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S3 E7: Newsweek At 1 Bills Drive · Nickel City Crew Podcast

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Fifteen degrees. You can see your breath out in the lake effect, breaking
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tables like you would you where else would you have to be? And to
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run Elvis and the lay panchow. Remember that you need to know. I
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want you out in now your family. Where else would you happy? Where
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else would you? Welcome into the Nickel City Crew. I am your host,
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Rob Crippin. Please like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram and
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Twitter at Nickel City Crew. This episode, along with all of our episodes,
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are presented by Crippen Legacy Entertainment here on Speaker and stream yard. We're
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so glad that you're joining us for some of your Buffalo the NFL content again
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today, and as always, these are my Bill's thoughts set out loud.
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It's about so ridiculous anything with sick shouting, like where else would you want
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to be? All right, let's get straight to it. I'm excited about
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tonight's episode, as I always am. There has been um a lot of
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times around this time of year. There's really not a lot going on,
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and you're kind of getting closer to the dark days of summer as we always
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speak about. And man, I mean Brandon being the buffalo bills do not
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disappoint. They continue to give us a little bit of a juice, a
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little bit of energy. So as always tonight, my co host joining me,
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Adam dump Trump rupsick at Adam rupsick on Instagram, hollow at the crew
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DT. What's good man? This is we still got to do things to
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talk about today? What's good? Dt? Hella? What's who are we
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rob? Who are we thinking that we're gonna have trouble filling these film these
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weekly shows in the off season. It's, you know, one week after
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another, they keep filling up and we you know, keep having stuff to
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talk about. I mean, let's be honest, if if nothing happened this
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week, I think we could still feel a show. So the passion we
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got, you know, for the bills and in Nickel City, but good
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to be back another week. We're rolling here. I don't know if you've
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you've probably seen on social media a little weird. The wildfires up in Canada
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are dropping some. It looks like a Mad Max movie around around town right
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now. So it's it's a little creepy, little weird and tough, tough
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bre even out here up up north. But we're getting there. I have
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heard about it, you know, I'm a you know, avid WGR listener,
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and they've been talking about the Canadian wildfires. So obviously we're hoping that
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everybody's okay up there, because they're talking about you know, schools and all
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the way down to New York City and Manhattan, they're canceling outside activities.
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They say that you can see some of this, hey, even as as
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further as far south as as where I am in North Carolina and Browling,
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which is about a couple hours to the east to me. So wow,
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man, I can't I can't imagine what it's like, to be honest,
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because I haven't really noticed anything considerable down here in Charlotte. But I mean,
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the Yankees game looked like there was a haze over it. It's funny,
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you said, Mad Max, that it is. It's kind of like
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an orangeish yellowish tint to it, and at nighttime it gets accentuated, and
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it's just it's like thick. I heard that you could do the other day
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they were saying that you could smell the smoke in certain parts of West York,
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and I was like, smell today today, all day in Buffalo,
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all day in Buffalo, yeah, you could smell just its smells like a
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canipfire out, you know. So everyone's windows that were open, everyone's clothes
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gonna smell a camp fire now, So wow, man, I mean again,
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we hope that everybody's okay if there no deaths or anything like that.
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But yes, the Canadian wildfires have been um they say it's like twice as
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many as what they're used to at this time of year. So, m
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it's getting hot. Mother nature is heating up. The summer is coming,
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if it's not already officially here. And we've had a bunch of news down
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at one Bill's Drive to really fill our plates for this week. So I
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was really happy to have some things to talk about for sure, other than
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some ideas that we came up with, because of the fact that again Brandon
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Bean just continues to give us something to chew on. Man. Before we
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get to that, Happy birthday to our co owner Kim Pagoula. These episodes
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are recorded on Wednesday, but it will obviously here on Thursday. But on
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Wednesday, Happy birthday to our our co owner. I know we haven't seen
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her in the public. She's been dealing with her health issues as well,
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but we wish her all the best here at Nickel City Crew. They never
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really disclosed what was going on with her, but doesn't really matter none of
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our business. We just hope that she's in good health and happy birthday to
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the owner for sure. They broke ground on a new stadium, DT.
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We are gonna have to ei either we're gonna have to stay in the grass
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lots and we' just got to leave a little bit earlier or walk down because
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it's only technically across the street, or we're gonna have to find a new
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tailgating spot. Man. They are breaking ground on a new stadium, as
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we've already talked about. I know we covered that episode and I was really
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excited about it because that hype video DT was class a well done, Like
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it gave me some of the chills. And the father's there with his Kelly
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jersey and the son's there with his Alan jersey, and they're giving each other's
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hugs. I know that it's a production, I know that they're supposed to
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tug on those strings, but boy, I mean, either way, they
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did a great job that um the highlights throughout, and then they've got intermittent
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pieces of showing the new stadium and like the concession stands and and different ideas
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that they've got from the new stadium DT. It was. It was a
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really cool video. Man. I thought it was well done. Um,
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it definitely got my juice slow. And I've been showing him to my son's
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like, you know what I mean, to my king's like, I gets
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this is where you guys are gonna be rocking, you know what I mean.
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They're younger obviously, so this is where they're gonna be calling home DT.
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What do you think man? They broke around little golden shovels out there
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or that'd be a cool little piece of memorability to get your hands on one
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of those golden shovels. And I always think it's funny when on these things,
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you know, because all the big important people roll through with the hard
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hats and they're so awkward looking in the suits and the hard hats, you
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know, and then they governed. They give you the little they give you
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the little shovel. It's you know, it's funny in a little corny when
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it comes to that. But yeah, the video itself was cool. Um,
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you know, we we broke down the stadium. I think it's gonna
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be a cool place. Recently, they announced to Delaware North wasn't going to
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be having the concessions when, which was surprising. But you know, nobody
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should feel bad for that company. It's a multi billion dollar company themselves.
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So yes, they didn't get their hometown gig, but um, they're doing
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okay. But well, yeah, yeah, with the Legends group, with
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the Jerry Jones deal that I think that's gonna be a cool aspect is Jerry's
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World's obviously one of the biggest marbles in in professional sports, and uh,
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sort of give a little taste of the concessions and the concourses to give a
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little taste of that, that'll be a nice addition to that. But getting
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pumped up. It's a new generations. As I've said on the show before,
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I'm definitely jealous of these kids growing up and they can go to school
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and where they're josh aung Jerseys and and you know, in its game day,
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it's it's all them as opposed to you know us, it was a
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little different. But it's gonna be a new house or somebody a new memories
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are gonna be built. And you know, you hear all the old timers
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like, oh, I was at the first game at the Ralph at the
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Ralph for you know wherever it was file exactly, the the little chip showing
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they were there, and uh, you know what, we're gonna be those
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guys robbing at the first game and in the new stadium. So, um,
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it's it's it's time. It's a it's a new sequence. It'll be
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bitter sweet. But I'm juiced up that that was a cool little thing.
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And finally the ground broke it. We talked about it and talk about it,
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but finally they actually put the back go into the ground and we're onto
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something. So it'll be fun this year going to the games. And it's
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kind of seeing it rise up from the ground, if you will, over
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the next couple of years. Is as as we watch it come to life
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in real time. Yeah, I mean, and and rise up for the
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ground at will, because it's gonna be a very tall stadium. Remember Ralph
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Wilson Stadium is built into the ground, the domus into the ground. That's
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why, Um, you get some of those different vantage points that look really
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cool because we are literally looking down into the ground. The bowl of the
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stadium is way below ground level. This will not be the case. I
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mean, this stadium is going up. You're gonna be seeing the transformation as
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you're driving by. Um, you know the Ralph right now, You're gonna
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be seeing a lot of different formations of of the bones and the structure of
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the actual new high Mark Stadium, and it's gonna be something to look at.
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I can't wait. Me personally, I can't wait for those buffalo I
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can't wait for that picture. Um. I want one of those small but
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yeah, yeah, helicopters. Yeah. I don't know how they're going to
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deliver those bad boys, but I know that I want one for Christmas.
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I want one of the smaller ones that you see around town. I want
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those for down here in Charlotte. I want one sitting right in front of
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my my main, my main front door, and I want it. I
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want it right in the yard. Doesn't have to be big, but these,
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you know the buffalo they're talking about the stadium, we're going to be
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some of the biggest in the world. So I'm I'm really excited for that.
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It gets a couple of pictures, because that'll be a cool spectacle,
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so interesting, you know. Brandon bean Dt as we transition a little bit,
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he continues to maneuver. He's sneaky, man. I mean, this
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guy is sneaky. He loves his trading up in the draft. He can
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never sit still. He told us about that before the draft, and then
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it came to fruition that he wasn't going to be able to sit still.
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When he goes up and gets Dalton Concave and gets a guy that he needs,
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or he thinks that he needs, at least he moves with conviction and
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I will give him that regardless of the fact. When it comes time for
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the end of his tenure, DT, you will be able to say that
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Brandon be believed in the things that he believed in, and he didn't shy
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away from him, and he went after it right or wrong, you know
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what I mean? Big ninety one at Oliver, a number nine overall pick
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back in the draft a couple of years ago. He goes and gets the
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bag DT four years, sixty eight million dollars forty five million guaranteed. We'll
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go over some of the different structures, which kind of shows that the Bills
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have some house after a few years. But what was your initial reaction?
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I'll tell you mine DT. When I saw it come up with my feed,
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I said, what I like it, Oliver. I was excited when
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we got him. I had followed his career there down in Houston. Number
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ten is my favorite number, so I liked number ten and I had saw
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that he was a number ten, and I, you know, I heard
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that he you know's got you know, he's a cowboy and he's got a
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whole bunch of horses down there, and he's he's a good old cowboy.
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I think one of his cowboys name, one of his horse's name is Oreo
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and and listen, I like his personality. I didn't. I was more
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surprised when I saw a DT. I said, kind of like, what
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like y'all gave him the bag? Not because I don't like him, but
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because I hadn't really seen the production that would call for this type of deal.
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Obviously, Brandon me knows something that we don't, or he was looking
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for a little bit of certainty in the defensive tackle room because we know that
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obviously everybody's on a one year deal. This year, no defensive tackles on
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the Buffalo Bill's roster were signed beyond twenty twenty three. DT what did you
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think when you saw it? Man? I know WGR has been kind of
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uh, you know, slicing it up this week and it's been interesting to
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watch. But I was, I was a little bit surprised when it first
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came out. I will be honest. Some of the contract details have kind
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of softened my stance, but when it first came out, I was,
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I was a little bit surprised that they actually invested in them. Well,
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that just it. I mean you look at the production and it is this
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is sixty two million dollars worth that production. To be honest, in my
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eyes, it really hasn't been. But you said it, Rob, I
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mean, there's nobody else on this defensive line after next year at least on
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contract, and everyone on that one year on those one year deals you know
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in the interior D line is going to be older. Right, So I
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think this was a game of a lot of cards here. You you draft
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and develop. You know it's your guy. You took them first round.
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You believed him in. He's and don't get me wrong, he's been good.
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Um, he just hasn't been that uh you know, don consue Warren
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sat you know it's yeah, you know, so but um, you know,
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so draft and develop, you get a guy who you know, you
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probably know you're gonna get the little depleted at the position next year, and
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instead of restarting completely, pay your pay your first rounder. So, um,
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I get it. Like you said, once the once the details of
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the contract kind of came out a little more, I I settled down a
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little bit in the money standpoint of it, and you know, you gotta
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pay guys to keep them here, and and they just weren't going to have
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anybody after next year. So I think it was a little mix of we'll
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take the gamble on you. You're a first round pick, you're not some
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Joe Schuma off the street. We'll take the gamble on you. And you
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know we're gonna have to fill this whole line next year, so at least
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let's take take one step. I was kind of excited going in, thinking
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all these guys are gonna have to play for you know, who's gonna who
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who? The bill's gonna pay, like you all have to leather to get
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paid, right, and that would have brought out some good competition and whatnot.
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But I think there's there's good attitude. It's good, you know,
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veteran leadership on this line and now at Oliver, hey, this comes to
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every time. When I got my recent promotion of us, said, you
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know this is coming with um, you know, it's happiness, but it's
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also coming with expectations. So I think that was definitely what what was brought
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into, you know, to this room. And at Oliver isn't just the
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the new guy that can play anymore, and he's looked at as the veteran
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and the leader on this team as well. So that's all expectation with with
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this bag and um so so I'm cool with it, but uh, yeah,
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it was It was definitely surprising. Yeah, it was surprising. You
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know. It's it's funny because when you talk about the defensive tackle room,
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it's kind of like that you know the Joker, you know movie from a
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while ago, The Dark Night, where you know, the Joker literally snaps
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a full stick in half and then he throws it to the henchman. He's
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like, listen, He's like, we've got a job promotion. He's like,
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but there's want to like and then he walks out of the room and
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it was just like it was just implied as the as the camera leaves the
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room like man like said, hey, listen, you've been a fight for
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this thing. So I was definitely leaning towards letting him kind of play it
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out. They had signed him up for the fifth year option at ten million,
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but again, Brandon Bean has a bigger plan. He uses that money,
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you know, supposedly so to sign Leonard Floyd. The next day,
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Buffalo signs Leonard Floyd. Listen, this is not a slout. So this
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is not just another run of the mill defensive end or just another name or
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a guy that was drafted high back in his draft year. Leonard Floyd can
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play football. He is tenth in the league in sex the last three years.
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He has twenty nine sexs the last three years, nine in each year.
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No Buffalo bill has even had nine sex Besides, I think it was
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like Jordan Phillips a couple of years ago or something like that. Like this
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guy gets to the quarterback. I watched some film on him on Buffalo rumbling,
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some little clips, and he loves that wide nine, and he loves
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to use his bend and his his athleticism to kind of get around the edge
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and surprise some of the tackles. Leonard Floyd can play. Man. He's
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out in the field. He's tall, he's range like he's got he's got
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that length that kind of makes make you look twice man, I'm I'm down.
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Man. Listen as much as they've poured into the defensive end position with
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you know, with uh Epanessa and then with you know, Boogie Basham and
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Rousseau, who's trying to come along and he looks okay. I want to
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see some type of return. The fact that they've got another guy to go
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with him, whether it be just to kind of hold the fort down,
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whether it be until bon Miller gets back or not. I'm cool with a
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DT because of the fact that I want to get some type of return.
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I want to make quarterbacks nervous. I want to get more three and ounce.
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I want to get them off the field and get our quarterback who we'll
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talk about to end the show back on the field. I want. I
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want more possessions. I want more offensive possessions. The defense will help get
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that done. And Leonard Floyd man, he's not a he's not just a
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name man like he's he's got production. Yeah, not at all. I
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mean you you said a rob. The fact of he's not just a guy
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like this dude is legit. We we've tried to draft and develop route,
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you know, and haven't seen the return as we'd like with you know,
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as a and I mean Russeau is getting there, I think, but you
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know, still not still not you know, fully comfortable as you saw last
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year of you know, a good defensive line. Von Miller goes out and
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they kind of goes silent the rest of the year. So, uh,
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this this does a couple things. This one brings in a great player going
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to be opposite you know, opposite of von gets these younger guys, another
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guy to learn from, another guy to compete with. And then too,
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it eases the blow of not having to rush, be desperate and rush Von
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Miller back. You know, it helps helps kind of elongate that process.
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And and if he needs another couple of weeks and he's got to go to
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week six or eight, we got that, you know, we got that
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standard Villiam, that dominant pass rusher in Leonard Floyd. It's like huge pickup.
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Again, this is a name I see beginning a free agency no shot.
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We get this guy, right, He's gonna go big money, you
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know, somewhere Brandon Bean says he's not making any moves. There's there's no
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shot we're gonna splash for a guy. And then, you know, quietly,
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real quietly, you know, Sunday, late, late Sunday night,
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here comes Leonard Forward the bill. So um, you know, he's he's
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excited to be here. He's he's made made decent money in the league and
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now he can come you know, on that ring chase if you will.
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As a lot of these veterans are trying to do. So does a lot
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of things for this team and the production from the draft standpoint, we weren't
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seeing it. So maybe this is kind of that that, uh, you
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know what they're trying to fill in this boyd. But man, you go
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down the pass rusher list here, there's gonna be some guys not getting a
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jersey. You know, let's go through it. Here, you got von
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Miller and Leonard Floyd are probably lock ins, and then Greg Russol. Then
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that's a boogie bass shack Lawson. That's gonna be you know, there's gonna
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it's gonna be the same thing as that the Joker and the Hunchman. There's
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gonna be one probably three decent, decently, No one bills names fighting for
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it. So it sets another standard of this team of what we're doing is
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not good enough. And and just because you we drafted you doesn't mean you
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know, you're getting a spot on this team anymore, as it kind of
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met, you know, in the previous couple of years. So I think
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it's sets a lot of tones, it sets a lot of temperature in in
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that room. But I think it's only going to help bring that temperature up
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a little bit. Yeah, no competition, you know, iron iron,
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Chafferin's iron. So I'm never against it. I'm down with it. I
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want the guys to push each other. And Brandon being is certainly not afraid
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now, you know, like you kind of alluded to, it's sometimes it's
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a little bit, you know, concerning that they've kind of sunk in all
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these costs into the defensive end. Hattant seen the fruit from that tree,
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and now they're spending another asset. But again, Brandon being kind of you
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know, kills two birds with one stone. He signs a defensive tackle that
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they drafted that they kind of groomed create some cap space, and then they
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take that cap space and they sign somebody that they think can provide an immediate
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need, and I think that that's where Leonard Floyd kind of comes in.
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He will provide an immediate need while the guys in the back end are still
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kind of fighting for their jobs and Buggy Basham and and aj Epiness are trying
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to show where they fit in. With this group, I think that the
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top line, the top tier of the rotation is kind of set now and
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they get a chance to kind of come into the season. Like you said,
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regardless of if Von I would love to be able to have Von back
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healthy, no setbacks, where we're not worried about a pitch count as much
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or anything like that. However much that we're going to give him this daily
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dose is weekly dose of snaps, we can give him and not worry about
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it too much as opposed to bringing it back early and he's only playing of
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twenty five percent of the snaps. He's that type of thing, and that
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we're all kind of gingerly and on pins and needles. So I would rather
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see them just come back full forth so in the meantime Look can handle it
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exactly. Maybe it's a transition to a little bit of different philosophy from this
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Bill's defense is mcdermot's gonna be called the plays. Now, maybe it's a
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little it was all rotation, all rotation, and there's gonna be rotation.
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That's just inevitable in the NFL. You got to give guys rest. But
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maybe this is starting to get into a point where, all right, we're
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paying that Oliver, you're going to get almost every snap in the middle.
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We're paying you know, they're paying Learnard, We're playing von Miller. Like
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these dudes might not be rotational as much as in the previous years, Like
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we got big money up front. These dudes are our playmakers. They're gonna
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get majority of the snaps. So maybe that's kind of the way this this
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team's moving in that direction as well. It's it's not just gonna be everybody
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gets a turn anymore. It's you earned it. We're paying you like that,
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you're gonna get majority, You're gonna you know, earn your money.
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Yeah. Maybe, so, I mean, we're gonna break down offensive coordinator
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Ken Dorsey, We're gonna break down new defensive coordinator head coach Sean McDermott later
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in this offseason. So that'll definitely be something that for us to kind of
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chew on, because I know I've heard a lot of people talking about how
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McDermott might show a little bit more of his aggressive side back from his Carolina
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days and this Philadelphia days. So I've got something for that. So I'll
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just I'll tuck that away in my pocket and I will remember that that that
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DT said that. Okay, T T things, so we let's see more.
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Okay, all right now? Cam Danceler signed by the Buffalo Bills today.
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I look another death back and it was interesting to see him because he's
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had a little bit of talent for sure. Third round pick for Minnesota.
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He bounced around to Washington I think or something like that last year and yeah,
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yeah, yeah, he bounced around it and stay there and then he's
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on the Bills. And then some people might say, you know whoa out
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of the Bills and in another cornerback and listen, I think that they try
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to stack talent on on top of talent, and that's really what I think
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it is. You know, we do have Kayer Elam and he was drafted
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in the first round, and we do have Benford who beat out Elam for
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a starting job last year. And then we've got you know, Cam Lewis,
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and we've got you know, all these other guys and position flexibility and
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maybe Benford moves to safety and all this other stuff that Damar Hamlin doesn't meet
21:40
the team and all YadA, YadA YadA. I just think that they like
21:44
to have some type of depth in the backfield, defensive backfield DT. And
21:48
I think that that's really what it comes down to, where it might be
21:51
a situation where Drummer just says, hey, man, get as many good
21:53
players as you can from me back there and I'll figure out. I'll let
21:56
the cream rice to the crop. As we get into training camp, Cam
22:00
Danceler Buffalo Bill signed today. The wheeling and dealing for Brandon being not done,
22:03
I mean more depth. I just I never I'm never mad at a
22:07
premium position for depth just because guys get hurt DT, guys get banged up,
22:12
and you just never know what the situation is going to be like for
22:15
the team. I mean it is, it is. It's crazy, man,
22:18
it really is crazy. Yeah. And I'm gonna say this is less
22:25
as much non disrespect as possible no disrespect When I say this, I feel
22:30
like corners are like golf balls for me. Okay, you can never have
22:33
enough. You can never have enough in your bag, you know, because
22:36
you know you're gonna lose some. You know you're gonna you know, you're
22:38
gonna blow some, right, You're gonna blow some into the water, and
22:41
then occasionally you pull one out of your bag and that's the one that you
22:45
play the rest of your round with. You're hitting it good, You're feeling
22:48
nice with it, and that's I feel like, what corners other than Trey
22:51
White are gonna be on this team for the remainder of the career of Trey
22:56
White. It's gonna be Trey White and everybody underneath. It's just gonna be
22:59
who's hitting the ball bats what balls going down the middle of the fair way,
23:02
and there's gonna be some that go into the woods, that go into
23:04
the water, and then you just keep rotating. So I don't think you
23:07
can ever have enough when it comes to cornerbacks. And this this kid's got
23:11
talent. Rob on a third round pick a sec boy, you know,
23:15
a big six two six two frame. I think he can come in and
23:21
really compete for for some snaps. It's not just some you know, mid
23:25
some camp, some camp Jersey. This guy can he was a starter in
23:27
Minnesota. Um, they never had an outstanding defense, but starter in Minnesota
23:33
coming in pushes kyrielam and take that next step Trey White. If he doesn't
23:36
come back to you know, full bore, like everyone thinks he's going to,
23:40
it's just another death guy to put in there. So I think it's
23:41
a great pick up. It's it brings good talent to the secondary. And
23:45
like you said, there could be some other things up the sleeves is changing
23:48
positions and position with football, and you know, Tarren Johnson always comes down
23:52
and plays a little closer to the box. Christian Benford might go to the
23:55
safety role. Who knows what if Ti munt Hamlin comes back at all.
23:57
You know, So if a lot of I said some weird shit about Elim
24:02
today that w GR was parsing, that was like some weird comments about Elim
24:06
and his practice habits or whatever the case may be, or lack of them,
24:08
So it'll be interesting. I don't I just never at a premium position
24:12
like cornerback, defensive end, um, you know, tackles, wide receivers.
24:18
I just I just almost think that you can never have enough yeah,
24:21
yeah, and then you pull that one out of your bag, Robin.
24:23
It's good. It's good for you the rest of the golf round. And
24:26
hopefully that's what Game Dancer is for us. I like debything golf ball,
24:30
but I like that. Listen, man, it was some hot interesting news
24:34
today on the bills. It was much speculated. Um. I know that
24:40
this one touches a chord for me personally because I have been a purchaser of
24:45
the Madden franchise since. Oh man, I don't even I mean I go
24:48
way back, man to two thousand, nineteen ninety. I mean, I
24:52
mean, I've got all I've got all these really wasn't yeah, man,
24:56
I mean, Madden is just kind of something where it's it's a part of
25:00
the fabric of American football for kids, like I mean when it comes to
25:06
either playing the game outside itself physically playing football, and then when you go
25:11
inside, like it was just a situation where Madden was it like back then
25:15
when I was growing up, Madden was I mean, it was everything.
25:18
It was just a situation where everybody wanted to get on the sticks and everybody
25:22
wanted to show everybody who was better and what level do you play on.
25:26
If you don't play on All Madden, then you're not really playing and all
25:29
this other stuff and the games, and then online comes and then that's a
25:32
whole different feature of online, and now you've got Madden. I literally,
25:37
during the summertime, DT could turn on, maybe it's like ESPN two or
25:41
ESPN News and they're playing. You know, it might be dead of Summer
25:45
or something like that. Not a lot of major sports going on besides baseball,
25:48
but you'll see a tournament where guys are there on their xboxes playstage and
25:52
they're going at it on Madden. And like, Madden was such a big
25:56
deal, even the college football game for me and Ace was such a big
26:00
deal growing up. Man, Josh Allen will be gracing the cover of Madden
26:06
twenty four. We've got at least two editions right now, the standard Madden
26:10
twenty four edition and the Deluxe Edition. I'm not sure if he's gonna be
26:12
on the All Maddened version or if they're gonna make one that would mean a
26:15
third cover, but for now, I've seen two covers. Today I put
26:19
him on my Instagram for nicol City Crew. I'm excited, man, because
26:23
what it shows really, to be honest, is it's just the meteoric rise
26:27
of Josh Allen, our quarterback and how he is. I mean, if
26:32
all the TMZ reports and he's on the back of the New York Post now
26:36
doesn't convince you Josh Allen is. He's in a different stratosphere now. He
26:40
is no longer just a football player. He is becoming a superstar. He's
26:44
becoming an icon in respects to a sports figure. You know, he's not
26:48
as big as Tiger Woods or any of those guys or anything like that,
26:52
but that's those guys transcender sports. Yes, Tiger Wood's played golf, but
26:56
you know him for the game. You know him for the hat, you
27:00
know him for the red shirt on Sunday. You know him for so many
27:03
different things. The same thing with Michael Jordan. You know him. A
27:06
lot of kids don't even know how good Michael Jordan was. They just know
27:08
the shoes and they know the jump man logo. Josh Allen man Like he
27:12
jumps over guys and he throws over safeties, and he stiff arms linebackers and
27:18
he jumps over guys and like he's becoming he's becoming a bona fide superstar.
27:23
Man right here Western York, Josh Allen is a big deal now, t
27:27
team like, he's not. He's not he's no small he's no small beans
27:30
anymore. Man like, he's he's a big deal. It's awesome, Rob,
27:33
it's awesome. I mean that that general descent of of ascent excuse me,
27:40
not descent, the general ascent of just becoming a superstar, you know.
27:44
And and now it's like, all right, he's checking the boxes.
27:48
He's checking the boxes. He you know, he's a freak on the field.
27:51
He's now he might be in the Hollywood dating scene. Now he's on
27:53
the cover of Madden. Right, So now we're gonna start getting to some
27:57
real checks. Rob, you know where the the MVPs, the super Bowls,
28:02
the and those are. You know what what real superstars do and the
28:06
real checks do and not everyone on the cover of Maddened by any means uh
28:10
lives up to that. But this isn't just some Peyton hillis randomly in the
28:14
middle of the two thousands on Peyton there. I'm I'm mad. This isn't
28:18
some random player that had a good year the previous year that they put on.
28:22
This is I think it's going to be a superstar in the league,
28:25
and you know when we'll be in my homes has got his, Bradi's has
28:26
got his, and all all the greats get theirs, and and this is
28:30
just a step first for him to do. I'm pumped. It's gonna be
28:33
awesome. Um, you know, put it in the display case right with
28:37
the jot with the Josh Jacks and they you know, right next to the
28:41
Josh Jacks, you got your your girl leaves. I don't think do they
28:45
now it's all digital, But I still think you can go get the cases.
28:47
I'm definitely can't say. I mean, you can still by the physical
28:51
market, even if I just go into the one of those game stops,
28:52
I get it, you know, digital on the Xbox and just take the
28:56
plastic kind of the wanted gave stops. But yeah, but I can't wait
29:00
to have that. You know, that's gonna be something you're gonna have the
29:02
rest of your life. And your kids are gonna look and say, oh,
29:03
yeah, that's twenty four Josh Josh was on the cover and that you're
29:07
they won the Super Bowl and you know, yeah, man, it's already
29:11
No just something that's it's a historic thing that like we can make our stamp
29:15
on you know, the stadium will be will be at the first one.
29:18
Josh An was on Madden and in the prime of his career and we were,
29:22
you know, we had a podcast and we're talking about it like it's
29:25
it's nuts, too emotional, Robb. Yet it's awesome, man, I
29:30
love it, you know because it's it's funny because like you kind of hit
29:33
on something, you know, on all the points man right there, on
29:36
all the notes, just because like I've played the game so long and like
29:38
it is a it's a big deal. Like my middle king is is going
29:41
crazy, you know, like I sent him a picture and like he's going
29:44
that's like josh is gonna be up, like he can't wait for the game
29:47
to come out. I'm definitely going, like you said, game stop for
29:48
a target somewhere to get the physical hard coop because I just want to frame
29:52
the actual copy of the game. You know, you can take the discount
29:56
and then go ahead and just frame that copy. I want it. It's
29:59
it is it's history, man. You know, Jim Kelly Thurman Thomas was
30:02
an MVP of the league. Never on the game, you know, I
30:04
mean, obviously times have changed now, but you know, it's just crazy
30:07
how times have changed and he really has arrived. There's no stopping the fact
30:14
or denying the fact that he really is, um, one of the stars
30:17
in the league. I know Mahomes has the Super Bowls right now, we're
30:19
looking to get to that level. Um. You know, Lamar Jackson has
30:22
an MVP. He was on the cover. You know, obviously Josh would
30:25
love to have an MVP as well. But the main thing is the Super
30:27
Bowl. That's the only thing that differentiates him between him and Patrick Mahomes at
30:32
this point. And in my opinion, you know, and and obviously they're
30:36
in the but in the stardom tower there there, hand in hand. You
30:41
know, they're many people know about Josh Allen as Patrick Mahomes, like Josh
30:45
Jonen's the top selling jersey out there, you know, So it's a it's
30:49
a people. He's addicting, man. Yeah, that's your word for Josh.
30:55
Yeah, he is addicting if for sure. And I really can't wait
30:57
to get a chance to get my hands in that game. I kind of
31:00
got you know, speaking of emotional, I kind of got emotional watching that
31:03
video because I just remember, like Madden was a big deal the college football
31:07
game. Me and and a DT we used to, uh, we used
31:11
to take over the MAC Conference. In the NCAA football you could create teams.
31:15
We would make teams from Section six, Like we'd make Williams the East,
31:19
South North. We put Gronk on North. We put I mean,
31:23
like all this crazy I mean crazy stuff our friends. We put all of
31:26
our friends on the teams. We create Sweet Home. We'd create a few
31:30
other teams as well, and then we would go and take over the MAC
31:33
and we would be you know, star Point and we would go in the
31:37
MAC and we It would just be fun just because of the fact that you
31:38
could do all the names and the player names. So like the NCAA franchise
31:42
was a big deal as well, because once those guys graduated, there was
31:45
a way to import them into Madden, and like it was a way to
31:49
integrate. We just thought that was the cool, like, oh my god,
31:52
I can do graduated and he's a three time All American and now he's
31:56
on you know, the Denver Broncos or whatever whoever he was drafted by.
31:59
So it was really cool kind of the progression because we would take it seriously
32:01
because we were kids and like there was not much else we could do when
32:05
we were playing inside other than take that type of stuff seriously, and we
32:08
definitely did. I love the madd enfranchise and I can't wait for it to
32:13
be a part of Bill's history. Man, that is, I don't.
32:16
I just some people think that it's like it's no big deal, but I'm
32:19
like, man, this is the biggest game. This is the sports game
32:22
in the world. Yeah, outside of this is exactly Yeah, everyone knows,
32:28
man. And then they always juice up the cover athlete too. They
32:30
always give him a little extra you know, a little electric speed, electric
32:32
throw power, you know, so it'll be it'll be fun to play with
32:37
as well. Yeah, man, it will be fun to play with.
32:38
It's it's funny because, you know, just watching all of the hype around
32:43
it, it was kind of some speculation beforehand, um, you know,
32:46
if he was gonna be on it, if he wasn't gonna be on it
32:49
with the case maybe. So I'm really happy for him to get this culmination.
32:52
So DT, man, we we've got I mean, it's interesting.
32:57
Brandon Bead made a couple of comments, you know, at at camp yesterday,
33:00
and he's talking about, you know, different guys. He talked about
33:04
the at Oliver contract. He talked about some other things as well. He'd
33:07
had some funny comments about Callier elements, some practice habits, and then he
33:10
was asked about our guys Steffan Diggs, who obviously we dedicated an entire episode
33:15
two. He had an interesting response to it. He said that he expects
33:17
everybody to be here. They kind of broke that down on WGR today,
33:21
kind of saying, well, if it was yes, and he knew he
33:22
was going to be here, then he would just say yes. Maybe he
33:24
doesn't really know what if the case may be. Again, I'm just warning
33:28
everybody, I do not think the Stefan Diggs is going to give his money
33:31
back number one, so he will be at mandatory Minny camp next week.
33:35
That is just my prediction. I don't know. I heard somebody said that
33:37
they know that he's in town or something like that. Listen, he's not
33:40
giving back money to the bills. He's not giving back pretty body, is
33:44
what I would. I would That's the way I would be leaning, is
33:46
that he's not going to give back, you know, money to the bills.
33:49
So He's not gonna be fine. He will be there, and once
33:52
again, I do not expect him to address anything. There is no beef
33:57
with Josh Allen or anything like that. He wants to win, and I
34:00
think that I'm pretty sure we will finally be able to put this to bed
34:05
like a military bed. You gotta tuck in the side tt. You gotta
34:07
make sure your pillow and everything, all the side sheets are tucked in tight.
34:12
I think we will be able to wrap this up tight next week once
34:15
mandatory minicamp starts. But I know that that w g R kind of batted
34:19
it around like a cat with yarn today talking about coming or did he not
34:25
coming? Or he would have just said yes if he knew he was coming,
34:28
And I would just listen to the radio, just like, why don't
34:30
y'all listen to Nickel City Crew, Why don't y'all listen to this education to
34:34
step by Nigga. Y'all need to listen to the episode six man from last
34:37
week? I mean, DT, what else? Can I mean? What
34:40
else? Man? We did a whole episode, a divisional, a new
34:45
divisional foe Aaron Rodgers, you know R E L A X last right,
34:51
this is this is what people and hopefully next week when he when he's here,
34:54
and that that puts it to bed, because yeah, we're sick of
34:57
hearing about it, and then then it'll get you know, I get you
35:00
know, the media has that has the they're they're defending themselves saying, well,
35:06
this, we have to report on this. This is our job,
35:07
you know. Okay, Well when he comes in and squashes it, then
35:12
it's not your job anymore. Shut the hell up. We're ready to roll.
35:15
It's it's time to win a ring. So uh yeah, I sure
35:17
one. I hope he's there because if he's not, then yeah yeah,
35:25
yeah, yeah, we'll be We'll be fine. He'll be there. He's
35:29
got to get start getting reps in and um, you know with the with
35:32
the Madden cover athletes, so he'll be ready. Hey yeah, yeah,
35:36
absolutely. I think that he'll be at camp next weekend. I don't expect
35:39
again much news to come out of it other than he'll he'll report to work.
35:44
He's ready to go to work. It's time to get to go get
35:45
a Super Bowl. Um. Everybody seems to be singular focused on that.
35:50
We've heard about how Josh Allen we talked about it last week is just focus,
35:52
focused, focused. He keeps reminding you how focused he is, how
35:55
ready he is to attack this year. So I'll just actions are out of
36:00
the way, so to speak, and he is he's ready to go get
36:02
it. I think the same thing for Stefan Diggs. I think he's going
36:06
to be ultra focused, ready to come in and help this team. The
36:09
wide receiver room has changed a little bit. The running back room has changed
36:15
a lot. Uh, the offensive line has changed some. I mean,
36:19
the tight end room has changed dramatically with the addition of a first round draft
36:22
pick. The linebacker room has changed tt. The defensive tackles have now all
36:27
rounded into form on one year deals outside of Bed Oliver. The defensive end
36:30
room has changed a little bit. Everything is I mean, now we talked
36:35
about cornerback depth with Danceler rounding out some of the depth in the Everything has
36:38
changed a little bit, and it seems like it's it's kind of like um
36:43
shop class DT. Remember you would you'd rough out the edges on your on
36:46
your wood piece, and all you're really doing now is just trying to make
36:51
sure everything is smooth and everything. You know you've got the shape you know
36:53
what you want. You know, you're making a cutting board for your mom
36:57
for Mother's Day. You took off the glue from it, and now you're
37:00
just trying to sand that thing down and just trying to make sure that it's
37:02
perfect for her for Mother's Day. I really sometimes I look at the roster.
37:07
Sometimes I look at the way that Brandon been operats, and I'm like,
37:08
he's just standing now, like he's just making sure that everyone listen,
37:13
Sean, I don't want you to have any you know, don't put any
37:15
of this shit on my flate, you know what I mean. I'm giving
37:16
you everything I can to make sure that you are going to be successful.
37:20
And I kind of sometimes feel like that's what he's doing. He's standing,
37:23
He's rounding out the edges. I like Blendon Bean. I like his conviction.
37:28
Again, we've talked about that with the draft. Sometimes he's wrong.
37:30
You know, you've got you know, you've got Cody Forwards for every you
37:35
know or CYR restaurants. You know, you've got picks that don't all work
37:37
out. However, he's never been one to be scared, and I there's
37:42
just a level of respect that I have for that DT. I don't really
37:44
know how to explain it other than I respect a man's conviction when he thinks
37:49
that he knows something. He may be right, he may be wrong.
37:52
He's okay, I'm gonna pay at Oliver, But what am I gonna do.
37:54
I'm gonna structure it where after year two I've got outs, you know
37:58
what I mean. So you're gonna get a little bit of money in the
37:59
begin you're gonna be happy, your your agent's happy, your family's happy.
38:02
And then I'm gonna make sure that I protect my own ass. So that
38:06
way, if you if you start to lack, you know, to get
38:07
a little bit lazy, like you know March Hildarius did, then I can
38:10
I can get out of it with with minimal cat penalties. I just feel
38:14
like Brandon Mean is constantly smoothing out the edges of this roster, and it
38:17
makes me feel comforting because I always feel comforting knowing that he's doing his job.
38:22
I think he's really good at it. I really do. Yeah,
38:23
Nickels City, I don't know who can sit here and say we're not better
38:30
right now than we were last year. Yeah, with this roster, I
38:32
mean literally Traymond Edmonds is the only name, the only name of of significance
38:38
that I'm like a I would have liked to have him. And he was
38:42
fifty fifty with the fans too. People people wanted me to say. So
38:45
other than that name, we addressed every other spot. We got other spot,
38:52
we got boy, or we got hot at injuries or back. We
38:53
beefed up where we needed to, offensive, defensive line beef this wide receiver
38:59
room got it, got some more running help. I mean, we've literally
39:02
covered every base that dreamon. Edmonds is the only name that's questionable. Everything
39:07
else is we got better at so uh, you know, barring and there's
39:12
gonna be injuries, There's gonna be things and a lot of there's gonna be
39:15
a lot of big games that don't make this roster robin. That's a good
39:17
problem to have. That's a good problem to have. Well, I mean
39:22
it's interesting because, um, you know, it's like I said, it's
39:27
interesting just because of the fact that it just seems like he's in a situation
39:30
where he's he's rounding out the edges of the roster. He's making sure that
39:34
everything is perfect forum Sean McDermott and I just like I just like him,
39:38
man I do. I like Brandon Bead. I like him a lot.
39:40
I like the way that he operates. I like the fact that he has
39:44
a lot of conviction. And it's time for us to start digging in.
39:46
I don't know if we'll be taking a break or not, but we've got
39:51
training camp coming up in a month, so I know we'll take a break
39:52
before training camp DT, but it's time. The time is coming closer where
39:59
it's nothing else to talk about in respects to the bills other than the men
40:02
leading and the ones with the clipboards or the ones that are calling the place.
40:07
So we are going to start to dissect Ken Dorsey on the offensive side
40:10
of the ball. We're gonna start to dissect Sean mcderbott, which we've done
40:14
at nauseum on a bigger scale as the head coach of the team. Now
40:19
he's the DC as well, so we're gonna start to get into that.
40:21
I have heard I'm must if I had a nickel for every time I heard
40:24
somebody on WGR or somebody want to on a blog telling me that that Sean
40:29
McDermott is going to be more aggressive. He is and this was all just
40:35
Leslie Fraser. If I hear it one more time, I'll be rich.
40:38
And and I've kept my mouth quiet, and that's fine because I because truly
40:43
we don't know DT and I don't want to get into another episode tonight,
40:45
but truly we don't know about it. But I've got my theories. I
40:50
can't wait to get some of yours. And obviously the offense is um you
40:52
know that, that's the pretty shiny thing that everybody wants to know about.
40:55
How is the offense going to look? You only get one year to say
40:59
it was your first year. Last year, Ken Dorson could say, hey
41:01
man, it's my first time job. Man, y'all gonna be a little
41:04
break, Okay, we give me, you give me you a break.
41:07
There's there's just no more breaks, not when you're not winning the offensive coordinate
41:10
for a team in the Super Bowl window. I'm sorry, your your job
41:15
is more scrutinized than the Houston, Texas oc um. Your job is more
41:19
criticized than you know to mean, the Indianapolis oc or. It's just I'm
41:22
just sorry. It's just more highly scrutinized. When the window is open.
41:27
The window was clearly opened. Josh Allen is in his prime. Don't don't
41:30
flip this up like that's kind of that's kind of. I'm looking at Ken
41:35
and I've got a few willow points on him. We're gonna have to start
41:37
to dig into these coordinators. TT lot a lot of pressure is when you're
41:42
listening out there Bills Mafia. A lot more pressure because Nicol City Crew is
41:45
coming. We're getting better every week. We're coming a little harder, we're
41:49
coming a little more insights. So we're definitely gonna be digging in a little
41:52
more than we used to. You know, We're not just hitting our bullet
41:54
points and moving on. We're we're digging in on your all lass. So
41:58
that alcohol you got more eyes on it. I love it. I love
42:01
it, I love it. I love it. Well. The Madden Game
42:05
comes out in a couple of months, um for sure. Yeah, pre
42:07
order now. I just put it on Instagram. So check out our instagram
42:12
at Nickel City Crew again. You could check out Adam Rupsick again Adam r
42:15
u p c z y k at Adam Rupsick on Instagram as well. How
42:20
light us man, how let's give them you don't want to go bills tonight?
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I mean the d Go week bill. Yeah man, they gave us
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a little content this week. We didn't have to work to our no heavy
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lifting in the summer man, we gotta We got a chance to get an
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easy one and I like that. As always, these are my bills thoughts
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set out loud. Please spread love not hate. Hit them with one more
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bills dog Days and summer Man Go bills. Man