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  In tonight's episode of Disguise coverage, a special Happy Birthday Fourth of July Eve
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  episode America of Disguise Coverage, We're gonna dive into some game film on the
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  Bill's edge grouping. This is a position I've talked about throughout this offseason,
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  and I've talked a bit out of both sides of my mouth reguarding it in
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  terms of liking this Bill's edge grouping in terms of the depth that it offers,
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  in terms of the rotation that it potentially can have, and in terms
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  of the overall functionality, and at the same time being a little worried about
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  the top end production for this grouping in terms of guys that are going to
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  be a constant threat, Who is that number one pass rusher, Do they
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  have a true edge one from a pass rushing perspective, and what that leads
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  to for the rest of the defense in terms of a domino effect and chain
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  reaction, Because this is a grouping that a couple of seasons ago brought in
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  Von Miller, and he every bit was that edge one that the Bill's envision
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  when they brought him in. He goes down with an injury, comes back
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  last year wasn't really the same guy that he was before. But Bill's got
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  lucky. I shouldn't say lucky. The Bills brought in Leonard Floyd in June
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  last offseason, and he was that pass rushing edge one off for the majority
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  of the year, and for the first half of the season was a real
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  terror off the edge paired well with Greg Russau functioned well within that rotation.
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  This is again I've said this before. I think this isn't a conspiracy theory
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  for me, it's something I believe. I think he got banged up in
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  multiple spots at some point throughout the year, because you just watch him as
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  the year goes on, and it felt like every time he was going down
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  to the ground he was having to get helped up significant look like lower body
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  stuff, maybe some rib or some core injury stuff. His numbers suffered a
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  bit down the stretch, and I also think you saw that impact in terms
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  of that slack not being picked up for him. Greg Russeau had some flashes
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  last year. He got banged up again, lower body, foot stuff.
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  Seems like he's picking up some knocks each year. But this is a grouping
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  that is important to this Bill's defense. It's important in the landscape of the
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  NFL, with edge rusher being a premium position in today's NFL. And again,
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  the Bills have a really interesting mix like we've talked about on this show.
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  And Mike comes in with the comment saying Rousseau and Vanessa are high upside
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  players. Though that's factored into the conversation one hundred percent. I think,
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  and you know, this kind of functions into what I was going to or
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  funnels into what I was going to say next. I think Groot right now,
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  if you look at him, I think he's an edge one. And
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  when I say this, when I say edge one, edge two, edge
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  three, edge four, I'm using that to kind of define roles and in
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  terms of who these guys are on the depth charts. So in edge one
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  is a top tier, like you're a legitimate starter against the specific aspect or
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  overall. I think Groot is an edge one against the run. He's been
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  that way since he came into the league. He uses his length well,
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  his physicality well, ham placement. He's good at diagnosing mesh points between the
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  running back and quarterback in the backfield. He's good at understanding blocking schemes,
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  he's tremendous against the run. I think he's still more of an edge two
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  from a pass rush standpoint. So ideally you're pairing Groot with an edge one
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  opposite of him. Again, a lah what von Miller was two years ago?
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  Allah what Leonard Floyd was last year in twenty twenty three. And so
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  that makes this conversation interesting this year because if Groot is a two at the
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  edge, then who's that one? And I don't know if they necessarily have
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  one. I do think the upside for Grew is for him to be a
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  one. And then in terms of that Panessa, I think he's very solidly
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  right now an edge three and if your worst case scenario he's a high end
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  four, I do think he's an edge three. I do think his upside
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  this year is getting himself into that edge two conversation, which would be absolutely
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  tremendous because the Bills could use that depth and rotation ability. And then,
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  actually, I'll go through some of these comments here. Sweet Spike says love
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  the length of Groot and Aj at defensive end. Charles says, go Bills
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  edge rush is my number one concern this season. I'm kind of right there
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  edition of disgui's coverage, I switched with Greg and Aaron, who are normally
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  in this time slot. They went last night. I went tonight. Don't
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  know how many eyes we're gonna have on this with it being you know,
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  fourth of July. Eve again, shout out to America, Happy birthday for
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  you. But appreciate you folks tuning in well. I like this comment from
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  Mike, Mike saying, how do you feel about Solomon. I'm gonna get
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  into javon Solomon. He's one of the players are gonna break down in some
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  tape tonight, so that is one hundred percent going to happen. I'm gonna
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  be bringing down tape on several players throughout this episode. For those of you
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  who are here just for the film and you're not watching live, I will
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  time stamp as I always do do each segment throughout this episode. So if
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  you want to jump around or watch a part later, watch another part you
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  know, the day after now, or whatever the hell, I will have
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  everything time stamped. But I will get into Javon Solomon. I've been meaning
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  to break down his tape in an episode for a while. It just it's
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  my schedule and things that the offseason didn't line up. But we're gonna get
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  into that tonight in terms of talking about who he is, what he is,
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  and showing some film in terms of breaking him down as well. So
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  again kind of recap it in terms of where we stand right now. Group
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  is the best edge on this team in terms of known quantity with what we
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  know and who he is what he is. I think he's a one against
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  the run. I still think he's a two in terms of pass rush.
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  I think he can get up to a one versus the past, versus the
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  pass and in a pass rush capability. But that's I think where that conversation
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  starts to get a little worrisome. Because you know, when Charles said it
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  here that edge rush is his number one concern this offseason. I tie that
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  in with Mike's common here saying Rousseau and Fanessa are high upside players. I
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  think a lot of the thought with this grouping is upside base. If group
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  takes another jump and starts to you know, scratch that ceiling and get close
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  to that upside awesome, If that Vanessa does the same thing, then this
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  group looks a lot different. I think both of those are still questions,
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  not guarantees in terms of known quantity. Then you've got von Miller, who
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  missed positive affirmations, getting a full off season to work out regularly as opposed
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  to rehabbing from the injury last offseason. What does he look like coming into
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  this year because down the stretch last year, for the majority of the year,
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  he was very uneffective, but down or very ineffective, but down the
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  stretch we saw some flashes of that old von Miller. Now he gets an
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  off season to just be himself, no brace, he's just working out.
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  He looks good. Granted it's small videos that we're seeing, but in terms
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  of bend and strength and stability in that knee. He looks good from the
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  videos that we're seeing in terms of his offseason workout routine. What is he
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  and that's a significant part as well. I think he factors into the top
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  three edges within this grouping. I'm my expectation and hope for him is to
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  be in that edge three edge two conversation. I do not think this year
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  or really even next year, like I don't. I don't think at the
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  best. I just don't know if we're going to get that pre injury von
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  Miller with the Bills, If he could get back to that, that would
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  be tremendous. I think that's a lot to expect, given sustaining another ACL
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  injury to the same need he'd already sustained that injury too previously, the age
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  that he's at, the mileage on the tires, and just overall how he
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  plays, and not to take away from how smart he is, because von
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  Miller is a tremendously savvy, tremendously cerebral pass rusher. It's the reason he
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  started the pass rush Summit. It's the reason people kind of flock to him
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  to pick his brain in terms of how to rush the quarterback. This guy
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  understands plan and counters and setups and doing things early to kind of test the
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  cage a little bit and banking those things and then using them later in games
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  to take advantage of offensive lineman. He understands all of that. He is
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  a wealth of knowledge as a pass rusher, But so much of that cerebral
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  aspect of his game has been tied into the physical athleticism that he's had,
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  which has been I don't want to say the rarest, but like tremendously rare
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  for an edge rusher. The juice, the athleticism that bend, his ability
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  to dip and turn, the core strength is ability to flatten everything that we've
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  seen, and the importance placed upon the athleticism and flexibility for him. It's
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  a little worrisome to see kind of an injury to a lower body part.
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  You know, if he had a shoulder injury or a hand injury, it's
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  a much different conversation versus one of your wheels getting banged up when you're a
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  dude whose game is predicated on athleticism and juice and bend and all that kind
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  of stuff now coming here from just the Tipica now says, by no means
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  am I expecting it or responsible to even bet on it, But how sick
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  would it be? A Von got a dozen sacks, that would be tremendous.
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  And honestly, I'm not even putting it in terms of sacks. I
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  know we all want to see that, and I'm not trying to start the
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  whole pressures versus sacks conversation. Again, I just want regular functionality from von
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  Miller. Just give me somebody who is functional and capable and it is impacting
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  the game. If it's a dozen sacks, cool, if it's three pressures
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  a game or five pressures a game. Cool. If it's making plays against
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  the run, cool the Bills. And I think again, that functions into
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  funnels. I keep saying functions bunnels into that larger conversation with this grouping of
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  I don't think you're gonna get top tier edge one production overall or in any
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  one aspect aside from Greg Russo. Worst case scenario for Greg Russo is he's
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  a one against the run and he's a two against the pass. It's not
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  ideal because you'd like somebody who's an overall one. And again, the Bills
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  need that one versus the pass. But I think he's the only one capable
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  of it. I don't think Vonn is going to be a true one as
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  a pass rusher this year. I don't think a Japanessa gets to that level
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  as well. But if AJ and Vaughn can both be twos, whether it's
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  low tier, mid tier, or even if worst case scenario they're both high
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  in threes, that's still functional enough. I equate it to lines in hockey,
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  where if you don't have that top A line, that number one line,
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  I'm okay with that. If you give me three B plus lines and
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  one B minus line, I'm okay with that. I don't necessarily have to
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  have an A minus, a B, A B minus and then a C.
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  I'm okay with having multiple B plus lines. If you can give me
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  four B plus lines, I'll take that. It's similar within this conversation,
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  like I don't necessarily need to have someone with a Madden rating at this position
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  of a ninety year above. But if you can give me three or four
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  dudes who are all between eighty five and eighty eight, or a few have
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  four dudes who are in at eighty six, that's cool. From a balanced
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  perspective or rotation perspective, a depth perspective, and I just want Vaughn to
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  be an impact player in some regard off that edge. They just need a
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  solid rotation. Where again, you're not gonna I don't think you're gonna have
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  any one truly dominant guy off the edge. I don't think you're gonna have
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  a Von Miller from two years ago. I don't think you're gonna have a
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  Leonard Floyd from last year. In terms of pass rush, Groot has a
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  chance to get there. But I think a likely scenario or outcome is you
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  just have a bunch of B plus dudes that are at that spot and you
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  can rotate them in and that's fine. Like again, I don't think it's
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  ideal. I'd love to have pretty Vawn or even what Floyd was in the
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  first half of the year, or what some other teams have like Miles Garrett,
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  TJ. Watt and all that kind of stuff and those dudes like that.
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  But if you can just have solid play from three to four guys and
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  you can just rotate them, that's fine because think of the drop off you
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  have if if your edge one is an A and your edge four is a
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  C. Right, there's a bigger drop off there, versus if you've just
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  got four edges and they all go from a B plus to a B,
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  there's less drop off there in that spot. Yeah, and that's an interesting
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  conversation. That's part of what this conversation is for this episode tonight. It's
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  part of the reason we're going to get into the film. Well, I
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  see a lot of comments coming through Timothy saying I hope AJ and Grout stay
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  healthy and take a big step. I have zero faith and Miller after all
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  the sauce he talked and is off the field issues. Yeah, his off
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  the field issues are super disappointing. I don't even want to talk in common
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  on it. I hate that stuff. I wish dudes like that weren't on
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  the team at all. And it seems like, no matter what you support,
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  your professional athletes just kind of gravitate towards that no matter the sport,
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  which is really unfortunate. But in terms of on the field stuff, I
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  mean, like I mentioned like he is one of the most positive affirmation guys
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  we've ever seen for dudes who are about positive affirmations, and it works extremely
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  hard, so I understand it. Like dude puts in one thousand percent effort
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  all the time to get his body into the shape it needs to be for
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  him to be effective. And maybe he truly believes that. Maybe he's again
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  just trying to put it out into the universe for those positive affirmations. But
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  to your point, Yeah, I'm not. If von tells me like,
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  oh, the weather's terrible outside today, like it's raining, I'm still probably
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  opening up the window and peeking my head out and looking just because I don't
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  trust what he says. Charles says, Van is thirty five and Father Time
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  is undefeated. It's understandable. Oh I like this comment from Timothy. Timothy
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  says, FYI put that like button on a table, crushed a pound of
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  Cajun dry rub wings with blue cheese, climb to the top rope, and
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  macho man Randy Savage elbow dropped it. That's one of the best comments we've
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  ever seen on show. Well done, Timothy. I appreciate the hollh Idea
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  for that. Mike coming through and saying even if Vonn has a magical season,
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  he would have to restructure next off season to stay. Yeah, there's
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  I don't even want to get into the numbers and the contract stuff. But
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  there's yeah, contract things peeking into it as well. Charles say and Vaughn
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  had like eighteen pressures on over two hundred pass rushes last year. Give me
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  more, Bernard and Milano. Where's the rest of that comment to help with
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  the pass rush. I'm actually gonna look that up right now. What did
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  he have? Because I've got different metrics and numbers, but overall, what
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  did he have? Yeah? He had two? Oh wow, you were
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  on various spot on he had two hundred and seven pass rush snaps last year
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  from week five through the divisional round, and he had seventeen pressures, So
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  you're right on there. I didn't even go through his numbers because I did
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  him on a previous show and they're bad. They're all bad, like and
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  I didn't want to drag him over the coles again. But not great,
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  not great. Sweet Spic says, thanks for doing the show. I appreciate
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  you for being here again. I recognize it's third of July. Some people
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  do stuff on the third. I did some stuff earlier in the day,
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  didn't have anything tonight tomorrow, and completely you kado for the fourth. I
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  don't know what people's plans are for the evening. So I'm very appreciative of
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  everyone tuning in for this episode again, especially considering we myself and the cover
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  one Buffalo Show with Gregor and switch spots at the last minute yesterday and then
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  combined with the holiday all of that stuff. I appreciate you. Timothy says,
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  I'm here for your brother. Oh John Robert comes in and says,
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  Vaughn will prove more by action not words. I hope. So, I
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  hope, So, I hope, So I hope. So we're going to
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  start with von Miller with the film, and we switched the banner. Nope,
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  that's not what I want. There we go, that's the banner we
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  want. So we are going to start with the film, and let's put
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  this in here. Bum bum bum boom von Miller again. I I just
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  want to drive it home on Von. I'm not super high on him.
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  I'm also not super down like I think. This for me also ties into
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  my expectations I had for him last year. I didn't really think he was
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  going to be that impactful last year. I thought he would be what we
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  saw towards the end of the year. I thought we'd get more of that
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  throughout his play during the season. But overall, I didn't have a lot
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  of I didn't have a lot of high hopes or expectations for him just because
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  of his age coming off of the injury. Even if it wasn't even if
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  it was only the first time he'd had that injury to that knee, it
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  still would have been a lot because you need that year recovery. Similar thing
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  with Achilles injuries, like we're going to talk about with Dewan Smoot later,
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  Like that first year back, you're not really who you are, You're not
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  really getting back to your pre injury play. So I didn't expect a lot
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  from him, So I think that's part of the reason why I'm not too
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  down on him or too frustrated with his play. Again, I expected a
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  little bit more, but relative to what his output was, it wasn't too
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  dramatically or drastically off. I do think there are some positives to pick from
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  his game last year towards the end, specifically in the playoffs against Pittsburgh and
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  against Kansas City. Like we're going to go into a little bit here,
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  but overall, it's all relative of your expectations. Right If you think Vonn's
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  going to come back this year and get back to his pre injury form.
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  I think you're going to be disappointed and frustrated if you think he's a bum
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  and he's done and he's washed. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised because I
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  think he's going to be functional and have some level of impact. Again,
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  I think it falls somewhere in the range of being an edge three and an
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  edge two, which also again ties into the importance of aj Apanessa, because
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  if von is a three, we really need aj Panessa to be a two,
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  and if vice versa, if aj Panessa is a three, we really
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  need von Miller to be a two. Those guys, I think are going
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  to be tied to the hip in terms of their production this year and what
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  they mean for the defense. Because again Grout is a one against the run
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  two against the pass. I think that's fun and I think that's fine.
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  I'd like him to be a complete one and a one overall. But my
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  real question is who provides that support to group. Do they have effectiveness and
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  impact players playing off of him, or who can move ahead of him in
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  terms of pass rush. I don't think you're gonna get somebody who's gonna move
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  ahead of him in terms of pass rush. So my biggest hope is someone
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  or multiple guys step up to add to his game and play their role as
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  an auxiliary piece, as an edge two or an edge three. And again,
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  Vaughn and AJ are gonna be so crucial to that. I really think
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  in terms of depth chart or top three guys quote unquote, in some order,
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  Groot is definitely your one, but then it's Vaughn and it's AJ,
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  or it could be AJ and Vaughn and maybe they're both edge threes and there's
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  a big gap between Groot and them, or maybe they're both twos, and
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  then you have a solid three man rotation, or maybe one of them is
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  a two and one of them's a three, and then it's okay, like
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  not ideal, but still functional and still effective. That's what I think is
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  so interesting with that conversation, So again to kind of put that into perspective.
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  But let's go into the film. This one is against Kansas City,
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  and like John says here, I was encouraged because Vaughn wasn't wearing a brace.
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  Yeah, it was nice to see him kind of just the brace a
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  bit. It's nice to see him not using that break this offseason in terms
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  of his workouts. Those braces can be restrictive. They change the way you
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  move, change the way you feel. But also I think there's the mental
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  side of it too, Like you know when you're wearing that brace, you
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  know when you have that injury and the brace is on, do you one
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  hundred percent trust the health of your knee? How effective do you feel?
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  What do you like? How does your mental state translate to your play physically
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  on the field. I think that was part of some of Bond's game or
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  lack thereof last year. But let us get into the film. So here's
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  von Miller highlighted right here off the right edge. I'm gonna show some clips
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  again from the playoff run. I don't want to dwell on the ineffective reps
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  to the majority of the year. And part of the reason I really wanted
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  to hone in on the end of the season for Vaughn and these playoff reps
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  for him is because again we started to see those little flashes. They were
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  small, right, they were incremental improvements week over week, and these flashes
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  weren't world beater moves, but it was just a little bit kind of showing
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  us like maybe some semblance of that guy is still in there a little and
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  with it coming at the end of the year, I think it's fair to
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  make some sort of assumption or kind of plant a flag on the idea of
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  if this is who he was towards the end of the year, maybe he
• 21:11
  can build upon that and we can see more of this from the beginning of
• 21:15
  the year in twenty twenty four and beyond. But without further ado, let's
• 21:18
  get into this. So this is playoffs obviously against King City Chiefs, a
• 21:22
  stupid, stupid, stupid football game, and there's Von Miller off the right
• 21:26
  edge there. Hodd wants to load on me. Oh, you're making me
• 21:32
  look so foolish, Huddle, so disappointed in Hub right now. This happened
• 21:37
  to me the last couple of times we've done these streams. It's I swear,
• 21:41
  Huddle just wants to make me look like an absolute fool. Or maybe
• 21:45
  it's because I had a cue up for so long it was kind of just
• 21:47
  waiting. All right, cool, there we go, talk through it.
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  Well done to myself, all right, here we go, let's run this
• 21:52
  play now again. Just kind of looking at the health of the nee,
• 21:56
  but overall just the moves and understanding. You see Juwan Taylor seventy four here,
• 22:03
  watch him take the set, this aggressive set. You can already see
• 22:04
  kind of his positioning out there, like his body position, how he's leaning
• 22:07
  on that front leg and he is ready to explode out of his snap.
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  He is be lining it out here to cut off that edge for Von and
• 22:15
  watch Vaughn read it. See nice spin move. Also watch this arm he
• 22:23
  is going to chop down. There's so much more to a spin move I
• 22:27
  think than just the spin. A lot of it is the hand technique that
• 22:32
  I think goes unnoticed for dudes. Watch boom, he gets Juwan to open
• 22:36
  up. You see that arm exten. Now watch Von chop down right on
• 22:40
  that arm, chops down, gets him leaning, turns beautiful, beautiful rep.
• 22:47
  He's got Taylor leaning, he's inside. I originally tweeted this as kind
• 22:51
  of wanting somewhat of a penalty for it. Watch Juwan Taylor's leg. I'm
• 22:55
  mentioning here just in case somebody sees it and brings it up. I don't
• 22:57
  want to hone in on it too much, just want to focus on Foond.
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  But watch Taylor's leg sticks it out just a little bit. You see
• 23:04
  that. I wanted a tripping penalty, especially because Dorian Williams gets called for
• 23:08
  past interference on this play on Rashi Rice. Here's Dorian right here, and
• 23:15
  there's Dorian again again right here on rashid Rice. You can see Dorian popping
• 23:19
  him a little bit, and happens right as a throat comes as a pass
• 23:22
  interference call. This was a stop on third down and it gives Kansas City
• 23:26
  a new set of downs. I was mad because especially when you watch it,
• 23:30
  watch it in real time. Here, watch Juwan and mister von Miller.
• 23:34
  You can see him stick that leg out, beats him boom just a
• 23:37
  little. It's subtle and it's quick. But the reason Von trips and the
• 23:42
  reason granted. Trey Smith comes over to help out from the right guard spot,
• 23:47
  which is nice, but little kick right there. It's actually kind of
• 23:51
  knee on knee like he goes for full extension but doesn't get it. Little
• 23:53
  kick right there. But regardless of that, regardless of it should have been
• 23:59
  a penalty, regard if it wasn't. This is a nice move. This
• 24:03
  is a good spin bank, good arm movement, good chop, good precision,
• 24:08
  good flexibility, good juice. There's some bursts there. That's a very
• 24:14
  effective move. That's a technically sound and athletic move from a dude coming back
• 24:18
  from an ac L injury. That's extremely encouraging, extremely positive, but also
• 24:23
  not just from a silver lining perspective, that's an effective move. That's good.
• 24:29
  It heats up Mahomes a little bit. It forces the right guard to
• 24:33
  help out. That's a win. That's a good rush for von Miller.
• 24:36
  Encouraging. Okay, now we're gonna stay in that game and we're going to
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  go to bump bump bump bum bum bump bump bump bum play twenty seven here,
• 24:48
  So this game against the Chiefs again, another highlight from this stupid,
• 24:56
  stupid game where the Bills were playing very, very injured. This one is
• 24:59
  a play against the run. I wanted to show this because again, the
• 25:02
  athleticism, the impact. If Von could just make an impact in some way,
• 25:04
  Ideally it's as a pass rusher, because I think they have enough from
• 25:07
  a run defense standpoint between Groot Epanessa and then whoever wins the rest of those
• 25:12
  jobs, whether it's two hill, whether it's smoot, whether it's Kingsley Jonathan,
• 25:17
  maybe it's Javon Solomon. I think they have enough. Also depends on
• 25:19
  how many edges they keep right are and dress each week. Are they dress
• 25:22
  in four? Are they dressed in five? Regardless of the combo, I
• 25:26
  think they'll have enough from a run defense standpoint. But even if von can
• 25:29
  be effective as a run defender, there's still value in that. And I
• 25:32
  think this is also an aspect of his game that's been underrated throughout his career,
• 25:36
  and understandably because of the impact he's been as a pass rusher. And
• 25:40
  I think the sexiness that's attached to winning as a pass rusher playing the edge
• 25:45
  versus just winning versus the run. But this is a nice one. You're
• 25:48
  going to get go back to the start here. You're going to get a
• 25:52
  little counter action here for the Chiefs, and you're going to get a pull
• 25:57
  from Travis Kelcey and you're going to a pull from Creed Humphrey. So basically
• 26:00
  counter run here, the counter basically like a ch or see why however you
• 26:06
  want to label it where you're gonna get the center pulling and the tight end
• 26:08
  pulling as well. And this is Creed Humphrey right here, one of the
• 26:12
  best centers in all the football, which I know is a very common sentiment
• 26:17
  and pain point for Bills fans, as he could have been drafted by the
• 26:18
  Bills instead of mister Boogie Basham. But I digress and watch Von Miller.
• 26:25
  We get the snap, comes off the ball, immediately recognizes you can see
• 26:30
  his footing start to change a little bit. He doesn't just come screaming off
• 26:33
  the edge and getting up field. He sees the action in the backfield.
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  He sees the flash of color from Creed Humphrey. Just watch him play this
• 26:40
  faster, but okay, we'll pause. Comes off the field and you can
• 26:42
  see him already pacing himself right as he's reading what's going on, eyes are
• 26:47
  in the backfield, but he's also from his peripheral seeing Creed Humphrey coming down
• 26:52
  here. In Creed Humphrey on this run, because he's the first guy through.
• 26:56
  His job is to pull and his job is to kick out Von Miller
• 27:00
  here. So as von comes off the edge, Create is supposed to get
• 27:03
  him and seal him right here, so that way the running back can get
• 27:07
  this ball and get through the alley there. And then when you take the
• 27:10
  tight end into account as well. So again, let's say this run works
• 27:14
  out. Create Humphrey comes here, seals Von Miller, Kelsey comes through,
• 27:18
  leads through the hole, and then Pacheco follows Kelsey and goes through the hole
• 27:22
  as well. So they're trying to seal. I've made a real beautiful Picasso
• 27:26
  style painting here with all of my tellustration. But you're trying to seal that
• 27:30
  edge. So watch von against Creed Humphrey here just sees him coming. Look
• 27:33
  at the nice little athletic olay, but also watch his feet, watch the
• 27:38
  base. He sheds him bang, plants. Humphrey even tries to hook him,
• 27:42
  like you see that hook right there in the waste of Von Miller.
• 27:47
  Humphrey's trying to hook him, pull him a little bit, do anything he
• 27:49
  can to try install Von Miller a little bit. Here, Vom pushes through.
• 27:56
  Then we get a nice lunge and a nice play on Isaiah Pacheco.
• 28:00
  Right, that is a nice solid play from Von Miller. Boom sheds them
• 28:06
  and makes the tackle. I also want to show it from the sideline angle.
• 28:08
  Here, here's von okay horrible circle. Here's Vaughn. I just also
• 28:15
  want you to get an appreciation for how he comes right down the line and
• 28:21
  has that ability to make the play down the line of scrimmage right. Like
• 28:25
  I said, he doesn't get too far upfield, sheds Humphrey, avoids him
• 28:29
  like and look at the jump there a nice athletic plants. Again, look
• 28:34
  at the brace on both legs, not brace literal brace, I mean like
• 28:37
  bracing kind of anchoring down, being able to stabilize himself and then a lunch
• 28:44
  forward stays flat, makes the play, makes a good tackle, hangs onto
• 28:47
  that leg again, another positive play with some athleticism, some flexibility, some
• 28:52
  juice, a little bit of bend. Boom boom, another positive part.
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  Again not the best thing in the world. Actually, this is pretty good.
• 29:02
  This is a pretty good rep. You have a really good pulling center
• 29:04
  coming at you and you diagnose all this, shed him, get around him,
• 29:07
  and make a play. This is a really good play. Not only
• 29:11
  is it encouraging from a health standpoint in terms of like, oh, maybe
• 29:15
  we can see more of this in twenty twenty four. This is just a
• 29:17
  good play. Like whether you're coming off injury, whether you're not. This
• 29:19
  is a really good play from Von Miller boom boom, and again the ability
• 29:26
  to it is you from the sideline angle like diagnose this the quickness to shed,
• 29:32
  but then also play through that reach attempt and that hook attempt from Humphrey
• 29:36
  and then plant and bank pop back out. Really nice, show it one
• 29:41
  more time from the end zone angle. Good play from bon That's how you
• 29:48
  beat a counter, right. You get that dude who is that edge player
• 29:52
  that they are trying to seal, they are trying to log have that impact
• 29:55
  on and he's able to read it, diagnose it and beat it. Like
• 29:57
  Von Miller shuts this down by himself. Also a pretty good job from Dakwon
• 30:00
  Jones walking Tray Smith into the backfield just to try and gum it up a
• 30:03
  little bit. That's a great play from bon At Oliver is working over the
• 30:07
  top trying to let this thing get loose. That's a really great job from
• 30:11
  von Miller. Bump. When do we got some comments here, Jimmy,
• 30:21
  He says, my highest realistic hope for Miller is that he coaches up some
• 30:25
  of the young guns healthy scratch unless there's an injury positive mentor and injury depth.
• 30:29
  Oh that's fair. I think that's fair. To have that as a
• 30:30
  realistic hope. I think he's going to be more than that. Again,
• 30:33
  I don't think he's gonna set the world on fire. I do think he'll
• 30:36
  be in the top four. I think he'll factor into the top three.
• 30:37
  But I think that's as far as realistic hopes. I understand your sentiment there,
• 30:42
  and I don't think it's crazy to think that at all. Nicky says,
• 30:45
  is it true as long as you don't grab with your hands, it's
• 30:48
  not a hold because the Chiefs literally we're hugging us all game. It depends.
• 30:52
  There's like if you get into the specific so the rule it depends on
• 30:56
  where you're grabbing, especially from like a rush perspective. I know, like
• 31:00
  the big one was a couple of years ago. I think we started with
• 31:02
  Bengals Chiefs in the playoffs where Trey Henderson was trying to like rip through Chiefs
• 31:06
  tackles and they were like holding him up here and like leaning him back,
• 31:08
  and it wasn't called as a hold. That stuff isn't a hole. But
• 31:11
  no, if you in then there's specific verbage with it. But if you
• 31:14
  impede the rusher by grabbing them or hooking them or literally like holding them back
• 31:21
  it in theory it should be called a hold. It's usually just got to
• 31:23
  be pretty egregious, like it's got to be where you're grabbing jersey and someone
• 31:27
  beats you and your arms get extended, similar to kind of like Actually,
• 31:32
  there's a lot of parallels between trench play and DB's and wide receivers, but
• 31:36
  some of offensive line play and defensive line play going against each other. Again,
• 31:40
  trench play it mirrors what you see with dbs and wide receivers where that's
• 31:45
  pushed off. That's past interference, but they're not gonna call it because neither
• 31:48
  guy like fully extended or pushed off. You see push offfs happen all the
• 31:52
  time from receivers, but refs aren't going to call it unless you get that
• 31:56
  full extension. So again there's the human element to calling the penalty, but
• 32:00
  it's if you're impeding the player, whether you're grabbing jersey, whether you're hooking
• 32:04
  and holding, no pun intended there, and like grabbing them also for the
• 32:07
  length at wish you'd do it right. If you do it for a brief
• 32:08
  second and let go, they're probably not gonna call it. But if you're
• 32:12
  really hanging on obviously you're more likely to get call it. Nicky says,
• 32:16
  nothing like Sean Hockeyley knows what to hold is anyway, or call anything in
• 32:20
  our favor, but still h Western New York. Bricky says, mattmclond was
• 32:22
  at Boston College. It's the same time as Justin Simmons. I'm okay with
• 32:25
  the Bill's safety play. I don't love it. I would love if the
• 32:29
  Bill's brought in Quandre Diggs or Justin Simmons. So if that's in relation to
• 32:31
  that, that's fine. Charles saying Casey does some crazy stuff with motion and
• 32:37
  misdirection. Absolutely, Andy Reid schemer designer, all of that kind of stuff.
• 32:43
  Mike says, all your power and drive comes from your legs. This
• 32:45
  is why MMA fighters are always throwing kicks to people's legs. I like that
• 32:49
  work out work on the base, wear it down, that's fair, absolutely,
• 32:52
  absolutely, especially too with a offensive line play. It's always like you
• 32:54
  you control with your hands, you push and you move, and you drive
• 33:00
  with your legs. Very similar. Troy says, two or three great plays
• 33:05
  in the playoffs is my hope for von. I like this from Timothy saying,
• 33:08
  I hope Miller breaks the single season sack record. Laugh out loud.
• 33:12
  But I've been at Bills fans for a while, so I'm used to bracing
• 33:15
  myself for the worst. I'm right there with you. I'm not necessarily like
• 33:17
  a glasses half empty dude, but I embrace the realism, or almost pessimism,
• 33:22
  of my thoughts. Timothy says he likes that I hope for Troy.
• 33:28
  Jason says, I think the bar is low for Von this year, and
• 33:30
  I go with the Bruce Nolan words of wisdom regarding expectations. Because the expectation
• 33:35
  is low, a decent level from Vaughn will be considered success. Jason follows
• 33:38
  that up and says, and I think that is a good thing. Expectations
• 33:40
  were so high before it almost would be impossible to be satisfied. I think
• 33:44
  that is tremendously well said. And I don't know if you were here earlier,
• 33:47
  but I said something similar, right. I think if your expectations are
• 33:51
  for him to get back to true Von Miller form this year, you're going
• 33:53
  to be disappointed. I think if your expectations are that he's washed and won't
• 33:58
  dress, you're going to be pleasantly surprised because I think he's going to factor
• 34:00
  under the top three and have some impact for this team. Well said there,
• 34:04
  Jason. Let's go to another play from this game where it's play twenty
• 34:09
  two. There it is play twenty two. There it is. This one's
• 34:13
  nice. I think this was underrated. It happened to the end of the
• 34:16
  first half. Watch the recognition and so the awareness is what starts it,
• 34:22
  right, But watch the recognition. He sees the blocking scheme happen here.
• 34:25
  But watch the play in space. So Von takes off. This is towards
• 34:29
  the end of the half, not a lot of time left on the clock,
• 34:31
  so Von's not going to sell out, but he sees how things are
• 34:37
  happening here. Also sees Pacheco and he slow plays this because he's like,
• 34:42
  this doesn't seem right. I'm not gonna barrel full steam ahead, reads it,
• 34:45
  steps up, and then again sees Pacheco release, sees Mahomes's eyes,
• 34:52
  feels Humphrey and the movement all here, so he puts the brakes on.
• 34:57
  Let's Pacheco watch the play in space runs down. That's a tough tackle in
• 35:01
  space, especially against a dude who doesn't really get brought down a lot one
• 35:05
  on one in Isaiah check. Oh, here's from the end zone angle again
• 35:10
  not this world beater type of play, but just good recognition the cerebral part
• 35:15
  of von Miller's showing up here, but then again being able to tie to
• 35:17
  the physical, being able to put the brakes on, plant back up,
• 35:22
  turn. You see a little bit of a stumble right here. Oh stumbles
• 35:25
  a little bit as he gets out of that break as he turns and opens,
• 35:28
  but then he gets flat gets down the line. It makes a really
• 35:30
  nice tackle in space. Again, encouraging play. He's super pumped. I
• 35:35
  like the emotion that he shows in this one for making this play like he's
• 35:37
  pumped. Cliin is pumped for him. That's a big play for him in
• 35:40
  terms of building that confidence, making things happen. And again, this is
• 35:44
  a good play for anyone, but especially for a dude coming off of that
• 35:47
  injury trying to build confidence and making plays. This is an impactful, effective
• 35:52
  play. I think a loss of what is it a loss of one on
• 35:55
  this play, let's see, but actually no bigger loss than that lost four
• 36:01
  or five something like that. Really nice play from von Miller again in space
• 36:06
  Chasing him down. It would have been interesting to see if Pacheco tried to
• 36:08
  shake him and tried to get into plant in space a little bit instead of
• 36:12
  allowing Bond to just kind of straight line b line it and take the angle.
• 36:16
  But that's nice, good playing space from mister von Miller. There,
• 36:22
  bump bump bump, bump, bump, bump bump bum. Let's look at
• 36:25
  some more. Now we're going to go to the game against the Pittsburgh Steelers,
• 36:34
  also in the playoffs. Let's break things down here switch. I have
• 36:42
  everything noted by play number. This is when we first started to see those
• 36:46
  flashes of the old Bond starting to peek through a little bit playoff game against
• 36:52
  Pittsburgh. I'm gonna show this first one here. Let's watch Von come off
• 36:59
  the edge a little bit. Nice flattens again. These are two that were
• 37:05
  everybody. I think a lot of people were still on like the I hate
• 37:07
  Vond. I'm really disappointed in him, so I'm mad at the world with
• 37:09
  everything he does train these were very encouraging. Neither of these are statbusters to
• 37:14
  play. I'm going to show now and then I think the more well known
• 37:16
  play. Right after it, he gets pressures for both of these. But
• 37:19
  it's not a sack. It's not a tackle for a loss. There's no
• 37:22
  raw box score stat for it. But wanted to show from the angle here,
• 37:27
  from the sideline angle. Here, watch Von and we're going to talk
• 37:30
  about the handwork in the specific way he wins in a minute, but watches
• 37:32
  he flattens, doesn't get too far upfield. Watch his ability to flatten and
• 37:37
  get down the line and retrace and match the quarterback Mason Rudolph stepping up in
• 37:43
  the pocket. Look he gets flat and is able to lean forward, affects
• 37:46
  him, gets on his hip a little bit, helps force that incomplete pass.
• 37:51
  So this is a pressure. It's not a sack, but it leads
• 37:52
  to an incompletion. This is a valuable play on second and ten leads to
• 37:57
  a third and ten. This is a really good play from Von high leaded
• 38:00
  here from the end zone. Cam takes an upfield angle and so different than
• 38:06
  the first play we showed against the Chiefs, right where Taylor was kind of
• 38:08
  booking it off the line to cut off that outside. This time we don't
• 38:13
  see that same So you get that initial watch the initial lunge, that step
• 38:17
  and then chops down a little bit kind of settles. So Von reads that
• 38:22
  sees that as like I'm turning the corner. I'm turning the edge. Wins.
• 38:25
  First touch real nice, We talk about it all the time. First
• 38:29
  touch is literally the first guy who touches the other guy. But not only
• 38:31
  is it first touch. He's getting that long arm in. He's got good
• 38:36
  body lean to the point where he's generating leverage, and he's pushing through his
• 38:40
  man. But he's not too far out in front of his feet where if
• 38:43
  he gets chopped down, he can fall off kilter or fall off balance and
• 38:46
  his leverage can be snapped. So this is good hand placement. This is
• 38:50
  good pop as well. Watch the hand placement and then watch the shut boom.
• 38:54
  Look how he knocks his man back again, doesn't barrel him over bang.
• 38:59
  Watch that. You see the head snap back. You see the upper
• 39:01
  body move. That's nice, But then how do you chain it together?
• 39:06
  How do you transition it into another move? You get the stab from Vaughn.
• 39:09
  Now watch his outside hand. That left hand comes through, chops down
• 39:15
  on the outside arm of the tackle, and then pulls himself through and watch
• 39:20
  how he leans into it. You see some of that dip. You see
• 39:22
  some of that bend. He does that so he can flatten and stay flat
• 39:27
  and get to the quarterback instead of getting too far upfield and allowing the quarterback
• 39:30
  to step up, avoid the rush and help his offensive lineman establish some of
• 39:35
  that leverage. Real nice play. Boom gets up Rudolph feels it also helps
• 39:40
  Rudolph step up into Ed Oliver. Another quality play from von Miller, this
• 39:45
  time in a different way, beats his man. Nice. The transition,
• 39:50
  I think in the chaining of the moves together again is really nice, like
• 39:54
  stab, punch, chop, down, pull yourself through, good hand useman,
• 40:00
  hand useman. I guess that could work placement and usage combined together.
• 40:04
  Good hand useman, good hand placement, good hand usage, bank, beat
• 40:07
  your man right around the corner, step bank, punch, chop, pull
• 40:13
  yourself through. Flattened quarterback. Good rush from mister bond mellow. And let's
• 40:20
  take a look at another one from this game. This was the one that
• 40:23
  actually a lot of people a kind of raking him over the coles for because
• 40:27
  he it looks kind of boneheaded. But I think when you watch it,
• 40:30
  and I will break it down here, I think it's a little more understood.
• 40:34
  Again, Von coming off that right side. Now, this is what's
• 40:36
  nice about this one too. This is after the play we just saw.
• 40:39
  So this tackle knows I just got beat outside. I got beat around the
• 40:45
  corner. He turned, he flattened around the arc. This is literally three
• 40:49
  plays later. So he's seeing this saying, uh, oh, actually,
• 40:52
  is it exactly three plays later? Bump bump bum, Yes it is,
• 40:58
  So this is literally three plays later. This offensive lineman knows he just got
• 41:01
  beat around the corner. Vaughn also knows that that offensive lineman knows that he
• 41:07
  just beat him around the corner. So what does he do here? Sets
• 41:10
  him up? Doesn't get upfield? Attacks is outside shoulder and then we see
• 41:16
  that look at that swim or swim move, spin move again and similar to
• 41:20
  what we saw on the KC tape. Watch this inside arm for Vaughn and
• 41:23
  this outside arm for the offensive tackle. What do we see again? That
• 41:28
  chop bang right there, chops down that outside arm spins off him. He
• 41:35
  gets into the backfield. Now, when you watch this play in real time,
• 41:39
  you see Von get to the quarterback and he just kind of pushes him,
• 41:43
  and everybody was like, what the hell, why didn't he finish the
• 41:45
  sack. This was stupid. What a horrible play by Vaughn. I actually
• 41:47
  think it's a pretty smart play because if you watch right as he's bearing down
• 41:53
  on Rudolph, watch Rudolph right here pumps Von thing this ball is out,
• 42:00
  so all he does is hit or he thinks the ball is coming out,
• 42:04
  so all he does is give him a little shot because he doesn't want to
• 42:07
  get flag for rough in the passer. But then he realized that the ball
• 42:09
  is still there, and he's like, uh oh so again in an ideal
• 42:12
  world, he sees that the ball is still in his hand and he gets
• 42:15
  the sack, YadA YadA. But focus on the process of it, the
• 42:17
  spin move, the hand usage again, the precision, the technique to chop
• 42:22
  down that outside arm, spin back inside and get inside and bears down right
• 42:28
  on the quarterback. What's also nice, too, is the tackle kind of
• 42:30
  resets a little bit here and he gets his hands on von That's actually a
• 42:37
  good placement there, right in the center of the chest, but it doesn't
• 42:38
  matter. At this point. Vonn is barren down and he works right through
• 42:42
  to the quarterback again. Another straight line angle from mister von Miller, that's
• 42:45
  a good rush again, things to build upon. Show the most recent ones
• 42:49
  against Kansas City. Now show the two right before that against Pittsburgh. Positive
• 42:53
  positive things to build upon. If you are Von Miller. Let's see he
• 42:59
  coming from. Nicky says, I know a lot of the D line thought
• 43:02
  Washington was a good coach. I never saw any real development or any twists
• 43:07
  and stunts to even help our D line. Yeah, he seemed to be
• 43:10
  actually pretty big fan favorite amongst a lot of the players, I thought,
• 43:15
  And some of it is so hard, right, like are you like how
• 43:19
  much do you put on the players for who they are? And how much
• 43:21
  do you put on a coaching staff in the environment and all that kind of
• 43:23
  stuff. I think, you know, Von Ravon Miller. I think Greg
• 43:27
  Russo's trajectory has been nice again, becoming one of the best edge players against
• 43:30
  the run in the league, I think at Panessa, although expectations I think
• 43:34
  were higher for him because he was a second round pick. I think considering
• 43:37
  him coming in into COVID year and having to rechange his entire body composition along
• 43:43
  with his play style on the fly in the NFL based on what was asked
• 43:45
  of him, I think considering all that he's had some improvement and some incremental
• 43:51
  jumps each year. But overall, yeah, I can see the frustration with
• 43:54
  it, especially with how much they've had to go to the well for free
• 43:58
  agents. But I think you look at von Oh, I keep seeing Bond,
• 44:00
  well, it makes sense. We just spoke a lot it. But
• 44:01
  I think you look at Oliver Groot Epanessa, some of those are nice.
• 44:07
  But I think overall, yeah, there was a common sentiment, especially amongst
• 44:09
  the fan base, in terms of Eric Washington not getting enough out of this
• 44:14
  defensive line and really putting everybody into it. But I think, like everybody,
• 44:16
  you have some hits, you have some misses. There's very few coaches
• 44:20
  who just know how to coach up everybody. You don't have a lot of
• 44:22
  rich serahs from the forty nine ers who just seems like they just grab defensive
• 44:28
  linemen off the scrap heap and then turn them into loss of raptors in like
• 44:30
  an offseason. I don't know how he continues to do it. I think
• 44:34
  there's very few position coaches that have such a track record of success like some
• 44:37
  of those dudes. So like Washington, I think, like most dudes.
• 44:42
  I think you have some hits, you have some misses, but on the
• 44:44
  whole, you know, maybe some more misses than hits and some ineffectiveness at
• 44:49
  times. Oh, Mike says, I hope Mick de is more involved on
• 44:54
  our defense. I think that's a really good point to make as well.
• 44:55
  With Bobby Babbage being defensive coordinator, who who kind of runs the defense,
• 45:00
  who's calling it in game? How much input is there. I like Sean
• 45:04
  mcdermot's defense last year, especially considering all the injuries and how banged up they
• 45:07
  were and how they played. I would like to see him get a full
• 45:12
  season with a full compliment of defenders that he expected to have in the year.
• 45:17
  So we'll see again. It's what's so frustrating too, to see how
• 45:22
  the defense played in that game, knowing that like Klein was in there and
• 45:27
  Meticavitch was seeing snaps and again I thought Leonard Floyd was banged up, and
• 45:30
  dake one Jones is in there, but we don't know how one hundred percent
• 45:34
  he was. Christian Benford didn't play because he was heart. Rasul Douglas was
• 45:37
  in there on one leg. We had no Matt Malone like there were just
• 45:39
  so many variables in that game against the Chiefs. I wouldn't mind another year
• 45:44
  of Sean McDermott. I also think it's cool to be excited for what Bobby
• 45:46
  Babbage could bring his DC. I'm very excited to see what happens. Like
• 45:52
  I want to see the first game of the year, and I want to
• 45:54
  see the defense being called, and I want to see who's on the mic
• 45:58
  saying stuff like is it Sean mcderm is it Babbage? Like who's calling this
• 46:00
  defense? I think they're they're gonna keep in typical Bills fashion. I think
• 46:04
  they're gonna keep those cards pretty close to the chest best until it happens.
• 46:08
  So I am very interesting because I like what McDermott did, but I'm also
• 46:13
  excited for Babbage. I think it's kind of a win win. I hope
• 46:15
  Nikki found up and saying just so many high picks and guys coming in just
• 46:17
  didn't work out. So I'm happy to see how this D line grows this
• 46:21
  year, especially having a legit one tech to backup Dayquon. Yeah, it's
• 46:23
  nice. I like Austin Johnson. I think Williams offers some potential as well,
• 46:29
  but I like that interior rotation of Ed, Dae Kwon, Austin Johnson,
• 46:32
  and then Dwane Carter at the backup three techs, so hopefully things work
• 46:36
  out there. I also like Eleonku. I've liked him since some preseason raps.
• 46:39
  I thought he was an underrated performer in the game against Baltimore two seasons
• 46:45
  ago, so I liked some of their one tech options behind Daiquon. I
• 46:49
  like Eleku again. Like I mentioned, I like Austin Johnson. I don't
• 46:52
  mind Williams. I'm a little more concerned about the three tech spot aside from
• 46:58
  Ed and Carter, I think they're a little f there. Plus Carters are
• 47:01
  rookie, we don't really know what to expect, Like even if your hopes
• 47:04
  are high, he's still in unknown quantity. But I do feel you on
• 47:07
  Washington kind of just the overall sentiment, especially seeing like how Boogie Basham didn't
• 47:10
  work out. Apanessa didn't necessarily hit the ceiling that you would have hoped he
• 47:15
  would hit as a second round pick. But again, for me, there's
• 47:16
  so many variables with him being drafted during COVID and having to change his body
• 47:20
  composition, which I hate that there's so many variables that kind of muddy the
• 47:23
  conversation, which happens in prospect development all the time. Right, it's not
• 47:28
  very rarely sugges this guy failed because he sucks, or this guy failed because
• 47:30
  the organization sucks. There's so many factors that go into kind of determining who
• 47:36
  a person is. Eric comes in and says, I expect pressure to come
• 47:38
  from all three levels Bernard and Cole can get after the QB. I do
• 47:42
  expect a lot of what we saw last year early on when the Bills were
• 47:45
  healthy. They were getting created with five and six man pressures. We're using
• 47:47
  simulated pressures creeper pressures for those who don't know simulated pressures. You're showing blitz
• 47:54
  pre snap, and then on the snap you drop one or more non traditional
• 48:00
  rushers, or you drop one or more traditional rushers into coverage and send one
• 48:05
  or more non traditional rushers in their place. Easiest way to think about it,
• 48:08
  you got your four down defensive lineman and you've got Bernard and Milano in
• 48:12
  the a gaps, or you're showing a six man pressure on the line.
• 48:15
  On the snap, Greg Russeau drops out in the coverage and Milano rushes so
• 48:19
  now you've got three defensive lineman rushing and Matt Mlano, three traditional rushers,
• 48:24
  one non traditional rusher being a linebacker. The flip side of that, or
• 48:28
  not the flip side, but the kind of the sister or brother of that
• 48:30
  is a creeper pressure where you do the exact same thing, but you don't
• 48:32
  show the pressure pre snap. So your four down defensive lineman, Bernard and
• 48:37
  Milano are hanging out in the second level like normal, and then on the
• 48:40
  snap, Brousseau drops milanal blitzes something like that. I do think you'll see
• 48:45
  that this year. I think that's kind of the way of the world when
• 48:47
  it comes to defensive football, trying to change the pre to post snap picture
• 48:51
  on the quarterback. So much of that is talked about from a coverage standpoint,
• 48:54
  with the skis and coverages and youkk nudge nudge, showing two hot and
• 49:00
  shifting to single, showing single, shifting to two tampa two, inverts slash
• 49:04
  tampa two, robber, getting creative with who's your dropper, who's the whole
• 49:07
  player, who's running the pole, all this kind of stuff from a coverage
• 49:10
  standpoint, I think a lot of that's starting to get into the pressure world
• 49:15
  as well with simulated and creepers, all with the idea of trying to make
• 49:20
  the quarterback hold out onto the ball for an extra quarter or half of a
• 49:22
  second, changing the pre to post nap picture on him. And there's a
• 49:25
  lot with simulates and creepers where you can also kind of manipulate protection and manipulate
• 49:31
  offenses. The Bills did it a lot in the gaming of the Raiders.
• 49:35
  I broke down a bunch of it on Twitter and some on the show,
• 49:38
  making them making the Raiders last year think uh oh, six or seven dudes
• 49:42
  are coming. Let me keep in a tight end and a running back to
• 49:45
  block. And then the Bills are only rushing four and it's simulated, and
• 49:50
  now you still are dropping seven into coverage, but there's less guys out in
• 49:52
  the route distribution because they thought more pressure was coming. You can manipulate that.
• 49:58
  You can keep the running back in a little bit, you can try
• 50:00
  and create one on ones with offensive linemen. So I think that type of
• 50:02
  blitz style in addition to five and six man pressures, especially if you have
• 50:07
  the ability to play man coverage behind it. Some of the body types they
• 50:09
  have. I do expect to see kind of a similar pressure package to your
• 50:14
  point that we saw last year. Whether it's McDermott, whether it's Babbage,
• 50:16
  I do think you will see some of that similar pressure package. Let us
• 50:21
  go now back to the film, and now as I start to pull up
• 50:28
  and talk to you folks. While I pull this up, we are going
• 50:30
  to look at some pieces for ajp Essa. I don't know why I say
• 50:36
  that, sometimes it's fun the same things. Let's go to Ajpanessa. I'm
• 50:42
  gonna play this on my own right now, offscreen that you can't see,
• 50:46
  to make sure huddle does make me look like a fool again. Oh sweet,
• 50:50
  it didn't, Okay, cool, all right, let's show this there
• 50:54
  we all right? Cool? Ope you can't see now you can, all
• 50:59
  right. So here's Aj Panessa. This Philly game. He had a couple
• 51:02
  of really great moments this year his I think his best games were from a
• 51:10
  pastro standpoint, especially we're against Philly here. He had some tremendous moments against
• 51:15
  Jacksonville as well. I wanted to show these plays against Philly because of the
• 51:20
  caliber of opponent they came against, and then I wanted to mix some of
• 51:23
  it that in with some run defense stuff as well. So the main reason
• 51:27
  I wanted to lock into the Philly tape was because of this man that he's
• 51:30
  going against right here. This is left tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles, mister
• 51:34
  Jordan Mylotta. One of the best offensive linemen in the entire NFL, not
• 51:37
  just one of the best tackles or one of the best left tackles, genuinely
• 51:42
  one of the best offensive linemen in the entire NFL. Coached by arguably the
• 51:45
  best offensive line coach in the NFL, mister Jeff Stoutman for the Philadelphia Eagles.
• 51:50
  My a Lota is a studs stud I think if you're talking like best
• 51:54
  left tackles, you've got Laramie Tunsel. You've got Tristan Wurfs, which is
• 51:59
  nuts considering moved the left tackle last year after being a right tackle in Tampa
• 52:02
  Bay. You've got my a Lotta. There are certain dudes that are in
• 52:05
  that rolodex in terms of who the best left tackle is, or who the
• 52:08
  second or third or top five, top three or whatever. My a Lotta
• 52:13
  is in that conversation. So seeing a Japanessa have some real quality and dominant
• 52:16
  wins against one of the best offensive linemen in football is extremely encouraging, and
• 52:21
  that's why I wanted to show these ones. But again, so those ones
• 52:24
  against there's a couple against Jacksonville that are really tremendous as well. I just
• 52:28
  rate my a lotta so much higher than who he beat against Jacksonville. So,
• 52:32
  oh, now you're gonna load on me. Oh man Touto is just
• 52:37
  my enemy today. I loaded it off screen and played it, and now
• 52:43
  that it's on screen, playing games, playing games, all right. So
• 52:45
  here's Epanessa four down. When I say four down to me, him was
• 52:50
  also four down on the defensive line, but he's in a four point stance.
• 52:52
  Takes off and watch you get first touch again, similar what we talked
• 52:59
  about Lavon mill Right, my lot, his hands are still kind of loading
• 53:02
  at Benessa has already into his chest. He's established in that half man relationship.
• 53:07
  He's got the hand into the center of the chest of Jordan mye a
• 53:09
  Lott and he's starting to work this outside. So he wins that first touch,
• 53:14
  gets that hand right into the chest a mile lotta to establish some leverage
• 53:17
  and establish some knock back a little bit. Watch the outside hand. This
• 53:22
  is something He's become really adept at his hand usage overall, but especially this
• 53:25
  move where he kind of lifts that outside arm and fork lifts it or just
• 53:30
  chops it down or pushes it off. The variety of moves that he does
• 53:34
  with his hands, it's something he's made a lot of progress. And again
• 53:37
  that hand usage, hand usage, and hand placement I think are really his
• 53:40
  calling card. I don't think he's the fastest. Although his get off is
• 53:44
  absolutely tremendous. He's got legitimately one of the best get offs of all defensive
• 53:46
  linemen, not on the Bills, just in the NFL. I forget that.
• 53:50
  I just remember that right now, But I remember the tweet like they
• 53:52
  clocked it. I think two seasons ago, like he had a top three
• 53:55
  fastest get off in the NFL, which is nuts. So he's really quick
• 53:59
  off the line. He's got a good get off, he's got good juice
• 54:01
  and burst. But I don't think he's the fastest. He's not the biggest,
• 54:05
  he's not the strongest. He doesn't have the best move repertoire or plan.
• 54:08
  But I do think he has enough moves, and I do think his
• 54:12
  hand usage is top tier. But this one's nice again just because of the
• 54:15
  physicality. And watch him just walk my a lota back and influence this throw.
• 54:20
  Hurts can't step into it. This is a second down in fourteen,
• 54:23
  so Philly's trying to get some yards on this one, and that Panessa just
• 54:28
  walks my a lota back and watch Hurts. He can't really step into it.
• 54:30
  He also can't really follow through into it because my a lotta is right
• 54:34
  in his lap and that is courtesy of Ajvanessa. And then watch the throw.
• 54:37
  This throw is short, a little bit of a difficult catch for who
• 54:43
  is that mister A J Brown ballfall short. What's nice about this one too
• 54:47
  is my Lota makes contact and this happens. Sometimes you get knocked back if
• 54:52
  you're an offensive lineman right, but you try to reset. You do that
• 54:55
  hop that we've talked about myself and Eric have talked about it. We showed
• 54:58
  it on Twitter, we showed it in a fil episode. You try to
• 55:00
  do that hop if you're an offensive lineman right where you're losing ground, so
• 55:04
  you hop and you try to re anchor and re establish yourself. Watch him
• 55:07
  go for it here, tries to hop, boom plants, re anchors,
• 55:13
  sets you're thinking, okay, cool, And again, with the caliber of
• 55:15
  Myolotta, it would not be unexpected if he just stalemates him right here and
• 55:21
  Myolotta doesn't. Oh, that's horribly unstraight, doesn't move any far back,
• 55:25
  any farther back from I should say, from this spot, but nope,
• 55:30
  look at him go through him again, and then my Allota tries to reanchor
• 55:34
  and reset again and that panessa. Look at again in the hand placement.
• 55:37
  Now now it's shifted more to the collarbone, more to the upper part of
• 55:39
  that shoulder pad. And look at him just wrenching him back. Look at
• 55:44
  the long arm, the physicality, the push he's wrenching back and is established
• 55:49
  leverage and one leverage again against one of the best offensive linemen in the entire
• 55:52
  NFL. This is a very very very very good rep. And again you're
• 55:57
  all you're gonna see it is on advanced metric. SIT's like PFF, who
• 56:00
  are going to track the pressure. It's not a sack, it's not a
• 56:04
  tipball. He causes this incompletion, he puts my Alotta into the lap of
• 56:08
  Jalen Hurts, which causes Hurts not to be able to fully step into this
• 56:12
  throw and not fully follow through with his throw, which causes that ball to
• 56:15
  come up short. AJ Brown has to die for it. And it's not
• 56:19
  in great placement. He's got his hands out turned. It's not great for
• 56:22
  the receiver. This is because of a Japanessa. Boom. That's a really
• 56:24
  great rap. I'm gonna play it in real time a couple more times.
• 56:29
  Boom Boom wrenches him back. That's real nice physical, good placement, sticks
• 56:35
  with it. Also, notice the hand fighting too. Watch this outside hand
• 56:39
  for aj A Panessa, the cool one that doesn't have a sleep. Also
• 56:43
  really good aesthetic. He's he's got the full arm sleeve on the left arm
• 56:45
  and then he's just rocking that tattoo on the right. Just a good look,
• 56:50
  just a good aesthetic. Watch the hand fighting starting here as soon as
• 56:53
  so again he's won that first touch with the left arm. It's in the
• 56:57
  chest of my alatta. He keeps it there for that leverage, that push,
• 57:00
  that drive, he keeps it there. But watch this outside tattooed arm
• 57:05
  of a j A Panessa gets the hand on there, right on the inside
• 57:09
  of that forearm or the upper part of the forearm, and the lower part
• 57:12
  of that elbow right in that kind of joint there pushes on it. Now
• 57:15
  again, what's happened? My lotta only has one arm on aj a Panessa
• 57:20
  and he does not have leverage. He's getting pushed back at. Panessa is
• 57:23
  into him. You see some of the body lean again, similar to that
• 57:27
  von Miller piece we talked about a couple minutes ago. You've got that lean,
• 57:30
  you've got that long arm. You are driving. So what's my allot
• 57:34
  going to do? Again? He's gonna try and do that hop step so
• 57:37
  he can anchor set himself. But he's also going to try and get some
• 57:40
  kind of touch here so he can slow down a Panessa. So here comes
• 57:44
  the outside arm of my lotta. Apanessa sees it, forces it off,
• 57:51
  grabs it, pushes it off him again, Boom knocks it down. Here
• 57:57
  comes the hand looking he literally grabs Boom grabs that hand, that wrist of
• 58:05
  my Lootta Nah not happening, forces him off him again. Now where's my
• 58:08
  lotta again? Only has one arm. Apanessa still has that long arm intact.
• 58:13
  So my a lotta, you see him kind of do that circle punch,
• 58:15
  tries to refit his hands, get it into Epanessa re establish some leverage
• 58:21
  and he gets it, gets it right into the chest so he can stop
• 58:23
  him a little bit. So all things considered, good battle, pretty decent
• 58:27
  recovery from my a lotta so Epinesa says, you know what, fine,
• 58:30
  I can't get that hand off. Let me lean in more with that long
• 58:34
  arm and just wrench you back. Good hand usage, good hand placement,
• 58:38
  good understanding and real time under like movement. And again I'm slowing that down.
• 58:45
  This all happens in the blink of a night. Bang hand hand wrench
• 58:49
  really nice and walks him right back. This is a tremendous, tremendous rep
• 58:54
  for Aja Panessa. Also some stats in case folks didn't know. Amongst one
• 59:00
  hundred and eighteen qualifying edges in twenty twenty three, A Japanessa was tied for
• 59:05
  twenty seventh in terms of pass rush productivity. Again pass russ pductivity. I
• 59:08
  talk about it all the time. PRP a formula that combined sacks, hits
• 59:13
  and hurry's relative to how many times a player rushes the passer. So he
• 59:16
  was twenty seventh out of one hundred and eighteen qualifying edges. He was also
• 59:20
  tied for first imbatted passes, which was a legitimate aspect of his game,
• 59:23
  as was his ability to drop into coverage last year. He was consistently displaying
• 59:28
  good athleticism last year for this Buffalo Bill squad last time for this one,
• 59:31
  great play walks him right back. Kind of showed from the other angle too,
• 59:43
  so you can see that hand placement of that left arm of Epanessa right
• 59:46
  into the chest, right in that chest plate on the number. Look at
• 59:52
  the drive, the leverage, the lean, bang bang fights that handoff again.
• 59:59
  Man, that's a really good rush, really really really good rush from
• 1:00:02
  aj Panessa. Oh it's a cool free frame. Um. Let's go to
• 1:00:07
  the next play for aj Panessa again. Aj Panessa circled on the screen up
• 1:00:12
  against Jordan Myo. Lotta different kind of rush this time for a Panessa.
• 1:00:15
  Boom just beats the hands, clears him, gets around the edge all in
• 1:00:19
  the blink of an eye. This one's nice too, right, So what's
• 1:00:22
  nice to use to get the little timer here? Uh? Kind in the
• 1:00:25
  bottom here on huddle, let's time it on the snap. Snap happens at
• 1:00:30
  twenty seven seventy six. AJ Panessa is in the backfield in about two and
• 1:00:40
  a half seconds, which is very fast, like he's heating up. Hurts
• 1:00:45
  a little over two seconds and he's making contact at about two and a half
• 1:00:49
  and he leaves my a lotta in just shambles over here on the left trying
• 1:00:53
  to make a play on him. My alta falls down to the dirt.
• 1:00:58
  Let's take a look at it in slow motion. So again, look also,
• 1:01:01
  this is a nice highlight of the get off. Look at the get
• 1:01:04
  off. So here comes the snap bang. AJ's already up. Floyd's not
• 1:01:08
  doing a bad job either, but granted, and there's some movement on the
• 1:01:10
  interior the ball is snapped. AJ is already off and moving like he was
• 1:01:16
  in the backfield, and he knows the snap count. By the time the
• 1:01:20
  ball gets to Hurts. Look where he has already kind of crossed the line
• 1:01:22
  of scrimmage. He's ready and rare to go. So gets that strong get
• 1:01:27
  off. Watching a slow moan and they'll play in real time again. Stabs
• 1:01:30
  inside, so he plants with that right foot, stabs inside. Look at
• 1:01:34
  where the leg is right. You always want to establish that half man relationship.
• 1:01:37
  You can take an offensive lineman on and bull rush Umberg go speed to
• 1:01:42
  power and try and go right through their chest. But a lot of times,
• 1:01:44
  especially in this instance, Apanessa isn't the biggest dude Jordan Mylota is.
• 1:01:49
  You don't want to have to try to play through his chest. You want
• 1:01:51
  to establish that half man relationship, which is you're kind of only playing off
• 1:01:53
  of half the man. In this case, he's trying to set him up
• 1:01:57
  so he can attack that outside shoulder of Jordan Myolotta. Good placement here.
• 1:02:02
  That foot is kind of right almost in that midline of my alta. It's
• 1:02:06
  a horrible angle from this angle, but if you notice, like where his
• 1:02:09
  foot relative to where my alotta his feet are, it's almost right down the
• 1:02:14
  center. So he gets that stab fakes inside, which causes my Alotta to
• 1:02:17
  hesitate just a little bit. And again the hand usage. Think about this
• 1:02:22
  every time you think about Ajfanessa. If someone asks you why you think Ajbanessa
• 1:02:25
  is going to have a good year, two things get off and hand usage
• 1:02:30
  and hand usage both in terms of placement, technique, speed, precision,
• 1:02:35
  it's all of it. Do you have some pop in your hands so when
• 1:02:37
  you hit a dude they kind of jump a little bit? Right? Do
• 1:02:38
  you have the precision where if you want to chop a dude on the risk,
• 1:02:42
  do you get him on the risk? Are your movements concise and crisp
• 1:02:45
  and precise like e Panessa's are? And then do you have the quickness to
• 1:02:49
  be able to hand fight with dudes like we showed on the previous snap.
• 1:02:52
  So here's another one again highlighting that hand usage. Bang. Look at that
• 1:02:59
  swite clubs right down and again notice the placement. It's hard to see a
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  little bit, but there's the arm for Epanessa. It's right down on that
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  forearm, right by that elbow. So when you chop down, that arm
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  goes down, you're done. If you chop up here, they can still
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  hang on and grab a little bit. You chop down at that anchor point
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  for your opponent, so that way that arm comes loose. So he chops
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  down on that arm, and now look what happens. He swings that arm
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  almost completely back across my a lotta. So my a lota needs to get
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  contact, so he's reaching and grabbing with this horrible position. If you're an
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  offensive lineman, your outside shoulder has been caved in. You're trying to reach
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  back over and do something with your inside arm not ideal. You're beat.
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  You're done right here. And then what's nice? Watch how he finishes this
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  off. I talked about it with Vaughn. You get upfield if you win
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  that outside shoulder, if you turn the corner, you run the arc.
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  You don't get too far upfield. You beat your man, you get skinny.
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  You try and shave that corner. You're trying to stay as tight to
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  the man as possible and not let them push you upfield. So he stays
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  tight, and he turns this corner. He flattens to the quarterback. And
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  again when I say flat, and it just means you stayed flat. He
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  didn't bubble. This wouldn't be flat, right like this wouldn't be flat,
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  or come in here and have him to circle back. No, just that
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  ability to turn in the corner and stay flat. And again he's doing against
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  Jordan my alta. My a lot of gets hands on him or tries to
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  nope, he's beat him. Leans stays flat, my Alta, tries to
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  push him a little bit, doesn't get him too far off kilter, and
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  he forces the incompletion. Really great play from Epanessa. And again watch it
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  just in real time bang bang, just swats it almost like you're snuffing out
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  a candle, like the flame out of candle. Man. That's that's beautiful
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  hand usage. That's beautiful technique from aj a Panessa. And again the punch
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  right like or the pop I should say, in that chop, my lot
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  is going to establish touch. He's going to try and get his hand on
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  epanessa and season immediately disconnects that arm from his body with power with pop.
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  But again it's that precision where he hits my lotta on his arm, the
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  angle at which he does it, and again just how much like that arm
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  just completely goes debt and is disconnected from epinessa so good similar to almost kind
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  of like it's almost like it gonna be a two hand swipe, but no,
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  it's just a straight almost it's basically a swim move, is what he
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  does here, because you see that inside arm come over and that important part
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  of the swim move. It's not just the arm coming over, that's the
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  swim. It's that club. What does that club look like? And here
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  you got a club kind of like a club chop. However, you want
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  a label, you want to call it a club cool, you want to
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  call it a chop whatever boom swats him, turns, leans finishes at the
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  quarterback and again how fluid it all is. Play one more time and then
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  all run from the other angle. Real nice thought this was a fumble real
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  time in the game, but alas it was not. Watch it from this
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  angle, just to give you another appreciation for it. Boom and also again
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  too notice like like we mentioned, how he sets it up with that initial
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  stab inside with his left foot, just to give himself some leverage, something
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  to base off of, something to pop off him and explode off a boom
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  and that cuts the arm. And I also want to show from the sideline
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  angle again talking about that flattening flatten to the quarterback. Don't get too far
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  upfield, so it gives it gives your offensive line and a chance to vertically
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  kind of push you, or it gives the quarterback the chance to step up
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  and you're going nowhere. Turn the corner and flatten too. The quarterback watch
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  up on us to turn the corner. Bang flatten b line right to the
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  quarterback and he gets pushed a little bit but still gets hands on him.
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  Makes a play. Very very very very nice. Again, that's a quality
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  rush in general, but especially considering the caliber of opponent that's coming up against.
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  And I know Philly kind of fell apart last year. Jordan Myiolotta did
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  not. That rep is tremendous. Also, Philly was still kind of cooking
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  a little bit at this point. They were starting to show kind of some
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  weaknesses and some vulnerabilities. But my Lotta was cruising and did really had a
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  great year, and Philly was still in a good spot at this point.
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  Now I've got two players highlighted. Ajmbanessa's on the left here, Greg Russo
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  is on the right, and they we're gonna start to show some more Greg
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  Russo stuff as we go forward. Actually, let me grab some comments because
• 1:07:40
  I haven't grabbed an in a while. Let's see if there's anything. John
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  Roberts says Bill's col and Ajvanessa crushes competition with astonishing grip strength. I like
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  it. Mike says Epanessa is a terror off the edge. I love his
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  speed rush. He's perfect at right defensive end. I don't think we have
• 1:07:57
  any superstars at edge, but I do think then Groot and Ovanessa are both
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  meat and potato starters. I like that, and an eight to ten sack
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  range. I think that's fine. Oh. I like this from Kayl Moury
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  saying, Groot aj a healthy Vonn and Smoot should be a not amazing but
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  still an above average rotation. I love that you mentioned Dowan Smoot because we're
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  going to talk about him going forward. Well done, nice segue. All
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  right, let's get into this clip. It'd be nice if I got back
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  to the screen where Huddle is Boom, there we go. I want to
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  show this one. This is a run defense snap. I wanted to show
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  some of this ray j a Panessa because he was bad against the run a
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  couple of years ago. He improved towards the back end of twenty twenty two.
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  I thought, really kind of at the apex of that, his run
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  defense performance against the Bears on Christmas Eve, I thought was really good.
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  And then he put some things together last year as well against the run,
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  and I wanted to show some of those run defense stats because I think he
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  still has a reputation for not being a good run defender and or it just
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  doesn't get covered enough. So here's a Panessa on the left eyeballs Jordan Malata.
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  So we're getting some pulling action from a lotta and from Dickerson number sixty
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  nine there. But the important thing is e Fanessa sees it. He sees
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  that flash of color. Watch what he does. Eyes immediately go into the
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  backfield. He's reading that mesh point. You have to honor Jalen Hurts his
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  legs. You have to honor him as a as a runner in addition to
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  being a thrower of the football. The Eagles when they're cooking are tremendous at
• 1:09:19
  this. This could be a handoff to the running back. Hurts could keep
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  it and run it. It could be a pass. There's so many ways
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  they can kind of get you into trouble. So here's Epanessa coming down the
• 1:09:30
  line, sees that flash of color from Alata. Look at him diagnose the
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  run point or the mesh point. He literally breaks down, and his eyes
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  are right there in the backfield, and he breaks puts himself in a position
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  where if this goes to Swift, he can kind of take an angle where
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  he can either make a quick tackle here chasing down the line a little potentially
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  or at the very least makes Swift have to take this and bubble out a
• 1:09:53
  little bit, so that way his help defenders can come. I through Epanessa,
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  so he plants on this leg, watches it sees Swift doesn't have the
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  ball. Watching just close right down on Jalen Hurts. You're watching in real
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  time. Boom. This looks like QB bash basically, you know, QB
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  GT counter bash. All that means is the back. The bash aspect means
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  the back is going away from the blocking scheme, So the blocking scheme is
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  going to the right, the back is going to the left, and then
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  the GT aspect guard a tackle. So G and T Bills do this play
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  teams are running quarterbacks do this. The Ravens do, what the Eagles do,
• 1:10:34
  what the Bills have done it this QB bash GT counter It's a nice
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  wrinkle to add bang. Really nice job from Epanessa there. Okay, I'm
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  gonna play it in real time again. Diagnose bang close down, good awareness,
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  good athleticism to close down. Also wanted to highlight Groot. I didn't
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  want to show too much run defense stuff for Groot in this episodes. I
• 1:10:58
  think everybody knows how good of a run defender he is. And if we
• 1:11:00
  did good run defense Napster group, we'd be here for like forever. Watch
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  group come down, So this guard is trying to kick him out. Two
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  things can happen here. If Groot tries to take the inside arm of Dickerson,
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  Dickerson can kind of hook him and log block him and keep him inside.
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  Or if group comes down, Dickerson's just mashing him, kicking him out
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  and sealing him so that way the tackle can kind of lead through that gap.
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  But group comes down again. Here's mister Gregory, mister Groot Boom.
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  Watch him just avoid and olay Dickerson and they make contact. They're gonna go
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  thigh on thigh, knee on knee. But because of that length, even
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  though he's starting to trip, he's so long and he's able to make a
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  play. Really nice job from Groot. And you can see Dickerson as he
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  gets up. Where we go here, mister Landon Dickerson right here, he's
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  on the ground. Watch him kind of get up and be like oh.
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  He says it twice because this is a good move by Groot, squeezing it
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  down. Whoop dips that shoulder. That's some good athleticism, especially from a
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  dude who's long, who's big. More of a compression or a physical guy.
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  I would imagine Dickerson thinks Groot's gonna try and mash me, and we're
• 1:12:18
  going shoulder to shoulder here, let me bang on him and kick him out.
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  Nope, reads it. Whoop, dip that shoulder and what he's reading
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  too. So let's go from Groot's perspective and then we'll transition into some Groot
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  stuff. He's seeing the double team here on ed Oliver, so he sees
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  that as he takes off on the line, and then he sees this flash
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  of color here from Dickerson coming around the corner. He knows that block is
• 1:12:45
  coming. Let me get rid of this line there. But nice again,
• 1:12:51
  being able to diagnose what's happening and make a play. His Groot's eyes are
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  in the backfield. He's reading what's going on. You can see his eyes
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  are on the mesh point, similar to Aja Panessa's. So his eyes are
• 1:13:02
  on the mesh point. To have your eyes back here, and then being
• 1:13:05
  able to avoid a very good pulling guard. Whoop. Nice congreg Gruss,
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  good physical play second and nine. This play resulted in a loss of one.
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  This is a really good play from your edges. Again, this is
• 1:13:18
  what I'm talking about When I say like, I'm worried, not worried,
• 1:13:23
  but I'm concerned, I just should say worried. I am worried, worried
• 1:13:26
  and concerned about the top tier pass rush production from the edge grouping. Do
• 1:13:30
  you have somebody who can go and get you a bucket, someone who can
• 1:13:33
  can consistently win one on one as a pass rusher. Do you have anyone
• 1:13:39
  that can do that? Do you have multiple guys? Do you have none?
• 1:13:42
  Like? That's where my concern lies. But we're just talking about is
• 1:13:45
  an edge grouping defending the run. I'm not worried about it. If I'm
• 1:13:48
  the Buffalo Bills because I have faith and Groot. I think that Vanessa's made
• 1:13:53
  strides there. I think Von gives you enough there. And then if Smoot
• 1:13:56
  is the fourth or Casey two Hill, I think you have enough. Kind
• 1:13:59
  of rounded out again, Kingsley, Jonathan, maybe it's Jamal Solomon. You've
• 1:14:01
  got different aspects for each guy. Oh, I got to take another simple
• 1:14:04
  water apart. In me, it's issue with going live. Every time I
• 1:14:12
  gotta do a drink, I gotta alert everybody. Well, I guess you
• 1:14:15
  can also see it, so it's not too crazy. One more time.
• 1:14:16
  Just really good edge play. Boom boom, and they meet meeting the minds
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  right at the quarterback. Really nice play. Now let's go to mister Greg
• 1:14:28
  Rousseau, who I am jumping all over the place for his film Where's the
• 1:14:34
  Bengals. There's the Bengals. Also not a great game, but a fun
• 1:14:43
  moment for Greg Russou Here. I want to talk about some of his metrics
• 1:14:45
  first. I mentioned him briefly in different shows. Again, much like aj
• 1:14:49
  At Vanessa. Amongst those one hundred and eighteen qualifying edges in twenty twenty three,
• 1:14:55
  Groot was tied for twenty fourth in past rus productivity, He was twenty
• 1:14:59
  second in total pressures, He was tied for tenth in QB hits, he
• 1:15:02
  was tied for twenty third in hurries, and he was tied for twenty first
• 1:15:05
  in win percentage. So a sneaky productive season from a pass rush standpoint that
• 1:15:12
  didn't translate into sacks, but the pressures that hits the hurries. I also
• 1:15:15
  think that's an aspect of his game, you know, as we start to
• 1:15:17
  get into the tape here, I think an aspect of his game that would
• 1:15:20
  be nice to see him take a jump in is getting home and getting to
• 1:15:25
  the quarterback. I think he's very much been and this isn't necessarily a negative,
• 1:15:28
  just kind of what he is. I think he's very much been a
• 1:15:32
  pocket compression style of rusher, the guy who's going to use his length,
• 1:15:38
  empower and strength and back you up into the quarterback. Squeeze those rush lane.
• 1:15:43
  Squeeze those rush lanes, constrict the pocket, keep the quarterback in the
• 1:15:46
  pocket, use that length to occupy an offensive lineman, be able to two
• 1:15:50
  gap a little bit or show over here, and then be able to just
• 1:15:54
  reach that pterodactyl arm into the other gap and make a play on a running
• 1:15:59
  back or a QB. He's not a big change of direction guy. He's
• 1:16:01
  not this big moves, pass rush plan type of guy. He was also
• 1:16:04
  green at this position with his experience at the University of Miami and coming out,
• 1:16:10
  and then he's had some injuries here and there, so I think his
• 1:16:12
  pass rush game has always been a work in progress in terms of the cerebral
• 1:16:15
  nature of it, in terms of moves and plan. Now he understands what's
• 1:16:18
  going on and he has tremendous hand usage similar to Ajbanessa to go along with
• 1:16:24
  that length and that strength, but a lot of his game has very much
• 1:16:27
  just been compression. Let me push this guy or let me go through this
• 1:16:31
  guy. What I want to show with these clips here from last year is
• 1:16:34
  something I want to see more of from him in twenty twenty four. And
• 1:16:39
  if he can do more of this, I think he can be more of
• 1:16:41
  a complete or true edge one and be an edge one against the pass in
• 1:16:45
  addition to being an edge one against the run. I want to see more
• 1:16:48
  of this move set and more of a skilled rush. Not that it doesn't
• 1:16:53
  take skill to go through a dude and compress the pocket, but when I
• 1:16:56
  say skilled, I mean more hand usage plan being able to defeat a man
• 1:17:01
  with some quickness or some sort of element that isn't just I'm long and strong,
• 1:17:08
  let me push through this dude's face and get through, because that's not
• 1:17:11
  going to work consistently all the time, or it's not necessarily going to translate
• 1:17:15
  into sacks, which I think is something that we saw last year. For
• 1:17:16
  as good as his stats were from an advanced metrics standpoint, again, Pastor's
• 1:17:19
  productivity hits, hurries overall pressures, you didn't see that translate into a lot
• 1:17:27
  of sacks for him, And again, I think there is a lot of
• 1:17:29
  value in pressures, especially if you're a long dude like him and you can
• 1:17:31
  compress the pocket then get your hand up and change throwing angles for quarterbacks.
• 1:17:34
  But it would be nice to see that translate into more sacks for him,
• 1:17:39
  and I think that'll come from not just being mainly a pocket compression type of
• 1:17:45
  due. So let's get into this first one against Cincinnati Bengals low red zone.
• 1:17:49
  Here he is circled on the left side of the screen. Again,
• 1:17:54
  not a crazy get off. Jonah Williams Williams seventy three there for the Bengals,
• 1:17:58
  meets him out watch the move hand placement. Eric and I had him
• 1:18:01
  in the film room last year, and I really loved hearing him talk about
• 1:18:08
  his hand usage. Like when he's going up against a dude, he's watching
• 1:18:12
  as he should, He's watching their movement and trying to get a hand in
• 1:18:15
  those leverage points in the chest, on the stern, in the shoulder pad,
• 1:18:19
  like he's looking for specific areas to hit, to grab, to move
• 1:18:24
  to use to his advantage as a lot of guys do. But his ability
• 1:18:28
  to execute with it is. It happens consistently, especially against the run,
• 1:18:31
  but it flashes a little bit here against the pass like it does on this
• 1:18:33
  play. This is what I want to see more of. So get that
• 1:18:36
  long, nice established hand placement there right on the peck of Joonah Williams.
• 1:18:42
  Watch him get Joonah Williams off his feet because he's lower than Jonah Williams.
• 1:18:47
  You get some more of that lean again. We're showing a lot of body
• 1:18:49
  leverage lean in this episode. Look at him. Take Joonah Williams off his
• 1:18:54
  feet, open up that inside and get inside quickly and make a hit on
• 1:18:59
  Burrow. A quick throw and ends up being in completion. Again, if
• 1:19:02
  we want to play the quickness game and time it. Ball is snapped at
• 1:19:08
  forty five point fifty. It's been one second right now. He is into
• 1:19:14
  the backfield at about two seconds. He's impacting this throw and forcing this throw
• 1:19:17
  around two seconds, which is fine for Joe Burrow because he loves a quick
• 1:19:20
  game, because that's the type of guy that he is. But this is
• 1:19:23
  him impacting the throw. This is the pressure. This is a great rep
• 1:19:26
  and it happens because of the pop and the strength and the hands boom,
• 1:19:30
  gets him right off his feet, opens up that inside and then barrels down.
• 1:19:34
  That's a tremendous rep boom. This is what I want to see more
• 1:19:39
  of from group, where he's winning in these lanes. I don't think he's
• 1:19:42
  ever gonna be a dude that's gonna win around the arc. Like he's not
• 1:19:45
  gonna dip and bend and win around the corner or even flatten a little bit.
• 1:19:49
  He's either going through you or I think he has the chance to beat
• 1:19:51
  you out beat you inside. This is a really nice inside. Again,
• 1:19:56
  there's that hand placement, and you can see the hand placement in terms of
• 1:20:00
  where it goes, but also the strength in it because of how granted Williams.
• 1:20:04
  Williams isn't in great position here when group makes this contact, like he
• 1:20:08
  doesn't have a solid base. He's on his heels, but also like he's
• 1:20:12
  on his heels with his inside foot. But I also don't think this foot
• 1:20:14
  is even touching the ground. So it's really good timing from group. Just
• 1:20:16
  look at him lift this grown man almost off his feet. This foot is
• 1:20:20
  now off the ground, this foot is sideways. Just prize him, open,
• 1:20:27
  opens up that inside and then gives him another little chuck for good measure
• 1:20:31
  with that hand to make sure he can't get in, follows through boom,
• 1:20:35
  and then puts a good hit on the quarterback. That's a hit, that's
• 1:20:40
  a pressure. That's a hurry boom. Really good rush from mister gregrou So.
• 1:20:47
  Now, good comment comment here from Thomas saying, do you see Aj
• 1:20:53
  taking the majority of the Floyd snaps? Does that get into ten sacks?
• 1:20:57
  If Epanessa plays at the pace he did last year, that hundred percent gets
• 1:21:00
  into ten sacks In terms of the majority of Floyd snaps. I do think
• 1:21:06
  Vaughn's gonna get a significant chunk. I do. I do think Vonn's going
• 1:21:10
  to be edge three or edge two. But I would say overall from a
• 1:21:13
  snapshare perspective, yeah, probably lean Aj like fifty five forty five in terms
• 1:21:19
  of him and Vaughn taking those snaps. If I had to put like a
• 1:21:23
  number percentage on it, that's a good question. One more time, just
• 1:21:27
  because I really like this play opens him up hand placement usage again tying into
• 1:21:33
  that length. Really nice play. Another play for mister Greg rue So.
• 1:21:40
  We're going to go to the game against the Kansas City Chiefs in the regular
• 1:21:45
  season. We're going to go to play nine, all right, Gregorrissell,
• 1:21:54
  All right, here we go, mister Gregorsso, line up in a bit
• 1:21:56
  of a wider alignment because he's head up on the tight end here Kansas City
• 1:22:00
  shocking tight end or multiple tight end grouping and also of condense formation. Who
• 1:22:05
  would have thought, Okay, let's watch mister greg grew So, this one's
• 1:22:10
  nice too. So tight end releases Travis Kelcey. He's not staying in the
• 1:22:13
  block. Watch the positioning of groop, but work a little hesitation. Bank
• 1:22:17
  gets inside again, hand placement and strength. He gets that club right there
• 1:22:24
  on that shoulder, and watch him cave in that inside. What do we
• 1:22:28
  see again? Getting him getting another offensive tackle off balance? All the weight
• 1:22:32
  is on this outside foot, this foot for the tackle is starting to come
• 1:22:38
  off the ground. It does come off the ground. Look at this.
• 1:22:42
  You're done. You're dead. You are dead. Your only hope here is
• 1:22:45
  that Gregorso trips over this leg. I don't know if this is purposeful tripping
• 1:22:48
  or more just like I got waxed. My leg is out there because I'm
• 1:22:51
  off balance. Either way, it's not great, but little hesitation again.
• 1:22:57
  I'll play it in real time and then break it down slow hesitation, boom,
• 1:23:00
  and then watch him fight through like a beast. This ends up being
• 1:23:03
  a nine yard gaate for Kansas City. Good job by Edwards Hilaire on the
• 1:23:06
  back end. But let's go in slow mo. Now, well, go
• 1:23:11
  real time first again, a little hesitation. He's diagnosing what he's seeing in
• 1:23:15
  the backfield, but the mesh point stops. Mahomes here is already stopping this
• 1:23:19
  mesh point. So now Root says, okay, let me get into the
• 1:23:24
  backfield. A little bit too much of an over pursuit on the outside.
• 1:23:29
  Again, this hand, the placement, the strength, just chucks him to
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  the side. Now watch him get through. Tooney comes over to give him
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  some help. And look at Grout. Just godzilla his way through two grown
• 1:23:45
  men, one of them being one of the best guards in all the football,
• 1:23:47
  one of the best linemen in all the football, Joe Toney, look
• 1:23:50
  at him, just walk both guys back. Heats up Mahomes help force this
• 1:23:55
  throw. Also is in the pass and window here, so Mahomes wanted to
• 1:23:58
  go this way. This is of muddy because his hand is up and he's
• 1:24:01
  he's in that lane, just a very very very dominant rep physically chuck your
• 1:24:09
  man get through two dudes the length, showing up the size, the frame,
• 1:24:13
  the strength. But again similar to that Cincinnati clip, I just showed
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  an inside move, not just okay, let me go and put two hands
• 1:24:20
  on a guy and push him into the backfield, using that length, using
• 1:24:25
  that strength, using that hand placement and hand pop overall hand usage, using
• 1:24:30
  it to win inside, and having a quick lane to the quarterback. Again,
• 1:24:33
  I don't think Krud is gonna be a guy who's gonna heasy. Maybe
• 1:24:36
  at most he can be a heavy swap these arms and turn the corner here,
• 1:24:42
  but he's not a great change of direction guy. He's not a bend
• 1:24:45
  and dip type of guy, which is understandable. He's built like a redwood
• 1:24:48
  tree, and redwood trees don't really bend like that. So he's either going
• 1:24:53
  through you or he's gonna get you off kilter with his hands and win inside.
• 1:24:57
  I would like to see him win inside more so that way he's a
• 1:25:00
  threat to do that instead of just being a go through you kind of guy.
• 1:25:03
  This I think is a real key for him, just because I don't
• 1:25:08
  see him if he's gonna win outside. It's gonna be with a with a
• 1:25:12
  two hands swipe or actually kind of a similar move to this, just going
• 1:25:15
  in the opposite direction. But I just don't see it happening consistently because again
• 1:25:18
  to change the direction, the lack of change of direction and bend that he
• 1:25:21
  has, which is understandable given his size and frame and body composition. But
• 1:25:27
  this rep is so strong, especially after he diagnoses and commits boom, that
• 1:25:30
  ability to just chuck a dude. And then also notice how he reduces his
• 1:25:34
  surface area a little bit so he can get through the gap and just leans
• 1:25:40
  into Tuney and Godzilla is his way through. Really nice rep from Greg Russo
• 1:25:45
  watch it one more time in a real time and then we'll go to the
• 1:25:50
  next one for Groot. You go this one over here again, just seeing
• 1:25:57
  it now. Groot's on the right there, same play, chuck your man
• 1:26:00
  barrow through. Be a monster, just be a monster, play like Godzilla.
• 1:26:05
  That's it. Next one I want to go to for mister Rousseau is
• 1:26:13
  seventeenth defensive play against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Again, similar thought or idea behind
• 1:26:19
  why I'm showing this play and why I'm showing this clip whos so off the
• 1:26:25
  right aggressive sets, well, not aggressive set, but quick out of his
• 1:26:29
  set for the right tackle. What do you see group do heasy boom,
• 1:26:33
  quick little club. This one is a clean, clean wind that results in
• 1:26:39
  a sack playing in real time. Nothing crazy about this one just sets him,
• 1:26:45
  sets him up, similar to what we saw in that play against Kansas
• 1:26:48
  City. A little hesitation hit inside club on the shoulder pad. This one's
• 1:26:55
  just clean this time. Actually, let's pause it here. Time he wins.
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  There's no Joe Tooney here, and there's no help from the right guard
• 1:27:05
  to kind of hold up Groot like there was on the last play. Groot
• 1:27:09
  also keeps his feet a little bit better on this one than he did against
• 1:27:11
  Kansas City, but there's no help from the interior offensive lineman for this tackle
• 1:27:15
  like there was on the previous play, and it's just a bee line bearing
• 1:27:18
  down right on the quarterback. That's what you're hoping for for Grouth this year.
• 1:27:23
  If he's getting to double digit sacks because he's winning inside with this and
• 1:27:26
  he's got it in his game, we just have to see him use it
• 1:27:28
  more consistently. Bo I think also being healthy would help if he's not dealing
• 1:27:31
  with broken feet or a banged up ankle. Allowing him to you know,
• 1:27:36
  be able to turn and plant and use his wheels better will also help him
• 1:27:41
  be able to mitigate the lack of bend. If you're already a dude who
• 1:27:45
  doesn't have a lot of dip or bend to your game, and then you've
• 1:27:47
  got like busted wheels, it's just gonna limit you further. And this rush
• 1:27:53
  is tremendous again, and it's quick right, there's no mucking around, there's
• 1:27:56
  no dancing too much. It's a quick hesitation plant, get inside. Also
• 1:28:02
  too with grew with his size and strength, he doesn't This is a clean
• 1:28:06
  win, which is awesome. He doesn't necessarily need to win this clean.
• 1:28:09
  If you can just get half of that shoulder and then push through and pry
• 1:28:12
  through and open you up like you did against Joona Williams, that's also possible
• 1:28:15
  for him. Nice rush, bearon right down on Mason. Rudolf will play
• 1:28:20
  it one more time in real time. Boop real nice, real nice,
• 1:28:29
  real nice. Now the next player I want to show as I stop the
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  some good with it. That that's common here from Robert Wilson saying, I
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  am praying Javon Solomon is a hell of a surprise. Being a dynamic pass
• 1:29:30
  Rusher. I understand Javon is a rookie. He is a rookie. We're
• 1:29:33
  going to talk about him here and show some stats that I take a quick
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  drink of water. Okay, cool drink of water. Done. Nice segue
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  to mister Javon Solomon, who again, I've been meaning to get into his
• 1:29:49
  film. I was gonna do it in a solo episode or a one off
• 1:29:53
  or all these different pieces, and then the way it kind of just lined
• 1:29:57
  up into this one, I thought kind of made a lot of sense.
• 1:30:00
  So an eddresser who and I talked about it when Greg and I did the
• 1:30:08
  post draft episode reaction for each night and day of the draft. Javon Solomon
• 1:30:15
  was someone who I just didn't think would be on the bills radar because of
• 1:30:21
  his size. He ticks some of the boxes for the bills. But I'm
• 1:30:28
  actually going to grab that tweet because I don't but bah bah bah. I
• 1:30:33
  should have had it up before, but I didn't. He's just not a
• 1:30:38
  guy who ticked the box from a size and frame perspective or what I thought.
• 1:30:44
  So if you look at who he is height six foot seven eighth inches,
• 1:30:51
  that's the zero percentile four edges weight two hundred and forty six pounds,
• 1:30:57
  that is the eighth percentile. When it comes to wingspan and arm length and
• 1:31:00
  hand size, he's okay with all that. So wingspan he's in the fifty
• 1:31:04
  first percentile, arm length sixty third, hand size ninety six, and then
• 1:31:10
  he's not bad. From an athletic testing standpoint, thirty fifth percentile for ten
• 1:31:14
  yards split, not great, but sixty seventh for forty yard dash, eighty
• 1:31:17
  six for vertical jump, sixty seven percentile for broad jump, and forty eight
• 1:31:23
  percentile for bench press. Again, dudes with longer arms usually struggle with the
• 1:31:27
  bench press a little bit. But when you look at what Brandon Bean has
• 1:31:31
  looked for in his edges in the Bean era for the Buffalo Bills, the
• 1:31:36
  average height for guys who have been drafted off the edge for the Buffalo Bills
• 1:31:41
  has been six foot five again Javon Solomon, almost six to one, but
• 1:31:45
  not quite so, over four inches shorter than the average they go. For
• 1:31:49
  average weight in the Brandon Bean era two hundred and seventy pounds two hundred and
• 1:31:55
  seventy point two to be specific, Jevon Solomon again two hundred and forty six
• 1:31:59
  pounds about a twenty four pound difference. Arm length is close. They go
• 1:32:03
  for thirty four point thirteen inches under being thirty three and seven eighth inches for
• 1:32:09
  Solomon broad jump. They look for dudes that are one hundred and seventeen point
• 1:32:14
  three to three. Solomon actually beat that and one hundred and nineteen ten yard
• 1:32:17
  split is spawn on one point sixty five average and the bean era and one
• 1:32:21
  point sixty six for Javon Solomon. So for some pieces he's right on with
• 1:32:28
  the averages in terms of what the Bills have drafted at the edge position,
• 1:32:33
  but he's a huge outlier for size and for weight at the edge position.
• 1:32:39
  Again, the Bills traditionally have gone for pocket compression style of rushers. Leonard
• 1:32:44
  Floyd von Miller are outliers. They look for Boogie Basham and Greg Russeau and
• 1:32:49
  these dudes that are big, thicker type dudes that are going to compress the
• 1:32:53
  pocket. You're going to walk a tackle back. They don't really go for
• 1:32:56
  bendy guys, athletic guys, moves, guys playing guys out the gate.
• 1:33:00
  They look for length, they look for size, they look for weight,
• 1:33:02
  they look for frame. They want heavy dudes that will play the run and
• 1:33:06
  compress the pocket and bang against tackles. So Solomon was a bit of an
• 1:33:13
  outlier. I thought he was a fine player and a fun player, especially
• 1:33:15
  when you look at some of the production. Out of four hundred and seventy
• 1:33:19
  one qualifying edges in twenty twenty three, he was tied for thirty third in
• 1:33:25
  pass rushed productivity. He was second in the entire nation in sacks. Again,
• 1:33:29
  this is for PFF. They don't do half sacks. He was second
• 1:33:31
  in the entire nation for sacks. I believe if you're going if you're counting
• 1:33:35
  like half sacks and you're not doing what PFF does, I think he led
• 1:33:39
  the nation in sacks. Then he was tied for twenty third in pressures,
• 1:33:43
  tied for twenty fourth in hits, and forty seventh in win percentage. Do
• 1:33:47
  see a lot of snaps in college football, so that's why there's four hundred
• 1:33:49
  and seventy one qualified edges. If you narrow down the filter and go for
• 1:33:55
  guys who saw heavier snaps, his numbers get better. So he was productive.
• 1:34:00
  He's got moves, he's got planned but he didn't really tick some of
• 1:34:02
  the boxes. From a weight and hype perspective, that are significant for the
• 1:34:06
  Bills, and he's a significant outlier. Again, their average height is six
• 1:34:10
  foot five. It's not like, well he's six foot three or six foot
• 1:34:12
  four. He's not even officially six foot one. And then weight, they
• 1:34:15
  look for dudes that are two seventy It's not like, well he's two sixty
• 1:34:17
  or two fifty five, he's two forty six. Those are significant, But
• 1:34:23
  I digress. Let's get into some film for mister Javon Solomon. I want
• 1:34:26
  to just kind of put in perspective who he is, what he is,
• 1:34:29
  how he wins, kind of a little bit opposite ironically of what we just
• 1:34:32
  showed for Groot. You're not going to see a lot of inside winning for
• 1:34:36
  Javon Solomon. The plays that I showed here, I went through three full
• 1:34:42
  games. I didn't have a ton of Troy tape. I usually like to
• 1:34:44
  watch four to six games for a dude, So there is some sample size
• 1:34:48
  potentially missing there with me watching three games. But what I'm showing you is
• 1:34:55
  representative of who he is in these games and a microcosm of what and who
• 1:34:59
  he is as a rusher. So this first play run defense rep for him.
• 1:35:02
  Just want to kind of show you his game as a whole. See
• 1:35:04
  some of the quickness. Watch him get across the face of the tackle,
• 1:35:08
  bang inside, make a stop on the run. This is the first play
• 1:35:11
  of the game. Good effort, good motor, reducer surface area. Wanted
• 1:35:15
  to show up from this angle just so you can see how he affects that
• 1:35:17
  line. Again, he stays flat, He's not getting pushed off. He's
• 1:35:21
  getting right down the line of scrimmage, not getting driven off the play.
• 1:35:26
  Smaller type of dude, but has enough core strength where you're not just going
• 1:35:29
  to bully him. I do think adjusting the NFL size is going to be
• 1:35:33
  an issue for him and seeing how we can handle that. But we'll see.
• 1:35:38
  Also something to note for Troy, and you'll see this right here in
• 1:35:44
  Troy's defense, he's lining up here a lot. So this is if you
• 1:35:46
  go my number alignment versusn offensive lineman. So lining head up on the center
• 1:35:50
  is a zero, Lining head up on the guard is two. Lining head
• 1:35:54
  up on the tackle is a four. So he's lined up as a four.
• 1:35:57
  You'll see him on the inside shoulder of the tackle. That's a four.
• 1:36:00
  I I don't think it his size, this is suitable for him.
• 1:36:03
  You are going to see him living outside as an edge player. That should
• 1:36:08
  set him up better for success. You'll see a lot of his good wins
• 1:36:11
  on tape here come when he's lined up outside on the edge. I think
• 1:36:14
  that's how the Bills will also deploy him. So that comes into perspective as
• 1:36:17
  well. The fact that he had the production that he had from a sack
• 1:36:20
  perspective and pressure perspective, considering he was seeing a bunch of reps still on
• 1:36:25
  the inside where I don't think that's most advantageous giving his size and frame.
• 1:36:30
  Is another feather in his cap. Again, you watch quickness mirrors where he's
• 1:36:34
  got going on in front of him. Watch him get skinny. Here,
• 1:36:36
  turn sideways reduces his surface area so he can maintain momentum, not get blown
• 1:36:42
  off the ball. Here, splits these two fights through, makes attack on
• 1:36:46
  the backfield. Nice rep. He's got a motor. I said it on
• 1:36:50
  draft day when he got taken. He plays like a veloci raptor. And
• 1:36:54
  when I mean that, or when I say what I mean when I say
• 1:36:57
  that is motor effort, relentlessness, hand usage, violence, Like he is
• 1:37:03
  always trying to attack. He's always trying to play on the front foot,
• 1:37:05
  whether he's rushing the quarterback, whether he's trying to make a play against the
• 1:37:09
  run. Again, adjusting the NFL size I think is going to be to
• 1:37:15
  say, lightly and adjustment for him. Guys with length, guys with hand
• 1:37:18
  strength, guys with grip strength, but more importantly the size and the frame
• 1:37:23
  and the weight. Where if they get a hold of him, are they
• 1:37:26
  going to bully him and just stalemate him and kind of put him in quicksand
• 1:37:29
  and he's got nowhere to go? Can he function against NFL size and strength
• 1:37:32
  and NFL quickness as well? Like, because these dudes, these linemen,
• 1:37:35
  a lot of them are gonna have like sixty pounds on him and be similar
• 1:37:40
  to him in terms of athleticism. So that's going to be an adjustment.
• 1:37:44
  I don't want to say a struggle, but I do think it'll be a
• 1:37:45
  challenge for him. What's nice is and I'm gonna show you as we go
• 1:37:49
  forward. He already employs a lot of pass rush plan and moves and understanding
• 1:37:56
  how to beat guys, how to set guys up, how to win against
• 1:37:58
  guys. So that's in his face. He's got good hands, he has
• 1:38:00
  moves, he has plan that's very nice, and I think that sets him
• 1:38:04
  up for success a little bit. But the size is going to be a
• 1:38:08
  challenge. Another one here or Solomon again. So notice what we got.
• 1:38:12
  What I said zero, A two, a four. Well that's a little
• 1:38:16
  officer, but head up on the tackle would be a four where Solomon on
• 1:38:19
  the inside shoulder. So that's a four eye for mister Devon Solomon. Not
• 1:38:24
  the most advantageous thing when you're six foot, two hundred and forty six pounds.
• 1:38:28
  But nonetheless, watch him make this play here again, I wanted to
• 1:38:31
  show some run stuff. Look at how he on the snap. He moves
• 1:38:35
  down diagnosed, So it's going to watch the dip right here. Lowers that
• 1:38:42
  shoulder, dips, rips through, reduces his surface area again being able to
• 1:38:45
  get penetration into the backfield. That's what he is. If he's making plays
• 1:38:48
  against the run, he's penetrating, he's one gapping, he's winning with quickness,
• 1:38:53
  reducing his surface area getting into the backfield. This is what you're gonna
• 1:38:57
  see again. You're not gonna see this with the Bills because he's not gonna
• 1:38:59
  be in a four like. They're not gonna take him at his size and
• 1:39:01
  line him up on the inside shoulder of a tackle in the NFL. He'll
• 1:39:04
  get eaten like that that there's no way that's gonna happen. Not to mention
• 1:39:06
  too, the Bill's defensive alignment. They don't play with this kind of stuff
• 1:39:12
  a lot or regularly, and if they do, this is going to be
• 1:39:14
  groot or this is gonna be at oliver or smooth or bigger bodied defensive end
• 1:39:18
  or even defensive tackle if they're going with bare front stuff or tight front or
• 1:39:23
  anything like that. But again, I just wanted to show you the effort
• 1:39:26
  he shows against playing the run. He's not some dude with a ton of
• 1:39:28
  pass rush numbers and doesn't have substance against the run, which is nice to
• 1:39:31
  see. Now more conducive to his frame and style. You see him into
• 1:39:38
  two point stands, You see him more outside here. We're gonna show the
• 1:39:41
  end zone in a minute. Watch the pass rush here, Watch the juice
• 1:39:45
  to get off the impact. Who cares if the pass is completed, I
• 1:39:47
  don't care about that. Watch on the stamp boom quickness, and look at
• 1:39:55
  the lean Look how he leans through that shoulder. When he's winning, he
• 1:39:59
  is winning through the arc. He's winning through the outside shoulder of an offensive
• 1:40:02
  tackle. He is getting through with dip and bend, some hand usage,
• 1:40:06
  a combination of all of it. Get off isn't two. It's not awful,
• 1:40:12
  it's not amazing, it's not ajfans A level. But he's got this
• 1:40:15
  inate ability to turn the corner. He's got enough flexibility bend, but he's
• 1:40:17
  got good core strength, arm length, and hand usage that allows him to
• 1:40:23
  beat arms, beat shoulders, chop down hands and then dip, lean,
• 1:40:28
  flatten and come through offensive tackles around the arc. So go and slow.
• 1:40:31
  Go here again, see to get off out in space, not in a
• 1:40:36
  four Not in a four eye alignment where he's in close quarters against dudes who
• 1:40:41
  outweigh him and maybe match his arm length but definitely have a bigger size and
• 1:40:45
  frame than him. He's out in space, gets a one on one opportunity.
• 1:40:48
  This is what you're gonna see for him. He's gonna press that outside
• 1:40:51
  shoulder. He's gonna try and turn the corner. He might jab inside every
• 1:40:56
  once in a while or try to set something up inside, but he's not
• 1:40:58
  a big inside moves guy. He is an outside dip, bend, rip,
• 1:41:02
  hand usage, cross chop type of guy. And you see watch heres
• 1:41:06
  he gets out, figs that inside arm right, puts his hand out,
• 1:41:12
  and then look how he dips, powers through, gets some good core strength.
• 1:41:15
  Offensive tackle can only get on his back. But look how he pushes
• 1:41:19
  through. He doesn't get driven into the ground, he doesn't get bubbled outside
• 1:41:24
  or too far upfield. He's able to stay flat and bear down to this
• 1:41:28
  quarterback, get a pressure, get a nice hit. I'm going to take
• 1:41:30
  a look at it from the end zone angle. You're gonna see this move
• 1:41:33
  a lot from him where he's going to put that arm up. I can
• 1:41:36
  never tell if it's like him trying to like set up a ghost rush or
• 1:41:41
  if he's going for a literal like chop and he's trying to put it up
• 1:41:44
  and then wait for the tackle to put his outside hand up so we can
• 1:41:46
  chop it down and rip through. You're gonna see this move a lot from
• 1:41:49
  him where he is putting that arm up and then bending through. And again,
• 1:41:57
  what do you see flatten core strength, puts the arm up, tackle,
• 1:42:01
  flashes his hands. Cool, let me dip and lean through then you
• 1:42:06
  see that inside arm rip through flattens good core strength, which he should have,
• 1:42:12
  lower center of gravity. He's gonna have a lower center of gravity than
• 1:42:15
  pretty much everyone he comes up against, but his ability to use it consistently
• 1:42:18
  is a very nice piece. Oh, let me go to some comments because
• 1:42:23
  I have been slacking on that. Mike says, is Solomon and niche player.
• 1:42:26
  I blitz him from a sam or in a wide defense. I think
• 1:42:29
  he's just an edge defender if you want to. I think he's more right
• 1:42:31
  now, more of a sub package player. If I think that falls into
• 1:42:34
  the niche umbrella or niche categorization, I would say, yeah, he's he's
• 1:42:40
  more of a sub package dude. I think he's a third down rusher.
• 1:42:43
  If he balls out in camp like he potentially ken as a pass rusher,
• 1:42:45
  I think he's a dude that I think if he balls out and you want
• 1:42:49
  to get him into the lineup, I think you're probably dressing five defensive ends
• 1:42:55
  on game day and then he's seeing maybe ten to twelve snaps on passing downs
• 1:43:00
  or non passing situations, and you're using him just to go hunt the QB.
• 1:43:03
  Not that he can't defend the run. I just don't think you want
• 1:43:06
  him at that size and frame. You're looking at him right now early on
• 1:43:11
  as a pass rush specialist, getting his feet wet, adjusting to size,
• 1:43:15
  frame, weight, speed, NFL strength, all of that stuff, and
• 1:43:19
  you're letting Hi kind of just hunt from a pass rush perspective. Jenna says
• 1:43:24
  that she's very excited for Javon. What of Jenna? Oh, click,
• 1:43:29
  clicking too many things. Mike says, Can he drop back as a linebacker?
• 1:43:31
  Occasionally? You'll see him do it. I probably don't want to do
• 1:43:34
  that. You can from time to time in a similar fashion like the Bills,
• 1:43:39
  drop Rousseau or Vaughn or these dudes to kind of again simulated pressures,
• 1:43:43
  creeper pressures. But I don't think he's I don't think he's an off ball
• 1:43:46
  linebacker in the NFL. I think he is a pass rusher. If he
• 1:43:49
  adds a little weight, we'll see. Or can he live in that small
• 1:43:54
  type of el miss oh, I am flubbing words tonight, Elvis Dumerville type
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  of role. Can he do that? We'll see, But I wouldn't drop
• 1:44:01
  him a ton occasionally. Sure, if you want to do his own blitz
• 1:44:04
  or if you want to do a creeper or a sim you're more than welcome
• 1:44:08
  to. But I'm not going to do that regularly. Can he play special
• 1:44:10
  teams? I'm gonna see if he has any special teams reps. Let me
• 1:44:19
  look that up. Ummm, yes, he actually has a good amount of
• 1:44:29
  special team stuff, not necessarily coverage. Has some punt coverage reps. He
• 1:44:33
  has thirty seven punt coverage reps in twenty twenty one. A lot of his
• 1:44:36
  special teams reps have been on field goal block, punp return, and kick
• 1:44:41
  return forty eight special teams reps in twenty twenty three, eighty seven and twenty
• 1:44:45
  two, seventy eight and twenty one seventy and twenty twenty eight in twenty nineteen,
• 1:44:49
  but again a lot of those are more on return units as opposed to
• 1:44:53
  coverage. But he does have some coverage experience from a pump perspective and kick
• 1:44:56
  perspective. So sure, in theory, I know we're always about special teams
• 1:45:01
  in terms of guys making contributions, but with his forty time again runs like
• 1:45:06
  a four seven forty, you can get some teams work out of them.
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  Next rep for mister Jamon salmon. This is where it really gets fun.
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  Okay again, notice we're not in a four We're not in a four eye.
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  We're outside, we're coming off the edge. We're allowed to get into
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  this space when you have a wider alignment and that you have an edge rusher
• 1:45:26
  out in space. This puts this tackle into an island. You get more
• 1:45:29
  of a true one on one scenario, and that's where he wants to win.
• 1:45:33
  Here comes the snab boom again. What do we see Like the other
• 1:45:40
  one, it normally goes for that chop or he's going for some move that
• 1:45:43
  inside hand. This one's nice. We've shown this multiple times. We've showed
• 1:45:45
  it with Ajpanessa. Tonight we showed it with von Miller. Look at the
• 1:45:49
  long arm, look at the stab right into the chest, and then look
• 1:45:54
  at the body lean that accompanies it. Right, nice lean. This is
• 1:45:58
  a nice physical one. Again, if you can maintain the strength, he's
• 1:46:00
  gonna have this opportunity because he's gonna be shorter than pretty much everyone he comes
• 1:46:04
  up against, not even pretty much everyone he comes up against, because he's
• 1:46:08
  the size of like a tall running back. He's gonna have this opportunity to
• 1:46:11
  win leverage if he can go speed to power regularly. Again, I think
• 1:46:15
  that's a significant question considering he's two hundred and forty six pounds. But this
• 1:46:18
  is a really nice long arm, good stab. He wins first touch here
• 1:46:23
  again, pretty good arm length considering his size. Boom right into the chest
• 1:46:28
  and look at look at the chain the change there. Look at the next
• 1:46:31
  snap forward. You get some whiplash on that tackle and then powers through,
• 1:46:38
  rips through, chases his man down for the sack. I'm gonna play it
• 1:46:42
  in real time and then we're gonna go with slow mo and break it down
• 1:46:45
  again because there's a nice piece at the end. Thereof so three things with
• 1:46:51
  the hand usage that I like. On this one. Again, we get
• 1:46:55
  that initial placement right in the chest that sets up that long arm. Boom,
• 1:47:00
  left arm in their long arm. Nice watch. I know it's hard
• 1:47:03
  to see from this angle. College only gives us to watch the outside arm.
• 1:47:06
  Watch the right arm fights through the outside arm of the tackle, removes
• 1:47:17
  it and then boom, look at you can see it right there. Perfect
• 1:47:20
  timing. Shout out to myself for this. He gets nice because he has
• 1:47:24
  the white glove chops down on that outside arm and then when he chops through
• 1:47:29
  that outside arm, he then rips and brings himself through and he runs the
• 1:47:33
  arc again, hand usage, all in the blink of an eye. You
• 1:47:38
  get speed, you get some dip, you get some men, you get
• 1:47:41
  some core strength. Again, he's able to flatt into the QB, which
• 1:47:44
  is nice. But there's multiple aspects that can translate to the NFL here.
• 1:47:47
  What's also nice about this one is again you're putting moves together. It's not
• 1:47:53
  just well, you got the long arm and you got through. Hit him
• 1:47:56
  with a long arm right, transition that into a chop and then transition that
• 1:48:01
  chop into a rip and a pull through boom. Kind of three moves,
• 1:48:06
  all the blink of an eye, chaining them together, transitioning from one to
• 1:48:10
  the other in succession in the blink of an eye, and using all that
• 1:48:14
  with some dip, with some bend, some core strength to flattening get through.
• 1:48:17
  That is translatable. That is nice. One more time, slow mo
• 1:48:26
  again stab, and let's also play it in real time too. Just watch
• 1:48:30
  the boom gets him popped a little a little bit of pop in those hands,
• 1:48:34
  good long arm established first touch, knock back the man a little bit.
• 1:48:39
  Joel t him. So you get the long arm, you get the
• 1:48:42
  chop and the rip, all in the blink of an eye. Nice professional
• 1:48:47
  approach. Another rush for mister Troy Solomon again where I say, when he's
• 1:48:53
  cooking, when he's winning. He's in a two point, he's outside,
• 1:48:57
  he's threatening to run the arc. He's trying to get into space against dudes.
• 1:49:00
  He's winning on that outside, he's turning the corner. Here he comes
• 1:49:02
  again, different offensive lineman this time, different left tackle. What did I
• 1:49:06
  say earlier? Right, that left arm that kind of comes through like he's
• 1:49:09
  kind of using it to try and get that offensive tackle to throw his hands
• 1:49:13
  and either chop him down or just throw it up and then bend and dip
• 1:49:16
  and rip through. Here comes again, bend, dip again, flatten,
• 1:49:21
  flat and flat and flatt and we've talked about it a bunch of to night
• 1:49:25
  and the clips we've shown and heat up the quarterback. Nice quick pressure again.
• 1:49:31
  That tackle is gonna be able to get hands on him, don't isn't
• 1:49:33
  able to push him too wide. Solomon's able to fight through it again.
• 1:49:39
  You're gonna see this move all the time. He's gonna bend, he's gonna
• 1:49:41
  lean, he's gonna throw that hand up, get that offensive tackle to shoot
• 1:49:45
  his hands, and then he's either gonna chop down on those hands or like
• 1:49:48
  this, he hasn't made contact here yet, right, So here we go
• 1:49:55
  throw the hands and immediately he drops it and he's trying to go through and
• 1:50:00
  he's kind of got him a little bit because of the angle and the quickness
• 1:50:02
  that he has. But again, it's that bend. It's the dip.
• 1:50:04
  It's the core strength, the ability to flatten and get through. You're seeing
• 1:50:08
  similar themes with this hand usage, dip bend, turn in the corner.
• 1:50:12
  You're gonna see some pop in the chest, some functionality there. But he's
• 1:50:15
  not this big inside moves guy. He's not a huge bull rush or necessarily
• 1:50:19
  a speed to power guy. You're gonna see hand usage, plan, threaten
• 1:50:24
  the outside, try and turn the corner. Another one here again wide alignment
• 1:50:30
  out in space O. That one's nice. Then you get the stripped in
• 1:50:35
  the sack one more time in real time, and then we'll go into slow
• 1:50:41
  mo. And this one's nice too because he's winded. You can see him
• 1:50:44
  breathing heavy, he's sucking wind and he's still able to just win almost instantaneously.
• 1:50:49
  Let's break down and slow mo again. Hand usage, hand placement.
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  Okay, goes through that long arm again like he did a couple of clips
• 1:50:59
  ago. It right into the chest. Good placement, good lean, long
• 1:51:03
  arm, right in the chest. You're leaning where you've got leverage. You're
• 1:51:06
  able to drive your man, but not too much where you're out in front
• 1:51:09
  of your feet and you're not really generating or maximizing balance and power. Watch
• 1:51:15
  the outside hand again. We can see it because he's wearing those nice white
• 1:51:16
  gloves. Look at him. Get the hand right on the wrist. He's
• 1:51:20
  established wrist control. What are you gonna do when you establish risk control?
• 1:51:25
  He maintains that long arm, chucks that wrist right off him, and you
• 1:51:30
  can see the leverage effect it has on the left tackle. Watches he grabs
• 1:51:34
  the wrist. That's what causes the left tackle seventy two to fall so significantly
• 1:51:40
  because he rips that wrist off and he uses it to then pull himself through.
• 1:51:45
  So not only does he grab it and remove it, long arm,
• 1:51:49
  boom, grab the wrist, get it off you, and then he chucks
• 1:51:55
  it and also pulls himself with it. He chucks it pulls himself through with
• 1:51:59
  the long as he pulls and detaches, but also still has that risk control
• 1:52:02
  that he chucks down and pulls himself through with boom, and they chops through
• 1:52:10
  the arms again, all in the blink of an eye. Really nice stuff
• 1:52:15
  from mister Javaon Solomon bo boom, real nice. And he gets to the
• 1:52:20
  QB and again this is where the nice long arms come into play and the
• 1:52:25
  big hands. You run that arc, you turn the corner having that ability
• 1:52:29
  like the QB tries to step up a little. Actually he doesn't even but
• 1:52:32
  Solomon's just taking a wide angle gets him right on the elbow strips, play
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  on the ball, long arms, big hands, clear eyes, full hearts,
• 1:52:43
  can't loose all that kind of stuff. Timothy says, Oh, love
• 1:52:46
  what you do. Appreciate you. Gotta catch some z's go bills. Appreciate
• 1:52:48
  you, Timothy, Thank you very much. Also appreciate you smashing that light
• 1:52:51
  button with that macho man elbow drop like you mentioned earlier. Appreciate you.
• 1:52:55
  Let's go to some more Javon Solomon clips and then we're going to wrap this
• 1:52:59
  up here. A lot of wanted to show again his ability to hug the
• 1:53:03
  line of scrimmage to play flat and take good angles to the football. So
• 1:53:06
  a lot of the police players are going to show you the sideline angle and
• 1:53:09
  also are going to show you the en zone angle. So here's another game
• 1:53:12
  from him. Have him highlighted here with this arrow again, more of a
• 1:53:15
  reduced alignment, because that's the defense they play necessarily. What's best for him.
• 1:53:18
  I want you to watch how he We're gonna show from the end zone
• 1:53:21
  angle to really for you to see his lateral agility and explosion. But watch
• 1:53:26
  how tight he stays to the line of scrimmage here as he crashes down and
• 1:53:29
  makes the play on the running back. A little bit of meeting of the
• 1:53:32
  minds there with this other defender. Similar to the Rousseau and Epanessa play that
• 1:53:36
  we showed earlier, just a little bit different again, stay tight, shave
• 1:53:43
  the corner, come down the line of scrimmage. So remember that angle right,
• 1:53:45
  Think about how tight he is to the line of scrimmage, comes crashing
• 1:53:48
  down, makes the play on the running back. Now, let's show from
• 1:53:51
  the end zone angle. Have him highlighted there with the arrow again. Steps
• 1:53:57
  outside also helps us a little dramatic. It's a good step. He makes
• 1:54:00
  a good lateral step and burst outside. But then this offensive line is also
• 1:54:02
  shifting down this way, so it helps a little bit. But watch him
• 1:54:05
  step. He reads what's going on look out. He's already leaning so he
• 1:54:11
  can turn and hug the line of scrimmage and shave that corner. You don't
• 1:54:15
  want to get too far upfield. You don't want to take this angle and
• 1:54:17
  have somebody run by you. You want to shave that corner. You want
• 1:54:20
  to stay tight to the line of scrimmage. And he does, stays tight,
• 1:54:25
  hustles down, Boom meets at the running back. Good play. Another
• 1:54:29
  one have him highlighted with the arrow again in that kind of reduced alignment.
• 1:54:32
  This is a pass rush by This one highlights kind of the motor and the
• 1:54:35
  effort that he plays with gets up field move doesn't work initially, but he
• 1:54:45
  reads what's happening with the quarterback. But he's also reading his land so he
• 1:54:49
  knows right now. You can just see the alignment here in the position of
• 1:54:54
  the tackle. He knows he's not getting around him and he's not getting through
• 1:54:57
  him. His initial thing didn't work unless he set this up in the get
• 1:54:59
  go work. So cool, let me get inside, gets inside, sees
• 1:55:03
  the quarterback as escaping, so he puts the brakes on, gets back outside
• 1:55:08
  hand usage keeps himself clear, heats up the quarterback, forces an incompletion.
• 1:55:13
  Watch it from the end zone angle again, more of a reduced alignment than
• 1:55:15
  you are going to see with the Bills. Almost almost on the outside shoulder
• 1:55:20
  of the tackle this time. But still you don't want him living here or
• 1:55:25
  here or here. You want him out in space like we've shown, where
• 1:55:29
  he can really eat. Watch him here, a little laid off the snap,
• 1:55:32
  not the best get get off. Almost looks like he goes with that
• 1:55:35
  jumping cross chop a little bit. He's trying to use his inside hand and
• 1:55:39
  chop down and pull himself through. Doesn't get it, gets hit in mid
• 1:55:43
  air and gets actually pushed. You see the offensive lineman has his inside arm,
• 1:55:46
  it's on the shoulder pad. He's hit him, He got first touch,
• 1:55:48
  he's chucked him a little bit. So Solomon is off kilter, doesn't
• 1:55:53
  have a lot of momentum, but he feels the leverage of the tackle,
• 1:55:58
  so he puts the brakes on. What he you see hand placement, hand
• 1:56:01
  usage, chucks him, comes inside. We lose him for a minute.
• 1:56:05
  Now, Boom, he's bearing down on the quarterback. Oh, quarterbacks escaping,
• 1:56:09
  put the brakes on, watch the outside hand. Boom, club your
• 1:56:15
  man get clear. Nice motor effort, velociraptor type stuff from Javon Solomon.
• 1:56:24
  Does it against the rum, but you see here against the pass, adjusting,
• 1:56:28
  adjusting, adjusting your plan, adjusting your movement, all the while having
• 1:56:32
  some athleticism, having some hand usage, having some hand pop, all that
• 1:56:35
  kind of stuff. Relentless motor, relentless effort going up against the QB.
• 1:56:41
  Will that guy's right in front of the camera. That's super funny. This
• 1:56:44
  one here from Javon Solomon. You cannot see him at all because this is
• 1:56:47
  funny too because again of the alignment, but also his size. Right he
• 1:56:51
  is lined up right head up on this left tackle. You cannot see him
• 1:56:57
  because he's again six foot two hundre undred and forty six pounds. This looks
• 1:57:00
  like there's nobody here for Troy. It looks like it's just the linebacker.
• 1:57:05
  But Javon Solomon is here. I promise you this is a bit of a
• 1:57:10
  Veloci raptor rap against the run on the snap. This is him right here.
• 1:57:16
  So he's engaging with that left guard, head up, and now we
• 1:57:21
  get a bit of a feedblock from that left tackle, so he's helping out.
• 1:57:25
  We get a bit of a double team. They're both on him.
• 1:57:28
  Watch it happens just everything here. Now he's kind of keeled over a little
• 1:57:30
  bit, he's off kilter. But watch how he just fights through feels that
• 1:57:34
  split in the double team. He gets through it, gets his head up
• 1:57:40
  and he makes a play on the running back, jumps on his back,
• 1:57:44
  helps stall him till his teammates come and help out. We'll watch it all
• 1:57:47
  in real time. Boom, little velociraptor action. Again. I don't know
• 1:57:55
  how well he's going to play the run in the NFL because of his size
• 1:57:58
  and his frame, especially early, I think he's more of a sub packaged
• 1:58:00
  type of dude. But just highlighting that motor and that effort that he has
• 1:58:06
  and understanding and feeling kind of what's going on, especially as that on that
• 1:58:10
  as that interior player, Like if you are in a reduced alignment like he
• 1:58:14
  is here, you have responsibility on these inside gaps. So he's working like
• 1:58:19
  and it doesn't have to be the cleanest thing. The fact that he's able
• 1:58:21
  to just withstand the double team and muddy it up is enough. The fact
• 1:58:25
  that he's able to also play off of it split it is a good play
• 1:58:29
  also because if he doesn't this, running backs getting through and maybe he's getting
• 1:58:31
  like a positive gain and if he breaks a tackle, who knows, could
• 1:58:34
  get a little bit more. Okay, some real juicy ones here for mister
• 1:58:39
  Javon Solomon. Now no more for eye alignment or for alignment lining up head
• 1:58:45
  up on the tackle on the inside shoulder of him two point stance outside there
• 1:58:50
  is what's he doing? Dipping, ripping, bending around the corner, turning
• 1:58:56
  the arc, flattening or just taking an angle to the quarterback wherever the QB
• 1:59:00
  is. Bo I'm gonna show it again from this angle in real time.
• 1:59:08
  Then we'll show it from the end zone angle in real time and go for
• 1:59:10
  some slow modor break down. What he does bears right down on the quarterback.
• 1:59:17
  And again, if you saw it in the real time, what do
• 1:59:20
  you see Like we've seen go to the out, what's he doing? He's
• 1:59:24
  gonna go to the outside. There goes that inside hand, that left hand.
• 1:59:27
  If he's rushing off the right side or left side from our vantage point.
• 1:59:31
  Here throws up that left hand almost like this one mirrors more of like
• 1:59:36
  a ghost rush, like he's throwing it just to get the lineman to throw
• 1:59:41
  his hand so he can dip. That's why you watch it. And I
• 1:59:44
  don't know if he's really going for a chop or going for a ghost rush.
• 1:59:46
  It feels and looks more ghost rushy to me, but either way,
• 1:59:50
  it's the same premise, the same purpose. He's throwing that arm, almost
• 1:59:55
  feigning it because what does it do gets the offensive tackle to throw his hands,
• 1:59:59
  and then what does he do? He dips, he leans, he
• 2:00:02
  bends, he turns that corner. You get the rip with that inside arm,
• 2:00:06
  and he's going through, Rinse and repeat. If you are Javon Solomon,
• 2:00:13
  win around the corner, turn the corner, dip, bend, hand
• 2:00:16
  usage, rip, all that kind of stuff. Whoop and again the ability
• 2:00:24
  core strength mentioned it a couple times with him gets through. But this tackle
• 2:00:28
  gets some hands on him and he's able to push him. Solomon leans right
• 2:00:31
  on him, leans right through, bears down on the QB, gets a
• 2:00:34
  sack. Real nice sideline loves it. Now, this one's a nice two.
• 2:00:41
  Again we are a nice This one's a nice one too. We've talked
• 2:00:44
  about transitioning moves, chaining moves together. He goes for a cross chop here,
• 2:00:49
  so you're gonna get that jump cross chop. You see him hitting it
• 2:00:53
  right here. He's trying to take this right arm and he's trying to bring
• 2:00:58
  that over onto the the outside arm of that tackle, and then he's gonna
• 2:01:02
  pull himself through and turn the corner. He goes for it doesn't work.
• 2:01:06
  Right tackle gets him as he's airborne. Not a good rep. Right offensive
• 2:01:13
  tackle is on you. The offensive tackles right hand is in the center of
• 2:01:16
  your chest. You don't have leverage, you don't have positioning. But watch
• 2:01:19
  what he does. So he went for a move here, it didn't work.
• 2:01:23
  He adjusts, rips through, flattens, still gets to the quarterback and
• 2:01:29
  heats him up. Watching in real time again, going for that cross chop
• 2:01:33
  with the jump, doesn't get it. But watch how he Okay, just
• 2:01:38
  adjusts, just a justice pattern, adjustice course, adjust the plan. It
• 2:01:44
  didn't work. Okay, let me figure something else out. The ability to
• 2:01:47
  chain moves together in succession and in sequence with one another also a nice little
• 2:01:54
  see that right tackle, throw that initial right hand. He's kind of feint
• 2:01:58
  in that punch a little bit to get Alman to commit. Watch him shoot
• 2:02:01
  that right hand like sich Nope, goes for that chop. Doesn't work.
• 2:02:08
  But as he lands, and his hands aren't in a great position here you
• 2:02:10
  can see him because they're white gloved. But as he lands, he can
• 2:02:14
  feel the leverage, feel the positioning. Okay, cool, let me lean
• 2:02:17
  and the strength here Again, we get some dip, we get some mend,
• 2:02:20
  but it's that core strength, the ability to lean and turn and rip
• 2:02:26
  through the hands or the outside shoulder of an offensive tackle. Again, this
• 2:02:30
  is how he is won in college, pulls through. Look at him,
• 2:02:33
  Dragon. The offensive lineman is even trying to hook him, maybe hold him
• 2:02:36
  a little bit. Isn't really technically holding because they don't call that it when
• 2:02:41
  dudes are trying to rip through Boom drops, his hips drives through. This
• 2:02:45
  is how he's consistently won in college, winning that outside dip, bend,
• 2:02:51
  core strength, hand usage, moves, plan transition, all of that kind
• 2:02:56
  of stuff. Now, what I've said before and I'm gonna say again with
• 2:02:59
  him, I do think it's going to be an adjustment for Javon Solomon to
• 2:03:04
  the NFL life, NFL size, NFL frame, NFL strength, NFL speed
• 2:03:10
  at the tackle spot. I don't know if he's gonna be able to have
• 2:03:13
  that same impact with his core strength turning the corner against NFL tackles, or
• 2:03:16
  if he'll be able to have that same type of success with that move where
• 2:03:19
  he flashes that hand, dips and bends. I don't know if tackles are
• 2:03:23
  gonna be like and just punch the hell out of him and chuck him five
• 2:03:25
  yards because he doesn't weigh a ton. How does that low center of gravity
• 2:03:28
  play, How does that core strength play? The length to size the plan.
• 2:03:31
  I do think what's good for him is again he does have a good
• 2:03:35
  understanding of pass rush moves, a plan of leverage, of spacing, of
• 2:03:41
  body positioning. So he does come into the league with some good tools and
• 2:03:45
  a good understanding from a football IQ standpoint. I just think he's going to
• 2:03:48
  have to be so on point with those to combat the overall smaller nature of
• 2:03:53
  his size and frame. But it's not out of the rum possibility, and
• 2:03:56
  I'm excited to see what he can be a rookie and also potentially going forward
• 2:04:00
  again because the Bills need somebody who can be even if he's just a pass
• 2:04:04
  rush specialist, I think there's a lot of value in that. You got
• 2:04:08
  somebody on known passing downs who can hunt and get to the QB. Their
• 2:04:11
  significant value in that, not just for the Bills, but for anyone.
• 2:04:15
  Another piece I wanted to talk about here is Dewan Smoot was mentioned earlier in
• 2:04:20
  this episode. I think Dwan Smoot is the biggest wildcard for the Bills edge
• 2:04:26
  grouping in twenty twenty four. He tore his achilles in Week sixteen in twenty
• 2:04:29
  twenty two, and last year twenty twenty three was a recovery year for him.
• 2:04:33
  He didn't play until week six He did an interview in November talking about
• 2:04:38
  how he didn't even really he started. He was just starting to feel from
• 2:04:42
  in shape perspective, like he would if he had just finished training camp.
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  So he was just starting to get back into game shape in November, let
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  alone, actually feeling back to his old self pre achilles tear, but his
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  old self was a productive one in twenty twenty two. Again, he tore
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  his achilles in week sixteen. In twenty twenty two, but in twenty twenty
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  two, amongst one hundred and twenty six qualifying edges, Dwan Smoot was tied
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  for thirty six in pass words productivity, he was tied for fifty six,
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  then total pressures, he was tied for fifty third in hurries, and he
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  was tied for thirty first in win percentage. He fits the physical compression style
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  that the Bills like at edge. He's also a good spiker on two man
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  games in terms of his ability to clear the way for the looper or just
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  be able to impact cause having and get inside and get pressure or even a
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  sack as the spiker. I think there's a realistic shot that he wins that
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  edge four spot. Again, I'm assuming it's Groot some and then either Apanessa
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  or Von or Von or Repanessa, however you want to label two and three,
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  but I think the top three are Groot, Epanessa and Von. I
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  think Duan Smut has again a very realistic shot to win that edge four spot
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  and see meaningful snaps and if he can get back to his twenty twenty two
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  form, which again based off of those numbers and based on how he was
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  used pre Achilles injury, he was putting up Edge two production like high end
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  three, mid tier or low even if you want to be super negative like
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  mid to low tier Edge two production, but at the worst like high end
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  three, that's gonna be super valuable for the Bills. Again, I think
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  as a realistic shot, he wins that Edge four spot and sees meaningful snaps
• 2:06:17
  and if you can get back to that pre Achilles form, which in twenty
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  twenty two was Edge two type of production, that's a tremendous value for the
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  Bills. And granted, a bunch of this will depend on his health,
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  how he feels now that he's over one and a half years removed from that
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  Achilles tear, and I don't think he has the overall upside in terms of
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  production that Leonard Floyd had last season for the Bills. But I think the
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  Duan Smoot signing could be a move in a similar vein where we're looking back
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  in October or November and labeling that as a great move from Brandon Bean.
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  Again, all of this outlook for the Bills edge grouping. I don't think
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  they're going to have more multiple A players or even one A depending on how
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  you view group. I think Grout right now is about a B plus maybe
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  an A minus because of how good he's A plus against the run. I
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  think he's kind of B B plus as a pass rusher, which now that
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  probably overall averages out to an A minus. I think so. I think
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  Groot's an A player at worst, He's a high B plus type of due.
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  What else are you getting? Can aj Vanessa be a B plus guy
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  or a B guy? Can Moon Miller be a B plus or a B
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  guy? Can it be smooth? Can Solomon be a B plus as a
• 2:07:30
  pass rusher or maybe even an A minus? What does Kingsley Johnathan give you?
• 2:07:33
  Is Casey two Hill an A or an A minus against the run and
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  he's a C as a pass rusher or a B minus maybe like some type
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  of combination. I think this edge grouping, you're looking at it from an
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  overall depth and functionality perspective. They have that, you have schematic uses,
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  you have skill sets that are advantageous to a defense. My biggest question the
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  issue with this grouping is where does that top tier production come from, especially
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  from a pass rush perspective. Do you have somebody that can be a walking
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  bucket that can win one on one consistently, that is a threat against offensive
• 2:08:09
  lineman, that can go up against an opponent's best offensive lineman and win sporadically
• 2:08:13
  or consistently. What type of impact do you get? Where does that top
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  tier production come from? I think from a baseline perspective, what you're going
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  to get is a whole bunch of B to B plus level play for the
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  Bills this year at edge, which I think is fine. If you can
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  rotate and roll out four dudes that give you B to A minus type of
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  production or B to B plus impact, I think that's fine. Again,
• 2:08:37
  in an ideal world, you have a top tier pass rusher coming off the
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  edge in some form or fashion. We'll see if group can be that.
• 2:08:43
  We'll see if aj Avanessa makes a jump to that, or if von Miller
• 2:08:46
  gets back to his old self, or if it's in the cards for Javon
• 2:08:50
  Solomon, or maybe some of the impact for Duan Smoot. But again,
• 2:08:56
  I think Smooth is a real wild card and somebody who if everything hits and
• 2:09:00
  your top four is grout, Ajpanessa, Von Miller and Dwan Smooth, I
• 2:09:05
  think you have a nice mix of physicality, compression, run defense, and
• 2:09:11
  rotation capability in terms of pressuring the QB. We'll see how much of that
• 2:09:15
  can be from a one on one win perspective, But you've got the ability
• 2:09:18
  to pair that with your defensive backs and your linebackers in terms of different pressure
• 2:09:22
  looks, getting creative schematically and using scheme to kind of generate some pressure in
• 2:09:28
  addition to the physicality that you have up front. So it's definitely a position
• 2:09:31
  group to watch. It's one then I'm extremely intrigued to see come training camp
• 2:09:35
  and come preseason and kind of see how everybody sorts themselves out. And again,
• 2:09:39
  who can kind of answer that question or answer that bell in terms of
• 2:09:43
  providing that top tier production, How much they do it, when they do
• 2:09:48
  it, what type of players can they do it against. It's a really
• 2:09:52
  interesting spot for this Bills, and I think there's a lot of questions around
• 2:09:54
  it that are potentially worrisome or troublesome, but I think the answers are decently
• 2:10:01
  positive. It's just gonna be a matter of what level do you get.
• 2:10:05
  Again, I don't think there's that true edge one, and I don't think
• 2:10:09
  they have an edge one from a pastor standpoint, but you can mitigate not
• 2:10:13
  having that by having a bunch of twos, and if they can get that,
• 2:10:16
  that's actually pretty exciting considering what they have on the back end at linebacker
• 2:10:22
  with Tarren Johnson at outside corner in terms of kind of putting it all together.
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