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You Can't See Him Much Longer · The 3Ts: Tables, Tailgates, and Toploaders

• WEBVTT 00:00:11.220 --> 00:00:13.419 What's up, friends? Welcome into another episode 00:00:13.419 --> 00:00:16.239 of Tables, Tailgates, and Toploaders. So happy 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:18.980 to have you all aboard for this episode. I'm 00:00:18.980 --> 00:00:21.339 your host, TB. I cannot thank you enough for 00:00:21.339 --> 00:00:23.480 stopping in and checking out the 3Ts. Can 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:27.489 you believe it? This is episode 23. 23. They 00:00:27.489 --> 00:00:29.609 said we couldn't make it to 10 and we have blown 00:00:29.609 --> 00:00:32.409 the doors off of that one. So here we go. We 00:00:32.409 --> 00:00:34.549 have a lot to get to. Let's not waste any time. 00:00:34.609 --> 00:00:37.490 Let's dive right in. Wrestling Marks, how the 00:00:37.490 --> 00:00:40.149 heck are we feeling? Now normally sometimes I 00:00:40.149 --> 00:00:41.810 come on here and I talk about what's going on 00:00:41.810 --> 00:00:44.530 with Raw and with SmackDown. Well, if you've 00:00:44.530 --> 00:00:47.049 watched Raw and if you've watched SmackDown the 00:00:47.049 --> 00:00:49.829 last couple weeks, it's kind of been a little 00:00:49.829 --> 00:00:52.270 bit... dull so what i have figured we would do 00:00:52.270 --> 00:00:55.570 today is just dive straight ahead to the upcoming 00:00:55.570 --> 00:00:58.390 pay -per -view that's coming up what is it next 00:00:58.390 --> 00:01:01.990 saturday this will be coming at you a lot october 00:01:01.990 --> 00:01:05.170 11th straight from australia that's right we 00:01:05.170 --> 00:01:07.950 are talking about crown jewel takes place saturday 00:01:07.950 --> 00:01:09.870 morning bright and early i hope you get your 00:01:09.870 --> 00:01:12.150 coffee pots ready and turned on because this 00:01:12.150 --> 00:01:14.790 show will be starting nice and early at eight 00:01:15.099 --> 00:01:18.319 I don't know how you all like your wrestling 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:20.299 with your breakfast. I know that there's a huge 00:01:20.299 --> 00:01:23.019 time difference, but this is the first time Crown 00:01:23.019 --> 00:01:26.019 Jewel has taken place outside of my favorite 00:01:26.019 --> 00:01:27.980 place, Saudi Arabia. You know how much I love 00:01:27.980 --> 00:01:29.739 to talk about the Saudi shows. Well, this is 00:01:29.739 --> 00:01:32.840 the first Crown Jewel that's being held in another 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:35.819 country. This is taking place in Perth, Australia. 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:39.140 So here we go. Right now, there's not too many 00:01:39.140 --> 00:01:42.000 matches on the card. Only four matches on the 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:44.359 card so far. The buildup for this has been... 00:01:44.430 --> 00:01:47.109 a little weird if you ask me i'm gonna start 00:01:47.109 --> 00:01:50.030 off by talking about the singles match for the 00:01:50.030 --> 00:01:53.450 wwe women's crown jewel championship this is 00:01:53.450 --> 00:01:55.969 going to be between brand new raw women's world 00:01:55.969 --> 00:01:59.170 champion stephanie vaquer versus tiffany stratton 00:01:59.170 --> 00:02:02.069 now if you've checked out smackdown recently 00:02:02.069 --> 00:02:04.790 you've seen the absolute debacle that was the 00:02:04.790 --> 00:02:07.290 triple threat match between tiffany stratton 00:02:07.290 --> 00:02:10.250 nia jax and jade cargill two things that were 00:02:10.250 --> 00:02:12.610 huge that happened in this match if you haven't 00:02:12.610 --> 00:02:15.180 seen the jade cargill Argyle injury to her face 00:02:15.180 --> 00:02:18.840 when Nia threw her into the corner of the ring 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:21.919 stairs. This is one of the most gruesome facial 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:26.360 cuts I've ever seen. I mean, it is nasty. Who's 00:02:26.360 --> 00:02:29.300 at the hand of it once again? Everyone's favorite 00:02:29.300 --> 00:02:32.680 female wrestler, Nia Jax. It seems like when 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:35.780 there's a major injury or a major botch or something, 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:39.139 Nia Jax is usually right around the corner. I'm 00:02:39.139 --> 00:02:40.719 going to talk about this in a future podcast 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:43.699 about the history of Becky Lynch. And well, Nia 00:02:43.699 --> 00:02:46.659 Jax was huge in transitioning Becky Lynch officially 00:02:46.659 --> 00:02:49.280 into the man when she cold cocked her straight 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:51.639 in the nose, broke her nose open and she was 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:54.400 bleeding all over. It was an iconic moment and 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:57.060 it kind of, you know, catapulted Becky Lynch 00:02:57.060 --> 00:03:00.219 into the next stratosphere but that was a botch 00:03:00.219 --> 00:03:03.099 that wasn't supposed to happen Nia Jax now a 00:03:03.099 --> 00:03:05.780 lot of people say she doesn't know how to take 00:03:05.780 --> 00:03:08.860 care of her opponents you know the wrestlers 00:03:08.860 --> 00:03:10.900 are supposed to to take care of themselves and 00:03:10.900 --> 00:03:13.379 each other and make sure that everyone is safe 00:03:13.379 --> 00:03:15.949 well If you watch this triple threat match, she 00:03:15.949 --> 00:03:19.330 chucks Jade Cargill into the ring post or into 00:03:19.330 --> 00:03:23.409 the ring stairs, rather. And she sustains a nasty, 00:03:23.509 --> 00:03:26.969 nasty cut over her eye. It was bad. She was bleeding 00:03:26.969 --> 00:03:28.689 all over the place. And then to make matters 00:03:28.689 --> 00:03:31.169 worse, they go on to have one of the worst botched 00:03:31.169 --> 00:03:33.629 endings that you'll ever see. And of course, 00:03:33.629 --> 00:03:35.729 this caused a lot of controversy in the wrestling 00:03:35.729 --> 00:03:37.830 community. Everyone was up in arms. How could 00:03:37.830 --> 00:03:40.050 this happen? Fire the ref. Fire this person. 00:03:40.150 --> 00:03:41.870 I'm like, all right, take it easy. Let's just 00:03:41.870 --> 00:03:44.879 take a deep breath. Mistake. happen but who's 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:46.740 who's really to blame Nia was supposed to kick 00:03:46.740 --> 00:03:49.020 out because the finish wasn't happening yet and 00:03:49.020 --> 00:03:51.840 she just laid there and the ref didn't count 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:54.599 to three she moved her arm at the last second 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:57.080 and nobody kicks out and it just looked terrible 00:03:57.080 --> 00:04:00.939 and anyway Tiffany goes on to win the match It 00:04:00.939 --> 00:04:03.219 was bad. It was bad all around. I just don't 00:04:03.219 --> 00:04:06.159 think the last few weeks of Raw and SmackDown 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:09.000 shows have been great. But here we go. The point 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:10.819 of these crown jewels is to have your champions 00:04:10.819 --> 00:04:12.680 go up against each other. And we have the brand 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:15.020 new Raw Women's Champion, Stephanie Vaquera versus 00:04:15.020 --> 00:04:16.699 Tiffany Stratton, who's a SmackDown champion. 00:04:17.339 --> 00:04:19.939 This should be a good match. You never know what's 00:04:19.939 --> 00:04:21.680 going to happen, whether they're actually going 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:25.319 to allow somebody to become victorious in the 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:28.149 matter. I would say that if I were a betting 00:04:28.149 --> 00:04:31.069 man, I'm going to put my money on Stephanie Vakir 00:04:31.069 --> 00:04:33.329 to win this one. And then on the men's side for 00:04:33.329 --> 00:04:36.170 the WWE Crown Jewel Men's Championship, we have 00:04:36.170 --> 00:04:38.810 Cody Rhodes, your SmackDown Undisputed WWE Champion 00:04:38.810 --> 00:04:41.870 versus Divisions Leader Seth Rollins, who is 00:04:41.870 --> 00:04:45.129 Raw's World Heavyweight Champion. Now, the lead 00:04:45.129 --> 00:04:47.050 up to this match has been surprisingly good. 00:04:47.149 --> 00:04:49.980 They have cut some great... Great promos, in 00:04:49.980 --> 00:04:52.899 my opinion, on the last few shows. It's been 00:04:52.899 --> 00:04:55.240 awesome. I've appreciated the mic work. These 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:57.899 two guys in the ring on the mic, it's about as 00:04:57.899 --> 00:05:00.500 good as it's going to get. And so I applaud them 00:05:00.500 --> 00:05:03.139 both. It's got to be hard, right? You know Crown 00:05:03.139 --> 00:05:05.319 Jewel is essentially a throwaway pay -per -view 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:08.819 because really nothing... long -term is going 00:05:08.819 --> 00:05:12.600 to happen. You have these kind of one -offs where 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:14.339 you're champion, it's champion versus champion, 00:05:14.459 --> 00:05:17.000 and you're not really telling a long -term story. 00:05:17.220 --> 00:05:20.319 So we've seen Cody versus Seth before. Obviously, 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:24.459 Seth is 0 -3 against Cody. We've seen when Cody 00:05:24.459 --> 00:05:27.100 first came back, these two had a trifecta of 00:05:27.100 --> 00:05:30.120 matches, and Cody won every one of them. So right 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:33.029 there, I think... Seth has to win this match. 00:05:33.170 --> 00:05:35.529 You can't keep having him lose to Cody Rhodes. 00:05:35.709 --> 00:05:39.490 You can't keep making Cody look absolutely unbeatable. 00:05:39.689 --> 00:05:43.050 And you don't want to turn him into the Super 00:05:43.050 --> 00:05:46.389 Cena version of Cody. It's just not good. I don't 00:05:46.389 --> 00:05:48.449 think it's good for anybody. And frankly, I think 00:05:48.449 --> 00:05:50.730 Seth is doing some of his best work. You have 00:05:50.730 --> 00:05:53.790 to have him win this. Whether that's by shenanigans 00:05:53.790 --> 00:05:56.490 from the Braun and Braun legal team, whether 00:05:56.490 --> 00:05:58.750 it's Paul Heyman getting involved, whatever the 00:05:58.750 --> 00:06:01.009 case may be, I'm sure there's going to be some 00:06:01.009 --> 00:06:03.149 involvement in one way shape or form with this 00:06:03.149 --> 00:06:05.790 match in my opinion Seth has to win this match 00:06:06.589 --> 00:06:08.730 Who else is on the card currently? We have Rhea 00:06:08.730 --> 00:06:12.029 Ripley and Io Sky versus Asuka and Kairi Sane, 00:06:12.089 --> 00:06:14.370 the Kabuki Warriors. This match has been slowly 00:06:14.370 --> 00:06:17.670 building for the last couple weeks with Io and 00:06:17.670 --> 00:06:20.769 her friendship with Asuka and Kairi kind of in 00:06:20.769 --> 00:06:23.829 the background, getting manipulated and controlled 00:06:23.829 --> 00:06:27.730 by Asuka. I think everyone is really doing their 00:06:27.730 --> 00:06:30.930 best to make this storyline meaningful. It's 00:06:30.930 --> 00:06:34.589 nice to see Rhea outside of the title picture. 00:06:35.230 --> 00:06:37.889 I mean, I know she's one of the greatest women 00:06:37.889 --> 00:06:41.610 on the roster, but you can't have her in a champion 00:06:41.610 --> 00:06:44.410 storyline each and every week. It's just kind 00:06:44.410 --> 00:06:46.769 of ridiculous. So I like the fact that these 00:06:46.769 --> 00:06:49.009 two, Io Skye and Rhea Ripley, are joining up. 00:06:49.529 --> 00:06:51.269 It should be a good match. It should really be 00:06:51.269 --> 00:06:53.430 a good match. I like all four of these women. 00:06:53.629 --> 00:06:55.329 They're really doing good work. I'm not sure 00:06:55.329 --> 00:06:57.569 what's going to happen. But if I'm a betting 00:06:57.569 --> 00:06:59.569 man, I'm going with the Kabuki Warriors because 00:06:59.569 --> 00:07:02.269 I think they need to continue their dominance. 00:07:02.490 --> 00:07:06.790 And maybe we see a turn of Io. That would be 00:07:06.790 --> 00:07:08.370 cool. I don't know what that would look like. 00:07:08.430 --> 00:07:10.990 But I've told you all time and again, Io is one 00:07:10.990 --> 00:07:13.589 of my favorites. Men or women, I think she's 00:07:13.589 --> 00:07:17.129 awesome. And maybe we see a faction with the 00:07:17.129 --> 00:07:20.569 Kabuki Warriors and Io Joy. as a heel who knows 00:07:20.569 --> 00:07:22.629 and then the fourth and final match that's listed 00:07:22.629 --> 00:07:25.129 on this and this is this is kind of going to 00:07:25.129 --> 00:07:27.980 lead into what I want to talk about on the wrestling 00:07:27.980 --> 00:07:30.540 side of this podcast, but we have John Cena versus 00:07:30.540 --> 00:07:33.740 AJ Styles. Now, John Cena is coming off the absolute 00:07:33.740 --> 00:07:38.000 butt kicking he received at the hands of Brock 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:41.019 Lesnar at the last show, Wrestlepalooza, the 00:07:41.019 --> 00:07:45.180 first ESPN PLE. And everyone kind of was disgusted 00:07:45.180 --> 00:07:47.139 by the outcome of that match. And my thoughts 00:07:47.139 --> 00:07:49.220 on that again, and I've had some more time to 00:07:49.220 --> 00:07:50.699 think, what did we think was going to happen? 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:52.879 Did we really think Cena was going to come back 00:07:52.879 --> 00:07:55.600 and fight? Brock Lesnar, who looks bigger and 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:58.439 stronger and faster than ever and actually be 00:07:58.439 --> 00:08:01.740 victorious over this beast, this just ginormous, 00:08:01.740 --> 00:08:04.459 larger than life creature that just comes in 00:08:04.459 --> 00:08:06.800 like a wrecking ball and just destroys everyone. 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:08.800 Did we really think Cena had a chance to beat 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:10.920 him? I mean, that wouldn't be very realistic 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:13.750 at all. Anyway, he gets. Absolutely destroyed. 00:08:13.850 --> 00:08:16.430 People are up in arms and we're all left wondering, 00:08:16.569 --> 00:08:19.449 well, where do we go next? And now you have this 00:08:19.449 --> 00:08:22.589 show, this crown jewel show from Australia. Cena 00:08:22.589 --> 00:08:25.509 instantly got on the socials and was like, I 00:08:25.509 --> 00:08:28.129 want to fight AJ Styles. No backstory, no nothing. 00:08:28.230 --> 00:08:30.290 Obviously, these two guys have had matches in 00:08:30.290 --> 00:08:32.429 the past and they've been pretty good, pretty 00:08:32.429 --> 00:08:35.029 good matches. And then AJ gets on his socials 00:08:35.029 --> 00:08:36.629 and he's like, yeah, I'm down for that. And then 00:08:36.629 --> 00:08:39.110 lo and behold, here comes Triple H and he makes 00:08:39.110 --> 00:08:41.970 the match official. This leads up to this singles 00:08:41.970 --> 00:08:43.460 match. match and we don't have much time left 00:08:43.460 --> 00:08:46.460 for Cena this just kind of just came out of nowhere 00:08:46.460 --> 00:08:49.440 he gets destroyed by Lesnar and then all of a 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:52.740 sudden he's changing his his sights and putting 00:08:52.740 --> 00:08:55.019 his sights on AJ Styles so there's really it 00:08:55.019 --> 00:08:57.840 doesn't make a whole lot of sense but uh those 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:00.259 are the only four matches on the card so far 00:09:00.259 --> 00:09:03.700 and it's crazy because Where's Becky Lynch? You 00:09:03.700 --> 00:09:06.279 know, she just came off of this awesome tag team 00:09:06.279 --> 00:09:09.600 with her husband and AJ Lee and CM Punk, this 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:12.220 mixed couples match. And y 'all know how I felt 00:09:12.220 --> 00:09:14.539 about that. I thought it was amazing, but she's 00:09:14.539 --> 00:09:16.840 not on the card. Maybe they add some this week. 00:09:16.899 --> 00:09:19.460 Now I'm recording this on Sunday. We still have 00:09:19.460 --> 00:09:22.139 Monday Night Raw and Friday Night Smackdown. 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:24.759 ahead of us so maybe they add a match or two 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:27.879 to the card usually they try to get five maybe 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:30.139 six matches total that they're really trimming 00:09:30.139 --> 00:09:33.299 down the size of these ples but as of now only 00:09:33.299 --> 00:09:36.320 four matches with that last one being the john 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:38.919 cena aj styles match i would think after that 00:09:38.919 --> 00:09:41.279 butt kicking he took against lesnar that cena 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:43.860 has to win this match but we shall see so what 00:09:43.860 --> 00:09:46.039 i wanted to do i wanted to look at the john cena 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:48.740 retirement tour so far i kind of wanted to go 00:09:48.740 --> 00:09:50.799 back to the beginning i wanted to kind of break 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:53.169 it all down and see what we're thinking how how 00:09:53.169 --> 00:09:56.470 are we feeling wrestling marks about his retirement 00:09:56.470 --> 00:09:59.210 tour so if you remember this started way back 00:09:59.210 --> 00:10:02.190 at the beginning of the year with the Royal Rumble 00:10:02.190 --> 00:10:04.809 this was this took place on February 1st and 00:10:04.809 --> 00:10:08.250 John Cena was an entrant in the Royal Men's Royal 00:10:08.250 --> 00:10:10.750 Rumble match and he was one of the last two it 00:10:10.750 --> 00:10:13.370 came down to Jey Uso and John Cena and everyone 00:10:13.370 --> 00:10:16.210 thought if you were kind of playing this out 00:10:16.210 --> 00:10:19.009 knowing it was his retirement tour and he was 00:10:19.009 --> 00:10:22.149 kind of kicking it off and he needed a marquee 00:10:22.149 --> 00:10:24.029 match for Wrestlemania everyone thought that 00:10:24.029 --> 00:10:25.730 this was going to be a paint by numbers road 00:10:25.730 --> 00:10:28.669 to Wrestlemania for Cena but Jey Uso kind of 00:10:28.669 --> 00:10:31.049 shocked the whole world and ended up eliminating 00:10:31.049 --> 00:10:34.389 Cena and guaranteeing a main event match at the 00:10:34.389 --> 00:10:36.370 showcase of the immortals but if you remember 00:10:36.370 --> 00:10:39.279 if you remember so Cena loses Gets eliminated 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:42.139 by Jey Uso. And then if you remember at post 00:10:42.139 --> 00:10:44.820 -show, Cena does this post -match interview. 00:10:45.019 --> 00:10:46.659 And it was kind of weird, right? He declares 00:10:46.659 --> 00:10:49.620 himself an entrant into the Elimination Chamber 00:10:49.620 --> 00:10:51.639 match. He basically lays it all out there. He 00:10:51.639 --> 00:10:54.080 says that because of everything he's done for 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:55.940 the business, he's going to be selfish. And he's 00:10:55.940 --> 00:10:58.360 going to automatically put himself into a spot 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:00.679 in this Elimination Chamber match. It was simple. 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:03.600 I actually kind of loved it. And I love that. 00:11:04.009 --> 00:11:06.429 We knew we didn't have to waste time with him 00:11:06.429 --> 00:11:10.190 wasting matches on qualifying for the chamber 00:11:10.190 --> 00:11:12.409 and all this stuff. I loved it. So he kind of 00:11:12.409 --> 00:11:15.070 puts himself into the match and nobody, you know, 00:11:15.070 --> 00:11:17.610 nobody. says anything about it. So fast forward 00:11:17.610 --> 00:11:19.669 to March 1st, we have the Elimination Chamber. 00:11:19.870 --> 00:11:24.049 Now, this was supposed to be WWE's game changer. 00:11:24.250 --> 00:11:26.169 If you remember this, the Chamber match, the 00:11:26.169 --> 00:11:28.610 men's Elimination Chamber match, it was pretty 00:11:28.610 --> 00:11:30.690 good. It was pretty good and ultimately came 00:11:30.690 --> 00:11:33.529 down to John Cena versus CM Punk at the end of 00:11:33.529 --> 00:11:35.830 this Chamber match. Two left. Cena gets the win. 00:11:35.950 --> 00:11:38.570 He punches his ticket to a title match at WrestleMania. 00:11:38.990 --> 00:11:41.690 However, the show, the show was far from over. 00:11:41.809 --> 00:11:44.309 This was one of the craziest things I've ever 00:11:44.309 --> 00:11:46.940 seen as a wrestling fan. We had the whole Cody 00:11:46.940 --> 00:11:49.360 Rhodes versus the final boss, The Rock, the storyline 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:52.000 where The Rock comes out and does this stupid, 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:55.279 crazy, long rambling promo, encouraging Cody 00:11:55.279 --> 00:11:58.019 to sell his soul. And the whole thing, everyone's 00:11:58.019 --> 00:11:59.919 just like, what the heck are you freaking talking 00:11:59.919 --> 00:12:02.320 about? It made no sense. And he's like, well, 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:03.840 I'm going to show up at Elimination Chamber, 00:12:04.059 --> 00:12:06.679 which was, I believe, in Toronto. I'm going to 00:12:06.679 --> 00:12:08.720 show up and I'm going to want your answer. Cody, 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:10.759 you need to give me your soul. So here comes 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:13.179 the end of the show. Cena had already won. Cody 00:12:13.179 --> 00:12:15.059 Rhodes comes out to the ring to address The Rock. 00:12:15.179 --> 00:12:18.100 Cena is kind of hanging out. And here comes The 00:12:18.100 --> 00:12:20.940 Rock. Cody and The Rock kind of go back and forth. 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:23.799 And he eventually tells The Rock to F off. And 00:12:23.799 --> 00:12:26.419 then in probably what is the greatest heel turn 00:12:26.419 --> 00:12:30.429 since Hulk Hogan, Cena... As he's embracing Cody, 00:12:30.669 --> 00:12:34.090 he's jumping around like a little kid after Cody 00:12:34.090 --> 00:12:36.409 tells The Rock to F off. You see Cena in the 00:12:36.409 --> 00:12:39.070 back going, oh, my God, that's amazing. And they 00:12:39.070 --> 00:12:41.929 embrace. And then all of a sudden, as they're 00:12:41.929 --> 00:12:45.049 hugging, The Rock and Cena kind of have this 00:12:45.049 --> 00:12:48.429 interaction. The Rock nods. Cena gets the nod. 00:12:48.549 --> 00:12:51.529 And The Rock does this throat slash motion. And 00:12:51.529 --> 00:12:53.870 while he's embracing Cody, he kind of pushes 00:12:53.870 --> 00:12:56.850 him, kicks him with a low blow, and then proceeds 00:12:56.850 --> 00:12:59.909 to beat the ever -loving. piss out of him. And 00:12:59.909 --> 00:13:02.409 this paves the way for heel John Cena versus 00:13:02.409 --> 00:13:04.710 babyface Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania for the 00:13:04.710 --> 00:13:06.830 title. Everyone was expecting it was going to 00:13:06.830 --> 00:13:09.429 be babyface versus babyface, but this was the 00:13:09.429 --> 00:13:11.350 heel turn that kind of shocked the world. I remember 00:13:11.350 --> 00:13:14.409 jumping off my sofa and screaming at the top 00:13:14.409 --> 00:13:16.409 of my lungs. They finally did it. They finally 00:13:16.409 --> 00:13:19.110 did it. It only took 20 years. It was an awesome, 00:13:19.169 --> 00:13:21.269 awesome moment. I mean, I don't care who you 00:13:21.269 --> 00:13:24.090 are. This moment in time as a wrestling fan was 00:13:24.090 --> 00:13:27.960 awesome. It was awesome. So fast forward to April 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:30.980 20th. We have WrestleMania 41 after a month of 00:13:30.980 --> 00:13:33.740 heel promos where Cena comes out. He blames the 00:13:33.740 --> 00:13:36.120 universe. He blames all the fans. He's basically 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:40.519 saying that you're the reason I've had to do 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:42.600 this. I'm sick and tired of putting myself out 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:44.879 there. You've given me nothing in return. It's 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:48.059 been promo after promo of all this stuff. And 00:13:48.059 --> 00:13:51.820 so there's this huge workup to this match between 00:13:51.820 --> 00:13:55.629 Cody and Cena. And Cody is basically telling 00:13:55.629 --> 00:13:57.789 him the whole time he doesn't want this version 00:13:57.789 --> 00:14:00.570 of Cena. He wants the old Cena. He wants the 00:14:00.570 --> 00:14:02.990 whole thing. Well, then this match takes place. 00:14:03.250 --> 00:14:06.230 And first of all, WrestleMania 41 was kind of 00:14:06.230 --> 00:14:08.590 a big letdown. And if I'm being honest, this 00:14:08.590 --> 00:14:12.190 match was terrible. This match was just brutal. 00:14:12.370 --> 00:14:14.669 It was slow. It was boring. There was no juice 00:14:14.669 --> 00:14:16.409 going on. Like there was nothing in this match. 00:14:16.529 --> 00:14:19.529 It was slow plotting. Like, oh my God, it was 00:14:19.529 --> 00:14:22.909 just. brutal you want to talk about dogging the 00:14:22.909 --> 00:14:25.809 WWE universe it was bad it was bad and unfortunately 00:14:25.809 --> 00:14:28.570 it involved Travis Scott and he comes down they 00:14:28.570 --> 00:14:31.149 hit his stupid music and he's plotting to the 00:14:31.149 --> 00:14:33.250 ring and one of the slowest ring walks of all 00:14:33.250 --> 00:14:36.029 time and then he gets involved and he's everyone's 00:14:36.509 --> 00:14:39.110 Beating Cody's ass at the end. And it was just, 00:14:39.129 --> 00:14:41.470 it was stupid. It was terrible. If I had to rank 00:14:41.470 --> 00:14:43.429 these matches, which I probably will do when 00:14:43.429 --> 00:14:46.009 the whole retirement tour is all done and over, 00:14:46.090 --> 00:14:48.230 this was probably going to be the worst. The 00:14:48.230 --> 00:14:50.730 worst. And it was even worse than WrestlePalooza, 00:14:50.809 --> 00:14:53.350 the Brock Lesnar match, which we'll get to in 00:14:53.350 --> 00:14:56.629 a second here. But, I mean, this was just awful. 00:14:57.129 --> 00:14:59.669 Cena ends up winning. He wins his 17th title, 00:14:59.830 --> 00:15:02.389 which currently is the most ever. And we're all 00:15:02.389 --> 00:15:04.950 left going, what the hell did we just watch? 00:15:05.029 --> 00:15:08.129 That was bad. So that fiasco was over. And then 00:15:08.129 --> 00:15:11.309 he goes on to challenge Randy Orton. Backlash 00:15:11.309 --> 00:15:13.909 May 10th. And this was nothing to write home 00:15:13.909 --> 00:15:17.159 about. You get shenanigans by R -Truth. He gets 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:20.480 involved. What's soon to become a running gag 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:22.600 through this whole retirement tour is John Cena 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:24.919 hitting everyone with the belt. There's ref nonsense. 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:28.559 It wasn't great. It wasn't great. Cena ends up 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:30.019 hitting Orton with the belt. He gets the one, 00:15:30.019 --> 00:15:32.220 two, three. It was nothing special. There was 00:15:32.220 --> 00:15:35.200 nothing really amazing about this match. It was 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:37.519 kind of frustrating. Ultimately, this match with 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:41.620 Orton and R -Truth's involvement gets us to his 00:15:41.620 --> 00:15:45.259 next match on the The retirement tour, which 00:15:45.259 --> 00:15:47.799 is two weeks later, May 24th, Saturday night's 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:51.080 main event. We have R -Truth versus John Cena. 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:53.700 This match was fine considering what it was. 00:15:53.860 --> 00:15:56.220 R -Truth gets a fun entrance. He comes out as 00:15:56.220 --> 00:15:58.860 Ron Cena. He's wearing all his gear. He's mimicking 00:15:58.860 --> 00:16:01.320 Cena's moves in the ring. But ultimately, I mean, 00:16:01.340 --> 00:16:03.460 we're talking about a squash match. This is over 00:16:03.460 --> 00:16:05.799 in less than five minutes and Cena gets the easy 00:16:05.799 --> 00:16:08.519 win. It's nothing. Next up on the list, we have 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:11.759 Money in the Bank, June 7th. Cena teams up with 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:13.980 Logan Paul, of all people. He teams up with Logan 00:16:13.980 --> 00:16:16.840 Paul to take on Jey Uso and Cody Rhodes. We see 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:20.220 Cena use the belt once again to take out Rhodes, 00:16:20.379 --> 00:16:22.159 and then a mysterious hooded figure jumps in 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:24.580 the ring and takes Cena out, and he actually 00:16:24.580 --> 00:16:28.139 uses Cena's championship belt to knock him out, 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:30.620 and it's none other than the hooded figure who 00:16:30.620 --> 00:16:33.759 is R -Truth, and this allows Cody to get the 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:36.259 pin for the win, and whatever. It was fine. I 00:16:36.259 --> 00:16:39.269 just remember going, oh, God, here we go. This 00:16:39.269 --> 00:16:41.889 is a stretch from WrestleMania to Backlash to 00:16:41.889 --> 00:16:44.009 Saturday Night's Main Event to Money in the Bank. 00:16:44.110 --> 00:16:46.629 It was just like, what are we doing? And you 00:16:46.629 --> 00:16:49.669 really are questioning the whole heel turn. And 00:16:49.669 --> 00:16:51.870 then this leads us. Less than two weeks later, 00:16:52.009 --> 00:16:54.629 June 20th, we have Friday Night Smackdown. He 00:16:54.629 --> 00:16:56.929 gets a rematch with R -Truth, but gets disqualified 00:16:56.929 --> 00:16:59.110 because he hits him again with the belt. Is anyone 00:16:59.110 --> 00:17:01.070 seeing a theme here so far? And this is what's 00:17:01.070 --> 00:17:03.289 getting frustrating. Watching it as a fan, you 00:17:03.289 --> 00:17:06.369 were looking forward to this heel run so much. 00:17:06.470 --> 00:17:09.049 And now he's just doing, I mean, I know what 00:17:09.049 --> 00:17:12.069 heels do. They're bad and they do terrible things. 00:17:12.210 --> 00:17:14.009 But it's just like, this is just, it's not even 00:17:14.009 --> 00:17:17.029 entertaining. It's just boring. And so him using 00:17:17.029 --> 00:17:19.450 the belt and just constantly hitting people with 00:17:19.450 --> 00:17:22.220 it. It's like the belt is doing more work than 00:17:22.220 --> 00:17:24.519 Cena is at this stretch of the tour. And it's 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:26.619 just kind of frustrating. But what is it? Four. 00:17:27.369 --> 00:17:30.670 Five -match stretch from WrestleMania to Friday 00:17:30.670 --> 00:17:33.069 Night SmackDown is just sucks. It sucks. And 00:17:33.069 --> 00:17:35.150 it's very disappointing. And you hope things 00:17:35.150 --> 00:17:37.650 are going to slowly turn around. And they do. 00:17:37.750 --> 00:17:40.430 Because Night of Champions, June 28th, this is 00:17:40.430 --> 00:17:42.849 where things start to pick up. He has a banger 00:17:42.849 --> 00:17:44.769 of a match against CM Punk. There's a lot riding 00:17:44.769 --> 00:17:46.750 on this match, given their history together. 00:17:47.029 --> 00:17:49.190 And they pulled off a very good match. Now, mind 00:17:49.190 --> 00:17:51.069 you, there are a lot of shenanigans going on. 00:17:51.170 --> 00:17:53.150 There's refs getting knocked out. Braun and Braun 00:17:53.150 --> 00:17:54.849 legal teams coming out. Seth Rollins attempts 00:17:54.849 --> 00:17:57.539 to cash in on champion John Cena. Cena in one 00:17:57.539 --> 00:17:59.279 of the greatest spots of all time. Ref Charles 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:02.039 Robinson is literally flying down the ramp to 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:05.900 come in to, you know, the other ref had just 00:18:05.900 --> 00:18:08.480 gotten taken out. And as he's running down to 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:12.259 initiate Seth Rollins' cash in, you see John 00:18:12.259 --> 00:18:16.089 Cena. come flying around the the floor of the 00:18:16.089 --> 00:18:19.190 ramp and takes charles robinson out charles robinson 00:18:19.190 --> 00:18:21.170 goes flying through the air it's actually awesome 00:18:21.170 --> 00:18:23.109 because you have a they made a tops now card 00:18:23.109 --> 00:18:25.250 out of it it's fan freaking tastic but he hits 00:18:25.250 --> 00:18:27.569 charles robinson with a hip check and goes flying 00:18:27.569 --> 00:18:29.930 it was just a ton of fun this match was great 00:18:29.930 --> 00:18:32.650 it was definitely needed after the last five 00:18:32.650 --> 00:18:36.190 awful nonsense matches that they put on cena 00:18:36.190 --> 00:18:38.859 ultimate Ultimately, he keeps his belt. He retains, 00:18:38.900 --> 00:18:40.779 thanks to Rollins, knocking out CM Punk with 00:18:40.779 --> 00:18:43.039 a briefcase. It was really good stuff. Really 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:45.160 good stuff. So we're slowly starting to turn 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:48.460 it around. And this leads right into SummerSlam. 00:18:48.579 --> 00:18:50.500 So just over a month later, SummerSlam takes 00:18:50.500 --> 00:18:53.200 place on August 3rd, one of the coolest entrances. 00:18:53.259 --> 00:18:56.400 So during the heel run, Cena was using, he had 00:18:56.400 --> 00:18:58.920 been using a total black background with white 00:18:58.920 --> 00:19:01.319 letters that just simply said John Cena. And 00:19:01.319 --> 00:19:03.240 it would just be the only thing that would show 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:05.859 up on the Titantron on the entrance as he would 00:19:05.859 --> 00:19:08.220 come down. to the ring and he would kind of basically 00:19:08.220 --> 00:19:11.160 doing a whole you know screw you to all the people 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:13.079 that have supported me and the colors and all 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:15.119 this vibrancy and all that he's basically he's 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:17.440 like i'm not doing anything for the for the fans 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:21.029 well During SummerSlam, up to this match, the 00:19:21.029 --> 00:19:23.509 promos leading up to this match, Cena had started 00:19:23.509 --> 00:19:25.730 to see the error of his ways, and he was kind 00:19:25.730 --> 00:19:28.349 of regretting his whole heel turn. So you were 00:19:28.349 --> 00:19:31.769 starting to slowly see signs of the old babyface 00:19:31.769 --> 00:19:34.210 John Cena. So when he comes out, the music hits. 00:19:34.349 --> 00:19:37.309 It's the black and white. You get the black background, 00:19:37.450 --> 00:19:39.980 the white John Cena letters, and then boom. pops 00:19:39.980 --> 00:19:43.059 and you the music kicks in and it's the old school 00:19:43.059 --> 00:19:46.039 multi -layered multi -colored john cena logos 00:19:46.039 --> 00:19:48.480 of old and it was awesome so you switch from 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:50.559 the black and white to the color scheme it was 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:53.119 cool i love the way that they have been incorporating 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:55.400 that for every one of his matches and this was 00:19:55.400 --> 00:19:57.680 a really good match this was a street fight these 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:01.359 two go at it for about 30 minutes and he's fighting 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:03.359 Cody Rhodes by the way I forgot to tell you that 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:05.440 championship match championship belt is on the 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:07.359 line these two go at it 30 minutes street fight 00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:09.759 they put on a show Cena starts digging deep into 00:20:09.759 --> 00:20:12.240 his bag of tricks he pulls out a ton of old school 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:15.779 Awesome. When Cena was really doing banger after 00:20:15.779 --> 00:20:18.359 banger, shout out to Sheamus, when he was doing 00:20:18.359 --> 00:20:21.059 these banger of actual wrestling matches, he 00:20:21.059 --> 00:20:23.140 would pull out all these crazy moves. Well, you 00:20:23.140 --> 00:20:26.339 got a little of it in this match. It was very 00:20:26.339 --> 00:20:28.500 well done. Very well done. Cody Rhodes wins the 00:20:28.500 --> 00:20:30.660 belt back. They give each other praise. They're 00:20:30.660 --> 00:20:32.579 kind of, you know, congratulating each other 00:20:32.579 --> 00:20:34.880 in the ring. Cody leaves to allow Cena a moment 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:36.819 to kind of celebrate with the crowd and thank 00:20:36.819 --> 00:20:39.099 the crowd. And everyone's having a great time. 00:20:39.220 --> 00:20:41.480 And then boom, the shock of the freaking night. 00:20:41.559 --> 00:20:43.799 You hear the music of none other than Brock Lesnar. 00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:47.059 He looks like an absolute monster truck. He comes 00:20:47.059 --> 00:20:49.819 down, comes into the ring, returns F5 Cena in 00:20:49.819 --> 00:20:51.670 the middle of the... of the ring. Everyone is 00:20:51.670 --> 00:20:54.269 suddenly in total disbelief. Cannot believe it. 00:20:54.309 --> 00:20:59.269 I was shocked, shocked to see that the WWE would 00:20:59.269 --> 00:21:02.130 bring Brock Lesnar back. But he comes back, hits 00:21:02.130 --> 00:21:04.430 him with the F5, leaves Cena in the middle of 00:21:04.430 --> 00:21:07.470 the ring, and just jets. And then everyone's 00:21:07.470 --> 00:21:09.950 like, holy crap, what did we just see? Yeah, 00:21:09.990 --> 00:21:11.910 that was awesome. Great match. So now things 00:21:11.910 --> 00:21:13.690 are really starting to pick up. And then we get 00:21:13.690 --> 00:21:15.630 to probably what is my favorite match of the 00:21:15.630 --> 00:21:18.730 retirement. tour thus far. It's Clash in Paris. 00:21:18.970 --> 00:21:21.990 Y 'all know I really like this show. September 00:21:21.990 --> 00:21:24.529 1st, Clash in Paris in Paris, France against 00:21:24.529 --> 00:21:27.230 none other than Logan Paul. These two put on 00:21:27.230 --> 00:21:29.890 a freaking show. It was awesome. I give Paul 00:21:29.890 --> 00:21:32.410 a ton of credit. He did not look out of place 00:21:32.410 --> 00:21:34.869 at all. Sometimes some of these matches, some 00:21:34.869 --> 00:21:38.910 of these younger wrestlers can kind of fade into 00:21:38.910 --> 00:21:41.109 the moment, if you will. And I really thought 00:21:41.109 --> 00:21:44.289 that he held his own and he looked like a superstar 00:21:44.289 --> 00:21:47.200 out there. And Cena, you know, helped him to 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:48.839 look great. He didn't look out of place at all. 00:21:48.900 --> 00:21:51.779 Cena at one point busted out the Styles Clash, 00:21:51.799 --> 00:21:54.180 which was, you know, we're going to see that 00:21:54.180 --> 00:21:57.099 moving forward. It's a shout out to AJ. These 00:21:57.099 --> 00:21:59.220 two trades, some great moves, some great back 00:21:59.220 --> 00:22:01.559 and forth. He ultimately wins after some attitude 00:22:01.559 --> 00:22:03.539 adjustments, some counters in the middle of the 00:22:03.539 --> 00:22:05.500 ring. Outstanding work. Great job. This was my 00:22:05.500 --> 00:22:07.640 favorite, favorite match. A few days later, we 00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:09.740 have September 5th, which is a Friday night SmackDown. 00:22:09.960 --> 00:22:12.920 U .S. champion Sami Zayn comes down to interrupt 00:22:12.920 --> 00:22:18.059 a promo. And in U .S. title fashion, he wants 00:22:18.059 --> 00:22:20.349 to give Cena his props. and basically say, hey, 00:22:20.410 --> 00:22:22.349 you did this. You were a U .S. champion for a 00:22:22.349 --> 00:22:24.690 long time. You ran these U .S. Open challenges, 00:22:24.789 --> 00:22:27.549 and I want to give you an opportunity to have 00:22:27.549 --> 00:22:30.029 a match with me. And these two put on a great 00:22:30.029 --> 00:22:32.029 show. They went at it. It was a really good match. 00:22:32.150 --> 00:22:34.630 When Cena's given the chance to actually perform, 00:22:34.829 --> 00:22:37.269 and it's away from his quote -unquote five moves 00:22:37.269 --> 00:22:40.549 of doom, the matches are great. So anyone saying 00:22:40.549 --> 00:22:43.289 Cena can't wrestle, that's just not true. Historically, 00:22:43.329 --> 00:22:45.730 it's not true. He can wrestle when the match 00:22:45.730 --> 00:22:48.410 allows for it and when it calls for it. And you 00:22:48.410 --> 00:22:50.450 put him up with guys that can actually go in 00:22:50.450 --> 00:22:54.029 the ring, and Sami Zayn, this was great. Ultimately, 00:22:54.069 --> 00:22:57.549 we are spoiled to the finish when we get interference 00:22:57.549 --> 00:23:01.089 by none other than Brock Lesnar. It's more F5s 00:23:01.089 --> 00:23:02.549 for everyone. And it's kind of disappointing 00:23:02.549 --> 00:23:06.410 that we weren't able to see an actual solution, 00:23:06.569 --> 00:23:09.430 an actual victor to this match. But this is what 00:23:09.430 --> 00:23:11.910 leads us to WrestlePalooza September 20th. After 00:23:11.910 --> 00:23:15.049 Lesnar's multiple F5s to everyone over the past, 00:23:15.069 --> 00:23:17.750 what, month and a half? We finally get Cena vs. 00:23:17.869 --> 00:23:20.329 Lesnar on the card to WrestlePalooza. This takes 00:23:20.329 --> 00:23:23.150 place in Indianapolis. And this match... It's 00:23:23.150 --> 00:23:26.230 the first match on this ESPN brand -new debut 00:23:26.230 --> 00:23:29.829 PLE. This match kicks off the show, and it was, 00:23:29.930 --> 00:23:33.190 well, it was something, right? It was something. 00:23:33.289 --> 00:23:36.369 If you remember my recap of this, WrestlePalooza, 00:23:36.410 --> 00:23:38.809 right before the match starts, I was commenting 00:23:38.809 --> 00:23:41.990 to my wife that the last time, the match I remember 00:23:41.990 --> 00:23:44.190 between these two the most was the SummerSlam 00:23:44.190 --> 00:23:47.470 fiasco where Brock Lesnar just kicked the crap 00:23:47.470 --> 00:23:51.920 out of Cena for 10 minutes. This is exactly what 00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:55.700 we got for WrestlePalooza. This was a rinse and 00:23:55.700 --> 00:23:59.859 repeat version of that SummerSlam match and Lesnar 00:23:59.859 --> 00:24:03.180 just beat the brakes off of Cena for, what was 00:24:03.180 --> 00:24:06.019 it, 10 minutes? Cena got in two offensive moves 00:24:06.019 --> 00:24:08.759 and Lesnar just absolutely destroyed him. The 00:24:08.759 --> 00:24:10.740 whole highlight of this entire match was John 00:24:10.740 --> 00:24:12.920 Cena's entrance with all the mini Cenas, if you 00:24:12.920 --> 00:24:15.579 will. He comes out in the spectacular colors. 00:24:15.660 --> 00:24:17.779 I think it was yellow at the time and probably 00:24:17.779 --> 00:24:21.319 30, 35, 40 kids or... on the entrance ramp with 00:24:21.319 --> 00:24:24.099 him doing the you can't see me and and running 00:24:24.099 --> 00:24:28.140 around with jorts galore and so And so everyone's 00:24:28.140 --> 00:24:30.559 going crazy. It was really cool. And then what, 00:24:30.619 --> 00:24:33.140 10 minutes later, eight minutes later, you pan 00:24:33.140 --> 00:24:35.640 to some of these same kids in the crowd and they're 00:24:35.640 --> 00:24:38.140 all in tears because Cena just got destroyed 00:24:38.140 --> 00:24:42.059 by Lesnar. So many people were not too happy 00:24:42.059 --> 00:24:43.859 about this one. But as I just said at the beginning 00:24:43.859 --> 00:24:45.779 of this podcast, like what were we all expecting? 00:24:45.940 --> 00:24:48.460 Like this was crazy to think that Cena had a 00:24:48.460 --> 00:24:51.799 shot to beat this larger than life monster truck 00:24:51.799 --> 00:24:55.859 of a superstar. So yeah, I don't know. It was 00:24:55.859 --> 00:25:00.000 crazy. It was crazy. I wasn't a huge fan of that 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:02.539 entire show. But anyway, this kind of brings 00:25:02.539 --> 00:25:04.839 us up to present day. And next on his retirement 00:25:04.839 --> 00:25:06.660 tour is the match I just talked about, the AJ 00:25:06.660 --> 00:25:09.119 Styles crown jewel match, Perth, Australia, this 00:25:09.119 --> 00:25:11.380 Saturday, October 11th. And the buildup for this, 00:25:11.460 --> 00:25:13.099 like I said, it's been non -existent because 00:25:13.099 --> 00:25:15.460 Cena essentially asked for this match over social 00:25:15.460 --> 00:25:19.470 media. AJ agrees to it, and then Triple H just 00:25:19.470 --> 00:25:21.710 gives his nod of approval. And I'm like, this 00:25:21.710 --> 00:25:24.950 is weird. You know, you have two months left, 00:25:25.009 --> 00:25:27.609 and this is how you're building a match? So it's 00:25:27.609 --> 00:25:29.890 just very strange. I know these two have had 00:25:29.890 --> 00:25:31.450 a history. These two have had some really good 00:25:31.450 --> 00:25:34.289 matches before. And it should be a solid match, 00:25:34.490 --> 00:25:36.390 but we have to ask, what is the point of this? 00:25:36.589 --> 00:25:38.470 What is the point of this? There's not many dates 00:25:38.470 --> 00:25:40.730 left on this tour. Why are we doing this match 00:25:40.730 --> 00:25:43.779 so close to the end? They just announced last 00:25:43.779 --> 00:25:46.400 week, they just announced that Cena's last match 00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:49.140 is going to take place in Washington, D .C. on 00:25:49.140 --> 00:25:51.900 December 13th. That's right. It's going to be 00:25:51.900 --> 00:25:54.619 a Saturday night main event. We don't know who 00:25:54.619 --> 00:25:56.759 his opponent is going to be. We don't know anything 00:25:56.759 --> 00:25:59.099 leading up to that other than D .C. December 00:25:59.099 --> 00:26:01.299 13th. And from what I'm hearing, tickets are 00:26:01.299 --> 00:26:04.500 going to be crazy expensive. But what is the 00:26:04.500 --> 00:26:06.819 point of this AJ match? Are we just kind of checking? 00:26:07.500 --> 00:26:10.460 people that he's had feuds with off this list, 00:26:10.500 --> 00:26:12.180 and then he's going to ride off into the sunset. 00:26:12.359 --> 00:26:15.119 I don't know. Some of this final run has been... 00:26:15.450 --> 00:26:17.950 Kind of all over the place. I, along with many 00:26:17.950 --> 00:26:20.450 others, were super, super excited to finally 00:26:20.450 --> 00:26:23.250 get the heel turn, but it just never really got 00:26:23.250 --> 00:26:25.769 off the ground. It never got steam. I just don't 00:26:25.769 --> 00:26:28.150 think the story was well thought out with his 00:26:28.150 --> 00:26:30.549 promos and the way the matches were set up. The 00:26:30.549 --> 00:26:33.930 rock involvement before Elimination Chamber leading 00:26:33.930 --> 00:26:36.049 up to the turn, it kind of went nowhere. The 00:26:36.049 --> 00:26:37.910 promos didn't work. The matches, for the most 00:26:37.910 --> 00:26:40.789 part, with Cena as a heel were kind of a disaster. 00:26:41.430 --> 00:26:44.049 And it's nice that he's been playing the hits 00:26:44.049 --> 00:26:46.809 with some of these. opponents but how are we 00:26:46.809 --> 00:26:48.829 wrapping this whole thing up with only two months 00:26:48.829 --> 00:26:51.029 to go and not many appearances left for him to 00:26:51.029 --> 00:26:54.009 make I don't know where we go I mean we are we 00:26:54.009 --> 00:26:57.180 are just about two months to the end And it's 00:26:57.180 --> 00:26:59.980 kind of sad. I, for one, am going to try to get 00:26:59.980 --> 00:27:03.160 tickets to this show, but we shall see. I would 00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:04.779 love to be there for the final match. I would 00:27:04.779 --> 00:27:06.799 love to be there to give him a proper send -off. 00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:10.359 He has been great. And yeah, so that was kind 00:27:10.359 --> 00:27:13.259 of a quick review thus far of the whole retirement 00:27:13.259 --> 00:27:15.460 tour. I would love to know what you all have 00:27:15.460 --> 00:27:17.380 thought of it. There's been some highs. There's 00:27:17.380 --> 00:27:20.059 definitely been some lows, many lows. But I think 00:27:20.059 --> 00:27:23.240 right now, if you take the whole thing in total, 00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:25.259 it's been right down the middle. Like the first 00:27:25.259 --> 00:27:27.400 half of this was... as terrible, but he's rebounded 00:27:27.400 --> 00:27:30.700 nicely outside of the Brock Lesnar squash, which 00:27:30.700 --> 00:27:33.359 many of us have still not gotten over. He's got 00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:35.240 a couple matches left. I really hope we see some 00:27:35.240 --> 00:27:37.559 good stuff. I'd be interested to see if he goes 00:27:37.559 --> 00:27:40.720 after a brand new opponent, someone that he's 00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:42.460 looking to put over on his way out the door, 00:27:42.579 --> 00:27:45.619 or if we get another blast from the past. I know 00:27:45.619 --> 00:27:47.599 Edge has been talked about for the longest time, 00:27:47.700 --> 00:27:50.799 but those rumors have kind of been refuted. And 00:27:50.799 --> 00:27:53.839 Edge, in my opinion, is his greatest rival. Those 00:27:53.839 --> 00:27:57.750 two. had a awesome, awesome back and forth back 00:27:57.750 --> 00:27:59.750 in the day. I would love to see it, but I just 00:27:59.750 --> 00:28:02.150 don't think it's going to happen. But we shall 00:28:02.150 --> 00:28:05.269 see what's going to, or how this is going to 00:28:05.269 --> 00:28:08.490 play out moving forward. Anyway. Let's move on 00:28:08.490 --> 00:28:11.609 to the cardboard section of the program. Hobby 00:28:11.609 --> 00:28:14.309 enthusiasts, how are we feeling? It has been 00:28:14.309 --> 00:28:17.990 a crazy busy time for Topps and for everything 00:28:17.990 --> 00:28:20.829 going on with the Topps company. There have been 00:28:20.829 --> 00:28:23.450 so many things going on. So many products have 00:28:23.450 --> 00:28:25.490 been released. Disney Chrome, Topps Disney Chrome 00:28:25.490 --> 00:28:28.369 hit the market and I have been watching people 00:28:28.369 --> 00:28:30.990 rip this product open. The prices, we can talk 00:28:30.990 --> 00:28:33.069 about the prices. You know how I love to complain 00:28:33.069 --> 00:28:35.150 about the prices. The prices are through the 00:28:35.150 --> 00:28:38.700 freaking roof. so -called value packs and blaster 00:28:38.700 --> 00:28:43.059 boxes are what, 50 bucks? And the mega boxes 00:28:43.059 --> 00:28:47.579 and such are 80, $90. And the hobby boxes, we 00:28:47.579 --> 00:28:50.099 were at Dave and Adam's in New York City a few 00:28:50.099 --> 00:28:52.380 days ago, and I'm walking through and I'm reading 00:28:52.380 --> 00:28:54.940 the prices of the hobby boxes of this stuff. 00:28:55.480 --> 00:28:58.019 The price for a Disney Chrome Hobby Box at Dave 00:28:58.019 --> 00:29:02.319 and Adam's in New York City was $530. $530. And 00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:04.599 I'm like, you got to be freaking kidding me. 00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:07.160 Now, I have seen a lot of the breaks. I have 00:29:07.160 --> 00:29:09.539 watched some of the YouTube videos of people 00:29:09.539 --> 00:29:11.880 opening this stuff. And I got to admit, some 00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:13.980 of the cars are really cool. Some of the one 00:29:13.980 --> 00:29:16.180 -of -ones people are hitting. The product is 00:29:16.180 --> 00:29:18.900 great, but the price point is just madness to 00:29:18.900 --> 00:29:21.740 me. I am kind of partial to some of the Muppets 00:29:21.740 --> 00:29:24.240 cards. I will be honest. I would love to get 00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:27.480 me a Animal Muppets card, maybe a Kermit, Miss 00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:30.700 Piggy. Yeah, so I love the way those cards look. 00:29:30.819 --> 00:29:32.460 Probably going to be sticking to the singles 00:29:32.460 --> 00:29:35.140 because there's no chance I'm going to be diving 00:29:35.140 --> 00:29:39.960 in to spend that kind of cash on opening and 00:29:39.960 --> 00:29:42.880 ripping some on my own. But what else? SpongeBob 00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:47.480 hit the market, and I got to tell you. I might 00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:49.619 have fear of missing out on this one. A little 00:29:49.619 --> 00:29:53.319 FOMO going on for this set. Again, the prices 00:29:53.319 --> 00:29:56.599 are off the chain. Blasters, you can buy blasters. 00:29:56.640 --> 00:29:59.359 I know Topps, as of yesterday, still had SpongeBob 00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:02.019 blaster boxes on sale on there. Well, not on 00:30:02.019 --> 00:30:04.839 sale. They're just for sale on the actual Topps 00:30:04.839 --> 00:30:08.009 website. And they're running at $40, $40. So 00:30:08.009 --> 00:30:10.710 what do you get for $40? You get seven packs 00:30:10.710 --> 00:30:14.369 of four cards each. So 28 cards, 40 bucks. How 00:30:14.369 --> 00:30:16.549 are we feeling about that? Now, I will tell you, 00:30:16.589 --> 00:30:19.269 I will tell you, I was a huge fan of SpongeBob 00:30:19.269 --> 00:30:21.150 when my kids were young. That's all we watched. 00:30:21.190 --> 00:30:24.950 We watched SpongeBob so much. And you learn to 00:30:24.950 --> 00:30:26.890 love some of the characters, some of the jokes. 00:30:27.329 --> 00:30:29.990 And so I'm watching some of these openings and 00:30:29.990 --> 00:30:32.750 I was laughing hysterically with some of the 00:30:32.750 --> 00:30:36.720 things that they put on these cards. There's 00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:40.309 one that I actually am. gonna try to grab even 00:30:40.309 --> 00:30:42.869 if it's just a single there's one where patrick 00:30:42.869 --> 00:30:45.390 if you remember when they're putting the band 00:30:45.390 --> 00:30:49.430 together and they have this huge production anyway 00:30:49.430 --> 00:30:53.750 he goes is is is mayonnaise an instrument and 00:30:53.750 --> 00:30:56.430 uh i need to get that card i couldn't believe 00:30:56.430 --> 00:30:58.289 some of the stuff they're putting on there but 00:30:58.289 --> 00:31:00.509 some of the inserts are awesome some of the portrait 00:31:00.509 --> 00:31:03.369 cards and people are pulling sketch cards out 00:31:03.369 --> 00:31:05.829 of this product and it's coming from blaster 00:31:05.829 --> 00:31:09.420 boxes so I don't know, maybe I'll buy a box or 00:31:09.420 --> 00:31:13.400 two and see what happens. I've been going back 00:31:13.400 --> 00:31:15.680 and forth. I've been eyeing it up. I even put 00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:18.200 a blaster box or two in the cart, but I haven't 00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:19.799 been able to pull the trigger because let's be 00:31:19.799 --> 00:31:22.220 honest, 40 bucks for 28 cards is a lot of money. 00:31:22.890 --> 00:31:24.730 But they do look awesome. They do look awesome. 00:31:24.849 --> 00:31:27.250 We shall see. I'm going to keep watching videos 00:31:27.250 --> 00:31:29.410 and see what happens. What else is going on? 00:31:29.529 --> 00:31:32.950 Topps Update Baseball. 2025 Topps Update Baseball. 00:31:33.089 --> 00:31:36.849 They released a pre -order, pre -sale. And yeah, 00:31:36.890 --> 00:31:39.630 folks, guess what? Ya boy actually jumped in 00:31:39.630 --> 00:31:42.910 onto this one. Jumped back in. with this one. 00:31:43.009 --> 00:31:47.109 I was all in on series one and then series two 00:31:47.109 --> 00:31:50.230 came out and I kind of didn't buy a single box. 00:31:50.349 --> 00:31:53.329 Series two, the checklist looked whack and I 00:31:53.329 --> 00:31:56.569 wasn't going to invest in it. Topps Chrome came 00:31:56.569 --> 00:31:58.289 out. Topps Chrome Baseball was probably one of 00:31:58.289 --> 00:32:00.450 the worst products and it was so overpriced and 00:32:00.450 --> 00:32:02.730 I didn't get involved in that either. Now Topps 00:32:02.730 --> 00:32:05.109 Update came out and I got to tell you, some of 00:32:05.109 --> 00:32:06.609 the stuff they got going on for Topps Update 00:32:06.609 --> 00:32:09.740 looks... Pretty, pretty cool. The Golden Mirror 00:32:09.740 --> 00:32:11.920 cards, what they're doing now, the Golden Mirror 00:32:11.920 --> 00:32:15.960 is like a SSP image variation on some of these 00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:18.559 base cards. And they're super hard to hit. But 00:32:18.559 --> 00:32:21.200 what they do now, what they're adding. Is an 00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:23.799 autographed golden mirror card. And these cards 00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:26.359 are awesome. Because instead of your typical 00:32:26.359 --> 00:32:29.140 white or clear label at the bottom. They put 00:32:29.140 --> 00:32:31.839 a black label. And then the player is signing 00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:35.000 in gold ink. And they look fire. So a gold back. 00:32:35.160 --> 00:32:37.660 The back of these golden mirror cards is all 00:32:37.660 --> 00:32:39.740 done in gold. And then the front. Almost like 00:32:39.740 --> 00:32:42.200 a chalkboard look. The signature is done in gold 00:32:42.200 --> 00:32:45.180 ink. And I think these look fire. So they came 00:32:45.180 --> 00:32:47.980 on sale. Hobby boxes were going for $89 .99. 00:32:49.480 --> 00:32:51.359 Jumbo Hobbies, which I've never bought in my 00:32:51.359 --> 00:32:55.319 life. They were retailing for $189 .99. I had 00:32:55.319 --> 00:32:58.220 a bunch of Fanatics cash, and I slapped that 00:32:58.220 --> 00:33:02.079 bad boy on there. And ya boy, TB, is going to 00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:05.059 be ripping a Jumbo Hobby for the first time ever. 00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:09.140 So I'm super excited. I love the way some of 00:33:09.140 --> 00:33:11.700 these cars look. I will probably get skunked, 00:33:11.700 --> 00:33:14.500 but we shall see what happens. Yes, there's a 00:33:14.500 --> 00:33:17.619 long list of rookies. Now, in update, they usually... 00:33:18.400 --> 00:33:21.079 Add in a ton of the rookie debut cards, which 00:33:21.079 --> 00:33:24.299 I do like. The chase right now is Nick Kurtz. 00:33:24.299 --> 00:33:27.559 Nick Kurtz is fire. He's been an absolute beast 00:33:27.559 --> 00:33:30.640 of a rookie playing for Oakland. I would love 00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:33.680 to track down one of the GPK Nick Kurtz cards 00:33:33.680 --> 00:33:38.019 from the Bowman Chrome. These things are selling 00:33:38.019 --> 00:33:41.339 for crazy money. Yeah, Nick Kurtz is clearly 00:33:41.339 --> 00:33:44.200 the chase in this product. The inserts look great. 00:33:44.259 --> 00:33:47.460 I'm super excited. I think this product is going 00:33:47.460 --> 00:33:49.900 to come out at the end of October, end of October, 00:33:49.980 --> 00:33:53.019 and we shall see what happens. But Tops, they 00:33:53.019 --> 00:33:55.460 just keep... coming out with stuff because they 00:33:55.460 --> 00:33:57.960 got the license back for the NBA and they just 00:33:57.960 --> 00:34:00.599 announced that their NBA product, they did a 00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:04.740 pre -sale on this as well. NBA fans, if you also 00:34:04.740 --> 00:34:07.460 collect baseball, these cards should look extremely 00:34:07.460 --> 00:34:09.960 familiar to you because what they did, they took 00:34:09.960 --> 00:34:13.460 the exact styling that they used for Topps flagship 00:34:13.460 --> 00:34:16.320 baseball this year. So Series 1, Series 2, and 00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:19.139 Update, they're using the exact same look for 00:34:19.139 --> 00:34:22.199 the NBA product. Now, I believe the last time 00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:25.690 they had The license for the NBA was like 2007, 00:34:26.030 --> 00:34:28.090 2009, something like that. So it's been quite 00:34:28.090 --> 00:34:30.829 some time. It's been at least 15 years. But Topps 00:34:30.829 --> 00:34:33.429 has got the NBA licensing back. So now they are 00:34:33.429 --> 00:34:35.869 able to put. you know, the actual team names 00:34:35.869 --> 00:34:39.210 and logos on the cards because some of the old 00:34:39.210 --> 00:34:41.449 NBA products that Topps has put out with the 00:34:41.449 --> 00:34:44.150 non -license, they look terrible. So I know a 00:34:44.150 --> 00:34:47.050 lot of people are excited. It's a pretty good 00:34:47.050 --> 00:34:50.570 entry point into the product for those who don't 00:34:50.570 --> 00:34:54.469 want to drop for $600 on a hobby box. I believe 00:34:54.469 --> 00:34:57.110 they were pretty, pretty comparable to the Topps 00:34:57.110 --> 00:34:59.849 update baseball and the hobby boxes were right 00:34:59.849 --> 00:35:02.110 around 90 to a hundred bucks, which is a relatively 00:35:02.110 --> 00:35:04.869 consistent. price and it's what we've seen for 00:35:04.869 --> 00:35:07.409 flagship baseball products thus far. So yeah, 00:35:07.449 --> 00:35:09.530 I know this is coming out soon and there's a 00:35:09.530 --> 00:35:11.349 lot of excitement to go into it. But what I wanted 00:35:11.349 --> 00:35:14.449 to end this portion of the program talking about 00:35:14.449 --> 00:35:17.650 was the If Money Were No Object Buy of the Week 00:35:17.650 --> 00:35:20.309 because I have found it something I am super 00:35:20.309 --> 00:35:24.929 excited to dive into and I might be buying myself 00:35:24.929 --> 00:35:27.789 a box of this. This is none other than the 2025 00:35:27.789 --> 00:35:32.130 Keepsake Michael Jackson Bad World Tour. Hobby 00:35:32.130 --> 00:35:34.630 Box. That's right. This comes out. They just 00:35:34.630 --> 00:35:37.389 dropped this. This comes out in December. It's 00:35:37.389 --> 00:35:41.510 a set that focuses on the bad world tour of Michael 00:35:41.510 --> 00:35:43.210 Jackson. Now, if you know anything about me, 00:35:43.289 --> 00:35:47.050 I don't want to talk about the off the set, off 00:35:47.050 --> 00:35:50.550 the tour nonsense that was his life. That's not 00:35:50.550 --> 00:35:52.730 what I want to talk about. But my wife got me 00:35:52.730 --> 00:35:54.769 tickets to go see MJ on Broadway. It was one 00:35:54.769 --> 00:35:57.150 of the greatest experiences. Awesome, awesome 00:35:57.150 --> 00:36:00.050 show. I just love his music. His music is great. 00:36:00.329 --> 00:36:04.909 And the Bad World Tour was just insane. So this 00:36:04.909 --> 00:36:07.869 set focuses on this tour from the King of Pop. 00:36:07.989 --> 00:36:10.449 And it's going to come out with cards and such 00:36:10.449 --> 00:36:13.389 to reflect different points of the tour. Now, 00:36:13.409 --> 00:36:17.159 they have some... memorabilia and different things 00:36:17.159 --> 00:36:19.460 that they have put into these cards. And there's 00:36:19.460 --> 00:36:22.260 even a cut autograph. Obviously he's not signing 00:36:22.260 --> 00:36:25.760 anymore, but they have cut autographs put into 00:36:25.760 --> 00:36:28.159 this set. There's 16 packs per box, four cards 00:36:28.159 --> 00:36:30.800 per pack. You are guaranteed two hits. Now a 00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:33.000 hit could be anything from an autograph to a 00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:35.960 piece of memorabilia, but they have pieces of 00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:39.360 his belt. They have pieces of his gloves. There's 00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:41.719 going to be over 300 different cards to be found. 00:36:42.329 --> 00:36:44.429 in this set with base cards, parallels, inserts, 00:36:44.730 --> 00:36:47.510 memorabilia cards, and then that one -of -one 00:36:47.510 --> 00:36:50.989 cut autograph card. They've taken VIP passes, 00:36:51.090 --> 00:36:54.130 tickets, all kinds of things. It's really, really 00:36:54.130 --> 00:36:57.030 cool. I'm super excited for this. Yeah, the prices, 00:36:57.210 --> 00:37:01.210 I don't think the prices are crazy. If I... I 00:37:01.210 --> 00:37:03.110 remember correctly, they were right around like 00:37:03.110 --> 00:37:06.489 60 bucks, 60 to 70 bucks for a hobby box, which 00:37:06.489 --> 00:37:08.730 whatever. Some of the way, some of these relics, 00:37:08.829 --> 00:37:11.010 like they have one called a silhouette relic 00:37:11.010 --> 00:37:13.869 where they kind of put your VIP pass behind a 00:37:13.869 --> 00:37:16.550 picture of MJ as he's performing. It looks pretty 00:37:16.550 --> 00:37:19.409 sick. They have some die cut stuff that say King 00:37:19.409 --> 00:37:22.409 of Pop. It's crazy what they're doing. Will these 00:37:22.409 --> 00:37:24.530 be a smash? I don't know. They're kind of similar 00:37:24.530 --> 00:37:27.630 to the vein of the historic boxes that I've talked 00:37:27.630 --> 00:37:30.250 about with the legends of the past with the pirates. 00:37:30.409 --> 00:37:33.199 And... you know, different themes in history. 00:37:33.300 --> 00:37:35.760 So it kind of goes in that realm. I'm super excited 00:37:35.760 --> 00:37:38.880 for this. And yeah, I think I'm going to be diving 00:37:38.880 --> 00:37:43.440 into a box of the 2025 Keepsake Michael Jackson 00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:46.500 Bad World Tour Hobby Box. I'm definitely looking 00:37:46.500 --> 00:37:48.739 forward to that. I will keep you all informed 00:37:48.739 --> 00:37:51.300 as we get closer to that release in December. 00:37:51.760 --> 00:37:53.800 But I think that's going to wrap up the card 00:37:53.800 --> 00:37:56.460 portion of the program. Now we have to talk about 00:37:56.460 --> 00:37:58.920 and turn our attention to the Buffalo Bills. 00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:02.480 Bills Mafia, how the heck? are we feeling well 00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:05.679 i will tell you how i'm feeling number one i 00:38:05.679 --> 00:38:08.719 am exhausted can we start with the night games 00:38:08.719 --> 00:38:11.800 so used to be that during the drought we never 00:38:11.800 --> 00:38:15.360 had anything other than the typical 1 p .m kickoffs 00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:19.159 and we all kind of complained and moaned about 00:38:19.159 --> 00:38:21.800 that oh why do we never get any national recognition 00:38:21.800 --> 00:38:24.159 well that's because we suck well now that we 00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:27.940 are one of the top teams in the nfl the league 00:38:27.940 --> 00:38:31.860 wants to put us in all these prime time spotlight 00:38:31.860 --> 00:38:34.659 games. And that's fine. But the flip side to 00:38:34.659 --> 00:38:37.900 that is you're going to be staying up way, way 00:38:37.900 --> 00:38:41.320 past your bedtime on Sunday and Monday and sometimes 00:38:41.320 --> 00:38:44.059 Thursday night. So yeah, I'm tired because what 00:38:44.059 --> 00:38:46.900 happens? What happens, Mafia, when the game doesn't 00:38:46.900 --> 00:38:49.320 get over till 1130 and you're frustrated for 00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:52.280 the last three hours and then you lose at the 00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:55.239 last second? You have a tendency to not be able 00:38:55.239 --> 00:38:59.329 to sleep. So when that four o 'clock alarm goes 00:38:59.329 --> 00:39:02.530 off and you probably got an hour maybe an hour 00:39:02.530 --> 00:39:04.650 and a half worth of sleep you tend to be a little 00:39:04.650 --> 00:39:07.769 tired you tend to be a little grumpy but it is 00:39:07.769 --> 00:39:10.429 what it is so let's dive into this game what 00:39:10.429 --> 00:39:13.010 what do we want to say about it now here's the 00:39:13.010 --> 00:39:16.230 thing a little peek behind the curtain i split 00:39:16.230 --> 00:39:19.190 this podcast up recording wise so the first two 00:39:19.190 --> 00:39:22.650 t's i recorded on saturday and then this part 00:39:22.650 --> 00:39:24.510 obviously i had to wait till the game was over 00:39:24.510 --> 00:39:28.920 and so now it is monday and i have had not necessarily 00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:33.539 24 hours i've had about i don't know what what 00:39:33.539 --> 00:39:36.039 freaking time is it i've had about 15 hours to 00:39:36.039 --> 00:39:38.860 kind of break down this game and how i feel about 00:39:38.860 --> 00:39:41.820 the whole thing and uh frustrated is a word but 00:39:41.820 --> 00:39:44.750 here's the thing i love this team I love this 00:39:44.750 --> 00:39:46.550 team, and I don't want to come on here, and I 00:39:46.550 --> 00:39:48.789 don't want to be so negative, and I don't want 00:39:48.789 --> 00:39:52.090 to blast each and every player. But at the same 00:39:52.090 --> 00:39:55.349 time, we need to be held accountable. And so 00:39:55.349 --> 00:39:58.349 I was thinking about what exactly I wanted to 00:39:58.349 --> 00:40:00.769 say. When I watch these games, I have a little 00:40:00.769 --> 00:40:03.869 notepad with me, and I just take a bunch of notes. 00:40:03.889 --> 00:40:07.059 And this is what I wrote. At halftime, when the 00:40:07.059 --> 00:40:09.159 score was 6 -3, this is what I wrote. I wrote, 00:40:09.219 --> 00:40:11.559 worst half of football in the entire season. 00:40:12.079 --> 00:40:15.139 Sloppy, undisciplined, no rhythm, too much extra 00:40:15.139 --> 00:40:18.659 nonsense going on, eight penalties, two turnovers. 00:40:19.059 --> 00:40:21.139 That's what I wrote at halftime. And that just 00:40:21.139 --> 00:40:24.400 about sums up the whole game. The score was 6 00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:28.920 -3. 6 -3 at halftime. It's funny. I was thinking 00:40:28.920 --> 00:40:31.449 about this. Right before kickoff, you had Chirico 00:40:31.449 --> 00:40:34.289 and Collinsworth, and they're talking about these 00:40:34.289 --> 00:40:36.030 two teams, and they're going back and forth about 00:40:36.030 --> 00:40:37.949 this, that, and the other, and they're talking 00:40:37.949 --> 00:40:41.030 about the Bills, right? And what did he say about 00:40:41.030 --> 00:40:43.070 the Bills? He said, everybody likes to watch 00:40:43.070 --> 00:40:45.590 this team. They're fun. They're exciting. They're 00:40:45.590 --> 00:40:49.010 entertaining. Tell me, Mafia, was anyone entertained 00:40:49.010 --> 00:40:51.849 by anything that happened in the first 30 minutes 00:40:51.849 --> 00:40:53.809 of that football game? That was one of the worst 00:40:53.809 --> 00:40:56.670 halves of football I've seen, not just by the 00:40:56.670 --> 00:41:00.110 Bills, but by anyone who played. yesterday or 00:41:00.110 --> 00:41:03.309 this season. That was a terrible first half of 00:41:03.309 --> 00:41:06.829 football. So yes, sloppy, undisciplined. You 00:41:06.829 --> 00:41:10.010 never see the Bills commit mistakes as far as 00:41:10.010 --> 00:41:13.030 turnovers. I know a lot of the people and myself 00:41:13.030 --> 00:41:15.849 included, as I'm watching this game, I'm thinking, 00:41:15.909 --> 00:41:18.150 oh, the defense this, the defense that. Yeah, 00:41:18.230 --> 00:41:20.369 the defense did make some plays and we're going 00:41:20.369 --> 00:41:22.409 to get to that in a second. But the score was 00:41:22.409 --> 00:41:25.269 six to three at halftime. Think about that for 00:41:25.269 --> 00:41:28.590 a second. We are averaging 31 points a game. 00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:32.619 So far, 31 points a game, and at halftime, we 00:41:32.619 --> 00:41:35.260 score three. Three points, and we give the ball 00:41:35.260 --> 00:41:39.219 over to them numerous times. We come out, and 00:41:39.219 --> 00:41:41.820 what was the other thing I wrote? Too much extra 00:41:41.820 --> 00:41:45.539 nonsense going on. The inside handoff to Dawson 00:41:45.539 --> 00:41:47.619 Knox that was fumbled, he didn't even know he 00:41:47.619 --> 00:41:49.460 was going to get the ball. The guy the play is 00:41:49.460 --> 00:41:51.219 designed for, he's like, what the hell are you 00:41:51.219 --> 00:41:53.900 giving me the ball for? This is crazy. And end 00:41:53.900 --> 00:41:57.510 around with the... second possibly third tight 00:41:57.510 --> 00:41:59.929 end on the team you're gonna do an inside handoff 00:41:59.929 --> 00:42:02.710 to no wonder no wonder he fumbled and then I'm 00:42:02.710 --> 00:42:06.329 watching as some of the play calls coming in 00:42:06.329 --> 00:42:08.449 and I'm just like what are we doing what are 00:42:08.449 --> 00:42:10.949 we doing oh my gosh it's frustrating because 00:42:10.949 --> 00:42:13.809 like I just said I love these players Dawson 00:42:13.809 --> 00:42:16.150 Knox one of my favorite players Josh Allen one 00:42:16.150 --> 00:42:18.730 of my favorite players but if you listen to his 00:42:18.730 --> 00:42:21.690 post game comments what did he say Josh Allen 00:42:21.690 --> 00:42:24.269 the quarterback of this team And sometimes these 00:42:24.269 --> 00:42:27.030 post -game press conferences, the Sean McDermott, 00:42:27.150 --> 00:42:29.340 you don't learn anything. Because they don't 00:42:29.340 --> 00:42:31.059 say anything. And it's so frustrating. Like, 00:42:31.099 --> 00:42:32.980 I don't want to watch some of these games and 00:42:32.980 --> 00:42:35.079 their sideline reporters because they talk to 00:42:35.079 --> 00:42:36.780 these coaches after the half or right before 00:42:36.780 --> 00:42:38.800 the half, either coming or going from the locker 00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:39.960 room. It doesn't really freaking matter. But 00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:42.280 they don't say anything. They say the same 30 00:42:42.280 --> 00:42:44.320 -second sound clip each and every game. And it's 00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:46.340 maddening. But Josh Allen, after this game, he 00:42:46.340 --> 00:42:49.480 says, it was a piss -poor offense. And that's 00:42:49.480 --> 00:42:51.659 exactly right. So, yeah, we can talk about the 00:42:51.659 --> 00:42:54.239 defense here in a minute. But the offense? What 00:42:54.239 --> 00:42:57.219 are you doing? Josh was forcing throws. People 00:42:57.219 --> 00:43:01.400 are dropping balls. They're off. You had Josh 00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:05.280 Palmer with formation penalties. And I'm like, 00:43:05.380 --> 00:43:08.460 y 'all look like this was preseason game number 00:43:08.460 --> 00:43:11.940 one. And when I watch other teams play, it's 00:43:11.940 --> 00:43:14.610 so easy to see. the teams that are disciplined, 00:43:14.869 --> 00:43:16.789 the teams that are focused, the teams that are 00:43:16.789 --> 00:43:19.489 ready to go. I don't know what was going on in 00:43:19.489 --> 00:43:22.469 the first 30 minutes of this game, but the offense 00:43:22.469 --> 00:43:26.489 looked like they had just met each other 15 minutes 00:43:26.489 --> 00:43:29.809 prior to starting this thing. And super frustrating 00:43:29.809 --> 00:43:32.250 to watch. Outside of Dawson Knox, I'm sorry, 00:43:32.349 --> 00:43:34.869 outside of Dalton Kincaid, who had his greatest 00:43:34.869 --> 00:43:37.309 game as a Buffalo Bill, so awesome props to him, 00:43:37.389 --> 00:43:39.670 he balled out. Outside of him, who do we want 00:43:39.670 --> 00:43:41.630 to talk about? We want to talk about Keon? Yeah, 00:43:41.670 --> 00:43:43.590 he caught a touchdown, but he had a huge, costly 00:43:43.590 --> 00:43:46.409 fumble. And we're just chucking up 50 -50 balls 00:43:46.409 --> 00:43:48.829 to Keon Coleman. I love Keon Coleman. I think 00:43:48.829 --> 00:43:51.550 he can be great. But he's getting no separation. 00:43:51.610 --> 00:43:54.269 So out of desperation, Josh is just chucking 00:43:54.269 --> 00:43:57.650 it to Keon, hoping he, somebody, can make a freaking 00:43:57.650 --> 00:44:00.070 play. Because clearly, no one is getting open. 00:44:00.429 --> 00:44:02.730 The only way we can get Shakir the ball is if 00:44:02.730 --> 00:44:04.809 it's two yards off the line of scrimmage. This 00:44:04.809 --> 00:44:06.349 whole idea in the offseason that we're going 00:44:06.349 --> 00:44:09.110 to go sign Josh Palmer and the key to his game 00:44:09.110 --> 00:44:11.210 is he gets separation immediately off the line 00:44:11.210 --> 00:44:13.710 of scrimmage, immediately off the ball, and he's 00:44:13.710 --> 00:44:15.630 going to be able to separate. How many catches 00:44:15.630 --> 00:44:18.190 does he have so far? I don't even know that he's 00:44:18.190 --> 00:44:20.309 in the game. He caught one ball yesterday and 00:44:20.309 --> 00:44:22.889 I was like, holy cow, there he is. We spent a 00:44:22.889 --> 00:44:24.769 lot of money to sign him. What, we get a three 00:44:24.769 --> 00:44:28.670 -year deal for Josh Palmer? And he's non -existent. 00:44:29.230 --> 00:44:31.150 He's supposed to be the separator. He's supposed 00:44:31.150 --> 00:44:34.809 to be the guy that we can go to because the Patriots 00:44:34.809 --> 00:44:37.349 cornerbacks were legit. But this everybody eats 00:44:37.349 --> 00:44:40.809 scenario that we're all trying to toe the line 00:44:40.809 --> 00:44:42.949 and think that this is the greatest thing since 00:44:42.949 --> 00:44:45.989 sliced bread led by Joe Brady. Well, I'm not 00:44:45.989 --> 00:44:49.289 so sure that it's great because, yes, we've gotten 00:44:49.289 --> 00:44:52.110 away with not making mistakes and we can hang 00:44:52.110 --> 00:44:54.030 on and win these games. And what happens when 00:44:54.030 --> 00:44:56.789 we don't make mistakes? We score 31 points a 00:44:56.789 --> 00:44:59.599 game. 31 points a game and then we go back and 00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:01.559 we're like oh god there were some points of this 00:45:01.559 --> 00:45:03.639 game where the offense took two quarters off 00:45:03.639 --> 00:45:05.599 they went in a vacation mode in the middle of 00:45:05.599 --> 00:45:07.800 the game i've talked about this before each and 00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:10.820 every game the offense takes significant chunks 00:45:10.820 --> 00:45:13.860 of the game off but the difference is they don't 00:45:13.860 --> 00:45:16.519 make mistakes and then last night we had the 00:45:16.519 --> 00:45:19.760 perfect collision of crap happen right so not 00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:22.179 only did the offense take chunks of the game 00:45:22.179 --> 00:45:25.719 off But they also made costly, costly turnovers. 00:45:25.739 --> 00:45:28.920 So when I'm walking into halftime going, we are 00:45:28.920 --> 00:45:32.000 only down by three points. The defense, the defense 00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:34.760 we want to rail on for the last four weeks only 00:45:34.760 --> 00:45:37.019 gave up six points. And at the end of the game, 00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:40.159 they only gave up 23. If your defense hangs a 00:45:40.159 --> 00:45:42.679 23 spot on the board, you should win those games. 00:45:42.719 --> 00:45:44.199 If you're the Buffalo Bills and you have Josh 00:45:44.199 --> 00:45:47.139 Allen, you should win those games. With James 00:45:47.139 --> 00:45:50.119 Cook. who is one of the top two running backs 00:45:50.119 --> 00:45:51.960 in the league so far this year, through the first 00:45:51.960 --> 00:45:55.420 four games, I don't know. He couldn't get going. 00:45:55.579 --> 00:45:57.139 The offensive line couldn't get going. It was 00:45:57.139 --> 00:45:59.199 penalty after penalty. And we want to talk, well, 00:45:59.320 --> 00:46:02.320 the refs, the refs. No, look at the game. I mean, 00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:05.480 look, this game was not fun. There's nothing 00:46:05.480 --> 00:46:08.199 entertaining about this game whatsoever. And 00:46:08.199 --> 00:46:10.639 then you add in the ref fiascos, and we want 00:46:10.639 --> 00:46:13.400 to talk about, oh, they were biased against the 00:46:13.400 --> 00:46:15.619 Bills. At the end of the game, the Bills, I think, 00:46:15.619 --> 00:46:18.539 had, what was it? 12 or 11 penalties, and the 00:46:18.539 --> 00:46:20.920 Patriots had eight or nine. So it wasn't that 00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:23.860 far off. The Patriots just took a while to get 00:46:23.860 --> 00:46:26.119 caught up, but they were making stupid, costly 00:46:26.119 --> 00:46:28.280 penalties towards the end of the game that almost 00:46:28.280 --> 00:46:31.019 had them lose. So we want to talk about Hockley 00:46:31.019 --> 00:46:33.119 and how he wants to be the star of the show and 00:46:33.119 --> 00:46:36.699 the ref squad. They want to be the focus of Sunday 00:46:36.699 --> 00:46:38.519 Night Football. I could see that to a point, 00:46:38.579 --> 00:46:41.619 but the Bills were making stupid, stupid errors 00:46:41.619 --> 00:46:44.679 that they usually don't make, and they looked 00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:48.139 like an undisciplined, sloppy mess is what that 00:46:48.139 --> 00:46:50.579 game was. It was an undisciplined, sloppy mess. 00:46:50.860 --> 00:46:56.039 Yeah, this one's rough. It's not because we lost, 00:46:56.119 --> 00:46:58.659 but think about it this way. Here's the other 00:46:58.659 --> 00:47:00.699 way I look at it. The New England Patriots came 00:47:00.699 --> 00:47:02.960 out with a chip on their shoulder, so Mike Vrabel. 00:47:03.369 --> 00:47:05.789 Now, while he was kind of annoying me with every 00:47:05.789 --> 00:47:08.150 play, it seemed like he was barking at the refs, 00:47:08.150 --> 00:47:09.849 wanting them to do something. And I'm like, well, 00:47:09.869 --> 00:47:11.789 how much more do you want, dude? In the first 00:47:11.789 --> 00:47:13.429 half, you already got eight penalties called 00:47:13.429 --> 00:47:15.730 against the opposition. How much more can you 00:47:15.730 --> 00:47:18.530 ask for from the refs? But he was just getting 00:47:18.530 --> 00:47:20.809 on my nerve. Anyway, they came out ready to play. 00:47:20.969 --> 00:47:23.869 And then Drake May, he played just about as perfect 00:47:23.869 --> 00:47:25.489 as you could ask a second -year quarterback. 00:47:25.769 --> 00:47:28.329 Now, he didn't throw a run for any touchdowns, 00:47:28.329 --> 00:47:31.130 but he played great. He avoided the rush. He 00:47:31.130 --> 00:47:34.210 avoided the rush, he extended plays, and he constantly 00:47:34.210 --> 00:47:37.610 found the open man who was none other than proverbial 00:47:37.610 --> 00:47:39.909 cast -off that everyone wanted to go, we got 00:47:39.909 --> 00:47:42.090 to run this guy out of town. Stephon Diggs was 00:47:42.090 --> 00:47:44.590 the best wide receiver on the field last night, 00:47:44.650 --> 00:47:47.070 folks. Got to tell you, Bills, Patriots, don't 00:47:47.070 --> 00:47:49.150 matter. Stephon Diggs was the best wide receiver 00:47:49.150 --> 00:47:52.389 on the field. 146 yards receiving? for Stefan 00:47:52.389 --> 00:47:55.250 Diggs and we all two years ago were like oh this 00:47:55.250 --> 00:47:58.550 guy sucks he's a malcontent he doesn't want to 00:47:58.550 --> 00:48:01.050 be here run him out of town he's slow he's this 00:48:01.050 --> 00:48:04.130 he's that well he didn't look too slow last night 00:48:04.130 --> 00:48:07.730 and I don't know what the deal is with New England 00:48:07.730 --> 00:48:10.230 but he's catching the ball and then imagine this 00:48:10.230 --> 00:48:12.710 folks he's actually running with the ball that's 00:48:12.710 --> 00:48:14.349 something we didn't see in the last few years 00:48:14.349 --> 00:48:16.829 of Buffalo how many times remember we get The 00:48:16.829 --> 00:48:18.849 ball to Diggs and he just goes down. And here 00:48:18.849 --> 00:48:21.010 he's running all over the field. So the whole 00:48:21.010 --> 00:48:22.469 thing was frustrating. But here's the thing. 00:48:22.949 --> 00:48:26.030 146 yards to Diggs. He played great. You got 00:48:26.030 --> 00:48:29.030 to tip your cap to him. Drake May played great. 00:48:29.329 --> 00:48:31.909 Those two played nearly a perfect game. So they 00:48:31.909 --> 00:48:35.070 played perfect. They got three turnovers from 00:48:35.070 --> 00:48:38.590 this Bills team. The Bills had 11 or 12 penalties 00:48:38.590 --> 00:48:41.670 in the game. Almost a full football field's worth 00:48:41.670 --> 00:48:44.420 of penalties. And they still, the Patriots still 00:48:44.420 --> 00:48:46.519 only won by three. So maybe we all need to pump 00:48:46.519 --> 00:48:48.460 the brakes about how, oh, the rivalry's back. 00:48:48.820 --> 00:48:50.659 I mean, I'm already seeing, oh, the New England 00:48:50.659 --> 00:48:52.820 Patriots are back. And Drake Mays, the answer, 00:48:52.900 --> 00:48:55.400 yeah, yeah, they played really good. And I'm 00:48:55.400 --> 00:48:57.079 not going to take anything away from them. They 00:48:57.079 --> 00:48:59.380 beat us last night. But we also beat ourselves 00:48:59.380 --> 00:49:02.699 because it was a sloppy, undisciplined, no rhythm, 00:49:02.840 --> 00:49:05.079 bunch of nonsense that we put on the field last 00:49:05.079 --> 00:49:07.360 night. And I'm hearing stuff like, oh, the jerseys 00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:09.179 are terrible. Burn them, never wear them again. 00:49:09.260 --> 00:49:12.280 Get out of here. Get out of here with that. Those 00:49:12.280 --> 00:49:14.719 jerseys were fire, by the way. The whiteout looked 00:49:14.719 --> 00:49:17.900 amazing. I wish I was there. That looked awesome. 00:49:18.199 --> 00:49:21.199 It was an awesome sight to see. Your boys, the 00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:24.239 Bills, my boys, they didn't come to play. They 00:49:24.239 --> 00:49:26.559 didn't come to play. Outside of Kincaid, I mean, 00:49:26.599 --> 00:49:29.300 when I'm writing down notes that Connor McGovern 00:49:29.300 --> 00:49:31.599 is getting multiple penalties called on him in 00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:33.159 a game, when was the last time you ever heard 00:49:33.159 --> 00:49:34.920 that happen? And then I'm writing stuff like 00:49:34.920 --> 00:49:37.780 we're handing the ball to Ray Davis and key critical 00:49:37.780 --> 00:49:40.360 points of the game. Ray Davis that hasn't done 00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:43.440 jack squat this whole year. And I'm looking around. 00:49:43.519 --> 00:49:46.000 I'm like, where's James Cook? He literally is 00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:47.880 in for one play, and now he's going and sitting 00:49:47.880 --> 00:49:53.860 on the sidelines? Oh, man. I don't know. I don't 00:49:53.860 --> 00:49:56.940 know, Joey Bosa, I've kind of hung my hat on 00:49:56.940 --> 00:49:59.460 a solid Joey Bosa start to the season. I thought 00:49:59.460 --> 00:50:02.280 he's played well, and I got some heat for that, 00:50:02.360 --> 00:50:05.300 and that's okay. I welcome differing opinions 00:50:05.300 --> 00:50:07.840 because maybe you all see stuff that I don't 00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:10.000 see and vice versa, and that's okay. But last 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:13.719 night, he was non -existent, folks, non -existent. 00:50:13.719 --> 00:50:16.300 I'm like, where the hell is 97? Where's Joey 00:50:16.300 --> 00:50:20.829 Bosa? He was trash. And the first quarter, Greg 00:50:20.829 --> 00:50:22.809 Rousseau was a beast, and I've been calling for 00:50:22.809 --> 00:50:26.130 him to show up. So he shows up, and Bosa disappears 00:50:26.130 --> 00:50:28.690 into Orchard Park somewhere. I don't know where 00:50:28.690 --> 00:50:32.369 he went. Maybe he's down getting wings somewhere. 00:50:32.550 --> 00:50:34.449 I don't know what was happening. We can't get 00:50:34.449 --> 00:50:38.570 these guys all to gel and come together at the 00:50:38.570 --> 00:50:41.010 same time. And, of course, the injuries. So the 00:50:41.010 --> 00:50:43.630 whole week, we thought Ed Oliver was going to 00:50:43.630 --> 00:50:47.550 play. He's a scratch. But we get Milano back. 00:50:47.750 --> 00:50:50.849 And what happens? What happens? Milano doesn't 00:50:50.849 --> 00:50:53.750 play the second half because he tweaks his pec 00:50:53.750 --> 00:50:56.690 muscle again. I mean, is this guy just lifting 00:50:56.690 --> 00:50:58.630 too much? What are we doing? Maybe do some yoga. 00:50:58.750 --> 00:51:01.329 I don't know. I don't know. Cryogenics chamber 00:51:01.329 --> 00:51:03.170 or whatever the hell you call those things. I 00:51:03.170 --> 00:51:05.789 don't know. Ice bath. I don't know what to do. 00:51:06.269 --> 00:51:08.829 Oxygen deprivation tank, whatever. I don't know. 00:51:08.889 --> 00:51:12.380 And it's sad because. Like Milano is one of my 00:51:12.380 --> 00:51:15.860 favorite players to watch on the field. When 00:51:15.860 --> 00:51:19.280 he is on and he is primed, there's nothing better. 00:51:19.460 --> 00:51:22.440 One of my favorite clips all time is him just 00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:25.400 leveling Mike White on the Jets, like literally 00:51:25.400 --> 00:51:27.940 folding him in half. It's one of my all -time 00:51:27.940 --> 00:51:30.380 favorite hits ever in the history of football. 00:51:30.539 --> 00:51:33.429 And so... It's sad when I look at these guys 00:51:33.429 --> 00:51:36.130 like Milano who can't get back on the field. 00:51:36.170 --> 00:51:38.409 He can't stay on the field. That's frustrating. 00:51:38.610 --> 00:51:42.329 That sucks as a Bills fan. Trey White. Back in 00:51:42.329 --> 00:51:44.849 his heyday, Trey White was the freaking man. 00:51:45.030 --> 00:51:47.449 And anyone that said he wasn't is fooling themselves. 00:51:47.769 --> 00:51:50.469 But guess what? Trey White is a shell of himself. 00:51:50.650 --> 00:51:53.369 A shell of himself right now. And it's sad to 00:51:53.369 --> 00:51:56.230 watch. But who do we have? We don't have anyone 00:51:56.230 --> 00:51:58.349 else. Dorian Strong is hurt. Dorian Williams. 00:51:59.609 --> 00:52:04.289 He was supposed to be up and coming. I thought 00:52:04.289 --> 00:52:08.090 he was going to be the next up, but he played 00:52:08.090 --> 00:52:10.349 terrible last week, and now he's hurt. But Dorian 00:52:10.349 --> 00:52:13.010 Strong, the next guy up in the cornerback room, 00:52:13.130 --> 00:52:15.829 he is on IR now. We might not see him again the 00:52:15.829 --> 00:52:18.090 whole year. Now he has to go see a neck specialist? 00:52:18.230 --> 00:52:20.329 That's never good. So the whole thing's frustrating. 00:52:20.570 --> 00:52:23.929 I try not to be too... down on this game because 00:52:23.929 --> 00:52:25.889 as i said like literally the patriots played 00:52:25.889 --> 00:52:28.449 between their wide receiver and quarterback combo 00:52:28.449 --> 00:52:30.869 they played the perfect game and they still were 00:52:30.869 --> 00:52:33.469 gifted maybe gifted maybe not it depends how 00:52:33.469 --> 00:52:35.670 you want to look at it 11 to 12 penalties on 00:52:35.670 --> 00:52:39.110 the bills and the bills gave them the ball three 00:52:39.110 --> 00:52:41.929 extra times and they still it took them a last 00:52:41.929 --> 00:52:44.349 second 52 yard field goal to win this game y 00:52:44.349 --> 00:52:46.110 'all want to go tell me the patriots are that 00:52:46.110 --> 00:52:49.119 much better okay I mean, maybe, maybe, maybe 00:52:49.119 --> 00:52:51.099 I will eat my words come the end of the season. 00:52:51.139 --> 00:52:53.519 Maybe they will overcome the Bills and win the 00:52:53.519 --> 00:52:55.519 division, but I don't think so. I just think 00:52:55.519 --> 00:52:57.619 like this was the perfect storm of crap and the 00:52:57.619 --> 00:53:00.920 Bills just sucked last night, like flat out sucked. 00:53:01.059 --> 00:53:03.679 And it sucks because I had to stay up till 1130 00:53:03.679 --> 00:53:06.679 and got no sleep watching this nonsense. And 00:53:06.679 --> 00:53:10.179 we lost our best linebacker. I mean, you want 00:53:10.179 --> 00:53:11.920 to tell me Bernard's better than Milano at this 00:53:11.920 --> 00:53:13.840 point? I don't know. I don't know. Some of these 00:53:13.840 --> 00:53:16.599 guys, I just think. Our depth is non -existent. 00:53:16.599 --> 00:53:18.880 I talked about waiting for reinforcements week 00:53:18.880 --> 00:53:21.920 six, but we're going to need way more reinforcements. 00:53:22.079 --> 00:53:24.019 Brandon Bean, time to get to work, my friend. 00:53:24.059 --> 00:53:26.699 Time to get to work. Maybe trade one of these 00:53:26.699 --> 00:53:28.760 guys. You got Curtis Samuel. You got Elijah Moore. 00:53:28.900 --> 00:53:31.719 Elijah Moore, we brought him in. He was inactive. 00:53:31.940 --> 00:53:34.019 He's got, what, 12 catches on the whole year? 00:53:34.239 --> 00:53:36.440 Maybe we trade one of these guys for somebody 00:53:36.440 --> 00:53:38.679 that can help us defensively. I don't know. It's 00:53:38.679 --> 00:53:41.730 so frustrating, but you tip the cap. Drake May, 00:53:41.869 --> 00:53:44.070 he played great. Stevon Diggs, he torched us. 00:53:44.150 --> 00:53:46.610 And it wasn't just Trey White. So I know I just 00:53:46.610 --> 00:53:49.570 dogged on Trey White who can't seem to catch 00:53:49.570 --> 00:53:52.090 cold now. It used to be back in the day you had 00:53:52.090 --> 00:53:55.369 the thought that there's the hope of an interception. 00:53:55.570 --> 00:53:57.969 He's playing so far off these guys and where 00:53:57.969 --> 00:54:01.449 he gets beat so quickly off the line that he's 00:54:01.449 --> 00:54:04.090 not even in the play. And there's multiple plays 00:54:04.090 --> 00:54:05.849 I was watching last night where the receiver 00:54:05.849 --> 00:54:10.170 or the running back would catch a ball out of 00:54:10.170 --> 00:54:12.760 the flat. And I'm looking and I'm like, I don't 00:54:12.760 --> 00:54:16.480 even see a defender on the screen. And then here 00:54:16.480 --> 00:54:18.639 comes Shaq Thompson flying around and makes the 00:54:18.639 --> 00:54:20.900 play five yards later. And I'm just like, where 00:54:20.900 --> 00:54:23.619 the hell is the defensive players on this team? 00:54:23.699 --> 00:54:26.960 I don't know. Maybe this is a wake -up call because 00:54:26.960 --> 00:54:29.239 maybe a positive out of this. We don't have to 00:54:29.239 --> 00:54:31.519 talk about potentially going undefeated because 00:54:31.519 --> 00:54:33.300 I didn't really want to have that conversation. 00:54:33.400 --> 00:54:36.500 But we got this. turd of a loss out of the way 00:54:36.500 --> 00:54:39.179 pretty early now we have just over a week we 00:54:39.179 --> 00:54:41.019 have what eight days to think about this one 00:54:41.019 --> 00:54:44.099 and prepare for atlanta because atlanta is going 00:54:44.099 --> 00:54:46.599 to be sitting at home they've had a extra week 00:54:46.599 --> 00:54:48.320 rest they've already had their bye week they're 00:54:48.320 --> 00:54:50.000 resting up and they have probably one of the 00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:52.840 best running backs and weapons in the whole league 00:54:52.840 --> 00:54:54.940 plus they got drake london they got a good tight 00:54:54.940 --> 00:54:57.920 end over there i mean they got some weapons now 00:54:57.920 --> 00:55:00.699 panics is uh you know he's hot or cold he's played 00:55:00.699 --> 00:55:03.179 great and he's played like So far this year. 00:55:03.260 --> 00:55:05.539 So you never know. But I don't think that's going 00:55:05.539 --> 00:55:07.760 to be a cakewalk. That's a winnable game. But 00:55:07.760 --> 00:55:10.139 we got to wake up. We got to wake up. We can't 00:55:10.139 --> 00:55:12.579 have that sloppy, undisciplined, out of rhythm 00:55:12.579 --> 00:55:15.739 mess going on anymore. So let's get that out 00:55:15.739 --> 00:55:18.920 of our systems. Let's come back at this next 00:55:18.920 --> 00:55:21.860 week with a clean slate. And let's get back on 00:55:21.860 --> 00:55:24.860 the winning track. Let's get another win in the 00:55:24.860 --> 00:55:27.079 ledger book. Let's get back to five and one and 00:55:27.079 --> 00:55:29.340 get to the bye week because we need. We need 00:55:29.340 --> 00:55:31.300 some rest. We need some reinforcements, and we 00:55:31.300 --> 00:55:34.199 need to regroup here. So I don't think all is 00:55:34.199 --> 00:55:37.219 lost, Mafia. Keep your head up. Those are my 00:55:37.219 --> 00:55:40.239 thoughts. I know it's frustrating, but especially 00:55:40.239 --> 00:55:42.199 coming off no sleep. I try to be honest with 00:55:42.199 --> 00:55:43.960 you. I try to tell you what I see, what I feel, 00:55:44.000 --> 00:55:47.280 and there. Yeah, that's where I'm at. So a little 00:55:47.280 --> 00:55:49.800 bit of housekeeping. I am going to try to do 00:55:49.800 --> 00:55:53.179 the Game 6 preview against the Falcons this week. 00:55:53.460 --> 00:55:55.719 I know it's not until Monday night. But I am 00:55:55.719 --> 00:55:58.380 going out of town at the end of this week. I'm 00:55:58.380 --> 00:56:01.300 hoping I can get it up probably Sunday. So if 00:56:01.300 --> 00:56:03.239 you're looking for that, it might come out later 00:56:03.239 --> 00:56:05.159 than normal. I usually try to get it out the 00:56:05.159 --> 00:56:07.679 Friday if it's a Sunday game or whatnot. But 00:56:07.679 --> 00:56:10.019 because it's a Monday game, I have a little extra 00:56:10.019 --> 00:56:12.519 time. I might not get it done until later Sunday, 00:56:12.679 --> 00:56:14.719 maybe possibly even Monday morning. So stick 00:56:14.719 --> 00:56:18.199 with me, but I will do the best I can for that. 00:56:18.260 --> 00:56:20.929 But anyway. I think that's going to wrap up this 00:56:20.929 --> 00:56:24.070 episode of the 3Ts podcast. If you have enjoyed 00:56:24.070 --> 00:56:27.210 this episode or any other episode of the 3Ts, 00:56:27.289 --> 00:56:29.190 do me a favor. Hit me that like. Hit me that 00:56:29.190 --> 00:56:31.130 follow. Share it with someone you know, whether 00:56:31.130 --> 00:56:33.690 they are a fellow Mafia member. Stick with me, 00:56:33.769 --> 00:56:36.269 Mafia. We got this. Whether they're a fellow 00:56:36.269 --> 00:56:38.710 card collector or someone who just loves wrestling, 00:56:39.210 --> 00:56:40.769 it doesn't matter. Trying to grow this thing 00:56:40.769 --> 00:56:43.000 one episode at a time. Hook your boy up. Help 00:56:43.000 --> 00:56:44.860 me out. Share it with somebody you know who would 00:56:44.860 --> 00:56:47.280 appreciate this thing and help me build this 00:56:47.280 --> 00:56:49.400 thing together. And as always, I appreciate you 00:56:49.400 --> 00:56:56.039 all very, very much. So until next time, whether 00:56:56.039 --> 00:56:58.739 it's ripping packs, breaking tables, or dropping 00:56:58.739 --> 00:57:01.380 elbows, keep doing what you love. And as always, 00:57:01.579 --> 00:57:02.659 Go Bills!