has nothing to he got paid,
48:43
he has nothing to be upset about. I'm like, whoa wa,
48:45
whoa In my mind, I'm like, whoa are you are not in the
48:47
locker room? How do you know? He has nothing to be upset about.
48:50
And it's not about just money. Just because he got his money doesn't
48:52
mean that he doesn't want to win. And and that's the difference a lot
48:57
of a lot of people. And I'll close on this because a lot of
48:59
people forget that. It's not just about the money for a lot of guys.
49:01
Now for some of it is. And that's what separates the Marcel Dariuses
49:06
from the Hall of Famer, you know, from the Aaron Donalds. You
49:07
know, that's the difference. Soon as Marcel got paid, he got lazy,
49:10
got fat, he got lazy, no problem. There's plenty of guys
49:14
that just want the check. They do this because they're good at it.
49:15
They've been playing football the whole life. They get to the pinnacle of it,
49:19
the NFL, and then they cash in, they get that second contract,
49:22
they cash in, and it's kind of just feed up on the desk.
49:25
Not every player is like that. Some people are really driven by greatness.
49:30
Some people are driven by legacy, so to speak. They want to
49:32
be considered among the greats. They want to be a champion. And we
49:37
should know all about that here in Buffalo. How many great Hall of Fame
49:39
players have we had that never got a chance to get the ring. But
49:43
they were great players, you know, Kelly and Read and you know,
49:46
Bruce Smith my favorite, and Thurman one of my favorites. Like, those
49:50
guys were great generational talent. Bruce Smith one of the greatest defensive ends ever.
49:54
M body perfect chiseled when he came out in eighty five, like just
49:58
perfect, everything was perfect and never got a ring. So some of those
50:01
guys really do care about getting a ring. Watch Four Falls of Buffalo.
50:06
Watch Darryl Talley, you know, you know, damn Near and tears crying
50:08
about the missed opportunities. Watch Scott Norwood and crying when he talks about how
50:13
Bill's Maffia welcomed him down at City Hall and told him that it was okay
50:16
after Super Bowl twenty five, And like, if that doesn't bring you know
50:19
and make your emotional as a Bills fan, I don't know what will people
50:22
do care about stuff other than just money. And for Bill's Boffia said,
50:27
oh, he's got his money, shut up, go to practice. No,
50:30
no, no, he there was something that there's something that he wanted
50:32
to get out. Clearly, our coach finally told us the truth today and
50:37
I hope everybody picked up on that. That McDermott is full of shit and
50:38
like, it's fine, that's a whole other episode. But he tried to
50:43
pull the wool over your eyes. If you guys want to, um,
50:45
you know, be fooled by him. I have never been fooled by him,
50:47
and I wasn't today. It was this really convenient that today it was.
50:51
It was great conversation and those were positive conversations. And then when the
50:54
media said, well, do you consider this done? He was great,
50:58
Oh, yeah, no, it's it's resolved. I mean, of course,
51:00
because he wants you guys to shut up and stop talking about it,
51:01
so that's fine. Yeah, I understand everybody wants to stop talking about it.
51:05
Stefan brought up something to his peers, something to his coaches, and
51:08
they talked about it, and whether that made people uncomfortable or not, I'm
51:13
okay with it. If it's in the vein of trying to win, if
51:16
it's in the vein of trying to raise everyone's level, I'm okay with it.
51:21
You've got to be comfortable being uncomfortable sometimes, and Stefan Diggs is he's
51:27
taking on that role. He's down with it. Man. He doesn't care
51:30
if you're gonna slink some arrows his way, or whatever the case may be.
51:32
He's got a goal in mind, and I think him and Josh are
51:36
going to be just fine. DT. I do think that they will figure
51:38
it out, whether it's with the OC or whether it's with McDermott himself,
51:43
or whatever the case may be. I do think that this will get worked
51:45
out. The timing is very funny, and I think that you hit the
51:49
point was that this was kind of calculated in respects to the fact that he
51:52
wanted he wanted people to be talking about it because of the fact that no,
51:55
no, no, okay, it's not okay anymore. So we're just
51:59
gonna run it back again. Oh okay, no problem, but like you
52:00
know, and then okay, no problem, you know what I mean,
52:04
and that type of thing. And I think that there was a situation where
52:06
he made some people uncomfortable yesterday and maybe they said, okay, go home,
52:08
man, okay, come back tomorrow because we can't deal with this right
52:13
now, and then everything kind of hit this fan. So it's been interesting
52:16
DT. The players again. Tomorrow will be when this episode releases on Thursday,
52:21
that'll be the last day of mandatory. I know now bills. Mafia
52:24
loves that word mandatory, So Stefan Dick expect him to be there tomorrow because
52:29
of his mandatory. It is his job. He will go to work tomorrow
52:31
like you and I, and then the bills will break, so we will
52:35
take a little bit of a break to the players will go the vacation,
52:37
they'll be with the families, go back to their hometowns, maybe go out
52:40
of town, and then we just all we have to do is just cross
52:44
our fingers. Everybody stays healthy. Nobody on them jet skis are getting injured,
52:47
or anybody breaking a leg on a motorcycle. Anything crazy, nobody do
52:51
anything crazy. Come back healthy for camp and then before you know what,
52:54
DT will be at Saint John Fisher ramping things up. Man. I mean,
52:59
the season is rappid approaching, whether you believe it or not. Summer
53:00
is in full swing. Kids are getting ready to get out of school and
53:05
it's it's it's almost time. So I'm happy we do all the house cleaning
53:08
now because it is time to get focused pretty soon DT on a championship.
53:14
Yeah, be greate for Mafia that this team doesn't have a lot of drama
53:16
and issues because they showed their colors yesterday and now they're not great damage control
53:22
and they're not great damage controls. So let's hope this, uh this plugs
53:29
it up and we move on. But but yeah, I think I think
53:30
we're good. This, This was good, robbed good to get it out
53:34
tonight, and um yeah, watch yourselves out there. Ye DT is warning
53:38
y'all, dump chucker, saying y'all keep coming from my teammate, from my
53:42
team, you know what I mean. He's ready to let you have it
53:45
with the Twitter fingers, with the Instagram fingers. And I'm with him one
53:47
that I was in a very chill mood yesterday. Um, I did not
53:51
listen to their advice, and that is my that's my own fault. So
53:53
I couldn't get mad at anybody but myself when I was hearing some of the
53:57
rhetoric today was just a little bit too much um as well. But it's
54:00
all good. All us back to normal, so to speak, and we
54:04
will we will reconvene in about a month or so. So as always,
54:08
please spread love, not hate. That there's something crazy that comes up,
54:12
obviously you know me and DT will will come right back at you with an
54:15
episode. But other than that, we are gonna take a nice little break,
54:17
summertime break until training camp. Please spread love not hate. These were
54:22
my bills, thoughts set out loud hit him with a gold bills. DT
54:25
hit him with one man. Everybody, we're all of the same team.
54:29
We're all on the same team. We love I love bills about for your
54:34
gold bills, man, I love you guys. Stop running people out of
54:37
town, man, please stop running people out of town. Social media has
54:38
made the world smaller. DT hit on a good point. You don't think
54:43
that stuff. I saw some of this stuff. Be careful, I mean,
54:46
just be careful. I tagged if you saw what I did d T
54:49
other day with miss education, I tag Stefan dicks himself. I know that
54:52
he's way too busy of a guy, just obviously see that stuff. But
54:55
just in case, I wanted him to know that Nickel City crew, we
54:59
got us back over here, and I attack him and sent him the episode
55:01
from a couple episodes ago. Yeah, little did I know that I was
55:05
going to be doing another damn episode about him a couple of weeks later.
55:07
But it's all good, man. I enjoyed the content, and I enjoy
55:12
kicking it with you guys. So go Bills. Man, We're good Man.
55:15
We out of here. Man, go Bill. It's time. It's
55:16
time to go get a tan man.