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S6 E13: Charged Up · Nickel City Crew Podcast

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  Speaker 1: 15 degrees, you can see your breath. Out here in
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  Speaker 1: the lake of fact. Breaking tables like it's poetry.
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  Speaker 2: Where else would you.
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  Speaker 1: Have to be?
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  Speaker 2: Pinto, Ron, Elvis, and the Leigh Ponshaw.
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  Speaker 1: The members that you.
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  Speaker 3: Need to know.
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  Speaker 1: Once you're out here now, your family. Where else would you.
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  Speaker 2: Have to be? Welcome in to the Nickel City Crew.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, Rob Crippen.
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  Speaker 3: Please like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram
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  Speaker 3: and Twitter at NickelCityCrew. This episode, along with all of
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  Speaker 3: our episodes, are presented by Crippen Legacy Entertainment here on
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  Speaker 3: Spreaker and StreamYard. We're so glad that you're joining us
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  Speaker 3: for some of your Buffalo Bills and NFL content again today.
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  Speaker 3: And as always, these are my Bills thoughts said out loud.
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  Speaker 1: It's a vibe so ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: Alright, let's get straight to it. Really excited for tonight's episode.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny, you know, we talked before the Sunday slate
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  Speaker 3: last week on TGIF and, you know, Bills are sitting
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  Speaker 3: there 2-0. We got a nice little easy Sunday ahead
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  Speaker 3: of us, we get a chance to kind of hate
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  Speaker 3: watch and watch other teams and see what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: And DT, this league is drunk.
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  Speaker 3: I have no idea what is going on in this
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  Speaker 3: league after last Sunday, man. Some of the games and
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  Speaker 3: the results just had me, I was just shaking my
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  Speaker 3: head at the score. So it's just a reminder that
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  Speaker 3: you don't know everything right now. It's still early in
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  Speaker 3: the year. But it's interesting. I can't wait to get
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  Speaker 3: into it tonight. Joining me tonight, as always, my co-host,
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  Speaker 3: riding shotgun, Adam Dump Truck Rupczyk. Check him out on
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  Speaker 3: Instagram and Twitter at Adam Rupczyk, R-U-P-C-Z-Y-K. Holla at the crew, DT, TGIF, man.
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  Speaker 2: It's our week. It's Nickel City week. It's our week, DT.
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  Speaker 2: Holla at the crew. What's up?
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  Speaker 1: Nickel City, what's up? Friday night, we're back. A nice
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  Speaker 1: long week for the Mafia and Nickel City crew. We
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  Speaker 1: got to chill through last weekend, pretty stress-free, and get
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  Speaker 1: into this game week, and we still haven't played yet.
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  Speaker 1: So we had two games before we had a show,
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  Speaker 1: and now we haven't had a game before our next show,
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  Speaker 1: and that's how it rolls when you Got 17 and
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  Speaker 1: you play all over the map and all over the
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  Speaker 1: time zone. We're ready to rock. So another week, a
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  Speaker 1: big one coming up. Chargers coming to town. Can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to get into it. But any given Sunday, Rob, you
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  Speaker 1: said it. All these teams, survivor pools, beware. Buccaneers go down.
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  Speaker 1: Chargers twice. Teams like the Packers getting blown out last
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  Speaker 1: night to the Falcons who didn't even look like an
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  Speaker 1: NFL team. So It is crazy, and we'll get into
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  Speaker 1: it tonight too, but any given Sunday, you can't count
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  Speaker 1: anybody out. These big spreads with these NFL teams are
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  Speaker 1: just tough to see because you see it right there.
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  Speaker 1: They're professionals too. Teams like the Browns are getting wins
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  Speaker 1: after three-hour weather delays. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the three-hour weather delay. Yes, you're right. It's crazy, man.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I did not expect some of the results,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, that I saw on Sunday, and you
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  Speaker 3: were right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, even last night, They messed up my parlay.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I didn't even think, I mean, Atlanta just
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  Speaker 3: looked like two different teams as opposed to last week
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  Speaker 3: against Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just, it's just wild, wild league. And it's
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  Speaker 2: early in the year.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's funny because DT, we've got a team
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  Speaker 3: coming in, the LA Chargers who, man, they are, they're
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  Speaker 3: going through it. And tonight to help us out with it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, listen, he's a friend of the show now.
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  Speaker 3: It's the pleasantries and all that kind of stuff. I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 3: you know him, check him out. on uh twitter at
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  Speaker 3: sheet 808 our boy she down there in houston holla
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  Speaker 3: at the crew listen man i mean we we happy
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  Speaker 3: to have you back man i just wanted to kind
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  Speaker 3: of chop it up we needed some help tonight wanted
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  Speaker 3: you to to kind of come on and give your
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  Speaker 3: thoughts man welcome to the crew man holla at the
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  Speaker 3: crew how you doing man.
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  Speaker 4: Hey man i appreciate the invitation back dump truck it's
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  Speaker 4: good to see you again it's good to see both
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  Speaker 4: of you guys after a win i you know i
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  Speaker 4: have a A child in the back, so if you
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  Speaker 4: hear some screaming, I'm trying to keep it down. But
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate the invitation. And I'm a little bit outside
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  Speaker 4: of Dallas.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a little bit cooler in Dallas.
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  Speaker 2: Just a little bit. They get 105.
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  Speaker 4: We're somewhere around like 102.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, nice and cool and brisk.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, man, it's been funny because, DT, when you look
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  Speaker 3: at this team that's coming in the L.A. Chargers 0-2,
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  Speaker 3: I picked them to win their division. And, boy, am
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  Speaker 3: I looking– wrong right now with that prognostication. Listen, I
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  Speaker 3: thought that the mix between McDaniel and Harbaugh would work.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that they're both quirky. They're both a little
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  Speaker 3: bit odd for sure. And I just thought that it
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  Speaker 3: would work. I thought that the offense that McDaniel had
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  Speaker 3: with Miami would.
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  Speaker 2: Just unlock something with Herbert because he made it work
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  Speaker 2: with Tua.
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  Speaker 3: So to me, I was like, listen, if he can
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  Speaker 3: make it work with Tua, then he's got to make
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  Speaker 3: it work with an uber talented guy like Justin Herbert.
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  Speaker 2: It has not clicked DT.
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  Speaker 3: The two teams that they lost to, you would have
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  Speaker 3: never on paper probably marked down two losses. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they lose to, you know, who was it, the Raiders?
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  Speaker 2: And who else did they lose to? Cardinals. Cardinals, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Cardinals week one.
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  Speaker 3: DT, I'm a little bit perplexed because of the fact that,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, I thought that this team was going
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  Speaker 3: to have a lot more bite to it early on
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  Speaker 3: in the season. Their schedule gets really tough coming up,
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  Speaker 3: starting with us on Sunday. I don't know, man. I
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  Speaker 3: pegged them wrong. I did not see this. But we'll
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  Speaker 3: talk about it coming up here in a minute about
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  Speaker 3: their mind state. But I don't know, man, DT, I
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  Speaker 3: was way wrong about this team. I did not see
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  Speaker 3: them being 0-2 out the gate.
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  Speaker 1: In this run of quarterbacks with Josh Allen, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Josh Allens, the Mahomes, the Lamar Jacksons, the Justin Herbert,
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  Speaker 1: he was kind of just inside there, a little younger,
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  Speaker 1: but just in the talks of being in that next
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  Speaker 1: ring of up-and-comers of a good team you've got to
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  Speaker 1: look out for. and the brand name is just kind
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  Speaker 1: of worn off, right? The, the Patrick Mahomes is of
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  Speaker 1: the world, or we have the, the, like you said, the, the,
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  Speaker 1: what do you call them? The, the boogeyman, right? Uh, Rob,
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to that, like it's Herbert has just
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  Speaker 1: never been able to, you know, get one of those
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  Speaker 1: nicknames or be somebody's boogeyman or be a team that, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, is, is going to take you out again.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a team that has potential, but never lives up,
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  Speaker 1: never lives up to it. You know, the, the Dalton Kincaid, right. Of, uh,
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  Speaker 1: of them, of what we want to see. That's what
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers are every year. And it seems like they're,
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  Speaker 1: they do something and they just, they need their one
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  Speaker 1: move away from, from being good again. And then they
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  Speaker 1: make that move and they, it's the same old story, right? They're,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not expecting them to start off. They're a
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  Speaker 1: playoff team last year and the year before, not expecting
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  Speaker 1: them to start off obviously with the 0-2 record. But
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  Speaker 1: it's just never living up to that expectation. And granted
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  Speaker 1: the first two weeks, there's a lot of other things
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  Speaker 1: we'll get into today. where they're dealing with trouble in
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  Speaker 1: paradise elsewhere, you know, with injuries and just not clicking
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  Speaker 1: offensively and a lot of kind of missteps there on
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  Speaker 1: the field. But overall, as a brand, they just aren't
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  Speaker 1: something that you think is going to be good, but
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  Speaker 1: you're never really scared of because they've never really hurt
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  Speaker 1: anybody significantly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They're not the boogeyman to anybody. No, they're not.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, Sheen, it's interesting, this team. I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: you thought about them coming into the year. I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, I already have egg on my face.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that they were going to win the West.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that they were going to provide a nice
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  Speaker 3: little stiff competition to Kansas City. Same thing with Denver.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, man. It's not looking good early on. 0-2,
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  Speaker 3: that's a bad place to be.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a bad place to be. From my perspective,
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  Speaker 4: I kind of view the Chargers... that's potentially up a
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  Speaker 4: coming team over the last two years from the perspective
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  Speaker 4: of them getting one of the Harbaugh brothers and how
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  Speaker 4: good their reputation is in terms of turning teams around,
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  Speaker 4: having solid programs.
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  Speaker 1: And so I thought, is it Jim?
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  Speaker 4: I thought Jim Harbaugh was going to be, you know,
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  Speaker 4: down in Los Angeles, turning that team around, find him,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the right coach to coach Justin Herbert and
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  Speaker 4: get him right on track and things of that nature. And,
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  Speaker 4: and just be solid contender in terms of the AFC West.
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  Speaker 4: But obviously it's not going that way. Justin Herbert isn't,
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  Speaker 4: you know, turning into the player that most prognosticators have him,
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  Speaker 4: had him slated for coming out of the draft. He
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  Speaker 4: has all the arm talent in the world, but you know,
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  Speaker 4: this is football. So it's like, you got to put
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  Speaker 4: it all together. He hasn't been able to put it
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  Speaker 4: all together just yet.
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  Speaker 2: No, he hasn't. And you know, it's interesting because like DT,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. I, I don't know, man.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't get it, man. I just don't.
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  Speaker 3: I think that, I mean, Sheet is right. He does
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  Speaker 3: have all the arm talent. We've seen that. And shout
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  Speaker 3: out to the chat room. My boy, Jay, was just asking,
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  Speaker 3: you know, is there leadership in question and stuff like that?
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  Speaker 3: And I've heard, you know, we hear all the jokes
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  Speaker 3: and stuff, especially.
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  Speaker 2: On Twitter and the Madison Beard jokes. And I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: care about football if I had this at home, too.
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  Speaker 3: But, like, in all seriousness, like, I don't think that–
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  Speaker 3: I don't think that it's anything that's off the field.
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  Speaker 3: It just seems like it just doesn't click for him.
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  Speaker 3: He's year seven, and he hasn't won a playoff game,
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  Speaker 3: like not one.
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  Speaker 2: We all remember that four interception game against Houston a
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  Speaker 2: couple years ago.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's a part of that comeback, right, against,
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  Speaker 3: I think it was Indy, when they were up big,
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  Speaker 3: and then they let the indy come back for they
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  Speaker 3: i think they actually broke the bills record jacksonville jacksonville
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  Speaker 3: yes the largest comeback in playoff history they broke the
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  Speaker 3: bills record from uh from the houston oilers like i
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  Speaker 3: don't know man it's it's something about them that where
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  Speaker 3: i don't necessarily want to blame it on something off
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  Speaker 3: the field because i don't think that that's necessarily fair
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  Speaker 3: And I know that I've given Josh shit about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: his golf and stuff like that. But DT, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: year seven, not one playoff win. You're starting to get
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  Speaker 3: into a territory where, like, you could be called. You
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  Speaker 3: could be labeled however people want to label you. They
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  Speaker 3: want to label you a bust, they can.
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  Speaker 2: And they wouldn't be wrong.
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  Speaker 3: They want to label you overhyped, they can. And they
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be wrong. He's kind of teetering on that edge, man. Like,
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  Speaker 3: seven years is a long time for a guy that's
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  Speaker 3: quote-unquote talented.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the physical intangibles are all there, right? He's big.
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  Speaker 1: He can move. His arm talent's great. But what? He
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  Speaker 1: don't got that dog. Don't got that dog in him.
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  Speaker 1: Don't got that 17 in him, right? And that's the
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  Speaker 1: difference with 17 being an athletic specimen himself, but he's
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  Speaker 1: also a psychopath. And that's what makes you, you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously that hasn't related to Super Bowls, but gets you
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  Speaker 1: at least a couple of playoff wins, not zero playoff
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  Speaker 1: wins when you're not a threat to anybody as the Chargers.
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  Speaker 1: So He has the physical intangibles. He's that kid in
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  Speaker 1: your rec league basketball that could be so good if
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  Speaker 1: he just cared and had a little competitive nature. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying Justin Herbert doesn't care. He's played football
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  Speaker 1: all his life. He knows how to be a competitor.
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  Speaker 1: But similar to that Trevor Lawrence-type vibe where you can't
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  Speaker 1: motivate me to make a sandwich, right? And being a
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  Speaker 1: leader of men, you can go out and make throws
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  Speaker 1: and whatever, but he's always– He gets hit a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and he just doesn't have that gut instinct, I think,
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  Speaker 1: to kill. And the NFL is never going to reward
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  Speaker 1: you for not having that. And the physical specimen got
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  Speaker 1: him to where he is now and got him in
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  Speaker 1: the league, but he doesn't have that killer instinct that's
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  Speaker 1: going to ever make him successful. So I really think
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  Speaker 1: that's what it comes down to. At the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, they can do whatever they want, build the
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  Speaker 1: team up, make a great defense, help the line, whatever
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  Speaker 1: they got to do to try to get better with
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  Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback. he's not going to be the one
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  Speaker 1: to push you over the edge.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be interesting.
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  Speaker 3: And now, you know, you, you hear she like, now
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  Speaker 3: they're talking shit about McDaniel and they're saying, can he
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  Speaker 3: last a year? And like, I was just like, I'm
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  Speaker 3: intrigued by the conversation. Like I said, because again, I
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  Speaker 3: had them pegged totally wrong. I thought that this was
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  Speaker 3: going to be something that could unlock Herbert, not the opposite.
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  Speaker 3: People are complaining that maybe the, you know, the scheme's
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  Speaker 3: too confusing and, and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: I know he changed his shotgun stand.
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  Speaker 1: It's timing, right? It's timing routes. And, where maybe a
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  Speaker 1: Herbert might be better just like putting one out in
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  Speaker 1: the open and ripping one like Josh does sometimes. And,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, not instead he's got to wait for
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  Speaker 1: guys and throw it to open places where nobody is.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe he's not comfortable.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that's not his game. She, do you agree?
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  Speaker 3: Like maybe that's just not his, maybe they're asking him
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  Speaker 3: at Daniel and them are asking him to do things
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  Speaker 3: that he can't do. Because again, I'm intrigued by the
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  Speaker 3: conversation because again, I had it so wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, obviously there's still 15 games left, but.
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  Speaker 4: You guys correct me if I'm wrong, but the only
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  Speaker 4: really time I remember McDaniels' offense working is in Miami, right?
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  Speaker 4: And it's like the 70-point game. It was the time
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  Speaker 4: and anticipation, right? And so, you know, over the last
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  Speaker 4: X amount of years that he was coaching at Miami Dolphins,
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  Speaker 4: he's got used to his offense being run a specific way. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Justin Herbert, though I think he can throw
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  Speaker 4: with time and anticipation, he doesn't have to rely on
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  Speaker 4: it like a 2-12 or longer had to And so, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I agree with the sentiment that, yeah, that might not
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  Speaker 4: be his game. I also agree with the fact that,
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  Speaker 4: and I was just sitting here thinking about DT's comments,
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  Speaker 4: like whether he had that dog in him.
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  Speaker 2: Or not, right?
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  Speaker 4: It's kind of like that Tyson, you know, saying everybody
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  Speaker 4: got to plan until they get punched in the face.
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  Speaker 4: So when you're out there on the field and you
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: think you're tough and then you get hurt, you're like, ah,
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  Speaker 4: my ribs.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to play today.
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  Speaker 2: Go shoot.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I need to tell y'all this,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't think I want to.
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  Speaker 2: I like that.
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  Speaker 4: And so, you know, it's a combination of things. I
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  Speaker 4: think the Chargers, they are in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: It's one of those things you just, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if anybody can put their finger on one particular thing.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot that's going on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 3: Now, the Bills, they're in their nickel city crew. I
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  Speaker 3: know you can't tell. This hat is gray. It's got
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  Speaker 3: gray in it.
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  Speaker 2: You can't tell.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, my Nickel City Crew jersey, DT, is on the way.
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  Speaker 3: It's from the China Man, so it might take a while.
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  Speaker 3: It was a custom one, and when everybody sees it,
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  Speaker 3: they definitely will have an opinion on it.
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  Speaker 2: How about that?
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  Speaker 3: You'll either love it or you hate it, so I
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: can't wait to unveil that. But listen, the Bills will
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: be playing in their Pepsi can helmets and the Nickel
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: City Crew, well, the Nickel City, excuse me, uniforms, the
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: gray uniforms on Sunday, so... Look out for those. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: you've seen them on the practice field. Injuries for us,
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: it's pretty much a clean sheet. They did just come
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  Speaker 3: out with some designations after practice today. They said Keyon Coleman,
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: DJ Moore, and Ed Oliver are all going to be
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: questionable before the game. What injury are you most concerned about, DT?
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  Speaker 3: Because for me, I've been saying it on Twitter all
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: week long. Let DJ Moore rest and get this boy
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: Skyler Bell out there and let him get some burn.
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  Speaker 3: I am not afraid of an offense where We don't
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: have DJ Moore.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: Now, of course, it helps.
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: We've already talked about it in these first couple episodes
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: as the season started about how much he impacts the
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: offense and how he opens up things for the rest
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: of the team. That's all fine and dandy. I want
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: him ready for the playoffs. I want him ready for
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: the long stretch of the back end of the season.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: So giving him another week to me is not the
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: end of the world. I don't think that it should
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: crater your game plan. We already saw Keon Coleman play
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: well last week when he had to come in after D.J.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: Moore went out early in that game and played well.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: He didn't light the world on fire, but he caught
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: all his targets. He had some nice catches for first downs.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: So if they both can't go, then definitely, obviously, we're
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: going to see Skyler Bell go. But I'm inclined to
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: say let D.J.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Moore rest. Now, he's a gamer.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: I think he said yesterday that he's going to play,
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: but then he was out of practice, but then he
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: was back today.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: So who knows? It might be just one of those
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: game-time decisions.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: But to me, D.T., I'm cool with letting the young boy,
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: the young man Skyler, Bell gets a run, man.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: I want to see him. I liked his last preseason outing.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: I know it's preseason, but I don't think that the
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: whole lineup should be, everything should just not be thrown
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: out because of the fact that you got to play him.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: I heard that they are bringing, you know, Greg Dorch
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: up from the practice squad. That's the other guy who's
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: been doing our kick returning for us. So I know
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: he plays in the slot if you need somebody else
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: out there, but I would, I would, I would err
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: on the side of caution with, with DJ more.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: I think he's that important to the future of the
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: bills offense.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: I'm okay with it. I mean, I love the, I
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: love the drive in him where he takes pride in playing.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: I'm in the NFL and I play games, right? And
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: we're critical of people on our own team, you know,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: that might could have been in a lot of games
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: in the past couple of years and elected not to,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: you know, cough, cough, 86. So it's a situation where He,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: we want that type of guy on our team for sure.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: So I'm, I'm cool with it, but I don't need
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: them in there with, with the safeties out for, you know,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: with a Derwin James, her, it's not like we're going
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: to necessarily, I would hope we don't need to, obviously
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: the offense is better with a minute. Um, but I,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: I don't mind letting them suit up and play, even
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: if it's a little slower pitch count, like keep, keep
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: them in action, keep them in motion with this team.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: I do want to see Skyler Bell because the only
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: time we did see him was that last preseason game
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: where he was the one, right? And they were basically
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: force-feeding him the ball the whole game, and he was
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: up to the challenge. But now let's get out there
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: where you might not be the top option on the field,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: and you're going to have some maybe advantageous looks on
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: somebody else. in places you have zero film. Nobody knows
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: what you're going to do when you're out there because
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: you've never been on the field, right? So I want
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: to see the point is we need a receiver that's
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: going to take that torch and that we don't have
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: to pay. That's the whole thing about drafting the receiver
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: and needing what we do so we're not bitching about
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: the receiver room in two years when DJ Moore's 31
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: and it's done and then we're in the same predicament.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: We need Skylar Bell to be the receiver we draft
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: to before we pay, you know, a big first contract
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: to be productive. So we, what better way to see
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: it at home, you know, in a advantageous, uh, matchup
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: against the chargers. So I'm cool with DJ more sitting. I,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: but I'm cool if he plays as well. I think
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: he on Coleman's fine. Just an ankle that he came
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: back in the game for, and I'm sure he'll be,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: he'll be back around too. But the, the one I'm,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: you said, what are you most worried about? I'd say
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: at Oliver, uh, because of the weirdness of the, of
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: the injury went out in warmups and gets hurt. And
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: then it's, it wasn't just a tweak where it's like, Oh,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: he'll play next week. He was kind of in and
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: out all week and we don't, he was full today. So,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: but we don't really know what it's going to be.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: If it's something lingering and serious and TJ Sanders has
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: kind of proven he's not playing basically this year. And
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: are we putting every, all our investment and everything in
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: the first two? I mean, they've been good first two
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: weeks for sure, but are we putting 17 weeks in
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: on a second year guy that we really, he's been,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: we don't know yet. Right. So, That's what concerns me
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: the most is that Oliver one. He needs to be back.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: We need him to make that click in the middle
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: and give Deion those looks. That's why Deion was getting
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: those looks in the first game at least because they
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: were doubling Ed the whole time. So that's the one
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: that concerns me the most. I'm cool either way on two.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: And Coleman, you know, he'll be fine.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: She– I mean– DT brings up a good point about
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: an Oliver.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Now he's starting my boy, Nate Geary, who you probably,
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: you know, from WGR, he's been on the show a
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: few times and he was on for our offensive preview.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: And he was like, he said on Twitter last week,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: he said, Ed Oliver is starting to tiptoe around, you know,
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: always hurt status. And I'm like, I think he's already there.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Like, and that, and that sucks because I like Ed
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Oliver a ton.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: We had his brother on last year for our defensive preview,
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: coach Marcus. I, I like Ed Oliver a ton, but man,
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, he kind of is starting to get towards that. Like,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: there's always seems to be something nagging him. And I don't,
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: I don't, I want him to get out of that.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: And I know that obviously he doesn't want to be hurt.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: That's not the point. The point is that if he's
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: injury prone, that could be a problem. Cause he's a big, big,
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: he's a big deal. He's a big deal.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: I just think I, you know, DT made me think
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: about something, you know, you was talking about who you
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: most worried about. And to be honest, I was just
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: thinking about DJ more from the actual impact that he's
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: making on the team. I think his actual presence is
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: going to be bigger than his actual contribution when it's
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: all said and done.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: What he brings to the total offense, allowing other receivers
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: to get open to clear secure and, you know, Joshua
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: Palmer and Keon Coleman, just opening the office up, King K,
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: giving the defense something else to focus on. I don't
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: think it'd be so much about how much his contribution
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: in terms of a, from a statistical standpoint will be
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: the biggest contribution that he makes to the team. And so,
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: But at the same time, when you are, you got
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: to realize who you're playing.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: We're playing at Chargers this week, right?
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: So we don't necessarily, to DT's point, need him out
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: there on the field trying to make a huge contribution.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: And I think from a health perspective, you would rather
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: just kind of sit him down, knowing that you can
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: do what you need to get accomplished on the field
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: without DJ Moore. Now, as it is related to Ed Oliver, yeah,
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: I'm– you know, it's hard. It's one of those, it's
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: like one of those things where you don't want to
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: talk bad about the church.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: You can't say anything about the church because at the
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: end of the day, people love going to church and
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: people love the things that the church is there for.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: You know, like I said on my show, you know,
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: I pray for Ed Oliver and the things that he's
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: going through.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Oh my God, yes.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: When you look over his career, you kind of see
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: a level of inconsistency. Nobody, irrespective of what anybody say,
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: you see a level of inconsistency.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: You see flashes from time to time. You know, even
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: when he's healthy, like just before he got in this
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: injury streak, it's just like you never know what game
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Ed Oliver is going to show up. Yeah, you just
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: kind of go in the games when he healthy and
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: be like, damn, if Ed Oliver show up today, we
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: could be, you know, this could be a great game
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: for the Bills. Where you're looking for a defensive tackle
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: like Deion Walker over these last three games. who have
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: been able to dominate consistently where it's becoming an expectation
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: for him to do that. And we haven't been able
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: to get that with Ed Oliver. So I hate to
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: talk bad about the church, but at this point, I
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: start flipping the page on people and start being honest.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: And Donna's truth is maybe that isn't the player that
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: we want them to be.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: I really hope that we're wrong about that because again,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: I really do the church. I like that. That's a
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: great analogy. I mean, I'm not trying to say anything
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: bad about the church. That's funny. But yeah, I mean,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: I love Ed Oliver. Like I, I think that he
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: is uber talented.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: I do agree that sometimes that's a spot on description.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: So you never know which game he's going to pop.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: But every game he could pop.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: And I think that that's like one of the most
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: fair comparisons you can give for him with analogies is
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: that you don't know when he's going to pop, but
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: he does have the capability to wreck any game.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: You would like to see it more. So we'll see.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: They say that Jordan Hancock and TJ Sanders are going
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: to be out of the game.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: And then Armage Reed Adams, who's just a rookie, It's
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: going to be questionable as well. Look, it's interesting because
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: when you flip that coin DT, I mean, one of
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: the reasons why the chargers are acting the way that
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: they are right now is because they are hurt. Their
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: offensive line is banged up. You talked about Derwin James.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: They're all pro safety. He's going to have a cast on.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: He said, he's going to play with one the rest.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Of the year. They're banged up.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: And before we get to the next point on them,
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: I just, I mean, they're, they're not even, they're not
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: even close to 100%. Their injury report looks way worse
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: than ours. And I, I've got to see that that's
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: got to affect the game on Sunday. It's got to
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: have some type of effect.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, after an 0-2 start coming across the country
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: to the loudest stadium in the NFL, they're saying? I mean, yeah.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: And I think they had seven starters listed out today
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: on the report, and then there's a few questionables that
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: might be out when it comes game time too. So
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: you're limping in in week three, already 0-2 against the–
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: if the voting is today, the unanimous MVP– in a
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: brand new stadium, that's, that's going to be ruckus. Like
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: it's going to, it's your, everything's stacked against you. The injuries,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: like that, that's a tough game. If you're a hundred
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: percent healthy and you're, you're very far from it. I mean, every,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: and crucial areas of the, of, of your team and
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the interior of the offensive line, the defensive line. So
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: the trench battle right there, your defensive backs who are
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: going to have to go up against 17 and the
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: boys all, all, all night.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: So, It's a tall, tall mountain you're already climbing, and
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: then you come in with eight starters out.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: We'll see.
• 25:03
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• 25:48
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• 25:50
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• 25:52
  Speaker 4: DT.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: I'm like, what? Like, what are you talking about? Hockey?
• 25:55
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• 25:56
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  Speaker 2: DT, all right. Sheed, I need you. I know Sheed
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: going to keep it real. You know we keep it
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: funky here at the....
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: The rod froze up on us.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Please tell me I didn't. No, you're good.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: You're back.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: You're back. Okay.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: When you have, when you have a team that is
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: limping in, when you have a team that is back
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: against the wall, so to speak, that can be a
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: dangerous motherfucking team to play. I'm just playing devil's advocate.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: I think the bills are going to win. We'll give
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: our predictions at the end of the show. I don't
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: think there's anything to worry about in that respect. However,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: the defense sheet has not played the best. We get
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: what average. And I think DT says 31 points a game, right? Listen,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: The defense has not played well yet. Now, there's flashes.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: There's flashes with Deion. There's flashes with 15. There's been flashes,
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: but the secondary has really been one of the bigger issues.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: The secondary is not playing that well. It looks like
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: they're still trying to figure everything out. She don't let
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: this team come in there and get right and have
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: the get right game against y'all because that I said
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: it on Twitter this week. That would have me. I
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: wouldn't sound the alarm, but I would make sure that
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: the alarm is functional. It's working because I might have
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: to sound that. that thing pretty soon. If they have
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: a get-right game against you, I think that's a bad sign.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: I really do.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: It'd be like moving into a new house and finding
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: out the foundation is broke.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Yeah, but you already signed
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: the contract.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: It's over.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Now you got to pay the cost to get
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: it repaired. It'd be terrible if the charges come in.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: That's the danger about these games is you're supposed to
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: win it, but this is an NFL team, and they
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: got prod, and they're getting paid, too, as all of
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: the players like to say, you know. And, you know,
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: to go back to my analogy about the church, it's
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: kind of like you want to talk bad about the church, but,
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: you know, the pastor over there.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Having an affair with.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: But we ain't going to talk about that.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean, D.T., I was I expect the
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Bills to win. I think that everything that you laid
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: out makes logical sense. She got me cracking up tonight.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: I'm worried about a team with their back against the wall.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: I think that's how I'm looking at it. This team
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: has– they do it. It's not like they have nothing
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: to lose. They have their whole season. I think that
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: they said something the other day. I didn't even see
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: the stat. It was like six teams have made the
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: playoffs at 0-3. Like six in the history since the merger.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: This is a tall order to beat.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: With your division, with everybody, yeah, the Raiders 2-0, the
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Chiefs 3, going to be 3-0 after, you know, and
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: the Broncos win their 2-1. So you might be three
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: points out of your division in three weeks. You might
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: be three games out of your division in three weeks. Exactly.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Last time we played the chargers out in, out in LA, um, we,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: they just fired their coach that week and right. It's
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: always back against the wall and they had Easton stick.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: We didn't even play Herbert. We played Easton stick and
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: it kind of took a lot to go get that
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: dub out there. Right.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: And that was a, that was.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: A little different of, we had to travel out there.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I think it was one of those like Saturday holiday games,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: you know, often, and that's, you know, cool trappable, like
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: a lot of trappable situations can happen in a, in
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: a game like that. But in this game, it's, it's
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: a little different. I mean, you see it last night
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: with the, with the Falcons going into green Bay, but again,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: that's not, it's apples and oranges. When it comes to that,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: the Falcons looking really bad coming in and playing decent
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: against a team that actually green Bay might, might.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Stink, right?
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they suck. That's not as much as
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: we were just kind of leaning in that Green Bay
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: would be good, and they're not, and so that was
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: what was expected to happen, their get-right game at home.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Atlanta comes in and punches them in the mouth. Oh,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: that was a trap game. It might not have been.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: I think it's just the Packers sucked, right?
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: It is a little nerve wracking that the entire world
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: is on the bills. You know, all, all the money
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: in Vegas, it's like 90, 82% of the money is
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: on the bills and 91% money line. It's like the
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: whole world is picking Buffalo in this game. And the
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: thing I say about that is house house always wins.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: So I don't know, you know, hopefully Vegas has something
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: else in store to offset if the bills do win
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: and they lose all that. But that makes me nervous
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: because that last night, the same deal, it was four.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: And why wouldn't it be more if the Falcons are
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: some of the worst, you know, was the worst team
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: in the NFL? Why wouldn't it be more on the
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: road in Green Bay on a short week? And it's
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: only four points and that's what you get. So there's
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: a little of that in it. But overall, yes, this
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: is apples and oranges. The Josh Allen and the Buffalo
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Bills at home in the loudest stadium in the league
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: are not jordan love last night in in green bay
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: right it's it's there's levels to this and and 17
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: is going to be ready to go and this might
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: be a one of those years where they don't lose
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: a home game again right when they they won all
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: the home games in there it's uh from what i
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: hear it's going to be almost impossible to be able
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: to come in here and here and communicate and win
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: if you're an opposing team so the the trap thing
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: can be justified I guess you play devil's advocate on
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: both like hey we should beat him by 50 or
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: it could be a trap game sure you could play
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: devil's advocate it's I think it's going to be closer
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: than you know than 30 to nothing but I I
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: don't think yeah it's going to be something where we're
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: too worried about it even some get right on this
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: team there's so much you know opening for the bills
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: to be able to you know to to stay in
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: it even if the if the Chargers do have a
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: few flukes and get hot. So I'm not worried about
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: it either. Like I said, the philosophy of the whole
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: world being on it usually means something else happens. But
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: I just don't think it's apples and oranges here with
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen. That's a cheat code, and he can kind
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: of rule the world when it comes to that and
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: cover anything he needs to. So just the second home game,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: it's still very fresh in here. It's still– probably thousands
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: and thousands of people's first time in that place on Sunday.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: So it's going to be just as crazy. So I
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: don't think I'm bought in at all to the trap
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: game scenario. You can make a logic of it because
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: it is there, but I just don't think it's possible
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: with 17.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: Sheed, I think that another thing, to DT's point, another
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: thing is that it's early.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: It's week three. So you've got everything– in front of
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: you for this season.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: So for me, a trap game, it almost doesn't apply
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: because of the fact that you've got so much season
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: ahead of you, where what, what are you looking forward to?
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Like, you know what I mean?
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: Like you're looking past the charges to look at new
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: England for week four matchup. Like to me, something about
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: that trap thing this week just doesn't add up to me.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: I don't, I don't get the trap game.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: I understand the premise of it, but I don't think
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: it applies here because the season is just so fresh.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Like it's week three.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: There's just too much football left to where I don't
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: think that they're I don't think that they're looking ahead
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: is what I mean by that.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I think the reality of the situation is that,
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: you know, the term trap game is thrown out a
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: little bit too much, right, in terms.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Of, hey, I.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: Believe you had a saying, and I don't know what
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: order you put it, but you got to win the
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: games in your division. You got to win the games
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: you are supposed to win, you know, in order to
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: be the team. So the Bills just got to take
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: care of business. They got to take care of the
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: guys playing with my desk.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: No, you could. No, you're right. You're right. I mean,
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: you do. Yeah.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I got to stand up destiny.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: No, no, you're right.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: I mean, you do have to take care of business.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: You do have to beat the teams that you're supposed
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: to be. And I, and I think that the, the
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: charges are team. And I think we all agree on that.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: Is that a team that we should be? So we'll
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: go from there. Now, as we transition tonight before the
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: tailgate report quickly, uh, Bill's offense against the Chargers defense.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: Where are we going, DT, as Sheet is dealing with
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: his son and his shenanigans? Listen, Bill's offense against the
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: Chargers defense. To me, I think that you run your
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: shit and you run your shit. That's if Keon Coleman's
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: in for DJ Moore. I don't care. You run your offense.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: You be aggressive like Joe Brady has been, and you
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: kind of just get after it. Just go after it
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: and play your game. I don't think that there's a
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: situation where you kind of– I don't think you should
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: tailor anything because of DJ Moore there or not.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: You play it. You run your shit. He's been aggressive.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Joe Brady's been talking about it all week, about how
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: he's Josh's biggest hater and.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: How he's always trying to tell him how to do better. Like,
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: just run your shit.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: They took the ball after winning the toss last week
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: and went down and scored seven and then scored seven
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: and then scored seven. that's why not. I don't think
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: two being out has any factor at all of Joe
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Brady being less aggressive. He's just getting warmed up. He's
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: chomping in now, learning what he can do, what he
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: can't do. And so far, everything he's doing works pretty
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: damn good. So he's getting excited. He's sinking in. And
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: it's not going to work 100 out of 100 times.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: He's going to run into walls here as a brand
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: new head coach. We all know that. There's going to
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: be growing pains at some point. But I think, you know,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: the aggressiveness, especially on a beat up defense of somebody
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: who's already got to be scared shitless to 17 and
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: what he's going to do to him after watching the
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: first two weeks and that you got to come in
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: and do it at one o'clock behind this crowd with
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: a hurt defense. So I think all day Joe Brady
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: is going to be, you know, coming at him aggressively
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: and obviously scoring over 30 again.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: What did you think about his comments this week? I
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: know that they were kind of hot topic this week.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: I liked it.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: I think that he was trying to just say that
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: there's always meat on the bone. is I think what
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: he was trying to say. There's always meat on the bone,
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: and he's not going to let Josh get complacent. And
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: I think that that's part of his job as a coach.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: And why should we be complacent? We've done nothing, right?
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: We've created a brand, and Josh Hannon, the best quarterback
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: in the world, but we have nothing to show for it.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: So there shouldn't be any complacency. There shouldn't be no,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: you know, we're doing it okay. It's not good enough, right?
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: It hasn't been good enough, the inch we haven't got. And,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: you know, just because we're two weeks in means nothing.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: And that's what Joe Brady's saying. And you have to
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: agree with that because we're owed completely nothing at this
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: point and you have to go earn the rest of
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: the 15 weeks ahead. So I, yeah, it's that's, I'd
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: like that energy who know, you know, it's behind closed doors.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: You don't know, but I like the front that that
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: is at least to, to show that, you know, we're not,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: we need that inch. It's not same old bills. It's
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: not same old, we're good enough. We need to be
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: a little better and uptick it just a little more
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: to get to that big one.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that too. I do.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: Now, the defense, Chargers defense, DT, we've talked about it
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: a little bit. Excuse me, the Chargers offense against the
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: Bills defense. I think that, I mean, I've already said it.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: I don't want them to have a get-right game against us.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: I really don't.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: I think that it would be a bad sign for
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: the future. We could still win the game, but if
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: you let them have a get-right game against you, I
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: think that that's a really bad sign.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: To me.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: I do think like you, I think it's going to
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: be closer. I don't know about the spread and stuff
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: like that. And I think it's like a seven point spread.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: I don't really care about that kind of stuff. I
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: think that it'll be a closer game, maybe not three
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: points close, but you know, touchdown 10 points, something like that.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: And to me, I don't know, DT, I just think
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: that there's gotta be a way that you can limit them.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: They are, When a.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Team is limping, then you kick them. You step on
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: their neck. You don't give them confidence. You don't let
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: them get their swag back.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Not against you. I don't think that this is the
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: week to let this happen.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Well, look, last week, not that they let off the gas,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: but that double dip at halftime kept the Lions in
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: it and gave them the hope a little too long
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: for comfort. So you saw what it can do to
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: a team, so don't let it happen this week to
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: a team that's already beat up. I mean, defensively, we're
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: saying we're stopping the run. We're doing everything we need
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: to do to stop the run this year. I think
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: we've done okay the first two weeks. Obviously, we've had
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: some big names we see. This week, obviously, a budding
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: star in Omari and Hampton, so we'll see what we
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: do about stopping the run. But we're putting emphasis in it,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: and it's been okay as of late. Without the interior
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: offensive lineman there, let's hope our man Neom Walker now
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: lives up to that hype we've built up the past
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: two weeks and attacks well. Herbert gets them off the
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: game early. Again, like you said, no doubt, like Cheed
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: said earlier about getting hit in the ribs and not
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: wanting to play, hit them early so he's not wanting
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: to play in front of that loud crowd at 1 o'clock. Receiver-wise,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: they're down their two tight ends, so they only have
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: their one original tight end on the roster, and Our
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: defensive backfield needs to step up. They've let a lot
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: up in the last two weeks, so this might be
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: our get-right game on.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Defense, right?
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: We need to show our get-right game as well, and
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: what better way to do it against a hurt Chargers team?
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: No, I mean, maybe you're right. Maybe you're right. It'll
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: be interesting.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: Like I said, I think that we have enough to
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: keep them down while they're down, and that's kind of
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: what I mean. The offense has looked disjointed for them.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: They nothing seems to be working. The receivers are dropping
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: the ball. I saw, you know, in Joku, like literally
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: catch the ball and they're just fucking throw it up
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: in the air to the other guy. Like, what is
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: he doing? So like they they're down right now. I
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: just don't want to see them give them any confidence,
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: any hope. You don't want this game dragging into the
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: fourth quarter where they're down six. And, you know, and
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: it's way closer than it should be. And you've dominated
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: the game pretty much. But for some reason, you know,
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: you haven't closed it out. And all of a sudden
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: some silly shit happens. So I think that the crowd
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: will matter. You're absolutely right. That is a great point
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: about a lot of people.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: This is their first game. They weren't able to go
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: to the home opener. You know what I mean?
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: Cause the ticket prices, whatever the case may be a
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: time of day, Thursday, whatever it's Sunday, one o'clock orchard park.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: That's what everybody is used to for so many years.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: Um, so this is a prime candidate for, and you
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: will have a lot of bills mafia fans in there
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: that this is their first time seeing that beautiful stadium
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: as well. So I think that that's a great point.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: The crowd should be unhinged. Um, it's like, it's, it's
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: everything is still new.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? DT and there's not, we
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: haven't even gotten used to it yet.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: So because of that, I think that, um, that you
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: should find a way to kick these guys while they're down.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Don't give them any confidence. I'd want to see more
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: Dion Walker. I want to see more Greg Russo. I
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: want to see the secondary kind of play a little
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: bit better, man. I'm looking for a little bit of
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: something from that back end. CJ, GJ, all those guys. Bishop,
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: I'm looking for something a little bit better from them.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Not that they've been horrible, but they haven't been, you know,
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: because even last week, I told you, 31 points is
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: kind of misleading because.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Of that double dip. You know what I mean? But,
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's still, that's what the scoreboard said at
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: the end of the week, at the end of the game.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: So, I want to see a little bit more effort
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: in respect to that back end and making some plays.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: I know that Benford's been under a little bit of
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: scrutiny this week on Twitter, at least.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: I don't know, Circles, if you've heard about it, but
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: they've been kind of talking shit about him a little bit,
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: that he's overrated and stuff like that. I don't even
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: know how you call him overrated because he's never rated.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: He's never recognized ever anywhere as a good corner. But
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: I kind of get the point. I want to see
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: them kind of have a good performance where they can
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: get their confidence and build up because you do have
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: a big opponent.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Coming in next week as well after that with New England.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: Not that they're looking ahead, DT, but we're allowed to
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: look ahead as fans and you've got your first divisional
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: game coming up next week. So I think that it's
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: important to just kind of keep everything rolling towards a
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: positive vibes around that locker room.
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: 100%.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: You got to keep that energy up. We talked about
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: this schedule being so tough and no down games to
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: any week and starting off 2-0 where where everyone would
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: be okay with, you know, splitting these first four games
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: and we better not go 0-2 now after starting 2-0, right?
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: So it's a must need. And if this Charger team
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: gets healthier and they figure things out and you don't
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: want to play them, maybe later in the season. So
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: take them now, take them while they're down and get
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: the dub to go into your first divisional game. Like
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: you said, Marv Levy said it, as she'd said, you
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: got to win your divisional games, the ones you're supposed
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: to win. And we got two in a row to
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: get those done.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely right.
• 42:14
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• 42:54
  Speaker 3: I will announce today's winner. DT took a nice picture
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: for us. DT, that's a little throwback, man. That brings
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: me back. Willis McGay, he was a bad man. He
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: was so bad.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: God.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, when he came out of Miami, everybody was
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: so devastated because he got hurt in the national championship game,
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: if you remember.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: And then everybody was like, what?
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: The Bills took a guy that he's broke his knee
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: and this and that. And, man, when his Bills career,
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: he was nice, DT. He was nice during his Bills career.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: Scored a ton of fucking touchdowns.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: I like that. That Jersey is a throwback. That Jersey
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: is a throwback DT. I like it.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: And love or hate the, the, the Navy era of
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: the bills. I mean, I think they just got lucked
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: out by these new nickel city uniform shout out, but
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: I think that is the worst in history, but the, the,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: it brings back that vibe of that era of that
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: is prime drought right there. Willis McGahee, a good player
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: that was never good enough. And, and, It just brings
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: me back to my early memories of the stadium, just
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: the PA announcer, Willis McGahee, the ball carrier. Willis McGahee,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: the ball carrier. And, yeah, one that never was. Who
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: knows what would have happened if he never popped that
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: and the Bills had any chance in the years we
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: had him. But a cool little– definitely a conversation starter. Absolutely.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: If you remember, he had a 13– I said 1,100 yards,
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: 13 touchdowns. His rookie year, well, his technical first season
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: for us, 1,200 yards, five touchdowns, and then 990 and
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: six touchdowns.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, he was going to the end zone.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, that started that.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Starting bell call back, yeah.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, that was nice. I like that. So, listen,
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: the winner has been chosen. We will announce it again tonight.
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: As soon as I download and upload this episode for
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: the masses, I will release the winner. So, congratulations to
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: the winner on that one. And we'll have another one
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: for you next week. So, we really do, again, appreciate
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: our partnership. with queen city vintage DT. It was, it
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: was slow motion for me, man, because of the fact
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: that the bills were off. I mean, listen, man, it was,
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: it was chill. I got a chance to watch some
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: of these games DT. I started off the episode that way.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: I was, my jaw was on the floor watching some
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: of these games and then just like see like the
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: updates and stuff like that.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: Like the Panthers. And I was like, what, like what? Like,
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: and like, it's not that I thought the Panthers were
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: going to be.
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: Bad or anything like that, but like, they like went
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: down to ATL and just dominated them.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: And I know that they have a good track record
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: history of that.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: Then I started getting mad because the Cincinnati game, and
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: I'm like, the Texans scored 31.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: They're scoring six points.
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: And like, I was like, what is going on? Cause
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: I think I picked the Texas to win and they
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: fucked up my parlay. But I'm like, what is like,
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: what is going on DT? Like I couldn't, the jets
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: took the Packers to the brink. If it's not for
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: Aaron Glenn being a fucking dumb ass, like they might
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: have won that game. So weird at the end of
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: the game. Like, like let the clock run. You just,
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: he's just, I don't know. I don't, I don't think
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: he understands what's going on. Then Caleb gets hurt nine
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: to three in the monsoon, you know, it's raining or whatever.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: And like, he gets hurt.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: Tyler shook. I called that one. I knew he was
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: going to find a way to beat Lamar's ass. Lamar.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: Then they're on Twitter. They're just talking about all the bars,
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: toss it up. $ 5 foot long. Well, that interception is like,
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: I was just dying. DT. This league is crazy. The
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Titans almost took the Eagles to the brink.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: Like, man, The only thing that went to form was
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: the Patriots beating the Steelers, like, to me.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: Like, I know the Steelers are going to be shitty. And, like,
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: Other than that, man, everything was just kind of weird, man.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: It was a drunk day. The Raiders, obviously, we talked
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: about beat the Chargers by double digits. The 49ers, yes,
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: and besides that, and the 49ers whoop up on the
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: Dolphins who are tanking. Besides that, DT, it was a
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: crazy day, man. And then the night game was a
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: crazy overtime game where I was like, okay, the.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: Colts are going to do this. The Colts are going
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: to do this. And, of course, they did.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: Obviously, kick to let. To let Mahomes go down the
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: most guaranteed thing ever. Well, from that, Rob, they say
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Mahomes is 8-0 in overtime, and Josh is 0-7 in overtime.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Listen to that, right? He's played some classics, too. Yeah,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: big ones. So, yeah, good weekend was nice. Like I said,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: stress-free weekend, busy summer. And as we talked, Nickel City crew,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: it's going to be a busy couple weeks coming up
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: with weddings and whatnot. So took advantage last week to
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: really just– Do the American dream, watch ball, right? On Saturday,
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: there was some okay college that night game with LSU
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: and Ole Miss, the return of Lane Kiffin to Oxford.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: That was something, and it turned out to be a
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: good game. Sunday, good slate of a lot of surprises.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Survivor pools, beware. Every parlay loss, that's for sure, with
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: anybody out there, because the favorites were off. Coming off
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: a week one that was the highest scoring week one ever,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: And then a wild, you know, who knows what's happening
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: in week two. So who knows what we're in for
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: in a couple of days here, Rob, but the NFL
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: season obviously is lived up to its multi-billion dollar reputation.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: Yes, it is. It's entertaining. It's entertaining for sure. At
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: the very, very least. Well, I know that, you know,
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: for me, what we got, so Rob, Bobby's in rugby.
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: So he's got a rugby tournament in Statesville. which, you know, equivalent,
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: it's like, I don't know, like 30, 40 minutes. I'm like, son,
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: and it's right at two o'clock.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: I'm son. I love, you know what I mean? I'll
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: check in with your mom and get up.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: He's like, I don't know what, I don't know what
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: to tell you. So it'll be me and Nate watching
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: the game. Quincy will probably be around as well, but
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to the rugby tournament.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: It's seven. So it's different.
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: Like rugby's, I think like 15 on 15, this is
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: like a, a smaller condensed league and they call it seven.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: So it's seven on seven. So, it's not for high
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: school or anything like that. It's just for conditioning to
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: get them ready for the season. So I don't feel
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: as bad, but like, who are these fucking directors? Like,
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: why are you putting like, you got, you know, you
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: don't think people are watching football on a Sunday. Why
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: are you scheduling this shit right in the smack dab
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: middle of the one o'clock game? So I don't feel
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: bad about it because of the fact, like I said,
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: that it's not quite a high school team or anything
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: like that. So I'll be here, Nate, you know, he's
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: my ride or die. So he'll be right next to me.
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: And then I think Quincy will come through to, to
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: watch the game on Sunday. But other than that, man,
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: it's slow motion for me. I don't have Ivy this weekend.
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: I had her last weekend, so I don't have her
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: this weekend. So it's slow motion, DT. I will be
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: just at the crib chilling, maybe cook up some wings
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: or something like that, get a pizza or something like that.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: But it's chill here, man.
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: I'm just going to be locked in ready, and I'll
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: get text message.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: Updates how Bobby's doing at this rugby. I'm not driving
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: 40 minutes or 35 minutes in the middle of the
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: game and checking up. It's just not happening.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah bobby bobby's cool get your work in that day
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: and uh you know what for the for the big
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: ones we'll we'll be we'll be there we'll be there
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: yeah that's that's good yeah big uh like i said
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: four four or three weddings in four weeks for dt
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: here so that's what we're locking into so yep we're
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: down here uh panama city you know home base tonight
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: at the uh At the parents, they're heading back to
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: Florida next week. So, you know, sending them off before
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: they get back to the Sunshine State. And wedding tomorrow
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: down here. And I don't know. We'll see what happens
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: for Sunday. Maybe our shout-out to Cheney Road week one.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: You know, Kai Page, Jeff and Ann, that's a good spot.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: Or maybe we hightail it to Buffalo. And who knows,
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: maybe somebody gets sick and there's a ticket for grabs
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: on Sunday morning. But we'll see. Open air Sunday and
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: wedding tomorrow. here tomorrow. I think my mom wants to say, hi,
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: tailgate report. What are you doing for the game, ma?
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: Hey, Mama Rubsick. How you doing?
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: Good.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: How are you?
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: I cannot complain at all. I cannot complain at all.
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: It's really good to see you.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: Good to see you. I see you on Facebook. We
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: appreciate your support. Oh, yeah.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: I'm always watching.
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: We appreciate your support, Mama. Look at that. Look at that.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: Meredith and DT. Look at that. You're back at the
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: old stomping grounds for real. Look at that. That's awesome. Well,
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess so.
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: You got I mean, you're like the mayor for weddings.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: I'm the and I'm the officiant of one. So, yeah.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. You're getting somebody married.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: Yep. Pastor D.T.
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: Lord have mercy. Reverend D.T.
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: Keep him away from the bar until after the prenups
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: have have been.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: Have been given out. Wow, that's awesome.
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: Well, listen, enjoy it then this weekend. I mean, you're
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: the busier one of the two. That's why I always
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: let you go last, man. You're the mayor, man, of
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: Panama City. You're the mayor of North Buffalo. So I
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: appreciate your time tonight. Listen, out there, DT, over 300
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: people on the TGIF watching live.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: We appreciate you. Did you see that, DT? My boy,
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: Balkanov from Serbia.
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: Yes, he said he's from Western New York, but he's
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: down there trying to convert people in Serbia to Bill's mafia, man, that,
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: that is, that's really cool, man. Like that's the, that's
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: the type of stuff that just hits me pretty hard.
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: When I see stuff like that, I'm like, that's, that's
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: why we do what we do, man.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: We love it.
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: We really appreciate the support. And I mean, like, that's,
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: that's it right there. That's, that's the good stuff. That's
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: the stuff that gets me up and gets me going.
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: And it gets me motivated just to see that the
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: mafia is, is stretching out. And that, what do we
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: always say? DT mafia is family. And that's the entire
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: point of the show is to bring, people together. So
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: we appreciate Sheed. I know he said his son was not,
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: not cooperating tonight. So he had to bounce out of here.
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: That was, that was really cute raising the desk on it,
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: but we appreciate Sheed's time tonight.
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: However long he was here, we do appreciate him. DT, man.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know, man. I feel good about it. I'm
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: not really nervous. I don't think the trap game thing
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: really applies. I'm ready to go, man. I'm ready to go.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. There ain't no traps in week three. That was
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: the best point all night. Ain't no trap. What are
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: we looking forward to? It's week three. It's go in,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: enjoy this new stadium, enjoy the first 1 o'clock. The
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: professional tailgaters, we talked about it. This is your time
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: that you know exactly now where the clock needs to
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: be in that 1 o'clock kick. So it's no trap.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: It's out there. It's still new. It's an AFC opponent
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: that you have to look at as a playoff. You're
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: battling for playoff position every week, and this is the
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: week to not to win against the AFC. Go 3-0
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: and have a nice three-game win streak before you host
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: your first divisional game.
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm down with it. I think that they can
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: take care of business. The defense, the secondary concerns me
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: a little bit, but we'll see. You just got to
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: get out there and play and see what happens. Again,
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: this Chargers team is down. Don't let them.
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: Get any confidence.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: You don't want them to charge up.
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: No.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, you got the, yeah, that's why I named the show.
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they got me charged up. Listen, out there, Enjoy
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: your weekend, Bills Mafia, Nickel City Crew. This is our week.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: I've been saying it, Nickel City Crew. You say it
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: on Twitter all week, man. This is our week, man.
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: The Bills love Nickel City Crew so much that they
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: came up and they had to copy our name with
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: the concept. And they had to come up with some
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: jerseys because they love Nickel City Crew so much. They
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: couldn't call it Nickel City Crew for contractual reasons, but
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: they called.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: It Nickel City. Buffalo is the Nickel City. And listen.
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: Listen, go and listen to the very first intro. Before
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: I started my first episode, I talked about the Buffalo Nickel, man.
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: I'm authentic. Everybody calls it the City of Good Neighbors.
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: Everybody calls it that. Everybody calls it the Queen City.
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: But a lot of people forget about the Queen, excuse me,
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: about Nickel City. So I just wanted the podcast name
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: to be original. And Nickel City crew, man, you guys
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: are all a part of the crew. And this is
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: our week to shine, man. They can talk shit about
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: the jerseys they want. They can talk about the helmets.
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: I really don't mind the jerseys, DT. The more that
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: I see them, I don't really mind them. The helmets
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: are still hard for me. I can't get used to
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: it because it's got that Coke, that Pepsi vibe to it,
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: or Valvoline. I saw somebody on Twitter put it on
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: a Valvoline bottle, and that was really funny. I'm still
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: struggling with the helmet. But the jerseys, the jerseys are fine, man.
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: The jerseys are fine.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: One thing, go out and have an easy win with
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: them on Sunday, and then everyone loves them. So that's PR.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: That's how you fix the PR right there. Tell Josh.
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Josh will take care of it for you. We
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: already saw.
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: Him carrying the water earlier after they came out, so
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: you're absolutely right about that. Listen, we appreciate you guys
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: out there watching tonight. Listen, enjoy your weekend. College football tomorrow,
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: a lot of ranked matchups.
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: Big day, yeah.
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of ranked matchups tomorrow, so enjoy that
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: as well with your families and stuff. I know pumpkin
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: patches are out there and all that other good stuff,
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: so you guys enjoy it. Listen, spread love, not hate.
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: Enough hate out there in the world. Please spread love.
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: I will release the Excuse me, the contest winner after
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: the show, when I released the episode and uploaded. Listen,
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: these were my Bill's thoughts said out loud. DT went
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: away from me. I would tell him to hit me
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: with a Go Bills. He would hit me with a
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: Go Bills and he would say 3-0.
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: So Go Bills, 3-0. I love it.