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A n T. In tonight's episode of Disguised Coverage, we are diving into
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the Buffalo Bills offensive line. Last week's episode, in a similar vein Also
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in the Trenches, talked about the Bill's edge grouping went into some game films,
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some advanced metrics, all with the idea of kind of highlighting skill sets
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and traits and tying that into the schematic conversation of what we will see holistically
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from a structural perspective for the Bills defense and then also individually from the players
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that we broke down last week. So similar conversation this week in this episode
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regarding the Buffalo Bills offensive line, a group that, like I've talked about
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this offseason, I really I hung my hat on them coming into the twenty
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twenty four season. It was one of my main points in kind of doing
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the season end episode back in February and talking about, like where do the
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Bills go from here? How do they finally get over that hump in the
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AFC, whether it's getting past the Chiefs and the playoffs or just getting out
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of the AFC and getting to the super Bowl. What do they have to
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do to finally get over that hump? And One of the main points I
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talked about was, you know, they already have a really good offensive line
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in place, so they can hang their hat on that. What they were
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able to do in twenty twenty three as an offense, A lot of that
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stemmed from the offensive line in terms of how versatile they were the run,
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how could they weren't in pass protection, what they were able to do overall,
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we saw a level of consistency from the Bills offensive line, and I
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would say a high level output that we really hadn't seen in the Josh Allen
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era. There had been Granted, I think a good portion of that was
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due to the health of the offensive line last year and everybody's staying injury free
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and being able to play the entirety of the year together, which is a
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rarity, not just for the Bills but for anyone. But we saw a
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level of offensive line play that was a very welcome site for this Buffalo Bills
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team, again, especially in the Josh Allen era. And like I've talked
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about this offseason, I really thought that was a position grouping where just so
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many positives start in terms of a conversation, right, like the trenches are
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still the most important part of any team. That's where games are won and
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lost. That's why edge defenders are paid like edge defenders. That's why interior
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defensive linemen are being paid like edge defenders. That's why offensive linemen get paid
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what they do. They really The conversation starts and ends with with trench play.
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And I was pumped to again hang my hat on that offensive line based
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on what we saw in twenty twenty three. Again, the emergence of that
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run game, the zone runs, the gap runs, what we've documented Aaron
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Kromer's teaching is really starting to take hold and what it was able to allow
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the offense to do. And I thought, how good of a platform that
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was going into twenty twenty four. And not that the world is falling or
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everything's terrible. You're not going to have that solid platform to launch from in
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twenty twenty four. But there's significant differences. Right, there's five starters on
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the offensive line. Two of the five are going to be new based on
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what we perceive, based on what looks to be penciled in. Granted,
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there's kind of a caveat to that because Connor McGovern was a starter last year.
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Now he just seemingly moves from left guard to center. So technically it's
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only one new starting body in theory and David Edwards at left guard, but
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it's two new positions, even though McGovern has played center in the past.
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So you took this strength of the team that I genuinely believe was a strength
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on last year's squad, and you took that. Oh, Jodros is here
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in the chat, Hey Joe, how are you? I appreciate you.
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Ah he in the Halo arbitter voice. I like that. Well done.
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I hope you're making a soufle and you're not lying about it like you did
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the last time you were in the chat. Everybody everybody remembers the chat never
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forgets, and nor do I. But I appreciate you being here. A
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legitimate strength of this team last year again, that offensive line, and now
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you've switched two of the five positions. You've removed Mitch Morse, you move
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Connor McGovern from guard to center. You've also changed the depth of the grouping
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as well, in terms of David Edwards no longer being a death guy,
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now being a starter, Ryan Bates being traded and being moved out a little
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bit. So there are some changes, and in this episode, I wanted
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to put into perspective how good the Bills offensive line was last year statistically and
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from an advanced metric standpoint. So we're going to go over, Oh that's
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nice, Joe says, No, Sue Flay, tonight, I am truthfully
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playing hell divers. Hell Divers is sick. I hope you're having yourself a
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grand ole time playing hell Divers. So we're going to dive into some advanced
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metrics to kind of put into perspective just how good the Bills offensive line was
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last year. And then we're going to dive into some game tape for each
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of the five penciled in starters for what it looks like right now. So
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Dion Dawkins, David Edwards, Connor McGovern, Osyrus Torrance, and Spencer Brown.
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So we've got some advanced metrics, We've got some numbers and stats to
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talk about. We've got some film, some scheme, some skill set pieces,
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some structure, some exce's and o's and things to break down. So
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it should be a fun episode. If you folks have not already dropped ake
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please, please, and make you drop a like on this video if
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you are here on YouTube. Likes are the lifeblood of these streams. I
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greatly appreciate it. Gonna do Ka Morey says, go Bills. If Southgate
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can be as his way to the finals, I'm sure the Bills can address
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the O line somehow. This comment is in reference to Garrett Southgate, who
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is the head coach of the English national team. England advanced past the Netherlands
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today with a late goal. Man, I just, I don't I can't
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believe, like each knockout game, like they barely move past the Swiss.
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They barely moved past was of Slovakia in in the in the first in the
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first knockout round at the quarters, like I just or the first knockoutround of
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sixteen, like I don't know how they continue to go. I think should
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Spain should throttle them, But just England continues to live on. It's like
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they got like the Jude Bellingham, like real Madrid gift where Madrid just gets
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out played or doesn't look like they're about to win, and then at the
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last minute something happens and they squeak by or eat by like it just seems
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like England is meant to be in that spot, even though England has a
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boatload of talent. It's been a wild Euros I'm very excited for that final
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in the Copa America Final on Sunday. That is what I will be doing
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all day. But good comment there, good shout. All right, let's
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dive into the Buffalo Bills twenty twenty four offensive line outlook. But to do
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that to move forward, or I should say, in order to move forward,
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I do think we have to take a step back and look at what
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the Bills offensive line was in twenty twenty three, and again that was a
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very strong group. So these are metrics pulled from different spots. We got
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FTN Fantasy, we got PFF Sports Info solutions, some stuff from next gen
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stats like no matter how you slice it, where you look, this Bills
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was strong from a metric standpoint. In twenty twenty three. They were fifth
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in past blocking efficiency, they were first in adjusted line yards, they were
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six in power success rate. They had the lowest and in this case lower
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means better, so lowest equals best. They had the lowest stuff percentage that's
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running back runs where they're tackled add or behind the line of scrimmage. They
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had the lowest adjusted sack rate that gives sacks plus intentional grounding penalties per pass
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attempt adjusted for down distance and opponent. They had the second lowest amount of
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running back runs hit at the line of scrimmage or before the line of scrimmage.
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They had the lowest percent of running back runs that got stuck at the
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line of scrimmager before. They were fifth in rushing yards before contact. They
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were seventh in rushing yards before contact per carry. They were third in running
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back only rushing yards before contact. They were second in running back rush yards
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before contact per carry. Just however you want to slice it, however you
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want to break it down, what they were able to do consistently. Again,
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even just like little things like power success rate, you know, the
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percent of runs on third or fourth down two yards or less to go that
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got a first down or a touchdown. That also includes runs on first and
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second or goal from the two yard line or closer. And again being first
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in FTN fantasies adjusted lineyards, which is basically takes runs and attributes the success
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to either the running back or to the offensive line so they were first in
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adjusted lineyards, which means they had the most. From percentage standpoint, they
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were first in runs that were successful due to the play of the offensive line,
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and again all the rushing yards before contact for Josh Allen or for running
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backs, however you slice it. This offensive line was very good last year.
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And then you take into account what they were doing again from a versatility
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standpoint on the ground, forty six percent gap run rate, which was third
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in the entire league, and a fifty three percent zone run rate which was
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thirty If I, like Scooby do there for a zone run rate, we're
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run so forty six percent gap, fifty three percent zone a near fifty to
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fifty split, which does not happen often even usually like the higher teams that
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run gap runs that from a usage rate standpoint, usually that's like forty one
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forty two, Like the Bills are sitting there pushing almost a fifty to fifty
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split. Again, that's a testament to the versatility offensive line. A lot
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of that due to their tackles. So those those tackle trap plays, those
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tackle rap plays dart where you're seeing Spencer Brown pull, you're seeing Dion Dawkins
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pull those are gap runs. The Bills are a good duo running team.
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That's or the gap run. The Josh Allen stuff like the QB bash GT
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counter stuff that's a gap run. So the Bills have that in their bag.
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But they're also good with mid zone. They'll work in some outside zone.
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Just that versatility up front from the offensive line. Grab question here for
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k Morey says, does the Dallas game skew these stats that that much?
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I wouldn't say tremendously. It's one game, especially with having the eighteen game
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seat or seventeen game season now, I should say one game isn't going to
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skew the sample size that significantly. If that Dallas game happened in the first
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three weeks and we were sitting here talking in week four about what those stats
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were yet it would it would significantly skew it because of the sample size,
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but just based off of how many games there were, it definitely helps,
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But I wouldn't say it skews them too much. Good question I want to
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come here from Steve as well, saying, for me, Edwards is the
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biggest question. If he does not work out, I am a bit nervous
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about the changes they will make. That's a fair point. I have faith
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in him because he he's an Aaron Kromer disciple. He was with him with
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the Rams obviously coming over here, and he exhibits a lot of the technique
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and the tools that Aaron Kromer likes to teach, likes to give to his
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offensive lineman. I think he presents a high four guy. I think he'll
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fit in well. I think he'll function well on the off chance he doesn't.
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I think the backup plan or the safety net is decent. You know,
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if he doesn't work out at left guard, I think you put Connor
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McGovern back to left guard and then hopefully Cedric Van Praying Granger is doing well
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enough and you can maybe plug him in the center, or maybe Lyle Collins
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kicks in it guard. I do think they have some options or kind of
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break glass in case of emergency. But I do agree. I think Edwards
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is the biggest question, and McGovern to would agree right because he's moving to
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center, even though he's played it in the past, he's primarily been a
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guard, so I think McGovern has some questions around him. But I do
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think Edwards is the biggest to your point, But I do have faith in
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him and a lot of faith in Chromer, and it helps that he's playing
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between McGovern and Dean Talkins, so hopefully they kind of, you know,
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good on good helps one another a little bit. But again, just just
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wrapping up those metrics from twenty twenty three, this Bill's offensive line was a
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good group. I feel like we've talked about a year and a year out
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just with how good Allen has been, especially in terms of limiting pressures being
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converted to sacks and what he can do in the pocket with his arm and
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with his legs and athleticism and strength and all this kind of stuff. Right
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Like, it's always just been you don't need this amazing offensive line. If
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you have one, that would be great, but just don't have a bottom
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tier offensive line. In previous years, the Bill's offensive line really has just
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been a roller coaster. I feel like they would always average out to be
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kind of like, eh, like sixteenth in the league or fifteenth or thirteenth,
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like somewhere around there. But it was just ebbs and flows, Like
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one week they would look like a top ten offensive line, the next week
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they would look like a bottom five offensive line. It was just that roller
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coaster, very similar, ironically to even though he was banged up, like
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Spencer Brown's trajectory his first several years prior to twenty twenty three, where you
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have a rep where it just looks, man, this guy's putting it all
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together, this looks great, and then the next rep is like, oh,
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this guy should he even be on the field. Just that roller coaster
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that the Bills offensive line had been on the past couple of years, that
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roller coaster went away for the most part in twenty twenty three. Again,
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whether coincidence or not, the starting offensive line was healthy for the entirety of
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the year, which I just I don't think will happen again this year.
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It's just the amount of chaos that happens in the trenches. The odds of
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your starting five offensive linemen being healthy for the entirety of the year, and
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I'm saying from like camp all the way through your last game of the season
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is rare. I don't see that happening again. I do think their depth
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will be tested. I do think we're going to see, you know,
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the sixth offensive lineman or seventh offensive lineman be tested, whether it's at tackles
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or guards at center, it's just ridiculous to say that healthy on the O
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line. But again, whether coincidence or not, the Bills being able to
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have consistent play last year and also being extremely healthy on the offensive line helped.
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And then even the David Edwards piece, like David Edwards being the sixth
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offensive lineman helped tremendously what he was able to add, what they were able
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to do in those sets from a run perspective, and then build the pass
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off of that run and how it all connected and meshed together. Just a
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really strong group they were. And again, even if you think about it
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further, like the starting five they had last year, and then knowing on
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the bench you had Edwards and Bates, oh, like Dave, Honestly,
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like one through seven, they had a really strong group last year in twenty
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twenty three, and I think that's going to be tested this year from a
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backup perspective, from a depth perspective, but also from a starters perspective again
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with two of the five being new starters versus twenty twenty three. And what
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did Steve say? Steve says, our positional coaches are elite compared to the
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rest of the league. Yeah, the Bills. I don't think Kromer gets
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the love that he should nationally, especially from an offensive line perspective. I
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think Jeff Stoutlin gets a ton of love in Philly. Bill Callahan has gotten
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a ton of love for what he did in Cleveland. You know, you
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had Scarnekia for the Pats, even though he's been on the league for a
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little bit. Detroit's oh line coach gets some love as well. I don't
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think Kromer gets the love nationally that he should, but he is a real
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quality position coach and has been for a while. I honestly think one of
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the best in the league, very well respected. I was pumped when they
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brought him on. I think there's not a lot of guys currently operating in
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that space who are ahead of him or at very least He's a top tier
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type of dude. So yeah, he's one of the better positional coaches in
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the league and is a huge tremendous boon to the Bills offense, especially considering
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how you can work with him. If you are a newer coordinator in the
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NFL, whether it was Ken Dorsey or whether it's Joe Brady, now,
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having someone like that in the room, a veteran like that who understands how
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to tie blocking into the overall structures and concepts, who knows how to marry
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and merge the run in the past and kind of tie everything together formationally and
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responsibility wise. You know, just there's all the added benefits too, like
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seeing Cooper Cup and Robert Woods and the type of blockers that they were with
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the Rams. I'm not going to give it all that credit to Chromer,
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but he was a significant part of it, and you see some of those
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habits and techniques continuing to be taught with the Rams, but then also now
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in Buffalo, like he has a large scale impact. Yeah, so he
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is one of the better positional coaches and coaches in the league, absolutely and
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without a doubt. So again, crazy numbers for the Bills last year fifth
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and pass blocking efficiency first, and adjusted lineyards sixth. In power success rate.
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They were best in terms of stuff percentage, which are running back runs
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tackled at or behind the line of scrimmage. They had the best adjusted sack
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rate, which is sas plus intentional grounding penalties per past attempt adjusted for down
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distance and opponents. They had the second lowest amount of running back runs hit
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at the line of scrimmage or before. They were fifth in rushing yards before
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contact, seventh and rushing yards before contact per carry, third in running back
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only rushing yards before contact, second in running back only rush yards before contact
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per carry. However you want to slice it variety of ways, they were
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either best in the league or top five or top ten at worst. And
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again just to see that level of output from a past perspective and from a
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run perspective, and then also knowing again the merging of everything being able to
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run gap, being able to run zone, and also simultaneously being able to
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past, being able to function in multiple phases, that level of versatility multiplicity.
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Really nice pieces from the Bills in twenty twenty three. And with that
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being said, I want to dive into the film. I feel like I
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should sing more. I don't know if that would be good or bad.
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So now I forget to add it to the stage. There we go,
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all right, so let's dive into some tape. So again we're just going
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to dive into the tape for what looks to be the Buffalo bill starting offensive
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line this year. From a pencil and perceived perspective right now, and I
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picked plays for each guy that I think really encapsulate the season that they had
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in twenty twenty three. As you folks know here on this show and or
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if you've followed me on Twitter, and or if you watch me in the
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film room with Eric, I'm a big film guy. I watch a ton
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of tape, not just Bills, college stuff, NFL teams across the board
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from an individual player evaluation standpoint, from a larger scale, wide net structure
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and scheme and trend perspective. So I'm always grinding tape, especially when it
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comes to the Bills, but really just in general. And so I pick
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plays for each player that I thought were representative of what their strengths are,
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what they did in twenty twenty three, and things that this offensive line can
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kind of hang their hat on going forward. So the first person that we
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are going to talk about in this series is mister Dion Dawkins, starting left
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tackle for the Buffalo Bills, who was handsomely rored with a new contract this
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offseason for the Bills. Some metrics for mister Dion Dawkins out of two hundred
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and two qualifying offensive lineman, that's offensive lineman in general guards, tackles center
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two hundred and two qualifying offensive lineman, he was tied for sixty third in
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pass blocking efficiency. If you want to just look at tackles, he was
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tied for fourteenth out of eighty six qualifying tackles in pass blocking efficiency. Also,
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another thing I like to look at is true pass sets. That's a
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nice piece from PFF. So true pass sets are snaps that exclude plays with
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less than four rushers, play action passes, screen passes, short dropbacks,
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and timed throws under two seconds. So it's more of again true passet in
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terms of not kind of playing to the disadvantage of the defense. When you
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look at his pass blocking efficiency from a true pass set standpoint, he was
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tied for one hundredth out of two hundred and two qualifying offensive linemen in efficiency
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and true pass sets, and he was twenty seventh out of eighty six tackles.
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Usually your efficiency drops in true assets just because you don't have the added
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bonus again, of all the things I just mentioned right, there's no play
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action, there's no screens, there's no short dropbacks, there's no quick passing.
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You know, throws under two seconds there's no plays with less than four
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rushers, so you have a five on three advantage if you're bringing less than
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four, or if you're not even bringing three, if're bringing two, or
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you're bringing one. So kind of puts things on more of a neutral scale.
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So usually your grade drops a little bit. Your ranking doesn't necessarily have
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to drop, but your grade usually will overall. I think again, being
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fourteenth out of eighty six qualifying tackles, I don't think is bad. I
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think Dean Dawkins has kind of played himself into the spot where he's one of
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the top offensive tackles in the league. I think I don't know if he's
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hard top ten for me, but I put him somewhere in the ten to
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fifteen range, which I think is extremely solid, and I think that's kind
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of like how I label him. He's got some moments where he looks like
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an absolute stud. I think his athleticism and physicality and some of the technicality
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that he showed last year was really tremendous. I want to highlight some of
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that technicality here in these plays, because again I think he had a strong
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year last year, and again he was rewarded for it with that contract,
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and that those contracts are always wonky, right, Like there's other dudes who
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are gonna come up and get paid. So where he sits right now in
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terms of total value and average annual value, that's going to get bumped down
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the next offseason the one after. That's similar to when Josh Allen got paid,
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and now Josh Allen is like, I think, like the tenth highest
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paid quarterback or something, because everybody just keeps leap frogging amidst the nature of
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the business. Same thing when Trey White got his contract, he was the
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highest paid corner in football for like I think literally like fifteen or twenty minutes,
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and then Humphrey got paid. I think Jalen Ramsey got paid. Like
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two dudes got paid right after him. He got been bumped him down to
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third again nature of the beast, nature of the business. So I want
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to show some plays here for mister Dion Dawkins. And this comes in Week
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eighteen against the Miami Dolphins. His first rap year is against Melvin Ingram someone
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who's been an absolute like Bills and Josh Allen Thorn in his career in these
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times all every week, this does this to me. I don't know why
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it happens here, doesn't happen in the film room, starts loading. Huddle's
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trying to make me look full. All right, here we go. So
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here's Deon Dawkins circled here on that left side the big yellow outline. Also,
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I don't I was gonna let it go, but I feel like someone's
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gonna say it not a false start. He just times the snap ridiculously.
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If you wanted to call a false start, I wouldn't be super upset at
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you. But really quick out of the gate, watch Ingram get into him.
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So Ingram's trying to hit him with a whole bunch of stuff. At
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this point his career, Melvin Ingram isn't the most athletic type of dude,
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and you can see it, like in Ingram's movement. He's trying to like
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hit him with a heavy break him down a little bit, trying to cross
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him. Doesn't really have too much from a juice and athleticism standpoint, but
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still get to the quarterback. So Ingram's trying to establish a half man relationship.
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Dawkins is moving his feet well establish his first touch. But this is
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where it gets really nice. Watch Ingram go for that long arm. You
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see it right here, goes for that long arm, tries to put it
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into the chest of Dion Dawkins, and watch Dawkins just immediately snap it down
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and this is just looks he's giving him like a really nice, warm embrace,
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takes all the leverage out of him, very similar to a snatch trap.
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Didn't I didn't call it that in this one because it's not a full
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clean chopped down and bury into the ground. But he snatches that momentum,
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He snatches that leverage and it happens in the blink of an eye. As
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soon as Ingram goes for it, Dawkins chops it down boot long arm,
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boat chops it right down boom, and look how much it knocks Ingram off
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kilter. And Ingram actually does a pretty decent job. He loses that leverage
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and is put into a bad situation where he's like, okay, let me
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just try and go through Dion Dawkins. Dawkins just grabs him, bear,
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hugs him, stalemates him, gets him off the ground like this is just
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he just dead in the water. If you're melv Ingram Allan ends up making
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the plate and James Cook, but again just a very technically sound rep his
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hand usage. Last year he was hitting snatch traps and chopping wrists and chopping
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arms and just making guys leverage, taking guy's momentum with regularity. Last year,
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I think his hand usage is and talked about enough from a tackle perspective,
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especially considering how big and athletic he is. Again, we talked about
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those run concepts, those tackle polls where he's pulling Spencer Brown is pulling.
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You see that athleticism on display, But I think the technical aspect of his
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game doesn't get talked about enough. Again, mirroring him here, he throws
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that left hand out, kind of feigns a little bit, brings it back.
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He's just watching Boom. Ingram gets close enough, gets first touch on
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him, slows him down a little bit, and you sees some nice arm
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length and reached there from Dawkins. And that's what causes Ingram to try and
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get a long arm himself. And again as soon as he reaches you reach,
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I teach Bang chops that arm down, and also look to how that
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arm how it just forces Ingram down, chops it right down because he's leaning
25:56
too much on that arm boom, takes him right off his feet, embraces
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him, gives them a nice warm embrace like a long lost friend that he
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hasn't seen in a long time, hugs him. Ingram tries to turn out
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of it. That's even a nice too piece too right life, So he
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tries to go through Dawkins. Dawkins just anchors is like na bra not happening.
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Ingram tries to spin out of it. Dion just nope, grabs him
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completely stalemated. Very nice rep from mister Dion Dawkins. Play it one more
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time like you up the next play. Great rep from Dion. Another rep
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from this game, also against mister Melvin Ingram. Again, these these aren't
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plays that only happened against Miami or only happened against Ingram. I pick plays
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that he shows again, moves that he shows with regularity, that he executes
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with regularity. Another one here, here's mister Ingram, this time more of
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a wider alignment on front look from the Dolphins. Uh, basically kind of
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like a bare front look almost head up on the center and zero and then
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had almost head up on the guards, but more like more like three t's
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yeah, sorry, I was lost in my thought there and think about something
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else. Okay, so here we go Dion Dawkins. This one a little
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different, more of an aggressive set this time from Dion. So we get
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the snap, watch him close the space on Ingram, he attacks, he
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takes the fight to Ingram. So this is still a forty five degree set,
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but it's an aggressive forty five degree. It's not necessarily a jump set
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where he's you know, out of the gate. Here's the snap and he's
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going to get Ingram. But it is more of an aggressive set, I
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would say, than kind of waiting for Ingram to come to him like it
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was on the previous set. So cuts off the space a little bit,
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then still lets Ingram come to him a bit. Ingram goes for a similar
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move this time instead of all the multiple hesitations, he just goes for a
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jab with the left and is trying to come back outside. Almost looks like
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he's trying to set up a cross job for a minute, but doesn't hit
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it. Dawkins gets first touch again, gets a punch right into the face
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of the Ingram. Ingram again goes for that long arm, starts leaning and
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last time it was more technical. It was that chop got them off balance,
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let me stalemate them and then win it that way. This time you
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see the pull down, very similar to what happened before, but this time
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Dawkins finishes him and buries him, and that was past interference. Also,
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just in case anybody's gonna say it, Dalton Kinkaid is right here. Yes,
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Josh Allen misses Dalton Kincaid. Also, I'm just gonna say too,
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because people said it before. If Alan throws it here, there's no chance
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there's less of a chance of passing interference. So Alan miss Kincaid, and
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he threw it a bit late to Dawson Knox. I just wanted to say
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that because I thought that's an elephant in the room, because I put this
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plant on Twitter like two weeks ago, and people were like, oh,
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you miss Kinkaid, you miss King Kay, you miss Kinkaid. So we're
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not talking about that, but I wanted to p out there just to be
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safe. Just another dominant rep from Dawkins. Boom. This time, you
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don't get as much of a chop on that arm as you do kind of
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like a pull down. Sometimes this is called holding, so I can get
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a little murky, but it's not really a grab as much a it is
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like putting that paw on the shoulder and then pulling down or kind of pushing
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down if anything. You can kind of call hands of the face, which
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can get a little murky. But again another example of as soon as Dawkins
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feels that long arm, as soon as he feels Ingram is leaning on him,
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he takes away that leverage. And again look what it happens to Ingram.
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And this where you get that nice physicality, you get a little bit
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of an ability to finish grabs them and instead of just bear hugging him or
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anchoring in stalemating him again takes them, finishes him to the grind. Nice
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rap again for mister Dion Dawkins. Boom boom. That snatchtrap has become really
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powerful for offensive linemen. I talk about it a bunch come college season.
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It's one of the one of the things I really look for and evaluating tackles
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coming out of college. Maybe even some offensive linemen in general just like that
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ability to feel that long arm, to feel that change and leverage and the
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potential for imbalance and be able to chop that down, snatch that leverage,
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snatch that momentum and then finish a dude, and Dawkins has become very proficient
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at it, as you can see on these back to back reps. Next
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one, I want to go to another one from mister Dion Dawkins. Let's
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go to the Patriots game and bum boom boom boom boom boom boo boom boo
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boom boom boom boo bum bum boom bump bum All right, other end zone
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angle for this one from mister Dion Dawkins going up against Keyon White, rookie
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for the New England Patriots. Again more of an aggressive set, still a
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forty five, but similar to the one we just saw against Melvin Ingram.
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Watch how he closes not a ton of space here between him and White,
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decent amount of space between him and McGovern, but notice how he closes that
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space down Initially on the snap. He takes that step to close that space
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and kind of take the fight to that edge defender. And then it's a
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little different than the one we just saw against Ingram, where he took a
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bit of more of that aggressive set but still let Ingram come to him.
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This is Dawkins kind of again taking that fight to Keon White, And my
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thought here is it's a rookie challenge him. This is still pretty early in
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the game. This is first quarter, twenty one seconds left. It's probably
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like the third drive of the game, roughly maybe fourth because there's all those
31:25
turnovers early. But you're kind of just establishing, Hey, this is a
31:29
rookie. Let me take the fight to him, let me see what he's
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about. I'm kind of just playing games from early testing the cage a little
31:34
bit in terms of seeing what he can bring in, what he can do.
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So again, mister Dion Dawkins there at left tackle, but the right
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on your screen, a little bit of an aggressive set, close the space
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down on Keon White. What do we get? We get a reach from
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Keon White and then you see that big paw from Dion Dawkins right his inside
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arm. White actually does a pretty good job. Look how he knocks back
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Dawkins. He gets that there. But as soon as he goes to knock
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Dawkins back, what do we get again? He get that snatched. If
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you get that bang this time, it's not a pole, it's not a
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hand on the pad and a grab and a paw down. He gets a
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double chop right onto that arm gets embarreling, and this is more of a
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pure snatch strap goes to the ground, played in real time for you.
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Again, it's as soon as he feels that leverage change, as soon as
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he feels that long arm, if he feels that that edge defender or that
32:32
rusher in general is getting a little too far out in front of his feet,
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if there's too much pressure on those hands, if he feels too much
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on the chest, and he sees the body angle, he sees the lean,
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he sees the leverage. It's just a simple chop down. And what's
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nice about what Dawkins does is he's got length, he's got strength, so
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that plays as well. But it's the location of those chops. Watch where
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boom, it's right on the elbow is where he gets the outside hand,
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and then you can see it a little bit still, he gets it on
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the farm as well. Like he's hitting at those joints, he's hitting at
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those spots where that's where you break contact. He's not hitting somebody in the
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bicap or too far up on the shoulder. He's hitting at the elbow,
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He's hitting at the farm. He's hitting at those spots where you can break
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that connection, where you can break that established touch from that defender, and
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again similar to what we saw before, chops it down. Defender kind of
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gets ass over tea kettle and Dawkins just escorts him to the ground and buries
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him. Then you got a rail route opportunity up the sideline, Alan Missus,
33:37
James Cook again, Elf in the room just in case somebody wants to
33:39
point that out. I could watch these all day. This is something again
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Dion Dawkins did with regularity last year. And again, see how instantaneous it
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is. He feels it as soon as he feels that. Again, you
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drill it and you teach it. But this is where that veteran experience comes
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in. This is where all those reps come in when he feels that he's
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attacking. And what's also nice to watch from again I talked about the split
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between him and Connor McGovern pre Snap. Look look at all this you've got
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effectively, Connor McGovern is on an island. Dion Dawkins is most definitely on
34:16
an island like way, even more outside in space and Jess, you can
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see his athleticism, his functionality, the feet, but it's the hands there
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and ability to kind of snatch and trap white back. Pretty good rep kind
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of a welcome to the league rookie type of moment for mister Dion Dawkins.
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Next person I want to talk about is mister Connor McGovern. I don't really
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like that song as much as I did the previous song, but that's life.
34:53
Sometimes you make up good songs on the fly, sometimes you don't.
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All right, let's cue up the next play for mister Connor mc govern.
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Well, the first place for Connor mc government the next in our series.
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Like Dawkins, I have some advanced metrics fromc govern that I was surprised with
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how strong they were. Again, I did some of this immediately after the
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season, but I guess I forgot about him from an advanced metrics standpoint.
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So similar to Dawkins two hundred and two qualifying offensive linemen, Connor McGovern was
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tied for twenty fourth in past blocking efficiency amongst all two hundred and two qualifying
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offensive linemen. In twenty twenty three, he was tied for tenth amongst eighty
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two guards, and then again, if we look at those true pass sets,
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he was tied for fifty ninth out of those two hundred and two qualifying
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offensive linemen and tied for twenty third out of eighty two guards. Myself and
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Eric broke down some tape on him earlier today in the film room, talked
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about a bunch this offseason in terms of what he brings and who he can
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be and what he can do. And I think what's nice about him?
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Actually, you know, let me go ahead and play this yep, ironically,
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so one of the players we went over today in the film room was
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this that I'm about to show here. Connor McGovern isn't a people mover.
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He's not a maller. He's not too physically imposing. He's more of a
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shepherd. He's more of an escort. He wins with leverage, he wins
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with positioning, he wins with arm length, he wins with hand placement.
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He knows how to get his body in between the ball and a defender.
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It's not always the most physical or the nastiest. He's not payancake and dudes
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and burying dudes left and right. But again, he understands leverage, he
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understands positioning. He is more of a shepherd than he is a people mover.
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And I think that lends itself to a potential move to center because you
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can get away with that at center more than you can with guard. Not
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that you need to be a maller or a people mover at guard again is
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exemplified by you know, he was tenth in past blocking efficiency last year out
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of a two qualifying guards, and just what he was able to do from
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a past perspective. But it does limit you a little bit, right if
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you have somebody who's more of a mall or more of a people mover in
36:58
addition to having that athleticism, which one which McGovern does have, just not
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as much as Mitch Morse at center, if you do have some of that
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people moving ability, some of that nastiness, some of that road raid again
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chuck dudes out of the club people moving type of ability at guard, it
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just changes things for you a little bit from a run perspective. So McGovern
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wasn't bad, but again more of a shepherd, more of an escort,
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more of a leverage and positioning type of blocker than he is a people mover.
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And this play is a good example of it. So on front,
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look here from the chargers here this is very again similar bare front head up
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on the centers that shoulder of each guard. But I'm calling it bear just
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because of the present, because you basically have each guard almost covered up.
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And watch, we're gonna get the feed block here for mitchmore So, Mitch
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Morris is gonna push ninety five and that is going to kind of push him
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this way a little bit so McGovern can get this way and reach and seal
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his man. But watch what McGovern do again, here's McGovern right here,
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so he gets that feed and just watch watch him bring his hips through and
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his feet through. Look at his hand placement all into the chest of ninety
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five. Again, ninety five is a bit off bounce because he got hit
38:13
with that feed block from Mitch Morse. But look at the hand positioning,
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look at the feet. Just turns. He's not mauling his man. He's
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not tucking him, he's not pancaking him. Gets a good feed block,
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gets his hands positioned inside, turns his body, gets his button his backside
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into the hole. I say it all the time, like that's what you
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want to see if you are a running back, you want to see the
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backside of your offensive lineman. That means the alley is clear. That means
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the hole is sealed. That is what you want to see. That is
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a running back friendly block and it's not man. Do you see Connor mcgovernn
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just absolutely chuck ninety five? He buries him what a physically imposing rep.
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No, it's good hand position and good athleticism. Brings his feet, brings
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his hips, turns, rotates, seals. This is what Connor McGovern is
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as a blocker. This works fine at guard obviously based on what he was
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able to do last year, but this plays better at center because it's you
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can get away with more finesse stuff if you're at that spot. But this
39:16
is nice again that hand positioning. Just complete control on ninety five. Complete
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control in that around where the shoulder pads are kind of covering your chest and
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your packs. That's where you want to get those hands. That's where you
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want to get that pop. Right in the center of that frame. You
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want to control. You want to clamp those hands in there, or if
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you get them on the inside, you can turn and torque. You don't
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want to get the hands too far outside the frame. You don't want to
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get them outside of the shoulder pads. Your hands if you're an offensive lineman.
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They control everything, right, So the hands are for control your legs
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and your lower body. That's what you use to drive. And you get
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that positioning and some pop from Connor McGovern. As you can see, ninety
39:55
five kind of gets popped back a little bit there. But once he has
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this positioning with his hands, he's in firm control. And then again just
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to slow mode a little bit more. This hand initially is even a little
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bit outside the frame, but he's able to refit it get it inside.
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Actually, now he's still on the outside. He's still controlling that elbow with
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that outside hand, but he's got that right hand clamped on the inside there
40:20
right kind of underneath and almost in the armpit a little bit there, controlling
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turning. But it's the feet and the hips brings them right through. Nice
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good footwork, nice and clean almost trips cook there a little bit, but
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nice and clean feet. Boom can't play one more time in real time.
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Good feedblock for mors. Again, not the most physical, not the most
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violent, just a nice, calm and controlled rep from mister Connor McGovern.
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Now we're gonna go to the first game against the Miami Dolphins in the regular
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season last year. To go to this next, Connor a government clip?
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All right, boom, here's a clip against Connor McGovern again. I think
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we talked about this one in the film earlier. That's funny. Again nothing,
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this is against Zach Steeler. Very good offense or very good offensive line,
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very good defensive lineman in the NFL, but especially for the Miami Dolphins.
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Has been kind of the robin to Christian Wilkins as batman for these past
41:20
several years in Miami. We'll see what he can be now that Wilkins is
41:22
in Vegas with the Raiders. But again another rep that represents what Connor McGovern
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is. So on the snap he's got so McGovern has good arm length,
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wins first touch, boom, hand right on the shoulder pad of mister stealer.
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Here gets the hand on the shoulder pad. Oh actually no, we
41:38
didn't show this play in the film. I feel better, gets that hand
41:43
on the shoulder pad. This one is about the feet and the handsvie.
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So the hand position is good placement, but just watch the feet. Maintains
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control with the hands and he's in front of him the whole time. Forget
41:53
what happens at the end. You can't control for that. Alan scrambles tries
41:57
to make a play. Also, I want to play through because it's an
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awesome move from Hardy wool first down. I think this was like third and
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six and he gets like seven yards. But watch him, just watch him
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get he establishes contact. McGovern right here establishes contact. He gets that first
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touch with the left hand, then gets the right hand on him so his
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hand placement is there. And then just watch him here, watch the feet.
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Just stay in the center of your man. Stay in the center of
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your man. Stay in the center of your man, Stay in between the
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ball and the defender. That's it. It doesn't always have to be the
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prettiest, it doesn't always have to be the cleanest, it doesn't have to
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always be the best. That's a really good rep from Connor McGovern and it
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gets a very good defensive lineman. And actually you can see a little bit
42:40
here. Dean Dawkins here on the left side, gets run a little bit
42:46
from mister Andrew Van Ginkle. Ginkle different lean than what we were showing earlier
42:51
right with Ingram and White against Dawkins, where he was able to snatch down
42:54
on those arms. Ginkle here is able to get into the chest. Dawkins
42:59
tries to refit his Then Gekle does a really good job working right through prying
43:02
and opening and getting through that inside hip right inside shoulder. I should say,
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so good rep from bank Ginkle, but just a really good rep from
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Connor McGovern. I want to look at it from the other end zone angle.
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So again, here's McGovern versus Seiler. Actually I'm a circle, so
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that way I can just stay there, just staying in front of his man.
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Staying in front of his man. Also look to where this happens,
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so takes a bit of an again. He wins first touch, so he
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reaches with that left arm, but a bit of an aggressive set. Like
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look where the rest of the defenders are kind of here. I mean Bank
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Knkle is far way farther up field, but the rest of the line is
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kind of established at the twenty five yard line here, and Seiler is kind
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of like two yards ahead of it because McGovern is just kind of keeping him
43:53
there in place. Wins that first touch, hands in the che again.
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I want to show this angle too, because we showed it from the other
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side. Right, he gets that first touch with that left hand. But
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watch McGovern's inside arm right here. Watch where that hand goes boom, clamps
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it right inside. He's got control, he's into the chest, he's into
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the frame, he's right there. Now, you're not gonna get called for
44:22
holding here. You could grab as much jersey as you want. As long
44:24
as you are moving your feet, you are trying to mirror that defender,
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you're not gonna get called for holding. You really have to kind of stumble
44:34
all over yourself, mess up your footwork, or someone's got to put a
44:38
great move on you to really show that they're trying to separate and you're grabbing
44:43
a handful of jersey there. As long as you move your feet, even
44:45
if you've got jersey on it inside there, they're not gonna call that.
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So it's good hand placement. He's probably got some shoulder pad and some jersey
44:52
right there. And then again, just moves his feet, moves his feet,
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moves his feet even look at there at the end too. Right steeler
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goes back inside. Watch the left arm of Connor McGovern swoop back in to
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get in on that shoulder pad. Just do anything and everything you can.
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Stay between the man and the ball, stay between the man and the ball
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sometimes again it's not the sexiest, it's not the prettiest. Just stay between
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the man and the ball. I'll play this one more time in real time
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and then we'll queue up the last one. All right, now, little
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physicality on this one from mister Connor mcgov vern. That's not gonna want it
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there it is, all right, there's McGovern again highlighted. A left ackle,
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just a quick berry, quick win bang, feels leverage, pushes his
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man into the dirt. That's as much as you're gonna get from like a
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physicality people moving standpoint from Connor McGovern. But again, it happens because of
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leverage. It happens because of positioning. He feels how low that man is
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coming out of the snap, so he just pushes him down, doesn't completely
46:07
bury him, as you can see. Ninety eight kind of gets right back
46:09
up right away. Feel it push down, that's it. Leverage, feel
46:15
positioning, hands, leverage, feel positioning. That is how Connor McGovern wins.
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That's what these plays are showing. Again, this is probably the most
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physical dominant rerap obviously of the ones that we've shown here for him, but
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maybe of all here for him because he's again, he's not a maller,
46:30
he's not a road grader, he's not a people mover. But he feels
46:35
with leverage. He understands positioning, he understands leverage. Boo, put your
46:37
man down, he's too low. Cool, Let him stay there, push
46:42
him down, don't let him get underneath you. Don't give the opportunity to
46:45
drive back. Push through on that shoulder. Put him into the turf again,
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doesn't completely finish him, doesn't pancake him completely. You see ninety eight
46:53
kind of is able to get a knee down and then props himself back up.
46:58
But it's that feel right away, right and again, because that's how
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McGovern wins. Leverage, positioning, leverage, positioning, feel, hand placement,
47:06
all that stuff. But this is just feels the leverage, he feels
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positioning. Put him down in a nice game for the Bills. They ran
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all over Dallas in that game. All right, Now we're gonna look at
47:21
some stuff for mister David Edwards. Let's see I need play twelve versus the
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chogs. All right, So Edwards is tough, not tough, but interesting
47:36
to find film form because again Bill's offensive line stayed healthy last year so when
47:38
he's in there, he's in those sixth offensive lineman sets, and the Bills
47:43
really use that to their advantage throughout the entirety of the year. You can
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get his zone run here on this one. Bills ran this a million times
47:50
in this game, literally with like the exact same motion. Here comes Sherfield
47:53
in motion. It's literally the exact same thing. There's a bunch look over
47:58
here, except it looks a little weird because you have a six offensive line
48:00
with with David Edwards. Sherfield comes in motion, he comes straight, not
48:04
rounded like the line that I just drew. He goes in motion. It
48:07
ends up being a mid zone run and you get gained from cook right.
48:09
They ran this over and over against the Chargers, and it's ironic that it
48:14
came the week after the Cowboys game where they ran all that tackle pull stuff.
48:17
Now you get into this game, they find another concept that works out
48:22
of a very specific look again like bunches and then running that zone away from
48:27
the bunch and bringing Surefield in motion. Every single time, I literally think
48:31
that they ran this exact play out of this exact look, just flipping it
48:36
right. Sometimes the bunch is over here on the left right now, sometimes
48:39
the bunch is over here on the right. They send sherfield in motion this
48:42
way, literally just running this play over and over again against the Chargers in
48:45
it work. But let's highlight mister David Edwards. This one's subtle, but
48:49
it's a quick, nice establishment. So again on that zone run you want
48:52
to get inside positioning. He wants to cut off this alley here. Whatever
48:58
you can do to make this guy go this way is a win. It
49:00
doesn't have to be completely clean. You don't have to bury him, you
49:02
don't have to give him a back body drop, you don't have to supplex
49:06
him, doesn't matter. Just get him to go outside. Edwards has good
49:09
movement on the snap boom, cuts off that spot and watch the hand usage
49:15
here. Boom, he chops down on that inside. So tweet Polo two
49:20
is like okay, I don't want that, let me go outside, and
49:23
Edward's just like okay. Watch as he does this, and Edwards just turns
49:27
hinges and it's like, okay, cool, now you want to come back
49:29
here. You can't. You just opened up that whole side, and that's
49:31
the side that Cook escapes through and gets a real nice game. This is
49:35
second five he gains ten yards and that's because that backside, again, this
49:39
is well blocked as a whole. Watch the action you got going on here
49:43
from Torrance and Spencer Brown. Boom, You get a nice little feed block
49:46
from Brown. He helps Chuck ninety five. Torrens seals him off. Spencer
49:51
Brown climbs to the second level, gets Kendricks here, he seals him.
49:55
Cook puts a nice cut in the ground. You got really good work from
49:59
Gabe Davis down on Derwy James. But that backside is open and cut off
50:04
and available because of David Edwards. And again it's just get inside. He
50:07
does this a bunch. Sometimes he makes contact with a defender and it's not
50:10
just so cool. Let me chop and kind of take away that space and
50:14
make you go somewhere else. Sometimes he'll get a piece of that arm or
50:17
that wrist and he'll get that defender just stumble a little bit, to fall
50:21
down, to go down a little bit. Oh, Mike coming in with
50:23
hot take, saying hot take, Cedric Van Pran Grangers are starting left guard
50:29
by end of season. That would be interesting considering what am I looking at?
50:34
Yeah, he is in ooh a fifth percentile for arm length thirty one
50:38
and three eighths inches arms, fifty fifth percentile for wingspan, twenty eight percentile
50:45
for hand size, so he's he's short in terms of armlank. He's also
50:47
only two hundred ninety eight pounds. He would be very undersized at guard,
50:52
so if he was starting left guard by the end of the year, it
50:54
makes me a little worried because I feel like that would happen due to injury
50:58
more so than skill. But who knows. You know, skill and technique
51:00
can mitigate deficiencies and size and frame, so its possible that it could happen.
51:05
I think that's a long shot, but yeah, I think that's why
51:07
it's a hot take, and I respect your take again one last time for
51:12
oh don't you do loading to me? Oh, huddle, make me look
51:16
like a fool. Huddle again. Subtle, But this is what Chromer teaches.
51:21
Aaron Chromer is all about hand technique. We talk about it all the
51:23
time in the film when we make that joke hands hands, hands, that's
51:27
from an Aaron Chromer coaching clinic that we broke down in the film room a
51:30
couple of years ago when he was hired. It's all about the hand users,
51:32
but take off zone, run, cut off that inside, whatever you
51:37
got to do to make if this guy go this way, you're in business.
51:39
The only thing you don't want you don't want him to get inside.
51:43
You don't want him to get into this gap and either make the play or
51:46
force the running back to go this way instead, Edwards cuts off that inside,
51:52
creates a nice cutback for Cook, and Cook hits it. Beautiful game.
51:58
And again you got a lot of people doing their job on that play,
52:00
but that part from Edwards goes a significant long way, significantly long way.
52:08
Now let's go to the playoff game against the Pittsburgh Stillers. Got another
52:15
play from mister Edwards here. That's not what I wanted, This is what
52:20
I wanted. I also put an air on Spencer Brown because I wanted to
52:22
highlight what Spencer Brown did on this play because I liked it. And so
52:29
Johnny comes in and says about center, Vampire and Granger, No way,
52:31
he's a guard. And then he said, t Rex, you never know
52:35
could overcome no short arms, but yeah he does have again fifth let me
52:37
look at where he is on mock draft. Well, yeah, fifth percent
52:40
out for arm length. Very very very short. I do like him,
52:45
though, I'm interested to see what his long term trajectory is. If he's
52:47
starting at center next year, McGovern's back at left guard could be very interesting
52:51
to see. I don't have any advanced metross for David Edwards also because he
52:55
doesn't have enough of sample size. Again, wasn't a starter last year.
52:58
It was only coming as those as that six offensive lineman in those sets,
53:02
and so I didn't want to give his numbers from how low a sample size
53:07
it was. So I don't have metrics for him. I mean, I
53:08
could pull metrics for him like I did for everyone else, but I just
53:10
didn't think it didn't have the proper sample size, so I didn't want to
53:13
use it. Here's Edwards circled. I put an arrowbum Spencer Brown just because
53:16
I like what Spencer Brown does on this play as well. We're going to
53:19
talk about Edwards here. This is against Cam Hayward, veteran a bit older,
53:23
still a tremendous player on the defensive line in the NFL. What do
53:29
we get again, another zone run? We get that step inside and this
53:35
similar to what we saw on the previous play against the Chargers. But what
53:38
happened last time was in order to avoid this chop tw we polo to just
53:44
tried to go this way and kind of circumvent David Edwards. This time,
53:47
Hayward is too close. He's in close proximity, and Edwards actually gets a
53:52
chop down on that inside arm boom and then takes them right out of the
53:58
play. So again all he wants to do is cut off that inside chop
54:06
down, and Hayward actually tries to reach back, if you notice right,
54:09
so he chops down that arm. Hayward sees what's going on. Hayward tries
54:13
to cross face. He tries to move here. You can see him trying
54:17
to get into this gap and Edward shuts it down. Heyward loses his foot
54:23
in a little bit. We get again, what do we get similar to
54:27
what we got in that play against the Chargers. We got a nice cutback
54:30
line again similar to what we saw. This is pretty much the different look
54:34
out of it. But you just have a mid zone run weak side mid
54:38
zone run strength is over here with technically like three tight ends, even though
54:44
Edwards is an extra offensive lineman, but you got the big heavies over here.
54:47
Kincaid Knox Edwards. We're in a little weak side mid zone run here.
54:53
Ty Johnson feels the cutback, and again that cutback happens because Edwards clears
54:58
that backside again. Subtle hand technique, good movement off the snap, good
55:02
quickness out of the blocks. He's not too slow, he's not too heavy
55:07
footed. He's able to get across the face of Hayward. And what you
55:09
could do here, this isn't the only way to execute here. You could
55:13
try and cut this man off and turn and seal and kind of do whatever
55:17
you want. But he chops that hand because he knows that dude's going to
55:22
be trying to haul ass to get across his face, because he's responsible for
55:27
that gap. You just base it off and again kind of just seeing where
55:31
we are here. He's responsible for here, He's responsible for here. So
55:36
Edwards knows Hayward is going to try and cross his face, so he gets
55:39
out of his stands nice and fast, and then he knows Hayward's going to
55:44
reach for that touch, so he kind of cuts him off with the knees,
55:46
not literally, more figuratively, boom chops that arm down. Hayward loses
55:52
balance. Leverage's kind of out of position, and again credit to Hayward,
55:55
he still kind of almost recovers here Edwards him down, slash loses his funny
56:01
and again honorable mention to Spencer Brown right here highlighted by the arrow. I
56:06
just like how physical this rep is. Just take your man right out of
56:08
the play, wash that side down, and then this is the beautiful potential
56:15
of his own run. There's no hole it's going to in particular, it's
56:19
just kind of, you know, choose your own adventure. If you're the
56:21
running back, be like water flow wherever the opening is. So this run
56:27
happens because of that backside where Spencer Brown crushes ninety nine, pushes him down,
56:31
washes him down, and then Edwards gets that piece of Hayward one last
56:37
time to show. So again what you get is there's the alley and Heyward
56:42
threatens it a little bit briefly by trying to get across Edwards's face, but
56:45
Edwards maintains his grip. Heyward loses his feet, and there's your cutback boom.
56:52
Again. If you're a running back, what do you want to see?
56:54
You want to see your lineman's backside, all backside right here, cut
56:59
off it and then Johnson does a good job of getting north and south and
57:00
getting up field once he cuts off of it. So again, similar to
57:04
the technique, and you that's a that's a chromer type coached play. That's
57:07
a chromer type execution. That's why I think Dave Edwards is going to succeed
57:12
in this offense, just because that chromer way of life is so ingrained in
57:16
him from the years that he spent with mister Aaron Kromer. So I do
57:23
think that bodes well towards his opportunity to start again. We never know,
57:30
things could happen. Uh. Now we're gonna go this play against the chief
57:35
again another set. But what do we got for some comments coming through,
57:40
Ralph says, imagine how good this O line would look if Cook could shake
57:43
a tackle at the second level once in a while. Yeah, man,
57:45
if he could. It's it's what he is, right, I mean,
57:47
at his size and frame, that's why he has the speed and the ability
57:52
to kind of shift in and out like a solemn skier in between holes and
57:55
make guys miss. He's not the biggest yards after contact type dude. I
58:00
think he played more physical last year than he did his rookie year, so
58:01
I think there was some improvement there. If he made a similar jump in
58:05
year three, I think that would be tremendous. But yeah, that's just
58:08
a give and take with what he is. He's, you know, not
58:10
the biggest tackle breaker you want him to get out in space. He can
58:15
make a dude miss in close quarters, but again it's more got to be
58:16
a miss or set of dude up so he can run through an arm tackle
58:20
as opposed to just tackle breaker type shutter. But yeah, numbers could go
58:23
a little bit. Mike says over under Bill's total rushing offense at twenty two
58:29
hundred yards. The Ravens led the league at twenty six sixty one last year.
58:35
Ooh oh boy, I think that. I though, I think that's
58:43
pretty solid because I feel like you could get eleven hundred from Cook, five
58:50
hundred from Allen that's already sixteen, and then you get three hundred from Ty
58:57
Johnson, and I'm just making him number three hundred from Tie Johnson and from
59:00
Ray Davis. You're at twenty two right there. I think that's somewhere save.
59:01
I think the twenty two twenty one, two thousand range is interesting.
59:07
The Ravens are just such a juggernaut because of all the running backs they have,
59:09
plus Lamar, like Allen's legs are what fact you're gonna do as well,
59:14
especially we're talking about scrambles versus design runs. I think it's a pretty
59:19
good over under for the Bill's total rushing offense. I like that. Let's
59:22
bookmark that and then play that back at the end of the year. I
59:24
like that. Well done, Well done, Mike, all right, this
59:28
one here from mister David Edwards duo run from the Bills. Edward's climbing to
59:37
the second level Boom, gets a piece of Bolton, seals them, takes
59:40
them, drives them. Want to show it in slow motion first and then
59:44
show it in real time, just to kind of give you an idea of
59:46
Edwards's athleticism and how he moves to the second level. Again, there he
59:52
is six offensive lineman. Just watch how quick, good feet, good movement,
59:59
crashes down gets to the second level. Bolton actually makes first contact.
1:00:05
Who knows if his hand isn't in a cast, maybe makes a better play
1:00:08
on this, but Edwards just kind of engulfs him, takes some seals from
1:00:13
drives him. Also want to pull it from this angle. Good time it
1:00:24
right, there's Edwards right aw so again here we go reads it. Spencer
1:00:35
Brown again washing his man inside. Well done, Spencer Shakir. Good block
1:00:40
on mister Trent McDuffie and Edwards. You can again, what do we want
1:00:45
to see backsides? There's David Edwards. He's getting wrenched back a little bit.
1:00:49
But we want to see backsides if we are running back in the hole.
1:00:52
Reverse angle again, boom backside and that's where you're cutting off of.
1:00:59
So not the most fleet a foot but not cement feet. Good movement you
1:01:02
actually see as he climbs, good gather step, nice and controlled, efficient
1:01:08
movement. Again, not the most fluid then nobody's gonna mistake him for penney
1:01:12
stool, but this is good efficient movement. Climb to the second level seal
1:01:16
and again just to scort your man, don't try to do too much.
1:01:21
Nick Bolton jumps inside, so Edwards is like, okay, I'm just gonna
1:01:25
position my body between you and my running back. That's it, smart veteran
1:01:30
play. Good job from mister David Edwards. Now let's look at some stuff
1:01:37
for oh Cy risk Torrents who his numbers were worse than I thought they would
1:01:47
be. Granted, you know, I actually think if I remember, I
1:01:51
think this was a bit of a contention point for people during the season,
1:01:54
with how people were charting pressures for Osiris Torrents. I thought it was Sara's
1:02:01
Torres had a good rookie year last year. I like the shape that he
1:02:05
came into camp with leaner trimmed down, especially you know, seeing him in
1:02:13
person at the Senior Bowl in twenty twenty three, he was physically imposing that
1:02:19
he's still physically imposing now, but he just he trimmed down, like you
1:02:23
can tell that he cut weight without necessarily sacrificing a ton of mass or strength,
1:02:29
but you could tell that he trimmed down and slim down a little bit,
1:02:30
which I thought made complete sense, just with the movement that he's going
1:02:36
to have to regularly show and have at the NFL. Operating at that size
1:02:40
that he was at Florida, I just didn't think it was sustainable in the
1:02:43
NFL. So it's nice to see the shape that he showed up to in
1:02:45
camp kind of got tested early in terms of being pote with the starters,
1:02:50
ran with the ones, and never gave up that spot. I think as
1:02:52
the season went along he started to see some struggles for him a bit at
1:02:57
times. Again, just with his size and play style, he's more of
1:03:00
a heavy footed type of dude. Yes, r J says right now for
1:03:05
some reason, PFF as a pure hatred towards cybo like. Just to give
1:03:07
an example of that real quick. I his most pressured game, or the
1:03:13
game where he gave up the most pressures. Let me look it up.
1:03:19
Where are you here, b b bum? Yeah, the most The game
1:03:23
where he gave up the most pressures or was charted with the most pressures was
1:03:27
the Miami game in week eighteen. He was credited with six pressures and gave
1:03:31
up five hurries. I went back and watched that because I just didn't remember
1:03:37
him getting worked like that. And I still don't think he got worked like
1:03:42
that. But again, everybody can chart differently, and what you attribute a
1:03:45
pressure to can vary again by people. There's just still humans charting it,
1:03:52
so you get human error at times. But I thought he had a good
1:03:54
rookie season. Again, I like the I thought it was good right from
1:03:57
the jump. He showed up to camp in good shape, got tested early,
1:04:00
worked well with Spencer Brown. I think the two had a good chemistry.
1:04:03
I do think both of them got gamed up a little bit by two
1:04:06
man games as the season went on. And I do think, just again,
1:04:12
with the nature of how Torrance is built and his play style, I
1:04:16
do think ar just says I remember the film will breakdown of that game in
1:04:20
Torreans look good. Yeah, I still don't think he looked bad. Like
1:04:23
I to each their own, I guess, just with howt Torrance is built,
1:04:27
I do think you're always gonna have to worry about kind of lateral agility
1:04:30
and dudes that are quick on the interior guys that and then if you have
1:04:33
the unicorns who are big and fast and quick, YadA YadA, like,
1:04:38
they can present some problems. But I do think it's always gonna he's gonna
1:04:42
have to worry about guys, you know, creating a soft shoulder against him.
1:04:45
Guys they can kind of create an angle and take advantage because he has
1:04:48
to overcompensate versus speed at times. Once he gets his paws on you,
1:04:51
as we're gonna take a look here, it's very hard to get away from
1:04:56
him. He's got huge hands, they're extremely strong, so once he gets
1:05:00
once he gets those vice script hands on you. It's kind of over big,
1:05:04
strong, physical move better last year than I thought he would have come
1:05:09
out of Florida. But again, I think a lot of that is tied
1:05:11
to, you know, him trimming down a little bit and cutting down a
1:05:14
little bit. But the physicality was there. I think the awareness was there.
1:05:17
Overall, I think he had a solid rookie year. I'm excited to
1:05:21
see what he can be in year two and again, especially just looking at
1:05:26
the offensive line right now, right like, we don't know, who knows.
1:05:30
Maybe Spencer Brown gets re signed and comes back to Buffalo, maybe he
1:05:34
improves again this year, he prices himself out of Buffalo. So we don't
1:05:40
know what's gonna happen at right tackle. We still don't necessarily know what's gonna
1:05:43
happen at center. David Edwards. I don't know if he's the long term
1:05:45
answer left guard. So it would be nice if, you know, given
1:05:47
Torrens's contract, if he could take another jump in his game this year in
1:05:51
year two, and we know, okay, that right guard spot is locked
1:05:56
down for another two years after this year because Torrence is on that rookie deal
1:06:00
and then we kind of go from there. But overall, I think he
1:06:01
had a solid rookie year, but the numbers were not kind. Again,
1:06:06
out of two hundred and two qualifying offensive lineman, he was tied for one
1:06:11
hundred and nineteenth in pass blocking efficiency, and he was tied for fifty third
1:06:15
amongst eighty two guards. If you go to true pass sets, he was
1:06:19
tied for one to fifteenth out of two hundred and two qualifying offensive lineman and
1:06:24
tied for forty ninth out of eighty two guards. So he got better from
1:06:27
a rankings perspective. Score went down, but he got better from a rankings
1:06:30
perspective. But yeah, I don't think he was as bad as the numbers
1:06:33
indicated. I also remember that too. I think, like down the stretch,
1:06:38
like people kind of talking about how bad of a year that he was
1:06:42
having, and I think it was people who were just looking at PFF metrics
1:06:45
and not watching film or not knowing how, or watching film and not knowing
1:06:50
how to watch it. I always be careful when I say things like that,
1:06:54
because I don't want to see like a gatekeeper, act like I know
1:06:57
everything, or act like I know how to see everything. There's plenty.
1:07:00
I don't know, but I just yeah, it's just seeing what And I'm
1:07:03
a big PFF advanced metrics guy, not the grades. I love their advanced
1:07:08
metrics and the data. I didn't think things kind of matched up with him,
1:07:11
So it's very interesting. And I don't know enough about how they chart
1:07:15
to kind of understand why it is the way they do it. I just
1:07:19
I'm just gonna chok things up to I'm a human. The person who charted
1:07:23
him as a human, maybe we see things differently, all right, cool?
1:07:26
So first one here, this isn't all him. This is just a
1:07:29
nice double team move between him and Spencer Brown. So you see on the
1:07:31
snap he's got that inside hand extended out in case Carter presses that gap,
1:07:38
giving some support to his buddy Mitch Morse here at center. But you notice
1:07:41
he's Ian Morro and then keeping things open to give some help to Spencer Brown.
1:07:47
And this is just a nice tag team move right here. Boom physical
1:07:53
Reddick pops inside Brown chucks him right into Torrents. It's nice. Boom.
1:08:01
Got to figure out a name for this finisher. RJ. If you're still
1:08:04
in here, you're a wrestling guy. We need to figure out a name
1:08:06
for this finisher. It's very similar to kind of like almost like like setting
1:08:13
for like a pop up power bomb or like a pop up like Spinebuster or
1:08:16
Spear. Like Brown is pushing Reddick Boom into like a pounce type action.
1:08:21
You got to figure out something rj okay, real time action. So now
1:08:27
I want to go into slow mo. Reddick's on the outside, so Torrance
1:08:32
can feel Carter here, right. He feels Carter on the inside, knows
1:08:39
that Morse has him, so his eyes go to the outside for his support.
1:08:45
He watches Reddick, he sees Reddick plant and go inside. Brown knows
1:08:49
he's got Torrents inside, so he chucks Reddick. And again this is just
1:08:54
good awareness. Head on a swivel, find some work. You've given support
1:08:58
to Mitch Morrise against Jae Carter Boom. Now again, this just happens to
1:09:01
look really pretty. Oh nice, all I said, I was gonna call
1:09:06
it a pounce. I like that. I like that, well that,
1:09:09
oh, Bill Ben says, a torrential flattening. I like that. Okay,
1:09:13
okay, we got some good we got some good names here. I
1:09:15
like that. Yeah, it is pounds reminiscent I'm glad you see it that
1:09:18
way. That's funny. So again just good awareness. Head on a swivel.
1:09:23
It looks prettier than it is because Reddick starts to lose his footing here
1:09:28
as he gets thrown by Brown. As he tries to complete that spin,
1:09:30
he gets chucked. So if he's on his feet it actually I don't know
1:09:34
who knows, maybe he still gets pounced, but just it's the awareness.
1:09:39
It's the finish is nice, the physicality is nice, but it's the awareness
1:09:43
how he has that hand on. Carter sees that everything is okay, so
1:09:47
he pops back out to help on the interior. Will not help on the
1:09:49
interior, help through that begat with Spencer Brown, and then we just get
1:09:55
the added bonus of that physicality again, just the way he plays it.
1:10:06
Get that hand out there so in case if he feels pressure, he can
1:10:10
go there, he can help out. But he's really just trying to stab
1:10:13
and keep him at bay. And then as he does, he looks back
1:10:15
sees Redick threatening that b gap buries his man. Also shout out to Dalton
1:10:25
Kincaid for this move on Zach Cunningham, whom pretty pretty stuff. Next rep
1:10:35
for mister Osyrus torrents, all right, Oh, I'm like morning is coming
1:10:45
through Bill Ben says Nabi style. Oh r J says, or even better
1:10:50
than Gore. But that may work only if it is Frank Corn Junior.
1:10:54
That's fair, I hear Goren. I think Ryano from ECW. I love
1:10:58
Ryan. I hated him at the I was go, oh, this is
1:11:00
good Brown and ground by Johnny. That's clever. I like that. It's
1:11:04
a good chat. All right, let's watch. Feel free to put more
1:11:10
thoughts into the chat. I'll come back and grab him as I finished going
1:11:14
through the film. Here this one not the craziest, but I wanted to
1:11:18
showcase what brown Brown Torrence is able to do from a movement perspective in climbing
1:11:28
to the second level. This was an issue issue, or a issue that
1:11:31
I had with his game at Florida. He actually climbed fine to the second
1:11:35
level, especially considering his size, but he would get to the second level
1:11:40
and not necessarily latch onto guys, or he'd make contact and they'd fall off,
1:11:43
and then guys would make plays at the second level on him. But
1:11:45
I was concerned about his movement ability to get to the second level. In
1:11:49
the NFL, dudes are bigger, stronger, faster than they are in college.
1:11:54
He labored a bit in college. I thought he would labor more in
1:11:58
the NFL, but again he'd trimmed down weight move more efficiently. So this
1:12:01
play just wanted to highlight his movement. Again, you can see the difference
1:12:08
in terms of how he moves versus Edwards or McGovern or. I don't want
1:12:12
even compare him to mor So Brown because they're very, very very athletic,
1:12:15
but you can see it almost like you can feel like the plotting steps more
1:12:20
of Torrents. I don't want to call him cement feet because that implies that
1:12:23
he has no mobility, but you can tell that he's heavy footed, which
1:12:27
allows him to anchor and have that base and that strong power base because he
1:12:30
does have heavy feet and heavy hands. Again, some playing it in real
1:12:34
time just so you can get a sense of the movement. But what's nice
1:12:38
about it. Now, let's go from a technique standpoint and structure standpoint.
1:12:41
So he's given this feed block. He's hitting this man trying to help Mitch
1:12:45
Morse Trunk, basically trying to get him to stay like here or get pushed
1:12:47
this way, so is Morse didn't believe that, So it's Morse steps through.
1:12:53
He can kind of hook him, or he can kind of cross face
1:12:56
here and make a play and get something onto him. Right Solawrence hits that
1:13:00
feed block and you can see it, gets both hands right onto the shoulder,
1:13:05
does a good job and kind of stall on him a little bit.
1:13:09
Doesn't allow Mitch Morris to cross space, but he stalls him enough that Mitch
1:13:13
Morris gets on that inside shoulder, and then Morris is able to push his
1:13:15
man outside and Cook is able to cut back. Then after we get that
1:13:19
feed block from Torrance, climb to the second level. And again, you
1:13:23
don't have to do too much. You don't have to bury your guy at
1:13:26
the second level. And that was my thing with him at Florida, right
1:13:28
like you didn't You didn't need to clob or the dude. You didn't need
1:13:30
to gore him or just pounce him or anything. Get your hands on him,
1:13:34
Shepherd. Leverage more positional stuff, right, show a little a little
1:13:39
more Connor McGovern at the second level with positioning and leverage, and I think
1:13:42
he does this here, gets his hands on the man and immediately turns he
1:13:46
knows where this run is going. Look, immediately brings his hips as he's
1:13:49
making contact with Moro. Boom, there's the hands. He's already starting to
1:13:55
swing those hips through. And then he seals it's a good job. Again
1:14:00
from Osiris. Torrents a lot of play in real time, so I go
1:14:04
to the next play. All right, this next play again, all from
1:14:12
these Philly games. I just thought he had a good game against Philly,
1:14:18
and I said it last week when I'll show an epenesa stuff. I know,
1:14:21
Philly kind of fell apart towards the end of the year, but they
1:14:24
still had really good individual players, especially on that defensive line. I'm excited
1:14:28
to see what Jayalen Carter is in year two for the Eagles. A lot
1:14:31
of these reps coming against Jalen Carter, which is a good kind of rookie
1:14:34
versus rookie iron sharpens iron, iron, iron sharp bins iron type of scenario.
1:14:43
But here we are again, Torrance versus ninety eight Jaalen Carter. This
1:14:48
one's similar to the McGovern rep against Steiler. Just look at the movement,
1:14:55
kind of like two dancing bears. I tweeted this one out earlier today.
1:14:59
I believe in said that exact same thing. I want to show both angles
1:15:01
from it. I'm gonna show this one in real time and then we're gonna
1:15:03
go in slow mo. From the end zone angle latches on again those vice
1:15:09
gript hands. You can see how little when you're watching in real time.
1:15:13
Like Jalen Carter is a big man, Look how little movement there is for
1:15:16
him because Torrance has those hands inside. Torrance has those hands right in the
1:15:23
center of that frame and he's holding him, he's grabbing him. Once he
1:15:26
gets those paws on you, you're not going anywhere. And then he's decent
1:15:30
footwork to go along with it. But the big part I want to show,
1:15:34
so from this angle you can see, let's watch this inside arm right
1:15:39
here, right okay, on the snap gets it a little bit outside on
1:15:44
the shoulder pad here, which isn't terrible, but you want to get it
1:15:46
inside. And then as the play goes along, see how he changes and
1:15:49
it's more kind of like inside the pack are almost kind of like on the
1:15:53
shoulder bone type there. So keep that in mind, right, that's where
1:15:57
that hand is, cause you're not gonna be able to from this angle.
1:16:00
So this is the other end zone angle. Now watch this hand. This
1:16:04
hand is really on the outside shoulder, so he's like here basically with each
1:16:09
hand, which isn't awful, but you do want to get more in the
1:16:12
chest. You want to get more into the frame. That gives you better
1:16:14
control, That gives you better leverage ability and the ability to kind of mitigate
1:16:16
your opponent in terms of their movement. But watch this hand here, so
1:16:21
again nice white on the green jersey. You can see that hand, So
1:16:25
that hand is a bit outside Carter. This is Carter's hand. Now he's
1:16:30
kind of gonna go for a club and he's gonna try and shake loose from
1:16:34
Torrance. Either hit him with that club and maybe swim or rip through or
1:16:38
just shake get loose somehow. As he does that, he takes this hand
1:16:45
off, and Torrance immediately takes that hand and he clamps it down right on
1:16:50
the inside. So this is a really nice refit. Now look where that
1:16:54
hand positioning is before he was up here on the shoulder pad. Chance to
1:17:00
holding penalty if your hands get outside that frame. When your hands get up
1:17:02
here, it's easier to see. If you're grabbing jersey, it's easier to
1:17:05
draw a holding call if you're a defender, and you also just have less
1:17:10
control and leverage maintain potential if you are the offensive lineman. Now, so
1:17:15
instead of being up here on that shoulder pad, look where that hand is
1:17:19
right there, right underneath that pack kind of in that rib area, that
1:17:23
clam hand. And again when you have huge paws for hands that are extremely
1:17:28
strong, that's great leverage control. So he gets that hand right in there.
1:17:31
He clamps that hand inside. Now as Carter tries to come back this
1:17:36
way, look at that he's got him locked in. And watch you can
1:17:42
see Carter's movement. I want to tie it right from let's go from here.
1:17:47
Carter is initially coming up field, and watch him get driven out because
1:17:53
of that strength and that power. So he feels himself getting driven out,
1:17:57
so he's like, okay, let me slam on the brakes and see if
1:17:59
I can win back inside. Nope, and just stalemated. Just a really
1:18:04
beautiful rap against a very talented rusher in Osirus Torrance to dance and bears boom,
1:18:14
and his footwork isn't bad either, again, especially for a dudeho's more
1:18:15
of a plotter. You can see it. Though not the most fleet of
1:18:19
foot, but it's that grip strength, those hands boom that Refit is tremendous.
1:18:28
Again, it's not great off rip again, like we talked about right
1:18:30
when I showed the first angle, that left hand is kind of in here,
1:18:34
so he's got his left hand on the shoulder bone or kind of the
1:18:38
top part of the pack. Again, you'd like to get it more in
1:18:40
the center of your chest or the defender's chest, but his left hand is
1:18:44
around here, and that right hand is gripped right there, clamped inside.
1:18:47
He's got that clamp hand. Jim McNally would be proud of this clip,
1:18:50
I believe, because he would see that inside hand, that clamp hand inside
1:18:57
and this is what again. So again, it's not horrible off the snap,
1:19:00
but you don't love in the hand placement. But as he feels Carter
1:19:04
so again and getting this is where the strength comes. Because Carter goes to
1:19:06
club him on then inside and Torrence is like, uh no, like I've
1:19:12
got my left hand, your gripped. You're not going anywhere. So Carter
1:19:15
feels that and tries to come back. But all he does he takes that
1:19:18
hand off for a brief second, and now Torrance is clamped in, just
1:19:27
a real nice refitting in the hands boom right there. And then now Carter
1:19:31
tries to come through. He's coming up field, Torrance pushes him out,
1:19:36
so Carter tries to go back inside and he's just stale made it completely,
1:19:41
absolutely beautiful rep. I'm gonna play from both angles kind of just in real
1:19:45
time. Absolute beautiful rep. Great rep. One more time from this angle
1:19:58
to dancing bears good rep. And again you can see both his strengths.
1:20:04
You can see a skill set kind of all in one thing. Right.
1:20:08
The grip strength and the hand strength is what allows him to win this.
1:20:11
And he does a good job moving with Carter, but you can see he's
1:20:14
not the most fleet to foot, bit heavy footed, but again also heavy
1:20:18
handed, which allows him to make plays like this. Now let's go to
1:20:25
this one against mister Jaylen Carter. Again, both end zone angles we got
1:20:29
here. This one's nice to see him anchor against Jayleen Carter. There was
1:20:38
a rep when Georgia played Florida the previous year for these two, well their
1:20:44
last years in college. Each Carter had a rep where he literally ran through
1:20:47
Torrents just like this, but instead of Torrent's being able to anchor. Carter
1:20:51
was just able to run through him and drive him like ten yards into the
1:20:54
backfield. Wanted to show this angle for the hand placement of that inside hand.
1:21:00
If you can see this one, it's on the back. This play
1:21:04
came after the previous place that we just showed, so Torrens was able to
1:21:08
get his hands inside get that fit this time. Carter is like, hmmm,
1:21:12
no, I'm not gonna dance. I'm winning first touch and I'm going
1:21:15
right through. You can see immediately he's into the chest of Torrents. Torrens's
1:21:18
hands aren't in good positioning, his feet aren't in great placement. He doesn't
1:21:21
have a good base. Carter is starting to go through him. Look at
1:21:26
him dip change leverage. Look at the bend here in the leg as he's
1:21:31
able to bend and anchor. I'm gonna show the other leg too. But
1:21:35
that ability to anchor, and then this hand positioning isn't great, so he
1:21:40
uses that right hand that inside hand positioning or outside hand. I should say
1:21:45
to stall and stalemate. Okay, let's watch it. From this angle,
1:21:55
I could see him kind of putting that hand out there, and that hand
1:21:58
can be used like as to actually established first touch, or it could be
1:22:01
kind of like faign a little bit, like you're putting that hand out there.
1:22:04
You want that defensive lineman to shoot his hands in response to your hand,
1:22:09
but you were really just kind of playing games with them and you were
1:22:11
really going to try and win that first touch or establish that contact. But
1:22:15
see the hand placement there from Torrents and Carter again is just like, screw
1:22:19
it. I'm not getting caught in this game again. I'm just gonna try
1:22:21
and get in your chest and go through you. What do we get again?
1:22:25
So we showed that left hand right which is kind of on the outside
1:22:27
of the shoulder pad in the back a little bit. Watch this hand as
1:22:31
Carter starts to barrel into him, almost like a circle punch. Actually it
1:22:36
boom and he gets it underneath. Now you're still not in great shape,
1:22:41
right, Carter is into your chest. You're not on skates, but you're
1:22:45
being driven backwards. But because you've got that right hand inside, you've got
1:22:50
that punch, You've got that clamp. You kind of hit that circle punch
1:22:54
and you've clamped in a little bit. Now watch the sink. So he
1:22:58
gets driven back. He's gonna anchor. Look at him drive his feet into
1:23:01
the ground. You see the duck feet, so you can kind of get
1:23:03
that base and drive. And then this is where that hand comes into place.
1:23:08
So he's got that hand. Oh that's a horrible, horrible angle from
1:23:11
me. He's got that hand right there on that inside and he leans.
1:23:15
It's not the prettiest, but he's able to anchor install it. Stale Matum,
1:23:19
I should say again, I'm just watching in real time here. You're
1:23:23
not always gonna win the rep off the snap right. Sometimes you lose initially.
1:23:28
How do you recover? This is a good recovery because his hands are
1:23:31
not in good placement, his feet are not in good placement. Carter is
1:23:35
going through him and driving him back. Quorence is able to anchor and shut
1:23:41
it down. Bo Again, that right hand is nice like he sees it
1:23:46
and loops it right underneath to be able to get into the chest. He
1:23:49
gets it right on that eight of Carter on the front of his jersey,
1:23:54
and then you get some bend, you get some lean. That's where those
1:23:57
heavy feet kind of work in right, because he able to to put those
1:24:00
heavy feet into the ground like cinder blocks and just shut it down. Take
1:24:04
that momentum. No mass, nice rap for mister Osiris torrents Now. Let
1:24:15
us talk about Spencer Brown. Spencer Brown four to three versus Amy Week eighteen,
1:24:23
Spencer Brown Spencer Brown. All right, let's show some Spencer Brown.
1:24:28
We showed one already, now show another. Bum bum. Oh, that's
1:24:40
not the one I want? Is it the one I want? No,
1:24:42
it's not the one I want. Yes, that's the one I want.
1:24:49
Hold on, it is the one I want. Okay, So I thought
1:24:54
I stamped it for some reason. My stamp didn't stick. All right,
1:24:58
so hold on, let me just mark this so we're all okay, great,
1:25:00
hoorray See I didn't start out great, but I adjusted, like Osiris
1:25:04
Torrents on that previous rep. Spencer Brown's an interesting one. Let me go
1:25:10
back because I saw Johnny Max said Spencer Brown gets a new contract before this
1:25:15
season. For me, I don't know. I think I like the year
1:25:20
three that he had last year, and it was a big improvement versus first
1:25:25
two years. Again. Also, it was nice that he wasn't banged up
1:25:27
throughout the entirety of the year. I missed a bunch of training game preseason
1:25:30
like it was the years before. I like what Spencer Brown did. I
1:25:35
still like him very very very much as a run defender. His athleticism or
1:25:39
run defender is a run blocker. His athleticism is tremendous, his physicality is
1:25:43
tremendous. I'm still not completely sold on him as a pass protector. I'll
1:25:47
see what he is in year four. I'm not ready to commit to him
1:25:51
right now. And my my cause for concern with him staying in Buffalo is
1:25:58
I don't want to pay or not cause for but I should say, like
1:26:00
why I don't think he's going to be a bill passed this year is I
1:26:03
don't want to give him the contract right now because he's been too inconsistent for
1:26:09
me. And I think if he has another year this year like he did
1:26:12
last year, or builds upon it, I think he could potentially price himself
1:26:15
out because I do think that ceiling that he has is still there because of
1:26:17
the athleticism and because of the inexperience. Now, he had a good year
1:26:24
last year, especially in comparison to the years that he had before. But
1:26:28
I think a lot of talk from people, or at least I see,
1:26:30
and I hate using this, but like a lot of conversation I see from
1:26:32
fans in real life or on Twitter is about how amazing of a season he
1:26:36
had and how awesome of season that he had. I think he had a
1:26:39
good year. I think how good of the year he had is put against
1:26:43
or juxtaposed with the expectations for him going into last year, and the expectations
1:26:47
were can he stop being a roller coaster? He wasn't a roller coaster,
1:26:51
so that was nice. I think he played average to above average right tackle,
1:26:56
which was nice. Sometimes below average, still getting bit and beat,
1:26:59
still getting beat too quick for my taste at times, shooting his hands with
1:27:04
poor timing or poor placement, getting beat around the arc, and just getting
1:27:09
a little too far out in front of his feet. I do still think
1:27:11
he has a lot to clean up from a pass pro standpoint, but he
1:27:14
improved tremendously last year. I also think they helped him out a lot last
1:27:17
year. I did a project for Cover one earlier this offseason, and I
1:27:24
went and literally watched every single rep of pass Pro for Spencer Brown last year.
1:27:30
I watched every single one from Week one all the way through the Division
1:27:33
Round against the Chiefs and the Bills, gave him a lot of help.
1:27:36
It wasn't just that Week two game against the Raiders where they were giving him
1:27:40
tons of chip help against Crosby. He was getting tight ends lined up next
1:27:43
to him running backs, chipping and helping out of the backfield. He was
1:27:45
getting help from Torrents at right guard to kind of protect that inside. So
1:27:49
he had help, which isn't terrible, but he had help more than people
1:27:54
realized. And I do still think he struggled more than people realize. But
1:27:58
I was very happy with his progress last year. I still do think he's
1:28:00
on an upward trajectory. My cause for concern or worry is if he has
1:28:05
another year this year like you did last year, and what I mean by
1:28:09
that is it takes another jump in his game. I think he could price
1:28:12
himself out. But you gotta like the improvement you saw last year from Spencer
1:28:16
Brown. Some metrics for him. Out of two hundred and two qualifying offensive
1:28:21
lineman, he was tied for one hundred and third in past blocking efficiency out
1:28:27
of eighty six tackles. He was tied for twenty eighth in true pass sets.
1:28:30
He was tied for eighty ninth out of two hundred and two qualifying offensive
1:28:34
lineman and tied for twenty first amongst eighty six offensive tackles. So he saw
1:28:39
a ranking jump in true pass sets amongst all qualifying offensive linemen and amongst just
1:28:45
qualifying tackles. Again, not a horrible year. I don't think it was
1:28:48
as good as potentially was advertised by some people. But a good year.
1:28:55
And we'll dive into some film pieces with him. Now, where are some
1:28:58
comments. I appreciate this fro Johnny saying, love this film work style stuff
1:29:02
because I miss most of it during the game from telecast angles. That's what
1:29:05
we're here for. I appreciate that. Mike says, I really feel like
1:29:10
Cook found his vision as a running back last year. I think he found
1:29:12
vision, tempo and patience last year, and I kind of expect to see
1:29:15
him improve again this year and have a really solid year. I think he's
1:29:18
the second most if we're talking from like a weapons standpoint, Josh Allen doesn't
1:29:25
count. I think Kincaid is the most important dude. I think James Cook
1:29:28
is number two because of what he can be in the run and the past,
1:29:30
and Mike saying it seems like he mentally understands how to get into space
1:29:34
more often, hopefully develops more as a pass catcher. I would like that.
1:29:39
Oh, Charles talking about some of those Torrents clips, saying the helmets
1:29:41
don't get more than two inches apart. That's fair. Johnny says, I'm
1:29:45
gonna go over twenty two hundred yards based on a full season with Brady.
1:29:50
What else do we got? Mike talking about Brown saying what scares me about
1:29:57
Brown is inconsistencies and injuries. He was good though last year. Absolutely,
1:30:00
the injuries aren't great, the inconsistencies aren't great. He was good in twenty
1:30:05
twenty three. I don't think he was as good as some people make it
1:30:09
out to be. I don't think he had this revelatory season. Again,
1:30:11
everything is all expectation based, right. If you thought he was done,
1:30:15
you're probably over the moon with the season that he had last year. If
1:30:18
you just wanted to see him stop being a roller coaster, you're happy with
1:30:21
the year that he had last year. And that was me, right,
1:30:24
I just wanted him to stop being a roller coaster. I would love him
1:30:27
to be a top ten right tackle in the league. I just wanted him
1:30:30
to stop being a roller coaster. Just give me average play down in and
1:30:34
down out. I mentioned it earlier, like the problem with Spencer Brown in
1:30:36
years past, and how much of it was due to injury, I don't
1:30:40
know. But the problem with him in years past was a really great rep
1:30:44
followed by a rep where he gets beaten like half a second. And again
1:30:46
a lot of it was from pass pro. He was good as a rum
1:30:48
blocker from the jump. The athleticism in the physicality and the finishing have shown
1:30:53
on tape for as a run blocker with regularity pass pro and the technique and
1:30:58
the feel again punch timing, punch location, when to shoot your hands,
1:31:02
when to not feign stuff, when to play games and do different things.
1:31:06
Sometimes that would get him into trouble a little bit, but overall I thought
1:31:11
he had a solid year last year. In Charles saying back injuries for a
1:31:15
six to eight tackle would concern me, I think that's part of it,
1:31:17
too, right, like the type of injuries that he's had, given his
1:31:23
size and his frame. Like he because he's not the most technically sound guy.
1:31:29
If his athleticism starts to wane a little bit, you start to get
1:31:34
a bit worried because I think a lot of his success right now is due
1:31:39
to that athleticism. It's due to his ability to move, to get out
1:31:45
into space, to be physical and athletic and all this kind of stuff.
1:31:48
If he's not able to do that, that worries me a little bit.
1:31:54
But again, we'll see hopefully he can continue to improve. And Joe comes
1:31:58
in and says very happy with even if it was just quote unquote good and
1:32:01
not insane the high caliber, I wonder if there was still a slight leap
1:32:04
for him with another year Cromer looming. I do think there's still another leap
1:32:10
in him. Again, I've said this so many times, and he just
1:32:13
played on like a loop, played eight man football in high school, went
1:32:15
to the University of Northern Iowa, opted out for the COVID years. So
1:32:20
he doesn't have a ton of like eleven on eleven football under his belt,
1:32:24
let alone against high caliber opponents. So he's very much learning how to play
1:32:28
right tackle eleven on eleven in the NFL, and he's doing it against NFL
1:32:32
level like talent, so there is a steep learning curve for him. Then
1:32:35
you throw in the injuries and all the missed reps and the miss snaps and
1:32:39
playing him banged up. I do think he still has the opportunity to hit
1:32:42
that ceiling and he could become a very very very good player. And again,
1:32:45
I do think he had a good season last year. I just don't
1:32:47
think and hey, I would call it good. I do think he had
1:32:50
a good season last year. But like, like I've seen some conversation too
1:32:55
of like, if you had to give somebody a contract now, either Greg
1:32:57
Russeau or Spencer Brown, who are you giving it to. I'm giving it
1:33:00
to Greg Russo every day of the week. It's not even close, Like
1:33:01
I'm not it's I'm not even flinching. It's Greg Russo and it's not close.
1:33:06
But that's because he's proven to be elite as a run defender and he's
1:33:11
been okay as a pass rusher, but that his run defending is better than
1:33:15
anything that Spencer Brown does. Even though Spencer Brown is a very very very
1:33:18
good run blocker. It's funny how both their games kind of man in the
1:33:21
past a little bit, very very good with regards to the run. But
1:33:26
I do like the year he had. I do think you could see another
1:33:30
jump for him this year. With Cromer and again, if he stays healthy,
1:33:33
I think he could be a guy where you're sitting here three years from
1:33:38
now and he's potentially one of the best tackles in the league as long as
1:33:41
he stays healthy and everything clicks. Again, it's just because he's so green
1:33:45
and just again, not a lot of experience, like not a lot of
1:33:49
experience in volume, let alone experience against like high caliber dudes. Okay,
1:33:58
Joe says, I feel like if this is Brown's ceiling, it wouldn't be
1:34:00
an awfully daunting task to find a success from the draft of free agency,
1:34:02
and that's been my thing. Like, I feel like if you could draft
1:34:06
a first round tackle and be all right and be fine, or draft a
1:34:12
second round tackle and be all right, mb fine, or maybe pay a
1:34:15
little bit in free agency. Again, it's gonna be tough to come close
1:34:17
to that level of athleticism because he's a ridiculous athlete at his size and at
1:34:21
his position. But yeah, I think I think that's pretty spot on it,
1:34:26
Like this comment from Mike saying Russeau is a B plus player. To
1:34:28
me, I think Rousseau as a run defender is an A or an A
1:34:34
plus almost, But it's hard to be A plus to me is like perfect.
1:34:38
So I'm gonna say he's an A against the run as a pass rusher,
1:34:42
yeah, I think he's kind of like a B minus or a B
1:34:44
and so overall, yeah, I think he would be a B plus depending
1:34:46
on how heavy you weigh the pass rushing or the run defending. I think
1:34:51
he's either an A minus or a B plus. But right now I'm in
1:34:54
agreeing with agreements with you. I think he's a B plus dude. I
1:34:57
think he could jump to an A minus or an A player year if he
1:35:00
takes another jump in his pass rush, if he takes another jump from a
1:35:02
pass rush plan perspective, from a move set perspective. Again, a lot
1:35:06
of it with Grood. His health too, right Like, he's had injuries.
1:35:10
He's just been able to play through ankle and feet stuff and that's limited
1:35:13
him, which hurts him even more because he's already not a big movement dude.
1:35:16
He's not a big change of direction dude, so having banged up wheels
1:35:19
hurts him further. But I'm interested to see what group does this year.
1:35:24
And yeah, Charles just about on saying Groot's learning curve arc is similar to
1:35:27
Brown. Yeah, the only difference was, you know, even though he
1:35:30
didn't have a ton of reps, he at least had him at Miami,
1:35:32
so he was playing higher caliber opponents and higher caliber tannts the talent, so
1:35:36
he had the opportunity to kind of adjust to that to some degree. But
1:35:41
yeah, very similar in terms of just guys with tremendous measurables, right,
1:35:45
but not necessarily the refinement in their game. Very very good, Mike said,
1:35:53
Russo so good as a run defender, absolutely, Bill says, I
1:35:55
haven't heard anyone speak regarding what I think will be a hugely improved our short
1:35:58
yardage work from the old line in D line. We've added power in our
1:36:00
depth on both sides. I mean, they're pretty good on offense. Last
1:36:04
year they were sixth in power success rate, which was the percentage of runs
1:36:09
on third or fourth down two yards or less to go that achieved a first
1:36:13
down or a touchdown. That also includes runs on first and goal or second
1:36:16
and goal from the two yard liner closer. I don't know how much it's
1:36:20
it's improved from the online perspective. I think McGovern has more people move moving
1:36:26
ability than Morse, but it isn't necessarily a people mover. I think Edwards
1:36:30
has more people moving ability than McGovern. So yeah, it's probably improved a
1:36:34
little bit on the offensive side. Defensively, I think that's fair. You
1:36:40
know, Daikon being healthy, Austin Johnson looking like he's going to be in
1:36:44
the mix. Maybe you know, Williams beats him out, but I think
1:36:45
it's gonna be Austin Johnson. Yeah, I think you've added a little more
1:36:50
on the interior on both sides potentially. I don't know if I think it's
1:36:54
more marginal than it is like significant, but I think that's overall. I
1:36:59
can kind of see where you're feeling that. All right, let's grab this
1:37:02
first play for Spencer Brown. This one against every Bills fans favorite player Christian
1:37:09
Wilkins, who is lined up in a four technique head up on Spencer Brown.
1:37:13
This one's really nice from Spencer Brown. You get the initial punch,
1:37:17
he wins first touch. It's on the collar, similar to what we saw
1:37:21
with Dion Dawkins. Right, you got an edge defender who is going for
1:37:25
that long arm. Brown sees it, Brown, Brown feels it, chops
1:37:29
down, boom, snatch trap. There's very few things that are as pretty
1:37:35
as a snatchtrap, and I know people hear it and like to make jokes.
1:37:41
That's real pretty against a very good player in Christian Wilkins. I know
1:37:44
Bills fans can't stand him because he's kind of a MC jerkface and does some
1:37:54
dirty stuff, but Kristian Wilkins is tremendous. I don't know if I necessarily
1:37:58
want Hmut in space in one on one against the tackle, but this is
1:38:01
a great rep from Spencer Brown. Feel that leverage boom and also watch too,
1:38:06
watch how he goes. So he takes the snap, aggressive, set
1:38:12
right, cut down that space a little bit because he knows he has the
1:38:16
athleticism advantage. So cool, keep mit Bay because he's probably not completely blown
1:38:19
by you. You have that athleticism advantage. Get your hands on him,
1:38:23
early punch right then you got your left hand on him. You can see
1:38:28
him going for that long arm. Brown disconnects, sees that lean. Once
1:38:32
he sees and feels that lean bank, chop him down, puts him on
1:38:35
skates, takes him right off his feet. That's a real pretty rep.
1:38:40
That's beautiful boom, really good rep from Spencer Brown. Next one from Spencer
1:38:48
Brown showed a couple throughout this too. Again that Steelers one as well,
1:38:55
But I want this one against the Chargers. Did I not? Mark Spencer
1:39:00
Brown stuff annoyed it myself? I didn't. All right, let's get it
1:39:09
to the spot so I can just keep coming back to it. Cool Here
1:39:12
Spencer Brown over here, he's going up against mister Tweet below two edge defender
1:39:16
for the Chargers out here who is in a wide alignment. This one's a
1:39:19
really nice one from Spencer Brown. Nice nice comp Like how we kind of
1:39:26
shoots that foot boom boom, that little stab oof again, snatchtrap again.
1:39:32
This is what And I'm showing these plays for Spencer Brown because, like I
1:39:36
mentioned, his issue was just the technique aspect, the hand placement, the
1:39:42
hand usage, the refinement of playing offensive tackle. Like it's awesome to be
1:39:45
big and strong and fast and athletic and all that stuff, but do you
1:39:49
have the technique. Technique is what survives year in and year outbeat especially again
1:39:55
for longevity. At a certain point, you're not gonna be this athletic marvel.
1:40:00
Or if you get banged up, if your back is killing you,
1:40:01
or someone in your lower body, if your wheels are banged up a little
1:40:03
bit, and you can't rely on athleticism, and you last and rely on
1:40:10
technique. An example I give all the time for things like this is being
1:40:13
a pitcher. Right, you're throwing ninety nine earlier in your career. If
1:40:15
you want to last at a certain point, what do you do when you're
1:40:19
only throwing ninety five or ninety four? Have you developed your other pitches?
1:40:23
Do you have a secondary pitch? Do you have a third pitch? Can
1:40:26
you locate your breaking ball? What type of stuff can you do? Have
1:40:29
you throw worked in a cutter, something that isn't just pure gas? Do
1:40:31
you have movement, spin rate, all that kind of stuff? Right?
1:40:34
Can you kind of Greg matixit or Jamie Moyer as you get older and kind
1:40:39
of be more of a pitcher as opposed to a thrower. But this is
1:40:42
another great rep from Brown, gets out there, wins first touch, A
1:40:48
nice punch right on the neckline, almost borderline like hands of the face,
1:40:54
right in the throat. I like it. I'm always down for someone to
1:40:57
play kind of on the borderline of legal physicality. Gets him right on that
1:41:00
neckline. Good punch. Oh, I didn't mean to go real time there
1:41:05
Boom gets him right on that neckline and you see him kind of jack up
1:41:10
to he pulo to and two he actually does a pretty good job. Gets
1:41:14
his outside hand and fork lifts that right arm from Brown. So Brown got
1:41:18
that punch with that right arm to grabs him by the wrist, lifts it
1:41:23
right. So he does a good job. He's like, oh, cool,
1:41:25
you're gonna punch and try and you went first touch. You got a
1:41:28
good punch. You think you got control. Nah, I'm lifting that arm.
1:41:31
So he lifts that arm and Brown uses that lift to chop down the
1:41:39
outside arm. Let's look at it from the other angle. Oh, that's
1:41:43
a great job by me. Here we are right over here, we're in
1:41:47
the middle of that punch. Boom boom, chops right down, turns that
1:41:58
forklift attemp in to a chop and he look where he gets him right kind
1:42:02
of where the bicep meets the forearm right in that pocket of the elbow,
1:42:08
breaks that contact, gets him down. And then also what's nice to look
1:42:12
how he tries to finish him two two gets up and so Brown doesn't do
1:42:15
too much more. He does want to draw the flag, but that's nice
1:42:18
get outside, fires his feet boom boom, boom, punch, chop all
1:42:26
seamless, technical, precise, boom, clean and precise. The feet are
1:42:32
clean, the punch is clean, the chop is clean. Snatch trap bank.
1:42:39
The only thing that's missing is just bearing him into the turf. But
1:42:42
that's really nice from Spencer Brown. More of this is gonna get him paid.
1:42:49
More of this, with his athleticism in what he is as a run
1:42:53
blocker, is gonna get him paid if he continues to do stuff like this.
1:42:57
And again this is where he gets I hate showing film of like dudes
1:43:00
who were struggling kind of breaking down that too much because I don't like to
1:43:04
drag guys. But see that punch, like we talked about again right there,
1:43:09
when Brown struggles this punch, he'll get like the heel of his hand
1:43:14
up here more on the shoulder blade and so that punch doesn't land, and
1:43:16
then he's kind of punching and he's not impeding the rusher at all, Or
1:43:20
he goes too much and then he's kind of caught leaning for it a little
1:43:24
bit. Or he'll go for this punch and he'll hit his hand on the
1:43:28
face mask and his hand bounces off, or his hand hits the front of
1:43:30
the face mask and comes off. His biggest struggles for me is hand usage,
1:43:36
and it's punch timing and punch placement. This time both are really good,
1:43:43
good timing. Tui Polotu is on one foot, he's trying to set
1:43:46
up his move. TWI Polotu has come off the edge. He's gone with
1:43:50
a stab and he's trying to get outside. Now Brown catches him mid step
1:43:55
and again that placement, and then two he does a good job lifting it
1:43:59
bank shot down. Really good play. That's a great rep absolutely from Spencer
1:44:05
Brown. One last one I want to show I didn't put it into huddle,
1:44:15
so I have to show it from this. Can I do this?
1:44:25
Figured it out? Success? All right? Where are we it? It'd
1:44:30
be great if I had that screen there we go. Can everybody see this?
1:44:35
Is it moving? Hooray? Okay? Cool? So I don't know
1:44:39
the tellustrator here cause I'm not in huddle. I'm just in quick time.
1:44:42
So here you follow my arrow here Spencer Brown over here on that right side
1:44:45
against the man in wide alignment. The edge goes for a cross job.
1:44:50
So that cross job here goes with that jumping cross job usually what you see.
1:44:56
So there he's going over with that inside arm, this right arm here,
1:45:00
and he's trying to pin Spencer Brown's right arm to his body. So
1:45:05
he's trying to cross chop that arm. And then ideally he's gonna bring that
1:45:09
left arm that you see him kind of sticking out wide, and he's gonna
1:45:12
club that and kind of bring himself through. What's nice about what Spencer Brown
1:45:16
does here? Brown sees this and also feigns his hand right. Watch Brown
1:45:23
come out and he shoots that right hand, thinking making forty five think,
1:45:30
okay, cool, he's going for a punch, but he's not. He's
1:45:32
doing it to make him start his move. So he feigns that punch,
1:45:36
just a quick little boom, gets forty five to start his move. Now
1:45:42
watch how he uses that to catch him mid move. So here comes the
1:45:45
fine boom, makes forty five think, let me start my cross chop and
1:45:50
Spencer Brown jumps him, catches him mid air, gets his hands on him,
1:45:55
chucks him outside. So now forty five is like crap, let me
1:45:59
re gain, try and flatten and get down the line, hands into the
1:46:02
chest, feels the alarm drops him. Beautiful rap, let her play in
1:46:11
real time. Really nice rap from Spencer Brown. Get outside, boom,
1:46:27
hit him mid move, snatch trap, put him into the ground. Real
1:46:31
pretty stuff from Spencer Brown. Again, technical, clean, precise, efficient
1:46:35
movement, not a lot of wasted movement. And what's nice about this one
1:46:40
too, is it shows that mental piece. It shows the last one that
1:46:45
we showed well back to both of them. The previous ones that showed like
1:46:47
those are good technique. This is good technique along with planning him showing that
1:46:53
right hand making you think okay, like here comes the punch. Nope,
1:46:57
like he's baiting the edge rusher with with this fine right here, he's showing
1:47:01
him that punch to get him to start his move, and that's exactly what
1:47:06
happens. And then he jumps him mid jumping cross chop. So now dude's
1:47:11
off balance, pushes him out. Guy tries to go through Spencer Brown's chest,
1:47:15
catches him leaning too much. So now he feels that lean, he
1:47:19
feels that long arm, and watch how he takes He's got both hands on
1:47:26
the collar right, takes him off back chop down. Great rep, legitimately
1:47:38
great rep. That's extremely strong boom. That's what you want to see functional
1:47:43
intelligence football IQ plan baiting, you know, playing chess when the other guy's
1:47:48
playing checkers, and then you see the physicality and the execution and the technique
1:47:51
to match and go with it. Really nice stuff from Spencer Brown. What
1:47:57
else do we got? Uh r J says, I remember a bunch of
1:48:01
reps where Brown completely misses his man with his punch and then has to scramble
1:48:05
to make up for it. That's what it is. You'll see that a
1:48:09
lot when he gets beat. He's often missing with that punch. He's throwing
1:48:12
his hands and he's missing, or he's throwing his hands and they're not general.
1:48:16
There's no popp or shock to him because he doesn't have a good bass.
1:48:18
His footwork is out of whack a little bit. It's just the technical
1:48:21
aspects right feet, hands placement usage, but a lot of it stems from
1:48:27
just that hand placement, like he's going for a move that he just misses.
1:48:32
But again, he cleaned up a lot of that last year. I
1:48:34
still don't think it's to the level i'd like it at to give him an
1:48:38
extension right now. But in those clips I showed, you see that throughout
1:48:42
the season, there's smatterings of it. I don't think it's happening with tremendous
1:48:45
regularity like it is with Dawkins, but it's absolutely an element of his game
1:48:49
that he worked on, that he got better at, that he added.
1:48:53
So I'm excited to see what he is in twenty twenty four. Again,
1:48:58
just that ceiling that he has, it's not regular, it is rare.
1:49:01
So if he continues to build upon that, he really could be something.
1:49:05
I'm interested to see what happens with that and throw up the ban and it
1:49:08
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