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- 0:00And thirty eight. All Bills can win it here, Wake puts it down.
- 0:03The kick is on the way out and he's got on the bill.
- 0:06Good one, hell good one, he one. They won a party one
- 0:14up thirty eight Incredible. What a combat by my Bill Jackson. Bills perfect
- 0:21record on the line right here, keep it looks side touchdown Kyle Williams touchdown.
- 0:46Amazing, I'm believable. They put in william who's hats the full back
- 0:56and he scores a touchdown. It's wealthier to face tackle. What's good,
- 1:10folks, Family Friends, loved One's Enemies for Enemies Wizards, which is Muggles
- 1:14Mudblood's people of Middle Earth. To a special postgame edition of Disguise Coverage presented
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- 1:23course, the only podcast in existence that gives you an equal amount of blueberries
- 1:26in each muffin. I'm your host, Anthony pro Haska. Find me on
- 1:27Twitter at Pro Underscore Underscore ANT that's Pro two Underscores a NT. In this
- 1:34episode of Disguise Coverage, we're obviously going to be diving into the Buffalo Bills
- 1:38preseason Week one victory against the Indianapolis Colts as we do here on the show,
- 1:42and I'm gonna echo this sentiment multiple times throughout as live viewers continue to
- 1:48pour in here. Questions, thoughts, comments, concerns, likes, dislikes,
- 1:53philosophies, ideologies, maxims, anything and everything that is on your mind
- 1:57regarding this game, the Bill team, whether it's a player, whether it's
- 2:00coaching, whether it's the side of the ball, anything and everything, feel
- 2:04free to put them into the chat here. I'd like to make the show
- 2:07as engaging as possible here on disguise covers, but especially for something of this
- 2:13nature when it comes to the postgame pieces where people are usually riding high with
- 2:16either thoughts or emotions or analysis. So anything and everything that you got,
- 2:21throw it up into the chat again, make it as engaging and interactive as
- 2:24possible as we go through several pieces of this entire team and this entire game
- 2:30again, the Bills beat the Indianapolis Colts, continue to do well in the
- 2:35preseason, or Sean McDermott and the squad. I'm gonna go through and grab
- 2:39some of the comments here already. First comment, well, second comment,
- 2:44and the first comment was go Bills from Chris seven one six. Appreciate you,
- 2:46Chris, but this next comment was Kyle Allen should be demoted to the
- 2:49number three QB or be cut. Shane Ray should play more with the second
- 2:53team next week. James Cook looks great. The D line is ready to
- 2:55dominate, and the old line is still behind in pass protection. Sarah comes
- 3:00in and says, so, I feel a little better about our QB depth
- 3:04with the performance Barkley ahead today's Matt Barkley looked good. I made a joke
- 3:07about cutting Josh Allen and promoting Barkley to QB one, Ned echoing similar sentiments,
- 3:13saying shake up in the QB depth chart. Sarah following up that her
- 3:15comment earlier saying, it's only the preseason, but he, being Matt Barkley,
- 3:20was making nice throws in traffic with pressure coming. That's a great performance
- 3:23regardless. I think to Steve to Asker hit it on the broadcast with how
- 3:28Barkley operates when he's really cooking like sometimes it's genuinely impressive. Again, it's
- 3:31against third stringers and third teamers, and we know what he is at this
- 3:35point, but he doesn't have a rocket arm. He's not that person.
- 3:38Who can be late with his progressions or late with his reads. He has
- 3:40to be on time and accurate with his processing, with his decision making,
- 3:46and then he usually has to throw with some kind of anticipation because he doesn't
- 3:49have the arm to laser throws in there. If he's late or if there's
- 3:52a tight window, he has to be accurate again with his processing with his
- 3:54throws, with his decision making, but also kind of be early. It's
- 3:59one of those like be you know, he's on time if he's early,
- 4:01and if he's on time, he's actually late. He played well today,
- 4:04so good to see him, you know, balling out a little bit.
- 4:08V Dog comes in and says Aitman was the man. He will not make
- 4:11our team, but someone will get this XFL receiver and be happy. Yeah.
- 4:15Eightman had a really nice catch on a long third down on a deep
- 4:18comeback, nice catch and a toe tap. He had another one over the
- 4:23middle on a drag or an in I believe either way, it was coming
- 4:26across the middle, and he had some nice run after catch after that piece.
- 4:29So really nice to see. Oh. Frane Lopez comes in and says,
- 4:31the Bills went on my birthday. Now he can get happy drunk.
- 4:34Let's go very fair, very fair. JG coming in and saying I thought
- 4:40Dornyan Williams looked good with an exclamation point. The upside is there, We're
- 4:44going to dive into the linebacker competition as we get through the defensive side of
- 4:48the ball. This is a really good comment here from Tim Tim saying Barkley
- 4:50executed well and gave some young guys a chance to show what they can do.
- 4:55That's a huge piece when you are in the preseason and you're looking at
- 4:59what the quarterback is doing as the trigger man for the offense in the preseason.
- 5:02Josh Allen obviously not playing today, so you're sitting there with Kyle Allen,
- 5:05You're sitting there with Matt Barkley, and for Bill's offense that is trying
- 5:11to figure out who are going to be some of their players, both as
- 5:14starters and death pieces. You really want them to you want each of their
- 5:17reps to be maximized, and the way they're really going to be maximized has
- 5:21a lot to do with how that backup quarterback is playing. So seeing Barkley
- 5:26out there, yeah, you get to see some looks for Tyrell Shavers and
- 5:29you get some pieces for Keyshawn Johnson, you get those looks where you know
- 5:33the quarterback play isn't necessarily potentially holding them back. Again, not to act
- 5:38like Barkley's a world beader, but you have somebody you want that quarterback in
- 5:42the backup nature, especially in the preseason, to go out and execute.
- 5:45So that way you get a better evaluation of your skill players and that not
- 5:49having that variable of yeah, well, I wonder what they would have done
- 5:53with more consistent quarterback play. Again, Barkley's not the flashiest guy, but
- 5:56him going out there and executing in a consistent way for what is asked of
- 6:00him, it gives you a better opportunity to evaluate the rest of the players
- 6:03around him because he's offering you that baseline, he's offering you that floor with
- 6:06his performance in his execution. So yeah, nice to see Nice to see
- 6:12him with that. Today, Sarah coming back and saying Isabella is fast with
- 6:15all caps an exclamation point. We're going to talk about mister Andy is Bella
- 6:21two day Paul echoing some similar sentiments from earlier with j G saying Dony and
- 6:26Williams looks like he might have a future common here from handsome Man saying,
- 6:31awesome to see how deep we are defensive line, Paul with some concerns for
- 6:36the offensive line. Here we go, Ben with an interesting comment here,
- 6:40did I miss Shorter on the field? I didn't see him at all.
- 6:43He was in earlier in the first half, like I believe at the either
- 6:46at the end of the first quarter or second quarter. But I shared a
- 6:51similar sentiment. I kept looking for him throughout the second half, especially as
- 6:56like Keyshawn Johnson was emerging and Eateman was emerging, and I was waiting for
- 7:00Shorter to get reps or I was waiting for some kind of information to come
- 7:02from the sideline saying that he was banged up. It wouldn't return. I
- 7:06saw him on the sideline, still in full uniform, didn't look like anything
- 7:10was wrong, helmet was off. This was maybe in like the fourth quarter.
- 7:13I know he registered reps and snaps. I don't think he'd registered any
- 7:16targets. This is something again I want to go back and see on the
- 7:18tape and see how he was used or what he did. But I thought
- 7:21that was interesting as well, especially again as we started to see you know,
- 7:25Shavers get a bunch of targets, and Eightman gets some looks, and
- 7:27Johnson gets some looks. I know, especially for a lot of you folks
- 7:30with you know, the buzz around Shorter given his size and frame. I
- 7:33think that's probably a common sentiment that Ben has right now thinking like where was
- 7:38Shorter? Like why wasn't he on the field? What does this mean?
- 7:41YadA, YadA in terms of jeth chart and pieces. I think it's very
- 7:45fair, very fair point there. Excellent point from Sarah. Some of these
- 7:49guys certainly aren't making roster decisions any easier on the coach's Aaron comes in and
- 7:55says, Isabella is pushing for a roster spot or a trade. Andy,
- 7:59Isabella looked really good. We're going to continue to talk about that piece for
- 8:03this Bill's offense. And somebody who you know, what's unfortunate for him is
- 8:09how much the Bills addressed the receiver position this offseason, especially in free agency.
- 8:13You know, you bring in Deonte Hardy, you bring in tren Scherfield,
- 8:16and then you still have Kalo Shakire from last year. You draft Dalton
- 8:20Kincaid, who, yes he's not a wide receiver, but going with more
- 8:24twelve personnel, will impact how much eleven personnel you run or how much ten
- 8:28personnel you run, and us how many receivers you really need on your team.
- 8:31So we'll see what that means for Andy Isabella. But he did play
- 8:37well. Tim A coming in saying was hoping to see more reps from Kincaid
- 8:39like what was shown from Torrance, and Broker had some good reps to Nick.
- 8:43Broker got cooked, I think on his like the first rep I saw
- 8:46forare we got walked back into the backfield. I'm the sack for Barkley.
- 8:52But then he looked like he started to balance out a little bit as the
- 8:54game went forward. Offensive line play I always take with a grain of salt
- 8:58during game because that's something I really want to go back into the tape before
- 9:01I, you know, start It's so tough to analyze offensive line play in
- 9:05game when you're just watching broadcasts and you're watching it once. So it's something
- 9:09I'm going to rewatch tonight on the broadcast and then dive into the All twenty
- 9:11two to really get really get a full full view of everything. But yeah,
- 9:18Broker started to make some good blocks towards the end, I feel and
- 9:20torrens I really like what he did. We're going to talk about that as
- 9:24well. Jordan says, I personally don't like when Dane Jackson plays well,
- 9:28only because I want Elam to start as soon as Dane had that pick.
- 9:31I kind of thought that would be a common sentiment amongst Bills, Mafi and
- 9:35fans with how many people have been banging the drum for kaye Eelam. So
- 9:39let's get into it. Let's start to talk. We will actually let's start
- 9:43right there. Let's start with the defensive side of the ball. And again,
- 9:46questions, thoughts, comments, concerns from whatever you folks got in the
- 9:48chat, keep throwing them up into the chat. I want to make this
- 9:50as engaging as possible, whether it's you folks with one another in the chat,
- 9:54whether it's with me. I will bring up as many comments and questions
- 9:58and thoughts as I physically possibly can. Super chats of course always get priority
- 10:03because I respect the monetary donation and the color pulls me away from my notes
- 10:07and really attracts me to start getting things going. But again, thank you
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- 10:31please please please drop a like on this video. Now let's start with
- 10:37the defensive side of the ball. We'll start with the defense and then we'll
- 10:39work our way to the offense. We're gonna start with that corner two position.
- 10:43Dane Jackson gets an interception on the first series for the Buffalo Bills.
- 10:48Bills bring a blitz from the slot. Serrannio comes off the edge, heats
- 10:52up Anthony Richardson a little bit, and from a colt's perspective, I don't
- 10:56know if McKenzie didn't make the read, whether he was kind of supposed to
- 11:00sit, maybe bubble out or kind of hit the flat. But Richardson gets
- 11:03heated up a little bit, slings it, overshoots that slot piece a little
- 11:09a little too much, and Dan Jackson is there, Oh, I gotta
- 11:11stop, gotta stop. Your boy. Lettuce comes in. Thank you,
- 11:15very much for being here and for the super chat says common Dorsey tight end
- 11:20usage parentheses sarcasm. I like where you're going. I appreciate that you said
- 11:22sarcasm, because I definitely would have been like, dude already, like come
- 11:26on, come on, come on, we can't do this. But I
- 11:28appreciate you. Well done, well done. Yeah, so let's keep talking
- 11:31about the defense here. That was nice, well played, well played.
- 11:35Dane Jackson has that interception. What was nice about that interception piece for Dane
- 11:39Jackson, his eyes are in the backfield, he's reading the quarterback, he
- 11:43sees the route from the slot and is reading Richardson instead of continuing to sink,
- 11:50he drops, has his eyes on the quarterback and he breaks on the
- 11:52ball and he was in the right place at the right time. I'm not
- 11:54gonna sit here and say he made this amazing play and what a tremendous interception,
- 11:58But I think that interest kind of highlights what Dane Jackson is, which
- 12:01is he's responsible, he's smart. He's usually in the right place at the
- 12:07right time, and that's what the coaching staff likes about him. And on
- 12:09that play, that interception, he gets rewarded because again, he's reading the
- 12:13quarterback, he's reading the route distribution. He's in the right place at the
- 12:16right time. Granted, that interception doesn't happen if Anthony Richardson doesn't sail that
- 12:20throw a little bit or put you know, maybe too a little too much
- 12:24gas on it and put it over Isaia McKenzie or put it over that slot
- 12:26receiver. But nonetheless, he was in that right position because of his fundamentals
- 12:31and because of how he operates. He could have kept sinking, he could
- 12:35have been on disciplined, but he plays with that technique. Eyes in the
- 12:37backfield breaks on the ball, and usually those guys who have you know,
- 12:43good luck and the ball bounces into their arms or they're usually those guys who
- 12:46get interceptions off the flexions and things like that, or guys who get interceptions
- 12:50off of overthrows. It's usually because they're in the right place, whether it's
- 12:54because of hustle or because of their ability to read the play and what's happening.
- 12:58So again, that's an error on Richardson and he creates that interception,
- 13:01but Dane Jackson profits off of it because of being in the right place at
- 13:05the right time, and Roy says a similar piece. You're saying that pick
- 13:09that Dane had was thrown right to him, but at least he was in
- 13:11the right place, and that's the piece right and that's what continues. I've
- 13:16continued to say it with this Corner two competition where Elam you know, part
- 13:20part of what I think what's holding him back a little bit is when he
- 13:22loses his technique, when he kind of gets off kilter with playing with his
- 13:31right footing or his right hand technique, and he kind of gets a little
- 13:33too grabby or gets a little too physical, or isn't trusting his eyes and
- 13:37trusting you know, the preparation, and isn't making those right reads. You
- 13:39get some of that roller coaster play from Kaier, either physically or mentally,
- 13:43and I think you see some of that with Christian Benford as well. Dane
- 13:46Jackson's whole thing again, he's not the biggest, he's not the strongest,
- 13:50he's not the fastest, he's not the most athletic. But he's comfortable in
- 13:54this scheme because of the scheme that he comes from at the University of Pittsburgh,
- 13:56playing under Patton or Doozy, So it may help him to translate well
- 13:58to this defense, and he's just responsible. It's very similar, albeit he's
- 14:03a different type of player than Levi Wallace. It's similar to the whole Levi
- 14:05Wallace conversation where your corner two isn't sexy and maybe he's not the most coverage
- 14:11versatile piece that you have, and this guy that you can allow to do
- 14:15zone and do man and press and off and do all these things right.
- 14:20But he's just responsible. He is in the place where he usually needs to
- 14:24be. The coaching staff trusts him to be in the right place at the
- 14:26right time, and more importantly, the players trust him to be in the
- 14:28right place at the right time. And that's how this defense functions. And
- 14:31I thought that interception again really hit it on the head and was a microcosm
- 14:35for how Dane Jackson plays. Did make some sexy athletic play, didn't do
- 14:39anything amazing, was just in the right place at the right time, and
- 14:43he gets rewarded with an interception. Oh I gotta stop. Oh handsome man
- 14:46coming in with a super chat. Thank you very much for being here,
- 14:48and thank you very much for the monetary donation, Handsome Man says, in
- 14:50honor of my new granddaughter. Go Bills, great show. I appreciate you
- 14:54given the compliments for the show. Thank you very much for being here.
- 14:58And handsome Man has new granddaughter in his life, so congratulations to him and
- 15:01whoever gave birth to that granddaughter and to the granddaughter her self. Congrats,
- 15:05well done, well done. So Dane Jackson has an interception. I'm also
- 15:11had a nice tackle later in the game. And then I believe he left
- 15:15after the second series. And then we saw a lot of Kayer Elam.
- 15:18We saw a lot of Christian Benford. We'll start with Elam because I know
- 15:22he is a bit of the hot button topic. I'm seeing it come in
- 15:24the chat a lot already. You know, some people saying Elam is too
- 15:28handsy, some people saying that the call on him was a bit tiki tack,
- 15:31YadA YadA. We continue to see some struggles for Kayer Elam, and
- 15:35again I think of more inconsistency than we're seeing with Dane Jackson. I do
- 15:39not think Kayer Elam is a bad corner. I also, I want to
- 15:45bring this up real quick, Sale says Elam's first PI was what Sauce does.
- 15:48Continuously, I continue to see these comments about how Sauce is just as
- 15:52grabby as Kayer Elam, but he doesn't get called, and he doesn't get
- 15:56called, and everybody sites you know, the grab on Gabe Davis at the
- 16:00end of that Jets game at MetLife as as a big reason that Sauce never
- 16:04gets called. Sauce never gets called. I think we need to stop putting
- 16:07Sauce and Elam as a comparison to one another, or continuously knocking Sauce.
- 16:12Sauce Gardener is one of the best corners in the NFL. He displayed that
- 16:15already as a rookie. Yes he is physical, Yes he gets handsy,
- 16:18but he does it in ways that is either crafty or it's not as much
- 16:22of a flag as you think it is. Kayer Elam grabs a lot more
- 16:26significantly, especially at the top of routes and in breaks, and he alters
- 16:32receivers routes and their leverage. And when you do that, that's what allows
- 16:37refs to throw that off. Oh see, that's a good comment from Pete
- 16:40Pizza. Sauce is crafty, that's all you should hand fight like he does.
- 16:44Elam is more grab grabby. Sauce is crafty with his hands use the
- 16:48best. Corners will get physical with you, especially at the top of your
- 16:51route. They will find a way to get you off center. They will
- 16:53find a way to throw off your timing and your rhythm. But there's ways
- 16:56to do it. There's a difference between just bowling some one over versus kind
- 17:00of stepping in front of them and looking back for the ball and leaning on
- 17:04them a bit and kind of pushing them off their route, versus again just
- 17:08bowling someone over. Same thing with being grabby. If you're going to grab
- 17:11someone up high, it's usually gonna get called. If you turn someone,
- 17:15if you yank someone, if someone's running a deep comeback, like like what
- 17:18happened on Elam's first PI, and they break down and they go to come
- 17:22out and they can't because they get leaned and pulled like this, it's usually
- 17:26gonna get called. That's why I usually want to stab that hip. You
- 17:30want to grab the hip. You want to watch the hips. You don't
- 17:32want to get your hands up top. And even that elm P I call
- 17:36that first one. He was in really good position. He read the route,
- 17:40he was watching the hips. It was like when the receiver broke down,
- 17:44he stopped trusting his technique and his feet and he reached and he got
- 17:47grabby instead of kind of just breaking down and putting his foot in the ground
- 17:49and coming out of that break, he got a little grabby and literally got
- 17:53his hand right either on the jersey or a bit in that shoulder pad and
- 17:57pulled. And this is something that goes back to last year for Kayer Elam.
- 18:02This is something that apparently is happening again in camp this year where he
- 18:06is very grabby. It's frustrating players and coaches at times, whether it's from
- 18:11a competitive standpoint or just from a pure you know, stop doing that,
- 18:17like that's not going to roll in game. It's kind of throwing things off.
- 18:19We continue to see this piece from Kaier. I do think Kaiger has
- 18:22the athleticism and he still has that talent and still has that upside that you
- 18:26would like to see from your corner. Two. He's got things from a
- 18:30skill set perspective and a tools perspective physically, and he's tremendously smart and how
- 18:34he sees the game, but he still has that handsy, grabby piece to
- 18:37his game. And I hate the comparisons that keep coming in every time he
- 18:41grabs someone. I see that comment that comes to he was like, well,
- 18:44Sauce grabs all the time and he never gets called. Sauces footwork,
- 18:48his eyes, the way he plays his technique, his ability to stay in
- 18:52phase, and a variety of coverages. Sauce Gardener and Kaye Elam are just
- 18:56two completely different corners at the level of which they are rating right now at
- 19:00this point. And that doesn't mean that Kaier can't get to that spot.
- 19:04But every time Kayer gets flagged, using it as a way to knock Sauce
- 19:07Gardener for me, is a little too much. Do it as had a
- 19:11tremendous year last year, and he may be grabby at times, but he
- 19:15does it in ways that I think, like Pete said, here, it's
- 19:18crafty or there's some nuance to it, and you can grab from time to
- 19:22time. You got to be clever with it, right. You can't be
- 19:23obvious with it and do it in situations where it's going to get flagged.
- 19:26And Kayer he gets grabby when he loses technique. I think Sauce gets grabby
- 19:33to reroute or disrupt while he's still in phase to put himself in better position
- 19:37potentially, so there's a difference between grabbing because you have to and grabbing because
- 19:41you're doing it to kind of reroute or disrupt, And there's a different piece
- 19:45there. But I like that comment there from Pete. But nonetheless we continue
- 19:48to see the up and down play from Kayer Elam. I don't think he
- 19:52had a horrible day to day again, I just think there's that inconsistency.
- 19:55It's another piece that, especially from a coverage standpoint, it's hard to see
- 19:59on broadcast tape. So this is one I'm very I'm always excited to dive
- 20:02into the trenches and coverages and being able to see what happens on the back
- 20:08end. I gotta stop again for Sal sal saying, you know, Sauce
- 20:11is good, but his hype helped him tremendously. His tape is what helped
- 20:15him tremendously. Dude is a lockdown corner already as a rookie in a variety
- 20:19of ways. I know he got burned early against Stefon Diggs at Met Life
- 20:23to start the year, but sauces hype is warranted based on the tape from
- 20:27college and really based on his tape last year, the Jets had a really
- 20:30good defense. It plays into what sauce does well, and grabbing is not
- 20:36grabbing. Again, there's a difference between putting hands on hips, stabbing a
- 20:40hip, giving a little tub down low and not really pulling jersey versus grabbing
- 20:45somebody by the shoulder pads, grabbing somebody up top and completely displacing their leverage.
- 20:48One's going to draw a flag. One is based off of being in
- 20:52position and giving yourself a further advantage. The other is a bit more desperate
- 20:56and you trying to kind of recover when you've been beat or when you've let
- 21:00yourself down. But again to each their own respective point, I do want
- 21:03to see from the game tape perspective what the coverages looked like on the back
- 21:07end. That the Bills had Kier in a lot, but again he was
- 21:11up and down with his play. A lot of that is going to be
- 21:14determined by what coverage they were in. I know some people saying, you
- 21:17know he was getting beat, he was getting beat. From the broadcast perspective,
- 21:19we don't really know what coverage they were in. So maybe something is
- 21:22completed underneath him or in front of him. That doesn't necessarily mean that that
- 21:26player or that guy at that spot in the route distribution was his responsibility,
- 21:32So I don't want to attribute error or blame to him until I can see
- 21:36things on the back end. He did have again that PI call, also
- 21:40drew an offensive PI. I think he gets Michael Pittman because of his physical
- 21:45play and put Pittman pushed off a little bit more, drew that flag there.
- 21:51Also had a nice tackle on a piece I thought fit to run well
- 21:53at some points. But again, I think this game was a good representation
- 21:59of what Kier has been to this point. You see the talent, you
- 22:03see the tools, but you're getting some of that mercurial play. You're getting
- 22:04some of that inconsistency. And who said it? I think John Butler said
- 22:11it. Bill's DB's coach. Maybe it was. I think it was John
- 22:15Butler. Earlier in camp here they talked about, you know, being in
- 22:18the right place at the right time. Oh, and Dean Marlowe echoed it.
- 22:21That's who it was. Dean Marlow. Myself and Eric Turner had Bill
- 22:23Safety Dean Marlowe on the cover one film Room with us a couple of weeks
- 22:26ago, and Marlow said it. He talked about Sean John mcdermot's defense.
- 22:32Marlow was talking about it from a safety's perspective, but it also applies to
- 22:34the corners. Marlow was talking about how in Sean mcdermot's defense, you have
- 22:38to be in the right place at the right time, and the coaching staff
- 22:41needs to trust that you will be in the right place at the right time.
- 22:45And then also by extension, the players have to trust that you're going
- 22:48to be in the right place at the right time. Your safeties need to
- 22:51know like, Okay, if this happens and I think my corner is supposed
- 22:53to be sitting at ten yards, he needs to be sitting at ten yards.
- 22:56You need to be able to have that trust and faith in your peers
- 23:00on this defense and in this defense. And I think we're seeing some mental
- 23:03lapses still at times from Kaier, but you're also seeing those physical lapses,
- 23:07the grabbiness. And again I think that first PI call, I think that
- 23:11was PI or holding however we want to go about it. But he was
- 23:15in good position. He was he had displayed good technique, He was right
- 23:18there in phase. He just lost at the catch point. He lost at
- 23:22the top of the route, and it just seemed like he didn't whether he
- 23:25didn't execute or didn't trust his execution or technique there, and he reached out
- 23:30and got grabby again. This is all hindsight, but all he had to
- 23:33do is break down, plant that foot and come out of the break.
- 23:34Instead, he took one too many steps, grabbed, pulled, and he
- 23:38got himself flagged. We're continuing to see again that's a trend for Kayer.
- 23:44Christian Benford on the other side. Do you see that physicality. He had
- 23:48a flag on him as well on a completion. I believe in the second
- 23:52quarter, I don't think you know anything overly negative or overly positive for Christian
- 23:56Benford. I think he's somebody who is still developing. He kind of is
- 24:00like the flying the ointment in this corner to battle where he's not. He
- 24:04hasn't played good enough to take ownership and win this competition, but he also
- 24:11hasn't played poorly enough to write him off from the competition and give more reps
- 24:15to Kayer, give more reps to Dane. We got a significant chunk of
- 24:19Benford and Elam playing together in this game, much like we did last year
- 24:25in the preseason, seeing what they both can do, and again I want
- 24:26to look at things from the back end perspective, from the tape, to
- 24:30really see what this game looked like for all three corners in this battle.
- 24:33But Dane Jackson's interception, again, it's not because of great athleticism or you
- 24:38know, tremendous size or speed. It's just because he made a good read.
- 24:42He was in the right place at the right time. And that's because
- 24:45of how he plays the game mentally and his understanding of the system and understanding
- 24:48of what happens in front of him and how to read the route distributions and
- 24:52act accordingly. And plays like that are going to continue to put him in
- 24:56contention for this spot because he's responsible and he does the things that the coaching
- 25:00staff likes, which is play with a reliability, offer you that high floor,
- 25:03and be that player that you can trust to be in the right position
- 25:07at the right time versus Kaier and even Benford giving you morning consistency and their
- 25:11ability to read the game, or their ability to make plays, or even
- 25:15their ability to, like in Kayer's case, to not get a little grabby
- 25:18and draw flags and pieces like that. But that's a fair point. Oh,
- 25:23good comment here from Pete PiZZ saying a team with Super Bowl aspirations,
- 25:27he corrects himself says can't worry, So I'm gonna read it with that.
- 25:30Pete says, a team with Super Bowl operations can't worry about playing raw dbs
- 25:34over guys with more consistency day to day. We all like Elam to play,
- 25:37but nobody wants him to cost us either. And that's the exact point,
- 25:41right. I mentioned it in disguise coverage several episodes ago, mainly in
- 25:45regards to what was happening last year with Corner two. But you've got a
- 25:48player who, yes, has a higher ceiling, and we'll take it into
- 25:52consideration for last year as well. Right, I think Kyer Elam would be
- 25:56in better shape as a player right now had he played more last year.
- 26:00So there's the long term benefit of playing him more as a rookie last year
- 26:03in twenty twenty two, But there's also part of the short term risk in
- 26:07playing a player who maybe isn't ready and making yourself potentially vulnerable in the short
- 26:14term in twenty twenty two. And that's the point you're at, Like,
- 26:17right, we all, I think majority of Bills fans and people who cover
- 26:21the Bills. You want Kayer Elam to be that guy. He's got the
- 26:23tools, he's got the trades, and based on the investment that was made
- 26:26into him, a first round pick that the Bills traded up for, you
- 26:30want that player to work out. He's scheme versatile, he allows you to
- 26:33do so much in theory. You want him to be the guy. I
- 26:37think the Bills coaching staff wants him to be the guy. The Bills aren't
- 26:41sitting there not playing kayer Elam because they don't want to play kayer Elam.
- 26:45They're playing Dane a bit more because they trust Dane more, or Dane is
- 26:48playing well enough that he's making it, at the very least an interesting competition.
- 26:52That's where we continue to be. And Kayer I don't think he is
- 26:55doing anything to really take a strangle hold of that position, and maybe Dane
- 26:59really he isn't either, but he has that reliability, he has that more
- 27:03that consistency day to day, as Pete says here, and that's why it's
- 27:07going to continue to be a battle because Dane doesn't really do anything to hurt
- 27:11himself. He may not do anything that completely wins the job, but he's
- 27:15not going to do anything to take himself out of contention. Kaire makes those
- 27:18splash plays again. Ironically, Dane had a splash play to day with that
- 27:22interception, But Kayer will have some splash plays, but he will also have
- 27:26that Eban flow. He'll have more of unreliability to his game. And that's
- 27:30something that the Bill, no coaching staff wants to that, but especially the
- 27:33Bills with this type of defense and what Sean McDermott is looking for. And
- 27:36that's the piece right. Oh see, Walter says here at Pete the Chiefs
- 27:42were willing to do it. Why can't a team with a defensive minded coach
- 27:45do it? I'd argue a team with Super Bowl aspirations shouldn't move ahead with
- 27:48the first time OC. So here's a piece, right, I'm assuming Walter
- 27:52you are referencing have or I'm gonna go back to this other comment too from
- 27:56Walter, Walter saying for a CB two, in my opinion to Jake's,
- 28:00makes little sense going with Dane on an expiring contract when you have a young
- 28:03corner with more upside that played in big played big and big games. Kaier
- 28:07also had a lot of inconsistency in playing big in those big games. Yes
- 28:11he had an interception against the Dolphins in the playoffs. Yes he had that
- 28:14PBu against Gisiki to end the game against Miami. He also had two blown
- 28:18coverages where he got hollered at by Jordan Poyer because he was not in the
- 28:22right spot at all and Skylar Thompson just wasn't able to find him an execute.
- 28:26You have those ebbs and flows, and part of it, again,
- 28:30it has nothing to do with playing on an expiring contract or Elam having more
- 28:33upside. The issue is right now, the more consistent player is Dane Jackson
- 28:38at corner two. And when you've got Jordan Poyer, Micah Hyde, Trey
- 28:42White, Matt Milano, Von Miller, Greg Russo, when you've got other
- 28:47beetle movers at other positions, maybe you don't want to put a guy in
- 28:52at corner who has that variability to his game. Maybe you don't want to
- 28:56have to live with the high upside and kind of some of the lolos on
- 28:59that roller coaster. You just want consistency. You just want somebody who's going
- 29:02to play like a B minus all the time instead of somebody who will give
- 29:04you an A minus play at one moment and then give you a C minus
- 29:08play on another or a D at another based on what he's reading and what
- 29:12he's doing. Dane gives them that consistency and Walter to your other point here,
- 29:17the Chiefs were willing to do it. Why can't a defensive minded coach
- 29:19do it. The Chiefs did it with their secondary last year because they had
- 29:22no other choice. Their secondary was filled with rookies and young guys. They
- 29:29didn't have a Dane Jackson, they had no one else in the room.
- 29:30They got guys that were banged up. They had to take Trent McDuffie towards
- 29:34the end of the year and even in the playoffs and kick him in to
- 29:37the nickel spot because Algerius Sneed was out for the Chiefs and got hurt.
- 29:41This is something that I confirmed with Matt Lane who covers the Chiefs or Casey
- 29:45Sports Network. There was no one else on the depth chart right, so
- 29:48they had to play those rookies. So it was awesome for them that those
- 29:52rookies worked out and Spagnolo got him up to speed, or they identified the
- 29:56right guys when scouting and bringing them in for the draft. But either way,
- 30:00whether they sunk or whether they swam. Those rookies were playing. It
- 30:03just happened to be Again. I don't want to take credit away from them
- 30:07playing well, or from Spags or from the scouting department and picking these guys,
- 30:10but they were playing regardless because that's who was on the depth chart.
- 30:14The Bills were in a similar spot last year with Trey going down or Tray
- 30:17being out still and Dane Jackson going down against Tennessee. The Bills went into
- 30:21that Miami game. They started Christian Benford, they started Kayer Elam, and
- 30:23then Benford got hurt. They put in JaMarcus Ingram. That's who they had,
- 30:29and then dudes continue to get banged up. They had to go and
- 30:30bring in Xavier Roads. The Chiefs had no other options. So yes,
- 30:36kudos and them for iding the right players to bring in, coaching them up
- 30:38and allowing them to succeed, or kudos to those players for succeeding and executing
- 30:44themselves. But the Chiefs had nowhere else to turn to last year. They
- 30:48had to lean into those rookies and it worked out again now making it seem
- 30:51like it was blind luck, but it's not really apples to apples here and
- 30:56again there's that unreliability that comes. Oh and Pete said, maybe Casey doesn't
- 31:00have a Dane Jackson. Lena, That's exactly right. Oh, awesome comment
- 31:04from mister Gregory Toomp said. Gregory Thompson says, Hello, Anthony, go
- 31:07bills, Matt Barkley, QB two, Kyle Allen on the practice squad,
- 31:11thank you for your time. I like the way you phrased this comment here,
- 31:15and I like your positivity, and I like that you thank me for
- 31:18giving you my time, and I thank you for your time and being here.
- 31:21I appreciate you. Sarah recognizes Greg in the chat and throws out Greg
- 31:23with multiple, multiple, multiple exclamation points. This is an overreaction. Nad
- 31:29Elevin says, Dane Jackson is also consistently horrible against good wide receivers like Cooper
- 31:33and Saint Brown. He's actually not. I know, he got burned really
- 31:36bad by a Monross Saint Brown and Thanksgiving, I've posted several clips of that
- 31:40Brown's game where he is in really good trail technique against Marty Cooper and has
- 31:44really good coverage on him. This is again another example of you know,
- 31:48certain recency bias or inconsistent plays on the ball being in the forefront of people's
- 31:52minds and it making people think that someone is worse than they actually are.
- 31:56Actually do I still have Let me put this graphic up here while I still
- 32:00have it. Here's some advanced metrics for the Bills CB twos in twenty twenty
- 32:05two, well the current CYB two battle Kayer Elam, Dane Jackson, Christian
- 32:07Benford. I think you can see from everybody here right, reception percentage,
- 32:13pass breakups QB rating when targeted, snaps per reception, yards per coverage,
- 32:17snap snaps per target. There are several metrics here where Dane Jackson is in
- 32:22the top third against you know these rest of the field, which is one
- 32:25hundred and thirty six qualifying corners. You know, the reception percentage thirty seventh
- 32:29lowest. Even with the misplays on the ball, he was still tied for
- 32:32eleventh in pass breakups. QB rating when targeted was the thirty eighth lowest.
- 32:37Kaier was close there, just a couple of points off, just slightly different
- 32:40ranking there. But look at the snaps per reception allowed. Dame with Old
- 32:45almost two more snaps more with allout allowing and reception than the yards per coverage
- 32:51snap. So again, I think coming out here and acting like Dane Jackson
- 32:54is some scrub or some horrible corner is not the piece, right. And
- 33:00I understand the frustration and the likes for Kayer Elam and maybe even Christian Benford.
- 33:05But to act like Dane Jackson is this horrible corner, don't think.
- 33:10I don't think that's the way to go here. And this is an awesome
- 33:13comment here from Greg in re the Chiefs rookie conversation at the backfield last year.
- 33:19Greg says they played dot dot dot. How well they played has been
- 33:22grossly overstated. I think that's a funny piece too, write with like Bills
- 33:27fans a lot come in here and like, well, you know, the
- 33:29Chiefs played their rookies and look how great they did. And it's funny because
- 33:31the conversation going into the Bills Chiefs game last year in Week six from a
- 33:36lot of Bills fans was like their rookie corners suck. The Bills are going
- 33:38to eat them alive, ha ha ha. And Diggs did really well,
- 33:42Gabe Davis did really well. Again, the Chiefs had nowhere else to turn
- 33:45to. They played them. They played well, at times they were inconsistent
- 33:50at times, did they do enough to hold on to their jobs and continue
- 33:52to play? Yes, But there was no one else on that depth chart.
- 33:55That's who they were turning to. Oh, it's very intense. I
- 33:59knew this as as soon as Dane Jackson got that interception today. I immediately
- 34:04knew, Oh, people are going to be upset at this. And again
- 34:07it's understandable. It's understandable. Let's continue to focus that conversation on the defense.
- 34:13Let's go to the linebackers. I know a lot of people going in
- 34:15for Dorian Williams today and how good he looked. He had a real nice
- 34:20play on the goal line, shot the gap, had a tackle for a
- 34:22loss. I think you saw some of the inconsistencies with him him. You
- 34:27know, again, this is something I want to confirm with the tape.
- 34:30But maybe not knowing what you know, hate him having his responsibility, not
- 34:32really knowing. Okay, my man stayed in should should I? Should I
- 34:36rush? Should I drop? Where do I drop? Who am I picking
- 34:37up? He had a couple of nice reps with his eyes with passing off
- 34:44receivers in the route distribution and picking up others again, he's a work in
- 34:47progress. And I don't mean this negatively with him. He looks like an
- 34:52NFL player. He's got the size, he's got the frame, he's got
- 34:53the muscle definition, he's got the speed right, he's got some bursts and
- 34:58some juice to his game. But this is this is somebody who needs time
- 35:00on task. You need him to continuously get these reps at the NFL level
- 35:06with NFL coverages against NFL route distributions and route trees. Again coming from two
- 35:09lane, A lot of his coverage responsibilities are just basic spot drop coverage where
- 35:14okay, you know, line up five yards past the line of scrimmage on
- 35:17the snap dropped to the hook, curl at this yardage set look for someone
- 35:22YadA YadA. It's much different than having a match coverage responsibility, or you
- 35:27know, having to wall off the number three or carry number two vertically.
- 35:30A lot of these, a lot of the pieces that will be asked of
- 35:31him in this Bill's defense and at the NFL level. But I thought he
- 35:37flashed a bit today. I thought there's some other spots where he was out
- 35:38of his run fits and didn't necessarily squeeze down his gap when coming forward.
- 35:44But all in all, I think for Donny Williams, I think there were
- 35:45some positives to draw from today's game. A lot of what I want to
- 35:50see is his play in the run game coming forward and how he was fitting
- 35:52the run with those gaps. And then also from a coverage standpoint, what
- 35:58coverage is the Bills were playing on the back end, what were his responsibilities
- 36:01trying to decipher I should say, those responsibilities and thus trying to assess his
- 36:07execution and his responsibility on those plays. I do think what was nice is
- 36:12he made some plays down field, granted you know on big runs or big
- 36:15games where he did make some tackles. You see the long arms coming in,
- 36:17You see the speed and the athleticism tracking a little bit for him.
- 36:22So he's somebody again who I think is a work in progress. JG comes
- 36:25in and says, how does he get those reps? That he needs a
- 36:28lot of it for him is going to come in practice, unfortunately and in
- 36:30the preseason obviously, like he's not. He's not going to get starters reps
- 36:34because he represents too much of I think of a vulnerability right now. Again,
- 36:38I think he's somebody who long term you like him more potentially in Tyrell
- 36:43Dotson or even Terrell Bernard, but he's somebody right now that doesn't give you
- 36:45that confident baseline if you are projecting him as a starter right now in the
- 36:51NFL, which again I think it is fine. He's on a different timeline.
- 36:52I know he's a third round pick. Than there are teams that get
- 36:55immediate contributions from their second and especially third picks in the same year that they
- 37:00were drafted. I don't think that's the same across different teams. He's somebody
- 37:05who is a bit more of a work in progress, and that's okay,
- 37:07right I know we'd all like an answer to the linebacker competition right now.
- 37:12I don't think this game did anything to answer that question or settle that debate
- 37:15potentially, But Dorian Williams he flashed a little bit. He's flashing training camp
- 37:22at times. But he's somebody who again is going to have to gain those
- 37:25reps in practice. He's the guy who's going to have to show up early
- 37:29to practice and work with Bobby Babbage, continue to put in time in the
- 37:32whiteboard and on tape and in his notebook figuring out okay against a three by
- 37:38one. Look, if the number three receiver does this and we're in this
- 37:40coverage, I do this. If the number two receiver does this, I
- 37:44do this. Like, he really has to get those mental reps. And
- 37:45sometimes it can be just watching tape and getting his head in the playbook.
- 37:50Other times it's him actually practicing out there on the field. Time the physical
- 37:52with the mental or whiteboard work. There's a lot of ways that you can
- 37:57get those reps and improve. It's not going to come with starters unless something
- 38:00goes very sideways come regular season time, but the preseason will be very,
- 38:05very very important for him. It was nice to see him get a lot
- 38:07of burn today. You know. One of the silver lining pieces for Terrell
- 38:10Bernard being out today was that it potentially gave Dorian Williams some more reps,
- 38:15even though Dorian looked to be with like the second or third team guys throughout
- 38:20camp. So we'll see what things look like going forward for him. But
- 38:23again, more time on task given how raw he is coming out from Tulane.
- 38:29But we'll see the rest of the linebacker spot. Again, no Terrell
- 38:31Bernard today, which I'm really disappointed in. I really wanted to see the
- 38:36difference between him and Terrell Dodson. But we unfortunately did not get to see
- 38:44Terrell Bernard today due to a hamstring injury. I believe, I know it
- 38:46was soft tissue. Oh. I like this coming from Sarah who says I
- 38:50think mcduffy was the corner we were going for in Casey swiped him. I
- 38:52also believed that as well, and then also hurts my heart. I loved
- 38:54Trent mcduffey coming out. He was my corner three. I had him a
- 38:59tear ahead of kyer Elam. I would have loved Trett mcduffy. That's the
- 39:02side of the point. I just wanted to shout out Tret mcduffy because I
- 39:05love him again. So Terrell Bernard out. Terrell Dodson gets the starters reps
- 39:13alongside Matt Milano. He's one two who he's flashed a lot in his run
- 39:16defense this year. I want to see what he looked like from a fit
- 39:20perspective on the tape. From watching the broadcast and watching this game, it
- 39:23looked like Dotson was out of his gap at several points and several instances got
- 39:28washed down a bit or got kicked out coming forward by some guards, and
- 39:34on some poles or some hinge blocks, and even on some bass blocks kind
- 39:37of getting driven back. I was hoping he would be better against the run
- 39:42because I'm still not expecting a lot from him from a coverage standpoint. I
- 39:45know he had one where the ball got zipped by him just past his outstretched
- 39:51arms. I believe on a deep end or a deep hook. In the
- 39:54intermediate, they're going a little vertical. It looked like he was on play
- 39:58action. I don't think he made a horrible read. I don't think he
- 40:00looked horribly on athletic, But whether it's his size or shorter arms, or
- 40:04just what he's like dropping into coverage, Richardson zip to buy him. But
- 40:09again I'm not expecting much from him from a coverage standpoint. I think that's
- 40:15where he is more vulnerable. I think that's where more of the deficiencies in
- 40:19his game exist. Again, want to confirm that with the tape based on
- 40:22the coverage coverages I'm seeing, and we're seeing and trying to decipher what those
- 40:27coverages were and therefore decipher how to properly evaluate how he executed in those coverages.
- 40:31But the run game piece, and I'm seeing a lot of people throw
- 40:35it up into the chat there. Yeah, it's been it's been a little
- 40:39concerning. I think if you're watching or kind of rewinding the game in your
- 40:45head again, I want to confirm again with the tape. I hate to
- 40:49continue to give that answer, but what something is you know, scientific as
- 40:52run fits and fitting up the run, you really want to be sure,
- 40:55like, Okay, was this guy in the right gap or was he in
- 40:58the wrong gap? Was this his fall or was it someone else's? And
- 41:00he just didn't really see him making those plays. I thought for a guy
- 41:05who was you know, shot the gaps at times and played a little bigger,
- 41:08he was getting blocked, he was getting picked up, he wasn't in
- 41:10the right place. He just wasn't making plays right. And I think,
- 41:14you know, some of the comments coming in saying Dodson wasn't visible, or
- 41:17him looking poorly against the run, or you know, even JG coming in
- 41:23saying Dodsons has the reps and he's looked like a backup. I think that's
- 41:27more of the concerning piece. Like I think to Rolle Bernard has the best
- 41:30chance to mitigate the loss of Tremaine Edmunds, But I think this position,
- 41:35regardless of who plays it, is going to be one that will be heavily
- 41:37scrutinized because we'll see and this isn't you know to say that Edmunds was perfect.
- 41:43But I think we're going to see a stark difference between what Tremaine Edmonds
- 41:47offered the Bills defense in that role versus what whoever is going to offer the
- 41:52Bills in that role in replacing him. Handsome man as smart, he gets
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- 42:08you're watching live or watching later, Please and thank you. I appreciate you,
- 42:12folks. Yeah. So, I don't think this linebacker spot is anywhere
- 42:15close to being settled, unless if Bernard's injury is a bit long term,
- 42:20if he doesn't get to play in that preseason game next week, if he
- 42:22misses a bunch of practice time, I think you know the position goes to
- 42:28Dodson. Great comment here from Roy saying we'll miss Edmunds, but he wasn't
- 42:30worth eighteen million a year one thousand percent. Roy, you are spot on.
- 42:35So if Bernard's injury is longer term, I think that kind of shores
- 42:38up the spot for Dodson. If Dodson starts, I expect to see more
- 42:42dime linebacker stuff from Taylor Rap. I've talked about it on Twitter and another
- 42:45other shows as well. I don't want to get into too much of it
- 42:47now, but then that opens you up to platooning and being dictated to and
- 42:52the advantages and disadvantage of certain personnel packages and what offenses can do to you.
- 42:55So I don't love the idea of a platoon, but if it's needed,
- 43:00it is what it is, given what Dotson has been in coverage.
- 43:02Dotson also wore the green dot today, So if if Bernard doesn't get healthy,
- 43:10this position looks to be locked up for Terrell dots inspector was playing with
- 43:15the third teamers. It looked like he's been kind of left behind in the
- 43:17camp competition. Didn't play awful, but isn't doing anything to really set him
- 43:22self apart from the pack and again Dorrian Williams got a bunch of reps today,
- 43:24But I don't think he's in a spot where he's ready to be a
- 43:28starter right now. And maybe he is come week five or week ten,
- 43:31or week fifteen or next year at some point. Right but I think it's
- 43:35a lot to ask of him right now to be inserted into the starting lineup,
- 43:38given everything that he has to work on. From a mental standpoint,
- 43:42he's quits a quick player, and he's a fast player, but the mental
- 43:45side can slow you down and prevent you from playing fast, and I think
- 43:49the mental side, you can see some of that hesitation from him, especially
- 43:52in coverage. And I know he's flashing physically, and he probably will as
- 43:55the preseason goes forward, but we'll see what he's going to be. But
- 44:00this linebacker competition is muddy at this point. We'll see what happens going forward
- 44:05with Bernard, but some positive flashes from Borne and Williams today. Still concerned
- 44:09not with him from a development standpoint, but with where he is right now.
- 44:13He still has a long way to go, remembe, not even I
- 44:15want to say a long way to go, but he still has room to
- 44:17improve. And room to grow, and then definitely disappointed with Bernard picking up
- 44:22a knock yesterday or the day before and being unable to play today. That
- 44:25really hurts his chances and hurts this competition as a whole in terms of really
- 44:29finding out who the best player is for this job. Oh Jordan coming in
- 44:34saying, you guys wanted Edmund's gone, laugh out loud. Here you go.
- 44:37Oooh man, that's fair, that's fair. That's fair. Also on
- 44:43the defensive side of the ball a little piece. Steve Tasker talked about it
- 44:45on the broadcast. Some blitzes and pressure looks from the Bill's defense today with
- 44:51Sean McDermott, something that we've seen throughout training camp, something that we saw
- 44:53the scrimmage last Friday. Just McDermott kind of dialing into though those plays a
- 45:00little bit more and those looks and those pressure packages. It led to the
- 45:04interception for Dame Jackson again on that first drive they brought I believe it was
- 45:08a five man pressure and they brought Siron Neil from the slot and Mike a
- 45:12Hide came down replaced Sir Ron Neil. So nice to see some aggressiveness early
- 45:15on, especially against the rookie QB. I don't think we're going to see
- 45:19anything two designery and two package E in the preseason. You know, you
- 45:23usually want to keep things as vanilla as you can in the preseason. But
- 45:30I think with Sean McDermott, what's interesting here is again him taking over as
- 45:32a DC and kind of getting back into that arena after being out of it
- 45:37for several several years as a head coach. Even though he has that influence
- 45:40on the defense, you know, maybe we see a little bit more designer
- 45:45pieces creep up in games as he starts to try and get a feel for
- 45:47what this defense is, what he wants to do, where he wants to
- 45:51put them, what buttons he wants to press, press, and what dials
- 45:53and levers he wants to push and pull and change and all of those pieces.
- 45:58So I think that'll be interesting to see what we continue to get from
- 46:01the defense there. And I think it was good to see some of those
- 46:07pressure looks and they execute it well right. I thought some of the blitz
- 46:10is really worked. We saw another good one where I don't remember who blitz
- 46:16by Milano rapped oh Poyer blitzed the running back picked him up Milano rapped around
- 46:22after Poyer, it heated up Richardson. It looked like Pittman ran it over
- 46:25against Kyer Elam and he had a step on Elam, but Hide was closing
- 46:30it down and slicing on it as the post safety, so he may have
- 46:31been able to make a play on the ball, but either way, it
- 46:34heated up Richardson. He made an inaccurate throw and it led to it incompletion.
- 46:38So some of their blitzes were good. I continue to get excited for
- 46:43what the pressure package and attack minded nature of the Bill's defense will look under
- 46:47Sean McDermott. We we've seen little pieces and glimpses of it throughout camp and
- 46:51in the scrimmage, and we saw more of that today, so that looks
- 46:53to continue. Again. We're not going to see everything fully on display in
- 46:55the preseason because you don't want to put that out there, but it's nice
- 46:59to see it continue. You to be peppered in and sprinkled in as we
- 47:01get towards the season where we expect a lot more of that to be on
- 47:06display run defense as well. Not overly concerned, it's it's pre season.
- 47:10It's one game. Dekuon Jones didn't play, but I thought with some of
- 47:14and again this is something I want to confirm with the tape, but it
- 47:19looked like the Bills were a bit vulnerable, especially with their light boxes,
- 47:21which they are known to play from a run defense standpoint, early on with
- 47:25the first teamers and the second teamers, especially on the interior. I know
- 47:31the defensive line picked it up on the interior as the game went along,
- 47:35especially against the second and third teamers, but there were some good runs there
- 47:37early on for Evan Hall. There was some space there in short yardage and
- 47:42on early downs. Again, the starters ended up not giving up any points.
- 47:45To take that with a grain of salt, but something to monitor again.
- 47:49If you're are going to be a team that plays with two high safeties,
- 47:52or plays with light boxes, or plays nickel defense as your base defense,
- 47:58or plays all three of those things in conjunction with one another as the
- 48:00Bills do, you really need to be stout on the interior and in the
- 48:04spine of your defense, especially against the run. You're gonna get gouged and
- 48:07make things hard on yourself and easy on the offense. So I think that
- 48:10is something to continue to watch, to continue to keep an eye on,
- 48:16and we'll see what he does or what the defense does, I should say,
- 48:22going for it again. I thought it kind of sorted itself out a
- 48:23bit, but that's always something to keep an eye on, right we talk
- 48:25about it from the Bills offense perspective, running against light boxes, running right
- 48:30at teams, and the bind that it puts defenses in. It seemed like
- 48:35that happened a little bit to the Bills in this game, and I think
- 48:37it was part of what Sean McDermott was frustrated about at halftime when he said
- 48:40the fundamentals were off. I'm paraphrasing what he said. And there were some
- 48:45coverage issues as well, but that piece and again kind of and on the
- 48:49defense, the defensive line felt look good. The second and third team ers.
- 48:52Tim Settle looked really good again against more of the second team, maybe
- 48:54even third team. Boogie Basham flashed several times early on against the Stars or
- 49:00what I believe were the starters for the Colts, and then as the game
- 49:01continued, he had a couple of good run defense reps. He had a
- 49:05couple of good reps from a pass rush perspective. I thought that was nice
- 49:08to see. It does look like what's interesting from a rotation standpoint at edge
- 49:13Epanessa came out a little after Rousseau. We know Greg Russo as a starter
- 49:17on this team. Floyd got maybe a series or two. He came out
- 49:21and it looked like Epanessa came after that. It looks like as of right
- 49:23now, aj Epanessa, it's kind of that cut off for the tears for
- 49:30the edges, like we know what Von Miller is. It looks like Von
- 49:32and then you got Rousseau and Floyd and then Epanessa looks right now from a
- 49:37rep standpoint, and you should standpoint in this game today and what we've seen
- 49:40in camp and in the scrimmage, it looks like Epanessa looks to be secure
- 49:45as edge three right now if Von is out or if Von is in Epanessa's
- 49:50Edge four. Didn't see a ton of burn today, which if you get
- 49:52those guys out usually it can mean if you're trying to read them between the
- 49:57lines, like the coaching staff saw what they wanted to see, or they
- 49:59want to check that guy and get him out early. So we'll see what
- 50:02happens in that piece. Good comment. Here from Pete saying it was nice
- 50:05to see the second string D line cleanly winning versus the cold second string.
- 50:08Yeah. Tim Settle had a couple of really great reps on the interior he
- 50:12did last preseason two, so we'll see how that continues. He had a
- 50:15couple of really good reps. I continue to see a lot of fun flashes
- 50:19from Elianku, who played well in Spurts last year when called upon. He
- 50:25had a couple of really nice run defense reps. He had the he significantly
- 50:30contributed to that run stop on fourth down early on, and then he had
- 50:34one where he wrenched over a guard and chucked him to the ground and it
- 50:37drove He drove his man into the running back which led to a stop.
- 50:40A couple of really good flashes from him. He's somebody who I enjoy continuing
- 50:45to see play well. I just like depth on the D line. And
- 50:49he's a practice squad guy. I don't think he's going to crack the you
- 50:51know, the main roster, but if he can continue to live on the
- 50:53practice squad and be a guy that they can call up, it's absolutely fantastic.
- 50:57Beta Jim says, bash him look good today, which was a delight.
- 51:00Yeah, I do think he flashed positively today. Again, we'll see
- 51:02how it continues to go going forward, especially against starters in better competition.
- 51:06But it's nice to just see him showing value at any standpoint, for you
- 51:12know what he's been at this point, which has been inconsistent, and you
- 51:15don't really know what you have, you don't really know what you're going to
- 51:21get offered from him at times, so nice to see him playing with some
- 51:22consistency rep after rap, down after down, series after series. Chris says,
- 51:28I thought Eponessa started today. He did. He and Rousseau were the
- 51:30starters, and then we didn't really see a ton of Floyd. He was
- 51:34in briefly, and then Rousseau came out. I believe Eponesa came out the
- 51:37series after him. That's when we started to see more Basham More, Shane
- 51:42ray More, Jonathan Kingsley Klein, those pieces and the rest on the defense
- 51:50overall is I take a drink of water here. I definitely want to continue
- 51:54to see what the corner two battle looks like. Still very exciting. We'll
- 51:59see what hap there, especially with all the intensity that there is for the
- 52:02fan base around it and the linebacker spot. Right, We'll continue to see
- 52:07what trajectory Donny Williams operates on and lives on. See what happens with Bernard
- 52:13Dodson. I think we know what Dodson is, right, and I think
- 52:17that's worrisome if we know what he is already, he's going to be the
- 52:22starter. Especially I especially hope you would have hoped that maybe he saw an
- 52:28uptick in this game. But again, given how much he's been in the
- 52:30league and what his skill set is, I think we know what he is
- 52:31at this point. So we'll see what happens with the linebacker spot. The
- 52:35defensive line rotation continues to be fun. Poonaford at some good flashes today,
- 52:37so good to see him getting some work as he starts to work in that
- 52:42rotation. And yeah, we'll see what happens. But I thought the defense
- 52:45played well in spurts today. There were some inconsistencies from a coverage standpoint,
- 52:50especially when they added in some blitzes, some guys looking lost on the back
- 52:53end both early on and late, and then some of the run defense pieces
- 52:58early. But that's things that the tape will come firm and I'll be diving
- 53:00into that as the weekend goes forward and posting a ton of that on Twitter.
- 53:04So if you want to see that, follow me on Twitter at pro
- 53:05Underscore Underscore and that's Pro two underscores a nt oh awesome, Chris coming in.
- 53:10Thank you for being here, Chris, and thank you for the super
- 53:13chat and the kind words. Chris says, thanks for the endless great coverage
- 53:15Cover one. I appreciate you, thank you very much for being here in
- 53:17the kind words. That's awesome. Thank you very much, really appreciate that.
- 53:22That's super cool to see and to hear. Now let's flip the conversation
- 53:25to the offensive side of the ball. Before I do, I'm going to
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- 54:25Well beata. Jim coming in with one more defensive comments saying I love
- 54:29the aggressive blitzes, lots of corners and safety pressures. Yeah, it'll be
- 54:34it'll be interesting to see how that continues going forward. Again, Sean McDermott
- 54:37coming from that Jim Johnson Tree and Philly where Jim Johnson loved to blitz his
- 54:39safeties, and then even what Sean McDermott did in Carolina with blitzing guys like
- 54:45Kurt Coleman and Roman Harper and things. And now he's got two tremendous chess
- 54:51piece safeties with Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer. I think we'll continue to see
- 54:53safety pressures and you know, confusing looks for offenses with what he does with
- 54:59the safeties, how he moves them around and where he puts them. Andrew
- 55:02says, the show over already. Oh no, absolutely not, Andrew.
- 55:06We are moving to the offensive side of the ball now in this conversation,
- 55:10I'm going to start with a question. I'll started, I guess with my
- 55:13favorite person from today and a question that Sarah has. Sarah says, Anthony,
- 55:19do you think Shavers and or Isabella have a shot of making the roster?
- 55:22And who do you think has a better shot? So if we start
- 55:23with Shavers inconsistent play. He had I think three drops today, one of
- 55:28them leading to that interception pick six. It wasn't a great throw, a
- 55:31little behind him off center, but still should have had it. Unfortunate deflection
- 55:37led to a pick six, But he had a couple of drops, did
- 55:38have a touchdown, did have a nice route down field in the fourth quarter
- 55:43that drew a flag. I really liked when Andy Isabella did today. He
- 55:45was one of my biggest takeaways for the day, arguably my biggest takeaway.
- 55:50We saw a lot of success from him as the number three receiver in those
- 55:53three by one looks. I tweeted out a couple of them. And for
- 55:55those who don't know, so you number your receivers from outside in. So
- 56:00if you've got three receivers to the right side of the field, the receiver
- 56:04closest to the sideline is one, the man next to him is two,
- 56:07and then the man next to him would be three. So if you're playing
- 56:10those catches for Isabella in your head, he had three of them, one
- 56:14on a third down, one earlier before that, and then one later in
- 56:17the fourth quarter on like a little option route where he sat down and caught
- 56:21it for about five to six yards. Him being then number three receiver in
- 56:24those looks, it means he's usually gonna get matched up on a linebacker,
- 56:29and he put guys in the blender today, whether linebackers, whether safeties or
- 56:34nickel corners. His pacing, his suddenness, his decisiveness, his sharpness,
- 56:37his body language, it just he looked real precise and real clean with his
- 56:43route running. Again, it was against more second team and third team,
- 56:45maybe even some fourth team dudes, but he was winning consistently. He was
- 56:49getting open, he was creating separation. I really like what Andy Isabella did
- 56:52today. I think right now Isabella has a much better shot than Shavers or
- 56:55we're jests going off of the day today, especially with Isabella's ability to function
- 57:00in the return game as a returner. But either way, it's gonna be
- 57:02tough. I mentioned it earlier. I really liked what Andy Isabella did.
- 57:07But with every all the moves that the Bills made this year to address the
- 57:10receiver position or the weapon reposition. Again, you signed Trench Shurfield, you
- 57:14signed Deonte Hardy, you draft Dalton Kincaide, who is a tight end.
- 57:17But twelve personnel will affect how many sets and formations you have where you need
- 57:22receivers. So how many receivers do you need? I think the fact that
- 57:25Isabella has shown well in his ability to separate and with a route running standpoint,
- 57:30like, I hate to make this comp but he was finally looking like
- 57:32a like a little Cole Beasley out there in terms of his game with how
- 57:37he was separating, you saw some option routes, you saw his ability to
- 57:39leverage coverage in space. I really liked it. I'm interested to see if
- 57:43he can get more reps against higher level competition. And what he does is
- 57:46a dude who was a former second round pick didn't really work out in Arizona,
- 57:50but he's got juice and does have some precision to his game. I
- 57:52like that he showed that today. It's just going to be hard for him
- 57:57to crack the roster, similar to I really liked Isaiah High last year a
- 58:00lot. I thought it was gonna be tough for him to crack the roster
- 58:02based on the depth of the Bills already had there. I think Isabella maybe
- 58:07in a similar boat. I do think he's ahead of Shavers right now,
- 58:09especially just based off of what we saw today. But I really really really
- 58:13liked what Andy Isabella did today for the Bill's offense. Just a lot of
- 58:22a lot of separation being created quickly, decisively. And Sarah says here,
- 58:27that's what I'm hoping makes it Isabella, that speed can be weaponized. Yeah,
- 58:30he had a lot. He had another one with a run after the
- 58:32catch that was the first one that he really separated on. It was nice
- 58:37to see him play having that twitch and having that quickness and suddenness. And
- 58:40again he plays special teams, which is a huge boon for him and a
- 58:44huge boon into him making the team based on what Sean McDermott and these guys
- 58:46look to have from their death guys at any position, sticking on the offensive
- 58:52side of the ball, Let's talk about a Cyrus Torrance again. I'm gonna
- 58:55say this with a grain of salt. I usually I want to hold hard
- 59:00or concrete evaluation for games in the trenches and along without what I do on
- 59:05the back end from a coverage and secondary perspective until I see the game tape,
- 59:07until I see the all twenty two. But Torrence looked comfortable today.
- 59:13You know. I noted or previously that he had slimmed down. Seemed like
- 59:16he came into camp a little leaner, which gotta stop. Thank you very
- 59:20much for being here, Sophia, and thank you very much for the super
- 59:22chat. Sophia says, smash the like Bills football is back. Go Bills.
- 59:25Thank you very much for being here, and thank you for the super
- 59:28chat and for encouraging people to smash the light, which, as I always
- 59:30say, helps us to track and trend in front of more eyes and ears
- 59:32here on the show and with the brand as a whole. So please drop
- 59:36a like on this video if you would be so kind, Be like Sophia,
- 59:37appreciate your folks. Yeah, amost IRUs Torrance saw some physicality from him
- 59:43Today's his ability to pin defenders and or wash them down. But I think
- 59:47it was more of his movement in space. Again, I don't think it
- 59:52was the cult first team line that he was working against consistently, and we
- 59:54saw him play good into the second quarter at that right guard spot. But
- 59:59we saw good hand technique remplacement on several reps. We saw good coordination with
- 1:00:04his feet in his hands. He wasn't over extending himself, quickness wasn't giving
- 1:00:07him too much trouble. He was adjusting well. He was pushing guys past
- 1:00:10the quarterback and running them by. And also we saw some physicality in the
- 1:00:15run game. This is another piece that I want to tie into the Osiris
- 1:00:20Torrens piece was the downhill run game that we saw for the Buffalo Bills.
- 1:00:23This is something I've talked about all offseason. And what the addition of Osiris
- 1:00:29Torrance means for the offense. He's a different type of interior alignment than the
- 1:00:32Bills have had previously, especially looking at the guys towards the top of the
- 1:00:37depth chart, right like Mitch Morris and Ryan Bates and Connor McGovern and David
- 1:00:39Edwards. You know at the guard spot. These are guys who were more
- 1:00:42movement guys. They are around, you know, three oh five to three
- 1:00:45hundred and ten pounds. They're guys you want to pull. Their guys who
- 1:00:49you want to get out into space. They're guys who you want to use
- 1:00:53their athleticism and their movement to their advantage. Not saying that Torrance is unathletic
- 1:00:58or doesn't have that movement, but he's got a different skill set. He's
- 1:01:00more of a people mover. He creates vertical displacement in that run game.
- 1:01:05You want him going forward, you want he's a people mover. He's more
- 1:01:07of a maller, which I was interested to see how he lived in that
- 1:01:10world, given what it looks like how much weight he dropped it versus what
- 1:01:15I saw firsthand at the Senior Bowl and what he was on tape at Florida.
- 1:01:19But we saw that people moving ability. We saw that downhill piece,
- 1:01:22especially on the first drive the Bills really ran at the Indianapolis Colts. So
- 1:01:25seeing more of those downhill runs, whether it's you know, a gap run
- 1:01:30or a specifically you know, more inside zone or more duo or iso,
- 1:01:34you know, just getting right downhill, moving people out of the way,
- 1:01:37being physical, being forceful, instead of having more you know, zone runs
- 1:01:42that are more athletic and more you know, everybody kind of moving in unison,
- 1:01:45and the running back chooses their own adventure type, a type of deal
- 1:01:49outs IRUs torants gives you a different skill set on that offensive line and a
- 1:01:52different type of mentality, and you put him on that right side with Spencer
- 1:01:59Brown by blanked on it. He and Spencer Brown had a couple nice pieces
- 1:02:04today with some double teams and getting some guys off the line and re establishing
- 1:02:07the line of scrimmage in their favor and creating some vertical displacement. He and
- 1:02:10Spencer Brown could be a really fun tandem from our run block perspective on the
- 1:02:14right side of that offensive line. So I liked what I saw from Torrents
- 1:02:16today. I'm excited to get into the tape and see what really happens,
- 1:02:20you know, or really happened today when I do a full evaluation. But
- 1:02:22as of right now, initial reaction a plus day for Osiris Torrents and a
- 1:02:27good rookie debut for him as he saw work with the first team and second
- 1:02:30team at right guard, and again another awesome piece for the Downhill run game.
- 1:02:35In addition to that, we saw some twelve personnel pieces but being effective
- 1:02:38in the run game. That first touchdown for Cook it was twelve personnel with
- 1:02:42Trent Scherfield in there, and he motioned and was right hipped off of Kincaid
- 1:02:47and Knox into the boundary there, and we saw Kincaide do just enough to
- 1:02:53wash his defensive end and wash his man inside. We saw Knox climb to
- 1:02:59the second level and get a corner, and we saw Shrefield kick his man
- 1:03:01inside which allowed James Cook immediately to see the outside was open, bounced it
- 1:03:06outside and coasted to a touchdown. Nice to see Shurefield getting some work and
- 1:03:09showing as a plus blocker in the run game, which we already know he
- 1:03:13could be. Nice to see Kinkaid again doing just enough because he is willing
- 1:03:17and he is serviceable as a blocker. He is functional as a run blocker.
- 1:03:22Nice to see him operating in that space. I know there were some
- 1:03:24questions about Kinkaid and not really seeing him. I think it was more just
- 1:03:29a function of let's get him some reps and let's get the starters out of
- 1:03:32their type of thing. Maybe we'll see him more in week two or week
- 1:03:36three. Again, the rhythms are different now. You used to see with
- 1:03:39a four game preseason. Week three was that dress rehearsal where he saw a
- 1:03:43ton of the starters. We'll see if it's going to be next week or
- 1:03:45week three for the Bills. But when that happens, you'll see more Kinkaid.
- 1:03:50But he did enough as a run blocker today again, which is what
- 1:03:52I think will continue to see. I don't think Kinkaid as a rookie is
- 1:03:54going to be a people mover or a mauler in the run blocking game as
- 1:03:59a tight end, but he will shepherd guys out of the way. He
- 1:04:01will impede rushers, he will impede his man. He can dig out safeties,
- 1:04:06crack on outside linebackers. But when he's matching up against defensive Lineman and
- 1:04:11edges. I think he has the ability because of his willingness and because his
- 1:04:14size and frame to do just enough. He's got to be better with his
- 1:04:16technique, feet, hand placement, and overall leverage, but he's willing,
- 1:04:21he's got some size can do just enough. That James Cook touchdown was the
- 1:04:26perfect example. I don't think it was an amazing block by him, but
- 1:04:29his initial first contact and positioning he ends up kind of getting chucked out of
- 1:04:32the way, but his initial first contact and positioning was the reason the edge
- 1:04:35got washed down a bit and it helped Cook be able to bonce that outside,
- 1:04:39so tying that into the downhill run game again, I thought was another
- 1:04:43nice piece for the Bills offense. And let's talk about some James Cook as
- 1:04:47well. I tweeted it out earlier. I think James Cook really makes a
- 1:04:51big difference with his speed and burst and what that does for this Bill's offense.
- 1:04:58No knock against Devin single Terry or any running back to the Bills of
- 1:05:00a head prior, but there's just a different level of threat that James Cook
- 1:05:04presents. Two way defense. If you are not sounding your run fits or
- 1:05:08in your gaps, he'll make you pay in a hurry. And that touchdown
- 1:05:13was was the example, right you saw him and again like I illustrated it,
- 1:05:16you know kind of you know, knocks climb into that corner and Kincaid
- 1:05:19getting his edge you know, to kind of go inside me able to seal
- 1:05:23him surefield work and his man the outside was wide open for that to be
- 1:05:27bounced. Cook saw it immediately and then because of his speed once he got
- 1:05:29out there into the line, he kind of just coasted into the end zone.
- 1:05:31We also saw a really nice run from Cook. I believe it was
- 1:05:34on a draw or just an inside run where he you know, the red
- 1:05:40sea parted. He gets to the second level, he breaks a tackle either
- 1:05:42from a linebacker or a safety, and then keeps going forward. He came
- 1:05:45into camp a little thicker looking in my estimation than he did last year.
- 1:05:49Doesn't look like he's lost anything from a speed or reduced perspective, but we're
- 1:05:54seeing some more physicality from him. We saw it in camp a little bit.
- 1:05:57And when I say physicality, I mean more break tackle ability from him.
- 1:06:00And we saw today like a couple of defenders had him dead to rights.
- 1:06:02But he's got that elusiveness in his game. He's got that burst,
- 1:06:05he's got that twitch, he's got that fluidity, So he has the ability
- 1:06:09that he can can toward his body quickly and in a split second and change
- 1:06:13an angle or change leverage. And now if he's got the frame and the
- 1:06:16contact balance to go with it, arm tackles or shoulder tackles that would have
- 1:06:20presented previously got him off kilter or made him stumble or brought him down.
- 1:06:25Now defenders might bounce off of him and he has the ability to break tackles
- 1:06:28and get to the second level or the third level potentially a bit easier in
- 1:06:32terms of being able to make some play. So a good day for James
- 1:06:35Cook. I think I don't think his status as RB one was in doubt,
- 1:06:39but I think he solidified it even more so today with his burst and
- 1:06:43his fluidity and what he was able to do. So kudos to him for
- 1:06:46the day that he had today. Kaloshakir two really nice catches today and in
- 1:06:51a really unfortunate drop on a third down where he got open, found the
- 1:06:56space, leveraged the corner based on the coverage, should have been an easy
- 1:07:00pitch and catch Relatively dropped it. That really sucked for him because it came
- 1:07:03off of two other plays. His first one where he had a deep end
- 1:07:08and kind of extended and showed his athleticism and kind of expanding his catch radius
- 1:07:13with a really nice hands catch, brought it in in front of the corner
- 1:07:15and behind the linebacker, right in the passing window. Got the Bills a
- 1:07:18first down, and they needed another one on the sideline where contested catch,
- 1:07:24so showed some really strong hands, brought it in, got up the sideline,
- 1:07:28just got tripped up before he was able to get the first down.
- 1:07:31Unfortunate that he had that drop, especially for a guy who has been getting
- 1:07:35work as wide receiver three in a variety of ways with Surefield, with Hardy.
- 1:07:40We continue to see it with Shakire. He gets lined up outside,
- 1:07:42he gets lined up inside. He's a slot, he's an ex, he's
- 1:07:45a Z. They use him the block, they use him do a lot
- 1:07:46of pieces, to do a lot of things from a peace standpoint on the
- 1:07:49offense. So it was nice to see him flash a bit unfortunate drop.
- 1:07:53I think the drop is outweighed by the really nice two catches he had prior
- 1:07:58to that, But unfortunate for him to see that drop. But I thought
- 1:08:00Shakure looked good today and then you know, we talked about him a little
- 1:08:03earlier. From an receiver standpoint, Keishawn Johnson Altman looked good today as well.
- 1:08:09Shavers flash, but he also had several drops. I think it's gonna
- 1:08:12be tough for those guys to really crack the roster given what the Bills have
- 1:08:17from a depth standpoint already there and then even with what Andy Isabella has done.
- 1:08:21So the wide receiver room has a lot of competition from a depth standpoint,
- 1:08:26and who's going to make the team, who's going to make the practice
- 1:08:28squad. This will be a fun position to continue to watch in games,
- 1:08:32whether it's with the second team or third team, because you've got guys who
- 1:08:34are really having a gun and do everything that they can to try and crack
- 1:08:39this squad. Because there's a lot of competition and a lot of depth at
- 1:08:43the wide receiver spot for this team. So that'd be a fun one to
- 1:08:45continue to watch. Also, shout out Latavius Murray, who does not look
- 1:08:49like he's been in the league for a significant amount of time. You know,
- 1:08:55the wheels and the tires look rejuvenated and fresh. He had, you
- 1:09:00know, a nice catching run today. He had a couple of really good
- 1:09:01runs from a bigger yardage standpoint kind of guy who he's going to fall forward
- 1:09:06based on his frame and based on his run style. Really good in short
- 1:09:11yardage the past several years and really throughout his career, but especially with what
- 1:09:15he's done with his past several stops. Noted it in training camp. I
- 1:09:18noted it last week at the scrimmage, just his ability to convert on third
- 1:09:24and short, his ability to convert in the red zone and on the goal
- 1:09:26line. But you're seeing just more bigger place Roman. He had a really
- 1:09:29big catch and run the other day in practice at camp and nice did yet
- 1:09:32just see him kind of thriving out there in a backup role behind James Cook.
- 1:09:39No Damien Harris today. He tweaked. I believe it was his knee
- 1:09:43several days ago in practice. So no Damien Harris today, which means more
- 1:09:45reps for Latavious Murray. And he showed well. He has shown well all
- 1:09:48camp, showed well in the scrimmage. We'll see what that means. You
- 1:09:53know of Harris, who's been banged up a bit at his time in New
- 1:09:56England, especially last year. If Harris can't shake that injury piece that Murray
- 1:10:00continues to look good, we'll see what that means for RB two. But
- 1:10:02either way, whether it's Murdy, whether it's terrorists, it seems like the
- 1:10:06Bills have a nice compliment to the skill set and style of James Cook as
- 1:10:12RB one with whoever they have as RB two or RB three, and it's
- 1:10:15nice that both are bets, especially with Tabus Murray, who's been around a
- 1:10:17lot, He's seen a lot. He's smart, he has vision, he
- 1:10:19understands what his role is and what the responsibility is on each play. I
- 1:10:26like to see. I'd like to see what he did today, So shout
- 1:10:29out to let Tavius Murdy on the offensive side of the ball, and then
- 1:10:33we'll see what happens to the rest of the offensive line. From a depth
- 1:10:36standpoint, I want to see what Question Barry looked like. I want to
- 1:10:40see what Brandon Shell looked like. Look like. They both got threatened a
- 1:10:42bit around the arc, around their edges at times, but QB was able
- 1:10:47to step up and evade and avoid, which is still a win for the
- 1:10:51offensive lineman. So I want to see what they look like because I am
- 1:10:54worried about the tackle depth on this team. So we'll see what comes of
- 1:11:00their performances today. Again, I really want to see the offensive line trenches
- 1:11:03and secondary play is something that I hold out a lot of judgment or evaluation
- 1:11:08on, I should say, until the All twenty two comes out and I
- 1:11:11can fully dive into it and really dissect it and break everything down in detail
- 1:11:15it accordingly to really figure out who was supposed to do what and then evaluate
- 1:11:19their performance based on their perceived responsibility or assignment on any given play. So
- 1:11:25we'll see. But offensive line didn't show any glaring holes or vulnerabilities today.
- 1:11:30Plus piece from o Cyrus Torrance Spencer Brown had a couple of really good run
- 1:11:33block reps. I don't even know how many he gotten passed bro I was
- 1:11:36so focused on Torrance and then eyeballed again. Brown and Torrance working really well
- 1:11:42on a double team on that first drive. So nice to see what came
- 1:11:46from that piece. I think again, that can be a really fun piece
- 1:11:48on the right side from a physical, nasty people moving standpoint in the run
- 1:11:53game, Spencer Brown and o Cyrus Torrance could be something at right tagle and
- 1:11:57right guard. But again, Ryan Bates is really good rocking with the second
- 1:12:00team as center today has the opportunity to start at right guard. We'll see
- 1:12:03what can come of that battle. I still think it's a battle at right
- 1:12:08guard, and we'll see what happens going forward with that and anything you folks
- 1:12:13have as we start to not completely wind down here, but any questions,
- 1:12:15thoughts, comments, concerns, anything I did not touch on, anything that
- 1:12:18you loved, hated, or worried about or excited about. Start to throw
- 1:12:23that up into the chat now. I want to grab several pieces if there
- 1:12:27are any from anyone as we start to dip out and kind of wind down
- 1:12:30here on this Saturday, well Saturday evening now after the Bills preseason Week one
- 1:12:34victory against the Indianapolis Coat, I'm gonna take a drink of water, see
- 1:12:38some comments come through, and we'll go from there. Got a comment here
- 1:12:45from John Allen is the next Elway, Butcker doesn't look the same in my
- 1:12:48opinion. Yeah, he had a really bad repper he at left guard.
- 1:12:51We got beat on his outside shoulder quickly, decisively. Again, I want
- 1:12:58to see what he looked like on the rest of his reps. But that
- 1:13:00rep was an ugly one and nobody's coming back from Well, we'll see what
- 1:13:03happens in that piece. Oh was Zachary King coming in and saying, I
- 1:13:09thought Mims look great. Yeah, Mims had that really nice catching run in
- 1:13:12a hurdle. It's gonna be tough with these running backs, whether it's him,
- 1:13:15whether it's Evans. We saw it last year with Raheem Black year,
- 1:13:19Like, it's gonna be tough for these guys to crack the lineup, especially
- 1:13:23you know, Cook, Harris and Murray or however you want to order them.
- 1:13:28Those are three solid guys who offer you consistency and a high floor.
- 1:13:31And James Cook obviously has the upside as well based on his skill set and
- 1:13:34his speed. So it's gonna be tough for any of these kind of lower
- 1:13:38depth running backs to make the roster. But yeah, Mims had some flashes
- 1:13:44today. Shout out to him for doing that again. These guys are just
- 1:13:47trying to do anything and everything they can to make a roster and crack the
- 1:13:53team. So we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens here. Oh,
- 1:13:56Jeremy says, Isabella could be our return man. He could be.
- 1:14:00I know they're looking at Deante Hardy for that spot, but if anything happens
- 1:14:02too Hardy, if anything kind of develops from an inconsistency standpoint there, or
- 1:14:09you know, we've talked about it before, Sean McDermott loves to have that
- 1:14:12returner kind of just have to focus on the returner job and not necessarily be
- 1:14:15a huge vocal point of the offense. So if they do want to have
- 1:14:19Deonte Hardy involved more in the offense, maybe they look to Andy Isabella to
- 1:14:24be the return man and that helps him to crack the roster. I do
- 1:14:27think Isabella, you know, flashed a bit as a returner, nothing spectacular,
- 1:14:30nothing to really say, wow, that guy should be returner one.
- 1:14:33But I think it's more just what he can do there in addition to some
- 1:14:38other special teams pieces, what he can do in that role, in addition
- 1:14:41to functioning as an actual slot receiver and piece of the actual offense. But
- 1:14:44Hardy looks to be returner one. But it was interesting to see as Abela.
- 1:14:47I get a lot of that work today at the returner standpoint, and
- 1:14:51see what he can be and who he can be from that standpoint. Again,
- 1:14:57I thought Andy Isabella looked really good, so we'll see what continues to
- 1:15:01happen there. Sarah coming in saying Bates can play either guard or center.
- 1:15:06I wanted to grab this comment just because it's something that I really like.
- 1:15:11The idea of Ryan Bates is kind of that super sub Obviously, you know
- 1:15:13he wants to be a starter, and if he wins the job, cool,
- 1:15:16But I just love the idea of having a backup guy who can play
- 1:15:18both guards spots and play your center spot offensive line. It's so hard to
- 1:15:23have everybody stay healthy throughout the year, and having one guy who can play
- 1:15:27three positions at an above average level is a huge boon for this offense.
- 1:15:30So if Torrence wins the job at right guard, it's nice to know you
- 1:15:32have Baits waiting in the wings. Or even if Bates wins the good wins
- 1:15:35the job at right guard, you know you have somebody who can fill in
- 1:15:38at center or left guard if anything happens, and then Torrence could maybe spot
- 1:15:42in there or slot into the right guard spot for Baits. So nice to
- 1:15:46see what Bates offers this team from like a chess peace perspective, Nicholas coming
- 1:15:50in and saying, what's your receiver depth lineup? Ooh, so we got
- 1:15:54Digs, we got Davis. I'm gonna say, Surefield, Hardy, Shakier,
- 1:16:00and then receiver six and or seven is where it starts to get really
- 1:16:03murky. Is it Justin Shorter? Is it Andy Isabella? Is it somebody
- 1:16:09else who emerges from the ranks. I think you've got kind of a hard
- 1:16:13not hard, but a decently set five again with Diggs, Davis, Shurefield,
- 1:16:17Hardy, and Shakier. I hope I'm not missing anybody there as I
- 1:16:23pull up more notes and pieces, but yeah, I think that that's a
- 1:16:26solid spot again. Yeah, Diggs, Davis, Hardy, Shorefield, Shakir
- 1:16:31And then you see who is You know how many wide receivers do they keep?
- 1:16:34Right? A lot of it will turn we'll tie into the return game
- 1:16:38and special teams in general. But do they keep six receivers? Do they
- 1:16:42keep seven receivers? That battle for wide receiver six? I think it's gonna
- 1:16:45be real interesting. We know how much they like Shorter and what he offers
- 1:16:47from the special teams aspect, but it was interesting not seeing him really get
- 1:16:51much work today and then how successful Andy Isabella was. So we'll see what
- 1:16:56that leads to in practice going forward and then in the preseason game next Saturday,
- 1:17:01so we'll see. We'll see what happens there. From that standpoint,
- 1:17:04that's my depth lineup as a Now, I think they probably keep six,
- 1:17:08maybe they keep seven if something wonky happens from a special team standpoint, but
- 1:17:12I think you have a solid five that are kind of set, and then
- 1:17:15you'll see what happens at six and or maybe maybe wide receiver seven. And
- 1:17:19then Nick files it up and says, do you think we'll have three active
- 1:17:21roster tight ends and six receivers? Instead? You could they like Quentin Morris,
- 1:17:27and you could roll with Knox and Kincaid and Quentin Morris, especially if
- 1:17:30you are going to go with more twelve personnel baked into a lineup. And
- 1:17:32I think that's where you could see the variation from week to week, right
- 1:17:35like depending on again who's on your practice squad and so on and so forth.
- 1:17:39But if they do want to roll with more twelve personnel, it makes
- 1:17:42sense to have three tight ends that you are confident in. Granted you're not
- 1:17:45gonna be as confident in Quentin Morris as you are Dawson Knox or Dalin Kinkaid.
- 1:17:48But personnel usages and alignments will really start to affect how that roster takes
- 1:17:54shape. So I do think it's possibility that you could see three active roster
- 1:17:57tight ends and six receivers. We know Quentin Morris can play special teams as
- 1:18:00well, so we'll see that piece. But I think it's a fair point.
- 1:18:04I think it's a fair point there, Oh, Sarah, I guess
- 1:18:10I missed this coming from Jim, Sarah says. Jim asked why we don't
- 1:18:13use Bates to fill in for awstome the lineman who need a breather, And
- 1:18:15I'd like to know that too. You usually just don't want to mess with
- 1:18:18the chemistry like that. From a breather standpoint, it's just not something you
- 1:18:24You got guys who are in the flow of the game. You got guys
- 1:18:27who are loose and warmed up and who are really accustomed to what's been happening
- 1:18:31at that that standpoint of the game, like what they've been running ahead of
- 1:18:34you, what your man has been doing. Again, it's really the flow
- 1:18:38of the game and the chemistry with your peers on that line. You don't
- 1:18:42want to start rotating on the offensive line for something that is again and I
- 1:18:45don't want to knock defensive line play by saying this. You know none of
- 1:18:48that is required on the defensive line. But you can rotate more bodies and
- 1:18:53on the defensive line because the assignments are a bit different and they're more attack
- 1:18:56minded. Focus on the offensive line, you need again, just more chemist
- 1:19:00stream, more feel and understanding for what's going on, and that consistent baseline.
- 1:19:03If you start to rotate guys in and out, it's something that gets
- 1:19:06a little messy and gets a little wonky. So I think the idea of
- 1:19:10him being kind of like a super sub to fill in for dudes is fine,
- 1:19:12But kind of being like a rotating, breather line change type of dude,
- 1:19:16I don't think that's really in the cards because it's not something that's really
- 1:19:19done. You want consistency at that position. Again, the offensive line as
- 1:19:23a whole. You want that consistency. You want that semblance of chemistry in
- 1:19:28addition to feel and flow for the opponent and the game at that point.
- 1:19:30So you're not trying to sub anybody unless you have to really do to injury
- 1:19:33or something else happening. But good question, good question. I think you
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