Latest / Nickel City Crew Podcast / S5 E27: Bugaboo
Transcript
- 0:10Speaker 1: Fifteen decrease. You can see your breath.
- 0:15Speaker 2: Out in the.
- 0:16Speaker 1: Look effect breaking tables like guitar would you where would
- 0:22Speaker 1: you have to be? And to Ron Elvis in the
- 0:26Speaker 1: lay Panchol the members that you need to know, I
- 0:31Speaker 1: won't you out here?
- 0:32Speaker 2: Now?
- 0:33Speaker 1: Your family? Where's would you have to be? Where would
- 0:40Speaker 1: you have be? Welcome into the Nickel City Crew. I
- 0:45Speaker 1: am your host, Rob Crippen. Please like us on Facebook
- 0:48Speaker 1: and follow us on Instagram and Twitter at Nickel City Crew.
- 0:52Speaker 1: This episode, along with all of our episodes, are presented
- 0:55Speaker 1: by Crippen Legacy Entertainment here on Spreaker and stream Yard.
- 0:58Speaker 1: We're so glad that you join us for some of
- 1:00Speaker 1: your Buffalo Bills and NFL content again today and as always,
- 1:05Speaker 1: these are my bills thoughts set out loud.
- 1:09Speaker 3: It's a vibe so ridiculous.
- 1:12Speaker 1: Story eighty three with six ow collect Where's what you
- 1:20Speaker 1: want to be? All right, let's get straight to it.
- 1:25Speaker 1: Really excited for today's episode, A little brunch episode on
- 1:29Speaker 1: a game day that is rare for us here at
- 1:31Speaker 1: Nicol City Crew. But I'm really excited to get at
- 1:33Speaker 1: you guys and to get our thoughts out before the
- 1:36Speaker 1: game starts. It's funny because I name the episode of
- 1:39Speaker 1: the way that it did because of the fact that
- 1:42Speaker 1: this opponent has been sort of a buggaboo for the Bills,
- 1:44Speaker 1: and you know, this quarterback specifically has seemed to have
- 1:48Speaker 1: all the answers when it comes to facing the defense
- 1:51Speaker 1: for Sean McDermott. So we'll see how it goes today.
- 1:54Speaker 1: Let's get our thoughts out there real quick while we're
- 1:56Speaker 1: tailgating and such. Joining me today as always my co
- 2:00Speaker 1: host writing Shotgun, Adam dumb Truck Repsick. Check them out
- 2:03Speaker 1: on Instagram and Twitter at Adam Repsick. Are you p
- 2:05Speaker 1: c Zyk? Holla at the crew DT. What's good man?
- 2:10Speaker 1: Happy game day? Man? This is this is rare. We're
- 2:12Speaker 1: going live on a game day nicol City. What's up?
- 2:15Speaker 1: Game day, Rob?
- 2:16Speaker 2: How are we doing here? Beautiful Sunday Week fourteen? Already
- 2:20Speaker 2: and a big one, excuse me, a big one one
- 2:24Speaker 2: pm Eastern at the Ralph. A few more left in
- 2:26Speaker 2: that stadium and this one, this one's gonna be huge.
- 2:29Speaker 2: So happy to be here on game day. Get your brunch,
- 2:31Speaker 2: get your momosa's. If you're at the tailgate, get down.
- 2:34Speaker 2: So we're we're about to get into it. We're about
- 2:36Speaker 2: to get into it. Let's go game day, all right,
- 2:39Speaker 2: it is game day.
- 2:40Speaker 1: I'm excited about it as well because of the fact that,
- 2:43Speaker 1: you know, I have lamented, you know, some of the
- 2:47Speaker 1: roller coasters that this Buffalo Bill's twenty twenty five team
- 2:50Speaker 1: has been on. But to be honest with you, I
- 2:53Speaker 1: told you last week, I'm still just I'm just gonna
- 2:55Speaker 1: just approach this with you know, hey, everything's in front
- 2:58Speaker 1: of us. Maybe not the one seed anymore, possibly probably
- 3:01Speaker 1: the division, but get Josh Allen into the playoffs. I'm
- 3:04Speaker 1: down to see how it goes, and I'm ready for
- 3:07Speaker 1: it now. DT. I named the episode of the way
- 3:09Speaker 1: that I did because you know, Joe Burrow is kind
- 3:12Speaker 1: of a bugaboo for this Buffalo Bill's team. He's undefeated
- 3:15Speaker 1: against the Bills. We haven't played him that much, you know,
- 3:18Speaker 1: obviously two games in a quarter with the tomorrow Hamlin
- 3:21Speaker 1: game being canceled. But DT, he's had the answers. This
- 3:26Speaker 1: is a quarterback that plays a lot, you know, you
- 3:28Speaker 1: hear that comparison. He plays a lot like twelve, plays
- 3:30Speaker 1: a lot like Brady, you know, pocket, the classic pocket quarterback.
- 3:34Speaker 1: He can extend plays a little bit, but he's he's
- 3:36Speaker 1: gonna sit there in the pocket. He's gonna sling that thing.
- 3:38Speaker 1: And boy does he have a couple of weapons that
- 3:40Speaker 1: are that are truly elite to throw two.
- 3:43Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's precision, you know. Cool Joey, Joey cool, right,
- 3:47Speaker 2: Joey Burr. I get the chill, dude. And of course
- 3:51Speaker 2: he's got to be back against the Bill has been
- 3:52Speaker 2: out all season, and he's of course getting healthy the
- 3:56Speaker 2: week before a little warm up game last week against
- 3:58Speaker 2: the Ravens. Ready to go, and you said, you know,
- 4:00Speaker 2: very composed back there, gets the ball out quick and
- 4:03Speaker 2: a couple of badass weapons to throw it to. I mean,
- 4:05Speaker 2: Jamar Chase and t Higgins are better than anything Tom
- 4:07Speaker 2: Brady ever had.
- 4:09Speaker 3: So it's a scary combo, you know, it's a scary combo.
- 4:11Speaker 2: And they've proven they can beat us in Cincinnati, They've
- 4:14Speaker 2: proven they can beat us in Buffalo.
- 4:16Speaker 3: It's a tough squad, but we're in.
- 4:18Speaker 2: A muscle win situation right now, so it's gonna be
- 4:20Speaker 2: an interesting day. Definitely, somebody you need to be concerned
- 4:23Speaker 2: about Number nine. We can hope he's still a little
- 4:25Speaker 2: rusty and the boy has made of glass and hopefully
- 4:28Speaker 2: this cool weather makes him feel a today one o'clock.
- 4:32Speaker 1: He made it laugh. I like it, Yeah, I mean it.
- 4:35Speaker 1: He's got some weapons, and I think that that's you know,
- 4:37Speaker 1: one of the things that I wanted to talk to
- 4:39Speaker 1: you about before we get out of here. I know
- 4:41Speaker 1: this is going to be a quick episode, but I
- 4:43Speaker 1: wanted to I wanted to get your gauge on what
- 4:46Speaker 1: kind of game do you think this is gonna be?
- 4:47Speaker 1: Because from my perspective, I think that it could either
- 4:50Speaker 1: be a shootout, in which case, you know, Burrow's got
- 4:54Speaker 1: the answers and he's he's putting up points and then
- 4:56Speaker 1: the Bills are going to be forced to keep up
- 4:58Speaker 1: on offense, you know what I mean. It won't be
- 5:00Speaker 1: a situation where I think that they could just grind
- 5:02Speaker 1: the clock. Now, they might take that approach. And you remember,
- 5:05Speaker 1: I think it was during the COVID year DT where
- 5:07Speaker 1: we played KC and we invited them to run and
- 5:10Speaker 1: we just said, you know, we don't want Mahomes to
- 5:11Speaker 1: beat us, so we just let the running backs just
- 5:14Speaker 1: get their yards. And they're popping off six seven yards
- 5:16Speaker 1: of carry and we still almost you know, we almost
- 5:18Speaker 1: won the game. We lost eventually, But do you think
- 5:21Speaker 1: the Bills will approach this offensive? You know, game plan
- 5:25Speaker 1: as just go at it with James Cook and just
- 5:28Speaker 1: feed them and feed them and feed him. I mean,
- 5:29Speaker 1: this defense is historically bad. They're bad against the pass,
- 5:33Speaker 1: they're bad against the run. So you really should have
- 5:35Speaker 1: your way either way, whatever way Joe Brady wants to
- 5:38Speaker 1: attack it. But I feel like if you get into
- 5:40Speaker 1: a shootout with these guys, you might come up on
- 5:42Speaker 1: the wrong end. So I don't know necessarily if I
- 5:45Speaker 1: want to invite Joe Burrow to kind of be throwing
- 5:48Speaker 1: that ball around. I know that the pass rush is
- 5:49Speaker 1: limited because of all the injuries on the defensive line,
- 5:52Speaker 1: but I want to find a way to limit his opportunities.
- 5:55Speaker 1: And if that means Chase Brown goes off or you know,
- 5:58Speaker 1: grabs a whole bunch of yards, then I think I
- 6:00Speaker 1: would rather have that than seeing you know, Higgins and
- 6:03Speaker 1: Chase go off of me. I don't think that's a
- 6:05Speaker 1: good recipe.
- 6:06Speaker 2: Well sure, but I'm conflicted in I don't know how
- 6:09Speaker 2: to answer that question, right because this team has kind
- 6:11Speaker 2: of shown you everything this year. Yeah, last week, we
- 6:14Speaker 2: run the same play thirty times and run for two
- 6:16Speaker 2: hundred and sixty yards, and you know, of course, I
- 6:19Speaker 2: feel like we're gonna go back to that because that's
- 6:21Speaker 2: what's working offensively for us.
- 6:22Speaker 3: You know that will help bleed the clock.
- 6:24Speaker 2: But also you see this team at home, go up
- 6:26Speaker 2: against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers a few weeks ago, and
- 6:29Speaker 2: it turns into a shootout because you know, Baker Mayfield,
- 6:31Speaker 2: they got some weapons, they can move the ball. We off,
- 6:34Speaker 2: we miraculously found a downfield passing game and it turned
- 6:37Speaker 2: into a shootout in that situation.
- 6:39Speaker 3: So I really don't know.
- 6:40Speaker 2: What the Bills are gonna do today. I think we
- 6:43Speaker 2: are going to start off with that run game. It's
- 6:45Speaker 2: something that is the most consistent of this offense for
- 6:48Speaker 2: the entire year, and coming off a huge performance last
- 6:50Speaker 2: week in Pittsburgh, where you know, a rushing defense is
- 6:53Speaker 2: a lot better than the rushing defense we're gonna see today,
- 6:56Speaker 2: So I think the run game will be established. We'll
- 6:59Speaker 2: try to put pumped out and I don't necessarily think
- 7:01Speaker 2: it's to slow it down and limit possessions of Joe Burrow,
- 7:04Speaker 2: but we definitely don't want him getting warmed up. So
- 7:06Speaker 2: if I had to pick one, I would say we're
- 7:08Speaker 2: slowing it down a little. But then this team, you
- 7:10Speaker 2: never know, because then you have that Bucks game and
- 7:12Speaker 2: they come out and you know, we're putting up forty
- 7:14Speaker 2: four points. So I really don't know what we're gonna
- 7:16Speaker 2: see today. I would like to see us get downfield,
- 7:18Speaker 2: get Josh Allen his swagger back a little in the
- 7:20Speaker 2: home crowd. It seems like that's the big difference this year.
- 7:22Speaker 2: Home and away. We're not turning the ball over. At home,
- 7:25Speaker 2: we're scoring touchdowns at home. Away we're turning the ball
- 7:27Speaker 2: over and not scoring touchdowns. So it's all set up.
- 7:30Speaker 2: I would like to see a high scoring game and
- 7:32Speaker 2: you know, and and prove we can beat in the shootout.
- 7:35Speaker 2: But I think it's gonna be a little slower. Like
- 7:36Speaker 2: you said, why would we go away from a great
- 7:38Speaker 2: run game. They had two hundred and sixt yards on
- 7:40Speaker 2: the ground last week.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they really did two hundred and forty
- 7:44Speaker 1: nine yards. They said that that was the most that
- 7:46Speaker 1: Pittsburgh has given up throughout the Mike Tiland era. They
- 7:49Speaker 1: just they trashed them all day. And yes, you're absolutely right,
- 7:52Speaker 1: Brady to hit that spam button. It just kept pressing
- 7:54Speaker 1: it like madd and it just kept running the same.
- 7:57Speaker 1: You know, a couple plays duo and such things, so
- 8:00Speaker 1: it'll be interesting because you know James, you know, I
- 8:04Speaker 1: love James Cook, so you know, I know that I
- 8:05Speaker 1: feel like he's capable. The weather might play a factor.
- 8:08Speaker 1: Dt I see that it's you know, the snow flur is.
- 8:10Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm watching on on pregames and stuff
- 8:12Speaker 1: like that, and they're showing Buffalo live views and in
- 8:15Speaker 1: Orchard Park and it's snow, and it might feel a
- 8:18Speaker 1: little bit like that playoff game that you and I
- 8:20Speaker 1: were at, which obviously we wish that went differently, but
- 8:23Speaker 1: that night it was you know, snowy light snow. You know,
- 8:27Speaker 1: we always talked about that whole fiasco with you know,
- 8:30Speaker 1: the footing and the cleats and how can Cincinnati be
- 8:33Speaker 1: have good footing and we can't have good footing and whatever,
- 8:35Speaker 1: but it was just mostly just excuses making at that
- 8:38Speaker 1: point in time. But that game, it was quick. It
- 8:42Speaker 1: was Joe Burrow right down the field, touchdown, and then
- 8:45Speaker 1: all of a sudden you're down fourteen and you're playing
- 8:48Speaker 1: catch up in a playoff game. Obviously this is not
- 8:50Speaker 1: a playoff game, but it's got that heightened awareness to it. Obviously,
- 8:53Speaker 1: if Cincinnati wants anything to do with the playoffs, as
- 8:56Speaker 1: remote as their chances are, they've got to win. They've
- 8:58Speaker 1: got to win out pretty much for us, we can't
- 9:01Speaker 1: continue to lose games because we're gonna fall behind even
- 9:03Speaker 1: further in that smilesle of that AC wildcard. So for me,
- 9:07Speaker 1: everybody's awareness should be heightened for today. DT is my
- 9:10Speaker 1: main point that there should be no slip ups in
- 9:12Speaker 1: respects to you know, tonight's today's matchup in the opponent.
- 9:16Speaker 1: Now for me personally, DT and you could speak to it,
- 9:19Speaker 1: I don't I don't think. I don't disrespect this team.
- 9:22Speaker 1: Four and eight is because of the fact that Burrow
- 9:24Speaker 1: was out. I heard a lot of talk on WGR
- 9:26Speaker 1: about this could be a bad loss and this and that,
- 9:28Speaker 1: Like I'm not, I don't really subscribe to that. This
- 9:30Speaker 1: is a good team that lost their quarterback. You take
- 9:33Speaker 1: your quarterback away from any team and you're gonna you're
- 9:35Speaker 1: gonna struggle. That's around the NFL itself. So for me,
- 9:39Speaker 1: I see this as a almost a litmus test, Like
- 9:42Speaker 1: if if the Bengals had Burrow all year, they might
- 9:44Speaker 1: be neck and neck with us, you know what I mean,
- 9:47Speaker 1: Or even better, they might be leading that division in
- 9:49Speaker 1: a landslide, kind of like New England is a couple
- 9:51Speaker 1: of games up on us. So for me, don't take
- 9:53Speaker 1: this opponent lightly. Don't let the record get into your
- 9:56Speaker 1: head where you think that you could just take over
- 9:58Speaker 1: this team because they've got a crap defense. I think
- 10:01Speaker 1: that it's a situation where everybody needs to be focused.
- 10:03Speaker 1: I don't know what you're gonna get from Kincaid. I
- 10:05Speaker 1: don't even know if he's gonna play, but if he does,
- 10:06Speaker 1: he'll be limited the pass, which we already just talked about.
- 10:10Speaker 1: The defensive line is going to be missing Bosa and
- 10:12Speaker 1: others as well, aj and Panessa. Who knows what capacity
- 10:15Speaker 1: he's gonna play in. Find a way to not let
- 10:18Speaker 1: this team gain any confidence. Their defense is horrible. I
- 10:20Speaker 1: would like to see us jump out on them the
- 10:22Speaker 1: way that Cincinnati jumped out on us in that playoff game.
- 10:25Speaker 1: Get after them quickly and find a way to dishearten them.
- 10:29Speaker 1: I don't know any other way to say it. Get
- 10:31Speaker 1: on those guys, because last week, that game that they
- 10:33Speaker 1: played against Baltimore was not that same defense that we've
- 10:35Speaker 1: seen all year long. They forced turnovers that helped him
- 10:38Speaker 1: out with the Ravens. But this is defensive shitty DJ.
- 10:41Speaker 1: We know that they are not good, so don't even
- 10:43Speaker 1: give them any type of confidence.
- 10:45Speaker 2: Yeah, and the only thing they had on that defense
- 10:47Speaker 2: Tray Hedrickson, and he's out right. So I think there's
- 10:50Speaker 2: enough material to get up for this game. If you're
- 10:53Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills in the organization, I mean, this is
- 10:56Speaker 2: a situation of you said the bugmoo, the history, the
- 11:00Speaker 2: game we were supposed you know on that thirteen and
- 11:02Speaker 2: three season, the demorw Hamlin. They come in and beat
- 11:05Speaker 2: the shit out of us in the playoffs. We losing
- 11:07Speaker 2: that Monday night game. It just seems like they're a
- 11:08Speaker 2: tough team to get by. So I think that is
- 11:11Speaker 2: our material. You have the bulletin board material. They punch
- 11:13Speaker 2: you in the mouth in that playoff game. They're back
- 11:16Speaker 2: to the scene of the crime right now in somewhat
- 11:18Speaker 2: of a must win. You can't take them lightly at all.
- 11:20Speaker 2: That is the only reason they weren't winning games is
- 11:22Speaker 2: because Joe Burrow is out. He has won every start
- 11:25Speaker 2: dating back to last year when he's been in the game,
- 11:27Speaker 2: when they went on that crazy run to end of
- 11:28Speaker 2: the year. They went on the crazy run to end
- 11:30Speaker 2: of the year, and then they started off they started off.
- 11:32Speaker 1: Too and zero.
- 11:33Speaker 2: So it it's too much material to ever think you
- 11:36Speaker 2: could take this team lately. The record doesn't matter at
- 11:39Speaker 2: all in my eyes of who we're playing. We're playing
- 11:41Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Bengals, Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase and T Higgins,
- 11:44Speaker 2: and it's gonna be a force to be reckoned with.
- 11:45Speaker 2: And I think that bulletin board material is enough to
- 11:48Speaker 2: get this organization up, is enough to get Josh up
- 11:51Speaker 2: and a little embarrassing this year, you.
- 11:52Speaker 1: MVP coming in, you turn the ball over a little bit.
- 11:55Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of words out there, and
- 11:57Speaker 2: you come out, you take care of Joe Burrow and
- 11:59Speaker 2: the and say all right, we're back, let's do the thing.
- 12:01Speaker 2: So I completely agree up early Offen, We're not in
- 12:05Speaker 2: a team year other than Week one against the Ravens,
- 12:08Speaker 2: not really a team built to come back from these big,
- 12:11Speaker 2: you know, deficits, and we've we've kind of shown that
- 12:13Speaker 2: so the Miami game and you know, a few few
- 12:15Speaker 2: weeks back when they got that, they got up fourteen
- 12:17Speaker 2: and we really couldn't even get back into that game.
- 12:20Speaker 2: So I don't think we can take it lightly. I
- 12:22Speaker 2: don't think the team is there's enough material to really
- 12:25Speaker 2: buckle in and take this seriously. Foreign a means nothing.
- 12:27Speaker 2: It's the Cincinnati Bengals that if they had Joe Burrow,
- 12:30Speaker 2: we'd be even more of a screwedge situation right now
- 12:32Speaker 2: because this is more of a must win because they
- 12:35Speaker 2: would be in the playoff picture and it's another team
- 12:37Speaker 2: that would be out, So got to take it as such.
- 12:40Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I totally agree. I think that they that
- 12:43Speaker 1: everybody should be locked in and focused, regardless of record,
- 12:45Speaker 1: because this team can hurt you or on offense specifically. Now
- 12:49Speaker 1: as we transition, shout out to the chat room, listen,
- 12:52Speaker 1: we appreciate you. My boy Lou is out there, my
- 12:54Speaker 1: boy Zach is out there. Happy birthday to Danielle Martin
- 12:58Speaker 1: out there. Listen, we appreciate you guys. I'm always chiming
- 13:01Speaker 1: in as well. I see my boy Noah out there. No,
- 13:04Speaker 1: he's holding it down. And then Kenny said that he's
- 13:06Speaker 1: holding this down DT from the grass slot, So you're
- 13:08Speaker 1: not at the game today. Obviously, I'm I'm here at Charlotte,
- 13:11Speaker 1: so we appreciate Kenny and our boys. Man Big Ben,
- 13:15Speaker 1: shout out to all those guys there in the grass slot.
- 13:17Speaker 1: We love you guys. We miss you guys for sure,
- 13:19Speaker 1: and hopefully we will see you guys in the playoffs somehow,
- 13:23Speaker 1: some way, DT, I'm starting to get nervous. I'm starting
- 13:25Speaker 1: to think, like, man, do I need to come up
- 13:26Speaker 1: for this Jets game? Do? I? Like? It's funny because
- 13:29Speaker 1: I was just getting asked about that the other day
- 13:31Speaker 1: and they were like, you know, Bobby and Natesman was like, well,
- 13:34Speaker 1: do you want to take him for early you know,
- 13:35Speaker 1: Christmas present or something like that, and I'm like, I
- 13:37Speaker 1: am trying to hold out hope for some type of
- 13:40Speaker 1: playoff game. So it was it was really funny because DT,
- 13:44Speaker 1: I don't know, Man, maybe me and you need to
- 13:46Speaker 1: get up before this season is over, because what is it.
- 13:49Speaker 1: I think the scenario now is New England must lose
- 13:52Speaker 1: to us, obviously, and then they have to lose one
- 13:55Speaker 1: of two to the Jets or the Dolphins in order
- 13:58Speaker 1: for US to take the dovision.
- 13:59Speaker 3: And I and uh, I don't know how the Ravens to.
- 14:03Speaker 1: Right Ravens as well, but like, if we take care
- 14:05Speaker 1: of business, you know, then you're back a game and
- 14:07Speaker 1: a half back. And then again, obviously, if they can
- 14:10Speaker 1: lose to either the Jets or the Dolphins, then you
- 14:12Speaker 1: can grab the division. I don't know how likely that is,
- 14:14Speaker 1: could you maybe?
- 14:16Speaker 2: And of course they're on a bye this week. Of
- 14:18Speaker 2: course they're on a bye this week to you know,
- 14:20Speaker 2: get ready. I was talking to my friends this week
- 14:22Speaker 2: and it was just like, doesn't it seem like when
- 14:25Speaker 2: the Bills, like we never catch a break with other
- 14:28Speaker 2: teams and their health and and whatnot. Like, of course,
- 14:31Speaker 2: of course Joe Burrow is back and and feeling good.
- 14:33Speaker 2: T Higgins literally looked like he was dead on the
- 14:36Speaker 2: field a few weeks ago on that concussion, and and
- 14:39Speaker 2: and the dude is back ready to go full gore.
- 14:42Speaker 2: It's not even a we're playing the Bills today. I'm
- 14:44Speaker 2: not hurt as I I'm the best I ever felt
- 14:46Speaker 2: today play playing the Buffalo Bills. And then you got
- 14:49Speaker 2: the Patriots going into their by coming into to see
- 14:52Speaker 2: us in a must win game after a bye, after
- 14:54Speaker 2: rattling off eleven straight wins.
- 14:55Speaker 3: You know, it's a. It's it's a tall task. It's
- 14:58Speaker 3: a tough task.
- 14:59Speaker 2: Odds maker say, Rob, you better get up for that
- 15:01Speaker 2: Jets game because that home playoff game just ain't looking
- 15:04Speaker 2: like it.
- 15:05Speaker 1: But you never know. We've been in a spot.
- 15:07Speaker 2: Where we're six and six, rattled off, won the division
- 15:09Speaker 2: in the in week eighteen to get the two seed
- 15:11Speaker 2: of the whole dance. It's a year where they're talking
- 15:14Speaker 2: the fifth seed might be one to host a game,
- 15:16Speaker 2: depending on you know, if one through four fall and
- 15:19Speaker 2: in the in the realignment and receding. So it's it's
- 15:23Speaker 2: I'm back in a very simple, simple look. One and
- 15:26Speaker 2: all each week, one and all every week. You can't
- 15:29Speaker 2: I'm not getting all the way in, but odds makers
- 15:31Speaker 2: say you got to come up for the Jets game.
- 15:33Speaker 1: Rob.
- 15:33Speaker 2: That's that's kind of what we stand where crazier things
- 15:36Speaker 2: have happened. But you know you might be seeing the
- 15:39Speaker 2: red helmets.
- 15:39Speaker 1: Rob. Yeah, it's funny because I was trying. I was
- 15:42Speaker 1: trying to map it out, like you said, and I
- 15:44Speaker 1: was like, well, maybe by the Eagles game, we'll have
- 15:47Speaker 1: a real idea. And I think that I think that
- 15:49Speaker 1: that's say that by the Eagles game, we'll have an
- 15:51Speaker 1: idea of where we're at and where we stand, so
- 15:54Speaker 1: we'll see how that goes. Now, as we transition today's episode,
- 15:57Speaker 1: this brunch episode Brunch on Sunday. I heard the little
- 16:00Speaker 1: promo on Instagram. I love my boy Nas, I love
- 16:03Speaker 1: that song Bunch on Sundays. Listen, listen, we are presented
- 16:06Speaker 1: by Queen City Vintage. Check out Queen City Vintage. Our
- 16:08Speaker 1: boy Nick and excuse me and Kai. They are running
- 16:12Speaker 1: a great store front. It's on Elmwood, right across from
- 16:15Speaker 1: forty Thieves. Check out Queen City Vintage. They've got all
- 16:17Speaker 1: the drip, all the nostalgic vintage gear, Buffalo bills, Buffalo sabers,
- 16:22Speaker 1: Buffalo City themed T shirts and jackets and hats and
- 16:25Speaker 1: all the other stuff. I'm actually sporting a shirt today
- 16:28Speaker 1: that I got gifted to me when they came down
- 16:30Speaker 1: to Charlotte with the Ralph. So listen, check our boys
- 16:34Speaker 1: out at Queen City Vintage. You will not be mad
- 16:37Speaker 1: that you did. They got all of the latest gear
- 16:39Speaker 1: and great vintage gear that you need to get your
- 16:41Speaker 1: hands on. Now. DT As we transition and we begin
- 16:45Speaker 1: to wrap up, because I know this is a short
- 16:46Speaker 1: episode and I want to let you get on the
- 16:47Speaker 1: road back home. I look at the AFC. I took
- 16:53Speaker 1: the time last week and I listened back to our
- 16:55Speaker 1: episode last week to see if I sounded too you know,
- 16:58Speaker 1: too optimistic or what it was, you know what I mean.
- 17:00Speaker 1: And then we had on. We had on my boy
- 17:03Speaker 1: she and she, you know, was kind of humbling us.
- 17:05Speaker 1: And you know, but it's funny because I'm often known
- 17:10Speaker 1: as you know, somebody that's a pessimist and stuff like that,
- 17:12Speaker 1: and I always bristle at that because I'm not a pessimist.
- 17:15Speaker 1: I like to be a realist and I like to
- 17:17Speaker 1: look at the things in totality and really give myself
- 17:20Speaker 1: a realistic opinion. DT. I thought he was a little
- 17:24Speaker 1: bit harsh after I was listening back to it, but
- 17:27Speaker 1: I thought, in conjunction, you were a little bit rose colored.
- 17:31Speaker 1: As we look at the AFC. Now, ahead of these games,
- 17:35Speaker 1: a lot can change by tonight, DT. I mean Case
- 17:38Speaker 1: could be done. First of all, k C B could
- 17:40Speaker 1: be done. And I know that technically they say Bill's fans,
- 17:43Speaker 1: Bill's mafia, we should root for Case because you don't
- 17:45Speaker 1: want Houston to win that division because at that point
- 17:48Speaker 1: in time. Depending on the matchups, you might have to
- 17:50Speaker 1: go back to Houston, and I agree. I don't want
- 17:52Speaker 1: to go back to Houston. I don't want to see
- 17:53Speaker 1: them anymore. I feel different about Baltimore now DT than
- 17:56Speaker 1: I did. I always told you they were the scariest
- 17:58Speaker 1: team for me. With Derrick Henry, he's now starting to
- 18:01Speaker 1: look a little bit old DT. He doesn't look the
- 18:03Speaker 1: same After that game against US. He hasn't really hit
- 18:05Speaker 1: his gear and hit his stride. It looks like that
- 18:07Speaker 1: age and father time might be actually catching up to
- 18:09Speaker 1: him DT. I'm not. I'm not. I I stand firm
- 18:13Speaker 1: on my position last week that the Conference doesn't scare me.
- 18:17Speaker 1: Denver great defense, yes, and I can give them that
- 18:21Speaker 1: they've got a great defense. Bo Nick doesn't scare me. Conversely,
- 18:25Speaker 1: the Colts are changing right before all right, like we're
- 18:28Speaker 1: we talk about the Colts and they've got all these
- 18:30Speaker 1: wins and then all of a sudden they start to
- 18:32Speaker 1: lose games. Now you've got Daniel Jones on one leg
- 18:35Speaker 1: with a fractured you know, tibula that he's playing through
- 18:38Speaker 1: or fibula, whatever it is. Things are looking different, and
- 18:41Speaker 1: I'm always gonna be scared of jt DT. I don't know, man,
- 18:44Speaker 1: I'm I listened back to last week's episode, and I'm
- 18:47Speaker 1: gonna stand firm. I feel like the conference is wide
- 18:50Speaker 1: open enough that you get Josh Allen a ticket. I
- 18:53Speaker 1: don't care if it's five, six, seven seed. He can
- 18:55Speaker 1: do some damage. Now, obviously you would you would prefer
- 18:57Speaker 1: to have the five seed, but I don't know if
- 18:59Speaker 1: it really much matters. It would be depending on matchups,
- 19:02Speaker 1: and I don't I don't know if there's a matchup
- 19:04Speaker 1: that I just I'm shaking in my boots, like I
- 19:07Speaker 1: just can't say it right now.
- 19:09Speaker 2: I agree, i'd agree, and you know, I will say
- 19:12Speaker 2: I was definitely a little rosed up last week because
- 19:14Speaker 2: I had to defend I had to defend the boys.
- 19:16Speaker 3: I had to defend the honor I had.
- 19:18Speaker 2: You know, we're not giving up. I will never give up.
- 19:20Speaker 2: I will never give up when seventeens our quarterback, I won't.
- 19:23Speaker 2: It's just not possible. And I said that last week.
- 19:25Speaker 2: Now stand by that. But the thing with this AFC
- 19:27Speaker 2: playoff picture, Rob is you know we are in our bubble,
- 19:30Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bill's bubble. We're looking at our seating, our situation,
- 19:34Speaker 2: Are we getting a home game?
- 19:35Speaker 1: Are we now?
- 19:35Speaker 2: Are we making up like we're so involved in us
- 19:38Speaker 2: in our bubble And that's great because we are the
- 19:39Speaker 2: fanatics we are, But the whole rest of the AFC
- 19:42Speaker 2: is doing the same thing. There's a lot of cannibalization
- 19:45Speaker 2: that can happen out here. Rob The divisional games coming
- 19:47Speaker 2: down the stretch mean a lot, you know, in these
- 19:50Speaker 2: seatings as you see the obvious divisional game tonight, but
- 19:54Speaker 2: the Chiefs Texans are playing that. The Colts got to
- 19:57Speaker 2: play the Jaguars and then they got to play the
- 19:59Speaker 2: Texans again. There they're all kind of playing each other
- 20:01Speaker 2: and winning and losing, and I think there's gonna be
- 20:03Speaker 2: a big log jam of these six loss teams, you know,
- 20:06Speaker 2: kind of everywhere in that. So I am not afraid
- 20:10Speaker 2: of anybody. I would rather definitely, I would do anything
- 20:12Speaker 2: but play the Chiefs. Still, you know, that's never gonna change.
- 20:15Speaker 2: And when it comes to the playoffs, we're showing we
- 20:17Speaker 2: can beat Baltimore, even.
- 20:18Speaker 3: Though Derek Henry looking a little old.
- 20:20Speaker 1: They are.
- 20:20Speaker 2: They're a tough roster and they might be peeking, you
- 20:23Speaker 2: know later if they get going against Pittsburgh today and
- 20:26Speaker 2: rattle off a few at the end of the year,
- 20:27Speaker 2: win that dimension they're in something. But I don't want
- 20:30Speaker 2: to play the Chiefs, Rob I'll do anything but play
- 20:32Speaker 2: the Chiefs.
- 20:33Speaker 3: And and that's just straight up.
- 20:35Speaker 2: You know, the horror we've we've went through in the playoffs,
- 20:38Speaker 2: I can't do that again. If they're out, I will say,
- 20:41Speaker 2: I like us against anybody in this picture, it's gonna
- 20:44Speaker 2: get matched around, moved around. You know that Denver still
- 20:48Speaker 2: got to play the Chiefs and the Packers and the Chargers.
- 20:50Speaker 2: Like there's a lot of matchups coming up on all
- 20:53Speaker 2: these teams schedule that are ahead of us and behind
- 20:55Speaker 2: us that are gonna, you know, kind of jumble everything up.
- 20:58Speaker 3: So door is open.
- 20:59Speaker 2: I'm not afraid of anybody but the Chiefs in the playoffs,
- 21:03Speaker 2: and I think you know that's what we have to
- 21:05Speaker 2: go with. Let it all shake out. Every week is
- 21:07Speaker 2: gonna be. It's kind of been a different picture every
- 21:10Speaker 2: Sunday in the beginning compared to every Sunday in the afternoon.
- 21:13Speaker 2: It's been a different picture. But the Bills have been
- 21:15Speaker 2: somewhat consistent in that line. So we're gonna hope we
- 21:18Speaker 2: stay in that consistently level kind of creep up as
- 21:21Speaker 2: these teams cannibalize each other, not scared of anybody in
- 21:23Speaker 2: the playoffs.
- 21:24Speaker 1: Don't want to see fifteen in the boys? Yeah, no,
- 21:27Speaker 1: I understand why you say that. For sure, you know
- 21:30Speaker 1: nobody really wants to see him, and I agree with that.
- 21:33Speaker 1: You know, shut up, Bobby Hansen. We love you guys
- 21:36Speaker 1: over there at eighty six Network. Listen. I mean, if
- 21:40Speaker 1: you need to see the standings, you can now. DT
- 21:43Speaker 1: is absolutely right, though it is gonna change and it's
- 21:45Speaker 1: gonna continue to be fluid. The Bills are sitting in
- 21:47Speaker 1: that seventh spot. Now you've got Indy in the sixth spot,
- 21:50Speaker 1: and then the Chargers are actually at eight and four
- 21:52Speaker 1: as well in the five spot. The division winners so
- 21:55Speaker 1: far New England, Denver, Jacksonville, and Baltimore. But again that's
- 21:59Speaker 1: all fluid games, big matchups. A lot of teams have
- 22:02Speaker 1: not even played some of the division matchups. You know,
- 22:04Speaker 1: we've got two games between Baltimore and Pittsburgh down the
- 22:07Speaker 1: stretch and stuff like that, so we're gonna see how
- 22:10Speaker 1: things stretch out. I think that I'm most nervous DT
- 22:15Speaker 1: about another slip up. And let me explain it and
- 22:18Speaker 1: it could come today or what the case may be,
- 22:20Speaker 1: another slip up. What that does is Houston right on
- 22:24Speaker 1: your ass. Pittsburgh. Now you've got Tyberg over Pittsburgh and
- 22:27Speaker 1: Kansas City. However, we don't know what that final loss
- 22:32Speaker 1: column is going to be for the seventh seeds, so
- 22:35Speaker 1: it could be seven losses, it could be six losses,
- 22:38Speaker 1: what the case may be. I'm trying to get I'm
- 22:40Speaker 1: trying to gain as much cushion as I can have
- 22:42Speaker 1: where I don't even have to worry about it. Come
- 22:45Speaker 1: the Eagles game and obviously the Jets game at the
- 22:47Speaker 1: end of the year, those last two games. I want
- 22:49Speaker 1: to find a way to win this game today, DT,
- 22:51Speaker 1: you win this game, and then obviously the season is
- 22:53Speaker 1: really at its apex next week in Foxborough against the Patriots,
- 22:57Speaker 1: and then after that you find a way. I mean,
- 23:00Speaker 1: you've got Cleveland, you know, you've got Cleveland, Philly and
- 23:04Speaker 1: the Jets and the year. I don't I don't mind
- 23:06Speaker 1: any of those matchups, especially Philly with the way that
- 23:08Speaker 1: their offense has been so doctor Jekol and mister Hyde.
- 23:12Speaker 1: I want to find a way to not have any
- 23:13Speaker 1: more slip up. This is there's a game that you're
- 23:15Speaker 1: supposed to lose, then I guess technically it could be
- 23:18Speaker 1: next week, but today, don't lose this game. I don't.
- 23:21Speaker 1: I wouldn't consider it a bad loss, but don't don't
- 23:24Speaker 1: lose this game. Don't lose to Cleveland, don't lose to Philly,
- 23:27Speaker 1: you know, don't lose those games where you've got to
- 23:29Speaker 1: find a way to just go in take care of
- 23:31Speaker 1: your business because the margin for error could be I
- 23:33Speaker 1: don't think the Bills are going to miss the playoffs
- 23:35Speaker 1: by any stretch, but I just I don't want to
- 23:37Speaker 1: see it where we're literally we got to beat the Jets.
- 23:40Speaker 1: We'll we'll crush them when we're eighteen, and then we're
- 23:43Speaker 1: asking for somebody else's help. I thought those days were
- 23:46Speaker 1: over when we got Josh Allen behind center. And it's
- 23:49Speaker 1: kind of weird to be in this situation where I don't,
- 23:51Speaker 1: I you know, one more slip up and all of
- 23:54Speaker 1: a sudden, you could be looking for somebody else to
- 23:56Speaker 1: help you out down the stretch, and I don't. I
- 23:58Speaker 1: don't want that. Yeah, we don't.
- 23:59Speaker 2: We don't need a New Year's Eve watching the Bengals
- 24:03Speaker 2: convert a fourth and twenty seven to get us in
- 24:05Speaker 2: the playoffs again.
- 24:06Speaker 3: So I agree one hundred percent.
- 24:09Speaker 2: And if this game, you know, like I said, record
- 24:11Speaker 2: doesn't mean anything.
- 24:12Speaker 3: It's a choice. At this point, we made the choice.
- 24:16Speaker 3: We paid the we paid the price.
- 24:17Speaker 1: Already.
- 24:18Speaker 2: We had the bad loss of the Dolphins, we had
- 24:20Speaker 2: the bad loss to the Atlanta Falcons. I'll give them
- 24:23Speaker 2: the Patriots loss. I'll give them the Houston loss of
- 24:26Speaker 2: you know, you got beat but the other two just
- 24:28Speaker 2: bs losses. You've made the choice and you lost those
- 24:31Speaker 2: two games. You can't have another slip up. This would
- 24:34Speaker 2: be considered a slip up. Don't matter, don't matter what
- 24:37Speaker 2: the situation is, don't matter if the Bengals were a
- 24:39Speaker 2: better record or anything.
- 24:41Speaker 3: This is considered a slip up.
- 24:42Speaker 2: If you lose this game and we don't have any
- 24:43Speaker 2: more to use, we've already made our choices and done that.
- 24:47Speaker 3: So I think that's that's kind of.
- 24:49Speaker 2: Got to be the mentality today, Like, yes, it wasn't
- 24:51Speaker 2: a choice to lose those games, but let's treat it
- 24:53Speaker 2: like a choice and now our choices. We can't slip
- 24:55Speaker 2: up today because we've already paid our price, We've already
- 24:57Speaker 2: had our fun we already did our bs lose in
- 25:00Speaker 2: no more room for that. So I agree, don't matter
- 25:02Speaker 2: the opponent today. No matter what the opponent was today,
- 25:05Speaker 2: we can't afford it because yes, we cannot have help
- 25:08Speaker 2: to get in and anything like that. It's too tight
- 25:11Speaker 2: to rely on others. You got to create your own destiny.
- 25:13Speaker 2: We're in a good spot to do that. But yeah,
- 25:16Speaker 2: it can't be a slip off. We made the choice
- 25:18Speaker 2: to slip up. The choice today is not.
- 25:22Speaker 1: I like that as we begin to wrap up tonight,
- 25:25Speaker 1: excuse me this this morning, DT, I wanted to get
- 25:29Speaker 1: to one more thing with you, and you know it's
- 25:32Speaker 1: it's interesting because when I looked at the conference and
- 25:34Speaker 1: stuff like that, we talked about it. You know, I'm
- 25:38Speaker 1: trying to figure out a path to Santa Clair still
- 25:40Speaker 1: and I and I know that that. I know that
- 25:43Speaker 1: that drives some people of Twitter crazy and stuff like
- 25:45Speaker 1: that in my spaces, and and those guys get mad
- 25:47Speaker 1: at me because this team is just not you know,
- 25:49Speaker 1: a lot of guys like she like, this team is
- 25:51Speaker 1: just not built that way. Here's I here's what I
- 25:54Speaker 1: took from last week's game. I saw the Bills spam
- 25:58Speaker 1: it run at will now and I guess a decent defense.
- 26:02Speaker 1: What are the case Maybe you know, theyir high price,
- 26:03Speaker 1: but they're they'd be a little bit underachieving. I've seen
- 26:06Speaker 1: them all year run the ball when they when they
- 26:09Speaker 1: need when they wanted to pretty much, you know what
- 26:11Speaker 1: I mean. Like they've been able to run the ball.
- 26:12Speaker 1: There's been very few games where we tried to run
- 26:15Speaker 1: it and we were just shut down. Conversely, we haven't
- 26:19Speaker 1: been able to pass the ball every single time that
- 26:22Speaker 1: we wanted to. Now, there were games that they didn't
- 26:25Speaker 1: ask them to, like you know, Joe Brady says, I
- 26:27Speaker 1: should have passed the ball more against Miami, you know
- 26:29Speaker 1: what I mean. He admitted that, you know, last week
- 26:31Speaker 1: they didn't need it against Picksburgh because the running game
- 26:34Speaker 1: was so effective. But you know, we seen games like
- 26:36Speaker 1: you know what I mean, the Baltimore Ravens, and we
- 26:39Speaker 1: show up and we passed the ball when we need to.
- 26:41Speaker 1: We saw the same thing with the with the Bucks.
- 26:43Speaker 1: I want to know your confidence level and if we
- 26:46Speaker 1: need it, do we trust it? With Joe Brady leading
- 26:49Speaker 1: this offense, and I'm talking specifically about throwing the ball
- 26:52Speaker 1: now that may not be today, whether YadA YadA YadA.
- 26:55Speaker 1: I know that it's getting late in the season and
- 26:57Speaker 1: that's when the run game is at a premium, So
- 26:58Speaker 1: I get all that, But if you do get in
- 27:01Speaker 1: a situation where you are in a shootout, what is
- 27:03Speaker 1: your confidence level that Joe Brady has the goods. They
- 27:06Speaker 1: make fun of him because he says he presses the
- 27:08Speaker 1: spam button on Mesh, he runs it all the time.
- 27:10Speaker 1: I just read a piece with Bill Barnwell talking about
- 27:13Speaker 1: how he loves Mesh. Mesh should be a part of
- 27:15Speaker 1: every NFL offense, but he says Brady over does it. Though,
- 27:18Speaker 1: like Brady, he's doing it to create separation all the time,
- 27:21Speaker 1: and that's not what you really want to use Mesh for.
- 27:23Speaker 1: It can't be the spam button. What's your confidence level?
- 27:26Speaker 1: This guy has been under under the under the microscope
- 27:30Speaker 1: all year. The hot seat has been on for him.
- 27:32Speaker 1: It looks like he's not getting that job at Penn
- 27:34Speaker 1: State or anything like that. So it's really going to
- 27:36Speaker 1: be down to the Bills want him back next year
- 27:38Speaker 1: to be lead this offense. What's your what's your confidence level? On?
- 27:43Speaker 1: Can Joe Brady dial up a passing game that is
- 27:46Speaker 1: efficient and sufficient when it comes time because Houston, you
- 27:50Speaker 1: I know, you like to say we lost by a
- 27:52Speaker 1: toe on the you know, on the outbound line, but
- 27:55Speaker 1: that pass game was not working all day long, and
- 27:57Speaker 1: you know, and and yes, we were still good enough
- 28:00Speaker 1: to be in it. And that's a credit to the
- 28:01Speaker 1: team in mcdermot's defense, and YadA, YadA, YadA. I get
- 28:04Speaker 1: all that. There are times this season that we have
- 28:07Speaker 1: not been able to throw the ball effectively. And I
- 28:10Speaker 1: don't want it to rear its ugly head when we
- 28:13Speaker 1: need it. I understand that we've done it a few times.
- 28:16Speaker 1: I want to know, can he do it when we
- 28:17Speaker 1: need it? Because you may be able to run James
- 28:20Speaker 1: Cook all the way to Santa Clair, you may not.
- 28:22Speaker 1: You may not. You may need Josh Allen to be superman.
- 28:25Speaker 3: That's I think you do. I think you are going
- 28:27Speaker 3: to need it, you know, And I don't know.
- 28:30Speaker 2: We've really only seen it once, you know, this year,
- 28:33Speaker 2: where it was like needed and get up the field
- 28:35Speaker 2: in that Buccaneers game to you know, to get that
- 28:37Speaker 2: to get the ball down deep. And I can't so
- 28:40Speaker 2: I yet true, And so I can't sit here and
- 28:42Speaker 2: tell you I'm super confident. I'm confident in Josh Allen
- 28:46Speaker 2: and his abilities to make magic happen, and you know,
- 28:49Speaker 2: and that could be, But in Joe Brady, I'm not
- 28:52Speaker 2: confident this year. I mean, we're talking run, run, run.
- 28:54Speaker 2: When we do pass, it's behind the line of scrimmage.
- 28:57Speaker 2: Jimmy Khalil Shakir, sixty two percent of target are behind
- 29:00Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage, and they're not even at the
- 29:02Speaker 2: line of scrimmage. It's four yards behind the line of scrimmage,
- 29:04Speaker 2: so we need six yards to get the two yards
- 29:06Speaker 2: we actually need. I think in a misuse of Josh
- 29:11Speaker 2: Allen in a way of I haven't said this on
- 29:15Speaker 2: Nickel City all year, but one thing I kind of
- 29:16Speaker 2: noticed and was talking about last week. This behind the
- 29:20Speaker 2: line of scrimmage passing game is not his skill set,
- 29:24Speaker 2: Like he doesn't have that touch. He's not a pure
- 29:27Speaker 2: quarterback in that he doesn't have that nice little loft
- 29:30Speaker 2: out to the running back in space to give him
- 29:32Speaker 2: that extra lead to get that screen in motion. It
- 29:35Speaker 2: just it looks uncomfortable for him. The mechanics of Josh
- 29:38Speaker 2: Allen behind the line of scrimmage, it's awkward, it's weird.
- 29:41Speaker 2: The ball is usually not where it's supposed to be
- 29:43Speaker 2: and or it's in too hot or I don't know,
- 29:46Speaker 2: if you remember the slant last week to Khalil Shakir,
- 29:49Speaker 2: like on the goal line, and it was like Josh
- 29:51Speaker 2: has put a twelve game from you know, point blank.
- 29:55Speaker 2: It's just not where Josh Allen's comfortable and so I
- 29:59Speaker 2: don't like that. I want him to be confident and
- 30:01Speaker 2: comfortable and hose it down the field. You know, see somebody,
- 30:04Speaker 2: you know, ten yards. We need some more from Jabe Davis.
- 30:06Speaker 2: If we brought him back, it's got to be for
- 30:08Speaker 2: a reason, and it is a downfield situation, so.
- 30:10Speaker 1: We need to get up the field more. You know.
- 30:14Speaker 2: The question of am I confident in Joe Brady to
- 30:18Speaker 2: turn on a passing game? Not this second, no, But
- 30:21Speaker 2: I am confident in seventeen being able to the ability
- 30:24Speaker 2: and when it in his hands, he's got to do it.
- 30:26Speaker 3: And do we have the horses to do it.
- 30:28Speaker 2: I don't know, but it doesn't seem like we have
- 30:30Speaker 2: the horses to do that behind the line of scrimmage
- 30:32Speaker 2: stuff either, And it's putting our all word quarterback at
- 30:35Speaker 2: a disadvantage and a skill set he's not great at
- 30:37Speaker 2: so I don't know, Rob, I'm not overly confident.
- 30:40Speaker 1: Answer. You are right, you are right, you.
- 30:43Speaker 2: Are right, we're gonna need it, and I'm not overly
- 30:45Speaker 2: confident that we got it. Uh. But it's that's why
- 30:48Speaker 2: I may maybe change that for us, maybe they change
- 30:52Speaker 2: that for them.
- 30:53Speaker 1: I'm confident in Josh, I'm not Brady just you know
- 30:56Speaker 1: how I feel about that. I just I'm not sold
- 30:59Speaker 1: on him. And because of that, you know, And then
- 31:01Speaker 1: and I read I read this, I literally it was
- 31:04Speaker 1: like Bill Bonmall was talking about like the guys players
- 31:07Speaker 1: and coordinators or coaches with the biggest to lose, you know,
- 31:11Speaker 1: to gain or lose down the stretch of the year,
- 31:13Speaker 1: and he names Joe Brady and talking about how this
- 31:15Speaker 1: guy's a hot he was a hot candidate and he
- 31:17Speaker 1: was almost pegged for a job. It seemed like this
- 31:19Speaker 1: year was just gonna go, you know, smooth sailing. And
- 31:22Speaker 1: then he's like, and things have changed now, you know
- 31:24Speaker 1: what I mean? And I'm worried about Brady because of
- 31:27Speaker 1: the fact that it's just so much there's so much inconsistency.
- 31:30Speaker 1: And the episode that you missed when we had on
- 31:33Speaker 1: my boy tona ol Bill's twenty two. He had talked
- 31:36Speaker 1: about how you know Brady is saving stuff for the
- 31:39Speaker 1: playoffs and stuff like that, And I'm at a point
- 31:41Speaker 1: now where I'm like, man, I almost need that to
- 31:46Speaker 1: be true, like you know what I mean, Like I'm
- 31:47Speaker 1: almost like clinging to that hope, like, well, man, is
- 31:49Speaker 1: this is this true? Is this is this something that
- 31:53Speaker 1: I just can't get myself to believe that Brady has
- 31:55Speaker 1: been holding shit. Now I understand not showing everything, but
- 32:00Speaker 1: holding stuff back for a playoff playbook. I have a
- 32:03Speaker 1: tough time believe it. I mean, maybe he has a
- 32:06Speaker 1: playoff playbook and we're going to cruise to Santa Clara
- 32:09Speaker 1: because he's getting ready to be one of the grandits
- 32:11Speaker 1: offensive coordinators we've ever seen in the last decade. I
- 32:14Speaker 1: just don't know. I agree, I agree, I have full
- 32:18Speaker 1: confidence in seventeen. It's it's it's the coordinator that just
- 32:21Speaker 1: he I don't know, man, And.
- 32:23Speaker 3: I don't think I think that's who Gayzy.
- 32:25Speaker 1: I don't.
- 32:25Speaker 2: I don't think there's a secret playbook we're holding for
- 32:29Speaker 2: the playoff because even if that was the case, I
- 32:31Speaker 2: wouldn't be about it because now we haven't practiced it.
- 32:34Speaker 3: All year and you just want to pull it out
- 32:35Speaker 3: in a playoff game.
- 32:36Speaker 1: Well maybe we say, maybe they're practicing it, but we don't.
- 32:39Speaker 1: We don't see it. And and and you know that
- 32:42Speaker 1: was that was basically his premise. You weren't around that episode,
- 32:44Speaker 1: but that was his premise, was that Brady is holding
- 32:47Speaker 1: stuff back on purpose for the playoffs, and that's when
- 32:50Speaker 1: he's gonna unleash a whole different scheme that we haven't seen.
- 32:53Speaker 1: And I I just have a tough time swallowing that pill.
- 32:56Speaker 1: I do.
- 32:57Speaker 3: I'm with you.
- 32:58Speaker 1: I'm with you.
- 32:59Speaker 2: I don't think that's I don't I think that's the thing.
- 33:00Speaker 2: I think this is the offense. This is what he's
- 33:02Speaker 2: doing and whether it's personal and he doesn't believe in
- 33:05Speaker 2: us getting downfield or what the case is, but we
- 33:07Speaker 2: are gonna have to see some sort of change. I mean,
- 33:09Speaker 2: Dalton Gek back in the lineup, just got the alert
- 33:12Speaker 2: right now. Hopefully that helps.
- 33:13Speaker 3: The last time he was in the lineup, he was
- 33:15Speaker 3: dominant for us against the Chiefs. We're gonna need him
- 33:17Speaker 3: again today.
- 33:18Speaker 2: And maybe that leads to a little more upfield movement
- 33:21Speaker 2: if we are in a shootout situation. But I don't
- 33:23Speaker 2: think there's a secret playbook, Rob. I think this is it,
- 33:26Speaker 2: and I just hope the personnel gets a little better
- 33:28Speaker 2: as we get into the end of this season to
- 33:30Speaker 2: get it upfield when we need to.
- 33:33Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see as we wrap up tonight. Excuse me,
- 33:35Speaker 1: this afternoon, this morning, this is breakfast, this is brunch
- 33:39Speaker 1: with the crew. I'm all thrown off. We rarely do
- 33:42Speaker 1: game day pods, so we really appreciate all the listeners
- 33:45Speaker 1: out there. We see you guys in the chat room
- 33:47Speaker 1: and stuff like that, so we really appreciate you guys
- 33:49Speaker 1: and your support. You guys could do anything before the game,
- 33:52Speaker 1: so we appreciate you. You lock it in and tuning in. Now,
- 33:55Speaker 1: last thing, I don't want to spend much time on it.
- 33:57Speaker 1: I'm ready to close shop. But I got into a well,
- 34:00Speaker 1: not arguments, but back and forth, the bates, this whole
- 34:02Speaker 1: sleigh thing. DT. I wanted to know what you thought
- 34:05Speaker 1: of it, because I did not arguments, but like you know, Twitter,
- 34:08Speaker 1: Twitter banter, back and forth. It seems to me that
- 34:11Speaker 1: a lot of people are either they're one side of
- 34:14Speaker 1: the other fam make up, you know, make him forcing
- 34:17Speaker 1: to retire, or I'm on a different camp, and I'm like, who, Like,
- 34:21Speaker 1: who cares? Now. I did get a great point last night.
- 34:23Speaker 1: Somebody said, well, if you let him, if you let
- 34:26Speaker 1: him just go and you wave him, you're setting a
- 34:29Speaker 1: brad precedent. And and I didn't think about that. And
- 34:31Speaker 1: he was like, you know, these players agree to this
- 34:33Speaker 1: in the CBA, with the players association, with the NFL.
- 34:37Speaker 1: It's a bad precedent if you just dropped sleigh and
- 34:39Speaker 1: let him get his way where the case may be.
- 34:41Speaker 1: When I heard him talk, I understood what he was
- 34:44Speaker 1: trying to say. A lot of people seem to be
- 34:45Speaker 1: offended by what in the case may be, or taking
- 34:47Speaker 1: it as a shot against the Bills mafia and against
- 34:51Speaker 1: the city of Buffalo. And I just did not read
- 34:53Speaker 1: it that way. I read it as a he's football all.
- 34:55Speaker 1: He's not old. Okay, we all know that, we all
- 34:58Speaker 1: are not. None of us are idiots. He is football old.
- 35:00Speaker 1: He's thirty four year old corner. He just got cut
- 35:03Speaker 1: by the Steelers, and he doesn't want to like move
- 35:06Speaker 1: to Buffalo. Now, what would he be doing. He'd be
- 35:07Speaker 1: living in a hotel. His what's his role on the
- 35:10Speaker 1: team is? You know, he's a backup and he's gonna
- 35:13Speaker 1: be break class in a case of emergency, you know,
- 35:15Speaker 1: he's he's death, he's we don't want to get caught
- 35:18Speaker 1: with our pants down again. You know, Benford goes out,
- 35:20Speaker 1: you know last year in the AFC Championship and all
- 35:22Speaker 1: of a sudden, you get, you know, kyri Elom getting
- 35:24Speaker 1: toasted all all over the field. So I get that
- 35:27Speaker 1: they wanted a little bit of depth that was better
- 35:29Speaker 1: than you know, JaMarcus Ingram Moore or Dane Jackson. What
- 35:32Speaker 1: in the case may be DT, where are you stand
- 35:34Speaker 1: on this? Because you know, my half to Bobby is
- 35:36Speaker 1: like fuck him, make him retire, this is that, and
- 35:40Speaker 1: he's a baby and he's whining, and I'm like, I
- 35:43Speaker 1: just didn't. I didn't receive it that way. I received
- 35:45Speaker 1: it as a grown man who is football old, who
- 35:48Speaker 1: doesn't want to move to Buffalo if he was gonna
- 35:51Speaker 1: do anything after he got cut. He wants to go
- 35:53Speaker 1: back with his boys in Philly or obviously or Detroit.
- 35:56Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I don't know. Man that doesn't
- 35:58Speaker 1: like it, doesn't like get me all riled up. Man,
- 36:00Speaker 1: Just drop him, cut him, let him go, And everybody
- 36:03Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of mafia saying fuck him,
- 36:05Speaker 1: he does not deserve it because of the way that
- 36:07Speaker 1: he's acting, and uh, and don't set that precedent. I'm
- 36:11Speaker 1: with it.
- 36:11Speaker 3: Who cares, right?
- 36:12Speaker 2: I mean, I love the move. I like the move
- 36:15Speaker 2: in general because you said it best. I mean, we
- 36:17Speaker 2: got we got aj Klein coming off the couch to
- 36:20Speaker 2: play in a divisional game, you know, with us and
- 36:22Speaker 2: against the best tight end in football at the time,
- 36:25Speaker 2: and we lose that playoff game. We blaming on the injuries.
- 36:27Speaker 2: Christian Bedford comes in, we get carved up. Cole Bishop
- 36:30Speaker 2: playing back there, we get carved up last year when
- 36:32Speaker 2: when they go out in this situation. Yes, I would
- 36:35Speaker 2: rather have a Darius Slay in the AC Championship game
- 36:38Speaker 2: come in in the fourth quarter as opposed to what
- 36:40Speaker 2: JaMarcus ingram mcam lewis or whatever that is.
- 36:43Speaker 3: So, yes, I believe it was a good move in
- 36:45Speaker 3: that sense.
- 36:47Speaker 1: Him not coming stinks.
- 36:48Speaker 2: You know, I would have liked to see if it
- 36:49Speaker 2: would have worked, if he would have, you know, if
- 36:51Speaker 2: it would have if it would have played out well
- 36:53Speaker 2: for us. Yes, but I'm not blaming him for it.
- 36:55Speaker 2: It's not He has never been a part of the Mafia.
- 36:58Speaker 2: Never was a word about Mafia until Wednesday. Now he's
- 37:02Speaker 2: now he's Bills Malfia and now he's not. It's the
- 37:03Speaker 2: same as Antonio Brown a few years ago, if that
- 37:05Speaker 2: was ever real or it wasn't right, but it just
- 37:08Speaker 2: he's not that. He's not a premier player anymore and
- 37:11Speaker 2: he made the decision not to come. He has no
- 37:13Speaker 2: ties to this organization. I think it was a decent
- 37:16Speaker 2: pickup for that exact situation. If we needed him late
- 37:19Speaker 2: in the playoffs. I plug a guy in there with
- 37:21Speaker 2: some experience. He's he might not make a play, but
- 37:24Speaker 2: he's not gonna get burned, right, And that's kind of
- 37:26Speaker 2: what you're hoping.
- 37:27Speaker 1: And maybe he thought he's not in a.
- 37:28Speaker 2: Spot where he can't get burned, and he doesn't want
- 37:31Speaker 2: to get out there and ruin his reputation at the
- 37:33Speaker 2: end of his career because he just knows he's lost
- 37:36Speaker 2: a step.
- 37:36Speaker 3: Vonte Davis rest his soul, quit in the middle of
- 37:39Speaker 3: the game.
- 37:40Speaker 1: Because he knew.
- 37:40Speaker 3: He knew that, he knew that he just didn't have it.
- 37:43Speaker 2: And maybe it's a situation of Darius Slae saying he
- 37:46Speaker 2: doesn't have it. And I guess on the reverse side
- 37:48Speaker 2: of Bill's mafia is all pissed about it and he
- 37:50Speaker 2: doesn't have it.
- 37:51Speaker 3: Wouldn't you rather that than him come and play?
- 37:53Speaker 2: And then in the AFC Championship game he gets blown
- 37:56Speaker 2: out of the water because he's just a step off
- 37:58Speaker 2: and you're like, why did we sign this Guy's stinks?
- 38:00Speaker 2: So whatever, it means nothing to me. And all the
- 38:02Speaker 2: people mad that Marcus Ingram got claimed. The dude hasn't
- 38:05Speaker 2: got a jersey.
- 38:06Speaker 3: In a month and a half.
- 38:07Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and they knew that when they put
- 38:09Speaker 1: him on waivers, like they knew that they could lose them,
- 38:11Speaker 1: so they were already comfortable possibly losing them. Of course,
- 38:15Speaker 1: Bean told them when they released them, hey listen, six
- 38:18Speaker 1: sit tight, you know, hang out at your house, don't
- 38:20Speaker 1: go anywhere. We're gonna bring you back tomorrow after you
- 38:22Speaker 1: clear waivers. You know, they didn't probably expect him to
- 38:24Speaker 1: get claimed. He got claimed by Houston, so good for him.
- 38:26Speaker 1: He's gonna get some game checks these last couple weeks
- 38:28Speaker 1: of the season, so that, you know, that's good for him.
- 38:30Speaker 1: I'm happy for JaMarcus that he gets a little bit
- 38:32Speaker 1: of a bump in the rais. I don't I don't.
- 38:35Speaker 1: I just don't have much. I don't have much for
- 38:38Speaker 1: the whole sleigh thing where we're trashing him and he's
- 38:40Speaker 1: a baby and and and make him retire or sit
- 38:44Speaker 1: out like you could do that. I just don't think
- 38:46Speaker 1: that it's worth the publicity, you know, just let him go.
- 38:49Speaker 1: If he wants to go play with Philly or Detroit,
- 38:52Speaker 1: then let him just go play with his boys. And
- 38:53Speaker 1: what in the case may be, like he wasn't going
- 38:55Speaker 1: to factor enough here for us where I care enough
- 38:58Speaker 1: where I want to be the team. That's you got
- 39:00Speaker 1: to either play or sit out, you know, and go
- 39:02Speaker 1: retire like I don't. It's just not this isn't an.
- 39:05Speaker 2: Off season acquirement. You know, we're not acquiring them in
- 39:07Speaker 2: the off season. We're not moving assets for him.
- 39:09Speaker 1: We're doing that.
- 39:10Speaker 3: We sign them off the street two days ago.
- 39:15Speaker 1: And I don't get it. But I mean, yes, I
- 39:17Speaker 1: understand that we lost Tremarcus. I felt bad, but I
- 39:19Speaker 1: am happy that he got picked up. So it's all
- 39:21Speaker 1: good man, And you're right, he wasn't getting a jersey,
- 39:23Speaker 1: So it is what it is. Listen, as we wrap
- 39:25Speaker 1: up tonight, excuse me, this this morning, this afternoon. Listen
- 39:28Speaker 1: out there, BIS Mafia. Enjoy the game today, DT, You
- 39:31Speaker 1: and I are gonna have to really have a conversation
- 39:33Speaker 1: after this week. We're gonna look at the AFC and
- 39:36Speaker 1: see I might have to come up for the Jets game.
- 39:39Speaker 1: I don't want to, but I might have to. A
- 39:42Speaker 1: lot will be known tonight after we see Houston and
- 39:46Speaker 1: the Chiefs will see Man. The Chiefs could be done
- 39:48Speaker 1: by tonight, and then you've got one less team to
- 39:51Speaker 1: worry about. Obviously Houston is on our butts, but you
- 39:54Speaker 1: know what I mean, that's just something you got to
- 39:55Speaker 1: deal with and you just got to keep winning. So
- 39:57Speaker 1: we'll see Bills today. Your prediction. Do they get it
- 40:00Speaker 1: done against the Bugaboo? Joe Burrow?
- 40:04Speaker 3: I think they do. I'm gonna hang my hat on nine.
- 40:06Speaker 2: Still a little rusty, doesn't have the cohesion of a
- 40:09Speaker 2: whole season with these guys just kind of coming out
- 40:12Speaker 2: and winging it and winging it. Might not be good
- 40:13Speaker 2: enough for Week fourteen. Sean mcdermot's defense playing a little better.
- 40:17Speaker 2: We're in that bend, don't break mentality. The pass rush
- 40:19Speaker 2: loss will be big, but other guys got to step up,
- 40:22Speaker 2: and I'm hoping that is the case. A couple turnovers
- 40:25Speaker 2: at home get the mafia the crowd into it, since
- 40:28Speaker 2: he I guess would travel a little bit. But I
- 40:30Speaker 2: think people are really digging in here to the last
- 40:32Speaker 2: couple of games at the Rouph. People don't want to
- 40:34Speaker 2: miss these. It's gonna be heavy Bills all day, the
- 40:37Speaker 2: tailgates rocking, as we've seen from Kenny and the squad
- 40:40Speaker 2: that it's ready to go. I think we got enough
- 40:44Speaker 2: at home. I love that this game is in kind
- 40:45Speaker 2: of a must win at home situation. They moved it
- 40:48Speaker 2: from four thirty back up to one o'clock again, right
- 40:51Speaker 2: in our wheelhouse, in all the tailgate people's wheelhouse, all
- 40:54Speaker 2: the professional tailgaters out there know exactly how they need
- 40:57Speaker 2: to feel when that flyover goes over at one o'clock.
- 41:00Speaker 3: And I have faith in that.
- 41:01Speaker 2: So faith in the mafia, faith in the defense playing
- 41:04Speaker 2: a little better. The offense I think has played great
- 41:06Speaker 2: at home this year. Must win situation, Little rusty Bengals,
- 41:10Speaker 2: we get it done.
- 41:12Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I will say, Bills find a way
- 41:15Speaker 1: to win. I am most nervous about the pass rush
- 41:19Speaker 1: and if Joe Burrow just sits back there and I
- 41:21Speaker 1: know that you're saying that he is he's rusty with
- 41:23Speaker 1: the case. Maybe he looked a little rusty. He also
- 41:25Speaker 1: dropped some dots last week as the kids say that
- 41:29Speaker 1: one in the corner to that one tight end the
- 41:31Speaker 1: Yoshi vas touchdown. I mean he is. I mean he's
- 41:33Speaker 1: a surgeon. He is surgical back there with that thing.
- 41:36Speaker 1: So I am most worried about we're not getting much
- 41:39Speaker 1: of a pass rush. We only got Rousseau really to
- 41:42Speaker 1: apply pressure. They might just chip them or double team
- 41:44Speaker 1: and one of the case maybe with the line, and
- 41:45Speaker 1: then Joe Burrow is just sitting back there and dissecting
- 41:48Speaker 1: and throwing that ball all over the yard. I would
- 41:51Speaker 1: be worried about that most because then I'm then it's
- 41:54Speaker 1: back to one of my original questions I asked, you,
- 41:56Speaker 1: do I trust Drove Brady enough to match, you know,
- 41:59Speaker 1: match for match. I know that he did it against
- 42:01Speaker 1: the Ravens when he needed to. I know that he
- 42:03Speaker 1: did it against the Bucks, but I would still be
- 42:05Speaker 1: a little bit nervous about it. So that's where I
- 42:07Speaker 1: stand on it. I think the Bills can find a
- 42:09Speaker 1: way to win today for sure, and we'll see. And
- 42:13Speaker 1: I mean it is what it is.
- 42:16Speaker 3: Yeah, nine and four, no other way about it.
- 42:21Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Man. Listen out there,
- 42:23Speaker 1: Bill Smafia, enjoy yourselves today. This was a rare episode
- 42:27Speaker 1: for us on a game day, but weekend. We appreciate
- 42:29Speaker 1: you guys locking in with us. Shout out to all
- 42:31Speaker 1: the listeners. We love you guys again. I won't shut
- 42:34Speaker 1: you all out again, but Lou and Zach and all
- 42:36Speaker 1: those guys, Man, I really appreciate you guys for sure. Listen.
- 42:40Speaker 1: Spread love out there, not hate. Be safe today, get home,
- 42:44Speaker 1: safe travel that weather. I heard there was an accident
- 42:46Speaker 1: on the way to the stadium that was slowing up traffic.
- 42:48Speaker 1: So everybody, just be safe. You'll get there, you'll get
- 42:50Speaker 1: your tailgate in and get home safe. Tonight as well,
- 42:53Speaker 1: let's let's let's get a gold bills DT hit it
- 42:56Speaker 1: with the gold bills. I mean, I guess we can.
- 42:57Speaker 1: We can get it. Get it the day.
- 42:59Speaker 3: The energy is different.
- 43:00Speaker 1: We're live.
- 43:01Speaker 2: We always get up one o'clock's our ship ninety four nobels.
- 43:05Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. I love it, Gold Bills, Oh,
- 43:08Speaker 1: I love it. I love it.