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S5 E31: Goodbye, Old Friend · Nickel City Crew Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Fifteen decrease.
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  Speaker 2: You can see your breath out in the.
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  Speaker 1: Lake effect, breaking tables like guitar would be? Where's would
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  Speaker 1: you have to be? And to Ron Elvis in the
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  Speaker 1: lay panchel the members that you need to know.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you out here now?
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  Speaker 3: Your family?
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  Speaker 1: Where's would you like to be? Where's would you have be?
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  Speaker 4: Welcome into the Nickel City Crew. I am your host,
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  Speaker 4: Rob Crippen.
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  Speaker 5: Please like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram
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  Speaker 5: and Twitter at nicol City Crew. This episode, along with
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  Speaker 5: all of our episodes, are presented by Crippen Legacy Entertainment
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  Speaker 5: here on Spreaker and stream Yard. We're so glad that
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  Speaker 5: you're joining us for some of your Buffalo Bills and
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  Speaker 5: NFL content again today and as always, these are my
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  Speaker 5: bills thoughts set out loud.
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  Speaker 1: It's survived, so ridiculous. Joy up the Sady three for six.
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  Speaker 4: Can like us?
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  Speaker 1: Where's would you like to be?
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's get straight to it. Happy New Year.
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  Speaker 3: Bills Mafia and Nichols City Crew really excited for tonight's episode.
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  Speaker 3: We are in twenty twenty six, and I know that
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  Speaker 3: I'm not speaking just for myself. I know I speak
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  Speaker 3: for my co host when I say, Happy New Year,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm ready for twenty twenty six to just be
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  Speaker 3: a great year. So joining me tonight as always my
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  Speaker 3: co host writing Shotgun. Check them out on Instagram and
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  Speaker 3: Twitter at Adam Rupsick r U pc z y K,
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  Speaker 3: how at the Crew, Dump Truck.
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  Speaker 4: DT, how at the crew? Happy new year, sir, how you.
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  Speaker 1: Doing the city? Happy?
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  Speaker 4: Happy to.
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  Speaker 1: You, Happy to do your job. What did they say,
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  Speaker 1: duel Tide? I don't know, but happy to do your job,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, New year to us, Nickel City, doing
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  Speaker 1: our things as always, kicking into the new year, and
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe it's already week eighteen of the NFL season.
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  Speaker 1: Here we are happy to be joined tonight and you know,
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  Speaker 1: everyone out there listening, Happy new Year to you. So
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  Speaker 1: let's kick it off and we uh, everyone's your wish
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  Speaker 1: came true. Fast forward through the regular season, let's get
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  Speaker 1: to the let's get to the playoffs, and and here
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  Speaker 1: we are, so happy new year, Nickel City. Let's let's
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  Speaker 1: rock and roll.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, let's rock and roll man.
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  Speaker 3: Happy new Year to the crew, Into Bills, Mafia all around.
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  Speaker 4: Listen.
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited for tonight's episode because DT kind of he
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  Speaker 3: pulled my card and we didn't even share pre show notes.
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  Speaker 4: He's absolutely right, this.
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  Speaker 3: Is my time of year, this is my time to shine,
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  Speaker 3: and because of that, I'm really DT. I just want
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  Speaker 3: to go over quickly what we saw on Sunday, and
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  Speaker 3: then I want to get to a fun part of
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  Speaker 3: the episode where we just talk about our memories and
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  Speaker 3: different things like that for Bill's Mafia in respects to
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  Speaker 3: the stadium and the Ralph closing, DT, I mean, I've
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  Speaker 3: got a lot of family on my mother's side, and
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  Speaker 3: they are either here in Winston Salem right around Shadoe
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  Speaker 3: where I am about.
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  Speaker 4: An hour hour and a half away, or they're in Philly. DT.
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  Speaker 3: I heard from my Philly cousins on Sunday, DT it
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  Speaker 3: was bat Listen, we give flowers to McDermott, and we're
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  Speaker 3: one of McDermott's, you know, harshest critics.
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  Speaker 4: DT.
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  Speaker 3: His deeds stood up, his defense played well, first half,
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  Speaker 3: second half. I don't know, man, I know that it's
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  Speaker 3: not always popular to talk about seventeen in the negative light.
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  Speaker 3: He had a bad game and made some bad decisions, and.
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  Speaker 4: We'll quickly go through it before we get to the
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  Speaker 4: fun part of the episode.
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  Speaker 3: But last week thirteen to twelve, Bill's loss at home
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  Speaker 3: in the rain DT I.
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  Speaker 2: Kept telling them because of them, like y'all are not
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  Speaker 2: better than us, Like y'all got lucky.
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  Speaker 4: It was a bad game, man.
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  Speaker 1: I felt bad, Yeah, kind of bad all the way around. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I don't love number one. I don't love that uniform combo.
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  Speaker 1: I like the red uniforms, but I don't like with
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  Speaker 1: the white on the bottom. It looked like the exactly
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  Speaker 1: like the Patriots alternate. It looks like the Giants when
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  Speaker 1: they wear their reds. It's just not unique. We could
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  Speaker 1: do better and our rivalry uniforms this year. We're forgetting
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  Speaker 1: about that because of the loss. But so it started
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  Speaker 1: with that literally pouring rain the entire time. That was
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  Speaker 1: another you know, cold thirty eight forty degree rain, you
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  Speaker 1: know in the elements. A defense on their side that
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  Speaker 1: came out with a strong pass rush. We saw it
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  Speaker 1: last year in the Super Bowl against Mahomes and I
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  Speaker 1: was a little nervous about it. And we saw every
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  Speaker 1: aspect of it against us here with Josh getting touched
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  Speaker 1: all too many times, getting segued. Was it five or
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  Speaker 1: six sacks yep. You know we thought eight was you know,
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  Speaker 1: eight was bad against Houston le earlier in the year,
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  Speaker 1: and like, really three is probably too much and you
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  Speaker 1: know you're doubling that with six and yeah after what
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  Speaker 1: fourteen last year?
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  Speaker 4: Last year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so obviously some some issues. Uh you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: not just the line not home blocks, it's it's also
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  Speaker 1: him holding onto the ball and trying to do crazy
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  Speaker 1: stuff with it. And but that's that's, you know what
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  Speaker 1: we have to live with. Yeah, kind of just a
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  Speaker 1: bad game all the way around. The Philly Fateful they're
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  Speaker 1: like they're like the NFC Patriots right the way their
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  Speaker 1: fans are and how brash they are and a little
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  Speaker 1: more a little the Patriots are are brash, but at
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  Speaker 1: least they i I feel like they're you know, still
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  Speaker 1: a little like goody side. And then the Eagles are
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  Speaker 1: just straight straight dogs. Many they like to uh get down,
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  Speaker 1: just like Bill's Mafia, but they're just a little more
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  Speaker 1: uh you known heartfelt, Yeah if you will. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if you had anybody you knew that was an Eagles fan,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they let you hear about it over and
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  Speaker 1: over and over again. But as we talked about last
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  Speaker 1: week this game, you want to see your rolling. You
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  Speaker 1: want to see another win for the eleven and a
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  Speaker 1: half win total. You want to see the boys kind
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  Speaker 1: of look comfortable in their home field, you know, going
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  Speaker 1: into the playoffs against a good team. But the elements
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  Speaker 1: and some other things involved, I think, you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of wash that out, leading to really we said last week,
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  Speaker 1: whatever kind of happened if they got blown out, I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have cared if we lost the close game. I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have cared if we won. I really wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: cared too much. So I had to stick to that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, kind of mindset and mentality. But it still
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  Speaker 1: was kind of ugly. You don't like to see that,
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  Speaker 1: especially you said it from the man one seven kind of.
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  Speaker 3: Playing, oh, playing real bad to.
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  Speaker 1: Blame real bad. I mean that fumble was massive, literally
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  Speaker 1: flip the field, you know, the ball because he throws
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  Speaker 1: so damn hard. It bounced off the guy fifty yards reverse.
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  Speaker 1: If he would just you know, if he threw like
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  Speaker 1: a normal quarterback, they would have got it at like
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  Speaker 1: the fifty. But I just it's a tough one. I
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  Speaker 1: think a lot of things came into factor with the
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  Speaker 1: web there he's obviously not one hundred percent healthy. He
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  Speaker 1: was getting touched all game and then obviously it comes
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  Speaker 1: down to that final, final finale, that final play, and
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  Speaker 1: we can't get it done because he A lot of
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  Speaker 1: factors I think went into that. You know, him missing
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  Speaker 1: it's number one. I think probably the foot whatever. He
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  Speaker 1: was touched so much that night, he felt the pressure
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  Speaker 1: and knew he couldn't take a sack on a two
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  Speaker 1: point version.
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  Speaker 4: But it wasn't even any pressure.
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  Speaker 3: He could have stepped up, he could have took his
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  Speaker 3: time and it was just but I'd.
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  Speaker 1: Say in all those were factors to kind of make
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  Speaker 1: him just chuck it right. And you rarely ever see
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  Speaker 1: you know, you see him missed, but not like that,
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  Speaker 1: and so that was concerning. But also as we talked
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  Speaker 1: about kind of the growth of Josh Allen, how coachable
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  Speaker 1: he is, like the stuff that he rarely now at
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  Speaker 1: this point in his career, makes the same mistake, you
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  Speaker 1: know twice other than that run backward sack. He still
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  Speaker 1: loves doing that, but everything else he he does clean
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  Speaker 1: up pretty well. And but he just got touched way
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  Speaker 1: too much and sloppy game all the way around, and
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  Speaker 1: like that, the defense can come out and kind of
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  Speaker 1: put the put the nails down and and and hold them.
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  Speaker 1: But Philadelphia on the other end, was kind of knowing
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  Speaker 1: all year that's why their fans are frustrated at them,
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  Speaker 1: because they weren't playing to their full potential and kind
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  Speaker 1: of let off the gas and a lot of situations
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  Speaker 1: and in this case it was kind of clear, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they just weren't being aggressive at all. Credit to the
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  Speaker 1: Bills defense for that to clamp them up in the
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  Speaker 1: second half, but I don't think Philly was really trying
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  Speaker 1: too hard to make things happen either until the Bills
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  Speaker 1: got back in, but they got back in so late,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it didn't Philly didn't have time to you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of turn their jets back on as well. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it rough one just the you know, the weather set
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  Speaker 1: at all. It was just dreary all the way around.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody was nobody was happy, Josh was hurt, missing throws,
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  Speaker 1: big turnovers, a game you'd like to see, you know,
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  Speaker 1: try to get the win going in and then this
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  Speaker 1: week's way more just kind of relaxed and rest everybody
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  Speaker 1: and we're setting in our spot. But I just you
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  Speaker 1: got to take glass half full. What did you learn
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  Speaker 1: from it? No, we're getting ready for the playoffs and
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  Speaker 1: pretty much, you know, eighty percent of that game was
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  Speaker 1: unaccepted if you're gonna move on, especially three games on
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  Speaker 1: the road this year. So hopefully that team, this team
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  Speaker 1: did learn and you know, we get used this week
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  Speaker 1: as kind of a makeshift by week to get healthy,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of guys are already out and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: a week and a half until we played for keeps.
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  Speaker 3: So yes, you know, And it's interesting when you speak
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  Speaker 3: about it that way because of the fact that like
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  Speaker 3: you're you know, you're you're right, Like it's the pressure
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  Speaker 3: cooker is about to turn up, you know, DG. And
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  Speaker 3: it's about to be that time of year where you know,
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  Speaker 3: the rubber is literally getting ready to meet the road.
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  Speaker 3: And when you talk about it, you know, I'm wondering,
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  Speaker 3: you know, as we transition. I don't know, like what
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  Speaker 3: the matchups that you would feel favorable about, but I
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  Speaker 3: know that I called w GR the other day and
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  Speaker 3: I was like, listen, I think that Jacksonville is the
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  Speaker 3: most complete team.
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  Speaker 4: I heard it earlier in the morning, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: I agree. I heard it.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, we had a couple of Nickel City Crew followers
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  Speaker 1: reach out to me and say, hey, I just did
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  Speaker 1: rob on gr oh Man.
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  Speaker 3: I called the Afternoon Man and I was like, listen,
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  Speaker 3: I you know, and and Show kind of dismissed it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, even dismiss it. But he said mostly that
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  Speaker 3: they don't want to see us either, and I can
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  Speaker 3: understand that. And that's exactly some of the sentiments DT
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  Speaker 3: that I have sent out this past week was that listen,
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  Speaker 3: I think that the Bills, I'm not scared of any
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  Speaker 3: AFC team that we have to possibly play. I think
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  Speaker 3: that we could beat them all. Unfortunately, I think that
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  Speaker 3: we could lose to them all as well.
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  Speaker 4: I think I can.
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  Speaker 3: I can come up with a scenario in my head
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  Speaker 3: almost for all of the teams outside of Pittsburgh where
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  Speaker 3: we would lose the game. And I think that that's
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  Speaker 3: the most unsettling part. I think I said that a
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  Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago, DT that it's the it's that
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  Speaker 3: dichotomy of we could beat any team, but we definitely
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  Speaker 3: it wouldn't surprise me if we went down to Jacksonville
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  Speaker 3: and loss, or we had to match up against with
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  Speaker 3: excuse me, match up again with Baltimore. And we lose,
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  Speaker 3: or we go to Foxborough and we you know, trying
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  Speaker 3: to be in a second time at their play you know,
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  Speaker 3: like it's it's it's it's the playoffs, man. The anxiety
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  Speaker 3: is what I live for. So I'm ready for this
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  Speaker 3: type of year, this time of year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know it. It's I think that you know,
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  Speaker 1: almost concern is cranked up a little this year because
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  Speaker 1: of the losses we've had, right, they haven't been like
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  Speaker 1: hard fought, you know loss Obviously the Eagles game was
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  Speaker 1: a one point loss, but it still was a horrible game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and a team that you know, you probably
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  Speaker 1: should have been at home when they didn't do anything
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  Speaker 1: in the second half, Like you got to you gotta
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  Speaker 1: find a way to pull that one out. But you
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  Speaker 1: know that the Houston loss where they get he gets
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  Speaker 1: to that day times and they can't move the ball.
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  Speaker 1: A kick return from Ray Davis saved us from you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of getting embarrassed a shitty Falcons team on Monday night,
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  Speaker 1: that Dolphins game where it was just brutal from from
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  Speaker 1: top to bottom. Those losses were like that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: what opens up to the concern, right, they're not you
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  Speaker 1: know it wasn't like they were only against good teams
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  Speaker 1: and you had an excuse. The excuses were unacceptable, And
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  Speaker 1: so yes, you could definitely lose any of these teams
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  Speaker 1: in the tournament coming up, because you know they're there
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  Speaker 1: for a reason. They are good. You know, the Jags
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  Speaker 1: are probably the most complete team. The Broncos have an
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  Speaker 1: outstanding defense, the Patriots probably have the MVP at quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously anybody out of that AFC North other than
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: the Browns, you know, would be would be somebody you'd
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  Speaker 1: be worried about losing to. But at with what Jobe said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they they got to play us too, and
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  Speaker 1: they you know, Josh Allen and the boys aren't the
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  Speaker 1: easiest matchup no matter what, even if they are struggling
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  Speaker 1: along the offense, even if you can run on them
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  Speaker 1: a little on defense. I I last year and the
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  Speaker 1: year prior and the year prior, in the years they
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  Speaker 1: were thirteen and three, they obviously showed they could lose
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  Speaker 1: to any of those teams too. It was mostly the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs every time, but they did lose to the Bengals
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  Speaker 1: once they did lose. You know, so even when we
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  Speaker 1: were lights out and crazy good and you know, nobody
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  Speaker 1: can stop us. We still showed we could lose to
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  Speaker 1: those teams, so yes, we definitely could lose to any
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  Speaker 1: of these teams, but I still think it's still our
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  Speaker 1: best shot compared to the previous year. So that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of where I'm at with it. I'm not just disregarding anybody,
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  Speaker 1: especially after what I've seen this team do this year,
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  Speaker 1: and I've seen what they can be capable of and
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  Speaker 1: I've seen what they can't be capable in some cases.
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  Speaker 1: And you know that that can't be capable results to
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  Speaker 1: a loss in any of the teams in the in
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  Speaker 1: the bracket coming up. I mean we've lost to we
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  Speaker 1: lost to one of them in Houston already and and
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  Speaker 1: in New England, so there's there's plenty of opportunity there.
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  Speaker 1: But I think it was we could lose to any
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  Speaker 1: of those teams in the previous years too, because we
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  Speaker 1: have even when we were the best team in thirteen
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  Speaker 1: and three and whatever. So that's that's what the playoffs is.
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  Speaker 1: But you've got to take the opportunity that's in front
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  Speaker 1: of you. And that's without any of those guys in
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  Speaker 1: with with Josh Allen kind of be underestimated if you will,
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  Speaker 1: right now by the rest of the league to go
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  Speaker 1: in there and slap some people around and you know,
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  Speaker 1: make that run.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's just interesting because you know, like
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  Speaker 3: some of the stuff that we talked about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: in the offseason, it's not you know, it's this is
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  Speaker 3: not the time to say, you know, and then then
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  Speaker 3: like I would, I would have paraded, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: but and I know that it's not just about the
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  Speaker 3: receiving corps, but I know that, you know a lot
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  Speaker 3: of it. Like I respect like danielro Losca heard him
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  Speaker 3: like just a couple of weeks ago, right before New
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  Speaker 3: Year's DT, and he was like, listen, the Bills have
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  Speaker 3: enough with their offensive line with James Cook, with the
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  Speaker 3: weapons he's like his longest Dalton Concaid's healthy for him, then,
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  Speaker 3: you know, And I'm like listening it.
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  Speaker 4: Up, like holy like does he not like so we're
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna hinge.
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  Speaker 2: This on Josh Allen at eighty six, who we can't
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 3: And it's just like I look at it and it's like, listen,
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  Speaker 3: these are going to be three road games that you've
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  Speaker 3: got to win, and I don't want it to all
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  Speaker 3: hinge on Dawson Knox. I also don't want it to
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  Speaker 3: all hinge on the running game, where if a team
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  Speaker 3: shuts down the run kind of like Philly, and I
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: know the Philly's got a great defensive line, but if
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  Speaker 3: a team shuts down I run, then it's over. Like
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  Speaker 3: I can't have that in the playoffs because you know,
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  Speaker 3: Charles Barkley, y'all gone fishing like there's no tomorrow. Like
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  Speaker 3: so I it's it's hard when you get into the
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  Speaker 3: tournament DT, and like I just I'm looking at all
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  Speaker 3: the type of tunch of holes in the team, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, those are some of the things that concerned
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  Speaker 3: me because I want to be able to see us
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  Speaker 3: pass it if we need to pass it. And I
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: get beaten and bludgeoned on Twitter on all those spaces
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  Speaker 3: where they say we can run all the way to
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  Speaker 3: Santa Clara. Maybe we can, DT, But what if a
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: team stops James cooking the offensive line. I've got to
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  Speaker 3: rely on Josh and that if that means putting on
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: the cape, then that means putting on the cape.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: It was what if it was different? What if if
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: switch out the Broncos for the Chiefs like everyone thought,
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Broncos you know, our wild Carter out in. The Chiefs
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: are in the division, the Joe Burrows in somehow Lamar wins,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: you know, wins North, which still might happen, Like what
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: if those guys were all still in it? And worst
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: the Bills are sitting in their exact same spot right
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: five losses going into the last week, the same type
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: of you know, same season. They've had the same losses
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: they've had and we're going into this tournament as the five,
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: six or seven with all those other guys in it.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: Where are we then? Are we way more scared and saying.
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: Well, we're real hard? Clift, you know, Cliff to g line.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: So I think it's you're always gonna find an argument
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: for it to be hard. You know, even if you're
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: the one seed through through all this and you know,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: well they're they they couldn't stop because realistically, you're, you know,
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: you're a few yards away from from winning, you know,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: one more game and the Patriots losing one and then
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: you you might have the opportunity for a one seed
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: with three losses or even four losses, and then it's
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: still basically the same team, you know, so it I
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: just think like we can find an argument that anybody
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: can beat us in any year and no matter what
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: who's in it and who's not in it. I think
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: if they do take away the run, we do have
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: that guy that can kind of change things around.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: And we've seen that. We've seen the.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Magic in the playoffs of Josh Allen and will we
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: see that again hopefully right and he just kind of
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: takes over and makes it happen if it has to
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: get to that point, you know, but you gotta confident
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: a team that you know is is strong. There are
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: flaws to it, for sure, but you have the you
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: have the catalyst, you have the nucleus, you have that
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: guy that that can do impossible And so I that's
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: that's kind of where I stand with it, Like, well,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: I can't get too scared because those other teams don't have.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: That, all right, I'll stand out of your way on that.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, we'll we'll talk about it much more next
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: week as we you know, get a little bit of
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: more crystallization and finalization on Monday of who.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: Are we playing?
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Where we're going with this uh Nickel City group going,
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, we are on the tailgate routine that we
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: We're gonna let you guys know because I think that
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: it's a situation where we're going to Jacksonville. We're gonna
• 17:45
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  Speaker 3: Listen, DT, It's it's more than likely. I mean, we've
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: got to have a couple of things go our way. Obviously,
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: you beat the Jets, that's easy, you should do that.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: But then they're talking about the different permanentations. DT, you've
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: got to have Houston lose or something like that, and
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: you've got to have the Chargers lose. Now, the Chargers
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: are supposed to be you know, rolling out Trey Lance.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: So there's a way that you can get to the six.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's really realistic that you get
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: to the five. If you don't get to the five
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: and you're the six or seven, as the kids say,
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: you know, this is probably it on Sunday DT.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: This is the end of the This is the end
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: of the ralph Man.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: And what a right of spend because it's been the
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: place that I know, it's been special to both of us.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I agree, I agree. I think you know, uh, Texans
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: playing starters going against Riley Leonard and Philip Rivers sitting down.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: You got Chargers not playing justin Herbert no tackles going
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: up against the Broncos who need the win to s
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: keep that one seat. And then you who know if
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: we're playing starters or not this week, you gotta you know,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: you might not beat the Jay If you do beat
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: the Jets, those two teams got to lose for you
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: to move anywhere. So this seven really most.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Likely, Yeah, you'll beat the Jets, but but yes, it
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: may not be worth the risk.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: I will you if Josh Allen plays the first snap
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: and leaves and Mitched tr Whisky comes in, like, I
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: don't know, the Jets should lose. You know that the
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: same thing happened last year and week Week eight team
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: with the Patriots. Joe Milton came in and let them
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: to victory and and it ruined their their draft stock.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, granted it didn't matter because they're this year,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: but the you know, don't I don't. I have really
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: kind of zero trust and Mitch Trubisky, right, so, I
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: think James Cook might get a little more burned to
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: get that rushing title type situation with Jonathan Taylor having
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: a heavy dose. What are sixty some yards ahead of them?
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: We're about forty something ahead of them, But we'll know
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: because of the fact that the Colts played before us,
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: so we're it because they flexed at the four twenty five.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: We'll know and the Bills offense will know what what
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: the what he needs?
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Jim Okay, So you know, I don't I think five's out,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: maybe the six and then so most likely they're saying
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: most then if Patriots say if they beat the.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they say that it's most likely either we're the
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: six and we're going to Jacksonville, or we're the seven
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: and we're going to place New England.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, New England.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I say it's more likely to be the seven, to
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: be honest, Rob, even if we win, I I, well,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I guess the Chargers would because then the Chargers lose.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: We win, we bounce the Chargers and we go six,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: they go seven.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then yep, correct, and that that's where Jacksonville.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: I think that that is the most likely.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: I think that's sure what the analytics say is the
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: most likely thing to happen.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: And if it's Jacksonville, then I'm ready, you know what
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: I mean.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Like in respects to the fact that I did call
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: up w J and I did say that the you know,
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: the the Jaguars were the most complete team I feel
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: in the AFC. That doesn't mean that Josh Allen can't
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: come and take care of business.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: I just it's all going to come down to me
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: for the offense, because.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: It seems like the defense is turning in a corner DT,
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: and I've got to give respective. You know, yeah, I
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: talk a lot of shit about but the DT, excuse me,
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: the defense looks like it's turning in a corner. So
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: if that's the case, then it's all on on Joe
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Brady and coming up with schemes and finding a way.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: You know, Brandon Cooks is relevant in the game last week,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: you know, make that happen in the playoffs.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: That's that's the type of stuff I need to see. DT.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I agree, And that's the defense Titans up.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: It feels like the offense takes step back, but you
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: know what better way to get back on step with
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the with the best quarterback in playoff history. As Mike
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Greenberg said this offseason.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Close absolutely right about it.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: DT, tell me your first and tell Nicol City crew
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: for the UH listeners who are new to us, what
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: is your your first and most fondest memory of of
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: the Ralph of rich Stadium, of high Mark, whatever you
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: want to call it. For me, it's always going to
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: be effectually known as the Ralph. That's how I grew up.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: I'm five six, seven and eight for the Super Bowl run,
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: so I'm a little bit over the older than DT.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: But DT, talk to the people about your first and
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: fondest memories of of the Ralph Man.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know we've told the story. Fell in
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: love with with the Bills as as as early as
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I could know what they were. My grandfather diehard fan.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: He had season tickets, and I got the I got
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the call to one of his games the season tickets.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: It was against the Detroit Lions. It was a it
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: was probably a November game. Uh. And because you know,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I kind of had a layer up a little, I
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: had a Bill's flag and I wore I put a
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: shoelace and wrapped around my next so it was like
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: a cape as the Bill's flag, and that's what I wore.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: The first game, we met up with the people my
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: grandpa would carpool with and in Jamestown, New York. We
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: get our breakfast in Aunt Millie's and the Silver Creek
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: and we'd hit Twin Oaks, do a little tailgating and
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: walk our way into the stadium. I remember walking through
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: for the first time that lot which is now the
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: new Stadium, which used to be you know, a parking lot,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: and seeing, you know, just the epicness of a Bill's tailgate.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: And it's it's not just the social media made us,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: made us new, but it was it's been like this
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: the whole time. Man there's videos in the Super Bowl
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: runs where people sitting in hot tubs in the middle
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: of want you know and everything, so it was always
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: like that. I remember, Uh, somebody must have been trying
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: to shot gun a beer something and missed, and this
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: beer was just laying on the concrete and it was
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: just shooting out like a like a fountains, just sitting there,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: just spraying, and we walked by it. And I went
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: to that stadium and we were in the season tickets
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: and there was a band performing at halftime. I don't
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: know if it was the UB band or some college
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: band in New York somewhere, and they performed at halftime,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: and then they left, and the security guard came and
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: got all the kids in the section and ushered us
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: all down and we got to sit in the front
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: row right in the end zone. They were in one
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: thirteen the season tickets, so it was right right to
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the right of the tunnel behind the goalposts there, and
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: we came down and we were able to sit in
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: the front row. My first game, I moved down there
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: and I think it was like jay Riemersma had a
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: touchdown right in front of me. And I remember watching
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: that game clock and just not wanting it. I was
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: hoping for all the TV timeouts, all the timeouts pass
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: only game. I didn't want that clock to tick down
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: at all. I wanted to stay in that stadium forever.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: And I knew I loved the Bills, but after going
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: to that first game, I was truly in love with them, man.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: And that was probably my first memory. A lot of
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: memory since, which I'm sure we'll get into, but that
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: was the first one, and I don't know, I was
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: definitely under ten years old, so we're talking well over
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: twenty years ago, and I remember it, you know, I'll
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: always remember it. Great death.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean that. That's I love when they
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: want to, they want to, they want Yeah, I mean
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: I love that, you know.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: I had My first time at the stadium was like
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: a preseason game, and it was with one of my
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: dad's work friends, you know what I mean. But like
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: I just always remember like how intense he was about
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: defense and he's yelling out, let's go d let's go
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: date and we were playing the Steelers and it was preseason,
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: and like that was the first time I had been
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: to the stadium and all it did for me DT
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: was it.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: Matched everything that hurt in the radio. My fondest memories.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: You guys can go back to the very first introduction
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: of Bicko City Crew, and I'm explaining who I am,
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, I like, I was a Van Miller baby,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Like you know what I mean, Like I'm five six,
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: seven and eight for the Super Bowl run and then
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: I'm a young black man in Buffalo that goes to
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: you know, like a black church on the East Side.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Like we are in church all day, motherfuck, Like we
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: are in church all day, like Sunday school, and like, yeah,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: by the time you get out of church, it's it's
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: late and you are listening it's already kicked off at
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: one o'clock DT, and you're listening to the Van Miller
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: And I'm in the car waiting for my mother to
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: get in the car, me and my dad and my brother.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: We're just yeah, that's how I experienced a Buffalo Bills
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: And as soon as I get home, you're listening to
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: those guys and then you turn on the TV and
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: you hook up with the you know, with the live broadcast,
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: and it was like, that's how I became a Bills mafia,
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: you know, fanatic and then yeah, being down here in Charlotte, DT,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: I missed the bills when I moved here, like I was,
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: I was scratching. I tell that story all the time
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: as a joke. I was scratching like a crack at it,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: and I was like, I need my bills. I moved
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: down here to Charlotte No. Six and oh nine. I
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: was like, there's no reason I should not be back
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: with the second cheapest season tickets in the league, and
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: marvel leav He's right, there's no place I'd rather be.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: When you call it home, DT, I don't know if
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: you saw it or not. I think I told you
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: about a pre show YouTube. Did a video forty five
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: minutes Buffalo Bill's about the stadium and like it made
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: me emotional at the end, like Steve Tasker made me emotional,
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Like he made me want to.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Like like this was home.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: And that's how I felt every time when you talk
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: about how you could take that deep breath at the
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: tailgate as soon as you get out of the car,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: and then you look around and you could smell the
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: charcoal and the fire, and you could see the stadium
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: in the back dround, like you felt so at home and.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: That's exactly how I felt.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: I would drive six hundred and fifty miles just to
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: experience that and then drive the other six to fifty back.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: It was it was the best. It was always the best.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I mean going through it here like obviously a lot
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: more recent memories because they they're just good now, you know,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: And I live in Buffalo, And that.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: Was during the drought.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Yes, I've gone a little more frequently, but you know,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: even during the drought, you know, there was there's some
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: great ones. You know. The one of the games I
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: went to in the transition of these season tickets I went,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: you know, I was I was out of college, didn't
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: have a job yet. I was helping with my with
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: my buddies, you know, landscaping paving company. You over that
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: summer going into the fall, we got tickets to the
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Vikings game and Sammy Watkins, Kyle Orton, U, Scott Chandler. Uh,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: and they go down and convert a fourth and twenty
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: three with Scott Chandler down the middle. Uh, come down.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I was in the end zone. They were coming to
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: opposite of the tunnel, and uh, Sammy Watkins with a
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: nice little three yard out route to win it. At
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: the buzzer U and that was that was a great,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: great one. And then my first game with the season
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: ticket with with Brandon and and Stephan up in up
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: in three twenty nine was Colt's opening opening day Tyrod
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: to Percy Harvin deep ball, Yeah, yep, right down that
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: And that was pre before we knew each other. And yeah,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: that that deep ball right and that was the end
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: zone right in front of us. And and and that
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: was I think, yep to the Then the perfect game,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: the perfect game was I'll I'll never forget that night,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: being literally negative degrees in there, and yeah, just the party, man,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: the party was amazing. It was just the whole everyone
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: just happy, having a good time. The music kept going
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: and we just kept scoring. It was cold and it
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: was perfect. The uh, the the divisional game last year
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: against the Ravens, snow just kind of brushed the field.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: It wasn't a snow game. It was just like just
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: a brush like yeah, I'm standing there kind of you know,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: like getting emotional because it was just like it like
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: if you drew a picture of like football and meaning
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: and family and the playoffs, and it was like it
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: was that, you know, the lights vibrant and radiating, that
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: snow just kind of touching the field, and obviously an
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: epic game and a great win to advance last year
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: the first I took my mom to our first game
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: ever last year against the Titans, and that and that flyover,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: and I remember her and I just having a great,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: you know, emotional moment together when those planes went over.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: And you know how beautiful it isn't there? And I mean, shit, Rob,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I've basically sat everywhere in that place, you know, from
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: a sweet one time with Dakwan Jones to the three
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: everywhere in the three hundreds, to a few times in
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: the club to uh you know with one O four
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: one O four with you to the rock pile, uh
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: to I scored those fifty yard tickets at the Broncos
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: game last year, just on a whim Brett and the
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Boys in one twenty nine. Been on that five yard line,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: been in the back end zones, been been everywhere. Man's
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: been everywhere all over that stadium. And you know, saw
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: some good ones. Really saw way more good ones than
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: bad ones.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Rob.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: I really, you know, I've seen them lose, you know
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: for sure, But I I'm like the bad Colts lost
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: the bad Eagles lost. I was from both of those,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: but I mean the positivity even during the drought. There
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: was like a time where I was going to like
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: my I think it was like my tenth game I
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: went to before that, I was like nine and zero
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: going during the drought, and then they lost to the
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Dolphins one and that was the first time I kind
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: of saw squish the fish and the guy had like
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: literally a dolphin, like he was like pulling with a
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: string and everyone was jumping on it as he was walking.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: And they lost that. But like I yeah, and then
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I went to way more but good games and losses
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: even during the drought, and obviously recently, you know, there's
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: been a lot more wins and losses. Anyway, last year
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: they didn't lose at home at all, right, But yeah, countless,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: countless memories, all good ones, beautiful beautiful place. Man.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's funny because and then that's where
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: you can tell our age gap. And I think that
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: that's how it is with all of the Bills Mafia,
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Like you can always tell what fan was, what fan,
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: excuse me is from what era, because like I was,
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: I was the season ticket holder when you know throughout
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: when the drought was just getting was in its infancy
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: and we didn't even really know like is.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: This thing growing? Like is this an on my neck?
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Like you're asking your significant other, like it's something you know,
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: and it's one of those funny things. So like you know,
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: I've went through it, you know, all where Brady is
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: beating our heads in every year and I'm driving up,
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: you know, because O six is a revelation. O six
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: was the fiftieth anniversary, so there was a chance that
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: like the drought was still early.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: Where we thought like, Okay, this is just aberration.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Now we're gonna you know what I mean, get our
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: quarterback and get it, get it going. And it just
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: didn't work out that way. So I've been a part
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: of it since nine. And I mean, DT, it's funny
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: that you talk about like all of the different memories
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: because I can remember great ones and not so great ones,
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: but one thing that has always been great DT, and
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: I think that it's something that is I guess we're
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: really lucky to keep and hold on too.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: It's the tailgating DT. Like the tailgate scene is not changing.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: I will agree with you know a lot of bills
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: mafia that likes that they wanted.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: I wanted the stadium downtown.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: I wanted a dome once, but Gula wasn't building a
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: dome and we weren't paying for it, and help him
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: pay for the dome. Then I let those dreams go,
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: and the second best choice would have been across the
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: street where it is. So I'm happy that, like the
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: tailgate scene is all, it's all going to be the
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: same man, And I think that that's kind of such.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, let's let's talk about that.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: We are professional tailgaters rop and that takes that takes
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: reps and shout out to the entire crew top to bottom,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: you know, from the start, and how we became friends
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: and and you know and how close we are with
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: with everyone in that in that squad. And now you know,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: we got the we got the new guys, the dump
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: truck juniors and Johnny coming in and they were us,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: you know, they were they were me Brandon and Stephan
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: ten years ago and now they're they're carrying it in
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: and we just keep growing and getting better. And yeah,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: the club dubbed the tents up and Kenny with the
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Kenny with the good smoke and uh Ben like blows
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: anybody's speaker out out of no.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: He told them the truth.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Shout out to tokayleab Fife, shout out to to Anak
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: because they put out their the little Instagram clips uh
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: and they had the whole tailgate you know scene, and
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: it was like this whole running thing and it was
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: it was really.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: Well done, and it reminded me like, you know the.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Grass slots, Like that's that's where like that's where it
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: all was, you know that.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: DT's right, that's where we met.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: We met in the grass slots and it was a
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: situation where we didn't know each other per se beforehand,
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: but then it just kind of all worked out where
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: the mafia means family and and DT, You're absolutely right.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: I was telling them that like the Anak and like
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Kayla. They put out like
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: the little Instagram thing and it was like all this
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: just running and.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: I'm like, man, that the tailgate right there.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: California Southwestern grass slots we do it big every every
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, it was the best place to be. There
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: was no place that I wanted to be in America
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: in the world. On a Sunday like Sunday morning, like
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: that's where I wanted to be right there.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: And I'm glad we we finally you know, joined up
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: as a you know, because I always remember like i'd
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: have to like split my time once. Once we became friends,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I did my thing. I worked over with you guys,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: you know in my shotguns.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: My forces like Bultron, like Captain Planet.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: And just just made us unstoppable force. And there there's
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: some good tail I mean we you know, I put
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: us up there with the best of them, for sure,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: but there's some good ones in our lot. I mean,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Elvis is in our lot, and he's there every time
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I'm there, like early early, if I'm like riding with
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Benanana k or something and where they're literally before sunrise,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: he's there too. You know, a lot of a lot
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: of good things with that. And before everyone, you know,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: wades into the the main attraction. Uh, the tailgate's great.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: I've never had a bad bad time. But the coldest,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: the rainiest, the tailgate never is the issue, right, it's
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: always your little you might be a little cold in
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: the game, but I've never like been uncomfortable, you know,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: in a tailgate setting, no matter what the elements are,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: no matter what time of year, no matter who we
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: were playing, there's always even when we were booty cheeks,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: it was still like, okay, you never know, we might
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: we might have a shot today against the Arizona Cardinals
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: who are pulling off.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: Up there every year.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I knew we had a chance to win every
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: game and that that's what made it, what what made
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: it beautiful. And you kind of knew they they always
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: kind of kept it close, at least at home. And yeah,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: been everywhere in that stadium. One time, I I'll you know,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: I'll tell this story too. I I uh sliced it
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: in my in my prime days when you know, when
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: I was when I was actually the dump truck and
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: you know, I would uh basically make money on beating
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: people in shotguns because you know I was, I was
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: so fast and I got a little cocky, and you know,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: I was doing a bare hand and you know, thinking
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: thinking I was a professional, and I got my finger.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Oh I got my finger real bad, and there's still
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: a yeah right right on the inside there you can
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: see the scar. Got it real bad. And obviously I
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: had a couple, you know couple that day, so it
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: was it wasn't stopping too quick, boles are stopping too quick.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: And there just was who was next to us, just randomly,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: this group of ladies that were there on this girl's
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: bachelorette party. She wanted to go to a Bills game.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: And there's just like twenty twenty you know, ladies next
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: to us. And they had a bag, a diaper bag
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: with them, and she duct taped the diaper to my finger.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: And because I was like, I'm not missing the game.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: It was early season against the Broncos. It was like
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: one hundred and ten degrees. I think it was like
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: week two maybe, and I was like, I'm not missing
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: the game. So I get up, you know, we get
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: we go through the gate and I look down and
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: it's coming through the diaper, like gets red through the diaper.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: So I'm like, oh, this this ain't good. You know
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: this it's coming through the diaper. I've been walking, you know,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: I've had a few today. I gotta probably get this
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: looked at. I wind up in like the medical area
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: underneath the stadium, and yeah, yeah, I go in there
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: and like I'm all nervous. It's like pre game. I'm
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: all nervous. They're like, oh, you know, and so I
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: give a shout out to I don't know if he's listening,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: but shout out to my old roommate and Syracuse, my
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: college boy Mark for Boney. I was so nervous that
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: I was gonna get like in trouble or something. So
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: I gave him there, I gave his name. They're like,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: I did my name. So I give him. I give
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: him his information, and I go in and they stitch
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: me up real quick, put some glue on it, and
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: they're like, all right about no more, no more beers today.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: And I said, no problem, and I was. I was
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: stitched up, ready to go, and I was in my
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: seat before before kickoff kick and uh, for Bony, never
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: got a build, never got a letter. So it was
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: you know, so if you ever need a medical something medical, uh,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: just hold until you go to a Bills game and
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: then go underneath, give him a fake name and they'll
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: fix it right up for you. Uh. So, Yeah, I've
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: been under the stadium, in the stadium, sat everywhere you
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: could sit in the stadium. Had Jim Kelly football camp
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: as a kid, and we do. We do lunch in
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: the M and T suite and then we'd have practice
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: out on the stadium. Uh, GP lost and gets drafted.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: I picked him off in linebacker drills and was like, man,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: this guy kind of sucks. Uh Jim Kelly, Uh, I
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: one of my worst memories. I was I thought I
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: was a wide receiver back then, and we were running,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: you know, doing doing drills and he popped over and
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: he's like, let me get a rep. And it just
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: happened to be the rep I was up on and
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: I beat my guy on the im. I'm a boundary guy.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Beat my guy going right at one oh four, right
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: into that corner, that end zone wide open. I'm running
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: a great route. Jim. Jim sees me, throws up, throws
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: up a lob ball to me, and I went against
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: all you know things I was supposed to do. Just
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: keep running it with a landed right in my hands
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: and I turned around and it went right over my head.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: You could tell. Jim Kelly was like, come on, man,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: keep keep running. I would have hit you perfect and
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: I'll never forget that. But that was in the stadium,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: and uh, you know so, man, I just so many memories.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Even last year, Brandon, they did the season ticket, Uh
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: like ten years a season. So Brandon couldn't make it,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: so he gave me the like the tour, and I
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: went with my mother the day before. I took her
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: to the first game, and the tour was cool, like
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: seeing you know, the intricate sees of that stadium in
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: the and outs and where the where the press people
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: sit and you know, all that stuff is kind of
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: cool stuff that I've been in that stadium so many
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: times but never seen like this side of it. Right,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: So yeah, just awesome, man. I I yeah, I'm gonna
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: get emotional, like every everything is, you know, is good.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: I the only like, not too many bad memories. The
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: worst memories is if they lost, but like me personally
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: having a bad time or something bad happening to me,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: you know, never happened. Even blew out my knee a
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: few weeks ago in there, and it was still a
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: good game. Josh Allen scored six touchdowns and they beat
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: the Bucks. So it's just it's, uh, yeah, it's great
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: all over. Man. It's it's been a good ride.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: It's been a great ride, you know, Like I you know,
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: when I think about I can't top you, I'm not
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: trying to top you or anything like that, because those
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: are some crazy great stories, you know, Like I remember
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: so many you know stories, you know, A lot of
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: them were a you know, shout out, that's man Ace,
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: and like, you know, I remember the game he missed
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: like six members. It was six y three Cleveland game
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: that was like remember at home, and like that was
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: like the word I think Derek Anderson or so. I
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: don't even know who the quarterback was, but it was
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: really really bad. It was sixty three Cleveland and I
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: remember that like like Ace was like out of commission
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: and like he was not coming in the stadium, and
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: I like left his ticket that was back in the day,
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: some ticket steps and I like left of his ticket
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: in my car, and he's got his leg outside of
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: my car door, you know what I mean, And like
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: the windows rolled down and I'm like, listen, man, you
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: need to get it together, like we're all leaving right now.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: He's like, I'm gonna meet you, and I want to
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: meet you in there.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: And I just remember always looking over my shoulder like
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: to see if he was there, and he would he
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: never he never showed up. I stayed until pretty much,
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: uh the entire game, and it was it was like
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: a horrible experience, but like it like brought us together
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: because for the fact that I was always able to
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: talk shit like forever then, I'm like, like it was
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: always something I was always able to use that trump
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: card and I never used to lose any arguments after that.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Everybody, everybody as one of those friends that I couldn't
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: make it into the Bills game. You know, somebody was
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: friends with that dude that jumped out of the porta
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: potty into the pit a couple of years ago. You know,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: every everybody's everybody's got a story and a friend for sure.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: I you know, I always talk about it. Robbie and
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: I we pride ourselves of being professional tailgaters. That's term
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: is like true, Like I can look at for a
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: one o'clock game, I can look at my watch and
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: know exactly where I need to be. You know, I
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: need to turn it up a little. I've been talking
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: too much. It's it's time sticking. I need to turn
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: it up. Damn. I'm a little I'm a little wobbly.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: I'm a little wobbly and still seeing my breath out here,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, yeah, I get a little get some
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: ribs and but I'm gonna get in that stadium, you know,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: so that I you know, knock on wood there watching.
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: The other people that cannot handle and they just I'm like.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Last year, you know, not to call my mother this
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: this she I give her a lot of credit, but
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: you know, she it was her first game, first tailgate,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: so she's you know, it's overwhelming and everything's around her,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: and then everyone starts hearing, oh, your first game, do
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: a shot with us, Let's do this, let's do this,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: and then you know, it's nine o'clock. My mother, you know,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: not not a big lady, not a big lady, and
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: I start kind of feeling it with her. So I'm like, hey, listen,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: this is it's a marathon here. You're with the professional.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: I'm not you know, I'm not yelling at you telling
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: you what to do or not do. But you know,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: if you want to make it in there and enjoy
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: this thing, you want to make it in there and
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: enjoy this thing, it's a soon. So you know, follow
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: me and we'll get it. But yeah, it's it's it's
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: not it's it's a true it's a true thing that
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: you got to know what you're doing out there. Rob
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: and uh, the beauty of getting a lot of reps
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: is is we did and we did it right every time.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Uh and and God bless everybody for that.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, man, shout out to Bills Mafia tonight. This is
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: such a nostalgic night. Shout out to nicol City crew.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: You know, DT, I started this podcast and you know
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: that the literal first episode was minus five degrees, you know,
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: beloved and you know, explanationship point question mark, and like
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: it was funny because I mean you listen back to
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: that show, like it doesn't even sound anywhere close to
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: the same, but it's funny how far we've come.
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: DT.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: We're in season five, like next season, we'll be in
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: season six before like and it's just like a lot
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: has come in that stadium and a lot has happened,
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: and like I remember, and that's probably like my that
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: is my fifty one to three.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: They asked on the radio this morning, they're like, if
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: you could transport yourself to any you know, Bills game
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: home game in history, where would you go? And like,
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: you know, I, you know, I have media. I was like,
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: fifty one to three, Like that's my that's my you know,
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: my Bill's you know, dream is like to be able
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: to be able to be old enough to you know,
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: feel it and to you know what I mean, like
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: the guys in the dakuzie and just all of it,
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean.
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: I was five, six of it and eight.
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: You don't get a I just remember that we weren't
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: going to church that day, and then my mom let
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: us get candy from Webmins and we getting you know
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: what I mean, a whole bunch of you know what
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, Eminem's and stuff like that, and like that
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: was the biggest thing. And then remembering Scott Norwood's kick
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: and missing it. That's like the jog memories of all
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: of those Super Bowls. It's just like, we don't have
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: to go to this, We don't have to go to
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: church that day, and we get candy. My momlets just
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: get candy that day, and like DT it was.
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: It's been crazy.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: That was probably my favorite time being in the stadium
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: and was just like it was cold. It was anticipated
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: to be cold, but I promise you it was like
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: the third quarter before I even realized I was cold
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: because I was having so much fun. I mean, no punts, touchdowns,
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: every possession. It was I called the perfection in the park.
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: I called first.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: The first Tundy was right in front of you. In
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: one oh four.
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: I literally, yo, So that's COVID time, so don't forget
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: that that's post COVID. So everybody had to have a
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: card or something like that. So Bill's mofi, you already
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: know how we we get down. We'll make sure that
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: we get in the stadium. By the time that the
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: actual fireworks were going off after the anthem, it was
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: already dark. So then they've got cops out there with
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: the flashlights of sheriffs and that, and eventually they're just
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: like just.
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: Go like you know what I mean, Like they're not
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: trying to be dicks, and like he was out of
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: the state, like you know what I mean, Like everybody's rushing.
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: I ran full speed after I got down those stairs.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: You go down the stairs and then and then everything
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: else is on a ramp, and I can feel good
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: about my speed on the ramp, not stairs. I'm not
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: trying to bust my ass on the first out of
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: stairs coming in. But yeah, after I got to the stairs,
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: we ran and Josh Allen was scrambling out to the
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: right and passed to the dalson Knox for that first touchdown,
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: and that's my first Instagram shout.
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: Out to my boy Dion the route, like that's my first.
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: He helped me with my first Nickel City Crew Instagram
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: post and it.
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: Was like a compilation of like highlights.
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: And that was the first time I ran into the
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: stadium at my seat and Josh Allen threw the ball
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: right to Dawson Knox right in front of my seats.
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: Shout out to Section one O four.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's awesome. I that just sparked one, you
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: know for me still pre this is drought time. I
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: think it's like the first year they have Thursday night
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: football and we got we're hosting Dolphins, and I lived in,
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: I was in I was still in college and and yeah,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: and me and the boys. Uh, he came out that day,
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: tailgated and same deal. We were a little late getting in.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: We didn't know the you know, procedure back then, what
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: time you had to leave to get into your seat
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: at the right time, any of that. We're getting in
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: a little late. And I remember I bought a hoodie.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: It would by one of the peddlers there right on
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: a habit one of those like you know, non like
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: one of those makeshift cookies and it had like CJ.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: Spiller on it or something, and I'm coming down I was.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: I was in not in one o four, but I
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: was on the other side. I was the same end zone,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: just on the other side of the goal post. M
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: h whatever that was. We were down there. We were like
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: roll three or four and was it Roscoe Parish.
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: It might have been.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: Roscoe Parish number eleven.
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Roscoe Parish.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: Its parish coming returning, returning a punt uh, And we
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: were coming same deal. We were walking down down the
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: stairs into the seat and he returned that punt right
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: at the whole way, right into that end zone. And
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: I was going nuts. We were celebrating first quarter ends.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: I feel in my the hoodie pocket I bought my
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: phone gone not in the not in the buddy pocket,
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh shoot. And you know, obviously looking
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: all over, looking on the ground, there are thousands of
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: people ships everywhere. It's dark out. I'm you know, I've
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: had a few, and I'm like, you know, I shoot
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: like I'm gonna And this was like a series in
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: my college career. I was just blowing through phones like
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: it was horrible, Like I kept breaking one. I lost one.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: I had my mom's pink motoroable razor at one point
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: because my friends were like, we're not getting you any
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: more phones, like this is ridiculous. Then they bought me
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: an indestructible phone, which was like that was a bad idea,
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: because what's the first thing a college kid's gonna do
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: when they have an indestructible phone. I try to try
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: to destruct it, uh, and it it is not indestructible.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: It was destructed. And whatever phone I had at the time,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: I'm gone, and I'm freaking out. I'm like, oh no,
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: and like I was like, we're having such a good night,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: We're enjoying it. And now I lost my phone and
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: I'm just looking looking and can't find it. I'm texting
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: my mom off Noah. Noah's with me. I'm texting my
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: mom off Noah's phone, like hey, I lost my phone.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: I'll call you later. And then I go out to
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: the bathroom. I come back in and I come in
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: the wrong, you know section, because it wasn't our season,
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: see it was before seasons anything like that. I came
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: in the wrong section. So I came the section over
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: and I'm going walking down, walking down, and I realized.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: I was like, I was like, oh, I was like,
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: oh shit, I'm over there. And I go to like
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: go across the road and I it's just like a
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: shine catches my peripheral out and it's like jammed up
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: underneath the a seat. Is my phone sitting there? All good,
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: not broken, Eddy. It's a section over underneath the bleacher seat.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: Like like an hour later, you know, I just randomly
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: find it. It was incredible, how that how that happen?
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: But yeah, Roscoe Paris brings it back right in front
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: of us punt return. They beat the they beat the
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Dolphins on that Thursday night and I found my phone.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: That was that was crazy.
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: I love that story. Yeah, that's a good one.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: I mean I remember, you know for sure, as we
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: wrap up tonight, I remember, you know, like you know
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: Pancake House DT and like watching that like you when
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: you you'll see it when you watch that YouTube thing
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: from the bills, like it's emotional like and like they
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: you know, everybody talks about how like how much emotion
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: was in that building and stuff like that, and you
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: know nicholsony Crew DT. And I you know, I had
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: my I had my kings, my oldest two Kings, Bobby
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: and they on their first This was the first ever
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: regular season game. We've been to many of the you know,
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: the preseason kidsday games, but this was the first one
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: regular season. I always told them, I'm like, I need
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: to wait till they're like old enough where like if
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: something goes crazy, you know, or people talking crazy, they're
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: not going to look at me like, oh my gosh, Dad, did.
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: You hear that? Man? Like, you know, I mean, nothing
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: crazy like that. Like they I talked.
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: Worse than some of these people, but like, you know
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: what I mean, you might see some shit or you
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: might hear some shit. And I wanted them to be
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: with a handle it. So they came a couple of
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: years ago and we met up with DT. I picked
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: him up and we went to the pancake house. Now
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: there's only two that I know of in Buffalo, DT
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: just you know, Nichol City Crew.
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: That's what I grew up on. I grew up in,
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: you know, in Star Pointing.
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: Then when we moved to Williamsville, Williamsville Pancake House on
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: Main Street, Well there's another one that I didn't know
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: that there was another one in Orchard Park, right up
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: the road from the stadium and DT we had.
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: Breakfast and we're leaving. We had a great breakfast.
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: DT crushed some pancakes, everybody crushing sausages and eggs, and
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: we're getting moving and you know, just the mafia all
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: throughout the entire pancake house. And we leave and we're
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: headed up I'm abbot Southwestern. Excuse me, We're headed up Southwestern.
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: And you know, DT just goes to the boys and
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: he's like, listen, fellas, He's like, I feel a I
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: feel a I feel a kick return today.
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: Know, And I'm like, I get out of here, like
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: I'll get out, you know what I mean.
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: And I'm totally not giving DT any credence or anything
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: So we get into the stadium. It's their first game.
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: We got the you know, we make.
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: Sure that we we're again tailgate professionals, like DT said,
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: we were.
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm a dad, I'm a dad on duty.
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: I'm making sure that I'm staying respectful.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: And we had a great tailgate, the boys catching footballs
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: and stuff like that. They're running around, We're going to
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: the stadium, they catch the pregame and.
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: Then all of a sudden, I mean, DT ain't lyon.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: It was a situation where DT, I couldn't even believe
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: it at and and Hines is coming to us. So
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: when I watched the little YouTube thing today that's like
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: that made me like there was two times I got emotional.
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: I got emotional watching that, and then I got emotion
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: at the end Steve Tasker, just like the way he
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: closed out that shit. After forty five minutes of all
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: this nostalgia hitting you in your bill's soul and punching
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: it like you know, to be Mike Tyson in the
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: ribcage of your bill soul. I broke down at the
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: end of the way Steve Tasker was describing it and
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: and DT that was that was special though, because Heines
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: is running at.
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: Us, and all I could do was look back at myself.
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: I was like uncle DT. He called it, he called it,
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: he called.
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: It, and I could I just d T. I'll I'll
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: never forget that for the for the rest of my
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: life and my bills. So it's etched in like like
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: the like.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: The that that was so awesome, man, it.
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: Was really I couldn't even believe that it was really happening.
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: I couldn't believe I call it.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: I I even I I d M. I'm a little
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: you know, offended, uh name Hines.
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: He can't.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's a famous running back, but he can't
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: be getting like thousands of d ms a day, right,
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: And I d M him night before and I said,
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: I'm house. I said, I d M him. I have
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: the time stamp and everything right this DS, I said,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: I said, you're gonna get house call tomorrow. I'm calling house.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: And then that's kind of what made me like pumped
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: up about it to you know, tell the boys like, yo,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: I think I'm I'm feeling.
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: That makes the story better. I didn't know that.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, the night before, you I thought he would,
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: you know, hit me back on that and be like,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: damn you thanks man. Yeah, you know you're right, but
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: you know, a house call. Yeah, And I remember that's
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: the first thing I thought of when he when he
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: started to break I was sitting with Ben and Anna
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Ka and in their seats and and he broke it
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: away from us, and I said, oh, he's going, he's going.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: And then he took it and you called me and
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: you can't you know, the services all in the stadium
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: and you're like you called it, I just go house, house, house, house, house.
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: From across the stadium. Yeah, I just I looked back
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: at you know what I mean, we were there and that.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Was I love that, man. I'm glad the boys got
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: to experience that one too. And yeah, that was that
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: was a great one.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: That was a great because we split because it was me,
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: you and then Greg and you know, me and my
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: cousin Greg, you know what I mean, and so my
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: you know, my cousin Greg and I sat with the
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: boys and then you went across the way with and them.
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: But like breakfast, we had a great.
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: Breakfast and you said it on the ride over, and
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: I just I look back at them, like, can you
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: I can't believe what just happened?
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: Can you believe it?
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: And it was It's a memory that I'll never forget
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: for sure. I mean, what can you what can you say?
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: Man?
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: Ralph was saying to open nineteen seventy three, it's literally
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: the house that OJ built.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: I know that.
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I was happy that the YouTube things showed a
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: little bit of OJ.
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: I've got, you know, no type of comments on anything
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: other than these guys when it comes to what.
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: They do on the field, like it's the athlete, Like
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: we don't know what all these guys do and women do.
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: In their lives as personal on the personal lives of
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: athletes like or entertainers, like that's what they are, Like
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: I stay out of that. Oj was one of the
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: greatest running backs of all time. He happened to be
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: a Buffalo Bill and it was the house that he built,
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: and then so many memories from there, like.
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: Jim Kelly didn't even want to come dt.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: To buffal up to play, like he played in the
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: USFL for the Houston Gables that they folded with Donald
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: Trump that league, and like he had to play in
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: the NFL, like he had to come if he wanted
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: to continue his playing professional.
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: Career, and like it was off and run since then.
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: You know, Bruce Smith in eighty five right behind me,
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: bad man. You know you got Thurman, I mean Andre,
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: you know, shout out to Marv Levy, Bill Polly and
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: those guys made memories and they shaped you know who
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: we are now and then and you know, respect respect to.
• 56:18
  Speaker 4: To McDermott and be for regular drought. The drop should
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: have never been as long as it was.
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: So that's why I'm always hesitant to poor and heap
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: on praise that it should have been done, you know
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: what I mean years ago, wreck should have broke it,
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: or you know, Malarkey was supposed to break it the
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: year that we played the Pittsburgh backups.
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: Like that.
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: It wasn't it wasn't supposed to go that long. But irregardless,
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: I'm happy that it's gone. I'm so happy and thankful
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: for Terry Pagoula and his family and shout out and
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: you know, blessings to Kim that she always getspected the
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: best health that she can be and and they kept
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: the bills here in DT and that that that means
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: a lot, man, it does.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: Yees, And we're you know, yes, like we you know
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: we I was your little.
• 57:00
  Speaker 4: Because I.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: Like it means everything, oh for sure, for sure. And
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: I mean we you were talking about, I mean if
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: we missed, we kind of missed that first glory stage,
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: suffered through it a little bit, and now we're kind
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: of in the second glory phase. But we are in that,
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: you know, in that rare like people were in that
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: rare part where they they started coming in in the
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: eighties and then they saw them get really good and
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: and then and then the tail end of their fan
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: hood was the drought and kind of opposite for us.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: The beginning was the drought and then it transitioned to
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: you know, to being good, and then we're gonna kind
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: of get the we're gonna get a taste of the
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: both the stadiums. There's there's that group of people that
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: went from the rock Pile to the Ralph, you know,
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: to get it started, and now that's us now right,
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: We're going from the Ralph over to over to the
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: new high Mark and we'll be able to tell stories
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: of of both of them, you know as we go.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: We're still young enough where we will have a few
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: games over in that new place hopefully and uh, you know,
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: hopefully the first one next year is that Thursday night
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: matchup and they're dropping that band down and I'm crying
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: like a baby as as they're looking up at it,
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: and you know, know we did it and how picture
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: perfect would that be? But yeah, wow, yeah, and they
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: just keep coming like those obviously the quick ones that
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: are in my memory. But now, like you, if i'd
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: like really sat here and think about it, like there's
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: just hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of little nuances of
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: that place and that stadium and funny things you've seen,
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: and you know, compassion you've seen, and you know the
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: bad things mixed with the good things, and how it
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: all is won and uh yeah, the wow, yeah, it
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: really does it. I knew it was coming, you know,
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: you knew it. It's coming all year, but now it's
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: actually here and it is going to be the last
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: time they roll out in that field. And I've been
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: watching the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this this documentary on Amazon
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: Prime and it's basically just a cool like it's a
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: it's called Raise the Flag Bucks or something, and it's
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: just their whole team history. And I was always kind
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: of interested in them. I like the you know, like
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: that like that first that John Gruden super Bowl team
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: was always fun. I remember like playing with them and
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: Madden back in the day. I was always a bill saying, but.
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: You know, I.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: And I didn't really know, you know, And they talked
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: about how they're an expansion team and how they were
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: literally horrible for years and then they finally got a
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: quarterback and they didn't pay them, and then then then
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: finally they broke through and got that first super Bowl
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: and they beat the Eagles. The year they got their
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, they beat the Eagles in the NFC Championship
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: kind of a similar to like a to like a
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: Bills Chiefs. You know, they were playing the Eagles every
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: year in the playoffs, and the Eagles would beat them
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: every year. And it was like the the you know,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: the the the Boogeyman was the Eagles and Donovan McNabb
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: and Andy Reid and and they took down the Eagles
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: in the Link the last game at not the Link
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: the war what was there? What was the Eagles old
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: field Veterans Veterans Stadium. They took down the Eagles in
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: in the NFC Championship game, in the last game of
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: Veterans Stadium. They beat the Eagles lost last game in
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: that career. The Eagles lost to the Bucks and went
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: out and win the Super Bowl. And so now you
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: know me, the homer and optimist and glass half full
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: that I am, I'm thinking, like, good, we're not gonna
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: host that a SC championship game. So we can't get
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: beat in the last game you know of the and
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: ruin our season. No matter what happened Sunday, we win
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: or lose against the Jets, We're still playing the next week,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: so that's not gonna happen. But going on the road,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: taking a team out, closing their stadium with a victory
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: and then going on to win the super Bowl, you know,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: the Bills closing their stadium and then going on to
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: win the super Bowl, and then hanging that banner. The
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: first thing you do in that new stadium is hanging
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: that banner, Like that's just gonna change all the curse talk,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: the Buffalo's shit talk, everything why we can't get it done,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: and we raise a banner in the new stadium. All
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: the mojo is good after that. And I hope it's
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: years and years and years post Josh Allen of success
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: for this team. So yeah, it's gonna be emotional day Sunday,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: but a beautiful one. Like I said, I you know,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: there's even during the seventh and that's what I think.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: The beauty of this whole thing is rob Like even
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: with all that BS, Like, yes, the last seven eight
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: years have been awesome. They barely lose at home. It's great,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: we beat the breaks off people. Josh Allaen's a superstar.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: That's all fun, Primetime, all that shit. But even during
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: those bad years, and that drought and going to all
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: those games, like to rarely have a bad experience in
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: that place just shows the you know, it shows how
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: sweet it is, man, how sweet it is.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's all of it. It's the tailgating, it's
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 4: the game. It's how many times we go out there.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: And the tailgate was the bulls, you know, like we were.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: More focused on that and enjoying that because we knew
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: were getting ready to get our head stomped when we
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: walked into the stadium.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: But we're still coming and we're still showing up.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: And I think that that's what makes you know, I
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: don't think I know that that's what makes Bills Mafia
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: so special, is that we still show up for our team.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: Josh Allen talked about it when he first came here
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: about how they were you know what I mean. We're
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: here when the team was shitting you know what I mean,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: Like all of the all of the guys have talked
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: about it because of the fact that it's just who
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: we are and the Ralph is a big, a big
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: part of it because that was our communal place, that
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: was our church, you know what I mean. For lack
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: of a better term, that was our sanctuary, uh, the
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: place that we could all come and that was all races.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: That was all you know what I mean, all creeds.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: We're not one of We're not Philly, we're not San
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: Francisco or the Raiders where we're fighting amongst each others
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: and all these different type of fights breaking not sure
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: guys get fucked up in the stadium and fights break out,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: But it wasn't like it's not like you know what
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, Yeah, it's not. It's not always you know,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: one of those crazy things. But that's what we're known
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: for anything like that. If anything, we're known for our hospitality.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: You come through our tailgates with respect. We're feeding you,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: we're giving you drinks.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: We want to we want to show off like how
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: great it is.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, that's what makes Bills Mafia, you know, I
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: mean so wonderful, is the fact that we extend that
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: type of love to all of the NFL because we're
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: just happy to have our bills and we're happy that
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: you're here, and we hope that we beat your face
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 3: in today and your quarterback sucks and if it's Brady,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: we'll really let you hear it. So like that's how
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: it was for me growing up DT for sure, after
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: the Super Bowl run, and I'm just I'm happy that
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: we met.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 4: I'm happy that we met.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 3: There, you know what I mean, and that that kind
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: of crystallized our friendship and let us on our way
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: here Nicol City crew, we really appreciate tonight.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: We've gone over, but we I mean we could.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: I could sit here all night literally and talk about
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: games and like the worst game I was at and
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, all the time, I mean DT,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: the power went out one week, the DT.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 4: Are there with our friend with our little girlies.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: The power goes out La Danny and Tomlinson, Philip Rivers
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 3: and power just goes out.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 4: I don't know what, but power went out. Like we've
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: been at that.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: We've just been like all over that stadium, like I
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: mean Monday night football where we play the Cowboys and
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: that's Romo.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 4: Like what these picks.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: I'm in the upper deck, right corner, you know what
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, to the left of the tunnel, totally diagonal
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: from my season tickets, you know what I mean.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 4: I didn't even have season tickets back and like, yeah, man,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 4: like that night it was shitty that we lost.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: And then I'm with my ex wife after the game
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: and we're trying to buy the car that we came
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: in and like it was I've got I mean, we
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: both got stories forever.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 4: Stadium. I'm gonna miss a DT. I am gonna miss
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 4: it after some day.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: I am definitely definitely they'll be in. You know, they'll
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: be It'll be nice to have some you know amenities,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: uh in the New State from from truly zero and
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: that's what the stadium is. So like, you know, all
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: these memories and all these this stadium being by far
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: the worst stadium in the NFL, Like you know, when
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: it comes to amenities and anything else, Like it's literally
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: a concrete bowl with some with some you know, aluminum
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: drops and get piss it like it literally couldn't be
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: worse and uh and you still like and it's still
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen, right,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: So it'll be nice to have amenities. It'll be nice
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: to have an actual, you know, professional stadium, uh, that
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: you go to and watch a game in. But yeah,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: and you know, looking forward, hopefully, you know, I have
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: a family someday and I can I can start creating,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: you know, those memories in that new stadium and tell
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: them about all the times back in the old stadium
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: and you know, all the fun we had and and
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: how that's transitioned to the new one. But yeah, it's uh,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: it's everything.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: You can't play there forever. Like I agree that the
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: stadium sucked, but the experiences in it were where you
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: couldn't replicate that anywhere else.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: And it's beautiful, beautiful, no man, and it is beautiful.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 4: It's been a beautiful ride. So you know, goodbye, old friend.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 4: You know, Nichols. The crew that bills mountfor you appreciate you,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 4: you know, joining us tonight.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: Listen out there, spread love, not hate this weekend and
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: every weekend. I mean, just have a great time if
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: you're out there, DT and I will be back next
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: week before the playoffs.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 4: We will reveal.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: Finally our our playoff plans. But DT, are you headed
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: out there tomorrow on Sunday Sunday?
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I got it, I got it. Yeah.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: I don't have a plan yet, but I got to
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: at least face I don't know about going in yeah yeah,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: but I need to be on ground and and give
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: a final, you know, a final deep look at it.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 4: Drops.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I wish I could definitely do it for me. Listen,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: these were my bills thoughts set out loud. I mean, listen,
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: I the Ralph, You'll you'll forever.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 4: Be bills home for me.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: I know, for so many members of the Mafia, the
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: ones that don't go all the way back to the
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: rock pile on Jefferson the best everyone else, it's it's
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 3: the Ralph, It's rich Stadium, It's High Market's New Era Field.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: For a half a second, it's I mean, it's whatever
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 3: you want to call it for I know from h
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: from Nickel City Crew to you that that that was
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: that was home for me for sure.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: Man, well we got we need twelve and five, need
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: that win total and the season on a pod, you know,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: and the route and the party. You know. They say
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: they're bringing extra security in you can't yank your seat
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: out of the concert, take a home with you. But
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I think they're gonna see some
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: ship they're not prepared for. I think I don't think
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: they're prepared.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 4: You know, this is this is a nonte Runes. I
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 4: don't know how that works.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: You and I, You and I are you know, are
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: just two of you know, hundreds of thousands of people
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: that have had those experiences through the last you know,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: fifty years. And I think that play it's going to
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: be emotional Sunday. And I don't think they're even with
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: extra security. I don't think they're ready.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be some unruly shit going on
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: in that place, and uh, you know, it'll be interesting
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: to see kind of how that all goes down there.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: They're doing a good job of trying to pump in
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: the you know, we'll sell everything. It'll be up for you. Yeah,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: you know, it's like they're like, pump up for it.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, but you know, some of these people,
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: it's a four thirty game. A lot of these people
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: are getting there. You know, some people might be pulling
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: the twelve hour shift if you're the Kennies of the
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: world and coming right from the farm and getting there
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: before before you know, sunrise. When it comes down to uh,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: when it comes down to a four thirty game, and
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: you're gonna tell some of those people that have been
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: logging in there after you know, a win, you know,
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: they can't take the cup holder they just kicked off.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be uh. I think people are
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: gonna be coming home with some nice merch, you know,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: take the take the catch up dispenser from your concession
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: stand taken going there, mafia, enjoy yourself, be careful and
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: paying homage to a truly beautiful place.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, pay homage for sure. Yeah, I think that.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 4: I think that you're absolutely right.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: A few trinkets we'll be We'll be taken back for
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: souvenirs for sure. So I don't we condone that here
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 3: at Nicol City Crew we are we're all for the nostalgia.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: I we love the ralph and again goodbye old friend
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: d T.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go bills, man, let's go twelve and five
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: finished strong, gold bills, red helmets, gold bills.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 4: I love it, love it, love it, love it, love it.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: H m hm.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 4: They