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S3 E20: The Total Package · Nickel City Crew Podcast

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Fifteen de crazy. You can see you breath out in the Lake Effect Breacon
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your Buffalo bills and NFL content again today, and as always, these are
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my bills thoughts set out loud. It's a vibe, so ridiculous, story
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thing was sick the show. Where's would you like to be? All right,
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let's get straight to it. I'm really excited about tonight's episode Tonight,
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as I am every week, to be honest, but this is just crazy.
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The NFL is truly a week to week league, and it really is
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such a fascinating entertainment. I just was looking at some of the scores last
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week and then obviously the game that we'll get into with the Bills and the
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Dolphins swished the fish week and it's just it's crazy how narratives can change.
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It's crazy how quickly things can change in this league. And the drama is
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like a soap opera, I mean week to week. You know, it's
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not scripted, but it really is like a drama and a soap opera.
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And it's funny because that NFL you know, and Films or whatever NFL network
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has been you know, kind of pumping around that commercial joking about the NFL
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being scripted and kind of leaning into the conspiracy theorists, what are the case
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maybe? And it's been kind of really funny to watch some of those commercials
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come out. This has been such a great start to the season. Four
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games in our Bills are three and one after resounding victory forty eight to twenty
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over the Miami Dolphins. Joining us tonight as always writing shotgu and my co
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host Adam dump Truck Repsick. You can check them out on Instagram at Adam
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Repsick. Are you Pete c z Yk? How at the crew DT?
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I mean we back in at DT. I mean this this has been an
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interesting start to the season, in such a dichotomy from week one when we
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were all kind of down in the dumbs with the Jets loss. I mean,
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this is this is fun DT. I mean I am embracing you,
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enjoying the ride because this is this is really fun, man, it really
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is. I can't complain. Let's go, Let's go to Nicolas City.
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What's happening, Rob gonna be gonna be back in Shotgun? And what a
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week? What a week we we have in store coming up? What a
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week we just got through. I said it last week. You know,
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in the beginning of the year, you kind of you your numb to that
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you're you're back in the season because there's all that hype and the preseason and
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training camp starting. You kind of got to let off the gas a little.
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And you know, then when the actual season starts, you're a little
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numb to actually being football. And now you know, week three, week
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four, you you you catch back up and you get that juice flowing,
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and you know when it's game day, it's game day, and and it's
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everything like that. It was so pumped this weekend, so pumped to get
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ready and click clack me back and what a what a day? What the
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past couple of weeks and you know what, what what this win meant to
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this team and how they look and all the great things will get into tonight.
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But the juice is real. It feels real now and we're back and
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feeling it as this team's eating up. So I'm pump baby, let's go.
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Yeah, I pumped to DT. It's crazy because like I feel so
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much better about the Bills that I did, you know, to start the
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season. Like after I just feel so much better overall about the team.
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And we'll get into it. It's funny because you know, it's just like
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I said, it's week to week and like you can feel great about your
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team, and how many you know, certain fan bases felt you know,
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great about their team heading into the season. The Steelers fans felt great because
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their preseason was perfect, and you know, Texans fans don't know what to
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think because they've got a rookie quarterback and you can go down the list.
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And Broncos fans have reason for optimism because they've got a new coach and like
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all of a sudden, you know, a couple of weeks in and you're
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like, damn, I've got a better idea of who my team is.
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And we're no different here in Buffalo and across the country as Bill's Mafia members.
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I mean, it's crazy. The Bills open up really a can of
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whoop ass DT on the Miami Dolphins forty eight to twenty Orchard Park. The
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day is perfect. I mean, the sun is out there kissing everybody on
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the cheeks across the stadium, and it was really great on TV. I
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know, we'll get to the tailor great report at the end of the episode.
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I didn't get a chance to make it up, and like it was.
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It was picturesque to watch. It looked like it was perfect, and
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it was something where I was like, man, like I am, I'm
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really happy to be a Bills fan today. You know, I'm really you
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know, proud of being a part of the Bills Mafia today because it looks
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so great on TV. Oh, it was amazing. I mean then all
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the lead up to, you know, in the previous years of home games
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and not having great weather, and we have all the home games at the
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end of the year and it's been shitty and even in the earlier season,
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the weather is still crappy, and you know, this year we've been blessed
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with two beautiful games for the crowd at op and and ready to roll.
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And yet, like you said, I proud to be a Bills fan,
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Proud to be in it. You know this this week isn't the end all
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be all. You know, we'll we'll get we'll keep it. There's still
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there's still a lot of games to go. And if he ended with with
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four wins or three wins only on the season, it's it's not a successful
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season, right, So a lot left to do, a lot of a
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lot of work left in the tank. And but man, they look good,
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they feel good. Everything about them is clicking right now. The three
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facets of the game are all all of it. So proud to be in
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it again. I had some obligations Sunday as well around the game, not
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that we miss the game or anything, but just that feel. You know,
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you're you're getting into the weekends and you're going to the store and you're
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seeing all the jerseys, You're feeling the vibe. The flags are out on
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the porches and people are proud and ready to roll again. So it's a.
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It's a good time. It's a good time. Absolutely. I mean,
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it was funny that you just mentioned to all three phases, because all
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three phases really did contribute to this win. Even special teams included, whether
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you recognize it or not, but offense, defense, special teams all contributed
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to this w I mean, seventy points, my ass DT seventy points by
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black toe like, I mean, right, pinky toe like, I mean,
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the talk of the league and for and for you know, for great
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reason. I mean, we talked about it here on the show, uh
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here at the crew about how you know, listen, this team is dangerous.
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They you know, anytime you come off putting up historic numbers, it's
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gonna, you know, catch the league's eyes, and it's gonna catch everybody's
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eyes and probably osti cators and and it caught our eyes as well. And
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it was a lot, you know, seventy points was impressive, and it
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was something to look at and to kind of dissect the see of how sustainable
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that was. But the Bills really, to be honest, man, we've
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got to start this off. You know, I am I'm one of the
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biggest you know, critist critics, Excuse me, of Sean McDermott. I'm
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you know, in favor of an offensive coach. You all know that here
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at Nichols City Crew, I want the continuity on the offensive side of the
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ball. I don't want to kind of churn through offensive coordinators as they become
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successful or they fail. We've always you know, we've talked about all those
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types of things. So if they're successful, they'll get buzz around the league,
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and then they'll attract new jobs. If they're obviously, if they're failures,
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then they're going to get fired and and we'd have to find a new
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OC. That way. I'd love for the quarterback and my head coach to
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be in lockstep, kind of like Shanahan, kind of like the Rams and
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McVeigh. I'd like I'd love for that kind of continuity. However, we've
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got what we've got. Sean McDermott has, you know, been a professional.
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He's been great for the team since coming in for Rex Ryan. Created
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that level of culture in respects to the fact of kind of getting the tie
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back on the Buffalo Bills, so to speak, from the frat house that
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Rex Ryan was running. Can't take anything away from him on that and I've
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questioned some of his late game decisions on big games and different things like get
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going for field goals and different things of that nature. DT. But this,
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this is Sean McDermott's magnum opis like this, this is it. This
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was his finest hour to me personally as the head coach of the Buffalo Bills.
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What did you see there on the field Sunday, DT, Because I
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mean this was really his finest hour. This is a situation where we've got
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to give his flowers like they would be. I would be off brand if
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I talked shit about the guy and then when he's in his you know,
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his shining moment, he's not. He's not acknowledged he was. He was
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great on Sunday. He was really on display. I mean it was something
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masterful. Well, Robi, I mean we're not surprised, right, I
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Mean the defense has been stout since he's come in. It's been a top
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tier defense, you know, since he took over for Rex Ryane. But
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mopis is the best way to put it. I mean, this is the
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game that you had to slow down and ti tier offense. And throughout his
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career it seems like McDermott has kind of had the answers for when they're facing
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big time players in the early part one, you know, Lamar Jackson's MVP
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season, when you know they seem pretty much unstoppable. They did beat the
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Bills in Orchard Park, but it seemed like they kind of slowed down Lamar
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Jackson somehow last you know, last year with with the Dolphins, if you
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will, and the Chiefs have never really had a great, you know,
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top tier offensive game against us, other than then maybe that playoff game for
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the Bills. That was kind of a nature of the Beasts and the game
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back and forth, you know, of that, I don't think it was
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necessarily just a defensive play calls. So he's been able to adjust in and
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kind of maintain and you know, lock down these high power offenses as he's
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seen them come across. I mean, the Dolphins seventy points, give them
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their credit. The week before is their due. You get a Week one
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win against the Chargers for the Dolphins, who kind of, you know,
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they're looking like maybe their stride, but Herbert might be hurt. They're already
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in a bye week. They might just be the same old Chargers. Over
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the past couple of years. Then the Patriots they get by with Bill Belichick
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kind of playing that conservative shell look against them, and the Patriots might be
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you know, a top five draft pick coming up this year the way they're
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kind of looking with Mac Jones and the boys and their defense is dropping like
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five. So going to Week three Denver, you know, in a tank
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battle with Chicago on Sunday to see who's gonna still credit still credit to the
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Dolphins and you know, doing what they're doing. I think they're gonna be
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a playoff team for sure, but they might not be you know, a
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top tier team that we're gonna be, you know, competing for an ASC
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title against. So keep that in the back of your mind as well.
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But throughout the whole career, I think McDermott has step up and ring the
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bell of when it's been okay, this is the high power offense. What
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are you gonna do? There's some sort of answer for it, And that
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was no different on Sunday. I mean that the answer was there. The
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answer was pure. The game started off hot, you know, it looked
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like maybe it would be back over all day long, but ye kind of
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settled in, got the adjustment, you know, started bringing pressure, making
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making up, messing with that timing, and that's been kind of the common
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theme when the Dolphins started to slide last year, when two it was still
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in the games, was you know, take out that first read and disrupt
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that time because it's the timing based offense, and the Bills kind of settled
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in, got comfortable that Ben don't break, Ben don't break, Ben don't
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break, and then you know, then once they smelled the blood, they
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started to attack. So I loved every part of it. You know,
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I was. I was ready for the show. But at the same time,
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I don't know why I was even thinking in the show. I should
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have got back to you know, we're Ben don't break. This is what
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we do, and I shouldn't even thought it was going to be a shootout.
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So yeah, I mean it's interesting because you know, the defensive game
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plan was flawless, to be honest, you know, the adjustments were made,
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so as you know, it's funny you stole my notes. You know,
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it did sound like it was going to be attract me to start,
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and you know, Miami comes out. They scored fourteen quick points. We're
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scoring as well. Obviously they deferred, they won the coin toss, so
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we've got the ball to start and we go down and score. But it
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seemed like when it was fourteen fourteen, you're absolutely right, DT, it
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seemed like this was getting ready to be attract me. And it was funny
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because Tony Romo I heard him and I watched the game back, and like
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he's talking about third quarter starts. You know, the Bills are playing a
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lot of this is what they call palms coverage, and like where it's you
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know, one guy gets two or two guys get four, and they're kind
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of you know, they're in that zone, but they're kind of reading different
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areas and whatever it's called. DT. It worked because they disrupted the timing
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of the offense. We saw two a tongue of aloa, you know,
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holding onto the ball. We saw him kind of unsure of himself in respects
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to reloading. He's bringing back down, he's at the top of his drop,
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at his hitch, he's ready to let it go, and then he
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sees something that he's not comfortable with and then he's holding it for just that
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half second, which is obviously allowing the defensive end and the defensive line to
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get through and We'll talk about them as well, because they were masterful.
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But the actual game plan itself from McDermott DT was one where it was it
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was intentional. They made adjustments. We always hear that word. Well it
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we didn't make any adjustments on offense, make any adjustments on defense. Obviously,
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these guys are not slopes. These coaches are getting paid. They're going
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back and making adjustments. It's just sometimes their adjustments are not worth it,
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damn, but it doesn't matter in certain games. In this particular case,
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the adjustments did matter. McDermott found something in that offense that he was able
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to exploit and it was clear to see, especially after fourteen fourteen, that
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he had something on them and that was going to work, and he kind
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of just pounded it. He kind of went to it, didn't go away
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from it, and it resulted in really a two of that we haven't seen
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Bill sack and four times hadn't been touched pretty much all season long, let
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alone sack interceptions. Everything was kind of clicking for the defense. TT It
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was a situation where after that fourteenth point was scored, it was just it
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was kind of clamps down on those guys to be honest, and the Bill's
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going to run in the second half, and it was just it was really
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never in doubt. I was impressed with the speed of the defense. I
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was impressed with the moxie of that defense. And you know, we've hearted
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all week the how are we going to change this defense up to stop the
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Dolphins? We are we gonna do what Belichick was doing? Are we gonna
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bring in the third safety? Is I'm gonna start? Yeah? It was
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the same same defense that they've been running all year. And the confidence and
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that and that speaks volumes. What does that give to the players in this
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team of you know, we're not gonna change anything. We're we're this top
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tier defense because we are this top tier defense. Yeah we're facing a good
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offense, but we're you're gonna see that pretty much every week in the day's
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league and especially for the next you know, run on the schedule, you're
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gonna see a lot of good offenses. And that's a lot of confidence in
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McDermott and this. You know, everybody on the defensive side of the ball
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can be like, all right, we are those dudes. We this is
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our defense. We can stop people by playing our defense and I think that
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spoke more volumes to the actual stopping itself, is we didn't have to change
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shit, Like we're out here and you know we're gonna still beat you straight
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up. So yeah, I loved every part of that. I think that
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it speaks a lot more than just stopping the Dolphins that we It gives that
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that defense so much more confidence that we can do us and be the best
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defense in the Yeah. I mean, it's crazy because like even in the
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beginning of the game you saw, you know, the Dolphins had some success
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with some of that motion. And we talked about it last week, you
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know what I mean, on the episode and talked about how they cored a
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lot of window dressing and a lot of different things to kind of get that
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eye candy where the guys are focused on the wrong thing, so to speak.
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And I specifically remember when they scored that second touchdown to Chang, how
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they were you know, a chant I guess he's pronouncing it, and how
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like Tyreek Hill was in the backfield and he's lined up as a running back
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and then all of a sudden, you know, there's motion across the field
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and everybody's focused on Tyreek Hill or at least we were at home and including
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in the stadium as well. With the Bills defense, they follow for a
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second after the sname at the ball, they slip it to Hn and then
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all of a sudden he's in the end zone for their second touchdown of the
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day. I didn't see any of that type of eye candy affecting the Bills
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the rest of the game. That's what I mean by adjustments. This is
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why I have to give it to Sean McDermott, because he gets full marks
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for me from being a you know, an extreme critic, because the fact
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that I want to see stuff on the fly. I want to see you,
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I want to see you, you know, kind of make adjustments to
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what's happening in the game. Sometimes your your playscript is great, but it
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doesn't work, you know what I mean. That's on the office side of
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the football as well. Sometimes Ken Dorsey can have a great script at first
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fifteen plays, twenty plays. If they're not working, scrap it, let's
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figure out something else. And that's really a mark of a good coach.
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So I've nember once said that Sean McDermott is not a good coach or anything
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like that. Again, I lean towards offensive side of the football, but
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I would be a hypocrite basically to criticize him the way that I do and
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then not give miss Flowers on on Really, what was a masterful game plan?
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Man, DT, Hey, we're talking we're talking crowd life, we're
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talking wildlife, We're talking cheetah. This was a this was a lion hunt,
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you know, national geographic textbook, lion hunt. I mean, you
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go out, they're patient, they're watching that prey. They kind of let
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the prey do what they, you know, do what they want to do
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to feel comfortable, drink from that water hole, you know, walk around,
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you know, act like it's a normal day, and then and then
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then attack. Because that when that second half starts, it changed from like,
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oh, the Dolphins gonna keep scoring to like, oh, I can't
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wait for the next hit. We might get a fumble. I can't wait
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to knock this dude out. I can't wait to get the next sack.
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You know. It changed from you know, is it gonna be back and
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forth to I can't wait for the next play to see what good this defense
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can do. That's the like the vibe and the energy I was carrying them
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with that defense, like, oh, is the next tackle gonna be a
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fumble? Is who's gonna get the next sack? Like who's not the next
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pick? Like it turns to almost like that type of energy. Then the
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back and forth just stopping them. It's like how can we dominate? You
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know? So that's absolutely yeah, it's funny man, because you know fifty
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eight DT, I mean Matt Mulono. I know that he's probably you know,
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he'll never probably garner Hall of Fame, you know, votes too much,
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but I mean Wall of Fame, like like what else do you want
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from a bit? And then forty three has been playing so well to Roverron
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Bernard coming up with a key fumble recovery once again. But he's kind of
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like Johnny on the Spot for me. But I mean Matt Milano DT once
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again. His nose is just always in it. He's always around the football,
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He's always in the spot that he's supposed to be in, and he's
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really one of those guys where I look at him and I watch him play.
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I remember listening to Mama Monday when she came on and she was just
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like, he's rarely out of position. I'm like he's never out of position,
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it seems like. And again on Sunday, same way, Matt Malone
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leading the way to Bernard, excuse me playing well as well. Those linebackers,
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man, that is that's something. Then you're playing nickel that often.
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You've got those four down linemen, you've got those two linebackers, and then
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the rest of the secondary out there. You need those line linebackers, excuse
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me, to be quick to trigger, to fire off the ball, to
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diagnose plays quickly, dt figure out what's going on, not hesitate sometimes we
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would, you know, look at Tremaine Edmonds and he's hesitating and then he's
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kind of following the play as opposed to initiating the play. And these guys
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are just the right the right way they're supposed to be before the play even
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happens. And I have really enjoyed watching the two of them, especially fifty
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eight. I mean, Matt mulonal Is, he's something else. He's of
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fame worthy for me, man, he really is. That juice and pressure
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means so much to that defense as well. When when you're in on every
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play, when you're in on every tackle, that you know everybody else on
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that field has got to see that, like if you are if that's your
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side of the field and that's your assignment, and fifty eight is getting to
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that tackle before you, that's gonna put the kick in your ass to be
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like, damn, this dude can't be beating me by like that, you
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know that. And he's doing that for every player, for every spot,
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right, So that just brings everybody up. It's like almost we love him
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to have him on our team, but we can't look bad because fifty eighth
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is looking so good. You know that. That's the type of thing that
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you know, that kind of subconscious leadership. Leadership comes the leadership comes from
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the linebackers, and you see that with all the great linebackers in the history
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of the NFL. It's like that they're on every play, you know,
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the Ray Lewis is, the Luke Keekley's, they're on every single play and
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linebackers, yeah, exactly, exactly, And so everybody else has to raise
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that level to make sure they're not getting one by these dudes you know behind
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them. But I love it, man. They're bringing the boom, they're
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bringing the speed there. You know, Like I said, it's changing from
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like let's just get the stop to oh, when's the next fumble? When's
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the next pick? When's the next sac? And that's that's what I love.
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Yeah, man, I love it too. One of the things I
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also love DT, in addition to the linebackers and how they playing I've been
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playing, is that D line DT. I mean, it's ferocious. It's
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everything that I wanted. I hurt w gr You guys know, I'm an
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avid listener. Somebody called up the other day it was like, is this
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the best line since the Cold Front? And I was like thinking back,
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and I was like, well, Mario Williams is really good. And I
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was like, you know, marcell Darius was motivated and he was good back
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when he first started. And I'm like, god, Williams, he's the
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wily vet and he knows where to be. And then I'm like on the
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other side, you've got Jerry Hughes and I'm like, these guys might be
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better. And forty it hasn't even been open Miller Time, Like the beer
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hasn't even been cracked open yet for Miller Time, And I'm like, Leonard
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Floyd is really good. You know, thirty sacks, almost twenty nine and
21:03
a half in the last three years. So we I love that pick up.
21:04
We talked about him when he got picked up in the offseason. Then
21:07
we've got you know the guy. You know, guys on the inside,
21:10
we love that Oliver. We wondered why, you know, why he got
21:11
the extension, hoping that he would live up to it. Not only is
21:15
he living up to it, but he's topping the league's and tackle for loss.
21:18
He's topped in the league for defensive tackles with precious quarterback pressures to start
21:21
the season. He's having a career year, his best year. Just like
21:23
he said he was gonna outplay the contract. He's already starting to bring that
21:26
to fruition. Then I'm like, okay, well the other defensive tackles day
21:30
day and then dat he got a sack on Like I'm telling Nate, I'm
21:33
like yeah, I'm like I'm like, I'm like, uncle DT. He
21:37
knows him, he knows day day, he knows him. Whatever. He
21:38
was like really, and I was like, yeah, we're trying to get
21:41
him on Nichols City Crew. And then I look at the other side and
21:42
it's Greg Russau first round pick. You know what I mean, A lot
21:45
invested long rangey, versatile, somebody that can disrupt some things. I'm like,
21:52
this might be the best defensive line since the Cold Front. And we
21:55
again haven't even cracked open the beer. It hasn't even become mill of time
22:00
von Miller again. As you all know on Nicol City Crew of Bill s
22:02
Boffi, you just got back to work today. We air these episodes on
22:06
Thursday, but on Wednesday, he just got back to practice. DT.
22:08
That's kind of scary to think about the Cold Front because that was a great
22:11
defensive lineback then with Mario Williams and the crew. These guys DT, they
22:15
are good, man. I don't think they have to hold that candle to
22:18
anybody. They they're good. They're real good. One hand, one hand
22:21
feeds the other with this rob you're looking at. You know, the as
22:25
we say, it starts in the trenches and the line wins the games,
22:27
and the penetration, you know, leads to everything else. And it works
22:32
both ways. Yes, they're penetrating, you know, leading it to so
22:34
it's easier for the for the linebackers and for the defensive backs. But then
22:37
when the defensive backs and the linebackers are playing like they are, it lets
22:41
the It also opens it up for the defensive line. They kind of cut
22:44
loose and get after it and that's when they're their best. And you know,
22:48
across the board, every single player is contributing on it. We don't
22:52
get too deep in the stats here on the crew, but you know,
22:55
just looking through these defensive line like defensive line is a is a place where
23:00
acts really aren't a thing, right, It's all about pressure and visual and
23:03
plugging. And these dudes are all putting up numbers. I mean, everyone
23:06
had a sack the other day. We've got Greg Russou with two sacks and
23:10
a pass deflection, uh, At Oliver with a sack, and you know,
23:14
and QB hits. You know, these dudes are having sacks and they're
23:15
also having two or three QB hits per game as well. You know,
23:18
so the game, Yeah, you know, I love it. At Oliver
23:26
is being consistent throughout the year. You still got depth on this defensive line
23:29
with Kim Settle and p Ford and dudes. We're not seeing a lot of
23:32
yet that you know, we might see later in the year when it comes
23:34
when we need that Depthpeza playing great. Floyd has been wake for forty and
23:41
this is only better when Forty does come back. He doesn't have to play
23:44
every play. We could use him how we want to use him, to
23:47
conserve him for when we need that third down stop, when we need that
23:49
rush in the playoffs, and we can use Forty for that. But yeah,
23:52
shout out, shout out to Jones. Top pup pff rating on the
23:56
whole team Sunday, very consist all year. People are starting to come around,
24:02
you know, two years ago, it's like, why are we signing
24:03
this scrub? And you know, and he's been one of the most consistent
24:07
players on our defensive line, Like consistent leadership, brute miss they're playing mean,
24:12
rob they're playing mean and I love to see that. That's you know,
24:15
a quarterback that gets the ball off faster than anybody intua. You know.
24:19
Now you like, what about a quarterback that holds onto the ball?
24:22
Well you saw it two weeks ago with see him how all they said as
24:25
a hundred times. So let's let's keep this, keep this rolling where you
24:30
know, on the the old meme of when Dan Jones is in the shock,
24:33
I'm looking at the forty nine ers d That's how quarterbacks are gonna start
24:37
looking at this defense because you know they're not hiding anything. You know what
24:40
they're you can prepare for him. You know what, they're gonna run right
24:42
They're just good enough to stop you. They're just good enough to stop you
24:45
right now. So that's that's a good feeling to have a good swagger and
24:48
vibe. But yeah, I love this defensive line playing, playing angry,
24:52
playing swaggy babies. Yeah yeah, energy to it, you know what I
24:56
mean. I really do like it because you know, you watch those guys
25:00
play, it's like it's like, oh, there's blood in the water,
25:02
you know what I mean, And like that's type of thing, Like you
25:03
can see it on those guys's faces. You can see it in the way
25:07
that they're playing, their mannerisms, the fact that how they're playing the game,
25:10
and you could just tell when they see blood, they're all going to
25:12
get the quarterback. They're all going to get the running back in the backfield.
25:15
You know. Like I said, over with all those tackles for losses
25:18
like these guys are, they're feeding and then what happens is success will read
25:23
competition within yourself. So I'm going to make the next play, Like you
25:26
said, I'm gonna make the next play. Like the Matt Lolano point that
25:30
you talked about, I'm going to make the next play. I'm going to
25:32
be the one that's gonna come up with the next play. And that is
25:34
you know, iron shot, Frin's iron. It's one of those things where
25:37
everybody's starting to push everybody, and that is something that is really truly scary
25:41
for opposing offices as we get deeper into the season. Now, uh,
25:45
the only you know, dark spot of the game. To be honest,
25:48
as we transition a little bit before we talk about the offense, vet Our,
25:52
our thoughts, our prayers are with Tradavius White. You see them right
25:55
here behind me. DT one of my favorite Buffalo bills, you know,
25:59
outside of stuff digs like twenty seven is my guy. I love his approach
26:03
to the game. One of my favorite things being at the game and enjoying
26:07
Trey White is during commercial timeouts when he is out and he's dancing on the
26:11
field and he's getting the crowd going and nobody really knows that he's doing it,
26:17
obviously because it's all commercial break, but the seventy thousand people at the
26:19
Ralph and I really love seeing his energy his energy is infectious, the way
26:25
that he worked hard to get back, It's just it was really it was
26:29
gut wrenching to watch him on the field. And you know, I'm watching
26:30
the game with Nate and he was like, well, you know, do
26:33
you think he's really hurt or whatever the case may be. And I'm like,
26:36
you saw him throw the helmet, you know what I mean? They
26:37
like, that's it looking like anytime he's throwing the helmet like that, And
26:41
then he was crying when they came back from commercial break. I'm like,
26:42
he knows it. It's something. We obviously didn't know his achilles. I
26:45
didn't know if it was that acl I didn't know what was going on,
26:48
but I just knew that he knew it was serious, and my heart instantly
26:52
went out to him. So from Nicol City Crew Bill's Mafia, we all
26:55
extend the warmest wishes and quick recovery to just to Jorda is White, I
27:00
mean, just a great leader for the team. You heard how the team
27:03
spoke about him DT afterwards, Mitch Morries, all the guys talking about how
27:07
much he means to the locker room, how much they recognize his effort and
27:11
his his work that he put in to get back to this point from his
27:14
Thanksgiving Day a cl tare and it's just that, I mean it was literally
27:18
on a bright day, the only dark spot of the whole day. Yeah.
27:22
Yeah, he kept you you know, humbled and grounded a little bit
27:25
on a you know, and just so much you know, feel for him.
27:30
We don't have to go too deep into it, but it's like the
27:33
A C l and how much that took out of him and too and then
27:37
he finally, you know, even when he got back last year, it
27:40
was tough and he was ready to go, but that mental hurdle, he
27:41
wasn't even back. And then he then he got back and he still wasn't
27:45
right started to get rolling, and then this year he just started just like
27:48
old trad and it's like now were juice, juice, you know, wealth,
27:53
wealth of riches, everything we got, you know, And and then
27:56
it happens again, and he knows that dark past that he bought through and
28:00
had to get back from. He's got to do it all over again.
28:03
It's probably gonna be harder, you know, because he's a year older,
28:07
and everything's harder, and every day is a day closer to the end of
28:11
your career, and right that just just feel warm for what he means to
28:15
this team and everything. You can only hope that, you know, this
28:18
is going to breed inspiration for the team, you know, to play for
28:22
him and let it loose, and his backup's got to come in and fill
28:26
those shoes, you know, like it ain't just stepping up, next man
28:30
up, Like you have to be as good as two seven and that's not
28:33
you know, an easy task by any means. So you know, prayers
28:37
definitely for him in his recovery. But it sucks, man, it definitely
28:41
does. Literally the only dark spot in the entire day. But I think
28:45
it was you know, everything happens for a reason, and the dark spot
28:49
was noticeable enough for you know, the mafia and the team to really feel
28:53
it and hoist that like, yeah, we can go in here and win
28:56
the game by one hundred, but you know, one of our brothers just
28:59
went down and we got to play for him and keep that rolling for him.
29:03
So we can only hope it's Sparks inspiration and we can only hope he
29:06
comes back, you know, better than ever whenever that is. Yeah,
29:08
I think it'll be a rallying cry to be honest, if you know this
29:11
team and you know this group, and obviously we watched them last year go
29:14
through all the adversity that they went through from the beginning of the season,
29:17
even the off season with the Tops massacre, all the way through the season
29:21
with the blizzards and things like that, so we know that they're close knit.
29:23
We know that they'll band around him. You know, you hear Trum
29:26
McDermott say that he's got no doubt that he's gonna come back different things like
29:29
that. But you know, it's tough when you're an athlete. Like you
29:32
talked about you they're humans. So we we have talked about humanism and humanizing
29:36
these guys all off season and Steph Diggs and YadA, YadA YadA, Josh
29:40
Allen. You know, these guys are humans, So let's not forget that.
29:42
So let's at least send him positive energy because he does have a long
29:45
road ahead of him. Now, what that does mean as we transition to
29:48
the offense before we do, is that, you know, it looks like
29:51
Kyrie Eland is gonna have to get a jersey dt Like you know, you're
29:52
gonna have to put your big wood pants on and I don't know what was
29:56
shit. Yeah, I don't know what was going on with practic. I
30:00
don't know what was going on with your preparation. I don't know what it
30:03
is with the scheme that you're not getting or he's not quite picking up on.
30:07
But we need him now. Benford was a little bit banged up during
30:10
the game, he comes back into the game, he does finish the game
30:12
last week for the Bills, and then you've got Dang Jackson on the other
30:15
side. I would be almost shocked if they're playing one hundred percent of the
30:19
snaps just those two Benford and Jackson. I would expect twenty four against a
30:23
Jersey. He gets in the rotation and he should be on his p's and
30:27
q's, because this is the opportunity that you're looking for. A lot of
30:30
times you can get buried on a depth chart and then you never see the
30:33
light of day again. And he could have been on the depth chart all
30:36
the way up till next training camp. You know, injuries happened. They're
30:38
part of the game. Looks like elam an athletic corner that they drafted with
30:42
traits for a reason. He's going to get a jersey again, DT,
30:47
we can hope, we can hope if he doesn't. If he doesn't,
30:51
you know, the answers there. If he doesn't get a jersey after all
30:53
this, the answers there. Yeah. So you know it's it's tough,
30:56
like maybe make a move, but you don't have anybody really make the move.
31:00
Brought somebody into the practice squad the other day and that's really about it.
31:03
So I would anticipate that he gets a jersey, he gets an opportunity
31:07
to be in that rotation just for even when they need breathers or there's a
31:11
different scheme that they're running that they that they need some athleticism and in that
31:15
respect, So we'll see as we transition to the other side of the football
31:18
DT, I mean seventeen. I mean he long ways away from sugar,
31:25
Hi, Josh. I mean it seems like the Jets game is forever away
31:29
and so long ago because Josh Allen was perfect, I mean on Sunday,
31:33
literally perfect quarterback writing first time in franchise history, one fifty eight point three.
31:38
And I don't really know what you can say about his game, DT,
31:42
other than locked in in the moment, ready to rise to the occasion.
31:48
He knew it was a big game. So don't tell me about Josh
31:51
gets all flustered for big games, because we've already debunked that with Mama Monday.
31:53
We know that he doesn't get the you know, doesn't get too flustered
31:56
for big games. It's something in his mental clock. A lot of times
31:59
that he he's got that. I think she called it performance anxiety. So
32:02
you know he gets that. That can happen any week, whether it's Week
32:06
one or or any week of the season or a playoff game. We know
32:08
that he gets up for the big games. DT. He Offensive Player of
32:12
the Week again, a franchise another franchise record for the Buffalo Bills. DT,
32:16
talk about your quarterback. I mean, I feel like Teo man,
32:19
I feel like crying and letting some tears fall down the face. And that's
32:22
my quarterback. And just feel like I'm talking about my quarterback. I mean,
32:25
I'm proud of him. I'm proud of the way that he has bounced
32:29
back since Week one. And that's what I met at the beginning of the
32:30
show DT about how this is a week to week league because it's bad and
32:35
it's pissed off. As we were at Joshua Patrick Hallen after the first week.
32:38
I mean, I'm telling you the man, the man was. He
32:40
was absolutely flawless Sunday he was. He was flawless. It was it was
32:45
beauty. It was a beauty to watch Rob. What do I what's my
32:47
one of my favorite lines about one to seven? Oh you say he's generationally
32:52
generation Yes, yes, addicting. I mean how fun is it to watch
33:00
to watch football on Sundays and one seven is playing like that? How sick
33:05
is that? Yeah? Sick is that? It's literally addicting the watch and
33:12
you know, played perfect, Rob through the ball twenty five times, twenty
33:15
five times, I mean twenty five times. I mean we're we're in the
33:20
days of quarterbacks throwing fifty times a game without blinking. You know, that's
33:23
just how it is. And he threw half of that and still put up
33:27
three hundred and you know, and perfect. And credit to the defense the
33:31
past yep, yep, exactly four tonnies well five total. Well, you
33:36
know, run a pass too, so you look in in credit to the
33:40
defense. Were getting them in situations where you know, they didn't need a
33:44
ten minute, ninety five yard drive to get it done. You know,
33:46
in credit to you know, everybody else on the offense, the run game,
33:51
the line for making it as easy on him as possible. But it's
33:53
it literally is practiced, rob It's practice. It's like a walk throughout there.
33:58
It's seven on seven, all right, we got two guys going here,
34:00
this is gonna cross. Yeah, hit your drop, find the guy,
34:04
throw it to him. Like this is literally looking like practice the last
34:07
three weeks. And you know, we talked about it last year of looking
34:10
looking easy and get it rolling. We can only hope this continues, you
34:15
know, because teams are going to be, you know, game plan to
34:17
make seventeen not look like he's in practice the rest of the year. People
34:22
are gonna start getting sick of going out there and getting their ass kicked every
34:24
Sunday by twenty plus points, you know, because it's becoming a regular thing.
34:29
So seventeens addicting was a beautiful game to watch him play, you know,
34:32
all around, great offensive. You know we'll get into the rest of
34:35
the offense here next, but you know, very efficient throwing about twenty five
34:38
times. That's the biggest thing that jumped off the page for me. Like
34:40
everyone know we need him to do too much. It's all on his shoulders.
34:44
It's all. He's got to run fifteen times a game. He's got
34:45
to throw it fifty times a game, throws it, runs it four times,
34:50
yeah, and really really ran it twice. You know. The other
34:52
two were just kind of getting to get away. Whatever runs or twice scores
34:57
a touchdown, throws it twenty five times a quarter of what other uarterbacks are
35:00
doing in the league on Sunday, you know. And another AFC Player of
35:07
the Week, his twelfth just for surpassed Kelly with his eleventh two weeks ago.
35:10
Now he gets the twelfth this week. So what a beautiful week for
35:15
seventeen and the boys. And literally he's addicting Rob, Like, it's so
35:19
sick. I love what DT gets fired up with about his quarterback. Man.
35:22
I mean, don't cross DT. If you see him in top,
35:24
if you see him at Tim Warton's, please don't say nothing about seventeen because
35:29
DT will lose his mind. He is definitely one of his Saty Saturday Saturday.
35:34
Rob. I won't mention any names, but I'm not a wedding and
35:37
I'm getting in a little commed no like too much, you know, the
35:40
disrespect or argument on any end, but just your stereotypical you know, seventeen
35:45
criticism of you know, hero Ball. He does this, he does that,
35:50
and I said, okay, like yeah, yeah, but what about
35:52
this or what about this? And then what what who else would you rather
35:55
have? I'm given that argument and whatnot. And then Sunday happens and I
36:00
text that first, I say, how do you think? I mean?
36:07
I love it. I love it, you know, because a lot of
36:09
times he's doing that stuff either on the necessity he used to sometimes yes,
36:14
he was forcing it. We talked to Mama Mondy about that, and he's
36:16
forcing the issue and doing a little bit too much obviously the Jets game.
36:20
But boy, when he's locked in, when he's calm, when he knows
36:22
the offense, he knows what Dorsey or Dabled if they're trying to accomplish,
36:27
he can. I mean, he is. You're absolutely right. Addicting is
36:30
the right word, because he's one of the most electrifying players to watch.
36:31
That's regardless of position. I'm talking about Michael Parsons, I'm talking about Mahomes,
36:36
I'm talking about any of the guys in the league that you love to
36:38
just sit down and you're like, this is why I love football. And
36:42
you watch those guys kind of do their craft and do their work and it's
36:45
just like it's just poetry emotion on the screen. Josh Allen fits that same
36:50
bill, like he's on that same play a leader of this team. I
36:54
mean he he clicks into that hyper competitive mode that dog and everyone follows and
37:00
and this team follows that that juice. I mean, something as dumb as
37:05
the Dolphins coming in with that you know, Emboji T shirt, the shirt
37:08
they were underdogs. Oh we're underdogs, and then Josh scoring that touchdown and
37:14
throwing it up like all over. I love it. They don't miss anything,
37:20
they tell me. It's always love to tell you that they don't listen.
37:22
They always love to tell you that they don't pay attention. But they
37:24
are human. But that leadership and like your team coming in there and your
37:29
your quarterback's doing ship like that and you're like, okay, yeah we're rolling
37:34
with this cat. Yeah you are rolling with a cat like that, because
37:36
I would love to play with a Josh Allen because that would you know,
37:39
it just shows you, you know what I mean. We'll stay quiet all
37:42
week. We won't say a word, and then we'll let our play do
37:44
the talking for us on Sunday. And then yes, we'll let you know
37:47
me that behind me, we'll let you know with the eboji that we let
37:51
you know that we heard you, We heard you. Know you guys all
37:53
wonder why you're an underdog, because you know, because this is why,
37:57
Because we're getting ready to beat you by fourtunes now. And I'll be the
37:59
spokes for some for that, he says, I will stand up and say,
38:02
you know, this is us, this is us. I love it.
38:05
I love it. I also loved as we transitioned to to the offensive
38:08
play calling for the Bills. I loved that first touchdown to Gave Davis because
38:13
what was interesting about that one DT was that it was it was scripted,
38:16
and it was so well sold. It starts with Josh Allen, It starts
38:21
with the with the motion from Deontay Hardy, and then all of a sudden,
38:24
I'm looking at the screen like, oh, okay, it looks like
38:27
Hardy's going to get a quick swing pass here what the case may be,
38:30
And then all of a sudden, he flips his hips and he goes from
38:32
Hardy to I mean I mean in the quarterback sucked up the linebackers took a
38:37
couple of steps up, like everybody was sold on what was getting ready to
38:40
happen, including me at home watching, and I'm like, yeah, he's
38:44
about to swing it up to Hardy for a nice quick pass and we'll see
38:45
how many yards if you can get some wiggle that type of thing. And
38:49
then all of a sudden, he flips those hips back and you know,
38:52
gave Davis in the back of the end Zoe and I'm like, that's my
38:53
end zone. That's where I would be if I was at the game,
38:55
and I'm screaming at me and they're going crazy, and I was like,
38:59
man, that's it, Like that was a beautiful play design. As we
39:01
get ready to talk about Ken Dorsey, because Dorsey deserves some credit as well
39:06
on DT. You know, I know he's been under fire, and not
39:08
too much here at the Crew or anything like that, but he's been under
39:12
scrutiny just because of the fact that you know, I know that how much
39:14
I miss Brian Dable and I miss his leadership, and I know how he
39:16
can rain Josh in so to speak, and he kind of dials up those
39:20
easy button throws those easy button plays for him to kind of keep him on
39:23
track. Dorsey had a good had a really good game plan DT. I
39:27
mean, I don't know if it was on par with with the way McDermott
39:30
was because obviously seventy points to seventy points, so you've got to get prepared
39:32
and extra prepared for an opponent like that. But Dorsey was no slouch today,
39:37
man Like he was. He was ready to go on Sunday, had
39:38
the game plan ready, and you know, again you've already spoken about,
39:43
like, you know, executing it to perfection. The entire offense really was.
39:46
I mean the run game was a little bit subpar, but at least
39:49
it was a threat. And I mean the passing game, you know,
39:52
Dorsey had he had people running open. I mean Diggs, he had guys
39:55
running over. We're gonna we'll get to Diggs. You know, I gotta
39:58
give our salute to the captain. But he had guys running open. And
40:00
I think that's something that we all want to see, something that looks easy,
40:04
whether it's easy or not, I want it to look like you guys
40:07
have some manufactured open plays for Josh and game conscience and game conscience I mean,
40:13
it wasn't just this is this is my playlist, this is my set
40:15
plays. We're going to go out here and work. It was, Hey,
40:20
this is the field, the game, Hey, this is okay.
40:22
We got them on the we got it. You know, we got them
40:23
up against the ball, we got them on their backs, a little let
40:27
attack when they needed to attack, run, slow it down when they needed
40:30
to slow it down. It was It was a great, you know,
40:32
game call. But it was also a great feel for that game. I
40:36
mean, I don't think I think we're starting to see that a little more
40:38
with Dorsey as this defense has given them a little more and putting the offense
40:42
in better positions that it doesn't have to be here. Here is my set
40:45
calls. I'm a creative offensive coordinator. It's what, you know, what
40:50
is the best to keep this offense in a flow, keep this offense rolling,
40:52
and keep the momentum of the game in this winning favor. And I
40:55
think that the last three weeks we've seen greatness when it when it comes to
41:00
that of you know, okay, we we got to turnover. We don't
41:04
need a we don't need a ten minute drive here to to to chunk some
41:07
clock. We're we're gonna lom with a few runs. And then banged touchdown
41:10
shot, bang touchdown shot. And I really feel it. And and they
41:14
know they needed that in Miami to to kind of you know, end the
41:16
boat race, and and these dudes from from keeping it closes as it went
41:21
and almost playing offense, you know, almost playing defense with the offense,
41:23
if you will, Rob And I think it's the past three weeks we've really
41:28
seen that feel for the game when it comes in, like they're calling the
41:30
right plays to be comfortable, to keep the game in check and keep in
41:35
total control of the game, not even let the other team even sniff.
41:37
You know, it's it's we got to play catch up. We gotta play
41:39
catch up. It's not a it's not an even ball game. And that
41:43
that first touchdown was nice. One seven put that thing on a rope.
41:50
Darn near knock gave Davis he caught that ship in the end zone and it's
41:55
almost over. I mean it's like it's like a pass from Big Ben Falel
42:04
in the parking lot. Yeah. Game and feel on the floor of that
42:07
game along with that laser, I mean, let's go. Yeah, man,
42:10
it was it's funny because you're absolutely right. It's like me trying to
42:14
go out there, a couple of drinks in and catch a pass from big
42:16
men, and he puts a little bit too much juice on it. I
42:19
think I'm a little bit younger than I am running and I'm getting ready to
42:22
fall. I'm like, oh my god, I'll get ready to follow the
42:25
bucker rock. So let me just calm down. That is exactly what it
42:29
was like, because the fake fooled me. I know, you know at
42:31
home, I don't know what it was like in the stadium in that respect,
42:35
but I know on TV when I saw Josh make himself a perpendicular with
42:38
the with the sideline and he was looking at the sideline at Hardy, I
42:43
was like, Okay, this is going to be a quick swing and I'm
42:45
you know, what you always hope for in a quick swing pass is somebody
42:47
make somebody miss you, some speed, different things like that. And it
42:52
was funny because it was like, man, as soon as he made that
42:54
fake out there, I was like, this, this is going to be
42:58
a swing pass. And then he flips his hips again, throws to uh,
43:01
you know, gave Davis, and it was like, holy ship like
43:04
he is on point, like he is really ready to go today. And
43:07
that was really when I knew that he was ready to rock that day because
43:10
that started the game. That's that's all precision, that's all timing, that's
43:15
all things that they have repped, they have worked on where you've got to
43:17
be patient, you've got to sell your eyes, you've got to let safety
43:20
come up, you've got to let those linebackers come up, different things like
43:22
that, and and it was just fun to watch because it was on point.
43:27
The game plan as well. Completions to nine different receivers really should have
43:30
been ten should have had that that Tuddy down the down the sideline. Oh
43:35
my god, that was the kids call to nine different receivers. And you
43:42
know that's all part of that, that ten Dorsey scheme. So to kd
43:45
absolutely. You know, now before we talk about Captain Diggs, if you
43:49
know, I take personal uh pride and talking about Captain Diggs, especially after
43:52
the off season that Nicol City crew has had defending this van joining us tonight
43:57
as well, linking up. He's coming in at the perfect time because we're
44:00
talking offense and we're getting ready to wrap up a little bit. But I
44:05
wanted to hear your thoughts about seventeen because it's interesting. Man. We were
44:09
just DT and I were just kind of just gloating over our quarterback. And
44:13
I was crying, like t o Big Mike and joining us not your average
44:16
podcast in the seven one six over at Built to Buffalo co host Big Mike
44:21
Davis a front of the Nickel City crew in front of the crew, how
44:23
to let the crew, Big Mike, because I mean we were just we
44:29
were gloating over over seventeen. And then I started to cry a little bit.
44:32
And then DT was like, listen, don't sound too much like too
44:35
and I'm like, I know, but that's about quarterback. Somebody somebody offended
44:37
me the other day. Man, I mean he is something. I mean,
44:42
he's something else, Big Mic. When he's locked in. What DT
44:45
and I were talking about all jokes aside, is that just when he's locked
44:50
in, he's something else. Man. I mean you can't you don't have
44:52
to be ashamed of him or anything like that. He's ready to go,
44:55
man, Like he's he's a quarterback you could be proud of for sure.
44:59
When he's even to go. When he's locked in, there's nobody like him.
45:01
Man on planet Earth, there's nobody like him. Absolutely absolutely. First
45:07
of all, thank you for having me on what's going on fellas DT.
45:13
It's good to see y'all. It's me, Big Mike. If you don't
45:16
know who it is. Not your average podcast in the seven one six,
45:21
go higher as if you get a chance. But our our quarterback is a
45:25
g man. I've always talked about this on our podcast. I feel like,
45:31
once he's in his uh, in his mode and uh he's playing correctly
45:37
and not rushing and things like that, he's the best quarterback in the league,
45:43
hands down. I mean, you can't. You can't convince me otherwise
45:45
because this guy, once he gets his timing down, and the last couple
45:51
of days I've been, the last couple of games, I've been so impressed
45:53
with his timing and his decision making and his confidence in himself and you know,
45:59
and so I feel like, uh, he's in his bag and you
46:04
can't. You can't mess with Alan when you can. I'm sorry, he's
46:07
too cool for this. You know, he's too cool for this. Combined
46:13
with Diggs out, I mean, shining to the to the un teeenth power
46:19
like Diggs is just Diggs is always open, is always ready. Dis man,
46:25
do not take, man, You're not gonna take. Let's give a
46:31
salute to the captain man. Let's give a salute to the captain Diggs Man.
46:35
Because listen, I wrote on my notes, just Diggs, And then
46:37
there's a whole bunch of fucking explanation. Boys like Diggs is my guy and
46:42
DT. The reason I love him so much is he is authentic. I'm
46:45
authentic. I'm not fake. I can't do fake. I can't be fake.
46:49
So I mean, and that's in my regular life when I meet people,
46:52
the way I conduct myself as a man, I can't be fake.
46:54
Stefan Diggs is authentic DT. He cares about winning. We've already gone over
46:59
that this off season. He cares about competing for a championship. Was already
47:01
gone over that. He is not a bad teammate. He is not a
47:05
male content. He doesn't care about targets, he doesn't care about yards,
47:07
he doesn't care about touchdowns. He cares about winning number one above all else.
47:13
And if he can provide and help the team win by scoring touchdowns and
47:16
getting catches and grabbing yards, then so be it. But he is not
47:21
a bad teammate. He is not anybody that wants to disrupt the apple cart,
47:23
so to speak. And boy, DT, I mean he was on
47:27
full display on Sunday when you talk about somebody in their bag, like like
47:30
Big Michael was like he was in his bag like that that touchdown the spin
47:36
cycle, Like I didn't even know what was going on in respect. I
47:37
thought I saw the flag and I was like, Okay, well then this
47:39
might be on them or it might be And then all of a sudden he
47:43
said, fuck all that, I'm going to the end zone and you can
47:45
figure it out after I'm done. And like, I mean, he just
47:49
he is something else. DT. I love him. He's my favorite Buffalo
47:52
Bill hands down. I mean it's not even there's no even no comparison.
47:55
Man's I love everything about you. Look and this is this is gonna this
48:00
is gonna sound a little crazy, but but hear me out right. You
48:04
know, the the Kobe Bryant mentality, the black MoMA that you know,
48:10
the the dog that doesn't stop barking. You know, like you when you
48:15
saw when you saw that, you know that flag come out in the spin
48:17
cycle, It's like, oh it might be offensive. Passion appearance because you
48:22
know, as a as an official, you're officiating that game and every single
48:25
play Digs is out there like run of these routes, like grinding into these
48:30
routes, you know, and it's like he probably the only way he caught
48:34
that, he probably pushed the guy off of him, you know, so
48:36
he probably gets called because of that of just being you know, angry like
48:39
that. I don't know what was going on with his socks on that one.
48:42
He had different socks on those those are like they said something about him.
48:45
I'm not sure what the sakia was, but but yeah, the one
48:51
every every single route is you know when we saw in Week one of that
48:54
one pick Josh had gave Davis ran that lazy ass out route, and you
48:59
know, you see it all the time in the NFL. These receivers just
49:00
kind of running bla routes and it doesn't matter if it's any play one four
49:06
is running that thing like like sticking his seaton and getting that done. And
49:09
he gives that to you every single time, like you said, and what
49:14
a day for him. Well deserved three touchdowns one hundred, one hundred and
49:17
twenty six yards. I think he's up there with you know, with the
49:21
greats when it comes to that, with Randy Moss and on, only Jerry
49:23
Rice and Randy Moss have more games with three touchdowns or four games with that.
49:29
So, uh, the all his routes to score were great. The
49:32
one was kind of a breakdown. He got in the spot like he loves
49:36
doing scoring. The first one, the spin cycle was crazier, and then
49:39
and then that last one he had that route was you know, that corner
49:43
was good luck down like he looked like he was paying them. He looked
49:47
like he was paying like he was paying ties, like he was at the
49:51
alto asking for a prayer to be said through going. I mean he was
49:53
following feet the stone, the stone cold seally. I mean that was that
49:59
was that. It's like baby, like you think he thought about that beforehand,
50:05
and you think he was just so hyped. He just took those things
50:07
and he's been waiting, he's been waiting seasons to do that, do you
50:13
understand me? Like it's just to present itself, like you know what I
50:19
mean, you get two fans in the front, two beers, Well,
50:22
mother, dude, what do you love about a big bike? Because I
50:30
mean he is he's amazing. I mean, he's amazing play. I love
50:36
his hustle, I love his leadership. I love it the way he supports
50:42
his teammates, the way he's just uh, he's so dependable. I've never
50:47
you know, I know, my favorite receiver of all time is Jay Rice
50:52
And that's really the only team that I watched outside the Bills before. And
50:58
yeah, appreciate so, you know, mean so to see another dog like
51:01
that in the league, Like he is a dog. He is dependable anytime
51:07
you need him in the reason he's open at any given moment, he's open
51:13
and like he's a you can count on me receiver and you can't ask for
51:19
nothing more than that. And his his energy, his ability to get the
51:22
crowd going, his his ability to really just capture everybody's attention without really doing
51:29
too much. And you know what I mean, and I'm talking about off
51:31
the field. It's not even about on the field. Off the field,
51:35
he's he's really just like a simple guy. Uh, He's he's an alpha.
51:43
He's an alpha. So he commands that attention and he uses it in
51:46
the correct manner, And you can't ask for a better receiver. I love
51:50
that dude. And let's and let's call I mean all these fans that love
51:53
him and do all this where a lot of people were talking junk about him
51:57
when he don't get me started DT ye oh no, I can't fore coming
52:04
forward to those all those memes and videos of him, you know, singing
52:08
the shout song, getting in with the fans, and it's like, man,
52:12
this guy's miserable. Get him out of here, and he doesn't make
52:15
anything. I hate this dude obviously hates it here. And that's the off
52:19
season. That's why I hate the off season d T because people just had
52:22
so much how much time. We haven't want to get used, you know,
52:28
they want to get viewed, so they talked so much crap and they
52:30
just say stuff that they know that's not true, but they're like, you
52:35
know what, let's shoot in the dark. Episode six, we had a
52:38
whole episode dedicated to this man called The mis Education of Stuff on DIGS.
52:42
I encourage anybody to go back and listen to it. That's right before during
52:45
the whirlwind that was going on in the off season. Then we came out
52:49
two weeks later and made another episode because Minieat was getting ready to start and
52:53
I had to remind people be careful what you wish were because everybody was ready
52:58
to kick this man out of town because he had missed one day of practice.
53:00
So I just thought it was interesting how they treated him, how Bills
53:04
Mafia treated him throughout the off season. And and I do keep re seats
53:07
DT. You're absolutely wrong. Here at Nicol, we keep re seats on.
53:13
I mean, I know, but don't don't just just y'all. Y'all
53:16
people just know that I know exactly who you are. Sometimes you just keep
53:20
your grass cut low and that way you can see the snakes coming. And
53:22
I know the people that were ready to kick them out. I know the
53:24
people that wanted to call him out, content and all this other garbage throughout
53:28
the off season, a lot of ship that he had nothing to do with,
53:30
because he is absolutely right. Pick Mike. He is a great leader,
53:32
and he's somebody on this team that they need. This Bills team would
53:36
not be where they are without him. How about that. Everybody can put
53:38
that in their pipe, they can smoke it, they can do whatever they
53:40
want to do it, they can throw it out, but we would not
53:43
be the team that we are without him because he actually elevates the play of
53:45
your quarterback and everybody. He shows it every game. He shows it every
53:49
game absolutely like he shifts, He shifts the way the game is played,
53:54
energy, the energy of the building he moves, and the respect that he
53:58
commands from the other team. You changed the composition of the whole game.
54:02
And you gotta respect the player like that because that's hard to come by and
54:06
it's hard to find. So it really is. As we begin to wrap
54:09
up tonight, fellas, I mean, I just have to ask a question
54:12
to both of you ville and I appreciate you guys taking time out of your
54:15
night tonight to join us. I mean, are the Bills the best team
54:17
in the a f C? I mean, okay, d T do you
54:23
care? D yes, sir s I mean you got you got, you
54:30
got dogs. You gotta love the pen. You're not out of the pen,
54:35
but you're you're the meanest dog right now. I mean I was wondering.
54:38
I mean, I'm looking at my schedules and excuse me my standings.
54:42
I'm ce k C. I see Baltimore, I see Miami on there that
54:45
we just beat the fence, we get the most. I love it,
54:54
Okay, no problem, I just I was wondering if we're the best team
54:58
in the a f C. So it's the resounding yes for both of you.
55:00
I tend to think yes too. Like I said, I saw the
55:02
charge, I'm like the Chargers. I'm typing down the Chargers, like who
55:06
in the AMC can stick with us? I understand that we have to respect
55:08
Kansas City, and you know, until they're taken down, then obviously you
55:13
have to and respect words do. But they don't look the same. They
55:15
kind of had a struggling game against the Jets, kind of like the Bills
55:17
did as well. Clearly, the Jets defense is a problem. We know
55:22
that. We already know that. Yeah, yeah, they clearly have a
55:29
number on some of the better quarterbacks in the league. But I mean,
55:31
I'm just starting to look at and the way I was kind of dissecting a
55:35
Fellaws was like, they're starting to look like the team that we thought that
55:37
they were at the beginning of last year when we beat the defending Super Bowl
55:40
champs and then we go home and we just meant to Tennessee. Then we
55:44
take care of I think it was Pittsburgh or somebody like that, and then
55:45
rip them apart. And like, damn, we might really go to the
55:49
super Bowl and everybody thought we were going to be we're super Bowl favorites to
55:51
make an appearance. They're starting to look like that team from last year,
55:53
the offenses clicking. We've already given the flowers to to Dorsey earlier in this
55:58
episode, Big Mike, I mean league leading plus eighty four point differential.
56:02
I mean even over the Cowboys. They're right below us at eighty three,
56:05
but like we didn't blow anybody out by fifty yet, But I mean,
56:07
like that is that is pretty impressive. Man. You never know when it's
56:12
gonna be your year, fellas, and it's really rare when you can you
56:15
know kind of pinpoint ahead of time. I was thinking about this earlier today
56:19
before I talk to you guys, and like, you know, you've got
56:21
like the heat Big Three with Lebron and d Wade and Bosh, and then
56:24
you've got the Warriors, and then you know, and then especially when the
56:27
Warriors bring on KD, where it's kind of like you know ahead of time,
56:30
like this is gonna be the team that represents Most sports are not like
56:34
that. You never know what it's gonna be your year for the most part,
56:37
and like this, I mean, I'm looking at it and I'm like,
56:38
man, could this Like I remember last year, I thought it was
56:42
gonna be the year I know, you know what I mean. But like
56:44
I'm looking at this team, fellas like legit like this might you don't know
56:46
at the beginning of the season when it's gonna be, but like this team
56:49
looks really scary. Yeah, because this von Miller adds another aspect where you're
56:53
allowed to, like you talked about earlier, DT, you can slow plate.
56:57
Now, we can slow play regardless of he plays in London or not.
57:00
We can slow play him back into the lineup the way that Floyd is
57:02
playing. Let it build, let and that could be that be really key,
57:09
you know what I mean everybody you said it, but you said it
57:12
the beginning of the episode, Roberts a week to week league, you know.
57:15
I but this team it seemed to be focused on you know, did
57:21
they pushed down the hype of this Miami game a lot. It was like
57:24
it was just the next game on their schedule, just the next game on
57:28
their schedule, and so what's this So so let's stick to that mentality,
57:30
let's stick to clicking you know, because these teams are gonna be game playing.
57:34
It's gonna they're gonna have some tough games in the future. But you
57:37
know, I like it. You couldn't look better than they had week week
57:40
the week, week the week. Like, you know, I feel like
57:45
if we keep the same structure going, and I feel like with Dorsey and
57:51
his play call and and the execution of all the talent that we have on
57:54
the team, and we just keep that consistent, making sure that everybody's playing
57:59
their part. And no turnovers. I've been saying this every week on the
58:02
podcast not podcast, no turnovers and we had no turnovers. If we have
58:09
clean football, Bro, there's not a team in the NFL that can beat
58:14
us. Wow, I promise you. I promise you. When we played
58:17
clean and we saw that, we saw that the seventy we saw that.
58:25
Once we play clean football, I mean we are a literal nightmare. Well
58:31
it's like, you know, it's whatever. You know what I'm saying,
58:35
Like, when you play clean football, there's nobody in this league that can
58:37
touch us. Yeah, I mean I have to tend to agree because you
58:40
know, yeah, I have to tend to agree because it seems that we're
58:44
a little bit ferocious right now. On the defensive side of the football.
58:47
You know, I like to I gave mcdermoty's flowers. I don't know how
58:51
much different, like you talked about DT that he would have been with Frasier
58:53
in that respect with the aggressiveness, because I don't see a ton of blitzing
58:57
or anything like that. But what I do see is definitely they're sending corner.
59:00
They're sending corner blitz the first play of the game, you know,
59:02
yeah, right right, Okay, and Rob, Rob, none of that.
59:10
Okay, listen, that's my uncle. We'll talk about We've already given
59:21
Big dermoin his flowers on tonight's episode, Big Mic, so I I will
59:24
I'll stick with you guys on that one. I mean, they do look
59:27
scary with the defense clicking with the offense. If if Josh is going to
59:30
play com I do have to tend to believe that if he's playing like that,
59:34
I mean, he was locked in Fellows and me started like thirteen to
59:37
thirteen one Sunday, So it really is ridiculous when you are when your quarterback
59:40
is locked in that way. Now, as we transition and we wrap up
59:44
tonight, the Tailgate Report, the official Nicol City Crew excuse me tailgate Report.
59:50
I love it, DT. You know it's interesting because I, you
59:53
know, I was playing on coming up and then I was having a bad
59:55
week in respects to like health wise, and I was just a little bit
59:59
under the weather and it was like a last second thing for me, and
1:00:01
I just I couldn't go, man like, So I posted my tickets Saturday,
1:00:06
late Saturday, and and and then actually sold right Sunday morning, like
1:00:09
at ten o'clock. So I was really happy about that. And then the
1:00:13
fact that I didn't wait too much longer. But DT, I was here
1:00:15
down in Charlotte watching the game with the boys, and it really was kind
1:00:21
of just a chill man. I was just literally trying to just reset and
1:00:22
get back to ground level. How how was the party, Man Lake Ontario?
1:00:27
You hosted a whole up there and talk to USPAN and we'll get your
1:00:31
your your story as well, Big Mike, as you joined us tonight.
1:00:34
But but the official Nickel City Crew tail Greate Report, presented by twenty six
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Shirts, how was it for you? DT? How was the party?
1:00:40
Great day? I mean literally perfection as the bills were perfection. You know,
1:00:45
almost a perfection in the park is you know, not as we know
1:00:47
from this show. Yeah, it was. It was almost like that.
1:00:51
There. Shout out to Nicol City crew oil listeners on the Rougie Family knowing
1:00:55
the boys they hosted, well they did. We we we smoked some pork
1:01:00
shoulder, had some real good pull port going. Uh yeah, had some,
1:01:05
had some meatballs, had some chips, had some had dual screens and
1:01:08
outside screen and inside screen. Great turnout for the employees. Uh, beautiful
1:01:15
day all the way around. Had drops. Yep, right, a beautiful
1:01:20
day literally not a cloud in the sky, and nice breeze coming off the
1:01:22
lake. Great food, great atmosphere. You know, the families were there,
1:01:28
the wives were there, there, you go. It was just a
1:01:30
beautiful day. I got yeah, yep, yep, got up got them
1:01:34
mad early, got up there early, you know, because I was kind
1:01:37
of juiced up for the game and ready to get rolling and got set up.
1:01:42
Caught that nine thirty game, which was kind of cool with the toy
1:01:45
story theme. I don't know if you guys saw that, But for the
1:01:50
NFL to throw in this week so you won't see that, it's gonna be
1:01:52
all NFL Network this week ESPN b S if you will, but you go
1:01:59
and got up there early, got it set up and it just felt like
1:02:01
football. You know. We had uh that our again. Shout out to
1:02:06
Noah. They got married at that same location, you know, a couple
1:02:07
of weeks prior so that we still had a tag left from the wedding.
1:02:12
So beautiful and you know, I just had that had that nice had that
1:02:19
nice tag beer at nine thirty. Was sitting there with the breeze hitting me,
1:02:22
watching that nine thirty game, like getting ready for juice. And then
1:02:24
the game started and it was obviously all all celebration from there on out.
1:02:29
So a beautiful day for for the crew. A lot of loyal listeners up
1:02:32
there. We gained a few listeners by talking about the pods as we always
1:02:37
do. That's one of our you know, I feel like our tailgates are
1:02:38
our best spot to spread the words, spread the gospel of Nickel City Crew.
1:02:44
Yeah but yeah, shout out to the Rougie family and and a beautiful
1:02:46
day. Shout out to all my employees that came out and uh you know
1:02:50
and cherish the game day and made it made it a good one as much
1:02:52
as we would have both loved to be at that stadium, and we I
1:02:55
hear all week it's the loudest it's ever been. I know. I was
1:02:59
kissed off to stop like this. Well it'll be it'll be louder, it'll
1:03:05
be. Yeah, absolutely, big Mike, Big Bike. What did you
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do down here? I know we're both in Charlotte, Man, what did
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twenty six Shirts. Heading over to twenty six shirts dot com. They all
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all the purchases, you know, actually support a great cause each and every
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time. What did you do? Man? I know we both hear,
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Charlotte Man. I was I was getting back to the weather. I was
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under the weather. I was getting back up to weather. What did what
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were you doing? Big Bike? Well, they had a barber xpo out
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here. It was okay, Barberaville barbera xpo, very nice. I was
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actually in class into the game in my headphones. Oh my gosh, I
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don't know how you were. They had a couple of instructors and yeah,
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I was trying to restrain myself. I did I did? I think I
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did pretty well. Yes, I was multitasking and I was actually pleased and
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how it went. I wasn't able to watch it. I was living to
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listen and it was like the home little Steed Tasker who announces on the radio.
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So that's who I was listening to, which was refreshing because I hate
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Tony Romo. I don't know if he was he was. He makes my
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skin crawl and oh my goodness, he did a good Sunday. Yeah,
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I hate his hair follicles, so it's like like, you know, but
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nevertheless, I had a great time at the Barbera Xpo. It was really
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great turnout, and I listened to the game and that was just like it
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was a double day, you know what I'm saying. I got some great
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education and the bill was won. Yeah, it was a great day,
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resounding fashion forty eight twenty as we wrap up tonight, it was awesome.
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Charlotte, tell me both you guys, you know, tell me about this.
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I know we mentioned it quick on the show, but I hear about
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this all the time. This is what's this place called tracks or trail of
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the task on the Tracks. So Tavern on the Tracks is the official bill
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bar down here. I've been attending it ever since I've moved down to Charlotte
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in six I haven't gone as frequently DT, to be honest, because of
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the fact that you know they've got kids, and then you've got got season
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tickets and then so most of the time for the away games, I'm more
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in a chill mode. I'm at the house and I'm just relaxing, recovering
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from a home game or preparing for an upcoming home game. But when I
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first moved down to Charlotte, I was probably one of the craziest people you
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would be in there. I used to put my gloves on and give high
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vibes to everybody going around the bar. It's a nice sized bar. It's
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a Bills in Michigan bar as well for Michigan football the Wolverines, which I'm
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also a fan of, So it really was like home for me in the
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beginning. When I first moved down here DT. You'd find me there every
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single week, and I've got many many memories in that place, including recipes
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to my boy Marvelock Bennett great and I remember we got kicked out of the
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bar or whatever on the Patriots Night. That was the Leontis McKelvin, and
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I'll never forget that night. So it's got a it's a place. It's
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got some crazy memories for me for sure, So I don't go up there
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as awful with the kids. But yes, when you do come down to
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Charlotte, that is where we'll go. We'll get some good wings and I
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know the owners there and they're good people. So as we wrap up tonight,
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well, you know, it's it's gonna be crazy, isn't it,
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Like I mean in London, London. I mean, it's gonna be crazy,
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isn't it. I mean, it's gonna be crazy. Bro, they
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call them Brough. I mean, it's gonna be crazy Brough. Nine thirty
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We're gonna we're gonna dip them like some biscuits and come on home. Yeah,
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I love it. I love it. Nine thirty am Our Bills literally
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go across the pond on Thursday to battle the Jacksonville Jaguars, who again are
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already in London. They just finished up playing the Atlanta Falcons, as DT
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spoke about. And it'll be interesting. You know, there's all those sports
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signs people, and you know we'll rest and and will the Jaguars already be
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in there? Will that be an advantage? While the Bills coming late early,
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will that be advantaged? And YadA, YadA, YadA. Listen,
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they have to get out to the field. They have to go play football
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eventually, and all the conjecture and all the talk will stop. So the
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Bills playing the Jacksonville Jaguars, nine thirty eight m Sunday, Fellas, what
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is your plan to not miss the day? I set out a message,
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an alarm, set up my phone. Oh my god, I got the
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TV already. It's just I'm set up, man. I am so nervous
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because I'm all over. I'll tell you what, Big Mike. I assure
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as hell don't need alarm for game day. Oh I don't need an alarm
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for game day. I just don't want to get too cocky bro like.
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I feel like I don't need an alarm because I'm already up all the time.
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I just don't want to chance it. Man. I won't. I
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won't even front on y'all, Big Mic. I won't front of you,
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DT. I am. I am terrified. I think I'll leave the back
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door open that way somebody could come in the house and wake me up.
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Because I promise you I am I'm in grave danger of Michigan if I don't
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play my cards right, So I try to. I'll try to get to
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bed a little bit earlier Saturday, because I mean I could sleep with a
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jackhammer outside of my door DT, so I may not be like you,
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man. I can. I can sleep with anything going on. So I'm
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very nervous. I tend to be up. We're gonna have breakfast week here
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at the crib and you know some breakfast sandwiches already, got the biscuits and
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got the breakfast meats and YadA, YadA, YadA. So the kids are
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really excited about it. Uh Nate, especially for sure, because you know
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he's my ride or die for these games. So we'll be up man,
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and you know, shout out, shout out crew listeners. You got Kai
1:08:28
and Page, you know, our biking favorites. They invited me over their
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house there. They're having a nice little party, little little breakfast, little
1:08:34
breakfast. Gotta have the big mic. Yep. Yeah, we're gonna be
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after it early and often. I mean, let's talk about this travel for
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a second. I mean the squad's going tomorrow right Thursday, yea, on
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Thursdays five hours or six hours about six yeah, about Okay, so you
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know, so you're going in overnight flight leaving let's call it six seven o'clock
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tomorrow from Buffalo. You know, they don't got to mess around going through
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to Don't or any of that bullshit. They can go right from Buffalo get
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in. So it's gonna be they're gonna be in there in morning Friday.
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And the key, they said, everybody on w g R says the key
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is to sleep on the plane. As long as they sleep on the plane
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or find a way to when you get to London, don't go to sleep,
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stay up to practice you're gonna do and then get to bed. Sleep
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early that Friday night, Saturday, you're trying to you you're feeling a little
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more normal, maybe a little foggy Saturday normal day than game day. You're
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you're normal. So you gotta pull it all. So they got to pull
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it all night or on Thursday. No, no sleep, sleep sleep on
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the plane. The people I'm saying, if they're leaving Thursday or Friday,
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Thursday night. But if they're saying that, they suggest anybody to sleep,
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like, yeah, you gotta you gotta sleep, or you gotta stay up
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the night game. If it's a six am flight, you gotta stay up
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all then no, no, I think, yeah, it's probably probably like
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a sevent eight hour flight. But then with the time different another six you're
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looking at about a twelve hour flight if you will. So long as as
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long as they get in the pods, you're in the sleep window, you're
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in the sinow. There's no pods. Yeah, they'll be in the sleep
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window. It'll be Yeah, they'll be in the sleep window, but they're
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not charge floods. It'll be a nice big plane. I don't know how
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many people will be able to stretch out like six five Josh Allen, But
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I mean, I'm sure the lets of the lineman make sure that they get
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a chance to stretch out. But yeah, that's the key thing I heard
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was that you better go to sleep when you're flying out there that way when
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you get when you do land in London. You don't want to be tired
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on top of the fact that you cannot go to sleep because it's yeah.
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Absolutely, So we'll see how they manage it. I'm sure again those sports
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science people DT Big Mike, they've got that type of thing covered. They
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probably don't know this team is this team is calculated, right, This team
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is if anything, they're calculated. So whatever whatever they're doing, you gotta
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trust it and trust the science. I kind of like not going for a
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longer term like all this, like, oh we're going to see the the
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Yeah, the screw all that. The there's a multi million I want to
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go to London going the offs. Yeah, it's a business business trip and
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never forget seventeen seventy six. Baby screw London anyway. So I'll get in
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there and take there a business the historical day that I love it. Nickel
1:11:26
City educational. Now we're educational as well. I love it. Man,
1:11:30
do not forget as well. Nicol City Crew bills bafia that Tottenham hots Per
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Stadium with the bills we play Sunday Morning is again it's a it's a rough
1:11:39
sketch, so it's a when you see it on the screen coming back from
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commercials and stuff like that. No, it's not going to be the Ralph
1:11:44
two point zero, but it's going to be something very similar. They say
1:11:46
around sixty to sixty five percent of the stadium will be covered in that canopy
1:11:50
to help us out in those long winter nights and days when it's wet,
1:11:54
it's cold. Sixty percent of the stadium, the new State and the New
1:11:57
Ralph should be covered. So when you see that picture comes back from the
1:12:00
stadium on commercials, just that it's a it's a rough idea of what you're
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getting ready to get with the New Bill Stadium in twenty twenty six, So
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it should be fun, fellas. I appreciate you, big Mike. I
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know you came on a little late, but I'm happy that you got a
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chance to chop it up with us and talk about at least Josh and Stefan
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because that's definitely, at least some of the two most passionate topics that we
1:12:20
have here at NICK because DT is a huge Josh Allen fan, and everybody
1:12:25
knows that I'm went one four till we die, so we right on him
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as always. Man, I appreciate you guys spending time out of your night.
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Man, Please man spread love not Hey. These were my bills thoughts,
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follow us please uh and and I let people know when the day after I
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leave. You know, when I'm on the podcast with Tea, I always
1:13:06
shout y'all out, so it's all love across the board. Man. We
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appreciate it. I love we love team, we love Big Mic over there
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again at not Your Every podcast in the seven one sixth. We appreciate you
1:13:17
all tonight. I really do as well. Man, I've been really excited
1:13:19
this week, couldn't wait to get this episode out. I appreciate y'all joining
1:13:23
me tonight. Man, go bills, Man, were good and we're out
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of here. Man. We'll see y'all next week. Man, it's London.
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Were ready to go, Bro, We're ready to go