Latest / Nickel City Crew Podcast / S3 E25: Fumbling The Bag
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- 0:07Fifteen de crazy. You can see you breath out in the look effect,
- 0:15Bacon tables and guitar. Would you wherese would you have to be? And
- 0:22do Ron Elvis in the Ley Panchel The members that you need to know.
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- 0:37Where else would you have? Welcome into the Nicol City Crew. I
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- 0:55Yard. We're so glad that you're joining us for some of your Buffalo Bills
- 0:58and NFL content Again to day and as always, these are my bills thoughts
- 1:03set out loud Vibe, So ridiculous, two story with six show, I
- 1:12canet Where's what you want to be? All right, let's get straight to
- 1:21it. I'm excited about tonight's episode for different reasons. It's been an up
- 1:26and down season obviously, to say the least, and some of these episodes
- 1:32We've said it in the past, are just kind of therapeutic for me.
- 1:34They are important for me to kind of get some of my bills thoughts off
- 1:38of my chest. You consume all of the radio or Twitter or whatever the
- 1:42case may be throughout the week after a loss like we had on Sunday,
- 1:45and it sometimes can get a little bit depressing. So I use these as
- 1:49a vehicle to kind of get some stuff off my chest and hopefully feel a
- 1:53little bit better about my team at the end of it, or at the
- 1:56very least get some stuff unloaded off of me that I need to unload.
- 2:00So I needed tonight joining me as always my co host Adam Dump Truck Upstick
- 2:05Riding Shotgun. Check them out on Instagram at Adam repsick. Are you pete
- 2:09c is e y k DT. I just paid the clerk at the front
- 2:14desk. I gave him my dues. I need to sit on the couch,
- 2:16man, I need you tonight. I need to get back on the
- 2:19couch. I know that you're sick of be coming for these therapy sessions,
- 2:22but I need to get back on the couch. DT. What in what
- 2:27in the ham sandwich? As my father would say, recipes is going on
- 2:30without buffalo bills? Uh? Five and four? Man? What's going on?
- 2:35Holler at the crew, DT, what's up Nickel City, and damn
- 2:39a Nickel five. That's the only we only got five wins at this point
- 2:44in the year. That's not what we're anticipating, not with anybody who's anticipating,
- 2:47obviously, And that's the point of the show, that's the point of
- 2:50the crew. We're real, we lay it down. I'll do my best
- 2:53to get you back tonight. But you know, the office is a little
- 2:55dark. You come in and she's supposed to be positive, and hey,
- 3:00yeah, man's it's a little dark on this end too. But you know,
- 3:04I think we'll be back by the end of the show and you know,
- 3:07getting ready prepared for Monday night football coming up. But let's rock and
- 3:09roll five and four now where we want to be dark, dark weather,
- 3:14dark vibes. Yeah, jades of the clocks back. It's getting darker earlier
- 3:17that night as well. So you're absolutely right with that theme. You know,
- 3:21it's crazy DT. Nine games in, you know, halfway basically through
- 3:23the season five and four, like you said, not what we expected.
- 3:27And it's funny because you know, I just started to get you know,
- 3:30in my own head a little bit, and I'm ready to dish out some
- 3:32blame. It's been about a season now worth of games DT. If we
- 3:37date this back to last year and we can archive it and go back like
- 3:39it's been like the second half of last year, right around Green Bay and
- 3:44the bye week last year, and it was something that we couldn't get our
- 3:46finger on, but we we noticed it right here at Nicchol City Crew and
- 3:50we talked about the fact that this offense was struggling. Not a lot of
- 3:53easy buttons, not a lot of leg up lines. We've talked about all
- 3:55of those different types of things, and now DT, I'm wondering about who
- 4:00is to blame, and I'm ready to dish out some blame. And I'll
- 4:01be honest, I'm not necessarily calling for heads and people to be fired.
- 4:05I've heard all, you know, all the different arguments two and four,
- 4:09some of those things to have in, some of those changes to be made.
- 4:12I'm really just at a point now where I want to know who to
- 4:15be mad at, and I know it. You know, some people say
- 4:16door Sye, and some people say his you know, his scheme in general.
- 4:20Some people say McDermott, and I know the people there's plenty of people
- 4:24that don't like McDermott and stuff like that, Like I know, but like
- 4:26I don't know honestly who to blame DT, because it's almost like an echo
- 4:30chamber. And I know, you know, Sacapachi had said something about like
- 4:31fans short for fanatic, and you know he's correct, Like I am a
- 4:34fanatic, and I don't I don't run from that or anything like that.
- 4:38I'm gonna sze the ticket holder just like you are. And I'm a made
- 4:41man in the mafia just like you are. But like I've paid my dues,
- 4:43like I want a championship, and and really at this point, nothing
- 4:46below that is really satisfactory. So because of that, my my senses are
- 4:50heightened, so to speak, DT, and I'm looking for who to blame,
- 4:55and that is really my only thing that I want to get out of
- 4:57this is I want to know where to look and who to be upset with,
- 5:00because I'm really upset with the inconsistency of the offense. Now for almost
- 5:03a full season of games on this offense has been really really up and down.
- 5:08To be honest, well, I think it's okay to be not sure
- 5:12who to blame, but you know, have it filtered down right, And
- 5:15I think as a crew and and you and me, I think we do
- 5:17have it filtered down and can really only be a select group of people.
- 5:21Right, You've got you got you know, we'll we'll start from the top
- 5:26down. You got Terry up top, you know, calling the shots.
- 5:29And we've been critical of is he okay with just being okay? You've been
- 5:32through that transfers down to Sean McDermott, who's build a culture, build a
- 5:36winning culture, hasn't been able to get us over the hump. And and
- 5:40you know we're more critical than anybody on Sean McDermott Ken Dorsey, which I'm
- 5:46half and half in on. And we'll get into that tonight. And then
- 5:50one seven, I mean, you've got that's the four in the in the
- 5:55blame party. I don't really see how you can blame anybody else. You
- 5:59can blame eyes for not making plays, you can blame you know, some
- 6:01other things to happen, but for like you said, a whole season's worth
- 6:04of kind of sputtering. It's it's got to be one of those four.
- 6:08Right, So you know I would say I'm away from seventeen. I'm not
- 6:13putting you know a fanboy on him. You paid it, but but that's
- 6:18what the big butt robb you pay three hundred million dollars on. Maybe there
- 6:21is some other structural things. There's you know, they're not getting the right
- 6:25plays and the guys aren't executing. There's a lot of things that can be
- 6:28happening. Well, at three hundred million dollars franchise quarterback, you got to
- 6:31find a way to will yourself into some wins. And that's what all the
- 6:34great greats have ever done. You know, they haven't always had the best
- 6:38team, not the great coaching staff, not you know, Belichick and Brady
- 6:41was an anomaly that the football world will never see again. With the coach
- 6:46that was perfect, to the to the player that was perfect, and they
- 6:47worked perfect together. You're probably not going to see that again the rest of
- 6:50you know, NFL history. So Josh has to be you know, we
- 6:55paid him the money. I believe in him to be the guy to come
- 6:58in and will us some wins those games that you know, we're very winnable
- 7:02down the stretch, the Jets game to start the the you know, the
- 7:06obviously, the Patriots game, the Jaffa, you know, and even even
- 7:13Sunday night. You got to find a way to get a few touchdowns and
- 7:15will your team to victory when the going does get rough and get those wins.
- 7:18Because the good teams do it. Pat Mahomes does it. They always
- 7:21find a way to get wins down the stretch. And it's not always gonna
- 7:26be easy, it's not always gonna be great, but you gotta find a
- 7:28way, especially when you're getting pad three hundred million dollars. Ken Dorsey,
- 7:32I'd say off of him as much as because just as much as we you
- 7:36know, with Leslie Fraser in thirteen seconds, Johann McDermott, will you got
- 7:40to be the guy to step up. If if it's Ken Dorsey just making
- 7:43all these play calls and it's not working, then Sean McDermott's got to step
- 7:46in and step up. So I'm getting off of Ken Dorsey in the fact
- 7:49that he might be under the thumb as well. We've talked about that a
- 7:53few times, and you know, he might just be a puppet to what
- 7:57envisioned by Sean McDermott. Sean McDermott, I think, you know, would
- 8:01be the majority of my blame with all this, and I hate to keep
- 8:03going back to him. But when you when you narrow it down and break
- 8:09it off, that's that's you know, if I'm playing the game of clue,
- 8:13he's the most suspect one right now because the others have have suspicion.
- 8:18But I can argue my way out of that. Okay, is tough to
- 8:22argue out of it if you will. And now it's interesting that you started
- 8:24that, and it kind of gave us that little flow chart and that and
- 8:26that's that. Now I really do feel like I'm on a couch and I'm
- 8:30getting some homework and I've got my little pad out and I'm doing my homework.
- 8:33If we go on the on the chart reverse, you know, starting
- 8:35with Josh. You know, I've heard rumblings from you know, I guess
- 8:39that Eric Turner and there's some other guys cover one that are talking about how
- 8:43listen, Josh is throwing, is turning down throws, He's throwing, turning
- 8:46down opportunities and different things like that. They've checked the all twenty two on
- 8:48this last game Sunday night, and that's not okay with me. I'm wondering
- 8:52why it's happening, and I'm trying to get to the root of it?
- 8:54Is it because of the scheme, Is it because there are options out there
- 8:58that he doesn't like, or whatever the case may be. I saw all
- 9:01twenty two on the Deontay Hardy pick excuse me a couple weeks ago the Deep
- 9:07Pass excuse me on Sunday Night that I mean, Gabe Davis's wide open,
- 9:11you know underneath, and you know Josh is kind of going for the gutso
- 9:13on that particular play. So I don't know why Josh is throwing at turning
- 9:16down throws and opportunities to kind of move the chains, or if it's all
- 9:20on him, or like I said, if it's something schematically as you go
- 9:22up that flow chart, Dorsey, he's getting a lot of blame, and
- 9:26rightfully so in my eyes, because it's your job to make sure that Josh
- 9:30feels comfortable making those those throws and making sure that he's pulling the trigger when
- 9:33you yeah, because part of what made you know Dable's so good is you
- 9:39know, I know, you know x's and o's and scheme was great and
- 9:41sometimes trick plays and it's you know, he you know, schemed up a
- 9:46very attacking style offense, and he got a lot of credit for that,
- 9:48and I've give him credit for that, but one of his best features was
- 9:50getting in Josh's head and making Josh understand what the play was designed to do
- 9:56and what we're looking for now. I've heard multiple people throughout the week that
- 9:58says that Dave was more game plan specific for each opponent each week, and
- 10:03Dorsey, it looks like, is a little bit just more cookie cutter.
- 10:05They're giving us zone cover two, we're gonna do this, and then if
- 10:09they're giving us man, you know, we're gonna do this and that type
- 10:11of thing, and the creativity is kind of lacking. So I've got to
- 10:15lay something at his feet on that one because I hear too many people saying
- 10:18it. But sometimes it's crazy because before I get to mc dermott DT,
- 10:22you hear so many different opinions of what's wrong, what's going wrong that it
- 10:26almost becomes an echo chamber where I don't know what to believe half the time.
- 10:30And I think that that's part of my frustration. I know that it
- 10:31is is because I know it's the offense. I know that that's the problem.
- 10:35I don't lay much at the defensive feet Twenty one to seven should not
- 10:37be a death sentence in a football game with this kind of offense and this
- 10:41kind of talent. And I just don't like the fact that they stopped,
- 10:45you know, Cincinnati for seven straight possessions and we didn't make up any ground,
- 10:48and that's not acceptable. The points are not coming. It dates back
- 10:52to last year, as we said earlier, and I'm just wondering who to
- 10:54blame because if it is McDermott, like we talked about a couple weeks ago,
- 10:58and he's got his handprints on the offense and this complimentary football shit that
- 11:01I keep hearing that, I mean, he said it again this week.
- 11:03It's like nails on the chalkboard when I hear it, because complimentary football,
- 11:07to me does not mean, you know, fifty to fifty pass run splits,
- 11:11does not mean that the defense is on the field just as much as
- 11:13the offense for time. I don't give a shit about any of that.
- 11:16I care about points. At the end of the day. We're not scoring
- 11:18enough of them, and we're getting ready to be dangerously close DT where We've
- 11:22got two games coming up at home. We'll get into Denver soon. We
- 11:26got a special guest on tonight and then we'll get into the next game after
- 11:28that for the Jets, but we got to be at seven to four TT
- 11:31because pretty soon we're going to be really of shit's creek because of the fact
- 11:35that we've got so many teams in this crowded AFC that have records similar to
- 11:39ours or better that you don't want to be in a situation where you're five
- 11:43hundred or you're seven and six or something like that, and you're looking at
- 11:46all these other teams and all of a sudden, you're trying to fight for
- 11:48tie records that we don't have since we already have four conference losses. I
- 11:50think we're getting really really close and we're skaping on something nice. I want
- 11:54to see them figure it out. And I just I don't know who to
- 11:56lay this at. Man, I really don't. You really hate to be
- 12:01in a must win situation, a literal must win situation before you put the
- 12:05Thanksgiving turkey in the oven. You know that is not ideal as an organization,
- 12:09as a team. This is what we lived with, you know,
- 12:11for for the whole drout. You know, you you catch, you know,
- 12:13six losses before Thanksgiving, you might as well call it, right.
- 12:16So this is these two are guaranteed must wins. I mean, it's no
- 12:22no finding moment of it. You know, you get to to bang bang,
- 12:26you got win. If if you get the must wins, then you
- 12:28go to seven and four going into some meat, you know, Eagles by
- 12:33Chiefs, Cowboys, Chargers. Yeah. Yeah, and then you gotta go
- 12:41to you gotta go too and four in that stretch. Yeah, yeah,
- 12:43you gotta go too and four in that stretch to end Patriots Dolphins. That
- 12:48Dolphins game could before the division Week K team. You know, that would
- 12:52be our best case scenario if it was to be honest, you know,
- 12:56having that game for the division in Week K team, because they're you're gonna
- 12:58have to knock on Dolphins taking some else. But they've already played the Eagles,
- 13:03They've already played the Chiefs, you know, so there there's there's some
- 13:07other things going into that. But you know, ten and ten and seven,
- 13:11I don't know. I say, you're you're you're sliding in and they
- 13:18don't have the ball out of the outfield yet, But ten and six that
- 13:22the catcher's got the ball, it's just a matter if he tags you're or
- 13:26not. Yeah, yeah, No, ten and six ten and seven is
- 13:30gonna be You're gonna be up against it for sure. And again those four
- 13:33conference losses again, which is why it's so massive and so disappointing that we
- 13:37dropped those games again. The Jets game, you'd love to have that back.
- 13:41You'd love to have the Patriots game back. Looking at the schedule and
- 13:43the way it has gone so far as we continue to transition, you know,
- 13:46it's it's funny because before we get on to Denver. It's funny because
- 13:50I was thinking a lot about, you know, the splits and and you
- 13:54know, I know that people are gonna talk about e p A and points
- 13:58per game and all this other stuff. And I know Gary last week came
- 14:01on and shout out to him joining us last week, and he's like,
- 14:03people, you know, if we lose that game, people are not gonna
- 14:05want to hear about stats. And like, he was absolutely right, because
- 14:07I don't give a shit about the EPA or anything in the yards per play,
- 14:11and it stills look looks like we're still doing great and we're in great
- 14:13shape and stuff like that. I'm not buying it because of the fact of
- 14:16how long this offense has been so inconsistent I'm wondering, is it just a
- 14:20situation where we need to just kind of go pass heavy DT, Like,
- 14:24does does Dorsey need to lean into Dabe's philosophy even more. I remember a
- 14:28game once upon a time during the good old days, where I mean Davel
- 14:31came out in like pass like seventeenth straight times. I think it was to
- 14:35start the game against I think it was Indye or something like that to start
- 14:37the season, and it was crazy because, like, I had never seen
- 14:39my team do something like that. I'm like, holy shit, the Bills
- 14:41are playing the game like I played Madden, and I throw on madd In
- 14:43almost ninety nine point nine percent of the time. And it's funny because obviously
- 14:48we already know the statistics and we don't get deep on stats here at the
- 14:50Crew, but you know, pass plays yield more than a run play,
- 14:54and you know what's the worst that can happen on a pass play? Well,
- 14:56we're gonna get an interception from seventeen, Okay, deal with pick.
- 15:00Sometimes what's gonna happen to sack? A fumble? Up? You know what's
- 15:03the problem? You know? Negative yardage? Oh what I don't I don't
- 15:07want to be scared to throw the ball. And I've been hearing this rhetoric
- 15:11this week that maybe McDermott is slowing it down to protect his defense and keep
- 15:16them off the field a little bit longer. What you are doing, and
- 15:18we've already talked about DT, is you are playing into the opponent's hands,
- 15:22especially in situations where you're the better team, because you are limiting your possessions.
- 15:26I just said it on Twitter with our guy Justice at Buffalo fan Base.
- 15:30Tempo tempo tempo, more plays, more plays, more tries DT,
- 15:35more opportunities, more kicks at the can. I want them to run up
- 15:37tempo. And I don't understand of this, this theory that we need to
- 15:41slow the game down because we need to protect the defense, when the best
- 15:46way to protect the defense is to score points. Now, obviously you can
- 15:48go up tempo and you can shoot you in the foot because you can go
- 15:52three and out and all you've done is wated fifty four seconds off the clock
- 15:54or something like that. I understand that. I just don't want to live
- 15:58in a place where I'm operating in a place of fear because I just feel
- 16:00like the offense never did that under table. He was always bass to the
- 16:03wall. He was always pedaled to the medal, and he was always looking
- 16:07for the juggler and always looking to put teams away quickly. And what happened
- 16:11all the bad teams we would blow out DT where our starters weren't even playing
- 16:14second half and those guys. So now you're mitigating all of those injury risks.
- 16:18All of that type of stuff comes back into play. So don't give
- 16:21me this bullshit about protecting the defense or McDermott wanted to protect his defense when
- 16:25you actually can protect your defense the best way by scoring more points, because
- 16:29that just end the game quicker. And it's not really proportional. Yes,
- 16:34like, it's not like they're going fifty to fifty currently. No, last
- 16:38they threw forty times to a running back running eight times. Josh also ran
- 16:42eight times, eight times, eight eight runs to eight runs to a running
- 16:47back. Yeah, yeah, so technically it was forty to sixteen right in
- 16:51proportion. So it's not like we're cramming run down everyone's throw. But I
- 16:56think they're running in the wrong times, you know, we as we look
- 16:57into that the first of okay, this might be another shootout on Miami game.
- 17:03The Bengals come down, score right away. What do the Bills do
- 17:04getting the hurry up, spread things out, move down the field, easily,
- 17:08score touchdown, but get the ball back, go run, run,
- 17:12sack, you know, And that's like those are the situational run Like running,
- 17:19I think is more when you when you have the lead and you're trying
- 17:22to you know, take the take the game down, and the defense is
- 17:26back because they're they're worried about getting beat again by Josh Allen, and you
- 17:29hand it to James Cook and the box is wide open for an eight yard
- 17:32run on first down. Then that's the runs we like to see. And
- 17:34they're they're running in a situation where they they know they're going to be in
- 17:40a shootout and they run, run and take a sack and they're they're kicking
- 17:42it anyway. So then that's not even taking time off the field to keep
- 17:45your defense off the field. You're it's it's the same situation. And one
- 17:52thing I did do a little research on is looking they get super conservative after
- 17:56Josh all picks. Oh that and mother has been throwing a pick every every
- 18:03game, So there's there's always a there's a situation where they went run run,
- 18:08they went run run pass after after his first pick on that one,
- 18:14the last five games he's run. The last five games he's throwing a pick,
- 18:18they have punted on the next possession every single time. Everything. Look
- 18:22at the look at DT his whole look, you know, back from you
- 18:26know, the last five games and the Buccaneers one was that bullshit you know,
- 18:30drop into the line and whatever happened, they get the ball back.
- 18:33That's what started their four punts in a row inside the other territory and what
- 18:37whatnot New England. Same thing, you know, and the same thing happened
- 18:41in the Bengals, like last five games for the last five picks in a
- 18:45row, that next possession after the pick is a pun. So it almost
- 18:48seems like McDermott and we and I've heard it talked about. It almost seems
- 18:52like McDermott, you know, kind of crawls in the show a little bit
- 18:55more, which actually speaks to what we had talked about last week with Geary
- 18:59about how he's sometimes looking for an affirmation to get back to where he wants
- 19:03to be. So sometimes we'll Josh, well see, like you said last
- 19:06week, this is see, this is why we don't pass all the time,
- 19:08you know what I mean? Like this is what I was always trying
- 19:10to tell Dable, that type of thing. So he gets a chance to
- 19:11affirm some of those falsehoods that he has and and it really does hurt the
- 19:15team in my opinion. Now, I just as we transition, I just
- 19:19don't want them to continue to tell us and pistol Us to tell us that
- 19:22it's raginning DT. I know that there's something wrong with the offense. I
- 19:26can hear it in Dorsey week after week where he's trying to come up with
- 19:29answers. And I respect him. You know, he's up there. He
- 19:30gets paid money, so he's trying to McDermott misses the mark for me.
- 19:33He's talking all over the place. Now last week he wants to try to
- 19:37say that he doesn't know why they're running tempo. I don't know if he's
- 19:38trying to protect Dorsey or what that all was about, but like he's he's
- 19:42just I'm always hyper sensitive with him anyway, but the fact that that complimentary
- 19:47football moniker really does get on my nerves. Now as we proceed, you
- 19:51know, we've got a big one coming up. I say one more thing,
- 19:52about the offense. Absolutely, pet Nicols City Crew. Hear me on
- 19:59the other shock out you might have to pay me to. Yeah, we're
- 20:02paying each other here there. So it seems like when something's hitting, we
- 20:07get away from it immediately. Cool. I've been you know, we've been
- 20:11ten We've been ten fans since he's been in, since he since we draft
- 20:15him, we've been ten fans. Every time every time the dude touches the
- 20:18ball, it's twelve yards every single time there hasn't you know? He is
- 20:22a twelve yard game every single time he touches the ball. And he doesn't
- 20:25play in the third and fourth quarter. Yeah, Gave Davis has one hundred
- 20:27yards and ten catches against the Buccaneers and a touchdown. Granted he fucked up
- 20:32Sunday, And maybe that's who is that? Is that McDermott saying don't touch
- 20:37thirteen anymore? Or is that Josh and Dorsey's saying don't touch thirteen anymore?
- 20:41Because he did mess up. The pick was Josh's fault, but it was
- 20:44the wrong route by thirteen. The other the intentional grounding was the wrong option
- 20:48route by thirteen right and then which was still all but either way but yeah,
- 20:52either and then he technically didn't catch the touchdown that you know, it
- 20:56was tough ball, but it was his hands in the end zone when we
- 20:59needed six. Yeah, so all right, so he sucks up those three
- 21:03times. Who's who's saying, don't don't even look at him the rest of
- 21:06the night. Who's saying that? You know? So that's that, that's
- 21:08what the situation. Where does the blame go? Where does the you know,
- 21:11is it like McDermott, you fumble the ball, you don't play for
- 21:14three weeks, you missed the option route and cost us. You know,
- 21:18Josh isn't looking at you. We're not calling any Hey, Dorsey, don't
- 21:21call anything where thirteen is gonna get the wow man, I would just be
- 21:22that would just be more how productive. But that's what it looks like.
- 21:29Defensive comes in, gets twelve twelve yards, twelve yards. Bang, don't
- 21:33see him the rest of the game. Oh, stephan Dis didn't get it.
- 21:36Stephan Dis didn't get a target after the first after in the first half,
- 21:38like for drives and drives and drives get in the target and that's the
- 21:41number one weapon. So you know, I don't understand. I don't know
- 21:45man, that's a great question. That's a great question, DT. And
- 21:48the part of the reason that it's so frustrating now to me is that I
- 21:52just don't want this to be a situation where we are wasting Allen's years,
- 21:56we are wasting opportunities with his prime and then that's one of my biggest,
- 22:00biggest concerns is that we are wasting Yeah, we're wasting his his prime years
- 22:04and that it hurts. It hurts to even have to go through that.
- 22:07So as we transition, We've got a special guest on tonight, d T.
- 22:11I'm gonna let you introduce him because I met this young man uh last
- 22:17year and you know you have you throw some ethic parties, DT, you
- 22:19already know you do. You throw some big time parties, Halloween parties and
- 22:22all these other parties. And I've had a chance to kind of chat with
- 22:26him. Lifelong Denver Broncos fan actually from Panama City, your hometown, Zach
- 22:30Lubai. Yeah, you can check him out on Twitter and Instagram at z
- 22:34z e E Underscore Loop l U b E. How at the crew,
- 22:38Zach is? Where where's your man? I mean, how at the crew?
- 22:42I'm pretty sure that this is roommate territory as well. So like we
- 22:47blood a stick in the water man, we family man? What's good with
- 22:48you man? How at the creuse? That? Absolutely? How how are
- 22:52you guys? This is uh list? Don't be don't be physicious. I'll
- 22:56kick your ass off. I'm doing horrible. First of all, I okay,
- 23:03So two things. First of all, what an absolute honor to finally
- 23:06beyond beyond with you too? This is this is just beautiful appreciate And two,
- 23:11I love the somber like field that I'm coming into. This is how
- 23:17else would I want? How else would I want? This? All right,
- 23:18well, well we'll get into that. That's you know, the Nickel
- 23:22City crew. Listeners, got a guy to get to know you a little
- 23:23bit. Why don't you you know, obviously roommates here at three thirty London,
- 23:27the batch pad of the of the East, and tell us a little
- 23:33bit. Your broncos died hard. We're coming up. But how did you
- 23:34get into the Broncos man? Being a Buffalo kid, a Western New York
- 23:37kid? What's that all about? Kelly? Kelly and and Elway came in
- 23:41the same year you're supposed to be with us even though Kelly spurned to start
- 23:45his career. Oh yeah, for sure. I mean, as I've said
- 23:48before, I mean my die are my entire family are all die hard Buffalo
- 23:51everything. So I'm out of the will like I'm done when they go,
- 23:56I'm not getting anything. Uh yeah, I mean John Oway was the big
- 24:02he was the big you know, motivator. My grandmother had a you know,
- 24:06you probably know more about this rob than Thanos. Yeah he had.
- 24:10My grandmother had a John Owick quarterback Nintendo game. Oh yes, absolutely sure,
- 24:15sure that's the goback right there. That yeah on the cart absolutely still
- 24:19didn't work. Absolutely yeah. Okay, so yeah, I played that game,
- 24:23put that name together, figured out what team he was on was the
- 24:26Broncos, and then it was off from running from there. Well, we're
- 24:30really happy to have you. You know, DT was was talking about,
- 24:33you know how you've been looking forward to this week, and obviously Bill's Mafia
- 24:37is as well, because now we've got a heightened sense of urgency for it.
- 24:40Tell me a little bit about your Broncos team. Obviously the butt of
- 24:41the jokes is that you gave up seventy. Quite honestly, you guys have
- 24:45been playing better since to be honest, Russell Wilson is not looking you know,
- 24:49horrible anymore or anything like that. They're actually looking like a little bit
- 24:52of a competent offense these last few weeks. And you know, I've heard
- 24:56people that say the Buffalo should be careful this week and not overlook the Bronx
- 25:00because in your Broncos, because of the fact that they could come in and
- 25:02be surprised. Uh, tell me about your team and what you're thinking about
- 25:04them. They are now up to three and five. I know that that's
- 25:07nothing to write home about, but some people were talking about they could be
- 25:10tanking and what's up with Peyton and all this other stuff. But they have
- 25:12kind of scratched back to respectability and they're they're looking at it's a gentleman's three
- 25:17and five too, by the way, it's a hard earned three and five.
- 25:19I was actually at that game in Miami too way when they give when
- 25:23they gave up seventy oh man, I had I had a Broncos sombrero on
- 25:30the giant, giant fucking chain. It was that's a tough one yea seventy
- 25:37Yeah, but you know it's weird. I mean, so you talked to
- 25:42me a moth and a half ago about that. You know about this Bills
- 25:47game now, and I would have said, this is this is gonna be
- 25:48a tough week right now where we're at. I mean, you just beat
- 25:52the Chiefs. You came off a bye week. Yeah, you know backers
- 25:56before that played the Chiefs, played the Chiefs of the week before that.
- 26:00Like you guys, you're kind of kind of looking on the way up right
- 26:03now? Why not? Why not? And you know the Bills they've only
- 26:07you know, they played one more game. Broncos get this in. They're
- 26:10essentially the same record. This is this is you? Isn't that? That's
- 26:17the reality, Robin. That's that's the worst thing about it, man,
- 26:19Yeah, my god, is the reality? Literally a win is essentially the
- 26:23same record as the Broncos, who you know, in deep conversations Zach and
- 26:26I have had the it was he was almost upset when they beat the Bears
- 26:32after that Dolphins loss. You know, he's like, oh, great,
- 26:34now you know another win. We're not gonna get the number one pick,
- 26:37like it was a guarantee. I want the number one pick too. We
- 26:41could have the same record as the Bills. So that's reality. Oh my
- 26:48god, how far have the Mighty have fallen? Like it's ridiculous, you
- 26:52know, because of the fact that, you know, I didn't think much
- 26:53of Denver. I was really excited about it last year, for sure,
- 26:56and I was excited about Russell Wilson coming over there, and I thought that
- 27:00that was a potential even AFC championship matchup. You remember that DT when we
- 27:03talked about some of the threats in the AFC last year. Obviously that didn't
- 27:07materialize. And then you've got the owner of the you know, Walmart,
- 27:10one of the richest you know, families on the planet Earth, and they
- 27:12hire you know, Sean Payton, and they've got deep pockets, and you
- 27:15know, money's not an issue out there in the Mile High City. And
- 27:18you know, obviously, you know, a lot of buzz, just a
- 27:21lot of buzz around that city. Denver Nuggets win the championship, So they've
- 27:23always got a little bit of buzz going around them right now lately. And
- 27:26then this season, after Peyton, it seemed like the season couldn't get out
- 27:30to a worse start, losing seventeen sixteen to the Raiders to start, and
- 27:33then the Commanders, and then obviously that Dolphins game that you were at,
- 27:37Zach, and then, like I said, you know, barely loose,
- 27:38you beat the Bears, and then after that everything you guys have been playing
- 27:42better since then, Like you lost the Jets. Jets make a lot up
- 27:45quarterbacks look silly. And then you play the Chiefs really close nineteen eight,
- 27:48you win, You beat the Packers. You beat the Chiefs in a game
- 27:51that nobody saw that coming, even though maybe we should have. So,
- 27:53Dt, I don't know about you when it comes to predictions. I don't.
- 27:56I'm not. The offense is playing so shit now, Zach, DT
- 28:00that I don't. I don't count any chickens before they come home, and
- 28:03actually, Hatch, I just don't count them, man, Like I have
- 28:07no idea what to expect from the offense. So I really, I really
- 28:10can't even handicap this game. I can't say that you guys are gonna get
- 28:12blown out or anything like that, because I thought the Giants we blow them
- 28:15out. And I literally sat there and sweated my ass off to the last
- 28:18play of the game with Tyrod Taylor almost had us at five hundred. So
- 28:22I'm I am I'm out of excuses at this point. Well, time.
- 28:26Well, you said, and it's actually pretty surprising that the handicap coming out,
- 28:29you know, with the Broncos coming off a bye and the Bills kind
- 28:32of in shambles. Is you know, over a touchdown favorite seven and a
- 28:34half is the line right now, you know, And that's a lot of
- 28:37points in the NFL, especially in prime time. As you've seen the primetime
- 28:41really scores throughout the whole season have been low. The unders are all over
- 28:48the place when it comes to primetime games in the NFL. And you know,
- 28:51with this team that just beat to a team in shambles and they're still
- 28:56over a touchdown underdog. So I think everybody he's just anticipating the Bills are
- 29:00going to get back on schedule him get the wheels back under him. Because
- 29:04but that's what we've been doing for the last five weeks, you know,
- 29:08and just keep you know, we just keep hitting the deer. So it's
- 29:15you'd like to say, this is confident you can have that over touchdown favorite
- 29:18going into Monday night at home, get it, get it rolling. Whether
- 29:21it shouldn't be too bad yet, but it's you're righted dt. I mean,
- 29:29we we say so much and confidence that we're stuttering, Zach. You
- 29:33guys cannot fly across the damn country and come to Orchard Park on a Monday
- 29:37night football. You know, everybody's gonna get juiced up for that game.
- 29:40Everybody's gonna be ready to go, screaming full thought. You guys can't come
- 29:44across the country and beat us in our home, our home field, can
- 29:45you? Yeah? Yeah, listen, listen they could. I watched,
- 29:57you know, with with the Bills. When did the Bills play? When
- 30:04Thursday night? Thursday night game? So so that Sunday, you know,
- 30:08we had the slot wide open, and obviously, you know I wanted to
- 30:11see the Chiefs get beat. So I watched that entire Broncos game of Zach
- 30:15here at three thirty, and you know, great, great win by the
- 30:18Broncos. They forced five turnovers, they converted on those five with touchdowns.
- 30:22Russell Wilson had one hundred yards and three touchdowns. Hundred and thirteen yards and
- 30:27three touchdowns. And watching that cat is not you know, I'd be more
- 30:33scared of Baker Mayfield, to be honest, in the in the in these
- 30:36situations, Tyron. But then you know I just didn't see you know,
- 30:41no offense. Sec I didn't see anything that could beat this Bills team,
- 30:45even in their shambles, when I watched them beat the other than five turnovers.
- 30:51Other than five turnovers? What what would you say to that, Zach?
- 30:56The Bills aren't samples. The Bills are bleeding. I've said it,
- 31:00perform When when else would you catch them? When else would you catch them?
- 31:03What's a better situation? A cheap trap game? If they're you know,
- 31:07have one loss by now or something. They're bleeding and the fan base,
- 31:14the fan base is question and stuff. They're questioning everybody carry is out.
- 31:18They're going at Jesse. We're not even rooting for her for you know
- 31:21in tennis, want everybody out who's doing that. Nobody's saying anything about you
- 31:30Goes you go quick coming into the nicol City crew knocking tables over his ship.
- 31:34I got some for you. I know you stay, man, you
- 31:36better bet a chill out man. I'll be back up this season. I
- 31:38mean, you're you're absolutely right when it is a better time Zach to catch
- 31:41us. You're right about it. I mean it's it's the cold heart truth.
- 31:45You guys have a shot. I I I won't put it past them,
- 31:48but at this point in time because of the way that the offense has
- 31:49been sputtering. You know, I can't, I can't put it past you
- 31:52guys, to be honest, I know that you know DT's point is right.
- 31:56I said that Russell Wilson has been looking better. That's from has he
- 31:59had been looking a visible you know what I mean. So you know it's
- 32:00you know, it's a step up for him in that respect. And maybe
- 32:04Sean Payton has figured something out. But they do they do play tough.
- 32:06Number one, besides that Miami game that you were at, Zach, they
- 32:08do play tough. They don't quit, and they haven't quit on their coach,
- 32:10a new coach. You rarely get that season one that they're going to
- 32:14quit on their coach. And I mean, I just I'm just very nervous
- 32:17DT. So as much as I don't like that Zach is coming over here,
- 32:21knocking over and he's into my fridge and he's making himself a sandwich and
- 32:23all this other shit at Nichol City Crew, I gotta give him a napkin,
- 32:27because uh, I mean, I just I don't I don't know anymore.
- 32:30And that's really a frustrating place to be. Now as we begin to
- 32:32wrap up, it's actually perfect that you're here, Zach, because my last
- 32:35point ties in because of that quarterback class that we were talking about again arguably
- 32:39the best quarterback class ever to come out eighty two, that just Hall of
- 32:44famers chalked through there, including John Elway and Jim Kelly, our respective you
- 32:49know, Hall of Fame quarterbacks. And it's funny because I had made this
- 32:52point last year, DT and and it was it rang true because of the
- 32:55fact that you never know when you're gonna get another opportunity, and I had,
- 32:59you know, kind started out talking about Dan Marino and then he was
- 33:01also in that class, and like you know, he came out guns a
- 33:05blazing and different things like that, and he went to a Super Bowl his
- 33:07second year and then never got back, you know, just as well as
- 33:09Zach, you know, I mean, you know, John Elway was like
- 33:14one of the best prospects ever of everything, you know what I mean,
- 33:15baseball, Drafted by the Yankees. He uses that a leverage to make sure
- 33:19that he doesn't play for the Colts back in the day, and he didn't
- 33:22get to you know, he got to a super Bowl in the beginning,
- 33:23got his head beat in and then didn't get back for a while, you
- 33:25know what I mean, Like it took some time for him to get back,
- 33:29and then obviously he wins up at the end and he's got the you
- 33:30know, the the Swan song riding off in the sunset. But it's hard
- 33:35and I'm starting to wonder DT. And I know that we talked about this
- 33:37pre show Man, and it's it's probably the scariest thought that a Bill's you
- 33:42know, mafia member can think if you really want to, you know,
- 33:45reflect on it and really be honest with yourselves. Was thirteen seconds our best
- 33:49chance to win a Super Bowl? And when I start to ponder that question
- 33:52and I juxtapose it with all of the shit that has happened since thirteen seconds,
- 33:58DT Leslie Frasier leaving, and you know, after Sear mcdermottells him,
- 34:01he's not gonna call plays anymore. And that is coming off the heels of
- 34:05an embarrassing performance against Cincinnati, who I don't care whose fault it was.
- 34:07We've talked about all that type of stuff. DT. Was thirteen seconds our
- 34:12best chance at a Super Bowl? And that's why I titled the episode of
- 34:15the way that I did, because you never know that it was your opportunity
- 34:19until the years have passed. When, like you said, DT, everything's
- 34:22in front of you. If we turn back the clock and look back on
- 34:24that time after Josh Allen is hanging up to the cleats and that was our
- 34:28best chance, I'm gonna be really fucking pissed. I'm gonna be really pissed
- 34:31now. I'm more pissed every single season that we don't make it back to
- 34:36the Super Bowl or make it back to the AFC Championship Game. Hell,
- 34:38I just want to get back to the AFC Championship Game at this point.
- 34:40But like DT, Man, that's a real thing for Bills Maffi to chew
- 34:45chew on man, like if thirteen seconds was the best chance. That is
- 34:49scary, man, That is really really scary because we are going in the
- 34:52opposite direction right now. And I'm not talking about Super Bowl window. And
- 34:54I know as long as Josh is our quarterback, and I know that's one
- 34:58of everybody's favorite things to talk about. My point is that Dan Marinos and
- 35:01Zach's John Elways and our Jim Kelly back in the day didn't matter how much
- 35:05talent, you had a lot of things have to go right to get a
- 35:07championship, and everything was lined up for us that particular year. We haven't
- 35:13been able to get back to that same threshold since DT. Yeah, yeah,
- 35:16you're right. I mean it's just because you're good doesn't doesn't guarantee you
- 35:21a rank, you know, And that's a that's a great example with you
- 35:23know, with Marino for sure. That what I will say this team since
- 35:29the McDermot era there, the adversity hasn't been mid season, you know,
- 35:35the adversity they they came on the come up and as Josh grew in,
- 35:39you know that ten and six year where they lose to Houston. But then
- 35:43after that it was kind of it was kind of rolling through the season.
- 35:45The adversity came in the playoffs. You're losing the playoffs, you have all
- 35:49off season to kind of get through it, and then you start, you
- 35:51start the season off hot and you get rolling again and you kind of push
- 35:53that adversity behind you. The year they go seven and six was probably the
- 35:59biggest adverse one, right twenty one, Yes, Yes, the biggest adversity
- 36:02they they faced in in the in the heat of it when the when the
- 36:07w g R, when you and me, when you walk to Tim Horton's,
- 36:09when every motherfucker's talking about the bills all day every day, there's a
- 36:15lot more pressure than in March, April and May, right, So that
- 36:19adversity seven and six, they spin it around and have you know, the
- 36:22best the best run till thirteen seconds they will. So I'm challenging this team
- 36:28to you know, this is some in season university. The pressure is hotter
- 36:30than ever. You can't forget about this as a player, as a coach,
- 36:34is anything, every eye is on you, Every eye is always on
- 36:37you. But it gets a little the heat's a little off in the Yeah,
- 36:39losing sucks. Everybody starts to watch you team, and you got all
- 36:45off season people forget get into their springs, and you know, whatever you
- 36:47lose, you know Sunday, everyone's on you until you win Monday, and
- 36:52it's and it's gonna keep going that way, and it's gonna get ugly if
- 36:55you know, if they don't start turning it around. It's it's very hostile
- 36:59right now now with a winning record with just over half in the season,
- 37:04you know, if you start dropping some more it's it's gonna get real hostile.
- 37:07People are gonna be calling for heads real quick. So I think you
- 37:10takes some adversity. You go seven and six, you rattle off one of
- 37:15our best, one of the best football we've ever seen. Five and four,
- 37:19let's start rattling some off. Get back in the driver's seat, get
- 37:21back in the vibe, and yeah it is. If thirteen seconds is our
- 37:24best chance. When we look back at it, it's it's unexcusable, unforgivable
- 37:29all the things, probably worse than the losing the four Super Bowls, you
- 37:31know, because you have it was bad. You have a once in a
- 37:43lifetime quarterback. Yeah, and you have to make it happen. Granted,
- 37:47you know, six seven years in you would hope he's about halfway through his
- 37:50career too. We get him another six seven years, so you're gonna see
- 37:52a whole new roster under him as well, a whole new chance at going
- 37:57for this thing again. So that's, you know, in the positive note
- 38:00on that. But I think, yes, maybe thirteen seconds is for now.
- 38:07I think I just think about how close we were, I think DT
- 38:08and how the stage was set, you know, in season adversity exactly.
- 38:14Yeah, yeah, try to turn that around right now, Zach. You
- 38:16know, I know you're not a Bills fan, but you definitely know everything
- 38:19about Bills bofia living with DT and then obviously being from Western New York itself.
- 38:23What do you feel about it and how do you feel about it?
- 38:24Because even though you're rooting for Denver, those quarterbacks came into the same time,
- 38:29so you do know what I'm talking about when you know, and obviously
- 38:30you got some championships at the end, but like it's it's not easy to
- 38:35get to that threshold. It's not easy to go represent your conference in the
- 38:37super Bowl, let alone win it, and some luck needs to go along
- 38:40with that as well. And I just feel like we gave up a great
- 38:44opportunity and every year removed, Zach, I just feel a little bit worse
- 38:47about that day because of the fact that what I was just saying with DT,
- 38:51everything was kind of set up tailor made for us. Now again,
- 38:53we always know that we don't know what the future holds. And you know,
- 38:55obviously we lost to Cincinnati the next year in the playoffs, so there's
- 38:59no guarantee that we would have beat them. But I feel I feel real
- 39:01strongly about the fact that that was a great opportunity to go represent the conference
- 39:06in the Super Bowl. And I just don't know how many times they do
- 39:09revolutions and they come back around and I'm just not sure, man, I
- 39:12really not. It's tough. I mean, look at John Oway. Look
- 39:15at like so when he first started in the MVP year, he lost to
- 39:19Doug Williams and the and the Redskins. Yeah, people want to know who
- 39:22Doug Williams is. I do they lost it? Yeah? Yeah, ok,
- 39:27yeah, I know you like, but like they lost by fifty,
- 39:30they lost fifty to that team. Yeah, I mean he lost to Joe
- 39:31Montana. I mean everyone knows that, Joe Montana. But then Phil Simms.
- 39:36Yeah, like they got their ass kicked and you had John Oway.
- 39:38Yeah, and then you know, Peyton Manning got his ass kicked against Russell
- 39:42Wilson. It's not easy to win the Super Bowl, that easy to make
- 39:45the playoffs. I mean, look at right now. Yah. Yeah,
- 39:51so yeah, I mean I just don't want to I just don't want it
- 39:54to be. Yeah. I just don't want it to I just don't want
- 39:58to look back on it. Fellas and and and and lament it any more
- 40:00than I do. And and I think that the easy thing to tell yourself
- 40:02DT is what you know, we often have done it since then, since
- 40:06the scars of that game is you know, well we'll be back, and
- 40:08you know Josh is great and all those different types of things, and that
- 40:12is that's true. I'm not, you know, disputing how great Josh Allen
- 40:15is. I just I think that we kind of got on a level where
- 40:17we thought that we were more entitled to it after that wonderful run with him,
- 40:22and it kind of spoiled us to a point where maybe we thought that,
- 40:24well, this is how it's going to be every year, as opposed
- 40:28to a really good opportunity, and we think, and we think, and
- 40:32the Mafia overall thinks we're that exact team thirteen seconds were far from it,
- 40:38obviously, So that's that's also kind of a fall from grace and the reality
- 40:44of you know, I don't think we're a five hundred team. We're better
- 40:45than five hundred, for sure, but we can't be that thirteen second team
- 40:52all fourteen years of Josh Allen's career. You know, there's gonna be officers,
- 40:55gonna be downs, for sure, but that's that's been the biggest part
- 40:59of my grasping this is everyone just expects we should be the thirteen second team
- 41:05all the time, and we're far from that currently. Yeah, at the
- 41:07moment, we are not, you know, and that's a that's a good
- 41:10way to put a bow on it. Well. As we wrap up tonight
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- 41:36I mean I wanted to throw stuff, you know what I mean,
- 41:39Like I all day DT, all day, I was ready for the game,
- 41:44and I mean I did a pork shoulder, you know, Boston Butt
- 41:46put one on the smoker I had. I told you I was probably gonna
- 41:51have my kings with me, so I had all three and we were just
- 41:53kind of playing all day and hanging out all day and just the crescendo,
- 41:57just building the anticipation. That's what I hate about these damn night games is
- 42:00that there's it's all day. You have to wait, and it's like god
- 42:04Lee, and you got the nine thirty game that morning, so that kind
- 42:07of helped out with Kansas City and and and the Dolphins getting it on.
- 42:09But like that kind of helped out a little bit. But then you got
- 42:12the one o'clock slate, four o'clock State, So DT, my day was
- 42:15all messed up. I waited all day for it. I had the pork
- 42:19bud on there and then unfortunately, you know, the family dog. Now
- 42:22I'm not a dog lover or anything like that, but my ex wife had
- 42:24a dog and then I, you know, I grew in affinity to the
- 42:29dog or the case maybe over the years, and her dog died and like
- 42:31that hurt my kids. So like it was and that was all right before
- 42:36the game, so like it was a it was a ship. I should
- 42:37have known that that was a fucking ominous you know cloud coming when I when
- 42:40that happened, and like it was just it was crazy, DT. That
- 42:44is how I consumed it. Man. I the dog died right before the
- 42:47game, had the pulled pork off of the grill and uh. And then
- 42:51we watched that game and it was it was. It was not fun to
- 42:53watch obviously, so DT, I hope. I don't know what you did,
- 42:58man, but that was that was it was. It's a crazy Sunday,
- 43:01man. I should have known from the beginning. I really should have.
- 43:04Damn. Well, sorry, sorry to hear about the how you consume
- 43:07the game. Well, you know ton of you know, I lived the
- 43:14bachelor life to the fullest. This weekend. We I didn't do anything and
- 43:19I watched football all day every day Saturday and Sunday, just didn't do anything
- 43:22and watchball, watchball, watch ball, consumed it. That lost good at
- 43:29all. Yeah, the game comes around. We had a good uh,
- 43:36got a good brunch. Watch know, just just went went dark. A
- 43:42few friends went went some places and I declined imitations to go and just actually
- 43:46Zach and I we're just we're just chilling watching They had, you know,
- 43:50living room junior living room, senior going likes were kind of damn And I
- 43:53knew it was, I, you know, get up for game day.
- 43:57I love watching the Bills every every It's like one of the best parts of
- 44:01my week and you know the third quarter, I got it on in my
- 44:05bedroom. I'm watching it from my bed, you know, like all right,
- 44:08yeah, can I go to sleep? You know, And that's like
- 44:10when you knew it was the vibe has changed and that's not you at all.
- 44:15Yeah, that's not you DT at all. No, no, no,
- 44:19you know, doing doing strikeouts in the kitchen after tuddies and beating the
- 44:22bangles on Sunday night. We're back on track and you know, let's roll
- 44:25instead of just the dark the darkness stayed and you know, I literally watched
- 44:30the finale literally the sleep time around the TV like kind of one eye in
- 44:35the game, like do we have a shot? And so yeah, I
- 44:38don't. Not a good Tailgate report for me. A weird vibe. It
- 44:44was a weird vibe in the house from even from the start, from the
- 44:46start of the day. Yeah, it was like taking that test that like
- 44:49you don't know, like one you totally forgot about it and you kind of
- 44:52know the subject. You know, usually it's like you know the bills are
- 44:55playing, you know they're gonna win. It's like the test is like intro
- 44:59to bass, We've you know you're gonna win. You know you're gonna that
- 45:01test, but this was this is different. Yeah, it's yeah, No,
- 45:08I I was definitely feeling that six hundred fifty miles away from you guys
- 45:12down here Charlotte. It was the same thing. It was not that it
- 45:14wasn't a bad day or anything like that. I had the kid. Yeah,
- 45:17we gotta we gotta bring it back. What did we need to do?
- 45:21Like, I don't know what I yeah, everything going? Yeah,
- 45:25all right now, So you so, Zach, you are attending the game
- 45:28nicol City Crew Tebwork before It again presented by twenty six shirts dot Com.
- 45:31You are headed to the game this week? Correct? Absolutely, big band,
- 45:37big band from L A and a K. We bought those tickets from
- 45:42them. Okay, they're not able to make it this week, so so
- 45:45we're gonna be repping repping big Benana seats uh awesome? Right yeah, yeah,
- 45:52you coming up, Rob, what's up? I'm gonna try to get
- 45:53up there. I don't know if I'm gonna make it. I've got,
- 45:57like you told you, off air, got a new job starting up one
- 45:59Monday, So I don't know if I'll be able to finagle it. But
- 46:01I mean, you know, I'll see if I can if I can scoot
- 46:05up there. If not, I'll try to sell them as soon as I
- 46:07can and then and help somebody else out, like like Big Ben and and
- 46:09a KR. But you know, either way, I'm gonna be here supporting.
- 46:13You know, it's tough because those trips become longer, you know,
- 46:16DT, when the team's not doing well, you know what I mean,
- 46:17Like it's it's longer trips and the money's already paid for. You know,
- 46:22they're already my seats. So at that point in time, you know,
- 46:23it's either sell them or or get in the car and and and make the
- 46:27trek up. So it's tougher when the team's not doing well because it kind
- 46:30of takes some of the wind out of the sales. They're like, oh,
- 46:31I might as well just sit at home. I might as well just
- 46:34support from from here, you know that type of thing, and help somebody
- 46:37else out up in Western New York. So I don't I don't know,
- 46:38DT. I can't call it quite yet. Man. You know, I'm
- 46:42a dad. A lot of shit going on, so it's, uh,
- 46:44it's always up in the air in that respect. But either way, the
- 46:46bills have my money already, and that's why I'm on here and I'm spitting
- 46:51fire, and I'm mad at everybody. I'm ready to fire somebody. I
- 46:52don't know who I about want to fire them, but I want somebody to
- 46:54lose their job. And that's almost how I feel. But not yet.
- 46:58We haven't sounded the alarms as we'll wrap up tonight. But I really do
- 47:00appreciate both of you guys time tonight, joining me and helping me out.
- 47:04Man Zach, enjoy the game this weekend, man, thank you for coming
- 47:07on again. Check him out, Jack Lubai at Zee Underscore l U b
- 47:10E on Twitter, Instagram. Check him out, man Zach, thanks for
- 47:14coming on. Man. We appreciate you. Man. I know that H
- 47:16three point thirty Linit that's the that's the place to be when I come,
- 47:19when I come up to buff Man. So I love that you've always been
- 47:22being hospitality and show me hospitality. We I really do appreciate that, man
- 47:27An Honor, Thank you. Thank you for having me absolutely dt. Man.
- 47:30I don't know, man, I I just I want to stay to
- 47:35get better. Yes, let's ride, let's evoke some some Russell wilsonurvive what
- 47:40better way to be corny, uh and end the show with that. Yeah,
- 47:44let's let's ride man, as always, spread love, not hey,
- 47:47these were my Bills thoughts set out loud. Hit him with a go Bills,
- 47:51Zach. You're not even a Bills fan, but you on the show.
- 47:52You got to hit him with the go Bills on the way out,
- 47:54even if you don't mean it. Man, Go Bills, Go Bill,
- 47:57Go Bills. Come on now for I think I love it. I love it.