Latest / Nickel City Crew Podcast / S6 E14: Unapologetic
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- 0:00Speaker 1: 15 degrees, you can see your breath.
- 0:11Speaker 2: Out here in the lake of fact Breaking tables like
- 0:15Speaker 2: it's poetry.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Where else would you have to be?
- 0:21Speaker 2: Lintel, Ron, Elvis and the Leigh Ponshaw The members that
- 0:26Speaker 2: you need to know Cause once you're out here, now
- 0:29Speaker 2: you're family.
- 0:32Speaker 1: Where else would you have to be? Welcome in to
- 0:39Speaker 1: the Nickel City Crew. I am your host, Rob Crippen.
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- 0:56Speaker 3: for some of your Buffalo Bills and NFL content again today.
- 1:00Speaker 3: And as always, these are my Bills thoughts said out loud.
- 1:05Speaker 2: It's a vibe so ridiculous.
- 1:12Speaker 3: Alright, let's get straight to it. Really excited for tonight's
- 1:24Speaker 3: episode as always. Bills are 3-0 and I named the
- 1:28Speaker 3: episode the way that I did because this time of year, man,
- 1:32Speaker 3: I really don't have many sorries to give out.
- 1:36Speaker 1: I really don't. I'm all about stacking wins.
- 1:38Speaker 3: I'm all about getting that one seed for the first
- 1:40Speaker 3: time in Josh Allen's era.
- 1:42Speaker 1: And I really am unapologetic. We'll talk it. We'll figure
- 1:46Speaker 1: it out. We'll talk about the bad.
- 1:47Speaker 3: There's a lot of, a lot of bad stuff from
- 1:49Speaker 3: last week, but help me tonight to kind of get
- 1:53Speaker 3: through it. Listen, we appreciate you meeting us a night
- 1:55Speaker 3: early on Thursday from our normal Friday slot. My co-host
- 1:59Speaker 3: riding shotgun, as always, Adam dump truck, rubsick, check him
- 2:02Speaker 3: out on Instagram and Twitter at Adam rubsick. R U
- 2:05Speaker 3: P C Z Y K. Holler at the crew DT. Listen,
- 2:09Speaker 3: you're not going to get too many sorries for me
- 2:10Speaker 3: this week. I mean, we got to go through it
- 2:12Speaker 3: because it was bad, but I mean, I'm not saying sorry,
- 2:15Speaker 3: but only too many times, man, for sure.
- 2:18Speaker 2: Put the ball down and play the motto all year,
- 2:20Speaker 2: 1-0 each week. Three weeks we've gone 1-0 and now
- 2:23Speaker 2: we're into four. That's all it is. I like that
- 2:26Speaker 2: mindset by Joe Brady and the boys, and it's been
- 2:28Speaker 2: a perfect, successful game plan thus far. Happy Friday, or jeez, Thursday,
- 2:34Speaker 2: Nickel City crew. You know, I get used to the
- 2:36Speaker 2: Friday night lights and click, clack, we back, but You know,
- 2:39Speaker 2: DT the mayor, we got places to be, cities to visit,
- 2:43Speaker 2: weddings to attend. That's how we do it, Nickel City Crew.
- 2:46Speaker 2: So we moved the schedule around a little bit. I
- 2:48Speaker 2: think last year was a wild September, October for myself
- 2:52Speaker 2: as well.
- 2:52Speaker 1: So I appreciate the fans riding with us.
- 2:54Speaker 2: Rob, thanks for moving things around. But this is home.
- 2:58Speaker 2: I'm glad we could get it in, lock into this
- 3:01Speaker 2: 3-0 Thursday night special. Let's go.
- 3:04Speaker 3: Yeah, let's talk about it before we get to, This
- 3:07Speaker 3: week's game, you know, I have no problem accommodating. You know,
- 3:10Speaker 3: you're my brother from another Bill's mother. Man, listen, it
- 3:15Speaker 3: was bad, DT, and it's fine that it was bad
- 3:18Speaker 3: because the score came out the right way. Bill's obviously won,
- 3:20Speaker 3: beat the Chargers at home 24-16. Five turnovers, which I
- 3:25Speaker 3: know that that raises eyebrows for sure. DT, listen, here's
- 3:30Speaker 3: what I'm going to say on it, and we'll go
- 3:31Speaker 3: through the game and stuff like that. I anticipated it
- 3:33Speaker 3: being a tight game. I told you that last week.
- 3:36Speaker 3: I didn't think it was going to be some crazy blowout,
- 3:37Speaker 3: and that was just my feel of it. I didn't
- 3:39Speaker 3: know if it was going to be three points. I
- 3:41Speaker 3: said maybe seven or ten or something like that because
- 3:42Speaker 3: ten points to me is still not a crazy big win. DT,
- 3:46Speaker 3: it starts off with a James Cook fumble, and, I mean,
- 3:50Speaker 3: that's literally first play from scrimmage. I saw a stat
- 3:52Speaker 3: the other day that said that he has now fumbled in, like,
- 3:55Speaker 3: eight of, like, the last.
- 3:57Speaker 1: 19 games, and I'm like, really?
- 3:59Speaker 3: And, like, listen, as soon as he fumbled, I'm yelling
- 4:02Speaker 3: at the TV. You know, I've got my Kings here
- 4:04Speaker 3: with me. And I'm yelling because I told you that
- 4:06Speaker 3: I had Nate and Quincy, and I'm like, I said,
- 4:09Speaker 3: this is the only way that they can beat us
- 4:12Speaker 3: today is if we give them the game.
- 4:14Speaker 1: This is the only way that they'll be able to
- 4:16Speaker 1: beat us.
- 4:16Speaker 3: And it kind of bore out DT because of the
- 4:18Speaker 3: fact that we kept giving them the ball, we kept
- 4:20Speaker 3: giving them opportunities, and it was just their ineptitude that
- 4:23Speaker 3: led to them not being able to capitalize.
- 4:25Speaker 1: It wasn't anything that the Bills did.
- 4:26Speaker 3: We should have lost the game, and that's the reason
- 4:28Speaker 3: that I named the episode the way that it did
- 4:30Speaker 3: because I'm not apologizing for shit.
- 4:32Speaker 1: We're 3-0, and it's on to the next one.
- 4:35Speaker 2: I mean, five turnovers and you cover a touchdown plus spread, right?
- 4:39Speaker 2: I mean, that's really how you look at it in
- 4:42Speaker 2: the hardest league to win ever in the NFL where
- 4:45Speaker 2: that matters most. And the Chargers, who allegedly were a
- 4:50Speaker 2: playoff team before the season starts, now you go in
- 4:53Speaker 2: and cover that spread after five turnovers. But James Cook
- 4:56Speaker 2: fumbling on play one, that's like the thing. I mean,
- 5:00Speaker 2: his first carry ever in the Rams on that Thursday
- 5:04Speaker 2: night opener, he fumbled. So it's like he's doing it
- 5:10Speaker 2: early in games, and that's a big number. I didn't
- 5:12Speaker 2: realize it was that many. Half the games, he's putting
- 5:15Speaker 2: the ball on the ground. That's not good. But as well,
- 5:18Speaker 2: on the reverse side of that, he's the leading rusher,
- 5:21Speaker 2: and he bounces back Sunday and has 150 yards and
- 5:24Speaker 2: a touchdown. He is– there's no– You can't get away
- 5:29Speaker 2: from that. You can't get away from fumbling that many
- 5:31Speaker 2: times and not being ridiculed for it. But he does
- 5:34Speaker 2: a damn good job of making up for it, you know,
- 5:36Speaker 2: busting out for 150 yards when we need him to and,
- 5:39Speaker 2: you know, being the rushing leader last year. It seems
- 5:42Speaker 2: he gets very focused on it, like he has some
- 5:45Speaker 2: fumbling issues, and then he digs in for a couple real,
- 5:47Speaker 2: you know, he goes on a stretch where he's really
- 5:50Speaker 2: good about it. I'm not necessarily like if it happens
- 5:53Speaker 2: in the playoffs and cost us, obviously that's, that's another thing.
- 5:56Speaker 2: But right now I'm not like too worried about that.
- 5:59Speaker 2: Even when you said the nine of 18 number, that's
- 6:01Speaker 2: a huge number in the NFL for a running back,
- 6:04Speaker 2: but the backs that, you know, are fumbling, aren't backing
- 6:07Speaker 2: it up with what James Cook does on the back
- 6:09Speaker 2: end of that. So we start with that turnover. It
- 6:12Speaker 2: wasn't the best. You can't start the game with that.
- 6:14Speaker 2: I mean, The times when he does fumble, they beat
- 6:17Speaker 2: the Rams in that game of the opener. But Josh
- 6:20Speaker 2: Allen throws a pick on the first play in a
- 6:21Speaker 2: few games, and they never get it back against New England.
- 6:24Speaker 2: And Drake May, a few years ago in New England
- 6:26Speaker 2: on that flute game, that was a pick first play.
- 6:29Speaker 2: And so that turnover first play is not how you
- 6:31Speaker 2: draw it up and how you get it started. But
- 6:33Speaker 2: I'm not necessarily too worried about it. Even though that
- 6:36Speaker 2: number's big, James Cook does a good job of making
- 6:39Speaker 2: up for it.
- 6:41Speaker 3: He does a good job of making up for it. However,
- 6:43Speaker 3: it's not something that you want to live by.
- 6:45Speaker 1: How about that? This is not the recipe.
- 6:47Speaker 3: You know, so listen, after that, you know, it's kind of,
- 6:50Speaker 3: it's interesting because this is the type of game where
- 6:52Speaker 3: you can really talk about complimentary football. You can talk about,
- 6:55Speaker 3: you know, all the coaches love that coach speak and
- 6:57Speaker 3: shit like that. And this is really one of those games, DT,
- 7:00Speaker 3: where it kind of, it kind of married in together.
- 7:03Speaker 3: The defense shows that they do have a backbone. They
- 7:06Speaker 3: do show that they are, they're learning, they're getting their way.
- 7:09Speaker 3: I always said that I expected it to take time
- 7:11Speaker 3: That was always my position was that it was not
- 7:13Speaker 3: going to be something that was a finished product early
- 7:15Speaker 3: in the year. It, it still is not a finished
- 7:17Speaker 3: product if you ask me. And I think that Jim
- 7:19Speaker 3: Leonard and the defenders would tell you the same, the
- 7:21Speaker 3: same thing, but this was a complimentary football type of
- 7:24Speaker 3: game DT, where, I mean, you fumble, you give them
- 7:28Speaker 3: great field position, they score a touchdown. And then after that,
- 7:31Speaker 3: you know, you, you had a couple of punts and
- 7:33Speaker 3: then you enter, you know, Josh was at interception and
- 7:35Speaker 3: like they bow up and they hold them to three.
- 7:38Speaker 3: And it's a 10, nothing game when, It could easily
- 7:40Speaker 3: be 14-0. And I thought that it was really important
- 7:44Speaker 3: for them to have that stop right there when they
- 7:46Speaker 3: did stop them to three points after that interception on
- 7:48Speaker 3: that Josh Allen throw. Because to me, it was like, listen,
- 7:52Speaker 3: this game can get out of hand quick and it
- 7:54Speaker 3: can get to a point where you're playing catch up
- 7:56Speaker 3: for the rest of the way. 10-0 is not that
- 7:58Speaker 3: big of a deal when you've got Josh Allen. Maybe
- 8:01Speaker 3: some other quarterbacks would be a big deal. It's not
- 8:03Speaker 3: that big of a deal when you've got Josh Allen.
- 8:04Speaker 3: I thought that it was a sneaky big play at
- 8:08Speaker 3: the end of the first quarter when they held them
- 8:10Speaker 3: to three points because I just thought that it was
- 8:13Speaker 3: a big momentum swing, even though I know that we
- 8:16Speaker 3: threw another pick right after, so I know that it
- 8:18Speaker 3: doesn't necessarily make sense.
- 8:20Speaker 1: But they had a missed field goal after the next pick.
- 8:22Speaker 3: So it really, for me, started from that first pick,
- 8:26Speaker 3: holding them to a field goal, keeping it at 10-0,
- 8:28Speaker 3: where everything is still in tracking distance.
- 8:30Speaker 1: And that's how I felt about it.
- 8:31Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you look the week before when the Bills,
- 8:34Speaker 2: you know, it wasn't necessarily turnovers, but they're getting the ball,
- 8:37Speaker 2: you know, getting the ball stopped on forcing Detroit to
- 8:41Speaker 2: punt and getting up 21-0 quick, you know, and Detroit
- 8:43Speaker 2: did everything they could to get back into it, and
- 8:45Speaker 2: you just can't in the NFL. You just can't come
- 8:47Speaker 2: back from 20 points, you know, especially against a good team,
- 8:50Speaker 2: and so that was something that could have happened on
- 8:53Speaker 2: Sunday with the Chargers not even doing great to get
- 8:55Speaker 2: up on us by three scores early, and Doesn't matter
- 8:58Speaker 2: how the momentum shifts or how good you are. It's
- 9:00Speaker 2: tough to come back from that, especially in the NFL.
- 9:03Speaker 2: So it, you know, it was, I thought those stops
- 9:05Speaker 2: were big as well. Out of the five turnovers, two
- 9:08Speaker 2: were on our side of the field, right? Two or, or,
- 9:11Speaker 2: or where was it?
- 9:12Speaker 1: Three.
- 9:13Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 9:13Speaker 1: I think it was three.
- 9:14Speaker 2: I think three were on our side of the field and,
- 9:16Speaker 2: you know, and to really only to only give up
- 9:18Speaker 2: 10 points off of five turnovers and three being on
- 9:21Speaker 2: your own. And I thought that was a testament to
- 9:24Speaker 2: the defense. It kind of put them, you know, back
- 9:25Speaker 2: against the wall. If you let this up, this game
- 9:28Speaker 2: could get out of hand quick. And Josh Allen might
- 9:29Speaker 2: not even have a shot later on, you know, to
- 9:33Speaker 2: do that. I want to talk about that first pick.
- 9:35Speaker 2: That's something we don't, you know, Josh throws picks. He has,
- 9:38Speaker 2: but that's, he doesn't throw picks like that. Right.
- 9:40Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 9:41Speaker 2: And it's more of like the second one to DJ
- 9:43Speaker 2: more of him, just hawking one up and the triple
- 9:46Speaker 2: coverage and an arm pun, if you will, even though
- 9:48Speaker 2: it was on first down.
- 9:49Speaker 1: But I don't know if you've read the coverage. It
- 9:51Speaker 1: was quarters. It was clear quarters. I don't, know, man.
- 9:54Speaker 2: Here's, you know, I heard GR and their take on
- 9:58Speaker 2: it was, you know, because it was like a fluent,
- 10:00Speaker 2: you know, he dropped back, he's in his read, he
- 10:02Speaker 2: looks and he fires. It's not like he hesitated and
- 10:04Speaker 2: took anything off it. He stepped him through. Now, they
- 10:08Speaker 2: were saying a young safety might have been, you know,
- 10:11Speaker 2: a misread put him in a spot to pick that
- 10:14Speaker 2: ball off. Like Josh's look off, the safety wasn't good
- 10:17Speaker 2: enough to go for the look off. So like he
- 10:19Speaker 2: was Yeah, he tried to look to the left. Yeah,
- 10:22Speaker 2: he missed his read as the safety, and then he
- 10:25Speaker 2: was just– oh, he was just right there because he
- 10:27Speaker 2: should have been on the other side of the field
- 10:28Speaker 2: where Josh takes all the safeties and, like, the veterans,
- 10:31Speaker 2: you know. So it was like he was almost inexperienced
- 10:34Speaker 2: and missed the read, which put him, ironically, in the
- 10:37Speaker 2: best spot for the pick. But I don't think it
- 10:39Speaker 2: was that, Rob. I genuinely think– I mean, shout-out Nickel
- 10:43Speaker 2: City crew. Shout-out Nickel City crew uniforms. But these uniforms, man,
- 10:49Speaker 2: like– They weren't, they did not, even though we win
- 10:53Speaker 2: the ball game in them, they do not help the
- 10:55Speaker 2: cause of what I really think of them. The aura
- 10:58Speaker 2: is not there, but Hey, we stick to them because
- 11:00Speaker 2: the show we have.
- 11:01Speaker 1: To, but I think it was, it was.
- 11:04Speaker 2: Close, man. It was like the white and the gray
- 11:07Speaker 2: on a quick turn when in split second decision-making it's
- 11:11Speaker 2: closer than you think it looked close on TV. And
- 11:15Speaker 2: I think in the game with the, you know, the
- 11:16Speaker 2: blue match with there, it, I don't think he saw
- 11:19Speaker 2: the guy. I don't think he saw the guy's jersey.
- 11:22Speaker 2: And as he let it go, he's like, oh, that's
- 11:24Speaker 2: a white jersey. And he puts it on him. So
- 11:26Speaker 2: that's my take on the pick. I think it was
- 11:27Speaker 2: a jersey pick. Jersey pick.
- 11:32Speaker 1: Oh, my God. I love you so much. I mean,
- 11:35Speaker 1: they have on blue helmets. I mean, I don't know
- 11:37Speaker 1: if I could go with that. I don't know. I mean, maybe. Now, listen. Now, listen. I.
- 11:44Speaker 3: I really feel like, you know, Greg Grusso, obviously playing again,
- 11:47Speaker 3: he's the first player, I think they said in NFL history,
- 11:50Speaker 3: said sacks were stat and sats became a stat in 82.
- 11:53Speaker 3: That first three games, two sacks apiece, leading the NFL. Obviously,
- 11:58Speaker 3: he was just named AFC Player of the Month. Congratulations
- 12:01Speaker 3: to him. I thought that he, you know, he helped
- 12:04Speaker 3: a lot. I love CJ's game. CJ, GJ played a
- 12:07Speaker 3: really good game besides the pick.
- 12:09Speaker 1: Itself. He played a really good game. He was all
- 12:12Speaker 1: over the field.
- 12:13Speaker 2: He talked about that parts of stopping on those turnovers.
- 12:16Speaker 2: He was a big part of getting them off the
- 12:18Speaker 2: field there on third down twice on those come downs.
- 12:21Speaker 3: Yeah, I really enjoyed his game. And it was funny
- 12:24Speaker 3: because all they needed was a little bit of hope.
- 12:26Speaker 3: All they needed was a little bit more time. That's
- 12:28Speaker 3: all Josh needed. And then obviously they have a nice
- 12:30Speaker 3: 10 play 80 yard drive to tie it up right
- 12:33Speaker 3: before halftime at 1010.
- 12:35Speaker 1: And I thought that that was really key to the game.
- 12:38Speaker 3: DT, because it was clear to me, just like the
- 12:40Speaker 3: Denver game was clear to me, we were the better team.
- 12:44Speaker 3: I was able to tell early on in the game
- 12:46Speaker 3: that we were better than them. Even though we were
- 12:48Speaker 3: turning the ball over, even though we weren't doing the
- 12:50Speaker 3: things that we were supposed to be doing, I never
- 12:52Speaker 3: thought that the Chargers were better than us. And it
- 12:54Speaker 3: was bearing out after halftime. I never thought Denver was
- 12:58Speaker 3: better than us last year in that divisional round. And
- 13:00Speaker 3: it bore out for most of the game. And then
- 13:02Speaker 3: obviously overtime was kind of wonky. DT, pressure bus pipes.
- 13:08Speaker 3: the cream rises to the crop, whatever you want to say,
- 13:10Speaker 3: whatever cliche you want to use.
- 13:12Speaker 1: I thought that the bills were better.
- 13:13Speaker 3: And I thought that, that I thought that the charges
- 13:15Speaker 3: fucked up basically by letting us be tied by the
- 13:17Speaker 3: end of that first half, because he had two turnovers
- 13:19Speaker 3: from Josh Allen and it wasn't really necessarily a situation
- 13:23Speaker 3: where it's not, not Josh Allen, but she had James
- 13:25Speaker 3: cook fumbling on the first play from scrimmage of Josh
- 13:27Speaker 3: Allen pick.
- 13:28Speaker 1: I thought that that was their opportunity to jump on
- 13:30Speaker 1: us quick. They didn't.
- 13:31Speaker 3: And I thought that we made him pay for it
- 13:33Speaker 3: after that, because at that point in time, it's a game.
- 13:36Speaker 3: And you've got a quarterback and an offensive coordinator who
- 13:38Speaker 3: are struggling. So I really never was really worried about
- 13:40Speaker 3: the game. I just was so mad that the turnovers
- 13:42Speaker 3: kept keeping it close, if that makes sense.
- 13:45Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean, don't get us wrong, Nick City crew.
- 13:48Speaker 2: You're not going to win a game, turn the ball
- 13:50Speaker 2: over five times. I mean, if you play 10 games
- 13:53Speaker 2: and turn the ball over five times in each of
- 13:54Speaker 2: those games, you're well under 500. I'd bet the farm
- 13:58Speaker 2: on that, right? Oh, yeah, absolutely. So the huge going
- 14:03Speaker 2: into the half tied game, They got the ball at
- 14:05Speaker 2: halftime as well. We've been getting the ball to start
- 14:08Speaker 2: the game. So they got the ball at halftime. I mean,
- 14:11Speaker 2: building a lead, even if it's 10-3, and then you
- 14:14Speaker 2: get the ball on 17-3 before the Bills even touch
- 14:16Speaker 2: the ball again, that's how you put a good team away.
- 14:19Speaker 2: That's how you put Josh Allen away. And it had
- 14:22Speaker 2: to be, you know, they just couldn't close the door
- 14:24Speaker 2: whenever it came. I don't think they... they were expecting it,
- 14:28Speaker 2: you know, to be honest, I don't think that if
- 14:30Speaker 2: the game plan was to, you know, limit, limit the
- 14:33Speaker 2: bills offense or whatever, blah, blah, blah, whatever your game
- 14:35Speaker 2: plan is going into, into that one. I, then you
- 14:39Speaker 2: get the turnovers. It looked like a team that wasn't
- 14:41Speaker 2: expecting to be competitive. And, you know, and that's, I
- 14:45Speaker 2: was a situation where it, you know, it, it showed like,
- 14:48Speaker 2: that's the gotta be more points to take advantage, especially
- 14:51Speaker 2: when you're in inferior team and going up against Josh
- 14:54Speaker 2: Allen at home and the loudest stadium in the world.
- 14:56Speaker 2: That has to be something you need to take advantage
- 15:00Speaker 2: of if you get that break, and they didn't. It
- 15:03Speaker 2: looked like the Chargers weren't ready for the moment. They
- 15:05Speaker 2: weren't prepared to be ahead in that game, and when
- 15:08Speaker 2: they were, it showed.
- 15:10Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it did.
- 15:11Speaker 3: Now, the Bills get things together. Like I said, they
- 15:14Speaker 3: come out third quarter. It was still a little bit sloppy.
- 15:16Speaker 3: There was another fumble that we got back. Again, five turnovers,
- 15:21Speaker 3: it's a lot. Five turnovers is a lot for sure,
- 15:23Speaker 3: so it wasn't the best– It wasn't the best of games, but,
- 15:26Speaker 3: you know, like, listen, the Kincaid fumble was just awareness,
- 15:30Speaker 3: you know, like, you know, and they didn't get that
- 15:31Speaker 3: one back, but it was like, that's just awareness. You
- 15:33Speaker 3: just got to know that motherfuckers are trying to get
- 15:35Speaker 3: that ball out. Like, you know, it was a beautiful catch,
- 15:38Speaker 3: beautiful idea. I wasn't mad at him for trying to
- 15:40Speaker 3: get extra yardage or anything like that. You just got
- 15:42Speaker 3: to cover up. Sometimes it's just, it's just the simple
- 15:44Speaker 3: stuff in football that kind of gets out of hand. DT,
- 15:48Speaker 3: I thought that, I thought that the fourth quarter, you know,
- 15:53Speaker 3: fumble was, it's hard because like, I'm not going to
- 15:57Speaker 3: tell Josh Allen not to be Josh Allen.
- 15:59Speaker 1: Like, I'm not going to tell him to not be
- 16:01Speaker 1: who he is.
- 16:01Speaker 3: Like some people were like, well, he was, he's trying to,
- 16:03Speaker 3: you know, he's overextending himself or he's, he's, um, overestimating his,
- 16:07Speaker 3: his power.
- 16:08Speaker 1: And I'm like, you know, and I'm like, no, I
- 16:09Speaker 1: don't think he's overestimating his ability. He's doing too much.
- 16:12Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't, I never want to tell Superman
- 16:14Speaker 3: that he's doing too much. So I never feel like
- 16:15Speaker 3: that's the answer. I think that you always should be
- 16:18Speaker 3: aware of your surroundings, stuff like that.
- 16:19Speaker 1: But I mean, I don't know, man. I, I'll take
- 16:23Speaker 1: turnovers with Josh. Like, I will.
- 16:25Speaker 3: Not all of them are great and stuff like that. Like,
- 16:27Speaker 3: that first interception I thought was just a dumb play.
- 16:30Speaker 3: The arm punt, I'll kind of give him because I
- 16:32Speaker 3: thought that he thought that he was getting a flag.
- 16:33Speaker 3: But if you don't see a flag coming, then you've
- 16:35Speaker 3: got to judge yourself accordingly. I thought that that last
- 16:38Speaker 3: fumble was just– sometimes it's just football. Like, the other
- 16:41Speaker 3: guys get paid, too. Like, those fumbles on Kincaid and
- 16:44Speaker 3: Allen are just– it's just football, man. Like, the other
- 16:47Speaker 3: guys are trying to rip the ball out.
- 16:49Speaker 1: They're trying to get, you know– earn their paychecks for
- 16:51Speaker 1: the week. I don't think, I don't, I don't like
- 16:53Speaker 1: to read.
- 16:53Speaker 3: Into it any more than that, but some people.
- 16:56Speaker 2: Think of the force.
- 16:57Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 16:58Speaker 2: And think of the force having to tackle 17 all day.
- 17:01Speaker 3: Right.
- 17:01Speaker 2: Like, you know, you have to brace for impact when
- 17:04Speaker 2: that dude's coming around. And, and so like you are
- 17:06Speaker 2: flying into him, you know, way, you know, more recklessly
- 17:10Speaker 2: and harder than you're, you're flying in anybody else. And
- 17:13Speaker 2: that might result in, you know, just being in a,
- 17:15Speaker 2: in a good place to get your helmet on the
- 17:17Speaker 2: ball and get it loose. that specific one yes I
- 17:21Speaker 2: mean get the ball back without it who knows if
- 17:23Speaker 2: you win the ball game at least you know by
- 17:25Speaker 2: by that margin but the he could have easily thrown
- 17:29Speaker 2: it away and he could have done that a few
- 17:30Speaker 2: other times and not just to turn the ball over
- 17:32Speaker 2: but to take a lick you know or going out
- 17:34Speaker 2: of bounds to take a hit and you know you
- 17:37Speaker 2: see a lot of that in on the college game
- 17:39Speaker 2: on Saturdays these quarterbacks just trying everything to you know
- 17:42Speaker 2: to not Nobody's throwing it away. And I'm not saying
- 17:44Speaker 2: I want Josh Allen to just throw the ball away
- 17:46Speaker 2: when something's not there because that's what makes him great
- 17:49Speaker 2: and that's what gets the Bills a lot of victories
- 17:51Speaker 2: is when there isn't anything there, he extends the play,
- 17:53Speaker 2: finds something, and it's six. But like you said with
- 17:57Speaker 2: the Kincaid thing, the awareness has to be there. And obviously,
- 18:00Speaker 2: you know, I think he's coachable on that. But, you know,
- 18:03Speaker 2: the trial by fire when it comes to, like, he
- 18:05Speaker 2: also got hit hard on that play too, you know.
- 18:08Speaker 2: So it's a double whammy for him when he's thinking
- 18:10Speaker 2: about that, like, man, I put the ball on the ground,
- 18:13Speaker 2: could have, you know, cost my team, and I'm feeling
- 18:16Speaker 2: that hit today too. So, you know, he doesn't need
- 18:19Speaker 2: the coach or the film to tell him because it
- 18:21Speaker 2: obviously will. I think himself feels that too. I don't
- 18:25Speaker 2: think he's just blind to the fact that he put
- 18:27Speaker 2: the ball on the ground and got licked. I think he,
- 18:29Speaker 2: you know, I think that sets, you know, that's some
- 18:32Speaker 2: precedent set to him. He was a little behind in
- 18:35Speaker 2: reeling and knew he had to make some things happen
- 18:38Speaker 2: to win the game. I get that. But there's also,
- 18:41Speaker 2: you know, he understands there's other ways to win the game,
- 18:44Speaker 2: and he doesn't need to do something. So I don't
- 18:46Speaker 2: think it needs like it's a, you know, the coach
- 18:48Speaker 2: needs to tell him to quit doing that because he's
- 18:50Speaker 2: so oblivious to doing it. I think he can feel
- 18:53Speaker 2: that for himself. And, you know, okay, next time, you know, one,
- 18:56Speaker 2: let's not get in that situation where I have to
- 18:58Speaker 2: overextend a play. We're up by 30, and I can
- 19:00Speaker 2: just throw.
- 19:00Speaker 1: It out of bounds. Yeah, no, I agree.
- 19:02Speaker 3: Now, Bills, again, as you remember from Sunday, you know,
- 19:05Speaker 3: they closed it out. I mean, it's just crazy to see.
- 19:08Speaker 1: We started the episode last week.
- 19:09Speaker 3: Talking about what the hell's wrong with the Chargers, and
- 19:11Speaker 3: they could not get anything together.
- 19:14Speaker 1: It happened again. And really, C.J.
- 19:17Speaker 3: G.J., his return on that pick in the fourth quarter
- 19:19Speaker 3: really set it up where the Bills can go ahead
- 19:22Speaker 3: on and score two touchdowns in the end of the
- 19:24Speaker 3: game to really put things away.
- 19:25Speaker 1: And it's funny because D.T. is right.
- 19:27Speaker 3: We covered, and I never would have thought that we covered.
- 19:29Speaker 3: In the first quarter, I was like, I'm so happy
- 19:31Speaker 3: I didn't bet on this damn game.
- 19:32Speaker 1: We're going to win, but I don't know about how much.
- 19:34Speaker 3: I was so happy. And then by the time the
- 19:36Speaker 3: game ends, it's an eight-point win. It's a cover game.
- 19:39Speaker 3: I still don't know how they did that. So shout
- 19:41Speaker 3: out to the Bills defense again. It was some of
- 19:43Speaker 3: that complimentary football where you see and you have an
- 19:45Speaker 3: opportunity to help your offense out until they get shit together.
- 19:49Speaker 1: And they never really got shit together.
- 19:51Speaker 3: But I heard somebody, they were saying it earlier this
- 19:53Speaker 3: week that this, that was a cook game and maybe
- 19:56Speaker 3: that's something signed to come. And I'm interested to know
- 19:59Speaker 3: what you think about that because I know that there's
- 20:01Speaker 3: a new approach now with Joe Brady and being aggressive
- 20:03Speaker 3: and stuff like that. I think that he's smart enough
- 20:05Speaker 3: to know when to back off. And when I say
- 20:07Speaker 3: back off, that means to hit a different pressure point.
- 20:10Speaker 3: So I don't think that he didn't notice that the
- 20:12Speaker 3: run game was working. I don't know if he just
- 20:14Speaker 3: had a different feeling on it, but when he needed
- 20:17Speaker 3: to lean on it towards the end of the game,
- 20:18Speaker 3: he did. So to me, I think that he remembers
- 20:21Speaker 3: the Dallas game a couple of years ago. I think
- 20:22Speaker 3: he remembers, you know, other games where James Cook was
- 20:25Speaker 3: just automatic, the Carolina game when you were down here.
- 20:28Speaker 3: I think that he didn't forget about that. So I'm
- 20:31Speaker 3: going to give him a little bit of grace. I
- 20:32Speaker 3: don't think that it was a situation where he was
- 20:33Speaker 3: just trying to go YOLO and stuff like that. And
- 20:36Speaker 3: he wasn't, he was refusing to call run plays in
- 20:38Speaker 3: the first half. I think that they were all frustrated.
- 20:40Speaker 3: The entire offense was frustrated, starting by the first play
- 20:43Speaker 3: from scrimmage, and he was just trying to play a
- 20:45Speaker 3: little bit of catch-up to get them back on track.
- 20:47Speaker 1: I think that that's what it was. They got away
- 20:49Speaker 1: from their game.
- 20:50Speaker 3: Script because the game script got fucking burnt to the
- 20:52Speaker 3: ground in the first play from scrimmage, and that kind
- 20:55Speaker 3: of fucked shit up. So I thought that that was
- 20:56Speaker 3: more what it was as opposed to Joe Brady being stubborn,
- 21:00Speaker 3: not wanting to run the ball. He knows he has
- 21:02Speaker 3: James Cook. He's not like the Baltimore coaches. He knows
- 21:04Speaker 3: he's got a stud back.
- 21:06Speaker 2: As much as, you know, disagreeing makes good content in
- 21:10Speaker 2: the city crew, Rob, I'm right there with you on
- 21:12Speaker 2: this one. You know, the narrative being thrown around that
- 21:16Speaker 2: Joe Brady is free now and he's just trying to
- 21:18Speaker 2: rip it 60 yards down the field every play. Like,
- 21:21Speaker 2: I don't think they were doing that just because Joe
- 21:24Speaker 2: Brady's free now. I think they were doing that because
- 21:26Speaker 2: they turned the ball over five times and they were
- 21:28Speaker 2: just trying to. set a tone to be like, okay,
- 21:31Speaker 2: we need to have a big play to get the
- 21:33Speaker 2: crowd behind us, to get Josh back, you know, to
- 21:35Speaker 2: get everybody pumped up to really close these boys out, right?
- 21:38Speaker 2: And so I think that was kind of the premise
- 21:41Speaker 2: of playing catch-up, and that's Joe Brady learning. I mean,
- 21:43Speaker 2: we've been grateful that we're 3-0, and, you know, we
- 21:46Speaker 2: haven't seen as visible a lot of the learning curves,
- 21:49Speaker 2: but that was kind of one, you know, we saw
- 21:51Speaker 2: of Joe Brady being able to adjust mid-game, knowing like, okay,
- 21:55Speaker 2: we we have a game plan we got to get
- 21:57Speaker 2: away from our game plan but we need a spark
- 21:59Speaker 2: so let's go downfield but then also realizing like okay
- 22:01Speaker 2: we can't get reckless going downfield and so he's learning
- 22:04Speaker 2: in live motion there the bitching about you know the
- 22:07Speaker 2: the the low profile offense in those games but then
- 22:11Speaker 2: those low profile offense had those games that Dallas game
- 22:13Speaker 2: that Carolina game and those are things that are going
- 22:16Speaker 2: to need to happen especially when you have Josh Allen
- 22:18Speaker 2: who has cooked the league in the first two weeks, yeah,
- 22:21Speaker 2: that's a good, good week to throw your runner in
- 22:24Speaker 2: there to, you know, to bust some out. So I
- 22:27Speaker 2: agree with you. I don't think it's, it's a philosophy
- 22:29Speaker 2: thing where he just will never run the ball no
- 22:31Speaker 2: matter what. I think they had to get away from
- 22:33Speaker 2: the game plan and they, he wanted to spark and
- 22:35Speaker 2: they were trying to get it. And I mean, what better,
- 22:38Speaker 2: you know, person to have up there in 17 to,
- 22:41Speaker 2: to give you a spark on a nice deep ball or,
- 22:43Speaker 2: or whatever they were looking for. So I agree. I mean,
- 22:46Speaker 2: James Cook still had 150 yards. In the run game,
- 22:49Speaker 2: I will make a point. Something we saw a lot
- 22:52Speaker 2: of last year was the counter. We saw that counter play,
- 22:56Speaker 2: and we saw it one time on Sunday. When James
- 23:00Speaker 2: Cook is one-on-one with a linebacker at the second level,
- 23:03Speaker 2: it's one cut, and he's outside for 20 yards. So
- 23:06Speaker 2: that play, I think, needs to be incorporated a little
- 23:08Speaker 2: more into the offense of getting back to slowing things down.
- 23:13Speaker 2: But I'd like to see counter a little more, but
- 23:14Speaker 2: I don't think Brady's just neglecting the run and throwing
- 23:18Speaker 2: deep for fun. I think they were just trying to
- 23:20Speaker 2: flow with the game, and that's a young coach just
- 23:22Speaker 2: trying to catch up there.
- 23:24Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. Now, we will transition as we do, though.
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- 24:39Speaker 1: DT.
- 24:41Speaker 3: All right. It's a situation where we started off last
- 24:44Speaker 3: week saying, what the fuck is wrong with the Chargers?
- 24:48Speaker 1: DT, what?
- 24:50Speaker 3: For real, what the fuck is up with Drake May?
- 24:52Speaker 3: Because this dude, listen, they call him the schedule on Twitter.
- 24:57Speaker 3: They call him the schedule. I was a big proponent
- 24:59Speaker 3: of the fact that his schedule, I mean, I literally
- 25:01Speaker 3: put all my chips on that, like the Patriots are
- 25:03Speaker 3: coming back this year.
- 25:05Speaker 1: Now, I thought the division would be close.
- 25:06Speaker 3: I didn't expect that after a week four win, if
- 25:09Speaker 3: we get it on Sunday, that we would be three
- 25:10Speaker 3: games up on them before you're even to Halloween. I
- 25:14Speaker 3: never would have thought that DT, they look bad. The
- 25:17Speaker 3: Jacksonville Jaguars really tore that up last week. They haven't
- 25:21Speaker 3: looked good all year. And then the C Drake may
- 25:23Speaker 3: stats DT. It's kind of alarming regardless of what you
- 25:27Speaker 3: thought of the schedule. If you wanted to call him
- 25:28Speaker 3: a schedule merchant last year, I agree with you. I
- 25:31Speaker 3: thought that the schedule definitely helped them out. He's playing
- 25:33Speaker 3: like dog shit, regardless of who he's playing against. That is,
- 25:37Speaker 3: It's eye-opening, DT. I don't know what's going on with
- 25:40Speaker 3: Drake May, man.
- 25:42Speaker 1: It's alarming. Yeah.
- 25:44Speaker 2: NFL, man. The NFL. C.J. Stroud had a little taste
- 25:50Speaker 2: of that a few years ago. Drake May, even though
- 25:53Speaker 2: it is technically his third season, it's not the sophomore
- 25:56Speaker 2: slump or anything like that, but it's a hard league
- 26:00Speaker 2: to win inconsistently, and that's why I think anybody that
- 26:03Speaker 2: has any doubt of Josh Allen, yes, he hasn't won
- 26:06Speaker 2: the big one, but to be consistent in this league
- 26:10Speaker 2: is unheard of only for the greats, right? So you're
- 26:14Speaker 2: going to have some ups and downs. The film is
- 26:17Speaker 2: on you. They tried to help him out by going
- 26:20Speaker 2: out and getting some receiver help, and A.J. Brown's out.
- 26:23Speaker 2: Romeo Dobbs not living up to the hype. There's not
- 26:26Speaker 2: the help they went out to get. It's not there
- 26:29Speaker 2: for him right now. you know, the running game, mediocre.
- 26:32Speaker 2: And so it's Drake May just kind of slinging it
- 26:34Speaker 2: out there. And I think, yes, the schedule and some breaks.
- 26:38Speaker 2: And as a young player, this happened to Josh too,
- 26:40Speaker 2: and not that, you know, but this happened to Josh
- 26:43Speaker 2: of where he had some early confidence and made some
- 26:47Speaker 2: like crazy plays early in his career. And then just
- 26:50Speaker 2: thought he could do that all the time. And sometimes
- 26:53Speaker 2: he still does that. But I think there was a
- 26:55Speaker 2: lot of that with Drake May last year. There was
- 26:57Speaker 2: like some balls, just deep balls. He just chucked up
- 26:59Speaker 2: that just were dimes, dots on the corner in the
- 27:02Speaker 2: end zone, like beautiful balls, you know, to Keyshawn Boudet and,
- 27:06Speaker 2: you know, those, those guys. And now I think it's like,
- 27:10Speaker 2: I'm throwing it to the end zone and it's not
- 27:12Speaker 2: hitting my receiver in the hands of the quarter. Like,
- 27:14Speaker 2: I think it's, you know, it's kind of getting real
- 27:16Speaker 2: that there's, it's, you can't just release it and it
- 27:18Speaker 2: works for you in this league. And I, there's going
- 27:21Speaker 2: to be work done. And, you know, I think he's,
- 27:23Speaker 2: I don't think he's, he's done by any means, but,
- 27:26Speaker 2: you know, I hope, I hope another bad week is
- 27:28Speaker 2: on tap for him this week and really make the people,
- 27:31Speaker 2: you know, freak out and really make him question his confidence.
- 27:35Speaker 2: Because right now that's what, just what we talked about
- 27:36Speaker 2: with the Chargers, the Chargers were fighting for their life,
- 27:39Speaker 2: you know, last, last week to be like, are we,
- 27:42Speaker 2: you know, a decent team that people think we are, or,
- 27:44Speaker 2: you know, do we suck? And we kind of saw they,
- 27:47Speaker 2: they probably suck. Um, but you know, in this case,
- 27:50Speaker 2: we're looking at the same thing for the Patriots. Like, okay,
- 27:52Speaker 2: you know, we're, we were in the Superbowl last year.
- 27:54Speaker 2: We're building a team here. Drake, may you're the future.
- 27:57Speaker 2: You had a bad week. This is your bounce back week.
- 27:59Speaker 2: This is your bounce back week. So it's very similar.
- 28:01Speaker 2: Like you said, you know, to what we see in
- 28:03Speaker 2: the chargers, but if they goes out and has another
- 28:05Speaker 2: week like that, then it turns to like, it's not
- 28:07Speaker 2: a bounce back week. It's, you know, the world saying
- 28:10Speaker 2: you suck. And, you know, from the, from the, from
- 28:15Speaker 2: another bad performance like that. He looked unplayable Sunday. He
- 28:18Speaker 2: looked like a backup quarterback in there that just hand
- 28:21Speaker 2: the ball off the rest of the game. He looked
- 28:23Speaker 2: unplayable Sunday.
- 28:24Speaker 3: I think every game he has gotten worse. The Patriots
- 28:29Speaker 3: game was a bad game. He threw up the Seahawks game.
- 28:33Speaker 3: And then Steelers game, I expected them to win. He
- 28:36Speaker 3: wasn't spectacular, but the Steelers were garbage, so I expected
- 28:38Speaker 3: them to win.
- 28:39Speaker 1: They won. And then last week was just like rock bottom.
- 28:42Speaker 1: It was bad. You're right about that. It was pretty
- 28:44Speaker 1: dog shit.
- 28:45Speaker 2: But the pressure was solid from the Jaguars defensive line,
- 28:49Speaker 2: and the pressure was solid in that Seahawks game week one.
- 28:51Speaker 2: And obviously, that's a cliche thing to say. If you
- 28:54Speaker 2: pressure the quarterback, he's going to be out of his
- 28:57Speaker 2: game and in harder situations. But it seems like the
- 28:59Speaker 2: pressure for him, you know, he's not that big of
- 29:01Speaker 2: a guy, right? And, you know, not Cornelius, North Carolina
- 29:05Speaker 2: up there. You know, it's a nice little suburb. It's
- 29:08Speaker 2: a nice little, you know, nice little town. We play
- 29:11Speaker 2: real football at Huff. Don't chill out. We play real
- 29:14Speaker 2: football down here. Anyway, you know, but if he's taking
- 29:20Speaker 2: licks out there, you know, he's a lot less, you know,
- 29:25Speaker 2: likely to come back and be motivated for a hit
- 29:28Speaker 2: as opposed to, you know, a guy like Josh Allen
- 29:30Speaker 2: that doesn't feel it as much. Like, this dude is
- 29:32Speaker 2: feeling those those licks and um i just you know
- 29:35Speaker 2: i it's a bounce back week for him and that's
- 29:37Speaker 2: what they're preaching in the patriots in the new balance
- 29:39Speaker 2: you know in the new balance center out there um
- 29:42Speaker 2: they're preaching the the comeback game but it's the same
- 29:45Speaker 2: thing as the charges if he goes out and puts
- 29:47Speaker 2: another performance like that there's no narrative of a comeback
- 29:50Speaker 2: like you suck now you know until you do something
- 29:53Speaker 2: otherwise so that's uh that's that's what he's what he's
- 29:56Speaker 2: looming with and i'd like him worrying about that as
- 29:59Speaker 2: opposed to worrying about the actual game plan.
- 30:01Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny. I was watching that.
- 30:02Speaker 3: I literally was watching earlier today and like Dan Orlowski,
- 30:05Speaker 3: who I like because he knows quarterbacks and he was
- 30:08Speaker 3: like showing like side shots of like last year, like
- 30:11Speaker 3: literally just him, a still shot of him, like getting
- 30:13Speaker 3: ready to fire it in 25. And then this year
- 30:16Speaker 3: he's like, look at him. And he's like literally, and
- 30:18Speaker 3: you can see the difference is like standing straight up.
- 30:20Speaker 1: He's got no pop. And I'm like, Hmm, that's interesting.
- 30:23Speaker 3: I don't know how many plays it wound up being
- 30:25Speaker 3: a negative play, but it was interesting how he, He
- 30:28Speaker 3: froze for me. He's like, listen, look, you could see
- 30:30Speaker 3: the difference. One looks like he's on his toes, ready
- 30:32Speaker 3: to rip it. And then the next one is kind
- 30:34Speaker 3: of speaking to what you said, like, damn, like that
- 30:36Speaker 3: didn't work like it did last year.
- 30:37Speaker 1: So it's interesting.
- 30:38Speaker 3: And I'm wondering how much of it is A.J. Brown
- 30:40Speaker 3: not there as well. The prize receiver, stuff like that. But, damn,
- 30:44Speaker 3: that Jaguars game was pretty bad.
- 30:46Speaker 1: So we'll see.
- 30:47Speaker 3: All right, DT, let's break it down before we get
- 30:50Speaker 3: to the tailgate report. The Bills offense against this Patriots defense.
- 30:54Speaker 3: For me, I think that it's just about cleaning things up. Um,
- 30:58Speaker 3: I don't, I don't want to overreact to Sunday. And,
- 31:01Speaker 3: and I think that that's really one of the big
- 31:03Speaker 3: things for me. Um, personally, I don't want to overreact
- 31:06Speaker 3: to it.
- 31:06Speaker 2: Yes.
- 31:07Speaker 1: Well, I'm watching it.
- 31:07Speaker 3: I'm cussing at the TV and stuff like that, but I,
- 31:10Speaker 3: I'm not going to, Oh man, old sugar high Josh's
- 31:13Speaker 3: back and all this stuff.
- 31:13Speaker 1: I don't, I don't believe any of that shit.
- 31:15Speaker 3: That's why I don't even go on Twitter half the
- 31:17Speaker 3: time during the games, because it's just so hyperbolic one
- 31:20Speaker 3: way or the other. It's, it's, it's, it's just too,
- 31:22Speaker 3: it's too toxic for me. I'll go on it after
- 31:24Speaker 3: the game and I'll, I'll check out what's going on,
- 31:26Speaker 3: what people thought. I think that you just clean up
- 31:29Speaker 3: some of the, some of the small stuff, ball security. That's,
- 31:32Speaker 3: you know, that's number one thing is making sure that
- 31:34Speaker 3: you're taking care of the football. I don't mind if
- 31:35Speaker 3: Josh throws a pick or two, I take those because
- 31:39Speaker 3: of what he does on the flip side of that
- 31:40Speaker 3: coin DT for me, going up against this defense, their
- 31:43Speaker 3: defense is decent. You know, they held, you know, the
- 31:47Speaker 3: Seahawks down, but.
- 31:48Speaker 1: The Seahawks, we had a backup quarterback.
- 31:49Speaker 3: They held the Steelers down, but the Steelers have an
- 31:51Speaker 3: old ass, you know, Aaron Rogers for me, The test
- 31:54Speaker 3: was last week. They failed that test miserably against a
- 31:57Speaker 3: guy who we know very well in Trevor Lawrence.
- 32:00Speaker 1: Clean up your game. Clean up the turnovers.
- 32:02Speaker 3: As long as you clean up giving a ball to
- 32:04Speaker 3: them and giving it to them in advantageous situations where
- 32:07Speaker 3: they can score, I don't think that they can hang
- 32:08Speaker 3: with you. And that's the combination of 17, his weapons,
- 32:12Speaker 3: along with Jimbo in the backfield.
- 32:13Speaker 1: I don't think that they can hang. I really don't.
- 32:15Speaker 1: And that's kind of where I'm planting my flag.
- 32:18Speaker 3: I do not think this defense can hang with this
- 32:20Speaker 3: offense as long as we're not constantly shooting ourselves in
- 32:23Speaker 3: the foot on Sunday. Yeah.
- 32:24Speaker 1: I mean, exactly. Right.
- 32:25Speaker 2: Don't have five turnovers and you're all right. The, you know, the,
- 32:29Speaker 2: the premise of this, you know, breakdown though, is, you know,
- 32:33Speaker 2: looking through the, the drives here where, you know, we're,
- 32:39Speaker 2: when we're not turning the ball over, moving the ball
- 32:42Speaker 2: where we're scoring, you know, we, we punted, punted one time.
- 32:50Speaker 1: What do you mean in the entire game?
- 32:52Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 32:54Speaker 1: I'd have to fact check that.
- 32:56Speaker 2: One punt. Yeah.
- 32:58Speaker 1: Yeah, one punt. One punt.
- 33:01Speaker 2: Well, yeah, a few of those turnovers might have been punts.
- 33:03Speaker 2: I'm not saying all those would have been touchdowns. I
- 33:06Speaker 2: get that. But, you know, the fact of the matter
- 33:09Speaker 2: is we've proven we can move the ball with this
- 33:11Speaker 2: offense this year. And what's going to, you know, who
- 33:14Speaker 2: with Christian Gonzalez, you know, probably not playing, who's stopping us,
- 33:18Speaker 2: you know, on the defensive side there. So, the, the
- 33:22Speaker 2: back to, we owe them one last year. We wear
- 33:24Speaker 2: the iced out jerseys at home Sunday night, Patriots come
- 33:28Speaker 2: in and beat us in some bullshit. So this is
- 33:31Speaker 2: now the new stadium, the home, get the Patriots. It's
- 33:34Speaker 2: hate week. I saw a lot of hate week, uh,
- 33:37Speaker 2: you know, things out there, even though, you know, Tom,
- 33:39Speaker 2: Tom Brady kind of led us into that last week. And,
- 33:42Speaker 2: his comment about like, oh yeah, nice stadium. I lost
- 33:46Speaker 2: there two games and I was really broke up about
- 33:49Speaker 2: it if I didn't win 33, right?
- 33:50Speaker 1: 34, yeah, he's a dickhead. I couldn't stand Fox's coverage, man.
- 33:54Speaker 1: I could not.
- 33:55Speaker 3: They showed like all of the worst plays in Buffalo
- 33:58Speaker 3: history coming back from a commercial break. I'm like, what
- 34:00Speaker 3: the fuck is this about? Why is that necessary? It's
- 34:02Speaker 3: like second quarter. Don't get me fucking started.
- 34:06Speaker 2: Patriots hate week, but the premise is we're moving the
- 34:09Speaker 2: ball and we're scoring with this offense. I mean, it's
- 34:12Speaker 2: Without the fight, we still scored 24 points with five turnovers.
- 34:15Speaker 2: I mean, even let's put a field goal and a
- 34:18Speaker 2: touchdown on there. You're at 34 points, and you're at
- 34:21Speaker 2: your average for the season, over 30, right? So it's
- 34:25Speaker 2: easily getting to 30 points. The Patriots have proved that
- 34:28Speaker 2: they probably can't get to 30. So I'm not worried
- 34:31Speaker 2: about anything on their defense. Get back in the rhythm.
- 34:34Speaker 2: Get back rolling. On those drives down the stretch, those
- 34:38Speaker 2: two scoring drives in the fourth quarter, DJ Moore has
- 34:41Speaker 2: five catches. This is what... We bring them in for you. Like, yeah,
- 34:45Speaker 2: it's fun to score touchdowns, get rocking, but this is
- 34:48Speaker 2: down the stretch. We need somebody to go to. Josh
- 34:51Speaker 2: is very comfortable going there. We talk about 14 all
- 34:54Speaker 2: the time. This is what he did with him. It
- 34:57Speaker 2: wasn't like Diggs. He wasn't force-feeding Diggs the entire game.
- 35:01Speaker 2: It was down the stretch. When we needed somewhere to go,
- 35:03Speaker 2: he was going to 14. And now you can already
- 35:05Speaker 2: see it down the stretch. You need somewhere to go.
- 35:08Speaker 2: He's going to two. And he brought us into those
- 35:10Speaker 2: first downs. Let us into scoring opportunities and finish the
- 35:13Speaker 2: game on Sunday. And I think that's what it goes
- 35:16Speaker 2: down to. There's levels to this offense of, okay, we're
- 35:20Speaker 2: out here. We can do whatever the fuck we want. Okay,
- 35:23Speaker 2: that's not working. So now we're going to go, you know,
- 35:26Speaker 2: we can go to our leading rusher and, you know,
- 35:30Speaker 2: we'll see how that goes. Okay, if that cuts down,
- 35:33Speaker 2: now it's just 17, be the dog, get it to
- 35:36Speaker 2: a go-to guy, and move the ball. So there's levels
- 35:39Speaker 2: to any stopping they're going to bring us, at least
- 35:42Speaker 2: what they've shown for the first three weeks. And they're
- 35:45Speaker 2: definitely not going to turn the ball over five times again.
- 35:47Speaker 2: I mean, if they do, sorry, Nickel City, I was wrong. But, gee,
- 35:51Speaker 2: not turn the ball over five times again. You know,
- 35:54Speaker 2: even if there is a few turnovers, mix in a
- 35:55Speaker 2: few more touchdowns, we're easily over 30 points on this defense.
- 35:59Speaker 2: Not worried about it.
- 36:01Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not. And I echo a lot of what
- 36:03Speaker 1: you said. So I agree with you on that.
- 36:05Speaker 3: Now, the Patriots offense, we kind of talked about it already.
- 36:08Speaker 3: They look broken to a certain degree because outside of
- 36:11Speaker 3: that 20-point game against the Steelers defense, I just haven't
- 36:15Speaker 3: seen much at all. Even week one was very bad
- 36:18Speaker 3: for Drake May. DT, what is a way that you
- 36:22Speaker 3: could see disaster striking? I think that the defense is
- 36:24Speaker 3: now getting– this is the perfect game coming off the
- 36:27Speaker 3: Chargers to build confidence.
- 36:29Speaker 1: How about that?
- 36:30Speaker 3: We used to call it stat night back in school,
- 36:33Speaker 3: back at Starpoint.
- 36:34Speaker 1: We'd play against– like Wilson or we play against.
- 36:37Speaker 3: Like Akron and like Barker was literally like one of
- 36:40Speaker 3: the worst teams in the Niagara Orleans league. And we're like,
- 36:43Speaker 3: all right, fellas, this is stat night. This is the
- 36:45Speaker 3: night to, this is the night to pad stats. This
- 36:48Speaker 3: is the night to get, now I know that the,
- 36:49Speaker 3: the Patriots are going to give a fight. I know
- 36:51Speaker 3: it's divisional and all that type of stuff. So I'm not,
- 36:53Speaker 3: I'm not trying to disrespect it, but I'm talking about
- 36:55Speaker 3: from the defensive perspective, this should be stat night for them.
- 36:58Speaker 3: They should think like, let's, let's get right. Let's, let's
- 37:01Speaker 3: find a way to, You know what I mean? To
- 37:03Speaker 3: continue this momentum. I think that coming off the Chargers game,
- 37:05Speaker 3: this is the perfect time to play a team that's
- 37:07Speaker 3: struggling offense because now you got a little bit of confidence.
- 37:10Speaker 3: You helped out your offense who had a shitty day.
- 37:12Speaker 3: They gave up the ball five times. You were put
- 37:14Speaker 3: in compromising situations all day long and you didn't break.
- 37:18Speaker 3: You kept bending, but you did not break. And you
- 37:21Speaker 3: actually bowed up in some cases where you were forcing
- 37:24Speaker 3: sacks and you were forcing interceptions like with CJ, GJ
- 37:27Speaker 3: in the second half. I think that this is the
- 37:29Speaker 3: perfect game to come off of a game like the
- 37:31Speaker 3: Chargers where This is a great opponent just to play
- 37:34Speaker 3: and get your confidence up for this next second quarter
- 37:37Speaker 3: of the season. You're just wrapping up on first quarter,
- 37:39Speaker 3: first four games. Now you'll be going into the second
- 37:41Speaker 3: quarter of the season.
- 37:43Speaker 1: This is the perfect opponent for it.
- 37:45Speaker 2: Yeah, in the division.
- 37:47Speaker 1: From defense playing against an offense perspective.
- 37:50Speaker 2: Yeah, in the division, get up, you know, pin your
- 37:52Speaker 2: ears back and go. I mean, Rousseau needs two sacks, obviously,
- 37:55Speaker 2: to stay on pace, right, to get to 34. So
- 37:57Speaker 2: he's got to get those. You know, and let's see
- 38:01Speaker 2: it like Bradley Chubb's cusping, you know, he's, he had
- 38:04Speaker 2: the roughing the passer and, you know, whatever last week.
- 38:07Speaker 2: And he's right on those Russo sacks. Chubb is there.
- 38:10Speaker 2: There was one Russo did the sack and Chubb got
- 38:13Speaker 2: up and celebrated like it was his, but it was
- 38:16Speaker 2: definitely Russo. So I think he's budding and trying to
- 38:19Speaker 2: get a, get a part of the mix and get
- 38:20Speaker 2: a part of the fun as Dion Walker is, you know,
- 38:23Speaker 2: as well. I think the linebackers have something to, you know,
- 38:26Speaker 2: to prove where they've been kind of up and down and,
- 38:28Speaker 2: you know, through the first three games. And, you know,
- 38:31Speaker 2: these defensive backs that, you know, Christian Benford, if he
- 38:33Speaker 2: doesn't play, that's one thing. But if he does play,
- 38:36Speaker 2: this is a good one to, okay, like, I'm not a,
- 38:39Speaker 2: you know, I can cover. I can make plays. They
- 38:41Speaker 2: paid me to be the number one. I will be
- 38:42Speaker 2: the number one. It's a game, though, you can't, like,
- 38:46Speaker 2: go to, like, just because there's three games where nobody's
- 38:50Speaker 2: ran all over on us and, oh, we can't stop
- 38:52Speaker 2: the run, we can't stop the run, and now three
- 38:54Speaker 2: games in, nobody's really running on us. So it's like, okay,
- 38:56Speaker 2: our run defense is fixed.
- 38:58Speaker 1: Don't let Travion Henderson get loose.
- 38:59Speaker 2: We don't know that it's fixed yet. Right. So don't
- 39:03Speaker 2: just don't have a game. He had a huge run
- 39:06Speaker 2: last year, two of them where we had to have
- 39:08Speaker 2: that big comeback to go beat him in new England
- 39:10Speaker 2: last year. And that's just something like, don't do something
- 39:13Speaker 2: that is like, we don't lean into what everybody kind
- 39:19Speaker 2: of thought would be the case. And then you have
- 39:22Speaker 2: a few good games. So now you're just immune from
- 39:24Speaker 2: not being able to get run on. Like that's what
- 39:26Speaker 2: I'm kind of focused on. Like stick to that, stick
- 39:28Speaker 2: to that thing where you're not going to get run
- 39:30Speaker 2: on and you know by trying to go out and
- 39:32Speaker 2: get get the ears pinned back and have the stat
- 39:34Speaker 2: night if you will um but that's kind of what
- 39:36Speaker 2: i'm looking for in this defense like don't like it's
- 39:39Speaker 2: not prove us wrong because we're you know i think
- 39:43Speaker 2: the mafia overall is like okay we we're not getting
- 39:45Speaker 2: run on all the time that we played some pretty
- 39:47Speaker 2: good running backs the last three weeks too And I
- 39:50Speaker 2: just don't I think that's the focus here of like
- 39:52Speaker 2: if Drake may get a few pass yards, they move
- 39:55Speaker 2: the ball a little, get some confidence offensively.
- 39:56Speaker 1: That's fine.
- 39:57Speaker 2: But I don't want to see him run. I want
- 40:00Speaker 2: to keep this narrative that we have gotten better at
- 40:02Speaker 2: stopping the run. I want to keep that for week four.
- 40:06Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I agree.
- 40:07Speaker 3: I think that it would be important just that. And
- 40:09Speaker 3: I don't mean I'm not again. I want to say
- 40:11Speaker 3: it's that night in a disrespectful way. I'm just saying
- 40:13Speaker 3: like this is not like we're better than them. We're
- 40:15Speaker 3: better than this matchup. Let's make sure we don't fuck around.
- 40:17Speaker 3: Let's come out here and do our job. And if
- 40:19Speaker 3: we do our job, we can have, you know, that's
- 40:21Speaker 3: all it was like, we can have a nice little,
- 40:23Speaker 3: this can be a nice night where we were padding
- 40:25Speaker 3: some stats. And that's all I meant for that. I
- 40:27Speaker 3: know it was definitely way more disrespectful for us growing up,
- 40:30Speaker 3: playing basketball. We wanted to murder those kids for sure.
- 40:33Speaker 3: It hurt their feelings. And yeah, I wanted, I wanted
- 40:35Speaker 3: to have a double double by half. I was telling.
- 40:40Speaker 2: Her from Miranda here. Yeah. Cause around our hometown. Now
- 40:43Speaker 2: all these schools are so small. But since we've left,
- 40:46Speaker 2: they're all merged up now, right? So all their sports
- 40:48Speaker 2: are merged up. So I was asking who was with
- 40:51Speaker 2: who for, you know, football, whatever. And she, like, said
- 40:54Speaker 2: this school. And I was like, oh, yeah, that school.
- 40:56Speaker 2: What a piece of shit school that was. And I
- 40:58Speaker 2: was like, that was, you know, a stat night for
- 41:01Speaker 2: me in basketball. I knew I loved those nights coming because,
- 41:04Speaker 2: you know, that meant I was in the game, right?
- 41:07Speaker 2: I'm playing probably three quarters in that one, you know. Shelly,
- 41:11Speaker 2: Mama Shelly, you got to wash this jersey now. Yeah,
- 41:14Speaker 2: I ain't mad at you, man. So I know what
- 41:16Speaker 2: you mean.
- 41:17Speaker 1: I ain't mad at you at all. Listen, it's funny.
- 41:20Speaker 3: As we begin to wrap up tonight, DT, last thing,
- 41:25Speaker 3: it's funny how, real quick, just real quick before the
- 41:27Speaker 3: Nickel City Criteria Report, it's funny how like the NFL,
- 41:32Speaker 3: it could just change just like that on a dime.
- 41:34Speaker 3: We talked about the first six games. We talked about
- 41:37Speaker 3: how daunting it was to see that the Bills have
- 41:40Speaker 3: played the way that they have. I am I am
- 41:43Speaker 3: just reminded that luck is a part of the equation.
- 41:45Speaker 3: And I just wanted to remind everybody of that. Coming
- 41:48Speaker 3: off of last game, the Texans games, all I had
- 41:50Speaker 3: to do was listen to all these fucking Texas fans.
- 41:52Speaker 1: Well, if Lassiter would have picked up the ball, y'all
- 41:55Speaker 1: would have.
- 41:55Speaker 3: I'm like, well, we first of all, we had all
- 41:56Speaker 3: three fucking timeouts, like DT said in that episode. And
- 41:59Speaker 3: we also have no idea, you know, if you guys
- 42:02Speaker 3: were going to, you know, what you were going to
- 42:04Speaker 3: do on that drive.
- 42:04Speaker 1: We got all three timeouts. You're pinned back.
- 42:06Speaker 3: You're at the 20. Who fucking knows? So I don't
- 42:08Speaker 3: like that argument anyway. There is some luck involved. Last week, yes,
- 42:12Speaker 3: there's some luck involved. Like, we should have lost that game.
- 42:15Speaker 1: We didn't.
- 42:16Speaker 3: DT, if luck is on our side this year, I really,
- 42:20Speaker 3: really would be, it would be, yes, it would bring
- 42:22Speaker 3: a smile to my face, much like yours, because I
- 42:26Speaker 3: think that we deserve it. The one year that we
- 42:28Speaker 3: had a shot, like a real, like real legit, legit
- 42:32Speaker 3: shot at, I think it was two times, but the
- 42:34Speaker 3: one year I'm thinking about that we had a shot
- 42:36Speaker 3: at the one seed, Fucking Kansas City won't fucking lose.
- 42:38Speaker 3: They got a horseshoe lodged up their fucking ass all
- 42:41Speaker 3: season long. I mean, they're getting field goals blocked. They're
- 42:44Speaker 3: blocking field goals at the end of the game. I mean,
- 42:46Speaker 3: it's just like all this weird shit. We win, what, 13,
- 42:48Speaker 3: 14 games?
- 42:49Speaker 2: Yeah, Isaiah Likely's tip of the tip of the cleat
- 42:53Speaker 2: touches the out-of-bounds marker.
- 42:54Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. And I'm like, what the fuck?
- 42:56Speaker 3: Like, they go 15-2, and we played a hell of
- 42:59Speaker 3: a schedule and was really tough.
- 43:01Speaker 1: And, and I think that year we went 14 and
- 43:03Speaker 1: three or something like that.
- 43:04Speaker 3: I think it was a game behind and we beat
- 43:06Speaker 3: them in the regular season, but we couldn't, we couldn't
- 43:08Speaker 3: catch them even with the game in hand because they
- 43:10Speaker 3: just would not fucking lose.
- 43:12Speaker 1: And then the other time was DeMar him year. And
- 43:14Speaker 1: we don't know what would happen that year.
- 43:15Speaker 3: DT, if luck is on our side this year, it, that,
- 43:19Speaker 3: that bodes well for the future. Um, because I mean,
- 43:23Speaker 3: you can, you could say that we got lucky two games.
- 43:25Speaker 1: I'd, I'm it's the name of the episode, DT. I
- 43:28Speaker 1: am unapologetic.
- 43:29Speaker 2: I don't give a fuck.
- 43:32Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 43:33Speaker 2: I don't know about getting lucky, you know, in any
- 43:35Speaker 2: of those games.
- 43:36Speaker 1: I mean, yes.
- 43:36Speaker 2: Turn the ball over five times, but.
- 43:38Speaker 1: We were lucky last week.
- 43:39Speaker 2: Well, you could make the stops down the stretch and
- 43:42Speaker 2: then scored twice late, you know, and, and rush for
- 43:44Speaker 2: 150 yards and made the plays down the stretch. Like sure.
- 43:49Speaker 2: Like a few bounces definitely had to go our way,
- 43:52Speaker 2: but I don't think it was full lock and week one.
- 43:55Speaker 2: Those couple throws Josh made late and scoring 30 plus points, okay, whatever.
- 44:00Speaker 2: But I also think it's a mixture of, and I
- 44:03Speaker 2: was critical of this before the season started, we can't
- 44:06Speaker 2: just crown everybody. going through the schedule like this you
- 44:10Speaker 2: don't know who's going to be good and who's going
- 44:12Speaker 2: to be bad like yes there's some right major there's
- 44:14Speaker 2: some definitely some people you knew you know obviously.
- 44:16Speaker 4: You said that you did say that in the offseason
- 44:19Speaker 4: you know the Seahawks and the Rams and the Chiefs
- 44:20Speaker 4: we all we always knew would come back and be
- 44:22Speaker 4: good the Ravens you know after all that they still
- 44:25Speaker 4: are two and one you know so there's there's teams
- 44:27Speaker 4: that are going to be good but then there's teams
- 44:29Speaker 4: you you know in the middle there and that's who
- 44:31Speaker 4: we were playing.
- 44:31Speaker 2: The Texans the the Lions the Chargers who all were
- 44:34Speaker 2: kind of cusp good teams and everyone kind of freaked
- 44:37Speaker 2: out and was getting all up in arms about it.
- 44:39Speaker 2: Our schedule is so tough, but we don't know what
- 44:41Speaker 2: these teams are about to be. The Texans 0-3, the
- 44:44Speaker 2: Chargers 0-3. You know, the Lions really went on the
- 44:49Speaker 2: ropes in week one to the Saints and, you know,
- 44:52Speaker 2: only won by touchdown to the Jets at home last week.
- 44:55Speaker 2: So I think we also need to look into, like,
- 44:59Speaker 2: we're not just getting lucky beating good teams. Like, I
- 45:01Speaker 2: think the teams aren't as good as we thought they
- 45:04Speaker 2: originally were going to be. And that just kind of
- 45:06Speaker 2: pushes the can down the down the street of other
- 45:10Speaker 2: teams now that are proven to be good through the
- 45:12Speaker 2: first three weeks that we still got to play, you know,
- 45:14Speaker 2: and there's a.
- 45:15Speaker 1: Lot of them.
- 45:16Speaker 3: So like the Raiders, because the Raiders now switch to
- 45:18Speaker 3: a game that.
- 45:19Speaker 2: You might worry about, you know, and so it comes like, OK,
- 45:23Speaker 2: the early part of the season is really tough and
- 45:24Speaker 2: then it kind of chills out for a little bit.
- 45:26Speaker 2: Now we're through the tough part, which, you know, we
- 45:28Speaker 2: might be 4-0 through, and now it's getting tougher in
- 45:31Speaker 2: front of us. So I just think it's, you know,
- 45:33Speaker 2: have that mentality to every 1-0. I love that, 1-0, 1-0,
- 45:37Speaker 2: 1-0 each week. You play who you play each week, and,
- 45:40Speaker 2: you know, it doesn't– I'm not crowning anybody yet. I'm
- 45:43Speaker 2: not worrying about the next couple games. It's who's in
- 45:45Speaker 2: front of me because we don't know the team we're
- 45:47Speaker 2: going to play. Even if we go into a– if
- 45:50Speaker 2: we're with the Chiefs and it's 11-0, 11-0 on Thanksgiving–
- 45:54Speaker 2: You know, and, you know, we don't know what that,
- 45:57Speaker 2: if the Chiefs lose out or we lose out there. Like,
- 46:00Speaker 2: so I'm never going to buy into that bullshit of like.
- 46:03Speaker 4: Okay.
- 46:04Speaker 3: I just like the schedule so much. And then in
- 46:06Speaker 3: the offseason, we have nothing to look at other than
- 46:08Speaker 3: the previous performance. So the first six games to me
- 46:11Speaker 3: look so daunting and like, damn, I said it all offseason.
- 46:14Speaker 3: The only break you get in the first six games
- 46:16Speaker 3: is the Raiders. And it just, it was funny when
- 46:18Speaker 3: I looked at the schedule today, I'm like, shit, a
- 46:20Speaker 3: lot of things have changed.
- 46:21Speaker 1: Like now the Raiders are not even a gimme. in
- 46:23Speaker 1: that respect, you know, I don't know.
- 46:24Speaker 2: Really the only way, like I, I would get with
- 46:27Speaker 2: that if it's, you know, if it's week 14 and we're,
- 46:30Speaker 2: you know, we have a great record and it's like, okay,
- 46:32Speaker 2: we got through the hard stuff. Now we got just
- 46:34Speaker 2: dolphins finished.
- 46:34Speaker 1: Like, okay.
- 46:35Speaker 2: Like I can get down with it when something like that.
- 46:37Speaker 2: But right now with, you know, with 15 more games left.
- 46:41Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 46:42Speaker 2: It's you, you still don't know who's good and who's not.
- 46:44Speaker 2: And like these sections of, Oh, this is an easy
- 46:47Speaker 2: part of the schedule. This is a hard part of
- 46:48Speaker 2: the schedule. Well, this was supposed to be a hard
- 46:50Speaker 2: part of the schedule, and we turned the ball over
- 46:52Speaker 2: and still covered the spread.
- 46:53Speaker 1: So, you know, it's... Yeah, no, I agree with you. No,
- 46:58Speaker 1: you're absolutely right.
- 46:59Speaker 3: I wasn't trying to say all luck, but there were
- 47:02Speaker 3: some lucky factors in the game, and I said that
- 47:05Speaker 3: in the offseason. I always remind Nickel City crew, Bills Mafia,
- 47:08Speaker 3: that if you're going to win a Super Bowl, You
- 47:09Speaker 3: will need some luck. There's never been a Super Bowl
- 47:11Speaker 3: champion that did not have a little bit of luck
- 47:13Speaker 3: on their side. So that's all I meant by that.
- 47:15Speaker 3: But it'll be interesting to see because it's just funny.
- 47:18Speaker 3: You look at that schedule and it does not look
- 47:20Speaker 3: the same way that we thought when it came back
- 47:21Speaker 3: out in May. Now, as we wrap up tonight, listen,
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- 47:54Speaker 3: I will give out the, I'm probably going to give
- 47:57Speaker 3: out the giveaway next, probably on Friday or Saturday.
- 48:00Speaker 1: I'm going to do it sometime Friday or Saturday, get
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- 48:03Speaker 3: Congratulations to my boy, Zach Ransom, who you saw there
- 48:06Speaker 3: earlier in the show, DT. He was the first winner.
- 48:09Speaker 3: for the actual contest from last week. So he gets
- 48:12Speaker 3: that pretty Willis jersey and hat. So I want to
- 48:15Speaker 3: see you, Zach, in that. You got to post it.
- 48:17Speaker 3: So that way we know that you got it. And
- 48:19Speaker 3: that way we know that you're rocking it. So I
- 48:21Speaker 3: will post out the gift later on Friday or Saturday,
- 48:23Speaker 3: probably Saturday before college football. DT, I always let you
- 48:26Speaker 3: go second because you are the mayor. There's a reason
- 48:29Speaker 3: why we are going a night early instead of TGIF.
- 48:32Speaker 3: It's not because of me and my crazy schedule. All
- 48:35Speaker 3: I am is a dad. and making sure that I'm
- 48:37Speaker 3: taking care of my baby. So my life is very
- 48:39Speaker 3: much the same down here. DT is all over the world,
- 48:42Speaker 3: kissing babies and shaking hands and all that other shit, getting.
- 48:44Speaker 1: Ready for primaries.
- 48:46Speaker 3: Listen, down here, DT, it was slow motion. I told
- 48:49Speaker 3: you Bobby had his rugby tournament. So I told you
- 48:53Speaker 3: I wasn't going because it's not sanctioned by the high
- 48:55Speaker 3: school and stuff like that. So I wasn't missing out
- 48:57Speaker 3: on too much. So as I said, it was me
- 49:00Speaker 3: and Quincy and Nate. My two kings were here and
- 49:03Speaker 3: we had some pizza, watched the game. I cussed a
- 49:07Speaker 3: lot because we kept giving the ball up and it
- 49:10Speaker 3: was cool. I was happy that we pulled it out, obviously.
- 49:13Speaker 3: And this week, I told you, I've got Ivy every
- 49:16Speaker 3: other weekend on the weekend. So I've got her. She's
- 49:18Speaker 3: in her bed right now. And I mean, I'm excited
- 49:22Speaker 3: because the first game was the Lions game for her
- 49:25Speaker 3: this year. And so I let her stay up for
- 49:27Speaker 3: like two touchdowns. We were scoring so quick that I
- 49:29Speaker 3: let her stay up for about two touchdowns. Sunday, we
- 49:31Speaker 3: are all systems go. I'm going to put her down
- 49:33Speaker 3: early for her nap around 11. So that way she
- 49:36Speaker 3: gets at least a good two hours in And I'm
- 49:38Speaker 3: going to wake her up. And if I have to,
- 49:40Speaker 3: unless she wakes up, she usually naps for like two hours,
- 49:42Speaker 3: two and a half hours. DT, it is going to
- 49:45Speaker 3: be raucous. I'm going to put up the light, the
- 49:46Speaker 3: Zuba light the night before. So she gets a chance
- 49:49Speaker 3: to see the Zuba's lights on the house the night before.
- 49:52Speaker 3: We're ready to rock and roll with Princess Ivy, man.
- 49:54Speaker 3: We are going to, we're going to tear this place down.
- 49:57Speaker 3: She loves the shout song after touchdown. So DT, I
- 50:00Speaker 3: can't wait, Uncle DT. We are going to tear this
- 50:03Speaker 3: motherfucker down on Sunday. We are going to be wiling.
- 50:06Speaker 3: She's going to get, the full experience, uh, as opposed
- 50:09Speaker 3: to an abbreviated one, like she did against the lions.
- 50:11Speaker 1: Good.
- 50:12Speaker 2: And I mean, how, how can you not love it?
- 50:13Speaker 2: And so let's give her something to cheer about, right?
- 50:16Speaker 2: Let's go four and all and have a nice, uh,
- 50:18Speaker 2: a raucous environment and you get the boys hype and,
- 50:21Speaker 2: you know, so Ivy, Ivy jumped right in. And I mean, if,
- 50:24Speaker 2: as a baby, if you're watching Josh Allen do greatness,
- 50:26Speaker 2: how could you ever not love the bills the rest
- 50:28Speaker 2: of your life? Right. So that's a nice day. Good,
- 50:32Speaker 2: good weekend. Another, uh, Good slate of college balls. We're
- 50:35Speaker 2: getting into it. It's a lot of ranked games every week,
- 50:38Speaker 2: so that's awesome.
- 50:39Speaker 1: Good, good.
- 50:40Speaker 2: Well, another week, another place for DT to travel. We
- 50:46Speaker 2: got a wedding. Well, let's start last week. Okay, so
- 50:50Speaker 2: last week we popped off and went down to Panama City, hometown.
- 50:54Speaker 2: Had a wedding down there with some great family friends
- 51:01Speaker 2: who I'm going to be with for this weekend we'll
- 51:03Speaker 2: get into. It was a beautiful weather weekend, very comfortable.
- 51:07Speaker 2: We had a little taste of fall, but not too
- 51:10Speaker 2: cold yet. The leaves are starting to change just a
- 51:12Speaker 2: little bit. So we're getting there. We're getting there. We're
- 51:15Speaker 2: on the cusp of falling into fall. But I had
- 51:19Speaker 2: a beautiful wedding. Shout out to Dylan Laurel. I had
- 51:21Speaker 2: a good time there. Then Sunday, game day. You know
- 51:24Speaker 2: how it is, baby. Let's go. I was banged down
- 51:28Speaker 2: in Panama City, so I was contemplating getting back up,
- 51:31Speaker 2: getting to the tailgate, seeing the folks. There's a ticket available.
- 51:35Speaker 2: I'm going. But I ended up staying low on my
- 51:37Speaker 2: main spot, Cheney Road. Shout out Kai and Paige. Shout
- 51:40Speaker 2: out Jeff and Ann. Jeff and Ann, Cheney Road. It's
- 51:42Speaker 2: the best tailgate experience other than being at the actual tailgate.
- 51:48Speaker 2: We do it right. Had the TVs rolling again. Had
- 51:52Speaker 2: a good menu. Was doing all the good things there. Really,
- 51:58Speaker 2: really enjoyed it at Cheney Road again for the game. Okay.
- 52:03Speaker 2: Vikings play at four, so we've got a page for
- 52:05Speaker 2: the Vikings to play at four. They win 3-0, 3-0.
- 52:08Speaker 2: Everybody's happy. Love the game day. Makes for a real
- 52:11Speaker 2: tough Monday, but love.
- 52:13Speaker 1: The game day.
- 52:15Speaker 2: This week, now we're on the road. I'm down again. Hometown,
- 52:19Speaker 2: Panama City. Tomorrow morning, we got wheels up early, heading
- 52:23Speaker 2: to the Big Apple. Me and the crew, Big Apple.
- 52:26Speaker 2: We got an early departure today. wedding of one of
- 52:29Speaker 2: my best friends growing up. She's getting married right now.
- 52:32Speaker 1: Are you flying to LaGuardia or are you driving?
- 52:34Speaker 2: Nope, we're driving. We're driving. Got the minivan parked out front,
- 52:37Speaker 2: packed up, stone and go. We're going to, you know,
- 52:41Speaker 2: got the suit on.
- 52:42Speaker 1: That's about six and a half, seven hours.
- 52:43Speaker 2: Suits on the hangar, a little drive. We'll make fun.
- 52:47Speaker 2: and get down there, but we're down in it. We
- 52:49Speaker 2: are in the lower, lower Manhattan, Soho, Tribeca down in it, baby. So,
- 52:54Speaker 2: you know, it's not, uh, not staying in Jersey, not, uh,
- 52:58Speaker 2: you know, staying in Brooklyn. Uh, it's where we're in it.
- 53:01Speaker 2: So it'll be a quick turnaround now because, you know,
- 53:04Speaker 2: I don't know how happy everyone's going to be with
- 53:06Speaker 2: me Sunday at 5 30 AM. When I say, all right,
- 53:09Speaker 2: game games in six hours, let's roll.
- 53:16Speaker 1: Lord have mercy. So you're going to try to get
- 53:17Speaker 1: back to Buff. We'll see. We'll see how it goes.
- 53:21Speaker 2: But I definitely want to get back to at least
- 53:23Speaker 2: get eyes on it, right? So that's the plan. I'll
- 53:26Speaker 2: let you know. I'm pumped for the tailgate report next
- 53:28Speaker 2: week to tell you the city. We're going to be
- 53:31Speaker 2: bougie-ing it up, Nicholson.
- 53:32Speaker 1: We're out there in the good stuff. Yeah, we've got a.
- 53:35Speaker 2: Nice little wedding. The wedding's at an art gallery. We've
- 53:38Speaker 2: got to– you know, it's going to be– DT puts
- 53:41Speaker 2: on his– I don't know. What do you– what do
- 53:45Speaker 2: you call it?
- 53:45Speaker 1: The, um, the wingtips.
- 53:48Speaker 2: Yeah. The exquisite look, the pinky up as I, as I, uh,
- 53:52Speaker 2: as I drink my martini and we enjoy the big apples.
- 53:55Speaker 2: So we're looking for, it'll be a quick turn though.
- 53:58Speaker 2: Like you said, six, six and a half hour ride. Boom.
- 54:01Speaker 2: We're there. Bang, bang. We got rehearsal then welcome party.
- 54:04Speaker 2: Then the wedding, then boom, we're quick back on Sunday too.
- 54:06Speaker 2: So it'll be a quick turnaround, but we'll get a little.
- 54:09Speaker 1: Taste of it.
- 54:10Speaker 3: All right. Well, Yeah, I mean, enjoy it. I mean, yes,
- 54:12Speaker 3: you're going to be living the bougie life for sure
- 54:14Speaker 3: if you're down in Midtown and stuff like that. But listen,
- 54:17Speaker 3: enjoy it for sure. Be safe on that road. And yeah,
- 54:20Speaker 3: I guess get back if you can. If you can't,
- 54:21Speaker 3: then there's bars there. I don't know how many bars
- 54:24Speaker 3: they're going to let you in the way that you
- 54:26Speaker 3: get down, but there's bars in Manhattan that have some
- 54:30Speaker 3: sports bars and show all the games. So, you know,
- 54:33Speaker 3: you'll see. It'll be interesting to see. I am definitely
- 54:36Speaker 3: looking forward to next week's report for sure. Listen, out there,
- 54:38Speaker 3: we appreciate you guys tonight. adjusting to our schedules, really
- 54:42Speaker 3: adjusting to the mayor DT schedule. We really appreciate it.
- 54:46Speaker 3: You guys are out there on the listeners. Let's just
- 54:47Speaker 3: shout out to all of the listeners. A big shout
- 54:49Speaker 3: out to my boy, Nick Del Novo from height, from,
- 54:52Speaker 3: excuse me, from kindergarten. He's been sending me some great insights, DT.
- 54:57Speaker 3: I'm begging him to come on to the show. I'm
- 54:59Speaker 3: begging him.
- 55:00Speaker 1: I don't know if he's nervous or what. He was like,
- 55:01Speaker 1: I don't know. What would I talk about? I'm like, motherfucker,
- 55:04Speaker 1: you sent me.
- 55:05Speaker 3: Essays every damn day about different points of the bills.
- 55:09Speaker 1: I'm like, that's what you say. You say it to
- 55:10Speaker 1: the audience. He sends me essays.
- 55:12Speaker 3: I love Nick, man. We go literally way back, like
- 55:15Speaker 3: eight tracks. So listen, I appreciate all of the listeners
- 55:18Speaker 3: out there. I've got some really great feedback DT this
- 55:21Speaker 3: past week. So we listen, we're going to keep on plugging,
- 55:24Speaker 3: keep doing our thing for sure, but we should be
- 55:26Speaker 3: back on. I don't know if DT we'll let you know.
- 55:29Speaker 3: I will let the, the gift out on Saturday by,
- 55:32Speaker 3: by Sunday or Monday. I should know if we're back
- 55:34Speaker 3: to our regular schedule program with TGIF. It really is
- 55:37Speaker 3: up to the mayor. The mayor is all over. Like
- 55:39Speaker 3: I said, he getting ready for primary. So it's all
- 55:41Speaker 3: on him. I kind of follow to him. He's the superstar.
- 55:44Speaker 3: I just make sure that the schedule is free. DT,
- 55:46Speaker 3: enjoy yourself this weekend. Be on your best behavior down
- 55:49Speaker 3: there in Midtown Manhattan and have a lot of fun, DT.
- 55:53Speaker 2: I appreciate it, baby. We're out here. This is the
- 55:55Speaker 2: love of the game. If the schedule was not full,
- 55:59Speaker 2: I don't know what I would do.
- 56:02Speaker 1: I love it.
- 56:02Speaker 2: I love it.
- 56:03Speaker 3: Listen, out there, spread love, not hate. These were my
- 56:06Speaker 3: Bill's thoughts said out loud. Enjoy the game on Sunday.
- 56:09Speaker 3: I guess, like DT said, there's some college football that's
- 56:12Speaker 3: really ramping up Florida's back on the top. And listen,
- 56:15Speaker 3: there's some cool matchups coming up this weekend as well.
- 56:18Speaker 3: So listen, enjoy college football Saturday. Enjoy your families. And Sunday,
- 56:22Speaker 3: let's get right, another 1 o'clock kickoff. Everybody should be
- 56:26Speaker 3: back in the swing of things. This might be for
- 56:29Speaker 3: a few people, DT, their first time to the route.
- 56:31Speaker 3: You had the Lions. Then a lot of people last week,
- 56:34Speaker 3: that was their first game against the Chargers. This week,
- 56:38Speaker 3: you might have been holding out for some more lower
- 56:40Speaker 3: ticket prices.
- 56:41Speaker 1: Go there. Fuck the Pats.
- 56:43Speaker 3: And get a chance to see that new beautiful palace
- 56:45Speaker 3: that the Bills play in. I know that they've been
- 56:46Speaker 3: talking some shit on Twitter about water and water bottles.
- 56:49Speaker 3: People just find shit to like, like, what are you,
- 56:52Speaker 3: why are you guys, like, you just have to complain.
- 56:55Speaker 1: Like, we're in the big leagues now, okay? This is
- 56:58Speaker 1: how it goes.
- 56:58Speaker 3: They're not going to let you bring in an empty
- 56:59Speaker 3: water bottle because you might get drunk.
- 57:01Speaker 1: And throw it, okay? So they got some plastic fucking
- 57:03Speaker 1: cups up there for you. Stop bitching about everything. God dog, man.
- 57:08Speaker 1: It's pretty funny to watch people on Twitter. I'm like,
- 57:10Speaker 1: what are you bitching about? It's funny.
- 57:12Speaker 2: Crazy and then you know all the it was the
- 57:14Speaker 2: instructive view and now it's this but everybody that's actually
- 57:17Speaker 2: in there and getting loud out there down is saying
- 57:20Speaker 2: it's a magical experience so i can't wait to get
- 57:22Speaker 2: in there with you rob in a few weeks and
- 57:23Speaker 2: we throw it down nickel city crew style but yeah
- 57:26Speaker 2: it's live it's here we're in the heat of the
- 57:28Speaker 2: season already week four right month in month into the
- 57:31Speaker 2: season before you know we're in christmas and hopefully super
- 57:33Speaker 2: bowl so It's week four. We're getting down. It's the
- 57:36Speaker 2: Patriots who we hate. It's the Patriots who we'd love
- 57:39Speaker 2: to get back on after the beatdowns through the drought.
- 57:41Speaker 2: Now it's our turn to start getting back on them.
- 57:43Speaker 2: You started Nickel City Crew basically after the perfect game, right?
- 57:48Speaker 2: So it's time to start changing the memories where we're
- 57:52Speaker 2: laying the belt to ass on these dudes, and we're
- 57:54Speaker 2: ready to go. What better way to go 4-0 and
- 57:56Speaker 2: be three and a half games up in the division
- 58:00Speaker 2: before you get into the first week of October.
- 58:02Speaker 3: So.
- 58:02Speaker 2: Locking in 1 p.m. If it's your first time in there,
- 58:05Speaker 2: get as loud as you can. If now you're a
- 58:07Speaker 2: season three gamer, it's a divisional game. Get the fuck up. 4-0.
- 58:11Speaker 1: You're damn right. It's division.
- 58:15Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it. Especially on a struggling where
- 58:19Speaker 2: Drake May is showing he can struggle a little bit.
- 58:21Speaker 2: Be able to get the crowd behind that and really
- 58:26Speaker 2: waver if he's starting to play bad and now the
- 58:28Speaker 2: crowd's behind it and now he's really screwed. Let's go.
- 58:31Speaker 2: Lock in 4-0.
- 58:33Speaker 1: Go Bills. I love it. Listen, go Bills. I love it.
- 58:37Speaker 1: I love it.