Latest / Nickel City Crew Podcast / S5 E28: Psyche
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- 0:09Speaker 1: Fifteen decrease.
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- 0:15Speaker 3: Lake effect, Breacon tables like guitar, wol Tree, wherese would you.
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- 0:38Speaker 3: Where's would you have be? Welcome into the Nickel City Crew.
- 0:43Speaker 3: I am your host, Rob Crippen. Please like us on
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- 0:59Speaker 3: some of your Buffalo and NFL content again today, and
- 1:02Speaker 3: as always, these are my bills thoughts set out loud.
- 1:08Speaker 1: It's a vibe so ridiculous. Two stoups eighty three with
- 1:13Speaker 1: six the show I can Where's would you want to be?
- 1:21Speaker 3: All right, let's get straight to it. Really excited for
- 1:24Speaker 3: tonight's episode. We are back at you on a t
- 1:27Speaker 3: G I F Friday, right before the Christmas holiday. I
- 1:31Speaker 3: mean it's it's Christmas is in the air. I know
- 1:33Speaker 3: the kids are are excited and and I know my
- 1:36Speaker 3: co host is excited as well.
- 1:39Speaker 2: Listen, this is a big weekend. We'll get into it.
- 1:42Speaker 3: I know that people are gonna try to downplate a
- 1:43Speaker 3: little bit, but we'll get into why it could be
- 1:46Speaker 3: big down the road for our Buffalo Bills. Joining me
- 1:48Speaker 3: tonight as always writing Shotgun my co host Adam dump
- 1:52Speaker 3: Truck Repsick. Check o out on Instagram and Twitter at
- 1:54Speaker 3: Adam Repsick. Are you p c z y K holla
- 1:57Speaker 3: at the crew DT, I say you which Chris Light
- 2:00Speaker 3: so I see it? Clark Griswold, what's good?
- 2:03Speaker 1: Nickel City, what's up? What's up? Nicle City? What's up? Rob?
- 2:06Speaker 1: Happy Friday night to you. Week fifteen of the NFL
- 2:09Speaker 1: among us, and here we go, baby, you are right.
- 2:11Speaker 1: The season on the line, the Christmas season as well, happening, festive, snow,
- 2:18Speaker 1: everything you can think of, and some meaningful ball down
- 2:21Speaker 1: the stretch. It's what we love. It's what we are
- 2:24Speaker 1: in June and July and May and April talking about
- 2:27Speaker 1: these type of games. And here we are Week fifteen,
- 2:30Speaker 1: nine to four. Ready rock and roll, big divisional game
- 2:33Speaker 1: coming up. But uh yeah, Christmas season, the Snow's out. Rob,
- 2:37Speaker 1: I'm jolly af right now, jolly af.
- 2:42Speaker 2: I love it. I love it.
- 2:43Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I mean I'm not a huge Christmas person,
- 2:46Speaker 3: but I mean when you've got four kids, then you
- 2:50Speaker 3: just can't escape it. So I try to be the
- 2:51Speaker 3: Grinch as much as I can, but it's really I
- 2:55Speaker 3: have nowhere to hide. So everybody's really excited down here
- 2:57Speaker 3: in Charlotte as well well.
- 2:59Speaker 2: DT.
- 2:59Speaker 3: Before we get into why I named the episode the
- 3:01Speaker 3: way that I did, I wanted to quickly recap last
- 3:05Speaker 3: week and kind of put a bow on it, DT
- 3:08Speaker 3: our Bills. If you didn't know, I don't know what
- 3:10Speaker 3: rock you've been under. They've come back from behind beat
- 3:13Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Bengals at the Ralph thirty nine thirty four
- 3:16Speaker 3: in an epic game. To be honest and DT, I
- 3:20Speaker 3: came away from that game just feeling like a sense
- 3:24Speaker 3: of just gratefulness. Josh Allen is the best quarterback in
- 3:28Speaker 3: the NFL. And if you don't know, I don't know
- 3:32Speaker 3: how you don't know, because he again performed like that
- 3:35Speaker 3: last week where he just put on the cape, went
- 3:37Speaker 3: into the phone booth and it was a situation where
- 3:39Speaker 3: I mean this this guy is just he is so special.
- 3:42Speaker 2: We are so lucky to have him.
- 3:44Speaker 3: I thought of you when I was watching the game,
- 3:46Speaker 3: because that one pass to Shakira, I was like, nothing
- 3:49Speaker 3: was even open on that one play. And I don't know, man,
- 3:52Speaker 3: I just i just left that game with just some
- 3:54Speaker 3: sense of I'm just so happy that he's our quarterback
- 3:57Speaker 3: one seven. We've always got a shot with him, and
- 4:00Speaker 3: we'll get into the defense and how they played a
- 4:01Speaker 3: role as well, but dt that game, man, that was
- 4:04Speaker 3: something else. He's he's the He's the best quarterback in
- 4:08Speaker 3: the NFL right now, and I'm so lucky that we
- 4:10Speaker 3: have him.
- 4:11Speaker 1: It makes you think, right Rob, what a great thing
- 4:13Speaker 1: to watch. And I mean the last couple of games
- 4:15Speaker 1: in the ralph I I wasn't attending, but I know,
- 4:18Speaker 1: you know a lot of people were and trying to
- 4:20Speaker 1: get their last you know, whack at it. And what
- 4:22Speaker 1: a what a couple of games. I mean, the one
- 4:24Speaker 1: before that was the Buccaneers game where he scored six
- 4:28Speaker 1: touchdowns and then he comes, he comes back and takes
- 4:31Speaker 1: down the Cincinnati Bengals with help from the D. You know,
- 4:33Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta give credit to them, but what
- 4:36Speaker 1: a game from him when he needed to do it,
- 4:38Speaker 1: he did it the most. And you know, we thought
- 4:41Speaker 1: we were trading field goals for touchdowns early on. He
- 4:44Speaker 1: came back got us that big touchdown, you know, to
- 4:46Speaker 1: tu Shakir, probably a top five throw in his career,
- 4:49Speaker 1: something that you know, we'll go on the on the
- 4:51Speaker 1: highlight reel for forever with him and things that like,
- 4:56Speaker 1: you know, I'm never like used to it or take
- 4:58Speaker 1: it for granted or anything like that, but at that
- 5:01Speaker 1: point in the game and kind of against the wall
- 5:03Speaker 1: and we're on the ropes and we need to win,
- 5:04Speaker 1: and all that mentality is like in your head and
- 5:07Speaker 1: then he makes a throw like that, all right, You're like,
- 5:09Speaker 1: all right, six touchdown, let's roll. But then you like
- 5:11Speaker 1: watch the replay and be like whoa wait, Like this
- 5:14Speaker 1: is not normal. This isn't what all their other teams
- 5:16Speaker 1: get to look at. This isn't what things are so
- 5:19Speaker 1: cherish this Oh wait, Lebron witness this, folks, Because it
- 5:23Speaker 1: doesn't matter if it's the last couple of years in
- 5:24Speaker 1: the route or whatever. We're here to win ball games
- 5:26Speaker 1: and he's the ring leader in that. So I agree
- 5:29Speaker 1: one hundred percent. It makes you think when I started.
- 5:31Speaker 1: My point was rob like, if we didn't have this cat, like,
- 5:37Speaker 1: are we getting beat by sixty points every week? Like,
- 5:39Speaker 1: I mean this is like sol on his back to
- 5:42Speaker 1: come down from ten points with eight minutes left in
- 5:44Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and you know, like, what if we
- 5:47Speaker 1: didn't have this guy? Right, so be grateful witness Bill's
- 5:50Speaker 1: Mafia and Nicol City Crewe. I think it's only gonna
- 5:53Speaker 1: get better now we're starting to get closer to the
- 5:54Speaker 1: playoffs and you see the people coming out of the
- 5:56Speaker 1: woodwork of Josh allenban one of the best playoff quarterbacks
- 5:59Speaker 1: of all time statistically, and and Mike Greenberg, I know,
- 6:02Speaker 1: came out with that We played this sound on our show,
- 6:05Speaker 1: you know, in the in the offseason about truly how
- 6:08Speaker 1: true that is on his statistics and how good of
- 6:11Speaker 1: a quarterback he is in the postseason. So he's just
- 6:13Speaker 1: ramping up to go to go into hang it mode. Baby,
- 6:16Speaker 1: I'm not calling it God mode or Superman mode. I'm
- 6:18Speaker 1: calling it hang it mode. So where that's that's what
- 6:21Speaker 1: he's getting teed up to do. Baby, let's go.
- 6:23Speaker 3: Yeah, man, it was amazing to watch, you know, And
- 6:26Speaker 3: and that throw in particular, and then just you know,
- 6:28Speaker 3: the touchdown run, like you said, down ten, you needed it,
- 6:33Speaker 3: and he gives it to you, you know. And then
- 6:35Speaker 3: that the Christian Benford play, obviously you know, swings the
- 6:37Speaker 3: game and changes the momentum. And it was one of
- 6:40Speaker 3: those things where I just I look at the way
- 6:42Speaker 3: that he is able to to rally the troops and
- 6:45Speaker 3: he's able to just you know, he just he does
- 6:48Speaker 3: whatever you need. And I think that that is the
- 6:50Speaker 3: sign of an all time great is where whatever you
- 6:53Speaker 3: need me to do, I'm gonna do it, whether it
- 6:54Speaker 3: be to run the ball, whether it's gonna be to
- 6:56Speaker 3: make an improbable throw. He's just got the grittiness's got
- 7:00Speaker 3: the moxie, He's got all of the different intangibles that
- 7:02Speaker 3: you want. And I'm really, like I said, I'm just
- 7:05Speaker 3: grateful that he's my quarterback because of the fact that
- 7:07Speaker 3: I don't even I don't even want to imagine where
- 7:10Speaker 3: we would be without him, because at this point in time,
- 7:11Speaker 3: he is, you know, he's kind of the engine that
- 7:14Speaker 3: makes this whole thing go.
- 7:15Speaker 2: Now. Shout out to the defense.
- 7:17Speaker 3: Benford sixty three yard interception return that play dt coming
- 7:21Speaker 3: off the previous week where he made a big time
- 7:23Speaker 3: play on the fumble recovery in Pittsburgh. I mean, this guy,
- 7:26Speaker 3: hopefully he plays on Sunday if as long as he's healthy.
- 7:29Speaker 3: Keep him out if he's not. But if he's healthy,
- 7:31Speaker 3: Benford has been stepping it up. I know that he
- 7:33Speaker 3: was a little bit you know, shaky to start the year,
- 7:35Speaker 3: and maybe that was because of an offseason you know, injury.
- 7:37Speaker 3: But he's starting to ramp it up. I heard that
- 7:39Speaker 3: he gave up like no yards a couple weeks ago,
- 7:42Speaker 3: and then he was locking up Chase. Benford is starting
- 7:45Speaker 3: to come into that role of the quarterback, quarterback one
- 7:48Speaker 3: following their best receiver, doing that whole shadow thing. That's
- 7:51Speaker 3: one of the things that you look for when you
- 7:53Speaker 3: pay a guy, you know, top dollar and he's obviously
- 7:55Speaker 3: on a nice deal, but he got a raise. You
- 7:57Speaker 3: want to see him trail the number one opposing wide receiver.
- 8:00Speaker 3: And he's doing that now. And he's in a situation
- 8:02Speaker 3: where he's he's stepping up right at the right time.
- 8:04Speaker 3: This is the time that you need to be playing
- 8:06Speaker 3: your best football.
- 8:07Speaker 1: Argon deal for a cornerback one, you know, a late
- 8:10Speaker 1: round pick, we get him, you know, pay him good,
- 8:12Speaker 1: making making progress and making plays for us every week.
- 8:15Speaker 1: I mean the the shadowing of the number one wide receiver.
- 8:18Speaker 1: That's something I guess I knew right, but then kind
- 8:20Speaker 1: of noticing it over the past couple of weeks of
- 8:22Speaker 1: him actually moving around with DK Metcalf two weeks ago
- 8:26Speaker 1: having a scoop and score, him running with with Jamar
- 8:29Speaker 1: Chase and a sick like that. Wasn't like a blitz
- 8:31Speaker 1: or anything on that. He just made the read and
- 8:33Speaker 1: you know, jumped up and a beautiful pick to take
- 8:36Speaker 1: it back while he's guarden. Jamar Chase in the slot,
- 8:39Speaker 1: came off, had a great sack on Joe Burrow early
- 8:42Speaker 1: in the game. He's a great blitzer when they send him,
- 8:44Speaker 1: he can cover. He's got your top guy, and he's
- 8:47Speaker 1: got more touchdowns in Dawson Knox. So I think, you know, overall,
- 8:51Speaker 1: it was a great investment. He's a gamer, but the
- 8:54Speaker 1: health has been an issue throughout his career. Walking boot,
- 8:57Speaker 1: but a short walking boat, like a train walking boot, right,
- 9:01Speaker 1: not a high top. It's a Jordan one low. It's
- 9:03Speaker 1: not a Jordan one high rob it's the Jordan one low.
- 9:06Speaker 1: So I think we're good. But he didn't practice today
- 9:08Speaker 1: and kind of limping around would be a big loss
- 9:11Speaker 1: on a game we probably need all hands on deck.
- 9:13Speaker 1: And you know, the Patriots have weapons kind of everywhere.
- 9:15Speaker 1: They're gonna want Stephan Diggs to try to eat against
- 9:18Speaker 1: his old team. And you know these other guys Boute
- 9:20Speaker 1: and the what's their rookie Douglas or no, what's his name?
- 9:25Speaker 2: Oh?
- 9:26Speaker 3: Oh no, not Polk, Oh yeah, Kyle Williams.
- 9:30Speaker 1: Now well, yeah, I'm making you know, deep ball threats
- 9:32Speaker 1: and I'm not necessarily he's gonna be on the on
- 9:34Speaker 1: the deep ball thing. But I don't need Stephan Diggs
- 9:37Speaker 1: to have another you know, one hundred and twenty yards
- 9:39Speaker 1: and get and get hype on us again. And he
- 9:41Speaker 1: probably wouldn't be seeing him anyway because that's more slot
- 9:43Speaker 1: and he'll be out on the boundary. But need him
- 9:46Speaker 1: healthy for this team to be successful. Just as you
- 9:48Speaker 1: know seventeen on the offensive end, he's our playmaker on
- 9:50Speaker 1: the defensive end, and he's he's earned his money this
- 9:53Speaker 1: year for sure. Anything we've asked him to do, blitz coverage,
- 9:56Speaker 1: you know, and just general playmaking ability is that slot
- 9:59Speaker 1: interception was was sick. It's going to go down as
- 10:01Speaker 1: one of the memorable moments in the stadium. So good
- 10:04Speaker 1: for him for that. And that's one that's one that
- 10:07Speaker 1: you know, we'll definitely be up on some posters with
- 10:09Speaker 1: the snow and all that.
- 10:11Speaker 3: Yeah, man, it was a it was an awesome pick.
- 10:14Speaker 3: He came on the cornerback blitz again. That's the second
- 10:16Speaker 3: straight week he picks up a sack. You know, he's
- 10:19Speaker 3: he's just doing it all right now, So kudos to
- 10:22Speaker 3: to Christian Benford. Obviously a great story and is uh,
- 10:25Speaker 3: like I said, he's peaking at the right time.
- 10:26Speaker 2: This is when you want to be playing your best
- 10:28Speaker 2: ball now. DT.
- 10:29Speaker 3: It's funny because you know, when you look at the
- 10:31Speaker 3: game and before we transition, but you know the bills,
- 10:34Speaker 3: it kind of looked bleaked there for a minute.
- 10:36Speaker 2: I know, I was texting you early in the game.
- 10:38Speaker 3: I'm like, this is kind of looking like that playoff game,
- 10:40Speaker 3: and you know, the snow and and and we're you know,
- 10:43Speaker 3: they drive right down and score. And I wasn't too
- 10:45Speaker 3: confident when you know, you go down ten in that
- 10:47Speaker 3: fourth quarter, it looked looked like it could get real
- 10:50Speaker 3: shitty in a minute. And you know, like I said,
- 10:52Speaker 3: Josh Allen saved us with that big touchdown run and
- 10:54Speaker 3: then the run to end the game.
- 10:56Speaker 2: DT.
- 10:56Speaker 3: When you look at it, you know, this could have
- 10:58Speaker 3: gone another way for sure. And I know that the
- 11:01Speaker 3: defense is much maligned and things like that, but you know,
- 11:04Speaker 3: they kind of bowed up when they needed to, obviously
- 11:06Speaker 3: with Benford helping out. But this could have gone another
- 11:08Speaker 3: way real quick because without Joey Bosa out there, there
- 11:11Speaker 3: was no pass rush. I've heard a lot of chatter
- 11:13Speaker 3: about Greg Russau and stuff like that. I think everybody
- 11:16Speaker 3: needs to just make sure that you remember that he
- 11:18Speaker 3: was never a sack artist. So even when they resigned him,
- 11:21Speaker 3: that's why he's being paid what he's being paid. He's
- 11:23Speaker 3: not paid at the top tier because I don't think
- 11:25Speaker 3: the Bills are expecting, you know, game changing plays from him,
- 11:28Speaker 3: and he's not really giving you any as well, so
- 11:30Speaker 3: he's kind of slow and steady. I don't know, man,
- 11:33Speaker 3: Without Bosa, there was no pass rush. This game was
- 11:36Speaker 3: kind of looking like it could have been a bad
- 11:38Speaker 3: situation pretty soon.
- 11:40Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Joe Burrow gets the ball fast, whatever,
- 11:42Speaker 1: but you know, yeah, it was non existent. The only
- 11:45Speaker 1: pass rush was when we sent secondary help, and you
- 11:48Speaker 1: know with that it got him off as Mojo and
- 11:50Speaker 1: forced him into a few mistakes and probably threw a
- 11:53Speaker 1: few balls a little quicker than he should have and
- 11:54Speaker 1: two big turnovers. We take advantage games ours right out
- 11:57Speaker 1: of the gate because of that. But we're gonna need
- 12:00Speaker 1: pressure down the line, you know, if we want any
- 12:02Speaker 1: chance at deep in the playoffs, and definitely Lombardi. We
- 12:05Speaker 1: see it every year of how good a defensive pressure
- 12:07Speaker 1: can take out a quarterback in the Super Bowl and
- 12:09Speaker 1: what that would mean, and we we got to start
- 12:12Speaker 1: seeing it. Joey Boza has given us really the only
- 12:16Speaker 1: you know, light of that this year. I'm not you know,
- 12:18Speaker 1: expecting roussoa go out there and you know, have three
- 12:21Speaker 1: secs a game, but it'd be nice to see him
- 12:23Speaker 1: make a few plays, right and as well as as
- 12:26Speaker 1: a Jampa has been one to get home and make plays.
- 12:29Speaker 1: And I mean he did have the pick Sunday, but
- 12:32Speaker 1: you know, to be kind of all over that. So
- 12:33Speaker 1: a big upfront defensive line with dim Walker in there
- 12:36Speaker 1: now and Dakwan Jones the veteran, and who knows if
- 12:38Speaker 1: we'll get at an Oliver back, but I would rather,
- 12:41Speaker 1: you know, if teams still run on us, still run
- 12:43Speaker 1: on us. Whatever, Like, I need to get pressure on
- 12:46Speaker 1: the quarterback and that needs to be the emphasis. So
- 12:48Speaker 1: I agree, I would sacrifice pretty much everything else to
- 12:51Speaker 1: get pressure on the quarterback.
- 12:54Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be you know, it's gonna be a
- 12:57Speaker 3: necessity down down the stretch. And obviously we got news
- 12:59Speaker 3: today that Spencer Brown will be back. They say Bosa
- 13:02Speaker 3: is going to play on Sunday, So fingers crossed that
- 13:05Speaker 3: he can stay healthy and that he doesn't re injure
- 13:07Speaker 3: himself or anything like that and have it prolonged. But
- 13:10Speaker 3: we'll see how things go now as we begin to
- 13:12Speaker 3: transition DT. I name the episode the way that I
- 13:15Speaker 3: did because I've heard a lot of chatter this week
- 13:18Speaker 3: about the importance of the game. You listen to gr
- 13:22Speaker 3: and stuff like that, they're talking about the importance and it,
- 13:25Speaker 3: you know, doesn't really matter because of the fact that
- 13:27Speaker 3: we still lose, you know, we lose the division, but
- 13:29Speaker 3: you know, everything's still in front of us for the wildcard.
- 13:31Speaker 2: Here's why I name the episode the way that I did. DT.
- 13:33Speaker 3: I think that this game is sneaky important because of
- 13:36Speaker 3: the psyche, because of what it does mentally for the
- 13:38Speaker 3: team ahead of the playoffs. That's regardless if the Patriots
- 13:42Speaker 3: go ahead and win this division. Sean mcdermer's never been
- 13:45Speaker 3: swept as the head coach of the Buffalo Bills since
- 13:47Speaker 3: he's been here. During his tenure, he's never been swept
- 13:50Speaker 3: by another AFC East opponent. I think that I think
- 13:53Speaker 3: that it's going to be important to get this win
- 13:55Speaker 3: because of the fact that, you know, you've got a
- 13:58Speaker 3: Patriots team that came up in our rear view mirrors.
- 14:00Speaker 2: Way quicker than we thought.
- 14:01Speaker 3: We didn't think that they were going to be applying
- 14:03Speaker 3: this kind of pressure so quickly year two of Drake May.
- 14:07Speaker 3: And then in addition to how fast they've come, they've
- 14:09Speaker 3: now surpassed us, and now they're running the division and they're,
- 14:12Speaker 3: you know, getting ready to have a hat and T
- 14:14Speaker 3: shirt game, and I get all that. I want to
- 14:16Speaker 3: see the Bills come out with that fight to let
- 14:18Speaker 3: them know that, listen, you might you might go ahead
- 14:21Speaker 3: and still win the division. You might get that this
- 14:23Speaker 3: particular year, we still might have to see you in
- 14:25Speaker 3: the playoffs.
- 14:26Speaker 2: We still are the top dogs.
- 14:27Speaker 3: We still are running things in the AFC, especially in
- 14:30Speaker 3: the AFC East. Regardless if you get your hat and
- 14:33Speaker 3: your T shirts that night, and hopefully not that night,
- 14:35Speaker 3: but hopefully we can prolong it.
- 14:37Speaker 2: DT.
- 14:38Speaker 3: I think this game is very important for the psyche
- 14:41Speaker 3: of the Buffalo Bills because we have never had this
- 14:43Speaker 3: kind of challenge. I know, two years ago we climbed
- 14:45Speaker 3: back from six and six, but the Dolphins are just
- 14:48Speaker 3: the Dolphins, like we own them. We have owned them,
- 14:51Speaker 3: and I never even I mean that year was a
- 14:53Speaker 3: little bit weird, but we came back and chased them down.
- 14:56Speaker 3: I don't know if we chase them down for the
- 14:57Speaker 3: division when it comes to the Patriots this year, DT,
- 14:59Speaker 3: but I think that Sunday matters.
- 15:01Speaker 2: I really do think that it matters for the psyche
- 15:02Speaker 2: of the team.
- 15:03Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point, Rob. You know, that's something
- 15:06Speaker 1: I really haven't thought about a lot of that's thinking
- 15:08Speaker 1: so focused on that record and the one seed still
- 15:10Speaker 1: or the division still and all the scenarios on the
- 15:13Speaker 1: New York Times playoff machine or the ESPN playoff machine.
- 15:16Speaker 1: I'm tinkering all around, you know, really kind of obsessed
- 15:19Speaker 1: with that, like how the seedings work and then if
- 15:21Speaker 1: we get in, what's their best route. And that's a
- 15:24Speaker 1: great point. The division of you know, we can't just
- 15:29Speaker 1: nonly let this team come in here and take you know,
- 15:31Speaker 1: take us off the throne. And yes, great, be competitive,
- 15:34Speaker 1: be something you know, we're gonna have to deal with
- 15:36Speaker 1: every year. We're in a historically horrible division. You know,
- 15:38Speaker 1: That's why the Patriots granted they did win those rings
- 15:41Speaker 1: and get on those Super Bowls for all those years
- 15:43Speaker 1: in the dynasty, but the three other teams in that
- 15:46Speaker 1: division were straight booty cheeks consistently, and still you know,
- 15:50Speaker 1: still half of them are. You know, still half of
- 15:53Speaker 1: them are. So we need to realize we're probably in
- 15:56Speaker 1: the worst division in football when it comes to that.
- 15:59Speaker 1: But overall, yeah, we are the kings of it. So
- 16:02Speaker 1: if you want to come through and you know, and
- 16:04Speaker 1: have your turn, it's competitive, that's gonna happen, especially with
- 16:07Speaker 1: somebody like Drake may I think they're gonna be our nemesis,
- 16:10Speaker 1: you know, the whole time. But as long as we
- 16:12Speaker 1: have seventeen, we have proven this is our division. So
- 16:14Speaker 1: I like that the psyche is crucial. I think that
- 16:17Speaker 1: is big, like we can still be the big dogs
- 16:20Speaker 1: and that has a lot of weight to it, Like
- 16:22Speaker 1: winning this game against the Patriots where it's kind of,
- 16:25Speaker 1: you know, all this clout right back to them. Granted
- 16:28Speaker 1: because they do have the brand of their six Super Bowl,
- 16:30Speaker 1: so you got to give them credit for that, but
- 16:32Speaker 1: the how it just shifted back just because they're you
- 16:35Speaker 1: know there, they've won ten straight games and they're eleven
- 16:37Speaker 1: to two and a good squad, good roster defensively, they invested,
- 16:41Speaker 1: they got Brabel, Like everything's coming together and now the
- 16:44Speaker 1: Wings are following, but we still have to be the Kings.
- 16:47Speaker 1: And I like that and beating somebody with everything kind
- 16:50Speaker 1: of vaulted together and pushed at you so much this
- 16:53Speaker 1: year that we just dominated this division for you know,
- 16:57Speaker 1: for the last six years. And then you know, team
- 17:03Speaker 1: that put together last year and Rabel comes in like
- 17:06Speaker 1: they're gonna come back and beat us, like and be
- 17:09Speaker 1: the new Kings just like that, I don't think so.
- 17:11Speaker 1: So I like that the Psyche this a win Sunday,
- 17:14Speaker 1: lets them know we still are the big dogs in
- 17:17Speaker 1: this division. Come on, be competitive.
- 17:19Speaker 2: We like that.
- 17:19Speaker 1: We don't want to get we don't want to get sloppy.
- 17:21Speaker 1: We want to we want to have a good sparring partner.
- 17:23Speaker 1: But you know we're gonna go fight the pay per
- 17:25Speaker 1: view and you're gonna watch it from your fucking living room.
- 17:27Speaker 1: So that's what that's what we gotta get to. And
- 17:30Speaker 1: I like that psyche winning this game definitely. I think
- 17:33Speaker 1: Josh Allen there's no issue there. He knows he's he's
- 17:35Speaker 1: better than Drake May and he is the king in
- 17:37Speaker 1: the division. But this can do a lot for the
- 17:39Speaker 1: psyche of the rest of the team to know, like
- 17:40Speaker 1: we've been the dogs. Yes, credit for you coming in
- 17:43Speaker 1: here and being cool, but it's still our house.
- 17:46Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and I think that that was one
- 17:48Speaker 3: of the things that I you know, that I was
- 17:51Speaker 3: you know, like I said, they came up on us
- 17:52Speaker 3: fast and I and I could admit that, and I
- 17:55Speaker 3: didn't expect this kind of you know, rise from them.
- 17:57Speaker 2: You know, listen, they're playing a fourth place schedule.
- 18:00Speaker 3: I understand that they can't pick their opponents and stuff
- 18:02Speaker 3: like that, and the NFL does it for parody different
- 18:04Speaker 3: things like that, but you know, it's a situation where
- 18:06Speaker 3: I was a little bit shook after that that Week
- 18:09Speaker 3: five game, you know, and then the seed step on Diggs,
- 18:11Speaker 3: come back in our house, take over, you know, one
- 18:14Speaker 3: hundred and forty yards and he's kind of just running shit.
- 18:17Speaker 3: It was a it was a piece of humble pie
- 18:18Speaker 3: that I didn't feel like eating, but I had to
- 18:20Speaker 3: accept it.
- 18:21Speaker 2: I don't want to see that again.
- 18:22Speaker 3: I don't want to see a situation where we go
- 18:24Speaker 3: to their place and then we're not competitive or or
- 18:27Speaker 3: they win a squeaker, it doesn't really matter how we lose.
- 18:29Speaker 3: I want to win this game bad because they're the
- 18:31Speaker 3: damn Patriots and I can't stand the Patriots. And it's
- 18:33Speaker 3: just like that for all the teams in the division,
- 18:35Speaker 3: but two or lesser to agree with the Jets and
- 18:39Speaker 3: the Dolphins because we own them. The Patriots have just
- 18:42Speaker 3: I've just got that PTSD from Brady, all those that
- 18:45Speaker 3: entire run of that twenty years where they're just dominating
- 18:48Speaker 3: us and kind of, you know, curve stomping us. I
- 18:50Speaker 3: want to see the Bills come out and be competitive
- 18:53Speaker 3: and win this game on Sunday and find a way
- 18:55Speaker 3: to put them back in their place.
- 18:57Speaker 2: Listen, I get that they're here.
- 18:58Speaker 3: I get that they're probably going to get their hats
- 19:00Speaker 3: and their T shirts eventually down the road. But let's
- 19:02Speaker 3: make it interesting. Let's make them sweat a little bit
- 19:05Speaker 3: and really pressure, bust pipes.
- 19:07Speaker 2: You win this game.
- 19:08Speaker 3: I understand that the Ravens game doesn't matter, but if
- 19:11Speaker 3: they drop one to the Dolphins of the Jets, then
- 19:13Speaker 3: all of a sudden, you know, things could get harry
- 19:15Speaker 3: when it comes to tiebreakers. So I'm not I've already
- 19:18Speaker 3: given up the division. I don't really care about it
- 19:20Speaker 3: in that respect. I mean, I care about it, but
- 19:22Speaker 3: that's just the defense mechanimism. But I just I'll let
- 19:25Speaker 3: them get their hats and T shirts. I don't want
- 19:27Speaker 3: to lose on Sunday in their house after they beat
- 19:29Speaker 3: us in our house. I want to I want to
- 19:30Speaker 3: kind of shut them up a little bit. And they've
- 19:31Speaker 3: been insufferable on Twitter talking shit about May, saying he's
- 19:35Speaker 3: better than Josh and all this sudden stuff. And you
- 19:37Speaker 3: heard Drake May in the press of this week. He
- 19:39Speaker 3: says Josh is the best quarterback in the league. So
- 19:41Speaker 3: they know who the big dog is. Just go into
- 19:44Speaker 3: Foxborough and handle business. Find a way to shut them
- 19:47Speaker 3: up a little bit and at least delay this whole
- 19:49Speaker 3: hat and T shirt thing.
- 19:51Speaker 1: Yeah, I and and I agree. And a win Sunday
- 19:54Speaker 1: means more, I think than you know, than a divisional
- 19:57Speaker 1: title because it is a it is a statement thing,
- 20:00Speaker 1: but breaking news. We have to interrupt the show. Rob
- 20:02Speaker 1: a big one, QB one, and that might be a
- 20:05Speaker 1: little different. You know why, we've seen a little difference
- 20:08Speaker 1: this year. We're saying he's the best. Nick. Our boy
- 20:11Speaker 1: Nick at Queen City Vintage just texted me and said,
- 20:14Speaker 1: big news.
- 20:16Speaker 2: He's having a baby.
- 20:17Speaker 1: And they Haley enlisted Nick and the crew to be
- 20:22Speaker 1: the ones who just posted this.
- 20:25Speaker 2: What's that that?
- 20:26Speaker 1: Yes, QB one, they're having a baby, having a baby.
- 20:33Speaker 2: I knew it. I knew it.
- 20:34Speaker 1: Queen City Vintage, Queen City Vintage breaks it.
- 20:37Speaker 3: Look at that right here, right here, right here, Adam Schefter,
- 20:43Speaker 3: Adam Schefter.
- 20:46Speaker 2: I love it. Look at that. Well.
- 20:47Speaker 3: Congratulations to the Allens. I mean, you know, I mean, hey,
- 20:51Speaker 3: kids are great. I've got a bunch of them, so
- 20:54Speaker 3: they bring a lot of joy and hopefully this will
- 20:56Speaker 3: bring him another sense of purpose, another sense of motivation
- 21:00Speaker 3: for not only his career but his personal life.
- 21:02Speaker 2: So congratulations to the Allens. Man, I mean, hey, listen.
- 21:04Speaker 1: We got clone this, we got this kid. Make one hundred,
- 21:10Speaker 1: make a thousand.
- 21:12Speaker 2: I love it, I love it, I love it.
- 21:13Speaker 3: Congratulations to the Allens for sure. Look at that breaking news.
- 21:17Speaker 3: That's I think that's our first news break on Nicchol
- 21:19Speaker 3: City Crew. So shout out to Queen City Vintage.
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- 21:55Speaker 3: h DT. As we transition, let's let's map this out,
- 22:00Speaker 3: and let's map out a way to get this win.
- 22:02Speaker 3: The first game, I think that it is safe to
- 22:04Speaker 3: say that turnovers played a big role. And I know
- 22:08Speaker 3: that turnovers have kind of been a hot topic this
- 22:11Speaker 3: season because of the fact that what if we warn
- 22:13Speaker 3: you about Nicol City crew. We told you all off season,
- 22:15Speaker 3: don't bank on turnovers, don't bank on getting them, and
- 22:19Speaker 3: definitely do not bank on not giving the ball away.
- 22:22Speaker 3: At the historically low rate that they did last year,
- 22:25Speaker 3: eight turnovers were already surpassed.
- 22:26Speaker 2: I think we're more than double now.
- 22:28Speaker 3: But one thing that has been interesting about the turnovers
- 22:31Speaker 3: is that a lot of them have come in road games,
- 22:34Speaker 3: and for whatever reason, I don't you know, again, I
- 22:36Speaker 3: don't know. A lot of it is luck sometimes, but
- 22:38Speaker 3: in that first game, we gave New England a lot
- 22:40Speaker 3: of their opportunities. It still was a close game, twenty
- 22:43Speaker 3: three to twenty. They had to have a late field
- 22:45Speaker 3: goal to beat us DT keep the ball. Josh said
- 22:49Speaker 3: it this week. If we don't turn over the ball,
- 22:51Speaker 3: he thinks that we're a pretty good offense. James Cook
- 22:53Speaker 3: fumble last week.
- 22:56Speaker 2: Listen, I got it.
- 22:57Speaker 3: I need my boy Jimbo. I love him. I need
- 23:00Speaker 3: him to get that shit under control. Because I was hot.
- 23:02Speaker 3: I was hotter than the rattlesnake on Sunday when I
- 23:04Speaker 3: saw that ball pop out on the goal line. Find
- 23:06Speaker 3: a way to limit yeah, find a way to limit turnovers,
- 23:10Speaker 3: because listen, you keep them in the game with turnovers.
- 23:14Speaker 3: And that's a reason why I want I mean, listen,
- 23:16Speaker 3: they've got Milton Williams, he's out. Their run game has
- 23:19Speaker 3: been shitty ever since he's been out. I know them,
- 23:21Speaker 3: the Bills are probably going to implore some type of
- 23:23Speaker 3: run game approach. But take care of the ball, regardless
- 23:26Speaker 3: whether it be Jimbo or Josh. Find a way to
- 23:29Speaker 3: keep the ball away from them and make them earn everything,
- 23:32Speaker 3: because you don't want to get in a situation like
- 23:34Speaker 3: you did week five where you're giving them help. They
- 23:36Speaker 3: don't need any help, clearly with their record, but don't
- 23:39Speaker 3: give them any freebies on a sudden I.
- 23:41Speaker 1: Think one of them, one of them was on the
- 23:43Speaker 1: nine yard line, right, and then another one was. We
- 23:46Speaker 1: were in the red zone, so too, you know, high
- 23:49Speaker 1: high scoring chances from both you know, from both sides
- 23:52Speaker 1: of it, right, So we turned them all over and
- 23:54Speaker 1: we're about to score. We give them the ball with
- 23:56Speaker 1: only ten yards to score. I think we did hold
- 23:58Speaker 1: him no field goal there, but still, you know it's
- 24:00Speaker 1: it's lose the game by three points. Anyway, right, So
- 24:03Speaker 1: it's it's non negotiable. Can't happen this team of you know,
- 24:08Speaker 1: that's why McDermott and the preaching and the you know,
- 24:11Speaker 1: the the trust, the process. The process is discipline like penalties,
- 24:15Speaker 1: turnovers like we don't do it. Can't bank on them
- 24:17Speaker 1: defensively to get them. You can. It's part of the
- 24:20Speaker 1: m O a little when it's as consistent, but it
- 24:22Speaker 1: hasn't been this year for us on takeaways. Last year
- 24:25Speaker 1: it was a little bit of the MO. It's just
- 24:26Speaker 1: part of what they did. They were training for it.
- 24:29Speaker 1: You know, they were punching right, they were, And this
- 24:31Speaker 1: year it hasn't been as much. But they've come and
- 24:33Speaker 1: made some big turnovers and some crucial times. Obviously as
- 24:36Speaker 1: we saw Sunday, you know, that sealed us the victory.
- 24:38Speaker 1: But giving the ball away is something we can control.
- 24:41Speaker 1: And I agree we need to get back to the
- 24:43Speaker 1: process and everything of this hard ass and McDermott preaches
- 24:47Speaker 1: the things that we can critique. You know, we can
- 24:49Speaker 1: also say like okay, now we need to get back
- 24:51Speaker 1: to that. Be more disciplined, not jumping off sides when
- 24:53Speaker 1: the game's on the line, you know, not having eleven
- 24:56Speaker 1: penalties and killing yourself and not turning the ball over
- 24:58Speaker 1: three times. So it starts with seventeen and works on
- 25:02Speaker 1: from there. Obviously four that was his m literally his
- 25:05Speaker 1: first game, his first touch ever against the l A. Rams.
- 25:09Speaker 1: He fumbled in that Thursday night game. He fumbled the
- 25:11Speaker 1: first play of the game against the Denver Broncos when
- 25:14Speaker 1: it was that bullshit game with the twelve men on
- 25:16Speaker 1: the field, and you know, the Monday nighter, and you know,
- 25:20Speaker 1: then a crucial, crucial one last week won the game.
- 25:24Speaker 1: Two crucial ones here, like way too many times to
- 25:27Speaker 1: put the ball on the ground, and the second one
- 25:28Speaker 1: wasn't even like he was extending it, just he he
- 25:30Speaker 1: didn't have it secured. So it's gonna be a point.
- 25:33Speaker 1: It seemed like he he's capable because he did have,
- 25:37Speaker 1: you know, the problem early in his career. Then he
- 25:39Speaker 1: kind of hunkered down and was very good with it
- 25:41Speaker 1: for a few years. The last couple of games is
- 25:44Speaker 1: kind of peeking its head out, So it might just
- 25:46Speaker 1: be the price you pay for somebody as elusive. Well,
- 25:49Speaker 1: he's a fumble problem, but it can't be every week.
- 25:52Speaker 1: So I think, obviously that's a point of emphasis he
- 25:54Speaker 1: takes it seriously. We're gonna cut down on those. But
- 25:56Speaker 1: seventeen doesn't need to be throwing asshole picks either, and
- 25:59Speaker 1: he's done that a few times this year that you know,
- 26:02Speaker 1: just not necessary and trying to force it. Like I
- 26:05Speaker 1: think now though he's late enough in the season. He
- 26:06Speaker 1: wasn't taking those runs and scrambles earlier in the year.
- 26:09Speaker 1: Now he's busting them off instead of throwing the pick
- 26:12Speaker 1: right So it starts with him then goes right before.
- 26:15Speaker 1: But we can control that side. Back to trust. The
- 26:18Speaker 1: process kind of leads some turnovers that we can control.
- 26:21Speaker 1: We can bank on getting a few, but we have
- 26:23Speaker 1: to control the front end of those.
- 26:25Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I don't want to give them any more
- 26:27Speaker 3: extra possessions or anything like that. They can they really
- 26:30Speaker 3: can't crush your hopes in the game and put the
- 26:32Speaker 3: team your opponent and an advantageous situation. So we'll be watching
- 26:36Speaker 3: that for sure. I have trust in Jimbo. He has
- 26:39Speaker 3: been good with it. You are right about that DT
- 26:40Speaker 3: he did. You know, he cut him down for some years,
- 26:43Speaker 3: but they have kind of reared their ugly head recently,
- 26:46Speaker 3: so we'll see how he takes care of ball control.
- 26:48Speaker 2: On Sunday.
- 26:48Speaker 3: Now, DT, it'll be interesting because they what do they
- 26:52Speaker 3: say Spencer Brown will be back, So that's a good sign.
- 26:55Speaker 3: They say Bosa will be back. I'm interested in the
- 26:58Speaker 3: Bosa thing because I don't want to I almost wanted
- 27:01Speaker 3: to give him another week because of the fact that,
- 27:04Speaker 3: you know, what did we say all offseason?
- 27:06Speaker 2: Just get him to the playoffs? Iss? Get im to
- 27:07Speaker 2: the plaoffs.
- 27:08Speaker 3: Well, now we're right around the corner from the playoffs
- 27:10Speaker 3: and he has an injury. Now what was it? Was
- 27:12Speaker 3: it a was it a calf or ham What was it?
- 27:14Speaker 2: Hamstring?
- 27:16Speaker 1: Hamstring? Yeah, well he's risk he's from battling his wrist right,
- 27:19Speaker 1: but that's not why. But his hamstring hamstring?
- 27:21Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, okay, hamstring.
- 27:23Speaker 3: So sometimes those things are are are are weird and
- 27:26Speaker 3: you want to nurse him. But I understand if he's healthy, Listen,
- 27:28Speaker 3: I trust the medical staff. They wouldn't put him back
- 27:31Speaker 3: on the field if he couldn't play. So obviously they
- 27:33Speaker 3: announced today McDermott did that he can play. Then obviously
- 27:35Speaker 3: they feel that he's good enough to go and not
- 27:37Speaker 3: hurt himself again. On that side of the ball, DT,
- 27:40Speaker 3: you know, I don't really know how I'm supposed to
- 27:43Speaker 3: feel about the defense. I know that I lowered my
- 27:45Speaker 3: expectations because of some of the injuries and different things
- 27:48Speaker 3: like that that they've been going through. I know that
- 27:50Speaker 3: we talked about it and we can't stand that McDermott
- 27:52Speaker 3: is always give given that pass when it comes the
- 27:55Speaker 3: end of the season. But sometimes, you know, excuses are
- 27:58Speaker 3: not always excuses. Sometimes it's just the reason. And they're
- 28:01Speaker 3: playing with a lot of guys that are out. Looks
- 28:03Speaker 3: like Bernard will be out again. He didn't practice today,
- 28:05Speaker 3: so I don't know what's going on with him. But secretly,
- 28:07Speaker 3: Shaq Shack Thompson has been taking over his spot and
- 28:10Speaker 3: playing very well. So I would like to see Shaq
- 28:13Speaker 3: Thompson stay in that in that role anyway, regardless if
- 28:15Speaker 3: if Bernard was healthy or not. DT what do you
- 28:18Speaker 3: see from that side of the ball as we as
- 28:19Speaker 3: we come into this matchup, we come down the stretch,
- 28:22Speaker 3: I know that this is one of the worst. This
- 28:24Speaker 3: has got to be the worst McDermott defense during his tenure.
- 28:27Speaker 3: But sure we're gonna I think if we could find
- 28:30Speaker 3: a way to make timely stops in the postseason, I
- 28:33Speaker 3: think that we'll be okay. Much like you know last
- 28:36Speaker 3: week with Barnard, the week before with Bernard again, excuse me, Benford.
- 28:41Speaker 3: With against Pittsburgh, if we can find a way to
- 28:44Speaker 3: get timely stops, I think that that might be just enough.
- 28:46Speaker 3: You might be in a game that's got, you know,
- 28:48Speaker 3: eleven possessions. If you can force a couple punts and
- 28:52Speaker 3: a turnover, well, then all of a sudden, you know
- 28:54Speaker 3: what I mean, they're down to eight possessions, or they're
- 28:56Speaker 3: down to seven possessions.
- 28:57Speaker 2: What are the case?
- 28:57Speaker 3: May be, find a way to force some turnovers and
- 29:00Speaker 3: find a way to stop get them off the field.
- 29:02Speaker 3: They were atrocious on Sunday DT on third down. Joe
- 29:06Speaker 3: Burrow was doing whatever the fuck you wanted to do.
- 29:08Speaker 3: They were I think it was like nine of eleven
- 29:10Speaker 3: on third down. That is not gonna cut it in
- 29:12Speaker 3: the playoffs. It's not gonna probably cut it on Sunday
- 29:14Speaker 3: against a guy like Drake. May find a way to
- 29:16Speaker 3: get some stops, get these guys off the field. I
- 29:19Speaker 3: know that you don't have all of your guys, but
- 29:20Speaker 3: find a way to get these guys off the field,
- 29:22Speaker 3: come hell or high water. You can't let a team
- 29:24Speaker 3: just possess the ball, drive up and down the field
- 29:27Speaker 3: on you. Whether it's death by a thousand cuts or
- 29:29Speaker 3: big plays, you're not gonna You're not gonna be long
- 29:31Speaker 3: in the playoffs if you're giving long drives or explosive
- 29:34Speaker 3: plays third.
- 29:35Speaker 1: Downs or are the death of this, you know, especially
- 29:39Speaker 1: Sunday every playoff game. Every get in one stop and
- 29:42Speaker 1: we can't get it and can't get off the field
- 29:44Speaker 1: on third downs.
- 29:44Speaker 2: Wow and it.
- 29:47Speaker 1: But overall, I think this defense is coming around a
- 29:50Speaker 1: little bit from when it was beginning of the year,
- 29:52Speaker 1: real swiss cheese, like, all right, we're gonna literally score
- 29:55Speaker 1: fifty a game, you know, because this defense is like
- 29:57Speaker 1: Bengals bad or Cowboys bad, right, And that was the
- 30:00Speaker 1: talk earlier in the year. We've kind of tightened up,
- 30:02Speaker 1: you know, gotten to that if the talent isn't there,
- 30:05Speaker 1: we have tightened up into that bend, don't break mentality,
- 30:08Speaker 1: you know, of what of what mcderm of preaches, and
- 30:10Speaker 1: that has showed it's had a little more over the
- 30:12Speaker 1: past couple of weeks. So I have confidence. I think
- 30:14Speaker 1: we're getting in there. The team has caught up with
- 30:17Speaker 1: the scheme a little bit and made up for the
- 30:19Speaker 1: lack of talent. And maybe the lack of talent has
- 30:21Speaker 1: been here for the last you know, eight seasons they've
- 30:24Speaker 1: been around. They've had better players. Don't get me wrong,
- 30:27Speaker 1: get your point where it might be the worst, But
- 30:30Speaker 1: that lack of talent is it makes up for with
- 30:32Speaker 1: this scheme and right, and so that's what that's why
- 30:34Speaker 1: Trey White can still be out on the field, and
- 30:36Speaker 1: when you see him in one on one situations, he's
- 30:38Speaker 1: getting cooked. But when he's in his when he's in
- 30:41Speaker 1: his situation and in his role and in his zone,
- 30:44Speaker 1: he's a he's a good play he's a good player
- 30:46Speaker 1: on the defense when when called upon. So it is
- 30:49Speaker 1: getting back, it is tightening up. But I go back
- 30:51Speaker 1: to that pass rush point, rob, like, we need to
- 30:54Speaker 1: get to the quarterbacks, especially somebody like Drake May who
- 30:57Speaker 1: if he's chilling in the pocket and he can get
- 30:59Speaker 1: thrown down and throwing those deep balls up there and
- 31:01Speaker 1: get comfortable, like that's what can beat you, right, So
- 31:04Speaker 1: getting in his head and making them eat it a
- 31:07Speaker 1: little as a young quarterback, that can rattle him, you know,
- 31:09Speaker 1: very quick. We saw as we even have Superman or
- 31:12Speaker 1: hang Mode on our team. Like he he got like
- 31:15Speaker 1: a little spasy in the beginning of his career when
- 31:17Speaker 1: he was getting touched a little too much, and you know,
- 31:19Speaker 1: he was doing wild shit, right, So yeah, getting to
- 31:21Speaker 1: the quarterback is key. Easier said than done. We're getting
- 31:24Speaker 1: our best pass rusher back to do that, and maybe
- 31:26Speaker 1: that kind of opens things up for some other guys
- 31:29Speaker 1: to make plays as well when it comes to that.
- 31:31Speaker 1: But I do have some confidence that this defense is
- 31:33Speaker 1: looking a little better. Those are downs unacceptable last Sunday.
- 31:36Speaker 1: I agree, but you're not having you don't have to
- 31:38Speaker 1: go up Agains show Burrow Jamar chasing Higgins every week either,
- 31:41Speaker 1: so give him, give him a little credit. They are
- 31:44Speaker 1: tightening up. They are looking a little better. And I
- 31:46Speaker 1: think that McDermott has been good to his whole tenure
- 31:49Speaker 1: because he hasn't had the talent, but makes defenses, you know,
- 31:52Speaker 1: make stops not in the playoffs, but we're not in
- 31:54Speaker 1: the playoffs, you know, at one o'clock on Sunday, right, So, uh,
- 31:58Speaker 1: I think it's getting better. Pass rush just still got
- 32:00Speaker 1: to get there. But I think that's the easiest answer
- 32:02Speaker 1: to kind of rattle Drake May a young quarterback is
- 32:05Speaker 1: get to him and touch him.
- 32:07Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's been getting a little bit better.
- 32:09Speaker 3: I can't I you know, before last week, I couldn't
- 32:12Speaker 3: say that they had lost you any games, you know
- 32:14Speaker 3: since week one, you know what I mean, I couldn't
- 32:17Speaker 3: say that about the defense. I don't think that they
- 32:19Speaker 3: had lost the Bills a game in that respect. I mean,
- 32:21Speaker 3: Miami just didn't show up. So that's that's an entire
- 32:24Speaker 3: team collective, isn't that one.
- 32:26Speaker 1: So but if you had that choice coin flip beginning
- 32:28Speaker 1: of the year, hey, the defense is gonna kind of
- 32:30Speaker 1: be suspect, but they're never gonna lose you a game.
- 32:33Speaker 1: You got Josh Allen on the other side of the ball.
- 32:35Speaker 1: But I'll take it.
- 32:36Speaker 2: I'll sign up for it. I'll sign up.
- 32:38Speaker 3: The problem that the thing that worried me, Like I said,
- 32:41Speaker 3: I thought last week, I thought we were gonna lose
- 32:43Speaker 3: last week. I did, especially when we were down ten.
- 32:45Speaker 3: I thought that we were gonna lose that game. And then,
- 32:48Speaker 3: you know, I think that the thing that worried me
- 32:50Speaker 3: the most, along with the third down last week, was
- 32:52Speaker 3: that it is that pass rush and it did you know,
- 32:55Speaker 3: and like and Greg grew. So I mean He's got
- 32:57Speaker 3: a lot of shit on Twitter, and I listen, I
- 32:59Speaker 3: understand it. I think that my expectations for him were different,
- 33:02Speaker 3: and I never expected him to be a game record.
- 33:04Speaker 3: He's not Miles Garrett Junior or anything like that, so
- 33:06Speaker 3: I never expected that from him.
- 33:08Speaker 2: But I thought that it was stark when you just.
- 33:10Speaker 3: Let Joe Burrow sit back there, and you're right, he's
- 33:12Speaker 3: got great weapons, but you know, May's got weapons and
- 33:14Speaker 3: stuff like that. I don't think Shador Sanders is going
- 33:16Speaker 3: to light the bills up, but he threw for three
- 33:18Speaker 3: hundred and something.
- 33:18Speaker 2: Yards you know, will mean last week.
- 33:20Speaker 3: And then you've got Jalen Hurts, who's you know, his
- 33:22Speaker 3: offense looks like they're tattered right now.
- 33:25Speaker 2: And then the Jets the end of the year.
- 33:26Speaker 3: I just want to see them get into form and
- 33:29Speaker 3: find a way to get a passwords because regardless of
- 33:33Speaker 3: the talent or what might be on the defensive line,
- 33:35Speaker 3: you've got to generate some push. Now. I know Ed
- 33:37Speaker 3: Oliver is a big part of that, and I get it,
- 33:40Speaker 3: and I miss him for sure, and hopefully fingers crossed
- 33:43Speaker 3: that he's back for the playoffs.
- 33:44Speaker 2: But I think that that's.
- 33:45Speaker 3: What worried me and concerned me most after watching that
- 33:49Speaker 3: game last week, DT was that that Burrow had all
- 33:52Speaker 3: he had all day.
- 33:53Speaker 2: He did whatever he wanted to. We didn't sniff him.
- 33:55Speaker 3: And I think that if you get into that kind
- 33:57Speaker 3: of mode where the quarter back is just comfortable as fuck,
- 34:01Speaker 3: I think that I don't know, man, I just it
- 34:03Speaker 3: just doesn't make me feel good. And and I don't
- 34:06Speaker 3: know if I don't know if Joey can can cover
- 34:08Speaker 3: the you know what I mean. We always talk about
- 34:10Speaker 3: how Joshi, Yeah, he's deodorant. He covers up a lot
- 34:13Speaker 3: of the errors on the team and and play it players.
- 34:15Speaker 2: And YadA, YadA, YadA.
- 34:16Speaker 3: I don't know if Joey Bosa is that player anymore
- 34:18Speaker 3: where he can just cover up for everything. We'll see
- 34:21Speaker 3: on Sunday if he can have an impact. But I
- 34:23Speaker 3: do need some other guys to step up. I do
- 34:25Speaker 3: need you so be more, be more creative. Then it
- 34:28Speaker 3: doesn't have to just be defensive line. For the pass
- 34:30Speaker 3: rush we're sending corner blitz is. We have some new
- 34:33Speaker 3: looks with our linebackers. We have different linebacker personnel in there.
- 34:36Speaker 3: You know, we've been doing kind of a one corner
- 34:38Speaker 3: blitz every game. Do it because it's in the game plan.
- 34:42Speaker 1: Now, Okay, they're sending a Christian Menford or somebody on
- 34:44Speaker 1: a corner blitz, Send that blitz and then do it again.
- 34:47Speaker 1: You know, we've only been doing it once once a
- 34:49Speaker 1: game and it's been working, you know. So that's the
- 34:52Speaker 1: game plan. They're gonna be ready for it. Fine, they're
- 34:55Speaker 1: not gonna be ready for the second or third time.
- 34:56Speaker 1: So maybe it's getting more creative with other than the
- 35:00Speaker 1: defensive line to help your pass rush as well.
- 35:02Speaker 2: Okay, I can take that point. Okay, I can take
- 35:06Speaker 2: that point now.
- 35:06Speaker 3: As we begin to wrap up in transition, tonight's episode
- 35:11Speaker 3: is also presented by Al's Bar and Grill. We've got
- 35:13Speaker 3: some stuff set up with them. I cannot wait to
- 35:15Speaker 3: start doing some live shows. I want to get in
- 35:17Speaker 3: there before the playoffs starts, so I'm working on that.
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- 35:22Speaker 3: you're down here in Charlotte where I am. They are
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- 35:29Speaker 2: Check them out. Listen.
- 35:29Speaker 3: They've got the wings that DT loved. He raved about
- 35:32Speaker 3: him when he got down here the Buffalo Garlic prown.
- 35:34Speaker 3: We just had him last night. The boys and I
- 35:36Speaker 3: were there. My Kings and I were there last night
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- 35:52Speaker 2: Before we get to.
- 35:53Speaker 3: The tailgate report, I wanted to know, okay, not doomsday scenario,
- 36:00Speaker 3: but let's say it's at it turns out to be
- 36:02Speaker 3: a hat and T shirt game. How do I how
- 36:04Speaker 3: do I pick myself up Sunday afternoon going into the
- 36:09Speaker 3: evening and feel better about it if they do get
- 36:11Speaker 3: the division and beat us. Because if that's the case,
- 36:14Speaker 3: then I want to position myself for the highest possible seed.
- 36:17Speaker 2: I want to play that hopefully that AFC north Ward seed.
- 36:20Speaker 3: You know, it could be Pittsburgh maybe possibly you know,
- 36:24Speaker 3: the Ravens, We'll see you know what I mean, what
- 36:27Speaker 3: do you or do you?
- 36:28Speaker 2: Are?
- 36:28Speaker 3: You just in the headspace We're just not going to
- 36:29Speaker 3: lose on Sunday and I know how you can get
- 36:31Speaker 3: some time.
- 36:32Speaker 2: But I mean, I am in the head.
- 36:36Speaker 1: Space for sure. I'm very confident Sunday. I think a
- 36:39Speaker 1: psyche thing is big and I love that. But I
- 36:42Speaker 1: would also say, like the probability of us winning the
- 36:45Speaker 1: division is is extremely low anyway, and everyone knows that,
- 36:48Speaker 1: and I think everyone has at least accepted some sort
- 36:51Speaker 1: of that and knowing that we're going to probably be
- 36:52Speaker 1: on the road to start the playoffs. So a lost
- 36:55Speaker 1: Sunday doesn't change that really at all, you know, like
- 36:57Speaker 1: that is the straight other than the psyche or whatever.
- 37:00Speaker 1: But you know, then all right, let's see us a
- 37:03Speaker 1: third time in the playoffs and then I don't think
- 37:05Speaker 1: you beat Josh Allen three times in one year like
- 37:07Speaker 1: for hell though, right, So it's I don't think it
- 37:11Speaker 1: changes much. I do. I am confident we going there
- 37:13Speaker 1: and take care of business. But I don't think it
- 37:15Speaker 1: changes much. I think everyone's kind of on board with
- 37:18Speaker 1: us going, you know, going on the road for the playoffs,
- 37:20Speaker 1: Like that's just kind of what it looks like probability.
- 37:22Speaker 1: Vegas everywhere would say that. So I don't think a
- 37:25Speaker 1: loss changes that, that just solidifies it.
- 37:28Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I think that I think that the division
- 37:32Speaker 3: is theirs. I think that even if with a win,
- 37:34Speaker 3: I don't see them losing two the Jets, they could
- 37:37Speaker 3: possibly lose to Miami, who's been playing better. Miami has
- 37:40Speaker 3: kind of gotten a little bit of a pulse as
- 37:42Speaker 3: of late, but who knows how they going to that
- 37:44Speaker 3: matchup against Drake May and those guys.
- 37:46Speaker 2: So I've kind of conceded the division.
- 37:48Speaker 3: I've kind of let them have it in that respect,
- 37:50Speaker 3: but I would love to see again us find a
- 37:54Speaker 3: way to beat these guys on Sunday because I just
- 37:58Speaker 3: can't stand in the fucking Patriots. I can not stand them.
- 38:00Speaker 3: They're arrogant fans, they're spoiled fans. I can't stand it
- 38:04Speaker 3: that that Tom Brady run was just ridiculous. I can't
- 38:07Speaker 3: stand it. So because of that, personally, for me, I
- 38:10Speaker 3: just don't want to see us lose to that game.
- 38:11Speaker 3: But I have to be a realist if it happens,
- 38:14Speaker 3: I think that you're absolutely right, nothing really changes too much.
- 38:16Speaker 3: You'll have five losses, you still will be in a
- 38:18Speaker 3: good position to get that five seed, and I think
- 38:20Speaker 3: that that I think that that's the money seed, especially
- 38:23Speaker 3: if we want to have another reunion at that Ralph
- 38:26Speaker 3: for a playoff game. If you get some upsets in
- 38:28Speaker 3: the lower seeds beating the higher seeds, that's the best
- 38:30Speaker 3: way to go about it is. If you're the five seed,
- 38:32Speaker 3: then you got a chance to host a playoff games.
- 38:34Speaker 3: So we'll see how it goes. I'm confident DT.
- 38:37Speaker 2: I don't.
- 38:38Speaker 3: I mean I think that I just think that this
- 38:41Speaker 3: is all just too soon, I really do. And I
- 38:43Speaker 3: think that the fourth place schedule is helping. And I
- 38:45Speaker 3: know a lot of people sometimes don't like that excuse
- 38:47Speaker 3: or that reasoning, but I mean, they have played the
- 38:51Speaker 3: thirty second schedule like it's like.
- 38:54Speaker 2: There's just no way around it. No, they can't make
- 38:56Speaker 2: their schedule.
- 38:57Speaker 3: But they were benefiting from the fact that they finished
- 38:59Speaker 3: fourth last year. They playing all of the garbage teams
- 39:01Speaker 3: in those cross divisional matchups, while we're playing the number
- 39:04Speaker 3: one seeds in all of those cross the.
- 39:07Speaker 1: Granted, granted we got losses this year to the Dolphins.
- 39:09Speaker 1: We have lost this year to the Falcons.
- 39:12Speaker 3: They haven't slipped up. They have they have earned their record.
- 39:15Speaker 3: They haven't slipped up. If you don't slip up to
- 39:16Speaker 3: the Dolphins and the Falcons, then you're right there, neck
- 39:18Speaker 3: and neck and we wouldn't be having this conversation to
- 39:20Speaker 3: be a lot different. So I get that. I just
- 39:22Speaker 3: I guess I just don't respect them. I get I
- 39:25Speaker 3: just how about it. I said it. I don't respect
- 39:27Speaker 3: the Pats.
- 39:27Speaker 2: I don't. I don't.
- 39:28Speaker 3: I don't respect them in their fourth place schedule. I
- 39:31Speaker 3: think this was all a year early. And yes, May
- 39:34Speaker 3: is a good quarterback. I mean I know him pretty well,
- 39:36Speaker 3: you know, from a distance down here Charlotte, because he
- 39:39Speaker 3: went to school down here. I get it. I just
- 39:42Speaker 3: I just don't. I just think that they're you're early,
- 39:45Speaker 3: and Milton Williams is out. Their their run defense went
- 39:48Speaker 3: from top of the league to now they're down in
- 39:50Speaker 3: the basement. I just don't respect them DT, I really don't.
- 39:53Speaker 3: I think that that's I think that's what I'm forant.
- 39:56Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know it is they they can't
- 40:01Speaker 1: get that confidence yet. They can't get that confidence yet.
- 40:04Speaker 1: They had it for so long and they were silent,
- 40:07Speaker 1: and now they're on the radio waves again and they're
- 40:09Speaker 1: talking like this is the biggest game and Patriots fans
- 40:12Speaker 1: regular season generation, even through the dynasty, this is the
- 40:15Speaker 1: biggest game. Like I like that there's this much focus.
- 40:18Speaker 1: They hate losing so much that like, finally we think
- 40:21Speaker 1: we're back and we're gonna take care of Josh Allen.
- 40:24Speaker 1: Like that's not how easy it works. That's not how
- 40:26Speaker 1: it works. That's we keep running into you know, these
- 40:30Speaker 1: these teams and our whole lives, like playing all these
- 40:32Speaker 1: quarterbacks you can never beat, like Josh Allen has to be,
- 40:36Speaker 1: you know, that guy to them, and I hope it is,
- 40:38Speaker 1: because yeah, screw screw these fans, screw them. I don't
- 40:42Speaker 1: I don't respect him. You know, Stefan Diggs leaves, leaves
- 40:46Speaker 1: the Bills and would have been nice to have on
- 40:49Speaker 1: this team. But you know, but he has a his
- 40:52Speaker 1: second half of the fall and and all the bad
- 40:55Speaker 1: things you know, in the second half of the season
- 40:57Speaker 1: we saw as a Bill we're seeing it as the
- 40:58Speaker 1: Patriots too. So yeah, gotta be gotta be not to
- 41:03Speaker 1: write them off in disrespect because they did that with
- 41:05Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins this year and got their ass kick
- 41:07Speaker 1: for no reason, you know, and that but so not
- 41:10Speaker 1: like that, but not respect enough to like I'm not
- 41:13Speaker 1: respecting you to respect myself. We're still the Kings, you know,
- 41:17Speaker 1: We're still the Kings. Like me respecting you disrespects myself.
- 41:21Speaker 2: I get it, but I just think, yeah, that's a
- 41:23Speaker 2: good way to put it.
- 41:24Speaker 3: I just think that they are a year early, and
- 41:26Speaker 3: I think that they're feasting on a week schedule.
- 41:28Speaker 2: And you're absolutely right.
- 41:29Speaker 3: They did not have any slip ups, so they have
- 41:31Speaker 3: earned their record. I just think it's just a little
- 41:33Speaker 3: bit too early, and maybe that's a defense mechanism.
- 41:35Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 41:36Speaker 3: You know, we'll we'll chalk it up to that now.
- 41:38Speaker 3: So you've got a bills win on Sunday. I've got
- 41:40Speaker 3: a bills win on Sunday. We'll see how it goes.
- 41:42Speaker 2: Now.
- 41:43Speaker 3: As we wrap up tonight, the Nickel City Crew Tailgate Report,
- 41:45Speaker 3: again presented by Queen City Vintage DT. Before I passed
- 41:49Speaker 3: it to you last week was I was a little
- 41:51Speaker 3: bit proud of myself. I was my first time that
- 41:53Speaker 3: we had since we had Cincinnati, right, so what are
- 41:55Speaker 3: they known for Cincinnati? You know the Chileans. I was like,
- 41:58Speaker 3: you know what I could do, Chili. I could figure
- 42:01Speaker 3: this out. So you know, I'm looking at a couple of
- 42:02Speaker 3: YouTube videos. The ingredients are nothing crazy, so it's like,
- 42:05Speaker 3: you know what, I'm gonna make some chili for the babies,
- 42:08Speaker 3: and I'm gonna and I'm gonna do it right.
- 42:10Speaker 2: So I did it right, man. I got all of
- 42:11Speaker 2: the ingredients.
- 42:12Speaker 3: I got everything that I needed, and I cooked it
- 42:14Speaker 3: on Saturday because they said, if you know, the longer
- 42:16Speaker 3: that stuff gets a chance to sit and cook together
- 42:18Speaker 3: and all those flavors meld together, that it just makes
- 42:21Speaker 3: it even better. We had a little bit we dipped
- 42:23Speaker 3: into it on Saturday as well, but I mean we
- 42:26Speaker 3: had it all, man.
- 42:26Speaker 2: We had all the fixes. I had the corn bread,
- 42:28Speaker 2: I had the sour cream. I had the.
- 42:29Speaker 3: Cheese you know on top. It was really good. The
- 42:32Speaker 3: kids tore it up. They ate at Ivy was even
- 42:34Speaker 3: eating it. She liked the corn bread the most because
- 42:37Speaker 3: I got some of this honey corn bread and she
- 42:39Speaker 3: she must have thought it was like cake, you know
- 42:40Speaker 3: what I mean. So she was she was tearing that up.
- 42:42Speaker 3: But she ate the chili too, and they had We
- 42:44Speaker 3: had a great time. So I was here at the
- 42:46Speaker 3: crib with the Kings and we had a great time
- 42:48Speaker 3: and we watched the game and uh and fresh I
- 42:52Speaker 3: mean fresh chili, man, like it was. It was really
- 42:54Speaker 3: good too. I think I did a good job. I
- 42:56Speaker 3: had the tomatoes in there and all the tomato paste.
- 42:58Speaker 3: I had all the everything that is put in there.
- 43:00Speaker 3: I had it in there, man, And that thing roasted
- 43:03Speaker 3: on Saturday night and really got melded together.
- 43:05Speaker 2: And it was great Saturday when we tasted, and Sunday
- 43:07Speaker 2: it was even better.
- 43:08Speaker 1: So we smell that. I can smell that from here, Rob.
- 43:11Speaker 1: That sounds great. Man.
- 43:12Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 43:13Speaker 3: Now now this week before I pass it to you,
- 43:15Speaker 3: this week, I'm I'm sticking with these themes, man of
- 43:19Speaker 3: the opponent. I mean, what is that? What's new we
- 43:22Speaker 3: England known for? In those Boston well clamp jott. Yeah,
- 43:25Speaker 3: but I don't like, I'm not doing a soup. So
- 43:27Speaker 3: you know, I was like, well, what else are they
- 43:29Speaker 3: knowing for? Oh, they've got lobsters. So we're gonna do some.
- 43:31Speaker 3: We're gonna do some lobster tails. I'm gonna bread some
- 43:33Speaker 3: lobster tails. I'm gonna fry them up, some breaded lobster
- 43:36Speaker 3: tails and uh and some fries. Man, just keep it
- 43:39Speaker 3: simple with a nice easy side so I don't have
- 43:40Speaker 3: to do too much cooking. But I got the lobster
- 43:42Speaker 3: tails the other day. I'm gonna thaw them in some
- 43:45Speaker 3: cold water on Sunday morning, get them ready to go,
- 43:48Speaker 3: and then I'm gonna bread them. I know exactly what
- 43:50Speaker 3: I want to do for breading them and fry them up.
- 43:52Speaker 3: And nothing like some good fried lobster tails. If you
- 43:54Speaker 3: have never had them before, DT they are. They are delicious.
- 43:57Speaker 3: So we're keeping with the things. I'm just gonna keep
- 43:59Speaker 3: with the theme of the opponent throughout the rest of
- 44:01Speaker 3: the season, and hopefully that brings us some good mojo.
- 44:04Speaker 2: Man.
- 44:04Speaker 3: So some fried lobster tails on Sunday or on the menu, man,
- 44:08Speaker 3: And I can't wait because they I got some juicy ones.
- 44:10Speaker 3: They look like they'll be good.
- 44:12Speaker 1: What's uh, what's Cleveland next week? Bush Light?
- 44:17Speaker 2: I haven't thought about Cleveland, Nevada.
- 44:20Speaker 3: Maybe some garbage plates I have to look on and
- 44:21Speaker 3: see what Cleveland famous dog food?
- 44:26Speaker 1: Yeah, but no, that's that's awesome. Ron, That's that sounds great.
- 44:29Speaker 1: I gotta up my game and get to get domesticated
- 44:32Speaker 1: on that type of level that My tailgate reports have
- 44:34Speaker 1: been pretty lack luster in the past few weeks, I'd say,
- 44:38Speaker 1: very low key, which is fine. You know, we we
- 44:41Speaker 1: as we get older, we don't need a we don't
- 44:43Speaker 1: need a crazy crazy game day every every week. But
- 44:45Speaker 1: that food, man, Wow, that sounds top not so. Last
- 44:49Speaker 1: week was down in the yep, yeah, that's gonna be.
- 44:55Speaker 1: That sounds awesome. And the chili, you know, like you said,
- 44:57Speaker 1: some smell from here. Lops tail sounds great too, active
- 45:00Speaker 1: back great ones. Uh, I can't wait to see you
- 45:02Speaker 1: know how that is. But was down in the home
- 45:05Speaker 1: Diggs last week. Uh, you know with my with my crew,
- 45:08Speaker 1: my the trike Kie Page. I'm uh, you know, married
- 45:12Speaker 1: this year and I've been with him ever since. You
- 45:14Speaker 1: know I haven't I haven't gave him at Eddie space
- 45:16Speaker 1: and uh great, grateful for their hospitality. Came down, went
- 45:21Speaker 1: to the Christmas parade down here in the home in
- 45:24Speaker 1: the home, Panama City, Jamestown area, and Rob, let me
- 45:27Speaker 1: tell you a shout out to the city of Jamestown.
- 45:30Speaker 1: This pary ten out of ten, top notch. Everywhere you
- 45:35Speaker 1: can look at it. It's the street. It just glistening
- 45:41Speaker 1: to snow down. The snow was down, the lights, the
- 45:44Speaker 1: trees were all lit up down the street.
- 45:46Speaker 3: Uh.
- 45:47Speaker 1: Everyone was in there, you know, festive cheer. The we
- 45:50Speaker 1: had a DJ of a. I've never had a parade
- 45:52Speaker 1: DJ up on the roof like with a microphone with
- 45:56Speaker 1: the music, you know, Christmas music going and then him
- 45:58Speaker 1: announcing every float that went by, you know what they were,
- 46:04Speaker 1: and and everything like that. And the parade itself went
- 46:08Speaker 1: on probably an hour and a half. Strong floats everywhere,
- 46:13Speaker 1: great great decor, Big Rig, the Big Rig Parade rob
- 46:17Speaker 1: There was like three semis, huge trucks, huge trailers with
- 46:22Speaker 1: these massive floats. Christmas was in the air. It was magical.
- 46:26Speaker 1: I cried a little bit. I had tears in my eyes. Man,
- 46:29Speaker 1: Christmas spirit is for real. And I might I have
- 46:34Speaker 1: a story, a story that might get emotional. I won't
- 46:37Speaker 1: say it this time. I'll save it for an episode
- 46:38Speaker 1: closer to Christmas with with my mom and me and
- 46:41Speaker 1: Christmas magical spirit and you know how its just I
- 46:45Speaker 1: love it. So it was great. That was the highlight
- 46:47Speaker 1: of the weekend until the game. By far.
- 46:50Speaker 2: That was awesome.
- 46:50Speaker 1: Man, it was awesome. So I had a good time.
- 46:52Speaker 1: There was rushing back last week. We did our game
- 46:55Speaker 1: day episode, kind of did the episode right from the
- 46:58Speaker 1: road and then hauled ask got to the batch pad
- 47:01Speaker 1: three thirty right at one o'clock, went solo dolo for
- 47:04Speaker 1: the game, watched the first half, and living Room Senior
- 47:07Speaker 1: swapped it up, moved red zone to living room Senior
- 47:10Speaker 1: went into living room Junior for the second hand up
- 47:12Speaker 1: a little bit and locked in, locked in, and uh
- 47:16Speaker 1: and we did, baby, we did. Came out of the
- 47:17Speaker 1: half scored and uh, you know, two big turnovers late
- 47:20Speaker 1: and that was the game day. So low key for me.
- 47:23Speaker 1: Nothing crazy on the spread. You gotta get my game
- 47:26Speaker 1: up in the food spread. Gotta get my game up
- 47:28Speaker 1: in the food spread. But City Jamestown Christmas Parade extravagant,
- 47:32Speaker 1: ten out of ten, top notch, top notch.
- 47:36Speaker 2: Look at that, man, I appreciate that. Man's that's really cool.
- 47:42Speaker 3: When I a ying yang, there we go another way
- 47:46Speaker 3: that we are. We're close buddies that we're ying. Ye,
- 47:48Speaker 3: I'm the Grinch. Well, if you got the Grinch, then
- 47:50Speaker 3: you need somebody that loves Christmas.
- 47:52Speaker 2: I like that. I like that a lot. Listen. I mean,
- 47:54Speaker 2: down here, man, we are. You know we're in it.
- 47:55Speaker 2: I got I got a tree up. I mean you
- 47:57Speaker 2: got a I got a one year old.
- 47:58Speaker 3: So you know to me, she was so I turn
- 48:00Speaker 3: on the tree the other day and she's I mean,
- 48:02Speaker 3: well she got here in the morning lights weren't even on,
- 48:05Speaker 3: and she goes, whoa, she saw the tree or whatever.
- 48:08Speaker 2: So then we lit it up and whoa. And that's
- 48:10Speaker 2: her big thing is wow, whoa. So she likes it.
- 48:13Speaker 2: She's done.
- 48:14Speaker 3: She did way better than I thought. Princess Ivy has
- 48:16Speaker 3: not messed with the ornaments. She hasn't tried to yank
- 48:19Speaker 3: it down or anything like that. So I was like,
- 48:20Speaker 3: I've got a good baby. So she she just she
- 48:22Speaker 3: likes to look at it. She likes the lights on
- 48:24Speaker 3: and stuff like that. So I'm I'm the Grinch is
- 48:26Speaker 3: coming around. I mean, what do they say the Grinch's
- 48:28Speaker 3: heart was three sizes too small? It's growing a little bit.
- 48:30Speaker 3: Ivy's getting getting me back in it a little bit
- 48:32Speaker 3: as well. And obviously Quincy really enjoys Christmas. He's excited
- 48:36Speaker 3: the older boys. You know how that goes when they
- 48:37Speaker 3: get older. So I'm they're you know, they're playing along,
- 48:39Speaker 3: playing their role as good big brother.
- 48:41Speaker 2: So it's cool. Man down here, man, I got a
- 48:43Speaker 2: tree up.
- 48:43Speaker 1: I'm not.
- 48:43Speaker 2: I'm not total grinch. I'm not. I don't have coal
- 48:46Speaker 2: in my stockings or anything like that. But you know,
- 48:48Speaker 2: no lights on the house, none of that shit.
- 48:49Speaker 3: I'm not doing all that extra shit, but I mean literally,
- 48:52Speaker 3: the lady across the street details crazy.
- 48:54Speaker 2: A couple of weeks ago, we're walking, we got to go.
- 48:56Speaker 2: I'm outside, We're going for a walk.
- 48:58Speaker 3: And the lady is on her roof, literally on her roof, horizontal,
- 49:02Speaker 3: putting stuff up like Clark Ridgslaw, and I looking at it.
- 49:05Speaker 3: I'm like, Ivy, look at that lady. I'm like, look
- 49:07Speaker 3: at that. I'm like, Wow, that's crazy. She's putting lights up.
- 49:10Speaker 3: And it was just so funny because i could not
- 49:12Speaker 3: be more opposite.
- 49:13Speaker 2: But I'm not hating on you. I'm happy that you
- 49:15Speaker 2: enjoyed that parade.
- 49:17Speaker 3: We went to a parade last week as well, down
- 49:19Speaker 3: here in Cornelia's for a quick minute. It was so
- 49:21Speaker 3: damn cold out so we didn't stay too long, but
- 49:23Speaker 3: we were out there for a little bit. I'm catching
- 49:25Speaker 3: the floats and stuff. But you're absolutely right, Christmas is popular.
- 49:28Speaker 3: We will still be back at you guys next week
- 49:30Speaker 3: for Christmas Week.
- 49:31Speaker 2: What do we got dt?
- 49:32Speaker 3: I think we've got The next game is on the
- 49:35Speaker 3: twenty first, so we've got we've got some room to fit.
- 49:37Speaker 2: You guys in. Yeah, we got right.
- 49:39Speaker 1: So We'll got regular next week, you know.
- 49:41Speaker 3: Yeah, We're regular next week, and then obviously that following
- 49:44Speaker 3: week is Christmas Week, and we'll figure out the best
- 49:47Speaker 3: way to do it because I know everybody's going to
- 49:48Speaker 3: be enjoying their families. Maybe maybe a Friday after Christmas
- 49:52Speaker 3: episode we can do a whole recap of heavy how
- 49:54Speaker 3: everything went. We'll figure it out for sure and keep
- 49:56Speaker 3: you guys informed. Shout out listen the chat DT. I
- 50:00Speaker 3: know you can't see my Facebook, but shout out. You
- 50:03Speaker 3: guys are just crazy, man.
- 50:04Speaker 2: I love it.
- 50:04Speaker 3: I love Lou, I love you. Paul Let out there.
- 50:06Speaker 3: Paul told me just to send her some lot to tails.
- 50:09Speaker 3: I don't know how they're gonna taste, but I'm gonna
- 50:11Speaker 3: find a way to FedEx them.
- 50:12Speaker 2: Shout out to Paul Lett.
- 50:13Speaker 3: I appreciate you. Zach Robbie out there, man, we appreciate
- 50:16Speaker 3: you guys. Instagram, same thing, Noah, we appreciate you guys.
- 50:20Speaker 1: Shout out no while we're on it. We we did
- 50:22Speaker 1: breaking news with Josh Allen. Announce your pregnancy. Shout out Noah,
- 50:27Speaker 1: listener from day one, great great friend of the program.
- 50:29Speaker 1: No what uh last thing to the third child to
- 50:33Speaker 1: that yard last night, late last night. Flynn Flynn, Flynn Rousey.
- 50:37Speaker 1: She's here in the building.
- 50:39Speaker 2: She's in the buildings, in the building, in the building.
- 50:41Speaker 1: He's in there, Johnny Flynn, Johnny Flynn, Rougy.
- 50:43Speaker 2: Gngratulations look at that man. Congratulations. Noahen to your lovely bride.
- 50:52Speaker 3: Man, I mean, listen, we appreciate asking you time out there, man,
- 50:54Speaker 3: and on Instagram, I see you, Alicia. We appreciate your support.
- 50:57Speaker 3: We appreciate everybody. Man, Listen, this is holiday time. You
- 51:00Speaker 3: could do anything on a TGI your Friday. We appreciate
- 51:02Speaker 3: your support. We love Nicol City crew. You know it's funny, DT,
- 51:06Speaker 3: because I told you I had some engagement with some
- 51:07Speaker 3: people on Twitter that told me that they love the
- 51:10Speaker 3: show and that they were going to be listening and
- 51:11Speaker 3: be listening from here on out. And I told you
- 51:13Speaker 3: about my boy from kindergarten who I reconnected with on FaceTime.
- 51:16Speaker 3: Shout out to Nick del Novo, and I was like, man,
- 51:18Speaker 3: that's just crazy, how you know things just happen. So man,
- 51:20Speaker 3: I really appreciate the audience DT as much as anything
- 51:24Speaker 3: like it really gives life to me. Shout out to Sierra,
- 51:27Speaker 3: who says she listens and stuff like that. We just
- 51:29Speaker 3: appreciate you guys because of the fact that all all
- 51:32Speaker 3: I was ever doing with this was talking to myself
- 51:34Speaker 3: about the bills and I'm like, I might as well
- 51:36Speaker 3: just get my thoughts out there into the ether, just
- 51:38Speaker 3: start saying it.
- 51:39Speaker 2: And then DT came on. I'm like, DT, I need you,
- 51:41Speaker 2: I need help.
- 51:41Speaker 3: I need a guest on and he came on and
- 51:43Speaker 3: he kept coming back on and I'm like, fuck this,
- 51:45Speaker 3: you just need to be by, Like, just be my
- 51:47Speaker 3: co host. We both studied broadcasting and journalism in college, Like,
- 51:50Speaker 3: just come on, be my co host. And literally, DT,
- 51:53Speaker 3: we are we're closing down on season five. Can you
- 51:56Speaker 3: believe it, my brother, we are closing down on season five.
- 52:00Speaker 3: It's insane.
- 52:00Speaker 2: One Sometimes it boggles my mind sometimes. Yeah.
- 52:04Speaker 1: Yeah, from the from the first days of the drought
- 52:07Speaker 1: and meeting in that tailgate lot to to now, Robbie,
- 52:10Speaker 1: come a long way and I'm proud of it, and
- 52:12Speaker 1: I'm proud of you, and it's it's been a blast.
- 52:14Speaker 1: So shout out to everybody. I hope everyone's having a
- 52:16Speaker 1: great holiday season and you know, appreciate the support, and yeah,
- 52:20Speaker 1: it's awesome. I watched a video the other day was
- 52:23Speaker 1: fifty nine minutes of Josh Allen highlights, and it was
- 52:25Speaker 1: his highlights from rookie year all the way up. And
- 52:27Speaker 1: I was trying to follow the games of like, oh yeah,
- 52:29Speaker 1: that was this season. Oh yeah, it was like damn okay,
- 52:32Speaker 1: it was seven years ago. Oh damn okay, Like this
- 52:35Speaker 1: is season I have Nichols the crew like it goes
- 52:38Speaker 1: back a little bit and it goes fast, and you know,
- 52:41Speaker 1: can never take it for granted, Cherish every moment and
- 52:43Speaker 1: this is awesome therapeutic. We have become, you know, great
- 52:47Speaker 1: longtime best friends now because of this. So love it all,
- 52:50Speaker 1: love the fans, and love the Bills, baby, and.
- 52:52Speaker 2: We'll tell the story.
- 52:53Speaker 3: We'll tell the story quickly before we get out of here,
- 52:55Speaker 3: because for the new listeners and stuff like that.
- 52:57Speaker 2: Who don't know how this guy's in Charlotte, this guy's Buffalo.
- 53:00Speaker 2: How do they even link up? Listen?
- 53:02Speaker 3: I was in Buffalo. I've been a season ticket holder
- 53:04Speaker 3: since two thousand and nine. I've been down here in
- 53:06Speaker 3: Charlotte since six and two thousand and nine. I couldn't
- 53:09Speaker 3: stand it anymore. Was The Bill's fiftieth anniversary season and
- 53:13Speaker 3: Too t O, and they had the all of the
- 53:16Speaker 3: best Buffalo Bills on Buffalo bills dot Com. You could
- 53:19Speaker 3: go on and they had you can click running back
- 53:20Speaker 3: and it's Thurman and it's Oj you click quarterback aa'inst
- 53:22Speaker 3: Jim Kelly and Ferguson and Jack Kemp and you know,
- 53:26Speaker 3: you could vote for all of the different players.
- 53:28Speaker 2: And I was just like, man, I can't stand this
- 53:30Speaker 2: shit anymore.
- 53:31Speaker 3: So I had I talked to my ex wife was
- 53:33Speaker 3: my wife at the time, and I'm like, listen, man,
- 53:35Speaker 3: I think about getting these season tickets. The Bills were
- 53:36Speaker 3: the number two cheapest season tickets in the league, besides
- 53:40Speaker 3: that garbage food that they served in Cleveland. They were
- 53:42Speaker 3: the only season tickets that were cheaper than ours. So
- 53:45Speaker 3: I grabbed two season tickets and we just looked at
- 53:48Speaker 3: it like you could kill two birds with one stone.
- 53:50Speaker 3: We'll go up, we'll take the baby, We'll go up
- 53:51Speaker 3: to Buffalo. You could see your family and then I
- 53:53Speaker 3: can go see my bills. And it kind of worked out.
- 53:55Speaker 3: I've been a season tickets since, a holder since nine
- 53:58Speaker 3: downtown with my cousin Greg on Allen Street, which you
- 54:02Speaker 3: can't make that shit up.
- 54:03Speaker 2: I'm crossing Delaware and DT's.
- 54:05Speaker 3: Right next to me, and we didn't know each other.
- 54:07Speaker 3: We weren't rolling together or anything like that. We walk
- 54:09Speaker 3: across the street saying a few words are about the
- 54:11Speaker 3: bill j What do you think this is that? Oh man, yeah, yeah,
- 54:13Speaker 3: this that this that? Well, we spread we split ways.
- 54:17Speaker 3: DT goes to a bar. I go to a separate bar.
- 54:19Speaker 3: I come in eventually to DT's bar.
- 54:21Speaker 2: I say hid like, whoa, what's up? Man, what's up?
- 54:22Speaker 2: Let's get a shot, start drinking.
- 54:24Speaker 3: Okay, no problem, had a great night, did not exchange numbers,
- 54:28Speaker 3: Nicol City crew, did not say, oh man, look let me.
- 54:30Speaker 2: Get you know.
- 54:31Speaker 3: None of that shit, none of the old gragus hold on,
- 54:32Speaker 3: give me, give me your contact information, none of that shit.
- 54:35Speaker 3: We just were just two drinking buddies having a good time.
- 54:38Speaker 3: Random guys had met for the first time. Get to
- 54:40Speaker 3: the tailgate the next morning. DT always talks about he
- 54:42Speaker 3: takes that that deep breath. I always say, there's no
- 54:45Speaker 3: place else I'd rather be, Well, marve Lee, do you
- 54:47Speaker 3: exactly right. There's no place else I'd rather be on
- 54:49Speaker 3: a Sunday than at the Ralph. Get to the tailgate spot,
- 54:53Speaker 3: take that deep breath, I look over and it's fucking DT.
- 54:56Speaker 2: I'm like, what the f like? What are the like?
- 54:58Speaker 2: What are the chances? You all know Bill's Mafia.
- 55:01Speaker 3: You know how many different tailgate loots you got, prohibition,
- 55:04Speaker 3: You've got all these different different places you can go to.
- 55:06Speaker 3: You go to Big Tree. How are we in the
- 55:08Speaker 3: same exact grasslots? The night after we had a drinking
- 55:11Speaker 3: escapade and had a great time. We've traded numbers after
- 55:14Speaker 3: that and we have been friends. Literally, I think DT.
- 55:16Speaker 2: That was early on. That was like twenty ten or
- 55:18Speaker 2: something like that.
- 55:19Speaker 1: That was early on, not tad, but kind of at
- 55:22Speaker 1: least ten years.
- 55:22Speaker 2: It was like eleven twelve.
- 55:24Speaker 3: I can't remember that the yeah it was you've been
- 55:26Speaker 3: rolling for a minute at least yep, sure, least yeah, man,
- 55:31Speaker 3: it was wild man. So DT has been my brother
- 55:33Speaker 3: from another Bill's mother man from the beginning, and that
- 55:35Speaker 3: story I love telling it because for the new listeners,
- 55:38Speaker 3: because literally you would have never pegged us together. We
- 55:40Speaker 3: were not rolling in the same crew, And it's just
- 55:43Speaker 3: that's just how Bill's mafia. Bill's Mafia means family. It
- 55:46Speaker 3: brings people together. And I literally just asked this random
- 55:49Speaker 3: guy with me walking across Delaware on Allen Street. What
- 55:52Speaker 3: do you think about the bills and all of a
- 55:53Speaker 3: sudden Yeah, a decade long friendship when I wouldn't trade DT.
- 55:56Speaker 2: For the world. Man's that's my dog man, so I
- 55:59Speaker 2: appreciate it. Man.
- 56:00Speaker 3: Listen out there, Nickel City crew, enjoy the game. Fuck
- 56:04Speaker 3: the Patriots like I can't stand their snobby asses like
- 56:08Speaker 3: I just can't stand them. All of you guys out there,
- 56:10Speaker 3: enjoy the game. Be safe out there with all the
- 56:12Speaker 3: shopping and stuff like that. I know that part of
- 56:14Speaker 3: the reason I don't like the Christmas season. Everybody just
- 56:15Speaker 3: gets the tizzy and stuff. Take your time, slow down,
- 56:18Speaker 3: it's all good. Let's not get accidents and fight over
- 56:21Speaker 3: parking spots stuff like that. Keep your ass at home
- 56:23Speaker 3: and order online. If you can't stand all the hustle bustle,
- 56:26Speaker 3: but have fun out there this week. Please out there,
- 56:29Speaker 3: spread love not hate. These were my bull thoughts said
- 56:32Speaker 3: out loud. Hit them, hit him win a Goldvill's DT.
- 56:35Speaker 2: I'm do good.
- 56:36Speaker 1: I am I this will I do too. I'll leave it.
- 56:39Speaker 1: Eat a little bit of their own medicine. When we
- 56:42Speaker 1: were four and oh where the Patriots fans scared of
- 56:44Speaker 1: JP Lossman when we were four, and oh where the
- 56:46Speaker 1: Patriots fans scared of Kyle Orton? Where the Patriots? So
- 56:52Speaker 1: just because the Patriots having a nice year don't mean
- 56:54Speaker 1: Josh Allen the Boys are ever scared of him. And
- 56:56Speaker 1: I'm sure in Hell is not either.
- 56:58Speaker 2: So let's go go.
- 57:00Speaker 1: Bills ten and four get the tenth win of the year.
- 57:03Speaker 1: Big one for the Psyche, big one for seating, Big
- 57:05Speaker 1: one for my over underwin total. Bet it's gotta happen.
- 57:11Speaker 2: I love it, I love it, I love it. Go
- 57:13Speaker 2: with the