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S3 E18: Sigh Of Relief · Nickel City Crew Podcast

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Fifteen degrees. You can see your breath out in the lake effect breaking tables
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like you a tree? Where else would you want to be? And to
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Ran Elvis and the lay Panchow. Remember that you need to know I put
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you out here now, your family? Where else would you happy? Where
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We're so glad that you're joining us for some of your Buffalo bills and NFL
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content again today and as always, these are my Bill's thoughts are set out
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loud. It survibe so ridiculous. Two Story Place eighty three was sick show
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collect Where else would you want to be? All right, let's get straight
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to it. I think Bill's Mafia can definitely give a collective on this one.
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After last Sunday's game, it was really crazy and it was really funny
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because I was talking to my co host, you know, pre show and
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just we needed that one and I, you know, you guys all know
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I'm a you know, an avid WGR listener, and they were talking about
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the same thing. Like, boy, that feels good. The callers are
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calling in like they needed it, and I definitely needed it. I know
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that my co host needed it. It was fun, man, you know
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what I mean. We've got a new segment tonight, the Nickel City Crew
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Tailgate Report to end the show. Can't wait to debut that. But we
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have a special guest on tonight as well, DT Holland the r as always
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tonight, my co host riding shotgun with me, Adam dump Truck rucka Rupsick.
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Excuse me. Check him out on Instagram at Adam Rupsick r u p
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c z y k DT. I mean, I finally saw your beautiful face
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and we got a chance to go to the to the game, and boy,
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it was it was something that we needed. Man. I don't I
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mean I named the episode the way I did on purpose. Man, I
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needed that one, DT, regardless of the opponent. I will talk about
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that a little bit later in the show, but regardless of opponent, man,
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I I I needed that one. Man. Hey, we're back,
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Rob Nicol City. What's up? Excited to be on the night, excited
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for another show, great guests, as as you as you teased earlier,
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and we'll get rolling. But it was a chalk day. It was a
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chalk day. I mean, from top to bottom. We needed it.
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Got back efficiency to the highest, let's go back to back in the win
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column. Let's let's dig in it was. It was a beautiful day.
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It was good to see it. Yeah, man, click clack, we're
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back. As DT always says, uh, you know, it's funny because
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we've been kind of on a roll here, you know. Again, we
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simulcast on the Buffalo fan based podcast network with nicol City Crew, so we
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podcast and simulcast on that network every week. And it was really interesting because
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we've kind of been on the role here with the Buffalo fan base. We
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had our family Appreciation Week DT, as you know, and and that was,
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you know, arousing success. Shout out to Dell Read the Godfather last
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week joining us to start the show to give his story of the Bill's Mafia
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how it all came to be, and we really enjoyed it. Got a
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lot of great reviews from that episode. Tonight, we're just gonna keep with
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the same theme. I am really really excited about our guest tonight, because
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you know, I've been conversing with her on Twitter and she's always liking,
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you know, some of my tweets, and especially when it was Stefan Dig's
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time DT, and you'd already know how how easily offended I am when anybody
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wants to cross one four And I really enjoyed converse with and I just said,
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you know what, come on the show. I would love to have
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you on DT, would love to have you on joining us tonight. The
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editor in chief over at Buffalo fan Base Podcast Network, the Beautiful, Lovely
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Miss Robin Monday. You can check her out on Twitter Robin r O B
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y N Monday m U N d y W. Why oh that? That
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sounds like it stands for why homing hollow at the crew, Miss Monday,
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what's going on? Mama Monday? Holler at the crew? What's up?
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WHOA? I am just so excited to be here. I love your podcast.
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Thanks. I hope everybody's gonna tune in and find out what you guys
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think about this. I have my title for this Tale of two Josh's I
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like it. I like it a lot. I like it a lot.
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That actually might usurp mind because it's interesting, you know, he is kind
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of sometimes the tale of to Josh. So I like the way you're where
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your head is at on that one. Talk to the crew, Robin.
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You and I have been conversing for a little while. Now. You're the
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editor in chief over at the Buffalo fan based podcast network, right, I
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mean talk to me. How are you all the way out in Wyoming?
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Are you Buffalo born and raised? How did you become a Buffalo Bills fan?
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Because I've really enjoyed, you know, going back and forth with you.
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I'm on Twitter and I had to have you on the show, So
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please tell the audience a little bit about yourself and how you're out there in
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beautiful Wyoming where I know it's a beautiful state. It is a beautiful state.
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Uh, it's a beautiful place. But I was born and raised in
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Springville, New York area down that we called it the northern end of the
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Southern Cheer, that that part of the country, and I became a registered
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nurse. I'm old. First of all, let me let me make this
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very very clear to everyone here. Never call you every money, cool opportunity.
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Yeah, I'm representing the fact, that's what I want to say.
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I'm representing the elderly female contingent of Bills fans, and that's that's my demo,
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baby, so seriously. So, I became a nurse and I worked
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at Roswell Park for those of you that are in the Buffalo area, you
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know what a great place that is, big oncology hospital. And I graduated
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from UB in nineteen eighty two and decided that, honest it was for me.
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Leaving Western New York was a painful decision, but I had to do
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it because I'm solar powered and so like, the lack of light and stuff
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was really like not good for me. So I took off and I ran
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around the West for a few years and ended up in Sheridan, Wyoming area,
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right outside of Buffalo, Wyoming. I lived the same number of distance
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from miles from Buffalo, Wyoming that I did from Buffalo, New York growing
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up. So that's how I became out here. I became a Bills fan
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out here. I brought my Bills fan hood with me absolutely, and trust
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me when I tell you, guys, I was the only Bills fan in
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the whole state wires. I've been da a lot of pubs to go to
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the Washington Games. D Yeah, some still cowboys out there, Ye,
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cowboys out there, like the Wyoming Cowboys everything the University of Wyoming Cowboys are
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are everything in the pro arena. Most fans were either Broncos fans, basically
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the smattering of Vikings fans here and there mixed in, but no no Bills
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fans. And all of a sudden we had Josh Allen appear on the scene.
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And we all know the rest of that story. But you can imagine
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how freaked out I you. It's like, in what reality? In my
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life? I've spent half my life in Western York, half my life in
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Wyoming, and I end up with my beloved football team having the quarterbacks rescuing
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us from hell. And oh, by the way, before I forget,
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I do want to say that some of you will remember me from the pre
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draft days when everybody was dogging on Josh Allen and I was the only one.
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I'm like, you, guys, don't break my heart, you know,
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just because he was he had feel like he was nice. Yeah,
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you know, he was so raw. But you could see when I when
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I would watch the games, I didn't get to see him in Laramie because
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I lived three hundred miles from Laramie, but I watched all his games from
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Wyoming, and I'm telling you, you could see this thing in him when
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he was there. You could you could see it. You could see it
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in some of people didn't get to see what he was doing on the sidelines
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and you know all the other stuff that was going on, but you could
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see that Josh Allen had something, had something special. Yeah, you know,
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and clearly brand. Excuse me, Sean McDermott, you know, saw
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something special as well, and and he picked them up. You know.
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So that's very interesting, and you know, thank you for sharing that with
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us, and and welcome to the crew tonight because listen, it is it
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is the tailor to Josh's and it is a side of relief to kind of
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see because you know, last week's episode DT I got a lot of positive
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reviews from it, you know, because we kept it real, We were
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authentic, We were on brand. I thought we were, like you said,
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have our first Nickel City crew fight. We did it, you know,
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quite have it. And and it was interesting because Josh was totally different
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on Sunday and I remember being in the tailgate with you, DT. We'll
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talk about it with the Tailgate report at the end of the show. But
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I remember being like talking to a couple of boys like Seth Brown and those
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guy I'm like, I don't know, like today, you know what I
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mean, Like, I'm just gonna wait because I don't have any predictions because
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you know, the Jets game was so bad and it was so uncharacteristic in
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respects of the fact that again I thought we were over that, you know,
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I thought we were over. I thought we were past Sugar Hi,
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Josh, so DT. It was crazy because night and day. I mean
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when we talk about you know, taking what the defense gives you, I
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mean night and day, night and day. Yeah, extremely efficient, your
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best showing you you want to see from a quarterback. I mean, didn't
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hit three hundred yards, but with three tuddies and over eight well over eighty
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percent, you know, completion right, the dude was dealing. We kept
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it in front of him. The run game helped out. Everything was was
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in action. The home crowd was was where it needed to be. The
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sun was out there it needed to be, the breeze was where it needed
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to be. The touchdowns were where they needed to be. Everything that day
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was where it needed to be and and and it proved strong. It showed
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how efficient this team can be. We'll get in. You know, the
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Raiders, like you said, might not be the most worthy opponent, but
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it's hard to win in this league. We're going to see some teams like
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the Raiders beat teams like the Chiefs and like that down down in the year
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as well. So we click back up to next week. But everything was
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in place, great team win all over, but seventeen, good job.
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Every criticism on him from week one was reversed last week. I mean,
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every school one of them. You're you're running like an asshole. You're you're
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hucking about everything that he said three rushes for seven yards, you're hucking it
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up everything in front of him for three hundred and three. You know,
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it was cool, calm, collected. Ja I don't know what he what,
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it was what he needed. Maybe maybe that's exactly what he needed,
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was to get punched in the mouth like that. So yeah, I'm excited
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to hear what you guys have to think. But it's it was everything where
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it needed to be. Cool, calm, nice, comfortable win. You
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know, it's crazy, Robin, because when I heard Josh postgame, you
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know, he had talked about how he loves, you know, feeling like
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he did last week, and that kind of, you know, freaked me
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out for a second, but I kind of knew what he was trying to
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say. And what he was trying to say was that he the lows.
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You know, when when you are going through the dump, you know the
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dumps, you know, you get a chance to do a little bit of
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self reflection, to be completely honest, And and we spoke about Dan Olosky
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and he was talking about, you know, grow up, and Josh said
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they didn't listen to the social media and stuff like that. He had no
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idea about the reaction. But Robin, he talked, you know, basically
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like a guy that I needed a reset button. I kind of needed this
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to happen, And he said, I love feeling that way because then I
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can dig in and make sure that it doesn't happen again. And you really
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saw it on display on Sunday, Mama Monday, because it was a situation
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where it was like did they did nobody give him any runs or skills or
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like what wasn't they no, you know, no Nashville Hot Chicken sandwiches,
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like you know what they just talking about. I have no idea what the
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difference was, but I promise you he was locked in. I mean thirteenth
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straight completions like a DT said, he was a fishing eighty three percent completion
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right, I mean it was. It was on display, Mama, Monday,
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it was on display. It was, it was. It was now
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on that note, One of the things I needed to add to my to
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my resume is I also have been a psychotherapist in a previous lifetime. So
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I'm retired now, but I practiced for about twenty years, so you get
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to know people on a little different level. And it's interesting that you brought
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up what you did about picking up on Josh embracing his failure. I wrote
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about that Buffalo fanbase dot com. I wrote about that very topic, and
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I wanted to get into that to some extent because Josh is a different dude
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on so many levels and some of the things that he does, like for
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example, this is just this is just me former shrink talking. But when
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he talks about and he has said this on numerous occasions, that he always
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jukes before a game. Yes, he says he kind of needs it.
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I listened to his podcast with Jordan Palmer, and he said he kind of
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needs it. It's not that he's nervous, he says, anymore since his
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rookie year. But his body, he feels like his body loosens up when
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he does it. It's a reset. Well, there's a physiologic basis for
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that, Okay, there there really is. But my man, Josh,
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you do not need to puke to get control of your emotions. Uking is
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a little bit extreme in my opinion. You know, they're playing an extreme
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sport. I mean it's it's it's an ultimate gladiator sport. So I mean,
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you've got to be a little bit crazy to play football. You do,
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you absolutely do. But point being though, Josh has something called performance
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anxiety, and it shows up. It shows up with him. We saw
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it at Wyoming a bit, okay, but he had more when he played
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in college. He was more sure of himself. The man campus, he's
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the man, he was exactly he was. He knew who he was,
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he knew he was, he knew what he had inside of him. But
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now the pressure is so on him. Oh my god, the pressure.
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All we heard through the whole off season was Josh, Josh, Josh,
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you know, we have to win a super Bowl. We have to win.
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We have to win, we have to win. That played in his
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head like his head must have been ready to explode by the time the game
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started on Monday Night football. And he you think that contributes to it because
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he actually puts more pressure on himself because of the outside pressure that we're putting
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on him in the media and stuff like that. You think it all,
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yes, And I'll add one more thing to that. I'll add one more
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thing. He has said numerous times now as I recall that he is an
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introvert at heart, at personality. Yes, and obviously he knows what these
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terms mean. But most of the time when we think about somebody being an
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introvert, we think about them being a nerd and you know, they don't
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talk very much and all that sort of thing, And that isn't the definition
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of an introvert at all. And the way that you tell the difference is
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an introvert has to have downtime, like shut out away from other people,
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downtime to destress. That makes sense with golf. He loves the golf,
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absolutely, absolutely love that He loves the golf. Prof Yes, yes he
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does. And golf is the perfect game for him because it allows him to
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be in his own little world, right right, you know, he doesn't
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have to deal with the paparazzi and all this other stuff that's that's going.
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They said, they've already had rumblings that he doesn't really like the like the
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limelight, doesn't it. Okay, well, I've heard that, rumblings that
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he doesn't really like the attention. He doesn't like that doesn't doesn't he doesn't,
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he doesn't, And and I get him because I'm that same way.
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I can only handle like when I come to Buffalo, you guys, it's
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so hilarious. It takes me a week to recover. After I get back
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to Wyoming. I'm like, after seeing so many people, and I'm just
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like I'm saying, for four or five days and then I come back and
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I'm like, oh my god, I'm so exhausted. Well, extroverted people
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they feed off of that energy energy they you know, they feed off of
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being around other people and and that sort of thing. But that is not
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Josh. And so we have to kind of remember that being an introverted person,
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he's going to get prickly and he's going to get stressed when the media
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is in his face. And before that Monday Night game, I think everything
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was just like so loud in his head that he just couldn't tune down the
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noise. He definitely played like it look listen to Robin Monday, DT hooking
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us up with the psycho analysis that everything that you said to be honest makes
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sense, you know what I mean, And like it makes a lot more
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sense with especially, you know, coupled with last week's episode, because what
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DT and I were doing last week was we're grasping at strong as I said
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that, when we're trying to figure out and that's what really everybody, y'all,
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Bills Moffy was trying to figure out what's going on? Is you know,
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is Sugar Hi Josh were turning? That was the name of the episode.
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Is he coming back as he is? He reverting? And I didn't.
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I never thought that he was going to just go back to playing that
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recklessly all of the time. But I was concerned because the fact that it
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was he had had it was horrible. Yeah, and he was really making
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short circuited. It was horrible. That was like the worst game of his
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career, even all the games when he was a rookie. Yeah, game
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Monday. That's not alarming DT, Right with the intro being an introvert and
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having all that pressure, all that pressure would be a lot to handle for
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the most extroverted person ever, you know, and you're out there and you
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love the limelight. That's still a lot to handle for somebody that loves it.
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So if you know, if this is the case of Josh, it's
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you know, he is more of an introverted side. But then boom,
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this would be even this is the cocktail time exponentially. Yeah, this is
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like the powder to make it, make it all blow up. But but
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we also we also don't have to worry about, you know, explaining that
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too much. Week one, we sprain forward, let's go and and we're
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moving on. But if it comes up again, I it's just don't have
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it come up. And this is interesting because he's you know, DT brought
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it up last week. He is great. He's great in primetime. We've
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we talked about it, you know, everybody's been putting posting, you know,
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stats on Twitter and stuff like that, talking about his primetime stats.
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So I don't think it's necessarily the stage, but I think there is something
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to it, Robin in respects to the outside the outside noise, and it
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could be even from the teammates, even from oh my organization. It's not
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necessarily the media. I believe Josh when he says that he's not, you
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know, watching and listening to ESPN and stuff like that. But what I
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know for a fact is that the pressure to perform for your teammates, to
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your other brothers, your coaches, I think that that is a very very
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real feeling where I'm letting down Ken Dorsey, I'm letting down Dermott, I'm
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letting down you know, Stefan, I'm letting down my offense. I'm you
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know, and all those types of things. The defense puts on a great
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effort, you know, last week as an example, and then I'm pissing
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that away, you know. So I definitely feel that there's something to that.
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So we will we will definitely put a pin in it and think about
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that because that might be something we have to come back to DT and natural
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human things. Of these teammates, Josh gets the biggest bag, Josh is
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the nicest car, Josh gets all the interviews and he's going out there and
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making us look bad on Monday night. You know that's also a thing,
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like these dudes, there's a natural jealousy and every human being, and this
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dude's getting everything and then going out and sucking in front of you. Like
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there's a little bit of what the hell's going on as well. So so
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many levels of blooddown, yeah, which which is why it was so important
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for last week to happen, and you know, in that respect and for
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us to see it because I think that us seeing it as Bill's Mafia Nickel
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City Crew, all the fans, I think it gives us an opportunity to
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kind of again, you know, like the name of the episode, It
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just gives us a chance to just relax for a second. You know,
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we've known we've got a big matchup coming up, and we'll talk about that
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later in the show, but you know, I think that it's an opportunity
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to kind of take a breath for a second, and then obviously we'll head
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to the nation's capital now as we wrap up on a week two. You
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know DT Robin, I mean, Josh spread the ball Aroundnine different receivers touched
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the ball last week for a reception. It was really good to see your
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boy Khalil Shaquer got in the end zone DT, and he did his thing,
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you know, and then your your main boy, your real boy,
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Jimmy Cook, I mean, Jimmy Cooks was cooking, man. I mean
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that's I couldn't wait to talk to you about the DT about Jimmy because I
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know you love him and and you know he was he was doing his thing.
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DT. I mean, this best game as a pro first hundred yard
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game forward James Cook in the NFL. He had a few catches out of
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the backfield as well, for about thirty six yards. I think it was
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four catches, which is a nice nine yard clip. I mean, hey,
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DT, your boy, he showed up. It showed what his draft
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status might have been worth. Because with Motor out of town, this was
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his show. And it was clear throughout training camp that this was going to
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be his show. Latavious and you know, Damien Harrison, Damian Harris,
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excuse me, we're gonna, you know, be supporting him, but this
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was his show and we kind of needed to see a game like this.
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Like you said, DT, that question for you, Yeah, yeah,
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what's up, Robin? What was your favorite part of James Cook's game overall
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or something? Yeah? Anything? What was anything? Well, what was
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the best part of it? The best part of it was, you know,
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I wanted him to be good just because he is. He's got that
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swagger and you know we we need like a running back like like him,
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I think on our team, like a way of he can catch the ball.
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I loved him at Georgia. But what it really was, it was
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last year in the in the New England game when Naim Hines ran back the
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two kickers for touchdowns and I was sitting with I was shipping shout out big
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Ben from from the tail gay big Ben from Now. I was sitting with
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him and his wife down and they're right on the end zone like a couple
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rows up right behind. Yeah. Yeah, so your field level. And
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and I really saw him, like eye level. I saw James Cook,
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and he was like he just gave me that like he was a half step
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away from like he was there, he was in that hole, he was
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around that edge like and I'm like, that's when my favorite part of his
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game was seeing the capabilities of what he can do. And I think he's
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just getting started. We're going to see a lot of good things from number
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four in his career, and a lot of good things this year too.
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I think he's only going to get more confident when teams are gott a key
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on Josh. He has the open field and he's going to take advantage of
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it. So really excited for four. Really he put it on display.
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I mean, Robin, he put it on display on Sunday. I mean
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he was beating those guys to the edges. I mean he was, you
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know, Chris Brown had said on the on the broadcast, I heard,
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you know the replays that like, you know, the raiders are just underestimating
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his speed. I mean he was. He was getting to the edge.
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And it's it's funny because he's so shifty. So I I like, let's
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credit let's credit the old line. Though, let's credit the old always talk
24:29
about where it's won and lost, and and I've been on the soapbox of
24:32
saying it doesn't matter if it's back at running back, if you can't block
24:34
and open up those holes. But I mean there's a lot of factors that
24:37
go in won. Seven's the biggest one, right, you gotta protect him.
24:41
So they pushed back the defense and things open up more on the line
24:45
whatnot. But I talked about this old line is they they're more of a
24:48
road greater aspect, you know, they're they They're not as finesse as they
24:52
are mean, right, So get Spencer Brown downhill, get these dudes really
24:56
throwing cats around and letting James Cook rolling. Credit to them for opening the
25:00
holes for these dudes getting in the end zone on the goal line that was
25:04
that was huge. Put that that push to get in the end zone.
25:07
I know all those times and Mutton James Cook run wild. So love it.
25:11
Yeah, I mean this version of Spencer Brown, I mean I'll put
25:14
my he can he can stay. So if you're gonna if you're gonna play
25:17
like this, you know, I mean he's a mountain of a man.
25:19
We all know what. He's huge. And if he's gonna play like this,
25:22
then then play like this all the time for sure. Because I know
25:25
that they chipped out and helped out on Max Crosby. But he had a
25:26
really great game, probably one of his best of the Bill cibo dt Again,
25:30
I mean he keeps showing up. He's impressing as a rookie. I
25:34
think he only gave up one pressure on Sunday after handling q Ball, Quinnon
25:38
williams, uh, you know last week and week one. I mean he's
25:42
he might be a gem Mama Monday might be because he seems to be.
25:47
He's got a good anchor. He's nasty, like DT was talking about,
25:49
he's not nice, and I kind of like that edge about him. Three
25:53
hundred and twenty five pounds of pure gem. Yeah, he might be.
26:03
Yeah, he looks solid. He looks like he came right into the league
26:07
and just hit the you know, the flow. It's just like here I
26:11
am. Yeah, he has he has not skipped a beat. You know,
26:15
the people that have listened to me talk on our podcast Tea Time with
26:21
Rob and have heard me say this, and you probably remember from some of
26:25
my tweets too, that I have an especial affinity for the hog Molly's love.
26:33
Okay, okay, absolutely they don't get enough love. So that's what's
26:37
up. Get enough love? Do not get enough love? And this old
26:44
line, you know, you were so right the way you put it in
26:47
terms of Spencer Brown. Let's just take this version right here. But the
26:52
good thing is, though, seriously, though, can't he can build on
26:56
that right. Oh my gosh, that's as good as you go. Leaps
27:00
and bounds for his confidence for sure, because he heard the noise and he
27:03
you know, these guys sometimes act like they don't hear anything, but they
27:06
hear the noise. And you know, they've got they've got family and friends
27:08
that are talking to them and texting them, especially with this new age now.
27:11
So he's aggressive seven aggressive, I mean going at throats. Yeah,
27:17
so he can definitely, he definitely can get something from this robin and answer
27:19
your question, he can get something from this positive because it was a big
27:22
deal. I mean, I think it was a big was a big deal,
27:26
you know for him, good for him for sure. You know.
27:29
Now the defense was solid, you know, guys, it was. It
27:32
was really a situation where you know, Jimmy Groppool wasn't doing too much,
27:34
He wasn't hurting us or anything like that. The Bills seemed to be in
27:38
a situation where they were able to keep everything in front of them like they
27:41
like to do. They weren't doing too many blitz or anything like that.
27:45
And then in addition to the fact that the defensive line dt I mean,
27:48
you give at Oliver the bag, you know, I love at Oliver.
27:51
You give him that bag. We all we talked about it after he got
27:52
that contract. Was it worth it and what are we gonna get from?
27:56
Because he had kind of in the middle of the road. This might have
27:57
been one of his best games, DT. He was constantly moving people back,
28:00
He was constantly getting guys off the ball. He started the game by
28:03
putting somebody in the backfield to start the game the ball, so and I
28:07
saw it from my seat, so it was it was good to see the
28:11
defensive line Leonard Floyd. I know he came up with an injury. Hopefully
28:14
he can get back quickly. It looks good. I mean, if we're
28:17
worried about von Miller being out and what the pastor is going to be consistent,
28:19
I mean, fifty looks like a different player. It looks like it
28:22
again. When will you talk about in the offseason, DT, that we
28:26
wanted to see him continue to take his game to the next level where soul
28:29
looks great. Like the defensive line is it looks legit for sure right now?
28:33
Yeah, they're stout. I mean all this talk about it being a
28:37
different defense, I mean it's all same. We know what's good. We
28:44
know what's good with this d Top five, every top ten, you know
28:48
they're stout Ben don't break first drive, they an easy touchdown and then literally
28:52
don't let him cross the fifty basically the rest of the game, you know.
28:56
So it's it's the same D where used to all levels. Doesn't matter
29:02
who's playing except five eight. That boy's nasty. I was just gonna you
29:06
took the words out of my mouth. I was going to ask our guests,
29:08
I'd say, business as usual, except for five eight. Let's about
29:11
him, Miss Robin Monday. I was just gonna say, because you asked
29:15
DT of questions, I was going to pose you a question. What do
29:18
you think of when you think of Matt Milano? Because, boy, he
29:22
makes you listen a lot of responses. He makes me feel a lot of
29:25
things. What do you think of when you think of Matt Milano? Relentless?
29:29
Oh my gosh, yes, I put down animals in my notes.
29:32
I saw that, and that's perfect. He's ridiculous, so relentless, and
29:38
when you see him play, it's like watching poetry in motion. He's never
29:42
out of position. I mean rarely is he out of position. He's got
29:48
a nose for the ball, he runs downhill, Yes, yes, touchdowns.
29:53
I mean, he's just he's amazing. And when you look at his
29:56
body type and everything, you just he kind of wonder because he's not real
30:02
big for an outside linebacker. No, he's not huge. It's crazy,
30:07
it's crazy. He's something else that What about that interception, I mean,
30:11
that was something that was I didn't even It's funny because it looked like Josh
30:17
Jacobs DT didn't even know that there was gonna happen, like you know what
30:18
I mean, Like he thought that he was just getting ready to catch a
30:21
pass and maybe get hit in the back, and he totally you know,
30:23
they doesn't he lost him. You know, he took the ball from him.
30:26
I didn't even realize. I'm in the scoreboard side, so you know
30:29
where I sit, DT, So it's all back to me. So I'm
30:32
looking at Milano's back as he comes up to play. I thought he was
30:34
just going to make a tackle. And then everybody's cheering. I'm like,
30:37
well what happened? And that looking you know, he's got the ball.
30:40
Do you think he was Do you think he was going for the pick?
30:42
I think he was just coming in for the hit and he was like,
30:47
Oh, the ball's right there. And I think he's so I think it's
30:48
what Robin is talking about. He's so re leles. He he he'll pounce
30:52
on the opportunity. So he might have been ready to come up, make
30:53
the hit and stick it. And then when he saw the ball in a
30:56
vulnerable position, he's like, I'm it's not illegal for me to take it.
30:59
I'm gonna take it for him. And it was wild. I couldn't
31:00
believe. And he is wild. Josh Jacobs Shacobs. After that, he
31:06
just died. Yeah, he's Yeah, he is so smart. He's so
31:08
smart, Robin, You're absolutely right. He's smart, He's instinctual, he's
31:12
always uh, he's like Johnny on the Spot. He really is. He's
31:15
like Johnny on the show that he became an All pro. It was about
31:19
time that he got recognized on that level, you know, probably a few
31:23
years too late, even. Yeah, guys just had an outrageous career.
31:27
Yeah, and we're so lucky to have him, absolutely, and especially with
31:33
his you know, with his draft, it's just a great story with his
31:34
draft status and nobody saw that coming out of Boston College and just I mean,
31:38
he's amazing. So I'm so happy and what I put down, you
31:41
know that he does help, you know, DT, mitigate Tremayne Edmonds,
31:45
you know, leaving. I understand that we weren't going to be able to
31:47
pay him, and we talked about that in the offseason DT. But I
31:49
haven't, not yet, and I know that will play better opponents, But
31:52
I haven't. I haven't missed forty nine quite yet, not yet. And
31:56
it's really because of Mat Milano. Yeah, I mean a hundred percent year.
32:00
He knew the shoes he had to feel. And all those doubters that
32:04
question we you know, Robin and I we say, and you as well,
32:07
Rob, we say, a couple of years too late on the All
32:08
Pro for fifty eight and there were still some probably heavy doubters of this guy's
32:14
not that good forty nine leagues and he's even better than he ever has been.
32:17
So he's doing everything he needs to do, you know, And that's
32:22
that's what we need. That's what we need on that defense, that one
32:24
middle guy, the secondary is getting a little older. We need that,
32:28
you know, to level up into that next level. If that defense can
32:30
get pressure. I like, I like that next level of being Matt Milano
32:34
then get to our older, still strong secondary so the levels are fierce and
32:38
they and they keep getting better. Yeah, it was. It was good.
32:42
Thirty eight to ten bills all over the Las Vegas Raiders in the home
32:45
opener of the holiday for all of Bill's mafia. What a great time it
32:49
was. Again, we'll feature a new segment at the end of the show,
32:52
the Nickel City Crew Tailgate Report, and we'll talk about all the fun
32:53
stuff that happened on Sunday because it was a really cool day. Now,
32:57
as we start to transition, you know, we're going to the nation's capital,
33:00
you know, we're gonna have to take this one with the grain of
33:02
salt. Is as much as we you know, enjoyed rebeling in it,
33:05
we're gonna have to take it as a grain of salt. You know.
33:07
The Raiders are the Raiders. They're not that good, you know what I
33:09
mean. The quarterbacks okay, YadA, YadA, YadA. So we never
33:13
will give away wins and we'll never apologize on you know, for wins or
33:15
anything like that. We'll never do that. We want to stack them up.
33:17
But the competition is going to start ramping up a little bit, and
33:22
it actually is unexpected, at least from my view, because I didn't expect
33:24
Washington to be much anything. But we're going to Nationals Capital. They've got
33:29
a quarterback out there, DT that they seem to be happy about, and
33:31
they seem to be excited about. He's only played three games, so it's
33:36
it's a when you talk about small sample size, you can't get much smaller
33:39
than that. But samehow it leads the two and oh Washington commanders as the
33:44
bills come in, it's it's interesting, DT, what are your initial thoughts
33:47
on it as you just kind of take a look at it, you know,
33:50
first glance one o'clock Sunday, Nation's Capital Bills and commanders. What I
33:54
mean, they're they're excited about this kid, and I mean I don't know
33:58
much about him. I mean, you know, he's only played three games.
34:01
I mean the super sauce sample size, but off to the first two
34:06
games of the year right up there with with with the rest of them at
34:09
quarterback in the NFL. You know, him and Josh have almost identical yards.
34:14
He has way less interceptions than Josh did. Yeah, and he's got
34:20
three tuddies. So thanks anxiety exactly. They're gonna have a home home game.
34:27
This this this defensive stout, this d line will get into is it's
34:30
all first rounders. It's crazy. And this receiving quarter, I think is
34:36
the hardest they're gonna face all season thus far. I mean, the Jets
34:39
with Garrett Wilson was great, but I mean who with them? We got
34:43
Alam Bazzard and Randall Cobb and then you got moved to the next week of
34:50
Yeah, and then boom, you got a crazy room with Samuel Dotson and
34:54
and Terry McLaurin and they're tight end Garry Terry. That last week was top
35:01
tense. No, that was nice. Yeah, yeah, I mean you're
35:06
talking and this team's two and all. I mean, even if they're not
35:08
good, they sure as hell think they're good. So yeah, yeah,
35:14
you know, that's that's something you've got to be aware of. That's something
35:15
gonna be aware of. Robin, what's your what's looking what's your thirty thousand
35:21
point of thirty thousand foot view of this game as we as we start to
35:24
approach the weekend. I mean, you know, DT's right there, tool
35:29
and old and you know they do have four first rounders. You've got you
35:31
know, Payne and Alan and Young and then Sweat. It's it's interesting,
35:36
you know, it's They've got some guys, and I think that the level
35:39
of competition is getting ready to start ramping up as we get ready closer for
35:44
this Miami game, which is obviously would be the biggest game up to to
35:46
date. I mean, what what do you think when you look at it,
35:49
Robin, because it's it's not the r I don't think it's I don't
35:52
think it's gonna be easy as the Raiders. How about that, I'll say
35:54
that I don't think so either. And the Commanders they have a pretty good
36:00
head coach. I'm not a Rivera fan. I'm not. I'm not a
36:05
Rivera fan personally. What do you like about him? What do you like
36:07
about him? Only the way that he can motivate his team? Okay,
36:13
I agree with you in some respects. It's taken him a while. I
36:17
don't know what what's happening in DC with the change in ownership and everything that
36:22
that's gone on there. But I like I like Rivera's ability to evaluate talent.
36:32
I don't necessarily like the way that he worked with Cam Newton. Yeah,
36:38
I can hear Charlotte where I am. Yep, he wasn't. He
36:43
was, he was the man. And then until he wasn't, you know
36:45
what I mean, Like, yeah, they were ready to get him out
36:46
of town when he wasn't. You know. Interesting, Yeah, he ran
36:50
out to the ground a little bit. Yeah, they worked him to death.
36:54
Yea, you know, they absolutely did. They really did. And
37:00
I don't know enough about Ron Rivera to know whether he took care of his
37:05
players the way that Sean McDermott does. But McDermott and company they're not going
37:10
to put players out like they're putting Trott and Joe Burrows out with the Bengals
37:15
when he probably shouldn't be playing, absolutely should not. Just saying you know,
37:23
it's it's it's one of those things. But at any rate, the
37:28
thing that I respect about Rivera is that he usually does a pretty good job
37:32
of getting his players motivated. How he does that, I'm not entirely sure
37:38
because I don't know him that well. Like Iyer, he's the former player
37:43
played on the eighty five Bears that you know, the Super Bowl Bears Best
37:45
Defense and yeah with Mike Singletary and those guys, So he's a he's a
37:50
players coach. He's a player coach, and Lee Fraser, he's a player's
37:53
coach. He knows how to how to connect with the players. For sure,
37:57
you are absolutely right with that hunch. Well and and but to your
38:01
point, I think that really needs to be thought about is that this team
38:07
has all first rounders on their defensive line. I mean, if they're if
38:14
they're beneath the Jets, they're just one notch, you know, like one
38:17
small notch in my opinion, beneath the Jets D line. And so we're
38:23
going to get a real good taste in this game. Back to can our
38:29
offensive line hold enough, give Josh enough time. We need to see efficient
38:37
Josh. We need to see the Josh we saw last week, who's able
38:40
to take the you know, let's let's do these little outs to James Cook.
38:45
Imagine how good they work out when you do them once in a while.
38:49
Everybody who's getting everybody was getting involved, exactly exactly, And that's what
38:53
Josh got away with. You got away from in the first game. In
38:58
the second game, he's distributing the ball, he's doing he's doing everything that
39:02
he should be doing. That way, he's gonna really need to get the
39:06
ball out fast. Yeah again, I think you're I think you're right.
39:09
I think you're right. These guys, there's some dudes, you know,
39:12
DT up there. There's some dudes up there, and it'll be interesting to
39:15
see how they do because the offensive line, as much as we like last
39:19
week DT there, you know, it's not just one guy. The writers
39:21
had one guy, Max Crosby, and they chipped them. You know,
39:23
they did a lot of things, you know, to be interesting how Ken
39:25
Dorsey deploys his scheme. Because you're not going to be able to chip everybody,
39:30
and you're not gonna be able to come up. You know, I
39:31
love that, and I know they like the new twelve personnel. But Dalton
39:34
Kate is not much of a blocker. So it's a situation where you better
39:37
be just ready. You better come up with a scheme, quick game,
39:39
things like that to kind of throw this defense off, to get them to
39:43
kind of back up. You know, they're gonna come out hair on fire.
39:45
They're at home and they're gonna be ready to play, so you want
39:47
to kind of find a way to mitigate some of that, to at least
39:50
make them pause, at least make them think about whether it even as Josh,
39:53
you know, escaping out of the backside, or it's the run game
39:57
or the draw game, or the screen game, which we don't run many
40:00
greens. But you're gonna have to do something to slow them down. They
40:01
will not just be able to pin their ears back. If they're able to
40:05
do that, then you know, it could be a long day. D
40:07
It could be. I mean, I don't I don't know. It could
40:08
be though. I think the I think the overall the flow of the game
40:13
is going to go like this. They're gonna come out and they're gonna try
40:17
to get after one seven quickly. Obviously with that big, big D line,
40:22
they know they got the edge on our offensive line. So we have
40:24
to kind of be i'd say seventy five percent not super conservative and give take
40:29
what they give you and all that. Get a little more foot on the
40:32
gas when they're coming at you hard, quick out, get it, get
40:36
it rolling, and then burn them a few times so they have to start
40:38
writing back and then getting your more conservative game plan once they start pulling back.
40:43
But you you got to match their aggression, I think in the early
40:45
go because they're gonna be coming after you one seven hard. They know they
40:50
got the edge there, match the aggression and kind of go at them,
40:52
trying to burn them a few times then to force them back. Then you
40:55
can get into your into where you want to be. So I think you're
40:59
gonna see that all this year, but definitely on Sunday. Yeah. I
41:01
like that. I like that. You know, that's interesting. Yeah that's
41:05
a good game. Yeah, that's a good game plan. I like that.
41:07
Match their energy, you know, it's almost match match their energy in
41:09
the beginning, they're gonna come out juiced up. You match their energy.
41:13
Make sure that you're ready to play, make sure that you're ready to,
41:15
you know, execute the game plan. I know that. You know,
41:17
those guys that go to work every single day, we always forget that these
41:21
are people, so they're they're obviously down there each day at work and trying
41:23
to figure out a game plan. And I know Ken Dorsey will be all
41:25
over it. If I've enjoyed, you know, I enjoyed, you know,
41:29
Josh Allen, I enjoyed the fact of his his postgame pressure. Sometimes
41:32
I feel like he sulks after you know, some bad performances in his body
41:37
language is just you know, poor, and we talked about that last week
41:38
DT, and you know, I want to see you know, that type
41:42
of body language all of the time. Last week's body language all of the
41:45
time. When they're lost. We've got to make sure that we're leading from
41:46
the front. Leaders can't lead from the back. They've got to be up
41:50
in the front making sure that they're keeping everybody else composed because sometimes, you
41:54
know, the other teammates will match off your energy. So if you look
41:57
like somebody just you know, ran over your dog, then you know what
42:00
I mean, they might bring their energy down. And I think that that
42:01
really plays a part, especially in a locker room setting where we've got fifty
42:06
three guys, all different backgrounds, coaches and staff. You know, you
42:10
everybody's looking at Josh. Everybody's looking at him, and I want him to
42:14
be aware of that because he's never he's never really able to turn it off
42:17
unless he's golfing, like Roberts said, you know, other than that,
42:21
he's got to be on, especially during the season when he's at the facility,
42:24
and that's I want to see him, you know, do that draining
42:28
that's so draining. Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. Before before
42:31
that game even started against the Jets. They show pictures of everybody when the
42:38
Star Spangled Banner is being played, and they show a picture of Josh and
42:45
Stefan Diggs is right next to him, you know, trying to I'm sure,
42:49
trying to keep him calm down or whatever. But I took one look
42:52
at Josh and I swear to god, I thought to myself, we were
42:54
going to lose this game? Are you serious? I Am serious. I
42:58
said that to my husband. He didn't like him from the beginning, either,
43:00
did you? DT? You didn't you didn't really like him from the
43:02
beginning, either, did you? Are you muted? DT? You muted?
43:10
Oh? Yeah, sorry sorry. I was just like, wait,
43:15
I know I'm not crazy, but DT didn't like what you what you're talking
43:17
about? That's yeah. I didn't pick up on it until until after the
43:27
first pick. And then when I saw him come back to the sideline and
43:30
he literally looked it was the deer in the headlights. He was just like
43:31
kind of just blank staring. I'm like, oh man, this could be
43:35
we could be in Fortnite. Because if he's gonna he's gonna act like this
43:37
like this is not what That's not the look I want to see I want
43:40
to see you. Yeah, I want to see calm. Yeah, I'm
43:45
gonna stay. I want to see you. Grab the iPad head head down,
43:46
focus, you're you're looking. I don't want to see that you.
43:52
It seems like you're on another planet. So it'll be interesting. We have
43:54
had so much fun to that. Before we find a close up and wrap
43:59
up our new segment, I just wanted to thank you again. Check her
44:02
out Robin Mundy r O b y n m u n d y w Yo
44:07
for Wyoming on Twitter. Check her out. She is our editor in chief
44:12
at the Buffalo fan based podcast network Again that we simulcast on weekly. It
44:16
was been It's been an honor to have you on. I am so happy
44:19
that you carved time out of your schedule. We are not kicking you off
44:22
right now, but I just wanted to make sure that we got that plug
44:23
in there before we go to this last segment, because I enjoyed you and
44:28
I and I promise you I'm going to listen to this episode a bunch of
44:30
times, just to listen to your beginning part about introverts and all of that
44:35
stuff. The cycle analysis. I just I really didn't think about it because
44:38
you heard last week's episode, Roberts, so you know how I did.
44:42
I was what did you think of it? Because I wanted to make sure
44:45
that I was. I was towing the line between, you know, being
44:49
respectful and then and understanding that I'm not a fly on the wall. I
44:52
don't follow him around and we don't. We don't, we don't pretend to
44:54
be. So I'm not going to pretend to know everything about him. But
44:58
I you know, I just I wrote I was worried about it. What
45:02
did you think of last week's episode? Because we did get a lot of
45:05
positive reception, I wrote, notes it was outstanding. It was outstanding because
45:10
you hit on exactly what was going on, which is the intangibles, right,
45:16
you can't figure it out. It's not this, it's not that,
45:20
it's not this. It's the intangibles. It's the mental part of the game.
45:22
It's Marshawn Lynch's mentals, metals like that. That's what Josh has to
45:32
work on, his mentals. And I think that once he gets to the
45:37
point where he's in control of his mentals better, then we can all relax
45:43
a little bit more. Do we Are we going to see sugar Hi Josh
45:46
again. I hope not. Well, probably you know at some point,
45:51
but just not in the Super Bowl. Yes, whatever you do, dude,
45:55
you got to get it done and fixed before that takes place, because
46:00
I'm going to be a nervous wreck if nobody else is, I'm going to
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be a nervous wreck that who's going to be off the rails with his mentals.
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I have to thank you, guys because I have so enjoyed this.
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Yeah, and I just want to say thanks, and I'm hanging on for
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the Tailgate Report because i want to know what I'm missing you out there.
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It's funny because as we wrap up tonight, we've got a new segment for
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Nickel City Crew. We want to make sure that we're more interactive and we're
46:29
gonna be doing our lives again this season for the away games and things like
46:32
that. But DT and I we wanted to bring you guys just a little
46:36
bit into the into our world and how it all works and how it all
46:38
goes with us. And I think that there will be something that you guys
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enjoy. So this is the first edition of the Nickel City Crew Tailgate Report.
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I left DT knows, I got up at the crack of dawn on
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Saturday, and I was out. I hit the road DT by I was
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on the road by five am. I tried to hit it earlier. I
46:55
just could not get my eyes to open. But I did hit that road
46:59
by by five am. And you already know me DT. I mean,
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it's not gonna take me long, man. If I get on that road,
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I'm good. I'm only stopping for gas, use the bathroom, and
47:07
then that's it. I'm right back in the car. I might grab a
47:09
sandwich or something like that. So I got on the road. My first
47:13
stop is three hours away. It's a little town called Beckley, West Virginia,
47:17
on Route nineteen. And what that does is it helps you kind of
47:21
cut through DT. So I can cut through Robin and I'll cut through West
47:24
Virginia on Route nineteen and it gets me right closer to Pennsylvania and Morgantown,
47:30
so basically Morgantown, West Virginia, and I can cut right right. Yeah.
47:34
Yeah. Oh, it's definitely mountains going back forth, left, yeah,
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left all the way and yes, oh the blue the Bluefield Mountains are
47:40
so beautiful to look at, and especially when the folia has changed. So
47:44
I got up there and and DT, I chucked my people's out. I
47:47
got a chance to see Ason's beautiful daughter, who I missed her second birthday
47:51
last week, so I got a chance to see her. We bought a
47:52
pizza, We ate pizza together. She let me color with her and that
47:57
was really really cool to kind of check out my niece. And then I
48:00
was getting prepared, man, for you know, Sunday, like it was.
48:04
I remember texting you around like six o'clock or so, like, Hey,
48:06
what are you doing for this Colorado game? And I was like,
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DT. You were like, we're gonna start to relax a little bit.
48:13
I was like, I'm already with that energy. Yeah, I know we're
48:15
gonna be up at the crack of dawn. So at that point you gave
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me a time. I told Jeff there six thirty and then what was your
48:22
weekend? Like DT until we got together, man, because I know you
48:24
had some in the town. Yep, exactly that shout out. My boy
48:29
Kevin from from college came up from Nashville, you know, big, big
48:34
fan of the program, a fan of the game. The Bills came up,
48:38
picked him up Friday. The boys got a little active Friday night,
48:43
you know where we're a little older. We're in that about thirty crowd.
48:45
Now, Rob, you know, it settles down a little bit. But
48:50
Friday night the boys were out on the bottle a little bit. We got
48:52
into the casino, a little Buffalo Creek, a little sure, skip some
48:57
skip, some stones out at the creek and it enjoyed ourselves. But stop
49:04
up Saturday and yeah, like I said, we're you know, can't bounce
49:07
like we used to. So Saturday it was kind of a quiet day,
49:12
a little you know, got Aaron's done, got everything ready to go for
49:15
Sunday. And yeah, like you said, I was like maybe the first
49:17
half of that Colorado game, and then about six seven o'clock I was like,
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no, we're we're gonna need yea ten hours tonight, ten hours tonight.
49:27
Glad we got him, because, like you said, right up on
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it six thirty, I had to. I I put everything out on the
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porch and was just in the in the kitchen, you know, just getting
49:37
ready to roll and Rob came in the house and it was like, yeah,
49:39
man, it's time to do it. Yeah it was Robin. It
49:44
was It's funny because DT this is you know, this is our element.
49:46
This is how you know, we met, you know, so I was
49:50
telling you pre show that this is kind of how our story started. So
49:52
we were very used to this. And yeah, when car, your buddy
49:55
Kevin took a cool picture that I've got a post I gotta remember it.
49:59
Yeah, I forget, I keep forgetting, I keep forgetting the post it
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out, But took a cool picture from the backseat robbing of us. You
50:06
know, just drive in to the stadium and you know, just robbing Robin
50:08
dt uh, you know, in the car, and it was It was
50:12
really cool because it was a cool picture to look at because that's literally our
50:15
friendship as the bills and just kind of that connection. Got to the stadium,
50:17
were there early. There were not many people there, and we always
50:21
make sure that way. Yeah, but it was but it was you could
50:23
definitely you could definitely tell that it was a holiday for sure, because there
50:27
were more than usual. But we were there by seven on the dot and
50:30
the festivities started. It was a nice day for sure. The weather,
50:35
look, the weather, wonderful weather was really good. It was hot when
50:38
when those clouds were gone, the sun was kissing you for a little bit,
50:42
it was kissing me, so yeah, you did feel it, but
50:45
it was it was really really cool. You know, I got a chance.
50:46
I went with my old college sweetheart. I haven't seen her since two
50:51
thousand and four, Robbin, I have not seen her since two thousand and
50:54
four. And it was really and and and I miss you. I went
51:00
to go meet her or when she was on Southwestern, and I mean instantly
51:06
it felt like I mean, I mean, it was like we had never
51:07
skipped a beat. So it was really really cool to catch up with with
51:10
Natalie and get a chance to hang out for the game. It was It's
51:15
it's funny because you know, the bills just mean so much, DT,
51:19
you know what I mean. And the pageantry, like you talk, you
51:22
always talk about it, like the pageantry, it's it's just in the air,
51:25
man, Like it's just in the air. And you could see people
51:28
throwing the footballs around and and we were doing the same thing, and the
51:30
music's playing, you know, Big Ben shout out to him, you know,
51:34
holding down the ones and twos like he always does. And it was
51:37
just a lot of fun. Like I mean, it's just in the air,
51:38
DT. It's something I don't even know what I how else I can
51:42
explain it. But I promise you, Robin, there's no place else I'd
51:44
rather be until we win a Super Bowl. I don't I don't think that
51:46
I could turn it off in respective wanting to go. I want to be
51:50
at everyone. I want to be on the ride. And it's you know,
51:52
and and again, like I said, it's not like the you don't
51:57
just get out of the car and start ripping tops off your kids. It's
52:04
it's a legit, genuine, like good vibe. You know. That's yeah,
52:07
we came together and that's the real And now you get out and you
52:10
take it in and the music is is got a good, good, good
52:15
playlist of shout out the big band. You got Kenny with a great food
52:19
coming out of coming out of some great food coming out of the farm.
52:23
Bacon bacon wrapped sausage with cream cheese. Yeah, bacon wrap sausage with cream
52:30
cheese. And then and I think there was something it was something else in
52:34
then there was one more meat in them as well, because he had the
52:36
toothpick and it was oh yeah, and it was so good and just it
52:44
just I just I took a bite of that and and Kenny, I ate
52:47
the first bite and he's like, yeah, you better have another one,
52:54
Yes, I do. It was good. It was so good, you
52:58
know, it's funny and and the bigger point for me personally, it's just
53:01
the hospital the love of the mafia and and that's what you know what I
53:05
mean. I said out a text message Saturday, I'm driving up. What
53:07
do you guys need me to bring? You know, you want me to
53:08
bring anything. I'll bring a subtray, you know. And everybody's contributing something.
53:12
Everybody's bringing something, everybody's doing their part. And I just love the
53:15
hospitality. I love how we all love you know. Del Reid talked about
53:17
it last week, you know, the Maffia's family and that type of thing.
53:21
Never it was never about jumping through tables or anything like you know,
53:23
It's all about what DT is talking about, just that good vibe people that
53:28
you know, you'll meet some new people as well, and it really was
53:31
the best and speaking to new people as we you know, wrap up tonight.
53:36
Just the love for Nickel City Crew DT that I got on Sunday at
53:39
the tailgate was it was a little bit overwhelming for me. Yeah, Robin,
53:44
it was overwhelming because I started the podcast for that reason, not for
53:49
money. I'm not trying to you know what I mean. I'm not trying
53:50
to become the biggest podcast in the world. Now that happens, great,
53:52
you know what I mean, but that's not the goal of goals that I
53:54
love my bills and literally my outro of this. I always talked to myself
53:59
about the bills Robin, so I wanted to get my bills thoughts literally set
54:02
out loud. I wanted to get it out there, and once I got
54:05
over the fear of starting the podcast, it really has changed my life because
54:07
I love it. I love the interaction, I love the people. These
54:10
are the best days of recording. Days are the best days for me in
54:14
my life, and I just loved it. Shout Out says, I've got
54:17
so many shout outs. I mean literally, I have so many shout outs,
54:20
but literally, shout out to Kevin and Britta Panama City, where you
54:23
where you're from, DT, I mean they were, they were out there.
54:25
They said they're weekly listeners. Shout out. You know, we always
54:29
know about Seth and Brandy Brown. They're listening to us out there in Erie.
54:31
Anna Ka, big Ben's wife. I did not know that Anna Ka
54:36
was a listener. DT that when I tell you that, when I tell
54:39
you that thing melted my heart like butter in a microwave. I was like,
54:43
oh my gosh, you listen, she said every single week to shout
54:46
out to Yeah. It made me feel really good. And then and one
54:50
more shout out to Page and Kai, you know, Page beat me in
54:53
fantasy football. Wet. I'm playing fantasy football for the first time, Robin
54:58
in about a decade or even more. I haven't. I haven't really been
55:00
playing too much fantasy football. I kind of got disinterested. But DT's running
55:05
the league. He said, you gotta be in it, So I'm in
55:07
it. And and yeah, and Page was talking junk, so, you
55:12
know, shout out to Page. They were there, and she I mean,
55:15
they were there. They were there in the mafia. But they're you
55:17
know, they're die hard Vikings fans. Yeah, but they come and they
55:21
support you with their bills show exactly and to us every week every week.
55:28
Get in on that. And they're not even bill say so every week.
55:32
That's what I'm saying, Like it like it meant a lot, Like just
55:35
to hear people, you know, hey, man, I listen to you
55:37
every week. I listen to you with DT every week. It makes it
55:40
not only worth it, but it makes it just so so gratifying, because
55:44
you know, that is why I do it. I do it so we
55:45
can interact. So we promised Nickel City Crew, Bills Mafia, we will
55:49
be getting back on our routine for the away games. We're gonna come at
55:52
you with a loud YouTube live. We're gonna give you something on game days,
55:57
something whether it's pregame or post game. I really like the post games,
56:00
but they're just so it's the dime. It doesen't. Everybody's got a
56:02
post game show. Everybody's got one right away. So we're going to figure
56:05
out a cool way to interact with you guys when we're at home at the
56:09
tailgate and then for the away games as well. So we're gonna try to
56:13
come up with something for Sunday, So you guys please stay tuned. This
56:16
has been an absolute blast. I really appreciate a salute to our editor in
56:22
chief over at Buffalo Fan based podcast Network, Miss the Lovely Miss Robin Monday
56:27
again check ob A Monday Wyo at Twitter. Thank you, Robin. Thank
56:31
you for coming on it and sharing your story and being with us. We
56:34
appreciate it. I mean anytime you guys, I will come on anytime.
56:38
Your your mama Monday to me. Now anytime if I call anybody Mama,
56:43
then that means that I really haven't offended out love them. So your your
56:45
name switching for me, So really, we really do. I appreciate you
56:49
taking time out of your day for sure. Thanks. It was, it
56:51
was great. It was. I can't wait to meet you guys in person
56:54
sometime. Let us know. You know, DM me and let me know
56:58
anytime that you're thinking about coming to Buffalo. If you're thinking about coming up
57:00
for a game, we will a thousand percent. Now make it well,
57:05
connect DT as we wrap up tonight, our theme host. I mean,
57:10
he said it. I talked to Richland. He's put it down. He
57:13
says he wants to come to the Cowboys game. So I said, you
57:15
get to Buffalo me, DT. You know, big Ben, I said,
57:20
we will roll out the red carpet. You don't have to worry about
57:22
anything after that. You just get yourselves to Buffalo. We'll worry about the
57:25
rest after that. So that's what he said. So the shout out to
57:29
Richland music man. We love that intro. Everybody loves that song awesome,
57:32
and it's been a really cool little feature for Nickel City Crew. I think
57:37
it makes us unique DT. I think it kind of separates us from the
57:38
crowd totally. That song is pretty so pretty dope. So I was really
57:43
happy to hear from him over the weekend. He told me that he liked
57:45
last week's episode and that he wants to come to the to the Dallas game.
57:49
So maybe we'll see him for early Christmas present. So that'd be cool.
57:52
Man, right on, right on. It's a beautiful thing. It's
57:55
you know, the growth is real, Rob. I appreciate it as always,
58:00
Yeah, man, as always, Please spread love not hate. Hit
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them with a go bills Mama Monday, hit them want to go bills DT,
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go bills, Go bills two and one, Go bills,