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  Speaker 1: doing an episode Saturday here. Normally the episode is live
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday because the Sabers were playing. Then I thought, okay,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'll do a Thursday evening episode because the schedule dropped.
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  Speaker 1: The Sabers played again. I'm out of rhythm, I'm out
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  Speaker 1: already said, Aunt, you're all thrown off today. I am
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  Speaker 1: thrown off. It's beautiful outside here in Buffalo slash Western
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  Speaker 1: New York. And I was outside earlier this morning in
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon, going outside again later the Sabers played tonight
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  Speaker 1: and trying to mitigate my anxiety and worry about Game
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  Speaker 1: six for the Sabers, Yes, RJ nervous about tonight's game
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  Speaker 1: as well. One thousands that a lot of things are
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  Speaker 1: just thrown off in my world, in my vibe and
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  Speaker 1: everything right now. But we are here live on this Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: this beautiful Saturday afternoon to talk about the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six Buffalo Bills schedule, to have some reaction, have some analysis,
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  Speaker 1: have some discussion. I know this came out a couple
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  Speaker 1: of nights ago, but I always think, you know, I know,
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  Speaker 1: the schedule is annoying for some, a huge deal to some.
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  Speaker 1: I do think it gets, you know, over analyzed and
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  Speaker 1: discussed and promoted, and especially this year where it felt
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of the leaks came out and essentially
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  Speaker 1: everybody knew what everybody's schedule was even before the schedule
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  Speaker 1: release happened. But I guess you got to give it
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  Speaker 1: to the NFL for trying to make a spectacle out
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  Speaker 1: of everything and get viewers and engagement for anything and
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  Speaker 1: everything they can. So we're gonna have a fun discussion
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  Speaker 1: and this episode this afternoon about the Buffalo Bills schedule,
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  Speaker 1: their toughest stretches, some likes, dislikes, thought on the home,
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on the home opener in terms of opponent, and
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  Speaker 1: when it is the primetime games. Anything and everything is
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  Speaker 1: up for discussion in this episode. And I got some
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  Speaker 1: in depth episodes coming up as we go forward here
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  Speaker 1: in Disguis Coverage, some film based episodes as always, but
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  Speaker 1: I'll probably show game tape and some film in the episodes,
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  Speaker 1: break down some scheme and structural pieces that will be
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  Speaker 1: important to the bills this year, tying into the larger
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  Speaker 1: meta of the NFL and trends and everything that we see.
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  Speaker 1: And so for this episode, I was like, Okay, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what's something more discussion based or fun based that we
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  Speaker 1: could have, you know, conversational. The schedule was fun, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, what I want to kind of do
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  Speaker 1: that by myself, and so I reached out to someone
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  Speaker 1: who was the first name that came to my mind.
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  Speaker 1: He's someone who has been with the Cover one brand
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  Speaker 1: for a while. He's moved behind the scenes. Now you
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  Speaker 1: know him as the producer and the guy who runs
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  Speaker 1: everything behind the scenes for myself and Eric in the
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  Speaker 1: film room. I have been on his show a multitude
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  Speaker 1: of times. This is his first time on the Sky's coverage.
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  Speaker 1: Welcoming to the stage, mister Joe de Rosa, thank you
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  Speaker 1: very much for taking the time, thank you for joining me.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for having me Anthony. I would like to
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  Speaker 2: take this time to say I apologize because I think
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  Speaker 2: the reason that it is so hectic on the show
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  Speaker 2: this morning is my fault because we were talking offline
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  Speaker 2: and I am a scatterbrained person and I have the
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  Speaker 2: tendency to cause other people to lose their train of
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  Speaker 2: thought because I app so I apologize that is on me.
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  Speaker 2: And now we're here and I'm really excited to talk
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  Speaker 2: on the show and I'm honored to be a guest
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  Speaker 2: on disguised coverage for the first time ever. It is
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  Speaker 2: cool to be here in the same seat that once
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  Speaker 2: also a Dane Bugler and being a chimes and now
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  Speaker 2: there's me, which you know, I obviously have the same
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  Speaker 2: level of impact. So thank you for having me at
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  Speaker 2: the Nay. This is gonna be fun and I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to talking with you about this absolute doozy of
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  Speaker 2: a schedule.
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  Speaker 1: When when the schedule first dropped for you, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: let's go, let's go in. We'll take it an order
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  Speaker 1: of kind of how things dropped in terms of news
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  Speaker 1: and even kind of maybe even somewhat like chronological order.
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  Speaker 1: I guess for the bills from a schedule standpoint, I
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  Speaker 1: guess if that makes sense from a weekly order standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on the home opener, it being
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  Speaker 1: a Thursday night game, it being against the Lions. You know,
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  Speaker 1: are you whelmed underwhelmed? Do you think this is great?
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  Speaker 1: And are you pumped for it? What are your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on the home opener being a Thursday night game, short week,
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  Speaker 1: you know, coming off the Texans in Week one? You
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  Speaker 1: know it is there one line of thinking for you?
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  Speaker 1: Is that a multitude of thoughts? Where are you for
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  Speaker 1: the home opener?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not just pointed in the matchup. I love the
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  Speaker 2: matchup with the Lions, so I want to say that first.
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  Speaker 2: I love playing Detroit. I love how every game the
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  Speaker 2: two teams play against each other is chaos, with the
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  Speaker 2: Bills thankfully being on the better end of it twice
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  Speaker 2: and now a third time, this time in Buffalo. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's going to be a really fun game. I
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  Speaker 2: love Jamior Gibbs, I love the skill position group of Detroit,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that for the Bills, it's a great
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  Speaker 2: test for Jim Leonard. It's a great test for that
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  Speaker 2: defense and kind of seeing how disciplined they are early.
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  Speaker 2: That I'm excited about. But I hate that it's Thursday
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  Speaker 2: night football and I hate that a brand new stadium's
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  Speaker 2: debut has to be on Thursday Night Football for a
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  Speaker 2: few reasons. I'm going to start with the obvious short
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  Speaker 2: week team is playing Houston on the road in Week one.
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  Speaker 2: That is obviously going to be, based off our history
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  Speaker 2: with that team, a physical slugfest. That what real. Josh
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  Speaker 2: Allen has not fared well in each time he's gone
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  Speaker 2: to that stadium, or the three or four times.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's been now that he's gone to that stadium.
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  Speaker 2: It's a brutal follow up to ask this team to
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  Speaker 2: play on a short week against a speedy, high powered
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  Speaker 2: offense in your new stadium after that road game. I
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  Speaker 2: don't like that opponent. I'm just not a fan of
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  Speaker 2: Thursday night football in general. But essentially in this context,
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  Speaker 2: the second part of it is we've had about four
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  Speaker 2: or five years or so of development of this stadium
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of hype, a lot of push from
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  Speaker 2: the league. You know, these stadiums that are getting built.
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  Speaker 2: It's really more of Roger Goodel flexing's muscles than it
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  Speaker 2: is just the team individually. So like to represent that
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  Speaker 2: process coming to a conclusion and having this brand new,
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  Speaker 2: multimillion billion dollar facility, you open it up on Thursday
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  Speaker 2: Night Football with my goals falling asleep. But the will
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  Speaker 2: no disrespect to one of the greatest broadcasters ever, but
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  Speaker 2: we need to be honest about his performances as well
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  Speaker 2: the past couple of years. The enthusiasm level and what
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  Speaker 2: you could have had in a very early week where
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  Speaker 2: it was easy to manipulate and sell the idea of
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  Speaker 2: brand new stadium deserves primetime game. Let's put this on
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  Speaker 2: Sunday Night Football. This is a hell of matchup to
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  Speaker 2: really good teams. We've seen how much these teams battle
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  Speaker 2: each other anytime we've had them. Let's give this to Tariko,
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  Speaker 2: Let's give this one to Nanson, Romo even, or let's
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  Speaker 2: give this one to you know, the Monday night cast
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  Speaker 2: and get Joe Buck there. Like, I just don't like
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  Speaker 2: the fact that it's a Thursday night Football production. And
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  Speaker 2: it's really just because I think it's selling short. How
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  Speaker 2: big of a moment this is for the franchise and
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  Speaker 2: the league when you have a new stadium open up,
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  Speaker 2: like they put so much stock into this, Why are
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  Speaker 2: we cutting it short and putting out what could be
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  Speaker 2: a sloppy game or just again like a less enthused
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  Speaker 2: broadcast when we could have had something better. So that's
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  Speaker 2: really where I'm at on it. Good matchup, Love playing Detroit,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be awesome, Hate that it's a short week,
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  Speaker 2: and hate that it's Thursday night football instead of Sunday
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  Speaker 2: night or Monday night.
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  Speaker 1: I echo a lot of that. I I'll start with
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  Speaker 1: the Lions themselves because I don't you know, to your point,
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  Speaker 1: they're a good football team. I don't have an issue
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  Speaker 1: with the Lions themselves. Again, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: I just want a good football game, and I think
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  Speaker 1: this will be a good football game. Also, massive disclaimer
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  Speaker 1: on everything. Everything for the schedule is always based on
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  Speaker 1: like the twenty twenty five version or the previous version
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  Speaker 1: of teams. So for all we know, the Lions ended
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  Speaker 1: up being awful this year, the Bills could end up
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  Speaker 1: being awful this year, Like ninety percent of the teams
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  Speaker 1: the Bills play could be terrible. Injuries, all these other
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  Speaker 1: very well, so on and so forth. So I want
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  Speaker 1: to put that out there before anybody jumps in to
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  Speaker 1: be like, we don't even know how good these teams
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  Speaker 1: are going to be, Like why are we even dis
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  Speaker 1: going this? This is pointless no, it's fun and we
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  Speaker 1: like it. My issue with it being the Lions, and
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  Speaker 1: I understand the Ralph Wilson connection with Detroit, the city
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  Speaker 1: itself and the Lions as well. I just thought, or
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  Speaker 1: maybe not even thought, I guess I personally wanted the
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  Speaker 1: home opener to have more of an on field history
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  Speaker 1: rivalry aspect to it, especially looking at who else the
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  Speaker 1: Bills have on their docket. Like I initially from a
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  Speaker 1: home schedule standpoint, I didn't count include the Chiefs because
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  Speaker 1: I was like, you know, Mahomes is probably not going
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  Speaker 1: to play to start the year, but now it looks
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  Speaker 1: like he is, which is of course, yeah, of course
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna find a way. And I'm also kind of
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  Speaker 1: maybe buying into the conspiracy theory part of like he
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  Speaker 1: knew the season was going down the drain, So it's like,
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  Speaker 1: did he fake that knee injury? The like, did he
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  Speaker 1: pull Lebron randomly shown up to the podium with a
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  Speaker 1: cast on his hand to be like, oh my hand
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  Speaker 1: with my hand, Oh my god, you know, because.
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  Speaker 2: They is so noble of him to do that right before,
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  Speaker 2: like literally minutes away from getting eliminated when he was healthy,
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  Speaker 2: right right.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm like, because like I really was, like, at
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  Speaker 1: the earliest we'll comeback is end of September, maybe October's
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  Speaker 1: but you know, magic medicine whatever. But I thought, like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you have the Chiefs as a home opponent this year.
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  Speaker 1: You have the Ravens as a home opponent this year.
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  Speaker 1: You have the Patriots as a home opponent this year
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  Speaker 1: because they're in the division. The Dolphins are probably not
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a good football team, no jinx, but the
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  Speaker 1: story and the his there, I just thought one of
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  Speaker 1: those would be the home opener. My initial gut feeling too,
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  Speaker 1: to kind of tie into it, was I thought they'd
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  Speaker 1: be the Sunday night Week one game home against the Patriots,
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  Speaker 1: kicking that season off. Hip the Patch are coming off
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  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, you know, the Bills and Pat's rivalry,
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  Speaker 1: Like is it over for Josh Allen as Drake made
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  Speaker 1: the new guy, we got the stadium. The script essentially
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  Speaker 1: writes itself, but you just from an on field perspective,
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  Speaker 1: and again, the Lions are very good football team. You
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  Speaker 1: can make the case that they'll be better than a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of those teams I just mentioned in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: But from an on field rivalry perspective combined with being
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  Speaker 1: a perceived to be a good team. This year, I
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  Speaker 1: just thought there would be more home to the on
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  Speaker 1: field rivalry or you know, hatred aspect to it. Not that.
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  Speaker 1: Just again, not that Detroit is bad, and I understand
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  Speaker 1: the Ralph Wilson Detroit connection, but I don't think the
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  Speaker 1: Ralph Wilson Detroit and Lions connection. Trump's the years of
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  Speaker 1: Bills Dolphins, the years of Bills Patriots, the recent years
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  Speaker 1: of Bill's Ravens and Bill's Chiefs and Mahomes Allen Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: Lamar like this whole conversation. So I thought there would
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  Speaker 1: be more oomph there. But I'm fine with that. Thursday Night, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't like the Thursday night aspect, just because you know,
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  Speaker 1: last year third the Thursday night games were actually better.
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  Speaker 1: But traditionally and historically, Thursday night games have been really sloppy.
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  Speaker 1: Like I think it's I actually think it's a large
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  Speaker 1: ask to you want these dudes to go to war
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  Speaker 1: on a Sunday and then have to get their bodies
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  Speaker 1: ready to play three days later, like in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the week. I don't like that. And in the
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  Speaker 1: early part of the year where you're coming off three
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  Speaker 1: preseason games, majority of your starters aren't playing, so you're
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  Speaker 1: playing Week one, and then you're going into the Thursday
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  Speaker 1: night into week two. The earlier Thursday night games tend
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  Speaker 1: to be even more sloppy because you're still trying to
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  Speaker 1: get into regular season rhythm and you're getting thrown out
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  Speaker 1: a whack almost right away to start. So I'm not
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  Speaker 1: a big fan of Thursday games in general. I also think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I didn't think of this next part initially,
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  Speaker 1: but people mention it, like, I know it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be annoying for some people to be like it's a
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  Speaker 1: it's on like a weekday, work day, and it's the
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  Speaker 1: home opener. I feel like a lot of people wanted
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  Speaker 1: like the full tailgating experience of a Sunday night game
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  Speaker 1: or a Sunday one o'clock game, and to get into
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  Speaker 1: the routine and the pomp and the circumstance of all.
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  Speaker 1: And now it's like, do I got to call out
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  Speaker 1: of work for this? Like if you live in the area,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be a zoo on that day and
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  Speaker 1: you're kind of thinking of that, but that's that's not
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  Speaker 1: for me. It's not to live around the stadium. I
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  Speaker 1: live like twenty five minutes north of that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just from an on field I thought there'd be more
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  Speaker 1: of a rivalry aspect. The Lions are a good football team.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's cool with the connection with Ralph Wilson.
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  Speaker 1: I just like if you if you gave me the
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  Speaker 1: choice between or even I never gave you the choice.
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  Speaker 1: Feels like you could pick your home opener team and
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  Speaker 1: it's Lions, Patriots, Chiefs, Ravens. I would pick Patriots, Chiefs,
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  Speaker 1: and Ravens, not in that order, but I pick all
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  Speaker 1: three of those teams ahead of picking the Lions for
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  Speaker 1: the home opener because of the sake of the new again,
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  Speaker 1: the new stadium, Like just yeah, I guess you could
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  Speaker 1: throw the Jets in there, but man, the Jets are
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: the Jets.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I would take.
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  Speaker 1: I felt a little underwhelmed. Yeah, you can take Miami.
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  Speaker 1: I just felt a little underwhelmed. It'll probably still be
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  Speaker 1: a very good football game. Detroit's really good team. But
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  Speaker 1: I thought there'd be more OpEd to it. I thought
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  Speaker 1: this would be more of a Yeah. I just thought
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  Speaker 1: they'd opt to go for more hatred or rivalry instead
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  Speaker 1: of just oh good football game. Sure, but I think
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  Speaker 1: you could have gotten that plus hatred in rivalry with
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  Speaker 1: some of these other.
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  Speaker 2: Matchups, and you know, something like it is cool that
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  Speaker 2: it's the only game of the day, right, Like I
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  Speaker 2: do like the fact that Thursday Night football isolates one
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  Speaker 2: matchup and for the Bills, now, the entirety of that day,
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  Speaker 2: from Amazon, social media, from NFL social media is centered
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  Speaker 2: on this stadium opening and it gets its shine and
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  Speaker 2: I love that, But also I don't think we should
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  Speaker 2: have it be opening up on a day where it's
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  Speaker 2: inconvenient for literally everybody that eyes might be able to
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  Speaker 2: miss the start of the game because people are coming
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  Speaker 2: home from work, whether that's local, whether that's national. You know,
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  Speaker 2: for me, I get home late, so when I want
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  Speaker 2: to turn a game on, I got a hurry and
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  Speaker 2: get there, and I'm probably missing minutes of the first quarter.
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  Speaker 2: And I find that when you're talking about again, any
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  Speaker 2: regular regular opening game like last year Bill's Dolphins or
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  Speaker 2: a couple of years ago when they opened up in
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  Speaker 2: Miami and that was the first Thursday night game, that's fine,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like listen, obviously we all want to have
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  Speaker 2: the beautiful primetime Sunday night game or the most convenient game.
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  Speaker 2: But at the very least that's Miami storied rivalry. Nothing
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  Speaker 2: really at State besides another season. But this is a
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  Speaker 2: brand new stadium opening. And I know it sounds a
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  Speaker 2: bit dramatic from my end, but like this is a
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  Speaker 2: like a four again at four or five years. It's
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  Speaker 2: all flown by, which is kind of insane, but billion
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  Speaker 2: dollar investment for the league to demonstrate how much impact
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  Speaker 2: they have on a city. Like it's Roger Goodell saying, hey,
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  Speaker 2: look at my brand new stadium and just to have
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  Speaker 2: this be like kind of corners cut around when you
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  Speaker 2: have the game start. I'm just not a fan. And
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  Speaker 2: then for the I agree with you completely, like Lions
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  Speaker 2: are cool but historical aspect or something that's like really engaging. Yeah,
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: I would have preferred Patriots. I would have preferred Miami.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: I would have preferred Jets, Like your division has so
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: much history, really, Miami, to me, like you just sell
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: the Kelly Marino aspect. You could sell that they've been
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: playing on Thursday night football for the past hundred years.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Apparently it seems like that way. You know, it's it's
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: just or even get the opportunity to kind of do
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: like no disrespect in the Dolphins, but yeah, home opener
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: beat the hell out of arrival toy, like kind of
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: christen your new stadium a little bit. I also thought
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: this one too. This is a good point from Michael.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: The last game in the old stadium was the Jets. Yeah,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: they're doing the first one in this one against the Jets.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Like I do think of that. Yeah, And there's again
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: not to be too dramatic because it's just a stadium
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: or whatever, but you don't get you don't get new
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: stadiums all the time, Like this is the second stadium
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: in my lifetime for the Bills. There's a good chance
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: it'll it's only going to be two in my lifetime.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Like when they when are they going to build another
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: new stadium. It's probably going to be a very very,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: very very very long time. So I just feel like, yeah,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: you can never get that first game back. And I
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: just again, Detroit is a good team, and I do
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: like the idea of you know, I think anybody who
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: watches this show knows that I have a lot of
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: concerns about the Bills run defense. I have for the
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: past several years. Yeah, I know right, shock, I still
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: have them this year. I like the idea that they're
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: going to play the Lions in Week two, a team
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: that wants to run the ball through your face, like not.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: They don't want to just run at you, they want
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: to run through your face. So I like that test
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: coupling it with the Texans game. I also think it's
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: rough that's back to back, back to back physical games
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: to start the year when again, everybody's not in game
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: shape yet from a conditioning standpoint of physicality, and like
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: mending and the bumps and bruises and getting into the
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: rhythm of everything, your body's still not like it doesn't.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: They don't do two a days in training camp like
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: they used to with the physicality. Teams don't wear full
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: pads as much as they used to. They don't practice
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: tackling as much as they used to. The preseason isn't
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: really dress rehearsal anymore. And you gotta go up. You
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: got to open up and go down to Houston for
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: a bloodbath against a team that just wants to beat
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: that not only wants to. The Texans beat the hell
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: out of everybody. Doesn't mean that they win every game,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: but they beat the hell out of everybody, and then
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: they revamp their offensive line so it's not like they're
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: the one sided unit like they were last year, which
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, they still beat the Bills with Davis Mills
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: and QBI, but you gotta go to Houston and do that,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: and then you got to come back home and play
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: the Lions. Yeah, back to back physical games. I do
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: think that it is a little interesting to start the
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: year and you have overall pomp and circumstances. I think
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: they could have done better. I think it could have
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: been more interesting. I do want to parlay that actually
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: into hold on, let me change the banner for the bomb.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: You got you got a you got an absolute banger
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: of a comment that just came in. That's got me giggling.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I didn't see it, didn't see it.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: It's uh, you'll know which one.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, you're all a bunch of babies. It's a competitive league.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Who cares? Why are we being babies? I don't understand,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: because we're talking about like other games we would have liked.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't understand. A kaya Morey said, hold up,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: that's the sound of Jordan Phillips being blown off the ball.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I love that Texans have a ton to prove on offense.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I like getting them week one before they gel. That's
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: fair point. Yeah, that is a and.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: I agree with that for the defensive aspect too. Now
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: it it's still the Texans, it's still Demico Ryans. There's continuity,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: but weak ones weird. It's weird for every team. It's
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: weird no matter who you are, Like we've seen Sean
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: McDermott teams act weird in Week one. Last year's defense
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: is a great example of that. Like you could sell
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: me on the idea that Houston's just not wholly fleshed out.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: And also they've typically gotten off to slow starts, so
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: it might be each.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Year each year is like one in four, one in three.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Last year.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, remember last year they were even a playoff team,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: like he wrote them all with them a complete wash.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and then they won like six in a row,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: including against the Bills. It might be an opportune and time,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Like that's the thing. I'm okay with getting that game
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: out of the way, But I'm more okay with getting
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: that game out of the way and not playing a
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Thursday night game for your home opener, Like you know what,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, like it would be nice if it was like, Okay,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: the home openers the next week's Sunday night football against
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: the Lions. Then I'm like, all right, you know what,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: that's fine. I can live with that. But Thursday night
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: after playing Will Anderson and Daniel Hunter and everyone's favorite
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Buffalo Bill Caden McDonald and that live backer corps and
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: the secondary, Like, that's that's tough, dude.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: And I like this. I like this comment here to
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: this is tough break for an unproven coaching staff. Better
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: get ready. I also liked I didn't. I like that
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: point as well, of like Brady's got experience, Leonard's got experienced.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: This is Leonard's obviously first full season as a DC
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: in the NFL, Joe Brady's first season as I coach,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: and the Texans staff is well versed. The Lions staff
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: is well versed. But yeah, so that's another layer as well.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, good comments, good points. I want so I
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: wanted to tie that into this next part of the conversation. Here,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: the toughest stretch and or stretches for me, I think
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: there's two potentially, based off of what we're looking at
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: right now, they could be equal for you it could
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: be one over the other. I look at weeks one
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: through five and weeks twelve through sixteen right now as
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: at an absolute murderers roll on paper as of right now.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: So weeks one through five at the Texans home against
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the Lions on Thursday night football, home against the Chargers
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: home against the Pats at the Rams on Monday Night football.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: So that's the opening five, and then weeks twelve through
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: sixteen home against the Chiefs on Thanksgiving at the Patriots,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: at the Packers on Sunday night football, home against the
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Bears on Saturday night, and then at the Broncos on Christmas. Oh,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: so those are the times, and those are like the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: primetime aspects. But it's purely just you want to focus
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: on the one through five Texans, Lions, Chargers, Pats, Rams,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: twelve through sixteen, Chiefs, Pats, Packers, Bears, Broncos, majority of
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: those being on the road. Are each of these stretches equal?
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: For you? Do you think one is harder than the other?
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Is there one that you're looking at more of?
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's the big oner?
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Is it both? Like?
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Man, these are two brutal aspects, one to start the
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: year and one to essentially finish it.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: I go back and forth on this a lot, but
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it's the first five weeks, and I'm
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: gonna say to layer off the point that you just
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: made earlier, because I was thinking this before we went live.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: So not only is it a gauntlet, and again based
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: off last year's results, right, anything could happen. There could
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: be an injury, the teams could simply regress, like we
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: could be looking at this in total fear lenses and
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: it could actually be really easy. But let's just say
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: these teams are equal to what they were last year
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: results wise. I think that this is a bit harder.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: And I say it because, like you pointed out earlier,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: we have a first year head coach in Joe Brady. Yes,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: he has been with the team for multiple seasons and
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: has an offensive playbook installed, has familiarity with a lot
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: of these guys that are on this team. That's great,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: but he wasn't a head coach and he hasn't been
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: an NFL head coach. On the flip side of it,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Jim Leonard has been a college head coach, has a
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: college system that ran really well at Wisconsin, has had
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: time in Denver, as an assistant, has played in the league,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: but hasn't been an NFL defensive coordinator. And I think
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: that putting those two factors together makes me very weary
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: of this opening because it's really really hard to sell
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: to this fan base in the midst of Josh Allen's
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: prime with the urgency that exists for this team to
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: get over the hump that this team gets off to
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: a slow start because of that inexperience and because of
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: the lack of gel that exists on both sides of
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: the ball. Maybe more for the defense and the offense.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I largely expect the offense to stay consistent, if anything,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: maybe even be better this year because I do like
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: having Pete Carmichael in the room who had been there
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: with Peyton and Drew Brees, to give some guidance to
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Joe Brady, but also give some new kind of ideas
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: and rinkal layers to the running back passing game or
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: the utilization of their tight ends. Like I am very
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: excited to have him here because he's not calling plays
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: and I like what he could do with Joe Brady.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: But the defense worries me. Not because I don't trust
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Jim Leonard. I think Jim Leonard is going to wind
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: up being a very good defensive coordinator for the Bills.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: But this is a it's a bit of an overhaul,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: and I think that the growing pains are going to
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: be seen very early, maybe not as much. I mean,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: the Texans could easily exploit it because they've revamped their
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: running game and they have talent in that wide receiver room,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: and that talent should be healthy. Nico Collins, Jalen Nole,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Jayden Higgins, Like, that's a complete receiving court, pairing that
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: with all of these high powered offenses, I mean the
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Lions and the speed and explosiveness they possess, the Chargers
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: with Mike McDaniel taking over, and then.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: You know who has a ton of success, Like I know,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the Dolphins didn't really beat the Bills in McDaniel's tenure.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: The offense had success against the Bills fairly regularly through
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the air and especially on the ground. So it's a
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: guy who's who's got a pretty good playbook. Granted, much
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: different defense versus what Leonard is, So maybe some new
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: on new, but yeah, a guy who's familiar with the
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Bills organization.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. And note now that could pose
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: an issue. And you look at their skill group and
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: the tight ends they have. They just got in Djoku
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: with Gadston, you have Lad McConkie, Trey Harris, Brendan Thompson,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: who we really liked in the pre draft process, those
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: running backs. It's a really talented group with a very
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: talented OC. You talk about New England, who is going
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: the worst kept secret in the league. AJ Brown is
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: going to join that receiving corps, and you have a
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: very dynamic structure of their wide receiver corps with Drake
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: May and the explosive passing. Then just following that up
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: by going to Los Angeles to play one of the
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: best offenses in football with Sean McVay one of the
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: best offensive mines in football.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: That's a real one of the best defenses in football too.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, you could argue, I would say, with the exception
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: of maybe the Lions, to start, like three or four
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: of these teams could have top ten defenses like I
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: could easily. Texans obviously, Patriots were an extremely good defense
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: last year. That interior defensive line is one of the best,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: if not the best, in football. The Rams like putting
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: it together another year with Shula. This is a gauntlet
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: for Jim Leonard, and my question and why I consider
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: it more difficult than the other stretch, which that other
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: stretch is insane. But maybe the team has more chemistry,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Maybe the team has geled a bit more schematically there
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: where even if there's injury, they have an understanding, their
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: communications more on point, or maybe they've exceeded expectations and
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: they're actually just one of the top units by then.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: But you still in the early part of a schedule.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: It's so embryonic, it's all over the place that I
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: just see this as really difficult, and I see it
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: as more difficult because of the pressure on new coaches
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: to get off to at least a good enough start,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Like I can forgive them for three and two one
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: hundred percent. I'll be happy with three and two for
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Joe Brady and Jim Leonard if you're talking, and I
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: don't want to put this in the universe, but like
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: a negative record, a really bad record, that's not only
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: bad to kind of have as the start of the
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: year and your unproven nature of your coaching staff, but
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: that's really bad for the fan base and the people
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: that are already putting so much pressure and already didn't
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: like the Joe Brady higher and already hate Brandon being
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: like it just layers all of that on top of it.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: And it's why I think for those factors, I think
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: that's much. That's my most difficult part of the.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Year I've been I've said this got a couple of
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: shows that I've been on throughout this offseason, but I
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: feel like the Bills season this year has a real
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: chance to be at powder Keg if things don't start
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: out strong or positive.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: The way the season has ended year after year. Then
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: the McDermott firing but being staying and essentially getting promoted
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: the press conferences, majority of the moves largely staying the same.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: From a free agency standpoint and a draft standpoint, the
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: archetypes are pretty much the same, even though it's you know, fresh,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: we got this whole idea of like, oh, you know,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the McDermott cuffs are off, everything is gonna change, new scheme,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: new mind, new philosophy, and it's like these guys are
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the same type of guys they brought in before.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: They draft Durant.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well there they go, like get that, just I'm
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: brand I'm brand and TJ Parkers Again, TJ Parkers think
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: he is a good football player and a majority of teams,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: but like him and Chubb being your two edge ads
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: are like those are mcder Those would have been McDermott
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Bean type of guys. I think there's a real potential
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: that if they start out one in three, two in three,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: or one in four, if they start out slow and
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: or ugly in any fashion, I think the frustration with
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Bean is there for a lot of fans. I think
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: a lot of the fan base was decently underwhelmed with
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the Brady higher and then you add in all the
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: extra drama of how expensive the new stadium is and
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the ticket costs and all these things. I just think
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of a lot of different sized bubbles
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: bubbling up to the surface in a variety of ways,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: and winning cures all and makes everybody forget about everything,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: both good and bad. But I do wonder if they
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: start out, like if things start out rough, how quick
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: does everybody go for the torches and the pitchforks and
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: is ready and is calling for heads and wants you know,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: at this guy's job, and this is terrible, Like how
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: much overreaction and yelling. Do we see So you kind
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: of mentioned that opening stretches being your tube. I do wonder, yeah,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: like if the Bill, if the Bills start out, oh
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: and two, how much does everybody just knew it being sucked?
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Brady stucks, everything's bad? Or like what does it take?
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: What record? That definitely plays into it a bit. Yeah,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I'm and even from the stretch standpoint, the opening is
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: tough for me because there's so much variable because teams
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: don't know who they are in September, So like we
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: could catch the Texans on and off week, the Texans
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: could catch us us on an off week, the Texans
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: could piss pound the Bills, and the Bills go and
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: win ten straight and we all look back and then
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: everybody looks back and it's like, man, how did the
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Texans beat the Bills in week one? Or vice versa,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: could be any of these things. There's so many variables.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: But again, on I do think that stretch is rough
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: the only reason, and I'm torn on it. I think
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: the decider for me not to play this card, but
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: because three of them are at home, that makes me
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: feel a little better. I'm just thinking of the playoff
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: push and the stretch teams rounding into form. And again,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: if we're keeping everything the same as equal as last year, right, Chiefs, Patriots, Packers, Bears, Broncos,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: all of those teams have like you know, conference championship
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: aspirations from an internal perspective, but from an objective outside
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: perspective as well. I'm still torn on it, Like I
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: wanted to get your thoughts and discuss it, because I'm
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: legitimately on the fence, like I'm fifty one forty nine,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: and I flip flop on each of them every other,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: like I want to feel convicted one way or the other.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: I think you can make the case. I think that
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: they're both pretty equal. It's just a matter of, you know,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: do you want to have that stretch in the beginning,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Is it potentially beneficial because teams are still ironing out
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: all the wrinkles and the kinks. So, but you know
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: that goes both ways. Your opponents could be ironing out
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: the kinks, but so could you. So your opponent might
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: not be the best version of themselves, but you also
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: might not be the best version of yourself. And then
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: so how does that balance? So that for me, I
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: kind of call that a wash. And again, if I'm
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: splitting it, it's like literally fifty one to forty nine.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna go twelve through sixteen just because
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I think that's the point when everybody is like, all right,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: everybody strap in, we have to make a push. Let's go.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: And so the Chiefs are gonna be locked in in real,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: the Pats, the Packers, the Bears, the Broncos, plus again,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: three of those games are on the road in gonna
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: be hostile environments, like the Broncos are gonna get up
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: for that. The Packers are gonna get up for that,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: because the Packers get up for every game. The Patriots game,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: They're gonna get up for that. When I do like
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: though about that Patriots game, and again scheduling, I like
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: that going into that Chiefs week in week twelve, the
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: game before that is the Dolphins. So again it doesn't
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: mean you can't. You could pun on that week, but
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: lesser quality, yeah, home Dolphins, a little lesser quality. I
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: like that it's the Chiefs on that Thursday, and then
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: you get a ten day rest before you get the
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Patriots in week thirteen, so that also sways a little bit.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the twelve through sixteen fifty one
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: to forty nine if we if you ask me again
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: to discuss the in ten minutes, I would I might
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: say weeks one through five, Like I genuinely could go
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: either way. And I think that is fun and also
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: scary because they've got two on paper gauntlets to start
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: the year and end the year. Like it'll be fun
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: to know kind of right out the gate what this
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Bills team could be this year, and then we're also
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: going to get another prove it moment down the stretch,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: because it's not just like, well, the schedule starts out
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: tough and then falls off, or you know, it ends strong,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: but it starts out so weak. What is this team?
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Who is this team? I think we're gonna have it.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: We have the opportunity to get a really good understanding
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: of what the twenty twenty six Bills are because of
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: how the season starts and how it ends, because both
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: of these stretches on paper look really brutal.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be it. In my opinion, just based off
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: my kind of internal projection of the Bills this year,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: it's gonna look like two different teams because again, I
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: just think we have to be more realistic about what
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: a total I don't want to keep I don't want
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: to call it a total scheme over like it is.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: But also like McDermott, when you look at what he
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: was doing in the back half of last year, his
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: coverage concepts, his mix of fronts was stuff that you
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: saw teams that run a three four do, like it's
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: a hybrid type of defense. So it's not like we
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: haven't ever seen it. It's not like we haven't ever
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: ran it. So it's not impossible to say that there
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: is some level of continuity. But I do think when
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: you have a new coach, new calls, new ideas like
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: how he wants to attack, that just takes a lot
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: of time to install, and a lot of these guys
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: are hardwired to an older system that it's like, well, damn,
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: like now we got to relearn everything and we're playing
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: on the road to start. And I think that why
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: I don't say that stretch. I totally agree with fifty
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: one forty nine, Like I could give you either or
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: and it would be I think a correct answer. But
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: I just think like it's the implications of the start
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: of this.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Year and uncertainty fair, and I feel like, I do
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: you think the team will feel that just a pig
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: back they in the beginning like we have to come
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: out longer. Everybody's gonna want to kill us, okay.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: And I'm gonna say this, I think Josh Allen feels
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: it because you got to think, like, this guy has
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: only ever played with one head coach his entire career
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: and one structure his entire career, Like there was so
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: much routine that came with that. And obviously, again early
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: starts at the year can be weird. Your team is
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: like feeling things out, but you knew who your head
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: coach was, right, You knew where he was going to
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: stand on the sideline, you knew where every assistant coach
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: was set up. Like everything was like in the back
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: of your mind stable. Now it's different, and to me,
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: it's like for Josh Allen, I'm thirty years old. I
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: know that the weight of the world is on my
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: shoulders for this fan base and the city. I know
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: what the schedule looks like like there is an insurmountable
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: amount of pressure and if it doesn't pan out well,
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: then that second stretch is even more brutal because if
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: you didn't get the luxury of a hot start like
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Josh Allen has gotten every season since pretty much twenty nineteen.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: That is really tough to.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Go into that slate with those road games, primetime games,
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Holliday games and say this team is like three and
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: five and trying to get back to the top of
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: the AFC East or trying to settle. And I don't
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: want to be a doomer because I know people are saying,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: you got to look at the other end of it,
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: and there is equal chance that it ends up being
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: a tremendous start, that Joe Brady is getting a golden
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: statue built outside of the stadium, that Jim Leonard is
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: the second coming of Jim Schwartz, even though it's a
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: different defense. I'm just thinking of the last great kills. Yeah,
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: bull gyms both both potential bills dcs this year. By
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: the way, like that could have easily happened too, but
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: like there is a very realistic chance that these this
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: could work out and it could be great to start,
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: And then I would look at that second stretch and
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: be like, that's tough, but they have the padding, so
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: you could go five hundred in that stretch and will
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: be okay. But that's my thing, Like so much of
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: your season outlook, your fan outlook on the henges, that
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: that opening stretch, and that's why I'm just like I
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: can't look past it and say that the other one
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: right now for me is as hard, even though they
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: are objectively tough games, there's more weight to get out
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: of the gate hot when because this isn't like a rebuilding.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: This isn't the Dolphins, Anthony, Like, this isn't Malik Willis
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: on a two year deal trading away our talent. We
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: know we're punting it for twenty twenty seven or at
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: the least like building for the future. This is Joe
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Briddy was their attempt at continuity because they didn't want
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: Sean McDermott there anymore. But like Josh Allen's still there, dude,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Like a lot of this team is the same, so
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: like you still view it as a team in the
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: championship window. So they have to get off to a
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: good start otherwise it's going to be like pandemodium And
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: I just don't know how how you even like come
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: out of that if you end up in it, and
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: I hope they don't.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: That is a very good point. See now that sways me.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Now I'm like, oh, I'm going through I'm picking the
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: I'm picking their own strep. Yeah, that I do think
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: that's fair. Can you imagine the even just internally, let
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: alone nationally, But like, again, we all know this. The
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Bills didn't reach the mountain top. They didn't get over
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: that hurdle. You know, these past several years, the goals
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: to get to the super Bowl and then win the
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. They didn't do any of those things, right,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: but you knew still going into it year in and
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: year out, I was like, well, the Bills are probably
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: gonna win, Like the floor was win the AFC East
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: and be a final four team in the AFC. Like
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: if imagine if they don't make the playoffs this year
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: in some world, like everybody is gonna and then goat
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: because there's still all this consternation of like wasn't McDermott,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: was it Bean? Was it both?
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Is it?
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Like all these like all these ugly questions and drama
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: starts coming out. And so I do think that's a
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: super fair point of the opening stretch is so important
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: to keep to keep everybody from wanting to burn everything
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: to the ground. Whether rightly or wrongly, Again, everybody and
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: everybody could want to burn everything to ground. The Bills
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: could start out one and four and go on to
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: win like twelve in a row from there, and everybody
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: would be like, oh, okay, that's fine. But perception is reality,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: and that perception early on from a local standpoint, from
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: a oh just can you I can just imagine like
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: the booze raining down in the stadium.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: And yeah, it just sounds so you'll really test out
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: the dynamics and acoustics of that new stadium. If people
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: are booing loudly, could you imagine that, it's like you're
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: you're Pagola and you're like the brass of the Bills
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: and you're looking down and like, again, I'm not trying
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: to be a doomer. They could be very good to
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: start the year, so please take it. It's just we're
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: looking at it from the other end right now, for
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: any end of the spectrum, anywhere between. It's all conversations.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Fans are absolutely like livid booing, and Pegola is like, man,
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: it sounds great in here, you guys here, It's it
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: sounds so good in here, dude, Like I love this stadium.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: But no, I I again, I'm not trying to make
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: people pessimistic or anything. It's more just my justification for
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: why it's so difficult and why I view it so.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: But also, like the Josh Allen aspect of it, to
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: me is interesting because what if he's locked in? You know,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: we always say like he really there's almost like an
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: inverted bell curve with Alan. He starts out great, he
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: has a little mid season slump, and then he he
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: finishes really strong. Most of the time. I would say,
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: I feel like it wouldn't shock me at a off.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Allen's just cerebral as hell to start the year and
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: just you know, really takes exception to how last year ended,
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: and just as nuclear and things are working with the
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: new offensive coordinator structure or at least like adjusted playbook
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: to put it in a different way, that could happen
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: and it could be really fun. I just it's implications.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: It's just you, you have to get off to it.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: You have to at least be five hundred going to
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: your bye week. How about that?
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: That?
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: To me, I think could qualm some people just given
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: the circumstances. Like that's kind of where I'm at with that.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I could see one, two, four. Wait, what does cloud
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: DeRozan mean? I don't know. I saw that too, and
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: I want to know what that means.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: There's because there's the opening six games, right, imagine if
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: they only win I don't know whoever, So say they're
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: two and four going into the buy and then they
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: come out of the by and the Ravens are just
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: housing them in Buffalo like I can just yeah, the
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: acoustics of those movies. I wanted to leave this up
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: from Charles who asked. He said, we going over or
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: under ten and a half wins? I answered in the chat,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: I think eleven is like the on the money dot.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: I think it's kind of the ceiling and also the
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: most realistic win total. Again, as of now, we don't know.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: For all we know the Bills, their schedule. They maybe
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Lamar goes down, Jordan Love goes down, like you don't know,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: like the back end of schedule kind of being super easy.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: I think eleven wins is likely for this team. I
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: trust Leonard. I have more questions about the seat. I
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: don't have the questions about the floor of the Bills
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: this year. I have more questions about the ceiling, Like,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: I'm very confident in them being like, okay, double digit
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: wins get to the playoffs. I'm less confident in them
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: being able to fight fire with fire and get over
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: the hump once again. But I think eleven wins is
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: very realistic and doable. So for me, I think the oh,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: I would take the over. I would smash it at eleven.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: What do you think you take over under? I'm gonna
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: say over because I have no reason to believe, not.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: Just because again, like for all my comments about the concerns,
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: that doesn't mean it's reality. And Josh Allen has been
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: a stabilizing force for this team. You know, if you
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: were asking me, who do you think is more important
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: to this team's success over the past eight years, Like,
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say Josh Allen more than Sean McDermott, just
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: because the franchise quarterback component, you know. And I don't
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: want to make it sound like Sean McDermott was a
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: bad coach. It's just Josh Allen has really saved your
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: ass a lot of times. For all the silly plays,
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: is also wonderful plays that he has been able to
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: kind of bring a team out from the depths of Hell,
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: to which I'd say, when you have him, you have
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: the justification that you can hit that over. I will
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: also say this, like I could see a world where
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: this team comes out of the gate hot, and if
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: they do, I'm giving them twelve Like I'm giving them
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: a comfortable twelve wins because that if you can handle
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: that guant with the start of the year, you can
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: handle anybody. I don't care if it's early in the season.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: Like that, to me is playoff matchups really tough teams,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: blue chip talent on both sides of the ball for
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: everyone you face. You start the season four and one,
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: you know, you get to that Ravens game and you
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: win it four and two or anything like that. I
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: can easily see this team clipping twelve to thirteen wins comfortably.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: And then it's just the same questions you have of well,
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: now we have the new coaching staff, this team is good?
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: Is this the difference? Is this like the John Gruden
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: type of thing where like, you know, they move on
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: from Dungee, they bring in Gruden. He has largely the
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: same structure, but they actually end up winning the Super Bowl.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Like again, that's optimistic. Rose colored glasses.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: But we've seen that happen, so like there is that
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: reality that just no one knows what the Bills look
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: like this year, not even the Bills. That could be
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: a good thing and that could get them to and over.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's literally what's exciting about this season and terrifying
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: is that there's a multitude of outcomes, good and bad
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: and everywhere in between. The lowest of low is the
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: highest of highest multitude of things in between. Yeah, I
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: just think if we're looking at it, like again, I'm
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: very superstitious and I'm not trying to chink anything, but
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: I mean I think you take both from the Jets,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: You take both from the Dolphins. That's four wins right there.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: You take the Raiders game, that's five wins. I'll just
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: be pessimistic. You split with the Patriots. That's six wins
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: right there, Like, like, that's six wins already. And then
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: you're looking at like the coin flip games again worst
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: case scenario or playing the pessimistic odds. Then you're looking
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: at the coin flip games of like Texans, Lions, Chargers, Rams,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Like I think Vikings is also a very winnable game.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Bears is a winnable game, though it's hard, I would
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: expect them to beat the Chargers. I'm also a big
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: believer in I don't know if this is still too
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: old school for anybody, I'm a big believer in the
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: whole like West Coast teams having to come east to
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: play games, and so like the Chargers coming here and
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: having to play a Sunday one o'clock game. I think
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: like his advantage bills big time, and just some other
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: things with their team in general. But yeah, so I
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: even if like I'm being conservative, like right now, I
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: feel like I can already map out six or seven wins,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: and that's even before getting to like the well toss
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: up games. So yeah, I feel decently comfortable with that
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: eleven last segment here. Overall general likes, dislikes, concerns, things
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: we haven't touched on, things we may not have pointed
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: out from a positive standpoint, a negative standpoint, something that's
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: really worrying about or or kind of on the forefront
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: of your mind. Anything in general. Likes, dislikes, concerns, or
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: any type of superlative in any way here.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: I think we touched upon a lot of where I
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: was concerned. I would say some of these games I'm
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: just objectively really excited for no matter what the matchup is.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Like I freaking love when the Bills play the Packers.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: I love when the Bills play the NFC North, Like
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: I think that's just so cool because it never happens.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: It's like the once in every four years going and
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: then eventually now with the new NFL scheduling, you get
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: that one team. But like, it's so cool that we're
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: going back to Minnesota where the hurdle happened and we
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: haven't seen Josh Allen played there since twenty eighteen, and
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: like I'll never get where I was because like I was,
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: I was that season was like such a wash for me.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: I was like not even bothering. I was like, all right,
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: you know what, man, Like I'll keep up with that
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: on my phone, but I gotta run errands. And I
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: remember where I was when Josh Allen had the hurdle,
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: and like that's a moment where I'm like, we're going
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: back to where that happened.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: That's cool.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: I'm so excited to go to Lambeau, like and hopefully
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: Josh gets vindicated for the last time or gets revenge
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: for the last time he was there because that was
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: rookie Josh and it was ugly. Like now he gets
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: to go back to Lambeau as like this MVP, Like
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: now is it year nine for Josh or is it
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: year eight? I always get this year one was twenty
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: twenty eighteen.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so eighteen nineteen, twenty twenty one, twenty two, twenty three,
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: twenty four, twenty five, twenty this is year nine.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: That's insane, that's that's horrifying to think about. But year
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: nine Josh Allen going back to where he was as
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: a rookie to like get these games and hopefully win
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: on the road there because Lambeau is one of the
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: stadiums he hasn't won. And yet you know, I'm a
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: big fan of the individual matchups, no matter how difficult
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: they are, because I just think, like some of these
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: teams are the teams I love to watch on like
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: a Sunday objectively, like I love what the Packers do
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: it before I think the Bears are so much fun.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: I love Caleb Williams. I will defend Caleb Williams with
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: my life. I know last year was like very twenty
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: nineteen Josh Allen coded in the sense that he made
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: all these wow plays and also missed so many easy throws,
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: but the throws that he made were so cool that
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: you just have to say, hell yeah, Caleb, like yeah
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: that It's It's like the dude who strikes.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: Out like four times a game, but then like hits
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: that home run that's like four hundred and forty feet
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: and you're like.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's He's Jung Carlos Stanton right now, like
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: he except he stays healthy, knock onlob. He just it's like,
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: will he swing at the ugliest pitch you've ever seen
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: in your life? Yes? Will he also when he makes
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: contact hit something five oh one or like have a
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: one twenty exit elo, Hell yeah he will. Caleb rules,
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: the NFC North rules, It's a tough division. I'm hype
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: for it. And then like as far as like anything
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: else or concerns, like I said, we touched on it,
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: but like that Raiders game is very interesting to me.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: I'm not sleeping on them at all. I don't know
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: why people have choked this up to an auto win.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: I get it, but like, dude, if Kirk is healthy,
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: I know that this is going to sound like people
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: think I'm being too much of a doomer. But I
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: promise you healthy Kirk Cousins is not bad. I think
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: we've just wrote them off entirely because of the Achilles injury.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: But he came back last year and played like a
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: pretty good stretch of football close out the year in Atlanta.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: Like you're telling me healthy Kirk if it's not Mendoza
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: to start in a Kubiak offense that has Brock Bowers
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: Ashton gent like rebuilt speed threats vertically, which is what
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: Kubiak wants. I am not saying that the Bills are
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: going to lose that game, but when you have to
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: go on the road to Vegas to play in hostile
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: territory with the team that's really like youthful and enthused,
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: that to me is like the quote unquote trap game
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: that I'm just I'm not sleeping on it.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying the Bills are going.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: To lose it, but it's one that I'm not looking
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: as like this like they're just gonna go in there
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: blow them out.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: They could, just I can't. I can't get on board
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: fully yet until I need I need some team at
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: some point to have a real defense, and I know
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: they made a bunch of editions this year. They got
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: Quitty Pay, they got Kway Walker, They recruated the Georgia
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: Linebacker Corps. They have Kuai Walker and n Kobe Dane
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: on the ands.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: Comes back too. I think right, he was like hurt
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: last year, and I think he got healthy. Malcolm koons
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: Uh no he or did he leave? I thought he.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: I thought he resigned for like a year.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: He may have. I thought I thought he went somewhere
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: else because I remember people saying like, oh, the Bill
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: should take the Bill should take him. Uh. They have
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: Bill's legen, Bill's Bill's offseason desire legend. Jeremy Chin on
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: my team as well, But I just their corn I
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: don't have faith in their corners. And then I know
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: they have speed at receiver. But like, I'm not scared
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: of Jack Besh and Trey Tucker and Jamie Nal for
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: top three, although Bouers like is sick. Like I think
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: the Raiders. I think the Raiders are on the cusp
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: of like this is the off season where they started
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: to build the foundation and grow. But if you are
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: a playoff contender and championship hopeful, you should beat the Raiders.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: And so yes, absolutely, Bills don't beat the Raiders. That
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: tells me more about the Bills than it does the Raiders. Right,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: That tells me the Bills are behind schedule and more
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: so than the Raiders are. Like on, Yeah, it tells
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: me one of the Bills. The Bills are falling off
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: more so than the Raiders are on schedule.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: You want to know where it comes from, Anthony. It
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: comes from that twenty fourteen road game against Derek Carr
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: and the two and fourteen Raiders. That's where it comes from.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: I think, I'm I think, I just I'm projecting because
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: I have so much PTSD from that game being the
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: literal reason they didn't go to the playoffs that year
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: with Moron and the cold Front. And I'm like, I
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: will never trust the Road Raiders game for as long
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: as I live. I just can't. It's it's I won't refuse.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm in a I think the biggest thing for me.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: Charles mentioned it earlier. Charles, where was your comment? I
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: told myself to start it and I did not. Charles
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: mentioned that the Bills have the bye week before playing
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: the Ravens. No teams are playing the Bills off of
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: bye and that ties into the overall net you know
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: rest differential, which is, you know, essentially like the sum
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: of your net rest days versus opponents across the entire
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: regular season. The Bills are second in the entire league
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: in net rest differential at plus fourteen, The Bears are
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: one at plus fifteen, Bills are second and plus fourteen,
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: and the Cowboys are third at plus eleven and a half.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: So I do I love this idea that no teams
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: are coming off of bye to play the Bills. It
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: always felt like too a lot of times, like the
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: Chiefs would be coming off a bye to play the Bills.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: So I do think, you know, from the rest differential standpoint,
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: I like that for the Bills. I like the teams
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: aren't coming off of bye and playing into the Bills.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: I do like that some of their bigger games, Like
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: you have the Ravens, You're coming off that bye week,
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: you're at New England, but you have ten days to
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: prepare because you're playing the Chiefs on Thanksgiving on a Thursday.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: Game before that and then before the Chiefs is the Dolphins,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: so like you have a way to kind of ease
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: into that a little bit. I also like potentially how
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: the season ends. Again, not overlooking or writing anybody off,
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: but if you are the Bills making a push for
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: the playoffs Week seventeen at Miami, Week eighteen home against
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: the Jets, maybe an opportunity to rest some guys going
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: into a wildcard round, or maybe you get the one
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: seed this year and you get an extra opportunity for
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: some rest. I like the idea to know that, Okay,
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: like we can potentially get creative with some rest games
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: here in seventeen and eighteen, depending on what what it
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: looks like for us and what the Dolphins end up
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: being and what the Jets end up being. So I
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: do think there's like some silver lining niceties throughout this schedule.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: Noah comes in and says, the Texans in Week one
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: is a bat That's funny.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: And I was at work when that got announced, when
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: the league came out, and I just dropped my phone
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: and said, fuck, Like I knew that's such a I
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: hate that it's accidentally.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: Meaning myself, Yeah, that's such a I mean, but you
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: could make the case for it too, Like the Texans
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: might be like, oh, we gotta play the Bills week one,
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: Like oh, I yeah, the Tech defense is one of
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: my you know, from last year, one of my favorite
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: units to watch. I echo a lot of your sentiments,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: like they play a lot of teams that I just
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: find cool that I've been watching for with a fair
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: amount of regularity over the years, like I've been I've
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: watched so much Texans offense and defense the past, like
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: two three seasons. I watched a bunch of Lions, especially
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: when they had Ben Johnson. I watched a bunch of Chargers.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: I watched a ton of Rams. I watched a ton
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: of Ravens. I watch a ton of Brian Flores and
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: what the Vikings do defensively. I love the Packers offense
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: and Lafleur. I love that run game. I love all
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: the spinner stuff. I love how good Josh Jacobs is
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: at running duo. I'm interested to see what happens with
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: the receivers. You know, the change in the receiver room
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: this year. No Dubbs Golden needs to step up, Wicks
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: has gone, Tucker Craft is coming off in ACL. I
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: think Tucker Craft has a very good case to plant
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: his flag as the best overall tight end in the
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: entire NFL when it comes from receiving and blocking standpoint
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: in terms of what you can do with him as
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: a pass catcher and as an line guy. And then
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: Bears is always cool, like I'm down to watch Kayleb
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: Williams do some Kayleb Williams stuff on a Saturday night.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Ben Jons, Yeah, maybe DJ more revenge game. Maybe Ben
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: Johnson revenge game of being like I'm gonna show everybody
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: that we didn't need this guy. This is gonna be
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: a Luther Burden like ten catches one hundred and seventy
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: yards type of game or something crazy like that. Yeah.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: I just think there's a lot of a lot of
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: fun things for me individually, and I just fun games
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: that matter. Like this is a tough strength of schedule,
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: but again based on last year, but what it feels
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: like week after week, there's really not a lot of
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: like and again maybe some fans would like the cakewalk
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: game so you can have easy wins chalked up, but
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: each week is very much like kind of playoff feeling,
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: like where it's just like, oh, like, who do the
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: Bills play this week? And then you tell them and
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: you're like, oh, they play this team, and you're like, oh,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: what a game like that, there's just a lot of
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: good football game, So I feel like this is a
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: fun schedule, a good schedule, And then I do think
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: there are some like little advantages for the Bills baked
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: in in a variety of ways, although again we'll see
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: like injuries play apart, the other teams play apart, who's
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: getting into rhythm, who's not, so on and so forth. Oh,
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: I wanted to get to this.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: Real real quick, and I'm glad you brought it up
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: because the rest component was something I forgot to mention.
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: That is a huge factor too. I mean, the fact
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: that you're not dealing with a bunch of teams coming
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: off their bye weeks really does help with these tougher matchups,
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: especially because the Bills have so many like short turnaround games.
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: It would be just genuinely brutal if they had to
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: play like three of those Saturday, Friday, Thursday whatever games
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: and all those teams were coming off of bye or
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: just the rest advantage, so that part really really helps too,
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: And I'm happy they have that because that made me
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: feel a little bit better and like it's it's tough,
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: but at the same time, these games are just tough games.
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying they're losses, like it's just going to
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: be stressful to watch, but very real world where like
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: the tough matchups have a rewarding endings, which we've seen
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: a lot from this team really in Josh Allen's prime.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: So that's fine by me if they have to have
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: one sweat but they still win it.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's why I didn't give about that guy's
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: common earlier as it which your cry babies, because because
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: we're saying the Bills play good teams, I don't like
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: we never said like the Bills are screwed, Bills are
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: only gonna win four games. Oh man. Yeah, there's a
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: lot of there's so much like Ends of the Way,
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: the pendulum swings and different aspects.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be fun. It's either it's either
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: gonna be a really fun season in a good way
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: or really fun season in a disaster yeah type of way.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: I want to grab this question from Sean. I thought
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: this was really good. Sean says, what teams might have
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: lower expectations going into the season, but might have matchups
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: that could give the Bills problems. I'm so not from
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: necessarily from a matchup standpoint, and I know I chalked
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: them up as both wins earlier.
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: I think the.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: Jets could be better than people are giving them credit for.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: And I think the Bills should and will win both
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: of those games. But if you told me the Bills
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: were like sweating it out and only won by like
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: three to seven points each time, yeah, I would be like, oh,
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: that actually kind of makes sense. Like I think that
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: I thought the Patriots would make the playoffs last year.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: I didn't think they'd do what they did. I thought
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: the Patriots were more like a nine to ten maybe
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: eleven win team if everything fell right. But I think
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: I think the Jets could be a lesser version of
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: that Patriots team this year, where the Jets are a
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: team that win seven or eight games, maybe nine, or
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: are like a pain in the butt to play every
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: week like they I thought they drafted well. I thought
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: they had a lot of good free agency acquisitions, even
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: like the Enigbarring and David Anyamata editions.
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, two free agents that you guys cut up clips for.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: YEP. I love Anya Mada was one of my favorite
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: guys this year, Like in the entire year. I wanted
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: him so much. I think so. I think the Jets
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: could be better. The Vikings are won, I think from
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: a matchup standpoint, and you know, again, expectations are relative, right.
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know how people are nationally reviewing the Vikings,
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: especially with the whole quarterback situation and like Kyler going
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: in there and you're just like, okay, you know, are
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: the Vikings are pushover? Are the Vikings dead in the water?
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: But I think I think Kyler Murray's a better quarterback
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: than he gets credit for. And that Flores defense. If
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: the Bills aren't able to have consistent threats at wide
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: receiver from a pass catching standpoint, Flores is just going
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: to play the face melter five thousand defense and be like,
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: guess guess what, blitz blitz blitz um blitzing everybody and
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: their mother every time. Yeah, good luck finding somebody open
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: if you can't. And I think that's a good one.
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: Again, so from a team that have lower expectations, I
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: do like this comment from Charles says the Bears if
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: they run the rock like they're capable of, plus they
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: have scary weapons, I just think the expectations are higher
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: for the Bears. Bears were a final four team in
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: the NFC. They could have easily beaten the Rams, so
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: I think the expectations are higher. But that's another one.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: I'll blank at this comment from Charles or piggyback on it.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: Any team that has an offense that can run the football,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: well I am going to be worried about. And I
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: think could be a potential, uh matchup problem in some way,
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: shape or form. Uh yeah, I just think that. Uh
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: man that And hold on, I want to grab this
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: too from this comment. Do Damien ayr Mada is old? Okay?
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: And you said, who did the Jets have on the
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: d line? David Amada to Andre Sweat, Harrison Phillips, They
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: drafted David Bailey and then they also signed kingsleyan bare Like.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: I think that's a pretty yeah, Joseph I was saying.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: And then they also play like Osai and McDonald or
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: like they're outside linebackers. Those dwoes are gonna rush off
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: the edge as well. So you're looking at McDonald, Osai Bailey,
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: and Harrison Phillips to Andandre Sweat, David on Yamada like
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: there there's vulnerabilities there, but those are those are some
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: good dudes. But yeah, I.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: Look at the Jets and I see a team that raised. Therefore,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: I personally, just given the nature of their roster, I
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: think there's a lot of unproven components or components that
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: aren't fully completed but have added talent. So it's why
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: I won't say that I think they'll finish as a
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: playoff team. Maybe they could. You know, anything could happen,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: so I don't want to, you know, like rule it
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: out entirely because we've seen crazier things happen. But I
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: think the thing for the Jets that a lot of
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: people tend to sleep on that I don't think we
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: should is their offensive line and the development of their
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: tackles because they've had numerous blue chip tackle picks. Fashanu
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: and Membu are very good players, and now in year
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: two and three for each you're talking about the sides
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: of either side of their offensive line, the outside of
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: their offensive line being more fortified. I do really like
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: the addition to Parum, even though I know the wine
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: he was on last year struggled a bit, But to me,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: it's like, I think They're defensive line has developed really
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: nicely each year. I think there's only one direction that
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: team could possibly go after last year, which and my takers,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: I think last year's Jets team was the worst team ever.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: It was the worst team ever. I think that team
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: was actually worse than the oh and sixteen Lions and
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: the Owen sixteen Browns. Me I know, I'm dead serious.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: And the funniest part is they had one of the
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: best special team unit ever yet. But I don't even care.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: You cannot have no interceptions in a season with an
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: extra game. You can't. I'm sorry. That is like, is crazy.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: That's do you know how hard that is to do?
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: That's actually difficult. They had like five passes hit dB
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: chests and they fell to the ground. They mitched, Trubisky
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: spotted them two interceptions in the final week, and they
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: still dropped them like that was the worst team ever.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: I know that's probably not objectively true, but in my
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: heart it's true. So there was only one direction that
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: they could go, and it's up. And they've added talent.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: They've built the four of their defensive line. You talked
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: about Onyamada, uh Osai and a bar. I think Will
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: McDonald is over hated. I think he's a perfectly good
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: pass rusher. He's just not a blue chip guy in
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: my opinion, but if you.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: Asked, and he's undersize from a run perspective, but he's fun.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's a slasher and he's a juice guy.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: So yeah, dude, he's a pure pass much guy.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: So I think they could give the Bills a bit
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: more fits their secondary with Mika. Fitzpatrick added, I'm curious
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: what that looks like drafting di'angelo Pond's. You know, he's
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: he's a bit undersized, but like I personally think when
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: we look at like the Marcus Jones of the world,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: it's possible for a guy of his stature to have
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: a successful NFL career or like Jabrill Peppers, those kinds
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: of guys. It's a tough team.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: But when you taught it and they brought in to
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: Mario Davis, who I know is old but is still
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: a good football player and good at getting show, I did.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: I kept laughing.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: Sorry you did hear me. But each time you said
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: there's only one direction that I every time you said it,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: I was like Harry Styles and you didn't. I was
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: trying to make one direction jokes.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: I'm I unfortunately, was one of those people that like
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: when they were in their heyday. I was like, oh,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: this music's bad, now listen to him.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: No, I've never I've never listened to anything. I just
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: know Harry Styles is in one direction. And that's yes.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: It was Harry Styles and Harry Styles good buddies. That
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: it's yeah.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: And they were they were like a games They were
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: like a game show group, right that like so X Factor.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: They were a group formulated by Simon Cowell at least
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: But anyway, I was, I was gonna say you immediately,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: Brad that off. I was like, are you sure you
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: don't just really like one direction?
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: Listen, don't look for the posters and uh in my apartment.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: But anyways, he quickly turns off his camera to go
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: like take memori.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: Get my Harry Styles shrine taken down everywhere. But with yeah,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: you mentioned yeah, so you mentioned the vikings, and the
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: vikings were to me the one I was going to
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: point out because I think last year we saw kind
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: of a regression with Josh Allen in the pocket as
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: far as his protections go, as far as his ability
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: to evade pressure, and I do think that wasn't all
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: entirely on him. I think the offensive I went back
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: and rewatched a lot of Bills games from this past year,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: and I actually kind of changed my tune on the
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: pass protection from last year. I didn't think it was great.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: I thought it was actually underwhelming and very critical moments
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: of a lot of games against like mediocre to okay
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: pass rushes, to a point where I was like, I'm
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: feeling a little more comfortable with the turning of the
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: guard or the changing of the guard from Chromer to Meyer,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: not because I love Aaron Kromer, but really more of
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: like it felt like teams were beginning to solve them
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: a bit more.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: Last year, Austin stayed on yes his assistance, so I
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: think that helps for some.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: And I was so happy about that because I think,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: like I still wanted continuity with Chromer gone, to have
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: something there. So I'm just saying, like, I feel like
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: last year Josh Allen was taking a lot more pressure,
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: taking a lot more sacks. Minnesota's m O is sending
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: the hounds, It's sending the absolute kitchen sink at you.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: And now, even though I think that roster has bits
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: and pieces missing, you know, you talk about and Ginkle,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: who is a proven pass rusher, played in Miami knows
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: the Bills well. You talk about the additions on their
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: d line, but for me, it's Caleb Banks. And I
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: know people viewed him as like a boomer bust guy,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: but I think a healthy Caleb Banks is going to
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: be one of the best pass rushing interior defensive linemen,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: at least for rookies, but eventually in football.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: I just believe in the juice he plays with.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: I know the pad level is a concern, but to me,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: I think padd level can be corrected, and with someone
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: has that much strength and explosiveness, I think they can
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: be a little bit clumsy and it's okay because ultimately
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: that just proves to me that they're playing with the
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: gear that's so ramped up that they're creating a ton
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: of havoc and chaos on the line. I fear about
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: the interior and the unproven nature of the left guard
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: position for the Bills right now, that that part of
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: it could.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: Be a bit of a struggle.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: I just think Minnesota's scheme could pose issues if Josh
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: Allen's pocket presence or pocket evasion stays on the course
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: of last season. If it goes back to the normal
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: level of like Josh's evading sacks, he's not taking as
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: much pressure, he's not geting hit as much, and he's
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: able to mitigate and be good, then so be it.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: But that is a really interesting test for that narrative
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: and seeing how Brian Fores decides to match up with
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: the Bills offensive line where he's sending the numbers and
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: he's sending them from different looks, and he's mixing things
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: up in his coverage. To have dbi's come in at
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: the excuse me at the last second, and the vacancy
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: is on your offensive line where you didn't account for
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: that guy. Is something that I think Josh Allen has
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: struggled with in the past when it comes to secondary
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: blitzes and picking that up correctly in critical spots. I'm
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: not saying he's bad at it, just really things I've
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: noticed from him. That's a huge test, and it's on
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: the road in Minnesota. So that's a really interesting matchup
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: for me when we talk about the team mid expectations.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: But that's a game I could see the Bill's winning,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: just because again we talked about Kyler, and Kyler could
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: be fun. I'm not as high on him. I think
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: Kyler's had plenty of opportunity to prove himself as like
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: a top flight quarterback, and he's really been more like
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: propped up from his fantasy numbers than I think he
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: has as his individual talent in the league post ac
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: And again, like I view it as this is I
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: think he's.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: I think I think he's a consistent, like top twelve
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: to sixteen quarterback from that standpoint if he's good, which
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: is fine, Like you can win a super Bowl with
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: a guy like that.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: And and to his credit, I did not think Drew
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: Petsing was a good match with him at all. That's
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: just not that's not Kyler is a guy that needs
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: to be able to have to take a deep drop,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: play with a lot of misdirection and play action and
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: not be in such a static place like Drew Petsing
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: with Jared Goff. I think that's awesome. Like, I think
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: that's gonna work out really well for them. Ie Theamrey's
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: a peacock.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: You gotta let him spread his wings and fly.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: That's yeah. So I mean, like a more movement based
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: system for him because you have to account for the
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: size factor I think will help him and it could
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: work out. But I just need to see that. So
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: that's why I think the Bills could be fine in
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: this game. But that pressure component's really what I'm watching
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: for in the team that we were just talking about.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: Expectation wise, could could present problems. It could be a
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: closer game than we think. I think that's a good point. Yeah,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: I'm I I have a lot of those sentiments. I
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: started this comment because I wanted us to answer this
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: is good.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: Mike says, given the schedule, what is an acceptable record
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: over the first six games going into the week seven
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: by I'm going to say I think three and three
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: is fine. I'm hoping for foreign and two. I think
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: four and two is a happy ceiling or a realistic ceiling.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: I expect them to beat the Chargers, beat the Patriots,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: and beat the Raiders. The toss up games quote unquote
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: would be Rams, Lions, Texans just in that nature. So
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say I think three and three would be acceptable.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: I'm really hoping for more of four and two. Yeah, acceptable,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: four and two dream undefeated. I think that this team
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: has been in that range of like five to one,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: four and two for pretty much what since twenty nineteen.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: I think that's been like Theirs, like consistent early season
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: records start, they very rarely are in like five hundred tier.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: So I would give them four and two as like
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: a Okay, this feels normal. This is an outlandish Maybe
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: the games are ugly at points, but like this team's
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: above five hundred, we've got two games in hand. Get
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: healthy before or at least get rest before Baltimore. Like,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: that's fine by me. I can accept three and three.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: I don't think the fans will accept three and three. No,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: I don't think.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: I do not think the fan base will be happy
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: if this is a five hundred team, just because again,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: like what we're used to versus what it becomes potentially
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: with a new coaching staff. You don't give grace to
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: Joe Brady if he gets off to a slow start
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: because you haven't seen him prove otherwise, whereas McDermott, if
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: he was three and three, you could be like, hey,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: we've seen him turn this around. I can buy into
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: the fact that this is just a weird year. This
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: is like you'd want to see them have that extra
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: game and win four of them. That's fair.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know if this is related to the opener
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: of this comment that says, we have Josh Hallen, every
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: team's QB situation is a joke. Jared Jared Goff has
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: been pretty good. Justin Herbert is a good QB. Drake
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: May was second in the MVP. Matthew Stafford won the MVP.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: So minimum like four of those qbs are really good. Yeah,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: Joe's love for Kirk Cousins. Four of those qbs are
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: pretty good quarterbacks that they face to start out. Depending
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: on how you feel about C. J. Stroud, maybe four
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: and a half five. I think. I think with an
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: approved offensive line, he'll be back to being good like
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: he was as a rookie. But there's I don't think
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: every other team's situation is a joke to start the year.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: They they got some dudes. Yeah it's cool. Yeah, that
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: was a good question. Yeah, I think Yeah, I don't
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: think that. It depends on how they looked in the
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: three and three. Depending on how that three and three looks,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: I think the fan base could be accepting of it.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I think they need to uh. They need
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: to go in above five hundred into the bye week.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: I think for fans to not want uh torches and
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: pitchforks and all of those things.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: I thought the.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: Banners is tootles, folks, Joe, any parting words of wisdom
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: or thoughts for the folks.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: You know, we talked a lot about the projection for
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: this team from like the concerned aspect of it, and
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: I want to reinforce that there is a very very
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: realistic possibility that this team quells our doubt and starts
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: out of the gate really really hot for a four
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: and two or five on one record. There is a
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: very real possibility that the change of the guard to
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: Joe Brady from Sean McDermott and having a different type
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: of defensive mind could really stabilize things. I think when
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: we have these conversations, it's just keeping in mind that
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: like nothing is a guarantee, and we're trying to be
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: as realistic as possible, but being realistic and looking at
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: this team the past better part of the decade is
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: a four and two record to start the year and
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: a playoff team and a team with Super Bowl aspirations.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: So for as much like doom casting or concern as
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: we've had here, I do want to reinforce that this
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: is a good team. I think that this is a
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: good team with a lot of talent. I think Josh
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: Allen is one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: and when you have him, you have a chance in
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: any game you play. And I still believe in this team.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: I'm still excited to watch this team. I still believe
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: in Jim Leonard. And no matter who you play, it
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: makes no difference because ultimately that's out of your control.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: So play who's in front of you and let's see
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: how they do. And Anthony, I appreciate you having me
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: first time on this guy's coverage. This has been a
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: ton of fun. Haven't done a show on a Saturday
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: since Under Review days, so it's cool to be back
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: in this in this pocket of time. To everyone who watched,
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: I hope you enjoy your day. To all Sabers fans
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: because I am personally not a Sabers fan, but I
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: am a Sabers sympathizer. I am rooting for them. I
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: hope you guys win. I really do. I want to
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: see that team thrive. But even if they I don't
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: want to entertain the other side. As much as I'll say,
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: I still think that no matter what, you guys should
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: absolutely be proud of the season.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: Because I'm not ready for that conversation.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: I got it, I get it, Okay, I apologize, but
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: I'm rooting for you guys.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: I know where you're going and that this sentiment is
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: appreciate it, and I will echo that sentiment if they
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: lose tonight, I'll echo that sentiment in a week or
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: two weeks from now. But I'm I'm not ready to
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: turn that. So no, I appreciate you having me. This
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: was great, and I even too. You know, I don't
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: think we were dreamcasting. We both said that the bills
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: would be over ten and a half wins. We both
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: put them at like eleven and twelve is like where
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: they would kind of be. Yeah, I think that it's
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: gonna be fun. I think this is an exciting season.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: The schedule looks rough on paper as of now, but
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: there are some little baked in advantages like we talked about,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: and it's always good to have things baked in, you know,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: from an advantage standpoint. You know what else does a
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: really good job of baking things in? One pie? Pizza.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: They bake in deliciousness and quality into everything that they make.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: They are the best pizza in Buffalo, New York. I
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: don't say that because they sponsor the show. They sponsor
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: the show because I truly, sincerely believe they are the
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: best pizza in Buffalo, New York. Sweet sauce, pie cup
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: and char Pepperoni, great blue cheese, homemade blue cheese, homemade
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: red sauce, a great cheese of sauce ratio. It's not
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: all messy flopping off the pizza everywhere and pulling off
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: off when you take a bite. If you get different toppings,
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: they'll chop them up, sprinkle them evenly across the pie.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: They do a breakfast pizza. They do a catering division
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: called Elevated Catering a Buffalo. I have them do different
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: parties and things that my family does and outdoor gatherings
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: that we do every summer. So I'll get a bunch
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: of pies, I'll get a bunch of they're homemade mac
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: and cheeses. They have a bunch of variety of those,
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: like chicken and rice dishes. Their salads are good and
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: I don't even like salad. Everything they make, sincerely is
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: top tier quality. I always say they're really good people
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: making really good food. They do a ton of initiatives
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: for the community and the city at large, Toys for
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: Tots partner with the Alzheimer's Foundation, partner with the SPCA,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: different drives and events and initiatives. They are the best.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: Their food is phenomenal. Don't be like Joe DeRosa and
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: be in the city of Buffalo and not get one
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: pie pizza and then just make excuses as to why
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: you didn't get the pizza. I just just don't. Just
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: don't be like Joe, get yourself one, but be like
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: r J.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: R J.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: R J has gotten one pie pizza before. I appreciate
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: the kind words r J. He knows, he knows what's up.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: So don't be like Joe.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: Humiliation ritual. This is why you brought me on here.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: You brought me on here just to do this read
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: with me in person for the very first time ever,
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: just to shame me. I tried, Guys, I tried.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I try. I mean, I get it, but it's
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: just uh, you're you're you are. I'm I'm just glad
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: I was able to do the show with the huge
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: knife in my back. When you didn't get one pie pizza.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: It's hard to turn be in this whole blank chair
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: knowing that in between my.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: Two shoulder brains.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: I've just got this machete size blade.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: I will give you my word here. Why you all
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: hear it, Anthony hears it. I'm trying to go back
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: to buff this here for a game. I am trying
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: to I don't know if I will. I will get
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: that pizza when I'm there. I promise you have it
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: here sign sealed delivery. You put me.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: What's the collateral? If you don't get.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: It, I have to come back on the show for
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: an episode I don't know of your choosing, and I
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: have to do an apology read you can make it.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: Then I get to create the apology letter. I will
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: come on the show and I will read it. It could
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: be an episode that has nothing to do with this.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: It could be a random time. I could pre record it.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: But if I cannot get to it the next time
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: I am Buffalo, I have to come onto this show
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: and I have to read an apology letter that you create. Okay,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: does that sound fair? That sounds very fair. Charles is
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: asking if they ship it not probably not to where
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  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not an evil, but they they definitely deliver. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of ways to get it, and Rio always
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  Speaker 1: go pick it up, uber eats it whatever. Well, now
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  Speaker 1: what I want to do is like the next time
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  Speaker 1: you're in town, I'm gonna call them and be like,
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  Speaker 1: I need you to be closed for these next three days.
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  Speaker 2: No, you can't sabotage it. You cannot say that would
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  Speaker 2: be evil, dude. And honestly, I would accuse if I
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  Speaker 2: got there and I couldn't get anything, I would accuse
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  Speaker 2: you before i'd ever blame that.
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  Speaker 1: That's because I'll know you'll be at work. I was.
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  Speaker 2: I want you all to know because I haven't said
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  Speaker 2: my piece. I was so excited. I sent him a
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  Speaker 2: picture of the sign. A car was parked outside. I
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  Speaker 2: was ready to go. Man, this is right after the
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: Saints game. We had to get Chipotle instead, and it
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  Speaker 2: was fine, but like, yeah, it wasn't one pie. It
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: wasn't one pie.
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  Speaker 1: Because they were they were closed, or they sold out.
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  Speaker 2: They sold out, they sold out of pizza.
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  Speaker 1: That's how good it is.
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  Speaker 2: Man. They call it one pie because you only get one.
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  Speaker 1: Get one. There's only one. They only make one a day,
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  Speaker 1: and it's first come first or whoever shows up and
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  Speaker 1: gets it. Yeah, get your get them do it.
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  Speaker 2: One pie. You have my word, too.
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  Speaker 1: When I'm talking to the when I'm saying I get
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  Speaker 1: yourself from one pie pizza, I'm talking to people to
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  Speaker 1: the world, but I'm also talking to you.
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  Speaker 2: I know you are.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna say, I gotta find ways to sabotage
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  Speaker 1: this next time you're in town. I'm gonna be.
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  Speaker 2: So mad if they don't have it again, and I'm
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: gonna be I'll figure out a way.
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  Speaker 1: This was fun. I appreciate you taking the time to
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  Speaker 1: join me today. Yeah, it's been, you know, a while
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  Speaker 1: since you've been in front of the screen, and you're
• 1:18:13
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  Speaker 1: this would be a fun conversation to have, and I
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• 1:18:22
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