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S3 E30: Cookin' With Hot Grease · Nickel City Crew Podcast

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Fifteen de crazy. You can see you breath out in the lake effect,
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breaking tables and Gisolo tree. Where's would you have to be? And to
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Ron Elvis in the lay, Panchow remembers that you need to know. I
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want you out here now, your family. Where's would you have to be?
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Where's would you have? Welcome into the Nicol City Crew. I am
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your host, Rob Crippen. Please like us on Facebook and follow us on
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We're so glad that you're joining us for some of your Buffalo Bills and
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NFL content again today and as always, these are my Bill's thoughts set out
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loud. He survive so ridiculous story say anything? Was sick the show?
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I can like, Where's what you like to be? All right, let's
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get straight to it. Really excited about tonight's episode. Uh, it's funny
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because I'm looking I was talking pre showed my co host and like just looking
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at the season and and the ups and the downs, and I've talked about
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it before, but I did not expect this, you know, around mid
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season, sitting there at six and six, wonder what the hell's going on
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with our team, and it seems like that Denver game really was like the
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turning point for the season. Obviously, twelve men on the field and you
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know, Dorsey pays for it with his job, and then all of a
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sudden things starting to look a little bit different, especially on the offensive side
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of the football. Joining me tonight writing Shotgun as always my co host Adam
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dump Truck Rup Sick. Check out on Instagram at Adam Rupsick ru Pete c
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is z y k dt. How at the Crew, Man. We're gonna
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release this tonight py for listeners. It's a little late night edition with with
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the Crew, and I'm down for it and I'm really ready to get going.
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Man. I cannot wait for Saturday to come because the Christmas season is
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in the air, and it looks like we got maybe another extra gift right
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under our tree now, you know, Curtsey of the Buffalo Bills, and
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that'd be really sweet. I like that. I like that. Happy Holidays
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the City Crew click like we're back. Let's go, Rob, We're We're
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in some motion now, man, We're looking good. We're looking good.
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Whole set it, whole set it in uh otis he said, I think
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I got my swagger back. Yeah yeah, yeah, not just not just
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the scene getting it swagger back, the whole, the whole vibe. You
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know, it's different. They're they're sitting up straighter. So yeah, let's
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get into a baby. Yeah, absolutely, let's get into it. It
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was. It's so funny because that games Sunday was a game that I never
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saw coming in respects to the actual game script, not anything that I ever
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would have imagined. Bills go out and take care of the Dallas Cowboys at
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home in handily fashion thirty one to ten. It really was really thirty one
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to three. That garbage time touchdown by Ceedee Lamb at the end of the
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game really doesn't you know, give the defense true justice on that one.
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And we'll talk about the defense later on, but we got to stick to
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the offense to start DT that game script, I never ever ever would have
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saw that coming. Forty nine run plays called by Joe Brady to just fifteen
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passing plays. Josh Allen finishes the day seven to fifteen for just ninety four
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yards. If you tell that to a Buffalo Bills fan, Bill's Mafia member.
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Ahead of the game, you probably said, how bad would the Bills
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have lost that game seven to fifteen for ninety four yards? And really,
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it just doesn't it just doesn't do it. Justice DT, Joe Brady called
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a great game. It was like Novacaine. He just kept going back to
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it. It was maybe they said, maybe four or five different run plays
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and just different schemes pulling, you know, pulling the tap with Spencer Brown
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and Dion Dawkins out on the edge. Obviously, Dion got a lot of
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publicity for that big downfield run block that he had for James Cook before he
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almost got into the end zone. It was just it was a crazy great
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game scripts excuse me, Dt, And it was something I didn't see coming.
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But I mean, it's kind of like in Madden, like if I
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find the weakness, if I'm playing the Kings of Man and I find the
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weakness, I'm just gonna keep pushing that button and keep pushing that button.
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And that just seems to be like what it was for Joe Brady because he
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did not let us off the gas. They were playing a lot of light
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boxes. Dallas was with those you know, dime package and they've got you
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know, some some linebackers that are a little bit light in the ass,
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and he just he abused them, man, I mean he just he straight
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abused them time and time again. Forty nine run plays. It was.
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It was ridiculous. DT. I've never seen anything like that. And that's
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all we heard going in was Dallas defense. These d backs. You know,
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Gilmore's playing like he's like he's not old and right, the other dudes
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got a you know, even though they don't got digs, like, they're
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still massy and ninety four yards from Josh Allen and we murder them. That
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is, you know, that's something right there. Right, So it's like
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a saloon door in the old Western Times route. He just blew the saloon
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doors open, like every hole was wide open. Like James Cook is elusive
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and great, but those holes were wide open. Credit to the old line
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in this one mob. We've been critical of them. I've been the most
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critical of them. I mean I think they they stick. I think they
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stick, and they put their head down and blew them open. They blew
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the doors right open. And James Cook had some nice passes in there,
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right in the middle, you know, with with easy holes. No nobody
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touched them to the second level. And he's quick, he's elusive. We
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love Jimmy. Let's go baby, So locking in ninety four yards. The
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talk before the game Josh Allen, if they beat the Cowboys, he's back
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in the MVP race. He's back in the MVP running. He has ninety
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four yards rob and everyone's like, oh, well, damn, the bills
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blew about Josh Allen didn't have three hundred. It didn't matter. So it's
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a beautiful thing. And yeah, work click, and like I said,
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Swagger's back, man, Yeah, I mean, the swagger is back.
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It's funny because you know when you get a game script like that. I've
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heard it a lot on WGR throughout the weekend, and credit does go to
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Joe Brady for not getting you know, quote unquote board with the game plan.
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I mean, sometimes it's not sexy or anything like that, but you
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know, at this late in the year, you just got to go ahead
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and get the wins. And it was funny because he kept calling the run
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plays and what it allowed us to do, to be honest, is by
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the fourth quarter, a couple you know twelve minutes left in the fourth quarter.
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They're pulling Josh Allen. They're they're getting some extra rest for the guys,
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you know, playing out on a short week coming up this week on
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Saturday. So it was a it was kind of a two edged sword where
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they just literally stuck to what was working and then in the end it actually
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was beneficial to the entire team because of the fact that they were able to
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pull some of the starters out. Second bye week. Yeah, they get
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a second bye week. Josh Allen had a practice Sunday, had a practice
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Someday, you know, it was the only time he got hit, and
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a few handoffs, a few passes, and boom, here we go thirty
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one three. Like you said thirty one ten, but really thirty one three,
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Like it was a second bye week for the boys. I love it.
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I love it. And how about James Cook DT. I I kind
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of want to, you know, pat myself on the back because last week
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I kind of saw this dude coming. And that's why I named the episode
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the way that I did tonight, because the fact that I kind of saw
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him coming. It was just something about Joe Brady, the way that he
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was downing up these plays. It seemed like he was more willing to get
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him you know, you know, at least more featured than the run game,
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along with some of the passing game, and you know, he's showing
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to be up for it all. I mean that that pascity caught in the
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end zone. I mean, he just plucked that thing out of the air.
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He looked like a wide receiver on that one, and it was just
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it was a beautiful It was a beautiful pluck out of the air. And
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I just I love his explosiveness. I think that that's one of the main
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things that I love. I know you love Jimmy Cook and you've talked about
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I know you've been on his bandwagon. But I kind of saw him coming
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and I kind of saw his ascent coming because of the fact that it just
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seemed like Joe Brady's willing to call different plays that that maybe you know,
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quite frankly Ken Dorsey was not willing to call. And he's putting face than
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this kid, and he's putting a lot on his plate, but it seems
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like it's not too much warm. I mean, this this guy was electric
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on Sunday. I mean, one hundred and seventy nine yards on the ground,
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another forty two in the air, you know, touchdowns on each rushing
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and receiving. He was really just locked in and really made the offensive coordinator
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look great because he was the focal point of this offense on Sunday and it
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just you know, he didn't make him look bad for it all all around,
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huge confidence build for him. In the past two weeks, he's killed
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it. I mean under Joe Brady, like you said that Jimmy Cook train
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has been in full swing and I love it's just gaining confidence from him,
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a young guy who struggled with it. You know, his first play from
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scrimmage just fumble rob you know, and yeah, the bubble in the fumble
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in Denver and he benches him again. So this kit is the confidence is.
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It's been tough. He climbs and he gets knocked down. Climbs and
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gets knocked down, and this might be his actual breakthrough that we like we
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said, we've been talking about you know, these one step away and I'm
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sitting down there last year's seeing him like almost getting around the edge and like
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seeing it in him. And now he's getting a little bit of swagger to
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him. And I mean it's it's looking scary. Now. You know one
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seven is not afraid to throw to him. He likes he loves this easy
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train. Now, but watch out. He's a sleeping giant back there.
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But you know, let's go. I love every minute of it. So
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credit to Joe Brady. Credit again to the offensive line for making it happen,
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because you can't get anywhere with that an offensive line. And take it
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personal that all these other backs Singletary, you know Moss are going to these
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places and looking looking nice and you know, and we're we're getting stuff.
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So so credit to them for making their boy look good and making Jimmy Cook
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look nice and swagging on Sunday. Yeah, definitely, he's averaging. He
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averaged four yards before even being contacted on Sunday, which is just a ridiculous
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stat. Over two hundred yards from scrimmage. Obviously, as I just said,
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I it looks like I said, he'll be a focal point going forward
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for the offense. Now again, you talked about a sleepy giant. You
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know, Josh Allen didn't have to do much on this week, but you
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know, we know that we're going to need him every game. Script is
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not going to run like that. Obviously, Again, Dallas played a lot
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of light boxes. Again they you know, they love to stay in that
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dime. Look, they did not get out of it. I don't know
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what dan Quinn was thinking, but he would not adjust his scheme whatsoever,
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and he stayed in those light boxes. And again Joe Brady punished him for
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it. Now before we transition. You know, it's just, I mean,
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we gotta be we gotta be fair. We have to be even here
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at Nicol City Crew, and I always keep it real. So I mean
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I have to give Sean McDermott once again his props for his defense. I
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mean, that was an amazing performance DT. I think that that best his
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performance before we talked about his magnum opus was against Miami and the game script
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and how he played the palms coverages and how he was just you know,
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masterful in his attack. This was his best This was now it's his best
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game once again, this is his best game as a decordinator for the Buffalo
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Bills at any point in time throughout his tenure. He called them a masterful
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game. I never would have thought that they were able to hold down,
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you know, Dak Prescott in that high flying offense wasn't too cold. You
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talked about that the rain really didn't seem to affect the game too much,
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even though Jerry Joe wants to be sour grapes and talking about how the rain
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affected his team. But I guess it didn't affect us, So that doesn't
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make any damn sense. But in all seriousness, I mean, the defense
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was right on time to DT. It's crazy because the injuries would be something
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that you can lean on. The injuries would be something that you can use
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in the excuse, and they haven't, you know Tom McDermott's credit, they've
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never really used it too much as an excuse, and they're proving that they
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can carry us as we go forward into the playoffs. I mean, defense
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travels. We know a run game was always something that's going to be good
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to have in your back pocket. And obviously seventeen is our stud but I
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feel really confident about the way that the defense of the direction that they're going
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against Kansas City. We shut down Patrick Mahomes pretty much all day. You
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know, obviously the Eagles game was a back and forth kind of a shootout,
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but you know, it was a situation where this defense on Sunday was
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just up for the task. Man. I mean they did not let Ceedee
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lamb off. They did not let the running game get started. They didn't
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let Dak Prescott I feel comfortable in there, and it showed up on the
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scoreboard. I mean, again, those ten points really don't even you know,
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do it. Justice was a three point game for Dallas for their output,
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and it was just I mean, you know, tip of the cap
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to to Sean McDermott DT. I mean he earned it three points as a
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that's a hell of a performance, even ten points of the hell of a
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performance. Yeah. Defensive, defensively in the in the cold, in the
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rain, you know, building building a strong front like that in all three
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phases of that defense is big for that whole confidence level as well. So
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I mean you want to talk about guys losing steps and and this, and
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that they let the What we're most critical of this defense is when they get
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beat Layton games, when we have the lead and they they go down and
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they score on them. And you know, I'm not taking anything away from
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these last two games. They've been great and they've held they've held the line.
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So you just got to keep that rolling obviously, but we know also
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what the same exact defense is capable of, and we can lean on.
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Oh look at all these injuries, but we're still losing those games down the
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stretch, fighting for our lives right now. But we really didn't have to,
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you know, so so that's what it comes down to as well.
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So, yes, they're playing better, but they're not out of the woods
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yet. And you know, we're we're not too far away from the hit
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piece or the well, you know, let's just hope nobody got anybody a
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truck for Christmas, and let's keep the Chargers. Let's keep the Chargers and
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move out and enjoy it. Oh goodness, credit credit to the d But
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they're not out of the wood yet in my book, Yeah, no,
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I mean, you're you're absolutely right. We have seen them fail us for
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sure throughout the season in some critical moments. But it was it was good
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to see this little pattern that seems to be coming up right now where they
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are playing well. They're playing well at the right time. It's an important
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time of the season for you, you know, your defense to be standing
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up. The weather's getting colder, so you know that you're gonna have to
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kind of bow up and stand up. And I like how you said earlier
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that they're sitting up straight. The entire team is sitting up straight, and
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I think that there's a possibility that, you know, for the entire team,
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definitely for the offense as well, that Dorsey's firing might be a catalyst.
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It might be a turning point for the entire season. What I mean
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by that is that you know, you guys look around and you're like,
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oh shit, like we're getting guys fired, like you know what I mean,
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Like we like Dorsey or what in the case may be, you know,
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we might want to get our shit together because of the fact that you
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know, it could be us next time, you know what I mean,
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Or it could be our playoff chances next time. So it seems like everybody
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just kind of stood up in their seat and everybody's kind of paying attention and
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a little bit more focus, I think is the best way to put it.
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For the entire team, for offense on down, it seems like there's
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everybody's just a little bit more focused on their execution, a little bit more
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focused on their assignments and making sure that they don't they don't screw up,
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because this is not the time of the year for you to be screwing up.
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We don't really have much margin for error. We'll get into that,
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but right now it seems like the team is definitely focused and this is the
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this is the time you want to be playing your best ball, to be
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honest, And they always say it's seventeam the loudest that. You know,
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they're their biggest critics, and they want success more than anybody, and they
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know the fans want it and they want it more. And obviously they do
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want it more. They should want it more. It's them, you know,
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it's their job and everything. You know, we're just entertained by it.
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But at that you know, at the same time, they they want
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this more. And now they stumbled a little bit, they realized, Okay,
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we can straighten up, we can get back into this. We prove
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it that you want it more and you're gonna have to down the stretch here,
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and you know, you talk about the it might be a good transition
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into the Chargers. Here, you talk about Dorsy being fired and then kind
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of turning the leaf. And when the Raiders coach was fired, they you
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know, they went in and won and we're smoking cigars and had this ue
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swagger about them too. And I'm not saying the Raiders are good, but
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you know, but you come into Chargers, same thing. But let's go,
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it's not even close. So be what you got to do from what
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you're preaching from day one of we want this more than anybody, go out
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and take care of business. Right. So that's what I think the message
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has been preached in seventeen saying it like I said, with his shoulders the
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straightest. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean it's going to be a time right
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now for everybody to just stay on on, all hands on deck. Eight
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o'clock on Saturday night, Christmas Eve Eve, the Bills go on the road
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to Sofi Stadium to take on the LA Chargers. As we transition and DT,
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You're absolutely right, Brandon Staley out as the coach for the LA Chargers
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after that embarrassing sixty three to twenty one loss against the Raiders, it was
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an unreal performance. I could not believe what I was watching in respects to
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the game, forty two nothing at half. I had had it on for
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a minute and I just I had put the kid the kings to bed and
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I told Date, I just yelled up to Date. I was like,
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the forty two nothing to that. He was like, oh my god.
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I was like and Bobby was like, really forty two nothing. Well,
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it seemed like after that game, I knew that something was coming. It
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felt like there's no way that that owner could be feeling great about Brandon Staley
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afterwards, and they asked Brandon Staley if you're going to be the coach and
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he's like, I don't know, and like, I'm like, man,
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you are not instilling confidence even if you're trying to talk to your owner right
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now. You want to be like you said, standing back straight, say
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it with your chest, and like I believe I deserved to be the coach.
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And it seemed like he knew that he was on his way out,
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and it was a situation where, you know, sometimes they do get that
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coaching firing bump. I don't know if that applies here, DT. It
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looks like the Raiders, excuse me, looks like the charge could be checking
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out. They could be getting ready for their vacation plans and can kun and
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stuff like that, because the way that they got manhandled against the Raiders,
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who were starting a rookie quarterback a O'Connell. It just doesn't add up to
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me to be a team that that seems to be fighting right now. They've
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got a lot of players on that team with a lot of cachet. I
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know Bosa is out, but they've got Khalil Mack, you know Ubi Product,
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They've got a bunch of other guys, big names, and Keenan allen
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Is is kind of banged up. I just don't know if these guys are
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going to be ready to play East and stick your quarterback it seems like on
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Saturday night. So I just I understand that we have to have all hands
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on deck and we have to be ready for anything, especially with that little
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firing, you know, bump. But I honestly, DT, I'm not
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too concerned about it. The way that the Chargers looked on last Thursday just
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made me think that they've kind of packed it in. Yeah, I mean,
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the one of the worst teams. Granted they've had some good games with
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the Raiders blow them out, almost put up a Dolphin seventy spot. Yeah,
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sure, Broncos seventy, So you know they always put up a seventies
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spot on this squad and they can't have any competence. So, like you
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said, their only confidence is you know, the new coaching bump and play
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for him or whatever. But you got to be focused in a buzz saw.
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You know, this can't be a distraction. This is what you know.
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You let stuff like this stumble you up in the early part of the
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season and you all regreted that how dark that got for a few weeks.
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So yeah, you know, straighten up, like we're talking about, dudes
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around and get back and open your gifts. Yeah, I mean, if
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you get on them pretty quickly. I think that there's a chance that these
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guys could be headed for the locker rooms mentally, and it could be a
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situation where they really don't want too much of this game. I mean,
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I know that you play for Pride. These are all professionals, and I
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understand that entire thing. And now they're talking about playing and auditioning for the
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new regime and stuff like that, not putting out bad tape different things like
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that. But you can't put out much worse tape than you put out against
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against the Raiders. So I just think that it's a situation where if Buffalo
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can jump on them early. You might get these guys disinterested. You might
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get them in a situation where they're ready to, like you said, get
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ready for Christmas plans and they're thinking about vacation plans and different things like that
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with three weeks ago in this season. So it'll be interesting to see.
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But I think that the Bills can jump on them early DT. I think
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that you can kind of take the life out of these guys because I don't
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think that they have much left now as we transition DT. It's funny because
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you know, the Bills, we've got a shot DT, like this is
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a more than legit shot, and there's a legit shot that we have an
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opportunity to even snag this division as well, with the way that the schedules
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is turning out now. It's funny because I never really thought mid season that
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the division would be anything that we wanted to even talk about anymore. I
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just wanted to get into the playoffs. But if you look at our schedule
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along with the Miami Dolphins, it's really right there for us. The Bills
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obviously need to win out. The Dolphins have the Cowboys at home, they
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go on the road to play the Ravens and then obviously they finish with us
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at home. It's funny because we just need one more loss DT, and
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it's for all the marbles, it's for the whole kitten kamoodle Week eighteen down
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in South Beach and and it's something that I can't stop looking at when I
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look at the schedule, because if I need them to split out of their
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next two games, I think that it's totally feasible. Tt. I do
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not think that this is something that is out of the room of possibility.
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I know Dallas had a poor performance. They're going to be looking to bounce
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back. They don't want to lose their their grip on the aos on the
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NFC East out there, they're battling with the Eagles and then the Ravens.
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I mean a lot of people think they're the best team in football, or
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at least them and the and the forty nine ers, and we'll get a
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chance to see them tangle in a couple weeks as well to kind of settle
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that. It'll be interesting to see DT because I think that the Dolphins can
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drop one of these next two games, and that makes everything live for Week
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eight team. If the Bills take care of their business. Obviously, they
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haven't beat a team over five hundred, Rob. I mean, I'm not
20:37
saying they're frauds. I'm not saying they're frauds. I think they got weapons.
20:40
And you know, as much as I hate to say that, they
20:42
grind my teeth, switch the fish, but they got weapons. But they've
20:47
never beat anybody over five hundred. So going in it's going to be a
20:49
test. Like you said, Dallas is going to come ready to knock on
20:52
them. Yeah, and the next week the Ravens aren't resting people two weeks
20:56
in advance, no, you know. Oh, so they're going to be
21:00
ready to keep him playing for the one seed, you know whatever. So
21:03
two games you're gonna have to go get and then if you get through those
21:06
and the Bills do what they should do, not get in ahead. But
21:07
if they do what they should do, it's the showdown, baby. And
21:11
what do you think nig Go City down of Southeast Yeah, man, that
21:18
would be crazy. Who knows. Yeah, I mean we can only hope
21:22
for that. Got to take care of what's in front of us. But
21:25
it's super feasible, Rob. It's there's a lot of argues, pros and
21:29
cons that says they're losing one of these next two. Yeah. I mean,
21:33
it's interesting to look at the schedule and see how it lines up.
21:34
And you're absolutely right about the Ravens. They're not packing anything in. They've
21:37
got the forty nine ers this week and then they'll they'll battle against you know,
21:41
the Dolphins next week. So it's interesting because when I look at the
21:45
schedule, obviously you know, we're not the player, so we can look
21:47
ahead and we can we can go ahead on the schedule and things like that.
21:49
I don't you know, the only thing about the Patriots that makes me,
21:52
you know, nervous, is because of the fact that we laid it
21:55
next to them the first time. But I think that again, the sense
21:56
of urgency for this Buffalo Bills team, the fact that it's at home,
22:00
they know everything that's on the line. I don't see a way that we
22:02
lose these next two games. And then it does set it up where it's
22:04
got you know, nineties vibes. You know, you know, Kelly and
22:07
Marino down in South Beach for everything, all the marbles, everything on the
22:11
line, and you know, you think about the AFC Championship Game one time
22:14
and like that, you know, just some of those rivalry games where it
22:17
meant something. This game would be, you know, just as big.
22:19
So it'll be interesting to see these next two weeks. Again, the Bills
22:22
have to take care of the business. We know that the Chargers are a
22:26
team again that we're thinking that could be packeted in. The Patriots are the
22:29
Patriots, I mean, three wins on the year. They're plucky, but
22:33
they don't have anything for the Buffalo Bills in my opinion, And if we
22:36
could stay focused, I think that they can set up for Week eighteen with
22:40
all the marbles and it will be a fun, a fun week kind of
22:42
to kind of stew over the possibilities for that one, for sure. So
22:45
we'll look at it. We'll see. But I mean, again, you're
22:48
you're absolutely right. They do have to take care of business. The Bills
22:51
have have disappointed us this year a few times before with you know, kind
22:56
of looking ahead or at least, you know, playing with their food.
22:59
They've been doing a different couple different things this year where it's been a little
23:02
bit maddening. So I'll be looking for them to stay focused. I think
23:04
that they are. I think that they know that the task ahead, and
23:07
they've got a great opportunity. Now, even if the division is out of
23:10
play, Let's say Miami, you know, wins those next two games,
23:11
and what are the case they I mean, we still can get in the
23:15
playoffs. The playoff odds, you know, look good for us regardless if
23:19
we if we went out. So if we went out, even if Miami
23:22
does go ahead and wins out as well or obviously not, wek eight team.
23:26
But if they get a couple more wins and we don't get a chance
23:29
to get the division. I don't think there's any team in the league that
23:32
wants to play us in the AFC, I really don't. I mean,
23:34
I know that the Ravens seemed to be the class of the conference, but
23:37
I'm not scared of the Ravens. They've got a great team, I'll give
23:40
them that, But I'm not scared of the Ravens. And as I look
23:41
at the standings, d T, I mean, you name me one AFC
23:45
team that we can't beat, and that's from top to bottom, from the
23:48
Ravens, the two seeds, the Dolphins, we know we can beat them.
23:51
The Chiefs, we beat them, we know it. Jacksonville was a
23:53
weird game. I still feel something had to do with London and all of
23:57
that type of stuff, and I'll give them a little bit of a pass
24:00
from that one. I think that we're a better team than Jacksonville, even
24:02
with a healthy Trevor Lawrence Cleveland. I understand the defense is ferocious, but
24:06
I'm not afraid of a thirty eight year old Joe Flackel. I'm just not.
24:08
I know he's been making some pretty dimes out there. I'm not afraid
24:11
of him. I know Cincinnati in the sixth seed, they've beat us too.
24:14
Jake Browning DT, I mean, come on, I don't know,
24:17
man. And then you've got the seventh seed. I know he's not bad,
24:19
he's looking all right, but I mean, and then the seventh seed
24:22
is currently the Indianapolis Colts again, another team that's plucky, playing well,
24:27
Gardner Minshew, the backup quarterbacks been having a little bit of magic. They've
24:30
got the same record as US. And then the final team that you really
24:33
have to think about is Houston, which is directly in front of us,
24:34
and they've got some quarterback injuries as well right now with c J. Stroud
24:37
and concussion protocol. So you look for all eight teams that are heead of
24:41
the Bills DT, I don't see one that I'm nervous or shaking in my
24:45
boots about. I really don't. I don't know, I don't know.
24:48
I'm with you. I mean, granted all that we could beat all those
24:52
teams, and all those teams can beat us. Yes, yes, you
24:56
know. That's kind of the beauty, the beauty of the AFC this year,
25:00
if you will, Like you know, everyone's kind of having that down
25:03
year, and it's like, oh, Buffalo, if they just wouldn't have
25:06
had those falters, they would have been good. But that's every team in
25:08
the FC. That's the Chiefs, that's everybody, you know, the Jaguars,
25:12
you know, the Browns with everything they got going on too, So
25:15
it's it's everybody in the FC, and the everybody. No, there's no
25:18
quarterbacks left, you know. So you would think like, oh man,
25:22
if the Bills just did their thing, they'd be the easy one seed.
25:26
But all these teams could have said that, right, So it's coming down
25:30
to it. That's the beauty and the parody of the AFC, if you
25:32
will. It's competitive and that's what you're gonna get. So we gotta go
25:36
earn it, though, Rob, we gotta go earn it because we don't
25:37
got those tie breakers from those previous things, you know, so so so
25:41
let's go get those ws no matter what. The division would be sweet,
25:45
obviously, but you know, you still getting the dance, still getting the
25:48
dance. And they have the whole playoff game one more, one more Nickel
25:52
City crew gave one more everything, you know, so we need it.
25:55
We need it. It would be nice to get the division, absolutely right.
25:57
I do feel that, you know, this something to be said about
26:00
an underdog. And obviously you know, you know, it's a harder road.
26:03
You got to go on the road. You gotta win three games to
26:04
get to the to the big dance. But it can be done. It
26:07
has been done before out of the wild card position. And again, I
26:11
think that other teams view us as a major threat, so that you know,
26:14
when when the playoff draws come out at the end of the year,
26:17
if we're able to sneak in, I think that anybody is going to be,
26:18
you know, like shit. But the you know, the bills are
26:21
coming to town. I don't think that we're anybody's cupcake or anything like that.
26:23
So and from looking at from that perspective, I just think that the
26:26
AFC is wide open. I'll be interested to watch Baltimore. I know a
26:30
lot about Miami as well. I've been watching that little HBO Max a little
26:33
series on them, and you know, I told you my guilty pleasure is
26:37
Mike McDaniel. I do like him as it's been real good. I mean,
26:41
I like him. I like him. He's different, he's quirky,
26:44
he's very smart, uh and he's offensive driven. So I just he's already
26:48
he's already got He's already got me intrigued because of that, and I love
26:51
the way that he talks to his players. So because of that, I'll
26:53
be paying a little bit more attention to Baltimore as we continue throughout the rest
26:57
of the season. I'll be looking at them, watching them because everybody you
27:00
know wants to tell you that they're the class of the conference. You know,
27:03
the record says as much. But I'll be interested in that game.
27:07
I think they play on on Christmas. Yep, they played the night game,
27:11
so yeah, so they play against the forty nine ers on Christmas Night.
27:15
So I'll be interested in the Ravens. I'll be watching them a little
27:17
bit more. We love Lamar Jackson. I love him as a quarterback.
27:19
I think he gets a bad rap when people say that he can't, you
27:22
know, throw the ball effectively out of the pocket. And obviously he's an
27:25
electric runner. So I'll be paying attention to them since everybody wants to crown
27:29
them. But I look around the conference TT and that's just not a team.
27:32
I know that we've lost to some of you, just right. I
27:33
mean, yep, the Bengals beat us, and now they've got Browning.
27:37
Yes, the Jags beat us. But I just I just don't fear any
27:40
of these teams that really don't no, I mean exactly. So, So
27:45
don't let yourself get out of it and do something, you know, to
27:48
chat the next two weeks, you know, just just go out and finish.
27:52
And Okay, it wasn't the story book you had in the beginning of
27:56
the season, but it's and at the end of the day, that's all
27:59
you play for anyway, So let's go in and do what we gotta do.
28:03
Like I said, the pressures on them the most out of anybody.
28:07
They say it, they preach it, so so go out and improve it
28:11
and release the valve. And get get some games that you can handle down
28:15
the stretch and see what you can do when you get in the dance.
28:18
Yeah, it's all about getting into the dance. It's all about making yourself.
28:21
Eli. If we can't win a super Bowl, if you don't qualify
28:22
for the playoffs, and we always say that here at nicol City Crew,
28:25
so we want to qualify for the tournament sev years and then yeahs you can't.
28:30
You can't win a championship if you're not in the dance. Absolutely.
28:33
As we begin to wrap up tonight, you know, I enjoyed. I
28:37
enjoyed the game so much, and it was such a crazy, great gamescript
28:41
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their new concepts now DT for this Nickel City Crew tailgate report. Man,
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I mean it was funny because the night before, I mean, Nate barely
29:18
watches any games with his mother. So I was like, I'm like that
29:22
you watch the game with your mom and brown and he was I mean,
29:23
he must have thought that I had like four heads and he's like what He's
29:26
like now, He's like no, He's like, I'm watching the game with
29:29
you. And I was like, okay, no problem. So Bobby had
29:30
a birthday party that he was at. He didn't get back till around halftime,
29:34
and and me and Nate, man, we were just rocking like like
29:37
soldiers that is my ride or die And it was just a it was just
29:42
a fun game. I mean We're yelling at the TV, was slapping each
29:45
other up. It was It was a lot of fun, man, to
29:48
watch that game again. The game script was so weird, and because Josh
29:52
was doing nothing, I never would have expected to be able to have that
29:55
much enjoyment. But Pound in Dallas never gets old to me. I love
29:59
it again. Those scars from Super Bowl twenty seven to twenty eight will never
30:02
go away. But they they you know, I did put a little bit
30:04
of ointment on them, uh on on Sunday night because it felt good to
30:08
watch Dallas get get their asso. It felt great, man. So me
30:11
and Nate were were yelling at the TV. We're all over the house screaming
30:15
and uh and and we enjoyed it thoroughly, man. So that was that
30:18
was my experience. Man. We were right at the crib and uh and
30:22
enjoying the game. I love it. I love it. Rob. That's
30:25
he's my writer. You can share and and you know, and I always
30:30
say, I'm jealous of the kids nowadays. They get to go to school
30:33
with one seven jerseys, you know, like that, you know, that's
30:37
that's dope. So so good for you guys. That's that's an awesome experience.
30:41
And what a game to do with you baby Dallas is going down?
30:44
Yeah, going down? Yeah. Yeah. It was a beautiful. Yeah,
30:48
I was how work You're out at the ogs with you know, the
30:52
main set up. We were down in the corner this year this this week.
30:56
Uh yeah, and had you know, like the back door, like
31:00
sure, the club, the club the back corner club Big Bed DJ Big
31:03
Bet on the back corner. Yeah, the grass yeah yeah, yeah,
31:10
and the you know, the Syracuse shout out to Syracuse guys, Brand and
31:12
Stephan, the whole the whole squad came out from from Pus and there was
31:18
a there was a lot of us just getting down, Like I saw your
31:22
buffalo. That was pretty sweet. Yeah. Yeah, the buffalo masks.
31:26
We're getting in the zone and and getting ready to beat the cowboys. And
31:30
that's exactly what we did, you know, all around, just a textbook
31:33
strong tailgate. We uh had many challenges. We had some challenges on the
31:38
shotgun and hey, you know on air, I gotta admit, this is
31:42
a big, big alert here. I mean, you think our City Crew
31:45
fans. I hope nobody loses respect. But what you know, dump truck
31:51
two point Oh, Ronnie, he got me, he got he did.
31:56
He got me on the first He got me on the first one. What
32:00
he's grow he's all grown up. He really came for it, he really
32:04
it was. He was really excited, you know, and uh and uh
32:07
he earned it. But once I got warmed up, Rob, once I
32:10
got into the mix, you know, we we did a rematch and and
32:15
and I put it to to to where it needed to be. But but
32:17
the first time he got me, and I'll give them, I'll give him
32:20
props. I'll give him props. So shout out look, lacrosse legend,
32:23
right, I want to yes, lacrosse little hockey. Yeah, absolutely got
32:30
DT on the first one. Good job. You know you're learning professional tailgating
32:36
is no hobby. You got to get out there and be ready to go
32:38
and and uh be a chameleon. And and those boys have done it.
32:42
So shout out to them and uh Ben and Annaka and and Kayla and everybody
32:47
like that's it. You know it was. It was lit, obviously,
32:52
that's what's up. Man. I had a good time down here, and
32:53
I'm glad that you guys had a good time there. How was the stadium
32:57
and how was the atmosphere? Because I know that it looked like it was
33:00
raining. Was the rain miserable? Did it make everybody miserable? How was
33:01
it rain? Rain? No? No, not at all. I mean
33:05
it's a party the whole time. You know. It's it's like the Patriots
33:07
playoff game and the part after score, dominant, stop after stop, win
33:13
after win, like you were cheering the whole time. There was not a
33:15
lick of worry or anything like that. And they didn't cross the fifty you
33:20
know, they didn't cross the fifties so a few times, and it was
33:23
nice to kind of everyone left at their own pace, which was beautiful and
33:28
so traffic wasn't bad and got out there with thes w baby. Okay,
33:32
I just was wait hoping that everybody is get getting didn't get too soaked out
33:37
there because I could see that the rain was coming down and I couldn't tell
33:39
how how heavy it was. It sometimes throughout the game. So as long
33:43
as everybody had their ponchos ready to go, then everybody seemed to be good
33:45
to go. Man. Now uh this week dt uh it's it's it's Christmas
33:51
Eve eve. Man. So Bobby and nat a. Bobby and Nat are
33:53
gone there in Buffalo to visit some relatives on their mother's side. They'll be
33:58
back Sunday, so I'll just be here and maybe Quincy will hang out with
34:01
me. So that'll be about it. I'll lay low. We He already
34:05
knows that it's the Chargers. He knows. He keeps asking about the bills.
34:07
He says, if the Bill's loose and the charges is going to be
34:09
really mad, I said, don't worry to worry about it. Sun.
34:12
I was taken to go get a haircut today. I said, don't even
34:14
worry about it. Son, you don't have nothing to worry about. They're
34:15
gonna take care of him. So we'll probably watch it right here at the
34:19
house and and kind of lay low. I'll turn again, uh the zoo
34:22
lights on the house and have that all lit up, and that it looked
34:24
nice out there and nice and festive. Nice, and Bill's festive for for
34:29
Saturday night. But I mean, it's Christmas Eveve. I can't wait for
34:31
the game. I've got to find somebody that's got a Peacock prescription, sofyah
34:36
a subscription of you've got what I need? I need to let on.
34:39
Uh, this is the first exclusive Peacock game, so I don't I don't
34:43
know about it. I hope that can get a free trial or something where
34:45
I don't have to pay for anything long term. But uh, I've got
34:47
to be able to watch my boys play on Sunday on Saturday. So Bill's
34:52
again eight o'clock Saturday under the lights. What are your what are your plans
34:55
DT. I know again Christmas. It's nice little the set up right gat
35:00
for the schedule there, you know you Saturday beautiful. Yeah, and then
35:05
then you wake up and it's not even Christmas. It's Christmas Eve. If
35:07
you haven't even like you can ease into the holiday, then have the It's
35:10
just a great start to the to the Christmas weekend. You know, absolutely,
35:15
So let's go, let's get into it. Yeah, I'm going up
35:16
to my sisters and Derek there you go, and Elliott yep, and Mom
35:22
and Dad coming up and we're gonna be eating good and watching ball baby.
35:27
So that's the plan. And uh then I'll be down to my parents on
35:31
Sunday Monday. But looking looking forward to a good, good Christmas weekend for
35:36
sure that those w can start. It started off nice. Yeah, that
35:42
would have started off nice. It just looks like it just went final.
35:44
Uh down there a key bake set of the Sabers beat the Maple Least nine
35:49
to three after they just got to the worst team. They are just a
35:52
doctor Jekyl and high team. I think they meet therapy. You remember we
35:57
were talking with Mama Monday about Josh Allen in the beginning here, and maybe
36:00
he needs some type of sports counselor. Man, it seems like the Sabers
36:04
need some type of sports counselor because they can't seem to get their act together,
36:07
and then they come out they play the best teams, no problem.
36:10
I think they beat the Golden Knights. Yeah. I think they beat the
36:14
Golden Knights and Jack Eichel the other night. And it doesn't make any sense.
36:20
It doesn't make any sense. Well, here's hoping that the Sabers get
36:22
their act together because I know that, you know, a lot of people
36:25
are getting sick of them losing. And we all know about droughts here Bill's
36:29
mafia, so we want our brother and down there downtown to get their shit
36:34
together because it'd be nice to break that drought sometime too. As always,
36:37
DT, I appreciate you your time to night, man, hanging out with
36:40
me. I mean enjoy it, man, I mean happy holidays to you.
36:45
Man. You know I love you. Man. Can't wait to see
36:46
you. I'll be seeing you for the last game again. I'll be up
36:50
for the for the Patriots. Can not going to miss it. Last home
36:52
game of the season possibly again. Possibly As we talked about there is a
36:57
chance that the Bills can go check grab their fourth consecutive AFC East title.
37:02
It won't be easy, but we do have these next two weeks to kind
37:06
of make sure that you stay focused, get tuned up for that final Week
37:08
eighteen battle, which could be for all the marvels. Man, Let's go,
37:14
I mean could be the last the Patriots home game and a villain Miami.
37:17
You never know, let's lock in. Let's go, Ross City crew.
37:23
Happy Holidays and Robs you and your family, Marry Christmas, Love you
37:28
man, and enjoy this game. Enjoy the holidays, and let's get this
37:31
stuff. Baby. Yeah. Man, I appreciated Happy holidays to you guys
37:35
too as well. And I gotta be remiss if I did not mention and
37:37
I didn't tell you pre show DT. I got horrible news on Sunday.
37:42
I got the news from my sister on Tuesday, Monday, she called me
37:45
because I thought that she was just calling to talk about the Dallas game and
37:49
stuff like that. Then she called me again on Tuesday and I was like,
37:51
I better pick up so rest in peace, man. Just sad news.
37:54
Longtime Erie County correctional officer came on our show DT. Jeff Varner,
38:00
he used to coach high school football at Bennett. We had him on for
38:02
the show to talk a little bit about his experience and some of the things
38:07
that the Bills were doing early in the season. Passed away tragically watching the
38:10
Bills game what he loved to do. He was just as big as a
38:13
Bills fan as I was. He was talking about getting the season tickets next
38:16
year. We had just spoke last month. I mean, a really great
38:20
guy, tons of knowledge about the game of football, tons of knowledge just
38:23
about football in general, and the Bills, loved the Bills with the passion.
38:27
Passed away man on his couch watching the Bills game. So I wanted
38:30
to extend our condolences from Nickel City Crew, Bills Mafia out to his beautiful
38:34
wife and to his family. Man so that it really hurt to hear that.
38:38
And I know that I saw on Facebook just the outpouring of love as
38:40
well for Jeff Varner. So rest in peace to Jeff. Just a great,
38:45
a great man. I met him last year in Detroit when I went
38:50
to go see my sister and thank you for Thanksgiving. We went to the
38:52
game together, had a great time, and then I was like, Man,
38:55
like, I love talking shop with you. Man, we got to
38:58
have you on the show. And we did have him on the show thereafter,
39:00
and it was really sad to hear that news. So I just wanted
39:04
to send their condolences out to the Warner family and and make sure that we
39:07
we we remiss man. So we did have him on the show. I
39:09
think you remembered last year, DT, that we had him on an Iam
39:13
wanted to extend that out Man for sure. So as always, man spread
39:16
love not hate. These were my bills thoughts, set out loud. Hit
39:20
him with a gold bills, DT. I mean it's it's time. It's
39:22
rocking around the Christmas treat Man. Hit him with the God bills. Man
39:25
for the bills, Go bills,