Miami Dolphins Never Beat The Bills, But At Least Their Hard Knocks Was Better

Miami Dolphins Never Beat The Bills, But At Least Their Hard Knocks Was Better

I love Hard Knocks. I love Hard Knocks. It’s It’s one of my favorite shows. I adore it. Um the Buffalo Bills are this year’s team. And I I don’t think I’m being a hater because, you know, I I have no love for them when I say that was the worst season premiere I have ever seen. I mean, you want to talk about a fluff piece that was not hard knocks at all, my friends. What happened to the game I loved? What happened? That music hits and it’s supposed to mean something. And last night, let me tell you something, dude. It was a Josh Allen parade and not even anything interesting. I’m like, “Oh, cool. We going to get anything good with this?” It is Josh Allen, Josh Allen’s beautiful eyes, Josh Allen throwing the football, Josh Allen signing autographs. That was it. It was so bad. No meetings, no personality, nothing. Those Buffalo Bills gave you a hour of God. Leroy, what what what a what? What is the point of hard knocks? If you’re not going to show the hard knocks, what is the point of the show? We all know Josh Allen’s awesome. This is it. This is it. Josh Allen, quarterback, Bills. Really want to win a Super Bowl. Wow. Josh Allen wants to win a Super Bowl. Why you got to do the narrator? That’s just that’s how it goes. And the fans believe in him. Go Josh. Go. Oh yeah. You already know they’re going to have a piece about Marv Levy celebrating his 100th birthday. Oh dude. Yeah. They did the They had Thurman Thomas yesterday. Oh yeah. They didn’t even do any meetings. No. No meetings. No coaches meetings. Maybe. Maybe they didn’t allow him to do it. Well, you want to know something, dude? Then just cancel the product. If you’re not going to do hard knocks, then don’t do hard knocks. Then then what did the Wait, wait, wait, wait. First of all, when this all started, nobody wanted to do it. And I’m talking about this year and then they got the Bills, right? So, you know, if there was a team that agreed because it was Slim Pickings, then they were going to have some rules. Rules. Yeah. You You want to know something about rules? Here’s what I’m tired of the NFL bitching about. All of them. And this doesn’t go just go for the Bills. This goes for the the the the entire National Football League and what a greedy, selfish pig they’ve become. You guys expect fans to sit here and pay for 900 streaming channels. You got a piece of ESPN. That’s how much money they got. They announced they had a tenth of ESPN today. 10% of ESPN. That’s how much money this league has. And you have the audacity, and may I say the audacity as players and organizations to give me less access? You kidding me? If you’re Roger Goodell, you go tell those softest char coaches, “Oh, we don’t want to show that coach competitive disadvantage.” Shut up. Everybody’s got a podcast. Everybody’s putting themselves out there more. You want to know something? You want to know a real good reality TV show is Love Island because they’ll take away your sensories and they’ll go night vision and they’ll show you bonking in the bed. You want to know why? All in the case for a little bit more fame, access, and money. And so the NFL, which has never been richer, never been more popular, has never ever protected itself to be more boring. You need to start showing me some scars, you rat bastards. I’m so sorry that one general manager sat out there like a jackass and decided Saquon Barkley wasn’t good enough, but he should have been fired. And I and for some reason, you’ve taken away one of my favorite football shows all in the replacement of something like quarterback, which also sucks cuz Joe Ball boring Jared Goff. Are you kidding me? And stop giving me Kirk Cousins. So now you got Josh Allen, the MVP, who’s sitting here. He should be I should be getting tears about how many times he’s been raked through the coals by Patrick Mahomes. I should be sitting there, his ass in Rochester should have Patrick Mahomes on a on his mirror like Rocky and Drago having a newspaper clipping and instead all I got is I really just want to do it for the fans. You forgotten the music. Give me the music. Josh Allen really wants to do it for the fans. I like Are you kidding me? I was it ruined. It’s supposed to signify the start of football. Okay. Not the Hall of Fame game. The first episode of Hard Knocks and I got one hour of nothing other than Dion Dawkins being a cool dad because he owns a Drift Racrack, which I don’t know if I’d put my kids in the drift race car at 6, but you know, I’m not here to parent anybody else’s kids. Wait, you got you got Tommy putting people in rear neck chokes. Fair point. Wait, wait. So, so that’s why I said I’m not here to parent anybody else’s kids. So, so Brit choke is more dad appropriate to get your kid into than racing a little a little mini car. It wasn’t a mini car. He put his kid in a race car. What’s that to do in Buffalo? Nothing. But they weren’t even Yeah, there’s nothing. I mean, that’s f The one thing we have learned is Buffalo is boring. If you guys If you guys wanted an update, man, that city sucks. Even though they were in Rochester, they’re like, “We still do it in the dorms.” I was like, “Cool. Great.” Woohoo. Awesome. Hey, man. What is like, you know what? They ruined it. And and Vlad, part of me is happy, right? because I’ve never seen one episode of Hard Knocks and you haven’t. It’s fun, bro. It’s it but but what like like at some point and and and you know who you need to blame that Giants GM Joe Shane. Yeah. No, it’s cuz cuz he put this he put this out with the owner right now. I would like to say how many people would be on the national TV doing that with their owner asking questions about his concerns and still have their job. I I just it was it was it was terrible. It was so bad. It was like Shawn McDermott out in the middle of a of why he was getting interviewed in the middle of a an open field was confusing to me. This is Buffalo and they’re just like Josh Allen really wants it. Josh Allen really wants it. And then it’s just like 900 scenes of Buffalo Bills fans trying to get Josh Allen’s autograph in all fairness. They do that a lot. And that’s the first episode’s always about the superstar. They did that with Aaron with the Jets. They did that with Aaron. That first episode was like it was like a love fest to Aaron Rogers. Look, and I know Aaron Rogers is an attention right? But but he is more interesting than Josh Allen. Wow. But he is I’m just saying he is. No, listen. He’s What he’s telling you is don’t get caught up by the first episode. They do it in every town. They celebrate the star and Cowboys. They did ro. It was all about Romo. Yeah, they do that. It’s always about But they have Jerry and Jerry’s always going to make captivating television. Now, you’re right on that. Buffalo only has one star. That’s is Josh. While other teams may have other multiple characters, you know, I would say relax. Give it another episode there, big fella. You I can’t understand how See, this is what happens when you get too excited about something. Mhm. Right. So excited to have Hard Knocks back that you forgot that the first episode is, as Vlad say, a fluff piece of n like this. This was different. Not not they they barely showed meetings. It’s supposed to be like, “Hey, let’s get into meetings.” Nah, nothing. Well, you want you like the meetings part. Episode one. Like, can we Yeah, dude. They don’t get the warm-up, Tobin. There’s four more episodes after that. They can’t just like waste everything on the Is it only It’s only five episodes. I think it’s like five episodes. Yeah. Didn’t even like meet Didn’t meet any undrafted rookies trying to make their way. That’s what Hard Knox was built on. Todd Heat. No, but but don’t you need to meet the star first? If the Star’s giving me anything, he gives me nothing. What star does more than Josh Allen, dude? He has nothing. That that that dude with behind those beautiful doughy brown eyes, he’s got nothing up there. You have to understand he’s in a different type of relationship now. He’s in a Hollywood he’s in a Hollywood marriage. So gave us nothing. Not only does the the sports media are looking at him, so is the entertainment media. So he can’t slip up. Just just disappointing. disappointing. It ruined football. Wow. So, football is ruined just like that. Just, you know, like I I How did Wait, wait, wait. How does an hour of a show ruin football for too much? Josh, give me your autograph after practice. That’s it. That’s all I got. Not one mention of James Cook, by the way. Where’s that? Because come dude, you reality show connoisseur. Don’t you need episodes? Don’t you need context for the following week so that people are watching? Where’s a tease for it, Vlad? Where’s the GM Brandon Bean going like, “What are we going to do with James?” They didn’t do that for next episode. Next time on I don’t think so. Maybe I was so angry. I didn’t Might have been so angry. But yeah, cuz like he’s holding in now. When the first episodes he was in, so there’s nothing to talk about. Now he’s holding in. It’s Listen, Leroy, you didn’t watch it, but when Rex was the coach of the Jets, the sec uh his second season, the big topic was, are the Jets going to sign Dell Rivas? Oh, what a great season. It was that was a season. It was all the talk. Rex’s, you know, entertaining. Sanchez was the good-looking quarterback. There was things to talk about. Jason Taylor went to the Jets. Jason Taylor, Leenia Thomas. There was things to talk about the Jet that time. Do you know what was the number one topic? Will Derell Rivas sign? You know what they waited us? They waited till the final episode having Derell Rivas and Mike Tannibal having a a a meeting in some diner in Jersey for the contract to be signed. That was captivating television. This guy cannot wait. Just allow it. Let’s let it marinate. Let it cook. I’m big on premieres. Vlad, if you here’s the problem, Vlad. Vlad, he sold it so much that now he has to defend the the first episode fluff piece. No, that’s not or now he has a problem with it because like Yeah, he was like way too excited for it. Mind you, mind you, now I do agree with them. It was bad yesterday, but it’s because of the quarterback. If this was Miami Dolphins and it was a fluff piece about Tua, he would have thought it was the greatest beginning episode of Tua had good but Tua they had him meeting with Uncle Dan, you know, like they had really good interviews. That was in the season. So started race. It was but I feel like Tua would have still be I I think Tua’s like worlds more interesting than Josh Allen. He may not be a better quarterback but there’s more there. Josh Allen. I really just I genuinely think he is just a thoroughbred made to throw and run and upstairs handsome and hamster wheels. That’s it. I don’t think there’s anything there. He’s the epitome of a jock. Yes. Yes. Dude, what is that wrong? Yes. I’m sorry. That man. Wow. No. When I think when I think of what you said there, I think more along the lines of like a Ryan Leaf. I think Haley Steinfeld walks around the kitchen, just pinches his cheeks, and be like, “You’re adorbs. Go to go throw that pigkin, honey. That’s it.” Yeah. You think they’re talking about u you know, foreign policy. Listen, he still kicks the dolphin’s ass, dude. I know I’m going to sound like a hater. Hey, too much. You’ve watched an hour of an of his show and you’re already over. They took there was at one point in Hard Knocks yesterday where they they were taking him on a tour. It was him and the owner. They took Josh Allen to a tour to the new AR uh the new stadium and uh and Josh Allan’s like, “The sauna’s going to be over there. It’s going to be hot.” And he’s like, “Yeah, it’s going to be hot, Josh. It’s a sauna.” When is is their new stadium done? This year or next year? I don’t know. I think it’s done next year. It looks like it’ll be done next year. Come on, Toby. Don’t do that. That’s what he did. Dude, aren’t they Aren’t they building a dome? No. Or is it Cleveland? Cleveland was going to build the dope. Cleveland’s going dome. Nope. They’re sticking uh there’s they’re sticking with the no dome like a bunch of dummies. Yeah. What’s it? Yeah, they’re building to They love They love being One of the things that always gets me with you is how extreme you go with a take that if you actually paid attention to the show, you would have like know that this is how they do it. No. See, Lero, that’s where you’re wrong. This is Look, I will never ever claim that I have more football expertise than you, but the setup wait the setup of the show may have always been the same, but the people have been more interesting. Yes. And that’s the thing is you gave me an hour of uninteresting. Just move off of Josh Allen. Give me 15 minutes of him being awesome. Stop trying to make Josh Allen a thing. We know what he is. He’s awesome. Find me some other personalities on the team. Whether it’s an intangibles tight end or a disgusting guard, I don’t care. But you got to find me somebody else because this guy’s giving me nothing. And you may be a better football expert than I will never deny that. But I watch a lot of reality TV, my friend. I know. And and I’m telling you right now, they need themselves a hua. They need themselves a hood. I just I just think that in certain in these environments, you’re asking a guy to be something he probably never was. And that’s not fair for your entertainment. I’m blaming the producers. I’m not blaming Josh Allen. If Josh Allen is uh is just a handsome face and hamster wheels up there, then that’s it. I don’t know what to tell you. Why are you calling handsome handsome and hamster wheel? Very handsome face. But I just think in up there it’s You think he’s dumber than dumber? So he’s basically calling Josh Allen Ryan Leaf. I don’t know. I don’t want to take Oh, he’s better than Ryan Leaf. I don’t want to take a shot of Ryan Leaf. I’m not taking a shot at Ryan Leaf, but but that’s, you know, he had all the physical attributes as a quarterback, but upstairs he may not have been ready. David South says, “Did the coach mentioned 911?” Yeah, let’s talk about that episode about that. Can we have that episode where Shawn McDerman love he’s like, “Let me talk about the Bin Laden thing.” Really? Just out of the blue? Oh, he just mentioned that out of the blue. No, just like let’s get to it. Oh, okay. Something these Bills fans really want it. Yeah, we know. I mean, do you think of Shawn McDerman as having an incredible personality? No, not anymore. I think his street he his body should have been cooked already. His his body should have been for the streets. Why? How many times you going to lose? But but but but again, the tough here, this argument will always drive me crazy, right? If you’re going to give credit to Kansas City being a dynasty, does that mean you fire and change all the coaches who can’t beat Patrick Mahomes? If I’m losing by 10 or 12 or they’re not exactly. So what what is it then? Cuz I can’t compare. Is Kansas City just better as Oh, you So you you say no. You say no. Buffalo should have won at least. What? In those four games that they’ve lost, they should have at least won one. Then why? If that’s the case, then that means we should be giving Kansas City more credit. I give Kansas City credit, but when you when to me when you’ve been labeled when you’re favorite, when you have the expectations of being a team to upend them, that’s the thing. We’ve all said, “Oh, Buffalo has a better team than Kansas City.” They’re in it all the time and they don’t figure it out. You had 13 seconds to stop that man from two plays. Yeah. I got two plays. 13 seconds. I get all of that all that you’re saying, but are you you It’s hard for me to make household changes when you just can’t beat one team, but maybe the other person can beat that one team and and what are you willing to risk are you willing to ris risk not being as good? I’m sometimes Well, I’m willing to risk Yes, I’m willing to risk not being that good when a change has to happen. If I’m doing the same thing for Why does I still don’t understand why does a change have to happen? You’re a really good football team. Okay, but I’m not winning. I’m I’m a really good football team. You’re not winning the championship and that’s what I’m playing for. If I’m getting close to the championship and I can’t get over this one person. I Who’s at fault here? It’s not my quarterback. You’re just a really good team. Somebody’s got to take Listen, somebody’s got to take a fall. We got to uh take a break here on the show. Wow. All right.

Tobin explains to Leroy why he was upset last night with possibly the worst season premiere of Hard Knocks! The show became a fluff piece for the Buffalo Bills and Josh Allen.