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Which Buffalo Bills will see new/different roles and responsibilities in 2026? | DC · Disguised Coverage

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  Speaker 1: the start of Buffalo Bills training camp, so I thought
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  Speaker 1: to expect for training camp, some pieces to keep an
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  Speaker 1: eye on as we move forward. In this off season.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked a lot on the show about schematic changes,
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  Speaker 1: personnel changes, you know, kind of projecting what the defense
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  Speaker 1: is going to look like under Jim Leonard, what the
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  Speaker 1: offense will look like this year, personnel group stuff, usage stuff,
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  Speaker 1: all these things, and I think within a lot of
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  Speaker 1: those conversations, you know, some things get lost, some things
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  Speaker 1: fall through the cracks a little bit. So I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to kind of put a bow in a couple of
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  Speaker 1: different ways on a lot of the things we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about this offseason here on this show and in that vein.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to talk about some Buffalo Bills that
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  Speaker 1: will see new and or different roles in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: The way I'm kind of quantifying it for this episode
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  Speaker 1: is it could be you know, playing their same position
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  Speaker 1: but in a different way, you know, wearing different hats
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  Speaker 1: or changing the ratios in terms of like the hats
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  Speaker 1: that they wear, how much they wear them, when they
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  Speaker 1: wear them. It could be playing, you know, a different
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  Speaker 1: kind of position all together. It could be a completely
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  Speaker 1: new role. It could be just an added responsibility or
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  Speaker 1: a tweak and essentially have a top four one honorable
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  Speaker 1: mention that we're going to get into here. But I
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  Speaker 1: think some of this kind of ties into the larger
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  Speaker 1: schematic conversations we've had about the offense and the defense
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  Speaker 1: this offseason. And then to also give you guys a
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  Speaker 1: peek going forward from here, we will do another episode
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  Speaker 1: next week, and then I am going to training camp
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  Speaker 1: for the twenty ninth and the thirtieth, so we'll be
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  Speaker 1: hitting training camp on those days. I may do episodes
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  Speaker 1: once I get back on the twenty ninth, the thirtieth,
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  Speaker 1: There will definitely be a Tuesday episode on the twenty eighth.
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  Speaker 1: We may get some bonus content there, and then before
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  Speaker 1: we know it will be in the preseason. All this
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  Speaker 1: stuff and I'm starting to dive more into similar in
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  Speaker 1: the vein. Joe says, there, I should show the comments
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  Speaker 1: on stages. We got to do that, Joe says, are
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  Speaker 1: trying ant out in linebacker. They might in that vein
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  Speaker 1: of kind of putting a bow on things, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Also be we'll see what happens in the preseason. I'm confirming,
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  Speaker 1: but I will likely be doing the postseason postseason preseason
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  Speaker 1: postgame shows here on disguise coverage like I have in
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  Speaker 1: previous years. So that'll be fun. We'll do that. But
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  Speaker 1: then so then I'll probably use the Tuesday episodes to
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  Speaker 1: you know, continue to dive into some of the schematic
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  Speaker 1: things and the trends that we're going to see. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, a couple of
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  Speaker 1: episodes ago, we did the personnel episode talking about the
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  Speaker 1: you know, thirteen personnel and twelve personnel, how Bills can
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  Speaker 1: wield it, personnel group changes from previous years, league trends,
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  Speaker 1: how the Bills fit into that, all of these things.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm excited to see what we got forward here,
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  Speaker 1: what we have going forward here, A lot of stuff
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  Speaker 1: coming down the pike. There's real football to happen. But
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna continue our schematic and you know, structural analysis
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  Speaker 1: as we do here on the show into this episode.
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  Speaker 1: As always, I see several of you are already commenting.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get to those in a sec. I see them
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  Speaker 1: popping up, but I haven't read them yet. Questions, thoughts, comments, concerns,
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  Speaker 1: everybody for tuning in live. On this one, James says,
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  Speaker 1: how many interceptions does Groot get? Hmm? Part of me one,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like the over under should be said it
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  Speaker 1: a half and part of me, I don't know. Part
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  Speaker 1: of me feels like gut feeling. I'm gonna say two.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say one. I think Gregorso gets one interception
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  Speaker 1: this year. I mentioned this earlier. Joe said they're trying
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  Speaker 1: and out of linebacker. They might try me at linebacker.
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  Speaker 1: It's wearing thin also like within that I know what's
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  Speaker 1: been talked about or it's kind of low hanging fruit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not getting into it in this episode too much.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I could if someone else comments on it
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  Speaker 1: or wants to ask a question about it. I do
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  Speaker 1: think Dorian Williams missing time is a huge, huge, huge
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  Speaker 1: boost for Kayleb e Arms Or who. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: continue to call e Or cause it's just I don't
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  Speaker 1: feel like saying all three names. I know that's stupid
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  Speaker 1: and it's lazy of me, but I'm gonna call them or.
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  Speaker 1: I forget who suggested that in an episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Film Room, but I'm gonna call him e or on
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  Speaker 1: the Film Room. I'm gonna call him or here. And
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  Speaker 1: I know what I just said is particularly revelatory. I
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of other people have said it, but
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  Speaker 1: I really do think, you know, he's got a nice
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  Speaker 1: inside track, especially with the questions around Dorrian. He's never
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  Speaker 1: been a full time starter. I still think there's questions
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  Speaker 1: for him in coverage. I think he's fine coming downhill.
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  Speaker 1: I think this defense will actually help him more, especially
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  Speaker 1: if they blitzmore. We're gonna talk about some stuff with
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  Speaker 1: trou Bernard in this episode spoiler, but Dornyan finally getting
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to kind of put his stamp on the
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  Speaker 1: line on the other linebacker position opposite of Toroel Bernard
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  Speaker 1: and missing all this time, and then being in the
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  Speaker 1: final year of his deal and ere coming in and
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  Speaker 1: just getting all these reps with the first team and
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  Speaker 1: kind of what his skill set brings. I do think
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  Speaker 1: that's a huge feather in his cap in terms of
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  Speaker 1: starting capability, and that I'm assuming he's gonna get a
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  Speaker 1: ton of burn come preseason time. Dornian probably will and
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  Speaker 1: or should too. But yeah, I inside tracked to Caleb b.
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  Speaker 1: E arms Or at this point in terms of being
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  Speaker 1: able to starter to or uh in terms of being
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  Speaker 1: a starter opposite of Also, apologies, I changed the angle
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  Speaker 1: of my computer and I notice every time I move,
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  Speaker 1: and I do that a lot, I talk on my hands.
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  Speaker 1: It's going in and out of focus, So apologies for that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try and keep my hands down here and
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  Speaker 1: not move my body too much either. What's up? RJ
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  Speaker 1: RJ says, I know you are too humble to bring
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  Speaker 1: it was to see you on Mina Kimes Show. If
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you that for that. RJ. Yeah, I was.
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  Speaker 1: I had the privilege and sincere honor to be on
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  Speaker 1: the Mina Chimes Show. Last week. We did an AFC
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  Speaker 1: East preview, talking Bills, Patriots, Jets, Dolphins, both sides of
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  Speaker 1: the ball, additions and acquisitions, some projections and thoughts and
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  Speaker 1: you know, metrics and schematic analysis and pretty fun stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It was. It was super cool. I'm still it's still
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  Speaker 1: kind of surreal to me. It was awesome to do
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  Speaker 1: that show. To see her tweeting about it and posting
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  Speaker 1: about it on Blue Sky and promoing and tagging me,
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  Speaker 1: and then you know, me being able to turn on
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  Speaker 1: an ESPN channel and see myself on TV. It was
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  Speaker 1: super cool. So I appreciate you, uh calling that out
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  Speaker 1: and I'm glad you enjoyed it. R J. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: very much, and also shout out to everybody. I know.
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  Speaker 1: There were people who commented on the on the YouTube
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  Speaker 1: episode out, giving me the flowers, shouting out Mina saying
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of really kind things about me. It sincerely
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you folks for that, and thank you r
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  Speaker 1: J for mentioning that here. And John Roberts says I.
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  Speaker 1: He says, I see how the Bills signed to wide receiver. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Quentin Skinner. I believe I have not looked into him yet.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not no disrespect or maybe it's a reverse jinks
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  Speaker 1: and Quentin Skinner ends up becoming the truth and becomes
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  Speaker 1: the best receiver in the NFL. But I have not
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  Speaker 1: dove into him yet. I probably won't. I'm still doing
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  Speaker 1: a lot of league wide studying stuff, trends, position groups, teams,
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  Speaker 1: both in terms of some application stuff for the Bills,
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  Speaker 1: but just in general doing my off season work and
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  Speaker 1: prepping for the season with things that I'm expecting defensively,
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  Speaker 1: offensive least comatic, structurally, all that kind of stuff. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you, Ralph. Ralph says Lenny with an exclamation boy,
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  Speaker 1: he says, sow you featured on Mena Kime's great job.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I appreciate it. R J says,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully you're doing the post season post game shows as well.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I think that'll be more Greg and Aaron territory.
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  Speaker 1: But if they asked me, I would obviously love to
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  Speaker 1: do another comment here for my name is Jeff's ain't
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  Speaker 1: great job on the Mina Times show. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you. I appreciate you very much. Joe. I
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  Speaker 1: think this is in reference to the question earlier of
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  Speaker 1: how many receptions this group get, and Joe says, my
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  Speaker 1: hot take, wait, hot take. I read this as like
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  Speaker 1: my hot take negative three, but your hot take is three.
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  Speaker 1: That is a hot I mean they could drop me
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  Speaker 1: to coverage three as possible. I don't know. My gut
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  Speaker 1: still says two, but I'm gonna say one because that's hard.
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  Speaker 1: Roy says zero. Andy says Caleb alarms Or has a legit,
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  Speaker 1: legit chance to be the start of Week one. He
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  Speaker 1: does as of right now. If I had to bet
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  Speaker 1: I would pick him. But if Dornian is fine from
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  Speaker 1: an injury standpoint and is able to get going during camp,
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  Speaker 1: I think it'll be Dorning. Nick says training camp Darling predictions.
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  Speaker 1: I think Caleb alarms Or will be one. I think
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Kilgore is gonna be one. I think Jackson Hawes
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be one. And I'm gonna go with those
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  Speaker 1: as my top three. I think people are gonna rave
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  Speaker 1: about man. Jackson Hawes has really stepped up as the
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  Speaker 1: past kept or this is great, and then everybody's gonna
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  Speaker 1: kind of circulate that. I think people are gonna talk
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  Speaker 1: about the athleticism and caleber E arms Or. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's going to continue to play and get burned. I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to think of I want to pivot and go
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  Speaker 1: anyone else? No, Yeah, And then I think kill Gore, man.
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  Speaker 1: You guys should have seen the move of kill Gore today,
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  Speaker 1: the athleticism, the speed, the jump he made this play
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  Speaker 1: this and that I think it'll Kill Gore is gonna
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  Speaker 1: matter a lot, I think, or what will matter for
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  Speaker 1: him a lot will be the actual preseason tape and
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  Speaker 1: the games that come through. But I think his athleticism
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  Speaker 1: is going to translate and people are immediately gonna start
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  Speaker 1: posting and talking about like how well he moves and
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  Speaker 1: how fluid he is, and the size and how athletic
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  Speaker 1: he is for that size, so on and so forth,
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  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. Ooh, spicy. Take here from
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  Speaker 1: Tortured Bills Fan eighty five, he says, I Predictorrell Bernard
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  Speaker 1: ends up not starting. He looked terrible last year. People
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  Speaker 1: say he was injured at some point, but he even
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  Speaker 1: looked terrible in Week one versus the Ravens. He did
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  Speaker 1: look bad last year. But again not to give him
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  Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt or make an excuse. He was
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  Speaker 1: hurt before you even say like he looked terrible in
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  Speaker 1: Week one. He was hurt already going into that year,
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  Speaker 1: going into that week. I'm going to talk about it,
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  Speaker 1: and when I get to him again, he's someone I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about in this episode. Spoiler. But he
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  Speaker 1: had a busted wheel from training camp time, if I
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  Speaker 1: remember correctly, and you could see right from the first
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  Speaker 1: game against Baltimore he was just laboring through it. I
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  Speaker 1: talked about it a bunch during the season last year.
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  Speaker 1: You could tell he wasn't right. It was affecting him
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  Speaker 1: being able to get to his spots and his timing.
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  Speaker 1: And as a smaller guy who needs to beat guys
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  Speaker 1: to spots, if he can't beat offensive lineman to a spot,
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  Speaker 1: he's in trouble, and offensive linemen were getting their hands
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  Speaker 1: on him and putting him in the dirt. To his credit,
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  Speaker 1: I think he tried to battle through it and play
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  Speaker 1: through the injury. Unfortunately, it didn't do him any favors,
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  Speaker 1: and he tried to play through the injury and just
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  Speaker 1: look bad. And I also think the coaching staff should
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  Speaker 1: have kind of stepped in earlier and shut him down
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  Speaker 1: so he could heal similar kind of granted so it's
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  Speaker 1: more of a one game, but he had an injur
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  Speaker 1: that played off earlier. Similar to conversation around Spencer Brown,
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  Speaker 1: I think we can all remember that Texans game on
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  Speaker 1: that Thursday night where he's basically playing with one arm,
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  Speaker 1: like he can't use his outside arm, his right arm,
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  Speaker 1: he can't use it or his shoulder at all. He's
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  Speaker 1: essentially like keeping it tight to his body. He can't extend,
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  Speaker 1: and Will Anderson is just attacking him and attacking him
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  Speaker 1: and attacking him and they're just like leaving Brown in
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  Speaker 1: there to try and play him with his inside arm only.
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  Speaker 1: So I was surprised the coaches deaf didn't shut Bernard down,
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  Speaker 1: similar to how I was surprised that they let Brown
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  Speaker 1: continue to go out there and also only do five
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  Speaker 1: man protection stuff for the most part against the Texans.
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  Speaker 1: But to each their own, James says Odds on who
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  Speaker 1: gets into the first fight at training camp with Chauncey
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  Speaker 1: Gardner Johnson. He says, Hawes and Anderson. I could see
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  Speaker 1: it being Hawes. That would be sweet. I would watch
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  Speaker 1: a Hawes and Chauncey Gardner fight. I think that would
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  Speaker 1: be sweet. Yeah, and he says what happened to Dorian
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  Speaker 1: from the Broncos game. I haven't heard anything. I forget
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  Speaker 1: what injury it is, but he has been banged up
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  Speaker 1: with something to the point that he has not really
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  Speaker 1: participated in any off season activity of any kind. Ah, Joe,
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  Speaker 1: there you go, clutch Joe. Joe says, I saw it
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  Speaker 1: was a next issue, but he was also on crutches.
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  Speaker 1: So my guests has head he had an off season
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  Speaker 1: surgery on something lingering. Yeah, it could be. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: kept seeing the reports and kind of like glossed over it.
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  Speaker 1: I do think it's notable that he essentially hasn't done
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  Speaker 1: anything like this offseason from a team perspective, voluntary stuff,
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  Speaker 1: mandatory stuff, he hasn't done much. So we'll see come
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  Speaker 1: training camp time if he's good to go, if he's not,
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  Speaker 1: you know e, or is gonna be rolling with the
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  Speaker 1: ones with Bernard. If Donian is good to go, then
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  Speaker 1: you can get one of two things like do they
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  Speaker 1: put him in with the ones or do they put
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  Speaker 1: him with the twos to ease him back in? Or
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  Speaker 1: is he with the twos because he's with the twos.
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  Speaker 1: So storylines abound potentially for that. This comment too, saying
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  Speaker 1: I like me to comes, but I only went out
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  Speaker 1: of my way to watch that episode and had to
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  Speaker 1: drop everything to see Anna Hunter show. I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I hope you enjoyed it. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for the sport and the kind of words here.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Oh, John Robert says,
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  Speaker 1: The Internet says Quentin Skinner. The new receiver the bill
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  Speaker 1: signed is tall, sixty five, one hundred and ninety five
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  Speaker 1: pounds runs of four four five forty I'll take it
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  Speaker 1: tall and fast, not bad. Joe doubling down or circling
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  Speaker 1: back on his three interceptions for group prediction, my logic
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  Speaker 1: is tip balls lead to opportunities when they dropped a group,
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  Speaker 1: which I think will happen a decent amount. Also getting
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  Speaker 1: those picks off of dialed up pressure from a student
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  Speaker 1: Jim Leonard, that's funny, that's fair. I can see him
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  Speaker 1: dropping into coverage for some sims and some creeper stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Just the odds of the ball falling to him or
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  Speaker 1: being tipped to him is hard to predict. But I
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  Speaker 1: don't think three is crazy. Oh Brian says mcgovernor left
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  Speaker 1: guard SVPG and cushion Bury battle for center. Spicy Spicy
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  Speaker 1: James says, does Kilgour have more sacks or interceptions interceptions?
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  Speaker 1: Argie said, I don't understand why some of these injured
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  Speaker 1: guys didn't get pulled sooner in the seasons games. I agree,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: I agree, I don't. The Spencer Brown one was the
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: big one. The Texans were all over the Bills offense.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: It was a short week and you could see that
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: he just couldn't use his arm. And if you can't
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: use your one of your arms as an offensive lineman.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: That's a problem in general no matter who you're facing,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: let alone if you're facing, like arguably you know, the
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: best edge in football, if not for the fact that
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett exists, and you're like also facing the best
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: edged tandem in football and the best defense in football.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: I know Seattle did last year, but Houston defense is crazy. Yeah,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: man it Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. Royce and mcgovernor just signed
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: an extension. He's one hundred percent the center going forward.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: That's fair. My name is Jeff says, Does Buffalo Joe
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: make this team? Yes, I think so, just purely out
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: of no disrespect, out of like autrition and default, like
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: they they don't have any packers. Not to be rude,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Kent says, Bernard had his most splash plays his first
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: two seasons since then decline. I don't know if the
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: new system will benefit him either. It will, and I'm
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: going to talk about that shortly as I finished getting
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: through comment's here, Jo says, Bernard played in a similar
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: system at Baylor, so I think it may actually be
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: better for him at this point in his career. Fair
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Drucus says, sorry, my comment was kind of rough to
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: read outloud. No, it was fine. I may have stumbled
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: over in a bit. I think it was more just
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: stream of consciousness, but it was good. You're fine. Oh,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: nice reference here for Connor mcgoverness, pizza cooking, James's time
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: for that new brick oven for mcgoverny. Yeah, he got paid.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: He can have a million brick ovens if he wants.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Kent says, I think Bernard needs a two true two
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: gap nos to help him. I think that would help him,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: and I'm going to talk about that when we get
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: to him. Drucus says, uh am, I correct, and remembering
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: that people were extremely high on Dorian Strong before he
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: got hurt, similar to Benford being good as a rookie.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: People were high on Dorian Strong before he got hurt.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I was not one of them. I think he was fine.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: I think he got overplayed a little bit. People were
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: kind of talking about Dorian Strong like he was kind
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: of I think you're Benford shout is spot on. I
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: think people were treating Dorian like he was another late
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: round corner gem ready to be a plug and play
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: starter from the jump and was great I thought he
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: had for a guy who played at Virginia Tech and
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: was physical and you know, they played good sound, fundamental
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: football Virginia Tech traditionally you know Beamer's gone and everything
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: like that. Even going back to the scrimmage, I thought
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: he had issues in his run fits. You know, his angles,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: especially on like you know, push cracks and him trying
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: to fit from the outside running backs were getting outside
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: of him coverage. I thought he had limitations because of
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: the lack of athleticism and recovery speed and things. But
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: I think he was fine as a rookie, Like I
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: would have love to have him in there down the
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: stretch as depth or competition or just to in general
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: see what he would have done throughout the year had
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: he gotten more reps, had he continued to practice. So
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I think Dorian Strong was. He was an encouraging player.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: I don't think he was this solidified, penciled in CB two,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: you know CB two, CB one corner in the making
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: that some people made him out to be. It was
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: again not to not to drill down on him too much,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: but I he was definitely one of those guys when
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: when he did something good, everybody and their mother called
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: it out and shouted it out, but if he did
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: something that was bad or got beat, it was crickets
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and nobody acknowledged it. And I was kind of like, Oh,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: that's weird. Why are we Why are we doing this
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: with this guy? But yeah, coming here from from and
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: who says Josh that day versus the Texas, Yeah, he
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: got worked. That's I just the Texans in Seattle. Both
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: those defenses are super cool when you topos them with
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: one another because they play very differently. Seattle. I mean,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: both of them have great players, both of them have
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: lots of raptors everywhere on defense, but Seattle does a
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: lot more schematically and not to downplay with the Texans do,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: but the Texans are very much just like, we're gonna
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: do these four things and we've got amazing players, good
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: luck trying to beat it, and most offenses, if not
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: all offenses can't. But what I respect about both of
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: them in tandem with one another is the Seahawks and
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the Texans both play defense like like they are personally
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: offended that the offense is even on the field, Like
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: they're like, how dare you even take the field, Like
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: you're gonna try and gain yards. You think you can
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: gain yards, You're gonna try and score on us. You
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: think you could score on us, and they just try
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: to beat the hell out of you, and not even try,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: they do beat the hell out of you. Yeah, man,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: that it was a rough day for the Bills, awesome
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: day for the Texans. I will remember Kamari Lassiter blowing
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: up James Cook and blowing up Reggie Gilliam. I mean,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Kamari Laster is also one of my favorite players in
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: the league. He's just awesome. But yeah, that was a
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: fool rough day. Joe says, Strong was doing fine as
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: a rookie. Probably would have defended Bonnicks. Yeah, maybe Dane
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: gets beat on that double move from Mims. We'll see,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: We'll see, we'll see. Uh r J says, I remember
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: watching the Texans game and thinking, is Dean throwing this game?
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: He is stopping midplay. Turns out he was concussomed. They
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: should have pulled him. We're lucky he didn't get worse. Oh,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that Dean Donkins was concussomed in the
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: game against the Texans. I did not know that fun
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: fact for me that I learned just now. Rgi also
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: says Dorian Strong will be the best c before in
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the NFL. I don't know if you'd be the best.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but yeah, I would take Dorian Strong
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: as by Ce before that. I would. I would welcome that. Yes,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Nick's comment here, McDonald is a sniper with that blitz man.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: He knows how to bring pressure from the slot. He
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: knows how to bring those will those will pressures. He
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: knows how to attack the b gap. Beautiful. Jason says,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: what are the chances the Bills pick up her trade
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: for a true nose tackle. My heart can't take this
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: conversation anymore, so I'm gonna say zero at this point
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: and try and reverse jinx it into existence. I still
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: think they need one. I personally would like one. I
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: don't think they're going to. I think they are content
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: going in with Dion Wall, some rotation of Dion Walker,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Dwayne Carter and Faderian Mathis and or Zion log at
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Nos and godspeed to them and may God have mercy
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: on their soul. Good times. First person, I want to
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: talk about here on this episode? Oh did I put
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: it back? Ont of folks on back? First player, I
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: want to talk about in terms of Buffalo Bills. Who
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: will see new and or different roles in twenty twenty
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: six is Terrel Bernard, who we've already talked about a
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: little bit here. Oh, I gotta stop moving. So in
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: this Jim Leonard defense, We've talked about it a little
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: bit this offseason. I've talked about this topic a little bit,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: but I wanted to bring some numbers here and back
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: it up with some stuff and some metrics in Jim
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Leonard's defense, and Bernard has talked about this a little
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: bit already in speaking to the media during either mandatory
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: camp or voluntary stuff. This defense with Jim Leonard, you
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: are going to get more movement up front, and so
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: for Terre Bernard, that means more rum blitzes, more pass blitzes,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: or run stunts or gap exchanges. You're also going to
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: get more man coverage. You're also gonna get more match coverage.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I think all of those play to Torol Bernard. I
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: don't think he's the best athlete, despite what his rast
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: score may say, but he's smart. He studies a lot
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: of tape, He understands tendencies and situational stuff. I trust
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: him to play the match coverage stuff, the man coverage stuff.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I think you can man up on some running backs
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: and some tight ends. I think from a coverage standpoint,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: it'll be fine. I'm more excited for the movement aspect
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and the come forward aspect of Terro Bernard's game. I've
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: talked about it several times. We are going to see
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: more simulated pressures and more creeper pressures from Jim Leonard
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: with the Buffalo Bills. For those who don't know what
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: those are, they're very similar to one another. A simulated
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: pressure is you show blitz right, but you only rush four,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: but you drop a traditional rusher into coverage and you
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: bring a non traditional rusher to replace him. So the
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: easiest way to think of this, I'm gonna use previous
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: bills as an example. Say the Bills are showing five
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: or six guys on the line of scrimmage. They got
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: both linebackers in the A gaps, and instead of rushing
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: you know, their four down defensive linemen, instead of rushing
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Groot at Oliver Dion Walker and Joey Bosa, they drop
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Groot into coverage and they bring Matt Malano instead. That's
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: a simulated pressure. You are simulating that pressure. Look, so
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: you're still bringing four, right, but you are dropping a
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: traditional rusher into coverage in this case of defensive end,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: and you are bringing a non traditional rusher on the
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: rush in this case a linebacker, could be a safety,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: could be a defensive tackle dropping into coverage anything. What's
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: also good about those two is you can use them
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: to kind of dictate detections and matchups. You can make
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: an offense think the hey, pressure's coming, you know, and
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the offense has let me keep in a tight end
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: to chip, let me keep a running back in because
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: here comes the blitz. And when you don't bring the blitz,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: you still only bring four. Now they've wasted a potential
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: member who can get out into the route distribution. So
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: you've changed the math a little bit. And if you
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: know the protection rules and schemes of the offense, you
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: can kind of game up their protections. You might get
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: a free runner. Of course, the trade off is you
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: you know, if it gets picked up, or even if
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: it doesn't, you're still dropping a non traditional coverage player
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: into coverage, whether it's a defensive end or a defensive tackle.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: So that's a simulated pressure creeper pressure is the exact
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: same thing, except you're not showing pressure pre snap. So
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: again old Bills defense, you've got your four down defensive
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: linemen Bernard and Milana were both lined up off ball
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: and then on the snap, Rousseau drops into coverage and
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Milano blitzes from the second level from his off ball spot.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: So sim and a creeper same thing. Still bring in
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: four dropping a traditional rusher bringing a non traditional but
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: simulated pressure shows the blitz pre snap. Again, you're simulating
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: a pressure, You're making it seem like a pressure's coming,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: and then a creeper pressure. You're not showing that, so
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: it's more sneaky. You're hiding it. You're kind of creeping
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: with it a little bit. You're gonna get that more
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: with Jim Leonard, more of that kind of stuff. Sean
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: McDermott started to use these. He used them a bunch
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, which I'm gonna talk about here
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: in a second. I love Simson creepers act. I think
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: there they should be a staple of every single defense
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: in today's NFL. Anything and everything. To change pictures for
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: a quarterback, change pictures for an offense, disguise or hide
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: what you are doing. Whether it's coverages, whether it's front structures.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: It all speaks to trying to do what you can
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: to change the picture pre to post snap on a quarterback.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: So I'm a huge fan of Simson Creepers. I have
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: been literally for like four or five, six, seven years.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I don't even remember. I like thisuses gonna sounds too,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: but I don't remember a time where I wasn't a
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: fan of Simson Creepers. So it feels like a very
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: long time. But you're gonna get more of that kind
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: of stuff with Jim Leonard, and you're also just gonna
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: get more movement in general again, run blitzes, past blitzes.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: You know, traditional blitz is five or more rushers. You're
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: gonna get run stuntch You're gonna get gap exchanges, all
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: of that. And that helps Terrell Bernard because more movement
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: in general, especially by design, helps keep him clean no
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: matter what type of movement it is. And I think
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: that working in tannem with Jim Leonards defense, where I
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: think he's gonna have to do a lot of winning
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: with movement and creating chaos this year based on the
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: body types and the archetypes they have on the defense.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I think that bodes well for Torel Bernard because it
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: leans into his skill set by having him be more
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: of a movement guy instead of being a static, kind
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: of read and react type of player at the second level.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: As I talked about it earlier with whoever commented about
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: him being injured last year, you know, if he was injured,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: he looked terrible. Torell Bernard needs to beat. He needs
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: to win by beating guys to the spots coming forward.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: If he's sitting and reading, if he's static and not moving,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: that gives offensive lineman too much of a chance to
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: climb to him and bury him. He is not built
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: to take on offensive lineman really at all, let alone
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: frequently and or regularly. So if offensive linemen are able
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: to get their hands on him, he's done, which again
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: is why that leg injury or ankle injury, whatever it
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: was last year was such a blow to him. In general,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: as a football player, you want to be healthy in
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: your lower body, really everywhere, but especially in your lower body,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: but especially for a guy like Bernard who is an
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: undersized player at his position, especially in today's NFL where
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: linebackers are starting to get bigger. You're starting to see
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: more you know, a Lua Khan's and Devin Lloyd's and
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Sonny styles. You're starting to see the positional archetype change
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: a little bit. So Bernard playing it like I don't know,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: he's listed at like two twenty three, twenty five whatever
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: he is. He's undersized for a linebacker in general, but
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: especially in today's NF where body types of change, the
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: run matters more so. Anything that gets Bernard on the
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: move helps him because it prevents guys from being able
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: to get a bead on where he is, climbing to
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: him and bearing him, putting in the ground, putting him
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: in the ground. And last year having that you know,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: lower body injury that impacted it because if you've got
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: a busted wheel, guess what you can't move. And we've
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: talked about it. If Treel Bernard can't move, he's kind
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: of a sitting duck and dead in the water. So
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I think Jim Leonard's movement based defense. We're gonna see
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: run stunts, We're gonna see gap exchanges, all that type
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: of stuff, sims, creepers, pass blitz is. We're gonna attack
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: formations we're gonna blitz the formation. We're gonna get some
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: of that Rex Ryan stuff. We're going to attack the
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: tight ends, the running backs. You know, different rules and
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: matchup principles or the game plan I should say matchup
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: principles for an offense. You're gonna see that with Jim
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Leonard a bunch. Also, again, I know I'm talking about
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of movement based defense stuff. You're still gonna
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: see a gap in a half or two gaping principles
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: at times from Jim Leonard's guys up front on the
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: defensive line. You are still going to see read and
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: react stuff up front instead of attack react. I don't
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: know how much, because I don't think they have the
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: body types to just mitigate displacement and play read and react.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I think they do have to be more attack react,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: penetrating movement based than they are. You know, let's anchor
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: and hold strong at the point of attack type of deal.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: But in going back even to the tape at Wisconsin,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: you go back looking at the stuff at Denver. You know,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I keep seeing that. And I've talked about this before.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get into it too much, but I've
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: seen the conversation of oh, you know, like Jim Leonard
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: doesn't use a traditional nose, like he doesn't need Vince
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: will Fork or Vidavey or whatever it is. Like he
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: had Keanu Benton at Wisconsin, he had DJ Jones in Denver.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Keanu Benton did a whole bunch of playing gap and
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: a half at Wisconsin. He did a whole bunch of
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: react attack type stuff where he's you know, he's not
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: looking at penetrate on the snap. He's matching screws of
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: his helmet with the screws of the helmet of the
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: guard or a center, and he's matching. He's getting he's
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: got hit, you know, three quarters of his body in
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: this gap here, and then he's shedding and falling back
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: into a secondary gap right like he's playing gap in
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: a half. He is two gapping. He is the easiest
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: way I always put it. You know, he's playing react attack.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: You're seeing that similar with DJ Jones, and people talk
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: about all like DJ Jones isn't a big guy in Denver,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: and Leonard talked about him playing like more of like
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: a shade instead of a true nose. DJ Jones is small,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: but he's a really good run defender like DJ Jones
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: doesn't get blown off the ball, and again he would
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: play some react and attack type stuff. So for as
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: much of the conversation I think people got caught up
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: in like I think people got caught up in thinking
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: to have a nose tackle who stays strong at the
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: point of attack, it needs to be like a three
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty pound type of dude. That is not true.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: It can It could be Bill's legend poona Ford, it
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: could be DJ Jones, it could be smaller based defensive tackles.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: It is not about size. It is about play style
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: and skill set. Similarly to how dion Walker is a
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: literal mountain of a man, he doesn't play a mountain
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: of a man type game. He plays an agile, no
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: disrespect finesse type of game where it's about movement and
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: penetration and alignment versatility. Dion Walker is huge, he does
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: not play like a huge dude. Deon Walker does not
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: play like a guy where he says, good luck trying
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: to move me. I'm gonna hold point, I'm gonna hold
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: strong at the point of attack, and I'm not budget.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: That's not the type of game dion Walker plays. Deon
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Walker's trying to penetrate and move and it's funny seeing
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: the comments for that, like you literally have the exact
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: opposite in front of you, Like Dion Walker is huge.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: He plays a finesse game, which means the opposite can
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: also be true. You can have a small guy and
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: they can play a beat him up, kick your ass
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: type of game. I do think the Bills still need
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: a true nose to be in rotation with Dean Walker. Again,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: that mean a three hundred and thirty pounder. It just
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: means Roy Lopez, Kiris Tonga. It means that role. It
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: means that skill set, someone who mitigates displacement will hold
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: strong at the point of attack. I think that that's
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: needed in and of itself. I also think for guys
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: like Terrell Bernard go into that comment earlier, having somebody
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: who can eat some bodies and mitigate displacement and help
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: keep Terrell Bernard clean and Dorian Williams clean or Caleb
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Larms or whoever the hell it is, I think that's
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: part of it too. It is interesting to just be,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: you know, a smaller type of front and have smaller
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: type of linebackers and then not have an overwhelming amount
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: of like speed or athleticism, and it's just kind of
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: like you're smaller and slower, Like it's just that's not
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: a good combination. And as Ken says, yeah, I think Ken,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: you nailed it here. Like I don't care about the
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: size of the player. I just don't think we have
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: a legiti nose card. I agree, And I don't think playing,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: you know, a hold strong at the point of it
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: anchor type of play style is best suited for Dion Walker. Jpacosta,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: friend of the Show. I always use his line in
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: reference to Dion Walker. He calls Deon Walker the iron
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Giant because he just does not have that lower body bend.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: He's a huge dude with long legs. It's hard to
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: be that to be built like that and bend and
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: do the things to reduce surface area and all that
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: kind of stuff that's required and play with leverage when
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: you're that tall and offensive linement are shorter than you,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: so there's a lot of things to work against him.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's necessarily guy who's getting blown off
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: the ball a ton, but I do think he gets
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: moved more than people talk about. And I would love
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: to have you know a guy like him who can
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: play movement and do all this fun stuff in a
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: line along anywhere on the front. I'd love to pair
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: him with a traditional nose tackle and have a good rotation.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: I want to play rock paper scissors, and I want
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: to be able to throw rock paper and scissors. I
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: don't want to only throw two out of three or
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: one out of three. But yeah, I think that's a
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: super fair point. And again it ties to Bernard because
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: I think if you have some ass kickers up front,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: some guys who are gonna eat bodies and eat space,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: it helps keep those guys clean at the second level.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: But either way, you're gonna see more movement. I think
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: that's what they're gonna kind of lean into this year,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: just based off of who they have. Like if t J.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Sanders is going to be a rotation in your rotation
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: as a three to four defensive end, similar with Ed Oliver,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: and then Dion Walker is your nose, you gotta play
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: more movement stuff like That's that's what it's gonna end
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: up being. And I don't mind that. I don't think
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: that's a bad strategy. I don't like that it's the
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: only strategy again. I use this all the time. I
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: think I got this from Nate Tice. If I'm playing
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: rock paper scissors, I want to be able to throw
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: rock paper and scissors. I don't want to be like, well,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: you know, we win with movement, and it's like, Okay,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: do you guys hold strong at the point of attack.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: It's like, no, we don't do that. We only win
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: with movement. I don't want to do that. I want
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: to be able to do as many things as possible.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: I want to live in whatever hell of the world
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: I want to live in and not just be put
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: into a box and siloed with one type of thing. Similarly,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: on the other side, I don't want to just be
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I don't want to just be reacting attack where it's like, yeah,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: we have a bunch of dues who just holds strong
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: at the point of attack. Can they penetrate? No? Can
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: they move No? I don't want that either. That's why
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: all they had to do was get a friggin nose.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: But such as life se le Vi Trea Bernard more
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: moving based defense. It works for Bernard, Yeah, I think
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna see in this defense. I think
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: it helps him and why does it help him? Going
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: back to his college tape and his evaluation, one of
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: the best things about Torell Bernard is his ability as
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: a blitzer and or pass rusher. To speak to that.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Twenty twenty three the season where Terrell Bernard had his
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: most pass rush snaps. Coincidentally a season where we saw
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: some really good sims, really good creepers. That was the
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: year where they had that really good defensive game plan
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: against uh Howell and the Commander's offense in Washington. Granted
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: it's Sam how or whatever, so like a not an
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: amazing quarterback, but they had some really good designs. They
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: were scheming some stuff up. That's the aj Apanessa interception game.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: High had some nice plays. There was a lot of
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: good stuff that they were doing. That was that season.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Good sims, good creepers. But coincidentally, or maybe not coincidentally,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: that was the season where Trol Bernard had his most
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: pass rush snaps. So in that season in twenty twenty three,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: amongst qualifying off ball linebackers, Terrell Bernard tied for fourth
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: in sacks with four and a half. He was tenth
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: in pressures for linebackers. He was twelfth out of fifty
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: nine linebackers, twelfth out of fifty nine linebackers in a
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: pass rush win rate at sixteen point two percent. He
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: was third out of fifty nine qualifying linebackers in pressure
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: rate at twenty five point seven percent, and he was
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: first in past rush productivity at sixteen point two Pass
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: RUSS productivity essentially is a metric that measures how often
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: you are getting pressures relative to how many how much
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: you are rushing the quarterback. So, long story short, really productive.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: I think Terrel Bernard is a good blitzer. I think
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: it is a better part of his game and in
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: terms of what he does. I don't know if this
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: is the bot, but this is weird, So I moved
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: that bot. I'm out. I think I'm out. Yeah, Terrel
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Bernard's a good blitzer. Jim Leonard is gonna blitz his linebackers.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: He's going to do a lot of movement stuff with
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: the front that fits into Terrel Bernard's game. So I
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: think that's a new different role for him. We're going
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: to see him blitz more, We're going to see him
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: move more. I think it's going to be less of
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: a static type of game where we see the snap
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: and he's on the balls of his feet, reading, trying
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: to see what's going on. I think it's more on
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: the snap, He's going somewhere, and that may seem like
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: a small thing. That's a big change for this defense,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: and I think it's a bigger change for him. So
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: we are going to see a lot of movement, good
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: stuff I hope for to Robernard in conjunction with the
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: theme of this defense. I think moving towards you know,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: having more movement in the defense should help to Robernard
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: because he's a movement player. He needs movement because he's undersized.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: He's also a good blitzer. If only they got you know,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: a nose tackle or some ass kickers up front to
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: help keep him clean, we'd be in an even better
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: spot for Torrell Bernard. As Nicholas says, you know well,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: being said that those nose tackles were easy to find.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: So it's fine. This one is that's always gonna drive
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: me nuts back to back years. I think even more
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: than that, it's been like three years where Bernard has
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: said in the off season, Brandon Bean has said in
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: the offseason, like Ola, the guys that get paid at
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: the top of the defensive tackle market are the guys
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: who rush the quarterback. It's easy to find the run
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: stopping like nose tackles and those interior guys. It's okay,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: great if it's so easy to find them and they're cheap,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: like you also mentioned, why have you not brought any
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: of them in? Also it's funny too because I actually
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: did this in an episode I think last year or
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: maybe earlier in this in the regular during the I
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: think during the regular season last year. When you look
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: at like the top paid interior defensive tackles. Actually, I'm
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: gonna look at up. They're like the guys at the top. Yeah,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: they can rush the quarterback, but they're also just really
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: good players like who impact the run. So if we're
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: going by total value, you've got Chris Jones, who is
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: mainly more of a pass rush guy than anything, but
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: he can impact the run because he's such a ridiculous
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: penetrator and movement based guy. He's actually come on, there
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: you go. Then you got Jeffrey Simmons, who can do
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: everything all world interior defender Jeffrey Simmons Milton Williams, who's
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: more of a penetrator and a pass Russ guy, but
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: can play the run. Zach Allen penetrator and pass Russ
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: guy can play the run. Nom De Matabik for the
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Ravens can do everything a limit. Neil plays the run
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: in the past. Derek Brown the run in the past,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Quinn Williams the run in the past, Deron Payne running
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: the past, Christian Barmore running the past, oh Sa Diggi
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Zua a little more past than run, but can play
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: the run. Jordan Davis plays the run. Videveya plays the run.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Then you get to Ed Oliver plays the run for
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: being a smaller guy even though he is more of
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: a penetrator. Leonard Williams plays the run, Kenny Clark plays
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: the run. Zach Seeler plays the run. You see a theme.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna keep going. Ah, so long story short,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: But in the Poon four one is people talk about
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: Pooniford is a weird one. I don't get why he
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: didn't play. I remember breaking down his tape when he
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: was here. He looked good. I don't know. McDermott didn't
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: want him. They opted to play Lynn Vaal Joseph ahead
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: of him, which is in the similar mold like You're
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: still opting for like a run stuffer, but Poona looked good.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: I don't get why he didn't play. It is what
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: it is. Unfortunately at this point that's mystery. I don't
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: get it. But yeah, so we still have those questions
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: on the interior defensive line. But you know, hey, good times.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: There was another question. I like this one that do
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: you think maybe a Bernard changes number to a larger
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: number like fifty five it might help his durability. I
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: don't like the eight. It throws me off. I don't
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: like it. Good for him, but I don't like it.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Ken says, what about the league going towards more tight
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: ends for Bernard and coverage? You know, I think he
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: can cover tight ends. I think what's gonna get Harry
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: is teams that can go with more tight ends on
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: the field and can live in the run. In the past,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: I think that's just gonna get messy, not necessarily just
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: from Bernard, but defenses in general, but especially for a
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: linebacker like Bernard. Tight ends who can mash him into
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: the dirt in the run, but who also are going
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: to be somebody that is going to provide him a
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: problem as like a pass catching matchup that's a little
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: tougher like I would. I would rather Terrell like Terrell
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Bernard verus Dalton Kincaid. I think his advantage Dalton Kincaid,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: But I would rather see Terrell Bernard cover Dalton Kincaid.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: Then I would see Terrell Bernard deal with Jackson Hawes
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: as a run blocker, if that makes sense to kind
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: of put that in perspective. My thoughts on Bernard and
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: kind of the in the league is going towards more
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Jackson Hawes. They're looking for more tight ends who can
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: live in the light in the dark. They are going
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: away from Dalton Kincaid's not necessarily going away completely, but
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: there's it's less Dalton Kincaid's and Tyler Warrens and even
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Trey McBride a little bit, and it's more Tucker Craft
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: and Colston Loveland. And if you're if you're not gonna
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: to be like a run factor or a run blocking
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: factor is a tight end, then you have to be
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: like Trey McBride and Brock Bauers and those both those
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: dudes are not unicorns, a tight end but pretty sick.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it'll be interesting to kind of see how
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: that affects him and linebackers in general. I think linebacker
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: is a really interesting position because guys are getting bigger,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: they got to play the run more. You still have
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: to play and coverage. Do oftense try to spread those
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: guys out? How do you attack? Some really fun stuff
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: in that regard. Next person I want to talk about,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Christian Benferd. I think this get what I'm about to
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: say can also apply to Max Harriston as well. But
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: long story short, here, we are going to get more
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: man and match coverage from the Buffalo Bills in twenty
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: twenty six. I also think we're going to get more
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: single high coverage. So that's your Cover one, which is
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: straight up man coverage, and then Cover three, which is
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: zone coverage. But I also think they will play Cover
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: three from a you know, a one on one in
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: match perspective, so you're gonna get a lot more one
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: on one type of coverage island type stuff for Benford
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: and for Harrison in general. Denver, for reference, had in
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five had the ninth most the ninth highest
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Cover one rate in the league at twenty one point five.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: The Bills were sixteenth at seventeen point eight. But some
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: of that coverage stuff for Denver is muddy. I've talked
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: about it before when I broke down Jim Leonard when
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: the Bills hired him. Essentially, like the single high looks
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: in Denver can play out like man and or zone
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: because of the match rules and coverage rules that they play.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just straight up man coverage like so single
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: high and it's cover one, right, you got man coverage,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: single high safety middle of the field. But they have
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: a lot of matchup principles on the back end. Vance
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Joseph this someone I'm about to say now you see
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: it on the tape. And then Ben Olbright had this
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: quote I think it was from Vance Joseph himself. What
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: advanced Joseph describes as zoned inside and match outside where
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: they're quote giving the player one side of the route
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: and they preach leverage. It's all about winning your leverage.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: And it can look like man, but it's not man
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: in the traditional sense. And then again, if you really
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: if you watch the Denver Broncos, you'll see them playing
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: stuff where it looks like cover one, but they'll have
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: like a man side and his own side. Again, there's
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: a lot of rules based coverage match based coverage. And
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: if you don't know what match coverage is, there's different
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: match coverages, different rules, and you know, this is stubby
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: and this is poach and this is lock and this
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: is all these types of things. Essentially, all you need
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: to know at the end of the day is if
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: someone's playing match coverage, you're just playing a rules based coverage, right,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: And that's the easiest way to look at it. It's
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: a big blanket broad term. There's specific buckets within that,
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: but if someone's playing match coverage, it's rules based coverage.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: You know, if there's two receivers to this side, the
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: outside receiver is one, the inside receivers two. The defense
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: has rules. If number one does this, the corner does
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: a If the number one does something else, the corner
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: does be based off of what number one or number
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: two does. The nickel will do a B or C,
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: the linebacker, the safety. It's all rules based coverage, and
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: when it works, it's phenomenal because you're playing off the
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: route distribution. You are matching the route distribution, you are
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: matching what the offense does. What's tough about that is
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: you need everybody to see the same thing at the
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: same time and then do the same stuff accordingly. So
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: it takes a lot of coordination, It takes a lot
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: of practice. It takes a lot of synchronization. Everybody needs
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: to see the same thing and see it relatively at
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: the same time, so everybody has to see the thing
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: and be right, and everybody has to see the thing quickly.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: So it's kind of tough. Whereas straight man coverage is like, Okay,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: this is my man. And then if you're playing spot
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: drop zone coverage like Madden style coverages for the most part,
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: you know, okay, you know, I have the corona flat
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: on the snap. I'm gonna run in a forty five
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: degree angle. You know, eyes here, eyes there, get to
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: my spot cover, top down, whatever it is. I think
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: you're gonna get less spot drop type of coverage overall.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: So you're gonna get more man coverage, you're gonna get
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: more match coverage, rules based coverage, and you're gonna get
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: more single high stuff. The Bills corners Benford Hairston, but
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: I'm using Benford for this because he's more of the
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: known product and is a really good zone corner. The
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: Bills are gonna play more one on one, whether it's
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: man or match and less spot drop zone type of stuff.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: I think Benford. I'm excited to see how Benford does
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: in it because I think Benford is a good technique player.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: I've talked about it before. I don't think he's someone
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: who is like on a scale of one to ten.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: I think he's like a six and a half or
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: a seven in like everything, and that doesn't sound sexy.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: But he's not a sexy player. Actually, No, he's like
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: he's like a nine and a half out of ten
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: when it comes to playing the run as a corner.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: He's a tremendous run defender as a corner. But he's like,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: not the most athletic. He's not the biggest, he's not
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: the fastest, he's not the quickest. He doesn't he's not
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: the most fluid. He doesn't have the change of direction.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: But he's technically sound and he doesn't really have a
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: huge weakness or vulnerability. There's nothing on a scale at
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: one to ten where he's like a three or a
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: four below average. He's above average to good at everything
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: across the board. Is he elite in any one area
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: aside from the run defense, No, so from a coverage aspect.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's elite in any one area, but
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: he plays with good technique, He plays within himself, he studies,
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: he knows who he is, and he's just a very
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: overall good coverage player. So I'm excited to see what
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: he does because I think he's gonna get put into
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: more true one on one situations, whether it's match, whether
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: it's man, which is a departure for the Bills a
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: little bit, who have played more spot drop coverages in
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: the past, much to my chagrin. And then we'll see
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: that for Max Harrison as well. We'll see that for
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: Davison Agbanosen. Obviously there is no bar set for Ignosin
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: because he's a rookie. But you know, I think you know,
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: from a new or different role for Christian Benford. Still
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: you're still playing corner obviously, but similar to Bend, similar
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: to Bernard at linebacker, you're wearing a different hat or
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: different things they're being asked of you, or the amount
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: that they're being asked of you is changed. Like I
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: still think the Bills will end up being more of
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: a quote unquote zone based defense, but they're gonna play
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: more man, They're gonna play more match and then match
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: coverage stuff is always it's always muddy with how it's charted.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: You know, are people seeing the coverages, are they charting
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: it as match? Usually there's not match filters on sites,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: so it's gets match coverage just gets chalked up as zone.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: But it's really playing more like Man. So the numbers
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: and ratios get muddy. But at the end of the day,
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: the Bills are gonna end up playing more man and
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: they're gonna be playing more match. Easiest way to look
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: at it is the corners are going to have more
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: true one on one situations. You know, if the Bills
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: play quarters and they get a three by one, I
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: think they're gonna lock the solo receiver side with a corner,
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: so we'll see that. You know, you're just gonna get
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: more man, You're gonna get more match, all that kind
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: of stuff. And I'm excited to see what he does,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: if he raises his game, if it's too much for him,
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: if he succeeds, if he doesn't, it'll be important. I
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: want to get back to this, Roy says, is Benford
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: a top five corner or top ten or overrated? I
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: said this last year and a bunch of people were
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: upset with me because I guess Joe Marino called him
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: a top ten corner and said he was a top
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: maybe even top five if I remember correctly, and a
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: lot of people said, well, Joe Marino thinks this no
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: shaded Joe Marino. People were just yelling at me because
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: they really love Joe Marino. I don't think Christian Benford
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: is a top five corner. I don't think he's a
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: lock for the top ten. I think Christian Benford is
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: like ballpark, like thirteen to fifteen. If you told me
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: you think he's top ten, I'm fine with that. I
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: think he could creep into the top ten if somebody
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: has him as ten or nine. I don't think that's egregious.
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: I think top five is too far for Christian Benford.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: But I do think he's very good. I do think
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: he is a CB one. I think he's one of
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: the better players on the Buffalo Bills, and I think
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: depending on the year that he has playing in Jim
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: Leonard's system, we could have more of a conversation about
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: locking him into the top ten. I think he's in
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: the conversation and the role the decks for like anywhere
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: from ten to fifteen. So if you put him in
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: the top ten, I think that's fine. I just averaged
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: it out and said, like twelve thirteen, whatever it is.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: I do not think he's top five conversation I think
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: can happen for top ten. For me, he's not, but
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: I think he's close and he's in that conversation. Similarly
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: to how I thought previous years, please don't yell at me.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: Please don't tell me that Joe Marino thinks he's top
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: five or whoever thinks he's top ten or top five.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: There were a lot of people who were mad at me.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: I think of the end last year, last year, maybe
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: the offseason before. Yeah, people were people were upset at me.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: Drugger says, is Christian Benford a Hawkeye superhero comp Ooh oh,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know, though. Hawkey's like he's got like multiple
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: elite traits, like the hand eye coordination, the hand to
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: hand combat, obviously all the arrow stuff, and part of
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: me thinks that's kind of fair, and then all parlor
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: of me also thinks that's kind of underrating Hawkeye a
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: little bit. That's an interesting comp he. I don't know
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: Hawkey's elite at a bunch of stuff interesting. I also
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: don't know how he has powers or what he does,
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: like he's just like a really highly trained human being,
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: like like Black Widow. I've never gotten into Hawkeye too
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: much aside from what I've seen in the Marvel movies
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: and shows and stuff. His bookie says, fun fact, John
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: Elway carried the Broncos with three Super Bowl appearances in
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: his first eight season, so called best quarterback in the NFL. Currently,
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen hasn't been to one super Bowl in his
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: first eight seasons. I don't understand the correlation aside from
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: just trying to knock Josh Allen, but I don't. I
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: don't understand. But yeah, Kent says, I love Benford, but
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: he's going to have to show something this season. If
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: he shows up, he will be one of Bean's best picks.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: I already think he's one of Brandon Bean's best picks.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: You got you got a legit CB one on Day
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: three in the sixth round. That's awesome. That's a huge hit.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: I think it's arguably if you're talking about where you
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: took a guy and what they turned into, Christian Benford
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: is one of the best draft picks in the Bean era.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: Obviously you could be like, oh, well, you could be
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: like Josh Allen, but that's a top ten pick. Top
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: ten guys should be high end performers. Christian Benford is
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: a CB one grant. I don't think he's top five,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: and I don't think he's a lock for top ten,
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: but I think you can flirt with that conversation for
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: him in the top ten. That's a huge win for
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: a six round corner. Yeah. I already think he's one
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: of He's already one of Bean's best picks. But if
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: he has the year that I'm hoping he has, and
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: honestly the year that he needs that the Bills defense
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: needs him to have in this coverage structure and in
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: this coverage scheme, yeah, I think he could really further
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: cement himself. But he yet good corner, very good corner.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: R J says we need Aunt and JP to have
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: a power where they just break down superheroes like that.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: I would love that. Some people really touchy though on it.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: I remember I did a I did a tweet or
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: a pope. Yeah, I did a tweet like three or
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: four years ago where I compared all the quarterbacks in
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: the NFL different Dragon ball Z characters and a lot
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: of Bills fans were upset because I said Josh Allen
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: was sell and they were like, Josh Jones should be
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: Goku YadA YadA. People are never happy. Long story short, Yeah,
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Andy says Benford shut down multiple top five wide receivers
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: last season. I don't what are your points of reference?
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: And like the show, what's the shutdown aspect? Like you're
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: playing zone coverage of that side, Like he's not really
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: a corner who's manning up and necessarily going everywhere with
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: certain guys. He played well in the Bengals game, if
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: I remember correctly, against Chase, but I don't necessarily consider
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: Ben for a lockdown corner or being in the for
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: me again conversation of you know kind of you know,
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: you said thirty yards or so no tds. Yeah, but
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: what's the target rate? What's the coverage? It's not just
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: that he only gave up thirty yards. Was he still
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: getting beat? But the quarterback wasn't able to go that
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: way because the progression started somewhere else, or because he
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: got pressure to that side and he was forced to
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: go somewhere else. Corner metrics are tough in general, because
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: just because you're not giving up yards and you're not
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: getting targeted doesn't necessarily mean you're dominating. It could just
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: mean they want to attack the corner too, or it
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: could mean that the progression is starting somewhere else, or
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: that pressure came again, pressure came from that side, and
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: you got beat. But the quarterback wasn't able to get
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: throw off, or he looked somewhere else or got flushed
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: from the pocket. So I think just defining it in
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: terms of how many yards were given up isn't necessarily
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: telling the whole story. I understand your point and the notion,
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: but for me, like if we're going and again this
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: is just me, But if I'm going off, I'm just
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: looking at a list of like corner contracts right now.
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, the best corner in the NFL is patser Tan.
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: The second best corner in the NFL is Derek Stingley.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: For me, if not for Pats or Tan, Derek Stingley
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: would be the best corner in the NFL. But you've
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: got Stan, You've got Stingley. I know McDuffie plays inside,
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: but I think you can play outside as well. I
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: think McDuffie is better than Benford. I think Denzil Award
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: is better than Benford. So what are we at? There?
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: Four already? I think I would I would not even
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: think I would take Quinnon Mitchell. That's five. I would
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: take J. C. Horn. That's six. And kind of like,
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: I'm already there from that standpoint, So that's six right there,
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: and I haven't even really further gone down the list.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: And why did this kind of go out? Now? Right now?
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: The window closed on me. That's fantastic. And he said,
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: unless we have the playbook, it's tough to tell why
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: the passes are not coming towards something. I well know.
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: That's where the tape comes in, Like you can watch
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: the tape and see, Like, if you watch the tape,
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: you can watch guys every one of his coverage reps
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: and see, Okay, was he beat? Was he not beat?
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: Does he have help over the top? Is he a
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: cloud corner? Is he matching this guy? Is he and
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: man coverage with this guy? I think that's where the
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: tape comes in. And when I watch the tape, for me,
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: I see a very good player, Christian Benford. I don't
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: necessarily see a like a top ten lock. Again, I
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: think because he's flirting with that conversation, I think he's
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: close to the top ten. Or again, if someone wants
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: to put him in the top ten, I think that's fine.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: But I just don't think he's top five, and I
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: don't think he's a lock for top ten. But he
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: can be in that conversation a little bit. I don't
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: think that's crazy. Nicholas says Benford's punch timing is probably
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: one of the best traits at the catch point for
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: PBUs and after the catch for fumbles. Oh, that's fair point.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: He's really good peanut punches. Punches at the catch point
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: through the hands. Yeah, he's a really good turnover generation
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: now from interception standpoint, but fumbles and stuff. I think
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: that also speaks to his ability as attackler, Like he's
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: so good coming up and playing the run, like I
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: love him being a forced player. Like if the run
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: wants to get outside and the receiver wants to push
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: crack to the safety, I'm like, Okay, that's fine. Have
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: your corner be one on one with Benford, or have
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: your running back be one on one with Benford. Benford
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: probably is bringing that running back down. Yeah, I think
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: that's fair. R J says, I think Benford is five
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: to ten for his ranking. We don't have any elite
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: players outside of Allen. Even Cook is good but not elite.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: I think Cook is. You could tell me James Cook
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: is a top five running back. I think Cook is
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: more like five to seven than he is top five locked.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: But if he has another season this year like he
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: has the past couple where he's continued to improve, we
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: need to have a conversation about James Cook being in
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: the top five. For me. Bijon is number one, Jamier
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: gives his number two, and then it's kind of like, Okay,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: are you taking McCaffrey, are you taking Barkley? For me?
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: I want to see what Miami's offense looks like this
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: year from a run game perspective without Mike McDaniel. I
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: think Devon A Chan is a top five dude. I
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: think Devon a Chan is really great, but he's at
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: McDaniel scheme and run stuff up, and McDaniel's an awesome
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: run game designer and caller so and sequencer, So we'll
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: see what a Chan looks like without McDaniel. But I
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: think Cook is definitely a top ten running back in
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: the league. For me, saying someone is like one of
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: the best players at their position means they have to
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: be in the top ten and then if they're elite, yeah,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: they're in the top five. I think Cook is better
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: than good. I don't think he's e laite because I
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: don't think he's a top five lock, But I Cook
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: is definitely a top ten running back and I think
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: he's closer to five than he is to ten. Benford,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: I think is closer to ten than he is to five,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: and I don't think he's a top ten lock. But
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: if we're looking at like are the Bill's best players
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: in terms of where they rank in their position groups,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: it's Josh Allen, James Cook, and then Christian Benford. You know,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: Spencer Brown had a really encouraging year a couple of
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: years ago, looked like a really good right tackle, and
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: then he was banged up again last year and injuries
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: kind of reared. It's ugly head Dawkins is, you know, fluctuating,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: and he's been a mercurial player. So after I think
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: Alan Cook and Benford your closest guys to have in
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: like top ten guys their position is Spencer Brown and
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins. If you're separating right tackle and left tackle,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: if you're combining tackles in general, I don't think either
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: of them are hitting the top ten. But if you're
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: doing left tackles its own spot, right tackles its own spot,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: I think Brown and Dawkins have an opportunity to get
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: back into those spots. And then after that it's, you know,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: maybe McGovern has a you know, a claim to be
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: in a top ten center. And then after that, I
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: think it's it's muddy at the best. Good conversation. Next one,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: nothing too crazy. Talked about it a bit on the show,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: kind of forecast has been in the offseason. Landon Jackson.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: This one is legit new role. He's not wearing an
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: added hat, he's not tweaking, you know, certain ratios of
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: things like Bernard or Christian Benford is you know, hey
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: we're playing more man coverage. Hey we're blitzing more. He's
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: playing a new position. He is not going to be
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: a edge. He's not gonna be a three four edge.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: He's not gonna be a four to three edge. He
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: is getting heavier and as we know, he's going to
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: play especially a three four defensive end spot. He's going
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: to play that four eye inside shoulder of the tackle
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: in the tight front, or if the Bills you know,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: want to, you know, move the chain down a little
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: bit and pull the chain and adjust some guys and
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: play more of an eagle front where you have a
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: four eye, a one tech and a three tech. Jackson
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: is going to be that four eye or that three
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: depending on it they're playing strong or weak eagle, or
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: you know, he'll line up head up on a tackle
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: in a true four or he'll line up at a
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: five outside shoulder of the tackle. Maybe he kicks inside
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: a little further on some pass rushing downs, or maybe
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: everyone's on the lines up in a two point stance
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: and set the edge. But long story short, Landon Jackson
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: is going to be a three four defensive end type
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: versus being a three four or a four to three
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: edge like he was last year. This isn't complete fish
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: out of water stuff for him. He played you know,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: some four I and some odd front defensive end at Arkansas,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: but it was more from like a spread type of
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: approach against the type of offenses they were facing, and
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: you know what was going on, especially like there's a
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: bunch of reps of him, you know, playing that against Tennessee.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: Tennessee is a big spread type of team. But you know,
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: I think it'll be a bit different, you know, him
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: playing this type of role versus NFL condensed formations and
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: run schemes and double teams and downhill blocks and all that. Again,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: it's going to be different what's asked of him, And
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: obviously the competition level is higher, but it's gonna be
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: different with what's asked of him versus how he played,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: you know, that four I or that odd front defensive
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: end at times at Arkansas. T J Sanders is also
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: in that boat for different reasons. You know, the heavy
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: majority of t J. Sanders' experience is being a four
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: down three tech. So yeah, he's in a similar conversation.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: But I expect Landon Jackson to win this role. I
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: think if I had to lean in that way, I
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: would pick Jackson. But as I've said before on the show,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: one of these guys, t J. Sanders or LANDA. Jackson
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: needs to become a reliable starter in this role. One
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: of those guys becoming a reliable starter is massively important
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: to the Bills defense. If not if neither of them
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: of those guys rise up or nobody rises up. In general,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: they have a legitimate hole of that position, not to
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: mention how ugly it can get if at all. Oliver
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: gets hurt at the other three four defensive end spot
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: and a similar conversation if Dean Walker goes down, if
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: Deon Walker goes down, what's happening? Are you doing? Dwayne Carter?
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: Are you doing? Fredarian mathis are you doing? Zion log? Like,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: who's backing up Oliver? Is it? You know? Is it
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: gonna be? Frederian Mathis you're gonna let him rocks a
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: three ford defensive end?
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: Is it?
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: Zaane Durant Like what what are we doing?
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: Not?
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: What are we doing? And like, oh my god, what
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: are we doing? But what is gonna happen? Landon Jackson
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: or t J. Sanders emerging and locking down one of
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: those three four defensive end spots because they're playing well
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: is a very very important and underrated storyline for the
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: for the Bills as a team, but especially obviously the
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball this year, Rice is Land
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: and Jackson better against the past or the run run.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: I'm still not a huge you know, if you watch
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: so regularly. I wasn't a huge fan of Jackson coming out.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: I don't like dudes that are high cut and who
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: don't have a lot of lower body bend. You know,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: he's stiff, not a great not a lot of change
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: of direction. He is high cut, long leg legs. But
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: he plays hard. He plays violent. He plays long, and
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: he wants to play the run and he will so
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: like he is an ass kicker, like he wants to
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: play violent. The issue is he's got to be so
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: precise with his hands and with his length and playing
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: to that because he doesn't have a lot of lower
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: body flexibility. Leverage is going to be so important off
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: the jump for him. On the snap, like, his positioning
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: has to be great because if guys get under him
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: or get into him a little bit, I don't know
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: if he's going to be able to anchor, because the
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: only way he's gonna be able to anchor is if, like,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: if he's on a forty five degree angle and gets
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: that leverage right, He's not gonna be a guy who
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: oh you know, watch the look at the lower body
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: flexibility and how he recoils and how he absorbs the
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: impact and is able to disperse it throughout his body.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: He doesn't have that, So I do think this. I
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: like him in this role better than I did last year.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: Like I like him better as a three to four
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: defensive end and adding weight then I I did as
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: a four to three edge in the Bills defense last year.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: So I like him better this year than I did
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: last year. But I still don't love him. I think
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: he would be a fine rotational guy at that spot,
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: just like I think T. J. Sanders could be a
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: fine rotational guy. I don't think either of them should
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: be starting in a defense right now. But you gotta
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: dance with who brought you, and that's what the Bills
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: brought at this point. But I would say Landon Jackson
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: is against the run than he is against the pass.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: All you know, he had some encouraging pass rush reps
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: last year against Chicago in the preseason, and then he
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: got hurt. We didn't see him again, So we'll see,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see, we'll see. Ken says, unlike many,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: I actually think some of the Bills's former draft picks
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: will benefit from Leonard's defense. Not out of the park,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: but serviceable, maybe a little better. I do think Leonard's
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: philosophy and identity is much more. As I've said before,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: like is much more in tune and in line with
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: modern trends and NFL you know, meta, and I do so.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: I also trust him to kind of put guys in
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: the right positions and play more of a matchup based defense.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: So I think things will look better overall, and things
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: will feel better. I think he'll raise the floor of
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: the defense. I just don't And even to the point,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: I actually think this comment is fair, pretty fair for
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: the most part. My issue is the guys that are
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: still on the defense. You can only do so many
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: things with them. That is more of my qualm. Like
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: I think Leonard will do a good job using what
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: he has. My issue is more there are only so
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: many uses he has and only so many things he
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: can do. Like if we have a bunch of random
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: ingredients in the kitchen, I trust him to make the
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: best meal out of the ingredients that we have. But
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: as we just have a bunch of vegetables, like he
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: can't make filet mignon because there is no stake and
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: there is no meet. Now he could make an awesome
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: salad or whatever the hell you want to do with
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: all the vegetables. But so I trust him to maximize
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: what's in the cupboards and what's in the fridge. But
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: you need certain ingredients to be able to make certain meals,
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: and I don't think they necessarily have all those ingredients
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: like I would like them to. But I also didn't
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: expect him to do all that this year. They didn't
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: have a ton of financial resources. They didn't have a
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: ton of draft capital. They acquired some draft capital, but
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: then chose to go in other ways. So we'll see.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: But I do trust Leonard to raise the floor of
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: the defense as a whole, and I would even say
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: for a good chunk of the players. But I think
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: the ceiling of the defense collectively is limited this in
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: this year because they don't have the flexibility and the
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: positional archetypes and body types needed for the type of
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: multiplicity that ideally his system has or could use, or
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: even just I would say the rotation in traits like
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: not having you know having all of your edges essentially
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: be power and compression. Guys, Michael Hoyt's a bit different.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: We'll see if he plays, but having you know your
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: top three edges as of right now we'll see if
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: Hoyit plays. But your top three edges are Group, Chubb
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: and TJ. Parker. Those dudes are all cut in the
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: same mold, right. Those guys are all power compression, play
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: the run, set the edge type of dudes. You don't
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: have a dip bendy, speed juice guy coming off the edge.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: Maybe that guy's Javon Solomon. Maybe this defense is a
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: nice boon for Javon Solomon. And then again, Hoyt, I
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: think is a little different. You can line him up
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: in a multitude of spots. I don't think he's even
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: like a true edge, like he's a He's a chess piece.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: I hate saying that because it gets overused too much,
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: but yeah, I do think this is a fair sentiment. Granted,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: I'm a huge Jim Leonard proponent and guy for Jim
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: Leonard and I have been since like twenty eighteen. But yeah,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: good times, fair point, fair comment, bum bum bum. Fourth person,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: I want to talk about Jackson Hawes talked about this before.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: I've talked about this in the film room, spoke about
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: it on the show, I spoke about it on Mena Kimes.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: I think we're gonna get more fullback stuff with Jackson Hawes.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: With Gilliam gone, we're gonna get more twelve and thirteen
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: personnel and eleven personnel, and I think we're gonna see
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: more spots where Jackson Hawes is the quote unquote full back.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: So I think you could have him, you know, as
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: like an an F in the formation and use him
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: as the move guy, set him in motion, line him
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: up in the backfield, shift all this type of stuff.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: But I also think he'll be used more as a
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: pass catcher this year. Last year, obviously he was primarily
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: like the blocking tight end. This year, I think he'll
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: take on a little more as a pass catcher. So
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: I think you'll see him more as a pass catcher
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: a little bit, and also some more fullback. I also
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: love the ideas I've said before of using him and
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: the Bills titands in general and more spread looks. So
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: you come out in twelve or thirteen personnel and you
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: mash the defense with the right, you run right down
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: their throats, and then you stay in that same personnel
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: group and the next play you come out in a
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: three x two empty gun and spread it out, or
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: you come out in a three by one or two
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: by two, and again it's spread and you're in the gun.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: Maybe you even add some tempo to it to really
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: throw the defense off. I just think those personnel groupings
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: and tempo as well. You can use that to put
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: defenses into a buying from a personnel and disguising coverage
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: standpoint right. If you're going more spread, the defense has
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: to match how wide you are with your alignment and
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: your formation, so it's harder for them to muddy looks
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: for you. That's one of the disadvantage of being in
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: condensed looks. When you are in condensed formations as an offense,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: the defense, by extension is also condensed, so it's easier
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: because they have less real estate to cover. It's easier
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: for them to sit there and kind of be like, okay,
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: we can spin our safeties. We can play this inverted
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: Tampa two. We can show split split field safety pre
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: snap and then you know shift a single high post
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: snap or vice versa. You know, you can do all
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: this stuff. If you are spread out literally like from
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: a width standpoint, spread out and you have you know,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: larger formational width, it's harder for defenses to disguise. You
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: can't play these games, cause it's harder for somebody to
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: be lined up you know, wide and then all of
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: a sudden rotate back into the box and you know,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: do different things with your safeties and your coverage structures,
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: so hopefully identify things a little bit, creates an opportunity
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: for some more static looks for the defense, and then tempo. Obviously,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: if you're just going fast, it's harder for the defense
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: to get their calls in. Everything has to be relayed.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: They have to be on time. You know, if they're
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: timing their safety spins and their coverage rotations, you are
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: changing your timing. So if they're constantly guessing around their toes,
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: they can't really get into a rhythm. So it just overall,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: you know, it's harder to disguise versus spread and then
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: versus heavy groups that go spread, how do you match that?
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: Especially if they just ran on you the play before
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: from that same group. You essentially have to play more
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: of the situation and the tendencies instead of personnel, which
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: is a larger defensive discussion where football is moving towards
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: more of play the situation instead of playing the personnel.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: You know, the rams going with thirteen personnel to try
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: and pass the football. So it's like, Okay, you see
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: thirteen personnel, but it's not like, oh they're in thirteen,
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: here comes heavy. You know they're gonna run it. It's
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: more like, well, they're in thirteen, they're probably still gonna pas,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: so maybe we should stay in nickel. But then if
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: you do that, does the offense check and say, oh,
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: they stayed in nickel. Let's run duo and run it
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: down their throat and run it through their face. And
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: that puts a defense into a mine. So I think
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: Jackson Hawes still gonna be tight end, but his new
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: or different role is I think he'll see some more
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: fullback stuff, and I think we'll see him more as
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: a pass catcher, whether in spread stuff or condensed stuff,
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: you know, chipping and releasing out or running more routes.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: I think he'll be used. You know, again, I don't
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: think he's going to be like a sixty eight to
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: eighty catch guy, but I think he'll have some more targets.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: I think he'll have some more pass catching usage, and
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: I think he'll get some more fullback stuff out of him.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: And as I've stayed before, I said this on Mina
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: Kimes I said this on this show. I think the
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: Bills need to live in eleven or not eleven in
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: twelve and thirteen next year. Use those tight ends, run
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: the ball, grind defenses into dust, and then go play
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: action for your shot plays. Get Josh Allen on the move,
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: some tight end delays, some tight end leaks, Get Dalton
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: Kincaid in some mismatch opportunities. Get Dj Moore someone on
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: ones if they're not respecting Dj Moore. I think you
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: can go, you know, with twelve and thirteen and be
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: condensed and run the football. Be condensed and do true
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: dropback or straight drop back. Be condensed and go play
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: action that you can stay in that same personnel grouping
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: and go spread and run the ball, or go spread
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: and pass. There's a lot of opportunity to kind of
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: create mismatches, and I think Hawes, with what he can
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: do as a blocker, is going to want to give
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: teams the opportunity to put some bigger, heavier type of
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: dudes on him to kind of match that physicality, and
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: then I think he has the opportunity to kind of
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: beat them a little bit as a pass catcher. Let
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: alone obviously, what Dawson Knox is, you know, because he's
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: a better pass catching threat than Hawes, and then Kinkaid
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: is a better pass catcher that that both of those guys.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: So I just think the thirteen and twelve personnel gives
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: the Bills a lot of options. And then if you're
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: going twelve the receivers you package you with. Is it
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: DJ and Shakiir? Is it DJ? And Palmer? Is it
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: DJ and Coleman? Is it some other combination? You know?
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: Do you take James Cook and motion him out of
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: the backfield and put him into the slot and Josh
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: Allen gets into gun. There's a lot of schematic potential
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: for this offense that I hope the Bills kind of
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: lean into a little bit more. I think last year
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: and the year before, and it's hard to argue with
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: what the Bills have been. Josh all won an MVP
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: two years ago. They last year, despite all the qualms
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: and worries, they essentially had a top four offense across
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: the board by most, if not all, metrics. But I
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: do feel like they kind of just ran what they ran,
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: which isn't bad, right, You know who you are. If
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: it's not broken, don't fix it. But I do wish
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: there had been more wrinkles present throughout the year, not
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: necessarily throwing everything out there so everybody can see your
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: entire catalog. Like I'm a fan of keeping some stuff
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: in the holster for the playoffs. But I do think
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: they have the opportunity to be a little more schematically
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: creative and put defenses into a bind a little bit more. Again,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: how much more They had the leading rusher in the
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: NFL last year, and they had a top four offense
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: like by EPA, DVOWA, all this stuff like totally EPA,
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: EPA per attempt, pass, overall run, all this type of stuff.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: Like they were a really really good offense last year.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: But I think a way that they can improve is, yeah,
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: just a little more schemantic creativity, putting defenses into a
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: bind a little bit more in terms of the run
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: in the pass and making and play situational because of
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: the body types and skill sets you have at wide
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: receiver and tight end and running back, and how you
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: can kind of access more of the play calling menu
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: and sequencing without having to turn the page. And then
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: within that, I want to see more duo play action.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: I don't think I've mentioned that on the show before,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: but I want more of that. I remember when they,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: you know, so in ideal world, your play action concepts
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: mirror the main run concepts that you use. And I
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: think it wasn't until the Steelers game last year, which
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: was late in the year, then I finally saw a
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: play action off of a duo type look. So more
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: more duo play action because the Bills run a ton
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: of duo. We run a ton of midzone week and
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: the Bills run a ton of duo. Cool, so you've
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: already got some play action off the midzone week type stuff.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: Let's get some play action off duo straight drop back
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: from under center, making it look like duo and it's
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: actually a pass. And I think the tight ends obviously
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: tie into that. Receivers tie into that. I think the
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: Bills can for a team that has been having to
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: having you know, a lot of Josh Allen's past yards
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: each year has been increased by yards after catch, and
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: his average depth of target has continued to go down.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: You know, his air yard throws to the sticks have
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: gone down, and they've struggled with some verticality in the offense.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: Having DJ more helps because he's got speed. Maybe Skylar
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: Bell helps. I think DJ Morrils stretched the defense vertically
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: and horizontally. But I also think you can manufacture some
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: shot plays and lean into more of Hey look at
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: this personnel. Hey, look at this running this run game
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: that we got. Uh oh you're scared of it. Oh
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: you're not. Okay, cool, We'll just keep running the ball
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: down your throat for five to fifteen yards a clip,
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: but then leaning into it when you can to use
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: that play action game and those heavy personnel groups to
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: create your shot plays, and I guess some kind of
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: manufacture more of them, like we've seen in years past
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: in different eras of football a little bit. But yeah,
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: I think Hawes his new end or different role this
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: year is more you know, some fullback stuff, but I
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: think also more pass catching opportunities, especially if Dalton can
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: Kate can't stay healthy, which unfortunately kind of seems like
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  Speaker 1: a thing. Honorable mention. I didn't create a label for him,
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  Speaker 1: but Honorable mentioned I already talked about this a bunch.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to get into one, but I think
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  Speaker 1: cold Bishop kind of falls into this. Just I think
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  Speaker 1: we're going to see more Cole Bishop in and around
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  Speaker 1: the box like he was at Utah. I think Cold
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  Speaker 1: Bishop is still at his best in and around the box.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to say this until my voice
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  Speaker 1: runs out. He's improved the deeper you know, He's improved
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  Speaker 1: with this deeper play. He's improved the further he gets
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: from the line of scrimmage. But he is still at
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: his best in and around the box as a down safety,
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: as an apex player, as a big nickel, as a
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: monster man. However you want to label him, put him
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: into the box, let him blitz, let him cover tight
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: ends and running backs. Let him cover in the hook
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: curls and the curd of flats. That's where I want
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: him playing. I want him using that size in the
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: athleticism in and around the line of scrimmage as much
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  Speaker 1: as possible. Let Chauncey play deep. Let Chauncey play the
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  Speaker 1: single high post safety. Chauncey is also an absolute menace
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: in and around the box. He's physical as hell and
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: a great blitzer. So obviously you can flip them and
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: do different stuff. They can play too high together. They can,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: you know, each play single high. But I would rather
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: lean into Cold Bishop in and around the box. And
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: Chauncey deeper. Obviously you're not just gonna silo them completely,
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  Speaker 1: but I think that versatility will be fun and I
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: think we will see more of I want to see
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: the easiest way to say, I want to see more
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  Speaker 1: Utah Cold Bishop than Buffalo Bill's Cold Bishop, and Utah
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  Speaker 1: Cold Bishop was down safety apex player Robber playing top down,
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  Speaker 1: in and around the box, in and around the line
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  Speaker 1: of scrimmage, in between the numbers. That's where I want
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: Cold Bishop playing. I want more Utah Cold Bishop, and
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: I think you're gonna get that more. In Jim Letter
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: to the Gym Letters, Stephen's easiest comp like, you know,
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: he's gonna be more you know, hufanga type stuff playing
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: top down, you know if they're showing too high and
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: then they're spinning to cover three on the snap. I
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: want Kolebis should be that down safety, coming downhill and
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: going from there. Roy says, maybe Shaker should be on
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: this list, not as many screens and more use downfield.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: Maybe I just want to see it before I think it. Like,
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: the things that I'm presenting in this episode are things
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: that I either believe or expect to happen. Shakir is
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: tough because you know, Joe Brady's saying like, oh, you know,
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: we should have used Khalis Shakir more, you know, outside
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  Speaker 1: and downfield, and it's like, okay, but you were the
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: whole play caller, so why didn't you? It just seemed weird.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: It just seemed like it seemed like Joe Brady was
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: mentioning that because they were hearing the chatter and he
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: just wanted to make a comment, but it it did
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  Speaker 1: didn't hold water, like you're the guy who controlled what
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: Khalis Shakir did, so why didn't you use him that way?
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: Like again, I guess you can kind of recognize the
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: air of your ways in the off season when you
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: self scout and all that. But until I see it change,
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not expecting it to. And even a bunch of
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: the screens for Shakir, some of them, to Brady's credit,
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: weren't necessarily like true screens. A lot of them are
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: kind of essentially like runs with pass tags or sometimes ourpos,
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: but it's more runs with pass tags where they get
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage, well, they get in the
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: huddle and it's like a packaged play where they have
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: a run call. But then Allen has a check built
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: in where based on usually it's based on whatever the
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: box count is or leverage or spacing, where Alan can
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: essentially take that run play and instead he can spit
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: it out Shakir or spit it out to Kincaid. So
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: it's a run play and Shakiro is gonna run that
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: bubble no matter what, but that pass is gonna happen
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: based on what Alan is seeing. So a lot of those,
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: you know, screens and those RPO bubbles as kind of
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: people label them as well, a lot of those are
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: package plays or run plays with pass tags where Alan
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: is getting to the and he is deciding whether or
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: not they're going to run the football and stay with
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: that or if he's going to spit it out Shakir
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: or kin Kate. But still that that's still that design
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: or ideas still on Brady. I think it was more
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: successful than it got credit for. It definitely happened more
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: than it should have and was frustrating a lot of
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: times where we're like, oh, here comes another like little
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: you don't run with a pass tag or everybody was
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: calling it a screen. But yeah, that and Mesh, you know,
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: obviously happened a ton, But but yeah, I do think
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: Shakiro could potentially be on this list. I just want
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: to see it because because again, if you wanted to
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: do it, you could have done it last year, and
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: you needed to do it last year. You know, if
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: you think Shakira can win downfield and be more than
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: what he was last year, I feel like last year
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: would have been a great, great time to try it,
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: considering you had no wide receivers and you had to
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: bring Brandon Cooks off the street to help you at receiver,
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: and then Brandon Cooks ended up being your best receiver.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: So I don't know. Yeah, there there's I don't know
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: how much fire there is to that different secure usage Smoke,
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: which I'm also flying with because he's really good at
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: what he does and I understand get the bottom quick,
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: let him be run after the catch type guy, because
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: he's like a running back when he gets the ball
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: in his hands. But yeah, it's tough for that one.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: There's some other candidates as well, but though those are
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: the main ones for me, those hard top four, Yeah
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: are saying no not Mesh, and Roy saying I think
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: we need more Mesh. I don't want to talk about much. Yeah,
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: those are the top four for me. I think there's
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: some other candidates. Cold Bishop was the closest honorable mention
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: for me. There's some other ones as well, and I
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: know I mixed in a couple of things overall, you
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: know some other players within that. But yeah, it'll be
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: fun and we'll continue to have these type of conversations
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: as we go forward. Speaking of go forward, if you
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: are going forward in your life and you are not
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: getting yourself some one pie piece, or you're doing yourself
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: a disservice. If you live in Buffalo, if you travel
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: to Buffalo, you should be getting yourself in one pie pizza.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: And why because it's the best pizza in Buffalo, New York.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: And I do not say that because they sponsor the show.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: They sponsor the show because I sincerely believe they are
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: the best pizza in Buffalo, New York. Delicious sweet sauce pie,
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: homemade red sauce, homemade blue cheese is absolutely phenomenal, a
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: great cheese, the sauce ratio, they could do your pizza
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: well done, they could do it a little softer. Cup
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: and charred pepperoni, a variety of different toppings and specialty pizzas.
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  Speaker 1: All the ingredients are sprinkled evenly across the pie. They
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: even make good salads if salads are your type of deal.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: They also have a catering division called Elevated Catering a Buffalo.
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: I've had them do multiple events for me over the years.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: I always get pizzas when I do it, but they
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: got great mac and cheeses, chicken and rice dishes. Again,
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: the salads. I'm not a salad person, but I eat
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: their salads like that. If you ever want to know
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: how good someone's salad is, if I eat it, that
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: means it's good. Because I hate salad, I think it's
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: a waste of time. But their salves are good. Everything
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: they make is good. And as I always say, like
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: it's not an official tagline for them, but I always say,
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: they're really good people making really good food. They're really
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: good food is self explanatory, but they're really good people.
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: They just do a lot of stuff for the community,
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: Toys for Tots partnering with Roswell and Knockout Cancer, partner
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: with the Alzheimer's Foundation, the SPCA. They just get back
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: in a multitude of ways. They're very forward thinking for
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: the city and the community. They do a great job
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: making great food, but then also you know, again providing
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: a lot of good will to the community and the
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: city of Buffalo. So if you live here, get yourself
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: in one pie. If you're visiting, get yourself some one pie.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: Do not be like Joe DeRosa and come here and
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: not get one pie pizza. That's what Nick is referencing
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: here when he says GTA six is coming out. Before
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: Joe tries one pie, Joe says, I will get a pie.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: We'll see. He already stabbed me in the back once
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: by not getting it. He says he tried to get it,
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: but they were sold out, which will happen because that's
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: how good the pizza is. They will run out of
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: pies at times. But you know, Joe, Joe sat there
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: and chose to be a liar and a deceiver and
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: a betrayer and not get one pie, and that treachery
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: will not be forgotten that, you know. I see Joe's
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: trying to make jokes in the chat right now, and
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: you know, I just think, to joke about treachery and
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: betrayal is just I don't even know if there's words
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: for it. You know, it's hard to sit in this
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: chair and do this episode with the knife that's in
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: my back because I can't fully lean back and it
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: just drives it in there further. But you know, to
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: each their own, to teach their own right. As I
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: see the tree survive the fourth of July, it did
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: I still have it in fourth of July colors. I
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: might just leave the tree decorated like that because I
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: think it looks good and then or if anybody has
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: any holidays or anything that exists in August, and I
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: could do colors for August, but I also feel like
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: football starts in August with the preseasons, I might as
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: well just leave it for Bill's colors. I'm torn. Joe's
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: continuing to lean into jokes into the chat says that
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: with the bee on your hat stands for betrayal. Oh,
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: good comment from Roy Royce's Joe eats wings with ranch?
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: What do you expect? That seems that tracks I also,
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: from what I do know, Joe also eats his pizza
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: with a fork and a knife, is what I've heard.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: The streets is talking and they say to Joe eats
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: wings with ranch, and that he eats his pizza with
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: a fork and a knife. I also heard that Joe
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: has multiple two in Tagabyo Loa Jerseys, which is also
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: what the streets are saying. But you know, again, teachter On,
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: I'm not here to you know, spread rumors or make
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: stuff up. But you know, streets is talking and that's
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: what they're saying. I hope you folks enjoyed this episode.
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: I saw some positive comments coming through for myself towards
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: the end. I appreciate you folks for that. I always say,
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: I think it's corny to be by myself and then
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: pull up positive comments for myself like that I did
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: in the beginning with the mean of kind stuff, because
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: I always just roll through all the comments in the beginning.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: But at the end here I think it's corny to
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: be like, oh, look at what all these people said
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: about me. But I see the nice comments and the
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: kind words, and I greatly appreciate them. I hope everybody
• 1:31:32
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• 1:31:34
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• 1:32:26
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• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: to bring it up because I think it's corny, but
• 1:32:29
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  Speaker 1: It was it was just it was just really cool
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• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: Tuesday night. Hope you folks enjoyed this episode. We are
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: back in the swing of things now. My schedule has
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: been crazy, and every time I say that, I jinx
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: it and then things kind of like I'm like, oh, okay,
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: things are settling down, and then everything explodes again. We're
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: back in the saddle. I will be here live again
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: next Tuesday, nine pm Eastern, and then I'll be back
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: the following Tuesday, nine pm Eastern, and then I'm thinking
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  Speaker 1: of also again doing shows on those training camp days
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: that I'm going to we'll see what's up. R J.
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  Speaker 1: That's a super cool comment. And you say, my buddy
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: saw your face on the TV and applebe's that's awesome.
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: That's super cool. That's cool. Thank you for that. I
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: appreciate that. Joe. Don't try to get into the good
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: graces now. Now you're gonna try and give like a
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: nice comment at the end, Joe, after you're making jokes
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: about betrayal, you know, just hmmm, no, that's a comment
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: from Walter says, shout out to the tree from making
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: ant who he is today. I go nowhere without the tree. Actually,
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: you know what, I'm surprised about all all jokes aside.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: I am surprised that nobody called out the tree, like
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: like people who had never seen me before. I am
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: surprised no one called the tree out in the YouTube
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: comments to Mina or in any of like the social post.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: I just thought of that right now. I am surprised.
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: People were like, what's up with this dude in this tree?
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: Why does he have a tree? Nobody said that. I
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: am surprised. I just realized that. Huh. I yeah, I
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: Some people didn't like that I was wearing a hat.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: Some people didn't like the hat. Some people don't like
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: that I leave the labels on my hat, so I
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: got that a couple of times. But yeah, the tree
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: was also on National TV. I just realized that. I yeah,
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: I kind of would have expected some at least one
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: or a couple people to be like, why does this
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: dude have a tree? Who's this dude? And why does
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: he have a Christmas tree in the back? But nobody
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: said that interesting. I thank you everything to my attention,
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: not directly, but kind of make me think about that.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: I appreciate with that, Walter, all right, enjoy the rest
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: of your Yeah, it is time to leave you a
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: comment about the tree. Now. Thank you for everybody who
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: again tuned in live. I know when in the slow
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: time of the off season, but it's nice to have
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: the back and forth and the conversation and the engagement
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: and the dialogue and the discourse. I enjoy it very
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: much on the show. That's why I always try to
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: make it as engaging as possible. So thank you very
• 1:35:41
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• 1:35:53
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• 1:35:55
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• 1:35:59
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• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: I see you, godspeed, and as always go Bills,